Session 8 Transcript

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Hazel

• 00:00:00 I wasn’t actually expecting an honest answer.
• 00:00:03 I just want it to be annoying.
• 00:00:04 I’ll see you next time.
• 00:00:07 So thank you for giving me an actual answer.

Rhysaene

• 00:00:09 You should be like three separate combats.

Hazel

• 00:00:12 laughs
• 00:00:13 Well, because, like, I don’t know, if someone asked me,
• 00:00:16 like…
• 00:00:16 Like, if there’s a combat decision, I’d hit him with, like,
• 00:00:18 oh, I guess he had to wait and see or something.
• 00:00:21 I don’t know.
• 00:00:22 Wouldn’t you like to know, Weatherboy?

Dungeon Master

• 00:00:25 I don’t know, I don’t want to ever put
• 00:00:28 Someone, like, I figured you were asking for, like, a
• 00:00:30 practical reason.
• 00:00:31 Like, do I need a bunch of dice?
• 00:00:33 Oh, no.
• 00:00:34 I don’t like to put someone in a situation where their lack
• 00:00:38 of knowledge is going to make them have a bad time.
• 00:00:41 So it’s kind of on you guys, where it’s like, if you don’t
• 00:00:45 want me to spoil something, don’t ask.
• 00:00:47 Because if you ask, I’m going to assume that, like…
• 00:00:50 You knowing is important to you.
• 00:00:53 Fuck, I’m a piece of fucking shit.
• 00:00:55 I’m sorry.
• 00:00:56 I’d rather spoil it.

Rhysaene

• 00:00:56 That’s really considerate of you, Cap.

Dungeon Master

• 00:00:59 Yeah, I’d rather spoil a thing I think would be a cool
• 00:01:03 surprise than…
• 00:01:04 have someone be miserable because
• 00:01:06 they think something
• 00:01:08 unfair is happening because they can’t see
• 00:01:11 a piece that’s hidden from them.

Iva

• 00:01:13 What a piece of shit.

Dungeon Master

• 00:01:16 No, all right, anyway, so…
• 00:01:18 We’re all here, it’s D&D time.
• 00:01:20 Sure.
• 00:01:22 here.

Hazel

• 00:01:23 The recording started.

Dungeon Master

• 00:01:25 - Yes.
• 00:01:25 Go ahead.

Hazel

• 00:01:25 Fuck, shit, piss, cunt, motherfucker.

Temerity

• 00:01:28 Hehehehe.

Dungeon Master

• 00:01:31 Now you can’t record it.
• 00:01:33 True.
• 00:01:34 uh,
• 00:01:35 If would someone like to give us a quick
• 00:01:38 recap of
• 00:01:41 the previous session.

Temerity

• 00:01:46 Yeah.
• 00:01:48 Well, we started the session with the combat with the S
• 00:01:51 orrow Sworn,
• 00:01:51 Sorry, sworn.
• 00:01:53 uh,
• 00:01:55 started by attacking the Lantern Captain
• 00:01:59 and pulling her into the dark.
• 00:02:00 We came in and saved the Lantern Captain from nearly dying.
• 00:02:07 Iva was down during the fight.
• 00:02:09 but brought back up by Hazel.
• 00:02:13 um,
• 00:02:15 And ultimately,
• 00:02:18 The
• 00:02:19 starts wearing was, uh,
• 00:02:23 was slain by us.
• 00:02:24 I believe it was Rhys that did the final blow.
• 00:02:27 Yes.
• 00:02:29 and iL assist that got the blow to phase two.
• 00:02:32 - Yes.
• 00:02:35 I had a tense.
• 00:02:36 After slaying the Sorrowsworn, we kind of had like this
• 00:02:38 tense conversation with the lantern, the light wardens.
• 00:02:45 Um,
• 00:02:46 With the lantern captain trying to get…
• 00:02:51 some kind of answers out of us while also trying to give us
• 00:02:57 an opening for us to part our separate ways,
• 00:03:00 despite us using magic because we saved her life.
• 00:03:03 And then--
• 00:03:06 one of the three
• 00:03:08 wanted us arrested
• 00:03:11 for being magic users and was very adamant about it.
• 00:03:14 And the last one was willing to do whatever the captain
• 00:03:18 wanted.
• 00:03:19 The captain ended up letting us go.
• 00:03:21 And we came back to the farm.
• 00:03:25 Hecate
• 00:03:26 Ask the party what we would like as rewards for helping
• 00:03:30 complete the ritual.
• 00:03:31 by taking out the sorrow
• 00:03:33 Luma asked for a hat.
• 00:03:35 Risk a scarf, Iva, to have her mom stay without debt.
• 00:03:40 And Temerity asked for a single anvil.
• 00:03:44 Um,
• 00:03:46 And
• 00:03:48 Oh…
• 00:03:50 Hazel didn’t ask for anything
• 00:03:52 because she didn’t assume that
• 00:03:55 It was intended for her.
• 00:03:57 which is something that they talked about.
• 00:04:00 Later…
• 00:04:01 in the barn.
• 00:04:03 where Hecate
• 00:04:05 Went over.
• 00:04:07 The lessons that she was trying to instill for Hazel
• 00:04:12 Um,
• 00:04:14 - Yeah.
• 00:04:15 dated, I believe that she failed her
• 00:04:17 task but gave her a new task to continue
• 00:04:20 Yes.
• 00:04:21 uh,
• 00:04:23 continue being an Argentum to
• 00:04:26 basically make friends in the simplest terms.
• 00:04:29 It’s like,
• 00:04:30 girl,
• 00:04:30 go make friends.
• 00:04:34 Uh,
• 00:04:38 And
• 00:04:44 - Yeah, that’s all I can really remember.
• 00:04:47 I remember that we were gonna leave
• 00:04:49 In the morning, but we were also going to stop by Silverth
• 00:04:52 orne so Luma could
• 00:04:53 Map it.

Dungeon Master

• 00:04:54 Yes.
• 00:04:55 You all slept in the barn and had a long rest
• 00:05:00 in which you regained all your resources and all of that.
• 00:05:02 While sleeping, Iva had a dream
• 00:05:06 A nightmare, really, in which…
• 00:05:10 The voice of the Sorrowsworn begging to not be left alone
• 00:05:15 was replaced by her own voice, but not her current voice,
• 00:05:18 the voice of her previous form.
• 00:05:21 Um,
• 00:05:22 The one she had essentially decided to…
• 00:05:25 to put away
• 00:05:27 um,
• 00:05:28 begging not to be left alone, and it is at
• 00:05:31 at that, that you all awake in the barn on the next morning
• 00:05:36 .
• 00:05:36 presumably
• 00:05:38 Hazel and Luma, if they chose not to sleep, are already up.
• 00:05:43 before the rest of you.

Temerity

• 00:05:47 Oh yeah, that’s true.

Hazel

• 00:05:49 Nah, Hazel likes to sleep.

Temerity

• 00:05:51 I need it.

Dungeon Master

• 00:05:52 uh, Luma, um,
• 00:05:55 You’re able to.
• 00:05:56 to meditate
• 00:05:58 or whatever it is you do while you’re largely inactive for
• 00:06:01 four hours.
• 00:06:03 um,
• 00:06:04 I’ll just let the beer be for a phone call.

Temerity

• 00:06:08 I didn’t hear that, my bad.
• 00:06:08 I didn’t hear that either.

Dungeon Master

• 00:06:11 He typed in the chat.

Temerity

• 00:06:13 Aaaaaaah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:06:15 Oh.
• 00:06:16 My bad.
• 00:06:16 I see it now.
• 00:06:18 Yeah.
• 00:06:18 Oopsie.
• 00:06:19 Um, so then, um,
• 00:06:21 you’re kind of
• 00:06:22 Get up at the same time, then…
• 00:06:25 or get active at around the same time, early morning.
• 00:06:31 Um…
• 00:06:34 Would you like to do any last minute?

Hazel

• 00:06:38 Um,

Temerity

• 00:06:43 Any things?
• 00:06:45 High or low, Kat?

Dungeon Master

• 00:06:47 High or low.

Temerity

• 00:06:49 Yeah, high or low.

Dungeon Master

• 00:06:50 Well, hold that thought because Bruce was saying something
• 00:06:53 first.
• 00:06:54 What’s up, Bruce?

Iva

• 00:06:56 I was like,
• 00:06:57 when Iva wakes up because she was cuddling
• 00:07:01 Rhys.
• 00:07:02 She’s ex-recovery to Rhys.
• 00:07:05 - That’s an issue with Andrea Nightmare.
• 00:07:08 Oh.
• 00:07:12 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:07:13 Um,
• 00:07:16 makes sense to me.
• 00:07:18 Olivia, you said high or low?

Temerity

• 00:07:20 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:07:22 would say hi.

Temerity

• 00:07:24 OK, then, then Temerity will keep the anvil.
• 00:07:27 What?
• 00:07:30 Coward trees.
• 00:07:31 - Hey.
• 00:07:32 to…
• 00:07:33 - I was, I’ve been thinking on it.
• 00:07:38 I’ve been thinking on it for a while.
• 00:07:40 I was like, I think,
• 00:07:41 It is just low enough that I wouldn’t have reached Temerity
• 00:07:44 ’s morals, so…
• 00:07:47 It works out.
• 00:07:49 works out enough.

Iva

• 00:07:51 Alright, OK.

Temerity

• 00:07:56 I don’t know, that’s why I was doing the higher-low thing.
• 00:07:58 I’m trying to decomplicate your life, Kat.

Dungeon Master

• 00:08:02 girl, I wrote a whole bunch

Temerity

• 00:08:04 of stuff. Oh, so never mind.
• 00:08:06 She leaves the anvil.
• 00:08:08 She leaves it right on her fucking pillow.
• 00:08:12 No.
• 00:08:13 But she does leave the anvil.

Dungeon Master

• 00:08:15 Okay.
• 00:08:16 Are you sure?
• 00:08:16 Yeah.

Temerity

• 00:08:17 I felt bad because I felt like I was being an asshole that
• 00:08:21 session.

Dungeon Master

• 00:08:22 No.
• 00:08:24 Okay.
• 00:08:24 I’m…
• 00:08:25 I’m not that person, I want to
• 00:08:27 I want you to be your guiding principle.
• 00:08:31 Be it’s what my character would do.
• 00:08:33 There’s some degree of your character better want to play a
• 00:08:37 game of D and D,
• 00:08:38 but beyond that,
• 00:08:39 I want you to,
• 00:08:41 to let that be the thing that guides you,
• 00:08:43 even if it’s not optimal,
• 00:08:45 uh,
• 00:08:45 - Uh-huh.
• 00:08:46 For, like…
• 00:08:48 you know,
• 00:08:48 Yeah, like getting money.
• 00:08:51 Or getting money.

Temerity

• 00:08:53 getting my, my, my money.

Iva

• 00:08:55 Or telling the guards, like, you know, you were a lantern.

Dungeon Master

• 00:09:00 I have, um,
• 00:09:03 If in this morning you go up to the house, um,
• 00:09:08 You’ll see that Anthusa is already awake.
• 00:09:10 She and Freya are both in the kitchen working on breakfast
• 00:09:14 together.
• 00:09:15 They’re making a bunch of scrambled eggs.

Iva

• 00:09:22 Yes, iPhone will immediately go to go say bye.

Dungeon Master

• 00:09:28 You come into the kitchen, you smell the cooking,
• 00:09:31 and Anthusa’s attention snaps to you instantly.
• 00:09:34 Despite not having a lot of time getting used to this new
• 00:09:37 form, it doesn’t seem to
• 00:09:40 be off-putting to Anthusa at all that
• 00:09:43 heard.
• 00:09:44 daughter has changed shape?
• 00:09:47 Again.
• 00:09:48 again, mainly because again,
• 00:09:51 Like, this isn’t new, but also just…
• 00:09:53 I don’t know, familial connection.
• 00:09:56 Um, as she like walks over to you without a word and wraps
• 00:09:59 you up in a big hug.

Iva

• 00:10:04 I would start crying and say, “I hope you do okay here, Mom
• 00:10:08 .”

Dungeon Master

• 00:10:09 “Oh, oh dear, you don’t have to worry about me.
• 00:10:13 I’ve survived worse than a few chickens in a
• 00:10:16 a little hay.

Iva

• 00:10:19 Thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 00:10:21 the odds.
• 00:10:23 I’m far more worried about you
• 00:10:27 um,
• 00:10:29 You’ve never had that happen before.
• 00:10:32 You’ve never been in a situation where you’ve
• 00:10:35 I don’t know, formed a
• 00:10:38 an identity that you stuck to so thoroughly and had to
• 00:10:42 stop using it. Are you doing okay?

Iva

• 00:10:47 David goes, no, I had a bad dream last night, but I should
• 00:10:50 go beat him.

Dungeon Master

• 00:10:52 she nods and kind of
• 00:10:53 Says oh well that’s.
• 00:10:55 That’s understandable. Freya was telling me about the
• 00:10:59 ritual and…
• 00:10:59 and the dangers you faced and I’m
• 00:11:02 I can’t pretend I’m not worried for you, but I’m very proud
• 00:11:05 of you.
• 00:11:05 I knew
• 00:11:07 I knew from
• 00:11:09 even early on that you were going to be
• 00:11:13 helping people is just something I could tell about you.

Iva

• 00:11:18 Rosie and my mom taught me how to help.

Dungeon Master

• 00:11:21 She smiles and says, that’s true, that’s true.
• 00:11:25 Um,
• 00:11:27 She says, well, if you all are wanting to eat before you
• 00:11:31 leave,
• 00:11:31 we’re making eggs and bread.
• 00:11:34 Otherwise…
• 00:11:37 I’ll see you the next time you’re out this way.

Iva

• 00:11:41 Iva nods that goes, I don’t know what the play it is,
• 00:11:43 but I’m assuming we’re just,
• 00:11:45 tipping.

Dungeon Master

• 00:11:46 She nods and says, yeah, of course.
• 00:11:50 And you kind of have a moment to talk and say goodbye and
• 00:11:55 all of that, anything that needs to…
• 00:11:59 needs to be said you can think of otherwise that that just
• 00:12:02 kind of trails off um
• 00:12:04 Luma and…
• 00:12:06 Rhys.
• 00:12:08 Um, all.
• 00:12:10 While the party is kind of like getting up and getting
• 00:12:13 their things together,
• 00:12:14 getting ready to leave, Hecate comes in
• 00:12:18 Um,
• 00:12:19 to the barn
• 00:12:20 Wrapped around one arm is a…
• 00:12:25 wildly multicolored scarf.
• 00:12:28 Um,
• 00:12:29 Like to the point where wrists probably wouldn’t even be
• 00:12:32 comfortable wearing it.
• 00:12:33 It is just so
• 00:12:36 Like, the way the scarf looks, it could not possibly go
• 00:12:40 with any outfit.

Rhysaene

• 00:12:41 It’s garish, yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:12:43 It’s incredibly garish.
• 00:12:45 Um,
• 00:12:46 and she holds out her hand and offers it.
• 00:12:50 Despite the garish patchwork of absurd colors and patterns,
• 00:12:54 The scarf is very well woven.
• 00:12:58 As she offers it to you.
• 00:13:01 Oh, it says as per your request.
• 00:13:07 And she holds up.
• 00:13:07 Oh, this is one of the rap.

Rhysaene

• 00:13:09 Top stories about what is this?

Dungeon Master

• 00:13:12 You wanted a scarf, so I wove one for you.

Unidentified

• 00:13:17 Oh.

Rhysaene

• 00:13:20 It’s so colorful.
• 00:13:21 I will take it.
• 00:13:24 briskly,

Dungeon Master

• 00:13:25 As you take it,
• 00:13:27 the scarf immediately ripples like water and all the color
• 00:13:32 fades to deep rich blue
• 00:13:35 and brightly on the blue, almost as if it’s…
• 00:13:39 you know,
• 00:13:39 embroidered in literal silver thread
• 00:13:43 doves in
• 00:13:45 brilliant silver white
• 00:13:47 a pattern of them form on this like a deep blue silk the
• 00:13:51 scarf was like not wool but like knit before and now it’s
• 00:13:55 just like
• 00:13:55 Pure silk.
• 00:13:56 Um,
• 00:13:58 And the doves kind of have like
• 00:14:00 trails of patterns that represent the wind
• 00:14:04 in brilliant silver white.
• 00:14:06 And at the center of the scarf,
• 00:14:09 are
• 00:14:11 Two doves, one flying straight up and one flying straight
• 00:14:15 down.
• 00:14:15 Um,
• 00:14:17 with, like, a golden kind of, like,
• 00:14:22 like sun behind them.
• 00:14:25 Um, and she, as she hands it to you, she says, um,
• 00:14:29 Just.
• 00:14:31 just it will take on any appearance you like just
• 00:14:35 Think it and it will be.

Rhysaene

• 00:14:39 - Yeah.
• 00:14:41 It’s beautiful. Thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 00:14:43 It is a scarf of many fashions.
• 00:14:46 It works just like the cloak of many fashions, but scarf
• 00:14:48 instead of cloak.

Rhysaene

• 00:14:50 - I accept this gift wholeheartedly, Miss Hecate.

Dungeon Master

• 00:14:54 uh,
• 00:14:55 Luma this entire time has had to wait
• 00:14:59 knowing full well that
• 00:15:01 in
• 00:15:02 Hecate’s other hand this entire time has been a very large
• 00:15:06 Very wide-brimmed hat.

Luma

• 00:15:09 Vibrating.

Dungeon Master

• 00:15:11 It is a dark…
• 00:15:13 like almost black
• 00:15:15 Midnight Blue.
• 00:15:18 Um,
• 00:15:19 in every way imaginable,
• 00:15:22 can only be described as a witch’s hat.
• 00:15:24 There’s like a strap around the…
• 00:15:27 base of the hap above the brim with a little silver buckle
• 00:15:30 um and in it she has placed a white raven feather
• 00:15:34 Um,
• 00:15:35 The hat itself, if you look closely at it,
• 00:15:37 you can see there are parts of the dark blue
• 00:15:40 that are just slightly lighter.
• 00:15:42 And they’re patterns of…
• 00:15:45 Crescent moons and eyes.
• 00:15:49 Um,
• 00:15:49 And she hands it to you and says-

Luma

• 00:15:52 - Eyes? Yo.

Dungeon Master

• 00:15:53 Yeah, little, like, little, like, eye symbols.

Luma

• 00:15:58 I don’t know.
• 00:16:00 is speechless, but she takes it and immediately
• 00:16:02 jams her head into the opening.

Dungeon Master

• 00:16:05 The hat, despite seeming like it is too big for Luma, does
• 00:16:09 seem to find it.
• 00:16:11 like,
• 00:16:12 find purchase as the inside of the hat fits to your head
• 00:16:15 but the outside doesn’t get any smaller?
• 00:16:20 So it doesn’t just eat your head, but it is still a very
• 00:16:24 large hat.
• 00:16:26 numb.
• 00:16:27 Um,
• 00:16:28 And she says, I have…
• 00:16:31 Woven or I’ve I’ve worked for you this this hat as you
• 00:16:36 requested a little
• 00:16:40 parting gift for
• 00:16:41 all of your help and yours and she turns to Rhys and the
• 00:16:46 rest of you
• 00:16:46 I believe I saw Iva head inside to speak with her mother,
• 00:16:49 who, as I requested, will receive our full…
• 00:16:53 protection from now on.
• 00:16:56 um,
• 00:16:58 And, of course, Temerity your single
• 00:17:01 Anvil.
• 00:17:02 that you requested is yours.
• 00:17:07 laughs
• 00:17:10 You were already given it last night, so.

Temerity

• 00:17:12 Yeah.
• 00:17:13 Maybe nods.
• 00:17:15 - Thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 00:17:18 um,
• 00:17:20 With that, if you, you, you all are welcome to take food
• 00:17:24 from the kitchen,
• 00:17:24 if you would like, before you leave. Otherwise, um,
• 00:17:28 She looks at Hazel and says, Hazel,

Hazel

• 00:17:34 - Hello.

Unidentified

• 00:17:35 - Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:17:38 I said this last night, but I think it bears repeating,
• 00:17:41 that
• 00:17:41 You…
• 00:17:44 What we talked about was not entirely your own fault, in
• 00:17:48 part it was mine, and
• 00:17:50 With that in reflection, I wanted to tell you
• 00:17:54 that
• 00:17:55 “You and your friends did very well last night. You helped
• 00:17:58 us accomplish something we may not have been able to
• 00:18:00 without you.”
• 00:18:02 and your aid has
• 00:18:05 a loud,
• 00:18:05 uh,
• 00:18:08 Our
• 00:18:10 our coven to continue living here in
• 00:18:13 As much peace as is possible.
• 00:18:16 this close to the edge of the sorrow.
• 00:18:20 Um,
• 00:18:21 I expect you to do even greater things as you…
• 00:18:27 go forth into the world.

Hazel

• 00:18:32 Hazel nods.
• 00:18:35 uh,
• 00:18:37 And she would just say…
• 00:18:40 All right.
• 00:18:41 I,
• 00:18:42 Don’t plan on disappointing you headmistress.

Dungeon Master

• 00:18:45 I would not expect you to.
• 00:18:47 Um,
• 00:18:49 With that, until the next time I see you,
• 00:18:53 uh,
• 00:18:54 May the shattered mother watch over you.

Hazel

• 00:18:57 Mm-hmm.
• 00:18:58 She would just…
• 00:19:00 uh,
• 00:19:01 She would just repeat that.
• 00:19:03 Repeat that back.
• 00:19:05 Uh-huh.
• 00:19:06 Um…

Dungeon Master

• 00:19:07 It’s early morning.
• 00:19:08 The sun is up.
• 00:19:09 It’s probably like…
• 00:19:11 It’s winter, so it’s probably like
• 00:19:13 seven ish.
• 00:19:15 Um,
• 00:19:16 It’s basically winter.
• 00:19:18 um,
• 00:19:20 Is there anything else anyone wants to do on the farm?

Hazel

• 00:19:25 Well,
• 00:19:27 It’s winter, so.
• 00:19:28 I mean, honestly,
• 00:19:30 As much as Temerity is itching to head back to…
• 00:19:36 Tenet.
• 00:19:37 to the crick, we might as well do our
• 00:19:39 Do our traveling during the day we can at least stay for

Temerity

• 00:19:43 breakfast.
• 00:19:43 - Yeah.
• 00:19:43 Thank you.
• 00:19:45 We know it’s Jason Bergbush.

Rhysaene

• 00:19:49 Is it?
• 00:19:50 Snowing.

Dungeon Master

• 00:19:51 No, it is not snowing.
• 00:19:55 It is overcast and a little foggy.
• 00:19:58 But the fog is much lighter than it had been the previous
• 00:20:02 day.

Hazel

• 00:20:02 Thank you.
• 00:20:03 Mm-hm.
• 00:20:04 The vibes aren’t as rancid.

Dungeon Master

• 00:20:05 Um, and yes, actually, um,
• 00:20:08 That’s exactly correct.
• 00:20:09 You all do kind of notice that oppressive weight you kind
• 00:20:13 of felt out here that, like,
• 00:20:15 was so subtly creeping you didn’t even notice
• 00:20:19 is gone.
• 00:20:21 Today feels a little brighter.
• 00:20:23 The sun is piercing the clouds just a little better.
• 00:20:26 The fog is lighter.
• 00:20:28 there’s more birds singing this morning than there were
• 00:20:30 yesterday.
• 00:20:32 The vibes are a bit better.

Hazel

• 00:20:37 Um, but I hope this shows that
• 00:20:40 Not all magic invites sorrow, Hazel says, looking at Temer
• 00:20:44 ity.
• 00:20:45 laughter

Temerity

• 00:20:49 um,
• 00:20:51 Um…
• 00:20:53 Hopefully.

Rhysaene

• 00:20:58 I thought you were going to laugh and then be like,
• 00:21:00 huh, rage.

Luma

• 00:21:07 That’s what I’ll teach you.

Hazel

• 00:21:10 Oh boy.
• 00:21:12 Unexpected answer is all Hazel will say.

Dungeon Master

• 00:21:17 Um,
• 00:21:21 Deciding to have breakfast, you all can head into the house
• 00:21:24 .
• 00:21:24 you see that Iva is already
• 00:21:27 Uh, inside.
• 00:21:29 Um,
• 00:21:30 Freya
• 00:21:32 bright smile on her face in…
• 00:21:35 Freya, of your, like,
• 00:21:37 of your fellow witches is the one who’s usually in the best
• 00:21:42 mood.
• 00:21:42 But today her mood is even brighter.
• 00:21:45 And she and Anthusa are pulling bread out of the oven,
• 00:21:48 fresh baked.
• 00:21:50 like a long loaf of
• 00:21:52 Not, not exact, nothing like the, what you were getting in
• 00:21:56 Crick’s bin, but still right out of the oven, like bread.
• 00:21:59 Um, and
• 00:22:00 Of course…
• 00:22:01 Um,
• 00:22:03 Chickens, so scrambled eggs.
• 00:22:06 uh,
• 00:22:07 are available to you all as well as whatever, like,
• 00:22:09 vegetables happen to be on hand.
• 00:22:11 But there’s no real production to breakfast.
• 00:22:14 It is just, like, the practicality of eating in the morning
• 00:22:16 .

Temerity

• 00:22:18 Uh-huh.

Luma

• 00:22:21 Getting energy for the day.

Hazel

• 00:22:24 Yeah.
• 00:22:26 He’s all sit down to eat.
• 00:22:27 and look to Freya and
• 00:22:31 um
• 00:22:33 Just be like a
• 00:22:34 Before…
• 00:22:37 Before my group departs, Fred,
• 00:22:40 would it be possible for me to
• 00:22:44 receive a
• 00:22:47 receive any…
• 00:22:50 Any curative reagents we might have for
• 00:22:52 Right.
• 00:22:54 for healing potions.
• 00:22:56 I would ask sister…
• 00:22:57 Credwin, but.

Dungeon Master

• 00:22:59 Hold that thought for a moment.
• 00:22:59 I’m really sorry, I have to be right back.

Hazel

• 00:23:03 Yeah, no worries.
• 00:23:06 I’m holding.

Iva

• 00:23:08 - I was getting the button.

Hazel

• 00:23:11 too.
• 00:23:12 You’re kind of like…
• 00:23:13 You’re gonna love it, it’s flour, water, and salt.
• 00:23:17 Uh-huh.
• 00:23:23 not even…
• 00:23:25 Not even, like, sure if that shit’s leavened.

Dungeon Master

• 00:23:29 Um…
• 00:23:31 You ask Freya for reagents out of character.
• 00:23:34 What kind of, like, what is this request for?

Hazel

• 00:23:36 Um,
• 00:23:37 the materials to create healing potions.
• 00:23:42 to craft them, so I would still have to take the time to
• 00:23:45 craft them.

Dungeon Master

• 00:23:48 um,
• 00:23:49 She will give you
• 00:23:51 the materials such that you can craft two healing potions
• 00:23:55 and says,
• 00:23:55 this is what I have on hand.

Hazel

• 00:23:58 Ooh.
• 00:23:59 She will smile and say thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 00:24:03 She smiles and says, “Be sure to eat some breakfast before
• 00:24:07 you go.”
• 00:24:09 Bye.

Iva

• 00:24:10 I’ll see you next time.
• 00:24:10 Bye.
• 00:24:10 Bye.
• 00:24:10 Bye.
• 00:24:10 Bye.
• 00:24:12 Bye.
• 00:24:14 Uh,
• 00:24:16 Iva politely waiting for a turn to ask, would ask for the
• 00:24:20 recipe for bread.

Dungeon Master

• 00:24:23 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 00:24:25 Rick kind of looks at you and says, sure.
• 00:24:30 I give you the recipe.
• 00:24:32 She pulls out a little piece of paper,
• 00:24:34 and a quill
• 00:24:37 Um,
• 00:24:38 finds its way into her hand, though you didn’t see her like
• 00:24:41 reach for it anywhere.
• 00:24:42 And she writes down the ingredients for like a basic loaf
• 00:24:46 of bread and instructions for it.
• 00:24:51 And she hands that you.

Iva

• 00:24:53 She hands that to you.
• 00:24:55 I have a smile, thank you, it goes, thank you.

Hazel

• 00:25:00 Not to speak ill on the…
• 00:25:02 on the cuisines offered here at the farm,
• 00:25:06 but I would imagine you would find better
• 00:25:10 better recipes back in Argentum.

Iva

• 00:25:15 If it goes, maybe I’ll get them there.
• 00:25:17 But what if I need bread before then?

Hazel

• 00:25:21 phew
• 00:25:24 If you make bread…
• 00:25:30 At, at,
• 00:25:32 at the
• 00:25:33 at the town with…
• 00:25:36 with many fresh loaves
• 00:25:40 It will be very few.
• 00:25:42 Mm-hmm.
• 00:25:44 She thinks on it for a second.
• 00:25:44 She said, it would be very humorous.

Rhysaene

• 00:25:46 Good.

Iva

• 00:25:54 And it goes, it’s good to be prepared on learning this.
• 00:25:57 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:25:59 I’ve heard.
• 00:26:02 Anthusa kind of gives you a pat on the head.

Iva

• 00:26:09 Mm-hmm.

Hazel

• 00:26:11 I did not think you would adopt a more domestic attitude
• 00:26:14 with your new
• 00:26:15 With your new form.

Rhysaene

• 00:26:20 Mystic.

Iva

• 00:26:25 like a cat.

Unidentified

• 00:26:28 - Yeah.

Hazel

• 00:26:31 Sorry for a second.
• 00:26:33 Thanks.
• 00:26:34 No, you’re good.
• 00:26:34 She thinks on it for a second and nods.

Dungeon Master

• 00:26:38 You all hear a low, rumbling, like…
• 00:26:42 Uh-oh.
• 00:26:43 from outside.

Temerity

• 00:26:44 Oh, no.
• 00:26:47 Lightning full of fears.
• 00:26:49 True, true camaraderie.

Unidentified

• 00:26:54 Yeah.

Temerity

• 00:26:55 I agree. We use the back door.
• 00:27:00 Prudent as ever.

Dungeon Master

• 00:27:04 You all head out.

Hazel

• 00:27:06 Yeah, I think…

Rhysaene

• 00:27:09 - Yeah.

Hazel

• 00:27:11 Well, Hazel would be getting ready to head out.

Dungeon Master

• 00:27:13 Yeah.
• 00:27:16 head out of the farmhouse, you gather all your things,
• 00:27:19 everything you need.
• 00:27:20 Is there anything else just real quick anyone needs to do

Temerity

• 00:27:25 before heading out?
• 00:27:25 Yeah, I was going to say, while like,
• 00:27:29 either eating or like putting dishes away or whatever.
• 00:27:32 If there’s a chance for Temerity to leave the coin,
• 00:27:35 She leaves a coin.

Dungeon Master

• 00:27:38 Okay.
• 00:27:39 Where would you like to leave it?
• 00:27:42 You can leave it anywhere.

Temerity

• 00:27:44 - Probably in a place where they can easily find it
• 00:27:46 so they don’t just lose money.

Dungeon Master

• 00:27:48 Yeah, that could be anywhere.

Temerity

• 00:27:50 Yeah, then it’d just be like on the table.

Dungeon Master

• 00:27:52 You can leave it on the table as you get up.
• 00:27:54 Hecate is not in here.
• 00:27:56 Freya doesn’t know the significance of the coin, and it’s
• 00:27:59 …
• 00:27:59 Not until you’re gone that it’s even noticed.
• 00:28:02 I’m.
• 00:28:03 But you take this coin, your reward for helping in this
• 00:28:05 ritual, and you leave it behind on the table.
• 00:28:08 Um,
• 00:28:11 And I want you to make me a
• 00:28:15 It pers-
• 00:28:17 Perception or insight check?

Luma

• 00:28:20 Thinking that we have to pay for breakfast, Luma also
• 00:28:23 leaves an anvil with that one.

Temerity

• 00:28:29 I don’t know.
• 00:28:30 Like.
• 00:28:31 perception? It’d be four
• 00:28:33 either way.

Dungeon Master

• 00:28:37 You…
• 00:28:37 You do notice something with a four perception.
• 00:28:40 You hear the cat’s little po-po-po-po-po.

Temerity

• 00:28:43 Oh, fuck.

Dungeon Master

• 00:28:47 - As it’s--
• 00:28:48 Like,
• 00:28:49 scratching on the back door.
• 00:28:52 but
• 00:28:53 Bail, bail, bail.

Temerity

• 00:28:55 All right, Temerity’s going to go out the front door.

Dungeon Master

• 00:28:58 We head out the front door, no problem.
• 00:29:00 It’s cool.
• 00:29:02 It’s probably just below freezing this morning.
• 00:29:05 um,
• 00:29:06 So not cold enough to be dangerous to the likes of you guys
• 00:29:11 …
• 00:29:11 but cold enough to be uncomfortable.

Luma

• 00:29:13 - Yeah, it’s cold.
• 00:29:15 As per usual, anytime somebody stands within 15 feet of L
• 00:29:17 uma, it’s…
• 00:29:19 Pretty toasty.

Dungeon Master

• 00:29:19 Except around Luma, where it is, like…
• 00:29:24 Perfect weather.
• 00:29:25 our perfect temperature at least at all times.

Luma

• 00:29:28 It’s all bundled up and looking real cozy.

Iva

• 00:29:31 Well, but it’s not just like…
• 00:29:35 Hmm.
• 00:29:35 This is going to be kind of…
• 00:29:35 Orbitz of the Luma.

Dungeon Master

• 00:29:39 - This is kind of an important question.
• 00:29:42 Is this an all the time thing?
• 00:29:44 Or is this just like when you’re out and it’s cold
• 00:29:46 and you’re traveling with these people?

Luma

• 00:29:48 Um…

Dungeon Master

• 00:29:50 feel like you’d know that being perpetually 90 degrees is
• 00:29:53 probably a red flag.
• 00:29:56 to like normal people.

Luma

• 00:29:58 Yeah, but we talked about allowing it to be, like, put away
• 00:30:02 .

Dungeon Master

• 00:30:03 Yeah, you have, like, a special container that can
• 00:30:05 completely keep it from working.

Luma

• 00:30:08 Yeah.
• 00:30:08 Yeah, yeah.
• 00:30:08 She’s using it because of the people that she’s with.
• 00:30:11 Gotcha, gotcha, okay.
• 00:30:12 She does not leave that out all the time.
• 00:30:14 Gotcha.
• 00:30:16 And in fact…
• 00:30:16 This is the first trip that she’s had with it because she
• 00:30:17 made it in Argentum.

Dungeon Master

• 00:30:20 Yeah.
• 00:30:20 Yes.
• 00:30:21 Um,
• 00:30:23 But it is today
• 00:30:25 As you head away from the farm, much nicer in Luma’s
• 00:30:28 immediate proximity.

Hazel

• 00:30:31 but continual flame for giving off no heat.

Luma

• 00:30:34 Right?
• 00:30:36 Um…
• 00:30:38 During breakfast and such like that.
• 00:30:40 Would there have been enough time for
• 00:30:43 Both a ritual identify and a attunement.

Dungeon Master

• 00:30:48 Um,
• 00:30:49 Yeah, for sure.
• 00:30:51 For sure you could do both.
• 00:30:53 Also…
• 00:30:55 I guess I’ll leave it to you guys to make this decision.
• 00:30:59 Technically, if you spend an hour with a magic item…
• 00:31:02 which can be the hour you spend attuning to it.
• 00:31:04 You just learn what it does.
• 00:31:06 This is a mechanic that has always rubbed me the wrong way.
• 00:31:09 I think it’s boring, but it is how the game works.
• 00:31:12 Do you guys have a preference on that?

Hazel

• 00:31:14 Um,
• 00:31:17 I think it’s boring if it tells you if the item’s cursed or
• 00:31:21 not.
• 00:31:21 That’s my only…

Dungeon Master

• 00:31:23 I believe it does not tell you if it is cursed.

Luma

• 00:31:25 I was also into the question that the spending the hour
• 00:31:28 thing to learn what it does is part of attuning to it.
• 00:31:31 So you find out what it does, you are attuned to it, and if
• 00:31:34 it’s cursed, you’re fucked all at the same time.

Dungeon Master

• 00:31:36 But I think it does not tell you if it’s cursed, even.
• 00:31:39 That’s, I think…

Luma

• 00:31:40 Right, but you are now attuned to it,
• 00:31:42 and if it’s one of those you can’t unattune to it,
• 00:31:43 you’re fucked three-way sideways.
• 00:31:45 It’s like…
• 00:31:46 It’s a trade-off.

Dungeon Master

• 00:31:49 to me is I’ve always liked the idea of like,
• 00:31:51 you have this magic item that’s more than like,
• 00:31:53 of course, if you like fuck with a plus one sword,
• 00:31:56 I’m gonna tell you it’s a plus one sword.
• 00:31:58 But I’ve always liked the idea of a magic item
• 00:32:01 with like multiple or more subtle features
• 00:32:03 being things discovered over time.
• 00:32:05 through experience, or if you want to spend, like,
• 00:32:10 dedicated resources and identify.
• 00:32:13 but
• 00:32:14 I’m not super attached to that.
• 00:32:15 If you guys want it to be that you just know how the magic
• 00:32:18 item works when you…
• 00:32:20 fuck with it for an hour or attune to it, that’s totally
• 00:32:23 fine.
• 00:32:23 but I want to

Temerity

• 00:32:25 I don’t mind either way.

Iva

• 00:32:26 Resolve that.
• 00:32:27 I’m a firm vote.
• 00:32:29 I’m a firm believer in the I like to try it.

Luma

• 00:32:33 I’m a little biased because I have the Identify spell, but
• 00:32:37 …
• 00:32:37 I have two answers to that.
• 00:32:39 I like being able to have to spend time learning how an
• 00:32:43 item is.
• 00:32:43 I also am totally cool with
• 00:32:44 features not being discovered as part of the identify.
• 00:32:48 OK, and learning about them later by using.

Dungeon Master

• 00:32:51 uh,
• 00:32:52 I’ll keep that in mind however in this instance you do
• 00:32:54 learn what the hat does and how it works and you already
• 00:32:57 have the
• 00:32:58 The technical of that.

Luma

• 00:33:00 Yeah, I figured, because you gave me the text of it,
• 00:33:02 but I wanted to make sure I had the time to have on it.

Hazel

• 00:33:06 Sometimes you find a sword and it’s really cool when you
• 00:33:08 draw it, but like to you, I mean, the only thing it really
• 00:33:11 does is it gives you a cool cape.
• 00:33:12 - True.

Luma

• 00:33:14 No, it gives you a cool cape and a halo.
• 00:33:17 - True, true.

Dungeon Master

• 00:33:19 he he he
• 00:33:20 Um,
• 00:33:21 But anyway, during breakfast, you were able to identify the
• 00:33:25 hat.
• 00:33:26 You know exactly how it works and what it does.
• 00:33:28 And you attune to it and find it…
• 00:33:32 is laced with a subtle magic that just reminds you of this
• 00:33:35 place.

Luma

• 00:33:37 That is really cool.
• 00:33:39 She gives her a little swish.

Temerity

• 00:33:42 Hee hee hee hee.

