Episode 12 | Part 2 (2/3)

And we're back ladies and gentlemen episode 12 part two starting right now I don't think so I feel like I you're like the best-looking 100 year old I've ever seen them because if you've seen them they're frightening Like they are drizzly like a hundred is not You know cleric right I hated that joke Or Nella I want to come back on a The last thing that you read in your mother's journal. We're gonna It's the we come back and this was the one roll a d24 me We come back to It's actually neither of you the screen fades in from black and we see the tent that you two have been sleeping in we see your pack That's lying open with a few things out. There's ration packs that are empty. There are tools that are set aside There's a sharpening stone and then we see the journal your mother's journal sitting on your on your bed or Nella And it's open and the page that it's on is further along towards the end of the journal and the top of the page says spring year six I had the dream again.

It was so horrible. I dare not write about it We come back we fade in fade to black and fade back in on Orzak and or Nella. Where do we find you the start of part two? We can be farther ahead in time.

We can pick up right where we left off Tell me where you want us to start. We're in your land buddy. Where are we doing? So we're gonna we're gonna jump forward a bit.

Okay, and we're gonna jump forward to a point where So Orzak is standing by this woman's tent and it's the woman before that had asked us to go look for a child and Orzak is basically in his arms holding a dead well partially eaten bear boondie child and He's just standing there as she's crying and his head is aimed down He knows that the bite marks and things indicate that if he had gone there when he was asked He may the the child was killed after he had returned from with Davery So he was we went out to get the sky leaf We went out to to get the what we needed to save Davery the child was killed after those From the look of the wounds. They're not that old. They're old enough that whatever but he knows as he's handing over this body That he may have been able to save him However, he didn't he made a choice and that's where he is and he's handing over this body to this woman she Like upon seeing him she breaks down in tears the bear boondie are an emotional people and there's you know while they have a fighting spirit and a Sense of obligation of individualism, but there's also very I mean they all love each other. They all consider each other family so any loss is a significant loss and she is is crying to herself and she wipes the tears from her eyes and and takes the wet and Uses it to wipe off some of the dirt and blood off of the the kids face and She looks to you or zock and she says thank you for delivering him to me I'm glad to know of his fate even if it's not the one that I desired It's embarrassing for sure.

Yep, sorry I'm sorry. We couldn't have done more No, I You have you have done enough and this was this would bring me peace As I hand or hand the child over like there's more actually there's fathers There's mothers. There's other younger people coming over and the whole kind of group just kind of lifts the whole kind of You know, it's not a it's not a lone person's burden to bear. It's not a very It's definitely not Western culture where the family kind of deals with the death and then they bring people in I mean this is like everybody just comes in as they don't even care they didn't even ask they do you know everybody just starts kind of chipping in in whatever way they can and and I want and hand her hand the child over and Kind of turn away and kind of quietly kind of walk off and then head towards Wherever we've been staying whatever so and you can yeah run with whatever you want So as that so this is evening right like sure sure and In events of a member of the clan's death and the body is returned that night at the fire there They're burned and they're given over to be back in the Amongst the people in a way and most everyone is at this gathering We find you to walking back towards where you're saying and the scale mother approaches She you're walking down this in between these tents and she kind of pops out from between a couple tents and turns and says Orzak we spoke a few days ago about a meeting Yes When and where I think that's up to you and to to retcon and remind the audience and the players there was a letter that was sent to Harbeck from the Vy counts and As for instructions a letter was sent to the Vy count that instructed them to meet right in the Where the stripe is the width of a tikari and across the certain yeah There's a very specific Canyon where box Canyon where you instructed them to meet they should be here any day No, they may already be there.

We should we should head out first light tomorrow. All right What do we need to do to prepare? I mean they're your people this would be a Well now this might be a very good opportunity for us for you to give us some instruction on Ways to not create the wrong impression Okay, sure Shall we gather I mean who's going to meet them just the three of us or are you going to bring others? I will not be taking anyone.

I will handle this myself. There have been too many incidences where more My I mean no offense, but I'm not I'm not risking anyone else. I can have this conversation with him You need to bring your you need to bring the aza kid The spine hunter. Oh the ack the speaker the ackish ackish.

