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Deep within the blighted land, which the vengeful woods has reclaimed and lies in a
abandoned manse and the forgotten manners of wealthy landowners and foppish nobles, built

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in hubristic defiance of the old forest, tales spread among the borderlands, of one such
manner, a lavish plantation atop sweeping hills that overlook terraced fields, where,

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before the spirits of old Caldur reclaimed the

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What was theirs?

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Indolent lords and ladies gorged themselves on progressively rarer and more esoteric
delicacies to sate their English hunger, eventually consuming their servants and even each

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other in orgastic, cannibal gluttony.

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Nobles are now gone now.

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They fled the butcher's knives of their comrades and the vengeful cleavers of their would
be meals.

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Only the accumulated wealth of all the region's nobility remains, hidden.

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Under peeling floorboards, and dusty cellars just waiting for an enterprising treasure
hunter hungry enough to find it.

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Hey everybody, I'm Nick and I'm going to be running a trophy dark incursion called The
Plantation.

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And the Plantation is written by Nora Rose, and I'm excited to throw it your way.

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Yeah, hey, I'm Jordan.

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I've been heard around here on Dead Letter Bureau a time or two, but today I am playing
Inda, the naturalist, as we delve into the plantation.

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Hey guys, it's Charlie, and you've heard me on the Alien One-Shot, Alien slash Mothership
One Shot.

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I'm from the T List Podcast, this line is Sincure from the Knoll Project, and today I'm
playing Thorum the Herbalist.

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An herbalist and a naturalist walk into a bar.

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Thormaninda, you stand on the edge of a forest.

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You are on an old, less than traveled road, about to step into a new world, you might say.

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What do you look like?

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Thorum is a great man, strong man, build to pull bulls, rip trees from the ground,
calloused hands, strong legs, dark hair and piercing stare.

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Thorum doesn't shy away from brute work, for he knows that Inda would never be able to do
what he does.

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Inda Likewise, what does Thorum see?

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is a punched man.

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He walks with the weight of many upon his shoulders.

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He is draped in the plants and the furs of the beasts he has seen.

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They talk to him sometimes, sometimes he replies.

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This day he stoops and he produces a small paw, which has a balm uh on its inside, which
he rubs on his knee to alleviate the tires of the long.

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You two enter the forest and walk among trees, short squat orchards, and when you feel the
borderlands starting to end and the plantation grounds beginning,

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You see the vanity on display of this area.

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Here, in the distance, you see the nobles that remain, if one could call them such a
thing.

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Far away, it looks like the nobles have traded finery for a pig carcass.

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You see five hunched over figures and a massive pig laying in the far distance.

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game question.

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And some of the time being out of character, how do you imagine this transitioning to us
the players?

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Are we in character right now?

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Yeah.

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I think you can be in character and then when it comes to like setting if you want to set
more of the scene or a add a devil's bargain when we're rolling, then that's kind of the

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outer character moments.

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But even now you could be like, well, I think I would see this, right?

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Or this is the detail I would pick up on.

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You're welcome to bring that in whenever you want.

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I think Ind is wary at seeing such a tremendous beast felled.

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He is worried deeply that they are not honoring it in the way it deserves.

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Thorum, what do you make of that?

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Would I notice something special about them, considering my perception?

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You're staring off into the distance and you can see they're wearing lace that could be
silk, but it's hard to tell because there's clotted gore all over it, and they're huddled

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over the dead pig like it's the last guest at some debauchery ridden ball.

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It's disgusting, it's an aesthetic nightmare.

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you see the shift from wealthy noble to feral trash right in front of you.

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and they are gorging themselves.

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You see them pulling haunch bits off of it and eating it.

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Pity men, starving it seems that once fell.

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Bees could fill feed a hundred.

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They are greedy.

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Yes.

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Will they stop?

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Or must we stop then?

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I fear they will not stop until this beast is entirely consumed.

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I fear even for the bones.

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You approach.

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There are too many to turn away with fists.

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What do you propose?

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Wide birth, I don't believe that we can take so many men at once.

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As we traverse, keeping our distance, um stepping in silence to ensure that we are not
noticed uh among the wild, I would like to wander through the edge of the forest and make

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a small call for other things that feast, for beasts of the earth, for squirrels of the
trees, for carrion birds.

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For centipedes and things that crawl on the ground.

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And I would like to urge them to follow me towards this bounty.

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Okay.

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So I'm gonna call this a risk roll, right?

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You're putting your mind especially, um, and even your body at in danger.

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So this will be our first roll.

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What skills would give you a white dice?

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Certainly my affinity for beasts, but also the way to walk in silence that is undisturbing
of the natural order, a way that transmutes the energy of the forest into my very

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footfall.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so you can add one light dice and you have to take a risk dice, the black one.

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I will of offer you a devil's bargain and Thorum, you can as well.

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My devil's bargain is that you can add a white dice no matter what though, there will be
an unattended consequence to being able to move among the forest with grace.

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You'll take the devil's bargain?

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Thorum, do you want to add a devil's bargain or have anything?

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No, I would just say it yeah, you could add the dice.

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Uh however stealth would not be as easily dealt with, uh meaning everyone would make so
much noise having this much of a company around us.

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Yeah.

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So two white dice and one black dice.

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Roll them together.

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Well you're looking for the highest and what color that highest is.

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Um, is there any significance that two of my skills would apply, or am I maxed at one?

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You're usually maxed at one and you use your skill with that and then the devil's bargain
adds another.

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Could be a understood.

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Ah.

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Five and a six on the white die, both outstripping the black.

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Okay.

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So you got a six which is a perfect success.

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Um tell me what do you how do you bring this these creatures in to move on slowly?

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I reach into my satchel and I bring out a melange of dried bits, things that I have kept
from each dying creature that I have encountered, each plant that I have utilized in my

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ritual, and I sprinkle them behind me.

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They contain the concentrated scents that will attract each of these creatures to me and

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As I progress forward, they gather in a swath, like a wake uh of writhing mass through the
grasses behind me.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that's great.

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So you have this writhing mass following you.

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Thorum, how do you react to this?

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Thorum would look at all the remains that uh Indah is li uh leaving behind.

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The goblin, the beast, the boar, the cat.

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Thorum would be surprised seeing this many uh that would first of all fit inside of Ind's
pouches, and second be impressed of seeing all the stops he would pull just to get rid of

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uh this many people.

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In in my mind it is almost like do you know um like pork floss?

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Like the dried uh s it it's kind of like that, but you can very clearly see that there are
just different makeups of of different things in there, but it is like a a fish food for

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the forest.

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And your expectation is these things will end up turning on the nobles gorging themselves
or just cover your

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They will consume the meal that these n greedy nobles had ordained for themselves.

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So you're sneaking along creating this trail with them.

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Leading them towards like this is the promise of the feast to come.

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That is what I am tantalizing them with.

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It is come with me, I have a bigger kill for.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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As you both get closer to the nobles, you see that they still wear treasure all over their
bodies.

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They have necklaces, they have rings that are hanging off of strangely elongated fingers.

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Some of them have skinny bodies but pot bellies with some strange change that's happened
in their body.

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And they have a lot of finery about them in gyms.

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Do you think that you would try to take any of these treasures from the nobles as you've
snuck up behind them, Dor?

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Thorum has no need any more for glory or treasure.

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Yeah.

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Past them, you see an overturned stagecoach.

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And it lies there like a broken clock.

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It's gears the horses, the men.

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They've spilled all over and are unmoving.

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You see a footman hanging above the stagecoach as he's been charred, almost like a
blackened pendula.

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And more meals for my friends.

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I am glad of this bounty.

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Yeah, as you see this, the most delicious smell wafts into your nostrils, but is gone
moments later.

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Em could I use my knowledge of beasts and plants to try and place whatever creature or
spice I have just smelled.

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Yeah, yeah.

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From where you're at, you would have to r really focus and hone and maybe pop your head
out of the grass where you're hidden by these from these nobles.

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Um, do you want to risk it?

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What want to do is sick my wake upon the carcass and then observe freely.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Let's let's do another risk roll for sicking it and to see if you can go unnoticed.

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Thorum, anything you want to do?

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Or are you just waiting?

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I wouldn't be just waiting well, um yeah, spotting if anyone would if Inda wouldn't like
catch the attention of someone.

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Just to yeah, make sure that uh he gets back to safe.

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Yeah, give me a risk roll.

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Using the same naturalistic skill and the black dice for the risk.

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Any devil's bargain for him, Thorum?

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Not that I can think of, no.

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I have a devil's bargain.

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No matter what happens with the bugs, one of them will escape and see you.

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Okay?

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Go ahead, roll it out.

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Vice is my understanding, one white, one dark.

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Is it can you tell me more about what it means to succeed or fail?

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Six is a success exactly as you described, and four and five are a success with a
complication, and the rest are failures to different degrees.

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Up uh a four on the wait dates.

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Great.

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So you succeed, but there's a complication.

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I'm gonna throw this to Thorum.

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What do you think the complication would be as he's sicking these critters on this group?

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And if you don't have one, that's fine.

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Um like he's throwing stuff is what that what I'm understanding.

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He's

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They're they've been trailing behind him behind this food, for lack of a better word or
bait, and now he's finally letting them loose to go up and eat the pig carcass out from

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under the nobles.

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Um, some of them would probably have crawled next to Thorum and um it would disgust him in
some way and he would have made like a slight noise like ah as a surprise.

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Okay, perfect.

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You see them go forward.

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A what's an animal that you would despise, Thorum, that crawls over your hand as you're
hunched down in the grass?

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Um a centipede.

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Okay, for sure.

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Maybe you set your hand on the centipede and it crawls out and then over your hand and you
startle.

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And as these things run up and start consuming everything on that hill, you see two of the
nobles fall off and look towards you, Thorum, and they are aghast at their food is being

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eaten.

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And they're like, It was ours, it was ours, it was rightfully ours.

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We killed it.

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And then

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They look up and look to you, Thorum.

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Are these your creatures yours?

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Yes, for you do not own nature.

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Yeah.

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So you see them come s two of them running straight at you both.

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They have no weapons.

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They're quite distraught looking.

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They have long nails that are covered in blood and gore, and there's small bits of flesh
down their arm as they've been digging out into this pig.

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And they stumble towards you almost like a faster-moving zombie.

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give you an option to do anything you would like.

