Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 30 | The Way the Wind Blows: Part 2

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

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Hey men, welcome to Legends of a Ventress on Toa Komenui, and you're listening to Beneathak Wings. Here's sort of what happened last time. The storm is descending upon you. I am dead. I serve no man. And she is going to bring the blade down, slicing once and twice. So, mommy, seek that wind. And you see, the storm within is starting to weaken.

As it is clearly weakening this massive beast. The storm will tell you apart. I have promised, victory, I was promised revenge. You will not stop me. These spirits are mine! You are all inside the storming body. You can barely see anything. You all see the shapes.

You feel like you can reach out and touch, but nothing is happening. And you have barely any idea what's going on as you hear just the booming voice. No, I was promised. I will have revenge. I will have greatness and power! There are seven figures all around you.

winked. I was promised this would go differently. And they all look at him and in unisoned voices they say, you have been judged and they all raise their weapons.

No, no! As these angelic figures blast into this tiny owl and as he shrivels, there's nothing more than a tiny little red speck. You see as you've been almost having to shield your eyes

from the radiating, blinding, light and the wind whipped around, you saw that small storm owl that completely dissipated by the seven angelic figures that surround you. They are large and statuesque, not unlike the Vati that you had seen, slightly different than what you.

what you would expect from your typical angel, at least that you had heard of or maybe research or heard stories of. And as they all flap around, they flap their wings, they look down at you with stern but soft faces. And you see how Kira, her eyes are on just the drifting bits of countering. as they float away on the wind. As she stares at it and she nods and shoots the scimitar. That's what's better than you deserved.

Is he dead? He's gone. He's gone. Yes. I mean, he's like dust. In the wind. Yes, he is. Sure. Well, eventually all we are is dust and wind. Nothing less forever, I suppose. Now, I'm going to turn to the...

Are they still chilling? These... As these figures, they're still chilling and looking at you. But you start to see that they are shimmering and almost translucent made of half light, half corporeal material. And it's starting to just slowly fade. Are you guys okay?

Wait, you need to save my wind spirits. Please help. Yeah, we helped you. Now you help us. That is what's... friends do it. You see that none of them none of them seem

to make any motion beyond just flapping their mighty blue wings as they stare down at you. Whoever one begins to descend. It's feminine body, shapely, almost

motherly, as her hair is in large curls. And And she is holding a book. And she looks at you and you see that there's actually very faint

snake-like features. Feathers hanging from her hair and jewelry. And she floats down directly in front of you, Luffy. And she speaks.

You have a good soul. Little thank you. I'm okay. It was nice. The time I spent there, we return to Aca. We will wait for you. And you see her starting to disappear and dissipate.

We will take the five spirits in the great tree to Aca, and we will restore them. You can save them. That's wonderful. We can. Anyone? who has resided. Anyone, any soul we have resided in, we can heal.

The veil has incredible powers. And you see, as she starts to shimmer, we await, to return to Aca. And she disappears. And all of them. Faintly shimmer for one last glimpse. and you notice

I would say Iris and Hersia make religion checks at advantage. Oh, baby, we'll do. Sure. Um, sure, you know. Yeah, I guess I'll do it. This is Iris.

Sorry, I got something called me. That's not going to be good. Natural. Fucking. Twenty. 25. 17. As they shift and fade

from prime material plant. you you you uh both of you notice as these figures they all seem to be very their outfits are beautifully put together they all seem to be of of different make and style and herja you noticed that one of the of the three male angels had a large beard and armor the one holding the hammer. I had said Mace, but it was a hammer. And a large war hammer

and it had been wearing large, angular, almost armor pieces of Dwarven, he could sing. And Iris. On another one of the male with the twinges of green gem

and hints of gold you notice wrappings along the face and elaborate jewelry in almost a style of your necash and sekeshen home and i would say that you noticed very clearly with those roles that they seemed to the one that you noticed seemed to bear the mark of morden and to you, Iris, the one that you noticed, seem to bear the mark Osiris.

And that's what you notice. Do I only notice that about that one particular one? They all seem to have a different style about them. And now they're gone. They've dissipated. They've returned to Aca, allegedly taking the five animal wind spears with them.

So what do we see now? Like, with the city and whatever? So, the reason has been looking for where the power thing that's going to explode the core. I am also looking for that. So you finally get your bearings.

You're still floating empowered by Nimbonsi's magic as you see the splintered trees around you. The burning trees off in the forest away from the city is starting to get smaller and smaller as the rain

washes away the flame. and the wind starts to die as it's nothing more than a gentle rain and you turn back to the city and you hear very faintly the cries of scream the screaming the burning of the tree that were not treated by that magical oil that it protected it and however there's seen seems to be a bit of calm returning. You see figures flying in formation, soldiers returning from the front,

returning from fleeing, as it seems as if the city has realized that the threat has been destroyed. It's done. Yeah. So I'm going to save your spirits. This is wonderful. Yes, I think.

We're not in... Hopefully, they're not in any kind of danger anymore. Sounds like they are okay In the hands of angels We need to talk about what we're going to do About all of this And I'll sort of wave my hand Across the city

Yeah, you're still floating You can find a branch if you wanted to talk to Or go on the forest floor You guys are searching for the How far? I mean, I'm just looking around Like the direction we came from to see if I could It seems as in all the panic and shock And I'll say that you can see

Off very far in the distance Through the forest that same large platform that had held the strange lightning machine that had been pulsing with dangerous magic seems to be still. It's no longer pulsing with shocking, radiant lightning magic. That looks safe, Felix? I mean, I don't know.

I've never seen anything like it before, but it doesn't seem to be as volatile as it was before, so it might be fine. I mean, I'd like to take a closer look, but... Let's go down. Yeah, I don't know if pulsing was good or bad So if it's if it's supposed to be like this Then we're in we're not gonna blow up

We'll just take a closer look And I'd like to get my feet on solid ground Yeah, let's go Really? I like it up here It's kind of fun You know, except for all the beating of though I farted five times I just didn't want to tell anybody

But thankfully all the wind You didn't need to tell us darling we knew Yes we should go down I think I've had enough I'll lead the way, Phoenix You fly down.

Are you still big? Yaha. How long the last, an hour? Very? I've got three more hours of big. Oh, fuck. You see the... I'm 10-4 right now.

All of you fly led by the gin and the larger genocity, similar sizes now. As you all fly back down, she's still a little bit. God, damn. Fine. As you fly back down and Alcura, as you're flying, she looks at you and says, You are an incredible fighter. Well, thank you. You're pretty good yourself.

I'm kidding. I knew that you would be good. But... All I did was wield this blade. You all and you and your friends are incredibly strong. Your father would have been proud. Thank you. It's so nice. What did they mean, though, that they have a wait for me in Accra? They will wait for all of us.

I saw the one that I feel that connection with. I think she had been within my soul as long as I lived. But I wish to speak with her. But they gave me a charge. I will wait until your business is done here, and I will take us all back to Oka when you are already. Great. And you all fly back down.

You all land on the platform, and you see now that all of the splintering on this major, this large tree that had been lost its integrity, many of the craftsmen are already starting to repair it, using magic to mend, mend it as the spinning, gyrating tuning fork has slowed down to a very gentle pace. and it's just radiating with a soft electric glow as the bits of electricity are zapping back and forth between the two spokes of this fork. Is the fork making a tone? It does seem to be making a slight tone. Can I get a sense musically what note that might be on the scale

if it is a tone that is of tonal quality? Make an intelligence check as I look this fucking off. And you talk amongst your stuff, as you land. And the Eric Okra seemed to be more interested in fixing the city, bringing, like, you see that people are being dragged to medics. They're not really noticing you. We're ourselves, right? Yeah. Like, they, so they just see outsiders. Yeah. Okay. Um, I want to attempt, well, you got to look your thing up. Yeah. I'm going to basically with Caprice.

You don't have to. I got made. It is hard to tell. But with Caprice, I'm going to approach the machine, basically, and try to get as close as I can. I have my drawing. I'm right there next few. And I'm trying to improve the drawing and try to understand. I want to investigate this thing as close as I possibly can. You make an investigation check. That's going to be a 25. 25.

You investigate it and you see that this is a direct connection to the elemental plane of air, crafted by great airmancers and artificers in order to have a, You get the sense that the slight tone that is humming from this seems to would probably be connected to a certain plane, the elemental plane of air. And they're harnessing the power. And you see that all of the magics and the great luxury that they live in seems to be powered by this main source of electrical energy. And it seems to be a combination between a power core, a tuning fork, and just a source of electrical energy. energy. And I just want to basically take the time to, like, improve the initial sketch that I made. Maybe even making a second one and, like, really trying to just absorb...

I'll say with that, you can just take your time to do that. So, those winged angels, they were inside of you and you and the wind spirits? Do you feel any different? Did they inside me? No. Oh, ooh. Well, one of them was, I believe, if I'm understanding this correctly, Do I feel different?

You feel as if... You don't feel worse, but you feel as if something that had been with you. Your entire life is somehow no longer there. But it's not in a sad negative way. It's almost like a happy freeing sort of way. Yeah, I guess I do feel a little different. Is all Kira with us? Yeah, she's standing right beside you.

I'm going to walk up next turn, and I'm, like, a quarter of her height, and I'm just going to fold my arms looking down at this, like, contraption. I'm going to front of me, I'm going to say. So, I hope, Kara, what do you make of all of this? Like, is this the core of danger? Should we destroy it? Is this connected to your plane? Like, what?

This is how you traveled here before. Yes. Yes, this is how I traveled. Yes. This was my way in and out. should it so it's like hope anyone who can attune to

this place it's a tune like we anybody can do this how do you attune to something like this if you have the power to shift the plane you are in it requires being attuned to the frequency

of this fork you stand in the capital of Irios Kaleari A city that has been shaken and rocked by the assault of the elder tempest, who is actually the grand lord Comitus, the former ruler of this place, seeking to take revenge on all of the plotting nobles that had made multiple assassination attempts and attempts to overthrow his power. you along with the seven wind dukes of Aca, the seven angels of wind, have banished this power back and slain of all that remained of Cominus. You now stand at the center of the power of Kaleri, the whirring tuning fork device. And you see that all of the aeromancers have fled.

most of the city has fled no one is heading in your direction. You are all alone. And it seems as if these nobles and these guards and soldiers are more interested in saving the people that have been wounded, finding the bodies of the dead, accounting for everyone, as you have some time

to speak amongst yourselves. It seems as if most of the town had fled, thinking that there was no chance that the city could be saved. Caprice, I got to ask, what do you make of this? I see you doing the, you're messing with your instrument.

What do you make at this? I'm just trying to figure out what tone that is. It's like some sort of chord. It's really difficult to figure out. You think that there's something like you could play it. You think you could play that? I'm just working on it. Yeah, it's, it's not just one tone.

It's like a combination of frequencies. Make another intelligent check of advantage, please. 21. It's an A. Oh. Oh, so it's. and I'll play an A-core Oh, I finally land on the A.

Oh, you, you, that's it. That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it really is just ways. I mean, it has to be. Yeah. There's something more to this. But I think, I think altogether we can figure this out.

I think we can't. What are we trying to figure out? Can you use this? I don't hate it. I just was trying to figure out the, the, the, because of musical curiosity, not for any larger purpose. What do you think you're going to do? Tune yourself to A and then disappear?

No, no, I don't think I can do anything with this. Do you think I could? I don't know. I think that we could learn from it and maybe use it to... I mean, we could go anywhere. In theory, right? I mean, it was Al-Qaeda said something about this one is linked to a particular plane, but if it has to do with waves, and you found the note or the free...

There must be others. There must be more of them. You think so? How did they even make this? Did they create it? It's not natural. I know. I mean, it's clearly made by the Erakoka has to be. I don't know if they made it themselves or if they had help from other people.

I mean, this is an enormous effort, but it's unlike anything I've ever seen before. Where do you want to go? I don't know. I mean, but until a few hours ago, none of us had seen the elemental plane of a era. Yeah. That was life-changing. But this seems natural. O'Kira, should there be such a loose connection between the planes like this?

There is no morality to be placed on something like this. This is capable of terrible destructive power, as we have seen, and I was fooled. But if it was not for this, I would not have had my darling Lufty. Yeah, that's true. And we couldn't have done it without you. I mean, it's a tool. It's like anything else. It doesn't have to be used for evil.

It does not. But these Erecocera has oppressed the people of this land for centuries. Inslave me for years. And you see, there's still a remnant of hatred in her jinny eyes. Is there any way that you think they'll stop, they'll change? We've heard in the past that when one leader is bad, another one's overthrown, and it just continues. Forever. Forever.

That is what I've heard, but who have you heard that from? Everybody is think. We've heard that from the oppressed. And soon... We're on the fourth floor. It's pretty rough down there. Yes, I'm terrible. But Comedus has been in power for quite some time.

Is that right? That is what I remember. I'm sorry my memory is so choppy from those years I spent in servitude. Does he the one that put you in chains? Yes. He and his aromancers. I believe. Maybe they still live, but...

