You know what? I could really use your help on poo.
What I left my ax in Southern tower,
fall castle.
.
The three acts of tears.
As, as you guys are having this conversation, Wilder comes up on you guys.
Again, he goes, uh, well, you remember how I had, um,
an encounter with the ex last night?
I, yes.
Well,
apparently she introduced herself to LL in the same way.
Well.
That's not good.
I might have a way to protect your house from her.
I thought you took care of her by sending her back to the abyss.
I did. And she can't physically come to this plane,
but that she's a powerful creature.
That doesn't mean that she still can't find a way to communicate. However,
I could make your home hollowed ground,
at least the catches it's really expensive.
Don't advertising firms use you guys to.
Yeah. To carry copy from one place to another find, you know,
I, I, okay. This is the fastest way out of this conversation.
Okay. Here's what I wanna say. And you can phrase it however you want.
You can use some of like that, that, uh, cool, you know,
young lingo. So it sounds hip and all that.
The king and queen who were bad and evil and were attacking and doing bad
things and killing people,
they're gone orach and his friends
are the reasons why do you guys deliver to trial to,
if you do then tell them that we will let them leave in peace.
Um, but if they do not,
then we will all rise up against them and we will
take back tower.
Form. They're not welcome to stay UN under any circumstances. Got.
It. Will they have another home under the ground?
Okay.
I think they like living under the ground.
I think that's where they really want to be.
I don't think they want to be up here.
Okay. I think I've got it.
And he flaps off a few minutes later or bog
and friends have overthrown. The government
must leave. They're happier. Underground. Anyway,
you guys are heading towards, uh,
Castleman Lagar then why not? Yeah.
You open the kitchen door and you,
you find one solitary item laying in the middle
of the kitchen. Oh.
Boy.
Oh boy. As you pick it up, you see it.
And it's a human finger that has a ring on it. Oh.
Um, that has a ring that looks like a spider.
Games with strangers.
Uh, this, this looks like Wilder finger am. Am I correct?
In this room that this is Wilder finger?
Um, yeah, that definitely looks like my finger.
Oh, Wilder. I didn't know if you came with us.
Wilder. They're still with us.
Yeah. He met up with you and he met up with you guys outside.
Remember? Yeah. Didn't know he came, he was talking about LL.
And yeah, we just kind of walked off. We didn't,
I didn't assume we come with the best.
Well, you're getting better at that sneaky thing.
Wilder was so sneaky. He surprised us all. .
We all jump.
Well, I didn't even see you there.
Um.
Okay. Let's.
You want your finger back?
Just that pretty expensive fucking ring on it.
Not with that ring on it. No. Can I.
Have it.
The.
Ring? I don't think anyone should have that ring.
Stumble foot. Is there anything we can do to it?
Or we should do like burn it or something?
Um, the ring.
Yes.
I, I don't know. Um,
maybe cast it into the fire from once it came.
Oh yeah. Well, there was some more door in the door back there we can.
Oh, door.
One does not simply walk into more doors .
So I'm thinking, um, you know,
just us guys, we go out and hit the town. No, um, I, I think,
I think, uh, we hit Wilder's house on the way to the castle.
I'm given the way this castle.
What are we gonna do at Wilder's house?
Make it hallowed ground.
Okay.
Protect his daughter.
If we're gonna do that, then I need a lot of things that are well.
Go to the treasury.
which treasury cuz the one in this cast .
You.
Should I'm I'm sure we can. We can Rob some. I mean, we can get some thing,
other things on the way.
Could we visit a pizza shop?
Ooh.
Pizza.
Why you.
You said you needed herbs and, and spices and oil.
Right?
Great. Wouldn't you, but we're probably gonna need to buy them.
And I don't know about you, but um,
I'm about about 960 gold short of buying everything that we need.
I don't really keep track of money that, well, for being honest,
I bought a ball.
You bought a broken ball.
It's art.
It's something.
Well, it's a very pricey ball.
Okay. Well
I'm assuming orach would have some sort of idea of where we could go to get
these things. Some of those things that he mentioned.
If only somebody knew about a magic shop that you had an address and a secret
password to get in.
I was told we shouldn't go there.
You know, I just had a brilliant idea.
go ahead. Say it.
What if there was a magic shop that we had an address for
and secret code to get in?
Are you thinking that's a good idea. All of a sudden.
I never thought it was a bad idea, but I really,
I really don't have any reason to go there. Yeah.
Yeah.
But you thought Dr. Nicks was a good idea too.
Wilder air I'll show Wilder the card because Wilder's also from here,
wild air. Do you know where this place is?
Uh, yeah, that, uh, that place, I,
my buddy actually runs that place. It, um,
they sell magic stuff like the,
the, like the Premo magic stuff.
Right. Okay. Well, I mean, we could go there.
Um, the problem is in order to make your home hollow ground,
which I'm willing to spend the time to do, I need herbs,
oils and incense that are worth a thousand gold pieces,
which I done have.
They think outside the box, so, okay. I mean,
they might have other solutions there, like that don't require them.
Then let's go talk to your friend. Maybe he can help us out.
Well, I'm up for that. We're off to see the wizard,
the wonderful wizard of all.
Right. We go to there wherever there is.
There. Uh, you go to the address on that card, which.
Is.
What about witches?
Well, which then I was just wondering what the address was.
Uh it's uh, 1, 2, 3 south McGuffin lane. Ah.
There we go. That's the one.
Uh, and there's a sign on the door that says Beatles and James.
Well, this can place, doesn't say what the card says,
are you sure this is the right place we're supposed to say?
And there there's kind of, there's kind of an eye slot on the door. Uh,
that looks like it would slide open. Should you knock?
Yeah, I will knock three times.
All right. So you,
you knock three times and the slide opens and you just see a set of
eyes staring at you.
I'll look at 'em and Sayre.
The slide closes. You hear some locks on the door.
What'd you just call.
Me up.
I was using the password.
CRE.
And Chrome.
Like the sound the door makes when it opens CRE.
Sure. That's the word? And I'll walk inside.
Uh, as you walk inside, cuz the D when you, when the door opens,
all you see is black.
Okay.
There's like, literally, like you can't see inside the door.
I'm gonna trust it. And just walk through.
I walk into I'm going in.
And hope.
I don't just suddenly find a flight of stairs and tumble down it to the bus.
I am, I shall step into the darkness and bring the light.
Okay. So the four of you step into the darkness.
Do you get a momentary feeling of weightlessness and breathlessness,
and then you come out and it, it, it's kind of like a, uh,
it's kind of like a seedier version of
the Sage's portal inside here. Uh, and,
and you see various people wearing hooded robes,
walking around in here,
making for certain that nobody can see their face as they're in here.
Uh, hello, there you.
There is, there is one person behind the counter.
