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Oh, okay Can I sleep in the bed tonight? No, no you will sleep in the kettle until you're better. Good boy That's correct. I'm very quickly approaching that level of non fuckery with with the men folk.
All right Let's do this like the free folk of it worse Even more than folk of Westamaj Okay, and three two one we're back Welcome episode three left on a real positive note in part two shit part All right, we're doing it again three two one and we're back welcome to Des Moines and dragons part three episode 14 nailed it this time Left on kind of a bummer on part two. Yeah, so let's see if we can get with the gigs real quick Okay, what do you guys do Well, we're kind of stuck. Yeah Stuck in a rock. We gotta let harbeck needs some healing some resting.
We have no transportation But we're not far from the camp, right Yeah, make a survival. Yeah, make a survival roll hard back. We're sorry. Jesus That's gonna be Well, I was out in 11 and that's even worse.
So 11 is where I'm at I mean you're like a half days walk to if you started walking by now you would get there by evening to the camp, right? Okay, I feel like that's what we need to do. What about the couch? They're coming here.
They're tracking they were tracking as a key as it flew was leaving Parts of itself along its path and they were tracking that path. They'll find this spot We could tell them we could leave them a message saying we pressed on time out Okay, just to recap where are all the toaster people there with the warriors which are further behind? Oh, they're behind it Oh, yes, because I like you came back and got us so they yeah, they haven't we still need essentially free groups There's you guys there's the scouts and the takari and then the toaster can but we really are ultimately responsible for the people The civilians in that group arriving safely at our place. So I don't really feel like we should progress without them Yes, like actually I would say that we start tracking back the other direction.
Okay. Yeah, okay. I'm on board. Yes.
Yes. Yes Cool. Cool. Or we wait so that the day passes uneventfully and late that afternoon So you've got maybe three or four hours of daylight left the you see the takari And here well you hear the takari first like shambling and running across the stone canyon walls and or is that you catch sight of your takari in the lead Rounding a corner and like a screeching to a halt in front of you Kind of perk up and kind of give it a boyish wave like hey buddy, you know I like a whistle and a click and and then I realized like this is kind of a somber place and kind of tone down myself And I'll walk over towards it and kind of give it a patent Grab a water slick from the side of the The saddle there and kind of start giving it some water because I'm sure it's been running pretty hard to get here in that time frame And then I'll look around look along the path of the cam and see if I can see anybody else coming So or Nell is takari comes shortly behind yours and stops behind your takari and then a few moments later the first of the scouts arrive winded covered in sweat and their black skin suits are Dotted with dirt mud and degree from running running hard all day The one that you had been that Alma had sent to go with you Tough I don't know tough Approaches you or zach and then looks at the crumpled body of Isaac here our back hasn't moved Where's Aldridge and all of this oh shit, he's with the warriors of the warrior's He's not with us right now If only I paid attention I would know all the answers to these questions you guys make him Do you have any we Companion harbeck is in dire need of attention do either of you have any healing salt paltresses or potions or Anything that could help tough turns and speaks in to start to that his companions and they talked for a minute And he turns back and says no, we travel life We don't carry that carry that with us But one of the one of the men with the children should have something You know, I hate for such a beauty to go to waste Could you use some dragon for something?
That the tough stick look at each other and then look at the the dragon and I have a good authority. It's brass They they walk to it and take their hands and they don't look like they're familiar with this at all It's all so apart crab preacher. Oh, you know, they look at you or zach I'll tell you the tail over fire You know their head could I could I take an app? Yes, you can heart attack.
Please sleep sleep old man for you game finish. Yeah Does he like talk up into a ball? Yeah, he's just he was like already kind of cuddle up against this dead because of doodle Yeah, and uh Do any of you two or zach and or never have anything to do before the rest of the toaster a lot arrive? No, really, I don't I we're just I mean I grab a fucking trophy from that that dead dragon I'll tell you that okay, whether it's a tooth or something something.
