White Bull Season 1 Episode 27 – transcript

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welcome to another episode of the Chaosium house Runequest campaign
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i am Jefferson and i will be your GM tonight and we’ve got the whole team together so
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uh last session if you will recall we were you all had
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[Music] entered into hell and
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made your way across the river styx after uh Humakt proclaimed you
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all to be dead on what uh i believe that’s correct Garan
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that is correct yes we we we drove a line down the middle of the living and the dead and weak ended up on
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the dead side and uh despite er despite Kulbrast’s best efforts to
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to insist that he was only temporarily visiting it’s just lying in the sand i
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mean come on and he’s not really god he’s just pretending
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so um with that you all made it across the
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River Styx and [Music] dealt with a hostile some sort of
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hostile three-eyed troll if i remember a three-eyed
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troll guide but uh Humakt um
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managed to did you defeat him in sword combat uh yes i broke his i broke his blade
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upon my own he broke his maul or his mace or whatever is club
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so broke that and yes and and the the troll death god ran
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away from uh ran away from you you are deep
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in i mean this is the underground it’s dark
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uh there are the the burning footprints of yum and if you recall um you were
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told to follow the foot the the footprints uh to find your way
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to to yelms court and you’re followed by numerous uh numerous ghosts
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the shades uh the shades of people who have uh that that have died here uh
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and they are are all if you remember they are they have been asking Gina for
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uh to bring them um to a resting place yeah my shelton’s a wife well
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where where is that way they’re just there well where is there over there
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they they flock around you that’s okay they can flock with me and they they they ask
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they they they beseech you to bring them to the resting place
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well it’s a long way you can try it on your own then you have
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to go that way or you come with me but this could take a little bit
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all right there’s there’s quite a few i mean the people that have come off the boat for the from
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the styx river are also gathering around here it’s it’s incredible i mean it’s it’s perfect this gives us more
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strength makes us more dead for our task
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proves that we’re dead linda but if it’s i mean and i mean if they
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need it i i’m in the moment as a actually the incarnation of the goddess here i can bless them a little
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bit or so they can have a virtual feast uh ghostly feasts or something like that
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they want um they want to go to the the the place of solace the court of
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solas this is what you promised them yes this is this is why my inner compass
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tells me which way we have to go for that and they’re beginning to get quite whiny about this and it’s a lot of them
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it’s like hundreds maybe even thousands of them i command them to shut up i can command ghosts you want to spend
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around a point i don’t have rune points you didn’t let me get rune points back
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i i didn’t she get to do some worship or did she not get a chance to do something no you did everything else except mine
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yeah i thought you’d love to do worship at the yeah you got to yeah okay do i get
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regrets back or not did i get pretty sure you got them back some time ago you may have used one
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since but you could get them back have you is denny no okay last time i used them wasn’t pricks
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well so you’re going to use your rune points telling the dead to be quiet
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but there’s hundreds of them how whiny are they but they’re very whiny it is whenever you’re not going in okay
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to how about being quite and support me and do what i want for one point well that’ll get one ghost to
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to follow to do that i put some wax into my ears
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point is there’s a lot around i know but the point is we have a task and how much of a detour
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is it to bring to where they want to go do you know where you’re going of course i’m the ambassador of Ty Kora
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Tek do you know where you’re going there and i’m sorry i keep asking is
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is you can certainly make statements like i am i am the ambassador jack do you know where you’re going does
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that know well that’s a very fair question i i know because i worship Ty Kora Tek actual
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rule uh not against worship Ty Kora Tek how good is your Ty Kora Tek lore and where do i find that
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there okay 65. gerald roll on the white bull
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i saw it on the lore yeah bro well if you remember you can do it just like you could do under pharaoh’s we can do a
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or you can draw yes you can roll dice i
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i’m pretty sure this is an automatic augment of 20 points
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it’s dark yeah it’s very dark in the underworld 61.