Luma

• 00:33:44 it’s really pretty nostalgia every every chance Luma has
• 00:33:48 for the next like
• 00:33:49 week she’s doing the like tips hat swish hat
• 00:33:53 like she’s using the fuck
• 00:33:56 out of that hat

Temerity

• 00:33:57 um

Dungeon Master

• 00:34:02 And I know it isn’t what you asked for if you really wanted
• 00:34:05 to.
• 00:34:06 It doesn’t help you in any mechanical way.
• 00:34:09 There’s no reason you couldn’t sew your bag of holding up
• 00:34:12 in the top part of the hat.

Luma

• 00:34:14 I feel like when Luma has it, she does just stuff the bag
• 00:34:17 of holding in the space inside of the hat as a little
• 00:34:20 hiding spot.

Dungeon Master

• 00:34:23 Yeah.
• 00:34:23 And yeah.
• 00:34:24 You all head out.
• 00:34:25 You head out from the farm.
• 00:34:27 It’s cool, but around Luma, it’s nice.
• 00:34:30 It takes…
• 00:34:30 between one and two hours to get from the farm to, uh,
• 00:34:34 to Silverthorn, if you take a direct straight route, it’s
• 00:34:37 probably like an hour and a half.
• 00:34:39 Yeah.
• 00:34:41 And

Iva

• 00:34:43 if I can, like,
• 00:34:45 40 minutes away from the
• 00:34:48 farm.
• 00:34:49 Iva would be like, so I had a scary dream.

Temerity

• 00:34:52 Yeah.

Iva

• 00:34:54 a friend.
• 00:34:57 Well, this is a dream.
• 00:35:00 report.
• 00:35:01 Let me pull up my notes.

Luma

• 00:35:03 Mm-hmm.
• 00:35:06 What is it about the horrifying nightmare monster that we
• 00:35:08 fought?
• 00:35:09 ’Cause, you know, you and me both, buddy.

Hazel

• 00:35:11 Oh, yes, speaking of the horrifying nightmare monster.

Rhysaene

• 00:35:18 I won’t blame you for that.

Hazel

• 00:35:21 We should probably be ready for Silverthorn
• 00:35:23 to not be the most cheerful scene.
• 00:35:30 what could hardly be described as a town,
• 00:35:34 with like a population of two
• 00:35:37 Hazel doesn’t talk like that, what am I doing?

Temerity

• 00:35:39 Thank you.
• 00:35:40 Yeah.

Hazel

• 00:35:43 but,
• 00:35:45 the scarcely populated area, uh,
• 00:35:48 and they lost a member of their community that’s bound to
• 00:35:52 not be the most cheerful.
• 00:35:55 Thanks.
• 00:35:57 In any case, Iva, what was your dream?

Iva

• 00:36:02 I was standing in a big and stupid void.
• 00:36:08 And then the black poopy ooze, like the stuff that came out
• 00:36:11 of this fairy guy.
• 00:36:13 Started to crawl up me.
• 00:36:17 And then it was becoming hard to breathe.
• 00:36:20 And then I heard.
• 00:36:21 Iva, but the other Iva, not this Iva.
• 00:36:24 Diver, dead lantern, maybe?
• 00:36:28 Saying that she didn’t want to

Temerity

• 00:36:32 kind of like that guy.
• 00:36:35 Before he stabbed me.
• 00:36:36 We lose.
• 00:36:40 unique.
• 00:36:42 Sounds like that would be troubling.
• 00:36:47 Yeah, I can’t believe it.
• 00:36:51 Damani just looks
• 00:36:52 at Iva with like a bit of
• 00:36:54 A bit of pity in their eyes.
• 00:36:56 It’s just like…
• 00:36:57 or
• 00:36:58 creature that’s a person
• 00:37:01 that’s your ally that’s your
• 00:37:06 comrade no they don’t say that at all
• 00:37:11 creature
• 00:37:14 I don’t know.
• 00:37:15 Poor Cretan.

Rhysaene

• 00:37:17 I can’t believe he’s called a repeat.

Temerity

• 00:37:28 Thank goodness.
• 00:37:30 But, uh…
• 00:37:32 - Yeah, no.
• 00:37:34 Temerity uh
• 00:37:37 somebody will kind of like wrap an arm around Iva.
• 00:37:40 to give like I have a bit of
• 00:37:43 sense of security.
• 00:37:45 be like a
• 00:37:47 Um,
• 00:37:50 you went through a lot yesterday it’s understandable to
• 00:37:54 have a dream like that but you’re safe now

Iva

• 00:37:59 Iva nods and goes, as long as we’re sure that you know.
• 00:38:03 It’s not like, you know,
• 00:38:05 In fact, it’s.
• 00:38:07 Mm-hmm.

Luma

• 00:38:08 I don’t think that’s how the sorrow works.
• 00:38:11 Well, I didn’t consider that until you said that.

Hazel

• 00:38:13 hmm
• 00:38:17 - It’s a shame that you’re now, it’s a shame that you’re
• 00:38:21 She kind of gets like a…
• 00:38:25 Hazel gets, like, a shitty smile and says…
• 00:38:28 It’s a shame your warden identity is burned.
• 00:38:30 you may want to take up that being blessed by the silver
• 00:38:35 flame thing.
• 00:38:36 Ha ha ha.

Unidentified

• 00:38:40 I’ll see you next time.

Iva

• 00:38:44 Thank you very much.
• 00:38:45 At least I keep showing the lanterns.
• 00:38:47 this identity.

Temerity

• 00:38:49 I…
• 00:38:51 Thank you.
• 00:38:53 Don’t think that’s…
• 00:38:54 Good idea.
• 00:38:59 That’s why Iva wants to learn how to bake.
• 00:39:01 She’s going to become a baker.
• 00:39:04 Thank you.

Rhysaene

• 00:39:06 far more fuckin’ peaceful than what we’re doing.
• 00:39:10 Yeah.

Temerity

• 00:39:12 Yeah.

Hazel

• 00:39:15 I…
• 00:39:17 would
• 00:39:21 I would keep what you’ve…
• 00:39:24 what you saw in your dreams.
• 00:39:28 To heart, though, understand that they are also trickeries
• 00:39:31 of the mind.
• 00:39:32 There are those that believe that they offer
• 00:39:37 some form of portent.
• 00:39:40 Um,
• 00:39:43 yet they can also just be
• 00:39:46 manifestations of
• 00:39:49 emotions that we have yet to confront.
• 00:39:52 She pats Iva on the back.

Temerity

• 00:39:54 I can’t do it.

Dungeon Master

• 00:40:09 Is there anything else from Iva or any of you in this
• 00:40:13 conversation?

Rhysaene

• 00:40:15 I’ll take out my lyre as we walk along
• 00:40:17 and I’ll just play something soothing for Iva.

Temerity

• 00:40:21 - No.
• 00:40:21 - He’s playing Frère Jacques.
• 00:40:24 Yeah.
• 00:40:25 Harry, can somebody play Ave Maria?
• 00:40:28 Oh, I can do that.
• 00:40:32 It’s a stupid reference.

Dungeon Master

• 00:40:33 Ave Maria.
• 00:40:36 um
• 00:40:37 You guys make it into Silverthorn.
• 00:40:39 I don’t have a map of Silverthorn.
• 00:40:41 And that’s because Silverthorn is not like Crick’s Bend.
• 00:40:45 It is…
• 00:40:45 Maybe 8 to 10 houses.
• 00:40:48 that are just happen to be close together.
• 00:40:51 There’s a worn dirt path that runs to the south, which…
• 00:40:56 Hazel, you know for sure, but the rest of you can easily
• 00:40:58 deduce is the way to the road.
• 00:41:01 which Silverthorn is not on.
• 00:41:04 Um,
• 00:41:05 Because Silverthorn sits on the river.

Temerity

• 00:41:08 Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 00:41:10 Um,
• 00:41:11 The fog has mostly lifted…
• 00:41:13 Um, and there is kind of, uh, the people here don’t know it
• 00:41:17 .
• 00:41:17 But they are benefiting now from the protection
• 00:41:20 of the wards the coven has placed on this area.
• 00:41:25 There’s a little lightness in people’s step.
• 00:41:27 People’s moods seem to be decent, not cheery,
• 00:41:30 Not.
• 00:41:31 anything like Freya, but not
• 00:41:33 Not dour.
• 00:41:36 But even so, it’s still very quiet, people kind of doing
• 00:41:41 chores in their own yards.
• 00:41:43 Um,
• 00:41:43 There’s a dog kind of, like, wandering in one of the yards,
• 00:41:47 like a…
• 00:41:48 I don’t know dog breeds, but he’s brown with big floppy
• 00:41:52 ears, and he’s a mid-sized dog, and he looks really old.

Temerity

• 00:41:55 Hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 00:41:58 - He’s his best friend.
• 00:41:59 Some kind of hound, certainly.
• 00:42:02 Peace, peace, peace.

Hazel

• 00:42:04 I would imagine that
• 00:42:06 Uh…
• 00:42:07 That being a weirdo animal lover who also has been…
• 00:42:12 To Silverthorn many times, Hazel probably knows the dog
• 00:42:16 the best.
• 00:42:18 I think that’s probably true.

Dungeon Master

• 00:42:20 Um,
• 00:42:22 you know that the dog is, uh,
• 00:42:26 Old Orf, O-R-F.
• 00:42:28 Old Orphan, his whole name.
• 00:42:30 And his name has been Old Orf since he was not old.
• 00:42:35 Um,
• 00:42:36 as though the owner, a very old man himself, a farmer,
• 00:42:40 Um,
• 00:42:41 was prophetic in knowing that the dog’s, like, vibes were
• 00:42:45 just that of a…

Temerity

• 00:42:47 of an old man.

Dungeon Master

• 00:42:48 I think the dog would be old.
• 00:42:52 He knew the dog would be old one day,
• 00:42:53 but he also somehow knew that the dog
• 00:42:55 would give the impression that it was older than it is.
• 00:42:58 This is not some supernatural dog. It doesn’t have the
• 00:43:02 strange kind of aura that the tomcat that lives on Hazel’s
• 00:43:05 farm does.
• 00:43:06 It’s just a dog, and it just looks older than it is.
• 00:43:10 And he’s called Old Orf, because as you pass by, he kind
• 00:43:12 of looks up at the party, kind of gives a sniff, and goes

Hazel

• 00:43:16 …
• 00:43:16 Woof, woof.
• 00:43:18 He he he he.
• 00:43:20 He’s a little…
• 00:43:23 Hazel would, like, get down on…
• 00:43:25 on her on her on her knees and do the like and do the the
• 00:43:29 double
• 00:43:29 scritch behind the ears and just feel and like like
• 00:43:35 just give the whole nine yards of the thing
• 00:43:39 and be like, hello, Orff.
• 00:43:41 Hello, old Orf.

Temerity

• 00:43:42 In the mood, in the mood.

Iva

• 00:43:44 and Hazel goes over

Temerity

• 00:43:49 over

Dungeon Master

• 00:43:49 um
• 00:43:52 as you as you like as you as you scratch the ear the the
• 00:43:56 neck of old orphan and he licks your face
• 00:43:58 you hear a voice come from the porch behind
• 00:44:01 um, coming out from under an old straw hat that’s covered
• 00:44:04 in a little bit of, like,
• 00:44:06 Um, like
• 00:44:07 wheat dust
• 00:44:09 Um,

Rhysaene

• 00:44:11 “Hazel, is that you?”
• 00:44:12 Hee hee hee!

Hazel

• 00:44:14 They don’t like…
• 00:44:16 Snaps back the reality.

Dungeon Master

• 00:44:19 You bother my dang dog again, Hazel.

Hazel

• 00:44:26 Yeah.
• 00:44:27 I was, I was.
• 00:44:29 We were engaged in a, we are engaged in a gripping

Dungeon Master

• 00:44:33 conversation.
• 00:44:33 Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 00:44:39 Been a while since I seen you around Silverthorn, Azle.
• 00:44:44 It brings you into town.

Hazel

• 00:44:46 Um,
• 00:44:48 Not.
• 00:44:50 uh,
• 00:44:51 Mm-hm.
• 00:44:52 I’m not here to be, I’m not here to, to, to, to,
• 00:44:56 Pedal pelts, I haven’t done that in a while.
• 00:45:00 Um,
• 00:45:01 I am
• 00:45:05 I’m here with
• 00:45:08 One of my allies who wished to
• 00:45:11 um,
• 00:45:13 Allies is a bad word. One of my comrades.
• 00:45:16 That’s a bad word.
• 00:45:16 One of my friends…
• 00:45:20 Uh,
• 00:45:21 I feel like that was fully in character.
• 00:45:23 Uh-huh.
• 00:45:24 Uh-huh.
• 00:45:26 uh,
• 00:45:29 who
• 00:45:30 wished to get the lay of the land here and

Dungeon Master

• 00:45:34 He interrupts you.
• 00:45:35 Says, what, can he adopt a bunch more kids?
• 00:45:38 laughing

Hazel

• 00:45:40 She’ll laugh at that.
• 00:45:46 No, no, I’ve
• 00:45:47 believe she may be far too old for that these days.
• 00:45:51 Don’t tell her I said that.

Dungeon Master

• 00:45:51 - You gotta look very old.
• 00:45:55 and he could be into a guy just saying
• 00:45:58 woods and stuff and
• 00:46:00 his back
• 00:46:03 One more.
• 00:46:05 Sorry, what…
• 00:46:07 What brought you to town?
• 00:46:09 Thank you.

Hazel

• 00:46:11 My friend wants to map the area.

Dungeon Master

• 00:46:14 - Oh!
• 00:46:15 Hello, I’m friend.
• 00:46:17 You are one of them artographers?
• 00:46:20 Yes.

Luma

• 00:46:22 I like that.
• 00:46:24 I’m an artographer.

Dungeon Master

• 00:46:25 There’s lots of…
• 00:46:27 There ain’t much art around here.
• 00:46:29 We do got a few carts.
• 00:46:31 Oh, it’s Cartographer.
• 00:46:34 Like the carts you use when you go around mapping.

Luma

• 00:46:37 No, no, it’s fine.
• 00:46:37 Artographer is great.

Dungeon Master

• 00:46:40 I knew I was smarter than they said I was.

Rhysaene

• 00:46:44 I don’t know how to win this one’s book.
• 00:46:47 She looks down at Luma.
• 00:46:50 As you said, I think that’s the preferred title in this one
• 00:46:56 ’s book.

Luma

• 00:46:56 Yeah, it is now.

Dungeon Master

• 00:46:58 Well, map away, I suppose.
• 00:47:01 Oh, thank you.

Luma

• 00:47:04 Oh.
• 00:47:05 Nobody ever gives me permission, they usually just yell at
• 00:47:07 me.

Dungeon Master

• 00:47:08 Well…
• 00:47:09 Mm-hmm.
• 00:47:10 you
• 00:47:11 Harass my poor dog and I’ll yell at you.

Luma

• 00:47:14 Hazel smiles.
• 00:47:19 That’s Hazel’s job.

Rhysaene

• 00:47:21 It sure seems to be…
• 00:47:24 Yeah.

Luma

• 00:47:27 has been and is currently like
• 00:47:31 taking notes.

Dungeon Master

• 00:47:32 Yeah.
• 00:47:33 Mapping the town of Silverthorn.
• 00:47:37 would take an average cartographer maybe an hour if they
• 00:47:43 wanted to have every tree detailed.
• 00:47:47 It is a task that is trivial for Luma in every sense of the
• 00:47:52 word.
• 00:47:52 There’s just nothing here.
• 00:47:54 You can expand out and get the area around the river
• 00:47:59 Including down all the way to the road is probably a couple
• 00:48:04 miles…
• 00:48:04 So that would take a bit longer.
• 00:48:07 But just Silverthorn, you’re basically done before you
• 00:48:10 start.

Luma

• 00:48:11 It’s pretty clear that Luma had every intention of marking
• 00:48:15 every single tree
• 00:48:17 she has a little like cloth ruler and is ready and then
• 00:48:22 realizes that
• 00:48:22 It’s not just her here.
• 00:48:23 So she settles on like
• 00:48:26 an overview map for now.

Dungeon Master

• 00:48:28 The bigger trees.

Luma

• 00:48:29 bigger trees. She can’t help herself
• 00:48:31 at some points, like big important trees
• 00:48:33 she includes.

Dungeon Master

• 00:48:37 Uh…
• 00:48:37 If you’re mapping the area, I will point out that Dang
• 00:48:41 Bridge is up north.
• 00:48:43 Doesn’t go nowhere, but it’s up north.

Luma

• 00:48:46 There’s a bridge there, oh.

Dungeon Master

• 00:48:47 Well, north-east.
• 00:48:49 on the river
• 00:48:51 About three miles, so.

Luma

• 00:48:55 It doesn’t go anywhere.

Dungeon Master

• 00:48:56 Well, it goes north of the river, but that takes you, you
• 00:48:59 know, out of the…
• 00:49:01 out of the valley
• 00:49:02 down the old road.

Luma

• 00:49:05 I don’t have that much paper.
• 00:49:08 Luma says like a liar.
• 00:49:09 She clearly does not want to go past the boundaries of the
• 00:49:14 veil.

Dungeon Master

• 00:49:17 um,
• 00:49:19 He says,

Temerity

• 00:49:22 Hazel, did you know Margaret?

Hazel

• 00:49:27 Mm-hmm.
• 00:49:31 not
• 00:49:31 - Bye.
• 00:49:34 Not by name, but I’m…
• 00:49:38 - Sure.
• 00:49:39 Yeah.
• 00:49:41 I’m sure, I’m sure I’ve,
• 00:49:43 I’ve, I’ve, I’ve, I’ve, I’ve,
• 00:49:45 I’ve spoken to her or sold things to her.

Dungeon Master

• 00:49:49 You and Hecate and the other ladies from up down the farm
• 00:49:54 …
• 00:49:54 you come and going on all the time.
• 00:49:57 You ain’t seen…
• 00:49:59 Old Doug have you.
• 00:50:01 Margaret’s been looking for him for a couple days now.
• 00:50:05 Ugh.
• 00:50:06 I get it.

Hazel

• 00:50:07 i can’t say no because i can’t i can’t lie

Luma

• 00:50:12 did you know the person that we killed
• 00:50:18 I…
• 00:50:19 Did we know that his name was Doug?

Dungeon Master

• 00:50:22 you
• 00:50:23 You didn’t know his name was Doug.
• 00:50:25 You know that a farmer went missing and his wife was
• 00:50:29 worried.
• 00:50:30 You don’t know the guy’s name was Doug.

Luma

• 00:50:32 Okay, so we’re operating up in context, please, all right.
• 00:50:34 Yeah.

Hazel

• 00:50:37 Um,
• 00:50:41 Oh, man.
• 00:50:42 It’s always the, like…
• 00:50:44 It’s always the…
• 00:50:48 The…
• 00:50:51 And then…
• 00:50:53 The like bet to the self being like, is this going, am I
• 00:50:56 gonna…
• 00:50:59 Am I going to have to roll a deception off this?
• 00:51:03 I mean, if you’re a YR,
• 00:51:06 Uh-huh.
• 00:51:08 Um,

Iva

• 00:51:14 I always ask Guy, but a lie for you.

Temerity

• 00:51:16 No, I’m not gonna do that.

Hazel

• 00:51:20 Ah…
• 00:51:28 Uh…
• 00:51:29 hazel just go hmm that’s
• 00:51:32 That’s no good.
• 00:51:35 especially not this far north.
• 00:51:39 - Mm-hmm.
• 00:51:41 Uh,
• 00:51:43 But she will kind of skirt.
• 00:51:46 The answer.
• 00:51:49 Which will just be like…
• 00:51:50 That’s not good, and hoping that he drops it.

Dungeon Master

• 00:51:54 He kind of, like, waits for an answer, and when one doesn’t
• 00:51:57 come, he said, he kind of just, like…
• 00:52:01 Goes back to chewing on, like, a toothpick.

Temerity

• 00:52:09 um,
• 00:52:13 laughs

Hazel

• 00:52:15 This is it.
• 00:52:17 Well, anyways, some weather we’re having.
• 00:52:20 Nice that the fog’s been cleared, you know?

Dungeon Master

• 00:52:23 oh yeah nice and dang fog’s cleared been bothering me for
• 00:52:27 days
• 00:52:27 Maybe Doug got lost in it.
• 00:52:30 Oh.
• 00:52:31 No, no.

Rhysaene

• 00:52:32 Hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 00:52:34 Maybe.

Hazel

• 00:52:35 Uh,

Dungeon Master

• 00:52:37 Luma, how’s that map going there?

Rhysaene

• 00:52:40 Thank you.
• 00:52:41 Well, make sure to keep an eye out.

Dungeon Master

• 00:52:43 Well, oh my goodness, you’re not riding a horse.

Rhysaene

• 00:52:47 No, I am not.

Unidentified

• 00:52:50 Oh.

Temerity

• 00:52:52 It’s a fine thing to you, ma’am.

Hazel

• 00:52:55 - By the flame, you’re told.
• 00:52:58 It’s quite a large valley.

Rhysaene

• 00:53:04 - Let’s say.
• 00:53:08 Nice to meet you too, old fella.

Temerity

• 00:53:12 You’re not riding a horse.

Luma

• 00:53:17 Yeah.
• 00:53:18 Oh, that’s good.

Rhysaene

• 00:53:18 I’ll step in.
• 00:53:20 Just, uh, just, um…
• 00:53:24 Oh, God.
• 00:53:25 Hazel, look up.
• 00:53:27 Does Hazel look uncomfortable?

Hazel

• 00:53:31 Oh.
• 00:53:32 I mean,
• 00:53:35 It’s…
• 00:53:36 It’s not that she’s like, she’s not
• 00:53:40 uncomfortable.
• 00:53:41 especially not anymore now that we’ve seen to kind of
• 00:53:46 skirt around the subject.
• 00:53:48 Which seemed a little uncomfortable when they were talking
• 00:53:51 about, uh…
• 00:53:53 Another guy you went missing.

Rhysaene

• 00:53:55 Okay, okay, okay.
• 00:53:56 I’ll trot a little bit in front of Hazel and…
• 00:54:01 You can look at central…

Temerity

• 00:54:02 i assume hazel would be uncomfortable yes you can touch my
• 00:54:07 fur you don’t have to ask

Rhysaene

• 00:54:15 Um,
• 00:54:19 Just eyes on me.
• 00:54:22 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
• 00:54:27 Hello.
• 00:54:27 You know, with, you know, with,
• 00:54:29 You know how fucking hard it is to find someone with an
• 00:54:32 accent?
• 00:54:32 I’m in platinum country.
• 00:54:35 - Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 00:54:36 Yeah.
• 00:54:38 Oh well.
• 00:54:39 Uh, I think it’s pretty common out this way.

Rhysaene

• 00:54:43 Beautiful.
• 00:54:47 How long you been out here?

Dungeon Master

• 00:54:50 Oh, well, about
• 00:54:51 About 60-some years, born out here.
• 00:54:55 My pappy was born out here.

Rhysaene

• 00:54:57 And you’re a fucking stunner, Steel.

Dungeon Master

• 00:55:00 I’m
• 00:55:05 I ain’t been said that about me and…
• 00:55:09 And I don’t…
• 00:55:11 a good number of harvests now but i won’t refuse to
• 00:55:14 compliment that
• 00:55:15 that nice from
• 00:55:17 uh,
• 00:55:18 a woman so much taller than me.
• 00:55:21 Yo he’s real as fuck

Rhysaene

• 00:55:24 I’ll give my scarf to you old man

Dungeon Master

• 00:55:31 I tip my hat and he
• 00:55:33 Tips’s straw hat at it.

Rhysaene

• 00:55:36 I’ll see you next time.
• 00:55:39 Mm-hmm.
• 00:55:42 Luma, did you want to map the area?

Luma

• 00:55:45 Yeah, I have been. It’s all in my head.

Rhysaene

• 00:55:47 - Right.
• 00:55:49 We going to move on?

Luma

• 00:55:50 Oh yeah, I’ve got to walk around a whole bunch.
• 00:55:52 Oh, God, Joaquin.

Temerity

• 00:55:54 You know,

Rhysaene

• 00:55:59 get on my back
• 00:56:00 with my
• 00:56:04 13 strike time
• 00:56:05 Is it okay if I pick you up?

Luma

• 00:56:08 Oh, yeah.
• 00:56:09 A little bit up.
• 00:56:11 don’t resist. It’s like, well, I’m up here now.
• 00:56:14 That was fun.

Rhysaene

• 00:56:15 Thank you.
• 00:56:16 - Sure is.

Luma

• 00:56:20 She will return immediately back to drawing and writing now
• 00:56:24 with a higher perch she can see further.

Dungeon Master

• 00:56:27 Your perspective is much
• 00:56:30 enhanced and with this new perspective
• 00:56:31 you see the like 8
• 00:56:34 to 10 houses that kind of like
• 00:56:35 basically like a little, like almost like a
• 00:56:38 cul-de-sac in the middle of nowhere.
• 00:56:40 um,
• 00:56:41 One of the houses sits a little farther away
• 00:56:44 not like far, couple hundred feet,
• 00:56:47 But from up upon Rhys’s back, you can see…
• 00:56:52 standing on the porch kind of pacing back and forth uh a
• 00:56:55 the figure of like a woman
• 00:56:59 Um,
• 00:57:00 just pacing.
• 00:57:01 back and forth on her porch.

Luma

• 00:57:06 Oh, fuck.
• 00:57:08 That’s smart.

Rhysaene

• 00:57:09 Is that Margaret?
• 00:57:09 Margaret?

Luma

• 00:57:11 And that lady looks really worried.
• 00:57:13 Oh, Hazel’s frowns.
• 00:57:16 Okay.

Iva

• 00:57:22 I says.
• 00:57:24 - Do you think?
• 00:57:25 Doug would be a stabby kind of person, we could go find him
• 00:57:28 .

Hazel

• 00:57:36 I’m just kind of like…
• 00:57:37 This…
• 00:57:39 Do you not
• 00:57:41 Wait.
• 00:57:43 Fuck, we’re still in front of that guy.

Temerity

• 00:57:45 We can walk over.

Hazel

• 00:57:47 Dude.
• 00:57:52 Iva, a moment.
• 00:57:53 - -
• 00:57:55 I missed the sign of Hazel.
• 00:58:00 Doug was the man that was corrupted by the sorrow.

Temerity

• 00:58:06 We have.

Dungeon Master

• 00:58:11 Can you say that again, Bruce?
• 00:58:12 Don’t stab me.

Hazel

• 00:58:16 third.
• 00:58:17 And so.
• 00:58:18 Oh, so yes.

Luma

• 00:58:22 in the most technical sense.

Hazel

• 00:58:24 What was dubbed that stabbed you?

Temerity

• 00:58:30 Well, how do you get like that?

Iva

• 00:58:37 Weren’t you a light warden?
• 00:58:40 -
• 00:58:42 like that in our gym though.
• 00:58:44 Yee.

Hazel

• 00:58:47 Fair, I suppose.
• 00:58:49 The sorrow corrupts you, turns you into those…
• 00:58:52 Creatures.
• 00:58:54 Did you not see him transform?

Iva

• 00:58:57 Yeah, but I thought that was just kind of like
• 00:58:59 - Propaganda.
• 00:59:01 Sigh.

Hazel

• 00:59:01 No.
• 00:59:03 Oh, man.
• 00:59:07 I was a sorrow tanky.
• 00:59:09 Like, what is this?

Dungeon Master

• 00:59:13 I’m not pro-mage, I’m pro-Sorrowsworn, actually.

Hazel

• 00:59:22 Propagant? No.

Iva

• 00:59:26 But none of the mages I helped ever exploded into.
• 00:59:30 Like, he wasn’t a mage.
• 00:59:33 Wait, why are we hunting mages?

Temerity

• 00:59:39 that’s like the most
• 00:59:41 unimportant
• 00:59:42 you don’t know

Dungeon Master

• 00:59:45 your own
• 00:59:46 your own book
• 00:59:48 - I don’t know.
• 00:59:49 I do wanna add in that while Iva’s level of being unin
• 00:59:54 formed is wild in general,
• 00:59:58 Some of it comes from a reasonable place.
• 01:00:01 Everyone has heard that those who succumb to the sorrow
• 01:00:04 become sorrowsworn.
• 01:00:06 and that there’s nothing more dangerous than a Sorrowsworn
• 01:00:10 .
• 01:00:10 But none of you have ever seen that happen.
• 01:00:12 Yeah.
• 01:00:14 You, you, it is, it is virtually unheard of.
• 01:00:18 It is the role of the Inquisition purifiers specifically to
• 01:00:22 deal with SorrowSworn, but
• 01:00:23 they are incredibly rare.
• 01:00:27 Hazel.
• 01:00:27 you may have heard Hecate mention having had to interact
• 01:00:31 with one at some point in your youth. Luma
• 01:00:34 There were always, like, looming fears that a Sorrowsworn
• 01:00:38 could maybe, like…
• 01:00:40 wander in from the mountain pass that Erhadell is so close to
• 01:00:46 .
• 01:00:46 or maybe with how far out you are someone could turn, but
• 01:00:50 that’s why
• 01:00:50 the community sticks together and then checks on each other
• 01:00:54 is to prevent that happen but
• 01:00:56 for all the chances that the two of you specifically have
• 01:00:59 more
• 01:01:01 tangential knowledge of
• 01:01:03 these things than others might.
• 01:01:05 Neither of you have ever seen one or know for sure of
• 01:01:09 anyone who has.
• 01:01:11 Oh, even.
• 01:01:12 even like the legend of
• 01:01:16 Eliath.
• 01:01:17 is that he fought a sorrow corrupted bear, not a sorrow
• 01:01:20 corrupted person.
• 01:01:21 Right.
• 01:01:23 Er, no, no, no, sorry. You saw the guy fight the bear.
• 01:01:26 Eliath fought off, like, some kind of incursion of sorrow-
• 01:01:29 corrupted things.

Luma

• 01:01:31 Yeah, I don’t.
• 01:01:32 I never really included anything specific just that Eliath
• 01:01:35 was like the defender of the town before they had the wall.

Dungeon Master

• 01:01:38 Yeah.
• 01:01:40 Um, it’s badass.
• 01:01:42 Maybe, maybe Eliath thought of Sorrowsworn.
• 01:01:45 But,
• 01:01:47 um,
• 01:01:48 You’ve never seen one and you’ve never like one has not
• 01:01:51 attacked Erhadell since you’ve been there.
• 01:01:55 Um.
• 01:01:56 So, Iva not knowing this is…
• 01:01:59 not
• 01:01:59 Not a great sign for Iva’s level of information, especially
• 01:02:03 as a late warden, but it’s also not completely out of
• 01:02:06 nowhere is what I was trying to get at.
• 01:02:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hazel

• 01:02:10 No, no.
• 01:02:11 Hazel’s in-character confusion.

Iva

• 01:02:13 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 01:02:16 I was just far more concerned with helping people
• 01:02:20 You don’t.
• 01:02:22 The propaganda.

Temerity

• 01:02:24 He he he he.

Rhysaene

• 01:02:25 Toot, toot.

Iva

• 01:02:28 uh,

Unidentified

• 01:02:31 This is

Hazel

• 01:02:33 Shit, where were we?

Dungeon Master

• 01:02:35 Luma had seen Margaret Fletcher…
• 01:02:39 Though you don’t know that’s her name.
• 01:02:42 I guess you do know that’s her name or can infer it.
• 01:02:44 pacing back and forth upon her porch in the distance.

Iva

• 01:02:49 Yeah.
• 01:02:50 to be helping you find

Hazel

• 01:02:55 It will not help her find Doug.
• 01:02:58 She says very visibly upset by her saying that.

Iva

• 01:03:04 - Well, we got to the, oh, don’t stab.
• 01:03:07 Yeah.
• 01:03:09 Can you hear me the one?
• 01:03:10 31.

Hazel

• 01:03:13 I have no idea what you said.
• 01:03:15 I have no idea what you said, yeah.
• 01:03:16 Oh, sorry.

Iva

• 01:03:18 Whispering ’cause I was whispering, but.
• 01:03:21 So, in a fall.
• 01:03:22 uh,
• 01:03:24 Iris says…
• 01:03:27 If done turned into one, how would
• 01:03:29 I will turn into one.
• 01:03:31 I’m having bad dreams.
• 01:03:33 Tommy.

Temerity

• 01:03:36 Hazel shrugs and says, I have bad dreams.

Luma

• 01:03:42 stuck the leak on you.

Hazel

• 01:03:46 Hazel shrugs and says, well…
• 01:03:48 I suppose we don’t know for sure.

Iva

• 01:03:51 Yeah.

Luma

• 01:03:56 ’cause I learned it’s not propaganda.

Iva

• 01:03:58 Yeah.

Luma

• 01:04:01 and that’s why

Rhysaene

• 01:04:08 It’s

Hazel

• 01:04:11 Pick it. Yo.
• 01:04:14 you’ll get through this and she’ll,
• 01:04:16 .
• 01:04:17 Pat, I’m on the back.

Iva

• 01:04:21 - Please.
• 01:04:21 Um,
• 01:04:22 It’ll be shown some radicalizing rotating mages.

Temerity

• 01:04:26 I’m sorry.
• 01:04:28 Mm-hmm.
• 01:04:32 Um,
• 01:04:36 Well,
• 01:04:39 Huuu.
• 01:04:40 do

Hazel

• 01:04:42 And that

Temerity

• 01:04:43 Yeah.

Iva

• 01:04:47 So,
• 01:04:48 Should we at least go tell her her husband died?

Hazel

• 01:04:51 How would we know that?
• 01:04:56 Joseph Baeta: Oh.

Temerity

• 01:04:58 There would be no body.
• 01:05:04 I made sure of that.

Hazel

• 01:05:10 Unfortunately, and she kind of
• 01:05:12 looks back at
• 01:05:15 uh,
• 01:05:16 And Margaret, and she says, I unfortunately think that we
• 01:05:19 must
• 01:05:21 We have to
• 01:05:24 we have to let her believe that her husband
• 01:05:27 went off into the
• 01:05:29 went off into the woods, got lost,
• 01:05:33 inevitably perish to the elements.

Rhysaene

• 01:05:37 I’m not sure.
• 01:05:39 Um,
• 01:05:40 Dwayne.
• 01:05:41 Do all of us like to hear that?

Hazel

• 01:05:44 Yeah, sure.
• 01:05:45 We all could have
• 01:05:47 could have left
• 01:05:48 Could have could have left.
• 01:05:50 The guy.

Rhysaene

• 01:05:51 Mm-hmm.

Temerity

• 01:05:58 Huh?

Rhysaene

• 01:05:59 I mean…
• 01:06:03 if
• 01:06:05 If I lost someone, even someone had the…
• 01:06:11 Information.
• 01:06:16 I would want to know.

Hazel

• 01:06:18 Yes, as I’m sure all of us would, but we don’t
• 01:06:21 but we have no reason to know that information.
• 01:06:28 It…
• 01:06:30 I’ll wait.
• 01:06:32 All it does is…
• 01:06:35 is invite suspicion and questions and oh, can we, can I see
• 01:06:39 him?
• 01:06:40 Things like that.
• 01:06:41 Hazel is saying all this stuff and it’s very cruel,
• 01:06:44 but she is very clearly very upset when she is saying this.
• 01:06:48 Hmm.
• 01:06:49 Uh.
• 01:06:50 Heh heh heh heh.
• 01:06:50 laughs
• 01:06:52 Unfortunately, we are not
• 01:06:55 We do not have the liberty of
• 01:07:00 of giving that information.
• 01:07:02 And if you want to give that information,
• 01:07:03 then you should join the wardens.

Rhysaene

• 01:07:09 Mm.
• 01:07:12 I’m not saying what you’ve
• 01:07:13 seen as wrong
• 01:07:18 Would a letter suffice?

Hazel

• 01:07:23 Yeah.
• 01:07:27 Let’s pose a letter.
• 01:07:30 I suppose we could send in an anonymous letter.

Luma

• 01:07:33 Mm-hmm.

Hazel

• 01:07:35 uh,

Temerity

• 01:07:39 And this person thinks somebody took Doug hostage.
• 01:07:42 Yeah, it’s a ransom note.
• 01:07:44 Like, just wildly misinterpreted.
• 01:07:49 It just has an accidental
• 01:07:51 cipher that says we have your husband.

Rhysaene

• 01:07:53 It has 50
• 01:07:55 platinum anvils in two
• 01:07:57 days. Otherwise, he’s
• 01:07:59 gone.

Temerity

• 01:08:00 He’s fucking gone.
• 01:08:05 Thank you.
• 01:08:06 The first word of every sentence.

Iva

• 01:08:10 ’cause this is better than what my plan was.
• 01:08:12 I was gonna say,
• 01:08:14 i’m doug and then you know tell her i love ready for

Temerity

• 01:08:19 Wow.
• 01:08:20 That’s awesome.
• 01:08:23 I know.

Rhysaene

• 01:08:26 But then he’s looking for him.

Temerity

• 01:08:29 No.

Rhysaene

• 01:08:31 That’s crueler than not fucking telling her.
• 01:08:34 that’s
• 01:08:35 - -
• 01:08:37 this is why
• 01:08:40 this is me
• 01:08:41 this is me

Hazel

• 01:08:42 I don’t know. There’s also the possibility that she might
• 01:08:47 like…
• 01:08:47 She might like…
• 01:08:48 think of the anonymous letter being like,
• 01:08:51 sorry, your husband’s dead,
• 01:08:53 is like some form of gang stalking.

Temerity

• 01:08:56 - No!

Rhysaene

• 01:08:59 I choose to believe this world is bright and they will
• 01:09:03 interpret our letter in the lightest and most kind-hearted
• 01:09:07 way possible.

Hazel

• 01:09:09 From a concerned citizen.

Luma

• 01:09:11 I couldn’t hide.
• 01:09:13 I could forge a seal.

Rhysaene

• 01:09:16 Huh?

Temerity

• 01:09:17 Thank you.
• 01:09:20 like it’s from the light wardens?
• 01:09:22 Yeah.
• 01:09:25 - That’s not a bad idea, actually.

Iva

• 01:09:26 - That’s not a bad idea, yeah.

Temerity

• 01:09:29 That would put her mind to rest, even if it’s terrible news
• 01:09:34 .
• 01:09:34 uh,
• 01:09:36 And it would be far less suspicious than just an anonymous
• 01:09:40 letter.
• 01:09:40 Thank you.
• 01:09:41 And then

Hazel

• 01:09:42 oh fuck we should have gotten the name of that one guy who
• 01:09:46 was who was ready to throw us under

Temerity

• 01:09:48 the bus we could have his name was devin i know his first
• 01:09:53 name was devin
• 01:09:56 - Warden Devyn, yeah.

Rhysaene

• 01:09:58 - Just say Mr. Devon.
• 01:10:00 Have it signed it as…

Luma

• 01:10:03 Weren’t those people
• 01:10:04 Going back to this town,
• 01:10:06 They’re going back to

Temerity

• 01:10:08 Somewhere.

Luma

• 01:10:09 they were they were rushing

Dungeon Master

• 01:10:14 They were rushed.
• 01:10:16 They were rushing back to Argentum to report an encounter
• 01:10:19 with a Sorrowsworn.
• 01:10:21 Yeah.

