The Badlands - Ep. 64: Ring Bearer

0:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Mage Hand High Five. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm your dungeon master, Casey Pappas, and with me ranked least to most likely to be last in the central ranking. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Wait. [SPEAKER_00]: Wait. [SPEAKER_00]: Wait. [SPEAKER_01]: Wait.

0:36 [SPEAKER_01]: What? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God. [SPEAKER_00]: Wait. [SPEAKER_00]: This is nothing. [SPEAKER_00]: This is also paradoxical, though, because the first is, oh my God, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. [SPEAKER_02]: No, at least least likely will be first, least likely to be last, and then most likely to be last will be last.

0:53 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't have another one. [SPEAKER_02]: I picked this one because I knew I would get this reaction. [SPEAKER_02]: I knew it would make y'all mad. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is a wonderful space for me to be in for this episode. [SPEAKER_02]: Man, in case antagonistic.

1:09 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to be 100%. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it. [SPEAKER_00]: Go for it. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get upset. [SPEAKER_01]: First, Max Weinberg. [SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Max Plain Wyatt. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even, I don't even care anymore.

1:26 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow. [SPEAKER_03]: What? [SPEAKER_03]: What? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just here. [SPEAKER_02]: Next, Rowan McStay. [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, I'm Rowan McStay. [SPEAKER_00]: Play and follow my briar, and I'm right in the middle. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a last, if you want to come up with an intro like that, I'm not going to give you much.

1:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, I'm proud. [SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's so, you know, and last and most likely to be last Robin Langenhub. [SPEAKER_02]: Beautiful. [SPEAKER_03]: Hi, I'm Robin Langenhub playing. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, and congade, and this ranking is some Fay bullshit, and I'm honestly here for it. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm on board.

2:02 [SPEAKER_03]: I've come around. [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: No, I like it. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's very funny. [SPEAKER_00]: And finally, Casey Pappas, the one nobody's talking about. [SPEAKER_03]: No. [SPEAKER_03]: That breaks it. [SPEAKER_00]: That breaks it? [SPEAKER_02]: Good. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, some more Jack is screaming in anger.

2:18 [SPEAKER_00]: So where are you just exploded again in the wild? [SPEAKER_00]: This is how you call the wilds. [SPEAKER_02]: And with that, let's dive. [SPEAKER_02]: Last time, on May 5th, the three of you finally arrived in three. [SPEAKER_02]: Solome encouraged Q letting them know of Lyla's deal with Jack and the implications of it.

2:50 [SPEAKER_02]: The three of you continued as the others split off and you passed a group of anti-war protesters in the street. [SPEAKER_02]: Hayden let them know of the Gala to be held later that night, and you all continue to your hotel. [SPEAKER_02]: Solomon gave gifts to Hayden and Wyatt, which he'd gotten in secret from Q.

3:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Upon arriving at the Gala, you were split up. [SPEAKER_02]: Hayden was led to the bar by a stranger who revealed themselves to be fell. [SPEAKER_02]: Fell, hoping to convince Hayden of the changelings inherent superiority, let them know that they were planning on killing someone at the Gala.

3:32 [SPEAKER_02]: A bet was made between them of who could kill the highest ranked person there. [SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, Wyatt, located his father, and found him in deep conversation with Kortwa about something planned for tonight. [SPEAKER_02]: And when we'd last left off, Solomon had gotten close to the jamesense, discovering that Tiberius plans to keep his brothers close, and that lie-sander wears thatias's wedding ring, currently invisible.

4:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Where you are now? [SPEAKER_02]: Why it? [SPEAKER_02]: You are currently invisible. [SPEAKER_02]: Your father stands not very far away, having a conversation with Courtois abruptly, [SPEAKER_02]: John Patrick says, just make sure everything goes according to plan. [SPEAKER_02]: Quartwa nods, turns, and begins to walk towards you.

4:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Hi, scoo, out of the way, since make sure that she doesn't touch me. [SPEAKER_02]: You scooch, and she walks past you. [SPEAKER_02]: Not giving in the indication that she has seen you. [SPEAKER_02]: She continues and walks back out into the party. [SPEAKER_02]: Why could you roll a stealth check just to have a pro with nothing?

5:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead. [SPEAKER_02]: I get a D4. [SPEAKER_00]: You do get a D4, because this is your coming-of-age ceremony. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh fuck, it's with disadvantage. [SPEAKER_02]: It's with disadvantage. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, because it's my power. [SPEAKER_00]: Can the invisibility cancel that out?

5:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll have the invisibility cancel that out. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, 17. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Your father stands alone for a minute. [SPEAKER_02]: Seemingly in thought. [SPEAKER_02]: Then he... Breathe in sharply. [SPEAKER_02]: He looks around. [SPEAKER_02]: And seems to get nervous.

5:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Or perhaps not nervous, John Patrick Forsyth is never nervous. [SPEAKER_02]: He's wary. [SPEAKER_02]: Does he just stay there? [SPEAKER_02]: He does, but his eyes flick quickly up and down the passageway. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna keep staying there and watching him and see where he's looking.

6:07 [SPEAKER_02]: This goes on for about 30 seconds. [SPEAKER_02]: He then decides, perhaps there is no one there, and begins striding back towards the party. [SPEAKER_02]: Why it as your father passes you, you smell his scent. [SPEAKER_02]: The people closest to you always like smell a certain way, and you recognize that smell.

6:41 [SPEAKER_02]: your memories of your father, all of them flood you. [SPEAKER_02]: Not all of them are positive, in fact, several of them are not, but they all strike you at once, as he passes you. [SPEAKER_02]: And he continues on towards the party, do you let him go? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I will follow him, him back, keeping an eye on him.

7:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Keeping, I'd like to keep an eye on him. [SPEAKER_01]: I'd also, if possible, like to go find Hayden and Salme. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna pen. [SPEAKER_01]: Let them know who's here. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll need to catch up. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be, I'll be.

7:32 [SPEAKER_02]: you follow your father invisibly to the party. [SPEAKER_02]: At the door he stops, breathes in, and then continues in, and you follow him back into this masquerade. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, probably feeling a little too close as you are standing there You hear from behind you excuse me. [SPEAKER_00]: I Step to the side.

8:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Does the voice sound familiar? [SPEAKER_03]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Well go to your background. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I do have yes That's your question. [SPEAKER_00]: I have a quarter of background. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, Robin I know the who's who of who will and three then this voice would be recognizable to you though You have not heard it [SPEAKER_02]: for a while.

8:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: You instinctively know this to be a woman by the name of Draven Del Rio. [SPEAKER_03]: Good name. [SPEAKER_02]: She is in Parliament. [SPEAKER_02]: And you know her to be... She was very outspokenly critical of the Jameson's. [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: She is very suspicious of large business.

8:59 [SPEAKER_02]: typically pro worker. [SPEAKER_00]: So she's sort of like the minority leader. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you turn you look and see that she you recognize her from her voice because she is she has a mask on as everyone else does. [SPEAKER_02]: Her mask covers her entire face and written on it repeating over and over and [SPEAKER_02]: as you turn to look at her eyes or not on you, her eyes are on the Jamesons.

9:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, pardon me, sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to begin your way at. [SPEAKER_00]: I, as she kind of, as I kind of bump her a little bit, I lean in and say, I like the mask. [SPEAKER_02]: She turns to look at you and says, I could say the same. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to catch y'all from what you're doing, because 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_00]: Yes, ma'am.

10:13 [SPEAKER_00]: What are I'm terribly sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: My name's Beth Rivers. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not in government, but adjacent does could we could we can we can we find some time to talk when you're not on your way to something. [SPEAKER_02]: She says well, I always have time for people who are taking an interest in politics.