Sorry. It's okay. They all use the same Yes, ackish Or Zach why do you say that? I'm with the scam mother on this one I think it can be a conversation had just between us the ackish has shown a level of grace I Don't use the word grace.

I hate that word the level of understanding that no one else has shown His perspective is Untainted roll a persuasion at advantage for me 19 I suppose that I have seen things and he has had visions suppose It would be wise to bring additional counsel. I miss father too. She doesn't say anything She just stares straight ahead. You are an incredibly brave leader.

It's not Fault to have another voice there and I will be there representing our people just as much as you She nods her head and see her put my hand out to hold her hand she She doesn't look she reaches her hand out and then grabs grabs your hand gives a tight squeeze of of And I don't let go. I'll use advantage to hold it. Do you start grappling her? Yeah She like she'll actually try to pull away and it doesn't move She looks not a lot of compassion and like touching and loving in society.

So this is oh, yeah, she She she winses and looks to be deep in her own thoughts and then turns her head to look at you or zach And she says that well then make make the necessary preparations. We'll I We will meet you at the chasm tomorrow morning just before dawn bring To party for them to ride very well she she then like withdraws her hand from your hands and Them is in Davery just so that's clear And then she withdraws her hand from your hand and turns and walks back from the back the direction she came from Sounds like we have an early morning tomorrow. Let's drink Suddenly the beastie boys Fight for your rights a party starts playing no we see Party a little bit do whatever there's there's drinking there singing people are singing funeral songs and singing of the boy And all of the things that he he did he had done and they Singing goes well into the late night. Does anyone do anything?

Do you know you go? Are you do you get tatted up before we we cruise and booze? Yeah, all right. Where's Davery at this whole thing?

Well, Davery has been with this Davery has been with this I just broke this literally my whole life I do not have single time in my existence when it's not cracked off. Yeah, that's Davery is with the talk the talk Akish and the speaker working on Working on making the skile even to a usable substance still even doing this like funeral fire. Oh, you're right. Yes So I guess he would be he would be out watching Sitting on like a stone by himself watching all of the dancing and the singing probably looking confused because he doesn't really know He's like don't if I sit here.

I won't offend anyone Gotcha got you right in the giggle spot Okay, all right cool. Yeah, let's get on with it. We just FF to the next next morning Yeah, we just FF to the next morning. Okay Someone Describe for me the ride the morning Paint a picture for us.

What does this look like get us from the camp to the spot? I would like to take a lead So that I'm the first one to approach these people Very uneasy on this to curry. I had a little bit of practice with the when we were went out the first time but It's very unlike riding any other yeah, yeah, because you don't actually sit right Yeah, so But I think that or zak would be close really close behind me so like shouting like directions sort of Yeah, or zak. Do you want to maybe so like that's cool because that's like we're now There's understanding of how this to car is but can you maybe how do you help ensure that the takari is going the direction that it needs to go?

so So I'd like to the way I'd like to state this first is that and normally in a position like this a culture would bring a group Right, so it would be a show of force or it would be a show of strength and and diplomatic diplomatic power We're this group is very much the opposite It's probably about five people five or six people but the most important people like if they pull fast one the whole fucking tribes But it's like we are laying even though we're like we don't we you know, we don't trust them. We're gonna not do this We're still laying that's just the way it is. It's a group of people that believe this so as we're going normally if it We're all bare booty on these on the knees takari be like we just be flying through these canyons and stuff We're kind of going at this like pace where these animals keep looking over the shoulder at the person riding them like really is So ornela is kind of like, you know, it's more of like a half like I was gonna say half crotch, but crouch more like surfing right It's more like a bent knees forward kind of thing so your feet are kind of back by your knees You're leaning on your your like knelt forward. It's like those deaths that used to sell in the 90s where you would like sit on your Yeah, you know what I mean?

Yeah, so it's like it's like it's so your legs can give pressure as this thing kind of goes up and down Like chicken head so as she's doing it. It's like I'm not She thinks I'm barking orders in her, but I'm literally just talking to the takari because the takari she's riding his mind Because I know it won't throw her because I'm talking to it the whole right time right and I'm riding some nameless one and Greg's up Greg's up balls. Oh, whatever. It doesn't matter.

