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episode description. The

2:02

past weekend I was part of a pirate

2:04

murder mystery. I saw some photos of that

2:06

I'm so jealous how out of fear was

2:08

great so I went to what they call

2:10

correct Con I it was the second one.

2:13

It's just a bunch of folks on Rp

2:15

Drowned who get together and they rents like

2:17

a cabin or in air B N B

2:19

and they make a game schedule and they

2:21

have group meals and they do it once

2:24

a year just to get together and see

2:26

each other and play games. It's people from

2:28

all over the country and they. Invited

2:30

us this year and I had

2:32

the opportunity to go. And yeah

2:34

the on Saturday night we did

2:36

a pirate themed. Murder. Mystery and

2:38

it was really cool the way it was structured

2:41

because everybody got an awful over the beginning of

2:43

that. You already knew who you were and now

2:45

below gave you a couple of objectives and it

2:47

told you if you are the person who is

2:49

murdered attack So then you go through that first

2:52

play chunk. Everybody can a does their objectives and

2:54

then at some point the lights went out, lights

2:56

came up person's dead. at that point you get

2:58

a second on below and it lets you know

3:01

what your new objectives are and if you were

3:03

the murderer ago and it was nice because the

3:05

person who was killed gets a new role as

3:07

the investigator. That comes in said they had like

3:09

an extra cost in peace for that person to

3:12

put over there pirate costume sweets. I'm see I

3:14

was a good time and are they brought prizes

3:16

for like best performance and best costume. There was

3:18

a whole mechanic in it of using money that

3:20

you got to bribe secrets out of people in.

3:23

that was the one I was like i'm i'm

3:25

gonna see how much may I can get So

3:27

in the story I had a secret I was

3:29

trying to keep I am one embody know but

3:31

it turns up guy who knew it was the

3:33

one who was murdered so as soon as he

3:36

was murdered I started selling every seeker I had.

3:38

To anybody who attacked diminish athletic I

3:40

thought a so were you the murder

3:42

I was not find that hard to

3:44

believe I know. but I did end

3:46

up with the most amount of money

3:48

so I yeah it's nice for one

3:50

specific. ah speaking of pirates, I'm I'm

3:52

supposed to run a Five K this

3:54

weekend and and it's sponsored by a

3:56

brewery and either the brewery or the

3:58

beers pirate themed oh so. Races Vaguely

4:00

piracy. Not like, oh man, I should

4:02

dress as a player. It Nike, I

4:04

mean for like five seconds I had

4:07

that thought yeah, for as like, I

4:09

can't I can't run this in shorts

4:11

and running shoes, let alone and fuckin'

4:13

riding boots. And yeah, maybe Edward a

4:15

bandana in a sash? He has a

4:17

said anything else. Who could be cumbersome

4:19

of the bandanas functional just to keep

4:21

all the all of the sweat and

4:23

black eyes and face and mouth? Yeah,

4:26

secession. There's. A

4:28

lot there's a lot com enough about

4:30

or that gotta go somewhere as too

4:32

much just like the construction of my

4:35

brow is insufficient to get all the

4:37

sweat it out of my way or

4:39

certainly get towards the end of the

4:42

season. which means I'm always kind of

4:44

thinking about what like little game I

4:46

might want to run for everybody between

4:48

seasons with tennis started doing that and

4:51

this weekend we played a game called

4:53

bar the windows bolt the doors and

4:55

it's a mix of an Rpg. And

4:58

a board game. You. Are people on

5:00

a vacation? The map that we played on

5:02

was a cabin but I bought at the

5:04

other day and there's a couple of there.

5:07

There's like an abandoned mine and at a

5:09

burned down mansion. so you all kind of

5:11

maker a little bit of a relationship. You

5:14

decide, you know who is your favorite person

5:16

there, who's your least favorite person, but you're

5:18

all. It's a group of people who know

5:20

each other, girlfriends or or work acquaintances and

5:23

you pick a special move and and you

5:25

pick some defining qualities as soon as some

5:27

adjectives about yourself and then the. Cabin is

5:29

invaded and you shuffle deck of cards

5:31

and for the card to decide what

5:34

it is it's invading. So we ended

5:36

up going against a colts and what's

5:38

really cool bought the game is that

5:40

see you have like to point that

5:42

you can do every round and moving

5:44

three room up to three rooms as

5:46

a point searching is a point, Fighting

5:48

is a point but it causes you

5:50

distress and there's you know seven or

5:52

eight things that you can do and

5:54

each one of them is an action.

5:56

You get to actions a turn and

5:58

then. The colts and all the

6:00

monsters. The game in general have their

6:03

own mechanics so like playing against something

6:05

else other than the coldest. the experience

6:07

would not be at all the same.

