[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back to Dark Nexas.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tonight, it's Act 4, Chapter 150, 3.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pick it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Still.
[SPEAKER_02]: 23rd day of forost, 47, 19.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're in dad books, apartment, and Pandora has just reincarnated Barnabas.
[SPEAKER_02]: Barnabas now, in this completely unfamiliar body.
[SPEAKER_02]: Give me an orange-local check.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see if you recognize what the heck this is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, now I'll just play in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's give me an orange-play in and check.
[SPEAKER_02]: Katie's gonna like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: thirty-one thirty-nine two of you recognize the body that Barnabas' soul now inhabits Barnabas' now a sulf
[SPEAKER_02]: amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Decended from humans and beings of elemental air.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this very tall pale thin delicate skinny body
[SPEAKER_02]: but the height is a little weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, the intense blue, sigil-like markings all over the body, also a little weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as you're watching, as her eyes open on the ground now, her hair begins to rustle on the floor as if blown by unseen breezes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is she blue or her skin has blue?
[SPEAKER_02]: Her skin has blue markings.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Barnabas opens her eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she is in the same, of course, state as we last saw him when he was sitting in his previous body.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you reach down to take her hands, she sits up, mutters a little under her breath.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you find that Barnabas is alive, but the sacrifice that Barnabas made has persisted.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a vessel with no experience that has not yet fully waken to full consciousness.
[SPEAKER_04]: is she awakening or is this as good as it gets?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there a check to be made about that?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think there's a check to be made and as Chester and and Jade of help get this new body situated on the card again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get her a green robe, won't you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, you seem to be silly with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, they got those special from the druids for you all, but since you just took yours off, yeah, they will give Progrips, since she is, oh, it's so funny to all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it'll be comfy kind of like a Yeah, giant blanket
[SPEAKER_02]: This is, indeed, how Barnabas has been for the past two months.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, if, how did you wake?
[SPEAKER_02]: Starsi just said, you all just woke up out of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: That there was apparently some period where you were near catatonic at the asylum, but then you, how did you wake?
[SPEAKER_07]: There was a voice.
[SPEAKER_07]: We were almost summoned out of our quesitidia, or implanted with a suggestion.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you have spent a thousand years.
[SPEAKER_02]: But now, able to parse those first moments of waking slightly differently, yeah, of course you now understand that those voices you were hearing like screaming this idea in your head was yourself or another version of yourself, but there was also a sensation of being vigorously shaken awake.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when you opened your eyes, in those cells, in the basement of Briarstone asylum, there was nobody there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something shook you awake.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pandora, at least, felt as though we were woken by Gulliver screaming, wake up, save me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now knows, that wasn't him at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was this prisoner through this connection.
[SPEAKER_04]: Connection, this link.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, believes that at least.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Pandora processes this as two memories.
[SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps the prisoner trying to piggyback on something that worked really hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: They seemed to wake when someone yelled wake up, save me, and maybe this alien mind is trying to close some circles, repeat some loops, see if they can get you moving.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also, you know, let's spend 150 chapters of, you know, once a year me popping in with some details about a bell ringing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, which meant nothing to you for so long.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the times when it was able to almost communicate with you or to dig up and dredge up memories from you was not from your conscious brain, but from your subconscious brain when you were close to or inside the dimension of dreams.
[SPEAKER_02]: that there's some, it has some ability to see those things in a way that makes literally no sense to any of you because it's not how you experience the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: But perhaps, perhaps subconscious mind is just another dimension that it can see into just as easily as you can see the physical world or experience time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So perhaps it's, then only a matter of time, we have assumed that interacting and getting moving and, you know, of course, keeping the body healthy but trying to engage the mind would only be a good thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, no experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in the hopes that that would perhaps trigger some sort of,
[SPEAKER_04]: awakening, but I might suggest that an awakening may not be the desired goal, but rather a rebirth into something new, a new life built upon new ambitions, boundless lived a life of great pain and suffering, and chose to relieve himself of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is possibility, and if I understand anything about the spell you just cast, it was a choice he made, indeed, alright well, our promise stands we will continue to care for Barnabas as long as we must.
[SPEAKER_07]: What is the age difference between the new body of Barnabas as the Sulf and Chester and Jade of?
[SPEAKER_02]: So the reincarnation spell creates a young adult body, which in the case of Sulfs.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has created a body almost identical in age to Chester and J-Dove, except, of course, seems youthful, reads to you, like basically a 20-year-old, even though it would be effectively a 60-year-old body, so if it's not the older than the two of them even.
[SPEAKER_07]: So then this body will live, barring, harm, or injury, or disease.
[SPEAKER_02]: Possibly, another 60 or more years.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, another lifetime.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And will age very slowly from this point.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, everybody's awake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's on their feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've gotten rid of the demon problem for the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we've addressed the Barnabas tragedy for the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is the first time now that all four of you have been awake in a room with a gesture and jade of.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can assume that the basics of the story that Dabwick heard from Chester.
[SPEAKER_02]: That those basics have been passed on to everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there are, there are conversations to be had about what has happened, what is happening, that we can probably turn our attention to, now at this point.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's follow and roll still the thing we need to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: We feel so much time, but we cannot allow him to get that book.
