Critical Role - Council of Heroes | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 26 Part 2

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

Part 2   The Schemers contend with the aftermath of a miracle while the Soldiers and Seekers secretly return to Dol-Makjar...   New Episodes Release Weekly on Thursdays. Learn more about Campaign 4 at https://critrole.com/campaign4/     GET MORE CAMPAIGN 4 WITH BEACON We're excited to bring you even MORE Campaign 4 with a Beacon membership! Get access to exclusive shows like our behind-the-scenes Critical Role Cooldown and ask the Campaign 4 cast your burning questions directly through our LIVE monthly Fireside Chats. You'll also receive NEW Beacon exclusive series, instant ad-free access to VODs & podcasts, live event pre-sales, merch discounts, & a private Discord. Start your 7-day free trial today at https://beacon.tv/join and get unparalleled access to everything Critical Role!   OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN 4 CAST GAME MASTER Brennan Lee Mulligan Laura Bailey as Thimble Luis Carazo as Azune Nayar Robbie Daymond as Kattigan Vale Aabria Iyengar as Thaisha Lloy Taliesin Jaffe as Bolaire Lathalia Ashley Johnson as Vaelus Matthew Mercer as Sir Julien Davinos Whitney Moore as Tyranny Liam O’Brien as Halandil "Hal" Fang Marisha Ray as Murray Mag’Nesson Sam Riegel as Wicander "Wick" Halovar Alexander Ward as Occtis Tachonis Travis Willingham as Teor Pridesire   CREDITS Produced by Maxwell James, Steve Failows, & Kyle Shire Set Designed by Shaun Ellis Production Designer: Noxweiler Berf Character Art by Loren Hontanilla Edited by Taylor Burke and Emily "Stevie" Stevenson Critical Role Announcement Playhouse Editor: Vinny Celesti Opening Title Editor: Paul Foyder Opening Title Colorist: Peter Koocheradis Window Effects by Christian Brown Graphic Design by Aaron Monroy & Jordyn Torrence Dol-Makjar art by Daniel Jiménez Villalba Miniatures Painted by Payton Keo Lacebal Opening Title Theme by Neal Acree Campaign 4 Key art by Hannah Friederichs Additional Art & Design by Hannah Friederichs   Episode QC by Catherine Zimmerman & Paula Flores Assistant Editor: Gianna Gencarella Post Production Coordinators: M Swing & Bryn Hubbard Closed Caption Editing by Margaret Dill, Nikki Kindelberger, Courtney Knewtson, Danielle Lackie, Eleanor Smith-Dufresne & Alice Tsoi Post Production Supervisor: Tal Levitas   HEALTH & WELL-BEING Due to the improv nature of Critical Role and other RPG content on our channels, some themes and situations that occur in-game may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode. Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and you're listening to Part 2 of this episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this adventure and the world of Aramon. We return to Dahlmachar. Dollmaker. Doll maker. As our soldiers approach the city, it is a sort of bright gray morning. in Dolmachiar, your wagon trundles along and approaches a tall spiring dam

over the beginnings of the river of Roche. Roche sort of comes down and you see there's a huge, massive sort of pylons that hold up a bunch of rocks in the case of a flood to like collapse and sort of seal off the river if the rain waters rise too high. You see the road stretches and approaches a small gate is big enough for a wagon to pass through,

but it looks like the wagons that come up are more for like supplying the towers up here than some traffic or anything like that. As you approach, you see there are two members of the, what should be Revolutionary Guard, but you actually see there are two just open, sort of soldiers of House Einfossen up here that are wearing symbols of House Einfossin,

but wear a cloak with a little sort of badge of the Revolutionary Guard as though they are sort of performing a function for the city up here. As you approach, you see one of the guards sort of hails the wagon as you're coming to the city. Who is inside the wagon right now and who is driving it? We're undercover.

Yeah. Undercover. Literally. Which one of you guys is driving? You're driving. I feel like Kattigot had his license suspended a long time ago. The least known person in the city, it's one of you two. Yeah, I'll drive. Well, the least known would be.

All right. You see that one of the guards hails you as you're approaching. It says, Afternoon, sir, welcome to Dormacia. What brings you to the city? Just taking a bath. Sorry, you think you're taking a bath? No.

You're saying you're undercutting the back? We're undercover. I'm in, I'm in your... Can you like seriously? Can you like sear no diversion? I haven't done anything. I don't know how we're swerving off the road. This is like the car going off the road

and you haven't shifted to drive yet. You know, it's... Just talk, Kattekin. Just talk. We've got supplies for the city. Splendid. Wonderful. To where are you headed? What business?

We're going to... You're going to be... You seem distracted. Wait, we're... I know cities. I know a market in there. What's the market that I know in there? Sir Ogremock's marketplace.

We're going to Sir Ogremont's. What's the ghosts of going to set Ogermots, of course. Give me deception. I just told himself. Give me, give me a little boomerangue. Cattigan, go ahead and give me deception. This is a trick. Guide yourself. Guide yourself.

I can't read that. Guide yourself. All I got four, I have 16. Guys, you've had the longest break from the table, and we're shit in the bed coming back in, okay? We are shit in the bed coming back in. I got a 16. A 16.

That's pretty okay? Um, you see that the guard looks at you and goes, The guy says, ah, it's all right. Listen, listen, you're a farmer or a trader? Yeah, ah, yes, it's my, it's my, it's my first day on the job. I know, listen, hey, hey, I grew up, I grew up in a farming village. I can tell you're nervous going to the big city. Thank you.

What's your nervous? What's your name? My name? Yeah, what's your name? Make one up right now. Yohannis. How's that? This was supposed to be a, one skill check. You brought this upon yourself. It's nice to meet, Johannes. Thank you for your kind words.

Of course. Of course. Hey, keep your chin up. Farmer or soldier, we're all equals. All right. You're a very nice man. Stop talking. Okay, great. Sounds like it's one great. All right. We'll pass you on through. And hey, by the way, where is Wolfrick? That's a good question. Uh, into the water. We're taking the city. I would suppose it would be either trailing or off off trail at some point, but is this like a narrow pass that he has to go? Oh, okay. Is he in the wagon? I bet she's in the wagon.

It's a good place for him. He's a good point. So, Tayor Wicks here and Ethimble and a wolf and a giant stone statue are all... I'm in his hood. Oh, you're in his hood. You see, yeah, he goes in it says, best of luck with your wares. What are you selling, by the way? Oh, perishable goods, mostly food and assorted treats. What kind of treats? I love treats. Apple pie. Apple pie.

Ah. Jesus. Well, I shouldn't check your card. I'm deathly allergic to apples. Ah, must be my. That's too bad. It sounded like you were ready to say must be your lucky day. Why would me be allergic to apples make you lucky? Doesn't make sense?

We don't have many apples. What's that? What are you doing about that? Thank you for your help. Apple pies with no apples. Thank you for your pal. Refink it. And you see the you take off into the city.

We throw the blanket off. What the fuck? These recognizable. Are you actually human? What is? What is terrible? I have no skill. I'm not good with people.

You got. I don't want anyone to ever say that I did a bad job dress like Octus ever again. We all have time for this. Do we make it or did we make it? We're here, we're in the city, we can focus on the future. Why did you say we don't have apples?

I don't know what was happening. I got scared, okay? You know what, you need acting lessons. And I know the perfect place. We should go see how. Yeah, well, we need to see how. We need to see how. You head down through the city.

As you do so, Moving into Marud and then across the River Rush, big bridge, once again, you're back in Dolmachyar. Vimble, you can see you're back in the city after everything after revenge and going to Timonee and Teyore, you look out and see the familiar city as well. And there is a rising. You can just feel that there's a sort of hubbub.

It's active, but it's tense here a little bit. And as you pass by, you're passing course quite close to the Via Aurora, very close to the heart of the creed's power in this place. Passing under the spires of the Cathedral of Light, of the massive Creed Cathedral, you see moving through the space, you see there is a luxe of the cantescent creed

speaking out, going, Our very own Photarch, risen from the dead, A miracle of miracles. All praise to she of the vision of the light. Let the beam reach you each one in all. The luminous text appears to all of us. Have you not wandered in darkness long enough? Souls trapped in the veil.

Bandied about and traded by warlocks who would sell their souls for a brief glimpse at power before damnation in the pit. what would you call for? House Royce vanished into fairy, and yet the Faye folk walk openly. Why have they not returned if the House of Royce has? What is it that your soul calls for?

And you see that there's a crowd watching this that has gone like a completely silent listening to this preacher, and as if in answer you hear behind you, Revolution! And there is a blast of light and confetti and juggling and stilt walkers as Shadi of Fang cartwheels into the square and goes, revolution, action, betrayal, adventure,

love juggling tomorrow night at the Hall around. Wow. And as you see, as you see, juggling dancing throughout, and she says, Everyone, one and all, the seats have all gone in the main plaza, but you can come. There'll be fences abounding and we'll have concessions for you. We'll be walking the crowds outside.

It can be seen from the whole city. Come on, here, and you see, she takes out these small little druid-crafted binoculars that are like gossamer sort of like almost like transparent leaves on like these little opera things. So she's going out and just passing them out and says, if you need to walk from a distance, this will help you see what's happening on the stage.

And it's just handing out. I need to get this. I'm gonna fly down and try to grab one that she's passing out. You go to grab one, she says, she says, the howl around! Come out, Kotheri, opening the, Fimble.

I've come to you, you're like, everybody's looking at you. I know, I'm in the middle of work. Just give me one of the things. Okay, how many do you need? I'll find you later. You get a fucking armful of these giant human-sized goggles.

She says, she says, oh, I'm so glad you're back. I'm sorry, I was. I'm not back. Are you going to be a dad's house later? She, sure. Okay, and you see that she goes, ha ha, sorry everyone, the play. You, you guys, with, you got these cool little goggles

that are sort of like these drood crafted, and they're sort of like opera glasses, essentially. And you head off into the Arcanot, and you arrive, oh, so you, getting back from the wagon. Wait, was that your grandma? That she was talking about. Yes, but what does that mean? Is that part of the show?

No, no, that was different from... It was a different person, right? Yes, but risen from the dead. Wasn't... By the way, that speaker, the... Super... Very, very good, I think... Great projection.

Yes, yes, and I'm sort of convinced, I mean. Maybe they do have a good point. I'm kidding. Of course they don't. They're evil. But still, very excellently presented and produced, I thought. Do you think your grandma really died again? No, of course it's false. I just don't know what it means.

She died and was reborn? Whatever, let's find. You have to get to Boler. Yes, yes, yes. Wait, Boleer. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna go see how. What about how?

Well, it's crazy that we didn't talk about this. Where are you? We gotta drop off Sid! Kattegian, you look behind you and see the guard from the gate running behind you saying, you're apples! You forgot. Where am I?

We can't go through the whole city with this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I go to finance. Sorry, okay. You do like, oil slick. Wick, you do see Hal's young daughter is in the barking crew here in the main plaza

if you wanted to, if you wanted to peel off to find Hal you could go ask her, but you're also welcome to get to get to get to the Arkanade with everybody else, because you have Sid's giant stone body behind you. If you hop out, just keep your head covered. We're right by your family. Yeah, maybe I'll stick with you guys

just a little bit longer, all right? Yes. Yeah. You guys arrive at the Arkanade, and with that, soldiers converge with schemers! Oh! We're gonna bring Luis, Marisha, and Tal out here. Okay, it's some sort of a convergence.

House got opening night tomorrow. So at the Arcanod, our schemers, after the events of the previous night, which was the gala, this is the day before Cotheri, Hal's play, and it's the day before the rumored meeting of the Sundered houses. On that day, I believe you guys might have done some skill checky stuff, right?

But, Belair, you obviously have a ton of work cut out for you at the Arkanaut after this foiled assassination attempt. Azune, you are asked specifically by Herald Aynfosson to go and there's nothing of more pressing importance than the potential assassination of the faux-tark of the candidacent greed. And Murray, because of your internship program that you set up, you have full license to work from the Arkanah,

which is sort of part of the reason you guys did that is essentially that you always have a reason to be at either place. Correct. So at the Arcanade, is there anything you guys would do skill check-wise that day? This new day. After a long rest. After your long rest.

Everybody's had a long rest. I have a list. Okay. You and your list. I have a list. I mean, I'm on point for this. investigation. Last night I allowed my R King Marshals to do some investigating. I joined them, and I knew that we had more to pick up on this next day. Particularly, I'm doing what we did

at the Palazzo de Vinos. I'm picking up on whatever magical signatures. I have the broken glyphs. I have those already. And I'm, yeah, picking up on whatever magical signatures we may pick up on that. Give me an investigation check. And since this is deliberate, I would have absolutely guidance myself. Oh, and I'm joining you on this also. Yes. So I can also help.

