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Watch up last cannon

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nation known colloquially as

1:05

the nation. This is Jared Logan

1:07

and we are back with more

1:09

haunted city here on the

1:11

glass cannon network. haunted city,

1:14

of course, the game where we play blades

1:16

in the dark being credible game from

1:18

John Harper and evil hats studios,

1:21

buy it wherever fine games are sold.

1:23

I am your game master. My name is

1:25

Jared Logan. and joining me

1:27

as always is a trio

1:30

of talented actors, improvisers,

1:33

strategists, role players

1:35

and murderers in

1:37

fictional universes. Please welcome

1:40

to the stage. Mister

1:42

Ross Bryant, mister Abu Salim

1:44

and Josephine McAdam.

1:47

A What's up, guys?

1:50

Hi. Welcome back.

1:54

Welcome back for more time. We are

1:56

back again, tag team back again,

1:58

And today, we're gonna

1:59

do a little downtime after

2:02

that score you had that

2:04

aired last week. Mhmm. What

2:06

are your memories of that score?

2:09

That it was totally under control

2:11

and -- Yeah. -- honestly, pretty chill.

2:14

Yeah. Yeah.

2:14

I I repressed a lot of memories

2:17

from that score. Mhmm. Yeah. It was kinda

2:19

like a fever dream, I guess. Yeah.

2:21

It got it got kinda like that. Before

2:24

we get deep

2:25

into our game, I wanna tell

2:27

you about a way to play blades

2:30

in the dark And I'm talking about

2:32

blades in the dark omn edition.

2:36

It's 0MM That's one more

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multiverse. It's a new

2:40

platform that allows you to use

2:42

a bunch of tools in your blades in the

2:44

dark game. I tried it out the other day.

2:46

It's really cool. You can create

2:48

your character. You can create a little

2:51

like pixel avatar of your

2:53

character. You can create a character

2:55

portrait. They have It feels

2:57

like thousands of character options

2:59

when you create your avatar. And

3:01

then there's this interactive map

3:03

of dusk ball with all of these

3:05

fully

3:06

animated locations. I

3:08

went to Rowan House in six towers.

3:11

There were all these little rooms. There was a skeleton

3:13

in one of the rooms. It was incredibly

3:16

atmospheric and an incredibly fun

3:18

way to play blades in the dark. I

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recommend you check it out and the way

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that you can check it out is

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by preordering now at

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for the video I did where I kinda demonstrate

3:34

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I hope you guys check that out. That was

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a little word from our sponsors. Now

3:42

we can get back into

3:45

our playful pregame game

3:48

banter. We have

3:50

to We

3:51

have to we have to celebrate and

3:54

congratulate our good friend,

3:56

Abu Salim, on the birth of his

3:58

first child. Yeah.

3:59

Yeah. Give him a

4:02

digital round of applause, Nate. No. Whether

4:04

it's it's a it's a celebration or

4:06

a I'm so sorry.

4:08

Yeah. It was like a bit of both. No.

4:10

Actually, it's incredible. It's beautiful. Okay.

4:12

She's wonderful. Her name is Syrah. Mhmm.

4:15

She spelled CYRA, which is

4:17

great. My mom keeps calling her sarah

4:20

because

4:20

she gets her sarah as also,

4:22

because she's Kenyan. but it's okay.

4:25

It's okay. And

4:27

I told you that we named our

4:29

second child Oscar, and

4:31

my parents acted like they

4:33

winced when we told them. And I

4:35

was like, why don't you like that name? And they

4:37

thought it was because we named it that

4:39

because we named him that because we live

4:41

in Hollywood and we wanna get an Oscar.

4:46

They think that every daughter, Amy.

4:49

Yes. They think that everybody that lives

4:51

in LA is just trying for an

4:53

Oscar. This is my

4:55

other son Mark Twain prize.

4:57

Yeah. This

5:01

is my son Tony and my son goat.

5:06

And my nephew, you've got Yeah.

5:10

Well, we're so

5:12

happy that Syrah is here.

5:14

Abu, everybody in the niche, fine.

5:17

Abu online and wish him a

5:19

congratulations and welcome cyber to

5:21

the world. Is being a

5:23

father easier or harder than

5:26

pulling a heist on SALTford's

5:29

bank to

5:30

be able to just ball. No,

5:33

ma'am. Both both have their

5:35

their difficulties as well as

5:37

their easinesses you

5:39

know, I'd say, like, you know, being

5:41

being a father that, you know, obviously, the

5:44

difficulty obviously is keeping them alive.

5:46

Right. It's easier when there is

5:48

sleep but even then sometimes you're worried, are

5:50

they breathing? Mhmm. No. But pulling

5:52

a heist, you know, the difficulty obviously

5:55

is trying to make sure that

5:57

everything goes to plan. but

5:59

the easiness is making sure

6:01

that everything doesn't go to plan. And

6:03

you just kind of go

6:04

with it. Right? So dude,

6:06

the are they breathing thing about

6:08

being a dad? It's so real. I

6:11

would when my kids were very

6:13

tiny, I would wake up in the middle of the night, like,

6:15

Are they breathing? I think it's,

6:17

like, dark and you can't turn out the light

6:19

because your wife is getting a little bit of

6:21

rest. Are they You're, like, staring,

6:24

like, with, like, your best night

6:26

vision at a little blob in the

6:28

bassinet, like, trying to detect the

6:30

faintest movement. I've

6:32

got

6:32

my hand over her stomach, and

6:34

I'm counting the breaths. I'm

6:36

literally counting the breaths. I

6:38

think there is so many times. that

6:41

my wife would wake up next to me about what are you doing?

6:43

I'm like, she's making sure she's breathing.

6:47

Just counting the breaths. Is this a normal number

6:49

of breaths? Counting the breath. Just cut

6:51

of the breath. Oh, wow.

6:53

Wow. You know what

6:54

they say about fatherhood and ice craft?

6:56

It's the hardest

6:57

job you'll ever love. Yeah. Yeah.

7:02

Severing the hands of Uppity

7:04

Artist is the hardest job you'll ever

7:06

love. Well, with that beautiful

7:08

segue from Ross Bryant, let's

7:10

get into the game a thousand

7:12

years ago. This was a land of beauty

7:14

and magic then came the cataclysm

7:17

that blotted out the sun and ripped

7:19

open the gates to the land of the dead.

7:21

The city of duskfall is a metropolis

7:23

of tenements and factories surrounded

7:26

by crackling lightning barriers.

7:29

Outside the city is a wasteland of vengeful

7:31

spirits. Inside the city, is

7:33

a teaming hive of scrum and

7:35

villainy, intrigue, and

7:37

corruption. Life is cheap

7:39

and a city ruled by death. the

7:41

sun is gone. The only thing that

7:43

shines in dust fall are the blades

7:45

in the dark. Question.

7:49

We decided to put a little bit different

7:52

English on it that day. I

7:54

guess there are blades in the dark

7:56

now. Okay.

7:59

Blades in the dark.

7:59

strange much. Okay. So I guess

8:02

that's a thing. So that happened.

8:04

I did it like I think that that was

8:07

like my intro if Chan from friends

8:09

delivered. Right. Yeah. Is

8:12

that memorized now, Jared? It

8:14

is fully memorized, although

8:16

sometimes I change it unconsciously.

8:19

Like, I change a word or two. Mhmm. It's

8:22

weird. Anyway,

8:25

you can now get it all on a t shirt. No.

8:27

I wish you could. Demand

8:30

it. Demand it. I would wear it. Mhmm.

8:33

So let's talk about the aftermath

8:35

of the score. from our

8:38

last episode, you were

8:40

all hired. And

8:42

and by you, I mean,

8:45

Selyak Khan,

8:46

VAalcos, and Selyak's

8:49

sister Crohn's Khan were

8:51

hired by Fitz, a collector who

8:53

is your crew's main contact

8:56

to get into

8:58

a party being held by

9:00

celebrated white crowned resident,

9:02

quelling a children mask. to

9:05

steal a statue that she had

9:07

recently acquired called the white

9:09

symbol and replace it

9:11

with poor forgery

9:14

to make her look

9:15

foolish and to

9:17

humiliate her in front of Dust Ball's

9:19

entire art world. Things

9:22

were complicated after you arrived by the

9:24

fact that your flash

9:26

backs established that the statue

9:28

was in another room instead of under that to

9:30

begin with by the

9:33

fact that the builder, the

9:35

strange chthonic

9:36

entity that you've

9:39

had truck with recently asked

9:42

VAALCO's to bring

9:44

him the hands of an artist that was

9:46

in attendance Also,

9:48

your attempts to shut down Qualina's

9:50

security force, which was a

9:52

pair of statue like gollums

9:55

resulted in their sort of

9:57

overheating and exploding.

9:59

The artist Lefei Abram was murdered

10:02

several

10:02

other party

10:05

patrons died in the explosion of the

10:07

golums, and

10:07

the three of you barely

10:10

escaped because there

10:12

were blue coats in attendance by the end of

10:14

the party. You

10:16

did through the machinations of the

10:18

builder managed to remove the statue

10:20

and replace it. But

10:23

at that point, it seemed a bit

10:25

of an afterthought or a footnote

10:28

to the chaos that had

10:30

occurred. Do you

10:32

feel I'm misrepresenting how this

10:34

went? Yes. Okay.

10:38

to your lifestyle counselor. In in my

10:41

head, the Ocean's

10:42

eleven soundtrack was playing. Mhmm.

10:44

And everything went to

10:46

play. because,

10:47

you know, the I

10:49

did get the

10:50

hand of the artist --

10:53

Mhmm. --

10:53

basically, you know, they

10:55

were you know, we we successfully

10:58

changed the

10:59

the statues.

11:02

Right? And we embarrassed the hell out

11:04

of the lady. Because, I mean,

11:06

people die. I hope I I mean, I'd

11:08

be embarrassed if people die

11:10

at a virus. Is that

11:12

embarrassing or tragic? think it's

11:14

embarrassing in the city of, you know, in the city of

11:16

Nashville. I think it's embarrassing. Yeah.

