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okay. I

1:32

think. That right now

1:34

there is this terrifying narrative in the

1:36

back of your head. but Oreo has

1:38

somehow been hurt. By.

1:41

These people who bomb that is

1:43

a fear that you were carrying

1:45

that you carried into this place.

1:49

And. You seem like a couple

1:51

things that would disabuse you have this

1:54

notion, but this is like the first

1:56

time that you are confronted with the

1:58

hallway people you know. way where

2:01

they are not stories that

2:04

are detached from actual human

2:06

beings. You are looking at

2:08

their lives in a very

2:10

real way. You're looking

2:12

around and you see toys that

2:14

belong to children. You

2:17

see weaving projects. You

2:21

see people's clothes being

2:23

hung up to dry. You

2:26

see evidence of

2:28

this community just surviving.

2:32

I think you can even look

2:34

at the people who are huddled

2:37

around this fire looking at this

2:39

– what to them is like a

2:41

monumental point in their history that they

2:43

are viewing. You can see

2:46

parents holding up children so that they

2:49

can see. You can

2:51

see bonded pairs of people

2:54

holding each other out of

2:57

surprise, fear,

2:59

nervousness, excitement as they are

3:02

watching this. You are really getting

3:04

to see the Halle people as

3:07

people and it is confronting

3:09

and undermining your

3:11

preconceived notions. While the

3:15

reaches of the butcher, the killing

3:17

intent tries to come for you,

3:20

there is this buzzing

3:22

that is in the area that

3:25

pulls back and weakens that influence

3:27

does not allow you to lean

3:30

into the worst parts of yourself

3:32

the way you would if this

3:34

area wasn't protected from

3:37

the butcher's influence. I

3:39

definitely think that as Bayless

3:41

is looking around seeing these things,

3:44

he has the intention of running. He

3:46

has the intention of leaving. He has

3:48

the intention of going and running Ariel

3:50

and leaving Janet to whatever fate is

3:53

going to be here. I think he does it.

3:56

I think he actually goes and he

3:58

is going to lead. point where he's

4:00

like, I could go beyond this tree and

4:04

run out into the grasslands and

4:06

maybe make it back. And

4:08

instead he sits down and

4:12

just, I think he's watching not

4:14

this big spectacle that's happening, he's just watching

4:16

the village. And I think he's watching like

4:19

a little girl play with a

4:21

cat, or like with a puppy.

4:23

And it's so normal

4:27

and so human that

4:31

he's just watching that and is grappling

4:33

with emotions that he's not entirely sure what

4:35

they are at this moment. Let's

4:38

move back over to John it. Yes, please.

4:41

Again, how do we convey? Let's

4:44

start with the idea. Yeah. It's like, John

4:48

it wants to try to

4:50

convey, it's like, oh, we

4:52

would want to remove the new

4:57

Grisova. It seems like

5:00

we all have what you need. And

5:03

like with the OG

5:07

Grisova, this new stuff

5:09

is it's being put on you.

5:11

It's being grown by people that

5:13

don't understand what it is. It's

5:15

dangerous. Is there

5:17

a way that we can remove this

5:20

new Grisova? And then

5:23

it's like, if that

5:26

doesn't work, then maybe we'll just go

5:28

after the butcher's killing intent because we

5:31

don't know, John, it doesn't know where the

5:33

butcher is, but we know that there is

5:35

a, the

5:40

cleaver is something that has

5:43

made its way into essentially

5:45

town and that's causing some

5:47

shit. I mean, so like,

5:50

I think there is a way

5:53

to communicate through the

5:55

boat and the river that

5:58

there is a way for you. to move

6:01

against the new GroSopha.

6:04

Like, and I think you are

6:06

able to put that up as like, this is

6:08

an offer. This is an option that

6:10

we have. Uh, then you

6:13

can indicate to the butcher that

6:15

like the butcher, you've

6:17

established that the butcher is here. Um,

6:22

something needs to be done about

6:24

that. Yeah. Um, I

6:27

think maybe, maybe it's like, maybe

6:29

John, it poses a question or

6:31

makes an offer to this

6:33

person, um, where

6:36

he's going to gesture to himself

6:39

and like, I,

6:42

I know we, and

6:45

then he's going to gesture

6:47

back to Bayless notice Bayless is not

6:49

there and then he's going to

6:51

gesture back to I will,

6:54

uh, and then

6:56

he's going to, he's going to take the,

6:58

the, the depiction of the, the butcher and

7:01

he's going to like move it

7:03

back away from the,

7:05

the group. Um,

7:09

how do you convey or how do

7:11

you convey either or, I think wasn't

7:13

just a gesture. Yeah. Yeah. So

7:16

he's like, I can either help

7:18

you like push back the

7:20

killing intent of the butcher. Or

7:23

I can do, I can

7:25

try and do what I can

7:27

to, uh, come for

7:29

this new Grisova. Is

7:32

there one that is more like

7:36

troubling to y'all in this

7:38

moment right now? Or

7:41

are they one of the same? Hmm. The

7:45

butcher was driven

7:48

back years

7:50

and years ago by

7:52

Roshoa. We

7:56

can, if

7:58

the butcher. takes

8:00

root, battle the

8:03

Butcher. If our

8:06

Grosova were to bloom, then

8:10

this slate would be wiped clean

8:12

and the Butcher would not have

8:14

place to hold purchase on this

8:17

land any longer. I

8:20

am not a naive woman. Even

8:23

if that happens, I do not

8:25

think that would be the end of bloodshed

8:28

in this place. The

8:31

new Grosova, the one

8:33

that sees the world as

8:35

its enemy, the one that

8:37

has no home, no community,

8:40

has never known friendly faces,

8:43

that is a danger to everyone. Forgive

8:46

me if I am

8:49

skeptical. You are

8:51

also a Fiete. You

8:54

carry an eye upon your

8:56

crown. But

9:00

you are one person. My

9:03

people are willing to

9:05

defend their kin. But

9:08

we do not fight. The

9:10

weapons carried by these strangers who

9:12

came from the sky are

9:15

very dangerous. They

9:18

would kill before they learned

9:20

any lessons that the Grosova

9:22

have to teach them. We

9:26

would need fighters.

9:29

The new Grosova must be shut

9:31

down. As a Fiete, you

9:34

might carry the ability to do that. I

9:36

do not know. But it

9:39

is possible. And

9:42

there is an anger

9:44

boiling over. It

9:47

would only take one coordinated

9:50

effort for someone

9:52

to disrupt a harvest at one

9:55

of our ancestral blooms that

9:58

would allow this land to be found. swept

10:00

over by spores. I

10:05

don't know how to placate the

10:07

people who want to do that. I do

10:10

know. I do know that

10:15

Rupda worked in what

10:17

he felt was everyone's interest and he died

10:19

for it. There are those who

10:22

are going to point to his death as

10:24

something that is unsatisfied, because

10:27

we have found that you and

10:30

your companion are not guilty

10:33

of killing Rupda.