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yes yes that’s cool
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now we actually know where we’re going is that what he’s saying i i know where
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i sent a ghost you’re reasonably confident
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that yom passed through the court of the dead on
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um the way uh on the way to the the um to his
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final court at the bottom of the underworld so you’re reasonably confident that if
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you follow this path you will get to um the the cave of Ty Kora Tek you know the cave
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of Ty Kora Tekor the the palace of the dead or the court of the dead or whatever you want to call it although the golden footsteps i tell the
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ghosts i have a very very it’s a very different question right can i not do a
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check mark on my code lore make one but it has no question
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yeah but this is this is a thing where you’re actually experiencing something in the other world
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underworld normally you have to do it through research but you know when you’re actually experience um experiencing the deities
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um events uh i’m going to let you have an experience check
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it’s called action research now it’s called hero quest
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it’s real research experimental research it is right so you all follow the golden
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footsteps i i completely go into the setting have feeling of it getting being part of
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it and doing my research of my cold war and follows the golden footsteps
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and um while you’re you’re um
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well Gina who is if you would call dressed up in her halloween best in doing her halloween skeleton
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outfit uh is is thronged with the the ghosts of the dead
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um what are the rest of you doing as you guys follow these tracks
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just following the tracks i mean that’s perfectly acceptable answer i i mean that’s certainly my plan
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i have been talking to spirits on the way
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yeah and we did last time i found all those darkness spirits who are all
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celebrating yelm’s disappearance from the world
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but i would also like to see if there are spirits here are not that pro-calor but
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also not the darkness people well i mean there’s there’s a you’re
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surrounded right now by a big host of spirits the spirits of the dead
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yeah and they all want to talk with you because you’re talking you’re trying to
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deal with them i mean they tell you all sorts of things uh they tell you
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um you know they’re they’re some of them are looners who were killed
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um in in combat not too long ago um some of them are sardorites
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some of them are are um people you have no idea who they are um
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but almost all the spirits around here all associated with the man rune they’re all the they’re all the spirits
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of beings that were once mortal and they they they spend they also um
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ask you linda or uh Enkala [Music]11:21
what happens to us
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you are not a spirit what happens to us you seem to know this place
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the one who really knows this place with the Ty Kora Tek who’s taking you for the to get the
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solace for you live your afterlife in her halls
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some of them protest though there’s some of them that that are comforted by this but some of them protest this and say
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it see are we are are we going to be in the place of solace forever
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so there’s trying to to find out what their fate is from you uh
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Enkala yes because i’m supposedly supposed to be the judge here
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um and that leaves linda’s lack of knowledge a little bit that’s
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okay you can i’m thinking some of those guys would
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probably deserve to go to lunar hell and some of those guys might deserve to
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live on as spirits because spirits are also beings of
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you go back into the world and haunt your family or do good things as a spirit
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i don’t know i do see some people who should deserve to go to lunar hell
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though okay just saying that too loud um this sounds like you’re doing
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some kind of is this a a spirit lore skill
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maybe
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let’s see what we can do with our magic request dice
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oh uh i certainly don’t make it that’s a 96. excellent excellent first roll of the
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day great there’s even more whining spirits as you guys continue to follow the uh
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um the the the footsteps and one of the spirits goes up to um
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uh the painless guy and and says oh okay
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i heard you say you’re not dead i don’t yeah i’m good either i’m pretty sure you’re not dead to be
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honest because i mean we’re talking to each other right well exactly exactly i’m pretty sure i’m
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not dead and you’re not dead so how are we gonna get out of here
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well we followed the guy with the big sword and the lady who’s dressed like a skeleton
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and we’ll be fine but they’re going further in shouldn’t we be trying to go the other way
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no no no no the exit is this way okay he says but but
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if we keep going down this direction i’m pretty sure it’s one way only yeah
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do you have a coin um he he fumbles around and says no i
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don’t have a coin do you have yeah so you’re not going back do you have a coin
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i might have a coin let me see your coin oh let’s see okay yeah i’m sorry a
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copper coin or something he grabs at it
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okay there you go there you go he grabs the coin um he grabs you owe me one go he grabs
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the coin and he runs to uh Garan
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and says there’s been a horrible mistake here
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there’s a horrible mistake he says i’m not dead i have a coin
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but you are on the wrong side of the line to be alive so you are dead
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all right you get piteous whining
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piteous whining uh Garan he says he can’t be dead he’s got he’s
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got a wife and kids and yet you are dead this is unfortunate
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but many of the dead leave the living behind that is the nature of the dead
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deal with it you will be you will be unhappy in death
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but he he informs you he has a coin and i have a sword let us see which
