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from the beautiful beaches of Blue Sand

1:54

of my homeland is a place called

1:56

Barovia, the place we now find ourselves.

2:00

They may look very different, one

2:02

thing is the same, the sensation

2:04

of being surrounded. We cannot leave

2:06

this place, this disgusting barony of

2:09

one Strahd von Zarovich. At

2:11

least not until we usurp him and take

2:13

the throne for ourselves. Careful

2:16

though, Friesen carries a heavy price

2:18

in these parts. You don't

2:20

bump into Iona, but you stumble

2:22

upon the man, the member of

2:24

the Roy Clonj Guard. Cavendish, what's

2:27

your name? John, please.

2:30

Hector, the

2:32

beautiful... Hector the Beautiful,

2:34

as in of Fairburn Point.

2:37

So you've heard of me? Oh no,

2:40

I'm just telling you. So

2:42

this is Barovia, though you...

2:51

This explains so much really, so

2:54

time works differently here. Right,

2:56

yes. You understand? You're from

2:59

my past. Anyway

3:01

please, buy me a drink. Yes,

3:04

of course. You get back to a fine end? Yep,

3:07

I don't think I spoke to anyone, I just sit

3:09

by the fire. Maybe when you come in

3:11

you're like, you've sprung me not doing my job and I'm like,

3:14

uh, hey! To

3:16

the person next to me. Have you seen... Oh,

3:20

nevermind. You

3:23

found him. Yes, it's John. John, this

3:26

is my... I was going to

3:28

approach you the other day but I got punched in the

3:30

back of the head. I'm Pip Mandarin. Oh, I saw that.

3:32

Oh, did you put Paul? Yeah.

3:35

Well, no, no, I get it. I don't know

3:37

how well you know Big Foot Paul, but he's

3:39

one to hold a grudge. Pretty well. I

3:41

know him pretty well. Hence

3:43

the random beefing, right? That gets the one

3:46

that's around him. That doesn't strike me as

3:48

Paul. He's not a random, violent sort of

3:50

person. Oh, right, yeah. He's pretty direct. You

3:53

need to deserve it. Good old softie. Anyway...

3:57

Drinks? Yeah, capital!

4:00

They're like a table like a booth. Yeah.

4:02

Yeah, sure. Yeah, we order some drinks and

4:04

you get around You get around of overpriced.

4:06

Oh, yes, we do. I'm assuming we grabbed

4:08

a couple of like Handful

4:11

of gold or whatever before we left

4:13

here. Yeah, well no

4:15

one mentioned that but Sure,

4:17

I think I still have some goals to make things

4:20

how much gold would you have taken? Probably

4:23

the very least I need a number 125

4:26

gold on me. I would have said 20 20.

4:28

All right. Well just add 20 gold to your character. You got 125 gold

4:30

in my talks it'd

4:33

be I'd

4:35

say like 8 Silver

4:38

which is quite overpriced. Oh, yeah,

4:40

especially it'd be quite overpriced for

4:42

average beer But

4:44

you're not getting average beer. Yeah,

4:46

I'll slide in and place them

4:49

down. Yes We'll get start

4:51

paying that often as right. Oh, this

4:53

is John's with expensive swill very

4:56

much So don't I know it at

4:58

least you're able to pay with in

5:00

gold and silver I'm paying in company

5:02

coins. Do you have any idea how

5:04

long it takes to earn them and how

5:07

little they're fucking worth? I've heard Your

5:10

yeah, he's from candle. Oh fantastic got

5:12

another one for the pile. That's good

5:16

and in the future I

5:20

So this is bro. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

5:22

yeah, yeah, yeah Nowhere

5:25

around you. Yeah, I've been here

5:27

for years. So I get it.

5:29

Oh my god Yeah,

5:32

have you been outside kuchiri? Yes,

5:35

I spent the first two years running around

5:37

got cards I say he

5:39

rummages around in a pocket and pulls out

5:42

three cars Sets them down

5:44

in front of you. The picture

5:46

is long since faded into nothing

5:48

It's just a white square where

5:50

the picture once was you see

5:52

the jester the horseman and Then

5:55

the third one is the sword

5:58

just a horseman sword Yes,

6:00

what I've got, I just

6:02

pull out his. You.

6:05

Oh, cool. Yeah. A

6:09

bit plopping too. Oh, God. You

6:13

know, I'll take a drink. So what happens in

6:15

the future? How is it? Everything

6:17

going good? Well, I'm like from very

6:19

well in the future. I don't think

6:21

there's much I could tell you. No,

6:23

it's just idle curiosity. Well,

6:26

this is apparently news for you. The

6:29

king is no longer an absolute

6:31

monarch. We have a republic. I

6:34

see. That would be a word. You're

6:36

a bit more traveled. Yeah. You

6:38

might know that word. The gnomes have a

6:40

republic. Like the gnomes. Yeah. That's an interesting

6:42

thing to an interesting culture to take from.

6:44

Fair enough. Well, um, yeah. Well,

6:51

when you add the mention of the gnomes, you

6:54

both spot that that

6:57

John seems to get very kind of cagey.

6:59

Like there's something uncomfortable about that for him.

7:01

Is something? No,

7:04

don't ask. Well,

7:06

it's good to finally meet you, I guess.

7:09

Sure. There. Look,

7:11

I guess I

7:13

want to get out. Good luck. I

7:15

spent two years trying that myself. I

7:18

do not spend that long. Well, I

7:20

know it's hard to believe. I know I was skeptical

7:22

at first as well. But

7:25

whereas destiny seemed to fail for the rest

7:27

of us, it's working for him.

7:30

So make that what you

7:32

will. Yes, I was the horseman. I

7:34

found my horse. I got the sword.

7:38

Didn't do the third one. And

7:40

eight years went by. Yeah, I didn't do

7:42

any of mine. I thought Bigfoot Paul

7:44

was one of them, but I

7:46

don't think so. Why didn't you do

7:48

the third? I don't know. I

7:51

kept trying. Two of his literally fell

7:53

into his lap. Most

7:55

of them have. How many do you have? Like

7:57

what, eight at this point? Eight!

8:05

My word! Flaming sons!

8:07

Nine. Um,

8:10

yes. It's obscene. I've

8:15

got three things to do. You've got nine?

8:17

Good luck! You've

8:19

actually got more than nine, I'd say. Well,

8:22

I am, you and

8:25

I think a engineer

8:27

are the only ones I haven't gotten.

8:30

You've got this one? You put his one down on the

8:32

table? I put his one down on the table. He

8:34

reaches across and grabs it. This one? Yeah, that's

8:36

you. He picks it up and tears it in

8:38

half. Best that you forget about this one. He

8:40

sets it down on the table and gives a

8:43

little tap. What would it take for you to

8:45

accompany? What

8:49

have you done in Barovia so far? Well,

8:52

we cured a

8:54

group of children of

8:56

werewolfism. We defeated a

8:58

tree blight. We

9:01

defended the city of Valachai from... Is it

9:04

Batnado is what she called it?

