[SPEAKER_01]: Last time, on Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a fucked up dog in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you're thinking about this, you look right back to the figure in, and it sort of strikes in your mind.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a cellular.
[SPEAKER_06]: But what do you call yourself the one or what a bummer call you?
[SPEAKER_01]: I shit!
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, that's what I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Gabrielle is not the only one who is ruining everything when they walk into places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Danger in danger, mama in danger, don't know what.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bobby Johnson.
[SPEAKER_07]: Roseville Beach's... ...Crips Doctor.
[SPEAKER_05]: It has imprinted on you, Gabriella.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's her mother.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the second that he said, a knowledge is a double-edged dagger.
[SPEAKER_04]: A looks just like started like rubbing her collarbone, like really, like absent-mindedly.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have been following a stream of arson cases that have broken out all over Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_07]: I bet you, you could help me figure that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mysterious, let's shine along the ocean, babe Part two is its thrills upon the summer haze Together on the beach, we'll turn the night to day Adventures on the beach, so come along and play
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach, the ghosts like to play Monsters hide, but they won't stay Roseville Beach, with the game that they found We'll turn this town right, back around Blue nose, there's no broken thing that she can't feel
[SPEAKER_00]: magic that comes from moss powers the way she lay I may wish Ari, on this quest for loving, good, some fishy tricks Oh, I'm a real Together, these three will surely have you transphixed
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach, the ghosts like to play, monsters hide, but they won't stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach, with the gang that they found, will turn this town right back around.
[SPEAKER_07]: welcome back to Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is another nice bright sunny day and after the chaos of last week we've all taken some time to relax because Roseville Beach never stays quiet for long, whether that's fun activities or mysteries that need to be solved.
[SPEAKER_07]: But today we're looking up to have a chance to unwind.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Clean Stale Coffee Shop is hosting a new art gallery that
[SPEAKER_07]: are particularly interested in Odie, or at least the man you've affectionately named Odysseus.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are holding, or they're at least a hosting a whole art show there.
[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of paintings that they've made and their friends have made, they have saved up enough money, they have come together as a community, and they are hosting their art here.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's in partnership with the coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll kind of come here to check it out and see what's going on.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little strange.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's buzzing with activity.
[SPEAKER_07]: If I, everyone feels maybe just a little too, think people are genuinely interested, but they're not really talking about the art.
[SPEAKER_07]: The things they talk about are superficial.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no real understanding of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: They don't see past the paintings.
[SPEAKER_07]: Besides the art gallery.
[SPEAKER_07]: there are several other artifacts, several other kind of cool paintings and cool art pieces that have been collected over time.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as you approach right outside, there is a group of people who stop you on the street.
[SPEAKER_07]: And actually try to push something into your hand, a flyer of sorts.
[SPEAKER_07]: One is holding a flyer, one's holding a clipboard and they approach both of you and say, excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about,
[SPEAKER_07]: the injustices that the concealed coffee shop is committing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Arian, this whole time walking up the sidewalk has been daydreaming.
[SPEAKER_05]: about interacting with Odysseus, the things he would say, the outfit that Orion is wearing is so carefully picked out these gorgeous little accessories.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a clearly a sheen to Orion's hair that's almost like seasick, kind of like a wind swept to look that one would
[SPEAKER_05]: Hi Odysseus, an artist.
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course he is.
[SPEAKER_05]: Get interrupted by this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, Huh?
[SPEAKER_07]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: Excuse me?
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think...
[SPEAKER_07]: At this point, they've already put the flyer into your hand, and you can look down, and it's this honestly propaganda piece about how all of the art in the Kuzdel coffee shop is stolen.
[SPEAKER_07]: A frouse, so the info box that tells me why they're stolen, it's like a little political cartoon, and it shows people literally like stealing from artists and giving them nothing, and then turning around and selling it for major profit.
[SPEAKER_07]: what they're giving them is exposure, and they're profiting massive amounts of money off of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ourian is like, sees this graphic, and have they left already the folks who shove this into my hand?
[SPEAKER_07]: The one who's handing out flyers, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're like making sure everyone who enters does not enter without a flyer, but there's one person who not thoughts in your mind of sort of like,
[SPEAKER_07]: muddled their words, you know, as you were daydreaming about Odie, but they've sort of turned a clipboard around to you and they've put a pen in your hand and they say, will you sign?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a forgive me first of all.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just arrived to this whole thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: What does this mean?
[SPEAKER_05]: A stolen art?
[SPEAKER_05]: Are the artists here that are being featured being stolen from this
[SPEAKER_07]: The people who are featured here are having their are unjustly resold and in fact some of them and they like point out several pieces on their clipboard, line A, line B, line C, all the way to like line F, describe which ones were just completely taken from groups throughout history without their consent.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this petition is to
[SPEAKER_07]: sort of sees that artwork and give it back to those people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Would Iran's understanding be that a disease has been stolen from?
[SPEAKER_05]: Or that a disease is committing this stealing?
[SPEAKER_05]: This distinction is very, very important to how I react to this person.
[SPEAKER_07]: What's your experience with art?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think in Arian's mind, Art is, his exposure is the Greeks, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: The way the Greeks have done art.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there is this sort of like granus to it, there's a sweetness and a great attachment to like art and how it endured through history.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is the artist, the writers, the storytellers that we celebrate even centuries on out.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that's how Arian feels like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: super well-informed on like the process and bureaucracy of exhibiting art or things like for, for a reason it's instinctual art is art and that's some of the most beautiful things about humanity is that you make art and you intentionally make art constantly.
