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The wheels have shifted in Algar. Once Colonar Shore, a beacon of pride and glory.
A Cosmere RPG actual play exploring the city of Colonar amid a high storm, focusing on intrigue, secrets, and character backstories.
Key Takeaways
- The city of Colonar is a complex setting filled with political and supernatural tension.
- Character relationships and secrets drive much of the plot and player decisions.
- The high storm is a significant event impacting the story and gameplay.
- Magic and Cosmere lore are integral to the narrative and character abilities.
- Player agency and roleplay create a dynamic and immersive storytelling experience.
What the video covers
- The story is set in Algar, formerly Colonar Shore, now a city burdened by despair and secrets.
- Four main characters—a truth-seeking investigator, a fierce mercenary thief, a fabric manipulator, and a defiant Voron wolf—are drawn together by fate.
- The city faces an impending high storm, a powerful natural event that shapes the world of Roshar.
- Berdar, one of the characters, is summoned by an ardent for a private meeting during the storm.
- Berdar prepares by confiding in his sister Miala, sharing a large sum of money and revealing magical secrets.
- The narrative explores themes of trust, danger, and the burden of hidden knowledge.
- The RPG session includes roleplay elements such as character interactions, decision-making, and world-building.
- The video is part of an ongoing series by Another World Tabletop, focusing on the Cosmere universe.
- The transcript reveals a mix of narrative storytelling and player dialogue, emphasizing immersion and character development.
- The setting and events are deeply tied to Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere lore, especially the world of Roshar.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Setting the Scene in Algar
- 08:00Preparing for the High Storm and Family Interaction
- 14:03Secret Revelations and Magical Displays
- 21:04Character Reflections and Moral Questions
- 27:22Roleplay and Combat Mechanics
- 35:00Plot Development and Strategic Planning
- 42:40Closing Thoughts and Future Directions
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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 you.
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Hello folks at home. Hello folks on the internet. How are you doing this evening? It is us, Another World Tabletop, coming at you again with another chapter of The Last Ideal, our Cosmere RPG actual play series brought to you by me.
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By me. I did it. I did this. Uh, we don't have a sponsor. It's just me. I'm the guy. So, last episode we had an interlude. We had a beautiful cool view of our characters' past.
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It's been a wild ride so far and this evening in particular.
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The city of Colonar is going to be racked by a high storm. The storm wardens were correct. Today is that day.
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And thus the fantastic power of the Stormfather will come through and rain down terrible winds, torrential rain, and bring that sustaining building block nutrient-dense creme that coats the landscape of Roshar after a high storm.
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Now I will ask, and even though I do think that this is a particularly easy question for you, Berdar,
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you were asked to meet with a particular man, an ardent, during this high storm. He wanted absolute privacy. He wanted to speak to you directly in person. No span reads, no notes, no other people present.
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And it was to take place at a guardhouse storm shelter, literally within the storm wall on the eastern side of Colonar. This gigantic mega structure wall, reinforced over and over and over and over and over by
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the royal family of Colonar in order to withstand these intense storms. Colonar being very far east, one of the first places within Roshar every 9 to 10 days that gets slammed by a high storm.
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Now I presume that you do attend. Yeah. Is there anything that you would like to do to prepare beforehand? Anyone that you go to speak to? You have about half a day before the high storm hits proper.
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It is early morning. You sit within your home, your actual family home, after getting a good night's sleep.
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And it will be early evening that the high storm hits. You're sitting on roughly 6 to 8 hours until you actually have to go and take shelter and be somewhere safe and secure.
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I think I'm going to go find my sister really quick. That's the only thing that I want to do before I head out.
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All right. And what was your sister's name again? If I could get a reminder.
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My sister's name is Miala.
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Gotcha. You seek out your sister and she is, it's early morning. She's making pancakes in the family kitchen. Her and your mother are both sort of like preparing a large
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breakfast for your family. You know, it's you, your mom, your sister, and a variety of Raga muffin kids and some teenagers that sort of like have crashed here for the week, a couple of days to, you know, while the
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teenagers go and work for coin as porters, etc. And the small children, you know, they crashed here tonight because they were playing, they got tuckered out, and then your mom threw down some bedmats and the kids
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crashed. Classic. Yeah. I'll pop out of my room. And is she in the midst of cooking?
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I'm making batter.
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Okay, cool. Nana, could you watch this? I need to speak with Miala.
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I've got my hands literally in the middle of making batter. So, if you're going to be talking to your sister, you're going to be mixing this.
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Okay. Kids are hungry. Picks up the bowl and walks it into his room as he mixes.
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So, Miala follows you into the room. What is it, Ba?
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Okay, so door's closed. Going to put the bowl down and put like a dirty coat, like, you know, up against the bottom, like the bottom of the door.
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Hopefully the rest isn't, you know, is fairly well soundproof-ish. Keep my voice low. So I, um, about that thing that I told you I was going to do.
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Right. It's done. And I just wanted to leave something with you in case Rave comes by and I'm out of the house.
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Yeah. All right. But why is it, why has it got to be me? Why can't it be mother?
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I mean, 'cause you know, yeah, capable and smart and I don't want her to get mad at me.
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It's 'cause I'm good. I'm a good liar. That's what it is. It has nothing to do with my capabilities.
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It's got nothing to do with the rest, you know. I can't hide, I can't hide things for [expletive]. Bella, what do you want me to do?
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No, just keep them on you in case. Keep them on me. How well, how much is it?
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Berar opens the pouch which is pretty large. It's an absurd amount. Light pours into the room, quite literally like an incandescent bulb, like a thousand watt just pouring light onto the ceiling.
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He's going to take 50 marks worth out and put it in his own sphere pouch and give her the rest.
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What is this? What is this? What do you got here?
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So, it's about what I'm leaving with you is about 250 marks.
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That's insane. That's an insane amount of money.
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I know. What do you mean? That's 200. You took 50 marks out. I still have 250. What am I supposed to do? Go buy a house? What? How? What am I doing with this? What am I doing with this?
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I'm telling you, in case Rave comes by.
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In case Rave comes by and I'm out, you can make sure he doesn't have any problems.
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You know what? So, in case Rave comes by, I've bought a shard blade with this and then I kill him with it. Is that what you're asking? This is an absurd amount of money there.
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To be honest, if you do that, I'd be very proud and a little worried.
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There is one more thing that I need to show you that you cannot tell anyone else.
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These secrets are piling up. Bellar, it's getting on. This one, this one is really important. I mean, the spheres, if that gets out, that's rough. But you know what is it going to be?
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Yeah, we want to get robbed and murdered. Dozen show up with how much money you can pay someone to not rob and kill you.
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Yeah, but if I can't tell anybody that I've got it and I got to go. If I go flash this money,
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I'm going to get stabbed. This little herd ass. This is little herd ass. Right.
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Okay. Okay. Okay. No, just calm down. Okay. What I'm about to show you is going to freak you out way more.
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So, just save it for that.
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She takes a large steadying breath. This like shaky.
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Yeah. All right. Show me whatever it is that you need to show me.
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Okay. And he puts his hand over her ouchospheres and takes in a deep breath, holds out his hand and a picture of both their mother and their father
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take place on his hand dancing about 5 inches tall.
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What is this?
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What do you mean? What is this? Magic. What? How? What do you mean?
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Closes his hand.
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I'm not so good at explaining, so I'm going to ask someone else to do it. Now, she gets a little nervous around people, but I trust you with every fiber of my being, and I think that's going to be enough.
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Ain't that right, Tila?
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Tila doesn't appear.
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Okay, she's my sister. Take that.
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Tila pops up behind your ear, only visible to you.
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What makes you think this is a good idea? In what world is this a good idea?
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In the world that I'm telling someone the truth. I am going to go on the record of saying that this is a verifiably bad idea. I think that there is a way to reveal the truth that is safe for the people.
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I mean, if it helps what I stole, they shouldn't have it anyway. That doesn't help even remotely. Not even not even like a little bit. Not even like a tiny little bit. It doesn't matter to me.
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Who did Who paid you? Who was this? Oh, um, that's a great question. I'm not going to tell you.
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And why not? Oh, because that could get you in serious trouble. I feel like my brother just took me aside into the bedroom and told me that he is one of the most high heretics in all the entire realm. Now, I
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could see somebody like uh Dallinar Colin getting away with something like this seeing as he's like the prince of like all of Alycar now or whatever. And I could see somebody like um you know his his bridge boy like that makes sense
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cuz he's like one of the most lethal people on the entire planet if if the rumors are to be told and and it makes sense that that funny little redhead thing would be able to get away with it
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cuz she's married to like Adelin Colin like those are really important people so it feels a little bit disingenuous to walk in here and reveal all this to me and then just be like can't tell you anything else dear sister just I just
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here's the juicy bits so I can feel less bad about lying. I wish you would have lied to me. This is horrifying.
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Okay, something is coming. I don't know exactly what that looks like. But something is coming.
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Is it Is this to get dad back? Is this to get revenge still? No.
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Is that what this is all about? Still? No. To sign a dog pact of some sort with with a foul, you know, a foul employer in order to to in order to get powers to kill whoever took dad. Is that what this is about
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still? No. Are you still hunting the suns? Yes. Then that is what it is about. No, I'm hunting them because they're bad people.
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And part of the reason I'm hunting them is because they killed my father. Yeah.
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But more important than that is that if they killed dad, who else are they going to kill? You know, I'm going to put them away. I'm going to stop them from hurting more people.
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That's why I'm doing it. Do you think if that if you left them alone and you didn't get involved in all this that your family would be safer?
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Is this for greater good or is this for revenge? Yes. Right. Taylor, it's nice to meet you. It's crazy that a friend can talk. You're you're this is nice even though you don't have a mouth and you you're a
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weird crystal um mist thing. Don't mean if that comes off rude. I'm sorry. You're the first uh crystal fog creature that I've ever talked to. And Tila um says, "No, it's fine. Of course, I'm I think what your brother is trying to
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say." and Bear, feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Um, hi Mala. I'm a big idiot and I keep fumbling into the craziest situations in all of Colinar, but I'm actually really capable and my heart's in the right
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place. Here's a bunch of money. Please be safe. Um, and I think that's sort of what he's trying to get across, but he's fumbling through it because he's bad at emotions, because he lies to himself a lot and puts himself into horrifying
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uh uh martyr like situations because he thinks he's the only person that can be capable enough to deal with the things that he's embroiling himself in. So, you know, he's keeping you safe by sacrificing himself. And that's sort of,
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you know, that's been his motus operandi for so long now. He doesn't really know how to to act or or, you know, do anything else.
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Tila, I think you got the important bits. So, I'm going to cut you off there.
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Ma looks to you, Bear, and she says, "No, no, no, no. She's I I think she's right.
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That sounds pretty that sounds pretty on the nose to me. I She's just saying what we've all been thinking.
