C1 Ep. 08 - You Spin Me Bloomright Round

Happy Bloomright! The party officially register their free company and enjoy some time around the city for a celebration of Spring. Everything will be fine and normal, right?

Content Warnings:
Course Language
The Occasional Bit of Innuendo
Bad Accents
Extreme Elegance
Refutations of Existence

Look for our next episode on July 1st, 2026!

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SPEAKER_11 0:00

Welcome to the Good Good Table, the podcast for grown folks with swears and violence and stuff. Content warnings can be found in the description.

SPEAKER_02 0:09

Previously at the Good Good Table.

SPEAKER_12 0:11

It is now time to head to O Stone.

SPEAKER_10 0:14

It'll take about three days to get there. First day you make it to Blackfield.

SPEAKER_08 0:19

My name is Tono Baru. I am I am a witness archivist. Would you mind terribly if I accompanied you on your journey?

SPEAKER_10 0:28

Well, we're all going the same direction.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Yeah. Excellent.

SPEAKER_10 0:31

Kind of about partway through the first day after you left Blackfield, from your side, an enormous white wolf with glowing golden eyes steps into view.

SPEAKER_08 0:42

Though it may be distant, you are none the less of my blood. Huh? I will admit I was smitten when I say a young man who hunted with wolves and danced in the moonlight. Lillian was born from that union. Lillian of the half moon.

SPEAKER_10 0:59

It is her light that shines when you rouse the white wolf. And as you are heading up, you see Old Stone actually come into view. Howdy folks. Welcome to Old Stone.

SPEAKER_11 1:11

I'm the foreman around these parts. They call me Asgari. Bruno Asgari. We ain't gonna charge you for the materium, but we can't just let it go for nothing.

SPEAKER_10 1:20

So you do the labor, you're welcome to whatever you get out of it. In the yard, there appears to be a pile of stone with the with a unhappy-looking dwarf woman staring at them.

SPEAKER_05 1:33

Uh, I would be willing to go talk to the angry dwarf lady.

SPEAKER_10 1:37

Yeah, I'll join Lunette.

SPEAKER_12 1:39

We keep finding stones like this. Those edges are too smooth. There's no tool I know of that can make cuts like that. Well, and the workers won't have it.

SPEAKER_10 1:48

They're saying there's something out there and they won't go near it if they find these cuts. That would take a cutting force. More like a sword.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

So these are just being found at the site?

SPEAKER_10 1:57

There's one particular part of the quarry, and we keep finding these cuts, too, right side by side. But you see them kind of in several places over here. In the distance, you see an armored person. The there's a plume coming out of the back of their helmet that is this crimson red. They are watching from a distance. That would be a death knight. A what? That is Kouo Durage the Crimson Ming. That's a confirmed command level threat. Oh what? Oh. That's an S-Rake minimum. He kind of disappears into the landscape behind him. Probably need to get moving. Yeah, we need to get moving.

SPEAKER_06 2:38

How about we go now?

SPEAKER_10 2:40

You will arrive back in Ogun the night before Bloomright. The city has transformed into a sea of greens and golds and pinks. And as the bird flies out east away from the city, we hear a roar, and the earth shakes as two tremendous strikes echo in the ruins outside Ogin's wall.

SPEAKER_12 3:09

Welcome back to the Good Good Table, everybody!

SPEAKER_10 3:12

Yay! Yay! My name is Alex. I will be your host and your DM today. With us again, we have we have two people. I'm gonna go this way. This is we have Jen as Jenova.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Hey, hey, hey!

SPEAKER_10 3:26

We have Elizabeth as Adel. We have Courtney as Lunette. And Brandon as Jenova. No, one more time. There's two Jenovas now. No, it's Brandon as Venaria. So we're starting hot again, which is always real fun. So accomplish nothing. So last time we had uh you had followed the parade up to the parade grounds, and there was a neat little scene with a bird that flew over, and there was a noise outside, but you don't know what it is, because y'all were in the city. So all you know is that it's yeah, it's it's it's celebration time.

SPEAKER_05 4:09

Yay! But real quick, real quick.

SPEAKER_10 4:14

Overnight, before before y'all had gone to the parade and stuff. This is just something that's been kind of lurking in your mind. Jenova. Overnight. You had disturbed kind of dreams. Actually, let me let me rephrase that so it doesn't sound like something bad happened. You had fitful rest. How does that sound? Does that sound less threatening? But yes, overnight you had dreams of heat and endless water all around you. Um like like like a- We are the frogs. No matter where you tried to swim, you you couldn't escape it. And you kept thrashing in desperation until eventually you were awakened by Fritter jumping up and down on your sternum. But you were you were soaked in sweat and and the the details of the dreams escaped you. But you kind of had this left, like you were left with a feeling of kind of the lingering sense of nostalgia. Um you feel free to make an insight check.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Alright, Jenova rolls a uh a 14.

SPEAKER_10 5:24

Well, you you you have that feeling probably the water, you know, being a water nymph. Um, but the the why is my favorite.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 5:33

Um the the why of it kind of escapes you though.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Yeah, so Jenova, she wakes up very feeling very puzzled.

SPEAKER_10 5:40

Yeah. And it kind of lingers again, but like any other dream, you know, just kind of the details of it just fades over time. Yeah. So Ogin is in the midst of the Bloomerite festival. Yay! Yay! It's your your typical spring uh festivities.

SPEAKER_05 5:56

Getting turnt at Bloomright.

SPEAKER_10 5:58

Yes. Um you ha you all actually also saw a Maypole dance um as you were wandering around. Yeah. So, I mean, like I said, this is your your typical kind of spring fair. There's lots of good stuff around. Um businesses will be open for most of the celebration, but they are currently closed because everybody's going out on the street and celebrating. Um yeah, see everywhere you can hear people like shouting Happy Bloom ride kind of kind of all over this. That is the kind of the phrase of the festival. Um people quote unquote bring in the May uh with Maiora with colorful garlands and flower reeds in yellows and whites kind of hanging on everything. Uh at night they light bonfires and people will dance around them. You know, that that kind of goodness. There's also oat cakes sweetened with honey everywhere. Um, and all along with like berries and clotted cream. They've got salads made with fresh greens, berries, and edible flowers. I mean, there's just a lot of spring stuff everywhere. You know, when people are having a good time, they're like I said, the businesses are closed, so people are just wandering around. Anytime any of you get near a gathering of any kind, you all are greeted as the heroes of Haven Watch.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

Oh, I thought they'd scatter.

SPEAKER_10 7:13

Yeah, no. Um usually one or more of you are asked to dance. Uh even even you, Delos. Wow! Who you actually catch the eye of a of a dwarf man uh who will will walk up to you. You are very well hammered.

SPEAKER_08 7:31

By Acne, look at you. You're like a bronze statue with the grace of a swan. Would you mind doing me the honor of a dance?

SPEAKER_06 7:39

I don't really know how to dance. This is very new to me. Do you guys often dance during this festival?

SPEAKER_08 7:45

We do, quite a bit. You see, you just put one foot in front of the other.

SPEAKER_06 7:49

That sounds like one.

SPEAKER_08 7:50

But you do it to the beat.

SPEAKER_06 7:51

That sounds like marching.

SPEAKER_08 7:52

It's quite similar, yes.

SPEAKER_04 7:54

Dalos will do that.

SPEAKER_08 7:56

Allow me to show you. He'll hold out a hand.

SPEAKER_04 7:58

I'll be like, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:00

I shove- I shove Dailos towards.

SPEAKER_04 8:01

Dalos is no no hits of Avec Cotton. Delos is like, fuck yeah. Like culture?

SPEAKER_10 8:07

He will he will take you by the hand and you will they will you'll do like kind of the the the they're doing like a dance around the pole kind of thing.

SPEAKER_04 8:15

Dalos is so excited to be included.

SPEAKER_10 8:16

Yeah, so it's a lot of just kind of jump bouncing.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:20

Like, yay, we're having fun, it's spring. Yay. Um, but as as you're uh uh as you're going along.

SPEAKER_08 8:27

Has anyone ever told you you look like the progenitor? You're the spatin image.

SPEAKER_04 8:32

Um Do Elizabeth, do I know what that is?

SPEAKER_10 8:36

You can make a religion check.

SPEAKER_04 8:38

No, I got no clue.

SPEAKER_10 8:39

Um, you look like the future.

SPEAKER_04 8:42

Seven? Is a seven good?

SPEAKER_10 8:44

No, you don't you you don't know what that is. No.

SPEAKER_06 8:53

Uh Dalas will look at him and be like, um I can't say I'm familiar with the depiction of this progenitor.

SPEAKER_10 8:58

Can I make a re can I make a religion role as well, being someone who's from this particular world? Uh we c are you participating in the dancing? Yeah. Okay, yeah, we we we can say that you caught this while you're dancing around.

SPEAKER_07 9:10

Dalos was like, come with me, come dance. Yeah, please come dance with me.

SPEAKER_10 9:14

Well, it's gonna say Venaria's just jumping into like the ladies, go. Yeah. No, absolutely. Um, yeah, you can easily find somebody who wants to dance with you. And um, yeah, make it make a religion check. That's a nat 20 on the religion. Cool.

SPEAKER_15 9:25

Yeah, you know, there we go.

SPEAKER_10 9:27

Okay, so what the the only time you have heard of the progenitor um is there's an obscure cult of Ekni. The the alore of like technology and craft, you know, forge like a lot of blacksmiths tend to follow Acne. Dwarven mythology points to Acne as their creator, so he's very important to them. Um, but the progenitor was part of an obscure cult said to have worshipped they they worshipped a child of prophecy called the progenitor, who was said to be destined to bear the light of the forge master. The the phrase was actually a point of contention among the followers of Ekni and resulted in the destruction of the original cult sometime in the mid-third age. Do you do you say this out loud? Do you say anything about that? Or do you just do you just like keep this in your head while I'm gonna go? I keep it in my head because I'm focusing on the dancing, but it's very it stands out in the midst of everything, so it's like, okay, we're gonna talk about that later.

SPEAKER_08 10:28

The progenitor is is important to certain groups within the followers of Ekne.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

Daelas is further lost. Uh he'll he'll kind of look, do like a kind of subtle, like yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:41

Like I I'll be completely honest with you. I'm not from here, and you're speaking you're speaking a lot of jargon that I am not familiar with. Are you familiar with our lady?

SPEAKER_08 10:52

With your lady?

SPEAKER_06 10:53

Yes, our lady Natanya.

SPEAKER_08 10:55

Uh Natonia? I'm making a little rough yeah if he rolls this at all. Uh no, I I I can't say I have, no. I rolled a six. No.

SPEAKER_06 11:06

Well, um, so I'm from the plain of Kama. I just recently came here with a couple of the other organics here, and I've been learning a lot about all of these. Oh. And your religions are fascinating, but uh vastly removed from our things.

SPEAKER_08 11:20

Ah. Well, uh. That's good to know. Yeah. Um My name's Ayol.

SPEAKER_06 11:28

Nice to meet you, Ayol.

SPEAKER_04 11:29

My name's Dalos.

SPEAKER_08 11:30

Uh it's nice to meet you, Delos.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

Delos has probably been like just passively like following whatever dance people are doing around, but if he's like kind of walking off to the side, he'll kind of follow.

SPEAKER_10 11:40

Yeah. No, he'll he'll take you take you around a few times. I mean, he looks absolutely like he's having a good time. Um make uh make a performance check.

SPEAKER_07 11:48

Okay. Fifteen.

SPEAKER_10 11:50

Fifteen. That's not bad at all. So yeah, even if you don't necessarily you're not familiar with the dance or really dancing in general, uh, you do a pretty good job. Yeah. And and he he actually does very well. Uh so he will he will he will go around the circle a few times. He'll do like a little in um like a little embellishments, like spin you ones. Wow. This is fantastic. But then after after a few turns, he'll he'll kind of go off to the side. Oh, it's uh it's been a joy.

SPEAKER_08 12:20

I I hope to see you again.

SPEAKER_06 12:22

Oh, wonderful. I'm planning on staying here with some of my friends for a while.

