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let's do that thing. Where we

1:25

the table and introduce ourselves. I'm

1:27

trying to keep it down.

1:29

My wife is I'm trying to keep Jason.

1:31

I'm the wife is around

1:33

the table I'm the

1:35

with master. Going around the table.

1:38

I'm Jasper. I play

1:40

Hey everybody, I'm Jasper. I play petricore

1:42

mulch, the Vanali Druid. I'm

1:44

Susan. Hi, I'll be

1:46

playing Tamika be playing Tamika sorcerer.

1:48

the Shifter sorcerer. And Brianna.

1:51

Hello, I'm I'm Brianna

1:53

Marie and I will be

1:55

playing I will be playing Roons, the Faden

1:58

Monk Barbarian. Hello, I'm Alex.

2:00

I'll be playing cannon. Human

2:02

warlock. Oh guys, guys, guys,

2:04

guys. We... There's a lot

2:06

to take care of. Now,

2:08

usually when I say that,

2:10

something's on fire, or one

2:12

of you is broken, or

2:14

falling, or something is happening.

2:16

But this is one of

2:18

the few times where... You're

2:20

kind of touching home base

2:22

like this is the first

2:24

time since you left that

2:26

I Think you're gonna get

2:28

a full night's sleep and

2:30

everything so for anyone Who's

2:32

got some misfiring neurons like

2:34

myself? And it's like, hey,

2:36

wait, where did we leave

2:38

off in the in the

2:40

crossover? You guys got out

2:42

of Dodge. You left. You,

2:44

you, you, you, you, you,

2:46

you, you sliders out of

2:48

there. Hell yeah, sliders. Oh,

2:50

great reference. Fucking. Yes. Yes.

2:52

Yes. We brought that up

2:54

the other day in the

2:56

car. And I was like,

2:59

the tiny, the tiny, like,

3:01

hamburgers? It's like, man, it's

3:03

okay. There's a hard cutoff

3:05

for sliders. It's like, shows

3:07

as I know, real hard

3:09

cutoff. It's 1997, and then

3:11

everything after, right? Yeah. Yep.

3:13

It's okay, though. I'm not

3:15

gonna find where sliders is

3:17

streaming. Okay. So, you guys

3:19

got back to Overdale, but

3:21

we haven't really touched on

3:23

any of that yet. I

3:25

hope you brought your role

3:27

play hats, because like, this

3:29

is gonna be a solid,

3:31

like, what the hell do

3:33

we do now type of

3:35

thing. So let's do this.

3:37

I had you guys roll

3:39

for the Rod of Wonder

3:41

thing, and that all went

3:43

well. I need a volunteer

3:45

for a role. I hear

3:47

Jasper. Jasper. Jasper. That's

3:49

feel like I'm

3:51

getting the

3:53

angry vibes because

3:55

we started

3:57

late and I

4:00

want Jasper

4:02

to be mad

4:04

at us.

4:06

let's let Jasper

4:08

do it. because

4:10

we started late and I

4:12

don't want I'm gonna

4:14

watch to be mad at us. So let's

4:16

let Jasper do it.

4:18

Jasper! fucking be sorry. soon.

4:21

you? for Jasper. Okay.

4:23

Sorry Jasper. a

4:25

scale of one

4:28

10. Uh, not danger. How?

4:30

Like, how seamless is teleportation? A 10! And

4:32

you're like blam, you're like

4:35

right in the middle in

4:37

the middle, like, Right in the

4:39

middle of right in the fine

4:41

town square, everything's fine, like, like, a one, and,

4:43

a glitch a pretty

4:45

big a glitch, a pretty big glitch, a

4:47

like glitch, a hickup. half the

4:49

town in half like, and you

4:51

of that half the town in coming

4:53

out of our chins

4:55

or something like that none of

4:57

that silliness. Just gonna Yeah Why did

4:59

we land outside of town, wasn't it,

5:01

near Wasn't it near the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. But

5:03

like... Okay. Yeah, but like...

5:05

Basically there. I don't like that. I like

5:07

that. I want to redo it.

5:10

Okay. When I'm... Okay, when you're leaving Donhurst in the

5:12

when you're leaving Donhurst in the

5:14

middle of Vampire City and

5:16

there's eternal night for fucking a

5:18

week and a half and all

5:20

like. all that This is

5:22

basically is basically know, You know, like,

5:24

up, but up, like, yeah. I mean,

5:26

we'll make your role a few

5:28

times to get there, Susan. That's

5:30

fine. Like that's cool. We'll do

5:32

it. Like, that's cool. We'll do

5:34

back. no. Susan sent you guys

5:36

just did it though. just

5:39

we stepped through a portal that already

5:41

was there. a portal and

5:43

then you said was there.

5:46

forgot to assign homework for

5:48

the teacher, teacher, you forgot to assign

5:50

that on me, for the weekend.

5:52

See then. Oh, gosh. Don't you pick that on

5:54

me, I mean. Okay, give me a give

5:56

me a detail a a

5:58

flat a just hoping for a high

6:01

role, but like, yeah, we'll figure

6:03

it out. It's good. Here it

6:05

comes. Here it comes. Come on.

6:07

No danger. Oh shit. A little

6:09

bit of danger. A little bit.

6:11

A little bit. A little bit.

6:13

Somebody severely breaks her ankle on

6:15

the landing. Oh damn it. So

6:17

your ground level, we're not dropping

6:19

you 100 feet in the air,

6:21

so I'm nonsense. But let's, here's,

6:23

here's from, here's from, here. We

6:26

should have the public lavatory. Is

6:28

that true? Is that true? And

6:30

it's not the one with stalls.

6:32

It's the one with the football

6:34

stadium trough for everyone. Oh God.

6:36

It's all familiar with the ice?

6:38

Eww! And they forgot to change

6:40

the ice. I like being a

6:42

girl sometimes. I'm just going to

6:44

be honest. Once in my life,

6:46

I was taken to a Houston

6:48

Astros game. It's the only baseball

6:50

game I've ever been to. I

6:53

don't care. I don't have any

6:55

allegiance. It was a neat experience

6:57

because it's like, this is kind

6:59

of neat. But like, this, everyone

7:01

whipped your dick out and then

7:03

stand next to each other thing

7:05

with no dividers. I'm cool. Everyone's

7:07

had like 12 years. Look for

7:09

a state that really does not

7:11

care for gay things. I just,

7:13

it's such a weird stance to

7:15

take, you know, right next to

7:18

another man. It's just a weird

7:20

thing. It's tradition. Yeah, yeah. Okay,

7:22

men in the call. Do you

7:24

try to bore a hole through

7:26

one or do you try to

7:28

melt it from the top? What

7:30

do we do? I bore a

7:32

hole. With the ice. I don't

7:34

think you bore a hole. I'm

7:36

playing Arctic Diggers the whole time.

7:38

Or do you move the smaller

7:40

ones? No, no, no, no. And

7:42

you try to like push them

7:45

around. Now dig. Straight, right down

7:47

the middle, straight through. I play,

7:49

I like P.P. Genga, but like

7:51

I'm trying to find the parabolic

7:53

balance. where the

7:55

least blashing is

7:57

going to happen.

7:59

It's just a

8:01

game I play. to

8:03

happen. That's fair. just

8:05

fair. I play. True. glad

8:08

I asked True. get out

8:10

of Remember it. Lego set? I'm so

8:12

to deal with I asked that.

8:14

By the way, is this

8:16

the three? what I'm trying to do. Is this

8:18

a three? Is this the you pee? Is this

8:21

the three? Is this the three? Yeah. Okay. That's the

8:23

three. Okay. Sorry. This is why we need to hang

8:25

is why we need to hang

8:27

out more. This is what

8:29

it It's important, right? We just right? three of

8:31

have different three of us have

8:33

different styles and if we

8:35

were paying next to each other

8:38

each other in set we would not

8:40

interfere with each other's with

8:42

each each other's all right All right, because we

8:44

have go about your mission hey, go

8:46

have our your mission, right? We all have our

8:48

and I will just stick to our

8:50

stalls. Bree and I will just stick to our the better

8:53

system. the better system. That's great. I

8:55

agree. great. Yeah. Yeah. Not when

8:57

you've had 12 beers, actually. That

8:59

part, actually, that sucks. waiting in

9:01

had to explain. I've

9:03

had to explain bits

9:05

of guy etiquette of guy because

9:07

you'll never know, like,

9:09

the she'll never know, like, two, three

9:11

two, three, urinals, and, oh, I that

9:14

out. The etiquette? out, yeah, like, it's,

9:16

it's, it's, know, know, anyway, So, so,

9:18

three, three rhymes with P. And

9:20

that's how we got

9:22

back here. how we got back here. So,

9:24

um, like a

9:26

quilt. a quilt, why

9:28

I'm, that's why I'm where I am. why

9:30

I'm, that's why I'm

9:33

where I guys are

9:35

going to end up going

9:37

about here. I'm going to

9:39

mark it on the

9:41

map I'm going to market on

9:44

Lamapp in

9:46

the river. the is a

9:48

river. there is a river

9:50

that of runs

9:53

runs the mountains.

9:56

out know, so it is.

9:58

it is boggish

10:00

there like it you're gonna land

10:02

in mud essentially this time of

10:05

year the water is pretty low

10:07

and it is just three or

10:10

four solid inches of wet mud

10:12

like you're you're just you know

10:14

so it's unpleasant but not dangerous

10:17

right you like you know yeah

10:19

petricore would not be coming from

10:21

a swamp it probably wouldn't even

10:24

reddish he wouldn't even clock it

10:26

wouldn't even clock it even clock

10:28

it would even clock it Home,

10:31

sweet home. It's like a fucking

10:33

welcome mat for me. Yeah, yeah.

10:36

Yeah. He'll take a deep breath.

10:38

I do want to paint a

10:40

picture that Tamika is like four

10:43

feet tall. Oh my god. Just

10:45

like inches, not feet. I need

10:47

to. All right. Because like, I

10:50

would imagine, like, I would imagine

10:52

you kind of land on your,

10:54

you're like. your feet, but like

10:57

slide a little bit. Like I'm

10:59

not gonna make anybody do saves,

11:02

but like, if this were me,

11:04

I would definitely fall down. Like,

11:06

I'm just, you know, I'm not

11:09

a dexterous man. So I, you

11:11

know, I would imagine there's a

11:13

certain amount of like, you know,

11:16

hands and knees type of things

11:18

like, oh, God. So yeah, you're

11:20

gross, but like, after a few

11:23

seconds, you kind of look around

11:25

and like. You

11:28

recognize, you recognize the

11:30

area and that's, you

11:32

know, this is where

11:34

you picked up Terry.

11:36

This is almost the

11:38

exact spot where you

11:40

picked up Terry. All

11:43

right, Terry, we did.

11:45

Bye. See later. Three

11:47

feet from where we

11:49

found you. Here you

11:51

go, buddy. There's that

11:53

cliff you fell from.

11:55

Good time. Honestly?

12:00

If he If, if he weren't

12:02

so tired, it would probably be

12:04

like a like a type of thing.

12:06

Like it's like, of thing. Like it's we

12:08

did all that to get exactly

12:10

back to get exactly on, like know. come

12:12

on, you know. Yeah. I think I

12:14

think and I'm just pissed because because

12:16

mud just like, he's like, it. Like, it's like,

12:19

he's in in that mode where like

12:21

little things piss him off, you

12:23

know? We them off, limit and he's

12:25

just like, just like, is walking that's

12:27

I'll see how he's just like. past

12:30

him like, oh, oh, how? He's to

12:32

wipe it off and just

12:34

getting it's getting worse wipe it off and

12:36

just getting, it's dog's cold, wet is

12:39

is a little colder. cold

12:41

wet nose is a That's right. colder.

12:43

getting colder. right. It's getting

12:46

colder. I mean, It's still

12:48

night. night. Well, because we

12:50

get the rod of wonder thing and

12:52

it was like oh, it's gonna be get the

12:54

route of wonder thing

12:56

and about that. was like

12:58

oh, it's I believe. be so it's

13:01

a lot. colder. Yeah.

