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2:01

Welcome back to all fair

2:03

part to ah our heroes

2:05

have been having a very

2:07

heartfelt conversations or secrets about

2:09

Cynthia's have been revealed. I'm

2:11

awake has been held for

2:13

failure to zoom in the

2:15

great lands. Ophelia met with

2:17

a rush on the much

2:19

and prince of nowhere or

2:22

made some trades for weapons

2:24

and is now continued on

2:26

hood journey towards the temple

2:28

of the great Father in

2:30

the great plans. And that is

2:32

where we're going to jump straight back in

2:34

with Ophelia. I

2:36

would like you Ophelia. To.

2:40

Roll a d for for me

2:42

Please. Of

2:45

ah, minimal got

2:47

fine. As a

2:49

one, Bruxism was already a series one

2:52

sort of final stretch of dust plane

2:54

before you get into the mountains themselves

2:56

the temple you're gonna have to

2:58

navigate through the mountains to get to

3:01

template self as well be but once

3:03

of stretch of dunes to kind of

3:05

cross and as you are making

3:07

your way this new rapier in your

3:10

hand and feeling this comes surge of

3:12

magic or that you're you're unfamiliar with.

3:14

My knowledge was flowing from the weapon

3:17

in your mind of how to. Call

3:19

on your blood and and call

3:22

on the power that's within. It's

3:24

to cast spells, arm, You

3:26

begin to notice the across

3:28

the this the dusty planes.

3:32

So must not quite move

3:35

wrong. she is but trends

3:37

of lucent places of other

3:39

of the living world us

3:41

was trying to overlap with

3:43

the gray let and begin

3:45

to see. Almost

3:49

like not teleporting in, but like

3:51

the World of the Dead is

3:53

over lane with a city and

3:55

then a forest and then a

3:57

lake. like it's always twelve. Oh,

4:00

The ladies real world places with the

4:02

gray lance I'm and to navigate this

4:04

rather than your physical sense is this

4:06

is gonna rely on your ability to

4:08

kind of predict and and see the

4:10

way of metrics when he to make

4:12

a mark. Homage Uncle and. See

4:16

if you can avoid the happens

4:18

when things twenty? Why Yeah! Not

4:21

only do you make your way

4:23

through navigating these strange magical landscape

4:25

of flights constantly phasing in and

4:28

out of existence arms, but as

4:30

it does, it leaves behind remnants

4:32

of the real world that you

4:35

managed to scavenge and pick up

4:37

ah, month. so he meant to

4:39

find awesome large pieces of wood

4:42

and some launch pieces of stone

4:44

that. You can add to your

4:46

like crofting pack basically my arm.

4:49

And those my be up to be turned

4:52

into something if you would like. ah month

4:54

you will need to spend a challenge from

4:56

the breath of the father's represent as you're

4:58

traveling light, running out food and water and

5:01

things like that I'm to the stuff that

5:03

you got from Regimes resistance say see a

5:05

youth the actual breath is what's keeping you

5:07

going on said mom. I.

5:09

Seized One two, three, four, five, six,

5:12

seven. Some a finalist for left or

5:14

right arm vistas mean that you have an

5:16

opportunity kind of find like us as you

5:18

reach the other side of these by magical

5:20

phasing in the now in the shadow of

5:23

the mountains in can take a moment to

5:25

rest but if you'd like to trying croft

5:27

something what I'm reading think you absolutely ten

5:30

days went by making some five with this

5:32

wouldn't stay not to sound yeah absolutely trying

5:34

to be self like some sort com for

5:36

unrest point yeah I'm at this and say

5:39

randomly.i'll let you choose basically you can either

5:41

make an intelligence rolls. Or this would

5:43

be a survival role that both bad

5:45

such as. Soon

5:47

as they when there is a further of two points of faith.

5:54

Or I spent a point of faith see other

5:57

the six. Why

6:03

would make that twenty? Twenties you have

6:05

to so long like you're trying to

6:07

make weapons you're trying to make tools.

6:09

You get this like little bundle of

6:12

sticks and scraps of would the he's

6:14

made and you get some pieces stone

6:16

and get him. luckily some of it

6:18

seems to be some so flint and

6:20

and after multiple attempts. Blame

6:23

begins. And it

6:25

is like the grey lines don't

6:27

know what to do with this

6:29

because there's no real wind here

6:32

to blow it out and almost

6:34

the dust almost parts away and

6:36

use see that the land that

6:39

you're currently stood on. Light underneath

6:41

all of this dust is a

6:43

great mausoleum. And the mountains

6:45

on mountains they are pieces

6:48

of stone from some try

6:50

and tombstones that been she's

6:52

old and broken away into

6:54

enchanted melons and as this

6:56

ear piece of what what

6:58

stone underneath you the is

7:00

enormous scale and size. Arm.

7:03

And fire. This land has

7:05

not seen fire. And

7:08

the fire does not know how to

7:11

be fire. Rate

7:13

provides warmth and com for for

7:15

a time and then you watch

7:18

as the fire. Comes

7:20

to life, And

7:22

it seems to almost not. Take

7:25

on a shape. but the fire moves

7:27

and it moves towards you and it

7:30

doesn't burn you. It kind of clings

7:32

to you. Coalescing

7:34

of your legs on your arms

7:36

until you all read your rags.

7:39

Almost all of flame. but it's

7:41

not burning your the clothing as

7:43

if the fire is desperate to

7:45

cling to something. that is might

7:47

it you. What the only and

7:50

that this flame has to this

7:52

world. for

7:55

the purposes of this ah i'm gonna

7:57

basically give it that any creature that

7:59

attracts here is gonna

8:01

take 2d8 fire damage. The

8:03

flame is trying to protect you. And

8:06

it's sustained on you. So you

8:08

have this flaming cape for now that's

8:10

kind of trying to protect you. It's

8:12

gonna be like panicked to start off with just

8:14

like, ahh! Yeah, yeah, yeah. The

8:16

fire is almost crawling, almost reaching towards you,

8:18

but as it does, it doesn't burn. And

8:21

there's this pleasant warmth to it. Warmth that you've

8:23

not, and you realize how long

8:26

has it been? Has it been days? Has it

8:28

been months? Since you felt

8:31

warm? And

8:34

it takes a minute. Yeah. And

8:36

then, yeah, you see the shadow of the

8:38

mountains, these great tombstone mountains, and

8:41

you have a ways to go. You have to

8:43

navigate through these mountains to reach the temple, but

8:45

you begin making that trek. There

8:48

are multiple paths through these mountains.

8:50

You can, there appear to be

8:52

trails, probably made

8:54

by creatures like Rahajan or like other

8:56

travelers that exist in the great lands.

8:59

You can try and follow those. That

9:01

would be a survival check. It

9:03

might take longer, but it would be

9:05

the safer route. The more

9:08

dangerous route is to climb. And

9:11

that would be a strength athletics check. You would,

9:13

you still have your plus three from Gruff's Blood.

9:17

You would need to basically, yeah, climb

9:19

and sail through these mountains, but you

9:21

don't know what creatures or dangers might

9:24

lurk here. Yeah. The

9:26

paths would be safer, providing you succeed.

9:28

If you fail on the paths, you

9:31

will encounter trouble. With

9:34

the athletics, the climbing, it will be faster,

9:36

and you'll not need to spend as many

9:38

of your breath charges. But

9:41

regardless whether you succeed or fail, there will

9:43

be some sort of complication. Fail obviously being

9:45

worse. You'll be in a worse situation. Does

9:48

like my spider climb help with that, with the climbing?

9:50

I would say it does, yeah, because you can just

9:53

walk up it, but there is still gonna be some

9:55

element of like climbing and navigation, right? And yeah, you'd

9:57

absolutely, I would say that you have advantage on that

9:59

role. Yeah, I'll go climbing. Alrighty.

10:02

So yeah, this is going to be an advantage

10:04

athletics with an extra plus three from

10:06

Gruff's Blood. Alright, let's rock and

10:08

roll. Buckaroo. Ooh. It

10:12

tastes like sea salt. Eight,

10:14

nine, ten, eleven. Eleven

10:18

points. Give me a minute here.

10:23

As you are climbing, you

10:27

begin to see, you

10:33

make your way up the mountains and with

10:35

your spider climb, there's no danger if

10:37

you're falling or anything like that. It's hard

10:40

work. It's exhausting work. So

10:42

do mark off one charge of your father's breath

10:44

as you make your way up. But

10:48

you're not at risk of falling. What

10:51

does happen though is as you get higher and higher, you

10:54

begin to notice nests

10:56

of those skeletal mulches and

10:58

buzzards and they're scattered all

11:00

over and there's dozens of them, but

11:03

they're just watching you. And

11:06

the temple is not far now. Like you

11:08

begin picking your way, finding your way across

11:10

the mountains, reaching towards the temple. And

11:13

as you're doing so, a great shadow falls over

11:15

you. And this shadow

11:17

is much larger than

11:20

anything you've encountered before. And

11:22

when you look up, you see that

11:24

swooping down, gliding towards you in an

11:27

attack is a giant

11:30

skeletal vulture. And

11:32

it is... It

11:36

swoops down towards you. It's tattered,

11:39

membramous wings. It's got like a...

11:41

it's kind of half-skeletal, half-zombie.

11:44

It's got to like, spilling out

11:46

of its body and trailing underneath

11:48

it, like great ropes and tendrils

11:51

of like, ribbonous sinew and fabric.

