[SPEAKER_02]: Last time, on Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you are alone in a room with Halley, her three-coven members, Odysseus, and several other men who work the fishing lines.
[SPEAKER_04]: I come let you take him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will not.
[SPEAKER_01]: To you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take him.
[SPEAKER_01]: She looks at a tattoo that is on her upper thigh.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the tattoo that she was having done when she fell in love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm ready.
[SPEAKER_01]: One last time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they say the word curse.
[SPEAKER_04]: and with it, your memories of Samira gone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why not me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why you have which?
[SPEAKER_00]: My oven is still here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yours is a bunch of husks on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not doing that to the rest of our people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pain is life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really meant a lot to me again to know you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys are amazing, you're second to none.
[SPEAKER_00]: Always gonna be my oven, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I willingly give of my magic to you, if he just give a back to me, please.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are a wave returning to the ocean, and in your stead, the next wave that crashes is Samira.
[SPEAKER_04]: Roseville Beach is now covering this, but all of them, including those here, gain a word of power, love.
[SPEAKER_08]: This dearious, let's shine along the ocean, babe.
[SPEAKER_08]: Part two is its thrills upon the summer haze.
[SPEAKER_08]: Together on the beach, we'll turn the night to day.
[SPEAKER_08]: Adventurers on the beach, so come along and play.
[SPEAKER_08]: 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_08]: Magic that comes from lost powers the way she lay I may wish Ari, on this quest for loving, good, some fishy tricks Oh, I'm a real Two gather, these three will surely have you transfigured
[SPEAKER_08]: 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_04]: Arion, you have just seen Halle use magic, which is tainted with stories, legends that you know to be the sea, which is some good, some terrifying, this extraordinary shifting into the form, which she truly is her scenic body, and you diving in after her.
[SPEAKER_04]: We flash forward as we see lightning struck the wall, strike again.
[SPEAKER_04]: The whole time, all we can see are silhouettes of you and Halley fighting each other, trying to protect Odysseus and the other sailors against Halley's wrath.
[SPEAKER_04]: devastating happened to the island of Earth's beach, and she had to retreat.
[SPEAKER_04]: But not before she got one final blast, it strikes you directly.
[SPEAKER_05]: The lightning not only strikes a rean, but it seers him.
[SPEAKER_05]: It catches fire on his shoulder and his shoulder scales, and the fin that is directly behind his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as it lands us through, it sparks off and starts to sing his thin and unearthly wail.
[SPEAKER_05]: Echoes throughout the sea cave as a real tumble into a water grabbing at the burning scales and thin on his back.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you go to grab your thin, your
[SPEAKER_04]: Dependent that you always wear rises in the water.
[SPEAKER_04]: It flows right into your line of view.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you see that Halley struck through it, cracked, and you wake up.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're not sure how much longer it's been, or if it was just a dream.
[SPEAKER_04]: But you are in a place strange.
[SPEAKER_04]: All around you, it says if,
[SPEAKER_04]: You're underwater, but you're not.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fish swim in mid-air.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kelp flows as if there is a tide, a current stream, but there isn't.
[SPEAKER_04]: In front of you, actually, all around you are iron bars, ones that would be used to shackle a beast.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can hear almost
[SPEAKER_04]: marching, but heavy footsteps as a shadow sort of steps into the light which is shining into this area and is one of Halle's creatures, one of her witches she has transformed into a half animal monstrosity.
[SPEAKER_04]: They look into the cells and give a little gruff as they march on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Across from you are several
[SPEAKER_04]: other people, sailors, into the right of you is Odysseus, unconscious in his cell, close enough for you to reach.
[SPEAKER_05]: A Rien's fear will do to his mind from when watching this moment of intrapment and imprisonment.
[SPEAKER_05]: But the second his eyes fall on Odysseus, it's like all that is through way washed away to the tide.
[SPEAKER_05]: He it means forward like absent mindly hand through bar to take a better look at
[SPEAKER_05]: Odysseus, it was Odysseus injured.
[SPEAKER_05]: I barely remember what happened.
[SPEAKER_04]: You reach your arm out to go through the bar and the first thing you notice is that your arm is scaled.
[SPEAKER_04]: When you look at the rest of your body, it says if you're half siren half human and it's growing, you are returning to your siren form.
[SPEAKER_04]: was in fact compromised.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there a surface that I can touch to see what my hand would look like above the surface?
[SPEAKER_05]: Why am I just in case of water?
[SPEAKER_04]: There is no water.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's as if there was water, but you are not in water.
[SPEAKER_04]: Somehow this place can host both sea life and land life,
[SPEAKER_05]: He like grabs onto this necklace and's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_05]: and Odysseus is not long for this world of heat from the ants here too.
[SPEAKER_04]: With your gaze shifting back to Odysseus, you see that he is also suffered a similar injury to your own.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your injury is a scar on your right shoulder and his across his neck to his back.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you look at all the other soldiers.
[SPEAKER_04]: They have all been injured by Halley.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a see-thing anger that burns within Orian.
[SPEAKER_05]: and it's not like he can falter whatever was taken from her that grief that pain he understands and as he kind of like reaches out to Odysseus who is are they is he asleep are they all asleep these sailors most of them know Odysseus is unconscious
[SPEAKER_05]: I will sing to him some small comfort that he can rest a small boon that I can give him.
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually, that is something I can give him.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would like to use my magic here to help with his wounds.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can roll?
[SPEAKER_04]: but you cannot add sorcery or any words of power.
[SPEAKER_04]: You cannot roll anything beneficial from the magic list.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have to roll it as it was a skill, but assign something to magic.
[SPEAKER_04]: Goal, injury, scared, clue, and magic.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I will trouble die.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wanna succeed my goal.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I'll put the six there, five in the magic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Four is going to injury.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna put the two and scared in the four in trouble.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you begin to sing, the bars around you begin to warm, begin to get hot.