10:34 [UNKNOWN]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: I think we could all stand to be a little more interested. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that is just wonderful to hear. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much. [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to have a conversation with you. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll make kind of catches herself like using her natural accent as well and kind of self-corrects a little bit and goes, well, I do appreciate your time and I look forward to speaking with you soon.

10:56 [SPEAKER_00]: If you need to find me, I will be wearing this. [SPEAKER_00]: And I have a few friends who may be interested in speaking with you as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Great, well I will be wearing this and I have some other people that I'm talking to tonight and so I will definitely add you to the list.

11:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is that so? [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to hear all about it. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I appreciate your interest and know that know that if you are as interested in this as I think you might be, that this war will be stopped. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, if I found a, I have one more question before I let you go.

11:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to keep you. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_00]: Has Minister Jameson been looking this sick for very long? [SPEAKER_02]: He has not looked well these past few months. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it has to do with losing his brother? [SPEAKER_02]: It may be that. [SPEAKER_02]: It may be...

11:53 [SPEAKER_02]: I prefer to think of it as the conscience of a guilty man, but know that that does not deter me from my mission. [SPEAKER_00]: Would I have spent time with Minister Delario? [SPEAKER_02]: Probably not. [SPEAKER_02]: Seeing as how she was very outspokenly critical of the Jameson company.

12:14 [SPEAKER_02]: That's so pretty. [SPEAKER_02]: That's suspicious of it. [SPEAKER_02]: OK. [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, that is hated. [SPEAKER_02]: That is talked frequent. [SPEAKER_02]: That is talked frequent shit about her. [SPEAKER_00]: You know what, fuck, I'm going to go out on a big limb. [SPEAKER_02]: Do it.

12:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Minister Del Rio, if I'm correct. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think anybody else would show up in a mask like that. [SPEAKER_02]: I have already gotten some angry looks, which is the point. [SPEAKER_00]: Well I can't imagine why it's very fashionable. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Solomy Breyer.

12:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Pleasure to make your acquaintance. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh. [SPEAKER_02]: You know what? [SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we talk now? [SPEAKER_00]: Are you sure you were going to go talk to the Jamesons? [SPEAKER_02]: My conversations with the Jameson can win with the Jamesons can wait a minute. [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to turn me in now, are you?

13:07 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd really hate to kick up a fuss in the middle of a party. [SPEAKER_00]: They work so hard on it. [SPEAKER_02]: I would like to hear what you have to say. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, ma'am. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, after you. [SPEAKER_02]: She turns, and starts to stride away, you hazard a look back, all of the Jemisons are watching her go.

13:26 [SPEAKER_02]: You see that Tiberius was sort of preparing himself for a fight, and to watch her turn in abruptly leave, he is puzzled. [SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I will kill a little bit of time before walking after her, so it doesn't look as though I'm following her to create a little bit of suspicion.

13:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I might like briefly kind of dance with someone or something, just like kind of try to try to be not associated with her more than like passing conversation. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me have you roll performance or deception. [SPEAKER_00]: Great. [SPEAKER_00]: That's a. Wow.

14:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Come on. [SPEAKER_02]: These are charisma. [SPEAKER_00]: That's a nine. [SPEAKER_00]: If I were to do. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_02]: If I were to do, you as you turn to leave. [SPEAKER_02]: Tiberius is looking off at Draven. [SPEAKER_02]: Titus is staring at you.

14:25 [SPEAKER_02]: he is locked onto you. [SPEAKER_02]: As the person who has made Draven Del Rio, their biggest opponent suddenly leave instead of confronting them, you are someone to keep tabs on. [SPEAKER_00]: Right, all right, wonderful, thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: You returned to the ball room floor. [SPEAKER_02]: I do.

14:49 [SPEAKER_02]: And as you do that. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Hayden. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh. [SPEAKER_01]: You're at the bar. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say, this isn't any better than the pit. [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not going on. [SPEAKER_01]: This is almost worse. [SPEAKER_02]: What?

15:08 [SPEAKER_02]: You thought it was going to get easier from here? [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I didn't think that. [SPEAKER_00]: That's just a different kind of thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Hayden, you're at the bar. [SPEAKER_03]: I am. [SPEAKER_02]: Fell has left. [SPEAKER_03]: Are they still within my line of sight?

15:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I think we left off with them leaving. [SPEAKER_02]: So, yes. [SPEAKER_03]: Then the very first thing I'm going to do [SPEAKER_03]: I'm keeping an eye on them, as soon as they have stepped far enough away that I don't think they're in immediate earshot of me, I will cast Hunter's Mark on them, which has only verbal components.

15:52 [SPEAKER_03]: We black bars around my eyes for the first time in quite some time. [SPEAKER_03]: Ooh! [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone directly around you kind of goes, huh? [SPEAKER_02]: the bartenders like, okay, one end done. [SPEAKER_03]: No, to self go to a different bar for the next drink. [SPEAKER_02]: Great, a soft, greenish glow surrounds them.

16:22 [SPEAKER_02]: And you watch as the, as the crowd undulates that glow surrounds someone entirely different [SPEAKER_03]: I had a feeling. [SPEAKER_02]: It is frightening how quickly they change. [SPEAKER_03]: Alright, I've got Clive nearby, right? [SPEAKER_03]: Or at least I asked him to stay nearby. [SPEAKER_02]: Clive is nearby, yes.

16:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Well Mr. Katra, I believe things that just got a whole lot worse than they already were. [SPEAKER_03]: Shall we locate the others and possibly have a bit of a palaver and figure out our next steps? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I do see another person you may be interested in knowing is here. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh dear, who is this one?

17:12 [SPEAKER_02]: He nods and says only because you told me to keep track of her. [SPEAKER_03]: I turn to match his gaze. [SPEAKER_02]: You look and see a certain cobald woman. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm touring the gala. [SPEAKER_02]: She flashes an invitation to the person at the door. [SPEAKER_02]: Speak to them and then scans the room, looking for people to talk to.

17:48 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'm going to pull out a small sheet of paper out of one of my many pockets, right, a quick note [SPEAKER_03]: would love to get a dance with you soon, but unfortunately, I tripped and fell, meeting an old friend of the family. [SPEAKER_03]: We have a way to go, to see who can bend the ear of the highest ranking individual at the party.

18:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: I handed it to Clive, and I said, if you could bring that to misrivers, [SPEAKER_02]: looking in a friend of that he nods says stay safe i'll do it again and he heads off to deliver this note why does everything have to go wrong at the same time you make your way for bank craft oh god [SPEAKER_02]: Bancroft has already found someone to begin talking to.

18:54 [SPEAKER_02]: You look to see her in conversation with perhaps the leatheriest elf you've ever seen. [SPEAKER_02]: You look. [SPEAKER_03]: No, I think I know who this is. [SPEAKER_02]: As this man is dry as hell and as you approach you find that there is a little bit of a wide birth around this man and as you approach you instantly understand why for the smell around him is so powerful.

19:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Not in a bad way, he smells, he smells like a lush store. [SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 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_02]: Oh, she is in conversation, and as you approach, she says, well, actually, as a matter of fact, I have gotten my hands on some very interesting information about these doors as of late, unfortunately, oh, now Dr. Bankcroft, don't you go tell it all little secrets to everybody?

20:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Who are you right now? [SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 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_02]: You've caught me, and now you'll just have to buy me a drink.