11:19

People are talking Jared. People are talking --

11:21

Yeah. -- that it was

11:23

people are talking. It's unbelievably

11:26

dangerous. I would

11:27

be I'd be utterly ashamed. You

11:29

know, I'd actually be heartbroken. people die to

11:31

my party. Mhmm. In this place, I

11:33

kinda be a bit like, who's

11:35

you know what I mean? Yeah. Right.

11:37

Yeah. What's more embarrassing? an

11:39

old statue switcheroo or having

11:42

an Eldridge Gollum blow up

11:44

killing many. You know? Your own security

11:46

system. Own security system. killed

11:48

your

11:48

guests. Thank you. That's

11:51

huge. I've heard your arguments before

11:54

we get into our our downtime

11:57

you know, itinerary of

11:59

XP and rep and

12:01

all of that. I will say that

12:03

the thing that saved you from really

12:06

getting too much horrifying

12:08

attention was your crow's

12:10

veil ability. And when I established

12:12

that The crow's veil is

12:14

activated by a sort of ritual that you

12:16

do. We

12:17

forgot to mention it during the

12:19

last episode. So I will

12:21

just narrate that. Which one

12:23

of you do you think? I it's probably not

12:25

krons. It's probably celiac.

12:27

Right? Mhmm. On your way out. could you

12:29

kind of describe how you

12:31

hid the this

12:33

massive amount

12:35

of death from

12:36

the spirit grows that seek

12:39

these kind of things out and bring the

12:41

attention of the spirit wardens?

12:43

Yeah. Of course. I

12:46

I think we were all kind of making good our

12:48

escape in a crowd. So

12:52

I think we described

12:54

the crow's veil ritual

12:56

before as having

12:58

incense waft up through

13:00

a skull. home. And I

13:02

think celiac in the grotto

13:05

where the remnant makes their home gathered

13:07

up a bunch of

13:09

these ashes and

13:11

had like a little pouch of them in

13:13

a pocket. And on the way out

13:15

is just kind of like a trail

13:17

of them.

13:19

is like is like falling

13:22

behind

13:22

him as

13:23

he kind of walks in a little pattern. And if

13:25

you look at underneath the shuffling feet. You

13:27

can see that they're writing something in a

13:30

language you might not understand as

13:32

they maul the ground, the

13:34

ashes of of feathers

13:36

and odd

13:38

incense that have been

13:40

burnt in bone. Perfect.

13:43

I actually really love that.

13:45

And I will say that is sufficient

13:47

because you also have the special ability

13:49

for your crew. That is to

13:51

hide you from too much

13:55

notice of of the murders that occurred.

13:58

which as you know actually

14:00

boosts your heat when murders

14:02

occur during a score unless you've got the

14:04

crow's veil which you guys have.

14:06

Okay. So let's do personal

14:08

XP. And since we were just

14:10

talking to Celiac, let's start with Celiac.

14:13

Celiac, here we

14:15

go.

14:16

everybody

14:17

has so many characters now. I have to take

14:19

a second on world twenty five. Okay.

14:22

Celliacs. So you

14:25

your ex XP. Every time you roll a desperate action,

14:27

you get XP, did you roll any of

14:29

those? Do you see any of those? I

14:31

think I clicked a couple here under resolve.

14:34

I see too. Yeah. Yeah.

14:37

So we can put that in your playbook

14:39

advancement or you can save them to get

14:41

another dot in what resolved based

14:44

action later, what are you gonna do? I

14:45

go keep those in resolve.

14:47

Very good. And

14:50

in our playbook advancement,

14:52

Let's

14:52

see. You addressed a challenge with knowledge or

14:54

arcane power. I think that definitely

14:56

happened. Right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So

14:58

go ahead and click one there.

15:00

You expressed your beliefs, drives,

15:03

heritage, or background. I'm I'm

15:05

gonna give you that as well because if you

15:07

recall there was a point where everybody was

15:09

listening to cell Yac described his

15:11

theories of art for a while. That's right.

15:13

And I think he really was

15:14

sincere in some of his theories

15:17

frees and things. Right? Yeah. There there's an

15:19

there's an aesthetic component

15:21

to Celyac's spirituality, and

15:23

he really got a chance to hold old

15:25

court.

15:25

I think you can take that.

15:28

And you struggled with

15:30

issues from your vice or traumas during

15:32

the session. Let's

15:34

see. Do you have a trauma? Yeah.

15:37

I have hunted. I can't well,

15:39

I think there might have been a well,

15:43

definitely, at the top, the way

15:45

that ghosts are now a little

15:47

suspicious of me. Yeah. And the

15:49

way that I see them. And I I'm

15:51

I'm used to seeing them. and it's

15:54

and it's disturbing somewhat, but

15:56

it's especially disturbing now because they're

15:59

they're

15:59

turning their back on me.

16:01

Right. And that that did, I think, have

16:03

a factor in the score. So you could

16:05

take a point for that as well. Oh,

16:07

yeah. Oh,

16:09

yeah, baby. You're so close.

16:11

You're very close to a

16:13

playbook advancement. Do you have

16:15

your eye on any special abilities

16:17

when you finally get there? Yes,

16:19

I

16:19

do. Oh,

16:20

yes, I do. Do you wanna tell me now

16:22

just so I can kinda know where you're headed?

16:25

Yes.

16:28

We

16:31

we're

16:31

we're talking about these. Well, I'm well,

16:33

I guess I'm thinking of two. one is

16:35

compel. So

16:36

I'm always trying to convince ghosts

16:38

to do things. Yeah. And that would be pretty

16:40

handy to have. It can it

16:42

can force a ghost to obey a command that

16:44

you give Yeah.

16:44

That'll that'll make them really love me when I

16:47

start bending

16:49

their will to mine. But I'm

16:51

also because of the powers of the builder

16:53

and just the sort of elemental deities

16:56

that celiac is attuned to. I'm

16:58

really drawn to this tempest

17:00

Oh, yeah. Ability,

17:02

which allows me to summon a

17:04

storm and shoot dang lightning and

17:06

fog and wind. Well, both

17:09

of these are amazing, and that would

17:11

be amazing. I What I'll say is are you sure you

17:13

don't wanna take one of those desperate

17:15

XP, pop it into your

17:17

playbook and grab one of those right

17:19

now? You

17:20

know what? That sounds like a dang great

17:22

idea. Yeah. One of those just goes

17:25

away and

17:26

Let's

17:27

say I get that tempest ability

17:29

right now. Yes. Oh, wow. You

17:31

can push yourself to unleashes

17:34

stroke of lightning as a weapon. Some of

17:36

the storm oh, wow.

17:39

I can't wait to see that in action.

17:41

Tarantual rain, roaring winds,

17:44

heavy fog, chilling frost and

17:46

snow, etcetera.

17:48

Etcetera. In a way yeah.

17:50

So yeah. because, like, in a certain light

17:52

looks as though his skin is made

17:54

of rainwater. So this is a

17:57

apropos. So

17:58

now perhaps let's use the

17:59

x Yeah. Is

18:01

and perhaps even his his skin itself

18:03

is like he's attuning to

18:05

this

18:05

ability. You can almost see a little

18:08

storm systems move through

18:10

his -- Mhmm. -- translucent flesh.

18:13

I love it. Alright. Let's

18:15

move on to Vaukos.

18:18

Okay. Vaukos? Let's look at

18:20

your character sheet. I'm

18:21

not seeing any desperate actions,

18:23

which surprises me. Maybe

18:26

we forgot to to mark

18:28

them. In which case? Yeah. Maybe. That's on you,

18:31

buddy. Yeah. It is. Let

18:34

me see. You

18:36

know, I did review our the

18:38

video of our last episode before coming

18:40

in today, but I you

18:42

know, my memory isn't that good.

18:44

Okay. But I'm gonna be the nicest GM

18:47

ever and give

18:48

you a prowess

18:49

desperate action and

18:52

a resolve desperate action. because

18:54

I just feel like you did you at least did

18:57

one or two. Thanks. You're

18:59

welcome, my friend, and we'll

19:01

remember next time. Now,

19:04

You addressed a challenge with

19:07

violence or coercion. Definitely.

19:10

I think I think that happened.

19:12

So take a take a take a point

19:14

for that. And Velcro's gonna

19:14

Velcro's, you know, as you

19:17

do.

19:17

You expressed your

19:18

beliefs, drive, heritage, or background.

19:20

I mean, you are very

19:23

loyal to the builder

19:25

already, and you definitely

19:27

expressed your belief in that

19:30

entity So you can take one for

19:32

that. Okay.

19:32

I can put these in also the

19:34

in the in like my Yeah.

19:36

Like inside. Right? So I'm gonna

19:38

take the

19:39

violence and put that into my

19:42

insight, if

19:42

that's okay. I

19:43

think I think it goes both ways. Yeah. You can

19:46

do that. It's not just Was he,

19:47

you know, did he use violence more

19:49

than once? No. Just

19:52

once. I think I'm using

19:54

it just once. I don't like,

19:56

truthfully, I do think I only use it just once. I

19:58

think I did I can't remember,

19:59

actually. Who who actually

20:02

Did I kill the I did kill

20:04

the got You

20:07

you chopped his hand off while he was

20:09

alive and then blew his brains out if

20:11

I remember correctly. Oh, that's too violent

20:14

elections. Right? No. We're

20:16

gonna call that one horribly violent

20:18

murder. That's I get that. No. That's

20:20

what. Mhmm. But I do yeah. I did I was

20:22

gonna say the beliefs, definitely. Would

20:25

you all to say that I struggled from

20:27

an issue from my vice or trauma.

20:29

Now, I was thinking, surely, the obsession

20:31

is I struggled with my

20:33

obsession because I know I wouldn't need to

20:35

give his hands. Give him his hands.

20:37

Yeah. But that would almost be giving it

20:39

to you twice for the same thing. Can

20:41

you think about the other way you were

20:44

obsessed. Well, I

20:45

mean, the other way that I was I mean,

20:47

I'm always obsessed of trying to get get to

20:49

get the job right, but no,

20:51

I can't.

