The Beat of Change

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And the always sweaty and flatulent Susan. Thanks, Jason. I'm glad we clarified this. After six years, I had to clarify how long I've been here. It's just time to come clean. It's a new year, new us. We're all a little sweaty and flatulent. I feel really good about this. No, I'm just fanning it. Yeah, just about the thing. Not cleaning herself. Just about the... I don't think Susan was ever ashamed of it. She's always been living in her truth. Like, here I am, take me or leave me. Anybody who came to Dragon Con 2019. Like, you know. That's why I had to scrap a lot of the footage from us in the car.

It's just garbled audio. No, for real, I'm Susan. James could verify. I asked him at one point during Dragon Con, "How sweaty am I?" And he was like, "I'm not going to tell you." I was like, "OK." And I play Hiyana, Elri the Quar-artister. Here's the thing. Best intro ever. Every single one of us leaned over to one of the cast at one point. It was like, "Hey, how sweaty am I?" And if you didn't, you're lying right now. I didn't have to ask because I'm here. But there's always that "Is it as bad as I think it is?" There was a woman behind me at the restaurant who just went, "Ugh." And I knew she was doing that to me.

I'll never forget. I think we were walking back from the Coke park or whatever. And there was a dude in full plate armor walking in the Georgia sun. And we were like... He's down. And his face was in pain. He was not comfortable and sweating. And we were like, "Are you OK, sir?" And he was like, "Yeah, I'm good. I'm good." Clang, clang, clang. Oh no. Get me a Slurpee. That sounds miserable. Just one Coke and coffee, please. Oh no. Take me over and call me out. Last time, you guys got to what you feel is the source of this drumming. Which, I mean, that's pretty quick, right?

So we're basically done this campaign. No complications. No... No mussing around with, you know, new problems. It's just, "Fix this. Go home." Yeah, let's turn around. We found it. It's right here? Yeah, that's all technically. We didn't say we were going to do anything about it, right? Did we? I don't know. I thought we would take notes. I mean, it is a little dickish to find out where the car alarm's going off, but then not stop it. It's like, "There it is." Well, let's just go up to the door and I'll just knock on it a few times, turn around, take Toby's home, and we walk away.

Can we take down the license plate number? So there is this massive bridge that stretches out in front of you. And when I say massive, I kind of gave you a bit of scale at the end of our last sitting. But this thing is probably a bit... about a football field and a half, somewhere in there. So we're talking like 450 feet. Like, it's huge. Now, in front of the bridge on the other side, you're going to see this huge complex, this big stone complex. Now, obviously, a lot of this is covered in snow and ice, but you're going to notice two things about it right away.

One, it's not shaped like a regular building that you see most of the time. And maybe it's built to withstand wind and weather and stuff, but it's kind of curved back a little bit, almost like a partial dome. And it doesn't appear to have any windows, nothing that would look out from the inside of it. And the two huge double doors at the end of the bridge leading into this place are ajar. And you're seeing total blackness inside. Can I do a history check to see if I could discern who made this or if I have any knowledge of the architecture? Like, oh, this is Gothic or mid-century modern, you know?

Like, you know, that kind of thing. Is this a mid-century modern structure, Jason? It's more 80s McMansion. Like, there's cocaine cut up on credit cards all over the fucking place. Oh, so cocaine, not the heroin from the mid 90s. No, no, no, no. This isn't a sad party. It's a happy party. And there's one dude just hitting a fucking drum over and over again. Wait, that sounds like a meth party. It's a music festival. It's a music festival. Yeah, there we go. Just weed. So I'm not necessarily trying to discern who made this, but if I could just like... Just any mention, any references, any like...

Yeah. Do me a favor. Give me a history check, please. That's not like my best one, but I'm the one who threw that out there. You are the one who provoked it, so... Eh, 13. I would say that you don't remember any specific mentions of a building like this. That being said, there's a lot of lost buildings and architecture up here just because of the way the area is. There's no real roads connecting anything. It's very largely uninhabitable for most people. And you get the sense that there's probably a lot of buried stuff. Maybe the weather used to be different on this continent.

Maybe there's a race that died out that lived here and they were better suited to the climate. Piggybacking off of that, knowing that there are structures here, that it's kind of like if we were traveling through the desert, we would know... Probably the structures were made by this person, or this race, or this culture. This structure was probably created by... This doesn't look familiar construction-wise at all. Okay. It's not like you can... The dwarves usually build hard angles and stuff, like 90 degree stuff, but it's pretty 90 degree stuff. The elves are a little more flowery with their architecture.

The Githserai are very regimented concrete jungle, "This is how it should be because it's the most efficient" type of thing. You're running through your... Let's say you have a coffee table book of the various races in Theria and how they build shit. That's what it's called. How they build shit. Is that the next book we're gonna... You know what? Stretch goal. Let's go. And you're running through your head. It's like, "God, none of this seems familiar." Especially the no windows thing. That's a little... It's gotta be pitch black inside. It's gotta be... Okay.

Can we see the whole thing? Is it... I know it's big, but is it set into mountains or buried by snow or anything? Or is it just sort of like we're on this tundra and then there's this structure over this frozen lake area? It almost looks like it was plunked down SimCity style, almost in the middle of nowhere. A lot of people take advantage of the mountains. They take advantage of the various natural resources. And this just looks like it was plunked down in the middle of this place. And to be honest, it's probably hitting you as a little strange that no one has spotted this before.

Because it's not that far away from where a big city is. It should have been spotted. Someone from Sant should have been probably able to see this at some point. So we're right at the end of the bridge then? The other end? From this conflict? Is there anything on the bridge that may identify it? Text, carvings, anything like that? Give me a perception check, please. Oh, that's good. SimCity. Alright. I would say the construction very much matches what this building's about. Whoever built this, built the structure, definitely built this bridge too. There are sculptures lining either side of this.

No notations or text, but definitely it looks like there is a sculpture for each one of the gods. Of the current Partisanar gods? The current set, yes. I take it that we're all standing at the crest of this hill looking down on all of this. Just stop for a second before we move. And after some sort of moment of silence, the Eggman is just going to ready up as if he's going into combat. And then walking down, be like, "Well, gotta go sometime." Just start walking down. Does the bridge look safe? Oh, super safe. Very, very, very sturdy. Like James in real life would give this an A.

These are things I think about. I know. Can I go underneath and check it out? You can, but it's very cold. There's a lake. I don't do that here when it's cold, so forget it. Let it collapse, it's fine. Dude, I have nightmares about that stuff. Oh my god. Can James just materialize in this universe and inspect this bridge to make sure it's A-OK? I cast Canadian Infrastructure Inspector. You know everybody, it's Rhys. And then we would just... Hang on, before Eggman goes, I stop him. I go, "Hang on, Eggman." And I turn to Jelena and I'm like, the beating, the sound.

I think it might be some kind of code, like maybe a message or something. Me and my brother, we used to do this thing, we would tap on each other's bed, you know, when we were trying to talk to each other, keep quiet so that our parents didn't have a little secret conversation. That's what it makes me think of anyways. But I can't think of what a message would be coming out of this. Obviously the biggest message would be a warning. Did you perchance happen to take down the sequence? Maybe long, short, or... Because, besides that, I am very impressed with you taking that down.