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is best at determining who is living and who is dead he says that the that the pantless guy
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says he’s not one of the dead and he give me a coin
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i am you make me a coin and i am who marked the line
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between living and dead and i’m telling you you are dead i want you to roll against your death
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rune here will do
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uh that is
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that is a success but only just 78 against 85.
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well he he he keeps away from you and keeps ahead of you um after you give that and he goes back
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to colbrast and he’s says um
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he gives you a curse Kulbrast
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he curses one i can use or is he cursing me he’s cursing you he gave me a coin come
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on he he’s he says um uh his curse is
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is that um that you’re on this side
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of the line as well here amongst the dead it’s a one-way journey for you to uh for
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you for you as well uh Kulbrast
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okay now this is the guy who asked me if he was dead right
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yes yeah so what does he know [Laughter]18:12
i just tell him look you can you can you know you don’t have to believe me and you suddenly don’t have to believe uh
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darren but you can go back and see what happens if you use your
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coin to get over the sticks i mean if if you’re dead it doesn’t
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really matter because you’ll be dead probably forever anyway
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he says if i’m dead and Garan chops me up i’ll be chopped up
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and dead which is even worse than how we currently that with how things currently are
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well you’d probably be really dead as in you couldn’t speak to me anymore
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he ponders that but he’s still he’s decided he you’re no good you are a troublemaker
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your coin is no good it didn’t persuade death um you all continue following these
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footsteps um deeper into the darkness all the time having this feeling you’re
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being watched by by countless things in the darkness
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and um you all continue down um
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going ever further down and until you reach
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what is you know maybe um it’s it’s some kind of an opening um
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uh in the in the other world so you get the feeling
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that you’re in some sort of a big chamber or big area or at least big
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space and there is a low you were greeted by
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a low um booming voice but is
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it’s it’s still a uh a woman’s voice uh who asks um
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uh who uh who are you and why
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have you a why have you come to my caverns
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are you food for me
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you are not food no you can i not um i am
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hunger and i am hungry um i am i am i i have many names among
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them the black eater can i not devour are you something for me to devour
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nope then what are you
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travellers
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the this is um this is my this is my
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place the only one why why do you
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travel through my place we are falling because we’re not food
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because we are following the golden footsteps
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that thing brought death to my place why do you follow it
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have you devoured death it brought death bright burning death
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filled with flames filled with flames and hurt
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why you follow it and to get it away from you it is left here i don’t have to go
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further
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i mean if you’re so hungry you can have some of the ghosts okay now is that seen to be something
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that are these ghosts and your protection or not actually there are i have to bring them
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into the hall to take or attack to feast
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so so Gina i mean i i never i i did i say that they’re participating
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in a feast which could mean that they’re part of
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being feasted on would this strengthen your association
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to Ty Kora Tek or not do you think can you
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describe me the place again well this is a it is a vast featureless plane here
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no no no no that’s wrong it is it is a it’s it’s a very quiet
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place filled with darkness no no i promise i promised them a nice
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table with a lot of food and happiness not happiness but um
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enjoying their pretty sure you did did you no i i i was not sure if i
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promised them to be part of a feast so
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part of feast could mean that they are the or the wrong side of the feasting
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but i i i no no it would not be good
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well these goals are under my protection and you will not devour us
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and you will not eat us so we are on a mission on the to find the the one who is who
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owns the golden footsteps
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so what do you want that you can cross
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well she wants to know who you are because my already terrible
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i am
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but we are not here to be devoured
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she um she says what is that to me
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i don’t know are you always hungry yes that’s sad she but she wants to know
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what this is there’s more to death than only be hungry
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she says that um
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she is of this place and so um
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uh and has no intention to ever return uh to ever return to the uh to the
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surface world although her children and grandchildren rule it
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and but they do what they do who are those children and
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grandchildren she says they are the
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that among her children are are the dark people the uz the trolls
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her children my my children um are are the uz
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the the people of the people the great people you are there for you
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um um uh you and your followers are but
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food no no no we are also friends
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okay to how are you i have a darkness run of 40.
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okay so you’re gonna try to give yourself some kind uh you get are we gonna try to have some
