[SPEAKER_09]: Last time, on Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's one tattoo shop on the island.
[SPEAKER_09]: Everybody there vanished.
[SPEAKER_09]: Who's missing?
[SPEAKER_06]: One of the people who were building up to Leedark oven, the favorite, anaya.
[SPEAKER_06]: She just disappeared one day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I'm going to channel through it and use that to just send the knife into the paint world.
[SPEAKER_06]: It and every year are thrown into the painting.
[SPEAKER_06]: that she attempted to put Aryan in.
[SPEAKER_05]: September, you're running out of time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Imminating from the radiance of the Grim War, your shadow looks up to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: One fluid motion just puts their name in.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm afraid I'm just not good enough to be good.
[SPEAKER_06]: The keeper of the tomes instruct them to form their covenant.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do like can around a sledgehammer, but I don't really like having magic.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is the most cohesive piece that's there.
[SPEAKER_09]: It feels like the people who put it together have a deeper connection and a deeper level of understanding of one another.
[SPEAKER_00]: Part two resist the 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 knows there's no broken thing that she can't feel
[SPEAKER_00]: Magic's that comes from Moss powers the way she lay by me, what's it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ari, on this quest for love, it includes some fishy tricks Oh, I'm a real Two gather, these three will surely have you transparent
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach, the ghosts like to play Monsters hide, but they won't stay Roseville Beach, with the gang that they found We'll turn this town right back around
[SPEAKER_06]: your phynic fox does a little circle around the cave and drints looks at you looks back points it's nose and it's head forward and again lifts its paw up like it's directing you inside and then sits in front of the cave next to it there are three other familiar groups
[SPEAKER_09]: So it looks like maybe other people are already here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Which is fine.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're not behind a nothing we're right on track and I'm not feeling very confident.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can we see anybody else?
[SPEAKER_06]: There's the four familiars, which you can assume are the three other potential coven leaders.
[SPEAKER_06]: And inside, it's dark and also, like, dimly lit.
[SPEAKER_06]: You go far enough in and there starts to be bio-luminous and moss and other things that light the cave.
[SPEAKER_06]: It has a distinctly,
[SPEAKER_06]: magical aura about it, which is heralded by a stone door in the center of the sort of main opening.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a stone archway that is also a solid stone door, so it has like a key stone, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: And on that key stone, there is a magical room inscribed on it, and it kind of goes all the way down from those stones to the bottom.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: More witchiness of foot.
[SPEAKER_04]: This cave is deeply magical, so we might have to keep up with about us even more than before.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I don't know if the joking about like nobody ever leaves, but I definitely don't want to go missing in this cave, you know?
[SPEAKER_09]: I seconded that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stickless.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's hard to be pulled away when you're close to one another.
[SPEAKER_09]: You feel September like wrap their arm in yours.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is on their right side the same eye that is now clouded.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oryen stands steadfast by you and he like taps your forearm and says, trust me, I know what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know the dangers of luring.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just stickless to all three of us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Before you enter into the cave,
[SPEAKER_06]: and approach this archway.
[SPEAKER_06]: Your familiar puts a paw up almost like offering it to you, September.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think she reaches down to take the paw.
[SPEAKER_06]: And when you touch it, your vision
[SPEAKER_06]: begins to move quickly through the cave.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can almost see like the edges of reality glowing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, not not like dark, but glowing radiant and focused in the center.
[SPEAKER_06]: There is like a pin point of an image and then you can see twisting and turning through the cave.
[SPEAKER_06]: You arrive deep within its heart, and there's a prize for you there, the Grimoire.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can reach it and take it, the first witch to do so, will be the Coven's leader.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think the rest of you see them straighten up, and their eyes are wide.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know how we have to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've got it follow me, and she kind of grabs everybody's hands like as many as she can like trying to get everybody to come together, they set out as quickly as they can.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not at all outrun, but definitely like a speed walk.
[SPEAKER_06]: You are stopped almost immediately, as the only way through is behind this stone door, which has no knob it has no hinges, almost as if it's part of the wall, but you know it's a door because of the archway.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what the first choice of action to do in this situation is, but the second choice is to hit it with my hammer.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you should do it, I mean, maybe it respects the authority.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll give it a go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maria looks over to Alex.
[SPEAKER_07]: I summon the hammer.
