186. An Accidental Adventure (Campaign 1 Finale)

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi. Welcome back to Barely DND D. This is your Sword of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. If you've made it this far, I just want to say thank you for giving us your time, your thoughts, hopefully your feelings. I hope this made you feel things, and thank you for listening. We're about to start. Is this. Are we doing two episodes, or is [00:00:22] Speaker B: it the last one? [00:00:23] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Okay. This is the last episode of this campaign, and we're happy to be here, but also a little sad. And if you've cared as much as we hope you have, hopefully you're a little sad too. [00:00:40] Speaker B: Also, this is Micah, and she's your host. [00:00:42] Speaker A: Oh, this is Micah. I am your host. [00:00:47] Speaker D: Like a. Like a parasite. [00:00:49] Speaker A: Yeah. You'll never get rid of me. [00:00:52] Speaker E: I'm the host, and you guys are the parasite. [00:00:55] Speaker D: Welcome back, parasites. I'm your host. [00:00:58] Speaker C: Hey, do you guys want to be called parasites? [00:01:02] Speaker A: You're my parasite. [00:01:03] Speaker D: Welcome back, parasites. This is the last time you ever leech off of me. [00:01:07] Speaker C: Welcome back to the podcast, you parasites. The parasites. I hope you felt something. Podcast parasites. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Life's been. [00:01:15] Speaker D: Welcome back, you parasites. I'm your host. I hope you're sad, so happy. [00:01:19] Speaker A: Life is an incredible adventure. You are its parasite. [00:01:23] Speaker D: Was it. It was so shiny, so sad, so hot. [00:01:26] Speaker E: So shiny, so sad, so hot. [00:01:30] Speaker D: Listener. Yeah, yeah. [00:01:33] Speaker B: We. [00:01:33] Speaker D: We've. All of us have, individually, at least. Already cried once. I think I've cried three times, and that's kind of a lot for me. [00:01:37] Speaker A: Where's Noah with the cry count? [00:01:39] Speaker E: I know. [00:01:39] Speaker C: I'm already. No, I. I have it. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Never mind. Jackie's got it. [00:01:43] Speaker C: Last the Haing episodes, I cried 13 times. I had Lucky 13. [00:01:54] Speaker E: I'm sorry in advance for all this sniffling. I can't mute myself at will. [00:01:57] Speaker D: Listener. We're. We're going to go through it today. [00:01:59] Speaker C: I took Abby's mic away. [00:02:00] Speaker E: They chained me up. They. They tied me down. [00:02:03] Speaker C: Just for now. [00:02:05] Speaker D: They chained me up. They tied me down. Welcome back to the Abby's on a leash. Oh, no. All right, guys. Unfathomably sharp. Let's do this. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Wait, wait, wait. Cool. Unbarty blue and farty. Unfathomably shardy. [00:02:22] Speaker E: I just want to say I preferred PIs to unfathomable shards. I do, too. [00:02:27] Speaker C: I do, too. [00:02:27] Speaker D: No, no, no. [00:02:28] Speaker C: And it's not because I'm. [00:02:29] Speaker A: The moon has a dark side. It's okay. [00:02:31] Speaker D: PIs is the best one. PIs is the best one. [00:02:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:34] Speaker D: Unfathomably. Shard is good. Pissabis is gold. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:02:38] Speaker C: I Wish I could write in that metal font. I would draw it on my sheet like that. Please tell me the epilogue's name is Pissabis. [00:02:45] Speaker E: And I pissed into the Abyss. [00:02:47] Speaker D: And you pissed in at the abys. We pissed in at the [00:02:55] Speaker C: how I imagine camping trip. [00:03:00] Speaker D: All right. [00:03:01] Speaker C: Anyway, I tried to do the metal font, you guys. It didn't work. [00:03:05] Speaker E: Okay, try again. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Let me see it. I don't see it. [00:03:09] Speaker C: He said, oh, no. [00:03:10] Speaker E: That's what the Piss Abyss looks like. That's what your piss looks like in the abyss. [00:03:14] Speaker C: The Piss Abyss is a real thing in Yala Br. [00:03:17] Speaker D: If your piss looks like that, you should see your urologist. [00:03:19] Speaker E: No, only in the abyss. [00:03:21] Speaker C: I want it to be clear that it is canon. That there is a real piece of this in your brain. I did, and I'm the DM now. [00:03:30] Speaker D: Look at me. [00:03:33] Speaker C: No, in the fan Fun. Guys. Fantastical fortress. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Oh. [00:03:37] Speaker C: Remember, there are restrooms. [00:03:39] Speaker D: That's true. [00:03:40] Speaker C: That you piss into. There's little holes in the ground. And because Ro controls all of it, it prestidigitates it away immediately into an abyss. So there is truly a canonized pizzabit in this question. [00:03:53] Speaker E: You could live. If you lived in the fortress for like a week and you were really sick and your pee was bright blue, you wouldn't know because it just goes away. [00:04:01] Speaker C: Well, do you not wipe? Are you not wiping your. [00:04:04] Speaker E: That's true. [00:04:05] Speaker D: First of all. First of all. [00:04:07] Speaker E: Whoa. [00:04:08] Speaker D: Second of all. So by you reminding me and fully certifying that table, technically it is a dimension and all dimensions are technically accessible. [00:04:22] Speaker C: That means there's a plane of existence. [00:04:24] Speaker D: Transportation too, even if however small to a Piss Abyss is possible. Which then means were any being able to learn of that Piss Abyss, I could transport you all there. [00:04:35] Speaker C: No, I. Okay. Why did we never transport an enemy to the Piss Abyss? [00:04:40] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, guys, Zorgon could have been in pee. [00:04:43] Speaker C: Oh, we could have done that. That would have been great. [00:04:45] Speaker D: Well, he's in like a blood abyss. [00:04:46] Speaker C: Yeah, but that's not his. [00:04:47] Speaker A: That's not episode. It's not piss of us. [00:04:51] Speaker E: I'm taking like an insane amount of quote, like quotes, like notes. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Quote notes, quote notes. Do we want to do the letter question? [00:04:59] Speaker D: Yeah, we need to start eventually. [00:05:01] Speaker C: I want to do this. [00:05:02] Speaker A: What is this? [00:05:03] Speaker D: I was going to do that after. [00:05:04] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:05] Speaker D: So grabs. Do you want to do the literature? [00:05:08] Speaker E: I do. The. My literature question is what is something that your character didn't realize that they wanted to do until they. It like fully sunk in that they saved the world, and they weren't gonna die. [00:05:21] Speaker D: Dude, you totally did. Nice, Abby. You totally did. Wrap it up. And make it more succinct. [00:05:25] Speaker C: Oh, Zach didn't understand it for five minutes before we started the episode. I want to make that clear before [00:05:32] Speaker D: the episode, but we didn't have to say it into the mic. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Good. [00:05:34] Speaker E: Under pressure. [00:05:36] Speaker D: Who's the dmnpc, the dominant book? [00:05:39] Speaker C: You know who. [00:05:40] Speaker E: Yeah. I mean, it has to. [00:05:41] Speaker A: You know who. [00:05:42] Speaker B: They count. [00:05:45] Speaker D: Wait, so Tello. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:49] Speaker E: Okay. [00:05:49] Speaker D: You want a spoor or something? [00:05:50] Speaker B: Okay. No, you gotta pick. [00:05:55] Speaker A: You'll always pick the best. [00:05:59] Speaker D: Roasted. Michael said, I've had enough roast. [00:06:04] Speaker C: Dude, what should I hate? What, you mean, like, row. [00:06:07] Speaker E: I have mine? [00:06:08] Speaker D: Dude, let's. I was about to say let's start with whoever wants to start. [00:06:11] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. When. When Rowena uses. When. If Rowena ever uses vicious mockery, she just say, you just got Ro. [00:06:20] Speaker E: I'm gonna open. I'm gonna. [00:06:22] Speaker D: His face is. [00:06:23] Speaker E: I'm gonna open my Red Bull. [00:06:24] Speaker D: Wait, hold on. Oh, was that the best one in five years? [00:06:31] Speaker A: That was perfect. [00:06:32] Speaker D: Good. Why is everything nostalgic? Everything's nostalgic. I'm gonna go, and everyone's gonna go, oh, no. No one's gonna. No one's gonna be happy about that. Everyone went, ew. And Micah went, aww. Go get em. Go get em. [00:06:48] Speaker E: Abby. I think, and I personally, as the player, didn't realize that I wanted to do this, but I think Greta, like, she's been through a lot. [00:06:57] Speaker D: Really? [00:06:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:59] Speaker E: In our campaign alone, but also, like, she kind of, like, left her home, kind of, and, like, was a nomad, like, in the. In the land that she lived, and she ran into her family, and she could see them when they went to dorm for holidays. And then she left the continent, and then she, like. I think she left, and she thought that she would never go back. Whether that's because she never wanted to or because she never, like, felt worthy, or she never felt like she could show her face without, like, being ashamed of who she was. But I think that she's, like. She is a lot. She's, like, come to terms with herself and her past and the things that she's done. And I think she feels, like, maybe even a little proud of, like, her life for the first time in a while. And I think that she's, like. She's like, oh. Like, I. She's. She is always, like, missing the land, and she's always missing, like, the. The culture and the people there and just the beauty, the natural Beauty, like, it lives in her dreams, and it just is a part of. So I think now she's kind of like, oh, like, I. I'm alive, and I. Like, the world isn't over, so I. I could go back. But also, I think she's finally, like, wanting to. And she's finally feeling like she could go and show her face to her family without feeling like a horrible person. So I. So, to answer, I think she would want to go home and just, like, experience the land again and experience, like, that place that she loves so much and, like, the plants and the bugs, but also just, like, seeing her family. Yeah. [00:08:34] Speaker B: Dang. Come. She's ready to go home because she finally belongs with herself again. [00:08:39] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:08:41] Speaker B: That's. [00:08:41] Speaker E: Wow. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Wow. [00:08:43] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:08:44] Speaker B: That's a good answer, Abby. [00:08:46] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:08:47] Speaker B: That's why she's got a six pack. [00:08:49] Speaker E: I do. That's canon in real life. [00:08:52] Speaker D: I don't have that power. I can't. I'm not DM in real life, Mickle. [00:09:00] Speaker A: I'm still trying to feel it out, but I, like. I don't know why it's coming up to my mind, but I feel like Craig would go back home. I mean, first he would be, like, wanting to settle into regular life, but his life doesn't feel regular anymore. And I think that he still has the desire to make a difference in the best ways that he can. And I think that he's gonna realize that it starts with, [00:09:35] Speaker B: I didn't mean [00:09:36] Speaker C: for you to stop. [00:09:36] Speaker A: That's okay. [00:09:37] Speaker D: Jackie passed a note and Mikey went, oh, sorry. [00:09:40] Speaker C: I meant for you to read it after. I just. It was not a timely thing. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Okay. But it's okay. No, probably not printing it out. It's, like, 15 pages. Okay, so I think we're good. But I think that Craig would either become a part of the council or, like, how his government would work, or he would. [00:10:07] Speaker C: City council. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Craig. Yeah. Or he would become an art teacher. [00:10:14] Speaker C: Art and poetry. [00:10:15] Speaker E: Craig is an art teacher? [00:10:17] Speaker A: Wow. [00:10:18] Speaker D: Right. Yes, I was. [00:10:19] Speaker A: He doesn't know anything about art right now. He'll get there. [00:10:23] Speaker E: I feel like Craig, like, didn't used to have the capacity for this, but I feel like he so has the capacity to, like, look at an angry young boy who doesn't know how to, like, feel and be like, man, you gotta suck it up and, like, make some art. You know what I mean? Or, like, I feel like. But I feel like it's like. Yeah, I know that that's hard. Like, Craig is so. [00:10:41] Speaker C: He's perfect for that because he is [00:10:42] Speaker E: Such, like, he's so strong, and he has, like, so much, like, glory, I guess, to his name, but he's also, like, so sensitive, and he still holds his heart. [00:10:50] Speaker A: I wonder if it would just, like, a teacher in some sort of capacity in the way that, like, I don't know if it would be, like, art or it would be like, a drawing, the two of what you just described, but like an outlet of some sort. Like a. I don't know. Yeah, something. But, yeah, I think that he would want to be in a capacity where he's, like, making a difference and pouring into people who might not have had, like, good role models. And he wants to become a role model but also learn how to be one more. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, [00:11:27] Speaker C: it's leaning. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:28] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:11:29] Speaker A: It's okay. [00:11:30] Speaker C: It's because it's broken. [00:11:31] Speaker D: That was a very good answer. [00:11:32] Speaker B: It was very good. [00:11:34] Speaker D: When Jackie tried to adjust Micah's mic and pointed her mouth, Micah's reaction was, what's to say? [00:11:40] Speaker E: I could so totally see Craig working with kids. [00:11:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I like it. [00:11:47] Speaker C: I don't think I could see Greta or Roe working with kids, though. Nope, Nope. [00:11:52] Speaker E: No. [00:11:53] Speaker D: I feel like Greta could work with a really resilient, a tough kid, you know, one that didn't die easily. I feel like she'd have that down. [00:12:00] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [00:12:02] Speaker D: One that could take a couple inflict wounds. [00:12:04] Speaker E: You know, Greta's like. I feel like the extent of her thing would be, like, telling a story or, like, leading, like, a really, really, like, rambly, like, horticulture class, but that's it. And ro, for, like, 30 minutes. And there's two camp counselors, like, watching the kids. Yeah. [00:12:18] Speaker C: And Ro could, like, tell some stories, sing some songs. [00:12:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:12:22] Speaker C: Do some prestidigitation. Sparkles. And be like, they're like, the people that you go visit. [00:12:27] Speaker E: They're the people that you go visit at summer camp. [00:12:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:30] Speaker A: But, like. [00:12:30] Speaker E: And they, like, give a presentation. [00:12:31] Speaker C: Yeah. They're like. [00:12:32] Speaker D: They're. [00:12:32] Speaker C: One day, they're not the counselors, and then they leave. Yeah. [00:12:35] Speaker D: The perfect fun aunt. [00:12:37] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:12:39] Speaker A: The magician. [00:12:40] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:12:44] Speaker E: Like, she does the bird show and Rose the magician, dude. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:12:48] Speaker D: The bird show. [00:12:50] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:12:50] Speaker C: Although wouldn't it be funny, though, if Ro was the bird? She turned into all the animals for you. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. I'd like to think that if you were. If Greta was a teacher, she would be a, like, a language teacher, but she would forget that she was teaching and just start, like, speaking the languages [00:13:07] Speaker D: and, like, having fun. [00:13:08] Speaker A: Yeah. And then the students would be, like, really confused. [00:13:10] Speaker D: She would just cast. [00:13:11] Speaker C: Don't know, like, primordial. What did you start talking primordial for? [00:13:15] Speaker D: No reason. [00:13:16] Speaker A: And, like, they have to, like, figure you're, like, a really hard class because you don't explain anything. You just, like, enjoy what you're doing. [00:13:22] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:13:23] Speaker E: I cast tongues on all the kids. [00:13:25] Speaker C: Like, this is how you cast the seventh level spell. They're like, how you're like, just do it. Yeah. Grow corrosive, I think. No inspiration. [00:13:40] Speaker D: Why is it even a thing? Gross if it is. Oh, my goodness. I like that as much as jickle. Gross if is excellent. [00:13:47] Speaker C: That would be Greta. [00:13:49] Speaker D: I don't care. It's what I'm calling you. Gross if it is. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Gross if. [00:13:53] Speaker C: I'm not answering to that. I'll answer Jekyll. I won't answer. [00:13:57] Speaker D: Gross if is repulsive. [00:13:59] Speaker C: I hate it. [00:14:00] Speaker D: Gross if. [00:14:02] Speaker C: Jekyll is fine. Rowena is fine. [00:14:05] Speaker A: When has he ever called you Rowena? [00:14:07] Speaker C: That's true. [00:14:09] Speaker D: He calls her Greta a lot. [00:14:10] Speaker C: But he's never called me Rowena. Why is that he's never called you Greg? [00:14:16] Speaker D: Because I call her Mike. [00:14:17] Speaker C: I feel like that says. Okay. Anyway, I think Ro. For a long time, Ro wanted to be, like. I think it was her dream and goal only to be, like, a hero, saving the world, if I'm being completely honest. Like, she wanted that. She wanted to do something to impact. She wanted to be a hero. She wanted to be known. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Always a dream of greatness. [00:14:47] Speaker C: Yeah. And I think that was what she set her sights on. And now that they. Well, they kind of. Kind of did that on the biggest possible scale, I think she's realizing that, like, she could have other things that she thought she would have to give up for trying to do that. Like, she thought. I don't know if she really ever thought that she would have to, like, go down in a blaze of glory, necessarily, but, like, it would be, like, a hero's ending, and then she would retreat off. I don't know. And, like, I think she still wants to travel and do stuff, obviously, but I don't think that she ever imagined that she could have, like. Like, a family. And when I say family, I, like, maybe kids or something. But I think she. I mean by that, like. Like, her found family, like, have people that she wants to spend time with and live with, even though there's not, like, a mission to get to. [00:15:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:46] Speaker C: And. And, like, having, like, a home base instead of just always being on the road. And, like, those Are things. I think she thought that she would have to, like, inevitably, like, always for forego with becoming what she wanted to be. And I think too, like, I think she didn't think she'd be able to have, like, a happy ever after with, like, another person unless. Or like, like, she. She'd experienced being in relationships before, and then when she did start traveling and she wanted to put all of her, like, time into herself and then into the fun guys into her craft and everything like that, she was like, that's not even something on my radar. That's not what I want to think about. Like, she would joke about it, obviously, but it was. It was like a defense mechanism almost of like. Yeah, it's not like that'll ever happen for her, like a happy ending or like, with a home base. So I think. I think those things she might now that, like, they actually did it. They. You know, she realizes that maybe she could have a little bit best of [00:16:55] Speaker A: both worlds of, like, Hannah Montana. Yeah. [00:17:03] Speaker C: I was trying to do, like, the real quiet one, and it didn't come out because I'm stuffy. [00:17:07] Speaker A: But, [00:17:09] Speaker C: yeah, I think. I think she realizes she could. She could have a little bit of the. This. The sweet life of, like, human adventure. All right, I know what it's. I don't. [00:17:19] Speaker D: That was two. [00:17:21] Speaker C: No, but I mean, like, she could have, like, live in a small town, have family, have her found family, but also be able to travel and, like, [00:17:28] Speaker B: do stuff and all. [00:17:29] Speaker C: So, yeah, I think she'd have both of them. [00:17:31] Speaker A: I'm glad she met her man. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. The best of both worlds of sweet life. [00:17:35] Speaker C: That's so roving. Okay, get in. [00:17:40] Speaker D: That's Roven. [00:17:42] Speaker A: The purple. The purple. [00:17:43] Speaker D: And you know what? I had thoughts about what you said, and they've all been replaced with. [00:17:46] Speaker C: I'm so sorry. [00:17:47] Speaker D: Now my brain's just going. And then she's. That's declassified. Moving on. [00:17:51] Speaker C: That's not dis. Okay. Home base. Happy ever after. She's good. [00:17:57] Speaker D: Yeah. Fratello. I. I think Fratello, the thing that he would. That he's surprised that he. That he had given up having. That he didn't think he could have [00:18:11] Speaker B: anymore was the capacity for new relationships, [00:18:15] Speaker D: you know, because I think he'd kind of just given up on relationships, and then he'd become very dependent on these. But I think he's come so very [00:18:22] Speaker B: far that, like, other members of this [00:18:23] Speaker D: group, you know, I mean, not always, [00:18:26] Speaker B: but one of the most profound things that people can give us is the ability to move on from them. [00:18:31] Speaker D: And that's really tough to do. And I feel like the group has [00:18:35] Speaker B: given him that, that he's like, they [00:18:36] Speaker D: have helped him so much with the parts of himself that he wasn't at peace with, that he couldn't reconcile that. [00:18:43] Speaker B: Now he's like forgiven himself and come to believe in himself again. [00:18:47] Speaker D: And I feel like now he believes [00:18:49] Speaker B: that he can, you know, that he has the power to let other people into his life again, that he has the power to care about people and know people, new people, because he believes in things again. [00:19:01] Speaker D: And so he's received so much from [00:19:03] Speaker B: the people who've given to him that now he can believe in new things. [00:19:07] Speaker E: We can obviously role play this, but I think the minute that he expressed, like wanting to go anywhere, Greta would like, ask people, maybe like kind of like ask without having already done it, but like give him a sending stone and be like, hey, if you ever need us, like, just call or just want to chat. [00:19:23] Speaker B: We have plenty of session for that. [00:19:24] Speaker E: Okay. [00:19:25] Speaker D: As one last thing before we get into it, because heaven knows we're not [00:19:29] Speaker B: starting the session quickly. [00:19:31] Speaker D: You know what, listener, if you've come this far, you're here for all of the unending stuff. [00:19:35] Speaker B: You can if you want to. [00:19:37] Speaker A: Okay. [00:19:38] Speaker D: Jackie gave me an excellently stained piece [00:19:41] Speaker B: of like, straight up, for real, for real parchment looking stuff that she wrote in with gold ink in cursive. And Jackie, where'd you learn cursive? [00:19:51] Speaker E: I'm joking. [00:19:52] Speaker C: Public school. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Not anymore. [00:19:56] Speaker E: They also taught me cursive in homeschool. [00:19:58] Speaker D: Nice. Yeah. But home school. [00:20:03] Speaker E: I know, I know. [00:20:07] Speaker D: Any who. I won't even try to explain it. [00:20:09] Speaker B: I'm just going to read it. [00:20:10] Speaker D: So it says, of knowledge and song [00:20:14] Speaker B: and strength of the heart. The fungi stood tall and played their part together they'd roll for lore, inspiration and farts. [00:20:23] Speaker D: The legend is never really over, Though [00:20:25] Speaker B: for a time we may part. As for Yalabrun, it will forever hold these adventures in its heart. Although the tales of the fungi come to a close. Roll these dice to feel near and defeat evil foes. And Jackie gave me some really beautiful dice that went with it. But. [00:20:44] Speaker C: And the. I just want to say the. The knowledge. [00:20:48] Speaker A: The. [00:20:49] Speaker C: The first line is. It goes in line with the dice because there is a Greta dice, a row dice, and a Craig dice. So of knowledge is Greta. Of what. What is the. [00:21:00] Speaker E: Of knowledge, Song and strength. [00:21:02] Speaker C: Song. [00:21:03] Speaker D: Oh. [00:21:03] Speaker C: Of song is row. And of strength of the heart is correct, because he is our strongest guy. But what. What's truest About Craig is that he has the strongest heart. [00:21:15] Speaker E: And true of Micah, I would say so when. [00:21:18] Speaker C: Anytime you guys ever gotten close, it's [00:21:20] Speaker B: like [00:21:23] Speaker C: every time Zach needs in the future, we have to get her a special mic. Anytime in the future that Zach needs, you know, to roll for. For knowledge or inspiration or strength. He can use. He can use the power of Greta or Roe or Craig in those dice. [00:21:41] Speaker B: It's like Captain Planet. [00:21:42] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:21:44] Speaker C: Which was the first meme I ever made for this podcast. Fun fact. [00:21:48] Speaker D: Oh, my goodness. [00:21:48] Speaker C: That's right. [00:21:50] Speaker D: Anywhere. Without further ado, we've got a lot of. We've got a lot of session to [00:21:57] Speaker B: do, so note taking nerds. [00:22:01] Speaker A: I am one. [00:22:02] Speaker B: One last time. [00:22:03] Speaker C: Oh, stop. [00:22:05] Speaker A: I don't. [00:22:05] Speaker C: I don't need the one last time every time. That's gonna hurt. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Without further ado, let's. Let's play the last episode of the Accidental Adventures. [00:22:14] Speaker D: No taking nerds. [00:22:15] Speaker B: This is episode 186, An Accidental Adventure. Jackie, this tea was so freaking good. [00:22:25] Speaker A: What kind of tea is it? The. The cherry thing. [00:22:28] Speaker B: The special magic one that Jackie was [00:22:31] Speaker C: bragging about using Cali tea. [00:22:34] Speaker A: Why is to go barking. [00:22:37] Speaker E: He loves us. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Oh, how he. Big old loves us. [00:22:46] Speaker D: Oh, how he barks. [00:22:48] Speaker E: I know we'll probably do a couple. A couple dates, but can you just give me a date? So my. [00:22:54] Speaker A: No, I'll give you a date. [00:22:55] Speaker D: I can. Today is. [00:22:57] Speaker B: Well, I actually forgot to write it [00:22:59] Speaker D: down on my sheet. First of all, this is a level 18 adventure, which is kind of crazy that you guys got that high up. [00:23:07] Speaker C: Ro has. [00:23:09] Speaker E: I have a fun fact to show. [00:23:10] Speaker C: Ro is ending the campaign at 166 hit points. [00:23:14] Speaker D: That's very impressive. [00:23:17] Speaker E: Lucky number. 166. When we went to the Wellspring. The Wellspring is the only place where you can increase your ability. Numbers above 20 and it would have been. [00:23:33] Speaker C: Right. [00:23:34] Speaker E: It would have been so smart to put it somewhere that affected my stats. And I put it into wisdom because on the off chance that we run into another Wellspring, I want Greta to have a plus 7 wisdom. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Dang. Hot diggity dang. [00:23:47] Speaker E: Just like on the off chance that, like in a one shot, that'd be [00:23:50] Speaker C: crazy we run into a woman because [00:23:51] Speaker D: that would mean you'd be one of [00:23:52] Speaker B: the only mortals in existence with a plus seven in anything. [00:23:54] Speaker E: I know. And I was like, I really should have done it in Constitution or something. And I put it in wisdom just on the choice off chance. [00:24:01] Speaker D: Yeah, but number go up. If this group's about anything, it's about number, go up. [00:24:05] Speaker E: Number, be big. [00:24:07] Speaker C: What's your highest? [00:24:09] Speaker E: My highest? [00:24:10] Speaker C: Not like that, but like your proficiency or whatever. [00:24:13] Speaker E: 16 in history and arcana. [00:24:17] Speaker C: Wait, can I say mine? I have a plus 17 in religion, nature and performance and arcana. Because I have expertise. [00:24:26] Speaker B: That is the statuest character you're ever gonna play. Dude, that's crazy. [00:24:30] Speaker C: I'll miss her. [00:24:31] Speaker E: I have a 23 intelligence. I'm very close. [00:24:33] Speaker D: Okay. [00:24:34] Speaker E: All right. [00:24:34] Speaker D: Anyway, moving on. Geez. [00:24:36] Speaker C: It's only because she can have expertise, because she's. [00:24:39] Speaker D: We're seeing the most beautiful side of these players here. Moving on. [00:24:44] Speaker C: What's your number? [00:24:45] Speaker D: It is 3488 PB CB call the 27th to begin. [00:24:49] Speaker C: 27th? I don't know. I did that. I'm so sorry. [00:24:53] Speaker D: It's because everybody's anxious and feeling. [00:24:54] Speaker B: What's the day of the week? [00:24:56] Speaker C: Because my calendar is off now. [00:25:01] Speaker D: Well, that part would still be the same anyway. Yeah, no, I'll pull it up. [00:25:07] Speaker E: I'm so excited and I'm so sad and I'm so scared, and I'm also so happy and excited. [00:25:14] Speaker B: Oh, this is the wrong. Hold on. Well, now I gotta. [00:25:19] Speaker C: It's. [00:25:21] Speaker E: It's what? [00:25:22] Speaker B: It's what? My neck. [00:25:24] Speaker C: My neck. I'm so sorry. [00:25:27] Speaker D: All right. [00:25:28] Speaker B: My neck. I really should have thought about those names more before I established them. [00:25:35] Speaker D: But moving on. So we are going to begin. It is so. Actually, you know what? Let's do this first to set some expectations. The way that we're going to. That we're going to work here is. I have received. [00:25:53] Speaker C: Huh? Nothing. [00:25:54] Speaker D: Okay. Well, yeah, well, it's good to prep the listeners as well and for you [00:25:58] Speaker B: guys to set some expectations. [00:25:59] Speaker D: The way that this session is going [00:26:00] Speaker B: to work is that we are going to. We're not going to do this linearly the way that we always do. We will doing this session anthologically. So we're just going to be moving through different periods of time, and we'll [00:26:12] Speaker D: start with the near present, but we'll move into the future, we'll move back, we'll go further forward, and we're going [00:26:19] Speaker B: to bounce between people. [00:26:20] Speaker D: So sometimes we'll be doing things with everyone. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Sometimes we'll be doing things with just one character. [00:26:25] Speaker D: And we'll go back and forth and back and forth. And I received everybody's notes on all the things they wanted to do in their last session, and I believe I [00:26:35] Speaker B: correctly anticipated a lot of the things. [00:26:37] Speaker D: So it's absolutely fine. [00:26:38] Speaker B: And there's no guilt or shame. [00:26:40] Speaker D: I Got a whole page of notes [00:26:41] Speaker B: for you, so you should be good. [00:26:45] Speaker D: I made some predictions. [00:26:47] Speaker A: I trust you. [00:26:48] Speaker D: And yeah, same team, man, same team. So we will move through time in that fashion. I will go ahead and just ask as we're getting opening because I can [00:27:00] Speaker B: just pick one and I can just start us. [00:27:01] Speaker D: But is there anything with which someone [00:27:03] Speaker B: would like to open the session? [00:27:05] Speaker A: Prayer. I'm sorry, you said open this session [00:27:09] Speaker D: that came to mind. [00:27:12] Speaker C: Come in. I don't know. [00:27:13] Speaker E: I have like a small scene. But if. If any, if no one else in [00:27:18] Speaker B: the times after the defeat of Zorgrim in the end of the Hatefall, where does. Where does our story begin as we follow the end of this adventure? [00:27:29] Speaker E: I just. Okay, okay, okay. I. Greta's. She's just sitting in one of the middle branches of the big oak tree outside of the house in Parseage. And I'm imagining the big beautiful live oaks that they have in Texas that are just like so old and the branches get really squiggly as they go out. But she's just kind of nestled in a spot that she's found. She's kind of like. She leaves some space for Nam, who likes to hang out in the tall branches. [00:28:08] Speaker D: She hasn't been out there. It's still winter very much right now. [00:28:12] Speaker B: So you've learned Nam won't return to [00:28:15] Speaker D: the tree until there's leaf cover again. So while the leaves are gone, she's not up yet. And you can be wherever. But you know that you're like. [00:28:21] Speaker B: You can see the spot in the tree where you're like the leaves come back. She'll hide up there. [00:28:24] Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:26] Speaker B: So she's just. [00:28:27] Speaker E: She's just kind of nestled up there and she is holding in her hands a little. A little like it's a little pendant. And we'll say that they stopped and got it. [00:28:41] Speaker B: We don't have to worry about it. [00:28:42] Speaker E: Yeah, she has a little. A little pendant. It's like gold chain. It's like about the size of her palm. Just like, Like a. It's. It's like. It looks dainty, but it is. It is rather large and it looks light when she's handling it. But it's got like two heart, two hands making like a cup. And they're just kind of gently craft. Softly crafted like golden hands. And then holding three red stones that make a little heart. And she's just kind of holding it, rubbing her thumb over the gems like, you know, she'll kind of rub it off with one of her. One of her cloaks, if she sees a little speck, but she's. She's just sitting there kind of holding it. And you see, like, the gold and the green magic kind of, like, flowing from her hands. There's just kind of, like, gentle, slow tears falling from her face. And as they fall, like, they kind of. They fall, and they, like, roll on her face, and then they kind of, like, evaporate into the golden and green mist and just kind of flow, like, around her hands and into the pendant, and she's just. Yeah. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Okay. Thank you. [00:30:06] Speaker E: She's just sitting there, like, just enchanting. This necklace. And she read it or she heard about it somewhere, and it's a periaptive wound closure. And basically what she understands it to do is that if she. If she. If she gets close to death again, it stabilizes her and. Protects her from dying. And she's just kind of thinking through. It's maybe a couple days or a week after they survived. [00:30:46] Speaker B: It's two or three days after the. [00:30:47] Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah. And she's just sitting there, slowly enchanting it and just, again, savoring the feeling of the magic going into her, like, flowing out of her and into this object. And she's just thinking about how close that she's come to death and how, like, close she's come physically and how many times she's died and then been magically brought back to life, but also, just how many times in her life she's been close to, like, a spiritual death or a death of her heart or a death of, like, her mind, and, like, maybe craving that death and craving that, like, that eternal, like, silence. And she's just. Just processing a lot of. Processing and a lot of, like, just thinking through what happened in the big fight, and just, like, she's just. All of her hope and all of her. The gratitude that she's feeling for this life and all of the hope for the rest of her life and all of the things that she wants to do and all of the, like, this beauty and this, like, desire to be a part of the beauty that she's found. She's just trying to put it all into this little object, and she's just. Just sitting there and chanting it. And I think maybe she doesn't finish it right in that moment, but she's just. She's just working on it, and she's, like, just. She's so grateful to be here in this place with the people that she loves, and she's just hoping that she doesn't have to leave it Too soon. Sooner than her time. So that's what she's doing. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. It gets so pushed. All right. Beautiful. What a gorgeous, quiet little moment, Greta, as you perch in the tree and you wait and the day passes slowly around you. The sky's overcast, but not the way it was. The storm is gone. It broke a day ago, but it's taking time because it was more than just magic. I mean, it was a magical reaction that burned the veil away from the atmosphere, but the gas that was produced was real. And so it is dissipating, but it's taking time. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:22] Speaker B: And nature is sort of reclaiming itself and that, like those remaining bits of. Of heavy gas are getting pulled up into kind of like smaller, darker clouds that are dissipating. And from in between it, there's like a thicker general layer of much lighter, softer, silvery clouds. But the most beautiful part is that parts of that are broken as well, and there's just blue sky beyond it. [00:33:44] Speaker D: And you spent a day on the [00:33:46] Speaker B: forgotten isle, so you saw blue sky. But there's. There's something about having blue sky back. [00:33:51] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:33:52] Speaker D: Everywhere again. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Thank you, Jackie. And so as you wait there, perched in the tree, and you look up. Thank you very much, Jekyll. That tea really is amazing. The. Oh, Jonathan. It's Cali. T C A L L I E I believe I'll send it to you. Okay. [00:34:14] Speaker D: I thought I. I said that out loud. And I was like, how can we not tell? [00:34:17] Speaker B: The. The mega fan. There is this moment as you're perched there, where. [00:34:27] Speaker D: I mean, it's exactly what you've said, but you just. So many different moments in your life. [00:34:34] Speaker B: You would have never imagined a moment like this one. So very far away from what you could see at one time. [00:34:40] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:34:41] Speaker B: And Parsage is moving. [00:34:45] Speaker D: The town's still not quite right. It's not a normal day. It hasn't been a normal week. The world almost came to an end [00:34:53] Speaker B: a short time ago. [00:34:54] Speaker D: And though many of the citizens here [00:34:56] Speaker B: still have no idea what's gone on, [00:35:01] Speaker D: they are aware that things got very bad. [00:35:03] Speaker B: And they are aware that it has passed. It will be quite some time before most people in this world can make sense of what has happened. You're aware that, you know, there is. There's no Internet. There is no social media. There is no news. It will take time for any truth of what happened to travel. [00:35:24] Speaker D: And people will may or may not [00:35:26] Speaker B: try to seek you all as sources of that truth. But not yet. Everyone's leaving you alone at this time because it's very clear to them that there was a great threat to everything and that you all clearly had something to do with it ending. [00:35:43] Speaker D: Also, it's Parsage. [00:35:44] Speaker B: They have a massive savior complex for [00:35:46] Speaker D: you guys and just automatically assume, in this case, correctly, but they automatically assume that, well, if the world almost ended and it didn't, must be the fun guys. So they're leaving you to quietly do your business. [00:35:58] Speaker B: But there are small things. The sparrows are working in among the chicken coop behind their home, and you can see them from up here in [00:36:09] Speaker D: the tree, because, quite frankly, this oak [00:36:11] Speaker B: tree is the tallest thing in town. [00:36:12] Speaker D: I haven't said this quite a bit, but there's not a lot of other trees in Parsage. [00:36:15] Speaker B: There's only a couple. [00:36:16] Speaker D: I mean, it's open plains. [00:36:17] Speaker A: Would. [00:36:17] Speaker E: Is it safe to assume that this one was, like, planted here? [00:36:20] Speaker D: I mean, more than safe to assume. [00:36:23] Speaker B: It's a certain. [00:36:24] Speaker D: You can't. I mean, there are really no other [00:36:26] Speaker B: trees of its size anywhere around. [00:36:27] Speaker C: Didn't. Didn't. When we first got there, didn't Boz talk to that tree and remember it was. It talked about how it had been there, like, since the beginning of, like, before that town or something. Right. [00:36:40] Speaker E: Yeah. Well, I think. I think this. This occurs to Greta, and as she's looking around and she, like, into her. Into her. Into her pendant, she, like, pours out a little bit of gratitude for the person that planted this tree and just also the fact that it, like, didn't get cut down and that it was able to grow and be so beautiful. And she's like. She, like, a little bit of, like, great gratitude, but also, like, wanting to emulate that and, like, hoping to plant, like, a tree in whatever kind of, like, literal or metaphorical way for someone else to sit and enjoy. [00:37:11] Speaker B: And though the town is still recovering, it's moving, it's alive, it's not dead. And that is so much of what the world is feeling right now. [00:37:19] Speaker D: Not dead, not great. Not dead. [00:37:24] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:37:25] Speaker D: And it's stark. [00:37:26] Speaker B: So many are dead, so much is lost, and so many were close. And the moment moves slowly, peacefully, and quietly. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Do you want to know something really awkward? [00:37:42] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:43] Speaker A: I just told my neighbor that Luke's not home. And he's home because he said he was about to leave, and then he walked out of the apartment as she was leaving, and Jackie and I covered our nozzles, and instead of throwing away the trash and then getting into his car, he went back into the apartment. So it looks like I Was just lying to her when he told me he was about to leave. And so now I'm trying to figure out what to do in that situation because I'm still texting with her. So. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Yeah, there you go. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Anyways, just say. [00:38:12] Speaker E: You say miscommunication. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyways, that's. [00:38:17] Speaker D: Why does she need to know where he is? [00:38:21] Speaker A: Well, she was gonna drop off the vinegar that I lended to her, and at first I told her, like, no, like, he's not home, because I, you know, he said he was about to leave, and then he didn't understand. Yeah. [00:38:34] Speaker D: I mean, you're an adult who can handle your own life, but if you're looking for any. [00:38:37] Speaker B: Any advice, girl, I have lowered the bar so far down for people on what they can expect from me with digital communication. So if they don't hear back from [00:38:46] Speaker D: me a little bit, that's fine. And sometimes I just go up. My bad. [00:38:49] Speaker B: I just completely miscontrued that situation. [00:38:50] Speaker D: Just be like, same. [00:38:51] Speaker C: That's what I do. [00:38:53] Speaker E: Anyway, I was wrong to say men are so unpredictable. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Men. [00:38:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Just. [00:39:00] Speaker D: He was there, my husband. [00:39:02] Speaker E: Don't do that. Don't do that. [00:39:03] Speaker A: Never be that wife. I joke. [00:39:07] Speaker E: Good, good. [00:39:08] Speaker D: Anyway. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Anyways. Enjoyed. [00:39:11] Speaker B: That's fine. [00:39:15] Speaker D: Not far away. [00:39:15] Speaker B: You want another one? Not far away. There is. You can see from your. From your perch in the oak tree. [00:39:25] Speaker D: Greta, do you want to finish it? Have it. [00:39:29] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [00:39:29] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:39:30] Speaker C: There's also donuts in there, remember? [00:39:31] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:39:32] Speaker D: Also remember, that was a full bag [00:39:33] Speaker B: when I got it, so don't feel [00:39:34] Speaker D: too bad for me. I inhaled that thing. From your perch in the oak tree, [00:39:40] Speaker B: you can also see Boz. [00:39:43] Speaker D: And he's behind the home and in that fenced yard that has the huge [00:39:49] Speaker B: one that's like two acres. He's just standing out there looking at the landscape, looking away, looking out. And he's far away right now. You know, he couldn't hear you if you. If you shouted, he's way over there. But you can see him contrasting starkly to the. Just the bleak white landscape as he looks out over all of those very softly rolling hills. You get the feeling he's having a similar moment of his own. He's there. You can see him at a distance. And you're aware that a lot of the rest of your compatriots are inside the home that you and the party have returned and are just quietly occupying the space, contemplating next moves [00:40:36] Speaker D: as the [00:40:37] Speaker B: party is having this time recovering from. [00:40:39] Speaker D: And it's been a couple days, but [00:40:40] Speaker B: you guys, I Mean, you've needed it. [00:40:42] Speaker D: There's people aren't doing much. [00:40:44] Speaker B: People are just resting, sleeping, eating, not [00:40:47] Speaker D: a lot of talking. Everyone, everyone tacitly understands that you're just [00:40:51] Speaker B: recovering from the most insanely violent and terrifying experience of your life. Is there anything that anyone else is doing in these, in these early days? [00:41:00] Speaker D: Because it's fine if it's not weekend from here. Well, we're going to move all throughout [00:41:04] Speaker B: time in this, in this final. [00:41:05] Speaker A: Craig is having nightmares. I think he's absolutely having nightmares. And like he's had to put his like his sword and things like in the opposite side of wherever he's sleeping, like away because he's afraid of like getting so into the nightmare that he like sleepwalks and grabs it. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Right. [00:41:27] Speaker A: And I think that he's like woken up before, like in his bed holding the sword and that makes him nervous, you know. So I think that that's something that he's had to be aware of. [00:41:38] Speaker B: If it's on the Same day, the 27th regret is perched in the tree. [00:41:42] Speaker D: Remember, the parsonage home doesn't really have the house itself. [00:41:45] Speaker B: The above ground house is kind of designed for like a person or a small family. [00:41:50] Speaker D: So if you guys want private spaces, [00:41:53] Speaker B: you need to kind of go to the space below the home or to one of the caves below. [00:41:57] Speaker D: But we can say that during the [00:41:58] Speaker B: day, you know, the group has. [00:42:02] Speaker D: Bella, Andra has left, she has returned to her tower and many people have [00:42:06] Speaker B: quietly gone back to their separate places. Yeah. Attended their priorities and all of that. And I have a question. [00:42:14] Speaker C: But it's not necessary, right? [00:42:16] Speaker D: Sure. We'll come to it in a moment. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:17] Speaker D: And wooden plates are soaking in a pail filled with water because there's no sink here. [00:42:23] Speaker B: So, you know, that's how you wash them. And Pikuba is quietly tending to some small detail in the way that he [00:42:30] Speaker D: likes to do and where you are [00:42:32] Speaker B: kind of trying to just breathe it out, trying to come to some sort of a recovery from all of the terror. Craig Thespis comes and finds you and he pats you on the shoulder and he goes, hey, Craig. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Hey. [00:42:55] Speaker B: You wanna go on a walk? [00:42:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that actually. That'd be great. [00:43:02] Speaker B: Okay, cool. I didn't know if that was the right call right now, but I just, [00:43:05] Speaker A: I like moving my legs. [00:43:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like I've heard you say that. [00:43:09] Speaker D: I feel like I've heard you specifically [00:43:11] Speaker B: say before because I like it moving my legs. Let's go get them. Let me grab a Coke. [00:43:18] Speaker A: A What coat? [00:43:20] Speaker C: I thought you said a Coke. [00:43:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I heard that too. The Big Mag. [00:43:25] Speaker C: I was like in fantasy land. And then all of a sudden I pictured the Smith with like a camel [00:43:29] Speaker D: a thousand miles away. A blue bald man narrows his eyes. [00:43:32] Speaker C: I was like, wait, what? [00:43:33] Speaker A: Megamind? No, I'm just kidding. [00:43:36] Speaker D: So he, he grabs a heavier cloak and he's. It's. It is the first time in a long time that you have seen him not in armor. [00:43:43] Speaker B: He's just not wearing his plate right now. [00:43:46] Speaker D: He has not been through what you've been through, but he was there a week ago when you fought Shista. A week ago or like a week and a half ago? So everybody here is overcoming something and you get the feeling that he similarly wants to be away from the armor [00:44:02] Speaker B: right now, wants to be away from the weapon, wants to be proposing and [00:44:06] Speaker D: getting married, wants to exist without it, [00:44:10] Speaker E: wants to be in a suit. [00:44:11] Speaker D: So he just. He just wants to be just a person living life, right? And so he invites you outward. And so he just goes on a walk with you. And there's no purpose. He just goes on a walk. He intentionally leads you away from town because he gets the feeling that if [00:44:32] Speaker B: you guys go into town [00:44:35] Speaker D: in a completely forgivable sense, you'd be hard pressed [00:44:39] Speaker B: not to need to explain what happened to 80 people or 200 people. [00:44:44] Speaker D: So he just goes on a walk and there's no clear purpose to it for a while. You guys walk southward on the road, [00:44:51] Speaker B: but eventually he goes off the road. [00:44:53] Speaker D: The landscape has hills, but they're all very small. [00:44:56] Speaker B: And there's no other really significant topographical features or not a lot of trees. So you guys can go for like [00:45:02] Speaker D: a mile or two, still look back and see the house. So it's very easy to just meander [00:45:08] Speaker B: somewhere and know you're going to find your way back. So you guys are just softly cing through the snow and some distance away from the home. [00:45:16] Speaker D: And he's just let you guys walk in silence. He hasn't really done anything but some [00:45:21] Speaker B: distance away from the home. He just turns to you and goes, so, how are you? How you doing? [00:45:28] Speaker A: You know, there's like. Oh, man, no one told me that, like, feelings are so multifaceted. Because. [00:45:36] Speaker B: What, what did you say? [00:45:39] Speaker A: Sorry, I'm doing good. I'm doing really good. [00:45:41] Speaker B: No, I just. You said multi. [00:45:42] Speaker C: What? [00:45:43] Speaker A: Multifaceted. [00:45:44] Speaker B: What does that mean? No, but what's. What's faceted mean? I've never heard that word. [00:45:55] Speaker D: And he's just looking at you genuinely. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Why are you fact checking me? [00:45:58] Speaker E: No, I. [00:45:58] Speaker B: No, I'm not. [00:45:59] Speaker D: Fact doesn't know that word. [00:46:01] Speaker A: You know, I don't. Honestly. [00:46:02] Speaker C: You know. [00:46:03] Speaker D: Oh, come on. That wasn't meant to pull you out of character. Yeah, that wasn't an anachronism to the medieval setting. [00:46:08] Speaker B: That's a word you could use. [00:46:09] Speaker D: He just didn't know the word. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Oh, it's. It's basically so like, here. [00:46:15] Speaker D: This is not a room full of athletes. Jackie wanted to pass a note to Greta and went to throw it to her and hit the only physical object entered between the two of them, which was Micah's stand. [00:46:26] Speaker E: The only thing she could have read ink on. [00:46:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sorry. It's hard to read. [00:46:31] Speaker D: Anyway, you were saying, Michael? [00:46:33] Speaker A: So you know how knives are, like, meant to, like, chop food and, you know, do things like that, but you can also, like, use them to inflict harm on it, you know? [00:46:46] Speaker B: Right. [00:46:46] Speaker A: So that's like. It's made for two purposes. Okay. So in the same way, feelings, like, I might feel, it's, like, happening at the same time for different. [00:46:56] Speaker D: Like. Like. Like. Like facet, like, on the side of something. Because, like. Like. [00:47:00] Speaker B: Like I know that faucet. No, facet. [00:47:02] Speaker A: Facet on the side. [00:47:04] Speaker B: Is that weird? [00:47:05] Speaker A: No. [00:47:05] Speaker B: Oh. [00:47:06] Speaker D: But, like, you know how like. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Like a gemstone. [00:47:07] Speaker D: Like, they call the different sides of [00:47:09] Speaker B: a gemstone a facet? I get it. [00:47:10] Speaker A: No. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Now. Oh, so if it's. [00:47:12] Speaker D: I get it. [00:47:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:13] Speaker B: I didn't know that word. [00:47:14] Speaker A: That's so true. No, it's okay. [00:47:16] Speaker B: Awkward. [00:47:17] Speaker A: No, no, it's okay. So feelings are multifaceted. [00:47:20] Speaker C: Right? [00:47:20] Speaker D: Right. [00:47:20] Speaker A: So that. It's like I. They. I feel sad, but it's like a bittersweet. Like, it's. You know, like I'm. I'm feeling something, but there's so many sides of what I'm feeling. Kind of like a gemstone, you know? And, hey, [00:47:35] Speaker B: you're a poet and you didn't even know it. [00:47:36] Speaker A: I didn't even know it. But I've just been feeling like. Like I'm gonna go back to my family. And that's been the whole goal, you know, Like, I'm gonna go and see them and make things right. But this has become my family, and I'm really conflicted. And I know what the end goal is, is going back to my home. But I'm. I'm gaining strength. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Just aren't the same. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't feel like I was. Do you feel like there's any. Do you think you find yourself looking for the pieces of the old you and things. [00:48:10] Speaker B: I mean, don't get me wrong. [00:48:11] Speaker D: First of all, I didn't go fight [00:48:12] Speaker B: the dragon God, so. [00:48:15] Speaker D: But I was there for the Lich. It was crazy. [00:48:17] Speaker B: So you've definitely been through more in the last week than I have. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:22] Speaker B: And probably in the last couple years, but I think we've had a different kind of, like, you know, amount, similar journeys. [00:48:33] Speaker D: And I also. I hadn't put it together until we [00:48:37] Speaker B: were walking and talking like this, but, [00:48:39] Speaker D: you know, we have some similarity. Oh, my goodness. [00:48:43] Speaker B: I think this was why I was [00:48:45] Speaker D: so, like, into you, like, so drawn [00:48:46] Speaker B: to you back then, is because I was also kind of a guy who sucked a little as a person and also didn't. I wasn't at a good place in my life and also was trying to be something. Dang, Craig. Even just being around you, I gained clarity. That's crazy. [00:49:05] Speaker D: But. Yeah, so I. I don't want to [00:49:08] Speaker B: go back to who I was. [00:49:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:10] Speaker D: But that was my whole life, for [00:49:11] Speaker B: most of my life, and now it's just gone. [00:49:14] Speaker D: And then for a while, things were weird with Saloon in the temple. [00:49:19] Speaker B: It was all, like, kind of things were changing all the time, but I got used to that. Then they changed again. And, like, you know, things with Row are really cool, so that's a good thing. I'm into that. But also. [00:49:33] Speaker E: What do you mean? [00:49:35] Speaker B: That I like her. We were making out in the room the other day. I think you saw it was in front of you. [00:49:43] Speaker C: What? No, it wasn't. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Was it? I don't remember. That was it. Can I. [00:49:49] Speaker B: You were there. [00:49:51] Speaker A: I guess I blocked it out. [00:49:52] Speaker B: You're in the zone. [00:49:53] Speaker D: I understand the point being, though. Like, you know, like, that's a good [00:49:56] Speaker B: thing and not something that I thought would happen. So I'm happy about that. But also, like, there's good things, but, like, yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. [00:50:08] Speaker D: I don't know what it means to [00:50:09] Speaker B: move on from here. So. You good, Craig? [00:50:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:16] Speaker D: And at this point, you've both quit walking for a second, and he's like, are you. [00:50:20] Speaker A: I'm good. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Like a kidney stone. Oh, what's up? [00:50:25] Speaker A: Is this what it feels like when you're. When your daughter starts dating someone? [00:50:33] Speaker D: Thespis gets, like, an awkward face. [00:50:34] Speaker A: It's, like, really cool to see them be with someone so cool. And you get along with them, but you also kind of want to punch their eyes out. [00:50:41] Speaker B: He takes a step back. [00:50:44] Speaker D: I kind of thought you guys had [00:50:45] Speaker B: a lot more of, like, a friend. Thing going on than a mother, daughter, [00:50:48] Speaker D: sort of father, daughter, sir. I'm sorry, I don't want to call you sir. We know each other. Look, I just. I thought you guys were more like buddies than like a parent, child sort of dynamic. [00:50:59] Speaker A: Have you ever. [00:51:00] Speaker D: I'm not gonna. I invited you on the walk, man. [00:51:06] Speaker E: There's a shotgun and Craig walk in, he starts cleaning. [00:51:11] Speaker D: I know, but you're kind of scary. [00:51:14] Speaker A: Dude. You're good. [00:51:16] Speaker C: I mean, not ro. Craig starts, like, his hand is just, like, kind of glowing or something, which is magic. [00:51:22] Speaker E: Craig, how did you. Where did you learn how to clean a shotgun? [00:51:25] Speaker C: Where'd you get a shotgun? [00:51:26] Speaker A: It's okay. [00:51:27] Speaker E: It's okay. [00:51:28] Speaker A: It's okay. [00:51:28] Speaker D: That's. That's just like, nods. But he's two feet further away from you now. [00:51:33] Speaker A: Cool. Yeah, I'm. I'm. [00:51:37] Speaker B: Yeah. No, yeah, I'm happy. [00:51:40] Speaker D: I want to. [00:51:41] Speaker A: Happy for you. [00:51:42] Speaker B: I'm going to go back now if you want. [00:51:44] Speaker A: No, it's okay. No, it's okay. No, I'm fine. It's fine. It's fine. [00:51:47] Speaker D: So that's what it's like looking, right? And now it has gotten truly awkward. [00:51:52] Speaker A: That's just like, things are changing and that's good. That's good. Change is good. Change is so good. [00:51:58] Speaker B: But not the sort of conversation I thought we were gonna be having when we came out here. [00:52:04] Speaker A: I'd like to think that, like, Craig has been completely oblivious most of this time. He's like, guess they like each other, but, like, did not. I guess. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. [00:52:19] Speaker C: So funny, actually. [00:52:20] Speaker A: I can't remember. [00:52:21] Speaker C: She's never really talked about it with Craig. She's only talked about it with Greta. [00:52:25] Speaker B: No, this was still standing there awkwardly. [00:52:27] Speaker A: So he's gonna turn to the auspice and, like, there's like, sweat on his face. Yeah. [00:52:31] Speaker D: He takes it. [00:52:31] Speaker B: He takes a third step back, but he says, I'm glad you left the sword, dude. [00:52:36] Speaker D: This is. Are you okay? So I mean that like a genuine question. [00:52:39] Speaker B: Are you having, like, a flashback or. No need to get somebody. [00:52:43] Speaker A: No, no, no. So, like, how are you in previous relationships? Were you cool? Were you cool? Are you cool now? Are you cool? [00:52:54] Speaker B: I don't mean to be rude. I don't feel like I owe you this conversation. [00:52:58] Speaker D: I came out here to see how you were doing. [00:53:00] Speaker A: Appreciate it. [00:53:01] Speaker B: This has gotten weird. [00:53:04] Speaker D: I was. I've never been in another relationship. I think you met me when I was an awkward weirdo who was bad with women. But if I Remember, you're on this journey because things weren't going well with you. Yeah. So I'm not sure why you're coming for me. I just came out here to see if you were all right. Dude, this has gotten weird. [00:53:24] Speaker A: Completely fair. [00:53:26] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:53:27] Speaker B: I don't know why I'm so defensive. [00:53:28] Speaker A: It's okay. I would probably feel the same way if I was in your shoes. I don't know why this is coming over me. I'm sorry. I don't know where it came from. I'm sorry. [00:53:37] Speaker D: Hopefully you feel better. I'm gonna go back now. [00:53:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:39] Speaker D: I think you would be better helped by someone else. But it's. It's okay. Just, you know, I'll see you back at the house, Craig. And he turns just opposite direction, crunching back through the snow. And Craig, you're just there in the field. [00:54:01] Speaker A: Craig just finishes the walk. Okay. [00:54:03] Speaker E: And you. [00:54:04] Speaker D: And with a complicated feelings of emotions, and honestly, a very realistic reaction from a guy who had the worst experience ever a couple days ago. Just, things aren't fine. And Thespis tried but didn't gauge the situation correctly. [00:54:18] Speaker B: And you just finished the walk on your own, and. [00:54:23] Speaker D: And it does feel bad, Craig, because [00:54:25] Speaker B: you saved the world, but things are [00:54:29] Speaker D: not all better in your life. And a lot of things are better, [00:54:32] Speaker B: but a lot of things aren't. And you're left there with that really mixed bag. [00:54:37] Speaker D: And you overcame the enemy, [00:54:40] Speaker B: but what he did is still not far. And it's just things aren't great. And you take a quiet walk back through the snow. That doesn't feel amazing. When you arrive back at the house, people are in various places. [00:54:56] Speaker D: Thespis has found somewhere to be. He's not near you. He's just. He's gone off somewhere. [00:55:01] Speaker A: Frank is gonna go up to Rock. [00:55:03] Speaker D: Oh, yes. [00:55:03] Speaker A: Excellent. He's gonna be like, hey, I'm so sorry. [00:55:09] Speaker C: Well, Ro has been so real quick before that happens, Ro has been sitting this day in the. Like, in the main room or whatever, and she's been flipping through her. Her magic item that she bought from the opalescent tome, the Inner Memoir. And she's been impressioning memories of all the things that have happened these past few years with the fun guys and to each page and each feeling she had with each moment. Everything, from being tied up on the ship to fighting Dolgoth, to meeting Thespis. The first time to meet Thespis. Now, like, every single page, she's filling with memories of just everything. And she's. She's like finishing up on, like, the last few pages when you come to talk to her, but she's doing this, and she's like, in her head, she's like, I'm gonna keep this in a safe place. So anytime I want to go back to these memories or for future generations to feel what I felt in that moment, which the inner memoir does. Like, if you. Isn't it. I don't know the exact. [00:56:17] Speaker B: Yes. [00:56:17] Speaker C: What it does, but when someone else, like, can hold it or read it, then they can feel the exact emotions and feelings that you were going through during those moments. [00:56:24] Speaker B: You created a depiction of what you remember on that page. And then when someone else holds it, they can basically live the memory with some facsimile of how you experienced it. [00:56:33] Speaker C: So she's been doing that all day, and she's on, like, the last few pages when you come up to her of just every fun guy memory ever. What? Why? Wait, why. Why are you. Sorry? What? [00:56:46] Speaker A: So I might have gotten really paternal. [00:56:50] Speaker C: Paternal? You are a father struggler's a couple [00:56:55] Speaker D: feet away, like thumbing through a book and goes and turns and looks. [00:57:01] Speaker A: Not over Aaron. [00:57:05] Speaker C: Over. [00:57:06] Speaker A: I freaked out. [00:57:07] Speaker C: About what? [00:57:09] Speaker A: God, over you. [00:57:10] Speaker C: Over me? [00:57:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I made things really awkward between. Between me and Thespis. I'm so sorry. Control. [00:57:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:57:21] Speaker C: Wait, wait, Craig, what did you. What did you. [00:57:23] Speaker A: He took me on a walk, and I. [00:57:26] Speaker C: Okay. [00:57:27] Speaker A: Was feeling pretty good about it until he mentioned you, and then I. [00:57:30] Speaker C: What did he say? Never mind. Never mind. [00:57:33] Speaker A: I don't want to make it worse. [00:57:34] Speaker C: It's fine. [00:57:35] Speaker A: Kind of made it pretty bad. [00:57:36] Speaker C: Okay. [00:57:36] Speaker D: I don't. [00:57:37] Speaker C: I mean, I don't think there's anything you could have said. Said that was. [00:57:40] Speaker A: Oh, no, you are. [00:57:42] Speaker C: I will say this, Craig. I think just from past interactions, I think Thespis kind of looks up to [00:57:51] Speaker A: you a little bit. Yeah. That might have changed. [00:57:53] Speaker C: I. And, I mean, you guys were the only ones that technically really hit it off the first time. [00:58:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought he was. He is pretty cool. Yeah, he is. The. Just the thought of. He said something, and, I don't know, it just brought something out of me. [00:58:15] Speaker C: Are you inferring about that dog? I mean, I know we haven't. I've talked a little bit of. With Greta about it, but, I mean. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I got no warning. [00:58:24] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:58:25] Speaker A: I got no warnings. [00:58:26] Speaker C: This person I've been seeing. I mean, like. Well, it's not like. I mean, like, it was the end of the world. It's not like we've been dating, but I don't. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Well, you. [00:58:35] Speaker C: I Mean, you know, before the shit [00:58:37] Speaker D: starts, is the blank stare in character. [00:58:39] Speaker C: I love it. [00:58:40] Speaker D: Okay. Because it's really good. I'm like, you're doing it so hard. I'm being like, is Micah okay? But she is. I'm like, I mean, Micah said, give me my. Awesome. [00:58:50] Speaker E: She switches back into it. [00:58:51] Speaker A: It's like. [00:58:52] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:58:52] Speaker D: And the thing is, like, we joked about it and then she went, haha. And then they went back into it. [00:58:56] Speaker C: It's like a switch. [00:58:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:59] Speaker C: And Rose, like, sitting here, she's like, thumbing the pages of the book and she kind of turns to Craig, she's like, I. I know we talked about right before. Right before, when we were flying to. To the. You know, to the flight a few days ago. I told you guys that, you know, sometimes I can be the parent, sometimes you can be the parent. You know, that kind of stuff. So I. I appreciate it. And I feel with all that was going on, I. I kind of mentioned it to Greta. Greta. Greta and Tello had this, like, apparently they saw this coming, but I just. I mean, I don't know when I saw him before, you know, the. When we were in Zorgram, not fighting Zorgram, but in Zorgram, you know, I don't know, I saw him kind of in a different light. And ever since then, we've been like, chatting stuff. Yes. [00:59:57] Speaker A: You deserve love. Like, I know. Like, you deserve love. I want you to be in love. Like, I want you to have someone, you know? Thank you, Craig. I just. When he. When he said the things that he said. [01:00:11] Speaker C: Okay, wait a minute. [01:00:12] Speaker B: What? [01:00:12] Speaker C: What do you mean, the things that he. [01:00:14] Speaker A: I think it just. I don't even mean. [01:00:16] Speaker C: Never mind. I'm. [01:00:17] Speaker A: I think it just triggered me. [01:00:19] Speaker C: Okay, I understand. And I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. That's more of. [01:00:27] Speaker A: We were fighting, like, you know, kind of the end of the world. Yeah. Like, you know, things go through the cracks. [01:00:31] Speaker C: Yeah. It just kind of slipped my mind. [01:00:34] Speaker A: Yeah. I just don't know what to do now. It's really awkward. [01:00:37] Speaker C: I'm sorry. [01:00:38] Speaker A: It's kind of bad. No, I did it. No. [01:00:40] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I. I should have. [01:00:42] Speaker A: You shouldn't. Said he made out with you. [01:00:43] Speaker C: I'm just saying that. Oh, well. Yeah. [01:00:46] Speaker D: Craig says to an adult about another adult in a room where no one's related. [01:00:54] Speaker C: Well, do you remember when we. When I think it was FM and Kai, like, zapped us to the island, the really cool island. [01:01:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:02] Speaker C: It was like, in the middle. [01:01:04] Speaker A: Are you about to tell me? [01:01:05] Speaker C: No. No, it wasn't that. It was. I knew we were about to leave. [01:01:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:10] Speaker C: So I went, and I was afraid that I wouldn't see him again. [01:01:14] Speaker A: Oh, that's sweet. [01:01:15] Speaker C: So while we got teleported, some. Somehow I teleported while I was. Yeah. [01:01:22] Speaker A: You deserve true love. [01:01:23] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:01:27] Speaker A: And he's. He's a cool guy. You know, speaking of which, you need my approval or anything? [01:01:31] Speaker C: Yeah, he's a cool guy. I mean, I'm hard to see that [01:01:33] Speaker A: in that moment, it was a little. [01:01:34] Speaker C: I mean, blinded the. You like the. You like. You like Thespis? [01:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:39] Speaker C: More than most people. More than most people. Well, I mean, initially, like, now this is awkward for me anyway. [01:01:50] Speaker A: Gosh dang it. I just keep. [01:01:51] Speaker C: No, no, no. It's not you, it's me. [01:01:53] Speaker D: Nobody can see Spicuber four or five feet away. He's. He's burying his face in whatever it [01:01:58] Speaker B: is he's reading or working on, but he just has the biggest grin on [01:02:01] Speaker D: his face, and he's like. He's, like, containing a laugh, and he has enough composure to let them have this moment. None of it's spilling out, but he's looking in a direction no one can see, and he's just like. And just writing and listening, but he's letting him go. [01:02:14] Speaker C: I mean, I haven't talked, really, to Greta or Tello or Spaghuber or Balls or anything about it, but, like, would you be okay if Thespis stuck around? More like, if he didn't go. I mean, I haven't really even talked to him about it, but. But I'm just asking you just. I'm. And I don't know what the plans are, but how would you feel if he, like, you know, traveled with the fun guy? Like, if we had something come up or. Yeah, if there was a thing, or. [01:02:45] Speaker A: It'd be so cool, except we just went on a walk and I kind of destroyed any prospects. Okay. Friendship. [01:02:50] Speaker C: Think about the awkward conversations you had with Tello in the beginning. I mean, you guys are chill now. [01:02:54] Speaker B: Tello's in the same house, and he's [01:02:55] Speaker D: not in this room, but you forget about his elven hearing, and from another room he goes, she's got a point, Greg. It was really worse in the beginning. [01:03:06] Speaker C: So, you know, I mean, think about. Okay, okay. If you want to think about awkward, first of all, are we rehashing? Yeah. No, listen, listen. [01:03:14] Speaker D: This is like. This is like the episode in a sitcom where in every sitcom has one where they go, like, you guys remember [01:03:20] Speaker C: those times, and they flashback well, think about it, Craig. You say that, what, you just had an awkward walk with Thespis. Right. But you have to remember that other members of this party led him on and then actually liked him later on. And then we had another member that actually killed him. So, I mean, Greta, you're outside in [01:03:42] Speaker D: a tree, you hear none of this, but you get this weird, like, on your neck, and you don't know why. [01:03:45] Speaker C: So, I mean, if there's any awkwardness, I mean, I. I let him on really poorly as someone else, and then like, year. A year or so later told him that, hey, like, I actually do, like you, maybe, so awkwardness out the window. We're a party of awkward people. [01:04:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:08] Speaker C: And so that's why I think maybe he would fit in a little bit if you're, you know. [01:04:13] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he would. He would. He would absolutely fit. [01:04:16] Speaker C: I mean, you guys are both, you know, you do your paladin thing with the swords and stuff and gods. [01:04:23] Speaker A: Sure. [01:04:23] Speaker C: Saloon maker, you know. [01:04:27] Speaker A: You know, and like, we were having a really good conversation before he mentioned something that completely blindsided me, and I reacted without actually thinking. So. Yeah, it was pretty good. It was pretty good. No, no, you're fine. End of the world. [01:04:40] Speaker C: We will never. I will vow now to not ever make out with him in front of you from this point on. [01:04:48] Speaker A: Gracefully appreciated. [01:04:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, that seems like a bare minimum that I can do. [01:04:53] Speaker A: Be nice. Okay, so I'm gonna give him some space, but I will definitely be trying to make something better, I think I. [01:05:03] Speaker C: Do you want me to talk to him or. [01:05:06] Speaker B: I love having Micah in sessions because [01:05:07] Speaker D: I have eight pages of notes. Eight pages. And I did not know this would be part of the session. I just love having Mike in his head. It's phenomenal. [01:05:18] Speaker A: I mean, I. Yeah, he. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah. [01:05:25] Speaker C: Like, he's. I. Trust me, him and I. So awkward, but it works. [01:05:31] Speaker D: Kind of staying out, but he comes to the table and he just, like, he brings you guys a little bit of bread on a platter, and he puts them down between each of you guys. He slides a little plate with butter and a knife and he goes. I mean, you know, none of you all started out very good with each other. If you remember back in the day, all the relationships between everyone were pretty tense, actually. [01:05:53] Speaker C: Spaghuber. I think the first person that I ever actually got along with was Greg, weirdly enough, didn't I? [01:06:02] Speaker A: Who did I hog tie again? [01:06:04] Speaker C: No, no, that was later. But when we. I think. [01:06:08] Speaker D: I think the point is that I just don't know that it's a very big deal. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:06:13] Speaker B: You know. [01:06:13] Speaker D: Yeah, it's so far so fun, guys. You guys grow on people. That's the whole thing. [01:06:20] Speaker C: What do you, what do you think about Facebook? She says, just kind of acting casually. [01:06:24] Speaker D: He just, he gets, he, he does the, he does the face where he goes. I think it's kind of cute. And he just walks away. Oh, no, he gets a little further, he gets a little further and he [01:06:37] Speaker B: looks back and he goes. [01:06:41] Speaker D: He walks a little further off. [01:06:42] Speaker A: Ro. [01:06:43] Speaker E: Ro. [01:06:43] Speaker C: Ro is like sipping on the tea that she ended or whatever. [01:06:46] Speaker A: And she goes. [01:06:47] Speaker C: She like chokes on it. Cuz like she didn't think that n would ever even talk about her. [01:06:52] Speaker A: Yeah, you think? Nam goes, oh, she's still here. [01:06:55] Speaker D: Tello. Tello, like, like a sitcom character. [01:06:57] Speaker B: His head pokes around a wall from [01:06:59] Speaker D: a different room and he goes. [01:07:00] Speaker B: And actually, to be fair, not only did I lose to Greta on this, but she also called the turkey thing. [01:07:06] Speaker D: So that was two for two. She knew. And I feel like we should have seen the God, the, the priestess of knowledge thing from earlier on. [01:07:13] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:07:13] Speaker D: She's killer at those prognostications. That's a word she taught me. Craig taught me multifaceted. [01:07:22] Speaker B: That was a good one, Craig. Thank you. [01:07:24] Speaker A: No, you're welcome. [01:07:28] Speaker D: Here's a question. [01:07:31] Speaker B: I'm good. Just taking some time. But what are we doing? All of us? What's the. Well, what's the plan? [01:07:41] Speaker C: I. Finger crossbows. I. Well, first of all, I. I would like to celebrate my birthday in a few days. [01:07:49] Speaker D: No, you brought it up like 20 times. [01:07:51] Speaker C: And, and Valex says that we can have the party at his place. So if you guys want to go there in a few days to celebrate. I'm turning 52. The big 52. [01:08:03] Speaker B: Tello just stops and froze his brow for a second. As a what? [01:08:06] Speaker A: Elf? [01:08:06] Speaker B: Because he stops and he thinks, not [01:08:08] Speaker D: only does he hardly know what you are, he has no idea how to quantify how old that is for a half dryad. So he just froze his brow. [01:08:17] Speaker B: Nobody's ever asked. But continuing. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Hello. [01:08:18] Speaker C: How old are you? [01:08:19] Speaker D: This is like you and your birthday. [01:08:22] Speaker C: How old are you? [01:08:23] Speaker B: I'm mysterious. [01:08:24] Speaker C: No, seriously, how old are you? [01:08:26] Speaker B: I worked for secret organization. [01:08:27] Speaker C: You live a lot. You're half elf. Are you half elf? What are you? What are you? [01:08:31] Speaker B: Tello. [01:08:31] Speaker C: Wow, he just looks right. [01:08:34] Speaker D: No, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. No one knows. [01:08:36] Speaker E: No one knows. [01:08:37] Speaker D: No one knows until that just goes, wow. [01:08:40] Speaker B: And you think you know a person. [01:08:43] Speaker D: What were you saying, bro? [01:08:45] Speaker C: Anyway, yeah, I would like to celebrate that. I think we all deserve a nice party or something. [01:08:54] Speaker D: Honestly. [01:08:54] Speaker B: It sounds good to let off some steam. [01:08:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I. I would like. I. I don't know what the far future told for some things, but I would like to make this [01:09:09] Speaker B: a place we can come back to. [01:09:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Always. And I was. I had talked with Greta about this and we were going to possibly attempt. With Greta and maybe Spagoober if you wanted to help. I don't know about, you know, like. Cause you know, there's only like one bedroom in here. So we were talking about attempting to possibly make the fortress permanent here for anyone who wants to come back. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Shuba's tiptoe. [01:09:41] Speaker D: Tiptoes on a little step ladder, sliding wood against wood as he puts the plates that he's just washing right back up. And he turns and he goes. [01:09:48] Speaker C: I love that idea. [01:09:50] Speaker D: Yeah, we should do that. [01:09:51] Speaker C: Yeah. And. And you know, it would take a while, but. No, let's do it. But I think that would be good. And so I. I'd like to do that. And I'd like to celebrate my birthday sometime. And I wanted to go. I wanted to possibly, you know, since we saved the world and all that. I wanted to. I had some business in Home Cove that I might want to do before my birthday. But I'm. [01:10:22] Speaker A: What was your question? [01:10:23] Speaker C: She's like rambling and then she just kind of like. Like stops and hello. [01:10:28] Speaker B: Reads between the lines and he nods and he goes. That sounds like a good plan. Maybe we can. Maybe we can go to Homecove tomorrow. [01:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:38] Speaker B: And then we'll deal with the birthday party after that and go from there. [01:10:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Craig, do you. I know going back home is kind of all you've talked about for three years. Is that the plan? [01:10:49] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Okay. Do you want to do that solo? How do you want that to go? [01:10:56] Speaker A: I mean, I think. I'm trying to figure out because, you know, they've been in hiding for a long time trying to hide from the big bads. [01:11:08] Speaker B: So I think that's kind of over, right? [01:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's all over. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Maybe it's something you figure out next week. [01:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:18] Speaker E: Okay. [01:11:20] Speaker B: Let me know if you need somebody to talk about with it because there's no amount of awkward you could be that would make me go away. [01:11:30] Speaker A: Really reassuring. Thank you. [01:11:32] Speaker B: Because you've said some weird things. [01:11:34] Speaker A: Don't remind me. [01:11:34] Speaker B: And I'm still here. [01:11:37] Speaker A: You're a real friend. [01:11:38] Speaker B: I am. And I'm tall and I'm good looking [01:11:41] Speaker A: and you Go with women and good with women. Yeah. Well, I think that I, I definitely want to see them soon. [01:11:52] Speaker B: Maybe, Maybe after Rose birthday party. [01:11:54] Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. [01:11:55] Speaker C: Oh, they're invited, by the way. We could, like, teleport them in. [01:12:00] Speaker E: Is it. Sorry. I, like, it's pretty close to he's in Biasta. [01:12:04] Speaker A: I think it might give off the wrong impression to be like, hey, years of bitterness and resentment. Come to a birthday party. [01:12:11] Speaker C: I just want to. [01:12:12] Speaker E: Hello. [01:12:13] Speaker D: Is like, over Rose shoulder. And he looks over and he goes looking at Craig. [01:12:16] Speaker C: Like, I just wanted. Ro has her inner memoir, but she also has, like, her song. She has, like, stuff sitting out, and she's like, you'd notice. Like, she has, like, a little, like, piece of parchment with, like, a little party hat and, like, some doodles on it. And there's, like, a list of people that y' all know. And she's like, okay. I mean, I just wanted to let you know that, like, your family was, was welcome. And she, like, starts scratching a little bit. [01:12:38] Speaker D: Oh, it's so sweet. [01:12:41] Speaker A: But I probably want us to go home as soon as possible. Like, for them. I, I, they don't want to be there any longer, you know. [01:12:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:50] Speaker A: So I would probably do it after the birthday and maybe we can, like, find a way to get them home. [01:12:58] Speaker B: You know, we know no shortage of people who can. Boop boop. Maybe I just go ahead and ask to have them moved back. [01:13:04] Speaker C: I would love. [01:13:05] Speaker B: And then when, after the party, when you're ready to go see them, we do that then. But yeah, that's probably. [01:13:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I can. [01:13:13] Speaker B: We probably help the odds of you having a good interaction if they are already back where they should be. [01:13:18] Speaker A: Definitely. Dm, can we just, like, say that there were people that were able to, you know, and goober. [01:13:26] Speaker D: Well, there's like a pause and then [01:13:28] Speaker B: goober is over there kind of with the dishes going, like. Because I actually, I was trying to be considerate. I told Bella Andre to go ahead and learn to do that. So she already took them back home. [01:13:41] Speaker A: You're incredible. [01:13:42] Speaker D: Okay. I'm really glad that's how you're receiving that, because I, I didn't know if it's over. [01:13:48] Speaker A: Thank you for always looking out for our family. [01:13:50] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:13:51] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:13:52] Speaker B: I play music sometimes. [01:13:53] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. [01:13:56] Speaker A: I can't remember dm, if I said that I called Catherine and told her I was okay, but I definitely called Catherine and told her I was okay. [01:14:04] Speaker B: If. [01:14:04] Speaker D: If it wasn't said, it's assumed. [01:14:06] Speaker A: Okay, good. Yeah. Can you imagine? [01:14:09] Speaker C: We get her alive. [01:14:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:13] Speaker B: Anyway. [01:14:15] Speaker A: Yes. All right. [01:14:19] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:14:19] Speaker B: Do or don't. [01:14:21] Speaker C: Ro would like to. While she's sitting there. Can I just. I want to know because before or like, when they got back from the shift, she had kind of filled some of the house with like, clover and stuff like. Like to. For them to lay down. And I'm curious, did that die? [01:14:47] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:14:47] Speaker B: It has not persisted. [01:14:49] Speaker D: You have found that when you use [01:14:51] Speaker B: half triadic powers on things like in artificial spaces. [01:14:55] Speaker D: Well, I do it outside. They tend to persist, but they haven't lasted very long. [01:14:58] Speaker C: Well, I meant, like, did they. I meant more so what I meant was like, did they look like they, like, got smoked when the whole Ogba thing happened? Like, was there a. I mean, they died. Yeah. [01:15:14] Speaker B: Goober has cleaned them up because he didn't leave. Just a bunch of dead plants on the floor. [01:15:17] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:15:18] Speaker E: Okay, that's. [01:15:18] Speaker B: You're not sure. [01:15:22] Speaker C: Row once. Can Ro focus and see if she feels that connection to Agba? Now that the fight has been over, [01:15:31] Speaker B: your incredible awareness of time has persisted. Okay. [01:15:36] Speaker D: Can I. I mean, you'd have to try something more. [01:15:39] Speaker C: Can I try doing druidcraft in my palm and see if it works? [01:15:43] Speaker B: When you hold up your hand, you focus and you. [01:15:50] Speaker A: You. [01:15:51] Speaker D: You like. It's interesting, right, because this magic becomes [01:15:56] Speaker B: so second nature to you that it's. It's weird to try. [01:15:58] Speaker D: You know, it's like. It's like, lift your arm. Well, you don't. [01:16:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:16:02] Speaker D: There is no trying. [01:16:02] Speaker B: It just happens. [01:16:03] Speaker D: Right. But then it's like when you have [01:16:05] Speaker B: a significant injury or impediment and all of a sudden, like there is struggle [01:16:10] Speaker D: in doing something autonomic and simple. [01:16:14] Speaker B: But as you. [01:16:18] Speaker D: As you try very hard to make [01:16:20] Speaker B: that connection, very slowly but surely a small vine kind of traces itself up your finger and a tiny little floret, like on grass, blooms slightly like, not [01:16:31] Speaker D: the flower from what you'd think of [01:16:33] Speaker B: as a flower, but one of those tiny little flowers that grows on like buffalo grass blooms and you get the feeling that slowly but surely. [01:16:41] Speaker D: Okay, it's probably going to take quite [01:16:43] Speaker B: some time, but yeah, it looks like they can come back. [01:16:46] Speaker A: Okay. That's all. Just curious. Cool. [01:16:53] Speaker B: Understood. [01:16:55] Speaker D: Well, [01:16:57] Speaker B: as the party takes more of that time to just rest, we're going to move forward in time to the 32nd. [01:17:07] Speaker D: Or. No, actually there was something that was supposed to happen first. [01:17:10] Speaker B: Yes. [01:17:11] Speaker D: So we will move instead. [01:17:15] Speaker C: I think she would have asked if Greta wanted to come and help or if. Yeah, I don't know. Or if she'd Rather not. And she could take Thespis or Tello and. Or some people. [01:17:31] Speaker E: What it. What is. What are we doing? [01:17:35] Speaker C: I do. [01:17:37] Speaker A: What do I do? [01:17:38] Speaker E: I think. [01:17:38] Speaker C: I think. What do I do? Do you. Well, if. [01:17:41] Speaker E: If Ro approached Greta and was like, hey, do you want to help me with something? Like, I need. If. Yeah, if. If Ro approached Greta and was like, hey, I need help with something in homeco, she would have gone. [01:17:52] Speaker B: Okay. [01:17:53] Speaker E: Like, I don't. She wouldn't have needed. [01:17:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:17:54] Speaker B: And so a day or two later. [01:17:57] Speaker D: Later. [01:17:57] Speaker C: And I would. Yeah, she would have asked if Thespis and Tello and Craig, anybody wanted to [01:18:01] Speaker A: go [01:18:04] Speaker C: because she knows Thespis is. [01:18:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:06] Speaker C: Like, from there. [01:18:06] Speaker D: So shespa stays behind. [01:18:10] Speaker B: Thespis stays behind for the time being. [01:18:14] Speaker D: And we'll say that you've given some [01:18:17] Speaker B: folks a little bit of heads up on what it is that you're attempting to doing, and they're just. [01:18:23] Speaker D: The majority of people are letting. Are letting you have this. [01:18:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:31] Speaker B: So most folks stay behind. [01:18:33] Speaker A: Okay. [01:18:34] Speaker B: Tello asks Greta if she feels good going on her own. Not that she's not a completely independent [01:18:39] Speaker D: individual, but also understanding that the last [01:18:43] Speaker B: week has been intense. So he would. He would depend his presence on whether or not. Whether or not she wanted them there. How does Greta respond? [01:18:57] Speaker E: I think she would. [01:18:59] Speaker C: Abby. [01:19:00] Speaker E: She would say that he's, like, welcome, but he would rather. I don't want to know what it is. [01:19:05] Speaker B: Okay. He lets her. He lets her go. [01:19:07] Speaker E: Okay. [01:19:08] Speaker D: Interestingly, Spaghuber tags along because he's just. You find that the person who's having [01:19:15] Speaker B: the hardest time letting you guys kind of do things on your own right now is Goober. [01:19:19] Speaker D: It occurs to you that as the one member who's so very close to [01:19:23] Speaker B: you all who did not also go. [01:19:25] Speaker D: It was probably a very hard experience [01:19:26] Speaker B: to let you guys go away like [01:19:28] Speaker D: that, especially when you and he found [01:19:32] Speaker B: out so spur of the moment, by surprise. [01:19:34] Speaker D: So ship Goober accompanies you, and so a day or two later, Row would [01:19:38] Speaker C: be really grateful and happy that he's. That the three. That those three are going on this. [01:19:45] Speaker B: And so a day or two later, somewhere at the. [01:19:48] Speaker D: Moving toward the very end of the [01:19:49] Speaker B: year in CB call [01:19:52] Speaker D: or no, C [01:19:53] Speaker B: call is still a winter month. Yes. Yeah. [01:19:55] Speaker C: It's like January. C call is like January. [01:19:57] Speaker D: Right. [01:19:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [01:19:58] Speaker D: So at the very end of the year. [01:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:00] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:20:01] Speaker B: Because the year starts over again in C call. [01:20:02] Speaker C: Right, Right. [01:20:03] Speaker D: It's so helpful having somebody who knows more about the stuff than I. I've made than I Have the three of you all return, probably disguised. Correct me if I'm wrong, but yeah. Or actually, no, you don't need to. [01:20:18] Speaker C: You can just teleport straight in, because I know the circle. [01:20:21] Speaker B: So, two or three days later, [01:20:25] Speaker C: with [01:20:26] Speaker B: a rush of magic, Greta and Rowan Shpagooper stand for the first time in quite some time in the opalescent tome. [01:20:35] Speaker D: You stand in that small [01:20:38] Speaker B: sort of. [01:20:40] Speaker D: It's like half of a study and half. [01:20:43] Speaker B: Just like a receiving room for the teleportation circle and that little side hall that sets off the main part of the building. [01:20:51] Speaker D: And when you arrive, it is immediate, like it is. The opalescent tome, as you've known, is immediately a bit. Just very slightly different. [01:21:04] Speaker B: This room always has a lit candle or two, and now it does not. There is a candle that is low on wax and not burning at the wick on a table nearby. [01:21:14] Speaker D: And light is often coming in through [01:21:18] Speaker B: windows in most of the rooms. [01:21:20] Speaker D: And it has occurred to you at [01:21:21] Speaker B: this point, your magical expertise and your experience with the opalescent tome, that you're not certain whether or not this is [01:21:26] Speaker D: illusory or natural, because part of the building is physically real and does face [01:21:31] Speaker B: the outside world, but part of it is. Part of it is illusory. [01:21:39] Speaker D: And so things are slightly dim inside [01:21:42] Speaker B: the room, and the light coming through the window is. Is choked and lessened. And it's not clear whether or not that is a product of weather at this time of year or an illusory product. But you guys arrive in the room and it's. It's really rather quiet. [01:21:57] Speaker C: Would. Would Rove called more grim if you want to. [01:22:05] Speaker B: Or you can just arrive and talk. [01:22:07] Speaker D: Let's. Let's say. [01:22:08] Speaker C: Yeah, let's say if it hasn't. [01:22:10] Speaker D: If it hasn't been announced so far, and I don't mean this punitively, let's just keep rolling with it as it is. [01:22:15] Speaker B: So there is a very uncomfortable pause, bro, as the space feels wrong. And then as the three of you walk out of the room and into the hall, you begin moving toward that main room. And as you move the silk curtain aside, kind of looking up with a start is Morgrom, the immense Wozgan ogre. Huge dude with his dark purple skin, his big tusked teeth sticking out of his jaw. He has on. [01:22:47] Speaker D: He has. You have never seen before. He has a little bit of a beard, and you've never seen him with a beard. It's. It's actually a little shorter than the length of mine. [01:22:55] Speaker B: And it. [01:22:56] Speaker D: His Beard hairs are very thick and [01:23:01] Speaker B: dark, black and rough. You can see why he shaves it. [01:23:05] Speaker D: He is already a physically imposing looking dude. [01:23:08] Speaker B: But it makes him look intense. And he has his spectacles on. He has deep bags under his eyes. And he has a book in his hand. And when you guys come in the room, he like kind of starts a little bit. He closes the book real fast. And his hand goes to that giant cudgel. But then he recognizes you guys. And he slides it down. He puts the book down and he goes. Hello. [01:23:33] Speaker E: Hi. [01:23:34] Speaker A: Hi. [01:23:41] Speaker C: Yeah, we. Yeah, I would have been here sooner. [01:23:47] Speaker B: He takes his glasses off and kind of rubs his massive fingers across his eyes. No, it's all right. Sorry for now I spoke lest [01:24:04] Speaker A: none [01:24:04] Speaker B: of us probably need to apologize for anything. [01:24:06] Speaker E: No. [01:24:07] Speaker B: Given what's transpired in the last week. But I imagined you. Someone, if there was anyone left, would be by. So I've kept a little surprise. There's an item here that keep someone under. Only his snaps sound like they're huge snaps. They're like. [01:24:37] Speaker D: Don't. Don't. [01:24:38] Speaker B: He has a gentle repose. So she's not decayed. [01:24:44] Speaker C: I have to try if. With your. [01:24:47] Speaker B: I want you to. I just. Yeah. And as he gets up the wood, Krieg's under him. [01:24:57] Speaker D: And he. And he gets halfway up the stairwell. And he doesn't quite fit up in the library section. [01:25:03] Speaker B: He's too large. [01:25:04] Speaker D: But he leans very far forward on a knee. And the whole stairwell creaks under his weight. But he leans forward and he reaches [01:25:13] Speaker B: his arm in between some bookshelves. Past the mezzanine on the second floor. [01:25:17] Speaker D: Where there's that big library, the little library area full of stacks of books. [01:25:21] Speaker B: And he pulls out. [01:25:23] Speaker D: It is both very considerate, like he stashed her away. And probably where he didn't have to [01:25:27] Speaker B: look at the body. [01:25:28] Speaker D: Because he can't fit into those side [01:25:30] Speaker B: rooms, all that hallway. He can't go there. He only fits in certain spaces in this building. But it is also a little morose when he has to just kind of like drag the body across the floor until he can reach it. And there's just a slender silhouette of a woman wrapped tightly in a very nice white cloth and linen. And as he pulls her out, he then holds her very delicately. [01:25:51] Speaker D: And it is strange because he's so very large. [01:25:54] Speaker B: That he can hold her in about the proportions of how you'd hold a small child. And he moves down, lays her incredibly gently down on the floor. And you realize. I mean, it occurs to you that this is probably. [01:26:04] Speaker D: This is an immensely large man who's [01:26:07] Speaker B: probably very accustomed to holding very fine, delicate things that are far too small for him. As he puts her down on that beautiful rug with all of its tessellated pattern on the floor, he steps back and he sits down and he says, I'll never be ready, so whenever you are, okay, [01:26:30] Speaker C: Greta, would you be down to assist me? [01:26:35] Speaker E: Of course. [01:26:35] Speaker A: Of course. [01:26:42] Speaker E: Do you want to do it or do you want to inspire me? And I could do it. [01:26:51] Speaker C: I think I need to be the one to. [01:26:53] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Greta. I just put a hand on Ro's back and cast guidance. But just like. Just like a hand on her shoulder. And then I think she kneels down next to. Once she's unwrapped, she kind of kneels down next to Kanoje's head and just starts fixing her hair a little bit and just kind of smoothing her skin where it might be awkward, or just moving her arms across her chest to just kind of rest and just fixing her hair and fixing her clothes and just little details. [01:27:34] Speaker B: It's very strange to look at her. She does not look like a body. A week past the gentle repose has worked very effectively. She looks in that particularly difficult stage that a corpse can, where it is very freshly dead. And so she does not look dead at all. She looks like someone deeply asleep, though there's just a particular vacancy. There's no rise and fall of the chest. She looks somehow elegant in the way that she perpetually did, but also entirely wrong. She lays there, that uncanniness of one who sleeps forever. She rests there on the floor. You all watch as Morgrim grows just a little transfixed, staring at her. There's a moment, Greta, where you can't help but ponder that, I mean, this was. This is her tello in every way. And so much more that these two, short of any romantic connection, they are [01:28:45] Speaker D: their life part, you know, they lived [01:28:46] Speaker B: every day together in that incredibly proximal, platonic relationship. And as he stares there, it's funny, his face is so very different, so incredibly incomparable. But behind those spectacles, he looks just a little bit like Walter as he stares in concern. But he can't hide the emotion. He just stares concernedly, watching. Schpagoober just reaches out and holds your hand for a second, Greta. [01:29:15] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:29:19] Speaker C: RO2 takes out of her bag the. The diamond gate stone that had been given to her from the Seelie Court that she, they realized was worth about 5,000 gold. And she looks at Greta and She says for luck maybe the fae will help us. [01:29:45] Speaker B: And Shuba Guber smiles half heartedly. [01:29:49] Speaker C: She. She sets the diamond on top of Kanajay and just starts. She's using Soul Mender and she starts to cast Resurrection. And as she plays it's like this weird mashup of like the Chaos Mage and like these weird harmonies going in and out of the actual old song. And. And she just kind of gets. Oh, do you need. [01:30:21] Speaker B: No, no, it's okay. [01:30:22] Speaker C: I just kind of have like she just kind of gets transfixed as she. And I think every now and then she like will put her hand on the diamond on Kanojay. And then. And as she's doing this and as magic's like pouring from her, Like tears are falling. And as the tears fall, like the gold, like there's like gold and purple magic like within the tears that are dripping on to like the floor and onto her loot and onto Kanache even. [01:30:59] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:31:03] Speaker C: And what, what is. What do I add to this? [01:31:06] Speaker B: Your spell casting modifier. [01:31:08] Speaker A: Okay. [01:31:08] Speaker C: And I have advantage because of Greta. Correct. Assisting. [01:31:14] Speaker B: I think you're being guided. [01:31:15] Speaker E: Yes, I can. [01:31:17] Speaker C: But can she assist with it? [01:31:18] Speaker B: No. Okay. Because it's not something you can work out. It's. It is. Yeah. You can't get assistance on this check. But you can, you could be guided. So you can have a D4. [01:31:30] Speaker C: Okay. [01:31:31] Speaker A: And then I also have the D4 from per diem. [01:31:37] Speaker B: Yes. [01:31:38] Speaker E: Okay. [01:31:42] Speaker C: Do I roll in the thing or do I roll or roll in the tower? And the thing. [01:31:47] Speaker D: It's like letting go. [01:32:11] Speaker C: There's nothing else to add on? No. That's a 23. [01:32:22] Speaker B: You play passionately and the massive diamond disintegrates. And after so much was given to you, you take one last attempt to reconnect with this matronly figure. And the last gift that you give to her is the vigil. You take over her as you accept that life will not be returning. She rests there very quiet and still. And you get the feeling that Morgrim's had quite some time to let out the more passionate and desperate emotions. And instead there is this one very great sigh. This one, He just melts into the position he's sitting in. Lets his hand rest at his side. Shippagoober doesn't say a thing. But he walks up, he puts his hands on your shoulders. He just squeezes. He doesn't say anything. Kind of hugs you from behind. You just have time, Ro. You have time to watch over her. It's not long before she's Covered back up. You have time to walk around this shop. It was one of the alms away from home that you all found so many times. And no one rushes you. It's just a lot of time. You spend the better part of a day there. Morrigrim discusses what should be done with her body. Does anyone have any strong feelings? If not, I can be useful, I think. [01:34:30] Speaker E: Maybe almost. So Ro doesn't have to. I think Greta would ask if she had any. Any instructions or any wishes that he knew, that he knows of. And. [01:34:40] Speaker D: And [01:34:43] Speaker B: you and Morgrim are talking this out in a time when Ro is perusing somewhere, the location. And when Rose walked away, Morgram says, very dejectedly, no. No, she hadn't. I didn't imagine this would be happening. No. There's a spot on the hill. [01:35:09] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:35:10] Speaker B: North of here. We used to go there. If it's quite all right with you all, I. I'd like to bury her. [01:35:21] Speaker E: Do you want us to go with you? [01:35:24] Speaker B: I know she meant very much to Rowan, so if she wants to, she can. But quite frankly, I'd like it to just be me. [01:35:32] Speaker A: Okay. [01:35:34] Speaker E: Greta reaches out a hand in a small way, just. [01:35:43] Speaker B: He stares at it for a moment, and then in. And I want to be clear. In all the times I've said this, in our years playing together, it has never been so true. Big hand, small hand. [01:35:54] Speaker D: I mean, like. [01:35:57] Speaker B: Like an infant in Shaquille o'. [01:35:58] Speaker E: Neal. [01:36:00] Speaker B: His hand reaches out, but he takes it and squeezes it very gently. Wow. [01:36:03] Speaker D: He's capable of very mild force. Like, it's incredible that he can even [01:36:07] Speaker B: manage so slight an impulse. [01:36:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:36:09] Speaker B: And you get the feeling, yeah, he really did work for decades with Kanoje on tiny items. And he just squeezes your hand, and he goes, thank you. [01:36:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:36:17] Speaker E: She puts a hand on top of it and just, you know, hands, like, up here. She covers, like, one knuckle. [01:36:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:36:23] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:36:26] Speaker E: And she just. [01:36:30] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [01:36:33] Speaker B: Me, too. [01:36:34] Speaker C: It's. [01:36:37] Speaker B: I'll be all right. I'll go home. I'm the owner now, and I can't own this place. [01:36:54] Speaker A: Okay. [01:36:55] Speaker B: She trusted you all. Do what you see fits best with it. [01:37:00] Speaker E: Okay. [01:37:00] Speaker A: Where. [01:37:01] Speaker E: Where are you going? [01:37:05] Speaker B: My friend, she. [01:37:07] Speaker E: Maybe he. [01:37:12] Speaker B: Oh, goodness. Digs little. He also protests the passing of planet. [01:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. [01:37:23] Speaker E: I think as he. He kind of starts to pull away as. As much as she. She can with the, like, astronomical strength difference. She kind of, like, holds on. [01:37:33] Speaker D: I mean, he can perceive the difference in tension. [01:37:36] Speaker E: And she kind of. She looks him straight in the Eyes where she might have been, like, looking at the floor before. And she says, I had a friend who died a long time ago, and he was my best friend, and we did everything together, and he died. And I thought it was my fault and was hard, obviously, and it took me a long time to feel okay, but I want you to know that it's not your fault. And she loved you. And remember what she would have wanted. And don't go too far from her. You're allowed to grieve and you're allowed to. To explore that dark place, but don't go too far from her. [01:38:32] Speaker B: Morgrim's not a. Not a. Not an overtly stoic man. He's personable and he's friendly and he's warm, but he also doesn't seem a terribly flappable person. And yet [01:38:49] Speaker D: all you have to do [01:38:49] Speaker B: is say it's not your fault the first time. And he. When he's looking at you at first, it's. It's that calm patience you give to somebody when they're telling you something and you don't. But you say that, and immediately his eyes sting and you watch him look surprised by. By what. How it's even affected him. And the tears. Well, and he lets himself feel them. And his. His lip even quivers a bit by the end. And he just. He doesn't know what to say, but he just nods. [01:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:39:15] Speaker B: And he says, thank you, cleric. [01:39:21] Speaker E: Maybe she, like, pats a counter nearby or something and she says, this place will always be your home and come back when you need it. [01:39:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:39:29] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:39:32] Speaker B: And when Roh passes back into the space, he finds her and he says, if you're ready, I'll take her. [01:39:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:39:46] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I couldn't do it. [01:39:53] Speaker B: It's not what it's about. And he looks like he's just a little too out of sorts to have a more. To have a better conversation. And he collects her. And you watch him feel a deep pain in his heart as he feels the weight of her in his arms. And he leaves. And watching a massive ogre man walk through this, through the city streets with the dead body, might be very disconcerting. But it occurs to you that in these times, that might not be too unexpected, of course, for the city to see. And you all are just kind of left alone in the shop. Spoo Goober begins walking around the space, kind of perusing items quietly. And everyone just has a contemplative moment left there. Is there something else that you all are seeking to do in that space at that time. [01:40:56] Speaker E: I think just while Greta's waiting for people, she's just tidying up and maybe even like sweeping and dusting. [01:41:03] Speaker D: It's actually. [01:41:04] Speaker B: It's been kept quite clean. You get the feeling that's what Morgrim has occupied himself doing. [01:41:09] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [01:41:10] Speaker C: I think Greta. I mean, I think Ro is just to keep herself from breaking down fully. She's like showing Spaghra around because he's never been there and like, just like mindlessly showing him things of. [01:41:28] Speaker B: He's drinking it in very carefully. And at some point, as you guys are walking past through a shelf and he's looking at something, he stops on the case filled with different adornments, rings and necklaces. And he stops and he runs his finger down the edge of the wood in the glass. He very suddenly turns and looks at you and gives you a very unexpected hard look. Very serious. Much more than you're accustomed to with him. But it looks very pensive. [01:42:03] Speaker D: It looks like a grand thought has [01:42:06] Speaker B: struck him all of a sudden. Then he turns and he looks at you and he. [01:42:21] Speaker A: Yes, bigger bear. [01:42:24] Speaker B: You all don't need me very much anymore. [01:42:28] Speaker D: Dread is there like a monster hearing. Just like. [01:42:32] Speaker C: Oh man, this is so crazy. Abby and I were talking about this. [01:42:37] Speaker B: You all don't need me very much anymore. [01:42:39] Speaker C: I mean, we always need you, Spaghuber. But I understand what you mean. [01:42:46] Speaker B: And I love you all very much, [01:42:48] Speaker A: but you don't need me. [01:42:52] Speaker B: He looks around the shop. [01:42:54] Speaker C: Ro looks to Greta. [01:42:56] Speaker E: Yeah, [01:43:01] Speaker B: You know me, I. I'd never want to be imparting them. I imagine you must be feeling a real storm of mixed emotions. [01:43:09] Speaker A: But [01:43:13] Speaker B: it's not lost on me that we're all moving on conversation. A day or two ago, everyone was talking like they'd be together for a while because that's what we being and who we are. But. I mean, you know that this is what we fought for. It's the opportunity for things to change. And that might feel a lot better for some of us than others. And I don't want to see you all go. But we all need something to do it. I don't think I'm ready yet. Cause I'm nowhere near as skilled as anyone who ever has. [01:43:56] Speaker A: But with study, do you think I [01:44:00] Speaker B: could handle a place like this? [01:44:02] Speaker E: I think you're. [01:44:03] Speaker D: Oh my goodness. [01:44:06] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:44:08] Speaker D: Griffin. Where did you come from? That was so quiet. That was like how you used to, though. [01:44:13] Speaker E: I'm sneaky. [01:44:14] Speaker D: Yeah. I haven't seen you do anything that creepy in a really long Time. [01:44:18] Speaker E: I think you're perfect for a place like this. [01:44:21] Speaker B: Oh, that means so much. [01:44:22] Speaker D: But my dream was still so high. [01:44:26] Speaker B: I might have to pay the bath. [01:44:27] Speaker D: Okay. What were you saying? [01:44:28] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [01:44:29] Speaker E: I think you're perfect for the place like this. You're the only person I know. [01:44:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:44:32] Speaker E: For a place like this. And I. I would. [01:44:35] Speaker C: Yeah. I. I mean, Morgram's talked about it. That. I mean, he could eventually come back and. And help you if he. But I'm. I think you are the best wizard I know that could follow in Connachay's footsteps. Yeah, [01:45:06] Speaker A: I. [01:45:09] Speaker E: I know. I'll. I