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The wheels have shifted in Alkar. Once Kolinar Shore, a beacon of pride and glory.
A Cosmere RPG chronicle set in Kolinar, exploring secrets, highstorms, and a mysterious cipher after a tense confrontation.
Key Takeaways
- Kolinar is under siege by a catastrophic highstorm, shaping the story's atmosphere.
- Navali plays a central role in uncovering hidden secrets and confronting past betrayals.
- The cipher found suggests a complex underground communication system within the city.
- The world-building integrates unique magical and cultural elements from the Cosmere universe.
- The narrative balances character-driven drama with immersive environmental storytelling.
What the video covers
- The story is set in Kolinar, capital of Alithkar, amidst a devastating highstorm.
- Four main characters with distinct backgrounds and motivations navigate a city filled with secrets and cult whispers.
- Navali, formerly known as Cutter, investigates the aftermath of Qatar's death and explores his hidden quarters.
- The highstorm is described as a powerful, destructive force unique to the world of Roshar.
- Navali discovers a cipher in a lockbox, indicating secret communication networks in Kolinar.
- The lockbox also contains valuable items including a pouch of spheres, a mysterious silver dagger, and a dark span read.
- The narrative includes references to the Stormlight Archives lore and world-building elements like soulcasting and Light Eyes.
- The transcript reveals tension, mystery, and the ongoing struggle of the characters against both external and internal threats.
- The video features roleplay elements and character interactions, focusing on uncovering hidden truths.
- The setting includes detailed descriptions of the environment and cultural artifacts like maps and tapestries from Shinovar.
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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 Vorin 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 would speak the last eye to you.
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Hi everyone. How are you this evening? It is good to see you. We come to you off the back of a rather intense end of last session.
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It was our own Navali that needed to confront a particular individual. But we soldier on, and in the face of saying the words of radiance, in the face of discovering and confronting many different truths about each of our many cast members, here
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we are going to continue on this evening with that sort of cliffhanger moment that Navali was having.
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What was going to happen in the aftermath of the death of Qatar? It is. Let me tell the people at home, for those of you that are unfamiliar with the Stormlight Archives and the world of Roshar, right now the capital city of Alithkar
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is in the midst of what is called a highstorm. Now for many people, some of our own cast, you have experienced incredible weather, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons.
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Now, a highstorm is the highest category of hurricane that you can imagine. A storm wall so visceral and so thick that you could be two miles away and feel rough winds, incredible rain, and then when that wall
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hits you, it flays skin from bone. The raindrops slice like knives, and the wind can at its apex throw around literal boulders, ridiculous shelves of stone, tearing down infrastructure.
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These storms go from east to west. Every building that has stood any real test of time upon Roshar is incredibly fortified on the eastern side or is built in the shelter of mountains and hills that create natural breaks for these
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highstorms. Now, Kolinar, the city that is the capital of Alithkar, the nation that our company finds themselves in, is in the midst of one, rain battering against roofs and walls and windows.
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And it is there we are going to zoom in amidst the sounds of whipping winds, destructive thunder, strikes of lightning.
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We are underneath the street of Kolinar within a hollowed-out section of the city. Not a cistern, not a sewer, no natural formation.
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These are very squared stone enclosures that have been built by soulcasters, turning stone to grain.
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This is the hideout of Navali, formerly Cutter, and the home of what has been dubbed the network, a group of individuals, mostly children, pre-teens and teens, that are truly the closest thing to a thieving guild that we have seen.
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So, Nav, you stand in front of a door that you have never been behind for fear that the dweller would serve out rather violent retribution for you snooping through its environs. And that is the home of Qatar, his personal abode.
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So as you stand facing this door, which has represented so very much a barrier to yourself that you would not overcome,
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you recognize that Cutter is dead, and at your hand. And that any secrets that cannot be revealed by this room will likely be dead as he is.
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I test the doorknob. Is it open? Cutter is a bastard. He lived as one, and just as you presumed, he died as one. This door has a rather complicated lock upon it.
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And it will take you some time to get it open, but he's the one that taught you.
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He's the one that taught you that there are trap pins and that you can force locks open using a dummy key.
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That a lock does exactly one thing, and that is keep honest people out of places that they shouldn't be.
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But neither of you are honest, and this door is not any permanent obstacle. So before long, your expertise in thievery unless his body had the key.
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Oh, most certainly not. You can only imagine that it would be hid somewhere surreptitious where he would retrieve it each time so that no one could pickpocket something that would lead into his most inner sanctum because Cutter was a bastard.
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Yep. When I open the door, what does it look like inside? Is a rather Spartan environ.
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There is a bed which is slightly more plush than the bedding that you and the children would sleep upon, using actual down feathers from chickens.
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The walls have some sparse actual art upon them. Stylized maps of Kolinar, a painting of the palace, and a few small tapestries, perhaps the size of a small carpet, that have been hung up at bare
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what appears to be grasslands from the fabled country of Shinovar, something that you recognize from teachings when you were at the orphanage or perhaps just from the different pieces of art and descriptors that you have heard and seen in the markets.
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Mhm. There is a desk made from hardwood that seems to have been even at a glance soulcast out of some other material. Wood is usually what has been soulcast into other materials. But it seems as if this was chiseled stone turned to wood.
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So, you see a small lockbox that sits underneath the desk, and you also see a small dining area, a stove that has a heat fabrial that sits underneath it, some dining implements, and a small shelf with foodstuffs sitting upon it.
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Everything else seems tucked away either within the desk or in the lockbox. I think Nav is going to pick up the lockbox and set it on top of the desk.
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She's going to sit down in his chair and start opening drawers. I'm looking for hidden things. False bottom taped to the lid kind of things.
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The lockbox is quite simple. If you had to guess, you would say that Cutter was almost daring someone to come in here and go through his things, go through his possessions. These are very simple methods of keeping your
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possessions safe. You see that it has a small padlock on it that unlatches fairly simply. You could likely pop a dagger into the actual clasp and twist hard enough to have it reveal its contents.
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Yeah, I'll do it. And there's nothing in the desk either. I'm getting to the lockbox first. Yeah. Um, got it.
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You open up the lockbox and on the interior of the lid is, well, a sheath of paper that has been gummed to the interior of it.
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It has what can really only be described as a cipher. There are words in Aleth or sorry letters in Aleth that correspond to symbols in either a language or a symbol system that you don't understand.
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They don't seem reminiscent of anything that you've seen before, but it is very clearly a secret message system, some sort of cryptographic method of communicating between whomever and whomever.
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You can't recognize the symbols as words right now. However, you do know that you've seen these symbols around Kolinar.
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They have been on buildings, mostly businesses. They have been on Light Eyes holdings. They have been on the walls of the palace.
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This is clearly a way for different folks to communicate. So the other possessions that are inside of this lockbox, there is a pouch of spheres.
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Works out to be about 80 marks. There is a dagger. That dagger is made out of a metal that you do not recognize. It is not steel. It is not iron. It is not even bronze.
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It seems to be made out of a very silver material. You think that it might even be silver itself, polished to what seems to be almost a mirror finish.
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And besides that, there is a span read. Okay. Is the span read dark right now?
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The span read is dark. Okay. I tuck everything into the box. But I'm definitely going to be taking it with me.
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Yeah. Um, and
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Uh, Nev doesn't Nev isn't really one for talking very much. I've kind of hinted at it, but they've historically had difficulty talking.
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um because of an old injury. Uh so if Jez is there, uh she's not saying anything to him, but she's going to just start methodically going through. Okay, let me go through the drawers, check the bed, check for hidden things like
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stuff behind bricks in the wall, uh underneath furniture, etc. You start going through the desk and you're looking for false bottoms.
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You're looking for hidden compartments. And you find it rather swiftly. You start knocking on things. And in the top drawer on the right hand side of the desk, which contains two drawers, there is a bundle.
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Inside of that little cloth bundle, there is a fairly large uh amount of black leaves.
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Do I recognize these? I think uh h What are your cultural expertises? Oh boy. Um really just a Lethy Ben.
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I think that I will allow a lore roll for this. I'll try. Okay, that's actually not bad. Uh what's my lore plus two? Uh total of 18.
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With a total of 18, it is fairly obvious that these are black bane leaves.
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It is a virulent poison, one that will essentially shut down the nervous system and uh cause death in a very short period of time in whoever ingests either the raw leaves or a tincture of the concoction of the or of the leaves
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themselves. Other than that within this hidden desk is or this hidden portion of the desk is a ledger.
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Okay. It is written in plain. It is a collection of credits and debits from a gambling house here in Colonar.
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explains so much. The book goes on to detail that Cutter is in fairly deep with some of the agents uh within this gambling house.
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The gambling house being the uh red swallower. Red swallower. the red swallower, which is a uh deep sea uh bottom feeding animal of some sort that lives uh along the north coast of Alfar.
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The book goes on to detail that Cutter was in a pretty significant amount of debt, that he was working as a bookie, and that he had run several successful uh collection schemes. Um, some of which you recognize, things that I did for him. You have been
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clandestinely robbing and extorting people that cutter either owed money to directly or who would owe money to the gambling hall.
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So not dreer jobs at all. These are not dreer jobs. There is a fairly uh there is a fairly obvious name that is attached to the ownership of this hall and that is a man named Rave.
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Rave. Rave. Do I know that name? You do not know that name. Okay. But these don't match up to all the jobs I've done for Cutter, do they?
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No, not anywhere close. You just recognize a couple of names and a couple of locations. Uh there has been a few back alley uh sort of there have been popup card games.
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There have been pop-up dice games that have been done in certain locations that you have watched from afar and then robbed the people that have come out of these games.
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Yeah, Cutter has a fairly long list here of crimes against his own word. You don't work for people outside of the Dreer, right? Rave, as far as you know, is not of the Dreer.
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It's not true. And if he is, then you should probably have words with him because now Cutter is dead.
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And in all likelihood, the debt would fall on whoever else is in the dreer, and that means you.
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He made a fairly strong suggestion that the well, it was a threat that the children and you would be in deep trouble if he died. That there were plans in place that you wouldn't be safe.
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And it looks like you have realized why. How much debt is he in? Was he in?
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You spend a little bit of time and tally up everything that is at least within this ledger and it seems to be right around a thousand marks.
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Uh okay. Is there anything anywhere that would indicate that these people have any idea who Nev is or the kids are or anything that is in all likelihood uh a that is an answer that you cannot glean from
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uh it doesn't talk about the it doesn't yet even slightly talk about the uh you know the home of the Dreer. It doesn't he doesn't write any of those things down. Um however uh leaders of gambling halls uh and people that cutter
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would associate with. I mean, if you if you were in the shoes of someone who owed you uh a a thousand marks and you knew that they were a part of an organized crime uh collective, would you have them followed? Would you press them
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for answers? Would you make threats? Cutter doesn't associate with good people. And you can't imagine anyone that he would operate with on a fairly regular basis would well have enough goodness in their heart to leave well enough alone.
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Oh, this is so much worse than I thought. Okay. Is there is that it for the desk?
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The lower portion of the desk contains no a small journal. Oh, a personal journal.
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It is locked. And you pop it open. And inside there is a very long and storied series of entries going back to a little bit before you joined the Dreer.
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It is essentially the journaling of a man who believes that he can shape up a community, that he can create something that is better, that the underworld of Colonar is a seedy hotbed of death and horror for the children and for the
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destitute dark eyes. And slowly that dissolves, turns into anger, frustration, raving notes about light eyes, speaking about drug addiction, how he's dabbled in fire moss and alcohol, and that at the very And he was writing about fear.
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Fear that he had hurt you too much. You see an entry about him striking one of the children.
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The first entry about it speaks about he's happy that he did it and that he might be able to reclaim some independence and agency back in this thing that he created.
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And then several tear stained pages later speaks about how he wishes it didn't have to be this way and that now he's dug his own grave that no matter what he does he won't be able to dig his way out.
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And then you read the very last entry and all it says is I need to kill the only thing that I could have ever called family and I'm scared it's going to feel good when I do it.
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I think Nev sits there for a long time reading entry after entry just morbidly wondering what could have gone through his mind at any given time. He never opened up to her or any of the kids. He never gave
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her more information than was absolutely necessary for any given job about himself or anything.
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And I think at the end, uh, even though Nev had strangely neatly piled things on top of the desk before looking anywhere else or doing anything else, you just see her just absolutely wrecking this entire room, the furniture, the decor, the
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paintings, the every shred of any piece of him just she just tears it down. She tears it apart screaming and crying and louder than she's ever been in her life.