9:06

Apparently. Batnado. I've never heard of it.

9:10

I wouldn't know either. We rescued a great

9:12

wizard. We've

9:14

defeated a mass

9:17

common watery. Yeah. And every kind

9:19

of egg. We went up against

9:21

Esha, I believe his name was. Survived.

9:24

Sure. Well, it sounds

9:26

like you've got this under control. I don't think

9:28

you need me. I've

9:30

done not nearly

9:32

as many things. I've only done the... I did

9:34

the noble thing. I was a little... I did

9:36

a little knighting here and there. Obviously,

9:39

the Roy Clonge guard. Then

9:41

I was a murderer and a thief for a little while.

9:43

A bit of a scallywag. Silversmith,

9:46

mercenary, pirate, crusader, farmer. And

9:48

now I'm here. And

9:51

I think this one is

9:54

the worst one, but

9:57

it's also the easiest.

10:01

And I think, for my retirement,

10:03

that's what I want. Something

10:06

easy. This is easy? I

10:08

gesture to like, the bar,

10:11

the saddest bar in town.

10:13

The only bar in town, but the saddest

10:15

one nevertheless. Hector, living

10:18

is hard. Doesn't need to be. Sure.

10:22

Outside of Barovio. Fading

10:24

away, there's nothing wrong with that. You

10:31

are one of the republics? Gods.

10:34

Where

10:36

I was from, that symbol meant something. Where

10:39

I was from, that symbol, you made

10:42

an oath. You had a pledge. It

10:45

wasn't just given away. It was

10:47

the best of the best. To

10:51

see them in action, to see their

10:54

formations, was an impressive sight to behold.

10:56

And now I am sitting across from one that

10:59

I would have heard stories

11:01

of you, if I was a

11:03

younger man. And that's

11:05

what it comes down to, just the wish to fade away.

11:08

Well that's the thing about stories, Hector.

11:10

They always end. Yes,

11:13

but you could have a good ending. He

11:15

shrugs. You want to hear a good

11:17

ending? This one will make you laugh.

11:19

He says, but he looks at you, Pip, not at you,

11:21

Hector. He stands

11:23

up and turns to the bar and

11:26

calls out, the gentleman over here is

11:28

paying drinks for fate

11:30

cards. As

11:33

John Cavendish leaves, you

11:35

are inundated. Card

11:39

after card after card.

11:42

We're not going to be able to pay for all of this. No,

11:46

no, no, no. We don't have the

11:48

gold. No, no, no. It's not that

11:50

it's not, it's trying to like, placate

11:52

everyone giving me cards. The

11:54

crowd's a bit mad. Oh yeah? So

11:57

let's give this a red hot go.

11:59

You got an email? for persuasion check

12:02

no no no we do not no

12:05

he was laying he's lying he's

12:07

not I'm not doing that at

12:09

all the crowd get mad there's

12:12

a tab we've

12:16

started a tab mmm get a good

12:18

boycott hell yeah you are no longer

12:20

welcome at this bar but

12:22

you get out like there yes there is a

12:24

tab and I care of 20 gold and just

12:26

put on the table I'm sure that'll cover it

12:28

that's all I have I'll

12:31

put down 20 gold as well of my

12:33

hundred and twenty five that I forgot about all right

12:36

and the two of you a flip out of

12:38

the bar you can just in

12:40

the darkness make out because it took you

12:42

a little bit to force your way out

12:44

and also to placate the crowd you can

12:47

see the slinking form of John Cavendish

12:49

in the darkness you could choose to

12:51

chase after him if you wanted I

12:54

mean even if you try I might put a hand on

12:56

your chest and be like maybe we

12:58

lift this one you know

13:02

you can keep trying and you can

13:04

keep trying but you might just push

13:06

him further away that it's similar madam

13:09

either said I needed to put a fire

13:11

in his belly need to find out

13:13

more information about that man what

13:15

makes him tick I don't know

13:18

why he would I guess want to

13:20

come out of a diamond yeah well you know

13:23

fading away at a certain point

13:25

Hector pretty appealing I knew

13:27

that I understand that yeah just

13:30

so you do let's head back to pebbles

13:32

I mean Matilda or

13:37

are you gonna go find Iona you

13:40

go back I'll look at

13:42

phone I'll

13:45

head back to Matilda I

13:48

said scared when you bumped into John that

13:51

I own always gonna come in the bar I was gonna be

13:53

like no that's not what I wanted I try

13:55

to avoid you has

13:58

always go with has again And

14:02

knowing I got a hundred or one, how's

14:04

the lows? Lows. Highs.

14:08

Highs? No, lows, lows,

14:10

lows, lows, lows, lows. Okay,

14:13

so the two of you split up and

14:16

Hector, without too much trouble, you

14:18

found this time Iona. Great.

14:22

Meanwhile... Oh, god damn it. Argh!

14:28

Vel, Vel, Vel. I'll

14:32

whip around. Out of the darkness like they

14:34

were fucking thugs. The

14:37

gods materialized. It looks like they were in

14:39

an ambush position. God

14:41

damn it. I thought we

14:43

told you that you should not be out at

14:46

night. I'm just trying to find

14:48

my way home, okay? Argh.

14:53

The second infraction is worth

14:55

way more than the first.

14:57

What's around me? There's

15:00

buildings to your left and right, there's the

15:02

path going in front of you and

15:04

behind you. Okay. There

15:06

is... Highs always. Highs.

15:10

There is a stack of

15:12

crates of unknown contents on

15:14

your left hand side, and

15:17

on your right there is a

15:19

wagon without horse. Okay. The

15:23

wagon is... The wagon has

15:25

a... a taut canvas over the top

15:27

of it. There could be something inside,

15:29

could not. Okay. The

15:32

second time around, the fee

15:34

is much more expensive. How

15:38

much more are we talking? They

15:40

look at each other and you hear a laugh from one of them.

15:43

How much do you have? How

15:45

easy is it to quietly make a concoction,

15:48

Adam? I would say...

15:50

actually impossible. What if

15:52

I'm like, let me just open my wallet,

15:54

and then I bend down and like,

15:56

squat between my legs, unclost my

15:58

little alchemy satcheons. and then

16:01

start rummaging around but inside I'm

16:03

making something. I

16:05

would call that slight of hand at

16:07

disadvantage and also negative too. Okay. Do

16:09

I have anything now? No.

16:13

Okay, second question Adam. The

16:17

common stones I have, right? What?

