[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the feature presentation. And remember, do your part, such as, like, comment rate. And don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave off?
Ah, yes.
As the party sought intel on the wolf skin warriors, Zafir and Ilva listened to Val play music in town.
But their musical relaxation was interrupted by someone recognizing Ilva.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: Forever's gonna start to.
[00:01:04] Speaker D: Every time I was falling in love but now I'm only falling apart there's nothing I can do a total eclipse.
[00:01:16] Speaker C: Of the heart thank you. Thank you all.
[00:01:21] Speaker E: Why does the language on unforge say understands the creator totally clips of the heart.
[00:01:30] Speaker C: I want to hit something.
[00:01:31] Speaker F: Whoa.
[00:01:33] Speaker C: Not in the life.
[00:01:34] Speaker F: Violence in the game.
Jenkins has chosen the violence.
[00:01:39] Speaker E: Life is a route.
[00:01:42] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[00:01:43] Speaker F: He's a barbarian.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: Oh, I wish.
[00:01:46] Speaker F: I.
[00:01:52] Speaker E: I call this the Walmart parking lot.
[00:02:00] Speaker D: Wait, wait. So, let's describe these noises. So, the first beat, we can leave.
[00:02:04] Speaker E: It up to interpretation.
[00:02:05] Speaker D: No, no, no. So the first beat is someone getting punched.
[00:02:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
One of the beats was definitely cart smashing against something.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: So this is the north side of Springfield.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: That's exactly right.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: It's a 2001. Was a 2002 Pontiac with the rear end going out.
[00:02:24] Speaker C: Yeah. One was a shopping cart hitting that 2002 Pontiac.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: And was I hearing a goat?
[00:02:34] Speaker A: It's the north side Walmart. Don't ask questions.
[00:02:37] Speaker F: You don't know what goes on there.
[00:02:39] Speaker E: That was either a man, a horn, or an animal.
[00:02:42] Speaker D: Or all three.
[00:02:43] Speaker E: Yeah, all synchronous.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: It interchanged throughout. Lorna, see if you can find the difference.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Boy, that reminds me of some of the music I studied when I was, like, studying 20th century composition.
[00:02:56] Speaker F: Poetry.
[00:02:59] Speaker C: No, not where I thought we were gonna go.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: We went from north side Walmart parking lot disco to.
[00:03:05] Speaker D: No, we went from music to music.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: That wasn't disco. It wasn't.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: Have you ever feel like. Now, if you ever feel like a mind trip, look up the classical music composition. Idle chatter.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: No.
[00:03:17] Speaker D: Oh, yes.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:03:18] Speaker D: I've heard that. You guys showed me it.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: It's an electronic music composition. All of the sounds you hear are him just randomly recording his wife and then just, like, duplicating snippets and phonemes of her talking over top of each other.
[00:03:32] Speaker F: Okay, but why?
[00:03:33] Speaker B: He was trying to be experimental.
[00:03:35] Speaker F: Did it go well?
[00:03:37] Speaker B: That is up to you to decide.
Comment below.
[00:03:41] Speaker D: Go ahead. Pause the episode right now. We'll wait.
[00:03:47] Speaker C: Listen to our previous episode, and then come back.
[00:03:50] Speaker E: Listen to both at the same time.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Then you'll have modern music.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: So I heard if you play that track backwards to certain segments of our episodes, they sync up perfectly.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: There's only one way to find out.
[00:04:02] Speaker D: It's so hard doing that every time.
[00:04:05] Speaker E: Okay, I'll keep that in mind.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Listen to our episodes backwards for the secret message.
[00:04:12] Speaker F: There is no race car.
[00:04:14] Speaker E: As weird Al once said in his song, satan eats cheese whiz.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: What?
[00:04:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:04:21] Speaker E: Pretty sure that was a parody to the stairway to heaven.
No, no, it wasn't that one.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: I wanna go home now.
[00:04:30] Speaker D: Turn around.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: Speaking of eating Cheez whiz.
[00:04:36] Speaker F: What?
[00:04:37] Speaker C: We zoom in on Zafir, just not the music transition.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: There is a scrawny, thin looking fellow with, like, a classic, like, robin Hood style cap. You know, where it's like, the kind of the flat one with the feather poking out the back. And he's just looking at Yolva, like, with a mixture of surprise and, like, bemusement. I was just like, what are you doing here?
[00:05:04] Speaker E: It's time for a conversation between the two NPC's.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Yelva just, like, looks up, sees the guy, and then just, like, immediately looks down, is like, nope, nope, nope. Go away. Go away. He was like, hey, hey. You've been avoiding me. Just kind of walks up and, like, bends down to try to look her in the eye. And she just turns her head and looks the other way. Andras, no. Go away.
[00:05:29] Speaker E: Zafir pumps up his chest and goes, is this guy bothering you?
[00:05:40] Speaker C: Love it.
[00:05:41] Speaker D: The music as a fiddle comes to a halt.
[00:05:44] Speaker E: One string breaks record scratch, fiddle style.
[00:05:47] Speaker D: Val record scratches as she stops playing.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: They both, like, quickly look over and are like, no, no, no, it's not like that. No, it's not. No, it's not like that.
[00:05:57] Speaker E: I don't know what you're thinking, but it looks like he's bothering you.
[00:06:03] Speaker B: Well, I'm not, really. Suddenly, Yova just, like, stands up. Yes. Yes, he is. You're bothering me, Andras.
He's just like, hilva, come on, Andras.
[00:06:16] Speaker E: If that's your real name.
Who are you?
Don't tell me your name because I already know that.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: He's like. He opened his mouth to reply, and then just like, I'm a courier.
[00:06:32] Speaker E: Yova, why are you avoiding a courier? That's his job.
[00:06:36] Speaker D: Perhaps she has late phase.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: I don't want the messages that he has to deliver.
[00:06:44] Speaker D: That seems odd. Why wouldn't you want your mail?
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Andras, like, looks at Val and is like, yeah. Yolva pulls out, like, a little envelope. Your mail, hands it to her.