6:09

but like the cultists had as many

6:11

moves each round as there were players

6:13

and they can only move one room

6:15

at a time. But the thing about

6:17

them that they got as a bonus

6:19

was for every action that they didn't

6:21

use out of in this and since

6:23

it was seven, they regenerate a number

6:25

of cultists equal to that. Oh man

6:27

and so then the creature is dead

6:29

Once They have used all of their

6:32

like monstrous points and so like attacking

6:34

someone uses one moving, does not use

6:36

one. Breaking a barricade uses one done.

6:38

there is a handful think so at

6:40

one point was like overdue and great.

6:42

and then the creature didn't have anything

6:44

to do that round and they spawned

6:46

six new people and you roll a

6:48

die to see what room they spawn

6:50

and saw the said like pupils are

6:52

coming to the windows in the floorboards.

6:54

It got bad real fast. Boy that's

6:56

like that betrayal at House on the

6:58

Hill game we play that somebody could

7:01

keep responding there, node or whatever. So

7:03

yeah it was a very fun game,

7:05

something that might be what I run

7:07

for everybody. What's it called? Bar.

7:09

The windows bolt the doors. Mummy hit

7:11

you with this. Let me bring it

7:13

back around. what we're talking up for:

7:15

Yeah. Expansion Themed Pirates bar the windows

7:17

Batman hatching a hard The Monsters Pirates

7:19

The setting is a ship. Yes he

7:21

got a survival rate. Nice A company

7:23

that makes this games go. hadn't reach

7:25

out to me. I'm willing to assist

7:28

in negotiated the odds. Jacob the Creature

7:30

podcast are com. My fee is very

7:32

reasonable. You're

7:36

all standing in this dark,

7:38

narrow stretch of tunnel where

7:40

a glob of something has

7:42

fallen from the ceiling above

7:44

you and seems to just

7:46

be sorted. milton away at

7:48

the stone beneath your feet.

7:50

out. Raise the lantern. A piracy

7:52

can see what's happening. On the

7:55

ceiling above you you see a

7:57

snake is big snake. There's a

7:59

trend here. Small. Things get

8:01

a big when I get from like

8:03

the opposite away, like like I like

8:05

everything's. Going on. Yeah, like tiny versions of

8:07

things that are usually regular sized. We.

8:09

Get a tiny naked. Here's a bear

8:12

the size of them. Or maybe. Maybe

8:16

if you're all on good behavior, wait a minute. Gonna.

8:19

Ceiling with a woman to serve like?

8:21

Let me. Let me have

8:23

it is a thriving. The snake

8:25

for fifteen feet long and are

8:28

earning are bear most. Of

8:32

us. Are

8:37

it's mostly like a light gray

8:39

brown with a darker like gray

8:41

brown pattern on it. Looks at

8:44

a sidewinder just substantially larger. Or

8:46

how it's holding on to the

8:49

ceiling is unclear. It's. Bellies.

8:51

Appears to be on the ceiling. It's

8:54

head is just hanging down a little

8:56

bit with an open mouth. You can

8:58

see the venom dripping from it's fangs

9:00

and it seems like a bad as

9:02

what has hit the ground and between

9:04

you the ceiling where it is holding

9:07

on you can also see becoming pitted

9:09

like it's dissolving white. This venom is

9:11

also exists greeting from it's belly somehow.

9:13

Saw him as it's like it's

9:15

whole body of like one octopus

9:17

tentacle and seventy suckers to Hollen.

9:20

Are thousands of little. Millipede.

9:22

Legs. Again, it's honest feeling though.

9:24

What are those? Have money? To have

9:26

milk magical on Israel against this

9:28

Me I don't understand I I

9:30

want to know but also I

9:32

think right. I don't want I

9:34

want to know But I think

9:36

in character this is terrible. Young

9:39

would you do about it? Bring. The lantern

9:41

back to one side or as the Cs.

9:43

it's that we. Don't see this was the

9:45

snake looking at us or the just like

9:47

sleeping with South Korea had no it's very

9:49

much looking at. Last,

9:53

I. Have no get some sleep at

9:56

the mouth of then Andrew was a

9:58

sleeps I thought maybe this isn't. Similar

10:00

situation. some people not even okay,

10:02

maybe me through and asleep. so

10:04

maybe this think would do the

10:06

same. I see. I don't think I'm

10:08

painting a sufficient picture of the severity of

10:11

it. This is. it's a business. Would

10:16

you mean you've dealt with this

10:18

before? Silas dive tackles you and

10:20

as you hit the ground that

10:22

snake's head hits impacts right or

10:24

you were just standing a moment

10:26

before. Oh my goodness and Silas

10:28

as it's come to the bubble

10:30

before it's it's one the definitely

10:33

hangs around down here and it's

10:35

try to get enough seen. It.