[SPEAKER_06]: Instead of the hammer, you summon the shield that the four of you have created.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lou.
[SPEAKER_06]: you can do this.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can attempt to knock the door down.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you do this with magic or with your brute strength?
[SPEAKER_07]: With my strength.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's going to be goal, clue, harm.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got a six for goal, a five for injured and a four for clue, so I succeeded in all of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: I hold the shield by the hammer of the sledgehammer that is embedded in the shield.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like kind of off my shoulder, I take a bit of a running leap, not a leap, but a bit of a run, and I slam it with my shoulder, my whole bodyweight behind it, into the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: The first time you do it, it puts a dent.
[SPEAKER_06]: The second time you do it, it puts a crack.
[SPEAKER_06]: The third time you do it, it puts a crack big enough to put your arm through.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the fourth time you do it, the whole thing tumbles to the ground, including the archway, which falls bit by bit, and the final keystone comes crashing to the ground, shatters against the now like rocky, rubble pile that you have created on the floor, and
[SPEAKER_06]: Disperses from it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Congratulations, you have avoided having to sacrifice a word of power each.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think this happened so fast that Aryan's jaw hags low.
[SPEAKER_07]: Listen guys, I don't think we're gonna be stuck in here anymore.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know what, I'm so fucking impressed, wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's just how I do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Haha, there you go, my favorite lesbian smacks you all your shoulder.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little sore.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alex has just been like finishing her cigarette this whole time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like she did not even react.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's just like, yeah, this feels like the right thing to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_06]: As you step over, Ruffle actually can't have to like climb over it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: The cave itself is completely lit by bioliminescent fungus and moss and also those wisps that turned into your familiar.
[SPEAKER_06]: just natural sort of spirits of Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_06]: You walk for maybe 20 minutes through this cave.
[SPEAKER_06]: It is easy to get lost in here.
[SPEAKER_06]: In fact, there are many times that you've sort of wrapped back around right to where you had begun.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's when you hear R.M.
[SPEAKER_06]: Deep, in the cave, in the path you have not tried yet.
[SPEAKER_06]: there's a man calling for help.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's none other than Odysseus.
[SPEAKER_06]: And only you here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I cannot describe to you how odd it feels as siren to be pulled and beckoned by a will other than your own.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the second that voice calls out to her in, there is a pull.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like the tides, and it just starts with a single footstep, and then another, as Aurean looks toward that direction, I don't think he even computes if he's the only one that hears it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's it's too instinctual.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whether knowingly or not, Orion has bound himself to this man, and any clue or instance that he is somewhere calls to him.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think Orion in this moment steps to the side, and he doesn't fully dive into the darkness just yet, but he has definitely stood off the side in comparison to the rest of the movie party.
[SPEAKER_06]: September.
[SPEAKER_06]: We are you.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's so dark.
[SPEAKER_06]: Please, please help me.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've been trapped on here for so long.
[SPEAKER_09]: Vitchie, I think September like immediately starts like, oh my god, I gotta get to them, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: I gotta get to them, they're here, oh my gosh, some mirror might be with them, and then stops, and is like, you've made all these decisions tonight.
[SPEAKER_09]: The chances of this being real are slim, and just kind of holds back with the others.
[SPEAKER_06]: Luke, there's a phone ringing.
[SPEAKER_07]: She looks around at the walls.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's coming down another pathway.
[SPEAKER_07]: This phone isn't supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_07]: This phone is back at the house.
[SPEAKER_07]: What in the world?
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Does anybody else hear that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Something is trying to pull us into this place.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are we going?
[SPEAKER_07]: Alex, you hear nothing.
[SPEAKER_06]: No one calls out to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you do feel like you're avoiding the person called you.
[SPEAKER_06]: and maybe that is why you are not hearing anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can feel her presence here, but you cannot hear her.
[SPEAKER_03]: I look around at the others who are all like very clearly, going through something, I am not.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a sense that of all things, she's not at this cave.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not real, and there's no reason.
[SPEAKER_03]: she'd be here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if she was, this is not how she'd do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: A, like, sees the trap for what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like to try and counter what's being whatever is like snaring my oven, and I would like to do it by cursing it.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is magic.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is scare.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is goal 665.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a full sweep.