She just, like, takes it doesn't even look at Andras is just looking at Val. Just rips it in half, tosses both halves on the ground.
[00:07:08] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness.
[00:07:09] Speaker E: I pick up both halves. Don't know what I'm gonna do with them, but pick up both halves. Yilda slaps your hands and I pick him up again.
[00:07:19] Speaker D: Sophia, I don't think I. She wants you to read her mail. It's worry about.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: Hasn't technically been opened and, well, technically. Yoba just looks at him.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Andros just hears heavy footsteps walking behind him.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Oh, you're a tall one.
[00:07:38] Speaker E: Don't worry, I know I've got this handled.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: You're a short one.
[00:07:44] Speaker D: Well, that's awfully rude, sir.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Hey, I just call it how I see it.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: Einart just looks very confused.
What's going on?
[00:07:57] Speaker B: I'm just a courier delivering mail. What's your name, sir? Einar starts rifling through a bag.
Nope, nothing for you.
[00:08:08] Speaker D: I'd be crazy if you had mail for us because we're not from here.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Oh, what's your name?
[00:08:14] Speaker D: I don't.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: You don't know your name?
[00:08:18] Speaker D: I know my name.
[00:08:19] Speaker E: No, that's her name. It's. I don't know.
[00:08:20] Speaker D: No, sure, I should give vial.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: All right. Rifle, Sears bag. Nothing for you.
[00:08:28] Speaker D: See? Nothing for us.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that makes sense.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Are you just passing through?
[00:08:34] Speaker B: I mean, I'm a courier. I pass through everywhere.
How about you? What's your name, short stuff?
[00:08:42] Speaker E: If I told you, I'd have to kill you. And I don't do that anymore.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: So. Wait, so you're never gonna introduce yourself to anyone anymore?
No.
[00:08:55] Speaker D: It's a real hassle at times.
[00:08:57] Speaker C: I'm very proud of you for not giving away information today, though.
[00:09:00] Speaker E: I don't trust this man.
He's carrying around a lot. A lot of handwritten things.
[00:09:08] Speaker C: He.
I pulled the courier asylum and whisper. He can't read.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: He wraps his arm around your shoulder and leans in.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: Don't spirit or me.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: That's all right, buddy. You can trust me.
[00:09:23] Speaker C: Does a telekinetic hand, pulls his arm off me.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Fair enough, fair enough. What's your name?
[00:09:30] Speaker C: No, thank you.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: You all have weird names.
[00:09:35] Speaker D: So I used to say. I don't think. Are you gonna have any mail first?
[00:09:39] Speaker B: That's fair. That's fair.
[00:09:40] Speaker E: Can you read off some names and we'll tell you if it's ours?
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Okay.
You know, that sounded like a good idea, but the more I thought about it, the more it felt like a breach of privacy.
[00:09:55] Speaker D: That's true. I would have been quite upset if you'd done that.
[00:09:59] Speaker E: What if I'd have just said my name? Frank or something? And you.
You had one for Frank.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: That. That's also a concern. That's a good point, because I do. He pulls out a letter. I have a letter for Frank.
[00:10:12] Speaker E: Oh, that is mine.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: Oh, well, all right. And hands it to you.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: Einar just grabs the letter, puts it back in the. Puts it back in the bag, sir.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: Takes the letter back out. You can't just go taking Frank's mail.
[00:10:28] Speaker C: His name is not Frank.
[00:10:29] Speaker D: But, see, I got. I think I get what you're doing here.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: Do you deliver mail just to here?
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Pretty much everywhere. I mean, I'm sure you've heard of the Golarion postal service.
[00:10:42] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't know it reached this far.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: Oh, it reaches everywhere.
[00:10:46] Speaker F: Where's Postman Paul?
[00:10:48] Speaker C: Does he look like an actual postman or. I.
I don't like the way you.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Pause being a master of society.
[00:10:58] Speaker E: No, his shorts are far too long.
[00:11:04] Speaker F: They reach below his knees.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: Can I.
[00:11:07] Speaker E: Definitely not you.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: What's Yova look like?
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Yova looks like she wishes she was anywhere but here.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: Would I notice that?
[00:11:18] Speaker B: What's your perception?
[00:11:19] Speaker A: 15.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Sorry? Like, your training level. Oh, you're expert, right?
[00:11:24] Speaker A: Master.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Actually, master say he's a fighter. Master.
All right. Yeah. So with your master perception, Yilva's not trying to hide how she feels from you, but she is trying to hide how she feels from passersby. You get the sense that there's definitely something more going on here, and she's trying to pass it off, as they have a history. So, like, when Zafir was like, you know, is he bothering you? She jumped on that because she would rather that be how this is perceived.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: He just feels a heavy hand on his shoulder.
Well, it seems that as a courier, you have a lot of business to do.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Yes, I do. I do, indeed.
Do you have a letter you'd like to send?
[00:12:10] Speaker A: No. No. Always good to meet a friend of Yovas.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: Well, if only she thought the same.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Yes.
And how did you two meet?
Obviously, you took time out of your busy day.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: Well, a funny story. Yova's like, we went to school together.
He just, like, looks at her.
Yeah.
School.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: School.
I'm sure it was quite a private school. Oh, and he just looks at Yova when he says that.
[00:12:48] Speaker B: Nods a bit.
Yeah. Pretty exclusive.
Yeah, of course.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Of course. Well, I don't think we need to take too much more time out of your day. You have quite a lot of parcels to take care of, I'm sure. Um, perhaps we can catch up later.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, if you ever need to send an email, just call out, yoo hoo. I might hear you if I'm nearby.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: And he just feels the arm dragging his shoulder to the side as he pushes him out of the circle.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: Well, looks like I'm leaving now. Bye, everybody. As he just, like, slides goodbye.
[00:13:31] Speaker E: As he's going away from the. The small crowd that we have, he hears in his ear, I'm on to you, Postman.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Oh, the letter from Frank sticks with us now.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: Yes, for Frank, as well as the.