Uh, he's kind, he looks like a, sort of like a, uh,
lizard man.
Lizard.
Yeah. Sort of like lizard fold. Yep.
I walk up to him and say.
Well here for some grass and
oils. Right, right.
I'm gonna ask to see their, um, forbidden section.
Uh, he kind of raises an eyebrow and he looks over at Wilder
and, uh, he looks like he are them. Are they, are you with them?
And while they're just kind of nods and gesture makes a few gestures with his
hands. Oh.
Not that gesture. Um.
Do, uh, any of you understand thieves can't.
Uh, P can understand any spoken language now, but.
I'm.
Assuming it's nods spoken language. I'm assuming that's not it's it's gestures.
Yeah.
Uh, no.
Nope.
Uh, he just makes a few gestures and the guy behind the GE the counter gestures
back, he goes, all right, then, all right, then, uh, right this way.
All righty. Thank you for.
And he goes up to a book.
He goes up to a bookshelf and he pulls some books forward and slides a
few to the side and pushes another one, uh, kind of in a little bit.
And then after a few sequences like that, uh,
the bookshelf slides down into the floor.
I wasn't expecting that.
And, uh, he, he leads you through an,
he walks through another doorway that is filled with blackness. You walk,
uh, in through this, uh, you, again,
you get another feeling of weightlessness and breathlessness as you go through
this storeway um, and when you come,
when you come out of the doorway,
you are looking around and it,
it looks like a spell library in here.
And there's sections of schools of magic that,
you know, are forbidden like neck romancey and,
and, and things of that nature. But, uh,
anybody who's familiar with magic, which I'm gonna assume is probably, uh,
just stumble foot and Wilder. Uh,
you guys see a,
a row of books and scrolls that are labeled as a
school of magic that you aren't familiar with called execution.
Execution. I never heard of that.
Wow. There's like, yeah. I I've, uh,
never been super curious to look back
here.
And the lizard man looks against, it's said,
especially, uh, forbidden school of magic,
uh, celestial and demons, both don't, uh,
they choose not to talk about it.
Why is that?
There's a certain level of finality to,
to certain levels of the magic,
depending on the sacrifice that the Caster's willing to yield.
Okay. Well.
That sounds dangerous.
Hey.
We'll take two. .
No, I don't think we will.
It's when it is, it's what you turn to,
when you want to guarantee something gets done,
you're not entirely caring about
your own wellbeing to take care of it. Like, for instance,
if you wanted to destroy.
Uh.
Well, I mean, if, if you wanted to go that route. Yeah,
yeah. I mean, you could destroy lo uh,
but that's big. That's big magic mate. Uh
he'd uh, essentially whoever's casting it.
How execution works is whatever you cast is also cast
upon yourself. It's sort of like an arrow that shoots both directions.
It'll take three.
Right?
A no.
Oh.
What he's saying too,
is that if you wanted to destroy lo
and you cast a spell on her using this kind of magic, that would destroy her,
it would also destroy you.
Oh.
Well, that's not quite as good as what I thought it was.
Right. It it's sort of a, uh, at that, at that point,
you kind of become a one trick pony, if you will.
Can, can you like, do the opposite and like, say I wanted to make, uh,
my friend here stumble foot, like really awesome. Would I be really awesome too?
He looks at you and he.
Goes, and.
He just kind of chuckles to himself. He goes.
.
They're awesome. Things that magic can't do make
ouch.
Sick.
But.
Kendall bound us both.
So it's like the spell you sent out something and you got it
back.
Hey, it's sort of a I'm rubber and you a glue situation.
Yeah.
I kind of feel like that was the har you message that's worked kind.
Of yeah. Yeah. I got that message. Uh, so
that was weird, right? I mean, we're just.
Right. Yeah. There there's mixed up. I mean,
they want like $15 an hour. I mean, how much do you make here? $15.
An hour.
No. The how to use one 15 golden hour.
Ah, they're all greedy children.
Yeah. Most hard use are.
That's okay. You was saying anyway, we,
uh, what I'm looking for is, uh, I need to,
I need to create some hollowed ground Trevor. We can do that.
Hallowed ground Ben. Hey, um.
He needs herbs with an H.
Well, I mean, we specialize in the particular, I don't.
Maybe the, not so forbidden section.
We're not your typical magic shop. Uh,
I'll force you like this. Uh,
the things we dabble in would be a little bit, uh,
contradictory to.
Well.
Contradictory to what would be considered as, uh, uh,
holy magic or radiant magic.
Okay. I understand. Um,
let's approach this from a different perspective then while there's daughter
is, um,
being communicated to by a particular spidery Demonn
queen mm-hmm ,
and we'd like to knock that crap off.
Do you have any tinfoil hats?
Oh, so you were, you were, you were being quite literal when you said.
Uh, oh yeah.
You wanted to create lath.
Yeah. We know what we're talking about, except for the bug bear.
Cast banishment on her yesterday and banished her from this plane,
but, you know, she's oh, good.
God lofts been in powerful.
Yes. You.
Think we were heard.
About it? Um, well she was masquerading as queen Ashlyn.
Oh.
That makes a lot of sense then it also makes sense why there's so many, uh,
drought around.
You know? Yes. Right.
Right. So.
Um, we're trying to, um,
solve that problem and liberate TowerFall,
but we are trying to limit her grasp, you know,
on the area mm-hmm mm-hmm so, um, you know,
that's why we're looking for solutions. Uh, we went down to, uh,
Castleman Lagar, but, uh, they cleared that out.
And the drought cleared out.
The Castleman Lagar doesn't mean anything to me. Uh, but, uh, you know,
happy endings on the drought, I suppose.
How.
To take.
Care of love. That's quite interesting. I,
that that's gonna, that's gonna require a certain.
Ju se.
What are you willing to sacrifice to take care of love.
A finger?
I have a bull.
With a ring on it.
I mean, if it came down to it I'd sacrifice myself.
If it had to.
That's good. That's good. Cuz you, uh, you might.
Now, um, stumble foot. I thought we had just talked about how using those,
those magic spells.
Well,
sometimes you have to be willing to, um,
do something for the greater good. And uh, if that's what it takes,
I mean, it could be our, it could be our, we could keep it in our back pocket.
We don't have to do it.
Our all right. Um, yes.
I understand doing something for the greater God and that I'm, I'm,
I'm all about.
That.
I don't, I don't want to lose another friend is all I'm saying we.
Don't really want to do it, but I mean, if that's what it took, I would.
Right.
Well, tell you what, I've got an idea
and he runs off into the depths of the
execution. The execution section.
Uh, is gonna have us fake stumble foot's death into.
The experimental section. I don't know.
About this. Oh, it's oh, that's where you.
Should go. Uh, he comes back and he has a scroll in hand.
He,
he hands it in your direction and he's got this look on his face.
