The Badlands - Ep. 54: Flame-Touched

0:19 [SPEAKER_03]: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Mage Hand High Five. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm your dungeon master, Casey Pappeth. [SPEAKER_03]: Are you? [SPEAKER_05]: Casey Pappeth. [SPEAKER_05]: Are you? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm Casey Pappeth. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_02]: This is Mage Hand High Five.

0:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_00]: It's TK. [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and with me. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, excuse me. [SPEAKER_03]: No, you know what my name's Casey Pappas and with me ranked least to most likely to forget someone's name immediately after meeting them I know the answer to this are we all one A-B and C we'll see first up [SPEAKER_03]: Max Weinberg.

1:09 [SPEAKER_03]: Whoo! [SPEAKER_01]: Hello. [SPEAKER_01]: I am Max Weinberg playing a hate and not like a kid. [SPEAKER_00]: What is a good day? [SPEAKER_00]: I forgot Hayden's name. [SPEAKER_00]: I forgot why it's name. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm playing White Forest. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not Hayden King Kade. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think I've already proven this ranking wrong.

1:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Next, Robin Lengenhawk. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, hi, I'm Robin Langenha, playing Hayden Conkade. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm actually the one playing Hayden Conkade, by the way. [SPEAKER_05]: And this is a big problem for me in college where people would come up to me and start talking to me because they already knew my name and names were never exchanged.

1:46 [SPEAKER_05]: And then I'm months into this friendship. [SPEAKER_05]: The name moment never happened. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm just hoping that somebody else will say their name and my presence so I can finally learn it. [SPEAKER_00]: Robbins that famous. [SPEAKER_03]: Ron McStay. [SPEAKER_00]: Casey, I am Ron McStay playing Salamai Breyer and you are wrong all the way down.

2:05 [SPEAKER_00]: I am probably very good with names and I have actually a list on my phone of people that I meet and associations of how I met them so that I don't forget people's names when I meet them. [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I did well. [SPEAKER_01]: So that means you are a bad but you just try to compensate for it.

2:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I guess I have a system to have a system. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I have a system because I'm bad at remembering anything. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I remember people's names by writing them down. [SPEAKER_00]: What's my association in your phone? [SPEAKER_00]: Some asshole.

2:40 [SPEAKER_03]: With that. [SPEAKER_03]: This is the part of the episode where I'd normally dive into the recap. [SPEAKER_03]: But [SPEAKER_03]: We were all separate, the whole time last time. [SPEAKER_03]: We don't know what happened. [SPEAKER_03]: And you'll have it come together. [SPEAKER_03]: So I am going to ask Robin and Max.

3:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Would you please leave the table for a little bit? [SPEAKER_03]: What if I said no? [UNKNOWN]: And then just move ahead. [SPEAKER_05]: Bye, Row, and I hope you're alive when I get back. [SPEAKER_05]: Me too. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Salome. [SPEAKER_03]: You came to learn that you'd been captured as a prisoner of the pit from your neighboring prisoner, Loda.

3:23 [SPEAKER_03]: Loda also let you know about the games, where prisoners compete in death matches. [SPEAKER_03]: When guards arrive to take you to the games, you escape and found yourself in the library, where a book on the flame detailed a prophecy about how only one flame touched could open the found to release great power.

3:45 [SPEAKER_03]: When we last left off, you were interrupted by the arrival of a deep, no man. [SPEAKER_03]: He stands before you now, saying, who the fuck are you? [SPEAKER_00]: I want to do a snap judgment of this fella. [SPEAKER_00]: Does he look like someone who belongs in a library? [SPEAKER_00]: Or does he look like he's like the muscle?

4:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm, roll inside. [SPEAKER_00]: Gee, that is only, oh, that's a 13. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, he seems the scholarly type. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_03]: He has little spectacles, suspenders. [SPEAKER_00]: Great. [SPEAKER_03]: He seems like he knows a thing or two about books. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, great.

4:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I give him a passing glance. [SPEAKER_00]: and then put on as much of a rich person sort of important air as I possibly can muster. [SPEAKER_00]: I reach down into a toiletry bag or something, just a small bag that I have at my side, slip on Theo's signet ring onto my left ring finger, and pull out some lipstick to kind of mask that I've just done something.

5:03 [SPEAKER_03]: The O signal ring. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I have the O's signal ring from Echo. [SPEAKER_00]: This is TJ on it. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you stole it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yep. [SPEAKER_03]: Yep. [SPEAKER_00]: So I reached my hand down basically, slip on a ring and pull out lipstick as if I was reaching in for lipstick.

5:19 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just ignore him and keep reading. [SPEAKER_03]: He hesitates and then he says, excuse me. [SPEAKER_00]: Can I help you? [SPEAKER_03]: This area is not allowed for visitors. [SPEAKER_03]: Who are you? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, darling. [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, sure you. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not someone who's authority you want a question.

5:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you'd like to cause the powers that be a whole hell of a lot of money. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you make a habit of interrogating your shareholders in their spouses? [SPEAKER_03]: He... [SPEAKER_03]: He fully stops in his tracks and goes, [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, how inemitting upstairs, and they assured me that you would be more than happy to show me around.

6:03 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't mention a name, but they said a little no much fellow would. [SPEAKER_03]: And who's... who's they? [SPEAKER_00]: My husband? [SPEAKER_00]: You can call me Mrs. Theodosha's Jameson, if you like. [SPEAKER_03]: He blinks and says, Theodosha's Jameson? [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm? [SPEAKER_00]: Now, darling, are we done here?

6:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I've already given you too much information. [SPEAKER_00]: Did you roll something? [SPEAKER_03]: I rolled, I rolled insight, and then I rolled history. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm. [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, both of them, nap ones. [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, that's crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: I sort of like flash the like ring on my left ring finger that says TJ on it, as I do my little lipstick and put it back in my bag.

6:53 [SPEAKER_03]: You see his demeanor change. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm. [SPEAKER_03]: Mrs. Jameson. [SPEAKER_03]: I apologize for my previous demeanor with the business that we run. [SPEAKER_03]: It's extremely difficult to tell sort of who's who we really really don't get visitors down here. [SPEAKER_03]: In fact, you were not supposed to be given access to this room.

7:22 [SPEAKER_03]: We don't allow anyone access to this room. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is that so? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood things I had thought that you would be eager to give us access, consider in that we have information from the book of rota that might be useful to you. [SPEAKER_03]: He blinks again, and he says, [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, is that... Oh!

7:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you mean to tell me that you are after the source of power, the fountains of flame, and you know nothing about Rota. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that is so interesting. [SPEAKER_03]: He looks at you and he says, That book, you got open there. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Can I see it? [SPEAKER_00]: I want to make an insight check again.

8:11 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: 14. [SPEAKER_03]: He's suspicious. [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: You think maybe the information in this book is not public information. [SPEAKER_00]: It's your library to your heart, take it if you want. [SPEAKER_03]: He holds out a hand and goes to take the book.

8:34 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, it's his library. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, he takes it. [SPEAKER_03]: What's it under one arm? [SPEAKER_03]: and says, why don't we see about getting you back up to the upper levels? [SPEAKER_00]: Right, I'd love that. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, in fact, I think there's he checks his watch.

8:50 [SPEAKER_03]: I think we're set for another round of games here in a few. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, would love to see that. [SPEAKER_00]: It has been a minute since I've had some quality entertainment and you know how it is waiting for folks in business meetings. [SPEAKER_00]: Would you escort me to the best seat you can find?

9:08 [SPEAKER_03]: absolutely. [SPEAKER_03]: Now where are you assigned seats? [SPEAKER_00]: I believe we were, but I seem to have misplaced the tickets. [SPEAKER_03]: Of course. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, why don't we just pop by the front desk and we can have those reissued to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh well, thank you so much.

9:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have really earned your, well, no doubt, meager salary today. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, sorry. [SPEAKER_03]: You, you see a look flash over his face that he didn't contain. [SPEAKER_03]: And then he's all smiles again. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, dear. [SPEAKER_00]: What did you say your name was?

9:46 [SPEAKER_03]: He said, ah, I'm Doctor, uh, my name's Dr. Devlin Dervish. [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Durvish, well, that appreciates your hospitality, and I'm sorry I got myself turned around and lost in your library. [SPEAKER_03]: He smiles and says, not a problem. [SPEAKER_03]: The layout of this complex is, well, complex.

10:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course it is. [SPEAKER_03]: He holds out a hand, as if to guide you to your seat. [SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful. [SPEAKER_00]: I give him my hand. [SPEAKER_03]: uh, and he escorts you from the library as he does, he turns starts down the hallway that you were originally going towards, but as he heads that way, he turns and heads up a flight of stairs instead with you and toe.

10:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, so we found our way, sort of downstairs. [SPEAKER_00]: I was meant to be upstairs. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, you know, the old telly. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm terrible with directions. [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, of course, I will say it's very lucky that you didn't go down further, the further down levels are just, well, they're unpleasant.