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And despite the overwhelming amount of pain that she is in, she realizes that it's not physical anymore.
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and she looks into the mirror that she is just smashed and she doesn't have a scar anymore and her jaw doesn't hurt.
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For the first time in four years, she looks the way she did 5 years ago.
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Is there anything else she finds in the midst of all this destruction? as you rip down the tapestry of the palace.
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You see a small readout of false stones. I think she's thinking to herself, what else could it possibly be in this storming room?
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Yeah, I'm just going to I'm just going to tear the bricks out. Like, I'm sick of finding more things inside of this small readout.
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is what Navali could really only describe as a Fabriel. There is a gauntlet that has a slender piece of metal that protrudes from the back of the gauntlet up to the elbow.
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And there is a small hand hold upon that slender piece of metal for the off hand to hold onto.
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It is set with a rather large sapphire in the palm. It is reinforced all throughout the wrist, fingers, and along the base of the forearm, the lower side.
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And as you're marveling at it and looking, sitting in the aftermath of this ruined chamber, uh, you hear on your shoulder and the tiniest amount of pressure, Jez, how you feeling, kid?
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Is it good? I don't understand what this is. No, I meant more like emotionally.
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She just kind of like she doesn't look at him. Uh cuz I think she's still like very tear stained, redfaced, heartbeat, probably way higher than normal, which is already pretty bad for Nev.
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How do you think I feel? Pretty mad. Pretty sad. Standing in the middle of this room where all the wood is splintered and the bed is torn apart. So there's feathers everywhere and he needed to die.
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Oh, for sure. Yeah. know he had to go. I'd kill him again right now if I could.
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Well, I mean, he was a dictator. Whether or not he wanted to be benevolent or, you know, create something better, he didn't. He went down a really dark path. He was going to hurt you and the kids.
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And I know Voron tradition would tell you, you know, turn aside, try to let him be better and allow the judgment of the Ardans, yada yada. but he's, you know, spent a lot of years at the side of a
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lot of warriors and there's a lot of people uh there have been a lot of people that would tell you, well, you can't be the executioner for all the things that are bad in this world.
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And I think those people haven't seen how bad things can really get. They have no idea.
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So, as long as it's in the interest of protecting people that can't do it themselves and folks that are truly innocent, I just don't want you to feel bad about this cuz I kind of pushed you to do it.
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But I think we both know we had it coming. No, Jazz. I was thinking about this before I knew you were even here.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about this for years. Okay. Not just you. Well, you did really good.
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Then why doesn't it feel good? Because grief is a complicated thing and you don't have to feel good right now.
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What you need to do is be strong enough for the community that you've built and help people that need it.
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And I'm not good at lying, so I'm not going to there's going to be more killing.
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Cutter's just the first. And I think the sooner that we overcome, she looks at Jez now like Cutter was not the first.
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Okay. Regardless, the world doesn't need another killer. No. No. It just needs a protector. And protection sometimes means often times means hurt.
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Yes. I know. I also don't think I've ever seen anyone grit their teeth through 9 in of steel slipping between their ribs. That's wild.
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What? Me? I look down at my shirt, which has like a hole in it from getting stabbed.
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No, the other person that had a dagger thrown through their abdomen in front of me today. Yeah, you.
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It didn't actually hurt that bad, surprisingly. We can unpack that later. She just shrugs. I'm just being honest.
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Okay. Um, it doesn't matter. It doesn't. She's gonna start picking up the things that she retrieved and the Fabriel and put them all in a in I guess her bag. Uh, she she's keeping these things.
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Yeah. The journal, too. Okay. Well, do you want to you want to go hang out with your friends?
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I think uh just at this this strange amount of levity and attempt to cheer her up, which is something she does not experience ever is just like, yeah, I guess I guess that beats standing here, doesn't it? Um
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get to make you a sandwich. You're probably hungry. Yeah. Yeah, I could I could probably um Carter's body's gone. That's taken care of. Farren's taking care of the kids.
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It's, you know, um I'm sure everybody else is going through it, too. And you got you got that note, so that's, you know, the next step.
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The note. She completely forgot. She like face palms. Yeah. I have to go talk to the bright lord ton of air.
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You you know you don't have to do that in front of me. Yeah. He's I don't like him either.
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There's something different about him. I'm not sure what, but I think he's crazy. It's not good. No.
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Yeah. I think I think he's I think he's a crazy person. Well, maybe we need to go talk to our friends about how crazy it is because she holds up the letter and kind of shakes it a little bit.
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I probably shouldn't do this alone. Oh, definitely not. No. No. Most certainly not. If nothing else, you need Olstrm.
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Why? Cuz you can't fight on an empty stomach. I think she actually laughs. She actually laughs out loud. You're right.
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Thanks, Jez. Now, I I know you're probably really excited, but we shouldn't fly over there.
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Oh yeah, we probably can't do that without being seen, right? Well, and everyone already looks down on you because of your because of the silly gender roles on this in this dumb era.
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But you also would be seen as a heretic because everyone in this city uh seems to be attached to some sort of notion that we're all heretics now uh because of the recreight everybody on an empty stomach when without Stormlight.
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Okay, I hear you. I hear you. Let's go. Yeah. Okay. I don't want to stay in here anyway.
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She's gonna scoot because it's probably This is probably by all the time reading and tearing everything apart, the storm's probably over. They only last a few hours in any given area. So, oh yeah, for sure. The storm goes by
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like super fast. So, um yeah, we'll zoom out from there. And my question is where would Nev try to gather everyone?
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Um well I think I think Nev is a little wary of Alir because uh clearly she's not down with what we're doing. Uh so sparks flicker.
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I have to talk to people anyway and little hair does. Okay. So, it's good to show up there.
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You arrive at the spark flicker. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to trundle us along just a little bit here.
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Yeah, please. Uh Berdilar would be there first after Nev uh gets in contact. That feels about right.
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Fanial would be there. a short time after prompt but not rushing and Alstrom's late uh because Alstrom is late. Uh Wave gets him caught up in some sort of equation uh in the in the in the basement that leads literally nowhere
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and then you need to rush out the door. Um, and as you sit in the basement of the spark flicker, Bear, can you remind me again because I cannot seem to find it within the uh within the note that I have here. I
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don't think I actually took down her name. What? Verdonna. Verdonna. Verdonna. Verdonna. Verdana. Verda. Verdonna. Gotcha. Gotcha. I have I have this big NPC naming and pronunciation guide and I did not actually um write her name down. So,
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Verdonna. Fantastic. So, Verdonna sets you up downstairs in your typical seating area. Um, but she does just before anything gets really popped off or anything like that, she puts a um a bowl of uh you know, crushed uh crushed uh beans of some
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sort, garlic and uh salt, an approximation of hummus, and um some lavasine wraps on the table and then taps Berdilar on the shoulder and asks Hey, Goncho. Could I could I speak to you uh upstairs real quick? Quick like
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just just real quick. Oh, um sure. Yeah. Okay. I'll I'll be right back. You are taken upstairs just in front of the bar. Uh there's a few sparse customers uh as usually in the mid-after afternoon.
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What is this going to be? a regular thing. No, I mean it doesn't have to be.
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No, it's fine. But but I like I'd like to know, right? Cuz like you're showing up here pretty often and then I keep hearing all this mucky muck about you and yours being mixed up with like and then she leans in like a thie and
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all. Right. Right. So, and when I hear that, it makes me think, well, little Herdazz is going to, you know, prosper and like like, you know, be law is a good man and it must be for a good reason. And I don't
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question it too much, but if I have to start, you know, crafting alibis and making excuses and like should I make like a hidden room, like, you know what I mean? There's a lot of like moving parts here for me if you's going to be
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here and you're sort of in the muck when it comes to the different things going on here. So, is this is this what we talking about?
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Or is this going to be a regular thing? And before you get started on this, like, well, I don't want to intrude and I don't want to blah blah and I don't want to inconvenience you. Shut up because
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I've sort of already squirled away a little bit of time to make the accommodations because I stole and hate some of the people that he's going up against. And I've got my own sort of agenda to have like some
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dangerous folk hanging around, right? Yeah. Um, yeah. Okay. Um, yeah. Wow. Okay. I did not think that that's what we were going to be talking about.
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Sure. Yeah. No, let's let's say yes. Be all right. What' you think we was going to be talking about?
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I had no idea. Maybe like I thought maybe you were going to give me another like don't be a bad boy. Go see your family.
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Well, I mean go see your family and also like quit being a bad boy. But if he's going to be a bad boy, I think you should probably do it intelligently because you're kind of just showing up here with like the face of a lot of like
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the organized crime within the city and like you know a military officer and also I mean Olstrom I mean he is yeah he's probably the worst of all to be seen around you know that's what I'm in.
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Okay. Yeah, let's do it. I'll be a better bad boy. All right. Well, if you're going to Cuz if you're going to be bad, you might as well be the baddest, right?
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I guess so. All right. Well, fantastic. All right. So, I'm going to I'm going to set up like a little secret room downstairs. I'm going to wall something off. All right.
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And then you can start having your little meetings in there instead of in, you know, my freaking sandwich closet.
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And then uh and then I'm going to make a little tunnel out for y'alls in case things go sideways. I'm going to reinforce the door so that if people are trying to come in, then I'm going to be able to
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just kick the door in. And then um I'll keep some weapons on hand just in case things go a little sideways. Um, you ain't never heard of the uh, you know, chill riders, right? You ever heard about that? You didn't serve, did
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you? No. No. No. All right. Okay. Well, I'll tell you this right now, and this is no secret. I don't care who who hears this one. ALF car has on more than one occasion been an aggressor within the
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territory of Herdazz right and I know our little you know strip of muk isn't exactly the most glorious thing on the entire planet but it's home and we do you know the best we got I served for a non
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ins not ins insignificant amount of time with the troll riders riders We saw fought against the standard army of Alvar on more than one occasion and thus okay um I recognize uh some of the uh losers that populate the gods here in Colin.
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Oh, you catch what I'm saying? I think so. Yeah. Well, so we's gonna we's going to talk and you know me and the boys here in in you know spark figure sort of if things go down between you and the
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guard, let's just say that we ain't afraid to to clean up and I think it'd be seen as a little bit of retribution, right? So, I see what you're doing.
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I'm glad somebody does cuz I don't know. Well, there's good ones all over, right?
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There's good ones. There's, you know, everybody say like there, you know, the guys keep us safe and yada, but I say AAB. You know what I'm saying?
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I hear you. Okay. Okay. You know how to fight, Bear? Yeah. Show me sometime.
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Okay. All right. We can do that. I'll keep an eye out for you. Uh and tonight specifically, uh drinks and food are on the house.
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Thank you. Yeah. All right. I've got um some important things to discuss. So well uh give him no thank you.
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I'm going to I'm going to head but thank you. She hands you a uh wooden platter. uh filled with little creme cup uh uh drinks in in glasses. Um you smell the smell uh coming off of them. Sweet and
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and spiced. Uh you can very much smell those like spicy herdazzian um you know uh the different peppercorns and and such. She made a pretty a pretty specific set of drinks for you uh this evening.
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Okay. side and I'll take you back to the table downstairs. Ne's eating like she's never eaten before. While you're when you come down.
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That was crazy. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. Mid bite of of flatbread. Huh. I mean, I think I think Vana is going to build us like a secret meeting room or something.
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Uh, that's pretty awesome actually. And bring on like ex-military for protection. Not a letter. No, I mean her dad's voice, you know.
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Okay. Well, that's great, right? Sure. Around and everybody. That seems good, I think. Right.
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I would say that's good. So, do we do we need a a secret meeting room? Are we planning to do more things?
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That is why I called all of you. So, you're muted, Craig. Oh, Craig, you're muted. Sorry.
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Are you saying you never wanted a secret clubhouse? No, I No, I just I didn't know why you called us here.
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And I I was happy to be called here cuz there's things I want to talk to you all about but yeah.
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Uh I mean Nev puts some stuff on the table, just like a bag. I have a few things to show you all, but yeah, we should talk.
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Me, too. um first here and she's gonna pass to you bear a really perfectly folded scarf. Um I took your scarf home and I just want to say thank you. Uh and I did wash it. It's not the same color that it
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was when you gave it to me. Um yeah. No, that's You know what? Keep it. It's yours now.
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Okay. and she's gonna put it back into her first. I mean, to answer your question, Fah, I amum I think some bad stuff is about to it's about to go down no matter where you are. No matter who you are. And I
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would much rather face it because I'm going to one way or the other. You know, I'm not going to I'm not going to walk away. Not now.
