DesiQuest
A Party for Kitties? - DesiQuest Episode 2
Join us as we journey to the coastal region of Vehaar, a land full of adventures unfolding at the intersection of familial drama and missing luggage! But worry not, we have Namir (Luis Carazo), our resident nature expert, steering us through the ebbs and flows of the grand Kitty party thrown by the ever-extravagant Priya (Jasmine Bhullar). Brace yourself for a surprise as Namir readies himself to crash this fashionably late gathering.
Skip across the borders with us as Sitara (Anjali Bhimani) welcome Ash (Sandeep Parikh), a newcomer at Priya's philanthropic Kitty party, and delve into the noble cause it serves. Laddoo Auntie (Rekha Shankar) has brought the sweets for the get-together but is shocked to see Priya has invited Gharana Foods to cater the event. The high-spirited chatter only gets lighter as we introduce Namir, our half-elven explorer on a quest to reconnect with his roots, and Priya, our nature aficionado, guiding us through the enigmatic trails of Rak Tibba. Uncover the mysteries of hierarchy, culture, and language as we encounter Murkha (Omar Najam) and his adorable red panda construct, Baccha.
As we unravel the eerie enigmas of Rak Tibba and the unsettling aftermath of demi goddess Silsilan's absence, we cross paths with the mystical entity, Nooryn. Engage in a thought-provoking conversation about life's cyclical nature, while dealing with the repercussions of Silsilan's absence. Prepare to be enchanted as we team up with Priya, a wizard from the Wane School of Divination, to protect our town and embark on a journey into the woods. So, buckle up for an exciting ride full of laughter, adventure, and riveting conversations as we navigate these captivating narratives.
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Join us as we journey to the coastal region of Vehaar, a land full of adventures unfolding at the intersection of familial drama and missing luggage! But worry not, we have Namir (Luis Carazo), our resident nature expert, steering us through the ebbs and flows of the grand Kitty party thrown by the ever-extravagant Priya (Jasmine Bhullar). Brace yourself for a surprise as Namir readies himself to crash this fashionably late gathering.
Skip across the borders with us as Sitara (Anjali Bhimani) welcome Ash (Sandeep Parikh), a newcomer at Priya's philanthropic Kitty party, and delve into the noble cause it serves. Laddoo Auntie (Rekha Shankar) has brought the sweets for the get-together but is shocked to see Priya has invited Gharana Foods to cater the event. The high-spirited chatter only gets lighter as we introduce Namir, our half-elven explorer on a quest to reconnect with his roots, and Priya, our nature aficionado, guiding us through the enigmatic trails of Rak Tibba. Uncover the mysteries of hierarchy, culture, and language as we encounter Murkha (Omar Najam) and his adorable red panda construct, Baccha.
As we unravel the eerie enigmas of Rak Tibba and the unsettling aftermath of demi goddess Silsilan's absence, we cross paths with the mystical entity, Nooryn. Engage in a thought-provoking conversation about life's cyclical nature, while dealing with the repercussions of Silsilan's absence. Prepare to be enchanted as we team up with Priya, a wizard from the Wane School of Divination, to protect our town and embark on a journey into the woods. So, buckle up for an exciting ride full of laughter, adventure, and riveting conversations as we navigate these captivating narratives.
Website: https://www.desiquest.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DesiQuest
Wanna play D&D with the cast? Buy a seat at the table here: www.desiquest/playwiththepros
DesiQuest merch: www.desiquest.com/merch
Sponsors:
Darrington Press: https://darringtonpress.com/candela/
Gharana Foods: https://www.gharanafoods.com/desiquest.html
Die Hard Dice: https://DesiQuest.com/DHD
Hero Forge: https://www.heroforge.com
Misty Mountain Gaming: https://desiquest.com/misty
MUSIC. Hello and welcome back to this request and welcome to you, Luis Carazzo. Thank you so much for joining us here in the tea kettle today.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:We're so excited to have you join the this request. I imagine you're probably a little curious about what our adventurers have been up to.
Speaker 2:I am beyond curious. I want the full download.
Speaker 1:Well, welcome to the this request recap MUSIC.
Speaker 2:Thank you for joining me on that. That's beautiful. That's the listening and respondent.
Speaker 1:Our adventures, oh gosh, where do I begin? They came to the platform in the coastal region of Vejar, the continent we are on called Cerepaní, and here in the capital, chand Bay, we have someone from your characters, part of the world which I won't spoil yet that came to the platform and got their luggage stolen pretty much right away, as this happens when one engages in this request.
Speaker 1:There was some drama, there was some always sunny and Philadelphia-esque energy. Eventually they succeeded in recovering their luggage. I guess it didn't feel like it was a success. It feels like they kind of blundered their way forward. But they need help. The situation is escalating beyond their control and I think that's why I brought you, my wonderful friend, to help out our desi-questers. We've got an auntie who's really more of a grandma in some ways. To the party, she makes sweets for everyone. We've got an actress who has a murky past Between you and me. She's married to a gangster. Oh, yes, oh, and she thought her parents were dead, but they're actually just missing.
Speaker 2:Does she know that yet?
Speaker 1:She knows now.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, and get this. She found out her aunt lied to her about it.
Speaker 2:This is so juicy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, You're coming into a very dramatic Indian situation like family situation.
Speaker 4:They haven't cried yet.
Speaker 1:They haven't cried yet, but they've come very close and they've almost fought.
Speaker 2:You want me to make them cry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, yeah, Get those tears out you know, those drama lessons to use. And then we've got our strange half-elf from Bretzewald.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Who is here because of a dream he's having about a mountain. Okay, interesting I don't know what that's all about.
Speaker 2:Interesting. So what you basically described to me is easy prey in a lot of like various ways, which I will.
Speaker 1:Well, I suppose you could kill them all.
Speaker 2:I could.
Speaker 1:Audience. He is higher level.
Speaker 2:I now. I know that's going to be fun. No, no, I won't explain that, but this is really awesome. I can't wait to meet them and then see how what I've heard about them matches up with what they actually end up doing.
Speaker 1:Well, merck has already off to a running start. He has, like, this little robotic child it's kind of a Gepetto and Pinocchio situation, wow and they're hosting a kiddie party. A kiddie party that's kind of being organized by a very good friend of yours. Okay, I think you know who she is.
Speaker 2:I know who she is.
Speaker 1:And so, oh, you're here to help them along the path, because between you and me, some serious stuff is about to go down. In Lockpin, you see, a harvest festival that's supposed to happen. It hasn't. And until this festival happens, until the deities descend from the mountains and kind of kick this festival off, they can't harvest the crop, so it's rotting on the vine.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, okay, that's a problem.
Speaker 1:But that's why I brought in an expert.
Speaker 2:Well, let's figure out what's going on with the harvest and the deities.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I'm so excited to get you out there at the Gohinoa table, but our players actually don't know that you're here. That's exciting, so I'm going to go out and troll them. Okay, and I have this cool idea where I announce you and you just come out and blow their minds.
Speaker 2:Okay, I will. I will make their heads explode. All right, figuratively.
Speaker 1:On three, one, two, three Break. See you in a bit.
Speaker 4:See you in a bit.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Welcome again to Episode two of this Squest. How are we feeling today? This Equestras, I'm excited. Are you in different chairs, excited in different chairs? And today you are also in a different location. Oh, that's right. Having successfully somewhat navigated the countryside, you've made it to the town of s'VIV, prot �ombas. Here you see Fort speckling, a sprawling skyline, as this town sits on sort of a strange spit of land, kind of sitting in the middle of a beautiful sound. That's where the salt water and the fresh water mixes, making this area particularly fertile and home to fauna that you don't see in other places. On Bihar and this is Merca's hometown we find ourselves in Arcane Colony. Now, in the past, arcane Colony was home to the great inventors that kept this town safe. So Merca's neighbors are warm ages, a very high repute specialists in protection magics and, depending on how you roll, maybe you can learn more about them. But for now we find ourselves in a kitty party. The party is just kicking up. You are all fashionably late. What are you?
Speaker 6:wearing. I know Priya, the woman who is throwing this party, and she is very much. More is more, so I prefer to be even more is even more whenever I am going to any of her kitty parties. So I have changed from my casual silkwear into a gleaming orange and gold saree with a beautiful golden belt and some golden shoes like little kitchen heels for the kitty party. Let me see what I did there. And fully gold, completely 24-carat gold jewellery bangles. I have a hair piece it's a very good look and I for some reason seem to have a little bit of an orangey gold sheen on my face. It's not quite makeup, we can't quite tell, but when anyone looks at me I just look like I have a little bit of an orange glow to go with my dress, marca.
Speaker 4:I tap my coat and I cast, tinkering. So I am going to project the image of a bow tie and then I am also going to cast. You can do like the thing you tap, it's like an odor. So I am just going to cast cologne on myself.
Speaker 6:Oh, so you smell good. Is it jacar noir. Sorry, sorry, uncle, I called you out.
Speaker 4:Sorry, sorry not sorry, it is straight up 100%.
Speaker 5:So, ash, so I am wearing the only formal clothes that I brought with me. It's actually my father's kurta, and she is a little taller than me, so the tail hole isn't in the right spot, so it's just kind of sometimes bunched up in the back there and poor punj is sort of poking out the wrong areas of the kurta.
Speaker 1:The punj- is the punj, did you say?
Speaker 6:das punj, punj das. Now it's Indian See it goes either way. We are all just one small world.
Speaker 3:Lundi auntie has a cooking rag over her shoulder and is wearing the same outfit she was wearing before.
Speaker 6:She is working.
Speaker 1:She is working.
Speaker 4:I'll say Bucca has a beautiful opulessant vest that trails behind him.
Speaker 5:A wedding gown.
Speaker 4:Kind of yeah.
Speaker 1:As you look over at Bucca's train trailing on the ground, you notice that Bucca is trying to drive your contraption, your cannon. Oh yeah, beep boop.
Speaker 4:You having a good time, bucca, he loves it. He loves it. Just don't activate it. It's a flame thrower.