11:54

But this is gonna be an initiative

11:56

roll. It's a roll! It's good! He

11:59

said two... The only Indian.

12:01

The words tendrils and

12:03

membranous. I

12:06

don't even think membranous is a word

12:08

I think know I only remember that

12:10

Sen S or what do we dell

12:12

now and just have a feeling of

12:14

see Twenty two for this thing is

12:16

quick and is reacting for the you

12:19

are foster mom say you have the

12:21

first sun hits it is coming towards

12:23

you arm is currently about sixty feet

12:25

away in its flying down towards you.

12:27

but yeah that is your turn to

12:29

take. You

12:32

have your and pretty much every

12:34

think at this point is unlocked.

12:36

The you listen, I'm going. To

12:38

use my spell and cost whole

12:40

The Dead. Oh this holds her

12:42

five k world you are read our full

12:44

the that those horses for the sake of

12:46

any new views of. The pointer one creaky

12:48

can see within range and the sound of

12:50

the dollars health silvio around and for a

12:52

moment the Pagans succeed in the with thing

12:55

talent and one the eight across the damage

12:57

augustus and hit points instead takes. One. To

12:59

tell them why they well I

13:01

will roll or with them and

13:03

threads on this creature is not

13:05

sickly wise. I was the D

13:07

C twelve twelve or said to

13:09

be honest though he actually so

13:11

as you ring and practices your

13:13

unfamiliarity with the magic or you

13:15

do his dollars bell blocks this

13:17

creature flying tortured does not have

13:19

white or upon the to it

13:22

just yep same com anything else

13:24

you'd like to do an international

13:26

action phone to sanction breeds. Save

13:28

office since coming to the deadlines your

13:31

first time. A feeling that anger and

13:33

I guess like what does it feel

13:35

for feeders This like coming from light

13:37

desperation. Is this frustration? What is this

13:40

anger being drawn from? How will to

13:42

survive like I'm sorry climbed I'm speaking.

13:44

See that envelope succeed Dad said just

13:46

have to do. You

13:48

say your hobbies a rethink Tons

13:51

blood red in your vision. your

13:53

eyes become bloods off the muscles

13:55

in which pump with like energy

13:57

as you feel that. sides and this

13:59

thing then dive bombs into you. It

14:01

does have multi attacks. I'm going to

14:03

be making two attacks. The

14:06

flame effect will only trigger once per turn by the

14:08

way. So rather than every attack. Did

14:11

you just roll it that way? No

14:14

you didn't. It's happening again. You

14:18

cannot kill what is already dead Mark. Don't.

14:21

It was the same guy. It was this guy's

14:23

last time. That was a different guy. It's

14:26

happening again. At this time you're on what

14:29

like a million health. Oh and

14:31

you are raging. I'm raging. And this is piercing

14:33

damage so you're going to half it. Nice. Just

14:38

looked at the toll of the dead. Toll of the dead. 16

14:41

points of damage. Half to eight. No

14:43

worries. So this thing is beak.

14:46

Tries to bite into your neck. And

14:48

it sinks in. But can you roll

14:51

2d8 fire damage for me please? Hell

14:53

yeah. The conjured flame will try and

14:55

protect you. Oh. Nine. Nine

14:58

points of fire damage. Nice. So

15:01

you watch as the creature bites into you it

15:03

lets out a hideous shriek

15:06

as the flames jump onto it and almost

15:08

try and pushing it away from the thing

15:10

that it needs to survive in this place.

15:14

And yeah you sink it sinks it sees into you it

15:16

does then try and break you with its talons. I will

15:18

use a different dice. That

15:21

is only a this little of the beak like

15:23

the sharp piercing. Sharp beak.

15:26

Eight AC. Does that miss?

15:29

That misses? That misses. So the talons you manage

15:31

to fend off like maybe with the rapier or

15:33

like with the flames you manage to kind of

15:35

get it get away from you. It

15:37

is going to stay within melee range of you and

15:40

it's kind of trying to use its beak to bite

15:42

down and striking you with its claws. The flames did

15:44

seem to hurt it really badly though. Nice. All right

15:46

and that can be a blood point as well. It

15:48

does yeah. Yeah. So as a point for your blood

15:50

point it only you only get one when you attack

15:52

with a melee weapon. If you cast a spell you

15:55

don't get a blood point for that. All right. Yep.

15:57

A point. Nice. A point. A point. Hellboy.

16:00

He has no place you when we

16:02

are have a show and everything announcer

16:05

the to was so bad word boy

16:07

not amused me. Undies

16:11

gonna He has ruined his with my thoughts. Time

16:14

you're a failure rate is shorter

16:16

for it or are you gonna

16:18

make it reckless? I Saudi Arabia

16:21

concerts or breakfast rapists. Seventeen

16:25

Twenty one by is definitely a hit.

16:27

Yeah this thing that knowing look home

16:29

to hit. Seats

16:32

at my job raising six another

16:34

for soon as possible. Said plus

16:36

for a say points own damage

16:38

or jazz. You watch as you

16:40

even though it's piercing damage, you

16:42

pass through the membrane of the

16:44

wings, path through what's left of

16:46

his golf, ripping out parts of

16:49

these and Israel as heavily armed

16:51

x rays you with blood that

16:53

sizzles on the flame are. Bought

16:55

the devastating blow to this thing. Nice, Nice. Nice.

16:57

Anything else in your son or your phone sex

16:59

unless you go on sense moved, you can't really

17:02

move anyway because you're kind of balanced on a

17:04

mountain while you're doing this. Luckily

17:07

enough to make any checks because you goes by

17:09

that he goes by one man. Know

17:11

into the keep laziness thing. Or I

17:13

decided I am so that we all right

17:15

is going. Trying to thank you again twice.

17:17

The first woman it's beat is going to

17:20

have fifteen to hit that does hit. Oh

17:22

I do. You have advantage because you reckless

17:24

could. Not.

17:27

Read stuff non athletic facilities at by the

17:29

did I hear an eyebrow raised to the

17:31

our sites like. Ah

17:34

six, that's a point suppressing half

17:36

to four since it's all fun

17:38

and threatened strike you as it's

17:40

talons with advances. Oh

17:42

I'm wrong to nineteen or twenty three

17:44

to his that they now have fallen

17:47

through imports me here bit harder. or

17:50

not so much less annoying haft

17:52

to fall for so no four

17:55

points of damage and and the

17:57

tribute to the reaction Well,

18:01

that was rebuke! Alright,

18:04

I'm going to make a dexterity saving

18:06

throw, correct? What is happening? That

18:10

is a failure, and in fact it would

18:13

also, before you roll your damage, it did

18:15

attack you, so can you roll 2d8 fire

18:17

damage for the living flame? Oh

18:19

my god! Eight and a seven, nice! Fifteen

18:22

points of damage! And

18:24

then can you roll your hellish rebuke damage? 2d10 hellish rebuke? I'm

18:28

a fast rebuke. That

18:30

was a fling cloak. A

18:32

cloak. Three and... So that's

18:35

only four. Four points

18:37

of damage from the hellish rebuke. Hey, it all ends

18:39

up. It's a reaction. And in fact, it is enough.

18:42

Maybe it's like the living flame, I really like this

18:45

as a flame because you took hellish rebuke. That

18:47

living flame kind of joins with that magic.

18:50

You feel like, I have this flame, it's

18:52

mine now, I can control it. And

18:54

as it strikes you once, you then

18:57

lash out again with this living flame

18:59

as the hellish rebuke kind of takes

19:01

effect. And you watch as this vulture

19:03

is incinerated. You

19:06

watch as it leaves, unfortunately you're not

19:08

able to claim the resources because the

19:10

bones just scatter across the mountain top,

19:12

like just fall around you. But they're

19:14

just blackened and it just becomes ash

19:16

and is quickly dispersed into the wind.

19:18

Hell yeah. Yeah,

19:20

you know, I imagine you're kind of bleeding from

19:22

the wounds and things like that, but like

19:25

on the mountain top, conked to the side,

19:27

rapier in one hand, flames like reaching out

19:29

from the other one. You

19:31

look around and you realize that you are

19:34

high up on these mountains and you look around

19:36

and you can see the great lands stretching out

19:38

before you. And you are

19:40

on the same path towards the

19:42

temple. And there is

19:44

this moment of stillness as

19:46

you look out on these vast, endless, planar

19:49

world of dust. And in the distance

19:51

from up high you can see, like,

19:53

dust clouds as great legions of

19:55

skeletons, like, move around. You

19:57

can see ruins, maybe what looks like an actual

19:59

stone. city in the far,

20:02

far distance and just having that

20:04

moment where you are victorious. With

20:08

that, you will be able to reach the temple, but

20:10

we are going to come back to the rest of

20:12

the team. Cool. That's

20:15

cool, man. Good spell picks. Thank

20:17

you. Very cool. I

20:19

don't think barbarian could do that. We're

20:23

in a trotthamus. Crot, if you

20:25

will. We jump

20:27

back to the rest of the team.

