[SPEAKER_00]: Last time on Roseville Beach, and she walks up to the tree and just looks up at this very comfortably-parched animal.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have something to say or their fur turns to skin and clothing?
[SPEAKER_04]: As a still stands before you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like you to disclose to the rest of the group what's in your pocket.
[SPEAKER_04]: She flips the knife out and it like twirls around as she stabs it into a tree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you leaving it there for me?
[SPEAKER_04]: As motive, he is better known as compulsion.
[SPEAKER_04]: You must lead me to the lay line.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is all I ask.
[SPEAKER_04]: Know that I will find it regardless.
[SPEAKER_04]: The storm crackles again as the sky darkens blocking out any of the moonlight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Steps on shore.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here is the situation.
[SPEAKER_04]: A hurricane is approaching Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to call the sword.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you see the stars align in a pattern of a new hero, Atticus, and the sword falls from the sky and lands at your feet.
[SPEAKER_06]: Even if it's just for a summer, you are also people of Roseville Beach and need of protection.
[SPEAKER_06]: There is almost this pulse wave that kind of travels along the beach like the sand ripples off to both sides as it goes to length of Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: In this act of love, you are gifted magic by September Brahm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good evening, sister.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very, very sorry, but this is a part of you are not invited to.
[SPEAKER_04]: not dissimilar to the ways of timber returned to the layline.
[SPEAKER_04]: As Del's body begins to disappear, and we see Hurricane Hally growing stronger and stronger.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mysterious light shine along the ocean bay Part two resist the thrills upon the summer haze Together on the beach will turn the night to day Adventurers on the beach so come along again
[SPEAKER_05]: 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 At your service
[SPEAKER_05]: Magic that comes from moss powers the way Jayley I may wish Ari, on this quest for loving, good some fishy tricks Oh, I'm a real Together these three will surely have you transphixed
[SPEAKER_05]: Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_05]: The ghosts like to play.
[SPEAKER_05]: Monsters hide, but they won't stay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Roseville Beach with the gang that they found.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll turn this town right back around.
[SPEAKER_04]: We return in the moment we left, watching Hurricane Hally quickly approach Roseville Beach, and it passes over the lighthouse, it passes over the ships at sea, and they disappear behind it.
[SPEAKER_04]: They are gone to the store.
[SPEAKER_04]: the winds with it, and bear against the shield that Lou has conjured, as lightning strikes and strikes and strikes, like someone hammering a nail into a wall, and to finally there is a puncture, right at its face, coming from the sea, more and more of Halle's
[SPEAKER_04]: the entity, compulsion.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ripple, a command.
[SPEAKER_04]: Find the layline.
[SPEAKER_04]: Halley is pinned against the sea bank, but she has been charged with the layline, she's been charged with Tayo's divine essence.
[SPEAKER_04]: She, for lack of a better term, is a demigod in this moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Herien sees all of this, the saltwater-looking against his face as he witnesses more ships consumed by the storm, more lives on his shoulders.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as he realizes that we are outnumbered and outgunned in every sense of the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Arian, like pulls Hally by her hair, back towards his face with the blade still at her throat and says, I have a community of options sister, you've left me no choice, you wield powers that do not belong to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I need a god's hand in this more than anything else.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just a man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to try and pierce Hally, where the Divine Magic is specifically, because the Leyla Magic was not mine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I held it, but it wasn't mine, but KO's magic is his, and I want to make a hole so that KO can be siphoned the magic back to himself.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a very big moment for you, Ariana, goal, injury, scared, trouble.
[SPEAKER_02]: The four can go to trouble, six to go, and the two ones can go to injured and scared.
[SPEAKER_02]: The way that Orion stabs her, he holds the sword as I mentioned before poorly, instead of holding it in a typical repute pull-to-in-a-row for a script.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the way that he wounds her as he holds her hair back is he slices through a part of the torso, revealing a large gash where he hopes divine energy might flow out.
[SPEAKER_04]: you strike true, as the divine essence is now exposed, able to bleed, like golden Icker from Halle's body.
[SPEAKER_04]: That you had a guess, but she in turn took a blow on you, as she pulls out a jagged piece of iron, and strikes it directly in your chest.
[SPEAKER_04]: you are going to take a scare of mortal and an injury of drowning as the iron she has stabbed into you, broke off and embedded in your chest is the same iron that all of us crew used to capture your kind.