20:52

So for now, Wasn't

20:54

there

20:54

something you were struggling with though? Was it,

20:56

like, oh, that was harm. Wasn't it? Didn't

20:58

you have -- Yeah. -- harm is a little different.

21:01

Yeah. Okay.

21:03

i'm actually Excellent. I think that

21:06

covers VAALCOST for now. And now let's

21:08

look at Krones con. work

21:10

poor Crocs. She didn't

21:13

know who she had brought with

21:15

her. Oh. Crocs

21:18

has a lot of since you're A lot of desperate

21:20

actions. took, like, five.

21:22

Do you wanna move any of those in

21:24

your playbook, or do you like them more than us? Let's

21:26

keep them up there. Yeah.

21:29

Okay? And then Crohn's,

21:31

did you address a challenge with

21:34

calculation or conspiracy? Yes, you

21:36

did. I think she tried to start a rumor

21:38

and none of it worked, but

21:40

she definitely attempted. You know,

21:42

it wasn't just that you guys were it

21:45

wasn't that just that you guys were really

21:47

aggressive, the dice weren't on

21:49

your side. No. No. And we

21:51

forgot that resisting was a

21:53

thing. Yes. That's very

21:55

true. and we will remember it from now on. We will remember it

21:57

from now on. So definitely take

21:59

a point for for

22:02

the calculation or conspiracy.

22:05

and then I'm put it in resolve.

22:07

Okay. Very good. You

22:10

expressed your beliefs, drives, heritage,

22:12

or background, I mean, this was a

22:14

score tailor made around Crohn's.

22:16

Right? You're background in sort

22:18

of mingling with the nobility comes

22:20

into play here for sure. Yeah.

22:22

running in the lead circles.

22:24

Yeah.

22:24

Okay. Then I will also put that into

22:27

resolve. But I don't

22:29

believe you struggled from issues

22:32

regarding her vice versa. Yeah. I

22:34

don't have a trauma and, you know,

22:36

I had planned it so funny because I think

22:38

if she I was

22:40

before everything went to shit, I was definitely planning

22:42

on taking stuff for myself to sort

22:44

of indulge in that luxury, like getting a

22:46

little pieces. Yeah. And, like, It

22:49

was way too sideways for any of

22:51

that to have. Yeah. You didn't

22:53

get the opportunity. You were too

22:55

busy keeping your head above water

22:57

or like buckets of blood that were

22:59

spilled. I know it was wild. Alright. Alright.

23:01

Let's look at the crew. A

23:03

crew of I mean, apparently,

23:04

their shadows Okay.

23:08

Let's see. So in

23:10

terms of the crew XP,

23:12

did you execute successful burglary

23:15

espionage robbery or sabotage

23:17

operation. We could call

23:18

this, say, robbery or a sabotage?

23:21

sabotage. Yeah. Was it executed successfully.

23:25

Alright.

23:25

Now, this is where the players are gonna get

23:27

mad at me. Oh, boy. Oh, come on

23:30

man.

23:31

I don't know that it was successful.

23:34

Oh, come

23:34

on. You embarrassed her, and

23:36

we switched it over. We did the

23:39

switcheroo. Yeah. Switch

23:41

true. And, like,

23:42

I think the security system her own

23:44

security system

23:45

endangering

23:46

her guests is is,

23:48

like, a big a big fopa.

23:51

If this was a captured to flag match on Halo,

23:53

right? If one person survived and was

23:55

still able to put the flag into their

23:58

own base, it's still a successful match.

23:59

Here's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna give

24:02

you this XP. There's gonna be other,

24:04

I think, consequences of this score

24:06

coming up here shortly. I'm

24:08

gonna give you this XP because I think that your experiences

24:11

here were educating. So

24:14

I'm gonna give you that XP. and

24:16

it's gaming. Experience is a

24:18

dear school. Yes. The remnant will

24:20

learn to no other. It's the it's the

24:23

roughest school you can attend. Did you

24:25

contend with challenges above your current

24:27

station? These nobles, I

24:29

don't think any of them rated

24:32

stronger in terms of their

24:34

power and deadliness

24:36

than a level one gang.

24:38

So I'm not going to.

24:40

Even the gallium seemed well within

24:43

your your

24:44

bounds of handling. So I'm not going

24:46

to give you any for that. Did you bolster

24:48

your cruise reputation or develop a

24:51

new one? Yeah.

24:51

You did. It was it a good bolstering?

24:55

Did you

24:56

express the GOL's drive's

24:59

intercom affect your essential nature of the

25:01

crew? Absolutely, you did. I think

25:02

that you did. Mhmm. Definitely,

25:05

the conflicts in in in in

25:07

the crew, which right now are

25:10

this push pull between the builder

25:12

and what the crew cruise

25:14

main goals or or

25:16

messages. So that's still

25:18

pretty good, guys. You were earned

25:20

4XP

25:22

from that score. That's not

25:25

bad. And

25:27

It gets even better for you

25:29

if you can believe that. I can't

25:32

believe I can't

25:32

believe that it gets even better because

25:35

The score also gives you rep.

25:37

Right? Yes. Yeah. And

25:40

every score gives you two rep.

25:42

Oh. It gives you more score if the target is

25:44

stronger than you. As I've just said, I don't think that

25:46

they were necessarily stronger than you. But

25:49

a two

25:51

rep,

25:52

and you fill your rep meter. That

25:55

fills the bar. That fills the bar. you

25:57

go to stronghold Tier one

26:00

strong is right right

26:02

ahead of you, but oh, forgive

26:04

me. I think that you might need to

26:06

pay coin to make that happen.

26:08

Oh, I could be wrong.

26:10

Let me let me look that

26:12

up while we play. But for now,

26:14

you should just know that Okay.

26:16

And you it looks like you're about to you're about to move

26:19

up. Okay.

26:21

Now, I think we do

26:23

have to

26:24

pay. I think you're right. I think you have to

26:26

pay some coin every time you

26:28

move up. It might only be when

26:30

you move to two, but I'm gonna check

26:33

that on a second. Okay. For now, I

26:35

wanna talk about the coin you earn from this

26:37

score. When

26:39

you get

26:40

back to your layer

26:43

and go to collect from Fitz,

26:45

the man who hired you for

26:47

the job. He refuses

26:50

to pay you. In

26:51

fact, you can't

26:53

find him. When you

26:55

call on him, he can't be found

26:57

in any of the bazaars in night

27:00

market or silk shore where he

27:02

normally frequents.

27:04

And his servants say he has left

27:06

the city on business. And

27:09

that's where I'm gonna leave

27:11

it for right now. You can

27:13

definitely use free play to look deeper

27:15

into that. But right now, you

27:17

have

27:17

earned zero coin from

27:20

this operation.

27:21

It's gone. What the

27:23

fence Okay.

27:26

Okay.

27:26

Great. And that's partly in

27:28

fiction becausefits is Well,

27:31

you can I'll let you all

27:34

I'll let you all kind of guess why

27:36

Fitz is not paying

27:38

you.

27:38

There's so many We

27:41

have so many reasons. So he

27:43

couldn't technically sell it, guys. Just saying that

27:45

we have the

27:45

stack. Very good point. Yep.

27:50

Why don't we why don't we get into that when we

27:52

get into free play? But for now, we'll just

27:54

say zero coin.

27:56

Okay. Now, let's talk about

27:58

your heat. I

28:00

really

28:01

like the description

28:04

wild devastating exposure,

28:06

which gives you six

28:09

heat. Wait. Hold on.

28:12

Hold on. or before you give that to

28:14

us, please. Please. Oh,

28:16

gracious. Yeah. Please. Please.

28:20

Please wait. I like how you're me. Go

28:22

ahead. Who you're setting a dangerous

28:24

president? What am

28:26

I saying? is that that's

28:28

like if it was

28:30

us. Right? But no one knows it

28:32

was us. Again, does

28:34

it curey system world.

28:36

Or, you know,

28:37

if if it was us massacring people,

28:39

then of course, yes, that is definitely wild

28:41

and devastating.

28:42

However, It is

28:44

the ladies race that

28:46

was wild and devastating.

28:48

No time, sir. And within a home,

28:51

Right? It

28:51

was inside of her home. I

28:54

just feel like everybody kind

28:56

of got to got

28:57

a look at you.

28:58

The blue coats did

29:01

arrive and they had to

29:03

investigate the whole situation

29:06

all you know, more investigation is going

29:08

on as you as

29:10

you, you know, recover in your

29:13

lair

29:13

I mean

29:14

What what's the description below

29:16

this one? Multiple people

29:18

died. Like, it's not just that,

29:20

like, one person was a destinated,

29:22

it's that like a bunch of people died

29:24

in an explosion. The

29:27

one before that is for heat, loud,

29:29

and chaotic high exposure.

29:35

Ultimately,

29:35

I am the arbiter

29:38

of this.

29:38

And oh, you you

29:41

don't like the beginning of that sentence.

29:43

merciful arbiter. Please.

29:47

Just just really

29:49

think about the the actions

29:51

that we have done, but but

29:53

also take into consideration that we were

29:55

only having fun. We're

29:56

only having fun.

29:59

Listen, I love that we had fun. I

30:01

had fun too, but I

30:03

have the We can take that consequence

30:05

is or the game not fun. We can

30:08

take

30:08

it. We can take it. One. We can

30:10

take it. Two. Is there

30:12

other gonna get Yeah, man. There is only

30:14

heat. Let's say What's the first

30:16

leg? Six. If you get

30:18

one more heat, your

30:20

wanted level goes up.

30:23

k. Alright.

30:24

That ain't good. By the

30:26

way, you probably could really use the

30:28

that coin that fits us in playing paying

30:30

you right now. to move up to that

30:33

stronger tier, I bet. Yeah.

30:36

Alright.

30:37

That was heat.

30:38

Now we're gonna deal with entanglements.

30:41

And of course, I

30:43

have Oh, heat's

30:44

done. See heat's done.

30:45

Okay. Okay. I Okay.

