EP. 128 Spilling the Tea

[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. [00:00:08] Speaker B: So sit back, relax, and enjoy the feature presentation. [00:00:13] Speaker A: And remember, do your part. Such as, like, comment rate and don't forget to tell a friend to tune [00:00:20] Speaker B: in for an atomic time. Now, where did we leave off? Ah, yes. While Uvair and Val headed for Kalsgaard's teleportation circle, Neros, Alward and Zafir flew back to Joel. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Yesterday, when I was at Walmart, I was getting a monster out of the cooler, and I shoved my arm into the corner of the cooler and I cut my arm. And I had to act like a man and just not react. [00:01:07] Speaker C: I mean, you could have reacted. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Yeah. I was in the middle. Okay. There was. It was. [00:01:11] Speaker D: I don't feel like anyone would have judged you. [00:01:13] Speaker A: It was a self check, and there was a person at this side and there's a person over here, and I just wanted my drinks, so I just, like, squeezed in between. And I was just in a rush, so I, like, opened the door, slammed my arm in. Not that hard, but, like, it tore skin. [00:01:26] Speaker D: I mean, I can see it. It's a pretty good scratch. [00:01:29] Speaker A: And I. I backed away and just like. But I wanted to leave before that. It was Walmart. You know how it is. [00:01:39] Speaker C: As a side note, I know I said I wanted to talk about Sweeney Todd, but Sam's expecting me to, and he said he was going to talk about it in his episode, so I'm not going to talk about it. So he seems crazy. [00:01:51] Speaker D: Okay. [00:01:54] Speaker A: To be honest, that would have been the perfect segue because we could have talked about how my arm was slightly bleeding and how Sweeney Todd. You know, speaking of blood. [00:02:02] Speaker C: Speaking of blood. [00:02:04] Speaker A: So we went and saw Iron Lung again. [00:02:06] Speaker B: No, I'm just impressed that you were at a grocery store, you got a monster out of a cooler, and all you got out of it was a scratch. That is impressive. [00:02:18] Speaker A: I did get the monster. I did get the monster. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Monster. [00:02:21] Speaker A: No, this is a different one. [00:02:23] Speaker D: I understand. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:02:24] Speaker D: I understand, honey. [00:02:26] Speaker A: You know. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But now I'm thinking facts, and I can't go back on it. Your joke was funny. Yes, I get it. [00:02:34] Speaker C: I missed the joke. Yeah, it's over my head. [00:02:37] Speaker A: I'm not an adventurer. We don't often go after monsters. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Was it a mimic monster? [00:02:43] Speaker C: Oh, I get it now. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Could have been, but apparently not a very good one because I had my arm right up in it. [00:02:48] Speaker D: Jenkins, buddy, are you okay over there? [00:02:55] Speaker C: No. [00:02:55] Speaker D: Oh, we have no Sam or Sven. [00:02:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. [00:03:00] Speaker D: It's a little Weird. [00:03:01] Speaker C: Yeah, it's shifted the energy quite a lot. [00:03:03] Speaker A: How many of us. [00:03:04] Speaker D: All of the introverted people are here. [00:03:07] Speaker A: How many of us in this room have adhd? Because, yes, that could sway how all of this goes. [00:03:13] Speaker C: I need to speak to a therapist. [00:03:15] Speaker D: I think we all do. I'm not. I'm not gonna lie. [00:03:18] Speaker C: I refuse to claim any label if I don't know for sure. [00:03:20] Speaker D: Jenkins. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Oh, I saw a video the other day. I want to show it to you. Jenkins, we can't do this right now. No, we can do this right now. It's because it has music so people can hear it. [00:03:31] Speaker B: Do we have the license for this? [00:03:32] Speaker C: We don't. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Jacob. Just cut out. [00:03:38] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [00:03:39] Speaker A: I should probably turn my phone back down. Oh, yeah, Just in case, I could be over here on TikTok or Instagram or whatever these kids use these days. [00:03:49] Speaker D: Mostly TikTok. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Insta Talk. [00:03:53] Speaker C: This is the. This is the energy of the episode. We did not think about this group splitting at all. [00:04:01] Speaker B: Howdy, everybody. How are you doing today? [00:04:04] Speaker D: I don't like this. Catch up. [00:04:05] Speaker C: Hold on. Let me look up. [00:04:06] Speaker A: Generic Nero screaming, yay. [00:04:08] Speaker C: A random cowboy appeared in your castle. I don't. [00:04:13] Speaker D: Hey, random cowboy, right this way. Y. Kick him off the castle. It's amazing. Before we actually. This is the banter, by the way. Before we actually do get started. Started. I need to go get a Mountain Dew. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:04:36] Speaker D: I am so tired. [00:04:37] Speaker B: Don't cut yourself. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Personal opinion. I don't like when we call it a banter in episode. I feel like it, like, cuts the immersion. [00:04:47] Speaker C: I do agree with you on that person. [00:04:49] Speaker A: But, like, we've done it so many times. [00:04:51] Speaker C: So many times. I don't like it when we actively call out that we've planned the banter we're talking about either. [00:04:57] Speaker A: No, that is not genuine. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to call my grandma on her birthday. I know it's her birthday. Stop telling me. [00:05:04] Speaker B: You know, why are you. Why do you get a town? [00:05:06] Speaker D: What's happening? [00:05:07] Speaker C: I thought that was Boston. [00:05:09] Speaker D: Why are you a New Yorker all of a sudden? [00:05:11] Speaker A: Apparently, New Yorkers have grandmas with birthday. You've had that. [00:05:16] Speaker D: No other grandma has a birthday. [00:05:18] Speaker A: Have you ever had that experience where your parent calls in and be like, hey, you should call your grandma. It's her birthday tomorrow. Or it's so and so's birthday. You need to. You know. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:29] Speaker C: And then you do it because you're not a horrible person. [00:05:32] Speaker A: But then it doesn't feel Genuine, like, doesn't matter if it's genuine. Mom told me to call you cause it's your birthday. You don't tell her that. But then before you'd be like, hey, Grandma, I remembered. Then you're not lying. [00:05:44] Speaker C: I haven't remembered a birthday my entire life. [00:05:47] Speaker A: Not even yours? [00:05:48] Speaker C: No. [00:05:49] Speaker D: What about your wife's? [00:05:50] Speaker C: I do remember hers. [00:05:52] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Petite. So are you saying whenever you call your grandma, you preface it with like, hi, Grandma. Nobody reminded me to call you. [00:05:59] Speaker C: I'm just doing it myself. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Well, see, she has Alzheimer's, so by the end of the call, she won't remember that I said that. [00:06:04] Speaker D: Anyway, that just got depressing to go [00:06:06] Speaker C: back to what Petite was really saying. I'm saying Petite, that's you're talking about how you feel about it. And that's not why you call your grandma. You don't call your grandma to make yourself feel good. You call your grandma to make your grandma feel good. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Well, that's just an example. So, like, you can also apply it to, hey, I washed the dishes. But then if somebody says, hey, can you wash the dishes while you're going to do the dishes? You're like, well, now it doesn't feel special anymore because it feels like you asked me to do it, so I'm going to do it rather than I'm just doing it for my own. [00:06:38] Speaker C: I get what you're saying, but it shouldn't feel special to begin with. Everybody has to wash their dishes. It's a Sisyphean task and I hate it. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Okay, I need to find a better example. Need to find a better example. You go to Walmart and you buy your wife a Diet Coke. You come home and you say, hey, I got you a Diet Coke. She like, oh, I love them. Thank you. Or you'd be like, man, I should probably get her Diet Coke. And you get a text, hey, can you get me a Coke? I'm like, yeah, I guess I can again. I was going to, but you're just [00:07:11] Speaker C: making it about yourself. Petite, your wife wants a Diet Coke. Get her a Diet Coke. [00:07:16] Speaker A: But what if she didn't ask? It would be more special. [00:07:21] Speaker C: But then what if you didn't want the Diet Coke? And then you just have a Diet Coke sitting in your fridge, but you [00:07:26] Speaker D: make her really happy regardless if you brought her, like, if she asked for it or not, you still brought her a Diet Coke. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Does feel genuine. [00:07:36] Speaker D: It's genuine that you still got the Diet Coke. Regardless. [00:07:39] Speaker A: I'm sure somebody out there will understand my plight. And we're just. [00:07:45] Speaker D: We're just trying to help you shift your worldview a little bit. [00:07:48] Speaker A: It's not shifting my worldview. In fact, it's making me feel like you're enticing me to do something that I already wanted to do. [00:07:55] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [00:07:57] Speaker B: Can I offer you a suggestion? [00:07:58] Speaker A: I don't know. Is it gonna go against what I was saying? [00:08:00] Speaker B: So you're at the grocery store, you see a Diet Coke, and you're like, my wife liked that Diet Coke. So you get the Diet Coke. You're on your way to the checkout. She texts you and says, hey, can you get a Diet Coke? So you turn around, you keep the Diet Coke. You get something else that she would like, and then when you get home, you're like, I was going to surprise you with something, but you already guessed what I was going to get you, so I got you something else that also works. [00:08:22] Speaker C: Or, get her two Diet Cokes. [00:08:25] Speaker D: Yeah, [00:08:28] Speaker A: I already got you one. But this is the one you asked for. I like that. But what if she asks for that afterwards? [00:08:36] Speaker C: If your wife. If she does that. Your wife is psychic. That's just. That's just it. [00:08:43] Speaker D: Is she psychic? [00:08:44] Speaker C: Maybe. [00:08:45] Speaker A: I don't know. She would know. [00:08:46] Speaker D: Does she have premonitions? Does she get visions? [00:08:50] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:08:51] Speaker B: You can give her one more. You go get a third surprise. And then if she asks for that one, then you just text back and you say, anything else while I'm here? [00:09:00] Speaker A: Jordi, you must be married. You know how girls operate. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Some might say. [00:09:07] Speaker D: I would say, I'm right here. [00:09:10] Speaker C: I love doing small things like that for my wife, but I also love when she just tells me what she wants so I don't have to stand around in the store being like, is she in the mood for this right now? And have to, like, do 19 different backflips to figure out if she does or doesn't want the fancy pretzels. [00:09:28] Speaker A: I am in no way going to say that I do not like it when she asks for directly what she wants, because any guy will say, just tell me what you want. Just like, what's his name? Ryan Gosling in that one movie where it was raining. [00:09:44] Speaker C: Every movie ever. [00:09:46] Speaker A: Where was I going with this? [00:09:47] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:09:48] Speaker B: The rain, Telling me what you want. [00:09:53] Speaker A: But also, I don't usually consider if she wants it or not. I will buy it, and if she doesn't want it, then she'll probably enjoy it later. Fridges exist specifically for food, I would say, or drink. [00:10:11] Speaker B: I'M starting to lose the plot. Are you buying your wife surprise fridges? [00:10:15] Speaker A: May, I wouldn't be upset if we got a new fridge. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Fridge. [00:10:21] Speaker A: It's one of those bottom freezers so you have to like completely bend your entire body. [00:10:25] Speaker C: I love that I have one. [00:10:27] Speaker D: As a short person, I love the bottom freezer. [00:10:30] Speaker C: As a tall person, I love the bottom freezer. [00:10:32] Speaker A: As a guy with a bad back, it. No. [00:10:35] Speaker D: As a girl with a really also bad back, I still like the bottom freezer. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Y' all are just against me today. [00:10:43] Speaker C: This is. I hope this is. [00:10:44] Speaker A: I can't win. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Speaking of an inability to win, are you guys ready to jump back into the game? [00:10:50] Speaker A: Oh, goodness. [00:10:51] Speaker C: Not with that intro. [00:10:53] Speaker D: Not with that attitude. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, speaking of the thunder outside, are you guys ready to land your storm castle? [00:11:01] Speaker D: Sure. [00:11:02] Speaker C: I like that one better. [00:11:03] Speaker A: As long as Nero knows how to park. [00:11:06] Speaker C: We've gone through this three times now. [00:11:08] Speaker D: This entire time. [00:11:09] Speaker C: She does great. [00:11:10] Speaker A: It doesn't. [00:11:11] Speaker D: I'm a great parker. [00:11:12] Speaker C: I mean, she almost landed on a cow that one time, but it got out of the way. [00:11:15] Speaker B: We begin with a shot close to the ground of your cloud castle. Flying in towards Joel as one guard looks up and goes. Well, Stuart, looks like they made it home safely. [00:11:29] Speaker C: I love these guards. [00:11:31] Speaker B: You have now returned to Joel. Two party members fewer. What would you like to do now? [00:11:39] Speaker A: I don't like how you phrased that. They're not gone, they're just gone. [00:11:43] Speaker C: Well, they are gone. [00:11:44] Speaker B: Well, they're not here to defend themselves. [00:11:46] Speaker D: We are technically minus two party members, so that is two fewer. [00:11:50] Speaker C: We should pick up two more party members just to fill the room. [00:11:52] Speaker D: Just to replace them. [00:11:53] Speaker C: Just some jobbers, you know. [00:11:55] Speaker A: So much fun. Jacob, can you hop in here? [00:11:58] Speaker D: Can we pick up gwibs? [00:12:00] Speaker C: If you could find him. [00:12:02] Speaker A: You're always trying to pick up gwibs. [00:12:04] Speaker D: I know. That's. That's the whole subplot of Nero's is trying to pick up gwibs. [00:12:10] Speaker C: You do have a castle now. I'm sure he loves a woman with like, you know, prospects with property. Yeah. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Hey boys. I own property. [00:12:22] Speaker D: Anyway, we need to talk to sir Dyer. Yes. [00:12:26] Speaker C: You guys go on ahead. I'll catch up late. I'm gonna go check on my family. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Right. I forgot you had a family. How you forget these things when you don't. [00:12:38] Speaker D: His traumas stuff. We just hand wave it. [00:12:41] Speaker C: Okay. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Should we wait for you? Cuz I'm sure you'd probably be the best person to remember what Cerdire says. [00:12:48] Speaker C: I trust Neros's capacity to remember what Cerdire said. [00:12:51] Speaker D: A horrible decision. Really? [00:12:53] Speaker A: I also don't take offense to that. [00:13:01] Speaker D: So do you or don't you? That's confusing as a fear [00:13:07] Speaker A: you'll never know. [00:13:08] Speaker D: You're correct if you don't tell me. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Wouldn't you like to know, weather girl? [00:13:14] Speaker D: I do have the storm castle. [00:13:17] Speaker C: No, you guys, it's fine. You've talked to Ciraya multiple times. [00:13:21] Speaker A: There's usually three others in the room with us. But we'll make sure and take notes. Neros will take notes. I will. [00:13:29] Speaker D: Why are we promoting me to secretary? [00:13:32] Speaker A: Because I don't like. [00:13:33] Speaker D: That's a horrible decision. [00:13:35] Speaker C: Nero's. He can't read or write. [00:13:38] Speaker D: That's a hymn problem. Haven't you been trying to teach him? [00:13:42] Speaker C: I thought he was making good progress. I think it's just him being stubborn at this point. But he can't take. Like. He literally can't take notes. [00:13:52] Speaker D: Okay, fine. Fine. I will be the note taker and I'll try to remember everything that sir die tells me. But he talks so fast. Fast sometimes. And you have to loop back around and ask him multiple questions. [00:14:06] Speaker C: Trust me, I know. I'll see you guys after. And I just. With everything that's happened, I want to be with my family for a bit. [00:14:15] Speaker D: That's fair. [00:14:16] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:14:17] Speaker D: All right. [00:14:19] Speaker A: We'll meet up with you later, I guess. [00:14:21] Speaker D: Yeah. Meet back here. [00:14:24] Speaker C: You could just. At the house or the apartment. The apartment. Mansion. [00:14:31] Speaker A: I'm getting mixed signals. Do you want me to see your mom or not? [00:14:41] Speaker B: This is the moment when Albert has to decide if he approves. [00:14:46] Speaker D: Do you want him as your stepfather? [00:14:48] Speaker A: Ooh, that went. Is this the fork in the road? [00:14:53] Speaker C: I wouldn't call you papa L. Words. [00:14:56] Speaker D: Mom has called it a window. [00:14:57] Speaker C: Stop flirting with my mom. I don't. It's not. I just want some time with them without having. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I understand. I understand. It's fine. [00:15:11] Speaker C: It's fine. I don't care if you see them. She likes you as a friend. [00:15:18] Speaker A: Let's go before this gets any more weird. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Yep. [00:15:21] Speaker D: Off we go. [00:15:23] Speaker B: All right, so you split ways. We're going to follow the group heading to talk to seer dire first. You're heading away your way through the town. It's. The rebuilding efforts are actually coming along reasonably well. There's some structures that were last time you were here, completely leveled that now they've cleared the rubble and they're starting to, you know, clean up the foundations and get ready to rebuild. So they're bouncing Back as you have to in a world that has dragons and monsters around every corner. As the three of you make your way into the Joulburg, which is the seat of government for the City of Joel, and into the Royal Library, you find Cyrdire right where you last saw him, just surrounded by books and scrolls and just studying and taking notes. He doesn't even seem to have noticed [00:16:11] Speaker D: you've entered right where we left him. [00:16:16] Speaker A: I knock on something around me. [00:16:19] Speaker B: Oh, yes, yes. Just. Just leave the tea there. I'll come get it at my next break. And he's gesturing over to a table that has three cups of cold tea. [00:16:29] Speaker D: We're not here to deliver tea, Sir Dire. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Oh, well, then you can go ahead and wait. No, hold on. I recognize that voice. And he looks over. [00:16:37] Speaker D: Oh. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Oh, goodness. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Is that tea up for grabs? [00:16:41] Speaker B: Oh, I suppose so. Dear heavens. Was it that dangerous? [00:16:47] Speaker A: No, it's just. [00:16:48] Speaker D: Was what that dangerous? What? [00:16:50] Speaker B: Last I know, you went off to go collect the Weirdcutter, and only the two of you have returned. [00:16:55] Speaker D: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Alwood is in town. He's off to see his mum right now. And the other two are off to get another relic. So we're the representatives, I guess. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Oh, just the two of you then. All right. Well, what can I do for you today? [00:17:16] Speaker D: I guess Zafir's here to get cold tea. I'm here to get hot tea on the other relic we have to go after. [00:17:23] Speaker A: That was a good one, Nero. [00:17:25] Speaker B: You're going to spill tea on a relic? [00:17:27] Speaker D: No, I want you to spill the tea on a relic. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Well, you see, I think that Lysandra might have a thing for Charles. You see, the other day. [00:17:39] Speaker D: We're not talking about those relics. [00:17:42] Speaker A: We're talking about items. The other thing, them not being an item. [00:17:48] Speaker D: The thing that we had to get the other one. [00:17:50] Speaker B: I definitely wasn't dealing in hot goss on the old folk here in the castle. [00:17:56] Speaker D: That's not nice to refer to the older people as relics. [00:18:00] Speaker B: I didn't start it. You did. [00:18:02] Speaker D: I mean, you're the one who took it that way. Sid. Dia. So technically, you're the wrong. [00:18:07] Speaker A: I did. You can blame it on me. I don't. I called them, you know, it happens. [00:18:11] Speaker D: Why am I the moral one here? What happened anyway? [00:18:20] Speaker C: What? [00:18:20] Speaker D: What? Can you give us more details on. [00:18:23] Speaker B: What are you looking for? [00:18:25] Speaker D: I don't remember the name. [00:18:26] Speaker B: All right, well, there is the Ifrit's hot. Not that one, okay? [00:18:32] Speaker D: That's the one that Uwe and Val are going after. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, is that where they are? [00:18:37] Speaker D: Yes. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Well, that's good. That's good. [00:18:38] Speaker D: I mean, supposedly. [00:18:40] Speaker B: All right. [00:18:40] Speaker D: I'm hoping they made it. [00:18:43] Speaker B: Well, there's also the center of the final breath. [00:18:45] Speaker D: I don't think that was it. [00:18:47] Speaker B: Okay, okay. There's also Riksbrand. [00:18:51] Speaker D: That one. That. I think it's that one. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Yes. Now, are you familiar with the Iron Bound Archipelago? [00:18:57] Speaker D: No. [00:18:57] Speaker B: All right, well, there's the place called the Ironbound Archipelago. It's a small scattering of islands out to the west and somewhat south of here. It is itself another country here in the land of the Linoum Kings under the rule. It's not that ominous. [00:19:16] Speaker D: Everything is so ominous today. [00:19:19] Speaker B: Yes, well, the Ironbound Archipelago is just to the west and somewhat south of here. It is in of itself another country here in the land of the Linimen Kings under the rule of the Linorm King, White Estrid. Oh, all right, that might be an appropriate Thunderstrike. You see? You see? White Estrid. Speaking of tea, did you know White Estrid is the only Linorm King who was indisputably not slain? A Linnorm. Get that. [00:19:52] Speaker A: How? And why? And why are they white? [00:19:55] Speaker B: She is white because she has white hair. But she defeated her Linorm in one on one combat, subdued it and made it swear fealty to her. It now serves as her bodyguard. [00:20:11] Speaker D: Interesting. [00:20:12] Speaker B: Fun fact. Anyway, in the Ironbound Archipelago is the island of Dragon's Rib, which has a lake high up in the mountain known as the Black Tarn. This was the last known destination of the Ulfin hero, Arnlager the Fearless. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Did he have the sword? [00:20:33] Speaker B: He did. It was his magical sword, Riksbrand, that he went off into his expedition, his ill fated expedition. He was never heard from again, so we presume that he died there. [00:20:47] Speaker D: So that's where the sword is, is this lake? [00:20:49] Speaker B: Probably. I mean, he might have been whisked away into a portal to another dimension and died. Somewhat entirely different. He might not even be dead yet. He may be living in a little hermit hut up at the top of the mountain. [00:21:01] Speaker D: So we just assume that since no one's heard of him since that he's dead. [00:21:06] Speaker B: Well, a dragon slaying sword most would consider worth following up on, but that is up to you to decide. I'm just giving you leads. [00:21:17] Speaker A: That's why we like you so dire, full of leads. [00:21:19] Speaker B: Oh, oh, and did I mention I may have gotten a lead on yet another relic that may be of use to you? [00:21:28] Speaker D: Oh, so many. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Okay, the wild walkers. [00:21:33] Speaker A: Sounds Like a cryptid? [00:21:35] Speaker B: Not a cryptid, my boy. A pair of boots. Yes, that was much more dramatic in my head. They're a pair of boots that let one step, as it were, between our world and the mystical first world, the land of Fae. [00:21:55] Speaker D: That sounds dangerous. [00:21:56] Speaker B: Oh, yes, it's remarkably dangerous. The thing is, Fafnir is himself a creature of the First World. And being as immensely powerful as he is, the, it is a small task for him to bend the fabrics of reality and slip in between the Material Plane and the First World. So if you do intend to do battle with him, you will need a way to follow him between. [00:22:24] Speaker D: That makes sense. Where do we find these? [00:22:29] Speaker B: Well, that's just the thing. I've known about the Wild Walkers for some time, but unfortunately, I had no idea how we were going to retrieve them. All of my sources point to them being in the possession of an antiquarian in the city of Nithvale. [00:22:44] Speaker D: Nith or Mythvale? [00:22:46] Speaker B: Nithvale. [00:22:48] Speaker D: Nith. [00:22:49] Speaker B: Nith. N, I, T, H, V, I, E, L. That's. [00:22:56] Speaker C: I still can't. I, I, M or N. Okay. [00:23:02] Speaker A: N as in Neros. [00:23:04] Speaker D: Is that true? Is that right? [00:23:06] Speaker A: Hey, I got a letter. [00:23:07] Speaker B: N as in Neros. [00:23:10] Speaker C: Outward. Somewhere. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Just. [00:23:12] Speaker C: I'm so proud of him. [00:23:14] Speaker D: Okay. [00:23:15] Speaker B: Now, the difficulty is, you see, the city of Nithvale is itself in the First World. [00:23:21] Speaker A: I thought you were gonna say that. [00:23:22] Speaker B: Well, usually. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's here in the Material Plane in the Rugongir Forest. [00:23:34] Speaker D: Okay. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Schrodinger City. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Now, the caveat is Nithvael appears in the Grungia Forest every new moon. It stays here in the Material Plane for one day until it is whisked back away to the First World. The problem is, it appears in a different location every time. Now, the good news is I have spoken with my contacts with the Guardians of Drungir, a cabal of druids who watch over the woods and protect the civilized lands from the strange creatures that reside within. And they have informed me. They have followed the ley lines and tracked the magical eddies of the world. And they know for a fact that Nithvael will appear just south of Sojourners Rest this next new moon. [00:24:22] Speaker A: See, you have a lot more information than you let on with. You said you had no idea where it was, and now you're telling us exactly where it's gonna be. [00:24:29] Speaker B: No, I said I had no idea how I was going to get you there until just now. Oh, I am sorry to have misled you. If I misspoke I know who has it and where they are and how you can get there. As of now, last week, I had no idea. [00:24:49] Speaker A: So what. What were the Rik's brand again? [00:24:52] Speaker B: Rick's brand. [00:24:53] Speaker A: Were they. It. [00:24:54] Speaker D: It. [00:24:54] Speaker B: It's a magical sword used to slay dragons. I've got more details on that if you're interested. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Well, I mean, to be frank, it's probably going to be hard to hit a dragon with a sword if they're not in this dimension. [00:25:07] Speaker D: That's why we need the shoes. [00:25:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I was just saying we should probably switch gears if we were gonna do that. [00:25:13] Speaker D: I mean, we could probably use both. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Good news. The new moon is tomorrow. [00:25:18] Speaker D: Oh. So we should probably go get that. But in the Grungar Forest, where Fafnir is supposedly at. Sounds dangerous. And without a guide. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Where was that? Sojourner's West. [00:25:35] Speaker B: So everyone who's present here, could I have all three of you make a society check? [00:25:41] Speaker D: Means I have to get my dice. [00:25:43] Speaker A: I got my dice out, but then I didn't know where I got it. [00:25:46] Speaker D: Also, it was really funny that you said, it will appear just south of Sojourner's Rest. And then it thundered. [00:25:52] Speaker C: I thought that was part of the music. [00:25:54] Speaker A: What skill is this? Again? [00:25:55] Speaker B: Society. [00:25:57] Speaker D: 34. [00:25:59] Speaker A: 22. [00:26:01] Speaker B: So you. Sorry, go ahead. [00:26:03] Speaker C: I was just gonna say 37. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:26:05] Speaker A: Well, you did say all three of [00:26:06] Speaker D: us, but you did. [00:26:07] Speaker C: All two of us are there. [00:26:08] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. That's right. Just the two of you are there. So, anyway, both of you are familiar with Sojourner's Rest? It is a town primarily populated by pixies. [00:26:25] Speaker A: They're not the most intimidating thing. But, you know. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Both of you are familiar with Sojourner's Rest. It is a settlement primarily populated by Pixies. And under the rule of one mad king, Jan, who claims to be king of all the Pixies. [00:26:44] Speaker C: Why does every mad king claim to be the king of everything? [00:26:48] Speaker B: What makes them mad? [00:26:51] Speaker A: We're all mad. [00:26:53] Speaker B: You also know that Sojourner's rest is roughly 30 miles away. No, sorry. 50 miles away from Joel. And is actually not terribly deep into the Grungear Forest. [00:27:04] Speaker D: Okay. [00:27:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Sojourner's Rest is only like 10, 15 miles into the forest. [00:27:09] Speaker D: And we have a cloud castle. It wouldn't take us that long to get there. [00:27:13] Speaker C: I think we. [00:27:14] Speaker D: As the castle flies. [00:27:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I think we have established it flies like 30 miles an hour. So that's like two hours. [00:27:20] Speaker B: That is correct. [00:27:21] Speaker D: Hour 45, maybe. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Numbers guy, over here. [00:27:24] Speaker B: The guardians Of Grungya. The ones who gave me this intel of where Nithvale may appear tomorrow. Will appear tomorrow, no doubt. Will appear tomorrow. They are actually the rightful owners of. Of the Wild Walkers. And they have told me that if you can reclaim them from the First World, you are welcome to use them as long as you need, Provided you, of course, are saving the world with them. Which you are. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Do they have, like, limited use, like, once a day, or, like you can only use it for 10 minutes? [00:27:58] Speaker B: I mean, yes, like most of the relics you're getting, its powers are in flux, and the way it manifests is dependent on the bearer. Hmm. [00:28:08] Speaker D: Okay, it looks like we have to shift gears. [00:28:12] Speaker A: To quote a famous pirate, we have our heading. [00:28:20] Speaker D: I don't think Jack Sparrow liked that. [00:28:24] Speaker B: As Mickey Mouse just ominously loops the clouds. [00:28:29] Speaker A: Not yet. [00:28:30] Speaker C: The clouds take the form of his head. [00:28:33] Speaker D: Ha ha. [00:28:34] Speaker B: What you're referencing there, fellas? Well, was there anything else I can help you with? [00:28:41] Speaker D: I think. I think that's all we needed to get from you. Val and Uwe aren't here to remind us of anything, so I'm assuming that's it. [00:28:52] Speaker A: They also tend to just come up with things. [00:28:54] Speaker D: They do. They do. Just out of thin air? They just decide to ask questions. [00:28:59] Speaker A: You don't have any ideas about her family, do you? [00:29:02] Speaker D: We've been over that. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Ideas? What sort of ideas? [00:29:06] Speaker A: Actually, what is the last name? [00:29:07] Speaker D: Nyxvale. [00:29:08] Speaker A: It's very similar to Nithvale. [00:29:10] Speaker C: It is very similar to Nifvale. [00:29:11] Speaker A: See, that's what I thought when you first said that. I was like, Nithvale. [00:29:15] Speaker D: Nixvale. [00:29:16] Speaker B: What a strange coincidence. [00:29:20] Speaker A: Wow. See, I was. See, now this is where the genuine thought comes from. Oh, I. I was making that connection, but now. Now I feel like it's been thrust upon me. [00:29:31] Speaker D: I didn't even make that connection. I'm gonna be honest. [00:29:33] Speaker C: This is nothing like the Diet Coke. [00:29:35] Speaker A: It's completely like it. I thought I had a great idea, but now it makes me feel like I'm dumb. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Allow me to put your mind at ease. I came up with the name Nixvale as part of the stuff I've added to the world and went, what a great name. Oh, why am I doing Pseudo's voice? [00:29:50] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:29:51] Speaker B: I came up with the name Nixvale as part of the stuff I'm adding to the world, and I'm like, what a great name. And then I'm looking up stuff like, okay, what was that? Feyworld, Space City. I need to send them to. Oh, Nithvale. [00:30:04] Speaker A: So it's just a coincidence. [00:30:06] Speaker D: It's a big kawinky. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Now I feel even stupider that I made a big deal of it. [00:30:10] Speaker D: Don't feel stupid. It was a good thought. [00:30:12] Speaker B: Thank you for allowing me to confirm that the audience is not crazy for thinking the same thing. [00:30:18] Speaker A: I did have another question for you actually. Cyrdyre. [00:30:21] Speaker B: Oh, yes. [00:30:21] Speaker A: When we were there retrieving the Weirdcutter. Which we did, by the way. Val has it. We found it in a witch's hut. Yeah, you said it was. And it was. Which is dead, by the way. We found it in a room with a child and a dead elf man. I'm sorry, what were those things called? Things? [00:30:44] Speaker D: Aphorite. [00:30:46] Speaker A: A dead aphorite man who was apparently Alred's father. Just filling you in, all this. He had the weird cutter in his neck. But whenever things happened, Val took it out of his neck and he started spitting crazy manic things. And I was curious cause he said he knew me and he acted very similar to. Well, a boogeyman. I'm sorry, there was a lot. You can let it sink in. [00:31:15] Speaker B: That was a lot of information. So wait, wait a minute. Val pulled out the neck and he started. Wait, they didn't pull the neck out. [00:31:27] Speaker D: Val is a woman. [00:31:29] Speaker A: Okay. The weirdcutter was in the neck of an ephorite. [00:31:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:31:33] Speaker A: And when I teleported outside of the house, the hut, she pulled it out thinking. Ah, well, that's what we're here for. Take it out. It was a dead body, whatever. But then it came to life. Ish. And it was expressing itself in a way that a boogeyman would. [00:31:53] Speaker B: Well, that sounds strange. I don't know of any boogeyman type creatures that would possess a body. [00:32:01] Speaker A: You never heard of that at all? [00:32:03] Speaker B: No, no, nothing comes to mind. I suppose I could add that to my list of things to research. [00:32:12] Speaker A: That would be interesting because it seemed to have quite the. Either it was feeding off our whatever, or it had quite a good interest in us. And he said that he knew me and that just. That gets to me, you know, he knew you. People shouldn't know me. I fly under the radar. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Interesting. And have you had any connection with boogeymen in your past? [00:32:34] Speaker A: Yes, many. One, one. One, many. [00:32:39] Speaker C: When it's one, it's one too many. [00:32:41] Speaker A: I think it's the same one. [00:32:43] Speaker D: One is too many. [00:32:44] Speaker B: In a committed relationship with. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Well, if you wrote committed, he's dead now, so it's not really committed, dead [00:32:53] Speaker B: or ex boogeyman relationship. [00:33:00] Speaker C: He did even have a pet name [00:33:01] Speaker A: for you, I don't have enough time to get into everything that happens. But long story short, he wanted me to do bad things and I didn't do them, so we killed him. [00:33:11] Speaker B: Well, that seems like a very good choice. You know, boogeymen are very evil creatures, so I'm glad you did. [00:33:17] Speaker A: So if you could keep that in the back of your mind, I'd be interested to know if something else is hunting me. [00:33:25] Speaker B: Of course. Of course. Taking down notes so dire. [00:33:31] Speaker D: One world ending, unrelated question. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Oh, that's lovely. I need more of those. [00:33:39] Speaker D: Do you have any idea as to why someone would have some sort of, I don't know, dominion over the dead roads? [00:33:56] Speaker B: Oh, of course. That sounds like you're describing Barzok, the head of the Ushers. [00:34:02] Speaker D: No, not Barzok. Me. [00:34:09] Speaker B: I'm confused. You have dominion over the dead roads? [00:34:14] Speaker D: I am able to just pass through them freely. [00:34:20] Speaker B: That's super creepy. So can you go there now? [00:34:24] Speaker D: I can't just go there and I mean, well, I have not tried, but once I'm there, I can just sort of go wherever I want. [00:34:33] Speaker B: Interesting. And you don't have any sort of tattoos or marks on your skin that a strange birthmark that one could identify as a rune of some kind? [00:34:46] Speaker D: I don't necessarily have any runes or strange birthmarks. I do have these. And she lifts her obvious hands. [00:34:57] Speaker A: So good with words. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Why would I not see those hands, [00:35:00] Speaker D: you know, this whole time, the hands that are black. And the black slowly creeps up and fades into, you know, the natural gray of her fetchling skin. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Oh, I thought this was a tattoo. [00:35:13] Speaker D: No, it's not a tattoo. [00:35:15] Speaker B: Oh. Well, I must say, my appreciation for your pain tolerance has significantly decreased. But this does make more sense. [00:35:25] Speaker D: No. When I was a child, I didn't have this blackness. It started around when I was 6, and it started at my fingertips and it just slowly crept up as though the older I've gotten. [00:35:43] Speaker B: Very interesting. And has it ever gone backwards? Has it always progressed? [00:35:51] Speaker D: It's just always progressed. It's never gone backwards. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Interesting. Almost as if your hands are reaching out to the land of the dead. Oh, I'm sorry. That would be very disturbing to hear. I was just musing. I have no idea what I'm talking about. [00:36:07] Speaker A: Do you think the cloud could float in the. The dead roads? That would be really cool. [00:36:12] Speaker D: I don't know. I don't want to take it there to find out. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:20] Speaker D: Are you saying I'm part dead? [00:36:22] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know anything about that sort of thing. I am an arcane researcher, and one who dabbles in relics and artifacts and rumors. Not in realms of religion. In the afterlife. [00:36:35] Speaker D: No, that's fair. Just, you know, with all your knowledge and such, I just was curious. [00:36:44] Speaker A: Anyway, I. I think we're done. I've drank all your tea, you said. [00:36:50] Speaker B: Yes. [00:36:51] Speaker D: The next time they bring you hot tea, maybe drink it. You have so much cold tea laying around. [00:36:56] Speaker A: No, he does not. No more cold tea. [00:36:59] Speaker C: I know, but with prestidigitation, you never have cold teeth tea. [00:37:02] Speaker D: That's true, but he has, like, a million cold teas lined up. [00:37:05] Speaker A: I've actually drank all the tea. Don't tell him. But I did use prestidigitation to heat it up. [00:37:10] Speaker C: Okay. [00:37:12] Speaker D: Anyway, we'll probably leave you to your research. [00:37:15] Speaker B: Yes, well, I will continue researching. I have got some new leads on what interesting items might be found in Fafnir's lair itself. So