16:21

That's part of my alchemy set. I have

16:23

a bunch of common stones. Oh, right. Right.

16:25

Right. Now, on their own are they

16:27

just a gem? Yeah, on their own they're just a gem.

16:29

Damn it. A

16:32

quick alchemy requires at least three items.

16:34

Yeah, that is fair. I

16:37

don't think I'm going to be able to

16:39

make a potion on the fly. I'll do

16:41

the same thing though. I'll run down, I'll

16:43

reach in, I'll pull out... Fuck.

16:45

Is it worth just trying to

16:48

bribe them again? I don't want to become public

16:50

enemy number one. How much

16:52

is an amnestist worth? So much. It's worth a bit.

16:54

And they took that and still punched you in the

16:56

back of their head. I know, but I could try

16:58

and flee, but then the next time they find me

17:00

it's going to be even worse. Mmm. Alright,

17:05

well maybe I reach into my alchemist pouch and I pull

17:07

out another amnestist and I'm like, well this is the last

17:09

one I have, I'm sorry. And you

17:12

have nothing else? I have,

17:14

I'd like to like reach in and pull

17:16

out some hounding killer hands. I

17:18

have 33. I've got

17:21

some hands. Up

17:23

end the backpack. You don't want me to

17:26

up end the backpack, you mean not the

17:28

alchemy pouch. Yeah. I

17:30

don't know what would happen if I upended

17:32

them all. Would I make a big fucking

17:34

combination? Something would happen. Alright, I'll up end

17:37

my backpack. Alright, they, do you have any

17:39

other precious stones? Not in my

17:41

backpack, they're all in my alchemy kit. Okay. But

17:43

I would have some gold, I guess. I'd like

17:45

a silver arrows. Yeah, I'd get the silver arrows.

17:47

They'll take the silver bolts, they'll take the money.

17:49

All of them? Yeah, they'll take the money

17:52

and they'll take that amnestist. Ah,

17:54

the silver bolts are so useful, god

17:57

damn it. Fine, maybe I can get

17:59

Peron to get them. back for me,

18:01

whatever. Although he did do a lot of

18:03

effort to get them for me in the first place.

18:08

Uh, as they're sorting through your

18:10

stuff and taking your valuables, while

18:13

you're kind of crouched on the floor,

18:15

maybe you're on your hands and knees,

18:17

that lead guard with a

18:19

heavy boot puts it on your

18:22

hand and just starts slowly applying

18:24

pressure. I've got more bolts,

18:26

I say. Would you like more bolts? I've

18:29

got far more valuable bolts than the silver

18:31

ones. The boot relaxes a little

18:33

bit. Okay, fuck. I would like to reach into

18:35

my- I think they're probably gonna beat the shit

18:38

out of me. It's not worth it. I would

18:40

like to reach into my pack out of it

18:42

and pull out my five fine lightning arrows. Uh

18:45

huh. Really like to just hurl them at the

18:47

ground. I could get

18:49

out of here and that, whatever explosion that

18:51

causes. Okay,

18:54

highs or lows? Highs? Highs?

18:57

Do I mean lows potentially? I don't

18:59

know. Highs then. Yeah.

19:02

Highs? Alright, this is not what they

19:04

were designed for. Yeah.

19:08

Electricity reverberates back down your arm.

19:11

No. And

19:14

then you spew forth out of

19:16

your nose, ears and mouth electrical

19:18

energy. Okay. You're gonna hurt people

19:20

in an area, but it's centred

19:22

on you. Yeah, I am the

19:24

core of that radius.

19:26

Damn it. Damn it. You

19:30

make your saving throw. Thank god. The rest

19:32

do not. Or the other two do not. You

19:35

only catch two others in the

19:37

aura. You deal 13 points

19:39

of damage total, so you take half, so you take

19:41

six points of damage. And they both

19:43

take 13. Alright. You're on two hit

19:45

points. Uh oh. Okay. Fuck.

19:47

How come this keeps happening to me? Why do

19:49

gods come for me all the time? Oh,

19:52

I know. I'm generally unlackable. And

19:54

let's go to initiative. Damn

19:58

it. Damn it. Damn it. They would have just shook

20:01

me down. I just would have had nothing left All

20:04

right, Pip that lead guard

20:06

with standing over you with his baton.

20:08

He brings it down onto your head

20:11

twice. Okay That'll

20:13

be a miss and

20:16

a hit. Well, that's me. I assume Pip

20:21

everything goes black. Okay. Well wait

20:24

I regain hit points equal to

20:26

1d10 plus my love Maybe

20:28

as I careen into the ground my pack

20:30

opens like my alchemy pouch open slightly a

20:33

little bit of angel feather just You

20:38

accidentally inhale angel feathers Yeah, you recover

20:41

14 hit points and you just took

20:43

four. Okay, you're on 12 hit point.

20:45

Ah All

20:48

right. Good stuff. It's your turn Okay,

20:50

I would like to there are buildings on either side

20:53

of me. Yeah. Yep. I'm getting out of there I'm

20:55

gonna climb a drain pipe. Let's get on the roof

20:58

You so you can

21:00

either get to the building start climbing

21:02

next next turn Yeah, or you can

21:04

get to the building start climbing but

21:06

take attacks of all how many two

21:08

attacks of up. Yeah 10

21:11

hit points They're wielding

21:13

batons Yeah, let's

21:15

risk it. Okay. No So

21:17

talk a miss. Okay second attack I hit

21:20

but you're almost guaranteed not to be downed

21:22

by this. Yeah You

21:28

take three points of damage, okay. All

21:31

right, I'll scare proper drain pipe. Do you

21:33

have a climb speed? Yes. All right. Well,

21:35

yeah, you find the nearest building and because

21:37

of the drain pipe You're immediately able start

21:40

climbing your way up. You can get up

21:42

onto a building this turn I'd say all

21:44

right fantastic the guards down below you for

21:47

high zolos Lowe's

21:49

two of them take out crossbows

21:52

and fire at you. Oh, come

21:54

on Miss

21:57

shit. Oh, they keep doing Uh

22:00

oh. You cop a crossbow bolt

22:02

to the back of the thigh, you

22:05

take seven points of damage, you're on

22:07

two hit points. Not dead yet, not

22:09

dead yet. Um,

22:13

what would you like to do? How far away

22:15

can I get like along the rooftops? Like can

22:17

I jump onto another rooftop from here and then

22:19

another rooftop? Or are they kind of housed in

22:21

a line where it would be really obvious where

22:24

I went? As low as? Low.

22:26

Low as? It's a particularly dense section

22:30

of Qutri, so yes, you could hop

22:32

from building to building and

22:34

pretty quickly lose them. Being up where you

22:36

are, you're afforded a much

22:38

better view, a much better lay of

22:41

the land, and also you very luckily

22:43

have picked a house where the fence

22:45

connects to the buildings on either side.