Hazel

• 01:10:23 And then if we have Devin write a letter saying…
• 01:10:28 Sorry, so sorry your husband died, lol.
• 01:10:32 uh,
• 01:10:33 What it could be is that it could also be like he might get
• 01:10:37 in trouble if she says anything.
• 01:10:39 He could get in trouble because it’s like you’re not
• 01:10:43 supposed to disclose encounters with the…

Dungeon Master

• 01:10:47 I will point out Devin was the
• 01:10:53 other light warden.
• 01:10:55 He was the chill one.
• 01:10:56 He was the chill one.

Temerity

• 01:10:58 I don’t remember the other one’s name.

Dungeon Master

• 01:11:01 They may have said it.
• 01:11:02 It was Harwick Stoll.

Temerity

• 01:11:05 or when you’re sold.

Dungeon Master

• 01:11:06 I don’t think they said it.
• 01:11:08 I don’t think they did either.

Temerity

• 01:11:09 I think they said Harwick.
• 01:11:11 Because I know that they said both of their…
• 01:11:13 first names, but I’ve got to swap.

Dungeon Master

• 01:11:18 But, no, you’d…
• 01:11:19 Yeah, Harwick was the asshole who wanted you all arrested.

Temerity

• 01:11:24 Yeah, that’s cool.

Dungeon Master

• 01:11:26 I’m so sorry, I have to be right back.

Temerity

• 01:11:30 Okay.
• 01:11:37 Oh, God.

Iva

• 01:11:39 -

Rhysaene

• 01:11:42 I’m trying to think of what

Dungeon Master

• 01:11:48 Um, Olivia, you are right.
• 01:11:49 They did, uh, the captain did say both of their names.
• 01:11:53 Their first names.

Temerity

• 01:11:55 So we have Harwick.

Rhysaene

• 01:11:57 Yes, you have hard work.
• 01:11:59 Okay, okay, like Warden Harwick.

Temerity

• 01:12:01 Yeah, there we go.
• 01:12:03 the fucker

Dungeon Master

• 01:12:04 Yeah, Harwick was the guy who wanted you all arrested,
• 01:12:07 regardless of the like…
• 01:12:09 other circumstances.

Temerity

• 01:12:10 It’s a murdery.
• 01:12:12 It’s plugging your ears at this point.

Dungeon Master

• 01:12:16 I’m laughing at this.

Rhysaene

• 01:12:18 Huh?

Dungeon Master

• 01:12:20 Why? You’re not going to be a light warden anymore.

Rhysaene

• 01:12:22 Yeah, you’re going to be a jacune.
• 01:12:24 Ha ha ha ha.

Dungeon Master

• 01:12:25 Yo, what’s up?
• 01:12:25 Yo, what’s up with that?
• 01:12:27 Oh, me.

Temerity

• 01:12:29 That’s just a different kind of light warden.

Dungeon Master

• 01:12:32 Part of the Order of the Lantern, they are not light ward
• 01:12:34 ens.

Temerity

• 01:12:35 You know, actually, yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 01:12:36 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 01:12:37 You’re right, you’re right.

Temerity

• 01:12:39 When you’re right, you’re right.

Rhysaene

• 01:12:41 When you’re right, you’re right.
• 01:12:42 Just be like, fuck them.
• 01:12:44 -

Temerity

• 01:12:45 just fuck

Rhysaene

• 01:12:45 you’re all
• 01:12:48 steps on the
• 01:12:50 pathway to my green
• 01:12:51 you are all

Temerity

• 01:12:58 stepping stones
• 01:12:59 do not get in the way of

Luma

• 01:13:03 fucking risk
• 01:13:04 waiting on a
• 01:13:07 mission
• 01:13:08 Yeah.

Iva

• 01:13:10 - Hey, what’s this?
• 01:13:12 If needed, Iva has proficiency with
• 01:13:15 Good.
• 01:13:16 or drink.
• 01:13:17 kids.

Luma

• 01:13:18 Uh, yeah, Luma has, has, uh,
• 01:13:24 has it as well.
• 01:13:26 She can--
• 01:13:27 herself.

Dungeon Master

• 01:13:28 That doesn’t mean one of you can help the other one of you.
• 01:13:32 Yeah, that’s okay.
• 01:13:34 Help.

Luma

• 01:13:35 Sorry, go ahead.

Dungeon Master

• 01:13:36 Help requires proficiency in 2024, so.

Luma

• 01:13:40 Ah.
• 01:13:41 Can I, can I use, uh,
• 01:13:44 an intelligence check for that.
• 01:13:47 - Oh, thank you. - Oh, thank you.

Iva

• 01:13:51 I remember looking at

Dungeon Master

• 01:13:53 up.
• 01:13:55 Let me look, because I think the forgery kit actually says
• 01:13:59 …
• 01:13:59 For me, it would depend on specific circumstances that I
• 01:14:03 haven’t
• 01:14:03 gone through in my head just yet, but I do want to look up
• 01:14:06 what the thing says also.

Temerity

• 01:14:09 Odds are I should help you.

Dungeon Master

• 01:14:14 Almost certainly. It’s not going to be a charisma check.
• 01:14:16 That much I know.

Iva

• 01:14:18 Best case scenario, it’s death.

Dungeon Master

• 01:14:21 It’s Dex or Intelligence.

Luma

• 01:14:23 I feel like it would be dex if I was trying to mimic
• 01:14:26 somebody’s handwriting and intelligence if I’m trying to
• 01:14:29 mimic like an official seal or something.

Dungeon Master

• 01:14:31 it will, well…
• 01:14:36 It’ll depend, but I also want to see what the tool says its
• 01:14:40 thing is
• 01:14:40 because the tools will tell you what you can do with them
• 01:14:43 and what DCs that has now.

Temerity

• 01:14:45 I have it.
• 01:14:47 Hold on, if you’d like me to read it out, unless you want
• 01:14:49 to look at it.
• 01:14:50 Uh…

Dungeon Master

• 01:14:53 I would like to look at it, but I’m like blanking.
• 01:14:55 I can’t find it.
• 01:15:00 So go ahead.

Temerity

• 01:15:01 Okay.
• 01:15:03 Ability, it says under 5e Tools, Player’s Handbook 2024.
• 01:15:08 Ability is Dexterity, Mimic 10 or fewer words of someone
• 01:15:12 else’s handwriting, DC 15, or Duplicate a Wax Seal, DC 20.
• 01:15:18 If you have proficiency with a tool,
• 01:15:19 add your proficiency bonus to any ability check
• 01:15:22 you make that uses the tool,
• 01:15:24 If you have proficiency in a skill that’s used with that
• 01:15:27 check,
• 01:15:27 you have advantage on the skill check too.

Dungeon Master

• 01:15:31 Um,
• 01:15:32 So it’s looking like…
• 01:15:34 Yeah, because that’s also kind of what I was thinking,
• 01:15:36 is I think I’d only have a forgery check be intelligence
• 01:15:39 if you were specifically trying to emulate, like, a
• 01:15:42 particular, like…
• 01:15:44 Like a legal document without having an example in front of

Luma

• 01:15:48 you.

Dungeon Master

• 01:15:48 OK.
• 01:15:49 Trying to, like, make an identical seal would be…
• 01:15:54 The position of your hand.

Luma

• 01:15:56 Then two questions, one,
• 01:15:58 Do we have
• 01:16:00 the lantern seal here, or has Luma seen it?

Dungeon Master

• 01:16:04 Iva has seen it.
• 01:16:07 um,
• 01:16:08 So Iva could do the…
• 01:16:11 Well, Iva has seen it, so Iva could provide that
• 01:16:16 information and
• 01:16:16 Like, the who gets to roll is up to you, too.
• 01:16:19 I haven’t seen it as good enough.

Luma

• 01:16:21 It’s different.
• 01:16:21 Has Luma seen it?

Dungeon Master

• 01:16:23 No.
• 01:16:25 I don’t think so.

Luma

• 01:16:26 Do either of the
• 01:16:28 light wardens here have an example of one?
• 01:16:31 like on their lantern or anything?
• 01:16:33 They would…
• 01:16:34 Ah, bird.

Dungeon Master

• 01:16:36 They have examples of the emblem…
• 01:16:39 Um,
• 01:16:42 Yeah, I don’t think it would be different.
• 01:16:44 So I think that, like, you know what the thing looks like
• 01:16:49 Um, because it is the same symbol, it’s the, the land, the
• 01:16:52 - Yeah.

Luma

• 01:16:54 Can I use my ink item creation magic
• 01:16:59 to make
• 01:17:00 a stamp.
• 01:17:02 And it’s no longer a forgery, it’s just a genuine stamp.

Dungeon Master

• 01:17:06 I’ll double check, but I don’t think so, because I don’t
• 01:17:09 think you…
• 01:17:09 I think you have to have seen the thing you’re creating
• 01:17:11 and I don’t think you’ve seen that stamp.

Luma

• 01:17:15 Well, if I’ve seen the thing, I can make the stamp out of
• 01:17:19 that.
• 01:17:19 I mean…

Dungeon Master

• 01:17:20 Well, I mean, you could,
• 01:17:23 You could make like a mold for a stamp and then cast a
• 01:17:26 stamp.
• 01:17:27 Well, no.
• 01:17:29 Let me look up the…
• 01:17:31 This is a lot to just avoid rolling a forgery check.

Luma

• 01:17:34 Well, I mean, I’ll roll the forgery check.
• 01:17:36 I’m just like, a DC 20 on a dexterity check is…
• 01:17:38 Nobody’s gonna be able to reliably make that.
• 01:17:41 That’s fucking wild.
• 01:17:42 I’m level four.

Dungeon Master

• 01:17:45 I will also be clear that
• 01:17:47 it’s not like a
• 01:17:50 There are other circumstances involved.
• 01:17:52 These are just kind of guidelines.
• 01:17:54 Like, for example, you’re not trying to fool
• 01:17:56 the Order of the Lantern with the…
• 01:17:58 True.
• 01:17:58 You’re trying to fool some farmer…

Iva

• 01:18:01 Yeah, we’re trying to fool some old lady in Sanskrit
• 01:18:05 instead.
• 01:18:05 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 01:18:06 these are like a, these are like a good quick baseline.
• 01:18:09 It’s probably going to be more like, um,
• 01:18:11 That versus her making, like, an intelligence check.

Luma

• 01:18:15 Okay.

Dungeon Master

• 01:18:15 Like your result versus her intelligence check.

Iva

• 01:18:19 That’s fine, I’ll just roll it.

Luma

• 01:18:22 What is your…
• 01:18:24 What is your dexterity, Bruce?

Iva

• 01:18:26 It would be proficiency.
• 01:18:28 - It would just be, I have a zero index.

Luma

• 01:18:30 - Okay, all right.
• 01:18:33 Oh, I’m calling my name.

Dungeon Master

• 01:18:34 Thanks, Roland.
• 01:18:36 So
• 01:18:37 The object must be one that you have seen.
• 01:18:39 And to me, that, like, you would have to have seen that
• 01:18:43 kind of stamp.
• 01:18:44 You could make a stamp you’ve seen.
• 01:18:46 You could make, like, the…
• 01:18:47 the Bureau of Mapping seal because you’ve seen it, but like
• 01:18:52 ,
• 01:18:52 to me means the specific object. Now,
• 01:18:54 As an avenue for expanding this ability in the future,
• 01:18:58 allowing you to branch out from things you have
• 01:19:00 specifically seen may be on the table.
• 01:19:02 But for now, I don’t think so.

Luma

• 01:19:04 Okay.
• 01:19:05 That’s fine.
• 01:19:06 I will roll a…
• 01:19:10 Uh, a 17
• 01:19:13 or a
• 01:19:15 23.
• 01:19:16 And for fucking jokes and giggles, we’re adding guidance to
• 01:19:21 that for a total of 26.

Dungeon Master

• 01:19:24 She cannot succeed on the fact
• 01:19:26 to realize that that is a forgery.
• 01:19:28 She is incapable of

Iva

• 01:19:31 I’ve been telling Luma that it’s actually like double
• 01:19:35 spaced.
• 01:19:35 The lantern or lantern and

Hazel

• 01:19:38 He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he.
• 01:19:41 they’re double spacing their handwritten notes.
• 01:19:43 It’s a very funny idea.
• 01:19:45 Uh-huh.
• 01:19:48 He’s here to read.

Luma

• 01:19:50 This was just for the wax seal to make it like an official
• 01:19:55 document.
• 01:19:55 Um,

Dungeon Master

• 01:19:56 Luckily, they don’t all use one style
• 01:19:58 of handwriting, so having to forge handwriting
• 01:20:00 is not something you would need to do for this.

Luma

• 01:20:02 Yeah.
• 01:20:04 Uh…
• 01:20:05 I feel like what are we going to write on this note?
• 01:20:10 Um,

Hazel

• 01:20:13 to those affected at the…
• 01:20:16 Order of the Lantern regret to inform you that…
• 01:20:22 Doug.
• 01:20:23 Douglas
• 01:20:24 Douglass.

Dungeon Master

• 01:20:26 Douglas, Douglas Fletcher.

Hazel

• 01:20:28 Douglas Fletcher,
• 01:20:29 uh,
• 01:20:31 was unfortunately found…
• 01:20:33 Mm-hmm.
• 01:20:35 like, passed away or something in the…
• 01:20:41 uh,
• 01:20:44 I mean,
• 01:20:45 in the
• 01:20:50 In the woods, not far from Silverthorn.
• 01:20:53 that was spotted by some kind of like scouting party or
• 01:20:57 something.

Rhysaene

• 01:20:58 Yeah.

Luma

• 01:20:59 Should we include a detail about
• 01:21:02 the fact that there’s no body.
• 01:21:04 Ha ha.
• 01:21:05 the body is being purified just in case or something.
• 01:21:09 I don’t know.

Rhysaene

• 01:21:10 Yeah.
• 01:21:12 and so

Hazel

• 01:21:13 That wouldn’t be a bad idea.
• 01:21:15 It could be, like, he had…
• 01:21:18 He had suffered wounds that, uh, made us have to purify the
• 01:21:21 body or something.

Luma

• 01:21:23 I’m sorry, yeah.
• 01:21:24 Okay, we’ll include that.
• 01:21:24 I just don’t want this lady to be like,
• 01:21:27 all right, I gotta go collect the body from Argentum or
• 01:21:29 some shit.
• 01:21:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Temerity

• 01:21:32 Show up with a very convincing wax seal.

Luma

• 01:21:36 Maybe we just like, oh, we don’t have a body here.

Hazel

• 01:21:38 What do you mean?
• 01:21:39 Maybe put, like, maybe…
• 01:21:41 Maybe we put, like, I don’t know, like a couple silver
• 01:21:43 pieces in there to be, like, the city of Argentum and the
• 01:21:49 Order of the Lantern deeply regretting his laws or
• 01:21:51 something.

Rhysaene

• 01:21:51 Yeah, would Platinum make it more official?

Hazel

• 01:21:54 Oh, God.
• 01:21:55 I think giving someone platinum for their husband getting
• 01:21:59 lost
• 01:21:59 would maybe be a little…

Dungeon Master

• 01:22:01 That’s a good way to make this lady think her husband was
• 01:22:05 grabbed by, like, the CIA.

Hazel

• 01:22:07 Uh-huh.

Iva

• 01:22:11 I don’t ask questions.

Luma

• 01:22:17 Wild-- yeah, all right.
• 01:22:17 Luma will write pretty much anything anybody tells her to
• 01:22:22 write.
• 01:22:22 Uh, yeah.
• 01:22:23 Once it’s been like fully agreed upon.
• 01:22:26 And then she’ll
• 01:22:28 I don’t know, what are we signing it with?

Iva

• 01:22:31 Oh.
• 01:22:33 We started with that dude’s name.

Temerity

• 01:22:34 Yeah, Light Warden.

Luma

• 01:22:36 Well, okay, that’s the only thing that I can’t, like…
• 01:22:39 We can’t just write off as being whatever, that’s a thing.

Rhysaene

• 01:22:43 Yeah, I…
• 01:22:45 I was going to say maybe, I mean, we’ve made it sound
• 01:22:47 official anyway, like

Hazel

• 01:22:50 You can just be like the watch.

Iva

• 01:22:52 The late morning.
• 01:22:54 - Hi, you both.

Hazel

• 01:22:55 Outpost. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 01:23:01 I’m thinking that they can find you.
• 01:23:04 Be like a…
• 01:23:06 we could be like Silverwatch or Thornwatch
• 01:23:09 one of the two
• 01:23:11 Thornwatch was the ones that sent the people out

Dungeon Master

• 01:23:14 Yeah, the people originally came from Thornwatch and Silver
• 01:23:17 watch is the one nearest to Silverthorn.

Luma

• 01:23:21 Oh, my God.
• 01:23:22 She’ll make it generically official with, like, Order of
• 01:23:25 the Lanterns, Solar Watch…
• 01:23:28 or Silver Watchtower or whatever, to just say it’s
• 01:23:30 from there rather than from a specific person.
• 01:23:33 Yeah.
• 01:23:34 uh,
• 01:23:35 Actually,
• 01:23:36 can we include in there the, the,
• 01:23:39 Fuckhead guy found the body.

Dungeon Master

• 01:23:42 The body was found by Light Warden…

Temerity

• 01:23:45 Douglas is he?
• 01:23:46 Douglas?
• 01:23:47 Douglas is the guy.
• 01:23:51 Harwick. Light Warden Harwick.
• 01:23:53 Light Warden Harwick.
• 01:23:55 I kept wanting to say Harpwick.

Rhysaene

• 01:23:56 I can’t believe Doug was found by Doug.

Luma

• 01:23:59 Who made the unfortunate decision to…
• 01:24:03 Purify the body on spot.
• 01:24:05 I’m going to make it his fault

Rhysaene

• 01:24:08 Temerity not being in the room
• 01:24:13 With this conversation

Hazel

• 01:24:14 We’re trying to give this woman
• 01:24:20 A
• 01:24:22 - A sense of closure, so yeah.
• 01:24:23 - A closure that she would never receive otherwise.
• 01:24:26 - True, yeah.

Iva

• 01:24:27 We’re doing good shit.

Rhysaene

• 01:24:28 Yeah, I don’t want to keep her an aneurysm.

Iva

• 01:24:32 This is also what got Iva in trouble.

Hazel

• 01:24:35 True. That was why I was going to be like,

Luma

• 01:24:38 maybe i shouldn’t do the forgery we don’t include we don’t
• 01:24:42 include hargrave then we just say that
• 01:24:45 who’s found
• 01:24:46 And,
• 01:24:47 But the
• 01:24:48 silver watch people leave it at that yeah

Iva

• 01:24:52 We put in that dead brother Thornwatch Thornwatch.

Hazel

• 01:24:55 Thornwatch?

Luma

• 01:24:56 I thought we didn’t…

Hazel

• 01:24:57 Yes.
• 01:24:58 silver’s watch is the closest one but Thornwatch is the
• 01:25:01 place where it act where like those guys
• 01:25:03 actually were
• 01:25:04 And so you want, yeah, you want to include at least a truth
• 01:25:08 in the lie.
• 01:25:09 So that like,
• 01:25:11 if
• 01:25:12 If she were to go to the Order of the Lantern,
• 01:25:15 the people who reported it
• 01:25:17 might end up getting hit with like a,
• 01:25:21 with like a,
• 01:25:22 Why did you talk about this? And then they would be like,
• 01:25:24 all right who said what like yeah

Luma

• 01:25:27 If she goes there,
• 01:25:29 She’ll be like, you know, from there,
• 01:25:31 said that
• 01:25:32 He died.
• 01:25:33 they’ll look into who was over there at that time and might
• 01:25:36 ,
• 01:25:36 find out it was Hargrave, and then Hargrave has to cover
• 01:25:39 our lie.

Hazel

• 01:25:42 Or they’ll be like, oh, we actually, like, yeah, we saw
• 01:25:47 some majors or whatever.
• 01:25:49 And they’d be like, yeah, likely story, buddy.

Temerity

• 01:25:51 Likely story.

Luma

• 01:25:53 That’s it.
• 01:25:53 Right. They have to cover the lie or…
• 01:25:57 you know, risk their job.

Temerity

• 01:25:58 Yeah, because that’s a fucking convincing
• 01:26:01 ass seal.

Hazel

• 01:26:02 Like, yeah, and risk
• 01:26:05 like the…
• 01:26:06 the like yeah we let
• 01:26:08 a bunch of a bunch of like wild
• 01:26:10 mages go
• 01:26:11 yeah exactly
• 01:26:12 yeah

Dungeon Master

• 01:26:14 - That is it.
• 01:26:16 I guess the only question there is like,
• 01:26:19 You can probably reasonably assume that for Devin and for
• 01:26:23 the captain, this logic is really sound.
• 01:26:26 The captain did make the decision to let a bunch of mages
• 01:26:31 go.
• 01:26:31 Harwick specifically seemed really determined…
• 01:26:35 he may be more self-destructive.
• 01:26:38 Like, he may be the kind of guy
• 01:26:39 who would throw his own career away on principle.
• 01:26:42 You’re not sure.
• 01:26:43 You didn’t really talk to him, but…

Luma

• 01:26:45 Yeah, that’s possible.
• 01:26:45 They did, like, meet us in the fucking dark under, like,
• 01:26:50 shitty landing lights.
• 01:26:51 That’s also true.

Hazel

• 01:26:52 Yeah, because at that point, Harwick would have to have us
• 01:26:56 under, like…

Luma

• 01:26:57 Whatever we do, it can’t be perfect because, I mean, we’re
• 01:27:00 dealing with what we got.
• 01:27:01 So, this is the best that we got.

Rhysaene

• 01:27:03 No, but we’re doing, no, but I think we’re doing the right
• 01:27:05 thing.
• 01:27:06 Like, I don’t want to just lean in the fucking dog.

Luma

• 01:27:09 No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 01:27:10 It’s the shitty thing about being good people.
• 01:27:14 We’re going to have to take
• 01:27:15 some amount of risk by doing
• 01:27:17 this, so minimizing it is probably
• 01:27:19 the best we could do by, like,
• 01:27:21 pinning it on somebody.
• 01:27:22 and being like you can deal with the fallout before it hits

Hazel

• 01:27:26 us it’s a rogue trader moment we
• 01:27:28 have to do it in order to do a good thing we have to put
• 01:27:31 ourselves at like way too high of a risk
• 01:27:33 but it’s the right thing to do

Luma

• 01:27:36 Fucking Iconoclast runs, what are we doing here?

Hazel

• 01:27:39 Also because…
• 01:27:41 I heard…
• 01:27:42 I heard the description of her pacing and had, like, a pit
• 01:27:45 in my stomach IRL, and I was like, oh, man, yeah, this lady
• 01:27:48 is never going to see her husband again.
• 01:27:50 Yeah.

Temerity

• 01:27:52 This is another Sorrowsworn in the making.

Luma

• 01:27:55 Yeah, that was my concern, was, like…
• 01:27:58 This is actually beneficial
• 01:28:00 to the town
• 01:28:01 by telling her.

Rhysaene

• 01:28:03 It’s like a
• 01:28:05 It’s like a thing, right?
• 01:28:05 Of like…
• 01:28:07 How much grief will this woman have, like…

Luma

• 01:28:11 And I, in fact, actually we should probably
• 01:28:14 get this to like the mayor or something if there is one
• 01:28:19 or somebody else
• 01:28:21 besides getting it directly to Margaret so they can like
• 01:28:25 broach the problem.
• 01:28:26 and prevent her from just crashing out immediately.

Iva

• 01:28:30 Yeah, is there like a wandering into the woods after?

Hazel

• 01:28:35 - Iva, wear Harwick’s face.

Iva

• 01:28:38 Iva transforms into Harley.

Dungeon Master

• 01:28:44 You are not immediately next to anyone or anything like
• 01:28:49 that.
• 01:28:49 You are in the middle of Silverthorn.
• 01:28:51 i i would i would i would that was that was not i see
• 01:28:57 I mean…
• 01:28:59 I just wanted to put that warning out there before anyone
• 01:29:02 did any transforming.

Hazel

• 01:29:03 You could deliver it like a fucking, like…
• 01:29:07 like those guys who have to like knock on like people’s
• 01:29:11 doors to tell them that like they’re
• 01:29:13 they’re,
• 01:29:14 like,
• 01:29:15 Thank you.
• 01:29:18 They’re like family died overseas or whatever.

Iva

• 01:29:21 than the bereavement guys.

Luma

• 01:29:23 That’s what they’re called.
• 01:29:23 I would never wish that upon anybody to have to do that.
• 01:29:28 That’s…
• 01:29:28 horrible.
• 01:29:29 Oh yeah, me neither.

Iva

• 01:29:31 It sounds like a whiteboarding thing to do.
• 01:29:35 Mmm.

Dungeon Master

• 01:29:38 So have you all decided, I know you have the forgery, it’s
• 01:29:42 done.
• 01:29:42 the seal is immaculate.
• 01:29:44 And it’s written. Have you decided what you want to do with
• 01:29:47 it?

Temerity

• 01:29:47 Well, is there a town elder or a mayor? I assume there’s
• 01:29:51 probably not a mayor since it’s such a small town, but it’s

Hazel

• 01:29:54 hardly a town.

Dungeon Master

• 01:29:55 It’s yeah.
• 01:29:56 that
• 01:29:57 It, yeah, there’s no mere
• 01:30:00 There’s not really a town elder, and Hazel would know all
• 01:30:02 of this.
• 01:30:03 She doesn’t really interact a lot with Silverthorn, but
• 01:30:05 she comes here and she sells people, like, pelts and stuff.
• 01:30:08 And that’s mainly because, like, pelts have practical uses.
• 01:30:11 A farmer can make, like, a blanket for his horse out of a p
• 01:30:15 elt.
• 01:30:15 Yeah.
• 01:30:17 But, no, Hazel is a government body.
• 01:30:20 Yeah, there’s no, like, government…
• 01:30:22 Honestly, people kind of, like, fend for themselves.
• 01:30:25 If there was a major thing, like a big fire or something,
• 01:30:30 they’d, like,
• 01:30:30 call the town together to put it out.
• 01:30:32 Um, if something spooky was happening, they honestly would
• 01:30:35 probably send someone to go talk to Hecate.
• 01:30:38 So…

Hazel

• 01:30:40 There ain’t even like a…
• 01:30:42 the like closest like church would probably be cricks bend
• 01:30:46 like that’s how
• 01:30:47 That’s how like,
• 01:30:49 not
• 01:30:50 of like not an established like area this is it’s literally
• 01:30:55 just like
• 01:30:55 people to happen to be here.
• 01:30:57 - Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 01:30:58 yeah and in so like little settlements like Silverthorn
• 01:31:02 kind of dot this landscape
• 01:31:04 despite not being on the map.
• 01:31:05 And yeah,
• 01:31:06 it very much is a,
• 01:31:07 like people will go to someone’s house for like community
• 01:31:10 gathering or,
• 01:31:11 uh,
• 01:31:12 or drink or to like spend their, um,
• 01:31:17 to do like a
• 01:31:20 a group prayer, but there’s not really
• 01:31:22 a church. And Silverthorn especially…
• 01:31:24 of all the places like this is probably even further from
• 01:31:27 the church than usual because
• 01:31:29 they are more dependent on the
• 01:31:32 the sisters.

Temerity

• 01:31:35 um,

Dungeon Master

• 01:31:36 But yeah, there’s not really any kind of, like,
• 01:31:39 organization to it other than people happen to live near
• 01:31:42 each other and would help if they could.

Temerity

• 01:31:52 So maybe we do actually have Iva turn into Harwick, like,
• 01:31:56 away from the town, obviously.
• 01:31:58 Yeah.
• 01:31:58 If we want it to be that
• 01:32:00 separate from us…

Luma

• 01:32:02 Probably a better idea to just turn into a generic
• 01:32:05 - Mm-hmm. - Person.
• 01:32:06 And
• 01:32:07 put on your uniform and do it and never be that person
• 01:32:13 again.
• 01:32:13 Carrier pigeon.
• 01:32:16 Or Carrier Pigeon is fine too.

Temerity

• 01:32:18 Yeah.
• 01:32:19 Okay.

Luma

• 01:32:20 - I can’t answer it.
• 01:32:22 Yeah, if only we knew somebody who could turn into a flying
• 01:32:24 animal, darn.

Temerity

• 01:32:25 Yeah, and Hermes is back at Crick’s Bend.

Hazel

• 01:32:30 I have Animal Messenger, but…
• 01:32:33 - Ah.
• 01:32:35 I don’t,
• 01:32:36 But I believe the message is--
• 01:32:39 when it delivers the message, the message is,
• 01:32:43 is like a magical one
• 01:32:46 So I can have the bird
• 01:32:48 I could…
• 01:32:49 I could cast Animal Messenger…
• 01:32:52 Thai
• 01:32:53 the like tie the letter to the bird
• 01:32:56 And then have the bird’s message be like tweet or something
• 01:32:59 .
• 01:33:00 And so the bird flies out to deliver the message and,
• 01:33:05 It goes…
• 01:33:07 It, like, it, like,
• 01:33:08 The letter is delivered, it goes tweet,
• 01:33:11 and then it flies about.

Iva

• 01:33:13 Or I can just
• 01:33:15 fire on Temerity’s flames.

Hazel

• 01:33:18 Yeah, no, that, yeah.
• 01:33:20 Do it, Iva.

Iva

• 01:33:21 I could drop off with the splutter in the meat.

Luma

• 01:33:28 Criminal to Find Familiar is a wizard-only spell.

Temerity

• 01:33:31 Oh, I do have a fine familiar.

Dungeon Master

• 01:33:36 Or you could…
• 01:33:37 turns sage into a bird.

Hazel

• 01:33:40 Makes age really uncomfortable.
• 01:33:43 you
• 01:33:43 Bird Sage.
• 01:33:45 Bird Sage.
• 01:33:45 Bird Sage.
• 01:33:47 Nah, nah. Let’s have this be an Iva moment. You got this.

Luma

• 01:33:50 Good luck, Iva. Don’t fuck it up.
• 01:33:53 Thanks.
• 01:33:54 That is out of character, actually.
• 01:33:57 Luma doesn’t swear.
• 01:33:58 Eylesis swears.

Dungeon Master

• 01:34:00 What is Iva doing here?

Iva

• 01:34:05 Well, I need to marry because we need her pants.

Luma

• 01:34:08 Why do you need my pants?

Iva

• 01:34:08 Did you not bring your own uniform?

Luma

• 01:34:11 I thought you brought your uniform when we were leaving in
• 01:34:14 the night.

Iva

• 01:34:14 All right, that’s the way.
• 01:34:16 No, because I just have my lantern.

Luma

• 01:34:18 Oh, okay.
• 01:34:21 The pants are really…

Dungeon Master

• 01:34:23 To be clear, the pants aren’t really uniform.
• 01:34:25 It’s the tabard specifically and the lantern that you would
• 01:34:28 …

Luma

• 01:34:29 Yeah.
• 01:34:31 You can make one, it lasts an hour.

Dungeon Master

• 01:34:34 True, a little bit.

Hazel

• 01:34:35 I can give you my cloak while the
• 01:34:38 Temerity has her own

Temerity

• 01:34:40 Temerity has her own
• 01:34:43 she’s not wearing her tabard right now
• 01:34:46 They have their tabard in their pack.
• 01:34:49 So they’ll hand over the tabard.

Luma

• 01:34:51 They have just, like, pelts on…
• 01:34:54 What armor was Hargraves wearing?

Dungeon Master

• 01:34:58 Um,
• 01:34:59 I think they would all have been wearing, like, decent
• 01:35:02 scale mail.

Luma

• 01:35:04 Okay.

Dungeon Master

• 01:35:05 But there’s not, like, a fixed, like, armor requirement for
• 01:35:10 …
• 01:35:10 light wardens.
• 01:35:10 It’s just.
• 01:35:12 They were all the same stat blocks, so…

Hazel

• 01:35:15 Uh…
• 01:35:18 They’re not, like, monks, so it wouldn’t really make sense
• 01:35:21 for them to not be wearing, like…

Dungeon Master

• 01:35:25 It’s the…
• 01:35:26 It’s the thing of D&D parties are built different.
• 01:35:29 Plate armor is absurdly expensive, and honestly, it’s hard
• 01:35:32 to wear.
• 01:35:34 why most people don’t wear plates.

Hazel

• 01:35:37 It’s incredibly expensive.
• 01:35:40 incredibly expensive and
• 01:35:42 difficult to make.
• 01:35:42 And so I imagine even like--
• 01:35:46 I don’t know the economics of the veil, but if there isn’t
• 01:35:55 like, a shit ton of mines in the area or something,
• 01:35:58 I would imagine that plate would probably be something
• 01:36:01 that would only be reserved for, like…
• 01:36:04 either like the highest of highs people or like
• 01:36:08 Superficial out of me.

Dungeon Master

• 01:36:10 There are some mines in the mountains, but because of most
• 01:36:13 of the mountains being on the edge, mining is incredibly,
• 01:36:16 like…
• 01:36:18 It’s not especially dangerous.
• 01:36:20 There’s not a lot for the Sorrow to corrupt in a mine.
• 01:36:23 But if there ever was a mine-dwelling creature in the S
• 01:36:26 orrow,
• 01:36:27 that is, like, a terrifying proposition.
• 01:36:29 Because creatures that dwell in mines are already, like…
• 01:36:33 beyond the capabilities of most regular people to deal with
• 01:36:37 .
• 01:36:37 - Yeah.

Hazel

• 01:36:38 - Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 01:36:40 But there is mining and
• 01:36:43 And you all don’t really know a lot about it, probably, but
• 01:36:47 …
• 01:36:47 it seems like
• 01:36:49 um,
• 01:36:51 Argentum has quite a store of…
• 01:36:54 those kind of resources in the vaults.

Iva

• 01:36:57 Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 01:36:59 Whether it was like mined at one point and they just
• 01:37:02 kept it and didn’t waste it or what.

Temerity

• 01:37:05 Yeah.
• 01:37:07 So yeah, Iva can borrow…
• 01:37:10 Temerity’s tabard
• 01:37:12 Yeah.
• 01:37:13 I can shapeshift into the form
• 01:37:15 that it’ll fit her.

Iva

• 01:37:18 Yeah, I’m a
• 01:37:19 I would think so.
• 01:37:20 takes Temerity’s tabard and wanders off.
• 01:37:24 finding a nice secluded spot.

Dungeon Master

• 01:37:26 Yeah, easy, easy to do that.

Iva

• 01:37:29 Uh,
• 01:37:31 the next time they see you.
• 01:37:36 someone.
• 01:37:37 in Temerity’s tabard.
• 01:37:38 is a young man.
• 01:37:41 - Looks like someone who got like short
• 01:37:43 for a duty such as this.
• 01:37:46 Oh.
• 01:37:48 Iva has a very convincing, sad, like,
• 01:37:52 upset face on.
• 01:37:55 Yeah.

Temerity

• 01:37:56 Mm-hmm.

Iva

• 01:37:57 is not bubbly like she’s been…
• 01:38:00 Yeah.
• 01:38:02 she walks up to Martin
• 01:38:03 of Margaret.

Hazel

• 01:38:06 and margaret goes your kind are all of a piece traitors one
• 01:38:12 and all
• 01:38:13 -

Iva

• 01:38:16 uh,
• 01:38:18 Uh,

Dungeon Master

• 01:38:19 my Zoom is stop pacing.
• 01:38:21 Oh yeah, but as Iva in this forum approaches, she turns her
• 01:38:27 attention.
• 01:38:27 You carrying the lantern…
• 01:38:31 Oh, fuck, I really need to storm that back.

Temerity

• 01:38:33 Well, I assumed that Luma could have made, yeah.

Luma

• 01:38:37 Yeah.
• 01:38:37 Well, I’ve got…
• 01:38:41 Oh, wait, did we give the lantern over to the witches or
• 01:38:43 did we get that back?

Dungeon Master

• 01:38:44 You got that back.
• 01:38:44 She told Iva to hold on to it when I offered it up.

Luma

• 01:38:50 Yeah, in which case, yeah, on a
• 01:38:53 Give a spectrum.

Dungeon Master

• 01:38:55 So you approach and her attention immediately turns to you.
• 01:39:01 and she sees the lantern
• 01:39:04 and the tabard and like your face just looks at you and
• 01:39:08 says,
• 01:39:10 like,
• 01:39:11 almost like a performance, what can I do for you?
• 01:39:14 As though she is trying to pretend she doesn’t already know
• 01:39:17 why someone like that would be there.

Iva

• 01:39:21 I have a.
• 01:39:23 calmly but without words,
• 01:39:25 offers her the letter
• 01:39:27 Um,
• 01:39:28 gives a frown, says, I’m sorry, and then goes to turn to
• 01:39:32 walk away.

Dungeon Master

• 01:39:35 She…
• 01:39:37 takes the letter and looks at Iva, and she says, “Really?”

Temerity

• 01:39:41 Oh, shit.

Iva

• 01:39:44 I mean,
• 01:39:46 This is where the acting comes.

Hazel

• 01:39:48 With like a pair of binoculars and stuff.

Iva

• 01:39:51 I have a go, I do not know.
• 01:39:54 of the circumstances, but I know of
• 01:39:56 what happened, and I am truly sorry for your loss.
• 01:40:00 She…
• 01:40:01 Thank you.
• 01:40:02 - Sorry, go ahead.

Rhysaene

• 01:40:04 - Awesome.

Iva

• 01:40:07 She opens the letter.
• 01:40:11 And she doesn’t go to like leave, she just stands there
• 01:40:16 looking away.
• 01:40:16 like almost like to give more privacy than to move forward.

Dungeon Master

• 01:40:20 She breaks the seal…
• 01:40:23 And in that moment, you guys kind of realize that…
• 01:40:27 all that work on the seal that only had to fool her
• 01:40:30 is kind of wasted on her
• 01:40:32 And no one’s going to expect to be able to ID a seal once
• 01:40:35 it’s broken.

Luma

• 01:40:36 No, that was my hope.

Dungeon Master

• 01:40:40 So, even if someone who could have, like, pieced together
• 01:40:43 that the seal was false…
• 01:40:46 while it was whole.
• 01:40:47 Ain’t no way, man.

Luma

• 01:40:49 Oh, thank God.
• 01:40:49 Okay, cool, cool, cool.

Dungeon Master

• 01:40:51 Opens up the letter and she gives it a read.
• 01:40:53 And she says, Doug…
• 01:40:55 Doug’s.
• 01:40:56 Doug’s dead.
• 01:40:58 Doug’s dead.

Luma

• 01:41:00 That dog.

Hazel

• 01:41:02 I don’t know.
• 01:41:04 She’s asking, Iva.

Iva

• 01:41:06 Yeah.
• 01:41:08 All right.
• 01:41:10 Yes, ma’am.
• 01:41:11 She doesn’t turn around as, like,
• 01:41:13 Uh,
• 01:41:14 Iva gives a sniffle.
• 01:41:16 Oh.
• 01:41:17 - Yeah.
• 01:41:18 Like,
• 01:41:21 uh,
• 01:41:23 Yes, ma’am, I am sorry to be the one delivering you

Dungeon Master

• 01:41:29 Okay, you’re lucky.
• 01:41:30 Um,
• 01:41:32 Thank you.
• 01:41:34 she was gonna lose it if she caught you sniffling.
• 01:41:38 She’s… I…
• 01:41:40 I don’t understand what happened, purified?
• 01:41:44 Because of his wounds?
• 01:41:47 What happened? Where was he? What happened?