[00:13:45] Speaker E: Ripped letter on the floor, not on the floor anymore.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: And Andres just, like, smiling, waving, just kind of backs away from the group a bit. And then as he's, you know, maybe ten yards away, he just shrugs, sticks his hands in his pockets and just starts whistling as he walks down a road.
[00:14:05] Speaker C: So he wasn't a postman.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Yellow, just, you think.
[00:14:11] Speaker C: Well, I showed up late to the situation, Yova, I don't know what's going on.
[00:14:15] Speaker E: Pretty sure you had the exact amount of insiders. I did as well.
[00:14:19] Speaker D: I wasn't gonna give him my name, but he was real pushy.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Him knowing my name doesn't matter.
[00:14:26] Speaker D: Same.
[00:14:29] Speaker E: So what more can you tell us about this Andras Yova?
[00:14:35] Speaker B: All right, well, I guess it's important. So, Andras, and as she's talking, you hear the sound of fast footsteps approaching.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Which direction?
[00:14:47] Speaker F: Oh, from a direction.
[00:14:49] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:14:51] Speaker F: So you see Neros come sprinting up to the group of you with just the biggest grin on her face. And she's like, hide me. And she ducks, like, behind all of you, and she's just waiting there.
[00:15:06] Speaker D: So Val, she's giggling. Val's had, like, a box that she's been kind of sitting on. What she does is she moves the box forward. She's not in her armor. She's just in her gown. And so she puts 1ft up on it. So, like, the skirt part of the gown stretches out more and she goes back to playing.
So Neros could just hide right behind it.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: You just hear Einar sigh and go to stand next to Val just using his mats to block as you all.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Kind of shift to form an obscuring wall from the direction that Neros had come running. You just hear.
And looking off of that way, you see this guy just like, running.
Not down the road into the town square, but, like, across the road. And just like, manically swatting at his head and his shoulders. He's played by Nicolas Cage.
And as he's running out of sight, you hear? Not the be.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: What?
[00:16:11] Speaker F: Neros is just giggling to herself.
[00:16:13] Speaker D: You didn't hurt anyone, did you?
[00:16:17] Speaker F: Not me.
[00:16:19] Speaker D: Oh, hi.
[00:16:22] Speaker C: So, about this not postman man.
[00:16:26] Speaker D: Did you send peas on a man?
[00:16:30] Speaker C: Did you cover him? And how did you do that?
[00:16:32] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:16:33] Speaker D: What if he was allergic to bees?
[00:16:36] Speaker F: Dang it, I didn't think of that.
[00:16:41] Speaker D: He looks more or less okay.
[00:16:44] Speaker F: He looks like he's having a grand time.
[00:16:46] Speaker E: I think. I think we should all culminate in that one old lady's building.
[00:16:52] Speaker C: It's. That's. It's. It's too small.
[00:16:54] Speaker D: Her house.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: It's so small.
[00:16:56] Speaker D: Why would we go into her house?
[00:16:57] Speaker E: It's not a house. It was that one place that.
[00:16:59] Speaker C: No, it was her house.
[00:17:01] Speaker E: Adam, was that his name?
[00:17:02] Speaker A: It was her house.
[00:17:03] Speaker D: I don't think we could just walk into someone's house.
[00:17:05] Speaker C: I mean, we did camp.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Let's go to our camp.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: Smart idea.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: We need to discuss our next moves anyway.
[00:17:12] Speaker D: Okay, Sanskrit is Geordi.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: Okay, Geordi's dying over here.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: We get a picture. It's an image of Batman and Robin, but both of them are played by Nicolas Cage as he goes.
[00:17:28] Speaker C: Instead of going to be buzzing noises.
[00:17:32] Speaker E: It should just be a horde of bees.
[00:17:34] Speaker A: That the wipe is a hoard of bees.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: We just. We get a wipe transition, but the wipe is following the guy as he runs past the screen, swatting at the bees. And now we are back at camp.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: So he works for the family.
Yeah, I know. Just talks to Yildva.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: So Nero said Andrus Thompson came by, and I.
[00:18:02] Speaker F: Who's that?
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Well, he's part of the family, but his name's Thompson. Well, his. He's part of the family. On his mother's side? Yes.
[00:18:13] Speaker E: He's the son of Tom.
[00:18:17] Speaker D: I don't think that's right.
[00:18:20] Speaker C: No, he's the son of Tom.
[00:18:21] Speaker E: Ah, Thompson. Sorry, I don't know how to spell, so.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Okay, so there are a lot of. Sometimes when somebody decides they want to really be part of the family, they'll change their last name to show that. But some people, like Andrus, prefer the anonymity so that they can work more openly, without suspicion.
[00:18:41] Speaker D: Right. In the postal service.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Is it an issue that he saw you?
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Well, or us?
[00:18:47] Speaker C: Again, they don't know about us, technically.
[00:18:50] Speaker D: It hadn't originally come across like we were a whole group. Think it did towards the end, it.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: It could be a problem, um, because everybody knows what I'm supposed to be doing.
So the fact that I'm here and not back in the grungear forest, I mean, it would raise some questions.
[00:19:14] Speaker D: Should we have nabbed him?
[00:19:17] Speaker B: I.
[00:19:18] Speaker C: We've got.
[00:19:19] Speaker E: No, we've got a take him out.
[00:19:21] Speaker A: I mean, either way, we would, of course, suspicion.
That's true.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah. So when he says he's a courier, he's.
That's his cover. He does deliver mail, but, I mean, really, what he does is he, uh, he's a runner between different groups, kind of giving an update on what everybody's been doing.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: That means the wolf skin warriors will know we're here. Well, you're here.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah, they'll. They'll probably know that I'm here pretty soon.
[00:19:54] Speaker D: What was on the letter he was gonna give you?
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Oh, I mean, most likely it was another letter from Brenger telling me that I'm stupid and I need to come back and help him fight.
[00:20:06] Speaker D: That's rude of him.
[00:20:08] Speaker E: I take the two halves of the letter and I put it together and says, yep, that's exactly what it says.
