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The wheels have shifted in Algar. Once Colonar Shore, a beacon of pride and glory.
The Last Ideal Chapter 7 explores a post-heist investigation in Algar, focusing on a group bound by fate amid cults and secrets.
Key Takeaways
- The group’s heist reveals dangerous secrets that challenge religious and political powers.
- Trust and loyalty are central themes as characters navigate alliances and threats.
- Mystical elements like spren play a crucial role in character development and plot progression.
- The setting of Algar is a city on the brink, filled with cults, secrets, and political tension.
- The RPG actual play format allows deep narrative exploration and character interaction.
What the video covers
- The city of Algar, formerly Colonar Shore, is in decline with growing despair and whispered shadows.
- Four main characters—a truth-seeking investigator, a fierce mercenary thief, a fabric manipulator, and a defiant Voron wolf—are drawn together.
- The group recently executed a heist at the Devitary of Insight, stealing a heretical tome with dangerous knowledge about Night Radiants and oaths.
- The tome was heavily protected with traps and locked in a secure library, but the group outsmarted the defenses.
- They gather at Honors Hold, a hot meal house run by an old acquaintance, to translate and decide the tome’s fate.
- Navali experiences a revelation involving elemental creatures called spren, adding emotional and mystical complexity.
- The group copies the important parts of the tome and then briefly separates to handle personal tasks before a key meeting.
- The narrative shifts to a rooftop meeting with trusted young allies, discussing plans and trust issues within the group.
- Tensions and uncertainties about loyalty, the city’s safety, and hidden threats are explored.
- The story blends political intrigue, mystical elements, and character-driven drama within the Cosmere RPG setting.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Setting the Scene in Algar
- 08:10Aftermath of the Devitary Heist and Tome Details
- 14:20Gathering at Honors Hold and Translating the Tome
- 23:00Navali’s Revelation and Spren Encounter
- 30:00Copying the Tome and Preparing for the Next Steps
- 37:00Rooftop Meeting with Trusted Allies
- 45:00Discussion of Trust, Loyalties, and City Threats
- 50:00Closing Thoughts and Setting Up Future Events
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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 eye.
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Hello everyone. It's us, Another World Tabletop, coming to you once again with our Cosmir RPG TTRPG actual play, The Last Ideal.
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Last time on Dragon Ball Z, last time on, uh, on The Last Ideal, we were dealing with the aftermath of the heist at the Devitary of Insight.
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The group had successfully made off with the writings of, uh, Tanalat, a collection of, uh, what seems to be in a weird timey-wimey kind of way definitely before the last desolation at earliest and at latest perhaps before
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the recreants. Even the book containing revelations about the death of honor, revelations about how to make neel bonds with spren and revelations on why certain things should be kept out of the hands of those who would abuse powers
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like that. Ways that you can learn and expand and mean the oaths that you speak in order to become a Night Radiant. It was, it is in really no uncertain terms a heretical tome. Uh, one that would be seen by the Ardent
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and anyone truly who was a good, uh, faithful member of the Voron religion, uh, as the highest of apostasy against the religion. And it made so much more sense that it was under such intense scrutiny rather than
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allowing it to get into the hands of other people. Uh, it was given the threat of destruction, a heating fabriel, uh, being kept underneath it as a sort of spring trap mechanism that would destroy it should
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anyone come too close to getting it without the proper unlocking mechanisms. Uh, put under lock and key in one of the most secure, uh, libraries in all of Alithar, if not the world, and then finally being pilfered by our group. Um, and it's
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obvious that the devotey was not ready for the guile, the innovation and the criminal knack of our personal group as they were not predicting that they would have to deal with the floor of that treasury room being melted out underneath it.
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Seeing as the powers of melting stone, uh, was until, uh, so very few nights ago under the wheelhouse of people that own shard blades and that was really about it.
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So it was there that we found our group going and heading to the Tivera, the hot meal house, uh, known as Honors Hold, the gathering place of a group called the Sons of Honor and also
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a business that was proprieted by an old friend enemy of Berdelar, um, Clim.
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After a bit of tense negotiations as to whether or not Clim would even allow them to come inside, they spent the evening there learning a few things about themselves, starting to translate this book after deciding precisely what
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exactly to do with this book. It was an interesting evening. Uh, it had the revelation of an additional friend, these sort of emotional and elemental creatures that populate the world of Roshar, um, revealing itself to
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Navali and honor to the shock of essentially everyone. It showing up in the blink of an eye in order to hoist the weight of the world's fate onto the shoulders of Navali claiming wild things like they
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were supposed to save the world and they were this person who was chosen and meant to be a hero, etc., etc., etc., leaving Navali a little bit breathless, a little bit worried, a little bit confused, a little bit excited. But it's now that we
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turn the clock ahead just a slight amount. We're going to presume a few things here, people. One, a few hours have gone by and the copying of the notes in that, in, uh, Tanalat's tome have gone
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swimmingly. Um, Feraniel being an expert copywriter, um, a logistician that has on many, many occasions had to rush through hurried and incredibly accurate information about battlefields and complicated commands and tasks, etc., etc., to be passed up
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on lines on the battlefield between Yakaved and Alith Carr. And now that is sort of showing up in like a tour de force of writing prowess. Um, the bulk of this tome, the
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important bits having been copied down into a separate notebook if nothing else. We presume that Feraniel, uh, I'm presuming, I'm saying this, Feraniel had a full novel-sized notebook in her side satchel. Uh, that just seems
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so very right. And blank. Completely blank. Not a dang thing in it. Her half-filled notebook being tucked somewhere else in that satchel. And a fresh one there just in case an ancient tome came across her table that you
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needed to copyright. Um, so we, um, we're going to move on from that occurrence and we are going to say that the group has gone very briefly their separate ways to deal with some of the day-to-day tasks that have been left to
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the side to prepare themselves for the meeting with Tonavir and to get a good night's sleep.
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You've avoided the guards. You have avoided the Ardent. You got away mostly scot-free. Uh, for the most part, it would seem, at least for the time being.
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Any instances of you being seen with at the Devitary of Insight has gone unnoticed or unrecorded for now. Um, some of the criminal elements of you understanding at a very intrinsic level that
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these things take time to get, you know, criminal portraits made, to collect statements from those that were there, to grill the guards that were present as to why they failed so horrendously, etc., etc.
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There's a time to all of these things and it seems you have some.
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So, if I'm not mistaken, the very first place that we are going to zoom in on is going to be a rooftop with a small shelter at top it. Not anything that was going to protect in a meaningful way from a highstorm, but
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something that would protect you from the wind and the rain, and the elements in a less pronounced way. Uh, something that would be for like the days after a highstorm, the riddens, so to speak. It has, uh, you
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know, a roof, some wooden slat or well shale bark slats that can be drawn closed for privacy or to block out the wind and the rain. This is down in the theater ward. Uh, and I will ask Navali,
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who precisely have you gathered with you? Um, it is easy enough to send out a missive amongst the cell in order to gather whom you would like.
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Um, I would probably gather the kids that I know I can trust best. So, some of the ones that were in that we named already that were in the last meeting, the one with Berdelar.
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Um, Trim, Trim, Dervin, Teldarin. Yeah, Faren. Yeah, Vilar. Are you sure? Faren. Um, you left on a little bit of uneasy terms and thus I would like to ask more directly about him.
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Yeah. Um, I think she would give him the option or ask him ahead of time if he wanted to meet. If he declined, then he declined.
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Okay. She wouldn't say where she wants to meet until he agrees.
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He would agree. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. So you get this little gathering of five of these teenagers, young adults. Um, Vitilar shows up, Trim, Faren, Duran, Teldaran. Um, all of them gathering in this small squat room, maybe like a 15
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by 15 with a table in the middle, some chairs, uh, you know, a sphere lantern in the corner casting some wan light on the room and they all sort of
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spheres. Um, you know, one of them's doing like the the five finger fillet on the table like just jabbing, you know, like it's they're very much Yeah, they're very much keeping themselves occupied until you're ready to to tell them exactly why
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they're here. A few of them have a you know, a Dervin and Trim have a pack of cards out that they're playing with.
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Yeah. Um, yeah. I think uh I I don't I don't know that she would keep them terribly long unless they wanted to spend like time with Nav. Uh yeah, but she would, you know, probably arrive uh you know, she might not be there right
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when they all gather. Uh, but she would arrive quickly and say, "Uh, yeah. So, this is really just more of a of a check-in.
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I just wanted to make sure everybody is doing okay with everything going on. There is a pretty distinct moment of like looking between one another. Um, all of them look injured.
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Uh, before anything occurs, uh, please go ahead and you can roll me. I believe it's medicine.
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Sure. Forgot to get my dice out. Uh yes, there is a medicine skill. 13 + 2 15.
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13 + 2 15. Yep. So you are no surgeon. You're not a doctor. You're not a nurse. You aren't any sort of real uh you aren't a Nope.
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You aren't a professional, but you have I know what hurt looks like. You've been beaten enough times and you've seen people beaten and you have beaten enough people. You have lived a life with enough violence in it to recognize the
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hallmarks of someone who has been uh mistreated. And you notice on the kids Trim and Vitilar and Dervin, the younger ones, there are bruises upon the arms.
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Dervin has a black eye and Faren pulls his shirt up and shows that there is a knife gouge along a rib and then he speaks up.
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We're not doing good. Uh, you cut out at the last. We're not doing good.
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We're not doing good. Don't tell me Cutter did all this. I won't tell you then.
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I think Nev's expression goes stony. Why did he do it? Did he have a reason?
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You see his face kind of go blank. You know that cutter gets jealous and you promised to train us and keep us safe.
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We all knew you were going out on this big dangerous job and so did he.
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And then he got news that you pulled it off. I'll let you do the math.
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Okay. She just kind of nods a little bit, but you can see her hand is on her daggers.
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Uh, not towards them, but just out of habit because she's angry. I will have an update for you all soon.
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And I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I couldn't get you out in time. Did you uh make enough money to get us all out out of this little job?
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Uh above table, I forget. We were gi We weren't given a number. We were told it was 300 marks.
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uh which is a significant amount of money, but it's not enough for me. Yeah. It's not going to it's not going to bring everyone here out of poverty.
