Critical Role - Spectacle | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 36 Part 2

Episode Date: October 6, 2026

Part 2The Schemers struggle with the consequences of their actions as the fight for Dol-Makjar intensifies...New Episodes Release Weekly on Thursdays.Learn more about Campaign 4 at https://critrole.com/campaign4/  USE CODE: “BringAParty” for 1-month free on Beacon - https://beacon.tv/BringAPartyGET MORE CAMPAIGN 4 WITH BEACONWith a membership to Beacon by Critical Role you get:🎭 The earliest, ad-free access to videos and podcasts from all our shows, including Campaign 4📺 TV apps on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and Roku📱 The Pocket Beacon mobile app with offline video access on iOS and Android🎬 Exclusive shows: Critical Role Cooldown, Weird Kids, Fireside Chat, and Tale Gate's Night Cap, with more to come!💬 Members-only Discord server🛍️ 10% discount in all our online shops🎫 Live event pre-salesOFFICIAL CAMPAIGN 4 CASTGAME MASTER Brennan Lee Mulligan Laura Bailey as ThimbleLuis Carazo as Azune NayarRobbie Daymond as Kattigan ValeAabria Iyengar as Thaisha LloyTaliesin Jaffe as Bolaire LathaliaAshley Johnson as VaelusMatthew Mercer as Sir Julien DavinosWhitney Moore as TyrannyLiam O’Brien as Halandil "Hal" FangMarisha Ray as Murray Mag’NessonSam Riegel as Wicander "Wick" HalovarAlexander Ward as Occtis TachonisTravis Willingham as Teor PridesireCREDITSProduced by Maxwell James, Steve Failows, & Kyle ShireSet Designed by Shaun EllisProduction Designer: Noxweiler Berf Character Art by Loren HontanillaEdited by Taylor Burke, Emily "Stevie" Stevenson, and Garrett AlvordCritical Role Announcement Playhouse Editor: Vinny CelestiOpening Title Editor: Paul FoyderOpening Title Colorist: Peter Koocheradis Window Effects by Christian BrownGraphic Design by Aaron Monroy & Jordyn TorrenceDol-Makjar art by Daniel Jiménez VillalbaMiniatures Painted by Payton Keo LacebalOpening Title Theme by Neal AcreeCampaign 4 Key art by Hannah FriederichsAdditional Art & Design by Hannah FriederichsEpisode QC by Catherine Zimmerman & Paula FloresAssistant Editor: Gianna GencarellaPost Production Coordinators: M Swing & Bryn HubbardClosed Caption Editing by Margaret Dill, Nikki Kindelberger, Courtney Knewtson, Danielle Lackie, Eleanor Smith-Dufresne & Alice TsoiPost Production Supervisor: Tal LevitasHEALTH & WELL-BEINGDue 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/PsycomResourcesFOLLOW CRITICAL ROLE!Website: https://www.critrole.comNewsletter: https://critrole.com/newsletterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/criticalroleTwitter: https://twitter.com/criticalroleInstagram: https://instagram.com/critical_roleTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalrole#CriticalRole #Campaign4 #Araman 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. There is no cheat code to make me nice to you. Folks, we return to the table. We return to the table. I feel that there's been a nice, even mix of grace and strictness here at the Schemer's table. Allendele and Murray, choir singing begins. Do you remain for the rest of the service here, even though Wick and Yonesa exit from the back of the.

I think I go over to Murray in the back and pull her hair out of her face. I gotta get out of here. Do you wanna get out here? Yeah, I gotta get the fuck out of here, bro. All right. But Azune is many rows up ahead. up ahead. I think if people around me are starting to get up,

no one's been out. The service is continuing. You're locked in for two hours, baby. I click my teeth, send a message to Azune. If I stay in here one second longer, I'm going to disintegrate. I need to leave. Where can I find you later? I don't think we should go back to the seven stars. I think we need a new hiding spot. I think it's been compromised. Maybe the cave. the cave by the lake. I'll see you there. All right. See if you can tell the others.

Cool. Good luck. Hell yeah. You guys take off. Yeah. I'm gonna walk us a couple blocks away and sit us down on like a step of a building that is like secluded, abandoned. You find yourself? It's all fucked. We are so far. We are so far. We're fucked. We're pretty fucked. Every consequence ever to every action we've ever made has just suddenly decided to rear his head. You were telling Azune we're gonna meet him out by the woods?

Yeah. All right. I have to go to Elides right now. What's wrong? You gonna go again? I threw up again. I lean back. I lean back.

No, I'm okay. I think she's just the reflex. I feel better being in fresh air. Okay. What's going on? I gotta tell my daughter she's kicked out of school. Nope, and she barfs again. What do you mean? Elity got message to me. Hero's been expelled. Revenge, obviously.

Opening salvo from the photarch. Oh my god. We did this, we did this to her. We had no business doing that to her. This is our fault. Unfortunately, I got word that another one of my professors got sacked as well, Theodoro. I actually have really mixed feelings here

because I have just ripped something my daughter loves out of her hands. We can fix it. We gotta fix it. But do we even want her there anymore? You've just lost another teacher? Yeah. It's a different dean? Yeah. and I have a feeling that I'm next to hell.

There's a non-zero chance that I walk into work the other day and have a resignation letter waiting for me to sign on my desk. I think we've maybe stretched too far. We've clearly, what we were doing was working. And rest, I wouldn't retaliating in this big way. But I think we need to, we need to pause. We need to regroup.

and we need to reconsider some of our plans. Well, they're circling, right? Yeah. And this is only the beginning, so what we need to do is shore up any allies we have. We have our people hidden throughout the city. We have our magpies. But we need people with more sway.

It's kind of all or nothing tomorrow night at the theater, I kind of feel like. People with more sway, but I think we also, we can't. discount or ignore the layman, the average everyday people here. We gotta, look at that congregation was full. I know, well, last night has gone a decent amount of the way towards helping in that respect.

You saw people leaving that theater. We have a moment in hand. Yes, we could lose it all in an instance, but we have a moment in hand now if we can, if we can just navigate these shoals here and now and not die on the rocks. He has no confidence as he says all this to you. Yeah, I'm envisioning Inerd's getting plucked up

by crows as we die on those rocks. Would you do me a favor? If we survive all this, would you teach my daughter? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I can keep teaching her starting immediately. I feel so guilty for this, Hal. I put her there. Do you think this is because of we recruited her

for our machinations, or do you think that it's just despite you? I mean six of one, half a dozen of the other. My daughter's hurt. Do you want me to come with you or meet you in the woods? I'll meet you in the woods. Hey, Hal. I don't know if we need to talk about this right now, but I'm, I don't know.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I'm worried about Azune. I think he's cast his lines too far, and he doesn't have enough real to get it back in. I think it's... Well... There's too many lies. And they're woven too deep,

and I'm afraid it's all unraveling in a bad way. Let's just get through the next 24 hours. Yeah, that's been the past two weeks of 24 hours. Um, I'm gonna go back to the Pentevral. I think I need to gather my things and maybe move them to a safe space, because in fact, I mean, it could have, fuck. I gotta go. I'll meet you in the woods.

I hope you find good tidings, and the words reverberate, and you take Bartic inspiration away with you as you go. I'll fucking take it. You grab Partic Inspiration? No idea. Marie, you take off towards the Penteverel. You go to the Devian estate.

Knock on the door, Elity opens it, embraces you. Hey. She. How did the news come? She. I'd like you to go talk to her because she's not herself right now, and she won't listen to me. I kiss Elity on the cheek and move into the home.

you walk up. The Devian estate is, Elity, Hero spent half her life at your home in the rookery, but also spent half her life here. And it's a very different situation. Many, many rooms, there are servants here, not a whole staff, but like three. And it's a, she grew up differently than Shadia and Aligar did.

You are, this home is in Lugzash. And you're very well appointed and you walk into a room, canopy bed, small fireplace, seated at the foot of her bed, her feet crossed is Hero, who looks up. Hey, kiddo. He dead. Look about it.

They said I forged my application the internship program to the Argonaut. Professor Magnessen literally took care of it all. Like, I know that the dean knew. It wasn't even a problem. The dean came up to me a couple times and was like, oh, hand-picked by Professor Magnesson, you got to get your mom to come to one of our mixers. I guess it became a problem after the play opened up. So sorry, this is on me. What? Wait, I don't understand. Are you sorry like you're sad this happened? Or are you sorry like you feel responsible that this happened?

No, I'm like asking. I don't, I can't tell. I'm like trying to tell what you mean. Right, right, right. I just hate to have opportunity and passion taken out of your hands. They can't take that out of my hands. They can't take it out of my hands. It's in the founding poetry of the Pentevral. The words of power were the language the gods used

to shape this world, and it wasn't their world, and they were strangers to it. And the tools that they left can be picked up and used to different intention, and in the differing intention made different tools. They think they can take wizardry away from this? Not even the shapers could do that. I'm not scared.

I'm not scared at all. And it's not your fault. you put on a play in the theater that belongs to our people. And they, it's very obvious that it's political. It's very obvious that I didn't do anything wrong. I am a straight A student. I've got nothing but top marks in all my classes. And they want to punish me for who my dad is.

And they can't because I'm proud of who my dad is. So you don't have anything to be sorry for. They're going to be sorry. Like, when'd you grow up so fast? Oh, for a second, I was like, I'm growing up at the same rate as everybody else. I hug her. A deep hug.

She pulls you into a deep hug. And I think you can feel Elity move from listening in the hall to kind of standing in the doorway. And Hero looks up and goes, I'm feeling your body, what state is Howl's body in right now as you get a hug from Hero? I mean, he is pretty emotional. And even though most of the things she's saying,

he completely agrees with, it's still a father's gut reaction to have his child hurt in relation to his actions. Hero. She probably can feel the trepidation in him. As she does, she goes, the other students were freaking out. They'd like walked into

the classroom and were like, you're expelled, and I was like, I already, like, I already paid for this semester. And the professor was trying to explain something. And then one of the guards, one of the, like, Taconas cards literally came and grabbed me and the students freaked out. They like threw like pens and stuff at him.

I mean, people are already going nuts. Where is Demetis Blix? I mean, I know where Demetis Blix is. I'm not saying anything, but the students don't know where he is. He took a job off the student job board in Van They're fired. Everyone knows that Dean Tallbarrel didn't want to leave.

But Professor Theodoro was fired. We all watched him walk out of his office with all his stuff. Why aren't we allowed to learn abjuration? Why aren't we allowed to learn how to dispel sorcery or counter it? Kind of seems like horseshit, doesn't it? It is horseshit. You see that Elity steps in and goes, I think that cooler heads can prevail in

this moment. And you see Hero turn around and say, shut up, Mom. I don't want to, some bridges burn, and they should. And you see the Elity goes, I don't love to be spoken to that way. And you see she turns over to you, Hal, and makes eye contact with you. Listen, a lot is happening tonight, and everyone's going to have their feelings about it.