Speaker 3:You are very dangerous. Come to our helmet.
Speaker 4:He'll look like a dork but okay, better dork than dead. I'll put a helmet on Bucca.
Speaker 1:What is already a helmet the metal head.
Speaker 4:A less safe material on top of the hardened metal.
Speaker 1:And as you do this, bucca goes bonk bonk.
Speaker 3:Bonk, bonk on the head.
Speaker 6:Anyone? No, okay, you are all too young, suck it.
Speaker 4:Wow, was it from the 1700s.
Speaker 6:It was from the original Star Trek.
Speaker 4:It was an original. Yeah, discovery.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I'm so voluntary, as you enter Merca's home and probably make your way to the rooftop, because this is a rooftop party and a lot of the houses in this area have flat rooftops. You actually look out over the city of Diwane. It has gorgeous forts and palaces, the domed roofs of which you can see with the rapidly setting sun. Give me a history check. All of us. Yeah, merca, with advantage since you're a local.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 6:Yeah, indrani, shout out to Indrani 17 plus, what 18.
Speaker 4:18.
Speaker 1:That was the same 14. Sorry, I was funny. 14, 17, 7?, 15. You too would know that a lot of with a higher than 12 roll, that a lot of the forts and palaces in this area are actually no longer active. Many of them have been turned into hotels, tourist attractions, theme restaurants. You know where you can go and relive the good old days.
Speaker 1:But since Vehar has had a hard-earned and well-fought four piece, these forts, well, there's a lot of controversy on whether or not what to do with them rather than let them fall into disrepair, and a lot of the fort keepers or castellans that were responsible for their upkeep, find themselves without the work with which to pay for their very expensive maintenance. But with that 17, something you would know, sitara is a little bit more about the role that these forts play. You know that at one point South Sindh Kastlin was a kingdom to the north of Vehar that at one point sought to expand its territory and we had a 15-year-long war with them. They were masters of siege weaponry and therefore the colony here and now Arcane Colony, was actually at one point a strategic hub where war mages came together and specifically learned protection magics. In fact, you're kind of vaguely reminded of the shield that you saw Merca cast earlier. The engineers of this region excelled at figuring out how to make safe buildings and deflect projectiles. So you have a little bit more.
Speaker 6:I researched it for one of my films. It was very good. It was. Thank you, too much kissing.
Speaker 5:Too much, almost kissing.
Speaker 1:Was there like one kiss.
Speaker 6:It was not even a real kiss. It was like we went in for it and then we went to crashing waves, you know, but of course she's too much for her. I left the room. I don't know what she thinks we do in real life.
Speaker 1:As you're pondering this, le Duante, you notice that there isn't a space on the buffet table for you to put your goods. There's snack food everywhere, next to beautiful cups kind of emblazoned with gold elephants and the trunk forming the little handle of the tea cup all over the place. I need one of those. And there's just salty, delicious fried foods that everyone is eating them.
Speaker 3:Now what Reika would do in this instance, totally different. I would, you know, quietly find a table somewhere or ask yeah, le Duante goes what and moves everything to the side, making it so cramped, and puts herself on the table.
Speaker 1:She should Roll a sleight of hand to see if you manage to keep everything on the table as you unceremoniously push it aside.
Speaker 6:Seven God damn it I should have guided you.
Speaker 1:A platter of jacqueries begins to fall and then you see a beautifully manicured red nails green hand. Come and catch it with the deafness that surprises you. The half orc is wearing a red lehenga. It's way too fancy for this occasion. It's a red stone and embroidery on the red silk. The blouse is a little bit too short for your modesty and maybe comes down a little too far, and she is dripping with gold jewelry. She wears a smart pair of specs on her face and as she adjusts them, sitara, you recognize her as Priya, a fellow actress.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you, Priya Kanna. What is the rest of your shirt? Namaste Auntie.
Speaker 1:What is the rest of your shirt? As you say that she adjusts her duperta to cover her modesty? You know it's the style these days.
Speaker 3:Not my style.
Speaker 6:Sitara, it's so good to see you. Darling, how are you? I'm so well. Oh, you look fantastic. You look fantastic. Let's suit you so perfectly. I can't tell you how good it is to see you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, auntie. I was absolutely just beside myself and now you're here.
Speaker 6:I wasn't sure you were going to make it, but of course I'm going to make it, especially when my own auntie is providing the most delectable food for this place, or you're just going to die. It's so, so good.
Speaker 1:This she like looks a little uncomfortable holding the platter of juckeries and says well, I had heard that you weren't coming, so I asked Karana Foods if they could maybe come in and fill in. And you know, salty is good just like sweet, and so I didn't mean to step on. Oh no, oh no you look upset.
Speaker 6:Well, you know what. It's perfect to have the combination of the two things, obviously salty and sweet. You have a little bit of salt and you finish it off with the perfect sweet. So you leave with a taste of delicious laddoos on your lips.
Speaker 3:Your guests will love it, I promise you and I have took the liberty of making room on the table.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Wow, I can take. I can probably find these somewhere else.
Speaker 3:You could put the chakri in the other room or in the back or something.
Speaker 6:Oh, you could just walk up, darn it. Yeah, well, darn it. Why don't you just keep it in your hand and walk around and see if anyone wants some? It'd be so nice to offering them the food as the host.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see, if anybody wants it, that is happening.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm sure we could get a waiter to do that oh.
Speaker 5:I could do, that, I could help. No, no, no.
Speaker 6:She shoves it on, obviously no, no no, no, no.
Speaker 5:I'd love to meet people this way. You must be one of Merck's associates.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, Merck thank you so much for providing the venue.
Speaker 1:By the way, she like completely ignores you once you state that you're a waiter. Thank you so much for providing the venue and the hands, of course oh my gosh, you can balance another one on your little tail.
Speaker 6:And she puts another bladder right there. Sure, I guess I'm about to do that just for fun. I'm so terrified I am absolutely mortified because I know he is our guest and I feel like this is an extreme status play. I'm not okay with this. I don't know what you mean. Oh, I'm not saying that as her, I'm just saying as if like sorry, I should probably go out of accent occasionally, but it's just so much fun.
Speaker 1:So At one point I forgot she had a British lilt.
Speaker 6:So it's quite all right, you know it's in and out, it's gameplay, it's fun.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's just kind of you know what, the same thing happens to people in films sometimes, so you never know. You never know.
Speaker 6:So I immediately take these trays off of you. Darling, You're very sweet to help, but this is not your job, Priya, and I put these down on top of another plate of savoury food, so it just like mash them down, Priya. I would like for you to. I would like to introduce our beautiful guest from another country and another land. He's come so far to visit us. This is Ash, Ash, this is Priya. Well, Ash, hello.
Speaker 5:It's a pleasure to meet you. Welcome, it's a wonderful party. Wow, it's amazing, isn't she delightful? So, opulent and lovely, I'm just.
Speaker 1:Is this your first kitty party?
Speaker 5:Yes, it's, yes, it's definitely my first party of any type.
Speaker 1:Well, then, allow me to show you around and with one smooth motion she puts her arm in yours. You can't help but notice as she straightens up her perfect hourglass figure, built like a whiskey bottle, like we say in Punjab, and she sweeps you around the party.
Speaker 5:Yeah, my heart like leaves to my throat, because I don't think anyone so elegant has ever touched my body.
Speaker 4:Leave shaking hands.
Speaker 3:I hit you earlier and now.
Speaker 6:I'm offended. I'm going to put the glasses back in her hand, but as you're leaving, I just say gently in your head, darling, if you need a rescue, all you have to do is give me a signal. Have fun, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:Did you hear that?
Speaker 5:Oh, anyway, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, we have a musician today. Merck has been so kind to be our host and I'm assuming you must probably find the word kitty party a bit strange. You always say no, no, no, a kitty refers to, you know, a pool of money. You see, we charge that entrance fee I'm sure you noticed at the door and then we take that money and we put it towards the charitable cause. And there's actually, you know, a different cause every month. What's the cause? This month we're raising money to help some of the farmers.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's lovely. Yes, what's wrong with the farmers?
Speaker 1:Well, and sometimes I'm like kind of continuing on her tangent without answering your question. Oh, oh, oh oh, but you're from abroad.
Speaker 5:Yes, yes, I'm from Bratselwald.
Speaker 1:Oh, we've been wanting to actually maybe send some funds over there. We know things are very bad.
Speaker 5:It's a tough area for sure. With the war in Breino, it's not great, no.
Speaker 1:No one's really happy. No, well, you know, one of the causes I personally find the thing is I truly feel like philanthropy is so important. When you make such an obscene amount of money, you know, I feel like, in order to do so and not worry for your afterlife, for your karma, your eternal soul, you have to really give as much as you get, and so I'm actually sponsoring a foreigner.
Speaker 5:You're sponsoring a from where?
Speaker 1:Well, I don't remember where he's from, but you have to meet him. He's a wildlife expert, but not for the things you think. See, you'd probably think he's trying to save elephants for peacocks, but he's such a darling he's trying to save like random mosses and stuff.
Speaker 5:Random. What now Say?
Speaker 1:again Mosses and like, like mushrooms, I don't really pay attention, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 5:Okay. So he's trying to save mosses like yeah, Okay, so not animals.
Speaker 1:And I fund his expeditions into the forest.
Speaker 5:Okay, yeah, I would love to meet anybody. I'm so intrigued by this whole place.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm going to call him over, and I bet he won't even think your axe had strange it. Then you can both be like foreigners together.
Speaker 5:He don't think it was strange either, but fine.
Speaker 1:And she gestures to someone across the room. Will you please join us, our wonderful guest? What? Yes?
Speaker 4:Yes, and today you're an honor to the.
Speaker 3:DC.
Speaker 6:I love it oh my God, look at you. You look so gorgeous. Thank you, you all look wonderful. As for, always.
Speaker 4:That's not fair. You're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful, you don't look better than you already look in real-life.
Speaker 6:That's not fair.
Speaker 3:Look what we got. We got Rihanna. He's like saying a meme Hi, I'm Reika.