[SPEAKER_04]: You do not have access to your siren powers in this
[SPEAKER_02]: As she breaks off the blade, we don't even hear the painful gas that would have escaped his lips.
[SPEAKER_02]: As he's already in the water, all we see are bubbles that flutter out of his mouth as he begins to be pulled by the tie downward, unable to swim up as he reaches out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Atticus's blade is fallen to the beach at this point, it is one swift movement,
[SPEAKER_04]: Your vision begins to fade.
[SPEAKER_04]: It goes dark.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can hear the blood rush through your skin, through your temple.
[SPEAKER_04]: You reach out into the darkness, and someone reaches back.
[SPEAKER_04]: They grab you, elbow with their hand, pull you out of the water, into a small little boat that is being blocked by the storm, as Oliver has saved you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Arian is shock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oliver was frozen at one point, and now Oliver's in front of him, and I think in this moment of lupiness and weakness, and like he's drenched, he's feeling the blood like leaf him and rushing, and so he's cold to the touch.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he touches his bare fingers against Oliver's chin, and he says very, very weakly.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see if me again?
[SPEAKER_04]: every time I'm around.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now get up because this is not over.
[SPEAKER_04]: As a wave crashes over, cut scene back to Alex on the beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: As this storm that is coming in, this hurricane has cast a shadow over his full beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: The one crack allowing compulsion to enter into the village.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have perhaps the only thing that might be able to help.
[SPEAKER_04]: That Mr. Ward gave to you the group, but it's an ancient Greek, and you cannot decipher it.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's still in the fucking sand, like she hasn't even turned to look at the crack.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the thought is there.
[SPEAKER_00]: but not any comprehension of what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like there is a deafening silence around her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she looks over at KO, who's standing right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't say anything is just staring almost unfocused.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your turn, then.
[SPEAKER_01]: Chaos steps forward, and looks at the flask, looks at alex, steps past the place where the libations were forward for a step, what's the flask away and hold that hand?
[SPEAKER_01]: Today is not your day, we must find they are everywhere, I can't read this fucking book.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can, and KO before Alex drops into the sand, the sand pouring into the fur, and the very large hands of a demigod reach out to grab this book, and begins to just read any page that Alex might turn to, says it aloud quickly, beautifully like singing music, but they are
[SPEAKER_04]: information in this book.
[SPEAKER_04]: There are primarily illustrations, as if somebody who had gone mad had written this grimoire this toe with poetic descriptions in a way that is perhaps a bit too poetic for the moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: And compulsion, there's one thing that is repeated over and over again in these phrases
[SPEAKER_04]: the image of compulsion, that it is something that is how compulsion communicates.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's with inches.
[SPEAKER_04]: But before you can read any further kale, there is another lightning bolt that comes straight at you, and it crackles.
[SPEAKER_04]: We actually see in slow motion as it strikes at the heart of you, and then on the beach swooping, you hear a
[SPEAKER_04]: of a motorcycle that comes and jumps in front of the lightning bolts and oh shit jumps right out absorbing the lightning Gabriella on the motorcycle driving it spins in the beach around you and like picks up alex and stops it's like you got yourselves in a mess here but we're here to help don't you worry
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: Lou, you watch as an army begins marching through this little crack, and there's another lightning strike.
[SPEAKER_04]: The hurricane is being held back by you, but Rose will be just not safe anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it has turned from just like the knee in the sand the sweating to crying from...
[SPEAKER_06]: this like just full-bodied muscle exhaustion that is happening and eventually throughout all of this those tears because blood vessels have popped in her eyes have kind of started to run red and she's now currently like on all fours with the exertion of keeping this magic up and
[SPEAKER_06]: Seeing that it has been broken, seeing that there has been people starting to walk through it, to the point where it's not helping anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: She let it go and I think there's just like a cryo and she kind of falls face first into this sand.
[SPEAKER_06]: the underneath of her fingernails hurt because it's just so she's never expounded this much energy before and there's like a moment where she lays there and the wind is whipping from this hurricane through the sand is blowing in her face and she really did just give her all to Roseville Beach
[SPEAKER_06]: but that wasn't enough and not Roseville Beach because that's not the problem but this creature, this entity, this thing that has disrupted the nature of the world is asking for more from her and she doesn't want to give it that but if she doesn't give it that,
[SPEAKER_06]: then everyone else suffers.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so she gives herself like 10 seconds on the ground to just breathe and wet the sand with blood.