20:32

Morning comes, the sun rises. Unfortunately

20:35

for Xanthius and Ren you are still

20:37

suffering from those effects. And Obi. But Daisy

20:40

and Gruff, you

20:42

make your way down and

20:45

see them sort of like keeping vigil, keeping

20:47

watch over Ophelia's body. There

20:49

is definitely rigor mortis is set in like with Ophelia's

20:51

body. She's not smelling, but like there's a stiffness to

20:53

her now. She has

20:55

not moved. She's just stood as

20:58

always waiting for his mistress to tell him

21:00

what to do. But

21:03

yeah, you guys awaken. Good

21:06

morning. Oh,

21:09

dear. How did you

21:11

sleep? Oh,

21:13

yeah. Oh,

21:16

I slept terribly. Good to

21:18

know. Daisy would probably be like, oh, yeah, me too.

21:22

Oh, so bad. We are

21:24

so sleepy. I

21:26

have a shame now we all feel terrible. Yeah,

21:28

I have a wisdom of seven. I'm like,

21:30

yeah, I slept terribly. I

21:34

think I've been thinking

21:36

a lot. We've had a lot of time to think. Yeah.

21:40

Obviously we need to remove the curse

21:44

from both of us, yeah. Also looking

21:46

at Ophelia, she

21:48

deserves a place to rest.

21:52

Maybe we should start. Where are

21:54

you thinking? Proceedings. Speak

21:56

to someone at the cathedral, maybe. I know

21:58

it's not her. Well,

22:01

religion. I don't think

22:03

that's where Ophelia would like to be

22:05

laid to rest. They

22:07

might have resources to maybe

22:10

provide us so that we can put

22:12

her somewhere where she would like to be put. Well,

22:16

she was starting to build a shrine in the

22:18

outbuilding, right? True. I

22:21

wonder if there's space enough to convert it,

22:23

maybe turn it into a mausoleum

22:25

or something. You

22:28

know, I didn't ask her enough questions about

22:31

her religion, so

22:33

I wouldn't know. It's

22:36

a good place to start, something she built herself.

22:40

There is a house of binding as well.

22:42

You might be able to help us with

22:44

preservation or something like that. The

22:47

house of binding is the Temple of

22:49

Saint Dothir, who is the goddess of

22:51

the patron saint of death, basically. The

22:55

talk of putting Ophelia

22:57

to rest is making Rowan

22:59

just like stream tears. Big

23:01

green. Oh, big green. Come

23:06

now. We've

23:08

lost a dear friend. I...

23:14

but... Well,

23:18

she went out doing what she loves. Falling

23:21

off roots. Not working. Not

23:24

working. I

23:27

guess that's one thing we can say about the system

23:29

of Celia de la Olga. Fucking falling

23:31

off all your roots. That's

23:35

good, John, sorry. She

23:38

loves to climb up onto those houses

23:40

and just topple off. So

23:45

maybe when we're out shopping, we could

23:48

get some nice... things.

23:52

Maybe we check in with the house of binding and

23:54

see if there's a way they can help us preserve.

23:56

Okay. Maybe they have a better idea of... ...proceding?

24:00

for her tradition, I

24:02

don't know. 100% you would know that the

24:04

house of warnings, there

24:06

would be acolytes there who can

24:08

cast the spell Gentle Repose, which

24:10

basically prevents a body rotting and it

24:12

wards it against becoming undead, but it

24:14

also, the body stays fresher

24:17

for longer. If it takes

24:19

you a long time to bury them and things like that,

24:21

it kind of preserves the body. The perfect spell to use

24:23

on a fridge. Maybe,

24:26

can you use it on food? It's a free treasure. I

24:28

believe it has to be used on a living creature or

24:30

a dead creature. So you could use it on like chicken.

24:33

You could use it on like chicken. Chicken. Interesting.

24:39

So who wants to go where? Can't

24:41

use it on vegetables or non-previously, you

24:43

know, like, creepy. You can't have feelings

24:45

for it. They are, but they don't

24:47

count as creatures. They're organic.

24:50

They don't count as, huh? It's organic. Yeah,

24:52

I didn't say that. I mean, I'm not

24:54

saying that. That's why abjuration,

24:56

because you shield it from the bacteria.

24:59

Because I don't know, you don't understand. There was a whole

25:01

thing and we're not counting that making a fridge.

25:03

Some people might not. Some people would not. Hey, watch

25:05

the short. What magic would make a

25:07

fridge? Anyway. I

25:12

don't mind going to the house for binding. I also

25:14

don't mind just going to

25:16

the library to look for this poem.

25:19

I think that really needs to be a

25:21

priority of getting this curse off you lads, because

25:23

no offence. Why? Look at

25:25

this. Thanks. You look ab- You

25:27

look absolutely dead, right? You

25:30

look... You look... As

25:33

Medaw Well,

25:44

I might be able to help with that. Good,

25:47

okay. I

25:49

think it should be quite quick

25:51

and easy to get all of these

25:53

things. Six silver needles, two

25:55

clear gemstones, this fancy

25:58

poem, and pure water. Five gold

26:00

rings. No, not the gold

26:02

rings. I don't think we can afford that. And then we

26:04

need to go and visit the

26:07

sisters at the Grumpy Hog.

26:09

Yeah. Are

26:11

you okay with that? Like

26:14

I said, what

26:16

else can we do? I

26:19

know the Duke said to go to Blackwing, but

26:23

I just don't trust him with

26:25

this. Well, we can cross

26:27

that bridge when we come to it. First

26:29

things first, remove the curse, find

26:32

a way to preserve Ophelia. Okay.

26:34

Sistophia. Yes. Apple

26:36

has a flood. Yes. De la Rosa. Yes.

26:39

Not in that order. So my question is,

26:41

how are you dividing up this task? Like, are you

26:43

going to split people off to go get certain things?

26:45

Are you going to travel around as a crew? And

26:48

where are you going to go? Like, where do you

26:50

have in mind to like, come try and collect some

26:52

of these things? So passing

26:54

fast with water, would creating

26:56

magical water count as pure? Yes.

26:59

In fact, there is, yeah, it would be incredibly pure

27:01

water if you created it with magic. In which case,

27:04

is there a whiskey barrel that has not been

27:06

destroyed in this place? Absolutely. Okay.

27:09

You can create clean, fresh water. It's probably

27:11

the old thing as well. Like if you

27:13

plug it up, you can just fill that

27:15

up. It's clean, but... Because I can create

27:17

up to 10 gallons of clean water. Yeah.

27:20

It's probably not a need for all of that. But

27:22

yes, you can create clean water. You can dump it

27:24

on van here, get in a bath as well. It

27:26

is a pure natural water. Create

27:29

water basically is like fresh spring water. Okay. Is

27:32

what I meant. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.

27:35

Basically undiluted by like

27:38

filth or like people basically. Evjio.

27:41

Glusion. Grafian. Grafian.

27:44

No, sponsored by spring water. So

27:49

yeah, that is like hands down, just mark off

27:51

a spell slot. Yep. And

27:53

then that's done. So Graf will... First level

27:55

spell. Yeah. Ooh. And

27:58

Bristol tap water, that is. This stream

28:00

is sponsored by hydration. I say

28:02

drinking a can of Coke. So

28:05

pure. Hey, don't disco. Not like

28:07

this. I am hydrated by it. So

28:09

that's easy. What about? Yeah, the rest of the stuff. Are

28:11

you guys going to split up? Are you going to go

28:13

around? I think he loads our chemicals.

28:16

I think he loads our chemicals where I think we'll find weird things

28:18

like silver needles. Yeah.

28:28

Potentially. And maybe those

28:30

clear glass. Have we been there before? Yeah,

28:33

you've been in. Yeah, we've been in. We've

28:35

proved. Realised we couldn't afford anything left. We

28:37

got the... Yeah, the... Oh

28:39

yeah, we got slav. Yeah. Yeah.

28:42

And but were there a lot of like... There

28:45

were not things like needles and things like that.

28:47

It was like mainly like herbs and ingredients and

28:49

things like that. Xanthius,

28:51

you have like experienced like traders and things

28:53

like that in business. The

28:56

silver needles, you would probably want

28:58

to go to a silversmith or blacksmith to make

29:01

something like that. Or a needlesmith. Or

29:03

what about mystique? What about... Those would

29:05

be like sewing needles. Like you need

29:07

like silver like long needles, like three

29:09

inch needles. So yeah,

29:11

silversmith or blacksmith. So

29:13

going to somewhere that would have that. What'd

29:16

you say? I'd love that band

29:18

for three inch needles. That

29:21

really got Rihanna. That's

29:25

pretty good. That's pretty good. Pretty

29:27

good. The

29:29

clay gemstones. Gemstones again,

29:31

you would probably want to go to a jewelers or

29:34

somebody that sells like jewellery. So mystique might

29:37

have jewellery, like jig clay gemstones for jewellery.

29:39

Or if you wanted glass objects or glass

29:41

blowers. Any kind of

29:43

like artisans thing like that, you can easily find

29:45

a shop for it in Ashes Rest. Like

29:48

there is a big like trade guild. The silver

29:50

needles and the gemstones or glass objects. We

29:53

don't need to roleplay it, you can just spend a bit

29:55

of money basically. So it would be 60 gold

29:58

for the six inch needles. I

30:01

handed her a platinum. Oh, yeah Yeah,

30:03

so you get 40 gold change And

30:06

then the two glass objects would just be Five

30:10

gold sorry six gold for

30:12

those so you just buy like cheap like

30:14

gemstones or glass spheres He's

30:20

massive I

30:23

don't know if I trusted my lord. He matters. I

30:27

didn't actually convert the platinum into hundreds I'm

30:30

just searching to spot them to me.

