Ep 118 - The Man Who Doubts What He's Sure Of

Ceallach faces an impossible truth, and the party tries to pick up the pieces.

Transcript

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Hey nerds, join us on Discord and hit that subscribe button. By the grace of the night, I'm Ceallach. Flynn. Seeker.

Thessally. Olma, and I'm your DM: 0:08

Seth. Welcome to VentureForth. When last we left our heroes after a pitched battle in the heart of Sunploom that left Barrett Hastell dead and Artemesia captured, the Agents of Repair quickly left town in order to avoid the ire of any additional local guards. But it wasn't long as their trek into The Raging Woods headed towards the monastery that the group realized the logistical quandary. They found themselves in bound to travel by foot for two days to the Oakengate Monastery with the bound wizard in tow, who has already brought the party to the brink of death. They decided to quietly make their way back to Olma's ancestral home on the outskirts of town. Met once again there with Keeper. As Ceallach began working on his word of recall, Olma went upstairs with Keeper and discovered a few unremarked in their last interaction. Namely that the estate of Lady Alexandra in its entirety was left to her, including the not insignificant wealth of the family. After this discovery, the party gathered together in the living room around the newly lit hearth here nearing the end of the Long Eve as Flynn and Seeker then used the teleportation circle scroll provided by Hayfreid via a speedy courier and shunted the group back to hare's void with Artemesia. In tow, he reacquainted yourself to the void learned of the addition of a few new cells by Hayfreid, and began the long overdue conversation with Artemesia. And after a barbed exchange, Artemesia finally revealed what she believes to be the and identified him not as demon, nor as the devil, but as a god long trapped in the abyss since before the time even of the old gods. So as we return once again to this moment, Ceallach, as you sling the brand of liar into Artemesia face,

she says to you very simply: 2:28

am I? What? You're. Saying? There's no bloody evidence of that. That's not in any of the texts. You can search every library of Atir. You're not going to find any papers that point to what you're describing. Of course you wouldn't, Ceallach. Don't you think that's on purpose? Don't you think they would've erased any trace of themselves? Some kind of god? Why wouldn't he leave? Wake up Ceallach. Do you really think that this is the first time this has happened? Do you really think that if mortals can ascend to godhood that it hasn't happened before? Why does no one remember who the new gods were? Why does no one remember their names? Why does no one remember that? A mere 31 years ago a group of mortals ascended to The High Mountain and not one person in all of Elbor remembers who they were? Think! Because they became gods. That's because of the nature of divinity-- And what happened to the old gods before them? There was no gods before the old gods. That's why they're the old gods. They created Elbor. From the ashes of a world that was already here. This isn't the first time this has happened, nor is it the second nor the hundredth eons stretching back into a time even serone. Vas-Ronath himself may not remember. Mortals ascend to The High Mountain, supplant their predecessors, war and strife. And then what do you think comes next? A swift march toward oblivion? The reckoning, the new gods grow weary of the problems of a world not made in their own image. And so they begin again, A clean slate, a new canvas. What you're describing is madness that gods created the world as it is-- Did they? We resembled them. They made us in their image. There's nothing beyond that. But there is. They're the edges of the world. Vas-Ronath is the edge of the world. A god long forgotten, locked in the pit and forgotten by his brothers and sisters locked in the abyss watching for eons. As this world is broken and remade anew over and over and over. If what your vile tongue stating has any. Shredded shred of truth to it. Then what do you hope to accomplish by what I can only see is a repetition of the cycle. Just, your preferred god's way. The god's receive their power from us. We are the ones who grant them their divinity. Without us, their divine power fades. It is why every time that gods must create the world anew without us to worship, their power is finite. It runs dry, used up until they fade into oblivion. For me still has the power to save you. That power is waning and you know it every day. Their power lessens. You felt it. You feel it now or do you not look to me and tell me you have not seen the diminishing of her light. It's only wanes because she's been. Betrayed. It wanes because she is dying as she was meant to, as they all should. Don't you see that is the order's purpose. Without the gods, the cycle can be broken. Without the gods we truly have freedom. So what is it you intend to do with the outcast? Free him. And then. He has given us his own promise. What makes you think this promise has any more merit than these gods you despise? So. Because he wishes to destroy them and then destroy himself, he longs for an end. Can you imagine eons, time immemorial, trapped bound by people who once profess to love you and to call you a brother forsaken and left to madness? He wants an end, a break in the cycle to be embraced by the void and no pain no more. Only when all of the faith in all of the world is dried up and withered, can we all truly be. Free? You know it. I can see it in your face. Even now, seeds of doubt, worm their way in and that is all he needs. Your solution costs us more than faith. Fimir's. Light is magical. Yes, cures wounds a sicknesses. It's more than that. Our light is the power of the people, power of the denizen's, and of us joined together. What you want to do is sunder that the fabric that binds us, your solution is just as disastrous as everything. You pose a. Price of freedom. But freedom was denied to you. If the only choice to worship that isn't really a choice at all. There's no worship to be done, but to show love to the others around you and you aren't capable of doing. Is it not love? Ceallach? What greater love is there than to wish for all the people of Elbor to be free to write their own destiny without the interference of God? Say freedom. I think you mean another thing. In whichever case, you would never be free. And I think of my father telling me stories as I went to sleep. I will think of moments sitting around the table in Hayfried's void, sharing mushroom soup. I will think of the look in my father's eyes whenever I asked him about my mother. I will think the smell of the temples and barns I built all over ondale whenever I was preparing for a crop to be nourished. And