Episode 140

September 14, 2026

00:51:18

EP. 140 It's Fine

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Jordy Hake Michael Petete Samuel Sarver Abby Fincher Michael Jenkins Sven Nerness
EP. 140 It's Fine
The Written and The Lost
EP. 140 It's Fine

Sep 14 2026 | 00:51:18

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Between bonus lasagnas, high score coupons, and Disneyland girlfriends, the three in Nithveil get out while they can before time runs out, their prize in hand! Nothing horrible went wrong, and surely no one will go dangerously off the rails at the last minute! Right?

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[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. [00:00:31] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave off? Ah, yes. With their combined wit, skill, and might, the three Nithvale heroes bested the trials of Grubhskolt and were returned to the dining hall before him. [00:01:00] Speaker C: I want to talk about cheese. [00:01:02] Speaker A: I should get in my cheese, Dice. [00:01:04] Speaker D: I love cheese. [00:01:07] Speaker A: That's not dice. [00:01:10] Speaker B: What would you like to talk about? Cheese. [00:01:13] Speaker C: Because you had a thing you wanted to talk about that involves cheese. [00:01:17] Speaker B: You want me to talk about cheese? [00:01:21] Speaker D: I. I loved that so much. [00:01:25] Speaker B: So, I have a story from yesterday. [00:01:28] Speaker D: Is it about cheese? [00:01:30] Speaker B: It involves cheese. [00:01:33] Speaker C: Hang on. Jenkins, you good? [00:01:38] Speaker B: So the last couple weeks, I've really been having a hankering for lasagna. Don't know why. Just wanted lasagna. [00:01:44] Speaker C: He's talked about it almost every day. [00:01:47] Speaker D: It's good. [00:01:49] Speaker B: So I finally pulled meat out of the freezer to thaw so I could make lasagna. And Friday night I get home and I'm like, oh, it's still not thawed, but it's okay. I'll make lasagna on Saturday. So I start making my lasagna Saturday night, getting it ready to go in the oven. Abby's like, I'm gonna go get a bath. [00:02:08] Speaker C: It's what I said. [00:02:09] Speaker D: I'm gonna go get a bath. [00:02:11] Speaker A: No, don't eat lasagna. [00:02:12] Speaker B: No. [00:02:12] Speaker C: Well, I said I was gonna go take a bath. [00:02:14] Speaker D: I know, but now I'm just imagining going to Lowe's. [00:02:17] Speaker C: I'm leaving Lowe's to get a bathtub, [00:02:20] Speaker A: pick the bath carries it away. [00:02:22] Speaker B: So she's. She's away taking a bath. I'm getting ready. I'm starting to put all the stuff together. I'm browning up the meat. [00:02:28] Speaker D: I'm sorry, you're starting to put all this stuff together for what? [00:02:30] Speaker B: For lasagna. For lasagna. So as I'm making this lasagna, I start playing some music in the background. I'm getting some music ready for this one shot. I'm going to run tomorrow. She's like, what music can I play here? Cooking up this meat, putting everything together. Abby comes back, and she's, like, waiting for the bath to cool off to where it's cool enough, I can get in it. [00:02:51] Speaker C: I got it too far. [00:02:52] Speaker B: So she starts munching on the meat and the bowl, and I'm like, that's. That's for the lasagna. She's like, I can't eat it. And I'm like, well, you can eat some of it. But I was hoping to have enough that I could make, like, a bonus lasagna and put it in the freezer so we can have lasagna tonight. And then later on in the week be like, I want lasagna. Pull this bonus lasagna out of the freezer. [00:03:13] Speaker D: There's no better lasagna than bonus lasagna. [00:03:15] Speaker A: I literally never heard the phrase bonus lasagna. [00:03:18] Speaker B: It's not boneless lasagna. [00:03:19] Speaker D: Lasagna. Lasagna. [00:03:21] Speaker A: That's when you cook boneless. [00:03:24] Speaker D: That is. Do you put bones in your lasagna? [00:03:26] Speaker B: There were no bones in this lasagna, [00:03:28] Speaker D: so it's boneless lasagna. [00:03:30] Speaker B: So we finally. I finally get to the point. I've got my. My meat mix ready. I've got my. My white cheese mix ready, and I start assembling the lasagna, and I get it all crammed into the casserole dish, and I say to myself, that's a little full, but I think we'll be fine. So I put my foil wrapping on it, stick it in the oven, and then I start assembling my second lasagna, and I go, look, go to the cabinet. I'm like, oh, I don't have enough lasagna noodles to do a bonus lasagna. I thought I was going to have enough, but I don't. So I'm like, that's fine. We'll make more of, like, a baked pasta situation. So I get out a box of macaroni noodles, and I start boiling them up. And then I go to my cabinet, and I go, oh, I thought I had another big lasagna pan. I just have a medium ish lasagna pan. This is fine. So I pull that out, spray the pan. My pasta is now done boiling. So I pour the pasta out into what's left of my sauce, stir it up, and then I go, oh, I need more of the white stuff mixture to go in this. So I get the rest of the cottage cheese, and I stir all that in, add in the mozzarella and everything. I'm like, okay, good, good. Start spreading it into the pan. Then I go, it's too much for this one pan. So I get out a third casserole dish. [00:04:45] Speaker D: Wait, you have bonus bonus lasagna? [00:04:48] Speaker B: Bonus bonus lasagna. So at this point, now I have three casserole dishes. One of them has lasagna. It's in the oven baking, and two of them are now full of pasta that's now cooling so I can get it frozen. And then I'm like, do I smell something? I checked the oven, and it was full of smoke. [00:05:08] Speaker A: First lasagna. [00:05:08] Speaker D: You burnt your first lasagna? [00:05:10] Speaker B: The first lasagna was overfilled. [00:05:13] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:05:14] Speaker B: Now, the oil, the grease from the cheese is dripping into the bottom of the oven and smoking and burning. So at this point, I remember that we have a smoke communicator we bought with our home security system, which means if it detects smoke, instead of just screaming at us, it will scream at us while it calls the fire department. [00:05:34] Speaker D: Oh, no. [00:05:36] Speaker B: So I run into the other room, and I get a box fan, and I'm slowly, every so often, open the. Open the oven, let a little smoke out, and just blow it out the window behind me. I think to myself, there's a good chance I will fail to keep the smoke detector from going off. I should let Abby know so she doesn't panic. So I put the fan down, run over, and I'm like, hey, honey, if you hear the smoke detector go off, it's fine. There's just a little