White Bull Season 1 Episode 17 – transcript

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good evening and welcome to another episode of the white bull campaign this is the house
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chaosium runequest campaign i’m jeff richard and i’ll be your gm tonight
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and here are my players claudia larov linda borgen phillip glass richard august and neil
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robinson why don’t you guys quickly introduce yourselves and then we’ll dive right in
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hi i’m neil and i’m playing nisk and i’m trying to think of um any fancy
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thing you did last week but yeah it was just kind of kind of mundane he’s ready to go and travel and find the blind king
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i’m linda and i’m playing Enkala troublemaker uh last time i somehow found a soft spot in my heart for a
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widow and her kid i am phillip i play Kulbrast one arm a
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literally stranded um wolf pirate who seems to have developed a soft spot
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as well well for the widow and the kids yes and
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of course the kids because they like him so much because he’s so brave
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because he has one arm yeah clearly yeah i cannot follow all of this i’m
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gina ghostfrank i love to dance but this kid thing and this family thing is not really
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mine however i learned a new spell last time touch uh turn undead
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this is i’m pretty sure will be really really useful i’m richard i’m playing Garan
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grimseeing and uh i spent a lot of time thinking about all the horrible things
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the undead can do that we need to stop them doing
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excellent well with that why don’t we just all dive right in um the scene is griffin gate
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it’s in a storm season a little bit uh just a few days before the storm bull
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high holy day and you all have um
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had your your bandit employees serve as porters
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bringing over supplies and you know basically setting up a campsite
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inside the gate if i remember there’s does anybody remember the total number
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of people again is it 17 yeah we had 12 and then five bandits
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came along so yeah so now it’s 20 almost with the widow and her two kids did you
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bring the widow and their two kids to the griffin gate um oh well probably not oh no we left
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them we definitely yeah sacrifices so i want um
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i want you to give a a a good feel for this this is a this gate house here has been um
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you know it was abandoned by the the humans of pavis about four centuries ago
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uh and uh what is kind of clear from the markings and debris here
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is that for uh a century or two it clearly was some
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sort of dark troll um hangout guard post
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clan center what not and then after that it was abandoned to pretty
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much well everything except animals
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so uh i want you just kind of to have that mental picture of of something that
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it may have been abandoned by people but that doesn’t mean it was truly truly
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abandoned there is there’s filth uh there is uh
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markings and such uh basically imagine the graffiti of centuries of trolls and bandits
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who have used this place i’m sure there’s areas that have been used by its
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inhabitants as a latrine there he is you know there’s the gopher infestation on floor two
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uh all that sort of fun stuff so the first the thing is
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i i’m assuming and that the damage to it of course gets um
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worse the lower down you are because you know the lowest down everyone um
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would get into the further up you go uh the the less this was used you know as a uh
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a short-term shelter and the more likely that whatever went up there was was something that was trying to be
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up there for a length year period of time or was you know an animal
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so the one of the questions i have for you guys is are you going to put your um
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your your uh goon squad to work there or you’re just going to basically treat this as a camping site
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uh i mean i hope that we can clean it up and get it settled if we’re going to spend more time here um in terms of putting the goons god for
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work right now i think we only have a few days before we’re going to tackle things so i think we’re going to go have them help them scout us
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and stuff like that right and guard the area while we go in um so i would just do a basic cleaning say the
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first floor and then we’ll start tackling the rest later that’s my
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and recommendation sounds sensible although i’m going to go through and smash everything in there that looks even remotely like
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it might once have been trolls i think you’re beginning to develop at
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this point here and i’m going to give you an option rich do you hate trolls or do you hate zerex
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around i i dislike and distrust all trolls okay i think you ought to put
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down dislike i think this is a passion what do you guys think this is this has been role played pretty
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consistently well yep by wretch yeah watching him smash
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all the stuff uh yeah it’s pretty convincing are you gonna take it out or clean it at
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the same time there Garan you’re just going to smash it around and have someone else do it pick it up death does not do
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housekeeping paint it you could paint it while you’re
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at it and you would also not see it anymore i i do not understand the concept
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okay just saying you could feel i mean you know you could you could feel the scratches it would still exist you could
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no no they would be filled they would be gone but no the trolls because it’s like when
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you bake bread and you eat it then it’s gone but they would still be there well
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yeah but you wouldn’t you know they wouldn’t be there this way they’re no longer there and we
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do not have to think about the cursed trolls yes because they don’t smash any walls
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or anything we need them you know for protection and
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rich i think you need you you i’m going to give you the option of taking in fact actually i don’t think it’s an option i
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think you need to take a hate dark trolls passion or hate trolls porsche i’ve got i’ve got 60
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hate trolls already oh okay because i took it i took it it was my last um gauge
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ah yes it’s a keys all right so do i’m gonna give you a check mark in that
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passion because you’re playing it nicely all right so with that
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uh i’m just going to remind you guys of your area and you can tell me what you guys are going to do
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do we know what we’re going to do hey i have a question and only if i remember it right i said
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it before um sacrifices chickens and so on we brought some things we want we could sacrifice
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didn’t we i think we did with our food and everything sure
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okay all right so if you recall on this it is the western
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gatehouse is all screwed up you are in the eastern gatehouse or or a gate tower
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here um before you’re before right near you all is uh that courtyard with the mound
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uh that has the ghost in it that you guys managed to overcome
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and i believe dismissed completely didn’t you gina she did the ghost you got rid of
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yes beyond that uh there are some overgrown areas with lots
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of vegetation such and there’s a a a block area with some type d ruins
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those are the are very damaged ruins a little more than foundations and then
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there’s uh quite a lot of type sea ruins those are ruins that don’t have roofs or
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or first floors or whatever but their their walls are significantly higher
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and you can see more of the structure than in a type d ruin and then beyond that is blind king’s
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hill and you can see on blind kings hill the castle blind king’s palace
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or blind king’s castle or whatever you want to call it how how much is it a ruin or how much
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does it still intact well that’s a good question it’s largely intact it is a type
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a ruin it is intact uh and in good um at least from what you
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can see here it is certainly in much better condition than any of the other buildings around
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the castle itself is um
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dip the castle itself looks like it is about
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a a three-floor high building um it is you know it is
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rather impressive looking any any three-story tall stone building of solid construction is
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gonna look pretty impressive and that’s what this one does
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so yeah it’s in much better shape but it also
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presumably dates from the time of when the city was intact i’m gonna take
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i’m gonna stop sharing now and let you guys decide what you want to do
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i think our goal was to go and tackle this time we’ve kind of delayed that a little bit yeah
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um we’re you know we’re expecting zombie guards or something like that maybe some other form of undead and we
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are expecting to see probably some spirits my guess is i’d like when we go up there to
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have our main troop kind of guard the area and look out you know basically watch your back and
