The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 51 – Son of Valtor
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Last week on the Glass Cannon Podcast. When you reach the forest floor. Asta hits the ground. The elves there watch you in awe as you return and the whole journey back to the Oatian settlement.
Jentheal comes out.
We have the waters and the gourd.
Where is it?
Yeah.
And then they unstoppable the gourd and make a tincture and they bring it over to A'leli
and pour it on her tongue.
A'leli just like lurches forward.
Oh, hello everyone.
I hope I haven't kept all of you waiting too long.
Everyone is just like, ah!
Are you all right?
Yes.
We are very eager to speak with you.
You can figure out how to get us home.
I do believe my initial idea may work.
After I spend some time with this key,
you do look as if you could use some rest.
Drinks here.
Enjoy, we celebrate.
We Oatians do not have many...
The rain is just rolling a joy.
You rolling a joy?
He sat down as soon as she was like,
we're not going for days.
He's like, well, if we're going to party.
Osta gets naked.
I think I wanna party with these people.
Zephyr looking around,
making eyes, with a young, handsome elf.
We see Barnes holding court.
So you tell me you're two hundred and seven years old.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Buggles, are you alright?
I had a horrible dream.
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Yes.
Horns.
I saw the same vision, the same mask.
What is it?
You don't know, but you may have been given a gift.
Missy Lily, come towards you.
I believe I know how to get you home.
The adventure continues...
now. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Glass Cannon Podcast.
Sydney, Hoagie Grinder Submarine.
Wait.
I think he's asking.
He's asking what your favorite Beatles song is.
Hoagie is a sandwich.
Submarine is a sub.
It's a sandwich.
What was the thing you said in the middle?
Grinder.
Grinder, that was a separate option.
Hoagie, grinder, submarine.
Hero.
Hero.
Hoagie, grinder, submarine, hero.
What do you call it?
The fuck is a grinder? That's the question.
Oh.
The fuck is a grinder? So obviously not grinder.
Wow.
We've eliminated grinder.
What do you call it when you see that sandwich?
What's the first word that comes to your mind? Or wedge.
That's a salad.
Hoagie Grinder Submarine Hero Wedge.
I think I would say a sub.
Oh, incorrect.
I gotta say, I gotta prove.
You don't get a say in this.
Cause I know what your answer is.
I would accept hero.
An Italian, an Italian sub?
Okay.
Okay.
Hoagie Grinder Submarine Wedge Hero. The other correct answer. Okay. Okay. Kate. Hogi grinder submarine wedge hero.
The other correct answer.
I wish I said John.
Just kind of wherever I am at the moment.
I'm gonna buy you a beer tonight.
Wherever I am at the moment, that's the word I say.
You're in high school in Albany.
Albany.
Albany.
That was crazy.
You're in high school.
Why do people do that?
You go to the Albany.
You go to the Albany deli.
Xavier says that too, it's wrong. You go to the Albany deli.
It's wrong.
You go to the Albany deli, and you say,
I'd like one ham and cheese sandwich.
Come on.
So I knew you were going to push that.
What?
Come on.
What does it say?
The thing on the long rolls?
Wait, wait.
What would you call it?
What would you call it?
Depends.
Are you dating after a diaper?
I feel like people upstate call it hoagie sometimes,
and they call it sub other times.
What do you call it?
Those are whatever it is on the menu.
I don't really care. Instinctively.
Instinctively. What would you say?
Sub or hoagie.
Okay, wow.
I don't remember what the other options were.
Took you long enough to give me a straight answer.
Sub or hoagie. Dressing us out.
Sub, sub or hoagie.
Let's go to old Jersey Pete over there.
Sub, but sometimes hero. I do use them.
Oh, hero too.
My dad says hero.
You call everything a pork roll?
Is that how you order at a place?
Call a pork roll a pork roll.
You say, can I get a pork roll?
Okay, I have to ask, what's a pork roll?
Yeah, welcome to Jersey.
I don't wanna be here.
Where they say some messed up stuff like that.
You call everything a pork roll?
No.
That's what she's spreading.
That's what she's intimating. Misinformation. Yes, you're spreading idiocy like a pork roll. No, just not spreading. Like that's what she's into.
Yes, you're spreading idiocy like a contagious.
Do you call like is a ham and cheese sandwich.
Let me get a pork roll.
Yes.
No, she's not from.
She's not from.
She's not from.
She's very, very dumb at the top of the episode.
Now she's got to spread it around.
If you want a steak and cheese, you're just like,
ah, let me get a pork roll.
No.
I'm gonna give you a steak and cheese.
Pork roll is a very specific kind of thing. Incredibly salty breakfast meat let me get a pork roll. No! I'm going to give you a steak and cheese. Pork roll is a very specific kind of thing.
Incredibly salty breakfast meat.
What is a pork roll?
Is it a breakfast sandwich?
Pork roll is a meat.
It's like a meat.
It's like bacon.
But in Jersey, some people replace,
can I get a ham and cheese on an everything bacon?
They'll say, can I get a pork roll?
That can't be true.
I've never heard that before.
I've never heard that.
They might ask for a pork roll, which is a sandwich made
with pork roll.
Is there egg on that sandwich? Yeah, they can do pork roll, egg, and cheese. So wouldn't you say, let me get a pork roll with egg? Why is pork roll? You a pork roll, which is a sandwich made with pork roll. Is there egg on that sandwich?
Yeah, they can do pork roll, egg and cheese.
Why is pork roll-
So wouldn't you say, let me get a pork roll with egg?
Why is pork roll-
You do pork roll with egg.
Oh, would you be like, let me get a pork roll, a pork roll, or pork roll?
And they give you three different things based on your intonation?
Never in my life have I ever heard of it.
Have you ever, have you ever heard of anybody walking into an establishment and be like,
let me get an Italian pork roll?
It's not synonymous.
All right, so we got one sub, one hero sub, one pork roll.
Skid, what do you call?
No, she's sub-hoagie, I'm sub-hero.
Sub-hero, I messed up two H words.
Sub-hero, Skid, what do you call it?
Growing up, it was always just sub-sandwich, submarine.
Sub-marine.
I had never heard any of these other terms until later in life.
And of course, hoagie joke.
Hoagie, dude.
No doubt about it.
Yeah, man.
I actually don't know what you're going to say.
I've been my whole life has been grinder.
Yeah, right.
What the hell is a grinder?
That's what we call them back home in Massachusetts.
It's grinder.
My mom is still like, you want to pick up a couple grinders?
If they come and visit. What is the etymology of grinder?
I'm sure I could do it. And you're telling, you're saying it's a hoagie. Like a grinder would be- It's a submarine sandwich.
So yeah. We could get an Italian hoagie. The other thing we'd say is subs. We'd never say hoagie. We'd never say hero.
Where do they say hoagie? Just in southeastern Pennsylvania? Interesting. The main difference though between a grinder and Italian sandwich is that a grinder is usually hot.
Yes, a grinder is a hoagie that you put in a...
And an Italian sub is cold meats.
That's not true because I would get a roast. The LaValle special is a roast beef grinder. Let me get a roast beef grinder.
That's hot.
The meatball sub is hot.
They say what the etymology is different meats layered with a tart grinder salad gives crunch
and freshness in one bite.
What's a grinder salad?
I mean, it must be some old like...
On a sub or a hero, there's a, you know, a vinegary lettuce.
Hey, here's what I'd like to be able to...
What makes a sandwich a grinder?
If I walked into your deli, your old deli on Astoria Boulevard...
Charlie's Variety.
...in 31st Street. Oh no, I thought you were talking about... Sal, Charlie and Chris? No, you're old deli on Astoria Boulevard. Charlie's Variety. In 31st Street. Oh, no. I thought you were talking about.
Sal, Charlie, and Chris?
No, you're old.
In Haverhill, Massachusetts.
No.
Charlie's Variety.
So that's what you're saying you would order, the LaValle
special back in Haverhill.
Right.
I just call it a roast beef grinder.
Right.
OK.
But yeah, nobody.
But you never walked into that place here
and said roast beef grinder.
And they were like, gotcha.
No.
Well, because it has certain elements to it
that I've talked about on the show at Nausium.
But now that I've moved to Westchester, it's all wedge out there.
It's all wedges.
And I never heard that.
But now my wife and I'll be like, we'll do wedges tonight?
Which is weird.
I know.
Wedge!
Some claim that grinders, it was named for the grinders, Italian American slang for dock
workers who were often sanding and grinding rusty hulls to repaint them.
Yeah.
The more widely tested origin is about the sandwich itself.
Did those guys just like sandwiches?
Cause that doesn't add up at all to the name.
Here's a new one.
Spuccy.
Oh.
Spuccy.
Spuccy.
You ever heard of Spuccy?
That's another one.
No.
Yep.
Submarine sandwich commonly known as a sub hoagie hero,
Italian grinder wedge, or a Spuccy.
It's a type of American cold or hot sandwich.
See, I thought the difference was in the bread,
but it's all the same.
It's all the same.
Oh yeah.
They're all subs.
I thought a whole other thing.
Who are you ordering it from?