We should give them. They should pay for what they did to you. I feel that in my heart, but now that comadus is dead. I am... I'm tired of vengeance. I'm tired of hatred. I just want to drink my wine. Well, you're definitely her mother.

Yeah, that sounds pretty good. It does, doesn't it? Float on a cloud and get back to the day. You know what? It has been a long day, and her hands start to shift, and they glow as a large pot of wine materializes out of nowhere, and she places it down. what do you think? I thought she's going to be like, oh, you're all rusty. Yeah.

I'm kidding. Have some boots. He places it down. Wine out of nowhere fell. And 1980s-s synchronized jump. I love wine out of nowhere. Create food and water, but Ginny can do it with wine as well.

Nice. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. And she she takes it and lifts up this huge jar and just spilling all over She slams it down.

Oh. That was good. Please. If we... If we just... They're both so big. If we dismantle the machine, are you going to be able to get home?

Or do you need to go home first and then we take it apart? I will not be able to get back if you dismantle it. If you want to strip these people of their power and... They can't get rid of it. I mean, I don't want to, but... It's been used for...

There's no way that we can know that it won't be used for evil again. Well, what if that young owl guy whose grandmother was killed? They seem like a powerful house that at least seemed to maybe be against the oppression of Comedus? Yeah, but she was kind of a bitch. I know she's dead, I'm sorry.

She was kind of a bitch. I want there to be a peaceful resolution. I do. I just... I don't have an answer. Then we don't have to dismantle it. We just have to get rid of the people that would use of bad. I agree with you. I agree. The tower didn't do anything wrong.

Trust me, it's a beautiful piece of machinery. I don't want to see it gone. But the problem is that's why they could gain so much power. That's why they've been living in the lap of luxury for who knows how long. I agree. I don't have a right answer. I'd like to sit here and study this thing for the next, I don't know, 10 years. But...

Then do it, because why not? destroying it. I have gone my whole life without a mother, and now I have one, and you're not going to take it away. And if there's anything that you want to do to try to stop me, try and I'll tower over him. This is my family. I'm not back to me. I'm the guy who's like, you know what's tired of want to do for bananas? I have to find the picture. Lofi, I know you said that you were talking about A is, but that's not when I'm seeing. from a metaproofpect of how large arm, my brother?

I'm just kidding. I need you to roll a D12. I would imagine one breast is as heavy as hers or is. At 10 feet? 10 feet, no. You're 10 feet tall. I'm picturing basketball. Now, that's like a pretty large pumpkin.

A baseball? Beachball. Oh, a beach ball. Beachball. Yeah, that's good. But it just seems so dangerous to leave this thing intact. I do agree that we need to consider some precautions and try not to allow this to become a tool of oppression once again. That seems prudent.

What if we just find somebody to take over that we trust? Somebody that is kind and balanced and is not going to fuck everybody over again? The primary concern in my mind is that this has been going on for centuries. We could find someone to trust, and then 75 years down the road, with suppression town again. Can this be forklifted and moved somewhere else that's safer than up here? It looks pretty permanent. Yeah, I don't think it's easily movable, not without destroying it, or even if anybody could pick it up.

I mean, it's enormous. Oh, Felix, every time you speak, you're bleeding on over everything. Oh, you're all right. May I banded you up while you speak? Well, to be honest, after you did what you did, I felt okay, but there must be something in terms. That's still not right. Yeah, well, you're bruising significantly. FC linen and a salve.

Oh. And I just, like, pass out. I'm going to assume that's consent. I'm going to walk over, and I'm going to use some of my, uh, my, my shit, not actually. Yeah, Chiang Thames. Yes. John Tom's. I didn't realize that Felix was such a pussy.

I say at six health points. One of my eyes is a man. You're next. The horn is cracked. Go on. I'm so nubular now. Nobular. Do I?

I want to look around and see if I see, notice that young owl that we've met a few times. You look around, and as you wait, this is an open space with a few structures keeping the roof on this place intact to shelter it from the, shelter from the rain, if you will. And you see the fluttering of wings as just on time.

You see young Lord Oberos, now the head of the Minerva House, fly down and he lands in front of you. And he sees all of you battered and bruised. But he looks around and he extends his talent hands and says, I don't even know what to say. Thank you. healing. Oh, thank you. I'm like almost in full now. Thank you all.

Are you okay? How are you doing? I'm fine. My sister is fine. She's safe. I've sent her away. How about the women and children? We got as many as we could help, but the loss of life has not been insignificant, but it would have been far worse. And the men? Are the men okay, too? We lost a great number of men and women.

And the soldiers, we lost over a hundred to that creature. That was the voice of Comedus. It was unmistakable. 30. It was Comedus. Is he, does he draw breath? He's dead. He's gone.

No, he perched him. Thank you for your help without your help and gardens and your map. You never would have been able to stop this. everything would have been destroyed. I'm the least I can do. It was my grandmother, I would not call her a good woman. But she at least saw a better way than comidus and are centuries of totalitarian rule. And what way do you see?

I've been told for many years that the common folk on the ground are no more than vermin and servants. but I have seen the goodness that the lizard folk, the gnomes, the fearbox, the tabaxi, they all can do. And the common folk and that the bug bears that so many died, just from just helping the ones that they served, the ones that had been impressing them. I saw it as we were evacuating the city. There's no reason for there to be such a separation, but... My mother was, my, my mother had great lofty hopes. And when both my parents died, I thought that my grandmother was the only hope. And then you all saw what happened.

It was all my fault. I don't know. Could you take up their mission and make this all right? You are the lord of your house now. Is that right? I have. Yes. One of the old families.

Is there some line of succession after Comedus or is it up to debate now? Do you select someone or is it by right of claim? It will be up too much squabbling now as no one will, no right of assassination or conquest can be claimed now as it was not an Erecocra that brought down Comedus. It was all of you, outsiders. So we could be more. You know?

You are not Ericocra, you do not have the blood of a noble, of a noble one member of Erius. I didn't really want it, I would mostly mess with you. We do have a noble... What if we were? Iris is a noble. Yes, and I have no desire to lord overburne people. Yes, are you missing this? What?

We can all be Eirococca. And we can decide who takes over. It normally doesn't work. that way. It's not that, oh, well, you are the ones that rule. Now you can choose whoever you want. He just said we would have right of conquest if we were Erykola. Yes, we would. We defeated him. We would, of course. But we're not actually Eero-Cro-this-is. They don't know that.

But do you want to live here forever? No, I want to give it to him and get that fuck out of here. Oh, she's saying we could be Eiracocra long enough to vote him into power and then we could be on the way. We claims the throne and we give it to Obrus. Why can't we just be ourselves and say, this guy? We saved all of their lives. No, it literally we could. That's a good idea. I think there's a line.

Says that we are your minions and you directed it. And therefore you claim conquest by... Yes, were your mercenaries. Transitory properties or whatever. It wouldn't be the first time. Would you call that? You paid us. And you're backed by General Zern.

Yes. Of Korovacia. Of course. And if anyone were to threaten the new way... We would pull this massive amount of fire that would burn the entire kingdom to the ground. And General Zern would bring his armies and destroy who would ever... Youssep, Usurp, how do you say that?

Yes, show of Berge. Usurp, Yusuf, yeah. Usep. Usep. Usep. Feel the Zern. Would That actually might work.

You have the chance to be the top 1% That's by High General Zern. You can do this. Could Our people have only known war with Korovaki as long as It's been recorded.

Zern actually agreed to truce. We will make it We have proof There are far darker things at play In Strigger right now The last thing anyone should be worrying about Is fighting amongst themselves Yes quite

Only the truth, the full truth And nothing but the truth So help you zone That actually would work That was so good It was really good It could actually be peace And perhaps a new constitution

Do you think we could get an audience with Zern? Now that it's safe? Well, we are. What's the eyes of the Raven now? Yeah, that wouldn't be a problem. It's just a really, really, really, really long walk. Yes. And we got to get rid of all this stuff we got.

I'm worried it's just going to... What stuff? Ignite. Yes. I don't think you want to know. Oh, I had a thought about that when we have a moment in private. We don't know. Do you need a moment?

We don't... Yeah, we don't want to worry you needlessly. No, I think a moment would be great. I cannot thank you enough. It makes it a lot easier to say horrible things

about you behind your back. You are... No, we're... You are... You are... I'm being honest. Yeah, just be nice. That's what I...

It is nice. That's what I asked you to do. It is nice to be honest, I thought. Sometimes we'll talk about it. All right. You are asked ourselves. You are offering to hand me a power that countless

Ericocra and the common folk have fought to me. murdered and died for. Like you're going to cry. I just... I don't know how he think he can lead if he's so... I can be strong.

I'm just overwhelmed. Well, then suck it up, boy. Yes, I'm... You are going to have to be strong. Iris is not wrong here. I will be strong. We are choosing you, though, but I will not slit the throats publicly of those that conspire against me.

Not even privately, no... Not even privately. We advise against it. That's why we're choosing you. For the no... Or slitting. I mean, not just throats, but like all the other stuff. Oh, Bross, there's so much change that needs to happen.

So much has been so fucked up until this point. You don't want to have your people live in fear, right? No, I don't. You want to have a couple people walking to an inn, order some bruski's sit down and really just be able to talk about stuff, you know? The Tate-ups and the forest floor could come together. It would be wonderful for everybody. Exactly.

You could start setting up trade routes with all of our... friends on the bottom, on top. None of this veiling separation kind of stuff, and certainly not any sort of public execution. You're going to have a fair system of justice. People are going to be able to testify. There's going to be a lot of changes up in here, but you've got to make sure that even the people who oppose you have a right to say something. And we can bring you someone who can help you, can be a representative from the first floor. Yes, but if you don't want to hear the horrible things I'm going to say about you, you might want to leave sooner rather than her. I'll just be around the corner.

Lovely. Out of your sight. Yes. Be a shot and he fucks off. Well, are we sure about this? No. He constantly looks like he's going to cry and I didn't think I would see anyone like that who is even close to what Felix is like.

I don't like to use threats but I think we can threaten the rest of them in line by threatening Zern. If we bring heartier, she's stronger, she's tiny and adorable and so little, but she can do so much. She could at least be the ground floor. She could be the ambassador. Yes, that was the word of her.

We can rule this work together. We could rebuild her tavern and have a whole part. That could be the center of trade of sorts. The heart of the woods. It's better than burning it all to the ground. And I don't want to do that. And then we can leave the tower the way it is. Because we know that someone good is in power.

We need to get a town hall in order. to set up some ground walls. This is not our fight. If we're trusting him to do this, we're trusting that he can handle all of that. We're not choosing to run this place. The Tam Hall is not our responsibility.

The ambassadors they choose are not our responsibility. I agree. There is a chained god trying to make his way out of the earth somewhere. And as much as I would love to stick around and engage in the menial task, I

have a bunch of things to do and anewis needs me also. Our responsibility is to pass the baton of authority to this ogress. Well, we do it publicly then in front of everybody. Except we're in agreement, so. I believe in him. I think he can do it. The best we got. Do you guys feel good about it going into his hands? You don't think he's going to fall into the same sort of bad habits that he's going to eat him alive.

Does he have any allies for House Minerva? Can you know how family? I think we just need to promise mutually a sure destruction. Well, that was going to be my next point, because this thing's going to blow a five-mile-wide radius explosion into this capital city if it goes off. Well, then we better get out of you soon. I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. From what we've observed and all the tinkering we've done, it seems to be stable at the moment. I can only assume that the Elder Templist is really.

was causing it to kick into overdrive anyway. And he's gone. So it didn't look damage to you or anything? I mean, from what I can tell, it settled down. I'd have to really give it a once over and see if I could get in there. And I don't know how dangerous that would be. And, you know, I'm just learning as I go. But the point is...

You're totally smart. I guess the point is that if the Elder Tempice is what was causing it to threaten to melt down or whatever you want to call it, that's a world-ending event in and of itself anyway. So I think it's pretty safe to leave the thing here and hope that another elder templist doesn't just stroll on by. Felix has a very strong point. We're also opening up this core tool.

We're exposing it to folks that are on the ground, right? Without any sort of kind of protection, hoarding it, trade coming in and doubt even if it's peaceful, there could be corruption that we cleanse up here that still bruise on the forest floor. That's what I worry about. It's never going to be 100% okay. I mean, these are things.

that outside of our control. You have kind of a radical idea. Let me pitch it. Let me run it up the flagpole and see if anybody salutes it. Oh, boy. Sure. We want to end the oppression. But we want it in the oppression in such a

way that the person who has the power, the authority, the leadership can never, regardless of whether it's Oberus or his successor, or what have you, could fuck that up and could start oppressing. You said mutually a sure destruction, right?

Well, we could achieve that by wrapping the charges that we have, the flame, around the base of the tree that is actually connected to this device. And then the people on the forest floor would have just as much an ability to defend themselves by igniting the tree as anybody else. What kind of freedom are you talking about? Mutually assured destruction. That's a little more extreme.

