Episode 7 | Part (3/3)

Yeah, so you guys, and again, it gets really steep, so you have to kind of take your time to navigate your way down. It takes you about five plus minutes to me under your way down, and you see, well, how do they find you? So I'm kind of just sitting there with my knees up, and my butt's on the ground, my feet are on the ground, my knees are up, and I'm resting my elbows on my knees, and I'm looking over this pit, and I'm just kind of breathing a little fast, but look what calm, processing. Can we see Dave Ries and he wears?

No. Soundage? How about the crab preacher? Crab preacher is gone.

It's the cavern, the cave has become completely silent, and I'll describe what you see a little better, so this tunnel ends, and there's maybe seven to eight feet of flat earth before a sheer drop into the black abyss. This chamber that you are sitting in is a round chamber with a ledge that goes around the perimeter of this room, and basically just surrounds this vacuous pit. On the other side of the pit, the torch illuminates a huge, like cave entrance, and then to the left of that, on the other side is a smaller like man-sized cave entrance, and then that's what you see. So as they're approaching, and I'm kind of sitting there breathing, I hear that before they see me, and I just, you know, kind of a lot, decently job voice I say.

Can somebody tell me what the hell a crab preacher is? Well, way back in the day, a crab loved a creature. Loved a creature. Loved a creature.

Very much. And then, well then, you know, what happens when two people... Do you remember us telling you... Do you remember us telling you about the man in black with the book?

Yes. When this man came to a town that we had visited, you might remember the one. We encountered a man who had been turned into a kind of crustacean, and I don't know how or why, but I suspect this one is like the other one, and they're all coming from this man who is probably the evil one behind everything happening in a wall, and who killed the prince, and all those other things. Basically, the answer to all of our problems.

So there you go, crab preacher. Well, crab preacher. The answer to all of our problems. That's what I heard.

I don't think... Well, we're in a hole again. Back. What's the next move?

Now, want to try to go back the way we just came down. Okay. So it takes a little bit of work, but you're able to meander your way up. I shot back down.

We can make our way back out of the cave. That is most certainly not a mine. Good point. Well, we'll just...

I'll do what I can to assist people trying to get up, making our way up these sloped angles that we just slid down. So, perfect. So you guys start working your way back up the tunnel, and you hear... Help!

Ah, he hoped that wouldn't happen. Ordella! I'm instantly back at the bottom. I like set my butt and slide down this sleeve.

Part back throws his head back in size, full shoulders, size, and then he slides down after it. Ordella! You can hear it's coming from the man-sized cave. So it makes a ring with this pit in the middle.

And then if you follow around the perimeter of it, there's a man-sized cavern, and then a large cave entrance over opposite you. And the cries get louder as you get closer to the man-sized cave. I think I'm almost already to the entered cave. By the time the two of them even get down from the tunnel.

So you make it too... And you can see that there's drops of blood on the ground. Like your torch illuminates, there's water on the ground, you put your finger in it, and it's definitely blood. You light the torch, look inside the cavern, and you can see Davery is slumped up against the cave cavern wall.

And you can see his legs are all mangled and broken. It's like a big gash on his stomach. He's got his hands wrapped around his stomach trying to hold in, probably his guts. And there's just like red viscera leaking out from under his arm.

I take my blanket out of my backpack and push it, press it to his side. What was that thing? What was that thing? I'm going to tell you that it was a crab preacher, because that is what it is.

But that's all I'm going to say right now. That's all you need to know. I deal by his body and I put a hand on him for cure wounds. Awesome.

Roll the dice. Yeah, I forget all the sugar. Okay. Cure wounds.

No, that's it. I don't have to roll with the 20, right? I roll. Yeah, it's a D8.

It's a D8 per spell slot. It's like if you cast out a second level spell. I'll cast out a second level given to D8. Seven and four is 11.

So you can hear a sickening crack as his bones begin to move back into place. You can see he bites down on his cheek to stop from screaming. Eventually his legs straighten out in front of him. He pulls his hand away from his stomach and the gash that goes away.