30:32

What do we need? How much? 66

30:40

gold extra six. Okay, or

30:42

is that on a six six again?

30:45

No including it? Alright,

30:49

so we got her how I and how I ruin

30:51

you guys is just make you do baseball

30:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the only

30:55

the only thing I would suggest is that

30:57

I do not go to the library to

31:00

get the Poem

31:03

was that there was a last place I was

31:05

with I

31:08

know, isn't that miserable? Rama's

31:12

happy to go to the library one day. We're happy again or

31:14

the house of Bani what do you go to the house of

31:16

Bani? Sure, yeah, I'll probably stick with

31:18

them to us cuz great boy Cynthia's

31:21

and gruff go to the house of bindings whilst Rowan

31:23

is gonna go pick up the poem from the library.

31:26

We'll do that first You

31:30

go to the house of the Quillan scale

31:32

which is kind of used as the sort

31:34

of town library And

31:36

the lawkeeper is there when you inquire about

31:38

this poem the lawkeeper is like, oh, no,

31:41

no my good man we

31:43

mainly stick to Academic

31:45

and historical texts here for

31:47

something like that There

31:50

is a bookshop in the north side of

31:52

Ashenrest some sort of printing

31:55

house But

32:00

unfortunately, yes, we don't tend to carry

32:02

things like fiction and poetry here. Bookshop

32:07

North. Right. Thank

32:10

you. Yes. It should be fairly obvious.

32:12

So it's printing house or printing company or something. And

32:14

you can find it there. And

32:17

he gives you like loose directions. You

32:22

all right? Yes. North.

32:25

Yes. Printing. Some

32:28

sort of it's called something printing house or printing company

32:30

or something. Printing. Printing.

32:32

I walk away mumbling printing. Yeah.

32:34

You mumble away and you begin

32:36

making your way north. Heading

32:40

your way through the different streets and things like that.

32:44

As you're walking Rowan, you

32:47

see just like a little girl. Like

32:49

dressed pretty simply, like kind of the outfit, similar

32:52

sort of clothing to like what Daisy wears, but

32:54

for a younger girl. And she gets

32:56

your attention. She's like, Mr. She

32:58

comes up blue. Why

33:01

did you kill them? And you

33:03

just watch as her eyes bleed and her

33:05

face sends into a skull. He

33:09

just walks backwards, shocked,

33:11

disbelief. You

33:15

killed them. You're going to

33:17

kill all of them. No. No. They're

33:21

dead because of you. No, please. And

33:24

he thought running away. Yeah, you run away. She

33:27

bounces. Oh my God. I

33:33

love you. These nightmares are good. Meanwhile,

33:39

Gruff and Xanthius. Meanwhile, they're clumping

33:41

at chest. Yeah, Xanthius,

33:44

as you make your way,

33:47

the long walk to the

33:50

district, as you do, going

33:54

up the steps, heading towards the House of

33:56

Bindings, you get halfway up the steps into

33:58

the upper part of the district. and

34:01

you have to stop right now.

34:04

You feel like your heart's gonna stop. Gruff,

34:07

hold up a second. I need to sit

34:09

down. What's wrong? You are

34:11

struggling to breathe. You can't get

34:13

enough breath. Your

34:15

chest feels like it's gonna collapse. In that case,

34:17

I retract what I said and instead say, no! What's

34:21

wrong? My

34:24

chest, I can feel, well.

34:28

Deep breath. If I

34:31

count to four, breathe. One,

34:33

two, three, four.

34:35

Can you give me a medicine check, Gruff? No.

34:39

He's dead. No

34:41

pulse. 18, 19, 20, 21. Yeah,

34:43

like, Xanthis is really struggling to

34:46

get that breath. He can't maintain

34:48

that slow count. Like,

34:51

he's really struggling. You

34:53

think he'll be all right if he just rests for

34:55

a minute, but it's bad. In

34:58

that case, I'll, you know, instead of counting to four,

35:00

I'll count to half a second

35:02

and one second. You do

35:04

see, like, a member of probably the Duke's Guard

35:07

is like, is everything all right? Do you need help or do

35:10

we need to get a medic or

35:12

something? He's just winded, it's okay. All

35:14

right, and then I'll sort of go about the business.

35:17

Thank you. It's

35:22

like a few minutes. Five minutes,

35:25

10 minutes, but you're eventually getting

35:27

your breath back, Xanthis. Like, it's,

35:29

you feel rough. I

35:32

think it's, I think it's getting worse,

35:35

Gruff. I think you're right. This

35:37

is, we need

35:39

to solve this now. Okay, we're almost

35:41

there. We just got to get a few things.

35:43

I'm sure Rowan's gotten his things. Hopefully.

35:46

Here, take my staff. They'll

35:48

help you walk. Can

35:51

I summon the bird? Sure.

35:55

I don't know why. I just wonder if I could. You

35:57

have to say the cold word. And what is that? Seaside.

36:03

He's rough, he's bluffing on his

36:05

arse, he's just making his up. Seaside, okay.

36:08

And then if you say it, then

36:10

Gruff will do the magic to me. And

36:14

then this spectral green corner

36:17

and it appears and just

36:19

stretches its wings, kind

36:22

of shakes its head as if shaking off water.

36:24

I think watching that, if the bird has

36:26

some kind of flow to it, if it's

36:28

a rhythmic sort of movement, I'll try and

36:30

focus on that to regain some kind of,

36:34

remove the shakiness from the breath and

36:36

try and focus on that. This staff

36:38

is like, it's big, right? It's big

36:40

even for you. It kind of comes up

36:42

to, yeah, Gruff's head and then Saren sits

36:44

on the top of it. Yeah,

36:47

I mean it's not unwieldy. It's

36:49

not unwieldy, it's a wooden staff,

36:51

yeah. Yeah, okay. And

36:53

yeah, I'll try and use Saren

36:55

to sort of regain

36:57

steadiness and composure to the

36:59

breathing before we set off

37:01

again. I think seeing that, Gruff would

37:03

be like, oh look, someone's shown an

37:06

interest in Saren's life history about

37:08

Saren. Telling all

37:10

about the birds as you make the rest of your way

37:12

there. I've shown it before. I know, but... It

37:14

was just in the middle of the mine. New facts. Oh,

37:17

okay. Because I've got to tell you about her sister

37:19

Ira as well. Oh. Two of them. You

37:24

guys finished the journey. You come across

37:26

the House of Findings, the large temple

37:28

dedicated to the fair. There's a beautiful

37:31

garden set outside. They are

37:33

mortuary gardens. You can see there are

37:35

some mausoleums and things. And behind them,

37:37

on the far, behind the

37:39

wall there is a large sort of hill and you

37:41

can see more mausoleums and things there. The

37:44

temple itself, its doors are open and you

37:46

can see inside. It seems to be a

37:48

fairly simple looking

37:51

structure. Inside

37:53

there aren't any pews or places for like sermons

37:55

or anything like that. It's more of a kind

37:57

of functionary. There are side chambers

37:59

where maybe... the dead are prepared and then

38:01

there's a ceremony for people to like come

38:03

and say their wishes. Um but you don't

38:06

see anything inside instead outside just in front

38:08

of the House of Bindings um in amongst

38:10

the mortuary garden you see uh a

38:13

priestess she's actually an elf like a full

38:15

elf not a half elf but she's young

38:18

you can tell that she has probably you

38:20

know for an elf well yeah for

38:23

an elf she's probably about 100 years but obviously

38:25

still looks like an adult um

38:27

and she is wearing long

38:29

black uh robes but there

38:32

is an element of finery to these

38:34

robes there is like beautiful trim and

38:36

like gold lacing and the sleeves one

38:38

arm has no sleeve it just has

38:40

like a drape of fabric and then

38:42

the other one has like a very tight

38:45

sleeve with almost like an archery guard of

38:47

black leather and you can see that she's

38:49

actually in the mortuary um uh

38:52

doing archery um

38:54

and you can see that she's blindfolded as she's

38:56

doing it and it's the Japanese

38:58

style with the long tipped bow where

39:00

they really draw it like a ceremony

39:03

and then and it flies through and

39:05

you can see that there are like target

39:07

practice boards set around the mortuary garden and she's

39:09

practicing and there are a few people watching it

39:11

there's maybe a couple of acolytes who are like

39:14

watching um looks like they're maybe preparing arrows

39:16

and like you know participating in the ritual

39:18

of it but they take a

39:20

few shots and one

39:23

of them blindfolded the acolytes aren't

39:26

no like the ones who are helping and prepare but

39:28

the the the

39:30

elf is um eventually

39:32

as you guys approach uh

39:34

the acolytes uh kind of say oh

39:37

uh right watcher there is someone here

39:39

someone at the temple we have visitors

39:42

and she nods and takes the blindfold hands

39:44

that and the bow off um and approaches you

39:46

and you can see she has ornate tattoos um

39:49

all of like a almost like a skull

39:52

face like kind of like uh tattooed around

39:54

her eyes and like down into her mouth

39:56

her long elven ears um being

39:58

being a elf There is still

40:00

that element similar to back wing where she looks like

40:03

what you expect an elf to look like But

40:05

in the broad daylight, there's none of

40:08

that kind of shifting appearance

40:10

like blackwing has She

40:12

looks exactly what you and she just looks like

40:14

an elf She

40:16

her hair is actually being pulled taut

40:18

back into like a tight bun But

40:21

you can see it's quite long and it's been styled up into

40:23

braids And she

40:25

will say Greetings

40:27

good good morning. Good afternoon to

40:30

you. What brings you to the house

40:32

of bindings? How may I help you? Would

40:34

graph know how to address her?

