The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 105 - Slag Film

Episode Date: May 30, 2017

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast, a prophecy broken by fate. The prophecy spoke of four heroes reborn who would return to the cathedral in this age. They spoke of the young man. Yes, they spoke of the young man. He would bring the hammer. Here, I've seen it. A myth shattered and burned. It is said that Minderhall took the hammer of unmaking and smashed his first creation, Aduromi. She brought with her the secrets of the Fire Geodes. A great battle long forgotten.

And all of a sudden, a huge hill giant crests the hill. He's dressed in the armor that you now know as Asgroth's armor. Are forged into a powerful new destiny. The magic that will be unleashed will give you all the power you need to defeat Urathash. For those willing to embrace it. But if it's great power you seek, the power to move mountains, you must put your faith in Minderhall. The adventure continues.

Forget Minderhall, I pledge myself to Troy! Right now. Hey, what's up, guys? Welcome back to the Glass Cannon Podcast. It is your old buddy, Joe O'Brien, here to welcome you to another lovely day of gaming in the Pathfinder game system. I, for one, love Pathfinder and I'm very excited to play again this week. It is one of the joys of my life that I get to participate in this fantastic game. And today marks a very special day for all of us. Episode 105 is going to be a landmark episode of the Glass Cannon Podcast.

That's right. A landmark episode. And I do not say that lightly. I mean, we're talking about the ranks of episodes like episode 50, Flies, You Fools, episode 70, Gar and Away. We lose Galabras. Things are fundamentally different from that point on. Episode 70, Gar and Away. We lose Galabras. Things are fundamentally different from that point on.

And then you have lesser known milestone episodes like episode 17, which incidentally was the first episode where I finally figured out Syrinscape. marked a transition in the show that fundamentally changed what we were doing to a point that I knew the production values and the quality of the show was only going to increase from there. And that is how I feel again today. So, so many weeks later, so many moons later, I feel this same giddy excitement again as we enter another new era with the Glass Cannon Podcast. So as I'm sure most of you have seen, Troy LaValle was out in Seattle this past weekend at PaizoCon, putting up some Facebook Live videos showing us how much fun he was having out there. I was insanely jealous.

But Troy had the most wonderful things to say about the entire con. He was overwhelmed with how kind and thoughtful and welcoming all the Paizo people were. And outside of the Paizo employees, he was just overwhelmed once again by how awesome our listeners are. He said it was GCP live all over again. Those were his exact words, which to me means that he had yet another inspiring, engaging interaction with our listeners, which is so easy to do because our listeners are literally the best gamers in the entire world.

So he just had the best things to say about it. And one of the reasons that he was out there and he teased this a little bit in one video was to close a deal that we have been working on with paizo for the better part of a year and without getting into all the nitty-gritty about what that whole year dealt with i will sum it all up and say that after a year of negotiations about how we wanted to make the Glass Cannon into something that was valuable to Paizo, and how Paizo wanted to make the Glass Cannon something that represented Pathfinder to the world, we closed a deal that made the Glass Cannon podcast the first ever official actual play podcast of the Pathfinder game system. That's right.

You are now listening to the Glass Cannon podcast, an official podcast of the Pathfinder game system. Now, this news is hot off the presses, as it were, and is not something that has been publicized yet, even by Paizo, and won't be for a few weeks, from what I understand. I think they're trying to correlate it with our two-year anniversary, which is also coming up very soon. So you might not see anything from them just yet,

but we were physically unable to not tell you guys as soon as we knew that this episode was officially coming under the umbrella of the Paizo label. So an official Pathfinder podcast. What does that mean exactly? Does that mean that episode 105 is going to sound like a different episode than the episodes before it? No, not at all. It is us.

We're still doing the same thing. What it does mean, though, is that we are going to be able to reach people that we were never able to reach before. You guys have put us into this position to be able to get off this launching pad to the next level because it's you guys that spread the word of mouth. But now we will have the good name of Paizo behind us to push into new markets to globally spread the Glass Cannon Podcast even farther than it has already gotten. And who knows where we go from there. Right now, this is just day one. This is day one. So it is thrilling to be able to come up here and make this announcement to you guys and just let you know that we are constantly working hard to continue this show, to maintain a high quality on this show, and to work with the professionals in this business to bring all of you a quality piece of content every single week that you can rely on when you are commuting or going to school or blowing off class or sitting around with your friends or teaching somebody how to play in a new game of Pathfinder. That is what we want to do. And Paizo is only going to increase our ability to do that. So that is our big news this week.

Without any further ado, I'm going to let you get to the episode, which, by the way, is no slouch itself. This episode alone, from a narrative perspective, marks just like a total change in the game. So, I mean, there's just so much going on in 105. It is going to stand out as one of those episodes we remember for many, many years. So thank you guys for being with us this whole long, long journey to get here. But we reached the pinnacle here and have realized that we have more mountains to climb, and now we're really going to be able to. So thank you to Paizo and thank you to all of you guys. Let's get on with the show.

Here is episode 105 of the Glass Cannon Podcast, Slag Film. First, there was Catresra. Then, your old pal, Drosha. And now, deep within the Cathedral of Minderhall, a third oracle, Atena.

Did you guys think we'd see a third oracle? At this point, are you oracled out? I'm just surprised at how famous Galabras is. Multiple people that he's never met know him pretty well.

That's very interesting. Remember that you said that. I guess they listened to the podcast. She had 104 episodes. It's a parlor trick. Really, she's just been listening to the episodes. I think Troy really fucked him over, by the way.

I can't believe that. Did he forget her save? Forget Minderhall, I pledge myself to Troy! Down with the small folk! Do you think A-10 has been on the Reddit this whole time?

Oh, boy. Well, here we are back. Episode 105. Been a little over a month since the episode 100 jamboree, as I'm now calling it. Jamboree. Episode 100 jamboree. Wine and cheese social. And here we are.

You had a nice little role-playing app last week with Farron, the slag giant. Didn't know if she was quite friend or foe. Maybe you still don't know. with Miss Farron that led her to telling you about the woman who she is a student of, who she's pledged herself to learning from, Atena, who lives deep below the forge, in the forge heart. You guys go into the cathedral proper. Nestor had only seen it from a distance. Now you get inside and realize the immense scope of this place. This is where giants go to church.

Off in the distance in the nave area is a two-headed creature who's kind of in charge, who's maybe swearing in a couple of ogres, similar to the ogres that were in the Grog Hall? Is he maybe swearing them in, or is he swearing them in? Listen, I don't want to lead you to believe one thing or another. I want to leave it up to your imagination. We'll watch the smoke billowing off a fire. You're like, possibly some smoke?

You think it's smoke? Maybe it's here. It might be a smoke-like substance. From ten feet? You think it's smoke. Maybe it's here. It might be a smoke-like substance. From ten feet away. It smells of smoke. It smells of smoke. A substance like smoke. Smoke-ish.