[SPEAKER_06]: Immediately you were on the money.
[SPEAKER_06]: You saw this trap for what it was and you are able to dispel sort of the voices of the cave using your connection to the others through the layline infusion.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you haven't been completely untouched.
[SPEAKER_06]: Your tattoos, in the same way September had her changed and poking that curse, our changed as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: The dagger starts to stretch, begins to elongate, and that no longer resembles a blade and hilt.
[SPEAKER_06]: But instead, at the tip of the dagger, there is a small figure, and the blade and hilt,
[SPEAKER_06]: Odysseus still is calling out to you for help.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arian notices the magic take, like he senses it off of Elix.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your magic is something he recognises, and he smiles for a moment with pride, watching his silence, and clearly pulls September and a loot out.
[SPEAKER_04]: But he still hears Odysseus.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, like on instinct.
[SPEAKER_04]: before a reason or a judgment could bring a reincarnation back to all of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see, his eyes turned into golden slits, gills flair on his neck and bits of scales appear on his forearm and he turns and rushes in that direction because this must be true.
[SPEAKER_06]: You rush down this pathway and following the cries of help from Odysseus, you find yourself in the darkness.
[SPEAKER_06]: And there's a flash of light.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let illuminate a shadow or another.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let illuminate a second.
[SPEAKER_06]: Another.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let illuminate one that you've seen recently.
[SPEAKER_06]: Halley.
[SPEAKER_06]: The glow from the mushrooms takes form.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you.
[SPEAKER_06]: are alone in a room with Halley, her three-covered members, Odysseus, and several other men who work the fishing lines.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oriyan takes a look at all of this in front of him.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's the meaning of this?
[SPEAKER_06]: She's looking down as she is weaving magic into the water, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: She's trying to define the location of the Grim War.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she darts her eyes or yellow eyes about you and she says oh yes you've come to help Please join us we've gathered them and once we have the grimoire we can deal with them let them go I'm sorry this is not the way you know it isn't the way
[SPEAKER_06]: Let them go.
[SPEAKER_06]: The way she stands up, she bends her legs upward, still doubled over, and she's sort of unnaturally slithers up into a standing position, as electricity falls off of her.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, you can turn away.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't let you take him, but he will not, to take him.
[SPEAKER_04]: and Orion begins to unconsciously manifest more scales.
[SPEAKER_04]: Odysseus and the other fishermen here, they're not conscious, are they like held here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, in fact, they're bewitched.
[SPEAKER_04]: He will bring doom and death to us all.
[SPEAKER_04]: Release him.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am bound to him that I'm sorry, Siren.
[SPEAKER_06]: You will die too.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a CKVS.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm rising the water in here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm attacking the sea witch.
[SPEAKER_04]: The water begins to rise and I think there's a real threat with the water rising around the sea witch but then coughs of them spin and whirl and attach to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't this, of course, so she can't spell cast.
[SPEAKER_06]: She chuffles at you as her image, her visage becomes dark, stormy water, and she breaks apart, one, two, three, slithering on the ground as a school of yields that have now made their way into the water.
[SPEAKER_06]: and have begun reforming sort of her body.
[SPEAKER_06]: The three Coven members begin to twitch and contort humans, but no longer.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now they're spying elongates one vertebrae at a time as their teeth sharpened and their torso and head foreman to a shark.
[SPEAKER_06]: The other one has spying, come out of their back as they become this spiny creature
[SPEAKER_06]: Fins, the third one, almost like disappears into the darkness, and all you see is a single light as they've taken on the visage of an anchor fish.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arian feels the danger more of his fins begin to emerge from out of his body as he now jumps to the water, and assumes his entire siren form, because he's not going to win this, do well, as a human, and when we finally see Arian's siren form, it is these beautiful almost
[SPEAKER_04]: They are thin and flowy black as the midnight sky, and we see him lightly moving between the Lawrence of this undersea cave, hoping to find an opportunity, baby save this is, but he has to by time.
[SPEAKER_04]: for Alex from September to get to the Grim War before she does.
[SPEAKER_06]: Halle, in her enlarged form, in this sort of nebulous, scene-imph magic that she has used to shift into these yields.
