High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #161 | Chaos in Horizon (Part 1)

Episode Date: September 27, 2022

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Hi. Very strange for the intro. Hi. The champions have successfully defeated the Titan Killara. They have recovered the Guardian Scouts, including the Guardian Protector, whom they thought was dead from the jungles of Jakesh. And they have learned that their airship's cook, Howard, is on the verge of a mental breakdown. But overall, a new day dawns for the champions of Erois, as they return to the Sky City of Horizon to catch up on where things may stand

with regards to their ongoing missions and new potential avenues and a new chapter may very well begin. If Kim remembers. Make it happen on YouTube. That is literally where we're going to kick off as you guys have travelled back to or you were on your way back to, unless I've missed anything. I don't think I have. I did check our good friends at High Roller's Wiki.

I did check their notes for the previous episode. Because whilst it might have been only a couple of weeks for you, it has been much longer for me. But yeah, so that is you guys making your way back to Horizon. Freshly level 18 as well. Freshly, yeah. I forgot about that. You've all picked your stuff, didn't we? We did that. Yeah, we did that, yeah. I forgot about that. Did you... You all picked your stuff, didn't we?

We did that. Yeah, we did that, yeah. Yeah. Did you pick spell? Spells? Yeah. Yeah. Did I do spell?

I got nothing. I got one. You got one indomitable. I got bloody Dimension Door taken away from me. Good. Furious. Taken away. I equipped a new magic item and lost the benefits of my old magic item.

Oh, yeah, taken away. That's how that works. One by one, all my teleports. No more Arcane Gate. No more Dimension Door. Have you even read the abilities on this new item? Because I think you'll find that whilst the teleport ability may have been taken away, you might have gained a new teleport.

Did you even consider that? No. Is this the twin blades eclipse twin blades yes very cool what do they do no i don't want to know apparently i don't know because i did read it several times but yeah you just get moaning about it You weren't going, dimension door! A dimension door into a tree and set it on fire! Oh, you can't do that anymore, so too bad. Right, lol! Yeah, pretty much.

So, dear friends, I don't believe that actual any travel to Horizon, you were still on the airship. Giving people nervous breakdowns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we are on the deck of the Storm Chaser airship. Is this with a new rescue flotilla of guardians? Well, I believe that you were taking some of the most injured guardians on the Storm Chaser

and traveling back to Horizon. You weren't gonna teleport there, you were gonna fly the airship back. You had left a number of the guardians in Jakesh to wait for, you had sent word for transport ships to be sent for them to bring them back, but you're sort of leading the way by taking the most injured and the most in need with you. That's right.

And yeah, you were making your way back, I believe. Is there anything that anybody, before we get started, any questions, any things that anybody wanted to get done or check in with me about or anything like that? For Howard's sanity, I wanted to look into making a magic fridge for him. Yes.

Yeah, could I help as well? A sequester box, I imagine is what it is. No, there is a thing called the chest to preserve it. Yeah, we went through this. Yeah, I know, but it would be really cool to spend far too much money on a sequester box. I was gonna say, the sequester spell is like 5,000 gold per casting.

Yeah, so to put that on a box, we could put anything in there. A person. And they'll be in there forever. If you would like to make that, that's a very different thing, and you could certainly look at making that. It will require substantial research and money involved.

I think my heightened magical ability has separated me from the common folk so now i'm spending so much money like i've got a sequester box and i use it for apples i could imagine like you're trying to think because you're you know beyond us in terms of magic and nova's just there like we could just get the i think it's the only way this is like 10 goals the only way i could make one it's not ten gold. How much is it? The chest of preserving, once you are back somewhere where you could acquire the materials and somebody to make it for you,

will be about a hundred gold. But it is literally just to keep food from spoiling. Okay. I could like make one for you. How much money do we actually have on us? That's a great question. On us, we have, apparently,

if this is up to date, and I think it is, we have 1,640. Because we also gave... We gave a ton. Lady Antibag. I'm trying to go back in time. I feel like it was like 20,000 or something stupid like that. Do you have it written down?

Yeah, I've got it written down. Yeah, Kim has it. Treasurer. I've got it written down too, but... But what?ad says no um yeah i mean you guys you guys can tell me how much you have i think it was 50 000. i don't think it was i've got it written down i'm saying i don't think you do though oh so you know what it is well why don't you tell me what it is

uh but yeah the journey will take maybe three or four days to get back to Horizon. Okay. Cool. I think the first day was spent terrorising Howard. Pretty much. Yeah. Good day.

But otherwise, the time will just pass. It's more if you guys wanted to do funky stuff with spells or make any plans or have any inter-party conversations. I think Sentry would probably look into maybe training on the ship, just going over her battle plans and stuff and getting better in that respect. I think that's a good way of representing the level up as well, right? You've just gained the level, you know your aura increases and it can be a representation of you learning those kind of like yeah like leadership and sort of like battle strategies and things like that yeah um there's also like you've

got plenty of people there's not as much space to really do physical like like you know like scum like you know sparring and things like that because you have all these injured guardians and things like all the lower decks and even like some of the upper deck is kind of filled with them um but uh you can definitely spend a bit more time strategizing and planning and like physically just working yourself rather than like you know drilling basically like stances and things like that but yeah no not so much room for things like sparring she's sitting ailer do push-ups and things like that she'll probably be like you push the ship down why are we losing altitude it's like bobs along um yeah but yeah you can absolutely do that i think that um based on your conversation last time i think that max and and um vala had teleported kind of like ahead

of you yeah um so they've gone but yeah you can after your conversation with max about both wanting to kind of like train and support each, you can, after your conversation with Max about both wanting to kind of train and support each other, you can definitely train and work out. Definitely. Good representation of the level up.

To represent my level up, I write down a load of runes and then write them slightly smaller and then slightly smaller then slightly smaller. And then I try and read the smallest ones

from afar. When you have to prove my eyesight. Yeah. Wouldn't it be better to get someone else to write it for you? Yeah, I suppose. And then you have to read it out. Yeah, they have to write so many, though.

And I do this for hours. But that's how you train your eye muscles. Yeah, that's it. It's eye muscles. And carrots. Yeah, and carrots. I have so many carrots. I ask Howard for carrots.

What few cowards there are, you can have on the thing thanks yeah probably a lot of marcusms today i feel like there's gonna be a lot of just dyslexia your cowards i'm gonna smush these words together and that's what you say now um i fell asleep on the toilet earlier nice oh I really got caught. Because it lays next to a wall and I just started leaping. Nice.

What the fuck? You, like, fart yourself awake like a dog. You barked awake. Fart yourself awake like a dog. Do you mind if I do that again? Do the wolf acting that way? Do the wolf acting that way? Thank you for trying to bring it back to the game of D&D we're playing, Rik. I really appreciate that again. I was packing that on the ship. Is it like, thank you for trying to bring it back to the game of D&D we're playing, Ree.