11:02 [SPEAKER_03]: And they're not meant for the good public. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you handle any of the unpleasant business? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, as the Game Master, and sort of head magician on staff, it's my job to make sure that things are running smoothly. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, now they did not tell me that you were the Game Master, you're telling me that you're the mastermind behind the hide and seek game, I heard that was legendary.

11:33 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you must understand that, I mean, did you really believe that Boyd Crenshaw had all of the brains to keep this operation going? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Mr. Crenshaw is certainly a good businessman, but it takes a little more doing to come up with something elaborate as something like the games.

11:58 [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, of course he's... [SPEAKER_03]: You know how businessmen are. [SPEAKER_03]: They're a lot of ideas, but sometimes it's no more than that. [SPEAKER_00]: Do I ever tell me what draws you to this field, to this career? [SPEAKER_00]: What, what was the calling for you? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, personally I just like the work.

12:27 [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: It's innovative. [SPEAKER_00]: Creative. [SPEAKER_00]: Certainly. [SPEAKER_03]: It allows me to do things with magic that no one has dreamed of, and hopefully, well, we're like you said before we're hoping to expand soon into a new line of business. [SPEAKER_00]: It's all my smiles and thinks I'm on a kill this man and says, right, I imagine some of the deals being discussed upstairs are related to the expansion.

12:59 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes. [SPEAKER_03]: He shrugs and says, it's a little early to be advertising such things. [SPEAKER_03]: I thought we would be [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, a little bit longer in development, but, uh, you know, Boyd. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm sure you can handle it, Doctor. [SPEAKER_00]: Clever, individual, the char.

13:25 [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_03]: I, I appreciate your kind words. [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, Miss J. Mason. [SPEAKER_03]: It's about that time when you get to, uh, a large set of doors. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: That he opens. [SPEAKER_03]: You see him press a hand against it. [SPEAKER_03]: The lock on it's this big complex lock that's clicks all by itself, as he places his hand on it.

13:59 [SPEAKER_03]: And it begins to open. [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me, Dr. Dervish, as he's going to do this, why would you hide such a magnificent library behind closed doors? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, sensitive information. [SPEAKER_00]: understood. [SPEAKER_03]: You must understand that in order to continue in this world, it is a necessity to protect one's brand.

14:25 [SPEAKER_03]: And it doesn't take a business man like boy Grinshot to know that. [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I appreciate the escort. [SPEAKER_03]: Of course. [SPEAKER_03]: You pass through the doors. [SPEAKER_03]: Will you send in Robin? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely. [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking Game Master, huh?

14:51 [SPEAKER_00]: That's interesting. [SPEAKER_00]: Peace of shit. [SPEAKER_03]: 8. [SPEAKER_03]: You woke up thrown into a death match. [SPEAKER_03]: After a series of near-death scrapes, including one with a mysterious night, who could seemingly turn invisible on command, you made it to the end of a labyrinth, finishing fourth of four.

15:14 [SPEAKER_03]: When we last left off, you were pulled from the platform by one of the guards who revealed herself to be Belinda Bartel in disguise. [SPEAKER_03]: Where you are now. [SPEAKER_03]: You are beside Belinda heading deeper into the pit. [SPEAKER_05]: Now, uh, Miss Bottle, uh, I'm sure you get this all the time, but I, I'm kind of out of my element here and separated from a friend.

15:40 [SPEAKER_05]: I, I don't really know what's going on. [SPEAKER_05]: Just to, suit my soul a little bit. [SPEAKER_05]: Do you mind singing me a little song? [SPEAKER_05]: She, looks at you. [SPEAKER_05]: And says, uh, you're right. [SPEAKER_05]: I overstepped. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm so sorry. [SPEAKER_05]: Pretend I never said it.

15:59 [SPEAKER_03]: I, I don't know that we really know each other that well. [SPEAKER_05]: You're right. [SPEAKER_05]: You're absolutely right. [SPEAKER_05]: That's, that's too forward even for a close friend. [SPEAKER_05]: You know what? [SPEAKER_05]: Let's just keep going. [SPEAKER_05]: Let's keep a heads on straight.

16:10 [SPEAKER_03]: She, as she's, as she's going along, she puts her mask back on and says, all right, you don't look like a guard. [SPEAKER_03]: So, you're going to have to be my prisoner. [SPEAKER_05]: You clearly know more about this than I do. [SPEAKER_05]: So I will defer to your thoughts on it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I've been here for a minute.

16:31 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, and she takes out a pair of handcuffs and she says, I got the key for these. [SPEAKER_03]: Do you trust me? [SPEAKER_05]: Who? [SPEAKER_05]: You know what? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't have a better scenario. [SPEAKER_05]: So yes. [SPEAKER_03]: All right. [SPEAKER_03]: And she clicks the handcuffs around your wrists.

16:50 [SPEAKER_03]: And says, this is just to, we gotta sell it, nor to be able to move through this place unnoticed. [SPEAKER_03]: She'll think. [SPEAKER_03]: We'll head deeper down and see, do you know, I just got a message from Solomon, they not that long ago? [SPEAKER_03]: Is she here? [SPEAKER_05]: To my understanding she was, we were trying to get into the fountain of the flame.

17:11 [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if you were trying to get to the same location, but now when we fell in a hole and I just ended up in this pit. [SPEAKER_03]: in the pit. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that sounds about right. [SPEAKER_05]: Are that other places that they could have gone? [SPEAKER_05]: Because it really seemed like whoever went into the pit didn't come out besides the four of us on that platform.

17:34 [SPEAKER_03]: But there's there's typically two places that people go when they come here. [SPEAKER_03]: And that's into into the prison itself or into the games. [SPEAKER_05]: All right, well, [SPEAKER_05]: Let's just all hope they're made it into the prison, because if they're made into the games, yeah, I don't want to think about that right now.

17:54 [SPEAKER_03]: And then she stops and says, so all my told me Brad is his life. [SPEAKER_05]: It's all myself. [SPEAKER_03]: Where is he? [SPEAKER_05]: Well, girl, I'll tell you. [SPEAKER_05]: He's not making smart choices. [SPEAKER_05]: I could tell you that much at least. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, and the sky is blue.

18:13 [SPEAKER_05]: He's off to [SPEAKER_05]: bag himself with Jamison, brother. [SPEAKER_05]: He's heading to three. [UNKNOWN]: Fuck. [SPEAKER_05]: If you, if you and I managed to get out of this safe limb, we found Solomon and why it, uh, a new little one they haven't met yet. [SPEAKER_05]: You're welcome to come along with us.

18:32 [SPEAKER_05]: Hopefully, we can intercept him. [SPEAKER_05]: Why? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, sweet little church of the flame, kid. [SPEAKER_05]: He's figured out that the church is actually terrible, or at least some subsets of it, but he's only up and up with us. [SPEAKER_03]: Eternal flame. [SPEAKER_03]: He's a flame kid.

18:47 [SPEAKER_05]: Best one I've ever met. [SPEAKER_05]: And you should know that I don't take Kylin the most flame is. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, then he might not have gone into the cages. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, is there a third option? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, there is the powers that be that run this place. [SPEAKER_03]: They have been scooping up.

19:11 [SPEAKER_03]: flame devotee used by the, by the, by the wagon load. [SPEAKER_03]: Each of them seems to be getting sort of private interviews, oh, by the man upstairs. [SPEAKER_05]: Are they meant to survive these private interviews? [SPEAKER_03]: Depends on whether they get the job. [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know what the job is?

19:37 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't. [SPEAKER_03]: I've only seen them round and am up and taken them up to his office. [SPEAKER_03]: I need you to understand, my tenure as a guard is not that long. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which you start out here? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I came snooping around this place because I thought this might be a plate that Brabist might have got himself caught here.

19:56 [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: I got caught thrown into the games, survived, and then a guard slipped up, slit his throat, took his clothes. [SPEAKER_03]: I was going to see I was going to continue to check this place to see if Robis is here, but now that y'all have told me that he's not. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, now is a good time to cut and run.

20:18 [SPEAKER_05]: You're working along with us. [SPEAKER_05]: You just got to help me find the others. [SPEAKER_03]: Alright, we got to make it quick, though. [SPEAKER_03]: We'll do what? [SPEAKER_03]: These folks, they're stupid, but they're not that stupid. [SPEAKER_05]: Alright. [SPEAKER_03]: I will have to check all the levels one by one.

20:35 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know where they put Sala May, but if why it's not with the boss, he may be... [SPEAKER_03]: There's a cell block where they keep all the flame people. [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we start there? [SPEAKER_03]: I'm literally in your hands now, I'm handcuffed, so... She starts heading out.

20:53 [SPEAKER_03]: down a couple hallways. [SPEAKER_03]: This place is Labyrinthine. [SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to keep track of where you are in it. [SPEAKER_03]: You're down one hallway and then up another passing doors that lead, who knows where. [SPEAKER_03]: And then you come out onto a balcony. [SPEAKER_03]: You come out onto this balcony and look over [SPEAKER_03]: And down below are hundreds of cells.

