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that new doctor seems like so much fun.

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Oh, she's a gutwears phenomenal.

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And I'm so glad that he's in

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the show that respects him

0:42

in terms of script wise. Gosh,

0:47

yeah, James, I'm

0:49

trying to phrase this delicately.

0:52

Are you a super hula

0:54

household? I was not

0:56

a big fan of Supernatural. I

1:00

did watch like the first,

1:02

I want to say three or four

1:04

episodes of Sherlock. And there

1:07

was only one good episode out of

1:09

all of those. And

1:12

then everything, like every clip I

1:14

saw of the show afterwards was like just bad.

1:17

And I slowly realized my problem was

1:19

Steven Moffat, who is like

1:21

an okay writer and a bad showrunner,

1:23

just like a bad showrunner.

1:25

He inexplicably has

1:27

written some of my favorite Doctor Who

1:30

episodes, but it feels like if you

1:32

give him enough control of something, he

1:34

can't help but be a sexist idiot.

1:37

Okay. Oh, okay. Mm

1:39

hmm. Oh

2:00

my god, oh my...

2:11

Angel... Maybe it's

2:13

fine, he's bleeding. It's fine, it's

2:15

fine, it's fine. He's fix it. Cable!

2:18

We fix it, I fix it, we fix it, we fix it, it's

2:21

fine. He's...

2:24

He's not... He goes to

2:26

Angelo's body and puts

2:29

his fingers up on his neck, checks

2:31

for a pulse. He

2:34

feels a very faint pulse, but

2:36

then I can't remember where Angelo

2:39

was nice. I

2:41

don't think we said... I

2:44

think it was just that man dying and

2:46

dead and got stabbed. Alright,

2:48

cool. So John it

2:50

runs over to Angelo, taps

2:52

his neck and feels for a

2:55

pulse. There is something

2:57

faint there and that

2:59

gives him a little bit of

3:01

like relief, but there's like so

3:03

much... There's a

3:05

lot of blood and so he

3:07

is very frantically like patting around

3:09

his chest where

3:12

his clothes are like separated,

3:14

where there is a

3:16

gash and he's like sort of

3:18

like rips the partway, part of

3:20

clothes open to see a... I

3:24

would say like a scar, a

3:26

very recently scarred over like

3:30

yeah entry point where

3:32

Gable has just sort of patched him up. And

3:35

there is a big like a big

3:38

exhale, but John it is shaking.

3:42

Okay. Sorry. Hey, it'll

3:45

do. It'll

3:48

do. Oh

3:50

Angelo, sweet, sweet Angelo. John

3:58

it. John it grabs Angelo's cheeks. Oh

4:00

sweet, sweet father of a man. Angelo,

4:04

you're going back with your kids.

4:06

You're going back with your kids.

4:08

And he touches his head to

4:10

Angelo's head. Don't

4:13

touch it. John

4:16

it. Okay. All

4:19

right. I think clearly

4:22

only one foot from the other, what makes the

4:24

most sense right now? Okay. We

4:26

can't leave a visibly bloody man out in

4:28

the middle of the street who

4:31

has probably seen our faces. Where can

4:33

we take him? Where should we take

4:35

him anywhere? Is that wrong?

4:38

Should we? Should we take him to his house? Where

4:40

does he live? I don't know. I

4:42

don't know. I don't know where he

4:44

and his beautiful family resides. It

4:47

works in a... It works in

4:49

a... Wait, wait, wait. Okay. Okay.

4:54

Okay. I don't know. We don't know who

4:56

we can trust in this town. And

4:59

that knife, that

5:01

cleaver, that... It's

5:04

somewhere. It's always something.

5:08

It's not just all the other things we

5:10

have to deal with. It's always something new

5:12

and fun and funky fresh that we have

5:14

to just... Okay, cool. There's a big, stabby

5:16

knife around. Great. Keep

5:19

an eye out for that. I

5:21

feel like I'm going to fall

5:23

into a million pieces. Gable.

5:29

I know when I feel like this, I

5:32

feel like it's just... It's

5:34

time to talk to the captain. I think we gotta talk.

5:38

But I can stay here with Angela. I

5:41

feel like we shouldn't move him. I

5:45

think it is fine to move him based on

5:47

what I have experienced

5:50

and done. I think it's fine.

5:53

You just said it wasn't your best work. It's

5:55

not... Cosmetically,

5:57

aesthetically, not my best work. just

6:01

unpleasant to look at but should be fine. I

6:04

think it is but because it

6:06

is not my best work I think it is

6:08

important that we get him to someone who or

6:11

a series of people who have a little bit of experience

6:13

with Woon. So I think if

6:15

you feel like you can lift

6:17

him or support him to get him

6:19

to the ship and then just lay

6:22

him out somewhere and use

6:26

any of our, find

6:28

someone you think might be able to help and

6:33

I will go get the captain and

6:36

hopefully we will come right away and

6:38

we won't dilly-dally and we won't have

6:41

court intrigue or anything like that and

6:43

I will get back right away to help with all

6:46

this. Okay, okay,

6:48

I will, I will,

6:51

I will, John it, oh how

6:53

is John it going to try and hoist

6:55

an unconscious man. John it

6:57

is shorter than most. Okay John

6:59

it is going to, John it is going to do a

7:02

left, look right, look left,

7:04

look right again and there is

7:06

going to be like a, there

7:09

is going to be a man like a block

7:12

down the alley who just like

7:14

crosses into view before crossing out

7:16

the other side and he was

7:18

carrying a wheelbarrow and

7:20

John it is going to be, for a split second

7:23

John it is going to say here he is going

7:25

to book it down that end and all you see,

7:27

all you see is John

7:29

it is back as he runs down

7:31

the alley he makes a right, he

7:33

disappears out of frame you

7:35

hear a, buy

7:38

your wheelbarrow, and then you

7:40

see, and then you see, like you see an explosion,

7:54

small explosion of gold bits

7:57

just like fly back into

7:59

frame. at the end of

8:01

the alley. Oh, no, no, no, no,

8:03

no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

8:05

Okay, this is mine now, this is

8:07

mine now. And

8:10

so, Johnnett is going to book

8:12

it around the corner. Wheelbarrow

8:15

is going to grab

8:17

the shoulders, gonna ask Gable to

8:20

grab the legs. Uh-huh, all right,

8:22

fine. He'll want to

8:24

do what we do. You just

8:26

gave that man so much money. You gave him

8:28

so much money. This

8:30

wheelbarrow cost me three

8:33

months salary on the ship.

