[SPEAKER_07]: Hello friends, just a quick note here.
[SPEAKER_07]: We are in a particularly dark mini arc of the ongoing story at the moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: And if you've listened to us from the jump, I know you've already heard our content warnings way back the beginning, or you've seen the warning on our site or on the episode notes, but just a heads up for those who might like it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will be dealing with content involving suicide and uthanasia for a stretch of episodes here.
[SPEAKER_07]: If those are topics you want to return to another day, especially this time of year, these episodes will be waiting for you then.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or if you'd prefer to skip ahead a bit to two our transition back into the typical ongoing horrors of demons, tentacles, talking to corpses, and the excruciating minutia of pathfinder shopping trips, I would suggest jumping back in around chapter 160.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or just drop us a line if you want some time stamps to skip through.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you so much for watching.
[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome back to Dark Nexus.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tonight, it's Act 4, Chapter 156.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's Midday, the 24th of the month of Ferrast, the last month of winter, the month named after Ferasma.
[SPEAKER_07]: A goddess with many areas of concern, birth, fate, time, and death.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's taken some investigation and conversations, but perhaps we're finally getting our heads wrapped around what went down here in Kazumir two months ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it seems like the old, where in the world are Stazzy and the Stan Hope question might not even be our most pressing of concerns.
[SPEAKER_07]: While there are certainly some timeline details that we may or may not need to get confirmation of, the story at this point is seeming clear.
[SPEAKER_07]: In the short window of time, that Hazerton Pragmus Loles IV was in Kazimire, he began spreading the seedborn infestation of the in most blood.
[SPEAKER_07]: Almost like he lacked much in the way of care concern or caution anymore.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know for fact, he said the name directly to poor Ethan Baylor, who then spread it to basically all of his best friends, the esoteric Knights of Evolvement.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone that heard the name from him is now dead, so hopefully that particular strain
[SPEAKER_07]: But there is still the matter of Theravall Galonadell, who may perhaps have split town with Stazian stand hope, and it's currently unknown whether or not this Archie Umbra ended up infected or not, but at least we know he wasn't present with the others when Baylor spoke the name.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, yeah, that arm of the outbreak is at least on its way to containment.
[SPEAKER_07]: However, the question remains as to what exactly went down with the crew of sailors from the Aurora though, and whether or not we feel it's our responsibility to close that loop, if there is a loop to be closed.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're gonna be losing a lot of time at Baylor's house today, but see, I jotted down a little list for myself the way of the leads that you might be considering pursuing as we split up today.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know the wreck of the Aurora is still an option to check out.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got this fungal smell in the northern third of the shipyards district.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can imagine y'all coming up with some new and interesting and creative ways to deepen your investigation up there and now that Dabbs has definitively determined that it's not just another exterminator like steel in their patch.
[SPEAKER_07]: Harbormaster Julius Kane might know something about the destination of Loles and Monship the Jeroboam that may or may not be a priority at present, but we know he hangs out at the
[SPEAKER_07]: We got the name of the rampant bore from Molly Madd, which is a hotel in three gates, apparently where Munn was staying in town right before Lowell's got here.
[SPEAKER_07]: We also heard about some anomalous friend of Munns that he met in a swamp that lives in his house.
[SPEAKER_07]: It may or may not be a concern, but it's also where dabs as pals might still be trapped.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then, of course, we've got Pauli's small laundry list of local folks he created that dab with nose, and Pauli gave us the name of Kella, what's written, Kella thin shadow last episode, and it sounds like perhaps, Grypper and Pandora might be looking for her as they begin there after new activities.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where is Archie's shop?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's in the shipyard's district.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sheeper, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: perfect kind of mid-north and if we do want to try to go to the ship itself and aura has a way to help facilitate that today.
[SPEAKER_07]: the location of where it's at is not far.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like 45 minutes or so by Robo to maybe 15 or 20 in the cell boat to that dog's teeth and could potentially be even quicker to get there depending on combinations of dimension door or flight that you may have available to at this level.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright, so when last I heard it sounds like Pandora and Grypper we're gonna try to head down to the shipyard's district to see if they can find California shadow on the way who is a street performer who who frequency route that dabs has sent you on
[SPEAKER_07]: and then maybe after that head to the tavern to find Julius King.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that still playing?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_07]: Great.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it sounds Johnny like Bash's plan was to soak up a few more hours of learn the city to chip away at that 10 hours of of of of investigation.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've got it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And dabs.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that's going to attempt some therapy with Ethan Baylor to see if they can just improve their mood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the Sineye, oh, the Sineye, which one is most likely to cause a TPK?
[SPEAKER_10]: Probably the latter.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's so poly.
[SPEAKER_07]: In the shore, in the four hours, between now and nightfall when you meditate, you can attempt to talk to this poor sick, wretched, suicidal man and make him feel a little bit better.
[SPEAKER_07]: Unfortunately, not enough time or doing anything mechanically, and he's mostly non-responsive.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I think it makes a tone of sense to picture Dabwick doing that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Look, maybe I may be Dabwick and I need to learn this lesson today before we move on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or maybe Debuk needs to teach the rest of us a lesson.