I say to Hero. Everyone's gonna feel the way that they do individually. We might not all see to eye here, but let's try to remember that we are family. Give me persuasion. I think it's a one. It's a nap, that one. Which breaks my every roll. That's the one exception.

So you see, you see that she looks over at you. As you could roll that and that one, I don't know what's happening at this table. Everyone, should we stop and you go take a bath? That should have been a 21 with my bill. with your bills and instead it's a Nat one. You see that she looks over and, and you see as Hero begins to sigh,

you see Elity looks at you and says, how I think we should be on, I think your perspective should be my perspective. And you know, now it's a marital dispute. And you see that hero looks and says, yeah, of course you want me to calm down, Mom. Like, you're the one going to the Sundered House functions. You're the one who's going and talking to them.

And you, do you know that mom has a creed necklace? Do you know that she has one? And you see that Elity puts a hand over her head and says, I don't, it's, I don't wear it when I'm out on the street. I wore it one time at an event that was. And you see that, here says, what? We got this huge house. We have this huge, for your merchant,

company that does nothing for the history of this city or the history of the people who live here. And you see that she turns around and just says, I have been keeping a lot of secrets, dad, about a lot of stuff. And you see, Elity sort of furrows her brow, not knowing what the hell that means, but you just remember the hero was in the Arkanade taking notes of the fucking three missions. And she says, my schoolwork was slowing me down. I know enough. And I can be involved. She's her villain arc. Her villain arc. She's how villains are being.

And you see the Elody says, what exactly are we getting involved in? And you see Hero turns around and says, in the play, and just lies. She goes, the play, the city. I don't even want to be here. I want to go to Dad's house. She's Batman.

We just need Batman. Oh, shit. Please, please. Give your mother just a little understanding. Just to remind you. you, I accepted the help of the creed when it suited me. We all have tried to negotiate these times and eventually you reach a line that you can't cross.

And then I do pointedly look at Elity for that. And you find that line. And you either cross it or you don't. You see, Hero looks at you. I think on that not one persuasion, she just looks and goes, I can help. I know I'm not, I know Aligar's in the Barrow Guard, and Shadi is with you at the play.

I'm a part of the family, too, and I can't help. You are with me. You are with me. You're smarter than me through 10 of my lifetimes. You are with me. And don't you ever doubt it? And any, anything that the Candace in Creed or the council or anyone in this city throws at us, Nothing is going to change that.

Nothing changes my opinion of you or our family or your mother. Even when we don't agree. I hang on Elity. Even then, we're going to stick by each other and we are going to find our way through this, even if it's messy. You see the hero looks up and says,

everything good here was built by people being really brave. And I think it's gross how many people just want to walk. walk around on the cushion of other people's bravery. And I am sick of it. And I'm not sending my spellbook back. I'm not sending my copies of my spells back.

I worked hard though. Those are my copies and my transcriptions on my ink that I paid for and I'm not sending it back. And I'm not going to let anyone else send it back. And she pitches that right at Elody. And if it's not welcome here in the house, then maybe I don't have a place in this house. And if you don't want me to have your left,

Maybe I should beat Hero Fang. And she grabs her stuff and Elity goes, Hero, I just think life is very long and making enemies lasts a very long time as well. And that certain amounts of prudence, and you see Hero having collected her stuff, goes, fuck prudence and fuck you! And she goes to the window and jumps out.

Elity screams and she screams and she He cast featherfall. She's fine. Don't worry about it. And Elity just stands there. The news is so fresh. Let her stay with me tonight. We'll figure out tomorrow tomorrow.

Okay? We'll figure out tomorrow tomorrow. What's Cotheri mean in Rumiani? The heretic. Also means renegade, right? That is a nuance of it, yeah. Maybe the next play we talk about coming together and maybe not renegating so hard all the time.

Find it charming. I used to have less people that I was responsible for. I am proud of this city and its people. I did not think that was fair that she said that. Were we so different when we were 18? Just let her stay with me a couple of nights. We'll cool down. So is Shadia still staying here with me,

or is she going home to you? Why don't we ask Shadia? Hell, what is happening in this city? Can't you see it. You asked for that money. I'm the assault on a king's life, the resurrection. I'm just trying to, when are things going to go back to normal? Thank you for peacemaker, I suppose.

She just won't listen to me. It has nothing to do with what I'm saying. I'm not saying anything provoca. I can't say anything right around her. I cannot say anything right. And she's just started to use this aggressive language, talking about the centered houses and what they deserve to have happen to them, like heads on pikes or something.

You know, I mean, truly outrageous language. Is she getting that from people in the company? Or what's happening? I mean, it's the theater, but I mean, you've bitched about the sundered houses, your fair share. Well, a lot of the laws in the marketplace are extremely extractive and there's a ton of things that they're doing that I don't agree with on a policy level,

but my God, they're people. You don't feel those. law is getting sharper and sharper. You have to see the undercurrents moving through this city right now. Of course. And if you have shared any of that language with Hero, especially given the loss that you've just endured, given the amount of hoops that you had to jump through

to get the hallowed round, and then for them, I can't imagine what it's like to have your life stream granted, and then have the people that granted it take away something as close as your brother. I always loved the Ozzy. He was a charming, he was charming and he loved Hero. He made different choices than you,

and some of what happened to him is explained by the choices he made and why you're here being a good father to your three children is explained by very different choices that you very prudently made. I hear you. But you and I both know they murdered her uncle in the streets. And nothing you or I say that we say to her will change that fact.

And she will draw her conclusions as she will. Maybe she'd draw different conclusions if you weren't wearing his sword around. Look me in the eye and tell me you're making good decisions. Of this city, day in and day out. And that is my promise to you. There's dinner downstairs if you haven't eaten. I rest my forehead on her shoulder, just stand there.

Thank you for not throwing me out of my ass. Never. Besides, I think Hero would storm the front door and put me in front of a tribunal of the people of Dolmachiar if I ever impeached. A couple of days, couple of days. Al, you make your way from your home. Where do you head to after departing from Eladis?

I will invite Shadia to keep her sister company. Okay. I will take the girls home, make them a snack, steep them some tea, and sit for as long as feels safe, maybe for an hour, and then to run an errand before bed. You sure did? Is she to Shadia? It's okay.

Yeah. Okay. I'll keep an eye. I'll keep an eye on, I'll keep an eye on Hero. She smiles. I think you make your way from there. Squeeze her ear. Love you, kiddo. Love you, Dad.

Hero comes up to you as you're about to depart and says, can I tell? Tell your sister anything. She smiles and walks back into the house. We are going to move over to Wakander. It's your turn to get yelled. at. That's fair.

Herndon is just taking his turn with his . Bing, bang, boom, pow, pow. He's got a gun. He's got a gun. This guy's a lunatic. Yannessa, vice like arm around your, or vice like hand around your arm,

and begins to walk with you across the street to the Via Aurora. As she gets to the edge of the cathedral, At the edge of the cathedral, she sends someone to run back, whisper something to them. A few moments later, you see that Goddard, your father and Zabani come along as well. You guys walk to the Via Aurora,

and she begins walking up to your room. She opens the door and says, Of course. You enter, she goes to speak. She says something to Goddard very quickly and silently. And then she and Zabani walk down the hall. Your father comes into your room and- She's leaving?

Yeah, she's leaving. Okay. And closes the door. And he just goes and sits on your bed with you. Blindfolded, enormous back. Your father is not talkative and not someone who is particularly warm. He sits there in silence.

Silence? Silence. Silence. What are we meant to do in here? Wait. What are we waiting for? You have humiliated your grandmother, the Fortarque. You have exposed your naked body in the cathedral.

You have countermanded her. Her instructions have been disobeyed willfully. Whatever your penance shall be for this deed is up to your grandmother to decide. You are not permitted to leave, and I am to restrain you if you attempt to. While we have this moment, how have you been? We don't talk much these days.

We have not spoken since you met him. Athion. Yes. But you've been speaking to him for years now. Yes. Yes. And he to me. How did he come to be here? Here beneath the via Aurora.

Yes. He has always been here. Buried beneath the rubble, a near casualty of the Shaper's War. Dolmachiar knew more combat during the war against the Shapers than perhaps any other location. And we found him down there?

Your grandmother, I do not know if she came to know of him here or had word from elsewhere. What's he like? In pain. Doesn't that give you some amount of guilt? Why? Oh, we're causing his pain, aren't we? No. The pain he feels is not from his restraint.

nor from the letting of his blood. The son of his soul was ripped from this world. His God destroyed. His mind unraveled. The eternal part of him shredded. There is no rest for him, no sanity. Does that seem like he's telling the truth? Give me an insight check.

Insight. Just 12. 12. Your grandfather has a blindfold on. Oh, sorry, your father has a blindfold on. Mm-hmm. That's enough talking, Wakanda. You should pray.

Pray for whom? Yourself. Will you pray for me as well? Yes. Let us pray. All right. And he puts his hands together. And we're gonna move from this scene.

Sure. Oh, God. Tyranny. What are you doing your chapel? I'm in the chapel. What time is it? Probably an hour into the Mass, so like you're on your way, you're almost at Elides, but I'd say it's about like 9.30? Dark. Dark, yeah. And I'm still there. Yeah, in the cathedral, yeah. Not the same one.

No, no, no. No. Yeah, she's in a chapel across the street. Okay. I'm a demon, cool demon chapel. I'm gonna exit and I'm gonna find a dark corner or an alleyway. And I'm gonna take from my bag the bottle with the bat in it. Cool. And I open it up. Made of smoke. It circles around you. And then and lands on your chest. It hangs from your garments upside down. Oh.

I'd like to talk to Zol Reckshi. I wanna say that I'm in really big trouble and I need her help. And it's really, really urgent. That takes off. Maybe 15 minutes later. Okay, I bolt it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna just,

just cast alter self to look like a, you know, straight urchin. And run, run, run, run, run, run. Run, run, run. Sprinting as fast as you can. It is now like, by the time you get there, it's probably like wee hours of the morning. You're in the tanners. And stepping down that street,

Hollis-Kinny water. Hello. Hi, Hall, it's tyranny. Tyranny. I have been informed of your coming, even though you look not at all like yourself. And you see, he steps in, fire across the gate. He's stute man.

You walk right in, no one has their disguises on. All demons out, Seul-Rexhi. I dropped my... Hi. Are you about to cry? Oh, you know you are crying. You are crying. Hey!

Come here and receive comfort. She puts you, her tiger's head is also like three times the size of a normal tiger's head, which is already quite marked. So she goes, but it's caused you to enter into the state of dismay. Did he say that I have to kill myself? I don't want to die. I'm old fashioned, but I think a dad should never say that. I really, I really look at

to him, I really thought that he would, like, see... Because he's a pie prince and... No. No. Straight up, no. No. He's not the shadow of suffering. What is the shadow of suffering? Shadow of suffering is subtitle and confer to him.