21:03 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, of course, come along here. [SPEAKER_03]: We can't go to that bar because I've already been banned from that. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's go over this way. [SPEAKER_02]: LAUGHTER She looks at the smelly, leathery, wealthy man that she's been talking to and says, I'll be back. [SPEAKER_02]: you put up in it and turns begins striding away with you and says, right, so how much is this information worth to you?

21:38 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, why don't we trade information for information? [SPEAKER_03]: Because I have a little tidbit that you might be particularly interested in here in, right and what would that be? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I do have to say that there is [SPEAKER_03]: why at the dangerous individual, wander around this party, looking for someone to publicly dispatch.

22:02 [SPEAKER_03]: And given that you have been having certain interactions with certain unsavory individuals, and you have very loudly parading information about this party, what's spread and fast? [SPEAKER_03]: So you might want to move your little scale behind out of this party as quickly as possible before you are made a spectacle of by a dangerous person, and they will find you first.

22:37 [SPEAKER_02]: She looks at you and says, if that's supposed to be a threat, try again. [SPEAKER_03]: Doctor, I'm not the one doing the threat. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course not. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm saying, if you want to live to see tomorrow and see that fund and you so desperately want, you best not be making loud noises around here.

23:02 [SPEAKER_03]: Because there's somebody looking out for just your kind of person. [SPEAKER_03]: You want to have a financial conversation? [SPEAKER_03]: I'd be happy to do that tomorrow. [SPEAKER_03]: But if you're having those conversations tonight, you're not going to make it through the night. [SPEAKER_02]: Academic integrity is what I hold dearest to my heart.

23:28 [SPEAKER_02]: And if you think that you can threaten me and strong on me into giving up my life's work, [SPEAKER_02]: at the greatest opportunity to continue it, that there will ever be in the near future. [SPEAKER_02]: Then I don't know who you think you are. [SPEAKER_02]: But I know who you are. [SPEAKER_02]: Someone very small and very stupid.

24:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Try and intimidate me one more time. [SPEAKER_03]: I know a lot more about you than you think I do, and the person who's coming, you won't even see them. [SPEAKER_03]: So go ahead, have your loud little conversations about doors, and translations, and facts, and roader, and you see how long those conversations continue.

24:33 [SPEAKER_03]: Have fun. [SPEAKER_02]: You see the wheels in her head spin, as she thinks about this, and then says, counter-author, make it worth my while. [SPEAKER_02]: You want me to shut up? [SPEAKER_02]: I'll shut up, but make it worth my time to shut up. [SPEAKER_02]: It's obvious this information is important.

24:59 [SPEAKER_02]: for you to keep under wraps, I don't know why, I don't know who you are or who you're affiliated with, but if you want me to shut up, convince me, they're a well, you return to your hotel room, and if you do, tomorrow, someone will bring the book of rota, rat [SPEAKER_03]: who needs fun and when you can just go straight to the source.

25:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Shee, you see her twitch. [SPEAKER_02]: And she says, how do I know you're not lying? [SPEAKER_02]: You have access to this book. [SPEAKER_03]: I also have access to Stump Steenland. [SPEAKER_03]: If that's something you're interested in, you give me the book. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll stay here.

25:52 [SPEAKER_02]: But I will stay at this bar for the rest of the night, and I will not talk to anyone, no matter how much they engage me in conversation. [SPEAKER_03]: Very well. [SPEAKER_03]: But you know what happens if you do start talking. [SPEAKER_02]: No book. [SPEAKER_02]: Right? [SPEAKER_03]: No bankrupt.

26:13 [SPEAKER_03]: You have a good night. [SPEAKER_02]: She smiles and says, I look forward to reading. [SPEAKER_02]: reading is fundamental and as you walk away you hear her turn and say [SPEAKER_02]: Give me two. [SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

26:53 [SPEAKER_02]: begins making his way for the exit. [SPEAKER_02]: He's leaving. [SPEAKER_01]: Do I see Salme and Hayden? [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, roll the perception check of a lifetime. [SPEAKER_02]: There's like a hundred people in this room at least. [SPEAKER_03]: Is a big body. [SPEAKER_03]: Seventeen? [SPEAKER_02]: Not bad.

27:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Not bad. [SPEAKER_02]: I will say that as you are coming out of this hallway, you are following your father who has read dawned his Eagles mask. [SPEAKER_02]: And as he begins to make his way for the [SPEAKER_02]: and you watch as a figure in a horned jackrabbit's mask gets up and walks away from a cobald woman.

27:50 [SPEAKER_02]: you know to be hell on a bangcroft. [SPEAKER_01]: Who turns and orders two drinks? [SPEAKER_01]: That must have gone incredibly well or incredibly poorly. [SPEAKER_01]: And I would like to go and just put a hand on Hayden Schulder. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: God, why it's invisible.

28:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it's why, sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I gotta follow my dad. [SPEAKER_01]: He's leaving. [SPEAKER_01]: But, uh, I guess I gotta tell you, uh, Quartois here. [SPEAKER_01]: I gotta go. [SPEAKER_01]: Bye. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, she headed. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hi. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so I guess I have a little more to, uh, I don't know.

28:31 [SPEAKER_01]: I just, she came back into the party. [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't see where she went. [SPEAKER_01]: Did she have a mask? [SPEAKER_01]: She does have a mask. [SPEAKER_01]: What did it look like? [SPEAKER_01]: It is almost like a headdress, like a [SPEAKER_02]: that she, she dawns before she re-enters the party.

28:46 [SPEAKER_02]: It is, it is radiant with spokes coming off the top. [SPEAKER_02]: It is or Nate, it covers the top half of her face. [SPEAKER_02]: It's, she looks like a dark soul's boss. [SPEAKER_01]: So I can tell Hayden, hey, that's Courtois pretty clearly. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, she stands out. [SPEAKER_02]: She is not hiding.

29:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Hayden, she's in the mask with all the spikes. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to miss. [SPEAKER_01]: All the detail you can give me would be helpful. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it's got spikes. [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't cover the lower half for face. [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like a helmet.

29:27 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_01]: Was he dead? [SPEAKER_01]: Is he still in the building? [SPEAKER_03]: He's leaving. [SPEAKER_03]: I gotta go follow him. [SPEAKER_03]: They were just talking in the back. [SPEAKER_03]: I turned to look, can I spot him? [SPEAKER_02]: Let me have you roll a perception check.

29:38 [SPEAKER_03]: Great, and I get a plus one, due to my mask. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: That's a 17. [SPEAKER_02]: With a 17, you do see a very intimidating looking hot goblin man in an eagle mask and cane, strutting away from where y'all are standing now, [SPEAKER_03]: All right, you go on a long while, I'll keep an eye on things.

30:03 [SPEAKER_03]: If your daddy starts to come back, let me know. [SPEAKER_03]: Because maybe, Mr. Fullsat sticks around at this party. [SPEAKER_03]: We'll do. [SPEAKER_01]: And sorry, one last thing before I go, as I'm like moving away, when they were talking, [SPEAKER_01]: My dad said, make sure you're ready to go to court 12.

30:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever that means, 100% sure. [SPEAKER_01]: But clearly something's going to happen. [SPEAKER_03]: Something's going to happen. [SPEAKER_03]: Fells here and tends to give us some water. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yep. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I hope your conversation with Bancroff went well.

30:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotta go. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll leave. [SPEAKER_01]: Follow my dad. [SPEAKER_01]: Bye. [SPEAKER_01]: Have fun. [SPEAKER_01]: I probably won't. [SPEAKER_01]: But for real, you got this. [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks. [SPEAKER_01]: Due to. [SPEAKER_02]: And you continue. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

30:52 [SPEAKER_02]: You follow your dad as he makes his story funny phrase, you follow your dad and your dad. [SPEAKER_02]: You follow your dad. [SPEAKER_02]: He makes his way towards the entrance, stops short of the atrium. [SPEAKER_02]: and motions over a servant. [SPEAKER_02]: And he says, bring the coach around.