13:03

Yeah. Oh, bigger forgot about

13:05

it. Yeah. It

13:07

fine Celsius though, I believe.

13:10

Yes. So it's a lot.

13:12

Yeah. So it's a lot of

13:15

away are we from where we need

13:17

to get a bigger know? Yeah. hours

13:19

to point of view. point

13:22

of view. Oh. And of

13:24

vibe. for apple will get

13:26

you there, baby. of

13:28

vibe. D6 will

13:30

Susan should have

13:33

to roll there

13:35

baby? I think Susan should

13:37

have to roll, obviously. Yeah.

13:40

Yeah. Right. Fine. I'll I'll

13:42

do it. But remember,

13:44

I I

13:46

protested. Sure. Why?

13:49

Why would you vote

13:51

this? You got five? Oh

13:53

yeah! Great. Yeah, great.

13:55

Yeah. So, okay. on,

13:58

let me do the That's

14:00

why we trusted you

14:02

because we knew you'd nail

14:04

you with that, Susan, because of six,

14:06

yeah. nail it. Yeah, five

14:08

or six, yeah. That's you.

14:11

You got it. Not stop.

14:13

Still protesting. If something

14:15

happens. So it would have

14:17

been around been around 10 which is 50

14:20

Fahrenheit. which would go down

14:22

to So it would

14:24

go down to, wait, negative

14:26

7. Which is is 19

14:28

degrees. like that. Yeah, don't like that.

14:30

to Alex Anything below 60 is hell

14:32

below So is hell for

14:35

him. a fan. Not a fan. It's different though.

14:37

a fan. are Not a fan.

14:39

I different though. You guys are East Coast.

14:41

I feel like it. I you don't like it.

14:43

I don't to to be. You don't want I

14:45

know. know But I don't like it and I

14:47

can't be. be a difference. difference like I go

14:49

somewhere where it's ice, it's die die I

14:51

the hands down. I won't die. And I'll break my

14:53

head I'll break my head because I

14:55

don't know what ice looks like. And I

14:57

And I don't don't know looks Like looks

14:59

black, like the asphalt like it looks

15:02

like the asphalt and I is so normally

15:04

there and I will slip on

15:06

it and walking are you walking in

15:08

the street? I'm Because I'm trying to

15:10

cross the street probably. Why Why are

15:12

you jaywalking? Oh my god. We're

15:14

trying to keep my friends safe.

15:16

I don't keeping this

15:19

why. We're keeping this

15:21

energy into the actual

15:24

section. I'm trying to keep my be anywhere

15:26

near ice. Let's put it that

15:28

way shit Well,

15:30

Tamika's fine. Well, I won't be

15:32

anywhere in your eyes. Let's

15:34

put this is, way. Shit.

15:37

Well, Tamika's back to

15:39

town like it's it's

15:41

gonna be nighttime to be nighttime. It's

15:43

going to be by the time all

15:45

this wraps up. by the time

15:47

all this we're up. We're talking

15:50

like, I three, four three, four a.m.

15:52

Like be closer to be

15:54

than anything. dawn than been

15:56

a rough one. a rough

15:59

one. So from Overdale,

16:01

you have run into have run

16:03

into borderline cult members. You

16:05

have watched a child murder

16:08

were You were recounting that

16:10

before the session. the session. You dealt

16:12

with vampires and the whole

16:14

whole city. been a it's been a

16:16

lot. And oh yeah, the that almost

16:19

ate you ate you and know, know,

16:21

the divide the divide man, it's

16:23

been a lot, it's been a

16:25

lot. So you're exhausted, you're

16:27

beat up. beat up. What

16:29

do What are you? the the first

16:31

thing you you do? to do? Like,

16:34

is in. is in, in your

16:36

crosshairs. You see it over

16:38

the hill. over You're coming

16:40

down from the hill tops

16:43

of the of the

16:45

scar, and you're still,

16:47

still, you're cold, you're

16:49

wet, wet, you're exhausted,

16:51

your your up covered covered in

16:53

scrapes and bruises, some

16:55

of you more than that.

16:57

than that. Some of of you

17:00

are missing appendages. So like, like,

17:02

I would imagine it's I would

17:04

imagine it's very quiet. just like

17:06

the it's just like the

17:08

like limping of kind of

17:10

like getting there. And you see

17:12

the see the city and from

17:14

the city overwhelming,

17:17

right? Like that sense be

17:19

almost overwhelming, right? Like that

17:21

sense of big that's safety. that's

17:23

a big a big city. that's where where

17:25

we come from. That's it. it.

17:28

Yeah, I think I I mean, Kenan's mind

17:30

is home. He's gonna go home,

17:32

home. whatever home is. go know, he's

17:34

going there. home is, you know, he's going

17:36

there. to the barracks line.

17:38

Yeah, was gonna say

17:40

I think Tamika to the

17:42

barracks only like they

17:45

don't really have a

17:47

home in Tamika and initially

17:49

from somewhere else only, and

17:51

don't really have a home in Overdale. Yeah.

17:53

Patrickore is if there's where's by

17:55

by the way, where's

17:57

the white the white encampment in

18:00

or place within Overdale. I mean, within Overdale. I

18:02

mean, it's not just the city.

18:04

a Is there a particular place

18:06

for this? Is it an outside? Yeah, would I

18:08

Bring up a map, baby. baby? Oh,

18:10

you too. Exciting. I say

18:12

that Petricore would say that

18:15

a lot of quiet once there's probably a lot

18:17

of quiet. to Once we get close

18:19

to knows everybody knows where they're going.

18:21

It's just more like. like, I'll see I'll

18:23

see and 'all see y 'all tomorrow. You know,

18:25

kind of the thing. See y 'all of

18:27

the thing. Yeah, it's like, yeah, seeing a bit. a bit. would

18:30

just tell everybody he's tell everybody to

18:32

head to the mess hall. and

18:34

just get something, just Just

18:37

get comfortable to eat. I can

18:39

something comfortable tell him eat. he

18:41

looks at dog tell dog, probably she probably

18:43

looks up at him probably looks

18:46

up at him can see that

18:48

can see that even more

18:50

exaggerated canine teeth now. now.

18:52

Yeah. And he'll say, hey, Petrocor. He'll look at

18:54

dogs he'll look at to Petrocor.

18:57

be very careful with with dog.

18:59

She's a good girl. And a good

19:01

girl. that's loud on loud on purpose. But

19:03

she now could be now could be potentially

19:05

bite, a bitey girl. He And he says

19:07

that kind of like grimacing, like through

19:09

his teeth, like through his teeth, like, keep

19:11

an eye on her. an eye on her.

19:13

Yeah, you know, uh, dogs you know,

19:15

been a little bit, um, you know, a

19:18

little bit a little, some bones off the

19:20

know, and that a little, some bones off the

19:22

ground and that kind of thing. Always thought

19:24

about getting the muzzle anyway, but. but...

19:26

Maybe the time time. He shrugs

19:28

because as your dog, I'm

19:30

not going to make choices

19:32

for you, man. choices for you man.

19:34

And like as shrugs, he'll

19:36

shrug and you hear like a

19:39

crack. He's like. like a crack. It's like,

19:41

mmm. Terry would kind of, where

19:43

do I go? No, you're coming

19:45

Where do I go? Terry. No, we're you're coming

19:47

with me, you something neat, get get you something

19:49

to eat, get you cleaned up, gonna

19:51

get you in the barracks. You're

19:54

home for now. now. He's

19:56

dead. dead. Like, it's like, can I can I just

19:58

sleep in a bed? please. I

20:00

don't have money have money me.

20:03

And I just, I just,

20:05

me just, please, well, well, me,

20:07

welcome to the life

20:09

of the well, Terry, welcome to the life

20:11

of the 98%! To me, I'm To

20:13

me, it's to to look to

20:15

and be like, I'm be, I

20:17

to gross, I feel gross,

20:20

I don't even think I'm going to meet up

20:22

with you guys in the mess hall, I'm probably

20:24

going to pass out right after. gonna

20:26

pass out right after, so.

20:28

Yeah. Like four day Dragon Con. This

20:31

is still literally it, you're

20:33

right? Roons is probably nod

20:35

and then point to probably nod

20:37

and then point to the meet you

20:39

kind of like I'll meet you he

20:42

will go to the mess hall, he will go

20:44

to the to but he's gonna

20:46

grab something and then go back

20:48

to the barracks Oh, okay. You know how when people

20:50

you know how when people are

20:52

like really close and they could

20:54

like read each each other's like body you

20:56

and Jason Like there's even a

20:58

moment where we don't even have

21:00

to say anything even a moment her we

21:02

don't because he's probably say it to

21:04

the for them over her bag grab

21:06

food because he's then we'll meet

21:08

up gonna take food. It's for

21:10

them and like this. food for

21:13

food. It's great. We got this. get

21:15

a long rest and in.

21:17

How about that? This to got to be.

21:19

I would it. I think, oh so, okay,

21:21

so. I would dare say that so.

21:24

one of those days where would

21:26

dare say. leave it this is one

21:28

of those days we're like. it's just like

21:30

the noon at least, right? and hours.

21:32

Like there are people training hours. and like are

21:34

people training outside see the one

21:36

touches you. They could see the

21:38

state you're in, got gotta be

21:40

like some new recruits who

21:42

are like. who are like, like, I.

21:45

I think dead. I'm not going

21:47

to touch I'm I'll tell somebody

21:49

touch him. I'll tell somebody

21:51

that like, filthy hobo over

21:53

there is definitely over there

21:55

is I think.

21:57

expired, I think. So like.

22:01

I would say it's like noon

22:03

one o'clock whatever the equivalent is

22:05

like Who okay who is in

22:07

the barracks is it? Everyone or

22:09

just lower you guys spread out.

22:11

Are you guys like I don't

22:13

I don't know if I have

22:15

I assumed I had a place

22:17

to stay but if it's the

22:19

barracks I would be in the

22:21

barracks. I leave it's your time

22:23

it's your character. It's your character.

22:25

Yeah, you're the one. I don't

22:27

think can I could afford I

22:29

would assume when he says he'll

22:31

go home, he has a rental

22:33

market in over town right now.

22:35

Yeah, it's in the man, there's

22:37

no active wars, like, you know,

22:39

it's a, it's a cell, like

22:41

30% what's racism. So yeah, it's

22:43

a cell market, right? So he

22:45

probably, I would assume when he

22:47

says he'll go home, he has

22:50

somewhere in the barracks, you know,

22:52

he's got a, he's got a,

22:54

you know, you're team leader, man,

22:56

don't, it would be gosh. Yeah,

22:58

I think we're probably all just

23:00

end up into barracks. Yeah, maybe

23:02

a little more privacy screen or

23:04

something like that. My rank comes

23:06

with one of those was a

23:08

dollar store privacy screen. Which is

23:10

like what they do in a

23:12

hospital between beds, right? Yeah. Yeah.

23:14

I think we're probably all just

23:16

end up into barracks. Like, well,

23:18

I'm like, the mess hall is

23:20

just simply, I gotta have something

23:22

that's not. rations and eating berries

23:24

off the ground or whatever. Yeah,

23:26

there's, I, but then pass out.

23:28

There's, there's definitely like a buffet

23:30

style, like you'll smell like potatoes,

23:32

bacon, eggs, and stuff like that.

23:34

And like, and it's one of

23:36

those things where usually, it's like,

23:38

hey, we gotta make sure everyone

23:40

eats, but like, like, whatever you

23:42

see them spooning or tonging with

23:44

the bacon, it's like more. Or

23:46

like just give me carbs. I

23:48

want carbs and fats. Rich just

23:50

has the bag open like... How

23:52

do I give myself long rest

23:54

or are do I

23:56

give myself at the

23:58

top we're doing

24:00

is that a at

24:02

the top there's

24:04

a little potion

24:06

I see. Next to fork. Yeah,

24:08

they changed they changed it again. I

24:11

didn't change anything. I want this on

24:13

the record. this on Used to be

24:15

a bed. I think that a

24:17

bed. I think was missing the, uh, I was

24:19

missing 46 H.P. I didn't was, I thought that

24:21

was a little I thought that was a

24:24

yeah, huh? tent. Oh yeah. I don't

24:26

know if you kind of look know potion

24:28

I'm I see that. I assumed

24:30

it was a flask. the record. I think it

24:32

was a flask. I I need one of your strongest your

24:35

all were so hurt. You all

24:37

were so hurt. You can't get I don't

24:39

know if you guys know you

24:41

were in a fight if you guys

24:43

know you were in a fight. We've got to left

24:46

For sure. You know what? I'm know

24:48

what say this say this on

24:50

the record Every group been

24:52

a a part of whenever they

24:54

start their there. Quest, the journey,

24:56

the the campaign. never, it's

24:58

never an easy never an easy road and I

25:00

think it's my fault. I think

25:02

I'm I'm a curse. I mean, not even,

25:05

my very first group, group two, right?