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You know, I've made a horrible mistake introducing the two of you. I have. But I need to tell you one last thing and then I have to go.
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Damn, right. I meant it when I said that something is coming. It is going to change the way we see Roshar. It is going to change everything.
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I've seen pieces. So, all right. I want you to think about this. Okay. Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.
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I want you to think about what those words mean to you. Well, they kind of remind me of like some old Hardazian philosophy, right?
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Like old old Gran Gran was was always going on about, you know, you got to take the road before you hit the city. And sometimes the road's more fun. And she'd be talking about like, listen, you don't know how to die until you've lived a
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whole life. And you know, knowing how to die is the hardest thing to do. And she was jacked. So the strength before weakness thing was like pretty pretty normal. Like Gran Gran was well, she'd like, you remember, like she'd have
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everybody would be, you know, banding about with their chill whips and all that kind of stuff to like keep them on track and she'd just give them a bop in the eyetock and then they'd smarten up.
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Like she was tough as nails, right? Yeah. So, I mean like that's kind of it reminds me what what Gran used to talk about, right? So, I mean that's important. She was smarter than you.
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Yeah. No, I am Yeah. What about What about those words? They're important. Yeah. I like them. It makes sense.
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Yeah. No, they are important and I just wanted you to hear them. Yeah. Okay. Well, listen, I love you.
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Like, nothing's changed. You're You're just more of a freak than I thought. But like and I you know that's that's that's the biggest feat of the day truly. But like you smell better than you have in a while. Like this this friend's clearly a
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good influence on you, you know, so that's good. Okay. I I have an important meeting that I have to get to.
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Okay. But um I just there's a lot of people I can't tell a lot of things and I just I needed someone to know.
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Oh, she walks up to you and gives you like a couple of good pats on the face, looks you in the eye. Hey, you can tell me anything. That's fine. Listen, unless you say that you're, you know, you're
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you're you're throwing yourself into damnation and and nobody can follow you, I'm with you 100%. I'm right here. But just don't be so [ __ ] weird about it.
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Like if you just like you just you could just be honest and come and like tell me things. I don't think like there was a lot of pomp and circumstance to all this and taking me aside like look like mom's
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batter is going to be like you better stir that before you leave. Like can you give a [ __ ] Yeah. It's going to be like you need you got to whip it. Like she's going to be mad. Flat pancakes. Who ever
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heard of that? Yeah. So anyway, you can tell me anything. I'm I'm in it to win it with you. Like I'm a little scared, but like that's kind of normal, right?
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When something new happens in the world that's big and and horrible, it's scary. It gets scary. So, yeah. Anyway, stir your batter. Get the hell out of here. I got oil heating up. So, you know, you kind of came in at like the
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worst time. We were in the middle of making breakfast. Couldn't have waited 30 minutes, right? But like Taylor, Taylor, it was nice to meet you. It's you're very sweet for a strange quartz crystal mist fog thing. Um, very
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sweet because you're nice to my brother and he's the worst. So, yeah. I'm going to get back to cooking. Um, don't die.
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Okay. Love you, Nako. Yeah, I love you, too. And she then walks out the door, goes back into the kitchen.
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I whip the hell out of this dough and I bounce. Yep. Your mother Your mother looks and and says, "Oh, you over whipped this. You [ __ ] up. Oh, you storming creme head.
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You freaking Now it's going to be all airy. I got to let it sit. These kids are hungry. It's your fault. Get out my house. Get out my house. Get Get on.
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Okay. Love you. Yeah. Love you, too. Get out of here. And you make your way I I presume you make your way to the storm shelter.
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It's a squat building, metallic slats, small uh sitting area, a little pantry for for rations and supplies, a table, a sphere lantern in the corner. It's a very quaint area. There's an entrance in, there's an entrance out. um two doors,
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one leads further into the storm wall, one leads out back into the city. Um only the one window uh you know, just to make sure that it isn't stuffy, but it's Yeah, it's it's nice. So, you head inside to the predetermined
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area and there he sits. that, you know, broad-shouldered uh Ardentia man um the bald-headed uh white robew wearing um individual who had spoken to you before uh at the uh Devitary of Insight. And he's sitting at that table, the singular
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table within this little shelter. I am very happy that you joined me. Thank you for entertaining this meeting.
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Uh take a seat. Uh are there other people in the storm shelter? There is no one else in the storm shelter. It is just you and him.
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I'm going to scratch my face a little bit and whisper, "Watch the door." What's the what?
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Watch the door to Tila very quietly. Watch. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can do that.
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Absolutely. Bear takes a seat. So, you're hunting the Sons of Honor. Yeah. I I am too and I have been for some time.
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Why? Because they killed a lot of my friends on the border of Alithkar and Yakaved.
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They are a dangerous uh group full of violent zealots and they have made it known that they are not afraid of kidnap and subtrauge and doing out death to people that they deem worthy of it. They are acting as judge, jury and executioner.
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So I have been following them in the city here for some time and unfortunately they now have infiltrated the palace.
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Your last name is Jurer, right? Why is that important? Because I knew your father.
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Oh, if juror is your last name, tell me how you knew Borin Cher. I hunted him.
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for a about three months. Keep talking. Your father was in debt to a man named Rave.
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A very great amount. They worked in tandem, your father, as a mover of illicit goods for Rave. And Rave would pay him in information and a few shipments went missing.
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And then your father owed him a great debt. Your father was working with the Sons of Honor and I'm unsure in what capacity.
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Did you kill my father? I did not kill your father. Do you know who did?
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I have a list. The Sons of Honor do not have an infinite web of knives within the city. It is not some bottomless well of spheres and influence.
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They have a very strong foothold. And as I said, they are in the palace now, but they out of necessity operate from the shadows.
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And I have a short list of individuals who act as their executioners. That's it.
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So, why did you and your friends rob the Devitary? Are you trying to extort me?
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Yes. That's cute. I need to know that I'm not putting this information in the hands of a worse body of individuals.
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You strike me as a just man, but I also know that you operate with killers.
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A book. Did you know it was a book? I have been made aware that there was a book that went missing. Yes.
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The book that I stole is important. It is important for people to read it.
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And no one was reading it there. Who did you give it to? I can't I can't tell you that.
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If Well, I can tell you something. Okay? I can tell you that who I delivered it to did not receive a complete product.
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The Ardentia clawed that book out of the hands of people that would have seen it rot.
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And now it sits in the hands finished or unfinished of unknown parties. How? What do we do?
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way. You work with Navali, right? Um, I'm not sure what you're getting at. There was a protetéé of Bright Lord Tossmir who was killed after a series of alleged crimes.
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Was never taken to a guard house. Was never given due process. never had their chance to be sent off to the bridges, was never given a chance to speak their defense, was slain in their home.
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And if rumor is to be believed, it was yourself and one Nali that were at the scene.
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There's a very very small circle of people that know this. So if you and Nali and whomever else you operate with think that you are also executioners.
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I just need to know that it isn't another strange pseudo religious zealous cult that I am working beside. I would love to take down the Suns, but I'm not going to do it beside a bunch of similarly wanted
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murders. I've never killed anyone. I would if I had to, but I haven't. Does Navali kill people?
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She has, I'm sure. I don't know. But um I don't think you get as good as what they are without practice. So did I would assume yeah.
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Did Navali kill Bright Lord Silona? No. Can I get a deception 15? That is a natural 20.
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If Navali didn't kill them and you are not a killer. Then why do I have this overwhelming feeling that more light eyes are going to go missing?
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You really want to know what happened? No. The less details I know, the better.
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What I want to know. No. You know what? You know what? I'm going to tell you exactly what happened.
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I found a girl. And I mean a girl, not a woman. She was a mess barely recognizable.
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And I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt who did it. Would I have killed him?
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Yes. Yes, I would. But I didn't. Do I wish that I could have brought him in and given him his due process and seen him stripped of his title and his lands and his spheres and everything else that he loves?
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Sure. But that doesn't happen to men that powerful, does it? No. No. So, how many girls do you think is a fair trade?
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How many girls would you watch disappear? No name, no trace. The answer is none.
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Give me the list. If I give you this list. It's going to mean a few things and I hope that you can acquies to it.
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Means that we're working together. I've been hunting these sons for five years across country in war camps through crisis of faith.
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I've hunted these people and here in colonar they are insidious. So, we work together on this.
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I have some compatriots. There's not many of us, but they're trustworthy. I served with them.
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And I want to meet the rest of the people that robbed the Devitary. I would like to meet the rest of your people.
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We can do that. Okay. He takes out piece of paper and he starts writing some glyph names.
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Very simple script. There is a Corporal Gavar. There is Bright Lord Tossmir. There's Hanva.
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And the last simply goes by the rather on the nose name of the knife.
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Thank you. Those are the ones I do. Any of these names Do any of these names trigger anything for me? Bright Lord Tossmir was the shadowy benefactor of the man that you uh and Navali dealt with.
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The rest totally uncertain. Thank you for this. They're killing us from the inside. I don't know who's backing them, but I have reason to believe that it's somebody very powerful out on the shattered plains.
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On the shattered plains? Yes. Hey, are we talking like like a high prince? someone with connections and money. I couldn't tell you if it was a general, a high presence, a a charardbearer of some sort, somebody with somebody with connections to the Colin
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family. That much I know. They got into the palace far too easily. It's only been a few years and now one of their number makes regular deposits there.
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Oh yeah, I know him. And if rumor has it, they also have a shard bearer at their disposal now.
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Oh, know him too. So, it's true. Oh, yeah. Not only that, he's uh radiant.
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Uh his lips go into a very fine line and his brow furrows. Okay. Okay.
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Okay. Well, I suppose suppose that's about all she wrote. Hey You're taking this surprisingly well.
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Did you know they're back? I know that High Prince Dallinar has some sort of connection to them.
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And every soldier from here to Azamir knows who Kaledan Storm Bless is. All of us.
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And what do you think about them? I think that I've served with men like Kaledan Storm Blast.
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And if you put me in a room with Dallinar and Kaledan in it, I would trust Kaledan over the Blackthorn.
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Yeah. I'll see that. Yeah. You want a drink? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Actually, I'm uh I'm good for now.
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Okay, maybe later. This storm's going to be brutal and we're kind of stuck in here.
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You want to play cards? Drinking and gambling is against Voran tradition. No, you're right. You drink, I'll gamble.
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I do have a bottle of Violet and a uh pack of cards, though. Yeah. All right.
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I haven't been a real Ardent for a while. I'll stick to this for now. Sure. And Bear pulls out a bottle of orange.
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Yeah, for sure. For sure. It's the orange that tastes like soap. Uh-huh. We'll uh we'll zoom out from there.
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So it's earlier in the same day that we are going to join FRA. Fra, where would we find you?
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About midday, four, five hours into uh into the day. You're you're you're a couple of hours out from from the high storm hitting.
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The rains have started. Uh and it's it's getting to be about time to start seeking shelter wherever you may want to go.