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Otherwise I've got a a plan in my back pocket.

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Thorum does have sickles, as he is an herbalist, and also an affinity for dueling as he is
an errant knight, will have no problem in facing off against heretics of nature.

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Okay, so you're going to fight them head on with your sickle and duel there are two of
them.

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Inda, there is a thing called the help roll if you wanted to do it.

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And what you do is you essentially roll twice, but it's always with another dark dice.

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Does that make sense?

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They roll twice.

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So Thorum would roll twice.

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But you have to expose yourself to danger, Inda.

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So you would describe how you're exposing yourself to danger.

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And then aid them.

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Okay.

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Um, I mean, I'm going to ask you first if you want help.

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I don't know enough about the consequences of what you're getting yourself into to know if
that is a big deal or a small deal.

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I'm happy to help.

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I would I'm essentially your bodyguard man.

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So and helper.

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Uh I would probably use you to say just in case like they get in my back or trying to try
anything special that would uh blindside me or flank me or whatever.

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Okay.

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So it sounds like help help would be appreciated.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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As they are running towards Thorum, I have been stooped down uh gathering a suitable
handful of rocks.

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Uh and from the end of my staff there is a uh long looped piece of leather, and I will
deposit a fist-sized rock into it, and I will give it a swing, swing, swing, and as they

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are

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Making their way towards him, I will send it flying, simply to make contact uh with the
one that is lagging behind.

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Right.

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So, um, you just need to roll me one light die, Inda, and then I got I got the roll wrong,
basically.

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All you do is roll one light die, tell us the number, and then Thorum does their roll.

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And I'm going to offer a devil's bargain as a part of this, but go ahead and give me that
role, Inda.

219
00:17:34,838 --> 00:17:35,419
Okay.

220
00:17:35,419 --> 00:17:37,841
So success with a complication.

221
00:17:37,841 --> 00:17:46,200
A devil's bargain, Thorum, is that you will, no matter what happens, success or not, you
will kill one of them.

222
00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,285
But the other one will flee.

223
00:17:48,285 --> 00:17:50,158
No, they both die right now.

224
00:17:50,158 --> 00:17:51,192
Okay, no devil's bargain.

225
00:17:51,192 --> 00:17:54,002
So one light die and one dark die.

226
00:17:54,002 --> 00:17:56,370
Yeah.

227
00:17:56,370 --> 00:17:57,172
Yeah.

228
00:17:57,365 --> 00:18:01,749
and I assume you have to kind of like okay if that is a an acceptable thing, right?

229
00:18:01,749 --> 00:18:02,039
Sure.

230
00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:02,889
Okay.

231
00:18:03,430 --> 00:18:11,598
my devil's bargain would be that my shot was pretty fucking good and it collapses the
temple of the one that I hit.

232
00:18:11,598 --> 00:18:16,398
Um, but the other one makes purchase in a grave way against.

233
00:18:16,398 --> 00:18:23,096
Okay, so you get to h knock out one guy, but the next guy has a um leg up from me?

234
00:18:23,096 --> 00:18:26,492
He guarantees to wound you you will take damage from him.

235
00:18:26,492 --> 00:18:32,978
He will wound you, and then you can finish him off however you see fit, but you won't walk
away unscathed.

236
00:18:32,978 --> 00:18:33,740
Mm.

237
00:18:33,740 --> 00:18:40,884
And I'll roll a condition for whatever that is, and then you'll just get a random
condition if you want to take the double's bargain.

238
00:18:41,006 --> 00:18:41,807
This is so good.

239
00:18:41,807 --> 00:18:44,172
Uh sure, let's go for theme.

240
00:18:44,172 --> 00:18:44,623
Let's go.

241
00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:45,063
Okay.

242
00:18:45,063 --> 00:18:45,685
Okay.

243
00:18:45,685 --> 00:18:47,416
So one extra light die.

244
00:18:47,416 --> 00:18:49,102
So two light and one dark.

245
00:18:49,102 --> 00:18:50,104
Oof, okay.

246
00:18:50,104 --> 00:18:56,842
That was a one and the light die, and a six on the light die outweighing the dark die.

247
00:18:56,842 --> 00:18:57,364
A

248
00:18:57,364 --> 00:19:07,378
A hidden component of the help is that if the helper's light dye matches the dark dye or
is under it, then they'll gain a ruin.

249
00:19:07,378 --> 00:19:09,439
Can you roll me a d6, Jordan?

250
00:19:09,439 --> 00:19:09,889
A four.

251
00:19:09,889 --> 00:19:11,040
Okay.

252
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:20,824
Your mouth abruptly fills with a s like a thick saliva, but it also feels dry as the
desert in a blink of an eye.

253
00:19:20,824 --> 00:19:25,516
Like there's just something strange about your taste buds right now.

254
00:19:25,516 --> 00:19:27,968
And you gain that condition along with a ruin.

255
00:19:27,968 --> 00:19:31,931
Thorum, you so sorry, your highest was a four.

256
00:19:31,931 --> 00:19:33,692
Or sorry, your highest was a six.

257
00:19:33,692 --> 00:19:34,542
Perfect success.

258
00:19:34,542 --> 00:19:47,982
Okay, so you see a rock come through and hit one of them, brain them, their eye goes slack
in front of you as you just see the mental capacity fall away from them as they slam into

259
00:19:47,982 --> 00:19:48,823
the ground.

260
00:19:48,823 --> 00:19:54,154
But as that's happening, this next one comes in and rakes down.

261
00:19:54,154 --> 00:20:02,341
onto your chest and tears some skin off of your chest, but you're able to quickly dispatch
them with your sickle.

262
00:20:02,341 --> 00:20:08,482
You can describe that, and then I will need a condition roll from you, just a D6.

263
00:20:08,482 --> 00:20:08,902
Okay.

264
00:20:08,902 --> 00:20:16,427
Um so they go and scratch me and like tear off a bit of uh skin yeah, flesh around uh
along with it.

265
00:20:17,068 --> 00:20:29,756
Thorum will quickly shove them back and shove the sickle in their neck side to side and
just pull Yank towards him, leaving a curtain of blood echo um bleeding through their

266
00:20:29,756 --> 00:20:33,678
entire shirt and fall to the floor.

267
00:20:33,678 --> 00:20:38,521
Go ahead and give me a D6 for Okay, let me get a different table.

268
00:20:38,521 --> 00:20:46,265
The redness from where they gouged into your skin, it starts to feel hot.

269
00:20:46,365 --> 00:20:55,430
And there's this wave of heat that emanates from that part of your body as if you were
being cooked from there.

270
00:20:55,430 --> 00:21:01,573
And there's a strange smell that comes from the wound, and it kind of smells good.

271
00:21:02,154 --> 00:21:02,754
And

272
00:21:02,754 --> 00:21:12,741
This mound of critters is consuming this pig and three of the other nobles that did not
have a chance to break off and try to attack.

273
00:21:12,741 --> 00:21:20,226
Um they are screaming in the background, but their cries are starting to be deafened
deafened.

274
00:21:20,226 --> 00:21:20,867
Sorry.

275
00:21:20,867 --> 00:21:27,371
Their cries are starting to be deafened by bugs crawling into their mouths and down their
throat.

276
00:21:27,371 --> 00:21:31,914
And it's not too disturbing um for the natural wildlife.

277
00:21:32,587 --> 00:21:44,917
perhaps once these two have been dispatched, I would like to go and mm look at the
iconography uh amongst their treasures.

278
00:21:44,917 --> 00:21:51,923
I would like to see if I can place any sort of affinity beyond just their desire for
wealth.

279
00:21:51,923 --> 00:21:56,050
And uh in my time uh on the long road.

280
00:21:56,050 --> 00:22:06,082
I have seen many things that people have come to worship and I would like to use my
knowledge of saints to see if I can glean anything about

281
00:22:06,082 --> 00:22:07,212
Yeah, roll one light dice.

282
00:22:07,212 --> 00:22:09,103
You're not putting yourself at risk for this.

283
00:22:09,103 --> 00:22:09,963
Yeah.

284
00:22:09,963 --> 00:22:19,426
So you look at a lot of it, and it does seem it I guess what you can see even with a
failure is the superficiality of it all.

285
00:22:19,426 --> 00:22:23,117
Like it is fine, but there's no craftsmanship to it.

286
00:22:23,117 --> 00:22:25,968
It is fine for the sake of being fine.

287
00:22:25,968 --> 00:22:29,289
You think this is wealth for the sake of wealth.

288
00:22:29,289 --> 00:22:31,782
This is shop.

289
00:22:32,770 --> 00:22:33,804
Exactly.

290
00:22:33,804 --> 00:22:38,036
Yes, it's Golschlager.

291
00:22:38,036 --> 00:22:46,200
And it communicates that, but with a, you know, a keen eye, you can tell that there was no
art to it.

292
00:22:46,861 --> 00:22:47,661
Indeed.

293
00:22:47,661 --> 00:22:57,586
That makes you as you're digging through this, what's what desperation and hunger has your
background forced you to suffer?

294
00:22:57,954 --> 00:23:04,879
Background um indicates that I have been on a trail for a long time.

295
00:23:04,879 --> 00:23:15,146
A trail which has many times gone dry, which has at many times um looked as though there
was no path to follow at all.

296
00:23:15,146 --> 00:23:26,274
The idea that failure had set in the mind uh before it was realized in the physical world.

297
00:23:26,274 --> 00:23:39,042
This idea that I yearn unendingly for the right to prove myself worthy and that that may
never find a way an appropriate way to be sated.

298
00:23:39,042 --> 00:23:48,721
Yeah, your pride, maybe even vanity, has never been fully or ne never felt fully fed.

299
00:23:48,721 --> 00:23:49,538
Thorum.

300
00:23:49,538 --> 00:24:00,101
Thorm has forgotten the ways of uh his noble ways as a previous knight, now removed from
the kingdom he once served.

301
00:24:00,101 --> 00:24:15,618
Thorm has rejected all he was, all he would have ever been, and decided to embrace the
wild and hunger was the first thing on the list is to survive at all costs.

302
00:24:15,618 --> 00:24:16,378
Yeah.

303
00:24:16,378 --> 00:24:27,803
So you forsaking your in an entire life in the past obviously comes with hunger, and you
experience that literally, not just metaphorically.