25:07

very first whatever right? to

25:09

Group B, whatever you want to call it. first thing was,

25:11

first thing was, hey, let's go go

25:13

on let's go on this adventure, let's find

25:16

let's find a boat, let's get

25:18

a boat, and let's sail through the

25:20

Arctic. through the Arctic, like, what? We

25:22

were were already planning

25:24

on Sure, but the... It became... went from

25:26

turning into like that movie rat

25:28

race where it's like it's a

25:30

that movie into like where it's This is

25:32

the Odyssey now goofy, into

25:34

like, oh shit, this is serves,

25:37

you weren't the one who

25:39

grabbed the fucking wheel of

25:41

that elven ship If memory serves, you

25:43

weren't the one who my presence fucking wheel

25:45

that. And then on the

25:48

other group, and steered... The gray group?

25:50

Uh-huh. Now I wouldn't even work

25:53

in charge of... I can't, but

25:55

curse curse, still curse. And

25:57

now this one, we went through

25:59

the fucking fucking... through the gauntlet

26:01

on this one this was like

26:03

this was your fault like I'm

26:05

like told no look look the

26:08

important thing is your home and

26:10

you're gonna feel a hand eventually

26:13

just like if you aren't awake

26:15

just kind of like just kind

26:17

of like gently touch you like

26:20

just kind of like shake your

26:22

shoulder it's like hey hey He

26:26

just kind of stiffens up,

26:28

hello, now, hi. Po's gonna

26:30

be like, trying to like

26:32

gingerly crouch down and like

26:34

not scare you. And just

26:36

kind of like, you know

26:38

how you don't like get

26:40

this close to someone's face,

26:42

like they're gonna murder you

26:44

like Jamison did me, like,

26:46

you know, you, you kind

26:48

of hover, you know, you're

26:50

kind of hover, you know,

26:52

that type of thing. So.

26:55

I had someone check on

26:57

you guys to make sure

26:59

you were all alive. And

27:01

then once we saw you

27:03

were alive, we just kind

27:05

of let you I told

27:07

everybody to just leave you

27:09

alone, let you sleep. Are

27:11

you okay? He kind of,

27:13

now he sits up. Oh,

27:15

his back cracks. Oh, that

27:17

feels good. Yeah, I feel,

27:19

I feel better. I mean,

27:21

it was. It was a

27:23

little rough out there, and

27:25

that's an understatement. Have you

27:27

talked to anybody else? I

27:29

mean, the rest of the

27:31

team, I assume they're either

27:33

still sleeping or up, chowing

27:35

down, because we didn't have

27:37

a lot of opportunities for

27:39

either chowing down or sleeping

27:41

out there. Uh, no. I

27:43

was just about to gather

27:45

everyone else. Who is that?

27:47

And he's going to point

27:49

over to the one-eyed man.

27:51

Oh, that's true. One of

27:53

the pets. He just turns,

27:55

turns back, oh, that's Terry.

27:57

Like, casually, like, that's Terry.

27:59

Duh. Who the fuck is Terry?

28:01

I didn't fuck is you out with

28:03

the Terry. I didn't send you

28:05

out with the it. I didn't do

28:08

of Okay. No, do that. guy, I

28:10

mean, this is a legend. a guy him

28:12

up I mean, the way guy's

28:14

a legend. We picked them

28:16

up along the way for him,

28:18

he has been. been at least

28:20

it wasn't for him. there would have

28:22

been at least three separate instances in

28:24

which everyone would have been killed. been killed. I

28:26

figured the least we could do for him

28:28

is for on his quest, which is to

28:30

get somewhere. which is to them a

28:32

little bit of rest and give him a little

28:34

the way there. rest and food

28:37

he in that bad a shape when you

28:39

picked him up, or did that happen? you picked him

28:41

bites his mouth like his

28:43

bottom lip. bites his mouth like his

28:45

bottom lip. Hmm. He was a... No,

28:48

he was not like that was not

28:50

like that when we picked him up.

28:52

He was actually in better shape. And

28:54

I'm And I'm sad that. to say that. There

28:56

was some bad decision -making on

28:58

my behalf, which got us into

29:00

some pretty shady places and

29:02

situations, but pretty it made places and

29:05

stronger man for it. hey, it made

29:07

right, stronger man okay, one more question,

29:09

I and then I'm gonna let

29:11

you gather your team and we

29:13

can debrief after everyone's up

29:15

and about. after everyone's up and

29:18

Did you make it

29:20

to make it to Donhurst, you're

29:22

back pretty quick, all

29:24

things considered. considered. It's

29:26

a a complicated answer,

29:29

answer. Oh, we make it

29:31

donners, made contact contact with

29:33

the the people there,

29:35

it was way it was

29:37

way different was initially set was

29:39

initially. Let's on paper. that.

29:41

let's put it like that. were things were

29:44

right. they were just missing some

29:46

key they were just missing some

29:48

key pieces of information there. you We'll

29:50

tell you all about in the if that's

29:52

okay. if that's okay. Yeah, no, just get

29:54

a... maybe get a shower. I'm not

29:56

you what you what to do with

29:58

your life, but like a might help.

30:01

No, you're you're right. You're right.

30:03

That's fair. That's fair fair, like to do

30:05

really quick And he'll like do a that's more than

30:07

fair smell check like, mm-hmm, yep,

30:09

to all of us. He

30:11

got road smell and that just

30:13

gather everybody up Yeah, just

30:15

Take your time. Bye, bye. up and take

30:18

your time. I, I'm... He's gonna to

30:20

leave you alone, too, too, because

30:22

been there. It's like, there. dude.

30:24

like, no, dude, like, I it, it, like, like,

30:26

like, yeah. Yeah, and I cannot confess, or brunch, or whatever. He's

30:28

he's not, he's done sleeping. He's like, like,

30:30

of stretches up a little bit. He

30:33

looks at up He's like, I'll get

30:35

Terry last, looks at sleep a little bit

30:37

longer. And he will go get let the

30:39

and foremost little bit then to and he will afterwards.

30:41

And then once he's got everybody, he'll

30:43

come back for Terry, let him rest

30:46

just a little bit longer. afterwards,

30:48

and then once he's got

30:50

everybody, he'll come back for Terry,

30:52

is starting to get roused,

30:54

bit longer. He'll He'll help him over

30:56

to the the shower him around, around It's

30:58

like, it's like here, we We got you there's

31:01

some. some You're gonna need some going to need

31:03

some new clothes, number one. We're one. to we're also

31:05

going to get you something, uh, up to

31:07

sort of cover up some of the,

31:09

well, and he's going to sort of point

31:11

to his face you know just to just be

31:13

like, you know, just to make yourself presentable

31:15

and, uh, you then we're going to get

31:17

you some food, you and get you some

31:19

real good food. Some of the best, best

31:21

food food you're going to find in this

31:23

area area overdale number one in the barracks

31:25

and the Not as good as that, but

31:27

it's going to be all right. as that,

31:29

but it's gonna be all right. in. in the

31:31

best situation. Some opposed,

31:34

best friends friends have

31:36

so So like you're going

31:38

to have options. Like, you got some

31:40

got some character Are they gonna

31:42

have to Air Wolf? anyone remember

31:44

the show remember the show Air Wolf? Like,

31:46

no one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah,

31:48

yeah. okay. It's not a

31:50

a super helicopter. It's

31:52

basically like Rider, but but

31:54

it's a helicopter. Oh, okay. It's

31:56

a helicopter, right? Clearly, early 80s,

31:59

very clearly. Oh. Oh God, yeah, it's

32:01

like mid 80s as fuck,

32:03

but it's gonna bang or

32:05

a theme song. And there

32:07

was a guy who had

32:09

glasses, but one of his

32:12

glasses were just like, with

32:14

his lenses, you're just dark.

32:16

And I'm like, just wear

32:18

a monocle, I think I'd

32:20

be cooler. But like, I

32:22

don't know, maybe that was

32:24

too German for the time.

32:26

I don't know. The point

32:29

is, you're going to get

32:31

a shower. Whatever the equivalent,

32:33

whatever the fantasy equivalent of

32:35

ibuprofen, you're just chugging it,

32:37

right? Yes, it's like little,

32:39

it's like little, it's little

32:41

capsules of like salt blessed

32:43

with like the most minute

32:46

amount of healing magic that's

32:48

even available, like restoration magic.

32:50

Yeah, small is like a

32:52

small amount, like it's not

32:54

enough really... You're just going

32:56

to the apothecary and going,

32:58

eh, yeah. Like just everything

33:00

and imaginable like, so Christ,

33:03

okay, let me ask you

33:05

guys. You're medicated, bandaged, showered,

33:07

dressed. What do you want

33:09

to do? Like, do you

33:11

want to get right to,

33:13

like, hey, here's what happened,

33:15

and here's what we need,

33:17

and here's what, you know,

33:20

because Po's not going to

33:22

rush you, but at the

33:24

same time, it's like, what

33:26

the fuck happened? Like, there's

33:28

got to be like, like,

33:30

yeah. I mean, I think

33:32

we tell them, like, first

33:34

before. We're still on a

33:37

mission. I mean, we're not

33:39

we're not back for vacation.

33:41

It's like no, we gotta

33:43

go this protocol protocol says

33:45

like we just

33:47

destroyed something in

33:49

an alternate

33:51

dimension. in I

33:54

think we're gonna

33:56

we're gonna

33:58

talk about it

34:00

We're gonna

34:02

tell him right

34:04

away, you

34:06

know we're gonna we're gonna talk my

34:08

next question. tell How do you

34:11

tell know What do you do

34:13

to go about that? how I

34:15

you that falls on the group

34:17

leader to start, to but about

34:19

for color commentary, on the you know,

34:21

leader to start but like for color I

34:23

would tell him first and

34:25

foremost, I let's say tell him first looking

34:27

on foremost I'd say poe. just to

34:29

give you you the synopsis of what went

34:31

down, let's give the down. Let's give you the

34:34

highlights first it's going to then it's going

34:36

to turn these very comical breakdown where I'm going to have, if

34:38

gonna have, if she's okay with it,

34:40

I'm gonna have Tamika act out act out

34:42

some of the scenes that happened to I

34:44

feel feel like she'd be the most

34:46

animated in terms of in terms of like things. things.

34:48

I was was gonna say to probably

34:50

there would some point as she

34:52

has this new mastery over

34:54

her magic And then she's

34:56

also kind of showing off

34:58

to the boss. She'd be

35:01

like, her magic and then she's also kind of

35:03

figures to the boss. She'd be like, here's some

35:05

mere this retelling and here's like is

35:07

a body cam footage

35:09

almost So aid and assist in this retelling.

35:11

through through getting beat up

35:13

by the racists. beat up by the

35:15

racist. Yeah, I see. Start off with meeting

35:17

off with meeting Terry, then

35:20

and foremost, and how he

35:22

wanted to reach, was it, uh,

35:24

what's an Esther Holt? I forget. Yeah, Esther

35:26

forget. Yeah, Esther Holt. Yeah, Esther Holt.

35:28

Where Where the palette of the is,

35:30

or the school of or the school

35:32

of the, called now. the deity

35:34

is period of now. Spirit of Flux.

35:36

Yeah. Was it? What did you say? you say? It's

35:39

a a period of of flux right now.