31:25 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm done at this party. [SPEAKER_02]: The servant nods, turns and scuttles away. [SPEAKER_02]: And he waits for his carriage to arrive. [SPEAKER_01]: how much do these masks like cover her entirely you're anonymous so like so I could talk to someone and most likely they would not know who I am.

31:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes great okay that makes this much easier. [SPEAKER_02]: Although I will say you will need to if you are trying to be someone else you will need to [SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, knows you. [SPEAKER_01]: As I'm leaving, I would like to cast sending to Clive, rep, and say, I'm following my dad outside.

32:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna talk to him, and hopefully not give myself away. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a moment, and then you hear back, you are stronger than you know. [SPEAKER_02]: Take courage. [SPEAKER_01]: Why it's just, thank you, out loud, even though he knows, Clive can't hear it. [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if Solomon would sense this or anything, but when I cast sending the invisibility is gonna go away.

32:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I think Solomon would feel a spell drop. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm gonna walk up and stand directly next to my dad and say, [SPEAKER_02]: he looks at you and says, do I know you? [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe we've had the pleasure of meeting my name is Tex Hawthorn.

33:17 [SPEAKER_02]: He nods, curtly, and says, pleasure. [SPEAKER_01]: It's party. [SPEAKER_01]: Isn't what you thought it was going to be? [SPEAKER_01]: You're leaving already, huh? [SPEAKER_02]: One needs merely making appearance. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a social [SPEAKER_01]: From a distance, as one trying to gain an increased mystation in life, you are a very good example of what to strive for.

33:48 [SPEAKER_02]: He thinks about that. [SPEAKER_02]: A looks at you and says, and what does picture interest? [SPEAKER_02]: Do you see to occupy my station? [SPEAKER_02]: you must be honest in what you hope to seek. [SPEAKER_02]: If you want my station, you say so. [SPEAKER_01]: Why it looks directly into his dad's eyes at this and says, Yes, I do want your station.

34:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Very good. [SPEAKER_02]: That is the first lesson. [SPEAKER_02]: understand what you want. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, what are you willing to do to get it? [SPEAKER_01]: Why it takes this moment, and take this moment, but why it in this moment thinks about everything that Solomon and the Briars have given and Hayden and the other Piper's and stump [SPEAKER_01]: and David and his family and kind of everyone we've met on this journey and continuing that kind of unwavering stare says everything is that so there are two types of people in this world those who are asleep and those who are awake [SPEAKER_02]: Are you awake?

35:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm wide awake. [SPEAKER_02]: What is it you want from me? [SPEAKER_01]: As I said, I want to learn from you. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to know everything it is that you do, so I... ...while hopefully eventually... ...taking your station... ...can work my way there... ...well... ...you... ...text Hawthorne... ...Names are important.

35:59 [SPEAKER_02]: MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM [SPEAKER_02]: for it is the brittle tree, which falls in the storm.

36:36 [SPEAKER_02]: And do you see that out there? [SPEAKER_02]: He points to the front doors and beyond them the gathered crowd of protesters. [SPEAKER_02]: That is a storm. [SPEAKER_02]: And that room back there is full of brittle trees. [SPEAKER_02]: Shall we call the storm? [SPEAKER_02]: He smiles and says, there is no need for it is already approaching.

37:14 [SPEAKER_02]: And I have already been with it. [SPEAKER_02]: Come, Tex. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm interested in what you have to say, and it might not be safe to remain in this storm [SPEAKER_02]: And as he says that, solemnly. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: You are dancing. [SPEAKER_02]: And then the time comes to follow Ms. Delrio.

37:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, is the, as I walk toward, is it Minister Delrio? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, to follow Minister Delrio. [SPEAKER_00]: As I go to walk, I kind of chance won last glance back at Lysander. [SPEAKER_00]: Still a bit startled by how much he's looking like that is, and just try to catch off of that detect magic, what school of magic the ring is using.

38:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And it does not appear that there's any magic around Tiberius? [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: They're just not. [SPEAKER_02]: Solomon, you look and see that this ring is abduration magic, but there's, it's a mix. [SPEAKER_02]: There's something else working on it and you're not quite able to place what it is, but it [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

38:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so I'll make kind of tries to tear her gaze away from that and it's like, you know, all right. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to deal with that in a second. [SPEAKER_00]: And I will follow. [SPEAKER_02]: As you do, you nearly run smack into a waiter.

38:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, hey. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't mention no. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be damned. [SPEAKER_00]: RAT. [SPEAKER_00]: He says... Who? [SPEAKER_02]: Who? [SPEAKER_02]: Who? [SPEAKER_02]: No!

39:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you... Man, did you just... You have to disguise the voice and you... Um... Also, if you're going to be a waiter at this party and you're not going around canterpays, you can't go talking to people. [SPEAKER_00]: You're supposed to be seen and not heard, you understand me? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's kind of difficult for me.

39:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Ben, why did you choose to be a waiter? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what else was I supposed to do? [SPEAKER_00]: I can't cook. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you could have, you could have come in as a guest. [SPEAKER_00]: You could have done any other thing that doesn't require you to not talk. [SPEAKER_02]: There was a whole crate of uniforms back there.

39:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh [SPEAKER_02]: He re-fidgets his mask.

39:54 [SPEAKER_02]: It is a very thin, it is, it's, all of the waiters here have the same uniform. [SPEAKER_02]: They all have a simple cloth mask that covers the top half of their head. [SPEAKER_02]: and he says, I just, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, he's, he's, he's, when I want to hear too. [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody else here that we should know about?

40:12 [SPEAKER_00]: What am I? [SPEAKER_00]: I am. [SPEAKER_00]: I am. [SPEAKER_00]: I am. [SPEAKER_00]: I am. [SPEAKER_00]: I am. [SPEAKER_02]: I told nobody else to come, but. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm sure that they all listened. [SPEAKER_02]: That's great. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, listen, why don't you tell the piano lady over there?

40:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, hey, oh, I look over for Maggie. [SPEAKER_02]: You see, seated at the piano playing away. [SPEAKER_02]: As the other, the other instrumentalists up there sort of look at her as she is taking it away is [SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps the neatest version of Maggie you've ever seen. [SPEAKER_02]: She cleans up surprisingly well.

40:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, she could play piano, we didn't have one. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, man. [SPEAKER_00]: How did she learn that? [SPEAKER_00]: We lived in a wagon. [SPEAKER_00]: or anybody else i'm just a waiter no oh great yeah why are you talking to me what is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it

41:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Hayden, oh, you can cade. [SPEAKER_02]: I think the jaymasins are here. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, right? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm kind of done with you right now. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: But I just need you to understand. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, as much fun as we're having with this little back and forth right now.

41:34 [SPEAKER_00]: I need to be serious with you and tell you that we are expecting people from the church tonight. [SPEAKER_00]: And I need you to be careful. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, I think you need to be careful, actually. [SPEAKER_02]: Because I'm always careful. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to be sincere.

41:48 [SPEAKER_00]: God damn, I gotta go. [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm not good at being sincere. [SPEAKER_00]: Figure it out. [SPEAKER_00]: God talk to somebody. [SPEAKER_02]: He hoffs and says loudly, a drink, madame. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a good way to get yourself killed. [SPEAKER_00]: You understand? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to get in trouble over this.

