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off per gallon. So

1:30

what we decided to do with

1:32

this role is I am

1:35

just going to roll the two

1:37

of the low stakes danger dice

1:39

here. What I think in drawing

1:42

that luminary and with the move

1:44

that you just made, I

1:47

think no matter what, Bayless is going to check off

1:50

a progress towards radicalization. But

1:54

there is the potential danger here of like, if

1:56

we, you know what, I'm maybe instead of it

1:58

being the low stakes die. I'm

2:00

going to do one high stakes

2:02

and say there could

2:05

be a potential negative outcome of

2:08

Bayless getting radicalized for

2:11

the same reason that

2:14

what's her Adrian got kind

2:16

of radicalized back in Nordia,

2:18

which is I'm putting significance

2:20

onto John it instead of

2:23

into what John it is saying to

2:25

me. So let's just roll to see

2:27

if there's so it's two complications. I

2:29

think that is at threat right now,

2:31

but like, you

2:34

know, there are still whatever, however many

2:36

boxes of radicalization Bayless

2:39

has, there are two more

2:41

boxes. So like anything can

2:43

happen here. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely think

2:45

that in this context, it

2:48

is because

2:50

John is a seer Bayless

2:52

is now open to listening

2:55

basically. Sure. And it's recontextualizing

2:57

a lot of things, but

2:59

like the words haven't reached him yet.

3:02

It's more of like, holy shit, that's

3:04

a seer. I'm

3:06

going to add a second radicalization

3:09

track. And I think they've

3:11

both got ticks. So

3:13

it could not happen. It could happen

3:15

one of two ways also. Interesting.

3:18

So yeah, everybody

3:20

has gathered around, they are

3:22

now like, like

3:27

really looking at the two of

3:29

you in a different

3:31

way. And, you

3:33

know, you can hear this woman's

3:35

thoughts and intention, a seer. And

3:39

John's like, don't focus on

3:41

what I mean, it's impossible not

3:43

to focus on what I'm what I am, but

3:45

also just pay attention to what I'm saying. And

3:48

so he is, he gestures back to

3:50

the butcher and

3:52

the newly relocated butcher closer to

3:55

the other

3:57

luminaries. Yeah,

4:00

I don't want to make a play for a knife

4:02

or anything like that, but it's like he's

4:04

just going to point. Yeah Yeah, I think

4:09

she turns to

4:11

like the the person who has been

4:14

the tough guy kind of like watching over the

4:17

situation and she says to him

4:19

bring me Roshua and I

4:22

think she like

4:26

Argues or you know sounds like

4:28

surprised and digment and indignant and

4:30

she reaffirms bring me Roshua and

4:35

After a moment he he leaves

4:37

and comes back and There

4:41

is a box and he

4:44

hands it to her like kind

4:46

of delicately and gingerly

4:49

and she

4:52

opens it up and Unwraps

4:55

like this, you

4:58

know wrapping made out of like woven grasses

5:01

that is extremely

5:04

Intricately decorated like dyed in

5:06

these beautiful beautiful patterns. It

5:08

looks like great care was

5:10

put into this and inside

5:13

there is a Hand

5:17

it looks like it is alive

5:22

This connects from both Bayless and John

5:24

it kind of go Like

5:29

it's not bleeding or anything

5:32

and you can see that on the

5:34

designs like when the covering

5:37

is unfolded that The

5:40

inside is like dyed oranges and reds

5:42

and it looks like fire and

5:45

there is this hand That

5:47

that belonged to a person and

5:50

on the central knuckle there is

5:52

an eye After

5:55

the flames Roshua remained

5:58

and Watched.

6:02

Are you getting like. Saying.

6:05

From the Addams family, you know I'm

6:08

kind of similar. Like, there's a there's

6:10

already a thing in this Arkin like

6:12

dress is currently inhabiting that a bit

6:14

of relic way that we the hand

6:16

of behind. It's not moving right, but

6:18

it looks like you would assume that

6:20

it was a hand that was so

6:23

attached to a person. It's not pale,

6:25

it's not desiccated. If. Ah and

6:27

this could be something that they at the roper said

6:29

before. if you are to like. Slip.

6:31

It over. Would. You get a

6:34

semblance of a pulse at the

6:36

at the base of the here

6:38

i kind of thing I think

6:40

you you might I feel like

6:42

at maybe more the hand would

6:44

be warm to the touch is

6:46

down to touch it so but

6:48

like I don't know that it's

6:50

moving like what What this is

6:52

Ah is a piece of relic

6:54

way last you know that after

6:56

dress body was burned his heart

6:58

remains arm and you kind of

7:00

know that ah sometimes people who

7:02

are. Extremely proficient in magic

7:04

in some way. Leave

7:07

a part of themselves behind ah, in

7:09

a form of relic way, and it

7:11

appears that that's what they've got here.

7:15

Does. Is there any

7:17

kind of inkling that John it can

7:19

perceive where it's like is Rochelle? Are.

7:23

Being offered to john it

7:25

at all. Because I. Or.

7:27

Is it just kind of like. Were. So is

7:30

here and it's between Russia

7:32

and that the head purse

7:34

of as mean you're getting

7:36

subtext from the so what

7:38

she is saying, Ah? This

7:41

is the seer. Who shelters

7:43

us? Or shelter dust from the

7:45

butcher? Like see

7:48

indicates you rip reseller.

7:50

Was. The. First of who

7:53

we became. guided us to who

7:55

we became, That. I think

7:57

john it is going to. Sort.

7:59

Of. He. Is going to

8:02

offer. Open. Hands you

8:04

open hands to potentially receiver

8:06

a shower. Need.

8:10

A basically wants to make physical contact

8:12

with. The. Handed but he

8:14

doesn't want to do it Suddenly

8:16

he wanted to be are given

8:19

not take how do you what?

8:21

What Luminary d used to indicate

8:23

that you would like to touch

8:26

the hand. He

8:28

is going to take. The.

8:30

Grey stone and place it

8:33

on the tide. Which

8:36

is, ah, cycles shifting

8:38

fortunes in change. Okay,

8:41

okay okay okay. I'm.

8:44

I. And

8:47

and his gesturing. Like towards

8:49

towards the hand with that. I.