[SPEAKER_07]: You probably are familiar with the idea of like artists and residents, you know people who make
[SPEAKER_07]: don't necessarily profit off of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just something that it's what they do, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's their life.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are taking care of, but it's not like they're given financial game for it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And also like a lot of Greek art has been taken over time away from the people who originally owned it and has been used in other places.
[SPEAKER_07]: So this is only a
[SPEAKER_05]: Arian sees this pen and this shade of paper and knows better as a mythical creature from the deep than to just assign things without fully knowing what's going on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Smiles really really sweetly and just says
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you all say it?
[SPEAKER_05]: Do some digging.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you for this.
[SPEAKER_05]: And shakes a little pamphlet with this, like bright little smile, and like being to be folded and shoves it in a tiny little soft, sexual life he's carrying, and trot in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Excuse me, excuse me, you really should, you really should, as I trail off, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Alex, what is your experience approaching this gallery?
[SPEAKER_07]: not seeing the same people and the same sort of petition going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know that Alex has like the most counterculture hippie vibe, but also what the fact of these people think they're doing.
[SPEAKER_04]: like, it's a coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_04]: They know shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: So soon as she sees them out there, she is going to like, fuck.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then like, try to get into the coffee shop anywhere but the front door.
[SPEAKER_04]: If she can get in the back door, she will do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: If there is a window, she will do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: She will do anything to avoid having to interact with these people who she just doesn't want to deal with right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are persistent.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're really on the watch.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, it's not just the two of them,
[SPEAKER_07]: The two of them are the ones that interacted with Ariana, but they are, they're opposed to this is a big show that is being done and they, there's a lot of attractions, a lot of, there's a lot of influx of people coming to the coffee shop today, so this is there can be, they're not leaving until they get all of their signatures, so you're going to have to roll to a point probably honestly just go to, I'm going to take a trouble die and that is a four, so that is much better to in trouble, why not?
[SPEAKER_07]: You are able to find a back door to slip in through.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this leads through kitchen.
[SPEAKER_07]: People, they're busy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, they are busy here.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are catering to people going in with flatters, out with flatters, popping dishes into the sink, washing them.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a fine tune machine that nobody really notices you.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you slip out of the kitchen into the art gallery, you get a chill down your spine.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's a familiar feeling.
[SPEAKER_07]: You lock eyes across the room with a painting, and it can only be one person.
[SPEAKER_07]: This image can only be one creature, alex.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the person who taught you magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: Even just their image carries the weight of their power.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please describe what they look like.
[SPEAKER_04]: She looks a lot younger than she actually is.
[SPEAKER_04]: She spent a very long time practicing and growing her own power.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there's a lot that she was very coy or closed off with in regards to different parts of her own past.
[SPEAKER_04]: She kept her hair long and it was dark, fell down halfway down her back.
[SPEAKER_04]: She had bright green eyes, the kind that you almost would sometimes think were blue, they would even sometimes like show red, depending.
[SPEAKER_04]: She always would dress like she came from somewhere that was warmer, like cold bothered her, more than he did.
[SPEAKER_04]: She had the smattering of freckles across her face, like she'd seen the sun a lot, and Alex remembers when she first met her that her skin was like recently tanned like she had been Out more often over time it faded a little bit, but not so much.
[SPEAKER_04]: She was always that kind of like tan tones
[SPEAKER_04]: When she would smile, there were two different smiles.
[SPEAKER_04]: There was one that she could smile that had her whole face and her eyes and it's the one that Alex loved the most and then there was the one that only was the teeth and anyone who didn't know her wouldn't notice but Alex would and those were maybe the first times that Alex was.
[SPEAKER_04]: afraid of her.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's been not long enough for her.
[SPEAKER_04]: to see that again because in a painting you can't reflect the warmth, it's not possible.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anyone who would have painted it would have to know what that looks like and even if she painted it herself by some means, she couldn't see it in her own eyes.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's been too long and somehow not long enough for Alex to sneak in through a crowded kitchen
[SPEAKER_04]: with the face of a stealth queen.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you approach the painting?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's going to stare at it from where she is, and she's sort of like waiting for it to move.
[SPEAKER_07]: Will you make a role for me?
[SPEAKER_07]: Clues, I think scares, and goal to keep your wits about you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not injured or scared.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sorcery background?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Down any of the other social ones are going to matter.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is this a golden opportunity?
[SPEAKER_07]: Actually, I think, yeah, I think this is a golden opportunity to prove to yourself that you can resist the you can stand up.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that is a fail and goal fail and scared.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fail include another three and troubles.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is straight threes.
[SPEAKER_07]: What is the last thing that she said to you?
[SPEAKER_04]: the last thing that would have happened would have been whatever the price that Alex would have had to pay would be and she would have left immediately and i think you might know that better than i do i think the stair here is honestly very simple it's very real it's very threatening your due has come as you feel all
[SPEAKER_07]: of her power in this painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: The warmth that you describe that can't be captured in the painting, it's in the paint.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's in the brush stroke.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's in the way that they captured her smile.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your eyes drift down to see that this was painted by a roseville regular.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody who actually has quite a few paintings in the gallery today.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, on, as you have entered, it's a party, it's festive, there's food, it's free, there's drinks, it's free, everything has been paid for to show off the new talent on Rosalina.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a few artists here, like you, that Ode is supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Orion's heart is a flutter, picks up a like mug of tea,
[SPEAKER_05]: dead.