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protect it i don’t think we want everybody inside until we get a better idea what’s there is that all right any concerns
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sounds good
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okay what was that do we take mountains i guess they could look at where’s gonna
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be there was one thing before we go um this the spear that we got from
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windwith yeah you’re gonna tell us if it was left
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it is an iron spear and it is marked with the light
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rune
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who’s best with the spear [Music]12:50
spear is um is that is that javelin uh
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javelin is for throwing it okay spear is for stabbing so if you have spear or lance
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that’s probably the best what’s your how good are you 75 with lance right yeah one-handed
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spear includes land so it’s probably the lands
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this is two-handed spear uh that is simply a matter it’s a spear
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head you would need to find a piece of wood okay
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it’s very easy to construct um that part of it it you know all
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all you basically need to do is is find a suitable suitably strong piece of wood
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attach the um the spearhead to it jam in whatever pins it has if it has a
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pin i don’t even know if it does
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so in collar you’re taking the iron spearhead like that well if no one else wants it i have i
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don’t want to like you’re probably the best at it i have a magic i have i have a magic sword
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already yeah i’ve got an iron sword we can always you can always sell it i guess
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i don’t think we’re gonna sell it but i don’t think we need to lock it down forever the pilot is fine i just
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i was just thinking you know as it started javelin it’s not really of much use but obviously to someone else it would be
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[Laughter] it’s not it’s clearly not a much use there it’s not a javelin
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all right team so tell me um what is who always planning to go
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are you going mounted or whatnot and what are you doing with the rest of your folk as i said i think we bring the rest
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of the folk up there i think they can look after the mounts and watch um the area that’s one advantage of
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having a big group right and if somebody if we have some good stuff some big things to bring back they can help
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or if there’s some injured folk they can help all those sorts of things
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but you know nisk is definitely planning on going in i assume that most of this group are
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yeah i’ve switched my detect water for a light spell in my during the days we’ve been doing
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this you decided to detect water was not necessarily the most useful not not right now
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okay so um
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here i i i want you guys to imagine your your a whole group of 17 folk travel
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tr uh traveling out from uh griffin gate it’s that’s a that’s a big sized band
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uh and you travel out of the gate taking the main road through uh would
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you make some scan rolls everybody
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[Music] actually pretty good at this oh yeah nice full zero four yep
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34 yes 16. wow so that’s a tenth of my
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well more than less than a tenth of a month it’s got to be a fifth or a 20th right those are the break points it’s a
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special though still still awesome it’s always depending what game you’re playing it’s
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different yeah sadly yeah oh i failed asked it both my uh both my followers
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oh yeah yeah i failed but i don’t remember my phone
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okay nope just me
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so far quite disappointed in white how tall i
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thought this would be spotted joe far actually rolls
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five on a forty percent so that’s a special
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wow wow so we have a lot of of of good successes here
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um you all are not ambushed but you can spot coming down
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as you all approach blind king’s castle uh you approach the hill there is
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a group of about 20 people um coming from
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um coming from the the the castle and one of them is carrying
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um a a banner
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and the banner it’s just a you know a an old piece of of cloth or or something
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something whitish or pale material and painted on it
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is the issary’s rune that’s the the the rune of communication it it it’s
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got the two things um the the two lines up and one line across
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and um they have uh they they have that
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banner up which is a request to communicate or piece right
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that would be a reasonable interpretation
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yeah i was just going to say that reminds me of of my tutelage i’ve had in town
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yes i mean when when people offer to invoke issaries to speak
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um your the temple there says that um what esseries would ask
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is that if people invoke him to speak you ought to accept the opportunity to
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speak okay so let’s let’s speak to them okay
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okay uh is everybody going up or or just a few of you i don’t know when
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we have why don’t we have the main group go up and they have the rest because there are 20 of them
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yeah no we’re we’re all moving up a bit in any instance but they’re part they’re doing parlay with mysteries
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do they look dangerous in any way you know heavily on them they are all armed i i mean they they
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are all um i need to pause it guys one sec okay
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welcome back all right so uh you will head up towards this group
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of of 20 people who are all wearing um um they’re wearing
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heavy scale hauberksbronze greaves open helmets they’ve got
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battle waxes and and large shields uh so they’re you know they’re
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well armored well defended and what is quite disturbing is
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at least several of them are dead are dead the ones that are walking
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around are dead um and and one of them he tells us
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yes well as you get closer it becomes obvious um because they’re they’re
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eyes have you know are just empty sockets uh their skin
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is leathery and gray um some of them the skin has the skin has has begun to desiccate
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against the the skull okay everyone keep calm don’t i swear to do
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anything it’s wrong that’s what i’m just trying to
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abomination thing let me let me let me slay them for you they must be they must be consigned to
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their grave this is i can turn them this is not to be
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tolerated yes let’s hear what they what the living and one of them and the one of them uh in the front
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goes up and and um uh says greetings in the name
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of the lightbringers
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i wish to speak
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you may speak but we do not trust those who travel much with the uh may have countenance with the undead
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hey um
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make a all of you guys make a scan raw you know
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everybody who fought everybody who fought at penal ford make a scan roll 18
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i did it zero two but i actually wasn’t a penalty for it i don’t think
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i think yes you were then i went zero two yeah yeah that is a critical actually barely
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59 against 45 i fail oh is this what’s this nose
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um you remember okay those of you succeed recognize this guy as one of the your
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fellow soldiers at the battle of um
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penal ford and during the exhausted hours after the battle
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you remember uh him trying to loot your equipment
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at the battle so basically you know after the battle everybody’s exhausted uh uh
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in the victoria and your site was victorious but when you got back to the camp nisk
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and gina yeah you saw this guy try when when do you know
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alive um he was an israelian soldier and you uh
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you caught him trying to loot your equipment and the first question i have is why is
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he um how did he survive you catching him do this because i cursed him and that’s not the
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curse he suffers longer okay you cursed him nisk why didn’t you
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just kill him i think at that moment um i was maybe i
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was grievously heavily injured or something like that okay probably worried about me given
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that i had literally been opened up from uh stern
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this is a panel for not the attack this is kind of forward there too yeah i got hurt a lot
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yeah shield just for clarification so so some of some of these guys are still
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alive well actually looking at them they appear
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uh you would not be surprised if they’re all dead i have second sight i can see if they’re
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all dead they’re all dead yeah none of them have um
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i i need to check saying oh no they all have souls they all have spiritual power their power they have power
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it’s probably worse than if they were just dead i imagine in color