I really appreciate that effort. Okay, well in that case. This is just becoming another conversation and Ree's like, I'm gonna try and bring it back to D&D. In that case, to bring it back to D&D, do the wolf pack fart themselves away. Sometimes. Okay, once.

Sometimes they do, yes. Ah. Wonderful. Right, Lucius or Nova, is there anything in the few days that you have that you would like to do? Frankly, Lucius is quite content with just being on the ship. Just being nice, peaceful, no battles.

Nope, just casually meeting with Wolfpack people. Doing the standard stuff, like yeah. Catching up with people, saying hello. Good. Being a regular person for once, not a Titan defeating. No, true, I suppose you're still the captain. You are still leading the crew.

I take my health, so now no one recognizes me. See, nobody can recognize your authority when you don't wear the hat. Okay, intruder! Throw him off into the brig! But yeah, I mean, there's definitely an element of peace. There is clear skies, easy winds as you travel back to Horizon. Nothing nefarious takes place.

Unless there is anything else? Last chance? I think Nova would probably be training with Tiangong, getting used to the new Twin Blades, decrying the fact that she doesn't have Dimension Door anymore. The one thing you would notice is when training with this, because I also changed this because it was messing up some of the numbers on your sheet,

your fighting style, I actually switched to two-weapon fighting because you can switch that at level ups as well. What did I have before? Your dueling, which only works for one, if you will, the weapon in one hand. So it would have been useless. Fair. But the reason I did that as well

is because I was just going to give you the two-weapon fighting as a feat, but it just made more sense to swap your standing style. As you are sort of beginning to learn to use them tiangong being a master of many many things is the one really sort of guiding the movements and you know it's not nova's knowledge of how to fight it's more tiangong's knowledge of battle and things like that um begins adapting to it because uh the twin blades do grant you the dual will defeat for free and like i said you've also now swapped out to the two weapon fighting

fighting style um and they are perfectly balanced and they only really work that you can feel that the magic to them only works if you will both at once you can't put one away and only wield one and still get all the benefits they have to both be both be wielded um and yeah when you do so you begin to as you kind of sweep them you kind of see trails of radiant starlight left behind one and then trails of almost like a night like a black mist kind of trailing from the other um as you kind of spin them around you begin to unlock some of their magical powers like this knowledge that they have this ability to create um these things called crescents of light and crescents of darkness and learning what they can do and stuff like that so So yeah, definitely begins to play.

And they are not as big as when Killara wielded them, but they are still these long curved blades of perfect matching sort of silvery gold metal kind of thing. I imagine almost like a little bit of training montage where I can't use them very well at first because I'm so used to using the single blade. I'm just like cutting bits in a sheath, or like cutting bits of rope, accidentally and then montage style i think like tian gong would probably

the the main reminder that tian gong would be instilling with you and maybe occasionally taking over the arm to like bring it and show you what they mean is you keep attacking with just one and forgetting about the other hand right and tian gong's like no we need to use them both at the same time like as one attacks the other defends as one defends the other hand, right? And Tiangong's like, no, we need to use them both at the same time. Like, as one attacks, the other defends. As one defends, the other attacks. And kind of teaching you the method of, like, actually using two weapons at once. Because it is a very different thing.

Most people, when they start using two, they all just fight with one and forget that this one exists. So, and that's generally what you've been used to, using a shield and blocking and things like that. So, yeah. I do the same when I walk. Forget that you've got two legs yeah you just use one leg yeah like just drag it's always late that's why he's always

late i'm not late i'm here now eventually eventually anyway uh so a few days pass on the airship. Nothing adventurous, nothing eventful. Eventually, you begin to see in the distance the outlines of familiar sights, not just of Horizon. As you begin to draw closer, you see that Horizon has met up with the Astoria, which has now slowly, but is under power and moves um and you can see that horizon is almost positioned um sort of above above the astoria and there seems to be um

like you know ropes and sort of like bridges leading down and things like that onto the main deck and things like that airships kind of ferrying people to and fro um yeah but the two of them are now sort of aligned what's it like scale wise you know i'm terrible with scale is it like my mind size or no in my mind horizon is large but the astoria is bigger so the astoria is. It's probably about as wide because it is a good chunk of the city. Holy shit. That's so cool. But it is longer. That's cool.

That's rad. Yeah. I mean, Horizon was, because it was built around a square city, Horizon couldn't expand. It couldn't grow. It's the same size it was at the height of when the cataclysm.

So it's not like New York. Horizon isn't like a New York- size city or a london size city it's like a big fantasy city right so there's maybe you know 10 000 20 000 people that live in horizon and it's got enough for like several districts and things like that but it's not like this enormous sprawling mega city um it's just a big fantasy city um how is it um yeah I imagine when we first saw it, there weren't any real lights on or anything like in the buildings and stuff like that. Is it looking busy from as far back as we are? The Astoria itself, it definitely doesn't look busy, but you can see the tiny, especially for Quoil, you can see the specks of people moving around on the deck and you can see

that there is not necessarily construction construction but there is work being done here and there um there is magical light throughout parts of it not the whole ship but parts of it um but mainly you can see the sort of etheric trails of these giant engines sort of built into the bottom sort of chunks of the the rocky like hull if it as it were and then the back as well just has this faint etheric mist of the engines actually being powered. But it is running and has met up with Horizon. That is awesome. The Storm Chaser can dock without any issues. You are very well recognised. There is a very brief moment where the Horizon City Guard

do want to check that you know you are you know it's not you know a disguise it's not an illusion but once it's confirmed you are who you are you are. It's because my hat isn't on they didn't recognize me. That's definitely it. Definitely it. Yes. I'll put it on now. Yeah. Yeah you guys are back in Horizon. Great. Wow. So yeah I guess we'll try and get some healers and things together for all the Guardians. I guess inform someone that more should be on the way. Yeah, you already sent word that they've dispatched ships to Jakesh to go and pick them up and things.

Yeah, they're already... I mean, the Guardians, now that the sickness has been quelled, it's mainly about things like physical repairs. It's more about sort of mending to the their bodies and to everything else so you know by the time you get back to horizon it's mainly just a case of a bit of aftercare and making sure that everybody's you know ready to be equipped for the next time that they have to be sent out and most of the guardians as you requested have moved down to the astoria anyway uh they are that's where they are all being sort of set up and they have taken to it as their city but also as a as a place to defend most of the warriors and the non-warriors alike are now based on the astoria so the guardian scouts are all basically

taken down there where there is like a basic infirmary almost like a not quite a repair shop or a repair bay but they have like um like juridic healers who are attending to all the wood and vine parts of the guardians we're helping them regrow them sort of like blend them back together and then they have smiths and armorers who are like belt you know banging on metal plates or shaping new stone plates to replicate those that they've lost um am i imagining things when i say that there was quite a high population of guardians in Horizon? Or that was a place that people, guardians were ranked? You had brought them to. Century had basically said, come to Horizon.