[SPEAKER_05]: He like nurses in his hands and a couple of like this cafes.
[SPEAKER_05]: This coffee house is like signature cookies and stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: Arena is in a different genre of movie than Alexis right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alexis coming out of a horror movie.
[SPEAKER_05]: Arena is in a rom-com and it's just like, this is it.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is today.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't make a fool of myself.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is today.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like
[SPEAKER_05]: Sand appropriately and I introduce myself to Odysseus properly and we can start getting the ball rolling and there's a moment I think we're already in this just like oh my goodness, this is so many paintings.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is the alex It's always wandering off somewhere
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm going to very cool, very normal, go out to each of the different paintings.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm going to look like a normal human patron that is patronizing the arts, but I'm looking for Odysseus, even a shuffling around.
[SPEAKER_07]: mimicking everyone else.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have a drink, you have some snacks, and you are looking at the paintings, and you are making the same kind of judgments about them with the flyer and your back pocket too, and you realize you're not going to be able to find Odysseus's art.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't know Odysseus's name.
[SPEAKER_07]: You would have to find a based off of the art and see through it to see
[SPEAKER_05]: A read is like looking through all the little placards at the bottom of pieces.
[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely in his mind's eyes is going Odysseus, Odysseus, Odysseus, and then realizes no one here has Greek names because no one here is from the time that he is most familiar with and Odysseus is an affectionate nickname that he had given because he does not know Odysseus's name.
[SPEAKER_07]: only what he looks like.
[SPEAKER_07]: You shuffle from plackered to plackered to plackered, and you eventually make your way past the art gallery into the rest of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: So focused on the plackered, trying to find a Greek name, and you stop on something.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a name, it's a description.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little plack that says this artifact was dredged up from the bottom of the bay.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're unable to date it.
[SPEAKER_07]: but it is clearly of ancient origin.
[SPEAKER_07]: And when you look up, it is of pottery.
[SPEAKER_07]: The lid has been broken and snapped off.
[SPEAKER_07]: The images on it faded away.
[SPEAKER_07]: But this is clearly something very old.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been worn away, roughed down by the waves, the actual sort of
[SPEAKER_07]: that it's made of has been damaged by the salt water.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's even like scratch marks from things like crustaceans that I've just like clawed away at it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's when you notice this whole section of weird artwork.
[SPEAKER_07]: This art is strange, this art is unusual for lack of a better word.
[SPEAKER_07]: magical.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you recognize this as one of the items on the petition to return.
[SPEAKER_05]: A real approach is this and like places this face so close to the artifact and this appears and looks over at this and like tilts his head and things too soft.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that reminds me of home.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then looks at all of these other artifacts and strange paintings and thinking again that above this flyer in the back pocket about these needing to be returned.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you said it felt magical, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: So may I use my siren and song to be able to get a feel for this magic, almost like get a frequency of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: What kind of power are you using for this?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm using boon.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm trying to see if these grant anything, typical thing with artifacts, right, is that they grant something.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that's the assumption that Arian is working from, is that if this is a magical ill grant me something, or someone's opening.
[SPEAKER_07]: And if this is connected to your nature as a stranger to Roseville Beach, you actually have a special ability once her session.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't have to roll magic as long as you're not trying to harm someone.
[SPEAKER_07]: Describe what it looks like when you call upon this word of power to investigate if these items have boots.
[SPEAKER_05]: A rean swirls his like wavy hair like toxic behind this ear and begins to hum different notes and it's like
[SPEAKER_05]: like a piano tuner finding the right tune.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's hitting the same note and then going up up up and then back down to make sure that the melody is correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that is what he's doing as he's like very, very elegantly like even tracing his hand on some of the tables that these artifacts are on taking like a once over in the room.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there's a moment where his eyes glitter a little unnaturally like a sirenswood.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's almost this alluring, seductive, hum, to convince to charm teas the boon out of these artifacts like they're at hidden secrets, a pearl within an oyster.
[SPEAKER_07]: You prod, you convince your teas, the magic out of these items.
[SPEAKER_07]: The artifact in front of you, the shattered piece of pottery that has sort of been
[SPEAKER_07]: At one time held a boom, it held some sort of magic that it granted at some point, but it has been long gone.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no way of being able to track or trace how long it's been, but it's reasonable to assume if it was shattered on the ocean floor, it was open to them and
[SPEAKER_07]: a distinctly different feeling to her.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a boon necessarily, but it is like a magical signature.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's love, love has been poured into these paintings by people who work magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: The art in the back of the Clincel coffee shop is made almost exclusively by witches from around the world.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we shift our camera back to A-Lix as you are still locked in this moment, this singular moment, everything sort of fades to the side, as your vision tunnels to just the painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as Ariana begins to tease the magic out of things, the magic in the painting, the essence of your mentor begins to wake up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anyone who can see A-Lix right now would see her doing two things.
[SPEAKER_04]: One hand is in one of the large pockets on her cargos.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's like feeling the unmarked brass coin that she keeps in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the other one is rubbing at the choker on her throat, like running her thumb over it, just like right on the front of her neck.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's getting stronger.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not that it's getting stronger.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's that it's like being invited.
