Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax and enjoy the feature presentation. And remember, do your part. Such as like comment rate and don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave off?
Ah, yes.
Einar revealed to the party that he was sent from a doomed future to help them prevent the Aerodsons from taking over.
As they discussed the ramifications of this, they heard a noise from inside and discovered a stranger nervously entering Albert's apartment.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: Did anyone else know that Hutchinson, Kansas had over 150 miles worth of salt tunnels underneath it?
[00:01:10] Speaker D: What?
[00:01:11] Speaker E: Why are you talking about Hutchinson, Kansas?
[00:01:13] Speaker C: I was at a convention and I was talking to a fellow and he was talking about it because he wrote a book that took place in it, but he moved it to Utah so as not to give bad press because a criminal owned it. But it's actually like a place you can go tour.
They do some storage stuff. You can also tour it.
They do a whole lot of historic.
[00:01:30] Speaker D: Wait, they store things in the tunnels?
[00:01:32] Speaker C: Yeah, just like here.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: It's like cheese caves.
[00:01:34] Speaker E: Down here in Springfield, we have so many cheese.
[00:01:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I told him about that. He did not know that Springfield had tunnels underground.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Springfield underground?
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Yeah. So that's the part that we're allowed.
[00:01:43] Speaker E: Allowed, quote unquote, to go down.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Wait, we could just go get cheese.
[00:01:46] Speaker E: No, the cheese caves are off limits. So is the underground, unless you have reason to be there.
[00:01:52] Speaker C: I was.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: I have reason. I want cheese.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: I was talking to him about a convention in Hutchinson that I plan to go to and he was like, oh, I might go because I want to go on that tour of those salt. Of the salt mines. I was like, that's such an interesting.
[00:02:06] Speaker E: Are you saying we're going to be in a con in Hutchinson?
[00:02:10] Speaker C: Yeah, that's the one that I've already signed up with.
[00:02:14] Speaker E: I try so hard to give people smooth plug in times.
It always goes over everyone's head.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: We got distracted talking about cheese caves.
[00:02:22] Speaker C: Yes, Abby, So hot take. Okay.
[00:02:25] Speaker D: I don't like cheese.
[00:02:26] Speaker C: You don't like cheese?
[00:02:27] Speaker D: No.
[00:02:27] Speaker E: So any cheese, you just haven't found.
[00:02:29] Speaker F: The cheese you like.
[00:02:30] Speaker D: I will eat it like if it's part of a dish. But I won't just eat cheese.
[00:02:35] Speaker C: Just like my wife. My wife does the same thing.
[00:02:38] Speaker E: Out of all of the cheese that you do not like, what is your least hated? Like, what's your most favorite cheese?
[00:02:45] Speaker D: I don't know.
[00:02:46] Speaker E: You don't know? So hold on.
[00:02:49] Speaker D: Cheese is cheese.
[00:02:50] Speaker C: What's your favorite Food that happens to have cheese.
[00:02:52] Speaker D: Pasta.
[00:02:52] Speaker E: Cheese is not just cheese.
[00:02:54] Speaker F: I mean, it's true. You've got your bitters, you've got your sweets, you've got your.
[00:02:59] Speaker D: Listen. It all has the same texture to me, and it just. I don't enjoy it.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: See, I understand the texture.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: That is accurate.
[00:03:07] Speaker D: This is why I said hot. Take Jenkins.
[00:03:10] Speaker C: Hey, my wife's the same way.
[00:03:11] Speaker D: He's losing his mind.
[00:03:13] Speaker E: But there are so many. There are.
[00:03:15] Speaker F: There truly are so many dishes if.
[00:03:17] Speaker E: You don't like the texture of wine because it tastes fishy.
[00:03:19] Speaker C: All fish tastes chase cheese.
[00:03:21] Speaker E: Yeah, that's true. No, no, it doesn't.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: They all.
[00:03:23] Speaker F: Have you ever had cream cheese?
[00:03:25] Speaker E: I don't take cheesies.
[00:03:27] Speaker C: Cream cheese isn't cheese.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. I've got it in the names.
[00:03:30] Speaker D: I think I've started something. I'm sorry.
[00:03:32] Speaker E: I just can't. Like, I am fully behind something.
[00:03:35] Speaker D: Cheese is cheese.
[00:03:37] Speaker E: Who doesn't like things? Okay, you don't have to like things. You don't have to like cheese. I'm okay with that. But saying all cheese is the same and all cheese is the same texture. That's where I draw the line.
[00:03:48] Speaker F: It's like saying all water has the same thing.
[00:03:50] Speaker D: Like, my least ridiculous. My least favorite type of cheese is like, a cheddar.
[00:03:54] Speaker F: So you don't like bitter cheeses?
[00:03:56] Speaker D: I don't like cheddar cheese. I don't like American cheese.
[00:03:58] Speaker E: Have you tried gouda?
[00:03:59] Speaker A: I don't.
[00:04:00] Speaker D: I've never tried Gouda.
[00:04:01] Speaker E: Try some Gouda. I'm not gonna say you can like.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: It, but Gouda's not too bad.
[00:04:04] Speaker C: Does anyone actually like, like, American cheese?
[00:04:07] Speaker E: I mean, like, Kraft Singles grilled in a grilled cheese.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: It's not great.
[00:04:12] Speaker F: I like American Deluxe. Like, it's always the top tier cheese. No, not Kraft Singles.
[00:04:17] Speaker C: It's sort of. American cheese is okay, and it's passable, but it's not good cheese.
[00:04:23] Speaker F: There is a difference between cheese food and cheese product.
[00:04:25] Speaker E: That is true, too.
[00:04:27] Speaker F: One is better, and I can't ever put it straight. I don't know which one is probably.
[00:04:30] Speaker E: The one that's actual food.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: I.
[00:04:32] Speaker F: You'd be surprised.
[00:04:34] Speaker D: So I'm sorry.
[00:04:35] Speaker E: Walmart has this sweet cheese with, like, blueberries in it. I don't remember the. No, it's delicious. It's so good. Get like a cracker. So.
[00:04:42] Speaker D: Ew. I'm sorry. That sounds bad.
[00:04:44] Speaker C: Abby, you're the perfect person to hire security in the cheese caves.
You won't eat any of it?
[00:04:51] Speaker D: I won't eat any of it. I will not be arrested.
[00:04:54] Speaker E: Can you get that as a job and let us go to the cheese?
[00:04:58] Speaker D: No.
[00:04:58] Speaker F: Sneak us in.
[00:04:59] Speaker D: No. Because my job as security for the cheese caves is not to let anyone that we'll eat the cheese in.
[00:05:04] Speaker C: Dude, she would break your kneecaps like that.
[00:05:10] Speaker E: Rightfully so.
[00:05:11] Speaker D: I'd just whip out the baton and be like, no.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: I could picture that fully.
[00:05:16] Speaker D: Jenkins.
[00:05:16] Speaker E: No. She'd have to break my arms, though, too. I want that cheese.