21:26 [SPEAKER_03]: They take up the entire room below this huge room. [SPEAKER_03]: And everyone in these cells looks to be fully armored. [SPEAKER_03]: They all seem to have their stuff, their weapons, but they're in these cages. [SPEAKER_03]: And as you look closer, you see sort of a shimmer as if the space between the bars on these cages were the surface of a bubble.

21:56 [SPEAKER_03]: It's glossy, it's shiny, and you continue along this balcony. [SPEAKER_03]: You're continuing along, and a couple of guards pass you. [SPEAKER_03]: And as you do, you see, you see a familiar figure. [SPEAKER_03]: Rounding the corner with the rest of the guards behind them is the armored figure from the labyrinth.

22:24 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, they stand out. [SPEAKER_03]: Everyone's armor is sort of gl- is like not kept up, it's ramshackle, it's dirty, it's working armor, their armor is clean. [SPEAKER_05]: I am going to... [SPEAKER_05]: very quickly, if I have the chance, change my face to look more like a regular elf, okay, and have my coat become less noticeable, less ostentatious so that I don't look like a person that they just attacked in the games.

23:02 [UNKNOWN]: All right. [SPEAKER_03]: you pass them, you pass the guards, you pass this figure, the figure spares a passing glance, y'all's way, and then continues with the rest of the guards. [SPEAKER_03]: The other guards are talking their sightland. [SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, that was closer than I would have liked.

23:24 [SPEAKER_05]: What? [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I think I got a [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if it's the exact same one, but I'd recognize that, oh my, anyway. [SPEAKER_03]: You were lucky to get out of it, that's the rath. [SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, well... [SPEAKER_05]: I don't like the name of it, and I certainly didn't like fighting it.

23:45 [SPEAKER_03]: The rath is sent in as a sort of... as an ace. [SPEAKER_05]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: There are crowd-favorite. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you believe that everybody has a soul. [SPEAKER_05]: Solomon tells me they do. [SPEAKER_03]: They're, they're compelling argument towards, maybe not everybody does.

24:06 [SPEAKER_05]: Did they get sent after specific people in the games? [SPEAKER_03]: From what I can tell, they pick off the weak ones. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, well, I was fully expecting to get a compliment of they go after the, the big, strong, impressive ones and [SPEAKER_05]: I guess I got to walk that thought back.

24:24 [SPEAKER_05]: I thought myself a little bit of an actor. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I guess. [SPEAKER_03]: She snickers says, just be careful. [SPEAKER_03]: If shit goes south, they're going to get sent in. [SPEAKER_03]: And probably I should run. [SPEAKER_03]: And probably you should run. [SPEAKER_03]: You continue on your way.

24:52 [SPEAKER_05]: Will do? [SPEAKER_03]: Why? [SPEAKER_03]: You awoke in an office, and were greeted by Boyd, Krin Shah, and his wife, Honey Bunny. [SPEAKER_03]: Boyd revealed himself to be the warden of a prison built over the fount of the flame, and that the party were being held for trespassing. [SPEAKER_03]: In speaking with him and with Honey Bunny, you gathered that the fount had dried up, and that they were not keen on letting you see your friends.

25:22 [SPEAKER_03]: When we last left off, Boyd had offered a tour of the facilities, starting with the found of the flame. [SPEAKER_03]: Where you are now? [SPEAKER_03]: You are making your way down and as you may have guessed, Boyd has not stopped talking this whole tour. [SPEAKER_03]: He is going a mile a minute talking about how, we just had these new cages installed over here and they are the pinnacle.

25:51 [SPEAKER_03]: of Encatchement. [SPEAKER_03]: And if you look over here, we have the finest gods on display. [SPEAKER_03]: You look and there are guards just sitting around. [SPEAKER_03]: None of them are on duty. [SPEAKER_03]: They are not active. [SPEAKER_03]: They are just sitting there. [SPEAKER_01]: So how many prisoners do you have here?

26:17 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow, that is a great question. [SPEAKER_03]: Last I checked, we were pushing. [SPEAKER_03]: I'd say at least 1,200. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, wow. [SPEAKER_01]: 2,200, kid. [SPEAKER_01]: How do you feed that many people? [SPEAKER_01]: You're in the, we're in the middle of the desert. [SPEAKER_01]: There's no farms.

26:36 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, look at you. [SPEAKER_03]: Looking to go into the business yourself. [SPEAKER_03]: You are asking all of the right questions. [SPEAKER_03]: You see, kid, this line of business is about [SPEAKER_03]: government contracts you see we are doing the community a service so the community takes care of us every prisoner we get here we get stoppins we get contracted fees we get food delivered here for them in that's something I just didn't know that [SPEAKER_01]: The government was so lucrative, son.

27:22 [SPEAKER_03]: Why do you think people go into politics? [SPEAKER_03]: Because it's lucrative. [SPEAKER_03]: Let me tell you something. [SPEAKER_01]: Who are the richest people in the world? [SPEAKER_01]: The Jamesons, but they have... [SPEAKER_01]: The Jameson Company, that's right. [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, that was too... You're thinking too specific.

27:43 [SPEAKER_03]: It's the people who sell the things we can't live without, medicine, food, prisons, politics, the people who run everything. [SPEAKER_03]: They got something that everybody needs. [SPEAKER_03]: If you find something that people need, you stake a claim in it. [SPEAKER_03]: and then you sell it for everything they got.

28:15 [SPEAKER_03]: And that's why I'm in prisons. [SPEAKER_01]: What is your daddy do? [SPEAKER_01]: There's a long silence at that question. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what he does. [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't tell me. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, maybe when you scuttle on out of here, you'll ask him. [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe.

28:42 [SPEAKER_03]: It is about that time that you cross into a room labeled cell block F. You see cells containing nights. [SPEAKER_03]: People within signals of the flame priests. [SPEAKER_03]: And then you pass a cage and your heart almost stops. [SPEAKER_03]: He sits on his cot, head in his hands, his hair is a lot grayer than when last you saw him.

29:22 [SPEAKER_03]: He does not wear his briefs, robes, father-multinin is in one of these towels. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, boy, uh, what did these people do, and points to like three cells, including father-moldenance, so is hopefully not to draw attention to the fact that he knows one of them. [SPEAKER_01]: Where?

29:50 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what these folks in particular did, but the point of this place is that we take the where the really, really bad people. [SPEAKER_03]: The people who ain't never getting out. [SPEAKER_03]: Now, we in the business, we like to call them livers. [SPEAKER_03]: And we got this deal with four pintents.

30:09 [SPEAKER_03]: When they start to run out of room, they send their livers on over to us, and then we got more livers. [SPEAKER_03]: So whatever these folks did, where a lie bet you dollars donuts that it was something real off. [SPEAKER_03]: And then as Boyd's talking about this, he's already walk past the cells.

30:30 [SPEAKER_03]: He is, uh, he's headed on over to the elevator. [SPEAKER_01]: Why it? [SPEAKER_01]: Knowing that Boyd isn't looking at him hasn't taken his eyes off, Father Maldonan and says, oh, um, sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I, um, can I go to the bathroom? [SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's, it's been a while. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't, I don't know how long I was out.

30:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? [SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, we're gonna have to head right back up. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's okay, I don't just as long as there's like a latch from good. [SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't have to be fancy. [SPEAKER_03]: No, you really don't want the bathroom's down here. [SPEAKER_03]: Therefore, uh, guards.

31:11 [SPEAKER_03]: He says that my guards following just sort of look at each other. [SPEAKER_01]: And I look at the guards and go, and what's wrong with that? [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, boy, grimaces and says, [SPEAKER_03]: Alright, if you die in there, it's not my concern. [SPEAKER_03]: Alright, guard bathrooms are over here.

31:31 [SPEAKER_03]: He brings you over to some restrooms. [SPEAKER_03]: He says, don't take too long, though. [SPEAKER_01]: I will do my best. [SPEAKER_01]: And why it heads in? [SPEAKER_01]: To the bathroom. [SPEAKER_01]: Great. [SPEAKER_01]: goes in, picks a stall, locks it, and I want to cast sending to Father Moldenon.

31:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And the reason I had to do it somewhere private is because all of my spells have verbal components. [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: So here is my message that I'm sending to Father Moldenon. [SPEAKER_01]: Father, this is why I'm in the prison at the fountain. [SPEAKER_01]: My friends and I will get you out by the flame, keep you warm.

32:14 [SPEAKER_03]: You send it. [SPEAKER_03]: There is a brief pause, and then [SPEAKER_03]: There is cuckophony in your head. [SPEAKER_01]: God dammit. [SPEAKER_03]: The message compiling them upon itself in your head. [SPEAKER_03]: You hear your own words bounce off the lining of your skull. [SPEAKER_03]: The words of, made of flame, people make flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame

32:51 [SPEAKER_03]: And for a second, it is unbearable, and then it finally dies down. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm still in here. [SPEAKER_01]: I would also like to cast legend lore on the found to the prison. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it does take 10 minutes to cast the spell. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, yeah, I, I'll say about seven minutes in you here at Bung Bung Bung on the door.

