EP. 109 Ding Dong

[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the feature presentation. And remember, do your part. Such as, like, comment rate, and don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave off? [00:00:36] Speaker A: Ah, yes. [00:00:39] Speaker B: The party chased off a rock that was attacking a group of kobolds. As it flew away, they saw it flying towards a suspiciously stationary cloud. [00:00:55] Speaker C: Well, now that we're recording, I'm gonna go get a drink. [00:00:58] Speaker D: Oh, can you bring me some water? [00:00:59] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. [00:01:00] Speaker E: How many ounces do you think my mouth can hold? [00:01:04] Speaker A: How many what Ounces? [00:01:06] Speaker C: We know. Not eight. [00:01:08] Speaker F: This is like a classroom. As soon as the teacher's like, I'm gonna. Like, I'll be back, or I'm done, like, immediately, it's like, I'm gonna get up. How many gallons? This, like, gallon. [00:01:16] Speaker D: Didn't know you were homeschooling. [00:01:17] Speaker F: Three conversations starting immediately. One person walking away. [00:01:22] Speaker E: I'm honestly curious, though, because, like, the other day, I was drinking something and, like, downed the entire can. But, like, I swallowed some of it, and I was like, how much can I actually hold without, you know, do. [00:01:32] Speaker F: The rest of it go out of your mouth? [00:01:34] Speaker E: No, like, I swallowed it. [00:01:36] Speaker D: Did you actually do the research? [00:01:38] Speaker E: No, I just asked the question to myself and went on with my life. [00:01:41] Speaker F: What was the question? [00:01:42] Speaker E: How many ounces can my mouth hold? Or how many ounces is my mouth? [00:01:46] Speaker F: Depend on each person. Right. [00:01:47] Speaker E: Well, my means me. [00:01:49] Speaker F: Why don't you measure it? [00:01:50] Speaker E: I don't know how to do that. [00:01:52] Speaker B: 4.22 ounces. [00:01:54] Speaker E: See, that seems like not a lot. [00:01:57] Speaker B: I know. [00:01:57] Speaker D: This is missing liquid. [00:01:59] Speaker A: I know. [00:02:00] Speaker F: What is that? A can with missing liquid. [00:02:02] Speaker D: It's just. It has so much air in it. Is one of these for you? Okay. [00:02:06] Speaker C: It's not open at all. [00:02:07] Speaker D: It's not. [00:02:09] Speaker C: It's like, half full. Not even. [00:02:11] Speaker D: And the rest is petite. [00:02:13] Speaker E: No, no. How many. How much air can I hold someone. [00:02:16] Speaker D: Like, pass it to someone else. They need to understand, I guess. [00:02:19] Speaker F: Oh, they ran out of Baja before finishing that can, I guess. [00:02:22] Speaker D: Say, it's full of blast. [00:02:25] Speaker C: It's full of black. [00:02:26] Speaker D: There's, like, hardly anything in it. [00:02:27] Speaker F: It's full of blast. Don't open it. Don't open it. It's all blast. [00:02:30] Speaker E: There's no. [00:02:35] Speaker C: He's. [00:02:36] Speaker D: Jordy is so confused right now. [00:02:38] Speaker C: One time I went shopping. I saw. I didn't go. I was working at a grocery store, and I don't. And I was stalking the green beans. [00:02:47] Speaker D: He's googling. [00:02:48] Speaker C: And I had A green bean can that did the same thing. It was. It only had liquid in it, no green beans, and it was only half full of liquid. [00:02:55] Speaker D: Really? [00:02:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:56] Speaker B: I wanted. [00:02:56] Speaker C: No. I wanted to, but my boss said, no, you're not allowed to keep it, and, no, you're not allowed to buy it. Throw it away. And I was like, this is. Hold on. [00:03:03] Speaker F: Don't buy it. Don't keep it. Drink it. [00:03:06] Speaker E: Well, hold on. Why did you say green bean? Why not green bean? You emphasize the bean. [00:03:11] Speaker C: It's green bean. [00:03:12] Speaker D: Jordy, are you. [00:03:13] Speaker E: Green bean? [00:03:14] Speaker C: It's green. [00:03:16] Speaker E: You would emphasize that otherwise. [00:03:19] Speaker C: What do you. [00:03:19] Speaker E: Yes, emphasize the modifier. [00:03:21] Speaker C: Petite. [00:03:22] Speaker F: I think Abby. Abby's gonna open it. [00:03:24] Speaker C: Everyone quiet. [00:03:25] Speaker F: Don't tap it. Whoa. [00:03:32] Speaker E: It's so. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Audio, Doctor. [00:03:35] Speaker C: I want to taste it. [00:03:36] Speaker B: I need to prove. How flat is it? How empty that can was. [00:03:43] Speaker F: Drink, drink, drink, drink. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Does it have any carbonation? [00:03:46] Speaker C: It's. [00:03:46] Speaker E: No. [00:03:46] Speaker C: It's not carbonated at all. [00:03:49] Speaker D: It's just b. [00:03:51] Speaker E: And you were worried when I shook it. [00:03:52] Speaker F: It's the blast. [00:03:53] Speaker D: There's no. No, they forgot the blast. It's just Baja. [00:03:58] Speaker F: You think so? You think the sodas. [00:04:00] Speaker A: It's real Mountain Dew off a mountain. They couldn't get a lot. [00:04:04] Speaker C: There is a dent in it. [00:04:05] Speaker E: There's a couple of dents, actually. [00:04:07] Speaker D: I wonder if it lost all the carbonation. [00:04:09] Speaker E: Water. [00:04:09] Speaker F: The carbonation. [00:04:10] Speaker C: Even if it lost all the carbonation. [00:04:12] Speaker A: That wouldn't make it a quarter. [00:04:13] Speaker D: I don't know, man. I'm not a scientist. [00:04:16] Speaker F: I don't know how Baja Blast works. [00:04:20] Speaker D: That's a normal key. [00:04:21] Speaker C: That was a normal canon. [00:04:22] Speaker D: That was a beautiful sound. [00:04:24] Speaker E: Put those two sounds together. Put those two sounds together so we can compare one. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Yeah. The first one was both interesting and disappointing. [00:04:34] Speaker D: It was a little sad, but just the empty can noise. [00:04:40] Speaker E: I enjoyed it. [00:04:40] Speaker D: It was hilarious. [00:04:42] Speaker E: We're gonna get Sam Manila. Sam Manila. [00:04:46] Speaker D: I disagree with that statement. [00:04:48] Speaker E: Sam Manila. [00:04:49] Speaker F: That's what happens when I give you a manila envel. We have a Sam Manila. [00:04:52] Speaker E: He says official documents. [00:04:54] Speaker C: Sam. If you don't use that at work, you're horrid. I don't. [00:04:58] Speaker F: I guess we do. We only. I only pass around vanilla envelopes at work. If it's someone's, like, birthday coming up, it's like you're. [00:05:05] Speaker A: It's. Instead of having your own stationery, you have your own manila envelopes. [00:05:09] Speaker F: Yeah, my face just plastered all over. [00:05:12] Speaker E: I get my manila's custom made. [00:05:16] Speaker F: Gross. [00:05:16] Speaker C: Why does that sound gross? I don't. [00:05:18] Speaker E: My