Thank you. And I backhand across his face. What the fuck? You led us here.

No, wait. What do you mean? Yes, of course I did. You told me to.

Undwitting. Accomplice. What the fuck was that? Crab preacher.

What is it doing here? Killing you. Not quite, but yeah. Well, back up we became.

Not so fast. This mountain. Well, let's consider this. We just left a town where they know we're alive and led us into certain death where a creature compelled by the forces of evil was there to meet us.

So in some sense they are conspiring. So instead of going back, perhaps we could check out the big hole in the iron. Check out the big hole. I didn't come here to go into a deeper, bigger hole.

I wanted to get out. The sky needs to be above my head. And why are you letting this one live when you know he brought you here? He did bring us here.

And he did so as a damned fool. And my God would not be happy if I would have that happen. So he will live for now. But just like the mine Zorsok, we do have to go deeper to get clear.

It's going to get worse before it's going to be better. The light in the dark and all of that. I need the sky. If it means I have to go this way to get there and be free, I'll do it.

But I don't want to be dragged into something unless I know what's really going on here. I'm not a fool. I served. I fought in wars.

I took lives. I ain't never seen nothing like that before. If it makes you feel any better, they tend to ride solo. What have you gotten yourselves mixed into?

Only the worst thing this land has ever seen. It's almost comical. Let's go. Alright.

Do you ever like push himself up to his feet? I can carry a torch if you want. Not much good at fighting, but I can keep the place lit. A.F.

Fine. And I hand him the torch. He's the first one to go if I'm getting hungry. Uh, uh, uh, uh, and I kind of look at hard back in Wink.

Okay. Please don't eat me. God, please don't not eat me. Alright.

Uh, I'll lean. He holds the torch up over his head. He says, big hole, little hole. Big hole.

Okay. He, like, walks over to the, uh, walks around the perimeter of the pit and gets eventually me under his way over to the big hole. He, uh, davry's the first one. He ducks his head around the corner and holds his torch up and you can see that this big hole is easily, like, 45 feet wide.

It's big. Um, and tall. It's, at least, well, this would be, like, what? Like a story and so it would be about a story and a half tall.

Um, and you see, he, like, is looking on the ground and you can see that there are these deep grooves carved in the ground. I'm gonna use survival and see if I've seen anything like it before. Sure. No, probably not.

I'll try to. Okay. Yeah, that's what I want. I'll try.

Might as well. What are we using? Survival. I just like this idea of, like, everybody leaning over this groove and going, yeah, I think I've got it.

Uh, 12? No. Okay. I'm gonna try to see that there are grooves that are cut into the stone opposite these grooves and they make this, uh, long pattern as if, like, um, someone took, uh, like a, a mind pick and just carved from the stone, um, in like a semi circle and they, uh, these patterns repeat deeper into the cave.

I think something big lives here. You still want to go down to go up. The faces that are being made, if that's what I'm saying, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, we've made a mistake. Like, Joe, Joe from the person I made a huge mistake.

That's exactly the looks they give me makes me do that look. Yep. Yep. And I think while folks are sort of like milling about and like kind of scanning things, you hear Davery call out, Hey, hey, there's someone over here.

Hey, there's someone over here. I go over there. Uh, you can see there's a, uh, uh, a man in, uh, yeah, human male, he's in, uh, like, cover alls, uh, dirty coveralls, like, like, or and so are all over them. Um, he's extremely pale.

Uh, his breathing is, uh, his breathing is very slow and his eyes are fixated in, uh, the middle distance. Are we like on the back half of this mine? Maybe he took us to the wrong entrance. Oh man.

Um, I lean down next to the guy. I don't say that. I'm thinking that. Sorry.

That was, um, I lean down next to the guy and kind of like put my hands on his face and like, Hey, hey, try to get his attention. He's just like his head just slowly turns and his eyes, like you see the people's dilate, like they're attempting to focus, but they just can't. This is, are you here to give me the sight? Oh crap.

Oh, damn it. Everyone else got the gift except me. They said I couldn't have it. They said I wasn't good enough to see.