8:51

Think with your status. As

8:54

the seer with what you are trying

8:56

to declare and like what this. Person

9:00

that you are negotiating with is

9:02

like seeing in new I think they

9:04

are gonna. Trust. You

9:06

to touch the hand I'm going to

9:08

have you draw Luminary and I'm letting

9:10

you know beforehand. New Luminary A You.

9:13

When. You touch the said, there's

9:15

a non zero chance that

9:18

you could absorb this. The.

9:20

Way Gable absorbed.

9:23

The. Absorbed Angel Fathers' yes yes I

9:25

would be a real disastrous result

9:27

because any of the complication of

9:29

likes they have this sacred relics

9:31

from like one of their greatest

9:33

heroes and it's just up I

9:35

loaded you hate you, ate it

9:37

Asia and on a diet Your

9:39

sea urchins is ah. We

9:46

got the Forest Queen

9:48

me. This

9:50

is gonna be a hard

9:52

interpretation. Oh

9:56

oh of who? Dominance.

9:59

Done. The dominant nature. Yeah.

10:01

station and order. I

10:04

and the divination is the queen

10:06

represents intervene intervention of natural forces.

10:09

The power of the queen is

10:11

limitless, but it can only influence

10:13

living things not command them. By

10:15

her nature, the queen craves voluntary

10:17

supplication. Rewards come to those who

10:20

honor her, but they always carry

10:22

a price. I think this is

10:24

a choice. The. John

10:27

It. Touches. This and

10:29

there is a connection. His

10:32

i like kind of flares and

10:34

I think you can see the

10:36

eye on the hand flair and

10:38

there is a connection of golden

10:40

light. Ah there is a there's

10:43

a way that you could navigate

10:45

to this. I prepared some information

10:47

that you can get from this

10:49

but. There is

10:51

now this moment of

10:53

john. it kind of

10:55

understanding. That. The.

10:58

Tower In This

11:01

I. Could

11:03

be his. Ah

11:06

if if he desired it

11:08

it would carry the price

11:10

of maybe make in this

11:12

situation super more complicated. Is

11:17

there a sense of like. What

11:20

this power is because I feel

11:22

like the knee jerk responses like.

11:24

And. Is that game? The knee jerk responses like john it

11:27

doesn't want it. But. I

11:29

could maybe see a whirl. Words

11:31

like it is such a power

11:33

were like oh shit this would

11:35

be so useful. I think that

11:37

is like a big thing from

11:39

it. I'm I could even I

11:41

could even give you the vision

11:43

first to we could decide after

11:45

I think. There

11:47

is a lot of use that

11:49

you could get out of see

11:52

or power. John is already extremely

11:54

powerful arm and I think this

11:56

is an interesting crossroads. John it.

11:59

i think you inherit No, you

12:01

could do a lot of good with See

12:04

your power like you you've already

12:06

done so much good and

12:10

This is kind of a desperate weird situation.

12:12

Y'all are about to go up against a

12:14

luminary And

12:17

you've got a even wilder path

12:19

ahead of you behind you You

12:22

have all the shit that just went down

12:24

with the forest queen like in

12:26

that situation You were desperate

12:28

your family is lost like

12:30

you've been on your back

12:32

heels for how long and Everyone

12:35

in the world is your enemy in some way

12:37

except for the people on that ship so

12:40

I think there is very real

12:42

temptation and there's a practical thing

12:44

to of You

12:47

know, whatever Whatever this see or

12:49

did and you know, we'll be able to see

12:51

a part of that whatever the see you did

12:54

You could probably figure it out.

12:56

They don't They

12:58

probably don't need this hand, but

13:01

it is culturally

13:03

important to them and

13:05

it would be hard for anyone

13:08

to understand how would you Absorb

13:11

this into yourself even if you help

13:13

them and not By

13:16

necessity make yourself then a part

13:19

of their cultural story the way

13:21

you did in nordia it's

13:26

It is like complicated and you

13:28

know a part of this too is This

13:32

is a part of another seer and

13:34

in a way it's offering itself to

13:37

you Yeah, there's like so

13:39

like your seer recognize here. It's

13:41

it's I think Really

13:44

complicated. I think there is a knee-jerk

13:47

thing of like hey, we're being

13:49

anti-colonial You can't just take a

13:51

cultural artifact as part of yourself

13:55

but like John it

13:57

has reasons to be tempted

14:00

by that and I don't think it

14:02

guides you towards a good end or a

14:04

bad end to make either

14:06

choice. Yeah. I guess

14:09

this is... I

14:11

feel like you wouldn't really know this until if you did

14:13

it. But it's like, in accepting

14:15

this power, I would assume that the

14:18

hand would have some

14:20

kind of physiological change that

14:22

is noticeable to folks. The

14:26

eye would definitely be gone. I

14:28

think the hand could

14:31

remain... that might...

14:34

we might follow that up with a roll. If

14:36

you're like, I'm going to

14:38

accept some of the power that is

14:40

being offered to me, but I want

14:43

to take pains to make sure that

14:45

these people have what is important

14:48

to them at the end of

14:50

the day. That could

14:52

be interesting because the

14:54

eye weirdly has

14:56

its own kind of agency.

14:58

It's really, really complicated because

15:00

people are essentially like this

15:03

object is a part of an angel

15:06

that a human being merged with and absorbed.

15:10

Let's do this

15:12

vision. The

15:15

eyes connect across

15:17

this bridge. And, Jonette,

15:20

similarly to when you shared

15:22

a vision with Teacher Wei,

15:25

like, the world kind of

15:28

changes and expands and you

15:30

are inside a vision.

15:33

And the world looks

15:35

almost animated. You see a

15:38

lush and vibrant land.

15:41

You can see the wind.

15:45

There are colors that are swirling through,

15:47

like, the lines of the universe are

15:49

like showing you such a

15:52

deep and perfect understanding of

15:54

how the world moves. You

15:58

can see... grasses moving

16:01

and you can see

16:03

across this land like there are

16:05

a lot of people. It

16:08

is definitely a less

16:11

nomadic version of this culture.

16:14

There are more established buildings

16:16

and you can also see

16:18

there's cultural diversity here. There

16:20

are a lot of different

16:22

people who are dressing differently.