33:20 [SPEAKER_03]: And what, and boy, it's saying, just a minute. [SPEAKER_03]: Come on, I'm just, pinch it out. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm, I'm sorry, sorry. [SPEAKER_03]: 10 minutes passes, like these spells go, it is a series of pictures. [SPEAKER_03]: In the first picture you see a desolate world, fully, fully wasteland, you see no life whatsoever.

33:54 [SPEAKER_03]: and you see a jet of flame erupt from a large bowl-like indention in the earth. [SPEAKER_03]: A jet rises in the midst of this darkness. [SPEAKER_03]: The next picture you see people traveling to it. [SPEAKER_03]: You see life has grown and has grown to take this as a place of worship. [SPEAKER_03]: They come to this flame.

34:23 [SPEAKER_03]: And then you see the church. [SPEAKER_03]: You see church leaders, their fingers twitching on their desks. [SPEAKER_03]: and you see those leaders shut down the found. [SPEAKER_03]: They say that it is sacrilegious, that it is a distraction, that it is not a correct place to worship. [SPEAKER_03]: And then you see the land on which the found sits, [SPEAKER_03]: being sold.

35:12 [SPEAKER_03]: You see hands being shook. [SPEAKER_03]: You see a slightly younger boy building on top of the fountain. [SPEAKER_03]: And you see that jet disappear under layers and layers and layers of cells. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna free you if it's the last thing I do. [SPEAKER_01]: And then why it heads out of the bathroom.

35:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, sorry about that boy. [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I pity the guard that goes in after you after what you must have done in there. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, all right. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's head to the elevator and you start to leave cell block F. As we leave, as we're like walking past Father Maldene again, can I?

36:11 [SPEAKER_01]: try to like kick a like a rock like you do kind of down the street and hopefully towards father Maldon and sell to look up and see me like to yeah yeah yeah you do that let me have you roll a stealth check to keep it under wraps what you're doing okay that's um that's a four [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.

36:37 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You pick the rock. [SPEAKER_03]: It hits the bars. [SPEAKER_03]: You can get a little bit harder than you mean and it skitters quickly and and bounces off the bars of [SPEAKER_03]: Father Maldon and Cell. [SPEAKER_03]: It makes a loud ringing noise that echoes throughout this room.

37:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Immediately the two guards with Boyd turn and Boyd says, what the hell was that? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm sorry, I kicked a rock. [SPEAKER_01]: Hit a, hit a cell. [SPEAKER_01]: It's okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Hit some bars. [SPEAKER_01]: You kicked a rock. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you kicked a rock. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, like you've never dragged your feet before.

37:21 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't. [SPEAKER_03]: do the kind of stuff down here. [SPEAKER_03]: You gotta be careful. [SPEAKER_03]: The people down here, they put his hands on your shoulders, says the people down here, they ain't gonna give you a second chance. [SPEAKER_03]: You give them one slip, one inch, and you'll be dog meat.

37:45 [SPEAKER_03]: You understand? [SPEAKER_03]: They're saying the kind of business that you can fuck around in. [SPEAKER_01]: Understood? [SPEAKER_03]: Come on, and as you start to leave, you look back and you see Father Moldin and has seen you. [SPEAKER_03]: He makes no motion. [SPEAKER_01]: I give him a little wink and a smile.

38:10 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives a small smile. [SPEAKER_03]: And you turn and come upon a set of bronze elevator doors set into the wall. [SPEAKER_03]: Boyd clicks the button and says, Rat, the elevators not big for the all of us, so you too, he points to the guards. [SPEAKER_03]: Go, uh, I don't know, go play patty cake or something.

38:40 [SPEAKER_03]: And then he, as the elevator doors open, he puts a hand on your shoulder and says, after you white. [SPEAKER_03]: And as he says that, Max, [SPEAKER_03]: Would you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_03]: No? [SPEAKER_03]: Would you call in Rowan for me? [SPEAKER_03]: Do it yourself. [SPEAKER_03]: Solomon.

39:05 [SPEAKER_03]: You are with Doc Devlin Dervish. [SPEAKER_03]: Doc opens the doors to the upper level. [SPEAKER_03]: And as he does, you see that the difference between this side [SPEAKER_03]: This side is Drab the wallpaper peels. [SPEAKER_03]: There's closed doors and small windows and guards. [SPEAKER_03]: And then you pass through the double doors and the doctor takes care to close them behind you as you open into a lobby.

39:50 [SPEAKER_04]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: You look the doors behind you say, employees only, and this lobby is nice. [SPEAKER_03]: Tiled floors. [SPEAKER_03]: Large windows overlooking a pretty picturesque outdoors. [SPEAKER_03]: There doesn't seem to be a front door. [SPEAKER_03]: Weirdly. [SPEAKER_03]: There's a large circle.

40:19 [SPEAKER_03]: In the middle of the room in the tile, set into the tile, and then a cross is a what appears to be a front desk. [SPEAKER_00]: Are there other people in here? [SPEAKER_03]: There are. [SPEAKER_03]: There are people in line. [SPEAKER_00]: What do the people look like in terms of money, background, origin?

40:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh. [SPEAKER_00]: What can I glean from these people? [SPEAKER_03]: They are wealthy. [SPEAKER_03]: They have canes, and large hats, and large manicured moustaches. [SPEAKER_03]: They are 3-in. [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: You can tell by the money. [SPEAKER_00]: Bearing in mind that I have a courier background, so I kind of know the who's who of 3-d. Would I recognize any of these people, including the name Boyd Cruncha?

41:15 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_03]: And to be honest, these people, you recognize a few of them. [SPEAKER_03]: They are low level aristocracy. [SPEAKER_03]: They are wealthy. [SPEAKER_03]: They are not J.A.S. [SPEAKER_03]: and wealthy. [SPEAKER_03]: They're not foresight wealthy. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

41:39 [SPEAKER_00]: But more likely than not, they would recognize me. [SPEAKER_03]: As the doc starts leading you over to the desk, you see it and someone appears in the circle. [SPEAKER_03]: Another person, sharp-dressed, and they walk over to the line. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're teleporting people in from 3d.

42:07 [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_03]: Is there anything around here that has like a business name or a identifier of this place outside of just knowing that it's the lobby of maybe in arena above the welcome desk above the welcome desk sign is a larger sign and in brilliant gold plated script cursive flower gilded [SPEAKER_03]: or the words, the pit.

42:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that I can do an adequate job of describing how upset Solomon is at this. [SPEAKER_00]: Other than to say, I think she reaches down and without realizing it, the revolver has started warming up at her side. [SPEAKER_00]: And there's something in her that [SPEAKER_00]: would normally go for the sword, and is wanting to reach for the gun, like she is beyond pissed off right now.

43:18 [SPEAKER_00]: She is sick and ready to hurt people. [SPEAKER_00]: And if it looks like we're heading toward the box [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Darlin, before we go to the box office, is there a powder room that I could see myself to? [SPEAKER_03]: Of course. [SPEAKER_03]: I would love to make sure that yours comfortable is possible.

43:52 [SPEAKER_03]: In fact, I'll lead you to the bathroom and I'll get your tickets myself. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's just perfect. [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate you. [SPEAKER_03]: He leads you past the ticket counter and over to the restroom and says, [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: That sounds good.

44:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I contemplate shooting him as he leaves, but I think I'm going to bite my time. [SPEAKER_00]: And as soon as he leaves, I will cast invisibility on myself and walk out. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: The door swings open of its own accord. [SPEAKER_03]: And you are in the lobby. [SPEAKER_02]: Great.

44:29 [SPEAKER_03]: You see the [SPEAKER_03]: area of the desk surpassing the long line and begins speaking with one of the attendance of the front. [SPEAKER_00]: Is he still holding the book in his hand? [SPEAKER_03]: He is. [SPEAKER_03]: He has it under one arm. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to get hold of that, but I think that now is feels like not the moment because I'm trying not to cause a fuss.

44:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there an entrance to the pit behind the welcome desk? [SPEAKER_03]: There, it, the room you're in is kind of like a lobby. [SPEAKER_03]: There is the welcome desk. [SPEAKER_03]: There is the wall of glass on your right side and then on the other side. [SPEAKER_03]: It's a little like a theater.

45:18 [SPEAKER_03]: There are staircases leading up and away. [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I will go to if there are staircases that sort of look as though or are labeled as though they are going to safe front row seats. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go there. [SPEAKER_03]: There are you see there are there are box seats and there are general attendance.

45:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to know who's in the box seats. [SPEAKER_00]: What I want [SPEAKER_00]: more than anything else is easy access to the inside of the arena, like to the where I imagine the games might be, just in case one of our friends is in there. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm I'm kind of looking around for any sign of Wyatt or Hayden, but I'm a little afraid of like whether one of them might have gotten caught up in this is kind of my like highest priority.