[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, the more you sing, the hotter they get.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your voice is beautiful, Arion, but not least with any magic.
[SPEAKER_04]: Odysseus injured, separated from you, and you are unable to help.
[SPEAKER_04]: And not only that, this metal around you, you've encountered this before.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whatever is happening with the bars here is what was happening with the net when you were caught.
[SPEAKER_04]: Unable to get out.
[SPEAKER_04]: What it is, you're not sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: But there's a fear that it's something otherworldly, something from the gods.
[SPEAKER_04]: Odysseus begins to breathe his chest raises, his eyes open, back to the beach house.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex and Lou, we cut to see you in Aryan's room.
[SPEAKER_04]: Taring through everything to see if you could maybe find a clue as to where they have gone, or maybe a way to find them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe you're intending to cast a spell and track them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whatever it is, you have been rooting through Aryan's stuff and...
[SPEAKER_05]: The only thing helpful you have found are brand new disco wear as one, just a messy collection of seashells from the beach and lots of candy wrappers.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is like a lot of like sweet, like sweet little dessert treat packets that are in here.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you're tearing through your turn and up every loose stone and you flip over a drawer and outfalls, a little piece of paper, one that you got all
[SPEAKER_04]: Something that may come in handy later.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that is when you hear a knock on the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then another knock.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then suddenly lightening and rains starts to crash onto the beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get it, I'll get it, I'll get it, I'll get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, I'm coming, you don't need to do this, I'm coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've runs down the stairs and rips open the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see a man standing in the rain who has just pulled out an umbrella.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the umbrella has like a hole in it, and there's water coming through one side.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's trying to keep himself as dry as he can.
[SPEAKER_04]: This man looks very different from anyone on Rosalbe, Chalube.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know exactly who this is.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is the bank teller at the sandbag.
[SPEAKER_04]: They wear a pressed suit, now wet, with a tie, now soggy, and a little hat, a little black photographer that they've taken off, and they've begun to ring out the felt.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yes, uh, am I at the correct residence?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is this the home of, um, one, Aryan?
[SPEAKER_04]: In theory?
[SPEAKER_04]: In theory.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, is that, uh, yes or no?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's his home, he is not here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh well, that's...
[SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately, uh, can I leave a message with you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you, do you know where he is?
[SPEAKER_04]: I, I do not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but I, uh, can I leave a message with you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is your name?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't go to the bank very often.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, perhaps we can open an account for you, or I don't think that would really be necessary, and it gives like the driest pitch about why banks are very good to keep your money in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm supposed to be acquiring a message to pass on to Orion, but now I'm being told I should open a bank account.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really think that I should open a bank account, but...
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: Perhaps I got a little off track.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you live at this residence?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, this is my home.
[SPEAKER_04]: So then I suppose it concerns you as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: You should probably contact the bank right away.
[SPEAKER_04]: A Mr. War who owns the bank has sent me to collect our property taxes and a loan payment on this property.
[SPEAKER_04]: It has not been paid for several months and Ariane would be our point of contact.
[SPEAKER_04]: He pulls out some papers.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're willing to repossess the beach house as soon as next week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the hold your horse.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hold your horses.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really necessarily understand since I don't own the property and I just rent the property.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why you're coming to me?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, as they like put their hand on your shoulder and begin to walk you.
[SPEAKER_04]: They've like turned their umbrella so that the rain's on them and not on you towards the bank and they're like, well, that's why we can just set you up with a bank account.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
[SPEAKER_03]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you think you're doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just looking for a Mr. Aryan so that we can settle some accounts and you see like he's wet but he's beginning to sweat.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's very important they find Aryan.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: What are you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sort of stops and he thinks about his answer for a moment as he looks at you and there's another crash of sort of thunder and it just starts pouring heavier and heavier.
[SPEAKER_04]: He looks at that the sky and says,
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, well, I suppose, as he just starts muttering to himself and he says, yeah, you, please, you can also open a big account as they like stretch their hand out to you and grab your hand, now no one holding the umbrella.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, this person is clearly touched by magic, Alex, but it's really weird.
[SPEAKER_04]: They are a human with the same arcane signatures as a familiar.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is the umbrella falling or is it staying or dropped the umbrella along the floor this it was kind of useless Anyways, I think there's a hole in it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can fix that or just get you a new umbrella if you need one You don't we'll hire you, Lou, please come fix it at the sand bank immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just I don't know I don't like going to a second location.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't get your name
[SPEAKER_04]: My name is Tim.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello, I am the banker for the send bank here on Brazil Beach and you like Shakes lose hand, which he's already holding and shakes your hand, which he's already holding.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's very important that we go meet Mr. War at the bank immediately.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, um, we give us a second.
[SPEAKER_04]: And let's go.
[SPEAKER_04]: He takes his umbrella and he undoes his umbrella and he puts it up above him and he steps one step back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will lean, lean over to the loo.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not getting anywhere, tearing through our ends room.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they're clearly fucked, but it's...
[SPEAKER_03]: It's something.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's given off some really weird undertones, which is, I guess, lately, the norm, and they were looking for R.M.
[SPEAKER_02]: too, so maybe we'll find something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I guess we should figure out if we're going to lose the house, because I do need somewhere to flip.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm clear if that's true, or if it's a pretense, I do, I do think they're there, they're there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, this probably has something to do with R.M.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why I need her in specifically for that, unless...
[SPEAKER_02]: I've lived here longer than the both of you, so technically it should be me as first contact, which makes me feel like it's not about the house.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we play along for now, whatever's going on with them is like, very weird, but I do think they're human and between the two of us I think we could take them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like those odds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Tim, lead the way.