Do you know what the dragon fire would do if we caught fire? It would burn the tree down. would kill all of the people on the fourth floor. It's going to blow up the core and then everyone is time miles. Well, but if they're being oppressed, we're giving them the option to destroy their oppressors. I was thinking more like we put the two of them in power because I trust both of them. And if either one says the other side's fucking up or blow it all up. Yeah, I think it's better to have checks and balances, Capricio, than to give them a loaded gun.

That is the checks and balances. It goes both ways because they can also destroy the... All right. I hear that I'm not being hurt. That's fine. That's like giving one like a bazooka and the other one like a water gun. Well, what's going to prevent people from oppressing the people on the floor? There is nothing more amusing than watching the ignorant to talk about politics.

Nice. I said nice. I was being nice. I mean, she hears a point. The rest of us don't really know what we're talking about. Where are the jars? They're in here. Keep them away from Caprice. It's all costs.

Iris, what do you think we should do? No offense. I think it's a very reasonable suggestion. I want to do whatever Arras wants to do. What if we scales that back a little bit, and we take half the jars and hide them one place, and half the jars and hide them another place, and tell each of them where one half is stored?

Then it's fair game, yeah? I'm just saying that if the reason why the people on the forest floor were being oppressed was because they had this tune-in fork operation, and that was giving them all sorts of power, they are going to enjoy that power unless we destroy that device. Right? No, I don't think so. I think they all can.

If we make some work together, they can take it down to the forest floor, maybe. I'm just saying if we give the people on the forest floor a tool that forces the power to be shared, that doesn't sound like a loaded gun to me. Arras, what do you think? Please, please! I think exactly what I said before. This is not our decision to make. I don't believe we should be giving them additional weapons.

We should leave this thing here. It looks like it's functioning properly. for now. And if it ignites, then they're all going to die, to be quite honest. So I don't really think that it matters one way or the other, whether the top or the bottom has it. But we allow the scrawny owl with no self-worth run the treetops, and we allow the adorable Tabaxi Heart, who I do believe will do well run the ground floor. And that we confirm with them that they They will do their best to run the treetops homes to the best of their abilities. But at the end of the day, we do not live here.

These are not all our people, and we did the best that we could to save as many as possible. But it is not up for any of us to decide how they live their lives. I don't care how they live their lives. I just don't want the tower destroyed. Then we make sure that they know if any of them tried to claim power of the tower, that we will come back with the alchemists fire and destroy the entire place. of Arccia. Not with the actual intention of doing that, but sometimes you have to scare the living

pants out of them. I think we leave the fire with Hart. I don't think that we leave the fire with anyone. What if we keep the fire? I want to return to the garden. Heart is... That's a brilliant idea. Let it be Fort Knox's problem. Please. His name is Pharnox. Oh, that's what I said. I'm sorry. I's disrespectful.

He almost died. I hit my head. He almost die, but then he's not... We should check on him. We really should check on him. The point of this This is that as much as I would like to leave it with heart, heart is a kind song that could potentially be easily corrupted. That is the type of power you do not want to leave in her hands and leave her with the guilt of what could possibly happen.

Then we should return it to the lizards that... Let's return it to the lizards that gave it to us. And if they want to end the oppression, then maybe that's the check that we leave in place. Didn't they have every intention of destroying all of the era of crookers? Yes. then I don't think we take it back. I think we leave it with Zern.

If there's another attack on Zentra, it could be... He's the thing. I'm kind of uneasy about birds with six red eyes lately. And I don't know if we should trust Zun with it either. I don't want to give it to them. Oh, that's true. I mean, I trust her, but there's a lot of corruption. We can look back to my father, and we can make sure that he is able to secure the safety of Siket.

Which we could just destroy it. He will ruthlessly. destroy all those that pose him. Couldn't we, like, drown it? Like, it couldn't be any good once it's, like... What? Once it's, like, soaked. We, like, drowned in the lake.

Just, like, dumped the jars into the water and, like... Oh, and then poison all of the fish. No, well, maybe. It's just tree sap. We could fly it up really hard. And explode it in the air. What if it just falls down like naporn? I don't think we could destroy it.

whoever standing on the crown floor. I think it still needs to exist so that if someone does bring back a reign of oppression, it can be used. It took them, they said it took them like centuries to collect all this. It'd be ridiculous to destroy it.

That's right. Sure. Let's give it back to the lizard book. I have a radical idea. There's a strange suggestion. Let's just write up the flagpole and we'll leave, if anybody solicits it. We're going to pour the sap

into the water for the water. No, we are not. Okay. Please, just stop, please. As you discuss, I need everyone to make a group, or make separate perception. We all die. He's dying.

You're the one that picked them. 16 points of reception. 22. 12. 27. Iris. You're the only one that notices this. 20.

DC was 25. Oh, 18 plus 9. As you're discussing, Iris, your cat eyes narrowed down on a tree several over. Nearly the center of the city. You see the massive, sprawling, beautiful, noble district where you had the Grand Masquerade, the large center of Comedus's power. And as you see the occasional,

Eric Hoker flying back to roost. You see bits and figures. It's far off. But you notice something around the trunk of the tree. And you notice hooded figures skittering down. Of course. Does they look like lizard folk? I would say it's very clear that they look like lizard folk leaving the center.

Well, as we're talking about this, the lizard folk apparently leaving the center of the village. So they've either... Well, I was looking at them. if you pay attention. Maybe Farnax came to visit. We should go see hi. Um, Hoja, I think you're getting excited for something as far more malicious. More than likely they're planting the fire and they plan to explode the impact.

We should. Put them out. Show me where they are. Over there, die. Just look. I'm going to immediately fly off to where she's always. Goodbye. Don't explode.

I'll run after her. Oh, dear Lord. If we don't make it and that goes up before we get over there, we're all going to die. There will be no putting the fire. out. It will burn for eternity until this entire forest is ash. Burn, baby. They're pretty close. I mean, they're their decision and I think we should talk to this Oberos guy. So maybe they, we let them handle that. And um, you want to stay and talk? So the three of us are going to try to sort out the politics while Lufty and

hopefully Hersha and Iris, so she doesn't get killed. Oh, no, I'm still here. If Lifty and, and Hersia want to run after their own destruction, I'm not going to follow him. Well, maybe we go down and talk to those if they're a lizard guys that we're kind of friendly with them, why don't we just ask what they're doing? Can we fly still? As you feel I just jump off those three brains. I get totally made it.

As you run forward, you feel as if the power of flight has left you. Good thing you didn't do swan that. A great slow fall in the direction. You have a lot. You feel this. Oh, okay. As you begin to

sprint off in the direction. You hear as you see explosion after explosion of horrific red and gold fire ignite

and burn almost seemingly instantly the massive structure the seat of Comat's power as it ignites the entire tree and you hear a voice booming out as if amplified by cleric magic.

This is the future you chose. The future made possible with the power of Garrick's, the fire lore, as if it gets snuffed out by being engulfed in flames. As the massive fire, dragon's fire, consumes the entire tree and begins to spread across the bridges to the other trees. What do you all do? I'm running to the nearest fire.

We need to stop the fire! I don't think we can. Can we stop the bridges so it doesn't spread? I don't know. Well, I will say if you don't start running now, then you won't need to put out of fire because you'll be ignited by it. If we still could fly,

who would have the best chance at knocking those bridges down? I can try. I'm taller. How are the bridges? I quickly play, um, um, da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-a-ha. I cast fly on you. 60 feet.

So I'm going to run to, I mean... How many bridges are there? You see at the center that there are three going out to the other ones. Three. Okay. I'm going to attempt to go, I'm going to fly as quickly as I can to one of the connectors and see, does it seem like something to even break? Does it even look like knocking down the bridges with the fire billowing from the treetops? It's going to stop it from catching. I don't know if it's going to make it.

difference. You get the sense as it's a forest fire would not be stopped by a bridge. It's spreading down and you see that it's spreading into the canopy. It's spreading down into the underbrush of the ground. We have to go. There's nothing we can do. We can't put this out. Oh, Kira, can you do anything?

With your wind abilities, can we snuff out the fire? They have to do something. We've done so much already. With the understanding that more oxygen and wind will increase the flames. I don't know how science works. She looks at all of you. And she clutches something in her chest.

As she sees the massive inferno that's billowing, as if the mighty dragon god was reigning vengeance upon this place. As she looks at you, if I do anything, I will never be able to do it again. If it is your wish, daughter. No, what do you mean? No. I will do whatever you decide.

if you wish to save these people what can you you can save them what are you talking about the clock is sticking down so this is the decision we need to make now what can you do can you stop it I can then stop it

I mean there are hundreds of thousands of people currently dying in the Triton of her I cannot do it of my own free will this is for her I did not I was not in noble

Jean but I feel touched by the air, by the divine. If you make your wish, I'll do it for you, child. This is not my decision. I will not fault you for whatever choice you make. Can't let everybody die and ever other people that have protected.

She reaches out. But before you do, I'm going to cast Deathwood. I'm going to reach out, cast Deathboard. Okay. She reaches up and cups your face in her hand. still the same size. Daughter, you must wish. What do you wish?

And I will use Virginia blood to do whatever you want. I wish for you to save these people and this land and to know that I love you. I love you too, child. Her eyes immediately glow as she begins to glow and spin the nimbus cloud that you have seen her fly with

gets larger and larger and larger as she ascends into the air. It rises up until it billows over the entire force floor. The dragon's fire is raging. You see it. Catch another tree. Screams and hoots as individuals are flying away running for their lives.

And then you hear the light pattering of rain. And it's not just any rain. It glows. with a beautiful, nearly divine energy and aura as rain from the heavens cools down. It hisses and pops and singes as it meets the dragon's fire as it begins to spread. But it gets then torrential

as you are all drenched in this glowing genie fire empowered by the wind dukes of Aca as in just a few moments the fire is roaring out and you almost hear a dragon roaring out in anger, in vengeance and hatred but then s... All that is left is smoke

and rain as the fire is put out and the panic stops. It's gone. Can we just have a moment? Knowing that it's almost certainly being filled with rain I will get an empty flagon into the

remaining wine that was left by Lufty and just sort of shaking take a sip to absorb what's happening in front of me

I wouldn't have thought it was even possible I'm so sorry Lofty this is not what I meant you must be wrong with do we see her at all not yet

I did the best I could My magic from Inubis, I don't know its ability on a creature like that. The sacrifice you made has saved thousands upon thousands of people, and I know that that sacrifice does not make it easy. And it's not my sacrifice. It was us. You did the right thing. You could have used that wish presumably for lots of different things.

and the good that there's been done today is incredible I'm very proud of you you're a much better person than I am I wouldn't have been able to make that wish neither would I

I am proud to call you a friend and a sister your struggle is still and I fear anything that gets in your path clear I don't think I want to do

fucking music right we should We should find Lord Orobos. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We should. We should.

We should also make sure there are no more lizards. Yes. I still have fly, right? We should. Yeah. I am going to go. I want to burn their entire village to the ground. But I believe they would like that.

Someone find the young lord. You have up to ten minutes. And I'm going to just fly around as quickly as I can. and look for any more signs of anything. I will run from here to there and to cat's speed. So I want to try in the ten minutes knowing that I have, do as much checking as I can

of looking for any more cultists, any more robes, any more like, satchels that might explode. Make a reception check advantage as you fly around. And I'm going to run around using my feeling agility as often as possible. That's a half full 20. Gotta give it up.

And just just, just, look and see if I can see anything. You sprint around. You look around and you are... What are you looking for specifically, sorry? Just any remaining canisters or containers of their fire that they may have planted in the trees or around the trees. Or if I see any other people about. I'm essentially doing what I was doing, but I'm doing it in the...

You are sprinting. You look ahead as you see like a burnt matchstick that says. center tree in all of the buildings. Nothing is left but ash. But in half of the other three connecting trees, completely incinerated. And you immediately see soldiers and civilians trying to help whomever they can.

One disaster followed by another, but in the calming rain, it seems like there's finally peace in this land. As you look around and you see no remnant, of any of these jars you sprint ahead and you look and you see no more

of the oil as Toa you fly around you look down and you see a few things on the fourth floor you look and you see a hood

a robed figure and you fly down and you touch it and you pull over a dead lizard cultist and his eyes are wide, almost popping

as if the rain that was falling on him was toxic. So he's like, are there any more? Are there any other? You find another and another and another. You see that they have empty jars of that same Edelwood oil. I fly back.

You fly back and the rest of you are met by Oberos as he lands and he looks at all of you and says is that what you were referring? If you are going to act like a child

now is not the time. Did you see what she did for this land? That is strength. That is how you lead. If you are going to walk to us now, you will do it as a leader. Do you hear me? Do not disrespect her sacrifice.

Yes. Of course. You all have made amazing sacrifices. You've all done so much for us, for everyone, for your very reason to hate us and despise us as much

as the cult of Garex did. I did not know they had such power. Well, now you do. But it is done. I thank all of you. And I will only take the power

you have offered me if you deem it worthwhile. But I pledge that I will take counsel with all of the leaders of the common folk of all of the races. And we'll forge a new constitution. I will have a truth. I will speak with General Zern himself. There can be peace between Owl and Raven. I require one thing from you.