[SPEAKER_07]: invited out, invited to show its face.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to use Sorcery to stop it.
[SPEAKER_04]: The edge of the coin is digging into the side of her thumb, and she's running her hand along it.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's going to try and freeze whatever is going on via bind.
[SPEAKER_07]: Magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: Goal.
[SPEAKER_07]: scares, and we'll throw a clue in there too.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does my scare inhibit my magic?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I've got to make up for it by using all three of my words of power.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is fine to stop it, call because I know the source of it and bane because I know the source of it and know how to bend it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a special place if you approach close enough to touch it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to use a five on magic.
[SPEAKER_04]: That works the way I want it to.
[SPEAKER_04]: Six, six, five.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, success is across the board.
[SPEAKER_04]: You asked me or was the last thing that she said to Alex and I damn don't know that.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do know what the last thing Alex said to her was as she approaches the painting and grabs the outside edges of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And just locks eyes with the portrait itself, you see the light, the way that light that her spells work is when they like extends out from her and the light bends around her.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see it encompass now the outside frame of the painting and you watch it expand before snapping in.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the painting itself doesn't change.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nothing about the painting itself changes.
[SPEAKER_04]: but all of that energy that is going around goes from its rectangular outers down to the center where it collapses and whatever energy was there has vanished and has gotten sucked into back into the inks and cannot come out and as she is gripping the side of the painting and charging it she like finishes the longer in-cantation with all three words of power in it and says the exact same thing she said before she left goodbye love.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a really hip coffee shop art gallery.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's got a second floor with like an open spot.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's where Aryan has sort of wandered off to.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you hear this yelp as somebody has just backed themselves up against the balcony.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they've caught themselves.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're right above you, you lock eyes with them.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they turn back around and they run away.
[SPEAKER_07]: Aryan, first of all, the wave, Alex has just put out has definitely stopped it, but just before, just before it did, there was a boom that was accessed from that person, and the painting in front of them is different.
[SPEAKER_07]: Once just a scenic view of the ocean has a single sort of rocky shore island now has somebody walking on the beach.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is a still image of something that wasn't there before, painted
[SPEAKER_07]: on top of this oil painting.
[SPEAKER_05]: But what's sound does your magic make?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like a wine like this kind of like pitch that just sort of like it stands like it's an engine.
[SPEAKER_05]: if you hear it at all, which most people probably wouldn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: Burdened by being a siren in a re-en, reacts to it's like that's very alex of something's happening and then I see that.
[SPEAKER_05]: And a re-en, once again, appears his head closer to this person that's in the painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: The painting here is almost like a period piece.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's from Rosalbeach and Magic in the
[SPEAKER_07]: But the person in there is in modern clothing.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're wearing jeans.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have sort of a rolled up their jeans to walk on the sand.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have like a very, I don't wanna say modern cut, but this person has like brown hair that kind of goes just almost to their shoulders.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is none other than your housemate, Lou, trapped in this painter.
[SPEAKER_06]: A-Likes!
[SPEAKER_04]: A-Likes has been like after closing it, she's just been kind of like leaning up against the wall on the frame like just full weight on her hands and just like looking through the top of her eyes at the at the still painting now back to being like cold and lifeless Like she's just staring at it when she when she hears that at first she like starts back from the painting Fuck
[SPEAKER_07]: Literally, these two paintings are on top of each other.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's an open balcony you could look over and see each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rian is like hovering over the balcony, and it's just like, I do not know, what do you have just done?
[SPEAKER_05]: Me!
[SPEAKER_06]: It's your magic, I felt that was losing the painting, losing the painting!
[SPEAKER_04]: You say that, and she looks back at the one that's right behind her, and she's scouring the background for it instantly, like, fucking horrified.
[SPEAKER_07]: make me a role, definitely for goal, definitely for clues.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you said horrified for scares as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: In this moment of like helping you, is describing specifically what he saw in the painting, so that you in your magical understanding, which is far more than Orian, because Orian moves on instinct, that it's Luke contemporary clothing.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's Luke as we know her in a painting that's clearly not the time of when she would be here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's take the three in goal in the four in blue.
[SPEAKER_07]: The two of you are going to game the scare panicked.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alex, as you look around, a holy shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: All the paintings have people trapped inside of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Almost every single one.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's a consistent type of person.
[SPEAKER_07]: Except for Lou, you would be able to place them if you had been paying a little bit more attention.
[SPEAKER_07]: You were distracted by the painting of your mentor.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so these people, you just know, were visiting the art gallery.
[SPEAKER_07]: They were here today.
[SPEAKER_07]: looking at the paintings and they all seem to be nicely dressed and they distinctly each do not have a flyer on them.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just like muttering at the paintings.
[SPEAKER_04]: What the fuck did you do?
[SPEAKER_04]: What the fuck are you up to?
[SPEAKER_04]: Leverst.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did did did.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look at the painting I'm coming up.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's all I'm looking at.
[SPEAKER_07]: Upstairs, same situation, magical artifacts, awe of paintings, pottery, all having a touch of magic to them, clearly made by witches.
[SPEAKER_07]: All of these are ones that people are trying to get sit back to the original creators, or sort of to, you know, their original home place.
[SPEAKER_07]: Only Lou is trapped in this painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: None of these other ones have people trapped in.