See how he guided himself. Okay, so you're gonna roll it. I'll teach you. You're gonna roll this with advantage and you're gonna add guidance from this. And Murray will be also here for support. I'll be back and forth. Because everybody is, we're trying to now clean everything up

now that the cluster fuck that is the museum. Correct. Yes. Okay. Guidance. Guidance. And then advantage. And advantage.

And advantage. Oh my lord. That is... Oh, this is the die. That's a 15, right? That's the weird die. This is the weird die. This is the one where we find. Is there a 7 underneath it?

Why do you have it? Probably shouldn't use that. That's a 13. Hang on wait, let me hold this. I like, I recommend a highly legible plastic. Is there a 7 or one of them? Pro tip? That's a 13.

That's a big numbers. Oh, good. Okay, so that's 13. That's fine. Jesus. These look, it's a 13, but they look. 13 plus plus one. It is a total of 15. 15.

It's a clean, it's a clean crime scene with a few exceptions. So on a 15, you're able to get the basics. The basics that you are able to find are that residue from that scent poison. Okay. And residue from the venom that they have. had on the blades. Right. On a 15, you can't do anything to help solve this crime,

but you are able to make an association based on records from the Brethren Hall. The association you're able to make is these poisons have been documented as used in the city in the past. There was a, uh, da-da-da, there was an attempt on a revolutionary council member's life many years ago. by a woman named Tolianas Gierschard, and she had collaborated with a group that was extremely active during the War of Axe and Vine and then kind of went into hiding,

but was rumored to still exist, called the Lana Strosa. The Lana Strosa. The Lana Strosa. Is that some Einfosseship? Lana Strosa is not Einfossenship. It was a, this is actually from far elsewhere. They were actually from the,

let me see here, let me go to, lore doc here. Boop, boop, boop. They were really active in Azir and Argosia during the War of Axe and Vine. They are an assassin's guild. They were like a professional

assassins guild who were notorious in the War of Axe and Vine and then kind of vanished. And I think on a 15 investigation, Azunei, vanished if you're an Assassin's Guild, means scarier, not less scary. Notorious assassins is not good, right?

Like, so, but this corroborates with some, like, specifically like something that, like in the War of Axon Vine, when there were war hounds from the Kingdom of Timony, this poison was developed, this incapacitating thing that works on creatures with a heightened sense of smell. And you are able to see that, that name, that name,

is what you got on a 15. Right. Lannis-Rosa. In addition to that, there's a couple of magics that I've been made aware of that were activated there. Yeah. Am I aware of the dominate person that occurred? I think if you guys compared notes, yes.

Okay. Can I assist him with any type of like archana checks or anything? Just because I can't find out my notes at the moment, the name that we popped up when we were giving that arcana check that I needed to put what we're at the museum. I know. I'm trying to find out of my notes. Which are going to take.

I know, last game, which I know was, yeah. Look at notes. Three lifetimes ago. You're trying to do an archa check for. Well, there's some of it I already know. I just want to know. I know visibility was active. Yes.

I knew people that were invisible. You compare notes and the Druid did have dominate person. That druid will probably be there tonight when you talk to Gus. Okay. Good. You guys are at the museum working. The carriage of the soldiers pulls up into the loading dock. Pulls up.

What is that loud? Bracket. Sounds like someone's drunk at the wheel. Trouble fire. Coming upstairs, you see Hero Devion walks up and says, Master Lothalia, a character has arrived in the loading dock downstairs. That can't be good.

Oh, I thought you wanted me to tell you when people arrived at the loading dock. It would have been nice to know who, but that's fine. We can go. Is it one of the centered houses? No, the guy who's driving the carriage does not look well-kempt. Let's go.

Lock your ass, too. Oh, you see, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, so Hero goes like, yeah, just want to let you know. Okay. And she heads off, sorry, I was trying to think if Hero had seen Kattingen before and I don't think she had it.

Maybe at the wake, though. Possibly at the wake, but I don't think Cadigan made a big point of introducing himself. Soldiers, you arrive here. Thimble, you've dropped off stuff here a million times before. Yeah, I immediately fly out and start looking for Blair. I assume all three of us are heading down. Descending down.

Not go alone. Fimble, you guys unite at the loading dock. Holy shit. What's a fucking mess have you let me with? Where have you been? What has been going on? Why did you leave that better? Let me.

You don't even know what's going on. You just... fucking statue here for you to bring back to life. I'm bringing a statue back to life. Is that what I'm supposed to do now? Is that how I'm- Actually, it's really important, can you? Yes.

We have a lot of shit going on. Yes. You all understand what it's been going on down here. What did you figure out? Why don't you stop? Yeah. Uh, Taylor, what are you wearing right now? Um, well, it's a little lacy. Yeah, like, uh, the normal breastplate.

Can we see your face? Yeah. I beeline to this mother. who people have been asking about and I take off my cloak and I wrap it around you. I'm giving you a hug, but I'm also covering your head. Oh, okay. Thank you. For now, you are an arcane marshal and you are not to show your face. Arcane Marshall, I understand. Just don't talk. I'll do the talking. Did anybody see you all come in? No, they've been looking all over. They only sell cat again. We have apple. We have apple. We have We have. We're under cover. We have hip. Hello. Remember lift with your legs. Can we try to get a lot of the car? Yeah, we should check the street, make sure like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a loading dock, though, right? Are we undercover?

You're undercover. You're undercover. You're undercover. You're undercover. You're They're actually inside. This loading dock is in an interior, so there's a lot. The Arcanade is like enormous cathedral-esque civic building. So the loading dock is between and under these pillars. There's like big open barn doors that open up into it. So you're hidden from the street in the air. Awesome. Do we feel comfortable perhaps going to my study?

Is that where we should take? Oh, oh my. We're in cloaks. Okay, so I don't know. But I don't know. Are they fine? Yeah, no, they're, I mean, they're not fine, but they're saying. I'm going to put the new note.

Hi, I'm Nick, I'm Nick Falcon. Oh, oh, okay. Just kidding, it's me, Vikander. Put your hood back on. No. Oh, geez. We're going into the office. Yes, let's go.

Everyone into the office. Are we unloading it? Had enough. It feels like, it feels like when like a land mass breaks apart and different species evolve differently, except for genres. Did I fool you for a second? Not at all. No.

It's mad. Hi, Cadigan. Boy. I see the shapers delivered me in this tall glass of water today. Oh, you, I don't remember you. Hold on a second, I got work to do. We gotta get my brother inside the tunnel. Is this fancy museum got one of those wings where a bunch of statues and artists put stuff?

Yes. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, History. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. We go there. Lift with your legs. You guys, we're taking everything to my bloody office. We're not helping with that.

You guys get this statue of Talsedimir Pridezire all the way down to Bollaire's private office. You guys see walking, yeah. Can I go ahead of them really quick and just any students or anything? I'm just gonna be like, lunch break, lunch break, and usher them away from wherever they might be traveling through. You look over and see their,

There's a very sort of reedy, gnomish student, as you say, lunch break, who goes, nice, and then gets up and wanders off. They all go get lunch. Clear in the halls, clear in the halls. And you guys get downstairs, walking into Polaro's office, you see sort of secret door opens down this spiral staircase.

At the base, there's like a massive stone hand that's like the size of a colossus. There's enormous, there's like a, mobile skeletal, weird winged, bat demon-shaped thing. It's like one of those things of like, all the weird magical detritus of this massive museum is hidden away in this deep subterranean part of the museum. And Sid is safely deposited down here.

The last time I think Blair, you were down here was when the old lad's coffin opened up. But Sid is brought down here and you see someone bearing a lot of resemblance to Teor, but composed of stone. And Katagan, you have that basilisk's gizzard, that sort of like the part you harvested from it in your belongings. What can you do with this?

He sees my brother. He was petrified by one of those creatures. Well, they are terrifying, aren't they? And he has a spell put on him. Yeah, you can like, milk it or something, right? Or something, yes. Uh, Murray, what do you think?

What do I get? The tip of your tongue briefly turns to stone before turning back. It's the real deal. Whoa. That's Masaelusk. Yeah, we know, we killed it. And there was also something done to the statue,

and I'll say the quote, Warrior, tell me through, do the dead draw near? Would I know anything? Yeah. As Teor says that, the eyes gleam white, exactly like you saw in your vision. Wait, what do you mean? On what?

On what? The statue. When you have, and I'm, you, Murray's had a couple big visions now. There was one in which you saw white banners. Do you remember this one? I remember the white banners. A couple of really big visions.

Visions. Visions. From your dreams. All right. So wait, will you say that quote one more time from hero, something, something, what you said? What you said?

Warrior, tell me true. Do the dead draw it near? Yes. Wait, you said something. totally never. It was just an extra little, don't worry about it. This horseshit, which came out of her mouth.

You just ignore that because he didn't say it. Do the good. Hell yeah. This is Basilisk issues with this statue, correct? This is a... Yes, we fought Basilisk in Hybal there. Oh, I remember what it was. Sorry.

It was the identify on the candle. The identify on the candle. Identify on the candle. Identify on the candle. had the whole thing of the Octus Angel attacking the Golden Orchard, but there was an extra thing, a coda at the end. No, wait, wait, wait, I have it. I wrote it down, I wrote it down.

Hold, hold, hold. Raise high the white banners, what was wrong in life, make right in death. Yes. In that vision, you saw not only white banners, you saw, I think there were a couple other images that you saw there, but one of them was stone, faces with glowing white eyes. As Teor says that incantation, Warrior Tell Me True, do the Dead draw near, you see Sid's eyes glow. Anyone who would like to can make an Arcona check on me. Arcana or religion.

Oh, no. You're better at, you're better. If you roll religion, I'll do some religion. If you do religion, I'll let you roll with advantage. Great. I'll do that. I'll do Archana. I'll join you in Arcona since other people are religion. Reliying?

Yeah. Come on, baby. Yeah, not bad. Nine. Not bad. 15? 15? Oh, that's actually great.

With a dirty 20 religion. Dirty 20 religion. Yeah. What we got here? For Arcana, it's going to be 26. Ooh! Arcana. Visions.

Rolled in 18. I see it. On that dirty 20, you recognize this as a paladin's divine sensibility. Something that you're not capable of doing yourself, but you are aware of that power. Some of your Archie Marshall's can do that. On a 26 arcana, you perceive these eyes casting out, meaning that these stone statues can hear somehow, and they have been made to do this. Consulting your vision as you look at the

eyes out on that 26 arcana, you believe that there is a field, like an aura of that sight radiating out from those eyes, and it stays there for quite some time. after the eyes sort of fade back away again. That aura of vision is still present in this moment. But who's seen? Who's seen? Did we just say that out loud? I throw my cloak over the damn thing immediately.

No. It's enough of that. Brother. He hates cloaks. You scared of the dark. You scared of the dark. I worry about the smell about that. It's been through some shit.

I have some pretty strong reason to believe that your brother is trapped by the top. Yeah, pretty fucking glue. Yeah. Will you shut the fuck up for a second so I can get it out? Did you have any like snacks or anything down here, by the way? If we've been traveling a lot. I can get you a lunchbox from one of the students.

Oh, really? Yes. Give me two seconds, all right? Thank you. What were you? What were you gonna say? I saw an army of stone statues alongside sarcophagus's with glowing eyes.

I am pretty sure your brother is trapped against his will as an undead army for Taconas. Oh, oh, when I was Octus, there were the Taconas down there. Hi, I'm Tyranny. I love your beard. Pocus. We, well,

The Taconas, they said that if I wear Octus, I'd be dead already. So I think that they're... They killed Octus. They didn't kill Octus. He's still alive. Belair and I were able to bring him back. Well, he's something in between alive and death. He's... So the Taconuses are definitely creating some sort of like purgatory type army

that is walking in between realms. and they are enslaving souls, and it seems like maybe Sid is a part of this. And Octus was going to be, okay, this is a lot. This is a lot. Are you guys ready for this? Octus was going to be resurrected as like an anchor or like a proxy for like an angel of death.

An anchor! An anchor! An anchor! What is that? What is this? That's paper. Wait, should I read this? Well, not out. We read it in a bunch already. You can, listen.

No, yes, you really should read it. But you don't have to read it out loud if you really want. Blah, blah, blah. Train of thought. You go on. You go on. As an anchor. Octus was going to be one of the anchors.

What? Yeah, D, we're going to, I'm pretty sure, utilize Octus as part of fulfilling some sort of crazy Tacona's property in order to have a celestial, an undead celestial angel of death come and attack the golden orchard and also Wait, Octus attacked the golden orchard? No, no, no, no. He's a left. So you all left.