10:35

Then the

10:37

blame will once again go to

10:39

those nebulous strangers and there are

10:41

those who are tired enough that they would drown the world.

10:45

John is going to, the idea

10:48

is he wants to ask, how

10:51

do you best and

10:54

most safely kill Grusova?

10:58

What is a luminary that is positive?

11:01

I was like, hey, I'm not

11:03

by myself. Yeah,

11:05

if you are referencing a

11:07

community, there is the union

11:10

and they might not have

11:13

it in the area, but there

11:16

is the skyjack also to indicate

11:18

the plan. You could also say

11:22

like Star Watcher. Like, hey,

11:25

you leave that part to me. Yeah.

11:27

It's essentially like, you

11:29

tell me how best to

11:34

kill Grusova and that's

11:37

all you have to do. Yeah,

11:40

I got buddies. Great.

11:43

Yeah. You indicate that. She

11:48

says there is not

11:50

a method for killing

11:52

or culling Grusova because that has

11:55

never been a thing that is

11:57

necessary. There is. Vanelliyacht,

12:02

the negative emotions,

12:04

the killing intent, the anger,

12:06

the hatred which the

12:09

Grosova eats, and there is

12:11

the Kamo-yacht, the positive

12:13

emotions that it leaves

12:15

behind. Those are

12:18

wielded by the ancestors.

12:21

Hey, we can tell you

12:24

where these new gardens

12:26

have been established. We

12:30

can provide you with that. We can

12:32

provide you with people who are willing

12:34

to risk themselves in order to see

12:37

success in

12:39

this endeavor. I wish

12:44

for my

12:46

people, our children,

12:48

to be able to grow up in their home

12:51

peacefully again. I

12:54

wish for the

12:56

poor people who have been

12:58

thrust into this position, in

13:01

this area, to

13:03

be free from

13:05

the nightmare that they have been

13:07

conscripted into. I

13:10

know that we cannot do this alone. I

13:14

was very close to saying

13:16

that it is time that

13:18

we leave this place, but you

13:21

have come to us here and now, and

13:24

because of that, I

13:26

believe that there is a chance for something different. I

13:30

think basically it's like, John,

13:33

I need to rejoin

13:35

up with my crew. I

13:37

need to figure out, he's asking

13:42

for where these new plots are. Where's

13:47

the new Grisova? I

13:50

think it is

13:52

a matter of they begin

13:54

to indicate things, but because

13:57

she knows the information, John,

14:00

it is. essentially gets a map

14:02

in his brain. The moment

14:05

like she starts thinking of it, like she starts drawing

14:07

out the map and then it's almost

14:09

like one of those things where somebody is

14:11

saying something to you but you know what

14:14

they're saying and you finish their sentence for

14:16

them. So yeah, you have a

14:19

very clear indication of where

14:21

the ancestral Grosova grounds are

14:24

and where these new Grosova

14:26

gardens have been set up

14:30

around the area of

14:32

Sorrows and so now

14:34

you very clearly

14:37

have that information. Okay.

14:42

All right. Now how

14:46

to ask can I leave? Yeah,

14:50

I think it's like I will do what I

14:53

can but in order to do that

14:55

I need to get back with my

14:57

crew. This is something where you

14:59

realize that like you're not just

15:01

trying to convince this

15:04

person. Yeah. You are trying to convince

15:07

this entire community of people and

15:09

it's not just hey you got to

15:12

let me leave, hey you got to not

15:14

do anything to rock the boat because

15:16

I'm gonna take care of this for

15:18

you. So this

15:21

is definitely a presence check. You

15:23

are probably going to be drawing on

15:25

your status as a seer to do

15:27

it but

15:30

I want to know how

15:32

you are assembling this pool

15:36

and what you

15:38

are doing. I'm

15:41

going to use words of a seer. If

15:44

you have above four presents you can invoke your status

15:46

as a seer to add a red dye or a

15:50

relationship dye and I

15:52

guess you

15:54

could untintfully piss folks off

15:57

or accidentally start the following.

15:59

Yeah. Are you gonna

16:01

spend anything else on this? This

16:05

this one is essentially I spend

16:07

four right? I don't think

16:09

so I think that's just that that that

16:11

looks like it is a threshold count. So

16:13

because you have more than four You

16:17

can you can do this. Okay. Well then I

16:20

mean I'll I'll spend another

16:23

Three to just drop me down to four

16:25

present in general. Okay, so three

16:27

would add one d6

16:30

and you'd be able to upgrade two dice do

16:32

you want 2d12 and 1d6 or One

16:38

of each die type 2d12

16:40

1d6. Okay, let's roll it. Oh

16:44

Okay for success

16:47

is bullshit one

16:49

complication and one Transform

16:52

on your relationship track. This

16:54

is gonna be your relationship

16:56

with your eye So

16:59

you're just gonna go over to transform and yeah

17:01

mark off one of those basically

17:04

what this means is the fundamental

17:06

nature of how you see yourself

17:09

as a seer and what you

17:11

see as Your

17:14

relationship with your status as a seer is

17:16

starting to change a little bit based on

17:19

what you are doing with that status Right

17:21

here. It hasn't changed

17:23

all the way This is just something

17:25

that is marked in that column and

17:27

when it does fully change we'll consider

17:29

You know the moments that led up

17:31

to that change in what appears to

17:33

be happening in the moment And that

17:35

will establish kind of a new status

17:37

quo You also get and

17:40

I've been forgetting to hand these out because they're

17:42

not part of the dice But you get one

17:45

of the the fakes So

17:47

remember remember to have that to your

17:50

pool Then

17:52

we get to four successes.

17:54

I Think

17:58

I mean I'll have you describe it But

18:01

you are able to set up

18:03

a moment that people,

18:05

when you walk away, are going

18:07

to go, I saw a

18:09

momentous, like, you know,

18:12

point in history where something

18:15

changed. A seer came and I knew

18:17

when he walked away that something important

18:19

was going to happen. I

18:21

do think the complication is,

18:24

once again, you're getting kind

18:26

of that uneasy feeling of

18:28

like, man, I'm just

18:31

a kid. I'm just a fucking

18:33

pirate. I am here because

18:36

we got blown off course

18:39

and people are writing

18:41

me into their histories when anybody

18:44

here could have stood up. Like, that

18:46

crowd parts. Like, yeah. Yeah.

18:48

So please describe. Please don't part.

18:50

What? What Johnnett says, what he

18:52

does, because like, you play into

18:54

it a little bit. Yeah. These

18:57

are people who don't speak your language. And

18:59

by the end of whatever you say and

19:01

do, they are going to feel

19:04

like, okay, this kid has it. Whatever

19:06

is going to happen, this kid's got

19:08

it. Johnnett's going to go back on his

19:11

original plan. I

19:13

imagine there's a moment where

19:16

it's like, give me, give

19:19

me, essentially give me your problems, give

19:21

me your troubles, and I will fix

19:23

them. You don't

19:26

need to know how, but just tell me, show

19:28

me where the Grasova is. Y'all

19:32

be chill and I'll

19:35

take care of it. And I think there's

19:37

maybe a level of like, I

19:39

flare, which again,

19:42

in my brain, it's like, I flare

19:44

from Johnnett, I flare from the hand.