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sort of proof that you’re a thing of the darkness yes you have only a 48
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chance yes but i can i might but i’m pretty sure i can augment it with some
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[Music] maybe tell me how you hoped um
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there’s something else in darkness but give me a second give me a second i
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will come up with something yeah i actually run around like a gas
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dark and everything yeah i’m not going to give you much of a
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bonus to impress a troll with your goth nest okay my death rune no
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my um
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i mean i love grapes i love necropolis i love it when it’s dark and cozy these all sound like
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yes so give me a second i’m just checking what i can do um
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i can sing a darkness song no
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um
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give me a second let me say can i come up with something
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give me a second [Music]28:25
um [Music] which one of the earth goddesses is
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actually dark is it mount is it gore um
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all of the earth goddesses are associated with what element
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earth they’re not really really dark in space yeah but another earth it’s dark
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okay is that what you’re going to try to to to to be uses your augment is under the
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earth it is dark now and use my horn of intimidation you’re gonna
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no ah
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you die everything gets dark around you there’s a strong connection between
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death and darkness both starts with d [Laughter]29:32
how convinced are the how convinced of any of you are you with this amazing bits of
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sophistry Humakt i mean there is definitely a connection between
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death and darkness i think that’s that’s inaudible in arguable i’m i’m very much
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swayed by this Gina i’ll let you roll on your death rune then how good is your death
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run my death rune is 95
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and i rolled at 59 on it okay add 20 to your darkness rune for your
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attempt to show a connection with the dark eater 21
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i would have done it even without the augment so please both studs was d
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okay she is willing to accept you as something that belongs in the darkness
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great um she is willing to to um
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uh let you claim your part of the darkness without her um without her
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molesting or harming you for she says that she is um
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her mother is the dark
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beyond the dark and that she rules the the underworld
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uh for her mother and um and and uh
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that her people all are her people are native to this place but you may come
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and you may bring um uh you may bring the dead here uh without fear
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uh as long as they stay to your place but she has a um
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and um she’s she uh she’s willing to
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accept this but she lays a uh a demand
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upon it for you because you were you were one of the the people of the earth she’s
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she says that the that the iron people
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the mustali they also dig deep within the earth hurts
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and they have made they they they have also they have claimed parts of the of the realm of darkness
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and they they filled it with their minds and with their tunnels and with their iron
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uh she she um she wants you
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to promise your aide um to
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[Music] uh keep their iron
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keep their death metal out of these places i promise
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that whenever i see most charlie i really try my best to convince them to
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keep their iron out of theirs they are not permitted in here even dead
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i will tell them okay she will accept you she will allow
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you to to pass um to pass into her realm yes
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come on guys you under my protection and all of them all of them agreed well
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this is the quiet place this is the place of solace
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don’t make any noises it’s a quiet place they’re all very very quiet
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but if and then after a while a while of quiet some of them begin to say well is
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is is this is this where we stay no no no no we’re going on party
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my goddess makes good parties for dead people
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Gina have you had a look at your goddess your goddess just does not look like the happy partying type
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that’s a look but she is really a potty babe
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she’s a little bit bony yes but you know Gina’s going to be so disappointed the
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day she meets her god it’s for real [Laughter] she is a big t i think you only have to
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make your ancestors offer enough food and then you have big party reasons on the world
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that’s how it works okay okay well um
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the the the dead um uh flock around to you and you
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all are able to continue deeper um down this path and
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how about you Kulbrast anything that you’re doing on this this trek because it’s a long trek
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through basically darkness well i’m i’m quite lit up by the
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fiery footprints if you remember so throw it out i see quite a lot um and once i realize
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that i can actually talk to dead people um i you know see what they have to say
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except i don’t talk to the whiny ones but maybe there are some
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interesting characters among these crowd of ghosts okay do you have any sort of a social
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skill that might be good to be able to get the the dead to happily chat away
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um let’s have a look social skills
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communications well i can stop singing songs with them
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i guess and that’s okay maybe loosen their
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tongues [Music] nothing about other things
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well then Kulbrasts i would like you to roll against your sing okay it’s not much it’s 30 so it
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sounds really horrible but you can give it a try i guess
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um i augment singing with my air rule if that is okay
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okay so
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uh yep 17 of 72. all right so you have a 50 chance