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But I would rather face it with people I trust. It It does. I was thinking it does feel a little bit like we're connected somehow from the things we've seen and the things I want to tell you about. But I
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don't think anyone else would understand. So I Yeah, Nev, I was happy to hear from you.
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I think we're all having the same realization here that we're kind of in it now.
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Um, these invisible strings that connect us uh do not cut easily. No. But we've already proven we can work fairly well together, so that counts for something. We survived our first job.
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That's more than a lot of people can say. Yeah, about that. Uh, Nev, do you remember I had this guard stopped by my place and said that he saw me at the devotey that day?
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What did he look like? Was it Was it Bright Lord Tasmir? Yes. Um, yeah. Um, yeah, I'll describe Bright Lord Tasmir to them.
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That's the man with the That's the man with the Emiraldry, right? Yeah. Yes, exactly.
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We were leaving. I was able to bend them off and distract them for a bit but they are definitely looking in my direction. I was able to fool them. He tried to plant some sort of stone on me.
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Oh in that brief time is like checking her boots. How did Do I have a stone?
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No. Please say no. Okay. I was going to say I normally clean my boots to make sure I'm not tracking anything. Okay.
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Definitely not. Um Okay. How are you not taken in? Ah, come on. What did you tell?
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He lied. He lied. He made You lied. He made a big illusion. An illumination of himself and it didn't have the rock.
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And then he lied like the fire. But a person. Yes. Yes. Mhm. Uh, I think as you guys are having this conversation, you realize Nev does not have a scar on her face.
Speaker A
Okay. Well, cool. Can you do more of that to disguise yourself when we're on jobs?
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Can you disguise us? Oh, I can probably do myself. I disguise someone else. I might need practice.
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But I could I could disguise myself. Yeah. Well, good. Can I like breathe out some storm light and like um make an an illusion of Nev and just like turn myself into Nev for a moment?
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Yes, that is quite literally not a problem. How does this look? Is this is How is this?
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This is amazing. You That's actually I will I will also release some Stormlight and make myself look like Astramm.
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I think it looks okay, but I think it could be better. That's really good. Wow.
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Is Jez in the room with us right now? Uh Jez is on your shoulder, but uh it doesn't seem to be visible to anyone else. Uh, can I do that?
Speaker A
What? No, no, no, no. You You can You can fly and stick things to other things.
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You I It's And it's a little bit more than that. Uh, you want to God, is this a Is this a showoff thing? Is this like You want to show off thing?
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No, I don't want to show off. No, it's No. Do you It's okay. It's okay. Being proud isn't a sin.
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Yeah, I guess it's not a bad thing, is it? No, it really isn't. I'm going to breathe in storm light.
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Okay. What do you do? Uh I think uh well I think I'm going to uh stand up from the table cuz I don't want to knock all our food over and I'm going to float a little bit and I'm
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glowing. I can fly now. So that's pretty That is so cool. Wait wait wait wait wait.
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This is brand new. Uh yeah. It just happened like earlier today. Well, that's just unfair.
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She'll set that down. She illusion falls and the bear looks pissed. Like, he looks so mad.
Speaker A
Why are you mad? I'm not mad. What? I don't know. Why do you think I'm mad?
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I'm not mad. Uh the the sort of Oh, no. foggy uh uh refractory form of Tila uh appears and says he's mad because he he wants to be able to fly. That's that's what it is. Flying's really cool. It's
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very cool and he's probably a little upset about it. Just make an illusion that you're flying.
Speaker A
It's not the same thing. But if people perceive it as you flying, then that's kind of the same thing.
Speaker A
That is not how the truth works, Alstrom. I would say I'm sorry, except you know, it would be cool to see the future. So, you know, your power.
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Oh, well, I do. Oh, that is I don't know. I don't know. Uh anywhere.
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So Fra, what are you going to do? You thing. Yeah. Well, I I don't know.
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You all you all had things to share, right? She's going to look a little uncomfortable.
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Oh, okay. Um Yes. And Nev is going to pull out uh the letter. Uh, I got this. I'm not sure when I got this.
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Um, it was stolen from me. So, it might be a few days late that I'm showing you this because I didn't know about it until today.
Speaker A
She's just going to set it down. Ton of air wants to talk. And does it have that same symbol that you showed me before?
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Yep. Um, what does it say? Also, uh, well, um, remember the woman that he mentioned we should meet?
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He wants us to meet her. I think the one that's supposed to help the city right?
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them nods. Yeah. Um, and I Please don't ask me how I got this. I don't want to talk about it. And she puts the Fabriel on the table. Astrom, can you look at this for me?
Speaker A
Whoa. What do we have here? Yes. I I don't know what it is or what it does.
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It belonged to someone I used to know. Can you describe it for me again?
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Uh, it's like a gauntlet, large sapphire in the palm. Uh, reinforced as though to go up to your like elbow.
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Um, and you said there was like a like a metal bar coming off of it, right?
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Yes. It is a so to describe it, it is a metal gauntlet reinforced uh with a metal bar, a slender metal bar uh going from the wrist to the uh elbow.
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And then there is a reinforcing bar going from the wrist on the bottom to the interior of the elbow.
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Uh, can I Yeah. Can I make some sort of check to figure out what it is?
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Hit me with a crafting. Okay. Would be silly to just put this on, but I was afraid to do that.
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Oh, hey, that's a nat 20 for a total of 27. Nice. Oh so you're looking at the activation method of this uh of the gauntlet and you're seeing a rather intricate piece of machinery.
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This has everything to do with gravity. You are uncertain the exact mechanics of it, but you know that there is a partner device somewhere, some place that when this is activated, it is going to launch you in a direction.
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Um, are you sure this was it's the only part of it? Cuz I think this is this seems very complicated for it to be just this one item.
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Well, it was all I found. Mhm. And I can't go back to where I found it.
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Okay, that's fair. Um, but I think actually Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I think um I I this is so funny because we were just talking about flying, but this might let you like if not hover for it. It will move you
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like definitely it will move you. But if that direction is up then you would technically be kind of flying.
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But if it moves you down uh almost said storyteller game master. Uh um does this does this gauntlet thing look anything like the dagger I found?
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Do they look like they go together at all? Okay, never mind. I'm I'm going to keep that thing to myself then for now.
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Mhm. Um I Yeah. I mean, well, I don't I don't need a Fabriel to fly anymore, but maybe somebody else does.
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Is it like It's normal like steel or what have you. It's doesn't seem like it's anything special.
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Super high quality steel. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, I'm going to need to run a few tests on this and see what the creme is actually going on. But this is very promising.
Speaker A
Uh, okay. Let me know if you need my help, but feel free to do what you want with it. I mean, I I can't use it the way it is now anyway, so Mhm.
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I don't think anybody can. Um, where did you Where did you find it? Not after explicitly stating she didn't want to talk about it.
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Um, you're just going to nudge Bear like I I I really I really don't want to I don't want to talk about it here.
Speaker A
Okay, just um maybe send me in that direction before everything gets cold. Oh, Neva is like, "No, I do want to have you look at things, but I don't want to go back there." Oh. Um, maybe we can
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talk about it after we're You guys have things to say, right? Uh, somebody else can go.
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Uh, actually, speaking of speaking of um of help or whatnot, uh, I could use a couple more like one or two more assistants at the shop. Um, so if y'all know if you know anybody that would like some work, anybody that
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Yeah, I do. No. Oh, do you mind? Yeah. Apprentice level types. I I mean, yeah.
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If they're smart enough to ask questions and smart enough not to talk about everything.
Speaker A
Uh yeah, I I need help finding homes for some people and work. So um that let's talk about that. Um oh, bear. Uh I was going to talk about this to you privately, but um do you have space at your house right
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now? So, I'm going to say I'm going to say something, and I don't want you to take it the wrong way. There has been an increasing amount of no space in my house for the past decade. Okay.
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Okay. There was no space and then we crammed eight more in there. Why? Got it.
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The network officially has no home. Okay. I know we can make space for sure.
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Take it in my room. Yeah. I I Okay, cool. Um Yeah. How many? 20.
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I cannot take 20. Now I know I can I can do one or two.
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I I talked to Verdonna as well. She said she could take some. She suggested I ask you.
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I don't even know where I'm going to stay, but they need a home, even if it's just for right now. I haven't had time to find a place.
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Uh Jez pipes up and looks to Fear uh appearing appearing appearing on the on on uh Nev's shoulder. Some of the kids also suggested staying with you.
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She stays in barracks. I don't want to. Yeah. And if there wasn't a bunch of little raga muffins running around the barracks, then it would be There isn't a barracks on Earth. That's a bunch of chased losers. Come on now. Kids run
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around barracks. That's how it works. They do. Yes, they do. Especially in a guard house. Are you kidding me?
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Nev looks confused. We're not at war right now technically. Yeah, kids run around. Okay.
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Uh I know. I know. Was it Dervin? Was it Dervin? It was Dervin. It was definitely Dervin.
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Dervin asked about you multiple times. He seems to be several of the kids actually seem to have taken a shining to you since they've been following you around the city for weeks. By the way, um they've been Yes.
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I don't know how I feel about that. Wait, have you had your kids watching us?
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Of course. Oh, yeah. No, they've been watching me for Yeah. week like a like like at least a week now.
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Oh, they didn't notice. They've known before that. You know that right? I mean, I assume so. Yeah. Ever since that one What's his name?
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I'm going to use plain language. There are not a lot of neighborhoods that I don't have eyes.
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Is that Tiddly Winks? Twinkly. Uh, which one are we talking about here? Tell Darren.
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Taran and Fararin. Yes. Oh, I don't remember. Alls I know is that there was a kid who showed up.
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There's a kid who showed up to me and he made a bunch of fun of me a long time ago before I even met you. And I assume that ever since then you've known where I live.
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That was Vid. That's not his name. He had some weird name. Trim. No, Trim's a girl. Trim wasn't there back then, was it? Not Trim.
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It wasn't It wasn't Trim. It was Vitilar. It was either Var gave me a really weird name. Vidar gave me a fake name. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yes.
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Um, anyways, Nali, are you okay? Oh, no. You asked her the magic question. No, there other than helping find homes, is there any way we can help?
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Can erase the last 24 hours? That would be great. Not yet. Well, when you figure it out, let me know.
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Um, yeah, I've single-handedly crammed up quite a bit. No, that's not true. I'm sure you use both hands.
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That's true. actually. But unfortunately, you do not have time to have a breakdown because I just learned some incredibly dangerous creme.
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Nev just leans back with her cup. Go ahead. So, that guy who um stopped by your house?
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Mhm. Tasmir. Yeah, I know him. Nali, he knew him too, right? Did I ever learn Tasmir's name?
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You both know who Tasmir is? Yes. Oh, okay. But I didn't recognize him at the thing.
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No, which is very strange. which is why the name is strange. And then the face wasn't the same.
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Um, wait, he has the same name as But he doesn't look like Yeah. Tasmir. Tasmir. Tasmir.
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Wait, wait. Can Can someone explain? I don't know what you're referencing. So, there was a very dangerous Bright Lord that me and Nali uh were investigating a while back and he worked for Tasmir or worked with him, I don't know, something
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like that. And that's not all. Um, I just had a very interesting conversation with um, what's his name? Talon. Dalon the Ardent that we met the Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. He has been I did and he has been tracking the Sons of Honor.
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He gave me a list of their agents who work in Colinar and Tasmir was on it.
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Which means Arstrom, the Sons of Honor were at your house looking for you, son of um I'm not done.
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What? I got more names. All right. There was one there was someone called Hanva. I don't know who that is. I've never heard of them before.
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Uh another another guy named uh Gavar, I think. Okay. Yeah, Gavar. And then um one I'm hoping you do know live goes by the knife.
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You can see the gears turning. Um hey, you know, I recently very recently learned that people call me that.
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I've heard. Yeah. Did when did you learn this? I just learned this. Look, alls I know is that I have heard it bounced around. I don't think that it's any like I've never heard somebody be like, "Oh, yeah, you
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know the knife. Nali, that person who kills people." No, never that. But I mean, I've heard it rumbled and I thought it was either you or Cutter, to be honest. Nev just shrinks in her seat like, "Oh, I don't like that. I don't
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like that at all. The point is to not be known." And you said Gavar, right? I heard that, right?
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Yeah. Do you know him? Unfortunately, yes. How we have we have a history. Not a good one.
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He's not a good man. Recording. No. No. Definitely not. I mean, no judgment if you were. I mean, look.
