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The wheels have shifted in Algar. Once Colonar Shore, a beacon of pride and glory.
A Cosmere RPG interlude exploring Faniel's military past and strategic conflicts in the borderlands of Algar.
Key Takeaways
- Interludes provide deeper insight into character backgrounds and motivations outside the main plot.
- Faniel’s military expertise and logistics were crucial to a strategic victory despite internal disagreements.
- The RPG setting reflects complex political and cultural conflicts in the Cosmere universe.
- Leadership decisions in war involve balancing tactical success with human cost.
- The narrative style blends storytelling with roleplaying elements to enrich the Cosmere lore.
What the video covers
- The video is an interlude episode from The Last Ideal, a Cosmere RPG Chronicle set in the world of Algar.
- It focuses on a flashback to Faniel's past as a military officer at a contested border between Yakaved and Alithar.
- The narrative explores political and military tensions involving high princes, territorial disputes, and cultural divides.
- Faniel is shown as a skilled logistician whose strategies have led to a significant victory at the village of Fillain.
- The scene takes place in a well-appointed forward operating base tent with Captain Barin and other military personnel.
- The dialogue highlights tensions between tactical decisions and human costs, particularly between Faniel and subaltern Gdavar.
- The interlude provides character development by showing Faniel’s role and the complexities of military command.
- The video also explains the concept of interludes in the RPG, stepping outside the main narrative to explore character backstories.
- There is an emphasis on the thematic elements of honor, sacrifice, and the harsh realities of war in the Cosmere setting.
- The transcript includes timestamps marking key moments and shifts in the story.
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Now its towns grow beneath the weight of despair. Its people whisper of shadows moving in the rain.
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Of oaths long broken beneath the thunder's roar. Four souls drawn together, bound by threads unseen.
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An investigator, chasing truth through a city drowning in secrets. A thief. Mercenary by name, but fierce of heart, determined to save the whole that scorns them.
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A fabric cloaked in falsehood, shaping light and metal, seeking to forge a better tomorrow before the storm consumes the present.
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The Voron wolf staring defiance into the eyes of destiny, striving to become more than her world dares to allow.
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The city trembles. Cults old and forgotten whisper beneath the weeping stone. And from the tempest comes a call for those who speak the last I.
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Hello everyone. It is us, the cast of The Last Ideal and, uh, me, uh, Story Dad. Um, how's it going? How's it hanging? Um, we're here tonight with a little bit of a special, uh, a little bit
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of a special episode. Rather than come at you with more of the, uh, the plot progression that we've been, that we've been witnessing, we do something a little special around here. Uh, something that's kind of, kind of, uh, flavorful as
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to the, uh, actual Cosmere line of novels, the Stormlight Archives in particular, uh, and that is interludes.
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If you're unfamiliar with what an interlude is, that is a stepping outside of the present narrative to walk back into the past of our, uh, of our, uh, group of our party.
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That can be scenes of trauma or triumph, of connection or learning, uh, from any time in the past. Could it be then, uh, from when they were children, from when they were, uh, adolescents, from when they were young adults just growing
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into, into the, the capable individuals that they are in our present day? And so it can happen, uh, it can happen at any point. Um, whether that be together with the other cast members or solo. Um, complete toss-up. These are discussed
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beforehand and we launch into them. And so tonight you are going to get a window. You're going to get a window into, uh, a few of our, uh, a few of our characters. So that being said, where we are going to
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start this evening is actually with Faniel. So we travel back a few years into Faniel's past.
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This is at a point when Faniel had been very much entrenched in the military but not in a long-term way.
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You were serving underneath a different captain, uh, someone important to your past. You were an up-and-comer. You had received accolades for your accomplishments.
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Um, and where we are joining you is we are at the border between Yakaved and Alithar, a geographic hot spot where border disputes between high princes over, uh, territory, over mineral rights, over, uh, uh, verdant landscape, apes, uh, over old
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old cultural divides. Uh, that's where these things take place. It's where, to some, you would say that it is the place where young men go to prove themselves, uh, to make good on, you know, on their culture, on their, on their
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bloodlines, to, to show that they are next in line for that grand military tradition of their, of their, uh, family's history. And to others, we may look at this as a place where light eyes get to play God with the lives of people that
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they deem to be lesser. Uh, where people are, are treated not unlike chaff or cattle to be, to be used for the, for the, uh, the progression of the, uh, the Alleie war machine. But regardless on where you sit in that, uh, uh, camp of
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thought, where we join Faniel is you are in a forward, uh, a forward operating base, uh, tent, uh, a well-appointed light eyes, uh, uh, endeavor, uh, a, a, a place with plush carpets that are laid out, uh, hot stoves that have
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been put inside of these large canvas, uh, uh, tents that have been, uh, that have been spiked into the stone. All clear of, of creme or shale bark or any of the other, uh, uh, you know, things that may be
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that may accumulate on the exterior of, of lesser important individuals. You are in the tent of Captain Barin.
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A table has been set up in the middle of this tent. And atop that table has been pinned a, uh, a, a sort of vellum, uh, map with small figurines, uh, carved out of, uh, grimstone, uh, that
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represent different maneuvering armies. Uh, and Faniel, you look at a glance at the map, it being the first thing that sort of draws your eye in this room, and you see something that immediately lights your face up, which is that
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it's very clear that the logistic points that you had given to Captain Barin had borne fruit in a very meaningful way. Uh, they had won the day and you see those lines of, of reinforcements, uh, and, and standing armies, uh, having progressed up
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this border and having, uh, taken a town, uh, that used to be Yakaved. There's four individuals that stand in this room besides yourself. There is Captain Barin standing on one side of the table. Uh, there is a sublieutenant,
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a, uh, uh, an alternate, uh, to Barin himself, uh, who goes by, uh, I believe you gave me the name a little bit earlier. Um, but if no, no, no, sorry, different, different individual. I will, let me, let
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me check my notes very quickly. Uh, uh, Gavar, uh, subaltern Gdavar is standing to the, to the, uh, to the side of Captain Barin. Um, and the other two are one a logistician like yourself, a, uh, a woman, um, safe hand on wearing a hava, uh,
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and, uh, uh, covered head to toe in, in the Althy Blues. Um, and the fourth person is someone of a little bit of mystery, uh, to you. Uh, they are an ardent, uh, but it seems as if this ardent is a swordmaster,
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one that had been brought in for, uh, reasons a little bit unknown to you, but seems to be someone that, uh, Captain Barin holds very close as an adviser. Um, an individual that largely goes unnamed as Captain Barin has taken this person
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and, and essentially like most, uh, Ardents are treated a little bit more like, uh, uh, a possession, uh, than as a, as, as an individual. They are used almost like an, like an accuchimal, like they are, uh, they're almost like a
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yeah, like a, like a seasoning that you bring into the room. So, Captain Barin, this, uh, this sort of rugged, uh, uh, handsome individual standing, uh, at the, at the end of the, at the end of the table, his hand is
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resting on his sword and he's looking at this, uh, new progressed battle map and he turns to, to you.
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Well, for Faniel, I must admit, while yes, it was questionable whether or not to take the eastern flank and that it was very dicey as we were playing a, a game of, uh, uh, of chance with the oncoming of the highstorm. Yes, we
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won the day. We have taken the village of Fillain. Yakaved has one less pastoral community to feed their armies.
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And in no uncertain terms, it is at the expertise of yourself that we have won this.
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I, I would be lying if I said it was the maneuver that I would have suggested.
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And Gdavar here, and he turns to him, you fought tooth and nail in order to undermine this and there are 15 good men dead because you decided tactics, logistics, sticks, troop movements are calculable.
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These are not mysteries. The human element can be considered. Do not get me wrong. And then he lays a hand on Gdavar's shoulder.
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It is individuals like the Blackthorne. It is individuals like High Prince Sadius. It is shard plate covered warriors of legend, the Sunmaker himself that will turn battles in the way that you wanted to today. But you wear steel
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and you wield steel. You are not as special as you think you are. And men died for it.
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Gavar looks him in the eye. If we would have simply listened to me at the onset, I would have been able to run through there, lieutenant, and our cavalry would have stomped them low.
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Gavar, if we would have listened to Faniel's orders to the letter and you would not have charged that line, none of you would have died.
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Not a manal. Yes, sir. When you took into account all of the effort and all of the blood, sweat, and tears that these men could bring to muster and the places where they would be committed to on this
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battlefield, did you think for one second that there should be an unmitigated risk, that we should throw men at
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Or did you think in your mind that safety, prudence, and solid disciplined tactics would win the day?
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Was it was it glory and and cockure ridiculous notions of self-importance that would win the day? Or was it the mustered well-trained oiled machine of the allei war effort that would win the day?