It's smoke-ish. And with a bunch of, you know, kind of a good range of stealth checks across the board. And one shadow walk slash dimension door. And you get that because of the feat you took. It allows you to use shadow walk as dimension door, right? Yeah. Once per day? Once per day.

As a fetchling, I could do shadow walk. Yeah, and then I took a feat that allows me to use that shadow walk as if it were the spell dimension door, but only on myself. Right. Which is better for you because shadow walk, you could end up who knows where. It's so cool. It might be cool. Imagine you're in Dello where the only one left alive after Nestor kills them all.

And she's just like, I need to get out of here. And she's just like... Blind jump. I promise you, I'll make it cool. Wherever you may be. Didn't say it'd be safe, but definitely cool. You guys get up there.

Do not draw the attention of those three creatures. And Baron finds the secret door in the base of this, like I said, 60-foot tall statue of Minderhall. You see stairs leading down into darkness. I already described the room to you. Atena turns around, and she looks, by the way, like this. I have her

pawn here. That bodes well. Oh, that is very scary. You should know I have pawns for Omast, Cursed, pretty much everybody. Is she normal size? Oh, she's large.. You should know I have pawns for Omas, Kirst, pretty much everybody. Is she normal size? Oh, she's large. She's a giant as well. Yeah, she's a giant that looks like Farron.

Thanks for throwing on the ground, Joe. She fell into your beer. I think she actually fell. No, she's on the mixing board. Oh, here she is. She's drowning. She vanished. That's where she's going to stay.

She was there the whole time listening to the show. That is Atena, and she's played by Fanola Flanagan. Who's that? She's in Lost. She is in Lost. When Desmond was dimension hopping,

she's the one that talks him through it. Her younger self was on the island in the pre-Others. The pre-Dharma Others. She was... Oh, yeah. Like, she had a relationship with Widmore. Okay.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She also, as I recall, was in The Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood. Well, I'm sure you... No one saw that. It was on HBO a lot when I was growing up. She played Eloise Hawking. Matthew is 15 years old.

I know, Matthew. When I was growing up. I get how when I was growing up, it was Blade Runner, Tron. You had Ya Ya Sisterhood. I don't even know what that is. It's like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but different. Oh, she's in Waking Ned Divine as well. Sure. That was good.

I haven't seen that in a long time. I watched that the night of the new millennium nobody cares you had a marathon you had divine and the sisterhood of the traveling you know how many emails we've gotten have been like what was Matthew doing in 1999 right Matthew what were you sitting there waiting for Y2K to happen and we watched Waking the Divine. I'm going down. I'm watching this...

Was it an Irish flick, I think? Yes. What did you do at the dawn of the new Willennium? That's what I think everyone really wants to know. I don't understand the message. So lost right now.

Boy. So lost. Cut this out. We'll see you next week. I was going to say, can I have a tenner back? I'll never see her again. Anyways, she turns to you. I already described the room.

There's like silver dust, metallic dust around the forge that has gone cold with like symbols hand drawn into it, candles everywhere. Obviously she greeted Baron and Della and says first we have to talk about how you failed. Galapagos always comes back to Gal. Many prophecies have I read over the years.

And almost all of them speak of a chosen one. The one who will return to change the world. The one who will return to make things right again. The one who will bring justice to all that which is unjust. Ha! Leave it to the narcissism of mortals to misread a fundamental part of all these prophecies, though. Despite what any of you may have been told, there is no one single chosen one.

There are only scions, descendants maybe of the gods, who are touched by immense power, who play their part in the great story and then pass their torch on to the next. Your friend, Calabres. Was one such chosen one. And he played his part. If only he were here for me to thank him in person. Oh, oh, I sense the presence of Aggramosh. Yes, have you brought the hammer of unmaking with you?

Funny story. Galabras did have it, as I've've been led to believe and then this fellow came along and he took it so but he said he was coming here right i think that's what he said what no no that's not right i've i've seen it in the slag she points at the lifeless slag bit. The prophecy spoke of four heroes reborn who would return to the cathedral in this age. They spoke of the young man, yes, they spoke of the young man who has lost himself. He would bring the hammer here. I've seen Unfortunately, the man of whom Nestor speaks, Brander, seemed to have a past with Calabris that was so powerful we couldn't stop him from escaping with the hammer.

I see. Well, no doubt this man, this Brander, perhaps misread a prophecy himself, and saw in young Calabrus another chosen one. More the fool he was. But if you know this man and have seen this hammer, either he or it will find its way here. If you are those who have been prophesied to relight the forge, the four ancient heroes returned.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Please, make yourself comfortable. Sit. She goes and she grabs like some candles and stuff, and you can see in her eyes there is just nothing behind the eyes. It's just white. She's blind? Can't tell if she's blind or if they're just the pupils

just blended straight in. It's just like Catresra. It's just like Catresra. Please sit. This chamber once served as the heart of Minderhall's forge in the cathedral above. This huge pillar, and she points

to the pillar that's leading up to the slag pit Is actually the furnace That once fueled the magic forge But for the last few centuries It has lain cold And the forge heart Has been shrouded in near darkness In times now lost

My ancestors built the sacred forge In the cathedral above To honor he who makes and unmakes. You must know that Minderhall's forge is a repository of awesome power. But long have its fires lain cold. Only with Minderhall's great hammer, Aggramosh, can the effects of long ages be unmade and the flames restored. Could I perhaps see this great hammer you have? Well, once again, as we pointed out, we don't have it.

It was taken from us, well, from them. I wasn't there. Honestly, if I had been there, we probably still have it, but this fellow, the priest fellow, he took it from him and he flew off. I'm wondering if you're picking up this prophecy correctly, if like there's some problem with your antenna. I don't get it. Oh, skin.

You've been sitting on that one for a long time. I've been waiting. I had my hand up. Ten minutes. Sir Will's going to say, what was made here when this forge was working many hundreds of years ago? What I know when I came to it,

when I was very young, they say I showed signs of being blessed by Minderhall with gifts of prophecy. So my parents surrendered me to the oracles of the forge at a young age, a sacred order of seers, charged with protecting the forge here at the Cathedral of Minderhall. Though this wasn't the honor it once was, as you may know, Minderhall's divine influence has waned, and the mighty civilization of my ancestors was long gone. But I accepted the opportunity with pride, for I believed I was the chosen one.

I was young and brash, but when I first saw Minderhall's forge, I wept, Charles Forge. I wept. Forrest was long cold. Its former glory only known in tales. The prophecies speak of great magic being released

if it can be relit. What its original purpose was perhaps we can all find out together. That sounds a bit dangerous, what its original purpose was. Perhaps we can all find out together. That sounds a bit dangerous, don't you think? Not knowing what sort of power you will unleash by lighting it. Wouldn't you rather know what is going to happen before you do it?

If I live only to see the flames once, I care not what it does, but I believe in the power of Mindal. He has shown me the light for centuries as I've lived here. And I know he would not lead me astray. He would not waste my life. If it were to be relit, Urathash would use it for great evil. Am I right? The scowl crosses her face. That man... That man claims to be of Mindal himself.