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And I had no duties or anything today. Nothing you haven't already accomplished. I feel like Vera is fairly ahead of the game most days and um maintains a a fairly uh strict schedule of getting all of the stuff done ahead
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of time. Uh and then sort of being, you know, available to your captain should he need you for, you know, uh extracurricular duties.
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Yeah. Um, I think then she's going to go through uh she's just going about things like as usual. She wants to send her weekly letter to her family. Um, wants to clean her clothes and do some chores.
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Very, she's just going about making sure she gets things done before the high storm.
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Okay. I think that the very first thing I want you to do is make a perception.
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Hope you don't roll as bad as last time. Um, that's a 12. A 12.
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Mhm. As you clean and get things ready and organized and and set up sort of your regular day-to-day, uh you notice that the guard building uh that you sit in uh surrounding the barracks chamber that you sleep within,
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your your personal abode, uh it is deathly silent. Um the sounds of hobnail boots on uh grimstone floors has largely ceased. the uh regular sounds of sharpening blades and whispered voices uh has faded away and it's sort of a a
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very strange calm. It's not unheard of, you know, right before a high storm, people are hunkering down, but to hear nothing is a little odd.
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Mhm. And you then hear uh a click clack click clack click clack of footsteps leading up to your door.
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uh like a marching uh uh rapport, like a uh series of very measured steps leading up to just outside of your doorway and then a very uh measured one 2 3 four knocks.
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Um I'll answer my door. You open up your door and standing there wearing a gray tunic and loose flowing gray pants with a splash of color in the form of a red sash, brilliant green eyes uh and a small pouch on their side.
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In a abrupt shock is Captain Bakarin. Wow. Um I think Vera is going to be just as in shock as I am. Uh she's going to freeze.
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She she was expecting somebody to come in and accuse her or something or she was expecting a captain. Yeah. No, she is caught off guard.
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She's going to sputter but not really get any sentences out for what are you doing here? What?
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I had time to come and speak with you as the high storm hit. So, I attended to a few things here in town within the city and I I thought that we should talk.
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They're they're hunting for you. They're I know you're wanted. What? I know. They they cannot catch me.
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Don't worry. What? What is it? You sent me that letter. What What is it you want from me?
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I I have a few questions as I'm sure you do as well. And I thought before things escalated too terribly far that we should have a discussion.
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How could they escalate any further than they already have? What you did? I know.
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I can leave if you'd like. Why did you Why? Just why? Why do all of it?
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May I come in? She's going to look to see if there's anyone else in the hallway.
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There does not appear to be anyone in the hallway. No one is walking about. There's no regular guard rotation. You're timing things in your head. You're like, "Someone should have come along by now." Mhm.
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If you're looking for anyone, uh, they won't be coming. What did you do to them?
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Uh, they were alive. She's going to take a step back. When she stood up to get to the door, she made sure she's been like extra careful since she got back to be very on point.
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Um, so when she stood up, she made sure that she had her side sword like attached at her hip. So when she steps in, she's going to make sure that it's still there. She's going to just double check it.
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Your sword is still there. He stands he stands with his hands uh behind his back in a sort of parade rest in front of you.
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Things have changed uh for me and I assume for you. I left at the behest of my superiors.
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There has been a bit of a schism. and it has afforded me the opportunity to visit.
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You asked why and in the spirit of fairness I will answer. There is a higher power than you or I or the nation of Alithar.
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And it is dictatorial of what is the rule of law in a far grander sense than the words of man.
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And so I thought to follow that higher calling. I have spoken with shards of honor of the Almighty and they have given me this direction.
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I follow the law is what I do. Did they tell you to kill those people?
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Yes. Yes, they did. So, suddenly you're allowed to be a judge and an executioner.
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Oh, yeah. It's not right. I I will admit that I made that mistake. I am early into my journey as a radiant And thus killing people is not a mistake.
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Are you How can you call that a mistake? I think you know better than that.
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You and I have both sent good men to their deaths, Fral. Because your hand did not hold the blade does not make you blameless.
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Was it just because I gave you the order to do it? She looks She looks taken back by that.
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Halled out. The men that I killed did not deserve to die, but they were sentenced as such. and to the letter of the law higher than what whose law?
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None of this makes any sense. There is a higher authority for Aniel. As you said, you've felt it. You know it.
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I don't think I do. I'm I'm confused. I was too. I have answered your question. May I ask one of you?
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Yes. Are you still faithful? She's going to hesitate. She's going to say, "Yes, of course.
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We're going to go above table here. Is that the truth? It's something that she's dealing with. She's fighting internally right now, like actively, especially after everything she just went through. She wants to believe that she's faithful and still
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following, but she's been questioning a lot. Okay. She didn't sleep well last night. I find my faith wavering.
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What? Why? I have been told that honor is dead. that the Almighty has died.
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And I have seen rather stark evidence to the affirmative. And what what does that mean for you?
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What does that mean for us? for for all of us. It means that we are what is left and that we need to carve the world into the way that it needs to be to survive.
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And how would you carve it? with law and blade and order. I would carve it in the ways that I know how.
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That that sounds reasonable and all, but I don't I still don't understand where you're getting your law and from.
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You left. You changed. I have. I cannot serve. Alithcar is a kingdom of expansionist warlike tribal domination.
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And I served it my entire life. My entire life. I bent the knee to Elar, to Asadan, to Dallinar and Sadius and Allidar and Sabarial and these waring high princes.
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And all that happened was I moved from one theater of death to another and another and another. And that was the law that I knew. That is the law that you know.
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So tell me, is that just? Is that order? Is that sustainable? Did the Was the Sun Maker just in expanding across the world and killing the way that he killed? Was the Blackthorn just when he slew with the power of shards?
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An unfair domination of the battlefield by using weapons forged by doesn't matter. I think partially I just need to apologize.
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You were and are I think one of the best hopes for Colonar to survive the coming storm.
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And I need to know that you are still you. Because if you are shaken and broken, then there is no reason for me not to join the other side and take colon down.
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What? Who do you expect me to be? the same person that you have been since we met.
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A woman that is going to climb to the very pinnacle of their craft and then surpass it.
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For anal, you are already creating an environment for women, for dark eyes, for military tacticians to exceed what they thought was possible.
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And that's that's who you want me to continue to be. I've I've changed, too. I feel after everything.
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I I need you to be Veronial. Here's what I need. so that I am not forced to kill my brothers and sisters in Colonar.
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What? That's an awfully big leap. I I don't understand how you're basing this choice on h what I am doing or how I'm behaving or It is going to be very hard for you and I am sorry for the way I am about to say
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this. If you cannot prove that Colonar will not fall, in all likelihood, I will be the one sent to come and kill you and yours.
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And you think that is just whoever this this new path you're following? I think that I think if I don't commit to one side or the other that the world ends.
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So the world is balancing on your decision, not mine. I don't here is like going through all these thoughts in her head. She's looking very conflicted, not really sure what to say next to him.
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Are you leaving again? I do have to leave. Yes. I thought that it would be fair to warn you that you must push yourself to be better and more.
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I think I've stopped doing that. Can I ask you just one more question? I I guess.
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Yes. Why did you leave? His brow furrows and you hear the start of that high storm begin to crash into the walls.
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That ferocious wind and horrifying torrential downpour. The storm wall has hit Colonar and he looks to you.
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Fear. Fear. I was scared that my superiors would tell me to hurt you. And so I left.
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your superiors here or they are close. Yes. Oh, so the the other ones you're talking about that are trying to destroy colon art.
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Yes. Well, I can't decide if it would have been better if you did then.
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He sits with that for a moment. No, no. I I know that I have painted this picture of capability and discipline.
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And in some ways I am that man. But when a piece of the Almighty speaks to you and changes your entire world, you make choices that you might regret later.
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I am barely out of the dark. I'm sorry that I left you. She's going to stand up a little straighter.
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Hey, I think I think it's the high storm's coming. It's probably time for you to leave again.
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Think that is true. Yes. Although I will not let you destroy colonar. He looks proud.
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He smiles. It's not me that you need to worry about. There are horrors outside of myself.
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Since the day that you and I met, the only word that I could think of to describe Feraniel was hero.
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So, I don't really worry terribly much. But I do know that every so often heroes fail. So, I will leave you.
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Don't kill anyone on your way out this time. He like hesitates as he takes his step out the door and you can tell that that just bites.
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His shoulders sink a little bit and then he keeps walking out. closes that door behind him.
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Doesn't know how to take everything she just heard, but she's mad now. That last look she gave him was not a look she I think she's ever given him before. She was more angry than anything.
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There is a little spot on your hand. Black. You think for a second that it might be a ink blob from earlier.
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And then uh as you continue to stare at it to look. It grows and then it jumps off your hand and a fellow about 6 feet tall.
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Shoulder pads, long flowing robes, a severe look on his face. or pearlescent uh uh oil slick like uh light spplaying across it.
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So it is she's not even going to be surprised at this. She's not even going to that glare that she had towards Aarin is just going to shift towards this creature that just popped up. It's like you are you going to tell me that I I have
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some ridiculous expectations to live up to too? Or am I allowed to just be me?
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A very quaint idea. It is that you would think that being you was some predetermined concept that you get to dis decide and that you are not a grander coglike machine in the grander cosmir.
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You are it is you have more to you. You will become more or you will die.
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Weirdly that's the second time I've heard that today. This is the first time that you are hearing it from someone who has fornowledge, someone who has come from halls of learning in the cognitive realm. You are hearing it from your soontobe nelbonded
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sprren. And who is my who who are you other than someone who pushes me off a pillar after telling me I'm a chosen I I and then it pauses for a moment.
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Hm. My name here will be H. It seems lost in thought. Lost in thought.
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It seems I have forgotten since coming from my home in Shadesmar. My name will be forthcoming.
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You must know that it is. Is that the place that you brought me before?
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That is the place that you brought yourself. I merely ensured that you would be be prepared if someone else took you by your scruff and push you in to the bead sea like you did.
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Like I did. You survived handily as I knew you would. I was going to ask, was I meant to survive that?
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No one is meant to do anything, but you did. What? She's going to soften slightly. What was What was that place? So, that place was real.
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It is. It It felt so strange. It is good that you feel as if that place is alien.
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It is not meant for you. But there are parts that were familiar too. Like when I when I fell and I was feeling things that felt familiar in those in those spheres.
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Our sun is cold, but it is still a sun. Our ocean is glass, but it is still an ocean. Our winds, they are not from her, but they are still wind.
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There are similarities but the differences are mountainous. The cognitive realm is shades is you are and that's your home. You said it is where I am from.
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Is that where all sprren are from? It is where all of the sprren I know are from.
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Do you know Tila the unfortunate one? Yes. Why is she unfortunate? I will not tell you.
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Seems to be a lot you're being a little vague on here. Some things are fuzzy, others you should not know.