SPEAKER_08 12:26

Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_06 12:26

We're helping with the lanterns.

SPEAKER_08 12:28

Well, happy bloomerite indeed.

SPEAKER_06 12:30

Happy bloomright.

SPEAKER_10 12:32

Alright. And he he kinda he kind of like he doesn't have a hat, but he kind of tips at you and gives you a wink and then walks away.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Delos cannot wink, so he'll just I guess he can. It'll be really awkward.

SPEAKER_10 12:43

Just like one cloth of chink. Excellent.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Dalos just like rolled like a gnat one inside, has no clue what the fuck's going on.

SPEAKER_10 12:53

Yeah, you got flirted with like real hard and you have no idea.

SPEAKER_06 12:57

Wow. Specifically, he will he will say, what does it mean one of our what one of our organics close one eye?

SPEAKER_05 13:03

Uh like blinking. Oh, that's a wink. That's a wink. What does that mean? Uh depends on the context. If you're talking about the guy you were dancing with, uh, it was definitely flirtation. It was definitely flirtation. There's pause.

SPEAKER_08 13:20

Accessing.

SPEAKER_05 13:22

What?

SPEAKER_01 13:23

What does that mean? Oh, brother.

SPEAKER_10 13:27

That's the great part, is like they totally do flirt back in back in Gaud, but it's like Dalo specifically just never did it.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

So you're so very much so separated, and then like this was not really a thing.

SPEAKER_10 13:39

So, uh, yeah, you you all you all have have a good time, you dance around, you kinda end up like going to a few dances. Um they're kind of all over the city, because the entire city has gone up in in festivity. Yay! Um, but eventually, um you will run into Dromash, who who will who will reach you all. Hey! Bro! Happy boomerade!

SPEAKER_13 14:05

How goes it? How are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 14:07

We're having a great time. There's friends. Someone hit on Jos and he doesn't know what that is.

SPEAKER_13 14:12

Oh what? Yep.

SPEAKER_10 14:13

Get it! Do you do you get the do you did you get their number? Did you give them them digits? Give them digits.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

I don't think he knows what that is.

SPEAKER_10 14:24

I'm happy for you. Bloomerite's the right time for it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 14:28

Wonderful. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 14:33

Um, oh, hey, now that I'm thinking about it. Little tip. Uh if you wanted to get any paperwork done at the lantern hall, uh now would be the time to do it.

SPEAKER_05 14:41

The lantern hall's not closed.

SPEAKER_10 14:42

No, no. So, but there's no work to do on Bloomerite, so it's gonna be pretty empty. Uh, so you'll be giving them, like the people that are stuck there, you you'll be giving them something to do. Well, and now if we need if we needed uh an advertising slogan, it's home of the heroes of Haven Watch.

SPEAKER_12 15:00

Have and watch heroes!

SPEAKER_05 15:03

Alright, let's go.

SPEAKER_10 15:04

Watch as the Haveen Watch Heroes stroll down the street to the lantern hall.

SPEAKER_05 15:08

You do that voice too well?

SPEAKER_10 15:10

Yes. Meanwhile, at the Hall of Lanterns.

SPEAKER_05 15:14

At the Lantern Hall.

SPEAKER_10 15:16

Uh by the time y'all get over to the lantern hall, it's about early afternoon. Um, like I said, the their doors pretty much never shut, so there's almost always somebody there. Um on festival days, they do run with kind of a skeleton crew. So we when you show up there, Saren isn't behind the counter. She's she's m well, no, she's there. She's just moving around with like a bundle of paper. She's she's got other stuff to do. She's walking. Yeah. Um she will give you She'll give you a little a slight smile and walk up. Welcome back. Do you need any assistance?

SPEAKER_05 15:48

We are here to register our free company name.

SPEAKER_10 15:50

Ah, well, over there at the counter. And she will go back about to her her business. Um, but you will actually see Keldora over there behind the counter. Looking slightly out of place, but fully comp capable. But now immediately starts like try just realizes like I'm covered in food and dust and shit, and starts like like frantically wiping off like.

SPEAKER_09 16:19

I didn't realize.

SPEAKER_10 16:20

Oh, if it isn't the the heroes of Havenwodge. Pops the hardest salute ever. Yeah, sure, she will salute. Uh, how was your trip to Oathstone?

SPEAKER_05 16:30

Surprisingly okay. Um, no. Well, we told you about that.

SPEAKER_10 16:35

Yeah, we were yeah, we reported that when we got back. The trip was not a big thing. No, aside from yes, seeing a death knight, but how was how was your trip? Yes, I I was there for the report.

SPEAKER_05 16:44

The trip was fine. The death knight not so much.

SPEAKER_10 16:47

It was it was good meeting someone else in the lantern uh organization who wasn't out there killing stuff all the time. Tono.

SPEAKER_06 16:54

Meeting a witness was interesting.

SPEAKER_10 16:56

He is he is one of our finest. Uh little sometimes hard to to to to no. He's good. He's good, yes.

SPEAKER_06 17:04

He he's very informative.

SPEAKER_10 17:06

He's very informative with. Yes. Informative is definitely the word that I would use to describe him.

SPEAKER_05 17:11

He's something else.

SPEAKER_10 17:13

Most of the hall wanted some time to enjoy the festivities, so I had no plans to attend myself, so here here I am.

SPEAKER_08 17:21

Uh how how can I be of service today?

SPEAKER_05 17:24

We are going to register our free company name.

SPEAKER_10 17:27

Ah, yes. Very good. Allow me to get the paperwork here, and she actually has it ready.

SPEAKER_05 17:34

She's like about fucking time.

SPEAKER_10 17:36

It's like it's partially filled out for you already.

SPEAKER_11 17:38

It's like it's like a mortgage, like just a name in mind for for your free company.

SPEAKER_10 17:46

Uh we would like to be known as the Hearthguard. The Hearthguard. Excellent. And she will scribble that in.

SPEAKER_08 17:59

Well then. Excellent. Allow me to stamp this. The free company of the Hearthguard is registered and ready to take on greater challenges.

SPEAKER_10 18:09

Congratulations. Uh oh! Before I forget, uh, I received word from the governor that one of the manors in the northern part of the city has been made available to you. She will also hand you a sleep slip of paper with the address, um, and it's got like a wax seal with the governor's mark on it.

SPEAKER_08 18:33

It seems to me this would be a fantastic chapter house for your no-free company.

SPEAKER_06 18:40

Nice.

SPEAKER_10 18:42

Wonderful. Yes. Well, we will cover the processing fee. No, no, don't worry about that.

SPEAKER_06 18:47

It's very kind of you to cover the prophecy fee.

SPEAKER_10 18:50

The prophecy fee? Yep, the prophecy fee.

SPEAKER_04 18:58

Prophecy. Code of acne. You may prophesy. What? Prophecy.

SPEAKER_10 19:02

Sorry, Delos is getting over his first romantic encounter. We're trying to walk him through it.

SPEAKER_07 19:07

But it's very kind of you to cover the processing fee.

SPEAKER_10 19:11

You're oh you're quite welcome. I'm glad to see that the romantic charms of bloomright can affect even your metallic chassis.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

Hey yo. So just kind of look at her, a little confused. But whatever.

SPEAKER_10 19:26

Yeah, so that that's pretty much all that it required. There's a little bit of paperwork. Um, they were covering the processing fee, so you just sign the paper and let them know. So are you all headed to the manor directly? Sure.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

You can't go to the Smithy's.

SPEAKER_10 19:41

Yeah, you tried earlier, but there was a sign-up that said, sorry, Dalos, the Smithy's closed. Yeah, specifically. It's very personal. So they've they've got what they need. They've got it.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Oh yeah, we like dropped on a drop box, like a little note.

SPEAKER_10 19:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:57

Please make these weapons. What's his name? Corn?

SPEAKER_10 20:00

Corin Ash Mantle.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Yes, Ashmantle. Because I have corn, comma, the blacksmith, comma, ash mantle. Yes. Because I wrote down his first name.

SPEAKER_10 20:07

Corin the blacksmith ashmantle. My brain keeps hearing his first name as a single syllable. It's like it's a little bit there. It's corn. Corn ash mantle.

SPEAKER_05 20:16

Corn! Lover of the colonel. Hell yeah, brother.

SPEAKER_10 20:21

Hell yeah, brother. Cool. So we did that. Um yeah, let's go check out the digs. Excellent. The address on the paper there is listed as 213 East Processional Way. Uh it's up at the corner of Processional and a street called Marshers. It is a three-story building. It's got double doors of heavy oak and dark iron bound banding. Um it is a stately manor. This looks to have been a pretty wealthy family's house. You know, back back before stuff.

SPEAKER_12 20:50

Um scene.

SPEAKER_10 20:54

It could use a little bit of elbow grease. But it's still looking really nice.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

It's chic.

SPEAKER_10 20:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

You know. Give a little knock. Just just for politeness sake.

SPEAKER_10 21:04

Uh yeah, so uh you will knock and the door will open. And inside you see an uh an older gentleman with a pencil mustache, a tailored suit, and the traditional colored sash of the Ogre tribe.

SPEAKER_05 21:20

Is this our Alfred?

SPEAKER_15 21:22

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to welcome you to your new home, Zervin Manor. I am Ignacio at your service.

SPEAKER_07 21:30

Ignacio. Well, hello. Uh can you say the name of the Zulvin?

SPEAKER_15 21:36

Zerb. Zerb Zervan Manor. Zer Z U R V A N.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Well, I didn't spell like that, but how it spelled.

SPEAKER_15 21:48

May I offer you some tea or refreshments?

SPEAKER_05 21:50

I wouldn't say no to that.

SPEAKER_15 21:51

Excellent. The chef will arrive with the rest of the staff in the morning, but I would be delighted to prepare a selection of tiny cakes and sandwiches to a few. Perhaps a fortified mineral oil for the gentleman.

SPEAKER_06 22:04

We have a staff? Um as as wonderful as that would be. Isn't this a bit march? We I don't know if I've seen anything like this before.

SPEAKER_08 22:10

I'd serve a manor. This is the way we do it.

SPEAKER_15 22:14

Only the finest for our residents.

SPEAKER_06 22:18

Who are you serving before? Who is residing here?

SPEAKER_08 22:20

Oh, I serve the manor.

SPEAKER_06 22:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 22:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 22:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 22:24

Wonderful. This is a little weird.

SPEAKER_15 22:29

Please allow me to show you to the drawing room. You can take your seat, and I will be back with the most delectable tea and cakes. And tiny sandwiches.

SPEAKER_05 22:40

Lunette feels like Lunette was like borderline raised by wolves, so she's just kind of like, we have a drawing room. We have staff. Follow me. This is so fancy, y'all.

SPEAKER_10 22:49

Steven Area is just like having flashbacks to like before her family got booted from high society. So probably so it from majority of remembers, like, yeah, no, they're not used to this. Little girl inside is like, find the biggest, squishiest chair. So she gets into the drawing room and like if there if there's a big like squashing arm chair, she like meteor jumps into it in full armor and shit. No, as you're getting into the inside, like this place is swanky. The foyer is dominated by an imperial staircase. Oh shit. There is a tasteful uh fountain in the center featuring the Aquarian powers. That's basically the the three powers concerned with water.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Ooh. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 23:29

Uh Kithia, Miram, and Novesi. Oh, this is a nice place. No, no, I'm I'm just like all we've seen is sad things.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

So this is I'm I'm scared.

SPEAKER_10 23:39

No, the inside of this place, uh, people who are who are from Thaxia, you would you would recognize this as like mo mid mid-modern imperial the way they refer to this. But just very nice, but not too overdone. But it's like the understated architecture is supposed to show how awesome they are, you know, that kind of idea.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

Yeah. Are there fish in the fountain?

SPEAKER_10 24:07

No, it is it is just it is just a water fountain. I was gonna say, but there are there are fish like in the the because it's sculpted, you know, it's like like polished marble. So there's like bits of fish in the polished marble bits.

SPEAKER_05 24:18

You should catch frogs and put them in the fountain. I was I was totally thinking of the fish.