You will erect a statue in honour of Alcira, the saviour of the Treetoos. I will. I will. Of course. Of course. When I get back, I guess what I'm going to be all back at this point, yeah. She has made everything safe. The rain seemingly killed all the cultists.

There may still have been. But we'll say for now, and I want you to realize that this isn't permanent. Nothing is permanent. No, it's not. And if you end up like comodice, this will happen again and again and again. I want you to realize that. Neverending cycle of bloodshed. That's how it's been for hundreds of years.

Why? What reason is there for that not to change? If you're willing to make a change, there needs to be an end to this separation. So whatever you do, You need to include up in your society. There need to be tabaxi and bug bears and fearbogs and even lizard folk. Even lizard folk. Yes.

You can prevent this from happening again in another century or two. If you just open your arms. As one of the wisest and most kind people I've ever met has once told me, be kind. Yes. Yes. There is no reason. There is no reason to repeat this cycle. There's no reason.

And I will have to be strong in order to get to the plotting nobles from plotting against me. And even if they do, I will have to crush them. But in a way that they get a fair trial. Yes. No public executions. No. Yes. Of course.

What do you need us to do? Where can you call? forum and have us as the champions and saviors of this entire civilization, where can we make our voices now? If you take the evening, find whatever rest you can, in the morning I will gather everyone here around the source of all of this destruction in bloodshed, contact my agents, and I will be certain to make sure that they have an audience with you. They all saw the outsiders flying towards comodus they all saw what just happened here

they will not be able to refuse an audience for now rest family where can we rest I will take you to my family's home thank you fortunately was spared

I'll follow shortly after yes I will join you and he'll fly away and, uh, or lead you, do you want to go now? Or, I'll follow afterwards. Okay, okay. So follow me and he flies and he will lead you to a beautiful, uh, Eric Okren, uh, estate

on one of the trees. Not, not too far, but not, not close enough to obviously get caught up in the flame. You are all ushered into a room. Well, so do you want to stay behind for a little bit? Yes. So they all fly away. I want to use my feline ability to scan the area for as long as it takes to find one remnant of Lifty's mom, whether it's a part of what she was wearing or a piece of jewelry or anything at all.

Make a perception check and advantage. I think it's 27. 27. Oh, baby. As you look around, you barely notice up. But then you touch your face and it blended in with

the black of your fur. You pull a long strand of jimmy hair. I'm going to pop open the most elaborate ring that I own. It's a giant ruby that's shaped like a scarab

with the symbol of the onc carved into the back and I'm going to pop it open. I'm going to curl the hair into it and head back. Okay. Okay. You do that. You are all guided into a nice estate. There are servants. There are guards that welcome you in. They see that you're the outsiders, but they are just as kind and welcoming. You are actually led to a large room, seeming almost like a suite for guests that would stay and be entertained, and you have a little sitting area. A fire is made for you immediately. You're given warm clothes should you choose to wear them. They have holes for the tails and the wings, but they fit okay. Yours are a little tight, but you're able to find at least some warmth and comfort, as you are offered a full array of spirit and delightful food. It's mostly meat, as you enjoy whatever evening, how you'd like to.

Is he still with us? He has guided you and said that he was going to go find his, contact his agents. Would I have a moment to speak with him? Yeah, sure. As he'll leave him, you stop him and follow him. stop, he'll close the door and you two are outside. Um, Obrose, I think, yes. I wanted to prepare you for this possibility tomorrow

so that we could have a chance to talk about it, but I think the people need to know the truth. We need to know what happened today if it's not clear. They will. They will know. You have my word. I have an ability that I think will help really drive the point. And I'm going to kind of step like 10 feet away from him and like cast zone of truth on myself and just show him like what it

looks like and the area that's in it and i'll like step in it and say while i'm in this i can tell no lie and i think if you if the people see me doing this while you are speaking to them they will know that you are 100% without a doubt with the power of morden speaking to them in all honesty, no lies. I will call on you when the time comes. Thank you very much, Roger. Rest up. For sure.

And you do that, and he seems to kind of have a little bit more confidence after that conversation. As he immediately flies off. Iris, you arrive back in the room and you pass him as he leaves. He just gives you a nod as he goes and starts to find his agents. You're all in the sitting area together. Oh my god, Azaran just welcome. Welcome to the Adventurer's family. Asks are you, Asan.

Oh, Azan. Asan. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Yes, that happens. How's everyone feeling? I'm beat up.

Emotionally beat up. Exhausted. How are you doing, lofty? I just lost. The mother, it took me. my whole life defined. Lifty? You know this ring that I always wear?

Which one? The largest one on my hand. Oh yes, that one. My mother gave this to me. It was her mothers before her, and on and on for as long as I can remember. It is my most prized possession. Within it you can hold a trinket. I've never put anything in there because nothing has been important enough.

Tonight. I went back to the place where your mother made the sacrifice for you. And I found a head. A place you in this ring and I want you to have it. Now I'll take it off and I'll put it on her hand. It's like way too big for a hand, but we'll get it resized somewhere. Miss large. The thumb.

Let's put it on your daring. I would have shrunk by now. I know. I know that there is nothing we can do or say that will make this. moment or those that will happen from now until the end of your days that will make this moment any less painful

but you know that you are our family and that we love you very much and if you need anything, anything at all I'm here for you. Always. Thank you guys. I

and I will allow you to sleep on me to let me. Oh, that's so nice. I know. I wish she was so big. It is really nice. But I will do it. I wouldn't even sleep on that.

I won't make you do that. It's a gagging. No, it's a hairball. That's very generous. Yes, toa, I know. I'm very kind. Oh, I'm going to try to be. For a little bit.

I searched a very long time for her, you know. I know. Well, I agree. When we first met, you mentioned it at least once every four or five minutes. Yeah. Well, you didn't say it was your mother. You just said you were looking for something. Yeah.

I just, I was so angry for so long when I thought that I could find her and prove to hers that I was amazing because, I mean, look at me, but it would make her regret leaving me when I was leaving. And then I kind of wanted to kill her, but then I met her and she was not a jerk. She was nice to me and she was proud of me and I didn't expect that. So I guess I'm glad that I met her and liked her and lost her, then have met her and her be a jerk and then knows that I was also a jerk. I think now I know that I can be better than that.

than I have been. Well, and now you know you come from good stock. And now you know that she didn't really have a choice the past couple of decades. That's true. And she's not lost lofty. She left with a purpose,

and she'll never be forgotten. People will write stories about her. We'll write statues in her honor. We will force Caprice to write a story about her. And a sign. And I don't think I don't think I think we need to force. in there to be honest. I'm already, I'm already there. I'm, Louvty, Louvty, Louvty, Louvty, and that's as far as I've gotten. No, no, no, her mom, not about her. Are you still feeling sad, Lufty? I'm always going to feel

a little sad, no. Well, my aunt, she used to give me this special hug, and it was something that always cheered me up whenever I was feeling sad when I was a kid. Would you like one now? Is this the one way you squeeze the breast? No, no, there's rules. You only get one. You only get one. per day if you're feeling sad and then it makes you you cannot feel sad afterwards. Okay, I guess so. Hold out your pinky for me. Oh, no. No, not that hand.

The other one. The special hug. That was nice. That was really cute. I thought she was going to catch her finger off. She was a pretty cool lady. I'm going to go to bed. I'm pretty tired.

And I will make my way upstairs. That's nice. That's nice. It was a door. I feel horrible that I suspected the worst for him. He did convince the man his penis had fallen off, but he can be quite sweet sometimes. Do you want me to kiss it?

No, they don't take away the special heart. It's true. It is true. I do feel better now. I don't know. She was supposed to take us back to Aka, though. That's my worry. Well, I don't think she would have done what she had done.

if she didn't believe that we would find a way to get there ourselves. And I did not feel this way on the crossroad, so many months ago when I'd met you. There are no better people I think that I could be with to make my way to another plane of existence. Anubis, please. Don't excite me for saying that. Perhaps the Ericocra knows some way to get back.

Maybe we could ask Orvos tomorrow after he makes his speech about how to use that core. Maybe we could traverse to the plane of air again. We'll find the heart. You've got to get her back to him. That's true.

We can't leave that. We promised there we'll be for turn. I made a promise. The seven windukes are waiting for us there. We have to go back. I have to go back. We should get some sleep. We should.

I think I'm going to go to bed. Yes. I will go to bed when I loft is ready to go to bed. I want to retire to... Do you all have different rooms? I don't know how? Yeah. Okay.

So I'll go to my room and just sort of meditate and I'll place my four carved figurines of the four wind spirits out, hopefully imagine the coronal directions if I can, and just kind of meditate to see, you know, now that this has happened, what kind of sense? Don't get any kind of sense of anything.

Make a religion check at advantage. I have your proficiency. It's a 17. With that, you take out your totems, and you place it, and the wind whips around you. And as it swirls around, it feels like home. You get a scent. You smell the sea air. Salt.

You... You smell the volcanic rock. You smell the coconuts, the trees. It smells like the Makani Islands. You get a sense of... of safety, the sense of comfort, the sense of victory. I'll say to myself, perhaps it's done.

Perhaps everything's gonna be okay. And I will go to bed. You do that. What time is it roughly when we're heading to bed? I mean, is it like normal bedtime? Do we go? did we head back in early? At 3.30 in the afternoon.

It's probably... I'm okay with that. I would like that answer, actually. It's probably like 10 at night, something like that. All right. Then I'm just going to go to bed, unfortunately. After I richly cast Find Familiar because I haven't heard from Beatrice in like 6,000 years. Yeah. Oh.

I sent her after Commodus before we went to the plane of air. Yeah. I'm assuming she couldn't keep up with him, but I was hoping to... She zapsed back and she can't speak, but in your mind, you get the sense that Cominus was way too fast. but it did seem as if the aeromancers that had been following were killed by the creature along with everyone in his path. We just talk and whistle to each other for a little while and then go to sleep. Yeah, you both whistle and it's very delightful and peaceful.

I spend 10 minutes, somebody, pin. You do that. The dresser knocks over. and the wine spills in your room as Peyton is like your snap and the wood of the bed frame is completely shattered as this massive mux ox is

summoned into the room Oh, it's so great to see you, Pete! And I'm just going to throw myself around her and bury my head into her fur and get rid of your ear scratches and boop her on the nose. She fondly nuzzles you and she's very happy to see you as well. I'm glad that you're safe.

Do I feel like she can get out of this room? No, no, no chance. Well, let me tell you about the day. Oh, I've missed you so much, and I'm just going to sit down with her and kind of very excitedly tell her about the battle, and then I'm going to have a good cry with her about Al-Kira, and she's probably going to be like,

ooh, I'm going to sad with me. She's her ears. go down and she, her shaggy fur, yep, exactly right. And so I will just weep, uh, solemnly into her fur and just that's how I fall asleep is just, since the bed is broken, it's smashed of shit, you're like, lean up and there's like the heavyweight. Yeah, exactly right. I'll get up early to try and nail a few of the things really shittily together as best as I can to fix it.

And then, uh, would dismiss her in the morning if, uh, if she can't fit through the door. You and Peyton Babe played pretty pretty princess for a few minutes. We do. I braid, I braid her hair. I love that game. Very stinky, stinky mustache. A little dwarven beads in her hair, just like the ones at all mine. And also the one where you're in a mall and you have a critical.

That really, okay. So you just hit home for me a lot because those two games my friend Bonnie had. And I wanted them. I asked for them for Christmas for like six years in a row and I never got them. And he is a really sore spot for me, okay? Because that mall game was the best. I, uh, one time we got to be a part of like a girl slumber party. And the only agreement was that I had to wear a dress and then we played those games.

You're just, you're just telling stories that did. Didn't happen. You have such amazing experiences, Derek. You really need to write a book, a bio-up. I told you he's a worldly person. That's what I said to my name's thing. I said he was thinking about. You've experienced everything. So, hey, does he have an iPad charger I could use? I'm glad to die here.

Mine will reach you, maybe? This one might reach you actually. If it doesn't, I've got one. It's like, it's like, it doesn't, you can just take my. I can put this in my lap so you have a little bit more. The charges also. Cool. What are you doing?

I just, I follow the entire room, leaving my room empty. Yeah. I'm afraid of the dark. I can stay with you. I guess you can see him's a dark. I'm still afraid of it. Sure. I don't think you.

I'll keep you safe. Please, I need someone to keep me safe. So, Jesus, Terry. Now that we're officially friends, What do you mean now? Well, I said it in front of everybody. I gave you my mother's ring.

Like real actual friends. The type of friend that I could take home to Siket and be seen in public with. The kind of friends that you would let marry your brother? Which one? You said we're like sisters? Yes, and which one are you talking about? You know which one? He's said to be fair of some day.