16:25

There's some like like communication

16:27

and whatnot but like

16:29

there are some people who are like yeah we're

16:31

in our kind of like family or tribe or

16:33

whatever you want to call it here. We've got

16:35

our nation here and they've got theirs there. Suddenly

16:39

like in this beautiful land with all

16:41

this life and whatnot there is

16:43

a shadow that casts over it and

16:45

you can see a

16:47

dark and just terrible wave

16:49

that like moves across

16:52

the land like water crashes in

16:54

and then as though a wave

16:57

crashing behind it there is a darkness

16:59

in the water and you can sense

17:02

even in the vision that

17:04

is the curse on

17:06

the seas like whatever is

17:09

connected to the mariner that makes the

17:11

seas so so blighted

17:13

and hateful moves through that

17:15

water the water recedes and

17:18

you can see now that

17:20

the vibrant land that was full of life

17:22

is different. A lot of the people who

17:24

are living here died as

17:27

there was this massive and violent

17:29

flood and you know because you've

17:32

seen from a bird's eye view

17:34

this is inland you know that's

17:36

crazy and you kind

17:39

of instinctually understand this is connected to

17:41

the starfall. That's the wave

17:43

that hit when stars

17:46

crashed into the ocean and kicked

17:48

up like massive tidal waves. The

17:50

crash dulls the color of the

17:52

land so like the grasses afterwards

17:54

like are kind of like drying

17:56

up and dying like all of

17:59

the vegetation. agitation, looks

18:01

very sick. People

18:03

to you in this vision are

18:05

represented by clothing. You're

18:08

focused on this culture in particular, and they

18:10

are represented by like their tall skirts, and

18:12

they are kind of like wistfully

18:15

dancing over this landscape. They're

18:17

crashed and they're tattered and

18:19

dashed, and like only a

18:21

fraction of that number get

18:23

up. It is, you know,

18:26

cities become towns

18:28

in like tragic moments.

18:32

And then after that, like

18:34

you can see the clothing

18:36

of all of these people in all of these

18:38

places like frantically moving

18:41

around, and

18:43

you can see more and more

18:45

resources disappearing. And

18:48

then like some of the skirts are

18:50

like moving more shakily and warily, and

18:52

they start to collapse. And

18:56

places where these different cultures were

18:58

mixing, they recede from each other,

19:01

they move back into their home

19:03

places, and there is no

19:06

mixing. And after

19:08

some time, there

19:11

are some that you can see

19:13

like desperate, and you can see

19:15

moments where people lash out. And

19:21

I think within your perception

19:23

in this space, you

19:25

can see that like there

19:28

is a flare of the butcher's

19:30

knife around these. It is not

19:32

just that people were hungry and

19:34

scared and so that they turned

19:36

on their neighbors. The

19:38

butcher influenced this in

19:40

some way, like stepped into this.

19:44

And as that is held,

19:46

you can see wounds appear on

19:48

people. Like as though the clothing

19:50

is filled by a body, like

19:52

a wound just opens up in

19:54

the air so that it is

19:56

raw and bleeding. And

19:59

as the hand that moves the knife

20:01

continues to strike, a wound opens

20:03

upon it and like it spreads

20:06

like a plague of these

20:08

different places now fighting

20:11

each other, fighting each other for resources,

20:13

fighting each other for revenge. Blood

20:16

starts to stain the land. We

20:18

can see that like

20:20

it is creeping over

20:22

the grasses and we

20:25

then see a much

20:27

smaller skirt standing

20:30

over like a

20:32

wounded one where there is

20:34

blood kind of everywhere seeping

20:38

into the ground. And

20:41

we can see that like the earth

20:43

is shifting as the smaller skirt is

20:46

digging a grave for this person who

20:48

was struck down and as they

20:50

are digging there is a

20:53

golden light that emerges from the ground

20:55

and you can see an angel feather.

20:59

I think we'll say this one is a

21:01

black feather. It's

21:04

a black feather that looks up at the eye and

21:07

you can see a flash

21:09

of light and then an eye

21:12

that is like merged into a

21:14

hand, a younger version of the hand

21:16

that you see now. So

21:20

the eye like casts about

21:22

the land and it can

21:24

see how these wounds have

21:27

like sticky tendrils that

21:29

link them all like it

21:31

is a net, a web woven

21:33

over this land. That all

21:35

of these disparate wounds whether they

21:38

are physical or emotional are

21:40

all knotted and

21:42

surrounding this jagged knife

21:45

that sits in the middle of the land. The

21:48

eye can see it very clearly

21:50

how it tears into

21:52

people, how it moves their hands

21:55

as though it is pulling the strings of

21:57

a marionette. we

22:00

can see then the

22:04

eye turning to this body

22:07

and how even in death

22:09

these tendrils are connected to

22:12

this dead body that they are

22:14

attempting to bury. And

22:17

the hand like moves over to them

22:19

and is trying to pull these tendrils

22:21

off and it burns.

22:25

Like the hand recedes and

22:28

like forms into a fist like

22:30

kind of firming up with resolution

22:33

and gold light like spills out

22:36

of it and it moves in

22:38

and you can see like the

22:41

flesh like almost boil

22:43

and get burns as

22:46

it is again pulling on

22:48

this and the

22:50

light grows more and more

22:52

intense until it

22:55

pulls away the hand looks damaged

22:57

you can see like

23:00

on the hand before that there

23:02

were scars across the pad of

23:04

the palm but in its place

23:06

there is what you

23:08

recognize as Grosova the

23:10

fungus and you can

23:13

see it's spread in the body

23:15

and start to eat at the

23:17

red until the tendrils snap and

23:19

pull away from it and

23:22

the eye casts out over

23:25

the landscape then. The

23:28

eye like looks back and

23:30

you can see within the

23:32

Grosova, within this fungus how

23:35

the almost like blood

23:38

and flowing lava the

23:41

influence of the butcher is boiling

23:43

but it is boiling to a

23:45

point that it is fizzling away

23:47

within these fungal blooms. They're

23:51

being eaten and so

23:53

the eye moves around to the

23:55

other skirts in the encampment gathers

23:58

them around here. and

24:00

you start to see them bring more

24:03

dead. These dead are

24:05

buried alongside and the fungal blooms

24:07

like pop up and

24:09

slowly you can see like

24:12

spiritual forms being released from

24:14

these bodies, the red tendrils

24:16

going away and with

24:18

that color starting to return

24:20

to the landscape. The

24:23

skirts begin to like dance

24:25

around these blooms as the

24:28

grasses kind of awaken. Then

24:30

time like kind of accelerates.