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Fra is going to keep her eyes down uh and her hands folded, her postures fully fully perfect, standing up straight um and respond. We we calculate the strategy ahead of time to try to reduce those unmitigated risks. Sir,
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it would it very much seems as if this is a clinic being put on by Barn to prove something to Gdavar and he looks to you and he says, "Ah, I see. So when you calculate things and you mark
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down the numbers and you have read all of the history reports and you studied the geography of the battlefield and you looked at the very specific skill sets of our entire troop, those are the things those are the things that you
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took into account. Yes, sir. Ah, I see. And then he turns back to get aar.
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So he leans in. Men died today. I will send 15 letters to 15 families about the blood that you decided to shed today.
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You took their lives in your hands. And now you are going to have to live with that fact for the rest of your life.
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And I would like you to remember that the next time that you ramble off that the orders of a woman are the makings of someone who does not have a leash on their emotions.
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So please, Gdavar, leave my tent. Gdavar sputters, looks up to Barin. I you She won us a battle, but she's going to lose us lose us the war.
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There's no women generals. And I think you know why Barn looks to him and says, "I asked you to leave my tent." And Gdavar spins around on a heel, gives a tur stomp, and then storms out of the tent.
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Well, what an unpleasant little weasel of a man. Vera sits in the silence. She's she's feeling like heat in her face right now.
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She's definitely feeling a little bit embarrassed. Um, and like a sense a like tightening sense of the room closing in on her a little bit.
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Are are you feeling pressure? Larin like looks up and down the lines of your body language and and seems to all but read an aura of anxious energy uh flowing heatedly out of you.
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Uh she's going to hesitate before she says um yes sir. I think there is something to be said about feeling more pressure and more anxiety about standing in a room while I admonish a man for leading young men to
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death than you feel moving around hundreds of men to destroy our enemies and send unfort fortunately other men to death.
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I think if there's something to reflect on here, it's that you deserve to be big in a room full of the small and Gavar is small.
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That's kind of you to say. sir and congratulations on the win today. I will accept the congratulations but I will not accept that this was a kindness. A kindness would be to send you back to whatever village that you
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came from to live a pastoral life on the backlines of these conflicts that we fight.
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A kindness would be to take you away and disaffect you from making the decisions that shed blood.
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It wasn't kind. It's just the truth. Capable individuals should feel confident in the things that they do and the things that they say. And you have excellent role models.
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The world is changing for Aniel whether we wanted to or not and taking up space is not going to be a sin for very much longer.
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She lets a a little smile escape even though she's trying to remain composed. Um she just nods.
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Well, not to make this a little bit more daer, but I have men to kill tomorrow.
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And so I am going to go and I am going to drink and I am going to eat.
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And I am going to go and congratulate men for things that should not be congratulated.
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And I encourage you to get some rest for lack of sleep can make a person sloppy.
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I I do have reports to finish before I can rest though. Well, I won't distract you from your work, but I I will say that get rest, please. We'll do. Enjoy your evening. Say, of course.
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Marin turns to the other individual in the room. See, that's what I'm talking about.
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That's what I'm talking about. It is. And as you're walking out of the tent, you sort of hear this like this like back and forth between Barin and this mystery individual. That's what I'm talking about. That Gavar Gavar is the
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worst man that I have met in in many weeks. And Feraniel is probably the most capable person that I've had in my camp in a long time. Saved lives, is competent, has a brain, and and and has studied things that people have not in
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many, many years. She essentially she I I I bet she could pick out the fingerprint structure of the sun maker if you showed her it on a blade like it's soant soant. But and then you hear whispered and you know as you as you
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keep moving out but I swear she's going to get herself killed. She's way too smart for her own good and there's a lot of very small men in this camp.
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And then you hit I presume your tent or where does where does Faniel go in this forward operating bases war camp?
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Yeah, she's going to go back to her tent. She has a little table set up there and she she does have some some reports to finish up. She's got to stay stay diligent. Um it's not time for her
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to rest yet. Okay. She's going to go back to her tent. Sure. You start writing away.
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You tip tap. Put your quill in ink and start scratching on pieces of paper. You start writing out, you know, glyph instructions for uh for, you know, uh lance sergeants in in in different locations. you start giving out uh you
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start writing reports on very specifically what had happened during the day. Um, you unfortunately need to uh scribe to paper the admonishment of uh of of Gavar so that it is on record that he was chastised for his uh for his
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uh uh tactical mishap out in the field and you start whiling away the time, you know, falling into those routines of of scratching ink on paper as you've done many many times. times before.
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And I think I think this will be a good time for you to roll a uh we'll do a perception please.
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Okay, that's a six. A six. Okay. It's distracted. You seem entirely lost in your work. It's it's been a few hours. Nothing nothing too terribly crazy. The sun has gone down.
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Uh you are writing by sphere light. Uh the you know the radiance that that comes out of these glass uh gem filled spheres uh illuminating the room in a in a cascade of colors that are of truly of
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your choosing. Um brilliant blue sapphires and and uh you know emerald greens. and you you're you're you're getting close to the end of the reports that you need to write for the for the evening. And it is a stark skin crawling shock when you
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hear the rustling of your tent cover uh from behind you. And while she was was writing, she had taken taken off her safe hand glove because her her hand was cramping. It was a long day. Um, so she was she's
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thinking she's totally alone. Um, so uh, she hears that and I'm going to say for a second she considers screaming but decides to assess it first.
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Okay. You turn around and standing in the shadow of the tent, silhouetted by the darkness outside and illuminated in a very almost like a cubricesque way in this uh in this um threshold is Gavar. He's like he he's he's staring
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Fananiel down. Um, you know, looking at you through his eyebrows. Uh, a very deranged sort of uh look on his face.
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He sniffs. His hand is on the pommel of his side sword. He's still wearing his breastplate, the rest of his armor having been taken off.
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He's breathing a little bit heavy. You embarrassed me today. Fear is going to rise carefully.
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I'm turning to face him. Um, if I've done something to offend, I hope I will correct it.
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You're spitting in the face of tradition. You are looking down upon people who have trained their entire lives for the role that they sit in. I make one mistake and suddenly I am the lesser of some junior logistician.
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What? Cuz you got lucky. You pushed a couple of little Kremling pegs around on a on a piece of paper and now suddenly you're the hero of the day.
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Where's the sweat on your brow? Where's the blood on your hands? You are nothing. And then as he's speaking, you hear that like slick oiled like of his blade coming out of the sheath. You are nothing but a pen
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pushing lazy entitled hunk of creme. And I'm going to teach you what happens when a dark ice works against a light eyes and his blade is fully out of its sheath.
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What do you do in that moment? She goes from that initial feeling of fear when she almost screamed to kind of like a sense of clarity and taking in where he's standing, where he how he's holding his sword. Um where he is in the sense of
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the tent and like in a moment she knows like where his weight is, where he's keeping his balance and her hand is going to move on instinct and she's going to grab her side sword. um without even thinking it uh and clear her own
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sword out of her sheath in one quick smooth motion. I have a good question actually. Where do you hide your sword in your tent?
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Sure. Uh it is uh at the edge of her bed uh underneath her her coat. She just when she hangs up her coat, she hides it there. But when it's not there, it's just uh um probably hidden under the bed. But since she's
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back in her tent, she just hung up her coats. It's right underneath. In a sleek motion, you draw your sword as well. And he just whispers like poison under his breath, "Heretic blasphemer." And then with a raised blade, he rushes
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in and he just screams. He says, "You apostate." And I will ask for what is what is fear's physical defense?
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14. A glancing strike, minimum damage, hits FRA. He rushes in mostly offbalance. The man is as a woman who has studied sword play, as someone who has a very distinct need to be more prepared than the average person. You see that he's using
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quite literally the most basic stance in the entire uh uh swordsmanship catalog of of of Althy Warfare. It is stone stance. It is the basic of basics.
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And you see it in almost a moment. You you you think in your head that clarity, that laser line of focus, that that intentional knowledgeable tickle in the back of your head, oh, you're you're better than him.
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And I would like you to make your attack. Yeah. Okay. Keep in mind if you take a long turn, you will get two.
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Mhm. All right. Um, you might need to guide me through how to make an attack. This will be the first time I'm making an attack.
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Oh. Uh, roll a d20 and then add your uh add your attack bonus for weapon.
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Cool. It's light weapon. It This would be light weapon cuz it's your side sword.
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Yeah. Mhm. That's a 15. A 15. Mhm. There's no way that you're going to strike at his vitals in this moment.
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He's wearing a breastplate. But I will ask you to a roll damage and b describe how you strike this man.
