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The wheels have shifted in Algar. Once Colonar Shore, a beacon of pride and glory.
Chapter 14 of The Last Ideal Cosmere RPG explores a dire storm and supernatural threats at the palace of Colonar Shore.
Key Takeaways
- The Last Ideal RPG blends Cosmere lore with original storytelling and character-driven drama.
- The city of Colonar Shore is a focal point for political intrigue and supernatural threats.
- The red everstorm and corrupted spren signal an unprecedented and dangerous event in the world of Roshar.
- Character dynamics and roles are crucial, with each Radiant contributing unique skills to face the crisis.
- The episode sets up a high-stakes confrontation involving mysterious perpendicularities and shadow creatures.
What the video covers
- The story is set in Algar, formerly Colonar Shore, now a city under despair and shadowy threats.
- Four main characters—a truth-seeking investigator, a fierce mercenary thief, a light and metal fabricator, and a defiant Voron wolf—are bound by unseen threads.
- The Radiants are agents provocateur of the Ghostbloods, navigating tense political and social intrigue at the palace of Colonar.
- A garden party and dinner reveal subversive plots, including an assault on the Truthwatcher Berdalar and suspicious behavior by Queen Asedan.
- A mysterious perpendicularity opens on the sunwalk, releasing an inky, tentacled shadow creature linked to Queen Asedan and Lady Azure.
- The everstorm arrives, a red highstorm with unusual red lightning, ash sparks, and corrupted shockspren, signaling a supernatural disturbance.
- Berdalar tends to an unconscious Lady Azure while confronting the encroaching shadow creature near the chapel section of the palace.
- The narrative highlights the unusual nature of the storm flowing west to east and spren changing form, which is unprecedented on Roshar.
- The tension escalates as characters face both physical and spiritual threats, blending Cosmere lore with RPG storytelling.
- The episode ends on a cliffhanger with the heroes preparing to act against the dark forces invading the palace.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Setting the Scene in Algar
- 09:23The Everstorm and Shadow Creature Emergence
- 17:50Berdalar and Lady Azure on the Sunwalk
- 31:30Political Intrigue and Dinner Party Tensions
- 37:50Reconnaissance and Escape Plans
- 45:54Character Interactions and Conflict Escalation
- 55:52Confrontation with the Shadow and Spren Anomalies
- 67:21Cliffhanger and Preparation for Action
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Now its towns grow beneath the weight of despair. Its people whisper of shadows moving in the rain.
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Of oaths long broken beneath the thunder's roar. Four souls drawn together, bound by threads unseen.
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An investigator, chasing truth through a city drowning in secrets. A thief. Mercenary by name, but fierce of heart, determined to save the whole that scorns them.
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A fabric cloaked in falsehood, shaping light and metal, seeking to forge a better tomorrow before the storm consumes the present.
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The Voron wolf staring defiance into the eyes of destiny, striving to become more than her world dares to allow.
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The city trembles. Cults old and forgotten whisper beneath the weeping stone. And from the tempest comes a call for those who speak the last I.
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Hello wonderful wide internet. It is us, Another World Tabletop, coming at you again with chapter 14 of The Last Ideal, our Cosmere RPG actual play.
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I hope you are all having a very lovely Tuesday evening. I know I am now that I'm here with all of you.
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We left off on what some might describe as a fairly dire circumstance last session. A couple of our intrepid Radiants were really in the weeds narratively. So,
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it was the palace of Colonar that our Radiants were invited to, invited [clears throat] to, as you know, as agents provocateur of the Ghostbloods of Tanavir. Excuse me.
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Now the events of the evening sort of rolled out in a steady rhythm.
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A sort of tense, a tense moment, set of moments within the entry hall,
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then leading into a sort of very subversive set of scenes during the garden party wherein our Truthwatcher Berdalar was assaulted. Navali went and established that there would be an escape route through the kitchens and
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the church. Olstrom had followed Berdalar and kept up a large amount of reconnaissance, and poor Feraniel was left mostly alone in order to sort of navigate being browbeaten and interrogated by Captain
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Tiel, who justifiably clocked that Feraniel likely had no place at a dinner party of Queen Asedan at the Palace of Colonar.
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Regardless, our heroes navigated the evening largely with a modicum of success here and there, learning different things about the nobility there. And now it's at the point where the dinner has concluded.
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The dance had taken on a strange sort of air. Queen Asedan had made a bit of a show of subverting one of the high generals of the Alith, the army of Alithar.
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And then it was Feraniel who was given a very dire notice from Frame Her Inksprin that there was something incredibly wrong, especially with Queen Asedan. And then peering through into the cognitive realm, Feraniel saw this shadow of a very dark, tentacled, undulating
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mass of inky black nothingness. In this, the goal of the evening remained the extrication of Lady Azure.
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Speaking to that, Lady Azure had appeared in something called, cover your ears kids for spoilers, a perpendicularity.
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A perpendicularity had opened up very briefly just on the sunwalk of the palace of Colonar, guttering forth this inky creature whose shadow had been following Queen Asedan and also Lady Azure.
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That is where we are going to pick up on the sunwalk. The everstorm has started to rage. This rumored eastern flowing storm that has come from allegedly the rift that was made during the battle of Narok.
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Now, as it has made its way all the way out east here, it has appeared far more dire than anyone had truly suspected.
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In a world like Roshar, howling winds, slashing rain, and disturbing volumes of pouring water, and strange lights out inside of the storm, lightning strikes in a constant cacophony. These are things that happen on a ten-day basis.
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It always flows west. It is always followed by a refilling of the spheres that have been left out in cages.
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They are known to be deadly. If you are caught in them, they are manageable. The world is prepared for them. They've been happening for thousands of years.
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This storm is red. The clouds look angry. They roar. The storm wall is not consistent.
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Some parts take a while to catch up. It is the blunt instrument of a highstorm, something that can be mostly prepared for, but this storm is like a jagged broken knife dragging across Colonar. The crimson hot [snorts]
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sight brings down a driving near scalding rain. Red streaks of lightning crash throughout the clouds in the sky.
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And the most disturbing thing is that it also brings sparks of ash. And Berdalar, as you stand with this [clears throat] warrior woman collapsed on the floor in front of you upon this magnificent stone walkway, feeling so
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very alone as this inky creature crawls up the wall towards the chapel of the palace of Colonar, you notice something very odd. There are shockspren all around you. These little crashing yellow pyramids that sort of grow out of
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the nothing and then shatter. You've seen shockspren your entire life. They're, you know, a little rare,
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but you wouldn't say that they're something that's never seen. It's just, you know, once every maybe, you know, once a season you'll see somebody that's truly shocked by something. But here you are sitting in your shock and the thing
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that brings you out of it is that the usually yellow pyramids of shockspren, they are a very sickly gray, more like a postulant yellow at the very center as they form. And instead of the shattering that usually occurs
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into a million little glittering pieces, it pops like a bubble, leaving an ethereal nasty film upon you. You don't feel it.
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It's spiritual, but then that evaporates away into a mist. But you can say a few things for sure about life on Roshar.
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Storms flow from east to west and the forms of spren never change. And in this moment you have seen a red crimson fiery storm flowing from east to west.
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Sorry, from west to east. And you have seen a spren change form and take on a very sinister air in the presence of this inky creature.
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Okay. Okay. So, Berdalar is currently in the—what is it? The chapel? The witchma—you were along still outside on the sunwalk. Not in the—okay.
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The chapel district is—it's not a district. The chapel quarters are sealed from this side of the sunwalk. It is another set of very, very large doors. In the same
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vein, the sunwalk is an open-air walkway that leads from the halls of the palace proper into the more religious section of the palace of Colonar.
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Think a 20-foot-wide, banistered, gigantic stone walkway. And the goop is going which direction?
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Towards the chapel. And I have an unconscious Azure who just grabbed my scarf. She breathed a rainbow line of something from her mouth into your scarf.
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Okay. Well, Berdalar is going to do the only thing that makes sense to him.
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[clears throat] Um, Taylor, could you—what in damnation is happening? You see Tiel start to form beside you, and every time that Tiel has formed in front of you, it has been a very solid, like a sudden formation of that
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almost runic crystalline red structure. And at this point, you see that she's flickering and opaque.
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And when she speaks, it's like she's speaking to you through a screen, through a filter, through mud.
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Like she's talking to you from the other side of a wall. And she says out, "Bar, I—I don't know what's happening. I—I have no idea what that is." And she sounds afraid and uncertain.
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Me too. Um, okay. Well, then let's get to action. For reference, Berdalar has no idea about the religious kind of section of the palace. I assume it is very much like the inner cloister of the palace. Like it's
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something that very, very few people see even within the palace staff. Okay. Berdalar is going to pick up Azu.
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Uh you check uh her breathing is steady. Um her uh you give her you give her a quick once over. Um, and I believe medicine is a skill.
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Sure is. Yeah. 12. A 12. You take a pulse. You check for breathing. Her pulse is steady. Her breathing is fine. The thing that you are a little bit worried about is the fact that uh her hands and some
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of her clothing have taken on a very very unnatural gray as if a painting that has had all of the color sucked from it.
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Okay, got to get her out of here then. Um, I think Bear is going to pick her up and run in the direction of the monastery and check to see if those doors will open.
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Uh, you're running towards like the chapel. Yeah. Okay. Um, as you sprint towards it, uh, can actually, you know what? Yeah, that's just what this is going to be.
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you run, you're trying to outpace the the creature. Um, and what is your spiritual defense?
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Uh, 15. A 15. You feel compelled uh, in really no uncertain terms, there's revalry to be had.
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What are you doing? Why would you seek a place of contemplation? There's no need. There's this insidious voice that is inside of your head. You don't need contemplation. You don't desire solace.
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You don't need the Almighty. Right now, your friends are having a party. There's wine and women and food and dancing.
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All of your worries can go away. Just turn around. Go back through the door as you came.
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How convincing? How convincing? Supernatural. How convincing are those words? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is a full compulsion.
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Okay. Well, yeah. Then I guess I'll go back towards the doors inside with Azure still like kind of slung over the shoulder.
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Unlock the manacles onto the door. Uh, put them back on my belt and open Yeah. Open them both. Big smile. Big big smile. Ready to party.
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Uh, Nev is on the other side of that door. [clears throat] Nev, you see Berlar come through the the the doors of the Sunwalk. Um, you see behind you, of course, this has only been maybe a a few minutes. Uh, you see
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behind you there's people rushing. They're screaming. Um, you see, uh, Feranial uh, pointing, giving orders. Uh you see Alolstrom sprinting away uh with an arm dragging behind him. Rave uh Rave very much standing there with a shard blade in his
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hands. And you see others start to gather as well. And you have a grinning bar carrying Lady Azure coming in through the doors behind you.
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Uh, point of order. When Berlar opens the doors, does all this wind and rain and all Yeah, you see Yeah, absolutely. the the the wind and you see in the sky um what you thought was likely just a a high
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storm or just a very powerful storm going on. Um, you see the red lightning, you feel the hot wind, you feel the you you you you actually would see a strike of lightning come down and hit the sunwalk. Um, leaving a black angry
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scorch mark. And it's clear all of the rumors that you've heard are true. The Everstorm is here.
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Uh, and also to illustrate for the folks at home because it's been a week, I've killed the two guards that are standing here.
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Yes. Are there any other guards? Uh, [snorts] no one is coming at me now.
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I've killed two people. Absolutely not. No. Um, panic panic fully ensued. Uh, and Feraniel put a bunch of people into the direction of running out of the actual palace itself.
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And what you see is within this uh, this hallway that leads to the sunwalk is rushing nobility trying to get out. A few of them have taken up very simple arms. Things like spears taken from guards, uh, chair legs broken off. uh um
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the the lord that you were supposed to be serving uh he's drunk as all hell but seems to be fermenting some sort of leadership uh in the just out of fervor out of fervor alone. Uh he heard he
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heard Feraniel's words and was immediately incensed to the point of uh of of revolution against the the guards in this in this place. Um, okay.
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So, yeah, that is that is what you see. But you also see sprinting towards the entry hallstrm with Rave behind him.
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Rave doesn't seem to be giving chase, but he is standing there with a fully materialized shard blade.
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Uh, like how far is he from where Baron and I are? Uh, I'd say about 60 ft.
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Okay. Mhm. Uh I see Bear and he's smiling and I'm like, uh, what the storms are you doing?
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This does not look like as much fun as I thought it would be. Are you I like look at him but you've you've sobered you your your look has sobered now like you realize what's happening or are you stuck in
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happy mode is my question. That's a great question. Uh so you're looking okay so for for yeah to get right into the right into the granular portions of it the compulsion is that you are going to come back and find the
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party that everyone had going on. You are going to find the real and you see only chaos and above table to pull back the veil a little bit because it's a mechanics thing.
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Once you are a certain distance away, the compulsion does fade. And so you feel as the creature slimes its way towards the chapel that Oh god.
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Oh. Oh by the almighty. It is not right. What were you feeling? What's going on?