35:41

There are some people are people

35:43

who are... I guess,

35:45

would be the best

35:47

best description? Yeah, just, yeah, in school,

35:49

at Academy. Yeah, he wants, he wants,

35:51

he wants passengers, so we

35:53

we agreed with us. Yeah, sure. Why

35:56

not? And then yeah, sure, why not? got

35:58

a little hairy. got a little hairy. We ended

36:00

up, and correct me if I'm wrong guys,

36:02

please, because I had spent a long time,

36:04

but we ended up in Dern Hollow. I

36:07

do remember going to Dern Hollow, and then

36:09

we tried to help. There was a murder

36:11

and teethling. It was murdered by a child.

36:13

We tried to apprehend this child. He led

36:16

us to a den of like-minded individuals. Former

36:18

overwatch. Which I guess that'd be really important

36:20

for Poe, right, because these guys are like

36:22

very important. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, these guys were,

36:24

it's like, God damn, I thought we were

36:27

done with that. Like, just, and then let

36:29

them go, hey. Every morning when I leave

36:31

the house. They were also very well equipped,

36:33

if I remember correctly. These guys were not

36:35

fucking around. These guys were being serious, and

36:38

we got lucky they didn't just outright kill

36:40

us, and they threw us into a hole

36:42

where we broke our limbs, and they let

36:44

us die. But Dog and Terry saved us,

36:47

if I remember correctly. If I remember, if

36:49

I remember, if I remember, I remember, I

36:51

mean, Where are they? Where are they going?

36:53

Like that, should we be worried? Should we

36:55

keep an eye? Like what, like, you know.

36:58

Part of the presentation to Miko would be

37:00

rolling out a map and be like a

37:02

market on the map. Here's where they are,

37:04

just north of Overdale. And overdale, just north

37:07

of Durnholland. Next part he would talk about

37:09

would be the. Going from there to, uh,

37:11

moving eastwards, going through the, I think we

37:13

went to the deadwood, right? We went through,

37:15

where the hell did we go through? Yeah,

37:18

because it wasn't, yeah. There was a rock

37:20

that tried to kill us, Rock, ROC, being

37:22

the bird, a massive bird of prey, which

37:24

is like a murderous, it had a name,

37:27

right? It had a different name. Or was

37:29

it just a, yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys

37:31

ran it to, so, like, like, like, This

37:33

is like, oh, we ran into gritty. Like,

37:35

it would be like, it's like, it has

37:38

to sing to my name. It's like, oh,

37:40

shit, grit. So while you're, you're slipping in,

37:42

it's like, oh, yeah, and it's legendary. It's

37:44

like, fucking what? Like, you, like. Yes. And

37:47

okay, you You haven't even

37:49

reached the city in

37:51

this story yet. So,

37:53

okay. him about the about the

37:55

legendary cryptid and how

37:58

we didn't do anything

38:00

to it. We just

38:02

ran from it because

38:04

it was destroying trees

38:07

it was destroying trees. how we

38:09

did get into the

38:11

did then we got

38:13

attacked by some sort

38:15

of nightmare creature that

38:18

attacked our by some was

38:20

fantastic creature that attacked

38:22

our minds, which was learned

38:24

how to cast then I learned how to

38:26

cast Fireball. She did. She dead. She

38:28

did. And once we managed

38:30

to deal with that with that, it's all

38:32

good to me. He's gonna turn to the interject

38:35

if you got some I'm if

38:37

for it I'm told you for it. Okay. Moving

38:39

along went, we finally the city. city.

38:41

Oh, there were weird were weird there

38:43

were the mirrors. I mirrors. I keep thinking

38:46

about The mirrors. Just put a just put a

38:48

pin on it because I don't

38:50

think that's really relevant. really relevant. But I do

38:52

dream of it every night. But I think it

38:54

it too. We should go back. Something's pulling us pulling

38:56

us to go back to these mirrors

38:58

that we're talking about and we can't

39:00

explain it. we can't explain it. for

39:02

a second, like a dead

39:04

pan for a second, give him a dead pan face.

39:06

Anyways, we almost outside of the

39:09

city of the city, and you it a

39:11

knock a knock, nobody answered. answered. And

39:13

then, not go into detail about how? detail

39:15

about how the daytime, the daytime, the city

39:17

dead, dead. and how as they they

39:19

finally set foot in the

39:21

city city walking past walking past buildings, residences,

39:23

storefronts, et cetera, there

39:25

were figures in the shadows, red

39:27

eyes kind of analyzing them, making weird

39:30

noises. then and population of the city

39:32

has been entirely converted to vampires vampires,

39:34

and how how there are two classes

39:36

of vampires from what we saw, what

39:38

we analyzed and what we were

39:40

told by one vampire who actually managed

39:42

to aid us managed little bit. us a

39:44

little are the are the pharaohs. and the

39:47

And there are way more are way

39:50

than there are non -feryls. are non-ferrels.

39:52

The... I forget the name of the

39:55

name of the vampire and

39:57

so sorry sorry, Chase. Thank

39:59

you thank you. Dexter and his... undead Poodle

40:02

us get into the castle. the we're

40:04

to meet with the leader

40:06

of the the leader of the Ripley,

40:08

if I'm not mistaken. Ripley, if

40:10

I'm not meeting never took

40:12

place meeting never when

40:14

we got into the when

40:16

we got into et cetera,

40:18

we keep, etc., we entered underground

40:20

dungeon. which there

40:22

were which there were -ferral

40:25

vampires or some sort of

40:27

group of cultists performing a ritual in

40:29

which they were lifting a coffin out of

40:31

the ground. out of the ground. And

40:33

then he's gonna then he's gonna pause

40:35

because in his mind he's thinking about his

40:37

his his telling him he'd get rid of that

40:39

thing His rid of guiding him the whole time

40:41

there basically he's gonna snap back the whole time there and

40:43

he's at Tamika for a second, to and look at

40:46

Tamika to a second and then back

40:48

to Poe. My patron requested that

40:50

requested that we stop them

40:52

from performing ritual and I

40:54

know it's his know our mission

40:56

was to to do reconnaissance and

40:58

make contact with the leadership,

41:00

contact but the leadership for

41:02

that city was unavailable slash

41:04

incapacitated. slash incapacitated.

41:07

So I took it upon it upon

41:09

myself to lead the team and stop

41:11

this ritual from happening. ritual from happening. And

41:13

we all agreed. It It

41:15

like like it was going to do something

41:17

real bad. real It didn't

41:19

seem good, right? And then

41:21

she's gonna look to look

41:23

to a right? rinse,

41:25

going to right, we, he's

41:28

going to nod. So petricorn,

41:30

so It was a single coffin

41:32

they're pulling up out. Oh, was

41:34

just a pulling up out. It going

41:36

to put his arms out was

41:38

a big coffin. It was, it was a, it was

41:41

a that many people are

41:43

working on one with that. That

41:45

no, to help with that. good no

41:47

good that can come from that. Not that.

41:50

Okay, but that But that didn't

41:52

happen, right? You said

41:54

that. that you had to put

41:56

a you had to it, to it

41:59

so that Nothing came

42:01

came with that, right? Yeah. So

42:03

look at the group, yeah, look

42:05

to the group. Yeah,

42:08

we this, in the part. part?

42:10

Like, uh, there was another another

42:12

group. Yeah, remember how I said

42:14

I learned fireball? I learned

42:16

acid fireball too. So learned

42:19

chains bringing it up and

42:21

I dropped it. So I, there was these

42:24

yeah, sorry. it up

42:26

think she I small again.

42:28

Uh, yeah, sorry. There was another

42:30

group of adventurers

42:32

there there that were were brought a

42:34

similar a similar reason to stop

42:36

something from occurring there as

42:38

well. occurring there as well. mastermind behind all

42:40

of this, or at behind all this,

42:43

figure was this pivotal

42:45

who was possessed by

42:47

a demon. was possessed by

42:49

a demon. And we had to

42:51

join forces with

42:53

Slythergrup with the other this fight

42:55

this possessed woman in essentially

42:58

was described as some sort

43:00

of as some sort of like world, not

43:02

here, not there, in here not there

43:04

in It was very strange. it

43:07

was very It was what my

43:09

patron had asked us to do,

43:11

my them in that location us to

43:13

we won. in that So we're

43:15

here. and we other group. was we're here

43:17

us tremendously. helped us

43:20

did our best,

43:22

including our including and

43:25

here and the The demon was

43:27

pushed out of the woman's

43:29

body and the woman the woman saw

43:31

was I saw alive. alive just

43:33

in need of just in need

43:36

of medical attention and her partner. helped

43:38

her her up and then took her

43:40

away. There's other personal

43:42

issues other personal issues that

43:44

Tamika had to deal with with

43:47

the with with the patron that that's

43:49

That's for our off time. That's

43:51

not not for Raven business. Hold

43:53

on. on. on. Okay, I

43:55

got way more questions about.

43:58

about but okay. Speaking

44:00

from experience, if you guys

44:03

have something going on, and

44:05

it's important just out with

44:07

it, because it... things get

44:09

out of hand, trust me,

44:11

just... Well, the patron asked

44:14

us to kill the woman

44:16

with the demon inside of

44:18

her, just to be sure,

44:20

but we refused, and instead

44:22

we removed the demon from

44:25

the woman. And he was...

44:28

And yeah, the

44:30

reason why I'm

44:32

involved is I

44:35

almost, there was

44:37

something bad happened

44:40

and I needed

44:42

his patron's help.

44:44

So it became

44:47

my patron for

44:49

not very long,

44:52

few hours, and

44:54

then I quit.

44:57

So, okay, obviously, things deteriorated pretty

45:00

rapidly, because the reports we had

45:02

were only a few weeks old.

45:04

So they must have run completely

45:07

out of blood or were caught

45:09

off in their supply. Yeah. Yeah,

45:12

about that. You see a bunch

45:14

of flinches. They've got... He's really

45:16

having a hard time because it's

45:19

all... His mind's just going crazy

45:21

with it. They have people in

45:23

cupboards just so they can have

45:26

the blood. They have people in

45:28

cages, upon cages, so they can

45:31

just have the blood. It's not

45:33

okay. It's not okay. It's not

45:35

okay. It's not okay. and he's

45:38

just gonna leave it at that.

45:40

So there's still living people in

45:42

the city. if you

45:45

call it that

45:47

a little bit

45:50

yes, okay, there

45:52

wasn't a whole

45:54

lot to negotiate

45:57

with no matter

45:59

who we found

46:02

I'll be honest

46:04

with you I

46:06

don't care if

46:09

leadership was indisposed

46:11

or not I

46:13

don't know what we could have even done. I'm

46:15

surprised we're even here. Yeah,

46:18

we we we wanted to help

46:20

them but We're just us,

46:22

you know? And it was a

46:24

whole city, but But they're bad

46:26

shape. Mr. Poe. All

46:30

right. You never even found

46:32

the leader. There's no guarantee that

46:34

that guy's still alive. He like If

46:36

he is in charge, he's in

46:38

charge of nothing, right? There's no, everyone's

46:40

feral. Except for one vampire you

46:43

said you met? Yeah,

46:45

one guy. Yeah, but I think the

46:47

leader was like we saw it. didn't

46:49

see him He was like strung

46:51

up. He was part of that ritual they were doing

46:53

to get the coffin confidence ground. the other

46:55

seemed really mad about him. Yeah,

46:58

so she's right. So I don't

47:00

who said that, but it

47:02

wasn't. Oh, yes, I forget. Probably

47:05

sounds like Jamaica. Let's

47:09

let's assume he lost control of the

47:11

situation. Right. I

47:14

mean, I wouldn't say we even,

47:16

I don't think the situation was

47:19

controllable, to be honest, sir. It

47:23

It was already gone to hell before we even

47:25

knocked on that gate. All

47:29

right, we have two new problems. I

47:33

don't know if you've noticed, but

47:35

it's been dark for almost 48

47:37

hours now we're still looking into

47:39

that. I think that

47:41

we probably just assumed that we napped. Yeah,

47:44

Yeah, I think

47:46

it is news to

47:48

all of us. Yeah, looks to

47:50

the team, like, I mean, they all

47:52

just look like. Actually,

47:56

it's not a terrible thing come on

47:58

up and he's gonna he's gonna to. Oh yeah.