42:08 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to get in trouble over this. [SPEAKER_02]: And I pick up a, I pick up a drink that will most throw off the weight of the tray that he is carry you take one on the very end and he catches it at the last second and sort of nods like okay and then turns and heads into the party.

42:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Careful, Rhett, and I follow God, I follow a Minister Dorio. [SPEAKER_02]: Minister Del Rio heads into a side hallway. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, all right. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you follow her, she says, this could be a very stupid idea being alone with you. [SPEAKER_00]: Are you thinking that I'm just here to murder everybody in the Jameson's immediate vicinity?

43:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that the sort of general perception? [SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, I can't count it out. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Rumors have spread about your reputation. [SPEAKER_02]: And although I do understand the 3D intendency to exaggerate, I unfortunately am unable to take chances. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I appreciate you taking a chance on me.

43:34 [SPEAKER_00]: I would ask you to consider who you think is spreading those rumors. [SPEAKER_00]: I will also say up front that I did kill that, and I have no intention of killing anybody else today if I can help it. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well, from this point forward, I would recommend not confessing to murder to a government official.

43:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that shape is sailed if I'm being honest with you. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, innocent until guilty. [SPEAKER_02]: That sort of thing. [SPEAKER_00]: I did what I did. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Shall we talk? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, let's. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's not really admire the work that you're doing here.

44:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that you are trying to stop the war, which is is great. [SPEAKER_00]: I... [SPEAKER_00]: I know that you kind of know me as that is just wife, but the badlands are my home. [SPEAKER_00]: They're what I care about more than anything. [SPEAKER_00]: They're why I tried to leave.

44:30 [SPEAKER_00]: their why I left. [SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm here to stop the war just like you are. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm willing to do what it takes to do that. [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think that what it takes is going to be making a martyr out of Tiberius. [SPEAKER_00]: So, I've got some friends and I who've come here today to try to get him alone so that we can talk to him about sitting down and having a conversation with directorship to twin-refer.

44:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, because Badlands is just about ready to declare sovereignty at this point. [SPEAKER_00]: We're about as ready as it gets to cut ties. [SPEAKER_02]: To be honest, I'm not convinced they shouldn't. [SPEAKER_02]: If it would be better off for them and... [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you're not here to kill type areas.

45:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, part of the reason that I came in here and told you who I did kill and who I have no intention of killing is that, hopefully, we can kind of get on the same page about the truth of my intentions here, if I admit to what I did do, perhaps you could believe me when I tell you what I won't do.

45:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but alone is not going to cut it. [SPEAKER_02]: I need to be there, and I need someone capable of stopping you to be there. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, is there someone you'd suggest? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, General Volkner is here tonight. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, that's like, early days. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

46:02 [SPEAKER_00]: So you want to bring Volkner into this? [SPEAKER_02]: Volkner is Jamison leaning. [SPEAKER_02]: However, well, you've seen the people at this party. [SPEAKER_02]: They're not exactly the type to take martial arts. [SPEAKER_00]: No, ma'am. [SPEAKER_02]: I see no other path forward than to ensure the safety of the Prime Minister.

46:33 [SPEAKER_00]: How very politic of you, Minister? [SPEAKER_00]: I will agree to this, but I need to assure you that having stood [SPEAKER_00]: Just outside the pit, watching some of the folks in this room watch and cheer as folks fought to the death for their entertainment, I would love to see tabirious, held accountable in a little bit more than just a politics kind of way, but I know that the politics thing to do would be to not make a martyr out of him and so I won't.

47:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't feeling sorry for him because he's sick. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to go in there, guns blaze in just to show all these people exactly who they already think we are. [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't going to do that. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you need to bring General Volkner in, that is all well and good.

47:28 [SPEAKER_00]: But I need you to understand that you can take me at my word. [SPEAKER_02]: Good. [SPEAKER_02]: And I need you to understand. [SPEAKER_02]: that as much as I would love to hold the Jamison's responsible for every single thing that they have done since I was elected to this office, I would do everything in my power to see that happen.

47:54 [SPEAKER_02]: However, as much as I cannot stand them personally, I cannot [SPEAKER_02]: harm my political opponents. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, ma'am. [SPEAKER_00]: We need to make sure that Titus is kept out of it. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's going on, but I don't have you seen the Adosius. [SPEAKER_00]: He looks different.

48:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't seen him in years. [SPEAKER_02]: He showed up tonight. [SPEAKER_02]: He looks different than what I remembered him, but I to be honest, I could never get a beat on him. [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever's going on, listen, I don't trust any of the Jameson brothers as much as I can throw them, but I don't trust Tiberias, and I don't trust Titus even more than I don't trust Tiberias, you understand?

48:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Great, then we will talk with Tiberias. [SPEAKER_02]: We will have Volkner and myself present, and we will have an honest discussion. [SPEAKER_00]: And how do you propose we get him away from Titus? [SPEAKER_02]: I have my ways. [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, well then you give me a time and place.

49:01 [SPEAKER_02]: she says, well, no time exists, but now, and she turns and begins striding back into the party. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, I will keep an eye on that, I guess. [SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm going to walk over to the, [SPEAKER_00]: brick and piano player um actually before it as I'm as I'm scanning the room I'm going to walk over toward Maggie and I'm also going to pop in a divine sense um I have a spish a suspicion that someone else is here tonight and that person I think is Barabas Bartel.

49:34 [SPEAKER_00]: So I would like to throw up a divine sense to see if there are any undead within 30 fate of me [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you head over to the Piano Lady and you spark up a divine sense and as you turn, you get a ping. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, where? [SPEAKER_02]: You get a ping from a man standing near the piano, actually.

50:05 [SPEAKER_02]: He wears an all black suit, you can tell it is not as nice as sort of the standard of this room. [SPEAKER_02]: It is a good suit. [SPEAKER_02]: It is not up to sort of whatever one else in this room is wearing. [SPEAKER_02]: And he wears a wolf's mask. [SPEAKER_02]: He is sipping a drink.

50:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful, and he's by the piano. [SPEAKER_00]: He's near the piano. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Huh, all right. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I had over in that direction. [SPEAKER_02]: As you do, Hayden. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Why it just left? [SPEAKER_03]: And I assume that there is no sign of Solomon.

50:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Solomon is at least across the room for from you. [SPEAKER_03]: Do I have a bead on fell? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, boy. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, here we go. [SPEAKER_03]: I will take a moment, I close my eyes, I shut out all the senses around me, and I open up my familiar connection with Glitter Baby, who is inside Felt's pocket.

51:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Can I get a sense of where Felt is based off of that? [SPEAKER_03]: hearing the relation of where they are to the piano, or where they are to the bar or certain conversations. [SPEAKER_02]: You definitely hear conversations. [SPEAKER_02]: You hear the butt end of a conversation in which two women are talking about physical strength and meeting with two other men, [SPEAKER_02]: damn it.

51:54 [SPEAKER_02]: And one of the voices sounds very familiar. [SPEAKER_02]: You'd you'd almost swear it was solemnized. [SPEAKER_02]: And then you hear a door open and loud piano playing. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: I am immediately scared. [SPEAKER_03]: I scan along the walls for a door that just opened.

52:16 [SPEAKER_03]: I leave [SPEAKER_02]: 18, within 18, I will say there's not too many entrances and exits to this room, so a quick scan with an 18 you do find. [SPEAKER_02]: The far wall, you're near the entrance, the far wall is the podium and where all the james are standing. [SPEAKER_02]: The wall to your right.