46:14 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You start to head up the stairs. [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: As you head up, you look back at the employee double doors. [SPEAKER_03]: They swing open. [SPEAKER_03]: A handful of guards come striding out, and they start heading up the different staircases. [SPEAKER_00]: Ha, looking for me.

46:36 [SPEAKER_03]: Looking for someone. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, does it seem like Dervish is alarmed at all? [SPEAKER_00]: Or is he still talking about tickets? [SPEAKER_03]: Roll inside. [SPEAKER_00]: That's a 16. [SPEAKER_03]: 16. [SPEAKER_03]: You look. [SPEAKER_03]: Dervish is in the midst of a conversation with the attendant.

46:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: And you see him frowning. [SPEAKER_00]: Great, I will take that time to just walk in. [SPEAKER_00]: I wanna scan the crowd, I wanna scan the room, I'm looking for Hayden, I'm looking for Wyatt and I'm looking for anyone I recognize in these seats. [SPEAKER_03]: You head in.

47:12 [SPEAKER_03]: And as you look, you see that there is a massive arena in front of you. [SPEAKER_03]: The arena is huge. [SPEAKER_03]: The stands are small. [SPEAKER_03]: Like they, [SPEAKER_03]: They're honestly closer to like theater seats than true bleachers, and you see that the crowd is pretty packed, like there's a lot of people in here.

47:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Cool. [SPEAKER_00]: I would like to kill all of them. [SPEAKER_03]: You look up. [SPEAKER_03]: and see above these stands is a roped off-section. [SPEAKER_03]: And that section is surrounded with darkened glass, as if the people in there would prefer not to be seen. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, now I kind of want to go to the box seats.

48:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you continue into the stands? [SPEAKER_00]: Is there any kind of event happening within the arena right now? [SPEAKER_03]: It looks like a game just ended. [SPEAKER_03]: There is a large maze within the arena. [SPEAKER_03]: Several creatures are still moving their way through it. [SPEAKER_03]: There are winding tunnels.

48:35 [SPEAKER_03]: There is an entrance on the far side, and on this side is the exit. [SPEAKER_03]: You watch as several guards on this side are using spears to prod a fully grown hydra back through a side door in the maze. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, there are several blood stains on the floor of that area.

49:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hell, okay. [SPEAKER_03]: They prod the hydra back behind its doors, its many heads snapping. [SPEAKER_03]: One of the heads comes very close to snapping up a handbar, and the crowd gasps. [SPEAKER_03]: However the handler at the last second rises his spear. [SPEAKER_03]: and strikes the hydra, a bit of spark juts out of it, the hydra screams and rears its head and the crowd cheers and then the hydra is returned to itself and as it is you look and the far in the start end of the labyrinth is changing.

49:53 [SPEAKER_03]: You see, what appear to be boxes? [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe 15 to 20 boxes? [SPEAKER_03]: All lined up in a semicircle. [SPEAKER_03]: In the starting area. [SPEAKER_03]: And as these boxes stand, you hear a voice say, magically projected over the crowd. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, well, well, well. [SPEAKER_03]: Looks like we had a mighty, mighty, fine show.

50:27 [SPEAKER_03]: But I hope you got your money ready for round two. [SPEAKER_03]: Here they are, your next round of lifers. [SPEAKER_03]: Let the games begin. [SPEAKER_03]: And you watch as these boxes pop their fronts pop open. [SPEAKER_03]: and several people come stumbling out and then they start killing each other.

50:58 [SPEAKER_03]: Some of them run straight for the entrance to the maze and some of them turn on their neighbors immediately. [SPEAKER_03]: And the voice says, and remember, only the first four make it out. [SPEAKER_03]: Is there anyone I recognize? [SPEAKER_03]: They are on the other side of the Colosseum.

51:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh God, I run as close to them as I can get. [SPEAKER_00]: Screw the box seats. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you are running through the stands. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God, I feel sick. [SPEAKER_03]: Each of these contestants as you get closer have a number, a green magical number hanging over their head.

51:40 [SPEAKER_03]: And as one of them brings down their spear into the body of another one, you see that one's number go out. [SPEAKER_03]: and the crowd cheers. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I am, I am. [SPEAKER_03]: The number 14 winks out of existence. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I am mentally pledging to myself to give this game master the most gruesome death I can possibly master for him as I run to see who is in this maze.

52:12 [SPEAKER_03]: you lurch forward, invisibly stepping through the crowd, you push past patrons who are just confused, not sure what is pushing them to the side, but then all is all is dropped as the crowd cheers as someone else's run through. [SPEAKER_03]: You look forward, [SPEAKER_03]: And you find you do not see a hobgoblin boy, however, you realize with donning horror that you might not know if Hayden is in there.

52:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Hill, okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And then you look, and you see a tall man, skin pale white, braided hair and beard, [SPEAKER_03]: armor etched with flame insignias. [SPEAKER_03]: Mordric is in the game. [SPEAKER_00]: Shit. [SPEAKER_00]: Does it look like Mordric is collaborating with anyone else in the game?

53:25 [SPEAKER_03]: He's just sprinting through the maze. [SPEAKER_03]: You watch as he side steps an attack from someone, cocks them over the head and the crowd gets excited for a second, but then he instead of delivering a killing blow keeps going and the crowd booze in anger. [SPEAKER_00]: I wanna kill everyone here is more direct coming toward me [SPEAKER_03]: He is, he's headed through the maze.

53:57 [SPEAKER_03]: It is, it is down a level. [SPEAKER_03]: Like you're sort of peering into the Colosseum. [SPEAKER_00]: Shit, I'm trying to think of a way to get in there. [SPEAKER_03]: Roll a perception check. [SPEAKER_00]: Look, that's only a ten. [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if it's safe or not.

54:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to weigh in. [SPEAKER_00]: You know what, what the ten? [SPEAKER_03]: You notice two things. [SPEAKER_03]: I want to give this to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: There is a shimmering field. [SPEAKER_03]: Similar. [SPEAKER_03]: to the one between the bars. [SPEAKER_03]: That separates the arena from the arena goers and then you notice one more thing headed through the maze long white hair and beard pickaxe glimmering from the [SPEAKER_03]: is one phylamina fiddle-fable.

54:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Shit, phylamina! [SPEAKER_03]: And now, would you be so kind as to call in Robin? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you and Belinda are moving along this balcony. [SPEAKER_03]: You look into cells as you walk by. [SPEAKER_03]: You don't see Salma or Wyatt in any of them. [SPEAKER_03]: uh... you take a couple more turns before you enter an area as you do you look above there is a peeling sign that says sell block f uh-huh most of the cells in here are occupied as you walk it dawns on you that the people in this area have [SPEAKER_03]: they carry insignias of the flame.

55:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Some of them are knights. [SPEAKER_03]: Some of them are folks with a silver pendant similar to Wyatt. [SPEAKER_03]: You see one or two priests. [SPEAKER_05]: Miss Bottle. [SPEAKER_05]: I know you got a bit of a plan here in the destination in mind. [SPEAKER_05]: Is there a value to [SPEAKER_05]: Just let everybody loose get some good old fashioned chaos going in here.

56:21 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean I guess it couldn't get worse right? [SPEAKER_03]: I mean that's I mean these folks may some of them may be able to get out I step up to one of the cells [SPEAKER_03]: step up inside is a night. [SPEAKER_03]: The night looks at you. [SPEAKER_03]: These cells are similar to the ones you saw before.

56:41 [SPEAKER_03]: They have that sort of bubble membrane that swirling membrane between the bars. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: You, uh, there's, I mean, there's someone in there. [SPEAKER_03]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, that friend. [SPEAKER_05]: How long you been in here? [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, he looks at you.

56:58 [SPEAKER_03]: He says there's, there's no way to know. [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry to hear that. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, I haven't been here long. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know much about what's going on here, but no, it deserves to be in a place like this. [SPEAKER_05]: If we figure out a way to get the dolls open, you think you can take care of yourself from there?

57:22 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I believe my first priority would be to get all of these people out. [SPEAKER_05]: I agree. [SPEAKER_05]: Anybody who's willing to do that, I appreciate it. [SPEAKER_05]: There's a lot of people here, so I can't keep an eye on all of them myself, but if you're willing, I'd love to get your help.

57:41 [SPEAKER_03]: You have it. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll see what I can do from the outside, but just be ready. [SPEAKER_03]: Alright. [SPEAKER_03]: By the word of the flame. [SPEAKER_05]: I went a little bit. [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, old habits. [SPEAKER_03]: Do you start sort of looking through the cells? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, absolutely.

57:59 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: Want me to roll for it? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, roll, investigation. [SPEAKER_05]: It's not my strongest. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, hey, hey. [SPEAKER_05]: That's a four. [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: You look, it doesn't look like why it is in here. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You're passing through cells pretty rapidly.