Now.
I'm handing this to you. And
this is the spell that we were,
we were talking about was when you first came in here, you know, you,
when you were suggesting, oh, how do we get, how do we kill law?
How do you destroy law? You know, however,
he, he kind of unravels the scroll a little bit. If you,
if you look here and it tells you where to use the name
of the target.
Hmm.
What do you know about the soul?
Well,
I know that the soul is comprised of different components,
different pieces.
Mm-hmm.
I know souls can be stored in soul stones and.
They can be lost.
Mm-hmm and I know that souls are eternal.
Right? Uh, you do know about the mul multiple pieces. So you know,
that the identity is part, is part of those is,
is part of that structure. Uh, the, the identity is, uh,
it kind of defines the who of the existence.
Some cultures would say that this portion of the soul would be what is referred
to as your secret name.
Great.
Uh, and as I, I can see that you are a man of the cloth,
so you are familiar with, uh, exorcisms.
I, I am familiar.
And so you know that when you are exercising something
supernatural, uh, if you are, if you have that being's name,
it, uh, gives you power over that entity. Right?
Hey.
Well, think of, think of a being secret name as.
Right. You're talking about true names.
Right? Right. You understand.
If you are able to get lofts, secret name, her true name,
as you put it, it might give a little bit more ooph to the spell. Hmm.
And require less sacrifice.
Interesting.
You could possibly destroy LA's soul
without having to destroy your own.
Well.
That wouldn't be better. Um,
where does one find a secret name?
Is it on a birth certificate or something?
Well.
You a secret name or a true name is something that's readily
guarded. Um, it,
it's not something you just won't have out there. My suggestion.
I mean, if you're trying to, uh, if,
if lath is your target, I would go after, you know,
maybe try to see if you can't get it from, uh,
a high priest of lo.
One place we could look is the cathedral drill and TowerFall maybe they have a,
an old to that has names recorded.
Woo.
A tone.
Well.
I think that we have our mission.
We could talk to your mentor. Maybe he might have some insight.
I don't finding a high SIS of law. That's gonna be,
it's gonna be tricky. I mean, we haven't seen any in, uh,
castle der means the only other place to find something like that
would be in the drought city below ground.
And we're not trying to work. We're trying not to go there.
I, I, I think going there would be a bad idea,
especially since we no longer have a hat of disguise. So, you know,
we kind of easily sneak in and I'm gonna give or Bo just
a dead stare.
Yes. What, what did you do with my hat? Anyway.
I saved the girls by taking it off.
Now you,
but did you put it in your pocket or your backpack or
anything?
It was a, listen. It was a grand gesture.
You know, you know,
it was a grand gesture was going to Sage's portal and buying it back and giving
it to you. That was a grand gesture.
You know,
it was a grand gesture selling that hat to save a
person's leg.
I.
Who I seem, I seem to remember that you, uh,
didn't quite sell that.
I, I sold it. No, it was definitely,
I definitely sold it to save Gareth's leg.
We made a proper bargain. The other person just didn't know it.
I, I feel like I should insight check poo .
That's.
That's my story. And I'm sticking to it.
Uh, that would be an 18 on my insight check.
That is exactly what.
Go ahead and roll. Go ahead and roll persuasion or deception,
whichever one I'm you're trying to do here.
I'm just telling it like it is that's that's what.
Poo.
Did.
Um, persuasion. Uh, I, I mean,
I'm not trying to deceive anyone. I'm just, uh,
so that is a seven.
Poo.
Are you sure that you sold it that a
fair bargain was struck?
Well, he wasn't very nice. He was being rather mean,
but I, I, I gave him the hat. I punched him in the face and I,
I took the diamond.
Wait, I was run that last bit by me again.
I, I gave him the hat. I punched him in the face and I took the diamond.
See,
that's where I think maybe you have your concept
of what a fair bargain is, a wee bit mixed up. Um,
the gentleman whom you got the diamond from may not feel
it was a fair trade, especially since you punched him in the face.
He did call the police.
As right. He should, uh, that's assault and potentially theft.
Oh, for a good cause.
Yes. Or bog. The shadows layer supports you citizen.
Thank.
You.
Stumble foot, double face palms.
.
So you wouldn't happen to have any hats around here, would you?
We've got all kinds of stuff here, but it's, it's not so much the, uh.
You don't have any hats, just any hats.
Well, we we've got hats,
but we don't have like the hats, like what you're talking about.
He doesn't have a hat of disguise.
He ly has like a hat of imminent doom or something like that.
Sign me.
Oh, not so much that, um, like you've heard the phrase, keep it under your hat,
right?
Oh yes.
Follow me. Oh,
he takes you back out to the front room again and he grabs a,
he grabs kind of like a, uh, baseball cap. Uh, well, you've heard the phrase,
keep it under your hat. Right? I mean,
he takes the hat and he pushes the top down to flip the hat inside out Uhhuh
and like a bunch of notes and gold and
gems and stuff fall out of the hat. Oh, it's like, it's, it's,
it's the hat of storing.
Well.
That good coming handy.
Well, that's much less dark and grim than I was thinking.
Well, I mean the forbidden sections, the forbidden section, but I mean, mean,
you know, this is, this is the more socially acceptable,
but just not as unique. Yes. Unique.
Unique's the best way that I could put it.
How much are you wanting for this scroll?
Oh, that scroll. Um,
it's funny thing about that. Uh, forbidden section. We have it because people
want it. So,
but in the same sense,
it seems a bit rough
to, because I mean,
there's implications about the SAC, the amount of sacrifice that you're,
I mean, I suppose I could part with it for 10 platinum.
I will take out my pouch of
diamond dust and measure out a hundred gold worth of it
and ask him if that will suffice.
He's like, oh, uh, components. Okay. Uh, just second,
he kind of waves his hand over it.
And you watch as the diamond dust coalesces into just a diamond,
something a bit more manageable. Uh, yeah. Yeah. This could,
this could do nicely.
All right. And I have a ball. I take out my broken ball.
How much is that?
Looks like five pieces to me.
Five pieces. Yes. I have five pieces right here of ball.
I think knowing my friend here.
I think he's expecting you to, uh,
maybe turn that into a proper ball.
And for that, I'm sorry.
Actually, I was just hoping to pay for the hat with my ball.
Uh, no, uh, we, we, uh,
this is not a barter situation. Uh, this is, uh,
we will take, uh, gems or we will take, uh, currency,
but you know.
How much is that? That.
What about his nifty arm?
No, I just wanna know how much the hedge is.
Uh, the hat is going to be about 50 gold.
50 Gold. Yes. I,
I don't think I have that much on me.
If we were, when poo was sleeping,
able to sell his arm to you.
Or bog? No.
I just thinking out loud.
John, what is this scroll that I just bought called?