But are you going to let me see now? Where did they go? They're gone now. I'm the only one left.

What else is in this cave? Me and Benny were left here. Benny was going to guard the place, keep it safe while they're gone. They're coming back?

Oh, I don't think so. I want to put hand on him in Cure Bloom's first level. Yep. If you put your hands on him and you can feel a repulsing like almost like there's something rotting inside of him and like the magic you're putting on it, you can see him arch his back in pain and you have to make the decision, do you force this heel on him even though his body is reacting to it negatively?

No, I get that pushed back and I immediately stop. What happened? Let me see. Let me see.

Or is that I started pulling out my sword. No, let me see. We're going to go further down the cave. Interlopers.

Like I remove his head. And like yeah, his last word, interloper and yeah, just a gout of thick black oily blood spews out the bottom of his neck. Holy fucking shit. I told you to shut the fuck up.

Okay, sorry. The fuck. So they're moving along. I'm looking for like symbols or weird things that he has on him.

Any kind of like you find a collection in his hand is like a small brass pyramid. Okay. Again, not get loose from his hand. They're still kind of moving forward.

I take a piece of cloth and I wrap it up in that and I shut it in my pouch. Or is that we've encountered those pyramids before. We well, I really smash them pretty much right away. Oh, they are the tools of that man.

We mentioned. Yeah. Which makes me believe it. This dwelling here was a high up, but it seems to be destroyed.

If we destroy this, will he know that somebody destroyed it? He'll lose connection. Is that good? I think so.

Yes. But is it also telling? Maybe we keep it on him for a bit. What do you want?

I think that we should smash it. He already knows where he is. The damage is done. Destroy the evil.

So I'd use a rock to destroy this thing. Okay. Yeah, it smashes and a loud like a sonic boom sounds. Geez.

And in a cave. Yeah. And it just makes his reverberating echo sparks fly out from where you smash it. You pick up the rock and it's just like shattered into a dozen pieces.

I think we should go here. I would actually like to maybe explore a little more. We might be able to find more out about our opponent since they use this place. But I understand if maybe we should go.

No, no, no. I'm like, we gotta go one way or the other. Where are we going? Let's go.

Okay. Sorry. I really don't want to be around him. I'll look ahead.

I can see. So roll a perception for me. 17. You walking further down this like fucking the Jersey tunnel of like interior evil cave layers, making your way further in a smell starts to overwhelm your nostrils of burnt of ash of I guess just like not of like a cook fire.

You don't smell like food, but you just smell burning like burning paper burning wood become stronger and stronger as you work your way further down this cavern. Eventually, you make your way. The cavern opens up into a large expansive. I mean, it would look like a warehouse.

It would be the size of a warehouse. It's just huge like 40 to 55 feet tall and you know, 100 feet across. It's just this flat room. And you can see that there are like hastily made couple hastily made bunk beds that look to be like sort of shot a leaf put together that are in the center of this room to the right of this room up against the wall.

You can see like you see piles of skeletons of like bovine skeletons of like large herb of or skeletons basically. And some of these skeletons are in late stages of rot. So whatever these were used for a while ago. And then you see to the left.

So these beds and sort of living spaces in the center and then to the left of this is a like several piles of black burned ash that are as tall as Harbeck and you know, as wide as like a yes. Like a dining room table wide and a Harbeck tall. He's a thick boy. Thick boy.

And then you can see a writing desk, a writing desk next to the pile of books. And then you see a standing mirror that has been smashed. Looking at, so I stand in front of the smashed mirror and look out at the room. Does this look like what we've seen before?

Son of a bitch. I remember this view. I thought we were done with all of this. He was here or sock.

Who the man starts with the vehicle. Thank you. He's the one behind all this madness. Walking walking further in on the other side of the writing desk.

There are more mirrors. There's four more mirrors on the other side. Three of them appear to be smashed. But one of them is whole.

These mirrors he uses as looking glass. He can communicate with his followers. It appears we've found the hub of the network. But there's only one.