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like he's still the primary lead, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Of what we need to try, if we're going to try to do anything to stop what's happening, I feel like he's the thread we need to pull on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I think we begin to pull it by finding Stazien's downhough.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the elf.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, this elf.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is it worth a sweaty, sweaty elf?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it worth checking on this, uh, spoke?
[SPEAKER_08]: the lull's boat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Aurora, is that it?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the, yeah, it was the, yeah, Loses Yacht, the Aurora.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they came back from that freaked the fuck out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the story in brief was Aurora docked.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lull's got off by himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody else left the boat for over a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then people observed some crew members slinking off the next night while then the boat was taken out to what was called the dog's teeth, which dabbit can fill you in on.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is
[SPEAKER_02]: Kazmer is built around a very large natural harbor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just outside of this, out in the ocean, out in Star Bay, there is a long series of jagged, rocky islands and reefs.
[SPEAKER_02]: that has essentially become kind of a de facto district of the city.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's basically where the smugglers in the black market and people who want to stay out of the eyes of the watch live.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's also, it's an area where you don't take your ship in because it's super super dangerous and super, super rocky and very, very shallow.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Aurora was seen anchored out somewhere in there for a few days.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we know Stazzie at some point, went to it maybe with Stan Hope and this elf or whatever, but came back saying, whatever you do, don't go down there, and don't get anybody interested in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Play it cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whew.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been scuttled.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a total loss.
[SPEAKER_02]: The pirates already got to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing to see here.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of which is alive.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bash is going to look at everybody and then kind of glance over it, Chester and Jaydove, and Goa.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is this a conversation that we want to have right now?
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do they, unless they have any information about how we might find Stasi and Stanho, because we might be able to get the real story from them?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, Stasi told me that you would have the means of finding or contacting her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you need us to leave?
[SPEAKER_02]: We can walk Barnabas over to our flat if you want some time here.
[SPEAKER_04]: That might be best.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you so much for your help.
[SPEAKER_07]: And also maybe a different name for Barnabas.
[SPEAKER_07]: Since this is maybe a rebirth.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_04]: One would hope that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rainer.
[SPEAKER_08]: Or maybe Persephone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Percephony.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they, they had out and Diablox knows that Jade of's flat is just down the hill the ways.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're only about effectively, you know, four or five minutes away.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a close.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you need to get them, they are nearby.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dora will still use a telepathic bond to join the remaining people.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just so you're not speaking out loud.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you would.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you are in an apartment building.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Dabux flat is on the first floor.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have a neighbor right next door.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have two or three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's say it's a three story.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a three story building.
[SPEAKER_02]: So total of six units and you know, you're hearing the sound of life fall around you.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's, there's kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: It effectively happened in the second.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, 12, 6, 12 seconds.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the one hour of time, it took to go through this reincarnation ritual.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's your next to a neighbor's name, Paul?
[SPEAKER_05]: I was just pulling that document up.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's underleaf.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is she human?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or is she have legs?
[SPEAKER_02]: She's have legs.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is older, very kindly looking, half-ling, lady with well-worn, wrinkly hands, the hands of a laundry worker, would have certainly popped over at some point, easy to sort of assure her that everything is fine, there would have been hugs going all around, she would be very excited to see that,
[SPEAKER_02]: Back in town is the way she phrases it.
[SPEAKER_02]: As though, perhaps, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think shade of and shade of and chester were not banding about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's in here asleep for the last two months, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: That they were watching the flat while you were out of town.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, there is the sound of life around you, so slipping into a telepathic bond.
[SPEAKER_02]: On the off-chance that you see a certain name allowed, makes ton of sense to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you would notice, so two more months have gone by in your body, but the progression of your seedborn infestation feels like exactly where you last left it.
[SPEAKER_02]: If there's any small blessing to having been out that time, you were detached from John and Dord during that whole period of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, it's a little two-month hiatus.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like Nergall couldn't pinpoint us until we woke up again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the the illness is still progressing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're still on this clock, but you had a little you had a little pause button.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Got a voice that would've been a lot of charisma damage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dad, you got anything to, uh, do you did in this place?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, let's check the stalls.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see what's here.
[SPEAKER_04]: George is going to go off by herself to meditate for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, the pantry is well stocked with anything debit would have around here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Brother Betten's brown ale, perhaps.
[SPEAKER_02]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, some some eel pies.
[SPEAKER_05]: Some leftover eel pies and root moose and six months ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's it's fresh roots moose and eel pies.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jelly deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have any garrer I developed a taste for garrer?
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Deb, so, Pandora's going to have to meditate?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is that flavor meditation or mechanical meditation?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's like I don't even know who she is anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: While Pandora is doing this and bash and grip, I'm getting used to seeing these names, bash and grip are tending to get in some food in these bodies.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is nearing, it's, you know, it's nearing the hour that Tabwick would be meditating as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: This would be Dadwick's first period of meditation, the versatility to get in new spells
[SPEAKER_02]: after two months of not doing this after two months of their mind spent on that plan of existence where there is no connection to to the city and to nature.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there anything in particular that Debuk is meditating on?
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, well.
[SPEAKER_05]: At the opportunity, Dabwick excuses themselves excitedly and runs into the dead end alley around the corner from their apartment in the shadow of gray guard, a place they've passed dozens of times without looking twice, but they know it's there.
[SPEAKER_05]: the alley is narrow and dark, hemmed in by ancient stone walls and rusted iron work of forgotten corner, it's perfect, it's a little piece of solitude, finally, after months and months and months on that.