19:47

Yeah. And I think Johnnett's

19:50

actually going to go back and he's going to take

19:52

that power. Oh shit. Oh

19:54

shit. Now, is this permanently taking the

19:56

power into yourself or are you taking the hand

19:59

with you? I

20:01

would say if you had rolled

20:03

a like disaster, I

20:05

think you wouldn't have a choice in the

20:07

matter. You do

20:09

have a complication. So, you

20:11

know, it is we

20:13

can step outside into our

20:16

metaspace and as Tyler, what do you think

20:18

is right for John at this moment? Hi,

20:21

welcome to the metaspace. Because

20:29

I think you were right in that

20:31

in taking this hand,

20:34

this is going to be a valuable tool

20:36

in shutting down the Grosova because it is

20:38

a connection to the Seer that created it.

20:41

So as you go to these other

20:43

Grosova, I think it turns a very

20:46

uncertain conflict into something that like you're going

20:48

to be able to figure out much more

20:50

easily. But the threat

20:53

is that you

20:55

are going to like if

20:57

I think if you take this power,

21:00

if the hand permanently changes after John

21:02

has done his work, then this

21:05

is yet another notch on Messiah

21:07

complex, John it of like, there's

21:09

no fucking way these people are

21:11

going to look at John it

21:13

as anything other than this is

21:16

the Seer who came from the

21:18

sky, and I would fight and

21:20

die for whatever his vision is.

21:22

It is Roshoa, come again. Yeah.

21:25

But you can take the hand with you without

21:27

risking that. I think that is the complication. If

21:30

you take that hand with you, there is

21:32

going to be the threat of you unintentionally

21:35

absorbing this power.

21:39

And we can make that part

21:41

of the explicit conflict of whatever

21:43

you're doing to address the Grosova

21:46

like gardens that the Red Feathers have set

21:48

up. Let's see. All right.

21:51

All right. All right. All

21:53

right. Fine. John it is going to I imagine

21:55

that that like the

21:57

hand has been placed back in the box. And

22:00

the box has been kind of set next

22:02

to our diplomat. And

22:05

I think in the flaring up of the

22:07

eye, Johnny's going to do a small,

22:11

like the lightest bit of Earth

22:13

magic. And it's just going to like bring,

22:16

shuffle the Earth underneath the

22:19

box and like just kind of scoot

22:22

it to Johnny. Yeah.

22:25

And he's going to very carefully, very

22:27

respectfully, like reach down for the box,

22:30

put his hand over the hand, and

22:33

then he's going to put his hand

22:35

over his chest. Like in order to

22:38

do this, I

22:40

need to enlist the

22:42

help of your Roshoa and

22:44

I will return it to you. I

22:49

think like there is some

22:51

tension that falls

22:54

over the crowd. It

22:56

is an uneasy tension because I

22:58

think it means different things to different

23:00

people. There are people in the audience

23:03

that goes, this is an outsider who

23:05

was brought here essentially

23:07

as a prisoner. And

23:09

now they're about to walk

23:12

away with like part of our culture.

23:15

There is, I

23:17

think in the diplomat is like, whatever

23:20

is about to come from this is going to

23:22

be big. It is going to change the

23:24

status quo that we have now, which was

23:26

a dangerous status quo, but like at least

23:29

we were alive. We are betting

23:31

that we are risking that in

23:34

this moment. And there are

23:36

some people who are like, this

23:39

is Roshoa come again. This is

23:41

another seer. This is part of

23:43

our culture. And

23:45

I am here to

23:47

witness this occasion, the

23:50

impending liberation of our people

23:53

in this place. All

23:55

of that, as you place your

23:57

hand over that, those that are

23:59

nervous. about you, those that

24:01

would move against you, like maybe

24:04

there is even like a half

24:06

step of hesitation of the frustrated

24:08

elements within this community, but

24:11

I think you turn towards the path

24:14

that you need to walk to make

24:16

your next move and that

24:19

causes them to stop and step

24:21

back. The way your eye flares,

24:23

the way your eye is resonating

24:26

with the eye buried in Roshoa's

24:28

knuckle, I think even

24:30

those that would speak against you

24:32

and this in this moment cannot.

24:36

Johnnett is free to

24:39

stand up and

24:41

I think with that Johnnett

24:43

is going to do and

24:46

he's going to add a little time to his

24:49

exit because he's

24:53

noticing a lot of attention

24:56

and heat and thoughts towards him

24:59

and in his exit

25:02

he is going to carry the box. He's

25:04

not going to take the hand out of

25:06

the box, but he's going to carry the

25:09

box in both hands. He's going to cradle it.

25:11

He's going to give like

25:13

a quarter bound

25:15

nod to our diplomat. He's

25:18

going to say thank you. He's

25:22

going to maybe take a second,

25:24

find the white bead

25:27

and what's the luminary for

25:30

gratitude? Um,

25:34

the room possibly.

25:39

Oil obligations, exactly. Well,

25:42

he's acknowledging his sacrifice. Let's

25:47

see, the bounty. The

25:49

bounty. Oh yeah, the bounty has gratitude in

25:51

it. I

25:53

think he's going to he's going to place

25:55

the the bead on the stone

25:58

on the bounty and then He's

26:00

gonna look around and like and he's gonna pick

26:02

up the stone Is it a place it on

26:04

the bounty again? Pick it up

26:06

and place it on the bounty again, and he's trying

26:08

to make this person smile There

26:14

is an Unease that

26:16

was like sitting again Yeah this was a

26:18

lot of people sitting in a very big

26:20

moment that they felt very complicated about and

26:22

then John it tells

26:25

a joke that goes beyond language

26:27

and I think everybody in the

26:29

group is able to laugh at that It

26:33

releases some of the tension with

26:36

that as big or as small

26:38

of like a Reaction as he gets he's

26:41

going to use that as an opportunity to just like give

26:43

a little bit of a smile and he's going to Like

26:46

kind of give a nod and the thank you to

26:48

like the folks that he is seeing

26:50

as he makes his way out It's

26:53

a yeah, we're not gonna do like

26:55

high theatrics is like hey, I'll be

26:57

back. I'm back. God. I hope I'll

26:59

be back I hope I'll be back when John

27:02

it like makes to the his way to

27:05

the outer rings of the circle. How does

27:07

he find faithless? Oh, yeah

27:11

That's it. Oh, yeah Ha

27:17

I Think

27:20

James I have another question for you. Look he's

27:22

the Crimson less here. Oh,

27:24

are you? Experiencing it less

27:26

in this area. I don't

27:28

think so I think the Crimson

27:31

is kind of like a long-term

27:33

symptom of cochlear Yeah,

27:35

so you see Bayless still sitting

27:38

under this tree. It looks

27:40

like Bayless tried to get up a couple different

27:42

times I think he's in a lot of pain.