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It's not going to fix everything in one fell swoop, but it's going to help a lot.
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Does it mean we don't have to work again? I don't know yet. I need to I'm going to see about making a move sooner for you all.
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So, what happens when you take too long and he kills one of the kids?
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She shakes her head. You could leave now, but I don't have anywhere to put you yet.
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Hunter needs to go, but I'm not ready yet. He's still better than you. Or at least meaner.
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You'd be surprised. And I think Nev just feels this this deep sense of regret because for her she was willing to be the one subjected to Cutter's violence because it meant he wasn't touching anyone else. And now that is no longer the case.
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And I doubt any of the kids have seen what Nev looks like when she's ready to kill someone, but that's what she looks like.
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Dervin walks up, stands, stops jabbing a a dagger into the table. So why don't why don't we just like he can't he can't he can't take all of us.
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Don't Who's who's his boss? Right. I don't know for sure, but I'm starting to get an idea. I think if something's got to give.
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If he gets in a bad way, come here. Go to Berilars and keep watch. I'm sure if something came down to it, there are places you could hide in the city and I would find you.
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What about that the your uh that dark eyes lady that you hang out with?
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She's outside all this. Feranial. I Yeah, Nev thinks for a second like I think I think she lives in the barracks where the military is at. I doubt you all would be able to get in, but yeah, let me let me talk to let me talk
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to them. I will have more answers very soon. What about that? actually on the other guy.
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Alolstrom. Yeah, he has like a house. I don't know. I would have to ask.
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If you if you show up to any of them and tell them that you were with me, I'm sure it would be fine if it came down to it. But I need to talk to them. I'm going to be talking to them
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very soon. Okay. I'm trying to get answers here. I I didn't expect him to be so [ __ ] childish about this. Storming childish about this.
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He he got real angry and he he started throwing things and he challenged Faren cuz Faren got in his and then Faren pipes and says, "Shut up.
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Shut your stormy mouth. Don't worry about what I did." And uh Dervin looks and says, "No, no, Nev can hear it." Faren said that if he touched one of us again that he was going to gut him, so we slashed him across the across the
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body. Happened in the blink of an eye. He's fast. He's so fast. I know none of you were here when he turned on me, but as long as you keep him happy and steer clear when he's angry until it's time.
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That's all I can say. Okay. Well, we'll kids all look at each other one more time. We'll keep making them money and then we'll go from there. I I guess he's he's been erratic for the past few nights,
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heading out at weird hours. I think he's getting drop offs uh at at at strange hours and now I think he's he's worried cuz the high storm's coming uh you know tomorrow and or at least the storm wardens say and
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it's um that means we're all in kind of she perks up when they mention that he's going to drop offs at different times.
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Yeah. Have any of you ever met any of the other cells? The kids all look at each other and can I please get an insight?
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Okay. Me, I wonder if they have no idea that this is a giant network of thieves and they're just a very small part of it.
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Uh, you said insight. Yeah. Okay. 18 21 with a 21. Everyone's eyes keep going to trim.
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She looks at trim. They like look at the table and then look at you and then look at the table and then look at the floor and then look at you and then look at the slats and then look at you.
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It's It's important. I have. I have. I did it. I've seen them. I've seen them work.
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Do you have any names? Have you like actually met them at them? I I haven't met them, but I know where the other Warren is.
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The other Warren? Okay. Um, theirs leads out of the city. Next time you see them, see what kind of work they're up to.
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You want me to spy on another cell? Trim like perks up. I I want you to make friends with another cell.
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We're not supposed to work together. We're not supposed to talk. That would be bad. I would be spying.
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Not if it's to report on cutter for working with the Sons of Honor. This sounds like I should get paid. That's what this sounds like.
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What's mine is yours, Trim? What do you want? I want 10 marks. Done. I want 15 marks.
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You asked for 10. That's I did. I fine. You're supposed to start high. You're supposed to start above what you want to settle for.
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10 marks is high. I thought that was very high. And then you said you said yes immediately. And I that's that's like a lot of that's a lot of money.
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It's like a 100 chips. 60 chips. The marks are going to start coming in for me. Trim, she looks at everybody.
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And the second I have enough, I'm taking you all with me. Where? This job was a huge step in the right direction.
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Oh, where where are we going? Where would we go? Like a bigger cave. I'm looking into another hideout. One that's just for us.
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Yeah. Okay. Faren looks to you looks to the rest of the kids. Promises don't mean a lot right now.
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Please. I'm not making promises. I'm telling you what I'm planning. Well, please be quick with your plan.
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I will. storming try and you can see Floren Floren who is who is a brick house of a man uh you know 17 years old but like lavisfed farm boy like massive massive individual says I can't take him
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and I'm afraid that if I got lucky and did there's someone worse behind find him.
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There's always someone worse. It's always a matter of Kremlings in a bucket. You just have to be the one on top of the pile.
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That's what I've taught you, and it's still true. She looks at all of them.
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Uh, Vitilar and uh, Teldarin uh, look to one another and say, "Oh, I wasn't worried before. I'm not worried now." And Teldar says, "Yeah, honestly, I'm I mean, we're good." Um, and they like they like exchange this like secret handshake between one
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another uh, real quick. We're in it to win it. We love this. We have loved this. Uh I don't know about these pansies, these these, you know, little little barely clinging on rock buds that are in the rest of the cell, but we're
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with you. Ride or die. She uh she kind of chuckles a little bit and she goes to tell Darren and kind of scrunches up his hair.
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It's a lot of big talk until a man much bigger than you breaks your jaw and your face.
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Tell for my sake. Dust off. Survive. Fixes his hair. I'd walk into a high storm just to feel the static on my jimmies.
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I think Nev loses it a little bit because he said that. Yeah. All right. Yeah. All right. Okay.
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She kind of She kind of grins a little bit. Uh something she only really does when she's around the kids.
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I mean it. I'm going to do what I can to protect everyone and get you all out of this.
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Enough is enough. Yeah. Uh Faren says, "Listen, I know we've had a little bit of a of a of a rough go lately, but if you get us through this and you come through with all these things that
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you've said, not promised, but said, I'm I'm with you. I am. She'll nod. Good.
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The kids start to sort of like look to one another and then they look to you.
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Can we go? Yeah. Till Darren's like, "Yeah, I got money to make." Was anybody else wounded?
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Uh, yeah, but not as not as bad as us. He knows that we're yours, right?
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Of course he knows, bastard. Yeah. Be safe. Do what you got to do and drop in on the others if things get dire.
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If you mention me, I'll make it worth your while later. Uh, Teldarin and Vitilar look to one another and they're like, "We might just go and drop in on Berlar anyway." You should drop in on Bear.
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Yeah. Yeah. Don't tell him I'll make it worth his while. He owes me. Does he?
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He's a storming pain in my ass. I'll tell you that. Yeah. Well, what's yours is ours. And that means if he owes you something, then he owes us something. So, we're going to go Exactly. I'm going to go make his life
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hell for a minute. Elma said hi. Yeah. And then the kids all through different executions of like parkour, free running, throwing a rope over the side, they sort of like vacate this place like very expeditiously.
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um when they leave. Yeah. Nev's just going to look around to the empty room like, "Are you here?" You see a little blue man here instantly on the table tapping arms folded, tapping his foot on the table about like
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10 in tall. You know, if you're going to have an attitude every time we see each other, maybe I don't want this.
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You don't have a choice. And frankly, you have an attitude all the time. So, you're really one to talk.
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This is just how I am. What was your name again? Jazelle. Jeale. Jezelle. Jez.
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Nev. Exactly. Was that so hard? What? You liked that. I could see that you liked that.
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Liked what? The camaraderie, the fellowship, the fact that you're protecting someone, the fact that there's something bigger than the sum of you that you can throw your entirety into. Something to prove the fact that you are not your past. Huh?
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Have I ever tried to act like I don't enjoy the network? pretty consistently you put on a face to every other person than those six kids. Like you do not care if lightning struck them dead. So that's to protect them.
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So the only people that matter in this world are those six kids? No, I would take all of them with me if I could.
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Why can't you? I need storming spheres. I can't just do this for nothing. I can't feed them on honor.
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Can't feed them on good feelings and camaraderie. Well, you know who has a lot of go around who?
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Cutter. What are you trying to say with that? Cuz if you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right.
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He needs to die. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. If I steal from Cutter, I might as well kill him because it will send him to kill me.
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Well, an instigation that leads to you having to defend yourself is a little bit different than want and murder and knives in the back, isn't it? Why don't you challenge him? Why don't you have a little bit of a backbone and and go and
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and and put him in his place instead of this subtrafuge and and these tacern woeful looking out on the horizon like the next day isn't going to come. Huh?
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I don't know what your life experiences as a sprren but I don't expect you to understand what it's like for people like me.
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people like us. You're right. I wouldn't know anything about the only people in my life betraying me and ripping my soul out, leaving me destitute and spiraling through the cosmir. I wouldn't know anything about that. I wouldn't know
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about and I'm clearly lying. That was sarcasm. I know more about loss than you ever will.
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Little you. How long have you been following me around? I've been following you for since you started taking care of the kids.
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Ah, see you missed all the highlights of my story. You've told those stories enough times in the dark, silently hoping, speaking out that something would help you.
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Well, I'm something. Not all of them, Jez. Not all of them. You're going to stand there and be high and mighty about how I should grow backbone and challenge a man to a duel who is surely more skilled than I am.
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I guess you do want to lose more rather than not. If I fight him, I need to win.
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That's all there is to it. I think you would win. And I mean that.
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Every everyone says he's so fast, that he's so brutal, all of these things. You aren't the same person who earned that scar.
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No, I'm not. And he's not as fast as you think. And you're faster than you think.
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But right now, so are you gonna Fear of him is ruling you. There's too much at stake.
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So what are you going to do about it? You going to help me like Wave helps Alolstrm?
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He like tenses up for a minute. Wave is a filthy little Kremling who can't be trusted as far as you can throw a chull. So, no, I will not helping you like Wave does.
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All right. Yeah, let's be super granular about it. I guess granulation matters. Damnation is Damnation is in the details. Nali.
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All right. Okay. Yeah, details are important. You are absolutely correct. Why do I feel like that was sarcastic?