Until you go to Philadelphia,
and then you will have bread,
unlike you've ever had in your life.
And you'll be like,
this is the greatest sandwich on the planet.
Shut up.
I'm serious.
He knows.
Don't laugh.
It's good bread.
I'm not gonna have very good bread.
The two of you, this is a question for the two of you.
You walk into a restaurant commonly known as Subway
in Boston or in Philadelphia.
Mm-hmm.
This is a fictional story,
cause I never walk in there.
Well, let's call it a hypothetical.
Especially after what happened with Jared.
Oh, for God's sake.
You're going to bring Jared into this?
He's not here to defend himself.
He's watching.
He's not here to defend himself.
He defended himself in court.
So would somebody say, walk in and be like, yeah,
let me get a whatever, whatever.
Pork roll.
Grind it.
Do we get a pork roll?
Let me get a pork roll.
Pork roll and a pork roll.
Meatballs up.
Coming right up. Would you say pork roll. Meatballs up, coming right up.
What'd you say, pork roll?
With provolone?
Yeah.
I got the tuna salad pork roll.
I realized that I also made a mistake about pork roll.
No kidding.
Let me get the veggie pork roll.
Yeah.
Get the veggie pork roll.
What was the mistake?
The mistake was it's pork roll versus Taylor ham.
Yes.
That's a meat. Taylor ham? That's That's the same thing. That's a meat.
Taylor ham?
That's what we were saying.
It is a breakfast meat.
Taylor ham or pork ham.
So what are we going to say?
I was like, would you order a grinder in Subway?
No, because it's pretty clear what I'm ordering there.
I'm not like, let me get the chicken marsala.
They all know that I just started reading the ingredients.
I'm not like, I'll get a sandwich.
And they're like, oh.
They already have the bread.
Let me re-approach. Let's say you're discussing where you want to have for lunch at work. Yeah, like, I don't know, I'm feeling grinders. I got a couple
grinders at Subway. Would you say that? Would that be said? Or would you say
we're gonna go to Subway and get it?
I don't use grinder as much anymore. But I do say wedge more than sub.
And I do say hoagies at Subway. In do say that they make Hoagies at Subway.
You say they make Hoagies at Subway.
I guarantee you if I asked my parents, like, what do they serve at Subway?
They'd be like, Grindr's?
With the Wedge.
I wonder if you walked into a Philadelphia Subway, on the menu it said Italian Hoagie,
like ham and cheese Hoagie.
I bet it does.
You think they have a local menu?
Yeah, of course.
They're all franchises.
Subway doesn't You think they have a local menu? Yeah, of course. They're all franchises.
Subway doesn't say what they have.
They're like $5 foot long.
And you're like, of what?
And they just, if you notice, they-
Pork roll.
$5 pork roll.
That's a lot of pork roll.
They don't say that.
A foot of pork.
They're not like $5 foot long sand, $5 foot long sub.
Yeah, just think it's a big cock.
Slice and roll off the tongue.
With the wedge, do they cut the,
do they cut the, you know how sometimes you'll get a sub
and they cut the wedge out of it?
It's the subway, they cut the top out of a wedge.
Oh, now I get it.
Oh, is that what it is?
Oh, is that what it is?
Is it cut like that?
No, it's the wedge is just like a hero.
Just like a grinder.
Was, what's the etymology of that term?
Is it because the stuff is wedged in there?
Wedge, west, and it's just in West,
I'd never heard of it until we moved
the first time I'm here. an hour north. Wedge sandwiches in Westchester, not West, and it's just in West, I'd never heard of it until we moved. First time I'm here.
An hour north.
Wedge sandwiches in Westchester,
not a hoagie sub or a grinder.
This is from-
Wow, they put grinder in there.
Yeah, of course they did.
As if it was normal.
Scallone never thought it was weird.
You're like, this isn't insane.
Chicken parm wedge, yeah.
A Wedge is-
Legend has it the name originated at a deli.
Some say Landy's near Yonkers high school Yonkers
Yonkers where the matriarch of the family had a thick Italian accent her pronunciation of sandwich evolved into the shortened wedge
Every deli calls it a wedge just from one
illiterate woman
I can't pronounce whole woman. I got a short-out time. I got a short-out time. I can't pronounce the whole word.
I got a wedge.
I need a sandwich.
Sandwich.
Sandwich.
Drinking a wedge.
Give me an open-faced sandwich.
A wedge.
An open-faced club.
Oh.
You know, I want a hoagie.
I want a grinder.
I want a hero.
I want a sub.
I want a five.
I want pizza.
Yeah.
That's actually what we're having. Yeah, pizza's always better.
That's what I have in my mouth.
Well, one of these days, we should get some grinders,
some hoagies, some wedges, some spunkies.
What is this one?
Spunkies?
Spunkies.
Spunkies?
Spunkies, no thanks.
Spunk on that five foot long.
Extra spunk.
Extra spunk.
Spunkies, apparently, a Boston term.
Never heard of it in my life.
That makes sense. You guys would make that stuff up. Never heard of it in my life. That makes sense.
You guys would make that stuff up.
Never heard of it.
You know roast beef is a fucking religion in Massachusetts?
Like, people are like, oh, whenever I hear somebody say,
Arby's is great.
I'm like, gross.
Are you kidding me?
You would never be caught dead in an Arby's in Massachusetts.
Roast beef is the shit.
There's a friend of the show, the Boston show,
a couple times ago, they brought us
from my old high school roast beef joint supreme roast beef in Danvers mass.
No, they brought the roast beef sandwich.
Onion roll.
So everyone knows Kelly's.
Kelly's roast beef on Route 1 and they've got them all over the place now.
But it's onion roll, warm roast beef, their special barbecue sauce and a slice of cheese.
And my God, you will cream in your genes.
I love an onion roll.. I love an onion roll.
Oh, love an onion roll. I want one right now.
So good. So good. I don't want to play. We'll see you next week.
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No, it's definitely Spunkies.
Don't say Spunkies.
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I know I said Spunkies.
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Everybody was all jacked up about the Oatian Sky Stage.
What can't you do?
And Kate was the only honest one that was like, well, when I tried to add it, it wouldn't
let me because the prerequisite is that you need to be trained in occultism.
And Joe was like, oh, I just skipped that.
I misunderstood Kate, but Kate was right.
I was reprimanded.
Also, I was honest.
I just was trained in occultism.
You were trained in occultism, as is Bugles, as is Asta,
but Zephyr and Ramune,
Arrhenius is a pure soul.
On my character sheet,
it said I had one more skill to increase.
I like never increased all my skills at level three.
Oh my gosh, Kate.
Wow.
Usually it catches it.
I mean, you realize all of our lives are in your hands, right?
No.
By the way, if I didn't say it before, your glasses rule.
I know.
That's our badness.
I really like your glasses.
I got new glasses.
Very nice.
You can't see them as up close as we can,
but they have these cool little details.
They have little stars.
Yeah, they're really cute.
Very nice.
I didn't even see the stars.
I saw the fronts.
Mine are in a lost and found somewhere in San Diego.
Haven't seen in two months.
You should get new glasses, though.
Got a lot going on.
Seeing is believing.
The idea is one of the things you
have going on, driving around at night without glasses.
I just don't drive at night.
So we're going to wrap this up soon.
Okay.
Sorry.
It's going to be winter is coming.
What was I going to say?
So the way that I reconciled it rather than just taking away from Ramu and Sefer is I
said you can't choose the expert necultism perk.
You have to choose the trained in astronomy lore perk.
Yeah.
I think that's a good compromise. I love the idea that Ramius left this time with these elves with some training in astronomy
lore.
I just think that that is so cool.
It's just never part of his training in his intense cloistered relationship where you
just learn so much about culture and religion and gruhosta and everything.
Never really looking up very much. So it was cool. Very cool. Yeah. Always looking down, never looking up.
Yeah. And it's just to me, and I'm so glad that you did that, that you sort of like gave it out
to everybody without making everybody pay too much for it because it really is, you feel like
your character is in this campaign, right? Like it feels very unique to this campaign.
You would never get this training otherwise. So I like that aspect of it. You feel the growth
and the development. Yeah, it adds like a specific flavor to this play through.
And that we all share. I think it's probably the only thing that we are all trained in, right?
Yeah. It's neat. Yeah, cool.
I have a picture of a general oasis sky sage here.
I wanted to show you.
Boop.
Like a military general?
Yeah, this is what a lot of the oasians look like.
General star sage.
You remember how beautiful Aulale was?
And Gentio looked really cool.
I just saw this image as I was looking for another image.
That's really cool.
Wow.
Oh, neat. I love how they're sort of, what's the word I'm looking for? Not summoning, but
material.
Projecting?
Projecting like the planets.
Yeah. Do they all have eyes like she does or they do?
Yes, they all have very cool eyes like that.
I like to think that those really light up more when they're focusing on their connection
with the stars.
So they maybe look more normal when they're talking to you day to day, but if you start
talking about their lore and whatnot, their eyes begin to light up with the orbs.
Well, their eyes are all black, aren't they?
They're like complete blackness.
Yeah, normally they're, yeah.