8:36

You changed that man's life forever. I

8:40

feel like, out of game, I feel like I

8:43

did come here being like, I'm gonna do good.

8:45

So this counts. We got one,

8:47

one in the... Oh

8:49

wait, and then, and then he's like, oh,

8:51

I can't just be walking around town with

8:53

a man in a wheelbarrow. He

8:56

looks left, looks right, looks left. There's another

8:58

person with a big ol' blanket, I don't

9:00

know. This is cold. And he runs

9:02

down the aisle. And he gets to tip it in.

9:05

Oh, more blanket. How much for that blanket? Wonderful

9:08

blanket, this is mine now, and

9:10

my grandkids are so good at it. Belts him

9:12

with some silver bits. Yank

9:15

the blanket. Thank

9:18

you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And

9:21

then throws it over Angelo. It's beautiful.

9:24

Okay. All right. I'm

9:27

gonna get this man back to the ship. Okay. And

9:33

send a message if you need

9:35

anything. Hopefully we'll be back very

9:37

shortly. And if he wakes up, impress

9:42

upon him that everything is

9:44

normal. And

9:46

two little thumbs up. Sure,

9:50

Gable. It's

9:53

normal. Everything is

9:56

normal. And so,

9:58

Johnnett grabs the handles. the wheelbarrow

10:00

picks him up, starts to walk away

10:02

and then puts him down

10:05

and then grabs for Gable's arm

10:07

and real quick, Gable.

10:10

And then we get like a close up, a

10:13

tight shot of Jada's face. We really

10:15

see like the strain

10:17

in his face as he says this,

10:19

Gable, please hurry. Straight

10:25

there, straight back.

10:28

Absolutely. Nothing will deter

10:30

me from this goal. I will

10:32

come right back to you. Alright.

10:34

Thank you, Gable. Promise. Now,

10:36

off with you. Goodbye, Angelo. Oh,

10:39

please stay alive. Ha, ha,

10:41

ha, ha, ha, ha. Gable runs off

10:43

towards you to talk to the captain.

10:52

I think we can turn ourselves

10:54

to a dinner

10:56

party hosted at

10:58

a mansion constructed by the

11:00

Red Feather Syndicate. I

11:02

think this comes at

11:05

an inopportune moment of

11:08

relative silence and quiet.

11:11

Nathan, for you specifically, what

11:13

I'm going to ask is what

11:15

moment does Gable specifically

11:17

interrupt with their arrival?

11:21

Uh, is the Church

11:23

of the Slain Gods inclined

11:26

to have like, you know, a

11:29

prayer before a meal kind of

11:31

energy? God, of course they must

11:33

be. Of course they must

11:35

be. Even if there's

11:37

no kind of like dialogue led and

11:39

it's just a moment to contemplate one's

11:41

existence. I like

11:43

it being a call

11:47

to silence specifically.

11:50

There is something about that that feels

11:52

very Church of the Slain God, where

11:55

instead of a prayer before

11:57

a meal or offering thanks,

12:00

are intended to listen for

12:03

the silence of the

12:05

absent God and be aware of

12:07

his absence before

12:10

you die. I think it is

12:12

a moment where, you know, obviously

12:14

Aravetti is leading this moment of

12:17

silence and it's

12:19

a thing where everybody is seated at

12:22

the table, food is

12:24

like out but, you know, covered

12:26

up, not fully served and

12:29

Aravetti is standing, you

12:32

know, off to the side of the head

12:34

of the table as obviously Edith Truss is

12:36

sitting at that head of the table and

12:40

begins the silence and

12:43

Oramar, I don't know how much experience

12:46

you have with the Church of the

12:48

slain God. In a sense it's inescapable.

12:51

They, it's a

12:53

religion that makes itself encounterable specifically. It

12:55

is one of the only

12:58

religions on all of spear

13:00

that has an

13:02

evangelical element to it that

13:05

intends to spread itself, that is

13:07

a foreign notion in

13:09

most places. And

13:13

this practice, this practice of silence is

13:15

probably something that Oramar has at least

13:18

observed before. But

13:21

this is the first time that it

13:23

has been led with someone who

13:25

is capable of sights and

13:28

wonders, who performs

13:30

the Church's miracles.

13:33

And as it begins there

13:35

is a beat where the

13:38

silence is itself and

13:40

after that the silence deepens.

13:44

You feel as though you are falling

13:46

down a well. It's

13:49

almost a sensory deprivation

13:52

where the room

13:54

fades away, then you hear

13:56

your body as, you know,

13:58

you have somewhat recently

14:00

gotten over being able to

14:03

hear the blood pumping through

14:05

your veins, the

14:07

thundering of your heart, the

14:10

rasping of your breath. Even

14:13

that begins to fade away. Until

14:16

you are floating within

14:18

this nothingness, the only

14:21

thing for you is sight, and

14:24

it even feels as though

14:26

the lights in the room are

14:28

dimming. Gable, how

14:31

do you interrupt this moment? Trying

14:33

to determine how much

14:35

I know about even

14:37

where Ormar is. I

14:40

think this is a big mansion in

14:43

a town that is

14:45

kind of, this mansion, this

14:47

is where all of the red

14:50

feather officials live, and the

14:52

offices are not far from here. I

14:54

think this town is small enough

14:56

that this is one of the things that you can

14:58

figure out. Without

15:00

any instruction, without even being able to read

15:02

the language, I think you'd be able to

15:04

find the factories in this

15:06

town quite easily. You can find the church quite

15:08

easily, and I think this is the other

15:11

tallest landmark here. Gotcha.

15:15

What I think it looks like

15:17

is the front

15:19

door had the footmen or people

15:23

just posted to like

15:28

butlers and things like that, and Gable

15:30

opens the door and just sort of

15:32

sweeps by them. So as they walk

15:35

the beeline to where they imagine

15:37

people are, they've got these two

15:40

like very flustered

15:47

footmen just like, oh no, please, we

15:50

couldn't, oh sorry, good

15:52

gracious. Who are you, you muscles? And

15:55

so they're beelining and then

15:57

they, right in the middle of

15:59

the city. once they slam open the door

16:01

and start

16:05

scanning the room and then nearly

16:07

immediately remember who they're supposed to be to these

16:10

people. Yeah, you

16:12

scan the room, everybody I

16:14

think jumps. It

16:16

is almost like a jump scare,

16:19

full on jump scare because everything

16:21

was so quiet. And

16:23

I think you make

16:26

eye contact with Vista

16:29

Aravetti. You can

16:31

see him standing up.