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yeah but which ones you’re good at the undead thing Garan which ones have which
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ones don’t well anyways ergolan as you guys asked this in the background
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ergolin uh speaks you can even hear the trace of his israelian accent he says
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he says um fellow light bringers turn
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back from here turn go away and be gone lest
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dooms settle upon you i we warn you this is
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not a threat from us it is a warning that that
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this is a place of doom be gone flee um
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flee this place
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why should i trust one who tried to steal my equipment many years ago one who looted the camps as opposed to
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being a brave warrior one who sold is probably still punished because of that
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good question uh he says he says
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because i have i have little i have no reason to lie i
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linger perpetually on the border between the boundary between existence and not are you
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are you weary of that at all he says um
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he says i no doubt will but i have um i i am cursed
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in this situation uh i am i am cursed in this place and and
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um and so will you if you linger here
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flee flee here you should not come here who do you serve let’s send you to tell
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us this message
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he says
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um he says um uh i do not serve i am ju i am one of
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the cursed and the castle and all who dwell within it exist
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under a terrible curse every moment you tarry here increases the chance of
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you falling prey to the curse yourself trapping you here for eternity
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it seems to me we have common interests guys we could if we lift with curse
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then you know our castle is curseless and and these guys are gone will you
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stop us from trying to lift the curse will you stop us from trying to go in
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are you defenders of this oh let me double check here
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he is says
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he said he asks do you insist on trying to become cursed
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that this curse is far greater than any power that you have and far older
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far greater than an avatar of chaos but we are greater than the sword of who mocked
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this the great one who separates the living from the dead
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we have struck down powerful foes and we are not afraid
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he says um we the cursed
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we um we are no threats to you
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we uh we take no action against you so how do you fit with the
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fact that last time we traveled near this area there were eight zombies and those zombies had killed people
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including the great sarlum the magnificent and dragged their bodies back to be made
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into i don’t know what maybe that is not you but that is coming from this hill and that needs to end
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so i was able to liberate the the zombies
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so they couldn’t move on into the underworld in fact that is something that we can
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offer you as a chance for separation if you’re willing to leave this area
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he says that um this that um
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his companions were um attacked
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by this by zarlun the magnificent and were merely
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defending themselves they were attacked on the road they were attacked on the road
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and how do you know this he says because i am the eyes
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uh he calls he called rather call themselves the cursed because that’s such a stupid name
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you know that’s that’s that’s so that sounds more like a band for the late 70s or early 80s probably if they
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were a band you’d have the t-shirt [Laughter] i’m sure they call themselves the
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eyeless because none of them have eyes he says
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we of the ilis are a uh a community and i
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am um i am the speaker for the eyeless
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and tried to um warn zarlun the magnificent off
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and instead he attacked us and we may not be alive
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but we can think and exist do we not have the right to exist
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aaron you should not exist you are an aberration of all
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laws of the cosmos and then and it is arlen himself when he was unable to lie as we put his
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um his soul to rest told him that he was not he did not initiate in fact he was
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ambushed by eight zombies so you too seemed to be able to lie just as eloquently as you could lie
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before when you were in the living if you remember the battle of penal ford so well
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i feel we should make them lie permanently [Laughter]32:50
hey says hey says in life i confess
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in life i followed the trickster
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yes i am death not anymore a says he says um i’m looking at him right now
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yes he says
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truth is not the easiest thing for me but i try not to be a clown
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anymore for there is no point i am one of the eyeless but if you stay
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here you too may become may find yourself one
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of the eyeless yes and what is it that takes people’s eyes in this ruin
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well you know when you die your eyes no my first time your eyes are
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the first thing that go
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okay so what you’re saying is just something very dangerous what there’s just something very
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dangerous in this room this is under a curse how do you die
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how do you die what’s the process he said um
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he was killed because he tried um to loot blank um blind king’s hill
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and um uh died trying to rob it
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well that’s not we’re not trying to drop it in fact we couldn’t rob it it’s ours
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i mean you know we can’t steal anything from here
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he says
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he uh okay he’s a he okay
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um
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he says that um we have lived uh the ilists have been
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here long before our grath came and will likely be here long after our
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greth leaves was the blind king one of the isles
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oh when you give that name [Music]35:37
he says he he says there never was a blind king
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very emphatically there was no there there there
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um there was no blind uh there never was a blind king
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um
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and he he says um uh but this place must have belonged
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once to one of the kings of paris who would no doubt not um
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uh want to be insulted
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have you seen any uh traces or so of dragons in here
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uh he says that this was
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um the castle itself was constructed by the dragon priests during the old city’s
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heyday they left no secrets or treasure behind um if they did the trolls who once
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occupied this place before us must have carted them off or eaten them
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he says leave this place do we know what was that claudia
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no why leave this place we want to challenge
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what was that uh okay what was that rich do we know if this is
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you know that that the notion that the the blind king is uh it’s a complete fiction if that’s
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if that’s real i mean i don’t have any relevant skills to to roll on that
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i’ve just you mean if he’s lying or not yeah none of you guys did any research at a length or my temple
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about the kings of pappas in fact i’m pretty sure that for almost all of your characters
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this is the great line of kings that you’re aware of it goes uh pavus
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a bunch of other people our greth i mean i don’t see any i don’t see any
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anything wrong in that one
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we could i don’t know that does anybody have any parasite law or anything like that i do
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a little bit of it i mean it’s it’s a long shot but we might as well try and find out i guess
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oh yeah that would be a 40 which is a no
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well we can shout out another time so we just got nisk you also know again went peves
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than some other guy that you ought to be able to remember but you you can’t oh a lunar occupation oh there
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was a little bit in there in the right the right spot too yeah but you’re talking about things that
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were hundreds of years ago yeah no i’m not good at that stuff
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all right so um uh the the the zombie speaker
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um uh says uh he he says
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we um we do not seek to destroy
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anything or anyone but merely to maintain ourselves here uh in our rightful home
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we are killed sarlum the magnificent you have killed others and do not fool me by saying that you killed them
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here because you did not you destroyed them they were attacked and taken at the crossroads down there
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not on these grounds yes what’s your reputation uh my reputation is 30.