[00:20:15] Speaker C: Can I look at the letter?
[00:20:17] Speaker A: You have to take it out of the envelope first.
[00:20:20] Speaker C: No, I don't.
[00:20:21] Speaker E: I'm a little new to these things.
[00:20:23] Speaker D: Hold it up to a light.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: I can read it. Actually, no, I have that feat. It's called quick glance or something. It lets me do that. Yeah, it lets me do that.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: So Albert dramatically holds the ripped in half letter still in the envelope. To the sun.
[00:20:46] Speaker E: From Indiana Jones with the scepter, the gem that highlights the specific spot.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: The letter reads, dear Yova, you are stupid. Come home and help us fight like men. Branker.
[00:21:02] Speaker C: So this.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: Yes. Bring those gingersnap cookies.
[00:21:06] Speaker C: Wait, do you make ginger? This could be considered a good thing, though. Cause we could play it off as though you'd come to help.
Um, unless, of course, you're uncomfortable with that.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: Honestly, I think that would be more suspicious.
[00:21:19] Speaker C: Fair.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: Last time we spoke, I slapped him.
[00:21:22] Speaker D: But he had another letter for you. He's still asking for you.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: Also, you make gingerbread cookies sometimes.
[00:21:31] Speaker D: I don't like gingerbread.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: Is the ginger snap?
[00:21:34] Speaker A: And Einar just kind of clears his throat, a bit of an obsession on his part.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: Well, okay, so there's.
The family is not really a unified idea. The different branches of the family, we call each other clans. It's.
They all have, like, different ideas of what really made aored great. And my clan, the Wolf clan, really focuses on his prowess as a warrior. And that's really where the wolf skin warrior's idea comes from. They want to emulate aored's prowess in battle and be great warriors just like him. I think that's all pretty dumb. I think really what really inspires me about Aerid's story is, you know, that he was a great leader and that he brought people together, you know, before, you know, before everything went wrong and they drove him out of town. But before that everything was great.
[00:22:33] Speaker D: People really do talk about him like he's a God or something like that.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he, he's very great. I'm sure you have someone that you look up to like you want to be just like them, don't you?
[00:22:49] Speaker D: I don't know if there's a person that I look up to like that necessarily.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: I mean, I guess, I don't know. I mean, he's, he's the king and he's like, he's, he's the progenitor of our entire family line and he's what makes our family great or, I don't know, that's what I always thought made us great.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: I think regardless of what he was, whether he was actually great or not, depending on what side of history, what the idea of him or the return of him has turned into is no longer good and great.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with that.
[00:23:37] Speaker E: What's so wrong about creating your own identity?
[00:23:42] Speaker B: Well, it's not, it's not that I don't want to create my own identity. It's just that, you know, I really, I appreciate the stories that I grew up on of, you know, what a great leader Aerid was and I wanted to emulate that and, you know, be that in my life, in my world.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: Indeed, whether or not he actually was the ideas you want to aspire to, to be a good leader, to take care of the people, that is good.
So be that.
[00:24:15] Speaker C: Right.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: And that's what I want to do. I'm just, you know, right now I'm just trying to give you context for the situation between me and Brenger because we don't see eye to eye on who ered was and what made him great. His idea is more along the lines of if somebody, if you can beat people in battle, then you are greater than them.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Hmm.
Very much like a troll.
[00:24:46] Speaker E: But you don't really want us to beat him in battle, correct. You want us to not kill him.
[00:24:52] Speaker C: No, that's, you could beat people without killing them. Sofia, I, well, it's a battle.
[00:24:57] Speaker E: I figured the way to win the battle is to kill the one.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: That's what incapacitate, disarm.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: It's true, but, and if what you say is true, if we beat him, then he has to believe that we are better.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Well, that'll be quite the challenge.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: I promise not to kill him.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: As much as I appreciate your promise, I don't know how possible it will be.
So if it's alright with you all, I would rather not be there when you face him.
[00:25:40] Speaker D: Of course, of course. We understand.
Wouldn't make you do something like that. Or see something. But know that we're gonna do everything we can not to have to do that to him.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: We generally hope that you stay here and wait for us, though. You don't have to, of course, but.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: Right, right.
[00:26:02] Speaker C: Slight change of subject. I'm sorry if this is odd. Where did you get the bees?
I know we're right by a forest, but.
[00:26:12] Speaker F: You mean you don't have magical powers to tell you where bees live?
[00:26:15] Speaker C: What?
[00:26:16] Speaker E: I mean, I can summon them.
[00:26:18] Speaker F: I'll. I'll give you. Then they weren't real bees.
[00:26:21] Speaker D: Oh, I thought maybe he was like a. What do you call him? A bee farmer?
[00:26:27] Speaker F: Yeah. To him, they were real, and that's all that mattered.
[00:26:32] Speaker C: That makes what you did a lot more ethically sound.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:36] Speaker D: That's all right.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: Is it, though?
[00:26:37] Speaker C: I mean, yeah, he's not. Well, he's not gonna die now.
[00:26:41] Speaker D: Yeah, if he were allergic now, it would be fine. Cause he wouldn't be allergic to fake beans. Oh.
[00:26:44] Speaker C: But now he might think he's not allergic. Go hunt bees.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Oh, no mentally scarring, though.
[00:26:51] Speaker E: Who's going to hunt bees?
[00:26:54] Speaker A: What did he do to you?
[00:26:56] Speaker F: Nothing.
[00:26:57] Speaker E: Don't you all think we should get a move on now that they know?
[00:27:00] Speaker C: Yes, 100%. I just. I had to know.
[00:27:03] Speaker F: Look, I've gotten bored recently. I needed some fun. That was fun for me, not for him.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: Let's go turn that boredom into someone else.
[00:27:20] Speaker F: Into someone else.
[00:27:22] Speaker E: Mold the boredom into a humanoid.
[00:27:24] Speaker F: She pulls out her bottomless style.
[00:27:26] Speaker C: Coalesce your boredom.