[SPEAKER_06]: and then wipe it from her face, smearing it a little bit, almost like under cheek paint, and eventually pushes herself up, and she is haggard, and she is unstable, yet as long as Rosalbeach is here, Lewis here.
[SPEAKER_04]: You lift yourself off the sand to see Rosalbeach,
[SPEAKER_04]: fighting back.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see all of her having pulled Aryan out of the ocean.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see ocean and Gabriella having rode onto the beach to protect Alex and Kayo as they are reading through this room war.
[SPEAKER_04]: Roseville Beach is fighting back.
[SPEAKER_06]: In the eye of a hurricane, but like in the silence of a battle, there's a moment in which she looks down both ways and she sees the extent of Roseville Beach and she sees that the billboards going both ways, the lights are still on, they're advertising the stupid ads that they have always advertised, she sees the one far in the distance where her and Annie meet all the time and sit and just look.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she realizes that this place has a beating heart and it is almost its own living entity.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it has it's saved her.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it is saving her again in this moment.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the only thing she can do is fix it.
[SPEAKER_06]: and I think she finally looks to the sea into the sky and kind of like takes in this big nature manifestation that is happening and that seems like a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: That seems like maybe too much almost.
[SPEAKER_06]: But she sees Gabrielle and she sees OSHIT.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gabrielle is on her bike and I think she's got like a baseball bat.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's joined the rebellious youths of Rosalbeach and she is driving by she's whipping these guys with bats, but you could totally steal the bike Gabriella, Gabriella, I need that more than you right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: She has a visor on right for her helmet as she revs up again
[SPEAKER_04]: and it spins, and this is in a bowl circle as it stops, and it revs up, and it goes down the beach, and she offers her hand out to you, and in a swift motion, the two of you swap as she tucks and rolls off of the bike.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lou is now on this bike.
[SPEAKER_06]: The sand is flying up from the tires from the beach, as she takes off back towards town, towards that tattoo color.
[SPEAKER_04]: Felix and Kayo as Gabriella and OSHA are buying you time.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if you look up and see that they're they're doing fine but they're not doing perfectly.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not gonna last forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there any spell that we have come across that puts the fucker in a jar?
[SPEAKER_04]: We are going to have to roll for this.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can choose who does it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It will change the outcome a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say that the scarier part needs to go to A-Lix, because Kay was just reading and A-Lix actually has to understand magic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kay doesn't listen to other people if that's not abundantly apparent, but here, working with A-Lix, he lets her guide them both.
[SPEAKER_04]: Six-five.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is an incantation.
[SPEAKER_04]: It has been cast, as far as you can tell, maybe one time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Things you need for this ritual are not specified, but you can tell the container it has to be trapped inside of is some sort of imagery.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you think back to the pot, how the image of the entity of compulsion was painted on the inside of the pot?
[SPEAKER_04]: And all of the text, all of the writing, suggests that you can't destroy compulsion,
[SPEAKER_04]: You can use the Grimmord to help guide this rich war.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alex is going to take out the blank brass coin, and she's gonna put it on the sand in front of her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And start just like craft the image into it, as she casts it.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to kind of zoom out slightly as we see the Coven closing in on you
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna cut over to Ariane, who has just been pulled out of the ocean by Oliver, and all around you, the water begins to swirl, like a whirlpool, as it's charging with electricity.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oliver grabs your hand, he throws a net into the water, as he's pulling something up, and he catches the sword.
[SPEAKER_04]: He holds it in his hand, and he looks to you, I, I don't, Ariane, I need help.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what do you need?
[SPEAKER_04]: You take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is your portal.
[SPEAKER_04]: You take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am mortal now.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a big wound with the jagged piece of metal.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like embedded into a red skin.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he just says, I don't have any of my siren powers.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he like looks at the crackling sword.
[SPEAKER_02]: God's You can grab the sword.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: he can touch it but aren't so weak he is he's so bled out physically as well as like magically the sticky and iron is just holding all of his potential within its metal and the wound is
[SPEAKER_02]: raw and weeping blood with every movement that he makes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think as he like goes to reach for the sword, he tumbles forward like into all of her and is just loopy and delirious and he just says, I can't do it by myself with all of her.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please, he catches you as he grabs the sword and takes a deep breath.
[SPEAKER_04]: and rising from the wave is helly, but not just helly, she wounded magic seeping from the gods from Dionysus.