Speaker 2:I'm Louise Nice to meet you, Nice to meet you. We've met and I know both of you. You're so far away from me this how do I grab?
Speaker 4:Here. I'll just wrangle you from here.
Speaker 6:Hold on, yeah, we can just slide under just a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Are you going to play footsie on this basket? I'm trying, we can try.
Speaker 4:It's longer than it's seen.
Speaker 1:That's what he said.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 3:It's longer than it's seen.
Speaker 2:I thought you said it, I thought it and I wasn't going to say it oh yeah, no, we don't.
Speaker 3:We're here to do it for you, we're here to do it for you, darling.
Speaker 6:Oh my gosh, Thank you.
Speaker 2:So who do you want to go attack first?
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, all of them, all of them, louise. Yes, will you describe your character for us, for the table?
Speaker 2:So, um, as a Priya Mm-hmm Becken's me forth, you see, um, it takes a moment. If you turn to see where Priya is gesturing, then it takes a moment before Namir notices, half a second before Namir notices that he's being beckoned.
Speaker 2:And you see a man who is half-elven in appearance, medium, light brown skin, uh, light brown hair, uh, tied back, and a dark brown, almost black, goatee Wearing a leather armor that's embroidered, the seams are gold and silver and he has these bracelets and bracelets that are made of gold as well, and walks with a kind of confident inelegance, mm Uh, as he walks forward to meet Priya.
Speaker 1:Priya does like a happy little hop and immediately discards your arm. I know you don't like social functions, but I'm so happy you could come. My little dumpling, uh, my little samosa, my little gorgoro.
Speaker 5:My little go-gopo. Oh, she's really pinching you, that's fun how many.
Speaker 2:He looks around to see how many people are watching. Um, is it there? Is it there? If you know that I'm uncomfortable about, uh, these kinds of displays, is there? Is there anything you need from me?
Speaker 1:Actually would you say you're characterless, something like this. What?
Speaker 3:So much like this. Oh my God, hot mini-alert that was happening. I can see that from over here. Mini-alert. Oh, boil, Boil, boil.
Speaker 2:You say there's like an earthy undertone to the color of his skin and once you get a good look into his eyes you know you're lucky enough to do that You'll see that there's coppery flex in his light brown eyes. Oh, Do you want to? Oh, yes, Okay, I love this mini Shimmering groves so cute, but that's real.
Speaker 6:Don't give it to me. I'll never get a daddy. Ah.
Speaker 5:Ash is so excited to see, yeah, someone even resembling an elf.
Speaker 1:Yeah, another half-elf and as he says there's something you need, she is like well, I have a bit of a, you know, potential friend for you. Oh, from, I think, like back your part of the way. A visitor, yeah, I know it's been a long time since you've been in Brehrenorp. He's from the neighboring country, I'm right here.
Speaker 5:Here, great soul, great to meet you. Yeah, do you speak Elvish? I ask in Elvish.
Speaker 2:I look around to clock how anyone else responds to him speaking Elvish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to the rest of us it probably sounds a little guttural, mmm. So like native Bihari speakers. Sure Because you know it's a little Germanic. Yeah, it sounds a little like you know.
Speaker 3:Drink water. I should have me really get handed a glass of water.
Speaker 5:Thank you, wow.
Speaker 2:I'll approach you and I put my hand on your shoulder and give you a slightly tight squeeze and in Elvish I'll respond Good grip, Welcome brother.
Speaker 5:What brings you here? Oh, I'm visiting the homeland for the first time. I was born here, but I haven't been back for 30 years.
Speaker 2:That's a long time to be away. Yeah, what are you searching for?
Speaker 5:I'm searching for answers. I have no connection to my culture and my family won't talk about it very much, and so I just run off and go on and explain myself. Say no more.
Speaker 2:Any brings you in and gives you a big hug.
Speaker 4:Oh, oh, very tight squeeze.
Speaker 2:In your ear. There's much for you to see here. Know that, no matter how you were received, know that you've been missed. Oh, thank you, and then I step away.
Speaker 5:Where are you from? How did you get here?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm from what town did you say you were from? I'm from Brazovolt. Oh, that's on the border.
Speaker 1:The kingdom of Brannor, you would know, has been currently expanding its territories north into Zulhar, and these two nations have been engaged in a bloody war for a long time. Brazovolt lies somewhere to the west, somewhat uninvolved in the war, but still affected by it.
Speaker 2:And still part of the antagonizing kingdom or the one on the receiving end of it.
Speaker 1:Antagonizing Got it.
Speaker 2:I'm from further north than where you're from.
Speaker 1:At this Priya kind of jumps in and is like Namiar, you simply have to meet my friend Sitar.
Speaker 2:I will meet whoever you require, madam Require.
Speaker 3:Oh, don't say it like that it will be my pleasure.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's much better. Oh, I know she's not a little bug, so you're probably not going to be super excited to see her. I'm excited by bugs.
Speaker 2:You'll see in a moment. On the mention of the bug you see, sort of almost a wisp of. Is it a tiny wasp? Is it an ant? Is it a moth? It seems like something lands on him and it's made of almost, as if it's made of light, like a lightning bug, and then it just disappears in the wisp.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately she's not a bug and she calls across the way.
Speaker 6:Sitarah oh God, here we go. Yes, darling.
Speaker 1:Have you met my wonderful friend Namiar? Now Namiar is visiting. He's a wildlife expert. He's helping me study for a role.
Speaker 6:Oh, study for a role. That's what I've been doing here. What are you working on together?
Speaker 1:Oh well, we're working on a rocky picture. It's being shot in the Morabani Forest Rocky, but I wanted to like get some boots on the ground. Experience, you know how it is.
Speaker 6:Rocky. As in Rocky Rakesh, my Rocky.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's A.
Speaker 6:Rocky, I didn't my husband Rocky oh.
Speaker 1:I had the clue that you were still married.
Speaker 6:Well, I don't wear this finger for my health, or this ring on my finger for that matter. It's just that he doesn't wear one. Well, I know he doesn't. He never has darling. He wears it around his neck. Oh, on a chain, oh that he keeps buttoned up my, because it's near his heart and it's mine.
Speaker 1:My mistake. Yes, he told me that the role had opened up, and so oh, you must be playing the role.
Speaker 6:I know what she's. She's playing the role of the older sister. Of course, of course.
Speaker 5:Well it's such a beautiful film and the relationship between the two sisters was so lovely you know I'm playing the lead.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm playing. I'm playing the lead. Oh yeah, it was the young woman who goes and dispatches the Racknid Court.
Speaker 6:Right, right, the story that I don't read from my I've been getting into shape for it, because I want to try to at least do some of my own stunts. Oh well, that's very sweet of you and clearly you have some work to do, so I'm very happy to help you if you need. Oh, I wouldn't want you to hurt something at your age, oh.
Speaker 1:Oh, darling.
Speaker 5:Believe me, I've choked my water, because I've got that one.
Speaker 6:I may be older than I look, but I'm younger than I feel. Oh well, I mean, that's not what. I meant to say I think she'll be back. Never mind, I'm Forget, I said that so well.
Speaker 1:I know that you know orcs age a bit differently than everyone else, but I just hope that you know I enjoy this while I have it and as I get older I hope I get more meaty roles and I'm just going to try to do my best. Yes, does Leigh do want to hear any of this? Yeah, you probably hear it from some distance away.
Speaker 3:She comes charging forward with a plate. You're looking pale. You should eat.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to cut down Auntie.
Speaker 3:Oh, but you're kind of sick, so you should be trying to really yeah.
Speaker 6:So, as this is happening, we're taking a look. So you are, your name is, and then she finally gets a chance to look at him. Your name is. Sorry, I forgot what I was saying. Namier, namier, yes, namier.
Speaker 2:And your name. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6:Citarra, citarra.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 6:Citarra.
Speaker 2:And you are an old friend of Priya. Priya, yes, yes.
Speaker 6:I'm not so old, I'm very old, I'm so yes. And you know that movie I'm working on.
Speaker 1:I've just found out that Citarra's actually married to the producer. Yeah, you know, oh.
Speaker 2:Yes, close ties all over.
Speaker 1:I know we're a happy little accident. Yeah, happily married.
Speaker 3:Extremely happy. Make a deception check. Oh why? Why, Auntie? Why guidance Dirty 20s? Yes, that's my guidance. That's my guidance. Okay, so let's roll a D4. Plus one.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, 21.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm gonna buy this Like oh very happily married.
Speaker 3:You're so married, I am so married, deeply married. Mmm, don't look at her. She's so married, oh.
Speaker 6:Well, darling, I'm married, not dead. Don't look at her, don't tempt me.
Speaker 5:What role are you gonna play in the movie then?
Speaker 6:Oh well, you know what I think perhaps there's been some confusion darling, because I don't think Rocky has told people yet. I came up here to do some conservation work and to research a role in a different movie. I thought it was the one that I was talking about, but clearly it's a different one.
Speaker 3:Rocky must be experimenting, you know, diversifying the type of person he hires sick people, you know kind of different, different locals.
Speaker 6:And now you hear in your head Auntie, stop trying to help.
Speaker 3:Sick ill sort of sad.
Speaker 6:So, namir, you're here visiting for work or for pleasure?
Speaker 2:Well, I suppose I live here, or at least just outside of here. I spend most of my time in the forest. It's where I feel the most at home right now. But I've been all over. I come from the northern region and I've spent time. I've spent a little bit of time where you're from, my friend.
Speaker 5:Yes, we're from roughly the same area. I mean, you know, relatively speaking to where we are today.
Speaker 2:Yes, but still quite far from each other. But it's OK.
Speaker 6:And what do you specialise in in the forest? Is it the flora, is it the fauna, is it All of it?
Speaker 2:In tree. What do you want to know? Are you a student of the natural world? I?
Speaker 6:am. Ever since I was young, I've been close to animals, to. I felt a kindred spirit with the plants around. I've felt the. I've taken the journeys that one can take with some of the varieties of moss and fungi and all of the things that we have available to us in the world. It's so special. The relationship that it connects you with the spiritual nature of all of the things in the universe is just amazing. And of course, I have my darling, jotu, and Jotu just skitters out from under my saree. You have not met Jotu.