And so I think when they do what you said,
when they're looking through their telescopes
or they're examining the sky,
they begin to turn into a royal blue or, yeah, sky blue,
which is very cool.
Itty.
After nine days of resting and recuperating here
in the Oatian settlement, forming relationships,
making some new friends, maybe
some potential lovers.
And banging.
And banging, as it were.
The old pork roll going.
Yep.
And of course-
I love when you get Francis.
Slipping some of the locals the old pork roll.
Getting all spunky on their pork rolls.
Speaking of which.
Look what you did to them.
Sorry.
Sorry I said pork roll.
Keep saying.
I think it wasn't that you said it,
it was that you insisted that all sandwiches
were pork rolls.
In New Jersey.
I just like to make people mad.
All pork rolls are sandwiches.
Thank you.
Not all sandwiches are pork rolls.
The diagram is very-
That's where she got all messed up.
Yeah.
Well, you form these relationships and some of you are helping Aleli as she studies the
shade with her key, tries to make a connection and then she comes to you, her eyes gleaming
green.
I think I found a way to get you home.
Your eyes are very beautiful. Have I told you that?
Thank you. I've heard that you've already gotten around though, so.
You have the crabs.
Please.
You have space crabs.
Some of the people you've been fraternizing with are sick.
Oh no.
I need to have a conversation with the healer before we go.
I think Barnes is frightened too after that.
So it's sweating.
We may need something more powerful
than the water from she who walks.
I need to make a couple phone calls.
You have to make a couple phone calls.
Here's a magical comb.
Magical comb.
I'm not sure if you can see it. phone calls. To make a couple phone calls. It's a magical comb.
As I mentioned, when first we spoke, before you arrived, I was communicating or communing
rather with a distant astronomer from your world named Sakowachi. After speaking with Gentheo and as well as you and
learning of all the things you discovered both with Ascariot in your time in the memory cache
and everything you learned at the offering spire, it is clear to me that Sakuachi hails from the same part of Galerion where
Osoyo, the Black Frost Whale, is allegedly buried.
Wow. That's the Crown of the World?
The Crown of the World.
Yes.
In Brevoi?
Yes, right on the border, as it were. There is more, though. After speaking with Sakowaci, they
said that they were on a quest to seal away an ancient evil that had recently awoken beneath
the ice. And now here you are with a key that bears a soyos mark. It is clearly all related
and fated, as it were.
Agreed.
She closes her eyes and shakes her head. We Oatians believe in omens, not coincidences.
I believe your mission and Sakuachi's are aligned. She reaches into her satchel and pulls out a bunch of notes
that are lined with all these arcane equations. Through means, I won't pretend to understand.
Sakowatch, in our time speaking together, attuned their telescope and mine creating a bond
stretching across the space between our planets. At the same time your shade
wither key had the power to activate the Ayodhara that led you here. I believe
that if I can link all three, the telescope that is connected to Sakowachi's, the arch
which you originally came through, and your key, I can create a one-way portal from our
telescope to Sakowachi's, a veritable doorway back to your world.
That is incredible.
How long can you sustain the portal?
It is unclear, but it should be long enough for you to pass through.
What are the associated risks that you... do you have any... do your equations allow
for what could happen in the event of a failure?
Would we simply not go, or could we be sent somewhere else?
Well, that is a
Good concern the magic of Ayodhara is poorly understood even here in our world where many
Ayodhara still exist and are functional
It will be dangerous and there's always a chance that
The feedback from the connection of all these things could destroy the artifacts.
But I believe it is your only hope, and Star's willing. It may work.
Well, this sounds like you've put a lot of thought into the best possible option. And we are at your mercy. Of course, in your debt, should this all work,
we must have faith that the work you have put in, as well as what's her name? Sucucci?
Sakauchi.
As well as Sakuachi could bring us back and allow us to find out more of Asoyo and reconnect with the Doctor.
I do not know much of Sakuachi as our communication was not verbal, but they seem pure.
You get good vibes from them.
Yes, vibes.
Good energy.
Good energy.
This is, as you can understand, a burden on me
because I feel responsible for your fate.
But I would not suggest this course of action
if I did not feel confident that it was the only possible way.
But I do want to make it clear there are risks.
Of course I think we can all understand and accept that, yes?
I think we don't have much choice. We have to get back to Golarion.
We have no means of doing it ourselves.
Do you though? What if you just stayed here? Then there would be no risk.
My people have obviously embraced you and it seems as if you have embraced our culture.
You could just stay here and start a new life. Your hedgehog friend has really got along
well, although I've heard some strange stories about him as well.
I'm sorry.
Um...
However...
You need not go.
I understand, Inon.
We have a responsibility to our own world.
We appreciate your invitation, but I'm afraid Barnes is right.
We were sent...
as scouts of assault.
We must report back to the people
that eagerly await our information.
How, what we have found,
we could help many back on Galarian.
If we should simply ignore that
because of your generous hospitality,
and it has been generous.
I've learned more here.
And short of it. And short amount.
And he stops.
Taking more back than others.
Well, also, I mean, would we be able to come back
at some point?
And like, she's kind of like in the back of the room
and she over the course of the nine days
has gotten work done on her other arm, her forearm
and it's like stars and stuff, and that's not weird.
But she also now has some piercings on her ears.
Oh.
They're like cute and dangly.
She's got a native.
And she like tucks her hair back,
and she like looks at the-
And this elf is doing this stuff?
Val pierced my ears, yeah.
Val? Val?
Yeah. He did not do my tattoos, but- Is it ears. Yeah. Val? Val?
Yeah. Uh, he did not do my tattoos, but...
Is it short for Valtrex?
Oh, sorry.
Pick up that.
There's no reason that would be true.
It says, I am Valtrex. I pierce ears.
I understand you and Valtrex. Oh's it was quite a
You did
It sounds like an elf name
I heard my name
Tell me you do not mean to leave
Tell me I could have a son by you.
She like whispers.
She like whispers. Valtryx Jr.
No.
A half dosage of Valtryx.
She like whispers at Brother Ami,
and she's like, just like, I don't think
I've liked anyone like him before.
Oh my.
I hadn't noticed, I'm sorry.
My powers have grown since I've been here.
I feel like...
Happier?
You do say more yourself.
I don't know why, my body still feels angry.
My brain feels happier.
Are you saying you want to stay?
I don't know.
Can we come back?
Zephyr, it was...
unthinking of me to...
speak for you, of course. If you wanted to stay, there would be no shame in that at all.
You are with... you would be left with...
an incredible people, an impressive culture, where you could thrive.
I love it here.
I would certainly not begrudge any of you if you wanted to stay.
But what about Dr. Vittleson?
We can't abandon the Doctor.
We also have the mystery of what happened to us, all of us.
This is Soloth.
Who did this?
Perhaps solving it bonds us.
Not the most important thing.
Perhaps happiness.
Closure.
A feeling like you've found a home.
Yeah, having a... nine days off...
Uh, has really rejuvenated me.
Zephyr, I wouldn't be grudge if you wanted to stay, but...
Buggles is right.
You all have a mission. a mission I hope to join.
But the mission only needs one of us to report-
Whose side are you on?
Yes.
Simply talking it out, Bonds,
I think that it is a valid question,
and he turns back to Lillie.
This method of transport that you have,
can we ever come back?
have, can we ever come back? It would be
a nice thought to
think that that could be true. I imagine
if you got here and if we are able to send you back, then yes,
perhaps a method for you to return some day may be available,
but as I will be staying here, it would not be a method for you to return someday may be available, but as I will be saying here
It would not be a method that I could provide
Well have to connect with a scholar on your world to possess the same knowledge. We are
About to go directly into the plot of Stargate right now. Yeah
So he's like well. I I hadn't even thought of that. Leli, you should come.
You should come with us. You could you could seek Leric Galarian. You could work on that side for a
way to return. I'm sure of all people you could figure it out. And then there would be a pathway
between our worlds.
Could be our Kurt Russell.
Our James Spader.
James Spade.
Yes, more like our James Spade.
I had never thought of doing such a thing.
I just feel as if my work belongs here with my people.
I would be leaving them without someone of my abilities.
Though we have sages who possess knowledge far greater than mine,
my specialty is quite unmatched here amongst my people.
Have we found in these nine days that none of the other elves speak a strong, common...
Not as strong, as sure, and genteel.. Some better than others though. Are they training?
Are a lot of them training?
Like are there classes of, you know, 20 of these elves learning common?
Or is it not a priority?
You know, you've probably been here for about two weeks at this point since first contact.
And I bet you they've been a lot more interested in it.
And they're really smart and can pick up things fast.
There's also spells that they can cast on each other to quickly learn things.
So there are some that are learning at a faster rate than others.
And maybe some of the older people are like, not interested.
Yeah.
I have a question about the risks of transport. Yes.
What do you have any suspicion what that might be just in terms of
would this be physical or mental harm?
I do not know.
Physical harm is not out of the realm of possibility, but I imagine that would be an extreme consequence.
How immediate is your communication with Sakawachi?
Could we send a test subject across and see what happens?
My connection with Sakawachi ended when it ended, but that link is still there.
I have tried to communicate with them since, and there has been no response.