But we do not see eye to eye. I cannot say much more. For I just said he has ears all around, eyes all around, even down here. Though I've kept to myself, I haven't seen light in... maybe 200 years. Wow.

When he first came here, he did come to visit me, but eventually he stopped. Why do you believe he stopped? For he is not a true believer. for he is not a true believer. He seemed like he was when I saw him giving that speech. Then why hasn't he re-led the forge himself? No. He does not have the power.

He is not one of the four heroes. So it's like you think it's like four of us. There's five of us here So, like, which four? If you had to guess An excellent question, Mr Coyne Oh, thank you So it's me then

Is that one of the things that a great hero would have the qualities Is the ability to ask really good questions? Perhaps have the qualities, the ability to ask really good questions. Perhaps. Perhaps it is. One must always question the information they are given. I just looked at a prophecy and read it at face value, took it at face value. It's clearly me then.

So it's like me and three others, so you guys figure it out. I'm sorry I've been here too long, staring at the slag, seeing that which has passed and that which may come. How rude of me, though. My name is Atena, which you seem to

already know. I am the keeper of the forge and I am the Keeper of the Forge, and I am the last living descendant of the ancient slag giants who immigrated to this valley after converting to the worship of Minderhall. Long ago, the elder priests of the cathedral appointed me to the revered position of Keeper of the Forge, a post that I have held for centuries, even after all these giants, giants just like Urathash, abandoned the valley and the cathedral above. Since that time, I had been the cathedral's sole inhabitant,

and every day since the forge went cold, I have lit candles and laid prayer symbols in the dust to honor Minderhall and bless the forge. That was until they came. Until he came. But no matter. You watch. As his plan fails, like all those have come before him, he'll abandon Minderhall as well.

That is why he cannot be trusted as an ally in the relighting of the forge. What balance do you seek in relighting the forge yourself? Your ends seem to be at odds with those of Urathash. Urathash has nothing to do with this forge. Now, I am the guardian of the forge, but I am not its creator. No, no, no, no. Were that the case, I would have long ago renewed its fire. But this task is beyond

me. You, however, the former bearers of the Hammer of Unmaking, perhaps you have the power to relight the forge. I do not. Urathash does not.

Perhaps we do. But we won't do it so long as Urathash occupies this cathedral. You have my blessing to remove him. I will tell you, young girl.

And she leans forward and she, just like Farron, towers over you. Huge face. Her head is the size of your chest. And she says, The magic that will be unleashed at the Relighting

will give you all the power you need to defeat Uratash and any other enemy that comes in your way. But first, you must learn its history and know what must be done to see which

four of you are the true scions. And she, like, yodas over to a table to grab some checks. Let's get the sacred tax, yes? So Empire strikes back yodas over not attack of the clones

yodas. Right, right. She doesn't do a triple backflip. No. And she doesn't Jedi Yoda and just fade away. Okay, great. Yes. She's very spry. She lays her hand on top of the texts and the big, big book. And she's like,

according to these sacred texts, four ancient heroes first brought Minderhal's forge to life. The first was Mimrith the Maker, priestess of Fandara, who prepared fallen warriors for the afterlife by anointing their bodies with sacred clay. She lined the forge with clay to contain the fire within. It seems to me, young Della, she just kind of looks up in the sky. That your father tried to do the same with you.

Tried to contain your fire. And failed. And she points to the slag pit. Which again is just dead, old, cold slag. And you see it start to coalesce into shapes. Whether it's physically actually happening or just a trick of the mind, you can't quite tell. But you see the shapes begin to emerge

into like a scene. You see a tall woman with long black hair yelling something inaudible into the woods ahead of her. It's still inaudible as it's slowly coming into form. If we were watching this on TV, the camera would pan around, and you see it's a fetchling woman, and she's yelling at the top of her lungs, tears in her eyes, Della, Della, Della! She's frantic.

She runs off into the woods, still yelling, Della, like she's looking for her. Getting more and more, just like hyperventilating, freaking out. She shadow walks from the ground to the top of a tree. And gets up there, looks all around, reappears back down on the ground, and runs off in the direction like she saw something. You hear sounds up ahead in the distance that are starting to become clearer to her, while also remaining completely unintelligible. It's like... intelligible. It's like, start to get louder and louder. And this woman, this fetchling woman stops in front of a dilapidated shack in the woods where this creepy otherworldly sound is coming from. She flips her hands down and one becomes engulfed in flames while the other

one becomes engulfed in electricity. She walks up to the door with purpose and just kicks the front door down. Inside, you see a very young Della tied to the floor in the middle of a strange symbol surrounded by candles, which snuff out as the wind enters the room. In the back of the room, you see Della's father, played by Tim Roth. And he turns and says, you see Della's father, played by Tim Roth. And he turns and says, Metra!

No! You don't understand! She has great power within her, and we need to harvest it! We need to let her be free! About ten feet above Della, half-formed, half-transparent, is some sort of devilish demon creature. The woman, I guess her name is Metra, sends cones of flames at the creature

and bolts of electricity at Della's father as he tried to rush towards Della. She grabs Della, pulls her out of the cabin. She's tending to her, calming her down. You're alright. You're alright. You're alright. Everything's going to be alright now, Della. Everything's going to be alright.

And Della's just staring at her in this, like, trance-like state. She's like, you're going to be okay. We're going to fix this. We're going to get you away from him. This will never happen again. And she just stares at her mother as a single drop of blood from the top of her forehead just leaks down her nose to the earth below. Oh, my God.

And the image dissipates. Did we all see that? Oh yeah. Oh wow. Della has no memory of that whatsoever. Your father, he tried to do things to you. I think his heart was in the right place. But evidently your mother saw it a different way.

You have grown quite powerful, Della. Yes? You asking? Yes. I thought you saw things Oh I did I just wanted to hear you say it I'm powerful

You sure are And methinks you are Merely the maker reborn Don't prove me wrong. She goes back to her sacred texts. Looks through them. Well, that was intense. Give me a break.

Take five, everybody. I heard it and everything. I heard it in everything I heard it Did you guys hear that? Mirmith the Maker Priestess of Fondar Does anyone have a history check or something? Yeah I was going to ask Is there knowledge history, knowledge religion?

Knowledge religion, sure. I'll do religion. I've got to do it untrained. 18. 17 for Della. Okay. Anybody else? 15 for Sir Will.

I don't have it. Baron and Della, you have a small sense of it. It's not a deity that you would read about in deity school. In Galabras' text.

Jewish country deity school. But you know, or at least you think you know, that Thundara is an ancient deity worshipped primarily by stone giants. Was she, was Mermith a giant? Are these heroes all giants? We've gotten that sense? A ton of nods.

Yeah. It's funny it says here, another legend tells that she's the mother of both stone giants and dire bears. Cool. Oh, wow. Well, they walk around together. Yeah, they have a relationship. They have some kind of symbiotic relationship.