You all left and then there was a massive house on house de venos. Have you all heard of this yet? Has anything made word? Oh my gosh. A mouse on a house of- What was? A massacre. A massacre on house to venus.

My accent ain't that thick. I think I think I'm just, I'm not thinking clearly because some food would really help. He's so hungry. Can I, I'm gonna peek my head out, and if Hero is around, I'm gonna be like, can I get a couple of like little lunch baggies? Little bentos.

The ones we brought for our lunch? Yes, Yes, Hero. You see she goes over to that Nomish kid who was so psyched and he's looking his lips over a big sandwich. She goes, I need that and swipes it. And he goes, no. Hero's a boring. I tossed Hero a few more silver,

and I'm like, go get some like pizza pockets for everybody. All right, who wants pizza pockets? And you see that she walks out. One, okay, and then she, two, two, okay. You see that a hero heads out. I will also say at this point as well, Terry, you also, not only is there that letter, you also-

That the dwarish. Yes. Roans, yes. I will only wish we knew a dwarfs. And yes, yes, we found Kazimir. And? And he's fucking dead. He's dead.

How do I hug someone so much smaller than me? It's a problem I have all the time. Put your finger out and she will. And then I grab my finger and squeeze you. Oh, that's, I, you know, I kind of like it. Mori, I also have this, and I'll produce the stuff with the dwarish runes on it. Okay. What am I looking at here?

I don't do assume anything, but they look like runes. No, I understand. We found it, you found it. Do we actually have that? We have the physical page around here, don't we? Do we? Travis, I don't know if you've got it. Do we need to comprehend language?

Is that a thing? I'm sweet dwarfish. Oh, never mind. You should do that, never mind. Where did it go? Hold on. You guys keep running this scene. Okay. We're getting a prop.

Improv. Improv amongst yourselves. Yeah. But we need to make a very, right? We need to make a very, the full-down look to do. You wrap this page of runes and Murray, you were able to read it. It's written in dwarven alphabet, but the language is actually Obadi, which you were able to, you were able to read here. We were looking at it upside down.

Oberdi from the old. Well, that's your first problem. No, it's manga was left to rock. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, boy. You can read that out last? Okay. I know.

What you translated, what this reads. as to you, Marisha. Yes, hang on, Dorevish, Roons. Go, go. Do you have your, messages on your little messaging message or there, because I can send it to you in a message as well. Oh, well, text me, I got my phone.

Okay, good, good, good. I'm gonna text it to you right now. Okay. Ooh, I see a message. It's broken in this world, though. Yeah. Except over Wi-Fi. Yeah.

We haven't talked about these. Huh? We have to have a little brief conversation. We have to have 10,000 conversations. So much has happened. We heard people in the city, there was a guy preaching. Your grandmother faked an assassin attempt on her life in an attempt to also try and kill King Augustus.

King Augustus was here. We met his house! He's still here. We just were at his house or his area. He's here. He's here. They tried to kill him. We thwarted that attempt.

They tried to kill him, and he is a part of the family that tried to kill him. Who is it? He is a part. Who is a part of a family? Your family. Oh. Tried to kill King Augustus. That's so your grandma. God.

And then she pretended to die, but she didn't die. And I know this because I could see the reality and see that her threat of fate had not yet been snipped. And she then pretended to be like all resurrected and was like, Oh, look, a holy miracle just happened. And she did it in front of a bunch of, like, rich, influential people as like some false act of a holy. To what end?

To get people to the Candace and Creed. Oh, we learned that the Candidacian Creed. I still draw my weapon. You know, take you one hand-time. I know. We're walking forward. Did you all learn anything that we don't already know? Well, we don't know about the murder?

The murder. There's been a lot, all right? Hey, we've been here holding down the line, all right? We are off seeking revenge for Fiazzi, who started all of this and succeeding. Thank you very much. You're- tyranny, fathered giant squid.

I was a doctor. But you have been traveling with a member of this house. No, you have to point on the table. This house, a member of this house. Do you not want someone on the inside? Sorry, I thought. We need to know. Are you on the inside?

Are you on this? What do you know? What do you know? About what? about your family and what they were up to. He's been gone for a week. But did he go knowing this plan already? Hold on, we're trusting him too easily.

No, listen to me. He knows nothing. You, on the other hand. Me? He's an idiot, we all know it. What the fuck did you know? I knew that the religion was a scam, okay? It was not my job to tell him.

He learned that shortly before, I mean, we saw you right after he found out, right? Around the time, we found out, and we skedaddled out of town. We have been working with them. We are not part of the can't. But it is good in Dolmachiar to maintain heirs. But don't they wanna kill you? I don't know.

I don't know how in trouble we are. They've been looking for you. Specifically me. Yeah, I am scanning these two. Like they're, like, you are the lost problem. I am more than happy to. to make sure they do not make out of here live.

Will you two guys give me wisdom saving throws? And Ozzy, give me a history check. I've partied with you, man. I've met you several times, Polair. Oh, we are well beyond that. What, okay. What am I doing? Yeah.

I am reading both of your fucking minds. What are we rolled? Wisdom saving throw. Saving. Oh, same. 19. 19. 13.

13. 13. 13. So you're getting surface thoughts from Wicander and can read a little bit deeper into it. I assume it's just a Stephen Universe episode happening in this one. It's mostly pizza pockets. I love you.

It's salivating. You, Bollaire, reach into minds of these two. Just let it happen. Check it to you. And just discover the, I think that you see, a degree of earnestness and a degree of certainly being, you don't, nothing pings about the plans of Yenessa Halevar.

This one. This one is the one I really don't trust. What is on Tarynny's mind in this moment? Well, I'm mad that Bollera's coming out and we were so mean because the last time I saw him, I was partying at his cool museum. Terrific, Karen. Yeah, and you thought it was charming.

I didn't say you liked it, but you thought it was cute. You are charming. What's the closest thing, is it, on a failed saving throw, what's the closest thing to a conspiracy that Tyranny feels like she's in? I have the one thing that I have kept close to my chest, which is the Lux document, the Holy Order.

Boler, you get an image of tyranny seeing the name Sharavi. appear on a Luxus Holy Orders. That name? The one, the one. Sharavi. I walked straight into your face. Right into your face. The mask is scraping the nose.

I get, mm. Oh, God damn it. What do you know about Sharavid, darling? That's my dad, darling. That's my dad. I am seeing how terrified she is about anything I'm saying. I don't think.

Document, like, yeah. I don't know, how afraid are you of your dad? Reasonably? I am seeing if she has any. I'm trying to see, like, I'm like, tried to say the name to see if she's having any reaction to like having something. His dad is a hat.

To hearing something that I shouldn't know. I don't know if, I don't know if Tyranny has made the, and Whitney, has Tyranny made the connection that Belair is bringing, basing that off of the con, the Holy Orders? Like the content of the order? Well, I don't know what it means. So I can't be afraid of it.

I think in this moment you are aware that Belair has seen that. Okay. I'm just seeing how much it panics you. I don't know. I'm looking for a reaction. You're not going to get one, but I'll say. Well, I can hear it in my head, so. Okay, we're communicating to the moment.

You're not going to get a reaction. Yeah, that's my dad. She's just pure chaos. I know. Listen, it's not a secret that my family is involved with the Candescent Creed. Literally, who would be surprised by that? She's fine, she's just insane.

I don't think, I don't think that you need to worry about us. In fact, I think we are great assets to all of you right now. And our new best friends can tell us, can tell you, that we're actually pretty cool. They are a giant liability. But I will see this. They have saved our lives in combat, and I owe him a great debt.

So rest on me, Zunei. You trust him. I do. He is well-meaning. I know his family has committed terrible things, but his intentions are pure. Somehow, I don't understand, but they are. And imagine if you just found out your whole family

was bad and a lie and your whole religion was a lie, all right, we're on the up and up. We understand. Now imagine from our perspective, You leave, and we don't know anything about what's happening with your family, and we start to uncover all of these terrible things. Oh, yes. We also don't know anything about that,

and we've also been uncovering terrible things, and it's been an awful week for all of us, I think. Your grandmother has set forth a political coup under the guise of religious altruism, and is now rallying an entire brainwashed force in all of Delmachio. And I... killed dogs. And she tried to kill dogs. That's even funny.

That's those dogs. We met those dogs. You know they're people. I mean, they're dogs, but they're people dogs. Well, they talk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can get us closer. I can get us in. I can get us on the inside and maybe learn more or possibly take people out. I know their ways. I know how to get into the villa. I know where they I know everything about the Hale of Arts. You better take some lessons from Hal.

I would like to go see Hal and at least get, you know, some fake glasses and stuff. What did your grandmother want with Hal, by the way? Because she's been wanting him. Wanting him how? I don't know. She just wants him. Very obsessively seeking an audience.

She's been a fine promoter of the arts and trying to make his theater company. She's horny. Maybe she's horny. Have you ever seen? Have you ever considered? considered that. All I know is she wants the theater to thrive and be well attended. I don't think you know shit. I just said what I know. We've been out in the world and

by the way we were just in timid where the Candacean Creed is trying to get people to rally against King Gus. So we know about this. We understand that as well actually. We know. We know. We have to figure out something that we know that they don't know. Yes. Come with this. Bellows fever. Have you ever heard of that? Ah ha! You never heard of that, did you? You're talking about like the pretty common flu that can go around, right? Which strain? The Omicron. You all want to hear about these rooms? Yeah. Oh, wait.

Oh, what about the priestly orders that I found? You have that still? Yeah, I have it. Maybe they could see that. They're fine. You want to look at it? I think they know nothing. What priestly, what?

Let's not use read the runes. My brother is a statue. Oh, shit. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. All right, all right. Here's what it says. But wait, I just. What?

If you read that, the brother will come back and then we'll have even more people to talk to. That's true. Do you want to catch us up? I don't know, I don't know. Yes, of course read it. We need him back. Are you ready?

Yes. I am. We're ready. Do we have our hands in our pockets and our listening ears on? I don't know the professor. I am. There's a professor in the letter.

We'll show you the letter. And an anchor. I'm gonna read the stamp. And five things that we think of. Shut up, McHander. I just want you to know that we know things too. It's not just you that knows. We know. I could put him to sleep.

I'll make sure to get you a gold star next time I'm in my office. He would love that. I would. I don't have them to strike you. All right, here's what it says. By eight champions is born the sepulchral Lord. Fees. Okay, keep going.

Feen from Faye must their judgment part and the living from the dead. Light must they wield to keep at bay the guardians of the veil and bear their lord forth unto the sea of lacquerus into the sea of lacquerus where the blood of old may give new life to rotted flesh

and summon forth the power of the living upon the dead. But love! and be forewarned, should the mist know but a single mortal breath. The spell is broken, the Lord consumed by death itself. The blood, that's in this. Well, you're really smart. What is it mean? What does it mean? Well, in my vision, I saw a giant army with white banners under the command of this fallen angel, sailing across the a sea of mist. I'm assuming that this is the sea of Lachrys,

probably in some sort of like nether realm in between now. And then, where the blood of old may give new life to rotted flesh, that's the undead army that we've been talking about, summon forth the power of the living upon the dead, more undead army ship, but low and be forewarned. Should the mist know but a single mortar breath, so if a live, a living person goes to this realm, the spell is broken, the Lord consumed by death itself.

this is all what I'm just guessing. Does that make sense? I think you do know more than we do. Here's what I'm trying to understand though. By eight champions is born, the sepulchral lord. Give me an archa. I'm not to say, I'm gonna join in that archana check as well. Go for it.

Yeah, what would this be? She's an arcana, flat archa. And I have a subcule. Huh? As you start studying it. Can I, do I understand? The pulchral lord? Yeah.

What about lacrists? Do we? The sea of lacros? Anyone who would like to can give me a religion? No, no, no, no. Give me an archa check for Cilax. I think as I'm watching Murray kind of dive into this, I feel like at this point I know the kind of look on her face

when she starts to dive deeply into her brain and focus. If I catch that, I would like to guidance her. Okay, great. You're gonna guide to me. How, I, I. Could I just in Casey's? Yeah. What kind of challenge reading?

What what kind of difficulty are we potentially talking about? I'm gonna do a classic 15 gets you a little, 20 gets you more, 25 gets you everything. Always a fan. Come on, Murray. Come on. Don't fuck about. Unless I portend it.

Oh. Unless we need. Remember you can do portent after you roll. Fair? All right. All right. D4 first. D4 first. Yeah. Because I'm gonna always.