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oh of inspiring the dead to talk with your
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songs 67 nope no okay Kulbrast Kulbrast sings a ditty
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and the dead just kind of ignore him um
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uh in cola um i mean this is this is very much a
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spirit place here um uh this is a place filled with disembodied
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spirits um not just darkness spirits but all kinds of disembodied
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all kinds of disembodied spirits and um
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this is this is this is much like this is like traveling through the spirit world but even deeper
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nice yeah is there anything in particular that Enkala is wanting to do here or learn
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or see or speak to i have wanted to try to bind some to me
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like vines and spirits i’ve never done it before but it’s supposedly possible
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i also want to get to know some and see if some of them have like a pranky nature because i want to play a
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prank on caler later i need six of them so i am searching for six kind of
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prankster not to color happy types but not murderers not darkness just someone who can
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rough her up a little bit later so you’re getting rid of all the easy ones
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so uh murderous yeah yeah no darkness spirits you’re kind of too
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much of a jerk you’re trying to find um all right i’m gonna require
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you make some sort of a social skill or spirit talk or something to be able
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to get sick spirits to agree to aid you can i dance for them first
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you can always dance for them first i will dance for them claudia i was i was getting worried
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previously you were gonna try to dance for your what has has dance was a business being devoured
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to do i don’t know but i figured you would come up with a reason why it does um i make my dance roll
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you sigh seeds who does the dance i i assume this is an
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augment you’re using this as an augment to my spirit speech okay add 20 to your
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spirit speech that helps a lot
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yes that’s a success okay you can find six spirits um orlanti
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or lanthi ghosts that are up for um
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causing trouble for one reason another they want to know what what what it is you what what it is you plan to do
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when you get the cue for me just
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well just rough her up a little blow her hair a bit too much or make everything quiet around just mess
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around with her a little bit when i tell you to and just stay in the background until then
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now i really want you to mess her up but you’re not supposed to kill her
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that’s that’s a big no-no not allowed to kill that’s why i didn’t want murderous
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people just supposed to um just rough her up um
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kind of yeah rougher up a little that’s what i want to do but i’ll tell you when okay okay
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will you guys get down to um uh a point
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where um you can see there is this this you have
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reached near the bottom of the underworld and there is this this bridge
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that goes um over a river of of a river of
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bones and skulls and over this bridge there is a palace
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uh in the darkness yeah and they and and there is light
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coming from the dark from the past let’s go to the light uh a bright in in in golden light
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sounds good
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there it is okay there is you you guys go over the the um
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the bridge of the bridge over the river of bones and it’s a i mean it’s
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it’s exactly what it sounds like it’s it’s it’s a river but instead of water it’s bones
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just lots and lots of bones with a current so it’s really loud it’s quite loud
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it is quite loud and this is the the the whole thing here looks like
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a uh a dore print you know you’ve got this weird cold light
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coming from the palace uh and this this huge bridge
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over the river of bones and and above you you get the feeling you know you’re in some sort of a cavern
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but uh the the walls of the cavern are too far to be seen even with all of this light
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so so what is this place gino so i want somebody to make a
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yes um this would be a good time for Gina to make a cult lore
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i do but on uh cult lore on Ty Kora Tek yes
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yes 41 today is my lucky day this is um
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the palace of the dead yelms palace of the dead
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and even Ty Kora Tek yelm is the emperor and
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down here he is the emperor of the dead he is the the ruler of the god the
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the ruler of the to be very precise he is not the ruler of the gods of death
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he is the ruler of the dead gods no sorry he’s the ruler of the dead gods
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but when the goddess is not dead well you are you dead or are you alive
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it’s not about me it’s about her you tell me is she alive or is she dead
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she’s a goddess yeah and there’s a lot of dead gods
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yeah but she didn’t got killed then he’s maybe a little bit bony and a
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little bit dry but again i went when i turned myself to the to the
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depiction of how first off bony and dry how are you garbed ass
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it’s about me and not about her no it’s something totally different which are you i’m a lot i mean i’m still
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alive but i’m counting here is dead
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okay so which are you are you one of the living or one of the deaths
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i cannot okay i’m here as one of the dad but actually i’m living
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but here i’m connie is dead
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it’s clear isn’t it it’s very logical well there is a porter of the
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of the palace a giant uh griffin a huge huge griffin you know
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like on one of those assyrian palaces uh and the the the the griffin
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uh and the reason i ask you is who will hear um
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is presenting themselves as one of the dead
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we have all to we present ourselves as one of the dead otherwise we couldn’t come here
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and we crossed we did the line
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and he’ll tell his bit about having drawn a line and then obviously the griffin will
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think we’re all that’s a dead idea can you make an
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orange Garan