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See, even when I'm being sincere, you think I'm being an [ __ ] That's great. Love that.
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Well, I don't think you're an [ __ ] I just think you are a good actor.
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So, are you going to help me or not? Yes, of course I'm going to help you.
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I'm going to help you. You're going to be I have put into pro. You need you need to speak.
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I need to say Yeah. Well, I know what they are, but I get the feeling that just saying what's in that book isn't going to make things work, is it?
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a lot of the sass and a lot of the uh a lot of the sarcasm and the the uh self-righteousness sort of like flow out of them.
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No, no, it will not work like that. They need to be accepted and you need to mean them. But knowing them is truly an incredible first step. You are being given an opportunity that no one has had in
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many many years, especially with a head start like those writings of Tanelot. It's it's daunting, but I want to help you. And the reason why I'm being the way I am is because it's frustrating to see A hero
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act like what they do doesn't matter. You think I'm a hero? I think in the eyes of a few dozen of the most innocent and hopeful things on the planet, you are a hero. And that matters a lot
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more than what I think. Neb suddenly doesn't have anything quippy to say. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so.
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I just need you to say the words now. And then Jez turns into this very pure ribbon of like a turquoise sea spray blue light and zips out of a crack in the slats in the window.
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I feel like we can zoom out from Nev there. Oh yeah. So, we are going to zoom out.
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It's very late at night that Alstrom uh returns to uh his and Alir's shop and It is there that Alshir is waiting for Alstrom.
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Alstrom, you walk in through the door and inside sitting at the table with a glass of violet wine, quite strong.
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and a bowl of uh assorted rock bud fruits. Sitting there looking at a notebook is your sister, I'll sure.
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Um hi. Uh sorry I'm getting home so late. Uh I I didn't think you'd still be up.
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You robbed the Devitary of insight. Wait, h how how what? Where did you hear a thing like that?
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I run a Fabriel shop, Holstrom. I have span reads that connect to every single building of learning in this city because they buy them from me.
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There's a very concerned ardent that wrote to me saying that someone that looks very suspiciously like my brother was seen assaulting Ardent and stealing an incredibly valuable toe.
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You robbed The devitary of insight. No. Mm-m. Can I get a deception? Can I please get a deception?
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Yeah. What's the uh what's the name of the the bar we went to afterwards?
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Honors Hold. That's a 22. No, I met up with uh Bayer at uh Honors Hall. Do we got a couple of drinks?
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Okay, then why did I receive this? And they pull a loose sheet out from the notebook that they have on the table. And it is a letter written by a span read here in the in the shop. And let me slide it
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across the table. It says, "Alshir, it is with great regret that I must inform you that it seems as if your brother was seen within the Devitary of Insight, the very day that or sorry, today when the when when a
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great tome was stolen. If this is true, please let me know. Uh, I was Bear and I were having some Hold on.
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We're having some drinks, I think. Have you not some somebody was maybe trying to dress up as me? We're not the only Talins here. There's plenty. or like some sort of trick or illusion.
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Somebody is trying to get us. What has been going on, Olstrom? You started hanging out with with Beardar and now suddenly you're coming home very late.
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You're working on strange fabriels. I'm trying to help people. I'm trying to help us. Trying to to bring new things into the world that haven't been seen before, haven't been seen in hundreds of years.
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She takes a long pull on the wine glass. I am worried about you. I'm I'm And I uh sit down and pull up a chair.
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I'm a little worried too. Like to tell you the truth, this is all new for me and I think I need your help.
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Then talk to me. I I'm working on some new projects that I can't do alone.
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That's all I can say right now. See, that's the part I'm worried about. Why is that all you can say right now?
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Why are these hidden? When you were trying to make the the cremeel, that wasn't a secret.
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But now my basement is made out of Now you're talking to spirits. You're speaking to Sprren.
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You are gone all hours of the night and I receive span read missives saying that you were seen at the site of a heist.
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Come on. Do I look like I would be a person who would do a heist? Come on.
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Hi, Prince. I would trip over the eyebrows. What would I do? I can't lie to anybody. The guards, I would just say hello to them right away.
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Alshir jabs you in the pectoral with like a long pointy finger. Listen, the world's greatest liars convince everyone that they are terrible liars.
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do not keep lying to me. And then she stands up, closes the notebook. I'm going I can't tell you the truth, but but I I can show you.
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Show me that. You just have to trust me. Okay, let's go. Let's go. uh take her down to the lab to my workshop and show her the work I've been doing with various uh sprren and using the aluminum to like like
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guide them to do like move between gems to stop them communicating when I when gems are split. Um, and a few other things that I've been experimenting with.
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What kind of fabriels have you made? Uh, Okay, check this out. Um, and I just reach down. I like pull h there's probably like a a rug somewhere and I like pull over o pull it over a little
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bit and just and turn a use one charge of my crumb reel and try and and and turn it soft for a few seconds and draw a little smiley face in it.
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It definitely goes soft. uh that that works exactly the way you need it to.
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She swirls it around and so if we are going to do something new, everybody is going to say we're doing it wrong and we are breaking things.
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You know, I'm the one who sell these, right? People need to believe that I'm making these, right? When someone comes in and they see that this is here, I need to know how it works. Yes. So, then help me work on it. So, help me. Let us
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um we can hire somebody to work at the shop and you and I can just invent things.
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Who can We don't need We don't need Who's going to keep the secret? I'll ask somebody. I'll know. I know.
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I know people. Alstrom, you don't know anyone. Who do you know? I know uh Bear. I know Nev. I know Fanio.
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You are doing yourself not a single favor right now. Just Just How about this? How about this? Let me try to come up with some options. I'll ask around and you can always say no.
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I reserve the right to say no. Absolutely. Okay. And this is amazing. This is invention. This is wonderful.
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This is why I need your help. And then people will believe if you say, "Hey, we're going to hire somebody. I'm going to go do some work for a few weeks and we come out with a new thing.
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Why are you talking to yourself down here? You don't talk to yourself? No. That's weird.
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It helps that I don't like block the thoughts. It helps me just keep the thoughts moving to new directions if I just like move them. Olstramm, I have known you your entire life and you are a very much certified little freak, but
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never have you started speaking to yourself in the laboratory for no reason. I will not believe that for one moment.
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What is going on? You have to do things you've never done. Do you have a girl down here? Is that what this is?
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You You would wish. I'd love I mean wait no that was I would love I would love a niece or ne a niece or nephew absolutely however if you're sneaking in I so very much need you to not
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I do not need some little light eyes trumpet coming down here in awe of our aluminum basement. Okay.
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Oh, okay. Okay. You I I understand. Okay. So, she's got to go. I don't care who she is.
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Mhm. Or let me meet her. Whoever you've been talking to down here, I need to meet. Okay.
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Okay. Okay. You didn't say when. Okay. What did you just say? I didn't say when.
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Today. Right now. Immediately. Go get them. Pull that absolute creme with me. This is my shop.
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I was going to do it later. Geez. Now, now. All right. Where is she? Where is she?
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Okay, I'll go get them. Go get them. All right. It might be a while.
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I'll wait. Okay. Okay. And then uh wait is our is our meeting with Tan Tanavir after this? Tanir Teneavir is quite literally in the evening of the next day. You are still the night of after all like this is this
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is like 3 4 in the morning. Okay. Mhm. Um uh Alstrom goes outside and walks around like two or three blocks. Okay.
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And then comes back. Uh-huh. Oh, no. On the walk, uh, he says he talks he starts talking to Wave.
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Mhm. Okay, Wave. I'm going to introduce you to my sister and you got to be cool about it. Okay.
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She's going to freak out and I need you to be cool. What does that mean?
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Just just be just be yourself, but be nice. Like you don't need to be My temperature is usually ambient to the atmosphere.
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Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Not warm or cool. Don't um don't do anything that you would consider funny at a later date.
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All right. Okay. All right. Um, so we're going to go down. We're going to go meet Oshir.
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We're going to introduce you to her and then everything's going to be a-ok. Okay. And we everything's going to be peachy. It's going to be great.
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A Okay. And it's going to go so well. So well swell. Oh, you think that's where that word comes from? Hm. Never thought of that.
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Ah okay. Um, yeah. I go downstairs. Um, back to the shop. Alir's waiting, arms crossed, sitting at the table, some chatbook in front of her, reading in the sphere light. So, reds and blues dancing.
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Uh, Alir, I have I have somebody uh uh somebody would like to meet you. I like hold out my arm and like set it on the table and like wave moves from like the back my back, my chest and down my arm
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and onto the table. You've known Alir for a very, very long time. She is your sister. She is the person you have spent the most time with in this life. You run a business with her and you've come to this land. At the
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behest of her with the insistence that Fabriels are the future and this was the home and the place where you will make your mark on the history of the world.
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The ambitions were raging through you both when that decision was made and you feel that she is one of the most staunch and unsweetable individuals on the entire planet. And all of those things completely leave your mind as your
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sister's eyes go white, her skin goes pale, and she hits the table then the floor.
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Uh uh uh. Uh is she bleeding? Is she okay? Might have a bump on the head. Went down pretty soft. Uh just fainted hard.
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Okay. Okay. Uh water and a fan. Wave is like be cool. Be cool. Not cool. Not cool.
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No. So not well. Unswell. H. Grab something soft and like put it under Alir's head. And I go grab some water and I try to like uh wake her up.
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Uh maybe if I need to do a medicine check or something. Give me a medicine.
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I would do that. Yeah. Absolutely. Oh my god. Okay. Uh 16. A 16. Proper application of cool water. Uh nice cloth. A few uh uh moments and uh uh a bit of a of gentle talking and then and proddding of the you know, you're
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like palpating her cheeks and trying to like wake her through very gentle means. She her eyes flutter open.
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Monster. Monster. Monster J. It's made out of geometry. Geometry monsters. Here. Wait. No. No. No. No. Monster.
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No. What are you talking about? Holstrom. Yeah. I was dreaming. You have some water.
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She takes the glass of water, drinks it. And then her eyes go wide as dinner plates as wave rushes up and goes onto her hand and begins to like gently pulse. They're there.