[SPEAKER_06]: She uses a burst of electricity to attack the walls of different cave themselves
[SPEAKER_06]: Separating you from your allies and everything goes dark, the only light Flashes of your attempts to save the fishermen from the sea witch, Hally Aryan is just bolted down a hallway, you saw a flash of lightning and then decayed crumbled behind them I feel like we should be worried but also I
[SPEAKER_09]: We got a fuckin' haul ass!
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, it looks as looking at you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_03]: What is this?
[SPEAKER_09]: What did you do?
[SPEAKER_09]: What did you get that?
[SPEAKER_09]: She sees as your arm.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can feel their fingers like a vice-grip looking at you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Why do you have that?
[SPEAKER_09]: From you.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's not from me, honey.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's from him.
[SPEAKER_03]: From who?
[SPEAKER_09]: You didn't even talk to him?
[SPEAKER_03]: Talk to who?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't like speaking his name, but it's somebody that some... Well, he gets what he wants.
[SPEAKER_09]: Most of the time, I'm doing everything I can to get the fuck out of what I've got going on.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you took this willingly?
[SPEAKER_09]: Took what?
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you add my word of power?
[SPEAKER_09]: You said it didn't you.
[SPEAKER_03]: What was it?
[SPEAKER_03]: What the hell did you make?
[SPEAKER_09]: Nobody would help me.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nobody cared that she was gone.
[SPEAKER_09]: They vanished.
[SPEAKER_09]: So he came to me and he made me a deal.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm supposed to get back to him about that deal.
[SPEAKER_09]: And do in this keeps me from having to go any further with this contract.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you giving up?
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I was given up a little bit to myself.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's why my tattoos look like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a cost.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a very specific cost for something of that size.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you giving up?
[SPEAKER_03]: Peace meal isn't it?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's sacrifice to a couple of memories, but so far it's been small stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know it's gonna get bigger, I know he's gonna ask for something I will be changed forever by, which is why I'm doing everything I can, to make sure that I don't have to do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Which is why I'm trying to stay focused in this moment, and here you are coming to me telling me that you got nosy and curious, and did this to yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's his name?
[SPEAKER_09]: Listen, I call him as a shadows, but that's not his name.
[SPEAKER_09]: His name is something he protects that he keeps hitting that he holds onto like a secret.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is the description of a shadow man that does deals and body magic, something that I would have learned about?
[SPEAKER_06]: You not only learned about it, Alex.
[SPEAKER_06]: You encountered this kind of entity recently with Luis.
[SPEAKER_03]: I look over at Lou on a side note, we might have found a friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't really like the sound of any of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not one to put things off, so if you like cracks or neck, both ways really quickly.
[SPEAKER_03]: If this goes sideways, run for the Grim War.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we should just, okay, A-Looks, whatever you're about to do, I think we should actually do that after everyone for the Grim War.
[SPEAKER_07]: I agree, can we please go?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is holding you and me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want it getting the grimoire.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm really fast.
[SPEAKER_07]: I could go get it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then it wouldn't be touching you or September.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just ready the hammer, okay?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, hi, hi.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I am going to call this out from my tattoo.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I haven't made a deal, it doesn't necessarily hold any power over me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It holds no power over you, that is correct.
[SPEAKER_03]: I at the very least want to expel it by calling it, like bleeding it from a wound.
[SPEAKER_06]: magic goal injury scares.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to be nice and give you clue as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have a five that I'm going to put into magic.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to use one of my sixes for goal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to use a five for injured.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will use this five for scared and I will use the six for clues.
[SPEAKER_06]: In order to
[SPEAKER_06]: rid yourself of Mr. Shadows influence.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have to drain it like it is a poison from your body.
[SPEAKER_06]: Luckily, the poison did not take into your bloodstream.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was just merely on you.
[SPEAKER_06]: September is now so lucky.
[SPEAKER_06]: The poison is already there.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you, Alex, you can tell through
[SPEAKER_06]: Expelling this and through this magical insight that September might not have made a full deal with Mr.
[SPEAKER_06]: Shadow, but they are still under the influence of if they had.
[SPEAKER_06]: Not fully gone yet though.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is my tattoo back to normal.
[SPEAKER_06]: The ink has like blood out of your skin, like a poison.
[SPEAKER_06]: And when it falls onto the ground, it turns into a shadow on the floor.
[SPEAKER_09]: How does you do that?
