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It's not often that city folk

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venture all the way over to

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Thinland's farms, especially lately

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where it's gotten so dangerous

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out there. As

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you say, there is a threat. We have been tasked

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by the Oak Stewards of Seven Arches to

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handle that threat. We've had a couple

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people, as of late

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past month or so, went off, never

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came back. One

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of them was a married woman. What

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was her name? Maybelline. What's

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the husband's name? Gerald. Might

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we speak to your children? Asta

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sits on the ground to get to their

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level, and she says, I

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like your drawing. It's

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one of mommy's birds. Did

0:57

your mommy draw birds, too?

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Yeah, she'd draw birds. And

1:03

sometimes they just weren't right. They

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weren't... She

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looks at Jim, and he goes, worthy.

1:11

Okay, interesting. So

1:13

you go back to the

1:15

inn, uggles. You see something

1:17

in the middle of the

1:19

room, a dead bird, and

1:23

its wings have

1:25

been like, elaborately and

1:27

purposefully broken. Artistic,

1:30

maybe? It's horrifying. He's

1:33

going to start drawing exactly the bird

1:36

as it lays, when anybody touches it.

1:38

You're looking at this, and you realize

1:41

that this bird is a

1:43

map. It's also a clock

1:46

pointing to a very specific time. The

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adventure continues now.

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Back to the Glass Cannon podcast.

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ah identified said this publicly but

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listen over the years you to

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buy do the math as to

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what our ages are and forty

2:42

five. Forty Five

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Was born in Nineteen Seventy Eight. September Fourth.

2:47

Nineteen Seventy Eight. Feel free to say happy

2:49

Birthday on social media. Wants it? Or. Ah,

2:54

a forty five. I like to think

2:56

our mom hip. I've got three kids

2:58

now, learned to be hipper. How

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his thought forty five year olds

3:03

are doing on his. If you

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are or your side you're exactly.

3:08

You're exactly Debussy like the Cast

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of Tears and they're like these

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people on the early thirties or

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to notice when was rent was

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like six thirty three other.had a

3:19

i'm not sort of list of

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addresses users tend. To describe yourself, tip

3:23

is going to be one of them, as

3:25

the other is technologically savvy. I

3:28

don't have a different conception of what those words

3:30

mean. A

3:32

lot of hundred seek. I understand that I

3:35

my my last on the younger generation. I'm

3:37

not. Yep, I'm a different kind of hips.

3:39

However, I'm trying, I'm trying to learn and

3:41

try to keep up with lives. You're going

3:43

to be dead soon and for that amount

3:46

of thought about it's a similar values live

3:48

Forever I'm putting us in our blood wasn't

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as I live forever in your blood. One.

3:52

Of the same I'm trying to a

3:54

federal is anti social media study you

3:56

we still get as exhort of the

3:58

reasons we are doubly. Knows now we

4:00

are here. We're not good. I were

4:03

trying to learn, were trying to get

4:05

better. But just when I think I

4:07

know what's going on, Ah, young whippersnappers

4:09

like Kate Stammers lets me know I

4:11

have no idea what's going on. I

4:13

wish the cameras are rolling ten minutes

4:15

ago. Never be able. To

4:18

converse in the way it went down. But

4:20

you said something to this fact that should

4:22

we talk about which side of tic toc

4:25

we're on And Sydney was like said, they

4:27

don't know about that sets of merely wants.

4:30

To know that. Was

4:33

correct Seats. At it and studio went silent.

4:35

Yeah you guys look similar to had seven

4:37

had. It was just like Cricket said. I

4:39

was like this isn't the i can't explain

4:41

you can't teach this old hip dog new

4:43

tricks. With them when she said next clarified

4:45

it all. Example or another size of tic

4:48

toc and I might add that would say

4:50

you are some. Of the all night know at some as

4:52

you might not. Hamster. Gym and

4:54

to a hamster raise tic tac

4:56

towards Iraq. Get off of that.

4:58

To which I replied something the effect of

5:00

like it is the only one other side.

5:04

Of the tickets are more sensitive or that

5:06

he said i guess i'm on the other.

5:10

Out about or whatever. You

5:12

don't I tell him I just north of on attempts. To

5:14

raise said talk? Is it better? To

5:17

bring struck up a one more blog.

5:19

What other only two sides. Sell it

5:21

on. The Niners are so many cities

5:23

in a more for us since mine

5:25

I did. It builds sincere all rain

5:27

and it shows you what you are.

5:29

Get back at you and your like

5:31

this as he lands and part of

5:34

who I am as I legalized mirror.

5:36

I love watching live streams of fun.

5:38

the hamsters. Run. And run and on

5:40

we'll firewall like house music plays stated.

5:42

Send me that. This is your

5:44

and there's a lot of this lot of different

5:46

people to put these of. There's multiple. Hamster Gym,

5:48

Live streams and I I get them all and

5:51

I watched them are I like. I

5:53

watch them. Do you? Cook. for

5:55

clarifying question you say you know what i

5:57

want to do a now or people your

5:59

phone and you go to these or there's

6:02

something like on my for you page on

6:04

my FYP okay

6:07

you guys have heard of the algorithm

6:10

you got you

6:13

know tick tock basically has one of the best

6:15

algorithms out there it knows what you want to

6:17

see and it serves it to you on a

6:20

silver I've been I understand that concept

6:22

but that's all you want to

6:24

know I've been waiting

6:26

for this topic and I have an ongoing

6:29

notes app list so that's not into

6:31

you so oxygen ticket little

6:33

chef which is the which

6:36

is the guy in like the the

6:38

creepy like demon costume with like long

6:40

limbs and he just like cooks food

6:43

I still have to go back to hand to Jim are you on just

6:45

I have an awesome but are these just

6:47

people you follow on tick I watched a

6:50

livestream once of a guy running a marathon but

6:52

it was just him running back and forth in

6:54

his apartment and he did 3870 laughs aside to

6:56

how many sides does this shape have

7:01

is it really infinite like infinite infinite it's

7:03

like looking into the void and having it look

7:05

back at you it's a fractal for instance for

7:07

instance my side of tick-tock a lot of what

7:09

I get shown and that's what I mean when

7:11

I say my side right talk a

7:14

lot of accidents a lot of

7:16

really bad accident you don't

7:18

even know you don't know if they survive you

7:20

don't really know what's going on they're out of

7:22

context and they're scary that's one two

7:24

hang on missus because one time you

7:27

search for that and now one time I

7:29

was shown it and I watched it for a

7:31

little too much it for a second before you

7:33

are long second thing I

7:37

get shown mysteries you

7:39

know the Loch Ness monster mysterious

7:41

building got hurt in this accident yeah they're

7:44

kind of a walkers clips I did the

7:46

same thing yeah which bones were broken yeah

7:48

yeah it's it's fine I get shown a lot

7:51

of mysteries a lot of like folklore and legend

7:53

stuff and that's really fun and then right back

7:55

to a really bad motorcycle accident how I

7:57

just any and through 20 videos on my

8:00

the FYP page. There was no connecting

8:02

tissue. Because it doesn't know your FYP.

8:05

It doesn't know yet. It's like saying ATM

8:07

machine. My FYP page. I'm

8:11

a little... You're so stupid.

8:14

You said FYP. Your

8:17

FYP. The P is the page. The P is the

8:19

page. Well, there's nothing.

8:21

Here's a gopher being stood up

8:24

in a shower. Yeah, if you want such a long...

8:26

Here's a comedian Lewis Black doing a set, a

8:28

plus-size model. You have... A dark holiday. Golden

8:30

Retrievers. Actually, not feeling like you. Just like

8:32

standing still in pools looking down at tennis

8:34

balls. A lot of them never get them,

8:36

but they just look at them. Well, should

8:39

we do an experiment? Like, should we

8:41

all commit to just like checking out

8:43

TikTok for a week? No. Yeah.

8:46

I do not want... You're afraid. Yes, I am. I

8:50

don't want to look into the void either. You're

8:53

not ready. But then you can see something so

8:55

beautiful, like 20 hamsters running in different wheels in

8:57

the dark with lights glowing and house music.

9:00

Tunnel lady. I'll watch it on Kate's phone. Tunnel

9:02

lady? When you said hamster rave, I

9:04

in no way thought an actual hamster would be

9:06

involved. Yeah, no. It's just like live streams inside

9:08

of a hamster. Some of it is so

9:10

precious and benign and silly. And you just

9:12

see the little butts running so, so fast

9:15

and it's just like... Sweet, you

9:17

know. Skate, what would be yours on TikTok? What do

9:19

you think? I don't know. Capes.

9:21

Something with capes? Probably. I

9:24

think it's on the cape side. Yes. Oh, they're

9:26

definitely on. I'm on the capes. For

9:28

audio listeners, I found my cape. And

9:32

I'm wearing it. Is it warm? Yeah,

9:36

it's nice. It's wool. Do you walk here in the...

9:38

No. I'm gonna go outside

9:40

wearing the... If it gets cold, do

9:42

you bring it up over your face? I could, totally.

9:44

So I want to go like... Shadow nose. Yeah. It's

9:47

a really nice place. It is a nice cape. High

9:49

quality cape. It is. Yeah. Also,

9:53

like TikTok made in China. That's

9:55

where Nick Shelfney orders from

9:58

China. It's true. Well,

10:00

I'd like to learn more about this. I want

10:03

to know who's on the Glass Cannon podcast side.

10:05

That's a side. Right. You don't

10:07

want to know, Aron. I follow it on TikTok. I am.

10:10

I get shown everything. I get shown everything, yeah.

10:12

Are you getting more hamsters than Glass Cannon? Wait,

10:15

what's the difference between TikTok and YouTube?

10:18

In terms of your side. Like,

10:22

if YouTube Shorts is sending me stuff that

10:25

I see over and over again, is that a

10:28

similar vibe, or is it just the algorithm's not

10:30

as good? I think that

10:32

before you answer, I have two things to say about this.

10:35

One is that I also would like

10:37

to know the answer to that question. And

10:39

two is that you sound so old. I know. I

10:42

know. I went into that being

10:44

like, should I say this? Because it sounds so

10:47

old. But then when Torst started the episode, my

10:49

first thought about 45 years old was being in

10:51

my early 20s, or late teens, early 20s, and

10:53

playing basketball in like the, you know, public courts.

10:57

And when a 45-year-old guy came to

10:59

play in like knee pads and stuff,

11:01

like I remember thinking they looked so

11:03

old. Like,

11:06

bald and almost dead. And I was

11:08

like, good for them for like trying. They were

11:10

65. Like they were

11:12

45. And so I was like, I

11:14

just got to commit to this. This is who I am. I

11:16

think the difference, and this may not even be

11:18

true, but I think the difference is more people

11:20

are putting more content on TikTok.

