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[00:00:07] Speaker A: Welcome back to verily D and D, your sword up dungeons and Dragons podcast. My name is Jackie, and I am your resident bard, Rowena grain bottle. We are back today with episode 115, y'all. That's crazy. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Wow. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Wow. [00:00:28] Speaker B: That's crazy. That means we're halfway to 230. [00:00:33] Speaker A: That's such a random thing. [00:00:35] Speaker B: To 345. A quarter of the way to 460. [00:00:39] Speaker C: Zack, your math is off. [00:00:42] Speaker B: Is it? [00:00:42] Speaker A: Is it? [00:00:43] Speaker B: I don't think it is, Landon. [00:00:45] Speaker A: How 230 count is 115. Wouldn't that be true? [00:00:53] Speaker B: We've been stopped, and. [00:01:01] Speaker A: No half of 230 is 115. [00:01:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm right, but it's fine. [00:01:06] Speaker C: Okay. [00:01:07] Speaker A: I thought you said 100. [00:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah, well, maybe you said nerd. Welcome back to the accidental adventures, the adventures that are quite accidental. We've got another episode in the Lost Lands, where we'll be likely for some time. [00:01:22] Speaker A: We're gonna be lost. [00:01:23] Speaker B: We're in a city, usually. So welcome back to the magic, to the wonder, to the weird. There'll be a lot more of that in this section. Well, for the note taking, this is episode 115 of the accidental adventure Actabozix. [00:01:42] Speaker A: They spell adventures actabausix. Oh, my God. I love. [00:01:49] Speaker D: How do you spell that? [00:01:50] Speaker A: This is sounded. [00:01:52] Speaker B: And then Boz ics back to boss. [00:01:56] Speaker D: X, like a dash. How do you want to stylize it? Is it b a z z? [00:02:06] Speaker A: I think he's asking because he's the one that uploads the episode. [00:02:09] Speaker D: I have to post the episode. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah, back to Boz X. I'm gonna. [00:02:16] Speaker D: Put a dash in there. [00:02:17] Speaker B: I don't. I don't have a dash, so I. [00:02:20] Speaker A: Don'T like the dash. I'm gonna be honest. I don't like it. [00:02:25] Speaker B: Level eleven adventure 34. 88. [00:02:28] Speaker D: I don't care. [00:02:31] Speaker B: You can't tell me what to do, dad. [00:02:32] Speaker D: Bite me. Fight me. [00:02:33] Speaker B: Eleven adventures. [00:02:34] Speaker D: Like it. [00:02:34] Speaker B: 3488 pb. Callelag. [00:02:37] Speaker D: The second I'm putting it in my secret notes where you can't delete it. [00:02:42] Speaker A: I'm in a. [00:02:44] Speaker C: All right, what was the date again, buddy? Please. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Nobody was listening to me. Call it omnem. Omnem. Okay, I knew I was gonna get a response out of Micah on that one. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Wait, did Micah also sing? [00:03:07] Speaker B: Because I sung? [00:03:08] Speaker A: I must have not heard. [00:03:09] Speaker D: I'm sorry. [00:03:10] Speaker B: All right, well, is this working? Is this right? Is this gassy? [00:03:17] Speaker C: Oh, we're gassy. Now we're clear. [00:03:19] Speaker A: No farts. [00:03:21] Speaker B: No farts. Now we're cooking with gas. Hey, we fart in this family, I'm. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Not part of it. [00:03:32] Speaker B: We get it, Rosen. [00:03:33] Speaker E: Orphan. [00:03:33] Speaker B: So back to the jackie, like that was shocking pain. So words. Boss, you are walking through your home and out the front door, where you are told that your sister is at the trades cart. [00:03:56] Speaker A: What does that mean? [00:03:57] Speaker D: Yeah, do I see her? [00:03:58] Speaker A: The trades cart. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Okay, so you walk out the front of the building. Well, the front of the tree hollow. And as the green landscape with the light sky above you paints itself once more, standing by what is functionally just a wheelbarrow with a crossbar. And it's not sort of like an open barrow so much as a bottom holding chamber that has a wooden cross framework above it. And then another layer with goods hanging from it is your sister, who you have not seen in almost a year. Fouche stands there in front of you. [00:04:39] Speaker D: What is she doing? [00:04:41] Speaker B: Well, you remember that she and your father, your father, the craftsman and the artist, and your sister, the craftsman and the hunter. Hunting isn't super common in Agba. Death is not entirely necessary in a lot of the food chain, but at the outer reaches of the aisle, creatures can and are hunted. It's a part of the social tradition there. Oh, also, yes, for the note taking nerds, foosh is f o o s h. Foosh. And so she and your father make goods. Her is often more utilitarian and functional. Your father's very artistic, and they travel around to other family groups and communities and just trade, which in this moment, just as a tacit for the players, because it probably won't come up in role play, this being reflective of Baza's beginning of the campaign, where he had no concept of money, because in Agba, people don't sell things, they just trade them. There's no need for money here. And so she is at the trades cart, looking over the goods that were collected, and she stands there with all of her recessive genes from the family. She has your father's height, standing, an inch taller than Boz, but almost all of her other characteristics, as you have been told in many family stories, inherited from the maternal grandfather. Oh, is there? Okay, that was just the message from Jackie. So she has, her skin is smooth, but it's hard, and it's like a cream coffee tan with warps of tawny salmon, like the wood of a crepe myrtle tree. She is like her exterior as you remember her, boz. Harsh, bold, confident, very instrumentally skilled. She's strong and athletic. She has wide shoulders. Her arms and legs are long, but cordede with thin wraps of muscle. And she's wearing very practical clothes, as she always did. Sort of like a tight brown, like, sort of like half pantaloon. And then a sort of like a tunic that's halfway to a tabard. That's like a light eggshell. Then crops around the neck in sort of like a y shape. And she has a wrap around her hair that is. It's not like a pixie cut, but it's also not long. It's kind of in between. It's not like a full pompadour in the front, but it, like, lifts up a little bit and cuts short in the back. And she almost shaves it down the back of her neck. And she has that sort of, like, tawny autumn hair. And she's just there looking through items. And when she hears you approaching with footsteps from behind, she doesn't try to look. She just says. [00:07:34] Speaker E: Yeah, dad. Um. I don't know. [00:07:38] Speaker B: I don't see it. [00:07:42] Speaker D: Uh uh. I should check. I tried to do an impression of my. Of my father. Check under the thing over there to s. I think I left her on. [00:07:52] Speaker B: The left side, like, straightens up and turns around really quickly, like, okay, agba, what are you. [00:08:00] Speaker D: Gotcha. [00:08:02] Speaker B: A boss. [00:08:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:08:07] Speaker B: And then there's just one quick movement, and she just tackles you, just sliding to the ground. And she hugs you really hard, and she always does this thing that you don't like, I assume, where she hugs you, and then she squeezes you as hard as she can, which is very hard, and it hurts, and it's not fun. She squeezes you really hard, and she sits up kind of on your hips, and then just pushes your shoulders really hard. It's uncomfortable. And she stands up off the ground. [00:08:32] Speaker D: So you have advantage against being grappled. [00:08:34] Speaker B: That is true. Would you like to make this a thing, Buzz? Yeah, maybe. [00:08:39] Speaker D: The resistance works every time. [00:08:42] Speaker B: So you're gonna make an athletics check, and so that means that you'll make it an advantage. She's made hers. [00:08:47] Speaker D: Okay, I caught a unnatural 20. [00:08:54] Speaker B: Holy crap. She got an unnatural 20. So, boz, she goes to tackle you, and she does slam into you, and she knocks you fully poly over, but the branch is growing from you that burst out of your back into the ground to catch you, push you back up and resist her, and she goes. [00:09:14] Speaker D: Sorry. [00:09:15] Speaker B: She just lifts her hands back off of you and steps back. [00:09:20] Speaker E: Uh, hey, bro. What's. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Hi's freaky. [00:09:25] Speaker D: What's up? [00:09:26] Speaker B: And also, this whole conversation is currently transpiring in Sylvan, not in comic. [00:09:31] Speaker D: That's new for me too. I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry. [00:09:36] Speaker B: Things just came out of your back. What's all over your face? What's up with your skin? [00:09:43] Speaker D: Yeah, I touched the wrong tree. [00:09:47] Speaker B: You touched the wrong tree? [00:09:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I was a big one. Underground. What are you wearing, anyway? Uh, armor. [00:10:00] Speaker E: Wow. You're different. [00:10:04] Speaker D: Yeah, I am. [00:10:05] Speaker B: Well, I'm, uh. She just makes a weird face and then just punches you in the shoulder. She goes, not dead. Good job. [00:10:14] Speaker D: Yeah. Thank goodness. A couple close calls. [00:10:18] Speaker E: Wow. [00:10:19] Speaker B: I'm really glad you're okay. [00:10:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Are you gonna keep being useless? Are you gonna help me unload this cart? [00:10:26] Speaker E: What's the. [00:10:26] Speaker D: Yeah, I can help you unload the cart. I'm still not. Yeah, I can. Yeah. How much you got left? [00:10:30] Speaker E: Okay. [00:10:31] Speaker B: And you see, like, a. Like a kind of smirk spread across her face as she turns away from you, and she just starts grabbing implements and traded items off and carrying them in. [00:10:39] Speaker D: All right, see if there's anything I can do to make things cool, but I don't think I have anything prepared that I can do that with, so I just carry things in regularly. [00:10:49] Speaker B: You just go, okay, fireball. [00:10:53] Speaker A: Burn up the whole callback. I down that road before. [00:10:59] Speaker E: Callback. [00:11:02] Speaker B: When the rest of you all. Adrilliden has regaled you enough, and Ro has played some music for you. Ro, you were praised profusely for how excellent it is. And as the rest of you all gather back in the main room, Galegal having to return and put out wooden. There are these thin wooden flutes, not flute as in the instrument, but as in the drinking cup. And they're filled with a clear, wicked liquid you assume to be water if any of you all touch it to your lips and ends up being like a wine. So light. The best way I know how to describe this, and I don't want it to go the wrong direction first, is when I say hard seltzer like we have it now. I don't mean it tastes carbonated and kind of sugary and a little crappy. I mean that it tastes. [00:11:49] Speaker A: They got white claws. [00:11:51] Speaker B: It tastes like an alcohol so fine and thin that you almost do think it's water at first until you realize it's very, very, very slightly like spirited. And it's sweet and light, and it's very pleasant. And as it's provided to each of you, you all walk back in the room with Galel and Adrilla. And as you guys come back in, Boz is followed by this kind of muscular, tall, lean girl who doesn't look a thing like him, but looks a little bit like their dad. And she's coming in behind him. And now, as they all come in, you realize this is just a tall family. And then Galelg. So mom's short, everybody else is tall, or she's advertising everybody else is tall. But there's this other lady coming in. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Flowers or anything in her hair, growing. [00:12:40] Speaker B: Out of her hair are just sort of like twigs. So it looks like she has ten small horns that are just small branches. [00:12:49] Speaker D: Oh, cool. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Is she. Did Ba's ever tell us, is she younger sister or older sister? Do we not know that yet? [00:13:01] Speaker B: I don't think Boz has that. [00:13:02] Speaker D: Okay. I have not said okay. I don't think. [00:13:07] Speaker B: I know. She walks in carrying things, as does he. Okay, well, Landon, you know, she's your younger sister. You haven't told the party, but all right. I'm old by some margin, too. You're, like 30 years older than her. To have triads is like three years older than her. But yeah. Items are piled by the door, and she trails in after you. What that party? [00:13:34] Speaker A: Do I. [00:13:35] Speaker D: What is the smell situation right now? What does it smell smell like? [00:13:44] Speaker B: There's the soft, musty scent of earth that ever pervades the subterranean home in which you live. The smell of long exposed woods merged with air. And the smell is one that you'd forgotten a very long time ago, Boz. And it is the smell of a meal cooked almost entirely from fruits, dried fruits, cooked fruits, jams being mixed, and a bread that is made from plant grains. And your family is not vegetarian, but this is much of the food that consists here. And meat is more of, like, a rare delicacy. And the take of animals is very much a part of your culture. But it's just rare because violence is not spent on another creature, you know, culturally, within the root reach of Agba, creatures are only slain outside of the reach of Agba's roots. So you have to go beyond the roots of the great tree to kill anything. This is a religious precept of your society and religious being. Ogban's are not those within the seven stars. And their cultures are not members of complex, archaic liturgies, but so much of like, a cultural spiritualism built around central religious precepts. And one of these is the idea of embracing the spirit of Agba. And similarly, animals do not kill each other within the reach of Agba's roots, no matter how predator prey related they may be. And so meat is eaten, but only when taken from beyond that reach, which is many, many, many miles. So it's just rare. So there is a meal being cooked from many plant implements and the smell that is present. There's many different sweet smells, and they are flaked with many. The diversity of spices in Agba is intense. And so there are many sophronic and basil and fermented scents that come from the kitchen that just make an intoxicating, confusing slurry to those who are foreigners in this land. And you get the feeling that this is because your dad has come in and started helping because he is very much the chef of the family. You get the feeling that your mom probably started warming up the bread and he did everything else else. But they both retreat back to the kitchen and fun, guys, you are left in this central living perhaps room. It's like a living room that's centered around a communal dining table. And it's worth noting that this table has many more chairs than the family has members. So you guys can pick up that. There's probably a common practice of just different people's eating here. And Boz is here with whoever this lady is. [00:16:36] Speaker A: I ask if I see them bringing stuff in. I ask if I can help bring anything in. [00:16:43] Speaker B: Okay. You can role play that row. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Oh, balls. Do you need help carrying anything in or. [00:16:51] Speaker D: Yeah, if there's a couple plates. We have plates, right, Zachary? [00:16:55] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. Like wooden. They're kind of like wide trays on. [00:17:00] Speaker D: The cabinet and on the table. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Oh, I see a cabinet. [00:17:04] Speaker B: The tall woman sets items down and goes, we've got everything from the cart. [00:17:08] Speaker D: Oh. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Are you like, um. Hi. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Hi. [00:17:16] Speaker B: And as the woman comes in, she starts the phrase in Sylvan and then interrupts it and switches to common, looks a little confused and just reaches down to shake a hand, grips yours. That's a strong hand. Let's go. And then she looks at you a little quizzically. Ro. And just says very fluidly, naturally, in Sylvan, how do you know Baaz? How. Who are all these other folks? And it just kind of sounds like ethanalenam. [00:17:47] Speaker D: You don't know what she said. [00:17:49] Speaker B: You don't know what that you just hear ethnatala don manana. And you have no idea what she said. [00:17:54] Speaker D: I leaned down to Ro and I say, she wants to know how you. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Know me and Greta. You understand what was said, craig, you're lost. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Do I recognize that? It's probably Sylvan. I feel like I would. [00:18:07] Speaker B: You've heard Boz speak it a number of times so you can place it. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sorry, I don't. I don't speak Sylvan. I know Boz, because we're. We all travel together. I'm Rowena. [00:18:22] Speaker B: This woman strikes you as much as could than her other family members because she makes a shocked, kind of judgmental look, and she says, oh, she switches to common. And you notice that her accent is a little stronger than her other family members, so common must be used pretty infrequently for her. And she says, oh, um, all right. [00:18:43] Speaker E: Um, okay, it wasn't. [00:18:47] Speaker B: Sure. [00:18:48] Speaker E: I am Fooshdeendev, um, Boz's sister. [00:18:52] Speaker B: She just shakes your hand. [00:18:55] Speaker A: It's lovely to meet you. [00:18:57] Speaker E: Yes, it's good to meet you. [00:18:59] Speaker B: Um, so you are Boz's friends? [00:19:04] Speaker A: Uh, yeah. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Your allies are. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Yeah, all of the above, I think. Right. Buzz, are you. Are we your friends? [00:19:13] Speaker B: Right. [00:19:14] Speaker A: Still, after. [00:19:19] Speaker D: We'Re all friends. [00:19:20] Speaker B: All right. She nods. And Shakespeare times, she goes over to Craig. She just kind of. Craig, you notice the first thing she does is eye all your weapons in your armor. Give me an insight check really quick. [00:19:40] Speaker A: I like fooshead. [00:19:42] Speaker B: There you go. [00:19:44] Speaker A: She doesn't take any crap. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Nobody. [00:19:48] Speaker A: He's 17. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Oh, Craigy Bob. Craig, you clock that? She's not a terribly subtle person. She's very impressed with whatever you're wearing. And her eyes linger on your armor and your weapons for a second, but she moves back to your hand, shakes it, and she squeezes your hand kind of hard. And however hard you choose to meet that grip. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Oh, no, he matches it. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Okay. I mean, he's respectful. He says he knows he's staring at his armor, and he goes, all this to protect myself from your brother? Just kidding. And she looks kind of, like serious infused. And then she goes, and she just reaches out and slaps your armor kind of hard. Craig, you're stout. It doesn't do much to you, but she. And then she turns and looks at tello, and she does, like a foosh, reaches out of hand. Tello smiles a smile you only see him do every once in a while, where he just kind of smiles very confidently, just does the tiniest little smolder, and then goes. [00:20:57] Speaker E: Mademoiselle. [00:20:58] Speaker B: And as she reach out, reaches out his. Her hand, he takes it and then just folds it slightly and nods it. And she kind of, like, looks confused. And her face turns, like, a little gray for a second, and none of you all recognize what that means, but, Boz, you know well enough what it looks like when your sister blushes just a little bit. She just kind of nods. And then she just turns and looks at Greta, and she shakes your hand. [00:21:24] Speaker C: I hold out I give her, like, an old lady hand. [00:21:27] Speaker D: I'm standing near my mom and I whisper to her, and I'm like, I think, is it just beard? Does it feel like petals are falling somewhere? I don't know. [00:21:36] Speaker B: Galog leans over to you and goes, well, that doesn't happen much at all. And the fouche takes your hand, Greta, and does a thing where she gets all the way down on a knee and you're as short as some of the other members here. She gets down on a knee, wraps her hand over yours and just like, bounces it. And she nods her head and she says, in Sylvan, halfway through, and then switches back to common, and she says, grandmother and Boz, you are aware that this is a sign of respect in your culture for the elderly. [00:22:18] Speaker C: I'm going to say in some. And I said, nice to meet you, little one. [00:22:22] Speaker E: Oh. [00:22:22] Speaker B: And she looks surprised and smiles and stands up tall. [00:22:25] Speaker D: Yes, I have a question. Is the raccoon with us or did we leave it on the boat? [00:22:30] Speaker B: That's an Abby question. [00:22:32] Speaker C: The raccoon stays on the boat. [00:22:34] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Raccoon stayed on the boat. [00:22:36] Speaker D: Because raccoon's welcome to come. Like what? Raccoon is welcome. Bring raccoon. [00:22:42] Speaker B: Gomez. Gomez is on the boat. [00:22:44] Speaker D: Okay. [00:22:45] Speaker A: His name was mmmdhdemdev. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Okay, excuse me. Gomez is on the boat. Raccoon being the surname. Gomez is on the boat. Probably having a blood drawing fight with Nom, but they're on the boat. [00:23:06] Speaker D: Spot every once in a while, like in the tree, and she comes up like. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Two feral animals on a boat together. But, uh, yeah, and they probably. You know what, Landon? I feel that's canon. The only fight they ever have is over the spot in the tree. Nam has probably thrown the blunt edge of a targeting object at him once or twice, but both hiss. Okay, so fuchsia's met everyone, and she smiles and takes a seat at the table, and Galel takes a sheet. She's fully taken her hands off the kitchen. Not her, Duane. And is handing out food to everyone. Smells excellent. Basically, what you guys have in front of you is like, the tray is set down and then cups are brought out with smaller little bits of different meals in them. And they're like bowls, and they're passed around to the plates. And for a second you guys think that they're going to be put on your plates, but instead the implements within those bowls just dumped into each of your trays to be like, next to each other. So ro. Oh, well, those foods can't be kept separate. That's okay. But they're kind of, like, resting next to each other on the plate. I just assumed Ro's OCD would be against that. [00:24:22] Speaker A: But, no, hers is cleanliness, not organization. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Okay. One of them is a finely diced salad made almost entirely from fruits with only a few leafy materials. Next is. And just highly mixed. It's a salad full of flavor and maybe not a ton of fiber. And then. Oh, didn't mean to type it like that. Then there's, like, dried strips of, like, fruit that's been kind of lightly sauteed on one side with some sort of a spirit. And then. Micah, are you dipping? In four minutes. [00:25:07] Speaker E: Understood. [00:25:08] Speaker D: Hi, Micah. [00:25:09] Speaker B: And then. [00:25:10] Speaker D: Oh, no, you're not. [00:25:10] Speaker B: Okay. Sorry. You've been commanded to leave. Micah, she said she was leaving. [00:25:14] Speaker D: Get a chat. I don't know. [00:25:16] Speaker B: Anywho, I'm gonna go back to describing the scene like, you got four minutes. [00:25:19] Speaker A: And I was like, I was joking. [00:25:20] Speaker D: Of course you can leave. Whatever you. I'm sorry. [00:25:22] Speaker C: Okay. [00:25:24] Speaker B: Okay, bye, Micah. And then it's this time that Craig just on the table and knocks his head and goes unconscious. Craig's just gonna quietly eat for the rest of the episode. But there's, like, a diced fruit salad and then strips of, like, sauteed fruit, and then there's also, like, a long, leafy vegetable you're not familiar with that tapers into a red at its bottom at kind of like the frond. And then there's some sort of a finely diced, bright pink tuber that you don't recognize. And then those flutes are refilled, and everybody can take a seat. And all I'll say, as you're beginning to eat is just that there is. Everything here is a different point on the spectrum of sweet. So there's not, like, a non sweet thing on the plate except for the leafy elements. Even the tuber is pretty, pretty sweet, but they've all been flavored and seasoned very differently. So some of them are sweet with some spice. Some of them are sweet with some savory. Some of them are sweet with kind of, like, an earthy texture and flavor. The tubers, very like that. And before any of the family starts eating, everyone in Boz's family does this thing where they lean forward in their chairs like they're gonna pray or something, but instead, they put their fingers down on the floor, push them into the soil slightly, and just say softly in Sylvan Agba, and then pull their fingers out of the floor. And you realize that there's indentions next to all this heat where they do this and they pull their fingers out to begin eating. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Yeah, Ro does it after this. Yeah, Ro watches them and then she does it quietly. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Actually, I changed my mind. I don't. [00:27:06] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Okay. Ro leans forward and Ro, when you do it, when you put your fingers in the soil, it's like warm and nice or like cool and soften. And then you whisper Agba. And when you do, you get this very slight buzz in your fingers and then you pull it back up. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Also, I want to make a note. I know we haven't technically eaten yet, but we talked about like daydreaming about foods. I feel like this will be what Ro daydream's about because you said all sweets and like, that's all ro truly likes. Like, that's why she puts jam on everything she loves. [00:27:36] Speaker D: Everything. [00:27:36] Speaker B: This isn't even like the. Oh, I mean, there's nothing in Yalabrin that's like the american sugar corn syrup sweet that we're often familiar with. But this is more than even like a bread sweet. This is everything here. Is the fruit sweet? Yeah, just the kind of fruit that you eat. It's the kind of sweet that you eat and then you don't feel sick and you don't feel over sugared and it's just like there's an intoxication to this sweetness and you're not left hungry. It's like there's a pretty good amount of protein in here somewhere. And like, this provision of food from the land of agba is very calorically and nutriently satisfying. But you all are just quietly eating at the table about ten minutes into the meal without warning or preparation. Adrila didn't just start singing. Galalg leans over under a hand and happily listens. Fouj rolls her eyes so hard that a tectonic plate moves. But Adrella din just starts singing and looks to Ro as he's singing enthusiastically. And it's a song that Sullivan, you don't know. Baz, you do know the song. [00:28:47] Speaker D: I start singing too. [00:28:49] Speaker B: Oz starts singing with his father and Galal joins. The three of them are just singing now in a language that most of you don't recognize. [00:28:58] Speaker A: Ro doesn't obviously know the words or recognizes, but I feel like she has a good enough ear that she just, she quietly picks up her own and starts trying to just pick up what they're doing and play along. That is going to be a 19. [00:29:19] Speaker B: It's not a complex tune, and you master it easily. You pluck along supportingly and beautifully. Greta, you understand the words, and their Sylvan is interesting. The Sylvan you know is taught to you from the Greywood. And it is lovely, but in a mysterious way. The sylvan is light and joyful and refreshing. You recognize. You understand everything, but you don't recognize it, so to speak. And the novelty is enlivening and joyful. And the song is all about a tree whose roots grow far. And at some point, you begin to pick up on the metaphor of the idea that no matter how, like, the song is communicating, wherever Ogbans go, they're connected to each other through these roots. It's a lovely song. [00:30:11] Speaker E: Ro. [00:30:11] Speaker B: You have no idea what's being said. But you're having fun playing. Yes. [00:30:16] Speaker C: When Ro is. While she's performing, I'm gonna go over and not secret. I'm not trying to be secret, but I'm trying to just quietly, without drawing attention to myself, cast tongues on her. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Love you so much. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Happy. [00:30:36] Speaker C: Just like, as we're singing along. Just cast that. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Heck, yeah. Also, your magic can look like whatever you want it to. We talked a little bit about your magic being kind of cyan and gold now, but do you want it to be a series of colors? Because that's absolutely okay. [00:30:55] Speaker C: Why Cyan? [00:30:57] Speaker B: I don't remember that. [00:30:58] Speaker C: The color for I am. [00:31:00] Speaker B: Okay. [00:31:01] Speaker C: I like the. I like. I like just. I like the green. But instead of, like, a dark green and, like, a mix with, like, a black inky liquid, it's like a light gold with maybe almost like. Yeah, it's like a light gold with a very light, like, beginning of grass green. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Excellent. All I'm asking right now is to say how high do you want me to jump? So. Understood. The light green and gold flourishes as you touch her. And, like, a little bit like, is drawn onto rose tongue and you feel a tingling. And then all of a sudden, you understand what's being said, and it's a riching and enjoyful experience. And as you play and boz, you sing. Landon, does Boz have a lovely singing voice? It has yet to come up in this campaign. Or is it average? [00:31:41] Speaker D: It's not bad. It's like he's nothing to write home about, but he can hit a pitch and sing a song. Yeah. [00:31:49] Speaker B: Okay, boz. Holy crap. You've never heard boss sing. And Fouche is at the other end of the table, not looking like a petulant teenager, but also just looking a little annoyed as she just mouths the words and doesn't sing them. And the song is played for a little bit. Adrellidin is beaming with joy and then just finishes and goes back to eating. Weird little custom here. And at some point foosh leans into the table and goes, okay, well, boss. [00:32:24] Speaker E: What? [00:32:25] Speaker B: We're the last however many moons. [00:32:28] Speaker E: Spill. [00:32:28] Speaker B: Come on. Oh yeah. [00:32:32] Speaker A: How long has it been? [00:32:34] Speaker B: The silent treatment. Fair enough. [00:32:36] Speaker D: Sorry, that was landed the player? [00:32:41] Speaker B: No idea. [00:32:41] Speaker D: The 12:00 a.m. shuffle. Sorry, Zach. So give it to people more time. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Do it, girl. She just said like, what's transpired over the last however many moonshi. [00:32:52] Speaker D: Um, well, I. [00:32:58] Speaker A: So, okay, so you guys get the news here? [00:33:02] Speaker D: Uh, no. [00:33:04] Speaker B: No. Who froze her brow kind of annoyedly, gives a polite smile. Adrilogen beams going, no. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Oh, okay, nevermind. [00:33:20] Speaker D: I walk through the tree and I pop back out in a mysterious place and I wander through the wilderness and I run into Yelick to nanth. [00:33:34] Speaker B: Your dad goes wide eyed. Your mom froze her brow. Foosh just rolls her eyes. [00:33:40] Speaker D: He's looking in a pond. And I walk up to him and he asks me who I am, but not like, oh, who are you? Like, he already knew the answer to the question. Like, he was just asking me to see if I knew the answer to the question. And then he like, does like a thing and I like, wake up and he's gone. And then I have these weird power stuff. And so I just keep walking through the woods and I get to a boat and I get on the boat, and that's where I met these guys. [00:34:17] Speaker A: I didn't meet you on a boat. [00:34:19] Speaker D: No, not Roe. Roe is later. [00:34:21] Speaker B: How much of the last almost year do you recount? [00:34:26] Speaker D: I don't get into geopolitics of it. I kind of use generalized terms for, like, bad guys. These places. We're trying to do bad things to this. Like, basically I tell them about how, like, got on the boat, we made peace between these fish guys in the town and went to this beautiful city of huge buildings and vast peoples called Unsen. And how we were attacked and how we escaped and made our way over to home cove and saw describe the wonders of the opalescent tome and going into the sea and finding monsters down there and fighting the wreckage of a ship. And I describe our adventures and I describe, I don't skip a whole lot out. I just. [00:35:23] Speaker A: You tell them about, like, dolgoth. [00:35:24] Speaker D: Now I tell them about Dolgoth. I tell them about this person hunted us down. That. And at the end I kind of say that, like, people know us now when we go places, like, they know my name and they know our names, and we have to, like. [00:35:46] Speaker B: Pause as you. As the story grows and moves and starts to take the entire course of dinner with Craig occasionally bursting out with descriptions he can't contain, and then sometimes burping in agreement. Do any of the other party members weigh in? It's fine if they don't interrupt. [00:36:06] Speaker A: I feel like Ro would a little bit, but just to, like, I feel like ro would be like, wait, what about this? You know? Like, nothing. I think she would. I think she would, like. I think she would, like, realize, like, that Boz is not going into, like, politics and all. Like, I think she would catch on to that. [00:36:23] Speaker D: I feel like ins have these five generals, and they all serve the emperor and the general, right? They tried to take over the city, this place called Zedge. Now, Zedge is east of here about a couple few hundred miles, and it's actually pretty good if you ever get. You know, I don't. I don't get any of that stuff. [00:36:38] Speaker A: I use and be like, and there was a king, though. [00:36:42] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, there's a king. We met a king. We had to smuggle in escape for him to get out of his kingdom because it had been overtaken. [00:36:49] Speaker B: So as this story draws and stretches for, what you all have trouble recognizing is a couple hours as it stretches and moves. And dinner, well, Linner is absorbed by the family like your sisters. Your father is just lost in grief. [00:37:09] Speaker D: Oh, I talked about getting the moon of the mad prince and the. And, like. Like, I talk about that and how I got to where I could turn into a sword or a little wand or, like, mold it, and it could have vines that went out to things. And then I talk. Then I feel like I get to the part about the westwood, and I pause a little bit, and I feel like I don't talk about. I leave that part a little bit more hazy as well. [00:37:32] Speaker E: Okay. [00:37:33] Speaker D: Most not because I don't trust them, right? But because I know that somehow even Madame Biskor can see things here. So I don't talk about where it is. I don't talk about exactly what I saw. I just say that we found this underground bunker with this magic, and I touch this crook of the mad prince to this magic, and it uncreated itself and then fused with me. And ever since then, I woke up looking like this. [00:38:15] Speaker B: And through all of the turns and impacts of your story, your parents are just deeply engrossed and in their different ways, beaming with pride. Your father is. He does this thing where when you tell stories as you've known him to when listening his whole life, he's very expressive, and his face reflects what's going on. And when in your stories, you're fighting the perils of Dolgoth, his face is laced with worry. And when you are discovering great powers, his face is filled with joy. And when you describe the deep magics in whatever detail you do, his face is filled with wonder, and he's just so engrossed. Your mother's face sort of warms over into these expressions of pride and calm and happiness, and your sister's expression begins very petulant and incredulous and then moves into astonishment and eventually sours into this stalwart, cold listening. And your family is just deeply engrossed in the story. Tello interjects, like, five or six witty comments through the telling and not much else. And as the story wraps up pausers, this strange moment where as you finally tell your family everything you'd wanted to, you're left with just a stunned silence as each of your family members is just floored by the concept. Their son, who was sent out to go see if he could find an answer to this problem they were dealing with, has instead returned as kind of a blossoming legendary hero who has done incredible, great things and also lived miseries maybe they can't even understand. [00:40:03] Speaker D: Basically saying, I've come here because I have some ideas on what's going on. I have asked the strangest, wisest, some of the most powerful people I possibly could throughout the world, or the half of it that I traveled and nobody knew anything about this place or why things were happening. I think I have a couple of ideas, and I wanted to talk to the deep roots again before going to the next place that I think might have some answers. [00:40:32] Speaker B: As you say that wrap up the story. Your mother just sits back, a smile on her face, and she goes, pause it. You did it. Did it, honey. And then your dad just goes. [00:40:56] Speaker E: That'S amazing, Pete. [00:40:58] Speaker B: I mean. [00:41:01] Speaker E: Wow. [00:41:03] Speaker B: Just sits there kind of stunned, and Fouche isn't saying a word. She just kind of starts carefully studying the stone at the table. And finally, after a little bit, Gulaug kind of takes a hard blink, and she goes, well, I mean, you gotta reach out to Vez. But also, as this part of the conversation has come back in, his parents have quit speaking in common again. And ro. So basically, everybody at the table except for. Cause I think Tello also speaks Sylvan. Correct. [00:41:38] Speaker C: Abby let me check. [00:41:40] Speaker B: Could you verify any sheet? So presumably everyone other than Craig gathers from this point in the conversation that the parents aren't trying to be secretive, but the conversation is starting to hit home so hard. No Abby or yes? [00:41:53] Speaker C: No. [00:41:54] Speaker B: Okay, so Tello and Craig are left lost, but everyone else at the table gathers that the family's not necessarily trying to be secretive, but the weight of this has pulled them back into their mother tongue. And unintentionally, they're excluding everyone else as well, these two people. And everyone else is included, as they say, as Galel continues and says, I don't know where vespasian moment, but we could try to meet up with him, get you back in contact, because, I. [00:42:24] Speaker E: Mean, that's. [00:42:28] Speaker B: Blossom, we didn't even know you were going to come home with all that stuff. [00:42:30] Speaker E: That's wild. [00:42:32] Speaker D: I didn't know I was either. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Who's best? Rose says, like, meekly. [00:42:41] Speaker B: She kind of blinks hard for a moment. Oh, and she switches back into common, realizing, oh, yeah, guests at the table, she says, well, vesp is. He's one of the deep roots here. You probably don't know what a deep root is, do you, hun? [00:42:56] Speaker A: Like the roots of a tree. [00:42:58] Speaker B: They're like, you talked about that King Iwan. They're like, they're like the kings of our society, you know, people who are just there to help you out and, you know, they just know you common people, but sometimes they know some stuff that's helpful. And ro, you hear, as she describes, completely missing what a king is. She continues and says, and they're kind of some of the oldest and wisest of us, and they're connected to the land. I'm sure you know all about the vistial and the seven stars. [00:43:37] Speaker E: Wow. [00:43:38] Speaker B: And looks the boss different, huh, boss? Anyhow, it is completely different. Yeah, they connect us to the land and watch over our histories and our future. And Fez is the one who is sort of the mentor and teacher for our boss and the one who sent him out on his whole journey. So probably the fellow that boss, he's one of the people most connected to. [00:44:12] Speaker E: And listening to Agba. [00:44:13] Speaker B: So probably one of the people that, that boss needs to go speak to. [00:44:17] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Anyhow, well, honey, we're just so glad to have you home. I can't believe you're here. Um, I guess you should. And then Adrilla then interrupts your mom, which never happens, and he takes a hard blink and he goes, so you kind of need to move on then, don't you? What do you mean? I mean, are you. Are you done? Or. I mean, that bloody guy. Do you have to still get him away, or. [00:45:02] Speaker D: I think the bees are a sign. [00:45:09] Speaker B: So this isn't you coming back? This is you visiting? [00:45:13] Speaker E: Yes. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Well, we're so proud of you and so glad you're alive. Glad you're here. Stay as long as you like. Or even for the night if you just wanted to. [00:45:32] Speaker D: We'll be here for a bit. [00:45:33] Speaker B: You can see Fazbear tomorrow. [00:45:35] Speaker D: I would. Yeah. I honestly, I just. I wanted to see you guys more than anything. I missed y'all so much. I've thought about you constantly, every single day. [00:45:47] Speaker B: I made four new statues, and he just reaches everyone, goes. [00:45:53] Speaker D: Huh? [00:45:53] Speaker E: And he goes, I'm sorry. [00:45:54] Speaker B: I'm sorry. It's fun. [00:45:56] Speaker A: How you been, boss and I. Boz and I started a business. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Wow. [00:46:03] Speaker A: I kind of. Kind of like statues. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Everybody at the table looks kind of confused. Like, leans in and goes, what's it. What's a busyness? [00:46:14] Speaker A: Little figures. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Um, and then foosh goes, oh, you trade? [00:46:20] Speaker D: Yes. [00:46:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Pretty. Pretty much, yeah. [00:46:25] Speaker B: Cool. And then. And then Adele beams with even more pride and goes, so you are sculpting. I just tear out of his eye, I think. [00:46:37] Speaker D: I, like, I, like, look at Rod. I'm like, don't. So don't talk anymore. [00:46:43] Speaker B: I mean, there's no pressure, but I always knew you had it in you. [00:46:46] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:46:47] Speaker E: Thank you. [00:46:49] Speaker B: I knew you would sculpt more. [00:46:51] Speaker D: It's not. It's. Yeah, it's something like that. [00:46:53] Speaker B: Hey, however you do it, bud, I'm sure it's good. I'm sure. [00:46:56] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. [00:46:58] Speaker B: And then he just starts busying himself by eating something. [00:47:02] Speaker D: All right. Um. [00:47:06] Speaker B: Okay. At some point, dinner can end if you like it, too. [00:47:09] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Okay. There's more jokes and stories. At some point, as boss is helping clean up my sister, I noticed my. [00:47:19] Speaker D: How angry my sister is. So not angry, but, like, not happy. So I, like, at some point, I want to make a point to, like, pull her away, try to talk with her. [00:47:28] Speaker B: As dinner is winding down, adrenaline can't help and starts to telling a lot of childhood stories about Boz, some which are funny, some which are a little embarrassing. At one point, he just starts talking about, oh, my goodness. And then there's a night Boz was conceived. [00:47:47] Speaker E: It was so nice. [00:47:51] Speaker D: I just remembered a story that I left out about, oh, when we were. [00:47:57] Speaker B: When we went, okay. And Boz used successfully diffuse and circumvent. And then you're like, oh, yeah. I forgot about how they do that crap. And it's circumvented. But there's like. We'll just skip past it for the sake of time. But there's just like an hour of like, your dad takes you and shows you all the new sculptures and he has you repeat, like six parts of the story. He won't quit hugging you all evening. Galalg is also very happy to see you. She starts pause. You notice she's starting doing this thing where she gets your bag and she just starts searching through it. Something maybe you don't love that your mother does. And she just starts looking at what she finds. Yes, please do. [00:48:37] Speaker D: Okay, so she finds. Where's my inventory? Okay, she finds a silver chalice with dragon shells. The bathtub beer flask. I don't know where that's from. [00:48:56] Speaker B: That may not be right. [00:48:59] Speaker D: A ring, a brooch. The bonsai tree, which I took with me, I guess the boot. Do you want to say you left. [00:49:07] Speaker B: That on the ship, or is that with you? [00:49:08] Speaker D: I can leave that on the ship. [00:49:10] Speaker B: Okay, cuz it's just a bonsai and a pot. [00:49:12] Speaker A: So stuff that is. [00:49:15] Speaker D: She finds a diamond dust and onyx. Actual diamonds. She finds a box. She finds some berries. The pixie council ring. I think I forgot to talk about the fey wild and the shadow. Felt like I definitely forgot about that. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Excellent watch. [00:49:45] Speaker D: She finds your chime. [00:49:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:49:49] Speaker D: She finds. [00:49:50] Speaker B: And Boz, as she's nosing through your stuff, you have to be like mom. And you have to take the box away. And then she starts. She goes to ring the chime, and you have to be like, no, no, no. And get that away, too. [00:50:00] Speaker D: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah. He finds the poison and the daggers from Dolgoth. The leaves from my dream way back. [00:50:09] Speaker B: So she's just rummaging through stuff. She eventually gets to the money satchel paws, and she goes, honey, these are so cute. [00:50:15] Speaker E: What are these? [00:50:18] Speaker D: That's how they do trade everywhere. [00:50:22] Speaker B: Okay? They're lovely people. [00:50:25] Speaker D: People. [00:50:27] Speaker B: Okay? [00:50:28] Speaker D: They like them. A little judge, and so don't judge here. I don't understand for a while, but, like, it's a big deal out there. [00:50:36] Speaker B: Well, sugar booty, is there anything that we could keep from your travels? It's kind of like a memory. I mean, our memory wall is a little blank from this time. [00:50:44] Speaker D: Let me look at what I got. [00:50:47] Speaker B: What about this little box? It's cute. Does it have anything important in it? [00:50:50] Speaker D: That one? Oh, no, that one is. I'm delivering it somewhere. I have to take it with me. [00:50:57] Speaker B: What's inside? [00:50:59] Speaker D: Please, can I have it? [00:51:00] Speaker B: Okay. All right, all right. [00:51:02] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Mister grown up. [00:51:07] Speaker D: I take out. Oh. I take out the tankard with the saloon water. [00:51:13] Speaker B: Okay? [00:51:13] Speaker D: The steel tankard that has the water of saloon in it. And I hand it to her and I say, this is magical water from an ancient holy temple on another continent. And if you drink it, it will heal you. [00:51:31] Speaker B: That's very. Honey, that's so cute. I don't even. And she actually flips the lever. Oh, gosh. [00:51:37] Speaker E: Wow. [00:51:38] Speaker B: That's cool. And then she proceeds to show you that for about ten minutes, it's the water fresh. [00:51:44] Speaker D: Cause it feels it. [00:51:46] Speaker B: She just quits listening to your tirade about how magical and important she is. And she goes, Charlie, look at this. And then she starts sitting there just opening it, and he gets absorbed in it. And your parents are fascinated by this mechanical invention for a while. And your dad starts bragging about how he's going to tell all the neighbors about you and all you've accomplished. And as your sister has stalked back outside to move the wheelbarrow to its resting place or the wheel cart outside, this could be an easy time to find her, if you like. [00:52:15] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:52:15] Speaker B: Also, everyone else who are shown to Boz's room, as his father assures you, we've got more than enough room in here. Foos probably doesn't want you in her room. You're welcome with me and Galelg, but we're probably gonna be the only two in our bed. And you guys put together that after their conversation at dinner. Boundaries and normal lines might be very different in this culture, so you politely dissuade that offer, but you're basically seen to all have one giant sleepover in Boz's room. But you can easily find foosh outside right now, if you like. [00:52:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I go. I go, yeah. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Oh, go ahead, boss. [00:52:52] Speaker D: You do your thing. [00:52:54] Speaker A: I was just gonna ask. I was just gonna ask boss's dad, as we did that, would it be okay if I, like, made my bed on the floor here? [00:53:10] Speaker E: Of course. [00:53:11] Speaker A: Like, I don't, um. It kind of disrupts the ground a little bit. It's like plants and stuff. [00:53:20] Speaker B: Glo just looks at you confusing, goes, honey, how else would you do it? And she just reaches down and puts her hand on the floor and whispers. And all these, like, daisy sprout up from the ground, roll. [00:53:34] Speaker A: Like, mile comes out. And she goes, oh, so you. You do magic just, like, balls. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Well, glows. And then his dad just smiles a really warm, innocuous smile, and goes, we did make him. [00:53:56] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. [00:54:00] Speaker B: Boss, you're outside, and your sister is wheeling the cart around the corner. Corner? They don't have, like, a garage or a stable. They just put it behind the tree. Nobody steals much here. [00:54:14] Speaker A: Hey. [00:54:16] Speaker B: Hey, mighty adventurer. [00:54:21] Speaker D: Something's wrong. I can tell. [00:54:26] Speaker B: How would you put the card up? [00:54:29] Speaker D: No, not with the cardinal cart. With you. [00:54:36] Speaker B: I don't know. Have I gotten shorter since you left? [00:54:38] Speaker D: A little bit, but that's beside the point. What's going on? [00:54:41] Speaker E: Okay, shut up. [00:54:43] Speaker B: She just goes back to pushing the cart. She finally pushes it up against the back of the tree, walks back around the corner, sees you're still there, and goes, quest isn't done, but you felt like you had to come back and just remind us how awesome you are. [00:55:05] Speaker D: No, it's not. [00:55:07] Speaker B: I'm glad you're not dead. [00:55:12] Speaker E: But how are all the cool powers? [00:55:19] Speaker B: Was it cool seeing the whole world sounds cool. [00:55:28] Speaker D: Oz. He's not silent because he's taken aback by what she's saying, but he does pause for a moment, and he looks down. [00:55:43] Speaker B: She seems surprised by this reaction. [00:55:46] Speaker D: He looks up at her. [00:55:47] Speaker E: I. [00:55:48] Speaker D: And he says, whoosh. Um. I'm not enough. I will never be enough. And I am trying desperately do something that is impossible. [00:56:18] Speaker E: Okay. [00:56:18] Speaker D: I wish that it wasn't me. [00:56:21] Speaker E: Didn't mean it that bad. Geez, you're being dramatic. [00:56:27] Speaker D: I am. [00:56:29] Speaker B: Okay. I'm sorry. [00:56:30] Speaker D: I didn't know. I mean, I understand. I understand exactly how you feel. There are great places out there. It is unbelievable and wild, the things that I can do. And there have been really fun moments, but there are no. There's nothing. I don't have any answers. I I only get more questions every. [00:57:09] Speaker B: Okay, okay, okay, okay. Slow down. [00:57:12] Speaker D: I'm sorry. I'm. [00:57:13] Speaker B: Slow down, philosopher. [00:57:16] Speaker E: Um. [00:57:20] Speaker B: I was pissed that you got to be the hero, but. [00:57:25] Speaker E: Now I just. [00:57:27] Speaker B: Kind of scratches her chin. Okay, boss. [00:57:31] Speaker E: No, no. [00:57:36] Speaker D: No. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Yeah. You don't have to do any of this, right? [00:57:41] Speaker D: No. [00:57:44] Speaker E: You don't have to. [00:57:47] Speaker D: I think that I don't want to. [00:57:56] Speaker E: You don't have to. [00:57:57] Speaker D: But I do have to. I do have to. [00:57:59] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:58:01] Speaker D: I don't. If I stopped now, I gave all my stuff to Craig, and I said, you guys go on the rest. I've gone far enough. I I couldn't live. I've seen things. I know things. If I do nothing. I couldn't live if I did nothing. [00:58:36] Speaker E: Buz, you're kind of scaring me. [00:58:41] Speaker D: I really wish I could stop. I don't mean to scare you. I just want you to know that. [00:58:46] Speaker E: I would give anything. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Okay, well, shut up. [00:58:51] Speaker D: You don't stay here. [00:58:54] Speaker B: Or. I mean, that's not what I thought you're gonna say. [00:58:57] Speaker E: I bet. Okay, look, um. You can. It could be done if you want. [00:59:09] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:59:10] Speaker E: This isn't. [00:59:12] Speaker B: This isn't my stuff, but, like, I don't. I don't know, just talk with the deep roots. Go spend some time with Onikba. [00:59:20] Speaker E: Yeah, I think. [00:59:25] Speaker D: I think I will. I love you, foosh. You know that, right? [00:59:33] Speaker E: Yeah. Shut up. I love you too. [00:59:35] Speaker D: But I just give her a big hug, and I cry a little bit, but, like, not, like, super hardcore, but just, like, just a little bit. [00:59:44] Speaker B: She hugs you loosely, doesn't like hugging you, but then if a sob gets out, she hugs you real tight, doesn't let go. She doesn't quit hugging you. She just kind of stalls there. Concerned for a long time. She lets go. She, like, lets go of the hug, but she keeps a hand on your shoulder, and she just kind of walks you to a route nearby and sits you down. I mean, not like Boris forcing you, but, you know, leading you, if you'll let her. And she sits down the route with you. She goes. [01:00:18] Speaker E: Is it really that bad? [01:00:26] Speaker D: Every day I know more about the world and the problems it faces, and it's pretty bad. It's not without hope, but it was a lot better just to be here and not have to worry about it all. [01:00:51] Speaker B: You watched misses, mister. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, boss, please. [01:00:55] Speaker D: I miss. When I was just your brother, when I just took care of the bees. [01:01:03] Speaker B: As you say the start of the sentence. You watch her look around the landscape for which the sun is beginning to set and the colors are starting to dim. She looks around the landscape and looks at the home that you know for so long, she's wanted to see beyond. As you say, that last part, she looks over it and you goes, oh, don't worry, stupid. You'll always be my brother. Yeah, too dumb to be anything else. But, I mean. [01:01:35] Speaker D: There are good things. It's been better recently. Um. [01:01:40] Speaker B: Doesn't sound like it. [01:01:42] Speaker D: I got to talk. [01:01:50] Speaker E: I got to talk to you. [01:01:54] Speaker D: Can't tell a single soul about this. You have to swear, Boz. [01:01:59] Speaker E: I could keep a secret. [01:02:00] Speaker D: You have to swear. I got. I. [01:02:03] Speaker B: Dad still doesn't know about the broken. [01:02:06] Speaker D: Never will know. He never will know about that. I talked to the God that made the entire world. I spoke with him. [01:02:22] Speaker E: What? Oh, you're serious? [01:02:25] Speaker D: I saw him. I spoke with him. [01:02:28] Speaker E: You spoke with yechala? [01:02:29] Speaker D: I was different. No, bigger. [01:02:33] Speaker B: Oh. She says, yechala, which is the maker. [01:02:35] Speaker D: Oh, yes. Yes. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Your people are some with the most accurate understanding in the world of the maker, and. [01:02:41] Speaker D: Oh, really? I didn't know that. I didn't know that. [01:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Og was over the wellspring. [01:02:47] Speaker D: I know, but I don't know if they. The words that, like, we use for the things are the same things that they use. Okay. They would not have said it. [01:02:53] Speaker B: Like, your family wouldn't be familiar with the term the maker at all, but they're very familiar with the term yechala. [01:02:58] Speaker D: Yes. Okay. Then I would immediately go to that. Be like, yes, I spoke. [01:03:01] Speaker B: Sorry. Understood. [01:03:02] Speaker D: I saw him. [01:03:04] Speaker B: Holy. [01:03:07] Speaker D: And he was at peace. I don't know. [01:03:18] Speaker B: She just reaches out and squeezes your shoulder real hard. [01:03:22] Speaker E: You really been through it, huh? Yeah. [01:03:27] Speaker D: That's what friends in there. I watched them die, brought it back to life. But they were dead. I was there, and they took their last breath. [01:03:40] Speaker B: She just holds your hand and squeezes it, but she goes back to staring at the grass as the lights fade over it. [01:03:50] Speaker E: Oh, dead blows. Sorry, boss. [01:04:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:10] Speaker E: That cracks okay. [01:04:13] Speaker D: Is that slang term that cracks okay? [01:04:16] Speaker B: No bother saying these days. You're very familiar with that phrase. It's like the crack of a tree, which is rare in this place. [01:04:21] Speaker D: Okay. [01:04:22] Speaker B: Like, it's a superlative for. That's awful. In your culture. But she just goes, yeah. [01:04:29] Speaker D: I'm not back for good, but I want to feel like I'm at home. [01:04:33] Speaker B: You know? [01:04:33] Speaker D: You don't. [01:04:34] Speaker B: I just want to leave. [01:04:36] Speaker D: I know, I know, but I need to. [01:04:42] Speaker B: I'm sure there are other heroes. [01:04:46] Speaker D: There are. And they're doing what they can, and we're doing what we can. [01:04:56] Speaker E: Wow. What was. [01:04:59] Speaker B: Are you allowed to talk about? [01:05:02] Speaker E: Yechala was like, yeah, yeah. [01:05:07] Speaker D: And I tell her I do talk. I feel like there's some inhibitions at first about talking about that stuff, but I do talk about it, and I talk about, like, meeting the guardians of a wellspring on another continent, making my way through a confusing forest, going into the wellspring, saying how it killed one of the companions, how it's powerful, mysterious, and dangerous. But the description of what the maker looked like, his voice, what he said. [01:05:42] Speaker B: You just blow Fouch's mind. She's just stunned and listening. She doesn't have any of her usual quips or comebacks. And after there's a long silence after that, she still doesn't let go of your hand. Which she never holds. After a long silence, she goes, what's the ocean like? And at some point in the conversation, she just reverted and went back to Sylvan. [01:06:08] Speaker D: I join her and I talk about how salty it is and how when. [01:06:14] Speaker B: You say that, she goes, I knew it. [01:06:16] Speaker D: Wild it is and how vast it is. And it can go on and on and on and on and on. And I tell her about how she's been in visions that I've had. [01:06:34] Speaker B: At first, she's kind of excited about that. [01:06:38] Speaker D: And I see her at the edge of a pond and I see a dark red mist flowing. And I try to get to her and I can't. And that I. If I stop trying, I feel like the mist will catch up to everybody. I can't stop. And I pull out the leaves from my pocket and I say, these are from the dream, moosh. [01:07:15] Speaker B: She holds them. [01:07:18] Speaker E: Wow, boss, you're different now. Sorry. [01:07:29] Speaker B: She hands the leads back to you. [01:07:44] Speaker E: Should I go with you? You know, I can fight. You can fight. [01:07:50] Speaker B: Sounds like you could get all. Use all the help you could get. That Craig guy could show me how. [01:07:57] Speaker E: To use a sword. [01:07:59] Speaker D: Good. Um. I really don't think you should, though. Yeah, I know you're itching to go out. [01:08:13] Speaker E: No, no, it's. [01:08:14] Speaker D: No. And I want to take you there to pause. I want to show you the best. [01:08:18] Speaker B: Everything you talked about sounds real bad. [01:08:22] Speaker D: No, but let me tell you about how beautiful these places are. I don't like rubbing her face, but I'm just like, there are good parts of this world and there's people that are kind and that are willing to overlook people that are different and weird things that you don't understand. People help you understand. And just like how people push through adversity in just trying to find the same normal life that I miss. You know, like people in unsen who port respond Isa who are facing an army of an empire who can't be stopped and are trying to like, live their lives and sell horses and make bread, you know, and dance. And then you go to home Cove and you see, even in the places where the empire is present, there's people that are making the best of it and people that are happy. And people still find a reason to be happy. No matter what, though. [01:09:32] Speaker B: She just reaches down and touches the root next to her. Rubs it softly. [01:09:38] Speaker E: You really are different, boss. [01:09:43] Speaker B: I don't know if you're this amazing. [01:09:46] Speaker E: Hero mom and dad think, but maybe. Maybe you are going to become one of the deep roots. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Got a lot more wisdom than when you left. [01:09:59] Speaker E: Stupidity. [01:10:02] Speaker B: His name is really Goober. And then we'll just smash cut. [01:10:06] Speaker D: Yes. [01:10:08] Speaker B: Back inside. [01:10:10] Speaker D: Let me tell you about Rose. Ex fiance sir Lloyd crotch. [01:10:21] Speaker B: That makes sense. [01:10:25] Speaker D: You say red flag. No, not to. He was a distant cousin of an old king, so it was hard. [01:10:32] Speaker B: Boz and Fujian. [01:10:33] Speaker A: You don't know that. [01:10:35] Speaker B: 2 hours, night sets, and you guys prepared places to sleep. And as the conversation is wrapping up and you guys are headed back in, Baz, as you're going back in. Foosh, just quit talking for a while. And then she goes back in. She kind of grabs you and gives you a really harsh, involuntary hug, and. [01:10:53] Speaker E: She lets go of you. [01:10:54] Speaker B: She goes, come back if you can. [01:11:00] Speaker D: Oh, I just. I will be back so much. I just figured out how to do it too. I couldn't do it until, like, two days ago, which is why it's taken me so long. I can walk through any tree and just jump out of another tree. Now. Any tree in the world that I've seen. So that's pretty sick. [01:11:17] Speaker E: Just brag, brag, brag. [01:11:19] Speaker B: She just shoves your head. But if she does, she can't wipe a smirk off her face. And she walks back inside. And unless there's anything else really essential, the party goes to sleep, and the night is restful. And the next day, there's more fruit concocted breakfast, more excitement, more stories. Uh, your mom is Galelk. [01:11:48] Speaker D: Your mom. [01:11:51] Speaker B: Galelk, is enraptured by this non character and wants to know her origins. Your father is very excited by this Bella Andre lady. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Says she sounds like this non character. Wait, who? Oh, no. Character? I thought you said no. [01:12:08] Speaker B: She wants to know about every single enemy you've defeated. There's more talking, but at some point, your family acknowledges that you probably. I can pick a different song. Your family acknowledges that you probably need to go find Vesp and speak with him. Let's go with this one. [01:12:25] Speaker D: And I do want to ask my dad one thing. I want to see if I can ask him to make a small stone sculpture of Craig. [01:12:33] Speaker B: Okay. Your dad goes, yeah, yeah, totally, man. [01:12:38] Speaker E: Totally. [01:12:39] Speaker B: Was gonna take me a while. Days. [01:12:42] Speaker D: That's fine. We'll be here a little bit. [01:12:44] Speaker E: Okay. Okay. [01:12:46] Speaker B: Well, not, like, whatever you got to. And then come back and I'll have one. [01:12:50] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. It would mean the world. It would mean the world. [01:12:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that. I'll do that. [01:12:55] Speaker D: Thank you so much, dad. [01:12:56] Speaker B: All right, I'm gonna make a note of that. But you guys are bidded breakfast. They send you with, like, they know you can make food, and they still send you with a bunch of fruit provisions. So you guys can each put in your inventory, like, a week's worth of fruit provisions. [01:13:18] Speaker E: Yes. [01:13:20] Speaker C: I'm gonna ask boss. We all sleep in Boswell. [01:13:26] Speaker B: Yes. [01:13:27] Speaker C: Gonna say, like, when Greta can't fall asleep because she's, like, a night owl, I'm gonna say she played with boss's little dragonfly, if he lets her. [01:13:38] Speaker D: Oh, and there's a letter down there, too. [01:13:41] Speaker C: I don't touch the letter. [01:13:43] Speaker D: Don't touch the letter. [01:13:44] Speaker C: Okay, I'm gonna. [01:13:46] Speaker B: I'm gonna just go metal, darn it. [01:13:50] Speaker C: I'm gonna say. Buzz, did this also come from dip dap dimnam? [01:13:57] Speaker D: Yes. Yes, it did. It did come from dip dap. Dim dab dab. [01:14:01] Speaker C: Now popped. [01:14:02] Speaker D: Yes. That place. [01:14:04] Speaker B: Dim dap pop knop. [01:14:05] Speaker D: Dim dab dub dub. Dim dap pipped up pimp. [01:14:09] Speaker C: Damn. It's not magical, is it? [01:14:14] Speaker B: You can give me an arcana check if you like. [01:14:17] Speaker E: My room. [01:14:18] Speaker D: As everybody's asleep. [01:14:21] Speaker A: As everybody's asleep. [01:14:29] Speaker B: Where she earned the name. [01:14:30] Speaker C: Grab over whispering. [01:14:33] Speaker E: Okay. [01:14:34] Speaker C: Arcana. Oh, guacamole. Wow, I forgot. I'm used to playing, like, a level seven normal character or level four forever. [01:14:49] Speaker B: Everyone at once going, what are you talking about? [01:14:52] Speaker D: You just leveled up her character, guys. [01:14:54] Speaker C: That'll be a 28. [01:14:56] Speaker B: Holy crap. No. No magical at all. No glyphs, no ruins. How does it move, Greta? Give me a rumors check you're proficient. [01:15:15] Speaker C: I'm gonna use my inspiration. [01:15:19] Speaker B: And if one of you was proficient in inventions, you could. But no beards. [01:15:28] Speaker C: You made 24. [01:15:30] Speaker E: You needed that. [01:15:32] Speaker B: Okay, here's the thing, Greta. You've heard of nosin, and it's come up before. And you've heard of the mechanizers. You've heard of those who tinker and are beginning to develop this. This practice called mechanization, where mathematical systems and understanding are used to produce physical objects which repeat processes. Now, this is some gnomish cultural practice in no seno, in the far north of the earthen bloom, you got a 24, and that's gonna wrap a little bit into an intelligence check. Here's the thing, Greta. You don't know the first thing about no Sony, but you do know gnomes, and this thing is bronze. I mean, that's not a super high check. You can identify bronze as a metal, at least the outer parts are. And that's weird, because you are not the stone master that Craig is, and he failed his check. But, um, you've never heard of gnomes working with bronze. It doesn't mean that no, sennion gnomes couldn't have. Maybe they have that there, but you've just never heard of gnomes and bronze. Bronze isn't a super common metal. Any of the areas you're familiar with? [01:16:56] Speaker C: How do I know that it's that gnomes did it? [01:17:01] Speaker B: Cause you are aware from your check that the gnomes are the ones developing this novel practice of mechanizing a gnomes. Okay, that's the only place you've heard of that? Anyhow, anybody got anything else from that retroactive night before? [01:17:23] Speaker C: I'm gonna ask Boz and say, like, hey, Boz. [01:17:26] Speaker B: Okay, as everyone else is asleep, I'm. [01:17:29] Speaker D: Going to write a letter on my parchment desk on my paper, and I'm going to wrap it up and lay it on my desk, okay? Or, like, in a drawer, like, address to my family, and I will write that letter, and I will get. [01:17:45] Speaker B: Give it to you, Lando. [01:17:47] Speaker D: Do it. [01:17:52] Speaker B: Heck, yeah. I love it. Oh, Landon, the boss story has been a slow burn, but, man, it's so rich when we actually get some of it. I love your character so much. I love this campaign. Okay, Greta, did you ask that question to Boz? [01:18:19] Speaker D: Say the question one more time, because Jackie made me missed it. [01:18:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll say it again for Jackie. I don't ask it, actually. I just. I look at it for a long time, and I play with it and just stare at it, but I don't. [01:18:37] Speaker B: Okay, excellent. So back to where we were. So, the next day, provisions, discussions, and you guys are sent on your way. You are told that Vesp is further north, toward the center of Agba, checking on some of the hives, and that, you know, in the way of your people specific directions are often lacking. People just wander around looking for each other. A culture of great peace, not always of efficiency. So you're sent off to look for your mentor and. [01:19:13] Speaker E: No. [01:19:14] Speaker A: Did you fart? Did I hear that? [01:19:17] Speaker B: Comically, yes. [01:19:18] Speaker D: The silencer's off. [01:19:20] Speaker A: You guys can hear what I fart. [01:19:22] Speaker B: And the fun guys are sent out. [01:19:23] Speaker C: From the stupid freezing, too. [01:19:26] Speaker B: The boss. I froze and farted. Oh, that's a specific scent. Um, and so you all are sent north of your home to wander the landscape in search of Vesper. [01:19:39] Speaker A: Prior to us going, I feel like. I feel like Ro would have asked, like, before they. Like, they sent us on their. On our way or whatever. Yeah, I feel like I would have been, like, bowls. Is this something you need to do like, on your own or are we going with you or just fungi? [01:19:58] Speaker D: Let's go. [01:19:59] Speaker A: Okay. No, I just didn't know if. No, but I feel like Ro would be like, is this like a, you know, a thing you need to do on your own? Because this guy is like. [01:20:10] Speaker D: You mention it. I think everybody except you should come. [01:20:13] Speaker A: Okay, well, I'll go on the island. [01:20:20] Speaker B: Across the landscape, and you all travel across this phenomenal landscape. [01:20:28] Speaker D: I drove. [01:20:30] Speaker A: How big is this island? Ro says to Boz, like how. How. [01:20:35] Speaker D: Like the size of Ohio. [01:20:37] Speaker A: No, like how, like, how long does it take. How long does it take to walk, like, from one end to the other? [01:20:45] Speaker D: Let me see how big Ohio is real quick. 