What you must understand, dear attorney, is that when Eliezer, the demon queen, wedded, Asgra, the shape of of war. She, who was herself merely a grand dame of demon kind, suddenly had this muscle-bound ignoramus at her beck and call, and she seized the leadership of the pit and moved the court to the dying fields in the realm of the shaper a god of darkness. Blah! Blah! Blu-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h.

But not before, making everybody bend a knee. My dad's a sim? Your dad is the simpiest simpism. But even worse than that, you must understand, the big simps all went with her to the dying fields, where upon the death of the shaper, they were frittered off to whatever.

But also, there were many great demons that did not bow to Eliazza. But you know what happened to all of us, because of us, pushing us all around. You kicked out, sent off into the mortal world to make our way here and fend for ourselves, find whatever sustenance we could in this wretched place.

Is that not what you want? Because you just told me the last time I saw you that you could vote. You're like an active member of society here. You don't like that? Oh, my darling. I can vote in the sense that I regularly commit voter fraud. There are very few cases of voter fraud in actuality.

I'm all of them. Listen, who has made you weep? Has the faux talk or Wakanda? Oh, my dad, he said, because I have been not acting in alignment with the creed. And I kind of killed some of our guys that I have to return to the pit. And that means effectively tyranny.

is no more. And I really don't want that happened. Stop crying. You are a demon. You have to be scary all the time. Okay. You can cry a little bit. Understand.

Hmm. She turns around. I think you should do it. Kill myself? No, no, no, no, no. I think you should go to the pit. I think we should both go. Okay, will we be able to come back?

I don't know. But. Probably. Probably. The important thing is this. Why didn't he tell you to dis... His words were to destroy yourself? Yeah, he said that I have to destroy myself.

Or what? Or he'll torture me for eternity. How's he going to do that? I don't know. I guess. I don't know. I don't know what he can do. I don't even know about...

Pause. You have to pause. You have had your test. Tender heart, your ooey, gooey, squishy pink heart, hurt imposed upon by one whom you trusted. What a prick. But this world is filled with monsters. Some of them are demons. We have to keep our head on when people are trying to scare us.

If your dad could torture you for eternity right now, what would stop him from doing it? Do you can't come here? Can't come here? Can he kill you on the spot where you stand? I don't think so. Why? Why don't you think so? Because? Because he can't cross over.

Because if he had the power to destroy you, why wouldn't he have already done it? We have to think in the position of our enemies. If he was so cross with you that he wished for you to be unmade, and he told that to you, then he has actually just confessed that he doesn't have the power to do it. Oh, okay. What did the Fotark say? Did she agree with any of this?

Fotark doesn't know that I'm responsible for killing the tailors, and gosh, I don't know how, I don't know how Wix, how Wix's, how Wix's, his, his sermon went, but God, I feel like he's in trouble. I don't know, I just feel like, I feel like I can't abandon him. I don't want you to abandon him, but also he is, I'm more concerned with you, my darling.

Hope that's not rude. It's not. I've spent, a limited amount of time here, and I've learned that I have a lot of drives. Some I judge more than others, but the primary one is WIC, and I just really don't want anything bad to happen to him.

No, no, no, no. He owes me a favor regardless. Demons of principle were banished to the world of Aramon. The great demons, who swore to Ilyazza went to the dying fields. That left in the pit. Not really anyone worth mentioning. That's a loser.

Your father is a loser. Wow, all you're walking around thinking I was a princess. His true title is the shadow of suffering, not the prince of suffering, though he styles himself as that. Shadow of suffering is well-named. The shadow of suffering, the threat of pain, the looming dread of destruction. Your father is a demon of cowardice.

Always has been. We should go to the pit. I need time to figure out how to get there. We could go there right now, but I don't know if there's a safe way back. I need a little bit of time if you want a guaranteed way back. Okay. I got to, I think that I'd like to go try to tell Wick

that I'm gonna go away for a while. And I mean, he really was emphasizing that if I don't kill myself by morning, that I'm like fucked basically, so. Do you wanna find out? Do you want to find out if he was concocting an elaborate threat? You know, he has to teach you, he has to teach you how to stay in line

because he's going to destroy you tomorrow. So he's got to impart these lessons so that your behavior improves in the few seconds you'll remain alive before you're destroyed? God, this is just like Yenessa. They're the same, they're the fucking same. No, you're right, of course. Who gives a shit?

Now, you're talking like a demon. All right. Can I ask you something? Of course, my darling, anything. Do you want to stab a person? Okay. Okay. I'm more into like emotional damage.

Ah! Why do you look the way you do, and why do I look the way that I do? I mean, I assume that I took on this form to be more palatable to the candescent crete, but why do you look so cool? Your name is not in the tongue of demons. I believe that this is an assortive

of your true form that you now wear, but I know that you have the power to change your appearance and your form. I would not be surprised if Chhara V wanted you to serve the purpose that you now serve and was able to affect your form to do so. The aspirants I have seen look demonic, but just so, they can still wear the habits,

I couldn't wear a habit. I'm covered in quills. Yeah, they rock. You rock. Okay. Um, you're right. I don't know if I have a true name in demonic. I think that it was given to me by the creed

because tyranny. I think that I was sent to help Wick become a tyrant, but we're bound to our names, and I think that, for what it means, for me, is tyranny of the heart. It means to be rolled by one. Give me an insight check.

Soda. Nine. Her whiskers twitch. She drags a claw across her brow. She's deep in thought. Nothing malevolent, nothing that seems nefarious towards you, but just too inscrutable with those giant compound wasps eyes for you to get a read on.

What'd you think about? I'm wondering if you're special, or if you're very, very, very, very, very special. Thank you for being somewhere that I can come to. I'll get to work. Now, just because I don't think your dad's shit doesn't mean that he cannot do something desperate or dangerous. After all, he can speak to other people in this world,

so even if he can't come get you, maybe he can get others that can. You need to decide how much risk is all right. I'm not going to confine you here in my paint shop, but I will tell you that if you want to get to the pit, guaranteed safely, I can only protect you while you're here. If you have other business in the outside world, far be it from me to stop you, but you'll be doing something dangerous. Do you understand?

Yeah. How long do you need? Give me 24 hours. She leans down and gives you a kiss on the side of your cheek. I'm not going to start crying. You can't start crying. You've been crying the whole time. It's okay. Be safe, little tyranny.

My, bye, bye, bye, bye. I run back to a vagrant. Yes. Are you heading back to the Via Aurora? Are you headed back to... I'm headed back to the Via Aurora. Okay. We're gonna cut to Azune, Murray.

We're gonna see, we're gonna cut to Murray, who goes to the Pentivoral. You go to the Pentevral. It's late. It's like late on a Sunday night, basically. Right on a Sunday night. I have some shit I want to do, Brennan. Okay. I've been thinking.

Shopping. I've been thinking. Retail therapy. What does the Pentevral look like when I get up on it? Is it dark? Students kind of just doing their thing on the quad. Give me a perception check. Mikey, sir.

Mm-hmm. Yes. I don't want a real dice. I know. Ultimate Frism. Okay. 15. No, it's pretty intense, actually.

It's Sunday night, but you can hear that there are a group of students at the door of one of their housing facilities that are currently shouting at someone behind the register. They're behind the counter at this student housing building. Sounds like there's just

and I think on that position, yeah, there are some lights but also it's getting pretty late. There's some candles and some studies that some wizards are doing stuff. You see that over by there's a building called Eddings. which is where the abjuration department is. And you see that there is a wall that has the name Theodoro written on it

in a quick piece of illusionary paint that has gone up. And you see an intense magical hum. Every student that has walked by has cast protection from evil and good on the little mural of Professor Theodoro. Oh, wow. Um, um, and you can see that there are some

soldiers of House Quirmary that are standing in front of that mural that appear to be there to stop other people from coming and casting that spell on it. Has anyone noticed me? No, you're just walking here, like, your apartment. You're totally, it makes a total sense that you'd be here. I'm gonna dip into an alleyway around a corner.

Mm-hmm. I used memorized spell, which is an ability I have as a wizard because I know how my class works, to switch out one spell with another. Great. And I'm gonna cast invisibility on myself. Hey, look that.

Love that. Love that. Okay, so I see the readiness going on with the students. They're pissed. This is good. First things first, I'm gonna go back to my dorm. And I'm going to clear it out of all of my notes, all of my texts.

This is your apartment. My apartment. I would have already had my gems on me. I don't want it to look like I am packing everything up and bailing, but anything of importance, any notes, especially the Kim Kibben M-Kedaz. Your like nascent arcane thesis, yeah. Yes.

All of that is coming with me. I'm gonna go by Dean Cora's office. Great, you go by her office, awesome. Is it open? I'm gonna roll in front of the board to see if she's, it's unlike her to be late here on a Sunday, so I'm gonna say it's not likely. I'll say on a 15 or higher she's here late.

Okay. Five, it is locked and dark. Take a shit on her desk. Or at least on the door. That's all I had. End of, end of day. I am going to Misty step inside. Her office.

Fuck yeah. Done. Done. Okay. I'd go through her desk. Give me an investigation. Come on. I can use Bardick Inspo after.

Yeah. Yeah. And you can add to the total. It's really good. And then the dice said it was going to do something else in this way. It's great. It's great, come on, I'm gonna. Okay. I use them.

I use them. Okay, so that's gonna be 12. Oh, take the desk. Do I have, I use all right, I use fucking everything. Okay, on 12. Why is it? You have tons of time.

Maybe you can still find some good shit. That's true, that's true. Um. I'm gonna do one more, if you will allow me to add onto this. Sure. I'm going to cast detect magic. Great.

Let me... I just blew through a lot of spells very quickly. Misty step, detect magic. Yep, detect magic. Cast, invisibility, cast, misty step. Tirt. Tert. Okay.

You find on a 12, there's nothing magical in the room, or anything magical here is something that's like, and it's like, oh, you can turn these lamps on and they'll do it without, you know, little wizard shit. She doesn't keep any of the good shit locked up in her office at the Pentevral. You do find on a 12, a document on the desk.

Everything else is pretty like, standard, standard, scrolls, parking, stuff, running the school. There's a lot of work being dean of the Pentevral. And like 90% of it is the work of being dean of the Pentevral. You do find one thing called the Bellinger Express course of Marshall Study. The Bellinger Express? Course of Marshall Study.