10:37

Trying crawl on the on the magic

10:39

and see Matt who's come off of

10:41

it like it's trying to eat through

10:43

but it's an been able to but

10:45

you all see it. I mean it

10:47

recoils back up to the ceiling and

10:49

seems to be considering it's next strike.

10:51

Is it still like drooling. Venom

10:53

Yes, I would like to draw my

10:56

rifle and bless the magic did it's

10:58

open mouth. Okay, Why?

11:00

Don't you roll to go? weird at a

11:02

level four. Seven

11:05

And I think what I'm trying

11:07

to do is like see if

11:09

I can knock out some things

11:11

like the ones that are dripping

11:13

this poison. Okay, You fire a

11:15

blast of magic up into his

11:17

mouth, trying to dislodge it's fangs,

11:19

and one of them does come

11:21

loose. It doesn't come out, it's

11:23

like it's dangling from the nerve

11:25

of the to. So

11:28

it won't be able to bite you with that one.

11:30

Thing However, it does also seem way

11:32

more pissed off now than it did

11:34

a moment ago. Sure, it hisses and

11:37

recoils a bit, but you can see

11:39

like like of the shape of the

11:41

nose of it's. like snarling at you

11:44

Now. I want to try

11:46

to rehash what I've been doing

11:48

some other the people we snuck

11:50

up on where X and I

11:53

give them vertigo and disorient their

11:55

equilibrium. but because the snake is

11:57

on the ceiling already and like.

12:00

Down at us. I want to kind of

12:02

mess with what is up, what is down

12:04

the road off sort of game. Or

12:06

it seemed euro to go weird a

12:08

little for ten or right. you brain

12:11

blast this thing and it falls from

12:13

the ceiling and starts like like rolling.

12:15

Would you know it's it's trying to

12:17

be right side up but it doesn't

12:19

know what right side up is. So

12:21

you have you seen like of snakes

12:24

that play dead me like slip on

12:26

their back when you put my foot.

12:28

So what is what is it's underside.

12:30

the plate do be it is. It

12:32

is covered in a scene scene of

12:35

the same like. Green Viscous

12:37

venom I may. Have

12:39

made it more dangerous Press and

12:41

servers. This area name is not

12:43

going to be happy if I'd

12:45

sneak dissolved his. Jacket A so

12:47

that's just rocketing back and forth

12:49

and splashing. This is also a

12:52

something. Had it not

12:54

been a full success I think that would be so. Can. You

12:56

describe like that same bird. Or

12:58

the cavern that we're currently in right

13:01

now. Like how tall is the ceiling

13:03

that this neat thing with on. You

13:05

are down to about ten foot diameter.

13:08

Of have three small any like

13:10

still lags, heights or anything up

13:12

at the top that the snake

13:14

was like wind and it's way

13:16

around. Know stalactites? Nothing like

13:18

particularly sizable. I does seem

13:20

like somehow it's just able

13:22

to adhere to surfaces. The

13:24

whole surface is though kind

13:26

of jacket and sharp from

13:28

the pitting that it's venomous

13:30

leaving behind. Would it be

13:32

possible to try to last? So

13:35

a part of that. Feeling

13:37

of this cavern that looks particularly sharp

13:39

and see if I can drop it

13:41

down onto this thing. Creature? Yeah, absolutely.

13:43

I think this will be a role

13:45

for of the rope trick. yes, kind

13:47

of at the mercy of gravity for

13:49

how much damage it does the for

13:51

or yes gimme a rope role. Hook

13:56

Seven Okay you lasso a party

13:58

the early sharper, jutting chunk of

14:00

the ceiling and rip it down

14:03

and it falls onto the snake.

14:05

You see it, not like stab

14:07

queen's through, but it hits heavy.

14:09

It pierces a bit, you hear

14:12

it.assists in pain again. But your

14:14

last oh lands across a bit

14:16

of that venom and it starts

14:18

to wear away at the fibers

14:21

of your last. So you know

14:23

that this has compromised the structure.

14:25

It's not can be a sturdy

14:28

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14:30

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15:49

What Kim has done. I want

15:51

to take a shot directly above

15:53

his head and see if I

15:55

can get some of the ceiling

15:57

to fall on. It's okay, You

15:59

tell me the scale of this,

16:01

how much ceiling? what do you

16:03

wanna bring down to our to

16:06

decide what level your go and

16:08

weird out based on how devastating

16:10

you want this to be? Can

16:12

you give me like an idea

16:14

of like oh yeah man a

16:16

sixes pool table size I think

16:18

our. I. Think similar

16:20

to the size constraints for like a

16:22

creature he would harm as level again

16:25

like if you do this at a

16:27

weird level five you'll bring down a

16:29

trunk of rock of the size of

16:31

a horse. Perfect that yeah okay roll

16:34

it. was gonna go locomotive for that.