[SPEAKER_04]: fantastic as there's another crackle of lightning where the rain starts getting heavier and heavier stepping outside you can see that the waves are crashing against sort of this beach like they would against a rocky shore almost your beach house is fine for now but this is a storm unlike any other that you've seen will Alex since you've lived here he gives you a very dry explanation of the founding of the sandbank and how it's
[SPEAKER_04]: Basically, he's trying to pitch you on opening an account again for a third time, but with a new tactic, this time about community and why it's important for the community.
[SPEAKER_04]: What sort of community events that they sponsor and host?
[SPEAKER_04]: By the time they get to the Sandbank, there is a line that stretches 1, 2, 5, 7 blocks across.
[SPEAKER_04]: And these are from residents, these are from guests, these are people who would probably not be on the island of you more, they would probably be off island if it wasn't for this storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: He goes, he takes his little key out, he opens up the door, he lets him to end, and then he takes his sign to open, and the doors burst open as people start flooding into the sandbank with claims of insurance basically, as their properties, their boats have been damaged and destroyed by this storm.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lou is absolutely drenched on the way over.
[SPEAKER_02]: She tried to put her flannel up over her head, but that didn't nothing.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's just a soaked rat.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you'll allow me a second cantrip, it's just going to slowly start drying us out.
[SPEAKER_03]: In conspicuously drying us out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's going to take a moment to do it without being sort of like noticed by anybody, and during that time, Tim has been processing complaints, processing claims, and in bursts of familiar voice.
[SPEAKER_04]: None other than Bobby Johnson, local cryptid hunter, and the only person that you
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen to hear you little piece of shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Easy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: She goes silent and crosses her arms over her chest and just stands there and looks at him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to keep doing what I was doing, which is what?
[SPEAKER_04]: he snapshots in his bag of a bunch of boats.
[SPEAKER_04]: A lot of boats which go to and from the mainland and Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: And one of them is sort of like highlighted more than others.
[SPEAKER_04]: This one is particularly of interest.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can see that there's like in red ink that's like this one circled.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just figured a lot of folks are abandoning their boats and stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm just gonna pick one up while it's cheap.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know a lot of the follow-up folks haven't been scared from this storm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: That pertains, don't you?
[SPEAKER_04]: What, what?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll all claim it.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna, uh, uh, uh, uh, a bank for God's sake.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what to tell you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm, I'm, I'm getting what I, I came to get.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you'll excuse me, thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would just let him go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, how about him?
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing else.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would like maybe he could help us, you know, when you work with you, what's the saying?
[SPEAKER_02]: When you work with an enemy for, for help, and there's still your enemy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what if there's a saying for that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do, I'm just the thought of working with that scrungly little shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you see Tim, just kind of like pure over you and point again towards the employees' only section.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fuck, and I guess we've got something better to do at the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we'll think it over, I think it over.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Tim, okay, we're coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here, just we've got to get you, like a rain jacket or something, and she just goes back to like trying you out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sitting back into the influence of the section is honestly underwhelming it's a small little office and there are boxes stacked on top of boxes it looks like people haven't really unpacked in here but you distinctly notice that the bookcase is like a jar in a way that's unusual.
[SPEAKER_04]: And right on on the desk it has like a little plaque that says Mr. War, can we just have one room that doesn't have secrets she's going right to the weird book case and the moment you place your hands on it Alex it slides open to reveal an aquarium inside of the walls of the bank a little tentacle greets you and waves and
[SPEAKER_04]: a few more join, and it starts to form letters on the glass, and it says, greetings, I'm glad you got my invitation.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am Mr. War, but you can call me Manny.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're renting the house from a squid.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, a squid is a eater, I suppose you could use it would be an incorrect term, more appropriately, and it
[SPEAKER_04]: eldritch thing which you cannot pronounce.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't like this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Can I get out of the lease?
[SPEAKER_04]: It contorts it away which communicates laughter, but it the experience of it is like fear.
[SPEAKER_04]: You cannot understand the intentions of this creature by its own means, and it wipes off the glass, and it starts to sort of like print its words again,
[SPEAKER_04]: deceiving you in your your loaning situation.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking for my good friend, Arion, and my familiar said that you should be able to help me find him.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is so interesting, Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't it usually the opposite way?
[SPEAKER_03]: Usually you are, what, Atlantian?
[SPEAKER_03]: Deep sea?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you didn't come from here here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I came from
[SPEAKER_03]: Another eldritch thing you can't understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: I got a headache from that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cards on the table here, if your friends with Arian does that mean you know what he is?
[SPEAKER_03]: A good person?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: A helpful friend?
[SPEAKER_04]: I see.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I know they are a siren.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ah, you're fucking with me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I also know that you are a witch and that you are helpful.
[SPEAKER_02]: That felt a little derogatory, but I'm going to ignore it and take it as a compliment because I am helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry, I think we've gotten off track.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking for Arion because something is wrong with the seas.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do not know what it is, but all day long, it has been growing worse and worse and we've had
[SPEAKER_04]: I even saw one ship, not too far off the coast, crash in the middle of the ocean, against nothing, but the waves.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interestingly enough, Mr. War, we are also looking for Orion that is unfortunate.
[SPEAKER_03]: He disappeared day or two ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was running after some swampy hag.
[SPEAKER_03]: A swampy hag.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could you describe this swampy hag?
[SPEAKER_03]: Not very well.
[SPEAKER_03]: She had the same kind of, I mean, you know what's the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: She had the same general kind of glamour.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how many others are around.
[SPEAKER_03]: The bank owner is a kind of war.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they were glamoured.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if that's helpful anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: They could look like any one at this point.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, unfortunately, my familiar is busy with employment today.
[SPEAKER_04]: However, perhaps you could aid me in a way that Aryan would usually
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yes, I could have you perform business errands for me and out from the ceiling a floor board opens up and there's like water It starts to spew out and a little tentacle delivers upon you a little box and it places it on the desk and it goes back up And it puts the floor board back.