[SPEAKER_07]: You seriously.
[SPEAKER_07]: Deb, I love it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I love it when Debuk is Debuk.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, Debuk, be Debuk.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's, um, it is probably a very sad scene to picture though.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was in that, in that sealed up house with so many things broken and smashed, the food rotting and this man barely responsive.
[SPEAKER_07]: Probably begging you to kill him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or you're like in and out of non-responsiveness, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: So I think Katie, given the timeline we're looking at here, you will have to recast your telepathic bond.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no problem.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you want it going,
[SPEAKER_07]: for the first half.
[SPEAKER_07]: The first almost two hours of, oh, we'll see, is it, it's a 110, it's 110, it's because of math, because of the math.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it the math?
[SPEAKER_07]: Carry the seven.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so we'll picture Deb's doing that for a hot sack.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's make a mechanical roll for a fix.
[SPEAKER_07]: Four bashes.
[SPEAKER_10]: wanderings of the shipyard district see what you get there Johnny what what am I rolling local oh okay I'm assuming that my tears to want at this point would have died out so just a regular roll only a 14 pretty low and give me a 1d4 three
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so Bash will be done at 4 p.m. You know, when she's at 14, 14, yeah, which is a five and then a one on my inspiration dive.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's a little role.
[SPEAKER_07]: Any particular topic that you want to say that you would have focused on?
[SPEAKER_10]: I think that having walked out of this whole conversation and thinking about the plague and thinking about...
[SPEAKER_10]: the rats and I think that he's kind of walking around again with this this idea of like where are the rats like this is like a sort of anti-plague thing going on and he and as he's thinking about it walking around he's remembering when he was a child and his own family like
[SPEAKER_10]: Bringing the red death to various villages and people dying, you know, like they would they would catch it They would live for a couple months, and then they would basically like be coughing and bleeding Covered and red sores.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so as he's walking along, this is another another sort of like those Jarring images in his head of of reintegrating all of the different parts of himself that he didn't have before.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, okay So that might be why it takes a while on why he probably doesn't know much
[SPEAKER_07]: great great and then Pandora and the gripper are heading down through the Abbey Green district curving sort of anti-clockwise around the large overgrown hill that has the ruins of this once magnificent temple atop it sort of like now a jungle of of can't even get the
[SPEAKER_07]: New Orleans comp a couple episodes ago, and I think it's just this giant New Orleansy ruin and jungle and insects and animals.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just kind of a it seems like an entirely other world in the middle of the city and nobody goes in there
[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody goes in there, of all the places that the people who want to, you know, hide away or keep secrets that could go.
[SPEAKER_07]: They go out onto the jagged rocky islands outside of the city, rather than go into the close press of the haunted woods here.
[SPEAKER_07]: But as you're making your way down towards the shipyards around the curve there at the southern end of Abbey Green, you do eventually spot the site.
[SPEAKER_07]: of a young woman performing tricks with a pair of magpies for a group of delighted onlookers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Paul, do you want to give us the description of Kellefendshadow?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, give me a second.
[SPEAKER_07]: The list of NPCs that Pauli made is long.
[SPEAKER_07]: I asked for his assistance in flushing out this city and why I'm going to try to use as many of these folks as I possibly can.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_10]: Pauli, thanks so much for all this really fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, this was really fun to put together.
[SPEAKER_08]: I hope all of my beloved characters don't die.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to try to close my name as I can.
[SPEAKER_03]: How many of you do set Derek order with people that Pauli created?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just one.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, Caliphanshado, a young half-elf woman around 22 years old, sharp, hazel eyes, glean with intelligence and defiance for smiles, half playful, half wary like someone used to fending off mockery with quick wit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Her wavy chestnut hair streaked with sun-lighted strands as loosely braided with a few stray feathers and twigs caught in it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Her clothes are a mismatched collection of street warm greens and grays, a patched leather jerky and over a fraid linen tunic, a skirt layered unevenly for warmth and fingerless gloves stained from working with birds.
[SPEAKER_08]: Two magpies perch on her shoulders, their feathers slightly ruffled eyes bright and watchful.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if I go anyone, just the two of us, and here's art for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is nice all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_07]: That one bird's like, hey, bitch.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna say something right in your ear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Food, food, food.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, you can catch a little bit of her show and she is incredibly skilled with these animals.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's obviously a little something, little something supernatural going on with the sort of, it's not control, but communication perhaps that she has with these animals.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think Dora would probably catch a whiff of,
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some kind of either telepathy or bond going on between like a speak with animals or maybe or maybe an actual and she's like a pie-piper She recently read all let all the rats out of Kazimire Correct me if I'm wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Is this the first just like entertainment for entertainment's sake?
[SPEAKER_02]: We've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, there was stand-up on the ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were the limerics, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that was penance.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was penance.
[SPEAKER_07]: There would have been some stuff with the star dust augers, but not like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, certainly there were no street performers in thrush.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a lot in our house.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a dreamland.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, possibly a two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Possibly a countbrellen, if I countbrellen's court.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think grip is quite taken with the whole affair.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: As is Dora, I think what this brings out in her is a nine-year-old child who skipped a lot of years of court entertainment and lost a lot of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it's delighted by this as she would have been when she was nine years old.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so easy enough to wait for a moment like between routines, wait for the crowds to disperse a little bit if you want to
[SPEAKER_03]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why hello?