Four. Four. My Akrona is a plus nine. Akana, so that's gonna be plus 13 to whatever roll here. That's good, that's a 16 plus 13. 20. 16 plus 13.

Is 29. Wow. Plus the four. Okay. 29 are kinda. On a 20, fucking. No, I rolled a plus four and that's where I added.

That's one shy of the highest DC, the game bothers to live. That gets you a lot. Looking at this text written in Dwarven alphabet in ancient Obride, Obride was never written in Dwarven, which means that this is a cipher. It's written in like,

it's like using Cyrillic to write English letters, or English like sentences and phrases. And you look at this, the language is very archaic, but there's something kind of cloddish about this text. Like it doesn't, it's not a lot of poetry to it, right? It's like by eight champions is the supple. You're like,

Because this isn't meant to be beautiful poetry. This is actually ancient text. It's archaic language because it's from the past, but it's fundamentally quite utilitarian. This is written by necromancers of the ancient past, pre-Shapers' War. So this is not a prophecy, it's not a religious text. This is an instruction, it's a recipe.

Yeah, okay. On that archa, by eight champions is born the sepulchral lord. Feend from Fay must their judgment part and the living from the dead. Azune. Yes. What is that a description of?

Feen from Fay must their judgment part and the living from the dead. What is the inscription from? Or no, what does that describe? Fein from Fay must their judgment part and the living from the dead is a description of a divine sense. Oh, yes.

You can determine them. It gives you that signature. It gives you that signature, right? And then it says to keep it bay to the gardens of the veil and bear their lord forth unto the Sea of Lachrys. On a 29 arcana, you've heard of the Sea of Lackra for it. There's stuff in the Pentafel about it.

One of the things that the Necromancey department at the Pentafril has tried to do and that Octus was probably involved with as a student while he was there is the underworld used to be a thin veil between Aramon and various afterlives. It has exploded into its own geography. The underworld has expanded, expanded, expanded, and there are places within it. There are evens by some, the underworld literally, as souls filled it up, it's like this used to be a post office box of like, soul gets here on its way to the gods.

And now this is their dwelling place. This is their dwelling place. And as such, it has expanded to become a realm unto itself. The Sea of Lacrace is a theorized location with some tests having proved positive for it as the dwelling place of people who die at sea. The Sea of Lachrys is just beyond the veil into the tenebrile reaches of basically being

like the ocean of the realm of the dead. And you see where the blood of old may give new life to rotted flesh and summed forth the power of the living upon the dead, but lo and be forewarned, should the mist know but a single mortal breath, the spell is broken, the Lord consumed by death itself. on that last Pita of a 29 Arcana,

they need people with the ability to detect, to depart the living from the dead and fay from fiend, to guard the Lord on this journey on this path to the Sea of Lachrys. But if those guardians draw a living breath, the spell is broken. Right, okay. Got it, got it, got it, got it, got to go.

Okay. Does this connect it all to the river and a, The river of Govzidra. Yeah, the river Govzidra. Like, is this, I know I've just been, it's been rolling around in my mind. Govzidra, Gozidra, the river. I don't think, I don't think you can,

you could potentially like rush to like the gray library or like go to your own text and try to research that and look it up. But for the most part here in this moment, it doesn't seem to, because Govzidra, you know, is old shapers shit. Okay. That's other shit.

Okay, so this is, this isn't, right. In other words, all this necromancy shit, the weird part about it is for sounding as old as it is. Now, there's an interesting bit of like your understanding or knowledge

of this stuff is that the underworld expanded while it was since the end of the Shaper's War. This is an ancient necromantic text that references the Sea of Lachrys, which means there is something that references the geography of the underworld from the ancient past.

Back on a post office. Yes, back on a post office. Most office box. And Hald Smith, one more time. Did you, what was with the eight champions? Is born the Sepulchral? That's the part that feels the most like a recipe to you. It feels like, it feels like for this,

for a sepulchral Lord, you need eight champions. And you guys remember a cart loaded up with statues. Minus one now. I'm going to murray. You got it. You got taken. I'm going forward. I'm a little bit of all.

Okay, so these, these statues. But there's nothing in that is just how we get him back. So these, these, these, but they needed eight statues. We must have ways of them doing this upstairs. Yeah, with this vassalus gizzard, you, I'll say this too, go ahead and give me an

arcana if you'd be so kind. Not that dying more. But the eight champions. They need eight statues to make a, 20. You could actually probably, the deal is if you want to use this gizzard very inefficiently and just create one dose,

you could probably have Sid out of here by tomorrow. However, if you took some more time with it and waited and took a couple days to really do the process the right way, not quick and dirty, you might be able to make a couple doses of this. How quickly do you need him restored? I mean, honestly, and let's be fair.

How quickly do I need my brother back from being stone? Yes. ASAP. It would be nice. It would be nice, but it would be fine if I could, not to make this quite as awful as it sounds. It would be much less expensive if I could do it a little more slowly. We might even be able to have a couple doses left over

in case this happens again. Expensive, this is his brother. I wouldn't mind, but I will remind everyone that we did. sneak into the city and that people are chasing them and now us and we have brought something to your home. So as long as you're okay with that heat. I don't think we have that amount of time. I'm kind of like with Azune looking at this.

If eight champions are needed to. Time versus preparation. Wait a second. Just mean, fuck. Why? All right. All right. They're aggressive. They really bick-

We've had a very long time. We've had a lot. Don't sleep. I don't understand, we don't sleep. We're like a well-oil team. Oh, yeah. Must be nice. All right, look, okay.

Eight Champions is born the sepulchral lord. Yes. Primus Taconas has been missing for quite some time. I also saw Primus Deconis in my vision. I... What was he doing? Sailing across the sea. Well, yeah.

But he is traveling to this particular location of the underworld. Why do you say that like you knew? Well, obviously it's him. Keep going. I'm just saying it seems like Taconis is probably on some sort of mission. If we break this spell, we might be able to warrant him

because Taconis is due to come back tomorrow for the opening night of the play. And you'll have a surprise for us all. We should fix this. We have to solve this. I was already ready to. I would also volunteer that if we bring my brother back, we might be able to get some insight into what they're doing

or what their timeline is, because they will surely have replaced him by now. Quick and dirty it is. Quick and dirty. Okay. I mean, we can take a little bit more prep if we want, but we should do it before the end of the night. It's either or.

I'll also say on that memory when you were thinking about the River Gavzidra, that does remind you of the thing that Hollis said back at Night of Pallet, which was specifically talking about a person who is present here in the room with you. If you remember, Hollis was said his mistress was particularly interested in...

Well, yes. Yeah. Amazing. You guys gathered here. You have this gizzard to undo Sid. Teor, you look at your brother, frozen here. According to what you have just rescued from Castle Delany, this ancient spell,

instruction that Murray has just decoded. With that hanging question of an ancient reference to a place that you might have said was relatively new, you look and see that there is a brother staring back at you whose fate was probably to journey forward into a sea of death. And you have to wonder how many others out there there are just like him.

We're gonna switch it up. Let's go ahead. There's also much I talk about. I know, I know, there'll be more, there'll be more. Let's get the seekers out here. I didn't get my pizza at. Big boy. As the sun finishes setting over Castle Torch,

Julian, staring out over the rampart, you find yourself. A shape walks towards you and you see removing her hood, the lady Ingrid Einfuss. Sorry. Approaches you. It's crazy because everything's been building up to these episodes and we've gotten

here and everyone is so giggly. I think we're just so psyched to all be playing together again. We're excited, we're excited. We're excited. We're going to be at some point. You see, Lady Einfossen turns to you and says, Sir Julian. Lady Einfosson, I was not expecting to see you here.

What brings you to Castle Torch? You are not here with your father? No, Sir Julian. Julian, I actually have departed from Ries and Gertl as my father and mother have headed west to the city of Dormacia, a trip he is very loath to make, generally speaking. My father intended, my father communicated to me that a meeting of the sundered houses was to be called. and thinking only of the fact that a missive was to be sent to the Golden Orchard, I asked to send word to you there because I knew that your journey potentially led in that direction when we spoke.

And I know that you had to leave quickly and that's fine. Yes, my apologies. It's been a bit chaotic. I understand. I said I would send emissive along with this one to the Golden Orchard for Sir Julian and he said it would not be necessary and I questioned what he meant by that

and he said that he would not be sending any missive to the Golden Orchard and that it was handled a word that I took to be not an outright lie but disingenuous or rather in the manner in which my father tends to lie he said the truth

in a way that obfuscated the real meaning there was Yes, there was... How recently was this conversation? He... I believe that he

traveled yesterday. He set out to arrive there to meet the Toconis have agreed to a meeting there and I do not believe the invitation extended

to House Royce, and I believe that to be in defiance of my understanding of the nature of our House's alliance. You're insightful. That is good. Keep that wit about you. It will be important

to keeping yourself safe in the times to come. Yes. It will be important to remain safe in the times to come. Yes. It is troubling to think that I am I am possessed of some arcane magic

and some skill with my sorcery but safety is always of concern to a young noble lady. Of course, especially if you have gone far from your family's confines. I confided in the druids of the Sean Garten and we took Alt-radler, the old eagle. Here. I'm sorry, to double back to what we were saying before safety. I think what I meant to say was there is, I worry for the safety of your noble house.

And I worry for the honor of mine. And I worry for my safety in, I have not, I have not acted outside of my father's, he did not order me to remain in Castle Clippin-Blick. Not did he order me to not speak to those whom I keep in my counsel. But I cannot help. but feel that he would be cross if he knew that I was doing this, and therefore, and the Taconas are murdering their own family. More than theirs. He pulls out from underneath his cloak, a bottle of wine that he had pulled from the castle earlier, and opens it up and just takes a big old swig,

leans on the edge of the wall and kind of just looks out. There are old, um, All tangled politics continuously at work here, and we the young ones, by comparison, are the first to be sacrificed in this endeavor. So you are smart to be following your instincts beyond what duty pushes you towards. That is good.

It feels of the highest priority to me to find the people whom can keep me safe and whom I would relish the opportunity to keep safe. Good. Hands the bottle over to her. You want me to drink from this leather bag? Yes, please.

She takes half of it down. Here's it back to you. It is very warm. Well, I apologize I could not provide such fineries at the proper temperature for a lady of your station. Thank you for the apology. You're in the right place to be kept safe.

Here Castle Torch, you are surrendered by friends. There are many soldiers that I have myself personally trained who are here with both my mother and some of the remnants of those with which to maintain a bulwark against the evil that Taconas and its allies are continuing to push outward. So you, if anywhere, are as safe as you could be within this very castle.

The concerns I have for my safety are not immediate, Sir Julian, but rather the danger of a life misspent or the danger of what comes not in the shadow of a given evening, but rather in all of the sunrises to come. Life is filled with uncertainty and to be reliable, steadfast. I think above all else that we come from very noble houses. But one thing that unites us and even common folk is we all understand that life is built with family. Always, it must be.

And while much of family is inherited, there is some family that you choose, if it is prudent and amenable to all parties concerned? He sits up for a second, looks out in the direction of where the journey towards Stolmachia will take him and his companions and glances back at Lady Einfassang. My lady Ingrid, where I go in the days to come is not a place of safety. I march to where it is quite dangerous, in fact. Those of us are willing to do what is necessary to keep.

keep people like you safe. I do not think all of us might return, but we will do what we can. But if I'm to walk into that fire, it is only fair that we get to share some memories before the night is done. As Julian goes and takes her hand, begins to lead her from the wall and says, after all, who are we if not wants to seize the moment, not knowing when the next will come, right? Give me a persuasion check. one on stealth for PIN to be watching this. With my vision through his eyes. That's gonna be

my book, man, skills here. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. Well, on a dirty 20, you see the lady Ingrid blushes and says, yes, of course, it is, I didn't quite understand how what you were saying, related back to what I was saying,

But I would love to go on a walk. Look, let us just learn a little bit about each other. I love to hear of your adventures for a bit. Let's find us a bit more wine. I have a long journey ahead in the morning. All right. Let's get some wine, we'll talk. Some things about me, I am very skilled at embroidery.

And you see, she... She walks into the evening with you. Valis and Tisha, you have concluded brief. Remember what I said about the genres? The genre is different. Tisha and Vailas, you have concluded your talk with Han and Amida. and I think our walking back probably to Castle Torch, where Ammaida will speak with the Barragard here

about what occurred in Tanasar and beyond the endless night. But walking back with them... Oh, sorry, Ashley. I did want to ask a question to Hannan. Yeah, go for it. You would ask me if someone was with Theosian Thimble when they took the stone. Believe her name was Mara?