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Um, that's five damage. And she's going to use his so she he gets that one hit off on her. Um, and now he's off balance and closer to her. So, she's going to you step inside his reach and use his
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momentum against him. And she wasn't going for vital. She's going to strike his wrist first.
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Okay. That's holding his sword. Perfect. Perfect. Your blade smacks out. The whistle of the speed at which you are striking with uh hums through the air.
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And it's now that you feel the uh the the flat of your blade strike out and and with a walloping slapping impact. uh nail into his wrist.
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Would you like to spend a focus and immediately disarm this man? Yes, definitely. His sword clatters to the floor.
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And you have a chance. Would you like to sweep his leg? push him back out of the tent, send him tumbling outside of it. Would you like to There's a few things that you can do here. Uh you can you can move him away
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from you with a push. You can trip him and put him onto the ground of your tent. Uh or you can simply smack him again.
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So, I'm seeing I stepped into his space, hit his wrist kind of on the side like side diagonal of him. Yeah. Can I step forward and kick at his knee so he falls to the ground?
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. Uh, that will be a focus and then another attack roll. Okay. Would that be unarmed attack then?
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Uh, that would be unarmed. Yes. Okay. 21. Gavar yelps. A sound not too distant from an axe hound that has been struck as his blade clatters to the ground and your blade smacks into his wrist.
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perhaps bruising, spraining. And then you move even closer into his circle, a little bit past him, beyond the shadow of his impacts. Press your hand against his center of gravity.
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Place your knee onto his and shove. And his leg buckles from the weight. You hear not a pop, but a bit of a uh a strain uh come from the leathers that are covering his legs. His knee hits the
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ground and he gives a confused and pained uh uh gasp and exclamation as his back hits the ground and a bit of the air is driven out of him. and he starts to gasp and he says he starts to kick
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his way out of the tent. He is he is he is pressing with legs to to scramble outside of your circle of influence. He says, "You you storming heretic, you you horrid horrid creature, you embarrass me further." And then he
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he he pushes himself a little bit out of the tent and he he lays on the ground.
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Stop him. Oh yeah. He lays on the ground halfhanging inside of your tent and out.
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What do you do to stop him? Um I don't Could I Could I try and react before he got that far?
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Oh my gosh. Yeah, for sure. What do you do? Um, if I see him turning towards towards to escape, I I want to take my sword and see if I can cut him off. Preferably like stop from where his head is going
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and hold the sword at his neck. In order to get him to completely stop moving, I will ask for an intimidation.
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Okay. And if I could get you to raise the stakes. Yeah. Yeah. 17. Intimidation and raise the stakes. Going back to resources.
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Uh oh, that would be a 19 intimidation but with a complication. but with a complication. Okay.
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Yeah, your complication is going to be very simple. Fra is not the greatest swordsswoman to walk the entire planet and thus your aim is not as clean as you wish as you go to lower the blade to his neck. You cut a
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fairly strong line into the flesh of his throat in a position that may or may not leave a scar in the future.
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But he stops. And it's not fatal, but he does give another gasp of pain as a line of blood starts to run down the length of the tip of your blade and into the dirt.
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There is a look of fear. abject horrified panic painting Gavar's face. She's going to lean into that intimidation um and say, "This is the only warning you will ever receive from me. You will not speak of this. And if you try, I will make
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certain that the only story that anyone ever hears is that you attacked a fifthdawn darkeyed woman and lost. If you ever touch me again, I will make sure everyone knows how weak you are. And she's going to tighten that
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that sword closer a little closer to him. He tries to shrink into the dirt, to press himself even further, to seem even smaller in this moment as your blade bites just ever so delicately more into the flesh of his neck.
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And he simply looks and says, I'll never speak of it. Just going to remove her blade.
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Going to remove her blade from his neck and just say leave now. He scrambles to his feet, tripping over himself, landing again on his knees as he tumbles out of the tent. And you hear the pitterpatter of hobnailed footsteps on
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dirt and and stone scraping out into the night and you are once again alone in your tent.
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You're just gonna um stand there for a moment. uh the realization of what just happened is going to hit her.
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Uh she's going to sit back um on her on her cot. I think now is like the first time her hands start shaking and when it does I think she's going to realize that that whole time her safe hand glove was
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off. Um and like that trips her into a little bit of panic like more so than she was already feeling. Uh, and she's going to retrieve like grab her glove from wherever it flew off or if it was
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still on the desk and put it back on while her hands are shaking and try to press it out. Um, and just sit there in that moment of gez, what have I done?
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There is a circular messy blood stain on the dirt or on the on the stone.
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That is what your tent is pegged down into. There's for the very first time blood on your blade.
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The blood of someone that wanted to harm you. You defended yourself. And it was terrifying and exhilarating.
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A lighteyed officer came into your tent and the only thing that he proved is that cultural privilege does not equal expertise or right.
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As you feel this adrenaline start to dump out of you. It's almost like you feel a bit stronger, a little bit more connected.
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there's a little bit more clarity and you're not entirely sure what it is. And the thing that shakes you out of that revery is a very sudden uh realization that during this combat, during this this self-defense, this moment of of peril,
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uh that it seems to be time to replace some of the spheres in your sphere lamps. It's a little bit dark in here and you're going to have to you're very likely going to need to uh grab some
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some infused spheres and the only thing that you can think of is that you weren't quite done those last reports and they need to be done whether or not your hands are shaking from adrenaline.
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So, I feel like from there that might be a good spot to zoom out from.
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Okay. Yeah. Well, we join again into the semi-distant past of one of our own, Alstrom.
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Can I ask where exactly you are? I'm on a fishing boat with some like extended family, some cousins.
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Is this in Alycar? Is this by Carbon? Is this This is in uh uh uh Thaila.
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Yeah. Okay. off of the coast of Phalen City, the you know almost city-state island nation uh from where Olstrom lives. You are within a sailing boat, one that has the catamaran style uh nets on either side. uh a small
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below deck portion for sleeping and eating and supplies. Um your cousins are milling about on deck. This isn't your forte.
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You've been brought along for what purpose today? Uh just an annual family like trip. We just do it every few months.
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Perfect. Perfect. Oh, parents are like, "Go play with your cousins for the day. You got to be with the family." Perfect. Perfect.
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As your cousins frolic about the boat, the adults, you know, uh, playing with the main sail and adjusting rudder and laying down anchor in order to stay in a more shallow section.
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you start to notice something that has always fascinated you as a uh as someone that that sort of revels in the in the you know phenomena of the world. Uh you start to see the various sprint that populate the uh that populate the
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waters. Um it's always sort of a plethora. Um whereas out on the uh nigh empty stone of the uh of the plains that are surrounding Thalen City uh you know there there may be only a few sprren popping up here and there or the
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different emotional spread of the people that wander those places here out on the ocean. It is from the Riddens Rainsprren. Their little candleike uh bodies topped with uh uh topped with that little wavering eyeball. There are lifespan that follow around the
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different schools of of of fish and and uh crablike creatures, the little chills and and and such. and sky eels uh wefting and and and wending their way through the through the air as wind spread sort of frolic
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about them. And you are waiting, you've been waiting to see a very specific kind of sprren out on these waters. You've you've heard rumors of them. They're a little bit, you know, they're a little bit hard to come by,
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but you know that they exist. And what is that spread? One of my other cousins told me about waves that when they crash into each other, the little like he he saw little creatures in the like splashes of the
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waves. As you look out into the ocean, the waters crashing together, these gentle rolling waves.
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Can I get a perception? Five. A five. You peer into the depths. You peer into the AC across the waves.
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You're looking into the sky. You're looking everywhere. And during one of those times that you are looking deeply into the water.
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It has calmed, seemingly dashing some of your hopes of of seeing a wave spread. It it's become, you know, about an hour's gone by and the wind has died down nigh completely and the warm waters are now populated
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and only broken up by your cousins playing in the in the in the shallow.
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But you are looking down into the actual water yourself and the glassy surface looks back at you.
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And as your reflection stares back, there is a crack in the surface. It seems like cracking glass.
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The mirror like sheen of the surface of the water has your face on it in one moment and then it seems like in a flash there is a woman made entirely out of an inky blackness.
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In the next What were you looking for? Nothing. Something like the What? Where did you Where did you come from?
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I have come from something very complicated, but I can't fully answer that question right now.
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I'm more curious about you. What were you looking for? Uh, a a a sprren my cousin told me about.
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And what kind of sprren did your good cousin tell you about? Like this little guy with four legs and these big round eyes and they come out when two waves splash.
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So, have you seen them? I have seen almost every friend that this world has to offer.