She's a contemporary of Erastil. Oh. Erastil is like the god of hunters and farmers, I think. Absolutely. And she's also followed by some primitive humanoid races in northern Avistan, so it's not

uncommon. She's not a dead god. Right. She's still out there, but maybe like some kind of tribe. And she's a deity? She isn't like an imperial lord or something like that? No, she's straight-up deity, but like an ancient deity. Almost defunct, similar to Minderhall.

What, similar in like equality to Minderhall? I would say similar in quality, no. So Minderhall's like Zeus. In the pantheon, she's under him. And they're heroes. They're maybe like Heracles or Perseus. They're divine heroes. That's a great way of thinking of it, in her estimation.

Gilgamesh. She thinks you are this woman reborn. I kind of think Della's got to be skeptical of this, this rebirth stuff. Yeah, Nestor definitely is. Della just started believing in religion like 60 episodes ago. I just want like rebirth stuff. Yeah, Nestor definitely is. Della just started believing in religion like 60 episodes ago. Which is like, I just want like two weeks. So,

Nestor's pretty sure this seems like a con to me. Especially if you don't have any memory of it. Yeah, she said, I can see,

I'd be able to see on her face if she's not, she doesn't recognize it. Like this could easily be a fucking con. This is an illusion. It's like she's trying to trick her into doing something. So I'm very...

The mists have betrayed us before. Absolutely. Well, I wasn't there, but I heard about it. So that's what I'm thinking. I'm not saying anything. Is that what you're thinking, mister? Yeah, sorry. Question.

Are you full of shit? Because it just seems like she doesn't know anything about this. And you could very easily just be making all this up. I don't know what he's selling. Are you trying to trick us into doing something? I'm sorry, but I just... I don't... I don't want to be rude, but I just...

I think you're a liar, and I don't believe you. Oh, perhaps I am. I've been staring at this flag for so long. My memory isn't what it used to be. Perhaps I don't see things like I used to. I don't know if it's now or if it's a hundred years ago. So maybe you're right, Mr. Coyne. Could I sense motive on that?

Sure. To see if she's... Me too. 24? 20 for Sir Will. 20. 8 for Della. Everybody, Della's like, she seems like she's on the up and up.

But everyone else is just like, she's being very coy on purpose with Nester. Like, oh, you want to challenge me? Well, I have some information for you. are like, oh, you want to challenge me? Well, I have some information for you. Well, and plus she's like hundreds of years old and probably looks at him like he's a five-year-old child. Right. I believe it was you, Mr. Coyne, who said

there's five of you and only four heroes. An astute observation, to say the least. I've always been very good at math. Well, maybe none of you are the heroes But certainly Not all of you are Let me tell you about the second hero Her name was

Aduromi The priestess of crystals They say her veins ran hot With molten metal And she could temper steel To a hardness that would cut diamonds. She brought with her the secrets of the fire geodes, which once ignited would burn for a century. Bing. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

What you didn't see at home is that all of us, like, perked up in our seats. Oh, now I'll pay attention. Okay. Now it's clear, just from your starting attitude, that many among your group also have a fire burning within them. Perhaps you, Umlo, are the second coming of Adoromi A fire burns deep within you A fire fueled by loss

Every day you become more mechanism than man While even those around you treat you as a weapon more than as an ally. That's for certain. For a time, as I read these and I looked deeper into the slag, I thought that perhaps Adoromi would return as that ranger that abandoned you, the half-orc But I know that all of you know That his fire has long gone out

No one's veins run more hot than you, Mr. Coyne But it's hot with revenge. And while I admire your tenacity, what a fruitless emotion for one so gifted. Especially revenge towards a creature who doesn't even know you exist. You have committed many crimes, Mr. Coyne. And some would say the most heinous crime one can commit. And she waves her hands over the slag again. You see a bearded man leaning back in a chair, staring

at stacks of copper. He's played by Rhys Ephens. Ooh, a Welshman. Ooh, a Welshman. I'll look that up. He was in Notting Hill.

Can't you guys get some A-listers? Oh, wait. Wait. Joe, you own the VHS to Notting Hill. You love Notting Hill? Can't you guys get some A-listers? Wait, Joe, you own the VHS to Notting Hill. You love Notting Hill. You said it in those words to me. He's the roommate. He's Hugh Grant's roommate. I told you not to tell people. Oh, yeah, I was just going to say, is he the roommate?

Because that guy's amazing. He is. Joe, I've read your Notting Hill fan fiction. Slash fic. Bob Joe's Notting Hill slash fic. I love that movie! It's a good one. It is really good.

So you see this bearded man, played by Risa Fens, leaning back in a chair, staring at the copper. He looks up and sees four filthy urchins standing across from him, like, silently staring at the floor. The man yells at the smallest one.

Short again, Eamon? Everything about you is fucking short, isn't it? He continues to rail at the boy, who tries to speak up for himself through obvious tears. You were only three coppers, Master C- The man just kicks the boy straight in the chest. And then as he's, like, going back, he grabs him by the scruff and pulls him close. There's no only here, lad.

What's owed is what's owed. If you can't cope with picking pockets, then there are far less savory ways to make a living in this city. You take my meaning? Yes, Master Coyne, sir. He throws the kid to the floor, and the other children help him up as they all scuttle out the door, past a figure who is now standing in the doorway. Still frightening children, old man. The shadowy figure steps forward into the light to reveal a 15-year-old Nestor coin.

I always say no need to fix what's not broken, lad. This new generation, they're soft, simple, be toughening up. They say it worked on you, eh? He winks at Nestor before crossing behind his desk and producing a battered-looking clay chamber pot from a drawer.

Those three pennies gonna put you in the black, are they? From what I hear, you'll need a lot more than that. I always told you not to gamble so much, Young Nestor says, and the old man's eyes narrow at the teen. What business is it of yours, anyway? What have you heard?

Well, I heard that you're into Emil Lozano for at least 2,000 gold, maybe more from the way he tells it. Lozano for at least two thousand gold, maybe more from the way he tells it. Lozano. The older man spits on the office floor. That chinless wanker is the biggest cheat I ever met. You think I give a rat's cunt what he says? He'll get his money when I'm good and ready. Oh, he's a cheat, Alistair.

But unfortunately, he's also just got engaged to the daughter of the Zani captain. So he's a cheat and a liar. Who wouldn't marry that fucking toad? He keeps counting his coins. Maribel Cosma, apparently, Nestor says. The clinking of the coin stops as the man sets down the pot on the desk. You're joking, lad. Arno's girl?

Nestor steps forward. I didn't believe it myself, but I came round when some of his lads stopped by the pie shop looking for you. Tried to shake me down. Said they'd start cutting pieces off me if I didn't give you up. I never would, you understand. But they told me there's a bounty on your hide for fully half what you owe, Lozano. So I told them that if anyone's going to take you down for a sack of gold, it'll be me. And Nestor whips a dagger from his sheath and flashes it at the old man's throat.