[SPEAKER_05]: on that boat.
[SPEAKER_05]: So these cracked bricks are underfoot.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's mildew creeping up, creeping up on the mortar, the faint smell of salt and rot from nearby sewer grates.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dabba cops onto a lone stone ledge near a boarded up shop front.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dabba's mood is unsettled.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ressless thoughts chase each other like cats in their head.
[SPEAKER_05]: As they swing their legs idly over the edge, they notice a sprig of green, two slender leaves pushing up between the cracks in the cobblestones.
[SPEAKER_05]: A weed, likely, but it's doing something no one asked it to.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's living.
[SPEAKER_05]: They lean in closer.
[SPEAKER_05]: The roots have twisted between the stones, clean tight.
[SPEAKER_05]: No ring today.
[SPEAKER_05]: very little sunlight yet, still, it grows.
[SPEAKER_05]: Their fingers twitch, itching to name the sprout, a green ribbed, no, slick and weed, now too narrow.
[SPEAKER_05]: They remember unbidden, afshroves voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: The druid, flat, clipped and exacting, the name of the thing is not the thing, but names
[SPEAKER_05]: They remember sitting on a damp floor and Ashgrove's shop hunched over a pile of dried leaves and moss samples trying to speak druidic without stumbling.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ashgrove had given nothing, no encouragement, no softness, just corrections.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dabuah had cried once, quietly, didn't let him see.
[SPEAKER_05]: But they'd return the next day, always returned.
[SPEAKER_05]: Until they didn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: looking back down at the weed, no plant they remind themselves.
[SPEAKER_05]: They feel a slow warmth stirring their chest, something about the way it grows, without permission, without applause.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ash Grove taught them the language of the green, but he never explained it, not really, to have a still figuring that part out.
[SPEAKER_05]: They whisper to no one in particular.
[SPEAKER_05]: Even where stone is laid thick, the understanding finds a voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: They press a finger tip to the little plant gently, the gesture of recognition.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then they reach into their pouch and take out a seat of their own.
[SPEAKER_05]: One, they've carried since thrush more, and wedged into another crack along the alley floor.
[SPEAKER_05]: tomorrow, someone will step on it, or maybe it will grow.
[SPEAKER_05]: Either way, the green will try.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so will they.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Beautiful.
[SPEAKER_08]: Good upset a thought.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: If this is okay, time for it, while dab with scoots off to do their meditation with Pandora, is doing something.
[SPEAKER_08]: Pandora is off doing her own thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Grippin, Grippin Bash have had some food in them.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think Gripp Lights his pipe.
[SPEAKER_08]: He sits back and he's looking at Bash He says Bash is it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah He sits there for another minute.
[SPEAKER_08]: Takes another couple puffs
[SPEAKER_07]: I think that we are very comfortable sitting here in sort of silence, you know, like pushing food around on the plate kind of thing and just drinking a little water, whatever, whatever dabs had in their larger kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is what I'm trying to wrap my head around.
[SPEAKER_08]: You've gone by a few different names now, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Every time, every time there's someone seeming new and looking at Allah's eyes back at me, we start to learn other things about where we've been and where we've come from and all of these different people go even, but Roni and Vic, they all sort of slaughtered in to those memories that started to get revealed to us, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So who the fuck is Bash to me?
[SPEAKER_08]: Hmm, because those memories don't have Bash.
[SPEAKER_08]: They got Vic and they got Aroni and sort of go hollow go, sort of a facade anyway, wasn't he?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: But Bash and Riptus don't have history.
[SPEAKER_08]: So who are you to me?
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess we'll have to figure that out together.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's supposed to be with him.
[SPEAKER_07]: But that's not any different than any other day.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, that's a fact.
[SPEAKER_07]: Friendship is in a thing set in stone.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a thing you consciously decide to work on moment after moment, day after day.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not a subject, I know much about, but I think that sounds true.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you know more about it than you learn on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_08]: Blows a smoking.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are you feeling?
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like we need to get a move on, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: We got promises to keep, and some shite to clean up, don't we?
[SPEAKER_02]: me while the other room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pandora is doing something.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's she doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_04]: She's trying to bring peace and quiet to her mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: And after some time, they're deep breathing.
[SPEAKER_04]: She eventually gets there and turns, allows her mind to turn to the problem of Stasi said we'd know how to find her.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so she just opens herself to the idea that that knowledge is out there.
[SPEAKER_04]: She can access it, she trusts Thazzy to have set a true thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: And a motion creeps in, and a thought creeps in, and these two things together make something else happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: So she starts feeling kind of unbidden,
[SPEAKER_04]: a deep sense of like the low, a sudden loneliness, an understanding of having been abandoned.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she feels she knows that she is a very young boy who has brought been brought to a place of study and learning and research.
[SPEAKER_04]: She is a prodigy.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she has been brought here to build upon that promise.
[SPEAKER_04]: He has been brought here to build upon that promise.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, she, no, he.
[SPEAKER_04]: Any scared.
[SPEAKER_04]: Any looks for his mother and understands that they have left him here and they are not coming back.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then her son says open up, and she casts this bell-locate creature, which is a fourth-level wizard's bell.
[SPEAKER_04]: than she thinks of Stasi.