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What's the coolest one you've ever seen? I would say that the most interesting sprint that I have ever seen in my life was my sister.
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She is large like a great shell and made of a amethyst hued crystal. She fills the hearts of men and is truly a creature like none other.
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Does that mean you're a spread? What do you think I am? What are you looking for?
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I am looking for people like you. You don't even know me. I don't think so.
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I think that not knowing someone is truly the only starting point that a person can have. Isn't it?
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How can you look for something you don't know? You are curious and you are unafraid.
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You are fascinated with things that seem to be beyond you and yours. And most importantly, you don't fit.
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Why are you following me? Where are you? Well, I'm here right before you. But I follow you because I like you. I think you're fascinating. I think you have a bright future.
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There aren't many men who are brilliant like you. You play with ideas of Sprren, capturing and using them, and you want to turn them into something different, right?
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No, I I I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, come now. You must mean my sister.
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What's your name? What's your name? You first. You knocked on my door. No, you're right.
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I have gone by many names as I have been alive for many years, but I am called Shaat and I would like to think that I am not unlike yourself.
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Call me Brindle. Brindle. Well Brindle you live here and your sister also stays with you.
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Have you ever thought about moving somewhere where you would have access to better materials and where you may make better change?
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Why would I No. What? What is that? How long have you been following me?
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I've been watching you for a little while. I am interested in artifans scientists like yourself. Trust me, I am not interesting.
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Far from it. We can play this game all you want. That is fine. You will never build your flying device if you keep yourself away from centers of industry.
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I want to reach into the water and splash away the image. Okay. You reach into the water and you splash as much of it as you can, rippling the surface.
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And then you hear from behind you M in the glass of the living quarters door is the same face with that same crack running along it.
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Well, now that was just rude. Rude is following me everywhere. I couldn't talk to you until now.
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Brem, I have no reason to lie. To be blunt, I want things from you.
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No, I can't just Why? Why would I expect a reflection in something to just tell the truth? Nothing about this is right.
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You haven't run away. Is there anyone around? Your cousins. Your cousins are playing in the water. Uh your uncle is uh uh you know um adjusting the anchor. Um, there's no one really around on this side of the boat. She very much uh she
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very very much chose an opportune time to speak to you when you were alone.
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Mhm. Can I like turn the mirror, flip it around? You said it was a mirror.
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No, it's the glass of the door. Oh, the glass of the door. Is there something I could grab nearby to like cover it? Even if it's just like a plank.
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You can grab a You can grab a piece of canvas, what have you? Absolutely.
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Just leave me and my family alone. There's a quiet, you know. I think that the men of this world are rather cowardly.
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They oppress and they run and they hide from truths about themselves. I very very much wanted to have a civil conversation with you.
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You and your sister need to go to Colonar. My sister, I'm sure, would be very pleased to meet you.
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There are things that are going to happen in the very near future and the world is going to need the kind of change that you can bring.
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Hide for from it all that you want. You'll either be a part of it or you'll be beneath it.
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Get on a boat and leave Olstrom. Where's that voice coming from? In your own head.
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If you promise to leave me and my family alone, I for good. I don't make promises I can't keep.
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Neither do I. You hear coming from the water one of your cousins voice. Auster, get in the water. What are you doing, weirdo? You looking for waves, friend?
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Yeah, I almost I think I saw some uh uh Okay, I made it up. I made it up. Prem, get in the water.
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Fine. Then I try to jump off the railing from the boat into into the water. You splash into the water. It's warm. It's pleasant.
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It's inviting. And I think Alstrom plays a little extra hard with his cousins to like get that I what just happened out.
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Yeah. Yeah. of just trying to forget it. Yeah, for sure. You feel as you're playing and having fun that this may just be one of the last times that you get to do this with your family.
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And there's a little bit of melancholy that overcomes you. And you see drifting in the water a few somber sprals that sort of drift and then burst as they impact on the water.
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Yeah, I think I think he realizes that even if he doesn't go toar that he should probably leave because being watched by something like that is freaking him out. I would like you to make a uh history.
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Is that lore? Sorry, lore. Yeah, I'm so bad. Yep. Okay, I'm just going to use my cuz this is when I'm younger. So, I'm not going to use what I have right now. I'm going to use like half of it. Yeah, that's totally
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fine. Uh, still a 16. Still a 16. Yeah, that drive definitely comes from knowing that there are, you know, stories of voidbringers, of of these shadowy creatures that have come from desolations before, of the the the the knights radiant um abandoning
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all hope and abandoning humanity at the behest of of of reasons unknown. this recreantsance being this mysterious uh this mysterious circumstance and you've heard tale of powerful creatures whispering in the ears of of men. You've heard horrible shadow creatures coming
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to to life and influencing the the grander minations of of the the nations of the world. It's usually brought about despair and destruction. And thus, yes, you do feel like if this wasn't a hallucination, that there is something very dire going
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on in the world. I wonder Maybe I can talk to Alir and my family.
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Maybe we can open up another shop somewhere else. We can have two locations. We can be a chain.
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Any reason to get out of here? And as a little bit of a closing remark, it is not more than a month or two away from this date that Alstrom and Alshir decide that Colonar is in the throws of conflict,
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that there might be people in need, that the war machine in Alithar could use Fabriels and span reads and etc, etc., that there will be a a sort of, you know, a grand necessity of of artifans uh making goods and and and creating uh
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new inventions in order to help the the the royal family of of colonar. Um you know, the the family um do not shy away from such things. And heck, you've even you've even heard rumors that the Shattered Plains is uh getting close to
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uh uh being a a one theater of battle. And thus, there's going to be an even greater push. And you just pile reason upon reason upon reason to travel to Colon.
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And it is not terribly long after that a property is purchased. Goods are procured.
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A ship is chartered and you are on your way to Colonar, the capital of Alithkar, away from your home, away from your family, off to try to find out exactly why this creature spoke to you.
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I feel like that is a pretty good place to zoom out. Yeah, folks. That's where we're going to take our human break. Um, it is about that time. Hi. Uh, we're another world tabletop. We're telling uh cosmir stories tonight. Um, it's interlude
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I sure hope so. Or cat, lizard, fish, whatever you got. So after that encounter, we have a bit of a a bit of a zoom out from the the national scale or international scale.
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And we are bringing it back to Colonar, the streets of the palace district. We are going to place ourselves on a rooftop just adjacent, a noble uh apartment, a little complex, a sort of hienda that's been chopped up into
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into different uh uh octants uh that different nobles live within. Now, Nev, my question is, how long have you been scoping out this location? What kind of information have you gathered? Uh, uh, I'd say, uh, I've scoped out this particular
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location for a couple of weeks. uh essentially ensuring that you know typical daily patterns of guards, servants etc are matching up to what I have observed in the past uh and what I was able to get from the
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network members who were doing a lot of the footwork for me previously. Uh essentially I have gathered information on what the rough layout of the home is uh and what kind of defenses to expect um prior to breaking in.
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So, this has fallen into your lap. Gems like this specific job. They come across every so often.
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Light eyes that have gotten too complacent, that don't treat their their property with any real amount of of uh respect. They leave pretty grand sums of of of uh of valued assets uh unguarded for long periods of time. Um you know, very
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fragile locks being put on on uh sphere cages. Um doors that are just single lock affairs.
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Nothing too too terribly intense there. and you know um long periods of time where there's just no guards whatsoever, whether it be, you know, a labor dispute or uh they've sent the guards away to have an affair with
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uh uh with some other uh individual uh uh you know, behind their wives back uh or vice versa. um leaving no one really but the but the dark eyed maids uh to take over the day-to-day of the household. And it seems like this is
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specifically that this little twostory apartment uh that is in the palace district has all of the hallmarks of that sort of milkun um uh job. Uh the doors easy enough to bust into. Um, you see no guards whatsoever.
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And you have, however, in days just the days prior to this one seen behind windows maids flitting about or at least one.
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And uh you saw just hours before um you know an unnamed lightyed uh gentleman uh leave the leave the household.
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And if the patterns can be trusted, he's not going to be back for a couple of hours, maybe a day. This is just a little landing pad for him.
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Yeah, he seems the type to rent a space just to keep his stuff there while he's in town and isn't really staying there. Staying there.
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Yep. Um, so the perfect opportunity for me to swoop in and take his belongings.
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Uh, so I am going from sphere lamp to sphere lamp, taking the spheres, putting them in the bag. Uh, done, lit, doesn't matter. I'm taking it all. Uh, anything that isn't nailed down that looks of value to me, I'm stealing it. Uh,
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particularly looking for money, jewelry, anything that looks even remotely valuable. Even if it's clothing that looks particularly nice, I'm taking all of it.