It's not corrupted or zach I think you say that out loud and normally or now it would be like all over that I think that was really cool, but I'm Very reserved and very uncharacteristically like distant from everyone and kind of quiet just hanging out So we we pop over to harbeck and we watch his eyes slowly close and his beard and mustache on inhale go Lift up towards his mouth and then on exhale. They all like flutter out Oh Zach you wake up and you find yourself standing on harbeck what this never happens. It's okay, baby It's all the happens all the pretzels I've eaten the lines of pretzels like gluten really fucking up. Yeah Harbeck Gluten troop Gluten Trooping all right Every time I can't help it finish a verse That's what we love about you.
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I'll know where to I'll laugh racelessly She laughed racist Harbeck you wake up and you find yourself face down in the cold snow Harbeck just immediately groans Stands up wipes the snow off his beard and face Where is the cabin? As if an answer to your question you see a little yellow light glow from a cabin window He doesn't even look he just head falls down and just trunks off to that Oh, I thought just laid in the snow and just slides down the hill I love that. Yeah, he just he just rolls Snowball forms it hits the side of the building the snow falls off and harbeck gets out Um, you see a man He's got milky white skin. Go for my fucking axe You uh reach for your axe, but it's not there You have no control over this.
It's got milky white skin and uh he has a head that is round no hair deep sunken eyes I've seen this guy before Well, what do you want? You sure about my offer? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I mean you can maybe tempt it a little I might consider I don't really go for deals Okay, I will show you then All right, let's do this He uh snaps his fingers and the cabin blows apart Just like all of the materials just vanish and the exterior The snow-covered mountaintops and all of that just vanishes and you're suddenly standing in a black abyss There's no ceiling no floor is no nothing harbeck is just still unimpressed He's still just like I don't care If you if you give up ballerat So on you won't have to kill or Nella What did you say? You won't have to kill or Nella if you give me ballerat Now why would I have to kill or Nella?
Because she's the one that's going to bring about the end of all things I've seen that vision. I've had that dream So you know I know enough And I've already set things on a different course SOTIFICULTY with your kind as you think of all of these choices, but they all end the same Yeah, but it's how you get there that matters And what of your kind? What are you? I am from below Why don't you want to be there?
When one exists in the darkness for eternity relegated to An exa- almost non-existence to be cast down by those like me who live on high You sound bitter I seek to usurp the way of things as I mean really why what for like I get you know You're evil you look evil very you look like a bad guy, but I mean wait What for? You know you get up there You tell them off you take the big throne and you get the mortal plane and that's that's the big plan But like to take back the assented city So that I may make things in my image so that I will not be the one told of the way of things anymore You don't like being told what to do No Well, I understand that in fact I I quite understand that you know when I was in the guild I would constantly have to deal with You know Better's who would give me orders and not understand what I would have to deal with in the field And you know they never fully grasp what I had to do I'm sure you probably feel the same way being told what to do all the time. Roll persuasion harbeck That would be a 14 plus A number that I will tell you in just a second when my page loads It's uh 15 Got a plus one there What'd you think about that big guy He anything for you? He smiles exposing long needle-like teeth Harbeck, you know what has to be done.
I do I understand But what if we did it then it all ends That's pretty black and white thinking Are you sure there's not something else maybe a middle way things have been going pretty good for a while Harbeck my lord is the master of knowledge lies and secrets So you know he's a liar in fact the master of lies And you're still like the guy Master of knowledge too And why do you believe him? Because when I went to the south I saw with my own eyes What is coming the lumenskurge And who are they? What is this lumenskurge? A burp you hear uh like in your own head like a burp in a distance And Harbeck just whips his head around like what the wh- They're uh fail safe In the event that your people grow too strong Begin to challenge what is they're there to bring this place to its knees To start over so the civilization again will have to crawl up from the muck Only to be taken down again and again and again over and over cyclically forever You describe in life my boy I may be many things a fool a dwarf Perhaps even a little chubby But you know I do know what I am about and that is my life for life itself You're speaking out both sides of your mouth you say one one way it's all going to end The other way it'll keep going over and over You know if you want off this wheel there are other ways Go on Well have you ever heard of Buddhism?