I will think of the way Thessally's eyes light up when she's angry and I will hurl Artemesia's cage as far as I can into the void. As you remember the sound of your father's voice assurance and his tone, the light in his eyes when he spoke about your mother, the feel of his hand on your shoulder, the smell of the thatch, the roofs of the barns, smiles on the faces of the people you helped and the fierceness in Thessally's eyes, the cage hurdles into the void until it vanishes from sight. And may you be damned for all eternity. Damn. Just look at Ceallach and I look around at everybody and I look at Thessally and I don't think we're back. Have we come back? We come back at you. Too, right? It's me. And you. It's just you guys. Because Seeker and I are, oh really? Now say you got there. Get. There. We do. We come in conversation. I end. I got caught up. But you guys, no, not at the end. You guys came in not long after the conversation started. Okay? You basically missed the very beginning, but then you're, you're here. Okay. Yeah. Look at this. And I shake my head to, oh, for me to go over. I lean my head towards Ceallach to let them know. Maybe you should. Yeah, I'm going to walk over. What's Ceallach doing right now? I am extremely close to the edge of the platform. Basically the tips of my toes. Were on the cage platform and I am just fuming at the edge of this precipice. I'm going to walk, I'll match your feet, just kind of your stance. And I'm just going to give you my company and stay quiet for a couple moments. I don't really know what to say. I'm going to start with a question. What did you do to her? I look out to where the direction I threw the cage. I don't know. Oh. I thought I would just move it. I was thinking sort of where the dragon is out there. So you. Think I got a little carried away. Decided on the executioner path then? I think that she's alive out there. Alright. Do you think she was telling the truth? No. No. Of course Thessally. No, there's no, it doesn't make any sense. We need to find the source of what, however dark magic that new god's must have used in order to create this aberration. I can't believe I haven't been looking at it that way. It's impossible. It makes sense. It's nearly impossible to dethrone the gods. So there's something else to foot there. There's. Ceallach. I don't. There's no way. But if it was true, I don't think anything you did for Fimir or for the temple or would mean any less, it would be just as good. It would be just as brave and just as selfless. It would still mean something. It would still mean everything. What. It does to me. I am inclined to agree with you Thessally. The light is to effect on everything. There's not places where it doesn't go. And if there are. Well. What's in those places. We can find that out. And if there are people there who need help, we'll help them just like we've been doing. Just like you've always done. It is all right to give yourself a purpose. Ceallach. It doesn't have to be given by somebody else. What am I, Thessally? Am I Keeper? Am I some piece of machinery commissioned by some ancient being to carry out some maintenance or hedges? Ceallach, look at me. Look. You are Ceallach gray. You are an agent of repair. You are a friend to me and practically a father to Olma, a mentor to Flynn. You help people. You are a good person and you have always been all of those things with every choice and every step you make, every day that you wake up and you will continue to be those things. Whatever the world may bring you because you make choices because you have a good heart and sometimes you just need other people to help you see it. So if you need me to stand right here and keep reminding you, then that's exactly what I'll do. Seeker did it for me and I will do it for you. I just raised my hands up, thumbs up to the void. I feel so empty. It might feel that way for a while, but you have a lot of people who love you and count on you. You don't have to feel empty. We all feel empty sometimes. It's all right. It's. Part of being alive. Think I need to sit down. Just some, I think, and I'll try to find a chair. I just sit down right on the edge of the. Oh. Okay. Platform. I'm going to sit down with you. It's not true Thessally. It can't be true. Maybe it's not true, maybe it's not. But. She has to be lying. It doesn't to leave. You don't have to believe what she says. I want you to know that the you matter no matter what. Thank you. Should I make you some tea this time? I'd be grand. I'll be right back then. I'm going. To. I'd sort of get up, dust myself off and I will find my way. Is it a different platform? I don't, yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's a kitchen. Kitchen platform. Yeah. I would've like to have done something really quick. Okay. While they were talking, we were just sitting there, you getting her, letting them console as they. Have this conversation off on the edge of the platform. I would just, the rest of you do something and then I guess some of you would see it. So I guess I can't send it in secret, but I would like to, while they're faced standing at the edge of the void, just standing there talking still, I'd like to pull out my little sketchbook and do my damnedest to draw Thessaly and Eck standing together, consuming and just standing at the edge of the void. I need you to roll a dexterity check, add your proficiency bonus. And you may roll this at. Advantage. Ooh. Oh, feels. Like the moment feels. Right. Yeah. So just do you know so well. You've been practicing. He has been practicing. So I'm doing dexterity, dex. Plus proficiency and then. That's okay. Dex plus proficiency D. Drawing for me is a variety of different skills. It can be deck based, it can be wisdom based. It all. I know in the past it's been slight of hand, but. I say's what I used when I do, it's 9%. Observation. So if I roll a one, reroll, oh. One of your two rolls. So yeah, advantage because I get advantage. Do I? So you roll the way that Huck works, you rolled two dice. If one of 'em was one, you re-roll that one and then the other one. So technically you roll twice. Twice more. So this will be roll it one more time and this will be your first roll. Oh. Okay. Got it. Okay. I roll again. And this is your second. Pretty good. Much better. Much better. What is it? All of the better. So like the total opposite. Of a. Yeah. 30. Oh. You hear fucking call it. That's why you're loyal to your dice. Sorry. As you Flynn, as you see Dely walk over and you see the sort of slackening of Catholic's shoulders as the words find purchase somewhere maybe in this moment for him, you see the care in Thess the way that she's facing him. And in a moment of pure inspiration, you put pen to paper and you capture a moment in time between these two. And it is everything you wanted it to be. Alone. As I'm putting the finishing