You can just write down scroll of exit creation.
Um.
Well.
There's a very nice hat, but I think all I have is Paul.
So I guess I'll have to save up for it unless you want to
make a fair trade.
I thought you already had a, another hat and.
That one was an evil well and misunderstood lady.
No, no, no, no, no. The, uh, foil gave up.
To save Iran's brother I'm hatless.
Oh.
That right.
Um, did you just subtly make, uh,
intimidation of violence in my general direction?
Well, it, it was more of a joke, but,
uh, yes, I suppose we would call it that,
but I wouldn't hurt you cuz you are a nice man who sold us this nice quo
and I just made a poor choice of words.
Hmm. I'll have to ask you to refrain from making such comments in the future.
I will talk to myself about that and hopefully
I'll listen.
Well, okay. But, but if he did,
what would you owe powerful magic person do to him?
He turned me into a foul.
He mutter something and cracks his neck as he twitches his head off
to the left, uh, who I need you to make a.
Uh, why would you do that to me?
I need you to make a wisdom saving throw, please. .
Yeah, we can do that.
You're.
Welcome.
Um, and I used a key point to re-roll it. Cause I can do that now.
So now it's a 28.
Okay. For a brief moment, you feel your body go completely stiff.
Like you can't move it, but then you,
you find your center and then it, you,
your Keystar to flow through you and your, your muscles relaxed. You gotta,
you got a sense that he's kind of a powerful guy himself and he could have
made you freeze up. Should he so choose?
Um, I think as a general rule,
we should not threaten violence against anyone.
Who's a shop owner. Like that's just bad manners.
I didn't, I wasn't. Right. I, uh,
I'm you.
He has a, he has a bad history with shop owners. It's.
A, why is why is going into shopping places,
such a trial with your friend?
Because I never have any money.
I don't wanna, that's a problem.
And I have big bug bear your feet.
I need to work on your people. Skills.
Is people. Skills is, is P starting a religion.
I said, people skills.
It's right. Paper skills.
I, I kinda help it. If you hear me words from me, accent wrong.
Who might get like one of those paper hats.
That's a miner. Yeah.
That that's yes. I thought a miner was what you used is a type of saw.
You might have mentioned that once or twice.
Oh.
Steve, we miss.
You so much. yeah.
Perhaps we should do one of two things. Um,
we should look for, um,
a source of information where we can find a name or we should,
uh, do that. Um, you know, speech thing.
What, what you do for an, oh,
that's a little shingle I've been working on.
We have the, the, the tower in between us.
So we could probably look in there or try to talk to Erica
or something. Like you said.
Sounds like a.
Plan.
Whether we're going to the Northern castle or Wilders or
whatever.
I mean,
we did not find a way to get the things we needed for me to create hell up
ground. So Wilder. It was thinking that, uh,
this might be the place to find a way to do that,
but looks like that was a bust,
but we did find a way to potentially get rid of, uh,
one of our big problems for.
Good. But that would also get one rid of one of our little problems.
yeah. And he killed two birds with one stone. When you get,
when you get back to, uh, water deep and you sort that mess out,
then you can run for mayor. Oh.
No. I think water deep is.
Water deeps, not there anymore.
Water deep now.
Unless we can find a way to fix that problem. Right.
You're saying there's no competition.
I'm saying there's no place to compete. Okay. And quite honestly,
I'm not looking to, uh, uh, take up office here. Uh,
not interested.
I know.
Well, um.
So what should we do then?
Do we just go through and just keep looking places?
Should we go back to Tom bog and see if he has anything.
We might need to split up? I mean,
I could spend some time doing some research at the cathedral
if they'll let me, but we definitely should. Um, I think, look at,
uh, trying to shore up our position here and, uh,
secure the castle and the best way to do that would probably be to, uh,
raise an army.
Speech time, maybe. Um.
Oh, let me, I wanted to, to ask Mr. Also magic man. A question.
Do you okay.
I am trying to find my wonderful acts,
but it was removed from the castle.
Is there a spell where I can find out where it is or a spell
that can bring it to me without me being it,
I had already having a spell on it. It is a magical act so.
That you could.
He always just cast SCR on that and find out where it's at.
You screw on an item.
You can do that.
I can do that now.
Yeah. I think, I didn't know. He could do that either,
but I know stubble foot was bragging about that this morning.
What are about it? I was excited about it though.
Well, look, look for his ex.
I was gonna take some time and if I do that then, uh.
Well that's alright.
Well, how many episodes you think it would take?
It won't take long. It'll take me 10 minutes.
we should go someplace else. If we're gonna do that though,
we shouldn't have do it here.
And it's fine to do that after or whatever.
Right. Well, thank you for your services. I'll be back for that hat.
Yes.
You're. You're always welcome here at, uh, Beatles and James.
Just remember the password and.
Uh, Frank.
No.
Teach, no CLE.
CLE.
There. You.
Will you head out?
Well, it was, it was nice meeting you. Goodbye citizen.
Great. Let's go. Are you guys headed?
Do you guys want to go to
the cathedral first or do we wanna try and round some folks up.
Is, uh, do we see people out and about.
Well, I mean, it's just a regular day, so I mean, uh,
people are just going about their usual business.
You do notice distinctly less drown.
I figured that.
I wonder if they all fled, maybe we should.
Just go. Well, I mean, how,
how could they not flee after the message that or bog just had us send
out.
Let's go to, uh, let's go to castle steerer.
Let's go see what's happening up there.
All right. I guess we're gonna go to castle steerer.
On our way. I hand out pamphlets.
Uh, make a, make, make a persuasion roll.
Okay. Who 14? I.
Don't know if you want captain charisma here managing your campaign. .
Uh.
Negative two, man.
So you hand them out and you get a fairly tepid response. People take them.
What bug get your O bug here.
Uh, some, some people, when they take them,
they just put 'em in the next immediate trash. Can they walk by you?
And there's that too.
I'd pull 'em out of the trash can and hand him to other people.
.
I really gotta come up with that slogan. That just
you OUG OUG enough said.
When we're walking, I just wanna say
that message was an accident. Um.
So you guys get to castle ske there's uh,
smoke coming from the windows. A bunch of the windows are busted out.
Someone's cooking.
Like the castle was lit on fire.
Parts of.
It from the inside or the outside.
From the inside.
Oh, oh, bug is, is this how it usually looks?
I'm really trying not to say anything bad about the drought right now.
Right?
Well, or bog to be fair. I mean,
you did kind of force them out of the city and said they'd like it
better underground anyway.
That's not exactly what I said.
I was, I was misquoted.
I don't really think you were, I was standing right there. When you.
Said can't just pick and choose little, little parts.
Well, I, I think you were speaking in hyperbole.
No, I, I distinctly remember. I did not say it that way.