27:44

Yeah, I think that him getting away and doing

27:46

all that the adrenaline of it was like, okay

27:48

and then him seeing all these things and feeling

27:50

different things and him sitting down and it's

27:53

The Crimson has washed over him in a way

27:55

that he's just sitting there. I I

27:58

think there's definitely like tear

28:01

streaks. He's got like, he's

28:03

dirty from like rolling around in the dirt.

28:05

He's got tear streaks down his face and

28:09

he's just sitting there. He's

28:11

not watching anything of

28:13

like, he's not like watching the

28:15

procession. He even has turned

28:18

his back to the village

28:20

and is out looking at like the

28:22

grass and watching it move

28:24

in the wind, which is

28:26

that studio Ghibli moment where it's like that

28:28

blue sky and that grass. Yeah,

28:31

you're seeing that grass wave, it waves

28:33

with the pattern of the tattoos on

28:36

that woman's eyebrows and on Jonnett's collarbone.

28:38

Yeah. And that's where you find him

28:40

in kind of this painful

28:43

stupor, but in

28:45

like trying his best to mind

28:48

over matter the pain. Yeah. Hey,

28:51

hi. Hey, hi. You

28:57

taken five? Yes,

29:04

it's real pretty. Yeah,

29:07

the grass. Who'd have thought?

29:09

Yeah, right. If

29:12

you actually thought about it, if you

29:14

actually thunked about it, you, yeah. Yeah,

29:17

I thunked a bit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Thunked

29:20

a bit about it. Is

29:22

there any way to get these off of me? He

29:25

still has like the trap. Yeah.

29:29

I think, I don't know, this feels

29:31

like Jonnett could probably see a

29:34

pathway of the world where he like pushes it.

29:36

Yeah, spend a point of magic. Yeah. Because

29:38

like you were connected to that person's

29:41

mind, so like you can have known

29:43

the trick behind it if you

29:45

spend a little bit of resource. So,

29:48

are we going to have to fight our way out of

29:50

here? Is that like something that's going to happen here? Buddy,

29:53

that was like 45 minutes ago. Wait,

29:58

we're good? We're fine? Here's

30:00

the thing. I hesitate. I've

30:02

learned to never confidently say

30:05

we're good Alright,

30:08

but I think for right now and

30:10

and like he's he's still he

30:12

kind of like gestures to his

30:14

own hands because he's still very

30:16

like carefully like Holding

30:18

this box and I can't remember if you

30:20

were you were around I was around for

30:22

that. Yeah, so he's got the box And

30:25

I think with that he's going to

30:27

like take the top of the box

30:30

off from the bottom close

30:32

it up and Very

30:35

carefully put it in his

30:37

like side sack He's like we're

30:40

not good But I think you've got some good

30:42

grace and I think it would behoove us to

30:45

to not Screw that up.

30:48

John it you are in a

30:50

precarious diplomatic position with Bayless You

30:52

know Bayless is primary motivation is

30:56

Ensuring arielle safety through all

30:59

of this what is ahead

31:01

of you Technically

31:03

would benefit arielle

31:06

but it's not gonna involve

31:09

like looking and Also,

31:11

if you got a link up with the

31:13

who recruit there's maybe some

31:15

reveals that need to happen Yeah,

31:18

you asked about arielle like I

31:20

asked Yes,

31:23

oh So,

31:25

um today say where she is or come

31:28

through here they see her she's

31:32

I asked but They

31:34

don't know her. They don't know who

31:36

she is and okay. Okay and and

31:40

John it is like John

31:42

internally John is like oh shit. I'm

31:45

lying. I'm lying I just did it.

31:47

I just feel like I did a good thing and I

31:49

capped it off with a lie Hey

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35:31

uh, she's not, she didn't come

35:33

through this part of

35:35

town. I'm sorry. Alright, for the live,

35:37

we are gonna have to roll it.

35:40

So this is gonna be against Bayless's.

35:44

This is... Altomacere

35:47

and Bayless respects me. Yeah, there

35:49

is that. And

35:51

what does that mechanically do again? Oh, I

35:54

don't know anything. I just remember when. I

35:56

think that's just a die in his favor.

35:58

Oh yeah, that's a relationship die. relationship,

36:00

Diane, and Jonathan. Okay, you're

36:02

invoking the relationship here. It's

36:07

that moment where you're like, you see the thing and

36:10

you go like, Well, then you would have betrayed his

36:12

trust in a different way. So like, all right, we're

36:14

doing straight roles. Did you spend anything? Would

36:16

that be? That would be under presence for sure. You

36:18

know what? I've already done words this year. I'm not

36:21

going to do that again. I'm

36:23

going to spend two presents. Okay,

36:26

and just upgrade to D12? Yes. Okay. Okay.

36:29

Hey, you get two

36:32

more faint, but

36:35

two failures and complication.

36:37

What? Okay.

36:40

Hey. Man, that's intense,

36:43

actually. So

36:46

that definitely means that as Jon

36:48

is saying that, it's almost as

36:50

if the butcher is pushing further.

36:52

Ooh. Yeah,

36:54

I think the butcher helps

36:57

you. Helps you see through

36:59

a lie in a way

37:01

that leans into your anger,

37:03

your resentment, your mistrust of

37:06

everything. And I think

37:08

with the complications, a

37:10

lot of things have fallen into place in

37:12

a weird way. You know,

37:14

somebody who also thought AREL was

37:16

cool and important in your community

37:18

that you've never met before made

37:20

sense to you. Somebody who

37:23

would be willing to help you not only

37:25

made sense, but was a relief. And

37:28

they tracked, you tracked

37:30

to this area and

37:33

all of a sudden, this guy who

37:35

you've never seen before is a

37:38

seer. And

37:40

Jon is like, has

37:42

been talking in a way that was

37:44

like, well, he's clearly new to the

37:46

community. He's not afflicted with crimson. He

37:49

just navigated this wild situation. You don't

37:51

know what's going on. You have no

37:53

idea who this guy is. He's just

37:56

a kid. He's

37:58

not that much. Like, like

38:00

he's a couple of years younger than you and you're not

38:02

that old. No. Yeah. You look at

38:04

him, you know that he

38:07

is lying and you feel mad

38:09

about it. Look, I know

38:11

I'm like, they're not the best

38:13

at things and stuff, but you

38:16

don't gotta lie to me. Okay.

38:18

Like if you didn't care

38:20

about REO, you just had to say

38:22

so. That's it. That's all that

38:24

you had to do. I, and I think,

38:28

yeah. Uh, I, I

38:30

do care. I do care about REO. I

38:32

just don't know. Can

38:35

we not do this here? You want

38:37

to do this? Yeah. We don't want to do this here.

38:39

I don't want to do that. And I think the anger

38:41

makes the pain go away. Yeah. I

38:44

think that makes sense, uh, with how

38:46

the butcher is doing it again. Like

38:48

the more you lean into the butcher's

38:50

influence, he'll take away the pain

38:53

from the Crimson, uh, because he

38:55

wants you to do nasty stuff.