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Lady Azer's over your shoulder. Dead bodies at your feet. Alstrom with a gray arm hanging. Feranial rallying nobility.
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what's going on? And you snap back to bear. Okay. Yeah. No, not fun at all.
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What is happening? We need to get out of here now. Yeah, let's go. Um, and I guess Bear moves to meet Alolstrom wherever whatever direction he's running in. I think that's Bear's first priority is getting to Alstrom.
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Yeah. Yeah. Um, you had all made your your your big roles last game to sort of like deal with the situations that were at hand. So, [snorts] I think what this is going to come down to is a another true initiative. Um, if
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there are guards that are intercepting nobility, there is Rave. And as you're standing there and and Berdalar is coming back to co to Coherence, you see that Rave has the two individuals that you had seen earlier, the one servant
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and the lighteyed girl uh with the uh with the tattoos. They have started to walk by his side and they are scanning the room.
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And Berdelar, you've lost your illusion. Correct. I dropped it. Yeah, you did drop it. So, I would say everyone should probably state what their actions are. Those actions can be uh anything from help the nobility get out of the room. Uh, it can
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be more of like a narrative uh narrative role. Uh, or you can get directly into combat with these uh with the with Rave and his two cronies.
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Uh, my priority is to make sure the mission goes as planned. Therefore, I am finding my party members and making sure they are following me. I don't care about I don't care about the nobles.
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We have a job to do. Okay. I think Yeah. Yeah. Olstrom is trying to find his friends and getting the [ __ ] out.
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Yeah. I'm hearing a lot of it's time to run. Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Okay. And FA, she's running cuz Frame told her to run, but at the same time, she wants to try and breathe in Stormlight because she felt something break, and she wants to
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know if he's still there. There are Yeah, there's sphere lamps um dotted all throughout uh the the palace.
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It's not hard to find a source of storm light anywhere here. And you take that moment to center yourself and take a very deep breath trying to draw in storm light. And as horrifying as it was to feel his voice go quiet and feel that
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connection um and feel that connection sort of dampen. You feel storm light fill your lungs. You feel that thundering within your veins.
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Your bond is not severed. He is still there. She has a moment of panic and relief all at once.
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Um and then tries to find her friends. Uh you are all within. I will double check the exact place that it is called.
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Um but at the moment you are all within bridge four. Bridge four. Uh, you are all the eastern gallery is where each of you are at the moment. Um, if I'm not mistaken, the Yeah, the ball the ballroom and the the guest dining
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have all been uh completely emptied out. Uh the dual stairways uh leading upwards have floods of people coming down them.
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Um and you know that uh Bright Lord Reor um he's the person that you need to extricate. Uh the high general um UR is nowhere to be seen right at the moment but you need to grab recor get to
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a chill cart and run. That was the That was the mission. The eastern gallery is directly directly to the food prep area which leads to the chole wagons. You are not terribly far away if your entire uh your entire purpose is just to run.
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Uh yeah. So I don't know how it all works like actions wise, but Bear's going to enhance and before anything Yeah. try and meet Olstrm the direction he's going. If he's if if he's running towards like the food prep
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area, that's that's where Bear's going is straight to Alstrom. Okay. So, what I'm going to ask for since your actions are all being largely devoted to since you're all together within the Eastern Gallery and you clock one another.
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You're all looking for one another. We can definitely speak to you recognizing that. Um, Navali, did you tell Bear and Olstrom that the I I this is this is just a a notes uh question. Did you tell Bear and Alstrom
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that the Chola Wagons were in the uh past the food prep area? Were they notified?
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Uh I I told Fra and Fra told Bear. Okay, perfect. Yeah, I I was You told Bear at dinner?
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Oh, that's right. Right, right, right, right, right, right. Yes. But we we should all be at least vaguely aware of what we need to where we need to go.
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Uh then you know what I'm going to ask for. I mean just from everyone can I get athletics.
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Okay. I am calling that I am enhancing as well. I don't want to interrupt.
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Yeah. Absolutely. As as this is, you know, like a like a move speed type thing, right? Could I try for agility instead?
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This game that's that's one of the great things about the cosm. Yeah, of course. Yeah, one of the great things about the Cosmos RPG, you can argue for different skills. If you feel that they are more appropriate,
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that's not a problem. Um, it's an 18 on agility for me. 18 on agility. Okay.
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Yeah. 15. 17. 15. Fra 16. 16. Damn, guys. Holy [ __ ] Okay. Uh, wait, is that 15 16 [clears throat] 17 18?
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That is very precisely what it was. Yeah. Um, who? Now my question is uh who is grabbing recor?
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Fra is shaking her head. Nev Nev [laughter] is um okay. Uh I promised him that I would get him out safe.
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You hear you hear in your head uh a panicked Jez. He's like I need you to try something.
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All right. I haven't I haven't I haven't really discussed this terribly much with you and we haven't had a lot of practice, but lash him up and drag him behind you. There's no time. He's too drunk.
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Got it. Um I uh I'm going to also breathe in Stormlight because I had to use an investature to enhance myself.
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Absolutely. Uh so now I am back up to maximum. Uh, and yeah, I'm going to I'm going to use I'm going to lash I'm going to lash him upwards. I'm going to do a basic lashing. Uh, gravitation surge.
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Yes. [snorts] Uh, do I roll? You do? Yeah, you will roll gravitation. Okay. Okay. Um, got it. And that's one investature.
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Yes. Okay. So, I will roll Uh, so my gravitation roll is a 14. Is a 14. Oh, yeah. More than more than enough.
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Um, okay. He Recor is shouting. He's pointing towards the doors. He's got a big chair leg in one hand.
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uh he's swinging it around at uh at guards to keep him at bay. Um the guards are largely leaving him alone. He is a bright lord, but he's the one making trouble. Um and then you How does it feel when Nev because it's
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described by Kaledan a very certain way. We get his perspective a lot, but how does it feel as Nev touches and reaches out with that storm light to remove some things, reverse some things, manipulate something's gravity?
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Uh, I think it's kind of like, at least in this instance, because it's kind of happening all in motion, I kind of bap him on the back like just smack.
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Mhm. Mhm. to lift him up like a cat. Like not me doing it, but like gravity lifting him up like by the scruff kind of deal. Um, so that's that's kind of like I'm like, "Okay, you need me to make him float?
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Okay, cool. Uh, float. Yeah, that's pretty much like cuz Nev doesn't have like a lot of finesse or isn't going to be fancy about it, but yeah, it's like a it's like a it's like a tapping to attach the lashing even though it's
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like an invisible thing of force to lift him up. Uh yeah, you you get that force. Uh it's a little you're fresh at this still.
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It's a tiny bit awkward. You see him get lifted up by like the center of his back instead of like his center mass. Uh, and he starts to float. He's like, "Oh," and you hear him, "Almighty, are you taking me now?"
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And he [laughter] Oh, I'm just making it easier for you to come with me. Come on.
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What? And he looks to you. He's like, "What are we Oh, god." And I like I like grab his coat tail and I'm like dragging.
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Yeah. 100 100%. Yeah, absolutely. He can't float. He can't swim through the air. He can't do anything. His gravity is null at the moment and you are dragging him behind you. Um there you you all start to sprint and run and
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move towards the food prep kitchens. uh and you're bashing through uh different there's there's guards that are trying to rush to the to the eastern gallery.
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They pay you very little mind. Uh they have a sort of look of fervor in their eyes. Um with a singular they seem to have a singular mission in mind. Um, the staff are either huddling in place, uh,
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worried as lightning crashes down around them and the guard instructions to sit stay in place set in. Um, and you hop over barrels, you you know, sprint past things, you weave through people, and eventually you reach where the chole
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wagons are and the Everstorm is in full uh full blast at this point as you all burst out into the actual uh stable area, the stabling area. Um, it's like a hot blast of air. It feels almost like a It feels almost like an
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oven. Um, as it blasts you in the face. This uh you see a lightning strike uh hit the the guard tower that you were looking at Nev uh before uh scattering stone. Um the uh the the wagon itself has the
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choles that are that are set to it uh are sort of like skittering about a little bit nervously and you notice that the courtyard is largely empty. Um it's I mean the guards have abandoned post an everstorm has hit um and people
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are sheltering but you have a moment to speak to do what you need to do.
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Uh, I think the first thing out of Nev's mouth, opening the door and seeing it firsthand rather than just getting some of it when Bear came back into the castle.
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What is happening? [clears throat] I believe that's damnation. This is her. She's going to point at her.
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I've got her. She's alive. She's just [music] sleeping, I think. What happened to you? Uh Ra Rae found me in the middle of the dance floor and as I was getting away, uh struck me with his shard blade.
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Um, and at this point, can I, now that we've gotten away from everybody, pump some Stormlight into my arm to try and heal it? Uh, yeah. Since I didn't give you a damage value last time, um, if you
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spend two investature, you will heal the wound on your arm and heal the wound on your on your uh, leg.
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Okay, cool. Okay. Can we like holding it against the wall for a second as my arm go like slowly regains color?
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Sorry, I just didn't want to do that in front of everybody and freak a random guard out or something to call attention to ourselves.
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Well, I'm glad you're okay. Yeah, it was it was scary for a while. Are you all okay?
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Yeah. What happened to you? Is the guy still floating there? Yep. Sure is. Like like like he's like floating like tip toes off the ground, I'm guessing.
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Yep. Sorry, Bright Lord. We're going to have to keep you like this for a minute to make things easier.
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Revolution. Uh yeah. Okay, here's the deal. Uh I bear Did we get the general?
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No, I looked. He's He wasn't in there. I don't know where he went. Okay.
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I hope he's okay. He was kind of a nice guy with us. I thought it was just Recor.
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Recor is the only one with you. U is not there. Yeah. U wasn't supposed to come with us, right? No.
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Or was he? Yeah. No, he was not. Okay, then. Okay. Um Um can we leave with this going on? I feel like once we leave the palace, we're kind of stormed.
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Yeah. One way to find out, watch him. And I will step outside. I point to Recor, who's floating. I step out. I'm gonna I'm gonna like half step out, like hold my my my hand out to see like if the rain is like
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hot enough that it hurts. It's not hot enough that it hurts. Um, the best way to describe it is like hot shower.
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Okay. This is also the very first ever storm. It's a little more intense. Uh, well, it's it's not hurting, so let's just let's just go. There's storm wagons here. We can use one.
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Uh, okay. And I'm going to I'm going to move. Whoever wants to join me can join me, but I'm going to go get like a cart ready.
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Mhm. Yeah, absolutely. Um, the carts were mostly prepared. Uh, it's a matter of like getting in and then somebody's going to need to make a I don't I don't even know what skill.
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There's no animal handling for uh this the uh the cosmir RPG. I think we're going to I think we're going to make it a uh an agility. Um, whoever wants to make the agility, you need to take those
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re. Yeah, sure. Um yeah, if you're hopping on um load Azure in, pull recor in.
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[clears throat] Yeah. Yeah. I'll I'll undo the lashing on recor uh once we get him into the cart.
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Did anyone follow us? Can I get a uh an awareness, please? Perception. Uh perception.
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Perception. Yeah. May I raise the stakes? Yeah, please. Okay. So, that is 24 with a with a con uh the bad one.
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Complication. Complication. That's the one. Okay. A 24. Uh bear. You feel that almost sixth sense that you have developed uh during all of your years on the streets of Colonar. Uh that quiet moment between moments where vigilance really comes into the
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forefront of your mind. Uh you're in a new fresh situation. You look around and you look behind you h into the doorway that you came from and absolutely standing in the doorway with a fully materialized shard blade as well as two
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individuals that are standing a stride wielding uh just proper spears uh is Rave and the two individuals with the tattoos that had followed him and he is walking as quickly as possible. uh arm up uh ahead of him,
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blade out behind him towards the uh towards the wagon. Can [laughter] I get Can I get that uh that agility from Navali?
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Yes. Uh it's a 15. That's a 15. Okay. I do have opportunities I can I have two opportunities I can spend uh if I need to.
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Did you want to give yourself advantage on this role? Would you like to take control of the narrative a little bit in this moment?
Speaker A
Uh yeah, I think I think um well that's if you spend the opportunity. Yes. Um uh yeah, you know what? I I might as well. Um cuz we need to we need to do this part.
Speaker A
Uh so yeah, I'll get it I'll get it ready. I'll do whatever I need to do to calm the trolls. I probably have experience doing this, stealing carts and things like that.
Speaker A
Um, I've probably done that multiple times before. Um, uh, so I, yeah, I calm them down and I get them all like hooked up and ready to go basically.
Speaker A
Yeah, you hook them up. You get it ready to go. See this? The chill cart starts to take off. You use the the uh the chillst stick uh as it's called to bang against the shell and uh Rave sees the uh sees the
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chill wagon start to take off. this this storm wagon uh out into the rain.
Speaker A
Uh he dashes a little bit to the side as a strike of lightning comes down.
Speaker A
And would anyone like to intervene before he sprints at the wagon and attempts to slice the wheel in half?