SPEAKER_10 24:24

This needs a more homie says you just catch cast conjure animals.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

I'm just like, I'm going to shape shift into a salamander now and slip into the water.

SPEAKER_10 24:33

Are you gonna do that instead of going to the to the drawing room?

SPEAKER_02 24:39

I'm very tempted, but I I will try to refrain.

SPEAKER_10 24:43

I just imagine um Fritter trying to go for a swim and he like accidentally evaporates all the water. He like jumps up there and like like puts a poly and goes.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Yeah. I'm sorry, Fritter.

SPEAKER_10 24:56

I want water, but I can't have it.

SPEAKER_06 24:59

Oh little boy turn will struggle with Fritter. Yeah, I just go to the drawing room, I guess.

SPEAKER_10 25:06

No. It is very well appointed. It is very plushy.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

The last time we were in a well-appointed room, we were told that it took 20 years for them to get back. It's scary, guys.

SPEAKER_10 25:17

Oh very very nice, very well-appointed room. He's got a very fancy furniture. Venaria is act not acting like a 6'5 woman, she's acting like a child. So she's in an adult-sized armchair and is like 10 feet. Yeah, try kitchen her feet even though they touch the floor with no issues. Yes. He will he will kind of drop you off the room. Allow me, I shall be right back.

SPEAKER_06 25:50

And then it's just like the mission that you all have is perfect. The sandwiches would be accurate.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

This is really nice. Y'all goodness.

SPEAKER_05 26:01

I didn't know expecting this. I didn't realize free companies. Right? I didn't realize free companies had staff. I thought we were just gonna be like in a in bunks or barracks or something.

SPEAKER_10 26:10

Venar is just kind of like Rogam. She's like, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 26:13

Getting rash.

SPEAKER_10 26:13

I don't like I don't want to blame things on on nepotism, but my brother is the governor.

SPEAKER_05 26:18

There may be somebody. Oh, that's why. I see. This is favoritism. Well, and it seems like Kildorah likes us. Oh, it's double favoritism. See, it's because we're so cute and endearing. It's because we're so silly, goofy, funny guys.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

That's what Ale told me. We're very heroic. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_10 26:40

But yes, he will uh he will come back and he's got like the full like triple tier tea cake setup thing. Like he sets you up with like a tea party. And he's got all the little cakes. He's got little tiny cucumber sandwiches. They're delicious, they're on point, they're wonderful. And he gets you all set up and then he will kind of dutifully stand off to the side and allow you to enjoy. He had to put these together himself. The chef isn't here until tomorrow, you see.

SPEAKER_05 27:10

Okay, well, uh, first of all, Lynette's gonna tell him that he did a great job with the sandwiches. He did a great job with the sandwiches.

SPEAKER_15 27:16

No, no, too it is too kind. No.

SPEAKER_05 27:19

Second question. Uh first question, I guess, because telling you you're good at it. He he turns his head and he goes, Oh yeah, inside he's like yes! Yeah, do all of the free companies have big houses and staff, or is this uh related to the governor thing?

SPEAKER_15 27:35

I could not say. I do not know what happens outside of this manor, for it is not of my purview. I am only concerned with the comfort of the people of Servan Manor.

SPEAKER_05 27:45

Do you leave the house at all?

SPEAKER_15 27:47

Why would I want to leave?

SPEAKER_05 27:48

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_15 27:51

I have no reason to.

SPEAKER_05 27:52

Lunette's making a note in her mind, like anytime she goes anywhere now, she is bringing this guy back souvenirs.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

He totally wins the ploy of the month every every month.

SPEAKER_05 28:03

Every month.

SPEAKER_10 28:03

We're gonna make a festival's still on, we gotta go find something to do.

SPEAKER_05 28:07

I feel like his mental stability is attached to being employee of the month, so we should probably start making him like a- I must- I must be useful, or I will fall apart.

SPEAKER_10 28:17

That way too real.

SPEAKER_05 28:19

I am going to protect this man with my life.

SPEAKER_10 28:22

I only have value if I create value for others. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

Maybe we have a bit of vulnerable.

SPEAKER_10 28:28

Yeah, it's like, okay, we're gonna ignore we're gonna get Ignacious like some souvenirs, but then we're gonna give him a day off, and we're gonna take him to therapy on a day off.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

We're making him leave we carry R enough you have needs.

SPEAKER_15 28:38

Oh, I am I I assure you, my needs are fulfilled by taking care of your own. How are you enjoying your tiny cakes and sandwiches?

SPEAKER_05 28:47

Very good, very awesome. They're wonderful. The mineral oil is great.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

No, Dalos feels inclined to comment on the tiny cakes just by having none of them.

SPEAKER_10 28:58

Not really the fortified mineral oil though, is absolutely great.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

The best shine and polish I've ever done.

SPEAKER_10 29:04

You you feel lubricated and free move like soul is lubricated. Your soul has been lubricated by this stuff. Like, and there's just like a hint of like rose water, lavender, rosemary? It's fantastic. What he what he's done with this. Uh Venaria actually goes catatonic after the first or second uh cucumber sandwich because she is in full ratatouille childhood flashback. Like little flashes of color. Like she has she like gnomed two and then the third one, she pupils dilate.

SPEAKER_05 29:37

Meanwhile, Lynette's over here, like, these are small, these are so small, they're not even like mash in size.

SPEAKER_10 29:43

No, they are the itty bitty, they're like, they're like an inch and a half wide.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

One bite is a little too big.

SPEAKER_10 29:49

But it's but it's all artisan bred and like precision. He baked it himself. 100% organic. They are all exactly the same size. He's beautiful. He's beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

Tell Ignacio he's a beautiful, beautiful man.

SPEAKER_05 30:02

Ignacio, Ignacio, I've got a question. You're a beautiful, beautiful man. You're a beautiful, beautiful man.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

What is it I could possibly do for you? This is how Douglas learns to flirt.

SPEAKER_05 30:11

There's a possibility that soon I'll I'll be able to see my grandfather again. And if I were to bring him over here, could you put spiders on these?

SPEAKER_15 30:20

Could I put spider It's a Sharathi thing. Oh yes, the the sandwich des spider. I am familiar with this. Yes. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 30:30

Sandwich Spider. Call spider.

SPEAKER_08 30:36

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_15 30:37

I can I will make sure that the chef has everything he needs to produce these spider sandwiches for your grandfather.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Amazing. Can you make the little rice sushi wrapped in like the seaweed and all that? Like hand rolls? On a deer?

SPEAKER_15 30:53

Riotini's sushi. Oh my gosh. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

I love you.

SPEAKER_15 30:57

I well, I I must say I can He's fine. I don't know what to say.

SPEAKER_05 31:04

He's so flustered. He pulls out his handkerchief and his brow.

SPEAKER_10 31:09

Yeah, like a s like a single tear comes out. I was like, oh thank you.

SPEAKER_05 31:12

What is Ignacio's like race and description?

SPEAKER_10 31:14

He is an older gentleman with grey hair pulled back and a very tight ponytail. He has little pin sniz glasses. And then he's got um a grey goatee that like sticks out at like sharp angles.

unknown 31:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 31:30

Severe goatee. If you have seen the anime spy family.

SPEAKER_05 31:33

Yes, that's exactly the headmaster guy. Exactly.

SPEAKER_10 31:36

Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_05 31:38

How dare you reach into my brain and pocket? When he's just like elegance! Elegant! Elegance! Elegance!

SPEAKER_10 31:47

Yeah. Oh, how tall is Ignacio? He is damn near seven feet tall. Um, Venaria comes out of her catatonia, finishes the cucumber sandwich in her that was in her hand, and very slowly stands up and just lays a hand on his shoulder and says, Ignatium. Madam. I have not tasted such as these since before the fall.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

Such elegance!

SPEAKER_10 32:15

At the height of the Theory and aristocracy, they could not hope to achieve such flavour.

SPEAKER_15 32:20

You do me too much kindness. And they just me!

SPEAKER_07 32:29

I am Ignacio. Where are you from?

SPEAKER_15 32:31

I am from Zervin Manor.

SPEAKER_07 32:34

Have you always been here? Like since you were a child. How about before the fall?

SPEAKER_15 32:38

Oh, there is uh before before.

SPEAKER_05 32:42

You're gonna break his little butler brain! The fall.

SPEAKER_07 32:53

If it pains you, you can say so. I I do not mean to be insensitive.

SPEAKER_15 32:58

Do not trouble yourself with me, good sir. I am quite fine.

SPEAKER_05 33:02

I think we just believe me. I think we're just taking that as butler word at this point. It's just my butt word.

SPEAKER_10 33:07

I was gonna say that was a that was that last bit was a pleading. Please believe me.

SPEAKER_05 33:10

Please! Don't look into this further. I pry too much. Don't pry, I'll butler cry.

SPEAKER_15 33:16

DM hasn't written enough backstory. It's too early in my heart to learn this yet. Stop asking me these questions.

SPEAKER_05 33:24

It's not elegant.

SPEAKER_15 33:25

These dialogue options are drayed out for a reason.

SPEAKER_05 33:28

It's not elegant to keep prying.

SPEAKER_10 33:29

Well, go for it. But then just kind of watching him like trying to forget the prize kind of jumps and okay, well, congratulations. Um, you are the master of the chapter house for the hearth guard. Oh.

SPEAKER_08 33:44

I will see to it that this house shall never want for anything shall be the pinnacle of efficiency and grace.

SPEAKER_07 33:53

An elegance. An elegance! Is there anything that we could possibly uh help with, or is there something that you know needs our attention?

SPEAKER_15 34:01

I would be most gratified if you would allow me to give you a tour of an anna!

SPEAKER_06 34:09

I would love to find out uh how this uh home house is laid out.

SPEAKER_10 34:15

Absolutely. Follow me! And he will he will lead you around. Um there are a few dozen rooms to this place, just among like, you know, the three stories. Um there is As I look at my notes. There is a two-story library equipped with books on pretty much anything you can think of. Fuck yeah. As well as a large as well as a large table in the center for study or planning. Um there is also, you will come to notice, air conditioning. There is hot and cold running water. There is a massive kitchen.

SPEAKER_05 34:54

It's the Ritz.

SPEAKER_10 34:55

Oh yeah. And functional plumbing.

SPEAKER_05 34:57

Oh, way out.

SPEAKER_10 34:58

So there there are yeah, there are bedrooms for a whole free company here. There's pretty much everything that you need.

SPEAKER_05 35:05

Is there any cool place like a is there like a like a like a greenhouse? Is there a greenhouse I can stand for sleep that's not a bedroom?

SPEAKER_00 35:13

It feels weird to have tables in the fancy.

SPEAKER_15 35:15

You just post up by the front door. There are there are several linen closets.

SPEAKER_07 35:20

There are Is there is there like a workshop or anything?

SPEAKER_15 35:24

There is indeed a workshop.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

Can I can I would it would it be okay if I took a little dip in the in the fountain, Ignacio?

SPEAKER_15 35:35

As This is your home. Feel free to do whatever you wish. If you wish to swim in the fountain or the sink or the the indoor swimming pool, you can't. Yes, and like show me where the pool is. You'll have to find it. You're giving us a tour, sir. Some parts are somewhat hard to find sometimes. The walls move. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_05 35:58

What the hell is going on in this house? That's that's Lynette.

SPEAKER_15 36:01

I know it I know what is in the house somewhere. But I haven't seen it in quite some time.

SPEAKER_05 36:06

Is uh there any kind of greenhouse or garden area?

SPEAKER_15 36:09

Absolutely!

SPEAKER_00 36:12

We just give you ideas, and the user's like, yeah!

SPEAKER_10 36:15

Yeah, they are there, yes. I mean, you just have to find it. You all find yourselves wandering around in this place for for quite a while, and like I said, there are dozens upon dozens of rooms, and apparently some that are harder to find than others. Uh but you do that for quite a while until we get into the early evening. Um so while getting settled into the manor, Blue Net.

SPEAKER_05 36:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 36:39

You are standing next to one of the windows, uh, and you catch sight of something out of the corner of your eye. Out the window. Oh something odd. Slightly older looking elf smoking a pipe, walking at high speeds. You don't quite Is that my grandpa? Well, maybe. I don't know if you can take a look.