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No. Apparently, Nali is in the Sons of Honor, too. So, if Fear is going to blush, like Wait, that's what the list is for?
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Yeah. No, the list is agents of the Sons of Honor. Did you say you've seen this Azmir with different faces?
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Uh, the one we saw at the Devitary, the one you described to me is not the Tasmir I know.
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Okay. Um, is there an age difference at all between How old is Tasmir old? The Tasmir we know the Tazmir that you know is about maybe early 40s.
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middle-aged, still to fight. What did the How old did the one seem that came by my residence?
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Early to mid-30s. Mhm. Mhm. Could I What about that thing? Could I Could I have been able to tell if he was invested?
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Absolutely not. I couldn't I I wasn't able to tell or he wasn't invested. Uh you aren't able to tell. Uh in fact, it's a fairly it's it's a fairly involved process to be able to tell whether someone's invested at all.
Speaker A
There's there's the obvious where like someone takes in too much storm light and their skin glows or when they breathe out and they have a lot of storm light, like wisps of light come out. Uh, but besides that, telling when someone
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has storm light running through them is actually a very specific process. Brandon has described that in detail and it is not something that can be told uh just through naked eye unless it's one of those very noticeable hallmarks.
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Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. I mean, it could be that, but I do think a more almost more plausible idea is that it's a case of stolen identity or name. Bright Lord Tasmir, powerful, influential, rich. If the Sons of Honor
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wanted to remove him from the board and replace him with somebody else, I think that would be smart.
Speaker A
Uh, Tila whispers in your ear. Um, just just a bear. I I mean I just Why couldn't he just like have a brother?
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Oh, you think Tommy is like like if that's a family name? Well, I mean like Yeah, cuz like Bright Lord Tas likeord juror, right? Like is it's a family name, right? Like it's not his first name, man. I need to spend more time with
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light eyes. You know what I'm saying? Right. Like it could just be that makes a face when you say that out loud.
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No, I don't. I just mean to know the culture. I don't mean cuz I like him.
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He could be a different Bright Lord Tasmir, his son or brother or nephew. Technically just being part of the same family. Why am I on a list?
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Yeah, sons of honor. I've never worked for them. I mean, it's possible that two people are named a knife if there's two Tasmirs.
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It could be. Nali, we were thinking that possibly Cutter was working with someone else once upon a time.
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Do you think it's possible that Cutter was working with the Suns? I wouldn't know. and he wouldn't tell me.
Speaker A
But he sent you on he gave you your jobs, right? Or he gives you your jobs, right?
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Yeah. So, if the jobs he was getting you to do were for the sons, I think it would make a lot of sense if somebody maybe jumped to that conclusion.
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Well, do you know? I did find him. Is cutter the type of person to throw you under creme like that?
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Yes. Yes. Um, Nev just looks increasingly like visibly uncomfortable like shrinking away from everyone.
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Can I roll an insight on Nev? Mhm. Cuz I think Bear's pretty good at breeding people.
Speaker A
Uh, the bar is not, I'll tell you that. Uh, she is, now that you're talking about Cutter again and the network and Nev and what she does, she looks upset.
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Um, especially now that he's coming up again. Um, I was looking through cutters things and I found a ledger.
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I'll give it to you if you want it. There was a name in there that I don't know and she'll pull it out of the bag and leave it on the table.
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It's the reason why I can't be where I normally live. Nali cutter is a very dangerous man.
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Cutter's dead. Okay. A lot less dangerous than I than I was worried about. So, what happened? Are you okay?
Speaker A
Like I said, I was looking through his things today. He found out about our job and he didn't like it. Had me followed. He was paranoid.
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It was one thing when he would beat me, but it's another when he started on the others. So, I killed him. Can we please change the subject?
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Who is Rave? She taps on the book. Let's talk about anything but that. Who's this?
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Wait, what? No, sorry. I was looking through the book and I was going to say I can't read. So, what do you mean Rave?
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What do you mean? Who's Rafe? Why? What? He was in debt to somebody called Rave.
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Deep debt. A thousand marks worth. Does that name sound familiar to me? To you? No.
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Uh I think you've painted a pretty good picture that uh Alstrom doesn't like frequent halls of of gambling or or you know the more seedy side of things and that's that would sort of preclude you from ever meeting him?
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Yep. There's no way he has been under my storming nose this whole time. You You know that name?
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Yeah, I work for him. Sorry, what? I work for Rave part time. Why? It's not important.
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What kind of work? Go on. You can ask me invasive questions about what I do.
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Why are you working for somebody like this? Because I don't have a choice. What are you getting out of it?
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I'm not supposed to talk about this with anyone. We weren't supposed to steal a book from a devoter.
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I think we're all talking about things we're not supposed to. If that's all you have to say, then I'm going to go to the red swallower and kill him.
Speaker A
No, don't do that. It's either that or continue to run for the rest of my life.
Speaker A
Wait, why? Who do you think they're going to look for when it's time to pay up and cutter isn't around?
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Do you have any kids? Not with me. Them probably, but he's not going to kill them. Just so you know. Not if they're useful.
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He'll put them on a retainer. hold it over their heads for storms probably the rest of their lives.
Speaker A
Why not? That seems fun. And if they step out of line, if they don't do everything you tell them to do, you threaten their families. You threaten everything they have left.
Speaker A
We don't have families, Bear. None of us do. Those kids aren't your family. To you.
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If only those kids are they're not your family, are they? That's not what they are to you.
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They're all I have. Yeah, that's family. I said what I said. You can't kill him.
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Not Maybe not today. He knows things. That's what it is. It's about your dad, isn't it?
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Yeah. And he's holding this over your head for how long? Until I pay off my debt, which I will be doing shortly.
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At least that's what I'm telling myself. And considering the fact that we all well especially you and me need spheres.
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I'm going to meet Tonavir with or without you. I would prefer it to be with What do you say?
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When are we going? Uh, tomorrow. I'll be there. Astrom, you should disguise yourself when you're around town.
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Okay. If you can spare it, we should. Mhm. You're just going to point at the the the letter that you is probably still on the table and that symbol again.
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Um, and you you do you really think that this woman and this organization is doing something for for good?
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like he said originally. There's only one way to find out. I think we're going to need some good.
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It's no different than any other day. I think good is going to be needed more soon than ever.
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Maybe if things are as bad as people say. Things are as bad as this friend say.
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Oh, and she like has a realization and ruffles through her bag like suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of conversation and pulls out the note. Is it a note with a cipher or a journal with a cipher?
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It is a note. It is a single page that was gummed to the top of the lock box.
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I'm going to very delicately after I pull it out of wherever it is, set it on the table near where um where Wave is.
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You like lies, right? wave starts like shooting over it, dimpling the paper and uh the table and and sort of like hitting a little figure eight motion over top of it.
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What is it? It looks like a cipher to me. M passwords. H notes secrets. Oh um can I tell what language they're in?
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Uh it at a glance it's not a Ley. It's not Vaden. It's not Thalen.
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The letters are It's not her It's not Yeah, the letters are a Ley. The It's not Herdazzian. Uh it's not even Gem and Tila or sorry, Jesus. Gem. Fra and uh Tila both uh would recognize at this point at least
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what Donchant looks like. Uh it's not Donchant. Um it is quite literally something. Uh it might just be symbols.
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It is a proper cipher. Um uh with notation uh in Althy. Uh the Althy is in glyphs. Um so it would be easy to transcribe even for a man. Uh, so, uh, Wave is shooting over top of it,
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shooting back, shoots up, uh, Alstrom's hand, dimples his face, uh, shoots back down onto the table. H, I don't know what it is.
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Catherine, you recognize? No, I think that's because ciphers aren't lies. They are gateways to the truth. Go here.
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You. And I'm going to try and crack this cipher. Yeah. Uh, can I please get a deduction?
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I look over here. Not bad. See if I point out anything. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Uh, Barlar, please roll that with advantage.
Speaker A
Wait. Uh, no. No no no 19 bear you start looking at it. This is like a sort of a glyph alphabet like these are very very generic terms. It is like a home, wealth, danger, guardsmen, uh uh a lot of it is about about 3/4 of it is
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very simple simple language like that. You start pushing these things uh together. It's actually quite similar to uh a a sort of Herdazzian double speak.
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Um a a sort of you know um a way for uh people in Little Herdazz to communicate with each other outside of even the herdazzian language and it's sort of become a pigeon language in and of itself but uh it is completely alien to
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that but similar in nature. you start piecing things together and you notice that like okay I've seen you you recognize that you've seen these a little bit around town uh just like Nali had um you know carved into the uh
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woodframes of doorways uh uh painted in a very very small notation at the foot of uh stone buildings um put into flagstones of the uh palace walls etc etc etc about 3/4 of this uh cipher uh and it is it is a fairly simple one
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um be it alien because the symbols aren't in a language. You start recognizing you're like, "Oh, some of these glyphs are when combined uh with these symbols, they make up different words." And you recognize the language. Uh it is um the alleiardazzian
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pigeon language that comes from war camps on that warfront. Uh it's a little bit of notation. There's been Herdazzi and Althy interbreeding in those locations. The conflict is long dead.
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Uh, you know, Herdazz has been not at war with Alithkar for a long time. Um, you know, since since the Blackthornne uh essentially went to the Shattered Plains all those, you know, the multiple years ago that that was. Um, and you
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recognize that it is that pigeon language when you combine some of these glyphs. The problem being that these symbols are things like soul.
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They are things like stormlight. It is uh uh absence. It is soulless. It is. And you read it and it is a word that you don't recognize. Even in glyph script, you actually do not recognize what the word is. And the very last one
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uh that you take a look at uh is the words for eternal and the word for storm.
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Okay. Well, that seems really bad. Which which one seems bad? And he bear just kind of like circles the glyphs that he's written beside them for like soulless, you know, like Yeah. kind of like that general chunk.
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Mhm. Okay. Uh Wave, can you memorize these symbols or at least like take note of them? And if we're ever out and about, can you let me know if you notice one?
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M. Yes. Easy. I am very smart. I am the smartest. I will notice with no eyes, which means I'm better at looking. Yes, you're pretty good.
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The best. Oh, if you ever want to go running on rooftops, I can show you where a lot of these symbols are.
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No. Okay. What? That doesn't sound fun. We'll do it one time. At least once. Alstrom isn't good at climbing and I get woozy when I'm too far.
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Oh, okay. Well, it was worth a try. Anyone else have groundbreaking revelations for all of us to cry and hug about?
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Would you like a hug? No. I knew you were going to say that. I I received a threat to you. Or it was sort of a threat. I don't I don't really know what it was.
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From where? You don't you don't know him. Uh during the high storm, my my old captain came and the one that they they called a traitor. Um came to me.
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Yeah. Um, and yeah, he he said a lot of things. He basically said he was he he was a a radiant now, which is I know things that we've been talking about and seeing. And he basically said that
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if colonar can't can't prove it will stand that he might be sent to destroy it um from whatever whoever he is listening to now. Uh he wouldn't share that with me.
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um and that a world is is heading towards a a forced choice or something like that. I don't know. He was speaking all over the place and it didn't wasn't making any sense, but he was serious about the things he was saying.
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and he told me, "I need to be ready." And then my friend talked to me again um and told me that the ever storm is coming. Uh it's going to come from the wrong direction and and I need to get stronger.
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And he's also quite formal and strange. And I don't think he likes me very much.
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Wait, you said the Evertorm. Is that what those two symbols mean? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
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You mean like a storm that doesn't stop? Eternal storm with red lightning. And that turns the parachundi into something else.
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the red eyes. If I had heard these things just by themselves, I don't think I would have taken any of this seriously between my old captain or the the sprun. But with all the weird things that have been happening and the
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things that have been happening to all of you and the things we've been hearing, that's why I said I think we're going to need some good because it seems like there is something bad coming.
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I need some air. And bear stands up. Um, and if you were paying attention, I think you would have noticed cuz he was talking to you probably his eyes are glowing very ever so faintly. Red.
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Ever so faintly. Do you walk out? Yeah. I think noticing that pharaoh would follow you.
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You like go upstairs or Yeah, you would find beer outside of the spark flicker. um kind of sitting on the ground, you know, like on the on the ground back to the stone, just kind of twiddling his thumbs a little bit.
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Do you do you mind if I I'm here? Don't know. What is it you're carrying?
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Ver, I saw I I saw Tanavir kill Navali. Saw her kill him. I saw a man kill my father.
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But I didn't I didn't see any of those things. I don't know what I know. I don't know what I think I know.