22:48

Ah, that's beautiful. So to

22:50

follow you, they don't need to just go

22:52

around this house, they need to go around

22:54

the next house as well. Okay. Well,

22:57

yeah, I'll try and get myself as far

22:59

away from the gods as possible. If there's

23:01

like a big chimney I could hide in

23:03

even, you know, once I'm far

23:05

enough away. You can certainly try. Yeah, yeah. Would

23:08

you like to? Uh, yeah, why not? Got

23:11

anything for a stealth check? Ehh,

23:14

no. Alright,

23:16

you climb into what you think is a

23:18

big enough chimney. Oh no, I hate

23:20

that what you think is. That's

23:23

the worst. You instead

23:25

become stuck halfway

23:28

down the chimney, as in you are half

23:30

in the chimney half out of the chimney.

23:32

No, like a failed Santa Claus. You can

23:35

hear the of

23:37

heavy bootfalls of people running

23:40

around searching for you. You

23:42

see, you're on a first story,

23:45

or you're one story up basically.

23:47

The house next to you is two stories

23:49

up, and there's a little balcony on it.

23:52

Oh no. Depending on the balcony, just

23:55

having just spotted you is a

23:57

woman quite clearly trying to beat

23:59

a... a beater like a carpet.

24:02

She locks eyes with you and then

24:04

looks away and keeps beating the carpet. Thank god,

24:06

thank god. That's what I was hoping for. Oh,

24:09

thank god. Thank god nobody wants to draw attention

24:11

to themselves in Kootri, you know? Is it my

24:13

turn? Yeah, yeah. What would you like

24:15

to do? Can I just try and pull myself down

24:17

deeper into the chimney? Okay. You

24:21

manage to, you hear the, so

24:23

this chimney would have a, a, at

24:26

the top of it, at the lip of it. Yeah.

24:29

You take a ceramic little accentuated

24:32

piece. Okay. You

24:34

break that neatly in two, but that was

24:36

what was stopping you from getting into the

24:38

chimney. Perfect. You're now in

24:40

the chimney proper. It's, I

24:43

mean there just would be fire at the bottom,

24:45

which is not a big deal. Not a huge

24:47

deal for me. But the smoke is kind of

24:49

an issue. Also if I'm plugging the chimney, does

24:51

that mean the smoke's hitting me and they're

24:53

going back out the crate into the house?

24:55

Yeah. Mmm. Okay.

25:00

You can hear, still you can hear

25:02

in the night, people

25:05

running around and then the beep, beep

25:07

of the whiffer. Oh no. Oh

25:10

no. Alright, I'm going to slide down the chimney into the

25:12

fire. Alright. Get

25:15

a good boycott. You land

25:18

neatly with your feet on either side of

25:20

the fire so that you take no damage

25:22

and then you roll into the building. Hizalhiz?

25:26

Hiz? There is a,

25:29

this is some locals, or it's

25:31

not part of Vagabond, so they're

25:33

not adventurers. Yeah. It's

25:36

a, it looks like two family units

25:38

living in the same house together. You

25:40

can see that there is a man

25:43

and a woman in the kitchen area preparing

25:45

a dinner of sorts for

25:47

the both families combined. There's a bunch of

25:49

kids with some very,

25:52

you've seen, most of the toys

25:55

in Barovia are made by a man named

25:57

I. I know about the toys. The

26:01

toys look absolutely abhorrent. It's the

26:04

most awful looking little dolly.

26:07

It looks like Bloody Mary. And

26:10

a boy playing with soldiers that are

26:12

corpses. Packet stuff. There's

26:15

a few older kids as well, one of

26:17

whom is reading a book. All of them

26:19

stop what they're doing when you land in

26:21

the room. Umm... Mary

26:24

Gnomes, miss. It's me. It's

26:31

me, Father Gnomes, miss. Umm... What

26:34

do I have to give these kids? Umm...

26:40

I pull out some of the garlic

26:42

I have. And I'd like

26:45

to hand them each... I have five

26:47

garlic cloves. I'd like to hand them

26:49

each a garlic clove. Alright, there would

26:51

be five kids in total. Thank God.

26:53

Nobody's gone without. I got a

26:57

bad boy card. As you're doing that, you hear the sound of...

27:04

And looking around, the man has moved from

27:06

the kitchen to the fireplace behind you, and

27:08

he's taken out. He doesn't have

27:10

a weapon, but he does have a fire poker. He

27:15

swings at you with the fire poker.

27:19

He fortunately is not a fighter by

27:21

any stretch of the mark, so you are

27:23

able to neatly duck underneath the blow what

27:25

we like to do. We're

27:28

not really an initiative, but I feel like you're

27:30

bound by what you can do in a turn.

27:32

I'm gonna pull out another amethyst, and

27:35

be like, you never saw me, and hand it over

27:37

to him. Buy

27:40

something nice from the store. He

27:42

takes the amethyst, lowers the

27:44

fire poker, and gestures in

27:47

a direction where there

27:49

are exits to this room, but they

27:51

don't look like there exits outside. Just into like

27:53

internal corridors. Other internal parts of this house. He

27:56

gestures to one of them, and you take that

27:58

to mean that's the way it is. Okay, I

28:00

take the door. All right. I've been posing this

28:02

family long enough You move into a hallway and

28:04

you immediately see the front door. Okay, great I

28:08

will wait in here cuz there's still

28:10

guards outside That

28:12

just seems clever. You know the man you

28:14

see he moves to the doorway and he's

28:16

just regarding you Very cautiously.

28:18

I'll be 10 minutes You

28:22

can't hear you can hear the whistling in

28:26

In the night, but you can't hear it coming

28:28

from this street. Okay. Well, do I know

28:30

how close that would be to Matilda? To

28:33

Matilda's you wouldn't be terribly

28:35

far. Yeah, you reckon Well,

28:38

you know that you're really close to

28:40

a wooded area, which is right before

28:42

the gate and then Matilda

28:44

from the gate All right, I'm probably hiding the

28:46

wooded area. Yeah, I'll thank the man. Thank you.

28:48

And then I'll duck out the door and head

28:50

to the woods You

28:53

slink out the front door and in the

28:55

darkness and in this wooded area You can

28:57

make it to the gate the gate is

28:59

guarded. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

29:01

Yeah. I I

29:03

will just hide in the woods and

29:05

watch the gate and just wait

29:07

to see if There's any like

29:09

changing of the guards or any moment where I might

29:11

be able to slip out if not if it takes

29:13

like like I'll give that like an hour if that

29:15

doesn't work out. I'll just Curriculum

29:18

with my climb speed I could climb over the wall the

29:21

Wall would be very easy to climb from

29:23

the inside but from the outside you might

29:25

need to just jump It's too smooth for

29:27

a climb Running

29:32

out of amethyst to give away What

29:38

happened you find Iona Iona

29:41

Iona I

29:44

am well, how are you? I'm okay.