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Um, obviously items that are within a certain like value range, something I can sell, something I could use, something I could, you know, get a pretty penny for.
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And I am clearing rooms, breaking locks. Uh, not breaking the locks. I'm I am breaking into the locks. I'm using a lockpick. I'm not brute forcing anything. I'm leaving as little evidence as possible that anyone was here at all.
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The goal is to make it look like these things have simply disappeared and nobody is any wiser or damage done otherwise. Um, as I move from room to room, yeah, you start collecting small bundles of spheres. Uh a few of
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them a few of them do definitely seem to be done. Um as if this place has has been neglected to a certain extent. Uh you collect a small small collection of jewelry.
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Um you come across a uh a cabinet um that has some drawers in the bottom of it that you start ripping uh ripping open and ripping through. and you see correspondence between um the owner of this building and uh uh what appears to
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be a mistress. Uh you catch a few um missives between uh uh the individual that owns this place and porters that will uh deliver X Y and Z. You've seen like food stuffs. you've seen um you know just you you you catch a lot of the
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rigomearroll and uh you're snagging valuables. You're making note of things. You're doing that typical uh uh sneak thief routine of like oh even if it seems not valuable you're marking things like oh he's here these days and he's
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there these days and he knows these people and yada yada yada. and you start marking like very obvious um hallmarks of what this man might be like in his day-to-day.
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Mhm. And uh you come across uh a singular door uh that is far more secure than the others.
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Uh it seems to be the door to a bed chamber. Um it has a few extra locks on it. Uh, and it is, uh, made out of a reinforced wood. Um, okay.
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So, I will ask for a thievery. Okay. This wouldn't fall under my expertise, I think. Oh, you know what? I Yes, but the the complexity of this means that you'll be rolling this with advantage.
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With advantage. Yeah. Okay. Okay, the first one is an 18 total. The second one, oops, that's cocked.
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Oh is a a natural 20 plus 525. There's really been seldom a you know there's there's locks that stray outside of the mundane within uh colonar um that may give you a little bit of frustration. Um, you know, things that
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have like uh uh the trap um like those trap uh uh catches um things like that um where the the the teeth of the key or the the the the rasp is meant to get caught, etc., etc. But this isn't one of
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those. This is just a collection of locks uh that may have caused you a little bit of trouble.
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And you open up the door and you see what can really only be described as a scene of horror.
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There is a broken and bloodied corpse on the floor of the bedroom. They are wearing the apparel of a maid.
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It is a darkeyed woman. Bruising and inflammation all about the face and along the arms.
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This person was uh beaten rather savagely before their untimely death. Uh I think the first thing Nev looks for even though they're shocked, uh do I recognize this person?
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like are they somebody I know or I've seen? You look for things hallmarks of an individual. Uh is their face recognizable enough for me to even tell it's it's hard but nev start you start looking for recognizable features. Birth
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marks, tattoos, uh uh you know um missing fingers. You look for clothing. You look for uh recognizable jewelry. Um you're looking for hair. Um all of those different kinds of things. And you take a little bit of time looking
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across the body. And can I get a discipline role? Discipline from the undisiplined. That's another Nat 20 22.
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It is a cold fury that washes over Nali as you recognize that this person is someone that you've known for years.
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They were a rather well-known figure in the theater district. They were a patron of many of the drinking establishments.
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They ran a maid service. Uh they were a first non Oh, they were a business owner way higher up than me. Okay.
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They had they were a they were allowed to own and and you know operate a business here in Colinar. um they were a patron for many within the theater district and you knew her to be very kindly specifically to some of the
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children that you have taken in in the cell. This was a good woman. You know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was an individual that did not deserve this fate.
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Uh I think it hits Nav even harder the second recognition registers. Uh, not that Ne's never seen a dead body before, but it's usually not like this.
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Uh, I think kind of swallowing down the rage and the bile in my throat. Uh, given how horrendous this is, uh, I'm going to very quickly sweep the room.
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because I still have a job to finish. You sweep for possessions, valuables, and it's very obvious that this room was given a very specific type of care.
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There are tapestries hanging from the walls in order to muffle noise. There are extra locks on the door to ensure no one escapes.
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This is a very carefully crafted room that is designed for it would seem really like one thing and that is to dispatch people.
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I think when I find that there is no valuables in here, it's not a bedroom after all, I'm going to trace my steps back out uh to the balcony that I broke in on where I have a member of the cell
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waiting. Who do you have waiting for you? Uh, I would say that it is we're going to say it's Derven.
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It's Dervin. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so at this point in time, Dervin is maybe 11.
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Yeah. A few years back. Certainly a pre-teen at this point. Yes. Yeah. So, uh, in current day he's 14.
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Uh, but at this time he's probably like around 11. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense.
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Uh, and I'm going to look to Dervin and say, uh, I found a body in there.
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Go get help. Dervin immediately stops doing the little happy dance that they were doing at seeing you coming out unscathed with a bag of swag.
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And they're like, "Help. Who? Help. Who? Who's who who am I getting to help?" Um, who do I Who do I go to?
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Who do I go to? Who do I go to for help for this one?
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Uh, uh, I don't know. Who do we know? We can't go to the guards. They're going to think you did it.
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They're going to think I did it. Like wreck I'm going to wreck my brain.
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Hold on. Hold on. Derve. Hold on. Hold on. Um that that detective, the one in Little Heraldz.
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We've spammed him before. I know. I know. But like he doesn't know it was us. So I he the drinker I've heard I I've heard that you know for a light eyes he might have some kind of moral conscious so
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maybe he'll help us. You're asking me to go and get a lighteyed detective. He sure don't live like a light eyes. So maybe there's reason to talk to him.
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You see this like look of like confusion, panic, worry, sorrow all like wash over Dervin's face. Okay. Okay.
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Okay. What's his name? Uh starts with a B. Um um her Dazzian guy smells kind of funny.
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Uh man uh Berdalor I think. Uh, okay. Yeah. Okay, I'll find him. Little Herdazz.
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Little Herdazz. I'm heading to Little Herdazz to find a smelly drunk light eyes that will help us find the thing in the stuff cuz he knows light eyes, right? He knows light eyes.
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Listen. Yeah. Listen, I listen, Derve. It's It's really important that we do this right because It's someone we know.
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What do What What do you What do you mean? What do you mean? Who do we know?
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It's It's It's Lenley. What? Yeah, I think maybe. The bright lord here likes to do what bright lords do to their servants.
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But she used to give me chillc cakes and and and clean water and I I used to be able to head there for snacks and and treats and stuff. She was always so sweet to me.
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What? I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm going to put my hands on his shoulders. I'm really sorry, buddy, but I want to make sure that somebody does something for her.
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And it can't be us. Do you understand? We can't explain why we're here, Dervin.
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We can't explain why we found this. Why I found this? Okay. Okay. We have to take care of our own and we can't go to the guards.
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Yeah. Okay. And if he tells you to off, fine. If he if he tells me to go storm myself, I'm going to punch him.
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He'd probably be drunk enough that you could hit him, too. Just go be as quick as you can. Okay.
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Yeah. Dervin dashes off. Uh starts to run. Uh you see tears starting to stream down their face as as as they sprint off. And I feel like we can zoom out from there.
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Bilar. Hi. Where do we find you on this fine day? Uh yeah. So Delar uh is just walking out of the uh out of shard swap, which is a uh sphere uh a sphere exchange. Um but it's you know actually the the front for
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uh raves criminal uh business. Um, Bear walks out. Bear is just walking out now after being away from home for like probably about 5 days between multiple different jobs. Uh, both for the guard as well as for Rave as well as for some
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like personal pet projects. Um, shout out to the Sons of Honor. Um, and uh, yeah, he's finally on his way home. Um after yeah after after after days uh exhausted bags under his eyes has probably slept 10 hours in like this
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week total maybe you're walking about maybe a city block or so away from your actual home. You can smell the chowder wrap being cooked. You can you can hear the the sounds of little cousins playing in the background. Um, you can all but feel the
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heat of the steaming bath that is waiting for you once you hit the door and you're walking, trudging.
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Yeah. And then you feel a stone plink you in the back of the head.
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Okay, that's rude. And then another and turns around. you see standing on a collection of boxes uh uh just scrambling down from uh the rooftop uh adjacent is is a grubbyl looking child no older than 11 or 12 years old um with
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a with a little pile of pebbles in its uh in in their hand. Um a little dagger on their hip. Uh boots that are too big for their feet uh and and a grubby tunic.
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They stare you down. Hey, Naro. Um, why are you throwing rocks at me? You are that guy.