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i mean i’m going to explain Garan what you did with the line
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i mean technically everybody that side of the line is dead but let’s tell the griffin
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not without the butts but if i am the god
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well you’re not you’re Garan this is out this is out of character this is not to the griffin okay okay am i technically dead
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or i’m i would assume i exist in some kind of liminal space well this is what i want to try to
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figure out from you guys and it does kind of matter um on
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on how you identify yourselves and what you are are you between the worlds of the living and the
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dead are you of the world of the dead and there’s not necessarily a right answer Gina i think
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this is actually very easy Garan is dead we know that about the
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marquis i am a guidance i guide for the dead
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i think i think who marked who i technically am right now now is between that’s literally his job
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this is a question do we represent our god then it’s something totally different anyways
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see i think if we are if we are avatars for one of a better term right
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now of the gods then we are the gods we aren’t ourselves
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being the gods we are the gods but that’s the reason why we have can ignore a king
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because we are gods so i i think it depends who we are
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so cool and we can command the griffin around because we’re gone well the reason i’m
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warning you on this is he is the porter for the palace
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of the emperor and the emperor is the emperor this is young but
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but we are gods yeah what do you think the emperor is
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the emperor so so yes i still say we we shoved Garan
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in front uh i mean humac and he explained the situation
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in his usual eloquent way and while the griffin is scratching his head to understand it
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we sneak in that’s a brilliant plan
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i dance myself into the palace i mean there’s so many ghosts here i’m sure we can sort of sneak in in between the
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thousands of ghosts yep well the ghosts that accompanied you
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you notice are gone ah now he tells us okay where are they plan b
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they’re gone why did i miss the table
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was the food the the ghosts are all gone you’re looking
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around for a moment here and go where do they go they were so annoying just a while ago
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i broke a few steps back do they reappear a few steps no i mean do you walk all
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the way back to the beginning of this bridge or further beyond than that where where do you go to
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i try to meditate and remember where when the ghost left us
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okay roll against your meditate
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[Music] whatever i’m not gonna really let
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dancing be used as a remember when something happens meditate is pushing it enough so close i
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had 15 i rolled a 21. you don’t remember when they disappeared
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i cannot remember when they disappeared does anybody of you guys notice that
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can i see them at the end end of the bridge
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uh make us uh a scan
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no i can’t it’s a long bridge so we need another plan obviously um
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i still think Garan should explain and he’ll never see and everything will be fine and Garan explains and we sneak in what
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if he’s the porter of yelm doesn’t yelm want to be released
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that would you ask the porter no i’m asking the group does anybody of you guys have animal
51:44
uh husbandry or something like that oh you defended so badly
51:51
[Laughter]51:56
um well okay okay while we’re discussing this i’ll
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ask him sort of by the by has has anyone else um passed
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this bridge recently if recently the concept he you know is familiar with obviously
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countless beings who crossed over this bridge to pay um homage and to submit to
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my lord and master uh yelm the god um yom the dead god
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and and they were all dead i assume yes as are you
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um well um you see this this guy with the sword
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behind me he says i’m dead so you know it’s probably true i still think it’s
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weird that we can speak to each other but he is hated within these um uh within
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these halls for he has he has killed every being with uh beyond these doors
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what karen death oh yes yes he has um
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so you would not probably let him into the palace
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he he he says that uh
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has death killed um his death killed everyone is there anything no no no i’m i’m
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actually still alive now you mention it
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how about the rest of you guys how are you cole brest is chatting away with the the
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this huge griffin and the griffin says so um uh uh
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says you are not permitted here if um uh as as one of the living
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you must you must return this place is not for you
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he is dead he merely refuses to accept it i slew in myself
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the the griffin um the the griffin relaxes somewhat from this
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and and says there might be others coming um
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they they did um things from the the last refugees in the world of the living
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that seek um that seek the refuge offered by my lord uh by my lord and my
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uh yum the dead and the griffin says that it is
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that it is your task uh to keep the living out of here this is why we seek
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to join the court again you may not pass within my uh my
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master’s court but you may assist me in this task outside
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no actually i’ll go through it [Music]55:26
griffin says that you have killed him once
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uh you have no more power over him
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and you have no power over me thus we are at an impasse
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i will not stay long i merely come to pay my respects
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and then i shall return to my work
55:56
hey let me see something here the griffin
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griffin does not want to let you in for you are um
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you are not as bad as your brother but you are still um and that you are
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you are senseless and without will um and it is your brother who is the
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murderer uh but i do not wish to um