Okay. So yeah, they've been sort of filtering in. But now most of the guardians are taking root on the Astoria and claiming that as their new home, basically. Nice. Taking root, huh? Yes. He said the trigger phrase that wasn't intentional that was just me um but yeah the uh the guardians from all over eros like traveling from different places have heard centuries kind of call and message and now assembly awesome well good thing you called him to Horizon then because that was the place to send them. I suppose so.

Well, if they want to be on a giant capital warship thing, what are we calling this thing? It's a city. It's a ship. Flagship. It's like a piece of city. It's like Astoria because Astoria was a massive city. It was way bigger than Horizon.

And the Astoria was like one big district section of it. Pizza slice. So yeah, it's like a big pizza slice. Pizza ship. A bit longer. Okay. Flagship. That's cool.

What about... Destroyer. The Astoria. The Astoria. That works. It's got a name. No, I think they're trying to classify it, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you would like to have a class of ships, it's bigger than the Tassadar. Titanic. Yeah, this is like a Titan-class ship. I guess how Tassadar is the flagship of the Valkyrian Empire. Yeah, and that is a warship. It has a designation. You have warships, cruisers, all these different types.

I haven't worked them all out, but yeah. Giganto Boy. Yeah. Yeah. This is like the, what they call it, the Eclipse Star Destroyer. You have the normal Star Destroyers, which I think is Devastator class, and then you have the Eclipse class, I think, which is like the super massive ones. But like Boy B-O-I.

Yeah. Yeah. Which means it's Giganto Neutral. I think we're separating from what you were just saying and going with Giganto Boy. Yeah. Okay. Sure.

You can call it whatever you like. Big boy! The guardians are making their home there. There also appears to be lots of engineers from Horizon who are sizing things up and examining the ship and sort of scaling up to it back and forth. examining the ship and sort of scaling up to it back and forth. You see probably there is definitely undead on the Astoria.

You see like skeletal minions who are carrying things back and forth and things everywhere. Gaining power. She's raising an army. Taking over the ship. 10,000 gold is how much we left with her. Oh, is it? Nice. Okay, interesting. Don't play that. It's written in my book.

No, it's right away felt like it was 20. I don't know why you think that. I don't know why he thinks it was 20. It says 10,000 in my book. Yeah, I don't know why you're suspicious. I've just said yes. Because you're doing that thing. This is me.

You're doing sussy backer face. Why you got to be so sus? Should we follow the... Fuck, I hate that. The trail of undead back to our gold. All undead lead to the world. Let's see if there's any progress. Yeah. Or if there's anything we want to commission.

I mean, we already commissioned something. mean with our battles ahead we're gonna commission something did you didn't we yeah why did we give her a turn why did we give her ten pounds it's as a um method of allowing her to do something instantly for us yes without having to come back give her the money because you could have like used a sending spell and said hey can you start working on this thing for us we needed something whilst in you know the jungle for example yeah it was a retainer yeah it's basically you've put it in there as like a deposit for any future expenditures yes that makes sense why did i spend ten thousand on that i don't know I'd spend 10,000 on that. I don't know.

That doesn't sound right. I'm going with the wiki. You absolutely can. This is the wiki. Kim is a wiki. True. True. Yeah, you're probably right.

I mean, yeah. Okay. But you wrote 10,000, but not for what? It says down payment. For what? A dreadnought is a great classification for the Astoria. Ooh, dreadnought. Yeah, dreadnought. That's a good class.

Crispy, back me up here. Give me a link to episode 148. I mean, we don't need to, like, it's 10,000. That's not in question. I know, but I want to show Tom. Yeah yeah i don't know why tom's questioning it i'm yeah i believe it was his idea no it was well no the correction i i think azaria would have suggested it and tom was like that's a good idea yeah sounds great sounds great go on she's so charming. But yeah, you can go to Azaria. You can go check in with Danica.

Or she'll be checking in with Danica. That was the other suggestion. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah, we should probably do that first. Maybe reconvene, find out what's going on. Kim is correct. Okay. Yes, yeah.

Danica, yes. We should. Yeah. Yeah. You make your way through to... It's Lucius, by the way. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay.

It's me. For a second there, we were It's Lucius, by the way. Oh, right, okay. It's me. For a second there, we were spilling all our secrets to a stranger. True. Keep on at all times. Sorry, yes. I'll get a little strap. Yes. None of you can tell the difference with Lucius with and without his hat,

even though you probably spent probably most of your time knowing Lucius without the hat first. Do you remember the time the elf joined us with the brown hat? Oh yeah. Whatever happened to him? That was me. He was so pretty. Really? No, it wasn't. The whole time. What about the fairy

with the wings? Oh yeah. He was so pretty. That was you too. No way. What? That was the fairy. He caught his way. He caught his way. That was great. I didn't pick up, that was me. That was. All of those.

No. How have you gone through so many transformations? Ugh. Do you remember that elf who had a briefcase? Oh, I do, yeah. That was exactly what I was gonna say. It's just me with a briefcase. Didn't he also have a teddy bear at one point as well?

He did. Silk pants. Yeah, pajamas. Yeah, little pajamas. It's just me with a briefcase. Didn't he also have a teddy bear at one point as well? He did. Silk pants. Pajamas. Yes, all these nice reminders. The briefcase is from my daddy and... Dead now. Back before you knew they were dead. Teddy was from my mum.

Dead now. Thank you for all of that. No worries. Is that in character? No, it's not in character. Ayla maybe? Snuffles? Sn in character. Aayla, maybe? Snuffles? Snuffles. I didn't write that down.

It's episode one. Wiki! I think I have a doodle of you. The path to the Citadel of the Reborn, the main keep of Horizon. You are briefly checked, just to make sure that there is no illusory magic, no shape-shifting,

but you are allowed in. You are very well known here. And you are taken through up to... I think that Danica will probably be resting at this point. So you are probably taken up to her private living area where she's just lounging on one of her sofas, reading a book or enjoying a bit of lunch or something like that.ing on one of her like you know sofas uh reading a book or like enjoying a bit of like lunch or something like that um and she would just be like ah champions um good to

see you and she'll kind of like stand up and sort of like hey you know bring in some drinks and things like that to our staff um let's get some drinks in and sort of rearranges everything oh i'm so sorry danica i didn't know if we can leave you to your book we can go no no no i'm just it was i'm just taking a moment. I've just been getting the city here took a lot of my energy, so I just need to rest and recover for a little while. But no, it's far more important to catch up

on how everything happened with you and the Titan and Jakesh. I believe that we received word that you needed some ships for some guardians who were injured. We've sent those out. Oh, thank you. But I imagine that you also want to hear how everything else is going so no no this is no as long as you don't mind it being a sort of more informal meeting here then let us just get it done here while we can

what's the book is it good uh it is a trashy romance book um by who absolutely by who's absolutely by, who is it by? R. Plumbus. R. Plumbus. Yes. Yeah. Leave the sister of A. Plumbus, I believe. Huh. Now that makes sense. That checks.