I'm just very kind of mechanical I'm like can do it. It's like so I'm literally talking to my own animal Making sure it doesn't hurt her Because the most important thing is for us is if we round that corner or whatever that we're all together. Yep Awesome, what is the what does the sky look like? What is the what does the environment look like?

So it's actually oddly overcast So it doesn't rain very often there, but when it does it's a thing. Oh, yeah, it's like those Arizona and New Mexico flash floods Those storms are wicked and and clouds come through those environments every so often without producing rain But this is like one of those times where no one can tell if it's going to rain or not Mm-hmm, but there's a strength and electricity to the air that's palpable. It's you know Normally it's like how every day is the same. This is different.

Yeah, all right great Well done. I'd like to think that or no is a little bit like extra feisty in this Weather with like with like the electricity. I think that like her electromagnetic Nonsense in her body is like charged her body's almost like buzzing from the yeah, yeah Beautiful description. I love that.

We we follow so this scene plays out as you're traveling across the lands It takes most of the morning and getting into the early part of the afternoon to make it because you are the barebundi are Situated in this land in a sort of north east or north westerly point and you're traveling eastward and over about to the middle of what is called the color or the bat lands fractured lands and you We see the camera do this like cool sky cam thing where it tilts back and is following behind as we see these decari race across the the landscape and it fades to black and it fades back up and it's fading up looking out over a box Canyon and the camera sees down in the bottom of this canyon there's a small camp of six tents and there's a cart and there's horses and We see and they're very small like this is a pretty long-distance shot And then coming into frame is the tikari and they grind to a stop at the top of this box canyon looking down towards the Position below we see the camera is such position that we see the north side cliff face is burns orange clay dirt But they single-bould violet stripe running from the base of the canyon to the top As we come to a stop and so I like hop off of my tikari hers is my my tikari Her the one she's riding in front and I kind of jump off the front kind of walk down It's neck and walk straight up to you and I don't help her off But I look at her and I say this is the time with the cultures together You understand the importance of story and I have one hand named named back And you have the importance of position if you can figure out how to blend the two this will go well If it doesn't go well, well, we'll see what happens I guess I trust you and I'll turn around and I walk over head back and you know whenever Basically, I'm saying yours to make the introductions so that the scale mothers tikari walks up to you to both of your animals looking out over this Canyon she's her tikari comes up next to you or Nella and she speaks to you but continues to look straight ahead down in the box Canyon This is them. Yes. Good tikari will help us get down the cliff face They won't be frightened by these creatures will they yes? She smiles they might be but they won't show it good.

We will ride them down to greet them Are you nervous? No, you should be These people are here to help us if anything goes wrong Even in the slightest it'll be my hand that will take care of the problem. I look right at Orzak Let's go slight smile comes across the scale mothers face just like almost imperceptible, but it's there and the tikari then at one The scale the scale mothers to car leading goes down first and it literally like 90 degrees straight down like climbs down this Canyon and these saddles are like again That's why the the writing position so important so that you can like leaning back and on your back and like maybe there's like these grips back here that you hold on to and yeah the tikari just like vertically face this cliff and walk down and Yeah, I don't sorry. I don't think we discussed who actually is with us.

Oh, yeah Let's orzak and I and the scam other and the speaker and the speaker and David and Avery okay All-star crew 18 for sure. I love it. I love it Yeah Yeah, so the the with the stale mother at front and Abrest of her are you to Davery and the speaker and? Approaching the camp slowly you see men that are sitting around a cookfire and they have they come to attention and form a line there are I think there's one two three So there's four four soldiers that look well, there's three soldiers and then there's one robed figure and then you see the Vy Count they're all dressed Dressed to the nines, but they're wearing like war plate and they're dressed for battle But their armor is polished and well kept you see the the ends of their cloaks have are stained with mud and dirt Just from travel and they stand at attention to to greet you as you approach scale mothers the first one and she gets sort of Uncomfortably close to them with the tikari Like across a dining room table with this enormous beast of war and she looks from atop of it Coxer head to the side and then hops down from the tikari pats it on the side of its head and it just Obediently like takes a few steps backward Due to what do you do if the speaker does the same thing?