16:34

He doesn't look annoyed.

16:41

It's very obvious that this

16:44

person was doing something or

16:46

leading something. You can see

16:48

relatively humble, casual church clothing

16:51

on him. For

16:54

those who know Catholic priests, they have the black

16:56

shirt and the collar. That's

16:59

actually very quickly, just invent what

17:01

that is for the world

17:03

of sphere. I love fashions. I

17:12

still think it's like a circular

17:14

strap around the neck, but

17:18

it almost has tiny

17:21

clasps that go

17:24

actually off to the sides.

17:26

It almost connects like epaulettes to whatever

17:28

they're wearing. Oh,

17:30

that's cool. So

17:34

like silver chains almost? Yeah,

17:38

I think around

17:41

the neck is the standard bit

17:43

of white, definitely white, almost like

17:45

silk cloth or ribbon, but it

17:47

has clasps on it and people

17:50

tend to decide how they go

17:52

and connect it, ground

17:54

it to the rest of their outfit. So

17:57

some of these chains, straps, whatever. off

18:00

that, we decided that the symbol of the Church of

18:02

the slain God is like this eye

18:04

that is like kind of crying blood.

18:06

So I feel like there is this

18:09

dark metal, like almost iron eye symbol,

18:11

but it has these wonderful

18:13

silver chains that are hanging off going to the

18:15

side. And that denotes his

18:17

position as an ochivista, which

18:20

is like a very important

18:22

and specific level of bishop.

18:25

It's interesting to wind

18:27

back at a slight moment in the process

18:29

of the entire room, like deepening

18:31

and sinking, Oramar

18:33

feels the loss of control

18:36

in this circumstance

18:39

and hates it quite deeply. The

18:41

idea of the functions of their

18:43

own body being arrested outside of

18:46

themselves is a thing that he

18:48

very specifically never wants to happen

18:50

to him again. He

18:53

retreats, he's never, he's

18:56

never his soul. Like he's

18:58

done a handful of times before

19:00

where he'll go inside himself into

19:02

the architecture held

19:04

up by spider strings and tries

19:07

to use that as

19:09

a way to kind of keep a

19:11

degree of control of himself. I

19:14

would love to get a

19:17

intellect check from you Oramar. That

19:19

makes all the sense. Sorry,

19:21

I didn't. Is there something to be learned here? I

19:24

did not previously withdraw the dice. Give me just a

19:26

second. Hey, no, it's okay. The

19:28

way we run this show. Are you kidding? I'm

19:31

normally on top of it. You

19:33

are the most on top of it. I

19:35

would never besmirch your good name. Right.

19:38

Okay. Meanwhile, I'm not going to pull

19:40

up my character sheet until... Joe,

19:43

but I don't believe in

19:45

this specific warning here. Mm

19:48

hmm. So my

19:50

intellect is 3D8 currently.

19:55

And I think I will I think it will maintain that

19:57

we're not going to roll additional modifiers. I am going to

19:59

have... have to actually dig out where my d8s

20:01

are though. Okay.

20:06

Let me know when you're ready. I am

20:08

ready. What you got? Wonderful. I

20:10

got two eights and a six. Okay.

20:14

All right. Oh, that's a

20:16

failure with three fate coming

20:18

your way and an

20:21

opportunity. I

20:23

think you

20:25

are frustrated

20:28

or maybe shocked to

20:31

discover that retreating

20:33

to the mind palace

20:36

does not work or doesn't

20:39

work in the way that you want it to. You

20:42

still feel like hypnotically

20:45

isolated. I think

20:47

the opportunities are that you

20:50

understand that whatever is happening

20:52

in this moment is

20:55

happening on a metaphysical

20:57

and spiritual level in

21:00

addition to a physical level or

21:02

maybe even more so than a physical level.

21:04

There are a lot of factors here that

21:07

are not accounted for. The one thing that

21:09

you are experiencing is that

21:12

even here it feels arresting

21:14

like this. The silence entombs

21:17

you. I

21:22

think at the point that

21:24

Gable comes in and

21:27

breaks the spell figuratively and

21:29

literally, Oromar's

21:32

body or I suppose

21:35

Julian Labellez's body has

21:39

unbeknownst to him gripped the edge

21:42

of the wooden table and has

21:44

started to crack with how physically

21:46

hard he's been subconsciously gripping it

21:49

while trying to maintain floating above

21:51

the silence. Okay.

21:55

I love that detail and I don't

21:57

necessarily want to punish you for it.

22:00

But I oh I did big

22:02

giveaway. I did roll pretty well I

22:06

believe our event he has noticed mm-hmm

22:09

your table. Oh good this Tom

22:12

What are you doing here? Sorry

22:14

you called me in the west you

22:16

you uh the frightens up me as

22:18

it were Gable

22:21

like stands up a little straighter and

22:24

tries to put on the face and

22:27

in a very Direct

22:29

way, but also a stage whisper

22:32

Gable walks over to you on the

22:34

table and does one of those like

22:37

lean over stage whispers as if to

22:40

present like oh, this is just for you, but

22:44

The Lord my apologies, but this could not

22:46

wait the young sir has a message for

22:48

you that he would like to the he

22:52

Refused to let me wait until

22:54

your meal was over for me to deliver it to

22:56

you So at your convenience, please I will

22:58

be in At

23:02

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24:45

believe if we

24:49

have observed worshipfulness enough,

24:51

trust, like it's

24:54

not an angry or whatever eye,

24:56

it is just like a firm

24:58

eye over to Aravetti. That

25:01

it is time for dinner to begin.

25:03

Your servant, Mr. Loblest?

25:08

Yes, this is an issue with my

25:10

son. I should probably go and deal

25:12

with it for Swiss, if

25:15

I may be excused. He

25:17

takes the napkin from the table

25:19

and kind of drapes it over

25:21

his part of the table to

25:23

try and obscure the crack in

25:25

the woodwork and gets

25:27

up. Oh my,

25:30

is this an emergency? I

25:32

can have my soldiers dispatched

25:34

if so. Well, if

25:37

it is something that I'm supposed to be hearing

25:39

in confidence, the young

25:41

master, my son, is somebody

25:43

who is rather emotionally guarded at the

25:45

best of times, he's not really one

25:47

to open up as if there's a

25:49

matter. Of course, of

25:51

course, if it is, I will

25:53

allow you to gain knowledge

25:56

of the situation, but know

25:59

that you have... have the opportunity

26:01

for a full intervention by the

26:03

Red Feather Syndicate as our

26:06

guest. ALICE Marvelous. Let's

26:08

just hope he's not feeling home sick. And

26:14

uh, gets up, bows, elaborately,

26:16

leaves the table. ALICE I

26:18

think the servants kind of

26:20

like hurry you into a

26:23

side room somewhere in the

26:25

mansion. ALICE I'm sorry, I'm

26:27

sorry, I'm sorry. ALICE

26:29

We didn't know what

26:32

to do, I know I shouldn't be here.