touches, I'll look up and possibly notice them finishing up, hearing the tea, hearing that you're about to get tea. And I'll just look up and before Dely can turn around, before Kelly turn will shut my book. Perfect. Put the pen back, slide it in my backpack. You said you're getting tea. Do you need any help? Sure. I was actually going to, how does the kitchen here work? I wanted to make, I have a specific idea. Right? I think, and I'll start walking towards with you, towards to bring the kitchen down. I think you think of the, if you want to make something, I think you think of the ingredients and then those are procured in the cabinets and then you bring them out of the cabinets. I think that's what Calex did to make the soup. Alright. So if you know how to do the tea, what goes. In it? Yes, I'm going to. Okay, so do we need to bring the kitchen down? I'll think of some things and bring it down. Mess some stuff. Or maybe I'll look to actually, no, I'll look to Sly and I'll just be, I don't know if you want practice or try, but, oh, if I really. Don't know why hate free made his voice so emotional. He doesn't seem like an emotional guy. But then there's this, so I don't know if anyone's told you, but so you want to think of something in succession? I mean first I should add, do you want to try? Because I can just bring it down, but I figured maybe we should all know how to cheat. Sure. Yes, I will. Yes. I'm pretty good at casting in my own right. So of course this should be. Yeah, it's not. Should be. Yeah. I mean it's magic. So how. Do I do that? You teach me. Be my teacher. I'm going to give you the bullet points and you will give it a shot, a try, an attempt. So the first thing you want to think about and just when you do this, it's really important to close your eyes and just really just slow your breathing. Calm down. Just really focus on one emotion. Okay? Okay. Do we hear him doing this? I yell out to like childhood love. Loss petracour, and passion. Right. Well it's not that simple. I mean it is actually that simple. You just. Okay, so hearing that from Olma, I will still follow up Flynn's instructions and close my eyes, kind of take a deep breath. But hearing them in succession, I will think back to my childhood. I will think back to not the cottage but the little apartment my family and I shared on the inner streets of Easthaven. And I will think of sitting around the table with my mother and my father and my two younger brothers and my two younger sisters and just how wonderful it was to have a meal with them at the end of every day. And I will sort of let that flourish into the love I had for teaching the twins to take their first steps and helping Hazel learn how to read and showing Salix how to fend off some bullies who thought they could get the better of him. And then I will picture my parents' graves in the cemetery of East Haven where I know that they rest now. And then I will think of the days that I used to go to the garden at Lord Farrin's estate with my father and the smell of fresh earth when he would let me plant the bulbs and the seeds of the flowers around the estate and how it would always smell best right after it rained. And then I will think of Ceallach when he talks about his belief in Fimir and all of the beautiful things that Elbor has because of her. You remember back to the feeling of being around the table surrounded by your parents and your four siblings, watching all of them grow and interact and laugh and the simple joy of sharing a meal with the people you love. You go back to the pride of the skills that you were able to teach your younger siblings and the responsibility you felt as their oldest sister and the stewardship that you had over all of them. You remember the intensification and the immense weight of that knowing that it was your job now that your parents were gone and the burden you had to shoulder and then you remember walking around the grounds of the estate, how beautiful they were. The hedges all neatly trimmed, all the flatwork gardens, the birds, the sound of the fountain in the center, the smell of every spring when you plant the bulbs and then you remember the sound of EK's voice. And the platform comes to you. Good job. Good job. Gosh, Hayfreid's so gruff and I feel like, yeah, I know it doesn't make sense. I'm going to put a finger to my eye and I might blink a little bit. Here. No, I want to go. I'm fine. I want to go to the kitchen. Right? Okay. Anyway. Yeah. So yeah, ridiculous. Alright, cabinet's over here and. I love the idea of as you close your eyes, it's like his voice just spanned into the back as you focus on all these things. But the bridge of the stones make the bridge between platforms. Then Flynn leads the way to the kitchen. I'll lead the way to the kitchen. I'll point. So these are the cabinets. So basically I think. I've got just the thing in mind. Just. Think about the stuff and then we'll open it. Okay. And I'll close my eyes one more time and take another deep breath and I will thank to, I'll reflect on another memory of each day that my father, when he was feeling like he particularly missed my mother or she wasn't feeling well or just because he loved her, sometimes he would bring home tea rose petals and he would make her favorite tea. And those are the petals that I imagined to make this tea. As you imagine them and you close your eyes, you hear this subtle as you open the cabinet and there you see actually in a sort of planter, a bunch of fresh roast leaves. What's up there? Roses and rose petals. You want to help me sort of crush them? Get a mortar and pestle? Sure. Add a few. Just got to bring.'Em down. I can. Oh. Right, I So I bring them down. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I taught me a lot today. Look at you teaching me, how about that? Yeah, you've taught me some things so I feel like it's only fair. Just like one thing. But yeah. You teach me more than now. Oh. Anyway. And I look for a little mortar and pestle, something. The tools to. Use this, it doesn't take you long. This kitchen is stock. Okay, cool. So don't have. Think of tools, it's just. Like, we just think those are present ingredients that don't need to think of. Those need to be summoned. Alright, well let's get to work. But most of the tools you need are already present as you both begin crushing up the tea leaves and creating the tea. I would love to come back to Olma and Seeker, find out what they're doing. How has Seeker been processing all of this? How has Olma been processing? What's going through your guys' heads? What are you doing? Olma's a little distracted and is exclusively thinking about how, because hearing all of this, she's basically, I'm exclusively thinking about how the fallen storm ties into, I'm just trying to figure out why that happens. And then I'm going to look, I'm open up the