The old man kind of laughs a little. They always said I was a fool to take you in. They always said you'd be the death of me. Oh, I know, Dad. He presses the knife harder against his father's throat. You told me that day after day, year after year. He presses the knife harder against his father's throat. You told me that day after day, year after year. Got so I half believed it.

A self-fulfilling prophecy, you might say. The old man can't help but smirk. It's like I've always said, Nestor. You may not be the swiftest. You may not be the swiftest. You may not be the strongest. But you are the most determined little cunt I've ever known. He starts to laugh out loud, and despite himself, Nestor lets out a chuckle. And for a moment, lets the knife drop just a hair.

The chamber pot shatters against Nestor's temple. It's coins. Coins, clay shards go everywhere. Nestor falls to the floor as his father makes for the door, just rushes for the door. Nestor grabs his father's ankles as he's fumbling with the door latch and plunges his dagger into the old man's calf, which sends him down to the floor. He's kicking like a wounded animal at Nestor, and he crunches the heel of his boot right into Nestor's nose. Bleeding and blinking away the haze, Nestor stabs again and again into his feet, into his legs,

just pulling himself up the man's body, stabbing away until he can reach the torso. And he gets there, and he just stabs and stabs and stabs his father in the back until the kicking stops. And they both lie on the floor covered in blood. Oh my God! Mr. Coyne turns the body over. Looks at the blood-soaked beard of the man he called his father. looks at the blood-soaked beard of the man he called his father.

Those icy blue eyes staring vacantly into nothingness. That was for all the boys, old man. And for mom. And it fades out. Holy moly.

And we all saw this. We all saw this. Man. So Nestor is just sitting there, and he's got this intense look on his face. He can't read it. You've never seen this look on his face before, but he's just staring at where the

Vision was And he finally says Could you Could you show that very Nice part again That's my favourite I bet it is Mr Coyne

I do believe you now Good I thought you would And I want you to know I show this to you Just To let you know That this is reality

And I Say this to you Not to judge you But rather to judge you, but rather to inform you, Mr. Coyne. Are you a religious man? No, not really. No. No?

Well, perhaps now is the time to take up faith. For what is seen as an abomination by all the gods? Kinslaying is not frowned upon by Mindrahal, for he would see what you did in this instance as a definition of true power. You did what had to be done. And I believe you've only gained more strength by quenching your father's flame. Looks like justice

to me. Yeah, thank you. So, Minderhall, it's alright with him, then? I've spoken to him. And he knows of you. So, Minderhall, it's all right with him, then? I've spoken to him. And he knows of you. And he smiles upon you and all your deeds. Huh.

Well, I mean, he's worth looking into. I mean, it seems like we're compatible. I have some pamphlets. Yeah, no, you can show me. Remind me to give you some pamphlets. Yeah, no. You can show me. Remind me to give you some pamphlets. Yeah. Just some literature. Something simple with a lot of pictures

that I can take home. Sure, sure. Now just grab these handles. This is called an e-reading. Oh, no, no. Exactly what I was thinking. No. Are you familiar with date and level?

They're off the charts. Good. Good. Good. I knew. They're off the charts Good Good I knew The heroes Would come She looks at Baron She's like The third hero

Who's known as Jogruthir the Hunter. Oh, we know that name. Oh, yes. I bet you do. Yeah. Where did we hear that? In the Drake's cave.

Yes. Right. Oh, the tablets. He was the giant described on those tablets. Yeah. Jogrothir the Hunter. Was he living there? Described on them or he wrote them?

The note I took is he was described on them. Yeah, he lived there. That was his cave. Those were his tablets. Right? Yes. So you've been to his cave. He was the guardian of the sacred horn, Rakesbane. Whoa.

Whoa. Cool. Did you happen upon the horn? That we've got No No, never mind, no I've never seen it, don't know what you're talking about She says it's better Natural too

Nesri got excited because he's like, oh wow, there's a god who likes me Well, if you've found the horn, then perhaps you know what it does If you haven't, you'll need it to relight the forge. He would use it to call the ancient drakes native to the surrounding peaks. It is said that Jogrethir brought the forge to life, for he alone was able to capture the dragon's breath. The only flame hot enough

to ignite the fire geodes. Ah. Now it's coming to make sense. You, Ashpeak, I believe you know all about dragon's breath. I reach into my duster I believe you know all about Dragon's Breath

I reach into my duster and for the first time in what, 30 episodes now I have quick draw so it could happen more often but uh we'll pull out Dragon's Breath which was presumably

left with the young members of the Ashpeak clan as they were left upon the mountain to see if they could survive the journey back down. She looks at the handbanger. It's really sharp. She says, That is not, of course

Enough firepower To ignite the geodes But it just further proves My belief That you are Jagruthir reborn Your ancestors Would have believed the same For your kin

Knew all too well The power of dragon's breath But You were not afforded that life Were you? The life that was meant for you No, Baron But know this

You were not Saved from that life. No, your birthright was stolen from you by those who you falsely learned to love. Again, this either physical or mystical slag comes to life. The slag movie? The slag movie. The slag flick. It's the best bachelor party ever!

You see two dwarves with their backs to you, walking away. You can't make out their faces as they walk down the crest of a hill or a mountain, but you do see that one of them has a shovel in their hand. You would imagine from there the camera pans down, and you see an infant dwarf sitting in a basket. Next to the dwarf, or basically like right under where the basket is,

you see freshly moved earth like someone had just dug or buried something there. A few moments pass and you see the bushes off to the side start to rustle, and a male dwarf emerges from the brush, bearing you immediately recognize him, though he is much younger than you've ever seen him, as the man you called your father all your life, and behind him, your mother. The red hearts look around, like making sure they're not being watched or followed,

like they're on some clamp-assigned mission. They're clearly on edge. The woman, your mother, goes straight for the baby, while the man, your mother, goes straight for the baby while the man, your father goes straight to digging under where the basket was moments later he pulls out a gun a gun you've never seen before it looks

ancient, like it wouldn't even work if you had it in hand. And he just starts turning it over in his hands, like studying it, amazed at what he's found. All right, take the baby and throw it in. No, I can't. Can we just keep it? It's not safe.

We got what we needed. They're going to come looking. I don't know what's down there, but if they find a corpse in it, they won't come looking for us. If you're going to throw him in, you might as well throw me in too. You're going to get us killed, you daft woman. Fine. Let's go. Let's go. And they sneak off into the woods.

The view pans out. And you see that they're on the lip of an enormous volcano. The slag re-coalesces And goes cold Wow There's an old saying that

Oracles rarely give Good news Ashbeak But in my mind The truth Is more important Than good or bad Your parents

That you knew They may very well have been good people But What was most important to them was stealing the secrets of the guns. However, I believe

that the Ash Peaks still live. Ooh. Hmm. And if you are Geogrethir the Hunter reborn, you will hunt and you will find them and get

your birthright back. It's just like Superman. It's like Superman's story. It's exactly like superman it's like superman story it's exactly like superman except i don't think pa kent was set on killing the baby when they found him maybe a man of that was my maybe maybe a man of steel let me tell you something, Atena. We've been talking a lot about Minderhall. He who creates and destroys. But I can tell you no matter what my last name is, no matter what my lineage is, I know that Torag struck at his great forge again and again and again until he shaped this ball we stand on to be

exactly as he wanted it to be galarian itself and when he created the dwarves he filled their bellies with fire and the one prophecy he gave was our quest for the sky. Now we made it here. And the only thing I'm here left to do is to bring some balance back on this playing field. And we can talk all we want about hammers. But I know that Torag's hammer, Caglam Rose, will bring justice back into this world. So I think fire is my thing.