Luma

• 01:41:51 Uh,

Hazel

• 01:41:55 You said you didn’t know.

Iva

• 01:41:57 Yeah.
• 01:41:58 Kaivin says the only information I know was he was found by
• 01:42:01 other boarded
• 01:42:03 out.
• 01:42:04 But
• 01:42:05 I don’t know.
• 01:42:06 our past
• 01:42:10 This the town limits.
• 01:42:15 and was reported to be purified.

Luma

• 01:42:18 How far away are we from--
• 01:42:21 Iva.

Dungeon Master

• 01:42:22 You were a couple hundred feet from the house unless you
• 01:42:27 all moved closer.

Hazel

• 01:42:29 Yeah, I’m not going closer.
• 01:42:29 That’s extremely sus.
• 01:42:33 Uh…
• 01:42:33 Personally, but if anyone else wants to go closer,

Temerity

• 01:42:36 Yeah, no, Temerity’s keeping busy away from the house.

Dungeon Master

• 01:42:44 um,
• 01:42:46 She reads the letter again.
• 01:42:49 Oh, okay.
• 01:42:51 I, um,
• 01:42:54 I’d hoped he wasn’t, but when he didn’t come home,
• 01:42:58 All right. Thank you for, um,
• 01:43:01 She starts tears welling up in her eyes.
• 01:43:05 Thank you for, um…
• 01:43:08 You can go around.

Iva

• 01:43:10 and say, once again, ma’am, I’m sorry if you need anything,
• 01:43:14 let the light wardens
• 01:43:16 does a little salute and walks away.

Dungeon Master

• 01:43:20 Um,
• 01:43:21 He doesn’t acknowledge anything Iva said and just, like,
• 01:43:26 falls to her knees bawling.

Luma

• 01:43:29 Yeah, that’s right.

Temerity

• 01:43:34 We did a good thing.
• 01:43:38 - We’re the heroes!
• 01:43:38 - We’re the good guys!

Iva

• 01:43:40 - We’re the heroes!
• 01:43:41 for you
• 01:43:47 If you need anything, just let the light wardens know you

Hazel

• 01:43:50 were so close to greatness.

Dungeon Master

• 01:43:53 He cannot help himself, but Ed!
• 01:43:56 New Swords of Damocles over Ida’s fucking head.

Luma

• 01:44:00 I don’t know.
• 01:44:02 I wanted to use message to message Prisky.
• 01:44:05 I meant to say, make sure she doesn’t ask any questions.

Iva

• 01:44:11 - Yeah.
• 01:44:13 I have a feeling that I’m never going to ask any questions.
• 01:44:16 I’m always coming in a gig.
• 01:44:17 I am fucking booty.
• 01:44:19 I forget it.
• 01:44:21 Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.

Luma

• 01:44:22 Oh, that was so cool.
• 01:44:26 Well, it’s a good thing that we had Iva fucking use a non-
• 01:44:30 existent person.

Rhysaene

• 01:44:32 Yeah.
• 01:44:34 Just let the night ones know, guys.
• 01:44:37 You see, whatever you need.

Iva

• 01:44:39 I had a plan to be an asshole.
• 01:44:43 Goodbye.
• 01:44:44 because
• 01:44:45 Well…

Hazel

• 01:44:47 That’s fair.
• 01:44:49 The way I see it is I…
• 01:44:53 Because, I mean, at this point, it’s just, like, literally
• 01:44:55 just, like, a difference in how we interpret, like,
• 01:44:58 psychology, I guess.
• 01:45:00 I feel like if you were to just leave it at that and not
• 01:45:04 tell someone that if they…
• 01:45:06 Like, to not…
• 01:45:07 give the option, they would be less likely to take it.
• 01:45:10 But now that they know that the option is there, they’re
• 01:45:13 going to go for it.

Temerity

• 01:45:16 Or they’re more likely to go for it.
• 01:45:19 We’ll see later down the road.
• 01:45:21 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hazel

• 01:45:22 It was very good.

Temerity

• 01:45:26 It was very good hearing the reaction from everyone the

Hazel

• 01:45:31 moment he said it, though.
• 01:45:32 That was good.
• 01:45:34 I don’t know.
• 01:45:35 But yeah, no, no.

Iva

• 01:45:37 I mean,

Dungeon Master

• 01:45:38 Luckily for Iva this time, no one knows she said that.

Temerity

• 01:45:43 Uh-huh.
• 01:45:44 Uh-huh.

Hazel

• 01:45:47 uh,
• 01:45:49 Oof.
• 01:45:50 Mm-hmm.
• 01:45:51 Mm-hmm.
• 01:45:52 Well, we’ve spent
• 01:45:53 we spent a good
• 01:45:57 chunk of time here in Silverthorn. Perhaps we should make
• 01:45:59 ourselves scarce.

Rhysaene

• 01:46:00 Yeah.

Hazel

• 01:46:01 Agreed.

Rhysaene

• 01:46:02 You got everything mapped out, Luma?

Luma

• 01:46:04 Yeah, I could finish it up like when we’re traveling and
• 01:46:07 stuff.
• 01:46:07 I got most of it in my head, I think.
• 01:46:10 Okay.
• 01:46:11 Excellent.
• 01:46:13 I mean, this is a really big town, so.

Hazel

• 01:46:16 - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, was that sarcasm?

Luma

• 01:46:20 No.
• 01:46:21 I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Temerity

• 01:46:23 Cheeky ass grid.

Luma

• 01:46:29 She’s learning, she’s evolving, beware.
• 01:46:32 Beware.
• 01:46:33 She’s capable of sarcasm.

Dungeon Master

• 01:46:36 This.
• 01:46:37 This…
• 01:46:38 didn’t take too long, maybe an hour, maybe two, which would
• 01:46:42 put you at still mid-morning
• 01:46:44 as you head out of Silverthorn. Silverthorn sitting on
• 01:46:49 the river surrounded by forest,
• 01:46:52 Heading south, you meet up with the main road, the old road
• 01:46:56 that runs along the Woodrun River and begin heading in the
• 01:46:59 direction of Argentum and Crick’s Bend.
• 01:47:02 As the farmland opens up around you as you travel and the
• 01:47:07 forest falls behind,
• 01:47:08 I’d like to ask each of you, like…
• 01:47:11 what’s on your mind? What’s on your character’s mind this
• 01:47:14 morning? What are you carrying with you from the past night
• 01:47:18 and
• 01:47:18 morning?
• 01:47:20 And I’ll start with Rhys.

Rhysaene

• 01:47:22 Oh, um.

Temerity

• 01:47:27 I think.

Rhysaene

• 01:47:31 I think two things.
• 01:47:33 Uh-huh.
• 01:47:38 I think
• 01:47:38 - The first and most obvious one
• 01:47:42 is
• 01:47:44 The risk is definitely thinking
• 01:47:46 about
• 01:47:48 how she didn’t want to end up in this place.
• 01:47:51 in these circumstances she would have provided to be in the
• 01:47:55 city just doing her thing
• 01:47:58 Um,
• 01:48:00 So now that she’s out with people,
• 01:48:02 As it is.
• 01:48:03 I think that she’s okay with it.
• 01:48:05 She’s taking it in straight.
• 01:48:08 Um,
• 01:48:10 The second thing
• 01:48:13 is
• 01:48:15 Farsi talking about a broken heart.
• 01:48:18 Mm-hmm.
• 01:48:20 um
• 01:48:25 But that’s also always on her mind in a way.
• 01:48:27 So she just…
• 01:48:32 It only highlights it more, so it’s a mixture of things.
• 01:48:36 Oh, I guess one more thing.
• 01:48:38 I guess she’s also thinking about what she’s going to draw
• 01:48:41 next.
• 01:48:41 - Yeah. - Or just paint.
• 01:48:44 I think that she’s going…
• 01:48:46 She’s thinking about painting Temerity.

Dungeon Master

• 01:48:49 Oh, yeah.
• 01:48:51 um,
• 01:48:52 Nice.
• 01:48:54 And yeah, the quiet of the open road so far from town
• 01:48:57 is a good place for those kind of thoughts
• 01:49:00 and you have plenty of time to like
• 01:49:02 reflect on that in the moments of silence between when the
• 01:49:07 party is talking.
• 01:49:08 Luma
• 01:49:09 You, for the first time,
• 01:49:12 actually confronted with what lies beyond the Silver Vale:
• 01:49:17 A Sorrowsworn.
• 01:49:18 um,
• 01:49:20 seeing a lot of the world really fast.
• 01:49:23 meeting a bunch of new people, mapping new places,
• 01:49:27 What is Luma thinking about this morning?

Luma

• 01:49:30 Um,
• 01:49:31 Is Luma still on Rhys’s back?
• 01:49:35 You can be.
• 01:49:39 Yeah, OK.
• 01:49:40 Um, she is thinking primarily about the map that she’s
• 01:49:46 working on.
• 01:49:46 Um,
• 01:49:48 But…
• 01:49:49 kind of battling that swimming around between
• 01:49:53 what she’s drawing and when her kind of thoughts wander off
• 01:49:55 ,
• 01:49:55 she is like recounting the entire night.
• 01:49:59 Um,
• 01:50:00 trying to like
• 01:50:02 figure out
• 01:50:04 how she feels about that whole thing and it’s not
• 01:50:06 particularly positive.
• 01:50:08 uh,
• 01:50:09 And she finds that every once in a while she’s got to, like
• 01:50:11 , erase the section of the map because she’s drawn too
• 01:50:13 heavily.

Dungeon Master

• 01:50:17 No.
• 01:50:19 um,
• 01:50:20 Yeah.
• 01:50:21 and it
• 01:50:23 On the road, it’s a little easier because you’re riding on
• 01:50:25 wrists to…
• 01:50:26 to work on the map than it would be if you were walking on
• 01:50:29 your own feet.
• 01:50:29 You’re able to do that and kind of revise and expand out
• 01:50:33 Silverthorn and add each one of the little houses
• 01:50:36 Um,
• 01:50:38 including the house that once belonged to Doug and Margaret
• 01:50:43 Fletcher.
• 01:50:46 Um,
• 01:50:50 either.
• 01:50:53 You just had to deliver awful news wearing a face
• 01:50:57 that
• 01:50:58 you’ll probably never wear again.
• 01:51:00 you
• 01:51:01 were almost killed by…
• 01:51:04 A monster you thought was almost certainly propaganda to
• 01:51:08 tighten the…
• 01:51:10 reach of the Order of the Lantern and it
• 01:51:13 put a
• 01:51:14 A bone blade threw you and nearly killed you.
• 01:51:18 What are you thinking about this morning as the party
• 01:51:20 travels towards Crick’s Bend?

Iva

• 01:51:23 Uh,
• 01:51:24 Currently at the moment.

Dungeon Master

• 01:51:25 but it’s still panicking on the

Iva

• 01:51:28 you know.
• 01:51:30 Quietly panicking, because every time she asks everyone,
• 01:51:33 she’s like, we’ll find out.
• 01:51:37 And that’s not a helpful answer.
• 01:51:39 - Very interesting.
• 01:51:42 - No.
• 01:51:45 Ken, can Temerity keep saying she’s a magical
• 01:51:48 Thank you.
• 01:51:50 Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt, sorry, sorry.
• 01:51:52 How dare you?
• 01:51:54 I’m so sorry.
• 01:51:56 No, no, it’s not good.
• 01:51:58 Um,
• 01:52:00 So,
• 01:52:02 she has that lingering panic.
• 01:52:05 But though she’s sad about delivering the letter
• 01:52:09 to
• 01:52:10 thinks that it’s a better thing that she knows
• 01:52:12 Mike.
• 01:52:14 not knowing no matter how much
• 01:52:17 I was…
• 01:52:18 natural I have a charm.
• 01:52:21 - Yeah.
• 01:52:22 I did.
• 01:52:23 Yeah.
• 01:52:25 Three.
• 01:52:27 Um…
• 01:52:28 Sorry.
• 01:52:30 And then I think lastly,
• 01:52:32 thinking that
• 01:52:33 She is.
• 01:52:34 enjoying the fact of having people to be able to like

Dungeon Master

• 01:52:38 share all these thoughts with.
• 01:52:42 And share them you could or keep them to yourself or wait
• 01:52:46 or
• 01:52:46 Speak, it’s all on the table.
• 01:52:49 Um,
• 01:52:50 One thing you’re almost certain of
• 01:52:52 However complicated things got,
• 01:52:55 at least
• 01:52:56 In the end, for Margaret Fletcher…
• 01:53:00 it probably is better that she know.
• 01:53:02 than spend.
• 01:53:03 Who knows how long?
• 01:53:05 not knowing.
• 01:53:07 But that’s…
• 01:53:09 that’s something you kind of dwell on as you move along.
• 01:53:13 The gentle clop of Rhys’s hooves on the road,
• 01:53:17 Luma, and the sound of her pen scratching on paper
• 01:53:21 over and over as she corrects and re-corrects her map.
• 01:53:24 Um,
• 01:53:27 Temerity.
• 01:53:30 It’s just been a whirlwind for you since day one and every
• 01:53:34 single thing that happens is
• 01:53:36 new and contradictory information every time something
• 01:53:40 happens that says
• 01:53:41 actually magic can be used for good.
• 01:53:43 Something happens that says,
• 01:53:44 yeah,
• 01:53:44 but maybe there’s still a cost.
• 01:53:47 Yeah.
• 01:53:47 Um,
• 01:53:48 every,
• 01:53:49 time you think you’ve got a handle on what the right thing
• 01:53:54 to do is.
• 01:53:54 Um,
• 01:53:55 the people around you and maybe even you decide that the
• 01:53:58 thing you think
• 01:53:58 might be the most wrong impersonating a light warden lying
• 01:54:02 might’ve been the
• 01:54:04 right thing.
• 01:54:04 All of these things like just to,
• 01:54:07 keep happening to you. What are you thinking about this

Temerity

• 01:54:10 morning?
• 01:54:10 Oh, God.
• 01:54:13 That’s a pretty…
• 01:54:14 That’s a…
• 01:54:16 pretty apt
• 01:54:18 Primer on the loads of thoughts in Temerity’s head.
• 01:54:25 But I think the
• 01:54:28 The primary, like most
• 01:54:31 pertinent thought in their mind is
• 01:54:34 Uh,
• 01:54:37 anticipation, both like
• 01:54:41 of wanting
• 01:54:42 to talk to
• 01:54:43 Father Emberthumb.
• 01:54:45 But also the…
• 01:54:47 worry that they have about some of the things that they
• 01:54:51 want to talk about.
• 01:54:53 whenever they get back to Crick’s Bend.
• 01:54:56 With regards to everything that’s happened,
• 01:54:59 with regards to whether or not
• 01:55:03 The ritual they participated in actually is helping
• 01:55:07 strengthen the veil.
• 01:55:08 or if
• 01:55:09 She just contributed to more sorrow being made somewhere
• 01:55:13 else in the world.
• 01:55:14 Uh,
• 01:55:17 at some other expense, especially with
• 01:55:22 Hecate seeming to understand that there is a give and take
• 01:55:25 with this
• 01:55:27 Um,
• 01:55:30 that kind of leads them to worry about…
• 01:55:34 about that sort of thing.
• 01:55:36 Yeah.
• 01:55:38 They also worry a lot about potential repercussions back in
• 01:55:42 Argentum.
• 01:55:44 of getting found out, of having been on here, of helping sm
• 01:55:47 uggle a mage of
• 01:55:49 Being tied with Iva De Quino.
• 01:55:55 Yeah, it’s just a lot of shit on their mind that they are
• 01:55:58 kind of just swallowing and continuing to tell themselves,
• 01:56:02 wait until we just, you just got to get to Crick’s Bend.

Dungeon Master

• 01:56:06 Yeah, you’ve just got to get to Crick’s Bend. It’s a lot. It’s
• 01:56:10 so much. It’s more than you expected to have to deal with.
• 01:56:14 Surely it was going to be…
• 01:56:17 Helping build, like, roofs on farms and maybe fighting some
• 01:56:20 monsters.
• 01:56:21 Maybe, maybe arresting a mage.
• 01:56:24 But you never thought there would be, like, hard decisions
• 01:56:27 involved.
• 01:56:28 How could there be?
• 01:56:29 It’s light and life and…
• 01:56:32 uh, people versus like literal
• 01:56:35 death and darkness. How could it be complicated?
• 01:56:39 but it is complicated.
• 01:56:41 Even the ritual itself.
• 01:56:43 Hecate saying specifically this kind of magic will draw the
• 01:56:47 attention of sorrow-corrupted creatures…
• 01:56:50 And it did. And then immediately when the ritual was done,
• 01:56:53 a feeling like
• 01:56:55 Like being near the silver flame.
• 01:56:57 like a protection from the sorrow itself.
• 01:57:00 Flooded in the forest.
• 01:57:03 both things true at the same time.
• 01:57:06 That’s almost in some ways worse than just being wrong.
• 01:57:09 Because at least if you’re wrong, you can…
• 01:57:11 change course.
• 01:57:13 but not knowing the answer.
• 01:57:16 not knowing it, that’s
• 01:57:19 That’s a lot to work through and every single thing that’s
• 01:57:21 happened to you seems to be just another one of those
• 01:57:25 things piling on.
• 01:57:27 Mm-hmm.
• 01:57:29 But,
• 01:57:29 Prick’s Bend is only…
• 01:57:33 It’s a full day’s march, a little bit longer than…
• 01:57:37 um,
• 01:57:38 You’ll be tired when you get there.
• 01:57:40 It’ll be late evening, but Father Emberthumb will be
• 01:57:43 waiting.
• 01:57:43 And the Kembles will have dinner ready, presumably for you

Temerity

• 01:57:48 .
• 01:57:48 That is another thing on their mind is they’re very excited
• 01:57:50 for the dinner.

Dungeon Master

• 01:57:54 And
• 01:57:54 as
• 01:57:55 difficult as everything has been i feel like Temerity being
• 01:57:59 Temerity can’t help but look up a little thinking about
• 01:58:02 a nice plate of steaming fresh food
• 01:58:05 cooked by Ma Kemble.
• 01:58:06 And father, not father,
• 01:58:09 Not the father, Pa Kemble’s…
• 01:58:12 really lame jokes.

Iva

• 01:58:15 Bing.

Dungeon Master

• 01:58:17 And Temerity being the only one who laughs…
• 01:58:20 Um,
• 01:58:23 Hazel.
• 01:58:26 Ah, that’s me.
• 01:58:28 You are once again walking away from the only home you’ve
• 01:58:33 ever really known.
• 01:58:34 Last time you were doing it for a couple days at most.
• 01:58:38 to buy ingredients
• 01:58:41 it was,
• 01:58:43 new and exciting and worrying to have to go to the big city
• 01:58:47 ,
• 01:58:47 but also you knew you’d be going home again and you knew it
• 01:58:50 would,
• 01:58:50 just be a quick little errand and everything would be fine.
• 01:58:53 But Hecate sent you away again, and this one does not have
• 01:58:57 an expiration date.
• 01:58:58 There was no end condition. There was no come back when.
• 01:59:02 It was go and learn.
• 01:59:04 And that’s it.
• 01:59:06 and she didn’t tell you anything else.
• 01:59:08 You are…
• 01:59:10 Always being tested, it seems.
• 01:59:12 A lesson you probably learned years ago, but relearn over
• 01:59:15 and over again.
• 01:59:17 Every time Hecate gives you a new task or challenge,
• 01:59:20 Um,
• 01:59:21 But this one feels a little different.
• 01:59:23 um,
• 01:59:25 There’s a…
• 01:59:27 There was almost a little begrudging, not begrudging even,
• 01:59:29 there was a little respect to it, there was a little
• 01:59:32 For Hecate, at least, affection.
• 01:59:35 in the way she spoke to you.
• 01:59:36 Even you can’t deny that.
• 01:59:39 even if anyone else wouldn’t be able to pick up on it
• 01:59:43 because to them it
• 01:59:44 would still seem
• 01:59:46 distance.
• 01:59:47 Um,
• 01:59:49 And for the first time, you fought the sorrow
• 01:59:51 and you watched as the teachings
• 01:59:54 that you’ve been learning since you turned 16
• 01:59:57 did what they’re supposed to do.
• 01:59:59 A group of witches came together
• 02:00:02 and wove magic that one person alone could not
• 02:00:05 to make an area safe
• 02:00:07 from the creeping darkness beyond.
• 02:00:11 um,
• 02:00:12 Where the.
• 02:00:13 Were it not for this morning…
• 02:00:16 And.
• 02:00:20 the
• 02:00:22 the need to tell…
• 02:00:24 uh,
• 02:00:25 a grieving widow that she’s a grieving widow.
• 02:00:28 You probably have the most reason to be looking up right
• 02:00:32 about now, but are you?
• 02:00:33 What is Hazel thinking about?

Hazel

• 02:00:36 That’s a good question.
• 02:00:40 I think Hazel’s still mulling over the stuff that…
• 02:00:44 that her headmistress told her the night before
• 02:00:49 Mm hmm.
• 02:00:50 specifically
• 02:00:52 reflecting on the
• 02:00:54 It.
• 02:00:57 on
• 02:00:58 the fact that she
• 02:01:00 Uh,
• 02:01:01 that she was, uh…
• 02:01:05 She was found lacking on a specific test that she didn’t
• 02:01:13 know about.
• 02:01:14 Um,
• 02:01:15 And she…
• 02:01:16 thinks about
• 02:01:17 The…
• 02:01:20 She’s thinking about
• 02:01:22 what
• 02:01:22 Hecate meant by…
• 02:01:26 not only like
• 02:01:28 putting
• 02:01:30 her faith in others.
• 02:01:33 uh,
• 02:01:35 But just like the importance of…
• 02:01:39 of companionship in general.
• 02:01:43 makes it kind of really…
• 02:01:46 contrasts with how
• 02:01:49 with everything that happened earlier,
• 02:01:53 uh,
• 02:01:54 In Silverthorn when it comes to what they…
• 02:01:58 uh,
• 02:01:58 with what they,
• 02:02:00 with what they told to,
• 02:02:01 uh,
• 02:02:03 to Margaret
• 02:02:05 um,
• 02:02:08 because she just kind of
• 02:02:11 To her, she’s feeling…
• 02:02:15 not doubting what she was told.
• 02:02:19 uh,
• 02:02:20 by her teacher.
• 02:02:22 but she is like,
• 02:02:26 She is she she
• 02:02:29 She is…
• 02:02:30 having
• 02:02:32 Like…
• 02:02:35 These thoughts about like, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s kind of,
• 02:02:40 it’s kind of,
• 02:02:43 it’s no doubt
• 02:02:47 like,
• 02:02:48 putting your faith and putting your trust and,
• 02:02:51 in companionship is like a boon.
• 02:02:55 but it is also something that
• 02:02:57 will inevitably bring great suffering.
• 02:03:00 - Mm-hmm.
• 02:03:03 And so she’s thinking about that and she’s thinking
• 02:03:05 especially about how like
• 02:03:09 No.
• 02:03:10 what she would do if like,
• 02:03:13 What she would do if she, like…
• 02:03:17 Chuckles
• 02:03:18 her immediate
• 02:03:19 Her immediate go-to would probably be what she would do if
• 02:03:23 she lost Sage,
• 02:03:24 which her being a magical familiar…
• 02:03:27 is not entirely like
• 02:03:30 likely to happen, but it could.
• 02:03:32 um,
• 02:03:36 And she thinks that like,
• 02:03:38 you know,
• 02:03:39 she thinks that she would probably feel
• 02:03:41 Similarly.
• 02:03:44 to how like
• 02:03:47 to how Margaret was feeling.
• 02:03:49 um,
• 02:03:51 and
• 02:03:52 I think she’s also just kind of like
• 02:03:56 I don’t know, she’s confused because she feels like she
• 02:03:59 should
• 02:03:59 be
• 02:04:02 more
• 02:04:04 happy about it.
• 02:04:05 about everything that she has done in this short time, but

Unidentified

• 02:04:11 she’s still

Hazel

• 02:04:11 I think she can’t help but
• 02:04:13 still feel, like, a distance.

Dungeon Master

• 02:04:16 - Yeah.
• 02:04:18 Yeah, for sure.
• 02:04:20 And…
• 02:04:21 Hecate did say all that she sure as hell didn’t explain to
• 02:04:25 you what she meant by any of it.
• 02:04:28 Hecate can say that Hazel needs to learn to trust, and
• 02:04:32 maybe she means it, and maybe she’s right.
• 02:04:35 Hecate sure as hell doesn’t trust every single person she
• 02:04:39 meets.
• 02:04:39 Hecate may be the most distrustful person Hazel knows.
• 02:04:44 So it’s…
• 02:04:46 it’s clear that it, whatever Hecate said about you need to
• 02:04:50 learn more,
• 02:04:52 Um, she sure didn’t give you a lot to work with to start
• 02:04:55 out.
• 02:04:56 and
• 02:05:00 You were right when you reflected on the fact that you
• 02:05:04 failed a test you didn’t know was a test.
• 02:05:08 Is that even fair?
• 02:05:09 Not to be, like, resentful or anything, but, like…
• 02:05:15 Was that part of the test?
• 02:05:17 Um,
• 02:05:18 in some way, a lot of things to think about
• 02:05:22 Um,
• 02:05:24 specifically with all of that.
• 02:05:26 And as forest gives way to farmland,
• 02:05:31 and the colder hours of the morning start to warm
• 02:05:36 Um,
• 02:05:37 the dirt and sometimes cobbled road between
• 02:05:41 the north and the south of the veil towards crooks bend um
• 02:05:46 is relatively sparse you don’t
• 02:05:47 see any travelers or anything there are birds in the sky
• 02:05:51 and the clouds um
• 02:05:53 probably around noon begin to break and
• 02:05:56 the sky turns blue.
• 02:05:57 The road is open and seemingly safe.
• 02:06:01 No signs of danger or trouble.
• 02:06:03 Perfect place for conversation if you all want to talk or
• 02:06:06 if you want to rush silently to Crick’s Bend, that’s
• 02:06:09 available to you as well.
• 02:06:11 But at this point, it’s all up to you.
• 02:06:16 Um…

Hazel

• 02:06:17 What do you all plan on doing when we return to the city?

Luma

• 02:06:25 I’ve got a job.

Iva

• 02:06:27 Hmm.

Luma

• 02:06:30 Oh.
• 02:06:33 Yes.
• 02:06:34 Yeah, I’m technically on vacation.
• 02:06:39 Mm-mm.
• 02:06:40 You could get a job on the archives if you want.
• 02:06:42 It’s fun.
• 02:06:43 and safe and there’s no monsters.
• 02:06:46 you

Rhysaene

• 02:06:55 Um…
• 02:06:56 Probably corrals, get to know more fine folks like you.
• 02:07:01 Aw.

Temerity

• 02:07:06 Um…

Iva

• 02:07:09 Eva looks around and goes,
• 02:07:11 I didn’t think that far ahead.
• 02:07:14 I was also told not to make plans
• 02:07:17 groups.

Unidentified

• 02:07:20 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Hazel

• 02:07:25 - Yes, that’s a good idea.
• 02:07:27 Yeah.
• 02:07:31 um,
• 02:07:35 Hmm.
• 02:07:36 I suppose you’ll also need a place to stay.
• 02:07:41 I suppose you’re not a warden anymore.
• 02:07:43 I would offer to…
• 02:07:46 to stay with
• 02:07:49 uh,
• 02:07:50 Someone I know, but she--
• 02:07:54 She would not…
• 02:07:56 take too kindly to your prior engagements, whether or not,
• 02:08:02 you know,
• 02:08:02 You, uh…
• 02:08:04 We’re a true believer of it in any way.

Iva

• 02:08:11 Yeah, I guess I do have to think of a home now.
• 02:08:15 since my two homes are gone.

Hazel

• 02:08:19 I can teach you how to fend for yourself in the woods.

Iva

• 02:08:22 Yeah.
• 02:08:24 Oh, that’s going to be harder than bait.

Temerity

• 02:08:28 We can try and find you a job.
• 02:08:31 as a baker, since that seems to be an interest of yours.

Iva

• 02:08:35 No, no, no. I don’t want to do this work.

Temerity

• 02:08:38 Wow.

Hazel

• 02:08:39 Brother, you’re so real.
• 02:08:43 Sorry.
• 02:08:45 uh…

Iva

• 02:08:46 What’s wrong with doing something you like his work?
• 02:08:49 Hold on.
• 02:08:49 Because I don’t know if I like it or not.
• 02:08:51 I never did it.

Temerity

• 02:08:55 Um,

Iva

• 02:09:00 Maybe I can
• 02:09:02 currently the best idea I think
• 02:09:05 as far as
• 02:09:06 for a little taste over.
• 02:09:09 ’cause that way I get this thick white hazel.

Hazel

• 02:09:11 - Yeah.
• 02:09:12 That was not…
• 02:09:19 That was not an offer.

Rhysaene

• 02:09:23 How are you going to teach me?

Hazel

• 02:09:25 Oh.
• 02:09:27 you want.
• 02:09:28 Oh,
• 02:09:29 Yes, I can teach you how to be homeless.

Rhysaene

• 02:09:32 laughter
• 02:09:32 laughter

Temerity

• 02:09:37 HUT!
• 02:09:38 Ha ha ha ha ha.
• 02:09:41 I’m sure we can find you something in the city.
• 02:09:44 Tch!
• 02:09:46 eat you and it’ll be hopeless.
• 02:09:50 It’s so good.

Hazel

• 02:09:53 The socially awkward elves are learning humor.

Rhysaene

• 02:09:56 She’s learning, she’s evolving
• 02:09:59 She can make jokes now
• 02:10:00 Adapting my whole brother
• 02:10:03 laughter

Hazel

• 02:10:05 Temerity.

Temerity

• 02:10:07 Oh, yeah.
• 02:10:09 Well, I’m waiting to hear from
• 02:10:12 the tracoons on whether or not, uh, I’d start training with
• 02:10:15 them.
• 02:10:16 So.
• 02:10:18 Until then, uh,
• 02:10:19 kind of just staying at the barracks.
• 02:10:22 most likely going to be
• 02:10:24 seeing the city as much as I can.

Hazel

• 02:10:31 Right.
• 02:10:34 She’ll kind of go quiet.
• 02:10:37 and,
• 02:10:40 she would stay quiet for like
• 02:10:44 a minute.
• 02:10:46 uh,
• 02:10:48 Yeah.
• 02:10:49 before breaking and immediately going, well, I

Iva

• 02:11:00 What about you?
• 02:11:02 I don’t think it’s going to be out here, right?

Hazel

• 02:11:04 Oh, I don’t know.
• 02:11:06 I suppose I will
• 02:11:09 I, I,
• 02:11:12 I didn’t.
• 02:11:13 - Yeah.
• 02:11:14 When I asked to continue my
• 02:11:17 to continue my stay in Argentum,
• 02:11:21 forgot that you all had lives to return to
• 02:11:23 she kind of like says
• 02:11:25 weirdly

Luma

• 02:11:26 I mean it’s just a joke
• 02:11:30 the pay.
• 02:11:33 All right.
• 02:11:35 Well,

Hazel

• 02:11:38 well, at least one of them.

Temerity

• 02:11:41 Hmm.

Hazel

• 02:11:46 I suppose
• 02:11:47 uh,
• 02:11:49 I will
• 02:11:51 find a way to
• 02:11:53 to
• 02:11:57 to make money myself and
• 02:11:59 if
• 02:12:00 you, uh,

Unidentified

• 02:12:03 Yeah.

Rhysaene

• 02:12:05 I’m not going to fucking leave you.
• 02:12:07 Do you want to stay with me?

Temerity

• 02:12:09 Hey.
• 02:12:10 Not Iva, just Hazel.

Iva

• 02:12:15 Oh, no, I have a place to stay.

Rhysaene

• 02:12:17 Okay, so do you got a place to stay?

Iva

• 02:12:21 No.

Rhysaene

• 02:12:22 Okay, then you’re staying with me.

Iva

• 02:12:28 I have a size and that’s probably the best idea.
• 02:12:32 I guess I won’t use my homework.
• 02:12:34 for some that I’ve been working

Rhysaene

• 02:12:36 that is
• 02:12:36 that is
• 02:12:39 Angels are in a fucking sad state of affairs if they uh
• 02:12:43 Gotta use homeless personas.
• 02:12:46 -
• 02:12:49 That is how the mighty Iva has fallen.

Hazel

• 02:12:53 Damn.
• 02:12:57 Um,
• 02:12:59 but
• 02:13:00 uh,
• 02:13:00 T-t-t.
• 02:13:02 uh,
• 02:13:04 Faze will just go…
• 02:13:06 Regardless, I hope that
• 02:13:07 uh,
• 02:13:12 I hope that when we get back to Argentum, we still…
• 02:13:15 remain in correspondence.

Iva

• 02:13:18 - Of course.
• 02:13:20 We’re all friends because we ate the bread with Ruma.

Luma

• 02:13:23 Wait, do you want to be pen pals?

Hazel

• 02:13:25 Do it.
• 02:13:27 I’m
• 02:13:28 My handwriting isn’t the best.
• 02:13:31 But I could do, I could try my best.

Luma

• 02:13:33 I’ve never had a pen pal before.
• 02:13:36 I’ve had a lot of ones, but
• 02:13:37 I never got a reply back.
• 02:13:39 I don’t think I really understand how pen pals work.
• 02:13:41 I think you have to, like, meet the person first, but…

Rhysaene

• 02:13:44 No.

Luma

• 02:13:48 it.
• 02:13:49 Apparently just guessing a name and sending it through the
• 02:13:51 post doesn’t typically…

Rhysaene

• 02:13:52 Sometimes you’re going to know
• 02:13:54 Just the names.

Hazel

• 02:13:58 Hazel is looking at Temerity.

Temerity

• 02:14:00 I get it.
• 02:14:03 It’s like, if you want a pen pal, Father Emberthumb has…
• 02:14:08 is very conversational.

Dungeon Master

• 02:14:12 fuck you no i’m kidding

Luma

• 02:14:13 this is my new goal to have as many pen pals as i can and
• 02:14:21 and

Dungeon Master

• 02:14:21 it was fun

Luma

• 02:14:25 well you thought the worst thing that could happen is we
• 02:14:30 ask the npcs their names the npcs their names
• 02:14:33 Letters.
• 02:14:35 I adapted to that.

Dungeon Master

• 02:14:36 There are a billion NPCs with names this time.

Rhysaene

• 02:14:41 You get everyone in Krixman to sign letter petitions.

Hazel

• 02:14:45 You’re getting a bunch of letters and they’re all written
• 02:14:47 by ChetGPT.
• 02:14:49 No, no, no.
• 02:14:53 Hazel is still staring at Temerity.

Rhysaene

• 02:14:58 Um,
• 02:15:00 Oh, I will mention…
• 02:15:03 that
• 02:15:04 when Temerity mentioned her further career path,
• 02:15:07 Rhys looked away from Temerity.

Temerity

• 02:15:10 Wait.
• 02:15:12 Um, Temerity, are you seeing Hazel stare at them?
• 02:15:17 It’s like, what do I, do I have something on my face?
• 02:15:20 See, like
• 02:15:22 snitch
• 02:15:26 Thank you.

Iva

• 02:15:28 Yeah.

Temerity

• 02:15:29 What are…

Hazel

• 02:15:32 Mm-hmm.
• 02:15:33 uh,
• 02:15:37 And Adel’s just going to say like, well,
• 02:15:41 everyone
• 02:15:42 Everyone seems to want to stay in touch.

Temerity

• 02:15:45 Oh.
• 02:15:46 Um,
• 02:15:51 I…
• 02:15:53 don’t,
• 02:15:53 No.
• 02:15:56 What?
• 02:15:56 How waits for me with the.
• 02:16:00 Um,
• 02:16:03 But if it’s possible, I would like to stay in touch.
• 02:16:06 Yes.
• 02:16:08 Of course.
• 02:16:11 Well,

Hazel

• 02:16:14 A discussion for another time, I suppose.

Luma

• 02:16:18 because we know where each other is at all times.
• 02:16:21 oh yeah oh yeah i forgot about that

Dungeon Master

• 02:16:30 Yeah.
• 02:16:31 You look at the maps and you see
• 02:16:33 actually Luma isn’t anywhere near
• 02:16:35 the party right now.
• 02:16:38 I mean, I should have said that. That would go so crazy.

Luma

• 02:16:41 That would go so fucking
• 02:16:43 crazy. If I had project
• 02:16:45 major image or whatever the fuck.

Rhysaene

• 02:16:47 Luma is like secretly
• 02:16:49 in an actual
• 02:16:51 level 20 wizard.

Luma

• 02:16:53 Never considered the fact that you could

Rhysaene

• 02:16:54 using like a stimulacrum
• 02:16:56 or some shit.
• 02:16:58 He he he he he.

Luma

• 02:17:00 Luma is so good at the ingrate thing
• 02:17:03 she makes duplicates of people later it’s fine

Hazel

• 02:17:04 just think a Luma simulacrum
• 02:17:07 would also be able to give
• 02:17:09 a bunch of people
• 02:17:10 oh fuck
• 02:17:11 no
• 02:17:13 and that’s why artificers can’t learn simulacrum
• 02:17:17 laughing

Temerity

• 02:17:20 - That would be nightmarish, actually, whoa.

Luma

• 02:17:22 - So how did you invent fantasy Discord?
• 02:17:25 Well, you know.
• 02:17:25 Ha ha ha ha!
• 02:17:26 Yeah.
• 02:17:27 Pen pals and maps.

Temerity

• 02:17:29 Pen pals and maps.

Rhysaene

• 02:17:36 Oh yes, the map.
• 02:17:38 Thank you.

Luma

• 02:17:40 Oh yeah, did you want me to take you off the…
• 02:17:43 Off the group map.
• 02:17:44 No.
• 02:17:47 Bro, why’d you leave the group map?
• 02:17:49 Why’d you leave the group map, bro?
• 02:17:51 Luma has removed Hazel from the group map,
• 02:17:54 appears on the maps briefly.
• 02:17:57 No, no, no.

Hazel

• 02:18:01 I simply
• 02:18:03 and then
• 02:18:04 I simply can’t be having that around where I’m staying, so
• 02:18:07 I will have to…

Luma

• 02:18:09 Well, it’s okay now because I’ve got the witch hat, which
• 02:18:11 counts, right?
• 02:18:13 They won’t have a problem with it.

Hazel

• 02:18:15 Mm-hmm. Though…
• 02:18:18 though the members of
• 02:18:20 Though my sisters are all similar in motivation, we are not
• 02:18:24 a monolith…
• 02:18:26 And regrettably…
• 02:18:29 Eh.
• 02:18:30 my sister in Argentum
• 02:18:32 Is…
• 02:18:34 uh,
• 02:18:36 incredibly
• 02:18:39 knowledgeable on
• 02:18:42 Uh.
• 02:18:45 uh,
• 02:18:47 incredibly knowledgeable on, uh,

Iva

• 02:18:51 T-t-t-t!

Hazel

• 02:18:53 the dangers of
• 02:18:55 uh,
• 02:18:58 of magic that divines others’ locations
• 02:19:02 and is distrusting of it.