notebook and see if there's anything in somebody who lived 800 years. If there's anything in Lady Alexandra's notebooks or the packet I got, I guess I don't know necessarily that there's papers in it, but I know there was at least the one paper. So I'm bringing that out and I'm just going to kind of like for a while, I'm just going to sit there with it to try and piece together why, not stealing magic from an old god. How that would help and what the purpose of that would be in this. So that's, I'm just trying to figure out why, how the fallen storm and the red wolf will fall into line with Vas-Ronath. Copy. So I would love for you to go ahead and make an investigation check as you look through the journals. And then second to that, I would love for you to make an insight check as you begin to think about the implications, the connections, and with some of these journals kind of at your disposal as you start to look through, you guys count it if it lands out, yeah, we. Go, yeah, we do. As long as it's not cocked. So the first one investigation is going to be a four. I'm. A little distracted, but maybe it's because I'm thinking insightfully. Yes, find out. So insightful. It's found using. A different part of your brain using a different part of my brain. That part is very active. God, that part is incredibly 25 20. Let's go. Big money. Finally. Begin to look through the journals you're trying to study and you're trying to read the words and you're trying to use whatever you can to kind of piece things together. But it gets overwhelming. There's so much information, there's so many passages, there's so many different perspectives between your grandmother, your great-grandmother, all of the different journals And suddenly everything kind of fades and you're not even looking at it anymore. You're reading it, but you're not paying attention. And then you start pondering that question, why steal a piece of a god's power? Why The Fallen Storm? Why attack Primordia? And then you remember Primordia was the one place on the material plane where people could go and talk to the gods and anything that could cut off that connection, lessen the faith, destroy the faith. Maybe that seems like a pretty good move if you want to remove or harm the faith in the gods if that's your ultimate goal. So I'm to take that to say they thought that the only way the red wolf, that cult of the red wolf, the order of the red wolf wolf thought that the only way to destroy such a holy site would be to have holy power and basically nuke it effectively. That's what they, so they didn't want to kill the gods with the fallen storm as much as destroy the communication. Probably a bit of both, but failing one resorted to the other. Got it. So they even thought maybe The Fallen Storm could kill. The gods, maybe by siphoning off a piece of a god's power. Step one, right? If you want to diminish faith in the gods, steal their power from them. Second step, cut them off from everybody and that may. Be then third step, destroy. Them. If possible. They just made it to second step. Got it. Just slowly let the faith in the gods wane. Yeah, they could be on between two and three right now. Three right now. Well, but the fallen storm died I think far. But the faces was waning. And as you kind look at the journals, you kind of sit up as the epiphany kind of hits you of it all. And I'd be curious to know how Olma feels about that insight, knowing that that legacy is now passed to her. I will look down at my hands and for the first time in a long time, close my eyes and meditate to try to tap into the wild magic that flows through my veins to as I try to process whether or not I actually think that I have that kind of power, the power that could do something like that. As you begin to sit down, you close your eyes, you focus on your breathing. It all started with the breath, hear the monks and just nattering you constantly. It all starts with the breath. You sit down and you remember the rote sort of sayings that they would say and you hear just very, very faintly. Someone settle beside you. Do you peek? Open an eye. Yeah. See Brim sitting next to you. Oh, meditating with, sorry not. And wordlessly just. I settle into his breath to breathe with him. A wisdom jacket, advantage for me spicy. A spicy wizard check, a spicy wisdom, spiciest of wisdom checks. Wow. Gone. Gone forever. Like a city. It's gone. Too hot handle. Lost. A wisdom check. 15. 15. Nice. You breathe. And as it is so often the case for you, your brain just won't stop and then it slows and all you hear is your own breathing quiet. And in the silence in that kind of space between kind of almost overlaid underneath your eyes, see vibrant purple coursing. You settle into your body, you can feel it, feel your fingertips tingle, your hands begin to coalesce something and you feel there's something there right at the edge. You just reach out and grab it. I'm going to reach out. You seeker. Okay. Seeker, as Olma starts to glow purple, the very faintly that almost an outward expression of what you saw in her last, just yesterday. When you cast identify that coursing purple energy and glass before it comes back and you feel there's something there, something you can grab a hold of, but you don't know how to use it just yet. And then it slips from your grip. There's something there, something you haven't accessed before. Okay. Say stab spicy. That. Was spicy, I settle with that. But in that kind of loss, the calm kind of remains if you choose for it too. I do. You settle in until eventually your brain kicks back in and you open your eyes and for a brief moment you saw. Just like, thanks Brim. How do you. Empty? He smiles. Good. Yeah. But it's all coming back now. I mean I could feel it now in the brain and. It's a journey. Yeah. Frustrating one. Yeah. You'll figure it out. Eventually. Maybe. Or I'll die. Don't we all? Well, maybe not you. Why did I once? No shit answer. And if you're alright with it, I'll go over to the speaker and see during whatever you're doing in this moment, you do see that brief sort of flare of something. And again, it was almost like an outward manifestation of the internal. You saw it through Seeker's magic through the Identifi spell. You kind of saw that glass and purple and sort of coursing through her. But for again, the briefest second, you saw this sort of outward manifestation of it before it receded kind of back. I don't know what a secret make of all that. And how has he been doing feeling. Looking around at everyone. I would've pulled out out of my bag, my scroll that I took from my father that has the ancient oven script on it and just been kind of knowing that I can't read it. Just kind of looking at it, thinking, trying to use it to focus my mind. The words that she said aren't confusing, but I don't believe them all to be true. I also don't believe