However, I do feel as if the connection is still alive.
Whatever Sakawatchee did has linked my telescope to theirs. This might be an ethically gray area,
but we do have a very eager...
hedgehog.
I'd be willing to subject.
But the fact is,
from what you're saying,
we would not know if the teleportation
was successful or not on our end.
Well, you would know.
I would not, I would think.
Well, I'm saying if I passed through alone,
the rest of us would be in the dark.
No one else would know what happened to me.
Right, if you were to vaporize.
Unfortunately, would not know.
We would not know.
Also, the way I believe this to work is that we will take apart my telescope, haul it to
the light-line gondola, and then I, along with some of my acolytes, will transport the
telescope with you and your key back to the gate that you came through. I will reconstruct the telescope there and using your key and the power of the Ayudhara
that brought you here, triangulate.
If my belief is correct, there will be a yes, if my calculations.
Sorry, this is not my first language.
Please don't say this is just your belief.
Sorry, this is not my first language. Please don't say this is just your belief.
Well, a little bit of both involved.
It should be a short window with which you will have to decide if you walk through or not.
Yeah, when the planets align in the right way, right?
And should you decide to stay, any of you. You need not all go, but
I'm assuming you'll be taking the key with you.
That would be safest.
Once the key is gone,
I will not have a means to reopen the portal.
So should you stay, you are with us.
And who knows, maybe a day will come
when you will have the option to return home.
But I wouldn't keep that hope as part of your decision.
Did they say Skywatch that's in Brevoi?
That's where we're headed?
That's where we would be headed?
Yeah, I'm trying to remember from your original conversation, Sakkwachi claimed to be sending
a message from a city on Galerion called Skywatch, which resides somewhere in Brevoi, which is on the edge of the Crown of the World.
This would be for anyone keeping track. This would be the furthest east that we've ever gone on the network.
Brevoi. This is also eastern Brevoi, which is basically the most Russia of all the Russian analogues on Galarian.
Like Siberia?
Yeah, yeah.
Huh.
It's actually, yeah, it's more, not quite like Siberia
because it's like further east, but it's like, yeah.
So, I mean, wait, this is further east than like,
Kadira?
Yeah, I think so.
It's far north of the River Kingdoms
and southeast of Mendev.
Yeah.
My concern.
Along the Ice rime peaks.
I guess this can be Barnes' concern, is that if the connection has been severed and there was some sort of
connection, there's some sort of mission, you know, Sakawatche was claiming to, you know, quell or
defeat a great evil that had been housed there.
or defeat a great evil that had been housed there.
My concern is that Sakawatchi is involved in whatever group was involved in pulling all of us
on the missing moment.
Wait, is that a concern?
I would consider that a boon
because they would have information.
Well, the information would be great,
but the fact that they captured a whole bunch of people
and imprinted us with the sign of Arroyo.
Soyo. Soyo. Bronson Arroy us with the sign of Arroyo.
Asoyo.
Bronson Arroyo.
Bronson Arroyo.
Yeah, don't start that again.
Also, did A'leli make it clear what the plan is for the Black Frost Whale?
No.
Okay, so then Alistair-
A'leli doesn't know.
We have to figure that out on the other side.
All the Asoyo stuff is new to A'leli as well.
Okay.
In the past week, Gentheal and you guys
have been catching her up on your conversation
with Iscariot.
But she doesn't have a- That was all knowledge
that only Gentheal knew from bedtime stories
is what they were telling him.
But there's no feeling of like,
you either need to recapture it or destroy it.
Like is one better than the other?
This is all later.
Okay.
I think that right now our only decision
is go or stay. Like attempt to go or stay. There is no other method to go. There's no way to
land somewhere else in Galarian right now. We have to go. We should be prepared. Totally.
We should be prepared for danger for sure. And then Zephyr has to decide. And I think
that Brother Amias would make every effort to not pressure you into coming.
I think he would make it clear that the mission did not require you to come.
I think that Buggles would be on your other shoulder.
Like he would not want to lose you and He also I think he feels the sense of gratitude towards dr. Riddle son
Chief among all of you for sort of saving his life after what happened to him
So what he really what like he feels an attachment to Zephyr that he would not want to lose
So he would be guilting you into coming with us
that he would not want to lose. So he would be guilting you into coming with us.
This tall, handsome elf that looks like Thomas Hiddleston
comes over.
Zephyr, may we speak?
Fuck.
Oh, Valtryx, you scared me.
Sorry, I could tell that you were
having a serious conversation, but Zephyr,
I must talk with you.
Oh, OK.
He's just constantly putting chapstick on.
Zephyr.
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Zephyr. What is the reference? I don't get it.
It's a movie?
Zephyr!
Listen, I know we just met, but I feel as if you are at home amongst my people.
I would be remiss if we lost out on this opportunity together.
I, Valtryx's son, Valtor, have dreamed of a day such as this and our connection is so pure.
Do you mean to leave?
I don't know. I'm a bit torn. I've had fun on these down days with everyone and with you.
Yes. There could be many more years of fun.
What are you showing her?
I had to Google it.
No. Don't show her.
God, what are you showing her?
I had to Google it. It's a medicine?
Yes, what he's saying, you should probably know this information.
Yes.
What he's saying is he has herpes.
I think it's very telling that...
He's the cure for herpes.
I don't know.
He is herpes.
He's herpes.
No, he's Valtryek, son of Valtryek.
And he is herpes. He is not herpes. No, he's Valtryek, son of Valtryek. And he is in love.
And he is in love, damn it.
Wait, is that my glass? Don't touch my glass.
Please don't.
So much chapstone.
Okay.
Sefa, these Bloskieluwin winds leave my lips dry.
Stay with me.
I'm asking you.
I don't love that dry... mouth.
I mean, I still have to go at least to...
the gate, because I have the key.
Right, yes.
I don't know.
I will trust you to make the decision that you must make in your life.
Just know, if you choose to return, I will be waiting here for you.
Valtrex, the son of Albor.
Valtrex will be with you for your entire life, one way or another.
Just know, it is as if I will be in your pocket at all times at all times You never know you'll never be able to get rid of this
I'll be with you always okay in times of stress. I will be with you
The holidays surround family I will be with you.
Okay, well, you know what?
I'll let you know.
She's thinking like, you know, now that I'm not high or drunk. In times of stress.
I didn't notice how dry his mouth was before.
I will appear I didn't...
...ruin all of your family photographs.
And you will know that I am there.
Yes.
I never knew that I am there.
It's a still herpes joke.
It's all unclear.
It's all unclear.
It's very ambiguous.
Did that make your choice easier?
Well, I definitely can't stay with him now that he's ruined as a character Yeah, no, I don't think he's run. He sounds he sound you can be extremely handsome. It's love herpes. Yeah
Really handsome it also is helpful for shingles. Yeah, yeah, lots of applications for Valtrye. Oh
I thought you said herpes was good for
Oh, I thought you said herpes was good for shingles. No.
No.
I guess they cancel each other out.
What is happening?
He's like, well, the good news is
we can treat your chicken pox.
Well, before Val became Valtrex,
what I imagined was, you know,
she doesn't remember her connection, really.
You can't imagine a herpes-riddled elf?
I didn't think that it would become that.
Is that not in your picture?
I got so confused.
I was imagining like she does not remember
how it felt with Ollie.
Yeah.
She does remember him rejecting her,
but being like, why was I so upset by that?
He was just kind of like a nerd.
This would be like an opportunity, like a new romance.
Yeah.
It could start fresh without any of the baggage that you had.
So like to her now, she's like, oh, I've never
liked someone like this before.
This is all new and fun and cute,
but there's part of this, her deep down,
like her mind forgot, but like her body didn't, I guess.
And it's like, just screaming no a bit,
like one don't. The body keeps the score.
Yeah, a bit.
So that's why I was trying to like,
think that her struggle was with that.
But you know, now that his mouth is dry and no, no, no.
I mean, he's just he's he's very handsome and he's he's a good guy.
You know, they're for you.
And he gave me all these cool special earrings.
That's my act.
As he walks away, he produces a flower that for some reason
strikes you as important. but you don't know why
if for some reason you choose not to return to me my people take this and
remember me always she like looks at it and she's just like like she's holding
it like it could catch on fire at any moment
And she doesn't really know why
It makes her feel weird even though it's very pretty
But she tries to stuff that down and be cool in front of this guy. She's like, thank you so much. It's so pretty
one last kiss
You put the chapstick on
Okay, thank you.
He lints it.
I'm gonna see that face you just made my nightmare.
No, it wasn't that.
You were like one eye half open.
There it is.
I can see that.
No.
You are standing there kind of trying not to listen to this,
giving Zephyr space to talk with Valtryx.
Yeah, yeah, brother Avius is like,
should we tell her?
And-
You're the doctor.
Asta.
She's happy.
Austin Barnes, you feel.
Too late anyway.
He really will be with her always.
Brother Avius says under his breath, under his breath, he really will be with her always. Brother Heaviest says under his breath, under his breath, he really will be with her.
You're standing there trying not to eavesdrop, but also kind of caught up in what's going
on over there.