But was it long, short, or... Yeah, I think I did. I tried to just listen between the intervals of what was going on between the beats, you know? Sometimes that's what you have to do. If you're listening to music, you don't listen for the notes, you listen in between the notes, you know? And that's how you can get tempo and everything. But, yeah, I don't know if it's much of cracking a code or if it's even the same thing that we heard before or that the people heard before. But, yeah, and he takes out his journal and shows her and it's like... Yeah, it's basically like dot dot dash, dot dot dash, whatever that is.

And I'm sure Joln is actually familiar with some sort of Morse or whatever is on Varia. As you guys are discussing, a couple of things are going to happen. One, those drums are going to go off again. Joln is going to have her journal out. I grab my journal out of my hand. These things are deafening, right? They are. You're right at the epicenter and you're going to notice that all along the doorway are these ripples, like this vibration coming out. Almost like the doorway itself is lined with speakers, giant concert speakers, and they're just... And while that's happening, you're going to notice light coming from the inside just flashing, just like this red strobing light from the inside.

Every time the drums go off, just boom, boom, boom, that type of thing. Jason, I appreciate you. For the listeners at home and people not watching the video, Jason's lights are flashing right now. I invested way too much time and effort putting LEDs everywhere. It is very much appreciated. It is worth every penny. I have never appreciated you this much. Well, I can compare it to when I was asking how much tread was on the tires in the New Blood episode. And you had an answer for me. Okay. I think when Corvus is talking about recording the beats and trying to find the patterns and that, I think Guice would kind of take a cue from that.

And he's going to do this thing he does, whether it works or not, who knows. But he's going to get down on the ground and try to listen to the planet and see if he's going to get a message from it about what's going on right now. And I don't know what he would do. I guess give me a nature check. Give me like a let me see how in tune you are with things. While you're at it, everyone is trying to like pay attention to this. Jegman's covering his ears. I don't blame him. You're so. Does he stop? Jegman, stop. I don't. That's a five. He breaks his back on the way down.

I feel like you're getting the sense it's like, well, this isn't like a natural thing, like you're not getting the sense it's like this is coming from some sort of like a spirit well or something like that. This is definitely created like someone made this. And Jelena is going to take down the rhythm of it and compare it to her knowledge of whatever the equivalent of Morse code is like SOS is what long, short, long, short, something like that. Long, long, long, short, short, short. I think it's thank you. Oh, man. I'd be thinking about scouts of America.

That's the thing. I was like, Girl Scouts. So I OK, let's do this. So everyone's hearing this. It's so good. Oh, no, I was actually looking at your lights trying to figure out if it was SOS because that's the only worse. Good. I was like. Too fast. It's yeah, it's too fit. You know what? Let's do you have a set pattern there, though? I could do all kinds of stuff. You're like a party right now. Oh, no, you're in a rave. Yeah, I see. My first thought was, oh, no, the police. There we go. Oh, there we go. That's a little better. Like a ship. So. After I'd say 30, 40 seconds, this drumming is going to kind of become distorted a bit.

And then kind of peter off like it's just stopping like like someone punched a speaker in or something like that. It's trying to like do its thing, but it's it's just kind of fading. Is it the same? So like after the initial blast, we like cover our ears curves like covers his ears. But he's like trying to write down the pattern. Is it the same as the pattern that he wrote down previously or is it different? It's it's it's exactly the same. I would imagine it sounds a little different because you're right up on it. So it's probably it probably sounds a little bassier and distorted and like, you know, like someone screwed with a like an equalizer.

But definitely the same the same cadence, same beat, same tempo, just. Yeah. So this structure at the other side of the bridge, you said was kind of like a half a dome. Kind of like it's it's like a big, chunky building. It's it's sort of round. And then over top of it, if you're walking toward the bridge, there's like a half dome going back, almost like dragon scales type of thing. Like it's like it it's almost like the building. Like an opera house or something like it was just building could be amplifying the drum sound in to our drum. In our direction.

It could be. Yeah. So Jolná is going to turn to Corvus because he's the one who was talking about the cadence and then say to him. Yes, I could definitely see that there is a pattern to this beating. Now that you have pointed it out again. Thank you. I'm surprised my my people have not noticed this. But I have two thoughts on what it could mean. Usually codes are used for either, as you have stated, danger or this could be a call for help. And the matter of repetition and how loud the noise is, as I could attest to the ringing in my ears. Am I speaking too loud?

This could be a call for help. What? What was that? Yeah, Corvus like nods and like, yeah, I suppose that makes sense. I don't know why a place that has, you know, sculptures that the gods would would have would be broadcasting a warning like stay away. Usually, you know, the gods are welcoming. Come come in, you know, come to us. Well, I say we just get in before it happens again. I don't want to be in that when the drum goes off. What? I need to get to those doors before the drumming starts again. What? He's going to pick up his fear and just kind of like motion forward and start like taking a few steps back of like, follow me.

Almost going to start picking at her ear like, Oh God, what do we have in our adventuring packs that we could shove in our ears? Oh, really? I mean, we have a bunch of fur. We have the skin. Guys is going to grab whatever he can and he's going to just shove them in his ears and he's going to just look at everyone like you should probably do this to you want a big honking ass bomb. I'll put one of those ticks in my ears. So if you're walking across this bridge. The snow has started to kind of subside around here. Like, it's definitely not like blizzard warning type of stuff anymore.

This is a this is a really kind of pardon the expression of chill time for the weather. Like it's not it's not too bad. There is a there is a big gust every once in a while that'll hit you. So you'll see snow kind of gently falling in kind of like a 45 degree angle and then all of a sudden boom. Like you'll you'll see it take off as you're walking across this bridge. There's nothing to kind of shield you from that. So you'll definitely you'll definitely feel it like, Whoa, OK. You have to steady yourself. But this bridge is super wide. So it's not like you're in danger of being pushed off.

It's more just like, wow, OK. I really feel it around the middle of, you know, nothing. When you get to the other side, you're really going to see the scope of this place. Those doors are a good 15 feet tall. They are massive. And again, that light is kind of flickering on the inside and just about the time that the drumming completely stopped, the light dies on the inside, too. So I don't know if you guys want to light up torches or just just jump on in. I don't know. I have a question. Sure. Just about quar because I don't know what natural provisions they have.

They don't have dark vision. OK. They're one of two races who don't have dark vision. Well, I added this to the thing just because I'm six foot seven. I added an extra five feet of movement. Is that because I have long, spindly limbs? OK, that's fine. But OK, that was a do I have a cold resistance or anything? No. OK. This is a terrible place for the quarter. It's almost like it was randomly decided. It was just it's not fair. Wow, Jason. But they're dealing with it. They are. They're they're they're industrious. And they're not complaining. Ryan, what did you just roll?

So was that Yegman figuring out if he's going to go in or not without. Yes, that was Yegman figuring out if he's going to do something. So we get across to the other side, like just in front of the doors. He's like, look up, because he's like three five. This is just giant to him. And as everybody else is probably contemplating, like, OK, well, we have a couple of options that we could do here. He's just going to go, hello, and just start screaming to see if anybody's there. And then he's going to take like the edge of the spear and just kind of like knock on the door a couple of times.

So when you shout into the structure, you're really going to hear that reverberation, that bounce back, that echo. And on the inside of this building, probably 35 feet away from you, somewhere in there, a single light little spotlight is going to come on. And then another and another is this ring gets wider. And you're going to see this huge round room just on the other side of these doors. With that same illumination you saw that just like flickering, but it's a little steadier now, it seemed to react to your voice. OK, so knowing that and turn around to the rest of the group and just kind of like use the spear again, because he's still like ready to fight.

He still has a weapon in each hand. He's going to take the spear and kind of point in and be like, well, never know. And then turns around and starts walking. Now he's going to walk in cautiously and still kind of up in arms just in case. But kind of, you know, without hesitation, he's just going to start walking in. Ken? I feel like Vella would be right behind him, but like stealthily. Yeah. Give me a stealth check. Vella is the one that's probably face palmed when he just started to scream. Oh, she did. I was like, oh, no. If she wasn't right next to you, like I don't think she would have been right next to Yegman because otherwise she would have been like clapping her hands over your mouth.

He's kind of naturally like the loud person. So I love him. Crack a torch. Find the depiction of the Raven Queen up on there. Just like do a little nod, do a little touch to the brow and follow Yegman in. Can I get a perception check from everybody in here? Oh, 26. Oh, yeah, we're going to go with that 26 real quick. So I think Yegman and Corvus are going to notice this, too, but definitely Gaius is going to be the first one to pick up on it. So when you walk into this room, there are several of these almost like pedestals or podiums type of thing. And they're they're the same sculptures set up that were outside.

But you'll notice some of them have been just smashed. The doors look like they've been smashed from the inside, like someone really something walloped these hard. And it looks like they were busted out from the inside a bit. And there's a single switch, like a lever on the far side of the wall. As you walk in, it is the only switch that you can see. And everything else seems to be, for lack of a better term, calm as you walk in. Just again, the soft lights, no drumming or anything yet. But yeah. Looks like something tried to break out of here. I don't like this.

Is the is the Raven Queen statue all busted up? Here's what we're going to do. Could each one of you roll a d20, please? So the only ones not busted up are the statues of Melora, Alverine and Vecna. Corvus goes over to the remains of the the Raven Queen statue and just sort of like picks up the biggest pieces he can and just like fruitlessly puts it back on the pedestal a little bit of the Raven Queen. Just like scooping up a little bit. Does it seem that these three have been like, are they spotless? Are they still like banged up a little bit but still standing?

Like, does it seem like they were intentionally left alone? Or was it they just weren't a victim to whatever this whatever happened? Everything seems to be damaged a little, like an ear will be chipped or you know, something like that. They just didn't get it as bad as the other ones. But if you look at where the damage is concentrated, it's these these sculptures and the door mostly. It doesn't look like whatever it was was this huge beast on the loose necessarily. This looks kind of targeted. Does the door look like it's damaged from the inside or the outside?

Inside, definitely. And the door is open. Open to the outside, right? Yep. So something may have burst out from the doors. What's this room lead to? Or is it just like, does it lead further into anywhere like a sort of a foyer or something? Or is it just like, it doesn't? You're not seeing any hallways or doorways right off the bat. But the way this place is built, it could just be slightly hidden or just not not the way you're used to seeing doorways. But there's a lever on the wall. There is a lever on the wall. Does there look like there are tracks? And I'm going to two part this in this snow because there's snow or like talons dug into the stone.

You know, like something. Give me a little survival check. OK. Not fast check, but again, I did this to myself. Nine. I will tell you, there are no talons dug into the into the doors or walls or anything like that. None of these carving statues. None of those look like they've been sliced up or, you know, it looks blunt. It looks like like a weapon. At least see you all in those eyes. Right. Yeah, it definitely looks. Yeah, like some implement some tool or something did this. You're not going to. Here's the thing with a nine. I don't think you're going to remember any other tracks, you know, but they could have went in another direction if that is what happened.

Like, who knows? They could have been covered up by now. Also true. It snows a lot. So there's no there's no roof where we are in. Oh, there's a roof. But there's snow just that came in through the door. Yes. Is there a lot of snow? I'd say. I'd say there is a decent amount, like you could see, like almost a cone of cold where the door was cracked open, like you can definitely. Yeah, it's that very light powdery snow that kind of whisks around everywhere. So you almost going to turn to the group. It looks as if something has escaped. Or I would say so, but I don't know, I've broken free.

I don't see any tracks. It was going to like not one of the stones that was a part of like the God statue was just like one of the other snow or stones or like a puff of snow or something that's kind of piled up. He's going to kind of like kick that be like there's no drum. You almost going to tilt your head. Perhaps it is inside. Maybe the whole thing is a drum. Perhaps that creature was going crazy and had to get out of here. But that sound persists. And we saw that this door was open, and the sound went on. Wait a minute. He's going to point over to Corvus.

You said a warning. What if it's a warning that something got out? If it didn't happen before something left. This is an alarm. Why would it stop? Why would it have, I mean there's about a day, I don't have the exact timing, but at least about a day from when we heard this last to right now, why would it only go for a little bit and then end if it was something urgent? He's going to like motion around him be like, but on the scale of the gods. A day is not. And perhaps the magic sustaining the noise can only last so long. You think this has been going on a long time.

I don't mean in terms of how long whatever was in here, escaped or freed itself. I mean, how long the drumming can sustain. I think further investigation inside would result in more knowledge. So do we want to pull that thing. Yeah, we we are inside there's there's nowhere else to go. I thought we were right outside the door. You're yeah you're inside but it's like a. It's like a mudroom of sorts for a temple. Okay, so we're not like in in we're just like, oh, I'm in brushing off just brushing on her shoes. Ian's been in like yeah I picked that picked up the statue I was putting out.

Yeah. Kid Bella kind of like, or I don't want to say, like check kind of the area like for traps like maybe associated with that lever. Yeah, sure. Something just like, like see if there's like, like spike holes or something in the right or or yeah yeah yeah yeah or something. Okay, give me a perception check just just checking around here. Okay. Perception is not migrating 12 terrible but so as damaged as this place is, you're not seeing. You're not seeing any of the, the telltale signs of traps right gaps in the floor holes in the walls, you're checking above your head to see if there's like a cartoonish chandelier that's going to drop if you know, nothing like that.

It. Honestly, it doesn't look like there's anything to protect in this room necessarily. If I remember from last episode y'all know did an arcana outside and then there was like, this was the definite source but it was just kind of like a stop. Once we got in front of it. Now that we're inside of it, can I do an arcana. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Anybody else to me. That's not, that's not really my bag and I think I mean, I could roll it to. I feel like these are things that we would just do instinctively anyway yeah like there's magic in the air. Let's break out in the song and dance magic in the They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line.

Fun fact we just got sued. That was a cease and desist, I just got it. I'm not doing this with the lights, like that's not, I felt it in my bones like. So, okay, we got our arcana is 18, 19, these are good. These are good things. You're getting a big time vibe from this place there is a lot of magic, like It's like asking for a drink of water and someone opens a fucking fire hose, like, it is a lot. It's it's in everything here the walls the floors the ceilings this specifically these statues. I'm like trying to recreate the Ravenstone, or the Raven Queen.

Yeah, just like falls apart. Yeah, everyone's gonna walk over to that lever. Of course she is. Go on. I've been waiting for you to pull it. Yeah, I'm surprised it's taken you this long. I was waiting for everybody to like finish their observations as he's just gonna be like, there is like he's already pointed out one. Yeah. I just thought of this is like a chamber where the gods were their true forms are kept. During. Nevermind. Like a weird liminal space kind of thing. We're in the seal now. That's this is storage. This was. Yeah, you're on one of those shows where you bid on the storage lockers.

By the way, real quick. Now that side. This chamber. What's giving off the light. Is it just like a magical glowing that's there that is in the ceiling. You can see that there are multiple multiple stones that can change color and illumination, basically, like they could shift lumens and like they, they can go very dim they can be like that it's almost a siren like when it was when it was going off so this like every bit of this place, you're getting a vibe it's like Okay, like that's even for the choir it's like, okay, how'd you do that, that's cool like I want to do that, like that type of thing.

Are there any. Is there any like, like flipping clock that flips to hieroglyphs and then we have to like go to a computer and enter a sequence of numbers. It's missing that. Okay. Is this our space episode. I said, Yeah, just pull that lever because none of our characters are going to do it and yeah, we got to pull that lever. Yeah, it's gonna go over to it, and just before he like he's going to reach out his hand and stop. And he's gonna look at the lever, and all he's going to look for in his very enthusiastic manner is to see if there's any strings attached literal strings attack.

There are not. He's gonna slap it in like whatever direction it needs to flip, and then quickly move back a few feet. So this big cartoon chandelier is going. So, the second you flip this up you're going to feel this, this really satisfying like chunk. And all of the lights are going to shift to this. This really soft blue like this it's going to stop that whole siren thing that whole it's going to stop. And those doors are going to limp, like, close to just enough, and the space is going to start to warm up a little bit. So, you might not be far off the mark that that that might have been an alarm of some sort, that some sort of breach has occurred.

But these three statues that are left the one of Melora the one of the, the one of Vecna, and the one of Alverin are also going to illuminate there's almost like the pedestal they're sitting on is there's like backlighting to it now. And materializing in front of each one of them is almost this spectral ghost like representation of each one of those gods. Yegman drops to the floor. Like, almost like, I mean as if, you know, gods in front of it would almost, so I almost think the natural assumption would be cool hologram that type of thing. But after you drop to the floor.

They're going to look down at you and start to address you like they are fully cognizant they they they know you're there, they're, they're speaking with you now. And Yegman shit. Here we go again. So, the Melora, you know, the representation here. She's going to reach raise your hand out to Yegman. Please, you don't have to get on the floor. Get up, get up young man. Yegman at this point doesn't know what to do at all. I mean he's been worshiping Melora and working at the temple and doing guard work and all this different stuff. All in the name Melora, and now Melora is in front of them addressing it.

I think he's going to remain speechless but just follow the instructions. He's going to stand up, and then he's going to put his weapons away at that's at this point because there's no reason to be armed in front of a god. But he's just going to sit there speechless. I think this is one of the few times that Yegman is actually speechless. I think Gaius would walk up, kind of, being gruff about it, like, sort of, you know, "What is this apparition? What are you?" I like how you broke into their house, and you're like, "What are you doing?" Yegman's going to turn and look at you with just this complete and utter, like, he's just horrified that you just addressed gods in this way.

He's just going to say, "These aren't my gods." That's fair. I didn't vote for him. I think so Melora would kind of be focused on Yegman a little bit. It's like, "Oh, oh, oh, where does he broken? Like, is he okay?" Like that type of thing, you know? Yes, yes he is broken. Vecna would actually speak up a bit. And he would step forward and offer a hand out to Gaius. Vecna, my dear boy. He'll be looking at him very... he's very leery about what this is, if it's authentic at all. And he'll just say, "Well, what's all this about then?" You're not going to shake his hand?

You're just going to leave him hanging? I don't think he thinks there's really a hand to shake there. Got it. He's thinking more in the line of holograms, right? Or the equivalent. Ghosts. Because I think the only, like, okay, the working man's version of this, it's like, well, humanoid, transparent, ghost! Like that's it. Holograms don't exist. I think Yolna, coming from the place of Kor, who want to accommodate all cultures, you know? She would be like, "What are you doing?" And then go up and want to shake his hand? Reach around him? Well, if you want to take things out of reach around you.

And I think there'd be that awkward, like, "Hi!" Just no one does anything for a second. And then Yolna would take the three steps forward and be like, "Nice to meet you." And here's the thing. It's a little cool to the touch, but you can definitely, like, it feels corporeal. You can feel this hand. And there's like tinglies that like, almost like Yolna's hand and wrist had like fallen asleep for a little bit. Like not, not painful at all. Just like, "Oh, that's weird." And Yolna will put a hand to her chest while holding with one hand to his and bow.

Even though the Quar don't necessarily believe in these gods, they know that many cultures respect and pray and believe in these gods. So respecting that bow and while she's shaking his hand. And say, "It is a pleasure to meet you, sir." He's going... So like right away, they're trying to do a little damage control because like, Yegman's not speaking and like you're, you know, it's kind of the bowing thing. Please, there's no need for anything like that. We have quite the situation here, like looking around like he's, you know, everything smashed up.

And the only one of these gods that has not spoken is Alverine. Alverine has what I would describe, just permanent resting bitch face. That's what I was going to ask you. She is. She has opinions and you know it just looking across the room, just like kind of arms folded, a little standoffish, a bit defensive, that type of thing. And when she sees you bow, it's just kind of like, like kind of an eye roll. Wow. And if another person that like if we get to a third person and they show any kind of like reverence, that type of thing, she would cut that shit off and and kind of go.

But for now, she's going to hold her action, as it were. Just wait. Uh, Malora is going to speak up. Well, we seem to have a bit of a breach here. I'm quite sorry you all had to walk into this. It's it's it's not something we thought any mortal would find, to be honest. Sometimes these things have a way of happening. I take it you heard the the beating sound. So was your drum. And like at that point, then he'll speak up. It's a bit of a warning system and anything living here, which at the time was just wildlife, it's it's meant to scare away to get living creatures as far away from this particular complex as possible.

Corvus turns to Jallnä. I knew it. Jallnä will nod. So does that mean that we should not have entered? Oh, no, there's there's no harm done there. Well, the damage, as you can see, is extensive. But. Well, I think it's over for now. We do have a bit of a problem, though, because I I feel that damage is going to be extensive and long reaching, just not located in this building anymore. At this point. Alvin's going to speak up. What does she have to say or what do they have to say? It is getting like that. She's going to step forward and kind of almost like a drill instructor, kind of like, all right, straighten up, let's go knock off the bowing shit, knock off all of that, because to be honest, there's nothing to praise here.

And the other the other two gods are kind of it's like, oh, my God, Karen, stop it like that. Kind of like just like they've had talks like this before. I could tell. Do you know what this place is? No idea. A prison? And she's going to snap and like point at Corvus. Bingo. He like flinches a little bit. Like you're going to get shot by the finger guns. Do you know what was kept here? And now she's focused solely on Corvus. Like it's like, OK, big brain, Brett, let's go. Let's like give give me the answer. An enemy of the gods? And she's going to kind of roll her eyes.

Anyone else? Something big, obviously, and you just kind of kind of like look behind them. You guys? Can I roll for something? Give me. Give me. Do you have a guess? I'd say. Well, I want to narrow it down to an enemy of the gods. So a demon, perhaps. Do you say that? Polar bears. Those guys are nasty. With enthusiasm. The ones we ran into were particularly demonic. So for the ones you almost much more intelligent than Susan because she's a 20 in intelligence. Well, I think I'm nearly there. You almost I'm rocking a solid eight. I know what Jason gave me. I think Jason gave me pretty high.

It's based on what I've seen. Like after, you know, after the last Dragon Con, honestly, I might have to bump that down. But like, you know, I have a 13. Susan has the 13. Yeah. More than me. I know. But is there something I could roll off of that? I think maybe perhaps an enemy of the gods would probably be demon. OK. So is there something Jana could roll based on intuition? OK. Like I said, 20. So. 15. Demon kind of seems like the most likely answer, although it would be weird to be kept here and not just, you know, banished. OK, so Jana will say perhaps some sort of demon.

Other end of the spectrum. Demigods. Couple of nasty ones, to be honest. And now they're out there and she's going to point toward the door. Jana will tilt her head. Like a whiz. Who's who's who's upset at right now? Because it is this being directed towards our no, it's just you know, what someone to do. She's OK. Part way through. She is turning and looking at Fecta and Melora. Like there is clearly an argument that has been going on that you were not privy to. It's like when couples fight and you're like, I don't know who ate the last Oreo. I'm a guest. Like you're just like you just, you know, I'm going to leave now.

Yeah. This has been fun, you know. And when she says that, you know, they're out there, she's going to turn back to she's going to turn back to the other two. And we can't do anything about it. Can we? She is very frustrated. You don't have followers to call on. She's going. To look at Fecta. And she's going to like big dramatic like like pointing at Yegman, but looking looking at Fecta, it's like, huh, do we? That type of thing. Yegman's very confused. Yeah. Like which points is like. Yeah. And Fecta's going to kind of like hold his non skeletal hand up for a second.

Just like, all right, hold up, hold up. We've been on a bit of a back foot as of the last year or so. To be honest, things have spiraled to a point where we're not sure that we can keep them going much longer. There's all but an all out war with the demons. One has figured out a way to get free and it's only a matter of time before they retry and perhaps combine efforts. We have two of Kord's children on the loose. And we were away for quite some time. Trapped. And if you if you listen under her breath, Alvern still like just. And we still haven't punished those fuckers like she's very like.

There's some feelings about the whole being trapped thing. OK. Off the bat, Yona's going to go, oh, I thought it would have been Alvern's. She is known to have. Born the most demigods. I wrote the history and I remember that in the book. Nice. She OK. Sorry. Oh, don't be sorry. That's good. That's good. So she's going to kind of. She's going to take a breath because she's coming off as, let's say, abrasive. And it's not your fault that this is the state of things. But this is just one more thing that's like, holy shit, can we just like have a day where something isn't on fire?

So she's going to take a deep breath and look at Yona. I wish it were one of my kids. They're still sealed away. It's fine. The most we get out of them is they were a little too ambitious when it comes to doling out justice. And then again, under her breath, it's like, honestly, I think we could use a little more of that. But like she's exasperated. Like, picture someone who has unlimited power, but is bound by red tape and having their decisions go through several other people constantly. All the time, like basically work in an office and then, you know.

Yeah. Oh, boy. So Yegman's going to speak up a little bit. So it wasn't one thing that did this. It was two. Like feeding off of the two of the court's kids did this type of thing. Malur is going to speak up. Yes. So, Margaret and Jadik, they are a bit on the violent side, like kind of trying to keep it chipper and sunny, but not understating the danger. We're honestly a bit stuck here. We are dealing with something tremendously dangerous and powerful at the moment, and we are spread so thin. It might be a while before we could take care of this personally.

To be honest. Can we confide something in you? Yegman would nod his head. Our ears are present. Such a weird one. There's no one else here. Fingers and toes. Eyes and hair. I have spaghetti in the cabinet. Guys, you are weird. Don't blame it on Susan. Something was recently proposed that it would have seemed unfathomable just a short time ago, but this may be the only way that we could strike some sort of balance. It was proposed that us gods and the demon lords were to merge and just become single entities. That means no more demons trying to break out of hell, no more power struggles, no more...

That's a lot of things, but... Wouldn't that be even worse than what's happening now? And even more so, worse than you not being here? Vecna's going to step forward. I'm afraid we're getting off topic a bit. Beating around the bush, there's something we need to ask you. If you could at least track these two wayward children. It brings me no pleasure to come hat in hand to another group of mortals, but I'm afraid we're in quite a bind. A chorus is going to look right at Vecna and be like, "How can we trust you? Any of this?" "Well..." And he's almost like, "I'm Vecna." He's almost kind of like, "I'm an influencer." "I don't know who I am." "Go away." "Gucci gang." He just says that over and over again.

He's almost hurt. "Well, what would you have us do to prove ourselves?" "Is it that you don't believe we're who we are?" "I mean, this could be some kind of elaborate illusion or something. Who knows what tricks could be pulled here?" "What assurances do we have that you are aligned with the gods?" The room's going to start to take on this chill. And there's this ankle-high fog that's going to emanate from that statue and just kind of radiate outward. And that incorporeal looking hologram thing is just going to fade away. And stepping out of it is a very real, very present looking Vecna.

And he's going to walk up to Corvus and take that skeletal left hand. And he's going to place it reassuringly on Corvus's shoulder. "My dear boy, I assure you, we're on the level." He's just like... Gaius is going to walk up right beside Vecna, sort of like right close to him as he's got his hand on Corvus's shoulder. And just say, "What are you going to do for us?" That was the least tactful way I think that could have been presented. Yegman's going to jump at this just a second. I think what he means is us going to track after demigods, and then we're going to track after the evil court's children.

How are we supposed to compete with that? Nope, that's not what I mean at all. Wrong! And that's not even a half of it. You should see my daughter. Malora's going to be like, looking good. She's fine with it. Alverine is going to speak up. Let me get this straight. We're telling you the world is potentially fucked. No one could die. And you want a gift? Yeah, James. You can get me out of the group. Like, this god calls out James, not Gaius. This god knows who's pulling you. And she's kind of a little more standoffish. What do you want? A sack full of gold? Eternal life?

What do you want? I want my daughter back. That one, it's like, well shit. Like just kind of like a second of... She's going to change focus to Yegman. You're not supposed to stand up to them. They are out of your league in every conceivable measurement. Honestly, if you could distract them, just track them. Just let us know where they are because we can't physically follow them. There's more red tape in the way. But you could follow us? We can not only follow you, but you can follow them. There's a tablet in this building. It'll show you where they are at all times.

And you cannot see this tablet? She's going to look over to Yegman and... Getting even more irritated? No. No, we can't because of a previous agreement. Honestly, I'm welcoming this thing with the demon lords. At least something will get done. That was more for her than you. That was more thinking out loud. Why do you need to know where they are? Why did you block them away in the first place? What did they do? Well, a demigod has quite a lot of power. Dealing with that power in a world full of mortals can be...intoxicating. These two individuals, brother and sister, abused mortals.

They crushed them beneath their feet. They used them. Eventually it became so bad that after several warnings we had to lock them away. It was hoped that after this "time out" let's call it, that they would have mellowed a bit. And it appears quite the opposite. We feel they may try to find civilization. Well, the closest civilization is... And he looks over to Yelna. Saunte? And you say that they desire to harm and/or destroy? That seems to be their opening gambit, yes. Oh, my people will stand no chance. Having had some realization as to how her civilization compares.

So Yggman's had a completely change of posture as soon as Gaius brought up. Basically seeing lost loved ones. He's gonna speak up. Okay, so if I understand this correctly, we take this tablet, we track them down. And then you're able to keep an eye on our progress and understand what's happening. And we just follow. If we locate them, will you stop them? Alverin's gonna chime in. We can't stop them until they've been free for one year. It was part of a deal that was struck a very long time ago, but we're still bound to it. If you can stop them, feel free.

So you want us to watch them for a year? If it comes to that. She's okay. The hologram is almost going to lean against this pillar. Kind of a "okay, kids, let's rap" type of thing. Like a very relaxed posture. Let me ask you a question. You're all mortals. How would you feel about a reset? Not in your lives, we've already thought about that. There would be no more threat of demons taking over this world. None. We would share space and power equally. That's got to be appealing to some of you. She's almost taking a poll. Like, "this is focus testing" type of thing.

But are you hitting a reset on more than just you and the demons? You hitting the reset on us, I'm sure that would have a big play on emotions. No more laughter, no more joy, no more excitement. On top of no more fear. She's like waving, "no, no, no, no, nothing changes with you. This is a last ditch effort. We were gone for so long. So much has taken place that was beyond our control. We would have stepped in decades ago. But we weren't there to slow this down." And you think the demons would stop at joining hands? If we just let them out and shared space, no.

But if we merged and became one entity, then at least both influences would be present. With all due respect, I don't think so. I think that perhaps that would better represent people. Gods are supposed to be the epitome of... I apologize, my father is a philosopher. He believes that gods are the epitome of all that is good. Whereas demons are all that is bad. Whereas people are more complex than good and bad. If the gods were to merge, it would mean that they represent people because they would be good and bad. I feel that maybe even my people could believe in such things.

But then wouldn't we no longer have any ideals? Any paragons? Anything to strive to become? I think that would be the nature of the being. Whatever you pursue within yourself or whatever your god gives you as a representative would be what you would be. I'm sorry, but this is beyond me. I cannot speak on any of these matters. However, I do have one ask. If we take this tablet and pursue these demigods. He's going to look over towards the guys and then look back. Would you at least be willing to talk to us about... Lost Ones? Vectin would ship in here. I'm sorry for my colleagues' bluntness.

Of course you will be rewarded for this task and... I'd be willing to give you an item that could help out if things were to become dire. But it would be temporary. It would allow you to defend yourself. Stand up to court's children. But we couldn't allow you to just keep this power forever. Would that be acceptable? That would definitely help during this endeavor, but he's going to kind of chuckle. I know that I only have five years left. It's... it's... fate. So I'm not too worried about that. But I want to know if you would be willing to have a conversation about the ones we've lost.

Well, that's not exactly my department, but I'm sure we could arrange it. You, good man. Your legs. I get the impression that that isn't a desired choice. No, but honestly, I don't really care much that it is on me. It's what it did to my daughter that I deem unjust. And I'm not sorry to say I put some of that blame on you and the others. Alright. Please understand that what we're trying to do is strike balance. And that won't always feel just. It's... it's not a perfect world that you inhabit. And I'm sorry for that, but we have to take the good with the bad.

I am absolutely willing to talk about your daughter. But... any decisions we make going forward, please believe that it's for the greater good. We're trying to sustain everyone. For our greater good or for your greater good? Um... Burn. Aleran's gonna speak up. Oh, we stopped caring about our greater good a long time ago, apparently. Damn, Aleran. Alright. I lived in a swamp. Can I... Can I ask a question, then? Of course. What... what do you see in us? That you want to preserve so strongly? You took on a job and came to a very dangerous place to investigate this sound.

Am I correct so far? Mm-hmm. Would you say that that would commonly be in your nature? Adventure? Danger? Absolutely not. But you came anyway. I did. Why? Well, if I'm being honest, I thought maybe I could go to a new land and meet a cute boy and maybe get a kiss or try some new food. Sort of use my powers. But I... I don't really know. And I think maybe that's why I came. Well, all of these are admirable reasons. You might have wanted to pick one of the more inhabited continents if you wanted to kiss a boy, but I... if you like Dragonborn, there are a civilization of them on the East Coast.

We could talk about that later. No, thank you. They're toothy kisses. And then Yalma's gonna pipe in. There's also a quar civilization. Well, he figured. It's like, you've been to Saun. If that didn't appeal, then that's... And I'll be honest, I'm turning around on the feet thing and your dad was very attractive. And I probably shouldn't have said that part out loud, but... Yeah, no. No, that's not Yalna. Yeah, that's not... No. That's what Yalna would say. Point being, that's what we want to preserve. That freedom to explore all avenues, even if you feel you've made a tremendous mistake.

You should be free to travel the world, see the sights, and not feel as though the ground is shifting beneath your feet constantly. That's what we've been trying to fight. And you're willing to give up a part of yourselves to do it? If we think it would create a better life for you, of course we would. So where's this tablet? He's gonna wave his head and over next to the switch in the wall, a portion of this kind of stony shelf is going to slide out. And on it, you're going to see this glowing pinkish, almost... Almost like a very, very lightweight stone or like a plastic or resin, something like that.

It's going to feel kind of tingly in your hands, but you can very much see it's sort of a crude depiction, but you can see where you are. Like you see this building, you can make out the bridge, and then far away, you see two tiny blips moving in a different direction. So Yegman would pick this up, glance over to the party, then look over at the gods. As long as we can have the conversation that I talked about, I'll do this. And he'll take the tablet and kind of like stuff it in his pack a little bit. He'd give you like a kind of a solemn head nod, like, you know, "Yep, we'll do it." I have a question, and perhaps a request.

Do you always appear here and are able to speak to those who enter? There are a few places in the world that were set up a very long time ago that make it a bit easier to communicate. But if we go forward with the plan that's on the table, new ones will be created. Why? I only ask because, as I stated previously, my father is a philosopher. He would love to speak to you. We'd like to keep this as close to our chest as possible right now, but give us a little bit of time. I only ask because I know it would bring him joy. But if that was too forward, I retract my request.

No, no, we can absolutely arrange something. It's completely fine. He would travel here if that makes anything better. I just know that he, any time someone of religious earth comes to our settlement, he will talk for hours. What's Vella thinking during all this? She's been really quiet, just because everybody else has been asking most of the same questions she would have. But the one thing that she has been wondering, and she'll speak up when it quiets down, she would ask, "So you mentioned distracting these demigods. How would you recommend we do that?

Are you wanting us to fight them or merely to, like maybe, I don't want to say confront them, but..." "Well, we haven't seen them in quite a long time. Their personalities may have changed, but they were very confrontational, standoffish. I would avoid an outright confrontation if you could. But again, we're going to give you something that should slightly even the playing field." As he's saying this, you get the point that that's probably not going to even anything, but like you won't die instantly. But I would be cautious when using it. Sorry, out of character.

Did they say how long ago it was that they broke out? I don't think they gave an exact time frame, no. Okay, then Vella would probably ask that. She'd be like, "You said they have to roam free for a year before you can intervene. Is there an idea for how long they've been out?" Well, if I had to put a time on it, I would say they've been out for at least five weeks. Does that kind of correspond as to when the drumming? Yeah. Okay. Crushed it. Nailed it. She'd probably nod like, "Mm, makes sense." She'll probably say, "Thank you," and then probably take a step back because that's really all she...

Without all the other things, she's not going to make a request because she... I don't think she really wants to at the time. Is there anything Kord might want to say to his kids? Maybe we could pass along. It doesn't sound like we want to meet up with them. Just looking at the group. Probably not that, but if we do... I'm going to take a look at the group. Alverine's going to approach Corvus. It's a touchy subject. Kord views the entire thing as a mistake and told them so, which was right about the time that they started to lose their minds, which... In my opinion...

If you could just steer them away from civilization, they technically haven't done anything recently. Hopefully we can talk them back and we'll figure all this out, but... I don't feel as though they should be punished. You know what I mean? Coming from the God of Justice. She's very... She's... That's the first time you've seen her kind of soften. Because... basically these kids were sealed away before the gods were trapped. They were not supposed to be trapped that long. And that was after their dad told them, "I fucked up. You shouldn't be." That type of thing.

Not what a child wants to hear? No, so it's a little more complicated than "prisoners broke out." So having heard Kord say, "Does Kord want to say anything to them?" And then Jallnä listening with one ear approaches... Who looks more approachable, Vecna or Melora? Oh, Melora. Vecna's a nice dude, don't get me wrong. Melora's just kind of got that kind, sweet, swirl-stancing-on-her-shoulder feel. Yeah. So Jallnä will approach while listening with one ear to what Alvarin's saying. So this is happening at the same time. Does perhaps the Raven Queen have anything to say to Corvus?

Oh my God. Like, that quietly. He just gets... No, that's while you're talking to Alvarin. His whole face goes red. Oh, so he can't hear? Yeah, it's kind of like, just like, turning her back to Corvus. Like, does perhaps Raven Queen have anything to say? She's going to... like, she's paying attention to the conversation and she's going to look down. Because she's lanky. She's pretty tall. Oh, y'all know too. They're both lanky ladies. So... Well, the problem here is that these statues tied us to this exact spot. And sadly, it looks like most of them were destroyed.

But I do have a gift for each one of you. In fact, I mentioned this, but... She is essentially going to hand you these little necklaces. And each one of them is the symbol of a god. Like, she's basically handing you the full set. Like, you'd have to get so many blind boxes to be able to get all of these. And, like, there's one corresponding to each one of you. And then, you know, there's people like Gaius who, like, not so into it. But like, you know, they're there. I mean, Yalna too. Yeah, but you've been more cordial, I guess? She wakes up small at someone else's belief?

Not my thing, but like, hey, you know. Like, each one of these things are these beautiful, like, carved figurines. So there's this big raven spread eagle, but not like, you know, it's tiny. It's just very intricate. Like, someone owned a 3D printer somewhere. And... I should hope so. They're gods! And she's going to tell Yalna. These will tie you to us in some small way. And you will get a portion of our power when you absolutely need it most. What we're asking you to do is not easy, and... I feel like we've had to come to mortals so often in the last year, and I can't apologize enough for that.

This will be the last time, no matter what, that we come to you and ask you to complete a task that we can't. And there's inner voice. While that is promising, there's a strange note of finality to that. Like... Almost a saying goodbye-ish. Perhaps that is the relationship we are meant to have. One where we give and take, both of us. She's gonna give you a bit of a smile. Alvern eventually is going to speak up. We have other things to attend to. I'm sorry to cut this short. We... We can't stand here all day. Kurt? I have one more question. She's gonna kinda snap her head down at Portos.

He just looks away. Do these children... Do they have a mom or a dad here? I mean, you said they're demigods, so they're at least maybe half human or half of a race here on Theria. Do they still exist? Their mom or dad? Their other mom or dad that isn't court? Their mother was a goliath, and she died a very long time ago, sadly. Do you know where? Boten. What was that, sorry? Boten. Boten. What's Boten? Different continent. Oh, okay. Your princess is in another castle. That's where Kori comes from. Oh, got it. She's also dead. But she was also a god. It's a long story.

It's a long, but not quite... What's with the goliath? Kord likes him strong. I'm done. I'm done. The Yegman would speak up. And kind of like... Almost like the school kid getting ready to walk out. Kind of like straighten up his backpack straps a little bit. So we're ready to head out? A year away from civilization is a... Long time. Well, did we at least shut this drum off? Or whatever it is? The second we leave, everything will be depowered, and... There should be no more sound coming from this place. Sorry for any commotion it caused the nearby city. Oh. Y'all know we'll have like a light bulb above our head.

There have been tunnels and dismembered... People of my culture. What is this drumming? What caused that? Oh, there's gonna be a look between the guns like... Oh... I'm afraid that wasn't the drumming. That... That would be what escaped this facility. Oh. So they have killed. And they tunnel? We don't know anything for sure yet. I would rather not. You should investigate first hand. Susan wants to say, but Y'all know won't, but we were told not to go into those tunnels. I mean, then don't. We'll see where the tablet takes us. Yeah. The tablet is our compass. We wish you the best of luck, and thank you for going on this journey.

Before we leave, I feel like Bella would actually try to shake each one of their hands. That's okay. She'd be like, "I should thank you." And then she'll be like, "Hehe, shake three guns' hands." Yegman would follow the line with that. And then Y'all know would follow only because, "Oh, this is what we do now." She just wants to follow other cultures. And it's very like, obviously each one of them is a little different. Like, Alverins is a little short. Like that very Hank Hill, like, pump pump, get out. I'm just saying, like, Bella is in love with Alverin now.

Like, she's made a convert. She's like, "Yes." I love you. When guys first saw these three, he essentially hates the gods. But at this point with the chance of this conversation afterwards, and... Yeah, he'll just look down at this necklace in his hand, and he'll look back up at them and just give them a nod. And turn and walk towards the doors. Quervus will shake everyone's hand, and he'll get to Alverin and he'll say, "Can you pass something on to our lady? The Raven Queen?" She's kind of realized by this point she needs to handle you with kid gloves a little bit.

Because she kind of digs your moxie, because it's like, "Man, are you not equipped for this." "Okay, you're doing it though. All right. You know what? Good for you." What would that be? Tell her I'm trying. For the first time in this entire interaction, she's going to crack a smile. I'm sure she already knows. And one by one, they are going to vanish. And all at once, all of the lights are just going to shut off. And I think that's a good time for us to stop for the night. Damn it! We talked to fucking gods! We're doing the next session right now, right? I have necklaces to hand out.

Who wants what? Which one? Mardi Gras! Let's go! I think it's kind of obvious. Well, Yegman's Melora and Corvus's Raven Queen, Vella's Alverine. Oh, hell yeah! You got any of them old gods on there? Oh, man. She's got a piece of bark. It was so bittersweet kind of conversation, you know? That was good. I'm really interested in this. And the stage effects were fantastic. Fantastic. A plus. Love them, Jason. I'm never going to forget this session. Ever. The pulsing lights and them going down? That's a lot to take in. I'm super proud of you guys. I think it's easy to shut down during an interaction like that.

What the fuck am I supposed to say? It's a lot. I think it helped that there were two people in the group who just had no affiliation with God's Watch. It definitely helped break things up a little bit. Because if I was playing previous characters who just idolized God... Exactly! ...there would be no speaking. I definitely want to play a character at some point who doesn't have to be standoffish with every person they talk to. I don't know why that happens. I swear I'm not like that in real life. You haven't been standoffish with the party! You've been pretty cool.

Who knows what happens with this conversation that's going to happen after? Yeah. Well guys, I'm going to get ready and let you guys go. Everyone have a fantastic weekend. Likewise. It was made better by this session. It was what? It was great. I live right now for sitting down with everybody. I'm going to go make pizza bread. So everybody, have a good night. Bye! We'll be right back after these words from our sponsors. Please don't go anywhere. If you like what we do and you want to help us keep the lights on and get a bunch of extra content in the process, please head over to our Patreon at patreon.com/dandr.

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This is episode 9, technically, of New Bloods. And it's been a year. We stopped doing New Bloods in April of 2020. What's happened since April 2020, guys? Like, what's... Don't ask. What hasn't happened? Well, that doesn't matter because we're traveling back to June 2019 in a little city called Las Vegas, Nevada. You guys have been kind of living on the run. The authorities were looking for some people that kind of fit your description. I had this vision in my head of Jeff specifically, like his idea of mixing up the look. I imagine some of you are wearing wigs.

He just put on a different jersey number for the Patriots. It's like, "Well, I'm not wearing Brady." So it's fine. Yeah, it's Edelman. Nobody will know. Yeah, so that's my head cannon for like I'm laying low. I'm sure he started that way. I imagine it's hard to get Patriots jerseys out in Vegas, though. So eventually we would have gone with kind of a fear and loathing look, right? Like a Hawaiian shirt opened over the jersey. Whoa. Sunglasses. Yeah, you know. Classing it up. Well, I can tell you what you guys do have. You do have a place to crash. And this is the part where everyone at home and everyone at the table starts opening your browsers and follow along.

It's very picture page. It's very PBS. We're going to the southeast side of Las Vegas in a little area called Whitney, and you are currently staying at the Sunset Motel. It is a shithole for lack of a better term, but it's a place where people, well, they don't bother you for the most part. Yeah. Wow. Let those picks. Yes. Run down. Great place to get high. Yep. But it's LGBTQ friendly. Oh. How so? Like what? Like what? I don't know. What Motel is it? That's what the Google says. Google does not lie, Jason. Well, it also said the management was rude and the room is full of bugs.

There are eight mentions of roaches in these reviews. You call them roaches. I like to call them flavor capsules. Oh, God. I like that the street view has like a billboard that says we treat erectile dysfunction. No, the one next to it says a better cucumber. A better cucumber is supposed to be next to a hand ripping. Are you rocking a gherkin? Well, someone. Stop jerking the gherkin. That is all the subtlety that I expect from Las Vegas. So you are renting a room there weekly and through a bit of. Let's be honest, you guys would have used your powers. You guys would have pulled out all the stops and but you're trying to lay low at the same time.

So you're paying one hundred and twenty dollars to stay in a room each week. It is not a good room, but all you need is a place that the sunlight won't touch you. And it's almost like the sun doesn't shine on Whitney. So it's fine. Now, here's where the first dice roll comes in, guys. There's going to be a bunch of these tonight. You also have a car. You obviously had to ditch your ride over the course of the last four months. If you recall at home, we stopped in February of twenty nineteen. It is now June. It's it's summertime in. I think that the air conditioning does not work in this motel.

I just want to I don't know if you could sweat. I feel like we're always cold. Maybe. Yeah. So I don't know. Might not bother you, but it's a dry heat. I guess. Yeah. I mean, you're packing for you guys in a room with two twin beds. So it's pretty I don't know. Dibs. I need one of you to roll a D10 for me. Now, this is for your car. The lower the roll, the shittier the car you have. The higher the role, the better the vehicle you've managed to procure through whatever means. Who's feeling lucky? Who wants to do the first roll? I'll do it. All right. Let's do it. I want I want somewhere in the middle so that it's nondescript and doesn't attract attention either way.

Well, here's the thing. You're not going to get like a Lambo or something like that. You guys, whatever you picked, you picked to kind of like, hey, it'll blend in. We're not we're not OK. You know what I mean? Like it's it's it's a car you would have picked up in your your end of town. OK. Now, Alexis. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, boy. OK, well. Scratch that, because. Wait, did you roll a one? I think that's counting one success. Oh, that's what. Oh, yes. Sorry. OK, I got to get used to this vampire table. So do you remember when I said that this would be kind of nondescript and you'd blend right in?

That was just a lie. Apparently you guys have a Hummer H1. Oh, gross. Yeah. Yeah. This is exactly the crew that would drive an H1. Exactly the crew. Did handsome Jeff get it? He's like, don't worry, I got us a car. 100 percent. He was like, yeah, yeah. So I guess I'm trying to pull it back. He's like, turns out I don't know what subtle means. Let me tell you. Let me tell you about this fucking beast. It goes zero to 60 in fifteen point eight seconds. That's wow. That's not very fast. Oh, Jesus. It's got a top speed of 96 miles per hour. Theoretically, it says in brackets theoretical.

In those 15 seconds, how much gas have we used? Oh, I'm oh, I'm getting I'm getting it. It it's from 2001. Great year. It has a gas tank that holds twenty eight point five gallons of gas and it gets eight miles to the gallon. Oh my God. Oh my God. I was guessing six. I was like, I bet it's six. Well, to be honest, highway miles. Yeah. I mean, it's probably it's probably. It's probably between probably five and a half to eight because this is assuming it's well taken care of and like the air filters are clean. Like it's really taken care of. It's had a tune up.

This is from 2001 and you guys have it. So it's probably not a great representation. It's not a collector's. This wasn't out of like Jalen was garage or something. This is just the fucking interior of these things. I'm sorry. I'm looking at the picture I'm going to share with you guys and keep going. It looks because it's got an interior that wraps around to your side. It looks like the fucking enterprise, like it's so uncomfortable looking. It's insane. OK, good. What color is it? Well. You know what, Lisa, give me a detail, please. The lower the roll, the more it's going to stand out.

OK, so eight again. This is a bright red Hummer. Oh, God. Oh, God, look at that thing. That. Why? Why? That looks like a fucking Winnebago like it does. I also kind of like it. It's terrible. But I like it. Of course, it's comfy. It's a fucking house on wheels. It's basically an RV. Yeah. The only bad thing is every five minutes when you have to fill up, you have to get uncomfy and get out of the car like it's. So you guys take up two parking spots at the motel, which you it is. I feel like it's a point of pride that your car is like I even like I think you take up two compact spots, like just on principle, like just.

To. Mandy. Yes, sir. I need a detent from you because I need to see how you guys are doing financially. The higher the number, the better you're doing financially. All right. All right. Windelado. Six, six. That ain't bad. That ain't bad. So right now, you're probably rocking about like thirteen, fourteen hundred bucks. Like you got enough, you know, you could pay in advance if you wanted to. But why would you like, you know, the guy who runs this place is named Eddie, Eddie Moss, and he is a scumbag drug dealer on the side. And I'd like to think that those of you who do partake in drugs have already approached Eddie and Eddie has already been selling you whatever that, you know, like.

So it's almost like like, you know, oh, it's a it's a loyalty discount because you're staying at the it's you know, it's like a concierge. I'm going to need another detent. Each of you are going to get to roll. So this is to see if you have any contacts in town that have given you a lead on potential ways to get a little extra money, because I would like to think you guys now you kind of got a handle on your powers for the most part. It's been months. You've you've had little excursions where you've gotten a chance to you've gotten a chance to like corner someone and use your powers on them and kind of get comfortable with the whole thing.

You you've gotten used to feeding. It is tricky to do that and still lay low. But you're in a shitty part of town and people die all the time. So like, as long as you're not brutish about it or, you know, too on the nose, you should be able to get away with it for the most part. Who wants to give me that detail? Just for context? This is for yeah, just for like, do you get a lead on a job? Well, here's the thing. It's going to be a lead on a job. Is it a good job? I'll take that one. All right, let's do it. What? Ten. Oh, shit. You guys see Ocean's Eleven? Because we're going to we're going to.

I just rewatched those the other day. Excellent. God damn it. I love those movies. OK, well, you're going to rob the Bellagio. Let's let's do it. Hell yeah. Wait, wait. But do we have a Danny on our side? Because I don't think any of us are Danny. Well, Jeff's Auntie Danny. Oh, no. What's the opposite of George Clooney? Yeah, we're going to fail. It's Jeff. I want to be Don Cheadle with a terrible British accent. Oh, yes. I really hope you enjoyed today's episode. We'll be back next week with one of our last episodes before before Theriathon on April 17th. Guys, thank you so much for listening.

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