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I have been shadow is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: And how do you know my name?
[SPEAKER_03]: I've had about you from a dear friend of ours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Call Dad Boyak.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, sense motive.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to react into the name.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Dad's so so money.
[SPEAKER_03]: 29.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably look like you're going to say something.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm just excited.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think what you catch is in an initial moment of who exactly are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_07]: You see someone who
[SPEAKER_07]: sees a lot of people, talks to a lot of people, and knows a lot of people, going through a mental role in X and finding someone may be less important to her than she may be to somebody else.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay, Dora will go on to describe that looks appearance and their position as official rat catcher, and she'll say it with a little bit of a wink.
[SPEAKER_03]: Official rat catcher.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, of course, that is what they say, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not saying a child, mate, that's not what I'm saying at all, but they are what they are.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are what they are.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't say what you're well about that, what's credentialed, I understand that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But...
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you noticed, they mentioned there's been a decided lack of a rat activity amongst the docs lately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you noticed anything about that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been quite nice, I must say it's not myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there a bin in any talk of what has happened and why that is the case?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, nobody knows.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, where is Damikert?
[SPEAKER_03]: See Damikert, what's the time?
[SPEAKER_03]: We've only recently just arrived in Casmea.
[SPEAKER_03]: tell them to stop by and say, say hello anytime they want to.
[SPEAKER_03]: I certainly will.
[SPEAKER_03]: In meantime, they suggested you might be someone with an answer to the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: her cat, and she sends her two birds up into the air, and you see them begin to do sort of lazy circles, one in one direction, one in the other, almost as if they're like, like, reconnaissance, like, looking for crowds, like, where should we go next?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So she's kind of giving you half a half a mind's worth of attention.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she's kind of half,
[SPEAKER_07]: keeping an eye on her two birds.
[SPEAKER_07]: Almost as if she's hearing them talking inside of her head.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, you know, she's got her, she's got to make her money today.
[SPEAKER_07]: So she's talking to you and looking for her next spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Birds are extraordinary.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I've ever seen anything like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: They all do your friends and find that, especially.
[SPEAKER_03]: How long has it taken you to train them?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I've been doing this sort of work.
[SPEAKER_07]: 10 years, 10, 10, 12 years.
[SPEAKER_07]: What's I found I could, I could do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of hard to stop doing it, if you know what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, the birds come and go.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're all very polite to me, but they come and go.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the routine has developed and I'm quite proud of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: If I do say so myself, you should be.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_07]: I noticed you didn't.
[SPEAKER_07]: She sort of gets all eyeglassed down to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I thought about it, but realized I have no idea if I have money on me at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Grypper would have said, oh, but you have to forgive me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not accustomed to street performer such as yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not familiar with the etiquette, but now I can pick up what you're fucking lying that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he'll throw a coin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Groups.
[SPEAKER_02]: 50 gold pieces.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You put a platinum piece down there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did not, I've got, we've got other coins, don't he?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Groups to say, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fans, good deal of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Among other things.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, he has a look of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That, you know, a professor.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not wearing the glasses right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't have that air, doesn't he?
[SPEAKER_03]: Very good at finding things.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, when you, when you see tab work, ask them if they've run into Nico's.
[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't seen them for quite some time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Neekas, you're a bucket boy, bucket boy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So telepathically, or is like, fill me in on bucket boy, friend.
[SPEAKER_10]: And meanwhile, Dad looks just like there and the poor know him is good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Please, please, kill me.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Devon, please.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dad was like, just give me a second.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have to talk about bucket boy.
[SPEAKER_07]: That'll stop you from killing yourself, please.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nico says a young man runs errands, fetches water for the market vendors in Abbey Green.
[SPEAKER_08]: He gets a pleased, nice young man.
[SPEAKER_03]: When was last time you saw him?
[SPEAKER_08]: Not long before I left, I caught him fishing for coins and a fountain and gave him a lecture about respecting the water supply.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think that was not long before I left.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, now that you mentioned it, David did mention.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something about Nico's throwing coins in a fountain and giving him a bit of a lecture.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're taking coins out of a lot of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Taking coins from fountain.
[SPEAKER_02]: There he is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he hasn't seen him since though.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, he did use two of that to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: He actually got himself a job though.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was working for a restaurant.
[SPEAKER_07]: The lighthouse, some cheap fish placed down on shipyards.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he was running errands for them, he was running deliveries, and sometimes working inside, but I don't think very often because he's a kind of a dirty little boy.
[SPEAKER_07]: But, uh, he knew he was running food for them, and I'd see him out round and about, but it has been several weeks since the sub-laid eyes on him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm, that's concerning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, certainly bring it up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, if any of Deb's, Deb's has, you know, seen him, seen him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please tell them to stop by, let me know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sense motive, what did this kid steal from her?
[SPEAKER_07]: Nothing, don't you mind it, okay?
