[SPEAKER_00]: Chester's chasm, a city reeling from the apocalyptic touch of the horseman's hooves.
[SPEAKER_00]: A banner was raised here, one that called these harbangers to ride together as they never had before, as they never would, again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't you tell me?
[SPEAKER_11]: We see the sunlight land on Willowcapped, as though it knows it's only a visitor here.
[SPEAKER_11]: The clouds will come, the grey will come, but in this moment the light has arrived.
[SPEAKER_12]: Lord, I lay my hands upon him today.
[SPEAKER_12]: so that your light may flow through me and into him.
[SPEAKER_16]: Bet you a lot more than water now, huh?
[SPEAKER_13]: This is my purpose for now, whether it means my death or another's.
[SPEAKER_11]: The family is coming together, I see.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, I'm Rara, but that's enough about that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Join me on January 7th, 2026 as I become the guest GM for ever graceful day darken.
[SPEAKER_11]: A seven-part series produced by the table top till spinners network.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can find this prequel story on the All-Arfalts podcast feed, wherever you consume your podcasts.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, why this way?
[SPEAKER_10]: We see an ending, and its stretches for fucking ever, this world was broken five generations back and we're still trying to figure out if this is an era of rebuilding, or if we're just kicking the can of silence down the road, knowing that one day soon, our story will be over.
[SPEAKER_11]: But from this height, we see an expanse of valley of bearing land, almost a thousand miles wide.
[SPEAKER_11]: We see the settlement of West Star, the most western point of civilization, if you want to call this bullshit circus that.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's 10,000 strong and a haven for the freaks, the lost, and the brave.
[SPEAKER_11]: For those bold fuckers that want to live on the edges of the known world, and so near the border of the unknown land.
[SPEAKER_11]: We see, half way between West star and the unknown lands, a caravan, not a circus damn you, but a handful of vehicles parked in a circle, in a sleeping formation, and that's where you all are.
[SPEAKER_11]: West Star is running out of water.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, more importantly, it's running out of the filters that make their water drinkable.
[SPEAKER_11]: Half a dozen teams were sent out into the world looking for a replacement or a solution.
[SPEAKER_11]: The four of you drew the short straws, you lucky fuckers, and you were sent to the unknown land where no one has ever returned from.
[SPEAKER_11]: Having traveled all day yesterday, we now descend into your camp to see, to listen, to watch.
[SPEAKER_11]: Rowan, what do we see when we see you and how are you waking and greeting the day?
[SPEAKER_14]: I think Rowan no longer needs comfort to rest, so isn't a dormant state lying on the ground?
[SPEAKER_14]: No bedroom, no blanket, no nothing.
[SPEAKER_14]: And what you see as Rowan stands up, she they pronouns.
[SPEAKER_14]: Rowan is a feminine figure, entirely constructed of pains of small pains of stained glass.
[SPEAKER_14]: These pains of stained glass stitched together with antique copper veins,
[SPEAKER_14]: is translucent.
[SPEAKER_14]: You can see directly through rowing and rowing is full of water.
[SPEAKER_14]: What is inside?
[SPEAKER_14]: You see no organs.
[SPEAKER_14]: You see no definitive face.
[SPEAKER_14]: You see some detailing of where a face might be like the shape of a face, but there's no eyes.
[SPEAKER_14]: There's no mouth.
[SPEAKER_14]: And as they stand up and greet the morning sun, the sunlight cascades through their figure leaving rainbow trails of light on the ground as it reflects through their body.
[SPEAKER_11]: Jamie, we moved through this camp during this bullshit morning and we find you.
[SPEAKER_11]: What do we see when we see you?
[SPEAKER_15]: Jamie slept last night, whether they were driving or not, they slept buckled into the driver's seat of the torpus.
[SPEAKER_15]: With their big cat eyes sunglasses, with eyes painted on them over their eyes.
[SPEAKER_15]: So do anyone passing by?
[SPEAKER_15]: It would be a little uncertain if they were sleeping or not.
[SPEAKER_15]: And they would probably wait there to come out once everyone else had a woken.