Speaker 5:No.
Speaker 6:Let me tell you about him. Jotu resembles a Malabar giant squirrel. Yes, look it up, it's real. This giant squirrel is about three feet long. He has big pushy tail and he is multi-coloured he's got a cobalt blue, a little bit of a maroon, little marigold colour and he seems very you know, very close to me. He's very attached, so when he comes out you can tell he's been curled around, like like curled around me, like a little puppy would be curled around you. And then he just slinks right out and looks up with the sweetest little look in his eyes.
Speaker 2:Immediately, I lock eyes with this creature and I bend down and I just reach out my hand. Hello, little friend.
Speaker 6:So he just he's a little sniff and then leans his chin into your hand and just puts it back.
Speaker 2:He said yes, I'll reach into my pocket and I'm going to pull out some berries. And may I?
Speaker 6:Please, those are his favourite. Do you know what these are? Well, he loves berries of all kinds.
Speaker 2:Do you know what kind of berry this is? Do?
Speaker 1:you know what kind of berry this is Can.
Speaker 6:I roll for her. Yeah, give me an nature track or survival Guidance me, I guidance myself. I can guidance you, okay, good, thank you, it doesn't matter, because I think we're good. 21 plus, oh wow. Thank you again, darling. Wait, is this what I think it is?
Speaker 2:Yes, can you guidance yourself? You can guidance yourself. Okay, good to know, it's an arcana chuck.
Speaker 6:Okay, well, it's still. Then it's 18 plus 1, is 19 plus 3, so 22. It's a good berry. A good berry as in it gives HP.
Speaker 2:so it's a. You see that as you start taking a closer look and you go in to try to assess the natural elements of it. But then you see this, like wisp of arcane magic mixed with this sort of natural magic just swirl around it and it is a piece of for lack of a better term it's a piece of me.
Speaker 6:Oh God. So I look closer and I just look up at him and say you Not of my actual flesh no, no, no, I know what you mean. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2:But I, yes, and I offer to your To Cho too, cho too.
Speaker 6:Cho too, cho too. I'm going to say it out loud, but you can see in her face this just like gratitude. Just thank you for being kind.
Speaker 2:Ah, you surprised me. When you were a child, you were fascinated with the mushrooms and the moss you had mentioned.
Speaker 6:Yes, when did you lose that? Oh, I've never lost it.
Speaker 2:Never, never, not at all.
Speaker 6:No, it's still inside me.
Speaker 2:So you're not here to research a role.
Speaker 6:Well, it was a role that was written for me.
Speaker 2:Did you ever write your own roles?
Speaker 6:Don't tell anyone. Huh, Don't listen, goddammit. But a lot of the time when I'm talking with Rocky, I share stories for my life, and sometimes he puts them into his movies.
Speaker 2:But then he casts somebody else in it.
Speaker 6:Not normally.
Speaker 2:I think you're in the wrong place.
Speaker 6:How do you mean?
Speaker 2:Look around. If you are so fascinated with the natural world, then you know that the moss and the fungi never lie. How much of this feels real to you.
Speaker 6:How much of anything is real?
Speaker 2:When you're in the right place, all of it.
Speaker 1:I love you, louise. As you are having this conversation, almost as though the rest of the room comes back into focus and you become vaguely aware of Bria's voice speaking to you, ash, and she says oh yes, I know about the mountain, I actually studied it for some time.
Speaker 5:You know about Rock Teepa. Oh yes, Did I say that?
Speaker 1:right, a very illustrious history. So this is the mountain, very infamous history.
Speaker 5:Just to be sure, this mountain has three tips. That sort of are like teeth.
Speaker 1:Did you know back in the day it was actually called the crown of darkness? That's why it looks like a crown.
Speaker 5:I don't know anything about it, except for what it looks like. I just have an image of it.
Speaker 1:Would you like to? I actually like to collect things. You see, my grandmother was a Baharian.
Speaker 5:Yes, I would love to learn about it.
Speaker 1:Come, come with me. Anybody else who wants to come, you're more than welcome to. I'd love showing my collection.
Speaker 3:I am okay, I do. Reika wants to go. I do not think I'll take up.
Speaker 6:I would hate to leave my guest. Would you join us?
Speaker 2:To see the collection? Yes, please, I would love to.
Speaker 1:Marker, I actually wanted your help with it anyway, because I was hoping you could maybe help me figure out a system to like automate some of the sorting.
Speaker 4:Oh man, what the hell. Oh my, that would be. That's a yes.
Speaker 6:My nose starts to bleed, yeah yeah, yeah, you don't have that.
Speaker 4:That's me, oh, you're just my favorite. Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Where's your little one? Oh he is right there.
Speaker 4:Oh, he's talking so much.
Speaker 3:Oh God, it's all right, You're a matured man.
Speaker 4:Sorry, my dad, I thought you meant like you were intending like immaturity or something like that. No, yeah, let me, oh man.
Speaker 1:Like you see her blush a little bit.
Speaker 4:How unintentionally rude you're being, oh no, it was the tone of your voice, it was just so. You know, this is just a little bit of feedback. It sounded like you were like insinuating, like naivete or something like that, which is why I made the assumption. Don't worry about it, priya, it's absolutely fine, it's okay. No party foul, namir, how you doing. Oh hi, do we know each other? Sorry, really.
Speaker 1:You've probably seen Namir around with Priya from time to time, but probably only in passing. Yeah, like Priya is your neighbor, so oh, okay.
Speaker 4:I clap you on the back. I am surprised by that. So, good to see. Look at us, we could be brothers. Uh what.
Speaker 3:Sorry, you are a Disney map berry.
Speaker 1:You're a Disney map berry.
Speaker 4:Just an arm over your shoulder and that's like Disney.
Speaker 1:Pedro Pascal, yeah. And so that's the math-y method. We're like twins, yeah.
Speaker 2:Who brought a mirror to the party you flatter me, oh good boy, I wasn't sure that you had actually ever noticed me before this moment. I know we've seen each other around, but I don't know if you're confusing me for somebody else. But no, no no, Absolutely not.
Speaker 4:Namir right. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:You've got my name right. I'm sorry. I'm surprised. I'm not used to people approaching me the way that, with such enthusiasm.
Speaker 1:You didn't always come by and say hi, you know.
Speaker 4:I feel like I do, I think that I think it. Oh, so yeah, anyhow, I understand that. Let's officially make it here.
Speaker 2:Of course I take your hand, pleasure to meet you. Pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 4:I suppose again Great, let me go get Butcha and I'll turn it. And as I turn, I look at you and I go. Did you notice the chemistry between us just now? My God, and I continue up.
Speaker 1:Did you bring back Butcha?
Speaker 4:Yeah I, you hear me yell Butcha. I'm like, oh, my God, you know DC Perry, yeah, yeah, you just shout it, butch it just out into the night, mm-hmm, butcha, oh Butcha, I know you can hear me. I know you can hear me, butcha.
Speaker 5:You don't have to say hey, butcha, to activate it.
Speaker 4:I know you can hear me, because if you can't, you've gone too far, butcha.
Speaker 1:You see two lights, kind of like dull, like electrical, a glow coming from these two crystals implanted in the red pandas construct form, still sitting atop your improvised cannon.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:It doesn't respond, but you see the lights blinking at you from the distance. Where's Butcha? Oh, Stealth mode activate oh.
Speaker 4:Where's Butcha? Okay, but we do have to go. We were just calling for a thing.
Speaker 1:Beep-boop. Okay, papa, papa, papa, papa, papa, and it comes waddling forward with a clinking and clanking.
Speaker 6:I'm very much clocking what his reaction is to this mechanical feature.
Speaker 1:You see the whirring gears, you see the copper-ish metal, you see the gentle plume of smoke coming out of an exhaust pipe and you see this small red panda that you know. You've seen Merca, probably carrying like a child around.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you know how sometimes you can like part-time, live next to somebody for a little while and then never actually get to know them. Yeah, you see them. Even though you're seeing them from like 50 feet away, it might as well be from like five miles away. I think this is the first time I'm not taking for granted that I may have been seeing you around, and what I've thought of as a curious toy, I think for the first time, especially when I hear it call you Papa, it takes all of my attention.
Speaker 1:This is this, and comes over and actually greets all of you to try to get a blessing. Tries to touch all of your feet.
Speaker 4:Yes, Good, good buncha.
Speaker 3:Auntie no, no, no, no, no. Auntie Ben Ben A sheer vado Ben A sheer vado Ben A sheer vado.
Speaker 6:He's having a glitch, darling, do you think he could fix that?
Speaker 4:Oh no, that's how all children are.
Speaker 6:It's a feature. It's a feature, not a bug, but he's telling me nothing.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes, good, good, good, as you tap it on the head, it deactivates, uncle oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Oh, gladly take. Yes, oh, you're touching my feet. Oh, that tickles Lovely.
Speaker 1:Update it moves you down one more On the Uncle tier list Poor guy. You didn't stop him before he touched your feet.
Speaker 5:He didn't like that oh okay, so next time I should stop him before I do so. It's sort of a fake way of greeting each other Like you're expected to interfere before.
Speaker 6:The idea is basically someone bowing down to almost not prostrate themselves before you, but pay your respect and saying don't worry, don't worry, yes of course, darling, don't do that. No, no, no, Thank you, I see your respect. You don't have to go that far. Come, come, come, it's a gracious moment.
Speaker 2:Get off of me.
Speaker 6:No not so much, that far Not so much that. No, no kicking necessary, just a gentle touch with the hand. I know it's hard. We'll teach you about all of them. Don't worry, I'm still learning at that house.
Speaker 2:I've been here for a long time.
Speaker 3:Auntie. Very good, it gives him another robot on you. You look too skinny.
Speaker 1:It comes over to you. But yeah, Mike does the gesture.
Speaker 2:I will, uh, I'll reciprocate.
Speaker 3:Whoa, this is incredible, that's incredible.