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There's things I should not know. Not yet. You have not even spoken the first ideal.
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Oh, the words that the others were talking about. Yes. I think the idea of keeping knowledge behind secrets, I don't know that knowledge should be known.
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That seems unfair. I think that the most capable woman in all of Colonar, the person who could actually turn around the entire military might, logistical fury, and the treasury of this grand city and nation, not accepting the fact that she is thus is
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unfair. I think standing in front of someone telling you these things and refuting them is not just. I think sitting in a group of peers and not trusting the fact that they accept you is not just and I think lying to
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yourself that you are not the most excellent weapon in this city is not just but It is [ __ ] So, we're So, we're back to telling telling me what I am and who I should be. Okay.
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Um, why? You said that you you chose me last time we met. Yes. If I ask you why, will you just repeat that same thing all over again?
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No. Okay. Then why why did you choose me? Uh can I clarify that actually?
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Did you choose me for who I am or for what I can do? I chose you for the potential of what you might be.
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I chose you because you do not believe in limitations and yet you put them upon yourself.
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I chose you because you have been told since the moment that you were born, that you must choose a certain path, and that you are in a cage, that you are a woman, that you will be a writer, and
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that you will be a notetaker, that you will eat sweet foods, and that you will never learn the sword.
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And yet here you are being an adviser to captains and generals, saving lives, learning the blade, subverting expectation at every corner, not in light of your god, but at the spite of him.
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She looks uncomfortable at that. You you also said that everything is changing. What What is that? What do you mean by that? We keep hearing that you have felt the Everstorm.
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I don't know what that is. Red lightning, angry winds, a storm high that comes from the wrong direction.
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It will change everything. It turns who you call the parendi into singers. It creates an army devoted to one who does not care about you and yours and this city.
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Everything will change. You will change. Or as I said, you will die. What? What? Is there anything even to be done?
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I would not be here if it was hopeless. The Nahel bond is not one of frivolity.
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The else callers do not bind to us if it is unserious. What? What if I don't live up to the way that you see me?
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Then I shatter and you die. You will speak the words sooner. I will hope then later.
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Then we are bound. Your success is my success. Your life is mine. If you die, so do I.
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Or the closest thing to it. Is that is that why you can't remember? Partly the Would you remember more if we go back to your home?
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No. Unfortunately, the transition for me is difficult. More will return the closer our bond gets.
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It's imperative that you speak the words. But I can't just say them, right? They have to mean something.
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You can just speak them whenever you feel. It is up to something higher whether they are accepted.
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feels a little bit like a prayer. If it helps to consider it as such, then I encourage it.
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It is faith of a sort, but it is faith in me and faith in yourself and not some nebulous thing that would abandon you.
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She like has a micro expression of like a not cringe, but you can tell that that that phrase hit her a little bit and I have so many questions for you.
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But how how do I ask for you again? How do I talk to you again?
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I am here. I am simply here. Okay. I don't have to like write in my notebook or anything like last time.
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Speak aloud. You can write in your notes or you can ask for me or I will be nearby out of necessity. The farther away that I remain from you, the weaker I feel and the closer to unintelligence I get.
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That wouldn't be good. Uh, and you'll tell me your name when you remember it. Um, yes.
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Well, thank you for telling me all this. My service is What? What did you say? My service is and then I think it cut.
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It simply is. Oh, you're you're very formal. So are you. I guess so. You wear a strange covering on your hand. You do not drink or eat certain things. You bow and you prostrate yourself in front of authority figures.
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You act proper. You only write certain things. You do not speak too loud. You have affectations of propriety that are alien to me. I state fact and what I know. You are strange.
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You're strange to you. Then we're agreeing that we're both strange. Yes, we're getting somewhere then. Okay.
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There will be things that we agree on. I hope so. If you're going to be around all the time like you said, everpresent.
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Don't sound so enthused about that. I am not. Thanks. So, are we hanging out during this high storm together?
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We can. What do you do to pass the time? Prepare. You don't know any stories, do you?
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I will tell you a very short story. How short? Very very many years ago, there was many knights radiant that prepared for decades in order to fight shadowy creatures on a battlefield to the east of what you call Shinavar.
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They did not prepare well enough for their hubris was mighty and their skills were lacking.
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And then they all died. Was that the end of the story? That is the finish of the story. Yes, that that was a very short story. Yes, you are correct.
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It is an important lesson. And what is what is the lesson that you hope I can get out of this story?
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Be better. I hope that you will prepare further, that you will train harder, and that you listen to me.
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I hope that you believe that the craft of creating and the shaping of one material into another and traveling to Shadesmar will be allconsuming and that you become the greatest radiant to ever live.
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I hope that you speak the final and last ideal and that I would finally be proud to call you my bonded.
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There was a lot there. Are you not proud to have chosen me? Is that like This is a very different relationship than I think I've seen with my friends. Are they my friends? I don't know.
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You are not You are not capable. You do not have the skills that are necessary to survive.
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You have not stopped lying to yourself. You have continued to feel the crush of the things that surround you. You seem overwhelmed when you have every opportunity to overcome.
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Fear rules you. I am not proud because you are not worthy enough. I would not be proud of something that would get me killed. So, I need you to be better.
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This is So where do I start? For the first time, he looks away. Seems a little bit hesitant to say what comes next.
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You should admit that honor is dead. I mean, that's what I heard and that's what Tila said.
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I did not ask what you heard or what others had said. I have told you what is and what should be.
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Growth is discomfort. And when I look at you now, I see someone who is comfortable.
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Even if you sweat and you squirm as humans do in your comfort, you sit under heated roof under the established rules of law that you have ascribed yourself to and you say quiet prayers to something that you think will save you.
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You will save you. You will save us. The sooner that you accept that, the sooner it will be.
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I don't know. She's going to start to say like, "I don't know." And then she's going to stop herself.
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I'll try to accept it. I mean, I feel better now that you understand the consequences of failure.
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I am done with this conversation now. And then uh your sprren shrinks down to the size of like the head of a pin and crawls onto your boot.
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Okay. Uh sounds good. Thanks for the conversation. And she's gonna go to her desk and see if he stays on her boot.
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Still on the boot. Doesn't move. Are you going to just hang out there on my my boot? And you want to come up to the desk in a moment. Uh it grows to like the size once again of uh
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like a small dog, like about like 2 ft tall. Uh and then hops up on the desk uh and then uh says to you, "I told you I was done talking." Okay, then I will be done to you.
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and she's going to like take her notebook and like turn away from him and try to take some some notes on some of the things that Barin had said to her and some of the things that her friend had just said to her.
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Okay, trying to make sense of it. We will zoom out from there. Uh folks, this is where we're going to take a human break. We will be back in 10 minutes. Hey, you people at home, first of all, you smell nice tonight. You look
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great. Uh, is that a new uh cologne? Is that your shampoo? Oh my goodness.
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Welcome back, everybody. Did you tell your dog that we love them? Thank you. Thank you. It's important.
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So, next we are going to zoom in on our good Navali. Navali, where where exactly would we find you before the high storm hits?
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And I think Nev would probably be well I guess above table the question is does Nev know any other places that they can shelter during a high storm other than the one they normally use?
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There's there's plenty of different places to shelter during a high storm. like a lot of the buildings within uh within uh colon are totally like structured to to withstand these uh these these things. Um so but the safest
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and the place with you know spheres and food and you know uh the essentials of living is the you know the warren where you and the cell operate.
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Yeah. Uh so I would probably be I would probably be there. Okay. Despite avoiding the area for a while, I think for lack of other friendly places to be, that's where she would be.
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Okay. The the place feels a little down. You read the expressions on some of the children and you see cutter walking amongst them and then you see the kids start to follow Cutter.
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throughout the Warren. And it is a short time later that Cutter gathers the children, puts them in a singular room, and then puts a lock on that door.
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He turns around. He looks to you. He's got his signature mask on. He's wearing a his his his usual set of simple leather armor, daggers strapped all to him.
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So, we should probably have a chat. Is him locking them up like this normal?
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No. During Okay. No, I didn't think so. Definitely not. It happened pretty quick. Like the kids all getting into one room to like play cards or whatever isn't enough to like raise a huge red flag, but putting a
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lock on from the outside is She's looking at the lock. You needed to lock them up in order to have this conversation with me.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I did. Uh-huh. What kind of storming conversation do you expect to have?
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He throws an opened waxsealed envelope at your feet. Which letter is it? It is a letter that has the symbol of the ghost bloods stamped into it.
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Someone was delivering that for you. I'll remind myself to go through your letters next time.
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Who's the leader of the cell? You are cutter. What are the rules? Whatever you make them depends on your mood.
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Don't be [ __ ] mouthy. I will do what I want. There's only one rule.
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You don't work with outsiders without speaking to the leader of the cell. So, Navali, who are these people?
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Nobody. You know, that's not what I asked. Read the letter. I will pick it up.
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You notice a little blood stain? Uh, a thumb print on the corner of the letter.
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Okay. It says, "We need you to meet. The woman that we were going to arrange to uh coordinate you with is ready to be introduced into the city." Is there a date on it?
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Is there a date on it? No. When did you get this? Who are they?
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I'll tell you if you tell me. Oh, you're not here to ask questions. Money in your pocket shelter over your head.
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One rule. One rule. You know there's more rules than one. Cutter. There's only one that you get punished truly for breaking. And you know which one it is.
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So, you're just out there working with others, telling them secrets. Have the kids been involved at all?
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No, it's just me. Who are they? I only know one and I have no desire to tell you.
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But they know you. They know me. They know plenty. And they didn't need me there to know it.
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He takes a few steps towards you. So tell me, when was this going to be revealed to me?
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You've clearly been working for them for a time. And a far better question is, how much did they pay you?
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You don't just get a job from these people. the smacks of a continued relationship.
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So tell me, how much do they pay you and where was my cut? What were the names? Did we vet them or are you going rogue?
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I am finding something better for myself. And I expect she taps on the letter that you know exactly who they are and you're upset that they picked me over you.
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You see his eyes narrow. You think you can save these kids? way. I certainly can.
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You think that's what this is? That you're some hero? That you're going to be the the savior of of these children?
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You were one of these children. If I can take them somewhere where they won't be beaten anymore, I'd call that a pretty big step up.
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The world is hard and it is unfair. And you are lucky that you only bear one scar in a city where a nice impressionable narwell like you would have gotten a far worse treatment if I wouldn't have taken you in.
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You act like I gave you nothing. That there was never a a sincere give from me to you.
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That I didn't train you. Like I didn't give you opportunity. Sincere. All the spheres I've made you and I've gotten scraps of them.
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All the responsibility. All of the risks I've had to take for you for scraps cutter.
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The only one who wins in this cell is you. And that ends today. and dark eyed lowborn orphans get so much better than what I've given you.
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So much more. Yeah. Out on the streets of Yakaved or some other nation. No, you come to colonar, you cut your teeth, you've only been working for a few years. What do you think that you're entitled to?