48:00

Pat on his his lap on, come

48:02

on up. on come on up.

48:04

Oh, yeah, I'll go on up. on

48:06

up. girl. a good girl. He's

48:08

gonna lift up so you can see

48:10

you can see Just a little bit, a

48:12

little bit just like like,

48:14

you know the -in teeth teeth. He's gonna say,

48:16

not a bad a bad thing. It's

48:18

not outside because we had

48:20

a little bit of a had a

48:23

little bit of a going to point. He's

48:25

gonna Not a guy. not a

48:28

guy. who curses too often?

48:30

He will, but it's gotta

48:32

be something but

48:34

it's got to be something extreme.

48:36

this is the this is the second. real

48:39

time in the in the company like,

48:42

is vampire a fucking

48:44

vampire? Well. I mean

48:47

the good news, but the

48:49

good news news, bad news. Yeah, but

48:51

the good news is that that's

48:53

what saved your life. So life. She's

48:55

going to be be but that's another thing I

48:58

needed to ask about was a muzzle. to

49:00

ask if we could get something a you

49:02

know. if we could get something made,

49:04

you know. Well, yeah, you got,

49:06

okay, you have

49:08

to to feed her

49:10

you're her. her. Yeah, we

49:13

got some we got some

49:15

logistics. Do you, mhm? Look, I don't

49:17

mean to be insensitive. Do you

49:19

have blood? insensitive. Do you have blood? I mean, sure,

49:21

I I can, we'll figure

49:23

it out. out. Listen, it's

49:26

only been a about 30 minutes

49:28

of the week. So, you know,

49:30

that's a good question. We got

49:32

got a lot to figure out here. This

49:34

is out here. but I think we've got

49:36

a lot of logistics. This is I think we got

49:38

a lot one. This is

49:41

just a, this is wrong. a minor

49:43

one. He's not, he's not wrong.

49:45

I'm gonna, okay, I'm gonna never

49:47

before on the list of things

49:50

to deal with. God's vampires, uh,

49:52

overwatch racist. dog you know like

49:54

I feel like yeah

49:57

that's a good a good

49:59

order actually Thank you, I thought

50:01

so. so. I I really thought about it. it.

50:03

Okay, look. In any look. situation,

50:06

he would run it up the chain. realistic

50:08

situation, he would run it

50:10

up the chain. It's like, allocated,

50:13

more resources allocated, but more think

50:15

this, but. I think he would

50:17

importantly, I think he

50:19

would obviously want you guys a

50:21

mental mental health day or

50:23

two. two, look, go. That guy's missing parts.

50:26

go get that that pass along that

50:28

very along that very valuable

50:30

in the field have guys have

50:32

had because in the two

50:34

weeks or three weeks you've

50:36

been gone. been gone. Good golly, Miss

50:38

things have happened. you can

50:40

send, you can you could give

50:42

the people who have only

50:45

done have only done practice and

50:47

stuff. It's like, hey guys. practice

50:49

and stuff. It's like, hey guys. Like

50:51

just whatever, whatever, I want to love to go to

50:53

love to go to your characters and

50:55

see what knowledge they would want

50:57

to pass pass on. You know know what I

50:59

mean? Like I'd love to do

51:01

that. And then we can kind of

51:04

wrap it up. I up. I think I

51:06

I have an idea for it. but

51:08

But yeah. That sounds cool. I like that. It's a It's

51:10

a nice I think. Susan, you're using

51:12

something. something. No, of silly. I'm

51:14

just how much in -game time has

51:16

passed? time has passed? Uh, Uh,

51:18

not enough, we're going to work on

51:20

that in that in the new... Only went

51:23

from went from level one

51:25

to ten, 10, In two

51:27

weeks. we've seen through

51:29

it, okay? Yeah. That's true,

51:31

right. went through we

51:33

went through some crazy some

51:36

crazy shit. I know we went And her

51:38

was the crazy in the white

51:40

suit in the helicopter, you know?

51:42

shit. god. you imagine that

51:44

from, like, Poe's perspective, us

51:47

leaving these, like, you

51:49

know? Like, you know, these little

51:52

scrappy Coming back, like,

51:54

back, like, battle. just on

51:56

your on your chin and

51:59

shit. with a vampire dog

52:01

and a one-eyed stranger. Oh yeah,

52:03

the one-eyed stranger. Yeah. I love

52:05

how, you know, he had two

52:07

eyes when we met him. Plus,

52:10

like, when he talks, he's like,

52:12

this guy's voice doesn't match who

52:14

he is. No. Because he hasn't

52:16

grown into that, yeah, it's very...

52:18

Hey, I'm Terry God. It's like,

52:20

what? That's not how you talk,

52:22

don't life. No. No, no, no.

52:25

Suppose gonna, Pose gonna listen to

52:27

all this and it's, it's obviously

52:29

a lot to take in, right?

52:31

It's, it could have very easily

52:33

turned into a situation like he

52:35

had previous where this was supposed

52:37

to be. Just you reaching out

52:40

just you making contact maybe like

52:42

like getting some peace treaty stuff

52:44

started and what you walked into

52:46

were feral vampires and you know

52:48

mystical Litch fights with you by

52:50

an incubi and like a whole

52:53

bunch of stuff out of your

52:55

pay grade and you guys come

52:57

back we joked about it in

52:59

the pre-show, but like you guys

53:01

come back level 10 grizzled after

53:03

like two or three weeks on

53:05

the road. It's like wow like

53:08

just you know you You've seen

53:10

a lot, right? So I think

53:12

two thoughts would occur to him

53:14

after this, because he's, obviously he

53:16

wants to solve the situation, right?

53:18

It's okay. This is messed up

53:20

and we need to, but this

53:23

isn't gonna be solved by you

53:25

guys heading back, right? And it's

53:27

probably not gonna be solved even,

53:29

like, if he sent, you know,

53:31

a battalion of people. if there's

53:33

still a couple hundred you know

53:35

feral vampires in there like you

53:38

guys are going to need

53:40

you're going to

53:42

need some kind

53:44

of, you're going

53:46

to need of, tools

53:48

to get these

53:50

guys out. It's,

53:53

it's like to get

53:55

these So It's like bed

53:57

not going to,

53:59

it's not going

54:01

to be like

54:03

you guys go

54:06

in there and

54:08

just start hammering

54:10

and nailing it.

54:12

Like, you just

54:14

so. hammering and nailing it.

54:16

think. you know, so I think he would,

54:18

would here, like it's to be like the

54:20

longest silence in the world. It's

54:22

like, silence in the world. It's like, okay.

54:25

Uh. Here's what I what I want you to

54:27

do for now. for now. Go, take

54:29

some time off some time

54:31

off and get squared away. away.

54:33

If you you could do two things

54:35

for me. for I

54:37

would very much

54:40

appreciate it. appreciate it. I

54:42

believe you said his name was. you said

54:44

his name fix, fix,

54:46

fix them up. Like, fix him

54:49

up, like, get... Because

54:51

he sounds 12. 12. And

54:55

he the face of a a -year -old

54:57

retired general who's So a of of

54:59

the I I mean, let's be

55:01

fair, part of a face. That's face,

55:03

that's mean. of my best friends have

55:05

one eye. That's not have one eye,

55:07

I didn't mean it bad. Just

55:09

it's true. I didn't mean it

55:12

bad, just it's true. The other

55:14

thing is if you're comfortable

55:16

talking about it talking whatever

55:18

you've picked up. picked

55:20

on the road. road. on to other

55:22

recruits, sit sit down, talk with

55:25

them, let them know what

55:27

they're actually going to find

55:29

out there. out there of possibility,

55:31

but I doubt people are going to

55:33

run into your situation, but going to run

55:35

them. situation, valuable

55:37

knowledge. you've

55:39

come back with. you've

55:41

come back with. And I'm going to

55:44

talk to a few I'm going to talk

55:46

to a few people about this and see

55:48

what we can do do because... I've

55:52

said this before, but the situation

55:54

is far worse than we

55:56

thought it was. we thought it was. So

55:58

Let me see you about. about... getting this

56:00

move forward much more

56:02

quickly and just take some

56:05

time off, all right? Before

56:09

we leave the room, Runes is going to

56:11

slowly reach into his bag and he's like

56:13

maintaining eye contact with Poe as he does

56:15

this. And he's going to take out the

56:17

box and set it on the table because

56:21

they never used it. So

56:23

we've got a box full

56:25

of sunlight. Yes. it's partially.

56:28

We played this game on hard difficulty and

56:30

I want everyone to know. So just

56:32

like, he's just setting this box here. Like

56:34

maybe this will help because we didn't

56:36

use it. Yeah. there a stone? Does Runes

56:38

have a stone that says, you might

56:40

need this? There's

56:45

definitely, there's definitely a few times you could

56:47

have used that and it probably would have helped.

56:50

But you didn't. That's fine. Achievement

56:52

unlocked, I guess, if you

56:54

were going for it. Yeah. Every

56:58

time you play a game,

57:00

it's always on hard mode first.

57:02

Duh. No. You

57:05

skip that tutorial. Disagree. Disagree. Left for

57:07

dead where you're at a carnival. if you

57:09

take, I think it was a little

57:11

lawn gnome and you carry it the whole

57:13

way to the end, you get a

57:15

special achievement. That's what I think this is.

57:19

I never did that one. the

57:21

first one? It's stupid and hard. Holy

57:23

shit. It two. I was like, I don't

57:25

know. Here's

57:30

what I'd like to do. I

57:34

would like to go around the table here. What

57:36

would each of you do? Let's say. Let's

57:39

say it's three days off. Three

57:41

days where it's like, hey, don't

57:43

bother them. No, no pushups. No

57:45

running. No. They get three days

57:47

off. Just leave them be. What?

57:49

What would you do with that

57:51

time? And

57:53

what would you pass on? Like

57:55

if you see somebody, it's like,

57:57

hey, come here a sec. Or

57:59

like, let's say you get a

58:01

little. head talk something, know what I

58:03

mean? what I mean? It's basically versus reality. What

58:05

to do when you're actually on

58:07

the road that, you know, like

58:09

on the road? That, you know, panel, basically, that's

58:11

what you're doing. That's

58:14

what you're doing. And I

58:16

would I would love to start with

58:18

with Jasper. Oh, we have to save our have

58:20

to save our glorious leader

58:22

for last, last. course, of

58:24

course, I mean, this is

58:26

mostly his responsibility, responsibility. The accolades that we...

58:29

No, no, no, no. He says counts for

58:31

80 % if you're your grade. I just

58:33

want you to know. I think also, think

58:35

also, okay, there's three days

58:37

of this going on, I'm

58:40

sure there's a little bit

58:42

of downtime for a day of

58:44

downtime they set things up they

58:46

you know, whatever, or, you know, think

58:49

during that time I think be

58:51

time, Petrokor would be back to his barracks.

58:53

It's only only, it been that long

58:55

So it's not like they like

58:57

got rid of his stuff or

58:59

anything. rid of his probably or anything. be taking

59:01

a lot of just quiet time a

59:04

lot of just quiet time to clean his

59:06

stuff. clean up up staff, clean up his

59:08

clothes, mend mend things. And I think you

59:10

you would see is not just a

59:12

lot of, let me fix this or

59:14

let me get some new boots or

59:16

let me, I think he would be

59:18

taking that sort of. me, I think he

59:20

would be taking deliberate, deliberate, long

59:22

time of like something and and

59:24

something on his own.

59:27

his own. would probably be

59:29

there at his feet.

59:32

be there at his feet. Basically

59:34

just being incredibly slow

59:36

and mindful. probably have a have a

59:38

lot of conversations also, I'm just

59:40

sort of skimming through some

59:43

of these ideas, but he ideas,

59:45

a bunch probably have a bunch of

59:47

conversations with just just

59:49

in general, about, you know, what's You

59:51

know. color kind of

59:53

conversation, like know, what's your favorite

59:55

color kind of let's something beyond, to like let's

59:57

just get back to being a normal

1:00:00

person. for a minute. Oh, let's go get

1:00:02

some tea. Let's go do whatever. go

1:00:04

do Come with me to the

1:00:06

mess hall. me of just boring Just kind

1:00:08

a way, right? sort of in a

1:00:10

way, going on. sort of count or balance what's going on.