[00:05:19] Speaker F: No. That would probably be the first thing she would do.
[00:05:22] Speaker D: I would break your kneecaps and then drag you out of the cave.
[00:05:25] Speaker E: They don't just have American cheese in there, though. That's the thing. They have other kinds of cheese in the cake. It's worth getting my kneecap for me.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: I thought you meant we were holding on to cheese for other countries.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: How much do you like cheese, Jenkins? I will have my kneecaps broken for the cheese.
[00:05:40] Speaker F: This does say thousands of pounds of American cheese.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: So, you know, cheese made in America or, you know, the plastic stuff.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: They didn't specify the plastic R. They did the math. How many grilled cheese sandwiches can we make?
[00:05:55] Speaker D: So many. Millions.
[00:05:56] Speaker E: I bet that's been a question on that.
[00:05:59] Speaker D: Millions and millions.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: How many. How big are the grilled cheese sandwiches?
[00:06:03] Speaker D: Depends on the size of bread.
[00:06:04] Speaker C: Regular loaf.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: I have a really. I found a really good formula for a grilled cheese sandwich.
[00:06:12] Speaker D: He got so excited.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: My friends, a recipe is just a fancy name for a formula.
Recipes just like a sub genre formula.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: I can't figure out.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Sven makes his grilled cheese sandwiches in.
[00:06:25] Speaker D: A laboratory over a bunsen burner.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: I mean, I've been in his kitchen.
[00:06:31] Speaker F: Safety goggles.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: But. But, but, but, but what?
[00:06:38] Speaker D: Please explain backpedaling. Trying so hard.
[00:06:42] Speaker A: You get one of those round loaves.
[00:06:45] Speaker D: I mean, he looks like a mad scientist right now, like, hunched over the table.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Loaves of bread.
Loaves of bread. One of those rounds.
[00:06:52] Speaker E: Round loaves of cheese.
[00:06:54] Speaker D: What's a loaf of cheese?
[00:06:55] Speaker F: Hold on. I feel like you've actually told this story before on this podcast.
[00:07:00] Speaker E: I think he has.
[00:07:02] Speaker F: I think you've told us how to make it before.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Maybe. So everybody listen again so you can know it again. Cause it's great.
So you get this round loaf. Right, right, right, right. You cut it in the center. In the center. And then you cut off the top to make it nice.
[00:07:17] Speaker E: It's delicious.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: Okay, let me have this.
[00:07:19] Speaker E: You cut off the top.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: I don't have a laboratory in the recording studio.
[00:07:25] Speaker E: I cut off the top.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: You Put a lot of butter on both sides.
[00:07:35] Speaker F: I want to see the transcript of this.
This would make it onto one of those.
One of those recipe pages, like tell you a four page life story and then the recipe.
[00:07:47] Speaker D: So those moms that blog.
[00:07:49] Speaker E: You start off, he's a mom blogger. Making a grilled cheese. Yes.
[00:07:54] Speaker C: But it's big.
[00:07:55] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. He's not.
[00:07:56] Speaker F: Okay, Instructions how to make a grilled chees cheese. First, make a grilled cheese.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: Second, make it big. Eat it.
[00:08:03] Speaker D: His voice is gonna go to a pitch that only dogs can hear. Before too much longer, he is gonna start barking.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: I have to ask the question that all of our listeners want to know.
You said round loaf of bread.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: I did.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: What kind of bread is this?
[00:08:19] Speaker F: Honestly?
[00:08:19] Speaker E: A round loaf.
[00:08:20] Speaker D: Yeah. What kind of bread?
[00:08:21] Speaker B: It's a shape that's important. Not sourdough, not rye. It's cheese.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: You can make it whatever you want, buddy.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: This was a formula.
[00:08:29] Speaker E: It's a very imprecise formul formula.
[00:08:42] Speaker D: He's gone. He's done. Just make a grilled cheese.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: There you have it. The best recipe.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Just do it.
[00:08:54] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:08:55] Speaker D: Just make it. Gosh darn it.
[00:08:58] Speaker E: You listening at home? Please just re listen to all of our stuff and then get on our discord and tell us what episode Sven told us about this grilled cheese.
[00:09:06] Speaker C: We need to know he has told.
[00:09:07] Speaker D: Us about this at the very least.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: So you can get the recipe.
[00:09:11] Speaker D: Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not the recipe, the formula.
And then go to some laboratory and then over a Bunsen burner make this grilled cheese.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Do they have laboratories in the Springfield underground?
[00:09:25] Speaker E: Probably.
[00:09:26] Speaker D: Who's to say? I could get hired on as cheese security and like. No, you want some cheese? There's like a we and just opens his coat.
[00:09:35] Speaker C: Cheese, kids.
[00:09:37] Speaker D: I got the good stuff.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: I got the Gouda.
[00:09:41] Speaker D: Got some provolone.
[00:09:43] Speaker C: I do like provolone.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Speaking of cheesy, I'm gonna transition into our campaign.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Oh, wow, you suck.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: So where we last left off, you all had learned very interesting information about Einar. The nature of reality and Zafir's fate.
[00:10:03] Speaker D: Who's to say what that we learned.
[00:10:05] Speaker F: Nothing about Zephyr's fate?
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Albert had just gone inside to have a little bit of a break to think about things. And then from inside of the house, those of you who remained in the courtyard heard some sounds of furniture scooting. And a sandy blonde haired boy stepped out. Not boy. Sandy blonde haired young man stepped out of the house saying, kelleg. I finished checking the goat Hill. At.
Oh, and then he started backing into the house again.
[00:10:31] Speaker D: No, no, stop.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yes.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: Is he stopping?
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just standing there awkwardly.
[00:10:38] Speaker D: Come here.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Maybe.
Who are you?
[00:10:44] Speaker F: Better question, who are you?
[00:10:46] Speaker D: We live here. Who are you?
[00:10:48] Speaker E: Ah.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Kelly didn't tell me he was renting this place out again.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: Well, I mean, Kellogg is the one that.
Are you familiar with our.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: He visibly relaxes.
Oh, do you work for him too?
[00:11:09] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:12] Speaker D: You've got to be kidding me.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: It's the magic word.
Our.
[00:11:19] Speaker D: How many of them are around here?
[00:11:22] Speaker B: Oh, lots. I mean. No, none at all.
[00:11:26] Speaker F: Look, we're not here on official. And he puts his finger to his lips and just.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Right, right.
[00:11:35] Speaker F: We were never here. But who are you?
Ubub. Okay. This guy's name is Ubub?
[00:11:44] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:45] Speaker F: And he's been living in our basement.
[00:11:47] Speaker D: Have you been living in our basement?
[00:11:48] Speaker B: No, I just. I'm just passing through.
[00:11:51] Speaker A: No, you were talking about basement.
[00:11:53] Speaker F: What's his name? Kellogg.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I was here to talk to Kelleg. I was gonna update the map.
[00:11:59] Speaker D: Are you the culprit of the scooting sound?