What? Well you see you're caught up in a karnock trap Good and evil left and right off and on It's a binary and it's inherently false You don't need to believe in opposites Black and white thinking You know you could just simply not be attached In Europe powerful enough being I'm sure you could give up attachments Wise words from One such as you I've made prisons at home many times It's all perspective Do you want something to eat? No I think we're done here Alright well could you just drop me off Alright And if we do this again Could I please not lie in the snow These smiles No that's part of it I figured Alright then Think on my offer You think on mine You'll see Ornela and you'll know That's the only option And he snaps his fingers and you wake up in a cold sweat Ah my god You know dreams aren't that great So on dreams are not that Dreams are not that great Fades scene ends face to black We pick back up in the morning The few hours pass And you can see a column of people Walking towards the canyon Maybe Ornela you see them first You're out sculpting around I see them coming And I kind of like Get up on my tippy toes And just like assess the crowd And just trying to make sure that like they're all there Several perception for me dog Sure Or will that person train for me dog? 17 I mean it looks comparable to the numbers you saw before Without counting exactly Yeah Cool I over my shoulder Just to like not anyone in particular But whoever's closest like This the civilians from from the city They're approaching And then I kind of jog towards them A little bit to greet them So they the the warriors that were with them Just toasteric general warriors They as you approach They are guarded for a minute You can see behind them they're dragging Not dragging But pulling up by rope Now your father's bound and gagged I kind of look at that He speaks to you in toasteric I make a gesture like I don't know I don't speak that language Sorry He starts and then hands you the rope Cool I take it Okay Or is that a car back?
What do you do? You see Ornela has gone out to greet The coming toasteric refugees I'm sleeping And I wake up with a scout Kicking me in the leg I mean He started saying wake up in my language But then it became yelling Slurr's at me in his own language And I wake up And I've noticed that I feel like I'm sleeping deeper or something You know like it's weird And I'll get up and I'll kind of What's going on? Why are you waking me up? He says in bear boondi The rest of them have arrived No Get up and kind of make my way over that way Harbick I'm not bothering him When I owe that He's sleeping I'm leaving him Okay Harbick's wide awake You guys I had a dream And I'm going to tell you about it First of all I'll tell you I've had other dreams in the past And I know I haven't always been up front about it But I just want to let you know now That I did have a dream And was he there?
What's that? Yeah he was I uh All right He speaks bound and gags Yeah Thieves can't end bound and gags There you go Obedia 7 Oh no you discovered my king I uh Take my I have a short sword And I kind of take the end of it And put it on like the cheek Of Aldrages gag And slice it And it ticks him On the in the cheek a little bit He's got a little blood Rolling down his cheek Did you see him? Yeah he heard you Yeah he was there What did he tell you? Um well Which one was it?
The pale one The black eyes Yeah sunken Yeah That's him Wait Him? It's one of the forms that Oh the Lord takes Oh well He loses Yeah He's not very imaginative He really just sounds like a jilted ex Oh what? You know you break up with someone And they're bitter about it And you know they spend most of their time Just talking to other people about how your big piece of shit And going around town You know Tell them a bunch of stuff And you know You got to talk to people then And you're like no I'm not that guy And you know they just assholes Harbeck the dream Oh yeah So I am I am Well they Well you know These dream things They not you know That's not science They said I might have to kill you What? What?
What? What? Yeah Yeah Yeah He's gonna have to kill you Me Me? Why on earth would you have to do that?
Well that's what I said But apparently you're the um You're it I'm what? Father You're the you're the big thing I um Don't know a lot but I would maybe read the journal I'm just looking re-write it Eldridge So I've had the dream too It's at the end You decide I decide what Everything what happens Has everyone known about this except for me I had an inkling But I don't think that's something I would like to know Well that's why I'm telling you now I just woke up I've been prisoner so I'd kick him I kick out I harbecued him too That's not the dream I heard Or exact you had visions as well Two nights ago I saw the birth of the world Azakavetto The Great Snake that created everything ate the sun And this Milk And this Yoastar Face Cri- Milk Pale Pale face Came from the sun And Azakavetto Swallowed him In the light there The world was born again My father was in that dream And he said That Azakavetto fought against the gods And against them will create the earth And he told me that I have to do the same Right now everything wants to destroy And bring things to nothing And we need to Fight to create something out of nothing A big mess We can let Toyed win Let him Shut up Kick him The god of lies I have to talk to him Believe me I tried telling these people They know he's a liar They still like him They truly feel that this event is inevitable They seek away out of the cycle If it's a Beans of pure ideals Always seek purity And the world's too messy for that I'm not afraid to die What? Or no In the Visions that Toyed showed me You chose to let him win To let The beguiler and his lord enter our world Crush the lumenskurge as it emerges Save the All of praises from annihilation How do you know this place is called crisis? Seen it Oh, me too I do too I have a guy Look, I need to go back to the village where people who were probably killed by this thing Yes, let's Point at the dragon Deal with that Or now we'll discuss this later Let's Tend to Davery Davery Oh, yeah Do you remember him?