30:48

Yeah. You're yeah. You haven't you haven't gone up,

30:50

I mean, one more one more

30:52

point

30:52

of heat and you will be

30:54

you will be in

30:55

a new wanted level. But

30:58

right now, it's time to

31:00

look into our entanglements. So

31:02

entanglements, of course, are, you know, sort

31:04

of, fallout regarding your the people

31:06

that you know

31:07

and your contacts, factions that

31:10

you're allied with, and we are

31:12

gonna find out right now. Actually,

31:14

I should have one of you roll it

31:17

So with your entanglements, we're

31:19

gonna roll your tier, which is

31:21

one, and we're gonna find out what

31:23

entanglement you end up

31:25

with. So who would

31:26

like to roll?

31:28

I will. Yes.

31:30

I will.

31:31

Yeah. Go for it. Okay.

31:33

Okay. So you're rolling on the heat zero to three table.

31:35

You currently have one heat and it could go up

31:37

to too soon. Abu

31:41

It doesn't, you know, position and effect don't

31:43

matter here. Just roll a die for us. But

31:45

how do we roll again? Just

31:48

Oh, that's a good point. Just

31:50

a if you can pick fortune

31:52

roll, that's the easiest way.

31:54

Okay. Fortune roll. Yeah.

31:56

normal and use one die. Use one

31:59

die. Spip notes and

32:00

notes.

32:02

Three. Three. Okay. I

32:05

three. Mhmm. And a three

32:07

means okay.

32:10

I think that we're gonna do

32:12

the usual suspects. And that

32:15

means someone on the periphery of your crew

32:17

has been snagged by the blue

32:19

coats. Guys, it's braved

32:22

your cultist. Let's

32:24

make

32:24

a fortune roll to see if

32:26

she resists questioning. Or

32:29

you can pay off the blue coats to get

32:31

her out of there with one

32:34

coin. So if she

32:36

resists questioning, you get

32:38

more okay. If she I'm

32:40

about to roll. If you get a one to three, you get

32:42

plus two heat, that means your wanted level goes

32:44

up. It means she talked.

32:47

Mhmm. If you get a

32:49

four to five from Pro Proveda,

32:51

she takes a level two harm

32:53

because she didn't talk and they'd

32:55

beat her.

32:56

Or You can choose to pay off the

32:58

blue coats now and get her out of

33:00

there with one coin.

33:06

You know, I have I have faith in

33:09

that. Awesome.

33:13

That's great. Okay. Just

33:15

a just a second. How much

33:18

how much coin does

33:20

Celia currently have? Well, no. But

33:22

look, if you're gonna use coin, you should use

33:24

the volt. got four coin in the

33:26

bowl. Whoever wins

33:30

close. Jesus. Don't use our coin.

33:32

we go up a tier or go up in our

33:35

home. Our tier

33:37

crew was more important than than one

33:40

singular cultist This tag don't want

33:42

me. How day?

33:44

You're all equal in this in this

33:47

party.

33:47

She helped you

33:49

will

33:51

and her show of this will Well,

33:53

no.

33:54

Let us have faith. Yeah.

33:57

yeah I

33:58

spoke for faith. We're

33:59

you know, Prada is a

34:02

fanatic. She is, you know,

34:05

Yeah. Someone who is

34:08

religiously connected to you. She's might, you

34:10

know, might the nature of

34:12

that fanaticism

34:14

fact or into the role somehow?

34:16

It might. It certainly might.

34:20

Alright. Are we ready to

34:22

roll and just see how it goes?

34:24

Yeah. Sure. Okay.

34:26

So the blue coats are like,

34:30

you wheeled

34:30

a firearm at an

34:32

art showing.

34:33

Care to explain who put you up

34:35

to this

34:35

because we think that you were

34:38

a distraction And

34:41

she's like, like

34:46

that's

34:47

a sick You see what I mean my faith?

34:49

You see what I mean my Yes.

34:52

Power fulfilled.

34:54

So see. She is

34:56

material for the great project.

34:59

She says, you can talk

35:01

to miss Children's Mass. She'll tell you that

35:03

it was all part of the art

35:05

demonstration. It was experiential art created

35:08

by the great

35:10

master artists and

35:12

then she uses whatever alias you were using, Celyac, which

35:14

she remembers perfectly because it

35:16

was all part of the plan.

35:20

Yes. And when they

35:22

talk to Quelaine at Children's Mass,

35:24

she admits that it's possible that

35:26

it was some sort of horrifying experiential

35:30

art project. And so I'm gonna say with a six,

35:32

she doesn't even take the level to harm.

35:34

Wow. Oh, that was lucky. Good

35:36

job. Wow. It's not luck.

35:39

good job, Proveda. Okay.

35:43

So that's done and

35:45

it is time to get

35:48

into downtime activities.

35:51

Mhmm. And there's a lot that

35:53

could be done. You guys have

35:55

harm You might need to recover. You have

35:57

a lot of stress.

35:59

So you may need to recover

36:02

some stress through

36:04

your vice I

36:04

think we should start I think we

36:07

should start with

36:08

Josephine. Josephine, wherever

36:11

you can free play as well. So -- Oh, yeah.

36:13

-- bring out Crohn's for her

36:15

downtime activities or Julia

36:18

needs to Juliet Bell Rose, your other character needs to make some

36:20

sort of action. Yeah. We could do

36:22

that. What's the deal with

36:24

Juliet's, like, stress

36:24

and stuff since she took time

36:26

off

36:28

as that? Yeah.

36:30

I think that when you take

36:32

time

36:32

off, like you take a score off,

36:36

I am going to just

36:38

let you How much stress does Julia have? She

36:40

had six

36:41

stress and

36:44

she had both of her harms and harm one filled.

36:46

Okay. So I will say if

36:48

you take a score off, I'm definitely gonna let

36:50

you drop your harms. that

36:52

they're at level one. I'm gonna let you draw another

36:54

level, which means that those just disappear from your

36:57

sheet. Okay. And

36:58

then I think that

37:02

You know, I think in the past, I've just allowed

37:04

stress to be cleared.

37:06

That's probably the best solution.

37:10

concerning okay. I think if you take a score off, I'm gonna allow you to

37:12

clear your stress. Okay. Well, we'll come

37:14

back

37:14

to her later. I

37:15

just wanted to make sure

37:17

I had that cleared. Yeah.

37:20

Absolutely. So Crohn's

37:22

is going to attempt

37:26

to clear

37:26

some heat. Ah, yes,

37:28

reduce heat. So how is

37:30

kron's going to reduce heat?

37:33

Let's see. Conn's is

37:35

a very social

37:38

character.

37:41

Let's

37:43

that Do you

37:45

think

37:45

that she would know of some, like,

37:48

of

37:48

the some

37:49

crooked blue coats like,

37:51

perhaps her information broker friend has

37:53

has given her some

37:56

crooked blue coats to I

37:58

think that's a cool way to approach it.

38:00

Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. So I think that, you know, she

38:02

still has to roll an action roll and see how

38:04

successful she is at

38:06

contacting these

38:08

guys. what is she trying to get them to

38:10

do and how is she trying to get them to do it? I think she's

38:12

going

38:12

to make sure she wants

38:16

I don't think she'll ever mention

38:18

Celyac's name, but I

38:21

think she wants

38:22

to make sure that his description stays

38:26

completely out of any reports.

38:28

Okay. Very good.

38:28

So let's just role play this a little

38:31

bit. I think that you meet

38:34

two blue

38:35

coats that Sally put you onto,

38:37

and I think you meet them

38:39

at like a

38:42

like a top bar. You know, like, there's like a

38:44

tavern that the blue coat's

38:46

frequent, and they're sitting at

38:48

a table.

38:50

One is skinny and

38:52

young looking. The other guy is a

38:54

big kind of burly dude with a

38:56

big thick Victorian style

38:58

mustache and he goes, oh, there

39:00

I'm missing. are

39:01

you a scary one?

39:04

Oh. Talia said you

39:06

wished to talk to us. that

39:08

is indeed

39:09

true. Sit

39:10

down. Can I

39:13

buy you a pint? that

39:15

would be so sweet.

39:18

And

39:18

he he makes a

39:20

motion to the bar maid. or

39:23

bar person? Maybe it's a man. In fact,

39:25

it is. Dustfall

39:29

is equal opportunity.

39:32

And how did

39:34

such intelligence trapping

39:38

young lands such

39:40

as yourselves? get

39:42

to be

39:45

in such

39:47

powerful

39:48

positions. Powerful.

39:50

Well, What

39:52

do you think about that, Marie?

39:55

We're powerful. Indeed. I mean,

39:57

look at the power that

39:59

you hold, presence you command just in this room, I

40:02

cannot take my eyes off of

40:04

you. I wouldn't

40:06

call

40:06

myself powerfulness,

40:08

but I can't pull a string

40:11

or two

40:13

if it's in our

40:15

interest. Oh, of course.

40:17

And what

40:19

is it that?

40:20

is it interests you.

40:22

And she sort of, like, caresses the

40:24

side of his face when

40:27

she speaks. I'm

40:29

You have to make a fortune roll to

40:31

see how he reacts to something like

40:34

that. A high

40:36

roll means that he

40:38

doesn't fall for this kind of stuff,

40:40

and a low roll means

40:42

he's

40:43

been so lonely.

40:50

Hi. been

40:53

a while since

40:54

Yeah. Looking for it. What is

40:57

it exactly? What

40:59

were we talking about? And

41:02

by the

41:03

way, his his partner

41:05

who hasn't said anything is

41:07

like staring like

41:10

with an intense gaze at crons

41:12

as she caresses the burley cop's

41:16

shoulder.

41:17

don't

41:19

worry my sweet.

41:22

In

41:22

Thai grocery, we

41:24

know

41:24

how to share equally amongst

41:28

They gave each other a look like, are we cool

41:30

with that? And then they look back at you

41:32

like, oh yeah, we're cool

41:36

with that. I

41:38

simply have a few favors to

41:40

ask in exchange, but perhaps

41:43

we can

41:43

discuss this somewhere.

41:45

only to

41:46

learn private. English.