[00:12:03] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:12:04] Speaker D: What was that?
[00:12:05] Speaker B: The bookshelf.
[00:12:06] Speaker D: The.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Come on, come on. And he starts heading inside the house again.
[00:12:12] Speaker D: I will follow.
[00:12:14] Speaker E: Are you about to add a secret passageway into this place?
[00:12:18] Speaker D: It keeps expanding alward as you follow him.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Inside there's a bookshelf that's been pushed away from the wall, revealing a short doorway into a stone lined pathway leading into the darkness.
[00:12:31] Speaker F: You mean a normal sized doorway?
[00:12:35] Speaker E: Howard's standing there pointing at it.
Did you guys know this was.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: I could have sworn that they did.
[00:12:40] Speaker D: The courtyard nearest just shakes her head.
[00:12:43] Speaker C: Hold on.
[00:12:44] Speaker E: I went inside. You left inside.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Oh yeah. First floor. Alright. Okay.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah, first floor.
[00:12:50] Speaker C: You're already just right next to those guys.
[00:12:52] Speaker E: No, I went to my room and then the thing happened and then.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Secret tunnel.
[00:12:57] Speaker F: If this was supposed to be secret, that bookshelf is awfully loud.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: Well, it's supposed to be secret from the inside. I mean, if you're inside the house, you probably know about it. I mean, you guys, you knew about the tunnels, right?
[00:13:11] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Yes, yes.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: Okay, good.
[00:13:13] Speaker C: I didn't know about them.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: This would have been really awkward if album didn't.
[00:13:18] Speaker E: That is not a name.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: It is now.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: My name's Abub.
[00:13:23] Speaker F: I would assume he's a relative of Krass.
[00:13:27] Speaker E: The frogman.
[00:13:28] Speaker F: Yes. All people who don't want to tell me their name are related. They're in a family of people who don't want to tell me their name.
[00:13:33] Speaker E: Up. Abub okay, I'm dealing with a lot right now.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:38] Speaker E: And I'm trying not to.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: This is Alwood.
[00:13:42] Speaker E: Explode.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: It's all right, Alward. It's all right.
[00:13:45] Speaker E: What is happening? Why is. Why is this in. What is your name?
[00:13:49] Speaker B: His jaw just drops.
You're Alward?
[00:13:55] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: He comes up and takes your hand.
If you let him, he's like trying to shake your hand.
[00:14:05] Speaker E: I'm going to amp my telekinetic hand to just hold him at bay.
Don't. No. Right.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Yes. Oh, sorry. Of course. Yeah.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:17] Speaker E: Why are you in my apartment?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Well, you see, centralized information.
[00:14:27] Speaker C: You said something about a map?
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, the map. The map in the map. Rome. And he points over to like, the war room.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: Right? We looked at that the other day.
[00:14:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I was gonna update the map. We've been trying to find the necromancer and she's not in the Goat Hill.
[00:14:44] Speaker C: There's a necromancer.
[00:14:45] Speaker D: Oh, right.
I was supposed to tell you that.
[00:14:48] Speaker E: You knew about a necromancer.
[00:14:50] Speaker D: I forgot that I knew.
[00:14:52] Speaker C: There are catacombs.
[00:14:54] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: So there's a necromancer.
[00:14:58] Speaker D: A man who remains nameless, unfortunately.
Told me that they saw a necromancer going into the catacombs and that he needed to go stop them. And then he dropped this bomb.
Or wherever I put the bomb.
[00:15:15] Speaker F: Not a metaphorical bomb.
[00:15:18] Speaker D: No, the real actual bomb.
[00:15:20] Speaker E: So while you were out doing terrorist things.
[00:15:23] Speaker D: I was not being a terrorist.
I was going to do something else. And then I got roped into terrorism.
[00:15:33] Speaker E: Why did you want to touch me?
[00:15:35] Speaker B: I just. I wanted. I just wanted to shake your hand, sir.
[00:15:39] Speaker E: Who are you?
[00:15:40] Speaker B: Why, I'm Ub.
He's looking really regretful of that decision.
[00:15:49] Speaker E: You can tell me your real name.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: No. Nope. I'm gonna pass this test.
[00:15:57] Speaker E: It's not a test. What?
[00:16:00] Speaker F: That's actually probably Einar.
[00:16:01] Speaker E: What is happening?
[00:16:08] Speaker C: Honestly, we're pretty nice people. I just really. We'd like to know your name.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Einar looks as flummoxed as.
[00:16:15] Speaker E: You shouldn't.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: You know, I don't know everything.
[00:16:20] Speaker D: It's like 50 years in the future.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: That's kind of the point.
[00:16:22] Speaker E: 30 years in the. 40 years in the future. And do you not know Abub?
[00:16:26] Speaker F: Don't overwhelm Abub.
He probably doesn't know about time travel.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: I mean, depending if he was. If. If he made it. If he was around anyway.
[00:16:39] Speaker D: Necromancer. People, focus. Necromancer.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Necromancer. Necromancer.
[00:16:45] Speaker D: Necromancer.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Little old lady.
[00:16:49] Speaker D: Wait.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Old Lady.
[00:16:53] Speaker D: A little old lady.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Old and old. Get out.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: Oh, wait, she's a little old lady. He goes into the catacombs. Are you sure she's not just like an old morning woman?
[00:17:03] Speaker B: Well, so what I heard, I didn't see it myself, but what I heard was she was riding on one of those things like. I think it's like a litter where it's like being carried by people, I think. And they. They what? What? What he said they saw was that they carried her up to the catacombs and set it down. And then after she went in, they just died.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Is this.
[00:17:27] Speaker D: Mother?
[00:17:28] Speaker F: Mother.
[00:17:29] Speaker E: Where does this lead?
[00:17:30] Speaker B: This tunnel to the tunnels. The tunnel network.
[00:17:34] Speaker E: There's a tunnel network connected to my.
[00:17:39] Speaker D: I mean, you see, this is the central of the Resistance.
[00:17:43] Speaker C: Follow up, question up.
How long have these tunnels been here?
[00:17:51] Speaker B: At least a few weeks. I haven't been allowed to use them before then.
[00:17:54] Speaker C: I'm sorry. Did you dig them all out in a few weeks?
[00:17:57] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know.
[00:18:00] Speaker D: He just said he wasn't allowed to use them before then. So they could have existed before that.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: One Kelig made them.
[00:18:05] Speaker F: That old man, Alwa.
[00:18:07] Speaker D: Does that make sense?
[00:18:08] Speaker E: No. Okay, he's like 70.
[00:18:11] Speaker C: What if he made them when he was spry?
[00:18:13] Speaker E: Then that means they existed when I lived here and I don't like that.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: Mal, did you ever move the bookshelf?
[00:18:21] Speaker E: Not now. Umbrella.
[00:18:25] Speaker D: Oh, you're in the Resistance.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:30] Speaker D: Yeah, I know a man with incredibly nice biceps.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Oh, Gribs.