52:45 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a doorway leading out to a hallway. [SPEAKER_02]: You see those doors open. [SPEAKER_02]: You see a woman step through in a mask. [SPEAKER_02]: It's sort of hard to tell what's going on with it. [SPEAKER_02]: And then you see what looks like Solome. [SPEAKER_02]: OK, or at least someone looking like Solome in Solome's mask.

53:09 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to be lying for Solome because this is an update. [SPEAKER_02]: you are moving through the crowd. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you do, you see Solomon pull up to the pianist, playing whom you also recognize immediately. [SPEAKER_03]: Is it Blanda? [SPEAKER_03]: Is it Blanda? [SPEAKER_02]: No, you do recognize the pianist as the local musician, Magdalena Breyer, and as you as you see Salome, [SPEAKER_02]: seemingly going over to talk to her, you watch as Clive walks up and hands her a piece of paper.

54:04 [SPEAKER_00]: God, Solomon nods to acknowledge Clive, but says nothing to him and picks up the piece of paper and reads, [SPEAKER_03]: And it's basically this explains the fellas out to kill someone today, and specifically, I mean, you could, I suppose, roll insight to understand the meaning of the note, but that there is a competition over who gets to bend the ear of the highest ranking person here.

54:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think with a like 13 insight, that's probably enough, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Sure. [SPEAKER_00]: I just based on like Hayden and my relationship. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you don't think Hayden would send you notes just for fun in this party. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like, hey, what's you doing?

54:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Hayden, as you walk up to Solomon, you see her go really rigid reading this note, and then just puts it away quietly. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Ms. Rivers, I've been meaning to run it to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Go. [SPEAKER_00]: It is wonderful to see you, makes pepper. [SPEAKER_00]: The pianist is great, ain't she?

55:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And I look over and put a hand on the piano and look at Maggie pointedly. [SPEAKER_02]: Maggie, Maggie nods and continues playing. [SPEAKER_00]: I put a coin in her stupid tip jar. [SPEAKER_03]: Since we're this close to the piano, I will... [SPEAKER_03]: momentarily I just lean against the piano and close out my senses and open up glitter babies again.

55:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Does the piano still sound close? [SPEAKER_02]: It does. [SPEAKER_03]: Whoo, that's tough. [SPEAKER_03]: I wish any of us had message. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: None of us do. [SPEAKER_00]: I will look at Hayden and just whisper, are we safe here? [SPEAKER_02]: Are you still listening through glitter baby?

56:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Um, I, it's just an action. [SPEAKER_03]: So I pop back out and I go, you know, I went to that ball over there and I asked for another drink and they said absolutely not. [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, do you know if there's a better ball than we go to? [SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking to have way more drinks.

56:29 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think there's just the one across the room, unfortunately, I'm looking to get a dance with a couple of folks around here. [SPEAKER_00]: Do we need to be going somewhere else? [SPEAKER_03]: God, they're too smart for this. [SPEAKER_03]: You know what? [SPEAKER_03]: There's a particular year I've been looking to band.

56:49 [SPEAKER_03]: So, I might, [SPEAKER_03]: Go on a bit of a hunt for her. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think about Hayden trying to go after Quartual by themselves. [SPEAKER_03]: But careful, you talked to her around here because you know, if these walls could talk, they'd have some things to say about what's going on behind closed doors.

57:07 [SPEAKER_03]: If you know what I mean. [SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, she was like, it's a heck of a party already, ain't it? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, big time. [SPEAKER_03]: You should see who's having a lot of drinks over the bar there. [SPEAKER_03]: There's this little cobalt woman and, you know, I had to tell her to shut up because she was talking up a storm to all kinds of people.

57:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's that so. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's great. [SPEAKER_00]: I might have to catch up with her soon. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been looking to talk to her. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I know you were talking, meaning to talk to a Mr. Forsyth as well, but unfortunately he's flown the coup. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a real shame.

57:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I was hoping to do a little a little catch up with him and Malinda, but I'm hoping I might turn around making other appearance at some point. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you've really gotten your way around this party already. [SPEAKER_00]: I've only talked to one or two people. [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't want to open it, I gotta say.

57:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I will say the younger James and brother really cleans up nice, huh? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's pretty interesting. [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to get a talk with him at some point. [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's, uh... Where it's interest in jewelry? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, he better not try to upstage anybody, because I know that Tiberius and Titus, both, like to think of themselves as the biggest names around here.

58:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Titus did say that it was all of their night, and Tiberius seemed a little bit confused by all that, so... You know what? [SPEAKER_03]: Just between us girls. [SPEAKER_03]: I gotta say. [SPEAKER_03]: If you want a moment, with Tiberius, you might need to get him out of here. [SPEAKER_03]: Because Tiberius isn't some real danger.

58:46 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh-oh. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I was thinking about trying to have a word with him out in the back courtyard a little bit later. [SPEAKER_03]: All right. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, make sure you get to it because I don't know what kind of time we have. [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

59:04 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll certainly try. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, wait, I'm not going to take up any more of your time. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, darling, well, hey, you enjoy the rest of your dance. [SPEAKER_00]: New heart, are you taking requests to the pianist? [SPEAKER_02]: She says, you just need name it. [SPEAKER_00]: How about some a little more lively?

59:23 [SPEAKER_00]: You got it? [SPEAKER_02]: She starts to play something a little more lively, and as she does, Hayden, where do you head next? [SPEAKER_03]: I have not spotted Cortois anywhere. [SPEAKER_03]: I think I need to get out of the main room and start wondering about. [SPEAKER_03]: And while I'm out, I may change my face again.

59:50 [SPEAKER_02]: You turn. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you do, you glance over at the Jamison brothers and stop to see Cortois. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, in conversation with Titus. [SPEAKER_03]: Well. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you see that, why it? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God! [SPEAKER_00]: This sucks, this is exactly what I was hoping for.

1:00:14 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a hated, perfect. [SPEAKER_00]: I love it. [SPEAKER_00]: I love it. [SPEAKER_01]: This is like the pig, but we're all together. [SPEAKER_02]: Why it? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: You're here with your dad. [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't find somebody else, man. [SPEAKER_02]: Hi, yep, I am here with my dad, and your dad says a word of advice, text, Hawthorne, go home.

1:00:46 [SPEAKER_02]: The parties over, is that where you're going? [SPEAKER_02]: He shrugs and says, a man asked to go to sleep eventually. [SPEAKER_02]: I was never one for parties. [SPEAKER_02]: They distract. [SPEAKER_01]: As he's saying this to me, can I make a perception check just to kind of see if I hear anything on the winds of this storm, sure?

1:01:15 [SPEAKER_01]: As it was put, yeah, just kind of any unusual sounds in the city, or maybe even that it's extra quiet or something. [SPEAKER_01]: Sure? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh hell yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: 28. [SPEAKER_01]: Woo! [SPEAKER_01]: 20. [SPEAKER_01]: 8. [SPEAKER_01]: 8. [SPEAKER_01]: 8. [SPEAKER_01]: 8. [SPEAKER_01]: 8.

1:01:29 [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_01]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_02]: 8.

1:01:34 [SPEAKER_02]: 8. [SPEAKER_01]: motions the servant away, and says, unless you'd care for one, why it grabs one of the drinks and says, holds it up and says, to successful evenings. [SPEAKER_02]: At that, Mr. Forsythe size takes the other drink and says, to successful evenings, he downs his. [SPEAKER_01]: Why it takes a little sip, and I would like to make some sort of check to try to get it down without showing that he's never really had booze before.

1:02:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Roll a deception or performance. [SPEAKER_01]: He had his first drink today earlier, which you believe me if I, that both of those are [SPEAKER_00]: You gonna add a D-4? [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. [SPEAKER_01]: Why it as he takes that drink goes, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, [SPEAKER_02]: the waiter turns without acknowledgment almost robotically turns and steps away.