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Be cool. Be cool. I'll This is wave. It's on me. This is all she It's on top of me. It's on my hand. Get it off my hand.
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Hold on. Wave. Can you get off, please? Next time, ask for consent. It's moving. And then, okay.
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Wave shuffles off uh of Alir's hand. Alir scrambles back and puts her back up against the wall.
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Alstrom, what in damnation is that thing? It's just a sprren. Like look, you got Sprren Shockren right there around you like that. It's little triangles just bursting. A few fierce friend bubbling on the table. A few anger boiling like blood at her
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feet. What do you mean it's a sprren? No, no, no. The little candle fellas are spread.
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Mhm. The little moes of light are windpr when you're in the arms of a lover.
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Mhm. That's a tangle of geometry and is a monster. Well, like just because it's not a friend you've seen before doesn't mean it it doesn't exist.
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This is kind of rude. I'm rude. I'm rude. You told You said you wanted to meet whoever it was.
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I thought it was Those were your words. You said whoever it was. You are being so lit literal right now.
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And it is the worst. I thought it was some buxom tavern maiden or perhaps some some woman looking some lighteyed woman looking for a clandestine meeting with a with an inventor, a heretic. I thought that it was going to
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be salacious like that. I didn't think that you were committing heresy yourself by speaking to little pieces of infinity.
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I I was speaking to pieces of God heresy. Please explain. So, now that you've calmed down, can you take a seat, please, and meet my friend who means something to me?
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Alir gets up and slumps down into the chair at the table. Yeah. Okay, so I've been acting weird, right?
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And you just acted weird, too. I feel like that was a pretty normal reaction.
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Mhm. From me. So maybe what I've been doing is actually been acting kind of normal, huh?
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Are you gaslighting me? What are you Is that what Are you convincing me that you were acting normal? Cuz that wasn't normal.
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I was trying to just What? Oh, fine. Whatever. What? What do you Your experiments turned our basement into metal, that's not normal.
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Yeah. And And Queen Navani's been doing crazy stuff, too. You're not Queen of Honey.
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What does that have to do with anything? So, she did it doesn't mean someone else can't.
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My brother isn't supposed to do these things. You were supposed to make span reads and be good at making little creme things.
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Why does your definition have to be true about everything? You say certain things can't exist, yet they do. You say I can't do things, yet I did.
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I would like you to make a persuasion, please. 10 10 I I just wanted to stay and invent things and and have a simple life and this is you have to understand how far away from that this is right now.
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I think we might be closer than we've ever been. Like I said, I need your help.
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Okay, I'll help. I'm helping. I will help you. You can't do this alone. Whatever this is. And like she points so dramatically at Wave.
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You need help. I I agree. I told you I volunteered for the help. Helping it.
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I said it first. This isn't like it was your idea. So, what is all this?
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You're just talking to Sprint. That's all this is. Yeah, they talk now. This wave is hundreds of years old. He wave has knowledge beyond what we can fathom. That is how I've been able. He's been they've been one of my
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I am fathomless. See, I'll look to wave. I've had enough out of you. You quit talking, you little turd.
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. What? He has not done anything wrong to you. Okay, maybe he touched you without consent, but I told him he understands now. But like that's no way to talk to somebody, especially when you first meet them.
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Okay, little fella. My name's Alir. What's yours? I'm wave. I am a part of the almighty. I am infinity.
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Oh, that is a joke. Alir's face drops. I swear to God. I sw or I swear to the almighty. Allstrom.
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Allstr. I swear. I think I got to sleep on this. No, he's got a bit of a personality.
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A bit of a personality? Yeah. What do you think a being that's centuries old would have? Like they would just be some sort of like uh Okay.
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No, I suppose not. What is your plan? What is the What? Why? What? Why? What is all this? That's what I need to know.
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What are we doing? What are we doing about this? What are you doing about this? What are we What are What are we you doing about this?
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Uh, we're making new things. We are rediscovering old fabriels that haven't been seen in centuries.
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And this little thing can help. Yes. Nani doesn't have to be the only one.
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It can be many people. It doesn't have to be just us. Okay. Okay. I want you to admit something to me.
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Maybe this is crazy. This is absolutely nuts. This is crazy. Yeah. Okay. You're You're being You're being very blasze about all of it.
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You're my sister. I got like If I can't talk to you, who can I talk to?
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I had to pry this out of you, Olstrom. No more lies. I will do better to communicate.
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No, no more lies. Not to me. Promise me. Promise me. I promise I will tell you the truth always.
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Lies by omission count. Astrom. Okay, I will not I will tell you the truth and I will not lie.
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That's better. Did you rob the devitary of insight? No. Okay. I did not. Okay.
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Okay. What's your alibi? Where were you? Honors hold. Darren and I were at honors keep. What? honors hold and if I and drinks and if I ask those other two little nerd dwells that you've been hanging out with
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Nali and Feraniel Mhm. the exact same question. What are they going to tell me?
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But that why was Bear and I were having drinks. Yeah. Okay. We'll see. We'll see.
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I'm going to bed. Good night. You, too. Yeah. I'll I'm making waffles in the morning.
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Well, don't rob any Ardans for the batter. And then she walks upstairs and what the heads to bed.
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She was cool. You were cool, too. But just remember, if you're going to go touch somebody at consent, okay, she seemed like she was going through it.
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You can't just go on seam. Oh. I'm just a little guy. Come on. That's not excuses. Come on.
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That's no reason to not communicate. It worked out, didn't it? That's also not a reason to not communicate.
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Well, in defense, just because you did well doesn't mean you can't improve. in defense.
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I am a piece of the Almighty and your rules don't apply. I'm basically a god.
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I'll take it now just because I'm tired and I need to go to bed. But no, but fine.
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That was a joke. You know, when if you have to tell someone it's a joke, it makes it not really a joke, right?
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Says you go to sleep. You are just a little guy. I will watch you the whole time.
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Do you have like preferred watching locations? You don't like them? Okay, we I don't have Okay, I believe you.
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You do interesting things, human things. Oh. Uh oh. Uh yeah. Yeah. Where does the boob go?
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Doesn't somebody just like old cast it away every few days or something? I don't know.
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We should find out. We'll think about it later. We need to learn the truth.
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Cosmic answers. Find the truth. We must find it. We're going to have to go back to the Ardentia tomorrow.
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That was a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not funny. I feel like we can zoom out from altern.
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Uh folks, that is where we're going to take our first break. Uh and we're going to go and be human for uh 10 minutes. Um so, as I've said in the past, hi. Uh this is another world tabletop. We're
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playing Cosmir RPGs uh on this channel. Go tell your mom, your dad, your sister, your brother, your uh local congress person, your garbage collector, your retail employees. Go tell your postal delivery person. Go tell your Amazon driver. Go tell your cab driver. Go tell
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your Uber driver. Go tell your uh uh I want to I want to know uh if you've told your vet uh tell your Door Dash uh driver. Um, uh, tell your, uh, tell the Major D at the fanciest restaurant that
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you know that Another World Tabletop is live right now. Um, but most importantly, tell your dog that we love them. Uh, it's it's just that's important to us.
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So, um, we'll be back in 10 minutes. Um, we will see you then. Did you tell your dog that we love them? Uh, I sure hope you did. Or actually, I do happen to know that there is a wonderful human being by the name
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of Miss Liz Lane uh, hanging with us tonight. And that means Did you tell the pigs? Did you tell the pigs that we love them? Clark, I want pictures. Liz, Liz has has guinea pigs. Sorry to derail for two seconds, but Liz has the cutest
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guinea pigs on the entire planet. I love them very very much. Um, so anyway, did you tell your dog that that we love him? We are going to pump the brakes just a second on heading to Tonavir and we are going to zoom in
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on a private barracks room of Fennial. Yeah. Um, so she had walked sheial had a long day and she had walked home it feels like almost subconsciously uh like she was on an automatic path.
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Um, so when she gets to her room at the barracks, she goes inside and she turns and locks the door and she just stands there for a moment. Um, and then her shoulders slump forward and her breath starts to stutter and her hands start to
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shake and it's like whatever mask that she's had on for that whole day, for that whole heist and everything after the heist is finally falling off. Um, she reaches and presses a braided cord charm that's eyed on the hilt of her
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sword, which normally that charm gives her comfort, but this time she's finding she's getting nothing out of it. Um, she walks over to her her cot and sits on the edge, not even taking off her boots.
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Um, she loosens her hair and the curls just fall free and she doesn't even bother to fix them.
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and she just stares and eventually one tear slips out and she doesn't even realize she's doing it, but she she wipes it away immediately. Um, and then there's another tear and then she wipes it away and then another and eventually
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she just stops fighting it and she's just realizing that like she did something today that would have horrified her even just a few months ago. Uh, and what's really scaring her at this moment is that she's realizing that
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even though she did this thing, she did two things that would horrify her mostly. Um, she doesn't fully regret it and not not yet anyways because there's still so much she doesn't understand about all of the things that are
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happening. She's just sitting there and stuck in a loop in her head thinking about honor is dead.
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I did. I thought I did everything right. If I don't I don't know how to live without instructions. And if the rules failed me, what am I supposed to become now?
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And she thinks back to the question that Tila asked. It's like, who do you want to be? And she's just sitting there and it's like I don't know. And she keeps asking herself that like who who am I
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and who do I want to be? She's just stuck thinking about these things, sitting on the edge of her bed.
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As you sit in the quiet, the usual comforting noises of hobnailed boots and sharpening weapons.
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Tur's orders, all of that kind of fades away in the moment into this noise in your own head, this cyclical spiraling thought. Who do you want to be? Who have you been?
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What is ready for you in the future? And you hear a knock on your barracks door.
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a sort of gentle slight knock. I think that shakes her out of her stuper. She realizes that she's she's looking a wreck right now. Um she quickly tries to like tie her hair back, but it's probably the messiest uh you've
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ever seen it tied. And she goes to see who's at the door. It is just outside.
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Captain Tiel's daughter. I believe we named her Tani. I think it's her name now.
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Legitimately Tira. Tira. Was it Tira? Right. Right. It was Tira. Okay. Well, it's Tira.
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Throwing that in the resources. Um Tira's at the door. I uh I saw you came back and you were gone for a bit and she like it's it's late here.