Speaker 4:First time in Dacey culture Ever in the history of.
Speaker 6:In South America? Yeah, but do you want to? He's done one.
Speaker 3:A back that someone would bow to a child.
Speaker 1:Kick up Like as the thinking mechanisms are worrying. It starts to get a little warm and then you see like a little display pop up as it projects and Namir Pehya goes from the bottom of the Pehya tier list Like loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop.
Speaker 2:To the top. There's a hierarchy.
Speaker 6:Yes, and we all see it. We all see it. It's his thing this is wonderful.
Speaker 2:Thank you, that's what I've been saying. I think everyone should have one of these on display.
Speaker 3:A list of those. You should always know where you stand with someone. Luke, I will show you my list anytime.
Speaker 6:You should know where you stand with someone he hasn't just written on. She just keeps saying you will just tell us.
Speaker 3:I just hand her it in in my pocket. I am getting it as necessary.
Speaker 2:Do you share it freely?
Speaker 3:I'll share it with anybody who wants to.
Speaker 2:What if they don't want to?
Speaker 3:Hey, if they bother me, I'll share it too.
Speaker 6:You can count on Aunty for one thing she will always be come out.
Speaker 2:That is.
Speaker 3:You are mid. I am flattered, no problem.
Speaker 6:Do you know the word bahia in?
Speaker 2:your language? Do I know that?
Speaker 1:I think you've been here long enough that you would know it means brother, yes, big brother.
Speaker 5:Do you know the word mid in your? Language Mid low high Aunty is just coined mid in that word?
Speaker 2:Yes, I am. I am not from here originally, but my grandmother was, and, much like yourself, I came back years ago to find a piece of me that I always felt was missing. It's part of what has guided me in all of my travels. Did you find it? No, but it doesn't mean, you won't.
Speaker 1:Don't be so sad. The journey is part of the fun.
Speaker 5:But how long have you been here? Ten years? I don't have ten years you. I don't even know if I have ten weeks.
Speaker 2:Well, you will always find what you're looking for, even if you don't realize that that is the thing that you are looking for. I found what I was looking for and it turns out it wasn't that, but I wish you luck in what you are searching for. You will find it.
Speaker 5:You may have already found it Ash is rubbing a bracelet and sort of sees the eyes on him and then hides his bracelet.
Speaker 1:As you hide your bracelet, butcha waddles over to Bria the D and goes the D and she stops him immediately and pulls out a little box. I made this for you. And as Butcha like processes and opens it, you see, hand knitted chain mail, it's just a sweater vest, hand knitted chain mail, sweater vest. And if Butcha were to don it, it would increase his AC by two. Bria, you made this. Yes, sometimes, you know, I'm just sitting there idle between takes and stuff. I'll, you know, knit.
Speaker 4:Incredible. They don't film things sequentially all at once.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a bit weird, but you know, sometimes you know, so I thought I hope it fits him.
Speaker 4:Thank you, Butcha. What do you say?
Speaker 1:Mine.
Speaker 4:Butcha.
Speaker 1:A tune.
Speaker 4:Butcha. What do you say? Butcha A tune.
Speaker 1:What do you say, roll?
Speaker 4:persuasion, all right Hand persuasion.
Speaker 6:Should have guided you.
Speaker 4:Sorry, that's the number, do that 19.
Speaker 2:If you do it half the time, that's better than.
Speaker 1:Sheepishly, Butcha goes through the processes.
Speaker 4:Thank you, it's Sokria Butcha.
Speaker 3:Sokria.
Speaker 4:Good job.
Speaker 3:Lend you an exam in Zvezda Papa.
Speaker 1:And he puts his hands up. He just wants you to put it in the chain. No, I thought he wanted like a 10.
Speaker 6:A little 10. Like a high 10.
Speaker 4:And now, yeah, I will put the chainmail sweater vest on.
Speaker 1:As you put the chainmail sweater vest on his arms, go around your neck and like assuming the regular position where he just kind of like holds you yeah.
Speaker 4:And I hold him koala style.
Speaker 3:Good quality okay.
Speaker 5:That hits me pretty hard to see that. So we were going to see a collection.
Speaker 1:Sitara, you notice the tier list update. You see Priya's name pop three rungs above yours.
Speaker 6:Well, apparently I'm on the auntie list and she's on the venting list, so like what the hell Are we on the same list now? Yeah?
Speaker 3:Okay, great, now I'm in. Now I'm in.
Speaker 6:Now I'm in, now I'm in DD, but I'm in DD, dd, dd, dd. Hi, sister, sister, yeah.
Speaker 3:Sister, sister. Yeah, laduanti sees this and she knows she's more so concerned. She's not as concerned about you being with a boy as she has with you being with Priya. Yeah, you know what I actually? I will go on that tour. Yeah, I think I'll join you for that tour because she's worried you're going to kill each other.
Speaker 6:Trust me, it'll be me killing her what she don't know. What's going on Bye? Oh, she didn't say that out loud, but apparently I did so. Ha, we can go next door.
Speaker 1:yes, You'll help me organize my library. I'm not getting that. I'm not getting the ball she offers you a handkerchief.
Speaker 4:I'm gutching, I'm gut can you have your wounds on me?
Speaker 5:please Sure yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have your cast blue.
Speaker 3:I'm going to say oh, my God.
Speaker 4:I can't cast spare the dying on myself.
Speaker 5:Jesus Christ, what's happening with my nose? My tail just comes up and tries to staunch the bleeding.
Speaker 4:There we go, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:I would love to you go a few doors down into the gullet, as we call it, to Priya's home, which is currently under construction. She's having the floors redone and there's new marble going in In a beautiful mosaic pattern. You kind of enter this large sort of vestibule with a spiral staircase going up to a domed ceiling. Up above you see a couple of hand-painted posters of some of the films that Priya has been in, and you would actually know in a mirror that here in Bihar they've actually perfected the technology of encoding thoughts into crystals and then projecting these crystals onto large screens. They're fondly referred to as films, since they were created by a wizard called Filmgren.
Speaker 6:And I believe the industry is called Wollywood.
Speaker 1:No, yeah it can be. It is now Wollywood.
Speaker 5:Wollywood, wollywood. These are films, or films? Well, it depends on how you like to pronounce them.
Speaker 6:you know, everybody says things like you like to say potato, tomato. Where you are from, we say potato, potato.
Speaker 3:It's a little bit different. Yeah, we say potato, potato, we say potato but the darker.
Speaker 5:I guess that's how you say it in Hindi. Wow flex.
Speaker 3:You're okay. You win the Good Indian Medal of the Day. Good Indian boy. I said there was a bunch okay From you. That's my wish. Boo, what's?
Speaker 4:next Gobi. Come on Wow.
Speaker 1:That's good. Priya leads you to a beautifully appointed study, and here she has collected a lot of relics, some of which even those of you who are local probably haven't seen in a long time. There's ancient pottery that's been saved from a landfill somewhere. There's old swords, sabers, armor that has been put on display. But more so than anything, you see tons and tons and tons of tomes, scrolls, volumes, very carefully preserved, many of them on the verge of crumbling since in this time period the printing process relatively new, but I'm sure Mark has working on making them more common.
Speaker 1:She leads you, mark, over to like a sort of cabinet. It has this like sort of carved woodwork you can kind of see through. She opens it and you see little cards, kind of very carefully stacked, and she says this is what I wanted to show you, but you know, to see if you can automate it. And then she quickly goes through, finds a card and then swings around to see which shelf it's on there. And then she rapidly like I guess this is where you will see her do it she casts fly on herself and lehenga, billowing in the wind, gently floats up and grabs it. She brings it back to you, ash, and unfurls a giant painting of rock tibba. Below it you see ancient handwriting kind of scrolling along the bottom and you see various demons, monsters and deities going to war at the base of the mountain.
Speaker 5:This is it. Oh my gosh, this is it. This is the mountain that I see from when I was a child. How does someone get to this mountain?
Speaker 1:Oh, it's very difficult. I mean so months, months, months long pilgrimage. You see, rock tibba used to be a stronghold of evil entities. They thought that humans were sort of mortals, were not really worthy of the lives they'd been given, and that they should be eliminated. And they made rock tibba their stronghold from wints to sort of start their war on the rest of the world. But they were defeated by the deities who still live among us Well, far descendants of them anyway. But people can still go there. There's a temple at the top and there's a market and people celebrate there. But it's a very difficult area to navigate.
Speaker 1:Now, you see, to this day the demi goddess or maybe goddess, I'm not sure Sil Silan still makes her home there. She's supposed to come down from the mountains and she engages in this sort of I guess, play, this fake battle it's a recreation of an old one with a local deity and then everyone throws colour at each other and pretends they're throwing spells to recreate the battle. She is defeated and then she goes up to the mountain to rest again until the next harvest. But she doesn't come down, and so the harvest festival has been delayed. How long has it been since she came down.
Speaker 1:Well, she comes in once a year. She sleeps the rest of the time. Things have been getting a bit tricky with her not waking up, because the reality is that people have started blaming each other. They think that someone or something is responsible for her not coming down. But the thing is, this is where tradition and modernity collide, and I think that's why people that say we should continue with the harvest regardless of whether or not we celebrate Rungali, and that others that say to do so would be to abandon a piece of ourselves and in the interim, we're at this crossroads and the crop well you know is rotting on the vine, above table or under table or whatever.
Speaker 6:not me, not as Anjali would I know how long it actually takes to get to, like she said two or three months, is that?
Speaker 1:accurate. Yeah, give me a survival check.
Speaker 2:You know, probably take a six.
Speaker 6:Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:Didn't happen. Yeah, you don't know very many people who have made this journey. You do know that it is commonly referred to as a yatra, a pilgrimage that takes a very long time to go on foot, and actually, if you look at your map, you'll notice you have to go across a river, through a jungle, up to the upper reaches.
Speaker 5:What about? There was that flying machine that we saw at the docks I first arrived. The Haveli, the.
Speaker 1:Haveli. It's very difficult to get to get to the Haveli. It's booked out months and months and months in advance, Darling.
