Dice Shame - 54 | 'A Shadow of Oneself'
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I feel like something is wrong within our party.
Tubers.
Tubers and also some carrots.
Tubulars.
Horses love pancakes.
A dwarf can love a goblin.
A dwarf can love an axe, right?
You've come back to haunt me again, have you?
There's a lot of scary things going on.
He's not a devil.
Shut up.
I got a treat for everybody this morning.
Zoom.
Enhance.
May we lie, rest and warm.
You are out of here, sister.
You had one.
Bye.
Bye, girl.
My friends and I have been thrust by fate
into the world of giants.
Welcome back to Dysh, Episode 54, A Shadow of One Self.
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tree slash Beholder to No One for episodes and more. All right, should we do this? Let's do it.
lately.
Oh, no.
Tis the season.
I was just going to say tis the season.
We've been watching spooky movies for Halloween days.
Yeah.
Kind of get in that festive spirit.
Yeah, we watched The Witch.
Have you guys all seen that one?
No.
I'm melting.
I'm melting.
No, these movies are not my genre.
I get too scared.
You're scared of.
Oh, man, there's movies I've seen in high school that still haunt me that I'm like,
when the ring came out, I went to see it because there was a girl I liked.
and so we went and so that was what she wanted to see
and so then it was like ever since that
it was like oh looking behind me in my car that day
for this like creepy girl like it's not my genre at all
I don't like being afraid that's pretty cute
horror movies are not really my genre either
and I have a bad history with horror movies
but I am unashamed
of hiding behind a blanket
or Harlan or my hands or whatever
whenever the spooky spooky parts come on
and so I sort of surf the wave that way
I feel like I don't know
enough good Halloween movies
like I know good horror movies
but to me horror
doesn't necessarily mean Halloween
I don't want to watch the human
centipede ever around Halloween
when do you want to watch the human centipede
Alex when is that
season for you? When is your discerning
viewership of the human centipede happening
Easter? What is the best
Halloween movie? Charlie Brown's
pumpkin whatever
movie that's a pretty good one
Good choice.
Charlie Bounds, pumpkin, whatever.
I don't know, to me it depends on what you're going for.
I think trick or treat is not the best, but it's really seething with Halloween spirit.
It feels very spooky.
There's leaves on the ground in every scene.
And to me, that is one of the things I like to watch around Halloween, something that seethes that feeling.
Donnie Darko is kind of a Halloween movie to me, honestly.
Yeah, because it takes place in the fall.
To each their own, right?
Yeah, exactly.
That or pretty much any time where a movie takes place around fall makes me feel extra.
Season two of Stranger Things.
Stranger Things.
I remember being excited for that.
Yes.
You know what they do play in Stranger Things?
D&D.
Yeah.
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
I feel like playing some D&D right now.
D&D.
Yeah.
Dund dirt cheap.
Shall we get into this?
Let's do it.
So you guys are on the Evermore Way, I believe, and you just spotted a battlefield.
You went and investigated, and then you saw a spooky flying castle.
I turn to Jack. Jack, your map. Can you pull it up quick?
Done, yeah. Jack opens his hands and brings a minor illusion of the map up in front of us.
And the cloud. It was right about here. And Red tries to put this minor illusion on the map.
the first time revealing to Jack
that he actually has
the spell minor illusion
and the shitty little
like clearly cartoon cloud.
Like it's just this black line drawing.
Yeah, exactly.
Like just appears on top of it.
It's got a little happy face
with the walkie eye.
Oh my God. I love it.
Island how to make wiggily pictures.
That's a fantastic minor illusion, Red.
What? No, it's a wiggly picture.
I told you this.
Oh, I have many thoughts right now, Red.
And I've got a book you should read.
Anyway, where did this?
And can you zoom it?
And I want to see if this cloud city was sort of floating away from any nearby towns or villages or if it's on its way to any nearby towns or villages.
When we got to Nightstone, remember how they talked about the cloud giants raining down boulders on all of the people.
This one might either be on its way or just from the same situation.
We need to be prepared.
And I'm going to give myself inspiration.
Yeah, if we can sort of map its trajectory, what do we see?
Zoom. Enhance.
And when you enhance my cloud, it gets pixelated.
Yeah, it was kind of difficult for you to get a sense of perspective
to sort of know which way this cloud castle is traveling.
All right. Well, look, we just, we should be mindful of this.
There might be people who need help.
