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1:01

Welcome

1:04

back to gestures of brave and loft

1:06

where a group of comedians tried to

1:08

escape the horrors of the mist. Having

1:11

broken free of the never -ending

1:13

loop of psychological torture, the term

1:15

finally found themselves face to face with

1:17

Ezra. Del continued to mourn

1:19

the loss of her girlfriend and patron

1:21

Lucretia. New Rogue fell into a restful

1:23

deep sleep in the arms of his

1:25

god. Shadow Nemesis tried but failed to

1:28

hide his lingering distrust of Ezra, and

1:30

Tyler was relieved to at least have

1:32

the opportunity to ask questions of the person

1:34

responsible for bringing them to Ravenloft. Wet

1:37

Change has become a band of

1:39

dark lords at great personal cost, but

1:41

can they survive this next phase

1:43

of Ezra's escape plan? I

1:45

doubt it. New

1:48

Rogue, you find yourself half

1:50

asleep, dozing, having woken up to

1:52

ask Ezra, your God, a

1:55

question that has been burning in

1:57

your heart. Ezra looks at

1:59

you 10 feet tall, carrying you like a baby

2:01

as you wake up and you ask

2:03

about rumple foreskin. Why do bad things

2:05

happen to good people? And

2:07

Ezra looks to you without

2:10

setting you down, still holding

2:12

you comfortably and says, well,

2:14

that's a very good question and

2:16

there is very good reason. Inside

2:20

this dimension, if

2:22

we want to use that term that I know

2:24

is comfortable to your people, there is not

2:26

just one God. If it was

2:28

up to me, the entire

2:30

place would function fairly and

2:32

justly and positively, but there are

2:34

many other gods and they have

2:36

their own powers and malign influences.

2:38

So with that many people jockeying

2:40

for control, things are going to

2:42

be unpredictable. Bad

2:45

things happen because there are bad

2:47

gods. And we try to balance

2:49

them out because there are good gods and

2:51

good clerics who can stop the

2:53

clerics of evil But it is

2:56

a constant war to try to

2:58

be good much like the one

3:00

inside so many mortal souls Okay, so

3:02

bad things happen because

3:04

there are bad gods and

3:06

people have to deal with bad gods

3:09

and bad things going on

3:11

in their own hearts Yes, okay

3:14

doing evil is often

3:16

easier for people who

3:18

want to find power, at least it

3:20

seems that way, but the cost

3:22

can be so tremendously high and it

3:24

always is. Ezra,

3:28

um, yes, but

3:30

so you're like,

3:32

you're like the supreme God

3:34

though, right? Of all of them,

3:37

because you're like the God

3:39

of the mists and life. I

3:43

mean, I

3:45

believe that, yes. But my

3:47

powers have been curtailed inside

3:49

this Ravenloftian prison that should

3:52

not exist. Are

3:54

there any gods you

3:56

trust? Why

3:59

are you asking this? Because

4:02

I've never been able to talk to you ever before,

4:05

and I have a lot

4:07

of questions, and I trust you

4:09

a lot. Even when I've

4:11

lost faith in the back of my

4:13

mind, I still had faith and trust. And

4:16

I just want to know

4:18

if there's all these other gods, well,

4:22

I'd want to know which

4:24

ones you stand by. That's

4:28

a very good question, New Rogue. I

4:30

wouldn't say that I trust

4:32

any one God to make

4:35

all of the decisions

4:37

outside of... Well, I would trust

4:39

myself, obviously, but there's a reason

4:41

why every God says that. The

4:43

gods that I feel... to

4:46

the gods that I feel

4:48

aligned with include Anuril, the

4:50

goddess of winter, Mylaki,

4:52

the goddess of forests, where there is

4:55

no mist without natural life. There

4:57

is Taimora, the goddess

4:59

of fortune, and Mask, the god

5:02

of trickery, for I believe in

5:04

the good and the capricious and the

5:06

unpredictable and the mysterious. There

5:08

is Selune, goddess

5:11

of the moon, for the mist

5:13

often rises at night. and

5:15

umberly the god of the sea

5:17

for without water there is

5:19

no mist we share realms or at

5:21

least they touch at the very edges

5:23

or at least they used to there's

5:26

so much less mist now in

5:28

the world because of Ravenloft

5:31

and this fortune

5:33

must be rebalanced

5:35

hmm so are

5:38

you related to any

5:40

of them like is

5:42

ain't only And

5:44

a new real my

5:47

lap My yes

5:49

Ann Arrell

5:51

and my asking if we're

5:53

if we're relatives. Yes

5:55

In a sense. Yes. Oh

5:58

So then these are the

6:00

ones you like Who who

6:02

are the ones I should steer

6:04

clear of? New

6:09

rogue, you're a you're a cleric of mine.

6:11

Yes Yes. Yes, a

6:13

devoted cleric. Then

6:16

you'll know. You'll

6:19

know when you meet their followers. But

6:21

steering clear is impossible. There are

6:23

gods of death. There are

6:25

gods of tyranny. There are gods of

6:28

so many horrible things. And

6:30

those seemingly exist

6:32

everywhere. And the mists

6:34

swirl up around you, giving you

6:36

a pop culture reference to help

6:38

you understand this concept. Yeah, now

6:40

you got to name some gods,

6:43

okay? So that's

6:45

not what I said, but you

6:47

do it So it's it's like

6:49

Pokemon, you know, you

6:51

gotta got them all there's

6:54

there's a There's

6:56

There's like a

6:58

rat one that's

7:00

electric and There's um

7:03

one that does cold stuff

7:05

and that's That's

7:07

either like an Arctic Fox

7:09

or That's

7:11

correct. There are gods of

7:13

everything you can imagine. However,

7:15

you don't really want to

7:18

catch them all. The

7:20

mists swirl up around you once more.