Luma

• 02:19:06 Oh.
• 02:19:06 That’s really good to hear because I would love to learn
• 02:19:08 more about how this map works
• 02:19:12 I don’t really know how it works either.

Hazel

• 02:19:16 Well, unfortunately, I don’t believe she’s a div- I don’t
• 02:19:19 believe she’s a diviner.
• 02:19:23 Oh.
• 02:19:24 She’s most, it’s kind of a, you know, it’s kind of a,
• 02:19:28 of a devil you know is
• 02:19:30 versus a double you don’t or whatever that’s not something
• 02:19:32 that it would be common parlance in a
• 02:19:34 world without gods i think but you know the sorrow you know
• 02:19:37 versus the sorry the maid you know versus
• 02:19:41 the maid you don’t

Dungeon Master

• 02:19:43 No.
• 02:19:45 Fun fact,
• 02:19:47 The word devil would be in the parlance.
• 02:19:50 It would not be as common because like.
• 02:19:53 you know,
• 02:19:54 Religion’s pretty monolithic these days, but it is a word
• 02:19:58 that comes up in kind of the same way…
• 02:20:02 as Han Solo saying, “Then I’ll see you in hell.”

Hazel

• 02:20:06 Yeah, it’s like Stewie Griffin going, what the devil?

Dungeon Master

• 02:20:10 Devils are presumably a thing
• 02:20:14 They exist in stories

Hazel

• 02:20:16 Yeah, regardless, Hazel would not say the devil you know
• 02:20:19 versus the devil you don’t.
• 02:20:21 And Temerity exists.
• 02:20:23 Yeah, true.

Rhysaene

• 02:20:25 Yeah, Temerity.

Hazel

• 02:20:27 Hazel would just
• 02:20:30 Hazel would just…

Unidentified

• 02:20:33 - Yeah.

Hazel

• 02:20:36 be like, yeah, she doesn’t really know
• 02:20:39 She’s not an expert on it.
• 02:20:40 She just knows it’s dangerous.
• 02:20:42 - Oh, darn. - When used incorrectly.
• 02:20:47 No.
• 02:20:47 Which is a nice way to say she’s paranoid.

Dungeon Master

• 02:20:50 Yeah, that’s a long way around to get to Calypso’s
• 02:20:53 incredibly paranoid.

Hazel

• 02:20:55 Uh-huh.
• 02:20:57 That’s why she’s not saying her name.
• 02:20:59 She feels like if Hazel dropped the fact that her name was
• 02:21:02 Calypso,
• 02:21:03 she’d get hit by a meteor.
• 02:21:05 Okay.
• 02:21:05 She gets struck down by lightning immediately.

Rhysaene

• 02:21:09 Tom.
• 02:21:11 Actually, speaking of your sisters…

Temerity

• 02:21:15 Mm-hmm.

Rhysaene

• 02:21:17 Yesters.
• 02:21:18 Um,
• 02:21:22 What do you know about Circe?

Hazel

• 02:21:25 Mm-hm-hm-hm-hm.
• 02:21:27 Um…
• 02:21:32 Regrettably, I know as much as you would all have been able
• 02:21:39 to…
• 02:21:40 to intuit from your
• 02:21:43 from your brief encounter with her.
• 02:21:46 - Hmm.
• 02:21:47 She is in, she is
• 02:21:50 - All that is to be known about
• 02:21:54 about my, not my, it’s not a possessive thing, sorry, about
• 02:21:59 Sister Circe.
• 02:22:01 is that she is
• 02:22:05 and
• 02:22:05 that hurt.
• 02:22:09 Enigmatic nature is one that she does.
• 02:22:18 Tries very hard to…
• 02:22:20 keep that way also holy shit it’s so hard for me to talk as
• 02:22:25 this character right now why did i
• 02:22:27 why am i playing a weird person

Rhysaene

• 02:22:30 I can’t get it

Luma

• 02:22:32 Why am I playing a weirdo?

Rhysaene

• 02:22:35 Right, I see.
• 02:22:37 Um…
• 02:22:42 Couldn’t hurt asking our guests.

Luma

• 02:22:45 She does cool magic.

Temerity

• 02:22:47 She does it.

Unidentified

• 02:22:50 uh,

Luma

• 02:22:54 - Speaking up.
• 02:22:55 Oh, yes.
• 02:22:56 No, actually, never mind.
• 02:22:56 That is a complete detract of what’s going on and not
• 02:23:00 really bringing up.
• 02:23:02 Yeah.
• 02:23:02 Hee hee!

Hazel

• 02:23:03 Unfortunately, the only person I believe other than Circe
• 02:23:08 who knows much about Circe would be my headmistress.
• 02:23:12 And even she, I believe, is not wholly…
• 02:23:17 It’s not wholly in the know on all.
• 02:23:20 on all that she gets up to.

Temerity

• 02:23:25 Hmm.
• 02:23:28 little weirdo Circe.

Iva

• 02:23:30 Mm-hmm.

Temerity

• 02:23:32 a weirdo

Iva

• 02:23:33 I’m a hero.

Dungeon Master

• 02:23:37 Thank you.
• 02:23:39 A thing that might add to the mystique of Circe because
• 02:23:42 you all did see her
• 02:23:44 She is like…
• 02:23:48 only a little bit older than Hazel, like by a year or two.

Luma

• 02:23:54 Visually?
• 02:23:55 Yeah.
• 02:23:59 Huh.

Iva

• 02:24:03 Yeah, she’s a little weirdo.

Luma

• 02:24:05 She’s a little weirdo.
• 02:24:07 A weirdo.
• 02:24:07 That looks so good.

Hazel

• 02:24:11 She is.

Temerity

• 02:24:12 Mm-hmm.

Hazel

• 02:24:15 Yeah, and she was around since before Hazel was even a
• 02:24:18 member of the Coven.

Temerity

• 02:24:20 Yeah.
• 02:24:23 Yeah.

Hazel

• 02:24:26 Ah, Crick’s Bend ahead.

Dungeon Master

• 02:24:29 No, yeah, that’s fine.
• 02:24:32 Um,
• 02:24:33 You spend your time traveling, talking, learning more about
• 02:24:36 each other and your plans for the future as the…
• 02:24:40 sparse farmlands begin to once again become more and more
• 02:24:45 dense.
• 02:24:45 as the road takes you
• 02:24:48 Um,
• 02:24:49 near Crick’s Bend.
• 02:24:51 uh,
• 02:24:52 Once again, you find the turnoff.
• 02:24:54 uh,
• 02:24:55 where
• 02:24:56 the lesser road that leads up from the main old road up to
• 02:25:00 Crick’s Bend is, and you head up
• 02:25:03 Yeah.
• 02:25:04 to the the town entering it from the south just as you did
• 02:25:09 before
• 02:25:09 It’s 11 hours, so…
• 02:25:13 It’s probably around 7 p.m.
• 02:25:16 It’s pretty late.

Temerity

• 02:25:18 Yeah, it’s dinner time.

Dungeon Master

• 02:25:20 You’re all tired.
• 02:25:21 But I won’t…
• 02:25:23 There’s not really a point to doing it this time, so I’m
• 02:25:27 not going to make you roll for exhaustion, but you did
• 02:25:29 technically force march.
• 02:25:31 to get here in one day and it is dinner time it’s a little
• 02:25:35 late for dinner actually but like not not too bad
• 02:25:39 What are you doing?

Temerity

• 02:25:41 Um…
• 02:25:43 Whale.
• 02:25:45 Temerity…
• 02:25:47 is probably reiterated as we entered the town.
• 02:25:53 Like, the Kembles offered to--
• 02:25:57 Host us for dinner.
• 02:25:59 So I’m going to check with them and
• 02:26:01 make sure that they’re ready to seep.
• 02:26:05 this many people, extra from the amount that they already
• 02:26:09 have.
• 02:26:12 I’m not going to tell someone because it’s late.

Luma

• 02:26:17 We’re not going to be here for dinner tomorrow, are we?
• 02:26:20 No.

Temerity

• 02:26:22 Yeah, no, we were going to go back to Argentum.
• 02:26:26 - Yeah.
• 02:26:27 Some people got work.
• 02:26:29 Some people got work in the morning.

Dungeon Master

• 02:26:35 So you’re all heading to the…

Rhysaene

• 02:26:39 Oh, no, no, sorry, go ahead.

Dungeon Master

• 02:26:41 You’re all heading to the Kemble’s farmstead.
• 02:26:44 Yeah.

Unidentified

• 02:26:46 Uh.

Hazel

• 02:26:49 We don’t have anywhere else to go.
• 02:26:51 So, like, even though Temerity is, like, checking in on
• 02:26:54 them,
• 02:26:55 we’re just kind of like, well…
• 02:26:56 There’s, like, the tavern, right?
• 02:26:57 Yeah.
• 02:26:57 - Yeah.
• 02:26:58 There’s a tavern, if anyone wants to go there.
• 02:27:01 Yeah, there’s a tavern.
• 02:27:01 Yeah, but like the Kemble’s farm is…
• 02:27:04 is on the east end of cricks bend where we’re coming in
• 02:27:09 from we would have to go
• 02:27:11 Well, we’re coming from the film.
• 02:27:14 What?

Temerity

• 02:27:15 Yeah, because it’s a road that leads up from the main road.
• 02:27:18 - Yeah.

Hazel

• 02:27:20 Oh, yeah, true. We’re coming in the south.
• 02:27:22 Never mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Luma

• 02:27:24 That’s so inefficient. Where’s the…
• 02:27:26 What are those things called, like the intent path or
• 02:27:28 whatever?
• 02:27:29 Yeah!

Dungeon Master

• 02:27:31 Um,
• 02:27:32 It is, I mean, it is the…
• 02:27:36 What happened was Crick’s Bend was built on the river.
• 02:27:39 The road predates Crick’s Bend by a very long time.
• 02:27:42 There was not a town here when the road was made.

Hazel

• 02:27:45 - Yeah.
• 02:27:47 Yeah.
• 02:27:47 Sorry, my brain is still…
• 02:27:50 In the idea of Crick’s Bend where it was before you moved
• 02:27:54 it.
• 02:27:54 And…
• 02:27:56 hurt.
• 02:27:56 When it was closer to Silverthorn.
• 02:27:59 And so my, my, my brain still hasn’t like adjusted to that.

Dungeon Master

• 02:28:03 I see. Yeah, that’s fair.

Hazel

• 02:28:06 um,
• 02:28:07 So yeah, I guess we can go to the tavern, but I don’t know.
• 02:28:10 Nah, no, I’m going to follow Temerity.
• 02:28:12 unless Temerity goes
• 02:28:14 Why are you following me?
• 02:28:16 No.
• 02:28:18 Why are you following me?

Temerity

• 02:28:20 Why are you following me?

Rhysaene

• 02:28:21 Yeah, this is your hometown.
• 02:28:23 Bruce is following you too.
• 02:28:25 Hee hee hee.

Dungeon Master

• 02:28:27 Yeah.
• 02:28:29 Um,
• 02:28:30 You head into town, you pass the tavern, you pass the
• 02:28:34 circle in the middle of town, you see Father Emberthumb’s
• 02:28:37 church.
• 02:28:37 Um,
• 02:28:39 Sun is already set, but there’s still a little light in the
• 02:28:41 sky by the time you reach the Kemble farmstead.
• 02:28:45 There’s a lantern burning on the front porch and light sp
• 02:28:48 illing out of the windows, smoke pouring out of the chimneys
• 02:28:52 …
• 02:28:53 Um,
• 02:28:55 and you
• 02:28:56 Temerity, this is as much home as anywhere else is to

Temerity

• 02:29:01 you.
• 02:29:01 Mm-hmm.
• 02:29:03 This and
• 02:29:04 Father.
• 02:29:04 Discendence.

Dungeon Master

• 02:29:06 Mm-hmm.

Temerity

• 02:29:07 So, Temerity’s going to
• 02:29:09 walk up.
• 02:29:11 Yeah.
• 02:29:11 To the door.
• 02:29:13 Uh,
• 02:29:16 following a path
• 02:29:18 only visible to her.
• 02:29:20 No.
• 02:29:21 Just like…

Dungeon Master

• 02:29:24 Knife ready, drawn in front of her where the others can’t
• 02:29:29 see it.

Temerity

• 02:29:34 But no, Temerity walks up to the front porch.
• 02:29:39 And knocks on the door.

Dungeon Master

• 02:29:41 You give a knock and it’s pretty quick
• 02:29:43 before the door is answered and it is answered by
• 02:29:47 None other than Juniper Kemble.
• 02:29:50 um,
• 02:29:50 a young woman
• 02:29:52 Pretty.
• 02:29:53 but not extraordinary in any way, but certainly pretty.
• 02:29:59 uh,
• 02:30:00 me pulling notes
• 02:30:02 They’re like a million Kemble’s guys.
• 02:30:05 I don’t know.
• 02:30:06 True.
• 02:30:08 Juniper’s soft, pretty, but still fairly muscular.
• 02:30:13 She smiles big and bright when she sees Temerity and says,
• 02:30:18 Tim,
• 02:30:18 you’re lucky we waited to eat.
• 02:30:21 Um,
• 02:30:22 Ma wanted to start cooking earlier and I had to remind her
• 02:30:26 that
• 02:30:26 Um, you guys were going up north and that meant it’d be a
• 02:30:29 while before you were able to get here even if you left in
• 02:30:32 the morning.

Temerity

• 02:30:33 Yes, sorry we took so long.
• 02:30:37 Yeah.
• 02:30:38 but
• 02:30:39 Do y’all have room for all of us to sit?

Dungeon Master

• 02:30:42 Yeah, we knew you were bringing friends.
• 02:30:44 She kind of stops talking and is looking at risk.
• 02:30:49 She says, well, um…
• 02:30:52 - Thanks, Marla.
• 02:30:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got room, we got room.
• 02:30:56 Um, it’s,
• 02:30:59 Hazel.

Hazel

• 02:31:00 - Oh, did I meet Juniper?
• 02:31:04 I thought she brought something to her.

Dungeon Master

• 02:31:08 She did. She brought him some bread.

Hazel

• 02:31:10 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 02:31:11 You didn’t really talk to her or anything, but you did see
• 02:31:14 her when you were there.

Hazel

• 02:31:16 Yeah.
• 02:31:17 Uh, Hazel is like peeking over, like, like, like leaning
• 02:31:23 around to get a better look, uh,
• 02:31:27 And like,
• 02:31:28 uh,
• 02:31:29 Squints and goes, “Ah, yes, you.”

Dungeon Master

• 02:31:31 Oh, I know you
• 02:31:34 You stayed with Father Emberthumb
• 02:31:35 A while back

Hazel

• 02:31:39 - Indeed.
• 02:31:39 I did not
• 02:31:41 I did not know that
• 02:31:43 you were
• 02:31:44 You were one of the Kembles that Temerity has spoken so
• 02:31:49 much about.

Dungeon Master

• 02:31:50 Oh yeah, she smiles brightly.
• 02:31:52 I’m Juniper Kemble.
• 02:31:55 Tem’s been talking about me, has she?
• 02:31:59 10.

Unidentified

• 02:32:01 Ha ha ha ha ha!

Temerity

• 02:32:03 -

Hazel

• 02:32:06 Oh!
• 02:32:07 Temerity.
• 02:32:07 Um,
• 02:32:09 No.

Dungeon Master

• 02:32:11 she’s never
• 02:32:14 she’s never spoken
• 02:32:17 I mean, Jennifer looks at Temerity and pouts.

Temerity

• 02:32:22 Have I spoken out of turn?

Rhysaene

• 02:32:27 We’ve erased like every single bit
• 02:32:30 of good comma we’ve done this session.

Dungeon Master

• 02:32:32 Not at all Temerity?
• 02:32:36 Not at all?

Luma

• 02:32:39 Are we supposed to know this lady?

Iva

• 02:32:41 maybe
• 02:32:43 a lot of people
• 02:32:48 from your host here

Temerity

• 02:32:49 this is like when the first time
• 02:32:53 This is probably the first time you’ve ever seen Temerity,
• 02:32:55 like, even whenever we were
• 02:32:56 at, like, the Inquisitor, Temerity still had, like…
• 02:32:59 their posture. This is the first time they’re like, uh,
• 02:33:02 kind of like shriveled a little bit.
• 02:33:07 sweet revenge
• 02:33:09 I’m sorry
• 02:33:16 we were very busy I haven’t
• 02:33:18 been able to speak about much
• 02:33:21 of Crick’s Bend
• 02:33:23 just looks at you i i i’m sorry juniper she looks at you

Dungeon Master

• 02:33:33 And there’s something that changes.
• 02:33:35 Give me an insight check.

Luma

• 02:33:37 You’re going to get punched.

Temerity

• 02:33:42 15.

Dungeon Master

• 02:33:45 - Yeah.
• 02:33:50 The tone of her voice when she was, like, yelling, like,
• 02:33:54 really?
• 02:33:54 And all of that, there was playfulness to it, um…
• 02:33:57 Because she assumed your friends who you had, like, wr
• 02:34:00 angled to come to this dinner and talk to…
• 02:34:03 about and asked to have them to dinner, she assumed they
• 02:34:07 were fucking with you the way
• 02:34:08 that you might play around with her brothers.
• 02:34:12 And the realization setting in is you, like, stammer
• 02:34:15 excuses that, like,
• 02:34:18 they weren’t kidding that you hadn’t talked about her.
• 02:34:21 changes her demeanor, and she…
• 02:34:24 kind of like
• 02:34:25 Oh, yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, of course.
• 02:34:29 No, it’s no problem.
• 02:34:32 Come in, come in, come in.
• 02:34:33 And there’s no more exuberance to it.

Temerity

• 02:34:36 Father Emberthumb’s here, right?
• 02:34:38 Because he was told of these plans.
• 02:34:40 Yeah, I don’t know.
• 02:34:41 Okay, yeah, you know, that’s fair.
• 02:34:44 That’s fair.
• 02:34:46 - Hey, to Temerity.

Hazel

• 02:34:48 Uh,
• 02:34:49 Yes.
• 02:34:54 uh
• 02:34:56 Have I caused a problem?
• 02:35:00 Uh,

Temerity

• 02:35:03 I don’t know.
• 02:35:06 I can’t.
• 02:35:07 I can never read Juniper.
• 02:35:13 I know.
• 02:35:14 She’s crazy.

Hazel

• 02:35:18 And
• 02:35:21 It goes very well.
• 02:35:22 If I find anything out, I will tell you.
• 02:35:26 - Sorry.
• 02:35:26 - She just nods.
• 02:35:30 And now she is going to be watching Juniper like a hawk.
• 02:35:33 I think it’s been cool.
• 02:35:35 um
• 02:35:37 I don’t know.

Temerity

• 02:35:40 And it caused a problem.

Dungeon Master

• 02:35:42 You all heading inside, staying out here?
• 02:35:45 - Yeah.
• 02:35:47 Um, you had inside and the front door leads into like a
• 02:35:50 little, a little area
• 02:35:51 where people can take their coats off.
• 02:35:53 There’s a coat rack, um, a place to leave your boots.
• 02:35:56 Oh, yeah. Shoes off.

Hazel

• 02:35:59 Thank you.
• 02:36:00 I don’t wear shoes.

Dungeon Master

• 02:36:01 - Oh yeah, that’s true.
• 02:36:03 Hazel’s barefoot all the time.
• 02:36:04 It’s fucking freaky.

Luma

• 02:36:06 One of those boots whizzes past
• 02:36:09 Temerity’s head as she launches it by accident.
• 02:36:11 What?
• 02:36:13 Oh, shit.

Dungeon Master

• 02:36:16 Alright.
• 02:36:17 Off to the right of this little entryway, you can see a big
• 02:36:21 living room, like sitting room, chairs, and a couch.
• 02:36:26 Um,
• 02:36:28 Nice windows looking out over the front porch
• 02:36:31 and over out the east side of the yard.
• 02:36:34 um, stairs that lead up to a second floor, um, another
• 02:36:38 doorway leading off into, like, a little hall that curves
• 02:36:41 back around into a room you can’t see, um, but you
• 02:36:44 certainly can smell, as you smell, like, wonderful scents
• 02:36:48 of, um,
• 02:36:50 of cooking meat and vegetables and
• 02:36:55 baking bread
• 02:36:56 and something like
• 02:37:01 something like spiced
• 02:37:04 on the air.
• 02:37:08 Um,
• 02:37:09 a large meal being developed beyond…
• 02:37:13 And Juniper looks at all of you and says,
• 02:37:17 Normally, we’d sit around and talk while dinner was being
• 02:37:21 made, but it is a little late,
• 02:37:23 so I hope you don’t mind if we just go straight to the
• 02:37:26 dining room.

Temerity

• 02:37:28 No, of course.

Dungeon Master

• 02:37:29 Father Amber Thome’s already here, of course.
• 02:37:34 Yes.
• 02:37:35 she leads you all around that little hallway
• 02:37:38 and you pass into like a
• 02:37:39 one room veers off into a kitchen
• 02:37:41 the other into a large dining room
• 02:37:44 there’s a big
• 02:37:45 Um,
• 02:37:46 Oak.
• 02:37:47 farved table that runs the length of the dining room with
• 02:37:51 surprisingly enough space for all
• 02:37:53 of you.
• 02:37:54 The Kemble family is already big.
• 02:37:57 And they wanted to make sure they could also have a lot of
• 02:38:00 guests at one time.
• 02:38:01 So they have a very large dining room with a very large
• 02:38:05 table.
• 02:38:05 it looks like it would seat 12, six on each side. And then,
• 02:38:10 um,
• 02:38:10 One at each end.
• 02:38:12 Um,
• 02:38:14 Juniper quickly runs over to
• 02:38:17 like the end of the table at the far end.
• 02:38:20 and pulls out a chair and kind of pushes it to the side.
• 02:38:25 This is some…
• 02:38:25 You can eat here.
• 02:38:27 I’m sorry, your name is…
• 02:38:29 And she turns to Rhys…

Rhysaene

• 02:38:31 Oh, hi.
• 02:38:32 Risk.
• 02:38:34 Risk.

Dungeon Master

• 02:38:36 name just so you have enough room you can you can eat here
• 02:38:39 if that’s all right
• 02:38:41 I’m at the corner.
• 02:38:43 Um,
• 02:38:45 And then, and then, um,
• 02:38:47 Yeah, that’s…
• 02:38:49 Um, the,
• 02:38:50 The Father Imbertham is sitting near that end of the table
• 02:38:54 already.
• 02:38:55 He’s a little old halfling man balding with a liver spot on
• 02:38:58 his forehead.
• 02:39:00 Clearly very old, he’s got his own special chair to get him
• 02:39:05 up at the same height as everyone else.
• 02:39:07 He, he, he.
• 02:39:09 Yeah, you got to eat the high chair, man.
• 02:39:12 They got him in the high chair, man.
• 02:39:13 I got him in the high chair.
• 02:39:15 If I made it a high chair.
• 02:39:17 There are other people around the table,
• 02:39:20 several young men,
• 02:39:21 all bearing striking family resemblances.
• 02:39:26 Um,
• 02:39:26 There’s also a…
• 02:39:28 a woman older
• 02:39:30 But not old.
• 02:39:32 who looks very much like Juniper sitting
• 02:39:35 At the, the end of the, or sorry, she wouldn’t be sitting
• 02:39:38 yet. Nevermind. Um,
• 02:39:39 So yeah, there’s some young men kind of sitting
• 02:39:41 and others coming and going out of the door in the kitchen.
• 02:39:45 they start bringing food out
• 02:39:47 Um,
• 02:39:49 And there’s a…
• 02:39:51 Um,
• 02:39:53 there’s a,
• 02:39:55 Sorry, I’m looking for notes.
• 02:39:57 One of the boys brings out a…
• 02:40:01 a stoneware pot
• 02:40:03 filled with what looks like mashed yellow potatoes.
• 02:40:07 They smell like they’ve been folded with butter
• 02:40:10 and just covered in black pepper.
• 02:40:13 Um,
• 02:40:13 Another like large like skillet is brought out full of wild
• 02:40:18 mushrooms, you can smell garlic and butter.
• 02:40:22 all over them.
• 02:40:23 Um,
• 02:40:24 There’s cups laid out at the all over the table. There are
• 02:40:29 two pictures.
• 02:40:30 Uh, uh,
• 02:40:32 a
• 02:40:33 a like metal picture sitting over a little tiny, like
• 02:40:37 heated, um,
• 02:40:37 like open flame.
• 02:40:39 just a little tiny one of what looks like
• 02:40:43 an amber liquid of some kind and smells of apple and
• 02:40:49 cinnamon and,
• 02:40:49 um,
• 02:40:50 Another picture of dark, what looks like ale,
• 02:40:54 Um,
• 02:40:57 There’s…
• 02:40:59 there’s like jars of, uh,
• 02:41:01 already opened of, um, pickled cabbages and, uh,
• 02:41:06 uh, like, um,
• 02:41:09 plum preserves.
• 02:41:11 Um,
• 02:41:14 And, uh, as you all, um,
• 02:41:17 kind of taking all the sights and smells
• 02:41:19 and you look at like stuff getting laid out.
• 02:41:22 A man older than the other boys kind of moving around.
• 02:41:25 Um, comes out and he’s holding a big, uh,
• 02:41:29 Um,
• 02:41:31 pewter platter, and on this platter is a glistening
• 02:41:35 Uh,
• 02:41:37 salt cured, uh, haunch of, uh,
• 02:41:41 Pork.
• 02:41:41 That has been, um,
• 02:41:44 probably
• 02:41:46 Like, uh,
• 02:41:48 glazed with a mix of honey and what smells like cider.
• 02:41:52 um,
• 02:41:53 All around it are roasted parsnips and cut sliced apple
• 02:41:57 that’s kind of just soaked in
• 02:42:00 the savory, like,
• 02:42:02 juices that have dripped off this, like…
• 02:42:04 big, huge, like side of pork and he sits it on the table
• 02:42:08 and starts carving
• 02:42:09 slices of it. Um, he looks around at each of you and says,
• 02:42:12 Oh, um,
• 02:42:14 uh,
• 02:42:15 hello hello welcome to my home I’m Henry Henry Kemble this
• 02:42:18 is my wife
• 02:42:19 Maureen to whom you all owe your undying gratitude for this
• 02:42:24 spread of delicious food.

Hazel

• 02:42:27 And bows.
• 02:42:34 to the lady.

Rhysaene

• 02:42:38 Yeah, I will do the politest version of a horse curtsy I
• 02:42:41 can.

Dungeon Master

• 02:42:43 Uh,
• 02:42:44 The woman who kind of looks like an older Juniper looks
• 02:42:47 over at Rhys,
• 02:42:48 at each of you one at a time and then at Rhys,
• 02:42:50 and says, oh, my word, you’re quite something, aren’t you?
• 02:42:53 Are you going to be comfortable standing all night?
• 02:42:57 I don’t think you can sit in a chair, but is there anything
• 02:43:00 we can do to make you more comfortable?

Rhysaene

• 02:43:02 Uh, just a rug on the floor to do nice.

Hazel

• 02:43:06 It’s a low valley.
• 02:43:08 I’m just going to say that every time now.

Dungeon Master

• 02:43:11 Um, she, she goes and gets a, like a nice rug and lays it
• 02:43:16 out at that end of the table where the chair had been
• 02:43:19 removed.
• 02:43:19 says, yeah, um,
• 02:43:22 - Yeah.
• 02:43:22 everyone. Um, uh, these are our sons. Um,
• 02:43:26 And there’s an assortment of young men ranging from late 20
• 02:43:30 s to just…
• 02:43:34 To just 19…
• 02:43:37 and they are introduced in
• 02:43:39 in no particular order as
• 02:43:42 Daryl David Duke.
• 02:43:44 Trevor and Troy.

Hazel

• 02:43:47 He-he-he.
• 02:43:47 Hazel will try to seat herself near Juniper and she will
• 02:43:51 just look over to her as she sits down and says, “You have
• 02:43:54 far too many brothers.”
• 02:43:55 Don’t let me know it.

Dungeon Master

• 02:43:58 Goodness.

Temerity

• 02:44:01 Um, this is, uh,
• 02:44:03 Thank you all for hosting us.
• 02:44:05 Temerity will take her seat next to Father Emberthumb.
• 02:44:08 I assume Juniper probably seats next to…
• 02:44:11 Temerity, so Hazel’s on the other end.
• 02:44:14 of Juniper.
• 02:44:18 uh,
• 02:44:19 But.
• 02:44:19 Temerity will introduce
• 02:44:22 everybody being the one through
• 02:44:23 line between the party and the Kembles.
• 02:44:27 And it’s like
• 02:44:28 this is…
• 02:44:30 Vruss
• 02:44:31 Hazel.
• 02:44:33 Hello.
• 02:44:35 either.

Dungeon Master

• 02:44:36 Nice to meet you all and everyone’s nice to meet you.
• 02:44:40 So I’m just like a general like clamor of greeting.
• 02:44:45 Um,
• 02:44:47 Everybody sits down and…
• 02:44:53 The Kembles don’t usually say “Grace.”
• 02:44:56 saying grace is kind of like a really particular tradition
• 02:45:00 even in the Silver Vale even in argentum
• 02:45:03 Um,
• 02:45:04 And Temerity would be, like, used to this.
• 02:45:07 It is really only, like, the, like, super devout that take
• 02:45:10 time out of, like, a normal daily activity to do that.

Temerity

• 02:45:15 Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 02:45:16 Um, so they don’t, they don’t pause for that the way you
• 02:45:19 guys did when you ate with Father
• 02:45:20 Emberthumb and Father Emberthumb.
• 02:45:21 Oh, thank God.
• 02:45:22 he’s also aware of this it’s never bothered him um
• 02:45:28 Maureen kind of looks over all of you and says, help
• 02:45:31 yourselves, anything on the table.
• 02:45:33 There’s fire cider and some dark ale.
• 02:45:38 Um,
• 02:45:40 We’ve got
• 02:45:41 parsnips and pork and mashed potatoes and
• 02:45:46 mushrooms and then and preserves and um oh right and she
• 02:45:51 dashes off into the kitchen and comes back
• 02:45:52 with a with a wooden um like cutting board with sliced like
• 02:45:57 not loaves yeah well sliced loaves
• 02:46:00 sliced into hunks of fresh-baked rye bread and lays that on
• 02:46:03 the table.
• 02:46:05 Next to the bread is, like, a stone, almost like a mortar
• 02:46:07 and pestle.
• 02:46:08 I forget which of the two things is which,
• 02:46:11 but the bowl part, full of, like, butter mashed with…
• 02:46:15 garlic and herbs.

Hazel

• 02:46:18 Nice.

Temerity

• 02:46:19 They got all the fixings.

Hazel

• 02:46:21 They got all the fixings.
• 02:46:22 Make herself a plate that is far too large for her,
• 02:46:27 but she will eat all of it.
• 02:46:28 Oh.

Dungeon Master

• 02:46:32 The…
• 02:46:33 The cider is…
• 02:46:36 Apple.
• 02:46:37 apple and cinnamon cider with a hint of
• 02:46:41 Um,
• 02:46:42 Ginger.
• 02:46:43 And you can tell they also use that with honey
• 02:46:47 to glaze the pork.

Temerity

• 02:46:48 Nice.
• 02:46:50 You know I got to get some of that fire cider.

Hazel

• 02:46:55 While eating, Hazel’s going to pipe up and say,
• 02:47:00 Um,
• 02:47:03 laughs
• 02:47:04 So how long have you all known Temerity?

Temerity

• 02:47:10 - Well.
• 02:47:10 - And Temerity was like 15.

Dungeon Master

• 02:47:13 Yeah, I think it would be Henry, it would be Paul Kemble
• 02:47:18 who speaks up first.
• 02:47:19 Tim’s been…
• 02:47:22 Tim’s been almost a part of our family for
• 02:47:26 While now, Juniper
• 02:47:28 kind of chimes in and she says,
• 02:47:31 I don’t want to do math, Olivia.
• 02:47:33 Don’t make me do math.
• 02:47:36 Because it’s the…
• 02:47:38 And she gives the year in which Temerity would have been 15
• 02:47:42 .

Temerity

• 02:47:42 I think it was seven years ago.
• 02:47:45 Yeah, seven years ago.

Dungeon Master

• 02:47:47 around that.
• 02:47:48 um, uh,
• 02:47:50 Apparently
• 02:47:52 Shouldn’t say apparently. She doesn’t say apparently.
• 02:47:54 She says, Temerdi was living with
• 02:47:55 Father Emberthumb, but was a bit of
• 02:47:58 a shy child, but really
• 02:48:00 came into her own
• 02:48:02 about seven years ago and became a big part of our lives.
• 02:48:07 And, and
• 02:48:08 Henry nods and says she’s
• 02:48:10 They always help around the farm, which is more than I can
• 02:48:13 say for some of my kids growing
• 02:48:15 up, and he kind of glares over at the youngest boy, the one
• 02:48:19 who had been named as Trevor,
• 02:48:21 Trevor says, “I help now, don’t I?”
• 02:48:24 He’s like, man, you’ve been doing good this past year.
• 02:48:27 I can’t deny that.
• 02:48:30 Is Eliza here?
• 02:48:32 There’s kind of a, like…
• 02:48:34 like, a shuffling of, like,
• 02:48:36 on plates and people just quietly eating their food for a
• 02:48:41 moment.
• 02:48:41 as it takes a moment for anyone to answer that question.
• 02:48:45 Um, and, and.
• 02:48:48 Um, it is, it is Maureen, it is Ma Kemble who speaks up
• 02:48:51 and she says, no, she hasn’t,
• 02:48:52 she hasn’t, she left this morning and hasn’t been back all
• 02:48:55 day and she’s still not here.
• 02:48:57 Told her about the dinner and she said she’d, she’d be here
• 02:48:59 , but, uh,
• 02:49:01 It’s not.

Luma

• 02:49:03 She’s probably doing official map making business.
• 02:49:07 There’s a lot of head tilting at that remark.
• 02:49:09 Yeah, it looks over at Luma.
• 02:49:12 Huh.
• 02:49:15 All right.
• 02:49:16 Oh.
• 02:49:17 Yeah, she tried to make me pay for a license out here.

Dungeon Master

• 02:49:20 Did she?
• 02:49:22 Maureen’s like…
• 02:49:23 laughs
• 02:49:24 It’s bad enough when she’s scamming Temerity and the boys,
• 02:49:28 but strangers? No, I won’t have it.
• 02:49:31 Thank you.

Temerity

• 02:49:34 Hmm.
• 02:49:36 has,

Iva

• 02:49:37 I’ve loosed over towards David because you wouldn’t get sc
• 02:49:40 ammed, would you?

Dungeon Master

• 02:49:42 David looks at Iva and smiles big and bright and says,
• 02:49:46 Oh no, I…
• 02:49:47 Far too smart to get scammed by her.
• 02:49:50 I fell for it one too many times, I guess.
• 02:49:52 He just kind of mutters under his roof.
• 02:49:54 I mean,

Luma

• 02:49:57 I’m too smart to get scammed, except for all the times that
• 02:49:59 I got scammed.
• 02:50:01 Yeah, yeah.

Iva

• 02:50:09 Iva?

Dungeon Master

• 02:50:12 Were you saying something?

Iva

• 02:50:14 Yeah, sorry, my headphones.
• 02:50:16 are being done.
• 02:50:18 And it says, if you do look far too smart to get scammed,

Temerity

• 02:50:23 - Hey little girls.

Dungeon Master

• 02:50:29 Um, give me a persuasion check, you fucking changeling ass.
• 02:50:33 Advantage on every charisma check, asshole.
• 02:50:39 Thank you very much.

Iva

• 02:50:41 Okay.
• 02:50:44 Well, one of those is the next one.
• 02:50:46 Oh, boy.

Dungeon Master

• 02:50:48 I don’t know.
• 02:50:51 uh,
• 02:50:52 David just smiles and kind of
• 02:50:56 Kind of looks down at his plate.

Temerity

• 02:50:58 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 02:50:59 Just thank you. I think so, too.

Temerity

• 02:51:01 Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 02:51:03 uh,
• 02:51:04 .

Hazel

• 02:51:04 Yeah.
• 02:51:07 Gonna get, like, chased out the fucking, out of the dining
• 02:51:09 room with a knife by the mom.
• 02:51:13 That’s a nice thing.
• 02:51:15 Hazel will…
• 02:51:17 uh,
• 02:51:18 We’ll just be like, well,
• 02:51:20 Has Temerity always been so
• 02:51:23 Determined in their…
• 02:51:25 in their work.

Dungeon Master

• 02:51:27 It’s, um,
• 02:51:29 Thank you.
• 02:51:32 - Henry starts to answer, but to me,
• 02:51:36 Juniper cuts him off.
• 02:51:38 I’m sorry, Aev, you’re like hot-miking a little.
• 02:51:43 um,
• 02:51:44 Henry starts to answer, but Juniper cuts him off.
• 02:51:46 And she says, yeah, as long as I’ve known them, Temerity
• 02:51:50 has been…
• 02:51:52 Um,
• 02:51:53 headstrong and determined.
• 02:51:55 knows what they want and will do anything to get it.

Hazel

• 02:52:00 I want to roll insight.

Dungeon Master

• 02:52:02 Go for it.

Luma

• 02:52:08 25.

Dungeon Master

• 02:52:11 God damn.
• 02:52:12 Hell yeah.
• 02:52:13 Yeah, yeah.
• 02:52:14 Hold on one second.
• 02:52:16 Um, you, you, with a 25 insight, you could tell she’s being
• 02:52:20 genuine.
• 02:52:22 Um, for sure.
• 02:52:24 Her.
• 02:52:25 Oh, it’s right here.

Hazel

• 02:52:27 I was mostly thinking, like, I was mostly doing it to see
• 02:52:30 if Hazel could pick up on that, like, kind of…
• 02:52:33 They ain’t gone there.
• 02:52:35 I was like…
• 02:52:37 Yeah, Temerity knows what they want and like,
• 02:52:40 I don’t know, to me, the way that you said it,
• 02:52:42 Yeah.
• 02:52:43 Came off as like a little Lego.

Dungeon Master

• 02:52:46 So give me one second.

Hazel

• 02:52:52 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 02:52:55 But you can for sure tell she’s being genuine.

Iva

• 02:52:59 Thank you.

Temerity

• 02:53:06 Man, I can’t leave Crick’s bed without resolving the Eliza
• 02:53:09 side quest.

Dungeon Master

• 02:53:12 Eliza is a person, not a side quest.

Temerity

• 02:53:14 Eliza is a side quest.

Dungeon Master

• 02:53:16 Eliza is a person.
• 02:53:17 It’s a fucking Bethesda game.

Hazel

• 02:53:19 I was going to say, this is a real thing.
• 02:53:21 That’s a real shit that someone whose favorite RPG is
• 02:53:24 Dragon Age Origins would say.
• 02:53:26 That’s a Bioware.
• 02:53:28 I’m going to play all your brain.

Iva

• 02:53:30 Holy crap.

Luma

• 02:53:36 I’ve got to resolve your side quest before I never see you
• 02:53:39 again.
• 02:53:40 Hold on.
• 02:53:41 Hold on.
• 02:53:42 You better get okay.