I think you were speaking in, but uh, you know,
I think maybe some of it got lost in translation, especially since, uh, sending,
you know, can only have so many words, right?
Let's check out this castle thing. That's on fire.
Let's go inside and see how bad it is.
You go inside. The place is fairly well ransacked.
There's a few rooms that are on fire upstairs.
Okay. Um, the rooms that are on fire,
can I get close enough to cast, create water?
I don't see why not. What's the dis what's the range on that?
Uh, the distance is 30 feet. Um,
and when I cast it, I create 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of water.
yes.
Sir. Who supports this?
okay.
Of course of action.
How many times can you do this?
Uh, three times.
You're fortunate. Cause there's three rooms that are on fire.
But I'm thinking with 30 gallons of water, hopefully I can douse the,
the flames when 30 gallons of water just here and drop from the
sky into the room.
Right. And you said how much food appears with this.
45 Pounds?
Boy, have you never done this before? It's just.
Created .
Just honey.
135 Pounds of food.
This game is the best game in the world.
What, what kind of food are you making? I want, I want,
I need this honey image of my heart.
Now.
Honey beef, the fierce one in Lemonhead.
It's just 45 pounds of filet minion.
All right. So as, as, as this water drops onto the fire with,
uh, with the, uh,
a bunch of filet minion drops with it and, uh,
you get some really, uh,
you get a lot of steamed steak.
Mm Y steamed steak.
Well then in the next room, it'll be next time.
30 gallons of water and 45 pounds of potatoes.
Cause nothing goes better with steak and potatoes.
All right. So you got some,
you got some steamed steak and some steamed potatoes getting
you right now. You have a Ritz, uh,
menu for a heart attack victim. Let's keep going.
Yes. In room three. It's gonna be,
and boy is gonna get really quick.
One second, as this happens, wait a second, a second.
Eric.
You're telling me that you can create 45 pounds of
food. Well,
why didn't you just make it herbs and then the spell.
Oh, that's such a good idea too.
Like I don't.
I don't think, I, I don't think that works though. Cause it has to be,
it has to be herbs, oils and incense. It's not like just one thing.
It has to be all three.
Herbs oils anyway, butter.
Incense isn't food. So I can't just be like incen .
Okay.
So.
Who is gooping up? So.
Are, are you, are you,
are you actually going with the butter for room three?
Yes, I think so. Yeah. .
All right. So as this drops, the, the butter melts,
as it proceeds, as it goes into this room.
I'm,
I'm picking the potatoes from the other room and throwing 'em in the butter.
throw some of the steaks in that too.
And some of the steaks too. Yeah. Yeah.
And yeah, the, but there's,
there's a big old gush of buttery water as it flows out of this room.
um.
Nope.
Uh, stumble foot.
I need you to make a percentile roll for please.
I need to know if the oils in this butter catch fire again from the hot room.
Uh, 66.
Okay. No, it's fine. It's just buttery water.
Um, ex stumble foot club of that chest for a moment.
Uh, I, yeah.
I,
I start putting potatoes and flaming yachts and butter and.
All you're doing is dropping that into the, the treasury of the other castle.
That's where that box goes.
But who wants to keep some for later.
.
Throwing food from one castle to another for.
Box.
Just knows that he can get the it later. If that, if, if he does this.
Oh, that's destroy delicious. So good. Mm-hmm
wow. Thank you for that.
You're welcome. I guess.
And poo is drenched and.
Better.
You all, are you, you guys like your,
your clothes have started to shrink from all the steam that's in the air right
now. uh, stumble foot.
I need you to make a quick history check for me, please.
13.
Uh, being back in this castle,
you remember a section of conversation that you overheard LA say before you
banished her about,
about guests of honor in the dungeon.
Mm-hmm .
Um, just the thought that ran through your head.
Well, let's go down to the dungeon.
When you were down there last,
you don't remember seeing anybody actually down there.
Right? I thought we looked.
You didn't go all the way to the end. You, it got dark and you guys were like,
uh, it's probably fine.
There may still be someone down in the dungeon way, far back.
Uh, they could use some steak.
Uh, I think they could use some freedom.
And stake is freedom. Uh,
right.
All right. I'm stumble. Foot's headed to the dungeon.
Yeah. All right. Uh,
you head down there and of course that spell of silence is still
in play down there. Um,
you head back towards the, that part. You get back towards the, uh,
one section of the dungeon where you have the four doorways
that, uh,
kind of cross the room from each other. So you have three,
three different doors you can open and I'm gonna see if you can remember which
door goes where.
The, I think, I think the center door was the torture room, right?
Yes. That makes sense.
Who has no idea?
The, the, the torture, the torture room is the room that you're currently in.
Oh, um, cause I remember I opened the left door.
I'll open the center door.
You see another hallway of, uh, cells going further down and it, but it it's a,
it's a much darker corridor than the one you first came down.
Right. Cause the door on the right was the closet.
Mm-hmm the center door was the long corridor and I forget what the
door and left was. That was the one I opened. I think that also was more cells.
Um, let's just go all the way to the end of this one, looking in the cells.
Yeah.
Okay. Um,
you start heading down there and it seems to be pretty emptied out and the
further and further you go, uh, it,
it's getting darker and darker and darker,
uh, who has dark vision?
I do.
I do. Oh geez. All three of you do all three, three, every everyone bit Wilder.
Yeah. Yeah. Wilder's here.
Wilder's uh, probably has his hand on, uh,
who's shoulder as you guys make your way back. My.
Buttery.
I have the can trip. That's that's not, I have the can trip lights.
That's not typically where Wilder touches people, but I have the can trip light.
I will cast light on a coin and I will hand it to Wilder.
Oh, Wilder's like, oh thanks. And he's kind of holding it up. Uh, so yeah,
you guys make your way down.
And at the two in they're at the two cells at the end of this hallway
on the right, you see a humanoid female,
um, who is unconscious.
And as you look at one hand,
there are about three fingers that look like they've been pulled out of socket.
If you look at the other hand,
it looks like someone grabbed the pinky and ring finger with one hand and the
pointer and middle finger with the other and just started pulling in opposite
directions. Nope. And, uh, it, her,
her hand has been opened up all the way down to the wrist.
Do we recognize this person?
Um, yeah, this is, uh.
Is this Ashlyn.
This is the real Ashlyn, correct.
Okay. Um, I would like to
open her cell door.
Okay.
Can we open it? Yeah.
I mean, if you, if you have a key or the means to unlock it.
Wilder, can you pick this lock?
Wild has Wilder has this key of knocking knock key?
Oh.
Yeah. Actually you can't talk.
Oh yeah. It's silent.
Oh, okay. I'll look at Wilder and I'll point at the lock and
make a unlocking motion.
Uh, Wilder gets out his thieve's tools.