[00:27:27] Speaker D: That's not the time for that, Nero. We're about to fight someone, guys.
[00:27:33] Speaker E: Not necessarily. We could always talk. Take the root of pacifism.
[00:27:39] Speaker F: This is fine.
[00:27:43] Speaker D: Sorry, Neros.
[00:27:44] Speaker F: No. We've done so much fighting lately.
[00:27:49] Speaker D: Well, after we take care of this situation, it looks like no one else is nearby, so it should be a peaceful couple of weeks while we try and find the next situation we have to deal with.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Near us. You just feel a hand on your shoulder and you just hear a clink from your stein.
[00:28:09] Speaker C: Oh, took us a minute.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: After this, let's have a good party.
[00:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: And.
[00:28:19] Speaker D: Oh, boy.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: Just as quickly as that Stan appears, it goes back into his bag.
[00:28:24] Speaker F: I can't drink even a little bit.
[00:28:26] Speaker D: As long as it's not gonna get in the way. Sure, I guess you killed, but I just.
[00:28:30] Speaker A: He just leans down.
[00:28:31] Speaker D: I would just caution you.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: Wait. We can savor it later.
[00:28:35] Speaker F: Fine.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: It'll be sweeter.
[00:28:37] Speaker F: This seems like just a passive thing, but you can tell she's actually antsy and genuinely trying to find some sort of entertainment because she's tired of fighting people and things.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Big party afterward. I promise.
[00:28:54] Speaker E: I can summon bees.
[00:28:56] Speaker F: I mean, I can too. That's not. That's just.
[00:28:58] Speaker C: Am I the only one here who can't summon bees?
[00:29:00] Speaker B: Fal.
[00:29:01] Speaker C: Can you at God give you the power to summon bees?
[00:29:03] Speaker D: Presumably.
[00:29:05] Speaker F: Suddenly you see a bunch of centipedes on the ground.
[00:29:08] Speaker C: Howard's just gonna like.
[00:29:09] Speaker E: Those aren't bees.
[00:29:13] Speaker C: Howard's too focused on the centipedes. Like trying to back away slowly.
[00:29:17] Speaker F: You should try and touch them.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: It's not nice.
[00:29:19] Speaker F: No, just try and touch em.
[00:29:21] Speaker C: A mage hand comes out and pokes one.
[00:29:23] Speaker F: Nothing happens.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: Suddenly you look. Oh, really?
A mage hand could. Tries to grab one on the other side.
[00:29:29] Speaker F: Nothing happens.
[00:29:30] Speaker C: Dang it, Zafir, you have. Why did you try to grab one?
[00:29:34] Speaker D: Yes, that's a new thing.
[00:29:37] Speaker E: A telekinetic hand.
[00:29:38] Speaker C: Oh, gosh darn it. Actually, yeah, telekinetic.
[00:29:42] Speaker E: Reaches out and just kind of pets one.
[00:29:46] Speaker F: Anyway, if we're gonna do this, the sooner we do it, the better.
[00:29:50] Speaker E: I. I do think that's a good idea. We should probably, you know, leave as soon as possible to keep them from preparing Yildva.
[00:29:58] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:00] Speaker A: Once we're done, we'll return here to the town.
If we meet you, then good. If not, I wish you well.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: Of course. Yes.
[00:30:12] Speaker E: And please do try to keep from rounding up more army people.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: Right.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Einar said that in a way of. He's purposely essentially releasing Yova, right?
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And she. The look on her face. She gets it. She understands.
[00:30:32] Speaker D: Bop her on the head. You're at least be free. Bonk. Just bonked.
[00:30:36] Speaker A: Give her a socket.
[00:30:38] Speaker E: Does she have her beasts with her?
[00:30:41] Speaker B: She does.
[00:30:41] Speaker E: Okay, so they're out and about.
I shake one of those paws.
I guess it's not the bird. It would be the. The dog thingy.
[00:30:52] Speaker C: Shake the bird's paws.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: The wolf solemnly shakes paws with you.
[00:30:58] Speaker E: That's a good dog.
Good job.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: Let's go to the wolf skin warriors.
[00:31:04] Speaker B: So, are you all packing up and taking your equipment with you, or are you leaving the camp here for.
[00:31:11] Speaker D: How far away is the place?
[00:31:13] Speaker B: On your horses? It might take like, 4 hours to.
[00:31:16] Speaker D: Get there probably want to bring our stuff.
[00:31:18] Speaker C: What time is it?
[00:31:19] Speaker B: At this point, it's gonna be about 330 in the afternoon?
[00:31:23] Speaker C: Yeah. I say bring our stuff too, just to be.
[00:31:25] Speaker D: It's too late.
[00:31:26] Speaker C: Just to be safe, this is gonna.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Be a night raid.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: All right, so with your stuff packed up, Yilva, as you had suggested, or as she had requested, is going to stay behind.
As you're packing things up, Cornelius approaches. Val.
Val, I.
[00:31:49] Speaker D: It'S okay. Cornelius.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: I wanted to start off by apologizing.
I haven't really been the best of help in all of these more martial situations that we've been getting into. You remember the good old days when we were facing off against more pedestrian challenges and, like rats. Yeah, like rats.
And I was able to actually help out. Well, I mean, nowadays you guys are really tackling things that are way, way beyond what I can really feasibly.
[00:32:31] Speaker D: It's a help with. Cornelius, you don't have to come to this.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I'm.
I just keep thinking back to being grabbed in a troll fist and.
[00:32:45] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm sorry. I really didn't think that that was gonna be a dangerous problem as it seems everyone else did.
I I didn't wanna put you in that sort of situation.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: I understand.
Um.
Yeah, yeah, I understand. But I I think I'll stay here with Yova.
Not that I don't care about what you guys are doing, but I just. I'm going to be more of a detriment than help if I come to raid a camp of warriors.
[00:33:26] Speaker D: I understand, Cornelius.
I do.
Thank you for all the help you have been giving us.
But I understand your desire to stay behind in this situation. You know?