Speaker A
Sure do. Can I use distracting illusion? Oo. uh to um give disadvantage on the attack.
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah, you could definitely do that Fra. Um Oh, I was I wanted to try to use a transformation surge on the ground and make it uh right behind our cart like where he's running up. Make it just like oil
Speaker A
slippery. Oh, okay. Okay. So, between the two of you, sure. Um, I would like an illumination role from uh from Alstrom and I would like a transformation role from Feranial. Uh, Feranial that'll be uh you're turning a solid into a liquid
Speaker A
uh essentially. So, I believe that is a if I'm not mistaken that's a DC10. I don't think it's that high.
Speaker A
So, uh, and then alstream. Yeah. Whatever your role ends up being. Okay. Uh, 16.
Speaker A
A 16. Okay. Uh, and a dirty 20. And a dirty 20. Okay. Okay. Rave is a lot of things. Rave is an educated individual.
Speaker A
Uh oh. Rave is an educated individual. He's a highly capable crime lord within colonar. He has operated for years and years and years. There are only so many things that you can prepare for. A shard blade makes you a god amongst men in the
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world of Roshar before radiance. But as the ground, the stone that is underneath his feet turns to a legitimate puddle of oil. It isn't a simple slick. It is a like larger scale 10 foot uh radius by twoft depth puddle of oil.
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He slips and then in a moment of abject frustration he hurls his shard blade at the wheel of the cholkart.
Speaker A
What is the illusion that he hits instead of the wheelstrom? Okay, the only thing I could think of is Rave is really trying to get bare. So, I thought an illusion of bear might get him to just at least flinch or
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something. Just like if it's off to the side or just like if I think I think and then so it and it so like this illusion of bear like pops out and the shard blade hits it and it bursts into this like flash of
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light. Absolutely. Almost like Yeah. And then Bear leans right out of where his illusion came from and went, "Miss me?" [laughter] The chull cart starts to trundle, pick up speed, and the two choles that are at the front
Speaker A
skitter to what would be, were they horses, closer to a gallop, raw fear running through them, the only thing keeping them steady being Navali's incredibly stern hand and incredibly accurate strikes of the chull uh of the chol stick upon their shells. Um,
Speaker A
getting trolls to to sprint through any storm is a very very uh difficult thing to do, but right now uh they were out in the open already.
Speaker A
They were looking for a reason to run. you gave them a reason to run.
Speaker A
And with Recor sitting uh with Recor sitting leaned back, head against the uh against the back of the wagon. Lady Azure slumped to the side and the rest of you piled into this storm wagon. You take off into the streets of Colonar. The gates
Speaker A
mysteriously already wide open. So my question is, do you try to make a larger run for it or do you look for the closest point of shelter?
Speaker A
We have a rendevous point that we were designated, don't we? You sure do. that rendevous point was established before you knew that an Everstorm was hitting.
Speaker A
There has been a little bit of a a uh wrench in the works. Okay. So, the path is blocked or it's too far to go or that is judgment that you get to make.
Speaker A
If you would like to risk it, you can absolutely take that risk. That is that is that is up to the power of the group.
Speaker A
Now that we've started to move, have we seen if it's damaging the cart we're in the storm?
Speaker A
Storm wagons are usually intensely fortified against uh high storms and it's rather well established uh by by the novels that an Everstorm is not as powerful as a high storm. Uh it is a bit more chaotic. There is more there is
Speaker A
more there are more lightning strikes uh which troll cart or storm wagons are also fortified against. Um you feel a strike of lightning hit the side of the cart uh but the metal grounding uh that leads from you know that is on the sides
Speaker A
of it leading down to the ground does its job. Um, and I mean if you want you could probably roll a I would say uh it might be a lore. It might actually be a lore roll uh to know whether or not a
Speaker A
storm wagon could hold up to something like this. Ones made at the palace would be in tip-top shape. They would be very wellmaintained. You may just be able to take this baby all the way there, but will the Choles make it? Do you care?
Speaker A
I rolled a 10 on lore to figure that out. Storm wagons are built for this. Um, you could flip a coin to be completely honest. Uh, you they're the things the things that you don't know about an ever
Speaker A
storm could fill a book. You're not you're not entirely sure. Is it going to get worse? Is it going to alleviate quicker? Um, will the lightning let up?
Speaker A
Will it keep striking you? Uh, the list the list goes on of of worries and and and uh problems that might occur from traveling through a storm like this. Uh, it's entirely it's entirely possible that it could go really any direction.
Speaker A
Um, you're kind of just moving in a quick panic because you needed to get away from the palace.
Speaker A
I think we keep going. I vote we keep going. Okay. Okay. Uh and Bardelar will stand uh will be on standby for the Charles. uh like keep a close eye on them and if they [clears throat] look like they're
Speaker A
starting to go through it, he will in uh infuse them with storm light uh for regeneration or for uh Yeah, regeneration.
Speaker A
Yeah, you you'll use progression. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh what is it? Yeah. What is it? Character regrowth. Yeah, regrowth.
Speaker A
Yeah. So, you keep moving the chill cart through the streets. The streets are empty. You are the only psychos that are actually attempting to move or do anything inside of this new ridiculous storm. You are are truly riding the
Speaker A
lightning in more than one way. And uh I would like bear to spend two uh investature maintaining the the choles.
Speaker A
At one point one of their shells is struck by this red lightning. You get a little bit of insight. The red lightning is not as powerful as high storm lightning. It's not as powerful as regular lightning. It's emotion is a big part
Speaker A
of the world of Roshar. Impression is a large part of the cosmir. And looking at this storm, it feels so very much like the rampagings of a petulant child striking out at everything.
Speaker A
And you keep the trolls going and eventually Recor keeps giving you direction. He's like, "We need to move down this street. We need to move down that street. We here, this way, this way." And he gives you these directions
Speaker A
and eventually you reach Recor's estate. He's like, "I'll send I'll send for for Tanavir. I know Tanir said to meet him somewhere else. I'll No, no. You're going to send for Clim, not Tonavir.
Speaker A
For Clim. Yeah. Okay. I'll send I'll send for Clim. I'll I'll I'll send for Clim. Whatever we got to do.
Speaker A
He's like, I don't know if this is He's like, this is where we were supposed to go, right? He's like, I'm so sorry. I'm so drunk. I don't mean to be a burden anymore.
Speaker A
It's fine. Just get us inside out of this mess. And you head into his estate.
Speaker A
You park the choles in his personal stables. You pull the doors closed. And it seems for the moment that you're safe.
Speaker A
I think Nev is pacing around wherever they are like a tiger in a cage. Does not want to be here.
Speaker A
Recor looks to you. Where was where where were you supposed to meet this guy? I'll send I'll send someone as soon as the storm's done me going back through my notes because I don't remember table. Does anybody remember?
Speaker A
I believe it was at the it was at honors hold. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Speaker A
Okay. All right. I'll I'll I'll send for him. Um, you're sitting in the stables. Everyone is piled out. Azure is stirring but has not awoke.
Speaker A
And Recor looks to you all and he's like leaning on the wall of this stable. He's like leaning against the stone wall.
Speaker A
He's like, "You're all you're all radiance. All of you. Every sing every single one of you." Yep.
Speaker A
Does he have Does he have storm lamps? Does he have Does he have lamps in here?
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. Bear will breathe in investature from will breathe in storm light from the lamps.
Speaker A
It gets a little darker in the stable, but nothing like disadvantageous. And I want to try something.
Speaker A
Can I use regrowth on recor as I would use it on myself to burn away?
Speaker A
Oh. Oh, like alcohol and poison and that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker A
Absolutely. Yep. Uh I'll spend one of Yeah, I'll spend one of the investor I just got back and try and burn away the alcohol in his system.
Speaker A
Okay. Yeah. Um, it happens instantly in the same way that it happens with Shalon with the same way in the same Oh my god, this cat is laying on my keyboard. Um, she's pressing buttons. Um, in the same way
Speaker A
that uh uh any of the any of the the radiants can essentially balance banish a uh any sort of intoxication. Um, you feel the storm light pour from you to her or you to him and he he's like, "Oh, oh,
Speaker A
oh my god, what happened almighty? What inamination was all that? [gasps] [laughter] None of us know how to answer.
Speaker A
Uh, I think Nev is pacing back and forth. Storming storm from the wrong direction. Storming crazy queen.
Speaker A
Storming guards. She's like freaking out. [laughter] Okay. All right. I I acted like an idiot the whole time. I I apologize.
Speaker A
I don't think anyone's going to remember that. Everything else was so crazy. Oh, you mean you Oh, you mean you acted like a Bright Lord? Okay.
Speaker A
Well Well, I mean [laughter] I I Yeah, I guess I No, you were an idiot. Yes.
Speaker A
Okay. I was Yes, I will agree that I was a fool. I will accept the apology. Well, I apologize.
Speaker A
How was I supposed to know any of that was supposed to How? You can't tell me that you were all prepared for that.
Speaker A
How did you get into bed with Tenevir and Clim and I them? They I had debt that needed to be paid.
Speaker A
It's always money. Is the debt paid now? The debt is now. If the debt is not paid now, then I What else do I need to do?
Speaker A
They paid They paid my debt for me. I was approached by Clim. And then I met Tanavir and he gave me this this this mission driving myself through damnation.
Speaker A
Yeah, he does that. Welcome to the club. Some club. So So your radiance is Bear, where did you find her?
Speaker A
What? No. Yeah. No, I found her. She was on the the sunwalk. What? What's wrong with her? Did you knock her out?
Speaker A
No, she um she was conscious when she [clears throat] Okay, recall. I'm going to need you to go to a different room.
Speaker A
Why? Because what I'm about to say is going to break your tiny little brain.
Speaker A
I won't be pushed out of anywhere in my own home. And frankly, I just went through all of that with you.
Speaker A
And a minute ago, you were just apologizing for making an ass of yourself, which you were, which you did.
Speaker A
You almost screwed up our entire operation. Now, we need to have a very serious conversation.
Speaker A
And you are not invited. Uh, can I get an intimidation? Sure. Natural 20. Oo. For a total of 22.
Speaker A
Uh, that gives you an opportunity. Uh, and he'll say, "Ooh, [sighs] I would like it to be known that my complete lack of information about all of you and the gravity of the situation that was at hand would have made this,
Speaker A
if I were educated, this would have been an incredibly different situation. I just didn't know." And then he walks out of the room.
Speaker A
Sound bubble for double safety. Okay. She fell out of a a storming pillar of light.
Speaker A
Huh. Yeah. And there was also a weird blobby thing that came out with her and it freaked me out.
Speaker A
And then I went to go and investigate where exactly it was going and I think it broke my brain.
Speaker A
Like how? Like one second I went, I need to figure out what's going on and the next second I went, you know what? I think I need to go have a have a glass of wine with my best friends.
Speaker A
Are you okay now? Are are you feeling effects of it still? Away quick. I don't know how it works, but whether it was the shock of seeing a bunch of dead people or what exactly did it, I don't know. But I'm fine. Sort of.
Speaker A
Sort of. What does that mean? Well, I did see a lot of dead people and I'm pretty sure I was almost one of them, sir. [clears throat] Just a little shaken up, but no, nothing wrong up here.
Speaker A
Something happened in the ballroom, too. um frame. He he he screamed and [music] and I looked at the queen and I tried to like peer [music] into Shadesmar and and see and I can't even explain what I saw. It was
Speaker A
dark creature, dark pent. I don't even know. It was shadows. Kind of like a blobby thing.
Speaker A
Is that what I saw? Blobby thing. Uh, you did it was I mean blobby is a bear word for sure. Uh, but like you did see a creature that was mostly like liquid, lots of tentacles. Um, like very much a
Speaker A
a a an amorphous uh an amorphous undulating mass. Yes. Blobby could be Yeah. Uh, it was horrible. It I thought I thought I lost frame for a good moment there.
Speaker A
TA's kind of spaced out right now. I tried to talk to her and she's she's having a hard time being here.
Speaker A
I think it's the storm frame. Are you are you there? I am back. Ah, what happened? What was that?
Speaker A
It would seem as if there is a certain type of creature that would instill in me a very primordial fear response. I looked upon its visage and I immediately thought I am going to die.
Speaker A
But I will say I am quite relieved that that was not the case. You removed yourself rather swiftly and it would seem as if I came with you. I am I am well now.
Speaker A
I'm really really thankful for that. Yes, death is not something I look forward to yet.
Speaker A
Hold on. We all have different looking spread right? They all look a little weird.
Speaker A
What if that thing is a acedodan sprint? Like she's radiant somehow or whatever that thing is. I don't know.
Speaker A
But if FA saw it on her side, I saw it on my side. It came through the big beam of light. I don't know. Maybe that's maybe that's a different place. I don't know. I'm just And she knew.
Speaker A
She knew all of this was going to happen. I think. So what you're saying is crazy queen who was not acting right is bonded to blobby thing.
Speaker A
Maybe I don't have the answers for once. I was just like my my head hurts.