38:57

And I think as they begin

38:59

to argue, Bayless shoves

39:02

John it like just

39:04

shoves. And it's not like a little push.

39:06

It's a big push. Mm. Uh,

39:10

well, uh, I guess how do, how do

39:12

we determine if John it like just

39:15

takes a step back or is like knocked back?

39:18

Oh, yeah. I think that

39:20

can be against John its prowess. Um,

39:22

what is, what are your prowess dice

39:24

John it? Not high for just one,

39:27

one, one, uh, yeah, one,

39:29

one, uh, perfect. Then, uh,

39:31

within view. Oh,

39:34

yeah, definitely. Oh, probably like you have

39:36

just walked away from this beautiful moment

39:39

to walk over to this, this, this

39:41

guy sitting under the tree and now

39:43

the two of you are just already

39:45

shoved you. Yeah. I,

39:48

uh, yeah, maybe, maybe

39:50

you're not in full sight of

39:52

the community at this point. Like I do feel like

39:55

we're on the other side of a tree, you know,

39:57

you were sneaking away. Bayless

40:01

gets one success and one opportunity off of

40:03

this. I think

40:05

Bayless didn't intend for it to be so

40:07

hard. I think it meant to be

40:09

like a solid shove,

40:12

but it's so hard that

40:14

it pushes Janet back. And

40:18

the opportunity is the pain goes away

40:20

even more. And

40:24

I think for the rest of this scene, we're

40:26

not going to be factoring any of your Crimson

40:29

or the wound dies

40:31

against you. And I definitely think

40:33

that that positive

40:35

reinforcement in the four

40:38

words Bayless to be like

40:40

to get angrier. And

40:43

it's up to you to decide whether Janet

40:45

falls or whether it's just a step back

40:48

or whatever. But whatever

40:50

happens, Bayless continues to

40:52

lay into Janet. Just

40:55

yelling at the point where it's no

40:57

longer coherent. It's

40:59

just words. Words

41:02

that are like, you never cared. Who are you? What

41:04

are you doing here? You're not even one of us.

41:07

And I think as you were... And

41:10

we can roll to see if and when

41:12

you realize this. As he's

41:14

doing this, I would love for Janet

41:17

to this entire time be casting a

41:19

very similar earth magic that he did

41:21

to get the box to

41:23

him to slowly be moving

41:25

Bayless further away from this

41:27

camp. Just

41:30

like, we can do this, but

41:32

you will not undo what I

41:35

just did. Cast

41:37

that spell. I love that. Please.

41:40

So that's just a magic roll. Okay.

41:43

Yeah. And you have a ton of magic.

41:45

Yeah. We do this.

41:47

We love Wizard Janet. Okay.

41:51

So I'm going to spend two. Oh, shit.

41:53

Okay. Yeah. Because that'll upgrade

41:55

two of them to D12s. Yeah.

41:58

This was... There's

42:00

a I think there's a level of like

42:03

kind of hubris in this where it's

42:05

like buddy a a

42:08

whole conglomerate of people just like

42:10

saw me as the quasi

42:13

that like reincarnate of an

42:15

internal being get out of my

42:18

fucking yeah, yeah Yeah,

42:21

you get for fate off

42:23

of that. This is two

42:26

opportunities But the successes

42:28

and failures cancel out so I'm gonna have

42:30

you draw a luminary really quick James, right?

42:32

What we use the face for we can

42:34

use them to upgrade. Yeah, they're there you

42:36

use them like you're spending from step Oh

42:39

great the river. Oh shit

42:42

so the river is like

42:46

Yeah, it is destruction challenge and

42:49

separation so I mean I think

42:51

yeah, I think as Bayless

42:54

is yelling we basically see

42:56

this like little clearing patch

42:59

of dirt move into the

43:01

high grasses far away

43:03

from this community Bayless

43:05

is shouting. I think he's got like I

43:07

think he's on top of John it at

43:10

this point I think John it has like cast the

43:12

spell with his hands he is looking up in the

43:14

face of this man and the earth

43:16

beneath you just like Moves

43:19

you quickly through the grasses

43:21

until Bayless's shouts are swallowed

43:23

up by the high grass

43:25

the only people around who

43:28

can hear it are Bayless and John

43:30

it and There is

43:32

a moment. I think based on

43:35

this role because you did get

43:37

opportunities out of this where

43:41

Bayless has shouted

43:43

himself into a

43:45

place where Some

43:47

of that emotion has eked

43:49

away. It is a very fragile

43:53

and critical state where

43:56

you John it you recognize this will

43:58

be your one chance

44:00

to fix this

44:03

problem that has

44:05

popped up between you and

44:07

Bayless. What

44:09

you do, I think, and how

44:11

you do it is pretty important.

44:13

Bayless here, you know, like will

44:15

recognize he is a part of

44:18

this community and he is somebody

44:20

who cares very passionately.

44:23

I think if it comes down to it,

44:25

the Uhuru has the

44:28

power to just move

44:30

in and do what needs

44:32

to be done here. It's going to

44:34

require flexing of muscles and there's almost

44:37

no way you're going to be able

44:39

to fly away from this community without

44:41

people knowing the Uhuru's back. If

44:44

you've got collaboration from the people

44:46

here, doesn't necessarily need to go

44:48

down that way. And

44:51

Bayless could be an important key

44:53

to that. I think the breaking

44:55

of it is there's a point

44:57

in anger where you're so angry.

45:00

There are no words left and

45:02

like the emotion catches up with you. And

45:05

I think for Bayless, who is, from

45:08

what I'm gathering from this character, kind

45:11

of fragile, it's to a point

45:13

where like he's angry. He continues to be angry

45:15

and shout things, but it's not

45:17

just crying. And is

45:19

like, Jon, it can like feel

45:21

tears falling on him. Like, and

45:24

it's not like a graceful cry.

45:26

It's like a blubbery, like red

45:28

in the face, pained

45:30

kind of cry. It's very disturbing

45:34

to see. And that's

45:37

where there's that break. And I think in

45:40

that break, whether Bayless realized it

45:42

before or not, in that break

45:47

and in that, that lull

45:50

in what he's yelling,

45:52

there is like maybe

45:55

he's able to take in how

45:58

just quiet it is. right

46:00

now. And I think with that comes

46:02

the realization that like, we are not

46:04

next to like a village doing how did

46:06

we even get here? Yeah, like he's like

46:09

he's standing up, he turns like, where are

46:11

we? And I think at that,

46:14

and whether I think whether it's naturally

46:16

or like, John has orchestrated it, but

46:18

it's like, where are we? And then

46:20

like, your eye goes to

46:23

kind of like, where, where

46:26

the village like the direction of

46:28

the villages and you get to

46:30

see the last remnants of like,

46:32

the dirt move back into place

46:34

where it was. You see

46:36

like the very top of that tree

46:38

pretty far off into the distance. Yeah.