And then Barnes and Asta, you feel this like tightness around your legs and you look down and it's Hubert Hedge. He says, are we ready to go?
Yes, Hubert, we have to travel.
Do you have all your things, Hubert? Are you packed?
I do. I do. Just have me knickers.
I just picked up sort of a little handkerchief tied to the end of a stick.
Yes.
You have your bindle?
I do have my bindle. I pack the light, as it were. a stick. Yes. You have your Bindle? I do have my Bindle.
A Pact of Light, as it were.
I have the dagger, yes.
You still have the dagger.
You have the dagger?
Yes, yes.
Happen to find any runes while you're out there?
No, no runes.
Probably could help you a little bit more.
So journey ahead.
Could be some dangers.
Was dangerous getting here.
Could be dangerous going back.
Hubert?
Yes?
We have to talk to you.
Ew, all right, we should talk right after this break.
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All right. So yeah, Hubert's
standing there and he's like, ready to go, ready to go, check out your world. Heard it
might die, but I'm up for it. Anything's better than night hold and as much fun as I've had
here amongst these elves. I'm kind of ready to see what your world is like. Sounds pretty
nice. Hubert. Yeah? You have to be very careful when we go to Galarian. Oh, yes. Gotta be careful lots of danger thieves
No
not thieves
We are going because we have a
Problem we're solving. Oh, yes like a puzzle as it were sure
Yeah, used to do some puzzles just grab a bunch of of rocks, throw them on the ground, find an order.
The puzzle is our problem, Hubert, if you understand what I'm saying.
I think I understand what you're driving at there.
Yes.
Alright, no.
I'm glad you brought it up.
Sort of the elephant room, as it were.
What do you think I'm talking about here?
Well, it seems as if I want to carry my weight around here.
Your problems are my problems.
Got it?
All good.
I'm with you.
I, uh, I accept.
I'll accept what you're saying.
If you've got a problem, if somebody's after you, trouble, I'm your man.
So you will...
What exactly will you do?
Roll initiative.
Uh, sure, I'll take the initiative whenever I can yeah sure and you will use the dagger. We got you
There's a little girl right here. Oh, you're talking about if we get into a scrape
I'll be there for more support. That's for sure
Be there to help
After the battle's done. Cheer you up with a song maybe a leg rub
What are you getting out of hanging around us?
I don't get it.
There's family.
What not?
It's nice to be part of a, I say family, group.
I like having friends, being around people.
It's nice.
I think we have a bit of a responsibility towards Hubert.
I mean, you're the ones, he guided us when we first met him, to a certain extent.
And we've saved his life.
And we can't just let him go.
Like, he clearly can't take care of himself.
So we have to we have to take him with us, preserve him.
That's all we can do.
He's not asking for anything in return.
Brother Talitha Dwight, it's very sad.
Glad I could be a little help doing that.
Wish I could have saved her.
But, uh...
You could have saved her.
No, no, but I would have tried.
Yes, of course you would have, Hubert. You saved me.
And I am, of course, very grateful. And Buggles, of course, you are right.
Wise beyond your ears, as always.
And...
Hubert...
And... Hubert...
You cannot say whatever comes into your mind the moment it comes into your mind.
In this place where we are going.
We don't know these people.
We must proceed carefully.
And so discretion...
Silence...
Will be much appreciated.
If you wish to help us with our problem,
the best thing you could do is stay silent and learn.
We'll be doing much the same.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
I think so.
Listen.
Yes.
Learn. Yes. If we fall in love, so be it. Yes. Learn.
Yes.
If we fall in love, so be it.
Yes.
No.
Let love blossom as it will.
Well, I mean, Hubert's brand of love may not be accepted widely where we're going.
You have to stop fucking rocks and plants and-
Yes, not to put too much-
Rocks and plants and-
With a tear rolling out her cheek.
You have to stop fucking rocks and plants and- And defecating over ledges. Yes, not to put too much on the point, but with a tear rolling out her cheek.
Enough to scuff fucking rocks and plants.
And defecating over ledges.
Stop shitting off of cliffs.
Stop masturbating off of cliffs.
Yes, I am.
Gets all that time alone.
Please stop.
I didn't really learn decorum.
Everyone, literally, and he looks around.
Everyone in the village could see you.
And that's something you don't do in your world.
No. You don't just whip it out of town.
You don't see us do that.
It's frowned upon in most places. I've never been to Brafoy, but I can't imagine it's much different.
Sounds very prudish.
And here they only did it for one night during a party.
That's right, I saw they had gotten involved.
Yeah.
Hubert, it's safe to assume that if you upset the wrong person
by saying the wrong thing, they could kill you. Oh. On the spot. It's their type of place, is it?
It could be a lawless land. We don't know. We won't be able to protect you, Hubert.
All right, I think I'm getting the gist of what you're saying. Just tread carefully. Tread carefully.
Listen, learn. And don't walk anywhere without Asta going first or Barnes going first before you.
Let them pave the way.
Right.
Safety behind them.
Safety behind them.
Don't touch my wee willy walker.
Yes.
And you were right, Hubert.
We are...
And she looks over towards Zephyr, who's talking to Val, and she says a little bit louder,
a family, and we stay together.
Yes.
No matter what.
No matter what.
So if you are coming along, Hubert,
certainly Zephyr is coming.
All right. Well,, should we... should we embrace?
It is of course her choice!
We should a little embrace, a little something to seal the deal.
We could just kind of embrace here.
Yes, group hug.
Barnes, bring it in. Don't be so shy.
Oh Barnes! You got a little comb like me?
BLEH
Hahahaha
We have to see a little mirror to go with a little comb.
Zephyr we're doing a huddle.
Yes an itchy huddle.
Group hug Zephyr please.
Just a moment Valtryx.
I'm sorry about that.
I'll be right back.
I understand.
Take your time.
We're doing a group hug.
Yes, bring it in for the real thing.
Okay.
Let's make it fast.
Keeping our hips out of the circle.
This is nice.
Not gonna talk about what's happening to me.
Okay.
I'm done and the hug is over.
Didn't say it, didn't say it.
Just listened and learned.
We'll see you in a minute, Hubert.
Lily, let's go, as soon as possible. All. All right, he does anymore damage to a civil thing
Yes, I didn't say anything did you implied you didn't sorry. Oh look at that
I'll be back. Can I go say goodbye to an old friend?
What's up in the bushes? Where are you going? Just gotta say goodbye to me old?
Wallet in the bushes. Where are you going? Just gotta say goodbye to me, old Wall of Chain. Go, now, go.
Now, now.
Now, let me just.
Wait, wait, we have to.
Fuck off, fuck off.
We have to deconstruct the telescope.
And we could.
It's going to be a seven day journey to the other side.
We could.
We could do five encounters before we get back to the game.
We gotta fight the big snail again.
We have to fight the big snail again.
Goddamn snail.
Tomorrow morning, let's meet at the Lightline Gondola and we will load it and head back
to the archway from which you entered our world.
Say the goodbyes that you need to say, if you feel as if it will be goodbye.
And I will let Jenthil know what the plan is.
They will not escort us.
Alright.
Because they're mad at us?
No, I did not say that.
Why wouldn't we say goodbye to Genthy ourselves?
You may.
I'm just saying you might want to say goodbye as...
They do not like us or something?
They will.
No, I didn't.
They don't like us?
Get that.
They just, they're not...
Who met their mother?
They won't be making the journey.
They think we smell bad?
They did not, they never said such a thing.
It's a jungle planet.
I think it's Hubert.
We're still adjusting.
Oh, you...
They don't like Hubert very much.
Probably Hubert actually. They're just not coming. adjusting. Oh, they don't like Hubert very much. Probably Hubert, actually.
They're just not coming.
They've got a lot going on.
We all have a lot. I'm gonna say goodbye to them,
if that's all right. Yeah, I'm gonna say goodbye to them.
Again, we're not leaving till tomorrow morning.
So I'm gonna say my goodbyes now,
that wouldn't be a problem.
No, no, please.
I'll see you in the morning.
I go to.
Just say goodbye to Jenthil.
I go as well.
I'd like to see Jenthil.
Come on, Buckles.
Jenthil's talking toil. I go as well. I'd like to see Jenthil. Come on, Buckles. Jenthil's talking to someone.
It's like, oh, hello.
What, what's up?
Hex.
Well, we are.
Still here.
We're departing tomorrow morning.
Ah, departing.
So Lillie discovered a way to send you home.
Yes, it seems that way.
Good.
We'd like to say thank you for your hospitality.
Yes, and you're taking the hedgehog.
Yes.
Yes.
Good, good.
Thank you for your hospitality.
I just want to say.
Yes.
I didn't grow up in a jungle climate.
Sometimes it takes a minute to get it adjusted,
your body chemistry to a new place.
Pfft.
I mean, thank you.
Yes, yes.
Would you like to speak in private?
No.
No?
I think I've said what I needed to say, right?
What is it?
What? What are it? What?
What are you talking about?
You know, we all needed the time to get adjusted.
We did go on a quest for you, multiple quests for you,
that incurs a little bit of sweat.
Yes, of course.
All natural part of being in the jungle.