Speaker A
I'm here to hit stuff. I'm not. Alam, you're pretty smart. Do you have any insights?
Speaker A
I don't do we know. Well, okay. My first thought is like Azure came through that little portal also. So it seems that humans can come through and and also but we don't know if that was a sprren specifically.
Speaker A
We also don't know it's not people bond things that aren't spread. Has that ever been mentioned?
Speaker A
I mean, Aza did this weird thing where she she shot a rainbow into my scarf, so maybe that's kind of like bonding as like with her hand or something.
Speaker A
No, out of her mouth. So, she vomited a rainbow of light into my scarf.
Speaker A
And then that's when she passed out. Yeah. Does Does your scarf feel weird? Does it feel weird?
Speaker A
Uh, no. It feels quite scarfy. No. And And as you're still here and she's passed out, they're passed out. Still starting to stir.
Speaker A
Uh, starting to stir. um as you continue to like speak to her and or speak about her uh and and have these conversations and stuff uh you hear uh coming from like the probably the comfort of the wagon still uh you hear
Speaker A
what stones oh bear rushes to wherever she is immediately. Ely like to her side. Oh the gods.
Speaker A
Uh and you see bags under the eyes. Uh Lady Azure. Uh she has opened her eyes. She's looking towards you.
Speaker A
Where am I? You are on um you're in colonar. Okay. On Rose Shaw. Okay.
Speaker A
We are at a guy's house. You see her like rub her head. Do you have Do you have houses where you come from?
Speaker A
Wrong city. Um yes. Yeah, we houses. Okay. I Yes, we have houses. She like She like plinks her like plate mail like her breastplate. Think we made armor before houses?
Speaker A
I don't know. Maybe you all live in like one big long Do I look untreasured or something? You know, uh bear.
Speaker A
Oh god. Okay. Light would love you. I can just tell. I can just tell. Okay, I'm getting up. I'm getting up.
Speaker A
Hey, do you need a hand? Are you good? No, I'm fine. Do you? And then she's like, everything's just a little And then she's like, uh.
Speaker A
And she holds out her hand. She's like, I gave you something I needed back.
Speaker A
Huh? And then she reaches out towards your scarf and she just says, "Uh, your breath to mine." And then you see this like brilliant rainbow uh opaline light flow from the scarf into her.
Speaker A
And you immediately see her fingers get like the gray on her hands goes away.
Speaker A
The gray on all of her uh on all of her uh clothing goes back to uh very brilliant colors of blue and and like ceruans and sky blues.
Speaker A
She's like, "Oh, [sighs] what the storms is that? What is that?" Um are you a radiant?
Speaker A
Uh not quite. It's investment is is what it is to in the plainest way that I can say.
Speaker A
Okay. Okay. It's kind of like storm light. You guys use storm light. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like it's kind of like that.
Speaker A
Um but it's colorful. Yeah. Yeah. More than more than one color. I have just blinks in amazement. Like, did you all save me?
Speaker A
Yes, I am. There are people you need to meet. We were assigned to find you.
Speaker A
I'm in the wrong city. You said there's a little Where are you from? I am I have come from.
Speaker A
Okay. It's a town out west. Okay. You walked through a gate of light. Did you mean to do that?
Speaker A
No, I can't say that I did. I um Has anybody got any water? Oh, yeah. Did we give her a water ski?
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. She sits up. She's like, "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm a little I'm a little weak from the journey." Nev Nev pulls out some food from her pocket and offers it to Azure.
Speaker A
Did you just Did you just offer me pocket puffs? I mean, it's all I got right now.
Speaker A
I'll take it. Oh my god. Please. [laughter] She's just a little taken aback at like, "Do you have any water?" And then you're like, "Crab puffs out of my pocket." [laughter] Well, somebody else already handed her water so
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. No, she I know. And she takes it graciously. She's like, "Thank you so much." I was um Okay. The thing I was on the thing. Hold on before the thing. The thing that's the blobby thing. Did that Did you come with Did
Speaker A
that come with you? I really need you to just dial it back a little bit.
Speaker A
Hey Bear, how about you take a little lap? It'll be okay. We'll talk about all of it. Let me tell you the last things that I remember and we'll get to that. Okay.
Speaker A
I am Lady Azure. I am from the land of Halandrin. I have crossed Shadesmar in order to come here.
Speaker A
Huh? You I look at Farah. You can tra travel through. Yes. Yes, you can.
Speaker A
How? Oh, we do it through um these things called perpendicularities. It's Yeah, we we do it on on boats is is what we do. Um and the they're the boats are dragged by these creatures, but to answer I've seen I've seen that.
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. They're these golden creatures that pull our ships. That's that that is what we have. Yes.
Speaker A
Right. You've seen them? I uh it was just for a moment. Yeah, I think that's what I saw.
Speaker A
Okay. Well, that is what I traveled through. Um I need I need God, I'm sorry I'm so discombobulated.
Speaker A
Can you all promise me that you won't tell anyone about who I am or what happened here?
Speaker A
We can do that. But there are people who want to meet you who already knew you would be here.
Speaker A
I have a I have a sneaking suspicion that they have something to do with me being here instead of where I wanted to be.
Speaker A
Well, where were you trying to go? Um [clears throat] there is another perpendicularity. It is up in a Yes, this one is Oh, did we lose Did we lose lane?
Speaker A
Did we fully lose lane? Oh, no. I think he I think he I think he lost I think his he just turned off his camera. Might have walked away for a sec.
Speaker A
Um I um No, I I there's Yeah, perpendicularities. Perpendicularities are what they're they're called. They're they're stable ways to go back and forth through here and Shadesmar.
Speaker A
And [music] um I was I was on my ship, the Serenity, and I was attacked by that thing.
Speaker A
What? What did you call it? She like looks to bear. What did you call it?
Speaker A
The I called it a a blobby thing. Blobby. That is a rough if shockingly apt description of what it was.
Speaker A
Um, what do you what can I tell you about it? What can I tell you about? It can be hurt.
Speaker A
I can tell you that. Uh, do you have invested blades? Some of us maybe could sometimes have them. Okay, that those work. I think that's what actually got it to let go of me.
Speaker A
Um I think I think my crew is dead. And I'm here for a while, it seems.
Speaker A
I might as well put down roots for a moment. I'm looking for someone and it's going to now be a very needle in the haystack situation. How far are we from the horn eater peaks?
Speaker A
Uh weeks a distance. Oh, okay. Who are you looking for? It's a an old friend.
Speaker A
Does he have a name? I find people for a living. He has a few names. Yes. The one I know him by is not going to be what he goes by here.
Speaker A
Oh, and he's in the Horn Eater Peaks. No, the person I was supposed to meet is was supposed to be at the Hornater Peaks.
Speaker A
Who are you supposed to meet? Maybe we know them. Oh, I was I was supposed to meet Villinar. Uh he's my liaison here. The man who I've been contacting.
Speaker A
No, not me. Largely largely irrelevant. Now, uh, are you are you all willing to leave your homeland to escort me to to the Horn Eater Peaks in any sort of immediate capacity?
Speaker A
Uh, given the city is about to fall apart, it seems. Uh, probably not. Then I suppose I will stick around for a while and do what I do best.
Speaker A
What's that? Save lives. Sounds good to me. You can fight. I'm assuming she smirks.
Speaker A
I can fight. Um, this is a lot. This has all been a lot. What's with the storm outside?
Speaker A
It's new. I thought it was I thought it was associated. We we we did we we did see its shadow in Shadesmar. We saw it coming, but it it was just odd.
Speaker A
Uh but now we No, now we Oh gosh. Uh, she looks tired. Like all of this was a lot. Who Who am I supposed to meet?
Speaker A
He's a friend of mine. sort of a friend of yours. Okay. Sort of big on the sort of part of that one.
Speaker A
All right. Ultimately, you're supposed to meet someone who said you would help the city.
Speaker A
[sighs] There it is. Have you met a na man named Hoy recently? Uh Sandrias wit.
Speaker A
You mean the king's wit? One of the story. He would whimsical. He would be the one.
Speaker A
Bald guy. Thin thin face. Thin face. Yeah. Usually carries a flute. Punchable. A real fop.
Speaker A
Oh, yeah. Yes. Mhm. Okay. Left behind like a really really gentle threat on his way. Yeah.
Speaker A
Oh, the threat was gentle. Lucky. Yes. It's a good story though. Yeah. Well, he wouldn't tell you that.
Speaker A
He's definitely got something to do with this. I'm with you or I'm so sure. I'm so No, not with if he Well, if he if if he's behind this, then I I wouldn't be shocked, but I am disappointed. He's usually not. No,
Speaker A
actually, I don't think he could be behind this. It doesn't matter. He's related. He's somehow related to me being right here, right now.
Speaker A
[snorts] So okay. Is he him? How do I know him? I know him as Hoy.
Speaker A
He comes from my lands. He looks a little different these days. Are you saying that the king's wit goes to other places like not Roshar?
Speaker A
A village in the west like you said. She narrows her eyes. He's been known to travel shades.
Speaker A
Ah, okay. That can you teach me? Can I teach you? Teach you what how to travel through Shadesmar.
Speaker A
Oh, find a perpendicularity. She said casually like it's nothing. There should be two here.
Speaker A
H not here. Obviously, someone opened the one that I was ripped through. Got a sneaking suspicion. I know who.
Speaker A
Okay. Wait. So, but FA can just go there whenever she wants. Come again. Huh?
Speaker A
She could just You tell her. I don't. It's not my business. I can look into Shadesmore. [music] I can't physically like go travel through it or anything. Okay, that's very convenient.
Speaker A
I can't do that. Oh, you're just going to stand up a little straighter. What are we [music] Are we Are is this just a chat sesh? Are we going Can we go out in the storm?
Speaker A
It sounds horrible. I wouldn't I would not recommend it. We're here waiting out the storm.
Speaker A
Right. Okay. Make our next move. The person who wanted to meet you has been sent for.
Speaker A
Yeah. We can probably rest, have some food. Oh, by the way, Nev holds out her hand to Lady Azure. I'm Nev.
Speaker A
Uh, Lady Azure reaches out her hand. clasps yours and then like very much like looks you very intensely in the eye.
Speaker A
She's like, "hm, it's nice to meet you." She'll just nod, "Nice to meet you." And she'll withdraw her hand.
Speaker A
What are the rest of your names? Fanial Tresh. Fanial Tresh. Nice to make your acquaintance.
Speaker A
Yes, she shakes your hand. You can call me Alstrom. Alstrom. You really seem more like a Val guy.
Speaker A
That's above table. That was so [laughter] That was so out of character. That was so out of character.
Speaker A
uh opportunity for a call me out joke, but you know. True, true. Uh yeah. Oh, nice. It's nice to meet you, Alstrom. Uh and the mouthy one.
Speaker A
We uh we met just before you passed out, actually. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I gave you I gave you my breath.
Speaker A
Okay. What's that? It's the It's what I gave you very temporarily. Is it like Stormlight? Can you do stuff with it?
Speaker A
No. Oh, come on. It's just one thing. It's investment. You need to bombard You need to bombard her with questions the second she wakes up.
Speaker A
Yes. Come on. Just show me one thing. One thing you can do with it.
Speaker A
I please. Okay. She looks at Bear. She says, "Well, you know how I Well, I put it in your scarf last time, right?
Speaker A
Yeah. Right. And then you hear her say, "With these words, I awaken you. This man will speak no more.
Speaker A
And whispering is cutting out. Right. Right. I do have the mic facing me, too. So, I'm just whispering.
Speaker A
You didn't. You didn't. With these words, I awaken you. This man will speak no more. And then the scarf wraps around your face. Uh, it goes rigid and, uh, cuts off your talking.
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[laughter] Nev Nev actually laughs like genuinely laughs at this. [laughter] How did you do that?
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Uh, wait. Bear, can you breathe? Can you teach me how to do that every time he talks too much?
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No, unfortunately I cannot. She's like doubled over. Can you keep him like that forever?
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No. And I shouldn't. And then she she says "Uh my breath to me." And the breath comes back to to her. Um, the little bit that had gone into the scarf.
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Oh, that was really cool. I like that. Uh, yeah. It's It's a lot. It's a lot.
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[music] Um, I probably shouldn't be telling you a lot of this, but to be frank, I mean, it kind of looks like your world's ending. So, we're working on it.
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We did save you, too. By the time she like looks pretty severely at Feraniel, you don't know it yet, but by the time all of this is done, the debt will be very one-sided.
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I Is there anything I need to know about this place? The most important things. So, give me a give me the queen. The queen very much not a good person. Just slaughtered a bunch of people for no good reason,
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right? Uh the city's in turmoil. There is a giant monster storm that is apparently carrying some very angry people with it, right?
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That are going to attack Colonar, right? That we know that, right? Cuz the the what are they called? The um the heavenly ones. Do you know what the heavenly ones are?
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No, this seems very local. Yeah. Okay. So, heavenly ones, whatever that is, I'm not really sure either. I do know that they can fly. I've gathered that much.