manila's. [00:05:20] Speaker D: You know what else is gross. This post I'm looking at on Pinterest. [00:05:24] Speaker F: Oh, my goodness. What is this? [00:05:25] Speaker D: It's. Don't have a bookmark. Try peanut butter instead. And there's just peanut butter slathered in the middle of the book. [00:05:32] Speaker F: A book and a snack all together. [00:05:35] Speaker D: So uncomfortable. [00:05:36] Speaker E: Get some celery. [00:05:37] Speaker D: And it's like, why would you do that? [00:05:40] Speaker C: I'm all for like, it's your property. Do what you want. But like, why? [00:05:45] Speaker D: And they're on the beach. And it's like sands, but they're in sand socks. And I'm like, are you just trying to make everyone angry? Sandy peanut butter and their pants. They have corduroy pants on. [00:05:57] Speaker E: I can't tell which I disagree with. Rage baiting or just outright on the beach? [00:06:01] Speaker D: I think it's a rage post. [00:06:04] Speaker F: Are you against corduroy in general or just on the beach in general? [00:06:08] Speaker D: I'm not a huge corduroy fan, but. [00:06:10] Speaker B: He'S such a sweet little. [00:06:11] Speaker D: Not the bay. I like the bait. [00:06:13] Speaker C: You had corduroy. The. The bear corduroy books. [00:06:17] Speaker B: No, I'm just cultured. [00:06:19] Speaker E: I get him confused with Paddington. [00:06:21] Speaker D: How? [00:06:21] Speaker E: Except Paddington is not a material. [00:06:25] Speaker B: Or it's just padding. [00:06:27] Speaker D: Paddington had a yellow rain jacket. [00:06:30] Speaker E: Corduroy wasn't. I thought Paddington. [00:06:31] Speaker F: Wasn't it blue? [00:06:33] Speaker D: Was it blue? I don't know. He had a rain jacket. [00:06:35] Speaker F: Iconic yellow rain jacket. Is it. [00:06:38] Speaker B: It's blue in the movie. [00:06:39] Speaker C: No, it'sn't it blue in the book, too? [00:06:43] Speaker G: It is. [00:06:44] Speaker D: Oh. What am I misremembering then? [00:06:47] Speaker E: Everything. [00:06:47] Speaker F: Just a little bear. [00:06:49] Speaker C: Everything you know is a lie. [00:06:50] Speaker D: Maybe it's a little bear. [00:06:51] Speaker C: Blue house. [00:06:52] Speaker D: No, it's not. [00:06:53] Speaker E: Blue house. [00:06:54] Speaker D: He doesn't wear clothes. Somewhere there is a bear. No, I'm thinking of the. Okay, rabbit. [00:07:00] Speaker C: You're thinking. [00:07:02] Speaker D: No, no, no. I'm thinking of an episode of Friends. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Oh. [00:07:06] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh. Well, it's also. [00:07:09] Speaker A: What's the tale of the rabbit that goes into the. [00:07:11] Speaker D: Or is it. Maybe I'm thinking of Curious Joy. [00:07:14] Speaker C: I know what one you're talking about. I just can't. [00:07:17] Speaker E: Something Cottontail. Peter, Peter, Peter. [00:07:19] Speaker B: Peter. [00:07:19] Speaker A: Cottontail had a blue jacket. [00:07:22] Speaker F: Not Watership Down. [00:07:23] Speaker C: Are we talking about blue or yellow? [00:07:24] Speaker D: Watership down is something completely different. [00:07:29] Speaker F: I had a. [00:07:30] Speaker D: It's violent. [00:07:31] Speaker F: I had a Peter Rabbit crib growing up. [00:07:33] Speaker D: Congratulations. [00:07:34] Speaker C: I feel like Peter Rabbit's awesome. [00:07:35] Speaker E: Growing up. How long did you have a crib? [00:07:37] Speaker A: Did you guys ever watch the. They made a series of videos of different Beatrix Potter stories. [00:07:44] Speaker D: Yeah, there's More. Yeah, I. I had that as a child. Yes. [00:07:49] Speaker A: The music that they have, I love. [00:07:51] Speaker C: I think I've seen the animated one for Peter Cotton. Cottontail. [00:07:55] Speaker A: My favorite. My favorite one is the Rats. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. That was my favorite so much I barely. Adventure and excitement imminent peril. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Roly Poly Pudding. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Pudding. [00:08:05] Speaker F: That's the one I love. Roly Poly. [00:08:09] Speaker D: I think we're trying to segue. [00:08:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that's what he was trying to do. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Speaking of segues, where we last left. [00:08:16] Speaker C: Off, I was on a segue. [00:08:20] Speaker B: You were all sitting on Segways watching a gigantic bird of prey fly off into the distance, chased off by your efforts. You've spoiled its meal. It's left the kobolds behind, and it is flying off towards a cloud near a peak of a mountain about 10 miles away from your current position. One modification. There are no Segways. [00:08:46] Speaker E: How Many meters is 10 miles? Don't waste your time on it. [00:08:52] Speaker D: No, he's googling right now. [00:08:54] Speaker F: Okay, five. At least five. [00:08:56] Speaker E: I've transitioned to the metric system. [00:08:58] Speaker B: 1600 meters. [00:08:59] Speaker C: That's a good. That's a good number. Transition to the metric system. System. [00:09:05] Speaker E: Conversation for later. [00:09:08] Speaker B: And as you see this bird now 16 kilometers away. [00:09:12] Speaker A: You said 16 kilometers? [00:09:15] Speaker G: Yes. [00:09:16] Speaker C: Teleport. [00:09:19] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Sven. 16 kilometers. [00:09:22] Speaker H: No. [00:09:24] Speaker F: Kylo meters. [00:09:26] Speaker D: Kylo ren meters. [00:09:27] Speaker A: I thought you said it was only 1600 meters away. [00:09:31] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [00:09:32] Speaker C: Six. [00:09:33] Speaker F: That's 1.6 kilometers. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:36] Speaker B: Oh, well, I'm hitting this wrong one. How far away is the bed? [00:09:41] Speaker F: I understand it's really big. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Oh, did I say. I said 1600. It's 16,000 meters. [00:09:47] Speaker E: Everyone forgets about decameters. [00:09:49] Speaker B: There was just. I missed a zero. It's okay. I work with numbers for a living. [00:09:57] Speaker E: I have a restraining order on numbers. [00:10:01] Speaker B: As you are all watching this bird fly off into the distance, you hear some commotion over near Troll Forge. And kobolds start spilling out. And some of them are, like, carrying, like, plates of food, and others are, like, carrying, like, decorations and stuff. And they're singing a song that sounds like a parody of the song that I still believe is copyrighted. Ding dong, the witch is dead. This song is Ding Dong the Rock Has Fled. [00:10:31] Speaker E: That's it. That's the episode. We're done here. [00:10:35] Speaker C: Everybody pack up. We're going home. [00:10:37] Speaker F: Do more people speak Draconic now than before? No, because last time it was oldly be. [00:10:43] Speaker C: Oh, wait, hold on. [00:10:44] Speaker F: You have more languages now, right? [00:10:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I have, like, five languages I haven't picked. We'll say one of them's Draconic. [00:10:50] Speaker D: I don't speak Draconic. [00:10:52] Speaker C: Wait. [00:10:52] Speaker E: Do Cobalt street drinks Draconic? [00:10:55] Speaker C: They drink Cobalt. [00:10:56] Speaker D: Drink it. [00:10:57] Speaker F: I only drink Draconic. [00:10:59] Speaker E: It sounds like cognac. [00:11:01] Speaker C: I can't find draconic. [00:11:03] Speaker E: Draconiac. [00:11:04] Speaker D: It sounds more like tonic. [00:11:06] Speaker E: Dratonic. [00:11:07] Speaker F: Draconic tonic. [00:11:09] Speaker B: The kobolds are kind of spilling out into this. How do you describe. It's a little inlet into the mountainside where the doors are placed into. And they're just going around and just decorating this place, Pulling out long tables and setting up platters. And Arboo, the chieftain of the kobolds, walks out and in. Draconic is just like, thank you, warriors. You have come back and returned and rid us of this plague. [00:11:35] Speaker F: How. Why. How long have you had all that prepared? [00:11:39] Speaker B: We are always down to party. [00:11:43] Speaker F: Oh, that's fair. Glad to see you guys out and about. [00:11:47] Speaker G: Yes. [00:11:48] Speaker B: As you'll remember, last time we had talked, we had discussed the idea of instigating trade with other nations without murder. Yes. Yes. [00:11:57] Speaker F: It's working. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Well, partially. None of the murder is our fault. [00:12:04] Speaker C: Are you being murdered? [00:12:05] Speaker B: Yes. You see, sometimes we go out and we make trade and everything goes fine. And other times, this giant bird shows up and picks off a few of our people. [00:12:16] Speaker F: Don't hurt my giant bird, please. [00:12:19] Speaker C: You understand that? [00:12:20] Speaker B: It's not dead, but you've driven it off. And I have a proposition for you. I would like to hire you as the protectors of our realm. You will be paid handsomely. One pound of meat each, every week. [00:12:36] Speaker F: That sounds nice. I lean over to Alward, and I very quietly say, do you still want to be vegetarian. [00:12:49] Speaker C: And non draconic? I. I respond to Val. We. We don't. We're already on a mission. We kind of can't do their thing in this thing. [00:12:58] Speaker F: I think it's gonna be the same thing. [00:13:00] Speaker C: I mean, technically, but, like, I think they want us to, like, stay around here. We don't have time. [00:13:05] Speaker F: But, I mean, we can get food for free. That's nice. [00:13:08] Speaker H: I don't think I could eat a pound of me meat in a day. [00:13:12] Speaker C: That's not a lot of meat. [00:13:14] Speaker E: I think he said every week. Oh, that was. And that was not in character. [00:13:18] Speaker F: It's all part of the bartering. [00:13:20] Speaker C: Well, ask. You're the one with the rapport with these guys. [00:13:23] Speaker F: Otter poo. [00:13:25] Speaker B: Yes. Tall warrior. [00:13:27] Speaker E: Is he speaking in Draconic? [00:13:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:13:29] Speaker E: Okay, so I can't be in the conversation anyway. [00:13:31] Speaker F: First, everyone. Isn't it joyous that this One can speak the language now too. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Half the all the kobolds just freeze and look at Albert. [00:13:42] Speaker C: I wave and say hello in draconic. [00:13:44] Speaker B: And then they all yay. And continue setting up the feast. [00:13:49] Speaker F: So this. Before we say yes or no to your proposition, good sir. What is it you want us to do? Just go hunt and finish killing the monster? [00:14:01] Speaker B: No. We need caravan guards that you will travel with our people into the dangerous wilderness and protect them from all of the dangers that our ancestors have logged on the walls. Now we understand this bird not to be a metaphor, but to be like literal. And I'm really worried about the picture of a dragon. [00:14:21] Speaker F: Hold on. [00:14:21] Speaker C: I pull out my map, I shoot a I told you so look at Val. [00:14:26] Speaker F: Where are you going on this map? [00:14:28] Speaker B: We're going. We're not going on that map. [00:14:30] Speaker C: We're not. [00:14:30] Speaker B: We're going that way. And he points north. [00:14:33] Speaker F: Oh, we're not going north, are we? [00:14:35] Speaker B: No, you're. You would be heading south. [00:14:38] Speaker F: I'm sorry, Arby, but we have to save the world from being destroyed, so we can't go north. [00:14:45] Speaker B: Hmm, that does seem like a plausible excuse. [00:14:48] Speaker F: There's a giant dragon that woke up and he's very upset. [00:14:52] Speaker C: Lenorm? [00:14:53] Speaker F: Yeah, Fafnir. He's very upset right now. [00:14:57] Speaker B: He just looks like he has a haunted look come over his face. [00:15:00] Speaker F: There is one of the over at Joel, if you're familiar with it. To the west northwest, there's a dude named Osthaag the Undying. He's putting together an army to help fight. Oh, well, if you want to prove your warriors. [00:15:17] Speaker B: Oh, we don't have anything to prove to humans. [00:15:19] Speaker F: Oh, if you want to help out. [00:15:22] Speaker A: Val, Uver says in common. [00:15:25] Speaker F: Oh, hi, Uber. [00:15:28] Speaker H: Are you going to ask him about the prophecy? [00:15:31] Speaker F: Which prophecy? [00:15:31] Speaker C: The prophecy. [00:15:32] Speaker A: He just said also that is your guys's cue that I also speak draconic. But Uwe has not been acknowledging it after seeing your reaction. [00:15:42] Speaker F: What prophecy? Did I miss him? [00:15:44] Speaker D: He literally said the prophecy whenever you were talking about Fafnir. [00:15:48] Speaker C: So you know right when you said Fafnir his fa. [00:15:54] Speaker F: I'm sorry, I'm just distracted right now. Arboo. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Yes? [00:15:58] Speaker F: What's this prophecy? I'm very interested in prophecies and it's really weird that I would miss the fact that you mentioned a prophecy. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Well, you see, on the walls of our town are inscribed all of the histories of our time. [00:16:14] Speaker F: I didn't see those last time. [00:16:15] Speaker C: Same. [00:16:16] Speaker B: Well, we didn't show them to you. We didn't trust you enough Back then. [00:16:19] Speaker F: But I just spill pills, poured out my whole. [00:16:22] Speaker A: It's just a sidefall down the main. [00:16:25] Speaker B: One along this wall. We came to a point that we believe is now. And then there are more drawings after that. So we believe that that is later. One of the drawings in the later part was a giant bird attacking our people. And then another drawing was a giant dragon attacking our people. [00:16:47] Speaker F: Oh, so you guys are in danger too. [00:16:50] Speaker B: No, we're fine. [00:16:55] Speaker F: But you won't be in the future. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Well, yes, that's the way this goes. [00:16:59] Speaker F: So why don't you come help us out and fight the dragon? [00:17:03] Speaker B: Because that would hasten the prophecy. [00:17:07] Speaker F: But you'd be more prepared to not be murdered by the prophecy. [00:17:10] Speaker C: He's not wrong. It would hasten the prophecy. [00:17:13] Speaker G: Maybe. [00:17:13] Speaker F: I mean, you guys might have to wait there a couple of weeks before we're ready to go. [00:17:16] Speaker B: Or we can wait here maybe. [00:17:18] Speaker F: What if Daphnir comes here on his own first? [00:17:22] Speaker B: It is said, by the way. Just. [00:17:25] Speaker F: Barbu, lay off the drinks. Yes. The party has not started. [00:17:28] Speaker B: It is said by the wisest sage of our time that we sometimes meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it. [00:17:37] Speaker C: Did Pilgrim say that? I feel like Pilgrim said that. [00:17:40] Speaker E: How's Pilgrim doing? Are you speaking in the common right now? Because I don't know what's happening here. You all are talking about weird things. He's making weird faces. [00:17:48] Speaker B: And Kobold has walked up to Zafir and is handing him a small glass. [00:17:54] Speaker E: Is this Dr. Pepper? [00:17:56] Speaker B: It's cognac. [00:17:57] Speaker C: It's cognac. [00:17:58] Speaker E: It's draconyac. [00:17:59] Speaker A: It's draconyac. [00:18:02] Speaker E: Just gonna. Just gonna hold it. [00:18:04] Speaker F: That's true. That's true. So maybe you guys could help out so you don't meet your fate avoiding it. [00:18:13] Speaker B: This is wisdom, tall warrior. [00:18:15] Speaker F: Oh, thank you. I am pretty tall. [00:18:18] Speaker B: How many of my warriors do you think it would take to overwhelm this faftir you speak of? [00:18:24] Speaker H: How many of them would they have to sacrifice Val? [00:18:28] Speaker F: Well, if you're with all the others, hopefully no one would be sacrificed. If you're with the rest of the army. If you're by yourselves, I don't think you have enough kobolds. [00:18:43] Speaker B: Arbo kind of turns and looks at the Troll forge. Since time immemorial, this has been my people's home. But if survival means leaving it, then we will join the humans and make one last stand. [00:19:04] Speaker F: Okay, one second. I sit down right next to him and I pull out a piece of parchment and hastily write on it and I hand it to Arvu. I said, this is a letter for them so that when they see you, they don't freak out or try to fight you. [00:19:21] Speaker B: Your letters have a lot of small pieces in them. [00:19:26] Speaker F: Yeah. You.I's and you cross T's. [00:19:28] Speaker B: It looks like a lot of little letters altogether to me. [00:19:32] Speaker F: That's about right. Yeah. That's kind of what language is. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Very well. We will present this talisman when we reach the human city. [00:19:43] Speaker F: All right. And you can give them our names so that they know you're cool. Because we are, like, special people. Now. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Do I know your names? Another kobold walks up and just, like, taps him. Yes. Yes, we do. Good. [00:19:59] Speaker F: Um, I turn to the others. So, like, are we going now, or we want to, like, hang out at this party for a bit. What's going on? [00:20:09] Speaker E: I'm gonna drink this real quick, and then we could. Probably should head out, considering we just saw where it went. [00:20:15] Speaker F: That's fair. Yeah. [00:20:16] Speaker H: We don't know how long that palace will stay there. We should probably go as soon as we can. [00:20:21] Speaker F: All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Arby. [00:20:27] Speaker H: Yes? [00:20:27] Speaker F: We're gonna go. We're gonna head out. [00:20:29] Speaker B: Oh, where are you going? [00:20:32] Speaker D: We're just gonna. We're gonna go. [00:20:34] Speaker A: We're gonna head out. I'm sorry. [00:20:36] Speaker H: It's nice seeing you. [00:20:38] Speaker F: But we've gotta go fight the giants in that castle. Or maybe tomorrow talk to them and see if they'll just join up. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Oh, you mean that floating sky castle over there? And he points to the cloud? [00:20:48] Speaker F: Yeah, that one. Oh, we were looking for it. [00:20:51] Speaker B: Yeah. It's kind of cloudy. It's kind of difficult to see today, but sometimes it's really obvious. And you can see the towers from here. [00:20:58] Speaker F: That's cool. [00:21:00] Speaker B: It's been there for a while. [00:21:01] Speaker F: Yeah. I'm hopeful that they're not too aggressive, just sitting there so long. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Well, Uvair is just looking at fel like. [00:21:14] Speaker F: What? [00:21:15] Speaker C: How long has it been there? [00:21:17] Speaker B: Oh, you know, maybe 10 years. [00:21:22] Speaker C: It's been here 10 years and no one knows of its location? [00:21:27] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I know where it is. It's right there. [00:21:31] Speaker H: I guess, to be fair, we didn't know the ask last time. [00:21:35] Speaker F: Yeah, you didn't see it when we were here for, like, a week. [00:21:39] Speaker B: It was cloudy that week. It was cloudy that week. [00:21:45] Speaker D: Well, I don't speak draconic. I can't be in this conversation. [00:21:49] Speaker E: I have finished my drakonyac. [00:21:53] Speaker F: Val smacks her knee and says, well. [00:21:55] Speaker E: I guess we're gonna go start Backing out. [00:21:58] Speaker D: Val is a Midwesterner. It's canon. [00:22:01] Speaker E: There's a Midwest to whatever region we're in right now. [00:22:05] Speaker B: You're leaving our party so soon? It's. It's held in your honor. [00:22:08] Speaker F: We've gotta go either kill or talk to people. [00:22:13] Speaker E: Didn't somebody throw us last time? We had to cross a bridge in the Troll Forge. [00:22:16] Speaker C: They had a catapult. [00:22:17] Speaker E: They had a catapult. [00:22:19] Speaker C: It's not good enough. [00:22:21] Speaker H: You don't know that. [00:22:22] Speaker F: At very least 16 kilometers away, probably more. [00:22:27] Speaker E: Can. Can somebody ask them to make one? [00:22:30] Speaker C: They probably still have the other one. If you just want to be launched. [00:22:33] Speaker E: It'S a viable option. [00:22:35] Speaker C: It's not a viable option. Remember that thing barely got us over like a 15 foot gap. [00:22:40] Speaker E: Threw me just fine. [00:22:42] Speaker F: Charity. [00:22:43] Speaker B: Yes? [00:22:43] Speaker F: Is there typically a way to, like, get into the castle without flying, or is flying required? I don't know how flying castles function. They need to, like, more themselves. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Or if they just hover, what's your society bonus? [00:22:59] Speaker D: I mean, if it's been there, supposedly it's anchored, and if there's an anchor, there might be a rope. [00:23:04] Speaker F: That's what I was thinking. [00:23:05] Speaker C: Yeah, but magic? [00:23:08] Speaker D: Yeah, but you never know. I'm just. Listen, it's a possibility. [00:23:12] Speaker C: I'm not saying it's not a possibility. I'm just saying there are rooms. Let me speculate. [00:23:18] Speaker F: My society's 15. As is my music. Lar. [00:23:24] Speaker D: Congratulations. [00:23:27] Speaker B: You're not confident. You don't know either way whether there would be some sort of physical mooring device, or if it would be magically moored. If there would be some sort of, like, elevator device that would harness it and bring somebody up, or if most of the denizens who'd ever use the castle would have innate flying capabilities. Anyway. [00:23:46] Speaker H: Can I make the same check? [00:23:47] Speaker B: Sure. What's your society? [00:23:49] Speaker A: 21. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Okay, 21 for Uber. What's your bonus? Near us? [00:23:54] Speaker D: I'm debating if I want to use society or gossip lore, the gospel. [00:23:59] Speaker C: Can you get one for me too, Jordy? If we're all gonna be rolling anyway. [00:24:02] Speaker E: Yes, I'm here. [00:24:03] Speaker C: What's your 24 with a master? [00:24:06] Speaker F: Does lower the DC AL word? [00:24:09] Speaker B: No. [00:24:09] Speaker D: Okay, never mind. [00:24:11] Speaker C: I'm sorry, Abby. [00:24:13] Speaker B: I was rolling very poorly up until outward. So, Alward, you know for sure that most denizens of the castle have innate flying capabilities, and so this. This is a legendary castle. That it's not just something that you. You've heard about this before. And thinking back over your readings and such, you know that most denizens of this castle would have an eight flying capabilities, so there wouldn't be any infrastructure that's on the castle to allow somebody to ascend, unless whoever currently has the castle has installed such a capacity. Now, with that being said, the castle is not designed to be moored. Being in one place is weird. So you wouldn't know if that was some magical fastening so it can't go anywhere, or if someone has made an alteration to the castle using some physical means to fasten it to the peak. [00:25:09] Speaker C: So, yeah, it's. It's really weird that it's been there forever and it normally doesn't. It normally goes with, like, the currents of the sky. [00:25:15] Speaker F: So the wind. [00:25:16] Speaker D: The winds, yeah. Wind currents, the sky current. [00:25:21] Speaker F: So if that thing was coming at you, could you just build giant windmills and keep it away from you? [00:25:26] Speaker C: That's not how windmills work, Val. [00:25:29] Speaker F: Do windmills not make. [00:25:31] Speaker C: No, windmills take wind. What. [00:25:34] Speaker F: What if they're backwards? [00:25:36] Speaker C: No, no. [00:25:37] Speaker F: Does the wind not go out the back? [00:25:38] Speaker C: I mean, theoretically, you could make a windmill and then hire a bunch of people to push it. [00:25:43] Speaker F: Why have I never known how windmills work? [00:25:46] Speaker C: Have you ever been inside a windmill? No. So the wind. Well, I'll explain that later. [00:25:54] Speaker F: All right, so we just want to get on our horses and go. We don't have horses. [00:25:58] Speaker C: Yeah, we teleported here. [00:26:00] Speaker F: Are we just gonna walk? It's, like, what, 24 hours? [00:26:03] Speaker C: If it's right there, though, Val, and I'm speaking in common. I'm like. And we wait here. Then we could just have these two. And I point to Uvaire and Zafir, teleport us via eyesight if we can see the tower tomorrow. [00:26:17] Speaker F: All right, that's. [00:26:18] Speaker H: That's woods. [00:26:19] Speaker F: Yeah, I guess so. Right? [00:26:21] Speaker A: Uvaire looks very distracted. [00:26:23] Speaker C: Yes. [00:26:26] Speaker D: Are you okay? [00:26:27] Speaker E: For the record, it just looks distracting. [00:26:29] Speaker C: Okay. [00:26:30] Speaker E: I don't want to use that spell slot. Even I don't want it to be gone when we get there. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Zafir, you don't have to. You don't have to use teleport. [00:26:39] Speaker C: I can. [00:26:41] Speaker A: I can do four. As long as Sigrun flies. [00:26:44] Speaker H: Whee. [00:26:46] Speaker F: I turn to arbout. We're back. And I guess we're staying the night, actually. [00:26:50] Speaker B: Ah, glorious day. Let the wine flow. Give that man more cognac. [00:26:58] Speaker C: Thanks. I don't have to be vegan this time. Dude, it looks like they actually have, like, bored meat. [00:27:04] Speaker F: Listen, that's up to you. [00:27:08] Speaker C: Being vegan is a personal choice. [00:27:11] Speaker A: First off, how do you pronounce the leader's? Name again? Arboo. Thank you. Second after everyone has dispersed somehow, because I have a feeling the cobalt will disturb some. [00:27:27] Speaker D: Will what? [00:27:28] Speaker C: Distribute. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Distribute. Distribute the party throughout the party. [00:27:34] Speaker C: Distribute the drunk party. [00:27:37] Speaker B: Osmosis. [00:27:38] Speaker E: Draconyac. [00:27:39] Speaker C: Draconyak. [00:27:40] Speaker A: Draconyac. That or the draconyak will disperse. Everybody. Uvair is going to quietly come up to Arbo. Arboo and Indrikonic. [00:27:54] Speaker H: Hello, Arbo. I was wondering if I could ask you a question. [00:28:00] Speaker B: Of course. [00:28:00] Speaker G: You. [00:28:01] Speaker B: You speak the mother tongue. [00:28:04] Speaker C: Yes. [00:28:05] Speaker H: I learned it rather recently, as a matter of fact, on my journeys. Have you seen a little cobalt? Ruby, I believe her name was. [00:28:22] Speaker B: Not since she left to follow you all. How's she doing anyway? [00:28:29] Speaker H: I was hoping that she has returned home. I have not seen her in some time. [00:28:35] Speaker B: No, I mean, last I knew, she was adventuring with you. So if you don't know where she is, I'm sure she's fine. [00:28:47] Speaker F: What the. Hey, Sven. What'd you do to Ruby? I don't know. [00:28:52] Speaker E: Not to Ruby, but with Ruby. [00:28:55] Speaker H: I see. I. I'm certain that. Yes, yes, she must. She must be all right. She always did turn up. [00:29:07] Speaker B: She's good at that. [00:29:11] Speaker A: And with that, he'll just kind of nod and thanks and quietly leave the party. [00:29:20] Speaker E: Not again. [00:29:21] Speaker F: Leaving the party. [00:29:23] Speaker A: The cobalt