I'm looking into possible ways that we could get you in there without also killing you. [00:37:31] Speaker D: Yeah, that would be nice. [00:37:32] Speaker B: I'll keep you posted. [00:37:33] Speaker D: Okay, thank you, Serdire. [00:37:37] Speaker A: We'll. We'll take our leave. [00:37:38] Speaker B: All right. Well, if you have any more tea for me, do stop by. I love a good tea. [00:37:45] Speaker D: Neros awkwardly stares at Sir Dire for a few seconds, and then just silently turns and walks out, slightly judging his word choice. [00:37:56] Speaker A: Turns around and looks at her for a second. And I hope you get your tea soon. Bye. [00:38:06] Speaker B: So, as the three of you head out of.2. Yes, two of you. Yeah. So as I've been here the whole time, as Neros and Zafir head out, let's see what Alward's been up to. Alward, as you head up to the house, apartment, manor, sprawling internal landscape known as the place where your family is staying. [00:38:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:34] Speaker B: Outside the house is Lina, and she is, as you might expect, sweeping. But her broom looks nicer, like she's gotten a new broom while you've been gone. [00:38:48] Speaker D: Sorry, her broom just leveled up. [00:38:54] Speaker C: Um, Lena, How's. How are you? [00:39:00] Speaker B: Oh, good, Albert, I didn't know you were gonna be back today. [00:39:05] Speaker C: Getting it took significantly less time than we all thought. A flying castle really helps. [00:39:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:13] Speaker B: That's so cool. I can't believe you guys have a flying castle. [00:39:17] Speaker C: I haven't showed you it, have I? [00:39:21] Speaker B: No, but I've seen it fly. [00:39:24] Speaker C: Well, when Neros and Zephyr get back, we'll see if we can't take you on a small ride. It's up to Neros. It's her castle. [00:39:34] Speaker D: Okay. [00:39:34] Speaker B: I'm sure Aunt Neros will say yes. [00:39:39] Speaker D: I'm sorry. Did we promote Neros to fun? [00:39:42] Speaker C: Aunt Neros has always been fun. [00:39:46] Speaker D: I don't know that that's a good decision. She's not a good influence on children. [00:39:50] Speaker C: That's what makes you fun. Is mom okay? [00:39:58] Speaker B: I mean, she's right. She's. Yeah. [00:40:05] Speaker C: Is she sleeping right now? [00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah, she's inside resting. [00:40:09] Speaker C: Okay. You know you don't have to always sweep, right? [00:40:16] Speaker B: I know. It's just. I don't know. I get bored. [00:40:20] Speaker C: Have you thought about studying magic? [00:40:24] Speaker B: Like what kind of magic? [00:40:25] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:40:27] Speaker B: Do you have any, like, magic books for me? [00:40:29] Speaker C: I'll ask Uvan. Maybe he's a fan. Might have one [00:40:36] Speaker A: pop up book. [00:40:38] Speaker C: Perfect. I'm gonna go inside. [00:40:45] Speaker B: Okay. [00:40:48] Speaker C: You don't remember dad, do you? He was gone before. [00:40:52] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:40:53] Speaker C: No. And I'm just gonna go, [00:41:00] Speaker B: Huh. She continues sweeping so, Alward, last time you were in town, you had ordered ahead like a month's supply of medicine for your mom. As you enter, on the table is an envelope, like, you know, a parcel delivered by the mail service here in Joel Postman Paul, addressed to you. It has been opened. [00:41:31] Speaker C: I read it. [00:41:33] Speaker B: The letter reads, our Volden, we regret to inform you that your shipment of various and sundry merchandise from the Alchemist in Tongrov was lost due to an unforeseen weather incident on the roads between towns. Please see us for a refund of the monies involved in this transaction. As we no longer have stock to fill this order. [00:42:02] Speaker C: Our is just gonna like collapse in the chair and rub his. The bridge of his nose and set down the letter and just. And he's just gonna sit there a while and then he's going to get up, take a breath, exhale slowly, and then make a small pot of tea. And then try to quietly go into his mother's room with the tea. [00:42:41] Speaker B: You enter with this fresh cup of tea to find, as Lena had mentioned, your mother is asleep. And she is looking worse than you've ever seen her. [00:42:52] Speaker C: How asleep? Like didn't even budge when I walked in. I'm gonna set down the coffee and sit down and just. Hey. A lot's happened. I know I've been only gone a couple days, but. Buried dad and talk to him a bit. He told me not to tell you, but you're asleep right now, so it's fine. It's. We got the weird cutter and waiting to for the rest to get back with Sedai's information for us to go on in another small adventure. And hopefully. Oh, Val and Uvaragon, they went to Uvea's homeland for a bit. They'll be back, presumably. Brought you tea. And then I think I'm just going to sit there and just sort of wait for either her to wake up or for the others to arrive alward. [00:44:01] Speaker B: As you're sitting there, just quiet, contemplating, sort of just working through what all this means, you catch out of the corner of your eye just like a glimmer of gold. And if you squint your eyes and kind of turn your head a little bit, you can kind of start to focus and you see a thread of [00:44:30] Speaker A: gold [00:44:33] Speaker B: extending from your mother off into nowhere. But as opposed to all of the other threads that you've ever seen before, this one seems to be covered with something almost like slimy barnacles. [00:44:55] Speaker C: Does it remind me of anything, the slimy barnacle, specifically? [00:45:01] Speaker B: Nothing particular, but every. Everything internal of you. Like, your base instincts just scream, disgust, disease. Something just wrong. [00:45:12] Speaker C: Just like gross. [00:45:14] Speaker B: Yeah, growths. That's a better way to describe it. Whether it's fungi or indications of infection. Infection. Its specific appearance seems to shift every time you change your head and look at a different angle. But the one thing that remains consistent is just this pall of disease that hangs over the whole aspect. [00:45:37] Speaker C: This is really more Val's suit, but I'm gonna try to reach out and like, clean it off to see if I can't, like, attempt to heal or cure. Like, I'm gonna try to mimic valeting him. [00:45:50] Speaker B: So you're touching it with your hands. [00:45:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't like that look, Jordy. I don't like that. [00:45:58] Speaker B: Alward, as soon as your hand touches this strange sickness that's on this thread, your mind is just filled with the experience of agony. The thought of terror, pain and fear beyond what you're able to control or handle. Just everything overwhelming. So much. Just like heat and pain, just like your blood is boiling. And then suddenly you snap out of it. As Zafir and Neros enter the house, you