26:34

ALICE Uh, Oramar puts his

26:36

hands on your shoulder. Are you quite alright?

26:39

ALICE Everyone is fine. Everyone

26:41

is fine. We have

26:45

a situation. Not pressing, not

26:47

immediate, but I believe

26:49

it is inherent- ALICE If it's not immediate,

26:51

Gable. ALICE

26:54

I'm terribly sorry. This

26:56

place, it seems. You

26:58

know how we never get a

27:00

break anywhere we go, ever? This

27:03

is just one of those times. We

27:06

have discovered through various events

27:09

that there is

27:11

a luminary presence here that

27:13

is quite excitable

27:16

and foul and has set

27:18

its sights upon certain

27:20

individuals within our party.

27:23

ALICE There's a gas

27:26

immediately. The rake is involved

27:28

here. ALICE Oh. Oh,

27:31

I don't believe so. It is much

27:35

more on the nose, I believe. And

27:37

Gable tells the whole story about

27:40

the, um, John had

27:42

a cleaver, and now,

27:44

I don't know how we

27:46

didn't notice he had a big knife all

27:48

day. That, I believe, is on us, but-

27:51

ALICE Oh, no. Oramar's

27:53

eyes widen at the mention of

27:55

the cleaver, the one I

27:57

found in the Seratura. Oh,

28:01

golly. And

28:03

yeah, some now some things

28:05

start stitching together. It is

28:07

like at the mention of

28:10

that knife that being pointed out to you,

28:13

you remember clearly it

28:15

being present with you

28:17

and John it throughout

28:20

the day. You

28:23

actually it feels like almost

28:25

like you are hazily and

28:27

fogly recalling even taking

28:29

it from the Seratura.

28:33

Like these memories were difficult to grasp at.

28:35

It is very obvious to you that

28:38

this knife and whatever presence

28:40

occupies it has worked hard

28:42

to stay on the very

28:44

edges of your awareness in

28:46

order to not draw suspicion.

28:49

It plays host to some kind of

28:52

bloody parasite. I don't and I

28:55

do want to emphasize that.

28:57

It seems that we may have brought it

28:59

here but the

29:02

spirit of this place

29:06

is also quite kind to

29:08

the butcher. There has been events

29:11

in the past that have just made it

29:13

increasingly likely for it to gain

29:17

some power. I

29:19

would have waited but I wanted to make sure like if

29:22

perhaps you bore

29:24

witness to a particularly bloody event, I wanted

29:26

you to keep an eye out for a

29:30

sudden spate of violence

29:32

or motivations within any

29:35

of the powerful amongst your party or if

29:39

you found a knife that

29:41

was really interesting that

29:44

you really wanted to hold and like just

29:46

hang out with. I would suggest you avoid

29:48

it. This

29:51

could have been more thought up. I apologize

29:54

infinitely but that's where

29:56

we are right now. It's fine. We

29:58

should. If

30:00

we believe it here, considering

30:03

the way the relationship between those

30:05

who work here and the Red

30:07

Feathers, where they have

30:09

nothing to do with their free time

30:12

but yearn for bloody

30:14

retribution to the people that put

30:16

them there, giving them

30:18

a weapon to do that could be the fall

30:22

of the community. It's

30:25

all pretty bad. We… Although

30:29

what you raised about how

30:33

it was part of Jonnet

30:35

or latching onto Jonnet until

30:37

it realized it could

30:39

not draw forth any killing intent

30:41

and then moved. Which that's

30:43

great to know. Yes. That's

30:45

awesome to know. It

30:47

might also be attracted to

30:50

killing intent. So

30:53

it may be a way that we could get it back

30:55

into our possession. Oh wow,

30:57

that's interesting. Well, maybe

31:00

it's increasingly good that

31:02

you are here while

31:04

you're collecting information about your

31:07

compatriots if anyone in particular

31:09

seems uniquely

31:13

bloodthirsty. Perhaps that may

31:15

be a good springtrap.

31:18

Honestly, let me tell you, Gable,

31:20

everybody here is bloodthirsty in their

31:22

own way. Their

31:25

hunger is unslakable. Their thirst,

31:27

rather, is unslakable. I…

31:32

The vibes in here are real bad.

31:35

And… Oh, it makes

31:38

me feel very yucky. But

31:40

I suppose there's nothing right now

31:42

we took, Angelo. I

31:45

feel so badly about Angelo. We

31:47

took him back to the… Angelo

31:50

did see me, so we have things to explain.

31:52

That's why we took it back to the ship instead of

31:54

to his own home for someone

31:56

to… For us to… Jonnet

31:59

to look after him. Um, nothing

32:01

to do right now, but just

32:03

want to, want to keep you informed.

32:07

Looking pensively now past

32:09

the gable, like he's no longer making

32:11

eye contact. He's trying to think of a

32:13

way around and through. This

32:15

is fine. It's probably for the best

32:17

that a member of the local community

32:19

was injured rather than a red feather

32:21

because they would be pursuing the culprit

32:24

with unreasonable amounts of

32:26

force. Uh, at the very

32:28

least, they might

32:30

not necessarily know that Angelo has gone

32:32

for the time being. No.

32:34

Uh, and hopefully later

32:37

tonight we can see to it if he

32:39

gets what he needs and potentially doesn't

32:42

miss, isn't missed too much.

32:46

You should be proud for saving another person,

32:48

Gable. Possible.