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you, you can see her kind of grasping for anything to make this conversation meaningful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Between them, kind of sensing, oh, you're important to Dadwick.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dadwick told you to talk to me,
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess I'm important to Diablic, so, oh yeah, we both know Niko's, you know, she's kind of grasping.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I think this reinforces Diablic barely exist to this person.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so, uh, right, Bolly, thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dora will pass that on to grip telepathically.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I do that without also passing it on telepathically too?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can talk to anyone in the good crime, I think, for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good.
[SPEAKER_07]: I may regret that, but I think that's Canada, as far as we've done so far.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to see the new Harbournaster.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just can't hear anything about him that might help us.
[SPEAKER_07]: It sends like, he's very full of himself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, it's about what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Flattered.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, oh, oh, little feather has seemingly found.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, all right, I'm on my way.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm on my way.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do have to go very nice to meet two of you, and I'm around here most days, and do tell David's stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I hope to catch the show again.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was delightful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: She winks.
[SPEAKER_07]: A wink that sent shivers through dad wicks body once.
[SPEAKER_07]: was so meaningful.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's a, she's, she's capable of doing that particular wing, you know, where it's just like, I think I'm the only person in the world to this person.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's very good at her job.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, she cohorts off.
[SPEAKER_07]: Coverting!
[SPEAKER_07]: through the streets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dora will pass on to Dablic, and I guess to Bash that this bit about Niko's just in case.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bingo, this is how we give you your 14 Johnny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So...
[SPEAKER_07]: As you're in the middle of your walking around scope and information, you get the name of this Nico's bucket boy worked at the lighthouse hasn't been seen.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see if there's any there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you do a little bit of asking around maybe even through the course of this stop and buy the lighthouse.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yes, definitely, Nico's did work there.
[SPEAKER_07]: He is missing.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are looking for another
[SPEAKER_07]: There have been a period of weeks where he had some regular daily delivery that he was making of food, that the orders for that food stop at the same time, Nico's just never showed up for work.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was that the same time everybody killed themselves?
[SPEAKER_07]: There isn't, so the thing with the everybody killing themselves is, it is, this may be difficult to process because we learned them all kind of at the same time, it is spread out over two months, yeah, there was like a very initial burst of three or four of them almost immediately killing themselves and then there was a recent burst of some people maybe who made it a little bit longer than the rest, but otherwise it's been kind of just made their first save somehow, right, and we're finally saw what the rest of their lives was going to look like and decided to end it.
[SPEAKER_10]: that those deliveries of food, where were those deliveries of food to?
[SPEAKER_07]: Some warehouse, perhaps old Herrigan's place.
[SPEAKER_07]: the way that the restaurant doesn't know where the food would have been delivered to correct correct this is a this is a grimy low-end no record remember no records no he would come in with the order oh and then and then make it and then he take it out and he bring the money back so they didn't really ask many questions but he's the only one who needed to know the where exactly but didn't the old herrigans place
[SPEAKER_07]: is the thing that comes up when you ask a little bit about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And old Harrigan's places.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a warehouse located deep in the northern end of the shipyard's district.
[SPEAKER_07]: He used to run some kind of concern, perhaps alcoholic beverages, but he went bankrupt about a decade ago, and as far as anybody knows, that's Harrigan.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that place has been empty for a long time.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I guess I guess he's back in town and going to try to get the business started back up again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or somebody is.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that's that's the little bit of thing that you get during your time, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the two of you head down to the third peacock tavern.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's we're from him.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're looking for info on the odd shipping patterns of the where it was headed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we feel like the
[SPEAKER_02]: the scuttled boat, the scuttled Aurora, that's not so much, that's not a gather information from the people thing, that's what we need to go and look at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Type of situation?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I won't be cheeky about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Basically, people were paying attention to it because it was weird.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then once the story went out that it sank and the pirates got to it, everybody seems to just move on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because nobody else had any reason to connect that oddity with any of the other oddities the way that you do it just you know
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, so you find the third peacock tavern.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is closer to the board, walk not right on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of an upscale expensive pub.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I described it as trying to maintain a dive bar feel.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's populated by folks with money liking to pretend that they're slumming it, basically.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you are able to make a way there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ask a few questions around and everybody can direct you to where Julius Kane is sitting in his own booth.
[SPEAKER_07]: Unmemorable, like Diamond doesn't middle-aged aristocrat dude, pale skin, short black hair, long waxed moustaches, neat, blue and red coat, gold medallions, a cane sitting next to him on his booth.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do I have art for it?
[SPEAKER_07]: I must have art for Julius Kane.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Try to remember this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: A Pandora will detect psychic significance in his direction to see if there's anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's wearing a holding that is important to him that might be a conversation starter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh sure.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's a great, that's awesome, I love that, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so smart.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's got a signature ring.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's radiating.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what what about it?