SPEAKER_05 37:05

I would love to take a look. Are we all together?

SPEAKER_10 37:11

I mean, you if you are, you are, or if you have kind of spread around the house.

SPEAKER_04 37:15

Is the last time that uh we last time at the Goku table gave uh Delos the most vivid vision of I.

SPEAKER_00 37:25

I was curious what could help.

SPEAKER_10 37:27

Are you there with Lunette? I'm asking what I'm asking.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

Are you it's fine.

SPEAKER_10 37:32

I don't know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_05 37:34

Like I have the opportunity. I have the opportunity to help. Are you gonna help him? Nah.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

I'll help, I'll help out.

SPEAKER_09 37:42

Okay, yeah, so yeah, Dalos is in there with you. Give you some advantage.

SPEAKER_05 37:47

Oh, you said advantage? Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's not that bad in comparison to your normal dice. The dice I bought specifically for. Okay, so that's an 11. It's a dirty 20. Excellent! What do I perceive with my dirty 20?

SPEAKER_10 38:05

That could that could probably be five.

SPEAKER_05 38:07

I'm gonna climb out the window.

SPEAKER_10 38:09

Straight up climb out the window.

SPEAKER_05 38:11

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_10 38:11

Very good. Dalos, are you following?

SPEAKER_05 38:14

Yeah. She looks out the window and then she looks a little harder, and she thinks that might be her grandpa. So she just without saying anything, she's gonna sit up, and then she just starts to like tap and then smack uh Dalos on his chest. And then she's like, I let's go. Opens the window and shimmy's out.

SPEAKER_10 38:31

So yeah, I fully believe Lunette can easily just scrap like scramble out of this window with no problem. Dalos. I'm gonna need you to make a dexterity check.

SPEAKER_00 38:42

Why can't we make a dexterity check? Why can't I make an athletics check? Which would you prefer?

SPEAKER_10 38:46

Let's do let's do dex, yeah, because again, I believe you could hurdle something. You just broke a window.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Oh my god. Don't ignore you! And I continue after Lunar.

SPEAKER_07 38:56

Stop turning on the Love just made an enemy because of the.

SPEAKER_10 39:03

Tumble out of the window. I've known this guy for 20 minutes. And he like kind of you see him run to the window, like putting his hands in the window frame, looking around, like, oh, oh we'll pay for it.

SPEAKER_05 39:14

We're sorry. Delos will, real quick over the bracers, be like, Lunette's running somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 39:20

Uh, not entirely sure, following now.

SPEAKER_10 39:22

Um Lunette's doing some fuck shit. Do you say which window y'all went out or like what direction?

SPEAKER_05 39:30

It's the broken one. Ask Ignacio. Um you probably hear it.

SPEAKER_10 39:34

Yep, I was gonna say we we hear we follow this the sound of wailing inside the house. Yeah, no, he is very upset. But yeah, he is directly in front of a broken window.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

You can guess.

SPEAKER_10 39:44

So we just come running in. He's on his knees, like, no.

SPEAKER_15 39:50

I just go, sorry, Ignacio. I must of course forgive you, but no!

SPEAKER_09 39:56

Oh, that's a that's a burn. I am honor bound to not give you shit that I want to give you so badly.

SPEAKER_05 40:03

I am going to have to give him some money to fix that window. That poor man. Okay, we're running. We're running, we're going.

SPEAKER_10 40:10

Okay. So okay, so we've got Lunette has we've got Lunette has jumped out the window and is taken off. Yep. We've got uh Delos went just after. Yeah. Broke and we've got a little bit after that, had to run to the room. We've got Jenova and Venaria. Who uh yeah, also went out the window. I gave I gave Ignacio a pat on the shoulder as as we went out, but pay for it. He's inconsolable. But it's broken, so we're just like, and we're out. He's like a couple pieces of glass in his hand, he's crying at him.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

I feel terrible.

SPEAKER_10 40:44

This was depression era glass.

SPEAKER_05 40:46

Well, it's okay, we're in another depression, so it'll be antique again soon. Genova is looking for the pool. She's like, they'll be fine. They'll be fine. They'll be fine.

SPEAKER_10 40:57

It's a home. Roll. Just roll a straight luck roll. Just roll a d20.

unknown 41:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 41:03

Oh, though. This is some house of leaves shit. Like, this house moves. I rolled a 19.

SPEAKER_10 41:09

Roll a 19? No, it's just a slight r straight luck roll. You find it. You found the pool. It is at a it is at the end of a dusty hallway. Nobody has been here for so long. But you open the door and it is a clear, crystal clear, clean pool. It is gorgeous in there.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

That's gonna be like a magically disrobe and I dive in.

SPEAKER_10 41:30

Hell yeah. Yeah, so she Jenova's having a great time. Skinny dipping in the pool. Okay, so y'all are running out, and Jenova's having just living her best life in the pool. Jenova's taking a mental health daily. She has found the secret pool.

SPEAKER_05 41:45

Ignacio needs a mental health day. Um we're out here breaking a shit.

SPEAKER_10 41:52

So, um, okay, I gotta get back to my notes here.

SPEAKER_05 41:55

Uh goddamn it, where's my grandpa?

SPEAKER_10 41:57

So, yes, yes, as you were in pursuit, you don't quite see him at first, uh, but you do catch up because I imagine you are hauling ass. Oh yes. Yeah. So you you do see. Yeah, I'm pretty sure, like, I don't know that you've got actually extra movement compared to anybody else, but just asked out of sheer Just taking the dash action over and over again. Yeah, like she is quite a bit faster than everybody else, so she's ahead of everybody.

SPEAKER_05 42:24

Um Dalos fell out of the window. That's why he's gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_10 42:27

Yeah, he's got a bit of a delay.

SPEAKER_05 42:29

He's limping a little bit, he's like, ah, fuck, uh.

SPEAKER_10 42:31

Nah, but yeah, as like anytime you get closer to him, he speeds up.

SPEAKER_05 42:39

No, Lynette, like calling out, she's like, Bye! I don't know you!

SPEAKER_13 42:44

This is bullshit.

SPEAKER_05 42:45

Yes, you do!

SPEAKER_13 42:46

Nope, I nope. It's lunatic. You're thinking of someone else. I am not! Nope. No, sir!

SPEAKER_10 42:52

You're not real, and you just he just runs- He just like takes off at like a roll. Well, grandpa's having a better tree.

SPEAKER_05 42:57

Grandpa's sundowning, oh god.

SPEAKER_13 43:02

Just like, Issa, stop! Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

SPEAKER_10 43:06

He's just he's just booking it.

unknown 43:08

No! Please!

SPEAKER_07 43:09

It's been so it's been such a shitty week. Um, we're running towards the festival, right?

SPEAKER_10 43:14

So you are heading, he is heading east down processional way, um, towards like the university and everything down there.

SPEAKER_07 43:23

Like, uh are there people around?

SPEAKER_10 43:25

Yes, yeah. I mean it's you know, it's evening, but it's still, you know, bloom right. It's bloom right. Right? It's bloomerite. Yes, it's still bloomerite, so people are running around everywhere. So yeah, you you you're there there are people in the way that you kinda have to dodge around.

SPEAKER_05 43:41

Um Bill's blind when it's like, please! Stop! We broke a window for this, please!

SPEAKER_07 43:50

I don't know you! We just want to talk. Maybe we could know each other.

SPEAKER_13 43:53

You're big and made of metal, and I don't know you at all.

SPEAKER_07 43:56

Well, I don't know you either, but like still.

SPEAKER_13 43:59

Okay, well bye! No, you know me!

SPEAKER_07 44:01

You know me!

SPEAKER_13 44:02

No, I don't, you're not real! ESO!

SPEAKER_10 44:06

After a while of this.

SPEAKER_05 44:08

ESO is the word for grandpa, by the way.

SPEAKER_10 44:10

Yes. Um are just silent like booking it, but trying just trying to get in range of using your channel divinity to fucking vines this dude. This is like tired and I don't I wanted to see the pool. So you all take you'll run for a little bit, and then there's this there's this tower that's up in kind of like the northeastern part of the city. Um y'all are welcome to make history checks about this particular tower. My headband lights up.

SPEAKER_05 44:41

I got a 12. 13.

SPEAKER_10 44:43

Excellent. I got a 27 as my headband is like on fire. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 44:47

I got a 12. I don't know shit. I'm trying to catch up with my grandpa.

SPEAKER_10 44:51

Uh yeah, so they are heading towards what's called the Tower of Lemera. It is it was um the tower of one of Ogren's most infamous wizards for a long time. You don't know what infamous. Yes, infamous. They were they were like one of those cantankerous kind of crazy old wizards who would do like weird shit, and so people were not always happy about them being infamous.

SPEAKER_05 45:14

My weirdo grandpa is going to Weirdo Central.

SPEAKER_10 45:17

Um, but yes, that's that's what they're heading towards. And he will run through an arch there at the base of the tower, and there's like two guards kind of standing on either side. And they don't they don't do anything to stop him. He just runs right past them.

SPEAKER_05 45:32

Oh my god!

SPEAKER_10 45:33

You you coming up right behind, um, one of the guards will step out of place and and come up to you. Uh ma'am, ma'am, it's authorized personnel only past this arch.

SPEAKER_05 45:45

Authorized for that's my grandpa, and I need to talk to him, and he thinks I'm not re I'm a lantern. Does that help at all?

SPEAKER_10 45:50

Uh I'm I'm sorry, but without authorization, we should go back there.

SPEAKER_05 45:54

Is that Fi?

SPEAKER_10 45:55

I don't I don't know who that Yeah, there's a lot of people who work here.

SPEAKER_06 45:58

Then how do you know who's uh Dalos like Tonk tunk tunk then how do you know who's authorized?

SPEAKER_10 46:04

Tell you what, why don't you go ahead and try to go through the arch?

SPEAKER_06 46:06

Uh wonderful, and Dalos will try and walk through the arch.

SPEAKER_10 46:09

Okay, uh So you try to go through the tower.

SPEAKER_07 46:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 46:12

Or the arch there at the back of the tower, and you get zapped with two lightning damage.

SPEAKER_07 46:17

Yay.

SPEAKER_10 46:17

And and are kind of zonked back as you hit a a an impenetrable force.

SPEAKER_05 46:23

Impenetrable? No, can't make that joke.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

It wouldn't work.

SPEAKER_10 46:28

Yeah, like like I said, it's authorized personnel. What is this place?

SPEAKER_05 46:32

What is this place?

SPEAKER_10 46:33

Ma'am, it's the Tower of Lumera.

SPEAKER_05 46:36

What happens here?

SPEAKER_10 46:37

Like what do we- It's they do they do magic research stuff. I'm just a guard, ma'am. They do they do magic research stuff here.

SPEAKER_07 46:45

How do we acquire the authorization to enter here?

SPEAKER_10 46:48

You'll you'll need to get it from from the the um the Ecknine Institute.

SPEAKER_05 46:53

God, son of a Okay.

SPEAKER_10 46:57

Grandson of. Do you want me to like do you want me to take a message or something?

SPEAKER_05 47:01

Yes, please.

SPEAKER_10 47:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 47:02

If that if The person I was chasing is probably an elf named a Shirafi elf named Fi.

unknown 47:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 47:09

I am his granddaughter. I haven't seen him since before the fall. I want him to know that I'm both very alive and very real, and I would really, really, really, really, really like to talk to him.

SPEAKER_10 47:20

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. He doesn't have a notepad or anything. He's just not.

SPEAKER_05 47:29

You're fucking with me.

SPEAKER_10 47:31

Listen, I don't know who that who you're who that guy was.

SPEAKER_05 47:34

Then why did you off you know what? I'm gonna go talk to someone else.

SPEAKER_04 47:38

Uh who did he say we have to talk to?

SPEAKER_10 47:40

The Eck 9, not in not Nexus Institute.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

Where's the Ek 9 Institute?

SPEAKER_10 47:45

They're uh they're part of the studium. He's it's on the side of town.

SPEAKER_05 47:50

No, no, no, no, no. They're on the same side of town.