[SPEAKER_04]: I guess the ceiling board is stealing board back into its spot
[SPEAKER_02]: Normally, Mr. War, I would be all over this, and I would love to help you out with some tasks around town.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, though, we are again, as I said, really needing to find
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a handful of arching devices, things which are not bank operation business-related artifacts.
[SPEAKER_04]: These are very clearly nautical artifacts that have been given to you for a purpose.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is a little compass that spins and spins and spins and it doesn't seem like it really points anywhere.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there is a little map.
[SPEAKER_04]: What looks like it's probably Rosalbeach, but there's no settlements on it, but it actually has one spot on it, which is the lay line, which you just dealt with last week.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there are other spots around Rosalbeach with similar importance.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then the final thing is a little, little.
[SPEAKER_04]: pomade Tim filled with beeswax.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do not know where my good friend Arion is but I would very much like them to be safe and if they are out on the sea they are unsafe.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can use these things to find them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh and one more thing, this whole tentacles they just disappear for a second and you
[SPEAKER_04]: and then you hear a shout of like disapproval from Bobby in the other room as the tentacle sort of swarm back to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: The ceiling board opens and the deed to a ship is dropped onto the desk as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: A little ship called the Roseville runner.
[SPEAKER_04]: This should help you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alex takes psychic damage from looking at the map of the layline and recovers it from hearing Bobby in pain.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a very back and forth moment for her.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's going to pick up the devices.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's going to hand them up to the Lou.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to know this now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to bug me the whole time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why are you doing this?
[SPEAKER_03]: Not the not the this part.
[SPEAKER_03]: I get you have a friendship with our with our with our good friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you do that this?
[SPEAKER_04]: That is an interesting question.
[SPEAKER_04]: Only us to have me once.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was very alone for a long time.
[SPEAKER_04]: The oceans are deep and you humans know just the surface of what is really down there.
[SPEAKER_04]: One day, I meet a friend, a dear friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: this friend as they bring out a little book that is waterlogged and the ink is like spiraling off but they they like take an old fish bone and they like dip it in ink.
[SPEAKER_04]: If from like a little squid inside the tank as they start to rewrite the words inside of this book and as they retrace the words on it accounting and banking for the modern age.
[SPEAKER_04]: a guide on how to have fun with it.
[SPEAKER_04]: This, good friend, this good friend helped me realize that life doesn't have to be chaos.
[SPEAKER_04]: It can be fun, and you can structure it with joy and checking accounts.
[SPEAKER_04]: And loans so many loans, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm just thinking, so you are like, what is the most mundane thing I could possibly do?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you did it.
[SPEAKER_04]: He starts to, in the same way, Tim did, try to sell you on why loans are not mundane.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, we return to you the moment Odysseus opens his eyes.
[SPEAKER_04]: he touches to his his scar.
[SPEAKER_05]: Arian's eyes like flare and the pupils blow out.
[SPEAKER_05]: He is terrified and emits the sort of water, not water-prisoned.
[SPEAKER_05]: This instinct that Aryan kind of like darts like in one quick fluid motion darts towards this sort of floating kelp and just is like watching a disease from the kelp.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does not take notice of you as he brings himself to his feet and he takes in his surroundings but
[SPEAKER_04]: He looks towards the other cells, and he starts to call out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mark, John, Chris, and he goes on.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's no response from them.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's almost as if they are conscious, but they are drained of their energy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you all right?
[SPEAKER_04]: And he looks to his right.
[SPEAKER_04]: He looks to his left.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are your colorier eyes in Siren Thor?
[SPEAKER_05]: In siren form, they are the same color except brighter.
[SPEAKER_05]: All the magic that keeps him on land does is just dulls the strangeness about Orion.
[SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't change it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So they're these bright, almost like hazel golden eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: The one main difference between this form and his human form and toes and eyes is that the pupils are now more slit like rather than round.
[SPEAKER_04]: He catches a glimpse of your eyes, which glow through the kelp.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you know where we are?
[SPEAKER_05]: As Orian sort of like nestles a little bit more into the kelp, he speaks out this little, cuing and bright pitch noise escaping his lips.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we trapped.
[SPEAKER_04]: You gotta step out first.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he like steps all the way back to the bar.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not gonna hurt ya.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he raises his hands up.
[SPEAKER_04]: He can see that scar on his neck actually goes all the way down his arm to the palm of his hand.
[SPEAKER_04]: As if he was reaching out to stop something.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a warrior.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rean's heart plummeted the pit of his stomach.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't have a choice here.
[SPEAKER_05]: He is trapped in every sense of the word.
[SPEAKER_05]: And here it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: The moment he had been imagining thinking of his whole time, it rules will be.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it is terrifying.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is worse than any of his imaginings.
[SPEAKER_05]: and he leans forward and you see it, does he a sees it?
[SPEAKER_05]: The midnight blue scales on his shoulders, the sighing of the scar, these fins that bloom out of where it years should be and flowing black hair, floating amidst this non-watery cell.
[SPEAKER_05]: And another cool escape's Arian's lips, as he says,
[SPEAKER_04]: Shocked a little bit, he trips over a rock in his cell, and he sort of falls to the ground.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he can't speak lost for words.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard to sing, even further, as he kind of like lowers himself back into the cup.
[SPEAKER_05]: I won't hurt you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I won't, I won't.
[SPEAKER_05]: And echoing along his voice is this, like, cuing and this chirping noise.
[SPEAKER_05]: I already got his back to himself, a siren as revealed himself to a mortal.
[SPEAKER_04]: I, I'm sorry, I, I think I was just a little shocked.
[SPEAKER_04]: Also maybe I'm just seeing things.