them all be false. And I am just kind of trying to tie some of the things together. Like hearing very early, one of my first trips to this void that someone said that the entire mission of this red wolf was so chaos into, they were trying to lessen the power of the gods, but the war seemed to not be working. And that actually people seem to be picking up faith and that we sit here and this Artemesia says that this has happened hundreds of times or thousands of times throughout the eons. And also rolling up my left sleeve and looking at my tattoo, which has a semicircle and then a horizontal line, the sigil of Laurus and starting to just cast a sacred flame just so I can see it blaze in purple and kind of have that plame energy run through my arm and feel it. And knowing that this is real, Trying to figure out what it means that this has happened before and that they're trying to, what are they trying to do? Are they trying to replace the new gods and reset the world anew? And listening to something that stuck with me is Ceallach saying, you say freedom and I think you mean something else. And that just keeps kind of replaying in my head as I'm thinking through all of these things. And then seeing the living, the little living Laurus over here start to meditate and this aura and energy coalesce around her having a sense of awe. And do I get a sense that she is finding some kind of connection or control? Interesting. I don't think it's very often that you see Olma meditate, at least not successfully, right? Olma tries a lot if I'm not mistaken, but very rarely does she achieve that kind of meditative state. But as you see her still and not fidgeting, not moving, just deeply breathing and fully present and you see that kind of outward manifestation, I think, yeah, think seeker is insightful enough. I think he's able to see there is the potential almost for some form of connection there. But as to what that is, a child imbued with the power of divinity, with the essence of magic. Who knows? And I think that right there kind of is one of the deeper questions like, well what is divinity? If it's taken over and over and over and over, then what is it? What is this that's kind of rolling around in my head. As you look down to the tattoo on your arm and you feel the magic at your fingertips come to you again and again and again. Divinity is at least this much, at least this much. The power to maybe do something good if you choose to. I think the last thing I would just look at Flynn or not Flynn. Oh yeah is over with Flynn. That's right in the kitchen. Ceallach's over there stewing as Ceallach does. Yeah. Look at Olma now. Brim. I think just kind of a smile, smiles on my face as I look at everybody here. And as you all, as the two of you rather finish making the tea, you return, give the tea to Ceallach, however you do that. I. Have, while I was stew, taken the bandage off of my arm, dropped it into the abyss and I've just taken a stick of incense from my bag and I've just been lighting it on my arm on the places where the embers are poking through, just sort of absently, just testing the heat of it. And that's what I've been doing. Not creepy at all. Totally, totally. Normal. Yeah, no, he's feeling good, he's. Doing well. He wraps. That thing, unwraps it all the time. Definitely never done that. Oh, so I want to ask question and not be rude, If first I have, this is for you and I pass. I flick the incense into the abyss. Also take the tea. I used to make it with my father. He would make it for my mother. So enjoy. Thank you. That's. take a sip. I've never had anything like that. That's. Quite nice. It's a rose petal. It's, it's actually how I got my middle name because it's--my father would always bring home. Your arm's on fire. That it is. Sorry, this is. It doesn't bother me at all. I'm just, I've never. You seem bothered. No, I've just never seen you. I've never seen you like that. Aye. Aye. Normally you keep it. Covered. Keep it. I worry that it'll unsettle people. Why? Why? Maybe an intrusive question. If I touch it, will it set me on fire? I don't think so. You. Were burning incense in it. Well, yes, but it's kind of, if you look closely, there's flesh and then there's the cracks between the flesh and that's where you'll burn your flesh. That's where it's coming. I kind of reach out, let me, I'll put my hand on his arm. I allow it. And then I, I'm actually going to weirdly, I'm like, does it? And I get my fingers a little closer to where it's hotter. Does it feel like actual flame? Oh yeah. It feels like his arm is literally made of fire at a point. Heat. Coming off when I kind of. Oh, does she? Y'all suck. Leave them alone doing. This. And as your hand gets close, you feel a little nauseous. It was a bad idea. I forgot how Zakriel doesn't like me. I wish I understood why, but to be honest, I understand less than ever. Welcome to the club. We can understand less together if it makes you feel any better. I'm sorry. It's all right. I don't know what to say. When we first set out on this journey, I came across a graveyard in the shadow Timberland. We were closing well Shraya's commune was besieged by literal shadows that were driving people mad. And we were able to sort out that it was caused by this tomb that had been cracked open, that happened to be the resting place of the red wolf. His crept was in such a way that when his crown was removed, it released these pernicious shadows. And what really shook me at the time was that none of the elders in the commune even knew that the graveyard existed. Oh. And this was a commune dedicated to Ilduria. Who. Planted the trees of the Shadow Timberland. As you've said, even gods have limits. Sometimes there's a way to hide or obscure things. I think a lot is still possible. I don't think we have a good explanation yet. Does such an explanation exist. If we're going to fix whatever's going on, I have to believe that something, some sort of truth can come out of this. It might not be the one we want and I think we should be prepared for anything but something. The. Difference between gods and demons. Is. That the gods created us. They have a stake in our success, our survival, whether or not they achieve their aims for helping us, they want us to be helped demons, they want something else and maybe they make an exchange for that. That can be helpful. Temporary sense, like in the under dark. You think this is still true? I want that to be true. The thing that troubles me about Flynn's search for power is that so often those that seek power are doing so out of selfishness and wanting to control others touch the gods. Were independent of that pursuit because they always had it. But if that's not the case, I see darkness blow me and I look down into the abyss. I look up, I see darkness above me. What do you see here? What do you see in front of