[00:18:34] Speaker E: The Resistance is doing terrorist acts in my name.
[00:18:37] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Yep. Gwibs. That's his name.
[00:18:40] Speaker E: Wouldn't that be true?
[00:18:42] Speaker F: Nice.
[00:18:43] Speaker D: Gwyn's guy with biceps is just.
It doesn't. Listen, it doesn't matter.
[00:18:49] Speaker F: Do you not know this man's name?
[00:18:50] Speaker D: No.
I meant to get it and then I got distracted.
[00:18:53] Speaker C: That's why she's asking. This guy, does he have a name?
[00:18:58] Speaker E: You really think Umbab was gonna tell us his name?
[00:19:01] Speaker F: He's not willing to give a name.
[00:19:02] Speaker D: Do you know where he is?
[00:19:05] Speaker C: Can't you tell? The leader of the Resistance. Your fellow agents. Alright.
[00:19:10] Speaker A: He passes the test.
Enough of this.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: He like, sits down, slumps against the wall.
That was the most stressful five minutes of my life.
[00:19:21] Speaker C: There was only one.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: I aged five years.
[00:19:26] Speaker F: I toss him an apple, it just hits him.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: We'll work on the reflexes later.
[00:19:33] Speaker F: It's a different test.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Two things.
Well done.
Can you send a message to Gwibs and have him come meet us here?
We have a task form.
[00:19:47] Speaker E: Al was just looking at Niner like we do.
[00:19:51] Speaker A: Two, you're gonna update the map. Does it have the location of the catacombs?
[00:19:57] Speaker B: Probably not yet, but we know where it's not.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Update the map with what you got. Get us the information where the catacombs are.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Okay.
He, like, scoots into the war room, just, like, not able to stand on his feet yet.
[00:20:11] Speaker F: Was that the scooting? No, that was the bookshelf. Oops.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Starts scribbling on the map.
Okay, it looks like really the only place that we haven't checked yet would be in Oakbridge.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Well done.
The resistance respects you, sir.
Now go.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: He just gives, like, a shaky salute in response.
[00:20:34] Speaker F: I know. You're really jumping into that role, huh, Gwibs?
[00:20:39] Speaker A: Go.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Yes, I. I will find him. And he crawls back into the tunnel and then closes the bookshelf behind him.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: How else are we going to get him out of here?
[00:20:52] Speaker C: I could have asked him nice also.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: You're welcome.
[00:20:54] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:20:56] Speaker E: Oh, that's why you want. Okay.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: All right. Now that he's gone, I believe that is mother.
[00:21:06] Speaker F: Sounded like it.
[00:21:06] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:21:07] Speaker C: So we need to get the old.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: That and probably.
[00:21:10] Speaker E: Can we?
[00:21:11] Speaker D: I don't know.
[00:21:12] Speaker F: She's like, the head of this thing.
[00:21:13] Speaker D: She's old. How much trouble can she be?
[00:21:16] Speaker F: She's a necromancer.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: She had an army more terrible than the wolf Skin warriors and the trolls combined.
[00:21:23] Speaker D: Now or later?
Later your time.
[00:21:25] Speaker C: Okay, she doesn't have that yet.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: It was an army of the undead.
[00:21:29] Speaker F: I do want to say, the more we kill, the more, you know, cannon fodder she has.
[00:21:33] Speaker C: I see.
[00:21:33] Speaker E: They were collecting bodies then.
[00:21:36] Speaker C: You're right.
[00:21:36] Speaker D: Yeah, that's true.
[00:21:38] Speaker C: Then maybe this is a really good time to try and put that into her before she gets too many.
[00:21:42] Speaker D: We now have to stop her.
[00:21:43] Speaker F: This is like a hydra.
[00:21:45] Speaker E: Most organizations are like a hydra.
[00:21:48] Speaker C: Well, I mean, you can only have so many people. In theory, a hydra just continues to go.
[00:21:53] Speaker F: I wasn't expecting this to go anywhere.
[00:21:55] Speaker D: Cut the head off. Cut the head off of the stick snake.
[00:21:58] Speaker C: And what, like that's a bad thing.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: To do with the hydra?
[00:22:02] Speaker E: Where is that?
[00:22:02] Speaker D: It's not a hydra. It's a. It's a mother.
[00:22:04] Speaker C: It's an old mother.
[00:22:05] Speaker F: That's the thing I'm saying. You kill one, you end up getting more.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: It's a mother.
[00:22:10] Speaker E: I know.
Where is Oakbridge?
[00:22:14] Speaker C: Oh, is it a place? I thought it's North Central.
[00:22:17] Speaker F: Why don't we just look at the map that he put in front of us?
[00:22:20] Speaker D: That Is also true.
[00:22:22] Speaker F: We don't have to ask Einar.
He doesn't know everything.
[00:22:24] Speaker E: No, I'm asking.
[00:22:26] Speaker C: It's actually right here on the map.
[00:22:27] Speaker E: Oh, okay. Thank you, Val.
[00:22:31] Speaker D: Zafir literally just suggested looking at the map. And then you take Val's word.
[00:22:36] Speaker E: This is the reason I left. He didn't actively do it.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: He didn't die. He just got fed up and left.
[00:22:43] Speaker D: So, Elwood, you don't do anything unless it's pointed out to you instead of just suggested?
[00:22:48] Speaker E: I'm pretty sure that is canonical, yes.
[00:22:51] Speaker D: You're useless.
[00:22:52] Speaker C: He suggested we look at it. I looked at it and I found it.
[00:22:55] Speaker E: It's teamwork.
[00:22:56] Speaker D: Oh, dear Lord.
I'm surrounded by idiots.
[00:23:00] Speaker C: What did I do that is so idiotic? I looked at a map.
[00:23:03] Speaker D: I have problems with you.
[00:23:05] Speaker A: Enough. Enough.
I have something in my pocket that you all need to see.
And he goes outside and grabs his pack, comes into the war room.
And then alongside the map, he pulls out another map from his pack and lays it out.
I don't know if it is as comprehensive a size of map.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: It would be less detailed, smaller. The one on the war table is like impressively detailed.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: But what you see on this one, there's a bunch of notes.
Like for instance, in the forest, you see a note saying gilva trolls.
And the location where the Wolf skin warriors were, you see another note detailing them, or a circle of where they would be.
In other places, you see circles or X's mentioning different other little facts that doesn't necessarily make sense. For instance, one of the Eritsons over here maybe, or we already took care of. They already took care of that one here.
Little stuff like that.
I don't have a lot of facts from the future and things have already changed, but I can share what I do know now.
[00:24:30] Speaker F: Are you sure this isn't going to.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Cause problems at this point?
If it were, it would have already happened with what I've told you.
Is there a note around Oakbridge?
[00:24:43] Speaker B: There is not.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: I mean, there's a chance that if we didn't have this conversation with you, we wouldn't have ever really found out about this. We would have just moved on to the next thing.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: Einar frowns while you guys are talking. And he pulls out that book that he showed them earlier.