Oh, you see, I did not know. Oh my goodness I reach over and I'm I'm saying yes sister yes oh we're going to be so happy to go you'll have ugly children yeah I really you know

blue fur maybe I don't can we even have children I don't want to talk about it to end my family line they're going to be airless cats Oh my God! That's a big chance. That's about it, right? That's all you're doing on.

Bravo. Bravo. That's fucking. Oh, that was wonderful. I will give you my blessing. That doesn't mean you're good mothers. That's okay. I'll work on her.

I know you've always started. I must bring chicken. We love chicken. We don't love 10. against a cat. Do you have any on you? I have been in an entire treetop full of birds and I've been to eat a single

one. It is so difficult to see. Oh my gosh and they're so large. Yeah. They're incredibly large. They just smell like dinner. Well, we'll rouse or something up.

It sounds like a whole buffet down there. I know. And it was if things were burning. You want to eat the people that That's it to you. Yes. It's fine. I need to go to sleep. There's a bed in here.

Please. No. You may take it. So I'm not tricking you. I will at least curl up at the end on my feet. Fine. Did you kick me? I will deal with it tonight.

And I wait for her to get in a bed and I tuck her in. I get on her feet. I make a circle a couple of times. I arch my back. I whip my tail back and forth. I whip my tail. And then I cuddle up onto her feet. I'm just going to gently.

press my feet into you and make biscuits on you. It's only fair. Oh, cool. Is this what it feels like? Yeah, it's kind of weird, but nice. I almost want to apologize, but then, oh, right there. Right now. No, no, you're welcome, Lufty. You're so welcome.

And we're going to go to bed. It's amazing. Unbelievable. And as she's falling asleep, I'm going to say, Rufty, are you awake? Yeah. I love you. Good night.

Wow. And then I'm gonna get to sleep. Oh my goodness. I can't handle all these feels. Did he be fuzzy? I see you, don't? Nope, but the door's closed. She actually cast silence before she did.

You didn't hear it either. I just get this weird fuzzy feeling for no reason. Aw. All right. Where is sleep? Where is late? And then we get to sleep. Yeah.

You drift off to sleep. Oh, yeah. Please love. Oh, dear Lord. Yeah. Yeah. Please. Oh.

Oh. Oh. It's always caprice. You just have to sleep. Oh, no. And you, all awake and enjoy long rest.

Desperly needed. Thank. Yeah. Really desperately needed. Do I think we're going to have any gigantic world-ending boss battles? Or can I undigantic world-ending

bossball? I am ovarose. of course die insect die interlopers my name is my anus and who's gonna be the first to wake up

I'll probably be the first to wake up so I can nail the bed back to the other I'm pretty early because I got to do all my spell shit I think Lifty and I are gonna sleep in okay I'd sleep in a little bit Caprice gets up last I'll say I get up early and for the first time ever

I go and get her tea and that way we have some tea and something tea in the room. So as soon as, Felix, I'll say as soon as you wake up, you're bright and early to get the jump on your studies in the downtime that you can't afford. And as you're going, you reach your hand on the handle of your door

and you hear loud snoring from the outside. It sounds like a soft purring on the outside of this door. Is it like anything I've ever heard before? it sounds very familiar. It sounds like is that Zorbeck? I heard him sawing logs

and is that heart? I'm going to very gently turn the doorknob like worried that somebody's leaning up against the door and try to open it without them like falling into my room like peeked like you know start to open it up slowly and see what I can say.

You open the door and you peek in and you see fur and you see the slow rising and fall there that is lumped into like a ball almost is the that loaves Zorbeck fast asleep snoring loudly as mouthgaped open

and curled into a little like a little fluffy disc on top of them like a cat his heart they're both fast asleep in the in the little sweet lobby area I'm going to throw the door open and basically run over to them and without like trying to startle them

too badly, I'm going to be like hard, hard! And I'm going to like kind of gently nudge her. All of you hear him say, all of you hear him say heart, heart. And you shut your mouth. You, uh, you ench her and you hear, Hey, he has to find him, get to find everyone.

How did you get here? Quest that she gave me. Yes. Um, Philems, I found you. You, yeah, what was? Yes. Did you... Wait me... You found your way back to the material plane.

No. No. Well, I didn't really find it as much as Zorbeck and I just got sent back. Yeah, I mean, I thought I was going to be awake, but I guess... By whom? She just put me... It was a really nice. Angel lady. Her name...

She said she knew Lufty and she knew her mom. And she said that we should go see him and that we don't believe. in Aca, but I protected it real good. And Sorbeck didn't fuck anything up. He said, oh, Sorbet go back to sleep. And he like nudges her and the heart falls up and he stands up. They must have been the windows.

They must have sent you back? Oh, no, yeah, I saw him all come back. They just exploded into the sky. And it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I even fell. I didn't even know what God I was worshipping. But I just was, I was doing this. It was, it was so beautiful.

You're all right. You made it back. You did it. It's unbelievable. And her name, really nice ladies. She's like a really nice and also really pretty and really nice looking. And her name is Akula.

And she said, here, give them this. And they'll be able to come back. And I'm like, well, can I ever come back? And she said, probably not. But like, you guys can. And so. May I? Yes.

What is it? I completed my quest. God, I love her to lie. So fucking cure. She's so funny. I completed Angel West. What am I holding? Angel quest.

You are holding what seems to be a a it seems to be a long blue feather. Wow. And it seems to have some kind of magical property. Do I feel like if I spend time with this object, I'll understand it better.

I'm going to wakel up. I don't want to get you too excited, but I think Hart is here. I'm going to... But? I'm going to bust through the door. Heart! Oh my God! I'm going to pick her up and squeeze her and laugh her and stroke her little kitty ears.

I'm really angry right now, but I'm going towards him. You'll never like it when I stroke your kitty ears. I would let you do it today. Do you want to stroke one side? Yes. I hate this so much. As you do that... Oh, hey, hey, Luke.

I completed angel quest. Of course you did. You guys got it, and you look. And are you casting any magic? Or you just... No, I don't have identify. I was gonna... I could detect magic, but I was...

You said it felt magical. Yeah, felt magical. After an hour, you'll probably get sensibility. I was gonna invest. I was gonna... Make an archa check. I will make an arcana check. I would love to be there.

And she's like, oh, it's so good to see you. Did you... I met your friend... What did you name? Akula. I met Akula. And she said that she knows you really well. And then you're really cool.

And I was like, I know, isn't she so cool? And Iris, I completed an angel quest. I found you guys! I'm so proud of you, darling. All open the door. I get it, 21. If it would make you happy, yes. Oh, my God, so I would leave it.

And you realize that this feather will be consumed. It allows the wielder, anyone, to consume it and channel the power of Akula and plane shift to the eternal veil of Akka once. Wait, so you're here. That means that we can get back, maybe. Somehow. Yes, no, that's, she said that this feather. Then I had to get to you guys. And you brought this back?

I did. Oh, well done. Amazing. Oh, thank you. Am I a hero yet? You've more than a hero? You've always been a hero. I guarded Acha so, it felt like Zorbeck and I were there forever.

Maybe we were. And it wasn't that long. He rolls over. I'll peek out the door. I'm clearly not wearing anything, but I'll peek out just the top half and seeing Zorbeck. Just close the door. The war begins in you.

All, uh, hearing the outside, I'm, like, tumbling out of the door, out of my door. Clearly, you can see Peyton's ass in the background. I haven't dismissed Tariot. I'm just, like, pulling on pajamas underneath my butt, pants over my put pajamas and I'm running for it. I'm like, oh, my portcetta is that heart? And I'm going to run over and I'm going to

grab her from Lufk. No, I'm going to run over. I'm going to pick up Lufty and heart and squeeze them both and hug them. Oh, yeah, I did it. I did it. Did I hear you did a quest? And immediately, you see a quick cat-like movement as Zorbeck standing. Oh, hey, Herrinsha,

we did our quest, an angel quest. Oh my God, Zorbeck. And I'm going to run over and give him a hug. I'm gonna look him up too. Oh. And then I'm gonna look at his chest. Women usually can't pick me up. As he's, he's blushing.

And you hear Peyton moo happily. And she turns and tries to join you and her hormones, oh. Hold on, Peyton, hold on back in there. And there's no way. She's trying to geometry and she's fucking trapped. You. Baze.

Or like, go. She's like, she's basically a big, like, she bleeds. She bleeds. I think it does that. Yeah. Can I look up a mousk? What does a muskine?

Yeah. Okay, I am going to do that. I'll save that. I want to look at his chest to see if his hair is growing back. It has. Oh my God. Would you look like that? I give him like a good, good ruffle.

You look so much better. I don't know, though. Maybe. Try again. Is it really? Well. Okay, man. Okay, that's fine.

He backs up a little bit. Looks down. Oh. I didn't ruin anything. what do you mean I didn't gardens or anything I didn't ruin anything

we just I didn't fuck anything and he shuffles over to the side and sits down in one of the chairs so did the wind ducs just give you this feather that's it yeah no one of them um

where did it come from it came from their wing her wing were there seven of them they were seven yet they all came back and they're all five they came back and they're fine

and then they had um the turtle and the big two and it vulture and the shark and and and and the moa? And the moa, yeah, the other bird, the two yeah, yeah. Yeah, they had both them in the old, really big bird that can't really

flab but can walk around a lot. Yeah, they had them in their arms and they were so strong and I don't know how they carried them. Oh, they're fine. Did they seem like awake and then moving around maybe? Well, they seemed alive from what I could see was over the city and they descended upon it and it was like they were just returning and all the people emerged and I got to meet so many fun

people, they're the Vati, and I didn't get any of their names, but they were very cool and very nice, and they're very much about the law. And so I was like, I didn't bring any laws. They were all awake. Yeah, no, there's a bunch of people. Oh, yeah, they all came out of the big building and they're all, like, the other city is, like, returned, and they're all, like, preparing

for something, I don't know. Oh, my gosh. I'm there now with coffee. Hey. Hey. Hey. How you doing? Good morning. Where are your kids, Caprice? I'm, like, wearing, like, my full garb. Oh, okay. The question of whether it's an illusion or not. It's left up to the imagination.

I am. Did I get dressed or did I make coffee? So, you are all in, all of you have now joined together with Hart and Zolbeck, and you're able to discuss whatever you want. Hey guys.

Welcome back. I have to get back. You got the nice lady, the The Akula, she sent us back. Akula? Yeah. Which one was that? It was the one who knew Lufty.

The one with the hammer? No, she didn't have a hammer. She's a book. I'm just asking questions here. I just working on. But give us a program. I'm sorry. I'm a little test.

He's only two coffees in. Give him three more. He'll wake up. That's fair. I apologize. I'm saying. Thank you. So.

We can get back then with this. Well, we have to do the strange meeting thing. today with what's his face and yes whatever so what is that exactly you said that we can

well for what I understand and again this is all very new to me I don't know but this feather from what I understand is directly from one of those celestial beings or something it came from a wing

and it'll let us or anyone just use it to basically move from one plane to the other only this one has a particular destination And I assume that that peaceful, utopic place that we went to, yeah. Do you think it would take all of us? I do. Again, this isn't really what I was expecting after seeing that machine.

But I suppose if, you know, anyone can use this, then maybe you should hold on to it. Okay, I will. I don't know when or why or for what reason we'd have to rush back to Aca, especially now that we found our friends. But it could be a useful tool in the future. We should buy a big hat. I guess I should. No, I'd hide her buns. Yeah, tuck it. I'll kind of like...

With that, you hear a rap on the door, and you see Obrose poke his head in and says, I've called the meeting of all of the surviving noble families. I was shocked at how many didn't survive or wiped out by both attacks. But those that have survived and have any kind of power left have... have, we'll be gathering shortly at the, at the, at the, at our source of power. So, uh, whenever you can, I'll store as long as I can. Any clues to them more.

That guy needs to be more leadery. Whenever you can. That's very passive. You know, it doesn't have been like, it's going to be in 15 minutes and by. Yeah, of course. Maybe you can just give him a crash course. I've screamed at him multiple times. It works with you.

And I mean, you is in the group. the royal yes well no I'm the royal me for now and soon it will be the royal ass well either way I think we should probably get going but heart wait when she gave us

she said to bring it and did she give you any other message to give it to you guys and that's how you get back when now whenever you can okay did they have something a message or any kind of Timeline or... Yeah.

They just said... She just said that you had much to discuss. Okay. And that she wanted to talk to you, especially Lufty. Then I'll let you use your discretion. Still, you know, we don't really have any leads after this. I don't know what's going to happen next. Let's handle what we need to handle with Obron.

And Zern will eventually want to hear that we restored peace or... Obrose. You know, undermine whatever, you know, we were sending here to fix things. We want to know eventually, I suppose, and maybe he has another time for us. I don't know. No, I completely agree. I think we should go as soon as possible. They wouldn't have sent our heart and Zorbeck back as quickly as they did if they didn't want us there.