1:03:28 [SPEAKER_02]: You notice that only because you rolled a 28. [SPEAKER_01]: Well Mr. Forsyth, I think I will take your advice about heading home but I will have to go back inside and grab my coat. [SPEAKER_01]: What is the best way for me to reach you in the future? [SPEAKER_02]: He looks at you. [SPEAKER_02]: And he says, If I find you interesting, I'll reach out.

1:03:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, I'm sure you will. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you start to turn, he says, Tex Hawthorne. [SPEAKER_02]: Big fan of the picture shows, Tex Hawthorne. [SPEAKER_02]: They're all right. [SPEAKER_02]: You see, my son loves this flicker show character, dynamo text, fancies of himself a cowboy of sorts.

1:04:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you fancy yourself a cowboy of sorts, Hawthorne? [SPEAKER_01]: Why it has an internal moment where he gets a little happy that his dad knows something about him? [SPEAKER_01]: but it has to choke it down. [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

1:05:10 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's about that time that the servant comes through the front and says, Sir, your coach. [SPEAKER_02]: And John Patrick smiles and says, Farewell, Mr. Hawthorne. [SPEAKER_01]: Good evening, Mr. Forsyte. [SPEAKER_02]: He turns, and your dad walks out the front doors. [SPEAKER_01]: Why is just going to take a moment to center himself?

1:05:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And then kind of walk around the side of the building a little bit. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it throws up into bushes. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, baby, it pulls up as bad. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, probably just the nerves of the entire conversation. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I gotta get inside and put this mask down and as non-schlottly as possible, the hustle's back inside to try to find Selamay and Hayden because we got to get everyone out of this room now.

1:06:17 [SPEAKER_02]: You head back in and as you do you over here someone go, uh, I remember my first golla. [SPEAKER_02]: You head back inside. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm advancing the clock. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I have a sketch wall. [SPEAKER_03]: That's actually smart, that's great. [SPEAKER_02]: Why, you had back inside.

1:06:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, where are you headed? [SPEAKER_01]: I am looking for Clive, I'm looking for Salome, I'm looking for Hayden. [SPEAKER_03]: Convenient, you know, we're all in one place right now. [SPEAKER_02]: As you head in all three of you, you hear the room begin to get quiet as you see a half-alph person.

1:07:08 [SPEAKER_02]: pointed ears, little spectacles, on the short side, looks so tightly wound, comes over with a clipboard to the band and says, alright, minister Jameson is about to give his speech. [SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to play the music that we talked about, a little bit of a, a welcoming them on and then quiet.

1:07:38 [SPEAKER_02]: and the band nods and the the coordinator. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, checks. [SPEAKER_02]: And says, how are the shrimp cakes? [SPEAKER_02]: And turns and moves along. [SPEAKER_00]: Is there is their time before the music and such begins? [SPEAKER_02]: It's gearing up. [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

1:08:01 [SPEAKER_02]: So any, any lat, [SPEAKER_00]: that there were a bunch of waiters clothes where in the kitchen in a crate in a crate in the kitchen. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, in a crate in the kitchen. [SPEAKER_00]: In the kitchen. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: That's good to know. [SPEAKER_00]: I will let Maggie do her job.

1:08:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And I will walk over and stand next to Barabas and not and say Mr. Barton. [SPEAKER_02]: You see the an almost imperceptible start. [SPEAKER_02]: And he says, to whom do I owe the pleasure? [SPEAKER_00]: A new friend is taking an interest in your sister. [SPEAKER_01]: She's so fresh. [SPEAKER_01]: He sighs and goes, son of a bitch.

1:08:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, we did have a bit of a fall and out. [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't as more a way to tell you who I was, without telling you who I was, but we might be on the outs. [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, hello. [SPEAKER_00]: Good to see you. [SPEAKER_02]: It's good to see you too. [SPEAKER_02]: If you're here to stop me, I would advise against it.

1:09:10 [SPEAKER_00]: And that I'm what I'm here for. [SPEAKER_02]: Good. [SPEAKER_00]: May I ask you to leave Tabiri's alone? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not interested in him. [SPEAKER_00]: Good. [SPEAKER_00]: You seen your sister? [SPEAKER_02]: She here? [SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't put a pastor. [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't looking for you?

1:09:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Shit. [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't here to stop you, but I don't know about her. [SPEAKER_02]: Well. [SPEAKER_02]: If she hasn't revealed herself by now, there's still time. [SPEAKER_00]: Be careful, please. [SPEAKER_00]: Something's going on. [SPEAKER_00]: Last Ender's wearing, that is his wedding ring.

1:09:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And Titus seems to know something, and Tiberius looks sick. [SPEAKER_00]: Something's wrong. [SPEAKER_02]: The other two brothers are not a my concern. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm here with one goal. [SPEAKER_02]: And I will achieve it. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, please take care, Mr. Bartle.

1:10:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The piano player over there in my other aunt would love to get you some help when all this is through. [SPEAKER_00]: My offer still stands. [SPEAKER_02]: He looks over at the piano player. [SPEAKER_02]: He looks at you and says, and again, I'll say, I appreciate your offer. [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all are as stubborn as I am, and I'll walk away.

1:10:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Hayden and Wyatt, any last things to clear up before the speech, let's go Hayden and then Wyatt. [SPEAKER_03]: Am I able to change my appearance on Noticed? [SPEAKER_02]: In the middle of a crowd, I'll allow it but you have to roll stealth. [SPEAKER_02]: because crowds are crowds can be complicated?

1:10:53 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So let me have you roll stealth, but I will let it happen. [SPEAKER_03]: Got it, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a compromise. [SPEAKER_03]: 24. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: You, you change amongst this crowd. [SPEAKER_02]: You don't draw any weird stairs.

1:11:11 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: I will transform into John Patrick Forsyth. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh shit, okay, I saw what he's wearing tonight. [SPEAKER_03]: I can create his mask with my gift from Solomon and due to my little practice sessions with Wyatt, I should be able to create a pretty darn accurate facsimile of John Patrick Forsyth.

1:11:40 [SPEAKER_03]: That's so good. [SPEAKER_02]: You create a damn good John Patrick. [SPEAKER_03]: And I will move as close to the front of the crowd as I can. [SPEAKER_02]: You do that. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you do a lot of people get out of your way. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't move with any actually I move with purpose and to someone who knows John Patrick voice for a site.

1:12:12 [SPEAKER_03]: a surprising amount of speed, but to an average person it would look very casual. [SPEAKER_02]: You move to the front and as you do, you see that tibirious is taking the stand, is approaching the podium. [SPEAKER_02]: The music has begun to play. [SPEAKER_02]: the speech is going to begin.

1:12:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Tiberius is approaching the Pope podium, Titus and Lysander stand off to the side. [SPEAKER_02]: This is your first time seeing them up close. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Tiberius does not look well. [SPEAKER_02]: You see him stumble a bit on his way up to the podium. [SPEAKER_02]: And Titus helps him.

1:12:57 [SPEAKER_02]: As he makes his way up, [SPEAKER_02]: Titus is there. [SPEAKER_02]: Licender stands off to the side. [SPEAKER_02]: And you see Quartois standing off to the side as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Having taken a step back. [SPEAKER_03]: I try to make eye contact with any of them who will. [SPEAKER_02]: As you're there, Tiberius approaches the stand he looks over.

1:13:22 [SPEAKER_02]: And sort of gives you a little wave, like an acknowledgement, like a, I see you. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Titus glances over at you, having seen Tiberius do that, glances over at you, thinks nothing of it. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Lysander seems off in his own little world, he, he, his eyes sort of just stare out into space.