304
00:24:27,803 --> 00:24:35,946
Well, do our treasure hunters continue on to the second ring and trek toward the famed
manor house?

305
00:24:36,104 --> 00:24:53,408
Um Thorum will um kneel down unto the nobles being eaten by the carrions, the crows, the
centipedes, worms, the beetles, and will throw dirt on them slightly as their eyes close,

306
00:24:53,408 --> 00:24:57,011
say return now to the root of things.

307
00:24:57,011 --> 00:24:59,613
Who wore your names like armor?

308
00:24:59,613 --> 00:25:05,826
Let the crows strip title from bone, let the worms unknow your lineage.

309
00:25:05,826 --> 00:25:11,733
We did not hate you, we harvested you, as we harvest all things in their past seasons.

310
00:25:11,733 --> 00:25:21,265
May the soil remember what the court forgot and flesh is just slow earth, and pride a last
thing to decompose.

311
00:25:21,265 --> 00:25:24,467
Go down, well, feed something honest.

312
00:25:24,467 --> 00:25:25,176
There you go.

313
00:25:25,176 --> 00:25:28,068
They're yes, and that's what they do.

314
00:25:28,068 --> 00:25:35,758
There is nothing more honest than a single-minded pile of animals and carry on consuming
something.

315
00:25:35,758 --> 00:25:53,926
I think as I am watching this part of the natural cycle uh unfold, I see this treasure
which is wholly unnatural, and I would take off a piece a brooch that I quite like.

316
00:25:53,926 --> 00:26:04,642
I would dig a small divot into the earth, I would deposit it there, give it one last look
and say, I wonder what you will grow as I cover it.

317
00:26:04,642 --> 00:26:05,262
Cool.

318
00:26:05,262 --> 00:26:06,323
Very good.

319
00:26:06,323 --> 00:26:15,308
In the distance, you hear a small pack, maybe starving hounds, snarling and snapping at
each other.

320
00:26:15,308 --> 00:26:16,682
Do you continue on?

321
00:26:16,682 --> 00:26:31,737
The orchards and forest make way for what looks to be an overgrown irrigated rice field
where the rice has grown too tall and is much taller than any rice patties you've seen

322
00:26:31,737 --> 00:26:33,948
over your own heads, in fact.

323
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:41,953
The fields look like a golden sea, and they don't wave, they just stand there erect.

324
00:26:41,953 --> 00:26:54,641
Each stalk is almost like a yellow spear, and the water below it is brackish mirror
reflecting the sky above, which is bright and too hot.

325
00:26:54,641 --> 00:27:03,326
The humidity starts to come up from the soil as you step in, and the heat becomes a
physical presence.

326
00:27:03,566 --> 00:27:11,613
It's a ghost that's hanging over your shoulders and creeping down your chest in the form
of sweat.

327
00:27:12,095 --> 00:27:24,146
navigation is nearly impossible, but you do see the beginnings of a hill with a manor on
it in the far distance that you can step towards.

328
00:27:24,266 --> 00:27:28,518
does not stop to change his form.

329
00:27:28,518 --> 00:27:31,279
It is malleable and intentionally so.

330
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:48,236
He peels back uh the bare paws that are draped over his shoulders, and rolls them down his
back as they become a belt, his exterior flowing and shaping with him like the natural

331
00:27:48,236 --> 00:27:49,037
world.

332
00:27:49,037 --> 00:27:51,610
He sweats, because that is what men do.

333
00:27:51,610 --> 00:27:52,551
Yeah.

334
00:27:52,551 --> 00:28:02,276
Thorum, as you see Inda pulling this down, you look to the left, maybe, or the right, and
Inda's gone.

335
00:28:02,276 --> 00:28:05,610
Inda, you turn about, and Thorum is gone.

336
00:28:05,610 --> 00:28:08,429
Uh you've both been separated.

337
00:28:08,429 --> 00:28:21,442
And just as you realize that, it's almost like the shadows of the stalks bend into strange
three fingered hands, too thick and one thumb type.

338
00:28:21,442 --> 00:28:31,794
Finger and they grasp towards your legs where you feel the hair on your legs being pulled
towards them, but not a physical touch.

339
00:28:31,794 --> 00:28:41,564
The shadows suggest that they're not hunting you, but they're hurting you as you feel a
pull in certain directions passing these stalks.

340
00:28:41,685 --> 00:28:42,712
What do you do?

341
00:28:42,712 --> 00:28:49,848
We'll pause for a moment and see if these stocks mm react less favorably.

342
00:28:49,848 --> 00:28:57,516
If I am not to disregard their direction, but simply not heed any direction for a moment.

343
00:28:57,516 --> 00:29:02,124
Yeah, they pull you to your left consistently.

344
00:29:02,124 --> 00:29:06,341
And when you say poll, do they give more than an indication?

345
00:29:06,341 --> 00:29:09,784
Am I still left to my own devices to pursue that path?

346
00:29:09,784 --> 00:29:11,857
Go ahead and roll.

347
00:29:11,857 --> 00:29:14,942
Put your mind at risk considering this.

348
00:29:14,942 --> 00:29:19,978
So a white and a dark unless and Thorum, do you have a devil's bargain for Inda?

349
00:29:19,978 --> 00:29:20,411
Okay.

350
00:29:20,411 --> 00:29:21,590
I no, I can't think of one.

351
00:29:21,590 --> 00:29:22,348
Right.

352
00:29:22,348 --> 00:29:29,602
I is the white dye always the skill or am I able to volunteer another skill that I am
intending to

353
00:29:29,602 --> 00:29:30,865
Yeah, volunteer skill.

354
00:29:30,865 --> 00:29:32,859
In fact I you should do that first.

355
00:29:32,859 --> 00:29:34,282
Otherwise it's just a black die.

356
00:29:34,282 --> 00:29:34,763
My bad.

357
00:29:34,763 --> 00:29:35,276
Yeah.

358
00:29:35,276 --> 00:29:36,726
Yeah, no worries.

359
00:29:36,726 --> 00:29:38,087
Uh no worries.

360
00:29:38,087 --> 00:29:38,927
Please cut that.

361
00:29:38,927 --> 00:29:53,311
Um yes, I believe that in that moment of taking pause, I am trying to listen to the
stillness um that would exist if I were not here.

362
00:29:53,311 --> 00:29:57,192
I am imagining the world without me as I have done many times.

363
00:29:57,192 --> 00:30:03,370
And I am using that as a compass to try and orient myself towards the position of Thor.

364
00:30:03,370 --> 00:30:03,860
Awesome.

365
00:30:03,860 --> 00:30:04,773
I love it.

366
00:30:04,773 --> 00:30:07,896
No devil's bargain for me, but I have some good complications.

367
00:30:07,896 --> 00:30:09,568
Great, thank you.

368
00:30:09,568 --> 00:30:16,124
I for one am excited anything on your side, or should I three on the white.

369
00:30:16,207 --> 00:30:17,830
Okay, what's your dark die?

370
00:30:17,830 --> 00:30:18,571
Okay.

371
00:30:18,571 --> 00:30:25,421
So yeah, you fail and making yourself become nothing.

372
00:30:25,494 --> 00:30:34,098
Almost disorients you where you absolutely lose your bearings and you're maybe even spin
around without knowing it.

373
00:30:34,098 --> 00:30:43,032
And the only thing you have left is the pole of the shadows and that hair on your body
prickling in one direction.

374
00:30:43,032 --> 00:30:43,942
Okay.

375
00:30:43,942 --> 00:30:44,683
Thorum.

376
00:30:44,683 --> 00:30:46,703
Big strong Thorum.

377
00:30:46,703 --> 00:30:47,444
Yeah.

378
00:30:47,444 --> 00:30:50,005
Do you submit to the shadows pole?

379
00:30:50,085 --> 00:30:52,866
Or how how would you find Inda in

380
00:30:53,707 --> 00:31:05,232
as he disappears uh from his v as Inda disappears from uh Thorm's vision, uh see the
shadow pulls at his legs, say, let go of me, foul creatures.

381
00:31:05,232 --> 00:31:07,353
Nothing pulls me away anymore.

382
00:31:07,353 --> 00:31:10,775
The sin of men is above below me now.

383
00:31:10,775 --> 00:31:22,560
Uh will try and focus his eyes and chew a plant that will first of all adjust his vision,
temperature, or whatever.

384
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:35,977
like is ailing him right now from the scratch of the previous guy that uh what he did to
him and if it can help and if it can remove some of the infection and clear his vision

385
00:31:35,977 --> 00:31:36,712
somehow.

386
00:31:36,712 --> 00:31:37,803
A coca leaf.

387
00:31:37,803 --> 00:31:38,563
Yeah?

388
00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:40,786
Making yourself more alert, right?

389
00:31:40,786 --> 00:31:46,490
Yeah, go ahead and give me a dark die and a light die.

390
00:31:46,490 --> 00:31:50,458
And if there's a devil's bargain from Enda, um you might add another light die.

391
00:31:50,458 --> 00:31:51,565
Do you have a devil's bargain, Inda?

392
00:31:51,565 --> 00:31:52,596
Okay.

393
00:31:52,596 --> 00:31:55,517
No matter what, you will be addicted to that leaf.

394
00:31:56,043 --> 00:31:57,265
that doesn't sound good.

395
00:31:57,265 --> 00:31:59,567
Um, yeah, okay.

396
00:32:00,470 --> 00:32:01,601
Yes, I hunger.

397
00:32:01,601 --> 00:32:09,166
Ooh, okay, uh three and three on the light and a six on the dark die.

398
00:32:09,166 --> 00:32:11,438
Okay, add a ruin for that six.

399
00:32:11,438 --> 00:32:13,820
Okay.

400
00:32:13,820 --> 00:32:16,512
And then give me a D6 for a condition.

401
00:32:16,973 --> 00:32:30,164
Your cut, as you're shoving stuff in it, you see faint lines of what looks to be ink in
your bloodstream appear across the cuts.

402
00:32:30,245 --> 00:32:36,576
And they go across your chest and down your haunches and up your neck.

403
00:32:36,576 --> 00:32:41,449
And they create it almost an illustration of a tattoo on your body.

404
00:32:41,449 --> 00:32:44,251
And they are cuts of your own meat.

405
00:32:44,251 --> 00:32:49,475
You see where your breast would be harvested as a cut.