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I just found out that apparently my father was just as much a part of the Sons of Honor as anyone else on that list that I just got.
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Yeah, that's a lot when you have no way. I remember when you told us about your father and I I remember when you got angry that it was suggested that your vision is that what they are. Um it was a it was just a possibility and
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not something that could have been changed. And Berar holds his hands up to you and they're covered in blood.
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There are I can't have any more blood on my hands. I can't. I am drowning in it. I am drowning in secrets and lies and blood.
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You said that you needed good, that you need more good for what's coming. I I don't think I'm that you know I I know grief too.
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Not in the same way I think you know it, but it has a way of convincing you that you have more power than you actually do.
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That that you should have done more, you could have done more. that if you loved someone enough or paid attention more or whatever it is, you should have been able to stop it. You should have been able to save them or
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whatever it is you're holding. And I don't think that's true. Or if it is true, I won't I won't accept it.
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and I I can see that you feel like you should have done more when it comes to your father. And I just want you to know that it's not your fault. And I know you won't believe that or not yet, but
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you should hear it anyways. I've been watching how you react every time this comes up. And you don't have to sit with it alone.
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So, at what point does it become my fault? If I let Navali go and talk to this crazy man and she and she dies and he kills her, we're not going to let her go by herself. Then you're coming, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm coming. There's something happening there. And I think just like we started when we first this conversation, we first met, I think there's something that is coming that I think we're stronger together.
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I know none of us know each other very well yet, but there's I I can't explain it and that frustrates me, but I believe we can do good.
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Okay, I'll trust you. So, I'll take you away for it. Would you like a moment still outside?
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Yeah, I'll be back in a minute. Bear is going to walk back inside. And Bear puts out his hand and waits for Tila.
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We good. Taylor, are we good? Slowly Tila manifests. That's a big question and I've been I've been asking myself the same thing for a long time. And I and you are creatures of truth.
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So, do you want to find out or do you want to be told? You're the sum of the choices that you make.
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That's what you are. Good is just a word. It's a very impressive way to not give me an answer.
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And Bear walks back downstairs. in Fra's ear very quickly. You comfort your friends and you hear the voice of your friend.
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Why? Why do I comfort them? What is your goal? To make them feel better so that you will have more solid allies.
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Not a selfish motivation like that? No, I don't think so. Well, I would say that it was a logical one.
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When you think of the strength of your allies, their stability is it is your strength. It is your effectiveness.
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It is your ability to do. So you comfort your friends and they're stronger and that means you're stronger, right?
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That's one way of putting it. Yes. I guess so. I've learned so much just in the short time I've been around this group.
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When I was severed, I learned that it was very likely because my friends did not have strength. My allies, they became weak, lost heart.
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Mhm. My name is Frame. Frame. Frame. You remembered. It's been difficult to think since coming here and choosing you.
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But my memory is, my mind is, and it slowly becomes. I want you to know that I am trying.
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I was causing friction with you. and I had a terrible memory. I think your companion I think he is important and I think that the one who makes the inventions is important and I think that You said I did not like you. I believe
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that that was not the truth. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I am with you always now.
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I have expectations of you. But I think those come from the fact that I do uh like you that you are a good human and I will attempt to have better decorum. My personality is yours is. And like
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two stones or metal upon wood, sometimes there is friction because they are alien. We just didn't understand each other yet.
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How I thought about it afterwards. I do stand by what I say. You are doing very poorly.
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You have so much skill and I do still believe that it is being squandered and that the fate of everyone may hinge on you overcoming your own insecurities and the fact that your self-esteem is that of a cowed small creature battered about by
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winds that they don't understand. But I like you because you are stronger than you think.
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Well, thank you for reassuring me that you like me and I will try to be better in all in all ways, shapes and forms, including Yes. including understanding you better.
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I was jealous when you were speaking with your companions in the basement. We are why we are analytical and it is hard to divorce oneself away from logic and knowing.
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But I also know that the lack of companionship, the lack of trust and friends killed us.
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All of us. And I have taken a very mighty leap to trust. And thus it will be at the behest and good nature of you and your kind that the world will be saved. It will be the intelligence
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and the heart and not just the logical path forward that moves us into a better place.
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And I am afraid for being honest. I'm afraid too. But I'm starting to believe you and things are starting to make a bit more sense or in a way it's just things are converging and I'm going to do better.
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That is a good thing. I believe that in a short period of time, you will need to be prepared to kill many people, some of them gods.
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And that is a terrifying thing to say, but there are entities that far outweigh the power of men, and it will be your responsibility to bring them low.
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Else callers are special. You have a Windrunner and they will fight your battles. And you have a truth watcher and he will glean all of the knowledge that you need. And you have a lightw weaver and he will invent and
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create and be an object of spectacle. You will bridge gaps between this world and the next. You will create things from nothing.
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And if you are worthy, you will be able to shape the soul of things that have been vile for too long.
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So, I think you should go downstairs and eat a sandwich with your friends. Do you want to meet them?
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I am nervous. They're friendly. Some of them are. I will wait. You still have not spoken the words.
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Okay, that's fine. We'll wait then. But yes, I I am hungry. Uh, and so I do want to I do want to discuss what we're going to do next.
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And it's nice to meet you, frame. Okay. And she just she she goes back uh downstairs.
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I think right about there we should take our human break and when we come back we can reconvene perhaps just before meeting with Tonavir once again. folks at home. First of all, hi Jojo. Um, shout out Jojo. Uh, real quick, look
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right at the camera. Hi. Uh, hello to everyone that has uh followed along with us today. Uh, thank you to the newcomers, the folks that have joined the Discord, the folks that have uh uh, you know, um, uh, followed us
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along for this uh, for this penultimate episode of the series. We will be back in 10 minutes. Uh, so go get a drink of water, grab a snack. Uh, uh, tell your dog that we love them and go right now and tell your
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mother, your father, your sister, your brother, your siblings, your cousins, your, uh, herdazzian aunts and uncles.
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Uh, tell your garbage collector, your local grocery clerk, uh, tell your local congress person, your mail delivery person, everyone uh, that you know, frankly, that Another World Tabletop is live right now on www.t twitch.tv/antherworldtabletop uh, playing Cosmir RPG stories. Tell
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them all. We'll be back in 10 minutes. We'll see you then. Hi everyone, we're back. Did you tell your dog that we love them? Fantastic. I love that. I know you did.
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So, we sit now still just barely in the uh uh in the spark flicker as folks go back to their uh barracks bed chambers to the uh uh rooftop uh uh small shelters that Nev might go to for the for the evening.
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But I believe it is Barlar that wishes to have a quick discussion before heading out for the evening.
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Yeah. Well, I think as everybody starts like heading out to where they're going, be delar instead of going back to his house is going to walk with Alstrom for a minute.
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Hey, what's what's going on? I just um however this goes tomorrow when we talk with Donov.
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Mhm. I want you to come find me after. I have a plan and I don't want to get into it now, but Okay.
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I need your help. All right. You're going to Are you going to the meeting with us tomorrow or No.
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm I'm going to be there. I just Okay. However it goes. Come find me.
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Mhm. You got to tell our fear to say hi. We'll do. Good night. Be be safe.
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Stay safe. Oh, I should probably change into somebody else for And uh Bear fades into the shadows down an alley for sure. Uh, who does Olstrom turn into?
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um an old sailor that he knew as a kid in um back home and in in Failina uh taller larger Oh no, I can't really do that. Um uh but same height but a larger dark like um sun
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like darkened man early 40s um who looks like they're on their way from one pub to the next.
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Okay, we are going to I'll keep note of that. We are going to move the night forward.
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The day goes on. Dusk turns into night. Night turns into morning. Morning turns into a reconvening.
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At what time does Navali gather everyone to go and meet with Teneir? Uh probably a like probably dinner time.
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Um yeah definitely in the evening. Okay. It is roughly around dusk and it is gently raining.
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It is that time of the month that is known as the riddens. The riddens is that gentle constant rain that falls after a high storm.
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You all see creme scrapers chiseling away the settled muck that is brought after a high storm. The lifebringing debris and eventually you all gather about a block away from Tanavir in a coffee shop of no note.
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Sorry, tea shop. No coffee on Roshar. Sorry to all my coffee drinkers. What a little tea shop.
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I know. So you sit gathered. Tanir is just a very short distance away. Is there anything that you would like to do before you head there?
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What do you think of my disguise? I think it's fine and I think I should take point on this meeting this time.
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Looks at very pointedly. The last meeting did not go well, so I expect some smoothing over will need to happen.
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You start great. You start moving. She's just like you start moving to a ton of ears.
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that squat strange building built in a hole in the wall so to speak within the merchant district of southwest colonar.
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You arrive at that same door. So Nev, I presume you knock. Yeah. A short rapport of Knox upon this abode.
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Tanavir after about six, seven heartbeats opens up the door. Oh, I see it's the entire gang.
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Well, come in. She'll step inside with everyone. Tennere once again has that same distinct interior. It is the uh it is the well decorated uh main chamber with the stairs leading upwards. the tapestries on the walls, the map of Roshar, the the
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almost alien uh uh decor. And he sits and beckons you all, "Please sit." There are places around the uh rectangular table with placeholders and there are small meats and cheeses and uh little bits of fried foods and such. And
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he seems to have made an effort to be a host. Oh, Nev's totally eating.
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Any chance, any chance for free food, Nev's eating. Mhm. Uh bear maintain stands and actually like goes over to the door frame and just leans against it. Too cool for school style.
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Okay. Well, uh what does uh FH do? Farah sits but she's not eating. Alstrom.
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as we like walk in, he'll drop the disguise and um sit next to Nev and start making a little plate.
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So, we're just being out in the open with it. Is that Is that what we're Okay, fantastic. All right.
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So, I'm certain that you're all curious uh the reason why I've brought you here once again. Uh you did an exemplary job on the first run uh that you were sent upon and thus I would like to avail you
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of your expertise once again. Uh there is a guest coming to our fine city.
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a fine lady that has come a very very long way. She is seeking something here and I believe that she is going to need a little bit of guidance and uh not a small amount of assistance coming into the city.
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So there is she is a lady uh from a foreign kingdom. She goes by the name of Azure and she is going to be uh hosted here uh for some time as far as I have been made aware. Uh
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she's rather competent. Uh she is a very how can I put it she's very different uh from the uh ladies of the noble houses that you may be uh exposed to. Um very aside from traditional allei and vorin uh values.
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Um, she is a warrior. Uh, she will carry a weapon on her at all times, a very special one, uh, akin to a shard blade.
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Now, it's going to be a difficult venture to get her here. I've made arrangements for you to uh be given jurisdiction temporarily inside of uh the palace.
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It will be for a very short period of time, but it will be where she arrives.
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Uh we will not be able to meet her at the gate. Uh so when she arrives, it will be very important that you transport her out of the palace uh with some haste.
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Then you are to bring her to me. We are to guide her through a palace full of guards and royalty.
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Is that too much for you? You want us to break into the palace and then break somebody out?
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That's not what I said. I said you've been given jurisdiction to be in the palace for a short period of time.
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It will get a fair might more complicated as soon as Lady Azure makes her presence known to you.
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But past that point, uh, it should be a simple extraction. And then once you are past the palace walls, then well, bring her to me.
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He's going to be arriving in the palace, Donov. Uh yes. Yes, she will be. In fact, uh there is the uh uh h there is a very specific round chamber uh within the palace proper uh that has a very large glass domed ceiling on it.
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Uh it is typically used these days as a ballroom. Uh but yes it that will be where you meet her.
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A a ball a ballroom. And what is this license we have for being in the palace? What will we supposedly be doing in the palace?
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Okay. Well, within the Sunwalk, this ballroom is known as the Chamber of Memories. It is the focal point for rather lavish parties that Queen uh Asadan has been throwing lately. Uh thus this will be well the best way that you will be
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getting inside will very likely to be as party guests. So if you can do this uh you will likely need to disguise yourselves as staff or partygoers and then when you get to the ballroom you will find Lady Azure. She
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will be she's coming very quickly. um in an unorthodox fashion. So, you will need to well, you'll have to get her out of the palace uh so to speak.
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It's well to be blunt as forward as I can be. It will be in your best interest to go completely unawares.
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Does she know where somebody is? Are they expecting to be taken to you? No.
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The Lady Azure has her own agenda within the city. I would merely like to make the acquaintance of and smooth over that agenda. I believe that I will be a great help to her and well, this is the best way to do it.
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So, you want us to kidnap her? I would like you to coersse the lady.