Oh, I didn't, wasn't I understanding that Mara was with them when they took the stone. Mara is a member of my order who has gone missing. She has failed to, she has failed in her duties as a member of the Circle of the Hunt. I was going to see if that was another threat to follow.

Does, do you, what do you know of Mara? I don't. That was the first of me. first time I'd heard her name. She is a, Mara the Wing is a very proficient druid. Given her skill and abilities was given a wide birth to disappoint us many, many times. And each time was given some more laxity.

None are required to join our circle, but being within our circle does carry the responsibility of maintaining our traditions and long absences, use of resources that belonged to our circle for reasons outside of the circle's purview, and fraternizing with those that are marked enemies of our circle. She several years ago became the victim

of a very potent, a curse or an illness, it is beyond our ability to tend to, which is considerable. Her body was afflicted with a wasting curse because Mara possessed the ability in other forms to pass through the veil from life into death and back. She was the victim of a curse which is eroding her body, and as such, should she ever return to her body, will be able to her body, will be face death. She has remained in a shifted form for some years. Thank you for sharing that with me. I would normally not expose a member of my order, but potentially expelling her from the order is one of the first items of business I have if I find her. What is she done to warrant that response?

As I've said, she's been warned many times. Items of extreme significant. have gone missing without permission being asked for her given. She is a, I've had my fill of charming scoundrels. The price becomes high, past the point that charm can ameliorate. I think Tice is just death gripping the note in her hand that she won't put away or open, and it's just sort of wielding it like a little baton. Amina can see that Mara's situation absolutely mirrors the situation

of another druid and pats you reassuringly. She's sweaty. She looks and says, there's repeated offenses. Well, okay. Strike one. Let's go see what that is. I hand it to you.

Hell yeah. You guys return to the castle where Amida and Hanon are both outside. Amida turns and says, I will return to the Sean God. to the Sean Garten soon, but myself and Hannon are service, such as it is. As far, and I think there's something, like, clearing in the, like, get the note at my hand, feel like a full adult again, and you're not in trouble in your house. Your grandma's not mad at you.

What the young lady Aidenfossin said, a meeting in Doolmachar. Something is happening with. With these houses, they are making moves and calling one another. I think it was a mistake to lose our presence in that city. Oh, my God. We've left the politics to people who care about those things looking out into the distance for the greater work we could do, but I think we are missing the forest for the trees.

We needed to be something above. of politics for people. We needed to be a place that people could turn to for the answers that politics couldn't answer. I can't imagine if we had to do the work that we are engaged in doing. If we were jockeying for terrestrial power. We seek to heal a broken world,

and we're ignoring that all of the people that are here are a part of it. And whatever they're doing right now is as important as a bear-odale. And I can't explain. I'm sorry, I don't want to get in more trouble, but I think I need to go home. My gut's telling me to go home.

Big, bare paw, has had to take your hand. Is the voice of the world speaking through your heart, and you should listen. If I'm wrong, I'm so sorry, but I'm going to trust my gut in delay. No better. Based on what you have told me of Tanisar, your contradiction of your circle's edicts

may have saved the living world of Aramon. So the gut appears like it's on, it's, it's found its truth. I don't doubt you for a moment. The events that have unfolded here are of such significance to the portent of this world, and, if I'm being honest, are failures in our other endeavors so pointed that I will tell you it is of concern to me, to Hanan, we can reach out. If you wish for resources in Dolmachiar, at the very least, at minimum, I know that the timeline of the young lady, Einfusson, is quite short. We could accompany you to Domachiar if you wish.

It help us get us, help get us back there more quickly. I wouldn't keep you from your other work, but... It is as simple as making the request to Altroddler. If you wish to go to Dolmachiar, we will take you there as soon as it's safe for him to fly. And you see that Hannan looks and says, I believe that Amida is best served attending to her circle. If you wish for me to come with you to Dolmachar and remain there so that you are not a lone voice speaking for the druidic orders of the world,

I'm happy to do so. I would be grateful for that. And I think I've heard some things about a druid matching the description of Mara in and around. The going's on there too. But I would ask for maybe a little faith. We can stray from the path and still find our way back.

I can accompany you. I will give you the space you need And truth be told, and I mean this with all due respect. I'm not much of one for cities. So if I am needed at a short distance, perhaps that is the best. Okay. Thank you. It's one thing we have in common. He looks and says, he looks and says, life is low.

Life is very low. I'll go see that all Rodler is fed. And you see he turns and looks back over his shoulder at you, having another moment of connection and confiding in each. other and give me an insect check. You got it. You got it. I got it.

I got heads. Um, um, 15. There's a pained expression on his face as he turns to walk away. That moment of connection about a reality that both of you face becomes painful for him when he remembers what you believe. And I think that you think that you that there is this horror in the moments where someone who you believe deep down wishes for those things that are dear to you to burn off of the face of the world, there's something painful when they pass the salt to you, when they open a door for you.

Those tiny kindnesses become extra painful when something so profound cannot connect. and he turns to walk to All-Trodler. Thanks. Of course. You guys enter the chamber with Octus. You see, Octus, Pin is sitting in the center and Octus is pacing back and forth thinking like he made it look so easy. I don't understand.

He was talking to her, and then I don't even think she was talking about that. And then they just went off together. I don't know how did you do that? I don't understand. He's figuring it out. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Ma! Hi.

Hi. Hi, hello. Julian is off with ladies. Angry. Yeah. I mean, oh, okay. Great. They went off. Oh, no. Okay. Talter is gonna go back to the...

I don't know if that's all happened. Yeah, I was just kind of here by myself. You? Good? Yeah. Julian is confusing. Yeah. Anyway, everything good? Um, do you wanna...

Oh, God. What is that? Yeah. Yeah. It's a scroll. Yeah. I'll open it. You're not the only one with scary family.

And I open up the wettest, just hand-swet, birch-barchment. Okay. Waiting to see something written in your grandmother's voice, you see her script, her handwriting. Druid Tisha Loi, you are summoned forthwith to the council, the circle of ancients, in the city of Dol Runya.

to share what wisdom you can about the events in which you have witnessed and participated with a love unbound by time in the living world. Siva Loi. And I read it out, so you hear it. That was clinical. I can't tell if that makes me feel better or so much worse. From what I know about you?

That was bad. Mm-hmm. She's mad. Yeah. I'm not really worried about how mad she is. I mean, I am. She helped make the weapons that killed a whole ass god. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I'm more worried. I'm a grown-ass woman, too. It's fine. I'm worried what will happen with my standing when I don't show up because I'm going back to Dolmachiar first. You're right. I mean, it didn't give you a time.

Yeah. I feel like that one has like a subtle implication of de-ass yourself from where you are right now and get to do. Oh, God. Maybe you just make the case that you're dumb and you didn't notice. The Julian defense. Yes.

Okay. That works. Ooh, I'm in so much trouble. Okay, so we're going back to Domach. We're going to have to talk, Garrett, right. We have to. Yeah, of course. We have to.

I mean, it would be nice to pass on some of this information to somebody. And I want to pass on to you everything that Ingrid was saying, because I don't think we've talked since then. No, no, no. Oh, okay. Yeah. Family meeting on Traders Day? Yeah, yeah, they're having a meeting.

And to disseminate and all get their story straight in what happened to. Royce. Yeah. To have a unified front to not have to explain to anybody what happened. We gotta tell everybody. Octus, making your determination that Dolmachiar is the next port of call, you do see that deem Saramai's body is still with you. Here.

I gotta do something with Saramai. Do they not do things here? Well, they're technically not of here anymore. They work, you know. Done. You can give me a history check. There it is. 20.

On a dirty 20, you do know that there is at the very, you don't know what her relationship with her family was like, but you do know that at least, I mean, it's hardy, hard, it goes without saying there is a really beautiful mortuary at Obermaud's Manor back in Dolmaoakkar. Yeah. Well, I guess if anyone's going to get up a dead body into Delmokiar, it's going to be me.

You want to... Okay. Okay. And she did try and save my life. Yeah, of course. If there's anything. Well, hold on. Can we help?

I mean, I just need to get them to a place. I'm going to, uh, did I, did we bring them in here in the place with us? Or are they still, still on the horse? No, I think you brought her in. She'd been later, and there are, Tonfeld, cursing by it and others are paying their respects to her. I'm going to also kind of walk past and pulling out a two copper pieces. I walk over and I place them on the eyes and cast gentle repose, and the coins sort of into smoke as the body is preserved,

so it won't decompose further. Oh, thank you. Preserve the body, gentle repose, and can bring her to Obramus Manor and to the mortuary in Dolmoggar. Julian, you and the Lady Ingrid are going on a beautiful walk on the parapets, drinking some wine. She's, you know, laughing and laughing at your jokes. And at a certain point, she goes,

I am having a very lovely time getting to know you. I'm trying to think of a delicate way to put this. I am a lady true of a sundered house. Thank you. Rain in Risenkirtle over the lands of Helva. I find your face and body attractive. and I would love to move this conversation into a physical space, but my finger.

And I go, my beautiful lady, I have greatly enjoyed this evening as well, regarding with tale of my victories of your hilarious jokes. You think I'm funny. I think you are quite unique. But I do not wish to, for you to misunderstand, I would not wish to put you in an uncomfortable place. And to be perfectly honest, I am called by duty.

So I tell you now I cherish this moment we had. And I get very close to her face, just like that very within inches of the kiss moment with my fingers right across her cheek line. And I look forward to continuing this when next I see you. Okay. Just know wherever I am. I'm hoping to come back so we can share another

slightly warm bag of wine. And all I ask, all I ask, is if you hear anything from within Castle, Einvasen, or any of the familiar networks you have that could possibly prevent me from coming back to you, but you can to let me know. Where we go is quite dangerous, and many forces work against us, the forces of honor. So I rely on you. Yes?

I will see it done. Anything I hear. I will. find a way to get word to you. Great lady, until next time. She extends her hand. I take the hand and I pull her in for one light little kiss. She goes, got it, and we're going to end it here,

and we're not going to make any promises or anything like that. About. I imagine them. Yeah, yep. And you see that she... What if we all wild shape into like a Caribbean crab? You see that she... You see that she walks away and says,

"'De next I see you, Sir Julian. And you see that she walks out. You guys see walking through the main thing back towards one of the sleeping quarters is Lady Ingrid. She looks at you and says, How did you? I did my best.

I couldn't tell if in the last moment I should say, do you want to get married? You played it cool. Was that the right choice? No, you absolutely made the right choice. You're good. All right. Are you on like a timeline?

Are you on a timeline other than just generally trying to... No, I'll rather just not like to fly at night, so I shall head back to recent girdle in the morning. Okay, yeah, just... You put a little iron in the fire. It's a smithing. Do they have hot springs here? No.

Okay. And you see that she walks off towards the dormitories. You see... Julian, in that moment... moment, do you rejoin your companions or do you stay out and about? No, I return to the chambers. Cool. You guys are all back together. I've assured us that we have a mole with an Einfosen. What have you learned? I thought that was going to go differently. Yeah, me too.

What? She's cute. I have more important matters to put my mind to. And besides. Julian, did you lay her on a little bit? Oh, trust me. I could have let her a lot further. But I'm not that kind of man. Oh, you're not. Not anymore. He's changed. Oh, I haven't changed. I just know to pick a specific kind of person to put that sort of move on. Not quite the type to be diving into the haybells with you, understand. Fair, fair. We gotta go back to Telmok Yard. How soon can we?

It's, uh, do... Alt-Roddler is at, is available to- Right now? It's a little dark, he doesn't like flying at night. I don't know. Is the morning okay? We're sun up. And it'll be faster than horses.

And give the full. Full info. Yeah, they're gonna have a meeting. I think, gone it is. Uh, so, um, we, uh, you guys, uh, head to head to rest, to head out the following morning with Altraudler. You, oh, sorry, yes. If possible, before that happens,

I do send off a missive to any soldier that may be, I'll ask around to find somebody who is set to return to what remains of the orchard and to Alba and any of the Aranesa and folks there to get this to Alba. They're just assured that Julian will find a way to stop this curse that ails her

and no matter where I am, I'm thinking of her, and just making sure to assure her that she has somebody looking out for. You see that Devinos carriage is preparing to head back north the following morning. Your mother came south purely to find you. Of course she did. Which I find her as well before we leave.

You have this message to Alba with you. You see your mother there in a sort of higher area of this wooden palisade of quickly constructed castle. She is there with, you see, a couple of, there's like some fairies here with her. You see there's a beautiful fawn, like deep brown skin, braids and small antlers coming off

who has a long bow over her shoulder. You see there's a small sprite warrior with a little beard who's like leaning against a sword on the tabletop. And you see with a massive spear on his back, there is this translucent white who looks almost like a small little tuft of silvery hair, of it's strange to say,

almost a humanoid unicorn that has like a small horn coming from the center of his brow. You see that Maya, Maya turns to you and goes, we'll have the room for one second. And you see that the Faye, and you see that one of them turns out and says, well, would you be willing to give a message to, you're not gonna talk to Thimble? And then, you're alone, correct?