party. [00:29:24] Speaker C: You just got back. [00:29:26] Speaker B: Hey, are you, like, heading out into the woods or back into Troll Forge? [00:29:30] Speaker A: Back into Troll Forge. [00:29:31] Speaker G: Okay. [00:29:33] Speaker B: Does anybody else have anything they want to do at this party? [00:29:35] Speaker F: I'm going to play music. Just dance around. [00:29:39] Speaker C: So Sven went into the forge? [00:29:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:29:42] Speaker C: Okay. Where in the forge? [00:29:45] Speaker A: I'm heading to Pilgrim, but. [00:29:48] Speaker C: Okay. [00:29:48] Speaker F: They're going to play Mario Kart. [00:29:50] Speaker C: I got the blue shell. You sound so sad. People like if I use it on you. Howard is going to trail after Uvaire, but instead of following him to Pilgrim, he's going to go through the double doors where the two chests were. There were double doors, Right. Okay. And then he's gonna go up the steps and kind of set up a space in the hallway away from everything. I don't even know how to describe what I'm trying to do. He, like he's done before, is going to summon the golden threads that he uses to alter and look and change things. And he's going to sort of pick another thread and start tugging on it and sort of pull on it once and watch it as it goes back through the day's events. And it keeps going back, and then once it gets to the beginning of our adventure, all the way back before any of us have met, it stops. And he's going to try and tug on and feel a little resistance. And he's going to step back a little, like, out of frustration. And doing so reveals how it ties into, like, a grander tapestry of all of the events. And he notices in various spots where it looks like it. The thread gets kind of tangled and a little like it missed a thread or something weird is going on. And then he reaches out to grab hold of it to see if he can find what he's looking for, and it sort of morphs into a larger rope substance. And he goes to tug on that alward. [00:31:54] Speaker B: As you begin tugging on these threads that have strengthened and coalesced into more of a rope, as you tug, you feel a strange sensation of both being lifted and also just being separated. As if when you're tugging on that rope, you're tugging reality away from yourself or yourself away from reality. And it brings a natural sense of hesitation. And you falter for a moment, and you're kind of seeing. Almost as if you're between reality and non reality. And at that moment, you hear a voice. [00:32:37] Speaker D: So do I see you messing with stuff? [00:32:41] Speaker C: I feel, like, what it looks like from your side. You see me moving my hands, and you see the golden light that typically is around whenever I'm doing time shenanigans. And I'm, like, flickering in and out, almost as if I'm not there, but am. [00:32:59] Speaker D: Cool. All right. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Then. [00:33:04] Speaker D: Nero walks in holding a glass of Dracony. She's like, I know. I haven't had that many. [00:33:12] Speaker C: And as soon as I hear your voice, I become solid again. And the glow goes away. And I turn back. Oh, hi. Hello. Hi. Hi. [00:33:19] Speaker D: What were you just doing? What was all that? Why did you look like a candle? [00:33:30] Speaker C: A candle? You know, I was waxing. [00:33:32] Speaker D: No, the flame. You know how it flickers. [00:33:36] Speaker C: I don't know what you're talking about. I was looking at. I was going over today's events. I do that. [00:33:46] Speaker D: Do you disappear sometimes when you do that? [00:33:51] Speaker C: Not to my knowledge, no. Okay. Is that any good? And I point to the Draconia. [00:33:58] Speaker D: I mean, yeah, it's pretty good. You want some? [00:34:01] Speaker C: No. [00:34:01] Speaker D: Okay. You don't want to share cooties? [00:34:05] Speaker C: No, I don't. You know, I don't like drinking. [00:34:08] Speaker D: You need to loosen up. [00:34:10] Speaker C: We're about to go into a giant sky castle. [00:34:13] Speaker D: Yeah. Which means you need to loosen up before all the stress happens tomorrow. It's gonna be our last opportunity for a while. [00:34:21] Speaker C: Fine. I'll have one. [00:34:23] Speaker D: Yeah, you will. [00:34:24] Speaker C: And then a telekinetic hand comes up and grabs the one you're holding. [00:34:28] Speaker D: I'll find another one later. I have a question for you. I suppose. [00:34:38] Speaker C: Okay. And I. I take a small sip. [00:34:42] Speaker D: I was told by a source that I need your help. [00:34:50] Speaker C: I mean, I'm. I'm happy to help my friends. [00:34:54] Speaker D: I think it has to do with my dead mum. [00:34:58] Speaker C: I thought your mom didn't exist. [00:35:01] Speaker D: I don't. She had. She exists. Somewhere, sometime. Somehow. Because I'm here. [00:35:10] Speaker C: Yes. [00:35:11] Speaker D: My dead mum. [00:35:14] Speaker C: I'm sorry. I didn't know she had Will die. [00:35:18] Speaker B: What? [00:35:20] Speaker C: I don't know. I'm just trying to be polite. [00:35:26] Speaker D: Anyway, I'm supposed to save her soul. Oh. That's what Corvus wants me to do. [00:35:37] Speaker C: The psychopomp? [00:35:39] Speaker D: Yes. [00:35:40] Speaker C: I feel like you want to talk to Val. She's more into the. [00:35:43] Speaker D: Yeah, I kind of need her too. But I'm also still mad at her, so I'm avoiding talking to her. So I don't know why. I need your help. Corvus didn't really elaborate on how you could help, but we have to go to. What was it? The boneyard? Dead roads? Probably both. Something like that. And I need to. He wants me to save her soul or spirit or whatever. He said she's trapped. [00:36:18] Speaker C: I don't know much about that or really Val's religion, but I'm pretty sure she would be against that. [00:36:29] Speaker D: I know. That's why I've avoided talking to her. Partly. [00:36:33] Speaker C: I mean, I'll help if I can. I don't know how. [00:36:36] Speaker D: I don't either. Maybe with your time stuff. [00:36:39] Speaker C: I don't think my time stuff affects the boneyard. Or does it? [00:36:44] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:36:46] Speaker C: Alward. Sort of like forgets you're in the room and starts muttering to himself and like walks off and starts pacing. The room is like. Well, if it does affect. And then I. That means I could. And then. And he's just sort of going in that for a moment. And then he turns to you and he's like. If it does affect the boneyard, then I would like to help you. Yes. [00:37:09] Speaker D: Okay. [00:37:11] Speaker C: Cool. [00:37:12] Speaker D: I don't know when we're going to do this. [00:37:15] Speaker C: Presumably after this castle. [00:37:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:18] Speaker D: Not before. I don't think we have the time. [00:37:21] Speaker C: Unless time works differently in the boneyard. [00:37:25] Speaker D: Goes off