Our. You haven't seen this.
And he opens it up and he starts flipping through it.
[00:25:07] Speaker E: There's also a chance that we did know about it and went and there was nothing there.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: Make a perception roll.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: It's not gonna take a lot of time, say, like we could just check it out.
[00:25:18] Speaker E: 24.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: While you're talking, you perhaps glance over to what Ainar is flipping through two things.
One, you realize that it's written in Dwarvish.
Two, you realize it's translated into skald. Skald.
Three, you recognize both handwriting.
[00:25:44] Speaker E: What is that?
[00:25:46] Speaker A: Einar flipping through and reading with a frown stops.
Oh.
[00:25:54] Speaker E: A book I know from Uber.
Okay.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: That you translated for me.
[00:26:03] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: What did you think it was gonna be?
[00:26:08] Speaker E: I thought it was my book.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Oh, okay. I see.
[00:26:12] Speaker F: Is all of it translated or just some of it?
[00:26:15] Speaker A: Most of it. Not all of it, I think.
And he's just flipping through, trying to find. You can see dates on the top.
I figured something would be here about something.
I missed it somewhere. And he's just furiously flipping through.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: I know. It's okay.
We might just slams it closed, throws it.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: There's nothing there.
Nothing.
[00:26:45] Speaker D: Calm down. You don't need to shout.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: I don't know what to do.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: That's all right.
Neither do we.
[00:26:53] Speaker F: We can always check. It's not like it's written in stone.
[00:26:58] Speaker E: How far away is Rookbridge? According to that map?
[00:27:01] Speaker C: Oak Bridge.
[00:27:01] Speaker E: Oak Bridge.
[00:27:02] Speaker C: And it's approximately.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: It'd be only like an hour to get there.
[00:27:06] Speaker C: Take like an hour.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: It's a district in Joel.
[00:27:10] Speaker E: Joel is huge.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: Look at your internal map.
[00:27:13] Speaker C: Can we take the ferry?
[00:27:15] Speaker D: I didn't think Joel was that big.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: I didn't either.
[00:27:17] Speaker E: Well, and that's something that.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: Like it's the capital of the region that you're in.
[00:27:21] Speaker C: I still didn't think it was like New York City sized.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: The.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: Well, an hour. It's. It's a. It's a. It's a walk on foot. So it's like three miles.
[00:27:30] Speaker E: Yeah, that's so.
[00:27:31] Speaker C: Okay. No, that makes sense. An hour walk. Yeah.
Like I said, you don't have anything detailed about it either we never knew about it. Or like you said, there's nothing there. And it'll only take about an hour to figure that out.
And if we know it's not there, we can mark it off for the resistance.
[00:27:48] Speaker E: I'm gonna cast time sense to know what time it is.
[00:27:51] Speaker F: I also sniff.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: 7:37Pm It's a little.
[00:27:57] Speaker E: Late, but I mean, it's not like.
[00:28:00] Speaker F: We have a curfew.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: We haven't really done anything today.
[00:28:03] Speaker E: That's true.
[00:28:05] Speaker F: I spent most of my day talking to Rustford.
[00:28:07] Speaker C: Well, I guess we did talk a lot today.
[00:28:09] Speaker A: If it is mother, it might be our chance.
[00:28:13] Speaker E: Let's get some dinner and go To Oak Bridge.
[00:28:18] Speaker F: Could we get dinner at Oak Bridge? I don't know what's there.
[00:28:21] Speaker E: I mean, I would prefer to cook in a kitchen, but let's just eat.
[00:28:25] Speaker D: Here while we're here.
[00:28:25] Speaker F: Yeah, that's true.
[00:28:26] Speaker C: We can have dinner like a family.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: Why don't we invite mother over for tea while we're at it?
[00:28:33] Speaker E: Now, now. It'll be okay.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: We know where she's at now.
[00:28:37] Speaker D: Yes, and we need sustenance. Unless someone you know faints from lack of food.
[00:28:44] Speaker C: Look at him pointing at Howard. He's just skitting.
[00:28:47] Speaker D: What if he's hypoglycemic? You don't know.
[00:28:49] Speaker F: We don't know those words.
[00:28:51] Speaker D: Near us, you don't.
[00:28:54] Speaker F: Look, I'm ready to go whenever.
[00:28:57] Speaker D: I at least need something to eat.
[00:28:59] Speaker A: Can we at least eat on the way?
[00:29:00] Speaker E: Fine. We'll just eat some rations.
[00:29:03] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: So after grabbing some rations, you decide to head out right away for investigating the catacombs in Oakbridge.
On your way there, the streets are fairly quiet. Seems like most folks have already gone to bed at this point. Or at least are home and doing their evening stuff before heading to bed. Getting a nice warm, well cooked dinner. That kind of stuff.
[00:29:28] Speaker D: Must be nice.
[00:29:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I wouldn't know what that's like.
[00:29:30] Speaker E: I. I tried.
[00:29:32] Speaker C: Say, Einar, I didn't get an answer. What's up with the gyms? The tattoos?
[00:29:39] Speaker E: What?
[00:29:39] Speaker C: All over your body.
[00:29:41] Speaker E: You have gem tattoos?
[00:29:43] Speaker C: Yeah, they're. They're like, under his shirt. Oh.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Inar is focused, walking, lost in thought, as if steeling himself for this to be the final bit.
You ask your question, and he kind of shakes himself from his thoughts and just says, my what?
[00:30:10] Speaker C: The tattoos on your body.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: My tattoo.
[00:30:14] Speaker C: You had a bunch of little tattoos. Looked like little gemstones. Like on Alward's body.
When you're practicing with the sword, the floppy sword.
[00:30:23] Speaker A: Those.
They're part of what allowed me to do my magic.
[00:30:29] Speaker C: Also. They're like magical tattoos.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Something like that, yeah.
[00:30:34] Speaker E: Why do they look like motes?
[00:30:38] Speaker F: Seems like a personal question.
[00:30:40] Speaker E: Yeah, I suppose.
[00:30:41] Speaker C: Maybe. Like the resistance, he idolizes you.
[00:30:44] Speaker E: Oh, please don't tell me you idolize me. That's weird.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: I don't.
[00:30:47] Speaker E: Okay, good. Well, that's a little hurtful.
[00:30:51] Speaker D: You can't have it both ways, Albert.
[00:30:56] Speaker C: I do have a question, though, because you're from the future, and time stuff has been happening, and you're kind of a big quote unquote aberration of time. Are the evil killer dog things that tried to kill Alor a couple of Times have anything to do with you?
Oh. Did Future Hour tell you anything about them?
[00:31:15] Speaker A: He said, don't mess with time.
[00:31:20] Speaker C: If Al turns out.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: What?
[00:31:22] Speaker E: What?
[00:31:23] Speaker C: Don't mess with time.
[00:31:25] Speaker E: Future me messed with time.
[00:31:26] Speaker C: But if you keep messing with time, it's gonna keep getting worse.