[SPEAKER_03]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it um, is there anything unusual about it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Like it's no no He's so it's it's as unmemorable of a very expensive signet ring as the do yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think Pandora will take Grip's arm and we'll sort of do a circuit of the room and as we pass him I don't have blood for intimidate or anything like I've only got diplomacy so I can't I can't get away with lying I mean I might be able to but I probably can't but I can get away with flattery Sure, perhaps so as we pass she will her eyes will linger on the ring
[SPEAKER_03]: noticeably yeah and they'll keep going but then she'll stop and come back to him excuse me I'm so sorry I couldn't help but notice that ring it's simply lovely not alike as I'm sure it is yeah it's fun yeah it's very expensive yeah oh
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, Madam.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's so kind of you to notice I am any holds that I prefer as face.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm quite fond of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It took me many, many years to convince my uncle that I was worthy of it, but I did and I'm quite
[SPEAKER_07]: What have you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_07]: And who are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't believe I know you.
[SPEAKER_03]: My name is Pandora, I'm your intern.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, Julius Kane, I am.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you're the new hub.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am the harbour master.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: How do you... What have you heard?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that you're quite impressive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take an over and...
[SPEAKER_03]: done great things and your time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh that's so kind, you know, operations here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just in a shambles where I arrived, and I had so many employees beating to shake.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not literally, not literally beating to shake, though I would have hired you, friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: If I had had to do some beating in the shake, no, I mean, getting them organized.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got Robert's just staring at me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fed already does out like it's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's just a twat.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's he's probably on his lunch break.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and he's, you know, he's drinking hard liquor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so he's doing a great job.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have grand plans?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can share for the future of the harbour?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, do you have time?
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, please, please.
[SPEAKER_07]: Be my guest, sit, sit, sit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: But this is my friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, grip-tum-cell and scowen.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's a pleasure to meet you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Have you spent time on the waves?
[SPEAKER_07]: I have.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, you will have the same look about your dead team.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have any reaction to his name.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, he doesn't know the Selen Starland.
[SPEAKER_03]: No recognition.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, uh, such a down and probably,
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's imagine about 30 minutes of him boring to shit out if there is just talking around Yeah, the distribution is he pouring from a bottle of the what he's drinking?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah grip helps himself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I'm sure he does.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure he does So that goes on for a while and it is god awful doll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: I heard that a very prominent citizen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I know the name Maya Niemann, of course, from his philanthropic work.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I heard that he had a visitor from Ursula of some sort of minor noble and that they departed together, quite recently.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I suppose so, many.
[SPEAKER_07]: Many people travel in and out of this harbor, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I cast a texas.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm casting it at the fifth level for the highest.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't tell me if you see it till I roll this down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, 13.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, wild fill.
[SPEAKER_07]: He knows exactly who my acne and mon is.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he knows exactly what you're referring to.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he's deliberately playing dumb.
[SPEAKER_03]: I heard there was some controversy around mum and his friends up in them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, what's that spot in the, uh, uh, uh, the Abbey.
[SPEAKER_07]: Abbey Green.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Constravers.
[SPEAKER_03]: The delicious bit of gossip.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you ask me, so he's thinking, what did he get up to?
[SPEAKER_07]: What else did he fuck up?
[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't, but he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't.
[SPEAKER_07]: As in fun, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: But Kane does not seem to know what you're, what I'm referring to, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: What you're not necessarily even referring to anything, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: But he doesn't, he doesn't know where you're going, but he's like, ah, did you fuck something else up?
[SPEAKER_07]: Did he make more of a mess?
[SPEAKER_07]: That kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm getting the impression.
[SPEAKER_03]: that mine is one of those people who so many people think that are generous or talented or intelligent, but that is really just a fraud.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's my take on it, Madam.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I just arrived here six months ago or so.
[SPEAKER_07]: And everyone talks, talk to him up so much, but I found him to be quite disagreeable.
[SPEAKER_05]: True.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I've genuinely speaking, if I recall correctly, he does.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sold of a hassle.
[SPEAKER_07]: True.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, difficult to deal with, temperamental.
[SPEAKER_07]: As far as I remember, he remembers very well, there was a whole thing where they kept changing the destination of the ship that he was on.
[SPEAKER_07]: First it was going over to Garoon then suddenly going over to Kasmerin and then the day that it left, Mun comes in and pays him to say that the ship went to Absalom and to then erase any record that there had been any other destination planned.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just not as far as I remember, I mean, I don't really recall.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, people who grow up rich, people who don't have any regard for others, responsibilities, make things difficult, people create work for others.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the impression I get of him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some indeed do.
[SPEAKER_03]: So picking this apart.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they were going to go to Garooned.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and then changed to Kazimire and then said to go to out.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were going to have a lot.
[SPEAKER_07]: But perhaps we're still going to Kazimire.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he, he does not remember the exact destination.
[SPEAKER_07]: He just thinks of it as like, oh, yeah, Garoon and then Kazimire and so somewhere in Kazimire.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, he's pretty sure about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to take one second to appreciate what a 23 intelligence looks like is that Dora can be detecting this guy's thoughts having a conversation with him and sharing all this information out to the party at the same time for any feedback before she gets up and leaves this dreadful bore.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure we've gotten all the information out of the moment we need.
[SPEAKER_10]: And what do we know about Casparon?