[SPEAKER_04]: She has attempted to heal it, but unable to.
[SPEAKER_04]: In that wound, as correct
[SPEAKER_04]: He is beginning to take a mortal form, but it's not perfect, and it is killing Halley.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's grown quite in size, as coming out of the water, waves, bucket, even in this world pool.
[SPEAKER_04]: She reaches down and prepares to strike you with lightning.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arion, do you?
[SPEAKER_04]: block it or do you let Oliver?
[SPEAKER_02]: We've spoken a few times about the reason why Arian is here, what he purports the reason is, which is to grant a boon to this yes, to Oliver, for saving his life for first time.
[SPEAKER_02]: that the bonus true, but in my mind is not just the magic, it is that gamble that exchange that prize, which I think one other than yourself, and a rein in this moment of fills his end of the bargain, the food he's meant to grant all of her, and while being weak, he all he hears is the crackle, and
[SPEAKER_02]: of liking and the last thing he thinks to himself before blocking the blow is not him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not now.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just pushes it this year's down all the way around.
[SPEAKER_02]: steps up and doesn't do it elegantly or with great speed of a warrior.
[SPEAKER_02]: He just launches himself forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gets hit, spread the chest, let us dig in, I and conduct electricity.
[SPEAKER_04]: You step in front of this lightning, it strikes you, it strikes the iron, it conducts inside of your body.
[SPEAKER_04]: take the injury chart as the lightning severed over you and all of her drift for each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: As the lightning pierces Orion, it is exactly that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is like a lance of lightning has pierced directly through him.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is silence for a moment in the wake of the thunder reverberating
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we hear the creek and then subsequent crack of the boat as it's severs in half and If all of our were to lift his gaze up He would force split heartbeat C A reenestanding until he isn't but he Sagress backward and then falls headfirst into the ocean his entire skin is charred
[SPEAKER_02]: and broken from the charge of that lightning.
[SPEAKER_02]: We see bits of cuts leading out this
[SPEAKER_02]: dark blood almost too dark to be human and we see like this weird in-between space as we see a mortal man yet flares of scales poking out the skin and then falling off them instead of the body is going through rapid, better morphesis dealing with this reckoning and the last
[SPEAKER_04]: of Oliver, he's reeling back in the net, made from the Stigian Iron, as he prepares to confront Hollywood.
[SPEAKER_04]: Luke, you are on your way motorcycle to the tattoo market.
[SPEAKER_04]: Russell Beach is small, you are able to get there quickly, do you like nicely parking
[SPEAKER_04]: the motorcycle routine.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like half of it before I even get there.
[SPEAKER_04]: The motorcycle slides across the pavement, breaking up the the road, and you are running in.
[SPEAKER_04]: The door slams open, freshly placed rooms from Alex, cover the entire perimeter, and you know that the floor boards respond to your sledgehammer.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have the exact right tool for this job.
[SPEAKER_06]: The shield having disappeared since she left the barrier down, calls once again, it to her hand, but this time she does call such a hammer, and so that is the more prominent tool that she receives within the construction that we've made.
[SPEAKER_06]: What Lou wants to do, if this is magically possible, is to actively grab hold of the laylines
[SPEAKER_06]: and control the energy they're sending to the beach.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so what I was envisioning is that Luke calls his sledgehammer, breaks the floorboards.
[SPEAKER_06]: Alex's runes like ignites and bring those into focus in order for me to take hold of them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Magic, goal, injury, scares, trouble.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll give a five to magic because that succeeds.
[SPEAKER_06]: I give a six to goal because that succeeds.
[SPEAKER_06]: I give a four to the trouble die and Jordan scared our failures.
[SPEAKER_06]: The sledgehammer comes down on the floorboards, breaks part of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Alex's roots ignite at the feeling of the presence of that shield because we all made it and that is what shines a light on to the laylines under these floorboards and like they're piping.
[SPEAKER_06]: She grabs more.
[SPEAKER_06]: to one in each hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: And there's just like this, I think immediately to her, she becomes like almost paralyzed with just the energy that's flowing through her, like her muscles go, really tight.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she just is thinking about what is happening at the beach and how to get this power underneath there to spark up.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I guess if we're going this hard at it where she's touching laylines, two power, alex, and k-o, and their nominations on this book.