29:46

I heard there was a An

29:49

attack on the vagabonds while we were up.

29:51

There was an attack on all of Kuchary

29:54

Dead springing forth from all sorts

29:56

of places. The church was

29:58

overrun It's a chapel,

30:01

it's not much of a church. Well,

30:05

we found the Vistani that were way

30:08

late. I have some

30:10

good news and bad news and then I

30:12

guess worse news. What would you like first?

30:15

I would take them as they come. Best

30:17

first, worst last. Good news

30:20

is there is a survivor,

30:22

a little girl, but the

30:24

bad news is she's being experimented

30:27

on by whatever attacked

30:30

her family, which were hacks.

30:33

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30:35

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30:38

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for details. She's alive. She's at a

32:12

cabin. We know of a way to maybe hop. But with this whiskey,

32:15

a little bit of our best. But the hags are dead. It was a

32:17

cabin. There was a tall branch once. It was a little

32:19

bit of a cabin.

32:28

There was a tall branch once and one that dealt

32:30

with the deals. I

32:32

believe that Ludmiller was

32:34

dealing with the main

32:37

matriarch of them all. She

32:41

was experimenting on, I think we

32:43

fought it once, maybe sort of

32:45

monster of kinds. That was part

32:48

werewolf, part undead and also

32:50

part hag. I think she'd

32:52

been working with that

32:55

particular hag for some experiments

32:58

and whatnot. Sorry

33:01

I couldn't do more. We tried to bring

33:03

back their bodies. But we

33:06

were attacked by, I guess, Bogmen.

33:10

I'm not on the path. I'm

33:12

a good man. Zombies.

33:15

Zombies, yes, this is the word that

33:17

we use in Kuchary. It

33:20

seems that one of the Vistani

33:23

was kissed by the Vhags

33:25

that caused wanting

33:27

your desire attacks the others. I

33:30

am aware of this, the insatiable

33:32

desire. Yes, I'm sorry. I

33:36

tried to do it as much as I could. Hopefully

33:40

the Vhags won't bother anyone

33:42

again. But yeah, there are things here.

33:45

Do you know much about John Cavendish?

33:49

I know his name. He's

33:51

a local around town. Well,

33:54

I suppose he's only been

33:56

here for maybe coming on a decade at

33:58

this point. So

34:01

I guess this does not make

34:03

him locale, but he's worked

34:05

his way into the foundations

34:07

of this place as well as any adventure

34:10

I ever can. Ok,

34:13

I need to be

34:15

a worthy individual to

34:18

join our ragtag group, but

34:20

he seems not to care. Very

34:23

few people here wish to care. I'm

34:25

wondering if you might have known anything about him

34:27

that might help in any way, shape or form.

34:31

I am aware that he was

34:33

once a man of means, I

34:36

know this. I am aware

34:38

that before he

34:40

came to Kucheri, as most adventurers,

34:42

he railed against

34:44

the bars of this place, but

34:47

as most adventurers, he was unsuccessful.

34:51

I know that he came here with some

34:53

other people. There was a group of them.

34:56

I know little of these other

34:58

people, they did not survive

35:00

to make it to Kucheri. All

35:03

I would know is that their bones

35:06

lie somewhere within the boundaries of Barovia.

35:09

That is something. I'm

35:11

sorry I couldn't save all the Vastani,

35:14

but maybe we can help this.

35:17

My name's Iris. So

35:22

I guess if you still would like

35:25

to join my cause,

35:27

I would be very welcome to

35:29

have you. I find

35:31

myself as these celestial bodies

35:34

drawn to anything with enough gravitational

35:36

pull. A

35:40

quick question actually. Do you know someone

35:44

by the name of Elenio? She

35:47

stops for a second. I knew of

35:49

this person. How did you know

35:51

them? We met

35:54

about a year ago. There

35:56

was an uprising. I'm

35:59

sure. Pip refuses

36:01

to tell you about it. Shockingly,

36:03

no. He's taught me a lot of things.

36:06

Oh really? Very lucid about it. He

36:08

doesn't mind, does he? Oh, after a while

36:10

I came out. I think I

36:12

learned a lot more from other people. But,

36:14

yes. Yes, well if I was

36:16

in his position, I would not have said much at all.

36:19

Of course, I would not be in

36:22

his position, simply because the pain

36:24

of other people affects me. Yeah.

36:29

I think it affects him too, just

36:32

in a different way. In a way

36:34

that doesn't stop him from stopping it.

36:36

Unfortunately, no. He's a weird guy.

36:43

I hope I do believe there

36:45

is good in everyone. And

36:47

I hope that he's learned from

36:49

his mistakes. I

36:52

hope the

36:54

same. She says. In

36:57

a very measured way. That's a

36:59

very confusing thing. There, Iona. So

37:02

you served with Elenio.

37:05

We fought alongside one another, yes. And

37:08

we became close. I

37:11

would even say, I would go so far as to say,

37:14

things between us became romantic. How

37:17

did it end? Iona

37:19

stops. Well, this is

37:22

all water under the bridge. They

37:24

are no longer with us. Right,

37:27

because you don't know. No. No,

37:31

they are. Sorry. They're

37:33

alive. Iona stops. I'm...

37:37

Did I go somewhere private? I don't know if I'm

37:39

necessarily... No, I think I would like to go somewhere

37:41

public right now. I need a drink. I

37:44

am going to the fine end. I

37:47

don't know if I'm technically welcome there.

37:49

Do you have alcohol on you? Not right

37:51

now. I'm sure we'll do it. I will

37:53

see you later. She said, here, take this.

37:55

And she hands you the... If

37:59

you'll recall, she... had the card that

38:01

was you. She hands you that card

38:03

and as she walks away, the magic

38:05

on it stops and it turns into

38:07

a regular playing card. It's a... You

38:10

have heard of this game before, it's called

38:12

Fruits and Suits. It's not like a, you

38:14

know, Ace of Spades sort of thing. It's

38:16

the Six of Pears. Right.

38:19

Seems everybody wants something, eh? Tuck

38:24

that into my pocket. Okay. Do

38:27

I do something reckless? Yeah.