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Yes. The fruits of your labor have lined my pockets. You're allowed to labor. You have trained. You are fed.
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Shelter from the storms. warmth in these halls. You learned the blade from me. How to take, how to be unseen.
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There was only ever one rule that you don't work outside of the cell without permission.
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And now here we are. You're working with them. And you think that this is some sort of jealous slant of mine? That's what you think that this is?
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Do you think I would treat you any differently if this was some sort of other higher organization?
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If you would have gotten an offer from the palace of Queen Asadan herself, some golden opportunity, some lighteyed prince comes and takes a fancy to you.
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Do you think I would treat you any different? This isn't jealousy. This is exactly what has been told to you since the day you were inducted.
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Nothing less. You act now like you are above it. You hear just beside your ear the voice of Jez Nali. I have seen through many lifetimes the killing intent of a man.
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He is lecturing because he is stalling. He is looking for your weapons. He is looking for any weakness that you have.
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And there are two things behind his eyes. There is rage and there is fear.
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And one of them is stronger than the other. Do not wait any longer. Kill him or he will kill you. Those children are at stake.
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Be what you need to be. I think she's going to start stepping around him.
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Okay. Keeping keeping her distance. You say I've learned all of these things from you, but all you have done is teach me violence.
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Other skills I had before you. And I've learned something else recently, too. Something that you could never teach me.
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Life before death. Strength before weakness. What are you doing? Journey before destination. The room erupts in a frosty silver light.
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Moisture dripping from the walls, the symbol of the wind runners flashing in icy condensation on the floor. You feel infused. Your skin is glowing. And for the very first time in your life, you feel unconstrained by the laws of reality. And you float.
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You are bare inches off of the floor. Your skin radiates silver light and your breath pushes out glowing mist.
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And then Cutter is going to take an immediate quick action in order to seize initiative.
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And you hear as his voice quavers, he's what are you? And then he whips a dagger in your direction. What is your physical defense?
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Physical defense 15. Physical defense of 15. Yes. The dagger strikes true. You take six points of physical damage as it sinks to the hilt in your gut.
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And you hear the voice of Jez in your ear. You can heal it. You can heal it. Your body is flush. You have spoken the words. Everything is clear. Everything is clear. You can heal this. You can become more. Strike him down.
Speaker A
And then it is your turn. Uh yeah, I am going to take a I'm going to take a long turn.
Speaker A
Yeah, absolutely. Um first with my knife. Uhhuh. Um that I do have expertise in.
Speaker A
Yeah. Uh so I'll use that first. Or I have a I want to use cheap shot as well. Do I do that first or second?
Speaker A
Actually, I think that would be second. Uh so I'll strike with the with the knife first.
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Uh and it's just a d20 plus three, right? He is 25 ft away and which is a very convenient exact rate that you can fly towards him.
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Yeah, I'm going to dive on him with my knife. Absolutely. And hold up. Uh that is I don't think I add any other bonuses to this.
Speaker A
I haven't really attacked attacked yet. It's an 11 to hit. An 11 to hit. Okay. uh the attack. He pulls out a second dagger and as a reaction he is going to use his dodge and that is going to give him the
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ability to uh to avoid that hit and sp by by spending some focus. Uh, but you scrape, you see sparks fly as as your momentum scrapes your dagger against his. Uh, and then he is going to uh to
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get a second action. You do get Yeah, actually you'd be able to uh spend two focus and attack again if you'd like. Or alternatively, can I get a discipline roll out of you?
Speaker A
A discipline roll? A discipline roll? Yes. low DC. Uh well, it doesn't get any worse than that. That's a natural oneplus 2 three.
Speaker A
Okay. You simply do not uh you aren't able to to hold the focus enough. So, what do you do?
Speaker A
Uh well, the the intent was to use my my second attack um to use cheap shot spend a focus to make an unarmed attack with thievery versus cognitive.
Speaker A
Yeah, I hit it. And I raised the stakes. Oh, okay. Actually, this one. Hey. Okay. Uh that is a 16 uh 16 total to hit and the plot die. Oh, I guess I guess it's more than that.
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It's a dirty 20 cuz it's a four on the Oh, four but a complication.
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Yes. Okay. Yeah, for sure. Um so I'll subtract a focus. There we go. And it says the impact is six. And if I hit him, he's stunned.
Speaker A
Uh, sorry, what was the what was the attack? Uh, so it's thievery against cognitive raising the stakes. So he has to roll cognitive. Gotcha. Uh, and if I hit him Oh, no. It'll be it'll be versus cognitive defense.
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I just need I just need your result. Yes. So it was 11 + 5 but then a plus four on top of that.
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Oh, so it was dirty. Okay, so it was a dirty 20. Okay. Yeah, that absolutely hits him. He will be stunned.
Speaker A
Okay. Um, perfect. Uh, that will so that mean I move into my next uh let's look at conditions real quick.
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While stunned in combat, you lose any reactions. On your turn, you gain two fewer uh actions. Don't gain a reaction.
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While stunned out of combat, you're overwhelmed, making you move and react slower to your situation. At he'll get Okay, so he'll get he'll get one action the next turn. He does get he'll take a long action cuz he needs to
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and he'll get one singular action and the only thing that he is trying to do he is panicking. All he wants to do is is strike at you. You see fear and panic and and despair in his gaze as this
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glowing figure is floating in front of him, striking out at him and and and he just says, "Get back. Get back. Die." And that is a natural 20. Uh that is going to deal uh a grand total of uh four damage.
Speaker A
Uhoh. Okay. Uh, that is his entire turn. Great. Uh, I have to look at what I can do now that I've said the first ideal.
Speaker A
Uh, empower until the end of the scene. Okay. You're already flying. Oh, I have surges now. Excellent. Uh, yeah. I'm gonna I'd like to like He's moving around too much. I want to stick I want to stick him to the wall.
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Um so I think I'm going to use lashings just like out of pure need to like get him to stop moving to lash him to the wall. I don't know what I roll for that.
Speaker A
Uh, use a basic lashing in order to collide a target with a solid C. I'm I'm assuming that you're using gravitational slam or are you trying to stick them in one place?
Speaker A
I'm just trying to like like Kadan would like stick people to the wall. Oh, okay. Yes, that is Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. That is adhesion. So, what you're trying to do is specifically binding strike.
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So, you need to hit with a melee attack and then you need to either spend an opportunity or two focus and then you will infuse adhesion into an object and the t uh to an object the target is
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holding or wearing. Okay. So, I can't like push him into the wall and make him stick.
Speaker A
That's adhesive trap. That comes a little later. Oh, okay. Um, but you could stick his shoes to the ground kind of thing to keep him in place. Uh, or you could uh I could do that. Or you could like lash
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a dagger to the ground or like you could um you know like there's a lot of things that you could do.
Speaker A
Okay. Yeah. Uh I can adhere his feet to the ground. Make it harder for him to move.
Speaker A
Yeah, for sure. Uh so make that attack. Yeah. What do I roll? Physical strike. Uh light weaponry.
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Light weaponry. Yeah. Hello. That's a net 20. So, you will also deal damage plus three, I guess. Um, cuz you said it was light weapon.
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Yes. Attack cuz it's your dagger. So, yeah. 20 + 3 23 and I will do damage.
Speaker A
Okay. 1 D4 + three. If I'm Wait, I'm using my knife to lash him to the floor.
Speaker A
That is what it seems like. We can We might be able to We might be able to to look further into it, but it says you need to strike with a melee attack, not an unarmed attack. So, well, uh Well, if the melee attack does
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damage, then that's max damage of seven of seven. So, that'll be times two. Uh or no, sorry. Yeah. No, it is it is Yeah, it's just it's max damage doubled, right?
Speaker A
I believe is is criticals. Uh, I can look it up very quickly. But I also rolled a four on the D4.
Speaker A
That's what I was going off of. Oh, okay. Okay. D4 plus three for knife damage. So, um, I rolled a four.
Speaker A
Gotcha. Gotcha. But since it is a natural 20, I think it is. I think it does, but I don't remember.
Speaker A
Okay. Give me one sec. One sec. One sec. It's been It's been a while, folks. Uh it doesn't help that most of the combat we've had is very narrative and not like proper combat. So yeah, for sure. But like when real
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combat has to happen, it has to happen. Uh Mhm. Yeah, absolutely. So an attack maximizes the result of your damage dice against all targets of the attack.
Speaker A
Okay, that makes sense. So it is just max damage. Okay, cool. So seven so seven full damage. Yeah, you give him a slice and in the distraction your hand grabs onto his uh you know his booted feet and stick those
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boots directly adhesioning to the floor and they stick. Um that is you still have one action.
Speaker A
Oh boy, I still have one action. Yes, that takes two actions. Uh okay. Uh, I am going to I'm going to I'm going to slice him across the cheek the way he did to me.
Speaker A
Okay. How much focus do you have? Uh, I don't know. How much How much focus did that use?
Speaker A
That used two. That other thing that used two. I have one left. You have one left. It takes two to make another to make an extra attack in a round.
Speaker A
Oh, I thought you got two actions in a long round, which includes two attacks.
Speaker A
Yes, but the second attack always takes focus. Oh, okay. I misunderstood that then. Uh then no, I don't uh I don't do that.
Speaker A
Okay. Uh if you would like, what you could do is Duh. Oh, okay. Uh, you could use if you just This is a cool This is a cool call out to a mechanic that is unique uh to this system that
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I've seen. You could gain advantage on whatever your next uh attack was. Specifically, you describe a skill that you would use in order to gain the upper hand in a situation and then you can gain advantage on the next uh action or
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attack. Uh I think if that's the case then I would use my experience as someone who has you know historically professionally intimidated people uh for cutter all this time to um to kind of look at him and go
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you can quit while you're ahead. Okay. I don't think you will. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh he is no longer stunned.
Speaker A
Um and but what I will ask Oh yeah. Okay. There is also something else. You have taken a fairly large amount of uh of damage.
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Yeah, there is something that is quite fantastic that happens in this moment. It is a free action.
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It is totally subconscious. You don't even realize it. Can you roll me 1d6 + 1, please?
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Yep. 1 d6 + 1. That's a six plus one. Seven. You heal seven and the dagger is pushed out of your flesh to clatter to the floor.
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Okay. You feel He has a He has a great view of that, by the way.
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Oh, yeah. Standing right in front of him. You feel it knit and for the first time in your life, any anxiety and worry about a wound, you you you've already done Navali. You have already done the mental calculations. You're like, "Oh,
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that's a horrible wound that will take weeks to months to heal. It might have nicked something important. I need to go and see a surgeon." And then you take a breath in and you feel the knife fall out and you
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feel muscles knit. You feel organs shift and you feel uh flesh, the skin on the exterior fold together.
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And the only thing that's left is a hole in your garment and a bit of a stain of blood.