40:37

Yes, right watcher the

40:39

right watcher is as in RITE

40:42

Watcher like the one who

40:44

watches the right. Yeah Kim's

40:47

in love with her by the way sure

40:49

Kim's sitting. Yep. Okay Good

40:53

morrow right watcher Sorry

40:55

for disturbing your your your ritual

40:57

there we

41:01

We've had a death my

41:04

condolences I Hope

41:06

that it was peaceful It

41:10

was absolutely anything but that I'm

41:12

sorry to hear Sadly, this

41:14

is the nature of things. We hope that death

41:16

can be peaceful, but it is not always so

41:19

but at least she went out Fighting

41:22

and yes, yes That

41:25

is quite honorable. I deaf ears gaze. So

41:28

if there's a be true. I Will

41:31

have a problem. Yeah,

41:34

there's a small hitch

41:36

there. I suppose Woman

41:40

came from Osseous

41:43

and Had different

41:45

traditions than we hold. Yes. I

41:48

We are taught a little of

41:50

the nation the kingdom of Osseous

41:52

not too much But we know

41:54

that there some of their beliefs

41:56

are Somewhat

41:59

connected to some of the teachings

42:01

about Saint Dothir, but

42:03

obviously we know that their afterlife and their

42:05

belief in death is very different. I'm

42:09

afraid that I don't know the rights of

42:12

Osseous myself if there

42:14

is some other way that I can be of service to

42:16

you or assist. Well,

42:19

there is a matter of, we were

42:22

wondering how to preserve her body. Yes,

42:24

I can send an acolyte

42:26

to you to preserve the

42:29

body. There are

42:31

rituals that can be conducted, holy oils, that

42:33

sort of thing that can help with that.

42:36

Yeah, I think we want to put her

42:38

to rest in the appropriate way that Ophelia

42:40

would have wanted. May I ask, when did

42:43

she pass? Yesterday.

42:46

Then we still have some time before

42:48

that is urgent. But

42:51

yes, we can, I can send an acolyte. Where

42:53

should I send her to? Are you staying here?

42:56

You do not strike me as citizens of Ashen

42:58

Rest. Oh, actually.

43:01

We have the

43:03

body currently at our

43:06

residence, I suppose. The,

43:10

what was called the enticing

43:12

devil tavern south of

43:14

the town. She doesn't seem to

43:17

react to that. She's like, please

43:19

forgive me. I am not so familiar with Ashen

43:21

Rest myself. I have only lived here a short

43:23

time, but the acolytes will know where that is.

43:27

Don't let them go, tell them

43:30

to knock on the door, but

43:32

don't go in. Maybe call for

43:34

us from outside the garden. Yes,

43:38

is there something we should do? Just

43:41

a little bit of ghost troubles. That

43:45

is disconcerting. We cannot have spirits

43:47

roaming around. Oh, not roaming around,

43:50

no. No, she's just in the

43:52

howl, in the inn. She

43:54

doesn't like it when strangers come in. We're

43:58

working it out with her. It's OK. I don't

44:00

want any action taken against her. Well,

44:03

if those are your wishes,

44:06

even during the day, is this still an

44:08

issue? Some spirits are, it is

44:10

rare that spirits are active in bright

44:13

daylight, mostly during the night, but

44:15

as we said, we will

44:17

send, I'll have the acolyte call out to

44:19

you from the street. Yes,

44:22

I can have an acolyte sent there with, would

44:25

you require burial

44:27

shrouds, wrappings, oils,

44:30

incense, that sort of thing. We

44:33

can provide all of that as necessary. I

44:35

suppose all of it, and yeah. I

44:37

just don't know how much of it is breaking

44:40

in tradition. I'm afraid I cannot help you

44:42

on that. It is a

44:44

whole other faith, not one. We

44:47

are told of them in a purely

44:49

sort of instructional manner to

44:51

recognize that they have beliefs

44:53

about death and undeath, but the details are

44:56

lost to me. I must

44:58

say as well, there is a small

45:00

donation fee of 10 gold for the

45:02

rites and things like that. Of course,

45:05

and then, yeah, Gruff will count

45:07

out. Yeah, an acolyte comes over with a

45:09

little wooden collection box and you pop it

45:11

in there. It is just

45:13

literally to cover the cost of oils and incense

45:15

and things like that for the ritual.

45:19

But yeah, the right watcher will say,

45:21

yes, of course it is, even

45:23

if you're the dearly departed is not

45:26

one of the faithful. I still take

45:28

my duty in preserving the body of

45:30

the dead quite seriously. I'm sad that

45:33

I cannot perform the rites and

45:37

that Saint Dithy's arrow will not find

45:39

her, but we do our best to

45:41

offer what services we can. Well,

45:44

sometimes I think that's what counts, right?

45:48

To try and something. Of

45:51

course. Yes, I will have, I

45:53

will have. I will send the acolytes to you

45:55

as soon as they are available. Thank you. We

45:57

have a few services to provide, but to perform

45:59

there was... a few of the carpenters

46:01

guild were killed and things like that so we

46:03

must attend to that as well. Good

46:07

to know. Hmm

46:10

okay. We'll be leaving now, come

46:13

down Tis. Okay okay. But yeah they

46:15

will send somebody to come and send something

46:17

and rather than role-playing all that out because

46:19

Tyria during the day is not as active

46:22

like you would be able to have this

46:24

acolyte come in maybe Daisy warns Tyria like

46:26

hey this is gonna happen but it's fine.

46:29

But what the building where Ophelia

46:31

was... So you can't get to

46:33

it without going through the inn. Yeah to

46:35

go through the inn okay. There's a big

46:37

iron fence that goes around the whole land

46:39

plot so the only way in is through

46:41

the inn right now obviously you guys can

46:43

change that if you start remodeling and things

46:45

like that but right now... Is the building

46:48

big enough to inter...

46:50

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like

46:52

a small little like a small barn

46:54

basically. I feel like maybe

46:56

we've moved the body there especially because there's

46:59

a shrine half built shrine shrine. There's

47:01

nothing's been built in there anything like I think

47:03

you cleared the space away really and like laid

47:05

you laid some of your like actual like grave

47:07

father statues and stuff like that in there didn't

47:09

you? Yeah I will. But there's no you don't

47:11

have like a coffin or anything so I don't

47:13

know if you want to like you know dig

47:15

a hole because the dirt the barn is just

47:17

like dirt floor like grass so you could just

47:19

literally dig up the earth and and put Ophelia's

47:21

body in there. I

47:25

don't know is that what they do in Osteos? You

47:28

have no idea. Like look over at

47:30

Percival? Percival has just

47:33

stood by Ophelia's body. If you take

47:35

Ophelia's body into there like Percival follows

47:37

but... I feel like there are very

47:39

mausoleum kind of people. I

47:42

feel like they let their

47:44

dead one defree to be honest. That too. Yeah

47:46

you could just like lay her body on the ground and

47:48

like not bury her. Well I do best I

47:50

think I keep clinging on to right is what

47:53

if she comes back as dead or

47:56

like a personal? Possibly.

48:00

So maybe we should make it easy? I don't know.

48:03

I think we should preserve the

48:05

body for now. Right. And then find out as

48:07

much as we can. Yeah. To do

48:09

this properly. I don't want to

48:11

bury and then find out that it's some sin.

48:15

Could imagine if we did a cremation. Phew.

48:18

Oh. Wouldn't like that. No. Meanwhile,

48:21

I want to ask, where does Rowan

48:23

run to? Like,

48:25

what happens with Rowan after seeing

48:27

this terrifying girl

48:31

that just assaults

48:33

your mind? You don't

48:36

know this, but it is a hallucination. Where does

48:38

Rowan run to? Like, what's he doing? What happened?

48:40

I guess it would be instinctual at this point.

48:42

Yeah, he just runs, right? He's kind of like

48:44

holding his head. It's

48:46

kind of like that hazy, just taking a

48:49

grenade nearby, like ringing in the ears.

48:52

Those words are just kind of looping

48:54

in his mind, and he's stumbling

48:56

about. You probably instinctively

48:59

go to the closest place

49:01

that's comfortable, I guess, which

49:03

would be the gravitode. It's

49:07

not nearby, no. But you could go

49:09

there. No, I'm right at the corner. Yeah? You're at the house of

49:11

the quill. You're actually quite next to

49:13

the grumpy hog. I've

49:16

never been in there. Here we have. I

49:18

have been in there. We had a meeting with

49:20

Cecilia in there for a while. If

49:23

you went a little further, you'd be at the

49:25

house of the rose, the bathhouse. Onto

49:27

the bathhouse. How about this? As you

49:29

are stumbling around, something that shakes you

49:32

out of this stupor,

49:34

the stupor, is as

49:36

you go to pass the grumpy hog, you hear

49:39

music. It's good music. There's

49:43

lute, but there's drums. There is

49:45

like a tambourine, and you hear

49:48

a very soft and delicate

49:50

voice. You

49:53

only catch the end of a song before

49:55

the lyrics. You only hear the last few

49:57

notes. But you vaguely

49:59

hear. a kind of like, and

50:03

then it fades off and you don't

50:05

quite catch all of it. But

50:07

you hear like a raucous round of applause. It

50:09

kind of has like a medieval-y kind of like bard

50:12

song kind of like tuned to it. And

50:14

that is just enough where you're like,

50:16

as you're stood in front of the tab

50:18

and like that kind of draws you out

50:20

of that moment. It's three inch needles. I

50:24

just try and center myself at that point.