[SPEAKER_04]: As he sort of like raises his hand, and he like takes off his hat,
[SPEAKER_04]: injury on his head where he felt against a rock.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again, in one fluid motion, swore us up and emerges out the kelp and Odysseus Arian's full form, this live thin slender form tied to a angel-fish-like tail and flowy fins bits of it cinched from the lightning and the dual with Halley.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we see a real kind of like tilt upward in the tide to take a bit of look at all the
[SPEAKER_05]: and size Odysseus up.
[SPEAKER_05]: She done to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your conversation is interrupted by one of these half-shark witches that enters into the space, and actually like, being against yourself with the spear quite you.
[SPEAKER_04]: As they go to one of the cells, they pull one of the sailors out.
[SPEAKER_04]: They look at them, and they turn them around, say now this one's too exhausted, and
[SPEAKER_04]: Throw them back down, they lock the gate, and they go to the next cell, open the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, that's what we'll do.
[SPEAKER_04]: And they pull them and walk out.
[SPEAKER_05]: A re-en looks terrified.
[SPEAKER_05]: hearing all of that and realizing that they're both running out of time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Odysseus sees Arian like looking at all the different corners of the cell of this bar.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he like reaches out to a corner to examine whether it burns him and it still does.
[SPEAKER_05]: Winces back and this is like shrill whale.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like it escapes his lip as again.
[SPEAKER_05]: We must get you out of here.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no negotiating.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what they will do to you, but we must get you out.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm looking for any sort of weakness in the cell.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is this some way for me to mess not with the bars, but with the way the magic is constructed around the cell itself?
[SPEAKER_05]: To kind of like break out that way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Make a roll for goal and clue.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna put six in goal five include.
[SPEAKER_04]: When that shark witch had,
[SPEAKER_04]: being against yourself, it will loosen some of the shackles, like the hinges on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you were able to construct something like similar to, want to lose screwdrivers or any other tool in their toolbox, you could probably get the door off, but the metal, it's a non-starter, Aryan, whether or not it's actually this, it is, you can only describe it as a Stigian iron.
[SPEAKER_04]: Iron that was forged in the underworld, that has a lot of properties, but the biggest one is being able to cancel out magic from creatures like yourself.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a thought that floats in a reinforced mind of that moment in the ocean when he was caught by that net.
[SPEAKER_05]: How did mortals get this?
[SPEAKER_05]: But as soon as he realizes that that might be a way out of here, but that he's not the one equipped to do so.
[SPEAKER_05]: He pans over towards Odysseus and then swims up to him and says, this seems foolish to hope, but would you by any chance have a screw to drive her?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or tools, you ask this question.
[SPEAKER_04]: So panicked, but so sincerely.
[SPEAKER_04]: That, oh, do you see us, he lets out a little, little laugh to himself.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so sorry, I didn't catch your name.
[SPEAKER_05]: A reand looks shocked.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, this is weird expression that he holds.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he tilts his head so much to away a dog would when hearing a strange sound.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm called a reand.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it gets really close.
[SPEAKER_04]: He can't tell if it's because he's being smooth or because his injuries are making him walk a little slower.
[SPEAKER_04]: But regardless, he's walking up in a way that catches your attention, and he pushes his hair back as he grabbed onto the bar, and he leans in screwdriver.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a screwdriver.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you ready and wants to fall into the depths of Haynes right now his first interaction with the Dissias and he says it wrong now?
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's it's it's okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, no, no, I don't but we can make some more care and he like reaches down and he grabs a rock.
[SPEAKER_04]: and he starts to like shave it against a sort of rusted part of the bar as it's getting sharper and sharper, flatter and flatter.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have flash forward onto the Roseville runner.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are piloting it into our storm following this compass, which at first seemed to spin and spin and spin and spin and then almost like magic.
[SPEAKER_04]: it lands.
[SPEAKER_04]: Directly towards one of those spots of power on the map, a little image of a sea cave.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex, I don't know if we're gonna have to like go underwater or anything and we was trying to like yell above the sound of the storm.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I can't breathe underwater.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is this like magical beeswax that when you put it over your mouth and your nose like you'll be good?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it magical beeswax or is this for the reason that Dan and maybe Alex think it is?
[SPEAKER_04]: You're getting a hint.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it seems too obvious, Alex, that the beeswax is to put in your ears to resist a siren.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems too obvious, but that's the best assumption you can come up with.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is not magical.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is legitimately just beeswax, but this boat, this boat has some serious power on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: the Roseville border.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the captain's room is, you gotta go through most of the boat to get to it, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: The boat itself is kind of in disrepair, but they're nets.
[SPEAKER_04]: Their nets are pristine.
[SPEAKER_04]: And laced with metal, the cargo that's being sort of transported on this fishing vessel is not the kind of stuff you'd expect.
[SPEAKER_04]: You'd expect maybe supplies for being on a
[SPEAKER_04]: But the things in here look like they are to redget up from the bottom of the ocean, like pottery and statues and all sorts of things.
[SPEAKER_04]: You make your way into the captain's room.
[SPEAKER_04]: All that's on there is a little black book with a pen and an entry.
[SPEAKER_04]: Already open to the page.
[SPEAKER_04]: The last one that was actually made.
[SPEAKER_04]: That says, today, I met a new benefactor.
[SPEAKER_04]: I never saw them, but they came to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: When I, when I, when I needed them most, I thought surely surely we were going to go out of business.
[SPEAKER_04]: Surely, Russell Beach would be a home for none of us anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: But then, I found it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was so one assuming a little clay pot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nothing more.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was curious.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was going to sell it to them, but something
[SPEAKER_04]: With one swift blow I struck it, and that's when I met them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Or rather, when I heard them, a man who could never truly be seen, someone always just out of sight, always shadowed.