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Looks right, looks left. I know it's late. That's like the perfect time. It's like the perfect time for what?
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She like reaches behind her back, pulls out swords. No, not not tonight. Not tonight.
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No. Have you been drinking? No. You look like a mess. It's been a long day.
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It could be a little longer. No. you okay? She's going to hesitate for a moment where she says, "Yes, I'm fine." You look like my um my mom when dad has to go and fight like really sad like you don't know what's going on.
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Are you sure you're okay? There's dangerous things happening. Well, yeah. That's why swords. That's why it's the night.
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Tira, I'm sorry. Tira like looks to the left and looks to the right. Can I come in?
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Does your father know where you are right now? Feel like it's the shitty ding grin.
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Dad's not even around and mom is at some social function at the palace. Can you read me a story?
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I'm lonely and bored and it's late and I wanted to sword fight and I saw they I saw you come back. I was on the barracks roof.
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At at the second she asked, "Can you read me a story?" You hear you like see FRA soften slightly.
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Um I can I can tell you a story. I don't think I have any story books with me, but it'll be a short one and then you have to promise that you're going to go home and not pull that that out anymore.
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At least I promise. She's going to let her in. She comes inside and like rush she like throws her sword onto a chair and she like like throws herself on onto the bed and uh she's she's waiting there kicking
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her feet dangling off of the the bedside and she's like I want a story about knights and princesses and I'm the knight and I'm saving a princess.
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Uh, and Firo will just try to make up F will think back to her father and how he used to just make up parts of stories that he didn't remember. And uh, she would just she's just going to wing it
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and try to tell the story about this knight and the princess. Probably doesn't really make that much sense, but tries to add dramatic moments.
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She's wrapped. Uh there is not a single moment that she is uh uh deviating from your ey line. She's she's giggling and and kicking her feet and you put her name in it and she's just having the time of her life. Um
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and there's a moment when you turn away uh and speak like the end or like near the end of the story and you turn back and she's conked out dead to the world asleep.
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I'm going to try and wake her. She's like, "What? Why you Why? What? What? Did I fall asleep? What?" And you promised.
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Yeah, I got to go. Okay, I got to go. Mhm. Well, that was nice.
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Sword soon. Hopefully soon. But as I said, don't be this obvious. It's hard. All the men around here are stupid. They think I'm just moving a sword from one place to another. They're dumb.
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They don't They don't read. They don't know that my name's on it. They can't read that.
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They're dumb. I'm I'm working on something that should make it easier for us to meet secret base.
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I'll I'll be in touch. Go home. Go home. Okay. Okay. I'm going home. I'm going home. And she like gets up and sprints out of the room uh and uh leaves you for the rest of your night.
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We are going to zoom out from FRA to hone in on everyone gathering at the spark flicker.
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It's around dusk. Everyone has had time to rest. Mechanically speaking, you will uh you can absolutely um give yourself all your focus and HP back if you've lost any. Um and you sit in the basement of the spark
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flicker, a round of chowder wraps and spicy curries and lavish grain. um some glazed fruit. All are laid out on the table um by the propriet.
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And you see that it's been cleared out for you and it's about an hour before you should be going to Toners.
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I think if I if I may, I think Nev would arrive first. Uh because I want to talk to the proprietor.
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Uh oh my god. Uh Verdonna. Verdonna. Uh Verdonna. Yes. I made jokes about the font. Um, right.
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Um, uh, oh no, my graphic design brain turned on. Um, yes, I'd like to I'd like to talk to her if I may very quickly. She turns over to her uh two servers uh Sanskrit and Papyrus and uh
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Papyrus is a baller name. Just saying. It is. It is. Yeah. Um she says, "You go in the back and you you you talk to Wingings and you tell them." Sorry, fonts. Uh, so no, she she Yeah, she absolutely looks to
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you. Uh, what is it? Uh, this is a weird request. Do you know anyone who might have some extra space for some street urchins I found?
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Why? Little Herdazz is kinder to orphans than other districts. How many? Well, I don't expect you to take all of them, but I have about 20.
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She thinks for a sec. I had a good setup for them, but it has become unsafe and I'm hoping for help.
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Did you talk to Barlar? Uh, when he gets here, yeah, his family's house is huge and already has a bunch of little Kremling kids [ __ ] storming, trotting around, grabbing stuff with sticky fingers and all that. I can take some here.
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They'll They're hard workers, too. Um, just pay me. I'll give you a flat rate.
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Okay. Okay. We'll talk costs. Uh, nothing's set in stone yet. I'm waiting on word from others, but I just trying to figure out options.
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I got room in the basement. I'll charge you a flat rate for a bed, and they can work for meals.
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I always have stuff that needs doing. Okay. Verdonna had an accent, right? I'm messing this up.
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Yeah. Yep. She was she was herian. Yeah. Totally forgot. Yep. So, if you bring them here, I can take probably about like seven or eight of these kids.
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Wow. Okay. Well, what was they? They're not like If they don't cause any trouble, because trust me, if they cause any trouble, anything that, you know, one of my cousins wouldn't get up to, then Nev looks at the camera.
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If they're not going to cause any trouble for me, and I mean like trouble with the guards, then yeah, I I'll be able to take them in. They can use this place as a good roof. It'll be fine.
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Okay. Uh, if I end up needing it, I'll I'll I'll come to you and we'll talk numbers.
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I'll make it cheap. That's fine. You're a friend of bad laws, right? Yeah. Well, he's the worst person I know. That also means that he's one of my best friends, so it's going to he's going to work something out. And I kind of owe
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his mother a lot. So, it's it'll it'll all work out in the, you know, at the business end. I'm not really in it for the money and the space is going unused.
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I use it to cater to, you know, freaks like you and him. Well, thankfully they can be trusted.
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Um, yeah. Uh, thank you. Yeah. She's just going to like awkwardly like, "Oh, no. I asked a person for help and it went well. That's weird. Um, that's never happened to me before. Uh, and I guess go wait where we're all
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supposed to be seated for sure. Uh, who gets there next? Can um when I when I arrive?
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Yeah. When Alstrom arrives, um, I want to go up to the Yeah. the bartender.
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I'm so sorry about the last time about the sandwiches. It will not happen again. And I just want to say um I I just wanted to I wanted to buy a round of drinks for you all. Um just because I
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think it's fun to be able to buy the cook a drink sometimes. So um here's how much um here you go. Just here's some spheres. Have a few drinks on me and I'll see you later. Thank you.
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You're a strange little man, Alstrom. Thank you. And I understand, but like you've been alive long enough to know that bringing sandwiches into a place that serves food is weird.
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Yeah. All right. Well, all I'm I'm just a little freak, apparently. Haha. Who said that?
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It's It's a little thing going around. I'm testing it. Yeah. You're trying on being a little freak. Is that what you're saying?
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You're just trying that one on. Yes. Yeah. That's exactly what I am saying. Yes.
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All right. A stream. That's fine. All right. You little freak. They're downstairs waiting for you.
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Okay, I guess I have to make a t-shirt for this now. Not yet. Okay. Um, Austrammed's downstairs. I feel like Veronial is is more prudent than Berdelar, and I feel like she should show up on no other merit than
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that. Yeah. Uh, Verdonna sees you coming in. Hi Franio, sweetheart. It's good to see you. Your friends are downstairs.
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And she's just gonna No, I'm going to say thank you. And just go straight downstairs.
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Yeah. The only the only polite person in this crew like, "Hi, sweetie. You loser friends are downstairs." Like, um, Miranda drinks.
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There's a little freak downstairs waiting for you. Um the [ __ ] died. Okay. Um [ __ ] Uh better will come in next.
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Yeah. What are you doing? Hey. Oh, I just Hey, how are you? Your friend's down here waiting for you.
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Oh, okay. I'll be right down then. Wait a minute. You're using this place quite a bit. It looks like you actually got yourself together a crew, right? So, I got it right. I You got enough people together to
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actually buy into all that [ __ ] you heathen. I don't know what you're talking about.
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I think you know exactly what you're what I'm talking about. I don't. What are we talking about?
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You work alone be law for years. I mean, yeah. No, I mean sometimes I mean sometimes you need to work with people who know how to do work and so you work with them.
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What a fabriel manga Adrea thief and a Voran soldier got that you need cuz that's quite a crew.
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They've got ambition and drive and an agenda. You've got an agenda is what you have.
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No, I don't have an agenda. I don't even know what day it is. That's not new.
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And if I had an agenda, I would know what day it is. Oh, you mean like the phys? You're being snarky. You're being snarky. Yeah. All right. Well, your friends are waiting downstairs for you and they got hot food
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coming. Um, and say hi to the little freak for me. I'm going to guess that's Olm.
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That's a fantastic guess. Yes. Yeah. No, I It was It was like 9010 for sure, right? Cuz the only other one would be Nev right?
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No, actually I was going to think the other one, but like it's like weird.
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No, it's like a weird in joke. Like, oh, like you're a freak, but like you're not really a freak. We just say it.
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Oh, yeah. You're the least of a freak. Like, you're the least freak. It's like It's like a sarcastic like an ironic.
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It's like when you call a little guy, you know, jumbo or a big guy tiny.
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Yeah. Yeah. Or Burl like smartest man in the room. I don't think I get that one.
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Ah, I got you. you smart fella. Um I I got real I I got a real question though before you before you head out. Um yours uh yours mother and your sister was here uh just last night and it was
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um they was looking for you. Uh they said that a big old um wber sort of went down um somewhere else in the city. They weren't they didn't give too many details, but they was trying to make sure that you were safe. So it was
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looking around for years. So um that's not the important part. The really important part was that there was a few of the um a the colon uh G regiment here very shortly after they was also looking for something about um a possible criminal
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investigation. Right. And so and that that is what I do. Right. And so what I told them was that you was here all night. Uh, you know, right up until shortly before they left here and then I didn't know where you
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went. So I'd be real cuz I I was cuz you was here cuz you was here obviously, right? But like just in case you left for any time and I didn't see you and you got into some trouble.
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Uh, it seems as if you seem to be a lead suspect in some sort of horrible going on somewhere else in the city. I'm not sure why.
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Okay. No, that's really important for me to know cuz usually I, you know, those are the people I you know.