you? Ceallach? Yes. What do you-- Sorry, I thought I said something. I asked you. I mean, look around. What do you see here on? Well, we're on the void. Is the void in no. Elbor? Not strictly. Speaking. Okay, but do you understand what I'm asking you, right? Yes. Yes. Yes. You're talking about Elbor. I don't know why I told Artemesia that was more than just Fimir because she exists in all things in the way that your eyes are affecting the light right now. Even if Fimir were not, were to be gone forever, I would still feel that as her grace. She's in the light, she's in your belief is in the light and in all the things that the light creates. And if it doesn't dwindle even when she's gone, then your belief wouldn't dwindle and the good of it wouldn't go away. There's something worth fighting for right there. Do you actually like the tea or did you say that? To save my feelings? I haven't made it in a long time. I was kind of nervous. I've never had it. So I don't know how you like it, but. Okay, but do you like it? I'm asking you your opinion. Yes. I think you may know all this about me. Thessally, my palette is not exactly the most delicate. No, I wanted to ask anyway. I think it's, but it's nice that she made something so personal. Whenever my mother didn't feel well, she did take care of a lot of children. So my father would just come home when she had a bad day or sometimes just because. Just because. So I thought you seemed down and you made me tea and that helped. So it's just I'm not good with words. So this is me trying. You're doing great. I'm just glad you're here. I thought for a second there you were going to fall off into the void. Kind of scared me. So I'm glad you're still here too because I thought I was going to have to fly after you and catch you. I wouldn't put you through the indignity. Oh, well I'd catch you. I'd do it and I guarantee I'd look pretty graceful doing it. Oh. No doubt. The wings are really, they're really. They're spectacular. There was something they told me I might get when I was younger and I never, it's kind of incredible. That's beautiful. Thank you. And I will sip my own tea. Hey, it just begged so many questions. It's almost like all these lords and ladies of the nations of, is it so different than that? At a certain point, gods exchanging who sits atop the high mountain except that their progeny becomes, it gets wings. Oh, I've thought of myself as disconnected for so long that I guess I don't like that at all. Why not? Well, I mean when you've been abandoned for so long, you don't really want to think of yourself as reliant or I didn't do anything for the gods or anything because of them, anything. I did it in spite of them and without them because, well, they were supposed to be there and then they weren't. So I had to make do. So I don't like the idea of having to be beholden to someone who never cared for me in the first place. Well, just because you receive their gifts, they think that makes you beholden to them. They've given you them despite you never caring for it. Right. That's true. So I think no need to feel any sort of way about it. Do you think that there'll be answers at the monastery. Answers for Olma? I think. Well, if Olma is connected to Laurus, do you think there might be answers in there for you too or. I don't even know what answers I'm. Looking for for us as what to do about all of this. I think our aim remains same. Whatever the case, whatever crimes the old gods committed or the new certainly immense loss of life that the order the red wolf is attempting to achieve in order to make their grand change. It's not worth it. No, it's not. Do you think the world is better off without gods? I don't know. On my angriest days I do, but I also, not unlike you grew up with the belief that they are intrinsically tied to everything and I'm not willing to--so tired of this war and of death and everything that comes with it. And so whatever stops that I will do, that means that Fimir and Fenra and Laurus have to stay on their thrones, then fine. They can have them. I just want peace. For a little while I thought about if the new gods could do it, then so could I. There's a fleeting ocean quickly dispelled by horns on Flynn's head. Caught a little bit of hubris there. Did you? Well, no. Just if I couldn't have may as well represent her in as great as hands as I could. I don't know. I've done surgery and I've used magic to heal and one is way easier than the other. So I think that the world's better off for having them, but not if we spend all of our time killing each other over them. No. You do wear me down though, Thessally. Oh. You and Seeker both. I don't know. I don't want to be in your club. I like believing. For what it's worth, I don't like not believing in them. I want to believe in them for so long and I got tired of waiting. I lost too much waiting on them. So if there's some good that they can do and they can fix this, all of this, then I'll believe in that. They have to show me they can do it because they've spent almost 31 years showing me that they can't or that they won't, which is worse. Gosh, it would be nice to believe in something other than what I can do with my own two hands. Then that's a reason to resist. I think. So. I'd like to help them earn your belief. If that makes any sense. Certainly. You'll tell me someday what happened. What do you mean? Well, on the day you made your oath. And my hand just kind of absentmindedly goes to touch the scar on the left side of my face. I haven't talked about it since it happened. You don't have to. But if you want, I think I could trade you a story and I looked down at my scorched arm. I would like to hear that. And I just seemed really torn for a moment and I just kind of bite my cheek. I'll consider that. Flynn helped me make the tea. Good. Yeah. Flynn really cares about you, Ceallach. I know. Okay. I let him keep the magic book. Against me better judgment. And Ceallach, as you see the laugh come over Thessally at the joke. You see a light in her eyes. You're not sure where it's coming from, but wherever. It's reflecting. It's not here in the void. I lean over into Brim while they're talking and when Nestle brings up the monastery and maybe them having ideas, I turn to Brim and I say, you think Elder is really old? Do you think she don't think she knows anything from before the gods were gods? Or if that was even a thing? She's ancient and she's not that old. Well maybe she's heard stuff. I mean just to know if it was possible even, right. I don't know. Maybe I'll keep reading through Lady Alexandra's books because maybe they have something there. I don't know. But it doesn't make any sense. All of those books were after the Order of The Red Wolf was after the Outcast was already imprisoned, which would've been after they took power. But I don't know, maybe something's there. Maybe