When we get to a place where we can have an hour to write a letter,
I will send Zephyros a letter with a picture of that castle in it
and see if he can idea it for us as to whose castle it is.
If anyone's going to know whose castle is, Zephyros might,
and he could send me back a letter telling me who it belonged to.
And that would be a piece of information that could really help us.
Jack, now that's using your big brain.
That's cool as hell.
I want to give you inspiration for that, Rob.
Yeah.
The idea of writing to Zephros.
Do it. You've got it.
Inspiration.
Mulovation.
Mutilation?
Okay, that last one, I just mumbled over.
He kind of phoned that last part in.
Mutilation?
And once we know whose castle it is,
we can send that information back to our contacts in water deep and wherever else,
and we can start coordinating what's happening with the giants.
They're certainly going to want to know,
but the fire giants done here and gridhog we've taken out.
We're starting to get a picture of the giant activity,
and it's important we share that information for sure.
You know what, Jack, sometimes I just love you.
That'll be too, Red.
You know, there's a lot of love that goes around here.
And Doran looks up at Kraloth.
I love you.
And I hug like your leg.
Well, yeah, we should get moving, actually.
We should, you're right, Jack.
And Kralov kind of pulls away from you there, Doren,
and launches himself onto his horse and begins riding East again.
Dorn doesn't really take much notice of it and gets on shit fur.
And I love you, true Stephen.
You guys head east
Down to da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Along the Evermore way
Evermore way
Ester more
Better ever more way than ever-way more
You're riding for another couple hours
Before Red B rides up to you
And she looks a little bit distressed, Red
And she's like, Red, I just noticed something
that I'm frankly a little bit upset about
What's up, darling? And I sort of slow down
a little bit so that we're near the back
Yeah, she's like trotting beside you, or I guess the horses are just walking.
And she's like, my necklace, Red, I lost it.
It's missing.
Just kind of pawing at her neck where it usually sits.
I don't know when I lost it, but it just breaks my heart.
It's kind of like a scrapbook for me.
Do you remember the last time you had it?
I was thinking about that, and I can't remember if I had it when we were in Calling Horns.
So maybe I left it in the inn.
And Red has this moment of like deep thought as he sort of looks up to his companions and his eyes sort of settle on Kralov's back.
The shadows are growing along here on the road and you look at your friend as he's traveling ahead of you.
You know what? For now, don't tell anybody else. Just leave it with me.
Look, hey, a necklace is only as good as the stories you make while collecting the pieces for it.
So why don't we start a new one? And Red reaches into his pocket.
and pulls out a piece of iron, it looks like,
sort of a molded piece of iron.
And it's sort of broken on one end,
and he holds it for a second.
It says, this was a piece of the shoe
that Astor was wearing,
and I figured it could shine up pretty nice.
Thank you, Red.
That's really, really nice of you.
Oh, of course.
It's a good way to remember her.
And he pats True Stephen and says,
Don't worry, true Stephen.
You're your own person
And he sort of
Continues riding along
Cool
So the shadows get along
Over the moors
Over the grassland
And we find somewhere safe
Roadside
We've turned down
And we're starting to head south
Towards the high forest
There's like a little
Offroad trail
Heading down towards Noanar's hold
And we've just sort of made that turn
And now we found like a quiet area
to make camp.
I would say at this point,
Doren probably builds a small campfire.
Sure.
And I think Red takes B out again
to sort of hunt a little bit.
Every night now,
they're doing a bit of ranger training
and bow stringing.
Sure.
Red really sort of incorporates
hunting into the guild artisanry
because it's so dependent
on how the bows and the arrows are made
and how they fire.
Kralath, Jack, Doren, Oren.
The four of you are all hanging out
campfire side
while being read, a hunt for dinner.
Yeah, I think Jack would set up the tiny hut first thing
and then try and make a writing desk out of the other bits of stuff
that he has to sit down for a minute and start collecting his notes
to send Zephyros a little letter.
Ooh, you're going to compose a letter to Zephyros, yeah.
Jack takes a moment to collect his thoughts and begins to write.
The letter begins, along the Evermore Way, evening.
Second of Uttar, 1492.
My valued colleague Zephyros, since High Harvest Tide, when you dropped us off from your cloud castle at Golden Fields and began heading west to the Moonshay Isles to research for your next book, I'd hope to find a way to correspond with you and share further ideas.
And I've finally devised a way to do so.