We know time there moves differently. For them, it could have been a thousand years. In time, we're stopped still for Gozo, right? Yes. I mean, that's a potential chance. If the city is awakened, that the time dilation is no longer under effect. Maybe it's resumed its screaming timiness.

But the only way we're going to know that is if we go there. So that's right. And do we know for a fact that this feather gets all of us there, or is it just 50? I put a lot of money on that and don't get us all there. She said to send us back. Everyone except for Zorbeck. Well, I don't think Hart would be coming either. No.

I really liked it, but my home is here, and they told me you guys did it. Well, and we need you to be the leader for the folks in the bottoms, the speed bottom. Yes, you should come with us. No. To this meeting. Oh, to the meeting, yes. No, no, not to the air place. No, no, no.

This leader of the rebellion, it would be my honor. Hart, you are no longer the leader of the rebellion. You are the leader of everything down there. You will be the link between the ground and the tree. You have to be a uniter. I'm going to walk forward and get down on my knees, so I'm eye to eye with her. There is no one. We can trust more than you to handle what needs to be handled here.

You will rule kindly. Yes. We can trust you, can we not? You can trust me with your lives, with anything. I'll do it. I hold you in high regard, heart. You will not let me down. I am the defender of Aca, and I will defend Erios too.

God be no doubt. And I'm going to stand up and I'm going to grab her first. I'm going to give her kiss on her forehead. Her eyeshine. I need to go to this meeting. She will now be Ambassador Heart of the Forest, defender of Akron. First of her name.

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Okay, perfect. Well, then, I gotta go take care of my farm real quick and I'm going to just scamper back and there's going to just be loud, clattering. This is destroyed. Everything is just a fucking mess. Yeah. She's a farm.

yeah Payton Farm of one I was imagining you going in the other room and opening Farmville To copy spells in your spellbook It would take six hours and 150 gold

Four hours of 100 gold Do I just sit down and do it all in one go? No Or like whenever I get time I can spend A total of six hours I will spend 150 gold And then I will notice Got it. Okay

Yeah Thank you If you read the four hour day You'll really make good progress with that. I'll be like, I gotta go put my clothes on and then I'll walk back. Yeah, I'll go put my armor back on and I'll try to like put on like my pressure clothes and re-brate

my hair and look a little bit more like well put together for once and then I'll dismiss Peyton and join it in the blobby. Sounds good. Thank you lady tea crumpet. Tea crumpet. I love that. Ooh! Oh, I love it. Maybe tea crumpet.

Crompit. Please don't be invented. Please please don't eat. Yeah. We're a mess. What is the wrong with us? So you probably would have gotten like two or three hours in the morning to catch out. I'm going to remove the gold for both of those belts and then I'll just keep track of the time. It'll be a couple days.

And so you all gather and you follow, you meet obleros and as you make your way through the city, you see mostly Eric Okra, but you actually see some of the folk from the forest floor that are all thanking you. They all run up. Some give you a big hug. They thank you profusely. You see some people mourning as they're looking at the smoldering ruins of a ton, the main source of power in their entire country has been destroyed. And you see that there has been a gathering. You see there's a large ring of guards, not just are they surrounding the large central tree that has that great power core.

But you see that they're also on perches in the trees. They're heavily armed, keeping everyone trying to keep on. onlookers away. And as Oberos approaches, the guards part their ways, and you see, and led to the center as this slowly spinning, arcing tomb fork spins.

As you see that in rows of benches that have been brought in by the guards, there are probably several dozen of very finely dressed, but shaken, visibly shaken noble air co-crow, of all

varieties of owls. and they all are kind of looking a little hesitant. Some maybe the older ones are still looking very disapprovingly at the outsiders as they enter. But you hear one muttered to the other one under their breath, and then someone's like, have some thanks to another one. And so you all approach following Oberos. And Obrose looks at you and nods. And I will walk up and just kind of be like,

to the rest of the crowd. It's probably like super quiet and awkwardly silent. And I'm just going to go to the stage. And I'm just going to, yeah, I'm just going to take a second, whispering under my breath some more than, and I will cast a zone of truth. It's most of the attention crowd. What you're witnessing right now is the casting of Zone of Truth.

Ooh. Yes. You're the question. It's really impressive. Lots of people can do it. Of hammer on animal. and a circle glows as you see a magic

watch over over Obrose and addresses the crowd. You all know this magic It is not complex magic I cannot tell a lie while I'm standing here and I have no intention to deceive you, although many of you and many of our

recently deceased colleagues have lied their entire lives and we've all been guilty of plotting in back rooms against the powers that be. And the gods know, the great owl's trigger knows that comiters deserved death, and it is thanks to these outsiders that he is dead. But I speak an honest owl that these were my mercenaries, paid for with the backing of the High General Zern himself. And they speak for me. And if you do not

believe me that will ask them to speak and tell you but how they brought an end to the reign of Zern. Some of you may have been comfortable. That's true. You all enjoyed riches and you all enjoyed your pleasure and your comfort. But what is the fear? The fear that that's mad, paranoid tyrant would lose his mind one day and kill all of us. That was it lingering and eating away the backs of our minds for years, and you all know it. I propose by the right of assassination and the right of conquest, that I be the grand lord, but as the grand lord to create a new constitution and new form of government that does not oppress

the people on the floor, and immediately you hear like hushed whispers and surprise as they all look around. And I know what you'll say. this is not the way it's done, but you all saw what our old ways have wrought. Do you think that that power of a dragon god cannot be ushered in again? Maybe not now, maybe not in even a hundred years. But do you want your progeny to be burned alive by dragons fire? Like we saw so many Erecocchioqury yesterday. I do not wish for that, and I wish for a better way.

and I will pass the stand over to my mercenaries and they will tell you how I was the one orchestrating their assassination

of comadus and he backs away we were all given some sort of symbol or token from Zerm to prove that we were who we were

yeah all right Go on Caprice, tell them Yeah, let him. Yes, Grace. Okay, just a minute. I've got a honey business. You're iceding. Is she busy with chat games to fucking RP on a D&D Twitch stream?

They're making us wait for you to steal people's honey. Just everybody, hold on. I've just got some like... Oh, I'm sorry. To tell them what again? I'm sorry. I'll walk up into the zone of truth. What's your safety, see?

You can choose a fan. Well, come on. You're talking to Cabriz here. Is wisdom? No, it's charisma, I think. Oh, dear Lord. Oh, I fail. All right.

So knowing I fail, I'll walk up. Everything that Obrose said is true. You will benefit greatly if you were to engage and not impress the folks on the forest floor. Not only will your progeny be safe, but you will have a much more robust empire following obros and for the purposes of truceyness with Zern. Everyone will be better off for this purpose.

I know it's going to take a little bit of some change management, a little bit of a change in the mental models here, but embrace it. And you'll be so much better off that I can sing a song, what else should I song? The owls start murdering each other in the crowd Bigger for wisdom

Show them Zerne Proof of Zern I'll pull out my proof of Zern And with the 24 I'll be like Ha

Ha? Ha? And you see them all look around And they're all whispering And they're looking back To each other Oh,

tell that. And, trust him. He's literally a devil. Fuck that. That's not. Thalmaterg.

Do it. Do it. I'm going to step forward. And boom my voice using tharmaturgy. If you will not believe him, that maybe you'll believe one of noble birth, and I'll show my

Zern's insignia. We do not want to have to lord over you. But Zentra will be watching. be kind do what needs to be done to make this place habitable for all those who want and can live here

make him sweet a advantage did you mean a double advantage we can twist it yeah did you mean mad I'm gonna re-wold one of these is that what the twist yep it's the same 14 a 14

as they seem to be understanding a little bit as they're all looking at you and they're all whispering and they seem to be pointing at like some of the regalia that you have and the hedgeres that you have and you hear a voice called out and says and what do you know of the ways of nobles and riles and the daughter of the Pharaoh of Sarket a hush your mouth peasant make it persuasion I get an advantage intimidation actually

What did you know of Royale? He said intimidation 26 Oh 26 And as they all kind of cower back And they immediately believe you

And Obero's kind of nods in both of you and as he steps back forward. As you've seen, these mercenaries, these outsiders have the backing of Virgil Zern, and I will sit with him and I will usher in an era of peace and prosperity and security. Do you think that after what we just saw, that if we decided to go to war against Korovakia,

that they wouldn't be able to roll in here and destroy us swiftly? No, we must seek peace. and that is what you will do. I will meet with the designated children of the people on the bottom, and we will the fourth floor, and we will build ladders and lifts, and we will unite all of erios. No more separation, no more segregation.

And we will be a country of might, but that uses it wisely, of reasonable restraint, and no longer one of oppression. And that is the only way we will achieve our long-term survival and your long-term comfort. Are there any of you that disagree and would like to challenge my position, my right to the grand Lord, by the right of assassination? And immediately, there's a hush. and you hear some faint whispers and silence. Thank you.

And to a new era for Irios, you may go. And he steps back. And immediately you hear some, and they all get their things and they back up. And you hear one that's like, two. Boy, nope!

The half of the noble starts to politely clap. You see the older ones are kind of grumbling, but that they manage to leave, and Oberos steps forward once all of them have left. So how did I do? That was great. It's not always easy to be harsh. Better than I expected. It's better that they fear you in times of peace than you actually have to rein down the hand of the law. I'm sure Zern is going to be very happy.

happy to hear about all of this, and we'll be very eager to meet with you. I'm sure we'll have no problems with the fact that we didn't burn the entire thing to the ground, and we voluntarily told his army to protect this place. I hope that he will be a great ally in the years to come. I trust him, I do. Yes. I hope that as well, and I'm willing to meet with him whenever he so chooses. Lovely.

Well, we do have to make a quick trip to the elemental plane of air, and then after that we will make our way back to his emperor, more than likely, and we'll let him know. Well, I will meet with, and they had met previously to introduce them. I met with heart, and she has a good heart. A warrior's heart, the hero's heart, and her head. And our heart's eyes get wide and kind of glistened. You really mean that? I never thought I'd hear an Erecoccaucra say that.

Well, it's true. And don't assume any difference between Eiracocca between Tabaxi, Fie, Fiebel, Gnome, lizard folk. We are all individuals. And that is going to be the new government of Erius. We were all the same under the eyes of Lupus. Yes. Under the eyes of any just God anyway.

Let us begin discussions right away. And she says, yeah, I got to say goodbye to my friends now. Of course. You know where to find me. Meet me in my private quarters and we'll begin writing our new constitution. Before you go, she is our... envoy and if anything happens to her we will find out and whoever did it will pay just make sure you keep her safe i will please and i will entrust this noble budbear to be the captain of her personal

guard m zornbach captain zorbeck yes captain zorbeck you will accompany her at all times and you will be paid handsomely and fed very well zorbeck will do it With that, friends, to a new era, a peace of prosperity. Hazar. To freedom. I'm sure we'll be in touch. Thank you so much. And with that, he looks at you one last time and flies away back to his mansion.

I cast Itchy Forever at Fifth Level on board. Itchy forever. I can kill everyone to level. It's very similar. Only not as dead as the same handbook. It's a lot more irritating. It's a homebrew spell. It was on D&D. Wiki.

It's... It's for ever. I fucking love it. Oh, God. Are we sure we can get back from the plane? I mean, we don't have the one feather. But... Yes.

You said you wanted to talk to us. I just wanted to say goodbye. I mean, I don't know if I'm going to see you again. They said there's a lot more to do, and then there's probably more stuff that you guys have to do and things aren't very good right now. Of course, you'll see us again. You'll have to come visit in Siket when all of this saving the world thing is over.

Or Galtiga. Come to Galctica. It's really smoggy there. Smoggy? You could come travel with me. So many adventures. The streets are incredibly down there. Once things get set up here, who knows what I can do?

Maybe I'll have time. And I won't be so busy. I can visit all of you. We will see you again, I'm sure. You're going to have a big job. I never had the wheel. Do what you can to bring goods of this land. I'm going to do my best.

I know you can. You're very brave. Thank you. What about fire knives? Well, hopefully he's dead. Yeah, but he was still your friend. I always knew it was kind of weird and creepy, but... He was the lizard, right? Yeah.

Oh, then yes, hopefully he's dead. Well, I think... I think they made it back. back to Corvacia at this point by now. Well, hopefully they were come a bond by a band of Raiders that slice his throat. You're saying that he's still out there? He was wounded and taken by... Yes, hopefully his wounds fester and rot.

Damn, I thought he was dead. It's a far or not life for us. It's got a crazy, bitch. Okay. Oh, boy. Zorbex helps forward. Thank all of you. I saw this last time, but this may be really forever.

Goodbye. Thank you for sparing Zorbeck's life. Little did I know. Being a random bug bear, Jeannie Hunter, I would be saving you right now. No one could have expected that. Not even the gods themselves.

could have guessed. Certainly not the god. Especially not the god. Even in Nubis was perplexed. I can believe that. But Zorbeck is grateful for the second chance. You all gave Zorbeck. I will look after Hart.