I think I am. Did they say that's the whole's name? Thimble's name, yeah. I go, Hmm? What would you have me say? Twigs okay. Twigs, okay.

And we miss her and we hope she's okay. And that if she knows, if she knows what we should do, she just knows the world a lot better than we do. Should I see her? I'll pass on the message. Ah, the room clears and you were looking at your mother. If you would be as so kind as to pass this onto my sister,

when you see her. She takes the message and puts it carefully on the table. She loves you with all her heart. Let her hold on to that. What do you know of this curse that has befallen her? The race touch. It can be broken, but the spell, does not live within her body.

The spell lives within this item, and the item escaped with one of the young Tacones who attacked this place. Do we know what item this is? It could be anything we don't know. Can I do like a little above table? If we did the like full dump, we would have mentioned. Yeah, I was gonna say.

Yeah, we would have mentioned that Mara. It sounds like Mara may have had the same thing. Mm-hmm. I will not mention that time, right? Yeah. Holy five. Yeah. There you go.

Very well. I will keep all of my thoughts out to discover and uncover what this item is, who has it, and how to bring our back to us whole. And when I return, and the house that has laid us low is in tattered, flaming pieces. And there are no blades in the dark waiting to extinguish any attempts at continuing our bloodline.

They're not considered your request. But the snake must be guilt, lest it will bite every child. Your father is the greatest warrior I have ever known. Second. Your life does not belong to you. Not only. I will lose her before the year is out. And if you die in a dark pit somewhere chasing headlong into danger

because you don't like being alive, I will have lost everything I have spent my life. But if I do not go, they are lost anyway, but without the chance of actually stopping this. I do not wait for others to do this. That's all what Devinos do. Can you know this? Just go.

I do step forward and kind of just lay my hand on her shoulder. She swivels her head into your stomach. She's seated in the chair. Try to do everything right. I played the game. I was told to play as well as I could. Anessa, she has doomed us all. The game is not over yet.

I can get up and I walk away. You get to the door and you hear a sudden scuff of a chair and your mom thuds into you and holds you close and just spends probably a minute just breathing in your hair, just buries her face in your hair and just through the nose. Like she's trying to inhale your soul out of your body. to hold on to some piece of you before you leave this place. Please don't die in a dark hole where I can't find your body.

Please don't go somewhere dangerous. I'd pull away and leave. The following morning comes bird the carriage of the Eagle Altroddler, along with the Lady Ingrid Einfassen and Almeda Toadstool, the tight carriage with the Barefolk Druidess there, Hannan flies beside you, and Altrodler, deposits the young lady Ingrid back at the Sean Garden.

You see she looks up and says, I wish you all the best. Sir Julian, I shall see you soon. I'm going to send a little message. I don't know why I'm whispering in the message, but I absolutely am. Remember me by a lady's favor. She reaches out.

She grows three feet taller about nine. feet tall and goes A favor of the lady Ingrid Einfasten, boom! And summons a double-headed axe and hands it to you. Oh, I'll marry her. I'll keep her safe.

Wear it. You don't have armor. Wear it wherever you like. And remember me. I shall a gracious gift from a gracious lady. Great advice. So good.

So big. And with that, you fly to Dahlnakiar and make it there later that day. That's how Alt-Rodler works, baby. Damn, so cool. Where would you direct Alt-Roddler in the city? Where are you flying to? Do we, should we be sneaky? I understand that I'm bad at the thought of Sneaky.

Right. Because I started pointing at like, half of our group should not be seen. Animal or bird. Fair. Okay. Far side outskirts. Yeah, we can walk up. Far side outskirts. Looking at the map of Dolmachiar,

places that are safe, landing in the mountains in a place that has not been made safe for him is kind of tough with the carrier. He would be fine, right? Landing on a mountain. He's a big old bird. The carriage is tough. So easiest places for the carriage, like landing in the city is gonna be really tricky.

Yeah. But you could potentially do down in the low land. If you wanna go the far side, you could do down in the lowlands, like near Tintazi wood or like over there. Yeah, let's aim for the wood. And what's our weather situation for the day? It's always a little bit cloudy in Dolmockyard,

but you could- And I'm pumping out fog clouds, just to try to give us a little cloud cover on the way in. Like spells? I'm ripping ass. That gets us here a little quicker. We could potentially do, if you wanted to do that like some of the powers we'd been talking about,

I'd be down with that if you want to do that here. Secret powers. Don't worry about it. You know what, we'll unveil that later. Yeah, we'll do it later, we'll do it later. But I'm down to burn like all of my high level spell slots to just give, he's a white bird. So we're just trying to like give him a little cover on the way in.

Big bird at night. Big bird at night, how could you even see? How did you even see a big bird at night? I had a stroke on camera, no one did anything. Landing in the mist on the sort of far side of Lake Nahami by the forested wood here. Amada turns, wishes you the best and says, best of luck, Tisha.

Hannan transforms looking at the wood and saying, all right, I will remain here in the wood. there are friends that I can call to, and you see that some of the birds start to land around in different beasts. He sort of calls, basically using some animal friendship spells here, and says,

I have some companions nearby, and I have my own work to do tracking down Mara. If you need to be someplace in the city, your friends can direct you to the massive red tree at the loy estate. He says, and just points to sort of this promontory rock you've landed on and says, if you send word here, I'll have it. Octus reaches into his coat and pulls out a vial and drops a piece of mercury and suspends it in the air

and then it kind of forms into a sort of a flat disk and then it turns invisible and he lays Saramai on a floating disc to carry them in with him. traveling through the Tintazi wood, very disguised here in this big forest. Is it okay if I leave that axe where we dropped? It was very cumbersome. There's a moment. Put it on the disc.

It'll carry. Yeah, there's a moment. As you go, you see the arm and it goes, So, Julie, you forgot your axe. Right. Thank you for the reminder. It's a really nice axe. Put it next to the, not in the body.

Just. I'll fleece it for something. Thank you very much. It's a favor from a beautiful young lady. Indeed. I've had a few of those. You guys move through Tintazi. I'll say this. Tysha, walking through the wood here into Dolmacher,

trying to stay as secret as possible, you do know there is one friendly place that you can get to through Tintazi without having to chance being seen or noticed in the city. The hallowed round. It's on the border of the forest. Oh. All right, we're going in to follow me.

And... You don't just follow me, it's fine, it floats. It's not about it. It is an ax and a bot. Props for the show. There's been weirder things at the theater. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, let's go see a play.

What? I put my heavy travel cloak and hood off to the story. as you venture in out of the forest, let's get Liam out here. Hey! I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. It's just a giant axe and a corpse on a disc.

A disc is invisible. Hell yeah. There's your back. There you go on this side, game. Julian Devinas, I am aren't familiar with your game, and it is crazy. crazy. I love it so much. I know. Awesome. Awesome.

My polo takes so little different than most people. Yeah. I just like, did she go bigger? She panicked. It's the day before Kathara. Yeah. Oldgood has gotten a bunch of these druidic binoculars out so that people can literally crowd up on the streets and buildings around to look down. look down. It's like people that go up into the Hollywood Hills to look at the Hollywood Ball. Right, right. What time a day is it? It's like probably early morning. Early morning of

the day before? The day before. I'm not just late morning. We call it like maybe almost noon. It's getting close to noon. Okay, so at this point at the hell of around, we're not doing an actual run through of any kind. People are scattered into different groups. So Inez Roundtree is reviewing some of the combat from the play, and the chorus are all off at the foot of the tree and sort of sitting together and like half meditation, half yoga, but they're doing like tube and throat singing while they do that.

People are just working on their own individual portions of craft at this hour, and Hal has a cup of coffee and is sitting in like the third row of the amphitheater just drinking it in and trying to calm his nerves and enjoy the moment and compartmentalize. Incredible. Go ahead and give me your persuasion, your profession check for today doing your job. Ooh. Do your job check.

Right, that's my personal. Do your job check. Do your job check. That is a 19. A 19, fantastic. On a 19, everything is going according to plan, shows coming together, and you look out and see, actually on a 19, go ahead and take another D4 that you will add to that roll.

So now you have two re-rolls and another D4. Let's go. Okay, okay. You, with your cup of coffee, Shadi is out barking today. She's gonna go up and hit, she said that she was gonna hit Mirzash and Lugzash today. And you know, Hero is safe with Murray and Boler and Azune over at the Arcanade.

Are you considering what the Fotark said to you today? Absolutely. I mean to go there midday before. I'm hoping that I'm not going to die there. I'm going to go on the assumption that I'm not going to die there. And I will come back in time late afternoon for the beginning. of a proper, a few hours before a proper run through to help grease the wheels, get everything in place.

So yes, that was my plan for the day, for this day. As you're having your coffee late morning, a couple of shapes. You guys get to the back of the Hallowed Run. I hit him with Pass Without Trace, by the way. Hell yes. The disc can absolutely go into a back area and be unseen. So, Hal, you see some figures emerging.

Tisha, as you walk forward, you see Oldgood Akkrat. You're like in the seats and you see Old Good down as Tisha and her companions walk out. Those of you who would walk out, you stay back. You stay back. I think just Tisha.

They hate the theater. You see, Olegud looks out and goes, Tasha. Nope, sorry. What's passed without trace when a nosy old man can just hear you? That's all an earshot? Yeah, it's all an earshot.

I just stand up in the third world. with a cup of coffee in my hand and just sort of gape at you. Hey, do you look great. You're home. I'm home. How are you? I'm just gonna, yeah. I swat the coffee away.

Oh, it shatters on one of the stone seats of the Amp Theater. He looks over his shoulder. Just stuff. Do I see the rest of your party? Are you guys like high? You are passing without a trace. We're in the outskirts in the forest. They're just waiting.

Hang in. They're being gargoyles. Are you back back? For now. For now. Algar is alive, but we weren't able to find him. But whatever he. She didn't lay eyes on him.

No, but I do know that he survived the horrific prophecy that we saw multiple angles of. So much. So much. Maybe we should get out of here. Do you have to just look down at yoga throat singing? Is that important to be here for? Oh, they got it.

So it's just you and me? Oh, yeah. Flip off the gargles at the back and run away. Is she leading? Wait, wait, that wasn't part of the deal. So you guys rush off. Sorry, wait, give me a little more time. I don't think we run, but I don't want to talk about any

of this stuff and spook any of my company. So I think we just start ascending one of the bombs up the hill. Yeah, yeah, go for it. I think the rest of us were kind of waiting for your signs to come and join. And as soon as you are still walking away, it's like, wait, no, I'm not gonna. I just, I, shove the body in the accent, closet and close it.

Come back to that later. Once I hear you guys, like, yeah, be part of a moment. Come on. I want to give you a visit to a little. Yeah, well, I mean, I help. You breathing? What? Never. Never again.

Never again. A lot of big changes around here. Yeah. Everybody as you were, I'm gonna take early lunch. Let's take a walk. You see, Nevada looks out and says, early lunch, where are you going? Oh, I'll ask Ledo, but get me something good.

And she says, all right, stay in your work groups. Boss man gets a lunch, doesn't mean you do, all right? Sandwiches are on their way. They're running late, I hear. It's called producing. You. Incredible. You guys exit out of the VOMs up into a more private area where you have privacy.

Yeah, my notion of the hallowed round is that the performance area and the massive tree is what looks out over this massive stretch of forest and the lake off on one side too. So we're actually walking away from it towards the city. I think that is the layout here. I mean, we're just walking up the hill. The way I've described it is that the stage faces, that when you're performing on the stage, the amphitheater rolls naturally into the city ascending the thing,

so the city almost can be an audience for this like stage at the base of the city. So if you're going out at the VOMS, you could potentially go out, the ones on the side, which would go right towards the lake, or you could like go up the steps towards the city. I think we're doing that. Cool.

You head up to where. towards the city, get out, and there's like a concession stand. There's places that you can find privacy up here. I don't even know what's talk about. A lot of shit has happened here. A lot of people are coming in. We just got back Thimble and crew.

Saw them at the Arcanot. Sorry, wait. Actually, question for that. You might not have seen them at the Arcanon. Does Hal have a way, because that's happening simultaneously to this. So like, that's happened. No, I'm just getting, Liam's getting his radio waves scrambled.