[SPEAKER_04]: who made the painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: You look down and it is a local which actually that you would be familiar with A-Lix.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are part of a local oven.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not one that you are a part of, you know, you've kind of distanced yourself from the Covins.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ironically, to try to avoid your mentor, but this particular, which their name is, Ania.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they were pretty vocal about the fact that they thought people were sort of taking advantage of which is here on those which, how well do you think you would have known this person?
[SPEAKER_04]: Unless she shows up at the Sandbar after hours, it's very likely that Alex would have just avoided her.
[SPEAKER_07]: How tuned in are you to people's gossip at the same bar?
[SPEAKER_04]: She's a bartender, she hears all the shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: So then when she goes and knocks back with the other bartenders after words, it's a fucking whisper and I work.
[SPEAKER_07]: All of them know everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: You distinctly remember a couple of days ago, this person Mia had injured with another member of their cover.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody brand new, that you don't recognize, they were a tattooed witch.
[SPEAKER_07]: They were sort of talking back and forth, having an argument about whether or not they should accept
[SPEAKER_07]: in order to sort of deal with their problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think she's gonna like reach into one of her pockets and pull out her cigarettes and just like you see like his or hand goes up to her mouth.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like shaking and she like puts it and lights it with her hand.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Alex.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks darling.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm here.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're more stress than usual.
[SPEAKER_05]: Which is man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why is it gotta be?
[SPEAKER_04]: Which is?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but that means they're just like you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe we can talk it out.
[SPEAKER_05]: They are not, oh, well, it was worth a try.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she's going to go up to the painting that Luzon.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she's going to put her hand like right over near where Luz is.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, listen, just fucking hold on to something.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she's going to utilize call to try and pull Luz back to this plane.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have just locked.
[SPEAKER_07]: magic in place with a very powerful spell.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is something which, whether or not it was intentional, definitely called on some more primal magic that you possess.
[SPEAKER_07]: You will need the aid of either a covenant of witches, a spirit of the island, or the original artifact, the original magical
[SPEAKER_04]: You have her, like, fuck yourself over by being too good.
[SPEAKER_04]: All the time, I thought you'd get it.
[SPEAKER_04]: We need to go see the painer.
[SPEAKER_04]: We need to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that all?
[SPEAKER_05]: Use the original signature to un-bind this magic?
[SPEAKER_05]: That seems straightforward.
[SPEAKER_05]: If we're very lucky, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's gonna take like another drag and just kind of, like,
[SPEAKER_04]: If you can hear me hunt, just like don't go too far.
[SPEAKER_04]: I literally don't know where your reality ends and don't go in the water.
[SPEAKER_04]: And don't, don't, don't, I know you're trusting.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just don't, don't, don't trust anyone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please, you're not in the fucking cheap probably kidding, anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: blue your senses in this moment it's like you're dreaming but not like you're having a dream like you are awake on able to move it's like sleep paralysis and also everything around you is vibrant it is beautiful it is everything is painted as brush stroke just like if a if a brush stroke
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a bit of hyperventilating happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably wide eyes at the paralysis and not being able to move, but just stuck and flooded with fear.
[SPEAKER_07]: You probably can hear the words that Alex speaks to you as Alex's magic is the thing that has sort of locked the spell in the place.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whether or not you know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The plan for the day was to go fix
[SPEAKER_01]: air conditioning unit, and she doesn't know what happened between that task and now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ariana and Alex.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right now, your reads are very few.
[SPEAKER_07]: You could contact the cover.
[SPEAKER_07]: You could try to invoke some sort of magic if you were able to find a source of power.
[SPEAKER_07]: or you could find this original artist.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know that somebody was here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody did invoke magic before they escaped, but that was five, 10 minutes ago now.
[SPEAKER_07]: They ran out of the building to sort of actually, through the kitchen the same way that you would have come into the building.
[SPEAKER_07]: It looks.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_04]: We need help.
[SPEAKER_05]: If I remember correctly, this room is full of things that the folks who are campaigning outside are requesting to be returned, which includes this painting.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, Mike.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where are the artists?
[SPEAKER_05]: If they're campaigning for its return.
[SPEAKER_05]: Or the very least gets us closer to where this witch is.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think they're local.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't have to go too far.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: Should I just walk to the front door?
[SPEAKER_04]: Should I just walk through the front fucking door?
[SPEAKER_04]: She's just like muddling that the whole way down.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ory and it's just like skipping behind you, turning on the siren-like charm and as soon as we're outside, like goes up to one of the demonstrators probably the one with the clipboard because they seem very raky to talk to him before.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's just like, hello, hello, hi.
[SPEAKER_05]: We just went through this and we agreed.
[SPEAKER_05]: that these paintings and artifacts ought to be returned.
[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, we might have a connection with one of the artists listed in the painting.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we're just wondering how they're doing right on doing a weather located?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, well, they're, I mean, there's, there's, you know, several artists that were petitioning and it's not a dance home.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to say that we're petitioning for the flip the clipboard over to you and it has that list of everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: It has
[SPEAKER_07]: the painting that Enia made on it has sort of that artifact that I told you earlier has several more paintings.
[SPEAKER_07]: It has some things that they believe for like bought and sold some stuff went to the Country Club.
[SPEAKER_07]: There was like a statue that went over to the Pearl Theater.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just shows Alex over and just like, do you see her name here?
[SPEAKER_04]: Just kind of like with a cigarette in her hand, like tap in his name.