It is a, what looks like a draft syllabus for the Penteveral creating an express course of study that would be able to train people in some rudimentary wizardry, without them having to become wizards. And the focus looks particularly on essentially, essentially it is the magic initiate wizard feat. Expressed in a course of study with the suggestion being, would we be able to teach this to potentially

dozens or hundreds of soldiers at the same time? Could you take, instead of having to have long bow archers, could we have 500 people that all know Fireball? Fireball. It's like drafting people. We're just gonna put you through in eight week. Boot camp instead of two years. Does it say anywhere where this came from?

This is like a pitch. This is a pitch that has come from House Cornery. It's a pitch deck probably has like AI and Anderson. Yeah. Gross. From the cormorys, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I make a few notes, I'm gonna leave it. I don't wanna raise any suspicion. Anything else? Or is that kind of all? That's kind of it. On a 12, that's kind of it. I will also. Did you detect magic do anything?

To saw it standard. One mile. Wizard lights and stuff. I am going to crawl under her desk. Mm-hmm. Do I see any type of loose boards, any type of like notches, anything like that? You're going to crawl under her desk, loose boards. I'm kind of like looking under her desk and seeing if there's any, like,

compartments, anything that feels clandestine or even just like a, like a... On the 12th investigation, you didn't find it. Okay, that's okay. I am going to kind of in a dark corner of underneath her desk. I'm gonna cast magic bug. Okay. I'm gonna bug her office. Great.

There's a spell. It's a one of them. Magic bug in Dean Quora's office, great. Is it a bug? It's a room, but it kind of looks like a cute little bug. Yeah. Yeah. But it's a room. Well, it's got antenna.

They're going like this, say transmit noise. I'm gonna kind of like snap into it. Yeah. Kind of test it as I concentrate on it. Can I hear? Yes, you can. Okay. And I kind of like roll that diamond gem around in my hand,

like as I'm doing this and kind of just meditating on that white diamond as well. Okay. I leave. Casting spells drop invisibility, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Um, magic bug, cast.

I am going to, I'm going to cast invisibility on myself again. Mm-hmm. And I'm going to leave. Great. And I'm going- You walk out the door without a key, you will leave this door unlocked. Is there a window?

There is a window. I'll go out the window. Great. Down to the street. And you can appear, you can appear in immediately cast invisibility on yourself. Yeah. I do kind of want to do one more like, just perimeter walk of the school while I'm invisible.

And I just kind of want to, I don't, I don't wanna do too much, but I just kind of wanna get a vibe. Like I wanna hear discourse from the students. I wanna see if I can feel the energy. Like, is there unrest? Is there anything? Obviously there's unrest.

They're protesting the, um, uh, uh, uh, Feodoro getting bagged. But yeah, I just kind of want to like hear what is on everybody's lips. Yeah. Give me, I want you to give me an Arcana check. And then I want you to give me a perception check. Shit, dies, okay, I love you, I love you. Arcana first.

Arcana first. I thought it was worse, but it's not bad. 25. 25? Yes. A roll of 14. I thought it was a four. As you cast magic bug for, I believe, the first time. Uh-huh.

Thinking about the fact that you now have to go all the way down to the hallowed round to go meet with your other companions and how much you and your fellow schemers have been having a challenging fucking time. And you have to travel together. You got spotted with Harondis and others like that. On a 25-hour archa-check putting that magic bug, you unlock the secret of making sending stones.

On 25, with a successful sacrifice of enough of those metamagic gems that you have, you could actually make a number of permanent sending stones with a 10 mile radius. That technology, like, you had your arcane thesis earlier today, and I think as you're putting it, you're like, because this is already, like the deal with this is what?

It transmits sound to you. Yeah, and I imagine I would have like, used this diamond to help draw the bug. She's inventing a beeper. You're literally, well, you're literally inventing, really what you're inventing is walkie talk. Yeah. You're inventing a short range sending device.

In terms of coordinating you and your allies, a huge and essential piece of arcane technology unfolds in your mind based on the first practical use of that spell, where you go, oh, sending sound across distances, is totally doable. All I would need to do would be to entangle two magical bugs together, and that's this. Okay.

So I'm kind of meditating that as I'm taking this diamond, and I'm continuing to almost use it like a worry stone as I walk the campus. Give me a perception check. I'm so nervous to roll because I've been so bad. Natural Trotting! Oh! Oh!

Oh! I'm all. Yes. The course is lifted. Awesome. Awesome. Um, nothing bad will ever happen again.

I believe you. On a Nat 20, what are you looking for? I think Murray is having a bit of a fit. She's having a little bit of a MnTB. She's had a bad day. It's been a bad day. And I think she feels like the writing is on the wall for her in her time here at the Pentebral. She's reflecting on Hero.

She's reflecting on Dean Tallboro. She's reflecting on Professor Theodore. All of these people as the Penthouse and Neverell's getting gutted around her. And right now she's feeling like all of her efforts in the past couple weeks have been fruitless for nothing. But she has faith in the students. And she knows these kids better than anyone here.

These poor kids are in her office. And I think she's just looking for an ounce of hope. A whisper in the wind that these, She knows these kids are bright and talented and certainly not stupid. And I think is looking for a whisper, a sign, an inkling, that there could be some sort of student uprising or rebellion, or that they are catching, that this younger generation

will stand up and fight back. On a now 20, you look around. streets are silent. You hear the students shouting off in the distance at some billing hall. Where is Dean Tallbarrel? Why did he leave when the school needed him most? Where is Professor Theodoro?

Where is any of this? Why? How did it get this bad, this fast? It was so long of everybody going, ah, it's pretty bad, it's pretty bad, pretty bad, it's pretty bad, and then all of a sudden, the water was at your neck. You look left, you look right, looking for a source of hope.

You don't see the students, because they're above you. Scrolls from the top of the Eddings, the Abjuration Building, as a bunch of students bust out of a skylight and begin to on gusts of wind from the gust of wind cantrip, just blast stolen library material from the shuttered abjuration. building out into the streets. Come get it, you paid for! As scrolls begin to emerge out and you hear shouts

of students everywhere rushing into the streets, the rudiments of protection from evil and good, the rudiments of the shield spell, the rudiments of blade ward. All of these lower level abjuration spells just begin to flock to the streets as students come out and start shouting. You hear whistles, Cormoray soldiers are running.

It looks like it could get very bad, very fast until suddenly you hear a voice shouting. That's enough, that's enough. Students, come down here right now and face disciplinary action. Soldiers, it's all right. Come down, and you see that a professor, this orcish professor you recognize as

Razyar Grimgoran, who's another wizarding professor. Tall, tall, tall orc, tweed, sort of jacket, a big sort of purple sash comes out, big spectacles, pronounced tusks, sort of silver orchestra conductor hair sweeping over his pointed green ears. He comes out and so students, come down this instant. You see the students all kind of snicker and laugh

as all the students are cheering in the street and they go down to him and you see as he says, all right, now what are you? Good job, good job, good job. And he begins to clap them all on the back and say, every one of you will face detention unlike any you have ever seen before. This is, and as the students start rushing past,

you see three of them run right past you, going for some that have gone into, some of the scrolls that have gone into an alleyway, and you see that one of them turns around, who you recognize as Henri, who's this tiny little crow folk, beast folk wizarding student, who like pats you on the back and says, Professor Magnasson, check it out. As he just runs out, grabbing as many

scrolls as possible. She could see through my invisibility. To do that at all. You're invisible. That doesn't happen. Breadline. But you see. I mean, I would have been impressed. I would have been like, damn good job. What you recognize is the three students who run past you are students who specifically

you got their financial aid to get them to the school and you see them rush up with troves of arcane treatises and rush out of the streets with them. Okay. Good. This is good. This is inspiring me. Burry's like eyes well up with hope. I'm gonna make one more pit stop. watching this happen. Because they're already writing the fucking library.

I'm gonna go to the vault. I'm the burser. I've got keys. Hell yeah. I'm gonna pick up some extra meta-magic stone so I can make some shit before I go. Hell yeah. Give me a slight of hand check. 10 total.

10 total. Anything you, I will say, go ahead and roll on a 10, are you trying to be careful? I think right now, I'm still invisible. I have keys. If things go missing, so did also a bunch of scrolls right now and ship from the library.

So I'm a little bit shielded here, so I don't think I'm that careful. Great. Roll 3D10 for me. Let's go, three zeros. Let's see it. Come on. Roll high. Come on. Be nice today.

Be nice. Up average. above average, okay dokey. That's gonna be 11, 17. Nice is. You are able to grab 17 meta-magic gems out of the inventory here. Okay.

Murray, 17 meta-magic gems. She leaves. Do you, is there any particular schools of magic you would wanna focus on? Well, to make these sending stones, would it need to be? Divination. Divination, it would still need.

Okay. So I'll try and focus on divination. Okay. Once. And then the rest can maybe be a grab bag. You, 14 of your 17 Meta-Magic gems are divination, but that clears out all of the divination. So that'll stand out, but you can grab them.

Fuck it. Rebellion. Yeah. Okay. Murray leaves. Murray leaves, she walks out the front door, runs past some students, she gets to the street, and she turns around and just stands and stares

at the Penteverell for a good minute. Just takes it all in. Little tear comes out of the corner of her eye as she's, no one's promised tomorrow, and especially in time like now. And who knows if she will be welcome back through those stories. doors come in the morning. And she kind of just watches the revelry and rebellion,

smiles, and heads to the woods. Marie and Azunay, you guys, I think actually can meet up at the hallowed round, which is where you'd probably, rather than just the larger woods. It's a good idea. Azzunay, after the mass, you don't see Wick or Philonius or anybody else anymore. Or tyranny anymore.

Yeah. Would you go join with your companions here, or would you? I'm, I think as a mass is ending, what I will do is I will, I will just connect with a few of the people that attended, and I will just lay little whispers of how inspiring Wickhander was.

Great, amazing. Give me a persuasion. Oh, that's, I thought that was bigger than it would. That is 16. 16, so that's not bad. I thought it was a 19. And then you guys head out,

I think as the three of you meet at the Hallowed Round, you guys meet up, I don't know how long you would wait for Wiccandar and Tyrannia, but I also don't think you told them to meet you here. I couldn't find them. We couldn't find them. We couldn't find them. We'll have to leave maybe another way.

So I think you guys meet up here. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Needs either go inside or go somewhere safe quickly. I told Hal, I think the seven stirers is compromised. I don't think it's a good idea to be there tonight. No. But maybe we can head to that cave, or at least the woods.

Let's do it. Did you see Wick or Tierney? Wick was taken away, and I never saw him appear again, and Tyranny, I could not find her anywhere, and I waited until the very end. If there's a way that we can, if they might expect to come here, if you can leave something for them, a message. I landed here?

Yeah, you've landed, I think, at that way. Yeah. I am. I can get a magpie off. That's a good idea. Yeah? If you can do that, can you send another one? I have.

Yeah. As many as we need. I think as we're running out of time, there's damage control that I'd like to try to do with Effie. And I hand you a note that's already written out. If you can just get this to her. Is a magpie okay to send to her? She's not an ally.