This is most thief Wilder's ever done.
I know, right.
What's an unlocking motion.
I twisted my hand, like I'm unlocking a door.
Okay.
Um, and the cell opens up.
All right. I will go into the cell and I will,
um, is Ashlyn conscious? No.
Very, no. She's hardly breathing.
Okay.
I am going to do my best to reset her hand
and bind the wound. Okay. Together so that when I heal it, it heals properly.
Mm-hmm .
That'll wake her up.
And then I'll cast, cure, wounds and heal it.
Okay. Uh, for the binding, I'd like you to make a medicine check for me, please.
Sure. I can do that.
Um, that's an 18.
Okay. You do a pretty solid job of binding it up and then what you heal and the,
the wounds begin to re affix to each other.
Um, she doesn't wake up. Um,
the thing about cure wounds as Matt Mercer once said,
is it it'll feel the it'll heal the physical damage, but it doesn't necessarily,
uh,
fix things like malnutrition and dehydration.
Understood. Oh, you know what,
if silence is cast down here, then I can't cast spells.
Oh really?
Yeah. Because it negates the verbal component of the spell.
Gotcha. That's right. That's right. That's right.
So I would've known that. So I would not have cast cure wounds.
Right. But I'm sure you probably still would've bound up the hand just.
Yes. I will bind up the hand and we'll pick her up. Yeah.
You said there's somebody else we saw down here.
Yeah. Are you sure you don't wanna just shove her through the, uh, chest,
you know, send no.
Who comes and.
Well, she needs, she's hungry. She needs food. Right?
We can just shove her through the chest and then she'll have a, yeah.
A nice steak meal waiting for her on the other side.
Bet. She can't take off either of her hands.
Who is gonna start using those. He's gonna hand out pamphlets and steaks.
When he, when he talks to people about war bottle.
Greasy steaks.
yeah.
Greasy. Steam.
Says no mistake. Oh, for OBO robot. .
So who's in the other cell.
You see the motionless. Other than he, he looks like he's breathing.
But outside of that, he, he he's catatonic on the floor. Uh, the,
uh, body of king vault.
Yeah. If only we had a soul stone.
You do?
Oh, wait. Oh.
That's right. We got it back.
But we left it at Tom bogs. Darn it.
Um, I'm an emotion to somebody to pick him up.
Yeah. Or I can pick him up.
Can I can hand, I can hand Ashlyn to someone else and carry vault.
I can probably carry both of 'em.
Let's let's take him back out to an area where we can talk and then I'll,
I'll cast your wounds on, um,
Ashlyn and give her some, try and get some water down her throat.
Some buttery water.
Gross.
I have, I have normal water and a canteen.
Well.
A water skin.
While you guys are, it was filled.
Canteens with the butter water.
While you guys are tra uh, the them through the dungeon. Um,
you do encounter that torture room again with the two other doors.
If you wanted to check them as well or keep going.
I mean, I can go down. I'm just gonna say torture them. If,
if they wanna haul everybody up Wilder and I can go down the LA the
hallway on the, is it the left door? I wanna say it's the left door.
Okay.
And just take a look. We'll open the left door.
Okay. You open the left door and you see a red room.
That's recessed into the ground by about three inches.
And, uh,
there's a certain aroma of blood that comes outta this room and you start to see
shadows escape.
Oh, that's right. We shut that door. Shut, shut that door. And we don't open it.
Um, as soon as the door cracks open, I realize, oh yeah, we shut that door.
we leave that door shut.
I feel like I was tricked into opening that door.
I didn't trick you. I just didn't remind you what was behind it.
Uhhuh. Yeah, that was convenient. Okay.
Mr. DM, if it was me, if it was the other way around,
you certainly wouldn't have reminded me.
No, I would've let all the shadows out. .
So anyway, uh, you get to the top of the stairs and you,
I'm assuming you cast that, uh, healing spell on, uh,
Ashlyn. Yeah.
When he found his voice again.
And, uh, yeah, the hand heals up nicely.
Does it?
Yes, it does. Uh, what are you guys doing at the top of the stairs? Yo.
We should take Ashlyn back, uh, to Tom bog. I'm sure.
In when would appreciate seeing her friend again.
I, um, do that. Uh,
we should probably take king vaults back to and decide whether or not we think
reuniting him with his soul is a good idea. I mean, ethically, it's a good idea.
We should probably like chain him up or something before doing that. You know,
just in case.
Here's some trouble with that.
We've just told everyone that we, uh,
overthrow the government and now we're gonna carry his body through both
cities to get back to Tom bogs
seems like a bad plan.
What if we go down to the stables and see if there's a horse and cart and
just throw a tarp over him and take him back to Tom bogs.
A magical hat would show come in handy right about now.
Right? But doesn't the person wearing it.
Have to think about what they want to look like.
And he's not doing a lot of thinking right now since, you know,
he separated from his soul, but.
God, it is God. It is.
It's fine. That's what we.
Do. Who goes into town to see if you can find a cart.
You don't want to go to the Royal stables.
Who goes to the Royal. Well,
who goes who goes to town to look for a cart. That's what I said. That's
POS starts heading that direction.
PO starts heading.
We have stables poo. We have, unless they let all the horses go or something.
Oh, you have stables. Let's Lift's the stables.
Let's take a look.
Yes, we, unless they let 'em go.
All right. So, uh, or bog leads you towards the stables,
um, Uhhuh. It's it's a little bit gruesome when you get there. It seems like,
uh, a lot of the horses were being pieced out,
like parted out, um,
possibly for consumption.
Well, that's not, that's not very nice.
Uh, but you, you, you do find, you do find a,
a couple horses that look like they could pull a cart that haven't been,
uh, turned into meat yet.
All right. I will name you, bud.
Well, let's hook 'em up to a cart and gonna move on.
You are not gonna trick us, John.
We will take the dead horses and we will make it work.
Um, okay. I ,
we hook up the horses to a cart and I named one of them, but.
And I named the other one tur.
Yes, bud and tur bud.
Sure. Why not get it? So yeah, you guys, uh,
drive this cart through the city. Um, you're heading back to Tom bolts, UN.
I think HBO and, and, uh,
stumble foot were wanting to check some things out in the
cathedral.
Okay.
Yeah. Um, on our way back through the cathedral,
I want to stop and either talk to Eric hath
or look for, um,
some kind of archives where maybe we can look to see if
we can find, um, a book. That's got some true names in it.
How do you want to go about doing any of what you just.
Said? I think my library card still works.
Are there still priests and whatnot in the cathedral?
Yeah. I mean, there's the, the cathedrals open. Um, they, uh,
there's people milling around. I'm sure. There's you could totally find one.
If you wanted to.
Roll up and say, can I ask you a question?