[SPEAKER_07]: Actually, if you're looking for Enia, they're the one who began the petition.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, there are what's stolen from them right here and they've been trying to get it back,
[SPEAKER_07]: They've been blocked by lots of different honestly just silly red tape and loopholes But I hear I'll tell you what signed the petition and you can meet them at our next our next meeting When is your next meeting full out a little blackbook from their pocket?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like flip through it like okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, you have a meeting Oh, well, it looks like we have one Tonight and they got to turn over to you and it's a rally at the country club, Orian
[SPEAKER_05]: Once that information, regardless of whether we're going to it tonight or finding a different way.
[SPEAKER_05]: A reen signs the name of Bobby.
[SPEAKER_05]: do you sign?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't because Alex.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex is enough of her brain has started functioning again.
[SPEAKER_04]: That several other pieces are coming into focus, like the fact that because Aryan avoided them or sort of like just got the flyer on the way in, meant he didn't sign the paper before and what are the odds that Lou would have just signed something put directly in
[SPEAKER_04]: and finding out that Ania organized all of this to begin with.
[SPEAKER_05]: As soon as Arian signs, big bright smile looks over to Alex very softly, like touches your wrist, it just pulls you in a very, very gay way.
[SPEAKER_05]: The energy I'm exuding is I'm a gay and I know exactly what I'm going to do and I'm dragging my friend with me.
[SPEAKER_05]: How many likes?
[SPEAKER_04]: She's gonna keep staring at like the list, but if you, if you like drag her away, she's not gonna resist you to stay and add it.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's just like thinking about this in her head.
[SPEAKER_04]: If they don't try and like chase her down, she's not gonna, she's not gonna try and do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: She'll figure it's like one thing that she was probably enough.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're heading over to the rally tonight.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's the plan, or as soon as Arian does this.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a little grumble that he lets off like, of course the one.
[SPEAKER_05]: This close is seeing it this year,
[SPEAKER_05]: from now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Looks over to ALA singles.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I only option really that doesn't require us, you know, kicking it down a bunch of doors and making you seem smoke more cigarettes than the one that you're currently holding.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is tonight?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if we want to wait that long to save.
[SPEAKER_06]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_06]: Am I being completely honest here?
[SPEAKER_05]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_05]: So do you which is have some sort of which is called that you can like yell out across a tall precipice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe a magical messaging system.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: They'll look at me like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's start and see which is do.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you think we're like mere cats or something like some mere cat there?
[SPEAKER_04]: They oh right.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, you really wouldn't have a comparative would you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Because the thing though, Alex, even beneath the waves, the sea which is a way of contacting one another.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you not have that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you not have a coven that you're in contact with?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, okay, you do understand how that thing works and there are ovens that are here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just not in them for reasons to pull out another cigarette.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just like literally pack out, just like, doesn't even like reach into it, just like shakes it towards their mouth and just like pulls it out with their teeth.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: We don't have time to unpack all of this, but can't you, I don't know, do a consultation meeting?
[SPEAKER_05]: A re-enter starts going off about like ancient Greek and like see which like custom about like recognizing one another and the sort of like
[SPEAKER_05]: typical Greek mythology, like talks about like trials, which would have to go to to enter a covenant.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe you don't need to get to the trial stage.
[SPEAKER_05]: We just need you to a what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Express interest, I don't know, has that has that custom change?
[SPEAKER_04]: When's the last time that you were like hanging out with a witches' covenant, my guy?
[SPEAKER_04]: Delphi.
[SPEAKER_04]: as in like the age of the oracle like Delphi.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh yes oracle is so pleasant.
[SPEAKER_05]: Honestly, undisert reputation.
[SPEAKER_04]: You still learn about her?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, I did, but that's which regardless, I still think it's worth contacting them.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, you're right.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you think that you were familiar with them that you were sort of on good terms with them and tell you sort of secluded yourself?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that Alex's relationship to the Coven's would have been identifying that they were Coven's identifying they were there, being like, ah, okay, you are a Coven, and by the time that they recognized her, which wouldn't have taken too long, they're like, come join us and she'd have been like, pass.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she would have started polite.
[SPEAKER_04]: If they were insistent, she would have gotten more in dignity than about it until she would have like froze them out.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's an interesting time for the Witches of Rosalbeach right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: You came as their previous sort of coven leader had passed away.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there was several people sort of campaigning to be the coven leader.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so you were probably approached by several different people.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that makes it even stranger that you don't recognize this witch.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you do recognize a new who for sure is one of the major voices of the Witch community here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, go see her.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how many people around here, which is or not, like know your deal, normal level of discretion, I think, until, certainly, yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do not feel like having my scales plucked today, thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: As a society, which has evolved a little bit past that kind of barbaric behavior, but, you know, I will admit that I don't know these, governs that well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't get any water splashed on me, we should be fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Also, they're probably gonna be resistant if you try and charm them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not just because of the magic, most of them are also gay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not discriminating.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just want to make sure you're forward.
[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's... We saw it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It also come a long way since the ages of your with the man eating and everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lucky for you, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not far away.
[SPEAKER_07]: You turn and it's the building across the street.
[SPEAKER_07]: A little old book store that hosts the coffin of Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_07]: You need a moment?
[SPEAKER_04]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, whatever, I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's on our third cigarette.
[SPEAKER_07]: Leading up to the building, you can see that the face of it, the sides of this building, have been restored, but they've been graffitied.