don't know where I'll be, but I'd love to do it with you a little bit. [01:45:15] Speaker C: Same. [01:45:15] Speaker B: I mean, quite frankly, I would need [01:45:18] Speaker D: a lot of help. [01:45:19] Speaker B: I'm not quite at y' all level. [01:45:23] Speaker C: I have a question. DM is her pocket dimension. Did it go away when she went away? [01:45:32] Speaker B: You haven't seen. [01:45:35] Speaker C: Could I have checked if it's there? [01:45:38] Speaker B: You walk down the hall and as you go to the door, [01:45:43] Speaker D: you try [01:45:44] Speaker B: to present that magical glyph she taught you some time ago as the password. And it doesn't respond. Shh. [01:45:54] Speaker C: Bakuber. Obviously, I mean, you heard me talking about the fortress and parsage. I mean, with enough practice, if you could teleport back and forth, you could have a home. That could be your home base too. But she used to like home to [01:46:10] Speaker B: be where you guys are. Yeah. I'd like this to be the shop. But if it's okay. [01:46:14] Speaker D: I mean, if it's okay with you. [01:46:15] Speaker C: 100. [01:46:15] Speaker D: I'd like home to be where you all are. [01:46:17] Speaker C: But I. I think you could also have a space here. [01:46:22] Speaker B: Let's cross that bridge when we get to it. That feels like. I wouldn't. [01:46:26] Speaker D: I don't know if I'm gonna be quite there for a couple decades. [01:46:28] Speaker C: Let's. [01:46:29] Speaker D: Let's give it some time. [01:46:30] Speaker C: I. I just mean like, in time. So you had a place. [01:46:34] Speaker D: And in a way that's terribly uncharacteristic, [01:46:36] Speaker B: he just stops listening to you as he never does. [01:46:40] Speaker D: Because as if for a moment, it's [01:46:42] Speaker B: just kind of striking him. And he steps away from both of you all and he just walks around looking at the shop. He looks up and down the rows of items in the racks, and he just. [01:46:55] Speaker D: You know him as an incredibly warm [01:46:57] Speaker B: and loving, anxious, doubting person. But he just stops and he just stares. And it's like he's just accepting something outright. He just nods to himself. He turns back he looks at you all and he smiles and he goes, I could help a lot of new adventures. [01:47:24] Speaker E: It takes a lot of. It takes, I think it takes someone of a really. Someone really thoughtful and someone who knows what's good and what's right to do something like this. And I think, I think that's you. [01:47:44] Speaker B: He just smiles and looks around the place and accepts that he'll be taking on the opalescent tone. [01:47:52] Speaker A: Wow. So happy. [01:47:59] Speaker B: And with those very mixed emotions left behind, K is buried somewhere thoughtful and quiet that only she and Morgram know. And this is not something we're necessarily concluding here because in the process of decades, Sha Goober will end. The opalescent tome is closed for quite some time. For years. It is closed because it takes years for Spaghuber to reach any level where he can handle that place. But after years of careful study, the opalescent tome does not die out, but finds a new owner. Make a little note of that. [01:48:37] Speaker A: Wow. Man [01:48:41] Speaker B: is always weird because when I abbreviate opalescent tone, it's the same abbreviation as old testimony. That throws me. And so next I imagine. Yes, Krieg. [01:48:59] Speaker A: I just want to make a note that while they're on this little adventure, you know, and doing all this, I am desperately. Craig is, you know, going up to Thespis and saying, hey look, I kind of want to start it. [01:49:13] Speaker B: Oh my goodness. [01:49:15] Speaker A: I just want to start over. [01:49:16] Speaker B: So quiet. I didn't even see you walk up. [01:49:19] Speaker A: Rose birthday, as you know, is coming up real quick. [01:49:22] Speaker B: That shocked me so hard. Okay, sorry. [01:49:24] Speaker A: What? [01:49:24] Speaker B: Bro's birthday. Yeah, yeah, yep. It's. It's on the 32nd one time. I feel like she told me the 33rd, but it's just a confused. [01:49:31] Speaker A: She told me that too. I thought I was hearing things. [01:49:33] Speaker B: I don't know. 30 seconds. [01:49:35] Speaker A: Yeah, but anyways, [01:49:39] Speaker B: sorry, I had an apparition there for a second. What were you saying? [01:49:42] Speaker A: I don't know. But first, basically we gotta make it a good one. [01:49:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:49:47] Speaker A: And I don't know what you've been planning, but I think we should all while take opportunities. Since she's not here right now. I can't hear everything. We're literally all the time saying, aren't [01:49:57] Speaker B: we going to a dragons? [01:49:59] Speaker E: We are, we are. [01:50:00] Speaker A: But like, like, like how, how can we make this like the grandest other than the dragon place? [01:50:08] Speaker B: You have any ideas? [01:50:10] Speaker A: No thinking. I have prestigation. I mean I make sparkles sometimes. [01:50:21] Speaker B: Rose told me about that. You fart when you do it, right? [01:50:26] Speaker D: I mean, I Don't I? [01:50:28] Speaker A: Does anyone? [01:50:28] Speaker D: I'm not saying that I wouldn't want that for my birthday, but I gotta [01:50:31] Speaker A: pick up a cake. [01:50:31] Speaker D: I don't roll pretty well. I don't know if she'd want farts for her birthday. [01:50:34] Speaker A: Gotta pick up a cake. Gotta pick a cake. And I think that I'm just really excited and I wanted to brainstorm. [01:50:44] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good idea. [01:50:46] Speaker A: Do you know how to make confetti? [01:50:49] Speaker B: What's that? [01:50:54] Speaker C: The final episode is now retitled Craig Teaching TheSport. [01:51:00] Speaker D: Well, I don't think you guys have confetti in this time, but you know, [01:51:04] Speaker C: Ro has specifically talked about confetti. They have it in. She prestigidates confetti all the time. [01:51:09] Speaker D: Inflatable blow up celebration. Thespis, do you know what a bounce house is? [01:51:15] Speaker C: Confetti is just pieces of paper or [01:51:17] Speaker E: it could be flower petals. Yeah. [01:51:19] Speaker A: So Frank's like, Craig's like, nevermind, I'm gonna go get supplies. And he's gonna like supplies. [01:51:27] Speaker D: And Craig runs out the door and [01:51:28] Speaker B: Tessa says quietly to himself, so while, [01:51:32] Speaker A: while like all of that stuff is happening, Craig is getting like parchment paper from places and he's like getting different. He's like using like certain knives to cut out like Happy birthday. And like he's taking like string and like stringing it through all of it and, and he is putting together. [01:51:54] Speaker D: At some point, Thespis hops into this. At some point Thespa sees what's happening and he just joins you in this effort. So this could be later in the same day. And he's just like, I didn't know [01:52:07] Speaker B: you were so artistic. Right. [01:52:08] Speaker A: She's got to be celebrated. [01:52:10] Speaker D: It's her arts and crafts. [01:52:11] Speaker A: She loves birthdays. [01:52:13] Speaker B: If you're tough. She does. She's been talking about it a lot. So much. [01:52:18] Speaker D: Yeah, I. I figured maybe the dragon [01:52:20] Speaker B: with all the illusions would probably be pretty good at at. [01:52:23] Speaker A: But it's not the same. It has to come from us too. [01:52:26] Speaker B: Yeah, totally. Do you think it's probably like a big deal that I have a lot ready for this? [01:52:32] Speaker A: I'll let you. [01:52:32] Speaker D: She and I have not been going out for long. [01:52:34] Speaker E: First birthday party. [01:52:36] Speaker A: Did you get her anything? [01:52:38] Speaker B: I mean it's been the apocalypse you [01:52:41] Speaker A: haven't gotten or anything. Thespis, I can continue working on this. Going to the town. [01:52:45] Speaker B: Okay. [01:52:47] Speaker D: And you watch. You watch. His real panic comes over thespace's face and he goes, I didn't. How could I have not thought? [01:52:54] Speaker E: And he first birthday is so important and so He. [01:52:57] Speaker D: And so Smash cut. The Thespa is just like nervously in town and he's just. He's just in the general goods and he's like, I don't. [01:53:06] Speaker B: I don't know what her favorite flavor [01:53:07] Speaker D: of jam is, but I've seen her talk about preservatives. [01:53:13] Speaker C: I love that. [01:53:14] Speaker D: Okay. [01:53:15] Speaker C: I love that in the time that there's been an apocalypse and she's been quietly dating Thespis. What she has talked to him about is that Craig farts when he breasted dates and that she likes sweets and jam. [01:53:30] Speaker D: And number eight, I think it's probably more that. What has she not talked him to him about in the time. I think it's more that there's been continuous conversation. [01:53:39] Speaker C: You're right. [01:53:39] Speaker A: This is what Craig has gotten. He's gotten her. Because how many days out is it from now? [01:53:45] Speaker D: Like four or five? [01:53:46] Speaker A: Gosh dang. [01:53:47] Speaker C: It's on the first. [01:53:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:53:48] Speaker A: Okay, so he's not gotten. He has not gotten the cake yet. Cuz that'd be bad. [01:53:53] Speaker C: He did. [01:53:54] Speaker A: He got her like, he went to the jeweler. Is there like a jeweler in town or something? [01:54:00] Speaker D: Hex not. Okay, you're in parson. [01:54:02] Speaker A: Okay. [01:54:03] Speaker E: Greta got a necklace, so maybe she picked one up. [01:54:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. [01:54:10] Speaker D: It's the end of the campaign. Whatever. [01:54:12] Speaker C: Hey, Zach, we want these. [01:54:13] Speaker D: What have you picked up? [01:54:14] Speaker B: What? [01:54:15] Speaker D: What? [01:54:15] Speaker A: I've picked up like, the paper, but I've also gotten different kinds of, like, from a jeweler. I was gonna get like a little like a necklace or bracelet or something. [01:54:24] Speaker B: Okay. [01:54:24] Speaker C: Because Ro doesn't have enough necklaces. [01:54:26] Speaker D: I can't explain how you have a spot small gold bracelet, but you do. [01:54:29] Speaker A: Okay. [01:54:30] Speaker C: And I'm not here. [01:54:32] Speaker A: Don't listen to me. He's gonna, like, get different papers, but he's also gonna find different things like flowers to press. And then he's gonna like, press them onto the papers and like have them on there as a decoration. [01:54:46] Speaker D: Okay, so at some point, I don't know where you've gotten flowers from. It's the dead of winter. [01:54:52] Speaker C: Her hair, maybe Fazu's hair. [01:54:56] Speaker D: You find some of the flowers that have fallen out. So you find like five or six small flowers and you're pressing them. And at some point Thespis walks back in with. He's got like a brown like, like hempen sack and it's clinking. And as he's walking, then he walks in and he sees you with pressed [01:55:11] Speaker B: flowers and he goes, that's already better than what I am. [01:55:16] Speaker D: My first Relation. This isn't gonna work. And he's like, now you're doing great. He's getting so nervous and he's like, arm. And. [01:55:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:55:25] Speaker D: So all of this is happening while Ro is having a deep experience. [01:55:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:55:30] Speaker D: And this is transpiring. We are going to move now through time and we are not going to focus on. And then they did this. And then. Because we have plenty to wrap up. [01:55:41] Speaker E: So make a time movement. [01:55:42] Speaker D: We are going to move. We are going to. That's what time travel sounds like. That's what I will sound like. [01:55:52] Speaker E: Somebody called BBC, they need to update [01:55:54] Speaker C: the Doctor who soundtrack. Abby, feel free to push him off of all of your stuff. [01:56:05] Speaker E: I would never do that. [01:56:06] Speaker B: Okay. [01:56:06] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [01:56:07] Speaker E: But thank you. [01:56:10] Speaker A: I think that it's so great that, like, literally it's me and Zach that find that funny. [01:56:15] Speaker E: So great. [01:56:17] Speaker D: The Doctor is here. [01:56:21] Speaker A: The sound of the sonic screwdriver. [01:56:27] Speaker E: I feel like the sonic screwdriver should be bent. [01:56:44] Speaker C: Stupid. [01:56:46] Speaker D: All right, so. So time jump. It's C call the first. [01:56:54] Speaker C: It's actually CV call 33 in Rose Head. All right. The listeners don't know that Zach took away my birthday. [01:57:06] Speaker D: Let's see. [01:57:08] Speaker A: I don't. [01:57:08] Speaker D: Oh, I don't even know that we would have. [01:57:11] Speaker C: Oh, birthday music. [01:57:13] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't think we probably do. Right. There's probably no tavern on the. [01:57:16] Speaker A: Yeah, there is. [01:57:17] Speaker C: All right. [01:57:18] Speaker D: So, [01:57:21] Speaker B: yeah. No. [01:57:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:57:25] Speaker D: Close enough. Not the one I thought it was, but it'll do. So, days later, you all are in a very different place [01:57:37] Speaker C: now. [01:57:37] Speaker D: You all are in Biasta, far away [01:57:39] Speaker B: in the empty expanse of the Dionda Neck. [01:57:42] Speaker D: And you are now where you were [01:57:46] Speaker B: a couple years ago in the massive, [01:57:49] Speaker D: massive empty chamber, the lowermost central chamber of Vex, incredible subterranean fortress, one that you understand to have once been the immense court hall of some king in [01:58:05] Speaker B: a lost culture that's been. That he has now reclaimed as his own. [01:58:09] Speaker D: And it is on this day, Ro's [01:58:12] Speaker B: birthday, that folks have gathered to try [01:58:13] Speaker D: and both to celebrate their friend and [01:58:15] Speaker B: loved one, and also to try and have merriment on the other side of so much sorrow and difficulty and struggle. [01:58:22] Speaker D: And Vilek is simply thrilled to have [01:58:26] Speaker B: guests in his home. [01:58:27] Speaker D: And again, he has spared no effort in celebrating his good friend Rome. The immense. If you guys remember, the massive chamber, it is incredibly tall and wide sandstone chamber underground, and the walls are masterfully carved with incredible murals of mountainscapes and [01:58:46] Speaker B: whatever this lost culture was. [01:58:49] Speaker D: And this space is currently being attended by numerous illusory space spectral figures. So There are like, vague, like, kind of spectral shapes of people who are waiting on everyone and carrying things. Can I lower the music? [01:59:02] Speaker C: Yeah, just a tad? [01:59:03] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah. It was definitely a little high. Thank you. [01:59:07] Speaker D: And they are, like, waiting with trays [01:59:09] Speaker B: and bringing things and collecting things from people. [01:59:12] Speaker D: Dancing lights fill the dimly lit chamber, creating an atmosphere of mysterious splendor. Thousands of light them blink in and [01:59:20] Speaker B: out of existence in soft arrhythmic patterns, [01:59:23] Speaker D: enough to light the chamber, but the [01:59:25] Speaker B: sources are always shifting in hue in place. There are also separate illusory figures who are playing joyful music, much like what we're listening to. [01:59:35] Speaker D: So there are illusions playing their own music permeating the grand hall far better [01:59:41] Speaker B: than the sound should. [01:59:43] Speaker D: And there is also. Vilek is there. He is moving back and forth constantly in between dragon and human form and sometimes like very much a question of space. So he is just constantly, when need be, he is. He is in dragon form, entertaining and impressing guests. And I think Jackie's got it. [02:00:11] Speaker B: I think so. [02:00:13] Speaker D: And then. [02:00:15] Speaker A: Okay, and then there was. [02:00:16] Speaker D: It's. I'm only dming for you now, Micah. You're the only one I don't know. But Abby also left. Oh, okay. But anywho. So if you like, his Dr. Is entertaining people as a massive dragon and as human moving back and forth. He's running this game right now where, because since it's this, this throne hall, there is that massive, like that dais with a raised dais on top of it until it leads up that big [02:00:43] Speaker B: stone stairway to a throne, and there [02:00:45] Speaker D: is an unoccupied throne at one end of the chamber. And so he is running this game [02:00:51] Speaker B: where whoever can tell him the grandest [02:00:53] Speaker D: story gets to spend half an hour on the throne if they want. And if they don't want to, that's fine. They don't have to, but they can sit on the throne. And then if, while they're sitting up there, every so often, if the elect [02:01:03] Speaker B: walks up to somebody and taps them on the shoulder, they have to go up to the throne. Throne and pay the person a compliment and then go back down. [02:01:08] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, I love it. Can Craig tell him the story about how he peed in his box? [02:01:12] Speaker D: Excellent smash cut. So there's. Well, I have a little more to describe. And then that's the first thing we're going to come back to. Rose. Many friends in attendance have also to to list off the individuals who have answered her summons. Vic is there. Jaff Rose, father, who has never left the iron. Oh, my God. [02:01:34] Speaker C: Maybe she went in time, teleported him for sure. [02:01:37] Speaker D: There's no other way he was getting. [02:01:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:01:39] Speaker D: You're the only way he could have come. He's never left the aisle and this is his first other experience. [02:01:46] Speaker B: So he's just. [02:01:46] Speaker D: Wow. [02:01:47] Speaker B: Huh? This is real. [02:01:48] Speaker D: I didn't. [02:01:49] Speaker B: The world's wild dragons are big. [02:01:54] Speaker D: So Jath is there as well as Kai is in attendance. He's not in armor and he's. So he's shown up in other robes and you would expect his drab common tabards. You've seen him in before. Nope. He is in bright cerulean blue vestments that are like, traced with silver and have the eyes of Selune stitched into it, like with silver. And when questioned about it, at some point he just says, greta asks. [02:02:22] Speaker E: She's like, hey, do you're wearing that because you're a cleric? [02:02:26] Speaker B: These are my ceremonial robes. [02:02:28] Speaker A: Wow. [02:02:28] Speaker B: And she's like, a birthday is a ceremony. [02:02:32] Speaker E: Yeah. Do I get to wear those? Because I. [02:02:35] Speaker B: They're far too large for you. [02:02:37] Speaker D: I have to have clothes. [02:02:38] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:02:38] Speaker C: No. [02:02:38] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [02:02:39] Speaker A: No, no. [02:02:39] Speaker E: I didn't mean right now. I just think they're so cool and maybe because I'm also a cleric, but maybe you just have to be a. Like a height. Like a. But, yeah. Those look are awesome. [02:02:48] Speaker D: We are of equal rank, I would imagine. But they are far too large for. [02:02:53] Speaker E: Yeah. Not yours, but ones for me. Where'd you get them? [02:02:58] Speaker B: Well, they're from my order. [02:02:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:03:00] Speaker E: Okay. Okay. Yeah. [02:03:03] Speaker D: And he just stares at you for too long in that social, awkward way that he does. Like he's completely calm, but he's just staring at you because it isn't nowhere [02:03:08] Speaker B: next to go in conversation. [02:03:09] Speaker E: They look great. [02:03:12] Speaker D: Thank you. Also in attendance, Bulgur and Eek are [02:03:15] Speaker A: there [02:03:17] Speaker D: and they are doing what you think they'd be doing at this party, but they are doing it too much. Like, they. They immediately feed in it. Like they. They are immediately. They. Instead of just behaving the way you should at a party, which is like a person meeting new people, they're like a place to do our act. [02:03:34] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:03:35] Speaker D: And so they're immediately trying to do thing after thing, which Ro is so happy about. She's like, sometimes it's going very well. Sometimes bull grog accidentally throws Eek and she knocks over a table and somebody has to heal her and it makes a mess. It's. It is absolutely as chaotic as you would think it would be, love. But Balgrug is just going around going, yes, hi, Bolgrug. [02:03:55] Speaker B: What is your favorite color? [02:03:56] Speaker D: And at some point, he's just walking around smiling in his skin with all the new notches in it. And he's just like new friends. And Eek is just walking around going, [02:04:07] Speaker B: that button's loose on your clothes. [02:04:09] Speaker D: And at some point, at some point, Greta, you're walking around and you watch as Eek slides her hand very smoothly into Ron Grimm's pocket in one of his clothes. [02:04:21] Speaker B: Pull something out, replaces. [02:04:24] Speaker A: Wait. [02:04:24] Speaker D: In Ron Grimm's pocket. Yep. And then just looks at you and goes, huh? [02:04:29] Speaker E: She gives a little wink. [02:04:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:04:31] Speaker B: And then he goes. [02:04:35] Speaker D: Starts practicing a wink for the first time in her life. Does it too long. [02:04:38] Speaker B: Bam. [02:04:39] Speaker D: Walks into a table. [02:04:40] Speaker A: Wrong. [02:04:40] Speaker D: Grim turns around, are you okay? And she's like, no, nothing. And so that's all happening. Shpagoober is there. Court is in attendance. She's wearing this kind of beautiful gown. She is still subdued, you know, she had as bad of time as you all, but she is trying her best [02:04:57] Speaker B: to have a good time. [02:04:58] Speaker D: And she seems to be. [02:04:59] Speaker B: I mean, it's her stoic way. [02:05:02] Speaker D: She's still taciturn, but she looks like she's trying to enjoy. All of the warriors of the well are there. And Xavian is lighting up as a socialite and Wee Woo's personality is coming out. She has been regaining her powers and she seems so focused on humor that you get the feeling that some things might not have gone well on the trip home. But. But, man, her personality lights up. She's just making joke after joke. Some are very funny, some are deeply inappropriate. Xavian's also just full peacocking it. Like he has his wings out the whole time, his giant golden light wings. And every person he walks up to [02:05:43] Speaker B: and goes, well, yeah, I can tell you about it if you need me to. [02:05:49] Speaker D: And also in attendance are Terrance and Neeft. And there is at some point where Neefht's very quiet. And at some point she. She has found a quiet table to be at, along with that Tiefling woman who's Vilek's companion. And they're just quietly standing at a table having wine. And every single time someone comes near being friendly, they're just both staring them down and they turn them away and they're quietly enjoying each other's conversation. But Terrence at some point walks up to Rongrim and they meet each other, and Terence goes, whoa, hello, would you? And then Rol Gram has to go, [02:06:28] Speaker B: well, I don't know how. [02:06:31] Speaker E: Well, yes. [02:06:32] Speaker D: And Then they have a long and comical conversation that I'm not going to force myself to do. [02:06:37] Speaker A: Wow. Oh my gosh. [02:06:39] Speaker C: So beautiful. [02:06:39] Speaker D: And the party is. Is in. The space is very empty, but with each other feels very full. And all of Rose. Many friends who have come have also worked as much as they can to make the event memorable and positive. [02:06:54] Speaker E: How many happy birthday banners are there? [02:06:57] Speaker A: Craig immediately goes up. He has bags running with the. [02:07:00] Speaker D: This happened before. It's already been prepared. So you have put up. Let me describe some things and then you can add it up. And I still haven't forgotten about your piss conversation. So. [02:07:10] Speaker E: So [02:07:12] Speaker D: okay. Where Rose birthday party so Rose, many friends and attendees have also created contributed their innumerable talents to support the celebration after so much struggle and loss. The massive central chamber of the keep has been filled with standing cock tables that Janice formed into existence with her magic. And they are topped with great spreads of excellent food that has been created by Ueggs Magics. Ehmund Kai has cooked a great deal of soup and stew which Long Grim and his spectral companion Livy have made sure do not taste nasty. Rose. Father Jath has brought about 15 or 20 different instruments that he's. [02:07:55] Speaker E: Oh wow. [02:07:56] Speaker D: And he is having a great deal of fun teaching Vic to play them. [02:08:00] Speaker C: Oh my God. [02:08:04] Speaker D: And teaching the people who aren't musical how to play. So there's this like there are. And the party's just all day. It's like a 14, 15 hour party. Like at some points it's calm, at some points it's back to energy. Multiple courses of food are being served not in an organized fashion, absolutely willy nilly and there. But there are periods of times where like everybody's like playing music together and like a couple dance dance like competitions and circles and different things break out and there is every bit as bad as you think they would be. Bulgur is fully doing the cabbage patch at one point. But yes, all of this is transpiring in this space. Craig, where have you chosen to put your happy birthday banner that you can [02:08:43] Speaker A: I can I say that me and thespace I like stress. [02:08:45] Speaker D: You can speak for Craig. Oh but yeah, what's Craig. [02:08:49] Speaker A: Okay, fine, whatever. Craig runs in with bags of like you know, the happy birthday banner like other pieces of paper that he's like cut out for tables to like put. And like he has like nails hammer and he goes in and he goes up to Valak and goes vallec. [02:09:11] Speaker D: Yes, I know. [02:09:13] Speaker A: Yes. What? [02:09:13] Speaker D: What? [02:09:14] Speaker B: Hello Craig. [02:09:15] Speaker A: Hi. I have a happy birthday banner I needed to put it up somewhere. It was a happy birthday banner. Have you ever seen a happy birthday banana? [02:09:23] Speaker D: I'm sorry, I do not. I have quite a few places. [02:09:26] Speaker A: I do one of his home and put this somewhere. Where would be a good place to put it? [02:09:31] Speaker D: I've never seen that. It's a very clever design. [02:09:33] Speaker A: Thank you. [02:09:34] Speaker D: Like, it comes from another time and place. Well, the walls are all, like 60ft away in stone. You could hammer it into one of the tables they just got made, so I don't imagine they'd stay long. [02:09:46] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. Cool. Thank you. [02:09:49] Speaker D: You are permitted go get them. [02:09:51] Speaker C: Yes. [02:09:51] Speaker A: And then he, like, goes. And he's like, puts it together and he's like, making sure it's perfect. And then, like, he puts his gift right beside it. [02:09:59] Speaker D: He likes 20 or 30ft away, just [02:10:00] Speaker B: going, I love these little freaks. [02:10:02] Speaker C: My favorite part about this is that we all came here together. [02:10:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:10:09] Speaker C: Got there and had a bag and, like, ran. And we were like, Ro was probably [02:10:13] Speaker E: like, craig, what is that? No. [02:10:15] Speaker D: So one of the tables has nailed into it a happy birthday banner that wraps around it. And the funny thing is that no one in this world knows what a [02:10:23] Speaker B: happy birthday banner is. [02:10:24] Speaker D: So it's this incredible stroke of ingenuity. And so a bunch of people are just walking up and going, huh? And some people are walking up and going. And then other people are like, wow. So, like, everyone's just like, wow, what an interesting art installation. [02:10:37] Speaker C: Ro loves it. It becomes her table. She's like, this is my table. Aw, that's cool. [02:10:42] Speaker D: And on this table, food is cleared off. And, like, your father brings you this new sort of like, it's not magical, [02:10:49] Speaker B: but a new loot that he's made. [02:10:50] Speaker D: And so some people have gifts. Plenty of people don't. At some point, Thespis, like, walks by and looks at Rowan and goes like. And nods confidently and puts this immense burlap sack on the. Or hempen sack. And it, like, clinks. It, like, clink, clink. And he goes, [02:11:06] Speaker B: I think I nailed it. [02:11:08] Speaker D: And then he walks away, goes back to dancing. [02:11:10] Speaker C: She looks at, like, Greta, who's by, and she's like, why? Didn't need to gates. I just wanted to as you look [02:11:15] Speaker D: confused about this, understanding that no one else. He walks by cranking and goes like, [02:11:20] Speaker A: fist bugs, like, happy birthday. [02:11:22] Speaker D: Oh. And Thespis goes for the high five. And he goes, oh, turkey. [02:11:25] Speaker A: And then Terence walks by. [02:11:26] Speaker D: I'm just kidding. And. And Terence goes, what was that? And as you say, turkey. [02:11:34] Speaker C: Ro's like, has a panic Attack. [02:11:37] Speaker D: Otherwise, the party is continuously ruckusly, and people just have an excellent time. There is hilarity and foolishness and many, many stories are shared. They're also quiet, pensive times. I mean, the party goes for quite [02:11:53] Speaker B: some time, and some people cry, talking to each other. [02:11:56] Speaker D: There's some hugs exchanged. It's a whole day, and some people are long reunited. Terence is thrilled to see some old friends. Kai introduces himself to absolutely everyone there. [02:12:08] Speaker B: It's just a. [02:12:09] Speaker D: Time is out of it. [02:12:11] Speaker E: Greta at some point walks up and gives Ro, like, It's like, little. It's probably like two feet, maybe one and a half feet, but she gives like a. It's a little like. She's like, well, tell. Help me with the frame and. But it's like a little framed picture of, like, the fungi's, like, in their little house in Parsons. And there's like, Thespis is. It's like the fun guys. And then there's like, Thespis and Ship, Goober and Nam, and they're just like. She's like, I didn't have that much time because of. Of our fight, but I made it. This is a little drawing. [02:12:49] Speaker B: Diggle is sitting next to my wife's head, and it's really cute. [02:12:52] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:12:53] Speaker C: I just don't want him to. I don't want him to, like, fart on you. You or something. [02:12:58] Speaker A: She's probably used to it. [02:13:00] Speaker C: Let's be honest. [02:13:01] Speaker D: That was a possibility. [02:13:05] Speaker C: That's hilarious. You should worry the ho far on Dick. [02:13:10] Speaker B: Assert your dominance. Hoffa, fart on him. [02:13:12] Speaker A: Row. [02:13:13] Speaker C: Like, hold on. I have to take a picture of this. [02:13:16] Speaker E: I know it's. [02:13:16] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:13:17] Speaker A: What if Thespis get row? [02:13:20] Speaker D: We'll come to that. [02:13:21] Speaker A: This is just so exciting. [02:13:22] Speaker C: Row, like, Ro hugs Greta and she [02:13:24] Speaker A: says, I love it. [02:13:25] Speaker C: I think it should go in the. Maybe in the fortress. [02:13:27] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:13:28] Speaker C: If we ever get that, or. Or at least in the house, it [02:13:30] Speaker E: can go wherever you want. [02:13:31] Speaker C: I love it. [02:13:32] Speaker E: Yeah. Happy birthday. [02:13:33] Speaker C: Thank you. We didn't. [02:13:37] Speaker A: No. [02:13:37] Speaker C: I don't understand, like. I don't know what I was gonna say. I lost my train of thought because it did. Whatever. Why do you keep rolling? [02:13:46] Speaker D: Well, no, I was just playing. [02:13:47] Speaker C: Okay. [02:13:48] Speaker D: Just. But I did roll just then. [02:13:49] Speaker C: You rolled. [02:13:49] Speaker D: Greta. [02:13:50] Speaker B: What's your passive perception again? [02:13:52] Speaker D: Retta. [02:13:52] Speaker E: Oh. [02:13:53] Speaker B: What's your passive perception? [02:13:55] Speaker E: 21. [02:13:56] Speaker B: Okay. Don't worry about it. [02:13:58] Speaker A: I want to. [02:13:58] Speaker C: What about mine? [02:14:00] Speaker D: That would have to require that you were nearby and you can't. [02:14:03] Speaker E: Who am I around? [02:14:06] Speaker C: Who's near me? [02:14:07] Speaker D: Well, it's passive. [02:14:08] Speaker B: You're not. [02:14:09] Speaker D: I mean, bar is part of yours. You're nearby. I mean, you're aware that Janice is [02:14:14] Speaker B: nearby talking as well as Uega. [02:14:18] Speaker D: UEG is going around the party making, [02:14:20] Speaker B: like, daisy chains for people. Flower necklaces. [02:14:23] Speaker E: Does he have vestments? [02:14:25] Speaker D: No. [02:14:26] Speaker B: He's butt naked as always. [02:14:28] Speaker D: Everything's in the shell. Everything's in the shell. [02:14:31] Speaker C: Anywho, what's Thespis wearing? [02:14:36] Speaker D: He's in, like, some well designed taverns that are clean and put together. [02:14:40] Speaker B: Yes. Mozilla de mi vida. [02:14:43] Speaker D: Okay, baby, that's a good look for you. [02:14:46] Speaker A: Wow. [02:14:47] Speaker B: We dance. [02:14:53] Speaker A: A dance. A dance with your head. [02:14:57] Speaker D: Dancing. [02:14:57] Speaker E: Wow. [02:15:00] Speaker A: Enjoy your chick fil A. [02:15:01] Speaker D: All right. But otherwise, [02:15:08] Speaker B: that was really cute. [02:15:09] Speaker D: Otherwise, the party is transpiring. [02:15:13] Speaker C: At one point, I lean over to Thespis at one point that he's there or whatever, and I say, when are you gonna get some robes? Like, like effemncies. [02:15:21] Speaker D: When you look to him. [02:15:22] Speaker B: Thespa's brow was dipped in sweat and goes, what? What was that? [02:15:25] Speaker C: Are you okay? Yeah. [02:15:28] Speaker D: When do we do the presents? [02:15:29] Speaker B: How does that work? [02:15:30] Speaker C: I don't know. I didn't. I didn't ask for presents. I. Oh, I don't. I don't know. No, no, no, no, actually. [02:15:39] Speaker D: And wherever Craig is in the room, he just stares you down and he looks at you like. [02:15:44] Speaker C: No, she takes. She takes Thespis's hand. He, like, flinches, you know, it's okay. No, just breathe. Breathe. [02:15:51] Speaker D: Presents now? [02:15:52] Speaker C: Sure. [02:15:54] Speaker D: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. [02:15:55] Speaker C: Wait. I mean, okay, everybody in the room looks. [02:15:58] Speaker D: Be like. [02:15:59] Speaker B: Looks and goes up. [02:15:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:16:00] Speaker D: And he, like, stops the music and it, like, it quiets down and everybody turns and Thespas goes. It's. [02:16:08] Speaker C: It's present time, apparently. It's okay, though, by the way. No one had to get me any. [02:16:16] Speaker D: There's, like, nervous looks all around the room. [02:16:19] Speaker C: And I was like. [02:16:20] Speaker D: And Terence just walks up and goes, food. [02:16:23] Speaker C: Oh, thank you. I didn't have. I needed to add some to my last class. [02:16:27] Speaker B: I figured you haven't run out. [02:16:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I had, actually. [02:16:30] Speaker D: He's just waddling around. Neefed is just two tables away with her hands, bare face buried in her hands, and Thespis is, like, sweating by [02:16:38] Speaker B: the table, and he goes, crack you first. [02:16:42] Speaker D: I got you. Said in the weirdest way possible. [02:16:49] Speaker C: Row in the. She tries to be chill about it, but it's probably not. She should be deceptive about it. She just takes song splitter and she kind of plays a couple notes on it and tries to cast calm emotions on Thespis. [02:17:05] Speaker D: Give me a sleight of hand just because he's so freaked out. [02:17:07] Speaker B: It could work. [02:17:09] Speaker C: That's a nat one. Sometimes he dies. Tell a story. [02:17:15] Speaker D: You play a chord and you. You forget that it's song splitter and not soul mender. So you go for like a ding, ding, ding, and it goes like it echoes down. But that doesn't work halfway into a no. [02:17:29] Speaker C: Why? [02:17:30] Speaker D: Because you just terrified him. But I cast, and that's the opposite of what that does. You'll get a savior throw at advantage. [02:17:36] Speaker B: What's your spell? [02:17:37] Speaker D: Save D.C. no, never mind. [02:17:40] Speaker B: It works. [02:17:41] Speaker A: 19. [02:17:41] Speaker B: I rolled terribly. [02:17:43] Speaker D: Oh, he just goes, okay. [02:17:47] Speaker B: Okay, cool. [02:17:49] Speaker D: So what's the present? [02:17:51] Speaker A: Bracelet. It's a bracelet. Because I thought that you look really pretty with bracelets. [02:18:00] Speaker D: And then ro. [02:18:01] Speaker B: Oh, it's a. [02:18:01] Speaker D: It's a non descript but lovely gold bracelet. [02:18:04] Speaker C: I love it. Craig, remember me? [02:18:10] Speaker D: You look away and there's a flash of gold and you can tell that [02:18:12] Speaker B: Janice is like magically creating something. [02:18:14] Speaker D: Then she's like, [02:18:18] Speaker C: thank you, Craig. You didn't have to do that. [02:18:21] Speaker A: I know how much you love birthdays and we love you. [02:18:24] Speaker C: I just. I'm just glad most of us are here to celebrate in it. And she hugs Craig and she puts the bracelet on and she. She says, I'm never taking it off. [02:18:35] Speaker A: You better not. [02:18:36] Speaker C: I hope it's real gold because it's not coming off. [02:18:39] Speaker A: I didn't ask. [02:18:42] Speaker D: Evmund plods up and he says, rowena, [02:18:46] Speaker B: your