SPEAKER_10 47:52

They're like across the street. Yeah, we were heading toward the university when we I was originally calling it the university. It is the studium.

SPEAKER_05 47:59

Alright, let's fucking go.

SPEAKER_09 48:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 48:03

Sorry.

SPEAKER_10 48:03

Thank you for the information, sir.

SPEAKER_05 48:05

Don't apologize to him.

SPEAKER_09 48:06

I didn't apologize to him.

SPEAKER_05 48:08

I'm 20 day loss. Don't apologize to him. He got helpful.

SPEAKER_10 48:11

The guards like fingers on the bridge of his nose. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_05 48:14

Dale's just be like, I'm sorry for being a polar. Don't apologize to him.

SPEAKER_10 48:18

Okay. It's fine.

SPEAKER_05 48:19

Don't say sorry.

SPEAKER_10 48:20

You can go, you can go to the universe you can go to the studio, but I don't think they're open today.

SPEAKER_05 48:24

Motherfuck!

SPEAKER_10 48:27

I just I thought I would just help you before you wasted more of your time. Uh I just I just immediately tapped the bracer, like, Jenova, did you find the pool? You actually can't reach her.

SPEAKER_05 48:39

We ran too far. What? As Linette storms.

SPEAKER_10 48:43

We said we couldn't take the bracers off, so she's gotta be wearing that in the pool. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. You're you're you you weren't unable to take the bracer off when you went into the pool, yeah. But yeah, all you're getting back is static. Okay. That's scary.

SPEAKER_04 48:56

Now we're separate from it.

SPEAKER_10 48:59

You're having a great time swimming. Yeah, you're you're you're fine.

SPEAKER_05 49:02

Yeah. As soon as Lynette like turns to leave, you can just hear her like pissed off, like, happy fucking bloom right.

SPEAKER_08 49:09

Happy, happy bloom right, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 49:12

Is it possible for Lunette to stop by the lantern hall to ask Keldora just like how you set up an appointment with the studio?

SPEAKER_10 49:19

The the lantern hall is pretty much always open. I mean, there's always danger out there in the world.

SPEAKER_05 49:23

Yeah, we were already there. I'm gonna come back, and Keldora's like, hey!

SPEAKER_10 49:29

And she's like Yeah, you come back and she's like kind of nodding off at the at the at the counter, like, oh Hey, are you up?

SPEAKER_08 49:36

Hmm, yes, yes. Um.

SPEAKER_05 49:41

I have a very quick question. How does one go about setting up an uh appointment with the studium? The studi? Uh the Eggman Studium. Allowed into the Tower of La Mera. I think my grandpa's in there. Is it Lamera or is it Lit Mera?

SPEAKER_08 49:58

Lemera. Lemera.

SPEAKER_05 49:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_12 50:00

Yep, you had it right.

SPEAKER_08 50:02

Uh well, if you would like to uh uh gain entry into the Tower of La Mera, that will be that's that's part that's that's complicated.

SPEAKER_05 50:11

Um if I ask you how to get a how to get a real message into the Tower of Lomera, would you know how?

SPEAKER_11 50:19

Absolutely, yes.

SPEAKER_05 50:24

Great.

SPEAKER_07 50:24

Um i it seems like one of Loon's uh Loon sorry.

SPEAKER_10 50:29

Loon's got the nickname going. Alright.

SPEAKER_06 50:31

One of Lunette's family members is inside the tower. And he ran from us, I believe, assuming that she was dead.

SPEAKER_10 50:39

Um Yeah, it's a very specific type of of protest to hear an elderly person say, You're not real in response to it.

SPEAKER_05 50:48

I haven't seen him since before the fall, and I would really like to make I would really like to see him and show him I'm not dead. Absolutely real. Yes. But I can't get in there because I assume she's real.

SPEAKER_10 50:59

She's not a good idea.

SPEAKER_07 51:00

But I recognize that we do make a pretty scary uh entourage sprinting after something.

SPEAKER_08 51:05

Perhaps I'm hallucinating as well.

SPEAKER_05 51:07

Don't you real Dora? Kaldora don't.

SPEAKER_10 51:11

Like you haven't slept in a while, but so it's a little joke. Wait a minute. Are you saying you've seen me in your dreams? Oh.

SPEAKER_05 51:18

Enough! No, now is not the time. If she had if she had a spray bottle. If she had a spray bottle, she would be spraying the space.

SPEAKER_10 51:26

Sarah comes by with a spray bottle like None of that. None of that.

SPEAKER_05 51:31

Superior officers cannot mingle.

SPEAKER_10 51:34

It's a holiday, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 51:36

Come on, it's bloom right. Can you leave a note saying that his very real granddaughter is here?

SPEAKER_11 51:42

Well, uh we have an address. It will take some some time, but I can absolutely uh send a message.

SPEAKER_10 51:48

Oh yes, give him give him our manor address. We have an address in town now, so it's not just she's here somewhere. I can put a return address on it, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:55

I I'd love to find out what other rooms there are that are cool.

SPEAKER_10 51:58

Yeah, excellent. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 52:02

Is the workshop easily accessible? Or do I have to like find that?

SPEAKER_10 52:06

Who knows? You just gotta start pulling books in the library. Like, what an iron.

SPEAKER_05 52:12

As we come inside, I'm assuming that Ignacio will be at the door to greet us because that would be a very elegant thing for him to do.

SPEAKER_10 52:18

As you're walking back up to the house, he's still crying at the broken window.

SPEAKER_05 52:22

On the way back, on the way back. Is there a place that has glass panes that is open?

SPEAKER_10 52:28

Is it open on Bloomerich night?

SPEAKER_07 52:31

Or they just have their paint their like prices outside.

SPEAKER_10 52:34

Or you could just like if you can get like a spell scroll for mending.

SPEAKER_07 52:38

Mending is too small though.

SPEAKER_05 52:41

Unless the window was a foot wide.

SPEAKER_10 52:44

I mean, it was like a regular house window. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:46

You could cast blending or mending like three times. Fix, fix, fix.

SPEAKER_12 52:51

Ah. Take a luck roll. Somebody. I don't care who.

SPEAKER_01 52:59

Nope.

SPEAKER_05 53:00

I got a 16. Nat one.

SPEAKER_10 53:04

Nope. Nope. Ain't nobody open with scrolls.

SPEAKER_05 53:07

Damn, okay. Uh but I'm gonna go up to the to the site of the window. And I'm going to put my hand very gently. Lynette puts her hand very gently on uh Ignacio's shoulder, and she says, I am very sorry. Uh here. And I'm gonna hand him uh like a pouch with like 200 gold coins in it. I'm gonna say, if you could please like commission someone to fix that, that'd be great. You could put a beautiful stained glass window. I don't know how much shit costs in this place.

SPEAKER_06 53:34

And then Deluz will be like, oh, we could put beautiful stained glass window on Lady Natonia. Here, let me describe it to you.

SPEAKER_10 53:40

It's a house, not a temple. So you you try you try to hold like hand him the money and he'll just put his hand up. No, there's There is no need.

SPEAKER_15 53:47

The house shall repair itself.

SPEAKER_05 53:50

What is going on with this house?

SPEAKER_15 53:52

Okay. But uh I I thank you very much for your attempted contribution.

SPEAKER_05 53:59

The house repairs itself. Like an or like she's a little bit more than a little bit.

SPEAKER_13 54:03

Or allow an allow Casita?

SPEAKER_10 54:05

What the hell? Allow uh uh please, uh allow allow me to demonstrate. And he will kind of usher everybody out of the particular room. This is just like a little side like viewing room or whatever. Um but you all leave and he closes the door and he kind of holds up a finger for a moment. Kind of counts the one, two, three, three. And on the fifth beat, he opens the door, and there is no broken window. It's actually a different room.

SPEAKER_05 54:32

What on earth?

SPEAKER_10 54:33

Oh, okay. Okay, not Casita. We're in we're in hell's moving we're in hell's not moving castle.

SPEAKER_15 54:38

You will see that um the house cannot abide being damaged.

SPEAKER_05 54:44

Okay. Lynette's gonna like look around, like up the ceiling and the walls. She's just like, sorry. Do you know how the house works? Is there is there a core?

SPEAKER_09 54:55

Maybe.

SPEAKER_05 54:58

Time to go to bed.

SPEAKER_10 55:00

Yeah, it's like so while the rest of us are sleeping, while the rest of us are sleeping in the mystery house, maybe that's Dalos' project.

SPEAKER_06 55:05

Dalis is like, I would love to speak with it if it if it can it speak?

SPEAKER_07 55:10

I met recently some talk works that couldn't speak to the city.

SPEAKER_15 55:12

Do not do not spread this around to any of the other staff. I feel like I have heard the house whispering to me.

SPEAKER_07 55:19

Ignacio, maybe you should speak to someone.

SPEAKER_15 55:24

And you are such a lovely conversationalist. Thank you, Ignacio.

SPEAKER_06 55:28

Thank you. Um, do you happen to know how to get to the core of the house? Can can can I speak to the core of the house?

SPEAKER_15 55:34

We can go on an adventure.

SPEAKER_05 55:36

That sounds wonderful. And we'll find it together. Lynette's like, I'm gonna fuck to bed. My luck is terrible today.

SPEAKER_10 55:42

I'm gonna try the bracer again just to try to like find Genova. Hey, you pick it up this time. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 55:48

It was so it was distance. So if we're in the house.

SPEAKER_01 55:53

Okay, so the house is sentient and a dimmy boy.

SPEAKER_05 55:57

No straight answer given ass. You can step outside the door and try again.

SPEAKER_11 56:01

Who knows? What? What? What? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_02 56:04

Genova is still in the pool. Having a great time. Yeah, having a fantastic time.

SPEAKER_11 56:08

It is the perfect temperature.

SPEAKER_02 56:10

Uh Fritter is has turned into a fire elephant and he's blowing air into the pool. So it's giving it like a nice hot tub. Hell yeah. And I'm holding like a fruity drink that an Ignacio did for me, and I'm just having the most amazing time.

SPEAKER_10 56:26

That is fantastic. No, and it wasn't Ignazio. You just actually found the drink on like the edge of the pool waiting for you.

SPEAKER_05 56:32

This house is scaring me a little bit. I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little shitted right now.

SPEAKER_04 56:36

It's open. It just hits the bottom.

SPEAKER_01 56:40

I didn't know quiet that was.

SPEAKER_05 56:47

Like, I'm a little shitted right now. Dalos wants to talk to the house because he wants to apologize.

SPEAKER_15 56:53

But if you wish to apologize, simply put your hand on the wall and say what you need to say. What is in your heart?

SPEAKER_10 57:01

Say what you need to say So yeah, that's one of the hidden rooms is a karaoke bar.

SPEAKER_04 57:07

I I still I still do want to find the core, but Delos will do that, and he'll like like I don't know. He'll try and act kind of like how he did whenever he was like messing with cores.

SPEAKER_07 57:17

And he'll just be like I didn't mean to break the window, and I appreciate you fixing it, and I'm sorry that you've caused that that I caused damage and that Ignacio was a bit upset. Is Ignacio part of you? And he just like starts talking about it.

SPEAKER_05 57:31

And doesn't stop.

SPEAKER_10 57:32

Like Ignacio's just kind of watching as you start and then you kind of keep going.

SPEAKER_06 57:36

Oh no, he's not speaking out loud. He just kinda like he he like looks a little dismayed and then curious and then happy and then sad.

SPEAKER_05 57:46

You should use your lantern, your mood ring lantern on Ignacio and see what happens.

SPEAKER_10 57:56

Right.

SPEAKER_05 57:57

Sorry. Yeah, that'll be a good way to see if it's mad at you.

SPEAKER_10 58:00

But yeah, you you do all that and you don't really get a response from from the house, no. Um, but it was awful nice.

SPEAKER_04 58:09

Okay. Dalos is a is a practice prayer to a god or to a goddess who is asleep.

SPEAKER_10 58:14

So I was gonna say that we find out the house is a minor deity.