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oh 0-1 hayes
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that’s for him that’s him recognizing you he says
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he says i know you nisk the wolf pirate i i have heard the deeds uh
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i want you to tell two uh sorry i want you to take because you
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have a zero one he recites three shameful
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murders and killings that you have done and we’re gonna name what they are and
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you can tell you i’ll let you you can either come up with them or let you veto them
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uh but that’s weird well because we’ve never talked of those
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yes he remembered but but um he tells about the time
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um that you were part of a group that massacred um uh a telios village
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did this happen nisk that’s where he got his boots here’s some clothes
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um uh i i if i recall niskaza is is a
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uh haziest smoking heavy drinker uh not a heavy drinker okay hasia
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smoking um yeah all right
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um he names the time that that that um you killed someone
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in con over confused identity with uh because you thought they were
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somebody else and that other person probably would have tried to kill you but this wasn’t them okay does this sound
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like something that was a possibility i think so i don’t think it was any spectacular thing go ahead
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yeah but none of these are these are all i mean you have a high honor these are all things that you’ve done
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that that that that likely um uh significantly delayed his
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well but they’re also sources of shame for your character tell me what’s the third one tell me the third shameful i think
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the third the third honor the third one is the is the killing uh that got him outlawed uh um i don’t know
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if you remember it was the killing of a lunar um
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but later he remembered after killing him i think that he was he was actually not a bad lunar he was a
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good lunar he was a lunar is actually helping people but niska in his time didn’t know about that
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okay so he mentions the three shameful times that um
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and and cobrast what’s your reputation my reputation is uh 30
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30 yup oh he also with you it’s he’s i mean yeah
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with me you know and every day i do something shameful the point is is that he is his point is uh
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that um he he says yes we attacked um
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uh we we attacked them as a preemptive action
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because they were clearly coming to attack the ruins right so you attacked our grass man
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and he said he attacked he attacked a very complex seriously a very complex sort of
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concept for dead people he seems quite smart
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yeah certainly smarter than the average yeah i’m beginning to notice uh but
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he he he says that he and um his community have a right to
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exist because they have it they do exist
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i don’t think guarantees right and what is Garan what is your opinion
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on the uh uh upon dead people talking to you
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that this is a perversion of the natural order so
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profound that only my honor is preventing me from hurling
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myself into their midst i’m blade flashing but as i am nisk’s bodyguard
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and to do that would be to potentially leave him open to reprisals i have
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managed to restrain myself but i completely reject all notions that they deserve to exist they are they
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they have violated the code of existence they have violated the very the very fabric of reality by persisting
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beyond death i mean he’s creepy he’s got
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there’s there’s like carrion worms yeah eating away at his eye socket what
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about gina [Music] gina
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happily to liberate him i tried to talk him into my i mean can i talk him into that
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he he says that um it is actually such a burden
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for him he should go on he’s stuck well he said he was a burden
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i mean all this very positive attitude suddenly is very surprising because
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initially he said that he was cursed and that he and his crew here linger between existence and
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non-existence and it’s horrible yeah there is a path forward for you
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there is a path for freedom yeah it is the path is to enter the road
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to hell the way you should go the way that all people should go
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i strongly support that there is a table made with a lot of
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food and a nice place to rest in the underworld even the god you
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abandoned is down in hell let’s see something here
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hey um
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uh he says that he prefers
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uh he says that if he is um
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uh if he um
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actually no he will say that that that uh his existence although a curse
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um is better than non-existence
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how do you know he says well
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non-existence uh it not non-existence means that he
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doesn’t exist and so he would prefer to continue
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existing for he can think he is not the slave
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of he is he is not the sl he is not the slave of a demon or
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sorcerer he continues to exist he is um he is dead
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uh but he continues to exist and this isn’t completely wrong he
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continues to exist even in the underworld where he belongs but it’s kind of like
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his spirit is stuck to uh stuck in like a nasty corpse but its
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spirit is still there and it’s right and and you look at sarland the
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magnificent and you look at his children and you look at his wife well then you realize that this is
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you’re right but this is the thing that killed them among me perhaps not
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this one but on this crowd not just enabled it but defends it as the right thing to do
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but miss maybe you’ll look at the tactical angle here i mean they’re like 20 or something 17
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or 18 heavily armed heavy armor um if we decide to do something about
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them maybe now is not the right time all right i’m not i’m not talking when
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clover asked me that we do it
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but we do have at least one guy who is ready to go right now and if we do not give him something that
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will satisfy him it will not happen but you know we’re under a flag of mysteries i’m not going to break that
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good but i am going to warn him and this is something that we will
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maybe you know we we we need to solve this is a curse and maybe there is work that we have priestesses and we have
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shaman who can help us but this is wrong
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and i mean if he looks at himself yeah how he looks well he’s blind
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yeah okay i describe him how it looks maybe we can feel the magic have no eyes
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anymore i mean there is we can even this this corpse can still be nicely put together for
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proper burial i mean it will take some time but wouldn’t this be appealing
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he prefers to continue in this existence
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okay so i think we should leave the philosophical discussions for where we can go back to the griffin gate and
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go on into the ruin and leave these they are right here they’re blocking our way to the ruin
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no they said they would let us in no problem but what we have to do is we have to they warned you if you go in
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yeah but they didn’t stop us it is very unlikely
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sorry not very unlikely it is very likely that you will
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become like he no also just as a battle strategy
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leaving a load of your enemies behind you is that’s that’s why we should probably
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strike a deal while we’re still talking under the banner of ethereum you can’t trust these creatures they have no
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loyalty no no real sense of belonging what what do they have to what would it cost them to
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lie to us sounds strangely familiar to me to be honest many of my best friends are exactly like
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that they have eyes [Laughter] yes most of you have one eye
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they had eyes they were alive but you know they also had a very sort of you know cavalier attitude towards loyalty and
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things like that and honor not not missed obviously
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or myself but others
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well tell me uh is there a back entrance it’s a hill there’s a castle on a hill