[SPEAKER_03]: I... do I told you to fuck off?
[SPEAKER_09]: I can just down to fuck off?
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't always, and she like reaches up and scratches that are choker, they don't always like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: September looks around.
[SPEAKER_09]: Are there any like cracks or crevices or like little alcoves in here?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, absolutely, everywhere.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think she goes over to one and presses her arm that has the very first tattoo that was corrupted.
[SPEAKER_09]: with the scepter and the sash.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think she presses it against.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe I can, maybe I could travel many years.
[SPEAKER_09]: They say you're not supposed to get out of here, like forever, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: They say that you're supposed to be trapped in here and I know we like blasted up the door and everything, but I mean, this place is magical.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can still feel it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm gonna try and get him out, okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Where's comes to worst if I don't get out of this?
[SPEAKER_09]: We save them for me, please.
[SPEAKER_09]: We see it through.
[SPEAKER_09]: You could still take my place.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not gonna lose you either.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, but if you do, will you take my place?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't want to go out like that, you know?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not fair.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll bring Samara back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, my word.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: She closes her eyes and they focus.
[SPEAKER_09]: Their other hand, the clasps, the tattoo that was corrupted in the tattoo shop last time.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she thinks about him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mr. Shadows, I know that we, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: You offered me quite a deal.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a try and get my beloved back, but, well, you know, I think it's time I kind of face the facts that I, I need to handle stuff on my own a little bit, I, uh, I think it's time for you to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't, I'm not going to need your services anymore.
[SPEAKER_05]: Subtemper, Subtemper, I don't need you.
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't!
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I'm willing to leave.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_05]: That you do need me.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_09]: I really thought I did.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not ungrateful for what you've done so far, but... You would.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'd leave this spellbock.
[SPEAKER_06]: You become the leader of a little covered, and then what?
[SPEAKER_06]: How do you save Samira?
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you do it?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: I do everything I can.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe I can't.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: You did try that before, didn't you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well...
[SPEAKER_05]: Um... All I have done is offer you the chance to try, again.
[SPEAKER_05]: You, you have?
[SPEAKER_05]: And I've been so kind, gifting you my power, without even making a true deal with you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've given you a taste of my magic.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been generous.
[SPEAKER_09]: You have, you've been a, a perfect gentleman, honestly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I don't mean to thumb my nose up at what you serve in me.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just, um... You just are.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I understand.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: September, if I walk away today, Samira, will be lost.
[SPEAKER_09]: Are you saying you have it?
[SPEAKER_09]: It doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think she'd want me to do this.
[SPEAKER_09]: She only really wants me to rely on people who work, who really care about me and no offense, Mr.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I don't think you really care about me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that is a shame that I'll find others to help me.
[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, there's one close by now.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll see you soon, September.
[SPEAKER_06]: You still have the curse.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a gift that they gave you.
[SPEAKER_06]: you can choose to expel it by sacrificing something else.
[SPEAKER_09]: She looks at a tattoo that is on her upper thigh.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is a portrait of a cat that she had when she was younger and Samira gave it to her.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was the tattoo that she was having done when she fell in love with them.
[SPEAKER_09]: They look at it for a long time and they touch it.
[SPEAKER_09]: and they think about her.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think I'm ready.
[SPEAKER_09]: One last time.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they say the word curse and touch that tattoo to do it over.
[SPEAKER_06]: In the same way, in which Alex expelled their poison from their body, this spell that you have enacted collects all of the ink from this shadowy creature, and it proves, and it corrupts and distorts this true image of love and passion and desire.
[SPEAKER_06]: and it bubbles with an intense heat, up into your skin out of it through the pores, dripping onto the floor, at first with an overwhelming day illusion, then just a trickle, dispelling into the shadows of the cave, and with it, your memories of Samira have gone.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, there's something we supposed to be doing.
[SPEAKER_09]: We gotta go get that fucking book!
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god!
[SPEAKER_09]: The Coven, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's what we're here for.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're good though, like you're feeling okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I feel like there's a reason that we need this book.
[SPEAKER_09]: To make you the Coven later.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, but like, I'm doing it for the Roseville Beach, but I'm sure it'll come to you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have I talked to you guys about what I was trying to do with it?
[SPEAKER_09]: Like, I look at A-licks.