SPEAKER_05 58:17

Yeah, no, like Lynette's fully gonna sleep in the greenhouse at this point. Like she's like, this is one of the strange things.

SPEAKER_10 58:21

Uh yeah, so if anybody would like to find any specific rooms in the house, feel free to make a look roll.

SPEAKER_05 58:27

Can I use the lantern to try and find the core?

SPEAKER_10 58:31

The lantern that's used to detect emotions.

SPEAKER_05 58:33

Yeah. Yeah, to see if the house has feelings. To see if the house has feelings.

SPEAKER_10 58:36

That's an interesting thing.

SPEAKER_04 58:37

I assume the core is has feel more feelings, like or either stronger feelings or feelings than the rest of the house doesn't.

SPEAKER_10 58:43

Okay, let's let's do one thing at a time. Let's sit on that for a second. No, you're fine. Um, Lunette, what you were looking for a greenhouse.

SPEAKER_05 58:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 58:51

What'd you roll?

SPEAKER_05 58:52

Uh, I was just rolling things in my hand. Hang on.

SPEAKER_10 58:55

Yeah, roll a d20. Straight up luck roll.

SPEAKER_05 58:58

What is that? Uh, that might be what I think it is. Yeah, it's a natural 20.

SPEAKER_10 59:03

You find the greenhouse. First friggin' door you open. There it is.

SPEAKER_05 59:07

It's like, I'm gonna sleep in the greenhouse, and then she goes to open a door to like essentially try and go outside and there's the greenhouse, and she's just like, she takes a deep breath.

SPEAKER_10 59:15

And it's not even like outside and there's the greenhouse. It's like you're just standing in the greenhouse. I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 59:19

I know. So that's the thing is she opens the door and there's the greenhouse, and she just kind of takes like a deep the same kind of like deep, long, suffering breath that she takes when granny does some fuck shit. She's just like, okay. She just starts to string her hammock up between like two bigs.

SPEAKER_10 59:32

Oh, it's lovely in there. It's like one of those like really nice Victorian greenhouses. You know, where everything is like r really, really nicely done. But you did find this really lovely greenhouse, and yeah, you set your your hammock up in there, are you just sacking out?

SPEAKER_05 59:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_10 59:46

Excellent. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 59:47

So This shit exhausting.

SPEAKER_10 59:49

Okay, let's um Delos. So you are looking for the core.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 59:55

Or like or like s essentially the equivalent to the room for the Eck 9 Dexus because he thinks it would be cool. Right.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:02

So, okay, okay, and you and you're using your lantern to supplement this? Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:07

In an attempt to make it to where like like it's like hotter, colder.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:11

You spark up the lantern, and when you point it at your your friends, it functions normally. It um if you if you were to point it at Lunette, it would be bright red with rage.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:23

But it can also dark deep blue depression.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:26

You point you point it at Ignazio and it is is a rainbow.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:30

He he's a he has multitudes.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:32

He is he is prismatic.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:34

Be who you are for your that's kind of weird, but also okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:37

But when you point it at the house, it also has that. But it's more of kind of like when you're looking at an oil slick. Okay. And it, you know, the light catches it, and it's those really interesting plays of color and arcing kind of loops and patterns and things.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

Does it get stronger in any direction?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:57

Not in any particular direction, but go ahead and make your luck roll.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:01

Let's let's see if you can utilize this ten.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:06

There we go. The most average, perhaps.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:09

So with the 10, you don't really make a lot of headway. You you do feel like there is a discernible part of the house. You know, not literally an organ, but you know, there is there is likely a center somewhere. But you're not able to find it.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:26

Because I'm walking with I brought Ignacio with me, so that he was like, I can't.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:30

No, I've never seen it myself either.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:32

But I thought that you said that there is one.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:34

I said nothing. That's part of your interpretation.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:38

His pedantic ass. He said maybe.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:41

Perhaps there it is. I would assume. But I've never seen it myself.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:46

But you've heard it, so you've been close to it.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:48

When did I say that?

SPEAKER_07 1:01:50

You said that you've heard the whisperings.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:52

The house whispered to me, yes, but I did not see any core.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:55

No, I'm not saying you've seen the core, but that you've been maybe close to it, so that you're more connected to the house in a way that I couldn't quite understand.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:03

No, I I I I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:09

He starts staring off into space.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:11

When when you win, when it's just that thousand-yard stare.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:17

But no, I have I have not seen it myself.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:19

So is he like a more like concentrated version of like the oil slick that's happening? I haven't seen anyone of those rainbows before.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:26

I mean, he looks just like Ignacio.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:29

That's not what I was asking about.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:31

It's just when you shine the lantern on him, yeah, he looks all crazy. Yeah. Yeah, the answer there's your answer. Yeah. Mmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:43

Okay. Well whatever.

SPEAKER_15 1:02:50

More on that later, maybe.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:52

Yeah, so yeah, Dayless comes back just looking all dejected and depressed.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:57

He's not depressed.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:58

Go find a closet to sleep in.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:01

It's just more a matter of he's like, he's like, I how normally organics are so cooperative and they give me answers, and it seems like Ignacio won't speak tries to speak circles around me, and he's telling you guys this. He's like, I just don't understand why. I clearly it'd be much easier if we all spoke.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:20

Ignacio is standing there off to the side, just mm-mm. That's alright.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:25

I'm used to people speaking about me in the third person.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:27

Can I go to the workshop? He said that the workshop was right there.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:30

There was absolutely a workshop.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:32

That's not what I asked for.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:36

It exists, I've seen it.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:38

You can try and make another level.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:40

I swear to you!

SPEAKER_05 1:03:41

It is there!

SPEAKER_10 1:03:42

So once we Okay, above table. Once we've like found these rooms, can we are we able to find them again? Or is that a whole other like adventure? Just like trying to find-nos!

SPEAKER_13 1:03:52

Roll a lock roll.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:55

I feel like Luna is absolutely gonna set up camp in the in the greenhouse room. Never leaving, right. Fuck you, fuck this, fuck that. I roll worse.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:07

I'm going to say from your having ran around with the lantern, you're you can have advantage on this particular role.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:19

Twelve.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:21

You find it. It takes you a couple of doors this time. But you do find it. There is a workshop.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:30

By himself. Damn.

SPEAKER_15 1:04:32

Just let me know if you should need anything.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:34

I don't need anything, Ignacio. Any materials at all. Good night.

SPEAKER_15 1:04:38

Good night! Are you sure you don't need anything?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:45

You should tell me. Delos stops responding.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:51

Dalos will just like like go t to the walls and is just like hand on the wall, just please make it to where I can't hear him.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:58

Please, my guitar can't hear him. Please make it to our can't hear him.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:01

Like a layer of soundproof material appears on my door. Yeah? I mean you don't hear anything else from him.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:06

Wonderful. Fuck, I'm gonna mess with my jewelry's tools frustratedly trying to fix like wolf filigree and stuff.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:14

Excellent.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:19

Yes, 100%. Me crocheting while pissed off. I'm sleeping in the pool. You're sleeping in the pool.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:27

I mean water nymph in a water nymph. Excellent. Yeah, it's not like full of chlorine or anything. It's just nice clean water. Salt pool.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:32

Lunette's gonna sleep in the in the guest or in the uh in the greenhouse. You're gonna sleep in the pool. Daylus is sleeping in the garage.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:38

And I'm looking for the big opulent bedroom. Oh yeah, yeah. You're looking for the master bedroom. I rolled a tin. You roll the tent. You f you find it. It takes it takes like It takes like five minutes.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:50

Well oh my god, you're no your stuff is dead.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:54

I have heard you say fuck you exactly twice, and it has been entirely today.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:00

Is Dayless becoming a crash out? Are you joining me on the on the on the stupid side? My stupid guys hate me today. And you hate me. I don't hate you. And you do. I don't hate you.

SPEAKER_13 1:06:10

And you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

Because you hate us specifically. I do.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:14

So I find the master bedroom. Yes, uh, like I said, it takes about like five minutes, but eventually, like, you're about to give up, and finally the last door. Yeah. Dale's Daylo went on a range. But no, you you find it, and yeah, it's it's very nicely. It's it is a big plush four-poster bed. Like with like with the uh the canopy? Yeah, with the canopy. Yeah, I'm immediately like disrobing and going like finding pajamas because I own those. Um and then just like jumping. Like jumping in the bed. They have your name on them.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:47

It's embroidered.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:49

Yeah. Little VF embroidered at the corner.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:52

I thought like that my brain immediately went to like the Victoria's Secret, like 2010 pink silk.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:58

No, these are these pink are all like plastered on the ass. No, these are these are lesbian flannel pajamas. I don't know what's Victoria's Secret.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:06

I need you to remember that the next time you say I never said she was a lesbian.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:09

Lesbian flannel. It's probably called character growth. Anyway, uh, so yeah, she's just like go, she just goes to bed. Like, fuck it. There you go. You crash out on the bed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:21

Just throw it in.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:22

His extra two hours out inside the water underneath or whatever. It's kind of freaks out.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:28

His extra two hours. Because everyone found their stuff really fast, or we're already there. His extra two hours were spent looking for the corridor.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:37

Slamming doors. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:39

I'd love to imagine Lunette just like in her hammock in the greenhouse, cuddled up with Hooney, her bunny. You hear a door slam really close to you, but yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:49

God, the sound is gonna be creepy in this place.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:51

Yeah, no, like she's just like slowly holds Huny closer.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:57

Um yeah, you have you have a wonderful, peaceful night. Nothing disturb you ever. Yeah. Dalos is getting more and more frustrated, but everybody else, even even Lunette, strangely, has a moment of peace. Of of not rage.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:14

Dalos uses the rest of his rages just trying to find stuff. Something. Anything. He's just angrily sorting nuts and bolts in the grudge. What is wrong with this house?

SPEAKER_10 1:08:22

So you all get some wonderful rest. The following morning, you wake up to the sound of bells in the ceiling. In the ceiling? In the ceiling? In the city. I mean, that would be kind of bad as a city. The ceiling of the city. If we had a bell tower.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:37

What kind of bells?

SPEAKER_10 1:08:39

Single bells.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:40

Yeah, that's not good.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:41

Yeah. Yeah, it's just uh you you as a person who has looked over the lantern charter.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:46

Uh Dalos as a character who has looked over the lantern charter.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:49

That's who I was talking about, but yes, you you as well.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:51

I'm making sure. Both Dalos and the Autistic Rules Enjoyer who plays him.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:55

Yes. Uh the the a single bell usually indicates an escort or supply failure. Essentially, either an escort or a supply supply route guard uh reported some kind of significant threat, or a uh like an escort or supply didn't return at an expected time. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:18

Before we continue.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:21

I love you. No fuck you. I appreciate it as at the end. Uh huh. Don't be too worried. We are set you.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:29

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_10 1:09:33

This is the first time that Venaria has slept in a bed bed in 20 years this time. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:41

At the at the time The Chrono stream.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:44

Yeah, that was more of like a medically induced coma. You're right. You were forced into the bed. Yeah. No, this is this is your first time like actively nicely resting in a bed bed. It's very nice. So in terms of being awakened by the single chime, is that like what's the likelihood on that, or is that a single? Well, it so how does Venario usually wake up? Um sunrise, if there's nothing else happening. The windows are opened in such a way, like the blinds, no, the the curtains. There you go. The curtains are parted in a window. Do not make Venetian blinds canon in demora. No. They there are there are some very plush curtains, but they are parted in just the right spot where you just get that nice just little crack of light over your eyes, on your face, and you wake up peacefully like a sweet little little baby wolf pup.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:36

The house has woken you up.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:38

Yeah, you you woke up, you you wake up and kind of just like rubbing rubbing on your face a little bit. You feel great. Super rested.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:47

Then the blinds like slowly open the rest of the way, illuminate the rest of the room.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:52

Just slowly eyes adjust the full like Pirates of the Caribbean special or it's a wonderful day outside. But yes, so there are bells ringing, and after a moment you do remember that that means a thing. Ugh. Damn it. Okay. Just struggling on with the armor and everything.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:14

We should probably check that out. Lanterns at all. You just hear over the over the bracer line, it never fucking ends.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:26

Genova's exiting the pole and is like, okay, I'm I'm I'm drawing off an alley all. I'll be right there.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:34

So you all gather up, uh well rested and and and cared for, and you're you're just you're just feeling so good about your house. But I feel like this is like entirely like Henari's at the other end of this like extreme of just like this is the coolest house ever.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:03

I love this house. I'm so glad that it's someone else's turn.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:08

This is the coolest thing ever.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:11

I'm so glad it's someone else's turn to be at your mercy.