16:36

seems like overkill. something wrong and. Air.

16:41

Eleven Okay, you blast

16:43

the ceiling and a

16:45

huge amount of this

16:47

pitted rock falls. It

16:49

tumbles, On Top of this

16:51

Giant Sidewinder? And berries it.

16:53

For the most part you can

16:56

still see bits of it's coils.

16:58

like peeking out through the rocks,

17:00

you can still see that it

17:02

is working a to extricate itself

17:04

and bit by bit like that

17:06

rock is shifting. If left alone,

17:08

it will probably get loose eventually,

17:10

but for the moment it's truly

17:13

pinned. While it's pinned under these

17:15

rocks, I want to take off

17:17

my belt and east, how can

17:19

he says to try and belt

17:21

around it's mouth? Okay, give

17:23

me a nerve role to

17:26

confidently maneuver the danger of

17:28

this things Bite said. I've

17:30

got one point of grant. What could you

17:33

invoke to make this a success? I

17:35

think it's my goal. Kind of

17:37

like I had said before where

17:39

I know that these are just

17:41

all animals that have been made

17:43

it this way because of what

17:45

Nasa Center world that served as

17:47

back to that this corruption is

17:49

having on them. It is in

17:51

no way their faults and I

17:53

don't really want had like punish

17:55

them or sell them if we

17:57

don't ask is assessed. This is

17:59

a. Than I can restrain it

18:01

and keep it from attacking us without

18:04

having to kill it. Than I wanted

18:06

to take that opportunity. That it

18:08

spend. Your point of grit, you levitate the

18:10

belt out and the bit of it's new

18:12

as poking out from under the rocks and

18:14

still might. it's looking at the air and

18:16

it's occasionally like trying to opened it's mouth

18:19

and get a bite at one it can't

18:21

really see are perceived by you. Manage to

18:23

time it out and get that belt secured

18:25

around it's mouth and it is no longer

18:27

able to open it. Would you guys want

18:29

to do? You've got it pinned. It can't

18:31

currently move and it can't currently bite. You

18:33

know that it's I mean it's covered in

18:35

a corrosive substance so eventually if it did

18:37

nothing, it would. Become free again.

18:39

We should go, right? Yeah, yeah.

18:42

It's going to get out here is a

18:44

dozen times that hopefully we can take care

18:46

of what we need to before. That Kim

18:48

I know that you've made animals see your

18:51

feel things before. Can can you make it

18:53

think that were a threat that it doesn't

18:55

wanna mess with in the future because of

18:57

what we just a to surf? Yes, let's

18:59

try. Okay Kim ago weird a level three.

19:03

Ah, eight or it. And what are you

19:05

put? New Ten what he shown it. I'm.

19:07

Trying to flood this makes brain

19:09

with visions as a myriad possible

19:12

futures and which it encounters us

19:14

and every time it needs. As

19:16

it just like bad things are happening

19:18

to it, it just keeps getting a

19:20

hurts every time it encounters as okay

19:23

you put these visions in it's head

19:25

as you do, I think there's just

19:27

a little bit of like the residue

19:29

of that fear comes off of it

19:31

and stays behind in your head. you're

19:33

skeptical. Minus one does your next weird

19:35

rule, Whatever it is, But this.

19:38

Thing underneath the rocks. It shrinks in

19:40

all those exposed parts pole and it

19:42

seems like it's coils up to like

19:44

hide beneath a pile of rubble and

19:46

won't be pursuing your i think I

19:49

speak debt as I got. Hocus

19:51

Pocus Slutsky moving because that bell is

19:53

definitely going to hold him for a

19:55

while, but some of that venom leaking

19:58

out I'm sure will release eventually. Jumbo

20:00

helps Silas up off the ground. You

20:02

can tell that he's a little bit

20:04

more banged up having done a dive

20:06

tackle in his condition. But he.

20:09

Steals himself and get his arm

20:11

around Jumbo again. Stuff much

20:13

farther now and he presses on.

20:16

The rest of the walk is

20:18

on of in full. No further

20:20

creatures lash out at you whether

20:22

because they are appropriately scared by

20:25

how you've dealt with their brethren

20:27

or whether it's just good luck.

20:29

But you get your point where

20:31

you can see lights in the

20:33

distance Coming and around a bend

20:35

the tunnel starts to expand a

20:37

bit. It gets somewhat larger and

20:40

you turn the corner into a

20:42

pocket of sorts. In here it's

20:44

a larger chamber you can see.

20:46

That like the rest of

20:48

the tunnel to some degree

20:50

this was naturally occurring, but

20:53

it has clearly been manufactured

20:55

further to be a suitable

20:57

outpost. A suitable guard station

20:59

from his description. There are

21:01

very few furnishings in here

21:03

are you can see the

21:05

smolders of a fire and

21:07

a just hairline fracture in

21:10

the ceiling. Above that Scott

21:12

like such collected around it

21:14

you can see the absolutely

21:16

tattered. Remains of a bad

21:18

role that isn't complete disrepair.