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Are going to take back this place. And also, some of the other radiants might be helping them.
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Do you know what a radiant is? I I've been very gently briefed. Yes. Okay.
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Bonds with you. Oh, well. Hey, Jazz, are you here? Yeah. You show yourself to Lady Azure?
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What if I don't want to? Is this a sound tactical decision? Uh. Oh, I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal, but Well, this is a strange lady from a strange land.
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We don't know who she is. What if she's an agent of the enemy? Azer, are you an agent of the enemy?
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[laughter] She looks to to bear. No. And that's a weird question. Come on, Jez. Be a good sport.
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Well, you did come through the same portal as a giant blob monster, so I think it's a fair question.
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Okay. He doesn't want to show himself. No, Jez is Jez is like Jez Jez like gets right up in front of your face. all all 12 blue glowing inches of him. And he says, "If this turns around and bites us
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and she turns out to be anything than what she appears, which is to, in my honest opinion, a consmate soldier, I will get to give you an incredibly resounding I told you so." Deal.
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Deal. Swear an oath on it. You want me to swear an oath on it? I want you to swear an oath about it.
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Isn't saying deal enough. You'll learn. [laughter] Fine. And then Jez appears, materializes in a bit of misty blue uh in front of Lady Azure. And Lady Azure is like, "Okay, all right." So this is the uh what are they called?
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Sprren. Yes. This is Jazelle. He's an honor friend. Honor. He's a little bit He's a little different.
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Uh Jez flits over and starts like very uh very visibly uh inspecting uh Lady Azure. And Lady Azure's like looking around like taking a peek at him like zipping around as like this little blue ribbon to one spot, blue ribbon to
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another spot, blue ribbon to another. Are Are you What are you Are you inspecting me? Is this Oh, I'm sorry.
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Are my armor clasps on tight enough for you, little blue man? And Jez Jez looks and gets like right up in her face and says, "My lady, if it turns out that you are some sort of duplicitous double agent
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for the enemies of this nation, I will see see you completely laid low and it will be at the hand of the one that is in front of you." Navali is a hero of the people and you need to understand
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that. You stand now before Nev the knife, the great hero of the underground and the slayer of Cutter. Cutter the oppressor.
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So you take note and me. I am Jazelle, a shard of honor himself. You will ru the day that you ever think about double crossing us.
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If you betray me in your sleep, you best wake up and find me to apologize.
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And Lady Azure is just nonplust. Just a beused expression on her face. Huh. I will awake to apologize should I ever dream of betraying you and yours.
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And Jez says, "Good. Make it so." And then flits back over to Nev's shoulders, crosses his arms, and mean mugs Lady Azure.
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Uh, yeah. He's always like this out of necessity and vigilance. Yes. Okay. You don't understand. The life of a soldier is one of constant vigilance.
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Smirks. I mean, the life of a street urchin is the same. Yes, but you're a hero. You weren't an urgent anymore. Those were your humble beginnings.
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Are you okay? All right. Why does it sound like [snorts] you're writing a book about me?
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What I do and don't write is frankly none of your business. Uh, [snorts] Nev Nev looks so uncomfortable.
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Alstrom, you notice that Wave has fully clasped on and has started to dimple Lady Azure's breastplate.
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Hey, the wave. Did you ask permission first? Um, no. You can't just You didn't.
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Azure, I am so sorry, but if you look down, there's like a little That's That's my friend Wave. I know it sounds weird.
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She looks like and sees like the little geometric pattern that is Wave. Hey, just get him off me.
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Wave, could you please? Yes. And then zip zips down. Her remember, you always got to ask permission.
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You're going to touch somebody. You can't just go up and touch anybody. Her armor is still strong. Yeah, it's pretty cool, isn't it?
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It is metallergically sound. M uh Frame is very suddenly standing in front of uh Lady Azure like 7 and 1/2 ft tall, big broad shouldered suited man uh and he extends a hand in a formal greeting towards uh towards Lady Azure.
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I am frame. And then Lady Azure holds out her hand. Lady Azure, you are a sprren right says, "Yes, I am an inksprren.
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I am bonded to Feranial Tesh. Feranial Tesh is what is called an elseller. It is likely very important for you to know that should you wish to get back within Shadesmar, you should be very kind, gentle, and informative to her.
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Fostering her powers and helping her in her journey will get you to where you need to go. She's the best chance you have. And thus, a symbiotic relationship of shared favors and information will behoove all of us.
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if you would like, I could formalize a contract. And Lady Azure is like, I maybe we should I Yes, I will. I we can speak to that at a later time.
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I think that that yeah, I don't think that's necessary, frame, but thank you. What you believe to be necessary has proven to be wrong on many occasions, M Travresh, but I will acquies to your opinion at this time as I am not well in
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my mind after the runin with the strange and then he like coitates for a moment blobby thing and then he he shrinks back down and scrambles up to your ear.
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You should rest. Uh, Lady Azure looks to all of you. [snorts] What about this one? And looks to Barlar.
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You're one too, right? Yeah. Okay. She's shy. [snorts] The rest aren't at all. No, they're not.
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Um, that's okay. I'm comfortable having a lot of these conversations later as well. I don't think I'm leaving the city anytime soon.
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[snorts] The storm outside begins to die down. Everstorms do not last long. I'll um I'll be right back. And yeah, Barlar immediately goes out into the street to like look at the tail end of the the ever storm.
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Uh you feel that abnormally warm rain splashing down on your face. not in slashing great runels of of heated uh anger, but instead just gently as you look and uh and as you see this storm start to dissipate,
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you almost feel like you see a face looking back at you. Tila manifests there beside you.
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I couldn't see this coming. That's okay. We'll um we'll figure it out. Yeah. Yeah, we will.
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Uh, as the high storm fades away, as the night sort of moves past, that's where we're going to take a break, everyone. Um, that's where we take our little human break. We will be back in 10 minutes. 10 little minutes. So, I'm
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going to ask you all the same questions that I'm going to that I ask you every single time. Hi, we're Another World Tabletop.
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Can you tell your mom, your dad, your sister, your brother, your local congress person, your grocery clerk, your uh postal delivery person, your Uber Eats driver that we are live right now on Cardi B's internet telling Cosmir stories?
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Also, tell your dog that we love them. Uh we will uh we'll see you in a fresh uh 10 minutes. Um, we'll be back. Stay tuned.
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Hello everyone. For those clamoring in here for Gem right up there, hello. Welcome back. Did you tell your dogs that we love them? If so, I hope that they reciprocate that love.
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[snorts] But unrequited love kind of, you know, that's okay, too. Makes for a great story. So, we left off on bear staring at the tail end of this uh staring at the tail end of this Everstorm that was screaming across the
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sky of Roshar past Colonar. And uh Bear, do you go back inside? Yeah. Okay, FRA, when you come back inside, Fur is waiting indoors.
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Um because she followed you when she saw you dip off. Um she's going to go Barelar, you need to stop running off.
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Okay. Um first off, Whoa. You You keep doing this. You keep running off by yourself and I saw you in the garden fall.
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Yeah. No, it was a a cleverly designed ruse to make everybody think I was dead.
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Yeah. You were supposed to stay with someone. We all agreed to the buddy system.
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Astram was right there. He I He went with me out. What? Just now or however you found Azure on the sunwalk. Was he there [music] too?
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No, Nev was there that time when I did that. I saw her inside. Yeah, she was watching the door so I could go and retrieve Azure and come back. I mean, it's you.
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It's fine. You've got to stop running off. You've got to stop being trying to put yourself in danger. I don't know. I don't I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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I don't want to lose any of you. I appreciate that. I get it. But sometimes I had to know.
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I knew I had to be out there and I couldn't get there. And I knew that I was supposed to be there. I saw it. I felt it. I knew. So, I went. And there was no way for me to do it without
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drawing everyone's attention other than what I did. And I still ended up drawing everyone's attention, but I I had to know.
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Yes. I just I don't know. I that's where you saw saw her in your vision.
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Did it all come out the way you saw it? I mean, not everything. I mean, it didn't all happen exactly the way I saw it.
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But a lot of it. Yeah. You said everything turned out fine and it all went according to the plan we made. But nothing went according to the plan we made. So we got Azure, right?
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Yeah. No one's dead. At least I went here is dead. I'm happy everything worked out, but [music] I don't want it to be the time when something [music] doesn't, you know? I just just try and stop running off by
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yourself. Can't promise that. No. I didn't ask you to promise it. I just said try.
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I want to say I will. I don't think that's the truth. Sorry, you were scared or whatever that was, but can't help it.
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We're fine. Fine. And she's going to turn around and walk back into the room where everyone was.
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Lady, am I crazy? Am I? Oh, sorry. No, no, no. You go right ahead. You go right ahead. I heard the Am I Am I completely insane? Am I crazy?
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I feel crazy. I feel like I'm a crazy man right now. Why do you feel crazy?
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I mean, that's part of the job. I don't know. Am I not supposed to go and do things?
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What's the job? Finding finding the truth. Oh, that part, right? The truth is that a friend just confided in you that it terrifies them every time that you run off because you put yourself into a very grave amount of
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danger. And you said, "I can't promise anything." And you were a real dick about it.
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Well, I can't say that I won't do it again. That's a lie. I would be lying.
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I will I know who I am. I I'm sorry that you're worried. I will try not to do that again. Maybe we'll discuss when I'm leaving. If I need to leave, maybe I'll tell you something.
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Maybe we can work out something. I'll send Tila to come and get you next time.
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A million other things could have been said other than I'm probably going to do it again. I'm sorry you feel bad.
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That's the truth, isn't it? I am probably going to do it again and I am sorry.
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Oh, no. No, no, no, no. You don't get to hide behind. You don't get to put your callousness behind the truth. That's not how this works. Absolutely not. Blunt honesty gets you exactly where you are right now, feeling like you're crazy.
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[snorts] Okay. If I tell her that yes, that's what I'll do in the future, and then I do that again and I break that, that's that's worse, isn't it?
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So, does it need to be binary? Does it need to be I'm going to do this again. I'm sorry you feel bad. or I'm not going to do this again, but I'm but I'm lying to you.
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Is there no gray? Is there no compromise? Is there no I'll try? If you're looking for the truth, the truth is a lot easier to find when you have people surrounding you that you trust.
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The last radiant that I had was similar. Same way. Same way. and Barlar just goes and sits kind of outside the room so he can still hear what's going on inside.
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Oh, what? I think we're I think I think we're having a bit of a problem with you, buddy.
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Yeah. Here, let me let me Oh, what the hell? My computer's having a bad time.
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Let me re start my computer. Can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you now.
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Keep freezing. Yeah. Weird. Uh, I'm going to restart my computer. I'm just going to sit. Bilar is sitting.
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Berlar is sitting. All right, folks. For the folks at home, sitting outside the room. For the folks at home, I need you to imagine conjure in your mind's eye a tacetern barlar sitting outside of the room thinking about what he's done. Uh,
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that's it. [laughter] And then the Discord disconnect. Oh, that's funny. That's actually very funny. Uh, [laughter] jeez. Uh, Lady Azure um, looks to the rest of you. Well, I don't really think that I want to answer a heck of a lot
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more questions. Uh, so, but I would, if you had the time, ask you one more thing.
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I heard uh I heard things are a little difficult for women here. Am I correct?
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Yeah. Right. Well, and she blinks a couple of times. [laughter] I don't like starting back at zero.
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I don't. But I am very likely about to go and whip a whole bunch of men into shape.
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All right. Okay. I mean, you want to know what kind of barriers you'll face and what you need to do or how you need to act.
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Uh, I mean, if you have a pamphlet, if you have like a document, something like that.
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Neb almost says the words, "Do I look like someone who would have a document?" But then she remembers she's dressed up really nicely. Um, now just looks at Vera.
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I don't know. Does one of your books have something about social graces or whatever?
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I'm probably back at my place. Oh, I'm the wrong person to ask these questions despite how I am dressed right now.
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You don't seem very feminine. [laughter] What gave you that impression? She's being very dead pan like gestures to all of you.
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Yeah, that part. Well, I mean, we're undercover, so No, I I understand. I get it. I've done the same. And she like looks to the ground. And she's like, I have done something very similar.
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You rescued somebody from a crazy party in the palace? No. I had to wear some stuff that made me feel very uncomfortable in my own skin.
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Yeah. Oh, you didn't happen to pack a change of clothes or anything? Oh, I I won't need that.
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No, for me I I don't want to be in this this storm and dress anymore.
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Oh, me either. I want to go home, but we got to wait. What about that? Uh um who's who? Wait, whose house are we at?
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H Stormmit. Uh I'm gonna You know what? Good point. Let me go find the bright lord.
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Nev will stalk off out of the room. Yeah, you see a pouting beard. I ignore him.
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[laughter] I'll come back to that in a second. [laughter] Uh yeah, you go. You find Yeah, you absolutely find uh Bright Lord Recor is standing like he's he's tapping his foot. He's got another glass of wine.