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You're that guy. You What do you smell like? gives himself a sniff. Um, I don't know.
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Kind of like a back alley mixed with a tavern mixed with I don't know, maybe a little sweat and some blood.
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Yeah. Pissy and pissy and boozy. Hey. Okay. That's Are you old enough to know that?
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I know what piss is, mister. Okay. But what are you real? Am I hallucinating?
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Yeah, I'm real. Why is there an angry Why is there an angry child throwing rocks at me?
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Because I need you to solve a murder. And Belar is so torn. He's so torn. He He turns and looks back at his house.
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Could I just maybe we My friend is dead. Okay. Okay. What is your name?
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My name is Fitzy. Okay. Fits. Your clearly real name. That's all I need. Where am I going? Is a crime scene fresh or am I going to have to work through some You know, the body's still there.
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That's what I was told. My best friend told me that our friend was killed by a light eyes and you're a light eyes.
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That means you'll know why they did it. And I bet it's going to be because you suck.
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No, I I suck, but not because of my eyes. I suck all on my own. Thank you.
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You ever killed someone? Huh? Huh? Are you a killer? That's a difficult question to ask somebody.
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No, it's yes or no. Wouldn't your killer just lie to you? That would make you double suck. Double suck man.
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No, you suck. You suck. You threw rocks at my head. That makes you suck.
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Yeah, well, you threw metaphorical rocks at my people. No, I didn't. I didn't throw any metaphorical rocks.
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No, I didn't. Doubt it. Prove it. I No. Prove it how? Prove it how? By solving the murder of my friend.
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And if I solve the murder of your friend, you'll tell me I don't double suck. That I'm actually zero suck or like minus one suck?
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Absolutely not. I'll I won't I won't I won't go tell everyone in the theater district that Berilar the really crappy detective smells like piss. I won't tell anyone that.
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They already know. They already know I smell like piss. No. If you want me to do this, you're going to have to You know what?
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It just got worse. Give me finish what you said. It just got worse because of that.
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You're going to have to go around and tell everyone that I don't suck. Yeah.
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How about that? What? And they're going to believe a kid? Not going to believe me?
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Why would they? Uh, can I get a persuasion? You need to beat an eight.
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Ah, 14. Yeah. Okay, fine. Fine. I'll tell I'll tell everyone I know that the stinky detective doesn't suck.
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Normally I charge more than that, but I'll take it. Yeah. Where am I going?
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What are you going to charge a kid for the death of his friend? Sucky man.
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I'm not going to char I'm not going to charge you for the death of your friend, but I might charge you for solving it.
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Yeah. Well, I don't have any money. So, you're going to do this out of the kindness of your heart?
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Obviously, you have no money. Yeah. Yeah. You picking on me because I'm poor now?
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Yeah, you do, son. You picked on me cuz I'm stinky. I can't do anything about oppression, but you can take a bath.
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Okay. Where am I going, Fitty? You're going to go to the palace ward and you're going to head to a light eyes apartment and you're going to it's the one that's in the weird eight section hienda place. That's the one that's the
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place that you're going. I don't know the name of the street. I can't read.
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I can't read. Then the description should be good enough. No, I don't know what we're talking.
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You're going to have to take me there. Oh my gosh. You're a detective. It's your Follow me. Follow me. Follow me.
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And Dervin like a zombie. Bear sprints. Uh, as fast as his little legs will take him. Um, making sure that you keep up.
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Uh, Barelar does what he's been doing for the past 3 days. Slams some ridge bark in his mouth, gives it, you know, and tears off after him.
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Okay. It's a short period of time later that you arrive in the theater district or uh the palace district just outside and you find this octagon of a apartment complex and the kid climbs up onto a rooftop expecting you
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to follow. then points over at the apartment. That one. It's that one. Okay. Thank you, Fitzy.
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What's your name? Uh, and my name is Fitzy. No, it's not. That's my name.
Speaker A
No, it's not. Yeah, well, I'm allowed to lie. My name is Bear Dar of House Jurer.
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Big Bear the Stinky. Got it. Perfect. Okay. Go to your job. Bear sits there for a minute and just genuinely considers if it's immoral to to to hit a kid if he's being this much of an ass and decides yes, it is still
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immoral. Okay. And then I guess proceeds to break into this into this lighthouse apartment.
Speaker A
Uh he'll go in through uh he'll go are the are the windows like it's slat windows, right? I assume 100%. Yeah. Uh uh windows that are very specifically the the the windows that are facing to the east where the the
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high storms come in reinforced. You know, this is a light eyes apartment. So, these are there's like metal grates uh that'll go over any any sort of windows. Um, and on the other side, heavy duty wooden uh slats that come
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slamming down during storms, etc., etc. Um, he'll he'll go leeward side and he feels like time is of the essence, so he's just going to bust out a crowbar and pop out a couple a couple pieces of this
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window so he can fit through. Now, there's a big difference between Berdalar and Navali when it comes to where the eyes go when you enter into an apartment for what you would what you would describe as a job.
Speaker A
You start looking at is there eaten food? Is there are there any is there is there any footwear to speak of? Um is there any uh are there any missives and mail waiting for the for the individual? And
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it seems as if this place has been completely cleaned out as far as a living space is concerned.
Speaker A
There's no non-p perishable food on the shelves. There's or there's no perishable sho food on the shelves.
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There's no uh daily footwear. Um there's no you're looking for like casual coats and clothing those are completely missing. Um and even more telling is uh a lot of the uh accudments the uh that would go along with a light eyes
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existence things like um sphere purses and uh fine scents and like toiletries and those sorts of things are also missing. You're looking for all of the day-to-day things and they're all missing. But can I get a lore?
Speaker A
Sure. Uh 12. A 12. This is Bright Lord Valarins. You were fairly certain that there wasn't a single tangible piece of evidence of who lived in this location before.
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A lot of unnamed missives. A lot of notation of Bright Lord this, Bright Lord that with no names attached to But you notice the same note that Nev did as you let the cat into the apartment.
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And if it was a note written for a another bright lord, I assume it's in glyphs that I can actually read.
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It's absolutely in glyphs. Yeah. Um because it is meant for a man to read.
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Uh and it is a set of very simple instructions uh that are for the bright lord to meet a mistress.
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And it uses a uh a pseudonym uh which is dark light. And yes, that's why you know that this must be Bright Lord Valerin. Bright Lord Valarin has gone by the name Dark Light in you know the Cidier circles of the
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city for a long time. In fact, the reason why you know specifically is because you've gambled with Bright Lord Valarin before under that pseudonym.
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I think Beardar Yeah, he definitely like scratches his chin, really thinks about it. Like if this place is as clean as it is, it makes no sense for Valarin's name to to be here. even his other name like
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like it doesn't he's too smart even for that. I mean he's not he's not particular he's not a genius but like he's not an idiot and this is the work of an idiot.
Speaker A
Um is there an address for where he's supposed to meet the mistress? There is an address and there is a time and that is 30 days from this specific point.
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And the address is for a uh a brothel, a more private affair. And eventually you reach the room where the murder happened.
Speaker A
It's been maybe an hour or two. The kid said that there was a body.
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The body is gone. Blood stains all but scrubbed. Evidence removed. But you are an investigator. a detective.
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And it isn't blood stains that you look for. It's not a body. You look for small things.
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A piece of hair, signs of a struggle. And you find all the hallmarks. This kid was telling the truth.
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There's nail gouges in the wood. There is a little bit of impact that you can see in the frame of the door.
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And you find a tattered piece of cloth and a hunk of hair that is hanging from the bed.
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What color is the hair? Brunette. It's darker hair. Wow. If there's nothing else for me to gleam here, but definitely signs of a struggle. Is there any Is there any sign is there any like sign as to which cleaner it might have been?
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You know, like is there is there a smell of a certain solvent? Is there anything like that?
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Uh yeah, you start you start like sniff literally sniffing around um looking for like smelling the floor where the blood would have been. Yeah.
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Yeah. Absolutely. Uh, you sniff and smell and prod and push. You run your hands along. You scratch at it and I'll ask for an investigation.
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Deduction. Deduction. Sorry. This is very much a deduction. Uh, not good. 13. 13. You say that's not good, but you are not good for me. Not good for right.
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Like that isn't that is not that is not so bad. It isn't Nev's backto back natural 20s.
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But that's one in 400. So, hey, we can't all be we can't we can't all be we can't all be Nev.