I think so, a literal bird. I think that'd be all right. Yeah. At this point, we're gonna need to start taking some risks because the circle's closing. Yes. Pretty fast. What's in this note, Zunei? Some damage control. You can read it over if you want.

In fact, now maybe you're better with words than I am. Maybe you'll find a better way to say this. Well, we could just send your paper if you want, tie it carefully. I think you're aware too, how that Effie's gonna be here tomorrow night, if St. Reschie's magic invitations work as intended. Well, it's up to you.

I need to act like a captain, and this is me acting like a captain. What's it say? It's admitting fault to how poorly that conversation went, that I missed the mark, and that I would like her to. recognize and sympathize with a man who's newly appointed, who's still learning the ropes, but that I intend to take her seriously.

And I think that she deserves to have a seat at the table, even if we don't agree on a number of things. I want to hear her out. Then I don't think we send anything verbal. I think we just send this note and make it obvious for her. It's signed in my name. Okay, so I will, with a little bit of ribbon from all of the

our props here, tie a message to this bird's leg and denote to a two head off to Effie. Great. It is the wee fucking hours of the morning, same rules before, 15 or higher on the die. Six. It will be there on the morrow. Or it will go there tonight and be waiting

for whoever arrives on the morrow. What does your letter state? Do you want to read it? I do want you to read it. Effie, that meeting went poorly. I should have read the room better and I was inappropriate, but I hope you can sympathize with a man newly appointed

to a position of great responsibility who's learning the ropes. And you taught me an important lesson. I want to do better to understand different people's relationship to magic and their concerns over its use. I respect your position. It's clearly important to you to address their concerns, the concerns of your constituents.

I'm sure we might disagree on a few policy positions, but I believe you deserve a seat at the table so that the voices of those you represent can be heard. Give me a persuasion check. Come on, baby. 19. 19. Okay. Great. As you, okay, so we come back to you guys here at the Hallowed Round. Is there anything else you guys are doing that night?

Yeah, I would also send a magpie to tyranny. Because the last I saw, WIC was, even though I don't know half what's happening to him, he was being escorted buck-ass naked out of the church. And I don't know what that means. An emergency blanket to you around him. Yeah, like James Brown, they just throw a... Yeah, yeah.

I send the magpie to tyranny that says we're near the round tonight. Come if you can. Okay. You guys are just gonna wait there. It's already like one or two in the morning. I think we're camping here for the night. I think we're here. Is there like even where we can maybe just be right

on the edge of the tree line to where we can see the hallowed round, but not be sleeping on the doorsteps? Yeah. You guys can be just out in the woods if you want. So that we can see them if they arrive, but we won't necessarily be seen. Let's do that. Yeah. the stage down below with its giant gnarled tree at the center, then beyond that tree just goes into woods

so we could be like 20 feet into the tree cover. Looking up the seats. Great. You guys go ahead and go to sleep. Whitney. Tierney gets back to the via Aurora. What do you do when you arrive? I drop my alt-a-self and I head up to Wix Room. Enmitty is standing in front of that.

The Lord Wickander is meeting with his father. Okay, and? They are to be left alone. My bed's in there, where am I supposed to sleep? Somewhere else. Can I peek my head in? No. Please?

You know that I'm gonna be- Oh, you said please, wait, yeah, come right in. What? And you know that I'm gonna be gone tomorrow. I know that you don't like me for whatever reason. I really thought that we could work together. I see that that was stupid now.

I'm gonna be out of your hair anyways. What's it to you? Are you gonna get in trouble? Yes. No, you won't. They love you. Tyranny. This way to you is barred.

All right. I punch her. Oh! Go ahead and roll initiative. initiative. Oh, shit. Yes! Oh my gosh! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Wait, this is cruelty? Ah! Oh, boy. This is enmity. What? Nmidi, though, and that likes with the least. Oh, shit, like the...

Oh, shit. You go... She goes, bough! Oh my god. Do I get to that least roll for damage because I hit her? Because I'm sucker punched. I was just getting the initiative to see this on me. Eminent. Yes. Yes.

She's like. Wick, you're right on the other side of the door, so I need you to roll initiative as well. Okay. What did you get tyranny? I got a one. Shit, I got a 12. Or I got a rock.

Shit, good time. I got a rock. I got a rock. To-ta-cha. Okay. Okay. Enmody sees you cock a fist back. Why are you on?

Give me a constitution saving throw. Oh, boy. Nat 20. Awesome. What the fuck? No way. Do you do. Okay.

What's happening with these dice today? I don't know. Okay, you only take 11 points of psychic damage. And she is going to attack you twice. Oh, Jesus. Whoa. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Oh my God.

Give me a, okay, that's going to be, does a 12 hit? No. Oh, wait, I am a, wait, I'm a 12 plus. 12, 12, 12. No, you were 12. I'm 12. 12, okay. Wait, but I have a, I have major armor on. Major armor's on?

So that does not hit. So you are going to- 13 plus your decks. Yeah. I think I'm 15, yeah. You take 16 points of slashing damage and then 14 points of psychic damage. Okay.

Holy shit. How do I come on now? Put in the numbers. 16. And 14, right? And 14. Oh, damage. And then whatever you took from that first attack as well.

Holy crap. Okay, cool. So 16 and 14. And eight. And then eight. Barely. You cock a fist back and she and just blood is splattered all over the hallway.

Your father hearing that outside, softly puts an enormous hand on your chest wick, and I'd like you to roll an athletics check. Gentle grapple. Athletics. Papa's grapple. Yes, check. Athletics check.

Five. Seven. Seven. So softly not causing you any pain at all. He just puts a hand on your chest and holds you. His hand is almost large enough to just grab around your torso. He's just holding your torso in place. Remain calm.

And that is going to be your turn, Wick. You are grappled, but it is your turn. If you wish to do anything. Do I, so I heard a scuffle outside? Yes, a scream of enmity attacking someone. I think you could hear Tyranny's voice as well. Tyranny's voice. This feels like a bad idea.

I will... Don't do it. I will cast message. Okay. and say, I'm okay, tyranny. It's okay. Tyranny, it is your turn. You can hear that and you can reply to it.

I'm gonna say, I just wanted to say goodbye. I'll be back. And I, it's my turn. It's your turn. All right, I'm giving enmity both fingers and I'm bleeding out the nose and I'm bleeding on all my shit.

And you know, What? Dad's a fucking loser. He is. He is. I learned something. I know so much that you don't. And I am like, all right, I'll find someone's place to sit to sleep tonight. I'll sleep outside. Who gives a shit? I'm out. Fuck you. Can me intimidate. 11 plus 8.19. She looks to you and says, Dad's not a loser. yourself. This loser just knocked you on your little ass. I don't care. You've never tried to take a punch. At least I'm up. See your arm. With that, you leave enmity here in the hallway, your blood dripping off her claws. Give me an insight check.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Not 20. What? Shit. This is exhausting. In the last, in the last moment that you leave, you turn around. I don't know if you would be able to do a On a nap 20, you see enmity look down at her hands covered in your blood, claws on her hands. And in the moment that you move around the corner to move away from here, that you can tell she thinks that you're gone, she hangs her head and you know, on a nap 20, more deeply and profoundly than anything you can imagine that she hates herself, deeply and profoundly. I get it.

I'm gonna sleep outside. You sleep outside. Go ahead and take a long rest. Great. Do you sleep at the Via Aurora? Oh, well, did I get the bird? Did I get the bird? Yes, I think you get your bird.

I think you get your bird. Okay, then I am gonna go. Where at the round come if you can, near the round come if you can. I'm gonna go there. Incredible. We exit combat. You go to the round, join your friends.

I think you guys see Tyranny's in bad shape when she pulls up. Oh, shit. How was the sermon? Nauseating. No, okay. But how'd we do? Like, he got naked and made him-

He got naked? Yeah, he- I missed my one chance to see his dick. He did a full indecent exposure. That's so crazy, dude. I feel like we were- Get it down. Did you, you followed?

I'm gonna step away, and I'm just gonna scan to see if anybody followed her as I see that she's Fucked up. Yeah. I feel like we were big fuck-ups together, but how are we even worse when we're apart? It's the most profound thing I've ever heard you say.

I say profound stuff all the time. I'll barely know you to be fair. Yeah. Well, I might be going away for a little while, so we can get to know each other better. Sing it, sister. And I place my hands on the side of her head and say, welcome to the Losers Club.

And in the word, club, that reverberates through your scot. and I heal you at third level, healing word, 64? Whoa. Wow, that's beautiful. Oh, wait, no. Six D-four. Six-d-four. Cool.

I mean, we're gonna go to sleep soon, aren't we? Sure, but that's real sweet. He's rolling it for you. I got one. Oh, six. He's gonna roll. Oh, I'm a... You just have a lot of stimulation.

All of you guys, all of you guys, as you guys, As you are sleeping, go ahead and give me perception with disadvantage. All of us while sleeping? All of us while sleeping? Yeah. Perception of you is. We have a different. That's shit and that's shit.

Oh, wow. That's natural one. Natural one. Natural one. Seven. The fuck me and the fuck me, fuck you dice. 11. While you are asleep, your body's completely prone,

incapacitated and unconscious. A tiny little gnomish man steps over your bodies and affixes some magical alarms on some trees nearby, hiding them amongst the bark. Based on things that did not happen at this table. What? Albed Mourne passes over you while asleep and none of you are awake to see it.

Wow. And he protects us. He's our little guardian. He's doing it for unrelated reasons, but even though you were a dick to him. Was this the little naked guy from the other table? I'm actually gonna roll in front of the board. He's got to get a 10th.

He's got to get a six or higher on the die. 18. As he goes over, he's like, all right, can I get the forest protected for the fairful? Can I, look at that demon. Meem, me, me, me, me, me. He kneels down, draws your knife out, gives it a little kiss and puts it back.

No, you're asleep. And you see that he gets up and leaves the wife knife with you and goes back to his work. This happened in an earlier episode of The Secret Table. Yo! That's so great! And some nice things happen.

I'm not all bad. You're all bad. Brennan's getting the sweet shit in that right at the end. He's a liquor wounds. Shite. Morning comes. Okay, long rest. Wicander.

Do you attempt to sleep or do you stay up praying all night with your father? I tried to stay awake, but you know, his warm hand is So. That means. Did you pee? So you take a long rest. Oh, okay.

If you fall asleep, you take a long rest. In the morning, you awaken. Your father is still here. You also see your uncle, Philonius, is here. Hello. And the Fotark, your grandmother, is seated in a chair. Good morning, all. Good morning, Wiki.