11:23

So you get shown a wider

11:25

range and more of it because

11:27

people are constantly uploading. So

11:29

I think too with YouTube, you're mostly

11:31

just getting stuff that you're already subscribed to,

11:33

channels you're subscribed to, which is not.

11:36

It's what you think you want, not

11:38

necessarily what you actually want. Yeah, what

11:40

you don't even know you want. That's

11:42

what TikTok is. I would also like to say for the record

11:44

that Kate and I are the same age. What

11:46

are you saving this for? Wow. Yeah,

11:49

whose record? I think so old

11:51

and that well, you were born

11:54

older, George. trope

12:00

that like Sydney and I are so much younger than

12:02

all of you and I just know that you Matthew

12:04

and I are the same we graduated in the

12:06

same year high school right now it's not it's

12:08

not records anymore it's CDs I would like to

12:10

say for the

12:22

CDs like MP3 now it's like they

12:24

don't even use CDs anymore get

12:29

with the times it's the 90s yeah

12:32

Sydney you're the youngest yeah well at

12:34

least you're a high-powered attorney high-powered

12:41

attorney by day she

12:44

wants to be the bar for the 12th time lucky

12:49

number 13 I play

12:51

an attorney on TV why won't

12:53

they give me my license I

12:59

was just looking up that meme three

13:01

days ago I'm not a doctor but

13:03

I play one on TV that whole

13:05

bit because I forgot because I remember

13:07

that commercial like being on but I didn't

13:10

remember like what the commercial was for and

13:12

it was for Vicks nasal spray I think

13:14

and the doctor was this guy it was

13:16

a did the actor played a doctor in

13:18

general hospital and then he

13:20

had like some huge scandal right after

13:23

that and they replaced them and I

13:25

shouldn't have started the story because I don't remember the end that

13:30

was a commercial begin with because then it became

13:32

one of the first to me

13:34

it was it was an early meme like where's

13:36

the beef or whatever what have you really aging

13:38

yourself yeah where's the beef I'm probably explain where's

13:41

the beef to my son the other day you

13:43

walked out of the room I don't

13:45

care about your beef one of

13:47

the most

13:50

famous books on advertising is

13:52

about there where's the beef it's

13:54

called hey whipple squeeze this hey whipple

13:56

hey whipple whipple yeah squeeze the shaman

13:58

yeah it's basically it's like like

14:00

looking at campaigns you think

14:02

are annoying but are actually really effective. Yeah.

14:05

Among other results about the creative process. It's a good book. Well,

14:07

I know what side

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17:47

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17:49

the facts. What are you know? Just

17:52

the first man to smile. I know the

17:54

less I know a thing. Yup,

17:56

I'm. More you know was you

17:58

know, Yeah the more. Rival! How stupid

18:00

for not Miss Fi Woodman ever. Since.

18:03

Remember, I mean it. I think

18:06

most the central kind of mystery

18:08

so far. Is the

18:10

missing the missing moments? This.

18:12

Is kind of the time.

18:15

That. We've lost like as a result

18:18

of this. Like these gates opening. These.

18:20

These time that we we can't remember. that's

18:22

the main thing that we were sent out

18:25

to investigate the beginning. What's your? It's funny

18:27

because like stuff like that can kind of

18:29

get lost over the span of like the

18:31

months that you play a game and you

18:33

get involved and like the manouchehr like you

18:36

know this on the way. but that that

18:38

is like was as a reminder Like that

18:40

is like that thing that we're really supposed

18:42

to be looking into. Yeah, and that's what

18:44

led us to Seven Arches right? Because we're

18:46

looking for and or of were under the

18:49

insertion of Doctor Wilson were. Trying to find

18:51

out more movement, missing moments, similar occurrences,

18:53

research the I dora not let us

18:55

to seven arches which led us to

18:58

the oaks the or it's. Who.

19:00

Protect the area while Ceci let

19:02

us a bowl on railed with

19:05

was a gate walker and came

19:07

back chain and wasn't okay where

19:09

it came. Militant against all humanity

19:11

back. Sept first humans I think

19:14

except. For no, no, all sentient life

19:16

essentially them. I just was like preferring

19:18

only animals and plants like them all

19:20

live but no one else because everyone

19:23

else is ruining nature by just they're

19:25

very exist the Been radicalised and his

19:27

miss day at a been were he

19:29

was radicalized in his missing moment. but

19:31

he's the only other gate walker we

19:34

know about right that we western. Besides,

19:36

besides all the people we know that

19:38

aren't villains or and Mike. We discovered

19:40

that the I you Die and seven arches

19:42

rent the real lines and that like diet

19:45

mythical figure a. Can he piles want

19:47

a Clinton Pow? Pow

19:49

sits on was like theories. Are

19:52

not arson. who like me as a nub

19:54

nebula curse and like me as the person who

19:56

likes cause the i you doris self and out

19:58

of my brain just jump there we were

20:00

in was that a key thing is this is

20:02

the reason Riddleson brought you here in the first

20:04

place why he gave you his most promising lead

20:06

the Glenn Gary leads is

20:09

because this Obnubula can't

20:11

have and you Matthew

20:16

you know the Obnubula curse is this curse has

20:18

been around forever is like you come close to

20:20

seven arches and you're an elf you shrivel up

20:22

and die but something that tied into the night

20:25

of the missing moment is the curse was lifted

20:27

and so he wanted you to investigate that as

20:29

you've investigated that you found out a little

20:31

bit more about this curse and that somehow

20:34

this fae figure may be tied up in

20:36

it and you made a

20:38

good point that we tested the seven arches they're

20:40

not the real gates that was why we

20:42

went into the wildwood and we found

20:45

where the actual real gates are we

20:47

had one task but all like unraveling and

20:49

they like all this other stuff also then there

20:51

is the shade with her key which Boland was

20:54

using some ritual that we found it was maybe

20:56

inspired by Kenepo and that Kenepo probably has this

20:58

key right yeah

21:00

you found out the Canepo Kenepo

21:02

instructed Boland to get the key and

21:05

so you were hoping you'd find Boland and

21:07

find the key but it appears that Boland

21:10

gave the key to Kenepo and it could

21:12

be used for very nefarious purposes in fact

21:14

we are concerned that that's what happened like

21:16

today right yeah you are on a ticking

21:18

clock it's a the the only got is

21:21

a clock yeah well that's don't jump ahead

21:23

we're showing episode 14 but yeah you you

21:28

were told by Lemma Felthorn that the

21:30

elder oak stewards determined from what they learned

21:32

in Boland's journal that you had probably three

21:35

days and three nights before this was going

21:37

down there were sentences and thought what was

21:39

going down we don't

21:42

know something awful or maybe

21:44

something kind of localized apocalypse

21:46

look like a like a tear in

21:48

the space-time continuum right there they fear

21:50

that with the shade wither key in

21:52

the wrong hands if this figure really

21:54

does exist and everything they know about

21:56

this that this could

21:59

all go down in three days and three

22:01

nights and could be apocalypse. Is this

22:03

because this place, this area, is

22:06

so sort of tenuously clinging

22:08

to material reality that

22:11

makes it vulnerable to something like this? Yes,

22:13

well now that you spent some time in

22:15

the wildwood, you do know that the first

22:17

world influence there is very strong, and so

22:19

that is probably what leads the elders to

22:21

believe, we can't fuck around with this. We

22:24

need people to go and help us out, and

22:26

so you've been doing that. You started by going

22:29

to a Gorga victim's house,

22:31

Pah Mosby, had a conversation with

22:33

Pah Mosby that was semi-enlightening, but

22:35

more importantly, you learned that both

22:37

he and his son had

22:40

this feeling of a figure always

22:42

sort of judging them throughout their life. Worthy or

22:45

not worthy. They're worthy, and to deem what their

22:47

worthiness was. The little boy thinks that the devil

22:49

is trying to take him to hell, but the

22:51

Rameus talk to him and kind of dug a

22:53

little bit deeper. He's just looking for James Worthy.

22:56

It could be that he's looking for. Former

22:59

Los Angeles later. One possibility. Worthy.

23:02

And then we went to Thin Lands Farms, we found

23:04

more people had disappeared, including

23:06

this woman, Maybelline. And on your way

23:08

there, you meet a man named Malkior

23:11

who was looking for his friend, who

23:13

has also disappeared. So there's

23:15

this feeling of disappearances going on. You get

23:17

to Thin Lands Farms, which up

23:20

until the point you had got there, it was kind of

23:22

like, oh, maybe I've heard of that? Maybe that place exists?

23:24

I don't know, other people have been like, oh yeah, I've

23:26

heard of that, but nobody ever

23:28

goes there. You get there and

23:30

it's like a Red Dead Redemption

23:32

town, except everyone is gorgeous and

23:34

timeless. Clearly the first world influence

23:36

has infected this area in such

23:38

a way that it gives everyone

23:41

this sort of fountain of youth appearance.

23:43

Now question for clarification. So Thin

23:46

Lands Farm is in Thin

23:49

Lands, which is a

23:51

place? Unclear. Unclear. So

23:54

then my other question is, Nighthold is

23:56

surrounded by light land. Nighthold

23:59

is a... world place.

24:02

Light line is the first world, John?

24:05

The light line is the demarcation between the night world

24:07

and the material. It was a

24:10

series of lanterns that served as a focus of enchantments

24:12

to keep the the realm, the Nighthold, this

24:14

is a dark realm in the first world from expanding.

24:16

So from our understanding that as

24:18

characters, Finlands farm

24:20

is close to Nighthold.

24:23

That's the sense that you're getting, if

24:25

not close to Nighthold, at least like

24:28

close to perhaps the Finlands. This fissure

24:30

between the worlds. The Finlands. The Finlands

24:32

which is on another plane, right?

24:35

And within the Finlands is

24:38

Nighthold. You get the sense from

24:40

Boland's journal that Konebo's domain is

24:42

the Finland. That must be a

24:44

place, maybe that's what he calls

24:46

it. So

24:49

then we investigated Mabel and his parents talked

24:51

to her family and turns out she constructed

24:53

a true to life

24:55

diorama of the town. And had

24:57

traced and forest and far and the surrounding

25:00

forest and had traced all these paths on

25:02

there. And we walked a path

25:04

and nothing happened. But it was we

25:06

think that she had walked this path when she disappeared.