46:41

And, and I think

46:45

the camera kind of like pans back

46:47

like from the the landscape view of

46:49

like where we are back down to

46:52

John it. And we just see like

46:54

a closed eye, but you can see

46:57

a right line

46:59

where his eye like

47:01

is. And so, and

47:04

so John is going to open

47:06

up a hand to Bayless and

47:09

say, please hear me when I say

47:11

this. And he's saying this

47:13

actual he's saying this with a

47:15

furrowed brow. Like, it's like, like

47:18

I, I'm sorry, but

47:20

also I mean, when I

47:22

say this, I didn't ask

47:24

about Arielle and I

47:26

made a mistake. I she's

47:29

important. She's important to you.

47:31

She's important to me. But

47:33

in the moment, I made a judgment

47:36

call. There is

47:38

something bigger going on

47:40

here. And if we can solve that, then

47:43

we can save Arielle. But

47:45

in order to do that, I need you

47:47

with me. Please. This

47:50

is a role. Yeah, I need you

47:52

to. This is definitely a presence role.

47:56

Now I don't have. You do have a ton

47:58

of faith. Yeah, probably a good to

48:00

use that, but I

48:02

think this comes to the pitch.

48:06

Basically you have got to

48:08

tell Bayless what your

48:11

plan is and

48:13

why you think you can achieve

48:15

that and what

48:17

it can mean. And that might mean being

48:20

like, hey man, take a fucking look at

48:22

your life and how fucked up this is.

48:25

I'm telling you right now we have a chance to

48:28

deal with it. Or not. You

48:31

also have the option to lie and come

48:33

up with other things, but whatever you're going

48:35

to say to Bayless in this moment, if

48:39

he agrees to

48:41

it, that's really the

48:43

plan that he agrees to and if that

48:45

changes, that might trouble

48:48

the results of this. But Bayless is

48:50

on the precipice of being radicalized right

48:52

now. Look

48:55

around you, you're living in

48:57

a debtor's prison. That

49:00

functions off of poison

49:02

to your body. Any gestures

49:04

to the crimson on Bayless?

49:07

This is a clear sign. You

49:10

saw it. You saw them. Ollie,

49:12

they don't have this. We're not

49:15

supposed to be here. The crossover

49:18

functions to push back

49:20

the Butcher and the Butcher is pushing

49:23

back, making its way back

49:25

in. The Butcher is making

49:27

a play on this area because

49:29

of the new crossover plant that

49:32

the Red Feathers are planting. What you're

49:34

trying to harvest is calling the Butcher

49:36

back into the space, which

49:39

is putting Ariel in danger.

49:42

All of these things are connected. If

49:44

you help me push back the Butcher,

49:47

we save Ariel, we help

49:49

Ariel. It's all linked. If

49:53

you want to help Ariel to

49:56

push back the Butcher, we need

49:58

to do something about this new crossover. not.

50:01

This is where we come to a role and

50:03

it's going to depend. I think Bayless's reaction is

50:05

going to depend on the results of this role.

50:08

I think this is going to

50:11

be against one high stake and

50:13

two low stake die because this

50:15

is for all the marbles here.

50:18

Tell me how you're building your

50:20

pool, what you are invoking and

50:22

remember you have fate that has been generated

50:24

through your roles and now is definitely a

50:27

good time to spend it. I definitely think

50:29

that Bayless is like, it's

50:31

a teeter point. Literally it's a

50:34

fall into

50:37

whatever you're saying or

50:39

to be like the anger

50:41

was working. At that point

50:43

you might have to kill him. That might have

50:45

to be it. Let's

50:50

put this role together because the results of this role

50:52

I think are going to be very very important. I

50:54

think it's very easy for him to fall completely under

50:57

the bullet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

50:59

In fact, I'm going to give you a negative

51:02

relationship die against

51:04

you for right

51:06

now Bayless's relationship with

51:09

the butcher I think has entered

51:11

this season. Well

51:13

then, I can't do words in the theater anymore.

51:17

No. I can't go, I

51:19

wouldn't lie to you. Well

51:24

then, I'm going to spend

51:26

four fate. What is

51:29

the order in which these activate? Is it

51:35

like do I spend these four fate,

51:37

get four points and could use words

51:40

of a seer again? When you spend

51:42

fate, you're buying directly into the role.

51:45

Alright, well then I'm going to...

51:49

So spending four fate can either generate

51:51

two new d6s or one

51:54

d6 and upgrade both of

51:56

your core dice reputation.

52:00

bring into the role but you are going

52:02

to need to say that you are part

52:04

of the O'Guru crew. Which

52:07

could be a result of this anyway but...

52:09

Alright, cards on the table my guy.

52:12

I am not here by myself. I

52:15

am here with a crew of

52:17

Skyjacks that are

52:19

you so

52:22

very uniquely perfect for

52:24

this. But

52:27

we can't do this completely

52:30

by ourselves. We need somebody

52:32

who is inside of this

52:35

organization. We need to get

52:37

to this new gazoba. I should not be telling

52:39

you this. I should

52:41

not be telling you this. My

52:44

name is Jonny Kessler and I am the Star Watcher

52:46

with the O'Hoo-Boo. Okay,

52:50

so what I have done

52:52

here, you can now definitely

52:54

use reputation on this, spend

52:56

reputation in this role. I've

52:58

added another negative die against

53:00

you. This is negative for

53:02

Bayless's relationship with RAL because

53:04

you have also kind of

53:06

admitted that you were the

53:08

person who upset RAL last night. You

53:10

might not have intended to do that

53:13

in your reveal but like the

53:15

strangers from out of town, one

53:17

of them vaguely matching your description,

53:20

upset RAL, that's definitely you.

53:23

But you are spending into this

53:25

so I need to know how you're spending

53:27

what to increase your dice pool now.

53:30

Okay, am I allowed to

53:32

spend in different categories? So now

53:34

you are because you are leveraging

53:36

your reputation in this role.

53:38

Like this is a presence check. We're using

53:41

presence as the basis for this role but

53:44

you've brought your reputation with

53:46

the O'Hoo-Boo into the role

53:49

and done that by taking on

53:51

a risk because there are all

53:53

sorts of negative results that could

53:55

come out of this. If we

53:58

roll a disaster here, which is

54:00

hell, Technically possible. Then

54:03

Bayless through some chain

54:05

of something could get

54:08

the word out that the Ahuru is back.

54:10

And that could really screw

54:12

over a bunch of plans down the line. So

54:14

you gotta go good or you gotta kill it. Yeah, I know.

54:17

Yeah, I know. I know. So

54:20

how are you spending this? Right now you

54:22

have 2d8 in your

54:24

favor. I'm spending the rest of my presence with

54:26

this. I'm supplementing that

54:29

with 4fates. Okay, so I want

54:31

to know how this is spent. Are you spending

54:33

the 2 from your presence to upgrade the d8

54:35

to d12 or are you using that to put

54:37

in a new d6? Oh, I'm so

54:39

sorry. Then

54:42

we will go, the d8s will become d12.