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And from there, Cutter looks to you. Oh, and he scrambles to run. Does he fall on his face because his feet are stuck to the ground?
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catch on the floor. His feet fall out of them like someone who quite literally had their feet cemented to the floor, but he rips himself out of those boots.
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And then barefooted, he goes to sprint out into the high storm. Yeah. Uh, I'm giving chase.
Speaker A
Okay. Okay. You are faster than him. Listen, all I all I really want in life is to feel like I'm playing Assassin's Creed while I'm playing games like this.
Speaker A
Uh, so I want to like run up and like leap to to like tackle him. Okay.
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Um, there's no running. You are still floating above the floor. You literally hover towards him, pushing yourself.
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You feel this pull. You reach towards the wall to pull yourself towards it. You reach above yourself to pull yourself towards the ceiling. There is a natural familiarity.
Speaker A
As you fly towards him and you impact, he is sprinting as hard as he can, spending every single action just to run. You slam into him and he lets out a yelp.
Speaker A
You are a top him. Uh, was that an action to That would be an action. Yep.
Speaker A
Okay. Then I can't do anything else cuz if I lose all my focus, I'm out.
Speaker A
Okay. He turns around. Believe that's how that works. He shifts his weight underneath you to come face to face.
Speaker A
You going to kill me? You've already proven that I can't let you live, Carter.
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turn my cell against me. It's one thing to beat me, but it's another to lay a single hand on a single hair on any of their heads.
Speaker A
So, you kill me. So, I die today because you think that you're some sort of hero that you're And then as he's talking, this big attempt to distract you, he attacks.
Speaker A
It doesn't work. I know what he's doing. It doesn't work. I know what he's doing.
Speaker A
Uh, he does attempt to attack you. Uh, your physical defense is 15. A 15. Okay.
Speaker A
Mhm. The attack hits and you take five damage. And then I am going to need one moment.
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You feel I guess it's just an awareness. It you would just notice it. Yeah. You feel for just a moment poison burn in your skin, in your muscle, and it doesn't do a thing.
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Poison cutter, you really are desperate. I'm going to stab him. Okay, nice. That is 16.
Speaker A
Uh, you can roll that with advantage just in case. Uh, it's not any better.
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Okay, that's perfect. Uh yeah, the strike hits. Okay, that is six damage. Okay, you see cutter's eyes start to flutter.
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If you kill me, more of these kids die. I already told them if anything happens to me, anything at all, they come for these [ __ ] kids. And you, the dreer does not take this light. You either let
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me live or you [ __ ] you make you make these storming kids targets. If I die, that's it. You run.
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You run forever. You can't protect them all. If you let me live, I tell him to back off.
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If I die, that's it. That's it. There's no going back. Does Jez say anything to me when he says that?
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Uh, you look to Jez and Jez just looks nervous. I don't I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I I don't know. I don't know. I'm not good with lies. I'm not good when he's lying.
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Can I insight him? Yeah, please. I'm going to raise the stakes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Blank on the opportunity die. That is 16 on the die plus three.
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19. You're quite certain he's telling the truth. It would be very cutter to set up some sort of horrid dead man switch to make sure that someone paid even if he died.
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He is a bastard. vindictive, mean, brutal. I'm telling you, Nev, I know you don't care.
Speaker A
Those kids are going to get absolutely mauled. Every one of them. You're wrong. You want to risk one? Can you be everywhere?
Speaker A
You going to keep them locked up? Make sure they don't wander. Every time they walk down a dark alley, Dreer's going to be there.
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You turned against us today. You're not Dreer anymore. That's it. I haven't been Dreer for a while now.
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Yeah, well, now they know. I have a feeling we're going to be just fine without you.
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I'm going to since I I hit him before. Yeah. I'm going to drive the knife deeper. I haven't pulled back.
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Okay. Do I get advantage since I'm literally on top of him? Yeah, call it advantage for sure.
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Dope. Okay, that's better. Uh 14. I don't know if there's any rules about auto crit against prone. Uh there isn't. But how much damage was it?
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I didn't think so. Uh it wasn't damage to hit. It was 14. 14. 14 dust strike.
Speaker A
Yeah. You said it was a bandage, right? Yeah. Okay. So, Oops. What was that?
Speaker A
Uh, five damage. Navali is unfortunately quite well-versed in just where to hit, where to drive a blade home in order to make it quick.
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You have slid that blade between the ribs and you shift it just so to slice across his heart.
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And in but a few moments cutter chokes, gasps, and then his eyes stare unseeingly at the ceiling.
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I watch and I think as I do the glowing stops before I stand up.
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I knew this was a possibility. Jazz, he wouldn't have stopped. No, I think I think we've made it worse.
Speaker A
Well, we'll have to see if we can make it better. I think you need a bigger weapon.
Speaker A
I think I agree. I think you did what you had to. I think we did what we had to.
Speaker A
You're also a natural. the natural of what? I've I've seen a I've seen I've seen I've seen a lot of radiance come and go and and not many of them can can lash like like that as soon as they're
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as soon as they say the first ideal We'll just call that a miracle of necessity.
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Leave it at that. I don't think that's what it was at all. I think uh Jez can probably feel it cuz they're bonded now. This strangely torn sense of grief uh for yet another mentor as horrible as he was.
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You feel the tiniest hand put the tiniest amount of pressure on your shoulder. Oh, you were doing it to protect.
Speaker A
Funny how that sort of thing always leads to me losing more people. I I think I would chalk that up to you surrounding yourself with some really horrible people for a long time.
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And that's not say that it's not your fault. No, it's not. This day was a long time coming.
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Yeah, I think a sort of morbid curiosity washes over Nev and she's going to bend down and take the mask off. What does Cutter look like?
Speaker A
Just a man. nondescript, unremarkable. He has a nice nose. His ears are exactly how you've always seen them. His brow is, you know, his his his foreheads a little big. The mask was doing him a favor. His eyebrows were surprisingly
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well manicured. His hairline was nothing special. His eyes were rather dark. Cutter was an ordinary man who did extraordinarily rough things to the people around him.
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And that cruelty got him to where he was and was the reason why he ended here this way.
Speaker A
I'm going to find the key to the lock on the door after, I don't know, covering the body with like a blanket or something.
Speaker A
Sure. So the kids don't have to see. Uh you unlock the door. The kids walk out sort of one by one.
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Dervin and Fararin, Teldarin, Trim. Trim gets up on his tippy toes, looks over at the blanket.
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Don't. What do you mean? When the storm's over, we need to pack up and leave.
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Well, yeah, for sure. You killed him. We'll figure something out. Well, yeah. We'll go stay at Bears.
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All of you? Yeah. There's like 20 of you. That's a lot. And you know, Bear does have a big house.
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It's true. Uh, Dervin, the little fella, slight little guy, says, "What what about what about the the the hornater lady you hang out with?" Uh, Farah, I mean I What about her?
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Could I stay with her? She stays a military barrack, so probably not. I could be quiet.
Speaker A
Are you sweet on FRA? No. Shut up. Aha, I see. That's why you keep asking about her.
Speaker A
No, that's not that's not the reason. It would just be nice to be in a place that actually has a little bit of Law and Order in it. Maybe a little Maybe I like the taste of curry. Huh? Maybe I like
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military rations and stuff. Maybe that's why I like it. Maybe that's why I want to be there.
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Where have you had military rations in your life? You don't know. I've stolen all sorts of stuff. railing from the whiplash of killing her mentor and now having to entertain 20 children uh who seem not bothered at all by the
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fact that this man is dead which unsurprising Faren the huge one walks out. He had to do it. Eh I think she just gives him a look that he's seen before of like this is not the time but doesn't say anything.
Speaker A
What? You're all out of words now? You were glowing. What? No, we saw you float.
Speaker A
How? How? I look at the door. Is there like a big hole in the door? What's happening? Uh the door has uh a very large keyhole in it and also a small like port hole like the the the doors open for like people
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to slide things through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I think I'm what they call radiant.
Speaker A
Doubt it. You explain why else I was glowing and floating around. Then spooky witch and and and making deals with voidbrers. I don't know.
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Uh, I I look to Jez help. Jez holds up his hands. This one's on you.
Speaker A
What? You can't show yourself to them? Not to them. Absolutely not. Give them more fuel. Give them more fuel. No, not the time.
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Okay, so now I look crazy. Great. You are crazy. Um, Nev just size. I need everybody to pack up and get ready.
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Trim's already packing his bag. Dervin. Dervin's already packing. Farren looks at you. I don't know where we're staying.
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I don't. But we got to do something with his body first. All right. What do you suggest we do in the middle of a high storm?
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Put it out in the high storm. All right. You going to help me? Yeah. Make it look like an accident. I can't believe you didn't think of this.
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Now is not the time to be smarter than you. Nah, it's always the time. Help me lug this body out of here.
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And I think she'll go with him out into the high storm. And honestly, this is a moment of of them being alone that she has needed. Uh, unfortunately, it involves carrying a body this time. But, you know, I really am going to need you to
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step up. I'm already taking care of the kids. I I'm just making sure it's said.
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The only thing that stopped me from really helping out is this storming idiot. He hated when we were nice to each other.
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Meant we needed somebody other than him. There was a time when I hoped that things would change with him, but was never going to.
Speaker A
Never once has she shown me any kindness. Not really. No, I took a swing at him.
Speaker A
Good. Went poorly. I'm sure he's so fast. was so fast. He was I don't think I needed the storm light to kill him, but it certainly made it easier.
Speaker A
We can unpack all of that later. And if you can teach me how to do it, great.
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She looks at him. Uh considering I just now started doing this, when I figure it out, I'll let you know.
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I want to fly anyway. Yeah. Oh, so I'm I'm not a spooky witch who sold myself to a voidbringer. Now you want to fly, too?
Speaker A
No, I didn't say that at all. You might still be a spooky witch that sold your soul to a voidbringer. I might just also be willing to do the same. And then he takes Cutter by the ankles and the belt
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and heaves him out into the rushing high storm. When did you get so strong?
Speaker A
I ate a lot and I started lifting heavy things because I wanted to be stronger than everybody around me so I could stop them from being hurt.
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[ __ ] hunts kind of works. I've also been fighting. There's like bare knuckle pits.
Speaker A
Yeah, there's bare knuckle pits in colonar and I've been making some coin or some spheres that way.
Speaker A
Well, maybe I'll start doing that. No. Between jobs. No. What? They would absolutely afraid you're gonna lose.
Speaker A
Yeah, because you have spooky witch powers. I would body you otherwise. Little Nev the knife. They don't call you big Nev.
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You and me wrestle. That goes one way. Yeah. Who calls me the knife? Where did that name come from?
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Almost everyone in the entire theater district at this point. Nev the knife. Nev had no idea this was a thing. Oh, okay.
Speaker A
What? You don't like nicknames? Uh, Nev is a nickname technically. What's your full name?