Yes. Is that happening at the same time? Yes, the soldiers have gotten in at the north of the city or the south of the city as the secret arrive. So scratch that. Instead, I'll tell you, we've had a couple of assassination attempts. Oh.

Of what? Who in any? Well, I'm sure you're familiar with King Augustus. That would be one, and then the Fautark, sort of. That's complicated. Almost as shortly staged, had it's desired effect, I think. The grand dime of the Kandescent Creed

rose from the dead for the masses. Hmm. Big show at our, at the gala for this. I have to throw, I have to put on a show. So I'm trying to like split into two minds, but it's a challenge. Where you been? Well,

Tennis, I really quick. You're of two minds. This might not be the kindest way to put it, but it's been a busy couple of days. I've not known you to be embroiled in the intrigue. What's been going on around you? Well, we all know some people don't do politics,

but politics will always do you, and I think... We have a lot to tell you, too. What's the elf doing? Vailas has just accompanied these companions and is here amongst you all. He doesn't know anything that's happened. I think he's still pretty wary. Wary of you, confused by this,

have had no time to process it really, in person at least. So Al-A-Gar. As far as we have evidence of, he is alive, and the last he was seen was alive, but we don't know the lobe I'll take that over nothing. But survived the conflict that happened in Tanasar with the Barrow Guard. Did their very best to bring him home.

I think we need to... Yeah. There are a lot of pieces that I don't understand entirely. Sometimes I feel a little along for the ride, but... Just gotta ride the wave. I don't think anyone ever feels really on top of it. Murray and Nazune. We need to map things out.

I'm here if you need any. Going into the city? Yes. Oh, also, that was. Specifically swimmels his head over. I can make myself look different. Okay, that's good. That's helpful. Yeah. Do you know what's happened to my family here?

Oh, yes. You understand why it's likely best that I keep myself obscure it as well. I can make you look different too. I've tons of wigs. Yeah. We gotta hide those. those curls.

Absolutely not. No, we're gonna. Come on. Hell also has a flash of the crudely painted pariah blades in his mind as he looks into Tysius's eyes. It just shakes his head. Not the time. Not the time. Too much too soon. Hell yeah. I mean, you do it. There are a lot of also mundane disguises here.

That's true as well. Yeah, absolutely. We've got these two full-on wings that have been built into the sort of like the sides of the amphitheater that didn't exist in centuries past, and those are full of costumes and not the extra wigs with lice, plenty of wigs. That's an inside thought.

Yeah, Nevada, Nevada looks and says, don't get the wigs with lice, we're keeping the lice wigs in a box backstage. And runs back away, he came, opens up the claws again, like puts the body in the accent like a nicer. I was panicking, I'm sorry, just talking to you. A corpse shuts the door again.

What are you opening? Are you opening a... You see him open the side door just... A side door to what? I don't know, whatever he found. Oh, a building? In the, in the... Oh, we are. In my theater. In your theater.

I thought like you were opening a door to the path. In nowhere. No, and inside there is a corpse and an axe that he is placed in there a minute ago. Okay, add it to the pile. Yeah, they, I'll deal with that later and just... I'm not gonna carry it through this. No, that makes sense.

Well, let's get your boys dressed up, follow me. And we will then curve our way down one side of the theater and walk into racks of clothing. You can dress as almost anything. Think of the multitude of costumes that would be in an opera house and they are here. Don't have to wear a wig, though. No, you have to wear a wig.

Your hair is very recognizable. Because it's so good and you're so pretty. We've got hats, we've got cloaks. All right, I guess it's time to role play. You know what, I grab one wig off of the I grab one wig off of its holder, and it's like a brown wig. It's like just higher than shoulder length.

It's got sort of like a otherworldly 70s vibe, and I just start to tug it down over Julian's like black curly hair. Looks kind of like that. And it's in place. Give me a performance check. Yeah. Oh.

Can I provide the help action with like just gluing down the waist? Yeah, you can do it help. You can do a help. You can do a help. You can do a manager. Okay, okay, okay, okay. That's exactly the same. So it's a 16.

16? Great, 16. Julian, I think you've got him in something that would be normally reserved for like a wine-sopped older uncle noble. So it's like big opera, but there's like, you have like pillow belly and like it's, this one's had a lot of stage blood. And you see there's like a bunch of red scarves

somewhere to pull out to be like, this one was from Wine and Wassel. I saw that one. Looks good on you. Sure, thank you. The time of day where you would probably want to start thinking of approaching the FOTARC is getting near.

Okay, so. Things that would be on your horizon would be Fotark. Gus said he wanted to meet tonight, right? And then you have, and then it's also like the standing seven star with the fucking schemers, right? For homework, yeah, yeah, yeah. You will take care of yourself. Octus waves his hand in front of his face,

and as the hand passes, he becomes a sort of elven gentleman with long, blonde hair and just exists looking completely different. It's easier to hide the eyes this way. If you weren't dead, I'd give you an audition. All right. Let's get into the city. Why don't we go to my house? You guys can wait for, wait for Murray and crew. Unless you're pressing business?

No. I mean, we need to talk to everyone, so. There's a lot of information to get out. Let's go to your house. I just wave at Nevada and just go. Very well, yes, all right, everybody. That's lunch. And you see that they are getting sight. You're going to head out back to your dwelling place

with these four as well. Nevada comes up to you and says, Hal, I know you're going back home. Do we have any answer about Misha? I know he's under house arrest, but the show's tomorrow. I'll think about it. It's risky, but he did put in so much work. He put in a lot of work.

He deserves to see it. Misha is under arrest for conspiring with a young lad to steal from. Obramous Manor. I know we're outside, but maybe inside voice. For, for... Sorry, you think that's my outside voice? That's fair.

This is a whisper. My boy, my outside voice would knock you on your ass. I miss home so much. I take her by the hand. We'll make it happen. All right. I used to play summer festivals. Yeah, I can tell. Absolutely no incline to the hill. So you had to shout loud enough for people to tell what you were feeling.

when they could only see the back of other people's heads. You couldn't see the performance at all. My dear girl, you couldn't see it at all. Just scream theater. That's just theater. You guys head to Hal's home. I know this is a beefy episode.

We're going to do a quick switch. Let's get everybody else out here real quick. Oh, everybody join? Everybody join if we can real quick. You guys had to, oh, sorry. I'll be the, I don't know that we're gonna have everyone at the same time, but I'm sorry, I missed said that. Let's get the people that are going back to the Arcanon.

You guys are swapped out. I want to get the Arcanon. Goodbye. Incredible. It's a recap. Returning back to the Arcanod in this moment with our soldiers and the majority of our schemers, we come together. You have unveiled a lot

that you have wrested. The soldiers returned not only with Sid, who was rescued, not only having defeated the treacherous Casimir Gavondale, but specifically come back with a huge amount of detail about something that Murray had seen only glimpses of in her vision. This recipe, this ancient spell, the Sea of Lakers, which has a sort of, it's at least a proper now. You go from being like there's a general thing going on

where they're turning paladins into stone to being specific. There's something they're trying to do here, sepulchral lord. and you think of the vision of you saw of those eyes going white in the white banners, calling the white banners, whatever the fuck that means.

There is something afoot, the Taconas and the question of Octus and what happened with Octus. And Thimble, that is deeply significant to you and you're wondering where the fuck Octus is. You schemers, I believe, know where the seekers were headed. You know where Tisha and all of the,

them were headed. And I think there's Gav Zidra, the things that you heard about, the mistress of that knife and palette pigments having to do with Wakander. And I think for you, Azune, you knew, you know that people have been asking around for WIC and also asking around for Taylor. Yeah. We return to this moment, Boler. You think you will need, if you were to just take this gizzard right now, you could

potentially work through the night and have it ready tomorrow morning, but there would probably maybe be a con save for exhaustion there. Or you could work on it during normal daytime hours tomorrow and have it ready by nighttime. There's no way I can split it half and half. You could do half and half potentially,

but it will still be already at the same time, right? Yeah, that's fair. Because we're trying to basically distill down this gizzard in order to make a potion to reverse this, right? Yes. There's also the fact that King Gus wanted to meet with you tonight. Yes, which is also, I was gonna, that's very fair.

And not to throw this, is there a world here where metaphorically nine women can make a baby in a month? Well, that's what I was gonna say. Can we speak it up? Can we, I either talk to Hero even or even tap some of, like someone at the Penteverell who is, like, if you wanted to get the fuck out of here and head to the Penteviral with this gizzard,

the Pentevral absolutely has the means to turn this into a, into a reagent. Or are our kids here? My question is, can I get, can I get, do we have enough? You specifically told me that you wanted kids that were men. Yes. My people, except for hero. Hero's okay.

You could pass it off to your staff, yeah, for sure. Yeah, that way, less running around. And that way also, I don't have to, we don't have to involve too many institutions at once. I know, I would be of a concern about that. All right. They know what they're doing though, right? They're not gonna fuck it up.

No, no, we're very, very good at what we do here. And I would rather keep it in an institution that isn't currently being run by Problem people. Yeah, he's got to go. Right, more, more problem. The Pentevril's been a little compromise here lately.

So we're gonna do that. You said Octus is alive. Where did he go? He went with Tysha and Julian, Dillian. God, yes. With Julian. There wasn't a lot of options. I all needed to get out.

Yeah, Anne Velaus. Right. Where? I think they went after Aligar. Yeah, and trying to find out more about this song of Nightstone. So I think they went up to the the Savalilis, the one.

Cylangri. Salangri Woods is another universe. Savalier Woods. It's a shared universe. It's the shared universe. The, you, you, I can just see the YouTube thumbnail. I can't confirm confirmation.

They were headed towards the endless night. They were headed towards... Right, towards the elves. No, this was the old Obridimian Empire. They headed east. Obridemia, that's right. The Barrague Castle Torch. The noodle shop.

That's all you had to say. Thank you. Oh, I don't know what that is. I have a lot of work to do. We all do. I have to. Actually, we don't. We don't have very much work to do at all.

If people are looking for WIC all over town, do you want to try to make contact with your family before they find you at health show tomorrow? Oh. I don't. No? What? Why'd everybody go, oh? We are going to have to hide the two of you somewhere.

Yes. Yes. Would Hal have shared that he was expecting to go visit the Fautark? Nine people at the table. In your guys, when you guys post-assassination attempt were like comparing notes, would Hal have shared with these other schemes? I would. At this point, they're all in with all in.

In that case, you three would know that Hal is planning to go to the Via Aurora today, probably in like the next hour. Okay. Thank you, Liam. Yes. So as they say that, you would just, I just, that's information for you. My question still stands.

I don't think I should go see my family without knowing what I'm walking into. Well, sure, but if you're just showing up at Hal's show tomorrow, they're gonna be looking for you anyways. Yes, but they won't find me because Hal has an assortment of costumes and disguises. Well, does everybody think that's today? I've sort of been looking forward to it actually.

I don't think it's a great idea. It's the best I've heard so far. What? I think you should hide from your family. Yes. Yes. I think you're a key component. With a smart mustache. Okay.

Possibly a funny hat. Yeah. Some optics, some spectacles. I'm sensing a montage. Yes. Yes, I could wear a suit that makes my body a different shape. Maybe some stilt shoes to make me a little tall. All at once?

Well, I just want to make sure they can't find me. We, mm, let him do it. If he wants to die, let him die happy. Do you have a way to get him into, where is the show? At the halibrand. Do you have a way to get him in so he can disguise himself from his family? Or is that an us?

We, yes. Several of us can disguise people, yes. Also, we could give him my box at the show so they wouldn't be discovered. We also know a number of people that were interested in him. That way he could wear all the people. Do we think that she's really gone out of town

until the day after the play? Are we being spied on? Why are you whispering? I don't. We were always being spying. We've been having a terrible time with people listening. to our conversations, it's made us very paranoid.

I do apologize. I, it's been a lot. Actually, this is a good question. Wickhander. Yes? Do you know as part of actually and for you too, Tyranny? This is very important.

Are you aware of someone named Mistress Endeavor? I don't even have Mistress Endeavor. That can't be right. Oh, the mistress of- The Mistress's Endeavor. Hollis, Kittywater never said his mistress's name. Yes.

You never, okay, okay. Do you know a Hollis, Kennywater? Either are you? Where does one name begin and end? Her name, Hollis. Okay. Skinny, not Skinny water. Kennywater.

Kennywater, okay. Do I know that name? Not for the fucking life of you. What if I roll for it? Roll, give me a roll. Honestly, yeah, give me a roll. Hit a note 20. 18.

18, pretty good. You don't know without it. What about tyranny though? Because it seems like whoever owns the knife and pigment, which is where these paints were rendered from celestial blood and turned into like dreams. Yes. Paints.