406
00:32:49,475 --> 00:32:59,742
You see one appear on your thigh where your thighs would be harvested, were you to be in
the presence of a goddamn good butcher.

407
00:32:59,742 --> 00:33:03,885
And this is all over your body now except for your face.

408
00:33:03,885 --> 00:33:05,932
But you are alert.

409
00:33:05,932 --> 00:33:16,968
You are addicted, and you ignore these shadowy things pulling towards you, and you go the
complete opposite direction and walk into Inda.

410
00:33:16,968 --> 00:33:22,290
And Inda, you feel Thorum's heavy figure step right behind you.

411
00:33:22,290 --> 00:33:29,603
And as that happens, you hear a maddening, unending buzzing of flies far in the distance.

412
00:33:29,603 --> 00:33:30,520
Found you.

413
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,198
We never stray away from our from one another.

414
00:33:33,198 --> 00:33:38,308
It would serve me well to remember this, for a moment there I had thought I lost you.

415
00:33:39,132 --> 00:33:40,654
What do you see ahead?

416
00:33:41,528 --> 00:33:44,700
Yeah, that is a good question.

417
00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:53,486
You see the house and you're next to a raised up road or the remnants of a road.

418
00:33:53,486 --> 00:34:06,994
It's eroded, and next to this eroded road, eroded road, um, there are withered willow
trees stripped of their bark and charred with flame.

419
00:34:06,994 --> 00:34:11,564
And on one of the trees, there's a corpse nailed to it.

420
00:34:11,564 --> 00:34:19,525
it long wise feet nailed together and hands nailed together above its his head, and it
looks like they've been gnawed on.

421
00:34:19,777 --> 00:34:21,504
devil's house, perhaps.

422
00:34:21,504 --> 00:34:25,186
From what I'm seeing, they don't take kindly to strangers.

423
00:34:25,186 --> 00:34:26,086
Yeah.

424
00:34:26,086 --> 00:34:39,224
As you're reflecting on that, you also notice that before it was not on the skin was
flayed off of him, and it's in dried almost like sandpapery piles at his feet.

425
00:34:39,224 --> 00:34:41,262
And this go ahead, Inda.

426
00:34:41,262 --> 00:34:43,054
Far away is this figure?

427
00:34:43,054 --> 00:34:49,450
Pull open some of the rice patties and it's a good um thirty feet across the road.

428
00:34:49,485 --> 00:34:59,608
I would like to inspect the gnawing to see what manner of beast could have done this or if
it is by human jaw.

429
00:34:59,608 --> 00:35:04,136
Would you risk your sanity for that investigation?

430
00:35:04,182 --> 00:35:14,338
No, I think I would instead cast my eyes to the ground and look for the marks of beasts
that would have perpetrated.

431
00:35:14,338 --> 00:35:16,581
You yeah, that's great.

432
00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:19,986
And based on your skills you're able to do that as a naturalist.

433
00:35:19,986 --> 00:35:24,011
The three fingered shadows resonate.

434
00:35:24,011 --> 00:35:32,494
You see human fingers in that, but almost like they're bound together in a strange way and
the thumb is pushing down.

435
00:35:32,494 --> 00:35:45,708
And as I am looking at the patterns on the ground beneath this figure, even though the
rice patties stand to my sides, that is what it hearkens Thus must we burn it all?

436
00:35:45,708 --> 00:35:57,543
Yeah, as you're reflecting on that, there is a question that comes to both of your minds
seeing this person flayed and eaten potentially by these sick nobles in the area.

437
00:35:57,543 --> 00:36:04,398
What do you think of those who jealously hoard riches while others toil in poverty?

438
00:36:04,398 --> 00:36:13,166
I think we essentially saw it played out with the pig five feasting on what could feed
thousand the thousands should eat.

439
00:36:13,166 --> 00:36:18,081
Thorm, what do you think of those who jealously hoard riches while others toil?

440
00:36:18,092 --> 00:36:27,224
Sinful acts such as greed and gluttony should always be punished, either by fire or iron.

441
00:36:27,224 --> 00:36:28,676
So maybe you do burn it down.

442
00:36:28,676 --> 00:36:30,078
It's quite wet though.

443
00:36:30,078 --> 00:36:44,107
S from this vantage point in this clearing next to this tree, the rice paddy in front of
you, you can take the road up to the big house that you see slightly raised on a hill.

444
00:36:44,110 --> 00:36:47,160
Is there any other way to

445
00:36:47,180 --> 00:36:48,763
Your gain went way up.

446
00:36:48,763 --> 00:36:49,524
Yeah, go.

447
00:36:50,968 --> 00:36:51,874
Better two.

448
00:36:51,874 --> 00:36:54,428
Maybe m split the difference, yes.

449
00:36:55,150 --> 00:37:00,358
I should very much not like to be in the company of these reeds any longer.

450
00:37:00,358 --> 00:37:05,326
I should very much like to have more company than just the sun on my back.

451
00:37:05,326 --> 00:37:08,834
Is there another way to approach on the far side of the road?

452
00:37:08,834 --> 00:37:19,456
Yeah, you can there is a meadow of these willow trees that you can hug and stay in the
shadow of the entire way up to the house.

453
00:37:19,456 --> 00:37:21,356
I should like to dance between their branches.

454
00:37:21,356 --> 00:37:25,890
You dance between their branches as Thorum trounces a bit.

455
00:37:25,890 --> 00:37:28,162
Subt more subtler, come on.

456
00:37:28,288 --> 00:37:29,378
Just kidding.

457
00:37:30,339 --> 00:37:31,500
Not lunk.

458
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:40,458
You see this big house, and you're getting closer, and it rises like a bleached skull from
the hillside.

459
00:37:40,458 --> 00:37:53,102
And there are ivory columns, but they're johda stained, and there's soot of a thousand
fires and a never-warmed heart surrounding the entire thing.

460
00:37:53,102 --> 00:37:56,980
Uh it's honestly a Baroque monstrosity.

461
00:37:56,980 --> 00:38:00,452
It's the architecture is of arrogance.

462
00:38:00,553 --> 00:38:07,738
And your guess is the inside um is the same, but you approach the house.

463
00:38:07,788 --> 00:38:17,772
What manner of entrances look as though they have been used as such, and which perhaps
have not.

464
00:38:17,772 --> 00:38:32,434
You do a cursory perimeter, and both you and Thorum see that there's no entrance to a
cellar, there's no secret entrance, there's no smaller doors, there's just two grand

465
00:38:32,434 --> 00:38:38,959
entryways, one in the front and one in the back, pointing toward that arrogance.

466
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:46,914
And as far as well traveled, um both look pretty destitute, but well worn.

467
00:38:46,914 --> 00:38:47,695
Thorum.

468
00:38:47,695 --> 00:38:51,682
You were my compass earlier, and I should trust in you again.

469
00:38:51,682 --> 00:38:56,634
Would you like the front, the back, or shall we carve another pack?

470
00:38:56,634 --> 00:39:02,648
Now this is a choice between entering through the front, through the back, or finding
another way around, right?

471
00:39:02,648 --> 00:39:03,505
Mm-hmm.

472
00:39:03,639 --> 00:39:04,686
Make us one.

473
00:39:04,686 --> 00:39:08,590
Seems the devil will await us no matter where we would go.

474
00:39:08,631 --> 00:39:11,662
I believe we shouldn't forge our own entry.

475
00:39:11,662 --> 00:39:12,262
Yeah.

476
00:39:12,262 --> 00:39:13,863
You can forge your own entry.

477
00:39:13,863 --> 00:39:26,469
Um, as you've looked at both entrances, you see where gold finery was inladed into marble
and wood but has long since been stripped out.

478
00:39:26,469 --> 00:39:36,066
There have been hunters here before it seems, and any jewels inset into fixtures have been
pried um from the outside.

479
00:39:36,066 --> 00:39:40,974
You indicated that there was no access to a cellar.

480
00:39:40,974 --> 00:39:48,822
Does the foundation and the structure of the building give any indication that there is a
cellar?

481
00:39:48,822 --> 00:39:49,413
Absolutely.

482
00:39:49,413 --> 00:39:50,445
Yeah.

483
00:39:50,445 --> 00:40:01,422
Something like this would have to store food somewhere and it's so humid and hot above
ground any person in their right mind architecturally would dig down.

484
00:40:01,422 --> 00:40:02,585
And so will I.

485
00:40:02,585 --> 00:40:12,396
I will use my ritual, clay, to dig through the stonework as though it were earth.

486
00:40:12,396 --> 00:40:13,027
Yeah.

487
00:40:13,027 --> 00:40:20,183
So you dig down and create a tunnel to uh under the house.

488
00:40:20,183 --> 00:40:21,274
Okay.

489
00:40:21,274 --> 00:40:30,114
So you will gain a ruin by using your ritual and you create a tunnel under ground to the
cellar.

490
00:40:30,114 --> 00:40:34,214
Yeah, would you like a little bit more theatricality to it?

491
00:40:34,377 --> 00:40:37,099
You mentioned maybe it should be a big scene is all.

492
00:40:37,099 --> 00:40:41,228
I was trying to give it the gravity that it that a ritual needs.

493
00:40:41,228 --> 00:40:42,159
It's up to you.

494
00:40:42,159 --> 00:40:46,521
Like I think that's just fine to use it architecturally, right?

495
00:40:46,521 --> 00:40:57,568
The tunnel is steep and down, and it comes out on a high wall where you have to jump down
about six feet into the cellar.

496
00:40:57,568 --> 00:40:59,489
The cellar's pitch dark.

497
00:40:59,489 --> 00:41:01,178
Do you drop in?

498
00:41:01,178 --> 00:41:02,198
I

499
00:41:02,539 --> 00:41:19,122
put my stave down as far as it will go, leaning out of the hole until it touches the
earth, and then I will if it feels solid, then I will use it to slow my fall as I descend.

500
00:41:19,138 --> 00:41:19,721
Yeah.

501
00:41:19,721 --> 00:41:22,434
You're able to descend Thorum, what are you doing?

502
00:41:22,434 --> 00:41:23,756
Hoppin' in after him?

503
00:41:23,756 --> 00:41:25,090
Yeah, correct.

504
00:41:25,090 --> 00:41:26,690
My niece can take it.

505
00:41:26,690 --> 00:41:29,215
You fall down and it's pitch black.