32:53

I, I just, I

32:55

feel quite guilty. It would never have occurred

32:58

to him if I hadn't, if

33:00

we hadn't made friends, it's, it's

33:03

hard to get past that. I mean, ultimately

33:05

if I hadn't decided to go and take,

33:08

we were desperate for resources and then the

33:10

thing that looked like we could take back

33:12

to the ship was worth taking, but ultimately

33:14

I am the person that brought that cleaver

33:17

into our lives. So I have

33:20

to admit to being at fault. Hey,

33:24

guilt is not a

33:26

useful emotion because it's not actionable. I

33:30

read that in a book. There

33:33

is a, a sad smile. You're

33:38

right. And

33:41

if I return considering the company, uh,

33:44

his posture relaxes a little bit. Considering

33:47

the, the holy company that I'm currently

33:49

seated with, I'm sure they'd be able

33:51

to sense guilt in a person a

33:54

mile away. So it's best to compartmentalize

33:56

that feeling for now. Absolutely. Lord knows

33:58

that's what they're doing. doing in there. So

34:01

I guess I'll go

34:04

back? Would you want? I

34:06

can't really help here. I

34:08

think at the very least, it

34:11

seems that every important person in

34:14

Sorrow's End is currently seated

34:16

around this table at a

34:19

mistrustive request. So

34:22

if any of them suddenly feel like

34:24

they need to be making moves, it

34:27

feels like a good idea for two strong

34:29

individuals who are aware of the threat

34:31

at hand can handle it before it

34:33

gets too bloody. Alright, I'll

34:37

hang out next

34:39

to the servants, I suppose. See

34:42

what's coming in and out of the kitchen, try

34:44

to make friends I guess. Or just let

34:47

me know if you need me. Yes,

34:51

I feel you would be uncomfortable

34:53

if I seated you at the table.

34:57

They would not like me. As

35:00

that is said, there is a knock at the

35:02

door. Ah

35:05

yes, sorry, we took a

35:07

moment. Hello, hello. Mistrust

35:10

was just a sent

35:12

us over to make sure everything

35:14

is in order. Absolutely, absolutely. I

35:16

have been given the full breast

35:18

of the situation and I have

35:20

decided that my son can wait.

35:24

But now that I have my assistant

35:26

here, if they

35:28

may assist during the proceedings, they

35:30

like to keep their hands busy.

35:33

Oh wait, well, Mistrust had

35:35

noted to us that it

35:37

appeared that your man Thomas

35:39

here was an

35:41

officer aboard your ship, holds

35:43

a position of authority. Indeed,

35:46

they are much trusted. Wonderful,

35:49

in which case Mistrust would like

35:51

to extend the offer of

35:54

invitation to join our

35:56

table. As you are guests

35:58

here, and I understand. that

36:00

there is a normal

36:03

hierarchy, but to the

36:05

red feather syndicate all privateers do

36:07

dine with us as guests. There

36:10

is a wicked smile

36:12

crosses Julian LaBolle's face.

36:15

Oh, you see, Thomas

36:18

has taken a vow of humbleness.

36:23

Lavish food is unfortunately something

36:25

they are abstaining from for the rest

36:27

of the year. Oh, that is not

36:29

a problem. We have some very

36:31

plain foods that can be served to your

36:34

man Thomas. That should

36:36

be no issue whatsoever. That

36:38

is a common diet here. Gable

36:41

gives the captain, like, I'm going to kill

36:43

him. I'm going to kill him. The

36:49

Agylian goes, very good, very

36:51

good. Well, we'll resolve where

36:54

Tom situates themselves. I think

36:56

we do a wipe cut

36:58

and we wipe to the

37:01

food being revealed and we can see,

37:03

like, a beautiful and

37:05

magnificent spread plated in front

37:08

of Oromar and what

37:10

looks like a flavorless

37:12

white paste that is

37:16

tastefully, but like, you

37:18

know, as much as you can do for a

37:20

flavorless white paste placed in

37:22

like a tiny block about the size of

37:25

a stick of butter in front of Gable. Gable,

37:30

I am definitely going to seat

37:32

you around the hot seat where

37:35

Oromar is. I think Aravitti

37:37

is on your opposite side and you

37:39

can see that his meal is a

37:41

flavorless block of paste as well. Gable

37:47

is not going to speak unless spoken to.

37:50

Half for the pretend and half because they're

37:53

royally pissed off. I

38:04

must extend my compliments.

38:07

That is a noble endeavor to

38:09

take on. Are you a

38:12

follower of the sovereign's path? It

38:15

is of interest to me. He

38:18

smiles. He smiles in the way

38:20

that a lot of powerful people

38:23

that you have encountered on Sphere

38:25

smile. Power

38:27

brings with it its

38:30

own corruptions, and there is

38:32

a quality to it that

38:34

links these folk together. The

38:36

way he smiles is not

38:38

even just a smile of

38:41

somebody who commands a great

38:43

deal of authority, which obviously

38:45

this person does, but

38:47

he smiles in the way of

38:50

somebody who commands a great deal

38:52

of power within themselves. I

38:57

understand that you wish to

38:59

be humble, and that

39:01

it might bruise your

39:04

own path to hear

39:06

this. But what

39:08

you are doing is quite

39:11

commendable, quite exceptional.

39:14

There are many who would enjoy

39:16

a position like yours who

39:18

would not make humility a part of

39:21

their life. Oh gosh.

39:23

Thomas is incredibly humble.

39:27

It's a recent development. It

39:29

does not matter when we are called

39:31

to walk the path of the sovereign.

39:34

All that matters is that we move

39:37

ourselves down the road at

39:39

the proper pace. Uh-huh. Oh,

39:42

don't pull that face, Thomas. I

39:45

think it is important to

39:48

note that in the

39:50

text before the fall of the stars,

39:53

the sovereign made his own,

39:55

I suppose, affiliations

39:57

with the folk

40:00

of fear. The Sovereign

40:02

was always drawn

40:04

to people who possessed

40:07

a deeper nobility, a

40:09

deeper grace, a deeper strength. The

40:13

Sovereign has created so many things, but

40:16

when he lived, he did love

40:18

his exceptional things most of all.

40:21

Gable is just like stuffing

40:23

their face now and

40:27

just the irony is

40:29

so potent that they almost can't even register

40:31

it. It's just like, yes, this is something

40:34

that might as well be said. Sure. Despite

40:38

the fact that Julian

40:40

is also eating food with

40:42

some alacrity during this,

40:44

there is a kind of glance

40:46

up at the opposite side of

40:48

the table, making some eye contact

40:51

with Lady Megan and Luther Mathers

40:53

and a glance sideways to

40:58

Tom in a kind of like, ah, people

41:00

who work under you, right? It's

41:03

simply rude to be

41:05

discussing religion over dinner.

41:07

It's untoward

41:11

to have such ungentle

41:13

topics whilst having a

41:15

meal. You

41:17

will have to forgive me. I

41:21

believe that there is no topic

41:23

gentler than the path of

41:25

sovereignty and that it

41:27

intersects with all ways and means of

41:30

life. But, you

41:32

know, my position affords me

41:34

the luxury of making

41:36

sure that it intermingles in whatever

41:39

company I might be and keep.