[SPEAKER_15]: But they would have fallen asleep, probably wearing what they always wear.
[SPEAKER_15]: Pretty drab, like black leather's, but with a big fluffy leopard print overcoat.
[SPEAKER_15]: They really enjoy watching people's morning routines.
[SPEAKER_15]: In fact, would it be safe to assume that I can count Rowan as having slept in my presence now?
[SPEAKER_11]: that would be a fair assumption.
[SPEAKER_15]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: Cool, so then me and me and Wableson have another two HX on, Rowan.
[SPEAKER_15]: I like to watch people sleep.
[SPEAKER_15]: Jamie is a very and rogenous creature.
[SPEAKER_15]: They then pronouns.
[SPEAKER_15]: So they have a little bit of an alien appearance, just chilling in the driver's seat.
[SPEAKER_11]: Jamie, who do you think would be the next to wake up?
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, probably not way.
[SPEAKER_15]: I think Kay.
[SPEAKER_15]: In fact, I would buy money on that.
[SPEAKER_15]: In fact, I think I can read Kay pretty well.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like a dream unleashed, we're going to scoot across this shitty world to find K, uh, K, what do we see when we see you?
[SPEAKER_06]: You see a tankier female figure, sprawled on the floor, sort of under a workbench that folds up.
[SPEAKER_06]: like if you've ever seen a news van, but it has about 700 of those broadcast dishes on top.
[SPEAKER_06]: There is a very intricate locking system that's actually not that intricate.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's one lock.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just sort of chained together, have hazardly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Kay is snoring away, and there's a chicken perched on her head, sort of just poking at her, uh, get trying to get her up.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's no sunlight in the vehicle, so, no crowing to, to wake her up, but.
[SPEAKER_06]: Doors are shuttered, there's no light in here, absolutely pitch black.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, so she'll stumble around and sort of grab her motorcycle jacket off of whoever she threw at last night,
[SPEAKER_06]: Her absolutely atrocious amassed the worst case of that had you've ever seen not any different from her normal hair.
[SPEAKER_11]: We shimmy our sorry asses through this nightmare and we find you.
[SPEAKER_11]: What do we see when we see you?
[SPEAKER_01]: You would see an Asian gentleman, mostly in drosiness shop features the leaning a little bit towards the masculine side.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is, I'd say, sprawled out in a hot tub that is now lukewarm.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's got, in this moment, he would likely have his full tie get up on his alter ego, his rock star show persona, in which case he would see the mask that's black on one side
[SPEAKER_01]: He would be wearing this sort of a totally white kind of a jump suit of sorts.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit of red here and there.
[SPEAKER_01]: As soon as he wakes, he scrambles, because now that it's daytime, he has to be way again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, he takes the mask off.
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes all these other clothes off, puts on a pink button up shirt, ties a tie.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe there's just one or two elements that he's about to leave this bathroom.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he has to hurry up and go back to the mirror and rub some stuff off, take all those other elements off, fold them up, put them into a locked chest.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to grab what would be Ty's favorite snacks.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is largely, I would say, a good portion of the things that he has purchased would be
[SPEAKER_01]: stuff that he would eat on the road, that he would demand from various dressing rooms.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this time he's taking out a big tray of tortilla chips and onion dip.
[SPEAKER_01]: As he emerges from the like bedroom section of the tour bus into the living room section of the tour bus into the front seating area of the tour bus and he will
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jamie saying, ah, it's a good good morning, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_15]: Is it?
[SPEAKER_15]: It's probably the first time I've spoken no matter how late it is.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm just immediately start eating your chips too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, by all means.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to speak a little bit louder this next part, just in case anyone else is listening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, was so gracious to give me some snacks for this morning's breakfast if anyone hasn't eaten yet.
[SPEAKER_15]: We're gonna do this the whole, okay.
[SPEAKER_14]: Wow, that tie is so kind.
[SPEAKER_14]: May I, may I board your bus?
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, absolutely, but just don't go into the back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rooms because Ty is exhausted from a performance last night.