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Yeah. So, custody. So, yeah. Little bit backwards, right? Um, all right. Um, well, thanks for the heads up and I'll um I'll tell I'll tell my family. He said, "Hi, I guess." Okay. So, yeah.
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Work to do. You head downstairs. You've all gathered. Wave is gently pulsating on the middle of the table, making a little divot uh in the middle of it. Uh, perilar as you walking down.
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Oh, we got a bunch of span reads that were asking about if I robbed the ardentia and I told her no.
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She asked if I did it. I'll share. So, I just told I told her no because I didn't do it.
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So, she probably knows you lied, right? I mean, it's Alier. I I don't know. She said she would ask. I told her Bear and I were getting drinks at here all night. So, if she asks you guys, that's what we were doing. Okay.
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Okay. And if the colon our guard asks everybody, you're going to tell them we were here.
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Lies. H good lies. M Yeah. No, I've got a feeling we've got a few of those in store for the next little while.
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But it's partial lie. We were here. We were here. But And we were there. So we did go to those places.
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Technically it's the only places we were. It's the only places I've been lately. Just going on a pub crawl, you know.
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Yeah. Well, we had errands to run. So, I'm just going to assume everybody can root to the subtext right now and know that we are absolutely up a creek full of creme with no paddle and Yep.
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Wh Why I mean Alstrom seems like he is, but there you and you and I were working on an investigation there.
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Yeah. So, I was just informed that the colon guard were asking about me in relation to whatever was going on. So, I guess I am not as clean as I thought I was.
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How do you know if your if your cover was the investigation? How do we know they weren't just asking for you to do that followup? Yeah.
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Yeah. You two are probably fine. I mean, I guess we'll find that, won't we?
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Being at the Ardentia on that day isn't a crime. There were a lot of people there. Could have been anyone.
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Mhm. So, yeah, just remember that if any of you get questioned again. There were a lot of people there or you weren't there or you were conducting your investigation.
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Oh, no. I am a professional truth teller. Yeah, I'm aware. I'm a little worried about FRA, but you know what are we going to do?
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Ne just looks at Alstrom. What? You're not a very good liar. Yes, I am.
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Lies. It's See, it's better. Wave. If you just say that I'm lying, then other people know I'm lying. But why are you lying to your friends?
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I thought you were a bad liar before I met Wave technically. So I need a because if I sometimes it's easier to believe in yourself when others also believe in you believe in you.
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Well, I mean, if I told her I was a good liar and she believed me, that would, you know, maybe like make me feel a little better.
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So, you want me to lie to you so that you think you're a good liar?
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No, I want wave to not call me out when I'm lying every time. I think you're all being very calm about the fact that Alstrom is recognized.
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I'm not that worried about the guard. I've been questioned by them before. I mean, like Nev said, it's it's not a crime to be there.
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No, it's not. No, I think I think we can get out of this. You know, I've got some contacts that I think we can pull on if we really need to. But if we just tell them the truth, we're good. What
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are they going to do? you know, execute us in the courtyard for no reason. It' be crazy.
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Nev just looks knowingly a bird alarm, knowing that light eyes would do a lot worse for a lot less.
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I'm not not taking this seriously, Fra. It is very serious. But if we get all upset and twisted up in knots about it, that makes us look guilty.
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I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't do anything and I certainly didn't do anything wrong.
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And the sooner we get rid of this book, the better. Yeah. Now we need to get rid of that.
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very guilty still having that on us. And Ferrronial, I just want to let you know that when you live in a constant state of chaos, eventually you get used to it and then it's when things are calm that feels weird and dangerous. So yeah,
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that's probably at least that's why I'm so comfortable. Nev is just nodding along as Bear is speaking like, "Yes, I know exactly what this is." Just puts her head in her hands, but we should get into this thing.
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Okay, that's what we're doing. So, what are we saying when he asks about the damage?
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Maybe it would be best if you let me do the talking while we're there.
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I wasn't there for the damage. So, I don't know. I'm okay with that. I don't know if there will be consequences for the fact that we were seen.
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So, be prepared for anything. But I somehow don't think our benefactor is really going to care because he will have what he wants.
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We'll see. But just just be ready. don't understand why he wants it. And I feel like I would be more prepared if I just understood why.
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I get the sense he knows a lot more about it than we do right now.
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I have every intention to figure out why he wants this book. And we are now in a position where we have all the power.
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We have the book. He wants it. We can push. But we don't want to push too far.
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Yeah. Okay. Hey, wave on. While we're on our way, can you just watch our backs? Make sure nobody's following us.
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Easily for who? Or just let let me know if you know there's somebody following. You don't have to go and deal with them. Just let me know.
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How do I know who is following and who is walking down the same street?
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So, so a guy, the guy with the big sword, um the guards, the denture, anybody who might be a son of honor.
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I don't know how you tell them. They might just look a little No, you you know how to spot people that are following you. Yeah. People who look like us but aren't us wave.
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Sneaky. Yeah. You see anybody that's like sneaking around with their lies, let us know.
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Goggles and scars and gloves and scarves. I meant more from like a attitude perspective than physical appearance.
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Interesting. Actually, speaking of scarves, I think you should all cover your faces. Myself included. But I don't I I I can just do that.
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I planned on it. Do you casually scarf I can use? Yeah, I do. Balar pulls off one of his like eight scarves.
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Me, too. Yeah. Okay. And do not make fun of the way they smell. Scarves.
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Oh, this is a cool artyle. Nice. Nev Nev has a cloak, so she's just like amateurs.
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That That man with a sword. What? Did you understand what he was talking about? Did any of you men and whites?
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I got to I got to admit I no idea. I think I understood a little bit. But there's massages cuz I've heard him say it a couple times now.
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Yeah. Whoever these heavenly ones are, they're coming to take this city and it sounds like they can, which means they're dangerous.
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And that's really what matters. But how do we Everyone keeps telling us that that that change is we keep hearing that change is coming and that something terrible is is happening.
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What What if they're all right? What if they're telling the truth? Our society is no stranger to war and Culinar is the capital city. So it is a prime target. It's a seed of power.
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It has significance like Thalen city but that's very defensible. Same with Carbon. If change, if change and chaos are coming, the only thing we can do is get ready.
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What if we help start it by giving this book? by by stealing a book.
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Good. If that's You heard you heard, Tila. I I'm failing to understand why you're seeing that as a bad thing.
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I don't trust the man we're going to see right now. So, I don't trust the king either or the queen or the guards or any of the light eyes. Maybe this should happen.
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And either way, I want to finish this job. Whatever happens after is not my problem.
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You meant Oh, the light I was excluding Bedelar right? You are the singular exception to the rule, my friend.
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Nice. Don't make me change my mind. Right. Well, do you all collect yourselves and head to Ton of Ears?
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Yeah. Nev pulls the hair back, pulls up the like the turtleneck over the face.
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um and has like a cloak on. I don't think we should all travel together.
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Definitely not. And Neb moves ahead of the rest of you. No, no, no. You got to take one of these two. You got to pick one.
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Give me fair. At least she's light on her feet. You with me? All right, Nev is more than a little salty cuz she wanted to move quickly.
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Can I please get a stealth from Navali? 16. A 16. Okay. And seeing Okay. Uh and seeing as No, I'm sorry. Uh just to just for clarity, Nev was traveling with which? I'm sorry.
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Fra. With FRA, and it was Berdalar and Alolstrom. So, seeing as Olstrom does not have a sneaky bone in his body, uh, and Berlar does, um, I will I think I'm going to ask for a perception from Berdalar and Alstrom each.
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Cool. Also, I think the way Bear is going to try and like, you know, stealth through the streets for for this one is just like moving through crowds of people where, you know, where they can get lost in as opposed to like sticking
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to shadows and stuff. Yeah. No, for sure. Yeah. Four. Got a Nat one. Four and a Okay. Okay. Okay.
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Oh, hey Bear. Hold on. Let me We got to stop here really quick. Come on. I get we're going to get some snacks on the way for everybody. It's going to be Oh, they got these mixed nuts that they with
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the cinnamon and sugar. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Be really quick.
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Determination. I do I do like nuts. Okay. You both stop for a very quick uh a very quick little snack. And as you're standing at the stall, it isn't all or sorry, it isn't Berdalar that gets approached by anyone, but
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there is a set of colonar guards that seems to have completely gotten the jump on the pair of you. uh walking up very silently, very cautiously and they're maybe a couple of arm lengths away.
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Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of the uh Bolar. Hello. How are you? Have we have we met? You know my name.
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We know you. I don't know you. Well, I'm the guard that is looking at a man who was seen at the scene of a crime and is not under investigation. And I see another man who is wearing the exact
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outfit of a man who fits the description of someone who robbed the Devitary of Insight just yesterday.
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So, who' be that man right there? Points to Allstrom. Wait a minute. You're a thief.
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What? No, you were We were We weren't out last night drinking, remember? Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, I stopped by at the uh I stopped by and then we went for drinks after. For sure.
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cuz I was at the Devitary of Insight last night. I don't know what you were doing.
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I assumed you were just what? Right lord. You know where they do all the the prayers and stuff.
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Bright Lord Jer. Yeah. Out of a modicum of respect to you and what you've done for the city, I'm going to give you the opportunity to bring yourself and your friend into the constabularary for questioning tomorrow.
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If not, we're going to have to assume that you have something to hide and we will be putting out a very sincere writ for your arrest.
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I'll be there tomorrow. He will be too. What were your names? I'm sorry. Okay.
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I'm Van. Vean. And this is Bthus. Hey, Bthis. Okay. I appreciate the respect and the decorum that you've presented today. Um, and so hopefully when your captain tears you a new [ __ ] for this, you know, maybe
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they'll go easy on you. Walk away. Give me an intimidation. Oh, I'm not great at those.
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Holy. It's a natural one. Can I aid as a reaction? Yes, you can. Um, aiding does require a focus.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'll spend a focus. I don't mind that. Sure. Roll again. Um, as as I say, uh, uh, um, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow, too. And when you apologize.
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19 I am not looking for trouble, detective juror. I do very much bid you go to the barracks at your soonest convenience and give a statement to the captain that is in charge of this investigation. He goes by the name Tiel.