Speaker 6:I'll make a call. I'll see if I can get a conversation. I can get a message to Rocky. I'm sure he can get his place on.
Speaker 5:Oh, that would be amazing, david, that would be amazing. We'll get you there.
Speaker 1:Promise this mountain you're seeking. Do you think it has something to do with why this goddess hasn't awoken? I just find the timing to be a bit strange. No, maybe this is your journey. Maybe you're fated to do this.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:think so. I mean the deities work in mysterious ways.
Speaker 2:You see, Namir approaches Priya and leans in. If you really think that the answer to what's happening with the harvest lies with them going there, I can help get them there.
Speaker 1:Well, I suppose you'd be the best person for it, but the jungle is so dangerous. You know, I've heard the tale of a group of people that have taken a refuge there, that can sort with dark creatures, corrupted creatures.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know.
Speaker 1:It's Soha's domain.
Speaker 2:I'm not afraid of Soha.
Speaker 1:I'm not either, and although you worship her and you're not bad, I can't say the same of every person that worships her, and I'm sure you know that I do know.
Speaker 2:But I will deal with any of those threats accordingly, because I do see the bigger picture of things. But there's a place for everything, even Soha.
Speaker 1:Give me a religion, check or nature, your choice.
Speaker 2:I choose nature. This is it. I think that's it, this is it.
Speaker 1:Nature Deity, so I will allow nature Good call Good call then 18. Yeah, as you say this, you feel a warmth in your hand, almost as though something is forming there.
Speaker 2:I will, without even thinking it, I think I would look down to see if it's anything.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, my God.
Speaker 5:Should have hung on to that card.
Speaker 1:Everybody here wants one I get one, Julie.
Speaker 5:Everyone here wants one.
Speaker 1:As you hold the card in your hands. It becomes warmer and warmer and warmer.
Speaker 2:I'm going to look at the card and try to see it for what it intends to be, I guess.
Speaker 1:Give me an arcana or investigation check.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, five. Yeah, just wanted to have a look at the scene.
Speaker 1:The card burns hotter in your hand, I will, and you see, an eye kind of begin to form in it.
Speaker 4:What is this?
Speaker 2:I will show it to you. Did you give me this?
Speaker 1:It looks like a card it is.
Speaker 2:I will take it from the hand that it appeared in where I first felt it in, and I will, just as I start to feel like it hot, kind of hot potato it to my other hand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, as you are kind of hot potatoing it from hand to hand, give me a sleight of hand. Check, oh boy, 20. Oh Well, done you instinctively like kind of bouncing it back and forth? Your hands come together.
Speaker 3:No, we got him Okay.
Speaker 1:And, as you do, you are whisked away out of sight. We'll find out where he goes after this intermission no.
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 4:Um-huh.
Speaker 1:This intermission, we're going to be taking a snack and our snacks have been generously provided by Karana Foods.
Speaker 3:Okay, and not to bring Ladoonti into this, but I've based her character off of this exact type of model of business where, when I've been to Jersey, if we're like getting like other restaurants or something, it's not from a store, it's from some lady in her house.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:That makes it behind a curtain for some reason, whatever. And then her husband wordlessly sells it to me or whatever, and it's like she'll eventually franchise or like sell it to grocery stores and stuff. But it's all just like two people making stuff in their house. So I think it's awesome.
Speaker 5:So now where they're at seven full-time employees, they operate in a 6,000-foot square warehouse. They've never advertised before. This is kind of like their first foray. Whoa, wow, they took a chance on us.
Speaker 1:There's like sweet, there's salt and jam. Yeah, the orange is so good. Yeah, that's what I mean. My favorite is the pineapple.
Speaker 5:So I just want to say to all you second-generation Dacys out there, when you have that craving to just grab a flaming hot Cheetos bag, nah, nah.
Speaker 6:First of all, shame on you. Come back home, come back home.
Speaker 5:Grab some Geronimo foods. It's got the kick. It's got mom's touch in there. This is the stuff that you should be munching on instead. I really like the jalapeno ones.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this is the new go-to. Like TTRPG food yeah, like this is the snack. Yeah, this is it.
Speaker 1:We're going to keep snacking on this intermission because we cannot put these snacks down, but we'll see you soon on Dacys Quest.
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Speaker 1:Come back. So, as you are whisked away, you begin to feel a warmth, almost like a rushing of wind starting to envelop you. But instead of wind it's hot, hot steam. Not enough to burn you, but enough to make your skin feel moist. The air feels muggy and as the swirling stops, the steam clears. Will you join me in the tea kettle? Oh, please.
Speaker 4:You're in trouble. Oh what? Oh my, Maybe I'm just going to bring back some trouble. Oh, oh my. Wow, I want to see our you got your card right.
Speaker 1:As the steam fades from your vision, you find yourself in a richly abhorrent state of life, with a toughed velvet lounge chairs, some pillows on the ground and you can't discern the nature of the room you're in, as the walls are covered in heavy carpets and beautiful tapestries, kind of muffling out the sound. Outside you see an old tea bar no longer tended and in front of you you see a tatering table with a cup of tea. Before you see an entity her skin, the purple that happens just before Dawn breaks. Her eyes gently undulating like waves in a turbulent sea. The irises, you know a shape of which you've never seen in your life, almost irregular at the edges. Her hair kind of comes out of the window and you can see her face At the edges. Her hair kind of comes alive as you apparate before her and as it does, different tendrils kind of come out and begin fixing you a cup of tea.
Speaker 2:Is this for me?
Speaker 1:Yes, it's for you, it's poisoned.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, we're going to find out.
Speaker 2:This is very good.
Speaker 1:I used to ply my trade selling tea.
Speaker 2:What do you sell now?
Speaker 1:Favors.
Speaker 2:How much do those favors cost?
Speaker 1:Well, it's rather strange. It seems like you have a half used flyers card. It's weird. These have been coming into play more and more, but I haven't printed them in a very long time.
Speaker 2:I don't. This suddenly appeared in my hand. I don't know, Did you bring this to me? Was this?
Speaker 1:I don't think I did, but I think someone did the seal. Do you recognize it?
Speaker 2:Do I recognize it?
Speaker 1:Give me a arcana, check or religion.
Speaker 2:I'll do a whole, I'll do religion.
Speaker 1:If you need the modifier, let us know.
Speaker 2:I know it.
Speaker 1:Ten, ten. It seems vaguely familiar. Somewhere at the edges of your mind, you think you've seen it before, but you can't quite place where.
Speaker 2:This does look familiar to me, but I don't know exactly. But I know who you are.
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:Can you tell me who you are?
Speaker 1:I suppose I can. I'm Newton, newton, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Do you work for someone?
Speaker 1:No, I'm retired. I used to.
Speaker 2:Who'd you used to work for?
Speaker 1:Wow, the bosses always change, but the rules stay the same. And as she gets up a tendril of her hair kind of gently pulls aside one of the tapestries revealing to you a circular window. As you look outside, you see the cosmos laid out before you and a chaotic, turbulent sea.
Speaker 2:Wow, I don't know where I am and I don't know who you are, but I know that this is clearly a special place. Why am I here?
Speaker 1:Well, you had a favor and you needed help. What are you looking for?
Speaker 2:Is that the question you ask anyone that visits you here?
Speaker 1:I like to observe.
Speaker 2:So do.
Speaker 1:I and that we are alike.
Speaker 2:People that are observing are always looking for something.
Speaker 1:I suppose you're right. I hadn't thought of it that way.
Speaker 2:I suppose there are some passive observers. But yes, to not avoid answering your question, I used to be looking for what I thought was a piece of me that I felt was missing, a root To my past, of who I was my ancestors, I guess.
Speaker 1:Why turn your eyes to the past instead of the future? Isn't the future more entertaining?
Speaker 2:Wow, the future is uncertain.
Speaker 1:Well, that's rather fun.
Speaker 2:And terrifying.
Speaker 1:But all of existence is entropy. See, the universe seeks the system which is the most energetic.
Speaker 2:Well, if it's all entropy, then it's all heading in the same direction.
Speaker 1:Yes, A circle.
Speaker 2:Does a circle ever end?
Speaker 1:Leaving it is very difficult, but I don't want to be in.
Speaker 2:I've traveled many places looking for the same thing and I've never found it. And then I settled with what I thought didn't care about, the answer to the question, which was the natural world. The natural world just is, and people are often trying to be so much other than what they are. And the more I searched for myself and my ancestry and some connection that solved some sort of a riddle for me, the more I realized everyone else is the same, trying to answer the same questions in their own way, and, and I don't know, at some point what I was looking for changed. But this circle Does it mean that things repeat?
Speaker 1:No, it just means that life repeats.
Speaker 2:But if I'm here, then I'm here because somewhere or someone, some entity believed that I was requesting a favor.
Speaker 1:Yes, that entity is me. You see, I grew tired of the cycle and I grew tired of experiencing life, and so now I do this.
Speaker 2:You were alive, like us.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And you found your way out of the circle.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:What was that like?
Speaker 1:Strange at first. Existence is pain, but it's also joy.
Speaker 2:Do you miss it?
Speaker 1:I think a part of me does, and I think that's why you're here. I think this is the closest I can get now. This yes, I think you call it living vicariously.
Speaker 2:I understand that you must have some sort of interest in mosses.
Speaker 1:Role persuasion.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's either a 19 or a 20.
Speaker 1:Very good. I know someone who is. I think you're rather fond of her.
Speaker 2:Have I met her already.
Speaker 1:You can, I can arrange that. Who is she Stolha?
Speaker 2:I could, I would love to meet Stolha. I would love to introduce Stolha to all the people that are afraid of her, so that they can understand the rightful place of things.
Speaker 1:I don't really do this, but can I tell you a secret?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She's in trouble. Her mind is no longer her own.
Speaker 2:That's not good.
Speaker 1:She's become obsessed with the shrinking jungle she dwells in. She wails into the night.
Speaker 2:I know, I know it's affecting people.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's affecting nature, it's affecting the animals, and those that would help her have been branded as heretics.