He hops off the tikari pats it on the side of its head and the tikari takes a few steps backward I Amble down as gracefully as I can and like give a look at Orzok and like with eye contact I kind of put it make a sound and like bow gracefully back up is what I'm saying. Mm-hmm creature does yeah So I go up and stands next to the scale I get off this really untrained one and it's like unruly and like Kick it. All right. You know it's like everybody else had this cool thing.

I'm the fool. David's like I think I'll just stay on Yeah, I think Dave really like every start putting his foot to the left and it started backing up and he just right He's like this just starts writing as it is backing up slightly and it lays down and he's like yes exactly Yeah, the thing just like did what it wanted to do Yeah, it just goes and like lays down to Sun Bay the little bit and the Davery hops off and then awkwardly scrambles over to join the rest of you online and I as a Davery joins the lineup gets online logs on I don't know he's a stand-ex to me I'm and I just want to reach down and like squeeze his hand real real quick his hands are so sweaty Yeah, they're like they're like wet not just sweaty. They're like so clammy and Just because I can I guess so so yeah so in front of you like I said there are three definitely soldier veteran looking men of Late to middle age scars on their face serious looking like these guys have seen some shit and on there and then adjoining them is a older looking man in some strange blue robes and And then with them in his resplendent plate is Viscount fell with it with like helmet on visor up though, and he says I am Viscount Kilo fell like the lord of Allah's aquamarine gem jury with me is Captain Gessip Captain Damon and my house spell Mancer Vorig Olevar all veterans and men who have seen war against the orcs firsthand I and they can speak your people's tongue though not perfectly Additionally I have the commander of my conscripted company Captain Whalen They have sworn to me an oath of obedience and we'll respect all traditions and customs of you and yours my lady I had the word lady she just shakes her head and goes Viscount Kilo fell I am no lady of palaces and gardens Our people can speak the yosta tongue doing no small part to the torture in pain you've wrought our kind I am scale mother Oana maka. I am war beauty death and courage second daughter of to Chuni Askso lead scout of the third harvest My late husband was scale father Vruni who was killed brokering for peace by one who called himself a lord I have mother six children all of whom who have fought in war against our soldiers I bring others with me their names are not important Although you should know these two and she turns her head over to Orzakan or Nalab.

That should suffice for my introduction Say incredibly long pregnant pause. I step out. I step towards Viscount fell and his men Viscount Thank you for being here and I turn to his men and I thank you for your service Now I have spent many days in this bearable decamp and have spoken Openly and honestly with the scale mother about our situation at hand. It's important.

It's important that you my count Also speak openly and honestly Scale mother. I am not here and by count fell speaking obviously I'm not here out of a desire to do your people harm in fact I'm here because like what or Nella has said I have seen what is coming firsthand Thanks to the intervention of her Dwarf named Harbeck and a half-orc like yourself and she like at the word half-orc Takes two quick steps like she is inches from his face learn fast by count fell that we are not half of anything The creatures that you call Orzak's share no ancestry with our people or any people here in the calak Do not make that mistake again or I will split you into before your men can half draw their swords As she finishes that I am like fucking like yes But I'm also I'd step forward and I walk I actually kind of in a braggadocious manner walk right in between them and split them up like a Peacekeeper in a fight at a bar and I literally push them apart and I take my sword out and it's like long Because that's how it is It's made out of fucking bone. This is not a steel weapon. This is a thing of nature And I pull it out and I take it and I just drive it down in between them And I look at them both and I say Has everybody puff the chest enough?

Now that I count speaks first I will speak directly then Scale mother smiles and says yes, I think that would be good and I back up I'm the only one without a weapon right now Scale mother ona maka my wife is alive because of the brave actions of these here of those there pointing to you to That which threatens us is from beyond our world it attacked That which was is most precious to me. It was horrific. It was unlike anything. I've ever seen No one in a law seems to know or care.