58:19 [SPEAKER_05]: I call out a little louder, Bob, but hopefully so that we're not overheard by a guard, but just so that the nearby prisoners can hear. [SPEAKER_05]: All the y'all. [SPEAKER_05]: Any you've seen a kid come through here very recently. [SPEAKER_05]: Hobgoblin kid about, oh, a little bit higher than me.

58:42 [SPEAKER_05]: Brace is on his teeth. [SPEAKER_05]: Or blonde woman in a big dress. [SPEAKER_03]: The people, some of the people in the cells look at each other. [SPEAKER_03]: And then you hear a voice that says, you're talking about why it. [SPEAKER_03]: That's right. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_03]: Have you seen him?

59:01 [SPEAKER_03]: you head to that voice. [SPEAKER_03]: You look in a cell and there is a human man sitting on a cot. [SPEAKER_03]: You no longer wears the priest's robes. [SPEAKER_03]: His hair is grayer than you remember. [SPEAKER_05]: It started to tear up a little bit. [SPEAKER_05]: Fathom will detonate.

59:34 [SPEAKER_05]: I thought you were going for good. [SPEAKER_05]: What? [SPEAKER_05]: How long have you been here? [SPEAKER_05]: My name is Hayden. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't remember what name I gave you when we first met. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm the kid who tried to steal from you and then started to comment around because it started bringing food for the other kids in me.

59:58 [SPEAKER_05]: Do you remember? [SPEAKER_03]: his brow furrows, and he says, wait, you, you wore a different face back then. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, I kinda do that a lot. [SPEAKER_03]: But you, you were one of my most punctual members for a while. [SPEAKER_05]: I thought Cotua had got rid of you. [SPEAKER_05]: He looks around and he says, well, in a sense, look, I'm, I'm looking for Wyatt and another friend of mine who's been helping me out, but why I'm going to try and get as many as y'all out as I can, all right?

1:00:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, um, I cannot help you with the blonde woman. [SPEAKER_03]: But why it came here not too long ago? [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's so good to hear, do you know where I went? [SPEAKER_03]: He, he looks, and they're nearby, is a set of double doors, above it, a half circle dial, an elevator, and he says, they, they went down.

1:01:28 [SPEAKER_05]: All right, I got to follow along with that. [SPEAKER_05]: But a hidden goes to reach their hand through the bars. [SPEAKER_05]: And I assume the bubble stops them, right? [SPEAKER_03]: The you feel a boom, a shock. [SPEAKER_03]: As the bubble pushes your hand back. [SPEAKER_03]: As you reach, father says, oh, no, sorry, sorry.

1:01:58 [SPEAKER_03]: rebound all physical and magical interaction. [SPEAKER_03]: Any spellcast, any attack made will rebound upon the user. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry, I just... [SPEAKER_05]: I don't even thought I'd see you get hit. [SPEAKER_03]: How long has it been? [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_03]: And have you taken care of yourself?

1:02:21 [SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, there was a... [SPEAKER_05]: There was a while there were... No, I absolutely did not. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm on a new path now, and I feel like I'm moving the right direction. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm glad to hear it. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I can't explain how good it is to see you. [SPEAKER_05]: Praise the flame.

1:02:40 [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't said that in quite a while, but praise be. [SPEAKER_03]: Look, the flame is good. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it is. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes it is. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I gotta go. [SPEAKER_05]: I gotta go find Wyatt. [SPEAKER_05]: But we're gonna come back for you, all right? [SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna come back for you.

1:02:57 [SPEAKER_03]: Aden Bsafe. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, how will? [SPEAKER_05]: How will? [SPEAKER_03]: This place, it is... [SPEAKER_03]: It is a testament to pain and a hurt. [SPEAKER_03]: It is so staunchly opposed to everything the flame stands for. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I think it's high time. [SPEAKER_05]: Someone start teaching the world what the flame is supposed to be.

1:03:28 [SPEAKER_03]: and says, I think so too. [SPEAKER_03]: You travel with Wyatt forcieth. [SPEAKER_05]: That's right. [SPEAKER_05]: He's been reminded me that there can be good people from the flame. [SPEAKER_05]: After what happened to you, I kinda lost that for a while. [SPEAKER_03]: He smiles and says, the flame, I cannot understand it, but it moves.

1:03:59 [SPEAKER_05]: I hope so too. [SPEAKER_05]: And I hope... [SPEAKER_03]: I hope whatever comes next for you is kind. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll be back. [SPEAKER_05]: If there's any world in which I can be, I'll be back. [SPEAKER_05]: And... [SPEAKER_05]: This is kind of a new thing to say too, but... [SPEAKER_05]: I bring blessings from the wilds as well.

1:04:21 [SPEAKER_03]: He starts at that. [SPEAKER_03]: And says... [SPEAKER_03]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a whole new world out there, and I'd heard, well, I'd heard stories, I would love to hear what you've gone through. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I got, I got plenty of stories for you, Father, so you just sit tight and we'll have them come soon.

1:04:48 [SPEAKER_03]: He smiles and goes and sits back on his cot. [SPEAKER_05]: Alright, Blinda, the elevators, we're going down. [SPEAKER_03]: But Linda says, wait, is he not here? [SPEAKER_05]: That's what Wyatt went, that's all I know. [SPEAKER_05]: He went down, yes, ma'am. [SPEAKER_05]: Fuck, is that, do you know what down means?

1:05:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Down means they might have found what they were looking for. [SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, you look and see that the elevator has clicked down to the lowest level, according to the dial. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And she says, wait, [SPEAKER_05]: Nah, none of these people seem to know about us, so she probably never touched this area.

1:05:34 [SPEAKER_05]: Shit. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: I know why it might be in a dangerous place, but if we get him back with us, it'll be, it'll make it that much easier to get to follow me. [SPEAKER_05]: He's got, whoo, he's got some fire behind him. [SPEAKER_03]: But if there, if what's down there is as important as that all this is made out to be, [SPEAKER_03]: We may need as many people on our side before going down there, rather than after.

1:06:01 [SPEAKER_05]: Hell, if you got another place to look, lead the way. [SPEAKER_03]: The only thing I can think of is that Miss Girl Scout, has always been one of the high society. [SPEAKER_05]: Ah, she'd like to disagree with that, but it's still in her. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I wonder if she might have found a way upstairs.

1:06:20 [SPEAKER_03]: To try and blend in with the horsey toy before. [SPEAKER_05]: well she definitely knows she definitely has a way with words so wouldn't be surprised she shrugs says might be worth looking all right you got a way to turn invisible do i have a way to turn invisible or a way to disguise yourself i will alright i mean okay sky's myself app i have um i can't specifically turn invisible but i can hide myself in any number ways any way that makes you look like not a prisoner [SPEAKER_05]: I can make myself a little spider getting your pocket.

1:06:57 [SPEAKER_05]: You see her sort of a different animal? [SPEAKER_05]: If it's a bunch of things, I could be something that's small. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you can turn into a spider if you really need to. [SPEAKER_05]: All right, well, I'm going to follow this information away. [SPEAKER_05]: Let's see. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I don't, I'm trying to decide what's smarter here because I can take on the disguise of just like genera-coid-y-toy-ty-person But I feel like that might make me easier to spot Hmm But I, you know what?

1:07:28 [SPEAKER_05]: Let's bring out both all of my Google spasm anyway. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, oh, here we go. [SPEAKER_05]: All right. [SPEAKER_05]: That's my high-falutin identity. [SPEAKER_05]: Great. [SPEAKER_05]: So I shrink down a couple of feet, grow this magnificent mustache. [SPEAKER_05]: There's [SPEAKER_05]: Wait, let's put it on the long, shall we?

1:07:48 [SPEAKER_03]: You turn into Bartholomew, Giggle-Sphasem, and Belinda goes, oh All right, sometimes the best way to play it blend in is to stand out. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you have you up. [SPEAKER_03]: She clicks the handcuffs off of you and says, all right [SPEAKER_03]: I think you're somebody who got lost, aren't you?

1:08:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_03]: I get it all, it's all the time. [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we get you, why don't we get you back upstairs where you're supposed to be? [SPEAKER_05]: Where was that? [SPEAKER_05]: Can you kind of be him? [SPEAKER_05]: Ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, I could save the voice for later.

1:08:21 [SPEAKER_05]: I don't have to do it with you right now. [SPEAKER_03]: she says no no you know what practice and you both start heading up you are you make your way along the balcony you're heading up a winding hallways and then you reach a set of double doors and these double doors have a very elaborate lock on them [SPEAKER_03]: Bolinda says, let me see what I can do about this lock.

1:08:58 [SPEAKER_03]: It's sort of like you touch it in it opens, but I'm not really registered. [SPEAKER_05]: I got a little friend that might be able to help out, and I pull out glitter, baby. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: This little one can change the shape as well. [SPEAKER_05]: Two different metallic little objects.