[SPEAKER_04]: Of course, I would never.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure Ty is so tired, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he puts the tie in tired.
[SPEAKER_06]: The... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_15]: Without saying anything, I opened another cabinet that's just got like bunch of snacks, like unopened.
[SPEAKER_15]: Find the furthest, you know, small space furthest is not that far spot.
[SPEAKER_15]: And just with a very pleasant kind of grin, stare across the room at ruin, I love a good steering contest and take off my... um, glasses.
[SPEAKER_14]: Jamie, what are you looking for out of curiosity?
[SPEAKER_14]: It's okay that you're looking.
[SPEAKER_15]: I've never met a water bear before.
[SPEAKER_15]: Did you want it to watch us so?
[SPEAKER_14]: I haven't either other than myself.
[SPEAKER_14]: How does that happen?
[SPEAKER_14]: How does what happen?
[SPEAKER_15]: Water bears.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's a whole, are you not familiar with the temple in, was Star?
[SPEAKER_15]: No, not really religious.
[SPEAKER_14]: No.
[SPEAKER_14]: Well, that's typically where the transformation takes place.
[SPEAKER_06]: Transformation, so you were somebody before, you were the water bearer?
[SPEAKER_14]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: What happened to them?
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm still here.
[SPEAKER_13]: You sound uncertain.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm different now, but I'm still here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you, uh, are you happy?
[SPEAKER_14]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_14]: Really have a need for that anymore.
[SPEAKER_14]: So no, um...
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, hold the chicken!
[SPEAKER_14]: A chicken!
[SPEAKER_14]: And, and in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, in real, real, in real, in real, real, in real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real,
[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, as you are seeing your chicken being loved, how are you feeling about entering into the unknown land?
[SPEAKER_11]: Is it exciting or is this just terrible luck?
[SPEAKER_06]: Ah!
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, caves used to being in familiar places, so it's not really out of the norm, but also kind of sucks being with,
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, K's not super comfortable here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, there is somebody who's staring into her soul and then there's somebody that she can literally stare into and then there's a guy who also has something going on.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's, he's lying about something.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't trust that way, tie, tie and wave.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's something up with them.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's going into the unknown.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Going into the unknown with these people is not gamma ion.
[SPEAKER_11]: and you have your van, your own vehicle, and way Ty and Jamie are sharing the tour bus that Ty provided for this adventure.
[SPEAKER_11]: Rowan, how are you moving through the wasteland?
[SPEAKER_14]: It's kind of like a solar board.
[SPEAKER_14]: If you envision, well, it's not that cool, Ralph Ryan.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's not that cool.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's that she has to use it by necessity because she is, in fact, made out of stained glass.
[SPEAKER_14]: And they wouldn't do well in a Refinetumble vehicle that kind of jostles them around.
[SPEAKER_14]: It wouldn't be ideal.
[SPEAKER_14]: So, it is a board that hovers over the ground with a nice little solar sail on it, nothing too too fancy, but it gets the job done and it is a study ride.
[SPEAKER_14]: I've never been to a coast before.
[SPEAKER_14]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_14]: We have a picture of the Coral, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kind.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just gonna hold it up, it's pink.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's pink, it's pink, and that's all I got.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That shouldn't be too hard to find.
[SPEAKER_14]: It should stand out.
[SPEAKER_14]: I mean, yeah, what's pink in the wasteland?
[SPEAKER_14]: I am a little pink.
[SPEAKER_14]: Me.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, yeah, me, me, yes, right here.
[SPEAKER_14]: And like gestures at a various like smaller segment of glass on like their arm or their leg.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good, that's a good start.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm so proud of you.
[SPEAKER_14]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_14]: You asked what was pink?
[SPEAKER_06]: I, so pose I did.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, thank you so much for your contribution, Rowan.
[SPEAKER_14]: Are you being sincere?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not not being sincere.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's a law, if you're lying to me, I gotta make it roll.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, wait, since when someone breaks my law, and I am so I am the source.