1 second. [01:20:47] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [01:20:48] Speaker B: Boz, I'll give you the answer now. [01:20:49] Speaker A: Yeah, Dm, can you answer my question in place of boss? [01:20:54] Speaker B: You're familiar that you can walk non magically across this aisle. And, like, if you have an expeditious pace in less than a month. [01:21:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's bigger than I. That's bigger than I expected. [01:21:09] Speaker D: Zachary, I'm not joking. I googled how long it takes to walk across Ohio, and the answer is 28 days. [01:21:16] Speaker B: So I don't mean to brag that I'm a Dm, but I am. And that brag is hollow, because I guessed that right now. But I'm gonna own the victory. [01:21:25] Speaker D: Good job. Good job. [01:21:27] Speaker B: Thank you. I feel very dme right now. Wow. So the group is walking across the landscape. Boz, could you give me an odds. [01:21:37] Speaker D: Or events you need to ask Zachary. [01:21:40] Speaker B: I don't even ask. That's a 17. [01:21:44] Speaker D: That's right, it is. [01:21:46] Speaker B: Boz is greeted by many individuals along the path that he knows. A small gaggle of pixies, a Minotaur fellow, a was that. And all of you but Boz see a centaur for the first time in your life. Awesome. [01:22:02] Speaker C: Awesome. [01:22:03] Speaker A: So awesome. Wow. I got a question. [01:22:06] Speaker B: And each of these conversations are held in Sylvan and there are greetings. But somewhere along the path of travel, Baz, you run into a friend you haven't seen in a long time. Relatively short standing, only like five three for a wood elf. She has cinnamon skin, tightly curled hair, and a very even accounted demeanor. And you see cholal, whoever you haven't seen in forever. But you guys are like walking across a path and it's very tolkieny and the best pleasant moment where everything here is very verdant. Nothing here is. In a season of decline or fall. This looks like a landscape that maybe is just kind of perpetually in spring. And you're walking across this hill that comes to a narrower point across which a path is tread. Not a dirt path, just a path of, like, dampened ground under travel. But no matter how compacted this earth is, the grass always regrows. So it's just this, like, grass flattened path filled with forbs on either side. And when the wind blows, they have this sort of, like, dandelion like plant, but it comes in color, so they break off into tiny little seeds that float away into the rind all at once. And the landscape looks like it's snowing upward. And as you're moving across the path, this woman, Trilla Lal, comes across your path, Boz, who you haven't seen in forever. And from a distance, she, like, kind of smiles politely, and then she gets closer and goes, boss. Wow. [01:23:45] Speaker D: So long. How are you doing? [01:23:48] Speaker E: You have gold in your face. [01:23:50] Speaker D: I. And I have green in my skin. It's weird. [01:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:23:54] Speaker E: Wow. [01:23:56] Speaker D: It's easy. [01:23:59] Speaker B: You went on a. You went, like, on a, like, adventure, right? [01:24:02] Speaker D: Yeah, I, like, saw half the world. It was wild. [01:24:06] Speaker A: Ro looks at hello and Greta and is like, what have you been up to? [01:24:11] Speaker B: What have you been doing all the time? Same as always. Just, you look great. Thank you. Thank you. This one's new. And she gestures down at this kind of half gown she's wearing, which is. It's really cool. It's one swath of fabric that comes around her neck, down her chest, and around her hip, and then it just tucks into a second swath of fabric that moves all the way around her hips, up around the other side, and around her chest. So it's just like, two long pieces of cloth that are designed in such a way that they fold into each other and tied that way. So it's like she's made a cloth. It's like she's made a dress out of two blankets, but very intentionally woven. And as you get close, you realize that the fibers, the whole thing is made out of, like, strips that are sewn together at essential sections, but then just tie into each other at others, and they overlap in ways that you can't see the knots. And, like, a bit of her, like, hip on each side is exposed and one shoulder, it's very, like, gorgeous. And the colors at the top of the dress is spring, and at the bottom is fall, and it transitions down her. And she has a satchel at her side. You can see that, like, different fabrics are poking out of. And she goes, yeah, it's. Business is great. I was actually kind of on my way to your neck of the woods. Family again. [01:25:31] Speaker D: Yeah, they're all home. [01:25:32] Speaker B: I haven't seen the in laws in forever, so I just thought I'd poke around, but. [01:25:37] Speaker A: Sorry. Hello. [01:25:39] Speaker B: Yes. So rude of me. Hi. [01:25:41] Speaker A: Hi there. [01:25:42] Speaker B: I'm felal. Hi. This conversation's all been insulted. Greta cast tongues on Ro. Greta cast tongues on Ro. And Ro can understand. [01:25:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:25:56] Speaker B: And so she just slips into common, realizing who's here, and she goes, um, hi, I'm Jalil. [01:26:02] Speaker A: Hi. Hi. I'm in laws as friends. Oh, yeah, we are. Did you say in laws? [01:26:08] Speaker B: Are you. The accent's not augmented at all. [01:26:13] Speaker A: Oh, no, I'm from. I'm from Zedge. I've never, I've never been here. [01:26:17] Speaker B: Um, you're dryad and you're from Zedge? [01:26:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a weird long story that I don't really know quite all the answers to. [01:26:27] Speaker B: Okay, well, hi, shalal. You said it was ro? [01:26:30] Speaker A: Yes. [01:26:31] Speaker B: And Tello just like, leans over row and goes, hello. Hi. [01:26:36] Speaker D: These are my friends. I met them on my journeys. [01:26:38] Speaker B: She points at Greta. Hi, I'm Greta. [01:26:40] Speaker C: Hi, I'm Greta. [01:26:42] Speaker B: Hi. And then Craig goes, Craig? [01:26:47] Speaker A: I don't. I. Sorry, um, sorry. Long, long trip. Um, I don't mean to be rude, walking, circling back. Did you say in laws? [01:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:03] Speaker A: As in to who? [01:27:06] Speaker B: She goes, after all that time. [01:27:14] Speaker D: We used to be married a long. [01:27:16] Speaker B: Time ago, so not in laws anymore, but, you know, in laws and looks. [01:27:23] Speaker A: Back at elbowing, tell us. [01:27:27] Speaker B: Just, he's like smiling and then he goes. And his mouth is just. He's lost his cool. His mouth is a gate. His eyes are in shock and he's just stuck there, just buffering, just, there's like a dial modem, like somewhere in the background. He's just lost. Craig goes. [01:27:46] Speaker D: And thank you. [01:27:49] Speaker B: It was a good micro impression. And she goes, I mean, you know, not married much, but really lets you not be family. [01:28:00] Speaker D: Like a day or two, I think. [01:28:02] Speaker A: Day or two? [01:28:03] Speaker D: What's a long story? [01:28:04] Speaker B: It wasn't a big thing. It was. [01:28:08] Speaker D: Yeah, it's just. [01:28:10] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:28:11] Speaker B: You've never told the boss. [01:28:13] Speaker E: Wow. [01:28:13] Speaker B: I leave an impression. [01:28:15] Speaker D: No, I just. [01:28:16] Speaker B: She crossed. [01:28:18] Speaker D: I'm sorry. No, it's okay. [01:28:23] Speaker E: Okay. [01:28:24] Speaker D: Good to see you. [01:28:26] Speaker E: Yes, good to see you. [01:28:27] Speaker D: You should go see my parents. They'd love to see you. They always like you. [01:28:30] Speaker B: I mean, I can't if I pass by and don't say hi. Froosh hunts me down. Only on behalf of your dad. [01:28:36] Speaker D: So it sounds like her. [01:28:39] Speaker B: No, no. Good to see you. Yeah. [01:28:45] Speaker D: Give her a hug. [01:28:46] Speaker B: Gives you a little side hug. And walks in by. She goes and smiles and keeps walking. As soon as she gets on down the path. [01:28:55] Speaker A: Yeah, as soon as she gets, like, semi, like, not even fully out of earshot. Just, like, enough to not be too awkward. Ro, like, hits Boz. [01:29:05] Speaker D: What? [01:29:06] Speaker A: Boz, why didn't you tell us you were married? [01:29:08] Speaker D: It was a weird. It's okay. It's like, a weird tradition thing. [01:29:11] Speaker A: You must tell us all the details. [01:29:14] Speaker D: Okay. [01:29:16] Speaker B: Tello just looks at boz and goes hours a day. [01:29:19] Speaker D: It was, like, two days. Like, a day today. [01:29:22] Speaker A: Bowls. [01:29:23] Speaker D: So there's this thing here I didn't. [01:29:25] Speaker A: Even know there was, like, divorce in your culture. [01:29:27] Speaker D: It's not divorce. It's not. [01:29:29] Speaker B: Just. [01:29:29] Speaker A: So you're still married. Boy. [01:29:31] Speaker D: Not. We just decided to stop. I don't know. Is there, like, someone we go talk to? [01:29:40] Speaker A: Rose? Like, rose, like, shaking with. She's, like, drooling over the. [01:29:48] Speaker B: This knowledge grow within you. The secret of sirloin crotch is just burning, as none of these people know anyways. Continue, boss. [01:30:01] Speaker D: There's this thing that, like, when Twilio and Twila come together in the skies, we do this. We do this thing where, like, all the old people are supposed to go and, like, dance and stuff in front of Agba. And, like, if, like, petals from Agba fall on two people at the same time, they're supposed to be, like, married right then and there. And it's, like, not. It's more of, like, like, ahahaha. You know? Like, oh, that's so. But, like, there was this lady who was like, no, you have to be married right now. [01:30:31] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [01:30:32] Speaker D: And we were like, okay. And we were cool. We're friends. But, like, you know, how long ago was this? He's like. Like, maybe a little bit before I left. I don't know. [01:30:43] Speaker B: Did you. [01:30:44] Speaker A: Did you have feelings for her? [01:30:47] Speaker D: She's a good friend. She's great. But we just. It wasn't a good fit, you know? It's just great. She's great. Like, she's awesome. [01:31:00] Speaker A: What else is he keeping from us both? [01:31:03] Speaker D: Doesn't feel like a big deal. It was, like, a day and a half ladies. She was just like, you're married. And we were like. It wasn't even, like, a big thing. And we just kind of, like, sat down together, and we're like, do you want to be married? And she was like, I don't know. And I was like, I don't know. And then we just kind of didn't talk about it again for a while. And then we. I guess we eventually realized we didn't want to be a get. [01:31:26] Speaker A: Interesting. So what you're saying is Greta could go around and tell people they're married and things. [01:31:34] Speaker C: Just. [01:31:36] Speaker A: An old lady. You said it was just an old lady. You said it was just an old lady. Well, you didn't tell me that. [01:31:41] Speaker D: You're gonna have to treat our practices with more respect or else people will get angry at you. [01:31:48] Speaker A: I'm just, I'm, I'm. I'm at a loss for words. Balls. [01:31:52] Speaker D: What? [01:31:53] Speaker B: Tell her. Tell her. [01:32:00] Speaker A: We have two party members that are married. [01:32:03] Speaker D: Were married. [01:32:04] Speaker A: Were married. [01:32:06] Speaker B: I think Craig still married. [01:32:09] Speaker D: Craig is still married. I'm not. I'm not married anymore. [01:32:12] Speaker A: Interesting. [01:32:14] Speaker B: Craig just walks up and puts a hand on your arm, boss. It goes solemnly. We're both winning back, dude. [01:32:22] Speaker D: I don't need to inter. [01:32:23] Speaker B: We'll both win him back. [01:32:25] Speaker A: Oh, she's very pretty. Balls. [01:32:26] Speaker B: He just reaches up, not able to reach your mouth, puts a middle finger on your chin and goes. And he goes back to when he didn't walk into the bank. [01:32:34] Speaker D: Okay, I go find the vesp now? [01:32:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:32:39] Speaker D: All right. [01:32:39] Speaker B: Okay. [01:32:40] Speaker D: Y'all got any more weird questions for me before we go? [01:32:42] Speaker A: Probably. I have a question for the DM. [01:32:46] Speaker B: Yeah, what's up? [01:32:47] Speaker A: While we're walking, like, further on until we get there or whatever, can ro do a either? I don't know what it would be, investigation or perception for, like, looking at all the people there. Like if they have. If they. Cause I think she's very intrigued to see groups of people that look like them besides just her and Baaz and, like, Baza's family and, like, if they have, like, different colored leaves, different kinds of leaves. Do any look similar to her? Like, stuff like that? She's really. [01:33:21] Speaker B: Give me an investigation check. [01:33:23] Speaker A: She's really looking around. That's a 1616. [01:33:41] Speaker B: Ro. It's not that there's a lack of information. It's that there's an inundation of information. You meet all sorts of people, minotaurs, that you seem very little of in your whole life. [01:33:51] Speaker E: Okay. [01:33:52] Speaker B: Some of them are from here, or maybe just their descendants are here. You're not sure. Saw Centaur for the first time. Pixies for the first time. [01:34:00] Speaker A: Did the centaurs and minotaurs, did they have features like dryadic features? Like, do they have, like, leaves in their hair or green skin? [01:34:08] Speaker B: Not the ones you saw, but maybe others could, you know, pixies a lot of pixies. You saw your. No, you saw a couple in Zedge, but you saw a seder here. Didn't know they were outside of Zedge. And you saw a different seder who did have dryadic features. And. But you've just seen. You've met, like, four or five more dryads and half dryads and a lot of high elves and wood elves here as well, but features. Similar. Features. Different. But you haven't met anyone who, like, strikingly looks like you. And you're actually struck by how much you do look a little different from a lot of the other half dryads. Not in, like, I'm a whole other thing, but just, like, very specifically different features. Okay. Yeah. [01:34:58] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [01:34:59] Speaker E: Okay. [01:35:00] Speaker B: The group travels on. Boz. You know how to find vesp as you travel, and it's that the apiary will lean in his direction. So wherever you walk, you just follow. You let the apiary guide you. And after another three days of travel. So we're now on Kalilan five. No. Cause we passed another day that evening. Kalilan six. You. You run into a low thicket of sort of that. [01:35:39] Speaker D: I never took damage. [01:35:42] Speaker A: What. [01:35:45] Speaker E: Girl? [01:35:45] Speaker B: What? [01:35:46] Speaker E: Once. [01:35:46] Speaker D: I never took damage that I was supposed to take from talk about her. [01:35:53] Speaker B: It's just. [01:35:54] Speaker D: I don't know if you want to role play. I just want to take it. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. Like, I forgot to do it because we went a day. [01:36:01] Speaker A: Zack screen. [01:36:02] Speaker D: It doesn't matter. But I just. [01:36:06] Speaker B: Good point. No, no, no, no. We need to be keeping track of that. Okay, quick, someone role play while I look that up. [01:36:14] Speaker A: Greta, can you believe that he was married and didn't tell us? Greta, have you been married and didn't tell us? [01:36:20] Speaker C: Not that I can remember. [01:36:22] Speaker A: You can't remember? Greta, wouldn't. You were married. [01:36:27] Speaker C: I don't think I've been married. No, because I was. I just. I was with Walter for, like. [01:36:36] Speaker A: Wait, were you and Walter, like, a thing? [01:36:39] Speaker C: What do you mean? [01:36:41] Speaker A: Like. Like, more than friends? [01:36:45] Speaker B: You can do your g 20, boss. [01:36:48] Speaker D: Okay. [01:36:50] Speaker C: I don't. You're asking? No. [01:36:54] Speaker A: Okay. Like, deeply connected, cold. On a level, I understand that when. [01:37:05] Speaker C: You put it that way, it kind of makes it sound like that other way, but no, like, you know, when. [01:37:10] Speaker A: You find a friend and they're like. Like, I feel like you guys are, like, my soulmates in a. In a way, you know? [01:37:17] Speaker C: No, absolutely. I definitely think Walter and I were something like that. No, we were. [01:37:24] Speaker D: We were. [01:37:25] Speaker C: We worked together for. And she says that the year that, I don't want to say because I'm afraid I'll mess it up, but it's a long time. Like the equivalent, like 60 human years. [01:37:40] Speaker A: Was Walter human? [01:37:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:37:48] Speaker B: So maybe like 30 years. Like 20. Maybe like 20 years. 20 years. [01:37:56] Speaker A: That's a long. [01:37:58] Speaker C: That's like you're making money, making my history. [01:38:03] Speaker A: Listen, that's like. That's like half my age. [01:38:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:38:13] Speaker B: Craig just goes, man, you're old, so. [01:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I forget how old you are, Greg. [01:38:19] Speaker C: Yeah. It's because my youthful. [01:38:21] Speaker A: You do. You have a youthful glow about you. I think you're younger than me half the time, Boz. [01:38:27] Speaker B: As the apiary leads you to a thin thicket of aspens, running along another rill that comes down a path. [01:38:36] Speaker E: You. [01:38:37] Speaker B: Move into, like, a greater degree of shade in this area. And things calm. I want to pick another song. I'll go back to this one. And as you all walk down through the thicket, the apiary starts leaning harder and harder, attuned to the one who made it. And you are aware that vesp must be somewhere within this thicket of trees, beneath its shadow. [01:39:07] Speaker D: I like to start whispering, bazb, bazb. Baz, can you hear me? [01:39:17] Speaker A: Should we. Should we join in? Balls. [01:39:24] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [01:39:30] Speaker B: This, um, there are this. This stream breaks into a smaller wheel, this tiny little stream that flows in between rock beds. And the aspens grow close together. You kind of have to weave between them. And there's many downtrodden paths among all the floors here. It's like a lot of soft clovers and taller rushes. And the paths are worn by animal travel. And there's a lot of, like, sparrows dipping and darting back and forth between the branches. And as well as some orioles, you guys can look up an oriole. O r I O l e. If you liked baseball. The orioles that are dipping around here are a bright green and a deep blue with yellow streaks down their belly and black napes that curl up around their eyes. And they have this, like, cooing song as they dip between the branches until finally, one diplos between the water and lands next to you, Boz. And where it does, there's this sudden flourish of magic. And all of a sudden, the oriole just explodes, explodes in a burst of feathers. And standing there is an old dryadic man. He's a deep, weathered green, and his clothes are like a series of, like, knitted leaf layers that, like, wrap over each other at the breast. And his staff is this long, green, like pile of twisting vines, out of the top of which grow five kind of red blossoming flowers that you realize each are flowers made of ruby gems. And he leans on it, and his arms are thin, his fingers long. They come to points like those of roots at the end that are kind of withering and brown. And his face is long and sagging and forms into a huge, deep green, moist moss beard. And his head is bald, except for a crown of moss like hair at the sides that come down into a long braid at the back. And he just leans forward and he. [01:41:30] Speaker E: Goes, wasn't expecting you, boss. Hey. Oh, how are we doing? How are you? [01:41:44] Speaker D: Good. Good to be back. Good to be home. These are my friends. [01:41:49] Speaker E: So there are. Hey, I'm Vespa. You all. [01:41:59] Speaker A: Good? How are you? [01:42:01] Speaker E: Good. [01:42:03] Speaker B: I look back, curious look, then looks back to boss. [01:42:07] Speaker D: Best is one of the deep roots. So he sent me out. [01:42:14] Speaker E: Most handsome. [01:42:14] Speaker B: Deep trip. [01:42:15] Speaker E: Someone say, I will not. [01:42:17] Speaker A: It's an honor to meet you. [01:42:21] Speaker B: Abby. [01:42:22] Speaker A: That's not what I think. [01:42:25] Speaker D: It should have prepared y'all for how, like, flirty everybody in the lost lands is. It's just part of his chuckles on. [01:42:34] Speaker E: Maz. I didn't think you'd be back so soon. [01:42:39] Speaker D: I'm just here temporarily to check something out. I'm probably gonna head back out after a week or so. [01:42:46] Speaker B: He looks down at the apiary and. [01:42:48] Speaker E: Says, how goes the venture? [01:42:52] Speaker D: Grand. I met Yaluk tenant. I got the crook of the mad prince as a staff with a giant green emerald of his name. And then I lost it, and it became me. And now I'm here. So. [01:43:11] Speaker E: Agba, son, calm down. [01:43:13] Speaker D: Right? I need to look at the well spring agba. [01:43:20] Speaker E: Sure, sure. You said the man prince? [01:43:26] Speaker D: Yes. [01:43:29] Speaker E: Oh, straight to the source, kid. I just sent you out to see if you could find somebody. Wisdom. [01:43:35] Speaker D: Yeah. Nobody knows what's going on, so I. [01:43:39] Speaker E: Guess they might have been true. Well, were you able to find any of the druids and zejib? Someone you'd run into? [01:43:48] Speaker D: I found a few. Nobody really knows what's going. Like, why things are happening. Everybody's pretty sure it's related to the same thing. It's just not really like a simple fix. It's a little bit deeper than that. [01:44:04] Speaker E: No, just y'all have met, even with the roots of the other stars. All of our meditations, a few answers. [01:44:17] Speaker D: The hide of my home is gone. How many are left? [01:44:24] Speaker B: He just leans over the staff and watches the rill for a second. Listens to it. Babel. After a second, Greta, as you listen you start to realize that he's muttering similarly to what the. What the brook is saying. [01:44:43] Speaker E: Also. [01:44:43] Speaker B: Good night, Abby. [01:44:46] Speaker A: Nice. [01:44:46] Speaker C: Thank you for that. [01:44:47] Speaker B: Yes, you won't learn about boss's other ex wife, but good night. [01:44:52] Speaker A: I'll let you in on it. [01:44:57] Speaker B: And Vez continues and says. [01:45:04] Speaker E: There may only be a couple thousand. [01:45:06] Speaker D: Now, really, is that just an Agba or is that all the islands. [01:45:15] Speaker E: We didn't have a lot of. You gotta understand, we're stretched in not a lot of Luzella left. [01:45:24] Speaker B: Also, I've been saying these words a lot. Note taker, vistial is v I s, apostrophe Tyal and Landon. You have all these notes, and then Luzella is l u z e l l a. Not that you have a clear definition for what any of that is yet, but. He says those words. [01:45:42] Speaker E: He says. But we think the numbers are low on the other aisles, too. Ogba's standing strong, but something's wrong with the spring, as you know. We're not sure. [01:46:03] Speaker D: I think someone's corrupting them. I hear stories about a poison spring in the south of the world. I visited one in Zedge that seemed to be okay, so I know what one should look like. I've seen that much. I've touched it. I felt it. I met you. [01:46:23] Speaker E: Touched. [01:46:23] Speaker D: Yahala. [01:46:26] Speaker E: Oh, son. Goodness, boss, I didn't mean all that for you. Yeah, wondrous. But I didn't mean all that for you. [01:46:45] Speaker D: It's okay. [01:46:48] Speaker E: But if somebody else did, maybe that's not the worst thing. Look at you, kid. You're a century older inside. [01:46:59] Speaker D: Better or worse? [01:47:00] Speaker E: Yeah, better. Worse. Still boz. Still boz. The poison springs, far south. [01:47:14] Speaker D: Very far. [01:47:14] Speaker E: I saw fit to omit plenty of these details but I guess they found you all the same. A land Zorgrom. Named after the figure I'm sure you're well acquainted with at this point now. Yes. [01:47:30] Speaker D: Very much so, son. [01:47:31] Speaker E: I'm sorry. [01:47:33] Speaker D: It's okay. [01:47:34] Speaker E: I'm sorry. [01:47:35] Speaker D: I thought you probably knew. I didn't think. I thought you probably thought that I wouldn't get that far. [01:47:41] Speaker E: I had an accurate summary. I was hoping to drop you off with chassis and zedge if you collect some answers in return. I didn't mean for your journey to. I always meant for you to find stuff. I didn't know. I just didn't know you'd find everything I didn't know. Sometimes you spend so long growing the plants, tending them you forget you're not the one who makes them grow. I guess I thought I had more guidance over your path than I did. It might have been a mistake of my boss. Sorry. [01:48:28] Speaker D: It's okay. No, no, I think it. If it wasn't, it would have been no one. So. [01:48:37] Speaker E: All right. Sure. You can. I imagine hidden dog, but might be useful. Yeah. We haven't been idle in your departure. You could. Maybe the mad prince isn't so useless. [01:49:11] Speaker D: He took me to the feywild for a while. [01:49:14] Speaker E: No, he's. He's powerful. I never told you this, but I had a dalliance or two with him. [01:49:21] Speaker D: Really? [01:49:24] Speaker E: Maybe not as guided as yours. I. Oh, boss. I'm inclined to say something about doubting, to want to send you to more confusion or peril. But I guess I should quit doing that because it looks like I've sent you the worst I could have. [01:49:49] Speaker D: Oh, I. I don't know. I feel like I've seen the worst. [01:49:55] Speaker E: There's an option. I thought I was a little too desperate for the time. Maybe I've participated particularly miscalculated. You could always go to Kirkton. Unto Lomuloth. [01:50:10] Speaker D: Sorry. [01:50:12] Speaker B: And Landon Boz knows well enough from your document that curved onto Lomuloth is one of the furthest lost lands if you've never been there. It is one that the deep roots venture to very rarely. It is a land said to be rife with the bees you tend. But these colonies are left largely to grow on their own, if for no other reason than magic is very untamed there. Its distance from Agba leaves it powerfully connected to the magics. But almost at the very periphery of the orbit of those that magical flow, things there are wild, and it is said to be the land of the mad prince. You are well aware enough that Curftanantalam Yalath is the home of Kirftanan talaam Badrindad, which is Pixisulvin, you know, means. [01:51:12] Speaker E: The bewildering keep, that this is said. [01:51:15] Speaker B: To be not the home. He's kind of the wanderer as a fifties song, but that Yelichinath doesn't have a home. But he does have a place where he keeps things and very Yelictiananthi, a place that can be invaded at peril, full of confusion and madness and strangeness and riddles and puzzles and problems at which he holds very valuable things. The bewildering keep a dungeon, if you will. And Vez continues and says. [01:52:00] Speaker E: The booklet of many secrets is there. And it may very well hold an answer to all of this. I was really leaning toward our druidic insights. But if this is where we are. Maybe. And then he gets a surprise look on his face, chuckles, and says, maybe we should send one of our most capable druids to go look into it with his friends. [01:52:36] Speaker D: I can go. [01:52:38] Speaker E: You touch a wellspring, you said. [01:52:40] Speaker A: Yeah, we all did. [01:52:42] Speaker D: We all did. Craig dies. [01:52:44] Speaker E: He killed him. That's why we don't recommend it to many folks. [01:52:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:52:51] Speaker E: Boz, you know, you might be a deeper now. [01:52:54] Speaker D: What do you mean? [01:52:57] Speaker E: You're far away from the initiation, but final rite of passage is abducted into the first flame. [01:53:04] Speaker D: Oh. [01:53:07] Speaker E: I'll meet with the others, but it might very well be vela vistial. [01:53:13] Speaker B: Which you understand, Boz, to mean deep root of istjal. [01:53:17] Speaker D: Oh, wow. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. [01:53:21] Speaker E: Well, let's not get wrapped up in those traditions for now. [01:53:24] Speaker B: But. [01:53:27] Speaker E: Maybe you're better suited than this whole bag of bones. I'd recommend heading to the bewildering keep. Okay. And, okay, see if you can't find the booklet of many secrets. [01:53:41] Speaker D: Booklet of many secrets. [01:53:43] Speaker E: It might book a mini secrets and yelling. Tonight's vague with names. [01:53:50] Speaker B: Also, ro notation taking nerd kurftanontalomuloth is spelled k u r p h. K u r p h, apostrophe tnant. And you recognize jalaktinant, the tenant in there, apostrophe allamyloth. And you take it. At this point, the pixislvan is very prone to this thing where you have sounds that are just stitched together. And curvtalantalam, the name of the keep is all of that, but with bidrinded at the end, which is apostrophe b d r I n d r I d. Bedrindidae. [01:54:44] Speaker A: Interesting. [01:54:47] Speaker D: Has anyone ever gone to this keep before? Like, is there anyone we could talk to or what do you. [01:54:57] Speaker E: No. Nobody I know. I don't know. Okay. I'm sorry I don't have more for you, son. I'll tell you what. Go look. If you can't make it, that's fine. Just come back. Focus on coming back. More than anything. [01:55:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:55:29] Speaker E: But, um, we'll come back, and we'll meet with the other roots, and we'll see if we can't put our heads together and come up with something for the bees. [01:55:41] Speaker D: Before I go, I just want to let you know it's very bad out there. It's quite bad. [01:55:52] Speaker E: Yes. [01:55:55] Speaker D: I don't know if this. I don't know if things are winnable. And I don't know what happens if the bloodied one wins. I don't know if there's a realm that's safe if he wins. [01:56:10] Speaker E: No. [01:56:12] Speaker D: No. [01:56:13] Speaker E: I was. I thought I was protecting you by shielding you from some of this. But I see now that I was clearly foolish. Boss. We fight some fights cause they're worth fighting. I hope we win. But sometimes you fight, it's cause it's what you can do. Sometimes when you sword on the staff, you rest. When that's what you can do. We're here. Noise here. Akba's always here. Remember the first flame. Now, don't underestimate that. [01:57:05] Speaker D: I saw Hyundai, or an echo of him. [01:57:09] Speaker E: Og. But you did. Yeah. Me and him used to be good buddies. [01:57:15] Speaker D: He was very prickly. [01:57:17] Speaker E: Ah, he always was. [01:57:20] Speaker D: He was a good person. [01:57:22] Speaker E: He should have grown up here. He was Ogman. He would have been more relaxed. But he's from the land of turmoil, so he was all up in his butt about stuff. Be blessed. Pause. Well, we're behind you. If you got questions, reach out. Turn to me and you. [01:57:44] Speaker D: Okay. [01:57:45] Speaker E: Always a little safety here. [01:57:51] Speaker D: Have the mimic colonies been growing at all? Are they still, like, a weird or. [01:57:56] Speaker E: Everybody kind of changed too much. Okay. [01:58:00] Speaker D: I always thought they just wanted to, like, be left alone and do their own thing. [01:58:04] Speaker E: I don't know. Much as we can tell, they do. They really. Only. It's really only travelers from out of here who wind up here who end up feeding them, so. [01:58:17] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:58:18] Speaker E: Didn't you keep watching? [01:58:20] Speaker A: Ro's face goes wide and confused. [01:58:27] Speaker E: Daughter. [01:58:27] Speaker B: What? [01:58:29] Speaker E: What, uh, where are you from? [01:58:35] Speaker A: Oh, um, I'm from Zedge, I think. [01:58:47] Speaker E: Why have you can be. How'd you get out of here? [01:58:55] Speaker A: Um, I'm not sure. My. My mother was. I'm a halfling. And about a year ago, when I ran into balls, was the first time I ever saw anyone that looked anything like me. [01:59:17] Speaker E: An outlander og. One of the odds. Yuchala is wine. It's strange. [01:59:29] Speaker A: You're telling me. [01:59:30] Speaker D: They're hoping to figure out maybe who her dad was or is here. [01:59:37] Speaker A: I don't know if this is the right time or not. I have this better. And she pulls out the leaf. [01:59:47] Speaker B: The leaf fabric. [01:59:48] Speaker D: Pull it out. [01:59:49] Speaker B: He takes it from you, manipulates it in his hand. His hand moves archaically, but dexterously so it's slow, but he still has a lot of joint movement. As he rubs it together between his forefinger and thumb, he says. [02:00:03] Speaker E: Oh, I mean, that's clear. I know what this is from, boz. You never were one. Much for history. Um, this is from the Tll and note taker. [02:00:21] Speaker B: That's t y l apostrophe a l l a l n. He goes on to explain to you that, um, tlal. [02:00:32] Speaker E: Are the many voices. They're one of the seven stars. The ordering groups of our people each watch over a different part of our culture. The teal alone. They keep the history of our people in song and story. They're composed of a lot of peoples, but they. They're of a. No, what would you call it? [02:01:04] Speaker B: Also, this whole conversation has been in Sylvan, and Greta has once again, okay? And he continues and says. [02:01:14] Speaker E: You'D call them. [02:01:17] Speaker B: A bard, a bardic tradition. [02:01:19] Speaker A: And my mother was a bard, and I'm a bard. [02:01:27] Speaker E: I see the instrument. They keep the spirit of the mother tree in story and in truth. They keep the heart of our people. They're a wide degree of our people, but they protect our culture, both in solitude and moving practice. There's plenty of them here in Hogba. I don't know everything about everybody, but I know quite a few. I don't know anybody who danced with an outlander. [02:02:06] Speaker B: He's gonna make a history check, okay? And he's gonna roll very well. He's gonna sit there rubbing his moss beard, and he's gonna say. [02:02:22] Speaker E: The thing is, when outlanders come here, if they make it to Ogba, they tend to stay in Ogba. By tend, I mean always. Cause leaving is usually dying. And they become part of us here. I don't know how your mother could have come and gone, but I do know we got some branches of the teal on one of their aisles. Daughter, I don't know. This is a wild guess. And I don't like to be reckless with people's hearts like this. But I imagine your Daddy's death. Who, Jeff and Jackie? That's gonna be j a t h, he says. Thing is, he's the only teal alone I know. On the outer rim. I mean, there's Kapal and Dergis and other own. But I don't think each of them would be apparent to you. You've got his eyes. He's all the way out on foo fump. [02:03:54] Speaker B: But in row, that's gonna be f o o f. I know where that is. Apostrophe f u m p h. Foo fumpf. [02:04:03] Speaker E: He says that. Get out there. You might be able to find him. I couldn't tell you a look of where he is beyond that, but. [02:04:14] Speaker A: Thank you. [02:04:15] Speaker E: Now, I warn you, daughter, it's out there. It's not far from perf to nuntalomylauth. So magic's gonna get strange. And he loves anybody he comes across, but he doesn't tend to come across much people. So I don't know how you're gonna find him. Long aisle, but. [02:04:34] Speaker A: Understood. Thank you so much. [02:04:45] Speaker E: Basin. Sometimes you don't fight because you can win. And when all you can do is rest, you rest. [02:05:07] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:05:07] Speaker E: Forgive me for spending so much time on your and your magics. You are always overflowing with potential. Too smart for your own good. Forgive me spending all the time on who you could be instead of who you were. Looks like you came out pretty good. But I should have spent more time on peace. [02:05:40] Speaker D: It's all right. [02:05:41] Speaker E: I was scared, too. [02:05:44] Speaker D: I know. [02:05:47] Speaker B: It's not over yet, right? [02:05:50] Speaker D: That's right. [02:05:52] Speaker E: I'm still growing flowers. Yeah. Yeah. Look for the book. If you don't find it, we'll find another solution. Okay. [02:06:09] Speaker D: To the tower it is. [02:06:12] Speaker E: Did the apiary. Did the bees get to the wellspring? [02:06:18] Speaker D: Yes, they did. [02:06:22] Speaker E: I imagine nothing else other than your success. Do you want to leave the apiary with me till you return? [02:06:30] Speaker D: I pick it up and I hold it, say, sure, yeah, maybe they can pass them that here. [02:06:42] Speaker E: Well, that's what I'm hoping. [02:06:45] Speaker D: I let them out. They flew through it. They were all over it. They were out and about. So. [02:06:51] Speaker E: I'll see what I can do, son. I'll speak with the other roots. [02:06:58] Speaker D: Okay. [02:07:00] Speaker E: You're done. Good, boss. Thank you. Thank you. [02:07:08] Speaker D: Real quick, how are we supposed to get to the tower? Because my canoe doesn't have enough room for everybody. [02:07:13] Speaker E: Yeah. What do you got to trade? You're probably gonna have to get yourself a long canoe. [02:07:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we could probably find something of ours that we could trade for it. Both. [02:07:32] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. [02:07:36] Speaker E: Yeah, you could always know how strong you become. Clearly. Always fly between the aisles. [02:07:47] Speaker D: That's true as well. Yeah, we could do that. [02:07:50] Speaker A: We could. Yeah, we could. We could do our eagle thing. We do. [02:07:55] Speaker D: Yeah, we could do our eagle eagles. Yeah. [02:08:00] Speaker E: I. Don't bother. [02:08:03] Speaker B: He just kind of clicks his tongue a little. [02:08:05] Speaker E: He says, you got to give this back to me. [02:08:13] Speaker D: Okay? Can't. [02:08:15] Speaker E: This is the loner. You understand? [02:08:17] Speaker D: Okay, I got it. What is it? [02:08:19] Speaker B: And he takes out, like, he reaches into the weave of leaves and pulls out another bundle of leaves. Incomprehensible to someone who doesn't know him. Boz, you know him well, and you are aware that this is. It looks like more leaf leather. Just a bundle, but you're aware that this is his bag of holding. And he opens up the front and his arm just disappears into it. And he pulls out this long, long, long green roll. And you know immediately what this is. And he takes this huge leaf and just dislike eight by eight leaf. It's like one giant red oak leaf and it unfolds like a blanket, but when he lays it down, it gets kind of hard. [02:09:04] Speaker E: And he says, you know how to fly it? [02:09:09] Speaker D: Do I know how to fly it? Dm have I ever seen this before? [02:09:13] Speaker B: You imagine? Yeah. Yeah. You've traveled on it once. This is his reskinned, reflavored flying carpet. [02:09:22] Speaker E: And he says, I want this back when you come back from the keep. [02:09:27] Speaker D: Okay. I can bring it back to you. [02:09:29] Speaker E: And remember, magic's weird around some of the other aisles. I don't guarantee this will work. [02:09:35] Speaker B: Right. [02:09:35] Speaker E: Once you get to each of them. Okay. May have to do some walking. [02:09:42] Speaker D: I don't mind walking. [02:09:43] Speaker B: I pretty much should get you in between. [02:09:45] Speaker E: I'll dial. You still remember how to hop him? [02:09:50] Speaker D: Yes. [02:09:52] Speaker E: Bring her back. I love this thing. [02:09:55] Speaker D: I will, I will, I will. [02:09:59] Speaker B: He just puts a hand on your. [02:10:00] Speaker E: Wrist and says, go get em, kid. [02:10:03] Speaker D: Thank you. [02:10:05] Speaker E: Thank you. I got some squirrels to check on. [02:10:09] Speaker B: And he turns around and just turns into like an oriole again and flies away. And you guys temporarily have in your inventory an eight by six flying carpet that you can all just reflavor it as a giant flying leaf. And you can all just barely fit on it. [02:10:32] Speaker D: I love it. I do have to attune to it. [02:10:35] Speaker B: Nope, it's not an attune item. [02:10:39] Speaker D: Okay. [02:10:40] Speaker B: And that is where we will end. Episode 115 of the Accidental Adventures. [02:10:51] Speaker D: Bozix. [02:10:52] Speaker B: Back to Bozix. You guys gained explorations 0.01 levels for the roleplay. Hold on, let me. Let me do the math here. 0.0 levels for roleplay. You found clues to rose heritage. [02:11:05] Speaker E: Set. [02:11:05] Speaker B: 0.02 levels for that. [02:11:09] Speaker E: Okay. [02:11:11] Speaker B: 0.02 for the adventure. So you guys gained 0.05 levels. [02:11:19] Speaker D: 570 211.572. [02:11:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:11:25] Speaker B: Okay, guys. Wow. Okay, so with a little mini quest on the lost lands, a clue, maybe the name of Ro's dad. If he's right, assuming that guy is out there still alive, who knows? And a flying leaf. The fun guys are in the lost lands. [02:11:55] Speaker D: Oh, my child. [02:11:57] Speaker A: Let's get crazy. Let's get untamed with our magic. [02:12:02] Speaker B: Got some stuff here. Okay. We're gonna have a time. Been preparing for this for a long time. Oh, we're gonna have a wild stretch. Okay. Well, very fun. Thank you for hanging in there, listeners. Life is an incredible adventure. Also, thank you guys for being patient as we went a little over time tonight. Um, but, uh, listeners, more stuff on the patreon, more than anything. Thank you for joining us. There's gonna be a lot of fun stuff coming, so, um, life is an incredible adventure. You are a very important part of it. And, uh, skibity wap and bye.