I just don't think anyone should be punished for that.
No, no, that won't be necessary.
So you're not coming with us tomorrow?
No, no, no, my place is here,
but I'm glad you came and thanks.
Could I come by later to collect?
All of your things.
Sell them.
No, the potions.
I will have someone bring it to your hovel.
I have plans this evening.
At dinner reservation?
No, no.
Anything else?
Is anyone mad at me?
Say hi to your mother for me, all right?
Yeah, I'm going to go down there. Say hi to your mother for me, alright?
Yeah, I'm going to go down there.
Say hello to your mother for all of us.
She really wants to talk to you.
Yeah, well, I had a birthday house last week.
It's been nine days, you didn't go in the time?
I should have.
We cleared it out for you.
I've been so busy, I had a reservation.
Lots of room.
It's actually very interesting. Anyhow, I have to go, but thank you.
Thank you for the time that you've spent here.
Asta would like to go in for a hug.
Oh, all right.
Do they hug me?
Okay, that's very loose and clammy.
All right.
Made her feel worse.
Yes, thank you again. I have to go. All right. Made her feel worse. Yes. Thank you again.
I have to go.
Thank you.
He just like walks five feet away.
Starts talking to a tree.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Zephyr looks at Gentile and looks at Asta and was,
it's just like, I don't know what this feeling
is coming from, but I wanna fight him for you.
Yeah. Yeah. What? Stay your hands. Zephyr. It's just like, I don't know what this feeling is coming from, but I want to fight him for you.
Stay your hands.
Who say? Oh, Valsor or Valtrix?
Gentil is a complicated being.
Do not fret if they seem to stand offish.
Not for nothing.
Not like Gentil smells like roses all the day long.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Draw your last knight here, no settlement.
All right.
Have to quiet knight in.
Quiet knight in.
We wake up next morning and go.
You wake up next morning and go.
Yeah, we leave, we leave.
All right.
Lele, a handful of her fellow sages, and Hubert, meet you at the light line gondola heading
out of Los Kiolua, and the sages carry with them a massive deconstructed telescope.
Lele says, I know you faced trouble from predators on your journey to our settlement, but the
size of our group will likely scare them off.
I don't want you to be afraid.
We are large in number and though we are not fighters, the beasts of the forest do not
know that.
Ah, here it comes.
And all the elves kind of gather around.
Gentheal, Valtryx, others.
Valtryx is coming.
Valtryx is just watching as you step onto the platform, load up the telescope, get on
with Hubert, the sages, and the Lely.
And after, I was in like 90 seconds or so,
I can't remember how long, five minutes, six minutes,
it starts to go back up.
Up, right?
So, they all wave, just like they waved
when you came in to greet you.
You leave settlement.
Valtryx.
The listening audience.
Troy is applying chapstick.
You should go back to YouTube and watch the constant creepy over application of
Certain point like if you put you saw how much chapstick it just kind of it's worse
I think it makes it believe very strongly that if you put use such, how much chapstick, it just kind of, it's worse. I think it makes it worse.
I believe very strongly that if you use any, it's worse.
No, you should never use it.
If I use a little bit of chapstick,
it immediately, everything becomes worse.
My lips get dried out and I have to like keep using it.
It's made to become addictive, it's horrible.
Figure it out.
You. It's the. Oh. Figure it out. You...
It's the cocaine of facial moisture.
You're on the platform, it's going up, and if you remember it was a few hours I think
from top to the bottom.
Yeah, because we talked a lot. You guys had like had a moment and started to reconcile.
We fought and made up and fought and made up and fought and made up and now?
Fighting again.
Fighting again.
Fighting again.
People won't make up. We keep an eye out of course for those horrifying birds oh yeah
constantly watching brother amethyst is on guard like but you also see and you
you know now that there is a built-in failsafe that if you were to fall off
you just get thrown right back on hey Hubert I'll have a little fun
near near it's all right lost my lunch last time that haven't could always try
doing something new I'm not going to do that over the edge very good there we go lunch last time that haven't. Could always try doing some- Nope.
I'm not going to do that over the edge. Very good.
There we go.
You're very good.
This will be fun to see though.
I think Zephyr might be.
And just like-
Just peeing over the edge?
No, just doing flips, like jumping off and then doing flips back up.
Oh yeah, that's fun.
She's good at athletics and stuff, I don't know.
It's like bungee jumping.
Yeah.
You're like, I'll be fine.
See, it's funny. How do I know how it works? It's like bungee jumping. Yeah, you're like I'll be fine Fun
Zephyrs bodies just dashed across the rock
We turn that off sweet tricks and shows up dead
Never really talked about this with you all, but what is?
your home like
Made it sound dangerous
Closed-minded people and whatnot.
Oh, the truth is we don't know where we're going.
Why do you want to go there?
We are trying to pursue answers to questions.
Questions about what happened to us.
And as a result, we need to go to a place where we know no one.
And on our world, sadly sadly that can be a dangerous
thing but I have found that using discretion speaking respectfully being
polite can help a great deal
all right keeping your privates in your pants yeah Yeah, it's weird. As a default.
That's kind of the way you think.
I've been alone for a long time.
Yeah, just me and Susan.
Yes.
Now that mother's no longer around.
Just, she used to walk in on me.
When she left, I said, well now,
I can do it anytime I want.
No one's gonna say, oh my god, Heavitt!
What are you doing? I don't know. So it was wrong then to, No one's gonna say oh my god
So it was wrong then to you're saying that you just did it because your mother left So it was you know about social man when she passed it was just Susan and I see is it mind
How long have you been alone for I don't know if we ever asked how long you were alone for Oh
At least 30 years how old are you Hubert. Oh, I've at least 30 years.
How old are you, Hubert?
Oh, I don't know.
Time moves differently where I'm from,
but I feel as if mother's been gone for
what you would think is 30 years.
So I've just been doing what I do for a long time. No one really told me that I
shouldn't until I met you. It's good. Glad I did. Glad I've got someone to teach me how
to be a man.
Well, maybe you're not as weird as you could have been being alone for 30 years.
Yeah, actually, you're sad. You're kind of okay.
You're quite well adjusted considering.
Considering 30 years of solitary confinement.
Yeah, well I had Susan a lot.
Right.
A lot of thanks goes to her.
She was, she is quite a woman.
Yes, they are already.
We miss her.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe I'll see her someday.
Maybe someday we can go and bring her back and we could all live together in your world.
That would be nice. Yeah.
Maybe there are magics that could bring mother back.
That would be nice.
Haven't seen her.
Seen all kinds of magic since we met.
What happened to your mother?
She just went to sleep one day.
Never woke up. And to wake up. Yeah. What happened to your mother? She just went to sleep one day. Never woke up.
And to wake up.
Yeah.
What happened to her body?
Well, I just thought maybe she had been her drinking.
So I let her sleep there for a little bit.
Kept tricking her mother.
Time to get up.
Time to go look for some food.
She just kept sleeping.
And I realized she wasn't sleeping.
So I buried her.
That must have been difficult.
Was but that's when I met Susan.
You better wall you were burying your mother.
It's all right.
Let's dig in a hole and
I felt something in the ground that was stopping my passageway
into the earth. And it was Suzy. So in
a way, she helped me during that difficult time. Him.
Oh my god, that's so sad. Oh my god, I feel so bad.
Asta whispers to Zephyr, she hears Zephyr whispering.
He's so fucked up.
He's so fucked up.
Yeah.
I feel bad, I feel...
I feel bad.
No.
No.
What?
You crawl over and whisper to him.
What?
Get out of here!
Don't.
I feel bad.
Horrible things happen to a lot of people.
Horrible things happen to us.
We're not fucking plants.
We're not getting banished by the kindest people we've ever met.
Because they can't live with us.
That's shitting off promontories.
There's no excuse.
Now, it's tragic. Yes. Should we help him? Yes.
None of this excuses his horrifying behavior.
It's not that it excuses it, it's just like, you know, empathy and understanding maybe how he got there.
That's all.
I do understand a bit more how he got there That's all I do understand a bit more how he got there. Maybe as he could have been a child
When his mother died, yes, he found the rock burying his mom like and he fell in love
He was doing he was doing it
before she died I'm not paying attention. Listen to the detest. Listen to the detest. Oh
Toot it out of my unit hole We're either. We're either. We're the other elves doing? Are they all like.
Just all in like one corner.
Came away from us.
You start to see in the distance that, that quarry.
It's our third episode of the day.
People might be a little fun day.
You see that quarry up ahead, remember, is like, that's where you jumped onto the platform
to avoid, you know, sort of,
attracting the ire of those stone guardians
that Barnes first saw when he came here.
I should have asked that.
You know, like Avilele, like, she's with us now?
Yeah.
So you have a means to make sure
the Guardians won't attack you.
Do you speak with them?
Do you have a shared language with them?
Our casters created these Stone Guardians
to help with the quarry long ago.
It is my understanding that as long as we keep
our distance from them,
they will not bother us. So when we arrive at the platform, we will have to
figure out the best means of doing so. But we may have to think quickly. Let me
consult my sages.