Temerity

• 02:53:45 This is time sensitive.

Hazel

• 02:53:47 There’s not enough parts in the UI next to her name.
• 02:53:50 When you hover over her, you can’t.

Iva

• 02:53:57 on teams.
• 02:53:59 Uh, for spend.
• 02:54:01 - Yeah.
• 02:54:02 laughs

Dungeon Master

• 02:54:05 But she answers the question,
• 02:54:09 I look at all my various notes
• 02:54:12 Um,
• 02:54:13 Yeah.
• 02:54:17 David kind of looks at Hazel after Juniper’s answer and
• 02:54:22 says…
• 02:54:24 Yeah, our TEM had a higher calling.
• 02:54:30 called to serve the flame like no one ever before and uh
• 02:54:34 I, for one, am real proud of her for doing it.

Hazel

• 02:54:39 like no one ever before.

Dungeon Master

• 02:54:42 Well, it’s…
• 02:54:44 He kind of trails off.
• 02:54:46 - Yeah.
• 02:54:47 Does not answer that.

Hazel

• 02:54:50 So you’re all made aware of Temerity’s unique abilities.
• 02:54:55 Thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 02:54:57 I actually
• 02:55:02 they do know
• 02:55:03 Yeah.
• 02:55:04 Well, all of them, yeah.

Temerity

• 02:55:07 They at least know about the…

Dungeon Master

• 02:55:09 resurrection okay well that’s the one that yeah i don’t
• 02:55:12 think they know about other stuff
• 02:55:14 Um,
• 02:55:15 They, uh…
• 02:55:18 He and pretty much everyone else looks at Hazel and then at
• 02:55:21 Temerity as like a…
• 02:55:24 Really? Not, like, in a judgmental way, but in a, like, not
• 02:55:26 in a judgmental way, in, like, a confirmation way, like, is
• 02:55:30 this okay to talk about?
• 02:55:32 I’m already gives like a nod, like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 02:55:36 And this time it is Henry.
• 02:55:38 No, it would still be David, actually.
• 02:55:40 David says…
• 02:55:41 Yeah, um…
• 02:55:43 Yeah, we’ve known for quite a while.
• 02:55:45 And Juniper chimes in and says,
• 02:55:48 We were both…
• 02:55:51 When we were both younger, Temerity saved my life
• 02:55:56 Uh-oh.
• 02:55:56 fought off a bunch of bandits and, uh,
• 02:55:59 Well,
• 02:56:00 There’s no…
• 02:56:02 no way to sugarcoat it, she died saving my life.

Luma

• 02:56:07 Oh, you were the panda girl.
• 02:56:09 laughing

Dungeon Master

• 02:56:11 Juniper looks at Luma and there’s like a big smile on her
• 02:56:15 face
• 02:56:15 and she’s the bandit girl, huh?
• 02:56:17 hold on
• 02:56:20 no no hold on
• 02:56:21 Juniper’s like
• 02:56:23 Juniper’s like death glare on Temerity.

Temerity

• 02:56:26 Do you tell that about me?

Luma

• 02:56:29 Temerity’s been talking about that story all the time.
• 02:56:31 I think she’s told it like seven or eight, nine times.

Iva

• 02:56:33 I haven’t told her that.

Luma

• 02:56:35 No, no, no.
• 02:56:36 Luma’s lying.
• 02:56:38 Luma.
• 02:56:42 A little bit of lying.
• 02:56:44 Like a liar.

Temerity

• 02:56:45 Like a liar.

Iva

• 02:56:48 Oh, a really good liar.
• 02:56:49 Hold on.
• 02:56:50 Oh, fuck.

Luma

• 02:56:51 Oh, fuck me.
• 02:56:53 Where’s my deception score?
• 02:56:55 It’s a plus zero, so it’s not that high because I added a
• 02:56:57 plus four.
• 02:56:57 My X added a 14.

Dungeon Master

• 02:56:59 She glares at Luma with a 15-year-old.
• 02:57:04 - What the fuck?
• 02:57:07 Wait, wait.
• 02:57:08 - Yeah.

Luma

• 02:57:09 - That’s a genius. - Damn it.
• 02:57:12 Guidance is verbal. Never mind. All right, I failed.

Dungeon Master

• 02:57:14 Yeah, I did not recommend that.
• 02:57:18 Oh, boy, that would really change the course of the evening
• 02:57:22 in a very unexpected way.

Luma

• 02:57:24 Uh-huh.
• 02:57:26 Kalea Luma kind of, like, shrinks a little bit.
• 02:57:28 She’s like, okay, maybe not, like, eight, nine times.
• 02:57:29 But she did tell a story.

Dungeon Master

• 02:57:31 Once is enough.
• 02:57:33 Given she acted like she hadn’t told any of you about us or
• 02:57:36 me or us.

Luma

• 02:57:37 Well, I mean…
• 02:57:38 We’ve only been together for a little bit.
• 02:57:40 I mean, nobody knows anything about my family.

Dungeon Master

• 02:57:43 That’s true.
• 02:57:47 No, I don’t blame you, Luma.
• 02:57:49 I blame Temerity.
• 02:57:50 He he he he he he he he he he.

Temerity

• 02:57:54 I
• 02:57:55 It’s been a very…

Luma

• 02:57:57 Hectic week, a lot of things have escaped me.
• 02:58:00 I mean, we just learned about Father Emberthumb when we showed
• 02:58:02 up here.
• 02:58:04 A real short time.

Dungeon Master

• 02:58:07 And then,
• 02:58:08 - All right.
• 02:58:09 chicken.
• 02:58:10 takes a big old bite of a parsnip

Luma

• 02:58:12 Give us a slap, thumbs up to Temerity

Hazel

• 02:58:17 Saved it
• 02:58:23 If an area saved your life, then you must owe quite an
• 02:58:26 awful lot to them.

Temerity

• 02:58:28 No, no, no. None of the Kempels owe anything to me.
• 02:58:32 I’m grateful that
• 02:58:34 they’ve allowed me to essentially
• 02:58:36 become a part of their family.

Dungeon Master

• 02:58:40 Yeah, it’s true. Temerity’s, uh, ever since then been
• 02:58:43 around, around here as much as around, um,
• 02:58:48 So, you know, it’s Father Emberthumb that replies, he says,
• 02:58:52 “Oh,
• 02:58:52 It’s quite true.
• 02:58:54 Temerity has been around the Kemble farm as much as she’s
• 02:59:00 been home.
• 02:59:00 and always helping them with their various tasks and chores
• 02:59:04 .

Iva

• 02:59:05 - Mm-hmm.
• 02:59:07 - Well.
• 02:59:08 this is a perfect time for the oh i don’t think david will
• 02:59:11 need help with past oh my god
• 02:59:14 I just want to…

Rhysaene

• 02:59:19 Um…
• 02:59:20 I was going to say…
• 02:59:22 Rhys would say something, because she is enjoying…
• 02:59:25 just watching everything unfold she has nothing to add this
• 02:59:30 is beautiful
• 02:59:31 You…
• 02:59:33 laughs

Hazel

• 02:59:35 Thank you.

Rhysaene

• 02:59:36 I’m just eating some good food.

Hazel

• 02:59:38 Here’s hoping that you will all…
• 02:59:41 make do without them.
• 02:59:45 And she raises her glass.

Dungeon Master

• 02:59:48 then there’s kind of an awkward pause.
• 02:59:51 It’s a really weird toast.
• 02:59:54 - Oh yeah.
• 02:59:56 That’s so good, bro.
• 02:59:59 The first person to raise their glasses is, is Henry and
• 03:00:02 says, um,
• 03:00:05 Yeah, no, we’ll be doing the best we can, that’s for sure,
• 03:00:09 we never stop.
• 03:00:12 whatever happens.
• 03:00:14 We miss you, Temerity, but we know you’re doing good things
• 03:00:18 out there, and you’re going to do great things.
• 03:00:20 So,
• 03:00:23 To you, to Temerity, and he raises his glass.
• 03:00:27 Oh, wow.
• 03:00:28 Tut-a-merity.

Rhysaene

• 03:00:29 Tut-a-merity.

Dungeon Master

• 03:00:31 And there’s a…
• 03:00:33 There’s a lot of that and there’s a
• 03:00:35 um,
• 03:00:37 uh,
• 03:00:38 Juniper is the last one to raise her glass to Timmet and
• 03:00:41 she kind of trails off as you guys hear a click.
• 03:00:44 of the door opening and the sound of footsteps and
• 03:00:48 Um,
• 03:00:49 someone walking in.
• 03:00:51 A young woman who some of you have seen before,
• 03:00:54 cannot be older than 18 and probably a little younger than
• 03:00:59 that.
• 03:01:00 And Temerity would know she’s 17.
• 03:01:03 but like youthful,
• 03:01:06 Kind of…
• 03:01:08 Same hair color as Juniper and Maureen, but…
• 03:01:13 she keeps it cut short and doesn’t like,
• 03:01:15 do anything to tame it.
• 03:01:17 She’s dressed in
• 03:01:19 simple,
• 03:01:21 Not traveler’s clothes, but not, like, common clothes
• 03:01:24 either.
• 03:01:25 Something like…
• 03:01:27 practical,
• 03:01:28 Um,
• 03:01:29 She’s got, like, a little, uh, bag at her side, um…
• 03:01:34 uh,
• 03:01:36 In walks Eliza Kemble.
• 03:01:38 And she kind of looks at the table, looks at everyone, kind
• 03:01:43 of her
• 03:01:43 Gaze lingers.
• 03:01:44 on Temerity for like a couple seconds,
• 03:01:47 And as she’s looking, she says, I’m sorry I’m late,
• 03:01:50 everyone.
• 03:01:50 And she stops dead when she looks at Luma.
• 03:01:54 I, um,
• 03:01:56 Um,
• 03:01:57 I had them, uh,
• 03:01:58 as I
• 03:02:00 Yeah.
• 03:02:01 that’s,
• 03:02:02 stuff and I’m sorry I’m late
• 03:02:04 um just like
• 03:02:05 bulging eyes out of her
• 03:02:08 head as she looks at Luma
• 03:02:09 she takes the seat um
• 03:02:12 an open seat, which would probably be at the, like…
• 03:02:15 because you guys kind of like orbited around Father Emberth
• 03:02:19 umb,
• 03:02:19 She probably ends up sitting closer to the head of the
• 03:02:22 table where Pa is.
• 03:02:24 But
• 03:02:25 because that side of the table filled up,
• 03:02:27 it puts her probably like right next to one of you.
• 03:02:32 um,

Iva

• 03:02:33 Can it be Luma?
• 03:02:35 Luma.

Dungeon Master

• 03:02:35 Yeah, I think it’s Luma.
• 03:02:37 This is at the end of the table because she needed the
• 03:02:41 space.
• 03:02:41 So probably she’s right next to Luma, sits down, pours
• 03:02:46 herself some cider and just sips it quietly.
• 03:02:50 hi
• 03:02:55 And, um, there is an awkward silence from every Kemble
• 03:02:58 that is immediately broken by Luma’s
• 03:03:01 hi.
• 03:03:02 Hi.
• 03:03:03 Eliza says…
• 03:03:05 Hi, I’m I’m Eliza. You look like the kind of gal who knows
• 03:03:11 knows how to take a joke.
• 03:03:13 I hope.
• 03:03:14 And she just puts on one of those smiles of like,
• 03:03:18 please do not get me killed.

Temerity

• 03:03:21 she’s way too late

Luma

• 03:03:23 she’s like
• 03:03:26 Yeah, of course.
• 03:03:28 I love jokes.
• 03:03:29 Scams, on the other hand, are

Dungeon Master

• 03:03:32 No, no, no, I was kidding. I was kidding. There wasn’t, I
• 03:03:35 wasn’t actually, I wasn’t gonna, I wasn’t gonna take, she
• 03:03:38 leans in, like, against Luma and whispers, I, uh, I wasn’t
• 03:03:42 gonna take your gold for real. I was, um…
• 03:03:45 Uh-uh.
• 03:03:47 -
• 03:03:48 I wasn’t going to take your gold for real.
• 03:03:50 It was just like a joke, and I was going to be like,
• 03:03:52 aha, it’s a prank, and she rolls a natural three
• 03:03:55 on her deception check.
• 03:03:56 Ha ha!

Luma

• 03:03:58 Uh, for fucking kicks, because Luma can technically fail
• 03:04:02 that.
• 03:04:05 Wait, actually, wait, what is my insight check?
• 03:04:07 Yeah, she could absolutely fail at it.
• 03:04:10 She absolutely did not fail that.
• 03:04:11 No.
• 03:04:13 Luma just nods along.
• 03:04:15 She’s like, oh, I know.
• 03:04:15 I know it’s a joke.

Dungeon Master

• 03:04:17 It’s fine.
• 03:04:17 Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 03:04:20 you know, yeah, and she just trails off.
• 03:04:23 Um,
• 03:04:27 Of all people,
• 03:04:29 To speak up.
• 03:04:30 It’s probably surprising to Temerity that the one who, like
• 03:04:35 …
• 03:04:35 who pierces the, like,
• 03:04:36 kind of like
• 03:04:37 Awkward stalemate about like how late.
• 03:04:40 Eliza is.
• 03:04:43 is Trevor, of all people.
• 03:04:45 Trevor, the second youngest,
• 03:04:48 with only Eliza being younger,
• 03:04:51 the troublemaker for many years…
• 03:04:54 This is…
• 03:04:55 Dinner was supposed to start 30 minutes ago and we were
• 03:04:59 already starting late.
• 03:05:00 Where have you been?
• 03:05:02 She says, I was out with…
• 03:05:04 With Beth and Ash, and we were just hanging out, and I lost
• 03:05:07 track of time.
• 03:05:08 And like I said, I’m sorry.
• 03:05:10 We don’t have to make a thing out of it.
• 03:05:14 And Trevor just shakes his head and
• 03:05:16 Maureen says,
• 03:05:18 No, no, this isn’t the time for anything like that.
• 03:05:21 Oh, I said, get a plate, get some meat, get some…
• 03:05:25 Get something to eat, get something to drink.
• 03:05:28 Eliza gets up
• 03:05:30 and goes over to a third pitcher
• 03:05:33 that I didn’t bother to describe.
• 03:05:34 One is cider and one is ale.
• 03:05:36 But she gets water, and she pours herself a glass of water,
• 03:05:39 and she kind of reaches out, grabs a hunk of bread,
• 03:05:43 Um,
• 03:05:43 and just starts like nibbling on it.
• 03:05:46 It doesn’t really say anything, and there’s kind of a
• 03:05:49 little more awkwardness before…
• 03:05:54 Before…
• 03:05:56 - Yeah.
• 03:05:57 before David turns to
• 03:05:59 Iva says, so what do you do for a living?
• 03:06:03 buff

Unidentified

• 03:06:04 Ha ha ha ha ha!

Temerity

• 03:06:09 I’m in between jobs
• 03:06:09 yeah

Hazel

• 03:06:10 I’m in between jobs
• 03:06:13 you know
• 03:06:13 kept surfing.

Iva

• 03:06:14 It’s…
• 03:06:17 Because
• 03:06:19 I mean,
• 03:06:20 I just got
• 03:06:21 off a farm so I was heading towards the city to learn about
• 03:06:25 new things so
• 03:06:27 I’m kind of, you know, looking for employment.

Dungeon Master

• 03:06:30 Oh, you’re heading to the city for the first time, that’s
• 03:06:34 That’s really…
• 03:06:35 That’s a real big deal, real brave of you.

Rhysaene

• 03:06:44 Upstart gal, this one.

Iva

• 03:06:48 We did.
• 03:06:49 It’s like a whole new need.

Hazel

• 03:06:53 You’re so carried by the fucking advantage, man.

Iva

• 03:07:03 I’m so glad.
• 03:07:05 It’s not a talk.

Dungeon Master

• 03:07:08 Um,
• 03:07:10 Father Imbertham kind of looks over at Temerity and says…
• 03:07:15 “How was your trip up north, Temerity?”

Temerity

• 03:07:19 Oh.
• 03:07:19 Um,
• 03:07:21 It was good.
• 03:07:23 It was…
• 03:07:26 It was good.
• 03:07:27 Tim already says, uh,
• 03:07:28 or
• 03:07:29 hiding behind their mug.
• 03:07:33 I saw much mapping done.
• 03:07:36 That’s true.
• 03:07:38 Luma was able to map quite a bit of Silverthorn.

Dungeon Master

• 03:07:42 Oh, that’s wonderful. Cartography is such an interesting
• 03:07:45 art form.
• 03:07:48 I used to pore over old maps in my younger days.
• 03:07:53 I don’t really
• 03:07:54 don’t really do it much anymore.

Luma

• 03:07:57 Really? Do you have maps?

Dungeon Master

• 03:07:59 I think I…
• 03:08:00 Sorry.

Luma

• 03:08:01 No, go ahead.

Dungeon Master

• 03:08:02 I think I might have one or two old surveyor maps of the
• 03:08:05 bend, but, um, and, and,
• 03:08:08 But nothing impressive, all well out of date.
• 03:08:12 Oh.
• 03:08:13 That’s okay.
• 03:08:15 History is also fun.
• 03:08:17 Ah! History is also fun! You are so right, Miss Luma.
• 03:08:23 If you’d like, I could show you those maps if you come by
• 03:08:26 the church before you leave.

Luma

• 03:08:28 I would love that a lot, actually.

Dungeon Master

• 03:08:30 Very well.
• 03:08:34 happy to find someone who enjoys history.
• 03:08:39 um,
• 03:08:41 And he, he trails off and there’s more conversation just
• 03:08:44 kind of general,
• 03:08:46 like table talk. Eliza is,
• 03:08:49 quiet and looks around nervously
• 03:08:52 Kind of like she expects that she’s gonna, that she’s in
• 03:08:55 trouble, but, like, no one’s gonna, no one’s gonna snap
• 03:08:58 that, like…
• 03:09:00 snap that bear trap
• 03:09:02 while there are guests
• 03:09:03 kind of vibes, maybe?

Temerity

• 03:09:05 Temerity does want to, like,
• 03:09:07 Try and give Eliza the, like, we got to talk look about
• 03:09:11 this stuff.

Dungeon Master

• 03:09:14 If Temerity tries to give Eliza any such look, she looks
• 03:09:17 away.

Temerity

• 03:09:19 Oh.

Dungeon Master

• 03:09:24 -
• 03:09:24 But dinner continues, and there’s just, like, general idle
• 03:09:28 chatter.
• 03:09:28 If any of you want to talk to anyone, each other, or any
• 03:09:32 Kembles or anything, yeah, what’s up?

Hazel

• 03:09:35 Hazel this entire time has been very lost in thought.
• 03:09:40 like trying really hard to think about something and she’s
• 03:09:44 been putting her gaze between
• 03:09:46 Temerity and juniper the entire time asking questions
• 03:09:50 Um,
• 03:09:52 and
• 03:09:53 uh,
• 03:09:56 She
• 03:10:00 After a while, she will just be like, hmm.
• 03:10:03 Juniper.

Dungeon Master

• 03:10:05 Oh, um…
• 03:10:06 Hazel.
• 03:10:08 What can I do?
• 03:10:10 I don’t know.

Unidentified

• 03:10:13 I don’t know.

Luma

• 03:10:14 Okay.

Hazel

• 03:10:16 uh,

Unidentified

• 03:10:19 Hmm.

Hazel

• 03:10:21 When presented with the idea that Temerity didn’t talk
• 03:10:27 about you, you seemed upset.
• 03:10:28 Why?

Dungeon Master

• 03:10:31 No, no, I wasn’t.
• 03:10:34 She looks around the whole room and
• 03:10:36 And everyone except to marry me.
• 03:10:39 and says, I wasn’t upset.
• 03:10:40 No, no, no, no, no, I wasn’t.
• 03:10:42 No, no, I wasn’t upset with my natural four deception.
• 03:10:47 I wasn’t upset.
• 03:10:47 Like I said, it’s perfectly understandable that there was a
• 03:10:54 time for that.
• 03:10:54 Ha ha ha!
• 03:10:54 her upsetness
• 03:10:56 flies over to Temerity’s head.

Hazel

• 03:11:00 And then she, like, she, like,
• 03:11:02 will lean past the
• 03:11:05 Juniper to, like, look at Temerity.

Temerity

• 03:11:08 Temerity’s just eating some pork.

Iva

• 03:11:15 Mm-mm.

Hazel

• 03:11:17 I don’t know.
• 03:11:19 Now, time for me to see if I can insight
• 03:11:22 Temerity being a fucking…

Temerity

• 03:11:26 -

Hazel

• 03:11:29 Being a fucking dork.

Temerity

• 03:11:31 I wrote one plus two
• 03:11:33 in sight so that line
• 03:11:35 clears to Mary’s head.

Dungeon Master

• 03:11:39 You’re rolling insight.

Hazel

• 03:11:43 Oh, yeah.
• 03:11:45 I got a 20 on the, on the, on the insight check on.
• 03:11:48 Yeah.
• 03:11:51 Shooting up her…

Temerity

• 03:12:05 Um,

Dungeon Master

• 03:12:10 you you kind of like you kind of junipers like like nervous
• 03:12:15 and like obviously lying um
• 03:12:18 when she says that, like, Oh, no, I understand. It’s
• 03:12:20 totally fine. Um,
• 03:12:23 And as you kind of like.
• 03:12:25 get ready to say something else
• 03:12:28 Eliza
• 03:12:29 uh,
• 03:12:30 Just out of nowhere almost says, oh, yeah, June’s been in
• 03:12:34 love with Temerity since I think they saved her life.
• 03:12:38 laughter

Hazel

• 03:12:41 That is what I was…
• 03:12:41 That is what I was coming to understand, yes.
• 03:12:45 Yeah, no, Temerity.

Temerity

• 03:12:47 Do I got that?

Dungeon Master

• 03:12:50 Juniper’s face
• 03:12:51 turns, like,
• 03:12:52 beet red.
• 03:12:56 Juniper, like,
• 03:12:58 looks like she’s going to explode.
• 03:13:01 The table kind of, like,
• 03:13:03 There’s a little like shuffling at the table.
• 03:13:05 But
• 03:13:07 You register while you’re focusing these intuitions
• 03:13:11 about emotional state in people’s faces and reading faces.
• 03:13:15 This revelation is surprising to no one.
• 03:13:18 Uh,
• 03:13:19 Everybody knows this.
• 03:13:19 It’s a little…
• 03:13:22 If anything, people are most put off by Eliza just, like,
• 03:13:25 throwing it out there like that.
• 03:13:27 But no one’s, like, surprised.
• 03:13:28 There’s no, like, my word.
• 03:13:29 Anything like that.

Hazel

• 03:13:33 Even Father Emberthumb’s like, yeah, we do.
• 03:13:36 We know.
• 03:13:37 We’ve been known.

Dungeon Master

• 03:13:37 The only thing that, like, there’s actually almost, like,
• 03:13:41 from everyone.
• 03:13:42 From the boys, from Pa, from Eliza.
• 03:13:46 There’s this, like, kind of, like, glance at Temerity and
• 03:13:50 at Juniper of, like…
• 03:13:52 Now’s as good a time as any, guys, I guess.
• 03:13:55 Like, if it’s out there, it’s out there.
• 03:13:57 Fuckers have been dancing around it forever.
• 03:13:59 The only thing that stands out as different…
• 03:14:02 His father, Emberthumb, looks like he kind of feels, like,
• 03:14:06 maybe bad for the two of them, like,
• 03:14:09 It’s he’s he empathizes that it would suck to be put in
• 03:14:12 this position.
• 03:14:14 And Maureen is staring daggers at Eliza for doing this to
• 03:14:18 her sister.

Hazel

• 03:14:20 Temerity.

Temerity

• 03:14:22 Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough.
• 03:14:25 Uh,
• 03:14:26 laughs
• 03:14:28 Hazel.
• 03:14:29 laughter

Hazel

• 03:14:33 Hmm.
• 03:14:33 It’s um,
• 03:14:34 - It’s awesome.
• 03:14:35 Oh.
• 03:14:36 No, I’m sorry, go ahead.

Temerity

• 03:14:38 I’m sorry.

Hazel

• 03:14:41 It was taught to me recently the importance of affection.
• 03:14:47 and companionship.
• 03:14:54 What?
• 03:14:58 It surprises me that someone like you would deny something
• 03:15:02 like Juniper.
• 03:15:03 -

Dungeon Master

• 03:15:05 I don’t have to
• 03:15:10 Jennifer’s like stammering
• 03:15:13 We don’t have to.
• 03:15:15 We don’t, this isn’t, um, I don’t, um,
• 03:15:18 No, no, no, no.
• 03:15:19 Temerity, um…
• 03:15:21 We agreed. We agreed that we’re…
• 03:15:26 We agreed that we’re really good friends and that’s
• 03:15:30 That’s all we need to be.
• 03:15:33 Yeah, so there’s no reason to…
• 03:15:36 And there’s no, no rule necessary.
• 03:15:39 She, she, as one might take a 20 in previous editions of
• 03:15:43 Dungeons and Dragons,
• 03:15:44 she takes the nat 1 on the deception.

Temerity

• 03:15:47 Hazel

Hazel

• 03:15:51 like again leans over the table to to Temerity because have

Temerity

• 03:15:55 i spoken out of turn
• 03:16:06 - Like me.
• 03:16:10 Yeah.
• 03:16:11 Ha ha ha.

Iva

• 03:16:13 - Don’t worry Timothy, I’ll save you.
• 03:16:15 wow, David, your muscles are so strong.
• 03:16:17 I bet you…
• 03:16:18 The birdie is like…

Temerity

• 03:16:26 uh,
• 03:16:28 - Fuck, could you repeat what you said, Mariah?

Hazel

• 03:16:32 - I just, she just said that.
• 03:16:35 Oh, right. It was recently.
• 03:16:37 Brought on the importance of camaraderie and affection and
• 03:16:41 all that.
• 03:16:41 So she’s confused why…
• 03:16:44 white Temerity would deny
• 03:16:46 juniper

Temerity

• 03:16:48 laughter

Unidentified

• 03:16:52 laughter

Rhysaene

• 03:16:57 You know what? That’s a fucking great idea. I am literally
• 03:17:00 writing it versus literally taking out like a notepad and
• 03:17:03 like a quill.
• 03:17:05 laughter

Iva

• 03:17:08 Oh, actually…

Luma

• 03:17:11 No exit.

Temerity

• 03:17:12 Oh, fuck.

Luma

• 03:17:14 Luma’s, like, forgotten to, like, continue chewing for the
• 03:17:19 past, like,
• 03:17:19 -

Temerity

• 03:17:20 I don’t know.
• 03:17:21 It’s just…
• 03:17:24 -
• 03:17:26 They’re very, like, clearing the last bit of fucking food
• 03:17:29 stuck in their throat.
• 03:17:31 And it’s just like…
• 03:17:33 we’re
• 03:17:36 Just friends.

Hazel

• 03:17:41 Are you?

Temerity

• 03:17:43 -
• 03:17:44 you
• 03:17:49 Um,
• 03:17:58 - Ah.
• 03:18:01 - Yes.
• 03:18:04 I, I, fuck, no, not yes.
• 03:18:07 Uh, oh.
• 03:18:10 Oh, Temerity, how would you address this situation?
• 03:18:17 - Evil.
• 03:18:19 Um…
• 03:18:28 It’s just like
• 03:18:32 Can I…
• 03:18:32 Can I talk to you, Hazel?
• 03:18:37 Oh.

Hazel

• 03:18:38 Privately?
• 03:18:40 Yes.
• 03:18:41 Yes, of course.
• 03:18:44 She’ll get out.
• 03:18:46 Maybe let’s get up.

Rhysaene

• 03:18:48 while they go off and do that
• 03:18:50 Rhys is like
• 03:18:52 writing the novella and then goes back to Eden
• 03:18:54 and then like, mm-mm-mm.

Iva

• 03:18:56 is some fire shit
• 03:18:59 Maureen
• 03:19:00 Maureen

Dungeon Master

• 03:19:01 Maureen
• 03:19:06 Right?
• 03:19:07 Boom.
• 03:19:09 - Well,
• 03:19:11 While all of this is happening,
• 03:19:13 I would like everyone.
• 03:19:16 Huh?

Temerity

• 03:19:16 Nothing, nothing.

Dungeon Master

• 03:19:18 I would like everyone to give me a perception check.

Temerity

• 03:19:21 Yeah, those.

Dungeon Master

• 03:19:23 Goddamn reception.

Hazel

• 03:19:25 What’s a, what’s two plus six, eight, 18.

Temerity

• 03:19:29 - Do you want to do it in the chat?

Dungeon Master

• 03:19:31 - Yes, in the chat.

Temerity

• 03:19:33 No, roll the net 20.

Luma

• 03:19:35 I rolled a match
• 03:19:39 one. Luma’s real focused
• 03:19:40 on that food right about now.

Rhysaene

• 03:19:43 What check are we
• 03:19:43 doing? Perception.

Dungeon Master

• 03:19:46 Perception.

Rhysaene

• 03:19:48 Okay, okay.

Temerity

• 03:19:54 Oof.

Luma

• 03:19:57 need it.

Iva

• 03:19:57 OK, OK, OK.

Luma

• 03:20:00 My string of good rolls has abandoned me.
• 03:20:03 R-A-P.
• 03:20:05 R.E.P.

Temerity

• 03:20:07 Okay.
• 03:20:08 The drama is just too juicy.

Luma

• 03:20:10 The drama is just too juicy.
• 03:20:12 Whatever we’re percepting, Luma misses it
• 03:20:14 because she’s currently choking.
• 03:20:16 She forgot that.
• 03:20:17 Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 03:20:19 She went to go say something and went…

Hazel

• 03:20:21 The lady from the death cult is back.
• 03:20:23 We’re about to get Power Word killed.

Dungeon Master

• 03:20:25 Circle of Death is a 60-foot radius spell
• 03:20:29 cast at 6th level that…
• 03:20:31 No.

Temerity

• 03:20:32 There’s a bunch of rocks
• 03:20:33 doing the Dance of Doom outside.
• 03:20:34 That’s fine.

Dungeon Master

• 03:20:36 Temerity and Hazel, you notice what none of the Kembles
• 03:20:40 and also neither Luma nor Iva
• 03:20:44 nor Rhys notice.
• 03:20:46 You
• 03:20:47 Catch.
• 03:20:48 a glimpse as
• 03:20:51 Eliza disappears around the corner back into that like
• 03:20:56 entryway.
• 03:20:56 And you don’t hear the sound of the front door, but you do
• 03:20:59 hear movement into the, like, living room and then up the
• 03:21:02 stairs.

Temerity

• 03:21:05 Mm-hmm.
• 03:21:06 Well,
• 03:21:07 Temerity is going to go out side to the front porch.
• 03:21:11 to talk with Hazel.
• 03:21:13 Yes.

Luma

• 03:21:15 All right.

Temerity

• 03:21:19 Hey, what the fuck?
• 03:21:24 Why are you pressing on this so much?

Iva

• 03:21:28 Ha ha ha ha.

Hazel

• 03:21:31 Hazel looks a little confused and says, well, you told me
• 03:21:34 to.
• 03:21:34 What?
• 03:21:36 What?
• 03:21:36 What?
• 03:21:39 - Well, we spoke before
• 03:21:41 We spoke before
• 03:21:43 Before going inside, I was going to help you figure out why
• 03:21:47 Juniper was upset with you.
• 03:21:50 LAUGHTER
• 03:21:53 Hehehehe.

Temerity

• 03:21:55 To the lady’s mouth is just a gape.
• 03:21:59 Just…
• 03:21:59 Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.
• 03:22:03 Yeah.
• 03:22:04 Listen, it’s…
• 03:22:06 It’s complicated.
• 03:22:10 Oh, I don’t doubt that.
• 03:22:17 even
• 03:22:20 if it were to happen,
• 03:22:22 I think it would be the worst thing for Juniper.
• 03:22:27 And why is that?
• 03:22:29 ’cause I can’t be here for her.
• 03:22:32 Well, she could move to Argentum.
• 03:22:35 And what if I have to end up going outside the veil?
• 03:22:40 That’s…
• 03:22:42 My ultimate end goal, I…
• 03:22:46 I know that it doesn’t
• 03:22:49 mean much to you.
• 03:22:52 and you might not believe me, you might think I’m crazy, as
• 03:22:57 Or that I’m have some backwards beliefs.
• 03:23:01 But…
• 03:23:04 I know in my heart.
• 03:23:07 that I’m
• 03:23:08 destined.
• 03:23:10 for something that Juniper can’t follow me to.
• 03:23:19 Hazel dogs.
• 03:23:22 uh,

Dungeon Master

• 03:23:22 Um,
• 03:23:25 It’s fucked up of me to do this, but I am an instigator.
• 03:23:30 Hazel, I’d like you to give me an insight check.

Hazel

• 03:23:35 Ha, ha, ha.
• 03:23:36 Yeah, sure.
• 03:23:38 Okay, I’m finally rolling. I mean, I didn’t roll above a 10
• 03:23:42 , but I’m finally rolling decent 15.

Dungeon Master

• 03:23:45 Olivia, I would like you to roll…

Luma

• 03:23:55 I would like you to roll a thing.
• 03:23:57 Which I have said in your…

Temerity

• 03:23:59 Oh, in my secret question.

Luma

• 03:24:03 Take a great roll.
• 03:24:07 I assume you want to keep the total secret as well.

Temerity

• 03:24:09 UM.
• 03:24:10 - Yeah.
• 03:24:28 What did you roll, Mariah?
• 03:24:30 Uh, 16.

Iva

• 03:24:32 OK.
• 03:24:33 Yeah, continue, sorry.
• 03:24:35 Thank you.

Hazel

• 03:24:40 uh,
• 03:24:42 Hazel nuts.
• 03:24:44 The…
• 03:24:45 To what Temerity said.
• 03:24:51 uh,

Temerity

• 03:24:56 and
• 03:24:58 uh,
• 03:25:00 This is it.
• 03:25:02 Mm-hmm.

Hazel

• 03:25:06 Well,
• 03:25:08 I just…

Iva

• 03:25:12 I would appreciate it.
• 03:25:15 uh,

Hazel

• 03:25:20 I’d appreciate it if
• 03:25:22 you let that
• 03:25:24 Topic drop.
• 03:25:27 Oh.
• 03:25:29 - Very well.
• 03:25:31 Thank you.
• 03:25:31 I thought I was doing you a favor.
• 03:25:34 No.

Temerity

• 03:25:37 I have.
• 03:25:38 Appreciate your thoughtfulness.
• 03:25:43 but there’s more to it.
• 03:25:46 Yes, yes, of course.
• 03:25:50 All right, well.
• 03:25:52 Thank you, Hazel.
• 03:25:54 Try and
• 03:25:55 smooth things over with Juniper now.
• 03:25:58 She laughs.
• 03:26:01 like she she
• 03:26:04 It’s like, I don’t know, she’s just like…

Hazel

• 03:26:07 just kind of like
• 03:26:09 Kind of like a snert at that one.
• 03:26:13 - Yeah.

Temerity

• 03:26:14 I’m not.

Hazel

• 03:26:17 Mm-hmm.
• 03:26:19 Tip, tip.
• 03:26:20 What the hell?
• 03:26:21 - Good.

Temerity

• 03:26:27 Huh?
• 03:26:27 Good luck.
• 03:26:28 -
• 03:26:33 All right. Yeah, Temerity will open the door again to let
• 03:26:36 Hazel back in.
• 03:26:39 And we’ll follow Hazel and ask Juniper
• 03:26:43 If they can talk to her alone.
• 03:26:46 Um, oh, um, um…

Dungeon Master

• 03:26:49 - Yeah, let’s head out on the front porch.
• 03:26:55 All right.
• 03:26:56 Oh.

Temerity

• 03:26:57 Taking poison damage.

Luma

• 03:27:02 I was trying to make small talk with Father Evertham about
• 03:27:05 history topics.

Dungeon Master

• 03:27:06 All right, before we continue,
• 03:27:11 Bruce has to go.
• 03:27:14 Oh, okay.
• 03:27:16 But because this is like a low-stakes thing,
• 03:27:18 we don’t have to stop for the night.
• 03:27:21 It’s just going to be the case that Iva heads to the…
• 03:27:25 to the church to go to bed early.
• 03:27:27 - Yeah.
• 03:27:29 So if you want to, if you want to, if you, if you want to
• 03:27:32 do anything as you leave or if not, that either is fine.

Iva

• 03:27:36 Yeah, I was a big young man, gives a wig to David, and then
• 03:27:40 wanders off towards the church.

Hazel

• 03:27:42 I’ll see you next time.

Unidentified

• 03:27:45 I don’t know.

Hazel

• 03:27:47 Hazel turns to Temerity and says,
• 03:27:48 that should be the most upsetting thing that happened
• 03:27:51 tonight.

Temerity

• 03:27:52 It’s very upsetting, but nothing.

Dungeon Master

• 03:27:58 I can’t worry about that now.
• 03:28:01 - Yeah, I have a,
• 03:28:03 Heads off to the church where Father Emberthumb has already
• 03:28:08 prepared
• 03:28:08 place for you all to stay inside the church or in the tents
• 03:28:11 , whatever.
• 03:28:11 We’re not going to nitpick it right this minute.
• 03:28:14 Yeah.

Iva

• 03:28:16 - Good night, everyone.
• 03:28:17 Night, Bruce.

Temerity

• 03:28:19 Bye, Bruce.

Unidentified

• 03:28:21 .

Luma

• 03:28:23 5am over there or something? 3am?

Rhysaene

• 03:28:25 - Yeah.
• 03:28:26 It’s 2:00 AM, I think.

Luma

• 03:28:29 It’s two o’clock in the morning.

Hazel

• 03:28:31 - Yeah.
• 03:28:31 - The conversation got boring.

Rhysaene

• 03:28:34 laughs
• 03:28:35 No, it is no, it is no, it is not boring.

Hazel

• 03:28:38 The conversation is not boring.

Dungeon Master

• 03:28:40 Um, you’re able to, to head out onto the porch with Juniper
• 03:28:44 .

Temerity

• 03:28:46 I don’t know.

Dungeon Master

• 03:28:48 um,

Temerity

• 03:28:49 I’m
• 03:28:51 I’m sorry for

Dungeon Master

• 03:28:53 I like certain
• 03:28:55 my friend,
• 03:28:55 uh,
• 03:28:57 Yeah, your friend was really forward, but that was…
• 03:29:02 Oh, man. Sorry. No, I’m sorry. I hate that you were put on
• 03:29:06 the spot like that.

Temerity

• 03:29:08 I just,
• 03:29:09 Wanted to make sure that you’re okay.

Dungeon Master

• 03:29:12 I’m, um,
• 03:29:14 I’m, um…
• 03:29:16 I am
• 03:29:18 I promised I would be, didn’t I?
• 03:29:23 Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Temerity

• 03:29:27 But are you?

Dungeon Master

• 03:29:33 I am.
• 03:29:36 I don’t know. It’s one thing when it’s
• 03:29:39 it’s this kind of unspoken thing that,
• 03:29:42 That we both kind of just dance around, but…
• 03:29:46 I don’t know, having it put quite so…
• 03:29:49 front and center. I can’t, um,
• 03:29:53 I don’t…
• 03:29:55 I don’t hate that you left, Tim, but…
• 03:29:59 I don’t understand why we couldn’t, um,
• 03:30:02 I mean, I thought
• 03:30:05 You really don’t feel that way about me?