[SPEAKER_04]: This has never been done before, not by the oven, not by September, not by the spirits of Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is,
[SPEAKER_04]: permanently ulcering, two rows will be triumphant, touching the layline comes with serious consequences.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are going to take the layline infused again.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're going to take the scare change somehow by a miracle, or more accurately someone protected you from the full
[SPEAKER_04]: and you do not go down.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you hear in your mind a little giggle.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now that's how you do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go get them on September Brown.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kayo, you feel the presence of your divine energy amidst the waves.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is at the center of the hurricane where the water is pooling and hally has risen and continues to grow in size.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have the opportunity to go grab it now, but you will have to leave Alex to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: like the smell of ozone after lightning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kayo can smell it, they can taste it in the air.
[SPEAKER_01]: As the bolt of lightning strikes, a ring still goes down, all of that remains, but the difference is, as,
[SPEAKER_01]: It happens, KO from the beach yells at Delphazego, and points, and from that, because he knows he can feel the iron that is stopping his brother from being who he truly is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I would like to use something that's probably a bad idea, but I'd like to use power word, polymorph.
[SPEAKER_01]: specifically on the iron.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if it changes, his brother will live, and that is the intention.
[SPEAKER_01]: Magic, goal, scare, goal is going to be four, a six on magic, the three on scare.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you switch, goal and magic, you'll succeed on both of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: the very magic that made him, pulled from blood, sweat, and death in the sands of Troy.
[SPEAKER_01]: KO thinks of all of the green that did not grow there, and wishes for those fields to grow vines again and wishes to turn this stigean iron into great vines.
[SPEAKER_04]: meld with Aryan's skin.
[SPEAKER_04]: They form a weave that repairs the wood.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aryan, you may remove chart.
[SPEAKER_04]: However, you are now touched by the entity.
[SPEAKER_04]: In a rush, return to your siren nature, but it's tainted.
[SPEAKER_04]: Every aspect of you that is beautiful and gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_04]: It becomes eldritch.
[SPEAKER_02]: A reans like elegant scales and fins turn into almost tensile like appendages around him.
[SPEAKER_02]: The beautiful flowing tail like that of a beta fish becomes
[SPEAKER_02]: more rough and coarse it becomes, instead of flowing it becomes static and stone like the body that is mostly human life and elegant.
[SPEAKER_02]: Has scales now moving all the way up, touching the vines that were carved and woven into his chest and they turned to this wiring mess all around his body.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Arian's face, his eyes, his eyes are where this bright, slitted gold eye, but they've turned this darkness behind the iris now, that causes the iris to pulse and oscillate, like there's something else living within the blood and skin of Arian.
[SPEAKER_02]: and everything that is human-like on his face is so human but it's wrong now.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's weird scales where there shouldn't be an additional fang where that wasn't one before and a rea this forever changed.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can see all of her withing around in a circle, around Halley.
[SPEAKER_04]: Halley doesn't really pay him any mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: She is
[SPEAKER_04]: grown so large that he is about a new sense to her, but he still has that net, and the net is spiked, it can claw in to her, he just doesn't have a chance, he doesn't have a chance to get it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like is it just that Halle is too fast, or is it that there's something wrong with the net?
[SPEAKER_04]: The net itself is not injured, in fact it's woven in such a way that the iron could never really be injured.
[SPEAKER_04]: The way that the blade broke in you was because the blade itself and the shaft were like two different pieces And so the net won't, it won't break, it won't falter She is just simply too big and he is simply going too fast As you're investigating this though, you see your reflection often that actually blinds you And it catches you off guard because there should be no light in the storm And you look above you to see a fiery Phoenix
[SPEAKER_04]: flying in to EDU and distracting Heli, writing a top at Granny.
[SPEAKER_02]: A rean sees the Phoenix fly overhead, and there's a smile, and he winses a little bit feeling a little like ink tendrils, like clawing at the inside of a skin, it is a pain and a sensation he can't move by.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like having ice shards in your very flesh, and he shakes it all off and starts darting towards the boat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Halley is incredibly large and a re-inconto very much about it what he can do is help Oliver's boat and the waves around it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I would like to do is emerge from the water by the boat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oliver, hang on, I can help.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, Arion!
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god!