21:20

Damn thing must be four

21:22

hundred years old. And on

21:25

the opposite wall a huge

21:27

glowing stretch of ley line

21:29

pokes out. again. it's it's

21:31

like a vein of or

21:33

but it is fifteen feet

21:35

wide and ten feet tall.

21:37

Of this twenty by twenty

21:40

chamber, it's Go. Highlights everything

21:42

that's in here. you can

21:44

to immediately. There's no more.

21:46

Need for the lantern and

21:48

Silas let's go of Jumbo

21:50

kind of hobbles over in

21:53

that direction his bed role

21:55

as against about wall Id

21:57

just plops down on it.

22:00

And gonna leans back against

22:02

the wall and sighs heavily.

22:04

Here We are the heart,

22:06

so to speak of. Never

22:08

seen such a large collection

22:10

of magical energy before naturally

22:12

occurring. Neither it we have

22:14

to assume that's why Nash

22:16

came here. What does it feel

22:18

like as a step? Closer, it feels

22:20

like what Silas described that

22:22

it is like war made

22:24

a soothing. It's kind of

22:27

a savvy, but it's also

22:29

kind of tingley. It's just

22:31

like there's an additional sensation

22:33

to this that isn't bad,

22:35

but doesn't belong. Kim. I

22:37

think you notice that that. Scar

22:39

you got from the Scotland's Acid. You

22:41

can feel it's starting to mend at

22:44

a bit of an accelerated rate and

22:46

again it tingles. It feels kind of

22:48

weird, doesn't feel quite right, but you

22:50

can tell that I mean just being

22:52

in proximity to this, it's reaching out.

22:55

Loud a thing as powerful yes, even

22:57

does he does feel irradiating Off I

23:00

held my hands up and front of

23:02

me like of our can. Fire They

23:04

feel warm even and it's corrupted

23:06

state. It's still it's still wants

23:08

to aid life. The can know

23:11

that. does it really matter in

23:13

this context? But we studied magic

23:15

for years and they're all these

23:17

different kinds of theories about it.

23:19

But even as he corrected magic

23:21

this magic still once to lend

23:23

itself. To. Creation. To

23:25

force of nature. If he can't

23:27

stop it, you can't even flip

23:29

it. You get its way. but

23:31

it's gonna do what it's gonna

23:33

do. You're. Right? read: A wants

23:36

to create. I guess it's

23:38

just manipulate isn't what is

23:40

created. All right. So how do we clean it?

23:42

Ah well. First I think we gotta figure

23:45

out what happened to it and I'd like

23:47

to try to get a vision of let

23:49

nested year. Okay, Regardless, I think

23:51

this is a big one. Yeah, you're

23:53

going to be going weird at a

23:55

level seven. That's what I would

23:57

have posited. Guess that's what gets. Short

24:00

but detailed and I think that's what we

24:02

need in order to figure out what's going

24:04

on. Here are the details: Job. And

24:06

even barring the specificity of the

24:09

vision the region back centuries to

24:11

get it here wrote. Or

24:13

it's gonna be ah with a

24:15

negative one. In total, Can

24:17

I aid with this Oh God kids

24:20

you please like? Can this be a

24:22

team work? Can I make her a

24:24

ritual circle for her to be in

24:26

the like? Help cast that vision back?

24:29

Sure. Yeah, Man, you got any way

24:31

to teamwork this? Yeah. I want to

24:33

hold. Him kind of

24:35

read the rak to how she

24:38

usually sees into the past. like

24:40

usually she's able to get a

24:42

very clear vision of what happened,

24:45

what was going on. I once

24:47

you tell that into his thoughts

24:49

and feelings and emotions and intentions

24:51

to get a clear picture of

24:54

not only like what he did

24:56

but how and why as well.

24:59

Okay or than everybody role

25:01

to go weird at level

25:03

seven or eight. Eight

25:06

Ten Okay, a full success

25:08

is a full success. So

25:10

rev you stabilize the magic

25:12

within the circle, make a

25:14

new channel your empathic magic,

25:16

and Tim your eyes go

25:19

white. You see through Silas

25:21

his eyes. From your perspective,

25:23

you're on the ground looking

25:25

up at Mass and he

25:27

doesn't look too awful. different.

25:29

From how you are all used to

25:31

seeing him far as the variance of

25:33

time between your world in this one.