Temerity

• 03:30:10 You did this to yourself.
• 03:30:12 You’re going to live with it.
• 03:30:14 I did, I did.

Dungeon Master

• 03:30:16 You did not
• 03:30:17 have to have this conversation
• 03:30:19 and you did not have to set up this relationship
• 03:30:22 the way it is. You are…
• 03:30:24 you are in the bed you made.
• 03:30:28 I like to give you an answer.

Temerity

• 03:30:30 It should have.
• 03:30:32 Beasts like me gotta stay alpha, babe.
• 03:30:34 Beasts like me gotta stay alpha.

Hazel

• 03:30:41 It’s fucking Sigma. Sigma Temerity.

Temerity

• 03:30:45 Ha ha ha.
• 03:30:47 Temerity.
• 03:30:49 Well, that’s a…
• 03:30:52 I’m sorry.
• 03:30:54 It’s just like, it’s…
• 03:30:57 You know, it’s…

Hazel

• 03:31:02 you know, it’s,
• 03:31:03 complicated.

Iva

• 03:31:05 - No.
• 03:31:07 - Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 03:31:12 Because I’ve known you longer than your new friends have.
• 03:31:16 I know when you’re not
• 03:31:18 I’ve known it all along to Temerity.
• 03:31:23 It’s not because you have to leave and it’s dangerous and
• 03:31:25 all of that.
• 03:31:26 I mean, that might be a reason, but that’s not the reason,
• 03:31:29 and we both know it.
• 03:31:31 You’ve always
• 03:31:33 I don’t know.
• 03:31:34 We tell you over and over you’re a part of this family.
• 03:31:37 We tell you over and over you’re welcome.
• 03:31:40 It’s not like we’re…
• 03:31:41 We mean that.
• 03:31:43 Tem
• 03:31:44 You…
• 03:31:45 You aren’t some, I don’t even know what you think of
• 03:31:48 yourself that you think you don’t deserve
• 03:31:51 my affection, but you do.
• 03:31:54 And you’re not refusing because you’re worried you’ll have
• 03:31:58 to leave one day and something bad might happen.
• 03:32:01 You’re refusing because you don’t think you deserve it.
• 03:32:03 And that’s just, that’s just
• 03:32:05 That’s just who you are, even under the…
• 03:32:10 the bravery and the willingness to help.
• 03:32:15 You don’t think you deserve anything from anyone, and it
• 03:32:19 makes me sad.
• 03:32:21 I won’t let you tell me that you get to decide what people
• 03:32:25 deserve from me.
• 03:32:26 Not anymore.
• 03:32:27 I thought I could be strong and do the thing you asked me
• 03:32:30 to do, but I can’t.
• 03:32:32 I’m not going to do it.

Unidentified

• 03:32:35 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 03:32:38 you

Temerity

• 03:32:38 I can’t read the chat.
• 03:32:40 I’m putting that away.
• 03:32:44 Sorry, sorry, sorry.
• 03:32:46 I can’t take attention.

Iva

• 03:32:49 Yeah.
• 03:32:50 it.
• 03:32:52 I don’t know.

Hazel

• 03:32:54 Ugh.
• 03:32:56 can’t run to your
• 03:32:59 I can’t run to your safety behaviors, I’m using therapy
• 03:33:02 speak now.
• 03:33:04 laughter

Temerity

• 03:33:06 Yeah.
• 03:33:09 I…
• 03:33:12 It’s not fair to you.

Dungeon Master

• 03:33:15 I get to decide that, not you.

Temerity

• 03:33:17 I…

Dungeon Master

• 03:33:22 I,
• 03:33:23 I know you protected me and I know, I know that,
• 03:33:27 that that’s who you are, but you can’t
• 03:33:29 You can’t protect me from
• 03:33:31 from,
• 03:33:31 being sad or hurt.
• 03:33:34 Not not like that, because
• 03:33:37 You’re also protecting me from
• 03:33:40 And she kind of trails off.
• 03:33:42 Um,
• 03:33:43 leaving unsaid what she feels like
• 03:33:45 doesn’t need to be said, which is that
• 03:33:48 this kind of, like, thing that the two of you have always
• 03:33:50 danced around, this idea that, like,
• 03:33:53 There’s more connection between you than either of you will
• 03:33:55 allow.
• 03:33:56 But it’s not either of you will allow.
• 03:33:58 It’s that Temerity will allow.
• 03:34:00 And Juniper’s gone along with it.
• 03:34:03 And she promised to be strong when you left…
• 03:34:05 And that was one thing, but here you are again, and now
• 03:34:09 Thanks to Eliza, thanks to Hazel.
• 03:34:12 The polite wall that allowed her to keep pretending is just
• 03:34:19 gone.
• 03:34:21 Oh.
• 03:34:26 And maybe in this moment you kind of think back
• 03:34:28 on her letter to you.
• 03:34:30 Um,
• 03:34:32 And just like intuition, just like one of those kind of
• 03:34:34 like twists of like
• 03:34:37 “Aha!”
• 03:34:38 whole crossed out section of the letter that you could not
• 03:34:42 read covered in ink scribbled over and
• 03:34:45 um,
• 03:34:47 This wall has been cracking since you left.
• 03:34:51 And it was always going to be something that did it, and
• 03:34:54 then here you are.

Temerity

• 03:35:09 Temerity, like…
• 03:35:15 Oh, Temerity is kind of freezing a little bit.
• 03:35:18 Uh…
• 03:35:23 Because every…
• 03:35:25 uh
• 03:35:29 Every word that Juniper said about Temerity feeling
• 03:35:34 undeserving of it is pretty true it kind of shot through a
• 03:35:40 lot of armor Temerity had
• 03:35:41 - Uh-huh.
• 03:35:47 And…
• 03:35:51 They…
• 03:35:52 Even despite that, they still can’t bring themselves to be
• 03:35:57 like…
• 03:36:00 Yeah, no, let’s start dating, you know?
• 03:36:02 Oh, no!
• 03:36:04 This, in Temerity’s mind, still only ends one way.
• 03:36:08 They just don’t know how
• 03:36:11 to get it to end that way and that’s kind of part of the
• 03:36:16 problem
• 03:36:16 Uh,
• 03:36:17 So I’m trying to think.
• 03:36:19 Fuck.
• 03:36:20 Yeah, Temerity…
• 03:36:22 It definitely freezes.
• 03:36:25 uh,
• 03:36:27 It kind of stands there for
• 03:36:31 A minute.
• 03:36:32 just
• 03:36:34 kind of
• 03:36:37 Looking around Juniper, but not directly at her.
• 03:36:42 Uh…
• 03:36:45 And then,
• 03:36:46 Unless Juniper says anything in that moment of silence.
• 03:36:50 uh,
• 03:36:51 Thank you.
• 03:36:53 speaks up.

Hazel

• 03:36:55 Uh-huh.

Temerity

• 03:36:55 and is like

Luma

• 03:36:57 Thank you.

Unidentified

• 03:37:03 Yeah.

Iva

• 03:37:03 That’s it.
• 03:37:05 uh,

Hazel

• 03:37:13 I
• 03:37:17 I’m sorry.
• 03:37:18 that.
• 03:37:20 I had

Temerity

• 03:37:23 put you in this position.
• 03:37:26 Um,

Hazel

• 03:37:27 of having to hold all of this in.
• 03:37:29 for so long.
• 03:37:32 for
• 03:37:35 not
• 03:37:37 allowing you the agency that you have.

Temerity

• 03:37:46 But,

Hazel

• 03:37:51 I,
• 03:37:52 - I can’t.

Luma

• 03:37:54 Thank you.
• 03:37:54 I…
• 03:37:57 I can’t.
• 03:38:00 I can’t do this.

Hazel

• 03:38:03 and I think that’s a great question.
• 03:38:06 I know that, Tim.
• 03:38:07 - Don’t, I’m not.

Dungeon Master

• 03:38:09 I’m not.
• 03:38:13 I’m not so naive to think you were going to just
• 03:38:17 you know, change your mind about the choice you made. I
• 03:38:20 know
• 03:38:22 you don’t
• 03:38:24 I know it’s too much to ask.
• 03:38:27 to write each other letters and
• 03:38:32 for me to worry that you might not come back.
• 03:38:34 I know you wouldn’t do that to me even if I said I was okay
• 03:38:38 with it.
• 03:38:38 I just wanted you to, I don’t know, I wanted you to finally
• 03:38:41 see that you did deserve it and
• 03:38:43 and not hide from how you feel, even if it hurts.

Temerity

• 03:38:50 -

Dungeon Master

• 03:38:51 What?

Temerity

• 03:38:54 Ah.
• 03:38:56 Um, um,

Dungeon Master

• 03:38:57 No, we don’t.
• 03:38:59 And
• 03:39:01 Besides all that,
• 03:39:03 I’ll still be here when you, you know, kick the sorrow’s
• 03:39:06 ass.

Temerity

• 03:39:08 That does get an actual chuckle from Temerity, a little
• 03:39:12 chuckle.
• 03:39:13 It kind of alleviated some tension.
• 03:39:16 Mm-hmm.

Unidentified

• 03:39:19 Yeah.

Temerity

• 03:39:21 Well.
• 03:39:23 Ah.

Luma

• 03:39:27 you know what
• 03:39:29 you’ve,
• 03:39:29 said that
• 03:39:31 I’ve always known
• 03:39:32 what I wanted.

Rhysaene

• 03:39:34 But.

Temerity

• 03:39:38 at home.
• 03:39:40 I don’t really know what I want.
• 03:39:42 this
• 03:39:46 This week has kind of shown that.
• 03:39:49 more blatantly than I could have imagined.

Hazel

• 03:39:53 um,
• 03:39:56 So I’m
• 03:39:58 I’m sorry, I can’t.

Temerity

• 03:40:03 Spill my guts on that matter.
• 03:40:07 I just,
• 03:40:10 I don’t know. I don’t know what I want.
• 03:40:14 That’s okay, too.
• 03:40:18 I just don’t want you…
• 03:40:21 To wait on me.
• 03:40:22 You deserve to
• 03:40:24 find someone who will make you happy.

Dungeon Master

• 03:40:29 um,
• 03:40:30 Maybe.
• 03:40:32 But
• 03:40:33 We did not just have this conversation
• 03:40:36 of you trying to decide what’s best for me in one way for
• 03:40:40 you to change deciding what’s best for me in another.

Temerity

• 03:40:43 Ah, yeah.
• 03:40:46 Fuck it.
• 03:40:50 Yeah, you’re…
• 03:40:51 You’re right.
• 03:40:52 It’s
• 03:40:57 to your life.
• 03:40:59 I just want you to know
• 03:41:03 - Oh.
• 03:41:04 And a kind of like pained look crosses to Temerity’s face
• 03:41:09 as they
• 03:41:09 say this.
• 03:41:10 They just…

Unidentified

• 03:41:13 Ugh.

Temerity

• 03:41:16 uh,
• 03:41:22 Um,
• 03:41:27 A kind of paint look crosses their face, as they say.
• 03:41:31 uh,
• 03:41:32 I’m,
• 03:41:34 not going to
• 03:41:37 pursue you, you know, I’ve never been one for courting and,
• 03:41:41 uh,
• 03:41:42 I’m
• 03:41:44 going to still
• 03:41:46 write you letters, I still hope
• 03:41:48 to receive them, but
• 03:41:51 for your
• 03:41:54 Think mind and for mine.
• 03:41:57 I think it is best if I say that.
• 03:42:00 I
• 03:42:02 don’t
• 03:42:06 oh, I don’t want a relationship with you.
• 03:42:09 I don’t know how to phrase that better.
• 03:42:12 No, yeah, Taverdi kind of says it like,
• 03:42:14 it’s like, oh, I mean…
• 03:42:16 The…
• 03:42:18 You know, I’ve never been much for words.

Dungeon Master

• 03:42:21 No, the words I don’t want a relationship with you are
• 03:42:24 pretty clear, Tim.

Temerity

• 03:42:25 Oh, a very pain-faced cross is there.

Dungeon Master

• 03:42:30 - I am.

Temerity

• 03:42:30 - You have a very faint face with that, fuck.

Dungeon Master

• 03:42:34 I guess I read it wrong after all.
• 03:42:39 Oh.

Temerity

• 03:42:41 and
• 03:42:41 Sorry.

Dungeon Master

• 03:42:43 No, it’s fine.
• 03:42:44 Um,
• 03:42:47 Like I said, I just didn’t want you to think that
• 03:42:50 that you couldn’t have it because you,
• 03:42:51 you can have like that kind of,
• 03:42:54 relationship with someone because you didn’t deserve it
• 03:42:57 because some
• 03:42:58 you’re,
• 03:42:59 you’re
• 03:43:00 you’re the best person I know.
• 03:43:04 Maybe you’ll find it with someone
• 03:43:05 you know, someday.

Temerity

• 03:43:10 Yeah.
• 03:43:16 Marie’s like, eh, but it doesn’t say anything.
• 03:43:21 It’s just like…
• 03:43:23 Would it be
• 03:43:26 Inappropriate to hug.

Dungeon Master

• 03:43:30 um
• 03:43:32 Why are you always like that?
• 03:43:33 And she hugs you.

Temerity

• 03:43:35 The Mary hugs her back.

Dungeon Master

• 03:43:39 Hmm.
• 03:43:41 I look forward to your next letter, but I hope you don’t
• 03:43:44 mind if I just go to bed.
• 03:43:46 Yes, definitely.

Temerity

• 03:43:47 Of course.

Dungeon Master

• 03:43:49 And she kind of pulls away and looks at Temerity for
• 03:43:54 A moment, and then she heads inside and upstairs.

Temerity

• 03:44:00 Maybe he just kind of like stares at the sky for a while.
• 03:44:04 I was just standing outside.
• 03:44:07 Ah.
• 03:44:10 All right.
• 03:44:12 Oh.
• 03:44:13 kind of like slaps their face a little bit to like recenter
• 03:44:17 themselves.
• 03:44:19 And then walks back in.

Dungeon Master

• 03:44:21 um,
• 03:44:23 I’ve gone
• 03:44:26 And now Juniper gone, the table’s a little quieter, but
• 03:44:29 there’s still a bunch of Kembles.
• 03:44:31 I’m wrapping up.
• 03:44:34 It’s not really, like, a dessert, but people have taken to,
• 03:44:36 like, dipping…
• 03:44:38 bread and like the, the, the, was it peach? I don’t
• 03:44:42 remember.
• 03:44:42 Um,
• 03:44:44 preserves and kind of like
• 03:44:47 eating that and
• 03:44:49 Um,
• 03:44:50 things are quieting down for the night.
• 03:44:53 Father Emberthumb kind of says, anytime you all are ready to
• 03:44:59 head over to the church…
• 03:45:02 Just let me know.

Luma

• 03:45:06 Which is where the maps are!
• 03:45:08 It is where the heads are.
• 03:45:13 This is the best night ever.
• 03:45:16 Maps!
• 03:45:18 Mm-hmm.

Hazel

• 03:45:21 Yes, I
• 03:45:22 I fear we may have overstayed our welcome.

Dungeon Master

• 03:45:26 Yep.
• 03:45:28 Maureen shakes her head, says, no, no, no, I’m sorry for
• 03:45:31 all the…
• 03:45:34 drama all the all the commotion but you all are wonderful
• 03:45:38 and you are friends of our Temerity
• 03:45:40 you are welcome anytime

Rhysaene

• 03:45:42 Oh, bless you.

Dungeon Master

• 03:45:44 She smiles at risk.

Rhysaene

• 03:45:50 Thank you, fucking family.
• 03:45:52 My bad.
• 03:45:55 I did.
• 03:45:56 Your family’s real sweet, Temerity.

Temerity

• 03:45:59 -
• 03:46:01 Yeah, nice.
• 03:46:03 He already gives, like, a small smile.
• 03:46:06 It’s like, yeah, they’re…
• 03:46:08 They’re very sweet.
• 03:46:08 They’ve been very kind to me over the years.

Rhysaene

• 03:46:12 Mm-hmm.
• 03:46:13 Yeah, I guess we got to get our eight
• 03:46:16 Week.
• 03:46:16 Gotta get out of here.

Temerity

• 03:46:20 yeah my time to hit the old dusty trail

Hazel

• 03:46:28 to give my regards to
• 03:46:33 to Juniper, Hazel says, realizing that she’s not here.
• 03:46:36 And my apology.
• 03:46:38 Mm-hmm.
• 03:46:39 before she
• 03:46:41 She leaves.

Temerity

• 03:46:45 uh, Temerity.
• 03:46:47 Thanks, Henry and Maurine, for the food.
• 03:46:49 Thank you all so much for hosting.

Dungeon Master

• 03:46:51 Yeah, no, of course, of course, anytime, anytime.

Rhysaene

• 03:46:54 Next time I’ll bring our Papa.

Dungeon Master

• 03:46:56 Oh, that would be so wonderful.
• 03:46:57 Apple pie.
• 03:46:58 I should have made apple pie.

Rhysaene

• 03:47:00 He he he he.

Hazel

• 03:47:02 And then
• 03:47:04 Pa’s going to figure out what Temerity said
• 03:47:06 to Juniper and fucking chase her down
• 03:47:08 with a machete.

Dungeon Master

• 03:47:10 You guys hear the sound of a shotgun
• 03:47:12 like cocking and shotguns don’t even
• 03:47:14 exist in this setting?

Rhysaene

• 03:47:17 So…
• 03:47:17 He’s like, he’s like talking to the show and he’s like, the
• 03:47:20 fucking light won’t take you.

Hazel

• 03:47:24 Let’s see if we can make it a second resurrection, huh?
• 03:47:28 Maybe the first time was a fluke.
• 03:47:30 How about that, Em?
• 03:47:33 How about that, Em?

Dungeon Master

• 03:47:34 breaking my daughter’s heart
• 03:47:39 uh so what are y’all doing heading to the church

Temerity

• 03:47:44 Yeah, Temerity does
• 03:47:49 as they’re like leaving
• 03:47:50 does kind of
• 03:47:52 As an aside to Father Emberthumb, I still would like to talk

Dungeon Master

• 03:47:56 to you.
• 03:47:56 Oh, yes, of course, Temerity, anytime you know that.
• 03:48:01 I think.

Temerity

• 03:48:02 Yeah, Temerity gives a small smile.
• 03:48:06 At that as.
• 03:48:08 As they head on to the church.
• 03:48:11 Mm-hmm.
• 03:48:14 probably talk after Luma does does the history and maps

Hazel

• 03:48:17 dive in all right if i may
• 03:48:21 Hazel says as they’re walking.

Temerity

• 03:48:23 Yes.

Hazel

• 03:48:26 I have not known you for long, but it seems like the only
• 03:48:31 times
• 03:48:31 That you are that that.
• 03:48:33 Yeah.
• 03:48:34 It seems like the only time you’re ever happy within our
• 03:48:37 company
• 03:48:38 are when you’re either here or thinking about coming here.

Temerity

• 03:48:43 Yeah.
• 03:48:45 -
• 03:48:49 Man.
• 03:48:52 Uh…
• 03:48:54 Well, you know, the other circumstances you’ve seen me have
• 03:48:59 been
• 03:49:00 Under…
• 03:49:02 Much duress.
• 03:49:04 Yes.

Hazel

• 03:49:07 Even I don’t carry that much affection for my home.

Temerity

• 03:49:12 To me, he kind of gives Hazel, like, a little strange look,
• 03:49:15 like…
• 03:49:18 like yeah
• 03:49:20 I wouldn’t either
• 03:49:21 laughing
• 03:49:23 laughter
• 03:49:29 So good.
• 03:49:36 Holy shit.
• 03:49:39 - Well, you know, I’ve…
• 03:49:44 when you
• 03:49:50 This is all I’ve ever known.
• 03:49:52 uh,
• 03:49:54 You seem to be
• 03:49:57 more yourself out in the wilderness.
• 03:50:02 You can think of this more as my wilderness than your home.

Hazel

• 03:50:10 I don’t know.
• 03:50:11 You see, that confuses me.
• 03:50:14 Because…
• 03:50:16 while I’m
• 03:50:19 returning
• 03:50:22 Well, I’m returning with you all to Argentum.
• 03:50:27 I do find myself returning to the wilderness in the far
• 03:50:30 future.
• 03:50:32 because I don’t see myself
• 03:50:35 And she pauses and she goes, I don’t see myself being happy
• 03:50:39 .
• 03:50:39 Uh…
• 03:50:41 being happy, staying in Argentum all the time.
• 03:50:45 believe that.
• 03:50:48 you should try to think about what makes you happy.

Iva

• 03:50:52 laughs

Hazel

• 03:50:57 It’s
• 03:51:00 It’s not, it’s…
• 03:51:04 It’s not my place to say, and of course you have your
• 03:51:07 you have your, you have your greater
• 03:51:10 purposes.
• 03:51:11 But…
• 03:51:15 it.

Temerity

• 03:51:19 It does not…
• 03:51:22 It does not seem
• 03:51:27 It does not seem good to…
• 03:51:38 to deny yourself
• 03:51:40 the

Hazel

• 03:51:45 to deny yourself things that make you happy for
• 03:51:52 She’ll just kind of like…
• 03:51:55 She’ll think on that and say, ah, never mind.

Temerity

• 03:52:01 laughs

Hazel

• 03:52:04 Father Emberthumb, do you believe that we can have laminated
• 03:52:06 breads tomorrow?

Dungeon Master

• 03:52:09 No, I’m not.
• 03:52:10 - Yes, if you get to Beck’s shop early enough,
• 03:52:15 I’m sure you can,
• 03:52:16 You can…
• 03:52:18 Oh.
• 03:52:19 purloin as many laminated
• 03:52:23 pastries as you can pay for.

Hazel

• 03:52:26 I suppose if I
• 03:52:27 skip the sleeping I can
• 03:52:30 I can get there earlier than they will.

Iva

• 03:52:35 I don’t know.
• 03:52:36 he he he he he he

Dungeon Master

• 03:52:45 Olivia, I have a question.

Temerity

• 03:52:46 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 03:52:47 Was there a specific amount of time ago that Father Emberth
• 03:52:51 am built the church?

Temerity

• 03:52:54 He built the church…
• 03:52:57 when he was like in his 30s.
• 03:53:00 Uh, it was the,
• 03:53:03 It was one of the first buildings out here.
• 03:53:05 uh,
• 03:53:07 as just kind of a weigh station.
• 03:53:10 for people.
• 03:53:11 So…

Dungeon Master

• 03:53:13 about 60 years ago.

Temerity

• 03:53:15 Yeah, it’s a mainstay institution.

Dungeon Master

• 03:53:20 Um,
• 03:53:23 And it was one of the first buildings out here.
• 03:53:25 Gotcha. Thank you.

Temerity

• 03:53:26 Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 03:53:28 Anyway, you all head back to the church
• 03:53:31 and the tents are set
• 03:53:34 Um,
• 03:53:36 The…
• 03:53:37 The tents are laid out against the church
• 03:53:41 But Father Embersome says it’s getting late in the season,
• 03:53:46 and it’s going to be cold.
• 03:53:48 If you all would rather stay inside the church, you are
• 03:53:51 more than welcome to.
• 03:53:53 I would offer to let you stay in the house if you want as
• 03:53:56 well, but some of you will have to sleep on the floor in
• 03:53:59 the…
• 03:54:01 in the downstairs, only Tamerzi’s room is very small.

Hazel

• 03:54:08 - Yes.
• 03:54:09 Yes, quite.

Dungeon Master

• 03:54:10 Thank you.

Hazel

• 03:54:11 laughs
• 03:54:14 Their bed is comfy, though.

Dungeon Master

• 03:54:16 Unfortunately, in either case, and I do apologize deeply
• 03:54:22 for this, but it is a house made for a halfling and Miss…
• 03:54:28 Uh, risk.
• 03:54:30 You are quite…
• 03:54:33 Large.
• 03:54:34 I don’t know.

Temerity

• 03:54:35 Oh, don’t mind. It’s fun.

Dungeon Master

• 03:54:43 Um, but the, the, the church, the church has a, um, has a
• 03:54:46 hearth that you can keep lit all night and the church would
• 03:54:49 be very warm or, um, and he kind of looks at Hazel like
• 03:54:53 intuitively, if you are not comfortable in the, in the
• 03:54:57 chapel.
• 03:54:57 In the rectory, I have brought out the tents.

Rhysaene

• 03:55:03 Ah.
• 03:55:05 Yeah, 10 will do me just fine.

Hazel

• 03:55:08 I find myself most comfortable under the stars, Father.

Dungeon Master

• 03:55:12 - Very well. - Thank you.
• 03:55:14 There’s wood piled behind the church if you would like to
• 03:55:17 build a fire then.
• 03:55:18 Um, you, um, Ms. Luma, if you would come with me?
• 03:55:22 Yes.

Luma

• 03:55:23 Hold on, this is long.

Dungeon Master

• 03:55:25 - Have fun now.
• 03:55:27 I don’t know.
• 03:55:28 I’ll be back.
• 03:55:29 Emberthumb leads you into
• 03:55:32 the church rectory, um
• 03:55:34 towards the back, back past the lake, the dais where he
• 03:55:38 speaks from,
• 03:55:39 to his little writing desk where some bookshelves, and he
• 03:55:42 …
• 03:55:42 goes through the bookshelves and he pulls out a scroll case
• 03:55:45 a leather bound scroll case
• 03:55:48 and kind of pops it open
• 03:55:49 and fiddles with it
• 03:55:51 and then closes it
• 03:55:52 and puts it back
• 03:55:53 and pulls out another one.
• 03:55:54 pops it open, pulls out a sheet of paper,
• 03:55:59 And then he goes through this process a couple more times
• 03:56:02 until he finds another one that he keeps
• 03:56:04 and he lays out two sheets of paper on the desk. Both are
• 03:56:07 hand-drawn maps and
• 03:56:09 not
• 03:56:10 Fantastic in quality.
• 03:56:12 Um,
• 03:56:13 They are both dated.
• 03:56:15 Um, one is dated, um,
• 03:56:19 60 years ago and the others dated like 69 years ago.
• 03:56:24 The one dated 69 years ago is a map that just contains the
• 03:56:30 river.
• 03:56:31 Some large trees.
• 03:56:34 There’s nothing on it.
• 03:56:35 It is a surveyor’s map.
• 03:56:37 or the initial construction of Crick’s Bend.
• 03:56:41 um,
• 03:56:43 you, uh,
• 03:56:45 You do not recognize…
• 03:56:46 You might recognize, like, the surveyor’s mark…
• 03:56:50 as like a small surveying company out of Argentum, but they
• 03:56:55 ’re not anything you’re
• 03:56:55 personally familiar with it’s not like a life was here or
• 03:56:57 anything like that

Luma

• 03:56:59 Yeah, this was 60 years ago.
• 03:57:01 Life has long gone since then.

Dungeon Master

• 03:57:02 Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 03:57:03 This is 69 years ago.
• 03:57:04 The second map is 60 years ago.
• 03:57:07 And it shows…
• 03:57:10 it shows a lot of the heart of Crick’s Bend
• 03:57:14 the mill, some of the houses in the center of town,
• 03:57:17 the circle in the center of town is sketched out and drawn,
• 03:57:21 and these are like definites
• 03:57:24 What is not definite is there’s a couple,
• 03:57:26 there’s a lot of plots and spaces that are currently filled
• 03:57:30 ,
• 03:57:30 but on this map are not, and you see,
• 03:57:33 uh,
• 03:57:34 This map is also
• 03:57:37 even less like the other one is professional just not up to
• 03:57:40 your standards this map is not
• 03:57:42 professional it looks like it was copied from the other map
• 03:57:46 and then the buildings were added
• 03:57:48 And there’s a like, like planning marks for the space where
• 03:57:52 the church is.
• 03:57:53 very similar to how it actually came into being and this
• 03:57:57 map is signed W Emberthumb.

Luma

• 03:58:02 Do I know his first name?

Dungeon Master

• 03:58:04 I do not believe you know his first name.

Luma

• 03:58:06 Okay.

Dungeon Master

• 03:58:08 I don’t know, I don’t know if it’s been mentioned.
• 03:58:11 Is this your signature?
• 03:58:13 He nods and says, oh yes, when I was just starting out on
• 03:58:16 the church and picking out a spot for it and I wanted to do
• 03:58:19 it up proper and I could not afford to hire a surveying
• 03:58:23 company, the other map was not done for me or by me, it was
• 03:58:31 …
• 03:58:31 It was a surveying company out of…
• 03:58:33 Argentum and the, um,
• 03:58:36 I believe the Ashford family funded most of that.
• 03:58:40 um,
• 03:58:42 Huh.
• 03:58:43 You did a nice job.
• 03:58:45 I think so, too. But I copied it and planned the spot for
• 03:58:49 the church and picked it out and
• 03:58:51 did up the blueprints not the blueprints but the um the
• 03:58:55 layout and all of that myself um
• 03:58:57 Little house for me, and he points to where his house is,
• 03:59:00 and the rectory, and the well, and…

Luma

• 03:59:04 You got a good eye for landscape.

Dungeon Master

• 03:59:07 Oh, well, thank you, Miss Haluma.

Luma

• 03:59:10 She’s nodding along while she’s like.
• 03:59:12 like exploring the details of it,
• 03:59:14 the map probably isn’t particularly useful for,
• 03:59:16 But she’s still like incredibly fascinated by it.

Dungeon Master

• 03:59:20 Yeah, there’s…

Luma

• 03:59:22 Thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 03:59:22 there’s not really anything like it.
• 03:59:25 It is very clearly like what it is on its face.
• 03:59:29 It’s an old map of Crick’s Bend and an old map of the land
• 03:59:32 before Crick’s Bend even started coming into being of like
• 03:59:35 probably the surveying for building the first parts of Crix
• 03:59:39 bend.

Luma

• 03:59:40 And there’s no…
• 03:59:42 like,
• 03:59:44 old ruin or landmark or anything on the the original map
• 03:59:48 before crickspin was made

Dungeon Master

• 03:59:49 No. Crick’s Bend was the… it is pretty revealing in the map
• 03:59:55 that Crick’s Bend was like
• 03:59:57 on
• 03:59:59 unused space before this.
• 04:00:01 This was not built on…
• 04:00:02 And you kind of know, just like, from the kinds of things
• 04:00:06 you’re interested in, that there are other places in the
• 04:00:09 Vale that are built on the ruins of older places.

Luma

• 04:00:13 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 04:00:13 Yeah.
• 04:00:13 Crick’s Bend and Silverthorn just aren’t among them.

Luma

• 04:00:16 Gotcha. Okay.
• 04:00:19 Yeah, she’ll copy details that she might have missed that
• 04:00:22 are necessary for her stuff, like take notes on it.
• 04:00:25 She’s going to confirm everything.
• 04:00:28 Yes.
• 04:00:28 She’ll eventually roll them up and
• 04:00:30 return them to father and birth them.

Dungeon Master

• 04:00:32 Yeah, and he very carefully
• 04:00:35 rolls them back up, puts them in the cases, puts them back
• 04:00:38 on the shelf. It’s clear that…
• 04:00:40 these maps, but also everything else on the shelf is
• 04:00:43 important to him.
• 04:00:46 and he takes good care of it.

Luma

• 04:00:48 Got a big collection of stuff down here.

Dungeon Master

• 04:00:50 Oh yes, my
• 04:00:53 The books, I think, are insightful or engaging or fun
• 04:00:57 stories.
• 04:00:59 Some histories of the Vale.
• 04:01:02 Um, of course, uh, any gestures to, like, two whole rows of
• 04:01:05 , uh, texts all marked with a
• 04:01:07 like, a silver embellishing of a flame.
• 04:01:10 And, of course, the, um…
• 04:01:11 the various works related to the faith.
• 04:01:14 And then these notebooks are all of my past sermons for the
• 04:01:17 past 60 years.
• 04:01:19 Recorded them all.

Luma

• 04:01:21 Whoa.
• 04:01:22 How far back does your history go?

Dungeon Master

• 04:01:24 um,
• 04:01:25 These are just books I’ve collected, it’s not…
• 04:01:29 Over the years, on the occasions I make it into the city
• 04:01:32 and can stop by a bookseller, that kind of thing.
• 04:01:37 - Yeah.
• 04:01:38 They don’t go back very far.
• 04:01:39 Um,
• 04:01:41 - Duh.
• 04:01:43 I think the oldest goes…
• 04:01:44 The one goes back is probably about 200 years.

Luma

• 04:01:48 Really? Ooh.
• 04:01:49 Can I read that one?
• 04:01:52 Um,
• 04:01:54 That’s forbidden knowledge.

Dungeon Master

• 04:01:55 - He searches for a while and he pulls it off the shelf
• 04:01:58 and he hands you a history.
• 04:02:00 Ah.
• 04:02:01 a history book.

Luma

• 04:02:02 And almost nothing is 200 years old.

Dungeon Master

• 04:02:05 And he shakes his head and says, oh, no, no, no.
• 04:02:07 It’s not 200 years old, it was probably written
• 04:02:12 40 years ago, I would say, but it’s one of the only ones
• 04:02:14 that goes back that far.
• 04:02:16 information that old is hard to come by at all.
• 04:02:19 As you saying that it’s hard to come by something
• 04:02:22 200 years old, you clearly understand that already.
• 04:02:25 So not a lot of historians have information from
• 04:02:30 that long ago, but this book covers some of the, um,
• 04:02:34 um,
• 04:02:36 Well, let’s just say the political climate in them.
• 04:02:39 in Argentum and the veil,

Luma

• 04:02:43 Oh, politics.
• 04:02:43 She’s going to look at the author name.

Dungeon Master

• 04:02:48 Um,
• 04:02:50 Let me get back to you on the author name.
• 04:02:53 Okay.
• 04:02:54 I did not have a plan for you to find a specific book, so I
• 04:02:58 ’ll flesh it out.
• 04:03:00 But skimming it
• 04:03:02 Um,
• 04:03:05 you don’t really follow politics,
• 04:03:07 so most of this is, like, wild…
• 04:03:09 Not wild, but out of your…
• 04:03:13 Yeah, yeah.
• 04:03:13 per view.
• 04:03:15 But the thing that
• 04:03:19 I don’t know, probably catches your attention
• 04:03:20 as being that the history goes back 200 years
• 04:03:24 and it does cover the political climate
• 04:03:28 Um,
• 04:03:30 the Silver Vale and Argentum going back that far which is
• 04:03:34 rare it does cover a
• 04:03:35 period of time that is not often talked about except in
• 04:03:39 like hushed
• 04:03:40 like, oh yeah, we don’t really talk about that,
• 04:03:42 but one that is,
• 04:03:44 Definitely close to your history, and that is what has come
• 04:03:49 to be known in the Vale as the Elder Exodus.
• 04:03:53 it talks about like the,
• 04:03:55 the climate leading up to it,
• 04:03:57 at least from the perspective of this author
• 04:04:00 through their research as they wrote the book
• 04:04:04 much more recently.

Luma

• 04:04:06 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 04:04:07 And I don’t have that already drafted up.
• 04:04:10 I’ll have to, like…
• 04:04:11 come up with what’s in the book specifically but that’s
• 04:04:13 like the kinds of things that it is covering

Luma

• 04:04:16 Cool. Yeah. She’s mostly curious about the name of the
• 04:04:19 author because she wanted us to know where they got their
• 04:04:22 research from.
• 04:04:22 Because I might open up other avenues for her.
• 04:04:24 But the fact that it discusses, like,
• 04:04:27 the tensions leading up to a very dramatic event
• 04:04:30 are very interesting to her.
• 04:04:32 So she will…
• 04:04:32 She’ll park a seat somewhere and she’s like, I’m just gonna
• 04:04:34 , I’ll read this and then put it back when I’ve done, if
• 04:04:37 that’s okay.
• 04:04:37 Oh, yes, of course.

Dungeon Master

• 04:04:39 Um,
• 04:04:42 And if you’d like to
• 04:04:44 because you only need four hours of rest
• 04:04:48 you can spend the rest of your evening
• 04:04:49 copying the parts of the book
• 04:04:52 that cover stuff that is not usually covered.
• 04:04:54 So you’re not going to copy the whole book
• 04:04:56 but if you would like to copy out the, like, interesting
• 04:05:00 section.

Luma

• 04:05:02 Oh fuck, I was going to do a thing

Dungeon Master

• 04:05:04 Unless, yeah, if you have a thing
• 04:05:06 that’s a whole different thing

Luma

• 04:05:08 Luma’s going to go find Temerity before Temerity goes to
• 04:05:10 bed.

Dungeon Master

• 04:05:12 Oh,
• 04:05:13 Okay.

Luma

• 04:05:14 I have a question.
• 04:05:16 Oh, uh-huh.
• 04:05:18 Or at least, I don’t know, maybe an opportunity…
• 04:05:21 or an idea.
• 04:05:22 or
• 04:05:23 technically illegal crimes,
• 04:05:25 Um,
• 04:05:26 do you want me to
• 04:05:30 to break into Eliza’s room and mark her with a map.
• 04:05:33 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Temerity

• 04:05:42 - Are you kidding me?
• 04:05:43 look on Timothy’s faces, like,
• 04:05:46 bewilderment
• 04:05:47 And then like,
• 04:05:49 deep consideration.

Luma

• 04:05:51 Yeah, take a second. They got it.
• 04:05:53 They got the opportunity. They got it.

Dungeon Master

• 04:05:55 We’ll point out because we did have
• 04:05:57 a conversation about exactly
• 04:06:00 this thing.
• 04:06:00 And the latitudes I was granting you for, like…
• 04:06:03 party stuff would not extend to
• 04:06:07 this exact thing you’re talking about doing
• 04:06:09 hiding a map in a way that she wouldn’t find it.
• 04:06:13 is going to be…
• 04:06:17 incredibly difficult.
• 04:06:20 Doing it in a way that she wouldn’t find it and it would be
• 04:06:24 like…
• 04:06:24 guaranteed to be on her person you could put it in her bag
• 04:06:26 presumably she’d like
• 04:06:28 get stuff in and out of her bag.
• 04:06:30 Like,
• 04:06:32 The degree of difficulty on doing this in a way that won’t
• 04:06:36 be detected is through the roof.
• 04:06:39 Um,
• 04:06:41 And it would depend on your approach, but even like
• 04:06:44 I’m having trouble seeing a way to do it that doesn’t end
• 04:06:48 with
• 04:06:48 Eliza finding a map that marks the location of the rest of
• 04:06:52 you on it.

Temerity

• 04:06:52 really quickly.
• 04:06:54 Yeah, Temerity’s considering…
• 04:06:56 Considering it for a moment,
• 04:06:58 It’s like, uh.
• 04:07:00 No, I think it’s
• 04:07:02 I think it’s best if I
• 04:07:04 Try and find her early in the morning and.
• 04:07:08 talk to her, I think if we tried to do that, it would just
• 04:07:11 exacerbate problems with her already.

Luma

• 04:07:15 She turns around and walks back down
• 04:07:17 to the basement with the books.
• 04:07:22 All right.
• 04:07:23 My night is open and I’ve got book.

Dungeon Master

• 04:07:26 I have to come up with a fucking history book.
• 04:07:30 I might…

Luma

• 04:07:31 You don’t have to go super in depth if it’s not relevant.
• 04:07:34 I’m going to do this a lot with wanting to look at things.
• 04:07:36 It’s fine if it isn’t tangible.
• 04:07:40 It’s still just what she would be doing with her time.

Dungeon Master

• 04:07:42 It’s very real that it’s not going to reveal anything crazy
• 04:07:46 .
• 04:07:46 I do want to, I probably won’t go, like, your level and
• 04:07:49 make, like, a handout here.

Luma

• 04:07:51 yeah that’s fine but um

Dungeon Master

• 04:07:54 I just have to think about it.
• 04:07:54 I might also have to revise a thing I said.
• 04:07:58 I feel like the book is probably only like a couple decades
• 04:08:01 old.
• 04:08:01 But the details about the author are very up in the air and
• 04:08:04 I have some ideas of how I want to approach that actually.
• 04:08:08 Okay.

Luma

• 04:08:09 um,
• 04:08:10 Luma either has a crazy revelation or she has a really nice
• 04:08:13 night reading some books and then she passes out.

Dungeon Master

• 04:08:16 Yeah.
• 04:08:17 So Luma dedicates her evening to book reading
• 04:08:22 which leaves the rest of you minus Iva
• 04:08:24 who has already gone to bed.

Rhysaene

• 04:08:26 We are having the cutest sleepover right now.
• 04:08:30 Hehehehe.

Hazel

• 04:08:35 Yeah, Hazel would probably just make the tenth.
• 04:08:39 for, for, for.
• 04:08:40 for her and Rhys.
• 04:08:44 depending on the
• 04:08:45 and Luma, depending on if she’s going to be
• 04:08:50 She’s going to be sleeping outside with us or in the church

Rhysaene

• 04:08:54 .
• 04:08:54 The elves and the centaur are going to sleep in the same
• 04:08:57 tent.

Luma

• 04:08:59 If somebody goes and gets her or invites her, absolutely.
• 04:09:02 Otherwise, she definitely just meditates in a chair.

Dungeon Master

• 04:09:05 Oh, yeah, truthfully.
• 04:09:08 So yeah, you guys are able to get the tents and get ready
• 04:09:12 for your cozy…
• 04:09:14 Cozy, cozy sleepover.

Hazel

• 04:09:15 Probably gossip more about Temerity.

Rhysaene

• 04:09:18 Share every detail with me.

Dungeon Master

• 04:09:23 Eww!
• 04:09:26 I want you guys to dwell deeply on that one and ask
• 04:09:33 yourself the question.
• 04:09:35 How much damage could a lonely Sorrowsworn cause in a house
• 04:09:39 full of people?

Luma

• 04:09:41 Guys, I don’t like it.
• 04:09:42 So much.
• 04:09:42 Damn.
• 04:09:44 Secret ending, every one of them dies.

Dungeon Master

• 04:09:49 just killed every Kemble.

Hazel

• 04:09:51 Now, Paul survives.
• 04:09:53 He was able to put the…
• 04:09:55 To put the final axe blow to the head and it’s just like…

Dungeon Master

• 04:09:59 Yeah, I think you’re actually right.
• 04:10:02 I think Paul survives and it fucking…
• 04:10:05 It changes it, and it becomes a horror story.

Luma

• 04:10:08 We find out that Emberthumb is actually quite capable
• 04:10:10 with a pair of, like, holy bless knucklebusters.

Rhysaene

• 04:10:14 No, Emberthumb is vomit.
• 04:10:16 We’ve talked about this.
• 04:10:18 Yeah.
• 04:10:18 Yeah.
• 04:10:19 Well, the Emblem is, like,
• 04:10:24 I brought you lesbian to this world.
• 04:10:26 I’m going to take you lesbian.

Dungeon Master

• 04:10:31 Is there anything else any of you would like to do this
• 04:10:34 evening?
• 04:10:34 I think that we will…
• 04:10:36 Once we finish the rest, the long rest will stop for the
• 04:10:39 night just because we lost Bruce…
• 04:10:41 Um,
• 04:10:42 - Yeah.
• 04:10:42 - Iva went to bed, I don’t think holds into the morning.
• 04:10:46 Yeah.
• 04:10:48 So anything else this evening?

Temerity

• 04:10:50 Timothy Stenzel: Temerity is going to talk to by their
• 04:10:53 Emberthumb.

Dungeon Master

• 04:10:53 Right, yes.
• 04:10:56 You seek out Father Emberthumb as he’s getting ready for

Temerity

• 04:11:01 bed.
• 04:11:01 Mm-hmm.

Iva

• 04:11:04 Oh, Temerity. Hello.

Temerity

• 04:11:07 Hey, Pa.
• 04:11:08 Um,
• 04:11:11 kind of
• 04:11:13 wanted to talk to you about everything that’s
• 04:11:16 gone on
• 04:11:17 uh,
• 04:11:19 And
• 04:11:20 what I asked you in
• 04:11:22 my letter.

Dungeon Master

• 04:11:24 Yes, your letter, um,
• 04:11:28 I, uh,
• 04:11:29 I read it and it was, it was, um,
• 04:11:33 It was a lot. I was starting to think of how to reply, but
• 04:11:37 …
• 04:11:37 Why don’t you just, um…
• 04:11:39 Why don’t you just ask me what you want to ask me?
• 04:11:43 Oh.

Temerity

• 04:11:48 Are we like inside the house?
• 04:11:49 I assume so.
• 04:11:50 Yeah, you are in the house.

Dungeon Master

• 04:11:51 You’re the only people inside the house.

Temerity

• 04:11:53 Okay.
• 04:11:54 Yeah, to marry you.
• 04:11:55 assuming they’re in Father Emberthumb’s room.
• 04:11:59 Just kind of sits down in the usual spot that they would
• 04:12:02 sit whenever they were a kid.
• 04:12:05 Yeah.
• 04:12:05 Um,
• 04:12:06 just on the floor.
• 04:12:08 uh,
• 04:12:10 Criss-cross applesauced.
• 04:12:13 And it’s just like…
• 04:12:19 It’s
• 04:12:22 It’s been a very long
• 04:12:24 long week.
• 04:12:26 Um,
• 04:12:27 I guess I’ll start
• 04:12:29 With the question in my letter.
• 04:12:31 What?
• 04:12:31 What?
• 04:12:33 happens with
• 04:12:34 purification.

Dungeon Master

• 04:12:36 Um,
• 04:12:37 Oh, um…
• 04:12:41 I will be forthright with you, Temerity. I don’t have an
• 04:12:43 answer to that question.
• 04:12:46 um,
• 04:12:47 Purification is
• 04:12:50 a function of the church, but it is not a function of the
• 04:12:56 um,
• 04:12:58 the holy texts.
• 04:13:02 um,
• 04:13:04 So it’s not something that I’ve
• 04:13:06 that my readings have revealed anything
• 04:13:09 that I have not already told you or that you have not heard
• 04:13:13 .
• 04:13:13 Um,
• 04:13:16 My understanding is that
• 04:13:18 um,
• 04:13:19 the corruption of arcane magic,
• 04:13:22 is what
• 04:13:23 created the sorrow.
• 04:13:25 in the first place.
• 04:13:27 um,
• 04:13:29 through the vehicle of the Starfall.
• 04:13:33 Um,
• 04:13:35 Purification, therefore, is the
• 04:13:38 the Synod of the Silver Flames tool to
• 04:13:43 Excise.
• 04:13:45 That corruption.
• 04:13:47 when it
• 04:13:48 cannot be prevented by other means.
• 04:13:51 Um,
• 04:13:53 I would like to think that it is
• 04:13:56 um,
• 04:13:57 both necessary and as merciful as possible, but I don’t
• 04:14:02 know more.

Iva

• 04:14:05 Hmm.

Temerity

• 04:14:07 I…
• 04:14:11 Ugh.

Hazel

• 04:14:13 Um,

Temerity

• 04:14:18 Okay.
• 04:14:21 Merity size.
• 04:14:22 And it’s like, yeah.
• 04:14:25 I
• 04:14:28 I was expecting an answer like that.
• 04:14:31 Um,

Dungeon Master

• 04:14:33 Not to…
• 04:14:36 not to
• 04:14:37 “To be dismissive, I want to help you,
• 04:14:39 and I will do everything I can
• 04:14:41 and answer everything I can.
• 04:14:42 You went to Argentum to join the Order of the Lantern.
• 04:14:47 Surely you can ask
• 04:14:49 there.

Temerity

• 04:14:51 - Yeah.
• 04:14:53 the ones,
• 04:14:57 I get a bunch of different stories.
• 04:15:03 Some…
• 04:15:05 much more harrowing than others.
• 04:15:09 and realities I
• 04:15:10 would prefer
• 04:15:12 to think don’t exist
• 04:15:14 um,
• 04:15:25 but
• 04:15:26 I haven’t.
• 04:15:28 gotten anything concrete, at least
• 04:15:31 not anything that
• 04:15:33 they’d be willing to tell a recruit.
• 04:15:36 Ah.
• 04:15:38 I see.

Rhysaene

• 04:15:44 I
• 04:15:45 Sorry.

Temerity

• 04:15:46 No.
• 04:15:47 Okay.
• 04:15:48 Just…
• 04:15:52 It’s been troubling me.
• 04:15:53 I suppose.
• 04:15:56 uh,
• 04:15:58 having
• 04:15:59 come and

Hazel

• 04:16:01 closer contact with
• 04:16:05 A mage.
• 04:16:06 Um,
• 04:16:08 And

Temerity

• 04:16:11 being confronted with that side of
• 04:16:17 of the world much sooner than I was expecting and
• 04:16:22 Much more directly than I thought.

Dungeon Master

• 04:16:26 Um, you, you, you had to face a mage and are you all right?
• 04:16:31 Nothing bad happened, right?

Temerity

• 04:16:36 No, nothing.

Hazel

• 04:16:40 Thankfully, nothing bad happened.

Rhysaene

• 04:16:42 and

Temerity

• 04:16:48 Oh, man.
• 04:16:51 Temerity kind of like
• 04:16:53 Thank you.
• 04:16:54 Bites their lip.
• 04:16:55 Almost like.
• 04:16:57 delving a bit more detail than they think they maybe should
• 04:17:02 .
• 04:17:03 Yeah.
• 04:17:03 they’re not really looking at
• 04:17:07 Father Emberthumb because I think they would, they would
• 04:17:10 crack a bit more if they did, uh,
• 04:17:16 but
• 04:17:17 they kind of dismiss it a bit and they’re like, no, yeah,
• 04:17:20 um,
• 04:17:22 Nothing bad happened.
• 04:17:24 I’m okay.
• 04:17:24 My friends are…
• 04:17:26 All right?
• 04:17:27 Ah.
• 04:17:29 And he didn’t.
• 04:17:31 harm anyone
• 04:17:33 or anything.
• 04:17:35 Um,
• 04:17:38 But

Dungeon Master

• 04:17:40 Can I…
• 04:17:41 So I’m a little confused.
• 04:17:44 Are you lying?
• 04:17:46 And if not, what mage are you talking about?

Temerity

• 04:17:49 I’m talking about Brundun.

Dungeon Master

• 04:17:51 Oh, right, right, right.
• 04:17:54 Okay.
• 04:17:54 Okay, gotcha.

Temerity

• 04:17:55 Yeah, I’m talking about Brundun. Although, there’s other
• 04:17:58 mages, but that’s…
• 04:17:59 Yeah, no, no, no, no, that’s totally fair.

Dungeon Master

• 04:18:02 Um,
• 04:18:02 Oh, well, that’s good that no one was harmed.
• 04:18:06 Um,
• 04:18:08 The church is some.
• 04:18:10 Not very forthright about
• 04:18:13 purification.
• 04:18:17 I…
• 04:18:18 Sorry.
• 04:18:19 No, no, no, keep going.
• 04:18:21 you know,
• 04:18:23 Outside of my work for the church, I think my favorite…
• 04:18:27 My favorite little hobby is gardening.
• 04:18:31 Um,
• 04:18:34 Weeds seem innocuous.
• 04:18:38 But if you let them fester in a garden, they will kill it.
• 04:18:42 And we’ll…
• 04:18:43 They will snuff out the life of every other plant.

Unidentified

• 04:18:48 Yeah.

Dungeon Master

• 04:18:50 it would
• 04:18:53 deeply
• 04:18:54 deeply pained me to learn that purification was just a
• 04:18:59 Just a code word for killing.
• 04:19:01 I think that would be…
• 04:19:03 detestable and I think
• 04:19:06 I have to believe that
• 04:19:08 that if
• 04:19:10 such
• 04:19:11 magic is dangerous to our very survival.
• 04:19:15 And it is also true that some people come about it through
• 04:19:18 no fault of their own than we’ve
• 04:19:21 then we’ve…
• 04:19:22 found a better answer than that.
• 04:19:27 It’s
• 04:19:29 is not conceivable to me that that would be the end
• 04:19:32 conclusion any
• 04:19:34 follower of the flame would find.

Temerity

• 04:19:38 -
• 04:19:41 Temerity, it’s like…
• 04:19:45 Slightly relieved.
• 04:19:47 By
• 04:19:48 Father Emberthumb’s words, but also…
• 04:19:52 memories of the high inquisitor come back into their mind
• 04:19:56 and they’re like
• 04:19:58 Uh…
• 04:20:02 Well,
• 04:20:05 um,
• 04:20:06 I…

Hazel

• 04:20:08 understand
• 04:20:10 your metaphor.
• 04:20:12 but the weeds.
• 04:20:13 But.

Temerity

• 04:20:19 Oh, this was a child.

Dungeon Master

• 04:20:21 I…
• 04:20:25 Oh.
• 04:20:27 So, Temerity, I want you to understand my metaphor wasn’t
• 04:20:31 wasn’t people, the people were the weeds.
• 04:20:36 It’s that this corruptive magic is the weeds.
• 04:20:40 It would.
• 04:20:41 Oh, no, I should…
• 04:20:45 You met this child, well, were they…
• 04:20:49 Were they apprehended? Were they purified? What happened?

Temerity

• 04:20:55 Yeah.
• 04:20:58 It’s like Temerity’s quiet for a while.
• 04:21:02 Just kind of like looking at the floor.
• 04:21:06 Uh…
• 04:21:07 Obviously apprehensive to say anything.
• 04:21:11 Um…
• 04:21:12 Taken than that one on any sort of, like, deception to hide
• 04:21:16 their emotions.
• 04:21:18 Uh-huh.
• 04:21:18 As they’re just like…
• 04:21:22 I…
• 04:21:25 Let them.
• 04:21:26 Go.
• 04:21:27 I
• 04:21:32 there.
• 04:21:33 Shit, I forget if I detailed the explosion in the letter.
• 04:21:38 I don’t think I did.
• 04:21:38 - Hello.
• 04:21:39 think so. I don’t. Yeah, I don’t think so.
• 04:21:42 I don’t think so, because I think I meant to talk about it.
• 04:21:45 So yeah, Temerity is like--
• 04:21:50 There was…
• 04:21:55 There was a festival in the city.
• 04:21:59 That was my first duty.
• 04:22:02 uh,
• 04:22:04 at the festival.
• 04:22:06 and
• 04:22:08 unbeknownst to me.
• 04:22:11 Apparently.
• 04:22:13 There was…
• 04:22:15 An operation to.
• 04:22:17 smuggle a child out of the city.
• 04:22:21 um,
• 04:22:22 during the festival and they intended to cause
• 04:22:26 one of the
• 04:22:28 Lamps.
• 04:22:29 the
• 04:22:30 Thank you.
• 04:22:33 one of the lamps in the city to
• 04:22:35 malfunction to cause a distraction
• 04:22:39 and
• 04:22:44 according to
• 04:22:46 to the member of the Tarnar Syndicate that we apprehended
• 04:22:50 It
• 04:22:51 went awry and caused an explosion.
• 04:22:57 We
• 04:22:59 I was then tasked with
• 04:23:02 finding
• 04:23:03 the member responsible.
• 04:23:06 I did.
• 04:23:08 Thank you.
• 04:23:09 but
• 04:23:10 he still had
• 04:23:12 the child in his possession.

Hazel

• 04:23:15 As well as.

Temerity

• 04:23:20 another more
• 04:23:23 menacing pepper.
• 04:23:25 Of the Tarnar syndicate that would not allow me nor.
• 04:23:29 Thank you.
• 04:23:30 my companions at the time to leave.
• 04:23:33 without allowing the child to go.
• 04:23:36 and

Hazel

• 04:23:40 I
• 04:23:42 I couldn’t.
• 04:23:43 I couldn’t bring myself to

Temerity

• 04:23:51 to
• 04:23:53 apprehend him
• 04:23:54 Uhm?

Unidentified

• 04:23:55 Thank you.

Temerity

• 04:23:58 They say--
• 04:24:01 getting kind of a little,
• 04:24:04 tearful,
• 04:24:05 recounting this, just remembering their mind state.
• 04:24:10 remembering…
• 04:24:12 the tension in the room, remembering the thoughts swirling
• 04:24:16 through and not wanting to
• 04:24:18 freeing violence in front of this kid.
• 04:24:27 I
• 04:24:30 Did I do the right thing?

Unidentified

• 04:24:33 Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Dungeon Master

• 04:24:37 GASP
• 04:24:38 - Yeah.
• 04:24:40 Father Emberthumb listens to the entire story.
• 04:24:42 He’s with wrapped…
• 04:24:45 rapt attention.
• 04:24:48 um,
• 04:24:49 He seems.
• 04:24:51 Upset. Almost.
• 04:24:53 by the things you tell him.
• 04:24:56 It certainly seems that…
• 04:24:58 Like, he doesn’t expect this to be…
• 04:25:01 the business of the church, to traumatize a child,
• 04:25:05 The tangled web you describe, he takes a long moment to
• 04:25:11 work through, even after you finish speaking.
• 04:25:16 And finally he says,
• 04:25:20 That sounds quite
• 04:25:22 Like…
• 04:25:24 It was incredibly difficult for you in that moment, but…
• 04:25:29 Temerity, I would never blame you for erring on the side of
• 04:25:33 protecting a child.
• 04:25:35 who you thought might be in danger.
• 04:25:39 I hate.
• 04:25:39 like I said, cannot believe that purification just means
• 04:25:44 murder of children. That is…
• 04:25:47 Abhorrent.
• 04:25:52 But
• 04:25:53 You don’t know, and I don’t know, I can’t…
• 04:25:57 I can’t fault you for not knowing when it is not something
• 04:26:00 I could teach you.
• 04:26:01 And you aired…
• 04:26:03 on the side of protecting a child.
• 04:26:05 that is so like you.
• 04:26:08 Temerity.
• 04:26:10 You…
• 04:26:12 Are.
• 04:26:16 Whatever I know
• 04:26:18 about this world, about
• 04:26:20 the doctrines of the church
• 04:26:22 I know two things.
• 04:26:25 I know
• 04:26:26 that the flame
• 04:26:28 itself
• 04:26:29 provides. It protects us. It keeps us safe from sorrow.
• 04:26:35 and I know that you will do
• 04:26:38 Whatever you think is most right.
• 04:26:45 And it sounds like that is what you did.
• 04:26:47 I think you have a responsibility to find out
• 04:26:53 what purification means.
• 04:26:57 But there’s something else I know
• 04:27:00 Temerity, something I’ve kept
• 04:27:03 to myself, uh,
• 04:27:06 For many years now,
• 04:27:08 I don’t know.
• 04:27:11 You know that I know
• 04:27:13 You are blessed by the Silver Flame.
• 04:27:16 I watched you spring back to life in Silver Fire.
• 04:27:21 Yes.

Temerity

• 04:27:23 20 nods.

Dungeon Master

• 04:27:25 What do you…
• 04:27:26 Don’t know and there’s like
• 04:27:28 - There’s like a nervous… - Oh boy.
• 04:27:30 Yeah, there’s like a nervousness to what he’s saying.
• 04:27:33 What you don’t know is that I knew you were so blessed
• 04:27:38 long before.
• 04:27:41 that moment.
• 04:27:42 I just didn’t know the extent or how until you stood back
• 04:27:47 up.
• 04:27:49 after dying for a loved one.
• 04:27:53 When you appeared on my doorstep, you were not
• 04:27:56 left by
• 04:27:58 any wayward
• 04:28:00 soul who I could detect
• 04:28:03 Not a footprint left behind on
• 04:28:06 wet ground that evening.
• 04:28:12 And a strange light hung in the sky.
• 04:28:16 overhead when I came out that day and found you in your
• 04:28:18 little basket.
• 04:28:22 And a voice
• 04:28:24 uh,
• 04:28:26 rung out at the back of my mind.
• 04:28:29 Um,
• 04:28:32 This is my child.
• 04:28:35 uh,
• 04:28:36 They carry my blessing.
• 04:28:39 They are chosen to wield the light
• 04:28:43 and cater them.
• 04:28:44 protect them.

Rhysaene

• 04:28:51 And they will.
• 04:28:54 save this

Dungeon Master

• 04:28:56 sorrowful world.

Temerity

• 04:29:01 laughter
• 04:29:03 Oh.
• 04:29:05 Temerity’s mouth is a little agape.
• 04:29:11 at this
• 04:29:13 At this revelation.

Dungeon Master

• 04:29:15 And you can’t help of, in that moment, think of that dream.

Temerity

• 04:29:20 - Mm-hmm.

Dungeon Master

• 04:29:24 um,
• 04:29:25 But Father Emberthumb adds, “So,
• 04:29:30 I hope you were wrong.
• 04:29:33 about
• 04:29:34 purification being this evil, but…
• 04:29:39 I know in my heart that
• 04:29:41 you would make the right choice in the moment.
• 04:29:44 And I trust you.
• 04:29:48 Um,
• 04:29:50 to make that choice.
• 04:29:51 If you
• 04:29:57 If you felt it necessary to protect this child from pur
• 04:30:00 ification,
• 04:30:02 Then it must have been necessary. And if you find out
• 04:30:06 otherwise,
• 04:30:06 I know you will change course.
• 04:30:08 But
• 04:30:10 you are drawn to do the right thing, that is how I raised
• 04:30:14 you, and…
• 04:30:15 You are
• 04:30:17 blessed.
• 04:30:18 with and by the light.
• 04:30:21 to wield it, to fight this darkness.
• 04:30:24 um,
• 04:30:26 that I know in my heart.
• 04:30:28 and I trust you to make those choices when they’re hard.
• 04:30:32 You’re a good kid to Temerity, you always have been.

Hazel

• 04:30:42 Thank you.
• 04:30:43 Bye.
• 04:30:43 Bye.

Temerity

• 04:30:48 I,

Hazel

• 04:30:55 I had a dream.
• 04:30:56 the last time we were here.
• 04:30:58 Um,

Temerity

• 04:31:02 and
• 04:31:03 I think maybe.
• 04:31:06 the voice that spoke to me and said dream,
• 04:31:10 a voice
• 04:31:12 emanating from
• 04:31:14 Silvering flame.
• 04:31:16 that

Hazel

• 04:31:19 was

Temerity

• 04:31:20 right outside the Abbey.
• 04:31:22 uh,
• 04:31:24 had to
• 04:31:27 um
• 04:31:28 Ops.
• 04:31:29 Shweep, sorry, going through my notes so I get verbatim.
• 04:31:34 to seek the flame
• 04:31:36 Be the light.
• 04:31:38 I…
• 04:31:40 Had a feeling well
• 04:31:43 always had a feeling that I was different.
• 04:31:46 Amen.
• 04:31:48 especially
• 04:31:48 after.
• 04:31:50 Coming back.

Iva

• 04:31:51 But I think
• 04:31:53 that.

Temerity

• 04:31:56 uh,
• 04:31:58 Maybe that was the same voice that spoke to you.
• 04:32:02 - At night.
• 04:32:03 - Yeah.

Iva

• 04:32:05 It certainly does sound like it.
• 04:32:12 Oh.

Temerity

• 04:32:17 - Community.
• 04:32:20 Take some breath.
• 04:32:23 It stands up.
• 04:32:25 And says…
• 04:32:29 Thank you, Pa.
• 04:32:32 Oh.
• 04:32:33 try and find out more about
• 04:32:36 what the purification is,
• 04:32:38 um,
• 04:32:41 I’ll
• 04:32:43 I’ll try and tell you if I can.
• 04:32:47 Mm-hmm.
• 04:32:49 but
• 04:32:52 I think I just need to get that off my chest to somebody
• 04:32:57 - True.
• 04:32:59 I trusted.
• 04:33:00 Thank you.

Dungeon Master

• 04:33:02 - Yes, of course, you are more than welcome
• 04:33:05 to talk to me about anything, anytime.
• 04:33:08 I cannot promise to have all the answers you,
• 04:33:12 I think tonight learned that I do not.
• 04:33:15 But I will…
• 04:33:16 I will do everything I can to help you.

Temerity

• 04:33:21 Temerity smiles and
• 04:33:23 And kind of gets down to one knee to hug father under them.
• 04:33:29 It doesn’t pick him up this time.

Dungeon Master

• 04:33:31 He pats you on the, like…
• 04:33:34 the side, the back side of your arm,
• 04:33:36 because it’s all the way around your, like,
• 04:33:39 your, like, width he can reach.

Temerity

• 04:33:41 Hee hee hee hee.
• 04:33:45 Ah…
• 04:33:47 Well,
• 04:33:49 I’ll
• 04:33:49 and let you get some rest.
• 04:33:52 You get some rest as well.
• 04:33:54 -
• 04:33:55 I shall. Thank you.
• 04:33:57 Good night, Pa.

Dungeon Master

• 04:33:59 Good night, Temerity.
• 04:34:02 And to marry, you will go outside.
• 04:34:04 sweep in the abbey.
• 04:34:06 Keep in the Abbey what the rest of you were doing while
• 04:34:09 this was happening.

Temerity

• 04:34:13 Um…

Hazel

• 04:34:15 He was chilling, I think.
• 04:34:17 Yeah, chilling.
• 04:34:18 I think gossiping.

Temerity

• 04:34:19 Slipping.

Hazel

• 04:34:21 Hazel probably…
• 04:34:23 lamented on the conversation
• 04:34:25 bet she had with a
• 04:34:27 she had with Temerity and said,
• 04:34:28 I think Temerity might kill themselves.
• 04:34:32 And then little do they know,
• 04:34:34 they’re like understanding the like…
• 04:34:38 Little do they know they’re having the most, like,
• 04:34:41 Temerity’s in the other room having the most, like, divine f
• 04:34:44 ervor.
• 04:34:45 Like, I’m definitely going to die in a blaze of glory.

Dungeon Master

• 04:34:53 Hazel, guys, I think Temerity might kill themselves.
• 04:34:57 They’ve, like, fumbled the baddie.
• 04:34:59 Oh, it’s so bad.
• 04:35:01 Meanwhile, Temerity, you are Jesus.
• 04:35:04 You are Jesus.

Hazel

• 04:35:05 I’m more like, I think Temerity’s going to kill themselves
• 04:35:11 because they can’t, like, deal with the fact that they’re
• 04:35:15 just a person.
• 04:35:16 Like they’re going to kill themselves on like the biggest
• 04:35:20 Sorrowsworn creature they can find because they’re going
• 04:35:22 to try to save the world.

Dungeon Master

• 04:35:23 No, I can’t believe how many opportunities I get to just,
• 04:35:28 as you guys slowly try to de-radicalize, not about like
• 04:35:33 doctrine, but about the like, you are just a little magic.
• 04:35:36 You are not chosen.
• 04:35:38 Me, you are chosen.
• 04:35:40 God has spoken not just to you, but to your adopted dad.

Temerity

• 04:35:46 And to the authority figure on your religion for your

Hazel

• 04:35:51 entire life.

Temerity

• 04:35:52 Dr. Temerity is like,
• 04:35:55 Not just like, oh, I’m picked by the Silver Flame.
• 04:35:58 I am a child of the Silver Flame.

Hazel

• 04:36:02 Wow, we’re all children of the Silver Flame?

Dungeon Master

• 04:36:05 We’re all children of the Silver Flame.
• 04:36:07 We’re all children of Bahamut.
• 04:36:08 Like equally, Bahamut loves all of us.
• 04:36:11 You too.
• 04:36:13 Is there anything else anyone would like to do before we
• 04:36:16 long rest and conclude?

Rhysaene

• 04:36:19 That’s why I got nothing.

Dungeon Master

• 04:36:21 Yeah, nothing from Hazel.
• 04:36:24 I’m good.

Temerity

• 04:36:26 Good.
• 04:36:27 I’m good.
• 04:36:27 He’s going to try and get up early to catch Eliza before
• 04:36:31 she sneaks off somewhere.

Dungeon Master

• 04:36:32 We will have to do that next session, unfortunately.
• 04:36:35 Yep.
• 04:36:35 This session, there is one final thing.
• 04:36:37 Hazel Luma
• 04:36:40 Rhys.
• 04:36:41 Would one of you like an ominous dream?

Rhysaene

• 04:36:45 I’ll take it.

Dungeon Master

• 04:36:47 Ho, ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha!

Unidentified

• 04:36:49 Ha ha ha!

Luma

• 04:36:52 Holy shit.
• 04:36:53 The evil laugh.
• 04:36:55 Uh-huh.

Dungeon Master

• 04:36:58 Um,
• 04:36:59 Rhys?

Hazel

• 04:37:02 you dream

Dungeon Master

• 04:37:07 of
• 04:37:08 an open field.
• 04:37:11 the fields of
• 04:37:13 The Silver Vale.
• 04:37:14 Undaunted, unblemished by…
• 04:37:17 farmhouses and tilled earth and
• 04:37:20 um,
• 04:37:21 City walls.
• 04:37:24 You dream of a time before anyone you can remember can
• 04:37:29 remember knowing someone who can remember.
• 04:37:33 what this place must have been like.
• 04:37:36 um,
• 04:37:38 Before anyone’s settled it, it has to be…
• 04:37:42 well before the Starfall,
• 04:37:45 But like…
• 04:37:47 thousands and thousands of years ago, maybe.
• 04:37:51 You don’t know, but what you know is the
• 04:37:53 That the land is thick with trees and scattered all across
• 04:37:58 these plains and wildflowers everywhere.
• 04:38:02 and
• 04:38:04 Your herd.
• 04:38:06 Not your herd, because you didn’t grow up knowing most-
• 04:38:09 many, like, most of the centaurs who, like,
• 04:38:13 preceded you, but you feel that these are your people.
• 04:38:18 dancing through these fields
• 04:38:21 Um,
• 04:38:22 back and forth between
• 04:38:25 Um,
• 04:38:27 between the trees and these glades and, like,
• 04:38:29 It’s almost unrecognizable how much life is flourishing,
• 04:38:33 even in the Silver Vale where life
• 04:38:35 We’re the only place that you know that life can flourish.
• 04:38:39 Um,
• 04:38:39 The comparison is night and day.
• 04:38:42 Um,
• 04:38:45 And as you kind of observe as almost like a third party
• 04:38:51 Um,
• 04:38:55 as
• 04:38:57 it all kind of crumbles and fades away and walls and farm
• 04:39:02 land and people and
• 04:39:05 and like silhouettes of people marching in
• 04:39:09 and digging out the ground
• 04:39:12 and building and building a wall and
• 04:39:15 carving this moat that redirects the river
• 04:39:18 Um,
• 04:39:20 into like this thing that surrounds the wall.
• 04:39:23 And these silhouettes
• 04:39:25 are
• 04:39:27 They share a common feature
• 04:39:30 Um,
• 04:39:31 They’re humanoid. They’re all
• 04:39:33 Short and stocky.
• 04:39:35 and very clearly dwarves mine the earth and build the walls
• 04:39:41 and
• 04:39:41 Um,
• 04:39:42 and redirect the moat and wars happen
• 04:39:46 and time passes in the blink of an eye.
• 04:39:50 Um,
• 04:39:52 as this
• 04:39:53 kind of like living memory of the earth beneath your feet
• 04:39:57 kind of slips into your dream.
• 04:40:00 Um,
• 04:40:03 And you have this dream.
• 04:40:05 And it’s this, I don’t know, it’s this like ancient kind of
• 04:40:08 like feeling of connection with the land and, and
• 04:40:12 It must be like the fey spirit within you.
• 04:40:17 And then
• 04:40:19 Something shifts.
• 04:40:21 in your mind.
• 04:40:23 And the connection snaps.
• 04:40:27 ripped away from you in an instant.
• 04:40:29 as
• 04:40:31 A wave of.
• 04:40:32 Okay.
• 04:40:33 deep crimson fire wraps over the land and burns it all away
• 04:40:39 .
• 04:40:39 But what’s left in its wake isn’t destruction,
• 04:40:42 It’s…
• 04:40:44 um,
• 04:40:45 It’s luxury, it’s lavish.
• 04:40:48 You’re not in a field anymore, you’re in,
• 04:40:51 Um,
• 04:40:53 You’re in a large room, like a parlor, there’s luxurious
• 04:40:58 couches, there’s plates with grapes, there’s…
• 04:41:02 beautiful men and women in scantily dressed clothing, um,
• 04:41:07 eating grapes, feeding each other grapes,
• 04:41:10 and standing in the center of the room is a beautiful,
• 04:41:15 uh,
• 04:41:18 No, sorry, you don’t see…
• 04:41:20 You are standing in the center of the room.
• 04:41:22 You’re surrounded by all this beauty, all this luxury, all
• 04:41:26 this indulgence,
• 04:41:27 and you are in the center of the room, and you’re drawing,
• 04:41:31 painting someone.
• 04:41:33 and you are painting a beautiful silver-haired woman
• 04:41:38 whose upper body kind of
• 04:41:41 comes down
• 04:41:42 to the torso and then expands out into this beautiful equ
• 04:41:46 estrian
• 04:41:46 um,
• 04:41:48 form, you’re painting yourself.
• 04:41:51 And as you’re painting yourself, you glance up
• 04:41:54 And you look and you look at yourself lying on this couch.
• 04:41:58 as you are painting yourself.
• 04:42:00 And the you on the couch smiles
• 04:42:03 And a voice that
• 04:42:05 comes from you but isn’t your own like honey says
• 04:42:09 You can’t move until I’m done. You’re going to ruin it,
• 04:42:12 love.
• 04:42:13 Um,
• 04:42:15 And then there’s a flash, a crack.
• 04:42:17 wood shattering, the door bursting off the hinges,
• 04:42:21 the people in the room are screaming and run out,
• 04:42:24 and you hear them running into the halls,
• 04:42:26 you hear the clank of armor, you hear metal,
• 04:42:29 you hear a rush of footsteps.
• 04:42:32 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, someone runs in the room.
• 04:42:36 you turn away from the the yourself you watch as you watch
• 04:42:40 yourself cower on the couch
• 04:42:42 and you turn around to see someone running at you their
• 04:42:46 figure
• 04:42:46 Huge for, like, not huge because, like, it’s D&D and
• 04:42:50 everyone in this party is fucking huge.
• 04:42:52 But someone tall by normal standards, muscular, broad,
• 04:42:57 armored, shield in one hand, hammer in the other…
• 04:43:01 BOOM! You dodge out of the way just in time to watch the
• 04:43:04 wall crack open behind you.
• 04:43:06 You.
• 04:43:08 ready yourself with lightning speed.
• 04:43:12 As they swing again, you catch the hammer,
• 04:43:15 almost effortlessly, or so you expected.
• 04:43:18 But it’s not effortless.
• 04:43:20 You hear your left hand crack
• 04:43:22 as the force of the hammer blow you stopped
• 04:43:25 is much stronger than you expected it to be.
• 04:43:27 And you pull back.
• 04:43:29 You lash out with your long fingernails,
• 04:43:33 putting a cut across your attacker’s eye,
• 04:43:38 blood dripping down their face.
• 04:43:40 They swing again.
• 04:43:41 Boom!
• 04:43:42 You dodge barely.
• 04:43:44 Each movement…
• 04:43:46 Between you and this person carries…
• 04:43:48 Um,
• 04:43:49 like strange weight.
• 04:43:51 that you’ve never known.
• 04:43:53 Your dainty,
• 04:43:55 Hands with their long painted nails.
• 04:43:58 hit stone wall and rip through it.
• 04:44:01 The person you’re fighting,
• 04:44:04 punches and shatters the same kind of wall
• 04:44:08 There’s so much weight in this fight that shouldn’t be
• 04:44:11 there.
• 04:44:11 And then another flash.
• 04:44:13 and the room is dark.
• 04:44:15 and you are
• 04:44:18 looking through a red tinted lens and,
• 04:44:21 Um,
• 04:44:22 There’s talking out in the hall,
• 04:44:24 but you can’t understand it.
• 04:44:26 Your ears are ringing.
• 04:44:28 Um,
• 04:44:30 And, uh,
• 04:44:32 you hear more footsteps, a lot more footsteps.
• 04:44:35 You see standing in the doorway,
• 04:44:38 an older man next to this younger figure,
• 04:44:41 the figure you had just been fighting,
• 04:44:44 as your vision blurs, he turns and says something,
• 04:44:49 He pats the other figure on the shoulder there talking.
• 04:44:52 You look over and cowering on the couch is that other you,
• 04:44:56 the one who was being painted, cowering, afraid for her
• 04:45:00 life.
• 04:45:02 She’s wounded in several places and you crawl over to her.
• 04:45:06 You feel your bones still broken in every part of your body
• 04:45:12 .
• 04:45:12 you crawl over to her
• 04:45:14 and you look at her and you can’t even talk,
• 04:45:17 your lungs are collapsed.
• 04:45:19 So you just mouth I’m sorry about
• 04:45:21 I’m sorry, you
• 04:45:24 Take your hand, look down at your chest,
• 04:45:28 uh, reach into it.
• 04:45:30 not
• 04:45:31 not
• 04:45:33 not metaphorically,
• 04:45:35 not like
• 04:45:36 Not like a ghost.
• 04:45:38 you rip through already damaged flesh and pull your own
• 04:45:43 heart out.
• 04:45:44 plunge it into this other you and she vanishes before you
• 04:45:49 black out.
• 04:45:54 one final
• 04:45:55 Shift.
• 04:45:58 you’re kind of pulled back.
• 04:46:00 away from everything.
• 04:46:02 You just see the city below you.
• 04:46:04 You’re like hovering up above it.
• 04:46:07 Almost.
• 04:46:09 um,
• 04:46:13 and you can kind of see down
• 04:46:16 Uh, down in the cathedral of the silver flames, silver
• 04:46:19 lights spilling through the stained glass windows.
• 04:46:22 You’ve never been to the cathedral.
• 04:46:24 You, uh, you never felt the need to go there.
• 04:46:28 Um,
• 04:46:29 In the past and in more recent years, you felt it would be
• 04:46:32 a terrible idea.
• 04:46:34 but you look down at the cathedral as the silver light
• 04:46:38 is pouring out of it.
• 04:46:40 And then the light goes out.
• 04:46:44 And then the cathedral explodes in a flash of blinding
• 04:46:47 white that consumes the rest of your vision and wakes you
• 04:46:51 up.
• 04:46:54 And that is where we will end this session.

Temerity

• 04:46:58 Cool.
• 04:46:59 Thank you.
• 04:47:00 Oh, boy.