[00:33:46] Speaker B: Thank you. And he puts his arm, like, I imagine you're bending down, like, packing things so he can reach. He puts his arm on your shoulder. And it's just like, I'm so proud of how much you've grown and the warrior that you've become fighting for good, no matter what odds you're up against.
[00:34:11] Speaker D: Thanks, Cornelius.
I hope the fighting won't last too much longer.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Right, right. I mean, before long, at this rate, uh, who could stand up against you, right?
[00:34:27] Speaker D: I'm sure many things, but I don't know if I'd want to deal with those.
Um, we'll just see where the lady of graves takes us, right?
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. You just keep, keep following that, that, that path.
And he, like, nods, looking for all the world like a very satisfied father of a teenager pats you on the back and walks off.
[00:34:58] Speaker D: May the eternal maiden bless you.
[00:35:02] Speaker A: You see iron. I walk up and he just hands you your helmet.
You'd better arm up. You're gonna need it.
[00:35:11] Speaker D: Thank you.
She's again putting on when she has some of her armor on, and again, it's kind of like she did last time. She's not wearing her full plate to allow herself some more mobility, but she's wearing the half plate, essentially, yeah. Thank you, Einar.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: He just gives a small grin and nods and goes back to packing up his stuff.
[00:35:38] Speaker D: She looks down at the helmet for a bit, sees herself in the reflection and pulls out from the helmet something that was tucked in there. Be very uncomfortable, that amulet that the ghoul priest had, and she looks at it for a minute and then puts it in one of her pouches.
Val does kind of give that one last look back to Cornelius because she is unsure, based on what he had talked to her before about things. But she kind of gives that look of like, for one reason or another, it might be the last time we see each other, kind of a feeling she has in her stomach.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Cornelius kind of notices the way you're looking and he just kind of gives a thumbs up and an encouraging nod.
[00:36:31] Speaker D: She nods back and puts on her helmet.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: So as you all head out from the camp, you begin making your way to the west, where several people had confirmed the wolf skin warriors had their camp.
As Adam had mentioned, they are just. They're not sure exactly the location, but they tend to camp in the valley. And from your vantage point, you. You can see pretty clearly. A few miles up ahead is the edge of a valley that would slope down from where you're at. So you kind of have a pretty clear understanding of your bearings for now, of get to the edge of the valley and figure it out from there.
[00:37:10] Speaker D: As we're going. If I was gonna ride up along near us and say, are you doing all right? You seemed very trepidatious about things.
[00:37:26] Speaker F: No, I wouldn't say that.
I think bored is the right answer.
I'm bored.
Oh, we're just going from one place to the next, killing people sometimes. Not killing people. Killing things.
That's not what I do.
I don't. Yeah, I need. I need some entertainment. And the bees was fun.
That's the most fun I've had in weeks.
[00:38:01] Speaker D: I can understand that. There's been a lot of stuff happening that's not necessarily fun.
[00:38:08] Speaker F: I feel just. I got roped into something that I was nothing prepared for.
[00:38:16] Speaker D: From the sounds, I don't think most of you all were prepared for this. Sort of a thing.
[00:38:20] Speaker F: No, I mean, looking back, I honestly don't know why I decided to do this.
I don't know why I agreed to it. And I'm just here.
I feel like I'm too deep in to get out now.
[00:38:35] Speaker D: Well, we did find out some information regarding your family.
[00:38:40] Speaker F: Yeah, that is true.
[00:38:43] Speaker D: I understand how you feel, though. I'm really hopeful that all the fighting and the jumping place, the place will start calming down or maybe just kind of finish up. I don't know.
I've been doing it for a long time so I guess I'm used to it.
But I agree, sometimes all the fighting is very wearisome.
[00:39:11] Speaker F: I mean, I guess I am sort of nervous about going into this because there's a lot of them, even less of us.
[00:39:21] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess there's a lot of that. I guess we could hope if we do have to fight, maybe we'll get another situation like with the trolls.
[00:39:31] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:39:33] Speaker D: If you needed to, you could have stayed behind like the others.
[00:39:37] Speaker F: No, that would not have been fair.
I'm not doing that to you guys.
[00:39:44] Speaker D: I hate for you to feel like you're losing yourself in all of this.
[00:39:49] Speaker F: I guess some. Nevermind, I just need something. It's not this for a little bit.
[00:40:01] Speaker D: Well, hopefully. Maybe.
According to Howard's planned out thing here, after we deal with this, I think, well, we're still gonna be traveling. We should have quite a bit of time between dealing with Ayretin.
Maybe we can find something to fill that time with.
[00:40:22] Speaker F: We'll see.
Things just sort of keep coming up, which I guess is the way when you're trying to take down a big cult, things just keep sort of happening. And then you're thrust into those situations and it's like, oh, look, more stuff to do.
You don't have time to make bees chase people or, you know, sit back and have a drink with your friends. Which, I mean, granted we did a few days ago, but it was while we were on our way to go do stuff. I'd just rather kick back and not think about what we're doing or what we have to go do next or try to forget about things.
Just like to have a good time without everything just looming over.
[00:41:11] Speaker D: We are given the time we are given and we are put in places that aren't necessarily our choice.
And it's hard to do sometimes, but we get to decide how we go about the things we're called to do.
Not everything's always gonna be fun.
Yeah, no, but if you ever feeling too lost in all of this.
We're here for you.
[00:41:52] Speaker F: Thanks.
Anyway, enough of that, or should almost be there now.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: And just as Val was remarking, approaching the peak of the hill that dips down into the valley, and as you crest over it, you can see in the late afternoon, it's getting on at this point towards just after five.
As a figure outward, it's 527 and a half. Thank you.
So the sun is just starting to dip down behind the tops of the tallest trees of the groomgear forest as it stretches down in front of you to the west. But before it reaches the forest is the valley that you're looking down into. And on the far and more northern end of that forest is what is very clearly a large military style encampment with white tents and complete with palisades and torches. They seem to be reasonably well fortified. From your vantage point here on the crest of the valley, you could probably get there in about an hour's ride. But you're also more likely to draw notice the closer you get by the.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: Size of the encampment that we see. Can we get a gauge on how many?