[SPEAKER_04]: They image bleeding from the boy's mother who is very clear in her mind into the image of Stasi who is very clear in Pandora's mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: spell locates a known creature.
[SPEAKER_02]: You slowly turn and sense when you are facing in the direction of the creature to be located, provided it is within range.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know in which direction the creature is moving, if any, what is the range of this spell for Pandora?
[SPEAKER_04]: It is long, but that's
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's 400 feet plus 400 feet per level, 40 feet per level, so that's 800 feet, 800 feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: So feeling the sense of abandonment that this boy feels,
[SPEAKER_02]: Pandora turns herself around in this room, casting a spell she literally did not know before she began this meditation, and she senses no stasi, not within 800 feet of her.
[SPEAKER_04]: And here comes Daps.
[SPEAKER_04]: I believe you must scribe to find Stasi.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'd be better off trying to find the Stan Hope.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's going to be easier.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, because of the real situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Presuming they are still together.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm prepared.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you use the hat?
[SPEAKER_05]: That would work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dabwick has never had the ability to scribe, while they have been in Kazimire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where does Dabwick go to do this?
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's, there would be an abundance of wells.
[SPEAKER_02]: There would be, yeah, there would be like, a sewer tunnel familiar to you, where you could go down there, maybe one familiar to you from your days with, was there any old mum?
[SPEAKER_02]: You could also of course go down to the harbor on the interior of the city or down to the bay that would function as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me take you to a Kazimire map.
[SPEAKER_02]: Start to slowly get you all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's take a look at.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can I say two things?
[SPEAKER_07]: One, are we still fatigued?
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the fatigue has gone away now that we've working up.
[SPEAKER_02]: over the course of this afternoon the fatigue is going away great and then also over the courses afternoon i would have mixed up some extracts great everybody on this map of cazamir yeah glorious glory of this is so great
[SPEAKER_02]: So while we walk, while we take a little stroll to wherever Deb's wants to do some screen, we can of course continue any pre-scrying conversation we wish to have.
[SPEAKER_02]: But can you see, Deb was flat, up in Gregard's shadow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, the big thing to remember about this map is it is so wildly not to scale, it's almost ludicrous.
[SPEAKER_02]: This map depicts a number of houses that would hold maybe five or six hundred so you got to you got to blow this every building is really like a hundred Yes, and every district is miles and miles long to walk around the harbor from Gregard's shadow through the imperial naval shipyards over to Abbey Green
[SPEAKER_02]: through crowds and streets and the mud of the fan and through, you know, twisty windy alleyways and both the fend and quick fall abbey would take you several hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a big, big city.
[SPEAKER_02]: You all have not seen anything quite like this before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gregard's Shet, Gregard's Castle, is looming above Debuk's flat, and that is a truly massive walled fortified old school medieval European castle-looking thing, with gigantic walls on top of this hill.
[SPEAKER_02]: All the way across the harbor, you can see another walled section of town, Old Casimir, the old section of the city, is also walled in, but that's like an entire district, also on top of a big steep rise and plateau.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those two...
[SPEAKER_02]: tall rises to send down to sea level as they follow this natural harbor around.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the neighborhood of Admirals, Fen, is half underwater.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I described the buildings.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're looking like they were cockroaches scrambling for cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like there are there are dry patches and there are places where there are a whole bunch of buildings that are doing well, but then
[SPEAKER_02]: Blocks and Blocks and Blocks of Houses from maybe 50 years ago that had to be abandoned at some point because the water came in and rose too high At this time of night like around nightfall old Casimir on top of the opposite hill the north hill would be well lit up the neighborhood of three gates Which is
[SPEAKER_02]: north of Abbey Green on the outside of Old Casimir is also brilliantly lit up as though there's a lot of money and a lot of commerce happening over there but Abbey Green is uh seems pretty quiet and Emma's fan seems pretty quiet.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of activity here in Grigard's Shadow.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's just a lot of working-class folks and a lot of working-class businesses still operating so it's
[SPEAKER_02]: and horseshoers and all that great stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: I love like picturing the start of this book is like the first two episodes or whatever.
[SPEAKER_08]: Everything's inside, Debwix, cramped little flat, everyone's crying, everyone's emotions are fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: We fight this thing, we reincarnate Barnabas, all in this small cramped room.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then like, I can just picture the doors opening and like the camera just,
[SPEAKER_08]: banning over Kazamir and all the open the crowds and it's Beautiful.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah fantastic
[SPEAKER_05]: Where do you, where do you, where do you think you take them, Polly?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I was looking at Dan for his pie shop, but it's so far away.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's find it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not what we're walked down the hill.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can get there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's enough time to have a conversation as you're heading down there.
[SPEAKER_04]: We can certainly use the, the legs stretch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, maybe this is also the last lingering remnants of that fatate contention condition wearing off as you're continuing to work those muscles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, well, let's walk down to, um, down to Danvers' pies, which is near the near the Imperial shipyards.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, um, oh my gosh, you all, like, so the three of you now, you're surrounded by people you've never seen before, have no idea who you are.
[SPEAKER_02]: they're just living their lives in complete obliviousness to everything you've gone through.
[SPEAKER_02]: As opposed to everywhere you've ever been yet, you're surrounded by a small number of people, either who know you or who are deeply being affected by what's going on, and it's just like, it's just thousands of stories happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great amount of anonymity.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, that's what you're in heaven and I can't stop looking at the faces.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dabwick is experiencing a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dabwick is walking backwards talking excitedly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Basically, levitating the streets to show their friends.