[SPEAKER_03]: A-licks gives blue just like the slightest shake of her head.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I'm super fast.
[SPEAKER_07]: So...
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, I know the way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Are they be down there?
[SPEAKER_09]: He totally pointed into my brain earlier and like showed me what it goes.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, let's just go, let's go, let's please, let's be quick because, you know, if that Bradley gets there first, like that's the last thing anybody
[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Am I right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's the last thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna leave a mark so that every end can follow us.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be right there.
[SPEAKER_03]: As they start going down, Alex is gonna like, scratch down at the floor where there's like any remnants of that ink that's on the ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she just whispers to it, you're gonna give it back.
[SPEAKER_03]: and then she like etches a little arrow on the wall and follows after.
[SPEAKER_06]: September your mind is now clear you can think so so clearly it's like crisp crystal and you were getting lost so easily before but it seems so silly now like you knew the way the whole time just I don't know I guess you just got lost in in the cave
[SPEAKER_06]: something about the way that everything looked the same, you have a clearer head and you remember the thing, the reason, the lay line is going to explode.
[SPEAKER_06]: You need to get the grimoire because of the lay line to save for his will beach.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you lead Alex and Lou to the very heart of the cave.
[SPEAKER_06]: Takes another...
[SPEAKER_06]: half-hour, just as you arrive, down another path, and a third, are, may, and breath.
[SPEAKER_06]: All three of you, enter, equip distance from the Grim War.
[SPEAKER_06]: It has to be you that touches the Grim War September, only you can interact with it, every other witch will be expelled from it.
[SPEAKER_09]: September positions themselves in between the other two witches, and hold out their hands palms facing in either direction, and brings their arms down and says, push.
[SPEAKER_06]: Real magic and harm and goal.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got one six, one five, do four's count.
[SPEAKER_06]: A six of five and a four will be a success across the board.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bradley collapses to the floor and you hear a crack on the stone floor as his head hits it.
[SPEAKER_06]: The eye that hit the floor like blood vessels have clearly popped in it.
[SPEAKER_06]: The other one, Mei, she falls down for a second when she bounces right back up and she starts to grow younger and she's going to use the magic against you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mei has some of her covenant with her.
[SPEAKER_06]: Two of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: One, you see behind her collapsed dead on the ground glowing green.
[SPEAKER_06]: May reaches out to another member of her oven, again, bewitched.
[SPEAKER_06]: and drains the life out of him, absorbing the radioactive energy in his body, and attempts to blast it out at use of timber, but she misses, and it goes straight into the side of the wall, and it has left this dissolved bubbling sulfuric rock stone.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I got two, three, is it a two?
[SPEAKER_06]: You can roll a trouble dive if you want to.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna, I'm gonna get injured, so I'm gonna put a two in injured.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna put a three in trouble, a three in clue in a four in goal.
[SPEAKER_07]: I get down, I'm gonna go, I am trying to help you.
[SPEAKER_06]: pulls onto your tank top and uses you to pull himself up.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you're like bearing the resistance of that weight and he comes eyed eyed.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you can see his eyes are glazed over.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have to find her and he is going to put this other hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Reach out to you and there's almost like this.
[SPEAKER_06]: burst, this building of energy on his hand, this kinetic energy, as he launches you across the room into like a column, and the column breaks, it shatters, explodes behind you.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're gonna do a big injury though.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're gonna do a big injury.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think we're gonna do broken leg.
[SPEAKER_06]: September, Alex, he has made a deal.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bradley's made a deal with Mr.
[SPEAKER_06]: Shadow, and he is up and going to the groomer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am going to essentially like join him through the air, so there is going to be just like offending and stretching of light and then it's like he is rubber bat like he's got a fucking bungee cord on his back and just like it snaps and he flies back into the wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: You yoink Bradley and he doesn't just like do yoink back, he actually gets yoinked up.
[SPEAKER_06]: and you sort of launch him into the ceiling as he drags down the wall and he lands on his feet as sort of collapses to his knees kneeling and he looks back up at you breathing heavily.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just launched myself at the book that the Grimoire is not far.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can get there now, but it has to accept you.
[SPEAKER_06]: midway through the other two witches will get an opportunity to attempt to bind with it as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: It takes just a little too long, just a little bit too much to work the magic quickly in this desperate situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bradley collapses from his injuries, spent and it goes unconscious.