25:09

And then when we last night at we

25:11

went back to sleep at the saloon. Well,

25:13

right before that, we discovered that the the

25:16

paths that she's walking are in the forms

25:18

of birds and bird wings. Well, her drawings

25:20

of birds are similar to the path or

25:22

whatever. Like they they cross over. So it

25:25

was very bird heavy. And she made her

25:27

children draw birds as a whole thing. And

25:29

they also had to be worthy. The drawings

25:31

had to be worthy. And then

25:34

when we woke up the next morning, despite his

25:36

setting a watch, we've been delivered some sort of

25:38

message. A an

25:40

artistically, as you put it, making air quotes, disjointed

25:44

broken bird that upon closer inspection,

25:46

reveals itself not to be just a

25:49

map, but also a clock. Yeah.

25:51

And I don't want to put

25:54

salt in recent wounds, but it sounds more

25:56

like something lucky would have done just

25:59

because she's a cat. right? So yeah, you should

26:01

think of it as a gift. Yeah, maybe this from

26:03

Lucky Lucky would have. Wanted you to have this.

26:05

Know. Why? Did I? as I said

26:07

at the end of it might have been

26:09

was absurd and make the cat owner but

26:11

it was the i think it's Maybelline or

26:13

someone similar trying to communicate with us I

26:16

despite your very rude rejections. That's

26:19

a great idea Mattis. Said. I thought

26:21

I said that. In

26:24

fact that when I brought this up before

26:26

we recorded job decide to present like he did

26:28

zip ago we got the best. I remember

26:30

some successes. This is what you've got so far.

26:32

It's a lot of despair. It's things, but

26:34

it seems like now, where is the same lands

26:37

and where is night hold? What plane Is

26:39

it In the shadow plane? You

26:41

believe it is a realm in the first

26:43

war of? That's right night Old universe world.

26:46

A realm like the celestial Plane is be

26:48

the shadow plane. The first world is is

26:50

is in the realm of this awkward What

26:52

we learn from the tree. Yeah,

26:54

the. First was a realm of the fact that

26:56

an inner sphere a gods first draft of a plane

26:59

they would later split into the material plane and the

27:01

show plan. Or

27:03

is it transitive plane? Going.

27:08

On since Google. That said, I have.

27:11

To check it out and no word after. I don't

27:13

even know if I know that word. Bell said. Any

27:15

witnesses? You Lexis, Nexis. Transitive

27:18

plane. Coats. Her Me

27:20

and Nurse with the universe. I'm a

27:22

lawyer, owner of an it. As

27:25

a lawyer, you should know it's a

27:27

transitive blame for the play anything. For

27:31

defensive purposes, I won't. Let's take

27:33

you back to the room here

27:35

and you're all. You're a set

27:37

of watch. And somehow this bird

27:39

just appeared to they. no one

27:41

saw it. comes. So. I

27:44

imagine you're all examining this, trying to

27:46

determine where it's leading you and when

27:48

it's leading us, but maybe easier or

27:50

you're looking at I suggest something as

27:53

may not fit on with the narratives

27:55

first. Maybe Boggles had the last watch.

27:58

And he'd. It off to

28:00

sweep even for but a few moments.

28:03

As. As this was happening. He

28:06

failed. And yes job are you trying to

28:08

find your sword from the that I say

28:10

isn't really embarrassed. Ah, Yeah,

28:12

why meet someone? Had to

28:14

lose? Their. Vigilance for for

28:17

at least like a split second for this

28:19

thing to appear as was like whoa I'm

28:21

looking at the spot as a brother of

28:23

son's so that by would be my suggestion

28:25

is yeah I would say if you were

28:28

the last one that could absolute have happened

28:30

but imagine is looking over at the table

28:32

and you look there and into the couple

28:34

seconds later you look. And.

28:36

It's day or okay. yeah so you think

28:39

when it did I just miss that when

28:41

I saw athletes and so that might be

28:43

something you carry with if you blame yourself?

28:45

Well what if whoever did have the last

28:47

watched i'm saying that would be bottles it

28:49

would have been hit with happen on their

28:51

watch rak rattle so it leaves you feeling

28:53

good outlet say it's you then economically and

28:55

a must leave you feeling that I. Did.

28:58

I screw this up. The I dislike is was

29:00

like wow wow how did I miss? That's what

29:02

happens Like were that I fall asleep. One

29:05

was. Less as

29:07

someone is like dealt with missing memory.

29:09

Yes, no no no yeah we all

29:11

have. I'm in Isis. gotta be what

29:13

is a symptom. Yeah to return of

29:15

the a threat first since I'm pretty.

29:18

Well as your examining this and you're

29:20

taking in all in like to think

29:23

maybe Zephyr the off to the side

29:25

a little away from the others, if

29:27

not fully physically at least mentally. May

29:31

be. Something outside

29:33

the window sketching her eyes of.

29:36

Flour and orange. And

29:40

we can see in her eyes the she's

29:42

dissociating a little bit. And

29:47

as she does so maybe she

29:49

moves ever so slightly. in in

29:51

the silence of that moments are

29:53

we. Here are a little clamor

29:55

from the earn. Attached.

29:58

To her belt would like. She

30:02

rests her hand on the

30:05

heard too quiet. it. And.

30:08

As she makes contact with her

30:10

jaw college. Me:

30:13

Just. Slowly. Come

30:16

in on her. On. Her eyes.

30:20

And then we come back out. This

30:23

we come back out on. It's.

30:27

Younger. Suffer. To

30:31

looks to be a teenager may be

30:33

tough even with have else to tell.

30:37

Her. Eyes are a little lighter

30:39

now, her jaw no longer clenched.

30:42

And. Maybe

30:44

she's humming to herself as she

30:46

scratches her face a bit and

30:49

focusing on something that she's She's

30:51

making. We see that she's in the

30:53

woods. Just. Outside of a

30:55

place called Silver Strand Harbor.

30:58

She's a bunch of orange lilies on

31:00

her lap and an open book that

31:02

her side. Looks.

31:04

Like she's making an intricate necklace

31:07

out of the lilies and the

31:09

the book at her side is

31:11

open to a page the describes

31:13

the significance of the orange Lily,

31:15

especially to this place during the

31:17

spring time. To we. Zoom

31:20

in. On the page you see

31:22

the passage describing how the orange

31:24

lily is used as a gift

31:26

at the Awakening Capital A. It's

31:29

an annual festival that's held in

31:31

Silver Strand Harbor every spring. Looks

31:33

like people give an orange lily

31:35

necklace to someone who they wish

31:37

to dance with during the final

31:40

celebration. Best. Scripts.

31:44

Interface set. Up

31:46

to the light survey it. And.

31:48

Smiles. Back

31:51

to town. On

31:55

us. vendors

32:00

are putting out stands to sell or

32:02

showcase their goods. Games are being set

32:04

up for children and

32:06

teens. There's a stage in

32:09

the town square being constructed for live

32:11

entertainment, plenty of space around it to

32:13

dance. And we

32:15

see Zephyr again with

32:18

a boy about her age, another teenage

32:20

boy. They're walking together, chatting

32:23

and laughing. Maybe

32:27

he's the same height as Zephyr,

32:29

fair skin, short

32:33

dark hair, light. Like five ten? To me she's tall. Yeah,

32:35

that's tall. He's five

32:42

ten and a half. And he's

32:44

wearing lifts and he's talking to her

32:46

and he says, remember

32:50

that time, what was it, five

32:53

years ago when I dared you to let

32:55

the pigs loose before the pig-rankling competition? Yeah,

32:57

I can't believe you dared me to do

33:00

that. I can't believe you did it! It

33:03

was pure chaos. There were pigs everywhere getting

33:05

into all the food, knocking over Miss Evelyn's

33:08

pottery display. And then Miss Evelyn saw

33:10

us laughing and then started chasing us

33:12

screaming, Ollie Zephyr, I knew it was

33:14

you! And you were so scared. I was

33:16

not. You should have seen your

33:18

face. And then she finally caught

33:20

up with you after you tripped and fell and you

33:22

were like, oh, the dogs, I

33:24

swear, like the dogs can open pig pens.

33:27

Maybe she playfully nudges his

33:30

shoulder and he just smiles and

33:32

rolls his eyes. Well,

33:34

they canceled the pig-rankling competition after that.

33:36

I wasn't gonna take the fall by

33:39

myself. He tries to nudge

33:41

her back but maybe misses and like nudges

33:43

her back. And when he

33:45

does, the orange lily necklace falls out

33:47

onto the ground. This

33:50

boy picks it up and his

33:53

eyes go wide. Whoa,

33:55

Zeph! This

33:57

is nice! Never.

34:00

Make you. tried to grab the

34:02

necklace back but his boy toy

34:04

user to our. Modern

34:07

about I don't I don't. Play

34:10

like t boy a little bit is alpha

34:13

just kind of pulling it out of reach

34:15

and is a whoa hey come on read

34:17

his back. Someone must have really got your

34:19

attention. Oh you must different ages making this

34:21

poses for Give it back come on non

34:24

to you Tell me who you're feeling this

34:26

type of way about. It

34:28

easier for finally just grabs it from. X

34:31

a necklace back and she looks down on his

34:33

mother, throws. Up

34:37

a lot of odd. Doubt

34:40

that on his eyes, assess, assess, you

34:42

wouldn't have suffered. and of. This

34:46

seat taken necklace and seasons like

34:49

flossed and he's like. As

34:52

I didn't realize you're since soft on

34:54

the inside. He. Still tried the

34:56

needle or he pokes that are it's kind

34:59

of shrinks and and now he realizes he's

35:01

making her uncomfortably gone too far. It is.

35:07

Hard time. He puts his arm around or

35:09

gives her a little side. hard. And.

35:12

They just keep. Walking. In silence.

35:16

Was. So.

35:23

Who's. The for. Nolan.

35:26

I was just practicing. And

35:28

and raise and spend all that time making

35:30

it for five. Need sooner join the church

35:32

choir before? Yes for you. They

35:36

stop blocking and. Ali

35:39

this boy surprise and

35:41

to stop smiling. I.

35:46

I I needed. For you. Have

35:51

to sit there for you. I go

35:53

like a sister to me. I

35:56

an I t since I

35:58

can't dance with you. Hannibal?

36:00

You know how my parents feel

36:02

about half? Oh, Well

36:05

I mean. What? Would they

36:07

did? I just forget it. Froze

36:10

that necklace on the ground at

36:12

all his feet and walks away

36:14

as is overweight combat. She's

36:18

breathing harder now as the weight

36:20

on her chest gets heavier her

36:23

her vision is growing blurry from

36:25

the dampness emerging from her eyes.