smoky situation in the kitchen. I go back in to the kitchen. I'm working through all of this, and eventually I get to the point where I've got the fan propped in a place where it's blowing the smoke out the kit. The window, and I'll let a little smoke out. Let a little smoke out. I'm like, okay, this is working. And then the fan just tumbles off the counter, slams on the floor. So I finally, like, put everything back in place, go over to the bathroom. Like, everything's fine. Just dealing with the smoke. Back to the kitchen. Finally, I got the smoke situation under control. I pulled the lasagna out of the oven, and I'm like, okay, everything's fine. I've taken the tin foil off, and I'm like, let me. Let me go ahead. I think we're okay. I'm gonna put it back in. So I put the lasagna back in, start the heat up again, and then before too long, it's smoking again. And I'm like, I thought it was on the foil. I thought we had it all, but now we're smoking again. And now I can already smell the smoke in the air, and we've more smoke going. So I call our security system, and I'm like, hey, can you, like, temporarily disable our smoke communicator? I've got Some smoke going on, everything is fine. Meanwhile, I'm standing over the oven holding a box fan on my shoulder, blowing wind out the door, and the dogs are looking at me like I'm crazy. [00:07:17] Speaker D: I. [00:07:20] Speaker A: How close are your neighbors? [00:07:23] Speaker B: Well, on that side of the house, it's just an empty house. [00:07:25] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Blow it into their house. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's where we're going. [00:07:29] Speaker D: I can only imagine what your company, what your security company's thinking. [00:07:33] Speaker B: The good news was it was an automated bot, so there was nobody judging me. Although I did detect a hint of judgment from this bot where it goes, okay, searching for solutions. [00:07:47] Speaker D: This isn't normal. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Are you sure? [00:07:51] Speaker B: At the end of the story, Abby comes out of the bath and I'm like in the mostly cooled oven, scrubbing it down with baking soda, trying to get the grease cleaned up so I can finish cooking the half cooked lasagna [00:08:06] Speaker A: as well as the other two. [00:08:07] Speaker D: Right. [00:08:08] Speaker B: The other two are now chilling in the fridge. Well, as of now, they're in the freezer, but at that point they were chilling in the fridge. So she's like, so how much longer on the lasagna? And I'm like, well, I'm not really sure because we. I've never tried to cook a lasagna for a half an hour and then let it cool for an hour and then put it back in. So I have to play at my [00:08:28] Speaker A: ear, go draw another batch. [00:08:31] Speaker C: I mean, yeah, I had the time. [00:08:33] Speaker D: On the bright side, most things in the lasagna are cooked. You just gotta melt cheese. [00:08:38] Speaker B: Yeah, and they were oven ready noodles too. [00:08:40] Speaker C: From my perspective, I'm chilling in the bath, just doom scrolling on my phone as you do, relaxing. And he's like, hey, there's some smoke. So if you hear the smoke detector, it's fine. I said, okay. A little bit of time goes by and then I just hear this thud and crash of the box fan falling out of the window. I didn't know it was a box fan, so I was like, honey, no answer. Is everything okay? No answer. He, ooh. He did not hear me yell any of this, but he came on his own volition to let me know everything was okay. [00:09:22] Speaker D: There was too much smoke around him. He couldn't hear anything. [00:09:25] Speaker C: Well, he had the fan next to his ear. He couldn't hear anything. [00:09:29] Speaker B: I was like one of those kids from the 90s with a boombox on their shoulder. [00:09:32] Speaker D: But it was a fan standing outside the box. [00:09:35] Speaker A: A lot of music nowadays sounds like that. Just a bunch of white noise. [00:09:40] Speaker D: I don't think we met our lasagna quota. Can you say it one more time? [00:09:44] Speaker B: Lasagna. [00:09:45] Speaker C: It was a really good lasagna, too. It had a good. No, it had a good flavor. And the meat that he used was. [00:09:52] Speaker A: Did it taste smoky? [00:09:53] Speaker C: No, I don't think it had any smokiness. [00:09:57] Speaker D: Okay. [00:09:57] Speaker B: Because I know you've been on Gone on the Record saying you don't care for cheese, so it's avocado. [00:10:02] Speaker C: If it's mixed into things, I don't care. I don't like eating just straight cheese. And he tested that and gave me just a piece of just, like, mozzarella. And I ate it. And I was like. [00:10:15] Speaker B: I was like, oh, boy, I'm going to make this sauce with mozzarella, but we'll snack on some. Here's one for you, one for me. And I turn around, and she's just looking like she's trying to swallow a pill. And I'm like, I forgot you didn't like that. [00:10:28] Speaker D: I will mention mozzarella cheese is, like, delicious. It's delicious. I'm not gonna say it's not, but it's, like, pretty base. [00:10:36] Speaker C: If it's mixed into things, I don't care. Like, he watches me add cheese to my pasta. [00:10:41] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:10:42] Speaker C: Like, I like it mixed into things, but I will never just eat cheese by itself. [00:10:45] Speaker A: I tried Havarti the other day. [00:10:47] Speaker D: Oh, Havarti's good. [00:10:48] Speaker A: I. I had only heard it from an episode of. Not an episode, a game from Putt Putt. I think it was Putt Putt. They were playing a game. No, it was Pajama Sam. [00:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Pajama Sam. [00:10:58] Speaker D: Yeah. Cheese. [00:11:00] Speaker C: Cheese. Chess. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Cheese. Checkers. Something like that. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Checkers. [00:11:03] Speaker D: And ch. [00:11:03] Speaker A: Had to yell Havarti or something. I don't know. I didn't know what it was at the time. And I was like, Havarti when I saw it at Aldi. And it's pretty good. [00:11:13] Speaker D: You use cottage cheese, not ricotta. [00:11:15] Speaker B: I ran out of ricotta. [00:11:16] Speaker D: Okay. Because I was like, I know that's a substitute people do. I hate cottage cheese. [00:11:22] Speaker A: This is a really weird thing to say, but have you ever felt cottage cheese in your hair in the dark? [00:11:30] Speaker D: I don't think we have time for that story, but I desperately want to know. [00:11:34] Speaker A: Well, what. [00:11:35] Speaker C: This is the banter episode, guys. [00:11:37] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:11:38] Speaker B: Warm cottage cheese. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Warm cottage cheese in your hair in the dark. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Sounds like somebody threw up. [00:11:44] Speaker A: It did feel like that. Yes. [00:11:45] Speaker D: Did it smell like that? [00:11:46] Speaker A: No. It was. I mean, it smelled like cottage cheese. [00:11:49] Speaker D: Okay, so the cottage cheese wasn't rancid yet? [00:11:50] Speaker A: No, it was just cottage cheese. [00:11:52] Speaker C: How did this happen? [00:11:53] Speaker D: But why was it warm? [00:11:54] Speaker A: I may tune in next time to hear where the cottage cheese came from. [00:12:00] Speaker C: He has a great radio announcer voice. [00:12:01] Speaker D: He really does. I feel like if Sam's group can have an hour long banter, we're allowed, right? [00:12:08] Speaker A: Oh, I have something to do. [00:12:10] Speaker C: Oh. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. The monster cans are pretty good for that. [00:12:15] Speaker C: That was interesting. [00:12:16] Speaker A: That. [00:12:16] Speaker D: Like that pop my eardrum. Wibble, [00:12:21] Speaker A: wibble, wobble. But it don't. [00:12:22] Speaker B: That's a very similar sound that pop we just heard is very similar sound to the sound that you three hear as you pop the back into the dining room. [00:12:32] Speaker A: I have silent spell or concealed. You can't. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Well, now you can't silence somebody else's spell. You pop back into the throne room where Grammaskult is still sitting there, and he just has a look of surprise on his face. [00:12:47] Speaker D: Can we. We're just gonna go now. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Well, I can't stop you. You did complete those challenges in record time. [00:13:01] Speaker C: I think he just said we're the best. [00:13:03] Speaker A: I mean, we already knew that. [00:13:07] Speaker D: I don't want to insult him, so we should just go. [00:13:10] Speaker C: Yeah, I agree. I'd like to get out of here now. [00:13:12] Speaker A: I mean, is there a scoreboard? Can I. I mean, I don't. [00:13:16] Speaker C: I don't want to go through it again. [00:13:17] Speaker A: I'm curious of what? Why he. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Why he was asking whose names may I take down for your time? [00:13:22] Speaker D: You know our names. [00:13:24] Speaker C: We already gave. You gave them two. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Can you put mine as aaa? [00:13:31] Speaker C: Did we give them our names? [00:13:32] Speaker D: I think they called us by name. [00:13:34] Speaker C: They already know our names. You already know our names. [00:13:36] Speaker A: They followed us. But I'd still like aaa. [00:13:39] Speaker C: Why? [00:13:40] Speaker B: All right. He puts down your time as aaa. And it's like, right. Obviously right at the top of the high scores, but then underneath it, there's just various other, like, initials. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Do you get anything for winning? [00:13:55] Speaker D: We beat the lascar by quite a large margin. [00:13:58] Speaker B: You do indeed. And he hands each of you a small slip of paper that gives you 500 gold credit for the market. [00:14:07] Speaker A: Oh, I'm going to keep this forever. [00:14:11] Speaker C: This. We should go. [00:14:14] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Thank you. It's been fun, I guess. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Well, of course it is. What did you think this was some sort of terrible challenge or threat where you'd be forced to stay here forever? [00:14:29] Speaker C: Nero's just nods to herself. [00:14:31] Speaker B: She's smart. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:37] Speaker D: A telekinetic hand is gonna grab Zafir's arm and we're just gonna start walking away. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Roll a D20. [00:14:43] Speaker D: Oh, gosh darn it. [00:14:44] Speaker C: I forgot for what? [00:14:47] Speaker D: I can't cast magic here. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Oh. [00:14:52] Speaker A: And I was. [00:14:52] Speaker D: I was about to go willing 13. [00:14:54] Speaker C: It's been long enough that since we recorded that. I forgot about that. [00:14:57] Speaker D: Good. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Yeah. You successfully create a telekinetic hand. [00:15:00] Speaker C: Good job, Alward. You keep succeeding your spells. [00:15:04] Speaker B: I do. I love how the first time it fell, it failed. And since then, you've been fine. [00:15:10] Speaker D: Yep. [00:15:11] Speaker A: So as this telekinetic hand or whatever. Yeah, that's what it's called, is pulling. Have you ever seen a cat? You're trying to push him off the table, and they kind of just, like, get tall and grooved. That's kind of what Zafir looks like as you're, like, pulling him on. He's just, like, twisting like a macaroni noodle that has been undone. Underdone in an oven full of smoke. [00:15:34] Speaker D: Great callback. [00:15:37] Speaker A: It was really, really tough. I struggled. [00:15:42] Speaker C: You did a good job. Technically, the lasagna didn't struggle. The oven did. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Anyway, we leave, and you head out of the palace. Debating lasagna. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Can we buy lasagna with these things? [00:16:03] Speaker C: I mean, it's 500 gold credit. We can probably buy a lot of things for. [00:16:07] Speaker A: He said for the market. Or somebody said for the market. I don't know. I can't read it. [00:16:11] Speaker C: King men said for market. So do we want to go to the market, or do we want to get out of here? [00:16:16] Speaker A: I think we should just get out of here. I'm gonna put this in a scrap thing, not a book. [00:16:21] Speaker D: I don't know how much time we have left, and I'm terrified to figure that out. [00:16:27] Speaker C: Onward and outward, Alward. [00:16:31] Speaker B: So, Alward, are you leading the way? [00:16:33] Speaker D: I guess. [00:16:35] Speaker B: How are you leading the way? Because I feel like, as we've established earlier, it takes some unusual methods to navigate, which to me, seem like something that Alward would struggle with. [00:16:48] Speaker D: Well, that does depend if it's occultism. I have plus 25. [00:16:54] Speaker B: I would accept nature or survival. [00:16:57] Speaker D: Can I do accounting? [00:17:01] Speaker B: Explain? [00:17:03] Speaker D: No. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Can I aid him? [00:17:07] Speaker D: I feel like somebody else. I have. I'm only trained in nature and survival. Is anybody better? [00:17:14] Speaker C: I am untrained in both of those. [00:17:16] Speaker A: What are we supposed to be doing? [00:17:18] Speaker B: I will say at this point, Zafir feels that he has a full grasp of this and can confidently just lead you guys. [00:17:26] Speaker D: Okay. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Zafir closes his eyes and just starts walking. [00:17:32] Speaker B: And as you guys are following him, it seems like several times he's right about to just walk off of a ledge or Slam into a wall. But then either he turns right at the last second, or maybe the world around him moves right at the last second. But somehow he just leads you on a very straightforward path out of this town. And before long, you are passing through the same gates where you had entered. There's still the same elf on one side of the gates and the wolf on the other side. And they're just like, Hope you enjoyed your stay. [00:18:06] Speaker A: My eyes are still closed. [00:18:07] Speaker C: I wink at them as we leave. [00:18:11] Speaker A: So you got one person with both eyes open, one person with one eye open, and one person with no eyes open. [00:18:15] Speaker B: Hey. Come back soon. The wolf looks at the elf. He was like, she's not into you, dude. Having left through the gates, you have now exited Nithvale and have returned to the familiar, albeit a little bit unsettling, environs of the Grungir Forest. You see your castle flying in the sky overhead. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Can I open my eyes now? [00:18:43] Speaker B: Oh, yes, yes, Zafir. You open your eyes and you're like standing right in front of a tree. [00:18:50] Speaker A: I have lost my way. [00:18:52] Speaker C: Well, we're not in the faeralm anymore. [00:18:55] Speaker D: I don't know how you did it, but you. [00:18:57] Speaker C: You're very good. [00:18:58] Speaker A: Yes, thank you. [00:19:00] Speaker C: I whistle for the castle and the [00:19:03] Speaker B: castle swings down low like a sweet chariot over the trees and is now within range that the rope ladder you left off the castle is now skirting the forest floor. [00:19:15] Speaker C: Okay, I will ascend. [00:19:20] Speaker D: I will follow. But less dramatically. [00:19:25] Speaker C: He got it. That's all that matters. [00:19:28] Speaker A: I'm also going up. I didn't know if that was necessary to say, but I'm looking at the. The fae area longingly. A tear rolls down my face. [00:19:37] Speaker D: You could go. [00:19:38] Speaker C: We'll be back. You can. You can visit anytime you want. [00:19:41] Speaker D: Well, not anytime. [00:19:42] Speaker C: Well, no, but like whenever it's there, you can visit. [00:19:45] Speaker D: Well, actually. Well, no. [00:19:47] Speaker A: It's like Disneyland. [00:19:51] Speaker D: What is Disneyland? [00:19:54] Speaker A: If you're in my position, you can only go once. [00:19:56] Speaker C: I'm not afraid. I'm not familiar with the term Disneyland. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Don't worry. It's on the other side of the world. [00:20:04] Speaker D: It's the town that Zafir murders. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Where my girlfriend's from. On the other side of the world. [00:20:10] Speaker C: You have a girlfriend? [00:20:11] Speaker D: And she's in a place called Disney? [00:20:16] Speaker A: I need time to sulk. [00:20:20] Speaker C: I don't think he actually has a girlfriend. [00:20:22] Speaker D: I have no reason to not believe him. But it seems so sudden. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Why did I will this into existence? I'm supposed to be like that. My girlfriend's from another school. Joke. [00:20:33] Speaker D: So there's a place called Disneyland. [00:20:35] Speaker B: She's from another franchise. [00:20:37] Speaker D: Zafir has a girlfriend. [00:20:42] Speaker B: So now that you all are on board your magic flying castle again, you said you were heading back to Joel. Any other detours on the way? [00:20:50] Speaker A: Nope. [00:20:51] Speaker D: No. [00:20:52] Speaker C: Back to Joel. [00:20:53] Speaker B: All right. It should only take, like, an hour or two to get back. At this point, it's about 2 or 3 in the morning, so I imagine you all are very tired. [00:21:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:21:03] Speaker C: Yeah. I'd like to go to sleep. [00:21:07] Speaker B: So we will give our party a veil of privacy as they head to bed and they continue flying back south towards Joel, and we will rejoin them in the morning. In the meantime, we interrupt our regularly scheduled recording to tell you all to check out the Discord. With that advertisement out of the way, it is now. Morning. [00:21:28] Speaker C: What the crap? [00:21:29] Speaker B: Our marketing team will be proud of me. [00:21:32] Speaker C: One of them is good. [00:21:32] Speaker B: Are you proud of me? Jenkins? [00:21:35] Speaker C: Was that good? [00:21:37] Speaker D: I mean, it's better than. [00:21:39] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:21:40] Speaker B: He's better than. He doesn't even know what. [00:21:43] Speaker D: We'll find out based off how many people join the Discord after this episode, please. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:50] Speaker D: If you don't, Jordy's in trouble. I don't know. [00:21:53] Speaker C: What are you gonna do to him? [00:21:55] Speaker D: We'll have to find out. You better have. You better get hope people join the Discord. [00:21:59] Speaker A: Find out next time. I literally just opened the Discord. [00:22:04] Speaker D: I'm so proud of you. [00:22:06] Speaker C: I'll get on the Discord. [00:22:07] Speaker D: You're already. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Anyway, I made it. [00:22:11] Speaker D: I know. [00:22:12] Speaker B: You are all now waking up the next morning after a short night of sleep outside of the city of Joel. Unless you decide you're going to sleep in and get extra sleep. [00:22:20] Speaker D: Like 9 o'. Clock. [00:22:21] Speaker B: 9 o'. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Clock. [00:22:22] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. [00:22:23] Speaker C: I would like to sleep in, please. [00:22:25] Speaker D: I like to imagine while we slept, it just orbited Joel menacingly. [00:22:30] Speaker A: More like a helicopter, because, you know, they have to. Or no, not a helicopter. Do planes. They have to circle a little bit, don't they? [00:22:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:37] Speaker A: Am I thinking of dogs? [00:22:38] Speaker B: They're like the sharks of the sky. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Sharks of the sky. [00:22:42] Speaker B: If they stop moving, they die. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Oh, [00:22:50] Speaker D: Planes are dogs. [00:22:52] Speaker C: This got dark very fast. [00:22:54] Speaker D: Sharks are like the sharks of the sky. [00:22:56] Speaker B: No, planes are the sharks of the sky. Dogs are the sharks of the ground. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Well, I was about to say sharks are, but not. No, that's water. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Sharks are the sharks of the water. And a shark is a shark for me. [00:23:09] Speaker C: Can we move on from whatever this is? [00:23:13] Speaker A: I don't know where we're moving to. [00:23:15] Speaker D: Canada. [00:23:16] Speaker B: You are Now. [00:23:17] Speaker C: Okay. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Orbiting Joel in your flying castle, I think. Alward and Zafir, are you up around 9 as well? [00:23:26] Speaker A: Probably, yeah. [00:23:27] Speaker B: Nero's is sleeping in. [00:23:29] Speaker D: Yeah, normally I would be in the kitchen, but I am not in the kitchen. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Currently, Zafir is in the kitchen looking for Howard. [00:23:39] Speaker D: Where's my breakfast? [00:23:42] Speaker A: I was promised croissants. Can you make a croissant? [00:23:47] Speaker D: No. [00:23:48] Speaker A: You're not here. I can't ask you that. How echoey is this castle? [00:23:54] Speaker B: Moderately echoey. It's not super echoey because there's some rugs and tapestries, but it is moderately echoed echoey. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Alward. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Alward. Al. [00:24:04] Speaker A: Al. I wanted to try some of your coffee. I don't think I like it, but I've had a lot of things happen in the recent days, and I want to try something new. He's not in the kitchen. I checked the throne room, which also happens to be a banquet room, I think. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Yes. That's where the dude was banqueting. [00:24:35] Speaker A: You can't say banqueting without quitting. [00:24:40] Speaker B: So you find yourself in the quitting room, which is just off from the kitchen. There still seems to be no one there. So to reorient people who cannot see the map right now. [00:24:49] Speaker A: I still can't see the map right now. [00:24:51] Speaker B: Just to the. What is that? The west of the banqueting room is where most of the bedrooms are. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Talking to myself. I should have started there. Where the bedrooms are. I wonder if he's still in there. Neriss is probably asleep. Going to approach outward's door and give it just a very light tap. [00:25:14] Speaker B: As you're heading past the bedrooms, I have an important question, Abby. Does Nero snore? [00:25:20] Speaker C: I'm gonna go. Yes, that quite loudly. [00:25:24] Speaker B: So, Zafir, you walk past near us's room. You hear her snoring. You continue past near us's room. [00:25:34] Speaker A: I didn't know we picked up a bear. [00:25:36] Speaker D: That was so well timed. I thought he just went into it. [00:25:42] Speaker B: You continue down the hall to Alward's door, and as you approach the door, you hear from the other side, like, muffled voices. [00:25:52] Speaker A: Oh, he's got company. Do they sound like other people besides Howard? [00:26:00] Speaker B: There's one voice that you can't recognize that's like speaking really, like, firmly, like they're trying to take control of a situation. Like, not necessarily, like, raising his voice or shouting, but just, like, trying to bring things back under control. You hear another voice that. It kind of sounds like Alward, but not, like, as far as you know, Alward. Like, you've heard him upset You've heard him unsure. But this sounds more panicked. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Against my better judgment, to knock on a door with more people. I'm going to knock on a door with more people in the room. Very lightly. A light tap. Like a, like a. Whenever you're trying to use a restroom, but the door's closed and you don't know if somebody's in there. So you're just like, knock, knock, knock. Hello, anybody in there? Instead of, you know, grabbing the handle and jiggling it like a monster. I was gonna say terrorist. So like a terrorist, they are there to cause terror, I guess. [00:27:03] Speaker B: You lightly tap on Alward's bedroom door. Completely unlike a terrorist. There's, there's, there's no response. There's no change in the conversation you hear from the other side of the room. But now that you're closer, you're able to start picking out words occasionally. One, one phrase that drifts through is not going to let you that you hear Alward, like screaming. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Screaming. Zafir is talking to himself outside the door, which is weird because he doesn't usually talk to himself. Is there a keyhole in this door? [00:27:47] Speaker B: I think so. It's an old castle. [00:27:49] Speaker A: I'm going to peer into the keyhole. [00:27:52] Speaker B: I think at that angle you wouldn't see anything. It's just the room inside. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Are there any shadows? [00:27:58] Speaker B: No. [00:27:59] Speaker A: No. It's bright in there, huh? [00:28:01] Speaker B: I think it's dark. [00:28:02] Speaker A: So is there a shadow? [00:28:04] Speaker B: I mean the whole room is one big shadow because there's no windows in that room. [00:28:08] Speaker A: So what happens if I try to occupy that shadow? [00:28:12] Speaker B: I forget what that's called, but yeah, you could teleport to that room because the whole room is in shadow. [00:28:18] Speaker A: This is probably a really dumb idea. Quite privacy invading. I'm gonna do that. Hop into his shadows. [00:28:28] Speaker D: Don't live in my shadow. That's weird. [00:28:31] Speaker A: I never said living. It's just gonna be there. [00:28:34] Speaker B: So is this like a, you know, teleport through shadows thing or are you doing like a midna from Twilight Princess? [00:28:39] Speaker A: I could never be midna. I'm just gonna survey first. I'm not actually gonna make my presence aware if it's possible from the outside [00:28:49] Speaker D: or from the inside? [00:28:51] Speaker A: From the inside where the shadows are. [00:28:53] Speaker B: So you focus. Through the keyhole you see a spot in the room that's shrouded in shadows and you fall backwards into your own shadow and stand back up through the floor. In that spot in the room, the whole room is dark. And you see Alward sitting cross legged on the floor with his hands in his lap. And you no longer hear any of these voices? [00:29:20] Speaker D: Alward jolts a little bit and turns to you. What are you doing in my room? [00:29:28] Speaker A: I apologize. I knocked on the door but there's no response. [00:29:31] Speaker D: Oh, I didn't hear you. I'm sorry. How long have you been here? [00:29:40] Speaker A: Madness. I don't know. [00:29:46] Speaker D: What do you mean you don't know? [00:29:48] Speaker A: There was a lot happening. I heard voices. I thought maybe there was a fight or, you know, you had invited people. There was a party. I didn't want to not be invited to a party. So here I am. [00:30:01] Speaker D: Oh, Howard is going to stand up. We should get Neros, I think. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Why? She's sleeping. I heard her snoring on the way here. At least I think it could have been a bear. But you know there's a bear in [00:30:20] Speaker D: Neros room and you didn't check? [00:30:21] Speaker A: Well, there were apparently an old man in your room and I checked and there wasn't. I. It's probably just her. [00:30:28] Speaker D: You think Neros is an old man? [00:30:31] Speaker A: I'm very confused right now. [00:30:33] Speaker D: That's. Look, I. Neros made me promise her something and I don't want to explain things twice. [00:30:42] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:30:46] Speaker D: Would you be the one to wake her up? She's cranky in the mornings. [00:30:50] Speaker A: You could do that thing where you carry a coffee. [00:30:55] Speaker D: The last time I tried that, she got annoyed at the constant thudding of my unseen servant. [00:31:01] Speaker A: You know, I just woke up a few minutes ago. I was looking for you in the kitchen and you weren't there. Do you have any of that coffee? I wanted to try it. [00:31:09] Speaker D: No. [00:31:10] Speaker A: That's unfortunate. I'll be back. And I walk to the door and I look. Look at the keyhole and instead of opening the door, I see if there's any shadows out there and do that. [00:31:23] Speaker B: Hold on. Was this the door leaving Alward's room? [00:31:25] Speaker A: Yes. [00:31:26] Speaker D: Okay. There's no other door. [00:31:29] Speaker A: I walk into the fireplace and disappear. [00:31:32] Speaker D: There's no fireplace in my room. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Yeah, There is a shadow that you can see. [00:31:37] Speaker A: I do that and I pop out in the corner. Hopefully not in the bush. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Yeah, just a little off to the side. Just on the other side of the hallway. [00:31:45] Speaker A: I don't use doors now. That's what I do. I'm talking to myself again. I need to stop this. Anyway, whose room's in the middle, presumably? [00:31:53] Speaker D: Ors. [00:31:55] Speaker A: I'm delaying the inevitable. I'm a little scared, to be honest. Walk up to Neros's door. What do I hear? I can't be real. [00:32:13] Speaker D: I'm just. Alward's going to go into the dining room while he waits for Zafir to wake near himself. [00:32:19] Speaker A: While you walk past, all you see is me just standing there in front of the door. I'm going to knock louder than I [00:32:32] Speaker B: did on Alward's door, less dissimilarly to a terrorist. [00:32:38] Speaker D: The terrorist, open up. [00:32:45] Speaker A: I don't really want to go into her room in the keyhole, but I may have to. He thinks to himself and also narrates out loud to himself. Is there a keyhole? [00:33:00] Speaker B: There is a keyhole. [00:33:01] Speaker A: What do I see through the keyhole? [00:33:05] Speaker B: Darkness. [00:33:08] Speaker A: I've never tried that before. [00:33:11] Speaker B: I could tell that Jenkins was gesturing something to you, but there's a screen in the way and I couldn't see. So now I'm really scared. [00:33:19] Speaker A: So instead of going into the room, I'm going to whisper into her ear. [00:33:25] Speaker D: Message. [00:33:26] Speaker A: Petite whisper message. Same thing. [00:33:28] Speaker D: I know. I just. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Because the message is gonna be a whisper. [00:33:31] Speaker D: I wanted to make sure you weren't trying something weird with the shadow. Teleportation. [00:33:35] Speaker A: No, no. I'm teleporting my voice. Voice. [00:33:38] Speaker D: I'm teleporting my mouth. Just [00:33:42] Speaker A: floating lips. [00:33:44] Speaker C: Neros kisses them. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Still not awake. [00:33:48] Speaker D: He has a girlfriend. [00:33:49] Speaker C: Nero not confirmed. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Is this episode just going to be called Zafir's Girlfriend? [00:33:57] Speaker C: Yes. [00:33:58] Speaker A: The other two will be so confused. Yes. So you hear in your ear? Maybe. I don't know how this works with sleeping people. Oh, Nero, wake up. It almost worked. Can you wake up, please? [00:34:21] Speaker C: What? [00:34:22] Speaker A: Hello, I'm outside your door. [00:34:25] Speaker D: It's. [00:34:25] Speaker A: It's me, Zafir. [00:34:27] Speaker D: Contacting about your cars. [00:34:30] Speaker A: It's free real estate. [00:34:32] Speaker C: Why are you waking me up? [00:34:34] Speaker A: Because Alward said he needs you and doesn't want to not needs you. [00:34:38] Speaker C: If he's the one who needs me, he can come in here. [00:34:41] Speaker A: He said he didn't want to explain things twice and I think he's making coffee. I'm sorry. Please. [00:34:50] Speaker C: We were up so late. [00:34:52] Speaker A: I'm curious. And you're the barrier. No, the door is this barrier. [00:35:01] Speaker C: What do you mean? I'm the barrier? It's so early. [00:35:05] Speaker A: No, it's not. It's totally 3pm Is it 3pm? [00:35:13] Speaker B: Petite? Why don't you make a deception check against Neros perception? [00:35:17] Speaker D: DC, can I suggest she gets a minus 2 for being groggy and tired? [00:35:21] Speaker C: It's my bonus plus 10, right? Yes. [00:35:23] Speaker B: I feel like the only way he's able to make this role is because she's groggy. [00:35:27] Speaker C: What is my. What is the penalty. [00:35:30] Speaker B: No penalty. Oh, I feel like if you were fully awake, you would just say, no, it's not. [00:35:35] Speaker A: Sorry. Now I'm trying to do math. [00:35:36] Speaker C: It's a pretty high DC. [00:35:39] Speaker A: He has an eye for numbers. 