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you can go around yeah not there it’s their back entrance i mean you can go from the other side on the hill
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and then they’ll just move around on their their guys
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i mean they seem to be seeing quite a lot for that they have no eyes yes they seem to be completely aware of
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your guy’s presence i asked him which hair color i had
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and they seemed to know us i mean they they knew certain stories that were never ever
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told again after the incidents
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um so does he know my hair color i want to know how much they know
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and maybe they see spirits as well as opposed to something else
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i don’t understand them but i don’t really think that they are par our our deal here is with creatures
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like this on our land but if we leave them alone they let us
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in and we managed to lift them they’re not going to let us in there’s no way they’re not going to let
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us in even said that and i’m not going to wander in face
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something there waiting to come out when there’s like 20 of these dudes no you got to be kidding me yeah that’s
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true
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so that’s um he uh he says
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now will you be gone
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no i will unlike you i will respect the banner of visseries although i do not believe you can use it
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like having given up your belief in gods it seems or your worship of them but this land
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has been claimed by Argrath this castle has and this curse is hurting many people and killing others
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and i cannot rest and sleep knowing that this is going to happen so this is probably the last time that
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we will speak we give you one last opportunity in any of you in that
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my companion gina has a way to free you from your undying pain
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that is an option that we will do and we will devote to that we’ll support you doing that but we need to cleanse this you know
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i strongly suggest um uh
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i i applaud your decision and strongly suggest for your own sake
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that you all claim everything else on this hill but do not enter the
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castle um i have a question i mean i have a
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death run of 95 so i cannot can i somehow feel how dead
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he is or undead yeah we’re all against it
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28 his body is most definitely dead
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this spirit isn’t and that is worse it’s a dead body it’s very clearly a
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dead body and it moves awkwardly spirits and color spirit is your
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your area sorry i’m on the body side but i want to ask you is there another
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entrance into the hill underneath the castle no there is only the gate
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do not enter the gate uh when i see the spirits here are are they the kind of spirits you could
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actually enter into spirit combat with like it’s a dead body but there’s
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it’s like any spirit in a mundane thing so no it’s not a discorporate spirit
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no or possessed possessed it’s not possessed it is like for some for some reason the spirit
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is unable even after they die the spirit doesn’t leave it correct
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there must be something that Humakt knows about this we could definitely yes probably who is the best
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a role against um my knowledge of humanity law
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uh sure i i may need a moment to look up a suitably intelligent answer
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unless you fail then
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a very very quick um let us pause for a moment
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educational break yeah
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we’re back welcome back all right so what do you plan to do there
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are you guys going to march down the hill and um and retreat away uh
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are you going to slaughter them under a flag of negotiation
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if we can slaughter them they seem pretty tough but we could we could march down and march up and and then battle
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zero element of surprise they know we’re coming yep what’s your guess i can’t ambush
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and i don’t trust trolls and i can’t drink those are my three yeah okay i’m just saying that you know
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no element of surprise for you is not a problem no right no you’re going to take at the same time it’s not an
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ambush to maximize our combat efficiency
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by finding a way into a into a castle which might
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i don’t i don’t think you can find your way in i think i’d rather to be honest as we i would leave these
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guys right and say that we next time we come we’re going to fight them i’ll be honest if they’re unwilling to do that you’ll
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give them the offer and we will do everything to protect guide their souls to the right spot but it cannot stay the
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way it is while they continue to harry and kill um the members of um our grass men
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is this what the problem i mean do you discuss this to them at all or not well they’re going to say oh we won’t
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kill them we’ll kill some other people but i don’t think Garan is going to sit
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there anyway and let him stay there and spew on his lance on his ear now right karen we’re coming
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back and we are killing everything in that place you can’t kill
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it’s already dead we are inhuman
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everything in that place the
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gina how are you doing on all of this uh i don’t know i try to convince us
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i don’t know yet i’m feeling i mean the corpse is dead i already said that ankara is the one who was responsible for the spirit
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part so i mean i’m feeling a little bit sad
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[Music] offers these really friendly offers and
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nothing happens i i have a one last question before we go though uh to um ergolin right is the name
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[Music] yeah mine sounded more like a tall queenish elf
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so why are you warning us
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so that you let me get a good answer here
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so that you would leave we would prefer not to um you seem
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uh you seem sensible pragmatic people
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prefer not to have to fight to um uh defend ourselves we would prefer to
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to um uh we would uh prefer to find a peaceful
1:00:48
way to continue our existence offer you the
1:00:54
most peaceful way possible and you don’t take it how many how many we are we talking
1:01:02
about the 17 yeah
1:01:09
of uh of the eyeless yeah
1:01:14
he says we are enough to protect ourselves and not enough to be a threat to our breath it’s something
1:01:23
you do not know that’s his answer though
1:01:34
what i maybe i could meditate and ask my goddess what she thinks
1:01:39
yeah i’m done with talking we’re gonna leave now yeah and then liberate them and then
1:01:47
we’ll come back and liberate everyone i mean if you want to find out what you’re if you want to pray with the gods your gods i mean you two
1:01:54
you two um Garan and um gina should find out more from that
1:01:59
perspective of the god what’s your god saying but i cannot see that either of your gods would support what’s happening now
1:02:05
oh what they are for thai quarter attack claudia
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this is uh yes the dead return um on specific days where the
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world’s between the what the the dead and the living uh are joined i mean this this happens this happens on
1:02:23
hot tie quarter attacks holy day but that’s because the two worlds merge
1:02:28
for a period of time then they have to unmerge so she does not like that no
1:02:36
uh Garan you question whether the two worlds need to even merge
1:02:41
at all they can come very close yes there is a confirm line there but there is a there is a sword in
1:02:47
between the two yeah so so could this of local merging
1:02:57
gina sorry could this be an instant of local merging in some weird way
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do you mean like they’re kind of old i was just thinking if to to break the curse you maybe have to wait until
1:03:09
we have some as the next holy day of taco attack but this isn’t half a year isn’t it
1:03:14
it’s more than a half a year so yeah so this is actually the sad thing about it
1:03:20
i mean we have yeah so
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but this could be something where where’s is maybe this curse could broken easily i
1:03:32
don’t know but i don’t think easily but i mean could be broken for sure it could be broken and and and i mean
1:03:39
you are asking congress if this is actually a place where the roads merge that’s what i understand so
1:03:47
i don’t know maybe i should take a little bit are you guys going to
1:03:54
return to the uh the gate or what is your plan i take some dirt with me
1:04:01
okay take some dirt it’s temple now don’t forget we’re just we’re not
1:04:07
we’re just cut out the hill area we’re not right by the castle okay so hello
1:04:13
i want to do one thing i’m i’m barefoot anyways i will dig my toes
1:04:21
into the dirt close my eyes
1:04:27
and make a speed meditate
1:04:33
meditate yeah okay um what does a speed meditate
1:04:40
not on my kind very quickly because i tried to feel i’ve tried to feel the place okay try to
1:04:46
feel the place is there anything anything let me see it’s there i have an
1:04:53
airstream of 90. so okay sorry i’ll let you do it
1:04:58
it’s a dead earth or it’s a living earth or is it a earth going to the underworld or
1:05:05
not i should have some idea
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shall i roll yes 82 it’s good that i have a 90.