38:29

Go on. Where's the abattoir

38:32

from here? Oh my God. That is

38:34

reckless. It's quite close. You

38:37

are, you're probably on the main road

38:39

right now, so you looking eastward along

38:41

that road, you can see the imposing

38:43

presence of it up close now. In

38:45

the darkness, there are, there's lights illuminating

38:47

it enough that you can make out

38:50

its form. You see, now that

38:52

you're studying it closely, it doesn't look so much like

38:54

an abattoir, it looks well. I think you maybe already

38:57

knew this. It's a cathedral or it was once

38:59

a cathedral. You can

39:01

see the noticeable, the bell tower

39:03

or the belfry. You can

39:06

see the obvious structure of it resembles

39:08

any sort of large cathedral you might've

39:10

ever seen. You can

39:12

see from this distance, the

39:14

lighting illuminates what was once

39:17

regular dragon motifs carved into

39:19

the front of this building,

39:21

but which have now been

39:23

perverted into some sort of

39:26

other fell thing. The

39:28

regular dragon visages have

39:30

been changed or smeared

39:33

with blood and gristle in

39:35

such a way, either from the natural

39:37

works of the abattoir or perhaps by

39:39

some people who sub certain flavor. And

39:42

they're enterprising citizens. Certain

39:44

enterprising citizens have

39:46

reinterpreted this motif to

39:48

be that of skin,

39:51

flesh and headless dragons.

39:53

Okay. Okay. I'll

39:56

start like, sort

39:58

of like meandering towards it. like

40:00

you're observing it seeing if what like who's around what's

40:02

going on you can see there's a line at

40:05

the front of the building the

40:07

doors that heavy oaken doors are

40:09

slightly a jar a jar enough

40:11

that a person can comfortably walk

40:13

through and there's a line of

40:16

people coming out and then the

40:18

building is on a hill the

40:20

hill has two distinct natural not

40:22

natural sorry unnatural rises to it

40:24

this hill the cathedral or abattoir

40:26

now sits upon is quite obviously

40:28

man-made made on purpose to place

40:31

the cathedral now abattoir in a

40:33

position of prominence perhaps defensiveness as

40:35

well it might have been part of some

40:37

sort of defensive uh uh

40:39

structural like that anyway there are

40:41

two natural rises both of which

40:44

look like they would make it

40:46

very difficult for a bunch of

40:48

people riding horses to charge the

40:50

building basically interesting okay you

40:53

uh yeah that line of

40:55

people goes down that those

40:57

two rises and then into the city proper

40:59

you can see there are a bunch of

41:01

guards around here as well walking up and

41:03

down the line all of them have batons

41:05

you see every now and then they'll

41:07

drag someone out of line question them

41:09

and then put them back in the

41:11

line or sometimes often worse

41:14

they'll drag them out of the line give

41:16

them a beating for some unknown reason and

41:18

then they get put back in the line

41:20

no one resists the people

41:22

in the line look to be a

41:25

mix of local people from cootery and

41:27

also adventurers just anyone desperate enough for

41:29

a job and you can hear from

41:31

inside the abattoir you

41:33

can hear the sounds of various

41:38

different you know like machinery

41:40

operating and also the constant

41:43

squealing and agony of

41:45

animals dying um seeing

41:48

the number of people that are going

41:50

in and sort of seeing the abattoir

41:52

itself and maybe the constant sounds and

41:54

i'm like i'm trying to figure out

41:56

production and i'm like have i

41:58

have i seen people eat a lot of meat of food

42:00

around Kuchri. Nope. Yeah,

42:02

that's thought not. When

42:05

people are eating, or if people are, do

42:07

eat, what are they eating? Because there was

42:09

the thin soup that we've seen. So

42:14

have I seen anyone eating a lot of meat?

42:16

No. This is my question. You

42:18

have not seen an abnormal amount of

42:21

meat consumption in Kuchri. Yeah, but it

42:23

doesn't stop, right? Not that you've seen.

42:25

Okay. Certainly during the daytime it

42:27

is always belching smoke. Yep. And

42:29

they're very much almost like, you know, middle of the

42:31

night or whatever and it's still going. Okay,

42:33

cool. Okay. Now, making I

42:35

guess a religious check. Or

42:38

like maybe adding some things up. I

42:40

guess a religious mess. Okay.

42:44

Whatever they're slaughtering, it doesn't seem to

42:46

be able to go out of the

42:48

abattoir. You don't see any

42:50

production. You can see that at

42:52

the base of the hill, where the

42:54

line sort of begins, there are big

42:56

pens where lots of livestock are currently

42:59

being kept. The livestock are kept under

43:01

lock and key as well. There's a

43:03

lot of security at this part of

43:06

the facility. And

43:08

you can see there is a, if

43:10

you're looking around, you spot this, there

43:13

is a conveyor belt, which is probably

43:15

technology you've never seen before, but so

43:17

that you know what you're looking at.

43:19

It is a conveyor belt where animals

43:21

are led onto it and then tracked

43:23

up and into the building. But you

43:26

see nothing coming out of the building.

43:29

If you do this, which is kind of

43:31

like a lap around the abattoir, as

43:33

you're doing that, every now and then you under

43:36

your feet, you squelch, squelch

43:38

and you look down, you're

43:40

standing in guts or gizzards

43:42

or stomachs or just piles

43:44

of muscle. And

43:46

the dirt here is so

43:49

soaked with blood, so saturated

43:51

that it is red. Alright,

43:53

so things I know is

43:57

there's something underneath the abattoir that

43:59

is potentially, I think it is

44:01

a dragon. They are harvesting

44:03

a lot of meat, a lot of blood, a

44:05

lot of sinew, a lot of everything, animals

44:08

as it were. They're not necessarily

44:10

keeping it all as there are

44:12

now lots of offcuts and littering

44:15

the ground. It's a

44:17

little bit coming laid on

44:19

the ground or it's like from the ground up

44:21

almost, or is it just all mushed in? It's

44:24

been so sodden and so many

44:27

people have walked through this area.

44:29

It almost looks like

44:32

these are the muds and

44:34

tester. Yeah, right. Okay.

44:39

Any sort of religious

44:42

indoctrination that I've had when it

44:44

comes to dealing with Don't

44:47

call it indoctrination. It's not easy. Yeah.

44:50

Yeah. For birth. Yeah, yeah. Like

44:52

with any sort of religion indoctrination that I've

44:54

had, which is kind of like you're Aesmir,

44:56

you need to go and fight

44:59

demons, devils, etc., etc. Any sort of

45:02

dark rituals, I'm like, there's a

45:04

lot. They need a lot of this. Combine

45:08

that with, I know, the

45:10

King of tongues and

45:12

Father Limerick and anything like that,

45:14

I'm like, why does this

45:17

seem like in theory, if

45:19

you got a lot of animal parts

45:21

or a lot of death in one

45:23

particular, like concentrated in one thing, what

45:26

does that do? That's

45:28

a very big question. So

45:32

there is absolutely, yes, a

45:35

very known,

45:38

the idea of a lot of suffering and

45:40

pain happening in one place causing

45:43

evil to occur or allowing

45:45

evil entities into the world.