36:27

The sounds of the people around

36:29

her are getting louder and surround

36:31

her, threatening to suffocate her as

36:33

she searches for a way out.

36:35

Her her face threatens to betray

36:37

her as the tears build up

36:39

sequences her jaw to prevent the

36:41

emotion from boiling over. And all

36:43

these calls just dissipates as she

36:45

finally reaches the woods, And

36:50

maybe some time passes. And

36:53

we see Young Zephyr again, but

36:55

now with a more. Neutral

36:57

face. John still clenched. Eyes.

37:01

Still, Glossy. As

37:04

we pull out. From her

37:06

standing there, she's surrounded by

37:08

people all dressed in black.

37:12

Most of them are either weeping or

37:14

have their heads bowed and we hear

37:16

a voice of a man somewhere in

37:18

this scene saying death comes for all

37:20

of us in the and. More

37:24

threatening than others. From

37:26

time to me. Ali

37:29

Harrison may have succumbed to

37:32

the fever, but not before

37:34

bringing us so much joy

37:36

and light. All of us.

37:40

Voice contentious and kits echo he

37:42

for a moment then as it

37:44

becomes clearer again. Voice.

37:48

Is the voice of Brother

37:50

Ramius? Oh whoa! Talking. At

37:53

Lucky Schiro. And.

37:57

Yet again we see. her She

38:00

almost glitched, eyes threatening

38:03

to tear up. And

38:05

she walks up to the pyre where Lucky

38:07

lays and places a single orange

38:10

lily on her chest. The

38:13

pyre lights and we see the fire

38:15

reflecting in Zephyr's eyes as

38:18

the tear falls. When

38:24

we come back to Zephyr in the room

38:26

with all of you, Zephyr, you just hear

38:28

this chatter of them trying to figure

38:31

out this puzzle. Someone

38:34

notices that Zephyr isn't quite there

38:36

with you as the zappers.

38:40

Where's Zephyr? Waffle.

38:47

Pick up something and throw it at her face. What? An

38:50

iron. A computer. Fire iron

38:53

poker. What? Fire iron. Fire

38:55

iron poker. Is that the bird? The bird, yeah,

38:57

it's really creepy. Did you even see it? Did

38:59

you examine it at all? It's a map and it indicates

39:02

the time of the

39:04

clock. It's

39:11

also broken unnaturally. So strange.

39:15

Yeah. Are you all right? Oh,

39:19

yeah. Wake up. Wake

39:21

up. Wake up. See

39:24

a dead bird in the middle of the room. Now

39:27

let's go figure out what

39:29

it means. Zephyr,

39:33

there's something wrong. I

39:36

seem to have lost your passion for the

39:38

adventure. Are

39:40

there too many clues without enough conclusion?

39:42

You sound like you've seen an orange

39:44

flower. Very specific. He

39:47

is psychic. I'm

39:50

seeing an orange flower. That's

39:56

just like a classic skid joke construction. It never

39:58

fails. I'm trying to think of

40:00

it. Oh,

40:07

I was like, you look like you're thinking of my dead friend. You'd

40:10

like all that look. You're thinking of

40:13

my friend Scott Parker. His friend's

40:15

in the pub. We

40:18

were looking for a guy named Scott Parker and he

40:20

just walked in. Cut right

40:22

to the investigation. I know

40:24

that one. You look like you're

40:26

thinking of my friend Scott Parker. Sorry.

40:31

I was just here to be like, what's that? That

40:33

was just a great guy. Back

40:35

to Zeph. She's not

40:37

there. Um... Did

40:42

we talk about anything? Uh...

40:47

I think that the wings are a time, right?

40:51

Yes. What

40:53

time? What

40:55

about the shape of it makes it look like a

40:57

clock? Is it the way the wings are pointed? Yeah.

41:02

Like Mr. Burns on the clock? You've

41:04

kind of established that the birds, wings

41:06

and whatnot were a map. That's

41:08

what led you to start to explore the

41:10

woods. You see that construction again here and

41:12

you realize that it's pointing

41:15

you to a specific place in the

41:17

woods. But upon further investigation, you see

41:19

that it's also the way

41:21

that it's disjointed. There's also another

41:24

part of the wing that looks like hands on

41:26

a clock. And it points to what you would

41:28

think would be around 9pm. Yeah,

41:31

so I'm pretty sure we might have

41:33

done the right thing last night. We just

41:35

need to do it at a certain time. You

41:38

said that. You said that yesterday. Excellent,

41:41

Zephyr. Well done. Asda is looking at

41:43

Zephyr, because Asda is... She's in her kitsune

41:45

form and she's like looking at the bird

41:48

with the broken wings, sort of from

41:50

a natural perspective, a nature perspective. What

41:52

type of bird is this? Is it local to the air? That kind of

41:54

thing. But then she just starts looking at

41:56

Zephyr and she...

42:00

Like everybody else in the room just knows

42:03

that Zephyr is sad and

42:05

just can feel that energy

42:07

like black hole in the room. And

42:09

you just hear in your head. Take this

42:12

broken wing and

42:14

learn to fly again, learn to live so

42:16

free. And then she starts not looking at

42:18

Zephyr and she's kind of popping her head.

42:20

And we're here for Sully. But

42:24

no, she looked at Zephyr and

42:28

when everybody is back looking at the bird, she

42:31

walks over. I'd

42:34

like to talk to you today if you are... What

42:45

the hell did you have? What the hell's going on? She pulls out

42:47

her planner. The death

42:49

look that Kate just gave

42:51

me as Zephyr made me

42:53

take pause as a player and as

42:56

a character. Maybe if he doesn't want to

42:58

speak. Asa says, I'd

43:01

like to talk to you today. Okay. Maybe

43:07

now. Sure. Okay. Hey, why

43:09

not? Do we need to leave? We're

43:11

just watching. We're just watching. I

43:15

was playing Baldur's Gate 3 right now and we

43:17

have these kind of intimate conversations with some of

43:19

those people in your party. But in all these

43:21

shots, all the other people in your party are

43:23

standing behind them. They're standing. Especially

43:27

the horniest remarks and then your whole party

43:29

is just standing there. And I have a

43:31

mod so I have like six people in

43:33

my party. I was like, this is like

43:35

gang, like looking in. It's just like, you're

43:37

going to say next. Okay. So yeah, we

43:39

turn around. I'm going to walk with

43:42

Zephyr for a moment while you examine the bird further.

43:45

We're done examining. We're good. We

43:47

finished. Excellent. Perhaps we take it

43:49

to what's his face? His house.

43:53

Gregor. Cleage. What

43:55

the hell is the guy's name? What? The guy

43:57

with the kid? Gerald. Gerald. Oh. Yeah,

44:00

because we need to like compare

44:03

it to the map, compared to the diorama.

44:05

Oh, to her, to her... okay, yeah. Fantastic

44:07

idea. We should walk in that direction. Let's

44:10

go in and re-traumatize his children.

44:13

It's a bugles. It's a

44:15

suggestion. Not an order. All

44:19

right, yeah, so Talitha will

44:21

gather the bird very delicately

44:23

and place it in some

44:25

sort of box or

44:27

something that she fashions to... ...and

44:30

it will carry, so it doesn't lose its

44:32

shape or orientation. Well, Brother Amy also has

44:35

drawn it. Oh, yeah. In its

44:37

orientation and everything. Are you an artist? Can

44:40

you draw good? Yeah, roll first. He doesn't

44:42

really matter. He's not drawing like a 3D...

44:45

You're doing a body outline,

44:48

a trace. No, he's tracing the bones

44:50

as they relate to the map and then

44:52

the... He's doing the bones? What do you

44:54

think, crafting? Anatomical? It's just

44:56

drawing anatomical birds. I want you to

44:59

draw right now, live. Draw. Draw

45:03

what you imagine in your brain. Draw a

45:05

bird right now. Draw memory. Draw any bird.

45:08

From Troy's memory. From

45:11

my memory. Draw any bird

45:13

from Troy's memory. You're like Wingspan.

45:15

Do it! I

45:17

know, as soon as you... Oh, get out of here. Oh, my God,

45:19

now I'm hanging out with a paper and a pen. I

45:22

was like, he doesn't even know what kind of bird he

45:24

is. All right. So here's the thing. You

45:27

guys come downstairs to go head to

45:29

Gregor's... Not Gregor. I said

45:31

Gregor too. You keep drawing while I do this.

45:33

This is so ridiculous. And you see Malkior. Malkior...

45:35

Gerald. Gerald, yes. Gerald

45:38

of Riviera. You

45:40

see Malkior and he accosts you

45:42

and he's like, how

45:46

has your investigation

45:48

going? Have you heard any

45:50

mention of Varna? Oh, okay.

45:52

Sorry. So Malkior, this is the thing we found on the way.

45:54

Right. That you're suspicious of.

45:56

He's looking for a friend of his, Varna.

45:59

I wouldn't... wooden septon pier thing

46:01

you found at the barner in oak

46:03

steward you know the relationship is uh...

46:05

and uh... he seems very concerned he

46:08

came with you to the land farms and just

46:10

kind of drifted off to the background asking his

46:12

own questions but now he's talking to you uh...

46:16

kasa over here uh...

46:25

other both

46:28

h the

46:43

the ortho the

46:51

investigation which is a good t-shirt of whatever

46:53

you come up with the the

46:55

run exactly like that the the

47:00

the but uh... any any news of

47:02

the owner since

47:05

we spoke last night before going to bed yeah

47:07

i think i think i knew you were going

47:09

to speak with sometimes people i i did anyone

47:11

mentioned i don't know none of them they'd seen

47:14

no there was no mention of people

47:17

here and no

47:20

one saw him as well stop laughing

47:23

outside seriously trying felt like

47:26

but uh... it has become clear to me that

47:29

this disappearing

47:32

people's not uncommon here

47:34

there were these two people but from

47:37

from town but i i get the sense

47:40

that this is a common problem in the

47:42

area we've

47:44

heard some of the school who have you heard

47:46

that this time uh... just

47:48

just the two people uh... that

47:50

you said that they said that there are other people

47:52

that came into town looking for people and then left

47:55

so while only two people from

47:58

this town have disappeared I

48:00

think other people in looking for their lost

48:03

loved ones have maybe

48:06

stumbled into Thinlands Farms. What I'm saying

48:08

is it seems like these disappearances are

48:10

an epidemic. So

48:14

it may well be true. We cannot

48:16

say for certain right now. We have

48:19

a few leads to follow. Perhaps

48:23

let's schedule a time that we can come back

48:25

here and compare notes. Yeah. Well,

48:27

refer to the birds and say nine o'clock. Oh,

48:32

I'll keep asking around. Everyone is ultimately

48:36

pretty friendly once you get to know them, even though

48:39

they seem standoffish.