54:45

D8s become d12s. Okay.

54:48

And then someday in the

54:50

future I'll learn with that. So now

54:52

let's move to your fates. My fates.

54:55

I wanted to add 4fates.

54:57

Okay, 4fates that would put in 2 new

54:59

d6s. Then

55:02

we will do that. And

55:04

then reputation, if that

55:07

is on the table. Yeah, it is

55:09

definitely on the table. Great. Well

55:11

then, I don't really have any skills in reputation

55:13

so I'm just going to say I'll drop 4

55:16

reputation. Okay, that will

55:18

just move them. So

55:21

now you've got 4 d12s on this. I

55:24

feel like this is close

55:28

but interesting. It's

55:31

so fun because that's what this game kind

55:33

of lives for is these like spend it

55:35

all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roll it.

55:40

Okay, that

55:42

is 2 successes

55:46

and 1 intensify on the

55:48

relationship of Bayless's part. This

55:51

is either going to intensify your relationship with the

55:53

Butcher or ReL. I'm

55:56

going to let you decide that. We

55:58

got no... opportunities

56:00

and no complications. Clean. So

56:03

it's clean, which means I

56:05

think the fate of

56:08

stuff getting out about the Uhuru is

56:10

up in the air. We

56:13

don't know how that's going to play

56:15

out yet. But I think Bayless

56:18

is now fully radicalized. Yeah, I think so

56:20

too. I think that that's... Yeah,

56:22

you say that to Bayless. And

56:25

I think all the things you said

56:27

make sense. Mm-hmm. They're

56:29

not like touching Bayless's heart in

56:31

any way, shape or form. But

56:34

it's when you say that you're from the Uhuru and

56:37

that you are the star watcher on

56:39

the Uhuru. You're a seer, you're a

56:41

star watcher on the Uhuru. It

56:44

all clicks for

56:46

Bayless in that moment. Why

56:49

you're doing what you're doing, why

56:51

you're out here at all, how you were able to talk

56:53

to all those people, how

56:56

you're able to navigate this

56:58

incredibly insane situation where if

57:00

it had just been Bayless,

57:02

Bayless would be dead right

57:04

now. And

57:07

for as much as Bayless has been

57:09

within this community is like

57:13

understand that his situation, while

57:15

not good, feels

57:17

inevitable and like his

57:20

fault. There

57:23

is suddenly a

57:25

break in that wall that

57:27

there is light at the end of that. And

57:30

there's a way suddenly out that

57:32

he had not considered, it was

57:34

never even possible before.

57:37

And I think all you do, all he does

57:39

in looking at you and you saying this, is

57:42

he looks you deep in the

57:45

face and goes, are you telling

57:47

me you're from Oramar?

57:49

I know shit. John it wakes.

57:56

And then, fuck yeah man. He

57:59

wakes and then he hoes. holds to see if like,

58:01

does he get the deep cut? And

58:04

the thing is, Bayless

58:07

smiles and goes, whatever

58:10

you need from me,

58:12

you have whatever

58:15

I can do. And

58:30

it takes so long to clear off one of these stupid shit

58:56

because these barnacles are so strong! What

59:02

brings you there, Silas? I'm with couriers at

59:04

this point. Because Silas would be on the

59:06

boat most of the time. I think this

59:09

is a larger delivery. So...

59:11

This town is a mess, Silas.

59:13

Like, there are so many people

59:15

here. And part of the problem

59:17

is, you have letters that were

59:19

to be delivered to areas that

59:21

don't exist anymore because they've been

59:23

flooded out and the people are

59:25

here. And we don't... we do

59:27

not expect as much here, so like,

59:29

we don't... I mean, the Ottrons

59:31

are like 15 people. So

59:34

it's usually smaller, like, places that we

59:36

go. I'm gonna say, I think it's

59:38

kind of expected, but it's the sort

59:40

of thing where Phithyn is like, we

59:43

can't spare the people. We've...

59:45

I've allocated to you the

59:47

number of crew necessary to

59:49

pull this off. But

59:52

it takes everyone firing on all

59:54

cylinders. Yeah. That also means that I think

59:57

that we were sent here purposefully by Phithyn.

1:00:00

Outside of our normal route, which means we

1:00:02

have more people than usual and again It's

1:00:04

been that way for the last three years

1:00:07

So like every so often the

1:00:09

the red audran will like meet up with

1:00:11

a bunch of other couriers to go to

1:00:13

drought So that we have like

1:00:16

our who's on the boat But then like

1:00:18

double if not triple that to try to

1:00:20

work this and even at that capacity even

1:00:23

at that number Denison

1:00:25

himself is still out delivering mail. I

1:00:27

think he's out there with One

1:00:30

of the like one of

1:00:33

the careers is assisting him. That's Bob. That's

1:00:35

Bob. Bob Jean He's out there with Bobby

1:00:37

Jean through that short end of the stick

1:00:39

and he's out like delivering mail like on

1:00:41

a street corner Like he knows that this

1:00:43

place is like a gathering

1:00:45

place and he knows that like certain

1:00:47

people are probably after doing reconnaissance Refuging

1:00:50

workers. Yeah, and so he's like just

1:00:52

calling out names to see if he

1:00:54

can he can do stuff like that So

1:00:56

Bobby jeans there as well and they're just

1:00:58

calling out names and like giving out mail

1:01:01

and small parcels and gathering mail as well

1:01:04

from people it's a it's a

1:01:07

Mess of a job because

1:01:09

people are literally just crowding in on them

1:01:12

They're they're not usually they're not able to sort any

1:01:14

of the things that they're getting. It's just going into

1:01:17

like a big Giant wicker basket

1:01:19

that they're like just throwing stuff in there. And

1:01:21

I think as he's doing that he's a tall

1:01:23

man So he's looking at he looks over and

1:01:25

sees Through like

1:01:27

the shop like, you know

1:01:30

archways There's that

1:01:32

boy that he saved the

1:01:34

other day doing this job

1:01:37

Not with parents. I

1:01:39

think Dennis is like Cooper. Oh,

1:01:42

yeah. Yes, sir Cooper. You take over for a second.

1:01:44

All right, uh uh Okay

1:01:47

He grabs the list of names

1:01:49

and like there are so many

1:01:51

names of so many different cultures

1:01:53

on this list and like Because

1:01:55

it was denison's list. Not all of

1:01:58

them are written out phonetically So

1:02:01

he's doing his best. Uh,

1:02:04

Min June. Uh,

1:02:07

Hulian? Hulian. Hey,

1:02:10

hey, is there a Hulian out

1:02:13

there? I'll

1:02:15

be right back. He

1:02:18

turns over, he ruffles his head and he got

1:02:20

this. He pushes to the crowd to get over

1:02:22

to Johnna. And I think there's that

1:02:24

moment where he stands in the archway, kind of, arms

1:02:26

crossed. There is

1:02:28

like, in the same way that,

1:02:31

like, I feel like there's probably

1:02:33

moments of like, Peter

1:02:35

Parker spider sense, like, there's like some,

1:02:37

something's, something's nearby. It gets a little,

1:02:39

it gets a little like standing hairs

1:02:41

and then he looks over and like,

1:02:43

oh man, it's, it's, it's

1:02:46

that big guy. It's that big guy. Uh,

1:02:49

it's the infection in the eye, actually.