7:22

Why don't you try again and

7:25

avoid the catching? Oh, okay.

7:29

It's like monster rancher. I

7:31

knew it. So you got

7:33

like a swazo, which is

7:35

like an eyeball on a...

7:38

on a stretched out piece of

7:40

gum. They

7:42

come from discs.

7:45

I'm losing the plot. And

7:47

the myths swirl up around you

7:49

again. No. You're getting there, but

7:51

try to understand it. A pantheon

7:53

of many gods that encompass all

7:55

aspects of life. In

7:58

my world, there's

8:00

an old pantheon of gods.

8:03

Greek gods and Roman gods.

8:06

There's there's Zeus who's the king

8:08

of gods and and hurls lightning

8:10

and is He can be mean because

8:12

he sleeps with a lot of the

8:15

other gods and he's raised a

8:17

lot of dysfunctional children

8:19

and there's Hera who is

8:22

Vendictive and transforms people

8:24

into spiders and tortures

8:26

them. There's Hades the

8:28

god of the underworld

8:30

Yes, that sounds like the closest comparison

8:32

you're going to get And you're,

8:35

so you're Zeus in this. There

8:38

is no Zeus currently

8:40

that I am aware of. I am trapped

8:42

within this realm and have been for some

8:45

time. It is an uneasy balance. Things

8:47

ebb and flow, but there is not

8:49

the constancy of your myths because for

8:51

you, those

8:53

are myths. There is no magic

8:55

in your existence. Thank

8:59

you. Thank you, Ezra. I...

9:02

I praise you and

9:04

he kisses his fingers.

9:07

And I love you. And

9:09

I love you too. Do

9:11

you have any other questions? Many,

9:14

but I know my compatriots

9:17

here. They need you as

9:19

well. I'm so sleepy in

9:21

your arms. I should probably

9:23

get off. Do you want

9:25

me to put you in a bed

9:27

there, little guy? Or do you want to just stay

9:29

here? Let's stay

9:31

here forever, but I should I have to

9:33

be a strong cleric for you. So

9:35

I'll stand on my two big feet All

9:39

right, you do that and she

9:41

gently sets you down with

9:43

your friends. Oh He smiles

9:45

just everybody just

9:48

like mm -hmm. That's

9:50

right Guess who's

9:52

best friends with

9:55

God That's That's

9:57

crazy. You fell asleep up there.

9:59

You don't sleep. That's

10:02

true, I don't. It felt

10:04

good, Tyler. Yeah,

10:06

I do sleep. I know. Sleep feels

10:08

good. Yeah, you're so lucky you

10:10

get to sleep. You're

10:13

all lucky and you

10:15

don't... Well, praise

10:18

Ezra, as all I'll say. Okay.

10:22

Thank you. I

10:24

have... Food available if there's anything

10:26

else you want to speak about

10:28

is a collective or separately We

10:31

have a short amount of time

10:33

before the voting will begin. So

10:35

my time is yours. Oh

10:37

It's gonna be more

10:40

dark lords here like everyone's

10:42

coming Yes, they're

10:44

all here right

10:46

now. Oh, we've got

10:48

to convince them I'm

10:50

sorry. I thought I explained this before There

10:52

are 12 Dark Lords here who will

10:54

make up this council of 12. We will

10:57

be voting in a short period of

10:59

time. During this brief window while we are

11:01

here, we are all mortal. Any

11:04

of us, if struck down, die

11:06

permanently. There's

11:09

a chance for negotiations, but most Dark Lords

11:11

are haunted by the full memory of

11:13

their entrapment. There are other times in this

11:15

chamber and aware of this tremendous risk,

11:17

so they do not negotiate. Once

11:20

the time for negotiation is over, then

11:22

everyone will vote. I fully expect this

11:24

will be everyone voting for themselves, because

11:26

historically that's what's happened every time, but

11:28

it will give you a chance to

11:30

look at the other seven Dark Lords. Take

11:33

a measure of them before you, after

11:36

the vote, are transported into their

11:38

realms to try to help them

11:40

find moments of solace and improve

11:42

their general existence no matter how

11:44

brief. Has

11:46

the Dark Lord ever died

11:48

during the mortal window?

11:52

I believe a small number have.

11:54

I don't have specifics as I have

11:56

looked into this, but the system has

11:58

been tested. The system not

12:00

found wanting. Oh,

12:02

you go, then I got a

12:04

question. Okay, okay. Ezra,

12:07

since I think you said that they

12:09

don't remember stuff, do

12:11

they remember when they're here at the table? Correct.

12:15

So so if we have a plan

12:17

to like, you know, we all want to

12:19

make everyone vote for you Should we not

12:21

vote for you this time so that nobody

12:24

knows we're already all in cahoots is

12:26

that? Will they remember

12:28

I believe that would be wise if

12:30

you were to vote for yourselves

12:32

individually Okay, that's a good idea.

12:35

Oh Okay, so Nemesis. Yeah. Yeah.

12:37

Yeah. So is this the thing we like

12:39

all 12 people got a vote for one

12:41

person or is it just like a majority?

12:44

It's unanimous vote. Ezra definitely told us

12:46

this. Right. Sorry, I was enjoying these

12:48

pizza buckets here. And I'm glad you're

12:50

enjoying them, but no, everyone has to

12:52

vote for the same individual Dark Lord.