If you're reading this, you've received one of Jack's magic letters.
The first of many, I hope.
I've recently been reading the Lost Scrolls of Sabriel, a text recovered from a Nethri's ruin in Icewind Dale.
And it speaks at length about the collaboration between elves and Cloud Jens.
giants in the bygone empire of Astoria, and in that tradition, I hope you and I can work together
to do something equally as memorable. Your visions about us have been proving true. My friends and I,
the Nightstone Four, as we've come to call ourselves, have been thrust by fate into the world
of giants. We've defeated Chief Gah of the Hill Giants, who was destroying the landscape
around her Fort Groodhug. She had a conch shell with a transportation spell weaved into it that
suggests it might go somewhere sacred to giant kind. We've come into the possession of a rod of the
Vonendod that a fire giant had been using to search for something, but other than guessing that
it was a thing made of adamantium, whatever they're searching for is just a conjecture at this point.
Finally, we've recently caught a fleeting glimpse of a cloud castle floating a mile or so
above the Evermore's heading north, and on that subject of the castle is what prompted me to
write you.
If my spell is working correctly, you should be seeing a vision of three gleaming pearl white
towers of the castle we spotted disappearing into the overcast skies above the
the marshland. Do you recognize this castle or perhaps know what might bring it to this part of the
world? I hope your research is going well and your griffins aren't getting up to too much trouble.
I look forward to hearing back from you and to productive future collaboration, should that be
our fate. The magic of this letter will allow you to compose a response back and send it at
your leisure. Jack then signs the letter, your friend among the small folk, Jack Page.
Orin is playing a song by Firelight.
sky grows darker and yet our hearts are high and still we travel looking for our place in the sky
and here we rest another night our heads our heads may we lie rest and warm
in our tiny liamon beds.
I give you inspiration.
Tad-da!
Thank you very much.
Red and B, we come back with some hairs,
their favorites of ours.
What about a boar?
And what's even more rare,
which we're just so lucky,
is we happen to come across
some root vegetables right here.
Yay!
And we make up a stew.
Tubers.
Tubers and also some carrots.
Tubulars.
Yeah, maybe there's some like wild watercress
or, you know.
Shrooms?
Yeah, you guys get stoned.
We accidentally eat the wrong shrooms.
It's a good night.
We're like taking these shrooms and we like look at Kieran.
We're like, yo, Kieran's a demon imp.
What the hell?
He just starts shape shifting in front of your eyes.
He's not a devil, shut up.
She's crazy.
Karen, stop it.
You're supposed to be in disguise.
Once we're all in bed, red,
waits a few hours and once he's certain that everyone is asleep he wakes up he looks around the dark
tent and he crawls over his sleeping friends towards kraloth and very much in the way that
kralov looked through the bag of holding i am going to look through kreeloth's bag okay you know red wasn't
really sure at the time, but Craylon's been acting a little bit weird. And now with this
necklace missing, he just has the suspicion. And in his mind, worst case scenario, he finds
nothing. Best case scenario, he understands this person a little better. So I'm going to roll
sleight of hand? Yeah. So I got a 14. Wow. Wow. It's going to be good. Okay. Okay.
So this is great. It's like the exact opposite. You guys tell me exactly what happens.
So red stands over you, one foot on either side of your bedroll. And he reaches,
down towards the sack that lay by your head.
And the snoring stops.
And Red stops.
Kralath's eyes open.
Kralath, you don't have dark vision,
so I imagine there's just kind of this spooky, shadowy figure.
Yeah, you look up, and Red is standing there,
but bathed in darkness, radiating shadow.
You've come back to haunt me again, have you?
and red leans down close so he's like two inches away from your face and he says i'll come back
anytime i choose and then he stands up and like walks back to his place red as you head back to your
place in the darkness of leaman's tiny hut you realize that oren's bedroll is empty i lie down
obviously being the only person that would notice.
Similarly to how you get when you're like in a fight,
he's breathing heavy.
He's like got his blood rushing and he's trying to calm down
and he spends that minute lying down to detect humanoids.
Ah, okay.
And I want to see if I can feel Orrin in a five-mile radius.
Yeah, you detect one humanoid.
You presume it would be Orin or else he's been on quite the journey.
They're 300 meters away.
I think Red stands up again.
and silently slips out of the tent.
And I think he's going to sneak up to Orrin.
Okay.
You stealthily move through the night until Orrin is in your view.