The rest of them are smashed, right? I only remember smashing one of those. So there's a total of four that are smashed and there's one that is still whole. Just in case I didn't make that clear.

Why would he smash his own mirrors? Why would he leave one? I want to go over to the fire and kind of kick at it and kick through it and see what's in there. Yes.

Fuck yeah. Oh my goodness. That's like, you see into the future. So you basically get everything.

I'm going to give it to you all right here. Give us that dump. The first thing, stomp out some stuff. Yeah, and it all explodes.

You kick your foot through the ash and you find a map that is partially burned. It's not on fire. It's not on fire. Sorry.

I didn't know. I just want to make sure. Don't want to lose anymore. You find a map that is only partially burned.

See burned map. Written on the back, it lists five locations. Barrow, allal sewers, allal estate, and then the letter S, mosh, and bog molly. Second to last one.

Mosh and bog molly. And those two places are south in the Orcs territory. Mm-hmm. Yeah, because we had the option to go to bog molly, didn't we?

Mm-hmm. And we're organizing the whole world from right here. Holy shit. You find a book that, like, lifting up the map, it looks like this fired and burned completely.

And there's a book. And the title, he dust off from the cover and the book reads, Dave's Demonology Digest. You pretty happy with that one? Dude, I can't tell you how happy I am that you rolled the 20 because I get to give you all of this.

I'm all ready. We're wrecked. So you see a corner is dog-eared in the book. The page is marked with a sheet of paper and a drawing of the creature.

The creature is a humanoid form and it has six faces. A diagram next to it shows another six different faces. I can give you all this offline in like a Google document, so I won't make you slaves to your notes. Okay.

And in a quote, it just says, Prince of a Thousand Faces next to it. Oh, a demon prince. And a handwritten note on the page points to it and quotes it reads, the bageler reads, the bageler was only his first devilkin. He must be a greater devil.

Remember the source? Of course. Yes. The bageler was there.

He was the one buying that. Yes. There are apparently bigger fish. Good.

I keep looking. Good to know. Yeah. Continuing your very like efficient search.

Yeah. And you know, it's not like you're finding every single one. You're just helping everyone and seem to be really like putting it all together, man. And on the desk is a letter.

And it appears only partially completed. The letter reads, Aldridge, you were to spend as much money as possible. Empty the coffers to quell any rumors of disquiet within the capital. I shall meet you in a 10 day.

I am meeting with the others first. We are approaching the end. Send four and the letter stops. Send four.

Do you read the letter out loud, Barbek? I handed to you. I let you read it. I had a dream about this once.

You're right after we got out of prison. It was so real I thought it was actually happening. You were having visions? It was just once.

And I dreamed that I was back home. And nothing bad was happening to a law. And I woke up in my bed. I heard my father arguing with someone.

And so I followed his voice. And he was... You saw him? Yes.

They were arguing about money. And my father said that he paid all he could. He did what I... Baron had asked for.

And then I woke up. And now we know what that is about. He's weakening the capital. He's staging a coup.

The city will likely be sacked by a well raised and coordinated army of orcs and gums and all the like. He crippled the capital and it's a sitting duck. Great. So I just sit down at the turret.

After re-enalting his information and looking at everything, Barbek just plops down for a sec. You sit and like something sticks you right in the butt. I'm not going to tell you whether you enjoy it or not. Yeah, I'm debating whether or not I like it.

So a full minute goes by. It's okay. A full minute goes by debating whether or not I like this. And then I just roll over to the side and reach down.

You feel like a... What do I feel about this happening? What is this imagining that we all see? Don't tell me what I feel.

I'll hear this thing going with blood. You feel the end of a large... You feel the end of a large... You feel the end of a large rod.

Come on. It's in the notes. What do you want? So you make that rod.

So it looks to be like almost like a curtain rod and you sat on like a knobby end of it. And wrapped around this curtain rod is a partially burned tapestry. Want to... Or is that?

Or help me with this? We help him. I hand them one each end. So you unfurl this tapestry that looks impossibly old and you see something that doesn't exactly make any sense.