Yeah. But yeah, we'll just, you know, drinks are brought in, things like wine or water or whatever people want. Danica will pour herself a large glass of wine and sort of... What time of day is it? It's like maybe late afternoon. Liz just joins in. Yeah.

I mean, it's a bit early for wine, but, you know... It's 5 p.m. somewhere. It's 5 p.m. somewhere, yeah, kind of, you know. But yeah, she'll pour you out a nice glass of goblet of wine. That's what I was going to say. And yeah, you're just invited to sit down. It's very relaxed in Danica's very plush, very, very red in keeping with the theme.

Lots of red and oranges and warm colours, like big red draping curtains, big sort of red plush sofas and things to lie on. Nice. A little bit, it's not too heavily decorated. It's lavish but not opulent if I were to call it that.

Yeah. Well, Danica, I'm sure you've heard that overall we were successful in vanquishing the Titan. The Titan is now rejoined with Siaska. Jakesh has had the gloom taken from it

and the hold is no longer on it. And the undead that were stirring once before have been laid to rest somewhat. Unfortunately, there were some casualties along the way, but as is fighting a Titan. Yes, I mean, that is, unfortunately, we are losing people here and there luckily not many but there are always losses sometimes through pure misfortune but sometimes obviously we are we are

not necessarily it's difficult to call us at war with valkyrian because that just seems to have grinded all to a halt but the beast that artelicus has unleashed have definitely caused some deaths and injuries and things like that. I think that's where we'll get it. Giselle's forces are also still clashing with us, even though Valkyrians are not, so it is still a moment of turmoil, even though it is not as bad as it could be at the moment.

About the Valkyrians, Nova's got something to say about that. I do? Well, your old pal. What? You tell me. The forces have stood down for now, and we have... She already knew that. We're speaking with him, and we may need his help going forward to Atellicus.

I'm certainly all ears now. And she will drain some of the wine and put it down. going forward to Atellicus. Just to keep it. I'm certainly all ears now. And she will sort of like drain some of the wine and put it down. You weren't gonna tell them that. No? No. Well.

Oh well. That's not a thing we were gonna, we had hope of it. Why not, why would you not tell me? We had a whole conversation about this. Are we not allies? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to get Starbent to help us,

and I shouldn't have told you. I'm very interested why you think you shouldn't have told me. For this reaction, exactly? What reaction? Do I have a reaction? A little bit redder. Mystical, intrigue,

looks like you might throw a fireball my way. I'm still waiting for a reason why you think we need his help, but also- Honestly, I can't remember it being a secret and also being told not to tell you So I apologise to both parties involved for my blabbermouth Had a whole conversation about this It felt like a month ago World leaders might not quite understand

Hi, um The world leaders are not here, just me, currently I understand. Hi. The world leaders are not here, just me, currently. We can trust Danica. Danica. Oh, I just wanna be in the spot like this. I mean, you can make an insight check if you wanna get a read on her actual reaction. I'll do a roll, why not?

Rather than just insinuating this reaction. Right, I got like minus one on my roll, so that'll be a three. Yeah, I mean... I have a passive 22. Okay. Still make a roll for me, but I'll keep that passive in mind.

Okay. Passive is more like if you were, like, this is an active scenario, like, you want to make a passive. I rolled a two. 14. 14.

But the passive still has an impact, but it's more like if... Passive's good for, like, that I know if I would feed you information ahead of time. You don't actually think she's a... She's more annoyed that you felt you couldn't tell her more than she's annoyed about the idea of allying with Starbane. She's more annoyed that you were going to potentially keep a secret from her,

this person who, like, you know... That is the bit where she got annoyed the the whole thing about starbane helping us she didn't really get phased by do you like the lanterns and the fire in the room only illuminate a little bit more after uh nova says yes we had a whispered conversation what's her insight did she hear that yes she did roll i don't need a quiet room we're all all staring at the room. And you basically went, we weren't supposed to tell her that.

No, that's Nova, though. That is that low whiz coming in right there. You tell her not to tell her! That's not whispering at all. That is your low whiz. A motorbike just went past. It's low wisdom, no common sense. Just not thinking ahead of the actions.

Unlike Lucius. Yeah. So wise. Are you that wise? That's why I blabbed this whole thing. Too low wisdom. Danica, we can only assure you that we have the utmost faith and trust in you. It's just we've been Brookstone before.

You know, it's happened a lot. Brookstone, sorry, I should explain. That's another secret thing we have. We should explain Brookstone to you. It's when people stab us in the actual back. We get suckered into a nice dinner, and like, with the person, and then it turns out that that person

was actually murdering our friends while we were having dinner. I am no stranger to being cautious and paranoia. I merely hope that we had, with everything that we have done together, I'm gonna let you guys just have a minute. Get out, get out. Keep going, keep going.

With everything that has happened, I just thought that we had a greater level of trust. I can understand not wanting to tell, say, the dragons of this particular endeavour. Oh, yeah. I'm in trouble with the dragons already. Yes, yes. Well, they have bigger problems to worry about.

Yeah, they assured me of that. But, yes. Keep in mind, speaking to me does not mean telling everyone. I am not going to, I am quite a savvy and shrewd person. I would only share information that I feel I needed to. The fault lies with me, really, because I had previous conversations with Starbane that I kept quiet from this crew as well. In my attempt to, it was a misguided attempt. I thought I could convince him otherwise.

And early on in our adventures, I didn't feel that the group would accept, well, accept would take kindly to the fact that I was talking to our clear enemy, especially Sentry, given your previous conflict with him. If I may, Nova, your issue is not, your concerns were warranted in both cases. These are difficult things.

Perhaps it is merely a case of learning when there are the people you can trust and the people you cannot. Yeah, that's something I'm really not good at. I would like to consider myself, I would like you to consider me someone you can. I am mostly concerned with saving my city and saving this world. I don't care. If we work with Starbane to do it, sure. If that's what it takes, let's do that. The others I can understand, Let's not tell them.

There's good reason for it, obviously. I didn't want to cause more political problems, really. Political problems are certainly a thing that we need to keep in mind. But Horizon is, as far as I'm concerned, Horizon is fairly neutral in all of that. We are a Sky City, we're independent, but also, like I said, my biggest concern is my people's safety. Well, neutrally speaking, your neutrality. Starbane contacted me and warned me of Artelicus,

saying that he is the eldest of Siaska's children and represents her anger and her desire for destruction and revenge, and was personally the child that Starbane was most worried about. And he therefore said that if we need his help during our fight against Artelicus, that I could call on him to help. He also warned me about Vortensar and he said he told me of their plan to create a great astral gate so that they could teleport Vortensar back to Jasavir.