It is him 300 meters away in the darkness.
Orin is pacing back and forth under the moon.
And I watch him.
And as you watch, he's shaking his head.
He's muttering under his breath.
And he seems upset.
does he say anything he's just he's muttering you can't really hear you're too far away
i really messed up that song earlier
you're expecting more for me kick it over it man
and it's like it's like four in the morning too
it's one of them think i'm cool and i got my opportunity
and i just yeah i wasted it he's not he's not saying anything he's just
muttering he's muttering under his breath yeah he does this he stops he sits
down he's like tracing things out in the dirt with his finger and he scrubs it out after about four
minutes of watching him do this i think i take a step forward from the darkness and my voice just
cuts through the silence of the woods oran are you all right oh do you scared me master red
there's a lot of scary things going on and i take like another few steps towards him but
like circling a little bit breathing the fire out of his lungs
from this interaction with Kralath.
And in the night, Orrin sees the red of his eyes
just sort of piercing in the moonlight
as he sort of circles around, Oren.
I must have been sleepwalking.
Oh.
I don't think so, Oren.
What were you doing?
I was having a terrible dream.
Thank you so much for...
Oh, I must have wandered quite a way.
Red takes a few steps towards Oren very casually.
Oren?
Oh, it's cold out here.
We should get back to where the others are.
And Red just locks eyes of them.
And I'm going to do an intimidate.
Ooh, okay.
Intimidating friends.
Dark Red.
I'm Red-headed Robin.
This is your alter ego, Crimson.
Crimson bird.
I take a step towards Oran, and I say,
Oren, you're not out here because you're sleepwalking.
And I want you to tell me exactly why you're here.
Okay.
Megan?
You just gave me a natural one.
Oh, Megan, this is a horrible time.
How dare.
Shame.
For shame.
You had the shortest two-episode streak, but you are out of here, sister.
You had one.
You're going to get that dice.
Really, this die just wants to get home to Megan.
I know.
It's going to roll 20s and a two, a three, and a one.
And a one.
All that points were I really needed it.
For shame.
Rolling garbage tonight.
Sorry, Megan.
Yeah, so I'm very unpersuasive.
Um,
Tell me.
Oren walks over to you and links his arm in yours and says,
take me back to Kemp.
I'm not feeling myself.
Right.
Red's sort of taken aback.
And he's like,
Right, of course, yes.
Like the adrenaline from Kralath is wearing off.
And I think Red wants to believe Orin's fine too.
I think there's a part of him that's like,
maybe it was.
He's like convincing himself in his head.
And he's like, right, yes.
Okay.
and they start walking back to camp.
Damn.
Tomorrow's another day.
You guys get back to Lehman's tiny hut.
No one is stirred and you both go back to sleep.
Good night, Oren.
I feel like you would all wake into the sound of Doran splitting wood.
And the axe is saying, I want orc not wood.
Exactly.
I'm like having a conversation.
Exactly.
And another thing.
It's like every time you want to split wood or kill something that
isn't an orc, you have to convince it.
Now, Ork Splitter.
I'm loving these vignettes of, like, Doran and Ork Splitter, and I'm really hoping just one
episode, he's like, I think I'm in love with an axe, guy.
She just gets me.
I caught myself last night.
A dwarf can love a goblin.
A dwarf can love an axe, right?
She gets me on a level that nobody else does.
Can you teach me mage hand?
I just can't get over how you hit the mark.
every time, or splitter.
I'm just so impressed.
You all wake up.
Yeah.
And I think there's this really interesting dynamic
where Red thinks that Kralath caught him last night.
Right.
And he's sort of like real cold to Kralath.
And Kralath actually stands up and he does a big stretch and yons and says,
all right.
May have looked like I was just sleeping,
but I was actually doing my prayers to Kallemvore.
I got a treat for everybody this morning.
Jack, give me your favorite food.
You know, um...
It takes him like a whole minute because he's going through the list of all of the things Torrin's made for him for breakfast and, like, can't pick which one is the, uh-huh, uh-huh.
It's, it's called a galette, and it's this buckwheat crepe and you've got an egg in it and it's, uh, and it's got a sauce on it.
And you've got to get just the finest, and he just describes this like Water Davian delicacy that Torin has made for him once with all the finest.
Fucking truffles and shit.
Well, I saw someone actually make that when I was there.
and I think I could do something.
Red, what's your favorite meal?
I'm not hungry.