506
00:41:29,215 --> 00:41:31,470
You have nothing but darkness in front of you.

507
00:41:31,470 --> 00:41:34,111
There's no object, this is just like the night.

508
00:41:34,132 --> 00:41:49,516
I will place my hand over Thoram's mouth and over his nose, and we will for a short time
cease to breathe as we rest in the silence and detect if there is anything else in here

509
00:41:49,516 --> 00:41:50,402
with us.

510
00:41:50,402 --> 00:41:51,206
Yeah.

511
00:41:51,206 --> 00:41:53,693
That's your perception skill, right?

512
00:41:54,359 --> 00:41:55,202
Silence, okay.

513
00:41:55,202 --> 00:41:56,364
Yeah, give me

514
00:41:59,530 --> 00:42:01,865
I would have perception at that moment, yeah.

515
00:42:01,870 --> 00:42:02,160
Okay.

516
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:08,434
I won't have it be a a help roll, just uh both of you roll a light dice for that.

517
00:42:09,015 --> 00:42:09,895
Beautiful.

518
00:42:09,895 --> 00:42:10,226
Four.

519
00:42:10,226 --> 00:42:11,217
Okay.

520
00:42:11,217 --> 00:42:21,424
So your silence is absolute and holding Thorm's mouth quiets the room for him to perceive.

521
00:42:21,424 --> 00:42:26,207
And he perceives not sound, but smell.

522
00:42:26,207 --> 00:42:31,160
There is the smell of iron, almost like blood.

523
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:37,832
But also of copper and gold, like the smell of coinage.

524
00:42:37,832 --> 00:42:42,754
And it attacks that same hunger that you felt earlier.

525
00:42:42,754 --> 00:42:44,935
Like your stomach starts to growl.

526
00:42:44,935 --> 00:42:52,317
And as you're thinking about that hunger, what do you do with the riches that you get from
here?

527
00:42:52,317 --> 00:42:53,870
Like what will you do with them?

528
00:42:53,870 --> 00:42:59,555
Leave them, or actually no, we will take some, only for necessities.

529
00:42:59,555 --> 00:43:08,758
What I only require is enough for us, enough for some, and a weapon to defend me and my
master a bit better.

530
00:43:08,758 --> 00:43:12,481
He should abore money in all forms.

531
00:43:12,481 --> 00:43:25,313
That is my teaching, that is my feeling, and yet I also feel a tie to my family, a family
that has, for all intents and purposes, cast me out.

532
00:43:25,313 --> 00:43:33,700
They will die alone as I will, if I am not to restore something capable of harbouring our
legacy.

533
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:36,262
It pains me, but I would not

534
00:43:36,334 --> 00:43:43,712
to turn aside all these riches I would carry back what is required to restore my house to
subsistence.

535
00:43:43,712 --> 00:43:48,668
You sit in this darkness with that smell lingering.

536
00:43:48,668 --> 00:43:51,491
Do you try to alight anything?

537
00:43:51,491 --> 00:43:53,573
Do you try to create light?

538
00:43:53,573 --> 00:43:58,068
Or do you crawl back out to where you know the sun is starting to set?

539
00:43:58,094 --> 00:44:12,407
I I do have phosphorescent plants which I essentially rub very hard on my hands and can
rub on surfaces, wooden uh pillars and such, so that it would not necessarily illuminate

540
00:44:12,407 --> 00:44:20,076
the entirety of the place, but at least give us pinpoints and we would see uh slightly
where we are.

541
00:44:20,076 --> 00:44:20,766
Yeah.

542
00:44:20,766 --> 00:44:37,933
You do this and you realize the cellar is massive, and you step over piles of things that
are both squishy and solid, you kick through piles of gold, you hear the change around,

543
00:44:37,933 --> 00:44:49,442
and you continue rubbing these plants around the perimeter of the whole thing, and you see
a line of where Thorum's hand has splayed.

544
00:44:49,442 --> 00:44:51,763
this pasty plant.

545
00:44:51,763 --> 00:44:54,005
And you see the faint glow of things.

546
00:44:54,005 --> 00:44:58,267
There are piles of strange refuse and goods.

547
00:44:58,267 --> 00:44:59,447
There are riches.

548
00:44:59,447 --> 00:45:04,170
You see small glints off of gemstones and diamonds.

549
00:45:04,170 --> 00:45:08,532
And to the far end of the room away from you, Thorum, eh?

550
00:45:08,532 --> 00:45:19,500
Or in Inda you see Thorum walk behind just a large circular object, and then it slowly
gets backlit by the phosphorescence.

551
00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:23,253
And it almost looks like a a giant bowl or something.

552
00:45:23,253 --> 00:45:25,995
Like massive, like larger than Thorum.

553
00:45:25,995 --> 00:45:29,317
And you have this lit up in front of you.

554
00:45:30,058 --> 00:45:34,221
and as you're standing there, you do start to hear something.

555
00:45:34,221 --> 00:45:42,066
You hear a strange barking, squealing sound from the tunnel that you dug.

556
00:45:42,126 --> 00:45:52,653
As I am encountering these riches uh upon the ground, I understand that part of them is
what I seek here.

557
00:45:52,653 --> 00:46:03,300
And yet it would be wrong for me to dine before the earth has had her fill, and I should
like to tithe them back into the soil.

558
00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:11,936
I would like to turn them back into ore, back into embedded stone, and I would like to try
and recoup.

559
00:46:11,936 --> 00:46:17,102
A ruin in exchange for desecrating this treasure.

560
00:46:17,102 --> 00:46:23,374
To recoup a ruin you have to betray another hunter in some way.

561
00:46:23,374 --> 00:46:29,459
So yeah, in the act in the forests interests it says e.g.

562
00:46:29,459 --> 00:46:33,702
destroy treasure, prevent rituals, sabotage fellow treasure hunters.

563
00:46:33,742 --> 00:46:34,033
Sure.

564
00:46:34,033 --> 00:46:34,394
Okay.

565
00:46:34,394 --> 00:46:34,665
Yeah.

566
00:46:34,665 --> 00:46:35,186
Yeah.

567
00:46:35,186 --> 00:46:35,828
Yeah.

568
00:46:35,828 --> 00:46:38,464
You can you can destroy some treasure here.

569
00:46:38,474 --> 00:46:41,306
Yeah, I'm not this is a quick start guide.

570
00:46:41,306 --> 00:46:52,184
I don't know how the rules go, but it seems like maybe if we're both here for treasure and
I go, Ah yeah, but not this treasure, then someone might be incensed by that, right?

571
00:46:52,184 --> 00:46:54,516
There is a sort of betrayal there, I guess.

572
00:46:54,516 --> 00:46:55,342
I don't know.

573
00:46:55,342 --> 00:47:06,569
Thorum, to do this, you think that you need Thorum's sickles to carve your ritual into the
ground.

574
00:47:06,569 --> 00:47:08,430
Are you going to take his sickle?

575
00:47:08,430 --> 00:47:11,468
I will not take it, student, but I will ask.

576
00:47:12,042 --> 00:47:14,718
Uh oblige uh immediately for sure.

577
00:47:14,718 --> 00:47:16,642
Yes, yes, take them, take them.

578
00:47:16,642 --> 00:47:18,066
Roll a light die.

579
00:47:18,066 --> 00:47:19,800
Is it below your current run?

580
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,858
Surely it must if I am attempting this.

581
00:47:21,858 --> 00:47:22,519
Yes.

582
00:47:22,519 --> 00:47:24,963
So you can reduce your ruin by one.

583
00:47:24,963 --> 00:47:30,730
And how do you destroy this sickle and start to desecrate this treasure?

584
00:47:30,890 --> 00:47:35,752
I use the sickle as an example.

585
00:47:35,752 --> 00:47:43,176
I use it to show these coins the memory of the earth to which they once belonged.

586
00:47:43,176 --> 00:47:56,542
I take its finery and I compact it into my hands, and at the end it is scarcely more than
an ingot, unrecognizable from its previous form, which I hope the others to become.

587
00:47:56,542 --> 00:48:04,027
As you're doing that, it's noisy, you're pulling treasure in, the sound is echoing through
the cellar.

588
00:48:04,027 --> 00:48:22,180
Um, Thorum, you hear footsteps around you and treasure being rifled through in this pitch
black cellar, and you even hear something drop down from the hole that Inda made.

589
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:26,158
And for a second, you see a s flash and

590
00:48:26,158 --> 00:48:28,339
There's a light throughout everything.

591
00:48:28,339 --> 00:48:34,141
And then a torch lights up right next to the tunnel that was made.

592
00:48:34,141 --> 00:48:44,485
And you see the strange thing standing there with a torch with strange humanoid fingers
grasping right below the fire.

593
00:48:44,485 --> 00:48:56,210
Looks like two human fingers bound by some sort of twine together to almost make like a
hoof with a thumb, and they're pallid and hairless.

594
00:48:56,258 --> 00:49:02,340
And they're massive, like heaving lard of a figure.

595
00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:10,762
It ripples in the torchlight, and its skin is stretched and it's almost translucent to its
screaming point.

596
00:49:10,762 --> 00:49:12,543
It's all stretch mark.

597
00:49:12,543 --> 00:49:20,005
And there's no distinguishing factor between human and hog when you look at this thing.

598
00:49:20,005 --> 00:49:24,022
The face is so overweight and wrought with fat.

599
00:49:24,022 --> 00:49:32,569
It almost looks like it has a pig snout as the nose has been curled upward and it sits
there breathing and snorting.

600
00:49:32,569 --> 00:49:45,080
And the torchlight also lights up one of those same things, but crawling, almost like
rolling through the treasure, and it's sniffing around and has found looks to be dried

601
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:50,224
flesh in a pile and is shoving it into his mouth.

602
00:49:50,224 --> 00:49:52,626
And some walk upright and some.

603
00:49:52,664 --> 00:49:58,800
Have their bellies swinging and scratching on the cellar floor and the trash and refuse.

604
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,123
And then you notice that they're all holding cleavers.

605
00:50:02,123 --> 00:50:04,525
And some of them have butcher hooks.

606
00:50:04,525 --> 00:50:08,689
And they start to convene on your location.

607
00:50:08,689 --> 00:50:10,080
What do you guys do?

608
00:50:10,380 --> 00:50:15,896
What other egresses do we have out of the cellar in the light now?