So Idiot Coach driver No, you're right I At the word idiot He gets knocked out I mean it is just a big fist in a small jaw Like Ham It's not even a punch, it's like this paw of just like He's down I'm like not having it He's talking too fucking much for prisoner My eyes So he falls in the ground unconscious Yeah, oh yeah, he just And I Go and pull the sword was still in the wall from last night I mean just like hard to pull that out We've got to go We have an alliance to forge an award to fight I go to Azakir And Pick some flowers Off of her face and chin And I Put one In my like behind my ear like in my hair And then quickly Like Put like tie them together and make this sort of like flower crown And without saying anything I walk over to Harbec and I just like Put it on his head And I'm not even like making eye contact I just like do it And I put it on his head And I stand there for a moment And then I start marching In the general direction of where I think we're going It'd be great if you went the opposite And I'm like Right That'd be a day for Pull a whole day for him Day for him So yeah, you You walk off base of Eastward and deeper into the canons That crown weighs heavily on Harbec's head He doesn't show it in his face But a tear rules down his face So we Unless anyone has anything else they want to do We kind of fast forward to arriving at camp Yeah Well as long as everything goes okay Well this world's safe Everything's great So as you approach camp the smell of smoke And ash fill your nostrils Orzak Your pre-natural senses are telling you that There's fires and burning So I just start riding faster Yeah, you guys just see Orzak just take off To carry back down through the canyon towards camp You're like immediately an hour or two out And Orzak, you're the first one to arrive on the scene The camp is just torn apart There's tensitive that are sitting destroyed There are people that are wounded But are getting medical care You see actually You see Davery's got a He's got these big belt pouches on either side Full of like herbs and bottles and potions and stuff And you see him attending to A group of baragundi that have big bandages wrapped around their chest And he's feeding them some salve into their mouth And next to him is the Tak Akish His sort of assistant to the Akish And yeah, they're attending to the wounded Attending to the wounded Attending They are attending the wounded They're just standing there Attentively tending I'll stop and I'll just yell out How many do we lose? At your voice Davery's head just perks up And turns and looks at you And you see his faces covered in blood And he's got Hey everybody He looks like American Psycho Just like being too these miles It's just red and nice That's fucked up Orzak Oh, thank the gods you're here Shit got real fucked up Are things still on fire? No, okay Where's my... where's the scale mother?
She was with the nest What do you mean it was? And I brush past him And I'm on foot and I start running towards the nest So you see the... It's at the center of town And it was this like one of the only More permanent looking structures in town Right And you see that it's just completely like Broken and crashed The building has collapsed in on itself And lies flat You can see there are several Bear boondi standing around it Maybe like half dozen of them Are... and they have big baskets And they're taking dead Serpent out of the ground And laying them gently into these baskets Some of the serpents look to be moving And writhing around But many more are dead I'll just grab one abruptly That's doing that Where's the scale mother?
Where's Oc? And you turn in on the other side of the nest is the scale mother And like out my shoulder slump a bit And kind of like... We'll shake you bottom lip for a second And I'll run over there And very unaccustomed to this in our culture I just grab her and I squeeze her She immediately like reciprocates And it's in those make-ons Yeah And you feel like just an enormous wave of sadness And I mean Like your... Vatican burned down Really?
Well yeah, yeah The cultural aspect aside is like even The knowledge It's like way back here I'm like just glad to see that my mother's alive And then... So there's like this complex thing going on of that But then the realization that our history has gone And she pulls away from you I'm glad you're back I need to show you something Orzak When that thing attacked Your brother What? She turns her head over And there's a bunch of Takari that are Currently being tended to most of them are dead They're having... I don't know, maybe they're being covered in like stone or something I guess I'm not sure what...