B, what about you? What do you like?
Really fond of pancakes.
Pancakes, coming right up.
Oren, you look tired. How you doing?
I'm not doing great, Master Kralov.
I had kind of a bad night.
Well, Red caught me sleepwalking.
Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah, I guess it's a first time for everything.
Yeah, I suppose so. Well, I think what you need is a little good food in your belly. What's your favorite?
Well, I don't mind if hash browns and I like eggs and, well, toast, of course.
Oh, okay, all right. I think I could whip up some stuff that's along that long. And apples. Oh, apples.
Apples. What about like an apple crumble type thing?
Yes.
Yeah? All right. All right. Hey, Doran, what about you?
Oh, whatever you're making there, Krala, that's going to be just fine for me.
Okay, all right.
And Ork Splitter, I think she wants eggs.
Nope.
And Kralov cracks his knuckles and he wiggles his fingers and he says, I've been waiting to try this one out.
And now's the perfect time.
And he's going to cast Create Food and Water.
Oh.
And he's going to just make a feast.
So I can make 45 pounds of food.
Holy crap.
Between Oran and Kralov, you guys polish it off.
I've just been casting it for myself every morning and not sharing it with anybody.
But, yeah.
So I just create this feast of everybody's favorite foods.
And I, you know, gesture for everybody to gather around and come close.
And I even did a rabbit stew that I know Red does really like.
My favorite.
And I just gather everybody around.
And I say, hey, I know that we've had our ups and downs, but I just, I just wanted to say that I truly appreciate every single one of you.
And, well, I feel like, I feel like I'm not alone.
I feel like with the five of you at my side, there isn't anything we can't accomplish.
Here, here.
And Doran pulls the stopper off of the apricot brandy and pass.
a little morning brandy, shall we?
What do you keep getting that brandy?
You created it, don't you know?
It's Dorn's favorite breakfast.
Right.
Well, thank you all.
It's, you know, it's been a stressful couple of weeks, month, really, and I appreciate
you taking the time to say that.
Red, sort of eyes the table, and just says, I'm going to go hunting.
I prefer to catch my own meal.
Really?
Oh, well, well, there's a rabbit stew here as well.
Red, if you want that. I mean,
prepared that for you.
And he turns around and heads off into the woods.
Oh. I'm going to send a quick message
and just have it go to Red as you walk away. Are you okay, buddy?
Meet me by the big old tree. By the stream in a few minutes.
I'm going to eat his share of food if you don't mind.
Oh, I like rabbits too, too. I love my axe.
He's so oblivious to what's going on
to beneath the surface. Or is he?
So getting that answer back from Red
And I'll just wait a minute
For him to get definitely out of earshot
And turn to Kralath
Is there something going on between you and Red Kralath?
I thought that was a little strange with
And you hear the whisper again
You dick, don't say anything
I'm not usually the one to pick up on that
And even I felt that seemed pretty cold
And at a little cold Doran's like
Oh no, it's pretty hot still over here
I don't know what you're eating
Or not the food or the weather
Oh sorry sorry
I mean, you said it yourself, Jack.
It has been a rough couple of days, days especially,
and he just got over cold and, you know, I mean, it's tough.
And I'm going to roll deception.
Oh, interesting.
Because Kralath is definitely hiding something.
Yeah, I'm going to spend my inspiration and roll with advantage on this one,
just because I would be, Jack's feeling like something's up.
And when he thinks something's dynamically wrong, that's a 13.
Oh, 16.
Not quite going to do, but that's okay.
He gets a good vibe from Krala.
Maybe you know something's up, but you don't know exactly what.
Maybe I'll go talk to him, see if he needs someone to talk to.
I know with Asta and everything else.
Master Jack, are you done here with your galette?
Looks delicious.
Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And there's another one over here that's got, you know, pears and honey and goat cheese.
It's fabulous.
You'll love to go in.
Mr. Craylot, this is amazing.
Jack, as you leave Liam and his tiny head.
You hear the accolades.
I don't know what Red's issue was.
But you know what they say?
Stone Hearts never bleed.
I can't remember I read that.
I read that somewhere.
Where did I read that?
Hmm.
Huh.
Anyways.
Hmm.
You want more?
I know.
I'm going to be super stuffed.
And in fact, I hate to see a lot of this go to waste.
So where's the bag of it?
holding.
We just shovel a bunch of loose food in there.
It's actually all going to go bad in the bag of holding anyways.