But he said the plan is unstable, the construction is unstable and would likely cause a great disaster. He has been frozen out of the city, interestingly. It seems that one of his subordinates, an elf called Shansara... Sorry, is she an elf? Eladrin. An Eladrin called Shansara has taken charge there,

and the forces there are not necessarily listening to him anymore. He said that he would try to use what power he has left to slow down the project, to whoever is loyal, still loyal to him, to get them to slow down the project at least. That I can speak a little more on. We're waiting for a report on Norfyr, the spy that you introduced us to,

who's been sort of coordinating many of our efforts in Vortensar. We're waiting on a report from her. We've been getting fewer and fewer, but it should be coming in perhaps the next day or so. So we'll let you know. But the last thing we heard is, I'm familiar with this Shansara. It seems that her and this leader, the leader of Vortensar, Harmony, and this council have very much been sticking to their plans.

They intend to take the city back to their world of Ganas. This information that you have from Kallus, from Valkyrian, is interesting that they believe it to be unstable. The people of Ganas are convinced this is going to work. This is being sold as a surefire thing. There is nothing to worry about. Very much propaganda is to be expected, but in this sort of scenario, it's been very difficult to get in and out of the city for anyone. fire thing there is nothing to worry about um very much propaganda is to be expected but um

in in this sort of scenario it's been very difficult to get in and out of the city for anyone we uh it's completely locked down uh all the non-ganasi have been effectively kicked out uh and any ganassi the only ganassi any of those allowed back in are ganassi wishing to return back to the city and last return to ganas um which is what we've been discovering elsewhere where they are on this project we don't currently know that's what norville was going to try and get us more information about as soon as possible i know she's working with a local sort of um youth rebellion to call it much a group who seem to be resisting these uh this this change and also this um new control um control is a difficult word vortensar seems to be completely in control of itself it does not appear that the

valkyrians have asserted any sort of military control they've been welcomed by in open arms it seems um but it definitely is a collaboration between the two um but there definitely is something something going on there. But we are still waiting on Norfitt's report. Hopefully today, maybe tomorrow, we should be hearing from her. A local youth group. Seems to be made up of not just youths, but mainly a lot of young Ganassi,

especially those of mixed elemental lineage. That nervous age. Around that age. There are some who are older, some who are younger, but it mainly seems to be... Leadership, like similar traits physically to Nova. Well, I mean, I don't know about that. They seem to be from all different types.

Like I said, most of them appear to have been, and forgive me, Nova, if there is a more suitable cultural term, but those who have multiple elements in their lineage from fire and water. Mixed heritage. Mixed heritage. Mainly their ranks are made up of those

who seem to have been... who connect with Eros more than the older generation. The older generation still seem to be very convinced that their home world is is out there somewhere that eros is not their home how's that passive perception quill what where are you looking when they're talking about this what where are you looking in the room when when this is all being talked about everywhere okay he sees all things what kind of question is that? He's just got a palantir for an eye. Yeah. That I'm not all accounted for.

I could see everything that was going on outside the room as well. I know what's going on on the Astoria right now. That's not true. How's Howard doing? Not good right now. How's Wattensar doing? Just so we are clear, you do not have x-ray vision. Not yet.

One day. You sent off for those specs in the catalog, didn't you? I need to do more eye training. When you were doing the eye training. Were you asking someone, so like, okay, put it behind a wall now. Just trying to like, get bleeding. But then maybe you could see it in like the reflection of their eyes, maybe?

The thing is, is he could just use the storm eye to their scribe behind the wall. Yes, he could. Or arcane eyes. Those are cheats. Yeah. Wait, so this Ganassi group, wasn't there another Ganassi that joined the team? Yep. Or was that you as well?

Nope. Yep. What? Were you also a Ganassi at one point i don't know i don't think you have been i would remember that if you were ganassi i had a very fleeting meeting with this uh this this person uh because i was dead um so i don't know are you talking talking about Piri? Maybe. Again, I barely knew that. No, he's not a member. Okay.

Not that I would know that. Okay. I would. We do know who's the leader though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Yeah. We do. Yeah. We really do. Yeah, we do, yeah. It's Nervous Brother. Yeah. He's a moron. Yes, I mean, I don't know about that, but I know that Norfer is in connection with them.

I've not been keeping, Norfer's been keeping up for more. The details, I don't need to know the details. Right. Please refer to him by his full title. Which is? The Moron. I'm not going to do that.

Tornado. I'm a diplomat. Okay, but no, but it's his real title, so you should use his real title, The Moron. That's not true. Why wouldn't you go by Moronado? I should suggest that to him. Tornado's not even his real name, it's Cloud.

Oh. He just thought Tornado was cooler. It is. It's like a spinning cloud, isn't it? Well, because he's been skyjasting, so that's his, like, skyjasting. I'm sure we have a lot in common. Maybe, like, maybe he would have crossed paths with you. As fascinating as Nova's family history and relations are, aside from Vort and Saar,

there is, Telexis' beasts are causing bigger problems. They are beginning to expand beyond just the northern continent now. They're one at the sea and the one in the sea and the one in the air have both been scouting out, trying to find nearby areas. They've located the Starfall Archipelago, and they believe that they are beginning to spread out further and further. The dragons are managing to keep them corralled and distracted, but now it seems that all three of the beasts have become highly resistant to the different elements of the draconic breaths. become highly resistant to the different elements of the Draconic Breaths. They are now also highly resistant to great, large creatures attacking them.

They seem to have adapted this mutation ability that they have, adapting to creatures that fight them for any period of time, making them harder for the dragons to deal with. How long time-wise has that taken for them to change to this new state? However long you've been away. What's it been? A week? Perhaps a little longer? It seems that whenever they're engaged in large

combat, large periods of conflict, they learn from whatever they're fighting. You know, every time they were hit by the breath weapons of the dragons they would retreat or flee or they would be chased down. In some cases, the dragons were even able to slay the creature in the air at one point, but it seemed to be reformed. It was reborn. We're looking into that and what may be causing it. It's not like a normal regeneration. We

don't believe that anything brought it back to life, but there is something that is, we don't quite know yet. I wonder if it's similar to the power that Calara had, and essentially rebirthing from the tree. Maybe, maybe. If they can have similar powers. It's something I've asked Perel to investigate, but also something that the various, those who are still loyal I believe the the beast

folk who came here to warn us they are also looking into it for us their tribes as well as the wild elves of Al-Saraf they're all looking into it in their own ways the elves the wild elves of Al-Saraf believe that there is something that they have a theory that they have been unable to test I believe that they may be waiting for they have been unable to test. I believe that they may be waiting for, and she'll gesture towards Ayla and the rest of you, I think they may be waiting for you. They have a theory, which is that the beasts

need to be slain at the same time, all three. Oh, goody. Ah, they're all connected. If one is killed and the other two survive, it will be reborn. Of course, that's natural, perfectly natural. That's a thing, that's a great thing. That's something to deal with.