12:54

Okay, hear me out. What if

12:57

all the other Dark Lords came

12:59

in, we murdered them, and then

13:01

we all just voted? It's

13:03

like unanimous by a group of five. We

13:06

have five of the 12 required votes.

13:08

Right, but they're dead, so it's just

13:10

five. votes. Also... You have

13:12

all not gained in power since

13:14

the last realm that you took control

13:16

of, and Dell is significantly diminished

13:18

having lost Lucretia. I say this

13:20

to you kindly. If you were to engage

13:22

in combat with any of these Dark Lords

13:24

currently, I believe you would all die. Okay,

13:30

well

13:33

then, who do we vote for? Who are

13:35

these Dark Lords? Just

13:37

vote for yourself. Just vote for myself. Yep.

13:40

Okay. I can remember

13:42

that. Good. Ezra,

13:45

I feel like I have so many more questions, but it sounds

13:47

like we're running out of time. Any...

13:51

anyone's realm you think

13:53

we should start with? I

13:57

know some of Dark

13:59

Lords, but not terribly well.

14:01

Let the DM roll

14:03

to see what Ezra knows.

14:07

That's a pretty solid roll. I

14:09

would suggest one of two. candidates if

14:11

you are considering where we should send

14:14

you next. They open you up to

14:16

others, but they also theoretically would allow

14:18

for a level of engagement that should

14:20

be perhaps simpler. There

14:24

is Count

14:26

Yashi. Oh

14:28

no. The

14:30

ruler of the realm. Yashi? Count

14:33

Yashi. How

14:35

is, I have to ask, how

14:37

is Yashi spelled? That's a

14:39

very reasonable question, Tyler.

14:41

It's Y -A -H, space, S

14:43

-H -E. Interesting. Hmm.

14:46

I believe the count

14:48

or being simply known as the

14:50

cardinal. The cardinal,

14:52

eh? It's like a bird

14:54

or something, huh? Why don't we

14:57

start with that and clip some wings? What

14:59

would you be able do? trying to be friends with

15:01

them. Take a look at both of them at the

15:03

council and you may have a better idea of what

15:05

you are dealing with. Yeah. Okay, okay.

15:08

Oh, oh, know which seat are.

15:11

Go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.

15:13

sorry Yeah,

15:17

just those

15:19

two could you would you be able to point

15:21

out where they're gonna sit so we know they'll

15:23

be announced by the Herald but

15:25

yes, oh Yes, there's a Herald.

15:28

Oh the Herald of the mists.

15:30

Yes. The one who runs

15:32

this ceremony There's someone running. Oh

15:35

All right, okay If you remember,

15:37

there were 12 seats and a small podium.

15:39

The podium is the Herald. Oh,

15:42

is that thing over there, that podium? Back

15:44

in the central room, but yes. Oh.

15:46

Oh, I get ya. Oh, that's a chair.

15:48

Oh, never mind. Is the Herald of the Mists

15:51

an enemy to us or just a

15:53

neutral party that we don't need

15:55

to necessarily worry about

15:57

deceiving? The mists are not

15:59

currently aware of our plot. You

16:01

do not need to deceive them other than

16:03

to act as Dark Lords. We are here

16:05

negotiating. They cannot see into this room. Okay.

16:09

So this would be

16:11

unusual, but not breaking the boundaries

16:13

they have set for this exchange.

16:17

Cool. Cool. All right. I

16:19

have one more question. One more

16:21

question. Please. It's a small

16:23

one, though. What is

16:25

the meaning behind life? That

16:30

is the

16:32

one mystery. that all gods

16:34

have sworn not to answer. What?

16:38

Oh, so you know? Of course

16:40

we do, we're gods. Well, I

16:42

thought it was like there was no answer,

16:44

but there's like literally an answer. The

16:46

answer could be nothing, or the answer

16:48

could be something specific, but the moment

16:50

a god answers that question, free will

16:52

will cease to exist. To

16:55

know why you exist is to be

16:57

defined by a purpose, or to move

16:59

against that purpose, and that is the

17:01

core essence of fate, and we do

17:04

not believe in fate. Jeez.

17:07

Oh, heavy. Oh,

17:10

wow. Gods, I know. Okay.

17:14

I'm going to process that

17:16

for the next few years. Thank

17:20

you. Thank you, Ezra. You're

17:23

so welcome. There are games over

17:25

there. Obviously, food, other

17:27

entertainments, the beds should you wish to rest. I

17:30

want you to have a moment to

17:32

collect yourselves before we step forwards into

17:34

this vote and before you begin

17:36

your next quest. Okay.

17:40

You're safe here. Do as you will. What

17:43

are you gonna do? I

17:45

don't know. It's kind of

17:47

nice. Okay. Do

17:51

you need anything fixed up or like a bed

17:53

made or something? I can do anything you

17:55

want. I could wash the floors. I could clean

17:58

your toilet. What I need

18:00

from you right now, New Rogue, is

18:02

for you to have some

18:04

genuine moments of relaxation and

18:06

fun with your friends. That

18:09

would bring me great joy. Thanks,

18:12

Isra. Okay, okay. You're

18:14

welcome. So please make your way

18:17

around the space. Del, if I could speak to

18:19

you for a brief moment, there is something

18:21

I want to share with you. Okay.

18:25

Step with me out onto the clouds. Del,

18:37

do you go out the window with Ezra to

18:39

walk among the clouds? A

18:41

little look back at

18:43

the rest of the boys

18:45

then yeah, yeah, I mean

18:47

what else am I gonna do? Just

18:50

go talk to Ezra Fabulous,

18:52

so you head out the window

18:55

to walk amongst the clouds Meanwhile inside

18:57

the remaining members of wet change.