[SPEAKER_04]: They didn't want much, and they offered me everything, and that's they gave me the metal to make them.
[SPEAKER_04]: It wasn't enough to save us.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was enough to bring our business from bankruptcy to flourishing thriving even with offers to work outside of Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is the best year we've ever had and likely will ever had.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the nuts, they can't be more than just fish.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how to describe it, but the things they catch are bigger.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're scary.
[SPEAKER_04]: and it trails off.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then there is a final law of wine that says, I did sell it, the pot, I mean, to that little coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think, cleansed sale, seems like they should have it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it ends in a thought that never finished.
[SPEAKER_03]: I show this to Lou, well, there's the origin of that little fucker,
[SPEAKER_02]: But this thing has its claws in places, but we didn't know it's been here for a lot longer than we thought.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not just some random spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was trapped.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not good.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, we need to get all our yarn back, but then I think we need to go get that pot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: And almost like the world is against this action, lightning strikes the sea as the wave from where the lightning struck rises and combines with another catching you in a rogue wave as it crashes across the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Water sort of just takes anything that was loose and sweeps it right off the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: The whole ship turns to the side and almost starts to capsize when another boat of lightning.
[SPEAKER_04]: strikes the mast.
[SPEAKER_04]: Racking the whole ship down into the cargo, and you can grab one thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Each before the ship is destroyed.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is something that attracted the lightning within the cargo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Blue will take the radio.
[SPEAKER_03]: The second lightning strikes the mass, the first thing that Alex is going to think of is the burned cursed theater and the way lightning directed things there, and whether it's with them or against them, she wants to go find what's down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: but she also doesn't want Lou to be in trouble.
[SPEAKER_03]: So she's going to shove a life jacket until Lou's head, and says, I'll be right back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't, I can't say don't go anywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just stay on the surface.
[SPEAKER_04]: You don't even need to go down below.
[SPEAKER_04]: The lightning has ruptured the deck entirely.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can drop directly into it.
[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, you're not really dropping as you are jumping into and running alongside as the ship is now on its side.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lou, you are thrown off the deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: as it has been thrusted now capsizing.
[SPEAKER_04]: The cargo goes everywhere.
[SPEAKER_04]: Everything lies about the crates open up.
[SPEAKER_04]: They smash the shatter against each other.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's one.
[SPEAKER_04]: That was all ready, shatter.
[SPEAKER_04]: Struck by the lightning, a burning heap, petrified almost.
[SPEAKER_04]: With the wood is a sword made entirely of iron.
[SPEAKER_04]: Half stone, half iron.
[SPEAKER_04]: and a little piece of it, like a hilt.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was like, would be a leather strap if this were attached to something.
[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, you've seen this before.
[SPEAKER_04]: Atticus had a missing piece of their strap.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a sword that Atticus had at some point.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dredged up from the bottom of the ocean.
[SPEAKER_04]: Perhaps when Atticus was being transferred here, maybe at some point when they were alive again, this is no doubt their sword.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex, why are you wielding this?
[SPEAKER_04]: You can absorb lightning.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like looks at it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bigger's out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's four points up.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks bud.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fuck me.
[SPEAKER_04]: And before you can even make a plan, the entire ship capsizes as the currents and the waves begin to tear the ship apart.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, did you put on the life jacket?
[SPEAKER_02]: Not before she jumped in, because I think she was in the water when Alex threw it to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: So now she's trying to keep the radio out of the ocean and get the life jacket on.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not going well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex, you are drawn down fast into the undertone, swept against a lot, essentially a coastal shelf and then into the depths of the ocean.
[SPEAKER_04]: thrown about trying to keep this radio above.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are going to go under, but you can probably get a message out before you do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then through the radio I just show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mayday, Mayday, ship went down.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's blue by the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Send emergency rescue immediately.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you are sucked underneath the waves as the two of you go down down.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can feel the pressure build around you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your lungs beginning to crush underneath themselves.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then you find yourself at a moment of peace.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like your body is struggling, but there's nothing you can do.
[SPEAKER_04]: You try to hold your breath.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you hear your blood.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you can't hold it anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you gasp for air.
[SPEAKER_04]: you can breathe as your feet touch the ground into a kelpy forest at the entrance of a sea cave, the exact image of the one on the map.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll just see as sharpened that rock until it was flat, and that's not quite a feel of, but it'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't quite reach it as he's putting his arm through the bar and he's actually, well, he went out to instinctively grab your hand, but kind of like stopped himself, I'm, I'm sorry, I'm here, and he hands you this rock and he sort of like points where he just can't reach, just, just, just screw, just turn that counterclockwise to the left left to the left to the left.
[SPEAKER_05]: between each other, and the rockers placed onto his, and Euryan, like Grewsid, and things of blue and Alex, and sitting in the beach house, and all the different blue moments that they have, and his eyes paned back to Odysseus from them and looking at those dark eyes, these
[SPEAKER_05]: dark red ringlets that sit about his face.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, right, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, and Arian's going to float upwards to this area.
[SPEAKER_05]: Am I allowed to interact with it?
[SPEAKER_05]: Since I have such a strong reaction to the metal, it's not going to burn you unless you attempt magic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Arian's hand like hovers over it and then he grips onto one of the bars to keep himself steady and then begins to use a screwdriver for the first time in his life.
[SPEAKER_04]: With such confidence that you're doing it right, you try to turn it and it just won't budge.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you try to turn it again and it just won't budge.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Odincy has starts to say something, but you're starting to feel a little judged.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just double down, you double down into it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you turn it, you turn it, it's not turning, it's not turning, it's not turning.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because you're turning right, Mario.