25:36

It. Must be significant because this

25:38

is your Nash and it's

25:40

not that long ago for

25:42

him. But he wipes his

25:44

hands on a rag of

25:46

Silas his blood and puts

25:48

it back into his pocket

25:50

and he lays one hand

25:52

on the line and then

25:54

the other and you see

25:56

him start to mutter and

25:58

it grows louder. Into a

26:00

chance that he is verbalizing

26:03

a spell. You see the

26:05

veins in his arms and

26:07

in his neck turned black

26:09

and his hands sink in

26:11

to the ley line, my

26:13

keys phasing through it. and

26:15

then whatever is in his

26:17

veins seems to work. It's

26:19

way down and out, down

26:21

his arms, out of his

26:23

hands, directly into the core

26:25

of this ley line and

26:27

you see it run black.

26:30

For a moment like he has

26:32

dumped into into it but that

26:34

black seems to just get washed

26:36

away and swept up by the

26:39

rest of the magic coursing through

26:41

before he withdraws his hands and

26:43

again pulls out that rag and

26:46

kind of wipes them clean and

26:48

looks down at you, throw the

26:50

rag at you and walks out

26:53

and then your vision clears. Fallacy.

26:55

saw the handkerchief on you. Op beg

26:57

your pardon. A. Handkerchief. Eat you had

27:00

handkerchief. Centuries ago, he still had it. He

27:02

of starts to like look around

27:04

and in that tatters of his

27:06

bed role ah and he reaches

27:09

under like a fold of cloth

27:11

and pulls out I mean just

27:13

just the to the ghost of

27:15

a rag. Like just this thread

27:17

bear barely hold non shrunk a

27:19

cloth. This. Yeah, I saw

27:22

through your vision San I

27:24

saw and Nash our Nash.

27:26

He likes his hands as

27:28

Silas blood on that rag

27:30

and then plunged his hands

27:32

into the stone around the

27:34

ley line. And was that

27:36

corruption. It came from him,

27:38

the his ass since I

27:40

saw his veins turn black

27:42

and then that black energy

27:45

go into the ley line.

27:47

and then he wiped his

27:49

hands of that corruption. This

27:51

it looks like eat onto that same

27:53

rag and threw it at you silas.

27:56

He grumbles. yes, I remember.

27:58

What's your point? There

28:00

might be a sample of it. Yes,

28:02

there are people here who are much

28:04

more it magically brained than I am.

28:06

Fight the fact that that is an

28:09

object that Nash touched that has his

28:11

essence the corruption that went into this

28:13

ley line. I don't know It could

28:15

be important in terms of getting it

28:17

out. A look at that could use

28:19

it as like a marker to identify

28:21

what needs to be drawn out. But

28:23

yeah, let's look at it first. I

28:25

mean it could be God corrupted the

28:27

came from him. He could be just

28:30

magically to be something like Vampiric that

28:32

he could do it. I'll just depends.

28:34

I guess what it actually is. The

28:36

I want to take a look at

28:38

the remnants of this this rag and

28:40

see if it looks so? Is it

28:42

like I corps or. I'd like to

28:44

spend a gear charged to have a my

28:47

first chemistry set yeah me and pull up

28:49

a little microscope. I wanna like

28:51

hybridize a couple of moves to I

28:53

do that from Iowa To do that

28:56

you are not just your and torture

28:58

or go go. I feel like like

29:00

this is because I can investigate and

29:03

your scrutinizing something but it is specifically

29:05

something weird. I feel like this is

29:07

like a role plus mind a plus

29:10

weird instead of plus soul plus a

29:12

weird or plus mind was investigate. I

29:14

feel like it's a split baron yeah

29:17

was. We've explained all of the rules

29:19

and done them correctly. So far, so

29:21

now we've got only way to hundred percent

29:23

hundred finale to and stray from Cod Light.

29:27

Em like. What is playing Pt

29:29

Rpg is if not just making

29:31

it work at your table? Yeah,

29:33

making a lot of on the

29:35

fly. Rules. Calls as I'm sure

29:37

there's no they didn't work. This game

29:39

allows you to make custom moves faster.

29:42

So this is a magical investigation art

29:44

role plus mind plus Weird. Okay, hell

29:46

yeah. Six

29:49

Oh no, I know

29:51

that's like the highest.

29:53

The Bonus: To. A role

29:55

I could have gotten some. I do have

29:57

one point of grit left, so I. I

30:00

think I'm going to spend it and

30:02

I'm gonna. and man or they are

30:04

Canis yeah you are. I'm I'm no

30:06

magic shit or right. Not according to

30:09

that rule but with discourage I do.

30:11

Who can spend your point? A grip

30:13

that a bump you up to seven

30:15

the up. So ah, I'll give you

30:17

one relevant fact alla investigate. Can you

30:19

can get a bead on what kind

30:22

of magic buses? It's not death magic.