18:59

What do you do? Can

19:02

I see like my stuff, like the

19:04

ring that was there and the axe?

19:07

The axe is on a desk. It specifically was set

19:09

out on a display. So you can grab it

19:11

if you wanted. It's just been set aside. The moment

19:13

you touch it, you'll be cursed again. I

19:16

think I'll just be cursed if I touch

19:18

it. Correct. Is there like, okay,

19:21

you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get,

19:23

I want it, but I don't want to touch

19:25

it. So I'm going to like, I want

19:27

to, is there maybe, oh, there's beds. So I'm going

19:29

to get some like bed sheets. And I'm

19:31

going to tie the bed sheets together. OK,

19:35

so you're going to just basically wrap

19:37

the axe in a bed sheet

19:39

to do what with it? Well, then

19:41

what I want to do is I'm going

19:43

to create a pulley system. So I'm

19:45

going to get the bed sheets. And I'm

19:47

going to, without touching it, tie it

19:49

to the handle of the axe and then

19:51

angle it up and then put my

19:54

bag of holding underneath and then

19:56

lower it in. OK.

19:59

You are trying to set

20:01

up this pulley system. Can you

20:03

roll me as the mist swirls

20:05

up around you a D6? Okay.

20:10

Pullee. That's

20:12

a six. Your pulley

20:14

system somehow works. You manage to

20:16

set the bag on the floor,

20:18

lift the axe up by a

20:20

fragment of bedsheet and lower it

20:23

into your back. Sweet.

20:25

You've achieved your goal of

20:27

this period of time. Nice.

20:29

Tyler and New Rogue, what

20:31

are you doing while this happens? I've

20:34

never really... I don't know

20:36

if I've had a moment to have what we

20:38

call fun. Like, I don't know what frivolity

20:40

is per se. I watched the Vistani. That

20:43

was fun. I saw Dell

20:45

dunk on people. That

20:47

was funny. Right way

20:49

back. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

20:51

I guess it would just be I'm just going

20:53

to do I spy with my little eye

20:55

and just with with Tyler be like, Hey, Tyler.

20:58

Okay. So I spy with my little eye,

21:00

something that is white. Is

21:02

it the clouds? Yeah. Okay. You

21:04

go. I

21:07

spy with my little eye, something that

21:09

is gold. Uh,

21:13

is it, is it like weapons and

21:15

armor? It's basically everything else. Yeah. Yeah,

21:18

yeah, it's white and gold here

21:20

that those are the two colors.

21:22

Yeah. Yeah Okay, so

21:24

I spy with

21:26

my little eye

21:28

Something that is green. Is

21:31

that me? Yeah Tyler

21:33

can you roll

21:35

me a perception

21:37

roll with advantage?

21:40

Sure Well, that's a

21:42

one we won't use that we use

21:44

the seven plus perception for 12

21:48

12 there are some games off to the

21:50

side You can't really make out what

21:52

is in this kind of hanging shelf against

21:55

the wall, but there are some things

21:57

there Or you could just keep playing I

21:59

spy. I'm not telling you what to do. I'm

22:01

just giving you some options.

22:03

Uh, yeah, I mean Yeah, love

22:05

being reminded of the lurid shade

22:07

of my skin Let's uh, hey Nuro

22:09

got you know, I think there's

22:11

real games here to play if you

22:13

want to play a game. Oh

22:16

Okay, yeah. Yeah, I was

22:18

gonna lie down, but I took all the

22:20

bedsheets, so let's see what we got

22:22

here. I'll get them back, I'm almost done.

22:25

Okay, what? Oh,

22:27

there's a whole bunch of them here. All right,

22:29

Tyler, can you roll me 2D6? Yes.

22:32

Yeah. Six

22:36

plus two, six and a

22:39

two. Six and a two,

22:41

okay. There are eight games

22:43

present. What are

22:45

they? You

22:47

want you want you want me to do for

22:49

and you'll do for? Mr..

22:52

Mr.. Bradford no, it's

22:54

all you buddy Looks

22:56

like we got got

22:58

connect for uh -huh

23:01

got We are boggle. Oh,

23:03

that's that's a bubble thing in it. Yeah,

23:06

we got Monopoly. Oh

23:09

sounds boring. Yeah, we

23:11

got battleship Okay,

23:13

we got Ravenloft

23:15

Monopoly. Oh.

23:19

Yeah. We got...

23:21

We got...

23:23

We got Pokemon Monopoly. Oh,

23:27

no. I just remember what those are.

23:29

Okay, go on. Okay, great. Yeah. We

23:32

got Scattergories. What?

23:36

Scattergories. Hmm. Oh,

23:39

and the last one is... Oh, weird.

23:41

They've got cards against humanity here. What's

23:44

cards against humanity Tyler? It's

23:47

like a it's it's like a

23:49

mean card game mean and crass

23:51

and crude card game And

23:53

then this swirl up around you Tyler.

23:55

Can you roll me a d6? Oh

23:58

That's a one that

24:01

is a one you find

24:03

a Nintendo switch

24:05

on this shelf

24:07

But it does not turn

24:09

on oh Cool, they

24:11

got a Nintendo switch too A

24:14

what switch? No, no,

24:17

it's like a video game console here. Check

24:19

this out video games. Oh, like the Pokemons.

24:22

Yeah, okay. Just yeah, just give it

24:24

a second here. Hmm.