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He's like standing just far enough away to like not uh to not uh uh upset your your privacy, but like close enough to be available.
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Right, Lord? You can just call me Recor. I know you hate me. I was attempting to have or continue to have some measure of decorum.
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So, Bright Lord, uh, do you have any extra clothes? She says this kind of bashfully, just like Yeah, I I do. Yes, I I have many outfits. Uh, could uh Oh, wait. He doesn't know our real names, does he?
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Yeah. Um uh we just want to change out of these dresses. It would be very nice if you could oblige.
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I will take some of my um Oh god. I I will. My servants's quarters uh has plenty of uh different outfits that you can borrow, take uh they'll be a little plain, but I'm sure that's fine for now.
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That's fine. I just don't want to wear this storming giant thing anymore. Uh he leaves, talks to a couple of servants, and they bring you some folded up uh outfits, mask and feminine. Um, whatever you want to wear.
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Thank you. Yeah, simple. Hava, just take [laughter] Yeah, she'll just take um the the clothes back and uh actually um Bright Lord, if you'd like to join us again. Um she hesitates for a second. Um, but she says, "Sorry about my colleague.
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He is a little intense at times. I'm not really one to talk, but it is your home." I know who Beard Larger is.
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Well, you know who I am, too. So, she shrugs. [laughter] I do. It's Tonight was just a lot.
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Yep. That's really what it is. Me, too. For me, too. For all of us.
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Yes. Uh [snorts] I You know what? I think maybe it would be best if you just left.
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Perhaps Bear's right. And the less that I know the better. I've paid off my debt. That's as much as matters to me.
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M you send for our contact at least the storm started to subside and yes I did send for clim but as far as I'm as soon as he gets here we will depart and it will no longer be an issue.
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I will stay within my study then. She'll just nod and walk off. You head back. You get some changes of clothes for FRA and Nev. Um F gets the girly clothes. [laughter] Um Berlar uh and Alstrom stay looking
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fancy. Um ready for a palace party. But um it's sort of a short while later. Uh, you see Lady Azure going over her like armor clasps and checking her possessions for the first time. Uh, you notice that she has this like ridiculous
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sword on her hip. Um, big blue jeweled hilt. Um, and a cloak that extends off of the back of her. She makes sure that it's tight and set properly. And she very much gives herself the once over. And uh as that
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finishes um without announcement really uh Clim slips in uh through the stable doors, no knock.
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Ah, Lady Azure. Uh Azure looks to him. You're Clim, right? It must be you.
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Clim says, "Yes, I will be your liaison to my master." Azure says, "Right." And then Azure, as fast as any of you have seen someone pull a sword, puts the sword to Clim's throat. And Clim looks a little shocked. Uh Clim is
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uh is a pretty hardened character at this point. Uh definitely someone that that puts on an air of unflapability, but uh he definitely has like a look of shock on his face. Says, "Lady Azure, what are you doing?" And Azure looks to
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him. I did not want to come here. You knew I was coming here. Your master knew that I was coming here.
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Colonar was not my destination. And now I am stuck in this crumbling city with a corrupt queen surrounded by strange people with strange powers and being spirited away by someone who works for a shadowy organization that I know all too much
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about. So I think we need to get one thing very, very straight. this. And she taps the sword against his collar and it just snips off the very smallest amount of cloth is what meets you.
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Should you betray me, subvert me, or do anything to get in my way from here on out, I know what you are." And then she lets out a very uh a pretty heavy breath. You see like this radiant
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light and she speaks this uh this phrase. Should this man betray me, your blade will seek his heart.
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And then the blade is filled with this breath. She lets go of the sword and it stays standing directly in the air.
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She turns around and looks to all of you. I hope that we can all do work together in the near future. Seems as if the city is going to need us. And that's even before learning about the particulars.
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This is your homeland. But like the homelands of many, many people, I will fight to protect it.
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So, I will bid you a farewell." And then she whips around. She takes her blade again, whips it into the sheath.
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Well, now that we have our terms, now that we have our agreements, you are allowed to take me to your master.
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And Clim looks back at the rest of you. Uh, successful job of yours, please.
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Yes. I should storming hope so. You will be contacted soon and you will receive your payment.
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Thank you, Clen. And then Clim leaves with Lady Azure following him out. Great. I need to go home.
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Do you all go your separate ways for the time being? I'm going to say yes.
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Okay. Yeah. I think for a moment fear like thanks to ask if anyone wants to like stay together, but she's ultimately gonna decide to go back to her new place.
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Bear's going to catch up with Fra. Does Alstrom go back to the shop? You're muted.
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You're muted. Yeah, I want to go back to the shop to make sure everything's okay after the storm.
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Yeah, for sure. For sure. Okay. Uh well, we will we'll zoom in really quick on Berlar and Fra.
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Just going to walk up extra grouchy looking. I um have thought about what she said.
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Yeah, I don't want to make anyone else uncomfortable for my sake. And I understand that when you are concerned about people you care about.
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Well, that sucks. and I appreciate your concern and I will make an effort going forward to mitigate that concern as much as I can within reason.
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I can I can take that. I guess you sound so formal. I am just worried.
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Me too. I wanted to say it. What are you worried about specifically? I'm worried about saying that I'm going to do better and then storm it up.
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And so I don't want to say that I'm going to do better. I I don't want to because it doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel true because I storm everything up all the time.
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And that is who I am. And FRA, no matter what, the truth comes first.
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And I'm sorry that that is that is the truth. No matter what, it comes first for me.
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Your feelings, my life, they come second. I will seek the truth no matter where it is.
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If it's behind a wall of spikes, or if there is a pit in my way, or if there is a storming rich lighted monster with a shard blade in between me and the truth, I will find it.
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I've I've told you this once before though, Bear. You You don't have to do it alone. You can seek the truth, but you just don't have to be by yourself.
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I'll I'll work on it. Bear, you hear uh Tila's voice come in to the back of your head. You're so close.
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To what? Say the words. You're so close. You're almost there. I will seek the truth no matter where it lies.
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[sighs] These words are not accepted. Okay. But you're close. You're very, very close. Oh, sorry about that. just, you know, Tila.
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Yeah. Um, are you headed home then? Yeah, I'm going to go home. Make sure everything's okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure your your family's safe. Yeah. Fra, you hear uh on the back of your ear uh a very a very small whisper.
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Do you think that it is a good idea to be alone right now? The enemy could be everywhere.
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Perhaps you should spend time with friends and allies. Eddlar has many family members with many sets of eyes.
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or perhaps Olstrm. Navali is an option actually bear. Um I don't have anyone waiting for me at my my new place. Um, I'm nervous [music] about the repercussions of everything that just happened at the castle, at the palace.
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Um, could I would it be to Would you like to come over for dinner?
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Would that be okay? Is that too much? No, I just invited you. Do you want to come over for dinner?
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Yeah, I I think I'd like that, right? You can meet my mom. Yeah. And your sister?
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Hopefully not. And to be honest, I'm a little worried if Dervin's there. He's going to say some out of pocket stuff. You know he is.
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Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. [clears throat] Yes. Bear's not going to respond [laughter] anymore. Uh yeah, we'll um we'll zoom out from uh Bear and uh and FRA. Uh, but we can we can definitely speak to really quickly.
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Bear's family's lovely. Um, they they invite you in with open arms. Um, they're a little bit shocked uh to to see you. Dervin clocks you literally immediately. He sheltered there. Uh, and and he's like, "Oh, hey. Uh uh you hear
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a lot of uh he he he sort of really tries to hang out near you the entire time. He asks you about a million questions.
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Uh some personal stuff about like your history, where are you from? Oh my gosh.
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He's just like hyper locked in and focused and interested and like, "Oh my god, you're so great. I heard so much about you." He hasn't heard anything about you. uh he's seen you like one time and um just a very like childish
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kind of like uh youthful way of interacting and and and Bear's whole family is lovely. Um uh I think Bear does have to drop the line she's just a friend like 12 times.
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Yeah, for sure. For the to the to the rest of the Herdazzian clan. Absolutely.
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Uhhuh. [laughter] Yeah. Um the mom your mom definitely like corners you at one point and is just like hey even if like even if she's just a friend even if she's just a friend you know a lot of friends have
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brought a lot of wonderful Hadazzian children into the world I'm just saying and then [laughter] and then like you get that line for sure like very much like uh like Italian nona kind of like when when are my kids coming like kind
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of thing. um very herdazzian, very intense, very family oriented immediately. But the the night is very everyone's very cordial. They love they love FRA. They ask when you're coming back. You're invited to stay the night and crash on the couch. Uh and the whole
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and the whole bit. Um but we will we will zoom out on uh Fra and Bear for sure. Um and I think we're going to zoom in on Alstrom actually. Uh you return back to the uh um you return
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back to your shop and your sister is sitting up. Her foot is tapping when you enter in through the door. Uh and for the first time, she doesn't look super worried as you enter the door. her foot.
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You see, you look in and as you creep in through the door, you see the the look on her face, that look of consternation that you've seen about a dozen times, uh, you know, in the past even like 10
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day. Uh, the but you you see a couple of details. You're like, "Oh, she's holding cards and there's like little spheres on the table and the other and two of the kids are uh standing there with her um
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or sorry are sitting at the table with her and they're and they have cards in their hands too." And Alir looks and says, "Oh my god, I've lost so much money." And the kid, you come in on what is what
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can really only be described as uh Al Sheer being taken for a total ride. Uh um these kids just being card sharps and totally fleecing your poor sister for her spears in this game of chance.
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Um now can Oh my gosh, I'm I'm totally blanking. I'm totally blanking right now. Can we can I can I get reminded on which of the uh which of the kids the older uh child I can pull up the Nali.
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Um Van Van Van Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh Van is uh is is sitting at the table and says, "Alshir, you played a good game, but I'm starting to feel bad taking all your money. Uh I
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think I think we should pack it up." And Alshir's like, "You listen here, you little Kremling. We ain't stopping until I get all my money back. And the kid's like, [sighs] "Oh boy." Okay. [laughter] Like starts dealing out another hand. And
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then Alir finally like she's looking at the cards and then she looks up to you, Alstrom. She's like, "Oh, hey. Uh, you're safe." Yeah. I just was going to say the same thing about you all. Is everybody okay?
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Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're good. That That storm was crazy. Yeah, it was pretty bad. It was It was It was pretty bad. We were I We're not I'm not Yeah, it was It was a little
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bad. Like, she seems totally locked in on this game. She's like having You see the look on her face? She's having fun.
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Are you okay? What? Don't be weird. Yes, I'm fine. What do you mean? You just have a smile on your face. I haven't seen that in a while.
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I smile all the time. What do you mean? I'm a I'm a smiler. I do. I smile. I am known I've been known to smile.
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Yeah. Alstrom. Okay. Yeah. What are you What are you getting at? Where? I'm sorry.
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I just All right, kids. All right, Van. [clears throat] Keep the money. Okay, you do. You feel free. have plenty of time to win your money back.
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Yes. And I wink at Van. Van's like Van's like, "Yeah, it's going to take a lot of time." And then like scoops the cards and goes uh goes ahead into the basement. Um Van and uh uh Tilavv uh
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both look at you as they get out from the table. Hey uh when you get a chance um see us downstairs. We did a little bit of work uh down in the uh down in the basement.
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Down in the lab. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. Uh Till's Till's been busy. What? Okay. You got to show me now. You can't just lead with that.
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No. Talk to your talk to your sister. I think she needs consoling. And then like they scoot downstairs.
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I was just like, "Hey, what happened? What happened out there? Tell me tell me everything." I told her I was going to like a party to do something, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. She was aware that you were doing X, Y, and Z. The details left vague out of more necessity than anything. It wasn't like it wasn't like being ky this time or anything like that. Uh but she did know you were
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leaving. Uh and you had made this like grand gesture that you were going to be more if not completely transparent.
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Yeah. Okay. So, before I sit down, I'm like, "Yes." Oh my god. It was It was crazy. You would not believe.
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And I go over to the door that everybody left out and I knock on it really hard to make sure they're not putting their ear up against it and listening.
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We're not listening. And then you hear them scamper down the stairs. Okay. Um, and uh, yeah, I'll uh sit down like it was really scary for a while. I'm not going to lie. I just want to lead with
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that. It was okay. Are you okay? I'm I'm fine. Yeah. It's just how do I even start? Um, we went to this crazy party at the palace.
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Yeah, the queen was it was so opulent and big and it was it was gross.
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And when the storm hit, we were able to find our friend, our new friend.
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We But something I don't Something else arrived. Bear saw it. And I wasn't even there. I was somebody somewhere else trying to help um some people.
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And I almost got my arm chopped off. And what? Uh, we got out everybody. We found everybody. And Nev killed some people.
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Oh. Um, we're not going to glaze over you almost losing an arm. What happened?
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It's fine. I'll be okay. See, I just then I show like my sleeve is cut [laughter] cut off.