on another direction. [00:37:26] Speaker C: Goes off on another. Paces. A different direction. [00:37:30] Speaker D: It's north. South this time. [00:37:34] Speaker C: But you. You really should talk, Deval. [00:37:38] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:37:39] Speaker D: No. [00:37:39] Speaker C: Did you know she was a Valkyrie? [00:37:42] Speaker D: I don't Remember? [00:37:44] Speaker C: Okay. [00:37:44] Speaker D: Although I'm not surprised. [00:37:48] Speaker C: She's a very special being. Is. It's like the opposite. [00:37:52] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:52] Speaker C: She's what I am. [00:37:53] Speaker D: She's special. She thinks she's too special sometimes. [00:37:57] Speaker C: I mean, she's chosen by two gods. [00:37:59] Speaker D: I don't care. She needs to eat a slice of humble pie every now and then. [00:38:05] Speaker C: Well, but do you want to go talk to her now or. [00:38:08] Speaker D: No, no. [00:38:09] Speaker C: Maybe after a few more Draconacs. Draconacs? [00:38:14] Speaker D: Maybe. [00:38:14] Speaker B: We'll see. [00:38:16] Speaker D: I don't want to get into another fight at this place, if I'm being honest. [00:38:19] Speaker C: That's fair. [00:38:21] Speaker D: Something tells me it would lead to that. [00:38:23] Speaker C: Yeah. To be fair, I'm avoiding the party because I'm scared that of their food. They tried to make me eat pugs last time. Oh. That's why I was vegan. [00:38:35] Speaker D: I have some rations if you want. [00:38:36] Speaker C: If you're hungry, I have my own ration. Their salad was leaves. [00:38:41] Speaker D: That's what salad is. Alwood. [00:38:43] Speaker C: Dry, dirty leaves. Oh, it was not good. [00:38:48] Speaker D: Okay, I'm sorry. Maybe you should start like a garden here so you have food for every time we come back to Troll Farm. [00:38:55] Speaker C: I really hope this. Well, except to maybe visit Pilgrim, but. [00:38:59] Speaker D: Like, yeah, Pilgrim might take care of it. I don't know. [00:39:03] Speaker C: I'm gonna go ask him. I'll be back. And I'll start walking to Pilgrim, I guess. [00:39:11] Speaker B: Meanwhile, speaking of Pilgrim, Sven Uwe slowly leaves the party. [00:39:20] Speaker A: He kindly brushes off any offers of food as much as he can without being impolite, turns down multiple glasses, goblets, jugs of draconyac buckets, and just slowly makes his way through and eventually exits the hallway or into the hallway. He somewhat notices Alward also making his way out, but doesn't acknowledge. Not so much doesn't acknowledge. Just doesn't do anything with that information and makes his way to what I would guess is the steady banging or clinging or. Or possibly not, you would think, but. [00:40:16] Speaker B: The forge is actually pretty quiet right now. [00:40:18] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:40:21] Speaker A: He just. Well, I guess he walks into the forge quietly. [00:40:26] Speaker B: Inside the forge, where typically you found Pilgrim at work on some sort of creation or other. Pilgrim is just sitting on the anvil with his back to the door. [00:40:43] Speaker F: U. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Very quietly as he walks in. He uses his staff and you just hear this little boof as an announcement that he's there. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Pilgrim kind of stiffens and is like. [00:40:57] Speaker G: Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you'd come in. [00:41:01] Speaker H: And he. [00:41:01] Speaker B: He stands up and is like, hiding something behind his back. [00:41:06] Speaker A: Could I catch a glimpse of what it was. [00:41:08] Speaker B: Make a perception check. Okay. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Natural 20 with a plus 20, which is 40. [00:41:19] Speaker D: He sees everything. He sees the next plane of existence. [00:41:24] Speaker B: You see the blood pulsing through Pilgrim's veins. [00:41:29] Speaker D: You see. See the elect, like the electric waves. [00:41:33] Speaker B: So what you do see is actually a tablet. Like a stone tablet, slightly bigger than, like, a regular sheet of printer paper that has engravings on it. And as he's, like, trying to hide it behind his back, you catch a glimpse of the tablet, and you recognize several of the runes that are etched into the stone. [00:41:53] Speaker A: Perfect. Govert doesn't show any sign of seeing what it was. [00:42:04] Speaker D: But he hears a motorcycle outside. [00:42:07] Speaker B: Kobolds know how to partake. [00:42:14] Speaker A: They're doing dirt bikes, stunt tricks. [00:42:17] Speaker C: The coolest kobold pulls up. [00:42:23] Speaker D: He's got a leather jacket on. Just hit your head on the brick. [00:42:29] Speaker A: It has rock feathers on. [00:42:35] Speaker H: I didn't mean to startle you, Pilgrim. [00:42:40] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's fine. [00:42:42] Speaker G: Did you. Did you have a question? Did you need something? [00:42:46] Speaker H: No, I don't have a question. I wanted a place to think. Somewhere that reminds me of my old home, so to speak. [00:43:01] Speaker G: Well, by all means, make yourself comfortable. [00:43:05] Speaker A: And Uver quietly walks to where he's just sitting. To a place where he can sit it across from Pilgrim. [00:43:18] Speaker H: Have you ever wondered who you are, Pilgrim? Really? [00:43:26] Speaker G: Well, to be honest, growing up as a troll with an interest in the arts and things. Beautiful was kind of, you know, it's. It's gives one question. [00:43:43] Speaker H: I can imagine it does. You are gifted. And rare in that aspect, I would imagine. Though I admit I don't have many dealings with trolls. The ones that I have would not look kindly on or understand such interests. You know, I also wonder who I am sometimes. Or who I was. [00:44:22] Speaker G: What do you mean? [00:44:25] Speaker H: Are you aware of the normal lifespan of a dwarf? [00:44:29] Speaker G: It's. Oh, no, it's a few hundred years or something. [00:44:34] Speaker H: Exactly. [00:44:34] Speaker G: Longer than humans. I know that. [00:44:36] Speaker H: Exactly. Then would it surprise you if I told you that I am 300 years old? [00:44:47] Speaker G: Is that young? [00:44:50] Speaker H: That is old, Pilgrim. Oh, I am the. One of the oldest of my species. [00:44:56] Speaker G: Well, I must say, you're looking very nice for your age. [00:45:02] Speaker H: And I remember all of those years. And yet I have learned that there are years that I have no memories of. [00:45:17] Speaker B: Uber, as you're talking and watching Pilgrim, from the beginning of the conversation, he was kind of, like, trying to hide the tablet, but he's kind of shifted his body language now from just looking awkward about, like, having something he doesn't want you to see to looking more straight Up. Guilty. [00:45:38] Speaker F: Pilgrim stole your memories. [00:45:40] Speaker