1:09:18 [SPEAKER_05]: If you need a hand getting that lock open. [SPEAKER_03]: She takes it. [SPEAKER_03]: She says, who is this? [SPEAKER_05]: This is good baby. [SPEAKER_05]: This is my child. [SPEAKER_05]: It's uh, well, do you know what a mimic is? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, God. [SPEAKER_05]: It's a little baby mimic.

1:09:32 [SPEAKER_05]: We found each other. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and met and glitter baby goes. [SPEAKER_03]: And she's like, oh god, I wish it were a spider. [SPEAKER_05]: Don't worry. [SPEAKER_05]: It's very friendly. [SPEAKER_03]: Begin's trying to unlock the door. [SPEAKER_03]: There is a little bit of fiddling.

1:09:53 [SPEAKER_03]: It takes a minute. [SPEAKER_03]: And then the lock clicks. [SPEAKER_05]: You know, it's always so wet when I do it with a glitter baby. [SPEAKER_03]: Haha, she says, yeah, no, I know what you mean. [SPEAKER_03]: She hands glitter baby back to you. [SPEAKER_03]: Good job, everyone. [SPEAKER_03]: And you step into the lobby.

1:10:14 [SPEAKER_03]: This place is nice, it's tired. [SPEAKER_03]: In fact, it is a stark difference from where you were just seconds before. [SPEAKER_03]: It looks like the lobby to an auditorium, or theater, or an arena. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it is ornate. [SPEAKER_03]: There is a large wall of windows that look out onto the badlands, and it's very scenic.

1:10:42 [SPEAKER_03]: It's very, it's very gorgeous. [SPEAKER_03]: And you see there is a line of people at the reception desk. [SPEAKER_03]: wealthy patrons. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, so if there are windows, do I recognize the landscape? [SPEAKER_05]: Am I still in the same place I was before? [SPEAKER_03]: You don't know.

1:11:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You do not recognize that landscape. [SPEAKER_03]: Do I spot Somme? [SPEAKER_03]: You don't. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: However, you do spot. [SPEAKER_03]: one's for Fneblen man, walking towards you, not that one. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I was not ready for that. [SPEAKER_03]: One's for Fneblen man, walking towards you.

1:11:29 [SPEAKER_03]: He wears little spectacles and suspenders and he looks angry. [SPEAKER_03]: All right. [SPEAKER_03]: As he walks towards you, he says, you, and he points at Belinda. [SPEAKER_03]: What, he, he looks at you. [SPEAKER_03]: And he stops, and he says, did you, and he looks through the door, and he says, did you just come from there?

1:11:53 [SPEAKER_05]: No, yes, I'm so sorry. [SPEAKER_05]: I seem to have lost my way a little bit. [SPEAKER_05]: I was looking for the little gentleman's room, and I just got all turned around, and this wonderful individual here was kind enough to send me back on my way. [SPEAKER_03]: He snorls and says, that's the second time.

1:12:12 [SPEAKER_05]: Is it now? [SPEAKER_05]: I guess we're all getting a little lost then. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm both following me, Giggle Spasm, I'm having it to meet you. [SPEAKER_03]: Bartholomew, Giggle Spasm, do you have a ticket? [SPEAKER_05]: Well, when I went downstairs, unfortunately, I was accosted by an odd gentleman who was being brought to a cell, and it was taken from me.

1:12:36 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, let's get you over to roll call or to will call will get you your tickets will get you to your seat We'll get you a bathroom. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, thank you so much. [SPEAKER_03]: Kevin to the bathroom first by any chance He I need to go ever so badly He starts to say yes and then he stops and he says Actually, let's get you your tickets first [SPEAKER_05]: Red, blue, and just, night glanced over at Belinda.

1:13:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Belinda has her hounds mask on. [SPEAKER_03]: It is impossible to tell how she's taking us right now. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And the Sperf Neblon starts to take you over to Wilkall. [SPEAKER_03]: He talks to the lady and he says, all right. [SPEAKER_03]: We couldn't find one for Mrs. Theodos just didn't.

1:13:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Jamison, so let's find one for Mr. Bartholomew Giggle Spasm. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and the lady starts looking through and Mrs. Jamison. [SPEAKER_05]: I've been looking for That's so interesting. [SPEAKER_05]: I didn't realize you'd be at the same bar to it. [SPEAKER_03]: He looks at you And he says wait You know Mrs. Jamison Well, yes, I used to go.

1:13:55 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm with her to and the whole family out to the opera He Looks at you and says And you don't know where she is right now [SPEAKER_03]: Laila didn't even realize she'd be here at the party. [SPEAKER_03]: He smiles and he says, because we also found Mrs. Jamison, and he uses air quotes. [SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.

1:14:22 [SPEAKER_03]: And he says, Mrs. Jamison downstairs. [SPEAKER_03]: And when I went to get her tickets at Will call, [SPEAKER_03]: she disappeared and her name was not on the list. [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to ask you again and he you see him motion to two guards. [SPEAKER_03]: Where is she? [SPEAKER_05]: But that's information I'd quite love to hear myself.

1:14:49 [SPEAKER_05]: I actually, she owes me quite a bit after [SPEAKER_05]: giving me a bad tip at the ponies. [SPEAKER_03]: The woman at the desk finishes looking through, and she says, I'm sorry, Mr. Bartholomegical Spasm isn't on the list either. [SPEAKER_03]: And these, for Fneblen smiles, and he says, just as I suspected, it would be interesting that you would need to go to the bathroom.

1:15:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Seeing as how that's how your friend vanished as well. [SPEAKER_03]: I take it you and Ms. James and know each other pretty well, hmm, Mr. Giggle Spasm? [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I believe that's a bit of a personal question. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, she is a married woman. [SPEAKER_03]: He smiles and says, Well, guards, why don't we find out what Mr. Giggle Spasm knows?

1:15:42 [SPEAKER_03]: In fact, let's get him a room all to himself. [SPEAKER_03]: Shall we? [SPEAKER_05]: Taking a quick glance around, is there a good choice of exit? [SPEAKER_03]: You look and see now what looks to be the employee's only section? [SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_03]: That closed and locked behind you.

1:16:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, people are not meant to go through there. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And then the only other ways out of this room, [SPEAKER_05]: into the arena. [SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, I'm just so worried I'm going to be running in the absolute wrong direction, but I don't want to get arrested either.

1:16:29 [SPEAKER_05]: I cast Misty Step and get at move as close to the stairs as I can and start running up. [SPEAKER_03]: And would you do me a favor? [SPEAKER_03]: Would you call Rowan back in, please? [SPEAKER_03]: Great. [SPEAKER_03]: Hi, Rowan. [SPEAKER_00]: Hi. [SPEAKER_03]: You're in the stands. [SPEAKER_03]: You're in the arena.

1:16:54 [SPEAKER_03]: You find that the only way to get out, the only way to go back, is back through that employee entrance. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You start heading out. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And unless something else stops me, I'm going to make a B-line for a Dervish. [SPEAKER_03]: You head back down into the lobby.

1:17:12 [SPEAKER_03]: And as you do, there seems to be some sort of [SPEAKER_03]: down there. [SPEAKER_03]: You look and see the Sförf Neblon. [SPEAKER_03]: You know as Dr. Vish in a heated conversation with somebody. [SPEAKER_03]: And you see him turn and call over two guards. [SPEAKER_03]: As the guards approach this wealthy patron turns and you watch them misty step across the room.

1:17:46 [SPEAKER_03]: to the entrance of the box seats. [SPEAKER_03]: And as they pass by you, you recognize them as Bartholomew Giggle Spasm. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as Bartholomew. [SPEAKER_03]: And can you call Robin back in here? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hello again. [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, I see you've met Dervish. [SPEAKER_00]: Have I?

1:18:09 [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, Salma, you watch as Bartholomew Giggle Spasm, Misty Steps, just past you, to the entrance to the box seats and starts making their way up. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, can I grab them, uh, by the, uh, you don't see me, I am invisible. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, uh, um, can I grab Hayden shoulder? [SPEAKER_03]: You reach out.

1:18:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Nope. [SPEAKER_00]: Hi. [SPEAKER_00]: It's me. [SPEAKER_00]: Hello. [SPEAKER_00]: Hey. [SPEAKER_00]: Hey. [SPEAKER_00]: It's me. [SPEAKER_00]: Hi. [SPEAKER_00]: Where are you going? [SPEAKER_05]: Where are you going? [SPEAKER_05]: Are you okay? [SPEAKER_05]: I was looking for you. [SPEAKER_05]: I've got your girlfriend.

1:18:45 [SPEAKER_05]: Blender? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: But I think that God's a comment. [SPEAKER_05]: So we might need to move. [SPEAKER_00]: Holy hell. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Go. [SPEAKER_00]: Where are you going? [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I know why it is, too, but... Follumina and Mortica are in there.

1:19:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what's going on in there? [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, in the games? [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's not good. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a death maze I couldn't get in. [SPEAKER_00]: Follumina and Mortica are in there. [SPEAKER_00]: I was worried you would be. [SPEAKER_00]: I was.