1:00:12

He a lot on Terry, is my

1:00:14

point. I mean, he would be is with

1:00:16

everybody I would be, but he would

1:00:18

be very... in with everybody be

1:00:20

a lot of would

1:00:22

be very, there would be a lot

1:00:24

of just grace, just like, like, space

1:00:26

and presence and just. trying to

1:00:28

be just small small kindness. When asked to

1:00:30

sort of put to sort of put

1:00:32

something together to sort of get

1:00:34

the get the recruits. them

1:00:37

learn you know, to let them

1:00:39

learn something. probably be, well, I can't

1:00:41

explain it to them. I would probably be, well,

1:00:43

I can't explain it to them. went

1:00:45

through, but him the story of what we just

1:00:47

went through, not but that's not going to be

1:00:49

it. That's not going to get anybody anywhere. What he

1:00:51

What he would probably do is just say,

1:00:53

well, listen, I say, well, I can't. can't, talking about

1:00:55

it. it, But what I can do can do

1:00:57

going to teach him a skill I'm later I'm

1:01:00

explain why it matters maybe a little bit.

1:01:02

later I'm What he would do is he would

1:01:04

get matters all the recruits out there. bit what

1:01:06

he whatever he that they would be

1:01:08

able to do some sort of,

1:01:10

you know, whatever feel that they skirmish or something

1:01:12

like that, where they do sort

1:01:14

of combat training, like a he would or something

1:01:16

like would get they do sort

1:01:18

of combat training He would he

1:01:20

would of the recruits. except

1:01:25

for one. Or let me say

1:01:27

this let me he he would pick

1:01:29

one randomly, he would say, would say,

1:01:31

okay, right, you're uh, you're it

1:01:34

it. Everybody else, circle

1:01:36

around around on the

1:01:38

outskirts. Everybody's got all your

1:01:41

weapons, and the weapons

1:01:43

here weapons here are soft, you know,

1:01:45

you know, like padded, padded dagger,

1:01:47

pieces of wood, of wood like

1:01:49

daggers, you know, know, fake,

1:01:52

fake weapons, Yeah, things

1:01:54

that you could throw could

1:01:56

throw, stuff that that would that

1:01:58

would mimic know, cross. or arrows

1:02:00

or whatever it might be, but

1:02:02

you know, probably, probably, it's not

1:02:04

fun to get hit with like

1:02:07

a paintball, but hey, you gotta

1:02:09

deal with it. What he would

1:02:11

do is on the other side

1:02:13

of this field, he would put

1:02:15

a watermelon and he would have

1:02:17

that watermelon on a table and

1:02:19

he would say, to everybody else

1:02:22

around, well, to the one person

1:02:24

he chose, he would say, all

1:02:26

right, your job is to go

1:02:28

from here. All the

1:02:30

way over to that watermelon.

1:02:33

Pick it up. Bring it

1:02:35

all the way back right

1:02:37

here and just maybe got

1:02:39

a little pedestal or something

1:02:41

like that. You gotta put

1:02:43

that watermelon right here and

1:02:46

you gotta keep it safe

1:02:48

the whole time. Something happens

1:02:50

that watermelon will be held

1:02:52

to pay. Everybody else? You

1:02:54

know what to do. Three,

1:02:57

two, one, go! And just

1:02:59

like, whoa! and basically just

1:03:01

it's gonna be all day

1:03:03

of getting one by one

1:03:05

to go get a watermelon

1:03:07

and safely bring it back

1:03:10

to where they started just

1:03:12

getting pelted the entire time.

1:03:14

That's it. That's his only

1:03:16

training session that he wants

1:03:18

everybody to go through. It's

1:03:21

going to suck for every single person.

1:03:23

They're all going to have a lot

1:03:25

of bruises and there's going to be

1:03:27

a lot of watermelon parts and seeds

1:03:29

everywhere Whatever the Korean equivalent of watermelon

1:03:32

is by the way There's going to

1:03:34

be a lot of that all around

1:03:36

but he's he's going to he's going

1:03:38

to try to make the point of

1:03:40

It kind of doesn't matter if you're

1:03:42

getting pelted if you've got something to

1:03:44

save you got to go save it.

1:03:46

That's it Right you got to be

1:03:48

single-minded And you

1:03:50

gotta think of something beyond

1:03:53

your own skin. That's it.

1:03:55

I think, um... hanging

1:03:58

out with

1:04:00

you. with you. Overdale

1:04:02

is a very different a

1:04:04

very different city than

1:04:07

all of it was very all of

1:04:09

it was very different from Don just So

1:04:11

know this is you know, this is the

1:04:13

first time he's had a chance to

1:04:15

kind of settle into a city and

1:04:17

hang out and just city like, hang this

1:04:19

is this is kind of nice. Like,

1:04:21

it's got a different this you know. is kind

1:04:24

of nice like it's got a

1:04:26

different vibe you know and he's

1:04:28

probably thought a lot about like,

1:04:30

OK, what do I do next?

1:04:32

What comes next? I What do I,

1:04:35

you know, comes next? What entire know, because the

1:04:37

entire of him wanting to

1:04:39

swear an oath and an oath

1:04:41

to help people a you

1:04:44

know, to help people and, you know, the, the

1:04:46

different than what you. poster

1:04:48

is different the world. you

1:04:50

go see And I think he

1:04:52

probably thinks long and hard

1:04:54

about long and hard

1:04:56

whether that's. you

1:04:59

know, know, what he actually thinks he can

1:05:01

do to help people. people.

1:05:03

And then he probably gets

1:05:06

gets word, you know, know, just through

1:05:08

through the great front through

1:05:10

news, you know, asking around

1:05:12

that asking around are going through

1:05:14

this huge existential crisis, right?

1:05:16

existential no longer exists if

1:05:18

you believe, you know. if

1:05:20

you believe, you know, and there's

1:05:23

probably, it's like, like two

1:05:25

the two people running the temple, the temple. Only

1:05:27

one one of them's there right

1:05:29

now the other one took a

1:05:31

bunch of the the and went in

1:05:33

a pilgrimage to go speak directly

1:05:35

to the gods like going to

1:05:37

speak to the world's manager like going

1:05:39

to speak to the it's probably like okay

1:05:41

well it, don't even know if

1:05:43

that would be the right well, I don't

1:05:45

even know if that would be the

1:05:47

right move. would ultimately decide that

1:05:49

maybe it would be better

1:05:52

if he it would be better if he

1:05:54

either. helped prepare people

1:05:56

or researched things he comes

1:05:58

from a family of researchers

1:06:00

of magic users. He just never

1:06:02

had much of an aptitude for

1:06:04

it. And, you know, so he

1:06:07

would probably be talking to Petricore

1:06:09

about this the entire time. Like,

1:06:11

after that first day, it's like,

1:06:14

well, let's sleep for, I don't

1:06:16

know, 18 and a half hours,

1:06:18

something like that. Then, you know,

1:06:21

we'll, you know, we'll talk about

1:06:23

stuff. And I think, keeping things

1:06:25

nice and slow. I did roll

1:06:27

a die. I did roll and

1:06:30

a seven means that you'd probably

1:06:32

catch her nibbling on someone like

1:06:34

figuring it out. You know what

1:06:37

I mean? Like trying, like doing

1:06:39

that very dog thing of like,

1:06:41

yeah, just kind of keeping it

1:06:43

on you. It's like, now, this,

1:06:46

this, this is cool. I'm gonna

1:06:48

do it, right? Like, you know,

1:06:50

that, that very, you know, dog

1:06:53

thing of. So, training would have

1:06:55

to be. You know, like while

1:06:57

you're while you're sitting there mending

1:07:00

something. It's like, no, stop, just

1:07:02

stop. Leave it. Here's, here's, here's,

1:07:04

here's something. Uh, this is a,

1:07:06

this brings up a good quote.

1:07:09

Is, okay, who would Petrocore talk

1:07:11

to, whether it's in Overdale for,

1:07:13

I mean. Is there a longer

1:07:16

term solution? I think probably he

1:07:18

would find the rats, he would

1:07:20

find the, you know, like the

1:07:23

squirrels of the barracks, you know,

1:07:25

like whatever, surely there's things living

1:07:27

all around. And he would do

1:07:29

his best, but he's like, this

1:07:32

ain't gonna last, you know, this

1:07:34

is just, this is for right

1:07:36

now, give me a couple hours

1:07:39

and let me think of something

1:07:41

else. I don't, not to put

1:07:43

you on the spot, but I

1:07:45

don't know who he could talk

1:07:48

to. about a more toxic thing.

1:07:50

It's a tough city. Okay, so

1:07:52

Carter had a big fear of

1:07:55

vampires and probably instilled that in

1:07:57

a lot of it. It's all

1:07:59

the things that are vilified.

1:08:02

I think. I think, I

1:08:04

think even though some people

1:08:06

opened up a opened up a

1:08:08

bit about racial equality. most think

1:08:10

most people they could look they could

1:08:12

look at each other but fuck

1:08:15

right? right? Okay, cool. Yeah, that might even be like

1:08:17

might even be like that. the

1:08:19

I like the cut of your

1:08:21

jib type of thing. That's

1:08:23

how they bond. So you walking

1:08:25

around with a dog that

1:08:27

is a vampire that that. might try

1:08:29

to nibble on somebody. I think they I

1:08:31

you a solution. What I don't

1:08:33

think it would be, think it would be, But would

1:08:35

be like, hey, I but they'd be like, Hey,

1:08:37

I got a solution for this, if she

1:08:40

know, especially on she was Right. So I think like it

1:08:42

I think one of those things where it'd would be one

1:08:44

of those things things where like be one of

1:08:46

those things where to, you're going to have to,

1:08:48

you're going to have to figure that

1:08:50

out. That's, that's, I don't think you're going

1:08:52

to find somebody in the city. That's

1:08:55

probably like another quest. However. in the

1:08:57

city in the city in the city. just

1:08:59

keep animals animals on

1:09:01

hand? like hunting is, you

1:09:04

know, like is, you know, all kinds of

1:09:06

all kinds of stuff in the

1:09:08

city where are taking

1:09:10

animals that are been animals that

1:09:12

haven't been skinned yet or

1:09:14

something like that. And it's like like,

1:09:16

oh, two squirrels, please. please. you know

1:09:18

what I mean? just, you This

1:09:20

is pretty terrible, but. pretty terrible, but,

1:09:22

uh, petricore's handling handling

1:09:25

is, is, he's He's proficient. He's, he's

1:09:27

going for me. Well, yeah, he'll take the time

1:09:29

take the time to

1:09:31

go. go. Let me go. Come

1:09:34

here. Come here. Little Come here, little squirrel.

1:09:36

Come here. How are you doing? Okay, you're

1:09:38

dead. know, dead. You know, like. He's going to use

1:09:40

his animal handling to basically use basically He's

1:09:42

going to be proficient in in

1:09:44

just being friends with the animals, but

1:09:46

also taking care of dog. care of dog.

1:09:48

that's foreseeable future until he finds another

1:09:50

solution. finds but you know what? I thought

1:09:53

that's you that's a circle of life

1:09:55

though, right? the circle of life thinking So I'm thinking sort

1:09:57

of this sort of balance of, well,

1:09:59

listen. of, well listen. You know, I mean, vampires

1:10:01

are, you know, a vampire dog is

1:10:03

as much a creature of this world

1:10:05

who deserves and needs what they need.

1:10:07

Who am I to object to that

1:10:09

kind of a thing? Right. So I

1:10:12

feel like it's not cruelty or that

1:10:14

he wouldn't see it as cruelty anymore

1:10:16

that he would see. It would be

1:10:18

cruel to let dog starve or let

1:10:20

dog die or or let dog suffer.

1:10:22

So it's like... So it's like... So

1:10:24

it's like... We're in a fantasy world.