30:24

You can tell that this was before

30:26

he bonded with death without anything inherently

30:28

vampiric, but he was like. The vessel

30:30

for this black magic. And he was

30:32

able to do that because he's a

30:34

vampire. He could survive this. He could

30:37

survive. like basically being of the file

30:39

for this poison so you are able

30:41

to kind of pick up on that

30:43

magics trace signature. but you realize it

30:45

needed a vessel to get in. it's

30:47

gonna need a vessel to get out.

30:50

Okay, so yeah, he was carrying this

30:52

inside of him. but it wasn't death

30:54

magic. It wasn't vampiric magic. it was

30:56

of whatever it was this this corrupt

30:58

force at on of. It was magic

31:01

or poisoned, but he could carry it

31:03

in sight of him because he was

31:05

a vampire. Like his regeneration or whatever

31:08

was strong enough to allow him to

31:10

bring it here and then dump it

31:12

into this magic so we we can

31:14

get it out. but it's it's gonna

31:17

come out and to someone. Does

31:19

a person. That. Pizza. Then

31:21

have to be the one to draw it

31:23

out. Or can it be drawn into anybody?

31:26

Oh like could so and be

31:28

a conduit to move it into

31:30

another person who is the vessel.

31:33

Yeah. I'm just wondering. Is it like

31:35

a i'll be of the one to

31:37

dried out in so I'm the one that

31:39

has to take it in situation? That

31:42

would be my assumption. I I think that

31:44

I could move the magic out of the

31:46

ley line into another person. If I did

31:48

that, I would think I would just have

31:50

to be prepared for the possibility that does

31:52

stay and me as opposed to go to

31:54

that of the person that I don't think

31:56

we can know without testing it. I. Mean,

31:58

I don't think there's any way. That one of

32:00

us could survive something like this unless

32:03

someone hears keeping a secret I don't

32:05

know about. I wonder if there's a

32:07

Wade said possibly spread that corruption amongst

32:09

all of us liked? Sure, one person

32:12

might not be able to survive of

32:14

full dose, but if we all have

32:16

a piece of it, Yeah I

32:18

mean one of us we wouldn't survive it

32:21

it might be did bill attaining but the

32:23

more people we could spread it out of

32:25

monks to might not be as bad or

32:27

just. Lean. Up against the wall

32:29

and think to the ground we don't

32:32

know what the is. I mean it

32:34

could be even a little bit of

32:36

it is fatal if you're not a

32:38

vampire. We do know

32:40

a couple of vampires. We.

32:43

Do any that you want to trust with

32:45

their Connor Road destructive power. Only one in

32:47

he's not in this world. Silas plants a

32:49

hand on the ground and starts trying to

32:51

get to his feet. I'll do it in

32:53

the sound of it, you know? got a

32:55

lot less to do and from the look

32:57

of a girl, a hell of a lot

32:59

better at it than I am. I had

33:01

one job fucked it up but I can

33:03

make good on and now. I get

33:05

up and go over to him. You didn't suck

33:08

it up. Protecting the world any

33:10

world is to better job for any

33:12

one person to have to take on.

33:14

You were put in an impossible situation

33:16

and you somehow made it through to

33:19

the other side. We definitely can't ask

33:21

this of you and I'm racking my

33:23

brain trying to find another way and

33:25

I look at everyone. I just don't

33:27

think we have any time. I

33:30

don't have the things I would need

33:32

to build something that could absorb and

33:34

contain that kind of energy. If I

33:36

had the lab I I had a

33:38

lie back home I could. But you're

33:40

right, we don't have the time. Or.

33:42

Do mean you don't have time? What?