There's a ogre, uh,
priest that you approach and you ask him that he goes, oh,
I get it. I'm an Oger. So I can't speak proper common. It's I,
you want to ask a question cuz I'm an Oger and of
course Ogers only understand AEs and pillaging, right.
I, I think you are reading way too much into this.
I was just trying to be silly.
Mm-hmm I?
Yeah. Dwarfs, dwarfs use AEs a lot. So too.
So he could be ripping on himself, which I'm sure he was.
It just struck me as racial appropriation is what I'm saying.
You have a, since I sincerely apologize, I do Nott mean to offend, um.
Go, go with hi Dolly Jo and be blessed.
We are doing some research. Um,
and we're looking for a way to perhaps destroy a very
evil creature, um,
an evil Demonn queen and,
but in order to do so we would need a true name.
And we're wondering if there is a book perhaps that you have in your archives
that may have such a thing in it we're requesting if we could
do some research.
Well, you, you know, that true names are hard to come by, right? It's.
Right. But we thought that if they were a place that might have some,
then perhaps you might have them hidden away, you know,
it recorded something like that here.
That's true.
Well, we do,
we ha we have some literature that might be of interest,
but that's,
that's not really for common access.
There's there's a lot you can do with a being's true name. Um,
but you are with the only surviving member of
royalty that I'm aware of. So I.
That's right. We are the only surviving member, the one in all day.
Yep.
He just looks blankly at you P like, as I was saying, um,
I could take you into the section of forbidden knowledge, I suppose,
but I can't allow you to take anything out of the library though.
Okay. Okay.
So he takes you down a corridor and through several,
uh, steps and he brings you into a small
library. Uh, not very big. Um,
definitely not as big as the, uh, forbidden section in,
uh, uh, Beatles and James.
Okay.
I would like to search for the true names
for two beings.
One of them goes by the name of lo and the other one goes by the name of
Kerick.
Uh, make, uh, investigation check, please.
That's a 14.
A 14.
Can put thumb through some books.
Can I, can I help.
Him? You guys help him? I'll say you get advantage.
So go ahead and roll a second time.
Okay. Uh, that's a dirty 20 the second time.
Okay. Uh,
I can tell you that you aren't able to find anything for
Kerick.
Of course not.
Um, that, but I.
Had to give it a shot. If you gave me a spell scroll,
like you just did .
I will say that, uh, with a dirty 20,
I will give you some other information as well. Although, uh,
this is more for the listener's sake.
Okay.
Um, and, and, and, and you can begin to see,
as this is inside a church that's devoted to a D D why this information would be
forbidden. Um, mm-hmm but in looking for the,
the names of what are considered as what is considered as a lesser de D
you find a passage that explains that it's a little known truth,
that all the deities within the what with a commonly known
Pantheon are not in fact gods,
but they are just aspects that are assuming the place of
a God, uh,
natural aspects rather that are assuming the place of a God.
Okay.
You find a,
when you start searching for information on LA,
you don't find anything specific as a true
name, but you find a list of five names.
Okay.
Did you find anything?
I did. I found a list that says on dancer,
on PR on Donna, on Vixen. Do,
can I cross reference any of those names or do I just find the one passage?
And that's.
It, that's the one passage that you find.
Okay.
Like I said, there's, there's not a lot of literature on true names.
Yeah.
Because they are so they are so jealously guarded.
Mm-hmm . Yeah.
And any other place that might have something of this has been destroyed,
so cool.
Well, there's another place that you seem to refuse to go to.
Yeah. Downtown.
Where all the lights are bright.
Another place that I refuse to go to.
Yes. The Drow city drought.
Down. Oh, I just don't know that I'm gonna be very well received there.
I mean, need the.
You're worried you're gonna be bad received there.
Well, yeah. I'm guilty by association now. Thank you.
Right. Well, so we've got what we've needed.
Let's head back to the others. Let's get these, our,
our, our cargo to safety.
Once as soon as we leave the cathedral stumble,
foot's gonna get out a pen and some paper and write those names down real quick.
Okay.
And then fold 'em up and put 'em in his bag.
Okay. Uh, I will, I will say, uh, make a perception check real quick for me.
Active perception checks. So 24.
All right. Uh, you notice observant.
Baby.
Hey, uh, you notice that when, uh,
you put that piece of paper in your pocket with those names on it, mm-hmm,
, it's slight, but you notice that when you put it in your pocket,
it's heavier than a piece of paper should be.
Interesting. Okay.
So are you guys going back to Tom bogs or which location
are you going to?
Tom, Tom bogs.
As you go in there. Uh,
nobody's really there except for the four of you, even Tom bogs, not there so.
Well, I guess we're, uh, we just wait here for the others.
P I'm going to work on Ashlyn. Um,
see if I can heal her some more and maybe try and get some,
um, nourishment into her,
maybe you and Wilder or you,
and orach should run to ambulance real quick and see if she's there,
but watch out, keep an eye peel for her dad. He's not friendly.
Oh, I've met him. He doesn't like me. Um,
well, yeah, I, I, I can, uh, add out that direction is.
But you're, you're saying Emron NICU.
And was it Rhoda are none of them are there?
No, they're not there.
That's weird.
Um, yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll run over to their, their house real quick.
Anyone else can come along with me or bug?
I am going to send a message to Tom bog real quick,
Tom tumble back at your house,
noticed people are gone,
have Ashlyn need your advice.
When will you be back?
You get a response that says drought fled village took my stuff.
I don't know.
Well, , that's inconvenient seems that, uh,
Tom bog went chasing after the drought cuz they stole his stuff.
Well, if I see him, I'll let you know.
Okay.
Oh.
Yeah. I'm going to, uh,
burn some spell lots on healing, um,
Ashlyn. Okay. And then, you know,
I'll try and feed her, make some soup or something. I don't know.
Okay. Uh, P yep.
You are marching off to, uh, M's house. Mm-hmm .
I was thinking he should probably take Wilder.
Yeah. Wilder can come.
Just because Wilder might wanna check on his daughter or whatever.
Yeah. I will say that Wilder probably as soon as you guys got back to, uh,
Tom's house Wilder probably went to go check on his, on his daughter.
So he probably out yep.
You get to ER's house. And at that right at about that time,
Em's dad is stepping outside and he sees you.
Oh, hello there? Huh?
It's you again?
I just passing by.
Just so happened to be passing by. Look, I think we cut up on.
Uh, well, why.
Don't, why don't we did. Why don't you come?
Okay.
As I, I start, I start to go with him and then I, uh,
although just an insight check just to see if he's being sincere.
Okay, go ahead. Go ahead and roll your insight check.
Yes. Insights my middle name.
I feel like that's a lie. He, he feels, he feels sincere.
Um, it doesn't feel like he's trying to deceive you in anything. Um, he,
it does seem like, he feels like where he's taking you
is important to him.