[SPEAKER_14]: So anything that happens around me, my laws have to be upheld, and I did end up choosing one of my laws at speaks the truth.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, no, that's I would've.
[SPEAKER_14]: So that's a 10.
[SPEAKER_14]: So I'm going to,
[SPEAKER_14]: Make an exception for them, and they have no blame.
[SPEAKER_14]: Kay, if you thought my question, or what I said was silly, you can just tell me, or friends, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what, Rowan?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we are friends, and I'm so sorry for making fun of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can keep cuddling the chicken, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so the coral!
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if we can find something to carry it, I'm sure that Ty would be okay with us putting the coral in the tub.
[SPEAKER_14]: I would love to meet Ty at some point.
[SPEAKER_14]: I would also love to meet Ty.
[SPEAKER_15]: Pile only comes out for cool people, thus far we're only seeing squares.
[SPEAKER_15]: And this is why I don't like you, Dreamer!
[SPEAKER_15]: What did I do?
[SPEAKER_15]: I shared my snacks.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm good in a good word with him.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm sure you will.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_14]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_14]: So how many days journey is it to where the coral is supposed to be?
[SPEAKER_14]: Do we have an idea?
[SPEAKER_15]: What was it like two or three we think?
[SPEAKER_15]: Maybe okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm absolutely checking every single belt, every single fluid, I'm gonna use all of the dipsticks, checking the tired thread and I'm sure there is.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just gonna like scan it, I don't have any sort of manual tool for figuring out tired, tired depth, I'm just gonna
[SPEAKER_06]: He was a little skinny thingy, and he'll tell me if everything in runna's runna diagnostic on the van, you know, make sure my suspensions are good, and then I'm gonna lock the one lock in the van, and strap Mr. T into his little chicken car seat, and then I'm gonna turn on the van and wait a little bit for it to warm up.
[SPEAKER_11]: With the nugget secured, I have a question, what would you be losing if you lost this
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh no, I lose.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, right now it's my only workshop that's like in the general vicinity.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that would suck.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got supplies for the apocalypse in the back.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's, I didn't bring very many keepsakes with me.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's all that, not my girlfriend's house.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it would really
[SPEAKER_06]: losing something that I've, I've lost a lot of time, I've lost a lot of time to this van.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, nothing really sentimental, but I'd be pretty sad.
[SPEAKER_06]: I really suck.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say that as far as like a lot of the elements go, Jamie helped weigh and tie get this bus,
[SPEAKER_01]: but both of us are relatively new to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so a lot of the functions we might not necessarily understand yet, nor like the preparations.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so maybe last night being the first time the hot tub has been used, we suddenly realize there's water that's on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: That has just splished flashed from the back
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, there's just all matter of clanking items that haven't been like replaced into the cupboards.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the way is flustered.
[SPEAKER_01]: As soon as we noticed the water away looks back, and it's like the things start clanking around, he runs back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I'm so sorry, Jamie.
[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot, I hope this doesn't ruin the lease or anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to make sure we get this back in one piece.
[SPEAKER_15]: Pretty sure we have a mechanic with us, don't we?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, would you, would you be willing to ask her for help?
[SPEAKER_15]: I'd love to you for my sunglasses and go out to find them.
[SPEAKER_11]: Jamie walks by our vision as way is pulling all of these levers in the bus, trying to find some way to deal with this water.
[SPEAKER_11]: A shade on him pops out and then folds away.
[SPEAKER_11]: A kitchen at rotates from a blank wall and lights are flashing everywhere as you are pushing all these buttons and levers.
[SPEAKER_11]: Rowan, how are you preparing for the day of travel?
[SPEAKER_14]: before boarding the board.
[SPEAKER_14]: Put their hands on it and says, thank you for carrying me.
[SPEAKER_14]: Looks up at the sun.
[SPEAKER_14]: Thank you as well.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's like it's more of a blessing.
[SPEAKER_14]: So to look closely at their hands, I mentioned before that they have like, and teaked copper veins running through the little pieces of stained glass.
[SPEAKER_14]: They take a breath in, or at least they appear to, and these veins glow with a bright warm light.