48:41

Maybe you could provide us with some more

48:44

information about Farner. Perhaps

48:47

if he was acting strange before he

48:49

left or spoke of anything that seemed

48:52

odd at the time. Let

48:55

me get back to you. I'll think about that.

48:59

But just if you do hear his name

49:01

mentioned, please just let

49:03

me know. We might not debate. Yes,

49:05

of course. No stone unturned.

49:07

No. We'll reconnect at nine o'bird.

49:10

All right. I'll see you then. That'll make sense

49:12

later. All

49:16

right. So now you want to go back to Gerald's

49:19

house. Do you again? Oh,

49:21

wait. On the walk. So drawing this

49:23

fucking bird. While

49:26

he's drawing. We

49:28

know where Gerald. You're

49:30

at the door. Everybody do a scene. I want to talk

49:33

to Zephyr on the wall. Okay. He's going to

49:36

keep drawing. Keep drawing. I'm sure you

49:38

could improve. You can keep drawing. Wow. You haven't even

49:40

seen it yet. It's only getting worse with

49:42

each. I was going to say,

49:44

the more you like a scabby stuff. So

49:49

excited. While

49:51

we're walking, Asta had clearly

49:55

noticed that Zephyr

49:58

was was grabbing the the

50:01

urn, the container. And

50:05

they're walking behind everybody and

50:08

she turns to Zephyr and she

50:10

says, I

50:12

know what you're thinking. I

50:16

know what you're all thinking. What

50:20

am I thinking? I

50:25

didn't kill your friend. I

50:29

didn't. But

50:32

I didn't stop it either. And

50:35

for that I am so, so

50:37

sorry Zephyr. When

50:40

I'm sorry, go ahead.

50:42

Well, she's not talking, but she's just like doing

50:44

what I'm doing right now. She's like looking up

50:47

and away. Avoiding my eye contact. Looking up and

50:49

away like maybe still holding the

50:51

urn and just like really tense and

50:53

tight and just trying to breathe, listening

50:55

to Utah. When I

50:57

saw, when I first saw

50:59

your group, it

51:01

was by the Ayodara, the

51:04

gates. I

51:06

saw the oak stewards. I

51:08

wasn't sure what your intentions were.

51:10

I wasn't sure what the oak stewards

51:12

were doing. The

51:15

oak stewards are good, kind people. I

51:19

didn't understand. I'm

51:22

sorry, I should have intervened. I should have

51:24

stepped in. Your

51:28

friend's blood was spilt due

51:31

to my inaction. And for

51:33

that, for that, it is unforgivable.

51:39

And she takes out her katana and holds it out in

51:42

front of her and

51:44

hands the blade to Zephyr. Wow. What?

51:54

What? What am I supposed to do with this? You

51:56

can spill my blood. It's

52:00

not just your fault. It's all of our faults.

52:02

I mean That

52:05

that was an in That

52:07

whole situation was a mess. I

52:10

failed we all failed we

52:12

all failed Bucky Well

52:18

it is still tradition You

52:21

must fill my blood Otherwise

52:24

I I will not be able to forgive

52:26

myself and

52:29

She thinks about it for a second

52:32

and like slowly takes the katana

52:35

And like looks at it And

52:38

I hold up my arm Just

52:43

like anywhere Like

52:46

a little just like a

52:49

cholesterol Anything

52:54

will do whatever you think is necessary

52:58

Roll the fingers for roll the head. You don't need

53:00

to do this. I don't hate

53:02

you We

53:08

didn't know we didn't have time there's no

53:11

time to like This

53:15

all just happened. I don't know you what now

53:18

I'm gonna get to know you and Maybe

53:22

you'll die Get

53:24

to know Talisa more What

53:27

a struggle size You

53:29

lose a lot of other rain. I'm brother, Ramey Nice

53:35

to meet you He

53:38

he died Dude

53:47

not to mention he I But

53:56

I mean if you insist she's

53:59

having a little fun She's not gonna

54:01

just just a little you just

54:03

poke me. It's a little... how big is

54:05

that katana? A little prick. I'm further away. So

54:08

you prick her and she goes, it

54:11

is done. She takes the katana back, she

54:14

eats it. I

54:17

feel better don't you?

54:19

Yeah. We

54:23

could wrestle? Yeah.

54:26

I always did that with my siblings. Our

54:29

parents said to get the yayas out. Yayas.

54:34

Alright, I mean I would just love to practice

54:36

with someone. I can't practice with anyone. Perhaps

54:38

not now. Their goggles is too small. Far

54:41

away. Yeah. I do have the Titan

54:43

wrestler feet. Oh no! So I can...

54:45

You can wrestle us! I can grapple

54:47

creatures up to two times my size.

54:50

We must wrestle. Okay. As

54:52

you're chatting about wrestling in the town square,

54:54

you do notice that the others have gotten

54:56

ahead of you and they are starting to

54:58

walk up the porch to Gerald's house. I'd

55:01

like to see the bird. I think

55:04

it's time. I think we should see a bird

55:06

before we go in the house. Do you have

55:08

any anything we need to know

55:10

about this? Any content? Well, I

55:13

started off and I wanted to make sure I

55:15

captured first of all. No excuses. I

55:17

wanted to make sure I captured the species of

55:19

Finch. Okay. That was my first thing. I want

55:21

to make sure it was recognizable as a Finch

55:24

to any common choice. And

55:26

then I started worrying about the mapping and

55:28

the clocking and stuff like that. Sure. So

55:30

this... So here it is. That's

55:36

nine o'clock, alright. That's

55:39

a nine o'clock fish. That's a man

55:42

wearing a cinch of cotton. It looks

55:44

like a man dressed as Big Bird

55:46

dancing at a disco. It

55:49

looks like a man dressed as Big Bird who's in

55:51

front of our car doing one of the chicken dances

55:53

from Arrested Development. I was going to say the San

55:55

Diego Chicken doing like a tribal rain dance. Fuck

56:00

job! Fuck job! It is a kind

56:02

of chickeny... Looks...

56:04

better than I thought. It does. There's

56:06

a level of detail there that I

56:08

was not expecting. It is horrifying looking.

56:12

Yeah, I was going for scary. I wanted to

56:14

capture the unnatural shape of the body. Joe, you

56:16

definitely have more artistic skill than I do. Yeah,

56:19

for sure. I'll make a great t-shirt. Yeah!

56:22

I'm going to trace that and make a

56:24

t-shirt out of that exact line. It

56:26

was the white paper in everything. Yellow shirt. Yellow

56:30

white paper. It's a

56:32

yellow legal category. Just make the

56:34

shirt yellow and lined. Yes,

56:37

beautiful. Don't sign it. Don't

56:41

ruin it by signing it. I want to take this

56:44

page and lay it over the diorama from his journal.

56:46

Alright, so I'm going to cut to the chase here,

56:48

Ogua, because we've been meandering, and just get you up

56:50

into that room. It's like, yeah, sure, come on up.

56:54

I just want to roleplay. 17 minutes at the target. The kids are

56:56

at school. Let's leave them out of this as well. He

56:59

brings you upstairs and he's like, have at it.

57:02

And you

57:05

compare your drawing, your memory

57:08

of the bird, and obviously you've

57:10

drawn this, but the wings

57:12

are broken in such a way. They're

57:14

broken in multiple different places, so it's

57:16

zigzags. But the general feeling is

57:18

9 p.m. ish and

57:21

a route. And

57:23

so you compare it to this

57:27

diorama of the town and the surrounding area,

57:32

and you know where to go. And

57:34

you know when you have to be there. And

57:37

we'll do back after this break. By

57:46

now it's probably 12, 30. We

57:49

didn't talk about breakfast. I

57:52

couldn't eat. Couldn't possibly eat. Where

57:54

is it? Breakfast? I

57:57

Get this one. It is within the

57:59

forest. The North we were there.

58:01

it was a where we were Now now

58:03

I like read you could see a pass

58:05

to do that. remember that path is circular

58:08

brought you back into touts was like she

58:10

was x to exploring in. I just watched

58:12

a Willie Wonka Earth Charlie the Chocolate Factory

58:14

with the boys yesterday. In fact that go

58:16

backwards to go for it's the same feel

58:19

like there's a circuitous route to get there.

58:21

but now you know exactly where to get

58:23

there. You have the piece of the puzzle

58:25

that was short walkable north of town yet

58:27

nor the two or three on and off.

58:30

we would be have any more than

58:32

others but was see like looking for

58:34

a path to get to the spot

58:36

or she was as looking for the

58:38

spice. You will get the sense that

58:40

either she was wondering to try and

58:42

discover it on her own or she

58:44

was being deliberately lead new all around

58:46

babies and tested. For

58:49

this isn't like a ritual of know you

58:51

have to go on this particular direction of

58:53

know and sat at peace that we didn't

58:56

have this issue pointing rent. Also decided this

58:58

last. When we put

59:00

this the shape of the bird into

59:02

the Die Rama where it belongs at

59:04

find the spots are any of her

59:06

drawings or pathways in this area at

59:08

all? Ah I'm yeah you could see

59:10

one of her latest drawings as you

59:12

would her consult with Gerald kind of

59:14

lead close to that direction. With the

59:16

she was able to figure out the

59:18

and pieces of the puzzle or not

59:20

you don't know she never return. Zero

59:23

So yeah is. Who who

59:25

left the bird and are it does

59:27

a sinister the puzzle? Are you gonna

59:29

get their know to be anything? There

59:31

are some did someone at each just

59:33

don't know. but you do have a

59:36

location and the time so is there

59:38

anything you want to accomplish between. Now

59:40

and and nine Pm and is it

59:43

your intention to be at that spot

59:45

Is this is my question? Is it

59:47

should we be planning on being there

59:49

beforehand or mean to arrive at nine?

59:51

Which we get some because I see

59:53

their beforehand on time is late. Massive.

59:55

that's what I tell myself. I'm almost

59:57

tempted walk the path in the

59:59

daytime. Athena to get their sort

1:00:01

of like out the area. that guy who

1:00:03

has to launch. Today I will

1:00:05

do a typical matter. doesn't actually does that matter

1:00:08

as much as I don't want the or I

1:00:10

have. You have your hangar. Services.

1:00:13

I also think maybe. After

1:00:16

says it's to to Lisa. Lisa.