41:42

I'm sure you're gentle in your own

41:45

way, Lady Megan. Oh,

41:48

don't pay any attention

41:50

to me. But

41:54

I may I do have my

41:56

nice teeth indeed. Ah,

41:58

nice teeth. a raised

42:01

glass of wine. Would you like a

42:03

glass of wine as well, Thomas? Who

42:05

would that also be to watch

42:08

for the circumstances? Slight water for

42:10

me. Very

42:12

well. Sweating. Oh,

42:14

so slightly. Flat water

42:17

as well. A brave soul.

42:21

Everyone's so dehydrated. Yeah.

42:24

Well, I mean, hey, back in

42:26

certain historical times, like the most

42:29

common thing and drink was like

42:31

beer. You'd be drinking beer

42:33

throughout your day. It wouldn't be heavily alcoholic,

42:36

but it was one of the only ways that

42:38

you could make water safe to

42:40

drink. So, yeah, there's,

42:42

you know, more casual beers and

42:45

wines that are song about. And

42:47

obviously, water would

42:49

probably have been previously boiled

42:51

and any kind

42:53

of carbonated water would be seen

42:56

as safer as there is more

42:58

air incorporated into it. But flat

43:00

water is, I think, a

43:02

thing that is a

43:04

common request of skyjacks. Skyjacks

43:07

have the opportunity to harvest moisture

43:09

from clouds when they are sailing

43:12

through, and that is some

43:14

of the safest water in all of

43:16

sphere. So it is more

43:18

common for a skyjack to acquire

43:20

a taste for still water. And

43:23

it does make a statement whenever you are

43:25

on land and request still water, because

43:28

it makes people think you are cool

43:30

and brave. It

43:33

is not bravery. It is simply a

43:36

force of habit. My

43:38

discomfort at being on

43:40

the ground leads me

43:42

to seek comfort. Mr.

43:45

Lobelast, you must

43:47

tell us, how have

43:49

you found the winds and skies? My,

43:53

well, around

43:55

Azjul, we are

43:57

very used to the specific.

43:59

If it climbs across the seasons,

44:01

I do have something

44:04

of a skiff yacht

44:07

that I like to bandy about when the

44:09

weather is pleasurable. And it has given me

44:11

a taste to the air, although

44:13

I must say the

44:16

environment here, the wind does indeed

44:18

have a certain essence,

44:21

a flavour about

44:24

them that I

44:28

found very refreshing, very different. That

44:31

is an awfully polite way to refer to

44:33

the weathers that we have around here, which

44:36

brings me to a curiosity that

44:39

I have had. I

44:41

understand that you and your party

44:43

are here on a

44:45

bit of a holiday, as it were. What

44:48

brings you to this region

44:51

of sphere for holiday?

44:54

There's not much to see. This

44:57

is Truss asking, right? Yes. I

45:00

mean, that's what I think her voice was. Sure, sure,

45:02

sure. It was a long time ago.

45:04

Hey. None of that. It's

45:07

a veracity, it's gentler than Truss, just

45:09

making sure that I'm hearing it correctly.

45:11

You're good. This

45:13

is a line that was taken before. Yes,

45:16

so I must admit, this

45:19

is a bit of a misadventure of

45:21

our holidaying. I must say,

45:23

those that I do travel with, although

45:25

there was a strict flight route that

45:27

we had planned in advance, we do

45:29

not have, unfortunately, a

45:32

sky watcher aboard. I

45:34

spent very good coin, or

45:36

bits rather, to

45:39

have very well-mapped drawn

45:41

up in advanced simple instructions

45:43

that anyone could follow, they

45:45

said. And then we ended

45:47

up a little wavelet. We

45:49

were in dire straits until we

45:52

saw the plumes of colourful smoke

45:54

arising from this delightful little settlement.

45:57

Oh, I see. So

46:00

it is not intent that drove

46:02

you here, but need

46:05

and convenience. Yes,

46:07

but as they say when life

46:10

gives you ornery griffins,

46:13

make a new warbird.

46:16

Ahaha. Well, I

46:19

must know as a privateer,

46:21

you must have dealings then

46:23

with many of the

46:25

red feathers farther north.

46:28

Yes, indeed. In

46:30

fact, one of the local companies,

46:33

this is the thing that Oromo would probably know. Oh

46:36

yeah, absolutely. They operated within. Do

46:38

the sub-factions of the

46:40

red feathers have names or is it mostly

46:42

the ships that are named and people go

46:44

off that? So you

46:46

could pull, if you're

46:48

looking to pull references,

46:50

you're probably best

46:53

off with missions

46:56

or station masters

46:59

or even admirals within

47:02

that area. I

47:05

will have your role for it. And the only reason

47:07

is you've been gone for a year. There's

47:10

a chance, there's a small chance

47:12

that something could have happened. It

47:15

would be against two black d8s,

47:17

so like a normal level of

47:19

threat. Okay. But yeah,

47:21

you know, she is putting feelers

47:23

out for who you know, who

47:26

you might be affiliated with. Absolutely.

47:28

Oh, let me see. I

47:31

like, so intelligence

47:33

is a sensible thing to

47:35

add here because, you know, this

47:38

is mostly working on memory, but

47:40

I think it would be spicy for

47:43

reputation to be the

47:46

role this time. Interesting.

47:49

Now, how is Oramar's reputation

47:51

going to weigh into this?

48:00

previous reputation. I think

48:03

Oromar was good at what he did while

48:06

he was with the red feathers. I

48:09

think that will make the role

48:11

harder only because you were with

48:13

the red feathers so long ago.

48:16

Yes. I am

48:18

intentionally invoking disaster here. I could make

48:20

this easy for myself, but I like

48:22

this thread. Then I'm

48:25

going to upgrade these dice and you

48:27

can use reputation as you like. I

48:30

will spend two points for my

48:32

reputation to add

48:34

another die. Correct. That'll add a

48:36

d6. Sure.

48:39

So I'm rolling two d8s and one d6. All right.

48:42

On the d6, it's a 1. Excellent.

48:45

And on the d8, it's a 3 and a

48:47

6. Okay.

48:51

That is going to come out

48:54

to just two successes. I

48:57

guess what is a red

48:59

feather admiral in this French

49:02

region or what level of

49:04

authority do you want to

49:06

draw on here? I noted

49:09

down Station Master because that

49:11

sounded like a fun title to have. Me,

49:13

Nathan, not knowing what that means, but that's

49:15

fine. Oh, yes.