[SPEAKER_07]: with really beautiful artwork, honestly, like a commissioned graffiti almost.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it is of a brighter future for Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_07]: It depicts one where the community is here for the community, where we are not focused on things that drive us apart.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, beautiful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: inside as the door creaks open.
[SPEAKER_07]: A little bell.
[SPEAKER_07]: Almost like lost its shine, lost its ring, its tone from where and tear, beckons your entrance.
[SPEAKER_07]: But nobody meets you here.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, there's like a draft, it's cold in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: People are distinctly absent.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are paintings everywhere.
[SPEAKER_07]: covering every inch of the walls, and they all hold people.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact,
[SPEAKER_07]: If you have been keeping up with what has been selling from across the street, a lot of this art has been selling, and a lot of this art is from out of towners, people who have money who come in to purchase art, they know nothing about.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a creek from upstairs, and a light that switches on.
[SPEAKER_07]: And a shadow looms over the staircase.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello?
[SPEAKER_04]: There's no response.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please don't do the creepy thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, the decor is really doing that for you.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like it hasn't been touched.
[SPEAKER_07]: in years.
[SPEAKER_07]: Clearly, the upstairs is where the covered meets.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a functioning bookstore, but with the library that opened up a couple of years back, this place has been out of touch.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, a lot of the books are sort of on the ground, flopped over pages, and there's cobwebs building in the bookcases.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, sort of a feather duster.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, do you want us to come upstairs or
[SPEAKER_04]: I really don't have the patience for this today.
[SPEAKER_07]: You hear like a chef shuffling the papers as it stops and the shadow stops the movie.
[SPEAKER_07]: The shadow it extends out of their arm and it's almost like they're drawing Aryan what you would recognize as a sword.
[SPEAKER_05]: Aryan immediately steps before Alex.
[SPEAKER_05]: We are not here to threaten to harm.
[SPEAKER_05]: We need not draw blade, friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: I sense one of you is lying.
[SPEAKER_07]: the witch.
[SPEAKER_07]: You could approach.
[SPEAKER_07]: The other?
[SPEAKER_07]: Stay where you are.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you mean lying?
[SPEAKER_07]: You come with bad company friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Someone falls.
[SPEAKER_07]: Someone who signs things that they know nothing about.
[SPEAKER_07]: As they step out onto the balcony, they're soared.
[SPEAKER_07]: A paintbrush.
[SPEAKER_07]: A magic wand.
[SPEAKER_07]: They point down at you.
[SPEAKER_07]: like you just didn't lock down to him.
[SPEAKER_07]: I need you to roll to resist succumbing to their magical spell.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the most important work is gonna be gold.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's gonna be harm.
[SPEAKER_05]: I will give the six were achieving my gold.
[SPEAKER_05]: Five for the injured and the four for clues.
[SPEAKER_04]: The second eye I like feel that zoning start to come in, Alex is just going to kind of like grip the air a little bit, and there's going to be the same kind of like twisting of the light in the space between.
[SPEAKER_04]: He wasn't lying.
[SPEAKER_04]: He does not mean you harm get it together sister.
[SPEAKER_07]: As she has pointed this out, she's let down the staircase with her paintbrush in hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's like a thick paintbrush, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's the kind that you would use to paint massive strokes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she is painted almost like the air and is attempting to force you back into a blank canvas behind you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Arian holds out a hand and I think a web quality appear in his hand from like his siren.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's form and he holds it out and he says, halt, which, though art mystic, indeed I had tricked the ye with regard to my own identity, signed upon, die parchment, however
[SPEAKER_05]: indicating and signing one without greater knowledge of contract, without forethought, a foolish endeavor, no?
[SPEAKER_05]: The style blame I, was such a move, but I'm not here to harm thee.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why are you saying bow and thee?
[SPEAKER_05]: Just so that we're on the same page, my dear.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lou, the moment that the magic has been invoked again, you have been unfrozen, and you
[SPEAKER_07]: You look around you, and to your left and right, if you can get there, you can actually see beyond the painting on one side is the gallery.
[SPEAKER_07]: And just to your left is Alex and Arion.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't get out of the painting on your own sort of ability, but you can see where the other location is, you can travel to the other painting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've been able to hear previously what they were saying to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: An A-Lick specifically said, don't move.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think Lou looks around.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's the shift that has happened and goes, okay, I've got my orders.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I'll stay right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I don't know if I could stay right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think her muscles have felt super tense from that paralyzing and they start to kind of like loosen.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's an antsy person.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her body is kind of looking for the next thing to do at this point and she twists and turns on the spot and then goes, okay, I guess it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission and who's gonna take off towards the new scene.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you are looking down a hallway and it has partitions, you are jumping through painting to painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you come to the realization that all of them have to be opened for any of them to be opened.
[SPEAKER_07]: The past out of yours, you pass into one that's sort of depicting like a lighthouse, you pass into one that's depicting.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like an abstract one in the all-the-steach of this.
[SPEAKER_07]: You jump into one that shows a very beautiful young,
[SPEAKER_07]: woman, the distinct smile you jump into the painting in the bookstore.
[SPEAKER_07]: And what you see is your two friends being confronted by this witch.
[SPEAKER_07]: The camera like phases through and there's like a distortion as we zoom into the room and this woman has not heard anything you've said our young.