41:48

In exchange. In exchange for

41:52

what exactly?

41:53

You

41:55

oh yeah

41:57

an

42:00

they they hold your hand and I I think

42:03

that I think you're leading them. Yes.

42:06

To the place that you said would be more

42:08

comfortable. And if you'd like, we can pull the

42:10

curtain there and we can make your

42:12

role. Yeah. Let's So you're

42:14

role you

42:15

you need a role in action, but

42:18

that was so well role played and we

42:20

already see that he's weak

42:22

to this this approach based on the fortune

42:24

roll. So I'm gonna allow you

42:26

again, this isn't specifically

42:29

how the rules say the game worked,

42:31

but I think you get plus one die.

42:34

Mhmm. Okay. This

42:36

is a controlled position. How this

42:38

Oh, that's a great way to characterize arise

42:40

it. Yeah. It is a controlled

42:43

position for standard effect. Okay.

42:46

okay Bonucci

42:47

or not. or do the

42:50

Well, it's a reduced heat roll. So it's

42:52

a reduced heat roll. So, really, the

42:54

position effect aren't as important just

42:56

sort of a downtime activity. But go ahead

42:58

and take that plus one die,

43:00

I said, because I thought it was low.

43:03

Oh, yes.

43:04

Generous. GM.

43:06

See, I

43:06

can be nice. If you're

43:09

nice to me, listen. If you're nice

43:11

to me, I'm nice to

43:13

you. We can be friends or we can be

43:15

enemies. Great wise arbiter.

43:18

Can I use consort here? Sorry. I didn't

43:20

mention any of you. That's a great idea.

43:23

Okay. Here

43:25

we go.

43:28

Yes.

43:28

A six baby.

43:30

Six. that's really good.

43:32

That means that you get three

43:34

heat off of your total. And

43:37

I'm gonna go ahead and take that

43:39

off for you. One, Well,

43:42

let's see.

43:44

Yeah. I'm gonna take

43:46

that off for you. I'm

43:48

better. And And, you know, the

43:50

intent the end she is very specifically

43:52

focused on

43:55

clearing

43:55

celiac in

43:57

this script. Oh, excellent. She takes care

43:59

of

43:59

her little brother. Was it her little

44:02

brother? I think

44:03

I think she said

44:06

I think

44:06

that twins. And then maybe

44:08

they're twins. They're rewren they're twins.

44:11

The heat has even reduced. It looks

44:13

like your your bar which was about

44:15

to go over now looks about

44:17

half full. So -- Okay. -- well done krons

44:20

con. And now let us

44:22

turn to

44:24

Valcos. Valcos. what

44:26

would you like to do? You can freeplay or

44:28

you can do one of the downtime activities. It's totally

44:30

up to you. I'm gonna do

44:34

some downtime. didn't gonna

44:36

train? No. I'm not gonna

44:38

train. I'm gonna

44:40

go reduce the stress, but I'm gonna go pay

44:42

a visit to our good old

44:45

buddy old friends, the

44:46

heart of echoes. Yes.

44:48

The heart of echoes. So we're going to

44:51

try again to drink from

44:54

the Adjarra songs and

44:56

Oh, I stole myself. You're gonna

44:58

drink from the Soulja brand? It was

45:00

horrendous. This time I'm actually going to do I'm

45:02

gonna come in there and be

45:03

like, okay, I'm ready, guys. I'm

45:05

ready. Because I could feel

45:08

myself being taken

45:10

away by the the

45:12

builder, especially with respect with the hands.

45:14

And I think I'm actually going to open myself

45:16

up to the path

45:17

of echoes on Very good. When

45:19

you arrive at the headquarters of

45:22

the path of echoes, which I think

45:24

we established is

45:26

in white crown. It's

45:28

it's over there in, like, this very wealthy

45:30

part of the city, kind of near the

45:32

near the the channel. looking

45:36

out over, you know, the ocean

45:38

waves. When you arrive, you are

45:40

let in because they know who

45:42

you are. and you still have a plus

45:44

two faction relationship with the path

45:46

that goes. So they let you write in.

45:48

But before you enter

45:50

sort of the room

45:52

which is, you know, has all

45:54

these hanging curtains,

45:56

silky, kind of, like,

45:58

fabric draped all

45:59

around, like, that sort of ritual area with the deus where the

46:02

jar of souls is

46:04

located. Before you enter there, you you

46:06

feel a hand on your shoulder and

46:08

it is

46:10

your main contact the ambiguous

46:12

individual known as ring.

46:14

And ring, if you

46:16

recall, you can't tell if

46:18

ring is what

46:20

gender ring is. Ring

46:22

wears scarves and heavy cloths

46:25

all over themselves. and

46:28

Ring touches your arm and

46:30

is like, VELCO's

46:32

hold

46:33

for a moment.

46:38

hold

46:40

Hold. We've

46:40

heard about what happened at

46:43

the Children's House Estate. We're

46:46

worried about

46:46

you, VELCUS. We're worried

46:49

that you're losing the

46:52

path. If

46:54

we we I

46:56

feel like I am.

47:00

Yes.

47:00

This path requires

47:03

the utmost control. the utmost

47:05

focus. You can lose yourself if you're not careful. You already

47:08

know that Velcos. You

47:10

know better. bow

47:13

my head down like a

47:16

dog.

47:16

I think it might

47:18

be

47:18

prudent for you

47:21

to disappear into the shadows for a

47:23

while. What?

47:26

We

47:27

think you need to

47:30

be quiet very

47:32

quiet for a

47:34

while. You

47:35

and your friends.

47:41

Silence doesn't equal

47:43

survival in

47:46

this city.

47:49

Silence

47:50

is required

47:52

if you wish to hear

47:56

any

47:56

wisdom.

47:59

You've been talking to the city and

48:02

not

48:03

listening to it.

48:08

Alright. Do

48:10

you

48:10

wish to engage

48:13

in tonight's ritual?

48:15

Yes. If

48:18

you will have

48:19

me, I'll have

48:22

you if you can agree to the terms I

48:24

just sent set

48:26

for you.

48:27

I agree.

48:30

The remnant will be

48:33

very quiet for

48:36

a while. the remnant will be

48:38

invisible. For all

48:40

intents and purposes, the

48:42

remnant will be a ghost. Is

48:46

that

48:46

that understood

48:48

understood? It's understood.

48:50

understood

48:52

in com Then

48:54

come.

48:54

drink deeply of our chalice and

48:57

no other souls who have

48:59

been where you

49:02

are before. and

49:04

ring parts the curtains and leads you

49:06

into the room where a

49:09

a bunch of adherence are

49:12

standing around or sitting

49:14

around on cushions and

49:18

silk pallets

49:20

and they are lounging and positions of

49:22

repose and each of them

49:24

is partaking of the cup.

49:29

Soon one

49:32

of them hands the cup to you,

49:34

and when you look into this adherence

49:36

eyes, you can see something

49:39

move inside of the irises. You can

49:42

see some some presence

49:44

behind this person's eyes

49:48

as they hand the cup to

49:50

you. Do

49:51

I recognize it? You do.

49:54

This is

49:54

a spirit that has rid

49:57

has ridden you before.

50:00

Oh my god. Okay. A

50:02

spirit that has pulpited you.

50:05

You're all sharing in these

50:08

souls passing them

50:10

back and forth between each other. Okay.

50:13

It's kinda

50:15

like sharing needles. It's that dangerous. Oh,

50:18

brilliant. Okay. Let's do it.

50:20

Alright. And so

50:22

indulging your

50:24

vice. Roll dice equal to your lowest attribute

50:28

rating. Okay. And for you,

50:30

that is insight.

50:34

Insight. So that's one

50:36

die. And we're gonna

50:38

see how

50:40

much how stress you

50:42

clear. Right now, you have all but one of

50:44

your stress full.

50:46

Okay.

50:48

Let's do this.

50:52

Insight, submit.

50:55

Four. Four.

50:56

all

50:57

Okay. 444

51:00

means. Let's see here. Oh, well.

51:04

Is

51:04

it is it boy,

51:05

it's been so long since we've

51:07

played this game

51:10

clear stress equal to the highest diet result. You

51:12

clear force is amazing. Awesome.

51:15

Yeah. And thank you, John Harper,

51:17

and evil evil hat or

51:20

putting the important rules in

51:22

bold. Yeah. So that I

51:24

mean, seriously, you can quickly scan this book

51:26

and see what you need from a rule.

51:28

So for stress are cleared. Would you like to

51:30

describe your experience, Velcos?

51:33

Yeah. Okay. So I I

51:35

guess, you know, as I kind of stare into these

51:38

eyes, a drink from the chalice

51:40

and suddenly I've been a

51:42

bit more

51:42

control this time because the last

51:45

time I I drank. It was chaotic

51:47

and reckless and I lost myself. And

51:49

as I kind of feel

51:51

this spirit, this soul, kind

51:53

of take up over my body or like

51:55

kind of kind of take a deep breath in

51:57

and I'm

52:00

like,

52:00

you

52:02

know, The

52:04

path you're

52:05

going down is

52:08

a bad

52:10

one. You

52:13

need to take control of yourself.

52:18

Learn that.

52:18

that

52:21

just

52:21

ride in the wave of what

52:23

we in the world throws

52:25

at you.

52:27

Be alone better than trying to take its

52:29

reins and ride it for yourself.

52:32

Oh, wow.

52:34

You know what I mean?

52:36

Yes.

52:38

Yes. Alright.

52:41

I just

52:43

all in collapse. Wow.

52:47

It turns

52:50

out there was a cowboy in the chalice,

52:54

which is it is

52:56

era appropriate.

52:58

And I now I have to

53:00

decide where the the Bronco

53:04

busters are located in

53:06

the world of duskfall. But

53:08

I I can't wait to see

53:11

him again. With Alcos, you have

53:13

cleared four stress, well done.

53:15

And now we will turn to

53:17

Seljak Khan. Seljak.