There's this weird lizard creature with these long horns that come out of its head. It appears to be looking over several other lizard creatures that are in the foreground. And then there are these strange sigils that make a triangle on either side of this creature. I think that's the big fish.

Can I do a history trick? Sure. It's cyclic. Yeah, that's ridiculous.

1718? Nope. This thing goes beyond old before history. I have no idea.

Are there any legends amongst the orcs, tribes, or half-orcs that have changed anything from the film in there? Role history. Okay. Let's see.

I rolled an eight. Yeah, you would have had to roll ridiculous. And even then, this doesn't look like anything you know. Okay.

So I'm not sure. Who would make a tapestry of this? It also feels super old. Like the fabric, like everything about it is just ancient.

Or Nella, go ahead. No, I was just going to say that it seems like why would someone hang onto this for so long? Why would they burn it now? What were you going to ask me?

What? Why destroy any of it? That means someone somewhere that can get here could potentially discover it. So this has got to connect to something that we're not aware of yet.

Why would you burn any of it here? No, it's already burned. Yeah, but why? If everything is secure, why hide it?

Why burn it? Why destroy evidence? If you're winning, why hide it? This is connected to something that could potentially damage this person.

Maybe someone ransacked this place before we got here. No, no, that couldn't be. You know what I'm looking at, I'm kind of pointing my finger like, I think you know what I'm trying to say here. Hey, guys?

Yes. Can you believe? The mirror is on. What?

I didn't do it. I hold my weapon and I go towards the mirror. I'm on my feet behind or sorry. I'm on my feet too.

I didn't touch it. Shut up. I started telling everybody to get to the sides of the mirror. I guess when we walked up, I'll walk around the edge and see what it looks like on the side where it's not turned on.

What does this look like? On the other side of the mirror is just like a wood backing. Old looking, it's got this gold relief. What do they call that?

Not fair to lease. What's the French leaf? Oh, yeah. What?

A flute leaf. I think I don't know. A flute leaf is just like a sigil. It would be like a front on.

I just can't remember what that is piping with like fines. Yeah, when they put that fake leaf and plants. Oh, gold leaf stuff along furniture. Yeah.

Anyway, it just looks really nice. And looking, so yeah, that's what the back of the mirror looks like. I start trying, I start making everybody go on the other side of the mirror. And I should mention, I'm sorry, I did not make this clear.

The mirror, the backs face the inside of the cave. The front of the mirror's face just would just face like a cave wall. Yeah. Just in case that wasn't.

Wait, so it'll straight that for me. Sure. It's like a movie studio. All the cameras that are the mirrors and they're looking at the set.

And so they're like in the way where we came through. No, no, it's okay. So, no, it's okay. The reflection, the reflecting part of the mirror facing us.

The facing the wall facing the wall. The part of the mirror that is not the mirror. Just like a wood backing is what's facing the inside of the cavern. So theoretically, if someone were using this to communicate to people, people would look at the person communicating and not know where they necessarily are.

They wouldn't see like the inside of this hole. Black wall or whatever. Yeah. How does he know the mirrors on?

Because David is on the other side of the. Yeah, he walked around. Well, I. I.

So. And you can tell the mirrors on because there's light emanating from the mirror. I think he wants to speak to us again. I spoke to him last time.

I don't want to do it. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? This is how they communicate.

The last time we ran into one of these, I was the one they wanted to talk to. Are we being haunted? I don't know, man. There's strange knocking noises coming from the kitchen.

Is it? No, what the fuck? That's so weird. Hang on, listen.

It's almost like a game. I thought it was coming from the cover. It's like right in front of me. What it kind of does not like the fridge do.

It's one of the eyes moving. I don't think there was a nice maker. I don't think there was a nice maker. Because they got ice.

What the fuck? Listeners, that was weird. That was so strange. Yeah.

I don't know. Where we at? Let's live here. All right.

So, yeah. Do you guys go to the front of the mirror? Yeah. All of us?

I will. I did the last time. Then all of us. Okay.