We don't need to get into the burial ritual yet But there are like... Yet Sorry It was Yet Fuck you Yeah Got it But there's... And you see right away On one of the burial piles Ortex's body is just lying on top Ohhh I just lose it And I run over there And it's like an explosion of like Imagine a culture that represses almost all emotion except for rage And it only rage is only you Like... How would they...
It's not fair that they're basically soccer hooligans Yes We only love each other when we're dreaming Yikes I just fucking need that It's tensioned by... Like a real whaling Like... You know... What we have for Like...
A whaling Just pure sadness Yep A depth of sorrow that one doesn't Correct That only one can do it when it happens Mm-hmm And I won't even pretend So we'll cut back over to Ornella and Harbeck Party is marching through the canyon And you Are birds through the same canyon opening That you came here all those days weeks ago There's a small little prick in front of you And then inside is this just torn to fuck up Can't... Tense of burned T- uh... Knocked over There's crying There's groups of wounded people And Harbeck you have a strong suspicion That were you not to show up This would be way worse Harbeck takes that into consideration But I think he doesn't pat himself on the back Um... Do I have my spells?
Yep Make food and water for these people Cast that thing that makes much food and water Yeah, awesome Okay great So you do that A bunch of food and water shows up Millivillage All the containers are full of water The toast maker just like standing Like they're not like walking into camp They've all kind of Moved up at the entrance through the canyon And uh... The speaker, Akish, comes around a collapsed tent And sees what's happening He's got a couple of totem warriors beside him And he looks to both of you And you see like a wave of relief Wash over his face And then he looks to the toaster Who is standing there What's... What's hisness? Your allies have arrived We saved these people from Katir That city's gone What do you mean?
Gone raised to the ground Burned We saved everyone we could At that he just nods his head And speaks in barebundi to the two totem warriors And they just split off And go uh... Kind of disappear amongst the crowd And the speaker walks up to both of you And grabs each of your hands And says there have been many that have been lost today Or is Akish's brother among them Ortek was a good man He will need you now I will attend to these people But attend to Orzak And he lets go and walks over to The toasterk that are like standing Dovid in the entrance of this Oh I um I catch the guy as he's leaving Uh huh, okay These people they know about the pharaoh Good Uh so much lost It's good to know that some traditions have been salvaged Orzak and Ornella worked very hard To preserve that history It's very important that we use it now If they will let us, I'm sure that The toast Yes, yes Thank you We nod our head, turn and leave, go to Orzak You're walking through the camp And Ornella you get tackled from behind And like embraced in this huge hug And like you let go of the rope That you've been like pulling Aldridge with And he's just like sort of like slumps to the ground And it's stuck And Davery like is hugging you on the ground Oh my god, I'm so glad you're here You and I believe the day I've had Ow Oh my god, seriously It is so good to see Ohosho Oh sorry Shit Wow Hey Hi His face is still covered in blood I wipe some of it off Of his face Oh I'm glad you're here Me too Holy shit What a day My dad's here what the fuck And he remembers you No and he turns and looks at the guy in the tattered teal guard, clothes, bounds, and gags on the ground, just like looking stern eye to Davry. Davry! Fuck you!
Sorry. Oh my God, I've wanted to say that for so long. I know, I was just going to tell you that he's a little louder, but you might have to say it a little louder. Oh, yeah, no problem.
Fuck you! Oh, man. I kissed Davry. Oh, yeah, it's hot.
The camera circles around them as they embrace their lips, locked, and heavy caressing, moistness, blood, transferring face surfaces. Damn, why? She's got to step in there for a minute, that carried away. Thanks.
It's really beautiful. I'll let you two have it. We... So that happens, Davry pulls away.
It's like, okay, I was doing something. I got to... There's... I'm helping.
I'm helping. I'm helping. I know. I just got to...
It's an open field! Everything's burned to the ground! Yeah, I just got to go around! Go around!
Yeah, it's... Okay, yep, all right. Oh my god. He sneaks around you and goes back to...
You now know that he's among some of the other bare-bundi that are medically tending to the wounded. I just turn and watch him do his thing for a minute. And then I do whatever. You know, just check out how he picks up heavy stuff and like...