Checks out.
Have you ever thought about the state of your immortal being
I'm sorry. I, I, I, I don't believe I got your name.
It's a, a P.
Who have you ever, have you ever thought of, have you ever thought about, uh,
your eternal being.
Well? Um, um, before I answer that question,
have you seen Emin around.
We'll, we'll get to Emin, but, uh, keep crawling with me.
My eternal being well, yeah, every now and then I,
I do think about that. Um, you see, I,
uh,
I didn't think about it once and I I've lost several
people close to me recently. And, uh, that's caused me to,
uh, think more about that.
Sort of thing.
What if I told you that in spite of the losses you
have in life, you can be made complete?
Well, now I, I would say that, uh,
that losses have led to, uh,
me growing as a person. Um, so
that, I, I guess that makes sense.
What if, uh,
what if the pain of those losses could be just
plucked out of your being wouldn't wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be?
Wouldn't that be something?
Ooh, that would be something. Alright,
but probably not something I'd be very interested in in.
You see, um, even though I,
I don't like the pain or the loss,
uh, there's a sort of, uh,
um, oh, what's the word for it? It's good. That,
that has come out of it.
And, well, I'm not saying, I'm not saying to reverse the loss.
I'm saying being at peace with the loss.
Oh, well that there, there you would. Um,
I, I would feel that I'm more or less,
or at peace with, with the loss.
These things have happened.
Son. I see, I see a lot of turmoil within you.
Oh, well, yes, there is a lot of turmoil. Um.
But I, I feel, I feel a spirit of despair.
Uh.
Upon you that weighs, that weighs heavily.
Despair. You say, no, I I'm, I'm doing, I'm doing just fine.
Just fine and dandy.
Maybe it's the.
That doesn't feel right.
And now, sir, we, we, haven't known each other very, very long. Um,
perhaps you have the wrong impression of me.
There's a deep sense of loss that I feel coming off of you, sun.
I, I, yes, I, I have lost,
I I've lost some good friends. I've got back some good friends.
I've.
As you are, as you are walking poo, um, you,
you start to feel a bit more at home as you
pass from over a bridge,
and you're starting to go into a forest and you given your history
with your tribe, you feel very at home within a forest.
And this forest in particular is start, is starting to feel very welcoming.
The farther in you go.
This is a, a very lovely forest that,
uh, I haven't seen a forest quite like this for,
for like a while. You know, I've,
I've missed places like this.
I know there's so much peace to be found in a forest.
One might even say that, uh, you know,
you can find out who you really are in the woods.
Find out who, who you really are in the woods. Yes. Well, I, I do,
but you know, often I do like to take time to, um,
reflect that's been something that I have been working on lately.
I do a little, a meditation, a little thought, a little, little prayer,
even. And it, uh, it does help.
That makes sense. Well, tell you what, and you start to come,
you start to kind, he, he starts walking you across a,
a very shallow river that only comes up to about your knees. It's like,
let me, let me show you a friend of mine.
As you begin to approach a tree with a odd looking,
it, it looks like a dead tree that has a very odd looking trunk to it,
very broad base with a series of
strangely placed knot holes.
Well, that is a, that's a very, um, that that's a tree and a half right there.
It.
Is.
It wouldn't happen to have he have any honey
by it.
He rolls his finger finger across the bark of the tree.
And you see a very beautiful looking
small humanoid creature come out, except she has,
uh, kind of like white butterfly wings with a,
with a, uh, kind of blue center.
Oh.
And she's got,
she has very big blue eyes and she looked ha I guess this look on her on her
face. And she goes, oh.
Did you find me somebody new, uh, somebody who needs healing?
He goes, yes, I did. It's very good of you to notice Anna,
she flutters up to you poo,
and she's only about a foot and a half tall as she flutters up to you.
And she goes,
I do see loss a friend closer than a brother.
Uh, yes, a a Christopher. He, he was a,
a friend. Oh, and a and a brother might say.
And she, she runs her hand past your face. And she goes,
let me help you.
And she begins to sing to you as, as she sings.
It's almost a dull,
full lament for Christopher as if she's putting words,
this burden that you've been carrying for Christopher since he was
taken so many years ago.
And you don't forget about it,
but you're overwhelmed with a sense of peace and wellbeing
and it's, and it's it.
It's almost the first time you have felt good in spite of
the situation since he was taken.
And as she finishes singing, she goes there now isn't that better?
Well, I, I would, I would say yes, yes. That, that does feel better.
That's nice. Well,
keep coming back and we will continue to heal the
burdens of the past so that you can best surrender your burdens to
SHA and be made hold.
Oh, yes. Shaw mm-hmm mm-hmm
well, I, uh, think I should be headed off now.
Thank you for the lovely song.
Very good. Who of the house of Sanders we look forward to seeing you again,
Shaw's blessing upon you.
And, uh, and on you as well and on you as well.
I will walk across the bridge, um, and head back is,
is Iran's brother coming at all?
No, he stayed in the woods.
Well, I head back, I guess George's where he is.
Oh, there, there he was. Huh? And that lady was very nice.
Anna. Yes. She's very nice.
She was, uh, something that's that's for sure.
Where you said you might know where was.
Oh, uh, she came by earlier,
dropped off her brother and sister,
and then I believe she said she was headed to discuss some matters
with Ethan. I'm not entirely certain.
Oh, all right. Good. Um, well, I should, uh,
be on my way. It was, uh, thank you for,
for bringing, bringing me here.
You're very welcome. And he holds,
he shakes your hands and looks you on the eye intently, as he says,
you're very welcome son.
Uh, oh, oh, oh yeah. Son. That's that? Uh,
that's a weird, weird thing say, but you're very welcome. Uh,
Iran's.
Father.
Yes.
Who leaves the woods and he gets,
he he'll go, um.
Out leaves the woods walking very swift. I don't want it.
Uh, about as where, where he can go.
I don't know, a little ways away finds a place where he can,
he can sit down and he's, he sits down and.
That was, oh, that was very, very strange. I,
uh, I don't, I don't think I should have done that.
Uh, I, I mean, I feel, I feel better,
but char.
I, I, I take a moment to center myself there.
Okay. Um.
And I'll go ahead and use stillness, stillness of mine, which will,
um, end knee, uh,
charm or anything that I might have.
Okay.
Think about all of that.
Okay.
Um, do I notice any, I don't know, uh,
like anything lifted from having stillness of mine.
You seem a little bit less enamored with the song that was sung.
Okay.
Uh, you do feel the burden of the burden has been,
is still lifted from you mm-hmm , but in the same sense,
there's a kind of a hollow feeling in its place.
Yes.
There is something not quite right about that
place. Oh,
I need to do some thinking,
some serious thinking.
I think that's where we're gonna call it for tonight.
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