faith to selune has been commendable. I think it is only fitting. [02:18:51] Speaker D: And he pulls out of his pocket [02:18:52] Speaker B: this [02:18:55] Speaker D: small, the necklace. It's like a half circlet, like a tiny little diadem on the front that's been cut off. And the wire runs behind the seven stars of saloon. And it's. It's on this silver chain. [02:19:06] Speaker B: And he says, I have noticed you wear an inexplicable amount of necklaces. [02:19:11] Speaker C: Yeah. Because she's not in her like, she's in just like nice like her. [02:19:14] Speaker A: Her. [02:19:15] Speaker C: She's still in her armor because that armor can change to whatever. But she's in like a nice, like. Like pretty. Just like purple and gold. [02:19:22] Speaker B: 5 to 7. [02:19:23] Speaker C: All necklaces are hanging. Yeah. [02:19:25] Speaker D: Hands it over. [02:19:25] Speaker C: And he says, thank you. I appreciate it. [02:19:29] Speaker E: Yes. [02:19:29] Speaker D: Okay. [02:19:32] Speaker C: She now has six. [02:19:35] Speaker D: An insane number of necklaces. At some point, Thespis walks up the [02:19:40] Speaker B: table and he picks up the bag and he goes, okay, this is for you. [02:19:45] Speaker A: Okay. [02:19:45] Speaker B: I'm so sorry. [02:19:46] Speaker D: He hands it over. It's clinking a lot as he. [02:19:49] Speaker C: Oh, okay. You put it down on the floor, [02:19:52] Speaker D: and as you open it up, oh, it's like 11. [02:19:59] Speaker B: It's like 11 jars of jam preserved. [02:20:02] Speaker D: And he just goes, I didn't know [02:20:03] Speaker B: which flavor you liked, so I got all of. [02:20:06] Speaker C: She. She. [02:20:07] Speaker D: She. [02:20:08] Speaker C: She just grabs him and she gives him a kiss. [02:20:11] Speaker D: Okay. This is your niece. It's good. You like it? [02:20:13] Speaker C: It's perfect. You know I love sweets, and you know how much I love Jem. [02:20:17] Speaker D: He leans in and says really quietly, [02:20:19] Speaker B: advice was coming from Craig. [02:20:21] Speaker D: And he knows you really well, but he's also, like, almost divorced. I didn't know if that was good or bad. [02:20:25] Speaker C: No, I love jam. Jam is the best. Okay, so this was apricots. It's my favorite. But all of these. I love everything that's sweet. [02:20:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it's an apricot. [02:20:34] Speaker C: It's this. And she holds up one of those. [02:20:36] Speaker B: Okay. [02:20:37] Speaker C: Because canonically, Ro did buy two jars of that in parsage. [02:20:43] Speaker B: He just goes, okay, cool. [02:20:45] Speaker C: Thank you. [02:20:45] Speaker D: You stands back up, and then everyone's just staring at you. [02:20:50] Speaker A: Awkward. [02:20:50] Speaker C: Ro feels really awkward. And Ro goes. While we're weirdly staring at me. I. I just want to thank everyone for. For coming out. I know it's been a very rough week or so for most of us in this room, but thanks to you, all the world's still here. There's a lot of warm nods, smiles, but. I know it's my birthday, but I like to think of this as a celebration of, like, you know, all of us and. TheSpace. Would you come here? [02:21:34] Speaker B: Sure. Is it about the gym? [02:21:36] Speaker C: No, it's not about the gym. I just wanted to. I've been talking with Craig and Greta and Tello and Balls and Shmagoober, and she nods to each one of those people, and we've been talking, and, I mean, obviously, you and I have grown to know each other better, and we were wondering if. If you would do us the honor of becoming an official fun guy. I'm part of. [02:22:16] Speaker B: Part of us, part of all of you guys. [02:22:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:22:20] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:22:21] Speaker C: Like a fun guy. If you don't want to. You know, I know we can all be a lot, and you're already dealing with me, so, you know. Wow. But we. We'd love to. To have you. [02:22:37] Speaker B: Oh, you know, I'm sorry I didn't love it. Yeah, that'd be phenomenal. I didn't know that was an option. [02:22:48] Speaker C: I mean, it's never been an option before. Like, we've never discussed it, but, you know. But, like, as far as like, any. I don't know, I guess I was the last. This way I don't have to be the newest member. No way. [02:23:01] Speaker D: This is the plot. Way down on your tiny shoulder. [02:23:04] Speaker B: And he just goes, I would love that. [02:23:07] Speaker C: Hi. [02:23:09] Speaker D: Thank you. [02:23:09] Speaker B: This is okay with Craig? He okayed this? [02:23:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I talked to Craig about it first, actually. [02:23:13] Speaker A: He's still getting a thumbs up. [02:23:14] Speaker B: Okay. [02:23:15] Speaker C: And she whispers to thespace and she goes, remember, Craig is the one that liked you first. Like, not like, I like, like you, but, you know, you like, like. No. [02:23:24] Speaker A: What? [02:23:24] Speaker B: I'm not prepared for that. [02:23:27] Speaker C: Anyway, introducing the newest member of the fun guys. And there's. [02:23:33] Speaker D: There are Craig looks or Thespis looks, like, surprised, but he's smiling. And. And can I. [02:23:41] Speaker A: Can I say that? Like, I throw my arm around thespis and I have like. [02:23:46] Speaker D: Like elbow. [02:23:47] Speaker A: Like a. I don't know, like, happy little. I don't know, something in my head. [02:23:52] Speaker C: What happy little you have. [02:23:54] Speaker D: You have an unidentifiable thing in your hand. [02:23:56] Speaker A: No, it's like a. I don't know, a screwdriver. [02:23:58] Speaker D: I'm trying to think of something in [02:23:59] Speaker A: your hand, but I don't know what drink it would be. I don't know, [02:24:04] Speaker C: glass of milk. [02:24:07] Speaker A: And then. [02:24:08] Speaker C: And then, like, drink. [02:24:09] Speaker A: Craig, like, breaks into song. And, like, at first it's awkward, but it's all a song that we know. And he, like, tries to get people to join in and singing. [02:24:18] Speaker D: Give me a performance check. [02:24:20] Speaker A: Performance. [02:24:23] Speaker C: Is this the first time you've rolled? [02:24:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:24:25] Speaker C: Today. Yeah. [02:24:26] Speaker D: We only have two. We only have two rolls. [02:24:27] Speaker C: The tower. [02:24:32] Speaker B: So cool. [02:24:32] Speaker A: Honey island. [02:24:33] Speaker D: Oh, no, I'm never doing that. [02:24:36] Speaker A: I'm never doing that again. [02:24:37] Speaker D: What you get? [02:24:39] Speaker A: I don't know. I have to go into my. Not. Don't ask me questions. [02:24:53] Speaker D: I want to say you have a plus three. [02:24:55] Speaker A: I. I do. So it's. It's an 11, but I'm gonna use my per diem. [02:24:59] Speaker B: Okay. [02:25:02] Speaker A: Actually, it's a diamond thingy. [02:25:05] Speaker D: Yeah, that D4 is really cool. [02:25:11] Speaker B: No, there's no double modifier. It's just whatever the number is added on to 11. You've already applied your modifier, right? [02:25:18] Speaker C: She looked so sad. [02:25:19] Speaker E: Sad. [02:25:19] Speaker D: Did you already apply your modifier? [02:25:21] Speaker A: 13. [02:25:23] Speaker D: Right. Okay. Oh, you were adding it into a calculator. [02:25:26] Speaker A: No, I was just thinking. [02:25:27] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [02:25:28] Speaker A: Okay. [02:25:28] Speaker D: Thirteen. All right. So, Craig, what song do you break out into? Into, [02:25:38] Speaker A: bro. What do you have, like, a happy song? [02:25:42] Speaker C: That's so true. Because Ro doesn't have any happy songs. [02:25:45] Speaker D: I mean, it could be you Learned [02:25:46] Speaker C: that it could be bravery or. [02:25:47] Speaker D: Yeah, bravery. [02:25:48] Speaker C: Yeah. It's like a crash. [02:25:51] Speaker D: Okay. So Craig belts out into. Doesn't not catch on. So first of all, first of all [02:25:58] Speaker B: sees it happening in and he goes, oh. [02:26:00] Speaker D: And he like waves his hand and the band changes to that music. So that helps greatly that like. Like the. Like knows the song and he starts magically. So Greta joins in. Tello starts going. And sure and sure. [02:26:17] Speaker C: Ro starts strumming. [02:26:19] Speaker D: Ro starts ever more. And he just doesn't know all the words. So the words he knows. He's hopping in with bulg rug starts raucously. He goes in and he goes. Pillows, smash. Crash, bash. Sure. And he. He also doesn't know, but he's being far more confident with it. Eek is just going. And everyone else is smiling so. But doesn't know the words. Craig just kind of bobbing. [02:26:50] Speaker A: Craig like starts to transition the song and then he goes, yeah, do it [02:26:56] Speaker D: for eight seconds and then abandon it. [02:26:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:26:59] Speaker D: And he waves his hand again and they move back to the base and Thespis goes, welcome. I'm a fun guy. He's a fun guy. From a table somewhere away. [02:27:13] Speaker B: Spaghuber just drinks a drink and smiles and nods confidently. [02:27:18] Speaker A: He's gonna be a really magical, well known person one day. [02:27:22] Speaker E: Spaghuber. [02:27:23] Speaker A: Mm. [02:27:24] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:27:26] Speaker D: And so. And festivities resume after that bizarre interaction. And the party continues and for hours [02:27:37] Speaker B: and hours and hours and hours. [02:27:38] Speaker D: Is there anything else anyone's trying to [02:27:40] Speaker B: do at some point in the span of the party? Yeah. [02:27:45] Speaker C: I feel bad. I feel like. I feel like it's been literally your birthday. I feel like it's been the row show right now. [02:27:51] Speaker E: You can row if you want. [02:27:54] Speaker C: I love that. [02:27:56] Speaker B: And so at some point. [02:27:57] Speaker C: Yeah. The long and full party row after like all of that has happened and everyone goes back to like being. [02:28:09] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:28:10] Speaker C: Ro. Ro pulls the side. [02:28:14] Speaker B: Okay. I have a paper. [02:28:15] Speaker E: A paper. [02:28:17] Speaker C: I kind of want to do it on my computer cuz it feels weird on the paper. [02:28:20] Speaker B: I. I really appreciate you inducting me. That's. I'm. I'm really honored. Thank you. It's not just cuz we're dating. Right? Like that was. [02:28:31] Speaker C: No, I. I mean we've gotten to know you and I don't know, you just. You seem to fit well. [02:28:41] Speaker B: I appreciate it. [02:28:42] Speaker C: You're, you know, like one of us, I guess. Or like all of us. [02:28:48] Speaker D: He starts thinking which one of him he might be like each one of y'. [02:28:51] Speaker C: All. But I mean like you. You just fit well, you're. Before before you grow on people, as SP says. [02:28:58] Speaker B: Thank you. Before. [02:29:02] Speaker C: Before. [02:29:02] Speaker B: My conversation with Craig got really, really weird the other day. We were talking about. We kind of didn't know what to do with our future from here. And this is really nice. I feel like I know where I'm going with it now. [02:29:14] Speaker C: Well, I wanted. First of all, I'm sorry to have put you on the spot like that. You know how I kind of like to make a spectacle of things. But speaking of future and stuff, and I know it's like my birthday, but I got you something. And she pulls out. And I'm gonna send it in. Lauren reference. We'll put it on the Patreon. She pulls out these two necklaces. And one is. [02:29:48] Speaker B: It just sent. [02:29:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:29:49] Speaker D: Okay. [02:29:50] Speaker C: And one is. They're both the same, like, looking. They have a moon and then seven stars around them. And one has a, like, purple gemstone in it, and one has a deep blue gemstone in it. And the deep blue gemstone one is engraved with TA and the purple one is engraved with RG. And she says, this is yours. And she hands him the. The purple one. This is beautiful. And she shows him hers. [02:30:24] Speaker D: That purple was kind of your color. [02:30:26] Speaker C: Well. Well, yeah, it's. [02:30:28] Speaker B: I get it. I get it. I get it. [02:30:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:30:29] Speaker D: Oh, this is. [02:30:30] Speaker C: And you see, yours has the blue and Uranus rose. [02:30:36] Speaker B: This is beautiful. [02:30:38] Speaker C: So F. Moon Kai helped me find these, and then with a little help from. From Greta and Janice, I. I chanted them. So, like, if you're holding it right now, you can, like, think of me. [02:30:54] Speaker B: Done. [02:30:55] Speaker C: And then anytime, anywhere you need me. All you have to do is. Is do that, and we'll. We'll be connected. And as she says that, it, like, it's like a weird, like, microphone thing. Like, when you're in the room with a phone. Like, it. It goes through, like. [02:31:11] Speaker D: But only in his head. [02:31:12] Speaker C: In his head, but also out loud. [02:31:13] Speaker D: You watch this kind of like this adorable, dopey look. [02:31:16] Speaker B: Like, he's like, that's really cool. [02:31:18] Speaker C: And they're like the sending stones that we have, but they're just a direct line to each other. [02:31:24] Speaker B: Can I go ahead and put it on? [02:31:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [02:31:26] Speaker D: He, like, loops it over his head [02:31:28] Speaker B: and slides it under his tavern. He goes. Really like it. And so Now I'm just six necklaces short. Yeah. [02:31:37] Speaker C: I mean, I can be, like, 10ft away or, like, a thousand miles. And I'll answer. I'm. I'm gonna have to be. [02:31:49] Speaker B: I feel like this kind of undoes the jam thing. I'M sorry. [02:31:52] Speaker C: No, no, no. I like to give gifts. You can ask. You can ask all the fun guys. Well. [02:31:58] Speaker B: And Craig was telling me about how big of a deal it is that I get you a good gift. [02:32:01] Speaker C: I know. No, it's okay. It's okay. I didn't need. I didn't need anything. This is. Yeah. So, I mean, so with the. I guess I'm. I'm not very good at this either. And. [02:32:16] Speaker B: I mean, neither of us are. Yeah, I think that's kind of the whole thing. [02:32:18] Speaker C: But speaking of, like, all of that and everything, ever since I saw you again and, you know, and we reconnected, I've kind of, like, realized that there was, like, I don't know, a spark in my heart for you. And, I don't know, maybe it's been there longer than I realized or. I don't know, or maybe it just happened. But, I mean, you showed up to fight for a world that hasn't always been, like, the kindest to you, and yet you were ready to, like, lay your life down and save it and to fight for something you don't even fully. You didn't even fully understand at the time and still don't. To fight with. To fight with us. And [02:33:08] Speaker A: it's. [02:33:08] Speaker C: Plus, you looked really good in your armor. [02:33:11] Speaker D: He, like, blushes and I'm. [02:33:13] Speaker C: You know, like, the hair and the muscle. Anyway, you look really good. I'm getting distracted. I know all this seems really sudden and I don't know, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here, but we just kind of saved the world. And so, honestly, what a better time is it to jump headfirst into something, you know? [02:33:40] Speaker B: He smiles, but it gets a kind [02:33:42] Speaker D: of confused look on his face. I mean, you had his attention the whole time, but he's, like, really focused [02:33:46] Speaker B: on it now, not sure what's coming. [02:33:48] Speaker C: I've taken care of myself and relied on myself only for, like, a long time now. And just in the last few years, I found some people to call family that have taught me I don't have to only rely on myself. But when I. When I look at youth, I suppose I realize that maybe I'm ready to give up a little bit of the burden of just leaning on only myself and maybe to have, like, a someone else to lean on. And we're not that great at this, but we could maybe be not great at it together. And I know it's new, but it feels right. And I know that I'm a lot. She. She kind of laughs. [02:34:47] Speaker D: He just kind of like, smiles and raises his eyebrows, looking at the floor. And he tries not to nod, but he goes back to listening. [02:34:52] Speaker A: But. [02:34:52] Speaker C: But I think maybe you'd like that about me. And can. Can handle it. Maybe. [02:34:56] Speaker B: Remember, I was kind of a lot when we met. [02:34:58] Speaker C: Yeah. And. And maybe you can. Could handle it better than anyone. And because of that, and. And this isn't the only reason. I. I mean, it's not only why I asked you to be a fun guy, like everyone. Everyone loves you as part of the fun guys, but I want to spend a lot more moments with you. And I want to travel and spread the word of Ceylon with you and show you all the places I've been and experience new places that become ours. And I want to fight by your side as we keep, you know, defending Yalaburin. And I want to fall asleep and wake up next to you rather than whether that be in a cozy home in Parsage or in a clearing in the middle of nowhere on an adventure. A long time ago, I didn't think happily ever after was something that could. Could happen for me. [02:35:53] Speaker B: You watch his. Like. Like. [02:35:57] Speaker D: Yeah, lines are starting to connect in [02:35:58] Speaker B: his head and he, like, starts looking a little surprised. [02:36:01] Speaker C: At least not in this way. But every time I've. I've looked in your eyes since you've shown back up, I'm. I realized that you might be the missing piece of that. So, like I said, this is really sudden, but. A. Thespis, would. Would you marry me and join on this forever adventure with. With me and the neck. The necklace is me proposing. [02:36:34] Speaker B: His mouth fully falls apart. He just. [02:36:38] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [02:36:40] Speaker D: And he's just towering over you. He's just dumbfounded staring at you. [02:36:47] Speaker C: I know the necklace is kind of, like, unconventional and all, and I know me asking you. I don't know. I mean, I'm. But, you know, better get you to it now. How I. I do things. I don't know. She just keep mumbling until he says something. [02:37:03] Speaker D: And he's still not talking. And then at one point, he finally goes, you. [02:37:07] Speaker C: She, like, grabs a chair and has him sit down. She's like, can you be on. Can you be on my level for a second? [02:37:12] Speaker D: Get a chair and sit him all the way down. He's still standing. [02:37:15] Speaker B: Hey, you, you. You merry betroth me. [02:37:19] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she looks around. Yeah, you, you, you, me, you, you. Thespis Aronson, will you marry me? Rowena Greenbottle. I. And he just. It feels right. [02:37:32] Speaker D: He just puts his hands all the way down in his lap and just stares, confused, for like 10 or 15 seconds row. [02:37:38] Speaker B: It's agony. And then he just goes, you. You marry me. [02:37:47] Speaker C: Yes. I believe that's. Yes. That's. That is the question that. Yes. No, I'm not. Yeah, marry me. [02:38:00] Speaker B: Okay. [02:38:01] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yes. [02:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:38:10] Speaker C: Okay. [02:38:12] Speaker D: Happy birthday. [02:38:14] Speaker C: And then. [02:38:14] Speaker D: And he just fully grabs you, picks you all the way up and kisses you really hard. And you guys have gone quite some distance away for this. [02:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:38:22] Speaker D: So it's been a private conversation until suddenly he's lifted you up and is kissing you. And then Vilek is somewhere nearby and then like spots it out of the corner of his eye and then just waves a finger. And the music completely changes to something slower and gets quieter. And he subtly causes all the lights hanging over the room to shift a little brighter to where you are. So everyone's eyes subconsciously look over. And he just smiles. [02:38:47] Speaker A: She really likes the jam. [02:38:51] Speaker D: Rubs his beard and thinks of woman intervene a long time ago. And then just smiles. Looking at you guys. And I think that's your shake off of. [02:39:01] Speaker B: You're the best. [02:39:06] Speaker D: And he just forgets anyone else is there for a while. [02:39:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:39:13] Speaker D: And then finally, at some point, he, like, lets you go and looks at everybody, sets you all the way down. [02:39:19] Speaker C: I'm. I mean, I. I know the. The fun guy thing was something I told everyone, but this was. I'd not go to keeping secrets. [02:39:29] Speaker D: Shouts. He just shouts over you, hey, everybody, we're. We're patron. And then the room, like exclusive, explodes into clapping and screaming bulg away. And he goes. He leans on Eek. [02:39:42] Speaker A: I was trying to ask for my blessing earlier. [02:39:45] Speaker D: He turns and looks down at Eek and goes, what's be dro? And then Eek goes, it's disease, but we can cure it. [02:39:53] Speaker C: We can cure it. [02:39:56] Speaker D: Ueg is quite a distance away and just gets. He smiles beak to beak and we woo. Leans into Javion and Javion kisses her head. And the party turns up all over again and finds a new joy and energy all around. And it becomes happy birthday slash betrothal [02:40:17] Speaker E: party as this Greta's eyeing all the other priests in the room. And she's like. [02:40:23] Speaker C: She's like. She's like. [02:40:27] Speaker A: She's like, I. [02:40:28] Speaker C: She's like looking through her. [02:40:29] Speaker E: She pulls out her book and she's [02:40:31] Speaker A: like, do I have a. [02:40:33] Speaker C: At one point, I. Can I just say that, like, Ro. Ro comes up to Greta and she goes, I know you guys helped me make the necklaces, but I'm. If you And Craig and Tello would do me the honors of being, I don't know, people that stand next to you at a wedding. Of course. [02:40:51] Speaker D: Like a horror movie monster. Mimicking Greta as he has learned from her, Tello is suddenly behind her, and his voice startles her as he says, you'll know. [02:41:00] Speaker B: In Synian, we say bestest mensch. [02:41:05] Speaker D: Maybe that was yes. Lonian. This was probably. [02:41:07] Speaker A: Yes. [02:41:07] Speaker B: Lodging. [02:41:08] Speaker E: But you didn't teach me that one. [02:41:09] Speaker B: No, that was the. Yes, Lonnie. [02:41:11] Speaker D: Okay, man of the world. Congrats. [02:41:14] Speaker C: I figured he. [02:41:15] Speaker D: He, like, leans down, gives her somebody [02:41:17] Speaker B: goes, I always knew you're a player. [02:41:18] Speaker C: Come on. The moves on me. I mean, twice your high. Better than a. Better than a king. Right? She looks at Tello and he looks like. [02:41:27] Speaker D: He looks at that person and he goes, I don't know about that, but it was good. It was good. It was well done. [02:41:31] Speaker B: It was all done. [02:41:32] Speaker D: Better than the king. You had the hot spot, so that's fine. [02:41:34] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:41:37] Speaker C: And. Yeah. [02:41:39] Speaker D: And then he leans down and he [02:41:41] Speaker B: slips Greta a silver. [02:41:44] Speaker E: She, like, flicks it in. Big hug. She gives her a big hug. [02:41:48] Speaker D: And the rest of the evening is very warm and very congratulatory as Ro [02:41:54] Speaker B: is betrothed to Thespis and Thespis to Row. [02:41:58] Speaker D: And honestly, a form of massively committal. [02:42:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:42:02] Speaker D: Reverse relationship structure that's incredibly common to the world at this time. Very, very much how it's done the majority of the world over, really. This is like medieval times. [02:42:11] Speaker E: They get married quickly. [02:42:13] Speaker D: No, but like, like, oh, I mean. I mean, you guess we're betrothed now, like. [02:42:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:42:18] Speaker C: So at one point, I think Ro leans over to Thespis and she's like. Just so you know, like, you could. You can take my last name. [02:42:27] Speaker D: Or. [02:42:27] Speaker C: We're hyphenating. Just letting you know he, like, you can't take it. Or we're hyphenating. [02:42:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Either. [02:42:32] Speaker D: Either way, he looks surprised for a [02:42:34] Speaker B: moment, and he goes, cooler than my name. [02:42:38] Speaker C: I mean, I owe your dad a goat. How do we say Gods? No. [02:42:42] Speaker D: Okay. [02:42:42] Speaker B: I don't know. [02:42:43] Speaker D: I just. I didn't know what your family. [02:42:44] Speaker A: What is your dad's reaction, by the way? [02:42:46] Speaker C: Yeah, by the way. She, like, introduced. She goes, by the way, dad. [02:42:51] Speaker D: Bro, you haven't known your father long, and it's at this point you go, oh, yeah. And he's just. He's like, bongo drumming. Like, he just goes like. And then gives a thumbs up and a smile and then goes back to drumming. [02:43:04] Speaker C: I'm like, yeah, he's really chill. You'll like his island. You'll like his island. [02:43:09] Speaker B: I feel like it's actually Craig's permission [02:43:11] Speaker D: I need to get, and I don't. But I think he's going to hurt me if I don't ask. [02:43:15] Speaker C: Thespis, you need to know this right now. It's no one's permission. Oh, I asked. I asked you. [02:43:21] Speaker D: He looks at you very. No, he looks at you very earnestly, [02:43:23] Speaker B: and he goes, no. [02:43:24] Speaker D: Yeah, you're right. But I think he's serious, and he's a way more powerful paladin than I am. [02:43:29] Speaker C: No, it's fine. I just promised him that we would never make out in front of him again. [02:43:33] Speaker B: Threat of violence. [02:43:34] Speaker C: I mean, I could take. No, I couldn't take Craig. Maybe in a. [02:43:39] Speaker D: Maybe in a prestigious. He looks at you. [02:43:42] Speaker B: No, we could take him together. You're right. [02:43:44] Speaker C: You're right. You're right. [02:43:45] Speaker D: Yeah. Power couple. [02:43:46] Speaker C: And she like, fist bumps. [02:43:48] Speaker D: Bumps. Okay, cool. [02:43:49] Speaker B: Cool. [02:43:50] Speaker A: I'd say Craig heard this, but he definitely didn't. He definitely didn't. [02:43:54] Speaker D: Definitely didn't. And so, with the party waning on, celebrations, this significant moment in the lives [02:44:03] Speaker B: of the fun guys passes onward. [02:44:06] Speaker D: What is the. I mean, I can pick something from my long list of things, but is there a different moment someone else would like to have? [02:44:16] Speaker B: Because I have a ton of things that I can just flip to. [02:44:19] Speaker E: I think at some point during the party. And we don't need to roll. Oh, my mouth is cold. [02:44:23] Speaker A: Sorry, guys. [02:44:25] Speaker E: I'm not as good at talking when my mouth is cold. Cold. [02:44:29] Speaker B: It's true of most of us. [02:44:30] Speaker E: And so at some point, Greta and Ron. Greta approaches Ron Grim, who's not here, so I will. [02:44:37] Speaker D: Okay, I'll put the party music on. He is. He is there, and I am him. [02:44:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:44:40] Speaker E: But he, like. She, like, approaches him, and I don't want to role play without Daniel here, but she just kind of, like, he agreed to it. Okay, well, she. Okay, so then she's like, hey, I. I remember at one point. Yes. I. I think we have a lot in common and as far as, like, wondering about things and wanting answers and. And being not sure about things that maybe a lot of people are sure about. And I just think maybe. I think we should go exploring sometime and just, like, look for answers. [02:45:14] Speaker B: He smiles at you and he goes, you know, I would like that. [02:45:19] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:45:21] Speaker B: You know, Janice is. She's been talking about going her own way soon. And I'm doing Edmund. She's been talking about going her own way soon. And shaving and wee woo have. They've already made their plans. UEG is just gonna go wherever Janice does. I. They've left the ship to me. [02:45:41] Speaker E: Oh, wow. It'd be. I would. It'd be kind of fun to travel though. Fashion way. [02:45:47] Speaker B: I think I'm interested in an adventure. [02:45:50] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:45:51] Speaker B: They've told me about a place. Joskanon. [02:45:56] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:45:56] Speaker B: They say it's dangerous and filled with mysteries. [02:45:59] Speaker E: I'm not so hot on the danger right now, but I'll get back up to it. I'm sure. [02:46:03] Speaker B: He smiles and lifts his hand and as he twirls his fingers, the trident lifts off his back and rotates around his hand and he goes, I think we'd be okay. [02:46:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:46:12] Speaker B: And he makes it reapply to his back. [02:46:14] Speaker E: Maybe she takes out her notebook and they start like comparing because it's a long party. So maybe they just like start comparing notes and like chatting and planning. [02:46:22] Speaker C: This is how bards party. [02:46:24] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [02:46:25] Speaker C: 12 hour party. [02:46:28] Speaker D: some point, as you all are looking, [02:46:29] Speaker B: comparing thesp or tello returns to you [02:46:32] Speaker D: because he just has. He has a habit of like. He goes. He fraternizes with people and then he returns to you. It's like this homing behavior and he does something. Do you realize that he. He doesn't know he's doing it. Like if you asked him if he did this, he'd be like, no, but you know, so at some point he [02:46:43] Speaker B: walks back over and he goes, what are you guys looking at? [02:46:48] Speaker E: She like loops him in. She's like. So Ron Grimm heard about this place called Chaskanen. And I heard about this place called Narskanat. And that's the gnome place. Right. And I just. [02:46:59] Speaker D: No, [02:47:02] Speaker E: I've heard about this place called no Seno. And we're thinking that maybe like in the, like in the. In the old, like many, many years ago, the Enchi just like loops him into all of these things that like, she's wondering about. [02:47:15] Speaker B: Nods and he rubs his coatee and he goes, if we can have some time. If you're going somewhere. I think I should go. [02:47:26] Speaker E: Really? Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've got a little crew now. That's perfect. [02:47:31] Speaker B: Smiles and nods. [02:47:32] Speaker E: Yeah. Oh, Greta. She wasn't. Or I guess, yeah, she wasn't expecting that. But she's very, very warm to know that her buddy will come with her. Yeah. [02:47:43] Speaker B: And so that venture is planned and I think that. [02:47:47] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yep. And I was waiting to get your attention with it too. [02:47:52] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. [02:47:53] Speaker A: No, no. [02:47:54] Speaker D: The fart's Separate. The fart's different. No, I've been [02:48:00] Speaker C: stinky. [02:48:01] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [02:48:01] Speaker A: Hold on. [02:48:02] Speaker D: I even noticed there's a tablecloth over the table and I've been running my toe back and forth. And it finally got Abby's attention. [02:48:10] Speaker A: I was like, what is that? [02:48:11] Speaker C: Is that Micah? Is that Diggle? And then I was like. [02:48:15] Speaker A: And then I look over and Micah [02:48:17] Speaker C: and Jackie are holding their noses. [02:48:19] Speaker D: Do you remember back in the day when I would, like, grab the cords from under the. [02:48:23] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. The amount of times I've been attacked by toes, you'd just be like, like, oh, that's so fun. [02:48:30] Speaker D: And so with that excellent segue, I think we will take a brief. A brief foray into. We're not going to investigate the time that Greta. We're going to move a little bit away from row and a little bit [02:48:42] Speaker B: toward Greta and have your stuff too. Abby has a brief connection. [02:48:51] Speaker D: And actually. Okay, so I'm going to get a bit. I'm going to do some. Some. I'm going to travel through time a little bit. This is going to be one of the periods where we move forward. Excuse me. [02:49:07] Speaker A: Brought to you by Jackie. [02:49:14] Speaker C: Cook. [02:49:16] Speaker D: For a second, I was like, what? And then I got. Listeners, if you've been around this long, why. [02:49:30] Speaker C: Why? That's my new favorite joke, [02:49:36] Speaker E: the Doctor who theme song. [02:49:37] Speaker A: And then it's just. [02:49:39] Speaker C: I'm going to edit that. [02:49:41] Speaker D: Fries. [02:49:47] Speaker C: Okay. [02:49:48] Speaker D: I just thought of a different joke that I'm going to tell you on another break, but we're. I'm not going to say it on Mike. Anyway, moving on, moving on. Remind me, remind me. Just. Just say tardis. And. And I'll know what to say later. [02:49:59] Speaker C: Okay, okay, okay. [02:50:01] Speaker D: Remind me and I'll know. [02:50:03] Speaker E: Is it. [02:50:04] Speaker C: Is it a far. Oh, I was going to say farest. Vote in the comments. Tard piss or fartis tard piss. Why not have both? Why not have both? [02:50:24] Speaker D: Here, hand me the sticky note. And then just somebody else say something. I gotta write a little bit like [02:50:29] Speaker C: turd piss, but it's tard pissed. [02:50:35] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [02:50:37] Speaker A: We have the same three jokes. [02:50:39] Speaker C: Yeah, we really do. And you guys have been here for five years here in Al. [02:50:43] Speaker D: This is really bad timing because I'm about to hand Abby a joke right before I need to talk to her, but I have to hand her this joke. [02:50:52] Speaker B: Hold on. [02:50:58] Speaker D: Okay, listener, I know this isn't doing a thing for you. [02:51:00] Speaker C: Everyone's using my stuff. [02:51:01] Speaker D: It's our last session. Okay, anyway, moving on. Anyway, anyway, anyway. [02:51:12] Speaker A: Not for listeners. [02:51:13] Speaker D: Not for listeners, but moving on. [02:51:15] Speaker A: One day when y' all are old enough. [02:51:19] Speaker D: Okay, moving on. Moving on. That is not responsible. DMing. [02:51:34] Speaker C: We're good. [02:51:34] Speaker D: We're good. So fart noise inserted. We're gonna move through time and we're gonna. So we're gonna take a very big leap forward in time, but we'll also move backward at some point so we can go back for things. So we've been talking about the week that has ensued after the. After the conquest of Zorgon, but I'm gonna focus on the next five to ten. [02:51:55] Speaker B: Ten years. [02:51:56] Speaker A: O. [02:51:57] Speaker C: Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. [02:51:59] Speaker B: So Greta and Ron Grim discuss their voyage. [02:52:01] Speaker D: And Ron. Ron Grim, you did it to me. [02:52:04] Speaker B: You got me saying wrong. [02:52:05] Speaker D: But Ron Grim lets you know that [02:52:07] Speaker B: he has work he wants to take care of first. [02:52:09] Speaker D: And he tells you that he has every intention of traveling around the Earth in bloom. And I'm just telling you what happened in the other session and riding it of Kefkin. He's going to go to every Kefkin vestige and outpost and try and basically, any vestige of their empire or governance [02:52:29] Speaker B: that's not a part of their land, he's going to. [02:52:34] Speaker D: To deal with oh Ro One's part. [02:52:36] Speaker B: And this takes about the next decade. [02:52:37] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [02:52:38] Speaker D: And so he says that in a [02:52:40] Speaker B: decade he'll let you know and you guys can take another look at. And so in that time, a number of things transpire, [02:52:51] Speaker D: and this is a [02:52:53] Speaker B: really good time to kind of sprinkle in all sorts of small things so we can bounce around. [02:52:56] Speaker D: But I'm gonna talk about some of [02:52:57] Speaker B: the other characters for a second. After Ro's birthday, Tello enjoys about another week with his compatriots. And then he leaves, and he has Ro transport him back to UN's. And he tells you all that he's headed home to Australia. And he says that he doesn't know how long he's going to be there, but that he goes to reconcile with his father. [02:53:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:53:28] Speaker D: And you don't hear more of it, [02:53:30] Speaker B: but you also don't particular. I mean, I'm sure you check in and there are brief conversations where he keeps you in the loop on that experience. But you essentially don't hear from Tello for about a year. And he's just doing that, just going back to where things were lost. In this time, Shpuguber continues to. He continues to live at your home. He has gained a great deal of experience, but he has a great deal more. And so he studies unceasingly for a year, expands his collection of books. Very interestingly, after Kanoge's passing, her items remained and her spellbook was there. And from one wizard to another, Shpaguber assumes it. And though he has an insurmountable amount of learning ahead of him, he also holds in front of him this key piece of information. And he studies out of that book and studies. And he. He meticulously studies the catalogs within the opalescent tome. After making sure that it is warded, he takes these texts away with him to the home in Parsonage. And he just studies unendingly for a year, not the least of which he takes one of them, the multi multiple copies of the two different osmodrecons that she was making. And he studies those as well. And he just spends a year tirelessly studying. [02:55:00] Speaker D: And he is nowhere near to the [02:55:01] Speaker B: point he needs to be. But he does eventually master the spell teleportation to the point that he can take himself back and