When we arrived, we jumped from the ledge off to the side, the ledges off to the
side of the quar is off to the side
of the quarry, onto the platform.
I don't know if my sages would be as agile.
We have to take all the equipment.
I'm sure there's a way that we can subdue them.
Yes, this is a concern.
Let's see.
We didn't plan for this.
It's interesting in the meta, the meta assumes you killed them already.
Yeah, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, huh, but I mean you would think they created them. Well you think yeah
They would have some means to- But the encounters did encourage us to skip a bit after the snail
It's like hey, you don't have to fight everything. So I think we felt that way
Yeah, I think somebody died and we were like think I think it's planned that you fight them
That's the plan, but we certainly can
Try our magics to subdue them try yes
Yes, I'm sure I'm sure that we can deactivate. I'll take this man. Well so I will consider no try I
Will consult with the cool icon all I will consult. There is no try. I will consult with them.
Cool, O'Conn, all right.
There is no try.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Let's go to...
Oh no.
The map.
It's an encounter?
It could just be a flavor map, you don't know.
I thought this was just... It's not a flavor map.
Role play town population five.
Role play town.
Six, you're included Troy.
There you all are.
Cool.
There I've added a lele.
Oh wow, remember this guys?
Wow.
Which one's Val?
I've added, Val's not there.
Oh, Val's not there.
Yeah, but there's a lele.
You'll see right to the right of Brother Ramius
and then there are four sages.
Oh, come on.
Of course, Hubert.
Okay.
And as you pull into the quarry,
there is no sight of the stone guardians.
That's not good.
And the lele says the same.
That is strange.
They have been programmed to work the quarry.
Let's move with haste, but be careful.
Barnes, keep an eye out. Do you see anything?
I'll do a Perception check.
I'm gonna do a Perception 2, scanning the trees along the ledge that overlooks this quarry.
22 Perception.
Same.
Natural 20!
Yeah!
Perception 24. Wait, sorry 20. Yeah. Perception.
24.
Wait, sorry, what did you get, Barnes?
22.
22, okay, and what'd you get there, Brother Ramius?
24.
24, Bugles?
25 for Bugles.
25 for Bugles, okay, and does Zephyr and Ostaril?
I did 22 also.
Natural two, don't even look at me.
What would that be a total?
Nine.
Nine. Or seven. Seven for us. Curious that be a total nine nine or seven seven for us
Curious that he wants to know that it's initiative. It's what all those perception checks were because I would have rolled better as
Yeah, I would have lied would exerted myself so much harder
As the light line gondola pulls into the station and you look around all of a sudden you see up the path leading up just like the two guardians emerge from
the woods and they're like running at you like terminators and LL is like
something is wrong and I already have your initiative so let's just get into
it. Buggles you see this first. Oh my first. What do you do? How far away are they? There they are. They run into the bottom
of the quarry here. Something is wrong. Something is wrong. So that one that's closest to you
is about, oh, I just want to move you, is about, oh, 55 feet away and 65 feet away, respectively.
Okay, I, Buggles is, you know,
he lifts up his hands to his temples
and he is going to do a frostbite attack.
Please give me a fortitude save.
Okay, left or right one?
The closer one. The closer one okay Fortitude
save is going to be pretty darn good a 25. Okay that is a basic success so you take a total of
four points of damage. Okay and that's cold damage. Cold damage. Seems to all affect it. Great it is now
Brother Ramius's turn. Brother Ramius across the guy to hand and he's gonna cast Bless
immediately. Everybody in this party at the moment and then he will take a step up behind
Barnes. I mean it's only gonna reach 15 feet so that still keeps Zephyr in it, which is important.
And but yeah, Barnes, if you rush out of that 15 foot range,
you won't have blessed just FYI.
OK, that's his turn.
Barnes, you're on the platform.
Yeah.
Off of the platform, I should say,
and on top of the ramp leading down into the quarry.
Based on that perception check, do I
get the sense that they are charging at us
or they're running from something?
They look to be charging at you.
Now remember, they don't have,
they have like orbs for heads.
One is the sun and one is the moon.
And so there's no features to discern,
but it seems like they're coming at you aggressively
with war hammers in hand.
All right, I will exploit vulnerability.
Okay.
Okay, that's gonna be a 23. Nice. 23. That's good. So that's success? Yeah. All right, and then I
also get the recall knowledge from that. Okay, and with the
success I know their... Greatest weakness. Okay, they don't have weakness, but you do
learn something from that, and what you would learn is their immunities
So that's what I'm gonna tell you.
Bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, mental, non-lethal,
paralyzed, poison, sickened, spirit damage, unconscious, vitality and void damage.
Whoa.
Alright, we have to run away.
That's their immunities?
Yeah, these are constrictorates. Oh,, so like, so Divine Lance wouldn't do anything.
Not slashing, right? Uh, no, slashing looks to be good. Okay. Uh, you don't know its resistances,
you know its immunities. Oh, it has no spirit, so it can't. Bleed, death effects, doom, drain,
paralyzed, poison, sick. What is another good one, common one? I don't think any of them matter.
You should be fine.
If you look at it, it just affects me.
Vitality, Vitality, and Void.
And Spirit, yeah.
Okay, I'm going to-
So yeah, regular energy affects them.
Fire, electricity, Sonic.
Cool, cool, cool.
I'm going to send my last two actions to Ready in action.
Okay, what are you ready?
So if they come within range, I will-
Strike. Strike.
Okay, Zephyr, I will strike. Okay.
Zephyr, you're in the back.
You've got a ranged Jonski.
Oh, yep.
I share all that information.
So yeah, I figure she has her long bow out when we arrived here and the vibes are off.
Yep.
So let's see.
This one is 60 feet away, so she's going to move up 10 feet,
10 feet, and get into monastic archer stance. And I would like to do a key strike,
which is why I'm moving up into the first half
of my range increment.
So you see her, again, as normal,
her hand wraps start to glow a bit,
as she pulls back on the bow and takes a shot.
Flurry of blows.
Okay.
Come on, this would be big.
So the first one is 21 to hit.
21 is a hit.
Did you strike the one to the right or the left?
To the right.
Okay, same one that Buggles went after.
Second one is a 13.
13's a miss.
All right, so I do damage first
and then we do the Stunning Fist.
Yes, because you need to deal actual damage.
And stun wasn't in that list, right?
I don't think it should be necessary.
It seems like it's immune to anything
that deals with organs or spirit.
You know what I mean? Like it has no flesh and no spirit.
Right.
Max damage, eight points of damage.
Huge!
Okay, you see not all of that gets through.
Yeah, there's a natural hardness.
Some does get through, so it will roll against it.
Oh, and this is a key strike. I forgot I just did that.
So I made a hit, I get a plus one status boost with my attack rolls, it was fine.
And then I deal extra 1d6 damage
and I want to make it forest damage.
Okay.
And then an extra five points of forest damage.
Right through.
Light it up.
All right, now a fortitude save.
Fortitude save.
Natural one.
Oh, so you're stunned too.
Stunned too.
Wow.
Phenomenal, Zephyr.
You're a couple days off, just wondering.
Yeah!
Maybe it's the love that you feel.
Yeah, maybe you're glowing from that love.
All of a sudden you see a face in your mind.
Maybe it's the Valtrix.
It's a side effect of the love.
Side effect of Valtrix.
Side effects may include love.
An effect of Keese Trex.
An effect of Keese Trex.
All right, well, it is now...
Is that the end of your turn?
Yep.
Okay, well the one that both you and Buggles have hit,
it is their turn.
They are slow moving,
but let's see here, we're gonna move
20 feet over, and then we're gonna move
another 20 feet.
Wait, that's stun 2.
Oh, that's right, I can only move once. Yeah. I move once and then my stun goes down.
Well, actually my stun will go down by one
at the beginning of.
No, no, now you're done.
Yeah.
I'm still stunned one.
No, you're not.
You stunned two, you lost two actions.
That's right, now I'm stunned.
Okay, great.
All right, now.
You're no longer stunned, but your turn is a hoover.
Turns over.
Zephyr!
Amazing.
The other one is gonna close on the hook.
No, get on top of Barnes.
That'll activate my...
Yeah that'll activate your ready to action. Yep. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, where is he
going? Up the platform right at Barnes. Okay I'm not seeing it. Cool.
Natural three. Oh, Barnes-y! Oh it just comes with a war hammer on old Barnes.
That's a miss with a 16.
And it had to move twice to get up there.
So you guys are in good shape right now
and it's Asta's turn.
Asta, you're about 10, 15 feet away
from that one that just charged at Barnes.
Yeah.
Please help us.
Don't let it destroy the telescope.
Something is wrong.
Something is very wrong.
All right, she is going to...
You can do it.
He's squeezing your back of your calf.
You can do it, monster.
I believe it.
Just don't, don't, come on.
Thank you, Hubert.
Thank you, Hubert.
It's helping.
It's like a little massage.
I just don't want us to get bottlenecked here.
Yeah.
But I don't think she has another option at this model neck isn't bad
It's not bad for a large creature
Yeah, because it keeps the other one out like as long as we can only fight one at a time
Okay, but I can't flank. I'm gonna if you go there like if you go there the other one could hit could hit you
Next or it could move up and then yeah, okay. All right, so so also is gonna run the 10 feet south
next to Barnes and she is going to,
I'm just gonna Spellstrike.