49:17

One Station Master Alexander Cricket with

49:20

two t's with notorious

49:22

around in my region of

49:24

Azur, which was a womanizer,

49:26

but did good work. Trusser's

49:29

face is hard

49:31

to read as

49:33

you invoke Station Master Cricket.

49:37

I mean goes, ah, yes, Master

49:39

Cricket. He does reputation

49:41

aside. He is in charge

49:43

of quite a profitable region.

49:46

Station Masters, just for everybody

49:48

to know, that would be

49:51

somebody who essentially owns or

49:53

is in charge of the operations of a major

49:55

port for the red feathers. So

49:57

probably what Station Master Cricket would be meant to

49:59

be. would be the centralization

50:02

and distribution of crops grown in

50:04

the Azure region to the rest

50:06

of the rediscovered world. So this

50:08

would be a person who is

50:11

like fairly important within the red

50:13

feather syndicate, but in

50:15

a localized way. And it

50:17

not being an admiral or

50:19

a captain or something, it

50:22

is specifically someone who

50:24

wouldn't be involved

50:27

in like this upcoming meeting that

50:29

is drawing on, which I

50:31

think trust is sort of

50:34

impactable goes to sensible culture.

52:00

in, which I was involved in resolving,

52:02

and as a result

52:04

whenever we needed a little bit of sugar,

52:06

not from him, but you know, from the

52:08

stocks, I just needed to drop a line. Oh,

52:11

that does sound like Mr.

52:14

Cricket. He does

52:16

take his liberties, but I suppose it

52:18

befits a man of

52:20

his station. Well, this must

52:22

be a banner year for

52:25

you. I'm quite surprised

52:27

that you decided to take this

52:29

year of all years to take

52:32

your vacation unless safety was

52:34

your primary concern. Well,

52:37

you know, when it comes

52:40

to the bigger gatherings,

52:43

when there's a bit of

52:45

a power play going on, you

52:48

are either seen or you are

52:50

definitely seen elsewhere. And there

52:53

are enough people that I've talked

52:55

to where, well, I

52:57

don't want to be airing anybody's dirty laundry at

53:00

a table, you know, either here or there. It

53:04

would be impolite over

53:06

the dinner table, but we

53:11

could be quite bad and gossip

53:13

a bit. Oh, we

53:15

must be bad. We must take

53:17

our time to be bad. Bad. Oh,

53:20

I must be in my cups.

53:22

How dare I? So impolite. Well,

53:25

you know, when the word is reverted to

53:27

gossip, it's not going to be travelling too

53:30

far now, is it? Looking

53:32

at the table, gossip not travelling too far

53:34

now? I think Mr. Stone

53:36

goes, oh no, gossip

53:38

usually just lingers around

53:40

here. In fact, I believe everyone

53:42

at this table, Mr. LaBless, will

53:44

need to hear whatever gossip you

53:46

have. We're practically starved for it.

53:48

We have to pay for all

53:50

our gossip and the nearest

53:53

information desk is hours away. Alright,

53:56

let's start making some big time plays

53:58

for some big time players. Give

54:00

me a second. How

54:34

could you turn down one thousand

54:36

copper bars? So I

54:39

accepted. Right away, no

54:41

questions. And the first part of the

54:43

order went well. I worked

54:45

faster than I'd ever worked before. I had

54:48

the dyes made up ready to go. And

54:51

I pressed two hundred copper

54:53

bars within a week. They

54:56

came out shiny and bright as ever. Exactly

54:59

what those dogs were looking for,

55:02

I'm sure. The problem is

55:04

they wanted all of the bars by the end of

55:06

the month. And even keeping that

55:08

kind of pace, it was going to be a

55:10

stretch. But I kept pressing. Working

55:13

day and night. And I actually got

55:15

ahead of it too. Halfway through

55:17

the third week, I had pressed

55:19

seven hundred bars. The end

55:21

was in sight. I was going to finish early.

55:24

But of course, I ran

55:26

into the trouble that you always

55:28

run into with a big order. And

55:32

that supply. You see, the red feathers

55:34

just put in the order. They didn't

55:36

drop me off a pallet of raw

55:38

material and say, Here, turn this into

55:40

currency. And we all know their

55:42

coffers had it too. That's how

55:44

the systems ought to work, isn't it? They

55:46

take their bars that are finished circulating, bring

55:49

them back to their forts, record it all

55:51

in their ledgers, and then melt it down

55:53

and start pressing again. But

55:55

they can't make ledger recordings at

55:57

remote facilities. All of that has to

55:59

be done... at the fork. So even

56:01

if all of Sage Town is flush

56:03

with stamped up copper bits, I

56:06

can't be supplied with any of them. I

56:08

have to find the copper by myself. Supply

56:10

my own ingots for the job. Now I

56:13

put in an order with my metal man.

56:15

He's a good lad, lives several towns over,

56:17

and he was able to deliver me enough

56:19

copper for the first 700. But when it

56:23

came time for the rest of the

56:25

order, nor could any other reliable metal

56:28

supplier within at least three days flight.

56:31

I could make the end of the order.

56:33

I could, but I needed the supply. So

56:35

as I was nearing the end of the

56:37

second week, I get desperate. I

56:40

put out a message, send it deep

56:42

into the heart of Orem, that I

56:44

need some travel and merchant, and I'd

56:47

be willing to pay handsome for copper.

56:49

25% over market rate. Even with that,

56:51

I'd be making a tidy profit for

56:53

myself. But only one supplier says that

56:55

they can give me enough for the

56:58

remaining 300 in time, and they

57:00

want 50% over

57:02

market rate. All of a sudden my tidy

57:04

job is starting to look mighty pinched, but

57:06

I don't have a choice. So

57:09

I agree. I strike a

57:12

deal with damn Nasser. I'd

57:14

never traded with him before, but I'd

57:16

heard stories, always marking up,

57:19

always having some excuse, but

57:22

I just ignored them all because

57:24

I so aptly wanted this to work.

57:27

When he came to town, the way

57:29

he smiled, I should have

57:31

known something was off, but I needed

57:33

the ingots and it was

57:35

so deep in the work. The

57:37

fact that he came a day late and

57:40

I should have tested the damn ingots. Well,

57:43

they overlooked a lot. I

57:46

pressed those 300 bars, handed

57:49

them over to the feathers and

57:51

collected my pay. 50 silver

57:54

bars to stretch me a long way,

57:56

even if it took 20 to get my

57:59

supply. They didn't know anything

58:01

was wrong until the soldiers showed

58:03

up by my doorstep, said that

58:05

I had destroyed Redfeather property by

58:07

issuing 300 inferior copper bars. I

58:12

denied it at first, of course. I've got

58:14

my word. I've got my honor. I know

58:17

the work that I do is good, but

58:19

the proof came in their testing. Naseer's

58:21

copper had been diluted, mixed with

58:24

nickel and zinc. They

58:26

wanted to find me the

58:28

full cost of my services.