45:47

That is a known quantity.

45:49

That's already something well established.

45:53

The idea that it could happen

45:55

at an abattoir is a bit

45:57

iffy. There's in theocracy, in the

45:59

theocracy of the canonies and

46:01

of the gnomes and penny

46:04

pantheon. There is a

46:06

lot of debate and questioning over

46:08

the existence of souls for non-sapient,

46:10

I think the word is, for

46:13

non-sapient creatures. Do they have a

46:15

soul? It's not really something easily

46:18

measured or understood. So

46:21

could the deaths of lots of cows,

46:23

pigs, chickens and stuff like that also

46:25

do this sort of

46:27

stuff? Because some

46:29

scholars would say yes, some would say no.

46:33

As for any sort of entities

46:35

that require the sacrifice

46:38

of livestock, I

46:40

mean a lot, to be

46:42

honest. A lot

46:44

of entities want

46:46

sacrifices of any sort. To

46:49

this scale though, I'm guessing, is what I'm... Yeah,

46:52

I understand. It's like, oh yeah, you sacrifice

46:54

a goat, you know what I've got, chicken,

46:56

you get to talk to some little impoose

46:58

going to be like, yeah, don't worry, I'll

47:00

fucking kill your mother-in-law if I'm going to

47:03

be... Is this like an industrial scale

47:05

version of that? There's

47:09

no entity that you know of that

47:11

requires sacrifice on this sort of an

47:14

industrial scale, but if it were being

47:16

done for a specific entity, that entity

47:18

must be getting quite powerful at this

47:21

point. Yes. So

47:23

you don't know if anyone's specifically, but

47:26

whoever it is, if they are getting

47:28

sacrifices, to this level, that's

47:31

a lot. There's a lot of energy. Yeah.

47:34

Yeah. And then it's

47:36

also a former church, which

47:38

is also why I'm like, yeah,

47:40

that's true. It's just kind

47:42

of a, you know, industrial scale desecration

47:44

too. Yeah. Yeah.

47:47

There is definitely a lot of...

47:50

This place is definitely charged with

47:52

energy. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

47:56

Yep. In the fucking shadow of the

47:58

Amber Temple as well, there's a lot going on. here. Okay,

48:01

speaking of the Amber Temple, where's that at from

48:03

where I'm at? I think I described

48:05

this when you first came to Kuchari. You

48:08

can't see it in the nighttime, but at

48:10

daytime you would know that Kuchari

48:13

sits on a, for

48:15

lack of a better term, kind of like a K2 sort

48:17

of platform. So

48:20

imagine Mount Gakis

48:22

has two separate peaks. One

48:24

is significantly lower and flat.

48:27

That is where Kuchari is. Then if

48:30

you look to your, it

48:32

would be south. If you look to

48:34

the south, you can see there is a much

48:36

higher peak. In the darkness, it's

48:38

almost impossible to make out, but you can't

48:41

see what's on that peak, but what is

48:43

on that peak has been described to you

48:45

to be the entrance to the Amber Temple.

48:51

There is, you have seen this as

48:53

well, there is a long winding switchback

48:55

path, single file, not big enough for

48:58

a horse. You would need

49:00

to traverse it on foot, but there is a

49:02

single switchback path that would go the entire way

49:04

up. Thinking about that now actually,

49:06

not big enough for a horse, man Esmeralda did

49:08

not think I'd plan that out. No,

49:11

at all. Okay, and I guess, yeah,

49:13

looking towards that switchback path, how

49:16

guarded is it? How, like, could

49:19

you sneak up that way? Could you, yeah.

49:21

You can see there are flames marking

49:24

its path about halfway up,

49:26

but then they, then

49:28

they stop. You don't know

49:30

how well guarded they are, it's too far

49:32

away and in nighttime it's impossible to see.

49:35

All you can see is the fires that illuminate

49:38

the way. Right. Is

49:40

that your path to go rogue? Fuzzle?

49:43

Yeah, do it. Yeah, do it. No one

49:45

else wants to do anything. I

49:49

mean, Iona had some other reasons for

49:52

this, but alright, we're taking this as

49:54

Iona was using you. Well,

49:57

in a way, I mean, it was like an

49:59

illusion spell, right? Yeah, yeah Heck

50:02

there is definitely like fuck this thing. I can

50:04

if she wasn't busy with her own shit She

50:06

would have explained why she did it. Yeah, what

50:09

if he's like you just had to ask me

50:11

would have done it Chester

50:17

is Doing

50:19

her own thing drunk

50:22

is a drunk We

50:24

have associate path who's in there you

50:27

hear some commotion happening from the line

50:29

it's Slightly out of your sight.

50:31

It just sounds like there's a bit of some

50:34

sort of argument or problem is happening there You don't

50:36

have to deal you don't have to contend with it

50:38

or deal with it if you don't want to I'm

50:40

just letting you Know it's something you would hear the

50:43

ambitemple. I mean don't know

50:45

what is there I'm

50:47

gonna sidestep into and see to join the

50:49

line of the abattoir Okay, you

50:51

add yourself to the line of the

50:53

abattoir you see I Don't

50:56

think you'd be able and I think

50:58

you'd have even a chance to to work

51:00

out the logic on this one But

51:02

there is a dragonborn Who

51:05

resembles pip a little bit, but

51:07

not exactly Being

51:11

dragged by two guards I

51:14

know the line you see

51:16

he's struggling on he's he keeps saying

51:19

what what did I do? What did

51:21

I do the God he's quite he's

51:23

got like this massive bloody eye

51:25

You can tell that the gods have

51:27

just recently given him a beating they

51:29

are dragging him to parts unknown I

51:31

and I guess I don't figure it

51:33

out that it's well I mean he

51:35

does look a bit like pip not

51:37

exactly like you can tell he's not

51:39

pip But I don't

51:42

think you I don't know

51:45

if look if you think You

51:48

could mm-hmm if you think you could

51:50

figure out what that one is.

51:52

I'll let you do it I don't think you could

51:54

I don't let look cool. I'm in my head. I'm

51:56

like okay Well first of ludemilla came down and

51:58

saw our faces, so she knows we look like we know

52:01

we're Dragonborn and Ezmir. I don't think I've seen any Ezmir

52:03

yet in Dragonborn. No you

52:05

have. In Dragonborn there would have been a handful. Then

52:07

I'm like okay. I think

52:09

you literally would have seen, I think

52:12

Purin said there's at least one other and you

52:14

would have at least seen two I would say.