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uh i should not bring basically he’s calling you a dumb object
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but that uh he does not he does not believe that his lord and
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master will want to see the item um the item that cut him down
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and that you are not welcome um in here he does say though that um
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the judge um and the the uh the goddess of the dead
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uh uh are of course welcome in uh the emperor’s court
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the court of the maggot liege that’s right that’s his title maggot liege i think i’ve got that album
57:22
right about that album yeah they were really awesome what was what was that 1985
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maggot yeah it’s brilliant are you getting it mistaken jeff it was in the court of the mag at least
57:34
was the name of the album you’re right in the court of the well no no king
57:40
griffin and the dead gods yeah king griffin and the court of the maggot liege now that was 197
57:47
it was the next dance that that was like what 1974 1975 king griffin in the court of the
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maggot liege
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so out of character am i best staying with the griffin
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and kind of waiting for the lightbringers out of character you remember your role
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what day eight is about i’m not involved it’s easy for me to
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remember this stuff i’m trying to think if that is doing my role yeah because it might be
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what was your role again completely well do you remember that the um the the uh question
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can i say this jeff yeah of course the quest the three the questors were tasked to deal with the lightbringers as they
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came and to challenge them and test them to see if they can go into the um hall of the um the hall
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basically the the palace of death or whatever in this and then this would be a good spot for me to
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wait and then state my test and then you guys can go in and find your response
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right so okay so i’ll i don’t know i mean once that sorted i i don’t know obviously but story i’ll
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kind of um
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i’ll sit down down next to the griffin and kind of lay my sword across my knees and say i will i’ll keep watch here with
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you and none who are not justly fit to visit the emperor
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will not pass but my friends here are all dead
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and they may walk safely and justly in the palace
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i can’t even breath i offered to bring some food
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you guys going to go on in yeah okay i want to take an incredibly short
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break so i can have a tiny sip of wine
1:00:04
we’re back and this is how you can tell time has passed is now we’re eating chips um
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so who all is going to to pass through the the magnificent
1:00:20
rune bound doors into the palace of the dead emperor
1:00:28
we’ve gotten caller Gina Kulbrasts are you going to go in i think we’re going to hang out with Garan i’ll hang out with Garan
1:00:35
um because as a living person i’m not allowed into the palace
1:00:41
okay inside you the the porter opens the doors for you
1:00:47
to you two to enter um the the palace of the maggot league and
1:00:54
within it is a scene of despair there
1:01:01
is within um you can see Gina you can you can see
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your niece ernalda um dead you see marin gore
1:01:16
dead you see um aritha Enkala you see the the
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cow the cattle goddess dead um and they’re all all of these gods are
1:01:28
bearing the horrible wounds uh of the gods war um
1:01:34
you know some of the gods some of the gods have been broken um there are you can see
1:01:42
the um you know and not just friendly gods but enemy gods as well but it’s wrong they were not dead
1:01:52
that’s what you see the hidden i mean another hit in the curse
1:01:58
there was in a deep sleep that’s one of the stories yes that is
1:02:04
the right story this is an illusion
1:02:10
i don’t believe this are you in an aldecultis do you know that secret of ronaldo’s
1:02:16
uh yeah attack no are you a tycoon tech initiate or are
1:02:22
you in another initiate an attacker attack is part of the null
1:02:29
in pantheon well
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there is um most of the gods of the world
1:02:52
are down here enemies friends neutral broken shattered
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and dead oh that’s a scam and well it is clearly happening here
1:03:07
you see it you experience it i mean um so what i i want is
1:03:14
um i mean it’s a that that’s a little a bit of a shock but in the very center um
1:03:22
there is the emperor uh and the emperor is
1:03:28
the emperor is is dead there are maggots crawling out of him
1:03:35
and consuming his golden perfection um
1:03:40
and he is he is surrounded by ashes um of
1:03:48
everything that he’s burned um he his his fire fieriness has burnt around
1:03:54
and he is in
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he is complete despair as he cries not
1:04:07
for over his own death but over the death of glorantha
1:04:12
and he is he is mourning that he is he is singing a a dirge full song
1:04:20
about the death of the world perfect that’s the reason why i start to dance
1:04:26
and turn it into a reverse okay well let’s
1:04:32
see how many i’m i’m doing a harmony so i’m definitely different harmony is different from
1:04:37
rebirth yeah my my my fertility rune is only five
1:04:42
percent yes i was gonna make you have to roll on your fertility rune no no no no no no no no no harmony and
1:04:49
uh getting rid of the despair this is actually the moment is one step after another because this is actually my specialty
1:04:55
pudding ghost to rest so this is actually what i can do and
1:05:01
what i’m really good in you want to put all the gods to rest
1:05:08
they can put them at peace with the fact that they’re dead
1:05:13
so they can regrow you know when we think about that that what is that the the five step the
1:05:19
the five steps
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no no that’s not what it is but when they are dead and when they want to be reborn they have to
1:05:30
first at peace see
1:05:36
somebody else hope you guys can wait wait if there is so much of a hint at rebirth
1:05:43
i’m gonna want you to roll against your fertility run no i’m starting with putting them to peace
1:05:49
first yes that’s a different thing than discuss the top that
1:05:56
i want to make it very clear is there even so much as a hint of rebirth in this uh
1:06:05
can i roll my restaurant no but i can you can choose to roll
1:06:11
against your death rune to give it a theme harmony and death harmony
1:06:22
harmony dance with me spirit stand with me dad
1:06:29
dance with me everybody and sing
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uh joy would be fertility no harmony joy no harmony is not
1:06:43
joy what is harmony then harmony is everything working together
1:06:50
perfect ying and young descent life that’s the reason why you need harmony
1:06:56
to glue it together okay let’s see how well your dance
1:07:04
your your very somber dance of harmony goes your non-sad non-joyous
1:07:12
just accept it you’re dead no it’s not except that you’re dead be
1:07:20
in the flow
1:07:25
i suddenly got like hippie vibes instead yeah can i have some hazia
1:07:32
to to augment it doesn’t that kind of guys does it gang doesn’t it kind of sound like a
1:07:37
more complicated way of saying just accept that you’re dead no you’ll be in the flow of being
1:07:43
dead except that you’re dead no yeah it does to me never never said
1:07:50
no but you need to be in a medic and this is actually something like putting them into a meditative state
1:07:57
to go on the on back circle whatever okay i do it
1:08:04
[Music] i roll the 84 on an 85
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okay so you get a plus 20 to your dance your harmonious dance
1:08:18
your dance of acceptance my dance of harmony
1:08:27
65 on 110 right you do you you
1:08:34
you do your non-joyous none non-despair
1:08:41
totally neutral around and the emperor the emperor is no longer wailing
1:08:48
um and um but the mourners and there’s there’s
1:08:54
there’s a goddess with um yum uh another goddess and she is she is the
1:09:02
chief of the the mourners and you know she says she’s dancing with