58:31

That would have destroyed me. I shut

58:33

down a month of business so I

58:35

could complete the order. And I did

58:37

seven tenths of it exactly what we

58:39

agreed. And the only reason the last

58:42

three tenths were off was because someone

58:44

else did this to me. Like

58:46

I said, they don't listen to an individual. I

58:49

had to go find a Redfeather

58:51

lawman to plead my case for

58:53

me. It was going to cost

58:55

fifteen silver bars. And

58:57

it would take whatever time to argue

59:00

the case where I wouldn't be able to do business.

59:03

My profit was gone. I'd

59:05

be losing money on this deal.

59:07

I said as much to my

59:09

lawman, and he told me that

59:11

because I was dealing with him

59:14

and he was a Redfeather official, that I

59:16

could take the wages that I was to

59:18

pay to him and any fines

59:21

that might have come out of the whole

59:23

process. I could spend a year and

59:26

work it away with thirty silver

59:28

bars of payment. I'd

59:30

be able to pay to keep my shop open

59:32

with the money that I had made from the

59:34

deal, do just six months

59:37

of work at some camp. And

59:39

by the time he was done with the case,

59:41

I'd probably come home to some of my

59:43

money back of what I paid to Naseer. Even

59:46

with a few months of unusual work, I'd

59:49

still be making a profit. So

59:51

that's the deal that I took. I

59:54

signed what I owed my lawman and

59:56

what I was being fined as debt

59:58

to the Redfeather and

1:00:01

I got shipped here to Sorrow's End.

1:00:03

It was supposed to be just a few months of

1:00:06

work. I'm coming up

1:00:08

on a year now, and I

1:00:10

could have paid down most of what I owed,

1:00:12

but the Scarlet was on set

1:00:14

quick with me, much faster

1:00:16

than it's supposed to, much faster than

1:00:18

it is with so many others. I

1:00:22

needed treatment. Last

1:00:24

few months I needed a church bath at

1:00:26

least once a week, otherwise that

1:00:28

just the touch of my clothes would

1:00:30

make me sweat through my malign. There

1:00:33

is an end in sight. There is.

1:00:35

I've paid out more of what I've

1:00:38

saved than I'm happy to admit. And

1:00:40

I can't go back to work

1:00:42

like this at home. I'm working

1:00:44

with so much heat, with so

1:00:46

much clashing metal. I die. I

1:00:49

don't know what to do. All

1:00:52

I know is that

1:00:54

I'm here. And I

1:00:56

don't deserve to be. No

1:00:59

one does. Space

1:01:24

is made out of the collective

1:01:26

imaginations of all the thinking beings

1:01:28

who live on various planets. These

1:01:30

worlds are connected to each other

1:01:32

through imagination. Common themes and ideas

1:01:35

are strings between universes. And to

1:01:37

get between them, people fly wooden

1:01:39

ships that look like animals, which

1:01:41

are powered by emotions. Also

1:01:43

people communicate with each other by contemplating orbs.

1:01:45

The only way you can take pictures is

1:01:48

by getting stared at by a big psychic

1:01:50

bug. And people have already declared victory in

1:01:52

a war over the very concept of evil.

1:01:54

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Starwall Odyssey

1:01:56

follows the adventures of the hapless inhabitants of

1:01:59

the lucky face tenement building, who

1:02:01

suddenly find that their apartment is

1:02:03

actually a spaceship, and that they're

1:02:06

lost in a sea of boundless

1:02:08

imagination. It's an actual play starring

1:02:10

me, James D'Amato, Mel D'Amato, Allie

1:02:12

Grauer, and Drew Mierzieski, as we

1:02:15

playtest the No Kings system, which

1:02:17

will hopefully one day be the

1:02:19

Skyjacks role-playing system. It toes the

1:02:22

line between weird and wonderful slice

1:02:24

of life and high-flying space

1:02:26

fantasy. You can sample the first five

1:02:28

episodes by searching for Starwall Odyssey on

1:02:31

your favorite podcast app, or get the

1:02:33

whole thing by heading to patreon.com/one-shot podcast

1:02:35

and signing up for five dollars a

1:02:38

month or more. Jonat

1:02:42

Kessler was played by Tyler Davis,

1:02:44

who can be found on Twitter

1:02:46

and Instagram at Tyler A Dave.

1:02:48

Tyler is on strike alongside his

1:02:50

fellow members of the WGA and

1:02:52

SAG-AFTRA. You can support Tyler and

1:02:54

other striking artists by contributing to

1:02:56

the Entertainment Community Fund, linked

1:02:58

in our show notes. Gable was

1:03:00

played by Liz Anderson, who

1:03:02

can be found on Twitter

1:03:04

at Liz Anderson underscore underscore

1:03:06

underscore, or on her podcast,

1:03:08

Paired. Captain Oramar

1:03:10

Vail was played by Nathan

1:03:13

Blades, who can be found

1:03:15

on Twitter at PhantomArtsENT, or

1:03:18

streaming at twitch.tv slash TheNeonCaster.

1:03:21

I am James D'Amato, your host

1:03:23

and game master. You can find

1:03:25

me on Twitter at OneShotRPG, or

1:03:28

on my podcast, OneShot. The

1:03:30

original music featured in this podcast

1:03:32

was written, composed, and performed by

1:03:35

Arnie Parrott. You can find him

1:03:37

over on Twitter at Arnie Parrott,

1:03:39

or on his website, ATP Tunes.

1:03:42

This episode was edited by Allie Grauer,

1:03:44

who can be found on Twitter at

1:03:47

Dreams2Become, or on

1:03:49

her podcast, SkyjacksCareersCall. Our

1:03:51

logo was designed by Fiona Shea, who

1:03:53

can be found on Twitter at Lunarum.

1:03:55

The World of Sphere was inspired in

1:03:57

part by the music of the December

1:04:00

and Illimat, produced by Together Studios. This

1:04:03

show was made in part by using

1:04:05

a modified version of the Genesis role-playing

1:04:07

system, designed by Sam Stewart and a

1:04:10

team of talented professionals. There

1:04:12

are no kings. Take sight.

1:04:44

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