I guess Orr'sock's probably hiding behind it still. Orr'sock probably shouldn't reveal himself. So, let's see. Orr's me nervous.

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Holy fucking shit. So, going around the mirrors so you can get on the reflective side. You see the mirrors. The glass is all broken.

The other mirrors. The shards of glass are lying on the ground underneath them. Except for one that is like second from the left. A light is coming out from the mirror.

It's casting an image of reflecting on whatever is on the other side of the mirror. And you can see, are you with him, Orr Nella? You don't recognize this, Harbeck, but you totally recognize a master bedroom of the Sambridge estate. That's it.

The only thing in the mirror. You see your father standing there, like looking at the mirror, tapping his foot. He's got his hands on his hip and he's kind of looking at it and just waiting, looking at it. Are we in the reflection here?

No. You're coming off to the side so you can see it, but it can't necessarily see you. It's your father. I'm aware.

He's trying to call a fair toy. He doesn't know he's left. That's a good thing, right? No, it means he's had his use of him.

Your father doesn't know no plan. Your father's likely to be killed. Which I think I'm kind of okay with. Except in front of the mirror.

Okay. I didn't think you'd do that, but that's cool. So he takes a second and looks. He shakes his head, rubs his eyes.

He taps on the glass. He says, toy, what are these tricks? Do not present to me. Do not present to me.

Show yourself. Make yourself known. I need to talk to you. Say anything, but I kind of shift.

Just read. That's my stance. Damn you. I have done as you ask and you've not returned any of my communications.

Why do you stay silent? The city is a mess. Things are falling apart. You are not holding up your end of the deal, toy.

I still don't say anything. When I reach into my backpack and I pull out my mother's journal, I just kind of hold it up. His voice gets very low. Where did you get that?

Damn you. Damn you. I put it away. Tell me what I am to do.

I am but a sitting duck here. The queen asks for answers and I can give her nothing. I cannot stall her any longer. Others in the nobility are getting suspicious.

We're running out of time. You promised me assistance. You promised that I was going to die. You promised that you would make this better and it's only gotten worse.

I like run to the far end of the cave so he can't see me and I shout from far away. You fucking prick! What? Damn you.

Playing games with me. Well I will see to my own ends then. Consider this my last warning toy. If I, if you do not answer me this right now, consider the deal off.

I smash this mirror and I will make my own escape. I'll all be damned. The capital will be damned. I will fix this.

Where are you going to help me or not? I take him to Great Axe and I smash the mirror. Fuck it. Sweet.

This is so rad. The mirror just explodes and shards of glass just fall to the ground and the mirror is destroyed. This is the end. He's in his final phase.

Or maybe the only thing left. We cut over to the party so the mirror has just been smashed. Where do you go? What do you do?

What's the haps? You're already on the other side of the exit. You're on the other side of the room. Yeah, I think we're out of here.

I grab Davory and we're out. Davory is just stunned. That was your father. There's all these short montages of you guys going through the different parts of the cave that we already visited and every time Davory enters frame he's just like, but that was the pyramid.

And then there was that guy? Crap guy. Giant crab preacher. What the fuck is a crab preacher?

While we're getting out of this cave I keep looking over my shoulder at Orzak. Just kind of checking in. Just focused on getting us out of this hole and when we get out. We crest and we start getting our way through and we see the light sort of coming through maybe even at this point it's daylight.

And get over there and push that door open and kind of swinging away the light. And as soon as we get out and everybody's out I turn and go, Alright, somebody's going to tell me what the fuck is going on here. What is the goal? Orzak.

You fought. Yeah. I did. Why?

I fought to better my family and my people. Yeah. You fought to hopefully one day never fight again. Yeah.

Why we all fight? It's not that easy for us but I suppose. There's a war happening and it's going to come and sweep through this land. I've been even Orzak here that.

Even half Orzak here. Even anyone here said there's always the legend of this thing that's going to come and destroy everybody. It's not going to come. It's here.

And what you just witnessed down there that's that's that's it. But isn't that just us? Isn't it just us doing it? It doesn't have to be.