1:10:27

This dog. doesn't eat dog food out

1:10:29

of a bag. The dog has already

1:10:31

been eating meat, likely that petricore has

1:10:33

been height hunting. Unless you did that

1:10:35

terrible thing where you tried to make

1:10:37

the dog vegan, which you probably didn't

1:10:39

do. Dogs are straight up carnivores. We

1:10:41

were joking, but like Luna will eat

1:10:44

broccoli and green beans before stage. Like,

1:10:46

but you still mean some meat in

1:10:48

a dog's diet. Yeah, totally. Yeah, totally.

1:10:50

That's a good point. I feel like...

1:10:52

This is just more of the same,

1:10:54

but maybe it's a little bit more,

1:10:56

maybe there's a slightly different flavor of

1:10:59

what he has to sort of go

1:11:01

towards and maybe it's a fresher kill

1:11:03

or a, here's a squirrel, you kill

1:11:05

it kind of a thing, I don't

1:11:07

know. Whatever it is, I think he

1:11:09

would go to the trouble of making

1:11:11

this part of his new deal. You

1:11:13

could take up all those level one

1:11:16

quests for rats in the basement. Yeah.

1:11:18

Oh. The petricle will take on an

1:11:20

odd job where he's just like, hey,

1:11:22

you need some help with your basement?

1:11:24

Past control. Past control? No shit, yeah.

1:11:26

But you've got to go past control.

1:11:28

Animal handling? It's either that or have

1:11:31

to move from district to district as

1:11:33

every pet store, kind of. It's like,

1:11:35

don't fucking, no, not that guy, don't

1:11:37

sell them anything. Well, this is pretty

1:11:39

good. I think he would be clever,

1:11:41

I think he would be clever, I

1:11:43

can't do that. No, I

1:11:45

guess I could do.

1:11:48

could it's not much

1:11:50

different than, it's not much

1:11:52

here's what I'm

1:11:54

going to do. And

1:11:56

then he would

1:11:58

basically just make a

1:12:00

concerted effort to

1:12:03

make sure that he

1:12:05

was able to

1:12:07

just keep it going

1:12:09

with he would basically

1:12:11

just make a concerted

1:12:14

effort to make sure that

1:12:16

he was able to just

1:12:18

keep it going with dog.

1:12:20

so Yes. Okay, feel feel

1:12:22

like once they are allowed

1:12:24

Once they are allowed to just

1:12:26

go about separate ways separate ways

1:12:28

and things like that, Roons would kind of would

1:12:30

kind of signal to Tameka that he's

1:12:33

going to go off on his own

1:12:35

for a little bit. bit, is

1:12:37

a little unusual for him. He's

1:12:39

usually him. there, but like know, it's been

1:12:41

a long while know, it's been he's

1:12:43

going to go out for a while. go

1:12:45

out for a while. And And he's going to

1:12:47

take what money he has and do

1:12:49

a little shopping do a little shopping and put

1:12:51

together. together. the whole

1:12:53

time they've whole time they've been traveling,

1:12:56

Roontz has just been wearing been wearing

1:12:58

his... Kind of kill situation?

1:13:00

like he's He's very bare -chested.

1:13:02

He's gonna go out and he's going to

1:13:04

buy a nice he's going to buy a a

1:13:07

fancy overcoat. a fancy very

1:13:09

black tie, tie, but but like cause he's,

1:13:11

he's a guy who wears white. a

1:13:13

guy who wears very fancy

1:13:15

overcoat fancy some

1:13:17

high boots some he really wants to

1:13:19

look like he belongs in this city

1:13:22

like a change. the coach in this

1:13:24

on it. a change like the

1:13:26

coats got and then on it

1:13:28

Later that night like, After

1:13:30

the sun has set, he would go

1:13:32

back and look for go back ask her

1:13:34

to follow him. and

1:13:37

she wouldn't mind. follow him, if

1:13:39

she wouldn't She would

1:13:41

go, would go. We'll We'll

1:13:43

get back to what she was

1:13:45

doing here in the day, was

1:13:48

but doing during the she would go.

1:13:50

during cool. to see, yes, she would go. Okay, cool.

1:13:52

He would would take her to one

1:13:54

of the because because I think they

1:13:56

have access to the towers, towers being white ravens

1:14:00

What towers? The ones that are

1:14:02

outlining the city, like if you

1:14:04

look at the map, there's towers.

1:14:06

Oh, yeah. No, I mean, there's

1:14:08

a lot of towers. I just

1:14:10

like didn't know like, like in

1:14:12

the castle and the, yeah. Like

1:14:14

not populated wines, and he set

1:14:16

up like a little picnic area

1:14:18

on the top. And he tried

1:14:20

to like pick out some of

1:14:22

Tamika's favorite foods and all of

1:14:24

that, and he just has a

1:14:26

little blanket out. Anything fried, probably.

1:14:29

and he's just gonna wanna

1:14:31

sit down with her. And

1:14:33

eventually, he's going to slide

1:14:35

over a note while they're

1:14:37

eating. And it's going to

1:14:39

say, I don't wanna hurt

1:14:41

you, I cannot speak to

1:14:44

you, but would you let

1:14:46

me in? and he's going

1:14:48

to hold up a hand

1:14:50

like this in front of

1:14:52

him. I know you would

1:14:54

never hurt me and she

1:14:56

immediately puts up her hand.

1:14:58

He is going to open

1:15:00

up his mind, but he's

1:15:02

not going to say words.

1:15:04

It's just this warmth and

1:15:06

this glow that you feel

1:15:08

inside and you know to

1:15:10

your very bones that it's

1:15:12

for you. And there's this

1:15:14

like protection and care and

1:15:17

familial feeling and you know

1:15:19

immediately without any words crossing

1:15:21

you that like this is

1:15:23

a confession. And then he's

1:15:25

going to kind of flinch

1:15:27

back and he's waiting for

1:15:29

your reaction. So probably while

1:15:31

their hands are touching, like

1:15:33

that feeling is going to

1:15:35

be like... You know, just

1:15:37

to suddenly feel so overwhelmingly

1:15:39

love, like even like no

1:15:41

matter the situation or smile.

1:15:43

probably gonna

1:15:45

come up for

1:15:47

her face come

1:15:50

up for be face

1:15:52

of what

1:15:54

this means for

1:15:56

them and be

1:15:58

There will

1:16:00

be a flinch

1:16:02

which in

1:16:04

that situation seems

1:16:06

really bad

1:16:08

to anybody being

1:16:10

confessed situation seems really

1:16:12

bad to then

1:16:14

it and then her ears

1:16:16

are gonna twitch. and then her ears are

1:16:19

And then and gonna be

1:16:21

confused. gonna be confused and and

1:16:23

her thought process in this moment is. is

1:16:26

I've never thought about it this way.

1:16:28

this way. And and

1:16:30

then she's going to go, Oh.

1:16:32

to go, oh, that, that,

1:16:34

that, that was was

1:16:37

lovely That, that, that,

1:16:39

That was special. was special.

1:16:42

I, I, I never, I I

1:16:44

never, I never thought about

1:16:46

it. that way. can

1:16:49

you give Can you give me some

1:16:51

time? And

1:16:53

And he's whole whole time. He can't blink. you

1:16:56

he He doesn't have any facial facial So

1:16:58

like as you're doing this, this has to

1:17:00

be really weird. this has to be of

1:17:02

you for both of you his like on

1:17:04

his the concept of being able

1:17:06

to to a crush from somebody.

1:17:09

that doesn't doesn't exist in

1:17:11

his culture, the second you develop feelings,

1:17:13

that person knows because they can hear

1:17:15

it. can hear it they're like,

1:17:17

I know what you're thinking. know what you're thinking

1:17:20

you are now reacting in no

1:17:22

facial expression. Like you know you've hurt his

1:17:24

feelings. You don't know if he's

1:17:26

crushed. You don't know if he's

1:17:28

furious. he's crushed, you don't know And then

1:17:30

he's just like... like, and going to

1:17:32

nod and then put his

1:17:34

hand down nod, yours. put his hand down,

1:17:36

like, near yours, and holding

1:17:38

eye eye contact, and then for a

1:17:41

and then for a moment he's going to like lift

1:17:43

it up again. up again. Like if you you

1:17:45

want to touch my hand, but but like just

1:17:47

kind of tilting it. So only the tips

1:17:49

of your fingers would touch of you did

1:17:51

reach out again. if you did be a moment

1:17:53

of hesitation this time. of hesitation and

1:17:55

then and then would touch fingers.

1:17:57

touch fingers And

1:18:00

that feeling is to come back a second

1:18:02

time, but but like Much

1:18:04

more. light.

1:18:06

like he is holding back,

1:18:08

and again, he's so

1:18:10

afraid to speak because... you

1:18:13

know, because he's talked to you before, like

1:18:15

writing down. He's hurt people before and

1:18:17

he doesn't want to hurt you. So

1:18:19

he's trying to convey these

1:18:21

feelings. and the thing

1:18:23

that you would leave with

1:18:25

is This love

1:18:27

isn't going away, no matter what. but

1:18:30

it can be different types

1:18:32

of love. Whatever love Tamika wants

1:18:34

is the love that he

1:18:36

would want to give her. and

1:18:39

And then. fade

1:18:41

to black, like just staring

1:18:44

up at the stars.

1:18:46

yeah We'll resolve that, but

1:18:48

in that real, it's for

1:18:50

Tamika that would have been. She's

1:18:53

like tunnel focused this

1:18:55

entire time and it's like

1:18:57

wait yeah was happening

1:19:00

so And we've all had

1:19:02

that feeling of what I

1:19:04

need a minute, what? Yeah.

1:19:09

Susan? What

1:19:12

were you doing the whole night? that day. so

1:19:18

Tamika would have been, when

1:19:20

Rune's left to go

1:19:23

do their own thing, Tamika

1:19:25

would have been like,

1:19:27

oh good good, I gotta

1:19:29

write a letter. and she

1:19:31

would have been writing a letter

1:19:34

to her sister and it would

1:19:36

have taken her a long time,

1:19:38

like crossing things out, drafts, like

1:19:40

throwing it away and like just

1:19:42

pouring ink on it because she's

1:19:44

so frustrated because she just wants

1:19:46

to say this right and eventually

1:19:48

it boiled down to this. um

1:19:51

Hey, Maria? I've

1:19:54

been meaning to write for

1:19:56

you well forever now, but

1:19:58

I'm just I'm

1:20:00

I'm so sorry. for for

1:20:03

everything. hurting you with my

1:20:05

you with my magic I

1:20:08

something I think about every day.

1:20:10

I never wanted wanted

1:20:12

to hurt you and I still

1:20:14

think about it. think about

1:20:16

it. But I want want

1:20:19

you to know I'm different now.

1:20:21

now. I've grown a lot. You'd

1:20:23

be be proud of me, I

1:20:25

I think. At At least I hope

1:20:27

you would. would. A A lot

1:20:29

of it is thanks to you. to you. Even

1:20:32

after everything you'd still believed

1:20:34

in me and believe to me. And that,

1:20:36

well, it helped me more than

1:20:38

I could say. say. It's given

1:20:40

me a me a whole new way of

1:20:42

looking at my magic, how to use

1:20:44

it, it, to use it, and all

1:20:46

of it. all of it. And I guess I guess

1:20:49

I gotta give some credit to

1:20:51

my my friend's ruins, too. been my

1:20:53

rock through this whole crazy journey. whole

1:20:55

crazy journey. You love him.

1:20:57

He's this big scary guy, but

1:20:59

deep down, total softie. I I

1:21:01

swear, he's just like a

1:21:03

giant teddy bear. teddy If bears

1:21:06

didn't talk and fought monsters,

1:21:08

I guess. I guess. Anyway,

1:21:10

I I miss you so much, more

1:21:12

than I could even put into words. But

1:21:15

but I'm trying to be, do better. I'm

1:21:17

trying to be someone you could be proud

1:21:19

of. you could be proud day I'll

1:21:21

come back come I'll show you everything

1:21:23

I've learned. I've learned. then,

1:21:26

then. just know I'm thinking of you always.

1:21:28

of you Love you. Love you.

1:21:31

Tamika. And so that's

1:21:33

the so that's the letter she spends writing

1:21:35

all day to her sister. day to her

1:21:37

sister. before we. we jump

1:21:39

jump to the other thing. thing, what What

1:21:41

would you pass along to one of

1:21:43

the? of the one one of the recruits. So

1:21:46

Tamika would find

1:21:48

someone struggling just casting

1:21:50

magic. casting magic. hard. hard.