33:44

are your all? Such a hurry towards

33:46

us? Are you to care? The the

33:48

circle or whatever you broke down what

33:50

I had my wards tethered to. there's

33:52

one left, the center one and dumb

33:54

bringing down that other ward. We we

33:56

lost one of our team and we

33:59

we think we. Bring them back,

34:01

but we can't do it here. I

34:03

am truly sorry to hear that. Lose any

34:05

member. Your orders Never easy. The. Even if

34:08

we do, you clear the corruption from

34:10

this place and accomplish everything we're here

34:12

to do. If you take this on

34:14

as. It's. Going to leave this

34:16

unprotected Your the last of your kind

34:18

here. There's no one else to pass

34:20

on this knowledge. Oil if I

34:22

clean this out and you'll take care of

34:25

whatever other boogie men are out, there should

34:27

be no need for anybody to guard and

34:29

no more say there's one left and the

34:32

sooner the top of the spike yeah assaulted

34:34

or know what it is but the ley

34:36

lines run strong through every bit of this

34:38

become like lays hand on and like traces

34:41

the hand up towards the ceiling. sometimes I

34:43

can feel it legion I don't know that

34:45

plane lit up and take care of him

34:47

might make taken care of it easier and

34:50

are no lot about this whole. After

34:52

Laffer coming back. business but like

34:54

we've been talking about, a landline

34:56

supposed to be life supposed to

34:58

be creation. So if there's any

35:00

where you might bring a friend

35:02

back. They. Just. Pass that

35:04

vein the wall. I think this

35:06

might be it. Who knows. Maybe

35:08

if we get it cleaned up

35:10

the old girl be grateful, should

35:12

give us a miracle and a

35:14

my eyes are just darting around

35:16

to everyone here and down to

35:18

the ground and like just trying

35:21

to wrap my brain for something

35:23

that could contain this. but that

35:25

knowledge of no one that we

35:27

can trust and no one that

35:29

doesn't leave us in a place

35:31

where we can't do what we're

35:33

supposed. To do in the near future. As.

35:35

A guide let out a sigh and I look at

35:37

Silas. When. I first joined the

35:39

order. They're always hesitant to give

35:42

you places to guard their much

35:44

smaller and more spread out than

35:46

what you have here, but there

35:48

are things out there that want

35:50

them they want to feed on.

35:52

I'm they want to use them

35:54

for things that would corrupt the

35:56

magic. and they always warn you

35:58

that if things go sideways. Keeping

36:00

the magic clean or letting the

36:02

magic go his way better than

36:04

letting the magic become corrupt. Whatever

36:06

the cost, You've. Had a very

36:08

long service of duty. The. Brothers

36:10

would be proud of you. He sets a hand

36:13

on your shoulder. I'd be happy to know that

36:15

we have such a cable brother to carry on

36:17

the knowledge. I would have liked the opportunity to

36:19

get a drink with the and picked brain may

36:21

be in the next life and will need you

36:23

young bucks to walk me through this sub. It

36:26

above my pay grade. I cannot

36:28

believe how emotional I am. Of I

36:30

agree. Literally know today. Never

36:36

heard the name. Violence at hold

36:38

anything today and I'm sad.

36:41

To say that yeah, Yeah.

36:43

I will take Silas over to

36:45

the ley line and chalk out

36:47

like the hand motions that he

36:49

needs to make like the the

36:52

patterns on the ley line so

36:54

that you can just move his

36:56

hand along the chalk for it

36:59

to allow him to draw the

37:01

energy out and india himself. And

37:03

then I will set the spell

37:05

up to have a a short

37:08

duration so that the energy than

37:10

flows back into it's original position.

37:13

Him and Meghan Are you working on

37:15

anything? Are you eating this effort? And

37:17

anyway, Yeah, absolutely I'm Alice.

37:19

I'm gonna try and let me

37:21

know what you think of as

37:24

so we talked about how this

37:26

magic in the say line his

37:28

life. It has this desire to

37:31

create and has a purpose. In

37:33

a sense it is a living

37:36

being. I want to try to

37:38

reach out and connect with that

37:40

intention and that energy and death

37:43

prompt it. Kiss hello. Kind of

37:45

like speeding up the filtration process.

37:48

Moving at pushing it through this

37:50

magical filter to more quickly cleanse

37:52

it from every like sorry it's

37:54

okay ah I probably need Reds

37:57

help with I heard be incantation

37:59

that Nash was saying to pull

38:01

this out of him so I

38:03

think I am late repeating it

38:05

to rouse and just try to

38:08

figure out like what did this

38:10

mean and then what would what

38:12

would one say in order to

38:14

pull it out like this is

38:17

what I heard what's the reverse

38:19

of thus. Perfect! So this

38:21

is going to be a ritual

38:24

again. I think this is as

38:26

big as they come there but

38:28

it is also again a teamwork.

38:31

So why doesn't everybody role to

38:33

go weird of at level seven.

38:38

Ten, Nine, Ten, Or

38:40

right. you walk Silas

38:42

through this incantation. And

38:44

he starts to chance and his

38:47

hands sink into the ley line

38:49

and you see this dark wash.

38:52

Get Dragged. Out and his

38:54

veins in his arms turn black

38:56

and it runs up his arms

38:59

towards her shoulders. You can see

39:01

it up his neck, pass the

39:03

color of his shirt and his

39:06

chant becomes labored. He gets louder.

39:08

You can tell that he's just

39:10

he's trying to compensate for the

39:13

pain. He's trying not to waver

39:15

as this takes him over, but

39:17

you see his wrists start to

39:20

cleanse that black energy in his

39:22

veins. Ceasing as if he has

39:24

pulled all of it and it runs

39:26

up his arm, comes down from his

39:29

neck as if it is gathering in

39:31

his torso and he withdraws his hands

39:33

from the way wine and he turns

39:35

around. Give. A male. And.

39:38

He collapses. The

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Steel, James's.

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Suisse. There's

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no need for this. I do

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not believe the whatever that game

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and understand rather. Know

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you are in there somewhere you

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