28. No, no, no, no, no, no. [00:35:46] Speaker C: I told you, it's a really high DC. [00:35:47] Speaker D: Like 33. [00:35:48] Speaker C: It's 32. [00:35:51] Speaker A: I mean, how do you respond to me telling you it was 3pm? [00:35:54] Speaker C: No, it's not. [00:35:56] Speaker A: Okay, well, I lied. But we need you, I guess. [00:36:02] Speaker C: You said he's making coffee? [00:36:04] Speaker A: Yes, totally, dad comment. You're on the same thing, same number. [00:36:14] Speaker C: This is not dissimilar to how I actually wake up. [00:36:18] Speaker A: All right, I don't know for sure if he's making coffee, but he went into the kitchen, I think, and. [00:36:23] Speaker C: But why does this have to include me? [00:36:25] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm. [00:36:27] Speaker C: I was sleeping. I was having such a good dream. [00:36:31] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:36:35] Speaker C: You hear this thud. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Oh, no. I killed her. [00:36:40] Speaker C: And then you hear shuffling. And then the door opens and a very, very tired, squinty eyed Neros appears before you. Her hair is not in a braid, which is the first time I think any of you have ever seen her hair. Just down, not done or anything. She's like. This better be worth it. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Oh, your hair looks nice. [00:37:06] Speaker C: Shut up. Are you. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Could be better. [00:37:11] Speaker C: He's lying to me. He's rolling. [00:37:14] Speaker D: 32. [00:37:16] Speaker A: That is not a 30. That is it. No. Yeah. Wait. [00:37:19] Speaker D: 19 plus 13. [00:37:20] Speaker A: 32. [00:37:20] Speaker C: That meets. It beats it. [00:37:25] Speaker D: Clutched it when it counted, I guess. [00:37:29] Speaker B: Can't lie about all the practicals. But he knows how to tell a woman that her hair looks good. [00:37:33] Speaker A: That's why. [00:37:34] Speaker C: Even if it doesn't, [00:37:37] Speaker B: that's why he has a girlfriend. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Right this way. [00:37:43] Speaker C: She's also not wearing her shoes or her vest or her satchel. [00:37:48] Speaker A: It's your house. You can do what you want. [00:37:50] Speaker C: Like bare bones. But she has clothes on. No. No nightgown. She doesn't like dresses of any sort. [00:37:59] Speaker D: One day I'll use that theme song. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Pants with a nightgown. [00:38:04] Speaker C: Sleep shorts. [00:38:06] Speaker D: That doesn't flow well. [00:38:10] Speaker A: Okay, Kitchen, I think. [00:38:12] Speaker D: Banquet room. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Quitting room. [00:38:15] Speaker C: Stop talking. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Can't. [00:38:18] Speaker C: Shut up. [00:38:19] Speaker D: Okay. [00:38:22] Speaker C: We make our way there, I guess Making our way downtown Walking slow [00:38:29] Speaker D: as you shuffle into the room. I guess my phantasmal minion greets both of you with two cups of coffee. [00:38:36] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. Thank goodness. Okay, thank you. [00:38:42] Speaker A: Why do you want my coffee? [00:38:46] Speaker C: Yes, she just has two cups of coffee. [00:38:50] Speaker D: Maybe drink that first. Wake up a little. Howard looks incredibly Nervous and kind of scared. [00:38:59] Speaker C: What did you do? [00:39:01] Speaker D: Nothing yet. [00:39:02] Speaker C: What did you do? [00:39:04] Speaker D: Nothing yet. [00:39:06] Speaker A: There were people in his room. There were not voices in his room. [00:39:10] Speaker C: We're not on the ground, right? [00:39:12] Speaker A: I don't think so. [00:39:13] Speaker D: I don't. I don't. I haven't checked. [00:39:15] Speaker C: Why were there people in your room? What happened? [00:39:22] Speaker D: Well, that's quite a long story. As to what happened. I'm. I'm going to mess with time again. [00:39:36] Speaker C: She's very awake now. [00:39:38] Speaker A: At this point, I'm not surprised. [00:39:41] Speaker C: I thought we talked about this. [00:39:43] Speaker D: We did. And you told me to tell you. And I'm telling you. [00:39:46] Speaker C: I guess that's true, but why are you messing with time again? [00:39:53] Speaker D: I have to fix a mistake that I made a long time ago. 2.2ish 3ish years ago. [00:40:05] Speaker A: How long have we known you? [00:40:08] Speaker C: Not that long. [00:40:09] Speaker A: Out of character, I guess. [00:40:10] Speaker D: A couple months [00:40:13] Speaker B: since you've known each other? Yeah, it's been like six months. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:40:16] Speaker D: Half a year. [00:40:21] Speaker A: Zephyr, I. I understand wanting to go back and fix mistakes, but I don't know if it would be a good idea. [00:40:35] Speaker D: It's. It's really the only way. [00:40:41] Speaker A: The only way to what? [00:40:45] Speaker D: To fix it. [00:40:47] Speaker C: To fix what? What is so bad that you have to go back in time and fix? [00:40:57] Speaker A: So [00:40:59] Speaker D: Alward sort of rubs his hands together and holds them really tightly and is obviously very nervous. And he sort of looks at Zafir and he's like, if you could stop your parents from being murdered, would you? [00:41:22] Speaker A: I've never really considered it. [00:41:24] Speaker D: Well, I can. I will. And I'm sorry, but there's nothing you all can do to prevent me from doing this. I'm just telling you as a formality because I told you I would. [00:41:39] Speaker C: You're going back to bring back Zafir's parents? [00:41:44] Speaker D: No. I wish I could. [00:41:45] Speaker C: Your parents? [00:41:46] Speaker D: No. Kind of. [00:41:47] Speaker C: I'm confused. [00:41:49] Speaker D: It's confusing. [00:41:51] Speaker A: We already had something going on with Einar. This I don't. He coming from the future to change the past. But this is the present. You shouldn't change the past because what happens to us? Why? What would you. [00:42:08] Speaker D: If everything goes how it should. Nothing. You will have different memories. A little bit. But I will be standing right here in front of you in five minutes time at most. [00:42:24] Speaker C: I'm a little concerned. [00:42:26] Speaker D: It's fine. Don't. Don't be. [00:42:28] Speaker C: It's fine. [00:42:29] Speaker D: It's fine. [00:42:30] Speaker C: But you're going back and messing with time. [00:42:33] Speaker D: It's been fine every other time and again. I don't mean to harp on this. But there's nothing any of you can do to stop me. [00:42:42] Speaker C: Why? [00:42:43] Speaker D: You'd have to kill me. [00:42:46] Speaker A: I'm going to be very mad at you. [00:42:48] Speaker C: You. [00:42:49] Speaker D: I understand that. Well, you won't be, because you won't remember. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Zafir leaves. After he hears that, he's just gonna walk away. [00:43:00] Speaker C: I don't agree with this. [00:43:02] Speaker D: I know. And it's why I didn't want to tell you. But you made me promise to tell you, so. [00:43:08] Speaker C: And nothing we say can convince you otherwise. [00:43:11] Speaker D: No, I'm. I'm sorry, but are you bound by [00:43:16] Speaker C: something to do this kind of. What did you do? [00:43:23] Speaker D: I made a. It was. I didn't mean to do it, and it landed me. And he sort of gestures around and. Yeah, all of this. I'm going to come back. I know too much about what's going on up here now. I can't just leave it like this. But. But I can go back and I can fix my mistake, and then. And then I. I know all of this stuff. I can go. Instead of working for the company for those two years that I just ended up being fired for, I can go and get some of the relics early, and then I can find all of you early. And it will have a better chance. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Just so all of you are aware spatially, Zafir is just around the corner, listening. [00:44:08] Speaker C: Oh. [00:44:09] Speaker D: Okay. [00:44:10] Speaker C: Fair Neros is silently angry, which is the most dangerous type of angry. [00:44:20] Speaker D: It is. Well, I can see I've ruined your mornings. I'm sorry. I would have much rather have just done this in my room and none of you would have known. But I promised. [00:44:38] Speaker C: So how do you know this is going to change anything? [00:44:42] Speaker D: I don't. It changes everything every other time. I don't see why it shouldn't. That's why I had to do the test with Cirdi. That's why I had. I needed to know if I could go farther back than what I normally would and how to connect things back together. And that worked fine. [00:45:06] Speaker C: I can't see a way this doesn't have horrendous, dire consequences. [00:45:15] Speaker D: I can't see a way where it does. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Zephyr pops out around the corner and just leans against the side of the doorway. And who. What would you said Promise? Who did you promise? What did you promise? [00:45:30] Speaker D: I promised Neros that I would tell her when I did time. Things that were farther back than an hour. [00:45:37] Speaker A: What did you do with Cere Dire? [00:45:39] Speaker D: Oh, right. You didn't. I was there with you when you were talking with him, but I wasn't I knew about the boots, but I wasn't there. [00:45:50] Speaker A: He shakes his head a little and just like draws the conclusion of oh, right, that's what happened. [00:46:01] Speaker C: Nero's puts down the coffee cups and just. [00:46:05] Speaker D: I'm so glad you didn't throw them at me. [00:46:07] Speaker C: Oh, I was tempted. But she puts down the coffee cups and she just claps her hands together and like, you're gonna do whatever the crap you want to do and everyone else is just going to have to live with it. So I'm just going to go back to my room now. You do you and I hope you're happy. I'llard [00:46:34] Speaker D: I hopefully will be. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Telekinetic hand shoves the coffee towards him, off the table. How hot is this coffee? [00:46:46] Speaker B: Probably pretty hot. [00:46:47] Speaker A: Do you think I have enough power to hit you? [00:46:50] Speaker D: No. [00:46:51] Speaker A: With the hand? [00:46:52] Speaker D: No. [00:46:54] Speaker B: Telekinetic hand doesn't move very fast. It like slowly moves like I have to. [00:46:59] Speaker A: It's just gonna push it off the table like a. Like a cat. [00:47:03] Speaker D: I am sorry about this affair, but. And then Neros is gone from all the scenes. [00:47:15] Speaker C: She removed herself. [00:47:16] Speaker D: Yes. [00:47:16] Speaker C: She's out. [00:47:18] Speaker A: He looks you dead in the eye and says, when Neros manipulates people, it's for the greater good of all of us. When you manipulate things seems to just be selfishness, I mean. And he turns around and walks out again. [00:47:42] Speaker D: It's always helped us. And then Alward's gonna start flickering in and out and then just poof. [00:47:50] Speaker A: And another thing. Oh. [00:47:54] Speaker B: We then cut away from seeing Zafir, Neros, anybody else who was standing by what their vision of everything would be. And we are in a black void. And suddenly Alward poofs into a space of this black void. And then almost like a heartbeat, there's just countless golden threads trailing out away from him. And there's just this pulse of golden light that trails down the threads and a pulse of golden light. And Alward begins examining these threads until he finds the one he's looking for. He grabs it and starts pulling. And as before, there's this resistance from behind him that's like drawing him back. But this time he just powers on forward. He starts hand over hand, pulling himself along this thread like it's a lifeline until he starts almost like dragging this weight with him as he's going down the thread. And then he gets closer and he starts seeing a light at the end of this thread. He sees his destination and he pulls himself through. And suddenly, Alward, you hear the sound of birdsong around you as you're standing back in the courtyard of the townhome that you grew up in, and that's where we'll end this episode. [00:49:13] Speaker D: That's a good ending. [00:49:17] Speaker B: All right. And the hero point for today's episode goes to Petit. We put a lot of weight on your shoulders to carry this episode and get everybody in the same room for this roleplay. And you handled it very well and if I say so, very entertainingly. [00:49:33] Speaker A: It was not easy. Neros is a monster to try to get out of slumber. [00:49:38] Speaker C: It's canon. It's happened before. [00:49:41] Speaker A: I have no experience, no personal life. Anyway, I'm probably gonna go watch Back to the Future, maybe all three, I don't know, try to figure something out. What on earth is he gonna do? [00:49:53] Speaker D: We're all gonna go to Petit's house to watch that now. [00:49:56] Speaker A: I do have the 30th anniversary box set. [00:49:59] Speaker C: Nice. [00:50:01] Speaker B: Well, you know where we're gonna be and we'll see you all in the next episode. [00:50:09] Speaker C: That's one heck of a send off. [00:50:12] 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 Paizo. For more information about Paizo, Inc. And paizo products, visit paizo.com hope to see you all in the next episode. Until then, have an atomic time. [00:51:02] Speaker C: I'm online shopping over here. [00:51:05] Speaker D: Online? We're supposed to be playing a very important game. [00:51:09] Speaker C: I know, but I'm on lunch. [00:51:11] Speaker A: I'm glad you specified very important. [00:51:13] Speaker D: It's okay. Petite normally plays neopets. [00:51:16] Speaker A: I mean, I'm not now.

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