[00:31:29] Speaker E: Well, I'm going to keep messing with time, obviously. And I gestured at Einar.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: I wasn't expecting to see those.
I knew about them a little, but when I saw wasn't after me, it was after you.
That's why I said you need to do less.
[00:31:54] Speaker E: Let's move on from this topic.
Someone, Anyone, save me.
[00:32:01] Speaker D: Oh, I have a question.
[00:32:02] Speaker E: Oh, thank goodness.
[00:32:04] Speaker D: I know.
In the future, were my hands and arms still black?
[00:32:17] Speaker A: Yes.
That's how I've always known you. You've always had it. But.
And he stops for a moment, as if he's now just paying attention to it.
And then he kind of shakes his head for a moment, then.
They're not as dark as I remember.
They don't go as far up your arm.
[00:32:45] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
They weren't always like this either. When I was a kid, they weren't like this. By the time I turned six, like, just my fingertips were black. And then as I've gotten older, it's.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: Just.
[00:32:59] Speaker D: Consumed more of my arms.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: When I knew you, they were.
Then he gestures to right below your shoulder.
[00:33:09] Speaker D: Well, I mean, I assume as time goes on, it goes further up.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Yeah, well, that makes sense.
[00:33:19] Speaker D: I don't know why it happens, but.
Okay. Well, that's just. That's what I needed to know.
[00:33:25] Speaker C: Well, maybe that's something new us will figure out.
[00:33:29] Speaker D: I was just wondering if I got.
[00:33:30] Speaker E: Rid of it, then it's not because she's a fetchling?
[00:33:34] Speaker A: No.
[00:33:34] Speaker D: No, no, no, no, no.
[00:33:35] Speaker E: I'm sorry. I learned a lot about you recently.
[00:33:38] Speaker F: Well, I don't have them.
[00:33:40] Speaker D: I mean, I assume it's not because I'm a fetchling, but. I don't know.
I've had it ever since I was a kid and it just sort of started. And I don't know why it's happening, but Pharasma apparently has an issue with it.
It's fine.
[00:33:55] Speaker F: You say that, but you don't seem to express that feeling.
[00:34:00] Speaker D: It's fine.
[00:34:02] Speaker F: I don't believe you.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: But we'll move on.
[00:34:07] Speaker D: You know, that's your choice.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: You never talked about it.
[00:34:11] Speaker D: What?
[00:34:12] Speaker A: Any of it.
You never talked about your arms being different. You never talked about any problems with Pharasma. You never.
You never said that you had any problems at all.
That you Were looking for anything.
[00:34:28] Speaker D: I don't know why future self did what she does or did. She's dead.
Was she more traumatized?
[00:34:38] Speaker F: How do you measure traumatization?
[00:34:41] Speaker D: Well, just compare it.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: She always had a smile for me.
I never saw her unhappy.
Except when Val didn't come back.
[00:34:57] Speaker E: Okay, this is tangential and maybe to hopefully steer the topic into something a little lighter. Is it weird being with people who raised you and seeing them as young people your age?
[00:35:11] Speaker A: It's weird being older.
[00:35:14] Speaker C: Oh, that's fair. We must be a lot better. In my experience, parents are meaner when they're older. But they're nice when they're young.
[00:35:22] Speaker E: What Val hasn't had.
I'm sorry, Val.
[00:35:27] Speaker D: I mean, I don't know. I didn't have parents. Elwood.
[00:35:30] Speaker E: I'm also sorry. I'm sorry for all of you. I.
[00:35:34] Speaker D: Which is baffling that we raised a kid.
[00:35:37] Speaker E: You don't have to.
[00:35:38] Speaker F: It takes a village.
[00:35:39] Speaker D: You weren't there.
[00:35:42] Speaker F: Okay, what about Uwe?
I mean, you obviously knew him.
[00:35:48] Speaker D: He's a very old dwarf.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: Did he remember things?
[00:35:53] Speaker F: Did he. Did he ever figure out the things with his room and memory loss or.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: Einar frowned.
I know he never stopped looking for answers.
I don't know or think he ever found them.
[00:36:15] Speaker F: Well, he gave me this book that could be very helpful to translate his runes.
[00:36:22] Speaker E: Zafir, Take it from me. You don't want to.
[00:36:25] Speaker F: I.
I mean, I would at least try for him.
[00:36:30] Speaker E: Same.
It hurts.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: I'm curious.
What did Uwe look like for you?
[00:36:41] Speaker D: Very old.
[00:36:42] Speaker F: Surprisingly young dwarf.
It's both.
[00:36:46] Speaker E: It's.
[00:36:47] Speaker F: It's old, but spry for an old guy.
[00:36:50] Speaker C: I feel like I never had a.
[00:36:51] Speaker D: Clear rooms all over his body.
[00:36:54] Speaker F: Great hair.
[00:36:55] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Flowing, luscious locks.
That includes his beard.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: All of you were.
Except for you, Sophia.
[00:37:07] Speaker E: This is why he leaves.
[00:37:09] Speaker D: I feel so bad about it, though.
[00:37:11] Speaker C: Val pats if you're on the back.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: We're different.
I remember you all differently. I mean, older, obviously.
But as you describe Duvair, it's exactly how I remembered him.
[00:37:30] Speaker D: So he's ageless.
[00:37:32] Speaker F: I bet it's the runes.
[00:37:34] Speaker D: Something's keeping him alive.
[00:37:35] Speaker F: I bet it's the runes.
[00:37:37] Speaker A: I don't know if he's alive or not.
[00:37:39] Speaker F: Oh, in the future, I'll be.
[00:37:42] Speaker D: Did he go missing again?
[00:37:43] Speaker A: We presumed he died.
[00:37:45] Speaker E: Oh.
[00:37:46] Speaker F: Do you know if Albert died?
[00:37:48] Speaker E: I mean, that I'm the one who sent him back?
[00:37:51] Speaker F: Yeah, I know, but he could still be alive.
[00:37:53] Speaker E: Maybe he wouldn't know that you were never the Same.
Please don't talk about it again. I don't want to think about it right now.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: I don't want you to make the same mistake.
[00:38:04] Speaker E: I don't know what you could mean, but for now, let's just focus on getting.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: You stopped talking to me.
[00:38:11] Speaker E: I'm sorry.
I'm not much of a talker to begin with.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: You stopped talking to anyone.
[00:38:16] Speaker E: Again, not much of a talker now.
[00:38:19] Speaker A: And it wasn't until you met me that one day and you told me what needed to be done.
You said I could come back.
Back here or back when I was done.
[00:38:32] Speaker E: I mean. I mean, I don't know.
I'm sorry if I lied to you in the future.
[00:38:40] Speaker A: I knew I wouldn't come back.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: You probably shouldn't walk him down to too many questions about everything.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: I wasn't told everything.
For good reason.
I can't know everything or else I might be tempted to change. Things that don't or can't shouldn't be changed.
[00:39:01] Speaker F: You must have had a very restricted childhood.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: I didn't have one. Zephia.
[00:39:09] Speaker F: Right?
[00:39:09] Speaker A: Like you, it seems.
[00:39:12] Speaker F: Yeah, but let's not talk about that now. Are we almost there?
[00:39:17] Speaker B: You are in fact just coming up on the entrance to the catacombs.
They are if any of you are familiar with the Parisian catacombs.
[00:39:29] Speaker D: Oh, geez.
[00:39:30] Speaker E: That's so many dead bodies.
[00:39:32] Speaker F: I've been playing a Shastin's Creed unity recently, so I'm very familiar with those.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: As a matter of fact, I too have played a Crassus Creed unity.
[00:39:41] Speaker E: A Krason's Creed.
[00:39:43] Speaker D: I don't know what a Krason's Creed is.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: Don't make fun of my action.
[00:39:47] Speaker D: Too late.
[00:39:47] Speaker F: I kind of went into Peter Griffin there for a second.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: The entrance to these catacombs is a short stone archway that just has a staircase that goes down from the roadway and curves and turns down. And what is very unusual from you all's experience of the catacombs is you see a sickly green light at the bottom of the stairs.
[00:40:12] Speaker F: Ew.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: Was there any litter or dead people around? Of litter?
[00:40:19] Speaker B: There is a litter, but there are no bodies.
[00:40:22] Speaker D: Interesting.
[00:40:24] Speaker C: I have consult the spirits.
I could ask the spirits at the skadacom questions about things.
[00:40:32] Speaker E: When a skill feat is useful, it.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: Can only be used once per day.
[00:40:37] Speaker C: Okay, hold on, everyone. Before we go in, let's make sure what we think's going on is going on. I can try and talk to some of the spirits here and see what they can give me. It'll just Take a little bit. So like 10 minutes or so. So if you guys want to keep an eye on things.
[00:40:56] Speaker E: I. I.
[00:40:58] Speaker C: Thank you, Zephyr.
So I just get out my book and I start like getting the whole ritual ready and then I guess I just roll religion.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: It is a secret check. What is your bonus?
[00:41:13] Speaker C: 19.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: As you conclude the ritual.
Val.
A black winged raven flutters down from just somewhere above and lands on your shoulder. And you notice it's wearing a leather mask.
[00:41:34] Speaker C: Oh, hello there.
[00:41:38] Speaker B: It kind of cocks its head side to side.
You called for assistance?
[00:41:43] Speaker C: Oh yeah, I was.
We were hoping to get some information about what's been going on here in the catacames before we just went on in. You know, of course.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: I am familiar with this area. It is under my purview.
You may ask me any three questions and I would be happy to assist.
[00:42:04] Speaker C: Three questions?
Oh yeah. Okay. Critical success.
Okay.
[00:42:14] Speaker A: All.
[00:42:14] Speaker C: We've been hearing stuff about a necromancer. Are there currently any powerful void energy sources here?
[00:42:25] Speaker B: The bird cocks its head as if thinking or listening and then.
Yes.
[00:42:32] Speaker C: Yes. Okay.
Right. Because they always answer in a single word.
[00:42:39] Speaker E: Not into your. Talk to the thing. Maybe ask it how many things are down there. If there are any undead in the catacomb.
[00:42:47] Speaker C: Sure.
How many of these sources are down there?
[00:42:56] Speaker B: Legion.
[00:42:58] Speaker C: Huh. Okay.
[00:43:03] Speaker F: It is a death catacomb, it would seem.
[00:43:07] Speaker D: I would like to run.
[00:43:11] Speaker C: I could ask if they are currently active. I could ask if the necromancer is currently there.
Or I could just ask, is there a way in there to stop it?
[00:43:21] Speaker E: I think the last one might be too open ended. If he can only answer in one word.
[00:43:25] Speaker C: If he says yes, then that means we could go in there and stop it.
[00:43:29] Speaker F: Yeah, but we know the way.
[00:43:29] Speaker D: Or go in there and die.
[00:43:32] Speaker F: We may not know the way.
[00:43:35] Speaker C: Is there anything other than this old woman necromancer we've heard of that is controlling this?
[00:43:44] Speaker B: The bird cocks his head like it's confused, but it does not answer.
[00:43:51] Speaker C: Sorry.
Like, is it just her or is it something other than her that is making these crate these things, spreading this undeath in the catacames.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: Forked and the bird dips its head and then flies off into the sky.
[00:44:11] Speaker D: What does that mean?
[00:44:13] Speaker E: Is that how you normally talk to psychopomps?
[00:44:15] Speaker F: What if I sent Rustaford in there?
Just a little bit of reconnaissance.
[00:44:21] Speaker E: Last time I suggested to send Rusterford for reconnaissance into a dangerous area, you all yelled at me because it could die.
[00:44:27] Speaker F: Well, he's a bit more adept to the Shadows. As am I.
It is a dark hole, right?
[00:44:35] Speaker C: Yes. Because just because they said there was a legion worth of essence, it doesn't mean necessarily that all of those are active and walking around killing. They could be inactive sources that happen spawning tea.
She wouldn't be able to control that many at once.
It takes something really powerful to control that money.
[00:44:59] Speaker F: Well, real quick, let me just send Rustaford in and while we're talking he'll come back and tell us.
[00:45:06] Speaker E: Aina, do you recognize what this is? And I pull out my staff and point to the ball at the end of it.
No, you weren't there. But Nero Sever. Do you remember those. Those gargoyles we fought at?
[00:45:22] Speaker C: Yes, very well.
[00:45:23] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:45:24] Speaker E: What if that could be done to a dead body?
[00:45:27] Speaker F: To turn it into a gargoyle?
[00:45:28] Speaker E: No.
[00:45:31] Speaker D: It would be bad.
Very, very bad.
[00:45:35] Speaker C: What do you mean? What are you talking about?
[00:45:37] Speaker E: Well, I don't know how to explain it exactly because I don't fully understand it.
There's a stone that can be used to do something with spirits or human consciousness or sentient beings and transfer them into non sentient matter or objects.
[00:46:01] Speaker C: Like just possessing gargoyle or something.
[00:46:04] Speaker E: Kind of question.
[00:46:07] Speaker C: Someone can just pick up a stone and say I'm gonna control that thing?
[00:46:10] Speaker E: No, it seemed more complicated. I don't know the inner workings. We would have to talk to Bran.
[00:46:15] Speaker C: For that was it had to do that circle ball on the end of your thing.
[00:46:20] Speaker E: My circle ball is one of those stones.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: So you could use it and possess things?
[00:46:26] Speaker E: No, I use it as a magical storage device.
[00:46:30] Speaker C: Say it's a little sphere that stores souls.
[00:46:36] Speaker E: Again, I assumed more like general positive energy or magical energy. Not necessarily.
[00:46:43] Speaker C: Spirits are made up of positive energy.
[00:46:46] Speaker E: Well, right, but I didn't assume like it would be insane to do that to store an actual soul.