We could do something now so that people like your family, like my family would not have to suffer. Any more? I mean I can't guarantee global politics and all of that but right now hell is coming to this land. And I suppose the goal would be try to do the best we can and do the most good.

I kick the ground and I kind of walk off and kind of stand on the edge of the you know overlooking the switchbacks and stuff. And I just stand there for a minute and I'm just in thought. So I go over to vanilla and I say Orzak isn't sure of his mission. Frankly after seeing everything down there I don't know why.

I guess I do. He doesn't have. He has no stake in this. Right.

But the truth is he does. Of course. We all do. I don't mean the three of us, the four of us.

I mean everyone. I look over my shoulder. What you don't know is that I served on man's side. I fought for your kingdom.

I was a scout. I pointed out where to go. I got them safely through the hills. So I'm in it again.

Last time was conscription. This time is volunteerism. I didn't want to be in a hole now as in a hole again. I'm just back to where I was and I'm still serving someone that I don't believe in.

I don't know what to do because this doesn't make any sense to me. I understand the game and the stakes but I don't understand why I should care anymore. We promise to such a free. He's already free.

You can go anywhere you like, Orzak. I got nowhere else to go. Let me think. Let's go.

Do you go first? Yes. Or is that? I saw him.

I told you down there that in order to see this guy again we had to go deeper. What we found down there is the path to sky. Let's go. So you guys head down the switchbacks.

It's now early, early morning. The sun is just beginning to crest over the mountains and morning mist covers the grasses. I'm taking deep breaths as I'm walking and I kind of start having this feeling in my chest and in my back of my head. When I look at that guy stop and abruptly turn and I look at hard back and I say, I know if we don't do this, that I won't smell this ever again will I?

That's what you're saying. That bad. That bad. Then I turn and I start walking again.

And then then Lizzie's the boys are back in town. Start softly playing. Yep. That camera up.

Yep. And the camera follows and pans up to the boys are back in town while the new and I think finally completely cemented cadre 11A begins to descend the switchbacks towards jury. Scene fades to black. Fades back up on a scene of the bottom of the screen some text appears and the text reads southern provinces of the queen's realm one week ago.

And we see a man in resplendent gold armor on a white stallion. Symmetar raised pointing towards off camera and behind him legions of men in teal armor the teal guard the best troops of the queen's army move past him in perfect formation. The camera pivots around to see where they're headed to and you can see in front of them is a raging battle where orcs are in full retreat and men with pikes are charging across no man's land and are skewing them and killing them where they stand leaving no prisoners. Exicating them or throwing down their weapons and putting their hands up and they're just being completely annihilated by this seeming innumerable horde of men.

And the scene the camera shifts back over to the general and the well presumed general he turns to a short man who walks up to him. He says sir they're in full retreat for the mountains. Sir Lathan's troops will route them. They'll be gone by tomorrow and the general nodences.

Very good tell the man that we will feast well tonight victory is within our grasp tell them that they are free to take whatever that they can carry. And the messenger nods his head and says I sir and he turns and runs away and the camera pivots back from the general's point of you watching out of this literal slaughter as the orcs are completely outnumbered putting up almost no resistance at this point. And then the scene slowly fades to black. And that's our episode everybody like real uplifting and happy really cool a lot of fun things that we discovered about ourselves tonight today and tonight.

I want to thank all of our listeners for tuning in listening to our newest episode we're going to I'm going to post this as soon as I get home onto the internet and then we'll get to scheduling the next session and next recording session is going to be mid April so look out for that. Also be on the lookout for more stuff from the morning dragons I'm going to be doing some fun one shot stuff coming up in April and May going to be releasing new content in June and July and I'm super excited to announce that August 23 is going to be the season finale of Des Moines and Dragon season one. It's going to be a live show four hours we have hot dish and tabletop games and it's going to be rad. So mark your calendars now August 23rd Des Moines and Dragons the season finale where shit is going to get fucking crazy be there or be square but I'm going to turn it over to my beautiful and lovely cast to plug stuff that they got going on and get us out here so we can go to sleep.