24:27

So they pop out of

24:29

there? No, it's supposed to

24:31

it's supposed to like turn on and

24:33

you can like play the games that are safe

24:35

to but I guess it's I guess it doesn't

24:37

it doesn't work so. Well, there's like

24:39

little openings. Have you thought of blowing air

24:41

inside of those? It just seems natural to

24:43

me. Blow some air. Sure.

24:46

Yeah. OK. OK.

24:49

No, that's I had

24:51

a Nintendo Switch before

24:53

we got to Ravenloft and that doesn't do

24:55

anything. Well, then let's play. Let's play. Let's

24:58

play Pokemon Monopoly.

25:00

OK. OK. And

25:02

you both sit down to a

25:04

game of Pokémon Monopoly, joined by

25:06

Shadow Nemesis, should he so please,

25:08

as he finishes lowering the Berserker

25:10

axe into his bag of holding.

25:12

I'm the banker. He's

25:15

the banker. But outside, among

25:17

the clouds, Del, you find

25:19

yourself walking with Ezra, who

25:21

says to you, I

25:23

know I've apologized for your loss

25:26

and it is such a tragedy,

25:28

but I want you to know

25:30

that... There are

25:32

certain powers

25:34

that Lucretia

25:37

bequeathed to you in a

25:40

will a hellish

25:42

will What I mean, I know

25:44

she gave me powers before but you

25:46

mean like what? She

25:48

had an eternity to

25:51

establish herself in the nine

25:53

hells and she wanted to

25:55

pass along some things normally

25:57

that would be impossible, but

25:59

I Can open a window to those

26:01

for you. I know you

26:03

must feel lesser without her. And

26:05

when you leave this place,

26:08

you will find new gifts. They

26:11

will avail themselves to you,

26:13

not the petty trinkets that

26:15

you've received on your journeys,

26:17

but new powers, new abilities, new

26:20

things that were left behind that

26:22

are now yours. You will

26:24

be different, changed, perhaps

26:27

more hellish, but also

26:29

More powerful more capable.

26:33

Oh Thanks

26:38

for letting me

26:40

know Yeah Just

26:44

like awkwardly standing there this

26:46

Yeah having feelings with a

26:49

who essentially to me is

26:51

a stranger is not my

26:53

jam Yeah, and Ezra's gonna

26:55

kneel down then say I

26:58

just wanted you to know why this was happening, what

27:00

would happen after this, the new powers that would

27:02

come on board. I don't want you to think that

27:04

you yourself are changing, or have changed

27:06

in some dark or threatening way.

27:08

This has all been too scary

27:11

for too long, and I'm sure

27:13

you would rather have... Rumbleforskin

27:15

or one of your other companions with you out here

27:17

instead of me. Which is

27:20

why... I'm just gonna

27:22

stand here. And if you want

27:24

a moment truly alone, without those three

27:26

bothering you, Take a

27:28

few steps further out onto the cloud

27:30

if they come out I'll go back

27:32

with them to give you this time to

27:34

yourself because I feel like you have

27:36

not had a lot of time truly alone

27:39

and I know Processing the

27:41

things you've had to go through is impossible. I

27:44

Can't fix it, but I can get you some time Yeah

27:48

Thanks

27:51

Ezra I It's

27:55

it's been a lot and

27:58

there's been a lot of bad

28:00

things, but it's you've also

28:02

helped us out a lot

28:04

so I'm happy to throw

28:06

in with you or whatever

28:08

we need to do

28:10

going forward just Please be

28:13

nice to Tyler, okay

28:15

Of course

28:17

Okay, you know,

28:19

he's had a really hard time with

28:21

it too and that you know, he talks to

28:23

you and I always

28:25

really liked talking to Lucretia, so

28:28

it just, he

28:30

needs that support too. I

28:33

will attempt to be

28:35

more personal with him. Tyler

28:37

is not one to open up about

28:40

his feelings, or so I've discovered.

28:42

He tends to be focused more on

28:44

the missions, but if you're gotta

28:46

bully him. Yeah, you gotta really bully him, and then like

28:48

ask him how he's feeling over and over again, then

28:50

maybe he'll open up. I

28:52

will consider doing that. Yes. He has

28:54

to invite contact, but when he does,

28:56

I will bully him to the best

28:58

of my ability. Okay.

29:02

Well, thanks. Yeah, I'd like

29:04

a minute by myself. It's

29:07

entirely yours. And Ezra

29:09

stands back up and strides a fair

29:11

distance away back towards the room in

29:13

the clouds, leaving you to yourself out

29:15

here, Del. What do you

29:17

do? What are you thinking? Do you

29:20

say anything? This

29:22

is your first moment alone to process everything

29:24

that's happened. Yeah, I don't

29:26

know if we have all of ours We don't have

29:28

any of our stuff with us or do we do

29:30

I guess you have your equipment your

29:32

weapons all of those kinds of

29:34

things are with you Lucretia give

29:36

me a letter. Is that real? Did that actually

29:38

stay with me? Is that a real thing that

29:40

I can correct you have the letter? And

29:44

you go to open

29:46

it and Now I am going to

29:48

have to ask Dell the player a question. Yeah

29:51

Do you think you have

29:53

fully processed and recovered from

29:56

Lucretia's death? Nah.

30:00

Then you cannot open it. Whoa.

30:04

Ooh. Spicy.