52:16

Okay. Right. Ezmir

52:19

tends to be a lot harder to quit,

52:22

but they do still sometimes. And

52:26

that with fact that we are giving fake names and that

52:28

they looked at us and asked us our names,

52:31

I'm like okay they are going after Dragonborns

52:33

and properly Ezmir. Alright cool cool cool. And

52:35

that's as much connection as I will make

52:37

as I stand in line. You

52:40

keep moving forward, forward, forward. You'd

52:43

be in line for like I'd say an

52:45

hour, quite a while, until you get

52:47

to the front of the queue. There

52:49

is, oh Highs or Lows first of all.

52:53

Nice. And a few times you

52:55

see guards moving up and down the line. And

52:57

as I said previously, sometimes they'll take people for

52:59

whatever fucking reasons they decide. They'll

53:01

take someone out of the line, they'll question

53:03

them and you notice no one ever gives

53:05

them any resistance. Some people, not

53:07

some people sorry, everyone takes

53:10

their beating quietly, as quietly as possible

53:12

and then they get thrown back in

53:14

line. You see people moving

53:17

back out of the Albatar as well, obviously

53:19

having finished a shift. You can see they

53:21

are clutching in their hands tiny

53:23

small amounts of wooden coins, which

53:26

you would know is the company

53:28

currency in town. They

53:30

have, all of them have very

53:33

desperate looks on their faces. Okay.

53:35

Yeah. Highs

53:37

or Lows? Highs. Always

53:41

go Highs baby. Lows. Always go Lows

53:43

baby. Lows?

53:45

Uhhh yeah. Okay.

53:48

Well, good thing you changed. Whoo!

53:53

What are we waiting for? Phew!

53:56

Phew! You turn around, Pirin and

53:59

Esmeralda are there. I'm just. I'm I've.

54:03

Arrived from his own. A

54:05

spot of bother is did

54:07

you. Give. Them the name. Of

54:10

whose name surname I gave you. at

54:14

of the I gave the many names. Well.

54:16

At least he still got that one

54:18

up. Your yeah, he succeeds. He reminds

54:21

you of the name Seattle's harvest of

54:23

rest of the aisle rest of us

54:25

for. If

54:27

the God's giving you any hassle, yeah,

54:29

especially if you get arrested. Asked: food,

54:31

restaurants rest. Oh that's right. To be

54:33

fair though, once you've used him, he's

54:35

kind of gone. Yeah, right, Arise as

54:37

yeah. I just didn't even think they

54:39

hustled me once that we would also

54:41

me again at it was a my

54:43

Silver arrows and he wants them back.

54:45

Yes, I will. I will

54:48

need them in the future. Of

54:50

see what I could do. No guarantees

54:52

and to stand am Anyway, they are

54:54

trying to head back to Mathilde residents

54:57

but they're They're gods. I assume they'll

54:59

recognize me. I've I was waiting for

55:01

a. Year. My know I'm better to

55:03

get you out the southern gate I can arrange

55:05

that are as Morales are. Wait here I'll be

55:07

right back of death of enough. As

55:11

verse so that means up against

55:13

that phrase slides down to make

55:15

herself difficult to spot in his

55:18

and then is just mercifully quite

55:20

a thank god I do the

55:22

same at the same for maybe

55:24

five minutes. Roka, dammit. Who's.

55:28

Votes. What were you

55:30

thinking? We're. With which we the

55:32

which. Things. That I've

55:34

done. Let's start with the first fun

55:36

that comes to mind and will move

55:38

for math. Okay, I don't know the

55:41

person that come to mind for you.

55:43

You'll have to elucidate me about when

55:45

we were at the Abbey. Ah,

55:47

and you found information drive

55:49

would assist us? Yeah, and

55:52

you didn't tell us who?

55:54

Obviously that wasn't. My

55:56

intent wasn't a harm. Anyone.

55:59

It's just that it's. Why? You

56:01

know I see what held over here.

56:03

You know is dangerous though. Rise. So

56:05

staying in Bravia you know is dangerous

56:07

Yes, but far less dangerous than taking

56:09

the fight distraught least that's what I

56:11

thought at the time and you thought

56:13

we would not take the fight to

56:15

strong I thought of you didn't have

56:17

the. Necessary. Information perhaps you'd

56:19

like everyone else might give up our

56:22

but you didn't cause I hacked up.

56:24

Won't. I'm yeah but but I

56:26

mean I Paul I, you know it's it

56:28

won't happen again. I've I've done

56:31

my best to be helpful ever since. You.

56:33

Haven't seen a lot of as. As

56:35

non many unreliable people in my life

56:37

and I'll tell you this. You.

56:39

Are correct you and they

56:41

have never the trade me

56:43

more than once. Yes,

56:46

Ah, Look like I said. I.

56:49

Mean it now. Act Of. Destiny

56:51

didn't work for me via you here. Because.

56:55

It's working. My. Gods Bupkus.

56:57

Everybody in the fine end their

56:59

Gods Bupkus. But heck does. You

57:02

and Piran fell into his

57:04

lap. So. Did a go guess. I

57:07

don't think that happen for anyone else. Surely.

57:09

Those last time things

57:12

worse aligning. Why? Did

57:14

you give up that time? I. Saw.

57:18

As. Complicated as round of.

57:21

Am. You know, Once on the

57:23

one hand, I saw the writing on the wall, so

57:25

to speak. It didn't seem like we had

57:27

a very good chance. And. On the other

57:29

hand, Of. Our, as

57:31

well as those cowardice. I didn't want

57:34

to see that happen to the people

57:36

I cared about. Such

57:39

the coward's way out. You. Know.

57:42

I've been up front about that. I don't

57:44

think you're a coward. People have seen you

57:46

fight too many times. I

57:48

think you're pathetic. And

57:51

then you're of silence for the rest. Verse

57:53

to the wrestler from. scratch

57:57

damage as the tree and look

58:00

at anyone. Eventually Pirren returns, but

58:02

he returns with a Vistani. The

58:05

Vistani crouches lower. You can see he's

58:07

dressed in a manner of, you would

58:09

assume him to be a merchant. And

58:12

sure enough, he's very quiet. He doesn't

58:14

seem to be particularly, you should roll

58:16

to be fair. Yeah. He

58:18

doesn't seem particularly interested in helping Pirren

58:20

out. But you get the

58:22

impression that he's one of Pirren's special projects

58:25

and he maybe doesn't have a choice right

58:27

now. Right. Okay. He has

58:29

a wagon with wares nearby. There are

58:31

a few other people here as well.

58:33

It looks like maybe a bunch of

58:35

merchants all together for safety sake. Pirren

58:38

raises the top on the wagon

58:40

and gestures for you and Esmeralda

58:43

to get underneath. I gesture for

58:45

Esmeralda to go first. Esmeralda

58:48

goes first. Grace before beauty. I

58:51

forget which

58:54

one is the most polite and then I'll

58:56

climb in. You and

58:58

Esmeralda, you did a cramped

59:01

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59:05

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59:07

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