Hmm, killing three giant regenerating beasts at the same time. What if we went to the root of the problem? Anyway, this is something that we can discuss. As far as the last I heard, speaking to your friend, our demigoddess, Valar is still unable to locate Atelikiss. She still does not know where his demiplane is. These beasts are almost providing a sort of camouflage for it.

His essence is divided between the three, making it hard to pinpoint where he is. But if you can locate it, then yes, obviously taking out a telekis would solve this problem entirely. I fear if Vala can't do it, we stand. It may just be a matter of time. She is still trying. She said that it took her a long time to discover Calara's location.

It could just be a matter of time. But something to keep in mind. Trying to weigh up our options here. We've got two great powers at work. We can cause real devastation if left unchecked, Vortensar being one of them, and Atal'qus being the other. Where do we go first?

Well, Norfyr's report should be here today or tomorrow, and that will give us a better indication of how close Vortensar are to this project, this teleportation project. If that is more urgent, my suggestion is you head there and you will have to deal with that. I believe that Rain has some thoughts on that. Norfear is unable to leave the city currently due to the lockdown,

so we'll not be able to assist you in infiltration, but we'll be on hand once you arrive in the city. But Rain needs to discuss with you, if you do choose to go to Vortensar, you will need to prepare your infiltration but will be on hand once you arrive in the city. But Rain needs to discuss with you if you do choose to go to Vortensar, you will need to prepare your infiltration. The city, as I said, is locked off to outsiders. There is no... Teleportation does not seem to work. We cannot teleport you in. Even if we did, they would likely detect the magic and come seeking you. There may need to be a more physical infiltration involved. Are we talking stealth? Speak to Rain. It's not my forte.

Rain is far more... Disguises. Who's that? It's me. It's Lucius. In cards! Danica looks at... Clearly missing an in-joke.

With regards to Atelicus's beasts, if we have time, if Vort and Saar is still a long ways off from their teleportation project, then we should look into dealing with these beasts first. Right. And then we still have our ally, I'm not even sure what to call him anymore, our enemy, our ally, Valkyrian. Where do we stand with that? And Hadar? And Siaska? It's a complicated thing. Yes, it is.

We are slowly unraveling together. Which is why I don't tell many people. There is one last thing. You saw that Horizon is currently stationed above your Astoria, yes? Mm-hmm. You've been speaking with Perel, speaking with my own artifices, I suppose we should call them. We think we can combine Horizon and the Astoria together.

Okay. Rather than having to split... Horizon cannot... I cannot propel the city beyond Erois, beyond its atmosphere. If we integrate it with the Astoria, we would, in theory, be able to combine both elements. I would be able to channel my elemental magic into the Astoria,

perhaps providing it with greater speed for now. But also, it would enable Horizon to leave Aroas if necessary. If this threat, if we believe that we want to take as many as we can to this battle against Hadar, if we want to take our best firepower, Horizon could join you. Otherwise, we would be stuck here, unable to leave. What about your civilians? Well, everyone here is, as far as they're concerned,

they're either going to fight Valkyrian here in a great war, or they're going to wait for Hadar to come to them. Some great options, aren't they? I think my people would much rather go out there and fight something than wait here and wait for the threat to come for them. But also, I do believe that this would give the Astoria a great boost in firepower, but also, yes,

provide protection for my people as well. I guess we just also need to coordinate where we send refugees, people like the guardians that have suffered, or people that just want to escape the war and not be at the forefront of the battle. Gusthaven might be a good option for that. Your Sky Prince has offered Gusthaven, as has the King Rooksilver of Suvona in Goldthrone.

That's opened up their lands to anybody who wished to stay, if necessary. We're keeping the exact nature of the Astoria and Horizon together. This is also just a theory. We could leave the Astoria as it is. We could leave Horizon as it is. Azaria thinks that there may be a way

to take some of the Astoria's magic and theories and build a similar sort of environmental system for Horizon, and then we could have two separate vessels, if you want to call them that, that can go beyond Eros's atmosphere. She's still working on it. That's something that is still in progress, and it's something that we wanted your opinions on.

Would you prefer to keep the Astoria as it is and have Horizon separate or do you think that this combination would benefit it? I mean it's already huge. Giant. This is why Horizon would fit into its current system. We believe that we could take a part of the Astoria away and sort of slot Horizon into it. Would it make it a bigger target? Yes potentially. could take a part of the Astoria away and sort of slot Horizon into it. Would it make it a bigger target?

Yes, potentially. I mean, it's already huge, yes. The biggest target, probably. Having two big targets that we can split, would that be more beneficial than one large one? Split, but we leave, if they have the technology to put both into space, yes. I would agree that two targets are better than one, right?

Azaria thinks that that may be possible. If that's what you lean towards, then that's where we can divert our efforts and attentions. But if, for some reason, it's impossible to do that, I think having Horizon just being an Erosian island would almost make it more vulnerable, in a way. I mean, we will speak with Azaria properly, but if we were to go with adapting Horizon

to have the technology of the Astoria, would the Astoria be deactivated? No, no, no, no. This would be replicating it, not taking it. We would be replicating the technology as best as we can. That's probably the safer option then, if something was to come up. The worst case scenario for that, if we went that angle, the worst case scenario would be that if Azaria is unable to replicate the technology,

it just means that Horizon would remain here on Eros. But that is the worst case scenario. Okay. Best case, we have two space islands. Large boys. One for war and one for taking refugees away from Eros potentially if need be. Yeah. The horizon is built more for infrastructure and supply.

The Astoria from what we've seen, whilst it has facilities on board for sleeping, for there are sort of almost urban gardens I would call them sort of in the lower decks, it will only just barely be able to sustain its regiment of soldiers that it can, the forces it can take with it. Anybody more than that will stretch what it can grow, what it can sustain on its own. Horizon, we've, and Lucius would know this, the Sky Cities have excelled in being self-sufficient. We know exactly how well we can grow food in different environments. We know how to feed and supply people as required,

how to store and maintain supplies for long periods of time. It may be that Horizon would be less of a military power. We have arcane turrets and things to defend ourselves with, but we could almost be a sort of mobile supply station for the Astoria. An FOB. Yes, in a sense, yes. Sorry.

Forward operating base. I did some military classes. When? You have to. Every citizen on a Sky City is trained in at least some practices. I don't know what FOB means, I just say fobby all the time. Okay, well, it could act as a fobby then.