1:19:11 [SPEAKER_03]: The guards are at the four- We're all sick. [SPEAKER_00]: Shit. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, we're going up. [SPEAKER_00]: We're going up. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And they are quickly followed by Doc Dervish, who says, [SPEAKER_00]: Get him! [SPEAKER_00]: Can I try to wrestle the book out of Dr. Ravish's hand?

1:19:27 [SPEAKER_03]: You certainly can. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe this isn't a tack. [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is just a contested strength check. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's not very good. [SPEAKER_00]: That's just... Jesus. [SPEAKER_00]: How's it? [SPEAKER_00]: How's it for, Trisha?

1:19:41 [SPEAKER_03]: On a Nat 20. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, fuck! [SPEAKER_03]: Dr. Ravish feels the tug on the book. [SPEAKER_03]: Rips it back. [SPEAKER_03]: And then reaches out. [SPEAKER_03]: and slaps his hand on your hand and finds you. [SPEAKER_05]: I cast some beast and launch a rabbit raccoon at him. [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I've got you Mrs. Jamison and then a flop a rabbit raccoon fully nails him square in the face he goes [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's find Wyatt, come on.

1:20:24 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you all start running, you all start running. [SPEAKER_03]: You see someone in full black armor, full black leather armor, Hound's mask. [SPEAKER_03]: Standing a little bit away, has started coming towards the commotion. [SPEAKER_03]: Seas you running Bartholomew Giggle Spasm. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this way, this way, this way, points and heads with you.

1:20:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that her? [SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_00]: It's all my bunches a little bit, but doesn't give her so far away. [SPEAKER_05]: She wouldn't think so long for me. [SPEAKER_05]: I felt a little awkward when I asked. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I remember that, that's so funny.

1:21:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we looking for what are we doing? [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, why it's apparently fall downstairs. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, hell. [SPEAKER_03]: The employee only door has closed. [SPEAKER_03]: However, as you run towards it, you see it open and one of the guards starts strutting out. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, can we just run past them?

1:21:21 [SPEAKER_03]: You fully blow past him as he shouts, ah, get them! [SPEAKER_03]: As you run deeper into the pit. [SPEAKER_03]: And now I need you both to call in Max. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, right! [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, whoo! [UNKNOWN]: Ah! [SPEAKER_00]: I think you, I think you leave this moment with Sol maybe and like, [SPEAKER_00]: You went to the pan!

1:21:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Not intentionally! [SPEAKER_03]: Why it? [SPEAKER_03]: You are... in an elevator. [SPEAKER_03]: You and Boyd are... writing along. [SPEAKER_03]: Boyd has fallen... why it. [SPEAKER_01]: So, where are we going now? [SPEAKER_03]: We're headed to the found. [SPEAKER_03]: Now... [SPEAKER_03]: Why, when we get down there, you're gonna have to stay real close to me.

1:22:19 [SPEAKER_03]: This found business. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, the found's long been dead, but it used to be the, used to be the safe haven for, well, pagan practitioners, which crafters, you know, religious folk. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Those weirdos, people back in the day used to come from all around and congregate here.

1:22:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Threat this conversation, why it is doing his darnedest to not show his excitement at getting to the fount. [SPEAKER_01]: as you are descending. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't just roll a random die and just keep going. [SPEAKER_01]: What? [SPEAKER_01]: You can't do that. [SPEAKER_03]: Boyd says, so, why it?

1:23:20 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we have a god around to you, what you were doing when you showed up on my doorstep. [SPEAKER_01]: I told you I was traveling with my friends on a journey for personal growth and they were assisting me. [SPEAKER_01]: On a journey of personal growth. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what did you do when you were a young teenager?

1:23:40 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I wasn't worried about personal growth, I'll tell you that much. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it shows. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, there it is. [SPEAKER_03]: There's that fighting man's spirit. [SPEAKER_03]: So tell me why if you were on a mission of personal growth and just happen to be near the found of the flame.

1:24:04 [SPEAKER_03]: That right. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: You when I was talking all that stuff about religion, you didn't take that personally, did you? [SPEAKER_03]: You wouldn't be the religious tap to come in and visit this place, would you? [SPEAKER_03]: It's dangerous. [SPEAKER_01]: Why are you so interested in what I'm doing?

1:24:32 [SPEAKER_01]: You have a business to run. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not stopping you. [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't you know you're a problem. [SPEAKER_03]: It's people like you. [SPEAKER_03]: Little rich kids. [SPEAKER_03]: I go off, gal event, and wherever they damn well, please, and think that, oh, they're above the law.

1:25:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Don't you know who my daddy is? [SPEAKER_03]: Why, you know how much money I could get from telling your daddy where you are. [SPEAKER_03]: Are you got words? [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to say something, or are you just going to stay in there looking at me? [SPEAKER_03]: Gawkin. [SPEAKER_01]: How are you so different from me?

1:25:24 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to be me. [SPEAKER_01]: You want money, you've set it yourself. [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be you. [SPEAKER_03]: You want to be me. [SPEAKER_03]: Look at you. [SPEAKER_03]: Look at you. [SPEAKER_03]: You think you're a child. [SPEAKER_03]: That makes you a child.

1:25:47 [SPEAKER_03]: You know what, why I tried to like you? [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't try to like you. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that show, didn't it? [SPEAKER_03]: You see, here's the thing. [SPEAKER_03]: Why it? [SPEAKER_03]: I have your friends. [SPEAKER_03]: If you want to buy your friends out of here, you certainly can.

1:26:08 [SPEAKER_03]: But I know who holds the draw strings to your purse, and it ain't you. [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't need you to lock me. [SPEAKER_03]: And he says, go on now, beyond the elevator, it is pure cavern. [SPEAKER_03]: These are not the hallways that you saw above. [SPEAKER_03]: This is just pure subterranean cavern.

1:26:44 [SPEAKER_03]: A little farther beyond the tunnel opens out into a large circular room. [SPEAKER_03]: In the center of this room is a pillar, and on that pillar, about I level with you is a red hand print. [SPEAKER_01]: Can I do the religion check of all religion checks to see what's going on here? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, absolutely.

1:27:13 [SPEAKER_03]: I will give you advantage. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hell yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: On a 23, you look at the hand mark on the pillar, and you see the outline of a hand, but the poem has a peculiar marking to it. [SPEAKER_03]: A marking you've only ever seen one other place. [SPEAKER_03]: the palm of your right hand.

1:27:55 [SPEAKER_03]: It is a match exactly. [SPEAKER_03]: And Boyd says, take it in, dried up, founds gone, all of it, nothing left, but cavern and cave. [SPEAKER_01]: Why it's going to walk towards the pillar, as you do Boyd says, what are you doing? [SPEAKER_01]: When we were in your office, I kept asking you where my friends were and you didn't tell me you didn't answer that question and I'm continuing to walk as I say this.

1:28:34 [SPEAKER_01]: But do not touch that. [SPEAKER_01]: Really, boy, I wasn't asking for myself. [SPEAKER_01]: My friends are some of the most incredible people I know. [SPEAKER_01]: And if anyone could get out of here, I think it'd be them. [SPEAKER_01]: So I was asking, for you, do you know where my friends are?

1:28:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Because you really should, and then I'm gonna put my hand on the handprint. [SPEAKER_03]: As you place your hand on it, the pillar quakes, the room quakes, and then it splits down the middle. [SPEAKER_03]: And this massive pillar opens as the pillar opens, it slowly moves off and away from the center of the room and you find that the center is open now and it is a hole in the ground, a geyser.

1:29:49 [SPEAKER_03]: but a soft orange glow emanates from within. [SPEAKER_03]: A jet of flame shoots up from it. [SPEAKER_03]: This is the found of the flame. [SPEAKER_03]: And boy, previously yelling for you to stop, you see boy's demeanor change. [SPEAKER_03]: from a look of concern, a look of fret, to almost a maddened joy.

1:30:25 [SPEAKER_03]: His eyes wide. [SPEAKER_03]: He smiles, ear to ear and says, thank you. [SPEAKER_03]: Why it? [SPEAKER_03]: He begins moving towards you. [SPEAKER_03]: You see, this [SPEAKER_03]: It was locked up long before I got here. [SPEAKER_03]: It's power emanates throughout this place. [SPEAKER_03]: You can, you can feel it.

1:30:55 [SPEAKER_03]: But the real stuff, the real shit. [SPEAKER_03]: That's down there. [SPEAKER_03]: Any points to the whole. [SPEAKER_03]: And here's the deal, kid. [SPEAKER_03]: Ever since I saw your handprint, I knew who you were. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not after your dad, his money. [SPEAKER_03]: I'll have all the money I want.

1:31:20 [SPEAKER_03]: Charging people entrance fees to the fountain of the fucking flame. [SPEAKER_03]: Because this place, this is where life begins. [SPEAKER_03]: And with that, he plunges both hands into the fountain of the flame. [SPEAKER_03]: And as you watch, flame begins to erupt up his arms, and he... And that is where we'll pick up next time.

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