forth. [02:55:13] Speaker D: And [02:55:15] Speaker B: over the next decade, Spookooper quietly prepares. The shop is not open, it's not ready, because he's not ready. But he works [02:55:27] Speaker D: in this time as well. [02:55:30] Speaker B: Hold on, I have so many notes here. Baz is with you for a time. [02:55:41] Speaker D: And in a few weeks his abilities return. [02:55:51] Speaker E: Things [02:55:53] Speaker B: shift. He leaves the completely despondent place he was, because all hope is not lost. Things do not at all go back to the way that they were. And he gives short but meaningful goodbyes to each of you without a whole lot of other heads up. Some of them, some of them, it's clear to some of you. But for some of you all, you don't even realize it's a goodbye until you're looking back on it. And he takes himself back to his homeland, and you do not hear from him for quite some time. None of you all know that what he intends to do with his deep well of mixed emotions. None of you know that when he returns, he finds his sister and mother alive, but his father passed from the soul fire. And none of you all are aware that he has offered a place among the deep roots in his culture, but he declines it. And none of you know that you might have assumed, but he no longer feels that home can be his home. He's just too changed by it all. And so Baz leaves. He leaves altogether. Baz leaves Yalabran. And [02:57:20] Speaker D: there are occasional contacts, maybe from [02:57:23] Speaker B: one or two of you. Sometimes he responds, sometimes he doesn't. And it's always passing pieces of information, [02:57:30] Speaker D: sometimes he tells you a great deal. [02:57:32] Speaker B: Sometimes he's specific. He's unpredictable in that way. But you know that he travels the Feywilds on and off for the better part of a decade. And then eventually he learns of another land, the Beastlands. He travels to that place, making the most of his ability to shift between planes. Boz just sort of disappears into it all, looking sometimes seemingly entirely at peace, other times seeming to completely search. But he leaves all of it behind, and he invests in time and in time, in some of these brief communications. Some of you all never hear from him altogether. But those few of you who have the ability to reach out, to whom he does rarely respond. You hear something return. Some semblance of the man who used to be there comes back, but he is truly changed. Things are not the same. And he leaves on his own venture. And that acceptance comes one way or another in however much time in these convening years. And I'll come to you in just a second, Craig. In these years in between, I'm. I believe that Ro does some traveling. Would you like to tell me about that? Yeah. And then I'll come back to Greta, and actually, we're going to go forward [02:59:25] Speaker D: a bit and then back a bit, [02:59:26] Speaker B: but I'll lead you through that shift. [02:59:33] Speaker C: I think. Where is the thing I wanted to do? I think before Rowan Thespis ever get married, she does things backwards. She. She. She wants to travel, just him and her, for a little bit, for over a few months. I think she still, like, wants to call Parsage home base and, like, house coming and going, and she's coming, going, but just like, I don't know, once things have died down, probably a few months after, like, her birthday and all of that, I would think they would go traveling for a few months, just them. And she takes Thespis to her hometown in Sedge and shows him where she grew up and takes him to the cupcake shop that they. That she loved. I don't even. This just came into my head, and I don't even want to ask it. Yinny, is she there at the orphanage? I think Ro was always too afraid to call and see if. If she was there. [03:01:03] Speaker B: And in your time at the orphanage, you take Thespis through the place where your life began, and he is deeply affected. And his company is likewise useful. When you receive the painful news that Yenny likewise did not survive the soul fire. And that the story she was living here in this world ended and joined into a greater one. [03:01:33] Speaker C: I think they would definitely, especially with that, I think is. [03:01:38] Speaker A: What's his name? [03:01:41] Speaker C: Nevan. [03:01:42] Speaker A: Is his name Nevin. What's his name? [03:01:45] Speaker B: That was Kilto. [03:01:47] Speaker A: I don't remember the other Father Kelto. [03:01:49] Speaker B: I want to say. Nothing's the guy who cooked you bread in the beginning. [03:01:53] Speaker D: I think it's father. [03:01:55] Speaker E: What? [03:01:56] Speaker D: Anyway, I think it's Father Kelto, but [03:01:57] Speaker B: I could be wrong. And if we're wrong, we'll move on. [03:02:00] Speaker C: Neville. [03:02:01] Speaker D: Neville, Neville. [03:02:04] Speaker C: The one that had given her the trinket when she left. Yeah. [03:02:06] Speaker D: Neville Kelto, I believe. [03:02:09] Speaker C: There we go. We were both right. [03:02:11] Speaker D: He is. [03:02:12] Speaker B: And he is alive. [03:02:14] Speaker C: I think she would especially because it is a 10 temple of Salun. I think they would spend several days there, like, talking with the kids and like, letting Thespis learn things if he'd like to from. Because it's his order and Cool. [03:02:33] Speaker D: Well, and Thespis is even. [03:02:34] Speaker B: He's consecrated there. [03:02:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [03:02:36] Speaker B: At that temple as organically as. As a paladin moving around. Basically. He establishes himself also as a service to that temple. [03:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [03:02:46] Speaker C: So I think they would stay there for a few days. She would help out. She would tell stories. Yeah. I think they would just stay there a while. And if there was like a place where Yini was buried somewhere nearby, I think she would go there and. Go and talk to her and just tell her, you know, we. You didn't get to see it, but we. We did it. We. [03:03:36] Speaker A: I. [03:03:37] Speaker C: We went on and somehow I was a part of a group that saved the world. And. [03:03:48] Speaker E: Yeah. [03:03:49] Speaker C: So I think they would just stay there for quite a while and then she would take them to some other places. She would take him to her dad's island in the Lost Lands. And I think they would stay there a while if. [03:04:11] Speaker D: If he's incredibly peaceful. [03:04:13] Speaker C: Yeah. If he. If he's joked to hold you to. [03:04:17] Speaker B: To host you guys. He is so chill. [03:04:20] Speaker C: Hang out with. With Faber and [03:04:25] Speaker D: show favor's much happier to see you than he used to be. You get the feeling he really likes the pace of life with your dad. You also get that he really likes your dad. [03:04:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:04:33] Speaker B: Likes his chill energy a lot more. [03:04:35] Speaker D: Yeah. And. [03:04:36] Speaker B: And he likes Thespis a lot. [03:04:38] Speaker D: Like some more than you. Which is pretty insulting that he likes both your dad and Thespis more than you. [03:04:46] Speaker C: I would say the whole time, Ro is like. She keeps like joking about it, but you can tell that there's an underlying upsetting settingness. The one that can speak to animals. She's like, why does he like y' all more than me? And she tells Thespis about her mom and everything and how they met there. And wasn't there, like, a cliff overhanging or something or. [03:05:11] Speaker D: Yes, by a waterfall not too far away. [03:05:13] Speaker C: Yeah, she, like, mentions that. She's like. I mean, I don't know if my dad would like a lot of people here, but this might be a cool place to, you know, get married. [03:05:29] Speaker B: So the waterfall. I don't mind that. That sounds pretty cool. [03:05:32] Speaker C: Yeah, [03:05:36] Speaker B: I like that idea. [03:05:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:05:39] Speaker C: Be really pretty. I have to talk to him about it, though. This is kind of like his island. I don't know if he wants us teleporting a bunch of random people. [03:05:46] Speaker B: There's that pirate guy at the front, [03:05:48] Speaker D: and he said it belonged to him, so I don't know if that kind of confused how that works. [03:05:52] Speaker C: You want to know something funny? [03:05:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:05:54] Speaker C: I had. So when we got here the very first time and that guy was. Was here, he helped us a little bit. He had, like, some weird friends. [03:06:02] Speaker B: I seem strange. [03:06:03] Speaker C: For, like, a split second, I was terrified that that might be my dad. [03:06:08] Speaker B: It's a weird face. You guys don't look a thing alike. [03:06:13] Speaker C: Yeah. But I don't know. I was. They said that he lived on an island alone, and that guy was here, so. [03:06:21] Speaker D: And Rosa's travels continue. [03:06:25] Speaker C: She takes him to Vashton. Am I saying that right? [03:06:30] Speaker B: Vashton. [03:06:31] Speaker C: Vashton. And where she lived there. I think there's some Ravenna statues around in Vashtun somewhere. [03:06:37] Speaker D: There are. [03:06:40] Speaker C: She takes him to some of the. [03:06:42] Speaker A: The like. [03:06:42] Speaker B: You are lauded by. [03:06:45] Speaker D: By fans and cities when you choose to be. And when you choose to be with [03:06:49] Speaker C: disguise herself sometimes, which works just fine. And Thespis just has to deal with it. That she looks different. And I think she would take him to some taverns where, like, a lot of the giants hung out. In Vashan, where she learned giants. [03:07:02] Speaker D: Well, as a reminder, there are not. [03:07:03] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. The language learned giant. Yeah. I'm so sorry. [03:07:06] Speaker D: Because of the Goliath. [03:07:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [03:07:07] Speaker B: Situation. Yes, yes, yes, yes. [03:07:10] Speaker C: And that. And then they would go to Unsen and Port Las Vegasan and the warm hearth and your adventures. Honeybed. Honey bread and Don't. [03:07:23] Speaker B: I didn't. [03:07:24] Speaker C: And she would show a magic lane where there used to be Madam Escores and say, we did that. The hole in the alley. [03:07:31] Speaker D: He looks and he goes, that's cool. [03:07:34] Speaker B: Demolition. [03:07:35] Speaker D: I don't really understand how it lines up. [03:07:37] Speaker C: There was a hag. There was a hag there. [03:07:39] Speaker B: I think it was a building. [03:07:40] Speaker C: No, we Got rid of the hag. [03:07:41] Speaker B: Okay, that's cool. [03:07:43] Speaker C: Did I ever tell you about the time I went into the Shadowfell and [03:07:45] Speaker D: then it just keeps on? [03:07:46] Speaker C: Yeah. And yeah, that would be pretty much it. It's like a reverse before the wedding, honeymoon kind of thing. [03:07:55] Speaker B: And those travels were had between Rowan and Thespis at some point in these 10 years. And I have many other things we'll come back to. But, Greg, where do you go and what do you do? [03:08:14] Speaker A: I think, Oh, wow, this is really sad. I think Craig is gonna. How does he get back home? Does he teleport? [03:08:38] Speaker D: I mean, you're not capable of it on your own, but you've got no [03:08:42] Speaker B: shortage of buddies who can. So Roe probably takes you at some point. [03:08:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:08:48] Speaker B: Or the request of another ally has had. [03:08:51] Speaker D: I think a lot of people owe you a favor. [03:08:54] Speaker A: I think before he goes, he, like, wraps everyone in, like, a hug, and [03:09:03] Speaker B: one of the last rare times you can find them all still together before they've spread into Diaspora. [03:09:08] Speaker A: And I'd like to think that on the night of Ro's birthday, he, like, had notes sitting on everyone's bed of, like, individual messages of what they've meant to him and why, you know, he's happy. He made the decision to be there. And so he teleports back to his home. [03:09:36] Speaker B: At some point in Biasta, you are within the mountain pass, looking up at the great grand gates of Shkonikov. Craig, unable to disguise yourself. [03:09:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:09:47] Speaker B: What you are not prepared for is the absolute acclaim to which you return. [03:09:53] Speaker A: What do you mean? [03:09:55] Speaker D: No? [03:09:55] Speaker B: Actually, no. No news hasn't traveled that fast. So in a couple years, you will be absolutely flooded as a hero of your town. [03:10:07] Speaker D: But actually, it's gonna take a long [03:10:08] Speaker B: time before anybody knows what happens. [03:10:10] Speaker D: So. Nevermind. [03:10:10] Speaker B: You're just back. [03:10:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm back. [03:10:12] Speaker B: And the massive subterranean city which lies on that massive canted slope sprawls before you. And it is so strange to be home. [03:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I think it almost feels. He knows this place is nothing else other than his old life, so it feels weird. Weird stepping into it as a new person. [03:10:40] Speaker B: You also get a lot of looks in your polished, gleaming armor. [03:10:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:10:44] Speaker B: With your massive scars and. [03:10:48] Speaker A: Yeah. He just kind of like. [03:10:53] Speaker B: There's honestly only a handful of people who recognize you. Most people don't. [03:10:58] Speaker A: I think he walks, you know, back to his home. [03:11:04] Speaker B: It's a heavy walk. [03:11:06] Speaker A: He feels every weight of it. [03:11:08] Speaker B: He feels your stomach turns as you [03:11:11] Speaker A: get close, the nervousness with each step. [03:11:14] Speaker B: And there's this strange Moment, Craig, as you get close to that two story stone home built into the side of a cliff, it's like it really only comes out of the cliff very far at all. Most of it is inside the rock faces. Many of the homes are here. And there's this odd moment walking up to it where you've walked down monsters with far less fear. [03:11:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I think like for everyone else, like they saved the world so it's like they continue living in it. But his world is still teetering on where it's going to end, where it [03:11:51] Speaker B: was left so long ago. [03:11:52] Speaker A: Yeah. And it was almost like the feeling of it's the same way he left it. Broken, shattered. And now he's picking up the pieces of what he left and he feels like a different person now who's having to handle the damage and brokenness of another man. But it's still him. So he just knocks at the door. [03:12:29] Speaker B: There's some time before the door opens. The heavy sound. Standing there is a woman you haven't seen in quite some time. I mean you saw in the last couple years when she was forcefully rescued, but since then, whom you have not seen. Dirty blonde hair streaked with gray and silver. Now, as she's getting to middle age with her tall face, light features, Catherine looks at you. Her gaze is both a little surprised. [03:13:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:13:09] Speaker B: But plenty of other emotions. She just studies you there for a second. She doesn't say a word. She just steps aside to the door and just kind of gestures like you can come in. [03:13:21] Speaker A: I think the moment that he saw her is when you step out under the sun and your eyes kind of glow. I think seeing her is almost like the sun entering his eyes as he's still deeply in love with her. [03:13:38] Speaker B: Her. Hers are much cooler, but she steps aside. He said hers are much cooler but he. She steps aside and gestures you into the home. [03:13:48] Speaker A: And I'd like to say that he's already made plans to stay elsewhere. [03:13:54] Speaker B: You find a buddy coming into the [03:13:56] Speaker A: city [03:13:58] Speaker D: who you had good enough relationships [03:14:00] Speaker B: with, but most of all is very impressed with the armor you're wearing and it's fine to let you stay at his place. [03:14:04] Speaker A: Place. Yeah. [03:14:05] Speaker D: Not a deep relationship from before, but you have a place, bro. [03:14:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [03:14:09] Speaker A: Hey. So I think like he doesn't expect sure it to go that quick now. So he walks in, she shuts the door behind you. [03:14:21] Speaker B: Home is clean, Unsettling. Fills you with heavy emotional. Look back at this place. [03:14:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Memories are like stabbing at him. [03:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And the hardest part is like this is your home and it's also kind of not no. And at some point she walks toward a this heavy stone slab elevated on a central pillar that's well cut and it's dwarven make it's excellent hard angles and edges with swipe be sight bevelations and indentations to them that make very subtle but repeating designs very brutalistic and beautiful. And two wooden chairs are pulled up and she goes to a cabinet and opens it up and pours herself a glass of some sort of whiskey and sits down with it and sips it softly and then stares at you I [03:15:15] Speaker A: think as he enters that space he stops. He lets out a sigh of this is what he wanted to live for. This moment right here. And then he like he's just breathing it in and then he goes and he sits down. [03:15:42] Speaker B: She takes a couple sips. She's not staring daggers at you the way that you had the last time you saw her, nor is she giving you that deeply cold shoulder but she just looks at the table for a little bit and she pushes the glass aside for a moment she's not having too much, just calming herself and then she looks back at you and she gestures a hand. Her arms are tightly crossed. [03:16:15] Speaker A: The initiate like inviting me to just you get the feeling conversation. Okay, Well. I'm here but I'm not here to invade. You never got a say on how things would be done so I'm giving you the space that you [03:16:46] Speaker E: you need [03:16:47] Speaker A: but I'm here and it will be done at your pace. I don't expect to be here this evening or anything like that but I'm here and whenever you are ready [03:17:03] Speaker E: to [03:17:03] Speaker A: have the conversations and two to pick it up and to put it down, we will do it. [03:17:15] Speaker B: She looks at you leerily, studying you, reading you like a stranger's coming to her home and offered her something and she picks up the glass again with a sliding takes a small sip and puts it back down. She just stares at you for a moment. She nods and she says okay, thank you. I appreciate that. I've played through this so many times in my head. Everything I was going to tell you everything. Everything I was going to say. And now. And now I don't. Ah, I'm just going to give it to you. Tell you about all the things you did wrote. I just. I just feel too worn out for all that. Tired Craig, for reasons I've made it clear it was hard the last 18 years. And. It's been very different the last couple years. Not as wildly different as it was for you but Just pretty overwhelmed. [03:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:19:16] Speaker B: I had all these. She picks up the glass and tilts it and just studies the fluid as it moves around. I wasn't expecting you to come in and do what I'd asked. [03:19:43] Speaker A: I could do it again if you wanted to be mad at me. [03:19:48] Speaker B: I just don't have that right now. Okay, give me a little bit. I'll be enraged. Come back tomorrow. [03:19:54] Speaker A: But. [03:19:58] Speaker B: She puts her hands in her. Her head in her hands and she rubs her forehead. I just. Everything's so different now, Craig. [03:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel it. [03:20:09] Speaker B: She gestures around at the home and she's like. I mean, I don't know what this is anymore. And I'm not entirely sure who I am now. I'll still fall. Craig. I don't know. You're not the man I married. And the thing that's. That just doesn't make sense is you're also not the man I kicked out. I don't know what to do with that. I know what you want and I. I appreciate that you want it. But I don't know what the future would look like. And quite frankly, if it were to involve you, it would need to be like a new thing. Thing? [03:21:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:21:24] Speaker B: Cuz I. Craig, that old thing, it's. I think it ran out [03:21:32] Speaker A: and it took you with it. [03:21:35] Speaker B: I think you spent it. I gave you what I had and I think you spent. And I. If you want to make something new. I just. I don't. I don't even know if that's what I want. I'm just really tired. Confused. But you're here. [03:22:10] Speaker A: So. [03:22:10] Speaker B: Thank you for not dying and for showing up. She just. She puts her head in her hand again and rubs it and she picks up the glass and she walks away from the table. And she just studies a painting on the wall for a little bit. And it's really old. It's a painting of you and she. Painting on wood from a long time ago. And she just stares at it for a while. [03:22:46] Speaker A: Kat, I think for a long time me winning you back was selfish in the way that sometimes you think love is pure till you realized it was self serving. I want you to be full and happy in your life. No matter how that looks. I'm putting down the pressure. Whatever it looks like. I want you to know yourself again. To find yourself again. The same way that I've had to find, you know, myself. I want you to be able to find yourself again. And I don't want to impede on that. [03:23:51] Speaker B: She's listening, but she still hasn't turned Back toward you. She's just looking at that painting. [03:23:59] Speaker A: I don't want to put an expectation on you. That has been the story too many times. There's no way to know right now how something so complicated can be unraveled and rebuilt. It's. It's too much to. To. To know. [03:24:29] Speaker B: She turns around kind of quickly. It's almost a little startling. I mean, it's not aggressive, but it's just. [03:24:34] Speaker A: She like kind of blinks. [03:24:35] Speaker B: Like she walks back over. She walks to the table and she very suddenly drinks the rest of the drink, which wasn't very much, but she takes the rest of it. She puts it down pretty quick, pretty gently, quickly and gently slides out of the table. She stares at the counter. And then she looks at you and she says, Come back in a week. [03:25:02] Speaker A: Okay? [03:25:09] Speaker B: She just nods and she sits back down in the chair quietly and coldly. [03:25:13] Speaker A: Okay. He gets up. And. Thank you for saving me a seat. And then he like gathers his stuff and goes, stays with that, Buddy. [03:25:35] Speaker B: She looks you in the eyes and she nods. You walk out of your home, Greg. You open and close the door behind yourself again. And you leave the home again. Remember what that was like the last time? [03:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:25:51] Speaker B: You feel the hot emotion well up. Stings. [03:25:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:25:57] Speaker B: You start walking back across town to the place you know that Buddy is. And you should give me an odds or evens. [03:26:06] Speaker A: Odd. [03:26:10] Speaker B: When you walk back through the town, you are in the middle of hot sorrow. And it is everything that family is as it is inappropriate and ill timed. Truly not what you need that. As you walk through town, you are approached by a woman, much older, narrow but squat, with densely curled hair and dark color. As a woman looks at you from across the street and says, craig. As you look up, it's your mother. [03:26:51] Speaker D: And she's in this tightly wrapped shawl [03:26:53] Speaker B: that goes around her neck. [03:26:54] Speaker A: Why would you do this? [03:26:55] Speaker D: She has a backpack. You did it to me. And she has a. She has a bag. Class tightly draw with some bread, putting out the top. [03:27:01] Speaker B: And she goes. [03:27:03] Speaker D: She drops it, [03:27:07] Speaker E: boy. [03:27:07] Speaker D: And she jogs across the street and runs into you. It barely moves you. [03:27:12] Speaker A: I'm gonna say Craig is emotional at that. [03:27:14] Speaker D: Okay. [03:27:14] Speaker A: I think it does mean something to him. And we're gonna pretend that he hasn't forgotten her this whole time. [03:27:20] Speaker D: Yes. [03:27:21] Speaker A: And don't forget your mother's guys. [03:27:23] Speaker D: As she. As she looks up and she takes your huge cheeks and her hands, she squeeze them. Ow. Very tight. She goes, look at your face. [03:27:32] Speaker A: And then he like picks her up [03:27:35] Speaker D: and like my back on My back. [03:27:37] Speaker A: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. [03:27:39] Speaker D: She rubs your scar and she says, [03:27:40] Speaker B: look at your face. [03:27:42] Speaker A: I know you. [03:27:43] Speaker D: It's beautiful. [03:27:44] Speaker A: Thank you. [03:27:44] Speaker D: And she rubs the scar and she goes, you're finally violent war. What do you, like, father wanted? She wipes a tear out of her [03:27:53] Speaker A: eye, among other things. [03:27:56] Speaker C: And she. [03:27:57] Speaker D: She steps back and she says, [03:28:02] Speaker E: this [03:28:02] Speaker A: is [03:28:06] Speaker D: most beautiful armor I have ever seen. [03:28:09] Speaker A: Thank you. [03:28:09] Speaker D: Is that sword? [03:28:11] Speaker A: Yeah, the sword. [03:28:12] Speaker D: And he, like, proudly show me swords. [03:28:16] Speaker A: It shines so shiny, so sad, but not broken. [03:28:20] Speaker D: And she puts her head in your chest and she cries and she goes, my son is so successful and important and like, mother like, sobs like that for a while. She goes back and collects your bread [03:28:33] Speaker B: and she says, you have come home. I can't meet Catherine or. What is it? [03:28:41] Speaker C: Huh? [03:28:41] Speaker B: Are you with Catherine or. She's sending us for errands. [03:28:47] Speaker A: She's. She's home. [03:28:49] Speaker B: Okay, you're in the street. What is the situation? [03:28:52] Speaker D: She wipes a tear, completely devoid of emotion. [03:28:56] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, I go for a walk, clear my mind. [03:29:00] Speaker B: She, like, kind of looks aside and she looks back to you at the side of her eye, and she goes, are you back together? Tell your mother. [03:29:10] Speaker D: Do not lie to mom. [03:29:11] Speaker A: I love my wife. [03:29:12] Speaker B: And she looks you straight out in the eyes and she goes, I love my wife. That was not what I asked. Are you back together? [03:29:17] Speaker A: But you see trash ask me in two months. [03:29:23] Speaker B: And there's this. There's this little. It stings. There's this tiny little smile that she wipes away and she goes, so you do not have place to stay right now? [03:29:34] Speaker A: Oh, no, I had come with mother. [03:29:37] Speaker D: And she grabs you by the little bit of your beard at the bottom and it stings. And she goes, I missed you, Craig. And. [03:29:44] Speaker A: And you know, he's kind of grateful because that buddy would not have let him stay for a whole week. [03:29:48] Speaker D: And Craig, [03:29:51] Speaker B: you're at home with your mom, however you feel about that. [03:29:55] Speaker D: The rest of this 24 hours is. Looked great. [03:30:00] Speaker A: No, no, it's not. Every, like five minutes, she's like, have you eaten? Do you need food? Do you need food? Do you need. [03:30:05] Speaker D: Well, oh, there's plenty of comments. She tells you she likes your armor [03:30:09] Speaker B: 35, 40 times, so much. [03:30:13] Speaker D: And then eventually when you do doff your armor, she stops and she says, [03:30:20] Speaker B: hey, okay, if you got it stronger. Look at you. [03:30:24] Speaker D: She picks up your arm and she goes, flex on. Flex it. Flex. You're not flexing, I can tell. Flex. Flex, Greg. Oh, look at that it is like, stop, my boy. And she goes, strong boy needs food. And she starts making a ton of food. And then, and, and then she demands [03:30:42] Speaker B: you tell her everything. And she has questions about everything. [03:30:44] Speaker D: She has you telling a story, and then every time you tell a story, you get three or five minutes in and she goes, oh no. And then she starts giving you an opinion on something for two minutes and then she goes back and it's like, oh, how are you back here? But then she brings you delicious food [03:30:55] Speaker B: and you're like, whoa, I missed that. [03:30:57] Speaker D: And then, and then it's. And there's this really interesting moment, Craig, we're halfway through the evening. You are, you know, she's feeding you [03:31:06] Speaker B: and it's overbearing and awful and also really sweet. And she, oh my goodness. She listens and listens. [03:31:12] Speaker D: And when she's not completely interrupting you, [03:31:14] Speaker B: you have her 100% attention. Remember how good it felt to the [03:31:22] Speaker D: way everything was about you to her. [03:31:27] Speaker B: And there's this little part of you that you squash, but then starts to really like the way that feels. While Katherine's not happy with you, but you find that you can recognize it [03:31:36] Speaker D: in a way you never used to [03:31:37] Speaker B: be able to and that you can put it down a whole lot more easily. [03:31:40] Speaker D: And there's also a little. [03:31:42] Speaker B: Give me an insight check with advantage, Craig. Cuz it's your mom. [03:31:47] Speaker E: Advantage because it's your mom. [03:31:49] Speaker C: Advantage, because it's your mom. Wait, so did he get an odd or an even? [03:31:55] Speaker D: He got an odd. [03:31:56] Speaker E: Okay, is this something or a. Yeah, [03:32:00] Speaker A: wait, hold, please hold. Music. [03:32:04] Speaker C: I think we're on the whole. [03:32:05] Speaker D: Well, you have advantage. [03:32:06] Speaker B: You can roll the die again. [03:32:07] Speaker A: Well, I wanted to see what the thing was, but [03:32:13] Speaker B: I can look for you if you want. [03:32:15] Speaker A: Okay, it's a 16. [03:32:17] Speaker B: Okay with a 16. Craig, at some point in the evening, as you're talking, you notice that like [03:32:24] Speaker D: she keeps prodding you to talk about Catherine. [03:32:26] Speaker B: And I assume you decline. Tell me if I'm wrong. Yeah, okay. [03:32:29] Speaker D: But you notice that as you're, as you're telling stories, you just, you have a cheerleader in your corner, she's applauding them and that's really nice, but this really. [03:32:38] Speaker B: You notice something you've never noticed before. And you notice it because of contrast, because of comparison. [03:32:46] Speaker D: The difference of the last three of [03:32:48] Speaker B: years of your life allows you to see something in a way you never have before. The difference of people. [03:32:53] Speaker D: You spent your life around very different [03:32:55] Speaker B: people for the last three years, and this strangest thing starts to happen. You start to hear. You [03:33:04] Speaker D: start to hear. [03:33:05] Speaker B: You parrot it back to you in a way you never had. And you start to notice things. [03:33:11] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, I'm really annoying. [03:33:12] Speaker D: You realize inspiration. You notice that. You notice that she, in every story you tell her, she praises you and your excellence. And she was always a little overbearing. And even before you left, you knew that, you know, you were kind of [03:33:28] Speaker B: mama's boy and all that. But. [03:33:29] Speaker D: But also she looks for enemies in your stories. So in their stories with enemies, right. She deplores the count. And it feels good to talk about that garbage bag of a man and [03:33:41] Speaker B: to have someone say some very crass things about him. [03:33:44] Speaker D: But they're stories that don't have enemies. Like, at one point, you're telling something [03:33:50] Speaker B: about Chapagoober, and she talks about how great and cute he is, but then she talks about how he could probably be running his ship with a lot more authority. [03:33:56] Speaker D: And you notice that in every narrative [03:33:58] Speaker B: you give her, she has to find at least one person who's in opposition. You remember your dad, who you never talk about, and how everything was about defending the family from someone. You get a taste of that old flavor you haven't had in forever. [03:34:16] Speaker D: And you notice that every time she [03:34:18] Speaker B: finds an enemy, she always manages to kill encounter you opposite. [03:34:22] Speaker D: There are even some times where, as you tell her about the last couple [03:34:25] Speaker B: years of your journey, it's your mom and you want to talk to her. You and she used to talk. [03:34:31] Speaker D: You can't help but to start saying some of the things you've learned. [03:34:34] Speaker B: And as you start talk, talking about [03:34:35] Speaker D: errors with you just. And then as you try to talk down about the things wrong about you, [03:34:43] Speaker B: she says, might be mighty be, but my boy saved world. [03:34:48] Speaker D: And you start finding this narrative where [03:34:53] Speaker B: it's impossible to question you. [03:34:56] Speaker D: And these little clicks happen in your brain where you're like, hello. And then, and very quickly, she never, ever she. And later on as the evening starts [03:35:08] Speaker B: to be going, at least she perceives it swimmingly. [03:35:10] Speaker D: Well, she starts talking about, like, you know, when can you see Catherine? [03:35:14] Speaker B: And. [03:35:14] Speaker D: And she'll make food for you to bring her. And she's very on the side of [03:35:18] Speaker B: you reconciling with Catherine. Give me another inside check at advantage. [03:35:22] Speaker A: Why do I keep putting up the dice? [03:35:24] Speaker D: I don't know. [03:35:25] Speaker C: Here. [03:35:36] Speaker D: 12 plus your modifier. [03:35:38] Speaker A: It's a one. So what one one is the modifier. [03:35:43] Speaker D: Oh. [03:35:43] Speaker E: Oh, I thought you had an 11 inside. [03:35:46] Speaker D: Okay, can you imagine there's something here [03:35:49] Speaker B: you're not Reading correctly, but [03:35:54] Speaker D: you're not exactly sure what to make out of it. [03:35:56] Speaker C: But you do. [03:35:56] Speaker D: At one point, you notice that she keeps talking about when can you go back to Catherine? And when can you. [03:36:03] Speaker B: But she. [03:36:04] Speaker D: She's talking about the. [03:36:05] Speaker B: The amount of time you're staying with [03:36:06] Speaker D: her, and she never refers to it as more. The amount of time you'd have to [03:36:10] Speaker B: go back to Catherine. [03:36:11] Speaker D: But she does refer to it in [03:36:13] Speaker B: general terms that could be longer or [03:36:15] Speaker D: shorter, and you're not exactly sure what to make out of it beyond there. [03:36:18] Speaker B: But there's something there. Yeah. [03:36:19] Speaker A: What is. What do I know that Craig doesn't? [03:36:22] Speaker D: I don't know, Micah. [03:36:23] Speaker B: That's you in your head. [03:36:25] Speaker D: That's what an inside checks for, buddy. But that's all right. [03:36:27] Speaker A: So wait, can I burn my inspiration? [03:36:31] Speaker D: You can wait. [03:36:32] Speaker E: So what? Can you say it again? Because I got confused just on the words. [03:36:35] Speaker B: Well, let's see what we get from the inspiration. [03:36:37] Speaker A: Okay, I might be able to clarify Slot advantage. [03:36:39] Speaker B: No, this. [03:36:40] Speaker D: This is like triple advantage. Just roll the die. [03:36:43] Speaker C: Triple advantage. [03:36:47] Speaker A: It's an 18. [03:36:52] Speaker D: With an 18. [03:36:53] Speaker B: Oh, Craig. one point, whoa. You hear your mom say something where she says, you start realizing when she uses specific language and vague language, and that every time she's talking about what to do with Catherine, what to say, what to bring her, she's very specific. But every time she talks about the amount of time that you're staying with her, your mom, it's always loose in general, and all of a sudden, life bulb, you go. [03:37:22] Speaker D: Light bulb, you go. [03:37:29] Speaker B: She's building a narrative. [03:37:32] Speaker D: And you realize, I mean, maybe she's doing it intentionally manipulative, maybe she's not. [03:37:36] Speaker B: But she's totally like. [03:37:39] Speaker D: Even as she's talking about how like, yes, yes, you, Catherine, you will make work. You always make work. But she's talking out the. The arguments you guys are having, whether or not you're helping her in terms [03:37:51] Speaker B: of, like, what can you do? [03:37:52] Speaker D: What can you say? But she spends. She asks extra questions about, like. And what is Katherine upset about? Like, she's helping you understand it. But then she repeats it two or [03:37:59] Speaker B: three times, like she needs clarification just so it can, like, land with you. Just so you can simmer a little longer on the things where Catherine's not accepting you or not, and you realize she's making an enemy. She's making. She's making a hero and a villain. It's very subtle and it's very soft. [03:38:15] Speaker C: Wow. [03:38:16] Speaker E: Yeah. [03:38:16] Speaker A: But all of a sudden you're like, I gotta Go. I gotta go. [03:38:22] Speaker D: And you're like, I gotta leave. [03:38:24] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. That time you were on the ship, the first ship with the party, and that one guy just wanted a ticket. And when you guys were in the [03:38:34] Speaker D: mess and all of a sudden, years of being like, I always picked an enemy. And. And you're just having this massive epiphany. [03:38:42] Speaker A: Goober. [03:38:43] Speaker D: All while. And you're just having this massive epiphany while eating stew at the table. Just like. And like, it's this. It's. This