We should just try to feed the horses with the rest of it.
Then it's just going to go bad.
Horses love eggs.
These oats are great for the horses.
Look at this.
Oh, this is good.
Yeah, that's true.
And like we do feed the horses like a proper good meal.
They love it.
Horses love pancakes.
A less processed food.
The less processed food they eat.
Horses love.
Fadcakes.
Part of that 45 pounds
could have been
the most delicious
alfalfa.
Alfalfa meal or whatever the shit.
Maybe a lot of it is like
is like raw vegetables.
Horse food.
Just stuff that you could nibble on.
It's like the most beautiful
charcutory board you could ever imagine.
Oh yeah.
Horse charcutory.
There's like an orchead
for orc splitter.
I mean it's food.
It's food.
Doreen's eaten worse.
I will go to the tree
and send a
message to Red, who I maybe can't see immediately, but no is around here, just saying, like,
I'm here.
Yeah, and Red just, like, steps out from behind a tree, almost completely hidden.
Red, what's going on?
Jack, I need to trust you on something.
Well, I hope you know you can.
We've been through a lot together.
And that's why I feel like I can trust you.
You and I have had our ups and downs.
I think that we've started off pretty rocky, but ultimately, I think we've come to understand
each other and, dare I say, respect and care for each other.
Yeah.
So you know that when I'm saying this, I'm saying this with the weight of, well, our friendship.
I feel like something is wrong within our party.
Two nights ago, I caught Kralov trying to take something from the bag of holding.
Obviously, he's welcome to, but the way he did it, he snuck into my room at night and tried to do it without my noticing.
I caught him, and I warned him not to do it.
obviously I might have been a bit too forceful
I have a bit of a shaky past with stealing things
and having things stolen but that's not important
it sat uncomfortably with me
for a few days afterwards
what did he say when you asked him about it
I think he said he was grabbing some food or something
you didn't talk to him about it today after
no something about his demeanor
no I didn't
Okay.
I trusted him, but when Astor died, it's very unlike him to not address the fact that he chose Amakia.
He's always been somebody to talk to me about these things, but he sort of avoided the subject entirely until the next morning where he seemed a bit distant.
I worry about him for many reasons, but I've noticed a shift in his personality as if he's a bit more lost.
I noticed it especially in Beliard, and he told me that he felt a bit hollow.
I brushed it off at the time, but...
Well, I mean, he's been haunted by ghosts ever since Waterdeep, you know,
he's got specters of his past, you know, he's feeling hollow.
I'm not surprised.
I mean, he, more than anyone, deserves our compassion and understanding.
This wasn't fear or uncomfort.
It was...
I felt like he was trying to hide something
by hovering over the bag of holding.
Furthermore, Bees necklace has gone missing.
Please don't tell Doran or even Kraloth right now,
but I have a sneaking suspicion.
Have you noticed anything of your own, John?
You know, I haven't, but I'll check.
You know, there's been so much new stuff we've got
with all these books and things,
And, you know, the Dizan's belongings, all of those small components.
I haven't quite, I've got categorized and sorted and everything.
I'll take a look through my stuff just to see if there's anything.
And finally, last night, I stumbled upon Oren.
He mentioned that I saw him, but he was acting quite strangely.
He was in the woods mumbling to himself, walking in circles, sitting down,
writing things in the dirt, standing up.
When I confronted him about it, he said he was sleepwalking,
but I've never seen anyone's sleepwalk like that before.
You and I trust Krayalath with our lives, right?
We have many times. We've, we've gone out of our way to save his life. He's gone out of our way to save ours.
If he's hiding something from the party, I think very specifically about Kieran at this moment,
I'm sure he's got a really good reason to do that. And I get it. And it sounds like, you know,
having stuff stolen. That's awfully, that's awful and invasive. And, and we got to figure out why.
What could possibly lead him to do that if he did it? Jack. There was a time.
when you asked me to support your call, to have your back. I need you to have my back on
this one. Let's keep this between us for now. I just, I want to share my findings about Orrin and
Kralath with you, and only you, not even B-nose, and I hope that you can respect this and keep it
between us as well. To the covenants of best friends. He spits on his hand.
red if i tell you something before we shake on that will you keep it secret if it's in the best friend
covenant then it has to stay secret he spits again because the spit was dry my hand dried
i'll spit in my hand and i accidentally summoned an imp instead of kieran and then i grab your hand
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