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Yeah, we'll do. Now, as I said before, walk away. We would be happy to comply.
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They turn around and walk away. I leaned down to Astro like a couple seconds later. Did that come off as like pompous light enough? Do you think you think they bought it?
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That was so cool. I thought so. No. Yeah. Yeah. I never do that. You had me for a second there.
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No, that was I My skin is crawling on my body. Okay, we got to um All right, we got to get out of here.
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We got to move. We got to move. Why did we stop at nuts? That was stupid.
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Yeah, that was kind of nuts. Speedw walking. Speed walking through colt. [ __ ] I thought I told you to watch their backs.
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They didn't look like you. They were guards and they you said looked for guards and they were quiet but they seemed nice.
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Yeah, I am totally having a kick your ass later for sure. Bring it. Yeah, bring it.
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You hear Tila's voice in your ear. Don't instigate. Do not instigate. Wave. When we're inside, I need you to not say anything.
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M and then I want you to quietly stick around for like 15 20 minutes to see if he talks about us to anybody afterwards.
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I'm going to get in all of his stuff and poke around. Don't get caught though.
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I'm like you. Silly sneaky. Oh no. Ne is sneaky. Not like me. I can go in his keyholes.
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Look in his boxes. We'll work on phrasing, but yes. Okay, that's good. Um I think I see them up there. Yeah, let's go.
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You uh you arrive at at Tanavir's uh this back alley sort of like marked entryway.
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I think that it is right about at this moment standing here looking at the chiseled symbol of the the trigon of of of triangles and and overwhelmed by the days prior and speaking to your friend that you hear a whisper in your ear.
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Balar, it's time to look ahead. And with that, could I very much I think I want to ask I think I want to ask very specifically uh that you make a deduction test.
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Okay, that's better. 21. Tila spreads out in front of you into this like misty form of leaves and scattering prismatic uh light.
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Like a very classic mist spread. It's tinted a little red, a little more static.
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with a 21. Your mind is tossed into a fugue and you feel your corporeal body run very very cold.
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It is the same clammy discomfort that you had felt when you woke up sweating in your bed just before watching your father die.
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But you are awake and this is here and this is now. You see a very distinct vision of Tonavir taking this book of him shaking hands, passing spheres, and you see a very dreadful shadow.
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that stretches from this man over your group over Nali. It's a little foggy, but it seems as if the lines between Navali and Tanavir blur.
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that there is a very distinct connection between the two. And then you see a short man composed of brilliant blue light forming into a dagger that is stabbed into the heart of Tanavir.
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And then your vision flashes from one scene to the next. And it is Tonavir stabbing a dagger made out of a pearlescent silvery metal directly in through Nali through the blue man out of their back.
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And then the last thing that you see before you are shocked back to awakening is Tila.
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Time's running short, Bear. Very short. You need to say the words and you need to mean them.
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Quit lying to yourself and start looking for real truth. Because you're chasing shadows that don't matter.
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Okay. You've been a man a long time. Now it's time to be more. Okay.
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And then your vision goes white, bright, heavy, and you are back in the alleyway. No time having passed really at all. Maybe a second two hold on.
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Hey, just wait. Just wait. Hold on. It will stop. What's up? Are you okay?
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I think Navalia. I think maybe you should let me take the lead on this one.
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What? Absolutely not. This is my job. Okay. Um, I don't say this much. Maybe ever.
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Please, please let me talk to him. If you need to ask what you need to ask, go ahead. But I I don't want you to be too involved with this.
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What do you mean? What's going on? No. I don't know. I I I listen, I don't know what just happened. Everything was fine a few minutes ago and I would love to talk more about that. However, for right now,
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you are not my father. I have a job to finish. I'm not trying to be I'm not trying dorms. No, it won't. It won't be fine.
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It's not going to be fine. You need to listen to me right now. Please.
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Please listen to me. Please listen to me. Just hold calm down. Calm down. We're hearing you.
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But what you're saying, you tell us why sense. I can't let it happen again. Do you get that? I cannot let it happen again.
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I can stop it. I know I can stop it. Please, please let me. Life before death.
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Strength before weakness. This is my journey. This is what I'm meant to do. Journey before destination.
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You wait a moment. And it's not like Alstrom. It's a little different. It isn't that brilliant blue light.
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It's a little more quiet, a little more personal. But you all see creeping out from Beerlar's feet a symbol, a glyph.
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and bear you here in your mind. These words are accepted. See frost creeping up the walls.
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And It's the way that the blotches on skin go away. Your body feels a little healthier.
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Get a little more mental clarity. Tila appears on Berlar's shoulder. He's um he's he's right, Nev.
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I'm uh he's right. I'm a little different and and it means he can see things that other people can't.
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He means it. I think I think In the face of this change from bear, she just kind of swallows pretty hard, pretty visibly. You see the jaw clenching and flexing, but she takes the satchel off of her shoulder and hands it to him.
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Fine. Fine. Thank you. And no, as the tears are still running down Bear's face, you watch as there's just like a little like a tiny little wave of of like a like a flicker of the air and it's gone. and the bags under his
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eyes go away and his hair becomes a little bit more quafted back. He stands a little straighter.
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All right, that's the bear I see. That's the bear delar. I know. Good to see you, old friend.
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It's um It's good to be here. And he puts a hand on the door and walks in.
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Can I assume that you each uh walk in sort of one by one? Yeah. Okay.
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You head inside and it's that same no foyer obvious uh uh placement of of opulence.
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It is heavy wooden table bookshelves lining the walls. Pieces of art. some strange a map of Roshar.
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Uh there's um some uh hourglasses containing uh uh you know uh dark sand uh running in one direction. There's a uh uh collection of timetelling fabriels. They all seem set to different times along the walls.
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And Tonavir is sitting at that uh that long table that he sat at before and is reading a book and looks up from it. He takes a little wooden bookmark and places it inside and puts the book on the table.
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I hear you have new reading material for me. Is this true? We do. Yeah. Well, I mean, we have it.
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Whether or not it's for you is yet to be determined. Really? Really? Nali, don't talk to her. Don't talk to her like that.
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I'm just curious. We had an agreement. You are not a master pulling strings, Tanavir. I see you.
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Look at me. Know that I see you. He looks stares up at the ceiling for a second.
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He has that gentle sort of signature look of of of you know empiric supremacy.
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Well, Berlar, I must admit you're right. You do see me. You've seen the exact amount of me that I've wanted you to. And And I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not being your villain here.
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I hired you to get me a book. You all agreed to do that. You now have this in your possession.
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I would like what I am going to pay for. I am welcome to a tet. If you'd like to discuss the wise and how I cannot tell you that verifiably, I'm going to reveal all of my uh motives at this moment. I I mean, we
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kind of just met one another, correct? So, no. Please, you're right. So, please ask away if you want. Would you like a drink? Would you like something to eat? Do you want a walk?
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No. Then would you like to take a seat? No, actually. I'm good. So here.
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So, you were going to pay us for this book spheres right? 300 marks each. No. No. That was total.
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I must have misunderstood. I did it for 300 marks each. It is for each. Ah, I must have misremembered.
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I thought so. And you never did tell me what you were going to do with this book.
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Read it. I'd like you to. You're going to read it. I I am going to read it.
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You can read it. I certainly hope so. If not, then this was very much a fruitless endeavor. Yes, this is for personal collection so that I can read it. Yes, that is impressive. I didn't know that anyone could read Don Chant.
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You are correct. Not everyone, not anyone can read Dongchant, but you can. I have access to ways of reading Don.
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Yes. That no other scholars on the whole of Roshar do. Well, you'll find there's some luminaries from here or there that have made quite a bit of progress into deciphering the script. In fact, there's some ardents down to the south that have
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made it a lot of their work in order to to decipher. And there are some scholars that work within Yakaved and and and also under King Terraangian uh he's decided to put a non small amount into the the deciphering of of Donchant as
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well. They're all over Berlar. It is the time for enlightenment. It is it is the the the time for that is is truly now.
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And and yes, I believe that I will be able to decipher what I need and what it is. What is it that you think is in this book that makes it so valuable? I mean, 1,200 marks, that's that is a lot. Well, it's a pittance
Speaker A
when when you think in the grand scheme of things. This was written by the by the by the Herald Danaland. It's it it could have insights that would go far far further uh in the hands of of less
Speaker A
biased uh scholars in the in the west perhaps in the hands of of some of the aish uh bureaucrats uh that could actually mark it down and and and formally catalog it or or even even if I brought a copy of it to Carbanth, I'm
Speaker A
sure that uh it would be disseminated properly. It's I know it sounds mighty heretical, but to keep this kind of thing under wraps is well it just seems dishonest to me. So I would like to read it and well spread it.
Speaker A
I mean Feraniel, what do you think about that? Caught off guard. Um, Feronial is just going to look to you like where where are you going with this? Um, and look back at him and say how did you know or how do you know what
Speaker A
is in it? Why this particular book? I still haven't heard that from you. Well, as far as I have learned, a lot of the writings, well, alleged alleged writings, this seems to be a fairly verifiable source of the heralds
Speaker A
contain secrets about what has happened before the desolations, before humans and the parchmen, the parendi the singers, the newly minted singers.
Speaker A
We I truly just want to Find the truth. That is what I seek. Is he telling the truth?
Speaker A
Uh, go ahead and throw me an insight. Mhm. Yeah, please do. Can I roll an insight for like this whole conversation? Yeah, getting a group in.
Speaker A
Yeah, I would love I would love I would love a couple of you to throw it if anyone wants to give someone else to spend a focus and give someone else uh advantage etc. etc. please.
Speaker A
No, no. Does this person have access to surges? That's what I want to know.
Speaker A
Does this What? Sorry. Does this person have access to surge finding? Uh, that's what you're trying to find out.
Speaker A
Is there a sprint nearby? You don't see one. Uh you can make a perception though.
Speaker A
Yeah, that that's what I'm trying to figure out. Like does this something tripped all up?
Speaker A
That's all I want to say. What's your insight? Uh plus five. Yeah, I'll give you I'll give you my advantage.
Speaker A
Yeah, I only have plus three. Uh, total is 18 on that. I I rolled before we did the group one.