[SPEAKER_04]: Even though Odincy has just told you to turn left,
[SPEAKER_04]: And it takes more time than it showed to get a single screw out when he finally just touches your hand and he reaches past with his injured arm because that's the one with the better grip and he just, he decomes your hand and he starts turning it left for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Left.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, no, no, no, left.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, yes, left is okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna be okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I promise you we're gonna be okay and the rean is calm to get and he remembers the first time he saw that face How frightened he was on a on a survival this primal level Being trapped in a net he couldn't escape from but it was this mortal released him
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think as Odysseus is guiding him, he's just staring at Odysseus.
[SPEAKER_05]: At his face, at the beautiful, beautiful face of his as we finally released the script.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this grew onto the ground, one screw down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Several more left, but it's not quick enough.
[SPEAKER_04]: The room has an electricity that fills it.
[SPEAKER_04]: rise from the static in the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the shadow coming down the hall can only be described as a school of use.
[SPEAKER_04]: But what turns around the corner is the sea witch hell.
[SPEAKER_04]: Have I given you enough time?
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you ready to talk now?
[SPEAKER_04]: And you, points at Odysseus, and there's like a little electricity, and she sweeps her finger, and he was like this little bubble.
[SPEAKER_04]: This little heated bubble caused by electricity separately to do, to opposite sides of yourselves.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stay there.
[SPEAKER_04]: The human alone!
[SPEAKER_04]: Now now, siren.
[SPEAKER_04]: You will have your opportunity to make that choice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Make it well.
[SPEAKER_04]: The shackles, please, as she turns to one of her covenant members and takes these stigian irons, shackles, and places them on you before opening the borders.
[SPEAKER_04]: Her guards go to like, grab you, but she stops them, and she gestures in the direction she would like you to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oryan looks to Odysseus who's unharmed at now and back to Hally.
[SPEAKER_05]: He remains unharmed for a conversation that will be not.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I count on you on that sister?
[SPEAKER_04]: I swear on my dead covenant from his own hands.
[SPEAKER_04]: He will be unharmed through this conversation.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oryan relaxes.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad that you feel better.
[SPEAKER_05]: The movement of his tail switches a little bit, it's more relaxed instead of twitching.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he swims in the direction.
[SPEAKER_04]: You enter into a room that is, it's all sea cave, all kelp, but there are twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_04]: This could not be traversed by a human easily.
[SPEAKER_04]: It requires you to swim up and then directly down,
[SPEAKER_04]: She has built war-found this place, and it is designed for her and you, escaping with Odysseus will not be easy.
[SPEAKER_04]: You eventually come to a chamber where there are several other of these sailors.
[SPEAKER_04]: They are, again, the only word that can be used to describe them is spent, expended.
[SPEAKER_04]: is gone.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're alive, but tapped.
[SPEAKER_04]: Behind them are almost like relics, altars.
[SPEAKER_04]: You watch, as behind you, shuffles in another one of the sailors.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not just yes, but somebody who shares a similar patch with them, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: They work on the same crew, and they are brought to one of these
[SPEAKER_04]: and Halley casts some sort of spell that channels through them into this relic.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a current of water that rushes through the cave and up into this channel into the ocean and you hear crashing.
[SPEAKER_04]: She is using these people to create this storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Unable to do it with her coven, she found another source.
[SPEAKER_04]: In the center, she has a little
[SPEAKER_04]: which she runs her fingers along exactly the same way she did with the glass.
[SPEAKER_04]: As she looks at another ship at crashes, and she doesn't chuckle, she doesn't take joy.
[SPEAKER_04]: She just marks another success and the vision vanishes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arian, you are not long for that world, you know that right, as she gestures towards your pendant.
[SPEAKER_04]: No thanks to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is this true?
[SPEAKER_04]: No thanks to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Was your lightning that struck it, no?
[SPEAKER_04]: You would have been fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would have never been in that situation, should... She stops herself.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is not the reason I've brought.
[SPEAKER_04]: Us here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to broker a deal with you.
[SPEAKER_05]: What did you have in mind?
[SPEAKER_04]: What is your plan to fix your pendant?
[SPEAKER_04]: What is your plan to remain on land?
[SPEAKER_04]: you've chosen them instead of us, and as much as I'd attest that choice, I'll respect you for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's your plan to stay?
[SPEAKER_05]: Arian, like, snaps back to what's Hallie.
[SPEAKER_05]: Chose them instead of you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why is there this duality?
[SPEAKER_05]: I chose to protect life.
[SPEAKER_05]: The life of that of whom I bowled to.
[SPEAKER_05]: I did not forsake the sea.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, Arion.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she,
[SPEAKER_04]: grows darker as the shadow is literally engulf her, the sea abandoned to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you remember?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you honestly remember Arion?
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you so blinded by your Childish obsession with that man?
[SPEAKER_04]: Your summer's almost gone, Arion.
[SPEAKER_04]: And where will you be?
[SPEAKER_04]: Gone.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's only been sped up.
[SPEAKER_04]: I regret speeding up that process, but I don't regret what I've done.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ariane, I want to help you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do not want to see any more of us dead, killed.
[SPEAKER_04]: There are so few left, let me help you.
[SPEAKER_04]: It'll be so easy as she runs a claw along your arm.
[SPEAKER_04]: and you feel you see the layline draw through your blood and for what's it that's changed which these deals aren't just one sided.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I suppose they're not all there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is a simple transaction, Orion.
[SPEAKER_04]: You carry within your blood, something very precious to
[SPEAKER_04]: and it is also the only answer to fix your pendants.
[SPEAKER_04]: I will give you the time that you have fleeting back to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you find love by the end of the summer, you will stay alive and well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Should you not?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that is your own problem, and it is something you agreed to earlier.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't let yourself die for nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: as the pendant starts to crack.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me help you.
[SPEAKER_05]: A rea needs time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Time he doesn't have now.
[SPEAKER_05]: With time, he could actually fulfill his promise.