A fobby. But, so. Fobby wants a safe. Fuck. Velaena did provide us with a failsafe, not an ideal one despite the effort that went into it, but there is a failsafe. It's nice to have, I suppose, another one

if Erois does fall for whatever reason, having some kind of civilization that can escape the cradle and beyond. I mean, I don't know necessarily how far they get with Hadar, but it would be nice to have that as a backup. So, yes. If that is the case, I will inform Azaria that's what you would like to progress with. That also brings up the other problem of

we still need a command crew for the Astoria. You did mention Rain. Rain would be certainly... I would put them on the team. I don't know if I would have them command the entire Astoria, but perhaps as a ranking officer on the command crew. Yes, I think we've discussed that before, right?

But we need an Admiral. We need somebody who will run all of our fleets of these massive, immense ships. A commander. Somebody who will lead tactically. run all of our fleets of these massive, immense ships. A commander, somebody who will lead tactically. Someone that, you know, is having doubts of joining us, being the heroes that we are. But he is.

Maybe has another role to play. He is a security risk though. You're referring to your, um. Maximilian. Yes, Valor's bodyguard. It would be difficult. I think many would appreciate his experience, but there will be many who will resent working under a member of the enemy,

they would see them as. If, unless the only scenario I can imagine where he may find less difficulty, two, in fact, two options, he would have to renounce his empire and formally declare himself on Erois' side. The other is we formally align with Kallus against Hadar. Okay.

I think in the first case, we can't put him in that position because unless we are allied with Valkyrian, you would be asking him to stand up and possibly in battle face soldiers that he has trained, trained with, fought with, lived with. You cannot ask a man to do that. No, of course not. And I think we'd only engage in battle with people that have separated,

much like Vortensar and the Valkyrian that have aligned with that and separated from Kallus. Those that align with Hadar. I think everyone can get behind that. I don't think that Vortensar is aligned with Hadar. I'm not saying they are. I'm saying they've been oppressed and withheld and locked down by a separatist group. Shansara being the leader of it.

So, people like that, I think Maximilian would be more than happy to fight for, fight against those kinds of people. But if he was the commander of the Astoria, he would be fighting against Valkyrian forces unless we allied. If we did ally, then yes, I would suggest we push him further, but I just, at this moment in time, as much as I do think he's experienced as a commander,

as a leader, it's not right for him now, as things currently stand. We'll pencil him in at the bottom of the list. Okay. I believe that there's enough. What we really lack is that main command figure. Your friend Arval Dagus,

as a supplier, as a quartermaster, as a Quartermaster, as a Supply Officer. I can't think of anyone more suited. Yes. You've also, we have Azaria Perel as our Magical Expert to provide information on magical matters and things like that. Rain is a brilliant Logistical Officer and sort of Sub-Commander, if you would think of it that way. Somebody who can do all the day-to-day tasks that a normal commander needs to not bother themselves with.

We just need that main commanding presence. We have a number of guardians prepped as other secondary officers, heads of weapons divisions, engineering, things like that. We also have those strange gemstone constructs. The daughters? Yes, they have taken care of all of the maintenance and engineering matters aboard the ship. Are they able to leave the Astoria?

No. No, they are not. So they cannot help with Horizon being developed into... No, but they've been very open with their sharing of technology they've explained azaria has learned a lot from them from what i understand they have been explaining how the astoria functions how certain devices apparently lots of solvents technology and and magic magical enchantments um were far more advanced than we gave them credit for and really realized and so they've been explaining how a lot of that was cultivated

by the previous queen, Queen Guinevere. And yes, and Azaria has learned a lot from them, but they are unable to leave it. They are now bound to the Astoria. They, how do they put it? They are part of it now. They are sharing of its energy, right? Its power.

They cannot exist without it and there is nothing else. Now that Velenor has rejoined Siaska, they have nothing binding them to Erois. They are now connected fully to the ship itself. I've got it. A way to solve everything. Everything. All the current debates that we're having at the moment. Okay. Here we go. All the current debates that we're having at the moment. Okay. We go to Vortensar. Okay, okay. We save Vortensar with the rebellion faction

led by Tornado. That's a very quick plan. Full title, please. The legendary hero, Rebellion. Full title, please. The magnificent Tornado, previously known as Cloud. The Sky Jouster himself. Look, it all aligns, we're the storm chasers,

we want clear skies, we need a tornado at the eye of the storm leading the command on Astoria. A leader that people can get behind. We don't know. I mean, outside of Nova's constant saying that he is a moron, we don't know anything about Tornado. No! Okay, well, we can certainly quickly find out from my nanny.

And then meet him himself. That's a point. Has there been any reports about this? We're going to get a report. Well, any previous reports about this? We're going to get a report. Well, about any previous reports about this faction? It's certainly been, Norfea has mentioned the faction, yes. She's mentioned it numerous times. She says that it's, you know, there are several sort of people, I wouldn't say leading it, but she has mentioned that there is a young Ganassi who seems to be sort of the one that has sort of rallied everyone

to the cause. Charismatic, I do believe, you all need to forgive me, I don't go into the details of the reports, I mainly go over anything that I feel I need to know. Something about them being not the brightest mind that she's encountered. Excuse me, what? Certainly, saying that he was not the brightest mind that she had encountered, but that he was very persuasive and charismatic and was very courageous. Did she say anything about who set up this group in the first place?

No, that was not mentioned. Well, either way, we need to look at more candidates. We need to look at more candidates. We need a Danica. We need another Danica. Would you like to do it? Could you clone yourself? If Horizon and the Astoria were merged?

Yes, but... Just like Zarkira does. Why don't we just do that? No, let's not do that. Because do you see the dwarves? Simulacrum. The dwarves of all the metal and the drills of the hands and the corridor and...

What? Do you not remember those i do yeah yes but what's the link here we're not doing what zarkira does no no no not completely no just the brain in the jar no not that oh the brain in the jar yes sorry i should have i didn't realize one of them kidnapped you and swung all the secrets out of your brain. Yeah, they took it out of me. I didn't tell them. Anyway.

Metal dragons. Not completely what Zahkira does, just the two-person thing. I think you have the power to form your own simulacrum, Danica. It's not a spell I know, but it could be possible if somebody were to create me a scroll. I think that magically, yes, I have enough power to do it. I just don't know the incantations or the nature required. Also, if I remember Simulacrum uses creatures made of ice,

the Phoenix power might not really gel with that. That's a big problem. But that doesn't mean that there aren't possibilities i wonder if we could magically reverse it so that was fire powered and so but also i feel that the astoria should have its own identity this is another thing of like if we were to merge them then yes i would command both because it would incorporate Horizon. But you're sure that there's not a guardian? Because I feel that the guardians have really made the Astoria their home.