24:33

You lose sense

24:35

of the other cultures. You

24:37

can see at some point

24:40

this hand like falls

24:42

dead and is placed upon

24:44

the blooms and then is

24:47

recovered from like this this

24:49

burial pyre of the

24:51

Grosova as the relic that

24:53

it is and that relic then

24:55

sits between these people and

24:58

we can see that there is

25:00

a ring around this place where

25:02

the tendrils of red kind of

25:04

grow over the land like sticky

25:07

and questing but they

25:10

cannot pierce this space.

25:13

You can see like faint

25:15

indications of the fungal blooms

25:17

around the area warding away

25:19

those tendrils and

25:21

there is brightness, there is life,

25:23

this community swells and grows and

25:26

then piercing crashing

25:28

from the sky. There

25:30

is a ship bathed in

25:33

red dripping that

25:35

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25:38

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in the sky! I

29:20

think we join you, Johnnett,

29:22

at the end of this

29:24

vision. You have sort of

29:27

seen the proto-history of this

29:29

region of the world from

29:32

prior to the Starfall, through

29:34

the Starfall. And you

29:36

kind of understand how we have

29:38

arrived here, where a

29:41

once vibrant and plentiful

29:43

land has been cut

29:45

back to a slightly

29:48

gray feeling place.

29:50

There is still the kiss of

29:52

color at the edges of this

29:54

place, but seeing what

29:56

you saw in that vision, the

29:59

colors are... around you now do look

30:01

less vivid. And this

30:04

community that had really built

30:06

itself up after the starfall

30:09

is now here

30:11

in this semi-nomadic

30:13

encampment where the

30:15

people around you are tired. They

30:18

are scared. They are nervous. And

30:21

they are all looking at you. Is

30:24

there anyone in, pointing is rude, but

30:28

is there anyone, open hand, open

30:30

hand? Yeah, there it is. Thank

30:32

you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. We

30:35

learned that at Disney. Is

30:38

there anyone in

30:40

the room that is experiencing

30:42

the Crimson at all? So

30:45

yeah, you look around at the Hale

30:47

people, and you can see none

30:50

of them are afflicted with

30:52

Crimson. At least it

30:54

wouldn't be in advanced state. You would

30:56

need to really see inside people's mouths

30:59

to understand the first signs. But the

31:01

way Crimson starts, it starts in your

31:03

mouth and other soft tissues that you

31:05

can see it. And then slowly it

31:07

moves over your limbs. But these

31:10

are people who don't wear

31:12

as many heavy layers of

31:14

clothing as people within red

31:16

feather territories are accustomed to.

31:19

And they're certainly not wearing masks

31:22

or anything that everybody who

31:24

works within sorrows end needs to wear

31:26

in order to do their work as

31:28

safe as they can. Yeah. Yeah,

31:31

I don't know if there's a

31:33

way to cleanly ask, what

31:35

are the mechanics

31:38

of the Grossova by

31:40

way of yes, no, maybes? Have

31:43

we also at this point established

31:45

that Jeanette was understanding

31:48

via the third ahi, basically, what

31:50

was going on through language? Yeah,

31:52

so Jeanette can understand them perfectly.

31:54

It's making himself understood. Understood. It's

31:56

just speaking back to that sort

31:58

of thing. OK. So, uh,

32:01

John it I feel like Recollects

32:04

himself after this vision. I feel

32:06

like there is a there's

32:08

a level of like Shake

32:11

in his body and a little

32:13

bit of like dampness on his forehead But

32:16

I he is going to take the

32:18

hand Clasp it

32:20

clasp it like with his two

32:22

hands. He's going to look at the PSA Like

32:25

give a nod as if just as it's

32:27

to say thank you and then he's going

32:29

to offer the hand back John

32:32

is going to He's not going

32:34

to Try

32:36

to take Anything from

32:39

the hand. He's already been given

32:42

uh something of great like Importance

32:44

and information and he's going to sit it

32:46

back and he's going to uh,

32:48

he's going to give it back Uh,

32:51

okay. So the the fiaté like

32:53

uh takes the hand places it

32:56

back inside, uh the box

32:59

and like looks at you

33:01

with with probably like a a

33:04

questioning expression on her face

33:06

and because you were connected

33:09

to Your

33:11

mind to her mind. Do you basically

33:13

get? Did you see

33:15

what you needed to see? I

33:18

I mean I

33:20

still have questions about it And

33:23

we can you know, if it's

33:25

too much of a challenge we can

33:27

move into abstracting things

33:29

as well ask the question that you

33:31

want to ask and we'll figure out

33:34

yeah, I guess um Just

33:37

at what point? does

33:39

the grisova like

33:42

If it is killing killing intent

33:44

then like how basically how are

33:47

the halle people? Like spared while

33:49

others are not great

33:51

great. I I think you know, we

33:53

we see this matte of luminaries

33:56

laid out and we've

33:59

known that the people in

34:01

Saros End, the workers in Saros End,

34:03

have been referred to by the soldiers.

34:05

So I think we have

34:07

John indicate to the

34:10

soldiers and then maybe like

34:12

indicate to probably

34:14

on this

34:16

like map of luminaries that these people

34:19

have, there's got to be a depiction

34:21

of Grosova on there because it is

34:23

so important to their people culturally that

34:26

you like indicate to some Grosova and

34:29

like you basically slide

34:31

it over to the island and sort of

34:33

indicate that like this Grosova

34:36

is doom for the

34:40

workers and

34:43

you know like maybe even throw your

34:45

arms up. Why isn't it for everyone

34:47

else here? And I think there is

34:54

a warm but sad smile

34:57

from the woman sitting across from

34:59

you and she begins once again

35:02

sliding her fingers across the Illimat

35:04

moving the stones almost as though

35:07

she is typing on a

35:09

keyboard as you feel

35:12

the meaning from her form in

35:14

your mind. The

35:16

Grosova is not

35:19

simply a plant.

35:21

It is not simply a living

35:24

creature. The Grosova

35:26

is our ancestors.