is like. Like out of body. [03:38:52] Speaker E: Like, just gained, like an interpersonal level. [03:38:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [03:38:56] Speaker E: He just leveled up a level of something. Yeah. [03:39:00] Speaker D: And you let your mom get on with the dinner. [03:39:03] Speaker B: But a lot of things are clear. [03:39:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:39:08] Speaker C: Why is this music perfect for what just took place? It was like, perfect. [03:39:13] Speaker B: I'm going to move to someone else and we're going to come back to you. We're actually going to go back to Greta and Ro. [03:39:23] Speaker D: So for the sake of efficiency, if you guys are cool with it, I'm actually going to describe what's happening. But it's something you've done told me that you all are doing. And then I will key back into how you guys want it to be going and to talk about checks. [03:39:36] Speaker B: I'll allow it. [03:39:38] Speaker D: In this same time that Craig is being lambasted by his oppressively matron figure in his home. [03:39:45] Speaker E: Oppressively matron figure. [03:39:46] Speaker C: Yikes. [03:39:50] Speaker B: Well, oppressively matronly, I guess those would both need to be. [03:39:53] Speaker D: Anyway, moving on, Greta and Ro set [03:39:57] Speaker B: upon work for a project. [03:39:58] Speaker C: Yay. [03:39:59] Speaker D: Given that. Given that they are setting up their home in this place as the fungi's home residence, and given ship goober's travel [03:40:13] Speaker B: and all these pieces. Now you all hire some workers over [03:40:20] Speaker D: a period of months. Rowan, Greta, take the considerable wealth they have gained in their travels, which I don't need you to dock at this time, because I'm just going to go ahead and give you guys a heads [03:40:28] Speaker B: up that the way I'm going to treat it is that you guys are loaded right now. [03:40:32] Speaker D: And I don't know how, but there's [03:40:33] Speaker B: some money to be made out of saving the world. [03:40:35] Speaker A: We were owed 5,000 gold or 5,000. [03:40:38] Speaker D: Well, the guy who owed you was the guy who was trying to kill [03:40:40] Speaker B: you, so that doesn't help, but you [03:40:41] Speaker D: had a lot of money before you [03:40:42] Speaker B: went to go fight the God of death and hatred. What are you handing me? [03:40:47] Speaker A: This is how I felt when I got the sticky note earlier. [03:40:48] Speaker D: Are you circling? [03:40:49] Speaker B: Ooh. [03:40:50] Speaker D: Series of notes. [03:40:51] Speaker C: Whistled yes. [03:40:53] Speaker B: He said yes. [03:40:55] Speaker C: No, I'm not talking about. No. Those were my notes on myself. [03:41:05] Speaker E: How wrong can you be? So very wrong. [03:41:13] Speaker C: That's all I was asking. [03:41:15] Speaker D: I had a note about it I was going to get. [03:41:16] Speaker C: Okay, I didn't know if I had told you that. I was just trying. [03:41:19] Speaker D: That's why you were talking. Okay. [03:41:20] Speaker C: I was suddenly giving you a note and you just had to explain it all. [03:41:24] Speaker D: Not good with that. [03:41:27] Speaker A: No. Run. [03:41:30] Speaker D: Hear our song. [03:41:31] Speaker A: Hear our song. [03:41:31] Speaker E: Anyway, we made it. Ready? [03:41:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [03:41:34] Speaker A: Run, Grim. Run, Grim. [03:41:36] Speaker E: Rhyme, Grim, Captain of the sea. [03:41:39] Speaker D: Wrong, Grim. [03:41:40] Speaker C: Wrong. [03:41:41] Speaker E: How wrong Grim can you be? [03:41:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:41:44] Speaker C: I can't. I want Daniel to hear this beautiful song. [03:41:48] Speaker E: Wrong, Grim. [03:41:49] Speaker C: It's almost over. [03:41:50] Speaker E: Captain of the seas. You're so very wrong, Grim. And you're a captain. [03:41:54] Speaker A: Fishy. [03:41:57] Speaker E: Sorry. [03:41:58] Speaker B: Okay, [03:42:01] Speaker D: so shout out to Daniel. [03:42:02] Speaker A: Copyright upon you. [03:42:03] Speaker D: Oh, there you go. Given the considerable wealth you guys went away with, I'm also going to assume that in your travels and the adventures ahead, you will also gain wealth. So I'm just going to automatically assume that the amount of gain of wealth you lost, the amount of wealth you'll gain is equal. So once it comes back up for a session in the future, we're just going to assume that the amount of money you have now is the amount of money you have now. Okay. [03:42:25] Speaker C: Over 12,000 gold. [03:42:27] Speaker D: Holy living crap. [03:42:28] Speaker B: Do you actually. [03:42:29] Speaker C: Yeah. And 720 platinum, [03:42:34] Speaker D: which is 19,000 gold. [03:42:35] Speaker C: Well, when Boz Boss had most of that and we didn't know it, and so when I took over Boss's character sheet, I combined it onto mine just so we would know how much we had. And that's how much we have. I broke the dm. You guys [03:42:54] Speaker E: are. [03:42:54] Speaker A: We. [03:42:55] Speaker C: Do you want us to subtract now? [03:42:58] Speaker D: Never mind. We're gonna subtract. [03:43:00] Speaker C: No, I didn't mean to. [03:43:01] Speaker E: We don't want to be unethical billionaires. [03:43:03] Speaker D: Can you take a thousand off? Are we a trillion now? Well, technically, by our money conversions, guys, [03:43:14] Speaker C: actually, I don't want to be a billionaire. [03:43:17] Speaker B: Well, I have terrible news for you. [03:43:19] Speaker A: Nobody should be a millionaire. [03:43:20] Speaker D: I don't. I don't know if you're a billionaire, but bear with me. [03:43:23] Speaker A: By. [03:43:23] Speaker D: By our. By our charts, if we treat a gold like $300, that's crazy. And you guys are at 18,000 now after. And I'm. I'm converting your PL Platinum to be [03:43:35] Speaker B: part of the channel as well. [03:43:36] Speaker C: That means that doesn't even include 7,000 silver. [03:43:40] Speaker D: That means that you guys have rounding down by a lot $5.4 million, wholly canoli. [03:43:47] Speaker E: Who? [03:43:47] Speaker D: Moving on. [03:43:48] Speaker C: So you want me to subtract I work [03:43:52] Speaker D: 11,000 gold any over a period of months. The comically wealthy Rowan Greta spends significant resources to hire a number of skilled artisans and workers. Some are brought in even from larger cities in teleth, employing them to help [03:44:10] Speaker B: create significant change to the chamber below the passage home. [03:44:15] Speaker D: This influx of workers is a significant boon to parseage. [03:44:18] Speaker B: I mean, it takes 20 or 30 people to do this work for you. [03:44:22] Speaker D: Who both serve them. Yep. I farted again. Who both serve them. But these aren't stress farts. [03:44:26] Speaker B: These are nostalgia farts. [03:44:28] Speaker D: I'm just time traveling as the town has to serve these workers and supply them with the resources and tools. You all bring in. Masons, smiths, carpenters, foremen, all sorts of individuals who work to A, install a permanent stairwell into the lower chamber so you no longer have to use a tiny little ladder underneath the oven. There's just a stone stairwell running down the stairs. They also b, tile the floors below. Now, they don't go into the part of the passage that's all like rough stone into the caves. They leave that alone. But that bottom chamber, they tile the floor. It's beautiful tiling. C, they brace the walls and smooth out the ceiling so that those are [03:45:10] Speaker B: also smoothed and hardened and somewhat decorative. [03:45:13] Speaker D: And then d, they create a frame of a door. Oh, no. Excuse me. They create a frame and a door that does open and close that leads [03:45:21] Speaker B: to the cave chambers below. [03:45:23] Speaker D: Right. But then e last. [03:45:26] Speaker C: That. [03:45:27] Speaker D: That sort sounded like a heart. [03:45:29] Speaker C: Guys, it stinks so bad. [03:45:31] Speaker D: I want y' all to know it's all the bed. [03:45:33] Speaker A: It might be my feet. [03:45:34] Speaker C: I'm not gonna lie. [03:45:35] Speaker D: My wife. Lastly, an intricate stone door, which cannot [03:45:42] Speaker B: be opened, is carved into the wall. [03:45:46] Speaker A: Why? [03:45:47] Speaker D: And inlaid with a pattern that you [03:45:51] Speaker B: all now need to come up with. [03:45:53] Speaker D: This door is a magical frame into which complex geometric glyphs and patterns inlaid with precious metals and sheets of crushed [03:46:04] Speaker B: gems must be designed. And Ro and Greta, you all now need to design this for me. [03:46:10] Speaker A: Fish. Fish. [03:46:11] Speaker D: I need an archona check from one of the two of you. [03:46:15] Speaker C: From one? It can't be both. [03:46:16] Speaker D: I need an arcana check from one [03:46:18] Speaker B: of the two of you. [03:46:18] Speaker D: As you all work together for a week or so to design this simple. This symbol and know that it is a high D.C. you are trying to take a massive leap forward in your arcane understanding. So I would be very strategic because you all are working together, so you have advantage from the help action. [03:46:40] Speaker C: Okay. [03:46:40] Speaker D: If someone needs guidance, if someone needs inspiration. Bardic inspiration. I'd be very strategic about who you have make the check and what benefits you can give to try and maximize [03:46:50] Speaker B: the score that you can receive. Because this is a high dc. [03:46:53] Speaker E: Okay. [03:46:54] Speaker C: Okay. [03:46:55] Speaker E: We have. We already have advantage. [03:46:57] Speaker C: We have advantage from helping each other. [03:46:59] Speaker E: Yes. [03:46:59] Speaker C: And I can give you bardic and so inspiration, which would give you a D12. [03:47:04] Speaker E: Yeah. That would be the highest role. [03:47:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Even though I have a higher icona with the D12 that would add. [03:47:10] Speaker A: Does anybody have bliss around? [03:47:14] Speaker C: I mean, maybe Thespis, but Greta can guide herself. [03:47:17] Speaker E: Yeah. And that does [03:47:22] Speaker C: Rose inspiring you by holding the spoon. And that. That was. [03:47:28] Speaker D: We will. We will consider the Bardic inspiration you are providing both the magical influence you can play. [03:47:32] Speaker B: Play over to her aid her mind, [03:47:33] Speaker D: but also the week worth of careful planning and work you do with her. [03:47:36] Speaker C: And holding the spoon. [03:47:37] Speaker D: And holding up the spoon, and she's [03:47:39] Speaker C: putting it to her head and then your head and then her head and then your head. So she's playing music. [03:47:44] Speaker E: Why is there a spoon? [03:47:45] Speaker D: Abby? [03:47:46] Speaker C: That's the component to this fungi's fortress spell. [03:47:49] Speaker E: Yes. Yes. [03:47:50] Speaker B: One last time. [03:47:51] Speaker A: Oh, don't say one. Don't say. [03:47:52] Speaker D: I'd like you to give me an arcana track. [03:47:54] Speaker E: What do you mean? I want to do another one. [03:47:56] Speaker C: Yeah, can we just do a random one so we don't have to say one last time? Hate that. [03:48:02] Speaker E: I have to find my D12, which I'm famous. [03:48:04] Speaker C: Do you want to use Rose for row inspiration? [03:48:07] Speaker B: Okay, I want to use a straight up. [03:48:10] Speaker E: No fancy Greta dice. [03:48:15] Speaker A: It sounds pretty. [03:48:16] Speaker B: What have I done? What have I done? [03:48:20] Speaker C: I. I want the listener to know that Abby has not had her dice out. [03:48:25] Speaker E: No, I had my D20 out. I didn't think I'd have to use. [03:48:27] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [03:48:28] Speaker A: I think it's cool that Zach's in a campaign where it's all three girls, and he's about to have a girl, and we're all just preparing him. Huh? [03:48:41] Speaker B: Huh? [03:48:41] Speaker A: What'd you say? Did you fart again? [03:48:43] Speaker C: Oh, my God, no. [03:48:45] Speaker D: But I will. Okay. [03:48:52] Speaker B: What? [03:48:53] Speaker D: Buddy, there's sure not a D12 in that bag can hear me out? [03:48:56] Speaker E: Yeah. [03:48:56] Speaker D: This could be trendy. [03:48:56] Speaker B: What if you used hers and then [03:48:58] Speaker D: we moved on with the set? [03:49:00] Speaker B: Pretty cool. Okay, if you need any help with the math. Don't. [03:49:05] Speaker E: No. [03:49:05] Speaker C: Do you want to use. [03:49:07] Speaker E: No. [03:49:07] Speaker C: No. [03:49:07] Speaker E: Nothing scares me. [03:49:10] Speaker C: It's just Fred. [03:49:11] Speaker D: All right, so rolling the arcana check [03:49:13] Speaker B: that we've been preparing for for five minutes. [03:49:18] Speaker E: Okay, let me do My math. [03:49:24] Speaker C: Wait, you can roll at advantage, remember? I think that should be the theme song for the mini campaign. Daniel should record it and he'll be like, [03:49:43] Speaker E: I. [03:49:45] Speaker D: Would you like it to be verified at all? [03:49:48] Speaker E: I got a five and a two, which is seven. [03:49:51] Speaker B: The two different dies. Yep, seven. [03:49:52] Speaker E: And I have a 17. No. Yeah, I got a 17, which is 24 plus 16. That's a 40. [03:49:59] Speaker C: Let's do this. [03:50:01] Speaker D: Dude, you gotta. [03:50:03] Speaker C: Abby, I can't read you. But high five. Da da. [03:50:06] Speaker A: Max. [03:50:07] Speaker D: And with a 40 check in a very appropriate way to be capstone in this campaign. That is so deeply appropriate with a 40. [03:50:18] Speaker B: Man. Bardi, inspiration is powerful. [03:50:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:50:22] Speaker D: You all smash the DC of 30 to try and excellently design the glyphic series. [03:50:30] Speaker B: And so you do. [03:50:32] Speaker D: You give a very intricate pattern that the many very skilled artisans can follow [03:50:37] Speaker B: and slowly, over the course of months, work into the door into and design into it. And beautiful craftsmanship greets you all when you go down one day as this beautifully. Yeah. [03:50:48] Speaker E: Can I describe a pattern? [03:50:50] Speaker D: Girl, please, please. [03:50:52] Speaker E: So this is what I say, like, as I'm working on it. I sketch it out with Ro and we work on it together. But I'm thinking like, the seven stars of Ceylon in, like, an arc. [03:51:00] Speaker B: Gorgeous. [03:51:01] Speaker E: And then like, like the. The maker symbol, like, right below it. And then the. The. The eye of the Ioun eye below that. And then I think in like, in like, very like, fancy, but very readable script. Maybe not cursive, but like, like classic block letters that is very formal and very, like, lots of. Of seraphs. She writes out like. Like as a border, maybe. She writes out like, all the line. All the names of. Of their allies. And like. Like, she starts with people that have passed and goes around and just like anyone that they can think of that's like, died for this cause or just like an old friend that's made them who they are. And then it circles. Including. [03:51:57] Speaker C: Including Walter. [03:51:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:52:00] Speaker C: And Ravina even. Yeah, yeah. [03:52:02] Speaker E: And it just. It just circles to, like, people that are special to them and people that they know and it just. It like goes along the border and then it comes up and then it just makes like a square, like, spiraling inward. [03:52:14] Speaker B: It gets more and more intricate. [03:52:15] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. Their names, like, the names get, like, smaller and smaller. Yeah. Or I think it just. I think it just like it just spirals and spirals and they leave. She leaves like, a little bit of, like. It doesn't look like there's, like, the design looks complete, but there is room for. For like More names to be added as it goes. And then maybe like some leaves and some bees for Boz and. [03:52:38] Speaker C: And I think little mushrooms down at the bottom. [03:52:42] Speaker E: Yeah. [03:52:42] Speaker C: Little fun guy. [03:52:44] Speaker B: And these beautiful artistic design elements are included in the door. [03:52:47] Speaker D: The main thing you were rolling for [03:52:48] Speaker B: with the 40 was the exact nature of the complex geometry. [03:52:51] Speaker D: Trees and symbols that had to be inlaid, but those are masterfully worked in as they all come together. And the border is largely used in another artistic spot. And you know, in the stone, the artisans can. [03:53:02] Speaker C: There would be like a beautiful. Because on the one that she always makes when she pops it up, there's like a ornate like mushroom door knocker that sits that rests on the front. [03:53:16] Speaker D: And the artisans are very confused by all these inclusions, but obey them because you're paying them an obscene amount of money. And with the great wealth that you [03:53:23] Speaker B: all expend, these ornate carvings and all of the magical glyphs that are used and the lines that connect them intricately [03:53:31] Speaker D: are inlaid with gold. And the background sheeting is all plates [03:53:35] Speaker B: of crushed amethyst and placed of plates of crushed jade. [03:53:38] Speaker D: And after that pattern is completed and designed, and then Rose spends a month [03:53:45] Speaker B: casting magnificent mansion over the door every single day. A month later, the fungi's fantastical fortress becomes a permanent location in the world. [03:53:57] Speaker A: Wow. [03:53:58] Speaker B: Forever and infinitely accessible by this door. [03:54:01] Speaker A: Wow. [03:54:01] Speaker B: To anyone who knows the magical password. And to enter this building, Ro never need again castle the spell. She need only apply the password and enter. And so Row. What is the magical password you create? [03:54:16] Speaker C: It's a. No, it's a. It's. It's a. [03:54:20] Speaker B: Keep going. Don't listen to me. [03:54:22] Speaker C: Did you fart, bro? I think he's laughing. Cuz I was like. [03:54:27] Speaker D: No, I thought something. Please keep going. [03:54:32] Speaker C: She. It's a. If everyone. She. She makes sure that everyone can whistle, but she wants it to be like a series of notes whistled. And it's. I'm hoping the mic will pick it up, but it's. [03:54:54] Speaker E: Oh, that's exactly what I was thinking. That's literally exactly what I was thinking. [03:55:02] Speaker C: And that's how you get in the door. [03:55:03] Speaker E: That's really cool. [03:55:05] Speaker B: That is beautiful. [03:55:06] Speaker A: Very thoughtful, everyone. [03:55:07] Speaker C: What were you thinking? What was your thought? Were you thinking of Hunger Games? Thought of the. [03:55:15] Speaker D: Of the Doctor who? [03:55:21] Speaker A: The password. The password is actually ridiculous. [03:55:28] Speaker C: Can I just do a brief description of the changes in the fortress now? [03:55:33] Speaker B: Absolutely. [03:55:34] Speaker C: So it's. It's pretty much. I mean like the. The entryway when you walk in is the same. It has that giant tree in it with our names carved in it. And with. Inside the tree is the teleportation circle that you can zap in, in and out of the fortress from different places in. There's a huge. The huge dining table that was there. There is a. One thing that we never touched on, really, when it was not permanent, was that there is several. Mic. Mic. How do you say, Micanoid creatures that are the staff that, like, work there. Oh, just like how K had. [03:56:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [03:56:26] Speaker B: The illusory. [03:56:26] Speaker C: Yeah, the butler. So there's several mikonoid creatures that. That. [03:56:34] Speaker B: That's really cool. [03:56:35] Speaker C: Are kind of like the. The helpers around the place. If you go down the hall, there's obviously a room for Spaghuber and there's the piss. A base. There's the theater, there's the gym. There is no longer a room for Bill Free and Plough, but there is a beautiful, like, little plaque on the wall for them. And their names are forever etched in the tree like Road had it. There's room for Craig when he comes. There's room for Greta and Tello and Boz even for if he ever comes. And there's even, like, a couple of, like, guest rooms. So, like, if F Moon Kai needs to stay here or someone's family or. And everyone's names are, like, etched on the doors and everything like they were. [03:57:30] Speaker B: And. [03:57:30] Speaker A: Am I missing any doors? I don't think so. [03:57:34] Speaker C: Thespis and Row and Thespis have their own room. It's one room. We're adults here. They can have one room. And etched in it, it says throw. Aw. And it's really. [03:57:48] Speaker B: It's not respis. [03:57:49] Speaker C: No, you keep saying that. [03:57:51] Speaker D: Don't. [03:57:52] Speaker A: No. [03:57:53] Speaker C: Stop trying to make recipes happen. [03:57:55] Speaker A: You keep finding tape. You keep finding tape on the door that says up. What? Throw. [03:58:05] Speaker C: There's a room for Nam, too. But that's so funny, actually. Ro keeps taking it off every time she's like. But yeah, it's. And it's. And it's permanently there. And the tree and the little pond around the tree, and there's these little micanoid creatures that help out and can scurry around and. [03:58:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:58:28] Speaker D: And it is this abode now as [03:58:31] Speaker B: Goober makes his kind of permanent home up top. It's this abode to which you all return and the one you all actually live in, which is pretty amazing as a quick survey. And then we'll go back to somebody over here. [03:58:47] Speaker D: Tello comes back from Osseliri after about [03:58:49] Speaker B: a year, and it's nowhere near the time needed to join for the journey to Tchoskinen. [03:58:56] Speaker D: So when this period of time draws [03:58:58] Speaker B: to a close, he returns to what he knows. He checks in with all of you. Okay. [03:59:05] Speaker D: And I've already talked about that with Chanen. And so learning that you all are [03:59:11] Speaker B: in this intermittent time that Grow and [03:59:13] Speaker D: Retta, Greta and Row have grow and learning that Grow and Retta have the projects that they're working on with the home and with the other things that [03:59:23] Speaker B: they're creating and that at some point, Ro and Thespis are traveling together and all these other goings on are happening. At some point, Tello pulls you aside, Greta, and he says, hey, I was wondering if we could talk for a bit. [03:59:38] Speaker A: Bonjour. [03:59:40] Speaker B: Maybe I'm never going to go too far because we'll always be Twilight, but. I think. I think I'm late for a date. [04:00:03] Speaker E: Really? [04:00:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Kind of only wanted to tell you. [04:00:09] Speaker E: Oh, okay. [04:00:10] Speaker B: Because, you know, I love everybody else. They're phenomenal. [04:00:13] Speaker E: But Greta stops whatever she's. [04:00:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [04:00:16] Speaker E: She was maybe like. [04:00:17] Speaker D: And he finds you in the middle of something. [04:00:19] Speaker E: Yeah. She puts it down. [04:00:22] Speaker B: But, you know, we all have our own lives and they'll find out what I do come back, but I think I need to catch a boat. [04:00:32] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:00:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And I want to go the old fashioned way. And I'll be back at some point, but, you know, the moon's always come back. [04:00:41] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:00:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [04:00:43] Speaker B: But I'm ready. I'm ready for my own thing for a bit. [04:00:46] Speaker E: She, I. I'm trying to switch to first person, which doesn't feel natural, but I'm trying it, but nice. I reach into my pocket and I pull out a sending stone. We'll say I just carry it while Craig is away. And I hold it or I hold it out and I say, just in case you ever need anything or just want to chat. [04:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [04:01:10] Speaker B: He takes it. He slides it into one of the pockets on his belt and he says, I'm coming back. [04:01:16] Speaker A: Okay. [04:01:17] Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah. Be sure to bring whoever it is to come say hi. [04:01:25] Speaker B: Something like that. [04:01:26] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:01:26] Speaker B: And then he. He reaches down and he puts his hands on his shoulders and he goes. [04:01:31] Speaker A: Who is it? [04:01:32] Speaker B: I love you very much, Krita. [04:01:33] Speaker E: I love you too. [04:01:34] Speaker A: Tell. [04:01:35] Speaker B: He gives you a deep hug. [04:01:36] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:01:37] Speaker B: And he steps back from you and he goes, come on back. [04:01:41] Speaker E: Yeah. I'll call you when it's time to go to nar or no. And you. [04:01:46] Speaker D: He gives a little kiss on your [04:01:47] Speaker B: head and he walks out. And then you talk to him, but you don't see. Tello again for another year and a half. [04:01:56] Speaker E: Wow. [04:01:58] Speaker B: And then in 3451. 3452, Tello comes back to Parsage. [04:02:08] Speaker C: It's 3488. You said 51. [04:02:10] Speaker D: Well, it'd be 89 after your birthday. [04:02:14] Speaker B: And then it was a year on from when he went to Australia and came back. And then another year and a half. [04:02:19] Speaker C: No, you said 59. You mean 99. [04:02:23] Speaker B: Yes. [04:02:24] Speaker D: Thank you, dear. [04:02:24] Speaker C: That's why I was confused. [04:02:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [04:02:25] Speaker C: Because I was like, we went back for. [04:02:26] Speaker A: No, no, no. [04:02:27] Speaker D: Sorry, sorry, sorry. 3491 or 34. I guess it'd be 3492. And 3492. [04:02:33] Speaker B: Tello comes back. [04:02:34] Speaker E: Yeah. Does he call and say he's coming? [04:02:36] Speaker D: And he. No. [04:02:38] Speaker E: Okay. [04:02:38] Speaker B: He just comes back. [04:02:39] Speaker E: Okay. [04:02:41] Speaker D: And it's kind of fun to see him. [04:02:44] Speaker C: Wait, who's all there? [04:02:45] Speaker D: It's kind of fun to see him get some of his, like, playfulness back. [04:02:53] Speaker B: No, this isn't the one I want. Let's go with this one. And he comes back with someone you met quite some time ago and had forgotten. [04:03:00] Speaker C: Are we there, or is it just Greta there? [04:03:03] Speaker B: Maybe I'll get there. And he comes back with this. [04:03:07] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [04:03:08] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [04:03:09] Speaker E: Who is it? [04:03:10] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [04:03:11] Speaker D: Dark green skinned, somewhat muscular orcish woman from the island in Alaban. The guard who was on top of. [04:03:23] Speaker B: And he doesn't. He just shows up one day with her at his side. [04:03:27] Speaker D: And here's the deal, y'. [04:03:28] Speaker E: All. [04:03:30] Speaker D: I couldn't find her name anywhere, so I just made a new one up. Tello returns with EDVA E d v [04:03:37] Speaker B: a like Edna, but Edva Edva odgath o d g a t o I love her already. [04:03:48] Speaker C: ODG ATH we'll say Greta's like. [04:03:52] Speaker E: She's, like, on the back porch sketching. And she's like. She, like, sketches the same scene every day, but it's just, like a meditation for her. So she's, like, on the back porch sketching. And they, like, come in and she like, what? [04:04:05] Speaker B: You see him walking from kind of behind the field? [04:04:07] Speaker E: Okay. She, like, looks up and she's like, oh, okay, so it's not for. And then she looks up again and she's like, I know that. [04:04:13] Speaker B: That walk. [04:04:14] Speaker E: Wait a minute. I know that face. [04:04:17] Speaker D: And excellently judging the distance by when you'd be recognizing him. [04:04:20] Speaker B: He just holds up the finger crossbow. [04:04:22] Speaker E: She, like, gets up and, like, runs as fast as she can. And then she sees someone else with him, and she, like, kind of slows down, and she's like. [04:04:31] Speaker D: The two lean into each other and say something. [04:04:33] Speaker B: And then she, like, gives him a nod, and he hops the fence and [04:04:36] Speaker D: runs over and picks you up and swings you around. [04:04:38] Speaker E: She grabs his. Both of his hands, and she's looking for a ring. [04:04:42] Speaker D: And when you hold up his left hand, there's a gold ring on this finger. [04:04:46] Speaker A: She, like. [04:04:46] Speaker E: She. [04:04:47] Speaker C: I like, yeah. [04:04:48] Speaker E: I punch him on the arm, and I'm like, you didn't invite us or tell us or anything. [04:04:52] Speaker D: He puts you down on the ground, puts his hands on each side of your head, sandwiching you. [04:04:55] Speaker B: And he goes, no, this was just for me. [04:04:59] Speaker D: And he throws you up in the air and catches you. It hurts a little. You're old. [04:05:03] Speaker E: Huge hug. [04:05:04] Speaker D: He hugs you for a time. Long, long time. And then he introduces you to Edva Odgathendar. And she's huge. She's six foot three, well built. She has small tusks. You remember her? [04:05:15] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:05:15] Speaker D: Even leaner than when you saw her last. And she has. The sides of her head are shaved, and then her hair just comes back into this really tight, like, kind of dread bun in the back. [04:05:24] Speaker A: That's so cool. [04:05:26] Speaker D: And she's. [04:05:28] Speaker B: She's confident and warm. [04:05:33] Speaker D: Immediately warmer than you remembered her and very funny in, like a really sharp kind of way. And he introduces you to her, and then he lets you know that first of all, shortly, in just knowing her, [04:05:50] Speaker B: you see the burned in insignia of the brass company. And he lets you know that as one last favor, he asked if Thimon. Thimon released her from his service. [04:06:01] Speaker C: Thim's alive. [04:06:03] Speaker D: Thim's alive. Probably not a spellcaster, but he. [04:06:10] Speaker C: I don't know, he was major crime lord. He could have been his ma. [04:06:14] Speaker D: But Tello brings up the immense sum of wealth that he walked away from your adventures with. [04:06:21] Speaker B: And he goes, but sadly, I lost it all. [04:06:25] Speaker A: What you do? [04:06:26] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, you can ask how I lost it. [04:06:30] Speaker C: Yeah, how'd you lose it? [04:06:32] Speaker E: I spent it, okay? [04:06:34] Speaker B: On a house. [04:06:38] Speaker D: Many points. And as you guys walk back around the building, you know, kind of running a little bit, you guys will look across street, and there is this huge roped section, a plot that has been bought. And over the next three or four [04:06:54] Speaker B: years, this huge home is built. [04:06:58] Speaker D: That home across. Across that highway running through town, some [04:07:02] Speaker B: distance away from the parsonage home. Let me get to my telo section. I have something else. [04:07:13] Speaker D: So he commissions an impressive Home. The outside of the home actually reflects the Fungi House quite a bit, but inside, he's built it very austillarian in style, very elven. And Edva desires to make this massive [04:07:26] Speaker B: underground level, this huge chamber beneath. [04:07:28] Speaker D: And you find out that she is an avid painter [04:07:32] Speaker B: and that they. She makes it into this huge studio and invites Greta all the time. They do artwork there together. [04:07:40] Speaker D: And you find that Ed was a pretty phenomenal person. [04:07:45] Speaker B: Tello has plans for a long and patient life with no rushing. And that does not go well when they get pregnant in the next year. [04:07:54] Speaker D: And over the next five years, Tello [04:07:58] Speaker B: proceeds to have three kids. The eldest is. [04:08:02] Speaker D: And I'll tell you what, I'm just gonna read and keep moving, and I'll give you guys the names later. [04:08:05] Speaker B: The eldest son is Jandar. [04:08:10] Speaker D: The middle child is. This one is named, anyway, Tjikon Indar, named after Edwa's grandfather. And then lastly, he has a daughter, [04:08:23] Speaker B: Estrea Ndar, who he names after the memory of the Small Star after Greta. [04:08:31] Speaker D: And each of his children come out looking both half wood elven and very much half orcish. And it's funny because Janamil looks much [04:08:40] Speaker B: more orcish than Elven. [04:08:42] Speaker D: Tejacon looks very much both, which is [04:08:46] Speaker B: something Tejacan has to deal with because [04:08:47] Speaker D: he's the one named Orcishly and the [04:08:50] Speaker B: one who looks less. [04:08:51] Speaker D: And then Estrella comes out with some [04:08:52] Speaker B: orcish features, but looking much more wood elf. And Bindares live there across the way from Small Star and Ro and all of that. [04:09:03] Speaker E: I think at some point, like, when they're probably, like, walking the plot and just, like, he's telling her where everything is gonna go, she just, like, holds his hand and she's like, and I didn't know if I would see you again. And I was hoping. And I'm so happy to see you [04:09:18] Speaker A: again, but I never thought that I'd [04:09:20] Speaker E: see you every day. [04:09:22] Speaker A: And I'm very happy that you came back. [04:09:25] Speaker E: And then we're gonna be friends every day. [04:09:29] Speaker B: Are you okay with being on his shoulders when you're walking? Okay, he has you up on his shoulders and he's walking around, and he goes, well, I was just. One day in Alabama, I was thinking, no, it's not true. Edward pointed out it was very important to me that I went off and did my own thing, you know, lived my own life. And I was talking with Edva about that one day and what I would do in the future. And she went. She pointed out, hopefully that that was really stupid. And she said, what are your favorite things? And I talked about a lot of them. And then she went. And Greta. And I went, well, I mean, yeah. She said, you talk about her all the time. And I went, well, yeah. She said, so is Greta one of your favorite things? And I said, yeah. She said. Then she's like, you saved the world. Do what you want. And so I realized that I wanted to see you every, every day. So we came back here. [04:10:19] Speaker A: I'm so excited. [04:10:20] Speaker B: Plus, I can't really think of a better grandma for my kids. And, yeah, he gets kind of quiet and he says, I don't have my mother anymore, so I thought you'd be a pretty phenomenal. Please. [04:10:35] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. And she just hugs his head. He, like, can't see. [04:10:41] Speaker D: And there. [04:10:43] Speaker B: Tello lives close to his fungus. [04:10:45] Speaker E: She goes up to Edvin, she says, an uncinian. She says, do you speak? [04:10:48] Speaker D: Oh, she's. Tello has taught her fluent. [04:10:50] Speaker E: Oh, okay, okay. She gives her her book. Anyway, she said, I don't need this anymore, so maybe for you. [04:10:57] Speaker D: She looks over it and she says, [04:11:00] Speaker B: will work well with it. [04:11:05] Speaker E: Okay. Okay, okay. [04:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [04:11:07] Speaker D: What is that? What's that? What even is that? [04:11:14] Speaker B: And she looks at her and she says, plenty of time to get to know each other. [04:11:20] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:11:22] Speaker B: Finger crossed. [04:11:25] Speaker D: In this time, Nam's oven above ground [04:11:28] Speaker B: oven is completed years ago. [04:11:29] Speaker D: And Nam bakes, but she never opens the bakery. She decides that she really has had [04:11:33] Speaker B: enough of other people. [04:11:35] Speaker D: And so she bakes for you all. [04:11:37] Speaker B: She bakes at home, but she bakes quietly. [04:11:41] Speaker D: In fact, she all but leaves Parsage, [04:11:44] Speaker B: and she winds up spending the vast majority of her time in Holmkov in the opalescent tone, where she prefers to work quietly with spookuper. And she falls in love with the opalescent tone this place that. [04:11:59] Speaker D: I mean, she doesn't like the idea [04:12:01] Speaker B: of it one day opening up and people getting to come inside. But for the time, she really likes how cool, quiet and secluded it is. And she loves setting her mind to a task and work. [04:12:08] Speaker D: And she's never really been able to [04:12:09] Speaker B: find a person she felt so comfortable with as she did. Sh. Goober. [04:12:13] Speaker D: She grows very close to Edva in the time that comes after because there [04:12:17] Speaker B: is another person who's goblinoid who understands things that other people do not. And so she enjoys that company greatly [04:12:22] Speaker D: and they become close friends, but she [04:12:25] Speaker B: just kind of hangs out with Goober and really loves the place that she finds at the opalescent tome. Trying to see if I had quick Rolling through points. [04:12:36] Speaker D: Told you guys I had a lot planned. And at this time, I think we'll go back now. So we went about. At that last point we left off, we were eight or nine years in the future. Now I think we're gonna go back eight years, all the way back to 3489 again. [04:12:56] Speaker B: And a week after, when Craig was told to give Cat a week, a week has passed. [04:13:03] Speaker D: Craig, at some point, give me a. Give me whatever saving throw you think [04:13:09] Speaker B: goes most with bravery, charisma, wisdom. [04:13:15] Speaker A: I like to let the listener know that I was so focused on getting the gifts and letters together that I forgot all of my stuff. So I'm currently using my phone for my items of fortune, whatever that means. Bravery, Dexterity. No, I'm just kidding. This is my highest. [04:13:40] Speaker B: That can't possibly be true. [04:13:42] Speaker A: Don't tell me that. I mean acrobatics. That's what I meant. Don't. Don't ask me