[SPEAKER_04]: And he pulls you back up, unfazed by your change.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I actually do not have enough time, hold on to that net, then you ain't be true, but hang on, this is going to be very fast, very, very fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what I'm going to do is I want to, because it's already a whirlpool moving, what I want to do is redirect using my own oceanic power and water to create a almost like a jet stream of water that is only for Oliver.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I am propelling the bow around helly until Oliver has the right opportunity to toss this net in and then I can bring her down from the ocean You for the first time and actually several weeks Call on a non-violent aspect of your magic, Aryan as Oliver pulls a reen up
[SPEAKER_02]: In that conversation, Arian has his hand on Oliver's face, and then his fingers kind of twine behind the beautiful red ringlets around his hair, and he sees this man on face and he could see the reflection of his own face in Oliver's eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: and it is a visage that he finds hard to look at.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if Oliver is able to look at him maybe it's not so bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he like touches Oliver and states his plan.
[SPEAKER_02]: He leans upward and presses a kiss right on his forehead.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we see a tiny, a tiny glow of what would be silent magic.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he looks at Oliver one last time he says,
[SPEAKER_02]: and he will flop backwards into the water where he sees tail of the dive into the water and we start hearing a re-insing from beneath the waves around the boat humming and singing and it is an old little, it's almost him-like.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is the song of the name he used to refer to Oliver As, but this is, we just hear that angelic, slightly eldritch like chanting from beneath the waves just singing, but this is, well, this is, and it's just propelling the boat forward.
[SPEAKER_04]: Odysseus is propelled forward, moving faster, but able to get around Halley's movements.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's waiting for the opportunity and it's just it's not coming, it's not coming.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then, the Phoenix, the winged dog fuck and granny, begin to distract her.
[SPEAKER_04]: As she is now dealing with the clawing at her face, at her eyes, at her beat, and it opens up the opportunity.
[SPEAKER_04]: He throws the net.
[SPEAKER_04]: He actually grabs onto it.
[SPEAKER_04]: as it latches into the shadowy scales that have replaced her normal scales, and he has thrown off the boat onto Halley as he latches on the other hooks, and they compress inward as you see the shadows begin to dissipate, like old people.
[SPEAKER_04]: begins to clear.
[SPEAKER_04]: The moon shines through the eye of the hurricane, as there's a final rumble of thunder, and soft rain falls on Earth's reach.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex, you are in a very intense ritual at the moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, here's how this is going to work.
[SPEAKER_04]: to perform the ritual and one to resist the entity.
[SPEAKER_04]: The one for the ritual must be magic.
[SPEAKER_04]: The lay line will grant you a bonus die on all of these rules.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have three sixes in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: What image do you carve onto the coin?
[SPEAKER_04]: The Grimoire did not say it had to be a specific image, just that compulsion communicates through imagery.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is how they are able to exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: On one side of the coin, there will be an etching of her own face.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the other side of the coin, will be an etching of a stealth.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're separated and they can never touch.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a constant endless compulsion to be together.
[SPEAKER_04]: The second role here is going to be to perform the ritual and I will use all eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: of my words for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bane, bind, call.
[SPEAKER_00]: I name compulsion for what it is, which is at its core, fear of loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: I command it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shape shift the edges of the coin,
[SPEAKER_00]: outward, so it's a little bit wider, almost like a jar, with still like the flat disc of it being the base, so the two faces don't meet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pulling this using telekinesis, I grant a boon to it so that it will hold forever, and in it is every piece of Alex's heart in her love for her roommates, for this place, for the weird old money ghost that
[SPEAKER_00]: for auntie and her finally girlfriend of however many years it's been for the weird dogfuck for OSHIT all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, one six is going to magic one six is going to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a six going to scared and a four going to injured.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is a full success across the board.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get a sense of deja vu.
[SPEAKER_04]: As the shadows of Rose will be, begin to collect onto the shore, onto the sands, and they get dark, they get dense.
[SPEAKER_04]: As they finally surround A-Lex and A-Lex alone, this final rule is to resist the entity.
[SPEAKER_04]: compulsion as it reaches out to you and it offers you success it offers you what your heart desires most and all you have to do all it needs is for you to get that coin starting with KO I would like all of you to tell me what it offered you
[SPEAKER_01]: who be loved, to be loved forever, loved feared, is the promise of everywhere that they go forever, people will celebrate and revel and not cry.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Kale doesn't even know how sad the deeper parts of their heart truly is, but can hear these words.