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in meditate no in earth’s room okay the the earth here is
1:05:26
does not seem to be corrupted there is nothing it seems to be good
1:05:33
proper uh uh earth i mean this this hill is
1:05:39
basically it’s it’s grasslands country so it’s you know it’s it’s got that sort
1:05:46
of tough grass that you get um you know in the hills and places like
1:05:51
arizona or new mexico or or utah it’s not really fertile
1:05:56
but it’s not a place where the earth is the earth is not groaning or complaining
1:06:04
okay okay now that’s good to know what about the spirits the other spirits
1:06:13
what is your range in color innocence i think isn’t it 50 meters that’s a
1:06:20
spell anyway she’s got the permanent spell yeah is it 50 meters yeah
1:06:26
i always forget because uh there used to be like a power times pete or something
1:06:33
okay so you’re the range of these um uh the these
1:06:40
i’m gonna call them zombies for lack of a better word they all have power
1:06:46
yeah wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
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i need to wait something
1:07:04
no only algolon has power the others here do not
1:07:12
and they haven’t spoken either have they they haven’t spoken either [Music]1:07:19
i think that’s an important detail one that that that is is worth contemplating
1:07:26
yeah only algolon has power the rest do not
1:07:34
it actually says um the auras of all creatures then the spells branch glow but it
1:07:40
doesn’t actually say the range no but also magic has the same range
1:07:45
yeah it’s 50 meters okay it’s shorter than bow range but
1:07:50
okay so so it seems to me
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yeah we head down the hill yeah yeah and we um you know we’ve got like i
1:08:02
think we have a cadre of whom octi we do and we’ve got three
1:08:22
they all agree with me they are abominations they are and they will uh
1:08:29
they will be cleansed at the point of my sword on the other hand anybody with a high
1:08:36
battle role knows that 17 people assaulting a castle is not likely to succeed very well yeah
1:08:44
that’s what i thought first time round but it’s more a question of can we
1:08:49
keep certain other people away from me this is why i think we need to look for an alternative way in which is different
1:08:56
from an ambush [Laughter] okay zombies guarding
1:09:04
you’ll just stay in the bushes while we ambush them is that the deal or are you allowed not
1:09:10
even loudly fisting an ambush how far away were the mines
1:09:16
where the what there’s some lines on our map was there ah yes let me get to that part of this
1:09:23
there’s an old flint nail temple there’s steven yes there’s there’s an old footnal
1:09:29
fort fork no it’s called the old flint nail temple you’re right
1:09:34
um on this map so let me go and open up this map here [Music]1:09:43
worth going to dwarf town yeah because this guy said that there’s
1:09:48
enough he he said there’s nothing underneath the castle but that doesn’t really make
1:09:55
sense because someone was saying deep beneath it was a
1:10:00
this what’s the word again uh was the vampire whatever that was
1:10:07
sleeping underneath wasn’t in the three stories castle was underneath
1:10:13
so i’m just wondering if there might be other reason i think that’s a very very good point
1:10:22
yeah the old flint nail temple is right there but i’m not gonna you’re not gonna ride up to the old flint nail
1:10:28
temple now that we with what we’ve done 120 meters away
1:10:33
are a whole horde of undead who know that our goal is to remove them to cleanse them
1:10:42
yeah i just seem to remember they were more closer to like the main quarry there but for the salt mines
1:10:49
well it’s not only very far to the quarry right a few hundred meters no yeah hundreds or some 200
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okay so do we do we
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search for another way in i mean we can climb over you know castle walls
1:11:09
and things pirates usually don’t use main gates
1:11:15
to be honest that’s usually that’s that’s usually the wrong way to
1:11:24
go you all um returned back to griffin gate
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it sounds like uh where wind whistler wants to know how
1:11:38
it went and what you learned um the vampires well we say we’re not
1:11:44
sure they’re vampires but there’s a lot of zombies there and one they call themselves the ilis
1:11:51
which was a character with a soul but he was dead you know all right
1:11:58
he was dead we were actually someone that gina and i had known from before how he got there
1:12:04
i have no idea but he wasn’t one that could trust he claimed there was no such thing as
1:12:11
the blind king when whistler do you know because he’s angry
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says that
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many centuries ago when pavis was um uh alive this was the
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this this hill belonged to uh la birgan
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who was one of the great demigod priests of the third council
1:12:45
of the one of the great demigod priests of the empire of the worms friends and the knowledge and wisdom
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that great lebergan had
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his his wisdom was amazing and this that this whole hill
1:13:06
uh uh was given to him uh by the city of paris
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but lebergan was not blind he was he was he was very learned and mighty
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um and he he but he
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he constructed a palace here um this castle is is little more than the
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gatehouse or the anti-chamber to the structure that was once there
1:13:40
are you saying there’s more structure underneath what is there now or
1:13:46
there could be he says i tend to fly around
1:13:52
places and not look underground very often but could the flint nail temple be part
1:13:59
of what was there originally you think uh
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the dwarves um in the city’s heyday the dwarves built
1:14:13
uh many of the grand buildings here perhaps even the castle
1:14:20
would perhaps dwarves know something about this this whole hill and this whole
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structure what i remember of the dwarves is the
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dwarves um the the dwarves built most of the city
1:14:40
with their their their human companions and friends
1:14:47
one would assume that the dwarves might
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remember much about what they made yes maybe i mean we have this plan of
1:15:00
visiting the dwarves anyway so might be something but you know about a curse
1:15:05
that keeps things from passing from the living to the dead whose souls stay
1:15:10
there even though their bodies have died
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is this not vivimort yeah maybe
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or a faction thereof
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the the most cowardly thing any mortal being can do
1:15:36
is to refuse
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um uh to uh refuse one’s mortality
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and neither uh die and reborn or or
1:15:58
uh uh join forever in the realm of the gods
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says if one who follows the sun dragon upon death one rejoins the sun until you are
1:16:10
reborn uh again in this world and eventually
1:16:16
when i pass my hope is that i will ascend to a place even higher and purer than
1:16:23
the sun but that is the cycle of of of life death and rebirth
1:16:31
it is cowardly to run from this okay that sounds a bit like your friend
1:16:38
everland to be honest but i mean how can someone how can some
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well they might seem to be pretty cowardly how can you refuse
1:16:48