[SPEAKER_06]: a very different way of using her cup in the way you can use yours.
[SPEAKER_06]: She sees them as resources as things to use instead of people to support you.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she feeds off of this dangerous moment similar to the way that the Sallamander did, which she had in her shop.
[SPEAKER_06]: She uses it to get up close to the more reaches out with her hand and locks in a battle of magic with you.
[SPEAKER_09]: September looks at her and looks at the dead around her.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are essentially radioactive courses.
[SPEAKER_09]: She looks at them and she just stops with the grimoire of kind of floating between them.
[SPEAKER_09]: You still trying to get this?
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I...
[SPEAKER_05]: I wouldn't need it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I left a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_05]: I found...
[SPEAKER_05]: I...
[SPEAKER_05]: I found the answer to everything, but someone took it out of my shop.
[SPEAKER_05]: Damn, Gabriella.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I need this now, to stay alive.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've lived longer than any other witch I've seen.
[SPEAKER_06]: Coven's come and go.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can protect this Coven.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why not me?
[SPEAKER_06]: Why you?
[SPEAKER_06]: Half witch.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because you don't even have a Coven anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: Half experienced, making packs with beings you barely understand.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't have any packs.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know what you mean or what you're talking about, but I can't say this.
[SPEAKER_09]: My cover is still here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yours is a bunch of husks on the ground.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're not doing that to the rest of our people.
[SPEAKER_09]: They deserve better than you.
[SPEAKER_09]: And maybe I'm not as good as you, you're right, but I never do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she goes to try and reach for the Grimmar one more time.
[SPEAKER_03]: While they're tussling over that and having this sparring, I am running over to Bradley.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm looking first thing, do I see an obvious tattoo?
[SPEAKER_05]: Not a tattoo.
[SPEAKER_06]: The only thing that is similar to the other victims is the glazed eyes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that sort of spark in their eye?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if this works or not, but I grab it his shadow.
[SPEAKER_03]: I told you you were going to give it back.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I want to call the memory back to September of Samira, so she remembers what she's fighting for.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will allow it, it will only cause her pain, and it will be your fault.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pain is the life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Get over yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bradley is not freed from whatever deal they made with the entity, but you see the shadows sort of stretch and animate from them to September's shadow and they drop a single little glimmer into it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the memory that was restored is the fear of her being
[SPEAKER_06]: and you're love for her.
[SPEAKER_06]: But nothing else.
[SPEAKER_06]: You will have to build a new life with her.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think the second that September gets it, their eyes closed for just a second.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not a word of power, but it's a powerful word.
[SPEAKER_09]: Love.
[SPEAKER_09]: September, you've learned a new word of power.
[SPEAKER_09]: Word of power, love!
[SPEAKER_09]: It's September sees the gromar floating and reaches out their hands.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come here.
[SPEAKER_09]: You deserve to be with someone who's gonna believe in you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just as much as you believe in them, it's my power, it's your power, it's our power, come to me and just holds out her hands and may attempt one final time to try to pull it to her and if she can't have it, then nobody can.
[SPEAKER_06]: and she attempts to blast it with radiation as she is spent all of her energy as she crumbles into ash glowing in the cave, never to leave, and the book and gently flies to your hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: with the power to fix the lay-line, but before you can celebrate, there is a spike of energy in your mind, as you're still infused with the lay-line, and it's the last covenant.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: You've seen me at some meetings I got tattooed, some...
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I remember you, I remember you.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a timber.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm glad I found you, but I'm afraid that our covenant may be no more.
[SPEAKER_09]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: I was tracking the laylines of Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_06]: When I came across one that was unsteady.
[SPEAKER_06]: It is your responsibility to fix it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the best way to do it is to return the energy to the layline.
[SPEAKER_06]: It is a living piece of the layline of Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Can I ask you something?
[SPEAKER_06]: And it tunes in again.
[SPEAKER_06]: September says Samira.
[SPEAKER_09]: Baby!
[SPEAKER_06]: Back to the company, sir.
[SPEAKER_06]: September, you have to focus.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have to throw the Grim War into the layline.
[SPEAKER_09]: Will you come back?
[SPEAKER_09]: Will they... September?