1:00:18

deal with this is us to look into

1:00:20

Henry that is. The. Man

1:00:23

who went missing lived alone? perhaps? Searches.

1:00:28

Rena. Do we not do that? I

1:00:30

thought roots and bigger than know I think

1:00:32

you spend your time bizarre Geralds or your

1:00:34

we could with yeah to stop months than

1:00:37

Henry Better than us Louis. Yeah,

1:00:39

you go back and fix

1:00:41

questions. We won six meltzer

1:00:43

with us. Absolutely nuts and

1:00:45

interesting. Arm

1:00:49

or so. Go back

1:00:51

to the in or wherever you find all

1:00:53

the woman have abilene a choice because skipped

1:00:55

school break it into this guy's house I

1:00:57

assume you want to like ask for permission

1:00:59

or yeah, when adjusted I won't ask at

1:01:01

a dinner we need a warrant. Said.

1:01:04

For we may be easier to ask for

1:01:06

forgiveness from school that's up to I shouldn't

1:01:08

be was seen your seat soda said I

1:01:10

have several i it will vinegar we gonna.

1:01:13

Go to the man and she says

1:01:16

no, absolutely. Perfect.

1:01:18

I'm go out of practice. Idea

1:01:21

is definitely cannot do that in.

1:01:23

If I find out you do

1:01:25

you will be imprisoned nazi this

1:01:27

disease by surface and arm for

1:01:29

year. that would be furnace. Suppose

1:01:31

you feel like it's can I

1:01:33

help you Investigation. He

1:01:36

lived alone. He was a bit of

1:01:38

a shudder. Not sure where to find

1:01:40

her. They. Say he

1:01:42

was collective so that might

1:01:44

have trouble finding anything in

1:01:46

the mess left behind. We

1:01:48

didn't spend too much time

1:01:51

looking. it was no man.

1:01:53

Prone. To wandering off. Just.

1:01:58

But you will too, But, uh,

1:02:02

yeah. You may ask, Aldo Woman, your

1:02:05

abilities. Fascinating. They

1:02:08

only relate to people. Can

1:02:12

you direct this sense

1:02:15

of truth that you have toward places?

1:02:20

Objects. How do you mean? Animals. You

1:02:23

seem to have this sense of truth

1:02:28

that's coming from a person. I'm

1:02:31

curious if this is a ability

1:02:33

you can direct toward an object or

1:02:35

a place. Could you tell if

1:02:37

a place was the epicenter

1:02:39

of something terrible or something

1:02:41

great? I

1:02:44

suppose I could. Perhaps

1:02:46

it would leave a resonance of some

1:02:48

kind that you could sense. I did

1:02:50

notice as a young girl sometimes being

1:02:52

in places where I didn't feel right.

1:02:55

My parents didn't tell me that those were

1:02:58

places where bad

1:03:00

things happened. As I got

1:03:02

older I just sort of shrugged it off

1:03:04

as just mood swings.

1:03:08

But, uh, I suppose I

1:03:10

do have that ability. Why

1:03:12

don't you accompany us? To

1:03:15

his house. You alright, Brother Ramey?

1:03:18

I'm alright. I'm not feeling well. I need to eat something.

1:03:21

I suppose I could. When do you plan on heading out? Now.

1:03:24

As soon as possible. After lunch. After

1:03:26

lunch. Yes, sir. Of course.

1:03:29

Eat something. I'll go

1:03:31

move some things around and I'll be right back.

1:03:41

She leaves and Malkia comes up. Any

1:03:44

news of Varna? Oh no! We'll

1:03:46

tell you. We'll tell you if we hear

1:03:48

anything. Guys getting lunch? Oh my God.

1:03:51

Brother Ramey is like, yes. Did You not eat Malkia? Eaten

1:04:00

yet? Then you should join. We

1:04:02

were no I see them ago

1:04:04

we had still leaves. We

1:04:07

already I were. Rumors

1:04:10

is what. The

1:04:12

fuck is wrong with authoritative for five

1:04:15

as read ah or will it be

1:04:17

sexist? Made her data from that i'm

1:04:19

from seven am sick Of course I

1:04:21

would have to do with this. Smoking,

1:04:25

the pictures and everyone honorable. The

1:04:27

neighborhood needed to be bothered and

1:04:29

now you're not really. Sorry

1:04:34

have an awkward was of not your. Thoughts

1:04:37

of his plays chess on.

1:04:40

The right, Our customers. Now

1:04:43

kids, it's you think of anything. I

1:04:46

thought many things but in relation

1:04:48

to that question I out the

1:04:50

Christmas silly daily I'm no va

1:04:53

know Even though we were say

1:04:55

that. Yes

1:04:58

and away we we were very close but

1:05:00

phone or. Kept

1:05:02

things from me, his work,

1:05:06

In particular, I always assumed it

1:05:08

was work. but as time has

1:05:10

passed and I haven't seen him

1:05:12

I. Wondered. Perhaps.

1:05:15

There. Were other secrets? To.

1:05:18

Work for anyone in particular that you could remember.

1:05:21

The name. The

1:05:23

He answered to the the elders.

1:05:27

Him in seven isis. Remember.

1:05:32

Vividly were many names. If.

1:05:34

He ever ask them if he worked for Bolan with I

1:05:36

remember. I only get nibble on as we

1:05:38

did talk either as a he didn't have a right

1:05:40

ear a result not ugly ass of he was he

1:05:42

might not a guard or to that I only did

1:05:44

I could have remembered up and. I

1:05:47

assume he gets a spouse. We must go

1:05:49

for mid may be do lunch. Next.

1:05:52

Ten. To some. Are

1:05:54

oh you mean again? We. Just don't we

1:05:56

just dumb as a whole months since. Are you

1:05:58

more kidding you? reasonable? This was more than a salad. This

1:06:02

was the lunch. This

1:06:04

was the lunch. Can we

1:06:07

use different checks please? Alright,

1:06:09

we'll talk tomorrow. If

1:06:12

you think of anything. I'm

1:06:14

going to walk around town and just see

1:06:16

if anyone knows anything. Don't

1:06:19

disappear. Alright, so

1:06:21

you want to go to Henry Bucket's

1:06:23

house. Yeah. A

1:06:26

few ago, Abilina takes you. Henry is right

1:06:28

up here. His

1:06:31

parents lived

1:06:33

in this house with him until they passed

1:06:36

at an old age. So

1:06:38

Henry grew up in this home and I

1:06:41

think his parents suffered from the same maladies

1:06:45

that he did. As I said, he

1:06:47

was a collector. So

1:06:50

the house is a bit unkempt. Honestly,

1:06:53

it's been an item

1:06:56

the council and I have been discussing for

1:06:58

a while what to do with the house.

1:07:01

Frankly, we've talked about just raising it

1:07:05

because it would be more work

1:07:07

to clean than it would to

1:07:09

just start over. But anyways, here

1:07:11

we are. And she takes the

1:07:14

key out. And she opens the

1:07:16

door and like as she pushes the door

1:07:18

open, she's just pushing collected

1:07:21

items. He's a hoarder. And

1:07:24

there's a stink in there

1:07:27

of bodily fluids. And

1:07:31

it's dark and she's like,

1:07:34

whoa, I'm going to go around to the

1:07:36

back and open up the back door. Maybe

1:07:38

this crosswind will make us

1:07:40

sick. But you should be careful. There

1:07:43

could be illnesses

1:07:45

in here. Just be

1:07:47

careful. I'm going to go with you to

1:07:50

the back door. Sure. Come

1:07:52

on. And she goes around to the

1:07:54

back. We'll follow the two of you. So Leith is going

1:07:56

to fashion like a like rip a piece of fabric from.

1:08:00

like, I'm a vulture or something and

1:08:02

make a mask to go deal with the

1:08:04

smell and then... Can

1:08:06

anyone detect magic? Yeah, brother

1:08:08

Amy has. Can you do it once you're in

1:08:10

key to detect magic for us? Mm-hmm. You

1:08:14

go around back and, uh, you

1:08:16

like push the gate. Same thing with like so

1:08:18

much shit in the gate. It looks like a

1:08:20

junkyard back there. Um, and she's

1:08:23

like, oh, look, it's, uh,

1:08:25

and it goes to the back door, opens

1:08:27

it. Same thing. Pushes the door open. Horrible

1:08:29

stench. Fuck,

1:08:31

if there's anything I can help you with,

1:08:35

I should say you were the one that

1:08:37

asked. I do have an uneasy feeling, but

1:08:40

who doesn't? I

1:08:42

know it's rather unpleasant in there, but could you accompany

1:08:45

us? I

1:08:48

suppose I could. I should, uh,

1:08:50

I should do this anyways. You know, that have

1:08:53

one of our workers do it and report back

1:08:55

to the council. But, uh,

1:08:57

sure. And she just kind of pulls

1:09:00

her shirt up over her nose. That's,

1:09:04

were you aware of Henry

1:09:06

living like this? Everyone's sort

1:09:08

of aware. And we would come out from time

1:09:10

to time and get some,

1:09:12

uh, why that is horrible.

1:09:18

Smell, um, Henry would come to the saloon

1:09:20

and get some drinks from time to time,

1:09:22

but he kept to himself and sometimes

1:09:25

just raised on and on about stuff

1:09:28

and people just left him alone and

1:09:30

eventually he'd come home. We assumed, uh,

1:09:32

the worst, but it's, it's, it's

1:09:35

worse than we ever thought. There is

1:09:37

an illness here. Evident. Yeah. Crazy

1:09:40

to think this could be something

1:09:42

passed down from parent to child.

1:09:46

I don't know. I think that

1:09:48

it could be related though to what we're... And then we'll meet

1:09:50

up with the rest of you kind of in the middle of

1:09:52

the house. Um, perception.

1:09:55

He'll start with a detect magic. Yeah, let's do that first.