50:28

Remain distracted. You get my own

50:30

lute out and start looking

50:33

at its intricate patterns and designs, maybe

50:37

tuning it, that sort of thing.

50:39

Just mindfulness. Mindfulness

50:41

and something that you find comfortable and

50:43

knowledgeable and things like that. Yeah, yeah.

50:46

And yeah, like maybe like you just you can pluck a few

50:48

notes of that song. You did hear it like this. And

50:51

you kind of like, you know, and

50:53

yeah, the lute strums and

50:55

it hums and vibrates softly

50:57

in your hands. There's something

51:00

soothing like the rolling river

51:02

or the vast grassy plains

51:04

of the steppe, like really

51:06

kind of settle into your

51:08

mind. And you

51:11

know that that girl wasn't real. Like you imagined

51:13

it. You're tired. It

51:15

was you're tired. That's all it was. Like,

51:17

you know, it didn't mean anything. That's what I'm telling

51:20

myself. So I'm reassuring myself with

51:22

and then, yeah, I just kind of get lost in

51:24

the song. Something

51:27

inside you do see, you know,

51:30

there's a small band playing. It

51:32

looks to be a Nalinari

51:35

gentleman, kind of soft

51:37

white hair, purple skin,

51:39

very well dressed. And

51:41

he's joined by a kind of

51:43

trio of other musicians. It

51:46

looks to be like a cobbled on the tambourine,

51:48

like a cobbled girl wearing like a

51:50

very frilly kind of like pink dress and she's crapping

51:52

a tambourine. She has like little like

51:54

loads of earrings and jewelry on. You

51:57

can see that there is a big orc lady

51:59

as well. I mean, she's got like a drum

52:01

and she's beating that to go with them as

52:03

well and they're playing Some songs

52:05

and you they're sort of kind of playing a

52:07

kind of greatest hits like bard's favorites kind of

52:09

thing Like the famous songs that

52:11

people kind of all know like equivalent of

52:13

pop songs basically. Yeah, that's what I call

52:15

That's what I call off a yeah that

52:17

now that's what I call the dragon Empire

52:22

And yeah, you kind of hear that and like you can listen in on

52:24

a few of those songs and stuff like that Yeah,

52:26

I take some time obviously

52:28

to enjoy that and

52:30

when I feel comfortable and energized

52:32

enough That

52:35

those haunting Bizarreches behind me

52:37

I get back to the task

52:39

sure Trying to

52:41

go try find this bookshop But yeah, you eventually

52:44

find it you have to travel north into Grey

52:46

Forge and then you kind of roam around some

52:48

of the streets I don't know if you're keep

52:50

us me on map I don't

52:52

think this is a location I put it on there yet.

52:54

This is one of the first ones I get that I

52:57

might also ask people in the grumpy hog Listen

52:59

directions. Yeah to this place Yeah,

53:05

I think there are a couple of locations up north on

53:07

the map but Yeah,

53:10

this is not on there because why this is a

53:12

location. It's number 24 location And

53:15

you see You

53:19

see it's not a particularly large store it's

53:21

the ground floor of a building It's

53:24

a small printing shop with a mixture

53:26

of books from leather bound academic journals

53:29

to bronze backs Which are cheap episodic

53:31

fictions on like a rotating display stand

53:33

and they have very sort of evocative

53:35

hand-drawn Images, you know, these

53:37

are the kind of your mills and boons

53:39

and your you know Famous five go adventuring

53:41

and that kind of stuff and

53:44

the name of the store is called tombs and

53:46

co printing house and

53:49

You see the inside there's a little

53:51

gnome lady. She's got the brightest pink

53:54

hair you've ever seen and she's

53:56

wearing like a little Like a

53:58

little suit basically like a little sort of ladies

54:00

suit with a vest and she's just

54:02

going around adjusting couple of the books. It's

54:05

only a little place you're actually gonna have to

54:08

kind of really squeeze to get in there Rowan

54:10

but you can definitely fit in just about. Hello.

54:13

Oh hello. Good to meet you.

54:15

Oh hello there please come in.

54:18

Welcome to the Ashen Rest branch of

54:20

the Tombs & Company printing house. Oh

54:22

it's a franchise. Oh yes yes. We're

54:25

all around. No no. No no

54:28

yes yes we are with this.

54:30

It's only a little branch but we're here to

54:32

sell our works and fictions. Are you a reader?

54:34

Oh yes I read

54:37

so much. What do you like?

54:39

All kinds. Oh wonderful. Just like

54:42

me. You name it. I read

54:44

it. Do you like the Morrigan

54:46

Vale series? I probably would. Oh

54:48

well we've got the new

54:50

one in you know it's just been finished.

54:52

Amazing. Well I'm looking

54:55

for a particular poem if

54:57

you have. Poetry. What

55:00

a romantic. Oh wonderful. Yes yes.

55:02

Some more

55:05

to my grave. Oh yes

55:07

come on. Come on. The Raven. Come on.

55:09

The Raven. Oh it's a classic. An absolute

55:11

classic. Well you know it's a very short

55:14

poem but we have an anthology of his.

55:16

We've got a book with a collection of

55:18

his poetry. All the whole works. Not

55:21

the whole works but his sort of

55:23

most famous. Some of them weren't as

55:26

well known but yes let me find one

55:28

for you and she goes around very much

55:30

and she scoots around and she comes out

55:32

with a small black sort of

55:34

leather bound book. It's quite a nice

55:36

one and it just has the it

55:38

has a symbol of a little raven

55:40

and it's a collection of some

55:42

Mortimer Graves poetry basically.

55:45

It's just like you know it's an

55:47

anthology and she says

55:49

like yes here we are. It's a

55:51

wonderful copy. That

55:54

would be approximately let me see here and

55:56

she like goes to a little list. One

55:58

gold out. And that

56:00

would be five gold

56:02

pieces, that one. Great.

56:07

It's quite thin and like it's thin leather.

56:10

It's not like a big chunky fancy time.

56:12

It's quite thin, you know, it's

56:15

not super many pages and it's, you know, very

56:17

plain. It's not a very ornate book.

56:19

Do you have another bag? Oh,

56:21

yes, it is a silver piece of bag.

56:25

But it's like a little Hessian woven bag.

56:27

It has the Tumes and Company printing house

56:29

logo stamps on it. Oh, that's lovely. Oh,

56:31

and don't forget, then she gets you a

56:34

little piece of card and she stamps it.

56:37

10 in the next one's free. Amazing.

56:39

Bag. Put that in the bag. No, no,

56:42

it's a book. The, you know, it's all

56:44

stamped up, all branded. Bag, bag, bag. Oh,

56:47

now, now, may I ask you a

56:49

question? Yes. You,

56:51

I've noticed you've got that beautiful instrument and you don't

56:54

strike me as sort of the person, you

56:56

know, my usual clientele. Do you

56:58

participate in sort of exploration and

57:02

sort of, you know, go about the world

57:04

doing exciting things? Well, I call

57:06

you an adventurer. Oh. Well,

57:08

I'll tell your secret. Yes. I

57:11

call him from. Yes. They call

57:13

me the resonant wanderer. Oh, that

57:16

is a, what a lovely

57:19

name. I don't know what

57:21

it means. Well, the only reason I

57:23

mention it is we've had a call

57:26

from head office and we're always looking

57:28

for individuals who've got exciting stories or

57:30

who might be interested in pursuing leads

57:32

that we have about rumors and things

57:35

like that because we're always looking for

57:37

new things to write about. Oh,

57:40

writer. No, no,

57:42

I dabble. I dabble. No,

57:45

but, well, I mean, I do have, you can

57:47

do better by it now. And she pulls out

57:49

and you can see it's like handwritten, like it's

57:51

a handwritten copy of something. Oh, please.

57:53

I couldn't take an original. Oh, no, it's

57:56

fine. You know, I am always looking for

57:58

beta readers, people to tell me. if it's

58:00

any good, I need feedback. I'm hoping

58:02

to get it published. It is,

58:04

it looks, you read the title and

58:07

it is very clearly an erotic

58:10

romance. How

58:13

much? No, no, no, please, a gift,

58:15

you take it. The dragon

58:17

comes in the night. It would

58:19

be, it would be cool, it

58:23

would be cool like His Majesty's something,

58:25

like you know, like, yeah. Yeah,

58:28

His Majesty's scepter or something like

58:30

that. And it's about like a

58:32

handsome dragon who falls in love

58:34

with a young, known woman as

58:36

it turns out. It's very self-insert.

58:38

He had the most vibrant pink

58:40

hair. Yeah, there's definitely an element

58:42

at work here. Yeah. How

58:44

are the wee hours like that? But

58:47

yeah, she pops that in your bag for you.

58:51

But no, you should, I mean, this

58:54

is a head office thing, if you ever find

58:56

yourself in Kelskars, they're always looking for folks who

58:59

are interested. Great, thank you. Fantastic, thank you for

59:01

the lead. Of course, you're most welcome. You're most

59:03

welcome. And there you

59:05

go. Oh, the whole thing.

59:08

Oh, oh, oh, oh,

59:10

oh, thank God, it's, yeah, it's, yeah.