[SPEAKER_04]: Jordan has questions.
[SPEAKER_04]: What is that place?
[SPEAKER_04]: Who that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you know that post?
[SPEAKER_04]: Dev use inches.
[SPEAKER_04]: into this tour.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've been in Divalath Leane, so like we have been in a big city, but this has got to feel But we went sightseeing when we did that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like we did that.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_08]: But this this has got to feel so different because of the just Knowing that it's it's real the material play.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is dab.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: and this is probably the the first walk that dad would take most mornings down to the pie shop to get a pee pie to start the day and so this is like you know everybody you know who lives there you know that business you're people are you know saying hi waving hello you you know all the animals you know all of the on I'm sure you're probably pointing out like all the whether the weeds have grown up at the corner of this house was nobody's saying they're at
[SPEAKER_07]: And as we walk around and are looking at all these things in his head, Bash sees an overlap with die-lath-lean, and all the places that he walked around in this sort of like lower-class areas of die-lath-lean, and every time he sees a parent with their kid doing something, he's having images flickering through his head.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pandora remembers decades spent as a shut-in.
[SPEAKER_04]: No interest or curiosity about the outside world.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she can't bathe them at.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look at all the stories out here.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's overwhelming.
[SPEAKER_02]: She spent 37 years in the basement of Humbrecht University.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: down the hill we go and Denver's Pizes right there on the edge of the edge of the fan edge of Gregard's shadow edge of the Imperial Naval shipyards and all of the folks working in dry dock working on repairing.
[SPEAKER_02]: all of the ships that are raised out of the waters are all getting off work for the day and it's so many halflings y'all that seems to be the majority of the workforce down in that part of the shipyards and if the imperial naval shipyards is written on our map as if it's just a little that is the name of this entire district so it just stretches out as far as you can see halflings and humans come and off the work that they atonate dwarves too
[SPEAKER_05]: This whole area is run by a unknown named Athen Baylor, and I know him if we need to find out anything that happened.
[SPEAKER_04]: What did they tell us?
[SPEAKER_04]: The senator?
[SPEAKER_04]: Doldman?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got a reward waiting for you at the vault of... Where is that?
[SPEAKER_02]: At the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's in Gregard's castle.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right up the hill from Jabog's flat so you can... Oh, good news, I was assuming we'd have to find a way to break in there at some point.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you could do some reconnaissance.
[SPEAKER_02]: They would be close to the day, but you could certainly go there first thing in the morning.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I do know people who worked on at the docks, and so when we're ready to investigate what happened to, you know, ooh.
[SPEAKER_05]: And their ship, we have some people I can talk to.
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope we can speak to Stasi first.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, let's go down to the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so down, you find a nice little tucked-in cove in this massive natural harbor, a little spot with a couple of benches that I can picture dabbook having taken their pee pies down to sit and look out over the water before they begin their rounds for the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: A nice little isolated spot with a a a small-ish natural pool off this natural harbor.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you cast Scryte?
[SPEAKER_02]: Scryte.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to try to Scryte.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stan Hope with the low will save or Stazzy with probably a cataclysmically high yet.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll try to Stan Hope.
[SPEAKER_05]: Try to Scryte.
[SPEAKER_05]: Stan Hope and we'll use the hat as a tool.
[SPEAKER_02]: So for an hour you all hang out and just watch the sights of ships coming in and out of the harbor and neighborhoods behind you, either shutting businesses, shutting down for the day or taverns and other kinds of businesses just getting started for the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: You all get tired of hearing gripped, lit out just heavy size every time a boat goes back.
[SPEAKER_04]: And just out of curiosity since we have time to wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dora casts locate creature again, but this time on the shark of demon.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: And turns in a circle.
[SPEAKER_04]: 800 feet no shark of demon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, I get to just, I just get to drop him in whenever I feel like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna try.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, you're gonna try to catch me up at one point.
[SPEAKER_02]: And after an hour.
[SPEAKER_02]: As this magical energy is building up, following in 60 minutes of prayer and meditation, as you see the mists begin to come together on this little natural pool on the edge of the star bay, the spell fails.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do we know if that is because of a successful will save or are there other what do we we've done it enough now, what do we know the sure Boss that that with knows no save was made so so there might be a non detection effect
[SPEAKER_02]: the likeliest thing that Dabu can think of is either some kind of warning or that person does not exist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh boy, so some kind of warning.
[SPEAKER_08]: What about, what about, uh, is there a, is there a planer, um, limitation to screen?
[SPEAKER_05]: If the subject is on another plane, it gets a plus five bonus on its will save.
[SPEAKER_04]: But no save was made.
[SPEAKER_04]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we know of a place where they might go?
[SPEAKER_04]: They would be non-detectable.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why would she say we'd know how to find her?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I can't answer that question.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's... Stazzy watched you multiple times.
[SPEAKER_02]: Use the Skry spell on the edge of the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: She was there.
[SPEAKER_02]: She says she knows she knows you can do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I might have to try her.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that would have been her expectations that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They'll just do that because they do it all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Dad, look, it's very good at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what, this gives me an idea, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is not exactly what you asked, but depending on what you roll when I ask you this question, I think it might come to mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those of you that are able to, please give me a knowledge, our con a check.