We've taken the liberty of dressing you. I hope that's all right. Yes, thank you. Yes, that's lovely. Quite a sermon last night. I thought so, yes. What did you, do you have any criticisms or poiters? I think I mentioned that Hallandil Fang was a poison,

and you referred to him in front of the masses at the church that I have built from nothing that I have given to you as an advantage in life in life that almost none possess every resource that can be imagined given to you on a silver platter. And you called him my brother. Yes, after all that you've given me. I thought I'd give you a gift as well.

And that was my gift to you. The gift of honesty. I disobeyed you. I obeyed you publicly, and I feel that someone needed to. You've been told yes too much, Grandmother, by everyone around you, by Zabani and Philonius and everyone. But you've never been told no. And you need to be told no when you're wrong,

or else you're going to lose and you're going to die. That's very caring, Ducky. No, I'm serious. You don't know what forces are gathering against you right now. I'm sure you know of the Taconas threat and all the sundered houses, but the people are going to rise up against you unless we do something about it.

They have an audience and it's going to grow and grow. And the only way to combat it is with a better show. And who do you think is going to put on such a show? You? The resurrection thing was nice. But how often are you going to be able to do that? And really, who's going to be that impressed when a withered old woman comes back to life one more time? And who else is going to speak for you?

Zabani? She's cruel and awful. Are you going to put my father out there with his no eyes? I'm young and hot and charming, and I put on a great show. I guarantee you next week at the sermon, there will be more people in the seats, waiting to see what I'll do next.

I'm an asset to you. I'm a tool, a weapon you can use. And if you don't use me, you're a foolish old woman. Give me persuasion with this, I will negate the disadvantage with restore balance. Okay. And I'll just roll once. What the fuck is restore balance?

Oh, I can get rid of advantage or disadvantage. Yeah, fuck you. It is a different way. Look. What am I rolling? That is terrible. 15. Are you a-hear- You're not a human.

But you used pretty privilege. Pretty privilege. She looks at you. She looks at you. Damn. Does she after all, no? Not against persuasion. She looks at you and says,

I've been hearing yes for a very long time. First of all, your father deserves kind of treatment than to make fun of his condition. And here you see she pats, got her on the arm as he is completely stone-faced. I was so proud of you. and you hate me. You can hear it in your voice.

That's not true. Use you? The way you speak about your family. Find a use in you? Yes, that's what you told me. You've treated me like nothing my whole life. You've told me who I can't love and what I can't do and what I can't believe.

You have no love for me. and love is the thing you need now most of all. You need the people to love you. And if you can't even get me, your grandson, to love you, well, you've got a whole lot of work ahead of you. The people do love you. There's no denying that. Despite all of your idiocy and inconsistency,

you're running away with rangers and falconers and rebels, all of it. It's awful because people do love you. What a gift to be loved, Wiki. So I'm just fucked then, yeah? Because I can't kill you because you're beloved. But you won't obey me. So what we do?

Work together? Give me a challenge. Give me a mission. Here's your mission, Wiki. You will go to the cathedral today. You will heal the sick, remove curses from the afflicted, prove that you are more than a shining dong, and then you will go to Cothera tonight,

and you will disavow Hallandil Fang from the stage at the ending of the show. If you do not, then our relationship is at an end. Of course, Grandmother. All right. I think you're wrong. I think you have great use for him in his theater. You have proven that you are strong-willed.

I admire that. But you have to be able to play your position on the team. Do this one thing for me, even though it pains you to do so. And we will let bygones be bygones. All right. Goddard is going to move with you to, Goddard's gonna move with you to the cathedral where a bunch of people are there to be healed

that are coming up and basically just, you're in the pulpit and you're just, Goddard is there along with Volonius who's like, there are many of the sick here who can perform miracles on their behalf to prove the strength of the creed. Do you heal the sick that come to this place? Of course, are they genuinely sick? There are like people that are genuinely sick or injured.

I'll use whatever spell slots I have to cast cure wounds. Many come. Cure wounds is cast upon them. Do you go until like the math, until like literally there is no more healing magic left within you? I mean, how many people are coming? There's a huge crowd of people. Jeez, Louise.

There's no one else here who can help me heal? There are. There are Luxas here who can help, but you can see that there's basically like, it means more to be healed by you. Gotcha. And also give me a performance, a performance or persuasion check as part of the healing

to see if you can like sell the beauty of it. Sure. Matchful 20. Yes. You feel stretching from this place a love for you. As people go, you want everything that is good. about the creed and smile and you heal their wounds.

Some of them even have a dispel magic that you can remove an affliction or curse from them. Some of them are like blinded and lesser restoration can. I got that too. Yeah. And that's your day is like they're healing people. Yeah. I'll save like one spell slot for myself.

Great. Just in case. What level? Third. Third. It is Weaver's Day. We're gonna continue on a little bit more. Port-tent. It's gonna be the portent rolls. Come on, baby, come on.

Come on, it's a new day. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life. Oh, okay. Seven and a three. Seven to three. Not the worst. Those that wake up by the hallowed round, what do you guys do that day?

Well, first of my most, tyranny, what do you mean by, that you've gotta go? Yeah, so basically I'm in a whole boatload of trouble. My dad, who I found out sucks and isn't actually a prince at all, rude. He said that I need to kill myself today. And then I went and I got help from Solrexhi,

and she's gonna take me to the pit. And I don't know why, but I really trust her. And she wants to help me. And she told me all this stuff about my dad and about why he's a loser. And so I gotta go. Why does your dad want you to off yourself? Because I killed one of the,

I was, and it was complicit in the death of both of the tailors. And I've not been obeying and I'm not not been aligned with what the creed is doing, and he doesn't see the big picture, and that's fine. Because nobody in my family does. Did he put a deadline on it? And when are you going to the pit?

He said today, but he said this morning, but also, Sir Rekshi was like, he can't come and get you here, so fuck him. Like, I think I'm actually okay, and I intend to find out more about the pit. And I mean, I have pretty much cut ties with the rest of my family. I don't know.

If Wick is safe, I mean, it sounds from what you guys were saying, like the sermon went okay, like people liked it, right? The people seem to really like it. Is he in trouble with his family? Probably. Very much, probably. Oh. I mean, he definitely said that, you know.

He said very nice things about me. About him. They hate that. Yeah. Yeah. But the people responded really well to him. He did do some stuff that I think left an impression. Well, at least that means that he's probably safe for now

because they're not gonna martyr him if you gave him. Correct. Okay. Well, so you're- I have bad news for you, just so you know. Nor? Yes, because it's not just your father that seems to know about the crimes that you committed,

but I think that your story that you fed to the Candescent Creed, I'm not sure they buy it. They're conducting their own investigation and I'm- I mean, there's no body. Some. Yeah. Damn to yourself. So I feel like Kattegan, I mean,

I showed my sisters the finger. They seem to have believed it. I have not been asked by anyone at the creed to like hold that story. And oh God, as far as I know, okay, here's putting things together. Genessa, I think, can speak directly to my dad. And so I can assume that any story that I have to the Creed is a wash now

because she can communicate directly with him, I think. So you're on the outs, you're living on your own. Is that what that means? I think I'm on the run. You're on the run, okay. And you trust this soul rexhi who also is another demon, not bound by any type of moral code.

I mean, I'm a demon. And this other demon is gonna walk you back to your dad, into the pit where he wants you anyway. Huh. I'm just trying to math it out. Yeah. Well, I just wanna make sure she doesn't have

any type of ulterior motives and she's not delivering a prized bounty right to the sewers. I don't think that she likes my dad very much. I mean, she could be lying, but he's not very popular among a demon kind. I really thought that he was like a big cool guy, but he's not.

I don't know. It's a big risk because I asked her if we can make it back and she said, probably, I think. But what else am I gonna do? I mean. And this is like a day trip. Do you need other people to go with you? Can other people who aren't demons even go with you?

You know more about crossing planes than I do, Miss Marie. I am. I don't, I feel like I don't know anything, actually. When are you due back to speak to Soresky again? Like probably, like nine tonight. Okay. She said 24 hours, so. Well, it might be your only chance, you're only out,

which means I have something else I want to bring up. Oh no. We need, well, I mean, did I, was I given the like wanted poster for Katagan? Yeah. You guys gotta go to work. Yeah. It's morning.

It's Weaver's Day. It's Weaver's Day. So, I mean, I'll pull out this poster. So, Cadigan, this is his fate here. Of course. And Boler, the two of them, as we know, the two of them, I don't see a way for them to come back. They're two of the most wanted people here.

Cormoray wants Boler, his sister does. And this is, they're blaming, the Halevars are blaming everything on Katagan. There's no way he can come back. I think that we need to, maybe after I have my day of work, we all have stuff to do today, we need to have an escape plan. Yeah.

Can we see the tree that is the gateway to the Miller's Road from here? No, it's deep in the woods. I'll point in that direction, because I do know where it is. That might be one avenue in case we need it. Is the pit an option? I'm kidding. Unless. Pit party.

Might be better. Ketigan knows to stay out of the city. Right. The story, I mean, he gave me his finger. The story is that he's dead and they seem to have bought it. Mm-hmm. But. Here's my position.

There's already allies of ours that have fallen. They cannot come back. If there is a way out of any blame that's coming on us, that we can pin on them, they already have all the heat on them. There's no way that. Boler and Katagan can come back. I'm just trying to give us some possible outs for us to consider. I'm not saying I'm married to this.

But... Azune. Yeah. This is Boleer's home. This is the only place he's ever found community. And you want to cement that? Cement that. No. There's no other way.

Then you can't come back? Here's got to be another way. Then let's try to find that other way so that we don't have to resort to that. I don't want to do that. I wish that he didn't do what he did to get himself to have to leave. To do what we did. We were implicit in everything that's happened.

I know. We did it together. He got himself caught. He got himself caught. And yeah, maybe we're doing that too. And there'll be others of us that might have to leave and take the fall so that those that stay behind can have another day, another week here. I don't want to do it.

I'm just saying right now, we have to consider every possibility. An exit strategy. He put himself on the line so that Cadigan could live. He did something incredibly heroic. What exactly are they trying to clock him for anyway? Bollerre, Cormoray, wants him because his sister wants him. She has it out for him. I think you guys realize in this moment that you might be talking about two separate things.

Belair's heroism in the Merconade was extremely heroic, but that's not why his sister's looking for him. Well, we do know, we know that his sister's after him. Yeah. Your sister, he went to speak to Termina at the Via Aurora. And that was a whole separate kettle of fish that opened for its own reasons. Are you telling the truth? Are you lying to me right now? I am not lying to you right now. Insight check. Inside. It's not good. It's an eight.

You guys, time is ticking fast. I'm not lying. You don't trust me. Azune, you have woven such a tapestry of lies, and I have tried to keep up with every single one. And even I can't see through what you've woven anymore. And I don't, I'm getting concerned that you don't either. I don't know that we can keep up a sustained cover for everything we're doing. No. This is unraveling quickly.