Speaker A
Navali. Oh, Kore. Yep. Sounds so proper. Vaden. That's what they named me. Yep. I didn't get to pick. I didn't get to say clearly.
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I don't think it's the name my parents gave me, but it is what it is.
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Well, they're dead, right? I assume so. Twins. Yep. Yeah. Orphanage. Damn. at the base of the horn eater peaks.
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Yeah, it was pretty idyllic there. Here. Yeah, till Alith car went and stomped all over it.
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Well, it wasn't like that when I was young. No. Yuck. Yuck. Yeah. Well, Nevz have the knife. Knife knifey. Nev.
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She's going to lead him back down. Yeah, for sure. All right. Do we feel like that's a good enough place to zoom out? All right.
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Olstrom, you are quietly tucking away the last of the aluminum within the basement after having used hacksaw and and uh crucible to melt it all down into bars, into usable material etc. etc. etc.
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when you hear a rapturous series of knocks on the door to the shop. Uh um uh um um Wave, can you go check out and see who that is? Don't say anything, but just go check it out. See who they are.
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And I'm gonna tidy this up uh uh really quick and I'll like try and hide a couple of things down here.
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Lookie lookie in case that happens and um and like slowly go up but like wait for wave to come back and tell me who it is.
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Very short while later wave comes back down. Guards Mhm. They look mad. How many?
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Five. Is anyone else here with me or is uh Yeah. Is uh Alir's here?
Speaker A
Yep. I'll go to Alir and say and tell her um why are there guards at the door? Why are there guards at the door?
Speaker A
I don't know. There's I mean, if if you got a rumor that I was involved with something, then other people did, too.
Speaker A
Okay. Okay. Are you going to answer the door? You should answer the door. Why?
Speaker A
Why? If they're looking for me, why should I answer the door? Because I have learned pretty recently that you are a way better liar than me.
Speaker A
That's not Okay. Um, can you at least I'll open the door. Can you be there with me?
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You see her face like drain and look kind of panic. Yes, it will be easier.
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It It will be harder for them to do something crazy or out of Yes, I'll be there. I'll be there, Welstrom. Okay, then. Um, before I go uh up fully, can I do I have any spheres that are infused?
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Oh, yeah. I want to breathe some in so I have some storm light. Oh, yeah, for sure. Rules as written.
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Rules as written. You are assumed at the beginning of a scene to have full investature.
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Oh, cool. Yeah. So then um unless the GM states otherwise extenduating circumstances that say that you do not have investment at that time, you are considered to helpful.
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So you approach I want to open the door and at the same time as I open the door Yeah.
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make an ill make a um an illumination surge of myself. So the illum the the lightw weaving is what they see.
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Oh I'm behind the door. Okay. Sure. The guards. There is one specific guard uh that is standing in the front that is wearing epolettes, golden patches, the chevrons on the shoulders of a high ranking member of the guard. It is
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an individual that you don't recognize. Or wait, no, it was you. It was you.
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Yeah, it was you and uh it was you and Nali. This is the uh Bright Lord that had walked inside the building to investigate.
Speaker A
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Oh. Um and so this is a guard. Uh okay. Um hi. I wasn't um expecting a a pickup today from the guards. Uh I don't think your order is ready yet.
Speaker A
We didn't order anything. Well, then that must be why it's not ready. We're here to talk to you.
Speaker A
Go on. May we come in? I mean, you said you didn't have business, so I don't know why you would come in. I can step outside.
Speaker A
Is that a no? Yeah. Then please step outside. Um, can I move the the lightning?
Speaker A
Sure can. Sure can. Yeah, if I can like move it to outside. Oh, yeah.
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And then watch from the window inside to see what's going on. I would like a What is it? Is it sneaking? What is it called? Thievery. Stealth. I think it's stealth.
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Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh [ __ ] Oh, great. Uh six. So an area.
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Yeah, there it is. Okay. So for now Yeah, that's perfect. So I'm sorry, what was the what was the result?
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Uh six. Six. Okay. If anyone notices you're unsure, thank you for coming out and speaking with us.
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You are currently under investigation for the crime of uh high larseny on the Devitary of Insight. A tome of some great importance was stolen and by the accounts of several ardent someone matching your description was seen at the scene of the crime.
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I myself saw you leaving the scene so I can corroborate that fact. What do you have to say?
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That that can't be right. That was over at the uh Oh, dang it. What was the bar called?
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Spark Flicker or the Honors Hold? Yeah, the Honors Hold. Honors hold. Yeah, Honors Hold. I was um I was with a couple of my friends at Dler's hold all night.
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We did ask around. Mhm. I can attest that yes, you were seen and claimed to be at Honor's hold for the rest of the evening, but I would be remiss if I did not firmly attest that I did
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see you. at the devitary with one nev. Are you aware that this nev is a criminal element within colonar?
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Do you often collaborate and make companions with known criminals within colonar? Nev? No. She's one of our best customers. What do you mean a criminal?
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That's crazy. Are you claiming that Fabriels cannot be used for any less than savory things?
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What somebody does with something they buy from us is not my problem. You are correct. There is no obligation of guilt put upon the one that sells the knife to the one who plunges it into the back of another. But there is an
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entirely different situation to be seen at the scene of high larseny. You understand that thievery done against the Ardentia is punishable by essentially whatever the high command dictates.
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The guard captain of the city district in which it happened would decide your fate.
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Should you be guilty? How do you know it wasn't an incursion by these so-called singers? Have you not heard what they can do?
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Wouldn't it to be best for them to pretend to be some random people so they can go in and cause chaos?
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You are claiming that there is a singer that is taking your guys and committing felonious acts. Is this what you are claiming?
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From my point of view, that's the only thing that can be true. I find it highly unlikely that a singer would take the form of a man with such distinct features.
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Thick white thin eyebrows. That's exactly they would do. What do you mean? That's exactly what they would do. So that they would pinpoint a specific person.
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Do you have any training at all? This is an easy thought. Are you claiming to be an expert in singer behavior? What do you know about them? Do you have any amongst them?
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It just makes sense. Why wouldn't you do that? Why would you do like if you are going to try and sabotage a large group of people, why would you pretend to be a nobody?
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You really need to think these things through man. Can I get a persuasion? Have you ever Oh.
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Uh 17. 17. When you walked past I will admit that I did something duplicitous in the name of upholding the law.
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If you look on the back of your boot, there will be a stone. It was glued there by me.
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Well, I would say as Craig Alstrom wouldn't know that. So, the illusion he made of himself would not have that know that.
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May I see the back of your boot, sir? Yeah sure. And under the glaring scrutiny of this man, I would actually like you to make a uh deception versus cognitive.
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This is a direct attack actually. You sure it's not illumination? It would be illumination.
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It would absolutely be illumination. Yes. All right. Um I feel like I should raise the stakes. I feel like you should raise the stakes.
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23. Um, and uh the the plot die is blank. You said 23. Mhm. Okay.
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Alstrom is an engineer, detailoriented. The aglets at the end of the bootstrings, the polish that is upon the buttons of his vest, the collar having the same fray that his own did. The length of the eyebrows, the shade of the
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eyes the subtle smudge upon the lens of the goggle. Everything is nighon picture perfect.
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And this fiercely disciplined Bright Lord scrutinizes every square inch of this illumination and then stands back up straight.
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It would seem as if one of two things happened. Either the stone that I placed there has come free or perhaps you are correct and that there has been some sort of framing.
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Rest assured that I will come to whatever that conclusion is in a short period of time.
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I I really appreciate you being thorough with your work. You will appreciate it far less if I come to the conclusion that I believe is true.
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What was your name again? My name is Bright Lord Tossmir. Well, Bright Lord If you need any fan reads or any other things that I can make for you, I would love to do business, but I'm a little busy right now and I need
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to get back to Right. He turns on a heel. He and his guards start walking away.
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And I'll open the door so that the illumination can move in. Uh-huh. So it doesn't just disappear.
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Uh-huh. Uh, and then get get [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] Wave wave. Okay.
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Wave. Can you do me a Just go follow them for like 30 50 feet and see what they say.
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I will follow. And you see him rush onto the ground, dimpling it. I'll I'll cheer. I'll cheer. Oh my god, that was so I was really worried there for a moment.
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Uh uh. You believe me, right? No. I had nothing to do with this. No, not at all.
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I told you. Absolutely not. You don't believe me? Why did he say that he saw you there?
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I don't know. Why is there a Bright Lord Inquisitor coming to our door? I don't know.
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My question is why are our enemies picking on us? Why would they be enemies? Olstrom, who? The singers. What do you mean? The people that are trying to destroy us.
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Yes, those are probably our enemies. Why are they our enemies? If you don't know the answer to that, then I don't think I can give it to you.
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Astrom, I don't feel safe anymore. I the the whole world isn't safe right now.
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I'm not trying to minimize what you feel, but there is not a place that you can go to be safe.
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Do you not hear the rumors even if some even if a few of them are true?
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What if what if we went what what if we went back to the would we would it's just a different type of scared a different type of not being safe.
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They would be home. we would have our family. We came here for opportunity, Alstrom, not not this.
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Yes. And and I don't know if you know this, but war is one of the biggest opportunities for business.
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Not if you're dead. Not if guard captains are knocking at your doors before. I intend to stay alive.
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Yeah. Are you some great warrior, Alstrom? Are you some great warrior now? Do you want me to be I there is more than just physical strength. That is not the only measure of somebody.
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Anybody can go lift weights and swing a sword and kill somebody. Is that what you think defense is? Is that's what you think safety is?
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Alstrom, you are talking down to me. I am scared because I'm scared, too. Why don't you feel the same way I do? What happened? Is it the weird little thing?
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Is he in your head? Yes. Yes. Wave has changed. everything. Yeah, I saw you make the thing. The you.
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The extra you. Mhm. I needed to be safe. Like you just said, there are other ways, okay, to keep people safe than just muscles and swords.
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I intend to use my mind. We are smarter together when we work together. So, I'm sorry that you feel like you don't trust me right now. I am going to work on that and I know it's going to
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take time, but can you please help. I'm not saying with this accusation that I have, but I don't want you running away at the first sign of trouble. You are stronger than that.
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Then I'm going to do the same thing that I have been doing, but I'm going to change it.
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We're going to make fabriels. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. But they're not going to be the dinky little ones that we have been ma making. We're not making span reads anymore Alstrom.
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Yes. Yes. We're going to make more of your weird muck things. What' you call it?
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What did you call them? The the creme reel. Yeah. Yeah, that's the one. We're going to make more of those.
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Mhm. in case we have to run and put a hole in the wall of the city and run out of it.
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That's great. Yes. Using your brains. Thank you. And I want to I want heat fabriels.
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Okay. In case we need to light something on fire. We're going to have to get Yeah, we're going to have to get some an assistant or two, but this will be fine.
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No, we don't. Yeah. No, we're bringing in zero people. Zero of them. We are. Mm-m. No.