We've established that it's my thing. Let it be known, Baron Ashpeak, that you and I are not exactly saying different things. You can worship Torag, or you can choose the path of Mindrahal. Both can lead you to your destination. You speak of Torag's hammer. Do you know about Aggramosh? Do you know what it is? Do you know what it is? We didn't have the arcane knowledge necessary to unlock all of its secrets while it was under our possession, so I will admit to ignorance on this.

Well, all I know is what the legends say, and I both agree and disagree with him. It is said that Mindrahal took this hammer. And created the first giant. But he was unhappy with his work. So he tried again. And that's when he made a stone giant. And seeing how perfect he was. He took the hammer of unmaking. And seeing how perfect he was, he took the hammer of unmaking and smashed

his first creation. And that created all the other races of giants. Wow. Wow. That's great. Cool. Look at me, Barrett. Am I a stone giant?

You've told me as much. You're a slag giant. I am. But I believe in Minderhall. More than I believe in anything. You can keep your Torag. Or you can come to Minderhall. Either way, I believe... you were meant... to relight the forge.

I've never looked at unmaking as a means of creation until you told me a story like this. This is something to be taken under consideration. I'm glad you see it that way. And so it brings us To the last hero The last Was Rosag The Preserver of the forge

A great Priestess of Minderhall Rosag Held the secrets of water, both its ability to temper metal as well as its capacity to quench the sacred flames. She performed the blessing of Rosag, the final incantation that stoked the fires

and sanctified the forge. In my visions of your coming I always saw the butterfly boy doing the blessing and bringing the forge to life. But your failure

To keep him safe Has made that all But impossible Perhaps you Sir William Kayswick Are meant to do the blessing But yet Your gods Have abandoned you to do the blessing. But yet, your gods

have abandoned you. Have they not? Yeah, they have. Yeah. So this is my reading? No, I know. It's a great inconvenience to the rest of us. I didn't mean to interject. It's your moment.

It doesn't bother me. No, they have not abandoned me. I have failed them. And I must earn their trust back. The shame that you too are taking so long to see the truth. For the gods abandoned your family long ago. Let me ask you, do you think Benric still believes in your gods?

I'm sure that he does, of course. But your brother is dying. You know this. It must be their will. Why? Just look at the God's will, then. And the

slag coalesces again. And it's like a live stream. Nice. Straight from Highbury Castle. You see in the window I see a city in the clouds.

A city in the clouds. You go in to your brother's bedroom and you see your brother Benric lying in bed. You haven't seen him in a while.

He's almost unrecognizable. Skin just hanging off his bones. He looks like he's aged 30 years in the time that you've been gone. He literally looks like a living skeleton. Benrick. You see your parents, at least the only parents you've ever known. Your mother is weeping,

and your father is doing his best to console her, knowing that death may come at any moment. You feel like you're there, that this is happening right now. at any moment. You can... You feel like you're there. That this is happening right now. And you... Benric, can you hear me? Reaches out.

Benric is just looking up in the sky. Here. I'm here, brother. Your adoptive parents, They sent for healers Far and wide to cure his ailment To no avail, yes? Yes, they could not figure out

What was wrong with him It must pain you to know That as small as you are You will live the life That was meant for him And you're just still That image is there while she's talking to you Does it hurt you to know that?

It does Your parents tried everything they could And failed But what if you could save him? Would you do anything to save your brother? I would, of course. That's why I'm here. I'm here in his stead.

If he had the strength, he would do... he would do exactly what I have done. Well, maybe not exactly. And he, like, his eyes cast down. She just leans in, like she did to Della, but crouches down even lower so she can kind of get to your level.

And the size of her body behind her, old though she may be, just immense. She's been living a sedentary lifestyle in darkness for hundreds of years. And she just looks at you with those huge chalk eyes. Well, what if I told you he could be cured? You see,

the people you have come to know as your parents, I hate to say it, and I mean no offense, but they put their faith in the wrong gods. Yomadai, Shalyn and the like are all very nice if it's righteousness and beauty you're after but if it's great power you seek

the power to heal, the power to transform and the power to heal. The power to transform. And the power to move mountains. You must put your faith in Minderhall. Pledge yourself to him, Willamette. And relight the forge in his name. And if you do, your brother will be saved you

will come into great power and she gets as close to you without kissing it's like a no creature, mortal or immortal will ever see you as small

again. She gingerly goes back to her chair as the image of your parents and Benric, maybe the last time you ever see them, fades away. You said yourself you don't know what would happen when we lit the forge. How do you know he would be healed? You don't know the power that you're about to unleash if we were to do this thing.

You said it yourself. If we were to do this thing. You said it yourself. That is true. But the power to heal your brother will not come from the forge. It will come from you. If you put your faith in Minderhall. Minderhall is an evil deity, right?

Technically, yes. If you're going to get technical about it. Yeah, the most good he gets in his followers is like lawful neutral. But as you've seen throughout this adventure, certainly lately, evil and good, the line is very all over the place. Especially when it comes to giants. Especially when it comes to Adela, technically evil. Nestor, technically evil. And actually evil. Actually evil.

It's not a technicality in my case. It's a firm moral choice. Did get patricide. Yeah, that was pretty evil. I will say the thing that Baron's rolling around in the back of his head and the way you brought up he's only thought

about Torog as being a creator and the destruction thing. That was really well done. I don't know if you intentionally brought that up or not. Maybe. Maybe not. You're a smart guy. Or some would say. Probably not. So that was really... But in thinking both sides on this, from Ketrejera to, why am I forgetting her name right now?

Droja. Droja to Atena now, none of these seers have been on the side of the little people, per se. I mean, Ketrejza ran away from the evil people. We have to believe him at his word that he was tortured and mistreated, and he came back. Droja was in the middle of this camp. Atena's a member.

Also tortured and mistreated. Right, stone giant. So it's just, I'm trying to figure out motives. I'm hoping that they all really see in our oracles that are giving us this information on good faith rather than attempting to manipulate us just to light the forge. But we've already come in with the fire crystals and with everything else they need and we're Indiana Jones.

Right. Yeah. We could get a second opinion. I think we could call in another oracle. I'd like to throw in an oracle, Fred. Sir Will's going to say, if we lit the forge and you found yourself with great power

beyond what you had ever imagined and the lighting of the forge was not the last thing you saw but instead the first step in a renewed third act for yourself. What would you do with your power? Well, I believe that in order for Minderhall to rise again, in order for him to survive in this world, he must be for all.