[SPEAKER_14]: are seemingly no longer solid but something that can be traveled through and the water from within rises up into their hands.
[SPEAKER_14]: They gently just let the water drip down onto the board as a blessing of sorts for the day for the travel.
[SPEAKER_11]: We see Jamie approaching K as K works on her van.
[SPEAKER_15]: very casually, and then I just stand there and watch whatever she's doing for a really awkwardly long time, like waiting for her to notice me.
[SPEAKER_15]: Tahar, I didn't want to scare you.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, mission failed.
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't think anything I could have done wouldn't have scared you.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, you're right, you're right.
[SPEAKER_15]: We're having some mechanical issues with the hot tub.
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, do you know anything about hot tub?
[SPEAKER_15]: Or tour buses in general.
[SPEAKER_15]: We don't really know if we're during this thing honestly.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't say I've ever worked on one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Not super calm in in a way start, but I can give it a shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can have snacks.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, what if I, uh, I might have to discuss the, uh, the state of the van with the, uh, with the owner, you know, where's, what's tied to it?
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't get it on this game.
[SPEAKER_15]: I just turned him start walking towards the van.
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay, I'm gonna follow.
[SPEAKER_11]: We see the party begin to pick up speed as you leave the campsite.
[SPEAKER_11]: The tour bus in the middle with the van and the hoverboard on either side.
[SPEAKER_11]: You see far in the distance ahead of you hundreds of miles wide, a moving and shifting the asthma of purple and golden gray with the occasional flash of pink lightning shooting across it.
[SPEAKER_11]: it takes up the entire fucking sky.
[SPEAKER_11]: What music plays out of the bus as you make your way to the horizon?
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say that this is probably one of ways
[SPEAKER_01]: as it like probably the first song that when he when he took to that karaoke stage as tie with a much, much cheaper, much flimsy or mask than, but this ballad is simply about
[SPEAKER_01]: feeling lonely about people not listening, not understanding, not not seeing you, not hearing you, even though the right in front of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as this music is playing out through the speakers of the tour bus, like I would imagine that way is probably
[SPEAKER_01]: in the very back, and as he's singing into this microphone, he has some towels as well as like an extra shirt, same color, he has two of each that are set and ready, because whenever
[SPEAKER_01]: In which case through his shirt, there's just red splotches that start to appear around his lungs and diaphragm.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he recognizes that maybe as we go into the into this miasma that he's got to pour his heart and soul into it to make sure that we go in with the energy
[SPEAKER_01]: and the determination and bravery that we need to.
[SPEAKER_11]: The Power Ballad Echoes over this empty valley as a resemble a butcher with a heart of gold.
[SPEAKER_15]: I have like, you know, the American psycho full body like plastic wrap and a mop for after every performance.
[SPEAKER_11]: Wait, who is driving the bus?
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, shoot, I was supposed to be driving the bus.
[SPEAKER_11]: Rowan and Kay begin to see the bus swirving back and forth.
[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, they're having fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe I should have checked out the bus a little more thoroughly over there too.
[SPEAKER_11]: Kay, would you say that you're a watchful person?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, I am.
[SPEAKER_11]: a slight rescuing of it, but would you give me a roll for the Rita stitch basic move?
[SPEAKER_06]: I would, there's three people on that bus, you know?
[SPEAKER_06]: Somebody should be driving, somebody should be able to alert me if there's something wrong.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, that is correct, a tie is still somewhere to be found.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we're so worried about Ty.
[SPEAKER_15]: Because he drunk like he didn't wake up for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_15]: Let's go in on there.
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_15]: You say you want to meet him.
[SPEAKER_15]: And then you don't hang out on the tour bus.
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't know what to tell you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm full of contradictions.
[SPEAKER_14]: She likes the van.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's a tent.
[SPEAKER_11]: This isn't a charged situation, so you notice it over time, over a period of driving.
[SPEAKER_11]: You begin to realize that there are other vehicles driving parallel to your own, further to the north.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, okay, I don't love that.