to die i mean it’s not something you have much choice i don’t think he’s saying dying i’m thinking the dragons wanted to ascend to a higher
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plane of existence that’s kind of like going to you know for us going to Orlanth’s hall isn’t it
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says oh yes he says but there are places higher than than than than even the homes of the
1:17:07
gods it says that the homes of the gods are plenty high
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he says he says do not think that i i i do not mean to insult the
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the the realms of the gods for they are plenty high indeed uh in a worthy aspiration but there are
1:17:26
places higher than that but
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what was that claudia i was asking why do they have to be high can’t they be low
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there are places lower than the lowest prices as well yeah but low does not mean bad
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he says um i i gain wisdom through
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the sky and the sun and not in the depths there are those
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that seek wisdom in the depths yes he he does not try to judge
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one or the other but he does not know the paths um the paths through darkness and indeed
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those paths are incompatible with with with um the path that he has taken
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but any path is preferable to um trying to escape
1:18:23
uh well actually it is it is even noble to try to escape the
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cycle of life death and rebirth um but the right way to escape it is to
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ascend to an um uh beyond this uh uh it sounds like what
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the the thing that you talk to has tried to freeze itself in one point
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in that cycle never to continue and that is yeah that’s what i meant
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it sounds a bit like the guy trying to rob you on the battlefield
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which was a guy yeah i mean it sounds very much like him to then say oh no help i don’t want to
1:19:13
go anywhere but how would one do that i mean it’s not as if you were given a choice normally let me see
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if wind whistler who is a little bit older than you care your characters
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combined and then multiplied yep
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he says um
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he says that that um there were when he was young
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there were sorcerers that found ways to preserve themselves
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but he hasn’t really preserved himself i mean he was rotting or just only everybody said it was the
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curse it’s a side effect of something that’s
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in the i mean obviously there’s also the issue of like you know Delecti who’s probably
1:20:17
you know extremely old as well we know that from um he hopped the bodies when his body
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has failed him i assume that’s what whatever this thing could be and he could just have part of
1:20:30
him and not be him if you think about it that way or he has made a deal to
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keep his life for now and then move onwards i mean that’s certainly possible too
1:20:42
but you know i the more i think about this the more they’re really sucking the salt they’re getting they don’t have the gods
1:20:48
to worship they don’t have the life that gives power be it from a plan to be it from something
1:20:53
um so they’re obviously getting that from somewhere you know it doesn’t just live forever
1:20:59
even stones have spirits right and so these things that don’t
1:21:05
have that these zombies are not things they are they’re they’re like
1:21:12
i don’t know i don’t even know what they are they’re like dead things well they’re dead things yeah all those
1:21:20
they’ve been dead yeah accepted like the main guy the rest of them didn’t have power
1:21:26
they were dead they were like they’re dead so those are ones
1:21:31
where they have been animated they’re not i mean he is lying then again when he says that they are
1:21:38
they are ones who have made a choice these things have not made a choice and maybe the the true what you would call them
1:21:45
eyeless ones are the ones that i can still think are have are preying on the others
1:21:51
yeah but the more i hear about this the worse i get yeah what is still weird about this
1:21:56
whole thing is that they come out to warn us off right because they’re afraid of us
1:22:04
we do have a lot of power we bring death we’ll go with okay yeah the internal energy they might see that they might see that of course
1:22:11
in fact they’re going to be able to if they can sense us with alice they’re going to sense his
1:22:16
sword from a very long distance away well the thing is it just seems like
1:22:21
everything else they’ve done it seems like pretty clever ruse for an undead
1:22:27
person well he’s not he was pretty clever i mean he was trying to manipulate us he
1:22:32
was very he was you know the the creature be it
1:22:37
this guy or be it something else you know that has his memories um you’re going to be pretty smart to
1:22:43
live there and make those deals i mean you’re would be very cunning
1:22:52
but had i known that you know all of them were just creatures or just constructs things and
1:22:59
that’s i would i would probably have thought differently yeah we got that information a little
1:23:04
bit late there oh you kind of asked me a little bit late night yeah but at first yeah i did ask earlier and
1:23:11
said they all they all had power and yeah and then i looked more carefully at the
1:23:16
various machines actually realized oh my god if they do then they’re all doomed and carla
1:23:23
fumbled her spot or something yeah no matter okay so it really means you just go back
1:23:30
there and get rid of them so is your plan to return almost
1:23:37
immediately or wait a day or what i would really prefer to meditate a little bit
1:23:44
what was that you want to meditate rich you were sitting here do we want to
1:23:50
visit the dwarfs first that’s a long time let’s call that that shaman how much they’re going to help
1:23:55
us okay you don’t even know if they’re gonna i mean yes if what we i mean we don’t have to go in near the
1:24:02
castle or we can go near it we can scout it we can see what’s going on
1:24:08
i think i actually think i i agree with cole brass i think they’re weaker in some ways than
1:24:13
you know than than we expect right they’re they’re very strong but they’re quite slow
1:24:19
and only a few of them can think yeah what was the power range of that guy uh lower than yours what’s
1:24:27
yours oh it’s 12. about yours okay
1:24:36
yeah we believe it’s being plushy is yours plus or minus five of yours yeah something like that yeah
1:24:43
so that means he’s not the main guy but as as uh nisk is suggesting he might be
1:24:49
either a part of or someone who’s become loyal to bots so with some kind of an eternal
1:24:56
life deal i don’t know what they are yeah
1:25:05
so for me to frame this and understand this you guys have returned back to the
1:25:10
uh gate house and are now planning you guys want to do a scouting session or um
1:25:17
raiding party or something around here and run around to figure out a non-non-ambushy
1:25:25
slash raiding party okay we basically we sneak around the hill
1:25:31
and if we see some we give them a fair warning and kill them well we know we have to give them
1:25:37
fair warning now we’ve already done that well Garan has to i don’t know how Garan
1:25:42
how how do you define an ambush i mean you know we re-prepared