questions. [04:13:48] Speaker D: I know you're. [04:13:48] Speaker A: Don't ask. I'm in athletics. I'm in athletics. Gosh dang it. [04:13:53] Speaker B: What's a saving throw? [04:13:55] Speaker A: It's okay. I'm. I don't know. Seriously, I don't know. Bravery would be Christmas. [04:14:04] Speaker B: Saving throw is probably the highest because you're a paladin. [04:14:06] Speaker C: You're proficient. [04:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, you're saying it was a saving throw? [04:14:09] Speaker B: That'd be three plus six. That means you have. [04:14:11] Speaker A: Oh, I thought I was looking at skills and abilities. [04:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [04:14:13] Speaker A: So it's a saving throw. [04:14:13] Speaker E: Okay, cool. [04:14:15] Speaker A: So I guess charisma. [04:14:25] Speaker B: Can we get an advantage since it [04:14:26] Speaker A: relates to family, doesn't that 20 [04:14:34] Speaker D: with a 29. [04:14:36] Speaker A: Because when have I ever been proficient? [04:14:38] Speaker D: Work up the immense courage to leave your mom's house. [04:14:43] Speaker B: House. [04:14:44] Speaker D: Even when she wanted you there. Even with all the guilt. [04:14:47] Speaker A: That was a saving. [04:14:48] Speaker D: And all the love meals. [04:14:49] Speaker A: Holy crap. [04:14:50] Speaker D: You work up the courage to leave your mom's house behind, you go stay with a friend, and a week later [04:14:59] Speaker B: you come back to Cat. [04:15:01] Speaker A: Okay. [04:15:02] Speaker B: A similar greeting at the door, a similar reunion at the table. [04:15:07] Speaker A: Can I. Can I say yeah? [04:15:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [04:15:12] Speaker A: I don't know. I. I feel like maybe Craig has a read on this, but, like, he does bring. He brings dinner. [04:15:20] Speaker D: Okay, excellent. [04:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he brings dinner. [04:15:22] Speaker D: A dinner that Craig. [04:15:23] Speaker B: And this is a. You cooked. [04:15:26] Speaker D: It's not very good, but you cooked it. [04:15:28] Speaker A: It's spaghetti. Let's be honest. [04:15:30] Speaker D: Whatever the medieval equivalent. So funny as you come back with [04:15:33] Speaker B: it, Craig, you set it down at the table. [04:15:35] Speaker D: Cats. More cordial this time, but no warmer. [04:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know how you did that, bud. Hair was in an interesting place. [04:15:43] Speaker D: Hair was all the way through. [04:15:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [04:15:45] Speaker D: I don't know what that was. You sit down at the table and. [04:15:51] Speaker B: There's a long pause. And Catherine, [04:15:57] Speaker D: she doesn't say a whole [04:15:58] Speaker B: lot when you're coming in. [04:15:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [04:15:59] Speaker B: As you sit down at your side, she takes a glass. She sets it down next to you. Craig still doesn't drink, right? [04:16:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he doesn't drink. Okay. [04:16:07] Speaker B: She sets a glass down next to her. She pulls out just water, distilled water. She pours it for you. She pours it for her. She slides a glass forward and she says, Hi, I'm katie. [04:16:28] Speaker A: I'm craig. Nice to meet you. [04:16:32] Speaker B: Shakes your hand. I'm. I'm not new around here, but things are new for me around here, so. Thought maybe we could have dinner. Yeah, I'm free on Beckon each week. [04:16:57] Speaker A: Okay. [04:17:01] Speaker B: And Craig and Cat have dinner every week on Bekkon for a long time. Craig, Aaron's doing well. He's come back to Shkolnikov and he's reconciled with Jaal. And her dad is nowhere to be seen. When the Kevin empire collapsed, he left Kef or he. He left Basta behind, as many instilled Kefkan authorities did when it was still safe. Fearing the consequence of Ben's regaining power. And jaw is accepted. [04:17:34] Speaker D: There's not warm. She deals with a lot for a [04:17:37] Speaker B: long time for being ethnically Kefkan, being one of the. One of the colonizing, well, people. But Aaron resumes his position at the mine. [04:17:49] Speaker D: And if you're looking for work, you're also comically wealthy. So you can just buy a house and live there on your own and [04:17:54] Speaker B: not work if you want to. [04:17:55] Speaker D: But Aaron offers you to work at [04:17:57] Speaker B: the mines with him in managing if you so choose. [04:18:01] Speaker A: He declines. [04:18:02] Speaker D: Okay. And Aaron accepts. [04:18:03] Speaker B: He understands. But a very different relationship forms with your son. But one resumes and one with a lot more respect for each other and a little bit of disruption of the roles that used to be there. But you reconcile quite a bit with your son, who you were on much better terms with before you left. But you have dinner with Catherine every [04:18:26] Speaker D: day or every Friday back on for about a year. [04:18:34] Speaker B: And slowly but surely you work forward. About a month in, she feels ready to finally have a fight with you. It's a terrible evening. [04:18:43] Speaker D: So you fight for a couple months [04:18:46] Speaker B: and it's not fun, it's not good. Some of it's unproductive. But she keeps having dinner with you. [04:18:54] Speaker D: And at the end of the first [04:18:55] Speaker B: year, she agrees to a second year. And for about a year and a half, you have dinner on Fridays. And how else Craig occupies his time, it's up to him. [04:19:06] Speaker A: I think that he's gonna. You know, he's wealthy, but I think that he's gonna pour into the community as much as he can. [04:19:14] Speaker B: Sure. [04:19:15] Speaker A: So I think that he's gonna involve himself in fundraising for the school. So I'd like to think that he does, like, a fight class. [04:19:26] Speaker D: Okay. [04:19:26] Speaker A: Okay. Like, strength building classes. Like, for the. [04:19:30] Speaker D: Okay, sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. [04:19:33] Speaker A: Okay. I don't know. I think it'd be fun. Like, the way that people do boxing, [04:19:37] Speaker D: like, sparring, cultural innovations happen. [04:19:39] Speaker B: I like it. [04:19:40] Speaker A: So I think that, like, he's very involved in the community and the education system as much as he can be. And what. Why are you. [04:19:50] Speaker D: No, Hoffa's just eating something with a wrapper and unwrapping it very nervously. [04:19:55] Speaker A: Oh, it's okay. [04:19:55] Speaker B: It's very cute. [04:19:58] Speaker A: But, yeah. So I think that he's just occupying his time by, like, the joy that he feels and being able to help someone come to themselves and find themselves. [04:20:12] Speaker B: And Craig, you take on a role of mentorship. [04:20:15] Speaker D: You lead a Marshall class. [04:20:17] Speaker B: You lead a class teaching maybe young town guards or even, like, fathers and sons, sometimes in duos, teaching personal conditioning. But you focus a whole lot on character as well. [04:20:33] Speaker D: And it takes a while, but after a year, word makes round. And after people find out, holy crap, who you are and the things you've done, that school gets popular. And that was a. Right. [04:20:47] Speaker B: A TUI reference anyway. [04:20:49] Speaker D: And [04:20:53] Speaker B: you find a very successful role and a meaningful role for yourself in your life. And you have a fitness class, the Occall class, that's all about morning exercises and one of martial discipline. And you have these moral tenets you focus on and you pour into your community through involvement, relationship. And some of the classes are paid for, and some of them are free for the people who can't afford. And you buy yourself a home and you continue to work with. Oh, no. Okay. You continue to live with that friend. [04:21:25] Speaker A: No, no, I. I like. Is there a renting system or. No, sure. Why not? I think it'd be silly to buy a home. Okay. Like. [04:21:37] Speaker D: All right. Yeah, got it. Your rent, for a while, you got the disposable income. And. [04:21:48] Speaker B: Craig, after time, you move forward with Catherine, you have to make something new. It's not the same as what was, but as you mourn it and you accept it, she's able to fall in love with the man you've become and you're able to be a different man. And the hardest part is she has to figure out how to be a different person because she's changed greatly. But in time there is the patient and hard work of reconciliation. [04:22:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I'd like to think that while she's knowing the new Craig, he's knowing her for the first time. Truly knowing her for the first time. First time. And every like every Friday he or you know, what day is it? [04:22:37] Speaker E: The call [04:22:41] Speaker D: Ron Glenn, [04:22:43] Speaker E: every time he [04:22:44] Speaker A: like walks away, the thought he has is, wow, I lost so much just feeling the graveness of like, whoa. Like I had no idea what I had in my hand. [04:23:00] Speaker B: And you make something new Craig and eventually love grows again. [04:23:07] Speaker A: Can I say, can I describe some dates? [04:23:11] Speaker D: Sure. [04:23:14] Speaker A: I like to think that he brings her food and his cooking gets better. [04:23:17] Speaker B: Much better. [04:23:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Starts pretty bad every single time. [04:23:20] Speaker E: The first time she like laughs. That's what I want to hear. [04:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think that you know, after some time has passed, and I'll make this quick because I don't mean to go to beddy bye, but yeah, I just think that like after some time has passed, you know how like when you first start dating someone, you like talk about your perspective of the relationship before you said I like you, you know, and how that works. So I think that he's going to be like, yeah. And then I stay with my mom and oh my gosh, you're so right. [04:23:48] Speaker B: And there is. You break a little like a long [04:23:52] Speaker D: wound falls apart as she can see that you finally learned some things. You watch, you watch audible recognition on our visual, visible recognition on her face [04:24:01] Speaker B: as you say it. [04:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Like oh my gosh. And I'd like to think that the way that like he formatted that conversation like led to laughter of like wow, I'm so blind. [04:24:12] Speaker D: Absolutely. [04:24:13] Speaker A: You know, it's like, like, you know, it's like the anger and frustration of like. Yeah, you didn't see that. And it like starts to like wow. Like laughing at you know who, how blind he was and oblivious. [04:24:23] Speaker B: Absolutely. [04:24:23] Speaker A: And then I'd like to think that we go out to like maybe days apart from Friday, you know, eventually. [04:24:29] Speaker D: Yes. Sometime in the second year. [04:24:31] Speaker B: She agrees, she agrees to other days [04:24:32] Speaker A: in the week or it's like a, there's like a parade. Not a parade, but like you know, events happening in the town. You know, like spring, there's a fun guys parade. Guys. [04:24:42] Speaker C: Cuz when they finally find out that you saved the world I mean, quite frankly. [04:24:46] Speaker D: Yeah. [04:24:47] Speaker A: Yeah. So anyways, I just think that there's like, days where everything's okay and like, you know, and then it flips immediately. Because that's just how relationships are. They just flip sometimes. But then, you know, it goes back to the joyousness and then the heartache. And he takes it every. Every single time. [04:25:07] Speaker B: And eventually you move back into your [04:25:09] Speaker C: home [04:25:12] Speaker B: and what you fought for for so long comes to fruition. [04:25:18] Speaker A: And he still keeps. Every single week, that date night. And he reads to her. The love on the mountain. [04:25:28] Speaker D: Love under the mountain. [04:25:29] Speaker A: He reads it to her. [04:25:33] Speaker D: It's. It's a little corny, but the steaminess is. She's into it. She's into it. She's into. Becomes a. And you guys laugh at it. Yeah, Sometimes. Take it seriously, you know. It's a good book. [04:25:45] Speaker E: Zach. [04:25:46] Speaker C: You gotta write this book. [04:25:47] Speaker D: Okay. [04:25:48] Speaker C: All right. [04:25:48] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:25:49] Speaker C: They did it with critical role. You can do it. [04:25:51] Speaker D: Hey, if this thing becomes successful, we can talk about it. But let's one thing at a time. And so. [04:25:57] Speaker B: Huh? Okay. Yes. [04:25:59] Speaker D: Alpha said she'll help me write it. [04:26:03] Speaker B: The manifold story of the fungi's finds many different conclusions. There's one last little moment. We're gonna focus on a very unexpected one. [04:26:13] Speaker D: Greta. [04:26:15] Speaker B: Years and years later. Okay, you join. Hold on. What song is this? No, I think it's. [04:26:23] Speaker E: I think. I think it's like. [04:26:27] Speaker D: Captain, years and years later, you joined [04:26:30] Speaker B: Rongrum, the captain of the sea, on [04:26:33] Speaker D: his venture to Chaska. In fact, to be specific, it's about 17 or 18 years later because he [04:26:39] Speaker B: spends that first decade dealing with Kefkins around the bloom. And you are joined. You ride the doom with the ship that belonged to the warriors of the well, it's beautiful. [04:26:52] Speaker D: They have a carpenter aboard the ship named. Anyway, he has a name and he loves to carve intricately. And he has covered the inside of [04:27:04] Speaker B: the ship in carvings of their adventures. [04:27:07] Speaker D: And on the front of the ship, on the prow is the skull of a basilisk that's been covered in melted [04:27:14] Speaker B: iron and fused to the front of the ship, which is just ridiculously metal. [04:27:19] Speaker D: The sails are white dragon wing leather that drift pale mist behind it. And you ride the ship, which has a majority Lokatha crew. The other fish people. Yes, who you get to know very well. They're the brothers Sompt. [04:27:35] Speaker B: Married is the carpenter's name. That's right. [04:27:37] Speaker D: And there are other crew members and all sorts of interesting people. [04:27:40] Speaker B: And Tello goes with you and maybe some other people we could talk about. With time. [04:27:46] Speaker D: But there's one more very interesting crew [04:27:51] Speaker B: member on the ship who's deeply unexpected. Wronggrim finds one last recruit before he departs. And I only include this because this is how they ended their session last time. Rongrim hunts down the one general he fought that he did not kill. General Vashnazan. [04:28:14] Speaker D: The Earth render what the one you [04:28:17] Speaker B: all saw in the field at this [04:28:19] Speaker D: point in your life 23 years ago. [04:28:21] Speaker B: The men's Goliath man. [04:28:22] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:28:23] Speaker B: The only individual who survived the fight with the warriors of the well. [04:28:27] Speaker A: Wow. [04:28:27] Speaker B: Who at one point in the fight [04:28:29] Speaker D: was actively killing Xavian. Beating up we woo. [04:28:32] Speaker B: And fighting off Wrong Grim at the same time. [04:28:34] Speaker C: Time. [04:28:34] Speaker A: Wow. [04:28:36] Speaker B: The greatest mortal warrior that this age has known. [04:28:39] Speaker D: Who fled after he saw the madness [04:28:41] Speaker B: that a Asgon had succumbed to. As Rongrim convinced him that this was not worth dying for. Wrong found him years later. And through events he gave him a blanket. And to events unclear to you that I that Vashnazan shows no interest in discussing. Vashnazan has not become a member of his crew but has agreed for some unclear reason to sail with Wronggrim for one year. And then he will depart again. Vashnizan is a terrifying figure. He stands at 8 1/2ft tall. He weighs not quite 600 pounds of muscle. [04:29:22] Speaker D: From what you can put together in [04:29:23] Speaker B: the short time you know him well in the long time you know him. He has about the strength of a giant. [04:29:27] Speaker A: Wow. [04:29:28] Speaker B: And he wears these immense. [04:29:30] Speaker D: He wears no armor. He has these very basic sailors clothes [04:29:34] Speaker B: which appear to be new to him and barely fit. They had to be handmade. [04:29:38] Speaker D: But he. He a lot of himself he leaves bare. And he is. [04:29:41] Speaker B: Goliaths paint themselves with intricate tattoos. [04:29:43] Speaker D: But he covers. He is covered. His only tattoos are the scars all across his body. Of which he has thousands. You learn in the time with him. The rest of the crew has no [04:29:56] Speaker B: love for him as he is one [04:29:58] Speaker D: of the Kefkan generals. He toppled two or three nations. [04:30:02] Speaker B: He was the one who toppled Vashtan. [04:30:04] Speaker C: Can I. I just want to say real quick. The very first page of my notes and my. In my journal has all. Everything that Zach has just said about Vashnazan here. Because rolled a check before the first session to see if she knew about him. [04:30:20] Speaker B: So I just thought that was cool. [04:30:21] Speaker D: He is. [04:30:21] Speaker B: He is the. The general who conquered Vashtan. And you learn in the time that there is a rumor that he has killed more than a thousand people with his own hands. Because you learn that he wields no weapons. [04:30:32] Speaker D: He just has these two magical metal [04:30:35] Speaker B: gauntlets he wears on his hands. And when he fights, he simply strikes with them. [04:30:38] Speaker A: Wow. [04:30:41] Speaker B: And he is this brutal killing man, and he is on the trip with you, but you find that he's quite quiet and contemplative. He works very hard at whatever task he's set to, and the crew regards him with great fear and disdain. But he sets himself to the task quietly. [04:30:59] Speaker D: Again, it's very confusing. [04:31:00] Speaker B: For whatever reason, he has agreed to sail with Rongrim. [04:31:03] Speaker D: But Rongrim talks to him every day. [04:31:05] Speaker B: He sits with him at dinner and speaks with him. And he joins you in the exploration of Chaska. You fight with him some of the monsters inland. [04:31:17] Speaker D: Holy living, actual flaming crap. [04:31:21] Speaker B: He kills many things. He is terrifying. But you also find yourself having a number of conversations with him. [04:31:29] Speaker E: Does he do anything for leisure? [04:31:33] Speaker B: He thinks. He sits and he thinks a lot. [04:31:39] Speaker E: I think after the first. After Greta spent some time with him and she watches. She notices all of these things. And she notices, like, the attention that he takes to his duties and wanting to maybe learning from Nam or learning from her travels with the fungi is that sometimes the best thing you can do is just do something with someone. She will just. After a while, maybe six months, she will just. If she'll. If he'll have her, she will just sit and think with him. Like, she'll just sit next to him and. And just think, like, just do it with him. [04:32:14] Speaker B: The first time you do it is very disconcerting. You are a very brave woman. You faced Zoram. But there is this part of you that feels reassured by the knowledge that this man is here on Rongrum's behalf, [04:32:28] Speaker D: so likely is committed not to kill you. I think you have to push with your legs, baby. And. [04:32:36] Speaker B: And also [04:32:38] Speaker D: after watching a lot of battle, you're not exactly sure who's stronger. [04:32:41] Speaker B: Ranga Vashnazan. [04:32:43] Speaker D: But at least they have a similar level of power. [04:32:45] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:32:45] Speaker D: And so you feel like if ever there's great tragedy, you could call out, but it is very tense for sitting. It's kind of like deciding to sit [04:32:52] Speaker B: down and do some homework near the cage with a lion. And. [04:32:55] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:32:55] Speaker D: But he allows you to. And you do this for a couple [04:32:59] Speaker B: months, and eventually one day he turns to you and he says, what was he like? [04:33:08] Speaker D: Just out of the blue? And it's about the first time he's talked to you in seven months. [04:33:11] Speaker E: Okay. Wow. [04:33:15] Speaker B: His immense figure towers next to you. [04:33:17] Speaker E: What was what like? [04:33:22] Speaker B: This is Orgrim. [04:33:25] Speaker E: She nods and Kind of looks out into space. [04:33:29] Speaker B: My emperor, he gave up everything. Asgon, he gave up everything for the allure that conducting some sort of a magical ritual would curry the favor of this God, and that he'd become powerful on his own. And it was this God who tricked Asgard, who was a difficult man to trick, and who killed all of Tharsh. Seven generations. Built the empire, crushed cultures underfoot, destroyed my people, killed my family. All of it fell apart. For this Zora Grimm, You all fought him, stopped him, I'm told. [04:34:29] Speaker E: Yes. [04:34:31] Speaker B: He looks very directly at you, and he's just. It's. I mean, forget rbf. He's just like. [04:34:38] Speaker D: There's no. It's so hard to have a gentle moment with him. But he looks at you with attention. [04:34:45] Speaker B: No intimidation. Maybe he's still intimidating, but he just [04:34:48] Speaker D: looks at you very. [04:34:49] Speaker B: Like he's listening. And he says, what insights have you? [04:34:56] Speaker E: He's very smart. You know, that is. [04:35:01] Speaker B: Well, not in the past. [04:35:05] Speaker E: I'm not an expert, but I think out there somewhere, he's in his own world, still conscious. That's how I understand it. But you're right. It's better to use was. [04:35:23] Speaker B: It wasn't a correction. It was a question. [04:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [04:35:25] Speaker B: You know far more about this than [04:35:27] Speaker E: I do in this world. When he appeared to us, he was smart. It was marvelous in a terrible way. It was scary. But he was smart. [04:35:51] Speaker A: But [04:35:54] Speaker E: he was angry. Um. I think he was mad about injustice in the world, which is a fair thing to be mad about. But he thought that the answer to injustice was nothing. And he wanted people to give everything, reality, a way to start over. But if you ask me, I think you can start over without destroying things. But he was. He was smart, but he was. He was just as angry. And I think his anger and his. His rage and his. I mean, even for him, he. He was focused on the person he hated the most. And lucky for us, I think, maybe. I think he could have played it smarter. But he was. [04:37:07] Speaker B: When you say that, he gives you this interesting look and the tiniest little smirk, and he goes back to listening and attention. [04:37:16] Speaker E: I. I think if he wasn't so angry, he could have done it better. [04:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [04:37:23] Speaker E: Yeah. And I think that he did. What made him feel. He fought the person that made him feel small and that made him feel angry and that had rejected him and who. Shaving. But it was. It was. It was. This might sound a little weird, but [04:37:55] Speaker C: I'm [04:37:58] Speaker E: so happy I saw it, and I'm so happy it's over, because it was horrible. But to see something, to see so much rawness and so much power was truly marvelous. And I would never do it again. And I hope he never comes back. And I guess if he did come back, I would do everything I could to make him go away. But it was. It was marvelous. Terrifying. [04:38:34] Speaker B: He just takes a long look at you. However you feel about that. Nods. I see how it was you, Chief Round. [04:38:55] Speaker E: I frown at this. [04:39:00] Speaker B: You're quite something. See how it was you who was one of the ones to defeat him. If you have perspective you'd like to share with me while we're here, I'd hear it gladly. [04:39:16] Speaker E: What do you need perspective on? What do you want perspective on? [04:39:22] Speaker B: You're a fool if you don't listen to intelligent people. Nothing specific. Farting? Listening. Nothing specific. [04:39:34] Speaker E: Yeah. [04:39:35] Speaker B: But I see why this iun so invested in you. And we'll see that you do not die in your time here. [04:39:46] Speaker E: Thank you. [04:39:47] Speaker B: I owe you. [04:39:50] Speaker D: Is it that bad? Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. And he continues and he says, [04:39:58] Speaker E: I [04:39:58] Speaker B: would not be alive if it weren't for you. And he gets up and walks away. [04:40:07] Speaker A: Okay. [04:40:08] Speaker D: Do you start to say something because you can't. [04:40:10] Speaker E: I do. I do. Okay. As he's getting. I say. [04:40:14] Speaker B: He turns. [04:40:15] Speaker E: I. I won't pretend to not know who you are and what you've done. [04:40:20] Speaker B: You don't. But he doesn't say it, like, challengingly. He just acknowledges. [04:40:24] Speaker E: Yeah. And you. You asked for perspective, so I did. [04:40:33] Speaker B: He shifts and gives you his full attention. [04:40:35] Speaker E: I. I did. I've done bad things that I'm ashamed of and that make me feel awful. And they might not be at the same scale, but they matter to me. And I was able to start over without destroying everything. Sometimes I thought about destroying it just. But. And I had a lot of help. I had wonderful people around me, but I did it. And the people helped me. [04:41:08] Speaker C: But [04:41:12] Speaker E: I was able to change just a little bit at a time. And I'm still very similar, and I still did those things, but I was able to find forgiveness from somewhere. And you're. Ron Grimm is wonderful, and you're doing a good thing by spending time with him. [04:41:43] Speaker B: He just nods. He walks away. [04:41:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [04:41:48] Speaker B: It's just a strange thing that Daniel threw into the end of our session, so I'm including it here. [04:41:52] Speaker C: Crazy. [04:41:53] Speaker A: Hey. Hey. [04:41:58] Speaker D: Okay, we will go to that last unexpected moment, and then we'll wrap things up really quick. [04:42:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So on a different evening, when Craig has long reconciled with Catherine, we'll jump eight years into the future. [04:42:19] Speaker A: Okay, Craig. [04:42:22] Speaker B: For whatever reason, whether it's realization or recollection or whatever courage is worked up, or maybe it's not easier so we don't have to get fixed on the [04:42:31] Speaker D: number, but [04:42:33] Speaker B: decide it might be worth trying to reinvest in some form of connection. To whom do you try to eventually mentally reach out? You no longer have an artifact in your possession. [04:42:47] Speaker A: But my hopes and dreams. [04:42:48] Speaker B: Sure. What are you doing? As you remember an old friend, I'm [04:42:53] Speaker A: gonna say I was at a pond of whatever. Like a water, you know? And I was seeing how it was moving and it reminded me. I was like. Oh. And I'd like to think that somewhere I have the maker symbol. Even though it's not the maker. I don't want to get that confused. [04:43:16] Speaker B: Incredibly different. [04:43:16] Speaker A: But sure, yeah, yeah, but like of some sort. [04:43:19] Speaker B: Powerfully potent object. [04:43:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And. And he's thinks to old friend. Did you make it? Are you there? [04:43:39] Speaker B: The pause is long. And after a time you can hear. You can feel. When the voice begins, the water at the surface of the pond ripples slightly. The voice says, craig. I had almost forgotten. [04:44:09] Speaker A: Thank you for everything. [04:44:13] Speaker C: No, [04:44:16] Speaker B: thank you. I would have died. I would have been destroyed. I would have been robbed of sight if it hadn't been for your dividge. Now I've grown. I am further. Thank you, Craig. I watch or see better now. Can see into the place that I was from to others that I am not. And ever. I watch you. Thank you. [04:45:17] Speaker A: Why did that. Why. [04:45:23] Speaker D: Why did that feel creepier? [04:45:25] Speaker A: Not. [04:45:25] Speaker E: Not. [04:45:26] Speaker A: Why did it feel like. More like. [04:45:29] Speaker D: What are you doing, Craig? [04:45:30] Speaker B: Anything you're doing in character. In this moment. [04:45:31] Speaker E: I watch. [04:45:33] Speaker A: I think he's just gonna say. Keep watching over my family. [04:45:40] Speaker B: Yes. [04:45:42] Speaker A: I hope to talk to you more soon. [04:45:44] Speaker B: I owe you this. Always [04:45:50] Speaker A: let me know if you need anything. [04:45:53] Speaker B: No, I. I don't know that I'll ever need anything again. [04:45:59] Speaker A: Okay. [04:46:06] Speaker B: The pond ripples and then goes back to flowing. [04:46:10] Speaker E: That's cool. [04:46:12] Speaker A: That's that. [04:46:18] Speaker B: And Craig watches over a pond, thinking of an old friend. A thousand miles away, below stone, below the sea level but in fresh air. A very small white cap rotates at the top of a fungus. The thin stem is being held between two purple scaled fingers with claws. At the end, an eye, like a dinner plate, massive and unblinking. Turns and looks at it. The image captured backward in the immense black void of an eye. And the head rotates the fungus all the way around to the other side. To be able to get to look at it. And it moves it back to the middle. But its central site isn't quite as good. Short, stubby spines that barely have any membranous tissue grown between them yet flex slightly in response to it. And the small fish like individual begins to put the fungus in its mouth before a voice nestling and pulls the fungus back out. As the small Kuo Toa child is scolded by an adult not to eat that. Crushes it in his hand, rubs it all over, smells it looks the adult's looking away, rubs it all over its head. And then place his hands in the water. The seawater pool in the bottom of a stone chamber. And all around the statues of Carcone have been taken down. None of them remain. They're just empty at the moment. The child plays in the pool and looks at the water, swirls, playing with circular shapes in the water. Brings it up to himself, pours seawater on his feet. He sits down. He looks at the pool of water and into a room that's filled with white fungus growing up the wall [04:48:50] Speaker C: and [04:48:50] Speaker B: then back at the water. And he imagines he's heard legends and myths. So he plays with them in his mind. He imagines one day traveling up to the surface world of Legath, maybe taking up a weapon, finding adventure for himself. His father knew these warriors who came long ago and has told him about it. So he dreams of that. He plays at things in his mind and he tells stories to himself and makes them up. And he sits there. We're looking curiously into the water and reaching beneath the wave and pulling out this string object that was caught on the edge of a stone reef edge the base of the pool. It's this little brass ring that looks like it fits onto some sort of an object but was broken off a long time ago. So he plays it in his fingers, puts that in his mouth, pulls it back out. Doesn't taste very good. He sits there in his hands and he rotates the circle and imagines and thinks and he thinks for himself of all sorts of adventures he could go on one day. And in this world that still exists thanks to the efforts of a bunch of weirdos, he imagines he makes stories for himself. And he has no idea that he's alive because of a very accidental adventure. [04:50:27] Speaker A: That's it. [04:50:27] Speaker C: We're done. [04:50:29] Speaker A: That's it. That's it. [04:50:38] Speaker B: Listeners, Thank you. Thank you for coming along. Hope you enjoyed it very much. [04:50:54] Speaker D: Everyone's crying. [04:51:01] Speaker B: We're listeners, we're not going anywhere necessarily. Though some things are Changing. There are some friends we'll be saying goodbye to in a permanent sense around here, though. We might still have visits from them, from them in the future, but we have. We have more stories that we plan on telling, though. See what happens with all of it. [04:51:26] Speaker D: Life is changing in a lot of [04:51:27] Speaker B: ways for a lot of us. [04:51:29] Speaker D: But you know what? We can talk all about that later. [04:51:34] Speaker B: Right now, in this moment is as you've come to the end of the story with us. You know, I could say thank you for coming along if you're on the Patreon. [04:51:43] Speaker D: You know, thank you for support, but [04:51:44] Speaker B: honestly, right now, I don't care about any of that. Listener, what I want you to know is that we made this story for us, and I made this story for people I love. And because of the way that love has loved me, so we made them for that reason. And I could try and create some sort of parasocial narrative where I made it for you. [04:52:05] Speaker D: But, listener, I don't know your name. [04:52:06] Speaker B: I don't know you. [04:52:07] Speaker D: Unless you're, like, Jonathan Drew or Rylan. I see you're liking things all the time. Unless it's one of them, I don't know you. But also, if you're that one Japanese listener. Hi. [04:52:19] Speaker C: Australian, too. [04:52:21] Speaker A: Hey. [04:52:22] Speaker D: But, yeah, no, I had to resist the. I was. I was about to, but I fought off the Australian. I said, so I don't know you, but this story was yours, too. You know, I mean, we made it, and it was for each other, but in whatever way it feels like it belonged to you. [04:52:39] Speaker B: And that little extent did you know, [04:52:42] Speaker D: we made it for each other, but we. [04:52:44] Speaker B: We published it so that we could [04:52:45] Speaker D: go back and listen to it, and [04:52:46] Speaker B: I could give it to my daughter someday, but also so that we could give it away so that it could belong to you. So if it meant something to you, [04:52:53] Speaker D: I hope it did. [04:52:53] Speaker B: And hold that close. And here's. [04:52:55] Speaker D: Here's. [04:52:55] Speaker B: My. Here's the thing I'd love to say to you, [04:53:00] Speaker D: because whatever it's meant to [04:53:01] Speaker B: you, it already has. If this story comes to an end and you find yourself thinking what it did for me, I want more of. I heard stories a long time ago that affected me greatly. And I was telling stories with my friends and my cousins when we were kids. So I have a little secret for you. You can. You can tell a story, and there's a story that you can tell that we never could. So, listener, if you are sad, if you're not sad, and you're like, wow, they will not Shut up. [04:53:34] Speaker D: I was just doing the laundry. I don't care, guys. Okay. Anyway, back to another podcast. That's fine. But if you're sad, I mean, not [04:53:41] Speaker B: all tears are evil. Feel your sadness. But, hey, make your own story. And that's difficult. [04:53:50] Speaker D: It's not the same ease for everybody, but you just. You just start. [04:53:55] Speaker B: So go find some friends. [04:53:57] Speaker D: Micah's stand is giving out on her. You can just hold him. Go find some friends. And if you want it to be dd, awesome. But if you want it to just be sitting around and tell stories, Just. [04:54:10] Speaker B: We need stories to tell each other. [04:54:11] Speaker D: We need to make sense out of life. [04:54:13] Speaker B: Invite people to your table, people you love. [04:54:16] Speaker D: And I'm not saying it'll go, well, maybe it'll go awful, but then try again. [04:54:22] Speaker B: Make a table where people can belong [04:54:25] Speaker D: and have the goal of loving them [04:54:28] Speaker B: and giving them the opportunity to tell their story stories. Because we all need this from each other. [04:54:32] Speaker D: We need it very badly. [04:54:34] Speaker B: All of us have the opportunity to love each other or not in this world. So if this experience has drawn you in, I'd love for you to listen to more of our stories. [04:54:43] Speaker D: But what I'd love for you to [04:54:44] Speaker B: listen, to do more, is to go tell yours somehow and tell it with other people. It's hard, but it's worth it if you can. If that's not for you, that's fine. [04:54:57] Speaker D: I'm not gonna waste too much more time talking to my players. I've talked to them. They know what they mean to me. I would like to say one last time to everybody. [04:55:08] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for coming along. I've just been saying I love you for five years, so you know exactly how I feel. I wouldn't have had it any other way. Wouldn't have done it with anybody else. It was worth it. Listener, we have plans to be back. You know, who knows? Maybe I explode when this is over. [04:55:40] Speaker D: Assuming a meteor doesn't come around. Assuming a meteor doesn't come down and hit me. We have plans on more, but we [04:55:47] Speaker C: do have an ongoing mini campaign right now. [04:55:50] Speaker D: And we'll come to that. We'll come to that, but. [04:55:54] Speaker C: And join the Patreon if you want. Hey, we want. We want to continue doing stuff with you guys. [04:56:02] Speaker D: I think we still have a free [04:56:03] Speaker E: tier, but we do. [04:56:04] Speaker C: I think. And we're gonna do a big, big, big old third watch on. [04:56:09] Speaker B: Yes. [04:56:10] Speaker C: The breakdown of this, where we'll talk and cry. Yeah, exactly. [04:56:14] Speaker A: The breakdown for sure. [04:56:15] Speaker C: Yeah, it'll be a breakdown. [04:56:18] Speaker A: And. [04:56:20] Speaker C: Yeah, hopefully there's. [04:56:21] Speaker A: There's. There's more to come. [04:56:22] Speaker C: And like we said, we're doing a little mini campaign and [04:56:27] Speaker A: all. [04:56:28] Speaker B: That being said, listener life is an incredible adventure, and you're a very important part of it. You're very loved. [04:56:46] Speaker A: Skippity. What? Skippity.