hear their footsteps entering, and your eyes are now wide open. You can no longer see the gold threads. [00:46:43] Speaker C: I'm going to get up and just sort of hastily leave the room to greet them. And I presume you guys are like, in the living room of this weird mansion apartment. [00:46:57] Speaker D: Probably. I would not come into the room. [00:47:01] Speaker C: Yeah. So did you guys speak with Sira? [00:47:05] Speaker A: Oh, hey, Albert. I was just telling Lena here that she should throw away those books and start sweeping more. [00:47:12] Speaker C: Never tell my sister to throw away the Books. Zephyr [00:47:17] Speaker A: put them down. Nice. Nevermind. Neros has the notes, right? [00:47:24] Speaker C: So we. [00:47:26] Speaker D: Are you all right? [00:47:29] Speaker C: The shipment of my mom's medicine is gone. It's some weird weather event or something. I don't. I don't know. It's fine. We're going to get the boots, right? [00:47:45] Speaker D: You don't know about the boots. [00:47:47] Speaker C: We're going to get the boots, right? [00:47:49] Speaker D: How do you know about the boots? [00:47:52] Speaker A: What said I had told dust you weren't there. [00:47:56] Speaker B: Abby and Petite, could I get Will saves? [00:48:02] Speaker D: Oh, I don't like this. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Jenkins switching dice. I got 24. [00:48:09] Speaker D: I got a natural 20. I got a natural 20 if that counts for anything. Do you want the total? I'm sure you want just. [00:48:21] Speaker C: I think he wants the total. [00:48:22] Speaker B: What's the total? [00:48:23] Speaker D: 41. [00:48:26] Speaker C: Good total. [00:48:27] Speaker B: Alward, what would your spell DC be? Normally not 41. 32. 32 and petite. What did you say? [00:48:38] Speaker A: 22. [00:48:38] Speaker B: 22. [00:48:39] Speaker A: I rolled a two on the die. [00:48:40] Speaker B: Well that would do it, petite. Zafir continues being confused about this situation, but Neros as Albert is like no, we talked to Cyrdire nearest. You're suddenly flooded with memories and you remember both just you and Zafir talking to Cyrodire as well as a whole alternative conversation that Alward was there for the whole thing as well, remember? [00:49:07] Speaker C: He went on like a 30 minute conversation about Lysandra and Charles. It was a mess. [00:49:13] Speaker A: What? I. [00:49:15] Speaker C: But you weren't Nerosh. And Ard gives you a look that says come on, you know better. I mean we only have what today, tomorrow to get the boots. [00:49:28] Speaker D: But what's going on? [00:49:32] Speaker C: What do you mean you weren't there, right? [00:49:39] Speaker A: How do you know anything? [00:49:42] Speaker C: Because we spoke to. [00:49:43] Speaker A: But you weren't there. [00:49:44] Speaker D: Right? [00:49:45] Speaker C: But we spoke to him. We don't really have time for this. My mother's incredibly sick. [00:49:55] Speaker A: Should we go after the shipment? [00:49:57] Speaker C: It's gone. We need to get those boots right. [00:50:03] Speaker A: Neros has the notes. [00:50:06] Speaker D: Neros is looking at you very suspiciously. Very. Just untrusting. [00:50:15] Speaker C: It's fair. They were in Sojourner's rest. Was that right? Neros? He says you have the notes. [00:50:25] Speaker A: I mean clear you apparently you know. [00:50:27] Speaker C: So I guess it's been a whole thing. I want to make sure that it's correct. [00:50:35] Speaker D: I mean if you were there you'd know, right? [00:50:38] Speaker C: That's what I'm trying to figure out. Neros, are the boots going to be around Sojourner's Rest on the new moon and we need to go there now. [00:50:51] Speaker A: They're not on the moon. They're in Nithvale, right? With a th. [00:50:57] Speaker C: Yes, I. Yes, but Nithvael is going to be in the Grungir forest on the new moon. [00:51:04] Speaker A: Luke, I'm just going to bypass the fact that you weren't there and you got this information somehow. I don't know what's going on. [00:51:14] Speaker D: Why don't we. Why don't we walk and talk alward? [00:51:18] Speaker C: Oh, can we show Lina your castle? [00:51:20] Speaker D: Not right now. [00:51:22] Speaker C: She's gonna be so disappointed. [00:51:24] Speaker A: It would get her away from those books. [00:51:27] Speaker C: What is with you in books? They. They're good. The books are good. [00:51:33] Speaker A: Trees. I like trees. I'm regressing. [00:51:41] Speaker D: I like trees. [00:51:43] Speaker C: You sure do. [00:51:47] Speaker A: Timber. [00:51:49] Speaker B: So, Neros, you're pulling Albert away for a private conversation? Yeah, I think. Then that is a good place for us to end this episode. [00:52:00] Speaker A: Meanwhile, Zafir talks to Lena about the dangers of books and knowledge. [00:52:07] Speaker C: Please stop doing that. [00:52:09] Speaker A: If anything, it'll make her look want to read more and be like, oh, it's dangerous. [00:52:16] Speaker B: And the hero point for today's episode goes to Abby for being the primary asker of questions and driver of conversation. And for calling Sir Dire out for his relic comment and her note taking, [00:52:29] Speaker A: considering I would not do it in any way, shape or form. [00:52:32] Speaker D: Well, and you guys are full on hero points. [00:52:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that had nothing to do with it. [00:52:37] Speaker D: No, it kind of was because I wanted Jenkins to have it. [00:52:41] Speaker C: I appreciate that. [00:52:42] Speaker D: So thanks, I guess. Neros has been promoted to secretary. [00:52:50] Speaker C: I don't know if it's a promotion. [00:52:52] Speaker D: Demoted? She has her own castle, so anything else is a demotion. [00:52:57] Speaker C: She's been moved. Moved? [00:52:58] Speaker A: Or just given a second job? I mean, you could do. [00:53:01] Speaker D: Ew. Nero's having a job. Disgusting. Anyway, yeah, I don't appreciate Albert's time shenanigans. [00:53:11] Speaker C: He appreciates you. [00:53:12] Speaker D: I don't appreciate him right now. [00:53:14] Speaker A: He appreciates you, but not in this timeline [00:53:18] Speaker D: anyway. Ooh, it's raining outside. I think since it's raining, we should go get some Chinese and chill out on the couch. [00:53:30] Speaker B: All four of us. [00:53:33] Speaker C: That does sound really good. [00:53:35] Speaker A: Five of us. [00:53:35] Speaker D: Who's the. Oh, Jacob. Over there in the other room. Yeah, he can come too. [00:53:41] Speaker A: I was considering the time Shenanigans being an extra person, but, you know, I guess Jacob exists too. [00:53:47] Speaker D: That. Oh, the wording of that sounds so mean. [00:53:52] Speaker C: It was mean. Petite's mean. [00:53:54] Speaker D: Petite is in a mean mood today. [00:53:56] Speaker A: It's been a day. [00:53:57] Speaker D: It's only 2 o'. [00:53:59] Speaker C: Clock. [00:54:00] Speaker B: And we'll see you all in the next episode. 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