35:30

It feeds on

35:32

the anger and wrath that

35:35

has rooted in the souls of

35:37

people and even

35:39

though many have passed on they

35:42

are still with us and

35:44

they still watch over us. They

35:47

touch the wrath in the

35:50

Grosova and they

35:52

move it against those they

35:54

perceive as a threat. The

35:58

people who came from the

36:00

sky, on

36:02

their large ships. They

36:06

were at first welcomed here.

36:08

We traded with them. They

36:10

had wonders from beyond this

36:12

place, and we had wonders

36:14

that we had borne here.

36:16

There was exchange.

36:20

But eventually those people came to take.

36:23

And although my

36:25

people desire no

36:28

conflict, no, almost no

36:30

conflict, and abhor killing

36:33

because it is

36:35

written in the darkest passages of

36:37

our history that we are sworn

36:39

never to repeat. Our

36:42

ancestors are not so forgiving.

36:44

When the Grosova blooms, when

36:47

we have distilled

36:49

that killing intent to

36:51

its deepest places, and

36:54

it fills the air, it

36:57

absorbs any influence

37:00

of the butcher. And to

37:03

us, it allows

37:05

us to understand

37:08

and share the experiences

37:10

of our ancestors, to

37:13

outsiders, to those who would threaten

37:15

us, threaten this place. It

37:18

takes root, and it

37:21

expands their understanding of

37:24

the world. All

37:26

of their experiences, all of

37:28

their sensations are heightened

37:30

to a point. It is

37:32

how these weapons are made. And

37:35

she indicates some

37:38

of the blow darts concentrated

37:40

within this are the

37:42

lessons of the Grosova.

37:46

Your friend and you, who

37:49

were hit with this, now

37:51

have a highly

37:54

localized understanding, a

37:56

sharp and unforgettable lesson

37:59

from Grosova. But

38:01

that is refined, that is

38:04

treated with hands. Grosova,

38:07

left on its own, will

38:09

simply seek out those

38:12

who it seizes a threat

38:14

to its own community and

38:16

safety, and overwhelm

38:18

them with that understanding, until

38:22

they pass away, or

38:24

cannot stand to live any longer. Which

38:28

is why what the Red Feathers are doing

38:30

now is so very

38:32

dangerous. They

38:34

had previously been harvesting

38:36

Grosova from our

38:38

burial grounds, interacting

38:41

with our ancestors,

38:44

and though they protect themselves with

38:46

their masks and work

38:48

to refine it, it is not

38:50

a perfect process. They

38:52

are exposed for so long

38:54

that eventually all of

38:57

them will succumb. But

38:59

that was not enough for some. She

39:02

moves the Blackstone over to

39:04

the rake. They have built

39:07

more gardens of Grosova,

39:09

using people who are

39:11

not halle people, and

39:13

those blooms are

39:16

blooming upon souls without community. They

39:18

do not look upon anyone

39:21

with kindness or wish

39:23

to protection. Should those

39:25

Grosovas bloom, it

39:28

will fill the air with a

39:30

toxicity that will drown

39:32

this place in suffering. The

39:35

question on Johnnett's mind is, if

39:37

this new Grosova blooms,

39:41

are the halle people also in

39:43

danger, or would they still be

39:46

immune to this essentially new breed

39:48

of Grosova? What

39:52

is the rake again? The rake is greed, and

39:55

can easily represent the new Grosova. Gotcha. So

39:57

I think Johnnett is going to... Point

40:00

to the depiction of

40:03

Grosova on the mat Then

40:05

he's going to with his finger trace

40:08

a line to the rake attempt to

40:10

like connect the two and then Like

40:13

this new Grosova and

40:15

then he's going to gesture

40:17

open hand to To

40:20

her and I guess the rest

40:22

of the Holly people that are in the room

40:25

Are are you are you in danger? Yeah,

40:28

are you in danger? The

40:30

short answer is we do not know

40:33

this is not something that has ever happened

40:35

before The feathers have been

40:37

here for years But

40:40

it is only very recently that

40:42

they have been able to establish

40:45

These new gardens. I

40:48

suspect it would be dangerous But

40:51

that is that is all I

40:53

know and I do not

40:55

wish for things to get to that point

40:58

We are faced with

41:01

a very difficult choice My

41:04

people are divided. There

41:06

are those who? wish

41:09

to simply move on from these

41:11

lands to Face the

41:14

world outside away from the

41:16

Grosova and maybe start a

41:18

new garden there

41:20

are those that wish to

41:22

engineer a bloom of our

41:24

people's gardens and Wipe

41:27

this place clean have our ancestors

41:30

do our handy work for us

41:32

and There

41:35

are those like Ruptha who

41:37

wish to save

41:39

everyone even those

41:42

that would cause us suffering because

41:46

That much death is simply wrong Can

41:49

I ask James as bailiff

41:51

how intently in this

41:53

very intense conversation that's happening? That

41:56

is silent which is which is

41:58

fascinating if you think about it Like no

42:00

one is talking. Let's be very tense

42:02

for Bayless. It's very tense for Bayless,

42:05

laying there in complete silence, which

42:07

energy gets more and more

42:09

intense in the room. Oh, yeah. Like what

42:11

the fuck is happening? How closely is he being

42:13

watched? I think there is not a lot

42:16

of focus on Bayless right

42:18

now. I think, first of all,

42:20

Acir has entered the chat. So

42:22

one thing, like in these people's

42:24

history, Acir was a really important

42:26

cultural leader that like created

42:29

the Grosova. So they're

42:31

kind of watching a

42:33

new legend like stray

42:35

into their lands. And

42:39

they also saw Jeanette have this

42:41

vision. So everybody was like kind

42:43

of gathered with bated breath. And

42:46

then they are able to, because

42:48

it is silent, everybody is able

42:50

to watch this conversation and understand

42:54

as well, maybe not as well

42:56

as Jeanette and this diplomat, but

42:58

like get the general gist

43:00

of things. So I

43:02

don't think Bayless is being watched particularly

43:05

close. Cool. In Bayless's mind,

43:07

he's going to do a really cool like shoulder

43:10

roll and leave. Like

43:13

he's trying to escape at

43:16

this moment. I love this. I

43:20

am going to pull up

43:22

art. It's just

43:24

15 minutes of silence and then

43:26

whoop. I think it's

43:29

taking that long to gather up the courage

43:31

to really do anything at this point. I

43:34

think this is a... I'm going to do

43:36

a back flip. I do a back flip.