30:08

Yeah, I think I stand there with it

30:10

for a bit, thinking like, I don't

30:12

know if I want to open it, and

30:14

then when I do try, I can't

30:16

open it. Can

30:21

I sit down on the cloud is that of

30:23

course

30:25

I I sit there

30:27

for a minute Because I think of I've

30:29

wanted to talk to rumble for skin about it and

30:31

I think at some point I would probably be

30:33

able to do that, but I guess I'm just

30:35

sitting there thinking out loud

30:37

to myself just like

30:40

I Think the the the

30:42

toughest thing as I'm processing

30:44

through it was having to talk to that stupid

30:46

genie I think if I had to talk to

30:48

the stupid genie afterwards I would have felt maybe

30:51

more convicted, or

30:53

more like it was

30:55

out of my control. But

30:57

having had to make a decision, even though

30:59

it was a split second decision about what

31:01

to do when the genie told me that

31:03

he could have changed things, makes

31:06

it sit a little bit heavier on me. But

31:10

I think it is a weird thing

31:13

long -term to have

31:15

made a commitment to

31:17

someone and then not

31:21

being able to follow through with it. And

31:24

that being just a weird thing

31:27

of like, I felt like I

31:29

really wanted this and I kind of made it, made

31:31

a decision to go with

31:33

her a little bit willy

31:35

nilly, but then really wanted it, but then never

31:37

got it. And so there's just a lot of

31:39

intense feelings about that of like, did

31:42

I really want that? I

31:45

really, really cared about her, but

31:48

it's also like, oh man i

31:50

do make a lot of impromptu

31:52

decisions that then i continue forward

31:54

with aka what change that i

31:56

end up in a place where

31:58

i'm like what am i doing

32:00

with my life and i

32:03

think that that is

32:05

the thread that continues

32:07

here so what do you think you're

32:09

doing with your life like what is the

32:11

the the big thought that's hitting you in

32:13

this moment. Not that there's an easy answer to

32:15

any of these questions, clearly they're being grappled

32:18

with, and nobody ever has an easy answer for

32:20

like, here's what I'm doing with my life,

32:22

and they lay it all out, and that's just

32:24

the sign of like, oh, okay, we're not

32:26

doing well. But like, what is the closest answer

32:28

that Dell finds in this moment? The

32:31

closest answer, I think, even

32:33

because of making the decision to not

32:35

let the genie swap things around and

32:38

to like, hurt. I

32:41

think the only thing that seems

32:43

true in my mind right now is

32:45

like, I'm helping

32:47

my friends. I

32:50

don't know long term where I'm gonna end up or who I

32:52

wanna be or what I wanna do. I

32:54

know that Lucretia

32:56

is really important to me and that will live with

32:59

me, but figuring out how to process that and

33:01

get there. In the meantime, I

33:03

wanna keep helping my friends. It's

33:06

a pretty good purpose. Del

33:18

you spend as much time as

33:20

you want outside Deciding that you

33:22

need to help your friends trying to

33:24

figure out where you're at trying

33:26

to just feel or trying to not

33:28

feel in classic Del fashion while

33:30

Ezra stands a more than respectful distance

33:33

away allowing you to have this

33:35

moment solo and The boys sit down

33:37

to play Pokemon Monopoly What do each

33:39

of you choose as your piece to

33:41

use on the board for Pokemon Monopoly? Oh

33:44

man So, it had

33:46

a Mewtwo, it had a Pikachu, it

33:49

had a Clefairy. Oh, you

33:51

know? Oh, I had it,

33:53

yeah, yeah. Oh, Oh, boy. Yeah. What? shoe.

33:56

I had a Bulbasaur. The shoe

33:58

was there. And it had, yeah,

34:00

and it had the Thimble. Well, this

34:03

Clefairy thing looks the most like

34:05

a fluffy little Jack Magnum, so

34:07

I suppose I'm gonna go with

34:09

it. Okay.

34:12

How about you, Shadow? Nemesis,

34:14

are you are you joining us for you said you're

34:16

banker, right? You're gonna play as well. Oh, yeah,

34:18

yeah, yeah I want to go to the other Monopoly

34:20

games and I want to I want to go

34:23

to the Ravenloft one I want to find like the

34:25

coolest piece and that's gonna be my piece Mixing game

34:27

pieces. Oh, yeah, great when

34:29

you open up Ravenloft Monopoly what

34:31

you discover is the four

34:33

pieces are your four party members

34:35

Sweet I myself

34:37

And I'm gonna take I'm gonna take

34:40

all the money out of the Ravenloft Monopoly.

34:42

I'm gonna put on my bag Yep,

34:44

it looks evil and it has kind

34:46

of some cool spooky designs on

34:48

it. It's all the same monopoly colors

34:50

though, so it's clearly monopoly money.

34:53

Oh, it's in my bag. I got

34:55

it. Raven Bucks. Don't

34:57

like that. All right, my piece is the biggest, so

34:59

I go first. Tyler,

35:02

what piece are you? I'll take Baldasaur,

35:04

man. I mean, just I like him. He's

35:06

my little buddy. But that's

35:08

not how that works. How

35:11

do you play? You roll dice to see

35:13

who goes first. All

35:15

right, you guys

35:17

roll, then I'll roll. Okay,

35:21

I don't think I see the angle here,

35:23

but I'll roll. Can all three of you roll

35:25

me a D6 in whatever order you please?

35:28

You can go last Shadow Nemesis if you want.

35:30

I rolled a five. Six.

35:35

All right, I

35:37

was going to try to cheat to get

35:39

a six. Okay, how

35:41

do you want to cheat? How

35:44

do I cheat? I'm

35:47

going to be like, oh,

35:51

wait a second. I think some of those dark

35:53

lords are coming in behind you. What?