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It's the truth. So, but you've worked with cleaners and chemicals for so long. You've seen crime scenes cleaned up before. You've you've you've also contrary to what most people would believe, you're actually a fairly clean fellow most of the time, unless
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you're 4 days into a job. um and you understand the astringents and the uh bleaching chemicals that that are used throughout the uh the nation of Alithar. You're very wellversed in these things. There is not a single trace of a
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cleaner used. But there is a very strange phenomenon in the wood. There is a raised section of the wood that is in the rough shape of a liquid, perhaps a 132 to 116th of an inch uh bit of raised wood and it clicks.
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Someone soulcast this blood into wood. Mhm. Uh, Bear is instantly terrified. The fact that whoever this is has the money to hire either I a hire someone who has a soulcaster or b has their own soulcaster is terrifying.
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It's so deeply unsettling to go to this kind of length to cover it up.
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And what's even worse is that you know that it is non unheard of that someone can soulcast blood.
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You look around the room. You're searching for more. and an unfortunate reality does settle upon you that you've very likely stumbled into something that runs very very deep to the core of colonar the first time dark eyed individuals of high and low
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non disappear all the time a lot of the times it is without a trace it's assumed med that holes are dug out in, you know, the wastess outside of colonar, but it's odd that a body disappears so quickly.
Speaker A
This is premeditated. This was planned. Uh, you have what you can really only believe is a serial killer on your hands and one with intensely deep pockets.
Speaker A
Yeah. Well, from here I guess I will hire someone to stake out this house and probably make some frequent visits to a brothel over the next month to see if I can dig anything up. Okay.
Speaker A
So, my question is to Nev. Nev, at what point do you hunt down Berlar for answers?
Speaker A
Uh, probably within the 10day. That would make sense. Berdelar, I think it's safe to say, I think it's safe to say, Berlar, you are on you're you're sitting in an apartment complex, a building over from the brothel. um you know uh a friend of a
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friend has been paid off in order to uh uh use you know the room of that apartment in in order to scope out the brothel keep watch etc. You've pulled the normal strings that you usually do a little bit of uh currency changing hands
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you know spheres exchanged uh and then you know favors asked. Um, and it's on one of these nights that you are just hawk watching this brothel that you are interrupted uh by a fem wrapped in leather light leather armor,
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a scarf and uh pulled up above the face crawling through the window. Window I'm currently watching out of or a different window.
Speaker A
I don't know. Nev, which window? Uh, I mean, if he if he sees me Well, okay, hold on. Wait.
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Sure. What floor is this place on? Second floor. So, that's like the highest floor of that building.
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Yeah, for sure. Uh, I think instead of that I'm up on the roof because I know where he is and I just kind of like like Spider-Man style like peek down like upside down through the window peeking upside down
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at him. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Straight laser. And then I realized he's sitting then I realize he's sitting like right there.
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I do not see I do not see them. I am Yeah. Straight like straight at the brothel. I am so hyperfocused again.
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Pulling 18our days just watching this brothel. I assume there's a balcony here. Like a little one.
Speaker A
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'm going to drop down to it. So, are you going to kill me?
Speaker A
If I was going to kill you, you'd already be dead. You know, I have heard that before and it did not work.
Speaker A
Well, you were so intensely focused on the building across the way there. I easily could have done it at least three times.
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Leans o over Nev's shoulder to continue looking at the brothel. Yeah. Now I like I like uh shoulder check him.
Speaker A
Did you find anything? I don't know who you are. Please go away. You don't need to know who I am. Did you find anything about that dark eyed woman who was killed?
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But I know you, Berlar. That's ominous. Your name is all over the streets here.
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Apparently, you're one of the good ones. Is that true? Or did you forget about her just like everybody else?
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If you must know, that's why I've been here for the past 10 days watching this building.
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I've been doing it for fun. Though to be fair, some of the people who come out of here, this has been, you know, a rather good time.
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Nev looks like she doesn't get it, but doesn't say anything. Okay, sit down. I will uh I will clamber into uh the building now that I've been invited. Uh okay. And don't make a mess. Okay. This is the house of
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Tav or Chem or somebody. Okay. It's not my house is what I'm saying. Don't make a mess. There's just a pile of empty mugs of various liquors just sitting on the table.
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Yeah. That looks very pointedly at the mess you have already made. I don't think I can make it much worse. Unless you intend on fighting me, which is not on my agenda.
Speaker A
Oh, I don't fight. Yeah, you don't look like it. Okay. I'm Nev. I'm the one who found the body.
Speaker A
I figured that out. I am a detective. You really You really are a detective.
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Let me help you. I can go places you can't. That's not true. uh in this moment I would like to um like I don't know take some maybe I would like to have taken something from him in the very
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brief scuffle that we had when I shoulder checked him. Uh can I roll thievery?
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I would say thievery versus perception. Oh boy. Uh 21. Okay, this isn't as good. This is Nope.
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Only a 16. Now the question is, does Barlar stop Nev? Nope. Okay. Uh and this was when I shoulder checked you. Uh, and now I'm pulling out the thing I took, which is probably like, I don't know, a snack you had in your
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jacket pocket or something. Oh, yeah. Always snacks. Always packing snacks. Just holds out the snacks.
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I can go places you can't and I will put it down on the table amidst the mess.
Speaker A
You know it's rude to steal somebody's nuts. Well, don't be such an easy mark then.
Speaker A
Sure. Look, I appreciate that you want to do the right thing or whatever or whyever you're doing this. I don't particularly care. How old are you? What? 16.
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Okay. Regardless, I'm not going to let you get caught up in whatever this is. Okay.
Speaker A
Excuse me, bright lord, but I have been living on the streets here in Colonar for years.
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If you can imagine it, I've probably dealt with it at some point or another.
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My kind of work. And I will like kind of open up my cloak a little bit and he'll see daggers, daggers, all the daggers.
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I'm not a little girl. I'm not a child. The kind of work I do isn't for the faint of heart, just like yours.
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Mine might be a little less lawful than yours though. So, I'm going to say again, I'm not going to ask. Actually, I'm just going to say it.
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You are going to let me help you figure out what happened to Lenley. She was a good woman.
Speaker A
She helped a lot of people in the theater district. I know. Oh, yeah. assume is why you're even bothering with all this. A gesture to the room.
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I looked into her already. She was good at what she did. There would have been no reason for some Bright Lord bastard to kill a woman like that.
Speaker A
Okay. You are not going to be effective in this investigation unless you can get your emotions under control.
Speaker A
Bright Lord this, Bright Lord that. Storming storming storming. You want to do what I do? Get your head on straight first.
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I don't want to do your job. I want to stop this from happening to anyone else, any more of us.
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So do I. And if you screw this up for me, more people will die because of it.
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And I don't care what color their eyes are. They'll be dead. You wouldn't even know about this if it wasn't for me.
Speaker A
No, I wouldn't. And thank you for putting me on to it. I appreciate it, but I refuse to let you screw it up.
Speaker A
If you want to work on this, I'm telling you, you can. I will help you. I will do this with you. But you have to listen to me please.
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Fine. Okay. Do you know I'm sure you don't. Do you name Do you know the name Valoran?
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Do I know that name? You are entirely unfamiliar. Uh, not sure. Storms. I was really hoping you could keep watch while I got some sleep. That's okay.
Speaker A
For now, why don't you just watch the brothel with me? We're looking for a bright lord named Valarin. It's the only lead I have. Or if you happen to see any I don't want to say dark eyed women cuz
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I'm not sure, but it is a guess. If you see any dark eyed women leaving with a bright lord, they look a little too comfortable. And I think you understand what that means. Just let me know.
Speaker A
All right. This is the part where we sit still. Nev posts up next to the window. Does not sit. Stands leaning against the wall watching.
Speaker A
I know how to keep watch. Prefer to closer. But this is fine. Do what you want.
Speaker A
She waits until he falls asleep and she's going to go down to the like five minutes.
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Yep. Like f like waits until she hears snoring and then quietly slips out of the window down to the brothel. We don't have to narrate Nev going down there just for flavor. That's what she's doing.
Speaker A
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. You want me to do what you want? Sure thing. Until you fall asleep.
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It's not a terrible amount of time before unfortunately it isn't Berlar that notices but Navali that notices a whether their name is Valarin or or not a very wellto-do lighty general woman coming out of the private room and wandering away.
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It's a little unsettling. No one saw him come in. There was no entrance. He just walked out.
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And it's a bit of a shock. You're muted. What does he look like? 510 uh slight frame.
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A well manicured uh set of brunette facial hair that is stre with red. a hawkish nose, high cheekbones.
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He is the poster child for an interbred uh noble within colonar. You catch it in a moment.
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An Alleie parent had a child with Unkaki and had him and you get all of the details.
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His dress robes are gilded. His wrists are covered in precious metals. Several of his rings contain gems that are infused.
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causing him to literally glow. Almost a signal for people to watch him as he struts around the street.