43:38

The deviling check, you have a negative

43:42

relationship against it.

43:44

Please give me all the negatives. Thanks to your

43:47

Grosova, what is your base dice? My

43:49

base dice is a D8. A

43:51

D8, okay. Are you doing anything? Oh, he's

43:53

going to go for it. He's like, okay,

43:56

it's been tense enough in here. I don't

43:58

think anybody's... For the last three... minutes

44:00

he's watched other people to see if they've

44:02

been watching him. So. Hey,

44:05

wow. Uh, you

44:07

succeed. Oh shit. Great. Okay,

44:10

now what? Bayless did not expect

44:12

that. So. I

44:15

don't think any of us did, but

44:17

that is somehow how the dice fall

44:19

in roleplaying. Inside Bayless's head is this

44:21

very cool action scene in which he

44:24

rolls to his feet, karate chops off

44:26

a guard even though his hands are

44:28

like, are like tied. He

44:31

defends himself, beats everybody and

44:33

escapes. And I think what

44:35

happens is that he does roll to

44:37

his feet, but it's not very graceful.

44:40

It's like a,

44:43

he like rolls to his feet in this kind

44:45

of soft doy boy. And

44:47

he like turns and he goes, ha ha. And

44:50

when nobody. Yeah, I

44:52

think he does it without the sound. Because

44:56

nobody has noticed this is like

44:58

a one success. Your

45:01

relationship with your Grosova

45:03

injury is becoming

45:07

more severe. Like that was extremely painful.

45:09

You mentioned it was a shoulder roll.

45:11

You got shot in the shoulder. Yeah,

45:13

yeah. On my sheet, just to clarify,

45:16

it says where my treats is crimson.

45:18

Does Bayless have the crimson as well?

45:20

Yes. So it's compounded. Yeah. Oh

45:23

fuck. Okay. I'm

45:25

going to die for that. But yeah,

45:27

that's totally fine. He rolls to his

45:29

feet and there's a, he's again, imagining

45:31

this very cool action sequence where he

45:33

has to fight his way to freedom

45:36

and nobody noticed. He just kind of

45:38

caterpillar rolled his way to the door,

45:40

rolls himself to his feet and

45:42

then just leaves out. We're

45:45

not inside. This is outside. This is

45:47

around like a open fire that kind

45:49

of everybody in the community is like

45:51

gathered around. That gives what

45:54

makes it possible for you to leave. He

45:56

just rolls to the edge and kind of

45:58

he like literally. caterpillars his

46:00

way away. What

46:03

was going to be a very cool action

46:05

sequence in his brain turns to him just

46:08

crawling in the dirt trying to escape. And

46:10

he gets away, and I think what I want to

46:12

do now, James, is now that I'm away, I think

46:15

that he does want to, I'm going

46:17

to spend one and

46:21

spot a sign of Ariel. Okay,

46:24

interesting. So we're going to

46:27

upgrade that D8 to a

46:29

D12. I think this

46:31

is one of the things where gauging the difficulty

46:33

of this is so hard because Ariel was

46:36

never here. Okay.

46:42

The only way

46:44

to like detect her

46:46

at all would be if the

46:48

butcher was trying to reach you.

46:51

Oh, interesting. Okay. Because the

46:53

butcher, like within

46:56

this timeline, the

46:58

butcher is currently using Ariel as a

47:03

host, quote unquote.

47:05

She is now carrying this aspect

47:07

of the butcher. Eventually,

47:11

the butcher is going to jump to

47:14

a different person. It's in Ariel right

47:16

now. But it's in Ariel right now.

47:18

You clearly are very concerned with Ariel.

47:21

And I think it makes

47:23

sense that you would like

47:25

do something rash. The

47:27

butcher can try and tease that out of you.

47:31

So I think this is like

47:34

almost your body's

47:36

defenses against the

47:38

butcher. Okay. A

47:41

question for you. Please. Actually, I think this

47:43

is more of a question for the luminaries.

47:45

I need to know if

47:48

you've taken any treatment for the

47:50

Crimson. We know of three possible

47:52

treatments. There's the treatment from the

47:54

church, which is you pay

47:57

for baths, though. You can also become

47:59

a You are not a

48:01

Serrano. So you've either paid

48:03

for baths, you could have a

48:05

tattoo from a metaphysician, or you have

48:09

done the butchers process,

48:11

which is replacing some of your

48:13

skin with canvas. Wow.

48:16

The Union. The Union. Okay.

48:19

I kind

48:22

of think, I

48:24

think that is either you have

48:26

taken the baths or you have

48:28

gotten a tattoo from a metaphysician.

48:30

The difference between those, the baths

48:32

are the gentlest. And

48:35

the problem they create for people is it

48:38

means that you are spending a good deal of money to

48:41

treat yourself. And

48:43

it is something that you need to do regularly.

48:47

Tattoos, getting a tattoo

48:49

because you have the crimson would

48:51

be extraordinarily painful. But

48:54

it is a longer term

48:56

solution that is more

48:58

effective. You just have to go through this

49:00

big trial in order to do it. I

49:02

think Bayless is too much of a weenie

49:04

to do that. I think

49:06

that it's the baths for Bayless.

49:08

Then I think the baths are

49:10

probably where he met Ariel.

49:14

I don't know

49:17

whether they hooked up or anything, but

49:19

trysts are really not uncommon in this

49:21

community. Can I put a limit for

49:23

that? Yeah. Sure.

49:26

I just want to see. The whale. The

49:29

whale. Revenge. Revenge. Okay.

49:32

Bayless was a rebal. Oh, okay. That

49:38

kind of explains some things. You

49:40

know what? I think

49:43

there were, because like

49:45

Ariel, one of the things

49:47

that like was an inciting

49:49

incident for all of this

49:51

was Ariel trying to convince

49:54

Johnnett's character to

49:56

marry her and take her away from this place.

50:00

think she got basically a

50:02

similar offer from a different

50:04

privateer a while ago. And

50:07

that created the idea in her head

50:09

of that is an option for getting

50:11

out of here. That that is, that

50:13

would make it possible for me to

50:15

leave. And that didn't work

50:17

out. And I

50:20

think she found, you

50:23

found comfort in each other in

50:25

that. And so it's bonded

50:27

you close. And maybe you think that you

50:29

are closer to her than she is to

50:31

you, but like, there is a real bond.