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Who then? Who do you trust? I will find people. You'll find people. What? Like Nev the Knife?
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I don't know. I will ask around and before any deal is made, you will talk to them also.
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Is it going to be Berilar again? What? I No, I mean like someone younger that we can teach and learn. No, not Barilar.
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Why not Berilar? What? You got something for him? Yeah, maybe work. That's not what I meant. But he is capable. Alstrom.
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Yeah. Yeah. And he knows people and he's lighteyed. So then I'll I'll ask him if he knows anybody that would like some some work.
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Okay. And talk to FR. Maybe he's got some cousins. He's definitely got cousins. Talk to FRA, too.
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I'll see if uh Fra has any more info on this bright lord. Azes Fra is a good Vore girl and she's about the only person in your little circle of narwells that I actually think might tell me the
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truth if I asked her. So maybe I should ask her about this whole stupid heist thing.
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I think that would be a really good idea actually. Yeah. Okay. Then I'm going to And I'm going to ask Berdalar, too.
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Oh, and I'm going to ask Nev. Okay. Yeah. Are they going to say that it was singers too?
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I don't know. How am I going to know what somebody else is going to say? You know what? Why don't you ask Wave while you're at it?
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Maybe I should. Yeah, please. Wave likes me. I like you, too. Yeah, you're all right.
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At that moment, Wave dimples underneath the door and then shoots up your leg and is like sitting on your face.
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They didn't say anything. It was weird. They walked. That is weird. silently and then I went too far and I started to get dumb.
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So I came back. How far was that? So I know for next time. I don't know.
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Okay. Farther than you can throw away rock. which isn't very far. It's not. Okay. Wave. I think uh Alir has a question for you.
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Wave. What happened? Did Alstrom steal anything from the Devitary? Is my brother a criminal? You need to be honest with me.
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No, we were drinking. He was being naughty, looking at girls, thinking about You weren't supposed to mating.
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Hey, what? No. Oh, you weren't supposed to wait. I told you not to tell anybody.
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It was so embarrassing. She said I needed to be honest. So I I told her you were being bad.
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I understand. That feels weird on my cheek. Yeah, like the vibrations are like pretty unsettling and and you and you can like you know you know just from looking at him that like the dimpling on your face is probably unsettling although you
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can't feel it. It's just a it's just an effect of the geometry of wave.
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Yeah. Okay. So it was singer wave. Do you think it was singers? I don't know.
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I'm not an expert. I am h not smart in that respect. But maybe. Okay. Well, the high storm is coming soon. We should uh probably batten down the hatches and put out our spheres.
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Let's lock up and put our spheres out. Um, can you can you do that?
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Change one thing into another thing. thing again. Can you do that again? Yeah. What What What do you need?
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What can you um What can you do it into? What can you make? Uh, I mean like I can kind of turn like solid things into other solid things.
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I can turn solid things into like liquids and vapors, but that's a lot harder.
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It's like the farther away from like the kind of type it is, the harder it is. But if it's still just like like if I turn like wood to stone, it's like kind of easier than turning like wood into smoke.
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Okay. I want you to try something. Mhm. And she walks upstairs for a moment and then she comes back down.
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Okay. and she pulls out of her pocket a little stone or sorry uh a little wood carving.
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I I need to know if you can turn this into metal like you did with the table.
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Did you make this? I made this. Okay, I can give it a try. Is there a kind of metal you want? Steel.
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Okay. Okay. So, roll transformation for me. Great. Uh cocked. Uh, dirty 20. A dirty 20.
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Mhm. Okay. 18 plus two. This is changing a solid into a solid. Neither of them organic.
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So, this is fairly simple. You touch the wood of the sculpture. It is a little representation of um a sky eel and you feel its essence like a little bead.
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H what? What do you want? I know you're wood right now, but how cool would it be to be steel?
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What do you What's cool? What do you mean? Let me show you. that you show me.
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I have no eyes. How will you show me? I'm going to put some energy into you and you're going to feel a change.
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You're going to feel a bit different, but much of you will be the same.
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I was a stick. We all were a stick at one point. It's okay. Everybody must change.
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Now I'm a a little a little other thing. But I'm still I'm still made out of me.
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Mhm. You still will be you. That does not change. But I'll be made out of something different.
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That sounds different. Different isn't bad. It's just different. Will I be a better stick?
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It will help. Yeah. You will be one of the best sticks ever. How? Tell me how.
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You know how sticks are really easy to break? You're going to be very hard to break.
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Sometimes sticks need to break. sometimes, but not this time. Not this kind. Will I be able to break if I need to?
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Yeah. Can I still become hot to to warm people? Well, your relationship to fire will be slightly different.
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Okay. Will I return to Roshar? Yeah, I don't think you are leaving. Okay, turn me into something new.
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And he like breathes out the storm light and as it washes over the figurine, it like transforms from wood into steel.
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Alir looks at it. Okay. So let's say we make an entire fabriel out of wood carved in delicate ways that steel can't be.
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Minute tiny details that we work in hours instead of days. No welding, no heat.
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And then you can change the entirety of it to metal. Sounds awesome. That's so How did I not think of that?
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Wait. Okay. So, but like what kind of Fabriels? So, like you're talking about like the the housing and stuff, not the gems and not the spread, but just like the thing that it contains those things. Okay.
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Okay. You know. Yeah. how you have all of your drawings and blueprints downstairs on the walls.
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Mhm. I've been down there while you were away. I know you're working. I mean, it's it's our work room.
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I know you're working on something that can fly. I I I think I can help you.
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I would like that very much. I think we need to dig out a very very very large cave underneath colonar though if I'm right.
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We need space. The space. Okay. We need open empty space and lots of it. So, oh, should we just dig another basement?
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I mean, not dig, but like I think that you can start turning our basement into something useful and expand it.
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Dude, remember earlier when I was talking about us being smarter together? This is what the [ __ ] I was talking about. Yes. Well, you've been lying to me and been have been kind of a [ __ ]
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the entire time, Alstrom. So, maybe if you were a little more honest with me and vulnerable, then I would take you a bit more seriously and we can start working on things together. But instead, you have to be so subversive.
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I know you've been hiding things your entire life, but from your sister. It is one of the easiest and most hardest things for me to do.
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Well, learn how to do it. Life is hard. You said that we're going to be at war.
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Well, killing people and and and helping out war efforts and creating machines of destruction are a hell of a lot harder than saying the truth to your sister.
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You're right. You are absolutely right. I am going to do my best to tell you the truth about what's going on.
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I may not always be able to give you the truth right away, but in that case, I will let you know because it'll probably be better that you don't know.
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I would even I would even appreciate that even if you said, "I can't tell you the truth, Alir, because it's dangerous.
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I because I know that this is a wild concept to you goggles. I trust you.
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Which is why I've even let this stupid charade go on. Which which is why I've accepted you as something other than a raving heretic with a friend made out of geometry crawling up your face. Why I have not bulked at the fact that there
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are guard captains at our door. Because I trust you. Because I love you. Because I think you're amazing.
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You're not treating me the same. We're supposed to be equals. We came here together. You think you got because you got this stupid little I don't mean that. I don't mean you're nice. I I You're You're fine. Just because you
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have him, you think you're special. I think Olst like starts tearing up and just pulls her into a big hug.
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Oh, you sappy [ __ ] And then like grabs you and hugs you firm.
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It's okay. It's going to be okay. You are, I'm sure, doing your best. I don't know sometimes.
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But I am thankful and grateful for you as my sister to be the one to kick me in the ass and not one of those guards.
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Well, yeah, they would throw you in the dungeon forever. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what to say to that. All I can say is that like Yeah, I heard you.
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Just like a little bit of gravity. Just a just a crumb of gravity to the situation. You're so nonchalant about everything, Alstrom. Okay, let's go downstairs. I Let's go put some pens to paper.
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Hold on. Did you really call Nev the Knight? Is that like a nickname or something? I've heard that one before.
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Yeah, I've done a little bit of digging um because I thought that you were getting into quite literally a criminal organization. I thought you had joined some sort of like duplicitus league of assassins and and thieves for, you know,
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a little while because you've been lying to me horribly. And so I went and I asked around and yes, it seems like people know Nev the Knife even in well, at least in the theater district.
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So well, I got to tell her that nickname. She is going to find it hilarious.
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Okay, let's uh Yeah, let's go start working and figure out what we can do. Start setting up some plans.
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I'd like that. I'd like that. And yeah, Nev is if you're not in a horrifying League of Assassins, then maybe Nev is not bad or as bad and I can trust you to know.
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You know, nobody is so far gone. they cannot be brought back to the life. Just because somebody has to do some bad things for a while because of the situation they're in does not mean that they're a bad person.
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Okay. Bad good people do bad things too. They feel bad about it and know they did bad things and try to make up for it.
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like bear. Yeah, kind of. He's not the bad guy, but he does bad things.
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All right. Helping people is bad. I've just heard rumors. Lots of rumors going around lately. You heard rumors of me robbing a place and being in a League of Assassins, and that sounds crazy. No, I made up the League
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of Assassins thing because I was filled with anxiety. I probably would have done the same thing, right? Okay, let's go downstairs. High storm's coming. Might as well be productive.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'll bring some sandwiches. Oh, yes. My gosh. And and can you make some can you fry some oil and make some chowder chips?
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Nice. Uh you did mute suddenly there. Yes, you. Yeah. Try talking again. Hello. Can you hear me now?
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Yeah, you're all good. You're all good now. Uh regardless, I think it was I talked quietly.
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Yeah, that's probably what it is. Uh we are going to zoom back out, folks. Mhm.
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That's it for the day. Thank you so much for coming along on this high storm adventure this evening uh full of danger and uh revelations and an incredible amount of tense emotional scenes.
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We are going to first of all uh find somebody to raid out to. Uh let's see.
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Um, we're going to take a very quick look and see if there is. If only T pay had his dang raids on. We could check.
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Dorktails is Dorktails is playing Hunter. We love Hunter. Rhino Rhino Snacks is playing video games, but it looks like a it looks like a fun group.
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in case you haven't been here the whole time. Yes, you can. The last episode, I'm going to have to I'm going to have to catch up on the last episode. I had storage issues on my computer. I got to
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clear up some stuff. So, that that's on me. I got I got to I got to I got to clear up a couple of things. Uh, and then we'll and then we'll get after it.
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But, yeah. Um, we'll uh we'll we'll talk to y'all super soon. We'll see you on Saturday for Sanguin Dominion, our Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle. And we'll see you next Tuesday for the penultimate episode of the season of The
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Last Ideal. Catch you all in the flip-flop. Cool. Give us a 10-second countdown and then we will uh we'll raid out to V to to Dort Tales. Yeah, everybody. Uh Sparkle Sparkle Fingers.
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Sparkle fingers. Saturdays are for vampires. Don't forget it. Uh and Tuesdays are for radiance. All right. later.
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