He like bends to pick up something heavy and the camera like zooms in like this. He drops it because he can't. Yeah, he like any... All the herbs spill out of his pockets.
Yeah, and then you like looks around really quick and then just starts putting the bottles back in his belt pouch. It's like that down, puts them in, picks that up, those drop out, picks them up. Our hero. Oh, the food.
Yep. That's such a bad day after all. Oh, well, we'll see. We go to Orzak.
Yeah, you make your way to the nest and you see the same thing. It's destroyed. There's bare-bundi that are picking up some dead snakes, some live ones, putting them in wicker baskets. No, they wouldn't be wick.
There's a lot of trees, so it would be like clay pots. And you see Orzak, where do they find you? Just openly weeping over the body of my brother. So in this culture, the father-mother relationship is more of a handoff.
It's like the parents raise you to point A and then your life starts after that. Yeah. And then so brothers and sisters are actually more important because they're usually raised alongside you. Yes, sir.
So they're more like peers and companions. Totally. So this is like you respect your parents for the traditions and the knowledge they transfer to you. The people you share life with, you're sibling.
So this is like devastating in a way that's not like be like thinking about like the grand parent you loved in our culture. It's beyond that. It's like this. It's pretty bad for him.
So you two come to that scene. You see Orzak there alone in grief. In fact, people are very much making an effort to give him a wide berth. You keep using that.
Yeah, I know so. Yeah, I do. Now they give him space and leave him to the burial pile. Or maybe not, if they wouldn't bury, it would be the fire, Skyf funeral.
I don't know. We'll workshop that. But anyway, there's so it's one of these things where I have my hands on underneath is because he's thinner and smaller and more frail and kind of got my arms underneath where my hands are behind his shoulder blades and I'm sitting there and his body is just kind of rocking as I'm just rocking him and I'm just fucking like, have you seen footage of people that like with their kids? Yeah, I won't go any further.
But you know, you've seen that. That's what it is. And it's just like guttural. It's like just primitive, you know, and there's no shame.
There's no like trying to be like tough in the moment. It's just blah. It's the true, honestly experiencing the grief. Right.
Yep. Although there is like now this, there's like a crowd and then a space and then Orzak, I don't stop at the crowd and I walk through the open space. Yeah, me too. Right.
So Orzak, oh yeah. Which is very important because for emotionally stunted people, this is good. Mm hmm. And silently I go to one side of Orzak and just kneel down and I think that we both start crying alongside him just like in solidarity of like, yeah, this fucking blows, man.
We're here for you. Right. So this continues for a time and you know, you just run out of energy when you, when that happens, you know, it's like on top of everything else. Right.
And it just kind of slumping there and you know, just kind of lays them down flat kind of straightens this kind of, you know, that kind of final arrangement kind of thing like, you know, just like close his eyes right peaceful. Arbek quietly approaches very gently and begins to dismantle the pharaoh prosthetic and takes that and hands it to Orzak. And you know, it's like, yeah, it's like, and I kind of nod and I understand what he's doing and anything that isn't like part of just who Ortic is, it starts getting removed and you know, no, no, this was him and this you can take with you. And I look at it and I kind of, you know, kind of tuck it under an arm and kind of hold onto it and I kind of straighten his stuff and I take his earrings off and I take the feather, you know, all the stuff that he had and I kind of set him on, you know, aside and put him on his chest and because you know, we don't own like, we don't own a lot of things.
So you know, whatever. Yeah. And I kind of just stand up from his body and I'm holding this thing and I kind of kind of pat Harbeck on the head and I just kind of look at Ornella with just a glance and it's more of like a ICU kind of glance. And then I walk over to my mother who's probably working very diligently trying to save memories.
I need to show you something. She looks up from her work and sees what you're holding in your hand. Doesn't make, doesn't, doesn't note it anymore than she very deliberately looks at it and then looks back to you. I need to show you something, not this.
Come. She doesn't say anything. She just does. She, she has a dead serpent in her hand and she coils it very delicately and preciously, making sure to not touch any part of the snake with her hands that has like writing on it and very gingerly and gently places it in another clay urn.