[SPEAKER_07]: three continents touch the, what is called the inner sea.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there is, it's the one to the one.
[SPEAKER_04]: So one to the other.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can sort of geographically, if you don't know the map of this part of Galarian, you can almost stand in the Mediterranean sea for the inner sea.
[SPEAKER_07]: And if you do, you can picture avastown the continent that you are currently on as Europe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Garen is basically where African Africa is located and then Kasmarun is basically located where Asia and the Middle East are located and it's so similar that in fact
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, I was talking a couple of weeks ago about Kadira and Teldor being at war.
[SPEAKER_07]: Kadira is in Kazmerin.
[SPEAKER_07]: Teldor is in Avastan.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of basically like where Turkey sits, basically.
[SPEAKER_07]: One region that straddles two continents over which many wars have been fought throughout history.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's where it's located kind of southwest of here.
[SPEAKER_07]: And not too too far away kind of the next The next continent over as opposed to Garen, which is a little further way, you know, it's all the way across the sea As if we're done and we're leaving.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got a Gripple tick one last swig of his whiskey of his whiskey and he'll just say I'm not a very smart fucker.
[SPEAKER_02]: I learned a phrase recently
[SPEAKER_02]: play in dumb.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't understand what it means.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you familiar with the phrase, playing dumb?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: He knows what he means.
[SPEAKER_06]: I wish it was a great way for you to be there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is he threatening me?
[SPEAKER_03]: Am I in danger?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly the response time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, just smiling at him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we've bothered you long enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll take our leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was so delightful to pass this time with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got good taste on the look on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, yes, very well, very well.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, well, I have to get back to the office, and so forth.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, so you can excuse yourselves and meet up with bash, probably.
[SPEAKER_07]: At this point, we'll say it's around four o'clock, and bash is finishing up, heading back to Debs or anything we want to do before.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know there's about an hour before Debs would be meditating.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can we go see Archie?
[SPEAKER_10]: Or do we want a swing by and look at just a snoop around the edges of old Harrigan's place?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we can do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is like one of, I'm assuming we would have time for maybe one of those on our way back to the house?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think let's take a peek at the warehouse.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like March, so the meditation time is like dusk, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got about an hour, then.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're in the north and ship your distance.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can use an invisibility sphere at some point if that's helpful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bash.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, feel free to pop in if you want to do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: The business as closest to the boardwalk up here are very fancy, very populated, very well secured.
[SPEAKER_07]: as you had deeper and deeper and deeper.
[SPEAKER_07]: It takes longer in this part of the district to reach the more rundown abandoned falling apart, bankrupt chunk of town, the part beginning to sink into the swamp, and that is where you find this harrogens warehouse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fairly large structure, a couple
[SPEAKER_07]: All of the windows have been boarded over from the outside and a couple of places where some of those boards may have rotted off over time.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can see also boarded up on the inside.
[SPEAKER_07]: So like fresh boards?
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: Old boards.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, this place looks fallen apart and abandoned for the most part.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there are one, two, three, four, or five.
[SPEAKER_07]: doors into the structure, one of which is like a person-sized set of double doors, and two of which are large, double door like dogs, like freight entrances.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can open them about 20 feet wide to let in wagons and so forth.
[SPEAKER_07]: all of them sealed up and boarded over from the outside with the exception of one of those sets of larger doors which is not boarded up from the outside and and is the street in front of that look like it's been utilized recently with like wagon tracks or animal tracks or people tracks or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Give me survival check and also how is it smell?
[SPEAKER_07]: have you cast it I cast it this morning and it goes for nine hours what's that one called blood hell bloodhound yeah so you'd be having the experience as you are following the instructions you picked up on where this warehouse is located johnny bash should be having the experience of
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's smelling more and more and more more and more more and more this this place Positively reeks of the infestation the where the warehouse is so more so than like where we met up with him and more so Then where he was walking around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes before him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is like honing in on like rounds your round zero.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay Denshin
[SPEAKER_07]: And again, the two of you that don't have this sensibility, you probably might notice something in the air if it was pointed out to you But there's just seems to be something about the way this heightened kind of animal sense is working in batches system.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just strong and potent.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wonder if that has, does that have anything to do with the rats?
[SPEAKER_07]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_07]: chatting about this over the telepathic bond with Dabwick, Dabwick, could confirm if this is hitting Bash so strongly and he knows what he's smelling any other kind of animal, not knowing what this is would probably be driven away by this this would smell concerning and unnatural to them.
[SPEAKER_10]: This would this would smell like a plague that they wouldn't want to any part of.
[SPEAKER_03]: It would yes, rats can't be infected with
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, to the best of our knowledge, it's just humanoid.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have an intelligence score?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no, no, it is not.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, let's...
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, give me your smile check, and then I'm gonna refresh you on a couple of jump-and-dory things.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right, I'm gonna spend a point of inspiration to add to this role.