[00:43:19] Speaker B: Does anybody have warfare lore or a similar lore?
[00:43:23] Speaker C: I have a skill feat that lets me look at something and get a brief estimate to the nearest integer of how many people or objects exist. I forgot the name of it.
[00:43:38] Speaker D: Lean content.
[00:43:39] Speaker F: No better than what I have.
[00:43:41] Speaker C: I have music, lore, eye for numbers. So I for numbers specifically says, you learn to subsidize quickly. Estimate the number of items in a group with relative accuracy. At only a glance, you immediately learn the number of visually similar items in a group. And you can see such coins, books, or people rounded to the first digit in the total number. For example, you can look at a case of potion vials, and then there are 30 files, but you wouldn't know that there are 33.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: Gotcha. So, yeah, with that al word viewing from a distance, you know that you could get a more precise count if you paid attention for a long period of time, possibly aided by a spyglass. But, yeah, you feel comfortable. That 20 to 30 was a good estimate from what you can see.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: High end or low end of that?
[00:44:26] Speaker B: High end.
[00:44:27] Speaker E: Okay, can I give him a spyglass for better accuracy? Because I can create simple tools, and I feel like that is a simple tool.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll allow it.
[00:44:38] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:44:40] Speaker C: How big of a spyglass do you make?
[00:44:42] Speaker A: Um, zapier size.
[00:44:44] Speaker E: It is zaphir sized.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: You are.
[00:44:46] Speaker C: That's a three foot spyglass. Let's go.
[00:44:52] Speaker E: Oh, I didn't mean height.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: Zafir do you want to let us know what that looks like?
[00:45:00] Speaker E: So, at first, whenever he reaches his hand in his cloak and he just starts to pull out what it just looks like darkness. But as he moves it further out, it just becomes a long, tube like structure similar to a spyglass. It's gonna be, like, maybe six inches to seven inches. Who knows if it telescopes? I don't know.
And just this dark rod with, like, glass on one end and glass on the other, and I hand it over to outward.
[00:45:35] Speaker C: Telescoping would be too complex.
[00:45:37] Speaker E: Well, who knows? Try pulling on it.
[00:45:40] Speaker A: Upon watching this, Einhard just says, wonderful idea. You can have rustified go look.
[00:45:46] Speaker E: I don't want to risk Rusterford going over there.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: Oh, they're gonna shoot at a random bird?
[00:45:52] Speaker E: Possibly. Do you see any other birds over there?
[00:45:55] Speaker C: Do I gain anything?
[00:45:56] Speaker B: So, as they're discussing the presence of birds, Albert, you you do recognize there are some birds flying around, not a lot of, because at this time of night, most of them are heading back to their nests and everything. But as you're examining the camp through the spyglass, you're able to make out more specific figures, and you notice that you are able to count 22 from your position right now. Whether there are more that you can't see from your current vantage point, you're able to see 22. Now, that being said, you notice that there are several who are decked out in a wolf skin cloak, and that is to be anticipated, although there are also several who are wearing chillaxian clothing.
[00:46:42] Speaker D: Interesting.
[00:46:43] Speaker F: Hmm.
[00:46:45] Speaker D: Some people over from chalaxian.
[00:46:46] Speaker C: Do the ones who are wearing chillaxian clothing look like they're armored up or. No.
[00:46:51] Speaker B: Lightly armored. You also notice that they are keeping their distance. They're, like, in their own section of the camp, really mingling with the others wearing the wolf skins.
As you're watching, though, you notice that there seems to be some sort of tension between those wearing the wolf skins, and one of them, like, you know, roughly shoves another, and a fight almost breaks out before someone comes out and starts yelling something and, like, breaks things up.
[00:47:20] Speaker C: Howard's going to give all the information out to the people. I don't really know how to approach this.
There are far too many of them for just us to deal with.
[00:47:31] Speaker E: Well, could we just walk in and say we're here to aid in the fight, and then talk to what's his name, and then we.
Well, not jump, but, you know, I'd.
[00:47:43] Speaker D: Rather not handle this deceptively.
[00:47:48] Speaker F: Oh, no, never mind.
[00:47:50] Speaker C: Um, what was your idea? Neros.
[00:47:52] Speaker F: Nothing.
It's more fun for me.
Probably won't be helpful.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: Unless you want to have each of us take on six or more.
[00:48:04] Speaker C: Probably more.
[00:48:05] Speaker D: Perhaps I could open up diplomacy with him. I mean, it's worked in the past.
[00:48:13] Speaker C: What was your idea, Nero? A little chaos in the camp might go a long way.
[00:48:17] Speaker F: No, there's nothing. No.
[00:48:20] Speaker E: Could be a good distraction.
[00:48:22] Speaker F: No, it won't be.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: It could be fun.
[00:48:26] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh. Can we move on?
[00:48:34] Speaker D: I'm in favor of going to them and talking to them.
[00:48:40] Speaker C: If they're not amenable to diplomacy, though, they would kill us on the spot. And we would be vastly outnumbered.
We got lucky with Yova.
[00:48:50] Speaker E: It seems they have others that are not their same clan, so perhaps they'd.
[00:48:55] Speaker D: Be open to diplomacy. They've got people, other types of people.
[00:48:59] Speaker E: It does sound like they're collecting troops.
[00:49:04] Speaker C: They have chillaxians.
[00:49:06] Speaker E: That means nothing to me.
[00:49:08] Speaker C: It's where I'm from, Zafir.
[00:49:10] Speaker E: It still means nothing to me. Are they just a bunch of yous?
[00:49:13] Speaker C: It's a state. No, no, it's. They're not. That would be hilarious. Just a bunch of hours, anyway. But no, it's a. It's a. It's a continent. Country to the south of here. It's far away.
[00:49:26] Speaker D: If nobody else wants to talk to them, I could just go by myself.