59:13

Yeah, it's my erotic fan

59:15

fiction, I've written. It's

59:18

Thomas the Raven. Yeah, this is, so you flip through

59:21

it and you find the page with Thomas the Raven.

59:23

Perfect, just what I needed. I

59:26

hope you enjoy it. I will, thank you.

59:28

I'll be back with many adventures. Wonderful, thank

59:30

you. Yes, please, and

59:32

she's sort of waves you goodbye. I hit my

59:35

head on the way out. Yeah, you absolutely would,

59:37

Gandalf style. So sorry.

59:39

No, no, you're all right, are you all right? She's like

59:41

calling out to you. God, no. Ow!

59:47

She's just like, ah! That's

59:49

a dead end of door frame. Yeah. I

59:56

think it's more that like, I like the idea

59:58

that Rowan says no, but not about. He

1:00:00

hit his head more about everything that

1:00:02

happened. He's just like, no! Nothing's okay.

1:00:05

Okay, just my walk's off crying. With

1:00:09

his little tote bag. Yeah, closer to the tote bag,

1:00:11

yeah. Yeah, I guess

1:00:14

I would, thinking that everyone else has kind of done

1:00:16

their thing and I've kind of spent

1:00:19

way too much time regathering

1:00:21

my thoughts, I'd head back to the enticing

1:00:23

devil. Okay, I thought you were gonna go

1:00:25

put a coin in the tote. Well,

1:00:28

goddamn it, I will. You said

1:00:30

you didn't cut a word in there. Well,

1:00:32

too bad. Yeah, I thought there was one

1:00:34

left. Any of those prophecies come true? All

1:00:37

of them. So far, pretty

1:00:39

clear. Well, you said you were

1:00:42

heading back, so you're heading back. Yeah, that's where

1:00:44

we are. You make your way back and

1:00:46

yeah, you all gather at the enticing

1:00:49

devil. Would

1:00:51

we not maybe make plans to meet at the

1:00:53

grumpy hog? You could totally do that, yeah, absolutely. That's

1:00:55

what his sister said they're gonna be. Absolutely you can

1:00:57

do that. Oh, I mean, Mark was about to say,

1:01:00

when are you gonna get inquisitive? I literally

1:01:02

was gonna be like, well, so how was your plan? No,

1:01:04

you guys make your way to the grumpy hog and-

1:01:07

Can I have remember that then? Yeah,

1:01:09

yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah,

1:01:11

we're just gonna clarify, there's no point

1:01:13

like role playing any other stuff. His

1:01:15

profs did ask before they left, like

1:01:17

where are they gonna be tonight? And

1:01:19

you make your way back and stepping

1:01:21

inside, you, the band has

1:01:23

finished playing, the band that you heard earlier, they've

1:01:25

moved off somewhere else or they've left a tavern. And

1:01:28

sat enjoying probably lunch at this point, you

1:01:31

see Malady and Benedicta, Sister Malady and

1:01:34

Sister Benedicta of the ecliptic order. Benedicta

1:01:37

has like a massive plate, she's finished

1:01:39

all of her food, it's like literally

1:01:41

bones and like scrapes left. Malady

1:01:44

just has a bowl of like a

1:01:46

very thin looking herbal soup and she's

1:01:48

barely had half of it. And

1:01:51

she's just sort of sipping at it casually,

1:01:53

drinking water. Benedicta

1:01:56

definitely, she would

1:01:58

smile, like she is generally. like

1:02:00

tries to be a friendly kind of

1:02:02

like welcoming person so she smiles and

1:02:04

like nods her head in your direction

1:02:07

ah good day to you saints and

1:02:09

scions to you blessings and

1:02:11

she like nods her head and smiles and smiles to

1:02:13

you hello hello

1:02:15

again hello and she like like nods and she

1:02:17

probably would especially like uh roe and she would

1:02:19

greet warmly um and grab her over

1:02:21

his shoulder but it's like it's

1:02:24

quite small it's like tied in um

1:02:26

the armpit uh nice to uh see you

1:02:28

again and to you

1:02:31

as well and benedicta is a lot

1:02:33

more cold with xanthias whereas malady uh

1:02:36

there's like a twinkle in her eyes

1:02:38

again like very sickly pale um you

1:02:40

can see that like uh her thin

1:02:42

hair is like almost stuck to her

1:02:44

like with sweat um and she

1:02:48

ah good to see you again

1:02:51

xanthias and you and and

1:02:53

to you as well graphith i

1:02:55

believe and roan is that correct

1:02:57

yes wonderful wonderful

1:03:00

did you have much luck in procuring those

1:03:02

um required items the tote i believe we

1:03:05

have everything we need put the water on

1:03:07

the table i have clear

1:03:09

glass three silver needles the

1:03:12

post it was 60 minute we've got all the oh

1:03:14

yeah yeah excellent um

1:03:16

we will need a

1:03:18

space to perform the ritual and i know what

1:03:21

you're going to tell me i know that you

1:03:23

have this spirit and you do not wish to

1:03:25

see the spirit harmed but if the spirit was

1:03:27

the one who cursed you the ritual

1:03:30

be most effective if it takes place

1:03:32

where the curse happened well

1:03:34

during the day we found

1:03:36

better luck with inviting people

1:03:38

in spirits tend to be

1:03:40

weakened during these hours would

1:03:42

this will harm

1:03:45

the spirits they

1:03:47

may find it uh encouraging

1:03:50

to move on but if the spirit is strong

1:03:52

enough to have lasted and manifested in the ways

1:03:54

that you have described i don't think that this

1:03:56

ritual will be enough to drive her away i

1:03:59

don't believe in It will harm them.

1:04:01

I'm just wary of angering her.

1:04:04

Angering, perhaps not. Perhaps

1:04:07

I should reveal more now that you have

1:04:09

gathered these things and clearly chosen to seek

1:04:11

our assistance with it. This

1:04:14

ritual, the curse that you are affected by,

1:04:16

this curse of harrowing, what

1:04:18

it really is to explain a bit of

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the magic is the spirit

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that you have encountered is a

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tormented soul. They have suffered some

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great evil or wrongdoing.

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And that torments them. It haunts them with

1:04:32

pain or with fear. And

1:04:35

that curse, in a way, has

1:04:37

been projected onto the two of

1:04:39

you. Her fears,

1:04:41

her nightmares, her anguish has

1:04:44

now become a sort of malignant magic

1:04:46

of its own. And it has

1:04:49

clung to you. The

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ritual purges you of that magic. It

1:04:53

relieves it from it. It separates it

1:04:55

from you so that we may properly

1:04:57

dispose of it. Does

1:05:00

it return those energies back to

1:05:02

Tyria? No. That is what I'm

1:05:05

hoping the glass or clear crystal objects you

1:05:07

have. The idea is that we will

1:05:09

catch it. And then I will take

1:05:11

it and I will dispose of it in an appropriate

1:05:13

manner. Destroying malignant energy

1:05:15

of that kind can

1:05:18

be a little dangerous. And I would

1:05:21

rather do that in safer confines. Forgive

1:05:25

me. My illness is, she's

1:05:28

really struggling. And

1:05:30

she coughs and you actually see blood come out as

1:05:32

she's coughing. And she wipes it away. Benedicta

1:05:34

is like, sister, are you all right? She's like,

1:05:37

I'm fine. Will this ritual take

1:05:39

its toll on you, Perlin? Yes. Yes,

1:05:42

it will. I will likely be,

1:05:44

I will be weakened for days after this.

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But it is the nature. We

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do have alternatives. What

1:05:50

would those be? Well,

1:05:53

the Duke suggested we go seek out Black

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Wings. Yes, it's Elf who

1:05:57

lives here in Ashen's Rest. They are.

1:06:00

quite an old elf as I am led to

1:06:02

understand. Yes. I would not trust them.

1:06:04

No? No, the elves are, before

1:06:07

they came to Alfea, before they

1:06:11

sought refuge here on our plane,

1:06:13

they are mercurial beings.

1:06:16

They are beings of

1:06:18

fancy, of trickery, of

1:06:21

flights of fancy and passion. They can't

1:06:23

be trusted with certain matters.

1:06:26

They may take an interest in you now,

1:06:28

they might help you now, but who knows

1:06:30

what they might demand later on or what

1:06:32

bargains that will be required for you to

1:06:35

make with them. I

1:06:37

would rather sacrifice my own health than have

1:06:39

you turn to a planar creature. Well,

1:06:42

it was the Duke himself who

1:06:44

suggested we seek out Blackwing. Yes, yes.

1:06:46

The Duke is, and

1:06:49

Benedict, who folds her arms, she's

1:06:52

like, the dragon is not a very

1:06:54

pious individual. And she seems a

1:06:56

bit sort of puffed up about that. He

1:06:59

does not approve of many

1:07:01

of the Church's teachings. Well,

1:07:05

we were also given a task by

1:07:07

the Church by Sansaude Elkhara as well,

1:07:09

but how interesting. Yeah,

1:07:14

she told me of a creature in

1:07:17

the hills across the Ruby River,

1:07:20

bathed in a

1:07:23

golden light, but

1:07:26

some kind of corruption with it. She

1:07:29

smiles as you're explaining this,

1:07:33

and you can't help but notice, Xanthius,

1:07:35

that she like gives you a

1:07:37

look. Really? Now that you're recanting

1:07:40

that after hearing what

1:07:43

I said is there like almost a realization.