1:09:58

You detect magic and you let it

1:10:00

link. for a while and you

1:10:02

do detect some magic coming from

1:10:04

a cupboard in the kitchen area

1:10:07

okay this

1:10:09

is something over here and

1:10:11

he will walk toward the cupboard open

1:10:14

up and you find four elixirs of

1:10:16

life nice two less

1:10:18

major major Wow true two

1:10:21

letters true two lesser two

1:10:23

moderate guys whoa oh wait

1:10:25

moderate moderate like five

1:10:27

D8 or something five D6 five D6

1:10:30

that's great that is one sorry two

1:10:32

lesser two moderate two lesser two moderate

1:10:34

cool all right huge I'll take a

1:10:36

lesser you guys

1:10:38

take the moderates sure I'll definitely

1:10:40

take a moderate yeah take a mod and you

1:10:42

take a lesser you can hear yourself well you

1:10:44

know what why don't you just give them to

1:10:47

me or at least of what because look at

1:10:49

the end of the day right

1:10:51

let's think about it I recall Mike my

1:10:54

last character died because nobody healed me

1:10:57

yeah I'm like a front-line fighter now I know

1:11:00

which means you should spend more time fighting unless

1:11:02

time pulling shit out of here what

1:11:04

are you gonna do throw it at me I

1:11:07

can give it to you you know what I mean

1:11:09

if you're down unless I'm rain

1:11:11

do you want to you want to the moderate take the

1:11:13

moderate then I don't know I'm just trying to think

1:11:15

I don't know why they take the moderate and Joe can

1:11:17

think about it later okay I'll have it for now all

1:11:22

right can I just do a perception run

1:11:24

the house see if I see anything interesting I'd like to do

1:11:26

one as well okay same oh

1:11:31

that's a 20 baby 24

1:11:40

all right so it is

1:11:43

a disaster in here there's stuff everywhere

1:11:45

there are a little pathways though in

1:11:47

the trash so that he could get

1:11:50

around you see yeah they're very deliberate

1:11:52

pathways you know there's like

1:11:54

his chair that had everything there was

1:11:56

a place to go to bathroom there was a place

1:11:58

to like hold Food I mean. The

1:12:00

magazines From whatever they i consider

1:12:02

Pathfinder a Kremlin's glaring equivalent Magazines

1:12:04

like books files of Pathfinder Journal

1:12:06

of like a I was so

1:12:08

that a D got like all

1:12:10

a first edition a piece. Of

1:12:14

see I'm not know players signal how much knowledge

1:12:16

nothing you would as if you were living in

1:12:18

glare and and you had all the eighties. Farmer

1:12:22

saw it down every year. the I'd be

1:12:24

like the most powerful man. What I'm what

1:12:26

I'm trying to say is not just books

1:12:29

are like pamphlets. Enlighten. Things that you

1:12:31

would be like you'd walk into an

1:12:33

end end. He he collected the like.

1:12:35

Every single who wants to possess a

1:12:37

free guitar lesson? Things. And.

1:12:41

So that's what Asta and

1:12:43

to Lisa notice like. Staffer.

1:12:47

May. Be worth disassociated so much

1:12:50

What they resuming the bird

1:12:52

because you see a pattern

1:12:54

in this nonsense have a

1:12:56

pattern not only on the

1:12:58

floor but a A. A

1:13:00

pattern in the way things are

1:13:02

stacked and moved. You

1:13:05

know it's ultimately. Indiscernible. You

1:13:07

think you'd have to spend a lot of

1:13:09

time to try and figure it out, but

1:13:11

if anything, this sort of prevailing thing I

1:13:13

wanted to think i dislike this person was.

1:13:16

Was. Trying to figure out something

1:13:18

or being lead to something as

1:13:20

well. Interesting and disappeared go founded

1:13:23

Question mark Dislike: Ah, but it's

1:13:25

like Close Encounters. Of. The. Earth

1:13:27

as the I was thinking of Close

1:13:29

Encounters a couple days ago in her

1:13:32

voice for those yeah, fill the media,

1:13:34

the devil's tower them as potatoes and

1:13:36

everybody has some are. I bet they're

1:13:38

here with that offseason. That

1:13:41

that unshakable kind of thought. But

1:13:44

there's no, there's no connection like this is what

1:13:46

drives me nuts about this stuff. The city say

1:13:49

there's a pattern, what's the pottery outlet with a

1:13:51

lot and. It. Feels like it's psych deliberate didn't

1:13:53

They will deliver. but also like the insanity

1:13:55

of these people have. Maybe it's an it's

1:13:57

not a pattern that makes any sense. But

1:14:00

it but how do you than had he not pattern he can

1:14:02

see and it says it really. Way. To censor place.

1:14:04

I guess it's kind of like low

1:14:06

by as the hoarder placing things yeah

1:14:08

in this particular way. It feels

1:14:10

like intention on the stack of i'm

1:14:12

not really asking you, I'm asking you

1:14:14

like if the pattern is related to

1:14:16

the diagram at all. He does it

1:14:19

all. The ads are. Already

1:14:22

resigned his know what I'm saying is

1:14:24

like i get the concept what I'm

1:14:26

saying is like to do wow does

1:14:28

Zephyr see a pattern? That is and

1:14:30

anyway relevant to what were they are

1:14:32

next to get. I feel. Like you guys

1:14:34

are all looking around the room and I'm like looking

1:14:36

at it as a whole. Maybe like that. I imagine

1:14:38

it playing out. You see? Certain things connected next

1:14:40

to his lights and sirens. Here is

1:14:42

a stack of go Here in magazines.

1:14:44

It's very deliberate. a little mini commode.

1:14:46

very deliberate. But then there's things that

1:14:49

are stacked on top of each of

1:14:51

the settlement and sense is no reason

1:14:53

to. Were some parts of the apartment

1:14:55

like there's like of for a metal

1:14:57

stuff all in one area, this is

1:14:59

this thing stacked on top. Resolve the

1:15:01

that are unsafe and you realize that

1:15:03

there's there's a they are. There is

1:15:05

a reason for this. So he was

1:15:07

seeking the same sort of saying that.

1:15:10

The wife was but there's no information from

1:15:12

us or know because doesn't say anything about

1:15:14

like the place that we're going it did

1:15:16

doesn't whatsoever learned as he can match up

1:15:18

to the bird at all in in the

1:15:20

same sir me booms in message to the

1:15:22

bird either yeah he read very very similar

1:15:24

discoveries of Maybelline. Nothing in common

1:15:26

and a mess up some uncommon but like

1:15:28

you already have, the final piece of the

1:15:30

puzzle. Get hurt if you hope via. This

1:15:33

is a horror movie where everybody's dry and like

1:15:35

black spiral circles and it's like that. That means

1:15:37

nothing but the fact that. Everybody. Who

1:15:39

has you know areas that is doing and order? Kind

1:15:41

of like his. Music of

1:15:43

the movie prisoners. Were

1:15:46

forty six Drive the movies. like every every

1:15:48

every one of these people that was involved

1:15:50

in this thing was to crime but the

1:15:52

maze pattern know. Like less. Well, Sir.

1:15:55

fred like that so prison there when it

1:15:57

tattooed it doesn't seem like the icy tv

1:16:00

So yeah amazing much West so I

1:16:02

think maybe that means any of the movies we asked

1:16:04

that you've seen Let's roll the

1:16:06

great show. I'm not saying it's up, but It's

1:16:09

just like a lot of time. I know and you're

1:16:11

being complain is the time. It's different It's

1:16:13

different. Also Westward is not a

1:16:15

great show at first. He's good. No, it isn't

1:16:19

You don't like it. Oh, I like that actress. I

1:16:21

do not watch season 3, but I liked I didn't

1:16:23

watch season 3 Anyway,

1:16:25

I think that's all we can we head out to

1:16:27

the woods. Yeah Oh All

1:16:30

right, so you're walking back you see milk you're and you

1:16:32

guys ducked out in the alley so you can avoid them

1:16:35

and You

1:16:37

have ever seen Sydney dislike an NPC so

1:16:39

much You all hate him.

1:16:41

It's not just me Really

1:16:43

just like Evelina Choi Wishes

1:16:46

you luck and do you tell her what

1:16:48

your plan is? So what are you

1:16:50

up to now? Still

1:16:53

searching for your pockets I

1:16:56

Should warn you many people have

1:16:58

searched for the type of people that

1:17:13

Kind enough people just take care

1:17:15

of yourself Any

1:17:19

luck you'll never see us again Ah

1:17:26

you are to me what mouth you are is to

1:17:28

you The

1:17:33

shit house Yeah, making me

1:17:35

do that giving me a different opinion of

1:17:37

you All right, you leave

1:17:39

her and you go into the woods around you want

1:17:41

to get there around 830 845 Hey,

1:17:44

that's an extra day. Hey, let's say eight. We

1:17:46

get the right 15. It's okay You also said

1:17:48

earlier you wanted to check it out during

1:17:50

the day. Yes I'll say that you you

1:17:52

know you have that time to do so

1:17:54

you go out there and there is nothing

1:17:57

there Just woods woods clearing maybe it like

1:17:59

does it? a hint of a clearing and

1:18:02

you're like, well, hopefully this is it. Uh,

1:18:04

but you, you know, nothing to do a

1:18:06

survival check. Yeah. Just for any tracks or

1:18:08

anything like that. And I'll do perception. Um,

1:18:12

I'll do nature. 15

1:18:15

perception. Yeah. 20

1:18:18

dirty, 20 dirty, 20 survival

1:18:20

survival. Well, the natural one

1:18:22

on nature. So you guys turn around.

1:18:25

Hosta is not there. She

1:18:27

could not follow you into the woods. Stuck in her

1:18:29

belly. I said standing here just like in front of

1:18:31

a fallen log, just unable to, to

1:18:33

get around it. Don't know what to do. You know, you're trying to

1:18:35

look for patterns that aren't there. Yeah. And,

1:18:38

uh, Talitha, you do see some tracks, but

1:18:40

they look like animal tracks and nothing really

1:18:42

jumps out. But the Raimius,

1:18:44

you're really digging into survival, not just basic,

1:18:47

what you see with your eyes and you

1:18:49

do see a pattern. You

1:18:51

see, you see

1:18:53

trees, shoe prints. That's meaning. You see

1:18:55

shoe prints. So there are tracks going every

1:18:57

which way. Off from the clearing. Oh,

1:19:01

oh, maybe they're back. Maybe they're, look at

1:19:03

this is back. Actually, there's no

1:19:05

tracks in, but these tracks leading

1:19:08

out. Perhaps

1:19:11

someone came

1:19:13

through from the other side here, right here.

1:19:16

How French, fresh are they? They

1:19:18

are not very French. American

1:19:26

food. Are they

1:19:28

boots or shoes as opposed

1:19:30

to barefoot? Um, clothing, hoofs,

1:19:32

boots, boots, heavy,

1:19:35

a heavier person or a

1:19:37

smaller person. Are

1:19:40

they running or were they walking? We're walking

1:19:42

and, uh, it's hard to tell

1:19:44

their weight. And it's not like approaching

1:19:46

and the disappearing it's appearing. Like

1:19:49

comes into this clearing and then leaves

1:19:51

the clearing. Oh, sweet. See them. Yeah.

1:19:53

And it follow for a little bit.