[SPEAKER_04]: 33?
[SPEAKER_02]: 25.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so, Bash does not know this.
[SPEAKER_02]: a little bit of feeding here because there's a lot of things to remind you you have not yet made checks on.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to give you this and I think you'll see why when I get to the end of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: So as, as this spell is winding up and you've had time to sit and look out at the harbor and, you know, you're coming back into yourselves in the waking world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pandora like the back for brain is tickled a little bit as as Dabuk is puzzling through like it just seems like the spell didn't work like they're Warded or guarded and the idea of being warded against Divination like what so she starts thinking like what's a place do I know up?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but wait a minute
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I know about the Necronomicon?
[SPEAKER_02]: What even is it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Which, we've not been awake since that name was first dropped into this campaign.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's true?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've not been awake.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let me tell you, Katie, what Pandora does know about the Necronomicon?
[SPEAKER_02]: Shocker that she would know about a book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, exactly, it makes total sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this blast from his toe.
[SPEAKER_02]: containing hundreds upon hundreds of pages of tread truths about the dark tapestry on the Elder Mythos.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, supposedly written on another planet entirely by a man named Abdul Hazred, about whom there are countless stories and legends none of which can be verified or proven.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever happened to the man himself, the world would say shrug question mark, but you may have an idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is known that his book,
[SPEAKER_02]: The Necronomicon made its way into the Dreamlands, or at least the dream of it did, and some say, that ever since the Necronomicon found its way into the Dreamlands, every planet in the universe, that supports lifeforms able to dream has had a copy of the tomb make its way there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Someone.
[SPEAKER_02]: will dream of finding it in the dreamlands, and they will be unable to stop dreaming of reading it, night, after night, and then every day in the real world they will transcribe what they have seen and what they have learned, and eventually on every planet of this lone dreamer will skin people alive to make a new cover, pour their soul into the wards and bindings, and then a new
[SPEAKER_02]: Necronomicon is born one for every world, and thus its truths find their way into new civilizations, and its madness spreads on and on and on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Galarian's copy of the Necronomicon was translated into Necronom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And was made as a gift for Tarbafon, the whispering tyrant, a thousand years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was created by a necromancer named Gaia, long believed to have been destroyed in the shining crusade, probably erotiously because he became a demi-litch.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the paladins, who thought they'd put him down permanently, they took possession of the book and sent it far away to the city of Zamar, a major tell-dore and stronghold on the border with Kadira.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be taking you to a region map here.
[SPEAKER_02]: is everybody on a map of the intersea region?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So everybody see Kazimire up there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Down the bottom right, the southeast of our map over on the continent of Kazimiren is the empire of Kadira.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then this river right here that I'm picking
[SPEAKER_02]: That separates Teldor from Kadira and I don't have Zemar on the map, but it's basically located right here where I'm pinging now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's straddles the border.
[SPEAKER_02]: It straddles the border, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was made on the Teldor side, but it's all, it's one of the cities that has changed hands countless times over the centuries.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the book was sent to the city of Zemar while Teldor held it.
[SPEAKER_02]: This proved to be challenging for several reasons.
[SPEAKER_02]: They quickly learned that the Necronomicon's words were unlike any they'd ever encountered.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, it is Divination Proof.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any attempt to use any type of divination magic to learn about it, to determine its location, to view it, or any part of it, or anyone simply possessing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not only automatically fails, but most who attempt to do so are instantly driven mad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number two, it is teleportation proof.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any attempt to use teleportation magic to change the book's location in space, results in the book being left behind, and the spellcaster ending up shrug at some unknown location.
[SPEAKER_02]: At least everyone who's ever tried teleporting it was never seen again, and definitely not at the spot the intended to travel to.
[SPEAKER_02]: And number three,
[SPEAKER_02]: It cannot be destroyed by any verifiable method.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are some who believe that destroying, that finding and destroying Abdul al-Hazrid might possibly allow for the book to be damaged, but that any damage taken by the book.
[SPEAKER_02]: would absolutely draw the direct attention of their laugh-a-tap, the crawling chaos, who is its muse?
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, divination proof, teleportation proof, and destruction proof.
[SPEAKER_02]: Question.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: What if, um, what if that bookplate that we found in Book Two were to be used on the Necronomicon?
[SPEAKER_04]: Teleportation proof.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's teleportation proof.
[SPEAKER_08]: It would not work But would it would it would it blip the the person who whose name is on the bookmark to shrug?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh boy, I don't think she knows, it might, but's trying not going to try.
[SPEAKER_02]: So unable to divide information about it, unable to destroy it.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the scholars, of course, read it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how all these stories go, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And by the time he was done, he was unrecognizable to his colleagues.
[SPEAKER_02]: This quiet, gentle, devout servant of Shalin had become an insane worshipper of near Lathatep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who murdered dozens of innocent people before the Paladins could put him down and stop his reign of terror.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one knew what to do with the book, so they put it in a secure vault and decided to deal with it once the shadowing crusade was over.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, by the time that happened, the few who had known of it were dead, and over time the Necronomicon was forgotten.
[SPEAKER_02]: 300 years later, Kadira and Toldoor were at war and the city of Zamar was captured and sacked by Kadira.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever happened next to the Necronomicon, likely happened then around 479 AR.
[SPEAKER_02]: So 700 odd years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Treasures of all kinds, great works of art, weaponry, and books were liberated from the city and sent south.