So the escape plan? Well, yes, an escape plan, or we need to start making some big moves soon to try to change some minds and get those opinions that are circling us over with us instead. Like we're not going to keep up appearances and be doing this two months from now.

We have to make some things happen in the next few days. We do. Or leave. And I'm not leaving. On that note, we have to file I think, the hand and wheel, and talk to our contact for King Augustus that we have here, and start to get that moving because there is a revolution on the horizon.

I was at the Pentevral last night, and there are protests and rebellion amongst the students with all the firings and turnover that's been happening. I might be able to keep fanning those flames. That's a good sign. Yes. I was getting some of that energy from here. I was a hero last night.

Good. I. Good. Tierney. Hmm. Think you can convince some of your demon folk to start maybe showing their faces a little bit more about what's really behind the Candescent Creed?

Not my sisters. Not my sisters. But you're taking a field trip to the pit. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. There's a whole world of politics on that side, and I can barely keep up with these ones. so I'm gonna do my best. But what I know is that my sisters are locked in

to my dad's plan, and I am now absconding from that. And have had a lot of threats being made on me, and I'm gonna choose to ignore them currently. It's kind of what we've been doing, so yeah, welcome to the schemers. With welcome to the schemers, I want to move into our preface, profession checks for this.

Oh. Yes. Sam has just nailed a Nat 20 on his profession check for the day, which was that. It was incredible. The Lord Wickander, you can see the abulians of people that are being healed by the radiant Lord Wickander. We're gonna go, I think we're just gonna go here.

What is, how up to that day? Boy, he would be getting ready to give the red carpet treatment to the their VIPs. Go ahead and give me a performance, give me either performance or persuasion. Persuasion because I'm just talking people to get shit done all day.

That is a 22. 22. Old Good is here, you're getting everything. You're making tweaks and adjustments. There's been a day off, so now people are coming back with a lot of energy. Three yeses. Agstash split knuckle is coming.

Jaqara Vodick is coming. And Effie Parfinas is coming. All of them, you bargain dearly for those magic invitations. All good. I don't want to see a bottle of Yargraz on the premises. No, no, no, no. We'll get the Telmoor and wine.

Now, if they ask for the Yarras, if they ask for it. Yes, yes, yes. Keep it beneath the bleachers, but out of sight, out of mine. I'll scrape the nice fruit leather off the back of the bin. And you see that, great. Excellent show is going to be a barn burner. You, I'm going to say, Azunay. You have a lot of work to do that's just actually.

You've got to hire lie lie lie lieutenants. Yeah. Go to your job, dude. Go ahead and give me either, yeah, whatever you think, investigation or persuasion based on what you're trying to do. Yeah, I'm gonna use a luck point for this as well. I think it's, I mean, I have to meet with Herondis.

I have to, I'm gonna go about it with persuasion. I'm gonna use heroic inspiration to rerow. You will re-roll with advantage. Ooh. No, I'm gonna, it things, it's what, It's what it wants to be. So I'll take that. It's a 13.

13? Okay. Cadigan's stuff is getting printed. Um, you see also that the rest of the, uh, Cadigan Wanda posters getting printed as are Wonded posters for Boler Lothalia. But Belair Lothalia, the curator of the Arconot who has stolen a magical mask. Uh, the reward for him, there is a, uh, the reward for him, there is a, uh, 200 gold piece reward for him and a 300 gold piece reward for a return of the mask he stole.

And that starts to go up all around the city. You also see the news that Oscaro Malanti has been released from arrest, but has been fired, and Makmas Gilfadar is the new arch-preserver of the Arkanaut. Right. What does tyranny get up to that day? What's your profession? I'd like to get drunk. I'd like to go walk through the city as a person. Great. And I haven't really landed on what I want to look like.

I have a lot of feelings about the way I look right now and why I look the way I do. So instead I put on a familiar face the woman from Wicks photo. Yeah. Armus. I put her face on. Beautiful. And I'd like to just stroll around,

go into a tavern and listen to people. Give me an insight check. 14. People are lovely. People are lovely, and without any too special insight into them, I think that you feel that this city is afraid and happy and rebellious and angry, and it's all of it. The tapestry is enormous, and somewhere in the dark,

Sul Rexy is working on something. Murray. I'm gonna use my big chunky Murray die. I can give me here. I'm so nervous. Let's go bad, you guys. What are you working on when you go there? Do I say no?

Do I roll first and then say. See, wait. I want to know if you're going to work to do work. I think Marie would go to work to do work. Okay. However, she's highly distracted. Yeah. I think she checks in on this magic bug.

Yeah. Numerous points are at the day. What does the magic bug say, do you start hearing something the second it starts talking? How long does it last for? For them? Inscribe an invisible room in an object within range. The ruin vanishes when you cast the spell again. Otherwise, it remains in place for the duration, which is eight hours. Oh, it's only eight hours! Well, that's okay. You were in the middle of the night. I'm going to say you've had a long rest.

You're going to catch in your office. If you're just doing burs or shit, give me a profession role, just Arcana. Okay. And it acts as a listening device. I can mute or unmute it. as a bonus action, so I think I just kind of always had that on. Yeah. I've got my AirPods in, and I'm listening in on this at all times. Cool. And then I think I'd also like maybe, maybe start seeding some whispers to the other professors in like a,

how do you feel about how things are going on, but in a very underhanded way that's not going to reveal myself if they go, I love it here. Great. So is this birth, like an Arcona role or is this like deception for like running around talking to the other professors? Let's start with Arcona. Let's start with Bursarsit. Oh, gee. Oh, gosh. Oh, geez.

So crazy. Okay. Uh, 23. 23. 23. You're really good at your job. The part of your job is doing your job. You're really good at that. On your magic bug, you hear, counselor, come right in. Oh, please take a seat.

Sorry to bother you. I wanted to talk because a professor of yours came by my office yesterday, and we had a very unusual interaction. Fuck, it's Effie. Fuck, it's Effie. It's Effie. Fuck. Shit.

Could you explain to me why? And she goes, which professor? A professor. Professor Magnesson. Do you know anything about? that her, and she, of course, says, I don't know her exceptionally well, but if she said anything to make you uncomfortable,

see Effie goes, I think she did. And I just want to understand if her position is the position, what is the Penteveral's position on the Chamber of Lords advisory? Corrie goes, there are benefactors and patrons, We owe the utmost loyalty, gratitude, and a pre- and magic bug cuts out at that eight-hour mark. Oh, fuck. Tim, just gonna go to the teacher's lounge

and leave my office. Go to the teacher's lounge. A few minutes later, Cora walks into the teacher's lounge. Marie. Dean. Could I speak with you for a moment? Oh my gosh.

In my office? I am so busy right now. You know, it is quite. busy day and I just, I can't. This is gonna be important. Hmm. Could you come talk with me? Okay.

Take. Take. Someone from HR there. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. Do you have, and she takes her into the office. Counselor Parvenis was here.

Do you have anything you want to tell me? You know, I voted for her. And I just think it's like really good. to be able to exercise your rights. Do you have anything to tell me about Parvenus recently? Uh-huh. Well, I checked in with her.

I checked in with her just because I felt like, I feel like there's just things that could be doing better in especially around the city and in a way that we can work hand in hand with the Chamber of Councils and in the Pentebral to make it just a little bit more comfortable and better for everybody. You know? I just wanted to let her know that that door is open, and especially when it comes to magic rights, amongst the city. I think some of the laws have been confusing. You know, we can help them even, like, advise them when it comes to drafting some of these laws. Give me a deception check, and this is the check to end all checks.

Fuck. Don't say that. Let's go, Bish. I want to stand up and see it. Oh, oh. Just roll a natural 20. Let's go, girls. Just do it.

Oh, shit. Take me to take it. It's gonna be the fuck you dice, because if it's fuck me and then it's fucked me in a big way, right? Oh my God, I hate this so much. I'm gonna get fired. Okay. It's a clean 15.

Clean 15 on deception. Is she rolling? She's rolling insight. Three, portent! Yes! Oh, fuck! Yes! Yes!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Fad! Yay. She gets Oh my God. She gets right in your face.

If you ever show that that kind of initiative. I'll have you drummed out of here so fast, it'll make that little sunset mountain out of your spin. You don't talk. I talk to politicians. You count beans. Stay counting beans.

I thought that we had settled this, Murray. I thought that you and me were smooth as could be, copacetic. I have a revolutionary council member coming here asking me why she's getting grilled about her loyalty to the sundered houses. Like, you're going and asking her why we don't do things a certain way.

So help me understand why you're out on, let me give me insight. It's bad. It's bad. Why would it be anything good for? You feel like you're having a hallucination because the things that Korra's saying aren't lining up right now. Yeah.

So she says, she says, the next time a council member asks you your opinions about the Penteverel or the council or politics, you say, oh, I stay out of politics. Because that's what you fucking do from now on, Murray. You stay out of politics. If it were not for this whole Theodoro fiasco, you'd have a signed resignation on my desk right fucking now.

Your timing is very fortunate. Wow. Seems like a bee crawled up Your ass died, didn't it? Yeah, the bee's name is Murray Magnessen. You're dismissed. You know, I seem to recall you praising my initiative not more than a week ago.

Well, that little bit of initiative turns out to not have made the Sundered houses very happy. Hero Devaya no longer attends this school. Crazy the lowly innkeep from in the rough part of the city can get such a rise out of you. I thought you were stronger than that. And then I leave. Give me intimidate.

I know, guys. I know. Stop roll shit. Nope, it's a three again. It's a three again. It's shit. Wait, wait, though. I've got luck points. Wait, I have to decide ahead of time with luck points.

Three. As you turn around and say, I thought I would have made up Turner stuff, she says, Extended sabbatical! Two weeks. Paid administrative leave. You're fucking out of here. Whoa. Try me again. Say something.

I'll come by to pick up my check and I leave. And you walk out of that office. Great day for dice rolling. Great day for dice rolling. On my way out, I go by the teacher's lounge again. How many professors and stuff are in there? How many professors and stuff are in there? Yeah, in the teacher's lounge on my way out.

There's like four or five. Um, I just poke my head in and I say, they just put me on sabbatical for two weeks and, uh, well, folks, I think you better watch your asses because none of us are safe. Professor Grim Gron, who was helping the students on the roof the other night, goes, she didn't. Today?

Just now. So, maybe we should all have a talk. See y'all at the seven stars. and I leave. And I just seed that to the teachers. Hell yeah. Nope. Teacher strike.

Teacher strike. Exactly. That's gonna be the thing that brings down the whole. Unbelievable. Harondis catches you at the end of your day. Oh, fuck. Captain Nayar, I understand you are sending

some lieutenants to watch the hallowed round. if you have not already. I'd like you to go yourself tonight, if you would be so kind. Yes, of course. There, it's important that we have a presence there, and additionally, I'm going to ask you this very bluntly. What is your relationship to Professor Magnuson?