1:19:55

It goes like into the woods and

1:19:57

then just stops. It's

1:19:59

rain. But

1:20:02

they just stop. How fresh are they?

1:20:06

Couple weeks. Less than a month. Oh,

1:20:08

okay. So it's a

1:20:10

roll track. So it's set up

1:20:12

and waiting to clear, the pseudo

1:20:14

clearing until night time? Okay. You

1:20:17

come back at night

1:20:20

time. Night time. Can

1:20:22

we just hang out? Yeah, tailgate.

1:20:25

Yeah, bring a couple of breechies. A

1:20:27

couple folding chairs. I brought a bunch

1:20:29

of deer sausages. I'm coming. And

1:20:32

that's also a genius. Can

1:20:34

we wrestle while we wait? Yeah,

1:20:37

all right. I dump the sausages.

1:20:39

Oh, threw them all on the

1:20:41

ground. Okay. Guys are eating

1:20:43

deer sausage and wrestling for a few hours. It's

1:20:45

a real communicate. I'm going to pull Asta aside

1:20:48

at one point. Okay, also Asta has been

1:20:50

in her kitsune form like Aldo. Okay.

1:20:53

While they're wrestling or eating deer sausages. Okay,

1:20:55

buckles, come on, let's go. Okay, and you're beating the

1:20:57

shit out of me. I

1:21:00

do, I have you. I'm wrestling with you nice where

1:21:02

it's like it's technical, but like we're not

1:21:04

like actually hurting each other. It feels like Boromir. This

1:21:08

is not for you, it's for everyone else. Like

1:21:10

Boromir sparring with the hobbits. And by everyone else,

1:21:12

you mean everyone else. Everyone else. In this room

1:21:14

and watching. Oh, hey, get member. I did see

1:21:16

all the movie. Or listening on the podcast. So

1:21:18

you remember Boromir sparring with the hobbits? I don't

1:21:21

remember. All

1:21:25

right, so you guys do now you pull Asta

1:21:27

aside after in her kitsune form. I

1:21:31

have a word. Of course. I

1:21:35

have a request of you. You

1:21:40

are not what you seem. You

1:21:44

would say that's a fair assessment. Sure,

1:21:47

I've heard that many times as I'm sure you

1:21:49

have as well. That

1:21:52

is what I wanted to talk

1:21:54

about. Let's sit. Oh,

1:21:57

okay. And she sits cross-legged on the ground. with

1:22:00

the stomaturte. All right.

1:22:02

Once you like. Makes a little neat

1:22:05

spot with her coat. You

1:22:10

may know this about me, may not. I

1:22:13

am not what I seem either. Are

1:22:18

you familiar with hags? You've

1:22:23

encountered one in your travels. Austin

1:22:25

squints her eyes. No,

1:22:28

but I've heard of them. Powerful

1:22:31

casters and... Their

1:22:35

children are... arrived

1:22:38

at in an unsavory

1:22:41

fashion, let's say. But for

1:22:44

those of us who are a child of

1:22:47

a hag, there

1:22:50

is a certain pull, I

1:22:53

feel as I felt it getting

1:22:55

stronger as we come out here. I

1:22:57

began to question. I've truly approached my life with

1:23:00

this knowledge and tried with

1:23:03

an intense focus on rationality to... Complicate

1:23:07

or mitigate that, but I

1:23:09

feel it now. I felt

1:23:11

it since. Since the

1:23:13

missing moment really, but then when we encountered Bolan.

1:23:17

I did something. I'm

1:23:20

not sure. My

1:23:22

request for you is this. Keep

1:23:25

an eye on me. If

1:23:28

I start to act in such a way that would

1:23:32

hurt our friends and betray the party,

1:23:35

your blade, you

1:23:38

know how to use it. Sometimes,

1:23:41

as we've seen. Yep. Or

1:23:43

not. How

1:23:46

they say a roll of the dice, if

1:23:49

I can be of help, but I understand.

1:23:51

You understand what I'm asking you. Of course. Do

1:23:56

not wish that to be my destiny. I am choosing. I

1:24:00

will not... I will not... I will not

1:24:02

go down the path of evil. I

1:24:09

understand. It's a difficult decision

1:24:11

to make for yourself. You are very

1:24:13

brave. I cannot ask the

1:24:15

others. It's... would be... But

1:24:18

you are... Well,

1:24:21

there is safety in not knowing someone. They

1:24:24

don't know then. All

1:24:26

about Odin. Well? Perhaps

1:24:29

we can both keep secrets for one another.

1:24:33

Do you have the ability to create a

1:24:36

potion of disguise? I...

1:24:39

I have never done it. I'm

1:24:43

out. I had a

1:24:45

few left. And I

1:24:47

can no longer... I can

1:24:49

no longer look human. And

1:24:52

stuff is this. Not

1:24:54

that it matters, I guess, everyone knows, but... Sometimes

1:24:58

it's good to be unknown.

1:25:02

I understand. Allow

1:25:05

me some time to study and survey my

1:25:08

chemical materials and see what I

1:25:10

might do. I appreciate that. Of

1:25:12

course. And this

1:25:14

isn't to say that I do not

1:25:16

want to be who I am. I love

1:25:19

who I am. It's for others. Those

1:25:22

who judge. You understand. I

1:25:25

understand. This

1:25:28

is nice. Yes, it is

1:25:30

nice to discuss one's end, isn't it? Well,

1:25:35

hopefully it won't come to that. I'm

1:25:41

gonna go wrestle. Okay.

1:25:43

I'm gonna stand up. And

1:25:48

you wait in the clearing. Having

1:25:52

conversations about worst case

1:25:54

scenarios. Wrestling. Eating

1:25:58

sausage. wondering

1:26:01

if this is all just a wild goose

1:26:03

chase. 9pm

1:26:07

comes and

1:26:11

nothing happens. You

1:26:14

wait with fainted breath like...

1:26:17

But we need to walk the path, right? You

1:26:19

wait for like Y2K and just

1:26:21

nothing. Brother

1:26:24

Amy smashes his head into a tree. Perhaps

1:26:29

the hands were off. Just wait.

1:26:33

Asta says. 9-1

1:26:38

9-2 9-3 That's

1:26:41

10 past 9. Around

1:26:44

quarter past 9 I imagine there's this feeling of

1:26:46

like... What

1:26:49

the fuck are we doing out here? There's Gorgas.

1:26:52

There's other beasts. We

1:26:54

should go back and all of a sudden... You

1:26:59

hear this humming sound. You

1:27:02

look around the clearing and don't

1:27:05

see anything. But off in

1:27:07

the direction of where those footprints went. You

1:27:09

see... The

1:27:12

air over there look...

1:27:16

...ripped open. Like

1:27:18

a curtain. It's

1:27:20

like a little rock curtain that's been torn

1:27:23

wide and all crumpled at the

1:27:25

edges. And

1:27:27

through the tear you can see on the

1:27:30

other side... ...what looks like

1:27:33

another forest. A

1:27:36

twilight. It's

1:27:39

black trees as thin as

1:27:42

the cardstock cutouts in a pop-up

1:27:44

book. Everything

1:27:47

beyond the tear looks completely

1:27:50

drained of color. Just

1:27:52

painted in like shades of

1:27:55

shadow. And

1:27:57

from the point where this... Tear

1:28:00

touches the ground. You

1:28:02

see a footpath winding

1:28:07

beyond into this scene. What

1:28:11

do you do? Well,

1:28:16

we've all passed through one kind of portal. Shall

1:28:20

we? Let's go. Yeah.

1:28:23

Brother Ramey? He's

1:28:25

just frozen in fear. He's terrified.

1:28:27

Bleeding from where you banged him.

1:28:32

Perhaps that was a bit hasty. I'll

1:28:35

leave 10 minutes to make a long. 15

1:28:38

minutes. Eternity.

1:28:42

He's looking through at that land and is

1:28:47

sure that

1:28:49

it's very real that he would never come back. He

1:28:53

would go through there and die.

1:28:55

And that's all he can think about. He sort

1:28:59

of shakes out

1:29:01

of it. This

1:29:03

is what we came for. We

1:29:05

punched you too. We don't know how long it'll be

1:29:08

open. We don't go. We won't know. No, we

1:29:10

must. Vuggles, are you okay?

1:29:12

Um, yes, I suppose.

1:29:16

Uh, you're all coming too, yes? Just

1:29:19

you. He grabs Zephyr's hand. Brother

1:29:28

boy. Brother Ramey, please.

1:29:31

I think we all have to go. Just

1:29:34

stay close, Vuggles. All

1:29:37

of us, stay close. And

1:29:41

Seletha, can I do a, can I investigate

1:29:43

the tear? I'll just kind of

1:29:45

like walk up to it. Walk up to it and

1:29:47

look behind it. You look behind it and you just

1:29:50

see the forest that you're in. There's no back to

1:29:52

it. Um,

1:29:54

16 perception. You

1:29:58

look through and now that you're closer. Everything,

1:30:02

um, while

1:30:04

devoid of color, you can see

1:30:07

color within, but it's just so

1:30:09

muted and dull. Um,

1:30:12

but there is a faint color you

1:30:14

see, mountains in the distance, and

1:30:17

other, like, ruin. And

1:30:20

there's this little pathway that does not

1:30:22

exist in your world, just right where

1:30:24

this tear touches the ground. Does it, apart

1:30:26

from the lack of color, does it otherwise look,

1:30:28

like, geographically like the forest we're in, or like

1:30:30

a completely different forest? A completely different world.

1:30:34

All right. Shall we? Who

1:30:38

steps through first? Felicia will. Second?

1:30:42

I'll go second. I'm with you. I'll go

1:30:44

next. Shove Brother

1:30:47

Ramius in, and then run away. And

1:30:50

then Brother Ramius looks back at the

1:30:53

town in the distance. One

1:30:56

last look. Look at

1:30:59

the footsteps that walked through

1:31:01

before, and then watch as all of them

1:31:03

pass through. Just, okay, Pachias,

1:31:06

steps through. You step

1:31:10

through, last,

1:31:15

and all of you turn

1:31:18

back and see. Now

1:31:20

that you're in this place, a

1:31:23

new tear in this place

1:31:25

that looks back on the

1:31:27

world you were just in. And

1:31:30

as Brother Ramius steps through and turns to

1:31:32

look as well, you watch

1:31:35

as it just shimmers, fades,

1:31:38

and disappears. And

1:31:41

we'll see you next week. Here

1:31:43

we go. How do you get back? How do

1:31:45

nobody can get back yet? We're playing the game. Yeah,

1:31:48

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