35:55

I want them to look me. Can

35:57

you roll me a deception and can

35:59

I get an insight roll from New Rogan

36:01

Tyler? It's beautiful. Very

36:07

well. I got I got

36:10

a 16. Oh shit

36:12

12. I got a 14

36:14

They both look to the door. Huh?

36:17

You're quickly cheap. All right. Hey, whoa.

36:19

Hey, I got a six too

36:21

Wow, I guess we got a re

36:23

-roll see who goes first new rogue

36:25

Like both of you re -roll. Oh

36:27

Okay, I've

36:30

never played this game. So we're

36:32

not even playing yet. This is

36:34

taking forever. Oh But I'm having

36:36

fun. I like rolling things. a

36:38

four. Oh, a four, eh?

36:40

Oh, right. Oh, false alarm about that,

36:43

uh, that guy over there. But, oh,

36:45

oh, but they're really coming in now.

36:48

Can you roll me a deception? Can I

36:50

get an insight from Tyler and New

36:52

Rogue? Hmm. It's

36:57

11. 17. My

37:00

deception's really good. I got

37:02

22. Holy shit. I

37:04

think you both know that he's probably

37:06

lying but if he's telling the truth

37:09

everyone could die because he's playing this

37:11

bad gag in an area where you

37:13

know you're all mortal and underpowered so

37:15

you still both glance. And

37:17

what number do you quote unquote roll

37:19

Shadow Nemesis? Oh my, look

37:21

at this, a six again. Wow,

37:23

geez, all right. I mean, I

37:25

guess I go first. Wow. Okay,

37:28

go. Yeah, false alarm. I

37:30

was looking at the chair. And

37:33

you all start playing the game. Can

37:35

I get a luck roll? So just

37:37

a d20. We're adding absolutely nothing to

37:39

it. Shadow Nemesis, you have advantage because

37:41

you're blatantly cheating. Ooh, all right.

37:43

He makes his own luck. That's

37:47

a one for my luck. I'm

37:51

a nine. I got

37:53

12. Okay,

37:56

you all play

37:58

Pokemon Monopoly. Shadow

38:00

Nemesis, you get about a half hour to

38:02

play. Shadow Nemesis is clearly winning, but

38:04

New Rogue is close behind. Tyler, you

38:07

are struggling with the fact that you

38:09

are a toy piece in Ravenloft Monopoly

38:11

so much that you can't really pay

38:13

attention to this game anymore. It's

38:15

weird. There is a Ravenloft Monopoly. It's

38:17

weird. The switch was here. It doesn't work.

38:19

It's weird that you were pieces. There's

38:21

just something unsettling about that, which

38:24

is when Ezra reenters

38:26

with Dell. And

38:28

you all hear a loud gong

38:30

smash and thunder crack. This

38:32

massive sound as the lights flicker inside

38:34

this room. And Ezra looks at all of

38:37

you and says, it's time for us

38:39

to vote. Everyone

38:41

remembers what they're supposed to do? Yeah,

38:44

you vote for yourself. Yeah.

38:46

Yeah, you got it, buddy. Correct. Shall

38:49

we walk out together? Would you prefer I

38:51

go first or would you prefer to

38:53

go first and I'll join the table last?

38:55

I'll go out. First, before you to

38:57

protect you, Ezra. That's

39:01

very kind. Perhaps the

39:03

rest of you would go out at the same

39:05

time as New Rogue? Sure.

39:08

No, I'll go last,

39:10

too, so I can make

39:12

a bit of an entrance. Okay.

39:16

Sure. Ezra, do

39:18

you mind if I take this? I'm just going

39:20

to hold up the switch that doesn't work. It's

39:23

entirely yours. Okay, thanks. I'll

39:26

just put it into my child

39:28

lock bag of holding Fabulous Three

39:31

of you make your way out to your

39:33

seats at the table. You are the

39:35

first ones to arrive There are as we

39:37

said 12 seats You can see the

39:39

same plaque that hung over your tunnel doors

39:41

Your seat is in front of your

39:43

tunnel with the same plaque down upon it

39:45

So it's clearly marked and you can

39:47

see of the 12 gems in front of

39:49

you There's an image of each of

39:51

the plaques over one of each gem that's

39:54

built into the table The

39:56

three of you sit down. Ezra

39:58

looks to you, Shadow Nemesis, and

40:00

says, is there anything

40:02

you want to ask me while we're here alone, or

40:04

is this an attempt to search the room? Oh,

40:08

Oh, no. no, um, bell.

40:11

Well, I

40:14

mean, is there anything cool here that can help

40:16

us out? We want us to help you, right?

40:18

So maybe you can give me something really fun so

40:20

I can help us out. I

40:22

have limited access and ability to do that, but I

40:24

do believe I owe you this ring. And

40:27

Ezra's going to draw forth the

40:29

ring of contrariness and put it

40:31

inside a ring box that Ezra

40:33

also draws out of the pocket. And

40:35

there you are. All

40:37

right, I can keep this ring

40:40

box. Ooh, I'm going to put

40:42

my Monopoly character in the ring

40:44

box. The mist swirls up around

40:46

you. Can you roll me a D6? D6,

40:49

okay. So

40:53

six. Okay, you're fine.

40:55

The monopoly character goes in there along with

40:57

the ring of contrariness that tries to jump

40:59

onto your finger, but you close the box

41:01

and it's still kept in there. Oh, no,

41:04

you don't snap. Yeah,

41:06

I did. I didn't know you were going to put anything

41:08

else in there. That's bold. Interesting.