They're busy pillaging those like you to the east It is up to us here and now to stop what is coming scale mother says you use the word us as If we have any six stakes in the success of your monarchy frankly It would be a blessing if your queen and all her nobles were swallowed up by the serpent of death I'm here out of obligation to my sons and my people to hear you out But I want you to know this Viscount fell That if for whatever reason there's something here that you're not telling me and it causes hurt to my people The Viscount nods his head. So mother this threat is unlike anything. We've ever seen I agree The corruption You need to see what the corruption festers in a while Captain Wayland and one of the soldiers on the end stands to rigid attention the cage bring it forth men keep yourselves between the cage And the scale mother is come other you may want to back up as soon as I said I actually out of the ground I pick my sword up and I stand in between Captain Wayland turns and goes to the cart and pulls a rope on the on the black cloth exposing the cage to you all you see inside a The cart's covers removed exposing an iron cage with bars half-inch in diameter inside is an elf probably Its arms have fur braces similar to Orzox with long orange feathers adorning its torn and split armor his face is swollen However with skin on the right side splitting apart revealing a crustacean carapace underneath tended and muscles stretch in between the splitting skin revealing Its red and black chitin underneath it's disgusting and the smell of blood and feces and unclean body is powerful nearly overwhelming the late A rays of sunlight pierce through the clouds for a second and hit its skin immediately It jumps and thrashes inside the cage reaching its long distended arms through the bars grasping at the two soldiers The captains is to instinctively reach for their swords and hold them at the ready This I do I recognize that elf Is it missing ears? It's It's not that it's not that okay, but it looks to be of bear boondi looks to be of your people.

Oh Park crab park pressure turn him and the scale mother cries out stay her hands or help remove them from your arms She steps towards the cage She's like studying it and this thing is just Just slamming its body up against the the iron bars trying to break through that there's no way this cage is gonna Give but it is thrashing violently trying to reach out trying to kill her She turns to the vie count. What did you do to him? Scale mother this was not our doing he was captured by one of the queen scouts companies a few weeks ago They tossed him and others into a pit left him the same transformation happened to my men Which nearly caused the death of my wife. They showed no signs either I don't know what it is that causes this change, but I know that it is related to what is happening all I needed you to see this So you understand what we're against Lies she turns all your kind speaker lies.

I stand up and I grab I literally like Forcefully grab her. This is what I was telling you about The speaker who's been quiet this whole time takes a couple steps forward to to come up in line with you and the scale mother and You or zock and the scale mother and he says to her scale mother. This is what you have seen in your dreams This is what I have seen as well. This is real She she licks her lips and you can see her just snarling We've we've literally done everything we can to live our own pure life and we can't do it anymore We're going to have to we're in the same Position is all these others.

We are not separate anymore. We tried to Our own extent to be separate and to live we traveled it hunted game and we moved we remain nomadic we moved and we moved If and I look at that thing and if it's in our camp It's too late the vicount speaks up I would not lie to you scale mother on this I swear my life and the life of my unborn son and the life of my unborn child I tell no falsehoods this day. You seek not to destroy you and your people please Seek counsel of your warrior or zach. He has seen these creatures firsthand.

He knows this threat Unnatural hands are at work here. She turns and her face is just full of scorn and hatred just dripping off of her My son or zach a warrior of unmatched skill or zach killed an adult sail back when he was a child using nothing But his own hands and a rock or zach who broke his tikari by only his tenth summer or zach who outduled my late husband scale guards by himself at the same time Orzach feared by those who know him has the red wake for his wrath is so great that it left tidal waves of blood on our enemies shores She turns to your zach or zach Would you put your story and the stories of your scaled brothers and sisters on the line for him for them? I would she closes her eyes and you discarded by your family Thrown to be left with nothing. Can you think it's this is worth it then saving this?

Yes speaker These the dreams that I had then then what then what we must do is certain the speaker nods his head Yes, if I count Kaylofell we will work together on this this Thing wretched abomination that is taken from me a person of our It must die and I will see it dead and You know the rule you have to do it She withdraws a small blade from her belt pouch and you see the the soldiers are like they have their swords drawn at attention And I mean these are veterans. They're not shaking in their boots But she brushes past them and they look surprised at how close she's getting and she's you know This thing is just lunging at the cage trying to break out in its long sharpened clawed arm is The skin is starting to split and you can see the pink and red and black Carapace underneath exposed literally growing so that the skin is just tearing apart on top Like a snake shedding its skin and it's reaching out and we get this close up shot of the side of the scale And coming into frame is this clawed hand It's inches away and it continues to to grab and reach out for her and in one swift motion She takes her arm locks the claw underneath and pulls herself in with the force of its own arm and takes the dagger and jams it through the Creatures head and all of a sudden it just collapses She takes the blade withdraws it from the things head and wipes it on her on her pants and Resheaves it. What's the plan then what? what's happening with the with your men and and the Viscount adjusts his breastplate and Turns and walks over to her now facing the cage side by side with her Lord commander Hadron has demanded that all forces rally outside the city called Katerre I shift like how do they know the name kind of shift?