Speaker 2:The people in the jungle that are that some people where I'm at right now have kind of distrust towards? Yes, are they? Are they corrupted?
Speaker 1:No, not yet, but they will be if you don't do anything.
Speaker 2:How do we stop it?
Speaker 1:Would you like for me to help you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would like to do the right thing.
Speaker 1:You only have two left.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I can take one and fix it for you, but there's no takebacks.
Speaker 2:You mean just who been fix it all.
Speaker 1:Well, not exactly, but I'll give you something to hasten your journey. And that's about the best you can hope for me, because if I don't get to see the rest of it, well then it's no fun for me.
Speaker 2:I understand, because you're living vicariously.
Speaker 1:Right, you get it.
Speaker 2:You miss the pain A little bit. I'll share my pain with you.
Speaker 1:Then you will have my boon.
Speaker 2:I will have to share your boon.
Speaker 1:I am agreeable to that arrangement.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they'll share their pain as well.
Speaker 1:As I fumble with it. There we go.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess you should be going outside then you don't want it to float away.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:And it will float away.
Speaker 2:It will.
Speaker 1:And I should catch it, you should catch it.
Speaker 2:Where do I go Now that I know this?
Speaker 1:Help them. Steam fills your eyes once more, and as it does, yeah.
Speaker 3:That was so long Okay.
Speaker 2:I imagine I just kind of do, I burst back into.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you see Bria's shocked face. What just happened? You absolutely and completely turned into mist.
Speaker 4:I oh, this was the special effects you were talking about right, yes of course, right, yeah, that's what you were saying.
Speaker 6:Absolutely. You know, we use, we've been experimenting, rocky and I, through our company, with this new and you hear in your head, just go with me with this new technology it's to make fantastical kinds of films, you know, and part of the technology is the illusion that someone disappears.
Speaker 3:Yeah, seethara has sort of kind of gone even above actor level in a producer level kind of executive level for Rocky Well, congratulations Thank you so, as male singers, we honestly need more women in these executive roles.
Speaker 6:You know, I absolutely agree, darling, absolutely agree.
Speaker 1:You know, especially because you know how to Seethara. Some of these men are creeps.
Speaker 6:Some of them Ah, ah, so um.
Speaker 2:I'm looking around. I'm looking for something to hold. I'm holding onto this if it's still in my presence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's still in your hand, ok.
Speaker 2:I need to um.
Speaker 1:Pre-Elect studies. You Are you all right?
Speaker 2:I think so. Yes, I'm.
Speaker 1:You look like you're looking for something.
Speaker 2:I've always been looking for something.
Speaker 6:You know what darling, sometimes this um special effect makes people feel a little bit woozy.
Speaker 2:Can I take?
Speaker 6:you to sit down.
Speaker 2:Uh, maybe outside. Yes, that's perfect, let's.
Speaker 6:I'll get him some air. Don't worry, I'm gonna take him in my, take him in the crook of my arm, oh Everyone talk fast.
Speaker 1:What is it? Until the sand runs out, you have a plus one to all of your roles.
Speaker 2:I do yeah, ok, wow, how many.
Speaker 6:Um, yes, so I'll take him outside and I'll talk very fast because I know what's happening. Um, did you see her?
Speaker 2:I did, I did. Have you seen her?
Speaker 6:With the tendrils and the yes, lavender and giant.
Speaker 3:Did you see?
Speaker 6:you go outside? Yes, like with this. Yeah, we did. I said I'd take him and.
Speaker 1:I'd let him out, yeah, yeah. As you're having this conversation. I mean like no one needs yeah, yeah, yeah. You're.
Speaker 3:OK, I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm not gonna hurt you, ok, calm down.
Speaker 1:OK, you can hurt me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I welcome you, take it.
Speaker 1:As you're, as you're hurriedly explaining this to Namir, namir, you find it difficult to concentrate. Uh-huh, as behind Settara you see a massive plumed peacock, magenta-colored.
Speaker 2:Ha, is this unusual Ha?
Speaker 6:He's not unusual, darling. Do I see her? Ha, do I see the? I point towards the peacock. Is this a real? We see this at peacock, yeah.
Speaker 1:As you turn around.
Speaker 6:You see, like you know the three feathers on the head have like an iridescence. Oh God, she always has to go over the top. I mean, it's beautiful, but she doesn't need them always at the bottom.
Speaker 2:It's just this is just a part of the show.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, and I'm sure.
Speaker 1:It doesn't feel a part of the show to you. Namir, I'm gonna approach the peacock. It comes up to you kind of like, with a swagger in its step, oh, swagger magenta peacock Swishing its tail behind it.
Speaker 4:They're Mississippi.
Speaker 2:I will approach and I will go down on the knee and I will offer up my hand.
Speaker 6:Um he proposes to everyone.
Speaker 2:Uh, are you here for me?
Speaker 1:It, without a word, lifts its tail up into a fan and as it does, you see, nestled between the plumes, an envelope striped at the edges sealed with wax.
Speaker 2:I will, uh, slowly carefully take it, looking at the peacock, making sure that, uh, I'm clocking its demeanor. Mm-hmm, what is it the seal? Do I recognize it at all? It's on your card. Oh no, this is for me.
Speaker 3:No, there's. There's two of them For you From her.
Speaker 6:Yes, you've seen her. I have Show me your card. Does it look the same as mine?
Speaker 1:Yes, very similar, okay, For two no.
Speaker 2:I'm unsure of what it means, but you had a conversation with her as well then.
Speaker 6:I did, but you have, and I see that he has only one space on the card. Mm-hmm, I see, uh.
Speaker 2:Why does this matter to you? If I have more, this is bad news, is it? No, it's.
Speaker 6:Ah, how do I explain? It means that she has given you favour.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 6:But I believe it means that more will be asked of you as well. Does that make sense? With whatever you it?
Speaker 2:makes sense. Nothing is free.
Speaker 6:No, it really isn't.
Speaker 2:But something is in trouble in the world and I believe we need to try to fix it.
Speaker 6:Yes.
Speaker 2:So hard? Does that name frighten you?
Speaker 6:Does that name?
Speaker 2:frighten me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, give me a history check History check.
Speaker 6:Fuck, oh, I can't, god damn it. I don't get plus one and I didn't guide myself.
Speaker 1:Nine Nine, You've heard of the name, but as a drowned wailing woman who haunts the woods.
Speaker 6:Right, and she also didn't. She just give us the lowdown on that.
Speaker 1:She had mentioned in a mirror about how some of Soha's followers are not.
Speaker 6:Problematic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What about Soha?
Speaker 2:She is suffering right now. In a way, Something is amiss in, I suppose, the realm of the Deities and she is being corrupted by something.
Speaker 6:I don't know why, but for some reason, immediately I start thinking about Rocky and all the excuses that he makes for all of the nefarious things that he does, that I know that nobody else knows that he is doing it. Well, some people do, because he's doing it with them and I say, if anything is being corrupted, then we must help.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure how to help. I'm not sure where to go. I wasn't giving much direction.
Speaker 6:Well, didn't you say the forest was where? Yes, then we go to the forest.
Speaker 2:We go to the forest. There's followers of Soha there and they're not behaving as themselves. Right now. The general public has some fear and suspicion towards Soha, the wailing mother. But we are moving away from traditions, we are changing, and I don't necessarily oppose that or find that to be wrong. But there is something to be said. Changing and evolving doesn't mean forgetting, and if we start to forget parts of where we come from and we start to step out of it or exclude others from it, then that knowledge will wither, and I think part of it was really beautiful. We're forgetting her.
Speaker 6:You know, when I was growing up, my mother was the one who taught me about the gods, but she always said something very interesting that no one else believes, at least no one else says out loud. She told me that even though they walk the earth, the gods are a part of us. When you worship someone for a particular thing, for love or for abundance or for intelligence, whatever it is, it's because you are accessing that God in yourself. And if we forget that part of the gods, we lose that part of ourselves.
Speaker 2:Look, around you. I feel like we've been forgetting ourselves for a long time.
Speaker 6:And we've been hiding from ourselves for a long time. That's the truth. We need to go back, let's, go back in let's. I think we should prepare for a journey, we should. Do you not trust Priya? You know, I've realized since this last conversation I think she might be, she's very smart, she's very talented, but she might be a little more guileless than I thought. Really, whatever's going on, it's not her fault. There's someone else to blame for my anger.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 6:So I'd like to keep her out of it and keep her safe. If there's danger to be had, it should be on the people who want to go, Not the ones who feel forced to.
Speaker 2:I understand, but I do think that we need to leave.
Speaker 6:Yes, are you okay? You feel good.
Speaker 2:I don't. No, I don't know.
Speaker 6:God, is that anything?
Speaker 5:that I can do. I feel healthy, all right. I think Ashwathama would like to be listening in on this conversation. Via his tail hanging from above.
Speaker 1:Roll a stealth check, yeah, versus your perceptions.
Speaker 5:Perception Um cast Guidance on myself. Guidance no.
Speaker 6:Sorry, you're in. You're in dice jail. Now you get a plus one.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, guidance On me. Yeah, hold it, moli, I forgot to guide myself. Oh wow, so that is a 16 plus two plus one, 19 plus six, 25.
Speaker 5:17. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you try to come in and get a listen, but you spot him almost immediately as he Like. How are you entering the room? They're like out on a balcony.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so I think I was trying to go for, like, trying to use my tail to my advantage. So I was trying to find a way to either hang from above there's some kind of a veranda, kind of a situation or an awning. Yeah, that would be my move.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as you stand, like on that awning or on that veranda, we're going to say the reason you notice him is because there's just like this large magenta peacock that starts pecking at you.
Speaker 6:Get off me it's just like it starts like no, oh gosh, oh God, we need to leave. Get down from there.
Speaker 5:Sorry, I was very curious as to what you were talking about.
Speaker 2:We'll explain on our way, on our way we're going.
Speaker 6:We're going now.
Speaker 2:I'll follow you.