1:02:51

I think you try to

1:02:53

avoid him and what you are

1:02:55

seeing are the ghosts of potential

1:02:57

futures. You turn and he's everywhere

1:02:59

and I think you back into

1:03:01

him. And

1:03:04

so, yeah, he kind of like, he's,

1:03:06

he's like, tries to get away, takes

1:03:08

two wrong turns and then just like

1:03:10

bumps into you. Um,

1:03:12

and it's like, so

1:03:15

leave in town. So

1:03:17

very soon. Very soon. So very soon.

1:03:19

You and your, your, your parents and

1:03:21

back to Acheron. Yeah. Yeah.

1:03:25

The, the, I don't even remember

1:03:27

the name of the end that I gave you. Yeah.

1:03:30

Um, this, it's, can I, can I,

1:03:32

um, can I ask you

1:03:35

a question? Please. Does

1:03:37

this look infected? Oh my gosh. Um,

1:03:39

and so many

1:03:41

things. You obviously know

1:03:43

what a seer is. Have you

1:03:45

ever met a seer before? Oh,

1:03:47

that's right. I

1:03:50

have heard so many stories and

1:03:52

I have heard, I've heard firsthand

1:03:54

accounts, like people that I've known

1:03:56

who have seen seers. I

1:03:58

have never met one. on my own. It

1:04:01

is of course Cory Ender who has met

1:04:03

a seer before and told you tales. Yeah,

1:04:06

told me tales of seers and things

1:04:08

like that. So not only is it like

1:04:10

this child's a seer, but

1:04:13

you are very sick. Yeah,

1:04:16

yeah, yeah. You are so sick

1:04:18

at the moment. And Dennis is

1:04:20

like, oh dear, wow. This big

1:04:22

guy is like, whoa, you old

1:04:24

kid, you thick. He's like, you're,

1:04:32

how are you standing? And I think

1:04:34

we see, we see Denison like put

1:04:37

like a bit of a hand to

1:04:39

your forehead. You're hot. Like that, that

1:04:41

area is like warm to

1:04:43

the touch. Denison is like, with

1:04:46

your permission, I would like to

1:04:48

take you to a metaphysician. Here's

1:04:52

the, my guy, I

1:04:56

don't have the money. I

1:04:58

don't have the money to

1:05:00

see the metaphysician. Okay. I

1:05:02

understand. I understand. Can

1:05:05

your parents pay for it then? You

1:05:07

know, they're not here. You know this.

1:05:10

You know this. I know. I needed

1:05:12

you to say it. I could use some help. What's

1:05:21

your name? John. It pleasure

1:05:23

to meet you, John. My name is Silas.

1:05:26

Thanks again for calling me out

1:05:28

of the water back there. Am

1:05:32

I gonna die? Silas. We

1:05:34

see Silas like get on your level and

1:05:37

he looks at you and he goes, probably.

1:05:40

No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm teasing. And

1:05:44

at that it was like, hey, like he

1:05:46

hits him in the same spot that he tried, that

1:05:49

he was hitting him the other day. Like, hey, I'm

1:05:51

sorry. I'm trying to make like the situation. I'm not,

1:05:53

I've never been very good at it. Well, tell me

1:05:55

how bad it is. It's bad. He lifted up again.

1:05:58

It's all bad. Oh, I can't. The

1:06:00

smell it is. yeah I yeah

1:06:02

I have no voice is really

1:06:04

is so very weird to have

1:06:06

a funky smell coming from above

1:06:09

your nose at all times. I

1:06:11

was committed. they make fun of

1:06:13

me as and my bunk. They

1:06:16

call me smelly say smelly J are you? Are

1:06:18

you here on your on your obviously you're on

1:06:20

your own use or I don't think you're gonna

1:06:23

die but we need is a bit careless. This

1:06:25

is serious is what I'm trying to get across

1:06:27

to use. It is not some this is gonna

1:06:29

go away. It's did I'm I'm tryin

1:06:31

month and plan on working but they

1:06:34

they won't pay me until I get

1:06:36

through for more of these. I've been

1:06:38

clean this one for day and a

1:06:40

half. And. John it. Here's here's

1:06:43

another element of this that I think

1:06:45

we should remember in Players You know

1:06:47

you're not going to die. You

1:06:49

know, in fact that you're on the

1:06:51

path. To. Becoming a captain of

1:06:54

ship. You. Know with this

1:06:56

and this is like all doubts

1:06:58

that could be present you are

1:07:00

certain of the future that he

1:07:03

was our this. And we

1:07:05

see him take off his coat and be like

1:07:07

you want to pay for it. I understand you

1:07:09

and your way in the world of help. What

1:07:11

are you trying to take? amateur? unicode? Don't

1:07:14

you have things to do? Know I

1:07:16

do. But. Your. Important.

1:07:19

Ah John it tantalize looks talent

1:07:21

yeah he makes like so

1:07:23

my heart eye contact with this.

1:07:26

This. Of otherwise kind of strangers

1:07:28

that is like. So. Down

1:07:31

to to help get him

1:07:33

out of like a situation

1:07:35

that he might not perish

1:07:37

from but certainly sucks the

1:07:40

last couple days wading through

1:07:42

and as like. Okay,

1:07:45

And I think there's like some form

1:07:47

of light scraping the apparatus that he

1:07:49

had and he's like grabs wine and

1:07:52

like the or he holds it out

1:07:54

to to silas. Last Chance. You don't

1:07:56

have to do this with the sellers.

1:07:59

Take it. Flip it expertly and

1:08:01

go over and like kick off like

1:08:04

a whole line very quickly Hey,

1:08:07

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me on Twitter at One Shot

1:10:23

Rpg or on my podcast One

1:10:25

Shot. The original music featured in

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this podcast was written, composed and

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performed by already Parent. You can

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find him over on Twitter at

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Arnie Parent or on his website

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Atp To this episode was edited

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by Alley Growler who can be

1:10:41

found on Twitter at Dreams to

1:10:43

become for on her podcast, Sky

1:10:46

Jack's Couriers Call. Our logo was

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designed by Fiona Chef who can

1:10:50

be found on Twitter at Lunar

1:10:52

of the World of Sphere was

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inspired in part by the music

1:10:57

of the Decemberists and Eliminate produced

1:10:59

by. To Gather Studios. The show

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was made in part by using a

1:11:04

modified version of the Genesis roleplaying system

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designed by Sam Steward and a team

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of talented professional. There are no fifteen.

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Years. Know

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we can never do. That

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cause the sky is he.