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Yes. And can I ask a question? How is this woman going to help the city or this meeting that you want to have with her? So the lady azure is an incredibly well educated individual. Uh she is also a
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warrior of great renown and not only a warrior but also a general. Uh she has overseen the uh logistics and the troop movements of her own nation and it has led her to have a certain uh area of
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expertise that I believe will help Colinar in the near future. She plans likely to be in this city for a non- insignificant amount of time and thus I think she can be a lynch pin uh to holding colonar strong against any
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aggressors which we're expecting because of the chatter. You can call it chatter all you want, but within the next day or two, uh, there will be a storm that hits our city and it is going to change things for
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likely forever. I think you're all well aware of it. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong.
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My question is, if I may, why do you know all about it? My employers make it their business to be brokers of information and power uh all over Roshar.
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It is my business to be a breast of all of the broad picture events that affect our world. Uh whether that be local high storm schedules, uh new phenomena like the creation of new fabriels or this new advent of this thing that they're
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calling the Everstorm, uh Dallinar uh making moves against the heart of the shattered plains. the resurgence of certain historic orders. I believe that well at least one of you it would seem is a part of I see.
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So that is why I know I have lines of information that go very deep. I truly I am trying to be as transparent as I can with you all but I find it difficult as there is a certain clandestine nature to
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how we operate. his way. Uh, you've very likely seen our symbol around the city. Uh, and it does me no good for my new wards to not understand who we are and how we operate, but we are known by many as the Ghost Bloods.
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Uh, I would not bandandy that name around. Um, no. If I may give you a word of caution truly since we are clearly building a more entangled relationship here being loose lipped about my organization, it can get you in a very sincere amount
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of danger. Uh there are agents that work against us. There are agents among our own that are rather zealous about our secrets. I am of the opinion that you should trust those that you work with to a certain extent and thus I will give
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you that information. You will be working think of yourselves as my peers uh and and wards. I am in a position of power above you that I think I've made incredibly clear. I know more. I have access to more. And I am clearly uh well
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a man of some renown within the uh larger circles of this nation and beyond. So I can't ask you to trust me because you shouldn't.
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But I can ask for your secrecy and I can ask for your professionalism. And again in the in the nature of honesty, you are now working for us And turning away from that comes with consequences from one cell into another. But that's
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what I expected. We are not like your cell. We treat you with respect and we believe in a quid proquo.
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Our spheres are good. Our marks are fresh. You will be paid. And how much?
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You will be paid a justifiable amount. This job in particular is of great importance to us. So it will be a slight boost a 350 marks uh for each of you uh above what we had uh above the 200 that
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we had spoken of before. But I presume that it is not marks that you all seek.
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We've been watching you. So, let me lay things on the table in a more concrete way.
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I know that you're hunting the Sons of Honor. I know that that you are hiding secrets from the military of Colonar and that you are still in touch with your now radiant former captain.
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I know that you are running from debts and that your former mentor is dead and I know that you have spoken to something that is far more dire than anyone else knows.
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He looks directly to Alstrom. I can untangle what that thing is for you. I can help you hunt the Sons of Honor.
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I can bury your debts and I can bring your captain to heal. That is the power of the ghost bloods.
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That is the power of me, the man who sits before you. We are hunters.
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We are power brokers. and we operate on a level that not many understand. I don't think I need to impress upon you that I am not the jovial old man that I presented myself as.
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I can give you what you want. But you do need to be effective and you need to prove yourself.
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The consequences of failure I've already outlined. I can train them to be more effective.
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If you're watching, then you already know that. I'm not going to ask you how you know about cutter.
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I will. How do you know what you know? He's not going to give it away that easily. Come on.
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Oh, see, that's where you're wrong, Nali. I believe in quit proquo. I will ask you a question, for I want to know these things, and I will give you an answer that you seek.
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What flavor of radiant are you bear larger? What kind of sprren has made the Nahel bond with you?
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What are they? That is what I want to know. I am a hunter, Mr. Danovir.
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Same as you. I am of the order that is going to find and pick apart every tail, every section of your ghost bloods.
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I will bring it to light what you are and who you are because I am a truth watcher.
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I think you're a little bit more than that. Did you know that not not all truth watchers get to see the future?
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Not every one of you gets to see the trauma of their own father dying in the street. Berlar, you're different.
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Where's your friend? Answer my question. Oh, sorry. Why do I know? How do you know?
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How do I know? I wish it were something as esoteric as creating illusions or seeing the future or healing the sick or turning a workstation into pure aluminum. But it's not.
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I have access to the most skilled agents that Roshar has truly ever seen. You are followed.
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And I bet that sends a chill up Nali's spine because it is what Nali is so incredibly good at. But your eyes don't look in places that they have not been trained to look.
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You do not smell for abnormalities. You do not hear things that are not meant to be heard.
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Have you ever padded your shoes to make them sound like hobnailed palace guard boots?
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Have you ever had someone who you were so certain was an agent that you were meant to be following? perhaps, let's say, an agent of the Sons of Honor disguised as a palace guard delivering Yasna Kolin's soulcaster until he was jumped
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by the incredible beard. And he acted so surprised and so inept. I have access to people that are very good at what they do.
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That is why that is how I know Well, that and money, an I infinite supply.
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You would be surprised how loose-lipped some people could be when an inrush of spheres hits their palm.
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You put an emerald broom inside of a merchant's hand. Petals silk is good friends with a certain detective that meets him from time to time.
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So where is your sprint? She is wherever she wants to be. What does she look like?
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Why do you care? Because you are an anomaly. Yeah. No, I've pretty much known that for like the past 5 years. So that's no not new news to me. I don't want this to be We're getting severe. We're getting very
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severe here. I am a dangerous individual. You are all dangerous individuals. We can be blather skites all night long skittering on about what have you. We We can bandandy and posture.
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I think that you, Beardar Jurer, are quite literally a rock in the moving tide of fate and predestination in this world. And I don't know why.
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That is why you are interesting because things move around you. They don't move through you. You are not a part of them.
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That intrigues me. That is why I don't use my agents. I don't have radiance.
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So, if you need to feel self-important, it is if you're not going to be thrown away, yes, you are all rather unique products.
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So, I need you. You said you can give us what we want and what we need in exchange for this work.
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Yeah, you already know what I want. I'll do it. Tremendous. the rest of you.
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I'm having trouble accepting this deal because I have no idea for the life of me why you would allow somebody to investigate us.
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Why wouldn't you just nip that in the bud before it even started? Why hang it as a carrot in front of me?
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Are you being pressed? Do you feel anxious? Do you feel as if you are in danger?
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This is not a trick question. Please just answer honestly. Yeah, I do. You have been gifted with a generational bit of investment.
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The grander cosmir has dained to make you something special. It is very important that you grow more comfortable and able to overcome these things you need.
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to be more than essentially from now until forever. Why did I not nip you being investigated in the bud?
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Because I'm not everywhere. There are going to be situations that you need to handle.
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And if my new cadre little cabal of invested ones cannot shake off a guard or two, then well, that does not bode well for your future working for me.
Speaker A
Okay, I just have one more question. Do you have a way to tell if somebody is invested without seeing it?
Speaker A
Well openly turning half of a library to frost is a very good indicator, uh, I must admit.
Speaker A
But no, I do not. I can tell you that this was a series of very educated guesses.
Speaker A
You were rather public, as was Bardelar here. It happened outside of my door. Nev was calculated.
Speaker A
There's something different about them. The other one is a mystery. But no, there is, as far as I know, no surefire way to tell.
Speaker A
Okay, I'll do it. Terrific for Annaniel. If this woman will truly help the city and what's to come, then yes, I will help. But I I also want to ask a question.
Speaker A
What do you know about what's coming? You said it's going to change everything. Do you know more than that?
Speaker A
Yes. There are things that I cannot reveal yet. Why is that? Too many moving parts.
Speaker A
None of it is set in stone. But there are already individuals who have been changed by what is to come.
Speaker A
Outliers. So it is an educated guess. Give it a few days and I'm sure you'll know.
Speaker A
Baller. No, no storming. Why bear? He holds up a hand to dev. Why? Because I don't believe that I need anything that you have.
Speaker A
and I surely don't want him. So, what do you think my goal is? Why is it that you're so worried about me? You saw something.
Speaker A
What was it? T is through you. Well, I would like to imagine I'm a little bit more complicated than that. I Oh, actually, it's a little disappointing how shallow you are, right?
Speaker A
You think you're so mysterious and dangerous. Oh, I'm so intrigued. Pedal, he's definitely going to say yes because he wants to know stuff. He'll want to know stuff about me.
Speaker A
No, I don't care about you. I said yes the first time cuz I thought we were going to do something to help the people of Colon.
Speaker A
Are you going to disseminate those pieces of Tanelat's writing that you stole out of my book?
Speaker A
Is that going to help people? I don't know. Are you going to give money to the people of Little Herdazz?
Speaker A
Prepare them for the coming storm? I don't know. Would you use the information that I have to go and fight against the Sons of Honor to reclaim the debt and get yourself out from under the thumb of Rave?
Speaker A
I don't believe for one instant that you are any better than they are. I think there is a bit of truth that you do need to find.
Speaker A
Better is subjective and I do believe that you are justifiably worried about my motives and what I'm accomplishing here.
Speaker A
I understand. I'm going to let you Well, I'm not letting you do anything. You're going to do whatever you want to do, but I'm providing opportunities that you simply would not have otherwise. You will be behind on information. You will
Speaker A
be working in the same way that you have been forever, always behind, never catching the suns. You will continue.
Speaker A
And when I say that hunting zealots does not get easier when they are suddenly proven right and their numbers bulk.
Speaker A
Well, I just should be prepared. will help them. I will help Nev and Fra and Alstrom with their job.
Speaker A
Freelance, I do not work for you. Well, that is an interesting way of thinking of things and I can appreciate it.
Speaker A
So, we're agreed then. I will not pay you. Uh, you wouldn't accept it, I would imagine. And I will not feel beholden to share any of the information that I have as that would put us into a working arrangement.
Speaker A
Correct. Yes. Right. And in return, I do not work for you. Right. There are no strings.
Speaker A
You do not own me. I do not have to do what you say. Correct.
Speaker A
I think you are going to do whatever you are going to do no matter what I say.
Speaker A
And I also think that you are a grown man, one who has recently come into a fairly large amount of personal power.
Speaker A
And I believe that you feel that you are ready to handle any consequences that may come from playing your cards the way that you are.
Speaker A
I really hate you. Well, the rest of you, I will send a dossier to Navali.
Speaker A
It will contain the palace blueprints. It will have guard rotations and a sum of spheres in order to cover yourself with whatever disguise you see fit.
Speaker A
I suggest you be very very careful once you are within the palace grounds. There are a set of individuals who are shard bearers.
Speaker A
They are a member of the Cobalt Guard, the personal honor guard of the Colin family, and they will know who is supposed to be invited and who isn't.
Speaker A
You will be there on paper, but it will uh unlikely hold up to the scrutiny of the shardbearers of the Cobalt Guard.
Speaker A
It is the only real warning that I feel that you need. The rest will be subtrauge and a case-toase basis. There will be a series of hurdles for you to get past.
Speaker A
Access to the ballroom will be exclusive and there will be a you will know when Lady Azure arrives.
Speaker A
And things will be more complicated from there. What kind of complicated am I to expect or we to expect?
Speaker A
Guards, shard bears, ardents with soulcasters. It's about as dangerous as you can imagine. At least the kind of danger that the Colon family can bring to bear.
Speaker A
But so we need to be quiet, smart, fast. smart fast and I would encourage you if there are watching eyes and they do happen to see you, I would put them down quickly.
Speaker A
concerned about. Is is there any maybe sort of like a turn of phrase or something we can use to let Azure know that we are good on her side are there for her?
Speaker A
Unfortunately not. We don't have contact with the lady. She is coming via a an unorthodox method of travel.
Speaker A
So it will be well this is all to make the introduction. It is of utmost importance that I meet with the lady. Yes, I should be her first or uh her first uh point of contact within Colonar.
Speaker A
You want me to bring her here or is there another place you would like to meet?
Speaker A
There will not be a better place. All right. So we not only have to persuade this great war hero, this warrior, this person who is going to change the tide of our future here, everyone's future here.
Speaker A
And this is happening when? Very shortly before the next high storm. So perhaps 10 days from now, give or take.
Speaker A
If the storm wardens are correct this time, I'll need storm light. I'm sure from the sum that I have given you, I believe you can leave it out in a storm.