609
00:50:15,896 --> 00:50:21,850
By the cauldron you saw a staircase leading out across the room.

610
00:50:21,850 --> 00:50:23,942
You could flee or try to make a run for it.

611
00:50:23,942 --> 00:50:27,150
These things don't seem that fast on first glance.

612
00:50:27,150 --> 00:50:39,083
That is my instinct, which I will communicate to Thoram with a series of well intentioned
glances, but my glances are not certain, and I seek your opinion as well, that is evident

613
00:50:39,083 --> 00:50:40,012
on my face.

614
00:50:40,012 --> 00:50:40,843
How many are there?

615
00:50:40,843 --> 00:50:41,843
A lot?

616
00:50:42,284 --> 00:50:49,048
Disciples of the unhallowed mouth, however easily dealt with, they are too numerous.

617
00:50:49,048 --> 00:50:51,618
We must indeed make a run for it.

618
00:50:51,618 --> 00:51:11,424
Yes, I think we I think we will move with haste and fell any sort of obstacles um a
bookshelf, a larder that is holding what used to be dried goods.

619
00:51:11,424 --> 00:51:19,168
Fell them such that this path behind the cauldron is as untreadable as

620
00:51:19,168 --> 00:51:21,612
as possible for these lumbering hulks.

621
00:51:21,612 --> 00:51:31,916
And if that fails I will well first find one weapon in the stockpile of whatever we can
run across and uh make it mine.

622
00:51:31,916 --> 00:51:33,988
Who among you is the slowest?

623
00:51:33,988 --> 00:51:34,849
It is I.

624
00:51:34,849 --> 00:51:37,951
Thorm, would you sacrifice Inda to survive?

625
00:51:38,492 --> 00:51:47,120
You are trying to run away and knock things over, um, obviously putting yourself at risk
in this chase.

626
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:51,183
Um you will be taking a dark die, both of you.

627
00:51:51,284 --> 00:51:58,740
What of your skills or even rituals would there be around to use a light die?

628
00:51:59,190 --> 00:52:03,455
I would duel uh these creatures if I if they get too close for

629
00:52:03,455 --> 00:52:03,646
sure.

630
00:52:03,646 --> 00:52:04,465
Okay.

631
00:52:04,465 --> 00:52:05,569
That's great.

632
00:52:06,282 --> 00:52:13,324
Yes, I think I would allow Thorum to be the primary feller of things.

633
00:52:13,324 --> 00:52:28,519
He is faster, he is stronger, he is going to m make better use of that time than I and
between each of those I would like to hide behind his form and pass as quietly as I can

634
00:52:28,519 --> 00:52:32,160
such that all attention is on him using my silence.

635
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:37,354
In this situation, Inda, do you have a devil's bargain for Thorum dueling these things?

636
00:52:37,354 --> 00:52:43,106
And Thorum, do you have a devil's bargain for Inda and trying to stay silent and hide from
them behind you?

637
00:52:43,106 --> 00:52:45,187
Have a devil's bargain for you.

638
00:52:45,187 --> 00:52:47,829
You are capable, but they are numerous.

639
00:52:47,969 --> 00:53:02,446
And you are able to fend them off from the front, but one interposes itself between myself
and yourself with the exit behind me.

640
00:53:02,446 --> 00:53:04,787
Okay, so you put Inda at risk.

641
00:53:04,787 --> 00:53:07,858
I have a devil's bargain for you, Thorum, as well.

642
00:53:07,858 --> 00:53:09,188
You can choose.

643
00:53:09,188 --> 00:53:17,626
Um mine is that you grow to see little difference between Inda and these nobles of the
land.

644
00:53:17,626 --> 00:53:25,813
Like you have been protecting Inda, and all Inda wants to do is take this wealth back and
reclaim a house.

645
00:53:25,813 --> 00:53:31,334
Like how is that any different than these gluttonous, sick, depraved fools?

646
00:53:31,342 --> 00:53:33,124
Okay, I like that.

647
00:53:33,124 --> 00:53:44,697
That'll take in the you okay, so you're trying to you're trying to get away from them as I
take the aggro, commonly known.

648
00:53:44,697 --> 00:53:49,292
If this doesn't succeed, they turn to you instead.

649
00:53:49,336 --> 00:53:50,988
You take that bargainenda?

650
00:53:51,990 --> 00:53:53,372
All right, come on.

651
00:53:53,372 --> 00:53:53,833
Come on.

652
00:53:53,833 --> 00:53:55,054
Rule it out, Thorum.

653
00:53:55,054 --> 00:54:00,366
Do you do you have a uh sorry, Nick, do you have a devil's bargain for me?

654
00:54:00,366 --> 00:54:09,060
Yeah, it would be so easy to push Thorum over and walk over him and escape up the
stairwell.

655
00:54:09,060 --> 00:54:18,113
Um which you could do regardless, and any failure on your roll all goes to Thorum, and
you're able to escape.

656
00:54:18,113 --> 00:54:19,830
Any success also goes to Thorum.

657
00:54:19,830 --> 00:54:21,043
Not a chance.

658
00:54:21,043 --> 00:54:22,823
Let the natural order stand.

659
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,104
All right, roll it out, guys.

660
00:54:24,104 --> 00:54:24,714
All right.

661
00:54:24,714 --> 00:54:28,558
Six on my light die, three on the dark die.

662
00:54:28,558 --> 00:54:29,155
Great.

663
00:54:29,155 --> 00:54:29,934
Inda?

664
00:54:29,934 --> 00:54:32,585
Four on my dark die, three on my light.

665
00:54:32,718 --> 00:54:33,280
Okay.

666
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:34,913
So your dark die is your highest.

667
00:54:34,913 --> 00:54:35,866
Okay.

668
00:54:35,866 --> 00:54:38,052
And but it's below your current ruin, right?

669
00:54:38,052 --> 00:54:39,598
Or is it at your current?

670
00:54:39,598 --> 00:54:40,957
It is my current ruin.

671
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:42,911
I look at something real quick.

672
00:54:42,911 --> 00:54:46,423
Uh, equal to Okay, only if it's higher.

673
00:54:46,423 --> 00:54:47,443
Okay, you're good.

674
00:54:47,443 --> 00:55:02,321
Thorum, how do you square up and just knock these pig things out of the way and be on them
as Inda is able to stand at your back and let you charge this path forward, slowly

675
00:55:02,321 --> 00:55:05,362
building resentment up in you about

676
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:16,178
Um, Thorum would have seen something stick out of a pile of gold, uh something with a
handle, and something with a handle is better than no handle at all.

677
00:55:16,178 --> 00:55:23,904
Uh will pull out a hatchet, uh encrusted in jewels, ruins.

678
00:55:23,904 --> 00:55:29,408
To him it doesn't matter, it's still something with a sharp edge that'll drive the
darkness back.

679
00:55:29,408 --> 00:55:32,450
He will swing on multiple of them.

680
00:55:32,470 --> 00:55:36,555
as well as kick anything that could fall onto them.

681
00:55:36,555 --> 00:55:43,222
And once he gathers the torch of one of them, we'll drive use that as well to back them
away.

682
00:55:43,222 --> 00:55:53,599
Possibly burning one, lighting the entire room at the same time, while at um harbouring
some form of resentment towards Indah.

683
00:55:53,599 --> 00:55:57,267
Inda, how are you crouched up behind

684
00:55:57,766 --> 00:56:05,513
Is perhaps with even less thought for his movements than that.

685
00:56:05,513 --> 00:56:13,280
I move with all the speed I can muster, which is not much, and I require him to keep pace
with me.

686
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:25,440
I endanger myself multiple times, trying to stride as quickly as I can, and cause him to
abandon a more defensible position.

687
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,852
On multiple occasions putting himself at risk.

688
00:56:27,852 --> 00:56:28,482
Yeah.

689
00:56:28,482 --> 00:56:33,074
I mean the complication that you would have is built into that, right?

690
00:56:33,074 --> 00:56:37,386
Like he it isn't like defensible where he's at.

691
00:56:37,386 --> 00:56:38,522
He's surrounded.

692
00:56:38,522 --> 00:56:42,268
Um, but he is able to pull it out.

693
00:56:42,268 --> 00:56:55,660
I will say another complication is he knocks one of the things down and the torch from
that pig rolls under the cauldron and a fire emits from below it.

694
00:56:55,660 --> 00:56:58,371
And the entire room is illuminated.

695
00:56:58,371 --> 00:57:07,594
And you see that some of the things you've been stepping on are wriggling huge rope-sized
maggots.

696
00:57:07,594 --> 00:57:13,955
And there is fly-choked flayed skin suspended from rafters above you.

697
00:57:13,956 --> 00:57:17,687
And it's conjuring scenes of obscene laundry.

698
00:57:17,687 --> 00:57:22,698
And in the center of the room, off to the side, that

699
00:57:22,786 --> 00:57:33,170
Giant pit that was just litten erupts with grease and you see fat start to boil almost
immediately and black soot rises from it.

700
00:57:33,170 --> 00:57:35,391
It looks like a giant cook pot.

701
00:57:35,391 --> 00:57:37,386
And you see the edge of it.

702
00:57:37,386 --> 00:57:45,956
It's just molten gold that's dribbled off and dried on the side, and you feel the heat
just start wafting towards you.

703
00:57:45,956 --> 00:57:48,417
You see all that gold there.

704
00:57:48,417 --> 00:57:51,690
Would you risk searing your flesh for a hand at that gold?

705
00:57:51,690 --> 00:57:58,337
As these pigmen are now covering their eyes with this illuminated cook pot down here.

706
00:57:59,118 --> 00:58:00,218
I would not.

707
00:58:00,218 --> 00:58:09,421
I would recall a teaching, a sonnet of sorts, a lesson for Thorum in this moment.

708
00:58:09,421 --> 00:58:20,264
For he thought it wise to bring some level of light into this place, but I will remind him
that sometimes the dark is just doing its job.

709
00:58:20,264 --> 00:58:28,526
It tells us that is why the dark is there, so you don't have to see what you can't bear,
the lion's share.

710
00:58:28,770 --> 00:58:30,631
That's what it is.

711
00:58:31,232 --> 00:58:35,555
You are able to get to it's a massive staircase.

712
00:58:35,555 --> 00:58:45,681
This cellar is huge and your light has or the light of the cauldron has illuminated the
entire thing and it's already boiling.