SPEAKER_15 1:12:16

Master Delos, is there anything I can do for you? No, Ignocio. Would you care for some mineral oil this morning? Perhaps perhaps I could uh I could tighten some of your bolts. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:27

Hey yo. Ignacio.

SPEAKER_15 1:12:29

Is there any way that I could make your day better? I don't get in line, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:32

Ignacio, I don't think that is a little bit uncouth.

SPEAKER_15 1:12:37

Pardon, pardon me. I'm not used to dealing with sentient machines.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:41

Not the inelegance, Ignacio.

SPEAKER_15 1:12:43

I I shall flagellate myself for such inelegant.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:45

Sweet, please don't do not.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:47

But um Oh we did not consent to say this, Ignacio.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:54

Father help!

SPEAKER_15 1:12:57

You can find this suitable!

SPEAKER_06 1:12:58

No, I'll take the mineral oil. It'll be fine.

SPEAKER_15 1:13:00

Oh, yes, we're at here.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:05

He goes button.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:06

And then the then the whip like retracts into his sleeve like it's a predictor disappears. You're not sure where he gets the mineral oil, but he produces it. Here you go. For you.

SPEAKER_15 1:13:17

You're quite welcome. Anything else I can do? Yes, yes. Madam Lunat, what can I do for you?

SPEAKER_05 1:13:22

Is there any chance that you're related to a granny goodgood? Who is that? I don't believe you. Let's go. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:29

More on that later. That's what everyone said when we ask. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:36

Does Tadoth mean anything to you?

SPEAKER_15 1:13:38

Who?

SPEAKER_05 1:13:38

I don't believe you.

SPEAKER_15 1:13:40

He's just like Gesuntite.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:42

Then that's like, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_15 1:13:44

I don't speak that language.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:45

Um Gesuntite. Last last and only question, Ignacio.

SPEAKER_15 1:13:49

Yes, please, anything for you.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:51

Um, is there Due to the alert, is there a place that you know that we should immediately I guess the lantern would be something.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:00

Traditionally that would be the lantern hall, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:02

Just making sure that we weren't wrong in that assumption. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:05

No, a single bell.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:07

No, and Dalos would be.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:10

Wait! I have info. We don't need to go to the hall for a single bell.

unknown 1:14:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:16

Just be alert. It's like a tornado watch.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:19

Dalos is uncomfortable. Dalis doesn't want to be in the house. I want to go back.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:23

Dalos wants to go to the Smith. It's a second day of Bloomery. And Dalos would like to go to the Ashman Forge.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:29

Yeah, we're gonna do that. I'd like to do that as well.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:32

As as we're leaving, uh Venara just carefully turns to Ignacio and I just want you to know that your work is appreciated. Oh, thank you. Um, if you would take a command from me for today.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:43

Anything at all.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:45

Take some time to rest.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:48

I cannot do that. That is the one he can do. Command that I will not do it.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:53

Oh, so it's a it's a refusal. Are you refusing a command? Hi, I'm mistress of the house.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:59

You're gonna break his little butler brain!

SPEAKER_15 1:15:02

My work ethic could not handle it. I cannot f I cannot abide by sitting still for any length of time. I was gonna say then Venar.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:10

I do like building ships and bottles. I would love a ship and a bottle for the greenhouse. I want decor in the greenhouse. Absolutely! Yeah, thanks. Let's go talk to the Smithy.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:20

I'm grabbing some breakfast biscuits on the way out. I will construct you the most elegant of ships and bottles.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:26

Venari also grabs a handful of biscuits and just kind of like ha on the way out. Oh yeah. Yeah, and actually, like there are people milling about. There are actual staff around. And these are some damn good biscuits.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:37

Use the lantern. Use the lantern. I want to know if these staff are like people people or ignacio people. Can I do that?

SPEAKER_10 1:15:43

You can.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:44

Just like I'm.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:44

I don't think there's any restriction on how often you can use lantern.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:48

I don't have anything other than you describe the lantern to me once. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:55

She's gonna use she's gonna Loonette over the bracers. Scan them. Dalos will look at them.

unknown 1:16:01

They don't pick up at all.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:04

Evil and fucked up of you.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:06

They they don't they don't according to the lantern, they don't really exist.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:09

Yay.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:10

Dalos goes. It's a conjuration of the house.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:15

Actually, okay, no, more more accurate. It's not that they don't show up at all. It's they they are like a fuzzy grayed out. Like just muted. Oh, this is this is like the mood ring this is like the mooding equivalent of like their customer service voice. It is a totally normal place. Lives with with employees that are just here to make your lives easier.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:37

You dirty liar. Taylor would like to go to Ash Mantle Forge.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:42

So you all head out of the manor. It is a beautiful, wonderful, muggy spring day. Uh and yeah, you can head directly to Ash Mantle Forge. It is open. Like you said, it is this it is the second day of the festivities, so it is there and it is open.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:56

Yeah, I get to drop my armor.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:58

Do they have regular armor and stuff? Ash Mantle Forge is more for like custom orders. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:04

Gotta go to the Arcticon market, which was closed yesterday.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:08

Yes. Yes, the market where people buy things. Dalos. Dale's getting super snarky today. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:19

Fucking sassy robot out here.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:21

Yeah, you you head on over to Ash Mail Forge and it is open. Corrin's there.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:25

She's gonna wait Lunette's gonna wave her human hand or her elf hand. Corrin!

SPEAKER_10 1:17:30

Hello?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:31

We got the stuff!

SPEAKER_10 1:17:32

Um Yeah, we dropped off the materium for our our weapons uh y two days ago. Yes, I was here. You need my arm.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:40

You need my arm, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:17:41

Uh I I took measurements of it.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:43

Uh right.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:44

Um are you are you here to pick up your weapons?

SPEAKER_06 1:17:47

Uh not no, not necessarily.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:48

Okay, yeah, it'll take some time.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:50

I kind of wanted to ask you about what that time kind of looked like the last time that we were out and about. We saw some very concerning things. And I'd rather not be caught unprepared as we were under Haven Watch.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:02

Ah, but no, it will take some time.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:06

Some day.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:06

Likely a couple days.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:10

Um, how about we go to the Octagon market to see if we have something that could tide us over while we wait for Corrin.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:17

And then I'll go to the studium with you so that way I can harass people about my grandpa. Harass the locals.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:23

I'm so glad y'all are making all these plans right now.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:26

Yeah. Because he's not gonna let us do any of them. Right now. No, because there's gonna be a disastrophy and there's gonna be some buster fire. I don't know what you're talking about. The single bell is so that you're on alert. I'm trying to arm myself.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:38

You guys are being so great and making all these great plans. Blows up DM with mind.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:45

Okay, so we've got the time frame on the custom. Let's go to the non-custom and see what they got. Excellent. So you walk out of Ash Mantle Forge and two bells start ringing.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:52

Mother Hey.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:02

You hate us. Um Delos will uh talk to you all.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:08

I I still point it, like, I'm not talking to the fucking DM right now. I'm talking to you all. My friends.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:17

No. Um, no. It seems like uh one bell wasn't necessarily to go to the lantern hall. Two probably. Two might be. And the octagon market happens happens to be next door to the lantern hall.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:29

So I have a feeling we should stop it.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:31

We'll go shopping on the way, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:34

Alright. Excellent.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:38

I had to specify. So we go through the circle in the center, and we go on Cinder Way to Octagon Market, which goes next to the lantern hall. I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:48

Okay, Elizabeth has that fucking tome on her. She keeps that she keeps that with her. I need I need something.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:55

Uh yeah, so two bells are going off and y'all are heading to the market.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:59

Which is on the way to the lantern hall.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:01

And is open.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:02

Maybe. It is it is open.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:07

Yeah, the the thing about two bells though is that is quite alarming to people who have lived through the fall. Yes, I'm not sure. Because that usually means something very bad is about to happen.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:15

So things are shuddering, is what I'm hearing.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:17

Well, people are rushing about, but it's kind of like, you know, people heading to their storm shelters. They're like, everything's fine, it's okay, I'm getting in my safe place.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:28

Are there any is can I like quick look around?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:31

Are there are there any like materium weapons that we can buy that are like ready-made? Like as much as a dagger. That's all I all we need.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:39

There are mundane armor and weapons. Okay. Uh, but there's nothing like materium enhanced. That is like some pretty serious uh material. I'm gonna find the closest splint or plate armor person. Okay, you are headed to a particular place. Let me get that open.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:57

Alright, Car, like, is there anything we can do to not get our asses kicked? And he's like, no.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:01

I just I'm just I'm just tired of getting hit on the 16 AC.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:04

How many chunks of materium did we get?

SPEAKER_10 1:21:07

We needed 40.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:08

It was like 47 or something. Yeah, we had extra.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:10

We got it. Yeah, you had extra.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:12

I I am truly going to take one of the chunks of materium. And worse comes to worse, Delos will start punching with it. I am not dealing with, oh, you know, it it has an extra 150 hit points because we can't hit it once with the materium weapon. Never again.

unknown 1:21:32

Ever again.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:33

I have I have never once argued with y'all for thinking outside the box, so. No, but I mean if that's what you want to do with it.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:39

Let's see, Daelas. Gripping.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:41

If you can if you if there's if there's like a sharp like little bit of it, I can throw it with uh Shadow Blade. It doesn't it doesn't matter. Dalus, whatever at all costs. Fuck this and fuck that and fuck you too.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:55

Yeah, unfortunately there's not like materium weapons around. But you looking for armor, uh, you come across Picoli Brothers Weapons and Armor. The Piccoli Brothers. And then absolutely screaming at each other.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:12

You fucking you get your shit over there on your side. Oh no, you get yours over there. There's a line right down here in the middle, you fucker. You fucker! Good morning. We're here. Who the fuck are you? Oh hello, a customer. Hello! What can I do for you?

SPEAKER_05 1:22:26

I like these guys. She's like, I like these guys.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:29

I guess they reconcile the they're gonna reopen his superpercoli brothers. The other one walks up. Because there's two of them and they look pretty much exactly the same. One of them's in green, one of them's in red. The other one walks up, he's a little bit taller than his brother. How can I help you? And the other one's like, no, no, she's talking to me. I just like kind of like pull the cream out. I need something better than this. What do you have? I was right, you was talking to me! And he punches him in the gut, the taller one, and he falls over.

SPEAKER_13 1:22:53

Oh, he falls over. Oh mozzarella!

SPEAKER_10 1:22:59

And he he kind of like shrinks off.

SPEAKER_14 1:23:00

Ah, yes, you want some armor to help uh protect your your beautiful frail frame. What can I get you?

SPEAKER_13 1:23:09

Frail?

SPEAKER_10 1:23:10

Splint or plate mail. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_14 1:23:12

Are you sure there won't be a little too heavy for you?

SPEAKER_10 1:23:16

Dude, she will throw you. She'll throw you over the like. I don't say shit. I just pull the hammer and then let the head drop. I'm strong enough, sir.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:25

She'll throw you over the wall. She'll throw you over the wall.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:27

I'm good to see it. Excellent. Yes. Whiff. I was just uh looking out for you. But right here.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:33

Can I wear can I wear armor? I mean I have light armor.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:37

Light armor, yeah. The best light armor you could get would be studded leather. And that'd be 12 plus your dex modifier.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:42

That'd be 17.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:44

There you go.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:44

Uh, is there any chance you have some studded leather armor in there? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:49

Right here. And he pulls out a rack and slides out of the wall.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:52

Alright, what is that gonna run? What's what's the damage on that?

SPEAKER_14 1:23:54

What am I gonna Eh for you we call it uh 50 gold?