Thank you. And Sorbeck don't like goodbyes. So Zorbeck will leave now. We'll wait for, I will wait for heart over there. But thank you. Wait, Zorbeck. Yes, Herschel. I'm gonna walk up to him look out up there.

And I'm gonna put my heels together and I'm a soldier. Captain Zorbeck. Yes. He's an honor to fight by his side, sir. There's a green stuck in your armpit hair. Oh, right there. Wait, my? He did, no, no, hushab.

Oh, God. Yep, he grabbed that. Continue the strange meeting ritual. He's like, lanky arm is saluting awkward. No, no, it's like this, and I'm, like, reaching up to try it. If you're a captain, you got to know how to salute Thorback. Okay. Just trying to mimic me.

I don't know if this is how well. You got it. Yeah, and then out. Man, you heard you. It was nice knowing you for as long as it last. Goodbye, friends. Thank you for feeding me. You have the most important job at all.

You will keep our hope safe, but keeping hearts safe. As long as Zorbeck lives, none shall harm, heart. You rather protect her of the heart. I will give my life if I have to. Sorbeck swears it. Good. Good. Because your life is definitely worth less than us.

So if it were to come down to it, you should sacrifice yourself. Zorbeck knows this deeply and fundamentally. With that farewell friend. And I'm going to pat him on the back. I'm so proud of you, Zorbeck. I think he still has your headdress. Thank you. He may keep it.

Thank you. No one looks better in horrendous hippo headdress than you do, Zorbeck. He grinned. He turns and look one last time at Her job, and his eyes go, and he sticks away. And then he stops. He stops. And he stops.

And he shuffles off. and then waiting for heart. Well, I guess I shouldn't keep Obrose waiting. I have a big government job now. I'll try not to slack off and get paid a lot. Goodbye. I know you won't do that. Nope.

It comes to the complimentary easy pass. Thank you. Do it from every treat top. Well, thank you. It was so nice to feel like. like a hero and to be a hero. You are a hero. And it wouldn't have been possible without you all.

And the Ravenman, thank him for me too. Keep your chin up, all right? Work hard. I will. Try not to get Zorbeck, kid. I'll try. I can't promise that, though. I'm very confident in a lot of things,

but that's something I'm not confident. Anyway, can I have a group hug? Yeah, we got a group. All right, all right. Come on. Come on. Get it here, Iris. Come on.

I have one requirement. Caprice, I know you are wearing illusionary trousers. Please put on your real trousers first. You don't know nothing. I felt it when you walked by me. You don't know nothing. I'm not hugging anyone until Caprice puts on his real trousers. I put on real clothes.

I reach down and ground. What do I feel? I'm wearing clothes. Well, slight of hand is high on this one. I'm going for the hug. You all hug, and you all get a big hug. It hurts eye and wine shimmering.

And she's crying. I love you again. I haven't left you yet. Yeah. And don't worry, Payton will be back tomorrow. Well, she said everything she loved. So we were talking about me, darling. I have a special feeling for Peyton.

There's love, I know. She'll be back. Well, before it gets in your honor, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve alongside you. Ambassador Hart, Defender of Ak. fun. Have fun in Hocker. And put in a good word with the angels and with Zer. Well, we're going to walker to Arka now.

It was a joke. It was hilarious, I know. Goodbye. Goodbye, friends. I love. I've been thinking about that for like 24. This is what we call a meeting sort of goodbye. I love you. She just never in it. She turns and she leaves.

And as Zorbet guides her way, she looks she stops and she lingers one last time and she turns and sprints off using a feline agility I yell back at her I know the feeling darling and then she goes away out of sight you are all standing

there are a few guards and there are some eromancers potentially not in league with the commonists that are keeping an eye on the big time potentially not Hopefully not. As D.M. says his ass relieving. And with that, you are free to do it ever.

Is there anything else that we need to do here? Yeah, I thought we were going to use the tree sap to blow off the tree. Can you please give us out of any way? Do not let him go anywhere near the bag of holding. That's why we should leave right now, presently. If we're ready, I want you to take that feather. I want us all to join hands, and I want you to think very, very hard about where we were and where you want to go.

Just picture the place in your mind. Focus on the feather. As long as we're all together in this, we'll make it. Are you sure that's how it works? Absolutely not, but we're going to find out. I'm going to think about some random place, and we'll find out if I get it. It's all on lofty. Oh.

Then go. I'll pull the feather out of my hair and... You think I'd leave this up to you? I'd like the roll of leather and see if I'd go back to fold them. Okay. All right. This is it. Is everybody ready?

Concentrate on the magic. Think about it hard. Our horse back. And think of Aaka. You can do this. What do you think about? I am thinking about the beautiful clouds parting and we're lowering down. I can't remember if there's marble, but I think there's marble and, like, crowds and grass,

and it's really pretty, and there's buildings, and now there's people around, and they're all faces because I didn't see it. season before and then we are okay very nice. Did I get close? You did quite well. Yes. So as you channel on it, the feather is in your mind

suddenly the feather floats out of your hand and floats almost on the wind directly in the middle of all of you and then it bursts into blue light burst into blue light and it's blinding and you feel the pull at your stomach and suddenly

the light dissipates And suddenly it's the beautiful, it's the beautiful, brilliant. The beautiful, brilliant light of paradise. You are standing in the garden. Our hands are sweating. That you had spent so much time. Damn it.

Before. As you look and you see the beautiful looming spires, you see the birds of paradise flying all around, the fish in the lake over the waterfalls, the picturesque jungles, the rock gardens, the lush vegetation. You've returned to the veil of Aca, the beautiful sun at that perfect point in the sky, that perfect balmy degree that never changes. And you are, you've returned to the veil. As you see, life has returned as well.

You see the Vati, these bati. these beautiful, statuesque humanoid as they make their way around, tending to the gardens, carrying large bushels of crops, tending to the buildings, although it seems to you had to have been picturesque and perfect,

to a mind, focus on every little intricate detail you see polishing and carving to make everything perfect. As you have arrived and so have the Vati. You did it. Good job, love to.

Easy, just like that. We're here. Yeah. Well, I can't believe that worked. I had faith in you. I believe. But thank you for telling me how to use it, Felix. Now, I was a lucky guess.

You did all the work. I can't believe we're here. So you just, we've got to find the cooler. Yes, the cooler. with the cooler and then a cooler. Oh, I'm so far. I thought you wanted a beverage. Yes, let's make our way.

Do I see any signs of like Akira's sleeping bag or any of her belongings? As you look around, this is where you would stay. You see Al-Qura's camp. Her small tent, small for her. The barrels and barrels of boo. from all over the world, all over of anise. And the rows of a fish that had been smoked, this simple camp of a genie that had lived there for who knows how long.

It's right beside you. I'm going to just go over and kind of touch some of the first stuff. Good night, Rand. See what's there. Good night, run. Congrats again, Mama. You root around. And you look through and you see that there's

not much in terms of possessions see the most of what you had you kept on a person but you root around and you find amidst the food you find a a very intricately crafted looks like a wine skin that has almost like glowing symbols on it

around and you also find a bit of what looks like ivory. You reach down and you pick it up. It actually seems to be a bit of bone. Perhaps from a... Arrowhawk or a griffin. Seems to be light, but beautiful. And there seems to be something's carved into it.

And you see a very simple, but... Accurate portrayal. The approximation of your face, carved into it. And that's all that you find. This is... Light Count, this is what my camp had have looked like. I've always traveled light. Always had a drink it already.

Now I know that she thought of me, the time that she was gone. So... After all this time. Yeah. I'll take this to remember her by. And we'll leave her camp as yes. Do we ever make it back? Yeah.

Does it still feel timeless? It's hard for you to tell. You knew that once you were in the mist, it was very hard for you to tell. It does feel eerily timeless. When you're ready, we should find the angels. Maybe you could toast my mother just once before we go. Of course. Of course.

Yeah. I try not to drink often, but. Yeah. I don't drink much either, but. I can never pass this up. So I'll take the wine skin and just kind of pop the top and give it a smell. It's beautiful smell. I'll grab a cup, like, off the ground.

I should know. Should always have the good stuff, so I'll go pour it around it. Hold it up, then. I have known many, and I have liked not a few. But I have loved only one. And Le Poit toasts to you. goodbye. You all cure.

And I will knock it back. You all knock it back in this beautiful, fragrant wine that is rich and delightful. And Lifty, as you finish pouring it, it seems if the wine skin is no lessful. And you taste the notes, and this is definitely made by the Ginny. It's unmistakable.

This is Ginny made wine. And this seems to be some sort of, endless wine skin of Ginny Wine as much as you care to drink. Oh, great. Well... Well... Thank you, Mom. This is the greatest gift you could have given.

Thank you for making all of this possible. And sit in silence for a moment. And... you just barely notice the corner of your eye, a figure standing, though 20 feet away, her hands clasped low and watching. A soft smile on her face you turn. And you see that same incredibly shapely, statues, really perfectly sculpted woman. The book at her side, the gems and jewels hanging down with her. curly, poofy hair and her definitely revealing, but... Shapely.

Shapely, but revealing clothes in bangles as she just looks and watches peacefully letting you have your moment. Her wings, not outfurled, curled back, not brilliant white, but a light shade of blue. the exact same color as the feather that you had used to give here. Hey, hey, you there, you want some wine? Oh, thank you. I'll approach her and just kind of... Hey, baby.

Oh, I'm so sorry. Thank you for giving us a way to come back here. It was the least I can do. There's so much more to be done. The fact that I stand here, In Aca, I remember now. This is where I was supposed to be. I also know that I am here. The dark things are coming.

That war is coming. And you all have a large part to play. I am Akula, Wind Duchess of Kotel. It's lovely to meet you, Akul. An Idris of the Sam's daughter, the Pharaoh of Sikkim. It's lovely to meet you. What is it, Wind Duchess of? of what?

Kotol, which is Q-O-T-A-L. More of where. Q-U-O-T-A-L, Kotol. Wind Duchess of Kutal. What's Kotol?

My name is Toa Kameneui. I'm from Makarni Islands, and at home they call me windchaser. Are the wind spirits from my home okay? They're fine, sweetie. They're resting.

and healing in our spirit chamber. They will be well soon. So I shouldn't disturb them then while they're resting. I'm sure they would love visitors whenever you're ready. It is so good that you all are alive. Sorry, hi. My name is Capricio de Sesto. You can call me Caprice.

It's pleasure to meet you. I thought we were doing instructions. I'm sorry. Felix Ackerman. Yeah. I'm sorry. It's so nice to meet you. I feel like I've known all of you for months,

although this is our first time meeting. Oh. Inhabiting a soul is such a strange existence. Well, I'm your J.M.R. Oh. Oh. So you are inside of Lufthi. Yes.

Oh, so you've seen all of Lufthi. Oh. And everything she's done? He may have gotten a little of that from me. Oh, okay. Was that comforting? Oh. I'm sorry.

I guess I... No, you have nothing to apologize for. You have gotten me here. Without you all... Who knows what would have happened to all of us? I'd still be tormented in that tempest. Tortured by the dark magic of... That voice.

Those eyes. You've seen them and heard them, and do you know anything about what it is? I wish we, Windukes. Our memories have... So that means you would have been on the material plane for like 40, I mean like 21 years. Thousands of years. Oh, thank goodness. Material plane, the plane of air, backing forward.

It was, for a time I... For a very long time, I was able to cohabit the soul with my dear Al-Razza in your mother. But then when the time came for us to separate, I inhabit you. A new life, a new chance. I'll be your back. Well, I guess I feel different without you. It's in me, but... Good thing.

You don't want to be... Don't be spending time with me weighing you down. Now you can have your soul be all lufti. I guess that's a good thing. If I find out what that means exactly. I feel like I'm on the right track now. You are. You all are. You all have souls of light.

Who trapped you? In her. It's... was not trapped. We did it ourselves. Oh. The line. My memory is fuzzy, but I remember this much. I was, and the others of us were once Vati, like all of the others here.

And she extends an arm to see just the dozens of statuesque humanoid milling about the city and working perfection. Your beings of law, we care nothing more than the order and for good. But then, thousands of years ago, all I remember is a great war with chaos itself. Great war were all seen lost, and seven of us called upon the powers of seven of the greatest gods of law and good. And they gave us each an angel. And we fused beings.

And we won. Were you the ones that chained away the chained god? The chained god. That does not sound familiar, but not much does. My memory. Why we wiped it. Why? Can you tell us?

You did this to yourselves? We did. One, we used God of law, forged with the powers of the gods, to banish the chaos. And it all was said and done, so no one could unite all of us and use the power of the rod. We destroyed the rod, and in the process hid ourselves away, in the souls of beings of air, forgotten what we thought. But now that we have been reunited, it means that a great great deal. war of chaos is coming again. And that must mean that the pieces of

the rod of law are being sought by others as well. I know that is why. It is you. You all. You'll be the ones to reforge the rod of law

into the seven parts. There's no other reason fate has decreed. I believe that. Great good tall and all of its goodness. So what you're saying is that the piece of the rod are still out there.