[SPEAKER_10]: I get, I got, I rolled a 15, and then I add an additional plus four, since it's urban, so a 19, and then add another, ooh, sweet six to that, so that's a 25, and then a 29, if it's cent-based.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get in a little stridery up in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so that's a really high roll.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me, let me, let me, yeah, let me get a little Stridery on you know sometimes when we play this game, the kind of things you can find with survival is a little outlandish, but that's okay, we're playing the game, we're having fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would say the general vicinity around this building seems like there's does not tend to be a lot of traffic most normal days, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: There does seem to have been perhaps in recent weeks.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fairly regular traffic to and from the building of maybe one person.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then it seems as though nothing too much recently after that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're spotting old signs of more traffic than as usual in this neighborhood in and out of the building that all seems to then to have stopped kind of petered out and was that, um,
[SPEAKER_02]: like in one regular door or is that through the big freight doors?
[SPEAKER_07]: This is through the big freight doors that are the only ones that are not sealed up.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they have, you know, they kind of have the look of, because everything here is old and falling apart and it looks like it hasn't been touched for a decade or so.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, so Vic would find the, huh, this was actually boarded up up until some point in the not too, too distant past the boards on the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, yeah, they're over around the corner.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it still looks kind of sealed up, but the door could clearly be opened.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's talk a little bit about seedborn infestation and jomendori stuff again.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think the last time I brought up some of this detail was like chapter 42 or 43, so it has been a hot sec.
[SPEAKER_07]: And jonna, you would ask, you would bash, had been wondering again, what happens if somebody with this infestation actually dies from it?
[SPEAKER_07]: What little you know about if that were to happen is that they die and are brought back to life as fungal corpse puppets of Jaman door that can spread the infestation by touch.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is some of those very, very early dreams from Act 2, where Jean-Mendor was recalling being on planets where they didn't dream, then it grew to a size where it could spread its spores and take over that planet by means of...
[SPEAKER_07]: a touch-in-fest station.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, John Mendoor has lots of means of claiming life forms.
[SPEAKER_07]: And for those, like you just asked Robert, for say rats who can't comprehend a series of sounds as a name, they might perhaps be able to be infected through this sort of spore infection.
[SPEAKER_07]: By whatever happens to a, these corpse puppet seated creatures as they're called, but,
[SPEAKER_07]: These are something that none of your characters have ever actually seen happen.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is not something you have experienced.
[SPEAKER_07]: You only know about this lore from your years at Iris Hill as a potential way this can go.
[SPEAKER_07]: But oftentimes,
[SPEAKER_07]: People either kill themselves, or they are sacrificed because they become a risk to perhaps spread the name to Fastly, draw attention to themselves.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is something that, you know, Loles and his crew would have been very concerned about letting happen, because then it's... Out of their control and also the jig is up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you would guess, you didn't even have to guess.
[SPEAKER_07]: your characters know a lot about this particular stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: You would know you are already infected.
[SPEAKER_07]: This physical version that can be passed along would have no effect on you.
[SPEAKER_07]: However, it could be devastating.
[SPEAKER_03]: To a boy like Nico's?
[SPEAKER_07]: To a population.
[SPEAKER_07]: The only good thing about
[SPEAKER_07]: is that the save DC is not as high as this as the contagious lore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Investation is that it's a it's like a it's a lower level faster spreading but lower level actually combatable infestation in a way that like you could actually save from that and like the other one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and if you like, if you kill these, or you destroy these seated corpse puppets, then they're they're done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder if we're ever gonna see any of these.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I mean, we should not go in unless we, unless we, as players want to have a fight with creatures without our whole party here, I would rather not.
[SPEAKER_07]: On the whole.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could just bend it to the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's a, it's a healthy walk back to Ethan Bailer's place.
[SPEAKER_07]: You want to go back and rejoin Deb's while they're meditating.
[SPEAKER_09]: Or should we keep an eye on it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, you all want to go back and I'll stay here and keep watch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is the idea being grabbed abs and come back?
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, see how it goes.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, abs is part of this conversation, so...
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, this is happening till the death of the...
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, right, right, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll probably have to recast it without daps to keep you in the loop with us,
[SPEAKER_03]: almost two hours.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and technically we are three out and you have to get you ahead to recast it already.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So then this conversation is not with depths.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, there we go.
[SPEAKER_10]: You just not.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_10]: At some point, you're left literally the connection was severed.
[SPEAKER_10]: Right.
[SPEAKER_10]: And now you're just in that house on your own.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I failed to figure out the maps on that second casting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also make up, so we're only 110 hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, oh, it's only 90 minutes, 90 minutes, 110 hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's only an hour and a half.
[SPEAKER_02]: You forgot to carry the one.
[SPEAKER_02]: If the idea is we're going to come back here tonight, I think we should all just go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I think... Because we don't know what's going to happen at the house.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we should all be there.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm good.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're good to stay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: That 90-minute casting would have been without dabs and probably an hour and a half ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I have to do it one more time before we leave Bash here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're just three of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or I would do it one more time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That one's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did carry the one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did carry the one this time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I learned from my mistakes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that one is 110 minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'll do that right before we walk away.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if we have to summon,
[SPEAKER_07]: bashback he wouldn't be there instantaneously but so Pandora and gripper head back to Ethan Baylor's house leaving bash behind let's check in with the dabs who at some point around this time would be be getting their meditation
[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, you're able to seal up all of these doors and what kind of space in this house are you looking to find?