1:13:51 [SPEAKER_02]: He's not really looking at anything in particular. [SPEAKER_02]: Quartois is staring at you. [SPEAKER_03]: I give her the smallest but most decisive shake of my head, no. [SPEAKER_01]: You watch. [SPEAKER_02]: as Quartwa looks at you, and then the most wicked grin crosses her face. [SPEAKER_03]: I will step towards her.

1:14:31 [SPEAKER_02]: You do. [SPEAKER_03]: Go God. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm getting sweaty. [SPEAKER_02]: She grins. [SPEAKER_02]: and then her mouth begins to move. [SPEAKER_02]: You can't quite make out what she's saying, but you see her hands at her side move as well. [SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, she's casting. [SPEAKER_02]: And as you watch that happen, why it?

1:14:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you have anything you would like to do before this speech? [SPEAKER_01]: I met the door, right in the door. [SPEAKER_02]: As you walk in, [SPEAKER_02]: you are immediately greeted by a server who says, drink sir? [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, no thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: Alright, you're lost. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, good, very good, do I know you?

1:15:27 [SPEAKER_02]: He looks at you and says, well, I was told I wasn't supposed to talk to guests. [SPEAKER_02]: Somebody told me that. [SPEAKER_02]: But I get talked to you, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, um, yeah, you're always- Anyone is welcome to talk to me. [SPEAKER_01]: Great, awesome. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, do you- uh, come here.

1:15:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, especially about this, do you have any questions about the flame? [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, what questions do you have about the flame? [SPEAKER_01]: God damn it, is that you Wyatt? [SPEAKER_02]: Fuck! [SPEAKER_02]: Right? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, oh! [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing here? [SPEAKER_02]: What am I doing here?

1:16:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to keep track of y'all. [SPEAKER_02]: But I didn't get to see what your masks look like. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just lucky Solome just fucking berated me out in the open. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, can kids around your somewhere? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm keeping y'all straight. [SPEAKER_01]: Do any of the servers remind you of you before?

1:16:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, like, like, blackstone before? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, could I make a perception check for stones? [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the thing is they are all wearing masks that cover the top of their head. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, convenient, casey-papas. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sorry, so yeah, are they, did remind you of stone you?

1:16:50 [SPEAKER_02]: He stops and says, Oh shit. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that would explain why they're not really talkative. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, um, this is gonna be a problem. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'd say it's gonna be a problem. [SPEAKER_02]: And as he says that [SPEAKER_02]: Greetings! [SPEAKER_02]: Patrons, co-workers, e-smiles, and gets a couple of chuckles, and the like.

1:17:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I welcome you to a gala, celebrating our beloved city. [SPEAKER_02]: I would like to take a few words. [SPEAKER_02]: to let you know how much each and every person here means to this city. [SPEAKER_02]: And he stops, coughs for a second, and then continues, I won't keep you. [SPEAKER_02]: parties are for greeting and speaking and drinking and not too much drinking by Deo.

1:18:19 [SPEAKER_02]: The crowd sporadic chuckles again. [SPEAKER_02]: He says, we find ourselves at an important time in history and it is the actions that we make in these times. [SPEAKER_02]: that define us. [SPEAKER_02]: We go through hardships. [SPEAKER_02]: We go through struggle, and we come out better for it.

1:18:51 [SPEAKER_02]: This conflict, well, he stops again, mid-sonance, and then says, [SPEAKER_02]: the important matter is that we as 3Dians remain together, that we might bring the safety and security that we are afforded here to anyone who would welcome it. [SPEAKER_02]: And now, and this time he clutches his side, [SPEAKER_02]: He coughs and says, F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F [SPEAKER_02]: There are some confused applause as Titus takes the podium and Titus as well.

1:20:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you dear brother. [SPEAKER_02]: As this gala is funded by our sincere james and corporation, it is just [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it is apropos of the setting to let each and every one of you know investors as you might be, and hopefuls, if you are not, that a new head of the Jameson company has been announced after the, well, the unfortunate passing of our dear brother, [SPEAKER_02]: It was difficult to move on, but move on we have.

1:20:59 [SPEAKER_02]: We honor his legacy and announce the new head of the Jamison Company. [SPEAKER_02]: The Adosius Jamison. [SPEAKER_02]: And there's more applaud this time as the arrow comes to the pulpit. [SPEAKER_02]: stands at the pulpit, and he says, well, not to make a parade of jamesens here tonight.

1:21:34 [SPEAKER_02]: I won't keep you, but I will say that this night is ours, all of us. [SPEAKER_02]: As my brother said, these are choppy waters that we steer through, [SPEAKER_02]: But I encourage you all to stick with it. [SPEAKER_02]: Something truly greatest coming. [SPEAKER_02]: I feel it. [SPEAKER_02]: I feel it.

1:22:02 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel it in here. [SPEAKER_02]: He motions to his chest. [SPEAKER_02]: He says, I feel it. [SPEAKER_02]: I see it. [SPEAKER_02]: I have a vision of what I want this world to be. [SPEAKER_02]: And we can only get there together. [SPEAKER_02]: more applause Casey yes when he points to his chest can I look at the riverbank hmm you can hate is not sound like licender yeah he sounds like somebody else the colors of the room fade and you notice something well you notice two things [SPEAKER_02]: is that in the corner of this room, stands a tall figure, unseen before.

1:23:00 [SPEAKER_02]: They were a long duster, a wide-brembed hat, their face obscured by veils and tassels. [SPEAKER_02]: V is here. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: As if they're [SPEAKER_02]: Lysander's chest burns brightly. [SPEAKER_02]: Very brightly. [SPEAKER_02]: You see a whisp burning in his chest.

1:23:35 [SPEAKER_02]: And you see a [SPEAKER_02]: as if one is forcing out the other. [SPEAKER_00]: As if there is a whisp in the ring? [SPEAKER_02]: There is a whisp in his chest, and there is a whisp that is being pushed down his arm and into the ring on his left hand. [SPEAKER_02]: And that is where we'll pick up next time.

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1:25:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Jay, Theo Wells, White, Lindsay, Dale Heimbecker, Dean, Dippy Frustrel, Zelda, Deborah Jacobson, J. Mauer, Aquinas, and not a message jelly cube, Morgan Faber, Kethene Ayers, Killing Will, but properly, Patrick Hickman, Debbie, Nathan Ritter, chicken, two tasty, Evan noon, Avery Spar, and Lovelies, House and Developers, Dust Carpenter, Diana, Bacon, Alforestoki, Liz, Gary Lee, Jonathan Goddell, Gardner, Alta Soldier, Lola Peglor, Eggman, and Ha!

1:26:10 [SPEAKER_03]: That actually wasn't too bad. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm feeling pretty good about where I am on these these days. [SPEAKER_03]: So get us more patrons, make me pass out on Mike. [SPEAKER_03]: Let's do it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_03]: Tell your friends about the show. [SPEAKER_03]: Tell your first about the show.

1:26:23 [SPEAKER_03]: Tell the ancient Eldridge horror that dwells in the dark. [SPEAKER_03]: in the depths. [SPEAKER_03]: No one dare pass, but you feel its eyes watching you from the darkness. [SPEAKER_03]: It waits. [SPEAKER_02]: It waits. [SPEAKER_02]: It waits. [SPEAKER_03]: It's for a really good podcast for recommendations, so I don't over there do that.

1:26:46 [SPEAKER_03]: And when you do use the hashtag MAJ5 and hey, how about a high five?