Speaker 6:Come back in, take a deep breath, make sure my orange glow is everything's put back together. Prya darling, I am so sorry but I completely forgot that I have an early morning call Time. You know we're going to be working on some parts of the new film. I need to run. Do you mind if I take these folks home with me? We're going to get going.
Speaker 1:I mean by all means.
Speaker 6:And we've also decided. It's wonderful, namir is such a brilliant person that we decided to use him on us as a consultant on the film, so I'm going to take him with us. He's going to come with me. You're supposed to help me, sune.
Speaker 1:For my role.
Speaker 2:I am laying down the groundwork for you and I'll leave you plenty of material for you to study. You've been such a quick study anyway. Well, as usual.
Speaker 1:As long as you leave me in it, I will.
Speaker 2:And I will inevitably discover something along our journey that will surely inform you and your work, and I will share it with you.
Speaker 1:I have a feeling I know where you're going and I wish you the best of luck. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Eep, something dear?
Speaker 1:No, I'm trying to lose weight.
Speaker 6:Just a little bit. I'm going to take your hand and I'm going to say into your mind I'm sorry for being so rude, darling, it's not your fault.
Speaker 2:I know that.
Speaker 6:Best of luck.
Speaker 1:She gives your hand like a firm shake and I'm up.
Speaker 4:I finish solidifying the last thing that I need to do and I stand up. Okay, your archive is fully automated. What do you mean It'll now? When you pull up a card from your system, an artifact will be brought to you.
Speaker 1:You're a genius.
Speaker 4:Thank you, it was actually quite simple. Every card, I took the sentiment and the letter and I created different sense for those that would give off like a different sort of odor From that. I use my magical tinkering and combine that with a charm of plant command so you can hold that card into a plant. The plant will then read the sense from that and then use the contra teleportation to bring the exact item matching the scent that it's been coated with, which will pop it over to this nest of rats over here that are being commanded by a ring of animal friendship that will then carry the item over to you, darling.
Speaker 3:We've got to go, we've got to go, we've got to go.
Speaker 6:Time to take him Time to go, and then from that you will take him, take him, take him, take him, take him.
Speaker 3:We have to leave. We have to leave.
Speaker 1:You have to practically drag Merca away. Yes, Fria and you would know this originally came to the Wane to study at the Wane School of Divination in Arcana, Mancy. So as a wizard, she is taking notes. Oh, and then you, oh my gosh, a ring of animal friendship, and she's like almost like following you and like gives your hand a little squeeze as your friends carry you away.
Speaker 4:And then sometimes I just like to cast, like these, wand of smiles on myself in the morning. Not for me.
Speaker 2:She's got this time for bed. Yes, I will say one thing to Fria the wizards, the protectors that historically have protected the town.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:They should be ready.
Speaker 1:Something bad going to happen.
Speaker 2:I don't know yet, but something is happening.
Speaker 1:I think if anyone can fix it, it's most likely you, but You're a better fixer.
Speaker 2:I mostly just want to see things for how they actually are.
Speaker 1:That's how you fix them.
Speaker 2:I think the fixer in this group is over there.
Speaker 4:Are you? Uh, do you? Because you think I'm a mirror reflection of you. So you're commenting yourself.
Speaker 6:No, I'm not, I'm just here to how did? You get some Dragon Cubs. I can't even remember.
Speaker 2:Even Chou-Tou is like tugging at a sad gig. It's a publicity of the self-compubation.
Speaker 6:Oh, my God, I'm going to sedate you and we grab some of the Karana snacks as we're going out.
Speaker 3:Okay, they're pretty good.
Speaker 5:They're just come around.
Speaker 6:We'll catch you up along the way, but we have to go to the forest. Oh, okay, now, from what I understand, it's a very long journey, but I'm wondering if you might have some kind of a garage vehicle, something that might get us there faster than on foot. At least do the forest.
Speaker 2:We're looking for where the followers of Soha are congregating, which I believe I can find.
Speaker 1:Yes, she did say she would ease your journey. Yes, and she did say that if you didn't hurry, it would fly away. And your mind goes back to the peacock.
Speaker 2:Oh, of course.
Speaker 1:And the letter it imparted you with.
Speaker 2:Right, I finally remember all of this and I opened the letter and I want to read what it says.
Speaker 1:An invitation to a very special inaugural flight of the Sky Haveli for Priya and Party.
Speaker 2:That means, priya must come. No, it doesn't, no, it doesn't.
Speaker 6:No, it doesn't. And all of a sudden, you see just in like a little spiral whirlwind, all of a sudden I look exactly like Priya Clothes, eyes, everything. The only thing that looks just the slightest bit different, mmm, because I'm a little taller.
Speaker 3:Now, this is how she should look.
Speaker 1:yes, Women tearing down women.
Speaker 3:It's not me. It's not me, I'm getting her down.
Speaker 6:I'm not me. I'm leaving her safe, right.
Speaker 2:How long let's go?
Speaker 4:Let's go. We're going to need a wagon, right.
Speaker 6:Yes, where can you get us?
Speaker 4:I whistle and it takes longer than it should. It's not impressive for like 15 minutes. But then my cannon brings the carriage that I bought earlier the day. Yeah, yeah, I just bought this baby. I just purchased it. It's mine right here.
Speaker 6:And it's a piece of what does it look like exactly? It's not so. It's like a deep, like a hill.
Speaker 4:No, this one I was interested in it because it was automated. Yes, oh yeah, the cannon drove it. Yeah, this thing is a brand new spanking model. This thing drives itself.
Speaker 1:Oh, let's go. It has like spider legs that like unfold out and like drag this cart forward. It's very rickety. It's not at all comfortable or nice like bullwinder's cart.
Speaker 3:It's like a waste bin, but this is a waste bin. Where do you see this but?
Speaker 2:it works right, we're calling it. That means we're the waste.
Speaker 4:We can all get off right, well, the truck yeah Great, how fast can it go?
Speaker 6:Can it go fast?
Speaker 4:I look at you ask that question. I'm not in view. I then pull myself out from under the carriage as I like, throw like a wrench to the side. Oh yeah, Everyone get in. Okay, I'm already in. If you can bump up your ACs, you might want to. I don't know how safe this thing is.
Speaker 6:Oh, okay. What were you going to say? Was there anything else you needed to do?
Speaker 2:The peacock. I will just turn to the peacock. Are you coming with us?
Speaker 1:And as you turn around you see the peacock is like sitting up on the same balcony ledge that you were on and it kind of gently takes flight and then turns into a plume of mist.
Speaker 2:Well, I suppose that answers that.
Speaker 5:Good, because it was pecking me pretty hard.
Speaker 3:You were being irritating.
Speaker 2:What I also want to know is if you were. I don't mean to presume how long you've known each other, but I know that we've just met. But you felt the impulse to hide yourself from us.
Speaker 5:I'm just meeting everybody for the first time. I don't know who I can trust.
Speaker 6:What does he mean? Hide darling You're having a headache.
Speaker 2:He was listening to us.
Speaker 6:Oh.
Speaker 2:I don't blame him.
Speaker 6:Darling, if I had a gold piece for every time, someone with some kind of recording equipment, some kind of wand, some kind of thing, if I had to believe me, I would be even richer than I am.
Speaker 3:Bad out of the blue three times. I use recording equipment okay.
Speaker 6:I'm just going to let them go on. I'm going to do Auntie, just let her Auntie, let her Auntie. It's always better to just let her Auntie him.
Speaker 2:I allow, I absolutely create the space for that.
Speaker 3:And another thing.
Speaker 6:And there's no. There's no animals involved with the moving of this machine.
Speaker 4:The only animals in this machine are the party animals that are us. Oh boy, so the term party animal?
Speaker 6:Oh yes, Okay and now, and I'm like and we let him go on too.
Speaker 1:Let's just go.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Go go, go, let's go as the party loads into the rickety cart, but just still at punctuating the silence, occasionally with bad uncle, you do make your way back toward the air station that you left and towards the airship, and that'll be where we close on this episode of Vissy Quest.
Speaker 4:Welcome.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, thank you yeah yeah, yeah, where are we?
Speaker 6:taking the ship Very far from here, and we have to convince all of these people that it is exactly what we plan to do.
Speaker 5:So I've got to go, and if you guys are coming with me, then come with me.
Speaker 4:It looks like you've got a parachute of some sort.
Speaker 5:Yeah, a young child gave it to me.
Speaker 4:Oh well, okay, In that case, let's take a step back first and reevaluate the situation.
Speaker 1:She starts to grab the boat. We're jumping out of the ship. You are not jumping out of the ship. How dare you make a fool of that woman? How dare you conduct yourself this way? Oh, I love drama, but then you know the engineer. They come and they make boats, uh-huh. Now I don't have job anymore.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:And then you hear it very far in the distance on the wind. What the f***. I think we should move. Looks up at you the stench of death coming from her mom.
Speaker 3:How did you get water?
Speaker 2:This corruption has to end. I will do whatever it takes. Help me.
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Speaker 6:Episode two take one, just give me some more coffee, just give me a second.
Speaker 5:All right, everybody, this is episode two. Let's go. Hey, let's go. We're going to get into a fight.
Speaker 6:I'm just going to start repeating yours Sounds good yeah, all fine, it's great. I'm fine. It's great. I love it.
Speaker 5:I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 4:It's on the NDA before you show up?
Speaker 5:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:I know major heels but one of you dies. Louise said he'll stay for all sevens.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much to Abby Mosley and Jake Fortier, to Adrian Miranda, to Akemi.
Speaker 4:Hey, chris Irwin, how you been man, it's been so long. Oh my gosh, have I? Oh, I've got to go. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5:Grant Pike. Strong name Sounds like a weapon, because it is.
Speaker 3:Why are we not even talking yet about Jason Carl? I feel like we have to talk about Jason Carl. Laura Clark, laura Clark.
Speaker 4:Laura Clark. Do you remember that nickname we had for each other Peanut butter and jelly. Anyway, we can't get into it right now.
Speaker 5:But I'm not leaving this spot until I thank Scott Sexton. Okay.