And then pushes herself up from the nest and is now in the ground level and what is it? And I just start walking back to the direction of where my Takari is. She follows. So we're making our way through camp and I'm just like holding this like a baby with like a one arm, you know, kind of thing.
And we get to the part where the Toasterick are and the, what is the Akish? Akish is there kind of trying to get them settled and they're still doing the davries doing this thing and I kind of do a very halfhearted clicky kind of command to the Takari and it's kind of like, and it realizes it should get up and it walks over to me and it comes over and I take my brother's leg and I put it down on the ground and I take a deep breath and I grab this sack from the side of the saddle and I pull it off and I open it and I just show her the head. You see I brought you the head of the man that killed your husband. Her face immediately switches from this very, um, pensive, mournful, sullen featured face and the heavy lines crease on her head and she instinctively snarls exposing her canines and she has to clinch a fist and you see her knuckles go white from restraint.
Where did you find him? His kind was slaughtering innocence and children inside of Katia. Did he suffer? Oh, yes.
Good. I have one last gift to give you before I claim my right and I pull out that white blade and I hold it out in front of her. You need to use this to slay many in his name. She reaches out and like in true warrior fashion she she grasps it where about the balance of the blade would be even though the blade is enormous and takes it from you.
You can feel her arm dip. You see her arm dip a little bit under the weight but she manages to pick it up gently and she takes it in her hand and holds it up to the light and sticks it in the ground. She says, I'll slay many with this. Feel deep.
Understand your rage and I'm watching her and she's kind of shaking and I'm like, give in. I'm this is like the moment where you kind of can tell if a person could be a totem warrior I'm going to fucking turn her into a totem warrior is what I'm that's I'm like if she can take it and she can embrace it whatever but you whatever and I'm like she. Yeah, she absolutely looks to the blade and looks at the head held in your hand and lets out a carnal roar that silences everyone like the camp is just and it's not like this camp was full of noise and laughter but there's just this talking and murmuring and quiet whispering and she lets loose this carnal roar that echoes throughout the entire camp and everything becomes immediately quiet and maybe it cuts over to David's. You will call upon this when you use this blade in battle.
Remember this feeling and I grab her face. I am your war chief. You belong to me. She looks like like locked eyes with you and she says I give willingly, scale father, or sock and she goes down to both knees and puts her hands in like an X over her head and everyone else all of the bare of boondi at once do the exact same thing drop to one knees cross their hands and an X and hold them above their heads and as they're doing that I kneel down and grab or ticks leg and I lift it up in the air in that pose that I told you about when you ask me what statue would I what my statue be instead of a sword it's my brother's leg and I hold it up and I just scream into the sky and that's where we'll end our episode ladies and gentlemen.
Damn. Hey fuck. That was a that was a ride. I got like a little bit teary eyed during the or ticks.
That was a lot. Yeah. That was so much. I told you I need a nap after this.
I'm gonna take a big number six today. It's four number two or three number two four number two minus two minus two number ones. It could be it could be four minus two is but each one minus is point seven five. Maybe no, it's not right.
Wow. Okay. Point three three. So no 66 very excited to inform everyone that this is the second to last real episode before the season finale pen ultimate pen ultimate episode we're nearing the precipice and end of a campaign I've only done this like maybe twice where I've seen a game from beginning to end and it is so fucking cool to see so many things come together and have in theater our director would always use your hands to raise the stakes and raise them as high as they can go and then find another way and it's just not so cool.
This session was a lot of fun. I'm gonna have a real hard time doing anything else today except doing more stuff preparing for the next episode in this season finale. So I've word salted enough for a sesh so I'm gonna give it over to my just top notch cast and crew who like role played the fucking shit out of this episode. Like I can't everyone listening right now you should aspire to role play like the three people here at the table.
Seriously, it's you should make your you should aspire your games to be like this to be filled with emotion and real feelings and it's man it's like drugs. Yes, this feels great. Let's go do some coke. But before we do.
Tim. Yeah. What do you think? Great job today.
Thanks man. This was so fun. Yeah, this was some heavy ass shit. Yeah, but it also in a way cathartic maybe like I feel you know this is why we have stories arts entertainment to elicit emotions and people and access things are hard for us to do in our normal life.