Speaker A
And I think that should be enough. If you require more, I can afford you a plethora of chips to infuse.
Speaker A
It's what we have should be fine. Well, uh, I'll contact you once we get the dossier, things that I might need, uniforms etc.
Speaker A
Right. Nev's going to get up. We should start preparing. 10 days is not a very long time.
Speaker A
Is there anything in this room that's like weird or different or out of place?
Speaker A
Uh, explain. What are you looking for? I mean, he said he had eyes everywhere and it's usually in places that no people don't normally look.
Speaker A
You look throughout the room. Give me a perception. Um, oh, 19. There's no real methods of overt uh surveillance within this room. If it's something that you would assume was listening or watching you, it's hidden in a way that is so beyond notice.
Speaker A
The things that are out of place in this room are maps of countries you don't recognize. the the fabriel time pieces that are uh counting down in clocks that don't match anything. The calendar that sits on the wall that is not the
Speaker A
uh the Rosharin uh you know uh 10day calendar. It's there's strange strange things that could be explained by the very uh globalist uh uh persona that this individual puts on. Um Shin uh artifacts uh things from the Rushy Isles
Speaker A
uh uh things from uh uh you know the the Shattered Plains artifacts and and such things from you know from before previous desolations. Some of the things in here look very old. Uh but other than that, no, nothing really seems out of
Speaker A
place beyond the alien nature of some of the uh uh the artifacts that are within this room.
Speaker A
Well, I'd say it was a pleasure, but I believe that would only be for some of us.
Speaker A
I need you I need you to ask me I need you to answer me a question. One last question.
Speaker A
Right. Are you going to harm directly or indirectly anyone I care about because I said no to you today?
Speaker A
I cannot give an affirmative. It is a possibility. I work in dangerous circles. There are consequences to the things that we do.
Speaker A
the circle that you operate in now, whether you put on paper that you are officially an employee is, it creates a web that can get very tangled very quickly.
Speaker A
I'm not going to lie to you. Failure and betrayal are two things that have consequences when you work with or around us.
Speaker A
I have no reason to lie because I need the things that you have. I'm trying to be as forthcoming as I can.
Speaker A
Failure or betrayal? Yes. If I do not fail and if I do not betray what has been said in this room, you're not going to hurt anyone I care for.
Speaker A
The ghost bloods empower those that push forward, that persevere, that are capable. Give me a straight answer.
Speaker A
I can't. There is no such thing. BR juror there are no there is not define betrayal to me define betrayal to me right now in the exacting terms of what the higher-ups of the ghost bloods dictate I throw my knife at him.
Speaker A
I'm going to block it. Uh there is a blur of motion Nev. Uh I think that would come down I think that has to come down to initiative. I think that's exactly what that comes down to.
Speaker A
Okay. Um, yeah, feel free to roll that. What is initiative in this? Uh, it is, uh, simple d20 plus decks, I believe, because usually it is just, uh, one moment.
Speaker A
Speed. Speed. Yes, d20 plus speed. Give me one sec. All right. Um, I'm double checking too.
Speaker A
Yeah, absolutely. Because when it's contested initiative roll, it's fast PC turns followed by fast NPC turns. There is no turn order.
Speaker A
There should be a contested roll. I believe there is a rule for it. What if we It could be a roll off.
Speaker A
I mean, I'm happy to roll for it. I'm absolutely What if it was agility?
Speaker A
What if it was agility? Um, agility or speed? I like I think speed is valid, but also I'm I'm cool with whatever.
Speaker A
Yeah, give me two seconds, folks. GM, pause. Give me two seconds. Don't worry. I'm freaking myself out right now.
Speaker A
Yeah, I'm booming. Right. Uh, we're going to go to Okay. Would a would my agility versus his light weaponry be appropriate?
Speaker A
Uh, if it's contested. I'm I'm getting to the point where it might just be like a straightup d20. You know what I mean? Like uh we can rollies about it.
Speaker A
Yeah, it might just be rollies. Please beat me, Lane. I rolled a 15 on the die. Either way, whatever we're rolling or adding 15 on the die.
Speaker A
Uh, as much as I would love to say like it's a it's a uh it's an agility or it's a this or it's a that, um, at the end of the day, uh, more goes into, uh, reaction time than simple agility.
Speaker A
So, we'll do Perfect. So if this was a fast turn, yada yada yada reactions actions. Yeah. Um truly it's just rolies. There is no other rules about it.
Speaker A
Okay. Yeah, you beat me. I did. I did beat him. Okay. So, the action that you could do is uh it would I mean simple as you would strike his weapon out of the air.
Speaker A
Yep. Um Nev raises one of her daggers to like like block it from the air.
Speaker A
Yeah. So, it would be I I'll I'll ask for an attack roll against physical defense 10 from me.
Speaker A
From you. Okay. So, I'm rolling again for knife. I assume uh it would be light light weaponry.
Speaker A
Yes. Okay. Same diff. Uh 14. with on the die plus three. With a fairly uh spectacular flourish of the blade, you deflect uh Berlar's uh uh knife and send it flying don't or and you see that Tavir is completely
Speaker A
non plus un an unflapable face put on at the moment or alternatively We respect ambition.
Speaker A
I get it. You're angry and you're frustrated. I was just trying to give an example to your question.
Speaker A
Well, loud and clear. I guess there can be simple actions and simple answers for certain questions, but I need to be so clear that for now too much is obfuscated.
Speaker A
I can't give you a clear answer because the terms of failure are dictated once everything is done.
Speaker A
The terms of betrayal are a case-to- case basis. things that you're dealing with are not black and white. They are fickle.
Speaker A
I can tell you this. I am not your executioner. I am not your judge.
Speaker A
And truly, I am not the one that you should be worried about. I don't know what you saw that made you so ferociously change tune before you walked in the store.
Speaker A
But whatever it is what will be is what will be one way or the other.
Speaker A
No, it won't. Like you said, things go around me. Well, then I hope that that is true.
Speaker A
I'll pick up my knife and head out. I can see why you all like him, why you keep him around.
Speaker A
I don't understand his change either. I think I do. There are certain people that are destined to shape the world to take what is and turn it into what could be.
Speaker A
Is that the why you chose us? You see, that's the interesting part. I didn't.
Speaker A
Nev did. I was only going to hire Nali and that's the truth. But you all walked through my door and that had to mean something.
Speaker A
And I like to imagine that I'm a pretty good judge of character. and that I'm fairly adept at profiling the people that I meet. And so I have been proven correct as I now sit with likely four radiants at my beck and call. Well,
Speaker A
three, I suppose. Balar just doesn't want to admit it. So go take on my task. Do your best. Come back. Get paid. Learn more. Grow more.
Speaker A
Become more. Or walk away. and deal with the consequences. You heard him. Let's get going.
Speaker A
I'll meet you two outside. Okay. Oh, fear is going to be right behind you.
Speaker A
She's watching you. You're just I'm going to go check on the bear. And before I go outside, I put my disguise back on.
Speaker A
Yep. Fine. Whatever. Ton of air. I expect you are aware of my situation. So, one of your people will find me with the dossier, I assume.
Speaker A
Do you need a place to live? I do. You have a lot of money.
Speaker A
I I know you might not be used to it, but Nvali, you could just rent a home for quite a long time with the money you have.
Speaker A
Nev has no idea like what what she can do with all the money she currently has.
Speaker A
Would you like me to put you in touch with a landlord? No, I suppose I'll figure it out.
Speaker A
I it's you you could have a nice three-bedroom apartment on the top floor of a nice little complex overlooking one of I mean it my upbringing and how I have lived is showing.
Speaker A
I would suggest that you head down to one of the guild halls and you speak with someone who deals with homeowning and take it from there. Nali, you need a roof over your head.
Speaker A
She just shakes her head. It's not for me, but thanks. I guess I will find you.
Speaker A
I'm sure you will with all of your many skilled spies and your eyes everywhere.
Speaker A
Come on, Fra. Farah's going to follow you up. She closes the door behind her, storming landlords.
Speaker A
I will help if you want help finding a space. No one's going to sell anything to me.
Speaker A
Look at me. I will help. I don't even know what naan I am. Is there a zero again? I will help if you need if you need it.
Speaker A
This is one instance in which I will say, "Yes, Fra, thank you. That sounds like a great thing. I would really appreciate the help." You can tell she's like in pain saying this to you.
Speaker A
I can't help but smile at that. If Bear is Bear still outside? Yeah. When Alstrom went outside, he would have stood saw Bear standing in the rain just looking up.
Speaker A
She shoulder checks him. Not hard. Not hard enough to like knock him over or anything.
Speaker A
You're being a storming jerk. No, Bear, I understand where you're coming from, but sometimes you just don't give them what they want, you know?
Speaker A
I assume we're walking and talking at this point. Wait. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Uh Tila's going to show up uh floating uh just in front of uh Barlar. Just everybody.
Speaker A
Oh. Oh. Oh, yuck. Oh, yuck. Yuck him. Yuck him. That's gross. Yuck. Wait, wait, wait, wait. What is this?
Speaker A
Something's wrong with him. Something's wrong. Wrong. Oh, got like a film in my mouth and I don't even have a mouth.
Speaker A
I I think I think I think we got to play the game for a little while though, right?
Speaker A
I mean, just long enough. He says there's a big storm coming. All this craziness.
Speaker A
I am. Did he say that ever storm was a couple of days away? Yeah, that's what he said. Like a day or two.
Speaker A
Yep. And we'll start to see the changes. I am done letting other people tell me how I'm going to live my life.
Speaker A
Perks up at that. That's That is admirable. But you also got to be alive to do that.
Speaker A
You also agreed to do this and then you backed out. No, I agreed to do it. Just not for him.
Speaker A
I agreed to do it for you. You think you can have it for bear?
Speaker A
Do you? I don't know. I don't know. That's not how it works. Bear, I'm telling you how to live your life.
Speaker A
How you do something is just as important as what you do. The most important step you can take always the next one. Yeah.
Speaker A
I am tired. of a knife being dangled over my neck and the necks of people I care about.
Speaker A
That is what I am tired of. I have been living with that every every action I take, I have to think, is this going to be the one that that breaks the line that has been set for me
Speaker A
that I don't even know where it is. I don't know where the lines are that I can and can't cross. I don't know that.
Speaker A
I don't know what the rules are to this game. So, I can't play the game. I can just do what I'm told to do.
Speaker A
How am I supposed to learn anything doing that? How am I supposed to save Colona? Do you think Do you think he gives a [ __ ] about what actually happens here? No. No, he does not.
Speaker A
There must be a reason. Even if it's not to save it, there must be a reason why.
Speaker A
What if it's to burn it to the ground? Yeah. So, let it storming burn to the ground.
Speaker A
No, there are other cities. Okay. And all the people in it, I know what you want, what do you want me to say?
Speaker A
What do you want me to say? Anything but yes, sir. Please, sir, may I have some more?
Speaker A
I need this. If you don't, then you don't have to be part of it.
Speaker A
I would prefer that you do because we work well together. I do have to be a part of it.
Speaker A
I gave you all an out in the beginning. You should have thought about that before you said yes. I told you there was no going back. And here we are.
Speaker A
I need this. I told you from the beginning. I don't owe you an explanation as to why, but I do.
Speaker A
Do you need spheres? Is that what it is? You can have mine. That's what I thought this was about, but clearly it's hand out.
Speaker A
Hand them over then. Okay. You can add 90 marks, four chips. 90 marks and four chips to your cash.
Speaker A
She takes the coin pouch, but she doesn't put it away. She's just holding it.
Speaker A
If this was all it was, we would not be friends. She's going to shove the spear pouch back at him.
Speaker A
I think I would storming put up with you if it was just for the marks. There were no marks when we worked together before.
Speaker A
Just a lot of death. And by working with him, that's what we're doing. That's who we're getting into bed with.
Speaker A
I don't know anything else. Let it go. You act so high and mighty. You are not.
Speaker A
I know. I don't know anything else. Neither do I. I'm trying to fix that.
Speaker A
So then we do this one different. We don't have to go in trying to harm everybody that just sees us instantly.
Speaker A
Think of the you have questions. How many answers do you think are in the palace? How many times are you going to get access to that?
Speaker A
and whoever this woman is. He said a whole lot of nothing in there, but it also sounds like Would you rather be there when it happens or hear about it later on?
Speaker A
I said it before. I'm not walking away, but I can't do it for him.
Speaker A
All right, dress it up however you want. It's all the same in the end.
Speaker A
Did any of us say we're doing it for him? I'm doing this for me.