My men, Juries line breakers have been tasked with ensuring the right flank is held and that any escaping Southerners are rounded up as prisoners Most of my men are holding position there now while we have waited here every day. I spend out here not with my men is a chance for Our cause to be discovered and for my men to be killed before you're going to do something we need to decide Something I'm speaking plainly to you here of scale mother The forces that are gathering around Katerre they have orders from Lord commander Hadron there to raise the city they're to burn it to the ground to Leave no one alive scale mother laughs impossible this The city is only accessible by basket. How will they even breach the walls? Scale mother the Queen's engineers have spent many months building siege ladders and siege towers Between those and the catapults pummeling the walls the city has already been breached that fighting is The fighting has stalled inside the city itself, but I'm afraid that many are dead The machines of war were not And I look at my at the scale mother my mother the machines of war You don't you don't understand them.

Why would they kill? Raise the city. What is there to take the the toasterick are They're glorified fishermen doesn't matter this is a This these people have been fed Infant they've been fed lies for years and this is them. It's like an exclamation point for them It's it's an ex they're exclaiming to whatever god now they're following or whatever it is that this is what they're doing They're going to do it.

It doesn't matter why or how or whatever it is they have All their forces prone brought down here to leave what needs to be done up there unguarded But the only way that we can make a difference is if we get Those that matter We need to get them out of that city. We need to form Is there a way like I'm like almost pacing back and forth again. Mm-hmm. I turn to the vicout Have you meant have you had eyes on the city?

Have you been scouting the city? Yes? We have Captain Whalen has men positioned to watch over the siege since we're in charge of taking anyone who flees We have we have eyes on the city. Yes, and I turned to Back to scale mother my brother.

Where is a limb that was crafted by the toasterick? They understand the pharaoh more than anyone the pharaoh is Unique it is and I look at the bike. I want to say this and I look at or an L This is what is what makes us unique Besides our culture and is it worth it with us? Nope.

He's not no We have to save We have to save those that understand how to craft it if I count Steps a little bit closer to your or zach and he says or zach the The first and second teal guard are there. It's it's a bloodbath It will be difficult for you to get into the city and once inside the city You know that those men will kill you on site. I have no sway over them If they're fighting a war of a front and they're laying siege to the city where there may be a way there is a Mother and I apologize. I spent many summers inside the toasterick city of kitti They have strange and exotic women And well, I could not a couple of the the soldier smile a young man has his needs I never was encountered by the gods because I know a path of the back of the other cliff face if my you know a way in I Do I do if we can get at least the elders out there?

They're circle if we can at least get them out, but the more the better the path I know about travels up the back the face cliff of the back of the city But I have heard rumors that there are It's a porous canyon where people there are different ways. We may be able to get more out I don't know but I know a way in and What about a way than to unite the south to do to free those people to save them from the Northerners, yes well, then Viscount what how long has the city been breached the Viscount says I'd spend About a few days and the amount of men inside is you can't number very many but we have confirmation that the first teal guard are there They're awful. They're terrifying. They're some of the queen's best men.

So If you don't need to go there, I think with the forces we have we would be able to go to allow and be able to do some good I'm sorry if it's painful to say but maybe maybe we shouldn't go in maybe you shouldn't go into the city Maybe Katir has just lost You say they're terrifying you say that they're horrible horrible and bring fear to those you see them I killed six before they took me prisoner myself They're weak Men of iron fall will to men of iron will you have one that I owe and I will find him Not this day not the next but I'm not gonna leave out the people that have shared our world to a fate of death for the Promise of riches these people aren't fighting for a cause they're fighting for greed and for Great and I'm starting to walk back and forth again. We have to save as much of our lands as we can If we all died doing it, I don't care My men will be positioned to give you cover during the escape if I I set them up correctly. I can make it so that they won't be seen as they leave I'm not sure what we're going to do after the battle There will be questions asked if I have no prisoners. I look at or Nella You understand that world better than I But we need we need a victory.