As I have presented him to all of you, whether you choose to follow him or not, relighting the forge can give you all the power you need, unearthing great magic for you to use in wherever your journeys may take you. My journey is to bring Minderhall back. And if I live to see the flame but for a moment, or I live for another hundred years,

I will spend my life making his name mean something again. What does that mean? Making his name mean something through power and domination? Making his name mean something through justice and equality? You're speaking riddles. When you followed your faith, did you not have the same questions yourself?

Did you just blindly do what you were supposed to do? Probably, sometimes. I'm an old woman. I know what to do with my faith. Perhaps in time, you will too, Sohail. I do know what to do with my faith. Perhaps I've been a bit lost, but... If I was granted the power again, the power of the Omadai,

I would bring justice to this planet. I would see the great evils undone. And the weak people of the world brought level with those who seek to dominate them. It is a very clear goal that she has. And you must understand her power. Just because she is good does not mean she is weak. She did great and powerful things during her life. I will not bore you with the details,

but I'm sure that they are on par with anything Minderhall or any of these other deities have done. She just leans back and puts her hands wide as like, spoken like a true chosen one. How would we do it? Only by following in the footsteps

of these four blessed ancients, by repeating those acts which have been undone over time, shall the fires of Minderhall's forge once again blossom. Have you got, like, a flow chart or something? Something that...

I can give you the nuts and bolts again. But we seem to be missing a piece that you've alluded to, and that is the hammer of Agrimash, is it not? Yes, the hammer is very important. The hammer will come is it not? Yes, the hammer is very important. The hammer will come. I know it, when the forge is relit.

And if this man, this brander, is enemy to you, you will possess all the power you need to regain the hammer. And draw him here. Once it is lit, he will bring the hammer to us

I believe so That hammer will find its way here If this Brander had his eye on Calabris He knows what it does He knows perhaps the part Calabris was meant to play But you must Follow in the footsteps Of Mimrith Of Adiromi was meant to play. But you must follow in the footsteps of Nimrith,

of Adiromi, of Jograthir, and of Rosak. I mean, I gotta say, Della is leaning towards this pretty strongly. Get right out of town. Do anything for great power? It's not about the power.

It's about being able to draw Brander here and then having the strength to do that. Yeah, you've consistently been the only one who's borne Brander in mind. Yeah, I mean, that's why we came here. Yeah. That's why Della came here. Yeah. I mean, that's why we came here. Yeah. Why? Why Delica? Yeah. Yeah. And Nestor doesn't care,

but he is intrigued by the sound of power. Like he's not about to worship a God of giants, but the thought, like he still has his objective. He just wants to kill, um, earth rush, but,

but the power would be a nice little bonus on top of that. Baron wants to know once the forge is lit, what's to stop others from taking power from it? Why would we be the only ones that could benefit from us? And you yourself have said that Urthrosh has eyes

and ears everywhere. What if he's listening to this now and he intercedes in the middle of a belighting ceremony? It is my job as keeper of the forge for as long as I live to keep those people out. What do you mean, those people? Do you mean all stone giants? Those people? Do you mean all stone giants?

Those who are not committed to preserving the values of Mindral. Are there others of the giants within the cathedral besides Ferrin who know of you? Who disagree with Urathash secretly? To my knowledge, no one knows of me except Urathash. I've never had conversations with anyone else, and I haven't left here in hundreds of years, unless Farron has told

other people. She told us pretty readily. Seems so, but she knew. She knew. I've spoken to her of the prophecies. You must have said something that triggered in her. I believe it was true now. Yeah, no, that's right.

I heard that. They said true now, and then... She just started spinning the beans. May I ask you another question? Sure. Sir Will looks down at his armor, looks back up. Who is Oskroth? Why was he in possession of the hammer? That's a good fucking question.

Why was he buried beneath Trunau? That is an excellent question. These artifacts, as I'm sure you know, from long, long ago they passed through time. Their original purpose gets lost as they themselves get lost

throughout the centuries. Like the One Ring. Yeah. This Oskroth was a great hill giant chieftain. And he came into it. Somehow.

But didn't know what he had. He did not know the full extent of its power. Cool. That's awesome. And he was defeated by the small folk. And buried with it. Yes, this is where you found him. So the small folk made the tomb?

No. His own men. Oh, okay. The tribe he was with. And then the hill giants left that land and Trinal came to be built upon it With no knowledge of the tomb She closed her eyes

And she's like taking in all this information She's like Trinow Askaroth And you see in the slag A hill emerge and all around it sounds of a great battle you see orcs

in the front line rushing forward brandishing falchions scimitars a line of bowmen come up from the side and just start firing away. And there's all these soldiers dressed in an insignia that Baron would recognize as the insignia of Lastwall. Okay.

All right. And so this Lastwall army is just clashing against bloodthirsty orcs. And they've got mostly humans, but you see some dwarves rushing in there with war hammers, smashing away at orcs. You see a bunch of elves dressed in the Last Wall insignia just let loose their bows. Some orcs go down, and then orcs break through the last wall line and start crashing, crashing against them, killing some of the people from last wall. And then there's just like, boom, boom,

boom. The people from last wall break through the orc line and start going up this hill, which looks familiar, but it also looks like this happened so, so long ago that it's not quite recognizable. And all of a sudden, a

huge hill giant crests the hill and just swipes at like six last wall soldiers with a hammer. He's dressed in the armor that you now know as Asgroth's armor, and he's wielding aggramosh.

And he's just rows and rows of these soldiers from Lasswell are coming up, and he's just like, boom! Boom! Thunderous clap as each hammer crashes against half a dozen of these soldiers. Eventually,

the soldiers start to surround the hill and they surround a scruff and are like poking at him with spears it's like uh you know they've got a line of spearmen shields and more spearmen and they're kind of like closing in on him like game of thrones style yeah and eventually you know he's smashing through some of them knocking them down the hill knocking others down the other side of the hill. And then one of them pierces through his armor and finds a little spot, sticks a spear in, and he kind of buckles down. He rips the spear out and smashes at that guy, kills him.

Immediately, the guy's head explodes. They just put that spear in his belly. But while that's happening, two more guys insert spears into him. And then a couple come at his legs and he's still thrashing away, but now he gets overwhelmed. And just maybe a dozen or so, 15 spearmen just stick

spears in every single part of his body. And eventually he falls to one knee, to both knees, and collapses on the ground. The orcs and the hill giants may be emboldened by seeing their chieftain go down,

push against the last wall soldiers, and the last wall soldiers know that they just had a big victory and they retreat. And then the remaining hill giants and orcs, time passes, the battle has ended, and you see them beginning an excavation giants and orcs, time passes. The battle has ended. And you see them beginning an excavation underneath the hill.