[SPEAKER_02]: So where exactly the Necronomicon ended up is not a known fact, but certain scholars, like Myakni and Mun,
[SPEAKER_02]: have spent life times attempting to track it down, investigating mysterious murder sprees and unexplained events around the world, hoping to maybe sense a whiff of the tombs current whereabouts in great tragedies.
[SPEAKER_02]: It literally can't be destroyed, so it's somewhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think this is given the amount of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: that Tima spent tangled up with mon and trading books and trading knowledge.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Katie, this is something that Pandora knows because my acne and mon probably explained this to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Talked about it at Nazium, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a sideways answer that doesn't answer your question, but it gets you thinking on, we might be now tangled up with things that simply cannot be.
[SPEAKER_02]: scribe upon and if maybe if step if stand hope oh my god, please if stand hope has the necronomic on in his hands The world is over.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got the violin and that he's got the book.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are ready for it a venture I want to say though that there is Pandora is aware that not all of her knowledge of this comes from
[SPEAKER_04]: my acne in mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, there are glaringly obvious to her pieces of this story that she has filled in from another source that she does not understand.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, and leave from those thousands of lifetimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can say, awesome, awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think in that case, basically anything about its time, like any details you're able to think about about its time in Zemar probably came from these other sources that
[SPEAKER_02]: My acne and mon probably was able to dig up a lot of information about its creation and it's time up in Ustalov But that after that he just basically knew it went south and the rest of that Pandora's filling in otherwise
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so, scrying failed.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about the necronomic on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we have any other spells we want to cast or other conversations we want to engage in tonight or are we looking to start some more stuff tomorrow?
[SPEAKER_08]: Is there, is it worth, like what constitutes possession?
[SPEAKER_08]: So is it worth trying to scry stasi?
[SPEAKER_08]: Like would she leave herself willing to be scried knowing that so that maybe her in saying will save,
[SPEAKER_08]: The factor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can one do that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Can one choose to fail or will save to be subscribed?
[SPEAKER_02]: I would say probably normally know, but if Stasi was like, I think this is how they're going to get in touch with me, and she felt anything like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it would be fair to say, I would let Katie feel it was safe by choice if she wanted to.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I would say Stasi can do that too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's information.
[SPEAKER_04]: If she, I mean, I think Pandora probably thinks she would do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: If we tried to describe her, and we also don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's information.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, do we want to spend another hour?
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you have any lower price pills?
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, yeah, do we have anything?
[SPEAKER_02]: Anything that belongs to Stasi.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, probably not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Once speaking of belongings, yeah, let's just confirm what so we know the violin is gone The bag of holding that you filled with all of the food for months of for weeks and weeks of travel the bigger one Yeah, Stasi did take that that is the that is the bag that she took because it seems like she left in a hurry And probably didn't know how far how long she'd be traveling, so I'm sure she was like they will Better name me better to ask forgiveness than permission
[SPEAKER_00]: If she's gonna fail it, she's gonna fail it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, True, true.
[SPEAKER_04]: It really, we can, we can try to boost it all.
[SPEAKER_04]: We want, but we're not banking on her failing it.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're banking on her choosing to fail it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So we don't really have to boost this.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know her.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can sky her if she allows it.
[SPEAKER_04]: She allows it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Contruth is smell of a cigarette.
[SPEAKER_02]: after another hour of this, the spell fills in a way that feels identical to what happened with stand-up.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is going on?
[SPEAKER_04]: So, um, but we could attempt to investigate, ask around retrace her steps.
[SPEAKER_04]: We could go to months of state.
[SPEAKER_04]: See what he was researching perhaps he left it behind to our walk through this one Maybe not a good investment right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm saying next moves.
[SPEAKER_04]: We could investigate the dog's teeth Ship and see what they saw in practice.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got to do this to hard way either we go back and follow their steps Or we try to jump ahead and follow them on if we do that tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_04]: I could help us
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you have any other, I don't know what you're prepared today, Paul, I'd say if you have anything else that you want to throw at us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please feel free.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I happened to know the B-Shift Arba permit paperwork guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: His name's Glenborn.
[SPEAKER_05]: We could talk to him about what he knows about the ship and kind of interview him about what happened.
[SPEAKER_07]: B-Shift is that like the nice shift?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so he would be around.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: That seems like a lead.
[SPEAKER_08]: leads.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is that the right terminology?
[SPEAKER_08]: Lead?
[SPEAKER_08]: That's a lead, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Perhaps we do that this evening, make plan for tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can assist us tomorrow with, um, I believe I can, yes, I believe tomorrow I can assist us all with breathing underwater if it comes to that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ten level.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So making your way into the shipyard district.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now the north end is dedicated to construction, to new ship construction in the dabble and let you know that there is a ton of security in that part of the district.
[SPEAKER_02]: day and night, the secrets of the secrets that are employed in the construction of the Imperial Navy ships are closely guarded secrets.
[SPEAKER_02]: The central area is dedicated to commerce.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's where all the merchant ships dock and peer up, and it's like also tons of businesses.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the southern end of the district is dry dogged, where ships are repaired.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's where
[SPEAKER_02]: Glenn Boren.
[SPEAKER_02]: Glenn Boren, have her math.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell us about what does he look like.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is he human?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's half-hafling.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see here.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's a weathered human male in his mid-60s.