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Um, she looks Did you get hit by a shard plate? Yeah, there was a guy with a shard blade, but it's not the first time it's happened.
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That doesn't make it better. It does not. I know. I don't I don't know why I said that. God, why the Herald?
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But this the my bond with wave was able to heal it. Okay. Okay. And we barely made it out thanks to Vera.
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and Nev but whatever is happening at the palace it is not good. Yeah. Yeah.
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I'm I am glad you're safe. I'm glad you're safe, too. That storm was wicked.
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It wasn't really even as bad as high storm though. It came so quick and then it was gone. I looked outside. It was It was It was exactly how the rumors said. The all all the rumors about the about uh the
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Everstorm are true. It's angry. It's hot. It's the the lightning is red. The clouds are crimson. It's you know, it the the things were true. So, I I I felt like I I was kind of prepared for what
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was coming. And it's not it's not as intense as as a high storm. It didn't. Um, it doesn't refresh our spheres, though.
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Did it Did it drain them? No. No, it didn't do that. That's good. Yeah. Yeah.
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Um, but it's strange. It's very alien. Yeah. Um anyway speaking of aliens, this lady we found said she was from another land, but it said it sounded like she was from a different place. It was weird.
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What do you mean a different place? I don't know. It's like the way Fra was talking about it was all sorts of normal. So, it was weird. there was another place that she can see and possibly go to.
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Okay, we can talk about that when you know more because I'll have to do some research.
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Yeah, maybe do. Um, maybe do. I'm uh I don't I Oh gosh, I'm so sorry. I'm a little I'm a little flustered. Those kids fleeced me um real bad. Uh you picked you you you had you you let them do that, right? That's I
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thought you were letting them win. No, they really did. No, they completely they completely rung me out. Yeah, I'm not I'm not so good at cards. They only taught me.
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No, we've never played before. Can you teach me? No, Van Van was very transparent about it. He said, "If we're going to put money on the line, if we're putting spheres on the table, lady, um, you're going to lose them." And I, you know,
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me, I got competitive. Um, I thought I told you, well, and it's a game of chance. Like, statistically, I shouldn't have lost that much. Um, but there is an element of I mean, there were three of them in one
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of you. Do you think they like, you know, if they cheated? Um, I'm going to put creme in their soup.
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Uh, that's all I can say. Uh, that's that's all I can say. If I find out they cheated, they're getting they're getting creme soup.
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Okay. So, anyway, I'm glad you're home. I'm happy that you're here. Um, I guess I'm grateful for for for Wave.
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Uh, where is little guy? And then Wave like zips out onto the table. M you are starting to like me and Alir's like yeah you're you kept my brother safe little guy that that that means a lot. I I I have to admit and he
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like zooms from one side of the table to the other from one side of the table to the other to the other to the other. Hm.
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Making friends. Wave is popular. Yeah, Wave. Now you just got to make friends with the kids.
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M I think the kids will like me. Children love mathematics and geometry and good jokes. I have all of them.
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Mhm. Yeah, we can say that. Mhm. Who I really need to work on is Nali.
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They are what? Kerini. But I will. But that doesn't mean they don't like you.
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You don't know that. H yeah but do you I will find out. We have not spoken much but it is because they do not speak much.
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H that's true. Yes. Yes it is. Uh shear is like I I'm starting to regret bringing him up.
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I um are you you're solid after all that? I could use a good nap sleep. What time is it? I don't know.
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You want to You want to sandwich some soup and and and and a and a nap?
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That sounds awesome. Uh, I started using uh your model for a um a heat fabriel um to Yeah. I I I took the I took the um I took the the design and I've started throwing it under our beds so that we
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can have heated beds. That's so cool. Yeah. I I think there's a going to be a lot of applications for it. Uh, I'm Mhm.
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I'm working on a design right now for a stove that uses a heat fabriel.
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Ooh. Oh, yeah. What is that? What the kids were working on? No, I have no I have no I have no idea what the kids are working on if I'm being completely honest. I heard a big crash earlier, so I'm a little worried,
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but I mean I I hear a lot of crashes from you, too, and nobody lost a digit, so I'm not super worried.
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That's true. Maybe you should go talk to them. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Let me go.
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She gets up. She offers her hands out to help you up and then brings you into a big embrace.
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She says, "I'm really glad you're safe and I'm trying not to stress when you're gone." Thank you so much. Did um did the company help?
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I don't know if I love or hate these kids. I got to be completely honest.
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They're great company, but they're they have so many bad habits. They have so many bad habits.
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They keep pilfering food out of the kitchen. I tell them they they can just grab what they like, but then I see them like stuffing stuffing their pockets and stuff and then they're like, "Oh, well, old habits." And
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they're just saving it for later. It's okay. I don't think it's like Sometimes a little pocket bacon can be nice if you need a snack.
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I don't think it's like that, Olm. A I think these kids aren't used to eating.
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Well, give it some time. Okay. Yeah. No, I left the kitchen open. I'm letting them do it. It's just something I noticed. And it kind of makes me worry that like I just hope they get it eventually that
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like our home is their home for now. Yeah, I they will. They're they're smart. They'll they'll pick up on it.
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Yeah, that little one is is is brilliant. Um I don't even know really what to say. I uh I'm starting to teach him to read uh really quickly, but he already grasps mathematics uh without really any he's he's very
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very intuitive. So, if we foster that, I think we might have a lab assistant before too long. If I'm honest, Van already gets it, but the but the uh the middle one um she's Well, she's already doing work, so
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yeah. Yeah. Anyway, go talk to the kids. Okay. Yeah, I'll go. Okay. Uh you head downstairs. Wave rushes in front of you. uh zips down the stairs and uh you head down there and Van uh Van along with uh uh Talav are
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standing proudly um in front of a table where there's like a bunch of sort of Cclamp uh style devices like holding something to the table. Um, and it's very obviously uh one of your creme reels.
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Mhm. But the uh the gemstone um that has been that was at the front of it uh that had the the mud uh spread uh within it. Uh muksprren, whatever you want to call it. um has been swapped out for like a very like a
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like a moss agot green um gem. [snorts] Van uh sees you come down the stairs and he's like, "Yeah, we pretty much invented something. It's it's kind of no big deal. It's whatever. It's really like not a big deal if you think about
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it." And Talav elbows him as hard as you've seen someone shoot an elbow and and and Van like crumples. He's like, [clears throat] "I invented something actually using your design. Van held things for me and helped clamp stuff down. That's what
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he did." And Van's like, "Oh, so Van was a good assistant." Van was a an acceptable assistant, adequate.
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And Van's like, "Okay, well, let's uh uh work is only as good as who works on it. So, let's see this adequate new invention." Okay.
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And uh Tilavv looks over to uh Tilavv looks over to to Vaneran. Kerov is like standing off in the corner. Uh very clearly like working on glyphs and letters. Um like studiously doing homework instead of paying attention to
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whatever is going on in the room. Um, and Talav says, "Asistant, grab me the bowl of water." And Karav or And then yeah, uh, Van's like, and then goes and grabs a uh, a bowl of water and then Tilavv looks to Van and says,
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"Asistant, grab me the cold reel. And Van is uh Van grabs the the the Fabriel and brings it over.
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Assistant, hand it to Alstrom. Van's just like, "Okay, I I get it. I'm the assistant." And he hands over the the the Fabriel. And then Talav says, "Place the tip in the water." and then activate it.
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You tap it in, you activate the fabriel, and the water instantaneously turns to ice.
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Wait, what? You did this? We caught a cold. We caught a cold. If a if if a mudpren is going to turn stone to mud, then a cold sprren is going to turn water to ice.
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It's simple. That is awesome. We may have went through all of the salt that you had in the house and we may have taken the spheres that we won from Alir to buy a lot of ice. And we mixed
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the salt with the ice and we got that ice as cold as we possibly could. And plants may not grow outside of your house for a while uh because of all the salt water.
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But we did we did it. But we did we did it. Um we it's it's it's done. We did it. It's the the cold reel works. And Van's like, I think we should have called it a freeze reel. And and then Tof says,
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"Yeah, well, you didn't invent anything, assistant." Um, you hear Kurav speak into the into the homework that he's doing uh in the corner and he says, "You would have had nothing to you would have known nothing about the freezing
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temperature of that ice if I didn't say anything." And then the uh Tav was like, [sighs] "Yes Kurov.
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Sounds like you all worked on it together on the ice reel." H I like that.
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The ice reel. [sighs] Yes, that is That's a good name. That is a good name.
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But if you need resources, you don't need to like pretend to try and take things or win money through cards. You can just ask us.
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What do you mean? Like if you needed a bunch of ice and salt to like try new experiments, like it's I it's very it's very storm and cool that you were very resourceful to get what you needed.
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Or you can just make it easy on yourselves and ask me. I'll give you salt and ice. You just got to tell me what you're trying to do.
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Yeah, but how much will we owe you? Or all she What do we What do we owe you if we if we like if we get it from you? How much do we owe?
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You don't. That's not No, you don't. Oh, you you owe me being creative and trying new things.
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What's your angle, dude? My angle is making new stuff is fun. You think I'm one of the fools?
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You must be one of the 10 fools. If you don't, come on. I'm just trying. No, there's no like there's no I run the store. We reinvent stuff and and that's what I have to do.
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You get the most aggressive side eye from Van. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Like it's it's Are we going to need like a bunch of ice and salt to get more ice cold sprin or is there an easier way to do it?
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No, it's pretty much salt and ice. But it's like free stuff, huh? Okay. Give me your not Give me Give me Give me that Give me that creme. I want the cremeel.
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That's what I want. Give me the creme. That's not what I That's not what I mean. What do you mean? You want the crumb reel?
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So there's You're not going to go sell it. I sell them. I sell them. You can just buy it from here.
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So I have to buy one. So there's limits. No, I see. If you want to use one for yourself, that is fine.
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I'm saying don't be weird and ask me for stuff and then go sell it.
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How do you know I was going to sell it? Cuz I wasn't born yesterday.
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[snorts] Yeah. Okay. Cuz that's what I would have done at your age. You are an old man.
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It's true. What? [laughter] Um, Van [laughter] Wave laughs out loud at that. Wave Wave is uh Wave is super preoccupied looking at uh Karav's homework massively. Is like zipping across the page and Karav is like you hear you hear
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Karav like wave wave you can't no you have to please get off of my please get off of my homework. No no no wave I need I need wave I need to practice these glyphs. Wait, wait. You got to remember permission.
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Ask first. Can I please scoot across your homework in order to look at it? Kov's like once I'm done.
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Yes. Deal. See wave. Wasn't that easier? No, it was politer. Ah, that's sometimes is also easy because it makes the interaction short and kind instead of being long and asinine.
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It is only asinine because you make it. No, being polite. You could just let me do what I want.
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Come on. I know what's best. [snorts] What? What? Okay. So, what are the chances that you, the one cryptic friend that found me, uh, know everything that's best out of everything?
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100%. That's not You just Mhm. Mhm. You trying to embarrass me in front of the kids?
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Is it working? I think so. Yeah. Uh Van uh is looking proudly at the ice reel.
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Um the uh Tilav is is uh looking up to you and uh Kurov is is is doing his homework. Um, Van says, "Okay, so we we'll try this. We'll try it your way. And if this puts me in any sort of
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debt with you, old man." Oh, then I am going right back to taking your stuff. Okay.
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Okay. Okay. You got the deal. Cuz you can't stop me. [sighs and gasps] I would like Mhm.
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ice, lots of it. Salt, lots of it. Mhm. Mhm. I am going to need an ice chest. A big one. It needs to be made out of metal and it needs to be insulated.
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Right to love. Okay. Yes, van. Okay, that's totally fine. All right, we can do that.
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And then I need more moss agots. Yeah. Okay, we can do that. Okay. So, first first what? Okay. Now, so we get supplies.
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We get supplies. What is what's what is the step after that? How do we what's the next step?
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steal your creme reels and replace the gems with ours. That's that's that's the that that's the next step. And uh and Tav Tav looks to you and is like I I have to be honest with you, Alstrom, that is actually usually the next step.
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We have been taking your primals to make these. That's fine, but what you're supposed to do is reiterate. How can you make it easier, faster, smaller? Is there a better case? Is there a better way to house? Is there a um like can we
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just can I make the creme reel case and then we can just put the creme gem in or we can put the ice gem in?
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You have to think about the next steps. You can't just go willy-nilly. I have an idea now. Let's do it a thousand times.
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Uh, Talav throws her hands up and she's like, "I don't know, man. You're the inventor. Help us out." And that's okay. Let Let me show you.
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Okay. Okay. Well, we're here to learn. That's okay. You just taught me something and I never would have thought of this. You made You made something new. You You taught me.
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Now I'm going to teach you. Okay. Yeah, I'm I'm in. I We should That's the price.
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Okay. Okay. And then And then uh Van looks at you. So there is a price.
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Yes. Is that okay with you? [snorts] Well, as long as we're going to keep this transactional. Yeah.