1:09:09
me and singing in my mind but she is singing along with this
1:09:15
and as you dance she sings um a a a song
1:09:23
of the uh the
1:09:30
wonders and the joys of yelm the young god
1:09:35
good and how wonderful yom uh yum was until he was cut down by the murderer
1:09:44
who brought down the outside yes who brought death who brought death into this world and
1:09:51
and that’s the that’s the song that goes along with your harmonious death and all of the dead agree
1:10:00
that this is why they’re down here so they are in harmony with you and that’s the reason why you have to
1:10:05
get him back up but um who can augment me or how can i increase
1:10:10
my fertility rune i have only five percent gotta give up death
1:10:16
um yes overcome death that’s it we i roll on my death rune to
1:10:23
overcome this i don’t think it really works that way
1:10:31
you can hold on a rune to overcome the same rune it is that is something of a tautology
1:10:38
there um it it nonetheless um so this is how uh
1:10:45
Gina deals with it she does she’s doing a harmonious dance around uh yelm and dendara
1:10:52
uh Enkala yes same scene this is
1:11:00
um what are your what what are your strongest um runes
1:11:07
other than death um power runs only power runs power
1:11:15
um disorder raster 50 50.
1:11:23
so exactly the opposite bit then Gina Gina’s trying to have everybody don’t
1:11:29
understand totally dance this is becoming interesting
1:11:35
no because i am not me i am of fall and dr fall doesn’t really love
1:11:42
all these gods it’s really sad that they’re here at the moment it’s not bad to see some god suffering a
1:11:49
little bit um yeah no it really isn’t they’re full of themselves most of the
1:11:55
time so i’m walking around maybe i see the god
1:12:01
who brought death to me this is your mall anywhere around you know you
1:12:08
are actually would you make a cult lore
1:12:16
well that should be a success i think
1:12:33
yeah i make it but you know irmo is not here no you know he’s one of
1:12:40
those ringers yes and never died no he’s the ass and yeah you know what
1:12:48
he’s among his his sometimes attributes is pantless
1:12:54
[Laughter] telling people he’s that they’re that they’re not really dead
1:13:02
you know if you wanted to make a a identification with irma he’s probably been traveling with
1:13:08
you nah no i really don’t want to do that
1:13:14
um not not at this point anyway but um because he’s gonna he’s gonna reveal
1:13:20
himself by his own accord uh but i am looking for the court and the like where
1:13:29
do the judge sit in this room so i do my look around while i’m kind of
1:13:35
silently gloating a bit of all these sad gods there is
1:13:40
a a chair there [Music] that you might claim is um
1:13:51
uh that you might claim is your all uh as your own um
1:13:57
uh there is there’s an empty chair um
1:14:04
but looking around here the the one thing that you can see is is um you have a
1:14:11
a a flash of insight in that all of the gods
1:14:19
i mean you can even see storm bull here all of the gods died in the gods war
1:14:29
everything did and um is this something i guess for you
1:14:37
this this is sort of uh fitting vengeance on the gods that they all died
1:14:45
that that the death ended up you may have been the first to brought down but death brought everyone else down as well yeah it feels
1:14:52
a little bit good but then again i am the judge so when it comes to it i’m not gonna be
1:14:58
um i’m not gonna be tainted by that but i do have a little
1:15:04
bit of a now you’ve felt it too
1:15:10
are you gonna rub it in on anyone nah i’m gonna go sit in the chair that’s
1:15:16
how i rub it in because now i’m the judge of all you got all y’all
1:15:26
so i take my place in that chair which looks like a judge’s chair and i have my robe and i
1:15:32
yeah um the the the do you proclaim your
1:15:39
do you try to judge anyone or you just sit there looking impressive i sit there looking impressive for now
1:15:45
because i’m i mean spirits are really annoying like normal dead people are super annoying so i’m
1:15:51
imagining that god’s supposed to be even worse so i don’t want him to crowd me yet
1:15:56
i want my energy for calor i’ll proclaim it when she comes in the
1:16:02
door or if someone challenges me well um i’m going to switch the scenes
1:16:10
over to the bridge Garan and colbrast there
1:16:16
are walking down the um the bridge there is
1:16:22
a a party of of travelers in here led
1:16:29
by a blue skinned um warrior with a star
1:16:38
in their brow that is brightening that is basically shining their path through there now a
1:16:46
question is the rest of your group is inside the palace
1:16:59
are you going to try to notify them or let things just kind of play out
1:17:04
well cool brass could run in possibly and get them or
1:17:13
we can just
1:17:18
if you have enough people to do the task
1:17:26
and if they get past here there’ll be other opportunities to test them i think we wait until the griffin asks
1:17:33
them to identify themselves remember there were two tests right and
1:17:39
the griffin’s the third of the tests so you could probably do both if you wanted
1:17:48
okay to you guys um what was the first test again did you
1:17:54
make notes karen i’ve got it just give me a moment for you guys okay
1:18:02
sorry got to zoom back out to that area
1:18:08
the obsidian portal yeah pasted it in somewhere else too um the
1:18:15
second one is the one where they account all of their stuff and call all their peoples out and that’s
1:18:20
that’s when Kulbrasts could do the showing yeah but is that in the court or outside or
1:18:26
doesn’t it matter it well the third one is the porter challenges the right to enter
1:18:33
okay so it’s all outside so the first well the first two there could be more the first one the first challenge is who
1:18:39
comes um appends to keep Orlanth canyons out altogether um it can be the underworld uh told one
1:18:46
the land of the dead meaning humach or the spirit realm so that could be you Garan
1:18:51
and the second Orlanthis challenged to prove his worth he must recite quests and um obtain the tools and powers she
1:18:58
bears this quest if he’s missing certain necessary items he can be sent away good and that’s something that uh all
1:19:06
them humac does or someone else i don’t think that one’s who might too back to be more
1:19:12
or who likes on the first part the guardian items wasn’t that where you switch i
1:19:17
could just do it myself you could do the second one if you like yep yeah okay who has the items
1:19:26
the items well would you call it has the items okay
1:19:32
hopefully the wrong one yeah it has to reveal that’s true it was
1:19:38
okay so so so um you react are you there
1:19:46
he’s busy
1:19:54
guys but i think john uh i think rich would be first yep okay
1:20:02
so you want so you’re not going to run the question
1:20:07
is you’re not going to run into the court to to warn uh Gina and
1:20:13
incall of this are you cool before we before we start i have a question uh were they supposed to be stopped to
1:20:19
get me into the court at all or did i misunderstand this completely now
1:20:26
they’re not going to be allowed into the court initially they have to pass the tests to come into the yeah and they have three
1:20:31
tests so that okay yeah well okay the the way if you look at what i pasted and
1:20:37
maybe you can’t all see it is the first challenge attempts to keep the the companions
1:20:42
arland and his companions out all together the guardians vary so it could be more one or more
1:20:48
than one i assume i don’t know so if you wanted you could go out and you could go in and get everybody out or cole
1:20:54
brass could run in and get the other two out to help make those questions and then the second one is the
1:21:00
proving the worth and now i’m confused because where’s the judge in this
1:21:06
the land of the dead oh oh spirit of the beast guardians yeah spirit realm well so
1:21:15
i should go back out i i was thinking i was supposed to be the judge
1:21:20
you are the judge and and and basically a representative of the spirit
1:21:25
realm okay and the judge is the representative of the spirits yeah okay so it’s it doesn’t matter that he that
1:21:32
Orlanth gets in there because he’s still going to be judged by the judge in the court of the dead right if that’s
1:21:38
how you want to do it i don’t i i think just saying here you can do
1:21:43
a little bit of what don’t worry much about it being exactly one two and three and four this is not how things work
1:21:50
i want you to okay you can when they walk in there you got through the gate griffin sediment you go wait
1:21:56
who the hell are you and what are you doing there get out you can do that yeah yeah i yeah then i’ll stay in the in the
1:22:03
courtroom and Gina will as well so where we’re to stage this is the
1:22:11
Kallyr Starbrow because we all know that that’s Kallyr Starbrown coming forward come on and they are
1:22:18
coming forward and are going to be um uh there is going to be some sort of
1:22:25
reaction from Garan and coal brass to them and i would like to stop at this point
1:22:31
because i’d like us to start in fresh and immediately just jump right into the contests so
1:22:38
um i think this is a good place though to stop for the evening it’s also 11 o’clock at night and
1:22:46
parents of small children on a school night way too late thank you everybody thank
1:22:53
you guys

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