53:20

What are you doing on

53:22

the streets of basketball tonight? Oh,

53:23

wait. Celyac also has

53:28

some stress. to get

53:30

rid of. So

53:32

because his

53:36

vice's faith I don't

53:37

know.

53:39

Fuck. You

53:41

can see him see him

53:44

in

53:44

his coach and at

53:46

ascending

53:46

the staircase up

53:49

to the platform at the top of

53:51

the building in six

53:54

towers where the builder's

53:56

alter has

53:56

been constructed. Yes.

54:00

And Provda is

54:02

standing up there when you arrive. and

54:06

I just like take her

54:08

hands. You

54:11

well have done well. You are

54:13

worthy material for the

54:15

great masterpiece in which

54:18

we all

54:20

take It is all I

54:21

seek. I simply want to

54:23

be

54:23

one of his building

54:26

blocks, one component in his

54:28

great design.

54:32

Every

54:32

atom of material in

54:34

this world is pregnant within

54:37

an arctic spot.

54:39

The material

54:42

is chaos merely.

54:47

he

54:47

will give it

54:49

four. We shall be

54:51

his hands. And

54:52

I'll approach

54:55

the altar and the

54:56

alter has changed. There's

54:59

a big statue on

55:01

the altar now. It

55:04

was just like Yes.

55:07

The white symbol. Yeah.

55:09

A money. But yes. It

55:11

looks like a a veiled

55:14

woman. It it has quite a

55:16

creepy aspect because it, you know, it's all made

55:18

out of like a white

55:20

but her face kind of presses against her veil,

55:23

but riddled through the

55:25

statue now are black

55:28

veins. that climb

55:30

up through it and

55:32

right where the female

55:35

forms of heart would

55:37

be is a beating,

55:41

ripping dripping,

55:42

oozing, black heart.

55:47

And Celya

55:50

kind of loosens his collar

55:52

and you can then see

55:54

this, like, high almost Ascot like

55:57

bandage that's around his neck where

55:59

the separating

56:00

wound that was given to him

56:02

by the builder has never

56:04

stopped bleeding. Oh, sure. See,

56:07

like, slowly unwraps

56:10

the bandage around

56:12

his hand, like, intricately folds it and passes it

56:15

to to Prada, and then

56:18

assumes a posture

56:20

beneath

56:20

to be nice the

56:22

the statue raises his head tilting

56:24

it back, allowing the

56:26

black Ichor of this beating heart

56:30

to pour into the wound in his neck.

56:32

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56:34

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56:36

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Celya Khan, I wanna

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notify the

1:02:20

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Mm-mm. Okay.

1:02:52

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you really your clients to pay you. That's for

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So yeah. I mean, I think

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you're being seen as strong now because you're being

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seen as dangerous. Okay. And so maybe there

1:03:17

are other factions that are scared

1:03:19

to tangle with you

1:03:22

now. and for good reason because returning

1:03:24

to Celyad Khan as

1:03:27

the black tendrils of

1:03:30

darkness Enter.

1:03:32

Well, enters a horrible

1:03:34

verb. His separating wound.

1:03:36

I think that you should roll

1:03:39

your lowest attribute and

1:03:42

see how much stress that you

1:03:44

clear. Great.

1:03:45

So it's

1:03:47

two

1:03:50

prowess

1:03:52

Frowess. Oh,

1:03:55

just two. Just a

1:03:57

two, and means you only clear two stress,

1:03:59

which means that unless

1:04:02

he uses another vice

1:04:06

activity this downtime. Porceliac, he's

1:04:08

he's not doing so well.

1:04:10

So why do you think this

1:04:12

didn't clear a lot of

1:04:13

stress for him it's

1:04:15

it's definitely the kind of exquisite

1:04:18

pain that he's into. I actually perhaps

1:04:20

if we can perhaps

1:04:24

it was at

1:04:25

first, it was very not stressful

1:04:27

just like a

1:04:30

the

1:04:31

A draft of

1:04:32

the Penthy, everything goes quiet.

1:04:35

It's as though I'm on

1:04:37

still waters. And the

1:04:40

two my two stress go away, but then those still

1:04:42

waters begin to murmur and the

1:04:45

and rage

1:04:48

and lightening cracks in the

1:04:51

storm inside. Gale

1:04:56

force winds begin to blow if a if a

1:04:58

Proveda looks over at Celyac, the

1:05:00

the the the translucent

1:05:03

flesh is like dripling

1:05:06

and and and and

1:05:08

crackling with with electricity and

1:05:10

friction. And perhaps

1:05:11

this is when the gift

1:05:14

of the tempest is

1:05:16

bestowed on Ciliac. Yes.

1:05:18

And that is when you hear a voice.

1:05:20

in your mind say, I

1:05:23

have

1:05:23

granted you new gifts.

1:05:28

This is what I do for

1:05:30

my loyal followers.

1:05:32

Am I not a generous god?

1:05:36

god.

1:05:37

the I

1:05:42

am your

1:05:44

storm. and and

1:05:47

just like crying,

1:05:50

like

1:05:52

tears of that that seemed

1:05:54

to like crackle with cloudy energy.

1:05:56

This celiac is just lost

1:05:58

in this

1:05:59

reverie feeling full

1:06:02

but not in any way de

1:06:06

stressed. Your

1:06:07

reference is your

1:06:09

gift to me.

1:06:11

How may

1:06:15

I use

1:06:18

this gift you have? bestowed

1:06:20

upon me

1:06:21

in your

1:06:22

in your

1:06:23

surface. Back

1:06:27

you for asking. I have

1:06:32

other followers.

1:06:34

Others who hear

1:06:36

my voice.

1:06:38

I wish for one of these

1:06:39

followers to join your

1:06:42

church. He is

1:06:45

a skilled search a

1:06:48

master craftsman. This

1:06:52

individual has prayed, called

1:06:55

out to me in

1:06:57

his time of need. He

1:07:00

has been captured and

1:07:02

is being held

1:07:03

against his will.

1:07:06

by

1:07:06

the ones

1:07:08

you

1:07:09

call blue coats.

1:07:16

Okay.

1:07:21

then we shall liberate

1:07:24

him.

1:07:29

And you feel euphoria.

1:07:32

And you can tell it's the builder's happiness

1:07:35

sort of entering through

1:07:37

the hole in your neck, like pure,

1:07:39

like happiness as being

1:07:42

injected

1:07:44

into you.

1:07:45

And and and and I was like

1:07:48

and perhaps, like, as as he descends

1:07:52

the staircase, like, still, like, in the right light, all

1:07:54

celiac looks like is nothing of not a

1:07:56

gurning skull.

1:07:58

Is this is the remnant of

1:07:59

this happiness is just

1:08:02

like, oh my

1:08:05

god. Yeah. Yeah.

1:08:07

That's real creepy. Mhmm. Thank

1:08:10

you, cellular Khan. And

1:08:12

now we turn our attention

1:08:14

back to your sister,

1:08:16

kron's Khan. A

1:08:19

second downtime activity? Yes. Yes.

1:08:22

Well, we'll see. I'm

1:08:24

I'm not sure what

1:08:26

the end result is, but she'd

1:08:28

like to go speak to Valkos and spend some

1:08:30

time perhaps in the grotto, maybe they're smoking,

1:08:35

some sort of sweet,

1:08:39

intoxicating brew. And

1:08:40

you

1:08:44

know, get slowly closer

1:08:46

to VAALCO's as they speak.

1:08:49

Tell

1:08:51

me VAALCO's. you've

1:08:54

been spending much time

1:08:57

with my

1:08:58

dear brother. What

1:08:59

is it he truly

1:09:02

seek? What is it that you

1:09:05

working

1:09:07

are working on?

1:09:10

the

1:09:10

passing of time he comes, he goes,

1:09:13

but I do not

1:09:15

know

1:09:16

for what. you're

1:09:20

asking

1:09:20

me to speak on

1:09:22

behalf of

1:09:23

your brother.

1:09:26

i

1:09:27

I simply carefully. You see?

1:09:29

I know that he may not see

1:09:32

it,

1:09:32

but

1:09:34

we did not have

1:09:38

the

1:09:38

most nurturing

1:09:40

of upbringing. We

1:09:42

both seek agency

1:09:45

and power

1:09:47

just in varying different ways.

1:09:49

I only wish to

1:09:51

see my brother succeed.

1:09:57

Your brother.

1:10:01

your brother much

1:10:04

like

1:10:06

myself is in need of saving.

1:10:09

the need of saving

1:10:11

And I kind of reveal the

1:10:13

tattoo on my hand and I'm

1:10:16

like, this I

1:10:20

thought was a

1:10:21

gift. It's now

1:10:24

more

1:10:25

of a curse.

1:10:27

she takes your hand. But this

1:10:30

is beautiful. Look at

1:10:33

this design.

1:10:36

It's art. who is

1:10:39

responsive.

1:10:39

The builder.

1:10:42

the

1:10:44

He'll

1:10:45

It calls itself the builder.

1:10:47

It's why I took and I've still got the

1:10:50

artist's hands in about

1:10:53

back. I'm like, put it out. And I'm like, it's

1:10:55

why I have these hands. required

1:11:01

more

1:11:01

hands, the more

1:11:02

I think

1:11:05

about

1:11:07

it. I that my instincts

1:11:10

of cutting this

1:11:15

artist's hands was a way of warning myself of what

1:11:17

I will become. The

1:11:19

builders simply did

1:11:23

not require hands. he

1:11:26

requires an army to do his bidding.

1:11:32

and your brother

1:11:34

may be one of his lieutenants.

1:11:40

A leader

1:11:40

a leader This

1:11:44

is not so

1:11:47

bad at

1:11:51

times. Though he should be king,

1:11:53

you

1:11:54

say you need

1:11:56

saving

1:12:00

dear locals.

1:12:00

what is

1:12:01

it that

1:12:03

gives you in return?

1:12:09

What do

1:12:10

god's given return to their followers?

1:12:15

A promise.