[SPEAKER_02]: the entity offered Maria everything that he wanted to be able to be of land and sea to have a life with Oliver to walk on the sandy beaches of Roseville without forsaking anything else.
[SPEAKER_02]: It offered everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything he ever wanted, no sacrifice, no pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, Maria knows that
[SPEAKER_03]: I would rather be siren forever not from afar than do this place to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think the entity offered Lou almost like a fresh start offered in a racing of her childhood
[SPEAKER_06]: said that like offered her brother's success offered her a future with Annie and what's so weird about that, though, is that it doesn't make sense.
[SPEAKER_06]: If Lou's childhood was perfect, she never would have come to Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_06]: Her brother wouldn't need help.
[SPEAKER_06]: She would have never met Annie.
[SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't mesh.
[SPEAKER_06]: and it doesn't make any sense to the life she's lived.
[SPEAKER_06]: It washes over her and it feels so alien to anything she's ever wanted that she simply washes it go by.
[SPEAKER_00]: It thinks it's clever, it saw everything on this beach.
[SPEAKER_00]: it understands the depths of what Alex went through.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so compulsion offers Alex a life with a stout where she is home.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they are at peace and everything that Helix has spent years wanting back and the thing is all Helix really wants is just to kiss a still one more time and forget that the world is moving around her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Compulsion cannot offer anything that Helix wants.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no way
[SPEAKER_00]: for it to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think A-Lix kind of laughs in this pitch black.
[SPEAKER_00]: And almost without stopping, you can see a cigarette start floating out of her pocket, just up into her mouth.
[SPEAKER_00]: The end of it bursts into flames.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told you, I told you that I was going to take
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you took, you should have left while you had the chance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you see her eyes shift from purple, streaked with gold to that pure gold, glowing and shining, three-sexes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Compulsion recedes from Roosevelt Beach, trapped within your coin,
[SPEAKER_04]: performing the ritual in others.
[SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations, that is a feat that no single witch has ever performed alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: As the ocean quiets, the sky is brightened, like the sweetest smell of baked goods, the most delicious meal you've ever smelled, kale could smell their divinity.
[SPEAKER_01]: where there's a vividly begin to bleed out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It flows ashore.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't even go to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as it washes, it just walks into the waves ever so slightly dipping their feet in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And with every lap of the waves, the water and the sand flowing over their feet, the fur getting wet.
[SPEAKER_01]: We see that divinity climb back up.
[SPEAKER_01]: scale by scale.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not removing the blackness, just transforming it, making it deep and rich, like oil slicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Up weaving through their scales and up his face, frightening.
[SPEAKER_01]: something that was very old, changing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The divinity makes it so that once again, as we see the scales transform the back of the blonde mane fades to that oil, slick black hair again, of a short human man, unremarkable except for the many tattoos, lots of strange clothes and everything about them.
[SPEAKER_01]: but mortal in their unremarkableness.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_01]: They spin around and lay down flat on their back in the sand, laying the water roll over them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rejoicing.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we're going to flash that montage forward to the Garden of Dionysus, and you returning to divine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it all starts with the water, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: K.O.
[SPEAKER_01]: walks to where there was a beautiful fountain now a tree.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without the vengeful power of a god that left this garden, but rather with someone who has remembered what it means to stand with others.
[SPEAKER_01]: doesn't command the tree to leave.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just ask it to step aside and the water itself flows out and with just a dip of their hand, the water is clean and pure again, blessed by Dionysus all over again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now she can come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: and inside of their shared small garden house.
[SPEAKER_01]: K.O.
[SPEAKER_01]: goes to divine and sits at her feet, smiles up at her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Admiring how beautiful she is in her wooden state, and remembering that everything does have to change.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes it's about...
[SPEAKER_01]: Being somewhere new and sometimes vacation ends, and you do have to go home.
[SPEAKER_01]: And with a gentle hand on her leg, he offers her a drink from his flask, divine revelry, as he imparts some of the same flask that he poured out for her to bring her back.
[SPEAKER_04]: We get a flash of scenes where she,
[SPEAKER_04]: water nourishing a tree.
[SPEAKER_04]: It travels up through her body and brings her back to life.
[SPEAKER_04]: We see her return to the forest.
[SPEAKER_04]: As this has been a wonderful life for her and Rosalbeach, but the village does not need her anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: The village can protect itself.
[SPEAKER_04]: Almost like they grow in reverse, they return to the earth as she returns to the forest.