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Uh, I'm going to try my best to commit him to memory as well as I can.
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Mhm. So I can at least attempt to like sketch him. But Nev is not not an artist, right?
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Um, I'm going to slip back in to the I I'll follow him for a bit, just enough to get like the details of what he looks like and what direction he's moving. And I'll run I'll go back um up the building from the opposite
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side of where the apartment is and slip back down. Uh, assuming Bear is still asleep and I will quickly sketch what I saw or as close as I can get. Yeah, it's it's not a very hard thing. There's some big broad
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details of this guy that you'll be able to nail. Um, you know, has very distinct features. Uh the red streaked brunette hair, the um manicured facial hair, the um um you have a a good you know you you you
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you you catch like the big bangles that are on his wrists. Um the the glowing rings, etc., etc., the gilded robes. If you don't catch the exact angle of the hawk-like nose, uh, if you don't catch the exact hue of his eyes, I mean,
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Bear's a detective. He should be able to sus out certain certain things. So, as you finish uh Mhm.
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Uh, you do, if I may, feel a presence over your shoulder as you finish.
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Who is she drawing? story. Dad, that's Bright Lord Valin. Why are you drawing a picture of Valarin?
Speaker A
He left the brothel but didn't go in. What do you mean? He left the brothel, but no one saw him walk in.
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I didn't see him walk in. Let's go. Um, and Barlar fully grabs Nev by the shoulder. Uh, and jumps out the window.
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Fully jumps out the window and parkours down the building. Full full tilt. full tilt towards the easily is in on the in on the chase.
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Yeah. Parkour. So, suffice to say that you're both chasing after the Bright Lord. No, I'm going into the brothel.
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You're going into the brothel. Oh, okay. Yeah. Full tilt. You bust into the door of the private room that Bright Lord Valarin had just come out of perhaps 30 minutes prior.
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And you see a woman uh and a man uh inflante delecto I believe is the is the uh proper term. Um it's like storm in complete uh disarray they cover themselves in blankets. The woman screams. The man shouts at you. Barelar,
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get out. What are you Get out of here. Who are you? Uh, Berdelar hits them with a full with a full Where is she?
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Who is she? She is beneath me. Bright Lord Valarin came out of this room.
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Were you here when he did? The man looks confused. The woman timidly looks up over the covers and says, "Well, he wasn't here long, but yes, he was here with you.
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with me. Yes. Okay, great. Uh bear fully grabs this dude. Uh light eyes, dark eyes, uh light eyes. But yeah, he grabs the dude fully buckass naked and he's just like, "Do you know who I am? How dare you?
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Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? Do you know who I Shut the storms up. Do you even know what you sound like? You are such an entitled prick. Do you know who I am?
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He stands before you with your hands on his shoulders and and in likely the most shame and flaccid way possible, he says, "Storms, I I I I know exactly who you are.
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This isn't a crime." No, it's not. But unless you'd like me looking into, you know, all of the nitty-gritty little details, Bright Lord and Do Does Barl know this guy?
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Uh, you can act like you know this guy. Some middling light eyes, some like low dawn, like eighth, ninth dawn, uh, whatever. He's like, "Just let me grab my coat.
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I suggest you hurry unless you'd like your family to find out what you've been doing here." Nobody needs to know. Nobody needs I have money. And then he like he like he like puts his coat on and he like shoves
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a bag of spheres in your hand. He's like, "Keep your mouth shut. Go." And then he turns around and storms off.
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Tosses the bag of spheres to Nev. Nev is very pointedly looking at the ceiling this entire time. I I need to make clear. The woman on the bed says, "Oh, those are takes some of the spheres out of Nef's
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bag and gives them to her. I'm terribly sorry for uh infringing on your business.
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But I'd like to ask you a few questions if I might. Am I allowed to get clothes on?" Uh uh. Oh, Storms. Oh, jeez. And Balar has just now realized it has just registered for him that this woman is
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naked. Like he has been so like pinpoint on solving this case that he's like, "Oh, oh, you are naked. Oh, Storms, I am so sorry. I am so I don't even I don't even I" And just just bright bright red
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and walks into the corner of the room like like when when you put a kid in timeout and just puts and just stares at the corner.
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The woman stands and starts putting on some articles of clothing and is like, "You kicked in the door of a brothel and you expected a bunch of fully clothed ardent prudes." And then I was expecting I'm just trying to be
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polite ma'am. Uhhuh. She takes a seat and then she packs some incense into a pipe, leans back in a chair, lights it.
Speaker A
Okay. What about do you want to know? We have reason to suspect that he's committed a murder.
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Valarin, possibly. Yeah. I doubt that, but I I don't really socialize with him outside of these sorts of circumstances. So, I suppose anything could be possible. What What What do you What do you need to know from me and how much am I getting paid
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in order to learn it? Um, first of all, can I ask you your name?
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No. Okay. Pulls out three marks. What is your name? My name is Termine. Okay. Termine.
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Do you ever engage with Faren outside of this room? No house calls. Well, I mean, sometimes there's an apartment, you know, then it's the kitchen or the bed chambers or what have you. There's different settings, I guess.
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Where's the apartment? Somewhere in the palace district. I don't know the street names. I'm not there that often.
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Are you the only one who takes that? Is it the ones that are split up?
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Yeah, the one they're in like that strange shape. It's it's all odd architecture like it was made by Soulcasters.
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Uh I I think I'm the only one, but I couldn't tell you. And I see a bunch of faces going in and out of that place that he's always got different maids and he's always getting different staff and
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he seems to never be satisfied. It's very light eyes. There's a And the turnover rate for people that I think I'm the only static thing in his life.
Speaker A
And that's because I'm kind of the best at what I do. Okay. Do you know when he got his last new maid?
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A few weeks ago, I guess. And has he did he mention getting a new one anytime soon? Anything like that?
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Yeah, he said something about needing to fire her, not a good enough job. The same story he always says. Our pillow talk is usually him complaining about how ineffectual people are and how somebody should do something about it. I
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don't know. He said that today. No, today he seemed in a rush like he had somewhere to be.
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Storms. Okay, thank you. Tomlene um takes out another five another five marks and just like like pours them. We got to go.
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Yeah. Ne's going to toss a little pouch her way. I might be back. Okay. A very brief followed by if more questions if more questions come up very very quick followed by sprinting through the streets.
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What? We might have follow-up questions. Yeah, for sure. I have any answers you need and I bet you do.
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You two start chasing down the the trail of of this man. He hasn't been gone long enough for this to be too terribly much of an issue.
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And eventually you come to another apartment in another higherend part of town near the Devitary.
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How many apartments does he have? Don't know. For brevity's sake, fast forward. The two of you work in tandem, staking the place out quickly, realizing that something is a miss.
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Once again, there is no staff. Once again, the locks are too simple besides one singular room.
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And one more time, you find that you are too late. There is a body on the floor.
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The blood is pooling. And the problem this time is that it is still warm.
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But you know that a cleanup crew is coming. You know that this is a very dangerous individual.
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If they can soulcast blood into wood, there's nothing stopping the man that walks through those doors from doing the same to the stuff in your veins.
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You take stock. You collect evidence. And you recognize that there's a pattern. He moves from apartment to apartment, never using a place for too long, always making sure that it's a staff member, always ensuring that there is a cleanup
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imminent behind him. But there's moving parts. There's multiple people involved. There has to be a weak link.
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And as you two realize that, you have a few moments to talk about what you want to do about the situation.
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I don't recognize this one, do I? Above table. You don't recognize this one, but do but she matches the description of so many people that you do know. Hard worker innocent.
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Do I recognize her? You do not recognize her. It is sort of the point of this entire affair that the people that he is mercilessly killing are entirely innocent but also entirely invisible to the grander scope of society. He's looking for the
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unmentionables. He's looking for people that are of a lower strata. He is targeting people that cannot stand up for themselves and do not have the protections that a society like this would provide.
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Neva is trying her hardest not to look particularly angry. She's trying to keep like a stone face about this because that's what you said was required in order to be part of this.
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Berdelar grabs the side table and just throws it at the wall like full force.
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I think uh in reaction to that, Nev actually like jumps, which is not something she normally does. Um okay. Well, at least I'm not the only one who's storming angry about this.
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Well, we know who it is for sure now. Yeah, we're going to see this through.
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Yeah. There we are. I'm going to take him in. Many missing people in the last year because of this man.
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I don't know. We'll never know. I think she's going to like obviously since they can't be here for very long, she's going to walk out onto the balcony that they broke in through.
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Let's go. We can't be here. Yeah. Yeah, let's go. I feel like right there is a good place to zoom out.
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