[SPEAKER_07]: Her eyes are glazed over with this fierce determination.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see that everything that she paints, the swipe in the air, it struck the canvas behind it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's left this shadow of a figure on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: She swipes again and strikes the floorboards leaving this shadow of a figure on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, lowers herself like assuming something's coming in his direction like tries to like dodge out of way.
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks already like it makes my dear.
[SPEAKER_05]: It seems that she's not willing to listen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, we tried it the nice way.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I'm gonna keep it simple.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's channeling.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm calling her want to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Normally magic risk scares, but I promised you I wasn't going to do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So injury and goal, and that's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I use my strength to try to help pull the wand?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it like a manifestation of your strength on the wand?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Five for magic, four for for the others.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think she's gonna like twist her hand in the air, like she did when she locked the first attack in sort of like place from hitting her in.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is a bending of the light again, and as it bends and stretches, instead of her own arm going forward, it's actually loose that like reaches out and wraps their hands around it, and yanks it.
[SPEAKER_07]: against it out of their hand and the witch, she bends the light around it.
[SPEAKER_07]: She bends and warps your own spell and sort of captures it in this moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: And in our real world, it paints in three-dimensional oil painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it is locked between you and her in the middle of the air.
[SPEAKER_04]: We could not do this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would be preferable.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm having a real shit day, and I really just want to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have to, what do you mean you have to, I have to.
[SPEAKER_04]: What you don't, I have to.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why, the people of Rosalbeach deserve better.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then what?
[SPEAKER_07]: And she lunges forward.
[SPEAKER_07]: She actually lets go with the spell, but once snaps to your hand, grabs a palette knife from her toolkit and she sort of like pins you to the ground as you are now the one who is stopping her from her goal.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she has put this palette knife
[SPEAKER_07]: You have the wand in your hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is incredible.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is like on the level of your mentor.
[SPEAKER_07]: This power that she's been wielding is far beyond the heavens.
[SPEAKER_04]: The throat.
[SPEAKER_04]: been there done that.
[SPEAKER_04]: So by me dinner first next time and I'm going to take her paint brush wand and I think I'm going to channel through it and use that to just send the knife into the paint world.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, roll magic for this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm augmenting the water from all the paints onto the brush
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna use Bane on this one.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't lose control in magic, foreign force, so no injury, but mix success again.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you channel your magic through this, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It is so powerful.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't lose control of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It almost is like, it chains off of itself.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the spell is reflected in extraordinary power.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you push up off of the knife, it, and,
[SPEAKER_07]: every year are thrown into the art world, into the painting that she attempted to put Aryan.
[SPEAKER_07]: As a consequence, the paintbrush shatters and almost like passing one and the other it releases everyone from the pictures, shoving only any other.
[SPEAKER_07]: as you have stepped out of the art world, you can feel everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: The world is like blinding for a moment and as it focuses back into reality, you see the shapes and the colors hone back in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my God, you're back.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys have looked better.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't look at me, Aryan looks over to Alex who's still on the ground and like holds out his hands.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna, I need a little more floor time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, that's all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to say that before I met either of you, I never got locked inside of a painting.
[SPEAKER_05]: You sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so sorry that the events about meeting led to this.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's good to see that you're okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like getting hard to breathe in there, but I don't know if that was the painting or me, and it might have been a mix of both.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the fuck?
[SPEAKER_07]: The painting that Ania has been placed in, Alex, and Aryan.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a manifestation of your magic together.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please describe what you have painted.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's watercolor.
[SPEAKER_05]: The amount of water that Orion had like fueled into your brush made the consistency of the paint like watercolor like gouache more like this level isolation to the piece like the broad strokes are that Anita is placed in a intimate yet isolated place with these sort of like
[SPEAKER_05]: right pastel colors.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's it's it's dreamlike in a sense, a ethereal.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think she didn't mean to do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like her intention was not to to throw her in there but just to stop her from doing it by like throwing her implement in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think when it came down to detail, she was just going to put like a little, like just on a table, just like this little like stool was just going to have this brush on it, when she was like painting it in her head.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so now there's just this little stool in this sort of like empty space in the center of this and the shattered pieces of a brush in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you take the painting with you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or do you leave here?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, we can't fucking leave this here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't think so, we have too much unexplained, don't we?
[SPEAKER_05]: And Orion looks too, I know if you've just gone through a difficult experience with the painting, and this is the person that did it, but I would like to know what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're going back in the painting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm taking the painting off the wall and we're carrying it with us and Lou yanks it off of the wall and put it under.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, I feel you're a lesbian.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'll excuse you.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a tie between the both of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll remember that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I have paint all over my body by the way and I would like to take a bath or actually a shower.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, um, y'all head home.
[SPEAKER_04]: I need to check something real quick.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get stuck in a painting.
[SPEAKER_04]: I couldn't say bad enough myself.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm probably good on that front.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex is going back to the coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_04]: You said that everyone who was locked in the paintings was pulled out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to the portrait.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a still, still the subject of the portrait.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is no paint on that canvas.
[SPEAKER_04]: rub her neck and you can actually see now because I think that charblade was at that choker like it's not in the same place and so you can see there is a thin straight scar right across her throat underneath the choker.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Lou, to close us out, I want to know
[SPEAKER_07]: Hum is it presented?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it left in the attic?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it covered?
[SPEAKER_01]: Lou, comes into the beach house and she opens that secret door into their quote unquote war room scenario with all of their investigative stuff and their mysteries they've been in or have taken care of and she put it in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: She shuts the door on it.
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