1:21:52

Yeah. Anyone learning, learning it's, oh

1:21:55

It's like, man, like

1:21:57

everyone struggles with with

1:21:59

it. Yeah, and so Tamika would

1:22:01

go up to them and see

1:22:03

them just like getting frustrated and

1:22:06

just be like, hey, wait, wait,

1:22:08

stop, stop, stop what you're doing.

1:22:10

Hey, let's, let's, let's go somewhere

1:22:12

else, like take him out of

1:22:14

the training room and take him

1:22:16

outside or something into like a

1:22:18

big open area and just be

1:22:20

like, hey, just, just sit for

1:22:22

a moment. Just sit and, this

1:22:25

gonna be weird, but just listen

1:22:27

to your breathing, okay? Just

1:22:29

the feel it going in and

1:22:32

out and now like start listening

1:22:34

to the things around you start

1:22:36

listening to the city start listening

1:22:39

to the birds whatever whatever catches

1:22:41

your fancy just pay attention to

1:22:44

that and then go back to

1:22:46

your breath and then See how

1:22:48

you feel Now now think of

1:22:51

that fire in your hand you

1:22:53

were trying to do think about

1:22:55

as you breathe out let that

1:22:58

fire grow And

1:23:00

then I hope there's this

1:23:03

beautiful moment where, oh my

1:23:05

God, like the fire in

1:23:07

their hand, girls. And it's

1:23:10

like, yeah, when you're using

1:23:12

magic, it's, you just gotta

1:23:15

center yourself, that makes sense.

1:23:17

You gotta, it's about you

1:23:20

and in the state your

1:23:22

mind is, and so if

1:23:25

you're more frustrated, but trying

1:23:27

to cast it over and

1:23:29

over and over and over

1:23:32

again. Your spells is not

1:23:34

going to work. You have

1:23:37

to be in a better

1:23:39

place. So before you work

1:23:42

on magic, try working on

1:23:44

you. Could you do me

1:23:46

a big favor? Give me

1:23:49

a D20. Okay. Ha-ha. Yeah.

1:23:51

They're, So they're

1:23:54

probably going

1:23:56

to give this

1:23:59

a shot. give

1:24:01

even it's

1:24:04

like. it's All right,

1:24:06

right, like, you're not that

1:24:08

much that much older than a recruit that,

1:24:10

you know what I mean, that I might even

1:24:12

be right around the same age around the same

1:24:14

you know, so. you know, so

1:24:16

the only reason The only reason

1:24:18

they would be like, word is that

1:24:21

war had gotten around, that you guys

1:24:23

had been through it, that you

1:24:25

came back, know, and and give give it

1:24:27

a shot and it instantly clicks, clicks

1:24:29

like needed to happen in their brain,

1:24:31

like just take a just take a

1:24:33

breath, all that, a it just clicks.

1:24:36

it just clicks and they're just just

1:24:38

going to be tremendously

1:24:40

thankful thankful because it's it's it's fuck like like

1:24:42

like the opposite of what

1:24:44

I've been doing. Like I've been

1:24:46

I've been obsessing over and trying and

1:24:48

trying slowing down and I'm slowing Well, down was

1:24:50

the okay well about it. it know

1:24:52

what I mean? know so wrong about. being so

1:24:55

wrong about their tense and

1:24:57

approach. approach. And to would be

1:24:59

like I was just like

1:25:01

you don't worry weeks ago.

1:25:03

I couldn't even cast like three

1:25:05

weeks weeks ago. even

1:25:09

cast gusts, like,

1:25:11

three weeks gonna be

1:25:13

like, and to me, I

1:25:15

would be like, I understand.

1:25:18

Do you Do you want to get

1:25:20

back to the other thing? back to the other

1:25:23

day? Yeah, and guess.

1:25:25

guess. That night night end, Tamika

1:25:27

need the night night to think

1:25:29

about it it. then then, Tamika

1:25:31

knowing that she, to far

1:25:33

she's come in such a short how

1:25:36

far she's come in such a short

1:25:38

amount of time, but knowing that change

1:25:40

is good, inherently good, that's like the

1:25:42

base of her entire magic magic is embrace

1:25:44

the change. the change.

1:25:46

Like, so, Tamika would come would come

1:25:48

back to and basically pull them aside

1:25:50

them aside a have a private

1:25:52

moment and go and go. I

1:25:55

don't know. how

1:26:00

this looks for us, but

1:26:02

I really want to give

1:26:04

it a shot. Ah, yay!

1:26:07

I feel like he would

1:26:09

like pick her up in

1:26:11

spinner. Aw. Like that would

1:26:13

be the go-to. And like,

1:26:15

if you wanted to try

1:26:17

for a kiss, you could

1:26:20

pick wherever. But like, you

1:26:22

don't have lips, but you

1:26:24

could do that general area

1:26:26

if you wanted, but mostly

1:26:28

he's just happy. Yeah, and

1:26:31

for Tamika's just like, let's

1:26:33

see where this goes. Yeah,

1:26:35

yeah. I don't even know

1:26:37

if he has a penis,

1:26:39

so like, we don't have

1:26:41

to think about that part

1:26:44

yet. I mean, this relationship

1:26:46

might not even change at

1:26:48

all. Like, yeah, exactly. Like

1:26:50

he was trying to say,

1:26:52

it's like, hey, even if

1:26:55

we're just friends forever, I'm

1:26:57

just happy to be with

1:26:59

you is kind of like,

1:27:01

like, like, they'd still cuddle

1:27:03

and they'd still do all

1:27:05

the the things they've been

1:27:08

doing just a deeper. emotional

1:27:10

connection I guess. It is

1:27:12

a lot like getting to

1:27:14

your first girlfriend as a

1:27:16

gay woman because you're like

1:27:19

wait what changes about this?

1:27:21

Nothing at first. That's weird.

1:27:23

And last and certainly not

1:27:25

least our our glorious leader.

1:27:27

Don't do that. Our supreme

1:27:29

being. No. Our North Star,

1:27:32

our compass rose, oh God,

1:27:34

our Alex. What can we

1:27:36

call him, but our Alex?

1:27:38

What can we call him,

1:27:40

but our Alex? Honestly, not

1:27:42

just a father in real

1:27:45

life, but a real group

1:27:47

Papa. I don't think I've

1:27:49

done anything fatherly in the

1:27:51

in the meeting at all.

1:27:53

Yeah, you have. Yeah, you

1:27:56

have. True. You've had several

1:27:58

conversations for that. Yeah. I

1:28:00

don't know I mean I've been this

1:28:02

whole time you put me last

1:28:04

because don't All right.

1:28:06

full of shit If you say

1:28:09

so, know I don't of I mean I've

1:28:11

been this whole time because I

1:28:13

don't know I mean I've been

1:28:15

this whole time thank God you

1:28:18

put me last I mean, I've been this

1:28:20

whole time. Thank God you put me

1:28:22

last because I don't really know what

1:28:24

canon would want to do. Like to do

1:28:26

first thing is is I thought about this about

1:28:28

this a lot, actually, He he would. or

1:28:31

for one reason or another. feel the

1:28:33

feel the sense of loss

1:28:35

of power because he's no the

1:28:38

boot of the the I of

1:28:40

the what he's known for

1:28:42

a mean, that's what he's known for. how

1:28:44

much I said in remember how much I said

1:28:46

in the backstory, but I remember I been a warlock

1:28:48

for a very long time. for a

1:28:51

You know, so. know? So...

1:28:53

Him no longer having that power is going to

1:28:55

give him this is going to And I think

1:28:57

the first day of vacation, quote, unquote, day

1:28:59

right? quote-unquote

1:29:01

to wander right? He is going to idea

1:29:03

what to do. and he

1:29:05

has no go to a tavern

1:29:07

like He'll go to a drink and water

1:29:09

a you know, and obviously drink

1:29:11

doesn't feel that whole doesn't

1:29:13

go get a meal get a meal

1:29:16

upscale. nice And the meal

1:29:18

is good, but it doesn't

1:29:20

she it doesn't say she eat him And

1:29:23

I think he'll return to

1:29:25

return to the barracks or

1:29:28

the area where the White

1:29:30

Ravens are camped like the

1:29:32

home base like the home probably probably seeing

1:29:34

just how scruffy and

1:29:37

undisciplined the recruits

1:29:39

are. It fills them recruits

1:29:41

are. sense of It

1:29:44

fills them with a sense of purpose.

1:29:46

He's like, fucking chumps, like, are you kidding

1:29:48

me? me? Like if they they we they'd

1:29:50

be be dead. If they saw what we

1:29:52

saw. they If they, if if one of those

1:29:54

things that came after after us near them, they'd

1:29:56

be dead. them they'd be I

1:29:58

think and I think you just go up

1:30:00

to these random three recruits who

1:30:03

are probably just having a good

1:30:05

night, you know, coming back from

1:30:07

a night off. And he's just

1:30:10

gonna get into it with them,

1:30:12

just like yell at them. He's

1:30:15

like, oh, I didn't know that

1:30:17

we were keeping our boots on

1:30:19

laced. You know, and how are

1:30:22

they respond just kind of like

1:30:24

questioning like, who the fuck is

1:30:27

this guy, right? You know, to

1:30:29

summarize it. He pulls a dare

1:30:31

devil. We're basically. They don't know

1:30:34

who he is. And he wants

1:30:36

to show them that, you know,

1:30:38

they need a lot more training

1:30:41

and they need a lot more

1:30:43

help. He proceeds to beat the

1:30:46

fuck out of all three of

1:30:48

them. Just like, as best he

1:30:50

can without hurting them too much,

1:30:53

but enough for like, you know,

1:30:55

where they're on the ground and

1:30:58

he's like, when he's done. teaching

1:31:00

them as much as he can.

1:31:02

He's going to try and basically

1:31:05

let them know who he is,

1:31:07

what he's soon. Well, okay. You

1:31:09

know, we got to make a

1:31:12

roll to see how well this

1:31:14

goes. Do you just get into

1:31:17

a fight with three dudes? I

1:31:19

think you... Give me an athletics

1:31:21

check. Oh, by one of my

1:31:24

worst ones. You fistful, three dudes!

1:31:26

Like, all right. Like, he's, he's

1:31:28

got this, he's got this fire

1:31:31

on him. I'm gonna live, I'm

1:31:33

gonna, I'm gonna. If we were

1:31:36

in the new system, I'd say,

1:31:38

give me an expertise, die as

1:31:40

well, but like, so bad, three,

1:31:43

it's a three. Oh my God,

1:31:45

he's gonna get your ass kicked,

1:31:48

but he, yeah, you are. So

1:31:50

I feel like, the description you

1:31:52

gave was accurate to a point.

1:31:55

Yeah, I didn't, uh, the bootlaces

1:31:57

thing, and they do look at

1:31:59

you, it's like, what? Basically, like,

1:32:02

fuck are you? And then you

1:32:04

just waylaced one of them. You

1:32:07

pick one and you just blam.

1:32:09

Like, and he probably goes down,

1:32:11

not expecting a fist fight, especially

1:32:14

not in the barracks. It's just

1:32:16

not that vibe, you know what

1:32:19

I mean? And then the other

1:32:21

two proceed to tune you up.

1:32:23

Like a fucking violin. Like, like.

1:32:26

It's an area where you have

1:32:28

to constantly be reminded if you've

1:32:30

heard that before in my life.

1:32:33

Yeah, yeah. It's cool, I like

1:32:35

it. Yeah. There's a lot of

1:32:38

euphemisms for fighting where I come

1:32:40

from. It's just a lot of

1:32:42

ways to describe it. It's an

1:32:45

area where you have to constantly

1:32:47

be reminded if you get caught

1:32:50

with brass knuckles, that's a federal

1:32:52

charge. I don't know if that's

1:32:54

true, but it was scary enough

1:32:57

that it's like, all right, fine,

1:32:59

fine, fine. Thank you. I know

1:33:01

that he's going to look at

1:33:04

him. I'm curious. You're very illegal.