EP. 92 Einar Tells All

[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? [00:00:35] Speaker A: Ah, yes. [00:00:37] Speaker B: Einar left in a hurry after learning of Pharasma's injunction to learn his secret. And Neros showed similar distress after learning of Farasma's wrath and of Val's betrayal of Corvus's secret. When Corvus failed to answer her call, she went to the temple of Pharasma to find answers, only to face rejection at the threshold. [00:01:05] Speaker C: So our town has like a yearly festival. [00:01:10] Speaker D: Chili cook off. [00:01:11] Speaker C: No, he. [00:01:13] Speaker E: I'm sorry, Honor. [00:01:15] Speaker C: Moses Austin, who founded the city along with a bunch of other places around there. He is dead now. Well, anyway, they put like a lot of stands and stuff. [00:01:30] Speaker E: That delivery. [00:01:31] Speaker C: Actually, fun story, fun story about him. He actually, he is buried there in town, but he has to be encased in like 5ft of concrete because people kept trying to steal his body. [00:01:42] Speaker F: Are you talking about the town you live in or. [00:01:44] Speaker C: No, this was where I grew up. [00:01:45] Speaker F: Oh, okay, okay. [00:01:46] Speaker A: I was very confused there for a moment. [00:01:48] Speaker B: So Moses Austin is a vampire? [00:01:50] Speaker C: Well, no Austin. But anyway, there was. There's. There's vendors that sell stuff. And I once got a PVC pipe marshmallow gun for me. Yeah, and that was the story. [00:02:00] Speaker D: I got a PVC marshmallow gun pipe thing at my town's chili cook off. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Does your town also have its founder encased in five feet of concrete? [00:02:11] Speaker D: I couldn't tell you. But I can tell you they have a chili cookhawk. [00:02:14] Speaker F: My town has a Scott Joplin festival. [00:02:17] Speaker E: My town is boring. [00:02:19] Speaker D: Your town doesn't have a chili cook. [00:02:20] Speaker C: Scott Joplin. Isn't that the guy who wrote the dinner Tainer? Probably Jordy. [00:02:25] Speaker D: I thought you said Scott Johnson. [00:02:27] Speaker F: Well, we also have the state several. [00:02:29] Speaker E: Events, but like Scott Johnson, you know, the inventor music. [00:02:33] Speaker F: Yeah, I wouldn't suggest going to it. [00:02:37] Speaker E: It's not okay. [00:02:38] Speaker F: All the rides are shaky in a dangerous way. [00:02:42] Speaker D: To be fair, so many towns have a chili cook off. [00:02:46] Speaker A: They do. [00:02:47] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, it was. It was in the Simpsons. Not your chili cook off. But there was an episode. [00:02:52] Speaker D: It was my chili cook off. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Actually, I have a funny story. Not about a chili cook off. [00:02:59] Speaker B: Does this mean that we canonically live in the Springfield of the Simpsons show? [00:03:03] Speaker C: Yes, because it is generic enough to be any Springfield. [00:03:06] Speaker D: Does Springfield have a chili cocoa? [00:03:09] Speaker C: According to that one episode. [00:03:11] Speaker A: You know, I'm sure, somewhere it does. [00:03:14] Speaker C: What was your story? Was it about chili? [00:03:16] Speaker A: No, I said that I literally. I have a story, but not about chili. [00:03:22] Speaker B: We don't want to hear it. [00:03:24] Speaker E: This is only for chili stories. [00:03:26] Speaker D: I don't even like chili, but I stand by the chili story facts. [00:03:30] Speaker A: No, it's apple butter making days. [00:03:33] Speaker E: Oh, yes, I know where those are and it is fantastic. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Aren't they? [00:03:37] Speaker E: Yes. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Anyway, so at Apple butter making Days, growing up, whenever we used to go there, we would. [00:03:45] Speaker C: That's so cumbersome. They should change it. [00:03:46] Speaker E: Apple butter making days. [00:03:48] Speaker D: They really should change it. [00:03:49] Speaker C: Abmd. [00:03:50] Speaker A: I love it. It's beautiful. [00:03:51] Speaker E: Apple butter making days. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Apple butter making days. Apple butter making days. I got the apple butter. Anyway, continuing on with the story, we used to get the apple cider. I almost said apple butter apple cider from the boy Scouts. The boy Scouts used to have a booth there and get. Have really, really good apple cider. Well, I was 11 and my parents said, hey, go pick up a couple gallons of apple cider. So I went over there and I grabbed a couple gallons and as I'm walking away, I proceeded. A gentleman proceeded to the length of the distance from between the booth to my folks. Tell me how to make hard apple cider. Gave me the recipe. What kind of. [00:04:34] Speaker F: And you were 11. [00:04:35] Speaker A: I was 11. And you got. I looked like I was 11. [00:04:39] Speaker C: The important question is, do you still remember? [00:04:42] Speaker A: I do. Because it is such. [00:04:44] Speaker C: It is such an impact on your life. [00:04:47] Speaker A: It is such a vivid memory. I remember how to make hard apple cider. [00:04:51] Speaker D: He was giving you his f. He was the last of his kind and was giving you his family recipe for you to continue on. You've done nothing with. [00:05:00] Speaker C: He probably doesn't exist anymore. He got mostly. [00:05:01] Speaker A: I was very confused. I'm like, do I look like I can drink, sir? [00:05:05] Speaker D: Did you remember he got buried in six feet of concrete? [00:05:09] Speaker F: Can you go make some? [00:05:10] Speaker A: I could. [00:05:11] Speaker E: He's an. [00:05:12] Speaker A: I'm not going to. [00:05:12] Speaker E: So this guy is an advocate of underage drinking. [00:05:15] Speaker F: Did you make an alcohol free version for me? [00:05:17] Speaker D: You mean apple cider? [00:05:18] Speaker E: Can I make apple cider? [00:05:19] Speaker A: Yeah, can I make apple cider? [00:05:22] Speaker F: Wait, I thought this was apple butter. [00:05:24] Speaker A: No, alcoholic apple butter, hard apples. [00:05:29] Speaker E: At the beginning of the story, he said apple cider. [00:05:33] Speaker F: Okay, so no, wait, you didn't listen. That's what I'm hearing. [00:05:37] Speaker D: If you didn't listen, Sam never listens canonically. [00:05:40] Speaker F: I stopped listening. No, I heard him say. Say that part. I thought he said he went to go get apple cider and met this guy who told him how to make apple butter. [00:05:52] Speaker B: No. [00:05:53] Speaker F: Then I was like, can you just make me non alcoholic apple butter? Because I didn't know apple butter was alcoholic. [00:06:00] Speaker C: In all fairness, they do have like. [00:06:02] Speaker F: What did you have? Apple cider. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Alcohol cider. [00:06:06] Speaker F: What was it called? [00:06:07] Speaker A: Hard apple cider. That's what he told me. [00:06:10] Speaker D: It's what it. It is what it's called. [00:06:12] Speaker F: I think that's stupid. Putting hard in front of something to mean it's alcoholic. [00:06:18] Speaker E: The moral of the story is Sam doesn't listen. [00:06:21] Speaker D: Canonical. It's what we use. [00:06:22] Speaker A: Listen. [00:06:22] Speaker F: Usually I do, but Claude asked me about Sentinel Times. [00:06:25] Speaker C: Well, that brings a good. That brings a good question. Is a soft drink just a non alcoholic soda? [00:06:30] Speaker E: Yes. [00:06:31] Speaker A: Yes. [00:06:31] Speaker D: That's why it's a soft drink. [00:06:33] Speaker C: So there you go. [00:06:34] Speaker F: That makes new people keep jumping to conclusions. [00:06:38] Speaker C: I can't jump. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Speaking of jumping, let's go ahead and jump into today's episode. [00:06:44] Speaker C: Hey, I need a tally mark for every time you jump off of me. Not physically. [00:06:49] Speaker B: We get to the end and there's like a trophy for the number. The highest number of times I transitioned off of what you said. [00:06:57] Speaker F: We call Michael Bazeet the diving board. Cause we all jump off of him. Dab. [00:07:04] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:07:06] Speaker B: I'd like you all to imagine. [00:07:09] Speaker A: No. [00:07:12] Speaker B: I would like you all to construct a scene visually or auditorially or in any way. [00:07:18] Speaker C: Give you some crayons. [00:07:19] Speaker E: You can picture him, a method actor over here. [00:07:21] Speaker F: Interpretive dance, whatever needs to give him a whiteboard. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Imagine apple butter making days. [00:07:28] Speaker D: I don't know what that is. [00:07:30] Speaker E: You're lost. [00:07:31] Speaker F: You need to narrate and describe the. [00:07:33] Speaker B: Entire process, except it's completely different. People are lined up down the streets. It's really more of a parade than it is in Apple butter making days because everybody is gathered along the sides of the road as there is a detachment of military troops riding on their groomed and decked out horses. And some of them marching. And in the center of all of this busyness is a tall bearded man. And he's just waving at the crowds left and right as he goes down the streets. They're throw in flower petals and such. And one person standing by, clearly a foreigner, is just like, who is that? And somebody says, that's the king Ostog the Unslain. He's heading out of town today on a military expedition. Somebody else is like, yes. We thought we'd have a bit of exposition in this opening of this episode. Just to let you know there's been Rumors of a dragon sighted on the north of town. And the king is on his way out to protect us all. [00:08:45] Speaker F: Hurrah. [00:08:51] Speaker A: No, that's where the dragon's at. [00:08:55] Speaker F: Execute that man. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Now they just start throwing fruit at him. Flowers for the king. Fruit for the boo man. [00:09:03] Speaker C: Boom. [00:09:04] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:09:05] Speaker C: I was hungry and needed fruit. Thank you so much. [00:09:08] Speaker B: Although, what we do notice, in the background of all of this excitement and frivolity, we see a figure who's probably not paying as much attention to what's going on as she does seem a little bit concerned with her own problems at the moment. [00:09:29] Speaker E: Why are you looking at me? [00:09:31] Speaker B: Neros, this is what you encounter as you're leaving the temple, as you're heading back to the main thoroughfare. You're seeing this whole parade going through town as the king is heading out through the highgate. [00:09:45] Speaker E: Okay, I don't pay attention to it. [00:09:50] Speaker B: As you're walking along, kind of just avoiding the hubbub of the main thoroughfare. Make a perception check. [00:09:57] Speaker E: Oh, okay. What if I say no? [00:10:01] Speaker B: You could just choose to fail. [00:10:05] Speaker E: 29. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Ah, with a 29. You do hear Einar coming up behind you. [00:10:12] Speaker A: I turn around and he suddenly looks down. Neros, what's up with the parade? [00:10:23] Speaker E: I don't know. Why are you following me? [00:10:27] Speaker A: I wasn't. I was lost in thought. [00:10:32] Speaker D: What? [00:10:32] Speaker A: What? And he looks at you. You still look upset, don't you? [00:10:38] Speaker E: Oh, yes, I'm angry. [00:10:43] Speaker A: What's wrong with you? [00:10:45] Speaker E: I'm an abomination to nature, according to Pharasma. [00:10:52] Speaker A: What? [00:10:53] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:10:54] Speaker A: How you talk to Pharasma? [00:10:57] Speaker E: No, Val did. She dragged me into it. So the goddess that I worship hates me. Isn't that fun? And she probably got someone killed for it. It's fine. [00:11:15] Speaker A: It's alright. [00:11:17] Speaker E: It's fine. [00:11:17] Speaker A: Apparently, some people are messing with the world in ways they shouldn't. [00:11:27] Speaker E: You mean like Al would? [00:11:28] Speaker A: I guess. Suppose he'd be one of them. I guess we're both contrary to nature. [00:11:40] Speaker E: What? The two of us. How are you contrary to nature? What did you do? Other than, you know, knowing things you shouldn't. [00:11:52] Speaker A: He regards you for a moment and then looks above you out at the parade. I suppose it is time I tell you all, but Nero's. [00:12:11] Speaker E: What? [00:12:13] Speaker A: Gold or not, they're not always right. [00:12:18] Speaker E: Okay. [00:12:20] Speaker A: And remember, Viola's young, but she means well. [00:12:27] Speaker E: Yeah, she could have handled it a little more tactfully instead of just, you know, spouting off information like it was just another day. [00:12:35] Speaker A: But I'm glad you're here. [00:12:38] Speaker E: Well, that makes One of us. So you're spilling secrets. When are we heading back then? [00:12:46] Speaker A: Do you need to talk? [00:12:48] Speaker E: No, no, it's fine. Guess we'll deal with it when we deal with it. Corvus may be dead and my goddess doesn't like me existing, but you know, it's fine. [00:13:07] Speaker A: He just hugs you. [00:13:09] Speaker E: Oh. Oh, right. She does like the awkward, like, there, there, pat on your back. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Don't leave. [00:13:20] Speaker E: O. [00:13:21] Speaker C: Okay. [00:13:22] Speaker E: I know. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Don't leave. [00:13:25] Speaker E: Okay. And she like pushes herself away from you. Are you alright? You're not the huggy type. [00:13:39] Speaker A: Have everybody meet at the hideout at in the evening. [00:13:44] Speaker E: Okay. I have no idea where everyone is, so that'll be difficult. I'm just gonna hope everyone makes it back then. [00:13:51] Speaker A: You'll be sure you'll be there? [00:13:52] Speaker E: I'll be there. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Good. And he walks off quickly. [00:14:00] Speaker E: That was awkward. And Nerys will make her way back to the apartment. [00:14:09] Speaker B: As you return to the apartment, you see Kelleg Anders, the landlord that Alward has been renting from, heading out at the front door and he's got a basket on his arm and he just goes, oh, I was just out to do some shopping. I'll be back. Your friend's inside. [00:14:30] Speaker E: Which friend? [00:14:31] Speaker B: The short one. [00:14:33] Speaker E: Oh, Zephyr. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Okay, that's not insensitive, is it? [00:14:38] Speaker E: I mean, we call him short. [00:14:40] Speaker D: Okay. [00:14:41] Speaker B: I wasn't sure if. I wasn't sure if you were the tall one. I mean. [00:14:45] Speaker E: I'm not tall. I am average height. We have another one that's much taller. [00:14:51] Speaker B: I mean, I just. I mean, I'm gonna stop talking. [00:14:55] Speaker E: Okay. You're gonna dig yourself a hole and. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Nope, I'm gonna go buy some vegetables. [00:15:01] Speaker E: That's not what I was telling. Okay. [00:15:03] Speaker B: And with that, he walks down the road. [00:15:06] Speaker E: I'm gonna go to the inside. [00:15:10] Speaker C: So as you enter, you can just hear Zafir quietly talking in what was known as Elina's room. Previously. You can just hear him kind of mumbling. Nothing's really audible. He doesn't realize that you're there. [00:15:28] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm just going to ignore you probably and then go upstairs to be by myself. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Are you going up to the third floor? We'll just keep making this place bigger. [00:15:38] Speaker C: So here's a headcanon. The landlord decided that we needed more space, so he knocked a hole between two apartments and added some stairs. [00:15:46] Speaker E: Exactly. [00:15:47] Speaker F: Albert's family is very well taken care of. [00:15:49] Speaker D: So it started off as a one floor apartment. It now has a basement and is a townhouse. Has a second story and now a third Story. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Yes, the third story is new. [00:16:03] Speaker E: I'm gonna go up to the third story. [00:16:06] Speaker A: Freshly built. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Fresh paint. [00:16:07] Speaker F: There's a lot of stories we can tell about this place. [00:16:09] Speaker A: A little bit of sawdust in here. [00:16:10] Speaker C: The fun part is the basement didn't actually exist exist until after they built it. So he had to dig underneath it. [00:16:16] Speaker E: Still smells like new construction up there. [00:16:20] Speaker B: As Neros goes up the stairs into the apartment, we'll cut to the outside and we see the sun high in the sky. And then we do that classic movie thing of just the crossfade to. It's now near sunset and it's starting to just get on towards twilight. As agreed on, everyone has made it back to the headquarters so far, except Einar, who hasn't made it back just yet. [00:16:47] Speaker A: As everybody's gathered inside the apartment, either around the table or in the rooms from the courtyard. Because we have a courtyard now. [00:17:01] Speaker B: Jenkins is in pain. [00:17:04] Speaker C: Hey, if that one inn where the ferry was can do it, we can do it. Just keep expanding. [00:17:12] Speaker D: Supposed to be a rustic, tiny little apartment. [00:17:14] Speaker E: It is. [00:17:15] Speaker C: It was. [00:17:16] Speaker E: The first floor is. [00:17:18] Speaker B: It's really. [00:17:24] Speaker A: From the courtyard, everybody will probably just start hearing whirring and a rhythmic sunk. As if someone is chopping wood. [00:17:39] Speaker F: He's a robot. [00:17:40] Speaker B: What's the whirring sound? [00:17:42] Speaker D: Okay, I'm glad I was the only confused. [00:17:46] Speaker B: I thought I was supposed to know what the whirring was from the chopping wood part. [00:17:50] Speaker A: Nope. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Okay, so the thunk is from the wood, the whirring is unexplained. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:54] Speaker F: Okay, Val, go to the window and look outside. [00:17:59] Speaker A: You see Einar practicing a peculiar type of swordsmanship. [00:18:07] Speaker F: Peculiar type of swordsmanship? You just swinging it around. [00:18:12] Speaker A: I'll explain when everybody gets out. [00:18:14] Speaker F: Okay. It looks like Einar is just outside swinging, doing his stuff. Sword stuff. [00:18:21] Speaker D: Should we leave him be? [00:18:23] Speaker F: Look out the window again? We could probably go check in on him. [00:18:28] Speaker D: Should we get everybody? Yes, I'll go get Zafir. I'm gonna walk off and go into what used to be Lina's room. [00:18:38] Speaker A: I'm gonna roll perception to see if I notice you looking out the window. That's a 19 plus 17, so. Yes. [00:18:46] Speaker F: She's not being very subtle about it. [00:18:49] Speaker A: He pauses and looks over and you see him think for a moment and then he just gestures for. [00:18:58] Speaker F: Oh. I wave, he waves back. Yeah, we should go down to him. [00:19:05] Speaker D: I'm dragging Zafir with a mage hand behind me. [00:19:08] Speaker C: Am I that light? [00:19:10] Speaker D: No. [00:19:11] Speaker F: But yes, you're here in the back room. Still upstairs. [00:19:16] Speaker E: I'm Upstairs. [00:19:18] Speaker F: I'm tempted to start throwing rocks up at the window, but I think I'll go upstairs and knock on the door. Val, we'll just head outside and hop upstairs real quick. Jumping over a couple steps, head outside. [00:19:31] Speaker E: And then go upstairs. [00:19:33] Speaker F: I thought that's what happened before. I thought they were outside stairs. [00:19:37] Speaker D: No, there are now. There's an inside set and an outside set. [00:19:42] Speaker A: It's a double decker deck. [00:19:44] Speaker E: The outside set. [00:19:46] Speaker F: I swear last session, someone stormed out of the room and then went up the stairs. Like outside. [00:19:51] Speaker B: I think there's a staircase inside and there's also one outside. So it's like it's one of those multi level apartments. [00:19:56] Speaker F: I'm going up the deck, the staircase up to the second story deck, and then I'm knocking on the glass door. [00:20:01] Speaker D: I'll go up to the third story. [00:20:02] Speaker F: Then I'll go up to the third story and knock on the sliding glass door. [00:20:07] Speaker D: Why is there. Welcome to fantasy Nordic Land. We have all of your modern comforts such as plumbing and sliding glass doors. [00:20:20] Speaker A: If you are an architect, please, I just want. When we're done design this out. [00:20:26] Speaker D: I might do it for. [00:20:28] Speaker B: I wasn't ever expecting to want fan art of an apartment. [00:20:31] Speaker C: I think it's less of fan art and more. Just explain this, please. [00:20:35] Speaker E: So you have knocked on the door? [00:20:36] Speaker F: Yes. [00:20:37] Speaker E: Okay. Go away. [00:20:41] Speaker F: Inars here to talk to us. [00:20:44] Speaker E: Okay. Go away. [00:20:48] Speaker F: Okay. Are you gonna come? [00:20:50] Speaker E: Yes. Go away. [00:20:51] Speaker F: Okay. And then I'll go down the stairs. Not jumping multiple steps because now I'm sad. [00:20:58] Speaker E: I go down the stairs that are inside. [00:21:01] Speaker F: That's smart. [00:21:02] Speaker A: As you all make your way to the courtyard, Einar has gone back to practicing his swordsmanship. But there's a couple things different. One, you've never seen him really do any forms whatsoever. You know he's a warrior and skilled, but you've never seen him practice as everyone's been traveling and whatnot. He's always had the cloak. He always wears fur lined and heavy with a special clasp. Now he just has a tunic. The swordsmanship, as you guys watch it, at first you might be confused because it almost seems as if as he swings to the test dummy, it hits when it's not close enough to paint a mental picture. If you've ever seen the wobbly pencil trick, right? His sword almost looks like that where it weaves and seems to curve and to reach out and strike in unnatural ways. Finally, with one last strike, embedding the sword and what's left of the dummy, he turns and looks at all of you. In the light of the lamps from the house. [00:22:30] Speaker C: Since when do you practice? [00:22:33] Speaker A: I think all of them need a roll. Perception. [00:22:36] Speaker E: Okay. 24. [00:22:43] Speaker C: Oh, good. [00:22:44] Speaker F: 26. [00:22:46] Speaker D: Sven, before I say what I get, because I have to choose this before I announce it. How funny would it be if. If I critically failed this? [00:22:54] Speaker B: You would be. [00:22:55] Speaker D: Would it be better if I didn't critically fail this, Jordy? [00:23:00] Speaker B: Either of those would be awesome. [00:23:03] Speaker D: Because right now I can use my time shenanigans to try and not critically fail this. [00:23:09] Speaker F: Then we get attacked by some. [00:23:10] Speaker D: Or I critically fail this. [00:23:12] Speaker B: This would be really funny for Albert to critically fail. [00:23:15] Speaker A: This would be. [00:23:16] Speaker D: I'm gonna critically fail. I rolled a one for a total of 16. [00:23:27] Speaker C: I rolled an unnatural 20. [00:23:30] Speaker B: So then that would be a success for Neros and for Val and a critical failure for Alward. [00:23:37] Speaker C: What about me? [00:23:38] Speaker B: A regular failure. [00:23:40] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:23:41] Speaker B: You critically succeeded. So what do Neros and Val recognize in your swordsmanship, Sven? [00:23:51] Speaker A: Neros would notice it probably. It looks a lot like whenever she slaps out with her tentacles. [00:24:04] Speaker E: What? [00:24:05] Speaker F: What? [00:24:08] Speaker E: I'm confused. [00:24:09] Speaker A: How it curves, how it seems to have a natural reach. [00:24:12] Speaker C: His sword is a tentacle. [00:24:14] Speaker E: Oh, okay. [00:24:14] Speaker F: It's wiggly, like a tentacle. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Another thing that they would notice are his tattoos. [00:24:22] Speaker F: Oh, my goodness. [00:24:24] Speaker D: Not again. [00:24:26] Speaker A: They aren't runes. They could potentially recognize what they are. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Though I think with the success on that check, they would. [00:24:34] Speaker A: You've seen them before. [00:24:37] Speaker F: Oh, wow. [00:24:39] Speaker A: They look like Alwards. [00:24:41] Speaker D: I have tattoos. [00:24:44] Speaker A: You have gems. [00:24:46] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:24:47] Speaker F: They're tattoos that look like gems. Like Alward's gems. [00:24:50] Speaker A: Mm. [00:24:51] Speaker D: I was very confused. I was like, I didn't realize I had tattoos. [00:24:55] Speaker A: They look like Alward's aphrite gemstones, but. And tattoos. [00:25:03] Speaker E: Okay. [00:25:05] Speaker F: Are they, like, really small or hard to notice or. [00:25:08] Speaker A: You only notice them because he is essentially wearing a short sleeve T shirt. [00:25:14] Speaker F: Okay, so they're on your arms. [00:25:16] Speaker A: On his arms. Up his neck, too. [00:25:18] Speaker F: Oh, okay. So presumably under your shirt, you're covered in these. [00:25:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:22] Speaker F: Okay. Okay. [00:25:23] Speaker A: Similar to our. [00:25:26] Speaker D: Mine are, like, freckles all over. [00:25:29] Speaker F: That's some. Some fancy stuff there, Einar. [00:25:34] Speaker A: I developed it. [00:25:37] Speaker C: Is it a rash? [00:25:40] Speaker D: You failed. [00:25:41] Speaker F: You don't see anything about the swords? Oh, the sword fighting, the fact that his sword is hitting the dummy without hitting the dummy. [00:25:50] Speaker C: I get what you look like. I'm not, like, noticing. Sensing that it's the specific things. Yeah, I mean, like, I'm not, like, I failed, so I can't perceive you. [00:26:00] Speaker D: Where did Einar go? [00:26:03] Speaker A: I developed it by inspiration. Not really useful in real Combat. But it just helps me with remembering a. [00:26:18] Speaker F: Sort of like a meditative thing. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Yeah, okay. Sort of. Let's calm down to it. I'm. I'm not sure how to start. I don't. I don't know how to actually face you all again. [00:26:44] Speaker E: Again. [00:26:45] Speaker F: Did you. Did you do something, Einar? [00:26:50] Speaker A: Let me start from the beginning. I'm not from here. [00:27:03] Speaker E: From Joel. [00:27:05] Speaker D: No, he's. He's definitely from around here. [00:27:07] Speaker A: But no, I'm. I'm. I'm from. Just. I'm not from this time. [00:27:17] Speaker C: Time. Time. [00:27:21] Speaker F: Zafir. Zafir. Zephyr. It's okay. [00:27:23] Speaker A: He said it. [00:27:23] Speaker F: No, it's all right. [00:27:24] Speaker C: I knew it from the moment I saw him. [00:27:26] Speaker A: It's all right. Zephyr. [00:27:27] Speaker C: What do you mean, I knew it? [00:27:31] Speaker A: I suppose it would make sense that you would be the one to notice at first. I don't know quite how to handle you. [00:27:40] Speaker E: Which one are you talking to? [00:27:41] Speaker A: Zephir. [00:27:42] Speaker C: Oh. Not many people do. [00:27:46] Speaker A: I had a pretty good idea of how to play it off for everyone else. [00:27:53] Speaker C: Everybody knows that I'm an excellent spot of character. [00:27:59] Speaker A: You all. In a good way. [00:28:03] Speaker C: Speechless. [00:28:06] Speaker A: From my time. You all lost. The Eridsons won. [00:28:17] Speaker F: So they are doing really bad things. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Yes, Val. And it was terrible. [00:28:26] Speaker D: Alward kind of looks a little panicked when you bring that. What war were you a part of again? [00:28:33] Speaker A: I don't have a name for it, because to me, it wasn't a war. It was more the war, if you can call it that. It was more of a fight of the inevitable. And I was born into it. [00:28:52] Speaker C: So if we failed, does that mean we died? [00:28:57] Speaker A: I knew most of you growing up. You all continued fighting. I didn't know you. Zafia. I don't know. They never said. [00:29:18] Speaker C: Well, was this later, like, like after now? Or, like, was this. [00:29:24] Speaker A: I don't. I don't know. I don't. I didn't know anything other, other than what was in. [00:29:33] Speaker C: Well, it was a different time, so maybe. Maybe something else happened. [00:29:38] Speaker A: I wish I knew. I wish they would have told me. They. They only said that you would be here. And. [00:29:45] Speaker C: And so they knew me? [00:29:48] Speaker A: Yes. [00:29:48] Speaker D: I mean, they were us. So. [00:29:51] Speaker F: We told you we would all be here. We sent you back in time. [00:29:57] Speaker A: No, no, no. [00:29:59] Speaker F: A different day. [00:30:01] Speaker A: This is also confusing. [00:30:03] Speaker D: How old are you again, Einar? [00:30:05] Speaker A: I'm 33. [00:30:07] Speaker D: What year were you born? [00:30:10] Speaker A: 4740. [00:30:14] Speaker D: In 20 years, you're born. 30 years later, you're sent back. [00:30:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:22] Speaker C: That would be awful. You'd be going through the same time Period. Like your whole life would take place in, like, 40 years. [00:30:32] Speaker D: At least he can't run into himself. [00:30:34] Speaker C: Well, he might. [00:30:35] Speaker F: Well, he's changing time. [00:30:37] Speaker C: What if he's his own grandfather? [00:30:40] Speaker A: I volunteered because in the end, there wasn't any choice. [00:30:48] Speaker E: Okay, but who sent you back? [00:30:51] Speaker A: He did. And he stares at Alward. [00:30:57] Speaker D: I can't. That doesn't make sense. [00:31:01] Speaker A: You now can't do it. [00:31:03] Speaker D: Well, I. I mean. I mean, I can't affect. Howard sort of just goes quiet and, like, fidgets while he thinks. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Only it doesn't matter, to be fair. What's done is done. [00:31:22] Speaker C: To be fair, you didn't think that you could put me into your head and do one of those fight thingies, but we did that. [00:31:32] Speaker D: That is fully different. So it was just Zephia who was missing. [00:31:39] Speaker A: Einar turns away. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Alward, make an occultism check. [00:31:46] Speaker D: Finally, something I'm okay at. I used my time ability for that, and my first roll was a four. So I was like, I'm gonna use my time ability. [00:32:03] Speaker F: It'll give me a appropriate time to use. [00:32:05] Speaker D: I think now is a very appropriate time to use time abilities. Thank you. I got a four. And I was like, I'll reroll, see what I get, because it gives me a plus one. I got a four. So with a plus one, my total is 24 with an expert in occultism. [00:32:22] Speaker B: So, interestingly, the result of your check is not high enough to succeed on what I was asking about. But what you did on your check with your time ability will actually give you the insight you were rolling for. [00:32:35] Speaker D: Oh, fun. Ooh, screw you, Sam. [00:32:40] Speaker B: You ask if anybody else you know, you're asking, was Zafir the only one missing? Einar just turns away without answering. And you start trying to, like, figure out, you know, like, what ramifications this could have. How does this all fit into your understanding of time and timelines and things like that? And it's not coming to you. So you. You do what you've done so many times before and practiced, and you're backing up into manipulating the timelines, manipulating those golden threads. And as you start very carefully moving through those golden threads, trying to take care not to get any of them tangled with each other. You're not able to find a timeline that gives you that insight you were looking for. But as you're working with those threads, the thought just suddenly occurs to you, if another thread further down the line were to get tangled in with these too much, then the tapestry itself would just become a snarled ball of yarn. In other Words. In some cases, ignorance. It might not be bliss, but it might be safety. So said more plainly, the insight you're getting from manipulating through time and such is realizing maybe the reason he's not answering this question is because I shouldn't know the answer. [00:33:56] Speaker A: Ah. [00:33:56] Speaker D: Got it. Thank you. We're gonna meet a child in, like, 20 years. [00:34:03] Speaker C: Not me. [00:34:04] Speaker D: But, I mean, you're here now, so don't leave. [00:34:08] Speaker F: Well, things are already different. I mean, Einar's been here and has helped save us from a couple of. [00:34:12] Speaker D: Things we don't technically know. If he didn't do that before, it. [00:34:17] Speaker C: May just be in a time loop. [00:34:19] Speaker A: No, I wasn't here before. [00:34:22] Speaker C: They probably wouldn't have told you if you were. That would have just confused everything. [00:34:27] Speaker A: I know I wasn't here before. That's the point. This time here is when you all failed. I don't know exactly what it was. Stay. You didn't know what it was. I. I'll know when it's done, though. [00:34:58] Speaker C: But not before? [00:35:00] Speaker A: No. [00:35:01] Speaker C: Well, that's no help at all. If you don't get it done before it's done, then what do you want? To change it. [00:35:06] Speaker D: And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it means he'll cease to exist in our timeline. [00:35:12] Speaker C: That doesn't make sense to me. [00:35:14] Speaker D: Okay, so if. If I sent him back, still reeling about that, but if I sent him back to fix something and he fixes it, then there would be nothing for me to. Nothing for me to send him back to fix. [00:35:31] Speaker F: But if things are changing all the time. Time. Because he's already here, so things aren't the same, so wouldn't that. [00:35:38] Speaker A: But the point that sets you all down, this path hasn't been changed. He's right. I'm here on borrowed time. [00:35:52] Speaker F: Is there anyone else, or is it just you? [00:35:58] Speaker A: I was the only one left. [00:36:00] Speaker E: Okay, what does that mean? [00:36:04] Speaker A: Means you all died. One by one. [00:36:08] Speaker C: Apparently. Me first. [00:36:11] Speaker E: Okay. [00:36:13] Speaker A: It didn't matter how hard we fought. How hard I fought. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Could I get everyone's perception bonuses? [00:36:22] Speaker C: 14, 16. [00:36:25] Speaker D: 14, 15. [00:36:29] Speaker B: All right. Thank you. Proceed. [00:36:32] Speaker F: So, but for asthma, it said something about someone I trust or don't trust, that I, friend or not friend. He's messing with the fate and future. Is that you? Is that our. Is that that other Al word? Because it didn't seem like she was very. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Perhaps it was me. I'm here to change the fate, in a way. I know you all don't trust me. I won't lie to say that that doesn't hurt. Not that it's your fault. [00:37:13] Speaker D: It's presumptuous. I'm sorry if we made you feel like we don't trust you, but. [00:37:20] Speaker A: Well, why would you? [00:37:21] Speaker E: I mean, I haven't. [00:37:22] Speaker D: I mean that's fair. Apparently he's been talking weird things to you. [00:37:26] Speaker E: But he said a lot to me and I don't know why me. [00:37:33] Speaker A: I'm sorry. Nero's I started fighting in this war when I was 13. That's when I killed my first man. We were running, trying to escape. Our had said we had to run. We had to leave the town. They were trying to catch us. They grabbed mum, they grabbed Grandmom. I shouted for them to stop, to let us go. And I picked up my father's sword and ran them through. I didn't know what I was doing. You were the only one that could help comfort me. [00:38:30] Speaker E: That doesn't seem like me. How? I mean that's confusing. [00:38:35] Speaker F: You helped comfort me many times. [00:38:37] Speaker E: By offering you alcohol? [00:38:39] Speaker F: Well, that is a little different. [00:38:41] Speaker A: You were more grown up then. [00:38:46] Speaker E: Okay. [00:38:47] Speaker A: But you knew what it meant to be in a situation you didn't want to be in. To be different from everyone else. I wasn't a kid anymore even when we got away. And I wasn't me anymore. All of you were my family. You in Points of Vow gave me this and what is it? It's a brooch of shielding and you see it's been some of it's been used the cloak and he gestures to the cloak was the last gift from my mother before I came here. That any points next to it and you see that stein that was from you. And now when you look at it you realize it looks exactly like your bottomless style. Perhaps a little more worn but it is the exact same one. [00:40:06] Speaker D: That tracks so it also has witch's brew. [00:40:10] Speaker A: Yes. Yes I have played it. It has always had witch's brew. [00:40:14] Speaker D: Love that. [00:40:16] Speaker A: And that pointing it outward. This Aeon stone was from you. [00:40:24] Speaker D: Not in character Question what kind of Aeon stone? [00:40:27] Speaker A: It heals me. It's a pearly white one. [00:40:30] Speaker D: I love that one. [00:40:31] Speaker A: So good you gave me that many years before. I'm here to correct the past. At least that's what I was told to be here for. What I'm really here for is to save all of you. [00:40:54] Speaker F: But what if we're not meant to be saved? Pharasma seemed pretty upset when she rapped that someone was trying to change the fate and destinies. [00:41:07] Speaker A: Pharasma? I don't fear Pharasma she has nothing on me. And to be perfectly frank, she deserves nothing. And he glances at Neros. [00:41:26] Speaker E: Neros just looks at you a little confused. [00:41:30] Speaker A: Not your consideration. Not even her worship phrasma can be wrong. [00:41:41] Speaker F: Or we just don't understand it. [00:41:45] Speaker A: You said that. You always did say that. Up to the day you didn't come back. [00:41:56] Speaker F: Well, I don't know. I mean, fate is fate. I don't. Like I. I said, all I heard from her is that she seemed upset about it. It doesn't mean that she's against it. Perhaps I can do some more praying. This could be part of it. You coming back could be part of our fate. [00:42:20] Speaker A: I don't know if it's right either. If I'm perfectly honest. [00:42:26] Speaker C: Fate is a fickle thing. My mom used to tell me a story about a leaf in the river. It would go down until it met a fork in the river. And it would go down one direction. Turns out that part of the river would just meet back to the earliest part that it came from. And it would just keep doing that until one day it went to a separate branch. I always thought that story was about forging my own way and making my own decisions. But hearing you talk and vow your worries about this, what's going to happen. It sounds like that story may be more about making the right decision to go a different path than we had before. And it doesn't matter how many times this has happened if it has. But maybe. Maybe you can actually change things. I know. Whether or not Farasma likes it. [00:43:41] Speaker F: Well, I mean, Pharasma knows as well as we all do that fate is not currently set right now since Aroden's death. So we don't know what the future holds except for what it is right now. [00:43:56] Speaker A: I know as long as I'm still here, the future hasn't changed. [00:44:03] Speaker C: So we're still halfway down that stream. And who knows, it could branch after that second branch. [00:44:11] Speaker F: So what did you know about Ylva? When. When we were fighting with her and she's trying to convince us to take on the troll. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Not the first time I fought a troll. They succeeded. Yolva did. And bring in the army. [00:44:33] Speaker F: Oh, okay. [00:44:36] Speaker A: I know of the Eridsons. Obviously different now than they will be would be. I thought that I would just help you all take them down individually. I thought maybe when we stopped Yulva and we prevented the troll army, that that was it. Or when we stopped the wolf skins warriors that now they didn't have the power to. To enact their plans. But. [00:45:07] Speaker C: But you would know if all of this happened before, if. If they went down or not. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Things aren't the same. I. I wasn't told everything. I wasn't. I was told I couldn't know everything. I was told I couldn't tell you anything. That's why I was so secretive that it would break the timeline irreparably. Apparently, that was wrong. Or the damage is already done. [00:45:41] Speaker C: You said you were here on borrowed time. Now, it said something about you disappearing. You're not gone yet. You're still here, fighting our fight. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Now, when I said I gave up everything, I did. If I succeed, there is no more me. I will cease to be. [00:46:08] Speaker D: Our. Just looks like he's come out of, like, a deep thought. It's a little you with how I understand everything. There's probably no fixing where you came from. But there might be able to fix this. Let me show you. And then I'm going to cast time sense a few times and sort of pluck a thread out of the air and sort of hang it there. And visually, the thread seems to be forming out of, like, a million tiny spindlets constantly in a thing. So this here is the moment being created. This is the moment, and this is all of the moments past. And I'm sort of pointing at the thread so I can't tug. That way I can't see what's going to come more than a few threads ahead of me. So what you're saying is, is another me has another thread that they can pull on and it meets up with mine somewhere. Does that make sense? [00:47:27] Speaker A: He reaches out and snips one of the feature threads. [00:47:33] Speaker D: It's just a visual. [00:47:35] Speaker A: And you see it fall away. [00:47:38] Speaker D: Apparently, it's not a visual. How did you do that? [00:47:42] Speaker A: That's what I want to do as it dissipates is eliminate a possibility. [00:47:52] Speaker C: He wants to dam up the river to make the leaf go the other way. [00:47:57] Speaker D: Yeah. And then I'm going to sort of wave my hand and it disappears. [00:48:02] Speaker A: I tried to understand when you explained it then. I don't. I don't know how you did it. I know that you were significantly more powerful than you are now. [00:48:17] Speaker D: I mean, that makes sense. It's 40. [00:48:24] Speaker A: And you were willing to try more reckless things after what? [00:48:30] Speaker D: How would you know? Because you're not. If I sent you after. [00:48:33] Speaker A: But she died. [00:48:37] Speaker D: I don't want to know who. [00:48:40] Speaker A: You know who. [00:48:40] Speaker B: No. [00:48:41] Speaker D: I'm gonna assume you're talking about Val. It's fine. No, I'm sorry. You die. Val. [00:48:46] Speaker F: That's okay. It's gonna happen to all of us eventually. [00:48:49] Speaker A: After your mother died. [00:48:51] Speaker D: No, it's. She. She won't die for another 400 years. It's fine. [00:48:57] Speaker A: You couldn't get the medicine? [00:48:59] Speaker D: No, it's. It's Hef. No, it's. Why are you allowed to tell me about this? [00:49:06] Speaker A: Because it's your fault that I'm here. [00:49:09] Speaker D: But then tell me when the war starts. Tell me to. Tell me what happens to Val. Tell me what happens. It's my fault they all die. No, I know they're going to die. But according to you, Neros lives to be 60. Val lives to be around that age, too. And we don't know about Zofia. I'm sorry. Zofia. [00:49:36] Speaker A: On the run. Constantly fighting, trying to turn the tide. Withered, gray, Defeated. Hopeless. [00:49:53] Speaker D: I'm going to go to bed now. And Alward's visibly shaking. And he's just going to walk off to whatever floor his room is on in this eldritch abomination of an apartment. [00:50:14] Speaker F: The first floor, obviously. [00:50:16] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Now you all know. [00:50:21] Speaker F: So if what we're about to do doesn't work, what are we about to do here since it doesn't work? [00:50:33] Speaker A: Mother. She's the only one that I can think of that could be the Nexus, if you will. [00:50:43] Speaker F: The Aertsen Mother lady? Yes, the Nexus. [00:50:47] Speaker C: What about Svelte? She's the one communicating with the dead king or whatever. [00:50:54] Speaker A: From what we learned from Hodi. She's just a girl. A young girl being used. [00:51:02] Speaker C: But they seem to all be taking instruction from her. [00:51:06] Speaker A: But even then, they all took instruction from Mother. He walks over to his pack and pulls out a book. You probably recognize it as you've seen them several times before because uwe used to write in one every day. I had a little bit of help. I wasn't lying when I said I was a friend of Hoover's. [00:51:35] Speaker F: Did you use, like, the forest to come back? [00:51:39] Speaker A: No. We knew you'd be there. [00:51:43] Speaker F: Okay. Okay. So what's with the tattoos, if I might ask? [00:51:51] Speaker B: At that moment, you hear the sound of, like, something heavy scooting from just inside the apartment. [00:52:01] Speaker C: Albert, what are you doing? [00:52:03] Speaker D: Burning the house down. [00:52:04] Speaker E: Albert's just on a chair, scooting across the floor. [00:52:08] Speaker D: That's how I cope. Leave me alone. [00:52:10] Speaker C: I like the vibrations. Calm me down. [00:52:16] Speaker F: Are you saying we just hear something inside? [00:52:18] Speaker B: Yeah, you're just hearing that, like, of something being scooted. [00:52:24] Speaker E: I thought Alwood said he was going to bed. [00:52:26] Speaker C: Maybe he's taking the bed to another room. Like I Had to the couch. [00:52:32] Speaker D: I forgot about that. [00:52:34] Speaker E: I'll be right back. [00:52:36] Speaker B: And as near as you're heading that way, a like sandy blonde young man stumbles out of the apartment and is like, all right, Kelleg, I just finished checking the goat Hill and looks around to all of you. Oh, I think I'm in the wrong house. And starts like backing up back into the apartment. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Who will you. [00:53:01] Speaker B: And that's where we'll end this episode. [00:53:05] Speaker E: Who is that? [00:53:08] Speaker B: All right. And the hero point for this episode is going to Sven for the very interesting handling of unraveling and revealing all that information and just really directing that scene. It was very fun. I just got to sit back and be the audience today. Day. [00:53:26] Speaker A: Well, that was a long time coming. Yeah. Enjoy. Inar. Guys, I'm going to go sit down. [00:53:38] Speaker B: All right, so go ahead. If you like this episode, jump onto the socials, jump into the Discord or something. Let us know what your theories were for what was going on with Einar. Did you call it? If so, when did you know? And we will see you all in the next episode. 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. 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[00:55:14] Speaker E: Can. Can we amend that a little bit? Can everyone stop laughing first?