41:11

Yeah. Nothing else

41:14

there. That's all I

41:16

have for you for now. It's

41:18

all I can spare at this moment. Again, we're

41:20

in the Council of 12. I don't have full

41:22

access to things here. Well, can

41:25

I bring those pizza pockets? Absolutely.

41:29

All right. All right, you grab. You

41:33

get yourself 20 pizza pockets on

41:35

a tray. Holy shit.

41:37

Yeah. All right. I bring

41:39

it. I bring the tray. It's like, all

41:41

right, let's do this. All

41:43

right, I'll see you out there in a moment. Ezra

41:47

goes out. His big entrance is going

41:49

to look like he's serving the rest

41:51

of his food. Ezra

41:54

goes out and enters into the

41:56

center. I'm imagining you're following Shadow Nemesis?

41:59

Yeah. Yeah, I come out. I

42:01

give her a beat and then I kind of like

42:03

enter. Fabulous. So Ezra is seated,

42:05

Shadow Nemesis sits down, and that's when

42:07

other figures start to come out of the

42:10

tunnels that you all get to take

42:12

in and see as they take their seats.

42:14

The first figure underneath the plaque

42:16

that showed the flaming fist

42:19

over the broken ring is a

42:21

knight. A woman with

42:23

close crop to black hair

42:25

and black armor staring with

42:27

eyes that are so black

42:29

but lit almost from within

42:31

with a red light as

42:33

she strides forwards and sits

42:35

down in her chair just

42:37

oozing menace and fury. The

42:40

next figure to enter is

42:42

a combination seemingly of

42:44

a demon meets a dragon,

42:46

a humanoid form, but

42:48

with black leathery wings, a

42:50

whipping tail, crocodile -like dragon

42:52

snout, just deep -set yellow

42:54

eyes, wearing tattered black

42:56

robes and carrying blades, just

42:59

full hatred in their eyes

43:01

as they sit down. The

43:03

figure stepping out from underneath

43:05

the fangs wrapped around a brain

43:07

with two tears to either

43:09

side is a

43:12

mind flayer for people who

43:14

are aware of what that is.

43:16

But this is a tall

43:18

gaunt figure in black fitted

43:20

kind of serpentine style robes,

43:22

pink skin, a tentacle mouth with

43:24

four reaching limbs going down

43:26

with thick black eyes and

43:28

a domed cranium. The

43:31

next figure to walk out, coming

43:33

from the plaque with the whisper

43:35

into an ear with a

43:37

knife coming out the other side,

43:40

is a tall, thick set,

43:42

almost refrigerator of a person in

43:44

what looks like torn working

43:46

clothes. could be agrarian, it could

43:48

be janitorial, you're not sure. There

43:51

is a blade at their hip, just

43:54

a big, thick cleaver -ish knife, but

43:56

the most striking thing is their

43:58

face. They are from

44:00

the neck up, wrapped in a helmet.

44:02

It is a full body helm with straps

44:04

attaching it at the center of the

44:06

head, going from the top of the

44:08

head down across the ears and down

44:10

with leather straps holding it in place. with

44:13

a metallic sculpted face.

44:16

Aqualine features a large grin with

44:18

a grill for teeth. You can't

44:20

see what's inside, but it's so

44:22

pure black and two red glass

44:24

eyes staring forwards. It's got a

44:26

sense of joy to the design,

44:29

but a sense of menace in

44:31

what you are seeing from your

44:33

perspective. Then out

44:35

of the darkness, from the

44:37

shriveled heart pierced by

44:39

fangs plaque, you see a

44:42

classical Eastern European style

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figure, a fur kind

44:46

of beaver style hat, a

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tattered rotting long flowing

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cloak, also leathers and furs,

44:52

a big thick mustache, skeletal

44:55

gaunt eyes underneath. You

44:57

can see fangs, but there's something

44:59

aged and dry and desiccated about this

45:01

figure. This is probably the thing

45:03

that stands out to you the most

45:05

as similar to the vampire like

45:07

figures you have met here. Then,

45:10

from underneath the

45:12

screaming face inside the

45:14

elaborate puzzle, outstrides

45:16

a tall figure, tall,

45:18

broad, muscular, wrapped

45:20

in tied together, crude,

45:23

slick, super tight

45:25

leather, just a long

45:27

flowing, almost dress of a cloak,

45:29

tightened in on them with gaps

45:31

showing skin. chains wrapped around the

45:33

waist, over the shoulders, around the

45:35

neck, around the arms with dangling

45:37

hooks at the end. And a

45:40

face that is stretched back with

45:42

skin, with small spikes driven in.

45:44

The other thing that pushes them

45:46

far beyond the realm of the

45:48

norm are large metal spikes that

45:50

have been driven through their entire

45:52

body. You can see they've been

45:55

hammered in from all directions, and

45:57

the points of the spikes are

45:59

coming at the other side. Most

46:01

strikingly, two driven in through the

46:03

front of the eyes as you

46:05

are staring you see the flattened

46:07

metal ends these crudely cut -off spikes

46:10

with the points coming out the

46:12

back of the head as this

46:14

figure steps forward regally to take

46:16

their seat and last under this

46:18

final plaque as you take in

46:20

all of these figures you see

46:22

the plaque of the broken chain

46:25

with a blood drop coming from

46:27

beneath it and slowly coming out

46:29

of the dark is a red

46:31

-skinned figure. From the

46:33

waist down, just a

46:35

floating trail leading back into

46:37

the distance. You see

46:39

tribal tattoos, a

46:41

forked goatee, perfectly slicked

46:44

hair, and hateful,

46:46

hateful eyes as you

46:48

all take in

46:50

Severian Wolf. And

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