We need to do we need to solve a problem and then we need to Continue forward from there problem is in a low. I don't know if we should be spending Resources and time on something like this. I'm willing to listen and then and you know I'll do whatever I can but I I understand that we need to unify We need to come together, but it's not what we're doing right now and you Viscount What do you work for? Speaking of taking prisoners?

That's not what this is about It was not my choice to make that is what the Lord commander assigned us to do and in order to keep up the front So that I may help you later I think it better that I play along for now and take these people prisoner instead of executing them like many other forces Would do were they to be in my position? So I see this everything starting to get uncomfortable, right? There's nobody's it's just starting to get uncomfortable I go to my tikari and I inside of it like a saddle bag I bring out this cloth and it's really heavy It's like not like chain mail, but it looks very fluid And I pull it out and it's kind of straight over my arm And I take it out in front of the the group of people there and I throw it on the ground and You recognize it as the thing I wrapped around your head when we were up on the on the cliff face Yeah, right and I and I throw it down there and it's we're in the midday Sun And you know, maybe it's high noon and the and we're in this box game So the Sun is just straight down and like here all these guys from the North are like Anyway, so it's kind of shining on that and I pick it up and I walk over to you And I look you in the eye and I show it to him and I say this is the cloth that could tear weaves Feel it It takes his hand out and goes in and holds it in his arms and he feels it and then he tries to like poke it to like try to Feel the fibers and it's like this it feels like silk like you can't actually feel the individual fibers But it has this metallic like coppery Steel will eat right it's kind of almost feeling wet yeah at all times Yeah, like kind of oiled kind of whatever But it's very tough and then I take it I wrap it around my arm and I look at or Nella and I say take your axe and hit it What? Do it or talk hit it?

Honestly, I'm or Nella's kind of mad or not anyway Yeah, she just alright and like over the overhead and just wax so I wrapped it like a few times So my arm and then there it is it hurts I take a couple of hit points, but my arm does not come off. I mean you you swung a you would have chopped a person's arm off I mean it's a fucking great axe swing it now And you see don't even really see sparks and you see just kind of a little discoloration on it It felt like you hit great almost like there was some gift to it and I unwrap it and I throw it down And you see it like a bruise line where you hit that's what we call the pharaoh It's made an eye point you've seen the dock spines The deer are the ones that know how to weave it it weighs nothing and I kind of pick it up and I toss it at you And it's like you it was on your head. It's the same thing right you didn't even know it But that's what it was it felt like yeah It's going to come in handy down the road. We can't let him have it and we need to use it in our favor You're right we need to get those people who know how to make it This is a game changer Your men could wear it underneath their armor as padding The the soldiers all look to each other and now their heads the vikoun says yes if the your line breakers would be indestructible right Scamother What do you make of this and this whole time she's just been staring into the cage at the crumpled form of the soon-to-be crab preacher bear boondi and She continues to stare and she says we are all in agreement here the toasterick need our help and Orzak or Nella You need to go now.

There's no time to get back to the camp by the time we spend a half-day ride It's another half day to get there so we've lost another day and I don't know how much longer the city can take Go quickly by count. Let's be with your men We will I will send my son or tick to to to your position to meet and send along further instructions. I Speaker we need to go to the nest Questions She looks around to everyone as if anyone is going to speak up and with that Harbeck what happens if he returns and we're not there the speaker Comes up to you or Nella and he puts his hand on your arm and he says Arnella Harbeck Harbeck will be with us. All right, then he smiles Well, let's go and let's go it like Fades to black and fades up on the city of Katir It's this city that sits atop this wide plateau a hundred feet up in the air Which creates just this sheer cliff that one would need to the way that you would get up They have these crane arms that overhang the city that have baskets that and they they are spread out all around the city You can see there's plumes of black smoke coming up from the city and siege ladders are leaned up against the the tall walls And you can see little black shapes of men climbing up the ladders.

We zoom farther back this turns out to have been like a zoom in and the Zooming zooming back out. We see the silhouette of harbeck who's got his arm his hand up on the side of a of a spine hunter The spine hunter as a cure says We should help them. Let's go Fades black don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with the DeMoyden dragons episode 12 part 3