[00:46:53] Speaker C: It would be very insane.
It would not.
I wouldn't put it past some, but.
[00:46:59] Speaker F: I've seen a lot of impossible things in the last few months.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: Do the Eritsons have these things?
[00:47:07] Speaker E: They did.
Did the gargoyles have visible thrift stones?
[00:47:12] Speaker B: They had a gemstone embedded in their foreheads.
[00:47:14] Speaker E: Okay, we. We got most of them if I remember, but I don't know how many more they would have.
[00:47:19] Speaker C: What'd you do to the ones you have?
[00:47:20] Speaker E: Well, we gave it back to their owner.
[00:47:22] Speaker C: Who's their owner?
[00:47:23] Speaker E: Bran.
[00:47:24] Speaker C: Bran.
[00:47:25] Speaker F: You were there just giving them back?
[00:47:27] Speaker C: That's what those were?
[00:47:28] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:47:29] Speaker C: Were all those filled with souls?
[00:47:30] Speaker E: I. I don't know.
[00:47:32] Speaker C: Is that what happened to the spirits? Here?
[00:47:35] Speaker E: I Don't know.
[00:47:36] Speaker A: I. I don't know much about necromancy, but I know enough to know that you don't need a stone to make a zombie.
[00:47:45] Speaker E: I'm just saying, if they got more of them, it could be an issue.
[00:47:48] Speaker C: That could be an issue.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: At that moment, Rustaford flies back up out of the Catacombs and perches on Zephyr's shoulder.
[00:47:57] Speaker F: Oh, thank goodness. I was actually a little worried about you.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: I've finished my reconnaissance of the first two rooms.
[00:48:04] Speaker F: First question. What is the light?
[00:48:06] Speaker B: Torches. It appears.
[00:48:07] Speaker F: Green tortures.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: That's weird.
[00:48:09] Speaker F: Anyway, go ahead.
[00:48:10] Speaker B: Yes, well, in the first room, there seems to be a woman patching up injuries she has sustained. And in the second room, there's bones.
[00:48:19] Speaker C: I'm sorry, a woman who's not like an old woman.
[00:48:23] Speaker B: No, she seems maybe about Inar's age.
[00:48:25] Speaker C: First dream.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:48:26] Speaker C: All right. And Val starts going.
[00:48:29] Speaker E: I'll follow Val.
[00:48:30] Speaker D: Question, what does she do?
[00:48:32] Speaker F: Is there dark.
Sorry? Is there bright light in this area?
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Not outside at this point, the sun has set, so it's kind of dim light from just various lights and torches and such throughout the city.
It does appear, though, that it might be bright light from those green torches.
[00:48:49] Speaker F: Okay. Because bright, or if there's an area of bright light or not, that I can extend my dark roads to 60. 60ft rather than 30.
So if I get the opportunity, I would like to slink into the shadows.
[00:49:04] Speaker B: There are still several. Several shadows to be seen.
[00:49:07] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: There's shadows everywhere. You can hide an Eina shadow.
[00:49:11] Speaker B: So Val is heading on down, and Albert is following, I think.
[00:49:15] Speaker C: Actually, she starts. So Val starts heading in. When she gets to the entrance, she stops and then turns around back to the group, and she's like, we're all good on checking on this wounded woman. Right?
[00:49:35] Speaker A: There we go.
Much better.
[00:49:38] Speaker F: Zafir pulls out his knitting needles.
I'm ready.
[00:49:42] Speaker E: As long as you understand. They might not be with us.
[00:49:45] Speaker C: I know, but if she's by herself, was a good opportunity, and if she's against.
[00:49:50] Speaker F: She's already injured.
[00:49:51] Speaker C: Help her. Get information from her.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: I know.
[00:49:55] Speaker E: No killing.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: Zaphir unslings his shield.
[00:49:59] Speaker E: I forgot you had a new shield, huh?
[00:50:03] Speaker A: And steps in front of Val.
I'll take point.
[00:50:09] Speaker C: I can.
[00:50:10] Speaker A: It's the shield.
[00:50:12] Speaker C: Or It's a shield, Dave.
[00:50:14] Speaker E: It shields him.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: I'm a bit better with a shield than you are.
[00:50:20] Speaker C: Well, yeah, but there's something necrotic happening.
I am holy.
So I would resist some things. You might not. In the front, potentially, if I Might.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: Have a word from the scout.
The. The pathway is 10ft wide. You could easily walk together.
[00:50:44] Speaker C: That's fine.
[00:50:45] Speaker A: No, that's. That is unallowed, like. No.
[00:50:48] Speaker C: He steps in front of me. I sidestep next to him.
Well, if we're all good to go, then we can go in and you.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: Just hear the shing of Einar's sword.
Let us begin.
[00:51:06] Speaker D: Let me just state for the record, I don't like this going in or.
[00:51:11] Speaker C: The fact that there's a wounded woman in there.
[00:51:13] Speaker D: Both.
[00:51:14] Speaker F: I love it, like, punching my needles in the air.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: And with that, we cut to a long shot as we watch the last of you all entering down the tunnel and the green light emanating from the doorway.
And that's where we end this episode.
[00:51:32] Speaker C: I'm really concerned about the green light. I kind of. I almost want to, like, put out every torch we come across and relight it.
[00:51:39] Speaker E: Just torch burning copper. Okay. I was like, I'm pretty sure it's.
[00:51:44] Speaker C: Copper, but it wasn't like, it could be rich copper.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: Copper oxide.
[00:51:48] Speaker E: It's something like that, yeah.
[00:51:50] Speaker B: All right. And the hero point for this episode goes to Sam. We always love to see a skill feat actually being useful, and that was quite a fun skill feat to be useful today.
[00:52:01] Speaker C: Well, thanks. I'm gonna go read the Necronomicon or something.
[00:52:08] Speaker E: I'd advise against that.
[00:52:09] Speaker C: It should be fun. It's like. It's a leather book.
[00:52:12] Speaker E: You know that. Can I come?
[00:52:14] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:52:15] Speaker F: It's not Vegan Approved.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: Well, while those two go off and read the Necronomicon, if you haven't been on our Discord yet, go ahead and hop in. We've got those chats but built for every episode as they come out. Jump into that conversation and let us know what you think is up with this woman in the green torches. And yeah, if you want to burn some copper, let me know how to do that, because that sounds cool.
[00:52:35] Speaker E: I think this is Inar's mom.
Yeah.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: We'll see you all in the next episode.
[00:52:39] Speaker C: We've got something going on.
[00:52:40] Speaker D: Bye, guys.
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[00:53:30] Speaker C: What's in the bag?
[00:53:32] Speaker B: What's in the bag?
[00:53:33] Speaker E: What's in the bag?
[00:53:35] Speaker C: It's the fierce head for the future.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: This.
[00:53:39] Speaker F: This is why I left.
[00:53:45] Speaker C: Are you sure that you left?
[00:53:47] Speaker E: Can we bring ABBA back? We were more focused.