1:12:18

And something that

1:12:18

I've learned about the city

1:12:21

is that promises,

1:12:23

a very empty. But

1:12:27

promises can be

1:12:30

wielded. Such strength, they

1:12:34

are the true currency of this

1:12:36

town you will find. You

1:12:38

could wield

1:12:39

that promise into something

1:12:42

so lucrative, I'm sure. I

1:12:45

kind of lean in

1:12:47

and I'm like, how you mean?

1:12:51

we will all

1:12:53

perish eventually.

1:12:56

What we do when we are

1:12:58

here, a few of the promises of

1:13:01

god at your hands. What trouble? What mischief? What

1:13:03

mark could you live

1:13:06

on this city? With

1:13:08

such

1:13:09

power.

1:13:12

I think you have

1:13:14

something

1:13:15

great in front of

1:13:18

you. must just learn how

1:13:20

to use these hands.

1:13:22

She holds birth your hands.

1:13:25

in order to manipulate that promise into

1:13:27

that which you seek.

1:13:30

into that which

1:13:33

show

1:13:34

me what this builder, where this builder rests.

1:13:40

I wish I

1:13:43

wish to weaknesses. I

1:13:46

look at your hands.

1:13:48

Like,

1:13:50

I can I'll just kinda grabs them

1:13:53

tightly. Come,

1:13:56

and I take

1:13:57

you and lead you towards

1:13:59

where

1:13:59

we're going. I think we have to stick

1:14:02

with this scene for a little while,

1:14:04

so Do

1:14:07

you think that Seljak is still there?

1:14:09

Or do you think that he

1:14:12

has left? I

1:14:15

mean, I have I now

1:14:17

have, like, a a pitch for

1:14:19

for I mean, that we

1:14:21

we we, you know, we left Seljak sort

1:14:23

of walking down the road. descending the

1:14:25

stairs. Perhaps I meet somebody. I

1:14:27

think that that is what we've

1:14:29

established, so that is what happens.

1:14:31

I think that toward the bottom

1:14:34

of the stairs, you meet Valkos and Crohn's ascending.

1:14:40

Hello

1:14:41

brother.

1:14:42

Sister.

1:14:47

Welcome. I seek

1:14:50

to

1:14:52

see

1:14:55

what you've been up to. Simply just

1:14:57

to. Have

1:14:59

a peak. Make sure

1:15:01

you're not making wrong

1:15:03

decisions once again. I

1:15:06

assure

1:15:07

you, grunts,

1:15:09

my

1:15:10

sister, never before.

1:15:14

I felt

1:15:17

such

1:15:17

clarity about

1:15:20

my purpose.

1:15:23

But if you wish to see what is above us now,

1:15:25

I would be happy

1:15:28

to evangelize.

1:15:35

Me.

1:15:36

Yeah. I

1:15:38

kind of step up and I'm like, it's fine. will take her.

1:15:42

i will take her

1:15:45

she grabs CELIEX, like, face firmly as they as she

1:15:47

walks by on the steps as It it

1:15:49

immediately shocks you like

1:15:52

static electricity. I

1:15:56

make

1:15:57

my

1:15:59

own

1:16:00

meet me

1:16:01

the issue tracker decisions,

1:16:03

brother. remember that.

1:16:04

Of course. I

1:16:07

will see.

1:16:08

And I've heard

1:16:09

these words

1:16:10

from you before. Don't you

1:16:13

it.

1:16:13

I hope you do not need support. I'm sure

1:16:15

you

1:16:15

will not be.

1:16:18

Open your mind.

1:16:21

the open your mind know

1:16:23

that one of the great paradoxes is that

1:16:25

in the universe where there

1:16:27

are those entities

1:16:30

that have foresight, which Still,

1:16:32

they give us the gift of

1:16:34

a will that is free. chaotic

1:16:39

and

1:16:41

able

1:16:41

to

1:16:43

move

1:16:43

the world.

1:16:48

and she walks up the stairs.

1:16:50

That's great. Very good. When you arrive at the top,

1:16:54

you see that a shrine has been erected under a sort of

1:16:56

a a lean to or a you

1:16:58

know, there is sort of a canvas

1:17:02

sort of tense sort of covering and hiding the shrine from

1:17:05

casual glances even if

1:17:07

someone was on an

1:17:09

adjoining rooftop. But

1:17:12

the shrine is made of

1:17:14

this black Ichor and the statue

1:17:16

that you sought to

1:17:18

steal in your last score

1:17:22

and you see the beating black heart

1:17:24

at the center of the statue, this

1:17:26

is new to you as well, Velcos.

1:17:28

Yeah. As I see this, I kind

1:17:30

of take the bag of drop it in

1:17:33

front, and

1:17:33

then look to crowds and look

1:17:36

like, welcome

1:17:38

to our

1:17:40

Saint Black tendrils

1:17:42

slide forward. You can

1:17:45

hear the voices of

1:17:47

many mouths whispering. as

1:17:51

the tendrils grasp the bag, pour the

1:17:54

hands out of the bag,

1:17:56

and quickly the hands

1:17:58

start to move and flex

1:18:00

as tendons form out of the blackiker

1:18:03

and joints. And it it's

1:18:05

almost as if black

1:18:07

arms pull the hand ends

1:18:11

back behind the shrine

1:18:13

and they are gone.

1:18:15

And the voices that

1:18:17

are whispering seem to

1:18:19

sing a chorus like in

1:18:22

a church on Sunday morning.

1:18:29

It is

1:18:30

so beautiful. And

1:18:31

she, like, sort of, like,

1:18:34

moves her way towards this

1:18:36

statue you?

1:18:40

Ten rules

1:18:41

of darkness begin

1:18:44

to probe the

1:18:46

air in front of you.

1:18:48

They are, like, gentle fingertips

1:18:50

moving towards Kron's con. Does she remain

1:18:55

in place? back away? She remains in place. She

1:18:57

attempts to sort of move

1:18:59

her hands to

1:19:00

sort of trace

1:19:03

over the statue and and

1:19:05

it's it's

1:19:06

shapes and what has changed

1:19:08

and perhaps she will even make

1:19:10

her way to where there is, like,

1:19:14

black,

1:19:15

breathing heart to get

1:19:17

She hears a voice in

1:19:19

her head.

1:19:22

You desire Pretty

1:19:23

things.

1:19:27

Nice things. Bob

1:19:29

Yes.

1:19:32

I desire

1:19:37

i do diary

1:19:38

it. Oh, Can

1:19:41

and i am

1:19:43

I can I

1:19:45

And what does

1:19:48

indulge my advice? How did you know

1:19:49

that's kind of where I was I

1:19:52

was sort of leading you? This

1:19:54

is an opportunity to indulge your vice. Suddenly,

1:19:56

the builder is becoming

1:19:58

everyone's vice purveyor. Mhmm.

1:20:00

But

1:20:03

certainly, and you are in mental contact with this thing. So tell me

1:20:05

sort of how you think that you might indulge

1:20:07

your vice here.

1:20:11

Yeah. Well, She's

1:20:13

a weirdo. They're

1:20:15

from the same family.

1:20:18

She is going to

1:20:20

like, spend time,

1:20:22

like,

1:20:22

with this statue.

1:20:23

And she's,

1:20:28

like, like,

1:20:28

kissing it, stroking it,

1:20:30

sort of just like emulating it, sort of sort of

1:20:35

falling into positions Right.

1:20:38

And down on the

1:20:40

darkness, it it it embraces you.

1:20:42

And it feels cold, so cold.

1:20:46

You know, when something's so cold, it sort of burns your

1:20:49

skin, that's what it feels like.

1:20:51

Yeah. But it's exciting.

1:20:53

It ignites you. like getting into a cold

1:20:55

lake in January naked

1:20:58

and feeling that that

1:21:00

sensation all over your body.

1:21:02

And then crumbs It begins to build something out

1:21:04

of the black tendrils and

1:21:06

threads around you. It builds a

1:21:11

lavish gown, a black

1:21:14

gown, black on black with

1:21:18

black sort of feathers flying off of the shoulders -- Yeah. -- some kind of gown that

1:21:20

you could wear to

1:21:23

a ball in the Period

1:21:27

Palace of the immortal immortal emperor,

1:21:29

and it crowns this

1:21:32

creation with an

1:21:35

enormous, obsidian, necklace with a

1:21:37

big black jewel hanging from your neck. And that

1:21:40

is how it

1:21:42

fulfills your vice of

1:21:44

luxury but

1:21:46

let's see if it's enough for kron's

1:21:48

con. kron's, I think your lowest

1:21:51

attribute is a one. Would you

1:21:53

like to throw one die? I

1:21:55

will.

1:21:55

Is there a stress?

1:21:57

Oh,

1:21:58

yeah, endorsed base. Here we

1:22:00

go.

1:22:04

Oh. But did you

1:22:05

roll? My god. Oh,

1:22:06

the world of one. Oh.

1:22:12

So as as it has built this

1:22:14

thing, it even, you know, takes up a a portion of its of its bulk and makes

1:22:16

a flat reflective surface because

1:22:18

it's shiny and you will look

1:22:22

into the builder as if it is a mirror and

1:22:26

for whatever reason,

1:22:28

it's

1:22:29

not enough krons. and you

1:22:31

watch

1:22:31

as the dress sort of

1:22:33

unweaves itself and decays before

1:22:35

your eyes -- No. --

1:22:37

and the heavy black jewel

1:22:39

turns into a lump of coal and who pushes off

1:22:42

your neck onto the ground?

1:22:44

Boy, would you do

1:22:45

this? Give it back.

1:22:47

It's a mine. It's

1:22:50

mine.

1:22:51

You do not

1:22:53

that

1:22:56

truly believe.

1:22:58

I

1:22:58

think she attempts to,

1:23:00

like, break part of the

1:23:03

statue.

1:23:03

You wanna break the white

1:23:06

symbol. Uh-huh. Give me an action

1:23:08

rating, and I I there's one action

1:23:10

that's really good for stuff like this. I'm

1:23:12

sure. Well, yeah, I don't

1:23:14

have any dusted in stupid. Can

1:23:16

I attempt to stop, but just before she does

1:23:18

that? Absolutely. What action would you like to use? because you

1:23:19

can use any action for

1:23:22

anything in blades in the dark.