Speaker A
Did you Did those words come out of my mouth? No. I understand that you're in pain, but you cannot assume that everyone's pain is the same as yours.
Speaker A
We all have reasons to do to do this. Dila was right. That guy sucks.
Speaker A
But now that we know him, it's better that he thinks we're on his side.
Speaker A
Let him think he can control us cuz now we can go in and get more answers not only from him but from the palace from this azure.
Speaker A
Uh, you see Wave run up Alstrom's throat and dimple the side of his face.
Speaker A
We should rob him. Maybe later. Not yet. Listen to me. He has a map.
Speaker A
Mhm. of my home. You told me to go in his Does a does a perception check.
Speaker A
Perception check. Perception check. Who is watching? Who is listening? Can I raise the stakes on this?
Speaker A
Sure. So, it's nothing actually. Hold on. I have a thing for this, right? I have a thing for this.
Speaker A
Can I help somehow? Can I also like be on a swivel? Is that Yeah, especially because wave is never quiet.
Speaker A
Never quiet. So that is a natural 20 with a complication for a total of 29.
Speaker A
Oh my jeez. Wow. With a complication. I'm not even going to ask to roll.
Speaker A
Oh my god. Do again. Oh, the 10 fools. So, Berilar, you are staring at Wave and you're staring up at rooftops and in windows and all of those different spots that your eyes usually go, these different avenues of of
Speaker A
surveillance that you've been trained your entire life. And then it rings true in your ears. You need to look where your eyes aren't trained to go.
Speaker A
And you look directly down and you see something a little strange. You see a circular uh partition in the ground in the flag stones of the colonar street.
Speaker A
There is a small listening port just underneath where you are. Wave is still talking right while I was looking.
Speaker A
Hold on a second. This is This is something I don't know if you can do. I don't know how this works because you can lightweave sounds, but I don't know exactly how that works.
Speaker A
What? Me? No, I can't. Well, I mean, we both can. Oh, it's um uh Yeah, it's just it's part of it's part of the illusion.
Speaker A
It's part of the the bass surge. Yeah. I would like to cover Wave's voice.
Speaker A
Okay. with something else. Give me a Once I see the hole, give me an illumination check.
Speaker A
What is that? That's uh It's presents. Yeah, mine's under presents. Presence and illumination. Yes.
Speaker A
15 total. this is your first time trying to do something like this. You don't really understand what you're attempting to do, but something kind of like flows into you, an idea, a a a sort of uh moment, and you try so very much to
Speaker A
put a damper over wave, and then you cover the entire uh uh gathered uh with a small bubble of nonsound.
Speaker A
And you know that there's a a uh rather large radius to it by the fact that the sounds of birds, raindrops, talking people in streets adjacent, trundling chole carts. all cease.
Speaker A
We rob him. We take his things. They aren't his anyway. He took them. He stole them. I know. I know.
Speaker A
And then we have a map or a clock. And that guy can storm himself.
Speaker A
What's he going to do? try to take it back. He said it. He said it. He needs us.
Speaker A
Needs us cuz we're special and he's not. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, wait. Are you sure he is not special like us?
Speaker A
No, but if he was, don't you think, he would have shown it or said it?
Speaker A
That's what I was trying to bait out of him when I threw my knife at him.
Speaker A
I think how he was going to protect himself. Just a guy. Okay. Well, wave. I like your idea, but now's not the time.
Speaker A
It's very good. I like it. We're going to come We're going to circle back to it.
Speaker A
He zips off your face. Okay, really quick. Everything I said was true, but we are currently in a sound bubble, so no one can hear us. Do you think he thinks I'm a little crazy now?
Speaker A
Yes. I think he thinks that you are having a bad time. Good. That's what I wanted.
Speaker A
Yeah, he did a good job of it. Had me worried. Because I want him to think that he's got me offkilter and angry and all mixed up. I'm going to play this game so damn well.
Speaker A
I'm going to know everything he does. But I can't be too eager. You know, that's never going to get me anywhere with somebody like him.
Speaker A
Trust me, I don't like him. I'm angry. I'm not that angry. So, in case you all were worried about me, I'm good.
Speaker A
Nev is just standing there with crossed arms. I'm trying to do good. There. You said we're in a sound bubble.
Speaker A
Mhm. When do I still see wave or no? Uh, he's dimpled on uh Alstrom's coat.
Speaker A
Probably on my something somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, Wave. You said he had a map of your home.
Speaker A
My home. Is that Shadesmar? What's Shadesmar? Wait, you know Shadesmar? H my house is there.
Speaker A
Wait, friend live in houses now. Trying to like understand Jez whispers in your ear. Yeah, we have we have houses.
Speaker A
Just a little different. Well, they're not tiny. I'm usually regular size. I'm actually pretty tall. Yeah, I'm Yes.
Speaker A
Oh, I didn't think you could be any taller than like 52. Excuse you. Or just from your proportions, you know.
Speaker A
Nev looks so amused by this. Okay. So, do all sprren come from shades? Yeah. Yes. Yes, we all do. All of us.
Speaker A
Wait, even the other ones? Like the shock sprin and the the the wine sprin and the the dirt sprin?
Speaker A
Yeah, they look a little different, but yeah, we're all from there. Yes. Oh, wait.
Speaker A
Taylor, are you also from Shadesm? Yes. Okay, I want that map. Okay, we'll get that map first. We have to get Azure.
Speaker A
Actually, bringing Azure would be a pretty good distraction for trying to steal him up.
Speaker A
make it sure be a good distraction for a lot of things. Okay. All right.
Speaker A
Since I'm probably the one who would be doing the stealing, don't you think perhaps it might be a good idea to, I don't know, consult me on whether or not I want to do this.
Speaker A
I mean, if you don't want to do it, good question. Uh, Nev, do you want to help us steal a map of Shadesmart where our friend live?
Speaker A
No. Why? Oh, it's okay. I'll do it. Ta. Tila looks you. Why? I bet he'll give us a copy. It's not that deep.
Speaker A
Rem, why didn't we think of that? Kate. No, no, no. If he gives us a copy, he could put anything on there he wants.
Speaker A
No. Ah, maybe we could we could have Wave check it out first. If there are maps of Shadesmar, could we not also just obtain one?
Speaker A
Yeah, that's what we're dealing with. You speak of that. I don't understand what it is still. Okay. It's a place where Sprren live.
Speaker A
That's not here. Are you trying to not make this guy mad? Is that what it is? And Tila like squares up towards you. Is that what it is?
Speaker A
It's okay, Ta. She's hiding something and we all can tell. Tila like whirls back on on bear. Hey, um, real quick, stay out of this one.
Speaker A
Don't worry. You trying to make you trying You're trying to keep this man from getting angry at us?
Speaker A
Yes. So, you'll go and you'll rob Light Eyes and and the powers that be here, and you'll run on the razor's edge, and you say that it's all you all that you know, and you act like this big
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dangerous badass, and you you you you put on this ridiculous face of of of being so anti- athoritarian, but now this one with all of this money and all of this clout has dangled enough to make your life better in front of you, and
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you're going to just go along with it. He's light eyes, too, and he's directly threatening your friends. We're working for him. That doesn't mean we can't also work against him. He said he admires ambition. We should take the map.
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And you're the best one to do it. It really sucks when she does that, doesn't it?
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Yeah. Yeah, it kind of does. Apparently, I'm also the worst. So she looks at Jez.
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Well, you were the worst, but now you're getting better. You said the words. That's big. Also, Tila, shut up.
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I don't care if he gets mad or not. I care if he gets mad enough to start killing the people we care about because he can certainly do that. Just because he doesn't know about your friend or any
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of the other secrets he hasn't uncovered about us yet does not mean that he does not have ways to hurt us.
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And I can think of bare minimum 20 reasons why I don't want to piss him off too much.
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Oh, that's so sweet, Nef. Wow, you really are growing. Shut up, Alstrom. So, it's immediately now.
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So, it's different now. Is that what I'm hearing? What's different? The light eyes weren't going to kill you. The wall guard wouldn't have killed you if they found you robbing. You wouldn't rot in prison forever. They weren't going to threaten you and yours.
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They wouldn't cut off the hands of the children. The powers that be wouldn't have ground you underneath their boots.
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I didn't say he wouldn't. Why do you respect this man? Because he has what I want.
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No, because he's who you want to be. Didn't I just say that? I suggest you turn that around very quickly.
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I suggest you mind your own business. I think things get a little bit uglier when one of your friends has aspirations to become someone who would threaten the lives of children and those around them.
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You're not a monster, Nev. Don't become one. And then Tila evaporates. Way to read into everything.
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Yep. It's like having a really cranky out loud conscience. I can threaten children. Information is power.
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Then let's take it. If I can move up in the ghost bloods, then I can.
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This is all still assuming that we're going to be successful. We will. Okay, now that part going to be easy.
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Speaking of, Nev, I have a bit of learning to do about stealth. I'd say you all do.
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Want to join the training camp? I think I can make a day or two. Yeah, I put all my agents through it.
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like a summit or something. Uh Fra, FRA, you feel um a sudden growth right behind you. Um a sort of rushing, whooshing uh feeling as um frame grows to be the the the size of the average Althy man about seven feet
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tall. Um just so that he can stand like one head above you. Do we see him? You all suddenly see frame.
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Knife out cuz she doesn't know what frame looks like. But hello. Big you have a big friend.
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He's not tiny. I am averagesized. You have been followed away slowly. You've all been followed.
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right now. Yes, there is a number of guards that have followed our location since we have left Teneir's house.
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It would seem as if there is a shardbearing princling that has accompanied them as well. Uh they are in the uh they are in the company of one uh uh I I believe you had mentioned his name earlier
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one one of the Tazmir. Yes. Uh they seem to have a murderous intent. boy get her.
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You go to move and coming from one direction down the street is a cadre of guards uh one of them with a large shard blade uh in hand. um coming from the other direction. There seems to be another
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cadre of guards. Uh Tasmir being amongst them and you see that he as well has a shard blade manifested.
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You cannot hear anything, but you see that Tasmir is shouting. Um, uh, you said there's a hole beneath us.
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We're going to deal with this at the onset of next episode, everybody. Hi, folks. That was our penultimate episode for the season. Uh, I hope you enjoyed. I hope you had a fantastic time. I know things went a little long
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this evening. Thank you for sticking around. Um, we will go live next Tuesday for our season finale. Um, and then we will be on a oneweek long break. Uh, so that I can rest, recuperate, and get one uh get get a week of one less game
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potentially. Uh, and yeah, we will we will catch you uh potentially. Um, we'll see you on Saturday for Sanguin Dominion, our Vampire the Masquerade series. Um, please please please uh that right there, go to www.youtube.comworldtop.
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youtube.com/anotherworldtabletop right now and you will be able to catch up on every single episode of Sangquin Dominion. All of the VODs are there. Uh you can uh watch at your leisure. You can you can you can listen to them,
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etc., etc. Uh mean the world if you follow, like, subscribe, all of those wonderful things. Um join the Discord to stay the most up to date for everything that uh goes on here at Another World.
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You will get our live notifications, you will get all of our uh uh upload schedules, uh etc., etc., etc., new game announcements. Um, and you can interact with the cast, hang out, etc. Uh, catch on memes and all of that. So, um, we
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talk about Cosmir. You you can come and talk about Cosmir. Um, oh, hey, welcome in. Welcome in, Craigs. Uh, welcome in. We're just about to raid out ourselves. Uh, so it's but it's great to see you. Um, most importantly of all of everyone, no,
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that's okay. Uh, most importantly of all, everyone, tell your dog that we love them uh before we head out. Um, we are going to uh we're going to raid into uh into Captain Roar. Um, because he's actually live and we have a good friend
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uh that hangs out from time to time that is uh over on that channel every so often, that being Arcane Adam. Um, so catch us on uh Saturday for Sanguin and Minion uh uh and the uh uh you know, and
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every so often we play game over here. So yeah, we'll we'll catch you all on the flipflop, everybody.
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There it is. Uh 10 seconds to go. Um play Cosmir RPG. Shout out Brother Wise Games for making this amazing system.
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Shout out Brandon Sanderson for bringing this uh this world to us. There is a starter set. I was in my friendly local game store. They do have a starter set if you're interested.
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Absolutely. and follow uh follow the Cosmir RPG channel. Uh follow the uh the um Brotherwise Games channel. They have like how to play videos all the time.
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You can learn how to play this game in no time flat. If you know D and D, it's a very easy transition. Uh we'll see you all next time. Goodbye.
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Bye. We're so cool. We are super
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