[SPEAKER_11]: And because you rolled over 10, you can ask three questions.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, then one of my questions is gonna be who's in control here in regards to the bus at the moment.
[SPEAKER_11]: No one, but we do see Jamie drop the blood music mop to run up to the front seat.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then a second question, what should I be on the lookout for because that bus situation is getting handled, but the other thing is not.
[SPEAKER_11]: Being from the region, you would automatically assume that bandits and raiders are always a danger, especially when driving such a well-stocked bus or van.
[SPEAKER_11]: They could also be looking for directions, meat, or friendship.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's... that's a little worrying.
[SPEAKER_06]: And now I have a million broadcast stations on the top of my van.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can I like use a radio system to kind of speak a little bit with the van?
[SPEAKER_11]: Let's just say you have a way to tap into the very loud speakers attached to the bus.
[SPEAKER_11]: A handheld tool of some sort.
[SPEAKER_06]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, do I alert my traveling companions?
[SPEAKER_06]: Would do I just yell at the, I'm gonna yell at the people?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna yell at the guys who are quite obviously tailing us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, what's your problem, man?
[SPEAKER_11]: And as the music suddenly stops, all the blood on your guitar dries instantly, and the voice of K plays out over the wasteland, and then the music begins again.
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, there's everything, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna pull up to the side of the tourverse so we're like, and roll down both of my windows so we can all chat.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, so, uh, sorry for a high jacking or speaker system.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, there's some, there's some freaking dudes, like, traveling, kind of, like, we're traveling.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we're supposed to be the only people out here, so, I don't know what you want to do about them, but, uh, I'm not a fan.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, here you go.
[SPEAKER_14]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_14]: Hello, strangers welcome in.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm using the move all are welcome.
[SPEAKER_14]: When you personally welcome newcomers in, roll plus sharp on the 10 plus, ask three on 79, ask two, and on a miss, ask one anyway.
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, that's a six.
[SPEAKER_14]: So, but I still get to ask one.
[SPEAKER_14]: Um, hmm.
[SPEAKER_14]: Are they keeping any malicious secrets?
[SPEAKER_11]: Rowan raises their hand to use it as a looking glass.
[SPEAKER_11]: You see three vehicles, almost like a Dune Buggies, but with oversized wheels and fabric flags, trelling behind them as they dry.
[SPEAKER_11]: You do see weapons and you do see people, but you asked if they were keeping any secrets.
[SPEAKER_11]: One of them, Jay, has always been in love with the man next door, but instead of telling him he became a bandit.
[SPEAKER_11]: The next one over has a pension for robbing orphanages and beating them all at arm wrestling.
[SPEAKER_11]: The third has two bodies hanging upside down in her Barnett home and an ice box filled with fresh meat.
[SPEAKER_11]: You also see one of them holding binoculars looking right back at you.
[SPEAKER_14]: Lay away back, warmly.
[SPEAKER_14]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_11]: One wrapped hand lifts to wave back towards you as the three vehicles turn and begin heading in your direction.
[SPEAKER_13]: What did you do?
[SPEAKER_14]: One of them is in love.
[SPEAKER_14]: Another one hates children.
[SPEAKER_14]: And another one is a murderer.
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, I think they're fun to look at you, but you don't invite them over.
[SPEAKER_15]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_15]: Can they see up?
[SPEAKER_15]: Can they see me?
[SPEAKER_15]: Like specifically?
[SPEAKER_11]: Probably not, but they can definitely see the bus.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rowan, we're going to talk about strange or danger.
[SPEAKER_15]: They would have come anyway.
[SPEAKER_15]: You should probably, I'm really not trying to creep you out, like, for your safety, you should probably get in the bus.
[SPEAKER_15]: Does somebody else want to take the wheel?
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm not a great driver.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure Ty could drive the bus, couldn't he?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, Ty's fast up tall.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ty's tired.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yes, yes, Ty, dry, dry, tie.
[SPEAKER_14]: Drive the bus, Ty.
[SPEAKER_14]: Ty is always to be tired.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ty is so tired from singing, so way is going to cover this.