50:33

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, okay. Cool.

50:36

Cool. So that, I think what that

50:38

means then is that Bayless

50:40

is looking for signs of Arielle that do

50:42

not exist in this place. Okay. And

50:45

even though he is seeing them

50:47

in this place, they are truly

50:50

just either figments of imagination or

50:52

the fact that the butcher is

50:54

in pushing some sort of influence.

50:56

Here's what I am going to

50:58

do then. I am going

51:00

to have this role instead of look for

51:02

signs for Arielle. I,

51:04

this is going to be against too

51:07

high stakes dice because you are essentially

51:09

rolling against the influence of the butcher.

51:11

Yes. Okay. And I

51:14

think we are going to

51:16

throw in a

51:18

positive relationship with

51:20

Arielle. Um, and

51:24

I think we have a

51:27

positive relationship with

51:29

the community here. Okay. Holy

51:31

shit. I'm doing great. Yeah.

51:33

These, these dice are nuts.

51:36

Um, so the state, the

51:39

dice that rolled against you rolled

51:41

two failures, but you got three

51:43

successes. Holy crap. Your relationships are

51:45

really what carried you through and

51:48

one of them intensifies.

51:52

Um, cool. I

51:55

think, I think it's the relationship with, is

51:57

it the community? Yeah. My own

51:59

community. I would like you

52:01

to check off a box towards radicalize. Okay,

52:04

I think that is kind of what this

52:06

means There are two tracks that we have

52:08

with this whether via what's right and via

52:11

what is John it? I think this is

52:13

what is right. What is right? Okay

52:16

Yeah, I think that what

52:20

Bayless does once he leaves is he starts

52:22

to look for signs of REL and in

52:24

looking around this particular

52:28

Encampment as he's badly

52:30

hiding and badly sneaking

52:32

around is that he's He's

52:35

seeing kind of the first time

52:38

What his community is

52:40

doing to this community? I

53:16

Why does your suspicion overcome

53:18

your trust well, I think

53:20

I think the John

53:24

its trust and and fear

53:27

is kind of butting heads with the fact

53:29

that like he does not

53:31

he doesn't think that he would have

53:33

enough money to pay a metaphysician if

53:35

they employ the metaphysician services and so

53:37

it's very much like a He's

53:40

he's he's still very very shaken, but

53:42

he's very much like trying to will

53:44

himself to be like I'm fine I'm

53:46

actually I actually I think I'm

53:48

good. I'm good. I I didn't

53:50

know what that was and so

53:53

I'm good No, I understand. I understand you're

53:55

good We need to

53:57

be checked out just in case no I can

53:59

I can check I'm

54:01

a little wet, a

54:03

little worse for you but I'll

54:05

dry off and I'm good. I understand. And

54:07

then we see Denison like actually take

54:10

a step back and be like, it's

54:12

alright, I'm only going to say if

54:14

you can, go see a metaphysician. I

54:16

guess I'm a little light

54:18

on bits right now and

54:21

that's, I assume they

54:24

do work for money. Absolutely.

54:27

And then we see Denison's shoulders kind of slop

54:29

a little bit because I understand.

54:32

For on the bit of the

54:34

courier service, I would be happy

54:36

to take you to be checked out by the

54:38

metaphysician. I'm a Swift World courier and he like,

54:41

he has his coat now. You

54:43

guys are dripping wet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, I'm

54:45

a Swift World courier. I

54:48

would be happy to take you to

54:50

be checked out. Tyler draw a luminaire

54:52

here. Oh, physical card. If you would

54:55

like, obviously. The maiden. Okay,

54:58

that is, wow, that actually makes

55:00

me feel like this does happen.

55:04

That kindness, beauty and infatuation.

55:07

That luminaire was for what

55:10

John has heard of the courier service

55:13

through stories because like you probably heard

55:15

it through hip cards, through Douglas. Yeah.

55:20

Oh, yeah. We all deliver.

55:22

Y'all delivers spices

55:25

for the chicken feed. We

55:27

do at times. So

55:30

you're from. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

55:34

We probably heard of

55:36

heard of the only one

55:39

place in the world that does chicken feed with spices.

55:41

Yeah. Got to

55:44

keep that secret recipe secret. Yeah. We don't

55:46

know. You

55:49

don't know how many spices, but there are spices.

55:53

I tasted it. It's

55:56

good for griffins and it's pretty good. People like

55:58

it too. to it and

56:00

makes a good porridge. Yeah,

56:05

we have y'all came

56:07

through the port all the time in

56:10

Acheron. Are your parents here? Should I bring

56:12

you to them? No, no, no,

56:14

no. My parents are... That's

56:17

it, Johnnett. That's it. That's what sets off

56:19

the alarm bell in that the stories that

56:21

you have heard of the Swift Well Service

56:24

are like these almost

56:26

fable folktale feeling like these

56:28

people are so goody-goody.

56:31

They would absolutely send you

56:33

back home. Yeah. No,

56:36

no, no. My pops

56:38

is he's at the end at the

56:40

other end of town and... What's it

56:42

called? We can make sure you're there.

56:46

Leaf Good End. The Leaf Good End. It's the

56:48

Leaf Good End over at the other end of town. We

56:51

should take out a pad, like a small little notebook

56:53

and write the leaf good in and put

56:57

that back in his coat. Wow,

56:59

is that like custom leather? Johnnett

57:01

is trying to see what he's writing.

57:06

He sent me to grab

57:09

some bottled...get some

57:11

new canteens because we're

57:13

going to be leaving port

57:16

in a little bit. I should

57:18

escort you at least back to the end.

57:20

You really don't have to do that. You

57:22

really don't have to do that. I was

57:24

just a little clumsy and I fell in

57:26

and I'm feeling good right now. I'm

57:29

already on the way to being dry

57:31

so thank you so much. We're

57:35

good. Thank you. Thank

57:37

you. Thank you. He's like walking away.

57:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A couple of like

57:42

two big taps on big shoulders and

57:44

like thank you. Bye.