1:23:25

And be sure

1:23:26

did you remove that one stress? It did remove one stress? It did one stress, I

1:23:28

think. Okay. So

1:23:31

so I'll use finesse.

1:23:36

Finesse. So you're gonna try to

1:23:38

carefully extricate it from its web

1:23:40

of black tendrils and maybe

1:23:42

toss it off the side of the building. Am

1:23:44

I going

1:23:45

too far? Yes. I

1:23:47

I spent a break up

1:23:49

piece of the statue. She's not

1:23:51

of I I didn't assume she the entire statue. It's probably too heavy,

1:23:54

actually, a good

1:23:54

point. Yeah. More like finding, like, the hand

1:23:57

or the fit, you know, like a breaking

1:23:59

point to just, like,

1:23:59

sort of you

1:24:02

know, damage it. I'll lie to the valcos. You need to tell me what action you're going to use to stop. I'm gonna

1:24:04

match finesse. I'm

1:24:07

gonna match the finesse to

1:24:10

kind of try to grab the hand before it

1:24:12

can do any any damage to not only to

1:24:15

I'm not really trying to

1:24:17

protect the statue. I'm trying to protect yourself.

1:24:19

That's my that's my action. So because it's like, we

1:24:21

need saving and it's like,

1:24:23

but wait.

1:24:25

the way

1:24:25

I'm not sure. It's like,

1:24:27

Because it's PVP, don't worry about positioning effect just

1:24:30

to roll the action ratings for me.

1:24:32

Okay. position

1:24:35

is risky. Right? Sure. Okay.

1:24:39

Oh, no. Crohn's con

1:24:43

has rolled a one and VELCOS

1:24:45

easily stops her with a high

1:24:47

roll of five. You

1:24:49

grab her hand VELCOS and

1:24:51

you can narrate what happens next. I kinda grab it

1:24:53

and I'm like, don't

1:24:56

be foolish.

1:25:01

is god. It's just

1:25:03

a prickster. Dingo is what you want and takes it away.

1:25:05

It's

1:25:09

cause it once

1:25:11

you, it once control.

1:25:14

the role Why?

1:25:18

did I lead you here? I might still got your

1:25:21

hand, and it's

1:25:23

gripping tighter.

1:25:27

Because I want to see

1:25:29

what my brother was

1:25:32

involved in. I was honest.

1:25:34

I wanted to help him. But

1:25:36

the this

1:25:38

I

1:25:38

see is funny.

1:25:42

First,

1:25:42

just another fairy

1:25:45

tale that has taken

1:25:47

over his mind. me? Is

1:25:48

it taking over his mind? Or

1:25:51

was it taking over yours? You

1:25:53

talk about your

1:25:55

brother a lot. I

1:26:00

felt

1:26:04

the poorly.

1:26:08

It's true.

1:26:11

Good.

1:26:12

good you're

1:26:14

honest. Don't damage the

1:26:16

statue.

1:26:16

don't damage

1:26:18

that you

1:26:20

I kind

1:26:21

of go to leave.

1:26:23

She turns back

1:26:25

towards

1:26:28

the statues of

1:26:30

You're not the only

1:26:32

one in this

1:26:35

city who wants this body. Okay?

1:26:37

So you'll have

1:26:38

to get in line and she walks away. I understand.

1:26:44

Awesome. Yeah. If you can't love me at

1:26:46

my best, you I mean, at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best in the middle

1:26:48

there. deserve

1:26:53

better, girl. Dumped

1:26:56

that God.

1:27:00

Alright. I'm glad that Juliet takes

1:27:02

care of herself. She's gonna go do some self

1:27:04

care. Who knows? So

1:27:06

forgive me. It is crunched.

1:27:10

and so many characters now.

1:27:13

And now I think I believe

1:27:15

that we will turn to

1:27:17

Valcos. Valcos the scene where you engage in

1:27:19

your next downtime activity or your next scene

1:27:21

can happen immediately after this or time can

1:27:24

pass. Let me know what

1:27:26

Valc is next on itinerary. Yeah.

1:27:28

I think I'm gonna

1:27:30

be I think I'm going I'm going to

1:27:32

I'm

1:27:35

gonna call a meeting. So it's a bit later. A bit later on

1:27:37

in the day. I'm gonna call

1:27:39

a grotto meeting. a

1:27:44

call. Please please make make Josephine play

1:27:46

two characters at the same time. Absolutely.

1:27:48

That's fine. It's gonna be

1:27:50

everyone. It's everyone apart from Chuck because Chuck's not part of the group. Right. Chuck's is

1:27:52

But is that a prag in attendance?

1:27:54

It could well, I would have

1:27:59

feel Ophelia. I would

1:27:59

have called for Ophelia, but I

1:28:02

don't know whether they would have.

1:28:04

Okay. Necessarily, you know,

1:28:06

the summons has gone out.

1:28:08

Yes. The song has just thrown out.

1:28:11

So you can decide as to who has

1:28:13

come. Endical. I in in this meeting, I'll

1:28:15

call some man many words. kind

1:28:18

of stands in. He's like,

1:28:22

thank

1:28:23

you

1:28:28

for

1:28:28

Yes. The reason

1:28:30

I have called is because our

1:28:36

allies

1:28:36

allies the

1:28:38

path of

1:28:40

echoes. I've recommended

1:28:41

that we are

1:28:44

we lay

1:28:47

low for a while. It

1:28:50

is not

1:28:51

only to the

1:28:55

interests of them, But to

1:28:57

the interest of

1:29:00

us,

1:29:00

we

1:29:02

are beginning to gain

1:29:06

a a reputation,

1:29:12

which could

1:29:15

destroy us

1:29:17

rather than

1:29:21

this

1:29:22

build us. Yes. I

1:29:25

gotta step

1:29:26

back. Is

1:29:31

you need, like,

1:29:33

comes out

1:29:33

of the shadows in

1:29:35

the corner where she was. She,

1:29:38

like, moves the veil. What

1:29:39

does these mean to

1:29:42

lay low to you.

1:29:44

That's a great

1:29:46

question.

1:29:47

You see, it's

1:29:49

schooling

1:29:51

of trying to be a leader comes back, hey, it is. Like,

1:29:53

whenever someone asks you a question, you congratulate them and

1:29:55

say it's a great question. A

1:29:59

great

1:29:59

question.

1:30:02

The

1:30:05

little gold have we

1:30:08

simply used to

1:30:11

survive just for a

1:30:14

month four two.

1:30:16

We do not

1:30:19

perform any heists. We

1:30:21

we

1:30:23

Keep quiet. I

1:30:24

have to maybe use this time

1:30:27

to gather better information on. better

1:30:31

heists to pull, but the

1:30:34

actions we

1:30:35

take are

1:30:38

not

1:30:39

once to gain attention. We're simply

1:30:41

there to survive. That is lay

1:30:44

low. And

1:30:46

what of

1:30:48

this? being

1:30:52

that asks so much of

1:30:54

each of

1:30:55

us. It has

1:30:57

been unleashed she looks

1:30:59

right at celiac.

1:31:03

Wow.

1:31:05

well as the man

1:31:07

these demands. I believe that

1:31:08

yes, you're right.

1:31:11

We are

1:31:14

under constant

1:31:16

watch. However,

1:31:17

Sallik

1:31:20

and I.

1:31:20

can

1:31:24

handle

1:31:27

this being. Yes.

1:31:32

when you

1:31:33

say another question, I'm sorry, but I

1:31:35

am so confused of late.

1:31:38

When you say handily, Do

1:31:44

you both know

1:31:44

what your plan is? We are

1:31:47

a crew. We are supposed to

1:31:49

handling these things together. I want

1:31:51

to head No. I

1:31:52

don't know what you said.

1:31:54

No. No, mister Rancos is

1:31:58

right, but

1:31:59

we should. No longer.

1:32:02

We should give up doing.

1:32:08

heists,

1:32:10

petty, criminal enterprises.

1:32:15

We are now about

1:32:16

a more profound

1:32:19

business. And while

1:32:21

some might interpret

1:32:23

our aims as

1:32:24

criminal. This

1:32:27

is only because we survey higher. There are.

1:32:34

there

1:32:34

are things which our

1:32:36

pattern has asked of us,

1:32:39

things which are in

1:32:41

our interests and things

1:32:43

for which I do not believe because it shall

1:32:45

look delay. And if

1:32:47

you find

1:32:50

the demands of

1:32:53

our patron burden, and

1:32:55

I can only

1:32:56

press upon

1:32:58

you. But while

1:32:59

it is a

1:33:01

difficult yoke to bear,

1:33:03

the

1:33:03

gifts that come

1:33:06

in

1:33:06

the return uncanny mist

1:33:09

sort of begins to

1:33:11

swirl around celiac. The

1:33:16

gift which come

1:33:19

in return are sublime.

1:33:20

hi

1:33:22

supply Gift

1:33:24

instrument sort

1:33:26

of, like, gets real

1:33:28

close to Soliosis. I

1:33:30

barely recognize you. It's taking

1:33:33

pieces of you away,

1:33:35

Celiac. Are you mad and France is

1:33:37

gonna fall Juliet

1:33:40

back. Like, get

1:33:42

away from my

1:33:45

brother, you wish.

1:33:48

Good good time. Julia just

1:33:50

sort of I

1:33:52

believe it's

1:33:54

time that we should.

1:33:57

Question deeply,

1:33:58

as a friend, Alcos, has put forth exactly

1:34:00

what

1:34:04

we are.

1:34:06

are we criminals merely? Or

1:34:09

are we something

1:34:12

more noble?

1:34:16

Nobu.

1:34:16

You were surfing

1:34:19

some some demons and

1:34:21

some creature that you

1:34:24

call it, God.

1:34:26

What makes it God? This is not noble. Who are we serving?

1:34:30

herbie thursday

1:34:35

Who

1:34:35

is benefiting? Always

1:34:36

benefiting for what we

1:34:39

do before or we

1:34:42

claim that we possess

1:34:44

freedom. only because we