[SPEAKER_05]: Teppoticus.
[SPEAKER_05]: Without it, well, everything has gone.
[SPEAKER_05]: There is no hope for Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_05]: There is no great future intervention.
[SPEAKER_05]: A rea will return to seeful.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you say that her nail punctures your skin, she draws down, and instead of blood, she releases the dormitly line inside you.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is not the lay line that has been infused with the essence of September Brown.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is the original essence of the lay line, as she pulls it out, it has a heartbeat.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it lightens the room, and she, with her other hand, punctures her own skin, and ciphons the way line into her body.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she cracked her neck.
[SPEAKER_04]: The other way.
[SPEAKER_04]: She robs her thumb and her finger together.
[SPEAKER_04]: with a little bit of electricity.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's apps, you're pendant.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it fuses back together.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your scales turn to scan your tail, or turn to legs, and just as this is happening, alex, Lou, you enter above the scene to watch looking down on Halle and Arion, and behind Halle, the entity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lou looks at alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right now, I'm gonna grab Aryan.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[UNKNOWN]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I try to like go towards Aryan and grab him and try to get back.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you can jump down very easily.
[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, you almost float to the floor.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you land next to Arion and are able to grab him, you can even like swim back up if you wanted to.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can swim through the air here, Lou.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna use Call to make it happen quickly.
[SPEAKER_06]: As soon as he feels your arms are routed, he instinctively knows it's you, Lou.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he's like, wait, no, oh, this is, he's trapped.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yes, and Arion, good luck.
[SPEAKER_04]: and the air returns to water.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lude takes in a lung full.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think with what Ariane just said though, Lude takes in like shoves Ariane upwards in turns and goes towards where Odysseus is.
[SPEAKER_04]: you are able to get to a point which has an air pocket in it.
[SPEAKER_04]: These sea caves are lots of water and the lots of little air pockets.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is transversible for you to survive down here but maybe not get back up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I could cast magic, it's just at a high fucking risk.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really have choice, do I?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or I'm gonna fucking drown.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I am just going to stare at this fucking shadow and I am going to attempt to create water breathing.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you are channeling,
[SPEAKER_04]: love in this moment, you could use the word love.
[SPEAKER_03]: A-Lix sees this fucking thing and is seized with a deep and terrible anger.
[SPEAKER_03]: The thought of love does not enter her mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: Instinctually, you have studied arcane in a way you've never done before, A-Lix, and you pull this spell out of the ether, out of the tones that you've been reading and reading, and this was like seven tones ago, but you have it, it's there.
[SPEAKER_04]: and it benefits everyone.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can all breathe water.
[SPEAKER_04]: Odysseus cannot.
[SPEAKER_06]: You see a red swim past you.
[SPEAKER_06]: It starts like scolding you immediately.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's just like, you are immortal.
[SPEAKER_06]: You did not swim in the ocean.
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_06]: And notice as you get breath, shit, never mind, Alex did something amazing, come, come, come, come, come, I don't think you've ever seen a reinforcements in the water before, and he like darts and moves slowly through the tide, like holds you by the hand and guides you, it's like going on a roller coaster in the water, as you are moving and swirving between all the needs.
[SPEAKER_04]: And what you come into is the door, the bars, how are floating past you, as Odysseus has successfully undone all of the screws on his cell and is panicked.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna kind of like swim down there with Ariana who's like holding me, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm gonna like motion to Odysseus, like, come on, come on.
[SPEAKER_04]: And with all of his, all the breath in his lungs, he is trying to hold, he swims past you to Ariana.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ariane, notice this Odysseus, panting like a, a heavy to hold his breath
[SPEAKER_05]: like intake of water within the CK grabs Odysseus by the back of his head and presses his lips against his to breathe into them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Will you please roll a magic roll here?
[SPEAKER_04]: It is not using your siren nature so the staging shackles will not hinder you because you are using the love.
[SPEAKER_04]: a September Brown has gifted Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_04]: And because of that, you also don't have to roll injury or scared.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just goal, just magic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, we have a six and a five in that one fluid motion.
[SPEAKER_05]: A re-inspirant hands ripped the back of the boat.
[SPEAKER_05]: Odysseus's head, the bright red curls tighten around his fingers, and as he presses his kiss against Odysseus, there's an exhale of breath, time stops, and all these two hear our heart beats.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the second, the air is expelled back into Odysseus.
[SPEAKER_05]: A reen pulls his arm across his shoulder, grabs Lou underneath his other arm and starts surging past the waves and the water as it is rushing in back into this cave and swirls back up towards where Alex is to pull all three of them back up to shore.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's still storming, the storm is dying.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems that Halley got what she wanted, and these men are no more of a monster.
[SPEAKER_05]: As the storm ricochets off away from the coastal area we are in, we are all buffeted by waves, alex myself, blue and Odysseus.
[SPEAKER_05]: Plops everyone back to shore as the storm begins to roil away from us, and his wave of realization hits him, and his eyes bolt quite, and he dies back into trying to grab
[SPEAKER_05]: is silence.
[SPEAKER_05]: He taps them on either side of their faces.
[SPEAKER_05]: These beautiful handsome sailors once that he would have called to sung to in the depths where it's a year, maybe two years before.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he carries them hoping the air would bring life back into their lungs and they're still.
[SPEAKER_05]: He drags them to the shore and it's just silence.
[SPEAKER_05]: All of us are here, the four of us alive, that this crew, these poor, unfortunate souls caught in the crossfire, our spent, and a reen looks at them with horror, and a new, a new emotion that a siren has never felt before, guilt, and the final thing we see is a reen
[SPEAKER_02]: This series stars Alexander Christopher as the Game Master, valiant Dorian as Arion, Dan Pixel as A-Lix Chow, and Kenzie Tartaglioni as Lou Wells.
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