Yes, we spread them across of entrance. How will we know where to look for them? Or what they look like? I do not know. Perhaps she struggles to remember. In the archives, other dukes and duchesses have

tended to the rest of the city to ensure that everything is in order. But when the time comes, I will be happy to open the archives and learn all that has been lost, all that has been wiped. What can we do now? How can we help? This seems so much bigger than any of us. But that is why. It must be you all. It is the multiverse smiles on the most unlikely souls. the most unlikely souls of good and light

and her eyes linger on you Caprice I know your soul is not your own and I am so sorry there is the light in the darkness and you'll get it back it will be your own soon I'm sure of it yeah no problem absolutely without question

I'm so sorry well yes that was just a It was a reveal. Was it? Did you know? She like presses her chest.

I'm sorry. I haven't been a being in so long. Don't think of nothing of it. It's fine. Another time, another place. Come here, lift him. And she steps forward and she hugs you tight. I'll hug her back. To be straight.

Pete, come on. Very loud snoring from Pete. Al-Raza told me she felt when it happened. Good book happened. When the wish was made, I'll have a connection to the soul that we inhabited. She was a good host for my dear Al-Raza. She steps back. Where are you so, Raza now?

She is a primary healer. She's tending to the... Five animal spirits. Then we should go to them. Can we see them now, please? If you all wish, of course. I'd like to speak to earth if I can. Yeah.

It is the dangerous for the water wheel. It is the greatest, most powerful artifacts in the history of this world. At least, I believe, I remember. Were to fall into the wrong hands, could ignite another war against chaos. But doom and gloom de spirits. Police leave the way.

Her wings unfurled slightly, and with a little tap, she glides through the air and guides you through the cities. You see the beautiful spires. The... Can you fly again? What's that?

Kootha. You can't? I can or I can't. You can't? You feel like you can't. Are you saying can't or can't? Cannot. Can't.

Can't. Can't. I guess flying myself. Caprice sounds those themselves. And and you're all of the VATI that you pass give you a very slight smile and a nod or a waves that go about their business

meticulously getting back the city to presumably where it had been before. While it seemed perfect to you, it's probably not to these creatures. As you make your way and pass that large central structure, the door wide open as more Vati file out. and you eventually, it takes you about 30 minutes of walking as she guides you to a large

dome structure through what almost feels like a mile of garden. And you have the winding pathways, and you walk the winding pathways through the perfectly placed stone, the beautiful lush vegetation, the magical fish swimming and the streams and ponds around you, the birds of paradise flying all around, and eventually you arrive at this large door, and she places a hand on a panel on the side, it glows blue, and it opens. And she turns to all of you and says, I will let you all have your moments with the spirits. I will be out here waiting. Thank you.

I'll walk in. You walk in, and you feel a sense of justice, sense of rightness. You've experienced holy and spiritual places. As you step in to this large chamber, it is circular made of the most beautiful silver and white marble, as the wind chimes made of all. all those refracted lights and colored glass painted beautiful mosaic across this chamber. And you see up ahead a tall shape wind as well, long, long chair, almost fiery, as it's pulled back with a large tiara.

and there are very faint, slightly draconic features. As she, as you all approach, you see that she is waving her hands and closing her eyes. As her hands spin and you see that there are five alcoes in this room, And you see massive two-headed conga, Tomoka. You see Rocky, the bull. Tonga, the turtle. Hakina, the white moa, and Komohana, the Black Shark. These spiritual beings, as they seem to start.

And while Tamaka seems to be still fast asleep, all four of the wind spirits, of the Makani Islands immediately come awake. And as you step through the room, Toa, you feel your I feel a humming energy

as a bright light. Is it the periphery and you look down and your tattoos are glowing, blue. Cool. And they all cast their eyes on you. I will immediately kneel

and bow my head. Great wind spirits. I am glad you are safe. My name is Toa Winchaser Kamenui, and I've spoken with you all my life. I don't know if you know who I am, but I felt your presence every day and every night. And things are very dark,

and I want to thank you for your protection of my home. and I want to when you are ready please ensure that it maintains protected and tell me what you wish

I would like to be in any way I can your champion of wind you see Oraza the Wind Duchess look at you

and after that she looks at everyone nods, and with a slight bat of her wing, she gives you the room, and she drifts out of this large chamber. As all four of the spirits, you hear a rumbling voice. Rise toa. You're a great warrior. As Rocky, the red boar, looks down at you. and you hear another voice.

The great warrior is, but also kind of hardship. This Tonga, the turtle, the blue turtle shifts forward. You see her flippers, kind of drag her forward as she coats on the air. And you hear another voice. you have always used prudence knowing when to use your weapons and when to use peace

that is wisdom as the black shark total harm shifts and looks towards you and then you hear and through it all you have

stood with your friends you have stood with your and you have never given up on them. And that is what true heroism is, as the king of the white Moa, steps forward. And you now see that you're at the center of the room standing, and they all are evenly placed around you, north, south, east, and west. As the wind whips around, as you hear that grumbling voice.

Toa Kamenui. Yes, yes, Rocky. You are a great hero. The lights the world has never seen. I do not deserve such an honor, no. I sparred with the great marker. I know what heroism is. And you have it.

You have more than any other Goliath could hope to have. Even greater than Marka, the first hero. You hear that low voice. Marco was great, and a great hunter almost as great as me. He was for him that the Makani Islands were created. He still did not achieve what you will. Now Toa Kamenui, take your blessing. Wind chaser.

Wind chaser. Wind chaser. Wind chaser. As the wind starts to whip around, around them, and swirl around and around and suddenly you feel it around you. As your tattoos start to glow, and then they start to spread all over your body. You had not tattooed your whole self, but now, Now, nearly every inch of your body spreads out, and you see that scenes are starting to get depicted.

You see yourself reaching down into the water, pulling up a drowning Felix from the sea. You see yourself waging war against the Horn Legion. You see yourself flying through the air, striking down a six-eyed. four-winged owl tempest. All around, the exploits, the stories of the tales that you've experienced so far, with places for more to come. And at the very center,

along your stomach, you see a line, yourself in the center, and five other figures. All of your friends that stand with you. I don't know what to say. I won't let you down. You're kind of too much that's safe.

I will. I will be as best a hero as I can And I couldn't have done any of this without my friends You are the wind chaser You will not fail us We have been restored We returned to the Makani Islands We will

Keep Tiki Roa in check But that is not enough What must I do? Makutu made a dark pat Do you hear the sound of the backstory bells? Because I do. The dark power, power that comitus used to bind all of us to that horrible creature. It was in exchange for power to Tiki Roa back home.

Even if all four of us return, unless that darkness is dealt with, he may become too powerful for the four of us to control. You must defeat this Toa. Do you understand? I will stop it nothing until this dark power is defeated. I won't let Tiki Roa destroy my home. Destroy our home.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I'll fall to my knee again. And as you fall to your knee, your tattoos are glowing. And they swirl around you as these spirits spin. And in four voices in your,

unison say farewell drift off as your tattoos glow brightly one more time and return as they dissipate that same as if you had inked yourself

spread all over you I'm immediately run up to him I don't know what you did but you did you did look at this oh man I'm sorry you got to have this ugly mug on there but you look great I look adorable in ink. I...

What, you're saving me? Of all the men that have ever got my face tattooed on them, this is my favorite. I don't deserve this. But I will one day. We don't deserve you, Tor. Such as well I do. But I can't speak for you. You all look great.

How do you feel? You have honoured your gods in such an amazing way. I feel... I don't know how I feel. I feel great. and unworthy and powerful and weak at the same time. But you, you heard them. You heard them.

Mukutu. Dark powers, this is so much bigger than any of us. This is, we're going to end it all. We're going to save the world. Not just my home, but all of our homes. Yeah. I hope you're right. We've seen more 24 hours than anybody.

I don't know how. Gosh! The wind spirit, you're skilled. My hip's really that big. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's pretty accurate. It's nice. Yeah?

Yeah. You hear a voice fill the room. Well, that was beautiful. Hello all. I know who you are. Alraza? Alraza, yes. I'm Lufty.

Thank you for taking care. care of my dear Akula. I think she took care of me too. We made the decision. Your mother was a good genie. Did she know at the end what I wished for her to know? I feel that in my very soul, yes, in my being yes. And I know that as I pray to Bahamut, that it was knowing and that there was a heart full of love. Love decades, centuries passed without experiencing. A love she had experienced only once before, but only for one night, were everything to her.

I know. I have glimpses in my memory. Glimpses only. But the length she went through to get to you, were unmatched. We should have gotten to know a longer. But the... however long I knew before, the day, maybe, two days, how long did... It wasn't enough but I'm grateful for it.

We can only... What we will with the time we have, we cannot decide how much time we do have. That is... What makes life so special. You have seen so much. experience so much hardship. It is only just beginning.

I must pray more, but I have thought much, and I know that Akula has told you of the rod, yes? What was the name of the rod again? The rod of law. For the power of all seven of us, all seven of not us, are gods. There is

something that sticks with me, and I'm concerned that we may not know how to find the pieces that have been spread far and wide. How many have been reunited? I know that Akula, she's our archivist. Perhaps left remnants there, but had a feeling that the glimpses that I experienced in my habitation of your mother. She'd heard about someone, something, seeking them. Only she were here. Only she was. You mentioned gods.

Do each of you worship a different... Dei? We are of a different deity each, yes. It was the pact that we made. I know that. Millennia ago, to defeat chaos itself. Do you mind me asking? Which gods refuse with the wind spirits?

You wish to know? If that's a reasonable request, Rocky was an inhabitant for Manator. God of Son. Komohana. Nobanian. King of beasts. Tonga.

Teter tear. Grace. What was the one for Komohana? Komohana was... Nobanian. Nobanian. them. And just each of us, they

inhabited them. Our beings in their souls, not the gods themselves, but our beings of air and divine, fused into one. Pure law and good. The lightness of air with the good of the divine.

These four gods must truly be good gods. They are. All seven are. And although I hold Bahamans the highest as my true deity, including, and she gestures over to Tamaka, the two-hurted Khome, that seems to be a shimmering translucent. And Osiris, all seven gods of law and good, all seven were them, they were able to forge the Rada of La. able to break it

when the time came and now she steps over to Tamaka and waves her hand one last time and both heads kind of arise as they both look massive condor heads

and you look at her and say you may return to Karkinos, you are healed thank you for hovering as long as as you have. And the two heads both nod.

And with a great beat of massive winds, it almost shifts into air and swirls around and storm cloud forms of the crash of a lightning and thunder. It booms out echoes to the holes. All of the wind chimes are jangling,

filling the halls, and then dissipates. My work here is done. We made the other windows and duchess I think I'd like to speak with the one of Mord. Oh, you would wish to speak to your Duna. Yes, very much, sir.

Not that I wouldn't want to meet the other ones, of course. I will soon when the time comes. For now we must learn where the pieces, the seven pieces of the rod of law are. And I know that Okola was waiting for you to enter the archives. We should join her if she's waiting. We should. I will stay here.

I have more praying to do. Her wings beat, she flies in the center of the room. As you all are ushered out of the room, the door opens. And Kula looks at you. And she says, You look even more amazing tone. Thank you. Isn't my Arraza the best?

She has done. more for me than anyone realized. Have you learned anything from the archives? I haven't been. Oh, I've been going to you for all of you. Let us go. Thank you. You make your way out, back through the gardens

as Akula. Oh, thank you so much. Oh, thank you. Awesome. Eric Fah! Thank you. Aweil guides you through the city, and you find one of the largest towering spires, thin

and narrow, with chambers. at varying levels as you can do bulge out of this fire and she leads you she opens the door to one and she guides you up staircase the chimes making a beautiful music and casting those beautiful shades of every color of the rainbow as she guides you up pass Novati in this chamber it seems as if no one has been here as you arrive at the top of the stairs You saw that there was a large chamber at the very time. As the... As the... She looks at the panel,

and she places a hand on it. Hmm. What is it not, though? That's... That's interesting. And it glows blue for a moment. And then suddenly crumbles and turns to a sickening brownish, greenish black. because it crumbles away.

What is happening? What? This shouldn't happen. And suddenly the door built of silver and stone crumbles and collapses. As you look into what should have been the archive, massive circular chamber, completely destroyed all around you. You see feathers. Dark feathers.

scattered around as every book, every panel, every disc has been completely destroyed. And then you notice at the center, you see a small figure. You see, oh, it was one of those birds of paradise that had been floating around. And as you look at it, it tilts its head. And as it raises its head, Toa, you instinctively check your bag. You reach in to find where you left the black jam. it's not there as a six-eyed bird of paradise

looks at you thank you for letting me in and that is where won the session no shit Mike no no no no why

so we we essentially destroyed the most perfect place in the universe shit I get what you mean I guess to kill everyone you're welcome might.

It explodes into feathers. It does. It does. It explodes in the feathers. Thank you. Oh, my God. Well, what can I say except you're welcome? Great, Rich. Thank you so much for listening to the Legends of Aventrys podcast.

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