1:25:51
yeah attack on an unsuspecting enemy who had entered an area we had deliberately set
1:25:58
up for the purposes of capturing or attacking okay
1:26:04
so if we went up and said hello and you would attack from behind that would with that concept yeah that
1:26:09
would be that would be pushing you um i believe the second
1:26:15
the person saying hello in that circumstance and i would not want to know that you were going to attack them from behind if
1:26:21
at all will you prevent us i would assume
1:26:28
well it’s not or he just wouldn’t fight actually that would be your bigger problem is there was an ambush and the rest of
1:26:34
them were fighting oh i think once the ambush has been sprung
1:26:41
as long as i’m not part of that i can probably join in the subsequent melee i think i think you’re um
1:26:48
splitting hairs here you’re sweating here’s me answer that
1:26:54
taboo is to find keep in mind what the consequence if i decide you broke it
1:26:59
what’s the consequence of it well your
1:27:07
[Laughter] it may take a while for that to show up
1:27:12
from this from the uk um
1:27:18
it it seems to be the definition of an ambush i’m looking this up is a combination of the element of
1:27:23
surprise plus concealment if both of those things are present
1:27:30
then it’s an ambush so i so as long as we’re not concealed yep or
1:27:36
you are not concealed just to further indulge in philosophizing
1:27:43
is attacking from behind concealment no attacking from behind
1:27:52
riding up and attacking from behind is not an ambush this is a con this is a uh think about
1:27:59
uh like in an uh a good napoleonic battle this is even the goal in a battle is to
1:28:05
break through one line and fall upon the rear that’s wrong
1:28:11
i mean you could even say hey the perfect idea but is if
1:28:17
if i have friends in front of somebody
1:28:24
in order to distract from my present behind
1:28:29
yes that’s concealment yeah but if we then say before you attack
1:28:34
oh my god there is a Humaktibehind you look out and they just don’t believe us there
1:28:42
it’s probably not numb that’s that is very much a wolf pirate way of thinking
1:28:50
you flanked now i mean there there you go yeah one quick thing i’m just going to
1:28:57
look this uh to to to read this this is from the colts book
1:29:02
uh on it’s actually in the stuff that i sent you guys but i’m gonna uh recite it anyways again
1:29:10
and this is on the rules of honor and combat Humakt demands that
1:29:18
death be wielded with honor and as cult upholds the code of honor in combat and
1:29:23
war this code is strictly adhered to by Humaktibut also generally followed by other
1:29:30
honorable war gods such as orlanth polaris yannifeld tarnills yelm
1:29:35
yamalio and yolorna all of those gods are known to have a sense of honor
1:29:42
honorable combat is not fought uh for mere gain or selfish reasons although
1:29:47
Humaktioften serve as mercenaries for pay that payment is not supposed to be dependent
1:29:53
up on the outcome of the battle if you can see the splitting of hairs
1:30:01
there blitzing of heads then yes
1:30:11
is done with full knowledge of the other side and no surprise attacks are made
1:30:16
so when there is a battle you expect that the right way to do a battle
1:30:21
with an honorable battle is to line up in full sight of the other
1:30:28
let them line up and then fight it out in battle two warriors may duel or
1:30:33
engage in prolonged personal combat both combat combatants must be armed
1:30:39
and may use rune or spirit magic allied and other spirits elementals etc groups of
1:30:45
warriors may fight approximately equal numbers of foes however multiple warriors or
1:30:51
magicians must not gang up on a single lawyer you find that dishonorable which you guys have
1:30:58
actually never done a warrior who surrenders becomes a prisoner of his capture and is
1:31:05
under their protection at the same time a surrendered warrior must not flee his captor until ransomed
1:31:12
or released these are all the joys of honor honor also dictates how warriors are to deal
1:31:19
with non-combatants no one should attack an enemy who has temporarily lost or dropped their weapon
1:31:25
the lives of non-combatants prisoners of war and farmers are also sacred pillaging the
1:31:31
land is forbidden failure to follow the rules of honor can trigger a test of the combatant’s honor passion or even
1:31:39
result in immediate reduction to that passion failure to act
1:31:45
honorably may also result in a visit from the spirit of retribution of the offenders cult
1:31:52
despite all of the above gloranthan songs and stories are filled
1:31:59
with examples of where a hero chose to act less than honorably where some other passion loyalty love
1:32:06
hate etc dictates behavior instead of honor such conflicts are the root of many a
1:32:13
tragic hero so yes high honor high honor
1:32:20
time for Garan to become a tragic hero torn between hate of what was it trolls and undead
1:32:27
and honor i don’t know maybe he needs to take a hate undead passion too yeah i mean he’s definitely going
1:32:34
that way but i think who marty have that in general don’t they
1:32:40
it’s pretty easy for them at this point i think um this is a good place for us to stop
1:32:46
because next session we have to decide are you guys gonna scout return to new havos or make a
1:32:53
an assault i want to scout an assault i think we’ve been
1:32:58
getting bored with all this negotiation yeah actually there’s nothing oh that’s
1:33:03
the old niska i knew one but also it’s the the problem with the broos in the area
1:33:11
they need to be ousted so we can actually bring our herd animals up here that is the other
1:33:18
thing you guys could just you could decide to do you could decide next section to see if you can hunt down the brew
1:33:27
why should we do this oh we got to do that freaking chaos
1:33:34
i’d run yeah at one point are you did you just sign up to join Storm Bull
1:33:40
yeah no wait what i meant now now oh why don’t we now now
1:33:47
i think we’re losing linda here
1:33:55
but uh it’s you know wait this was a little bit unexpectedly
1:34:00
philosophical but uh next section it it it’s either
1:34:05
going to be violence against zombies or i guess you guys plan to do a brew hunt or something else just to
1:34:13
surprise you surprise me there was one thing that’s caught my attention was with the lining
1:34:20
of the opponents i mean tactically it would be pretty bad just to storm the castle and
1:34:26
try to kill everything that comes out of it so if we line up on the plane and
1:34:32
they actually engage in this we might have a much better chance of of well getting rid of them all
1:34:43
could be it’s true if you think if there’s a way for us to
1:34:49
do that i definitely would take that as a win to me well i’m pretty good at battle
1:34:56
tactics so maybe i’ll find a way but it’s just an idea because then we have them where we want them and it’s
1:35:02
just the question how do we lure them out out of the castle i mean they ambushed
1:35:08
um zaloon so of course the best thing would be to sort of
1:35:14
now karen you have to quickly you know not listen uh set a situation in which they would
1:35:20
think they can ambush us but we’re actually ready for them
1:35:27
now that’s permitted yeah that’s permitted okay because that’s not an ambush okay
1:35:34
well you’re drawing out your foe you’re drawing out your foes yeah okay yeah as long as we’re not
1:35:39
concealed yeah we wouldn’t be obviously you won’t be concealed then then you can’t it
1:35:45
can’t be an ambush but would be is there a way to hide from
1:35:51
undead and Garan do you know of any tricks
1:35:59
i think if we’re to do this it would be fun if it’s possible to actually hide a lot of our fighters
1:36:07
you can turn them yeah i think we removed their fighters by
1:36:13
turning them i have to check the kids so i will already say bye bye because all
1:36:18
right okay i think that’s it for today okay
1:36:25
thanks everybody thank you all for watching tune in next session as our players uh wrestle
1:36:32
with whether they should continue negotiating and discussing the right of undead
1:36:38
things to continue existing or just get frustrated and kill everything
1:36:44
guys Garan didn’t do that already

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