Oh, rotten. It's saying everybody off. It's just been, we've been colleagues for a long time, my lord. She's a liability. I will keep my distance. May I ask you, my lord? You are. The rest of the Einfossens have left.

Are you here? The Stalkiep is quite lonely, yes. I understand my mission, the many layers of it. If there's anything that you can tell me so that I can understand where you are, I would greatly appreciate it. I want to serve you. to serve you to the best of my abilities.

What is your stance on this miracle? Of the creed? Yes, the resurrection. Stranger things have happened, Captain. I don't concern myself with it. This world, the rocks and stones, they concern me. Good day. Good day.

We are going to move from here to that evening. Oh, Jesus. We're gonna move to the evening, Kotheri. As a bunch of revolutionary council members arrive, Agstash split knuckle, Jakara Vodik, Effie Parvinas, big entourage of people, they have their own boxes, all good set it all up.

How much or little have? Have we ever seen Oggstache? Everybody's seen Oxtosh, because he's like a neighborhood fixture. This ancient orcish barbarian who is currently in a wheelchair, he's being pushed forward by a Panther Folk nurse who is wearing the Lux's garb of the creed walks up. Oxtosh looks up.

You can see he's still got this massive axe across the back of his wheelchair. He is so ancient, but he looks up and goes, Is that Zurich Fangs, boy? That Zurich Fings boy, I know you. Master, Splitknuckle, it is an honor to have you with us here tonight. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Please don't, I've heard the stories. I need this jaw, I need this face. Well, it's just because you have the voice of an angel. I can imagine his breath. Oh, so, oh, and this is my, my nurse, Jayaan. You see that Jaya and the Panther Folk says, very delighted for the chance to come and see the show. I've heard only amazing things.

Our Lord Wicander was just speaking about the beauty of the play. Lee and I share a love of the city's history, and I think that you both will agree when you have taken in the show. We can't wait. It'll be wonderful. And you see, Augusta says, they got you juggling! There is juggling before and after. We'll start you off right.

All right, I always thought I'd be an all right-handed juggling. A kid from the rocary to come up. This place used to be a real place of misery, Mr. Fank. It's more than, more than I can say. Yeah, well, you got it. Jakara Vodick, beautiful, gray, revolutionary.

Her clothing sign of, is not a uniform, but it kind of ascends to the station of the Grey Tower. A beautiful middle-aged, orcish woman, hair up in a bun. She walks up to you. Mr. Fang. Sort of standard attention like I did in the old days. Major Vodic. And yes, a veteran of the Grey Battalion.

And she says, please, at ease. And holds out of hand and Chase you. Thank you both for your service abroad and your service here. It is a luminous night here at the Hallow Round. I can't believe that you were available for this night, but I think that you'll be pleased with what you see. You will see our lives reflected back at you tonight. You see that she says it's a story to be proud of.

And from what I've heard, an incredible performance, very, very moving. And I'm honored for the invitation to come and participate in what I think is, well, I'll speak for myself, one of the proudest traditions marshaly in the history of the world. We share that, proud of our city, and proud of what we've done, proud of our people.

Effie comes along afterwards and says, Mr. Fang, it's a pleasure, a huge fan. All of the taverns of the fray have you to thank for an absolute explosion in business. You produce, you produce, Some very thirsty fans, Mr. Fan. We're very happy to have you. We have a lot of overlap, our customers, you and I, so.

Well, exactly. We get them ready for you, you get them ready for us. I like to think that it's a mutual thing. Synergistic, synergistic. Well, drinks are on me tonight. Please, please enjoy. And I hope you will give me your honest opinion of the show afterward. I hold you to do that. Absolutely will.

She goes off to her box. Old Good comes in and says, there's a box that was given to the Chamber of the Lord's Advisory as part of the grant. The hail of ours are coming for it. Understood. Do we know who's in attendance? Wickander. You arrive with your mother, Iris,

your little brother, Leoran, and your father Goddard. And I'm next to Hal? I think you guys are walking, are walking up. And there's also some hail of our soldiers here. Your Uncle Philonius is not too far away. Gotcha. But they walk up, the Lady Iris looks at you very cool and offended. Lady Iris was the one who saw the fake play.

And so she walks up, well, I've been informed that I actually haven't recently seen this show. Well, I hope you will take it in the spirit that it was created. Just, I know that we don't all see eye to eye here, but we all believe in the shared good of this city. That'll be enough. Oh. We don't need to hear from you right now.

Your mother squeezes your arm, and as you walk away, she says, and you are led to the Hale-O-Far box, so the Chamber of Lords Advisory Box that the Hale-Ovars have gotten there. It's like season tickets too. Is everybody present as the play begins, or would people be going to other spots? Like, would Tierney come here, or would she be going for Seul-Rexhi,

who all is, like, present as, like, the play unfolds? unfolds. I think that I, what time is it? It's like, when times the play go up? Like 7.30, 8? 7.30. 7.30. Drunk as a skunk. I'm gonna make my way to Silrechi. Okay. You make a way to Soul Wreckschee. Gotcha. Great. Make it my way. Aznei and Murray, are you guys here or elsewhere? I mean, I have to be here. No. Yeah. Herondis is asking you. I'd be here as well, but I think I would be steering clear of the council members, especially Effie.

Cool. Yeah. I will, before lights go out, I'm gonna make my way to split knuckles seats in the box that he's in. Yeah. Do you want if I pop in just for one moment? Oh yeah, take a seat, take a seat.

You know, I know I already welcomed you here and was being just doing my job and being a bit of a showman, but, Just between you and me, I really want to thank you for all you've done for our community over the years. It is a respectable legacy. And I have felt it both as a boy and a young man and today. It is deeply appreciated. And I feel a kinship with that.

And I just hope that I can do as much for our city as you have. It is very meaningful to me to have you here tonight. Thank you for being here. persuasion check. It's 25. He looks at you. I only heard about what half you said. But I, but that old dead bitch, Asgra,

that shaper of war. He tried to stomp on us four thousand years. He wanted this all to be guys like me. I'm pretty tough. Guys like you. He wanted nothing to do with. 4,000 years later, less than 100 since he's been gone.

And here you are. It's pretty damn tough. We got our own songs and our own stories. This theater's the envy of the world. They don't got theaters bigger than this anywhere in the world. The guy used to sit on top of the city, you never saw him, I did. Me, still drawing breath,

I bet he'd anticipate that. You got him roll. You got every reason to be proud, kid. I learned a few lessons from you. I'll fight for us, same as you, any day. You just call. On that word fight, you see a glint in his eyes as he looks at you and soared at your side

and has a feeling that he is looking at a fighter. A veteran served in the Gray Battalion and someone who is engaged in a different kind of battle right now. right now. The play begins. Oh, that's just before he, he's at Moose Knuckles box. I'm gonna hold up my program to try to sort of hide my face a little bit, and I'm gonna cast message at Howe. Yeah.

Because I can still see where he is and just say, Meet me stage right! Backstage right! I reverse directions completely and start moving down the aisles to get there. Shortly before the play starts, if I may, I'm gonna just... I'm just gonna go to the bathroom a little quick before the play starts. You see your father says, I'll accompany you. No need father, right? It's all right. And he stands up.

Oh boy. I really have to go though, so yes, yes, let's go. This is Giant Hands Daddy is here at the theater tonight? Yeah. Big Papa. Big Papa. Big hands. He has no eyes.

Well, he's blindfolded. Okay. But he walks beside you. Where do you go? Where's the bathroom? He can take you to the rest of. There's like a public, there's like public kind of like bathroom. More than one.

Yeah. You're an old trough. God damn, how do I get away from this? Yeah. Hit him. That's bad. Okay, wait, how long does this last? Okay. Is there a stall for pooping?

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to go into a stall for pooping. Is this concentration? I'm gonna cast minor illusion to make it look like there's two legs under the stall. Great, under the stall. And then I'm gonna cast Misty Steff to get out of the bathroom. out of the bathroom. Oh, wow.

Okay. You have to tip toe up. You have to give me a stealth check. Sure. Stealth check. 14. On like a loop? A loop, yeah.

Okay. 14. Gonna keep it fair. Oh my gosh. Poop check. Five or higher on the die, your terrifying half celestial father spots. Five or higher on the dial.

Massive chances. Five or higher. He has a plus nine to perception. Jeez. Three! Wick, you messy step out of the bathroom. You have seconds. I'm supposed to make a speech at the end

and this disavowing you, trashing the whole thing. If I do that, if I do that, that's horrible. He goes again, no one would look at me straight. I would be betraying you, and I don't know if that helps us at all. What if you announced you were the new head

of the Candacin Creed? But I'm not. What do you mean? What happened? They would kill me? Attack me? Well, then don't do that. I mean, maybe, maybe. Also, if I stood up at this theater

right after such a great performance, it would undo all the goodwill that we'd have with these three council members here. I mean, it's really hard to say what would happen. This is a good show. People like this show. They will like this show. And then if you poop on it afterwards,

they'll hate me, which maybe is okay. Could you make that a show? Could you all throw things at me and could you hurt me? Could you attack me? Could it make you look like I've been killed by people in the audience? I think that will swing the pendulum back against the theater.

God damn it! Am I there? Where am I? I don't. No. I'm dicking around somewhere in this theater. Oh. Hold on one second. I run back.

I recast minor illusion. I run back. I think at this point you do hear Goddard going, Weakanda. Shit, shit. What do I do? What do I do? I don't have the answers.

There's five other places where our plans are falling apart. Hey, what's up? Good God. You look awful. I got almost fired today. today. I feel so alive for expediency. What do I do? What if we, what if there's some sort of interference?

What if you get up to say something? What if there's like feedback? What if like people, or maybe only, maybe we can do something to where only the Kandesan Creed hear what they want to hear, but nobody else does. How do we do that? I could figure it out. I got this magic rock.

I got, I have till the end of Act two to do, or three, is it three act? Two acts. Two items to the end to act, too. I'll see you at intermission. I gotta go. You jump back to your sky box. The play begins. Uh, arroy, people now know what to expect.

Arorius, hooray! The play, the play! People are so thrilled and excited. Lash takes the stage. You see Romina's nearby, she and Lash are kind of becoming an item. And as they be, as the play begins, It's glorious Wick.

You're watching this play. It's everything you could have ever imagined. Is there a part that I'd be right for? Give me an inside check. 19. Why not Vokion? Why not the star? Of course. Of course.

Up here, please. I do have so bad. The opening scene of the play goes underway. And as it does, Azune, Murray, and Howl, you all watch Light, B'Boo, Fill the skybox of the Halevars, not an effect of the play. A voice shouts out loud enough to be heard over the entire theater, interrupting the play, not from the stage. Death to the sundered houses! Death to tyrants!

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