Yes, for just a microcosm we get to feel strong things for real like we get to be people that enact change in the world. Yeah, big change. It's anyway Tim what do you have going on? That you'd like to plug?
We got chow down every third Saturday of the month. The basement social club this month we got a real banger for you. Anali Kelly's family reunion. Oh my god.
July 20th 930. Oh my god that weekend is going to be so I'm sorry that's going to be a good weekend. Yeah, a lot of choices out. We're going to have a really good time.
Oh yeah. That's it. Awesome. Thank you Tim.
Thank you. Thank you. Charity, Barody. You my friend always continue to amaze me with having authentic emotional responses to things but maintain I mean an important tool and an actors toolkit is to have authentic emotional responses but make sure to give yourself enough distance so that you're not hurting yourself by having these real experiences and I always feel like at every session you do a very good job of having these real authentic moments.
So thank you very much. Right up to the edge. Right. Like it's so cool to watch you explore this character and figure out where her line in the sand is where her.
She's just been an incredible character to watch grow and change. So thank you for letting me be a part of that. Charity what do you have to plug? I have to.
July 19th at Java Joe's at eight o'clock alien head emoji. Whoa. That'll be my first official show with that new group. I'm Kootos.
Kootos. It's cool for Kootos. Everybody's like it's Koot's bad. Yeah.
I can't say I was like wait a minute. It's going to be really fun. There's something else I was going to say about it but I can't. Okay.
Well I mean if you think of it just. July 19th at Java Joe's at eight o'clock. Oh it's just not come back show so it's going to be really hype and we're really excited for ourselves and for you guys to see us and it's going to be cool. I've literally enjoyed every alien head emoji you show I've been to the cast as well and hysterical and each cast member is super unique and fun to watch.
So everyone quick shout out our narrator and ballerize on that team. Yes Cliff. Cliff is in that show too so if you like to point and drag and check check out alien head you had to just let it be beautiful. Great.
All right I'm going to follow that up with nice words to or is that no Jason probably the most experienced D&D player at the table but in terms of like acting and like doing this sort of like this sort of stuff like a musician at heart but you've I mean you crush this every episode you crush. Yeah. You make bold choices you describe things I mean this really sometimes grotesquely like whoops sorry yeah you but I same with everyone else I'm very thankful that you choose to spend three to four hours in a given weekend doing this goofy shit so thank you. What do you have to plug big dude?
Not much you know the super chief album is our engineers on a two well earned two weeks vacation and somewhere in the southwest with his girlfriend. Hope they're having a good time. And then when he gets back we'll finish mixing album and get prepped so that in September August super chief is going to do a couple one show here in Des Moines at lefties live music I can't remember the date but there's we're bringing a group of three bands that are on tour that are very good spillage. Roomstone Coven and there's another and I apologize I'll remember the next time that show is actually these bands are quite big in the genre so to have them come through Des Moines is cool but we'll also be doing a festival with them in Milwaukee like two days after that in August and then September the weekend of Labor Day super chief is playing at Woolies with Onapail Horse it's gonna be a fucking huge.
That's gonna be your album release. That's where everything goes okay with mixing and mastering yes that's what we're aiming for. It would be there no matter what. Oh yeah totally.
It just depends on whether we have CDs to sell or not basically it's only a difference but we'll make sure that we have things available for that. Other than that beyond that bullshit I just said there you know just been enjoying prepping things with you. Yeah yeah we've had a real good time working on the next show working on future projects for Twin and Dragons it's gonna only get cooler so if you're enjoying it now do me a huge solid and share all the stuff on social media follow us like us. Give us fake social media love or real or real or real but make us good.
Share yourself and tell your friends get people to listen to it. We're gonna do this anyway but I think the more people that get involved in sharing these stories amongst each other creates a living creates a community and with community it's community and storytelling go hand in hand and I think that this is a really good way to bring that together. Yeah I mean like you said we're gonna do this anyway but you really can't stop us so just fucking get on board or get rolled over. Yeah right yeah.
On that note that's it for us the DeMoyne and Dragons crew this has been the end of episode 14. 14. So everyone have a great whatever the fuck time it is that you're listening to it and rock out with your clocks out. I love the audible gas before we watch it.