[SPEAKER_15]: I support whatever you want to do here, but we might die if we play this game for this whole trip.
[SPEAKER_14]: Whatever you want to do, I'm in for it.
[SPEAKER_14]: If it will make you happy, I will get on the bus.
[SPEAKER_14]: I was just picturing them, like, stepping in through an open door and then board collapses.
[SPEAKER_14]: Kind of deal.
[SPEAKER_11]: Could the two drivers, Jamie and Kay, both roll for do something under fire?
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, boy.
[SPEAKER_13]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Seven.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_11]: On a seven to nine, you flinch hesitate or stall.
[SPEAKER_11]: The MC can offer you a worse outcome, a hard bargain or an ugly choice.
[SPEAKER_11]: Beautiful.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, if you had to choose between your fan or the bus being damaged, which would you choose?
[SPEAKER_16]: Ah, the bus is so big, it could probably take it.
[SPEAKER_16]: But I'd feel like a little bit bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because it's not my buzz, at least I know how my fan works.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I've spent all this time working on it, I can fix it again.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's probably fine, versus I'm gonna have to read the manual for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: The buzz, I don't get it at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: go inside and figure out what's going on in there.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I will accept my van getting damaged.
[SPEAKER_01]: Aww.
[SPEAKER_11]: The group of strangers continue to make their way to you, responding to the invitation from the water bager.
[SPEAKER_11]: The van and bus are moving quickly towards the unknown lands.
[SPEAKER_11]: K, you see the flash of something metallic in the sand and dirt ahead of the bus.
[SPEAKER_11]: But at the very last moment you swore of cousin Jamie to turn the bus away and you save them, but your van runs directly over it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Everyone hears a loud explosion from deep within the ground and caves van vanishes instantly falling into an open cavern in the earth.
[SPEAKER_12]: Stop the bus.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you, everyone, for tuning into this first episode of The World is waiting.
[SPEAKER_11]: Our Pop-A-Lib Swirled mini series here on The Heart is a dungeon, where we'll be following this fucking amazing group as they move through a goddamn beautiful and shitty world.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, you're the most in danger.
[SPEAKER_11]: Let's meet you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Do you have a name?
[SPEAKER_06]: Hi, I'm Zoe.
[SPEAKER_06]: I play KAY.
[SPEAKER_06]: My pronouns are she her.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's the same as KAY's because I've got saved in the episode.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can find me at Zoteta Potato on Twitter and please guy and at my website zoedly.card.co.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do for sexy sometimes and sometimes I play games here on the Heart of the Dungeon with one of my eight games.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think, just for that Kelly has to go next.
[SPEAKER_14]: Hi, I'm Kelly.
[SPEAKER_14]: I use she's a brown-ounce like brown.
[SPEAKER_14]: I've played brown.
[SPEAKER_14]: I play brown and I go by the Kellhopp on the internet.
[SPEAKER_14]: And I, um, and I, yeah, I'm just happy to be here.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_13]: And they're also really good voice actors, listen to their 313 thank you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, check out air 313 whenever you are hearing this.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's timeless.
[SPEAKER_11]: Kelly, who would you say is in danger next?
[SPEAKER_14]: I think it's got to be Ty.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's got to be Ty.
[SPEAKER_14]: Counting in the hot.
[SPEAKER_14]: I know, we haven't seen him.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, we'll go to wait later.
[SPEAKER_10]: But Ty, who are you?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, welcome to the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm Matt, he him pronouns.
[SPEAKER_01]: I play Thai, and way, and you can find me everywhere is improv and RPG, and I'm terrified.
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[SPEAKER_15]: but you can call me for a moon beam.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm on social media sometimes.
[SPEAKER_15]: Usually for a moon beam, for a dot moon beam on threads and Instagram.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I'm playing Jamie, wonderful artist.
[SPEAKER_15]: Spide, draw some times.
[SPEAKER_15]: Thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so forward-witting to your B.C.
[SPEAKER_03]: play.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I'm Ra Ra, but that's enough about that.
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll see you next week on the world is waiting.