SPEAKER_05 1:23:58

Oh damn, alright, sold.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:01

Damn, okay. Is that a little better than just my regular leather? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:07

Yes, it is. By one.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:08

I'll take a set as well.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:10

Absolutely. For you we do a 50 gold.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:13

It's the same deal. But alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:17

Could I uh uh buffer you up? He has like a rag, it's just kind of rubbing on your arm. Pardon, those bad. No, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:25

He has this nice mineral oil. He just polished himself. He's spotless.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:31

You are a very shiny.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:33

Thank you.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:34

So Bernard's looking at the splinting plate. What's the price difference on this?

SPEAKER_14 1:24:37

Well, we'll uh we have to uh fit you just just real quick, but uh we we call it uh for you 500 gold.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:44

For the plate. For the plate. I would like to try to haggle him down, because I that is for for the plate, is uh it's four gold short on my offer him a kiss and see what happens. Yeah, we may make your case first. Uh okay, then I would I would say like this is for the protection of the city and hair toss. Might be a bit extra in it for you. Oh, what are we talking about? I could make if make at least one dream come true.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:11

Oh god.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:12

Maybe I have many dreams.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:13

Father help. I should not have extra.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:17

The one you walked right out of? Where I where I sweep you off your feet. Oh. It's hard for me to get out of bed sometimes.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:31

Do I need to grab the hammer again? Oh, maybe I will grab the hammer. And I like act like I'm gonna grab him by the crotch, but then like just sweep up, grab him by the the uh the collar. And not and not forcefully, but just this very much like the elevator's going up, sir. Make a strength check.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:49

Make a strength up uh a strength check for this large talion.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:53

I was gonna say 16. Yeah, I mean you you you pick him up. He's a little heavier than you thought. But yeah, you get him. You pick him up. I'm one hand in it.

SPEAKER_15 1:26:00

Oh! Oh I'm another such a strong woman. And then I get- I'm not you I'm I'm not used to being taken off the ground.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:09

And I just lean in and almost not not quite nose to nose. It's fun. You should try it sometime. Oh god. And then I set him back down. These are just kind of like clutching at his chest a little bit. Oh trust me when I say here, Toss. Once you've been with a strong woman, you'll never want anything else. Okay. Go ahead and make a persuasion check. Yeah, it was good, but let's do it. I'm totally gonna use some inspiration on this. Okay. Twenty-one. Excellent. Okay, so. See, I said five hundred. Yep.

unknown 1:26:45

Oh.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:51

For you, we say uh 400.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:55

And I just lean in. Done.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:59

Give him a little smooch on the forehead. You go.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:05

Thank you. And yeah, he will happily, he will like take some take a few measurements on you. They they've got the pieces. You just gotta like, you know, do do like the footlocker thing. And he gets you all measured up. Yeah, like puts the little like shoe sizer on your foot. Like, okay, hold on now, make sure you get your heel in the back there. Okay. And uh yeah, he will get you set up with some very it's it's not, you know, like super duper fancy, but it is very functional, very well-made armor. You all get back to the lantern hall, and you you can see lanterns from pretty much all over the city kind of filing in. Um, and you end up in what I've I've been calling like a bull pit. Um, like when detectives are getting their assignments or whatever. Yeah, so um standing at the front and front. Of a large map of Ogin and the surrounding territory, we see who you have come to know as the Bell Marshal of Ogin, basically who is in charge when the bells are going off. This guy's name is Rasad Anhamed Nalros. And he will wait for things to like basically like doing that thing of like, okay, we'll give them five more minutes, make sure everybody's showing back up, like every business meeting. And then finally. Alright. It is time to shut your mouth holes and open your ear balls, people. And everybody shuts their mouths and opens their earbuds. First, there have been confirmed sightings of a substantial horde of undead east of the city. Though they appear to be roaming without a clear target at the moment.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:49

That's good.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:49

They number in the thousands.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:51

That's not good.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:53

I know we have a few clerics here who would love to go out and try their hand at turning a horde. But I do not have to remind you of what happened last time when Begin gave it a go. And he will gesture over to a scrappy goblin standing on a crate. And he's waving with a stump in the air. Ouch! Secondly, there have been unconfirmed sightings of a death knight in the area. And it's kind of a rumble in response. A few of them shout out, like, which one? More than a few look outright terrified. Alright, settle down. I know many of you have never seen a death knight.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:29

I wish we were among those. Right.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:32

Yeah, who's seen some shit?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:33

We're like, yeah, it was a red main.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:35

It has been a few years since one was sighted near Ogun. I will not lie to you. Command level threats can be extreme. If this horde is commanded, we may lose a few lanterns today.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:47

However, lanterns do not act on rumor and supposition. We prepare for the worst and act on what's in front of us. Now, for information on our death knight, I will hand it off to Witness Marshal Ishan Patel.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:03

And you'll see a uh a Hilkin as one of the beast men of Korkoris, a tiger man. Uh he will walk up and wedge a monocle into his left eye. And he will read from an open tome in his other hand. According to the report filed by archivist Baru. And you'll see Tano actually smile and wave.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:25

The entity is described as approximately three meters tall, wearing lion-themed armor with a red plume, and wielding two large single-edged blades.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:37

There's a few of the lanterns in the crowd that are already reacting to this. They're shaking their heads. Some of the older lanterns look to be reliving like really painful memories.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:52

Kuodaraj the Crimson Main, formerly known as Centurion Darius Tanelli of the 8th Imperial Legion.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:04

Yeah, the rest of you are welcome to make a history check.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:08

That's a big word for Elmo. But Dalos was talking to Tono the whole time on the way back.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:13

I mean, that's that's a reasonable. Yeah, go ahead and make a roll. Yeah. Oh. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:22

Alex is a cruel god, but he is fair. Yes. Oh no. 11.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:27

I got a 17.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:28

I just got- I just keep having to remember my headband.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:32

Genova rolled a one. Ouch.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:35

Okay, cool. Yeah, you have no idea what they're talking about. Venare got a dirty 20 all only because of headband. Excellent. Okay, and Delos, you you don't remember Tato mentioning anywhere. Uh but yeah, you Lynette and Venare, you remember that the Centurion Darius Tanelli, um, 20 years ago, they were a celebrated hero of Thaksia. Like they were people that would show up in like newspapers and stuff. They were known for holding defensive positions against all odds. Like they were like a big time celebrated hero.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:09

Um records indicate in life he was a defensive specialist. Since his conversion, he was engaged almost entirely in siege warfare. If previous encounters are any indication, we should be prepared for a siege.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:26

The room will erupt in chatter. Uh, but after a moment, Rasad will ring a handbell calling for silence. Alright, settle down, settle down. It may have been a while, but we have been here before. Let us hope for the best but prepare for the worst. The Bright Broom Festival is a time for celebrating life. Let us not drag it down any more than is necessary until we have a reason to do so. The city's walls have beheld fast for centuries, since long before the fall. A leader's sword, no matter its size, will not break them. Ah, but the lanterns will all kind of murmur their agreement. For now, the city guard will man the walls. Lantern bands assigned to patrol routes will be temporarily reassigned to patrol the battlements. It's a surprisingly hard phrase to say in that accent. Yep.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:20

Everyone else, listen for the bells.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:22

Dismissed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:26

Yay.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:27

So, that is the current plan. Y'all have not been ascended to yeah, you haven't been assigned to a lantern band or anything yet, so y'all are just waiting for the bells.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:37

Joy. It's great. I guess if we just have to kill more time, we can just go to the studio. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:45

Well, instead of a hot springs episode, let's have everyone goes to school episode. Well, as as you were exiting the hall, there's an immediate difference in the atmosphere of the city. Um, like we were talking about earlier, people were trying to kinda like get into their safe places or whatever. Like people are really down, like they have downplayed it. You're not hearing any of that happy bloom right anymore. Uh villagers actually from the inner ring villages have been pouring in through the gates kind of en masse. Um and y'all, you know, you try to get around, but mostly in your positions now, you're kind of just making sure everybody's okay. Um at lanterns when the bells are going off, just just kind of generally make sure people are okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:27

Make sure a mob is not for people.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:29

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:29

Keep things make sure crowd panic doesn't set in.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:32

That, yes, exactly. Um but it's only two hours into that that the bells begin to ring in threes. And everyone in the city freezes. You can hear an infant cry in the distance. It's so quiet. Then, from over the wall, drums and the sound of war horns can be heard. Now it'll take a minute, but you can get up to the battlements and see what's going on. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:05

Yeah. So you have to like go to one of the nearby towers and get up, but you you do after a moment. And what you see is there are there are epics, like epic poems and songs that talk about the old revenant wars. When when Death Knights and their armies would show up and wage war, like Faxia's seen a couple of you're seeing not a shambling horde uh raid before the wall of Ogun, but a legion of undead soldiers. The long-dead remains of the 8th Imperial Legion of Faxia have risen from their graves to bring war to the living once more. And at its center stands Kuo Garage, glaring up at the battlements. You're welcome to make it a perception check.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:56

I'm afraid.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:59

How about he makes eye contact with each of us and just flips us off?

SPEAKER_05 1:36:02

22.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:03

Excellent.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:04

You said perception.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:06

I did.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:07

That'll be a dirty 30.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:08

Okay. Dirty 30. Dirty 30. Damn.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:13

How?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:14

Expertise. Oh, wait, I guess it's 29. I guess it's 29. Oh, only 29.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:18

Only 29.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:19

Sorry. That's crazy. Methinks. Take it.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:24

Venaria got a 22 as well. 22? Genova is trying to decipher the hieroglyphics on her on her die.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:30

What's up? I was making sure it wasn't the one again. Yeah, no, not the one. It's a seven. Seven, okay. Yeah, seven. Eleven. Eleven. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:40

What do I perceive with my twenty-nine?

SPEAKER_10 1:36:42

So anybody who gets above a fifteen. So Duraj glaring up the battlements. He's glaring at you.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:50

Yay. Us four?

SPEAKER_10 1:36:52

The four of you. Okay. He is looking directly at you.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:56

Did he tell us? Oh, shit. It's because it's because I waved at him. It's waves. No, no, no, no. I'm talking about the death mite.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:10

He waves down there like, huh guys.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:11

Are you kidding? Are you staying stay psych right now? Tell me what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:14

No, Snake, he's not doing that. What he will do is hold one of his massive cleaving blades up into the air and catches the light of the sun. And when he brings it down, the speed would get you for listening. If you liked what you heard, please tell us with a comment, rate the show, let us know what you think or what your favorite moment or NPC was. Join us in our Discord. There are some really cool folks in there. We'd love to have you. Be sure to subscribe to this show on your favorite podcasting platform and then brag about it to your friends, your neighbors, that coworker you can't help but harass with your weirdness every single day. Yeah, you're right, they secretly love it. Let's just make a plan to tell at least two other people, and then they can tell two people, and so on, and then somehow we all end up rich. That's that's what MLM's taught me. Our wonderful players were Brandon Rose as Venaria, Courtney Craig as Lynette, Elizabeth Nichols as Dalos, and Jen Walkup as Jenova. I have been your DM and host, Alexander Wright. Thanks again for listening, and we will see you again next time at the Good Good Table.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:53

Remember any good goods voice needs to come out first before the What?

SPEAKER_12 1:39:00

It's the only way you can get it right.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:03

It's the perfect warm-up.

SPEAKER_12 1:39:04

Alright, don't you tell me how to do it? I can do what I want. You you just keep your your metal mouth shut over there. Come on. Alright. Now, last time I had the goo-goo table, some shit happened. And then and then the recap, there's a theme song. Alright. Cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:30

And I am glad to hear that the the warmth of Bright Bloom can reach even you.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:38

Did you say Right Bloom?

SPEAKER_10 1:39:39

Bright Bloom. Bloomerite? Bloomright? I swear to god, I've had to correct myself in my own notes like five times on it. What the fuck was it? Bloomerite? Bloomerite. Happy Bloomerite!

SPEAKER_05 1:39:52

Piggy dipping in the piggy pond.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:55

Okay, this sounds like the most awkward innuendo ever. That's that's some country ass shit, right there. Taking a piggy dip in the pig poo.