713
00:58:45,681 --> 00:58:50,545
There is this unnatural heat to it as it strikes up.

714
00:58:50,545 --> 00:58:58,730
And coming down from the stairs, you see a large matronly figure.

715
00:58:58,738 --> 00:59:04,340
And the light starts to bend around it as she comes out of the shadow.

716
00:59:04,340 --> 00:59:15,485
She's twice your height, probably twenty-five times your weight, and her mask is or her
face is full of compassion and love.

717
00:59:15,485 --> 00:59:22,588
Her eyes are twin pits of ancient and bottomless love and hunger.

718
00:59:22,588 --> 00:59:27,590
And as she steps down, you see the large fat of six

719
00:59:27,746 --> 00:59:41,393
Breasts hanging from her chest and a lard-ridden stomach wobble, and she steps down and
moves closer to the bottom of the stairs where you're standing, and her strange cloven

720
00:59:41,393 --> 00:59:54,741
hooves step down onto some of the gold, and her weight almost grinds it to nothing and
flattens the gold into paper thin golden filigree.

721
00:59:54,741 --> 00:59:57,740
She walks by you, looks down at you with

722
00:59:57,740 --> 01:00:10,518
Gives you a beautiful smile and steps over to the cauldron and pulls a giant ladle
encrusted with gems and gives it one t swirl and it erupts with a smell.

723
01:00:10,518 --> 01:00:12,099
Thinking of your drive.

724
01:00:12,099 --> 01:00:16,401
That smell is a smell of fulfillment of your drive.

725
01:00:16,401 --> 01:00:18,456
What does that smell remind you of?

726
01:00:18,456 --> 01:00:25,591
Fittingly coming out of a cauldron, it reminds me of the meals at a long table in my home.

727
01:00:25,591 --> 01:00:34,906
The spice that, with all my years of walking the earth, I still cannot place.

728
01:00:34,906 --> 01:00:41,826
A tinge of home where I am no longer welcome, but I could be.

729
01:00:41,826 --> 01:00:48,831
As you reflect on that, you hear her, a sweet, sweet voice in your head.

730
01:00:48,831 --> 01:00:52,874
And the voice tells you your family is holding you.

731
01:00:52,874 --> 01:00:54,835
You're in a massive hall.

732
01:00:54,835 --> 01:01:02,200
It's your old, old manor, but inlaid with gold, riches unconceivable to you before now.

733
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,363
And you're sitting there with the love of your family as they're holding you.

734
01:01:06,363 --> 01:01:09,585
It is a festival in your home.

735
01:01:09,585 --> 01:01:10,978
There is a uh

736
01:01:10,978 --> 01:01:22,875
Massive, massive tree up, decorated, and there's nothing but warmth for you as you have
the admiration of your family to go along with the riches.

737
01:01:22,875 --> 01:01:28,386
And she asks you, how much meat is this worth to you?

738
01:01:28,386 --> 01:01:31,167
Am I a part of my vision still?

739
01:01:31,988 --> 01:01:45,323
In front of me, across this massive banquet table, which, in the way that a dream can
convey where you are without resembling every aspect of it, I know this to be my home,

740
01:01:45,323 --> 01:01:49,695
even though it does not look like the home that I left.

741
01:01:49,695 --> 01:01:57,548
The table extends into the horizon with people that I have never met, but I yearn to know.

742
01:01:57,548 --> 01:02:03,903
And in front of each of them a set of finery, gold and porcelain.

743
01:02:04,524 --> 01:02:13,171
But in front of myself there is only a cup, a cup of wood, and I raise it as a toast.

744
01:02:13,171 --> 01:02:26,220
And as I do, I look at this mother in her face, and I say all you have to give, and I will
cast bottle.

745
01:02:26,220 --> 01:02:29,244
And I will force her spirit into my cup.

746
01:02:29,366 --> 01:02:29,807
it.

747
01:02:29,807 --> 01:02:32,089
We'll pause right there and go to Thorum.

748
01:02:32,089 --> 01:02:39,077
Thorum, what does the fulfillment of your drives smell like and remind you of?

749
01:02:39,077 --> 01:02:39,918
Damn.

750
01:02:39,918 --> 01:02:40,206
The

751
01:02:40,206 --> 01:02:44,322
Drive is special though 'cause it's like smell, like what um

752
01:02:44,322 --> 01:02:51,176
You can just tell me like what is the fulfillment look like and we can come up with a
smell in that.

753
01:02:51,352 --> 01:02:56,991
The drive is pay the toll of the Emerald Bridge, like tolls whatever it needs to be.

754
01:02:56,991 --> 01:03:02,561
The Emerald Bridge is your key to the afterlife.

755
01:03:02,561 --> 01:03:03,222
Yeah.

756
01:03:03,222 --> 01:03:06,749
Like some people die and see darkness.

757
01:03:06,749 --> 01:03:09,688
The Emerald Bridge will take you to the heavens.

758
01:03:09,688 --> 01:03:10,138
Mm-hmm.

759
01:03:10,138 --> 01:03:11,943
Does your heaven smell like?

760
01:03:11,958 --> 01:03:12,700
Okay.

761
01:03:12,700 --> 01:03:17,049
Fields of wheat, um firewood, peace.

762
01:03:17,090 --> 01:03:29,423
You imagine yourself in a quaint cabin with your full knights regalia back and restored,
and you have that peace.

763
01:03:29,423 --> 01:03:36,062
And in your head, she asks you, how much meat and blood would you pay for this?

764
01:03:36,062 --> 01:03:46,150
Thorum will have uh his axe that he recently acquired and will axe his chest with it.

765
01:03:46,150 --> 01:03:47,230
My heart.

766
01:03:47,330 --> 01:03:49,036
Like you're cutting yourself?

767
01:03:49,036 --> 01:03:50,868
Yeah, well yeah.

768
01:03:50,868 --> 01:03:56,613
Well would like i on his armor, obviously, but if if it hits his flesh then my yeah, sh so
be it.

769
01:03:56,613 --> 01:04:02,146
Um but he will axe his enti his chest and say my heart.

770
01:04:02,146 --> 01:04:02,849
Yeah.

771
01:04:02,849 --> 01:04:07,546
You force the spirit into your cup, Inda.

772
01:04:07,546 --> 01:04:09,148
What do you do from there?

773
01:04:09,230 --> 01:04:11,842
You do after a toast, you drink.

774
01:04:11,842 --> 01:04:14,717
Yeah, you like the entire thing.

775
01:04:15,242 --> 01:04:15,864
Yeah.

776
01:04:15,864 --> 01:04:19,025
You drink, give me a ruin roll.

777
01:04:19,025 --> 01:04:21,186
Thor.

778
01:04:21,186 --> 01:04:22,577
Okay.

779
01:04:22,577 --> 01:04:28,379
Thorum, you don't have to give me a ruin roll, but you didn't drink the the pig woman.

780
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:33,301
You drink it and you gain a ruin.

781
01:04:33,301 --> 01:04:33,761
Yeah.

782
01:04:33,761 --> 01:04:37,663
Give me another D6 to see what condition you take.

783
01:04:37,663 --> 01:04:45,814
As you drink this, your mouth and nose slowly start to change and form.

784
01:04:45,814 --> 01:04:48,135
into a snout of a pig.

785
01:04:48,135 --> 01:05:01,000
You oink and Thorum, you see Inda's face elongate and squeal in a almost like this
screaming human guttural whine.

786
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:05,782
And it echoes through the chamber and all the other pig people cower.

787
01:05:05,782 --> 01:05:10,064
And you see her lift Inda off the ground.

788
01:05:10,064 --> 01:05:12,465
Inda, you have five ruin, correct?

789
01:05:12,465 --> 01:05:13,085
Okay.

790
01:05:13,085 --> 01:05:14,646
How much ruin do you have, Thorum?

791
01:05:14,646 --> 01:05:15,362
Okay.

792
01:05:15,362 --> 01:05:24,613
Thorum, she's holding Inda up almost like in a loving embrace, as Ind has drank her of her
spirit.

793
01:05:24,613 --> 01:05:26,174
Do you do anything, Thorum?

794
01:05:26,370 --> 01:05:27,768
High is you from me?

795
01:05:27,768 --> 01:05:29,710
About six feet up.

796
01:05:29,710 --> 01:05:34,899
Thorum will not let anyone fall to sin any more.

797
01:05:34,899 --> 01:05:41,810
He will jump, extend his arm and cleave Inda's head if he can.

798
01:05:42,030 --> 01:05:42,791
Yeah.

799
01:05:42,791 --> 01:05:43,691
Okay.

800
01:05:44,252 --> 01:05:49,530
Go ahead, definitely a risk roll, and then you can use your duel as well.

801
01:05:49,530 --> 01:05:50,838
I'd like to help.

802
01:05:50,838 --> 01:05:51,229
Okay.

803
01:05:51,229 --> 01:05:52,240
Okay.

804
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:53,021
Yeah.

805
01:05:53,021 --> 01:05:55,020
So how would you help?

806
01:05:55,020 --> 01:05:55,610
Yes.

807
01:05:55,610 --> 01:06:03,133
Well, I this entire act was in aid of Thorum.

808
01:06:03,133 --> 01:06:08,014
I saw the vision that I thought that I wanted, but it was tainted.

809
01:06:08,014 --> 01:06:10,935
Tainted with the gold that I would take from this place.

810
01:06:10,935 --> 01:06:16,037
And as my student I understand what vision he saw.

811
01:06:16,037 --> 01:06:17,297
A noble one.

812
01:06:17,297 --> 01:06:19,038
One that he deserves.

813
01:06:19,038 --> 01:06:20,280
I drank for him.

814
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:20,720
Beautiful.

815
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,011
Okay, give me your d6 vs Inda.

816
01:06:24,672 --> 01:06:25,332
Hey.

817
01:06:25,332 --> 01:06:27,293
Thorum, devil's bargain.

818
01:06:27,293 --> 01:06:32,175
You will hit something, no matter what.

819
01:06:32,175 --> 01:06:42,579
And when you do, you will either kill Inda or yourself, depending on what you hit, and
we'll do a 50-50 coin flip on that.

820
01:06:42,579 --> 01:06:46,501
Do you want to put yourself at risk to ensure that you kill Inda?