If there was a guardian that would fit the sort of role of a commander, I can look at the Matrix. Lookout, maybe? He looks out. He does. He's very good at that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Protector? Has there ever been a sort of another commander like yourself?

Somebody that could be called into a new body? There was Rook. We knew that there's no longer... Who's this Rook? Rook was one who worked alongside me. We briefly encountered each other in the City of Glass and... Similar to you, Sentry, I think that that would be a fitting candidate.

You are a leader of your people and a commander, a military... somebody who's experienced war and has military strategy. Maybe, but Overlord Verastor took hold of them and then they ended up falling. Maybe when their soul

is ready to come back into a matrix I could have a look. They could be resting still, but I'll have a look. That is merely my thought just because I know the Guardians have taken, Astoria has become almost a home to them. Having a Guardian Commander would make sense to me. Good for morale for the Guardians. But also if there are any others. Like I said, I think that this Maximilian, I do not know the fellow in particular, but if you think that there are suitable tactical minds,

but if those complications were no longer complications, that could also be a solution. I think we need to speak to... Is there anybody on your crew that you could recommend? Howard? Oriah? Howard? Oriah? Oriah? She used to command a ship.

Though we do need her. She might use the Astoria to blow her brother out of water. She did have that grudge, didn't she? Yeah. Somewhat resolved, wasn't it? Well, we stole his ship yeah and crashed it yeah yeah but hot-headedness can be a useful tool but not normally for one with complete command i'm in the exception ah also we've met we've met a lot of people we've've met so many people. Think on it. You have some time.

Take today to rest, sleep, recover. Rose Meadow. I was going to say Rose Meadow. Hope. Excuse me. Hope now. Hope now. I gave her that name.

Dahlia? Yeah. She'd use it to blow up grots. I leave it to you. I need to start a list. With that, I don't believe there is anything else I have to report i just i just oh are we uh sorry are we still rpn i'm just wait i just brain i don't know what point did we stop i don't know i thought because it's coming out to break time the way you said it was like in your regular mark voice

I thought it was kind of break time. The way you said it was like in your regular Mark voice. I could tell. I could tell. Thank you, Tom. Such a good actor. What would you like to say, Kim? We're no longer role-playing.

You're free to speak out of character. Okay, out of character. No, because we've always done that, where you have to be like, I'm out of character now. I'm out of character. I'm invisible. I'm invisible, yeah. So as the Captain Star Trek nerd here,

with all this talk of merging Horizon and Astoria, I am 100% thinking of the Enterprise D, which has the saucer section and the bridge section, which you can separate. And what they do in fucking Insurrection or Nemesis or some bollocks. That's technically Class E, because they separated the D and crashed it into a planet. And then the bridge went off to fight,

and the saucer has all the people that need to save. Is that the one where they... No, now that Kim's done a little, oh, I'm a Star Trek nerd, I'm going to do my Weeby nerd one. Here we go. No, actually, it's more like in Macross, when the Macross have the civilian ships

that are separate to the actual battleship Macross. I thought it was called Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. I thought it was called Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Yeah, it's the Macross. Is that the one where they yarted Data?

Yarted? That's his nemesis, I think. Yeah. Yeah, they yarted him real good. He got yote. Yeah. Okay. His report is done.

Oh, so are we RPing now? Yeah, sorry, hang on. Yeah, can you put your hands down, please? Ah, right. Well, thank you, Danica, for the update. I think we'll check in with Azaria and see how that is progressing, and I suppose we'll wait for Norfyr's report.

Can you just ping that remote? Have you seen Skaldi? Mm. How is she... Skaldi? Scaldi. You do need to forgive me. There are lots of people in the city.

She's a dwarven priestess, long hair, black ribbons. She came to speak about, she told us about the issues with Kallara. Yes, I do know her. I can't say I have seen her, unfortunately. Okay. There's not, but I do understand I'm trying not to sound big-headed when I say this, but I'm generally dealing with people of more direct importance to what I do. I understand.

We'll let you go back to your trash romance. I'm on my break. All leaders must have downtime. This is mine. Thank you very much. I sidled over at one point. I read a page. Yeah, I mean, it's steamy, but trash.

The little flump that really shouldn't have. Wow. No flumps. Okay. No flumps, but what we need. But yeah, so with that, Danica is done. You can go. Dan she's done she's done okay sorry five minutes left okay yep enjoying your book her break is long as long as she wants it yeah yeah okay all right well she's self-employed that's all oh that's all uh

skedaddle out and uh let's just stop RPing real quick. Okay. Do you have like a nerdy bullshit reference you want to make? Nerdy bullshit? No, I've got nothing. You're not going to let me forget this for ages, are you? No. That's fair. In that case, yeah, you've got your suites here in Horizon.

You can go and spend time there. I think you have Arvel and Petal currently living in them anyway. Arvel probably is not there as much these days. He's probably spending a lot of his time traveling around doing resource management for the Astoria. So it's mainly just Petal. He's probably filled it with house plants at this point. Like, it's just, there's so many. Very cozy.

Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna go hold hands and be awkward with my girlfriend okay yeah ask if she wants to no don't actually if she wants to be in command of the astoria i wouldn't suggest it i'm just gonna go hold hands with her and be awkward uh when you go i mean you do go find her and you do hold hands and be awkward but um you do you will learn that, you know, it's only been a week, but this has been going on for a while. Thalia, Azaria, and sort of the shipwright companies, whilst they have been sort of retrofitting the Astoria as well, they are also in the process of using the Twin Star

as a basis to make a number of smaller versions of, like, fighters, basically. Basically, like, astral fighters. Just for individual pilots pilots Thalia's helping train them it's very top gun oh my god and they're basically

training like X-Wing squadrons I love her yeah she's becoming the wedge Antilles of their little squadron is that why

Perel was also she's going between the two she's busy yeah we'll get to we'll do Perel after the after the break I rp i think yeah

as rp okay but yeah you would find that yeah thalia is basically training so the the astoria where it has its hangar base for like smaller airships you will also have squadrons of light astral space fighters that can go out single single kind of ships that basically will have one person in each and they can engage in small you know small squadron battles so she's like starbuck yes so who's apollo what kind of apollo though are we talking about talking yeah yeah best best apollo um that's it but no yeah you need what's um is it adama the main guy yeah yeah you need an Adama for the historian. We do. We need to find an Adama. You need somebody who can roll a hard six. Yeah.

Oh, I didn't get it. Not me. Not me. I'm not it. Anyway. RP's over, everyone. It's break time. I just rolled a hard six, baby.

Hard six! Hard six! Yay! The commander of the historian. Or another, oh, maybe a guardian in there. Yeah. Right. In that case, shall we take, for Kim's sake,

a little break then? Is this RP over? Yes, it's over. I'm going to go fall asleep on the toilet again. In that case, that's going to be the end of part one. We'll see you for part two. Bye, everyone. you