C: They're all on that tablet. [00:45:43] Speaker A: Uber's not going. Once again, he's. He's not gonna make any indication that he's noticing that. [00:45:50] Speaker H: Change of body language. There have been times in my life where I was someone else, that I did other things, but those memories are gone. And not in a way where I have just forgotten because I am old, but as if they do not exist. There is no way for me to recover them. It is as if I never did them. It was someone else, but the people here remember him as me. [00:46:31] Speaker G: I'm sure that must be distressing. [00:46:37] Speaker H: It is less so now. I am coming to terms with the fact that whoever I was then. Well, I am me now. I feel myself changing little by little, and that is what worries me. [00:47:02] Speaker G: Changing in what way? [00:47:07] Speaker H: Colder. As if the warmth of life is slowly fading, and the things that I once found joy are slowly dimming. So I wonder not what I was, but what am I becoming? We fought, King Elred. I believe we told you that. Did we? [00:47:41] Speaker G: I think so, yeah. [00:47:44] Speaker H: Did you know that he was covered in runes like I was? Am. [00:47:52] Speaker G: That must have been startling. [00:47:56] Speaker H: It was. But what was more startling is what he said. That I had fallen for his machinations as well. And by him, I can only assume to mean Fafnir. [00:48:20] Speaker G: Oh, I see. And you think. You think Fafnir is doing whatever's happening to you? [00:48:31] Speaker H: I don't know, Pilgrim. I worry that the past me may have made a deal that I never should have. But it is too late for me to do anything about that now. What do you think? [00:48:51] Speaker A: And now he turns his full attention on the pilgrimage. [00:48:58] Speaker H: What do you think, Pilgrim? About what I have said and what I need to do, perhaps about what I become. About what I have lost. Tell me honestly. [00:49:11] Speaker G: I think that who you become is. It's who you decide to be. And if. If someone else tries to make you something that you don't want to be, you always have a choice. [00:49:33] Speaker H: Do we always have a choice, Pilgrim? I wish we do. If I had the choice, I wish to keep this life for as long as I can. I wish to not fight anymore, to pass from this life peacefully. I wish to keep the friends that I have met along the way. I would like to keep you as a friend, Pilgrim. [00:50:08] Speaker G: You'd consider me your friend? [00:50:13] Speaker H: I would. I would consider you a friend. I don't know what I have done in the past. I fear that I have been, or might have possibly been, quite cruel and done things that I would now regret. But as I said, I can't change those. I am can be but me, me now. And regardless of a past, as long as the change or any change is in the right direction, it is best to look beyond, to put behind, to become a friend. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Pilgrim just kind of looks like lost in thought. Almost as if partway through what you were saying, he kind of just stopped listening to you and just started thinking about something else. [00:51:13] Speaker A: U quietly gets up and slowly, while he's somewhat distracted, walks up to Pilgrim, or walks past Pilgrim as if he's going back to the party and places a hand on the arm that holds the the tablet. [00:51:32] Speaker H: I would most definitely like to consider you a friend. [00:51:35] Speaker A: P. [00:51:38] Speaker G: That I. I would like that friend. [00:51:45] Speaker B: And he tries to subtly hand the tablet off to his other hand, but it's, like, not at all subtle. [00:51:54] Speaker H: I'll leave you to your reach. [00:51:58] Speaker G: Right? Please don't tell the others. [00:52:05] Speaker H: Not a word, my friend. Not a word. [00:52:10] Speaker A: And Uwe slowly walks out and leaves the room. [00:52:17] Speaker B: As Uver leaves, the camera stays on Pilgrim, and he looks down, down at the tablet and just says, curse this. [00:52:24] Speaker G: Oath and curse you for what you've done to him. [00:52:31] Speaker B: And that's where we'll end this episode. [00:52:33] Speaker G: What? [00:52:34] Speaker C: Okay, Pilgrim is a Paladin from 5e. [00:52:37] Speaker D: Wait, who is he talking to Himself? [00:52:40] Speaker B: He wasn't talking to U. [00:52:43] Speaker F: He was talking to his tablet. [00:52:45] Speaker C: He was talking to the lava. [00:52:46] Speaker F: Facetiming someone. [00:52:48] Speaker H: Jeez. [00:52:51] Speaker B: All right. And the hero point for today's episode goes to Sven for his very intriguing and interesting conversation with Pilgrim. [00:53:07] Speaker A: No, no, no. Thank you. Thank you for the hair point. I love Pilgrim. I hope you all like Pilgrim in the audience. He is definitely one of my favorite characters. However, now I'm going to have to go think about how he might be connected to Fafnir, and I'm slightly worried, so I'm going to go stu about that. [00:53:31] Speaker B: We want to hear your theories. In the Discord is the best place to put it. We are all active in there and we will see your thoughts and everything interact with you all there. Sam is looking at me doubtfully. I am an active lurker. [00:53:45] Speaker C: Can you be active in lurking? [00:53:47] Speaker B: I will actively lurk and sometimes even use emojis. But join us there in the Discord. We'd love to hang out with you guys and just get to know our community a bit better. Until next time. We will see you in the next episode. [00:54:01] Speaker C: I already miss you. [00:54:03] Speaker D: Aw. [00:54:04] Speaker F: How do you think Pilgrim's gonna die? [00:54:08] Speaker B: This has been an atomic broadcasting production. If you enjoyed the show. Make sure to give us some support by liking commenting and following. These things really do make a difference in getting the word out and helping our community grow. Also make sure to check us out on threads and check out the Discord server where you can chat with other fans and discuss all the recent developments and happenings. Links to all these good things in the description below. The Written and the Lost is an original story that uses trademarks and or copyrights owned by Paizo, Inc. Used under Paizo's Fan Content Policy. Atomic Broadcasting and the Written and the Lost are not published, endorsed or specifically approved by Piezo. For more information about Piezo, Inc. And Piezo products, visit piezo.com Hope to see you all in the next episode. Until then, have an Atomic time. Was it lifting you want to get? Was it where you yoink yourself now? [00:55:03] Speaker E: What could that mean? [00:55:05] Speaker C: I think so, but I don't think it was like physically. Physically? No. [00:55:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Not physically. Metaphysically. [00:55:12] Speaker C: Metaphysically, yeah. Metaphysically. [00:55:14] Speaker E: Yoinking I'm writing that one down.