821
01:06:46,501 --> 01:06:47,501
Yeah.

822
01:06:47,981 --> 01:06:48,914
Roll it out.

823
01:06:48,914 --> 01:06:49,616
Oop.

824
01:06:49,616 --> 01:06:50,730
Okay, that's one.

825
01:06:50,730 --> 01:06:57,230
Uh pff double one on the light die, three on the dark die.

826
01:06:57,230 --> 01:06:58,595
Failure across the board.

827
01:06:58,595 --> 01:07:00,060
Give yourself a ruin?

828
01:07:00,060 --> 01:07:02,007
You're going to hit her.

829
01:07:02,007 --> 01:07:03,370
Tell me what you do.

830
01:07:03,414 --> 01:07:09,858
I jump to cleave Inda's head and she's holding him right.

831
01:07:11,179 --> 01:07:23,672
And as I swing to catch him, he moves, making her arm twist and I will hit and break one
of her elbows.

832
01:07:23,672 --> 01:07:29,086
Your axe is embedded in her lardy arm, and she's holding Ind up.

833
01:07:29,086 --> 01:07:32,769
And as a part of the devil's bargain, give me one second.

834
01:07:32,769 --> 01:07:39,813
She holds Inda up in front of you and looks down at you almost disappointed.

835
01:07:39,813 --> 01:07:45,498
And you feel a sense of disappointing somebody like your grandmother with this look.

836
01:07:45,498 --> 01:07:52,174
And she pulls out the ladle of gold and uses her fingers to open Inda's mouth and

837
01:07:52,174 --> 01:07:56,375
Pours molten hot gold down Inda's gullet.

838
01:07:56,375 --> 01:08:03,517
And you see Inda boiling from the inside and steam erupting from his pig-like snout.

839
01:08:03,537 --> 01:08:07,778
And she holds him up and swings him almost drying.

840
01:08:07,778 --> 01:08:21,522
And then sticks her other hand into Inda's mouth and splits him in half and is holding up
a beautiful gold intestinal track from the throat to the stomach.

841
01:08:21,598 --> 01:08:23,942
And sets it down at your feet.

842
01:08:23,942 --> 01:08:26,406
Can you give me a rune roll, Thorum?

843
01:08:26,406 --> 01:08:27,106
I

844
01:08:27,106 --> 01:08:30,330
The the player is rolling ruin at this point.

845
01:08:30,330 --> 01:08:31,758
Um, okay.

846
01:08:31,758 --> 01:08:33,792
Yeah, why didn't you offer us a trigger warning?

847
01:08:33,792 --> 01:08:34,648
Yeah.

848
01:08:34,648 --> 01:08:35,690
What?

849
01:08:36,278 --> 01:08:38,185
Six on the ruin roll.

850
01:08:38,221 --> 01:08:38,722
Okay.

851
01:08:38,722 --> 01:08:40,103
What's your ruin at now?

852
01:08:40,103 --> 01:08:40,844
Three.

853
01:08:40,844 --> 01:08:41,645
Okay.

854
01:08:41,645 --> 01:08:51,558
She gives you this gold and once again implores, how much meat and blood would you give
for everything?

855
01:08:51,558 --> 01:08:52,940
Will you hunt for me?

856
01:08:52,940 --> 01:08:55,262
Will you be my knight?

857
01:08:55,310 --> 01:08:57,074
Will hunt my own way.

858
01:08:57,074 --> 01:08:58,916
I am no one's knight.

859
01:08:58,938 --> 01:09:00,801
No longer.

860
01:09:00,801 --> 01:09:04,227
You are an icon of sin, and sin must be

861
01:09:05,368 --> 01:09:06,502
Purged.

862
01:09:06,502 --> 01:09:10,062
Yeah, are you choosing to fight or trying to run away?

863
01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:13,730
What do you what action do you take with this proclamation?

864
01:09:13,730 --> 01:09:21,984
This woman has de well woman has defiled not only us in vision but in the physical.

865
01:09:21,984 --> 01:09:28,728
There is no forgiveness for this, so he will kill or die trying.

866
01:09:28,728 --> 01:09:29,299
Yeah.

867
01:09:29,299 --> 01:09:35,947
Don your axe and give me some rolls, and if you have any devil's bargain from the grave
enda, please.

868
01:09:35,947 --> 01:09:36,747
Yes.

869
01:09:37,958 --> 01:09:43,641
you have those lines on your own self that you perceive.

870
01:09:44,382 --> 01:09:52,307
Like a butcher's outline, telling you where a precise strike would cleave true.

871
01:09:52,307 --> 01:10:00,831
And you see a line pace between her cloven fingers and down her arm.

872
01:10:02,052 --> 01:10:05,014
and you think that

873
01:10:05,154 --> 01:10:14,026
To strike there would be more potent than any of her other lard bearing uh locations.

874
01:10:14,026 --> 01:10:17,109
However, it would not be a lethal blow.

875
01:10:17,230 --> 01:10:17,952
Obviously.

876
01:10:17,952 --> 01:10:19,645
Yeah, you can take that bargain.

877
01:10:19,645 --> 01:10:22,501
Okay, roll it out.

878
01:10:22,501 --> 01:10:23,944
Two white, one dark.

879
01:10:23,944 --> 01:10:25,184
Kissy kissy.

880
01:10:25,184 --> 01:10:28,557
Yeah, my wife just came back from work and just figured Yes.

881
01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:29,838
Oh, nice.

882
01:10:29,838 --> 01:10:30,318
Cool.

883
01:10:30,318 --> 01:10:34,830
Uh six on the light die, five on the dark die.

884
01:10:34,830 --> 01:10:51,507
Okay, you are able to wound her and cut down her arm, and it is a uh heart-wrenchingly
loud screech that she emits, and she screams and it shakes the walls.

885
01:10:51,507 --> 01:11:00,041
The other pigmen cover their ears and roll around like hogs in mud, but it's trash and
gold and skin.

886
01:11:00,041 --> 01:11:03,160
Um, and she does look back down at you and

887
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:05,591
Comes down with a claw and holds you up.

888
01:11:05,591 --> 01:11:20,495
She grabs the back of your neck and pulls you into one of her teats and uses one of her
hands and forces you your sh and f sorry, uses one of her hands to open your mouth and

889
01:11:20,495 --> 01:11:26,537
forces you onto her teeth to suckle and holds your head there and you cannot breathe.

890
01:11:26,537 --> 01:11:31,478
What is your last few moments on this earth look like?

891
01:11:31,478 --> 01:11:32,354
Or sorry.

892
01:11:32,354 --> 01:11:38,238
What do the last few moments you spend alive on this thing's teet look like?

893
01:11:38,382 --> 01:11:39,883
As he suffocates to death.

894
01:11:39,883 --> 01:11:43,524
Um Yeah, exactly.

895
01:11:43,524 --> 01:11:50,988
We'll actually proceed to bite and to see if like it would do anything.

896
01:11:50,988 --> 01:11:53,288
Like there's no way out of this, right, Nick?

897
01:11:54,009 --> 01:11:54,759
Yeah, okay, yeah.

898
01:11:54,759 --> 01:11:58,151
No, no, I'm j I'm just confirming because this changes stuff.

899
01:11:58,151 --> 01:12:05,314
Uh I will bite, uh, but instead of just skin, now it's blood.

900
01:12:05,572 --> 01:12:08,383
suffocating me, drowning me at the same time.

901
01:12:08,383 --> 01:12:23,307
Um and in these last moments of air, I do whisper final stuff t uh final words to make me
comfort me, I guess in my way in darkness.

902
01:12:23,307 --> 01:12:24,607
I know you're here.

903
01:12:24,607 --> 01:12:26,068
You are always here.

904
01:12:26,068 --> 01:12:29,048
I felt you in the ink when I signed the maps.

905
01:12:29,048 --> 01:12:31,002
I felt you in the water after.

906
01:12:31,002 --> 01:12:33,350
I don't ask for forgiveness.

907
01:12:33,350 --> 01:12:35,212
I was never yours to give.

908
01:12:35,212 --> 01:12:36,563
I ask only this.

909
01:12:36,563 --> 01:12:45,290
Let the land remember the shape of me, as a womb that tried to close itself, not a good
man, but a man who stopped.

910
01:12:45,290 --> 01:12:48,323
The elder at the well, I never learned their name.

911
01:12:48,323 --> 01:12:53,257
That's the thing I carry into the dark, not the surveys, not the village.

912
01:12:53,257 --> 01:12:55,559
Her name, but I never asked.

913
01:12:55,559 --> 01:13:01,484
I give back what I could, root by root, body by body was never enough.

914
01:13:01,484 --> 01:13:03,486
It was never going to be enough.

915
01:13:03,486 --> 01:13:04,576
I knew that.

916
01:13:04,576 --> 01:13:06,027
I kept going anyway.

917
01:13:06,027 --> 01:13:07,307
That's all I have.

918
01:13:07,307 --> 01:13:08,788
It's everything I have.

919
01:13:08,788 --> 01:13:11,029
Voreth, the unhallowed mouth.

920
01:13:11,029 --> 01:13:12,629
You do not get this death.

921
01:13:12,629 --> 01:13:14,470
This ground is not yours.

922
01:13:14,470 --> 01:13:18,172
I'm returning myself to something older than your hunger.

923
01:13:18,172 --> 01:13:33,578
Eat the map, for I am going back to the soil, and will curdle and gasp for air, but it's
not coming, and just will feel this moment of peace somewhat as he slowly co closes his

924
01:13:33,578 --> 01:13:34,506
eyes and

925
01:13:34,506 --> 01:13:36,430
Into the darkness he goes.

926
01:13:36,430 --> 01:13:44,262
Both the blood and her milk spill into your mouth, and the milk is almost like cottage
cheese.

927
01:13:44,262 --> 01:13:59,936
It is thick and has curds in it, and it tastes sweet, tastes like milk, and it gives you
this warm sense of relief as it smothers you.

928
01:13:59,936 --> 01:14:05,742
And in front of you you see a large emerald bridge and light blue.

929
01:14:05,742 --> 01:14:18,267
Cast down upon it, and as you step forward to the Emerald Bridge, it collapses below your
feet, and you are sucked into darkness and no longer exist.

930
01:14:18,267 --> 01:14:26,270
And in the cellar she casts your body into the cauldron and mix you into the molten, and
you are gone.