57:48

Johnnettison takes the hint and

57:51

is like, again, if

57:53

your father or your parents can't take you to

57:55

a metaphysician, at least just to be checked. Thank

57:59

you. What could go wrong and

58:01

John is still kind of like backing away

58:03

like just what could go

58:06

wrong if something does go wrong From

58:09

going in the water. Oh, that's

58:11

a longer conversation than the one Please

58:15

is it here's the

58:17

thing I need from you I was like, what

58:19

is some other stuff that could happen fine? I

58:21

think they're so much and this is

58:23

like There's so much so many things And

58:29

I think at that at so much John

58:32

it like starts to like kind of

58:34

John it cringes and I think in

58:36

cringing soulburn I Think

58:40

yeah, and like there's Maybe

58:43

like an itchiness Like

58:45

that. He is now feeling

58:48

like just in his eye Like

58:51

he's rubbing his throat and chunked of itis.

58:53

Yeah pink

58:55

third eye Pink third eye and

58:57

so I think he tries he starts to

58:59

like leave and then it's like oh I

59:04

want John it to leave them this moment. I Absolutely.

59:06

I think I think like we I'd

59:08

rather just have him go like I'll

59:11

be all right Cuz we I'd

59:13

love to cut to a different scene where they run into each

59:15

other. I'm a physician Have

59:18

a great day you as well And

59:23

Let's cut to another scene Days

59:26

later. I wanted to just be the point

59:28

where it is clear that John it lied

59:31

Oh and we have the island

59:33

as our card pick. So I

59:35

think it is days later John

59:38

it's luck has not gotten

59:41

better. These two are gonna

59:43

coincidentally run into each other again I

59:45

don't know that this is like the

59:47

the deep dark fate that pulling the

59:49

island would imply I think it is

59:51

more John it is Stuck

59:54

for some reason and I kind of think

59:56

Tyler we find John it working

59:58

in odd job. And

1:00:01

it's like, not a good one, not a

1:00:04

good one for him, but it's one that

1:00:06

would accidentally bring him in contact with someone

1:00:08

working with the courier service. I also don't

1:00:10

know why I'm so fascinated with the idea

1:00:12

of like third eye

1:00:14

conjunctivitis. Like for

1:00:16

some, like having, like you didn't go

1:00:18

to a metaphysician. Yeah. And obviously like,

1:00:21

this is the least as it could do, but like,

1:00:23

there's some sort of infection inside

1:00:25

the third eye. Yeah. I

1:00:28

think it's the, if

1:00:30

you were not, if you did,

1:00:32

if you weren't a seer, I feel like you would be

1:00:34

a lot worse off right now. Your

1:00:36

body is fighting the

1:00:38

infection and the part that is

1:00:40

like assisting you is the eyes. So

1:00:43

like there's a lot of infection around

1:00:45

the eye cause this eye is like

1:00:47

your first line of defense against like

1:00:50

metaphysical person and whatnot. And you don't

1:00:52

know that. And you know,

1:00:54

nobody around you knows that you're dealing with

1:00:56

this. But yeah, you might

1:00:58

even be like seeing

1:01:02

visions or whatnot, but like you're not a

1:01:04

hundred percent. What, what job

1:01:06

do you think John is working right

1:01:08

now? I feel like there, there

1:01:11

maybe could be some kind of like some

1:01:14

sort of the, the boats

1:01:16

that the gondolas that go, that

1:01:18

travel throughout these channels, like are

1:01:20

listed up out of the water,

1:01:23

like at the end of the day

1:01:25

or the week and they're kind

1:01:27

of like put into storage. And

1:01:29

I think during that time, like

1:01:31

you have to scrub them off

1:01:33

because like the detritus and accumulation

1:01:35

that comes from like cursed water,

1:01:37

it's, it'll just like eat away

1:01:39

at the bottom of a ship.

1:01:43

Like the vials and barnacles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:01:45

Like, like shit like that. Yeah. I

1:01:47

think as the sea approaches

1:01:50

land, freshwater starts like getting

1:01:52

things like sea life. Even

1:01:55

though it's like technically not

1:01:57

really there, like you can still get salt.

1:02:00

water barnacles on things. And so like

1:02:02

this has become an operation that has

1:02:05

exploded in necessity as more

1:02:07

and more barnacles are appearing

1:02:09

on these rafts. And

1:02:11

so I think in the last

1:02:13

couple of days, John has been trying

1:02:15

to like, he's trying he's

1:02:17

been trying to like fast track his way

1:02:19

into being like a gondola

1:02:21

driver, and no one wants to give

1:02:24

him the time of day, but they

1:02:26

will let him clean off the bottoms

1:02:28

of the ship for like

1:02:32

some pewter piece. Absolutely. And

1:02:34

I think there's obviously sick. Yes.

1:02:37

And I think as he's as he's

1:02:39

like, as he's scraping off the the

1:02:41

ships, he's starting to have

1:02:43

moments of like, seeing,

1:02:46

seeing the wrong things like, like, I

1:02:48

think he maybe like sees like the

1:02:51

barnacles maybe like leap out at him

1:02:53

and he's like, and but it's not

1:02:55

there and like, it's just normal. Hallucinating.

1:02:58

Yeah, hallucinating. And I think this is something

1:03:01

that over the last like, two

1:03:03

days has started to just like

1:03:05

increase a little bit. John, it

1:03:07

always has kind of had this

1:03:09

bandana that he has over his

1:03:11

third eye. But I think if

1:03:13

it ever came off, you'd see

1:03:15

like a little bit of like, you

1:03:17

know, little crusty where

1:03:20

where the I'm puffiness.

1:03:22

Yeah. He's a he's

1:03:24

a little worse for wear, but he has

1:03:26

not he gets paid. He gets paid at

1:03:28

like the, you know, the first and the

1:03:30

15th. So he's

1:03:32

right in between. So he does

1:03:34

not have the money to put

1:03:36

to a metaphysician. He's like sleeping

1:03:39

in probably the drought equivalent of

1:03:41

like a hostel. And

1:03:43

he's just like, I am I'm striking

1:03:46

out on my own. And this is great. This

1:03:48

is just part of the deal. So

1:03:51

he he would probably be

1:03:53

like at like a storage

1:03:55

area for the

1:03:58

the gondolas, which could be

1:04:01

on your walking route of some kind. I

1:04:03

think, yeah, what it is, Jon, that you

1:04:05

get paid for number of ships that you

1:04:07

do. And it's that threshold, like every five

1:04:10

you get a certain amount. And it takes

1:04:12

so long to clear off one of these

1:04:14

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