[00:49:29] Speaker E: I would love to come with you. A think that we could talk things over. Potentially. And if things go bad, it would be better to have more than one person.
[00:49:39] Speaker C: Okay, let's just waltz into every other.
[00:49:43] Speaker D: Idea seems to involve lying or attacking them when they're, like, not gonna be. I don't know.
[00:49:51] Speaker F: I mean, I could always charm them.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: As you're all talking, what are your perception bonuses?
[00:49:58] Speaker C: 1215, 1113.
[00:50:02] Speaker B: All right, Ainar, you are the first to notice. Although Alward, you're shortly behind him. You guys hear the sound of horses approaching, you can quickly make out that there's three horses coming your way from the south. So they're coming, like, along the ridge of the valley towards you.
[00:50:23] Speaker C: Is the south from the camp or from the town?
[00:50:26] Speaker B: So you came from the east. So east would be town, north would be camp. These three horses are coming from south.
[00:50:33] Speaker A: Oh, I assume there's nowhere to hide.
[00:50:36] Speaker B: Oh, there's rocks, trees, bushes. It wouldn't be difficult to obscure yourselves, although it might be more challenging. Not impossible, but more challenging to obscure the horses.
[00:50:47] Speaker E: I do a little trot to the west and hide my horse. My pony.
[00:50:53] Speaker B: Okay, make a stealth check, or. Well, what's your stealth bonus rather?
[00:50:57] Speaker E: That's a great question, Jordy. It's 13.
[00:51:02] Speaker B: All right.
You and your horse go a little ways down the hill and get behind a rock and some bushes, and you feel comfortable about your obscured position.
[00:51:13] Speaker E: I kind of, uh, yell out. Not really yell, but, like, quiet yell. I go, it's coming from the south. Albert said that the Dlaxians come from the south. That's probably them.
[00:51:28] Speaker C: Do we hear them talking or is it just hoofs?
Come, come, clump.
[00:51:34] Speaker B: You do hear them talking.
[00:51:36] Speaker C: What language is it?
[00:51:37] Speaker B: Scald.
[00:51:38] Speaker C: Okay, that helps.
[00:51:40] Speaker B: All right, you heard it.
If gesture took my bed again, we're gonna have blows.
And then another voice is like, Kurt, this is the third time this week the beds are not person specific. It's first come, first serve.
[00:52:00] Speaker C: Maybe we can. Scouts getting in with these guys.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: The scouts?
[00:52:06] Speaker C: Yeah. They seem new. We could be new. I'm from Cheliax. And all of you seem to be from here.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: You haven't been around many military encampments, have you?
[00:52:17] Speaker C: No. No, I have not. All of this is new.
[00:52:22] Speaker B: What.
[00:52:22] Speaker C: What. What part of. And our. Just gestures to his, like, ruffled, like, business attire. What part of this?
I'm. It's fine.
[00:52:33] Speaker D: I. I mean, they are seemingly inviting people to their camp right now.
[00:52:42] Speaker F: You guys could hide in the forest and I'll just stand in the middle of the road.
[00:52:46] Speaker D: That sounds.
[00:52:47] Speaker C: I suck at hiding.
[00:52:49] Speaker D: Dangerous. Why would you just stand out in the middle of the road?
[00:52:51] Speaker F: That could be a distraction. And then you guys could jump them.
[00:52:54] Speaker E: Why are you all standing there?
[00:52:55] Speaker C: Hide.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: Einar just looks at Neros for a moment and just nods and gets off the road.
[00:53:03] Speaker F: Oh, okay.
[00:53:04] Speaker A: Nine.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: All right. Einar also slips behind some heavy brush and feels confident about his hiding. No, he doesn't.
[00:53:13] Speaker F: Someone take my horse.
[00:53:16] Speaker C: I'll take it.
Three.
[00:53:19] Speaker F: Oh, no.
[00:53:21] Speaker D: What's your bonus?
[00:53:23] Speaker C: That is my bonus.
[00:53:24] Speaker D: Oh, no.
[00:53:25] Speaker C: I'm bad at hiding the.
[00:53:27] Speaker F: All right, Val, just get with the plan.
[00:53:31] Speaker D: I don't like.
[00:53:31] Speaker F: Just get. Nope. Just get with the plan.
Look, you know what? This is the best option that anyone has said so far. I know agrees with it. So let's just go with it. Okay? This will be fun for me.
[00:53:45] Speaker D: Okay, have a ten.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: All right. And with that, the entire party has moved out of the ridge and obscured themselves behind foliage or rocks or the hill itself, leaving just Neros. Neros. Are you on your horse or did you send your horse with someone?
[00:54:06] Speaker F: No, I sent my horse.
[00:54:07] Speaker B: Okay, so you're just standing out in the open on that ridge by yourself.
[00:54:10] Speaker F: Yeah, I am.
[00:54:13] Speaker B: And that's where we'll end this episode.
[00:54:16] Speaker C: I'm terrified.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: Alright. And the hero point for today's episode goes to Sam with his interesting roleplay scenes between various different characters, and the revelation that he still has that amulet with him. Some interesting momentum there.
[00:54:35] Speaker D: Thanks. I'm gonna go stare like a woman who hasn't seen her husband in 84 years at Mike Wisowski.
[00:54:43] Speaker C: Can I come?
[00:54:44] Speaker D: What? I guess.
[00:54:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: And we'll see you all in the next episode.
[00:54:53] Speaker C: Join the plan or leave.
[00:54:55] Speaker E: Always watching.
[00:54:58] Speaker B: This has been an atomic broadcasting production. Pathfinder, Galarian and the Lost omens world setting are copyright of Paizo more
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[00:55:28] Speaker E: Einar is giving.
[00:55:32] Speaker A: Einar is giving Zafir a suck.
[00:55:35] Speaker F: Zafir is free.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Do you ever have a moment where you're like, there's the blooper?
No.
[00:55:44] Speaker C: I was hoping the blooper would be the last little bit of our singing.
[00:55:46] Speaker E: But whatever, that's the beginning of.