[SPEAKER_05]: He has a look of an ex-sailer turned bureaucrats.
[SPEAKER_05]: Stocky-build, win-burned skin, cross-feet of the corners of his warm but sharp eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: His short-cropped gray hair is a little unkempt.
[SPEAKER_05]: He has a bristly mustache.
[SPEAKER_05]: He wears a worn navy blue coat with the collar turned up against the harbor breeze.
[SPEAKER_05]: He carries a leather-bound permit ledger tucked under his arm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my goodness!
[SPEAKER_03]: Stop, work!
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen you from Mount Square, your bean!
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been traveling my friend, and I've brought some new people with me to join us in this great city of Cassamy in my friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and he forgot to have a chance to find him on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hugs all around, I'm very short of what with group, for instance, people will decide.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you going to do for your tabs?
[SPEAKER_05]: We are looking for information about a ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: A ship was ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: This would be how many months ago with this two months ago, our ship owned by a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's quite a time to talk about.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know I'm going to be asking for you to dig deep into your memory.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: But it might, it might,
[SPEAKER_05]: ring a bell for there was a man named Asiton Lowell's was in charge of the ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: He was the Muckley Muck in charge of the ship and he had crew on the ship that disappeared.
[SPEAKER_05]: We heard rumors that they were sneaking off in the middle of the night.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you're talking about the Aurora.
[SPEAKER_05]: The Aurora, that's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I remember that shit, well, at this point I would ask that this wonderful character make a will save because before we came in I like put which extracts I drank yeah, I drank a detect thoughts and as well as it tears to wine It's trusting this is dead with friend That's a safe Gosh, two on the dice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm assuming that's a fair
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you remember what do you recall?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the owner, I must be the fella you're talking about, man, me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It won't loan?
[UNKNOWN]: Just.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, all in this sorum, say, he was... Everyone stayed away from him, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, had that look on his face, like he'd just shove you into the water, if he got too close to him.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you really knew?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, like, nobody, nobody left the ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: All these sailors, and I think it came from up north, I think it did the selling passage, all these sailors who've been on the water for it, got nose, how long?
[SPEAKER_03]: Months presumably, no prostitutes, no food, no clean bed, no baths, there's stayed on the ship, extremely bizarre, everyone thought there was a weird, and then, well, I know there was some of them what's not quite.
[SPEAKER_00]: and out into the district, and I did not, and then shit left.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't really remember what else was out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we all thought that was the honest story, but, you know, then people were talking about, they've seen it out in the rocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was storm.
[SPEAKER_00]: The story is, you know, it's sank, I guess the pirate's got to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I heard.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you have any, did you take any note of what they were carrying on them?
[SPEAKER_05]: What was the manifest on the ship?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, they weren't carrying goods.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just a, it was a rich man's yacht.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it was just a pleasure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all not that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, you know, they didn't have to bring any goods
[SPEAKER_05]: And they paid, they paid in cash, eh?
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was um...
[SPEAKER_03]: It was what's his name?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, I'm muckling my guy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mum.
[SPEAKER_03]: My acne and mum.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was in town.
[SPEAKER_03]: He came in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Took care of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: For whoever the guy was at what owned it, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you know Mum.
[SPEAKER_00]: Left us.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where'd he go?
[SPEAKER_00]: I've gone to the bug.
[SPEAKER_00]: What, Poo?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a shit called a Jerobang one, if I have it right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quite late.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was something.
[SPEAKER_00]: How was that?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's a new harbour master.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unit.
[SPEAKER_05]: What happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, there was a civil war.
[SPEAKER_05]: Civil war.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you should die.
[SPEAKER_00]: She could feel it on that, but it's a whole lot of APs and maybe I won't do any spoilers.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, you wouldn't believe that one day.
[SPEAKER_03]: The, uh, it was the, the grand die of exaltation.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Emperor had a hundred senators murdered.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it was quite a story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Quite a story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, there's a new...
[SPEAKER_00]: New leadership, which means, you know, sometimes that's new, you know, new governmental new governor to Google and to all that's a word, Google and to all real officers.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, New Hovermaster Julius Cain's name, something like something cousin, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I said it was, was something, sorry about that, I don't know, maybe we're talking to him like they, they kept changing, they kept changing its destination or something like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did anyone else ask, ask after this ship or ask you for information like a woman what wears a hat over a one-eye smokes a cigarette carries a lot of knives that's a lot of ladies around your depths.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it was a lot, you know, first it was a lot of interest in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes, yes, I bet there's a lot of rats for me to deal with, it's been a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: Quite the opposite, just tricks me on a clean of them!
[SPEAKER_05]: How's that happened?
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly!
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you find out, what are the little druids walking around taking care of rats?
[SPEAKER_03]: You send them all away, put them on the payroll!
[SPEAKER_05]: I would be very interested to find out, thanks for the clue.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that can only be the end of chapter 153.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll leave it with that clue, and pick up the next week.
[SPEAKER_03]: All done with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for that clue.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You are, you are a big part of our story telling, as well, and we love it when you know this.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are, in fact, the antagonist.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm also often out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm pro-tagonal.
[SPEAKER_01]: The story pal.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you're a story pal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three buddy.
[SPEAKER_08]: My name is Rob.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm the story pal tonight.
[SPEAKER_08]: Protagonist antagonist and lover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?