Perhaps to lay Asgroth to rest. And dragging some other bodies of hill giants with them. Skeletons. So that is how Asgroth came to fall. Oh, that was brilliant. Skelton's So that Is how our scruff Came to fall

Oh that was brilliant Could you do that I want to watch that one again I would also like to watch that one again That was great We've been stabbing him with the spears and everything Coming up the hill And him smashing his skulls

Could you put it on this flash drive Yeah Is it available on Blu-ray yet We've got a long trip ahead of us It's flash drive. Yeah. It was a great... Is it available on Blu-ray yet? We've got a long trip ahead of us. Yeah. It's real. I like how you watch it in the back of the minivan while he's driving.

It's really a shame they were from last wall, or else they could have gone a little bit more further and built a wall around that tomb, so this whole mess never would have happened. None of this would have happened. No one would have found the hammer. As you can see, the hammer is not meant for everyone. Its power can only truly be

unlocked by returning it to the forge, relighting the forge, and striking it upon the anvil. Perhaps one of you, if you truly are the heroes reborn, can wield it with all the power it was meant to have.

I have a request. Yes? It's been many long miles and many weary nights since we left True Now, of which we just saw the birth, and I suppose it's made me a little bit homesick. just saw the birth and I suppose it's made me a little bit homesick. Is there a way that you could send their seer Catrezra or one of their elders Silvermane a message through your powers to let them know that we're

still fighting for them. That we're still on the path to turn the tide and protect True Now. I will do my best to communicate with him and let him know that you are still fighting

for those people. I have seen all of you in the slag those who have fallen that were once part of your group those to come and those that never were

that missed their chance I know you. I've seen glimpses of your past. Seen things you don't even know about yourself. You were all destined for this. Minderhall's Valley, as I'm sure you know by now,

is enormous. Trails and valleys leading every which way. But if you are to walk in the footsteps of these heroes, you will need to go back and find the four elements needed to relight the forge. Hurry up to the task. Will is drawn by this mass, like just weighed down right now by this massive temptation. Massive. And he's trying to think his way out of it or feel his way out of it to make it an easy decision, but it is not easy. And he's like, he looks at Della to just be like, well, let's see what she says.

Maybe I'll just find out a little more. I'll just find out a little more. And Nestor's into it. She looks at Della. She says, Mimrith the maker As I said Prepared fallen warriors for the afterlife By anointing their bodies With sacred clay

She used that clay To line the forge To contain the fire within it Find the clay Adoromi She looks at Nestor, the priestess of crystals, whose veins run hot like you, Nestor.

She brought with her the secrets of the fire geodes, which would burn for a century once ignited. Find the fire geodes. Yeah, I think I've got a line on them. I think I've got a fairly good idea where they are, but carry on. But we would never be so foolish as to bring them right into the heart of the eagle. No, I mean, no, certainly not. It's not what I'm suggesting at all.

Well, if that's true, then you won't have to worry, Baron, about finding the Drake's Bane horn if you truly are the reincarnation of Chog for fear of the Hunter. And lastly, you, Sir Will, as you think on what I said,

and think on the power of Minderhall, and perhaps open your heart to letting him speak to you. If you truly are Rosak Reborn, the preserver of the forge, who held the secrets of water, performing the blessing of Rosak,

find the blessing of Rosag. Find the blessing. I want to know how they all died. Well, we know how Joggerthir died, right? Or we don't? Was that made clear when we were there? I guess he wouldn't scrawl out. He's a castle of art. You're careful of Org. You beat me to it.

Now I shall die. He must have died while carving it. He said, uh. He would carve, uh. He'd just say it. Drums, drums in the deep. So you're willing, so you're willing to

go back and find these things, yes? Yes. We need these things. Yes. Yes. We need a guarantee. Yes. Urathash will never see the power of the

forge. She looks around. Just making sure no one else is listening. Even though you're hundreds of feet below The cathedral We will take him down together For he is no true acolyte Not in my eyes

The forge Is for all of us Let us relight it In Minderhall's name. I would just like to say I've got business with him. The killing blow must be mine. So be it. I hope my eyes can still see in the light to watch it myself. And when Brander arrives

with the hammer, he's mine. Fair enough. And I will see through your vision my brother healed. Yes. With your own two eyes. I will show you.

And you will watch. I see no other way to stem this tide but to attempt to harness this power and my hope that some form of unmaking can lead to something that will protect us all. I have a quick question. Yeah. When he shattered the original creation, that made all the other races of giants? It didn't make all the other races. No. Just giants. It didn't make all the other races. No.

Just giants. No. But I think in her estimation, the reason she was telling it to Baron is like, why couldn't they have? It's interesting to me that she has decided that the reincarnation of these great giant heroes are all small folk. Yeah, what's up with that? Spirits, man.

They don't know bodies. Who knows? Yeah, but why? Magnets. How do they work? You know what I mean? Fucking science, man. A great philosophical question is posed, and Grant's like, magnets.

Grant's a juggalo. He's a juggalo at heart. Our next podcast has to be a juggalo real play podcast. How much of the Valley have you seen? I don't know. We've seen a lot of it. Definitely. We've explored much.

Well, let's map out, basically, briefly. Yeah, we can show her. We can show her. Do you know the Valley? I don't know it well, and I'm sure it's changed much since I came to the cathedral as a young girl. Do you know Troy LaValle? I know him well. Can we see that vision?

Yes. Small boy in 1986. Being thrown around the bathrooms of a Catholic school. Weeps during the World Series. Crying over his manager's special. The ball just goes through Bill Bauer's leg. Right through his leg. Over and over and over.

No! It's behind the bag! No! I choose mental! Here comes night and the Mets have won it! She says... Long ago, they say the ancient giants

that ruled Minderhall's valley, back when the power of Minderhall was still strong within the hearts of the giants, it is said they first mapped the valley themselves. And that's your best chance for finding clues to the locations of the remaining components. There. The prayer. The blessing. And the water. What would it look like. The blessing.

And the water. What would it look like? The blessing. Would it be a book? A scroll? I know not. A tablet. I bet it's like in Skyrim when you find the dragon words.

Who? I bet it's like... Who? Yeah, no, him? Yeah, like that, right? As you approach. What of the clay? The clay?

We'll know it when we see it. You'll know. You'll know just like you knew when you found the geodes. What geodes? And you found the Drake's Bay. Yeah, I don't know. We have not admitted to any of that. If you were to find them, you'd know.

I don't know if I can. When we allegedly found the crystals. Go to where the ancient map is of the valley. But we don't know where it is. Well, I do. Oh, you do? Oh! Oh, that's good news.

I don't know if you'll be able to read it. But it's your best chance of not wandering aimlessly throughout this valley. We've got a real clever dick upstairs. He might be able to help. You'll need all the help you're going to get in the dark passage. And if this was a film,

the camera would pan out of a tennis room, up the stairs, through the cathedral, out the main doors, around where the Oculus tent is, over the fence where you crawled through the shit, down to where all those families were,

rats running around, and slowly close in on that cave. The cave. I don't think we're going to say that. Remember our failure at the cave. We'll see you next week. Oh! Dark Passage!

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