Speaker A
Um, and I got a 19. 19. You got a 14 on the perception. 14 on perception. So 18 from Berdalar, 19 from Feranial. And what did the volley roll?
Speaker A
I gave I gave bear the the advantage. Okay. Yeah. Do I spend a focus for that? Is that how that works?
Speaker A
That is how that works. Yes. Excuse me. Yeah. Okay. I'll reduce that. So, it's it's you believe that he believes he's telling the truth, but it's so very obvious that he's obfuscating a part of what he's trying to say. He's not giving
Speaker A
you any real hard answers. Where is he going to be minting these books? Why is he actually copying them? who's going to get access to them. There's no plan here. There's there's vagaries um on top of vagaries. Um Berlar and Feranial both
Speaker A
get that. The perception it's not so much that there's a sprren here. You don't see one. None that you would recognize, but you definitely and you definitely notice that like this room is full of esoterica. There's there's fabriels that are are tracking
Speaker A
time in locations that you don't understand. There's um uh instead of regular sand, there's dark sand inside of the the hourglasses that are counting down. Um there's uh uh you know the the pommel on the dagger that's that's uh uh
Speaker A
sitting on the table uh for like cutting food, etc., etc. Um has a has a a gemstone on it that seems done uh for no really good reason. It's it's odd. Uh, the room is full of oddities and
Speaker A
Alolstrom very much notices that because it is not hidden. Mhm. So, okay. Okay. Um, I'm going to look at FRA. Are you satisfied from that insight um above the table?
Speaker A
Did I get any like I get I got that he really believes like this and that he's offiscating something but did I get any like hint of maliciousness or like I think it's fairly obvious that this is a strange and and very mysterious man.
Speaker A
Uh, he feels dangerous, but in a why is this intensely wealthy man collecting dangerous religious documents way, not in a he's going to kill you kind of way.
Speaker A
He hasn't made any like overt threats. Uh, he hasn't, uh, you know, been anything other than cordial. He's, you know, tried to extend hospitality. Um, so no, there doesn't there doesn't seem to be really any uh any maliciousness to
Speaker A
him, but there's also no like he he doesn't seem benevolent uh in that respect either. He seems like an employer that has an agenda. Uh and that's and that's about where you stand with it.
Speaker A
Um, then in response to Bear's question, I'm going to turn back to to Navir like, "Are you working for someone else?" Oh.
Speaker A
Uh, I I suppose that I that I am. I've had employers in my life. I Well, I told you I was a trader uh in in uh Thalina for for quite some time. My I had a Babsk uh
Speaker A
and I mean for this book. Oh no, this is for me and look back over at Bear and shrug.
Speaker A
Olm, do you have any questions for our benevolent host? Who's going to be doing this copying of the book? Why is it so important that more copies exist?
Speaker A
Well, it's a very lauded religious tome. I Why does any book get copied and disseminated? Because people should read them. I I believe in literature being available. Uh it's it's odd that the Ardent would keep writings under lock
Speaker A
and key like they're some sort of weapon. Uh like it's it's it's you know that eyes should not ever meet the pages of of this book. It's they're the writings of the heralds. And even if they aren't, even if they are just
Speaker A
alleged, where is the danger in showing these words to others? I I don't see the problem with it. But okay, I if you keep talking, I'm going to not believe you. But right now, I believe this is the first true thing
Speaker A
you've said. I am sensing a bit of doubt and hostility. I understand that what you must have had to have gone through to get this book was quite harrowing.
Speaker A
Is there anything that I can do to ensure you uh that I'm not an agent of nefariousness? that there isn't some strange end goal other than what I've been fairly candid in detailing.
Speaker A
No. Nev perks up but is trying to look like she isn't perked up by that.
Speaker A
Who Who else is is here with you right now? I know you're not alone.
Speaker A
Oh, well, I I do have employees. I I have porters to move my possessions from one place to another. I have several servants to serve me food and drink. Uh I have a a cadre of guards. Uh I am a
Speaker A
man of some wealth. Um and of course I do have a ship uh that has a fairly decentsized crew that is on retainer. Um other than that, no.
Speaker A
Stop answering questions we're not asking. You asked who I'm here with. Are you asking who's here?
Speaker A
You told me a bunch of people that aren't here. I am here with Alstrom, Berilar, Navali, and Feraniel. Those are the people that are in this room.
Speaker A
Those are the people that are in this building. No one else. I trusted all of you. Strange concept.
Speaker A
Uh bear just Yeah. shoots Navalia. Look like Can we please just finish? Can we please just finish our business, everyone? I would like to move on please.
Speaker A
Seems everyone here has agreed 300 sphere 300 marks each and we'll give you his book.
Speaker A
Okay. Okay. He gets up and moves to a chest that is uh behind the table. He cracks it open with a key. And as he's turned around uh Alstrom, you feel wave shoot off of your body uh with his with about
Speaker A
as much solarity as you have ever felt uh from the little fella before. Um it takes a while for Tanavir to gather the spheres, put them into bags. Um they are in large denominations. Uh you all notice like uh emerald bromes. Um like
Speaker A
you you will each be receiving uh like a total of six spheres each and that will total your 300 marks. Um they are just very well cut massive gemstones.
Speaker A
Uh, are they infused? They are infused. Yeah, absolutely. They are lit. Um, and after a time he turns around. He puts four bags on the table.
Speaker A
May I have my book? Erdalari is going to walk forward, place the book in front of him, um, and as he sets it down is going to inhale very deeply.
Speaker A
Um, and is going to pull in as much storm light. I He doesn't know that that's what he's doing, but is going to inhale as much storm light as his body can hold.
Speaker A
Okay. Um, and cuz a technic I think I'm what is it? Empowered. Is that technically empowered right now. So, you actually don't need to use uh storm light in that way. But if you're breathing it in, you're breathing
Speaker A
it in. I will pull the rest. Yeah, I will pull it out of every mark sphere that I can find. you know, I will I will and then I will stand there and my eyes as I look back to him will be like glowing blood
Speaker A
red uh as I use the surge of illumination um that then drips like down my eyes like blood tears uh but making sure that no one behind me can see it.
Speaker A
I have seen your death. I know how it happens. Would you like to know why? Would you like to know how?
Speaker A
To the shock of everyone in the room, Tonir looks nonplusted, entirely unsurprised at the development.
Speaker A
There are a great many things that a man wants to learn in this life.
Speaker A
His own death is not one of them. Good. Then I suggest you stay away from everyone in this building.
Speaker A
Goodbye here. Um, and Bear will grab the bags of bronze, toss them to uh, FRA and Alstream and Nev, and walk out.
Speaker A
Nev is going to purposefully be the last person out of this building. Navali hears behind them.
Speaker A
You're always welcome back and I always have more work. This doesn't have to be the end of things.
Speaker A
And I know you want to save them. She wasn't going to turn around, but then she does.
Speaker A
What do you mean? You know exactly what I mean. Uh, she's gonna walk right up to him.
Speaker A
How do you feel about the Sons of Honor? Annoyance at best, a problem to be dealt with at worst.
Speaker A
How would you feel? If someone in the dreer was working with them, I would feel like that person is a problem. I would feel like there was a weak link that was attaching themselves to a bunch of religious zealots.
Speaker A
I feel like that person would need to be removed. Oh, well, maybe someday someone will tell Cutter the bad news.
Speaker A
The dreer takes care of its own and I am not one of them. She's going to give him a look like she doesn't believe a word that's coming out of his mouth, but she'll just nod.
Speaker A
Right Lord. We'll speak again and sh walk out. Okay. There is something that left with you when you walked out of that room. Nali, do I see what it is?
Speaker A
It is a wax stamped letter in the same vein as the one that you received before with the symbol of the ghost bloods on it.
Speaker A
and tuck it away. As you all stand outside of Tonavir's place, wave comes rushing out from underneath the door, shooting up Alstrom's pant leg and rushing up to become a geometric shifting dimple on Alstrom's face.
Speaker A
M lies. Big lies. Bad lies. Big bad lies. Good lies. What did you hear?
Speaker A
Didn't hear. Saw. What did What did you see? Be cool. Okay. All right. All right. Let's start walking slowly to be cool, guys.
Speaker A
Um, since Navali came out a little bit uh after everyone else, uh, Bear was just staring at the door, waiting.
Speaker A
Didn't say a damn word. Um, and when you come out, you see that his eyes are still red.
Speaker A
Your eyes aren't going to stay like that, are they? links. And they go back to blue.
Speaker A
Don't look at me like that. It's weird. You all hear the distinct crash of thunder off in the distance, wind picking up, and the gentle pitterpatter of the rains that come just before a high storm.
Speaker A
As you each go to find your respective storm shelters, I think that is where we will end our episode tonight, folks.
Speaker A
It's another world. Hi. We tell cosmir stories here. Uh what an episode. Uh that was very tense right at the end there. Um, welcome in uh new people. Uh, absolutely great to see you. Um, this has been our latest chapter.
Speaker A
Just in time for a high storm to blow across the world. I think that uh I think that that was uh I think that that was intense.
Speaker A
God damn. Um, we will be returning on Saturday for uh Sanguin Dominion, our Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle, and then we will be back next Tuesday for uh The Last Ideal once again. So, please stay tuned.
Speaker A
Check us out on socials. We'll uh we'll see you we'll see you on the internet no matter where we are. Um, anything you guys want to say before we find someone to read out to?
Speaker A
No, that's totally fine. I'm gonna find I'm gonna find somebody. Tell your dogs we love them.
Speaker A
Yeah. Tell your dogs. Before death, strength before weakness, journey before pancakes. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
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Did you make pancakes for your sister? Waffles. Waffles. Waffles. In the morning, I'm making waffles.
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High storms and waffles. High storms. Episode name. Episode name. Uh, we're going to raid Robear.
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Yeah, cuz he's actually he's actually live right now. This must be his actual live.
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Uh, yeah, he plays Salasta uh I believe on these days. Uh, so yeah, for sure.
Speaker A
Good game. Salasta 2, it's coming. Sala 2 is coming. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so go give that typical uh another world love. Uh, and stay tuned for what we've got coming next. Catch you all in the flip-flop. Goodbye.
Speaker A
Bye-bye.
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