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: Our time is spent.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can save the people of her so much.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: She looks at the other two with wild eyes.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is an impossible amount of dread behind them.
[SPEAKER_09]: We gotta get to the lay line.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's...
[SPEAKER_07]: It's on steady and it's gonna take everybody out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we have to bring Smeer back first.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think she's... Oh.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think she's coming back.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not if we want to save everybody, so, let's just go, okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Before I change my mind, please, let's go.
[SPEAKER_09]: There has to be something for our cook to come back to, you know?
[SPEAKER_09]: And right now it looks like she becomes back to nothing what she doesn't come back at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I guess we go save almost everybody.
[SPEAKER_08]: She just like squeezes your hand as tears run down her face and starts to sprint towards the exit.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you for watching.
[SPEAKER_06]: The camera shifts up through the stone of Rosalbeach to the tattoo parlour, and September you are standing inside.
[SPEAKER_06]: There is the layline underneath your feet, and this is the beating heart of magic on Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't have to end this way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Subtember looks at the two of you.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's really meant to lot to me again, to know you.
[SPEAKER_09]: This has been a really special and really important.
[SPEAKER_09]: Alex, I know you don't want to be a coven leader and there might not be a coven after this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Since the book is gonna be gone, you've never needed a book to wield your power that's inspiring and amazing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe you help other people who need it, the guidance that they are looking for.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's really all a covenant is, right, is community.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, you're really good at creating community.
[SPEAKER_09]: Lou.
[SPEAKER_09]: you and a Vrion, you guys are amazing, you're second to none and it's been wonderful to meet you.
[SPEAKER_09]: If I don't make it out of this, do everything you can to just keep supporting A-licks, support them, and stay in community with them, you are always going to be my coffin, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Takes a bit of a sicker right out and puts it up to her mouth and makes sure she like holds it.
[SPEAKER_03]: She leans over to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think this time, September snaps her fingers and fire appears.
[SPEAKER_08]: And she lights her cigarette like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: God, this is cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, listen, before you try this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_07]: If you get sucked in there, I'm gonna figure out a way to come in after you, okay?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, please don't say that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, not immediately, because I don't want to get stuck in there, but one day, you'll find a way, all right?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll find a way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Samir is gonna like you when she meets you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wanna meet her.
[SPEAKER_03]: See you soon.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think September sits in the circle, the focal point of where all the rooms are and opens up the book.
[SPEAKER_09]: And after flipping through a couple of pages, shakes her head, shrugs and closes it again.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she just kind of speaks out loud.
[SPEAKER_09]: She closes her eyes.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they hold the grim more out in front of them like an offering.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't need magic.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just really need her.
[SPEAKER_09]: Take this book, take my magic, and just bring her back, okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: You need that extra power, and you're holding on to her, and you're holding on to her crew, and I can't save them, but maybe I can save her, so I don't need to keep this magic.
[SPEAKER_09]: I willingly give of my magic to you, if you just give it back to me, please.
[SPEAKER_08]: and she throws it into the exposed light.
[SPEAKER_06]: The magic of Rosalbeach, the living magic of Rosalbeach, it hurts your plea, and you are perhaps the most worthy coven leader, the silent has seen.
[SPEAKER_06]: He will offer you one more use of magic, invoking your love for Samira and sacrificing everything to bring her back.
[SPEAKER_06]: you toss the grimoire into the lay line, which has the floorboards peeling up in a way where they are bent and curled unnaturally, warped around the arcane energy of our swel beach.
[SPEAKER_06]: The grimoire doesn't burn, it doesn't thud, it returns home to the magic, and a
[SPEAKER_06]: and invites you home as well and we see you kind of begin to radiate and glitter and it's not so much that you disappear, but like you're a wave returning to the ocean and in your stead the next way of that crashes is Samira, Roseville Beach is now covenless.
[SPEAKER_06]: the witches here are less protected than they were before.
[SPEAKER_06]: Their magic, difficult, if not impossible to access, for those who were in the Coven, but all of them, including those here, gain a word of power, love.
[SPEAKER_07]: This series stars Alexander Christopher as the Game Master, valiant Dorian as Aryan, Dan Pixel as A-Lix Cho, and Kenzie Tartaglioni as Lou Wells.
[SPEAKER_07]: This episode's guest star was Candace McAfee as September Brown.
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