Okay.
I'm just gonna try to Spellstrike.
I'm just trying to Spellstrike.
And I'm gonna do,
the bleed doesn't help in this situation,
so why don't I do the Phase Bolt?
So here we go, Spellstrike with her Katana.
See it. See it, come on. Ugh. the phase bolt so here we go spell strike with her katana see it see it
come on 17 oh no so absolutely wait did
you do bless oh 18 that's it
thank you I really forgot I know don't
you feel good when the bless is the difference maker?
Yeah, I love a good bless.
That's the difference.
Okay, so now katana damage, that's gonna be sweet.
That's gonna be 13.
13 points of damage?
13 points of damage.
All right, you see it doesn't all go through, but.
Okay, with the katana, and then the phase bolt
is piercing damage, and that's D4.
Okay, does all this damage come at once?
Yeah.
Or does it come...
This is an instance of damage.
Yeah, it's an instance of damage.
Ha ha ha ha!
We just...
A month ago we discussed this on fodder.
Twelve points of piercing.
Okay.
So nice.
You light this thing up.
Nice, that's great.
That was awesome.
Huge.
Both of you guys.
Yeah.
So that's two.
Um...
Oh yeah, you're still going.
I'm just gonna do a regular hit with the map.
Well, you moved though, right?
Ah, you're right, yes.
All right, top of round two,
it's Bugles turn Osigis laid into the sky.
And the other one's been hit too,
is stunned and slowly lumbering his way up the ramp.
Okay, Bugles is gone.
And the Kualu Khan emerges.
Ah, boom and ignition at the one that we've been hitting.
Oh my God, that is a 27 to hit.
No, 28.
Oh, 28.
That's a crit.
That's a crit.
That's a crit.
Yes.
Destroys its construct armor, lowering its AC even further.
I love that! I love that mechanic.
Oh, that's cool.
Okay, that is 38 points of damage.
I mean, you completely annihilate it.
Yes!
My...
We look so cool in front of ally right now and her sages.
Yeah, we look like we love what we're doing.
Yeah, the sages think this is how all our other fights work.
You are so powerful.
And then shield up again.
Shield comes out, Brother Ramious.
Brother Ramious, okay.
Mechanically, when you're ready in action, do you move in the initiative?
Oh wait, I can just see the initiative.
We're playing on Foundry BT John.
All right, so Ramius is gonna say.
Yeah, I just moved Barnsy.
You did move Barnsy?
Okay, so Ramius is gonna say,
Bonds, let's get this thing.
And he's gonna run past you.
Oh. Oh, whoa. and he's going to as one
action. Oh wait, first action he is going to, oh do I not have, that's what I don't
have. That's what I don't have. What? Guidance. I took it. Yeah, I didn't take it this day. I did not prepare it
Okay
So I just have a little bit of a
Wasted action here. All right, so he's gonna aid you in your attack. He's going to move up
And then he is going to expand the range of bless to 25 feet beautiful
So what he's doing is moving up so that everybody behind him still has it and then Barnes can move past him and still be
In it even 20 feet away awesome to fight the creature. All right, Zephyr
Um, all right. Let's see this one that's still up
40 feet away 40 feet away
Now she's good where she is cuz I'm just gonna do regular flurry of blows.
Okay.
Which does not apply to the first half range increment,
whatever.
So yeah, let's fucking go.
I'm gonna get some of my new dice and see what happens.
Please, please, please.
15 for the first one, which is definitely a miss.
Well 16 with the best.
No, it's not.
Oh, the other one is the one the Lord
Hold on one second
Because it has been reduced to less than half its hits points its its armor is down
No, no, that was the other one. No this one too. This one's down half its hit point. Yeah, who hit this one?
I hit it. Yeah, you you you told this was the one that you guys hit first. Yeah
this one. I hit it. Yeah, you you you took this was the one that you guys hit first. Yeah, so
that's all the two ways you can break the hardest a crit or taking it below half it's hit points and you did that so that's a hit. Okay awesome so that one's a hit the second one
probably not it's going to be like a 12. 12 is a miss. So damage, one, D, eight. And stunning fist.
And still stunning fist.
Oh yes.
Afterwards, five points of damage
and then stunning fist again, give me a fort save.
Give you a fort save.
Does it also lose its resistance to the core?
It loses its hardness.
Wow, its hardness.
My fort save is pretty good because it has high fort 20.
Just makes it, so you're fine.
OK, but it takes five points of damage and that all goes through.
That's one action.
And then my second action.
Brother Amius, what did she who did you want to give guidance to?
Give it to Asta.
I can do that.
Great. Val taught me how. So she gives guidance.
I'm trying to explain include guidance.
Explain include love.
Periodic guidance.
Reaches out her hand.
Her hand wraps a little bit.
That makes me include spontaneous casting.
And she gives you guidance.
Is this new? Is this a new thing?
It's from the, the Sky Sage.
Wait, which one?
Sky, Sky Sage.
What's, what?
Guidance?
Oh, the guidance. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very cool.
You get two cantrips.
And there's not a lot, you can choose some,
cause they have to be divination,
but one of them is guidance.
That's a great, that's a great.
And then I took another one.
It's a phenomenal like third action.
Third action, it's a perfect third action.
Ah, it's so great. So then I took another one. It's a phenomenal like third action. Third action, it's a great third action. Ah, it's so great.
So second action, give you some guidance,
and then third action, maybe aid Barnes?
Like. I'm aiding Barnes.
Oh, okay, you're aiding Barnes.
But we could both aid and see who gets better, you know.
Well, all of those people. Or you could aid Asta.
In the event that Barnes doesn't destroy it.
Guidance and aid.
Okay. Does that stat?
I let you know about how the defenses are down.
You have to look at what type of things those are.
Status bonus is guidance.
And what is aid?
Aid is a circumstance.
Okay, cool.
So I can get him separately.
I believe.
Let me just see.
You get a plus two circumstance bonus, yep.
Sweet.
All right, rock and roll.
It's Bonds' turn.
Roll to aid.
Tell me what you're doing.
Okay, so Bonds, let's get this thing.
He comes up, he expands the range of his bless and
It's not your turn. No, I know okay, and he is I'm just
Narrow-walking turn. Yeah. Yeah, so like as he comes up
He's just like come for me fool or something like that and just tries to distract it
Okay, by basically being silly. What skill you're on? He is going to just do an attack roll.
That's fine.
A basic attack roll.
Yeah, let's just do that.
Okay.
Here we go.
That was really weird.
Hopped up and out.
18.
All right, so plus one.
Okay, here we go.
You slide up with your first action, second action.
Okay. Plus.
With the bless.
Eight.
And it's plus one for the eight.
Plus one for the eight.
Okay, it's gonna be 25 to hit.
That's great.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Huge!
Yeah, this is fun.
Is this like a little soft off-lake?
Not a nat 20, though.
Just double damage, yep.
Okay.
You're waiting for me to read.
I was waiting for you.
Gotta roll a nat 20, dude.
Get some d6s.
Minimum damage.
Oh, snake eyes?
Yeah.
It's kind of cracked, but it's all right.
So that'll be 12 points of damage.
That's plenty to kill it.
Okay.
Wow, yeah.
Awesome.
Calm the stones, crumble.
Wow, I thought this was gonna be way tougher,
but like, but something is wrong.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, something is wrong here.
You get out of the combat and a levy. It's like that is that is
very strange. They were programmed to help and to
protect. That is why they were aggressive with you when first
you came. But they are not mindlessly aggressive. It seems
as if they've gone berserk.
Something is amiss.
We should be very careful.
Let's continue on.
The Sages.
Could they be... and he looks back at the Sages at A'leli.
Could they be reprogrammed, so to speak?
Could someone else, a powerful caster, bend them to their will?
A lully turns to the sages.
Hala Hoshi, anamalaka hatiya.
Nawa shayamaya, sanaboh shayamaya.
Oh, they're dying.
Sanaboh, sakata bi.
Parallelaling la, paralelaling la.
No.
Oh.
No, she's like, no, no, this, perhaps, yes, another stronger magic user could reprogram
them, but the sages believe it has something to do with the stars, perhaps, that perhaps
your work here has realigned things.
There is something perhaps in you that has changed our world.
But that is just a premonition by them.
Then we must hurry.
Yes, we should leave.
Let's go.
Shouldn't be here.
Jungle is dangerous enough.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Continue moving on. And we end
today's episode with the sound of water. Oh no. Oh no. No. Not that fucking snail again.
Hear water. Return to the river of death. You have to go the same way. The river of
blood. You hear water before you see it. and then we come down and we see this river of red.
We see the party in the distance coming up, bringing the telescope and we just pan over
until we see skeletal remains.
We'll see you next week.
Oh, God.
Honestly terrified.
This is great though. We can go get
the binoculars and the goggles.
We could go loot
her dead decomposed corpse.
We could get loot and revenge.
Yes. Revenge will be nice.
Revenge will be nice.
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