[SPEAKER_06]: She starts out with re-building the damage she made, so fixing the hardwood floor of this tattoo part of there is a number one on the list and then I think literally just doing odd jobs for people throughout the next month or two is kind of like where she spends most of her time.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's been a lot of loss recently in her life that she hasn't expected in the terms of people who have come and gone very quickly, such as KO and September and
[SPEAKER_06]: out of kiss and all of them, and she doesn't quite know how to deal with that yet, and so she isn't really dealing with it.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's just more.
[SPEAKER_06]: We have physical things to do to rebuild Roseville and that's what's the most important thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lou is like running from the tattoo polar back to
[SPEAKER_04]: from a collective dream.
[SPEAKER_04]: The only ones who seem to remember what happened in our Gabriella, granny and auntie, everyone who helped defend Roseville Beach, remembers, but the rest of the village is like a hazy foggy memory.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something you're not sure if you can trust.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lou runs up to where she was originally between Annie and Samiran, is trying to help them both in terms of like they just out of paralysis but really her only focus is on Annie and there's been something she's wanted to say.
[SPEAKER_06]: This clearly is not the time for that but I think that there's
[SPEAKER_06]: trying to guide any back to her own apartments and what she says, hey, I wrote something recently for someone and I
[SPEAKER_06]: really need your thoughts on it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I know that I have not been the most forward with you since we've known each other, but this letter means a lot to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so if you could just make sure that it doesn't sound weird, that would be super helpful and blue, cool, a little flip up, scrapped the paper from her pocket and hands it over to Annie and it's like, and then tomorrow,
[SPEAKER_06]: after you've slept.
[SPEAKER_06]: The most important thing, not reading this letter, slept.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll be back here, and I need to check to make sure you're okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then I think we should also talk about the letter, but then also like not the letter.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_04]: As you ramble on, we pan out and cut to
[SPEAKER_02]: As we unfold beyond the chaotic conflict that just occurred, a real nose that he cannot return immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: He brings Oliver to shore.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when he receives the pendant, that would allow him to step foot to land,
[SPEAKER_02]: The eldritch nature within his blood is preventing some sort of connection from taking place.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's this moment of realization he looks upon, everyone on the beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he says, I...
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't...
[SPEAKER_03]: I...
[SPEAKER_03]: need to see I need to see her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think another spark is not done yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think Arian like sees everybody for like a moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: He dives deep deep deep deep underwater and we don't know how far he goes or how far he swims.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does need a woman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sitting on an island, all by herself, and he ducks his head above the water.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm moving away the solstice marking the end of summer.
[SPEAKER_02]: The coach chiled in trouble, he puffs his head above the tide and stirs it his mother and asks, Mother, I don't think I'm done yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sweet Arya, if you're not done, then you're not done.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your journey did not lead you here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I have a return.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't feel like I'm just the siren anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also am not like man.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like everything and nothing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel hideous.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what.
[SPEAKER_03]: I meant to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just know that there's something that blooms in me and then bloom before.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she puts her hand in her chest.
[SPEAKER_04]: You may have a scar for your body.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is not.
[SPEAKER_04]: What
[SPEAKER_04]: And there is nothing that could be done about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It feels like I'm about to die.
[SPEAKER_04]: It will.
[SPEAKER_03]: It'll never stop.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we're going to cut from already on to Alex.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would love a montage from you about what you do with the coin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's wider now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it was expanded as part of the spell, but she's still just keep like flicking it over in her hands Looking at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like she spends several days out against like the beach Just staring at the waves Sitting at the shoreline having a smoke and a shitty beer
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's around the third day of just sort of staring into the horizon, that she stops spinning it and finally accepts in some format that she's not going to find a way to hear a stealth voice again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's no way holding on to this anymore is gonna do her any good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so she stares at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: She flips it between her face, and over to her stells.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one last time, goodbye love, and flicks it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it spins much farther out than just a normal physical flick, it sails off into the horizon to drop into the water, to sink to the bottom.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we follow the corn as it flows down, down, down, down, to the depths of the ocean where it rests in the sand before a tentacle grabs it and sweams it away.
[SPEAKER_06]: This series stars Alexander Christopher as the Game Master, valiant Dorian as Arion, Dan Pixel as Elixcho, and Kenzie Tartaglioni as Lou Wells.
[SPEAKER_06]: This episode's guest star was Kai Kay as KO.
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