1:07:45

That's why I stumbled in real life just

1:07:47

now. Okay. Because as I started recanting it

1:07:49

and I read about the corruption bit, I

1:07:51

was like, that was

1:07:53

legit. Like I stumbled. And that makes

1:07:56

sense. The graph is like, oh, fuck.

1:08:00

Malady just smiles and says, how

1:08:02

curious. But this creature is across

1:08:04

the river, days away, days

1:08:06

outside of Ash and Ren. And we have to kill

1:08:09

it and cremate it and scatter

1:08:11

the ashes while saying a prayer to Pyris.

1:08:14

So- Oh, the sun be

1:08:16

praised, of course, hoping that such a creature

1:08:19

exists in the first place. And

1:08:21

you see Benedicta is like, sister,

1:08:24

Benedicta enough. The Gruff will

1:08:26

give her a quick look

1:08:31

and look down and be in kind of,

1:08:35

yes, and it's time we

1:08:37

don't really have right now. It is not.

1:08:40

This, you've likely, it has been what, two

1:08:42

days since you acquired this curse? Sorry, just,

1:08:44

I wanna go back a little bit there.

1:08:46

Sure, sure. You said

1:08:49

hoping a creature like that exists. Yeah.

1:08:53

I wanna- Yeah. I don't know

1:08:55

if there's even any insult, insight needed there,

1:08:58

but like- You can make an insight check.

1:09:00

Yeah. Well, because insight isn't, remember insight

1:09:02

isn't just, is she lying? It can be like,

1:09:04

is she trying to tell me something that I'm

1:09:06

not figuring out? Like- Between the

1:09:08

lines. Yeah, this can be your character, because your character

1:09:10

might be better at reading somebody than like you as

1:09:12

a person are, right? So like- Yeah. And

1:09:15

also I'm not playing exactly as the person would

1:09:17

be. Yeah, I mean, there's just a part there

1:09:19

of almost like, you just let something slip there.

1:09:21

Yeah. Well- You

1:09:24

can, anybody can roll. You can put something together. Yeah, I'm sorry, you

1:09:26

guys can roll. Yeah. All right.

1:09:29

Rowan is not piecing this together. Rowan just

1:09:32

happily, yeah. A roll and a 20.

1:09:35

Oh, give me the total. Four, 24. A

1:09:38

16. I think both

1:09:40

of you will get this, Gruff, you'll get a bit

1:09:42

more information. Xanthius, I mean, she knows that creatures like

1:09:44

that exist. Yeah. She's implying that

1:09:46

the Sun Sword is lying about

1:09:48

this. Right. She's implying that

1:09:50

the Sun Sword is sending you on

1:09:52

a wild goose chase. Gruff-

1:09:57

You pick up that like, systemality does

1:09:59

not- trust the some sort here

1:10:02

and you have

1:10:04

a feeling that perhaps in

1:10:06

since last since last night maybe

1:10:09

she's she's learnt more but

1:10:12

she's not saying anything publicly right now.

1:10:15

Were he necessarily I'm trying

1:10:19

like I'm just lining up things in

1:10:21

my head and I'm trying to figure out

1:10:23

if Gruff would be putting this

1:10:25

together because Kim's put something together

1:10:27

that I message you in all caps

1:10:29

about. Okay. I think Gruff is yeah

1:10:32

absolutely like his intelligence he's not intelligent

1:10:37

but he's wise. Is his

1:10:39

intelligence 10 or higher? No it's 8.

1:10:42

Okay so I'd say that maybe

1:10:44

like he's beginning

1:10:46

to figure something out because he's not book

1:10:48

learned like you're up in a place where

1:10:51

like it was more about the reality stuff

1:10:53

I'd say that like yeah as Kim like

1:10:55

if you've figured something out as Kim and

1:10:57

you want Gruff to believe that absolutely you

1:10:59

still can. What you cooking? Keep

1:11:04

in mind that right now Matt and

1:11:07

Malavi like occasionally looks around because you

1:11:09

are in a very busy quite public

1:11:11

tavern and she's being very coy with

1:11:14

her language as well like and she

1:11:16

says yes

1:11:18

well I mean time is of the essence

1:11:20

likely you have encountered how severe

1:11:23

this curse can affect you. Yeah

1:11:25

Rowan looks down at that kind

1:11:27

of bright eye contact. She

1:11:30

like nods and looks at you like it is

1:11:32

it it is a terrible thing to

1:11:34

burden fear, anguish,

1:11:38

terror that this poor spirit has

1:11:40

had to endure. I

1:11:43

feel for Tyria I hope she could be

1:11:45

put to rest. I am

1:11:48

very I'm very hopeful that you will be

1:11:50

able to find this as well and I'm happy if

1:11:52

there is anything I can do to assist you I

1:11:54

would be willing to. As I

1:11:56

said it will this ritual will leave me

1:11:58

weakened for days I will not be

1:12:00

much use of you for at least three or four days,

1:12:02

but after that I'll be

1:12:05

more than happy to help you. I should

1:12:07

also point out with this ritual, you yourselves

1:12:09

will be needed to participate. It will not

1:12:11

entirely be on me. There will be some

1:12:13

element of involvement on your part. What would

1:12:15

you require? You and

1:12:18

Rose, you will

1:12:20

need to be the ones who sort of collect

1:12:23

the malignant energy as it leaves your

1:12:25

bodies. Nothing

1:12:27

too strenuous or harmful, but you will

1:12:29

be needed. I will have to

1:12:31

focus on maintaining the sort of

1:12:33

power to summon it. And

1:12:36

Gruffrth, if I may ask you, I will

1:12:38

need you to read the poem on repeat

1:12:41

as we perform the ritual. Oh, readin'.

1:12:45

Can you read? Yes.

1:12:49

It does not need to be some... You

1:12:53

do not need to perform it as some

1:12:55

great orator or storyteller. You've

1:12:57

read the poems of Sir Isabelle. No,

1:13:00

that was a hard one. Oh.

1:13:03

If you struggle with the reading... No, I'll do

1:13:05

it. Very well. I

1:13:08

could have had the young girl Daisy read it in

1:13:10

your plays. Might be good. Well,

1:13:12

there it is. But

1:13:14

yes, so there will be some involvement involved,

1:13:17

but nothing harmful. I'm worried about

1:13:19

the physical... My

1:13:21

arms gone dead. Really? The

1:13:24

tote. I'll pull off the

1:13:26

tote. Oh, like the

1:13:29

purple and like the blood rushing back. So sorry,

1:13:31

I didn't want to interrupt. It goes dark. This

1:13:33

curse is having a physical toll

1:13:35

on me, so hopefully I

1:13:38

could give you some temporary stamina

1:13:41

to assist you with it. If

1:13:45

it allows me to collect this malignant

1:13:47

energy, then... When you

1:13:49

say that you're physically suffering, what are we talking

1:13:51

symptoms? Describe them to me. Struggle,

1:13:54

breathing. We tried to climb some

1:13:57

stairs and I could not regain my

1:13:59

breath. I can assist you with

1:14:01

that. It will only last an hour, but it should

1:14:03

be enough to complete the ritual. Thank

1:14:06

you. I appreciate it. Of course. I

1:14:08

told you, didn't I, Zantheus? I'm

1:14:11

here to help. Mm-hmm. And

1:14:13

so is everyone else. We

1:14:16

cannot have this malignant curse

1:14:18

taking the lives of good

1:14:22

Imperials, that is, what the ecliptic order

1:14:24

was built to stand against. And

1:14:27

then there is this matter of this... These

1:14:31

demons and this guild, and

1:14:33

she whispers more conspiratorily now. There

1:14:39

is more going on than I believe.

1:14:44

You realize... This...

1:14:51

Guildmaster. Tobias?

1:14:55

Mm-hmm. It has close

1:14:58

connections with

1:15:00

the Church of the Sion. Do

1:15:05

you know that many cathedrals

1:15:08

and temples have catacombs

1:15:10

beneath them? Places

1:15:14

that prying eyes

1:15:16

cannot reach, tunnels

1:15:19

that stretch out for miles? But...

1:15:25

The curse must be dealt

1:15:27

with first. Okay.

1:15:31

Okay. Okay.

1:15:38

With that... That is where

1:15:41

we're going to have to enter those episodes. Oh, okay.

1:15:43

Sorry, Rhea, I wanted to get back to Ophelia, but...

1:15:45

Oh, good. ...I wanted to kind of

1:15:47

set the scene for this. Yeah, sure, it's a good scene.

1:15:49

We will pick it up with you guys going back to

1:15:51

the enticing devil... Okay. ...and dealing with this curse. Mm-hmm. And

1:15:53

then we have to... ...raid the

1:15:55

Church. Maybe. The catacombs.

1:15:57

Maybe. The Church has always gone well for us.

1:16:00

They do. Oh wait. Oh getting into

1:16:02

them might be quite tricky. Yeah, we'll

1:16:04

see But

1:16:07

that is gonna be it for this Fantastic

1:16:12

episode everybody. Thank you so much

1:16:15

big round of applause to Tommy Wombert. Thank you

1:16:17

very much For

1:16:19

a while, and I know you worked very hard on that

1:16:22

boy And

1:16:24

that is it. Thank you so much for

1:16:26

joining us. We love you and we'll see

1:16:28

you next time. Take care And

1:16:30

a bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye