The Badlands - Ep. 53: The Pit

0:18 [SPEAKER_10]: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Mage Hand High Five. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm your dungeon master, Casey Bappas, and with me, ranked, least to most likely, to bite into ice cream with their front teeth. [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, yeah, monster. [SPEAKER_06]: And we're new monster. [SPEAKER_06]: This is a race to the bottom.

0:42 [SPEAKER_06]: No one wants to do this. [SPEAKER_02]: I have a clarification question. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it could be both. [SPEAKER_02]: You have like hard or soft ice cream. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Correct. [SPEAKER_02]: You have lactate. [SPEAKER_06]: I think the actual question was a harder soft ice cream.

0:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, however that's worse. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, hards worse. [SPEAKER_02]: Could you imagine biting it to soft ice cream? [SPEAKER_10]: Just biting into soft serve. [SPEAKER_06]: That's despicable. [SPEAKER_10]: First, Ron McStay. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank God.

1:11 [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, hi, bro, I'm gonna say. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm so, my bro, and I like to, with hard ice cream, if I don't have it on it, I like it on a cone, but if I don't have it on a cone, I like to mix it all up until it becomes like ice cream soup and then you did, like it's a bit, like I'm a baby.

1:28 [SPEAKER_10]: You turn it into like apple sauce. [SPEAKER_10]: Classic. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it turned into like ice cream apples sauce. [SPEAKER_06]: But on a cone, I don't know, the cone is sacred. [SPEAKER_06]: I love a waffle cone. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not gonna mess it up. [SPEAKER_02]: because this is an audio medium I have to have a reaction, but I'm just staring at you.

1:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Because if the baby suits, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_08]: Baby suits, it's good. [SPEAKER_08]: You do that with brownies and then you really got something going there. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh shit, you're so right here. [SPEAKER_10]: Next. [SPEAKER_10]: Robin Langenhub. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, thank the world of mighty.

1:59 [SPEAKER_08]: I'm Robin Langenhub playing Hayden Concade, and I'm up, like, I can't wait for the day that I have removable teeth, so I can just kind of gum at the ice cream, because that's no like, I just kind of cover my teeth with my lips and just end, and turn your teeth. [SPEAKER_06]: Disappeating, having removable teeth, is that something that you're actively planning for?

2:21 [SPEAKER_08]: I'm not like hoping for it, but if it happens, a fringe benefit will be able to like properly eat ice cream the way I desire. [SPEAKER_08]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to lie. [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't expect to be able to repeat my previous comment, but this is an audio medium, and I am just staring at you in silence because of that statement.

2:40 [SPEAKER_08]: I wanted to have a comedic response, Max. [SPEAKER_10]: And last, Max Weinberg. [SPEAKER_02]: Hi, I'm Max. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm Max. [SPEAKER_02]: Playin' why, of course. [SPEAKER_02]: I think why it would be able to heat his teeth, so it wouldn't be uncomfortable. [SPEAKER_02]: But, I have very sensitive temperature teeth, so if I were to actually bite into the ice cream, it would cause me a lot of pain.

3:06 [SPEAKER_02]: But sometimes, if it's really hard and doesn't like lick off, I do kind of like, [SPEAKER_02]: And this is a visual bit like a chip on. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me figure it again. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just kind of like, uh, just kind of a little little nibbles to get it off. [SPEAKER_10]: Max Max being the mint chocolate chip monk over here.

3:22 [SPEAKER_08]: I'm a bad guy. [SPEAKER_08]: Max being having teeth so sensitive that it takes a single bite out of ice cream and immediately passes out due to pain. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Not not that bad. [SPEAKER_10]: And with that, let's dive right in. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, let's keep falling.

3:44 [SPEAKER_10]: Last time, on May 5th, you were headed down the Westfall mountain range, trying to find the found to the flame in order to reignite Wyatt's connection to his god. [SPEAKER_10]: You were beset upon by hidden archers who barred your path. [SPEAKER_10]: But once the twin river trio's connections to the flame, river and wilds were revealed, the hidden archers came forth, revealing themselves as knights of the flame, hailing from a local town, sacrament.

4:19 [SPEAKER_10]: As well, one of them was revealed to be Mordrick, who, in his journey to redeem himself, pledged his service to sacrament. [SPEAKER_10]: They took you to their hidden town, albeit blindfolded, and you met with the night command and to sacrament, made. [SPEAKER_10]: She revealed that the fountain had been taken over by bandits, and that revealing sacraments location would compromise it.

4:44 [SPEAKER_10]: You volunteer to clear out the fountain, and Mordric asked to come along. [SPEAKER_10]: You all departed for the found, but along the way, we're ambushed, and in pursuing the ambushes, we're tricked into falling through a hidden trapped door. [SPEAKER_10]: Where you are now? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, where are we right now?

5:05 [SPEAKER_10]: Actually, some things to get out of the way first. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh god. [SPEAKER_10]: This episode will be recorded with each of you in dependent play. [SPEAKER_10]: When it's time to switch players, I will ask you to leave the table and bring in the next player. [SPEAKER_10]: And please, don't discuss what's happening to you with the other players.

5:26 [SPEAKER_06]: like the phrase what's happening to you what's happening to you puts me in a really particular position in relation to those things and one more thing you have all entered a weird space of magic you each feel stronger [SPEAKER_10]: Therefore, all damage dealing spells and smights now do an extra 1d 10 damage of the spells damaged type, as well.

5:59 [SPEAKER_10]: Every consecutive successful melee or ranged hit increases your damage by 1d10 psychic damage with a miss restarting the streak. [SPEAKER_10]: Wow. [SPEAKER_10]: You hit? [SPEAKER_10]: Stack an additional 1d10 to the next successful attack. [SPEAKER_10]: You miss. [SPEAKER_10]: Start back at your original.

6:19 [SPEAKER_10]: a couple of clarifying things. [SPEAKER_10]: You cannot stack, smite, and melee, you must pick one or the other, saw me. [SPEAKER_05]: Alright. [SPEAKER_10]: As well, switching between magic and melee slash ranged, restarts the streak. [SPEAKER_10]: Ranged spell attacks count as magic, not ranged.

6:41 [SPEAKER_10]: So essentially all spell damage [SPEAKER_08]: Does this rule also apply to any enemies we might encounter? [SPEAKER_06]: Anything happening to us? [SPEAKER_10]: You'll just have to find out, won't you? [SPEAKER_10]: Yikes. [SPEAKER_10]: Great, um, everybody, but Robin leaves the table. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh dear.

7:05 [SPEAKER_10]: Ah! [SPEAKER_10]: Here we go! [SPEAKER_10]: Hayden, you wake up. [SPEAKER_10]: As you come to, you look around. [SPEAKER_10]: you're in a fairly featureless box, maybe four foot by four foot by eight foot. [SPEAKER_10]: The walls seem to be made of a thick wood. [SPEAKER_10]: The only adornment, a large number four, painted on one wall.

7:34 [SPEAKER_10]: It looks like you still have your weapons and items. [SPEAKER_08]: Is there a ceiling? [SPEAKER_10]: There is. [SPEAKER_10]: You are boxed in. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you take this in, you realize what woke you up. [SPEAKER_10]: You hear a voice coming from outside the box. [SPEAKER_10]: The voice says, promise you, show and like any other.

7:58 [SPEAKER_10]: In this round our lifers must be among the first to reach the final turn of the lab strength. [SPEAKER_10]: Or else. [SPEAKER_10]: Supply she pretzels and lifers. [SPEAKER_10]: Remember this. [SPEAKER_10]: I did laugh or can't cross the finish line before you. [SPEAKER_10]: So let the games begin and welcome!

8:20 [SPEAKER_10]: The wall with the number before you falls forward opening the box. [SPEAKER_10]: And the voice finishes welcome to the paint. [SPEAKER_10]: Outside the box there is a lot going on. [SPEAKER_10]: First, directly before you is a large half-circle open area. [SPEAKER_10]: The large wall that closes it is about 60 feet away with an opening in its middle.

8:50 [SPEAKER_10]: It's maybe 60 feet tall. [SPEAKER_10]: The rest of this open area is ringed with a shimmering wall. [SPEAKER_10]: It looks like it continues up and over doming the entire arena, including the labyrinth. [SPEAKER_10]: As you look around, you notice several other people stumbling forth from boxes just like yours, all labeled 1 through 20.

9:17 [SPEAKER_10]: Above their heads, and now above yours as you look up to check, hangs a number, magically hanging over your head. [SPEAKER_10]: is for, several of these lifers, as you heard the announcer put it, have already begun running for the opening in the wall. [SPEAKER_10]: You look and see one blonde woman braids streaming down her back.

9:47 [SPEAKER_10]: Her number 17 turns and sinks a sword into number 16. [SPEAKER_10]: The red-headed man next to her, killing him instantly. [SPEAKER_10]: From beyond the shimmering wall, cheers erupt. [SPEAKER_10]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_08]: I draw my crossbow and immediately start running forward. [SPEAKER_10]: Great, you are running when one of the other wifers, a tall half-ork man with a crazed look in his eye, draws his sword and goes to attack you.

10:26 [SPEAKER_10]: The number three hangs over his head. [SPEAKER_10]: And that's a 15 to hit? [SPEAKER_08]: 15 doesn't do it. [SPEAKER_10]: Great, do you keep running? [SPEAKER_08]: I will strike back with my crossbow. [SPEAKER_10]: Alright, roll it. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't like this casey, I really don't.

10:45 [SPEAKER_08]: That is a 17 to hit. [SPEAKER_10]: That hits rolled image. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: And add a 1d10 to the next attack roll. [SPEAKER_08]: Alright, that is 10 damage and I will fire again. [SPEAKER_08]: Alright, 19. [SPEAKER_10]: That also hits. [SPEAKER_10]: You're now up to 2d10.

11:05 [SPEAKER_08]: 13 damage. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: And I will bonus action attack a third time. [SPEAKER_10]: Go to town. [SPEAKER_08]: 15. [SPEAKER_10]: That misses. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: The man staggers back to crossbow bolts in his chest. [SPEAKER_10]: He looks stunned for the moment.

11:26 [SPEAKER_10]: Do you press your attack or do you run? [SPEAKER_08]: Friend, we don't have to do this. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know where we are, what's happening? [SPEAKER_08]: We don't have to be against each other. [SPEAKER_08]: All right. [SPEAKER_08]: Cruise? [SPEAKER_10]: He looks down at the crossbow bolts.

11:38 [SPEAKER_10]: Looks at you. [SPEAKER_10]: And says, I'm making it out of here. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll see about that. [SPEAKER_08]: Hmm, I run. [SPEAKER_10]: OK. You run. [SPEAKER_10]: He's going to try and hit you again. [SPEAKER_10]: That's a mess. [SPEAKER_10]: OK. You head into the, into the labyrinth.

11:58 [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I don't know where else I'm going to go. [SPEAKER_10]: most of the most of the lifers have already gone through or lay dead in the opening area. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, you run into the lab strength and ahead of you. [SPEAKER_10]: You see three separate paths. [SPEAKER_10]: It branches to the left, to the middle, and to the right.

12:20 [SPEAKER_10]: Which one do you take? [SPEAKER_08]: Can I make a survival check to get a sense of a suitable path forward? [SPEAKER_10]: that's a 23 you look you chill for a second and then you hear a screen coming from the right hallway and you know if you go down that hallway there might be danger I'll make a left and I will cast long strider on myself as I go [SPEAKER_10]: great.

12:51 [SPEAKER_10]: You cast long strider on yourself, which means you move twice as fast through this lab strength as most of the other people. [SPEAKER_08]: Wow, okay. [SPEAKER_10]: And you descend deeper into this lab strength. [SPEAKER_10]: And would you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_10]: Would you call Rowan in?

13:12 [SPEAKER_10]: I'll do that. [SPEAKER_06]: Casey, you're being very saucy about all this. [SPEAKER_06]: Hi. [SPEAKER_10]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [UNKNOWN]: Hi. [SPEAKER_10]: Salome, you wake up, you are in a cell, about ten foot by ten foot, my ten foot. [SPEAKER_10]: All of the walls save the front, our half stone on the bottom, half bars on the top, affording a little privacy.

13:40 [SPEAKER_10]: The front is full iron bar. [SPEAKER_10]: To either side of you are other cells, [SPEAKER_10]: yours seems to be around the middle of a long row with another row across the way and one directly behind. [SPEAKER_10]: There's a cut in the middle of the room, bolted directly to the floor. [SPEAKER_10]: Outside yourself, the outside world shimmers, slightly as if the space between the bars were the surface of a bubble.

14:14 [SPEAKER_10]: You hear shuffling footsteps and a man muttering to himself. [SPEAKER_06]: I walk over to where I hear sound. [SPEAKER_06]: Do I see anyone else? [SPEAKER_06]: Or do I see anyone? [SPEAKER_10]: There are other people in cages. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Or other people in these cells.

14:33 [SPEAKER_06]: I assume no one I recognize. [SPEAKER_10]: No. [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, hell. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: We were just falling and we woke up here. [SPEAKER_06]: All right, uh, I think the first thing I do is just call out, hey, Dan, Wyatt, y'all here. [SPEAKER_10]: You shout that, and you hear from from another cell down the block.

14:55 [SPEAKER_10]: Shut up! [SPEAKER_10]: Who are you? [SPEAKER_10]: Same as you, a prisoner. [SPEAKER_06]: Alrighty, do you know who's got us? [SPEAKER_10]: Around that time, you see someone peek their head over the wall of the cell next to yours, peeking through the bars to see you. [SPEAKER_06]: The one who was shuffling?

15:17 [SPEAKER_10]: No, the other side. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna do a quick inventory check, but as I walk over there, what do I have on me of my things? [SPEAKER_10]: You have all of your things. [SPEAKER_06]: Aw, all right, that's unusual. [SPEAKER_06]: I walk over to someone who's peeking their head out and I say, hey, who the hell are you?

15:39 [SPEAKER_10]: Hey, I'm Lota. [SPEAKER_10]: Lota Dindrick, although I almost married a guy with the last name of Beas, you know, Lota Beas. [SPEAKER_06]: Ha ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_06]: All right, Lota pleasure to make your acquaintance. [SPEAKER_06]: What's Lota look like? [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, from what you can tell of Loda, you can't see much, uh, she looks to be a halfling woman.

16:01 [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, and she is struggling a little bit to pull herself up so that she can see you. [SPEAKER_06]: Loda, hey, do you know what's going on here? [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, she says, let me guess. [SPEAKER_10]: Trapped or got you? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, no, my friends and I were just outside, and I woke up here by myself.

16:21 [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, just, just about everybody here got a same story. [SPEAKER_06]: Did you know what happened to the people I was with? [SPEAKER_06]: What, what happened to you? [SPEAKER_06]: What, what, sorry, I'm a little confused right now. [SPEAKER_06]: Can you just, can you tell me what's going on?

16:33 [SPEAKER_10]: Sure, you're locked up. [SPEAKER_10]: You're in the pinch. [SPEAKER_06]: No shit, loader. [SPEAKER_10]: No, I mean like, like, you're locked up. [SPEAKER_10]: Like you ain't getting out of here. [SPEAKER_06]: What's happening? [SPEAKER_06]: Huh? [SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean by that? [SPEAKER_06]: What did they get you to?

16:51 [SPEAKER_10]: They got everybody in here. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to try to use a little bit of magic, just create some like a creative flower on Ironwood. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, you do. [SPEAKER_10]: She says, wow, look at that. [SPEAKER_06]: So you can, you can cast magic in here. [SPEAKER_10]: Ah, you can cast magic, but you're really not going to want to do too much that involves outside of this sale.

17:17 [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: What happens? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, you see that sort of shimmery thing. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, ma'am. [SPEAKER_10]: That's a reverberation spell. [SPEAKER_10]: It will bounce anything. [SPEAKER_10]: You try and cast a spell. [SPEAKER_10]: It's going to bounce it back at you.

17:31 [SPEAKER_10]: If you try to teleport outside of it, it's going to bounce you back in. [SPEAKER_10]: You're going to teleport into and out of the same place at the same time and into yourself. [SPEAKER_10]: And what I like to call squinch in yourself on a counter to the noise that a guy made when I saw him do it one time.

17:53 [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_06]: Who is they? [SPEAKER_06]: Who has us? [SPEAKER_10]: Beats the fuck out of me. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, so you just been here, you seen anybody? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, I mean, yeah, I saw the, you know, the past 11 people come through your sale. [SPEAKER_06]: What happened to them?

18:08 [SPEAKER_10]: Well, a couple of them blew themselves up trying to fireball their way out of here. [SPEAKER_10]: One guy got taken off to the games, though that didn't happen very often. [SPEAKER_06]: Wait, wait, sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: What's that? [SPEAKER_06]: What the games? [SPEAKER_10]: What is that?

18:23 [SPEAKER_10]: But that's uh, uh, well, I don't know much about him personally, I never had to go myself, but uh, I know what the people come back say, um, guy across from me, Gary, he got pulled three times for the games. [SPEAKER_10]: Guess he was real popular, didn't come back from the third one though.

18:45 [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, hey, alright, what did he tell you about the games? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, he told me that the first time they're sort of a, sort of a, is like a, like, tug-a-war. [SPEAKER_10]: He and the, uh, a lot of the other folks about, like, eight other people trying to tug one side of the other.

19:03 [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, but the losing team gets pulled over the ledge onto some spikes. [SPEAKER_10]: And then the second time he said it was like hide and seek, but they sent this fella, uh, uh, called, uh, called the, called the race. [SPEAKER_10]: after to seek them, rat nasty fail or turns invisible in the blink of an eye, no qualms about skewering people.

19:22 [SPEAKER_10]: And then, uh, only the gods know what happened to him the third time. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Have they been doing anything to you or have you just been down here since you've got here? [SPEAKER_10]: I've just been passing the time. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm working on my jokes.

19:37 [SPEAKER_06]: I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I [SPEAKER_10]: You're going to go through a phase where you're going to want to fight.

20:10 [SPEAKER_10]: You're going to want to think up schemes to get out of here. [SPEAKER_10]: You probably got people on the outside. [SPEAKER_10]: You see, it's easier if you forget about them. [SPEAKER_10]: Besides, they hardly ever pull from the trespassers for the games anyway. [SPEAKER_06]: How long you've been in here?

20:27 [SPEAKER_10]: Well, there is a point in time where I drew lines in the dirt on the floor to sort it like [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, that is all very good information. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry to hear you've been down here for so long. [SPEAKER_06]: And I will take your advice into consideration.

20:49 [SPEAKER_06]: Is anyone else here good, good to talk to? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, don't talk to the filler on the other side. [SPEAKER_10]: All he murders is I shouldn't be here. [SPEAKER_10]: I shouldn't be here. [SPEAKER_10]: Not very much of a conversationalist, if you ask me. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think he probably should be here.

21:04 [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think any of us should be here. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, but we are. [SPEAKER_06]: A load of his, have all of you ever tried to get out at once? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, problem is, not much an opportunity. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, what are we going to do fire on all cylinders at once and blow ourselves all up?

21:23 [SPEAKER_06]: Is it just magic? [SPEAKER_06]: Let's stop, there is it lockpicking and things like that too. [SPEAKER_06]: My friends are really good lockpicking if I can't get out, they probably could. [SPEAKER_10]: It's just about everything. [SPEAKER_10]: That bubble don't like you trying to reach on the outside.

21:36 [SPEAKER_06]: You stick your hand through, I heard you. [SPEAKER_10]: She holds up a hand that's, it looks to be healed at this point, but has pretty severe burning on it. [SPEAKER_10]: And as she holds it up, she goes, and drops. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, she was holding on to the- She was holding on with her other hand and fully drops out of sight and she goes, oh shit.

21:58 [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, near heart, sorry, you got to come back up, um- Oh, hold on. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, it's okay, it's easy, it's easy, you don't have to- Dang, I'm your strong. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, the upper body strength on you. [SPEAKER_06]: I always wanted to do a pull-up, I'm not real good at it. [SPEAKER_10]: What?

22:10 [SPEAKER_10]: I'm always interested in trying to talk to the other folks. [SPEAKER_10]: You should see, uh, you should see Derek on the other side back there. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, you don't do much anymore, but he used to be a lot of fun to talk to. [SPEAKER_06]: As we're here, I think that I would like to be.

22:29 [SPEAKER_06]: Mentally, in you'll have to tell me if I can do this, mentally siking myself up a little bit. [SPEAKER_06]: Like I think Solomon is just rocking her brain for every possible idea, opportunity is trying to like calm her breathing and like focus herself. [SPEAKER_06]: It's trying to remember every tactical bit of information that she learned from her family from Jamison from anywhere.

22:54 [SPEAKER_06]: And I want to use inspiring leader on myself to give myself an extra 16-10-page P. Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Great. [SPEAKER_06]: So then I'll give myself an extra 16-10-page P, just as, as all of this is happening, I think Solomon is kind of stealing herself for what may come. [SPEAKER_06]: What, what may come?

23:13 [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_10]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_06]: You said Derek, what, what happened to Derek? [SPEAKER_10]: I don't know, just sort of slumped over one day. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: So what would you recommend? [SPEAKER_06]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, like, sorry, I guess I wasn't clear.

23:33 [SPEAKER_10]: You just kind of got to make your own piece with it. [SPEAKER_06]: I'd prepare an attack action. [SPEAKER_10]: Again, slow to? [SPEAKER_06]: No, God no, again, anyone who comes through that door and I will wait. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, doesn't sound like I'm going to be able to find Hayden and Wyatt right now.

23:56 [SPEAKER_06]: So while we wait, you want to run me through a couple of those jokes you were talking about? [SPEAKER_10]: She smiles and says, you're the first person I ever asked. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a little dower in here. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: Liberty might not be for everyone, but my Aunt Mags always said there's nothing wrong with laughing through mortal danger.

24:14 [SPEAKER_10]: She smiles and says, my mom, you should say the same thing. [SPEAKER_10]: So, there's a bear in a rabbit walking through the woods. [SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

24:51 [SPEAKER_10]: is that you're seated on a leather couch. [SPEAKER_10]: It sticks to you a little bit. [SPEAKER_10]: As if you've lane here for a minute. [SPEAKER_10]: The third is that across from you, standing by the door is a fully grown owl there. [SPEAKER_10]: It's beak-wide in a snorkel. [SPEAKER_10]: As you take this in, you find that the animal does not move with you.

25:21 [SPEAKER_10]: on a spot just behind you. [SPEAKER_10]: In fact, as you look at its eyes, they seem much shinier than they should be. [SPEAKER_10]: It is stuffed. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you look around, you find the room you're in is covered, floor to ceiling, in taxidermy. [SPEAKER_10]: Everything from small, pleasant, and foxes to the mounted heads of mountain lions and displace her beasts, there must be well over 60 dead animals in this room, no to alike.

25:59 [SPEAKER_10]: Your couch faces the double door entrance to this room, and behind you is a long glass [SPEAKER_10]: And at the far end of this room is a desk, ornate with a stained glass lamp. [SPEAKER_10]: In the large back chair behind it, bear feet, or I guess I should say, bug bear feet fully on the desk, cigar in hand, is a bug bear man.

26:35 [SPEAKER_10]: He's easily in his mid-delate 60s, long sideburns, swooped down his leathery face, with a disproportionately dark scalp of hair fashioned in a pompot or style. [SPEAKER_10]: He wears suspenders over a collard shirt only buttoned partway to the top, and he sports massive rings on each finger, and large necklaces around his neck.

27:00 [SPEAKER_10]: In his lap is an Elven woman, maybe 20s though Elven ages are hard to tell. [SPEAKER_10]: She wears a bright pink dress, flashy and eye-catching, with blonde hair tied back in a highly stylized bun. [SPEAKER_10]: Her arms are wrapped around the bugbear man's leathery neck, and she's giggling.

27:23 [SPEAKER_10]: As you see them, the man blows a smoke ring from his cigar and grins, revealing one of his canine teeth to be solid gold. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, well, well, well, guys, it's shy to sleepy head, who are you, you get a pleasant sleep? [SPEAKER_09]: That couch, I know it's a slither, but I find it might have comfortable, it's one of my favorites.

27:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Who are you, who are you, where am I? [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry, man. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry, man. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry.

28:02 [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry.

28:14 [SPEAKER_10]: We're sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: He says, well, I guess I should introduce myself. [SPEAKER_10]: My name is Boyd Cringshaw. [SPEAKER_10]: But friends call me a boy, and so why don't you do that? [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, Boyd. [SPEAKER_10]: There we go. [SPEAKER_10]: That's the first step towards friendship.

28:33 [SPEAKER_10]: And as to your second question, well, we'll get to that in just a second. [SPEAKER_09]: First, how are you doing? [SPEAKER_09]: Why are you comfortable? [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, I guess, I'd be a lot more comfortable if you told me where I was. [SPEAKER_09]: Ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, you're in my office.

28:52 [SPEAKER_09]: Look around. [SPEAKER_09]: Each one of these animals I killed and mounted myself. [SPEAKER_09]: You lack them? [SPEAKER_09]: They're fine. [SPEAKER_09]: I've seen better. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, a sportsman you hunt. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, that was my father, but once again, where am I and where are my friends?

29:18 [SPEAKER_09]: The man to the point. [SPEAKER_09]: I like that. [SPEAKER_09]: I like that. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, he pops all of his knuckles in one go and says, [SPEAKER_09]: I guess, let me start with a little bit of a ramp up. [SPEAKER_09]: If you don't mind, well, I'm, but a humble, on trippy newer. [SPEAKER_09]: Abysiness may.

29:47 [SPEAKER_09]: If you like, and as for why I'm so busy, well, I'll answer that question with a question. [SPEAKER_09]: Why, if a man is deeply offended you in the eyes of the law, but not enough to deserve death, you understand, well, what do you do with him? [SPEAKER_02]: I would probably call my lawyer, or have somebody do that?

30:08 [SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [SPEAKER_09]: Not allowed.

30:33 [SPEAKER_09]: Who says you're not allowed? [SPEAKER_02]: The law we were just talking about. [SPEAKER_02]: Ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_09]: You mean 3d's law? [SPEAKER_09]: 3d's law don't extend out here. [SPEAKER_09]: How are you? [SPEAKER_09]: Anybody can smoke? [SPEAKER_09]: Well, I still don't want to.

30:51 [SPEAKER_09]: All right. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, if it's because you don't want to, then you don't have to. [SPEAKER_02]: Now that I've answered two of your questions, [SPEAKER_02]: How about you answer one of mine, and then we can continue to go back and forth? [SPEAKER_09]: Well, that's spoken like a true gentleman, taking turns.

31:11 [SPEAKER_09]: I like that. [SPEAKER_09]: I'll take a turn, why it? [SPEAKER_09]: And I'll answer your question. [SPEAKER_09]: Where am I? [SPEAKER_09]: You are in the finest Pintotentiary this side of three. [SPEAKER_09]: What's it called? [SPEAKER_09]: It's called the Pit. [SPEAKER_09]: though we prad ourselves on discretion, so I would not blame you if you had not heard of such a thing.

31:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Might as well give it a shot, could I roll history or something? [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: Why it's dumbass, gonna roll us three or something. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, there was a two on this dice, but it was a 12 minus one is 11. [SPEAKER_10]: why at the only penitentiary you've heard of is for penitents.

32:05 [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Which is the one pretty close to Thread. [SPEAKER_10]: The pit does not ring any bells. [SPEAKER_02]: If, if this is a penitentiary who comes out here, who comes out here? [SPEAKER_02]: The badlands are a little lawless. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to lie. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a little uncomfortable sometimes.

32:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, then you answered your own question. [SPEAKER_09]: It doesn't a place that presents itself as lawless needs some form of law and order. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but who are you to determine what that is? [SPEAKER_09]: Oh my. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh my. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh my.

32:41 [SPEAKER_09]: Why? [SPEAKER_09]: I'm just the simple busyness men that happens to find himself. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, why, let me back up. [SPEAKER_09]: I thought I made a backup and let me answer my earlier question. [SPEAKER_09]: If a man who rungs you, offends you in the eyes of the law, but does not deserve death, why you lock that man up, and throw away the key.

33:09 [SPEAKER_10]: You put him in a place you ain't never have to see him again. [SPEAKER_10]: Did you get locked up? [SPEAKER_10]: He smiles and says, well, there was a time when I was on that side of the bars, why [SPEAKER_10]: I was once a wicked man. [SPEAKER_10]: I looked at life from the other side and I had a lot of time to think and, you know what I thought, why, how inefficient it all was.

33:40 [SPEAKER_10]: People just sitting around, waiting for their lives to end. [SPEAKER_10]: While other people, they get rich. [SPEAKER_10]: And I thought to myself, well, if they can do that, [SPEAKER_09]: You see, penitentiaries there, some of the oldest occupations in this natural world. [SPEAKER_09]: All the normal people, they need to know that they're safe.

34:14 [SPEAKER_09]: You understand that the big baddies that want to hurt them and not, [SPEAKER_09]: And there's normal people, they don't have to kill them to do it. [SPEAKER_09]: Because killing is wrong. [SPEAKER_09]: You understand? [SPEAKER_09]: So by having a pintotentiary, by having a pin, you can throw away those baddies forever and not have their blood on your hands.

34:48 [SPEAKER_09]: And that's my contribution to society. [SPEAKER_02]: But that still doesn't answer the question of why you get to decide who comes in here or who doesn't, there, I just gave her back, oh, there are no laws anywhere out here. [SPEAKER_02]: We got chased by a slot machine. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, look at you.

35:18 [SPEAKER_09]: getting traced by slot machines. [SPEAKER_09]: Normally, they'd be the other way around grown men chasing slot machines. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm not allowed to do that either. [SPEAKER_09]: There's that word again, allowed. [SPEAKER_09]: Why are you or are you not your own person? [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, yeah?

35:37 [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah? [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: Then say it with your chest. [SPEAKER_02]: Go on now. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, are you going to make your own decisions? [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I can make my own decisions, but there are rules and guidelines to things. [SPEAKER_10]: See, and that's where we differ, you and I.

36:04 [SPEAKER_10]: A man knows precisely when rules need to be broken. [SPEAKER_09]: And that's what brings me to you being here today. [SPEAKER_09]: Is that you did break a number of rules? [SPEAKER_09]: To be sitting on my couch. [SPEAKER_02]: Can I have the itemized list, please? [SPEAKER_09]: Sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, for starters, trespassing.

36:32 [SPEAKER_02]: There were no signs, saying, do not know trespassing? [SPEAKER_09]: No, I do recall having those signs installed, so if you were unable to see them, that was not. [SPEAKER_09]: That's no fault of mine. [SPEAKER_02]: If they, although if they were not visible for anyone to be able to see, then that would be your fault, and they would not be enforceable.

36:54 [SPEAKER_09]: Hmm, well, potato potato. [SPEAKER_09]: That's the Jared's still staying. [SPEAKER_09]: blow that expression. [SPEAKER_09]: The charge still stays trespassing. [SPEAKER_09]: Not to mention, uh, breaking an entering, killing one of my guards. [SPEAKER_09]: All manner of forcing yourselves upon this property.

37:16 [SPEAKER_09]: That was self defense. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, self defense. [SPEAKER_09]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_09]: You're going to call you lawyer. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I'd like to. [SPEAKER_09]: Can I have a moment? [SPEAKER_09]: See, that's the problem, isn't it? [SPEAKER_09]: Is that in order to expedite the process of justice to make sure the bad people really get what they deserve out here?

37:40 [SPEAKER_09]: Well, it's fallen to me to be a judge, jury, and the third one. [SPEAKER_09]: But you know what? [SPEAKER_09]: You're a bad guy, and I don't think your friends are bad either. [SPEAKER_09]: So I'm willing. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm willing to forget this whole charade. [SPEAKER_09]: How's that sound?

38:12 [SPEAKER_02]: At the judge jury and the third thing statement, why it was had been concerned because he woke up in a hole with these two strangers? [SPEAKER_02]: But that I think was the first time. [SPEAKER_02]: that he almost felt threatened in this conversation, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: In return for what?

38:36 [SPEAKER_09]: Ah! [SPEAKER_09]: See, you're a smart, you're a smart man. [SPEAKER_09]: You know that there's no such thing as altruism. [SPEAKER_09]: Everybody's got a price, and everybody has something they want. [SPEAKER_09]: And it seems you've already learned that lesson. [SPEAKER_09]: Did you know that you talked a lot?

38:58 [SPEAKER_09]: I've been told, I apologize if I'm a little bit of a chatty Kathy. [SPEAKER_02]: No one else wants to listen to you down here? [SPEAKER_09]: Well, my wife likes to listen to me just fine. [SPEAKER_10]: Don't you hunt it, Bonnie? [SPEAKER_10]: And he and Honey Bunny pass kissy faces to each other.

39:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to insight check that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, go ahead. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, 21. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: On a 21, these kisses are surface level for both of them. [SPEAKER_10]: There is no true love to be had here. [SPEAKER_10]: I think both are on some level aware that they are using each other.

39:50 [SPEAKER_10]: you see a certain micro-expression cross-honey bunny's face before she fully delves in the character and gives kisses back um would you mind if I maybe talk to honey bunny alone a little bit he looks at you and says oh am I boring you with my company [SPEAKER_02]: No, but I just, I like to get different perspectives, you know, and she hasn't said a single word the entire time that we've been in here.

40:21 [SPEAKER_10]: Boyd nods and says, oh, right, honey bunny, why don't you and the boy step outside for a second? [SPEAKER_10]: This is my office. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, um, okay, sure. [SPEAKER_10]: You turn, and as you turn, you see there is one more person in this room. [SPEAKER_10]: In the corner at a small desk, he has been silent this whole time.

40:47 [SPEAKER_10]: There is a small, deep, no-mish man. [SPEAKER_10]: And no, not that one. [SPEAKER_10]: I was gonna ask, no, because that would be awful. [SPEAKER_10]: No, this deep, no-mish man has a small pair of spectacles that he nudges up his nose. [SPEAKER_10]: He runs his hand through his pale hair and is sitting quietly invested in what is going on.

41:15 [SPEAKER_10]: And as you and Honey Bunny make your ways to the door, Boyd kicks his feet back up onto the desk and says, Now don't go steal in her now. [SPEAKER_02]: What, why would I do that? [SPEAKER_09]: That's a joke, son. [SPEAKER_02]: It was? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh. [SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_10]: He just laughs at you as you go outside with Honey Bunny.

41:40 [SPEAKER_10]: And as you go out into the hallway, max. [SPEAKER_10]: What'd you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_10]: What? [SPEAKER_10]: Would you call in Robin? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, god damn it. [SPEAKER_10]: Sure. [SPEAKER_10]: Robin! [SPEAKER_10]: Hey, you are cutting through passageways. [SPEAKER_10]: You see the path in front of you.

42:07 [SPEAKER_10]: Take a sharp turn to the right. [SPEAKER_10]: at the turn of this passage is a ladder, leading up to a separate passageway that continues forward. [SPEAKER_08]: Great, I climb right up. [SPEAKER_10]: You climb the ladder? [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: As you go to the ladder, you hear noises.

42:29 [SPEAKER_10]: You look over, or the passageway that that turn leads into, leads down to another turn, and at that turn, you see a full-grown owl bear goring a man. [SPEAKER_10]: The number eight flickering over this man, and as you watch the eight flickers out, and you hear the cheers of the crowd beyond the shimmering wall.

42:55 [SPEAKER_10]: You go ahead and climb the ladder. [SPEAKER_08]: I, I still don't really have my bearings. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know what's going on. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know how I got here. [SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm gonna climb the ladder. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm gonna get to safety.

43:08 [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: As much safety as I can find here. [SPEAKER_10]: You start to climb the ladder. [SPEAKER_10]: As you touch it, you find it sticky. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh no. [SPEAKER_10]: You begin to ascend, but about three rings up. [SPEAKER_10]: You find your hands have become stuck. [SPEAKER_10]: And then, with a jolt, the ladder begins to large upward.

43:31 [SPEAKER_10]: You look up to see in the passage above, pulling the ladder up, claw over claw, is a mimic. [SPEAKER_10]: And you realize now, the ladder is its tongue. [SPEAKER_10]: As it pulls the ladder, closer and closer to its gaping, fangued mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_10]: You are grappled by the m-by the m-eck.

43:59 [SPEAKER_10]: You have disadvantage. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, on this strength attack to fruit yourself. [SPEAKER_08]: Glitter baby, Glitter baby help. [SPEAKER_10]: Glitter baby comes from your pocket. [SPEAKER_10]: Still here. [SPEAKER_10]: Glitter baby is also with you Glitter baby. [SPEAKER_10]: Your heaps up.

44:15 [SPEAKER_10]: And then looks up and goes, ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_10]: Just, I helped my Prima hands off. [SPEAKER_10]: later baby is going to negate your disadvantage on this check. [SPEAKER_10]: So go hang on. [SPEAKER_08]: Great strength. [SPEAKER_10]: Yep. [SPEAKER_10]: It is it is athletics. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that was cocked between an eight and a natural 20.

44:33 [SPEAKER_08]: Let's try that again. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I know, I'm, I'm sad. [SPEAKER_08]: Ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, that's an eight, the faiths of Spoken. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm stuck to this guy. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. [SPEAKER_10]: Escaping a grapple, a grapple, sure.

44:47 [SPEAKER_10]: To do so, it must succeed on a strength athletics or dexterity acrobatics. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_08]: If it's an acrobatics, then that is, [SPEAKER_08]: and eight plus eight 16. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you're good. [SPEAKER_10]: So that's a 16. [SPEAKER_10]: Yes, 16. [SPEAKER_10]: You are able to free a hand as you are brought up onto the ledge with this man, I can.

45:09 [SPEAKER_08]: Was that my action? [SPEAKER_10]: That was your action. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: I will cast Misty Step. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: To get away. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Are you going past the mimic or back down to the level you were on? [SPEAKER_08]: past the mimic, I think I can outrun the mimic in a way that I'm not sure I can outrun the owl bear.

45:29 [SPEAKER_10]: you teleport up the tunnel, pass the mimic. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you come out of that teleportation, you nearly smack headlong into a dwarven man coming up the side tunnel. [SPEAKER_10]: Long, dark, braided hair. [SPEAKER_10]: The number 12 hangs over his head. [SPEAKER_10]: And he goes, oh, any lurch's backward.

45:52 [SPEAKER_08]: Don't worry, buddy. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't have time for you. [SPEAKER_08]: He says, I got nothing. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't hurt me. [SPEAKER_08]: One plan and I just need to get going where I'm going. [SPEAKER_08]: Have you seen a blonde woman? [SPEAKER_10]: It's just a blonde. [SPEAKER_10]: I haven't had time to see anybody, buddy.

46:07 [SPEAKER_08]: All right. [SPEAKER_10]: He looks good. [SPEAKER_08]: He looks. [SPEAKER_10]: He sees the mimic behind you and says, uh, why don't we go that way? [SPEAKER_10]: I just don't. [SPEAKER_10]: He said he says, I'm going that way. [SPEAKER_10]: He points down the down the way that's tunnel continues.

46:21 [SPEAKER_08]: Let's go together for a minute then he says, okay, I'm coming to all right. [SPEAKER_10]: He says I'm I'm I'm Dern Aiden I check him, but we need to get running This is said as you're both running you're just like You continue a long and as you do the labyrinth Quiets you're able to outrun the mimic okay [SPEAKER_10]: you continue into a quieter section of the labyrinth.

46:54 [SPEAKER_10]: And he says, what are you in for? [SPEAKER_08]: I just fell on a hole. [SPEAKER_08]: What is this? [SPEAKER_08]: Do you know anything about where we are? [SPEAKER_10]: He nods and says, trespassing. [SPEAKER_10]: I was, I was mountaineering. [SPEAKER_10]: I fell on a hole. [SPEAKER_10]: I wound up in a cell.

47:14 [SPEAKER_10]: And uh, [SPEAKER_10]: There's a lot of other people around, also in for trespass and I guess I guess that happened to you too. [SPEAKER_10]: Um, and then the guards picked me out and threw me into the games. [SPEAKER_08]: I hadn't even see God. [SPEAKER_08]: Do I hadn't me? [SPEAKER_08]: Are we being watched?

47:33 [SPEAKER_08]: It's not like there was an announcement. [SPEAKER_10]: He says, from what I heard, I was able to talk to some some people in other cells. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't look the sound of that. [SPEAKER_10]: We're all in here competing for them. [SPEAKER_08]: Who's them? [SPEAKER_10]: I don't know.

47:56 [SPEAKER_10]: I never seen beyond the shimmery wall. [SPEAKER_08]: Can I make an insight check? [SPEAKER_10]: Go ahead. [SPEAKER_08]: This guy is very freely given out information, and I'm suddenly concerned. [SPEAKER_08]: Go ahead. [SPEAKER_10]: That is a 13. [SPEAKER_08]: okay if he is lying then he is still scared look I I don't know for certain but I think I've got some friends in here so let's keep an eye out you see a blonde woman in a dress or a little hobgoblin boy braces on his fangs they help you out they got a kid yeah [SPEAKER_08]: But he can hold his own, he knows what he's doing.

48:48 [SPEAKER_10]: I hope they can. [SPEAKER_10]: Me too. [SPEAKER_10]: You turn a corner. [SPEAKER_10]: A head of you, you see the path split into two separate ways. [SPEAKER_10]: Down one corner, or you look and see a teafling person backing into a corner. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, short, curled horns, spectacles, they have a sword out in front of them, the number 15 above their head.

49:22 [SPEAKER_10]: And as they stand there, apparently guarding themselves from something you see a dagger plant itself out of nowhere in their chest. [SPEAKER_10]: They stagger back, drop their sword, and then they are hoisted into the air by some unknown force, and you watch with horror as the knife makes its way down their front, spilling the moment.

49:54 [SPEAKER_10]: The number 15 disappears from above their head, and the crowd cheers once more. [SPEAKER_10]: As you watch a figure covered from head to toe in a suit of all white knights armor appears, they hold the T-flings body aloft in one hand and then discard it. [SPEAKER_10]: There is no number above their head as they turn to look at you.

50:28 [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, shit, I don't think that's the way to go. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's turn the other way. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, turn, turn, turn. [SPEAKER_10]: You look, turn has already cut down the other passageway and is running for his life. [SPEAKER_10]: You know what, I love the way you think. [SPEAKER_10]: You watch as, as you start to run, you hazard one last glance down the other hallway.

50:49 [SPEAKER_10]: You look and see this figure turn. [SPEAKER_10]: It's head faces you and then you watch it, [SPEAKER_08]: Can I cast a fairy fire? [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: Ooh. [SPEAKER_10]: You can try. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Honestly, this spell has never worked well for me before, so let's see what happens.

51:12 [SPEAKER_08]: This is a... Dex save for the night. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: What's the number to be? [SPEAKER_08]: 17. [SPEAKER_10]: on a 17 exactly, the night disappears. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, I'm running. [SPEAKER_10]: You bolt, and as you do, Robin, would you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_10]: Would you call in, would you call in, Rowan, please?

51:47 [SPEAKER_08]: I would love to, not be here anymore. [SPEAKER_06]: I have notes, I have information I want from Lota. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, you are your meditative, essentially. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm letting, I think I'm letting Lota tell me her jokes and as she's doing, I'm hoping this bolster is her confidence as well because I want to use inspiring later on her as well.

52:15 [SPEAKER_06]: Just in case, give her an extra 10, 10 page, extra 16, 10 page P. I just want to, I just want to let her high for self up. [SPEAKER_10]: Sure. [SPEAKER_10]: And as she, as she says, and the bear wipes his ass with the rabbit. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's a good one. [SPEAKER_04]: I entered that in a minute.

52:40 [SPEAKER_10]: You cast a spell on Loda? [SPEAKER_06]: No, I don't cast a spell on her. [SPEAKER_06]: I use my inspiring leader feet. [SPEAKER_06]: Just like bolsters people with like confidence and resolve, and it gives them an extra 16-10 page P. No magic necessary. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't believe so.

52:54 [SPEAKER_06]: This is not a spell. [SPEAKER_06]: This is just like helping people. [SPEAKER_10]: Of course. [SPEAKER_10]: She immediately, you see after she tells the joke, you see, she pulls herself up enough that you can see her smile. [SPEAKER_10]: And she says, hot damn, that's the best one. [SPEAKER_10]: That's the best time I ever told that one.

53:15 [SPEAKER_06]: You know the delivery was real spot on for you. [SPEAKER_06]: It was really got got you just got such a bright smile Lots up the room. [SPEAKER_10]: We need to get you out of here So you can show it to more people The smile falters a little bit and she says Yeah, yeah That'd be great. [SPEAKER_06]: I can not tell you secret sure you want to yeah a couple friends of mine and I [SPEAKER_06]: just got a group of folks out from underneath Blackthorn Hollow that had been there for six months.

53:49 [SPEAKER_06]: I damn. [SPEAKER_10]: Blackthorn Holler. [SPEAKER_06]: My family was down there. [SPEAKER_06]: I had to hear them tell it. [SPEAKER_06]: Just about everybody in that town at all but lost hope of getting out. [SPEAKER_06]: So much so that my life and turned yourself into a tree to make sure that what was keeping them down there didn't get out either.

54:07 [SPEAKER_06]: but we went down there and we got them out. [SPEAKER_06]: So, at least for now, our track record seems to be one for one in terms of getting folks out of months long imprisonment situations. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, okay, I hope you're, hope you're right. [SPEAKER_06]: You'll be the first to know if I am.

54:32 [SPEAKER_06]: Um, I'm also going to lay on hands myself just to get myself back up to full. [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. [SPEAKER_06]: Load it. [SPEAKER_06]: I got a question for you. [SPEAKER_06]: If this place here is for trespassers, what, I mean, what were you doing here? [SPEAKER_06]: And, has, do you know if there's places that they take other people?

54:53 [SPEAKER_06]: Besides, here in the games? [SPEAKER_10]: This is where you? [SPEAKER_10]: Back in, um, back? [SPEAKER_10]: in my time on the outside. [SPEAKER_10]: I was a little bit of a, uh, what's the phrase? [SPEAKER_10]: A conspiracy theorist. [SPEAKER_10]: And I believed that there was a town around these parts.

55:20 [SPEAKER_10]: They said a town of legend, town of knights, that walked the earth still, that they do things as they did a thousand years ago. [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm, I was looking for it, and I, well, I guess I took a wrong turn. [SPEAKER_06]: And if you found a place like that, what would you want to do?

55:43 [SPEAKER_10]: Well, I'd go back to, I'd go back to gym. [SPEAKER_10]: That shithead, and I wouldn't tell him that I was right, with a whole time, and I would stand up before our entire friend group, and I would say I was right, and you was wrong, and you can all kiss my ass. [SPEAKER_06]: Hmm, would you say that even if the people from that town told you they didn't want to be found?

56:10 [SPEAKER_10]: Well, I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: You'd be surprised, some secret stay secrets for a long time, and sometimes that's how some people stay alive. [SPEAKER_10]: Stay alive. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: They hadn't because they, because they're in danger? [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if you were.

56:31 [SPEAKER_06]: Practicing away a life that the powers that they didn't understand and might look down on, you might be hiding out too. [SPEAKER_10]: I don't know about all that. [SPEAKER_10]: That's all little over my head. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I don't know if they really asked me not to... Fuck. [SPEAKER_10]: But then I wouldn't be able to tell Jim about all this.

56:56 [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: That shithead Jim would win. [SPEAKER_06]: I have a you'd know you won in your heart. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but you know how men get... Oh, do I ever? [SPEAKER_10]: Nice to just rub his face in it. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, you know what I get it. [SPEAKER_06]: Jim, friend?

57:14 [SPEAKER_10]: Listen, Jim's on again off again. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh Lord, girl, you're better than that, come on. [SPEAKER_10]: Listen, I will listen. [SPEAKER_10]: I don't want to hear it. [SPEAKER_10]: I hear it from everybody. [SPEAKER_10]: So why don't you, if you think you're so good, I bet you've never been in a bad relationship.

57:35 [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I hold up the gun and say this used to be uh, my husbands. [SPEAKER_06]: We were uh, on again off once. [SPEAKER_06]: Holy shit. [SPEAKER_10]: Did you? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I did. [SPEAKER_10]: Hot damn was he rich? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he was. [SPEAKER_10]: You take his money, didn't you?

57:53 [SPEAKER_06]: No, I didn't. [SPEAKER_10]: Shit, that, that startled sir. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I guess I, over time, got, got a couple weeks at a time. [SPEAKER_06]: I'd take five gold off the top of what he gave me to go chop and with, but that was just enough money to leave. [SPEAKER_06]: Damn, I just wanted out.

58:13 [SPEAKER_10]: And now you hear. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, trying to get out again. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, both are card. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they are. [SPEAKER_06]: You, uh, [SPEAKER_06]: You ain't seen any nights from any kind of secret cities around here, have you? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, honey, if I had, they would get no peace from me.

58:39 [SPEAKER_10]: I would be asking him questions all hours of the damn night. [SPEAKER_06]: Ah, you know what, you and me both, I'd be real curious to see a place like that. [SPEAKER_10]: She cracks a gear in, and as she does, over her shoulder, you see two guards come around the corner of this row. [SPEAKER_10]: One of them, a human woman, and the other a large hog man.

59:03 [SPEAKER_10]: Ooh. [SPEAKER_10]: That's a hog man, consults a piece of paper, and then points. [SPEAKER_10]: The other agrees, and they start to walk towards yourself. [SPEAKER_10]: The two guards approach, walking up to the cell, next to yours. [SPEAKER_10]: The cell, with the terrified man, on the other side, [SPEAKER_10]: as one of them begins to fiddle with the keys you hear him scream.

59:29 [SPEAKER_10]: No? [SPEAKER_06]: No? [SPEAKER_06]: No? [SPEAKER_06]: Leave me alone! [SPEAKER_06]: Hi, I stay away from me! [SPEAKER_06]: What are y'all doing to him? [SPEAKER_10]: The guards pay you no mind as they begin to shuffle through the keys, and he says, stay away from me! [SPEAKER_10]: I swear to God, I'll!

59:44 [SPEAKER_10]: You see, from over the wall, a large fireball. [SPEAKER_10]: Launch from his fingertips. [SPEAKER_10]: It burns through the air towards the guards, then hits the shimmer. [SPEAKER_10]: It bounces off, brushing back towards the man who manages a soft, oh, before it connects. [SPEAKER_10]: An explosion of flame erupts as fiery pieces of this man decorate the interior of a cell.

1:00:16 [SPEAKER_10]: Loda gives a low whistle. [SPEAKER_10]: The other looks over, and then points at your cage, Solana. [SPEAKER_06]: What the hell did you do to him? [SPEAKER_10]: The Hogman shrugs, and then they move towards your cage. [SPEAKER_10]: And Lotus says, oh damn, are the 12 people who lived in your cell?

1:00:38 [SPEAKER_10]: That was the shortest time yet. [SPEAKER_10]: I hope the next one is nice as you. [SPEAKER_06]: I stared out on the guards and say, I'll be back, Lord, don't worry. [SPEAKER_10]: The Hogman begins to shuffle through the keys as the other guard turns and motions to a guard down at the end of the hall.

1:01:03 [SPEAKER_10]: You see that guard turn and pull out your liver. [SPEAKER_10]: You feel a lurch as the floor begins to drop out from under you. [SPEAKER_10]: You have two seconds to do something. [SPEAKER_06]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_10]: You cast invisibility on yourself. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: The floor begins to drop away.

1:01:26 [SPEAKER_10]: And the hog man does a double take at yourself. [SPEAKER_10]: And emotions for the other guard, the other guard throws the lever and the floor stays put. [SPEAKER_10]: Both guards peer into the cell. [SPEAKER_10]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_06]: I do nothing. [SPEAKER_10]: The hog man fiddles with the keys again [SPEAKER_10]: sort of nods to the cage and they think for a second.

1:01:57 [SPEAKER_10]: The Hogman shakes his head, starts to turn, the other guard grabs the keys from him and starts to unlock the sound to investigate. [SPEAKER_10]: The Hogman roars. [SPEAKER_10]: He pushes the guard to the ground as you hear the lock click. [SPEAKER_06]: Has it swung open at all or is it still closed in the shimmer still?

1:02:20 [SPEAKER_10]: It starts to swing open, you see the shimmer dissipate. [SPEAKER_10]: You have five seconds before the Hogman relax the door. [SPEAKER_06]: I pull the door open and I use my ready action to attack him. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: The opening of the door is an object interaction. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay.

1:02:38 [SPEAKER_10]: So you do that for free. [SPEAKER_06]: Great. [SPEAKER_10]: That's your warning. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to attack. [SPEAKER_06]: him and if it hits I will probably use a shove attack on the other one okay but I do get advantage on this attack because I'm invisible okay I rolled two sticks is but let me see what that is with the lord um that's two sixteenths to hit that just hit oh yes okay great [SPEAKER_06]: I will, yeah, I will attack him.

1:03:12 [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to smite or anything because he's just a guard and I think I want to save some stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: But with a melee attack, that doesn't extra deten, right? [SPEAKER_06]: So it's a D8, plus a D10. [SPEAKER_10]: Not yet. [SPEAKER_10]: Your next successful attack gets won. [SPEAKER_10]: You stack it onto your next attack.

1:03:27 [SPEAKER_10]: So your first attack is just regular damage. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, first attack is 11 damage. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: How's he looking? [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, he's not looking bad. [SPEAKER_06]: Brett, and then the lady is still as she prone. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, she's prone right now. [SPEAKER_10]: She's starting to get up.

1:03:43 [SPEAKER_06]: Alright, uh, well, in that case, I mean, I will attack him again. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I come out of invisibility, so does my, I think my second attack would not have to have disadvantage or have advantage? [SPEAKER_10]: It would not. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, that's okay. [SPEAKER_06]: That's a, um, 22 to hit.

1:04:00 [SPEAKER_10]: That hit. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, great. [SPEAKER_10]: World Amage. [SPEAKER_06]: 21 damage. [SPEAKER_10]: Ooh, so 32 total. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Wow. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, he stackers back. [SPEAKER_10]: Just completely stunned by what just happened. [SPEAKER_06]: And I just, I choose it.

1:04:17 [SPEAKER_06]: I start running. [SPEAKER_10]: You full run. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll take the opportunity to take if I need to, but I, I, I, I choose it. [SPEAKER_10]: You hear him scream. [SPEAKER_01]: You hear load a shout go go you got this get out of here. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll come back for you girl.

1:04:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Hold on You got this Tell you my sin fuck you you tell him yourself and you run [SPEAKER_10]: down the row of cages, you pass cells, left and right. [SPEAKER_10]: All of them, the residents look to see what's going on. [SPEAKER_10]: You pass another stunned guard on the way and you keep running.

1:05:01 [SPEAKER_05]: Great. [SPEAKER_10]: Deeper into this place. [SPEAKER_10]: And would you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Would you call in Max? [SPEAKER_06]: I can call in Max, yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: why it. [SPEAKER_10]: You make your way out into the hallway with honey bunny. [SPEAKER_02]: Can I, while I'm talking to honey bunny, can I use my passive perception to kind of clock anything coming from that room?

1:05:25 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a 19 or would you like me to roll just to kind of have the reason I'm saying passive is because just to kind of [SPEAKER_10]: have it going I think passive is good and with a 19 you'll be able to clock if anything goes on in the room you may not I think for for specifics you'll need to roll for it okay but with with a passive perception of 19 you get the sense that as soon as the doors close you hear whispering oh I got [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, you catch a snippet, you catch like as soon as the door's close You hear the deep, no-mish man turn and say Did they get to really get a work?

1:06:14 [SPEAKER_10]: Do you think we've got everything we need this time? [SPEAKER_10]: to which Boyd replies, Hush, dark, hush, all in good time. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, worrying's not good for that already receding hairline. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you catch the end of that, you are snapped out of listening that conversation by the flick of a lighter.

1:06:39 [SPEAKER_10]: And you look, and honey bunny is lighting up a cigarette. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you, too. [SPEAKER_02]: That's not good for your health. [SPEAKER_10]: Um, she, uh, with a cigarette between her lips, says, all right kid, what you want. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, just to start. [SPEAKER_02]: Boyd is the warden.

1:06:59 [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_10]: She scrunches her face for a second and then says, I only in depth, you want me to go on that. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, as in depth, as you feel that you need to do, [SPEAKER_10]: I really like learning she shrugs and says alright well I'm here to make sure that boss man has somebody to come home to with the end of the day someone to rub his big leather shoulders someone to she takes the dragon says blow off steam with oh look watch the [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, we get those flicks over here.

1:07:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's fun. [SPEAKER_02]: Boyd said he gets really rich running this place. [SPEAKER_02]: This is a profitable prison. [SPEAKER_10]: She gives you a look. [SPEAKER_10]: And she says, get it, you ever heard of a non-profit prison. [SPEAKER_10]: I assume that they all were. [SPEAKER_10]: Hey, oh no.

1:08:06 [SPEAKER_10]: What are you gonna do to pay the guards, kid? [SPEAKER_10]: Taxes. [SPEAKER_01]: With taxes. [SPEAKER_01]: No, with taxes. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you think people are paying taxes out here, kid? [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't understand. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just very confined. [SPEAKER_02]: What's happening here?

1:08:19 [SPEAKER_10]: Do you come out here to talk finances with me? [SPEAKER_10]: Or do you got a question on your mind? [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, I was just wondering what it is that you do here, because when we were in there, you didn't say anything, because Boyd talks a lot. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, well, she extends her ring finger at you.

1:08:36 [SPEAKER_10]: And there's a huge rock on it, and she points, and she says that is my ticket here. [SPEAKER_10]: This gains me anything I want, and all I got to do is shut up, though I will say it is kind of nice to be asked questions from time to time. [SPEAKER_10]: So I do appreciate that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, of course.

1:09:01 [SPEAKER_02]: I can ask more if you'd like, particularly, I'm going to ask me a couple first and then I have one really big question for you. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, go to town. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you know where my friends are that I came here with? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, she flicks out her cigarette and stamps on it and says, not a chance, kid.

1:09:24 [SPEAKER_10]: I ain't thrown away my meal ticket on a counter you and your friends. [SPEAKER_10]: Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you. [SPEAKER_10]: Next question. [SPEAKER_02]: Why isn't anybody telling me where my friends are? [SPEAKER_10]: Because it's a prison. [SPEAKER_10]: Sweetie. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, they did the same things that I did.

1:09:45 [SPEAKER_10]: Why aren't they here? [SPEAKER_10]: She size and says, [SPEAKER_10]: that you have, that your little friends don't have. [SPEAKER_10]: We know you're little Wyatt Forsyth. [SPEAKER_10]: You come from money. [SPEAKER_11]: How do you know that? [SPEAKER_10]: Perhaps we ain't the middle and nowhere Hicks you think we are.

1:10:14 [SPEAKER_10]: Maybe we got connections too. [SPEAKER_10]: Now you got any other questions for me? [SPEAKER_02]: Why? [SPEAKER_02]: I think hearing that statement, like, almost like activates why it, in a sense? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: What questions do you have about the eternal flame?

1:10:39 [SPEAKER_10]: This fully catches her off guard and she sort of, she is, sorry, that was the big one. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the big one. [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: What? [SPEAKER_10]: eternal flame. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, ain't it dead? [SPEAKER_10]: And that's what says that the double doors swing open and Boyd says We're now I think that's quite long enough with the lady Funny, but why don't you go out and play?

1:11:11 [SPEAKER_10]: Let them in talk and Honey bunny immediately [SPEAKER_10]: It is a lesson in acting. [SPEAKER_10]: The way she flips on a persona. [SPEAKER_10]: Why it takes notes? [SPEAKER_01]: She turns and says, absolutely anything you lack. [SPEAKER_10]: Huh? [SPEAKER_10]: I'll just go. [SPEAKER_10]: I'll go freshen up.

1:11:35 [SPEAKER_10]: She turns and steps lightly away on very tall high heels. [SPEAKER_10]: Still atos, even. [SPEAKER_10]: And then boy turns to you, and says, you get everything you need. [SPEAKER_02]: Where are my friends? [SPEAKER_09]: Where are your friends? [SPEAKER_09]: Where are your friends? [SPEAKER_09]: Where are your friends?

1:11:58 [SPEAKER_09]: Where are your friends? [SPEAKER_09]: Hell, son, if I didn't know better, I'd say your daddy was a parrot. [SPEAKER_02]: You know who my dad is. [SPEAKER_02]: Miss Honey Bunny just told me. [SPEAKER_09]: A look crosses his face. [SPEAKER_09]: He says, Interesting. [SPEAKER_09]: I wonder what your daddy would think of you running around with two, uh, what did you say fugitives of the law?

1:12:25 [SPEAKER_09]: I thought the law was important why it stops talking at that, but I'm willing to forgive all of that, like I said before, I'll let you and your friends skitter on out in [SPEAKER_02]: What do you want, what do I want, well, what I want to know, what you want, what were you doing here exactly, were you looking for something, I was coming out here with my friends help to come on a journey of personal growth, boys eyes and narrow as you say that, he says, right, [SPEAKER_09]: Apropos of nothing, I thought has entered my mind.

1:13:21 [SPEAKER_10]: Why don't I take you on a little tour of the Facilitas, right before you and your friends skitter on out of you, you'll get to see our finest holding cells, I'll take you down to the fountain of the flame itself, dried up as it may be. [SPEAKER_09]: And all I ask in return is that you and your friends keep to that discretion I talked about before.

1:13:47 [SPEAKER_09]: Don't go telling anybody you found the pit. [SPEAKER_09]: Understand? [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Miss Solomon would want me to take that deal. [SPEAKER_10]: That's interesting. [SPEAKER_10]: That's very interesting. [SPEAKER_10]: But Miss Solomon, here right now, [SPEAKER_02]: Wyatt tries to not show excitement at the found and fear and can feel like he's just trying to keep... he's doing everything he can to keep a straight face in this moment.

1:14:26 [SPEAKER_10]: I am going to ask you to roll a deception check and the only reason I ask that is because [SPEAKER_10]: You can't tell what Boyd is thinking, but he offers out his hand and he says, Do we have an accord? [SPEAKER_10]: Deal. [SPEAKER_10]: Boyd extends his hand and says, Why don't we shake on it?

1:15:01 [SPEAKER_10]: Lock me. [SPEAKER_10]: Do you shake his hand? [SPEAKER_10]: Very reluctantly. [SPEAKER_10]: Boyd's grip is strong as fuck. [SPEAKER_10]: He grips your hand as you shake. [SPEAKER_10]: A little startling for a man of his age. [SPEAKER_10]: And then he says, well, tour time it is. [SPEAKER_10]: Why don't we head on down this way?

1:15:29 [SPEAKER_10]: And he claps you on the back and you begin your descent into the pit. [SPEAKER_10]: And max. [SPEAKER_10]: What'd you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_10]: No. [SPEAKER_10]: Would you call in? [SPEAKER_02]: No, Robin. [SPEAKER_02]: No, you could do that yourself. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: After that, you could do that yourself.

1:15:52 [SPEAKER_10]: Hey. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_10]: You are running from your encounter with this night. [SPEAKER_10]: You... [SPEAKER_10]: dart down an alley, dart down another, you are hot on Dern's heels as you both run. [SPEAKER_10]: With Dern's sort of just going, uh, uh, left. [SPEAKER_10]: You run left.

1:16:16 [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, uh, I don't know. [SPEAKER_10]: You, you come to an intersection and there's a left or a right, which one do you take? [SPEAKER_10]: Left. [SPEAKER_10]: You both hard left. [SPEAKER_10]: Down the hall. [SPEAKER_10]: And continue and then around a final corner. [SPEAKER_10]: You look, there's a long stretch of hallway and then an open area, a clearing.

1:16:39 [SPEAKER_08]: I book it towards the clearing. [SPEAKER_10]: You both book it towards the clearing, you reach the outside and you look. [SPEAKER_10]: It looks like the entrance area, there is a, there is a semicircle, but the very tip of the semicircle, you see a red line. [SPEAKER_10]: And behind that line, you see three people.

1:17:05 [SPEAKER_08]: Who are these three people? [SPEAKER_10]: The first three people to get across the line. [SPEAKER_10]: Ooh. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you register this information, you hear Dernsay, I'm sorry, I got people on the other side. [SPEAKER_10]: And he is going to attempt to shove you to the ground.

1:17:26 [SPEAKER_10]: He's gonna try. [SPEAKER_10]: He shoves you, and you do not fall to the ground. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, Dern. [SPEAKER_08]: Five minutes not gonna make this easier. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's go into this together. [SPEAKER_10]: No, that's not how it works. [SPEAKER_10]: Four people cross the line.

1:17:48 [SPEAKER_10]: Everybody else stays behind. [SPEAKER_10]: And then he starts to run. [SPEAKER_08]: Mmm, I cast in Tangle. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: You cast in Tangle. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, do I need to make a save? [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, strength safe. [SPEAKER_08]: DC 17. [SPEAKER_10]: You see, vines erupt from the earth.

1:18:11 [SPEAKER_10]: And hold tight to his legs. [SPEAKER_10]: He falls forward, and the vines and snare his arms as well. [SPEAKER_10]: He says, no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and I run. [SPEAKER_10]: You run. [SPEAKER_10]: You see other people begin to emerge from the maze as you cross the line, as you do, you hear a woo, and a shimmer lunges up from the red line, closing the four people in.

1:18:39 [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, and you hear, Betrayo, folks, I hope you had your money on number four, what, un, upset. [SPEAKER_10]: And as the force field closes, you see one of the sides of the arena open. [SPEAKER_10]: And many reptilian heads emerge. [SPEAKER_10]: Ah fuck, as a full blown hydra enters the arena.

1:19:11 [SPEAKER_10]: And he says, [SPEAKER_10]: I'm so sorry, better luck next time and you watch as one of the hydra heads snatches up Dern and as that happens the platform your on begins to descend Who's with me who's here? [SPEAKER_10]: There are three other people on this platform with you right now. [SPEAKER_10]: The first is an Owlish era coca with the number one over their head.

1:19:50 [SPEAKER_10]: The second a dragonborn missing one of their horns with the number 19, an elven woman with Auburn hair with the number 20. [SPEAKER_10]: and all of them are in varying states of panting. [SPEAKER_10]: The Aracokras syncs to their knees and just seems to be in a days, right now. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you are all there, the platform begins to descend into the earth as if on some sort of police system.

1:20:26 [SPEAKER_10]: And as it makes its way down, you hear from behind you a creek, and then you are pulled through a hidden door. [SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha! [SPEAKER_10]: You are in a hallway. [SPEAKER_10]: Your eyes adjust to the darkness, and you see a figure. [SPEAKER_10]: Glad in black leather armor, a helmet like a dog's face, full leather mask.

1:20:55 [SPEAKER_10]: and this person stares at you. [SPEAKER_08]: Where are my friends? [SPEAKER_10]: This person un-snaps the side of their mask and begins to pull it off. [SPEAKER_10]: You see dark, coily hair much shorter than last time and piercing green eyes emerge from beneath the mask. [SPEAKER_10]: And Belinda Bartle, the famous touring barred reveals herself to you.

1:21:23 [SPEAKER_10]: Girl, what the fuck are you doing here? [SPEAKER_10]: And she says, damn, I was kinda hoping I would ask you the same thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Fuck, I have you, I mean, it is you, right? [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, she holds up her hands and says, I, oh, I, she pulls, no, her hair is, her hair is actually too short to accommodate.

1:21:45 [SPEAKER_10]: Now, she, from her belt, pulls a Jade hairpin. [SPEAKER_10]: friend still got this. [SPEAKER_10]: If she's alive, well, I'm open that might be the case. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I'm open it too. [SPEAKER_10]: You all had a information on my brother, right? [SPEAKER_10]: We do. [SPEAKER_10]: We saw him not a couple of days ago.

1:22:10 [SPEAKER_10]: She smiles. [SPEAKER_10]: It says, thank God. [SPEAKER_10]: It's not safe here. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, I'm fucking [SPEAKER_10]: You keep close, all right? [SPEAKER_10]: You- Uh, I mean, sure, absolutely, I'll talk to anybody who knows you won't, but what's going on then I do. [SPEAKER_10]: She placed us the mask back on and together, you had deeper into the pet.

1:22:41 [SPEAKER_10]: Would you go ahead and call in, Rowan? [SPEAKER_10]: Sure, I hope it still means that they're in the game. [SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_10]: are running. [SPEAKER_10]: You find the edge of this vast, vast room. [SPEAKER_10]: And there is a long staircase leading up. [SPEAKER_10]: Do you head up?

1:23:12 [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, absolutely. [SPEAKER_10]: You head up. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you do, you look out and you see what you didn't necessarily see before. [SPEAKER_10]: the rows of the cages, there are hundreds of them down here. [SPEAKER_10]: And as you look, they circle off around the corner as if this entire place is built in a circle.

1:23:38 [SPEAKER_06]: I think Solomon genuinely wonders to herself what is worth keeping this many people alive and imprisoned here. [SPEAKER_06]: She's been thinking very tactically for the last little while and there is this [SPEAKER_06]: The Jamisons would probably say that it is too expensive to keep this many people alive and imprisoned for no reason.

1:24:08 [SPEAKER_06]: Unless you are somehow making more money by keeping them here than not. [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: You head up. [SPEAKER_10]: You head out a door into another hallway and you keep running. [SPEAKER_06]: I would be calling out for Hayden and Wyatt, but I don't want to draw more attention to myself.

1:24:31 [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm, there is a point where you pass some guards. [SPEAKER_10]: They watch you run past them and chuckle to themselves. [SPEAKER_10]: And one of them says, uh, another one, another rookie late to their boast. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, so I could fit in with a guard right now. [SPEAKER_10]: It doesn't look like the guards have uniforms.

1:24:51 [SPEAKER_06]: Great. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: And you are in full armor. [SPEAKER_06]: Alright, hell yeah, then I'll I'll stop at the guards. [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm, you stop. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: And they sort of look at you. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, hey, I'm so sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I am her running behind.

1:25:06 [SPEAKER_06]: It is my second day on the job, and I'm lost as a whole hell. [SPEAKER_06]: Can y'all help me find where I'm going? [SPEAKER_10]: One of them says, uh, yeah, where the hell are you going? [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm, uh, we got a couple new trespassers in today.

1:25:19 [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, one of these. [SPEAKER_10]: Wait, darling. [SPEAKER_09]: I ain't that just Tuesday. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: No, Jim. [SPEAKER_06]: It's, it's, it's, there's a lot of them down there. [SPEAKER_06]: I was just talking to one. [SPEAKER_06]: She didn't seem to know where any of them were, but you were talking with the prisoners.

1:25:34 [SPEAKER_06]: Shit. [SPEAKER_06]: Am I not supposed to do that? [SPEAKER_10]: I just don't know why you would. [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_06]: Was asking her where? [SPEAKER_06]: Because I, uh, [SPEAKER_10]: you think for a second and as you do one of the other guards says, look, where are you going?

1:25:46 [SPEAKER_06]: I'm trying to get to where they're keeping the folks that they just brought in today. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm supposed to be gardening and I'm already late. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, well, you got to go to, uh, uh, you got to go to collections. [SPEAKER_10]: Stay on the hall of that way. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, it's past the library.

1:26:03 [SPEAKER_06]: Down the hall, past the library. [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, where are the games happening today? [SPEAKER_10]: They look at each other. [SPEAKER_10]: They say, God, damn you're new. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, no, sorry, I'm real fresh. [SPEAKER_06]: I just came over here because I don't know if y'all heard about Red Rock burning down, but I just came out here looking for work.

1:26:21 [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, okay, well, I don't really care about that, but the game's happening in the arena. [SPEAKER_10]: That's what the arena's for. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, but which way is it? [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not that stupid. [SPEAKER_06]: Where's he? [SPEAKER_10]: He's all right. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I need direction.

1:26:35 [SPEAKER_06]: Can you just give me like a map or something? [SPEAKER_10]: There's 10 minutes left in my break. [SPEAKER_10]: I'll just fucking take you there. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_10]: A little turns to the other one goes fucking rookies. [SPEAKER_10]: Alright, come on. [SPEAKER_10]: And they start to lead you down a hallway.

1:26:52 [SPEAKER_10]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: A turn here, a turn there. [SPEAKER_10]: You are making your way down. [SPEAKER_10]: When you look through one of the open doorways you pass. [SPEAKER_10]: And it looks to be a library. [SPEAKER_10]: There are bookshelves, a table in the middle of the room, and on that table is a book, and that book is flipped open to a page that has a picture of the flame on it.

1:27:21 [SPEAKER_06]: As a lion, or as like the symbol of the eternal flame? [SPEAKER_10]: It is a drawing, so it's not perfect, but it looks like a artistic rendition of the flame, as a lion. [SPEAKER_06]: all right. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, you know what? [SPEAKER_06]: I'm so sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: I just realized I was supposed to stop in at the library first to grab some identification and some badges and things like that actually before.

1:27:49 [SPEAKER_06]: So I'm going to actually stop in here. [SPEAKER_06]: I'll find you said it was down the hall to the left or down the hall to the right, right left right left. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm trying to be annoying as I can right now. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, they both look at each other and go, yeah, just take a right at the end of the hallway.

1:28:04 [SPEAKER_10]: Jesus. [SPEAKER_06]: All right, it's fine. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, no. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, you sure you can wait for me if you want to. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to go, uh, you know what actually, uh, I said I had a couple minutes left in my break. [SPEAKER_10]: That's not true. [SPEAKER_10]: It ends right now.

1:28:13 [SPEAKER_10]: So I'm I'm going to go. [SPEAKER_06]: Are you sure? [SPEAKER_06]: I'd love to hear someone to hang out and talk. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to fucking go. [SPEAKER_10]: Bye. [SPEAKER_10]: They both take off. [SPEAKER_06]: Great. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I sneak you sneak over to the library and uh, at least start looking through the book.

1:28:29 [SPEAKER_06]: If not, grab it. [SPEAKER_10]: You take a look at the book. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: The book is a journey through fire, the flame and its people. [SPEAKER_10]: The page it's open to is earmarked. [SPEAKER_10]: It is flipped open to a passage that seems to be about the fount of the flame.

1:28:52 [SPEAKER_10]: And it says, despite the flames, massive surges of power, for all its time, [SPEAKER_10]: It has been sealed, and only one flame touched can unlock its doors, and bring forth ni unlimited power. [SPEAKER_10]: Should those unworthy find this power, all hell would break loose? [SPEAKER_10]: And as you read this, someone else walks in the room.

1:29:33 [SPEAKER_06]: I think I immediately think of why it with someone flamed touched, but yeah, who walks in? [SPEAKER_10]: You look and see a small, deep-known man, not that one. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, you had me scared for a second. [SPEAKER_10]: With spectacles and pale hair, walk in. [SPEAKER_10]: He stops, sees you, and says, who the fuck are you?

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