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Okay. Barav. Hm. He like clearly wasn't listening. Yeah. Yes. What's up? I'm sorry. The price of you being here is you teach me and I teach you.
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I'm 10. You don't think there's nothing you could teach me? There's not one fact you know that I don't know that you could that I could learn from you.
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Uh, Nev's favorite food in the entire world is spicy curry. That is awesome. I'm going to remember that. Thank you so much.
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Yeah. Yes. See, I told you. Um, I feel like we can probably zoom out from Alstrom on on on this here. Um, yeah. Yeah. Um, we are going to we're gonna immediately zoom in on uh Navali.
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Oh, hello Nev. You are I'm assuming it's me, your boy. Um, you immediately head back to the network, I would imagine. Um, the the sheath.
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Oh, no. I hate that name. You head back to the sheath. I go to the hideout. the hideout where I live.
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Nev can keep calling it the hideout. All the kids are calling it the sheep.
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I hate this. Um [gasps] uh there was a high storm super recently. You come back and like all 20 of the children are here. Uh besides the ones that are staying with uh besides the ones that are hopelessly flirting
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with uh Feraniel and the ones that are fleecing Alstrom's sister. Uh besides those, the kids are here. Um, okay.
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Yeah, for sure. Um, I definitely have like a bundle in my hands because I have the dress cuz I didn't know what to do with it.
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Yeah, that makes sense. Leave it. Um, it's Faren that comes and and greets you. Uh, first and foremost.
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So, how'd your dress up party go? I hide the bundle behind myself. Fine. Why you hiding it?
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Because I'm going to put it away now. Goodbye. [laughter] He's like, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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What? You going to put it away?" Yeah. What? So you can wear it again?
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Wear it every day. No. I don't know what else to do with it. I can't return it.
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He like leans into you. The Nev I knew would have thrown it out. Well, it cost a lot of storming money.
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Maybe I can sell it or something. You don't know. You didn't say you were going to sell it.
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Okay. What's with all the questions? You look kind of happy. Why you want to wear it?
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He's like, he's like, "Maybe I do." All right. Here. I hand him the bundle.
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He's like, "No, don't call my bluff. Take your dress back." And like [laughter] he like hands it back to you.
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No, you look you look you look kind of satisfied with yourself. Did it go well?
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It was successful. Yes. Okay. Excellent. Um, that storm was a lot. Yeah. I did not like that. I I I'm didn't feel it coming, but I didn't feel the last storm either, so I guess I don't Is that And he like
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points to you, I guess. So, yeah. Oh jeez, we lost our weather boy, huh? [laughter] Yeah, I'm not your storm warden anymore.
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No, definitely not. Okay. Um, the kids are all safe. Uh, good. They spent the entire time during the storm and while you've been gone setting up traps.
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Perfect. Um, I think one of them fleeced something off of Olstrom. They got one of his cremeels.
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Oh, I mean, saves me from having to ask for one, I guess. Yeah. It turns the whole floor into muck and then it hardens very quickly after that.
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Oh, yeah. All right. Yeah. You're not mad that we stole from your friend right?
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I'm not thrilled about it cuz I was going to ask him, but I'll explain.
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Okay. Um hopefully he won't be mad. I don't think he'll be that mad. I don't think he could do anything about it anyway.
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No, not really. But he is my friend. Your friend? Well, colleague, whatever. That's not what you said.
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Using that word. It got stuck in my head. Oh, I'm sure it did. She looks embarrassed. Yeah, Faren is like Furin has always been the sunshine one through like everything and and Nev's been the grumpy one.
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How's Beardar? Yeah, Nev Nev's the Nev's the doberman in this scenario. Yeah, big time. Big time. Big time.
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How's Bear? Why should I storm and care? Don't say that. Don't say that. They're all fine.
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Fine. I care about the people that you care about. They need to keep you safe.
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I'm annoyed with Bear right now, so I don't want to talk about him. You don't want to talk about Bear because you're annoyed at Bear. Then we'll never talk about Bear.
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Yeah. Okay, fair. Tonight was just a lot. Okay. Yeah. Okay. No, I get that. No, I get that.
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It's fine. Um, I am I am taking in my surroundings while we're having this conversation.
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Are they all eavesdropping? Every single kid here is eavesdropping. Every single one. They like their games get a little bit closer. Um, also you notice like it's been like there was a period for like a high storm. like
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almost every surface of this uh of the the like system that you're living in um has been scrolled on with with chalk, with paints, with uh with like all of these different colors. It has just immediately cheered up. Uh the there's
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like little there's like tapestries that have been painted uh that are clearly just stolen ribbons of cloth uh from other like businesses that have been draped up. Um inter like uh uh a lot of like temporary walls have been put up
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this week is what I'm hearing. Yeah. Lots of laundry's gone missing. Uh the kids are all like kind of wearing clothes that like fit them and like they're taking a little bit more like you see the equipment that they're using
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looks a little bit better. Um almost like the funds that they've been getting for cutter are now going back to them.
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You see some kids have some shiny new knives. You see some of them are wearing clean hats. Uh you notice that their footwear isn't ragged. Like the kids look happy. A lot of them look fed. Some of them are actively cooking.
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Wow. Um, you guys were busy while I was gone. I wasn't even gone that long.
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I mean, I know all this started, but Well, we're just working on things and I mean, we had we had a storm to to kind of deal with. We got the kids inside and then everybody got bored.
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Yeah, that makes sense. They started painting. It's better than it was before. Um, yeah, there's food in here.
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I can smell that. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, they're making curry if you want a bowl.
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Oh, yes. Real food. Extra spicy. Oh, wait. And I I like I like dig into the bundle and try to find the pocket in my dress. I pull out like these crumpled s like fish puff things.
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Floren's like, "What's this?" I I couldn't things kind of got crazy so I couldn't really bring leftovers but I did you know put some of my own away before everything got weird.
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The kids all kind of smooshed now. Yeah. The kids all kind of like gather around and the puffs are gone like in a moment.
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Instantly. Yeah. Literally instantly. Faren takes one and he like pops it in his He's got his big thumb meat hook hand. picks one up.
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Food in the palace is actually Oh, it's really good. Yeah, it was really good.
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Yeah, that sucks. That sucks. Yeah. Not going to taste that again in a while.
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Nope. No. You know, unless I Never mind. It I was going to make a joke about breaking in the palace, but I never want to go there again. It was Yeah, I don't blame you. My goodness.
Speaker A
It was It was disgusting. It was so opulent. It's what we fight. It's what we fight against.
Speaker A
It's why we take from them. Having to dress like them and act like them and she just gets this look on her face. It was I hated it.
Speaker A
Did you hate dressing up like that? Uh, I don't really feel very strongly about it, but the shopkeep was interesting.
Speaker A
Say more. She asked me about customizations in my clothes to hide weapons better. Oh, really?
Speaker A
Yeah. Uh, so that is part of the reason why I kept this. Okay. If I ever have to go undercover again, you're going to have a garment that actually is good for it.
Speaker A
Yeah. I don't want to have to buy a storming dress every time I need to do something to be part of society or whatever.
Speaker A
Yeah, totally. Totally. I had to call people bright lord and brightness and it was just like gh I had to I I'm just glad I didn't have to dance. Um, I managed to avoid doing that.
Speaker A
You would have stomped someone's foot. I guarantee it. I I don't know. I don't know how.
Speaker A
Yeah. So, okay. Yeah. You've never learned how to dance though? Ever? No. After all the theater shows that we've seen, you've never tried?
Speaker A
Nope. Why would I? I don't have time for that. Well, if you ever want to learn.
Speaker A
You know how to dance? Yeah. Okay. Yes, I absolutely know how. Don't say it's weird. You never know when you need to go undercover doing something.
Speaker A
Well, yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, I learned it by watching at the theater.
Speaker A
Well, I guess I'll have to spend more time at the theater than and study.
Speaker A
Oh my gosh. Yeah, they actually have they have a show right now that's about the sun maker. [laughter] It's a it's satire. It's really good.
Speaker A
Oh, yeah. They make him look like an idiot, which is very scandalous. Sounds good to me.
Speaker A
Yeah. Uh, let me grab you a bowl of something. And then he hops off, grabs a bowl of like lavis grain um chicken and curry.
Speaker A
He like Yeah. while he like goes to grab food. I think Nev is gonna uh uh just kind of like slip into her room really [clears throat] quick.
Speaker A
Uh which actually I don't know. It might be a different room. She might have moved storage things into Cutter's room and taken a different one.
Speaker A
Okay. Um but she has a she has a separate room. Yeah, totally. I think the kids I I feel like the kids would have insisted that she had her own space.
Speaker A
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But she she takes the dress. She doesn't know what to do with it cuz she doesn't really have anything she stores her clothes in and she just kind of like hangs it up over a chair for the moment.
Speaker A
Perfect. She's got a little desk with a with a simple chair. I think she just drapes it over the chair cuz she doesn't know what else to do with it.
Speaker A
um and goes back out with everyone to eat. Yeah. So, the kid the kids have all sat down, the curry's done, they they all sit with you. Um, a lot of the kids are have have gone from like looking at Nev as like kind of
Speaker A
a like an older sibling situation to like Jez is the one that points it out and you hear him whisper in your ear, "These kids love you." They're like looking up and you notice their gaze and these kids are all like
Speaker A
looking at Nev with like adoration, like a real like, hey, we we're home now and like we get to be ourselves and there's no cutter and there's no dreer and there's no there's no like hardship compared to the
Speaker A
way that it was. And these kids are like eating this meal with you and Faren's telling jokes and the kids are all laughing and Jez says you can't let these kids down.
Speaker A
You're cutting out cuz you did the thing again. You can't let these kids down.
Speaker A
I won't. No, you won't. Not while I'm around. These kids can't protect themselves. I know you did a lot to protect people today.
Speaker A
I did. You did. I'm uh I know that I'm severe with you. Yeah, you could say that.
Speaker A
Today I'm proud of you. I think she kind of softens a little bit. Thanks, Jess.
Speaker A
You deserve a good life and I know that you're willing to fight for it.
Speaker A
You're a protector and you're a hero. And I'm starting to learn that I think I very much made the right choice.
Speaker A
I think Neb doesn't know what to say to that. Um, I think primarily because the last time someone told her that they were proud of her uh was Ardent Cashure when she was a kid.
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah. Jez is like looking around at like all of the kids and the paint on the walls and like the joy on the faces and the clean clothes and all of that. and he looks and he's and he's kind of like
Speaker A
looking around and his hands his his fists are on his hips. He's like, "Yeah, you're doing well.
Speaker A
I'm doing my best. It's really all I can do." I'm starting to warm up to the idea of an underground base.
Speaker A
Well, that's good cuz it's not changing. Okay, but maybe in the future we can talk about that. But right now, Stormman Castle, you can build your battlements.
Speaker A
You get the money for that and then we can talk. Was that sarcasm that I heard? You're the most severe person in colonar. Are you being catty with me a little bit?
Speaker A
Seems like you're lightening up. That's a good thing. And it's been easier lately. He trots over uh on your shoulder to your cheek, Nev. Your scars on the outside are all healed, and it's the ones on the inside that you need to work on now.
Speaker A
How do I do that? Be a hero. Being a storming hero is your answer to everything.
Speaker A
A true hero to people who cannot protect themselves is the answer to everything. Um, I'm going to roll something.
Speaker A
Okay. Uh, she's going to like nod and say, "So, you want me to protect those who can't protect themselves.
Speaker A
Like she motions to the kids like them. Uh Jez wafts out in front of you and floats bobbing about like 10 or so inches in front of your face.
Speaker A
And Jez just says, "These words are accepted." What? And there's like this eruption of light around Nali. Frost growing on the ground. The kids are like, "What the what stor is going? What damination was that?" You get a lot of that. They all
Speaker A
look at you like you're this like this god standing in front of them. And some you realize sometimes you say the words in the heat of battle when you need them.
Speaker A
And sometimes you're sitting with friends and loved ones and people who need you. And that's when you make the oath.
Speaker A
And folks, that's where we're going to end for the evening. Well, that was a fantastic end to the episode, everyone. Thank you for sticking around. Thank you for hanging out with us.
Speaker A
Uh we will be back on Saturday for Sanguin Dominion. We will be back next Tuesday for the next episode of The Last Ideal.
Speaker A
Um, this was a this was a lovely end to the climactic uh uh infiltration of the the palace.
Speaker A
So yes, we will see you next time. We are going to find somebody really quick to raid out to and then we will see you all on the flip side.
Speaker A
Uh let's see. Let's see. I mean Robear's live. [laughter] Robear is always live. Uh, Robear is always live. Um, so yeah. Uh, folks, that was good.
Speaker A
That was so good. Um, and just because it's always fun to say it sometimes, even uh, you know, on camera and everything like that. Hey folks that are here, all of you, all of you lovely players. Uh it's level up
Speaker A
time so that you don't forget and I don't forget to tell you it's time to level up.
Speaker A
Absolutely. And all right, we'll see all of you next time. Bye-bye.
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