[SPEAKER_07]: What kind of connection do you want to make to this sad sad building?
[SPEAKER_08]: I wanted to find Ethan's study where they do their great work for the city and try to connect this heavy hopelessness in the air with all the great promise
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, all of his desk has clearly been some point he came in and threw everything onto the floor, pulled things off of the wall, all that great promise is just smashed on the floor.
[SPEAKER_07]: You having to trot through it, clearing out a space, there's got to be like a big map on the wall, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's all the promise.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's a ship right, so his whole thing is, so there would be detailed...
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, drawings, construction, drawings of large ocean going vessels, some of them warships stamped top secret from the Teldoor, from the Teldoor Navy.
[SPEAKER_08]: So as tablet meditates, they're thinking about hopelessness and how hopelessness is like a river locked in ice.
[SPEAKER_08]: The world is frozen.
[SPEAKER_08]: The current refuses to carry you forward.
[SPEAKER_08]: It tells you that nothing's ever going to change.
[SPEAKER_08]: Foss never going to come.
[SPEAKER_08]: Tabuk tries to remember that a river no matter how tightly bound by ice.
[SPEAKER_08]: does not remain still forever and tries to find some hope in that thought.
[SPEAKER_10]: Is Bash up to anything on toward well being left alone?
[SPEAKER_10]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_10]: Bash is like, Bash is like looking at this area and just wants to make sure that this area is contained and that nobody else is coming in and out.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Or at least not right now.
[SPEAKER_10]: Or somebody does coming in and out, then he's going to let everybody know and follow.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: But his goal is just to make sure that if they're in there, let's keep them in there.
[SPEAKER_07]: During the course of this time, you see very few people, absolutely no one is heading towards this building.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can see every once in a while, somebody way, way, way down the block, going into an old building that they probably presumably owns.
[SPEAKER_07]: They've got keys.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm imagining that there's got to be like crates and, you know, to try to some stuff around.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think that he's basically made himself like a little hunting blind across from these doors where he can see people going up to those doors and people going out.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: But otherwise, it's just kind of like sticking it out and hidden in quiet.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody approaches the building during that time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dabs has meditated.
[SPEAKER_07]: Pandora and Gripper have rejoined back at the Baylor State.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's plan now, Poly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Dabwick goes to Ethan and prepares to cast removed disease.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ethan?
[SPEAKER_08]: What?
[SPEAKER_08]: To attend to relieve you of some of the weight of hopelessness.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do it you will.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll try my friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're going to attempt to remove disease.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to attempt to remove disease.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, catch your little check.
[SPEAKER_07]: Die 20 plus 10.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't feel anything, did it work, did it work, Dad Wick, tried to get it, what can you?
[SPEAKER_08]: I can do it one more time.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: You see now, you understand.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, this is good.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_06]: You two should let go, Dan Wink.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you, you look so grim.
[SPEAKER_05]: Were you helped me?
[SPEAKER_08]: I will.
[SPEAKER_08]: When this is all over, can we bring him back?
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm prepared to reincarnate, can we bring him back?
[SPEAKER_08]: And he was, and he'd be okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dad, like, having just used that spell to bring Barnard as a soul-back.
[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't work like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first thing that will happen in the new body is that you will remember the knowledge of John and Dahl.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it will all begin again.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you have nothing that will wipe his mind.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can't watch.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry, Dablick.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: It truly is a must-eak.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Dablick can't watch, they leave it for her.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, Pandora will hold Ethan's hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: the kind of society if the quickest least painful is like a smothering or actually you would know as as a as a grappler that you could put him into a rear naked show can cut the blood flow to his brain and then he would just go to sleep have nothing at the whole half of the house or I will embrace him.
[SPEAKER_07]: and do the half-ordered Nelson, and his life slips away in your arms.
[SPEAKER_07]: He has a... Do you leave his body and walk away?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you place him in his bed?
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you... How do you walk?
[SPEAKER_03]: Andora sends a message to bash.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'd put him in his bed, if we're not going to try to do some sort of burial right now, which I don't know what the logistics of that would be, I would just put him in his bed.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you can easily find among his belongings, a set of house keys.
[SPEAKER_07]: So if you want to seal the place back up for now, and come back later.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just sit, take it, of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, let somebody know if you want to, however you want to handle that, but if you want to walk away and have a way to get back in, you certainly can.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then do we head back to Hergen's warehouse?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do we join Bash?
[SPEAKER_01]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, follow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora will catch that book up on what they found there, what they learned from Califant Shadow, what they learned from Julius King, just in a very calming, this is factual.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's got quite a wink to her, doesn't she?
[SPEAKER_08]: I admit I'm a little enchanted.
[SPEAKER_02]: Understand.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you make your way back through Abby Green and down into the dark abandoned parts of the shipyard district, closing on Harrogans Warehouse, rejoined with bash.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we will approach this particular problem next week.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the end of chapter 156.
[SPEAKER_07]: Warehouse Crow.
[SPEAKER_10]: Warehouse.
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, man.
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