Seems like they are under the same proprietorship of the see no evil. And they definitely, they had like a little candle out and they were definitely talking about how they have some Halivar connections. I mean, that's not my information to share, but it would make sense that they're using celestial blood.

All information is to be shared now. Maybe. Perhaps. I don't know. I don't know what this paint is, but yes. It's McHander's. I'm gonna roll to see if I know. Uh-huh. Yes. Oh, what do you know? 19. Oh, give me a history check. You're done. I'm sorry. Thank you. I just.

Um, now 14. On a 14. You've heard Knife and you, you know, of knife and pigment, knife and palette pigments. It's a, but it's a place that Fiazzi had mentioned once or twice, but he never, you guys never went there together. Okay. But you know where it is and it's interesting, I think the, the, yes, the, so it's interesting to you. You know that Fiazzi went there.

Yeah, that's went there. Do you know because, they asked, they said your name, Thimble. Do you remember dropping off any type of payment? Yes, Thimble, you coordinated payment for... Six amphora's of pain. You, yeah, you got the money for... You moved the money around for Thass

to pay hand and wheel to make these big magic amphora that Thas wanted and shipped them over to Knife and Pigeon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I made sure the payment went through. Okay. I moved the money around. But you never actually made face-to-face contact with him. Uh-uh.

Brennan, real quick. How many, because we would all know this, how many amphoraes of paint ended up at the hollow round? How many did we get from Belair? Six, I believe. We got all six. We got all six.

And what did they look like these things? They're giant amphoraes. But full of paint? Yeah. Of just different colors, just normal colors? Not glowing or anything. Well, they've got illusory magic, but then doing a deeper dive into them,

I was able to ascertain that they were rendered from blood, from, it was a whole thing. From celestial blood. And it created dreams. Faz organized it? Yes. It seems like it is. Okay.

It had a similar signature. These paints and this energy, it had a similar signature, like magical essence, to the Song of Nightstone. and almost as if it's like, Have you read this? Nope. Let's read it a four times!

We've done a complicated analysis of this letter. Remember, until a stable trinity of bridges are built, it is vital that the blood be protected. I trust that you have disguised it well, in paint. This is a letter that came to Thas, but I don't know who sent it. And the letter specifies that they need blood, steel, and an anchor for some sort of.

Which the song, the Stone of Night's song was the anchor. They were turning old arcane objects into something different. Something useful now because old arcane objects are tied to. The shapers, which don't do anything, right? They're useless now. They need people that can shift them. That's been a consistent thread in what we've been discovering as old rituals that have no longer have the same use.

And so people are taking them and making something different. Do you know Bogri? No, who's Boghry? He was at the Pentever. We know something you don't. I'll let you have this one. He's lizard folk. He's from the Sunset Mountains.

Would I know? Give me history. Let me history check. Our friends do. Yeah, it's a natural 18 baby. 25 total. A couple years ago, pretty recently, maybe like two or three years ago,

Lizard folk came by for a tour of this place who had a pretty big knack of personal wizardry, like had done, like sort of in the way that you crafted your own message can trip without any formal schooling, he had a lot of informal wizardry, took a tour of the Pentevral. And to your way of thinking, might have been a little rude. He was sort of like, he was, he kind of came in and was like, so what did you got out here? There's some kind of, you know, he's like, oh, you got some kind of arcane spindle, some kind of spinning wheel. Yeah, you can do that. I mean, sort of archaic, you know, like, it was a lot of.

So he was like nonplussed. He's really full of himself. Okay, great. I think we made a terrible error. Everyone, Wicander has something to share with the new people and you'd better be nice to him about it, okay? Because he just learned this and he wasn't hiding it from you, but it feels significant.

Thank you, Terni. Just really briefly, the Fotark has been distilling celestial blood from a trapped and tortured angel in my basement for decades. Yeah. And also the celestial blood of the angel has been tattooed on my face and inserted it into my body. Now be nice.

Wick, that was very helpful. That is very helpful. That feels like it may be connected where this is just pain and the blood is coming from because this, the knife and palate. They're doing some sort of later. I don't, behind you, you see, behind you see Hero who you did not know was in the room, say, now that's something I did.

Hero! Out of here. I came downstairs because Lord Haurandes Einfossen is upstairs he's looking for Lieutenant Azunay. Oh. Hero, you're on basilisk duty. I'm very upset. Oh, basilisk duty?

You need to turn someone to stone? You're gonna make a potion or turning someone. I agree. Listen to Bolair. You're gonna be put on trying to help the other members of the Arcanada in order to distill this into a potion. But Lord Einfossin is here. I have to go.

Lord Einfosson's here. It's super important. Lives depend on it, okay? Okay. You see that she looks at the the giant stone statue next to her and goes. Yes, that's the one. Okay, got it.

You're the only one who comes up and down into here for now. Everybody else just knows this is priority and you're in charge. Got it. Remember, you're getting, this is counting towards your credits for the semester, so if you say anything, say anything, their student, I don't know who here,

she's very smart. No, you know, this is Hal's younger daughter. This is here. She goes, Bimble, hi! Hi. Are you trying to hide the Lord Halever? Do you know where your dad is?

Yes, I am. Yes, we are. Yeah, he's at the Hallowed Round right now. He's, he's, it's, the play is tomorrow night. I know. We were thinking about hitting the costumes. Could you get some, some costumes, some props, some disguises, some.

We could go to the Hallowed Round, or you could come to my dad's house. He's got some costumes back of the house. Can I, can I go? Can I go? We do need to hide them, and they can't be seen walking around. That's, after everything that's happened to last.

No problem. I hit Masked Many Faces and I'm Murray. Is this good? Oh. I'd do a different one. Octus again? Don't do it. Octus doesn't help.

Even bigger. We'll work. Don't do someone hot. Just don't do someone hot. Do Octus. Everybody who's currently a suspect is hot. Don't do Octus. Octus is in a state.

All right. I'll figure it. We don't have to figure it out. We'll workshop. The hero says, I'll take you back to my dad's house and get you costumes there. But I'm gonna go get this started. This has got a simmer for at least like four hours.

Actually, maybe we should all, should we all just convene back at house? Maybe that's the way we should go right now. Let's make our way to house. There's a lot of information that needs to be shared. We gotta get the buck and pari blades out of what with land. I was just about to say that. Keep it down, Cadigan.

Just kidding. The floor on his back in a plow position with his ankles over his head. And he just says, my lower back hurts when I sit for too long. Speaking of too attractive, who's this to? I immediately get out of the plow position. We are so much fun.

We're in so much fun. To get you guys ready to go to Hal's home. You see, Hero says, should I get them out of here first or should I wait for everybody else? We can get them out of here. Okay. We can do that. Do you mean back up with the Ein Fawson?

No, I'm good. All right. We're going to go deal with the swords. Yes. That was, there was no way we could have known, but that was a terrible mistake and we have to fix it right now. Should I go with you?

Maybe some of us should go, what should we do? At the very least. We gotta go the hallowed round anyway, right? The swords. We'll catch you up on the way. We need two, we need magic information and muscle. We need bogry. Do you know where he would be?

Why do we need bocary again? He's the hot shot. From the letter. From the letter. Read the letter. Three times not to read the letter. No, I was gonna win the song. We'll divide the groups.

Thimble Cadigan with me. So you see, Hero gets Tyranny and Wicander to head back to the rookways. Outfit. You head upstairs to speak to Lord Ein Fossack. Murray and Boler and Thimble Tehrer Katagan. What are you doing? Are you staying hidden down in the Arcanod?

Or are you headed? You guys said you wanted to go to the hallowed round. We need to deal with the antiques. and antiquities we left in the prop closet. In T.O.'s brother. Well, I think the statue's staying here. The statue is staying here. Leave the statue. We are working on that.

You all came in on a cart. Yeah. Let's take the cart to the hallowed round. You all get back under the covers. We're gonna go. We're gonna deal with the sword. We'll get you a disguise. Then we're all gonna round up, and we're gonna go to Hals House. I'm going to House House now, I thought, right?

Hero's got you going to House. No, Hero's gonna say, make the potion! Okay, okay, we'll go with you. The thumb is of the essence. She can't take their triple one across time. Where is everybody going? You're all going to go to the hallow round. Except me.

Except you. So you seven head to the hallowed round. Azune, you head upstairs. Hero says, all right, I'll get started on Basilisk. As you rush over there, you see, heading upstairs, Azune, you see Lord Ein Fossin waiting for you. He looks and says, Lieutenant.

There's one thing I want to do on my way up as I'm going to meet him. Yeah. I've studied him. I've studied his wife. I've been studying their features. Yeah. I'm going to cast alter self

on my way up and I'm going to ever so slightly alter my features, my jaw line, my cheekbones, so it blends a little bit into them. Cool. Hell yeah. I love that.

Looking just a little bit more ein-fasini. As you walk up, you see Haurandis looks at you and says, Lieutenant Naya, how goes the investigation this morning? Have you discovered anything? Actually, yes, my lord. Given other investigations that we've conducted, we followed a similar protocol. And we have found a couple of things that don't seem to add up, and it's a little suspicious. Where can we speak more privately? He walks out with you onto the rampart of the Arcanade looking over the vast river Vrosh, tumbling through the city.

And you guys have privacy. It was quite a miraculous thing that were many witness there. Would you not agree? I agree. It's true. We did find evidence of some poisons that were, seemed to have belonged to, we think, an Assassin's Guild that was active during the War of Axon Vine.

It seems to point to Argosia. But the magical signatures is interesting to me. It was really difficult to find anything that resonated with some sort of divinity. I found magical signatures that suggest elusory magic, enchantment, and necromancy. Give me deception or persuasion.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I believe in you. Do I gain anything from the... No. Or from the alter self? Yes. Altar self, my hope is to increase

the sort of... Familiarity? Yes. Let's see if you're successful. Okay. I'm going to use a luck point. Okay. I'm going to roll it here.

Okay, I'm glad I did that. 21. Ooh. Hot. He looks at you and says, Fascinating. There is necromancy, enchantment. Resurrection would be of the school of necromancy.

I'm glad the investigation is continuing. I have not. come here to speak to you of this investigation, but another. Okay. Tell me. That which was brought to our attention from your Inspector Grotto, we have taken those notes very seriously. Yes.

We have heard that he is made a full recovery, which is excellent. We wish for his report to be brought to us firmly and for him to swear that he would be able to attest to that before the Tribunal of the Revolutionary Council, if need be. Of course. His vision is circumstantial. It is a potent indication of wrongdoing that pointed us in we believe the right direction. But it is very, Lieutenant Nayar.

Tomorrow will be a very momentous day for this city. If you are aware of any criminal activities concerning the house Taconas, beyond what your inspector received in his vision. Yes. We will need a report. And if there is harder evidence that you have access to of what may have happened at the Palazzo de Vinos

or perhaps more importantly, what may not have happened at the Palazzo de Vinos. Do you understand my meaning? I do understand. We require a straightening of the spine and that requires hard evidence that cannot be ignored even in favor of political expediency. Do you understand me? I do, and I aim to serve you to the best of my abilities,

which is why I've been building a case to present to you. I'm afraid I must be rude to you because the timeline for that case that I'm very glad to hear you have been building has just moved up considerably. We need that case presented to us before our meeting, which occurs tomorrow night. Either today or tomorrow morning, we will need you at. And I understand that I am making a request now. I make a request in a place of vulnerability to you, Lieutenant Nayar.

Because this report should not be made at the Brethren Hall. It should be made at the Stahlkeep with the other members of House Einfassen. Are you willing to entertain such a task? Absolutely. I aim to serve House Einfossen. I will give you what I know. I will get all of my ducks in a row, and I will give you ample evidence. There is much that I know of you, and now there is something you know of me. This is a fruitful relationship, Lieutenant Naya.

I agree. When shall we expect you at the Stahlkeep? I will be there as early as I can. If I can get my materials together, I will be there tonight. I will wait there with other members of my house. As much evidence as you can gather, the conclusion that we are asking, very important people to arrive at,

is an extremely troubling conclusion. It will take a great deal of convincing. You understand? I do. Tomorrow, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Tonight, all we need to do is talk. I'll see you there, Lieutenant. And he walks away from there, and that's all for this episode

of critical world. Oh, man, the lion's den. Oh, you got this. I didn't deserve. I'll be there tonight. He wants to come in. Boy. Because that's where there's the most evidence.

Happy to be alive. I'm going to try to get my brother on May to Stowe, you know. Should we get everybody else out here for Cool Down? Show the Cool Down. For the Cool Down. Well fucking done. Is it Thursday yet? Thanks for listening to this episode of Critical Role.

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