somebody remembers something. I don't know. Maybe Master Rivon has books about it. Could be Master Rivon. There's a lot of books at the monastery though. I mean we're talking ancient history. Thousands and thousands of years. I'm not sure. Olma. Like 14,000 years. And then some. Okay, but maybe we can ask. We'll ask say how long has that been going on? And Brim just nods over to the two with them. I had him a little insight check a little while ago. It depends on what you mean by that. They're just so awkward. It's like. Well, you have to understand, we don't really have any privacy and we haven't had any privacy for a really, really long time. You see in the very corner that those series of beds, that's usually where we sleep and they're all together. And even when we go to her house, we all stay together and we all eat together. So if there ever was going to be a thing, I think they probably should talk about it, but they can't talk about it alone. You're never alone. We're never alone. We're always together. Sounds like my nightmare. But maybe it's been like months and we're just always together. It's even. Worse. I don't mind it, but I think some people probably would like some privacy. But I don't know. We have my home now and we could probably each have our own room and maybe that means that there'll be more privacy and people can have privacy. I dunno, I've never had my own bedroom, but I feel like you can put personal things in there don't have, you could keep a journal and you could keep it in your bedroom and nobody has to see it. And you can also have private conversations that no one people when you have a house. So. Maybe soon it'll be a thing. I don't think it's a thing yet. Well, the good news is you have a house. So maybe they have private conversations now. Still weird to me that the youngest member of the group is the property owner. But. It's pretty cool. It is really cool. Well, I mean not cool because it's inherited. So I mean, I would hope that everybody else's parents were still alive so that they couldn't inherit a house. Sometimes our parents do what's best for us, even if it means that the only things they can leave us aren't them. But anyway, I think they'll have more privacy and they can actually talk. But I do know that Ceallach wants to be pretty for ly. That's all I know. Brim has the knowing smile. And adults, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Brim sees that sort of hesitancy in Olma when she's like, yeah, but he's not going to push. He just kind of looks at you and then you guys move on to lighter topics of conversation as, yeah, you all, after these sort of disparate conversations and moments, you all kind of find your way together again, unless someone else there was anything else anybody wanted to do. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Hello. Come down from the kitchen with two mugs and I'll just kind of see. I brought you some tea. Yeah. Is it like a T? No, it's like the stuff that definitely made, I think it's from the past or I dunno. It's from the past. It's from. Yeah. I would've mentioned to you that I used to make this tea with my father if, yeah. It's kind of weird. But I mean, have you had it before? I don't know. It's roses. It tastes like a flower. Oh, it tastes like a flower. Yeah. I mean. It's not bad. It's warm. I'd probably drink it before I go to bed. Sit down next to Seeker and just look off at Ceallach and just talking. What do you think they're talking about? I wonder? No, it's hard to tell. But. Sitting pretty close. This is what I was bringing up earlier. Yeah, I remember. I don't know if I told you, but when I was after the fight, they spent a long time healing each other a little too long and mean I was fine, but they didn't even look over to see if I was okay. Didn't even look. So. I mean. I'm used to being the one to step up and protect Olma. She's kind of the young one, but it's weird when it's death. And. He has this silly grin, which is like creepy. He's. Kind of a creepy guy. But we like him for. I'm not saying I don't like him. I'm just saying that this is very, it's different. I mean know he's going through a lot, so maybe it's just like a consoling thing, but I don't know. Anyway, I was making a tea. I was thinking about what Artemesia said, and I don't know too much. I mean, I know of the gods and I know about them, but I'm not really a big woo-hoo for me or kind of guy. So. Yeah, you don't strike me as that all. Yeah. So I'm trying to piece it together. I mean, I could take it either way. I mean, I've always lived with the gods, right? They've always been here. I'm not ancient like Ceallach, but I mean. Okay, to be fair. He's not that old. I think. Seeker's older than him. He's older. He's not, not. Well, regardless. I mean, I haven't been around when there weren't guys, so I don't really know. But also, is a cycle a bad thing? Maybe cycles are okay. That's the world kind of goes in a cycle. So maybe cycling gods or, I dunno, what do you think? Maybe it's the tea. There's no beer in the tea. Oh, you want to. Get a beer instead? Yes. Let's do that. Don't walk up, grab some beer. I'll think of a really nice dark stout that we can sip on. I'll hand him one of those much better. Okay. I don't know. I don't know if cycles are bad, but it's all we know. Well I'm. Also thinking what if we, I don't dunno. I mean I'm not one to be able to really convince anyone of anything I've found. But what if we try and convince the gods to stop the cycle? We don't have to. You convinced people, you convinced us to do things. Kind of sometimes. And you convinced the point at my head, but then I pointed your head. You kind of talked your way into that. Yeah, well that wasn't really a convincing. That was just like an acceptance kind of thing that it. To you did sign. Yeah, you did sign. Okay. On the battery we died. I. Understand. Look, remember I'm not mad at just next time. Anyway. I'm just very defensive being honest thing. Horns I have. Yeah, I mean, I'm curious, what if, do you think that Gods want to destroy the world? Maybe if we can convince them. I mean, Ceallach seems to know him pretty well. He's got two helping him out. Maybe he can convince them to just chill the fuck out and then we won't have to do the cycle again. That's just what I'm thinking. I don't know. The stout is helping though. How fast do you guys drink these beers? I feel like Flynn's already. I'm staring at mine. I'm just like. Why don't we just tell him to chill the fuck out? Yeah. I dunno. I don't think everything she said was true. Yeah. But why don't we? Well, I didn't think that. I don't know. I had some thoughts, but I don't now I'm kind of curious. What? Because if that's true, then what I was thinking isn't true. What you thinking? I. Don't know. Okay. I'm thinking of a lot. But. Here's what I think. Yeah, please talk. Whether there are cycles or not. Yes, it's good beer. Okay. Whether there are cycles or not. We are here now and we are dealing with the newest of new guards and then the old guards, depending on what you believe. And some of us have power from them, others from other stuff. And we have what we have. But what we have is us. So we should keep trying to do good and we'll figure out what's needed, what's not, and we'll do their best to save the world. That seems like super vague though. So if we just keep doing our thing and then the gods still end the world and do the reset, it doesn't matter. We have to stop the reset or do the reset or clear the world. So Vas-Ronath can take it. But I don't really trust the guy. We don't know who wants to reset the way. It could be the new guards, but it could be Artemisia and her people. So it seems like maybe we have to convince the new gods, the ones that are more powerful. Hey, don't blow the world up. But then it seems like maybe the gold guards are still. There. Wait, this is good beer. I have a bad idea. Yeah, we become the new guards. Well see that saying a lot. But I like where your head's at. I'm just saying. I. Am thinking though, what if we convinced the old enemy? We. Could make our own cycle of nothing. Right? But I mean whos say that once we get to that point, our minds don't change and we start thinking, well, let's just reset it. I think that's the problem. So I think what we need to do is we need to make the new gods and the old Gods friends because the old gods have the experience and the new gods have the power. So maybe if we combine the two, they won't reset the world. And then they can take care of the chained guy. They could probably just blow him up. That's an idea. We should tell everyone. Another beer first. Okay. Yes. Okay. We get good ideas when we drink. You need more. Of this said every, we'll have another beer. Every person drinking ever. Awesome you guys. Yeah. Mean why don't the gods just blow up a person that they could have already blown up? Because they can totally blow 'em up. Thought. Geniuses. Why lock 'em up if you could just blow 'em up. I love it. And here we go. But keep thing over guys. I figured it out. Listen. We know what to. Do. So. You guys go back to the kitchen, grab another round of. Beers. We're sipping. And. As we move into the evening, I mean, what else as this kind of, you guys are conversating. Bri and Olma have their conversation, your conversation kind of naturally comes to an end. You guys all eventually come together. You two with your beers, you two with your teas and Olma and brimm together. Is it getting to be like it's dinner time now? We've been here, there's been a lot of emotion in here. Yeah. It's getting on probably at this point, like six or seven in the evening probably. Or what you would consider eating time. Obviously time is so weird right now. We're. Off schedule right now. But honestly, with all that, I probably could take a nap. Do you guys think maybe we could go back to my house and have dinner and maybe go to sleep and then start our trek in the morning? Alright. That actually sounds really nice. Yeah. That way we have our own bedrooms and we don't have this giant sea of beds and we can have real food instead of void food. And I don't know, it could be nice. I mean, it sounds pretty good here. Huh? What? It sounds pretty good. Here. Just out. Sorry. Your speech there. I'm fine. It's. Don't teleport drunk. I'm not. Oh, do we? I like I seeker trying to gauge how sober he is and coming to the realization that we need him. You can all report us back. I don't think we need them. I can. You need me. Goodness. But if you do look for my eyes, they're just barely peeking over a mug and I'm like. See you go. How many beers have you had? One and some change. That sounds right. Is Seeker a lightweight? Oh, very much. Okay. They're also pretty big beers. They're like big mugs and I have the same size and it's been a while since I've eaten and. We have not eaten. Definitely like wait. Yeah. I kind of reach out and just give Seeker little pat on the shoulder. I think it's time to put the mug down buddy. I think we're going to go back to Olma's house. I'll take. That as you do that. Flynn. Flynn. Whoa. Hi. Thank you. And I take Flynn's smoke too. And as you're reaching over, I boob your nose with my finger and a little purple pulse energy as I give you a vigilant blessing. So you have advantage on the next initiative. Initiative thing we do. That's for you. Don't use it all in one place. Okay. Silly. You might have to. Thank you. You're welcome. And I will put the mugs back to the kitchen. Awesome. And sort of go, but do we want to spend the night at your house, right Olma? Yes. Yes. We can all pick our bedrooms. Ooh. Oh. Lovely. I mean you don't have to live there with me if you don't want to, but you could have a guest bedroom I guess. Sure. You want us to live? I thought you meant for the night we could pick on bedrooms. Yeah, that's what I meant. Is that. I run back to the kitchen real quick and I just want to think of a pot with flowers in it. Okay. I take 'em, I put 'em on my bag. Awesome. Then I come back. Alright. Do you have flowers in your bag? What kind of flowers? Like a wildflower variety varietal of white ones and yellow ones. And. Pink ones very not available during the long. Yeah. That's true. True. Which begs the question, where the hell did these come from. Void. But hey. Where? No. Or is it not. Cold. Magic? But yes, you find the flowers, they are safely secured in the bag and you all make the final tidings or what have you here within Hayford's void as you all gather around Ceallach. Goodbye dragon. Goodbye. Sheep. I'm just completing wrapping my arm in fresh bandage and. I would like to leave a quick letter to Hayfreid.

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Sorry for the new guest. She's not nice. Bye. AoR. Awesome. You leave it right there, sort of just right next to the note that says, yeah, the coins take a while. I mean he knows we're coming back. He's the one who sent us the petition. He's got it. So you leave the note there and as you all gather around, Ceallach is freshly bandaging his arm. Getting close. Do we have to touch you? No, just. Be near me. I'll do it fine if I have to. And touch your cheek. I push his hand away. We can just. No. It's fine. I'll just cheek and I will hold on to his robe and close what you do and kind of pat him on the thigh. Right. Makes you feel the very familiar presence at this point. The little path of Olma on your thigh. The resting. State of. My rob being tucked. All right, ready? Yes. Yes. I think this will be quite a bit more pleasant the usual way. Jesus. I will. For us. What does it look like when Ceallach uses this spell? What do you think is, what's the visual appearance of it? So as I cast word of recall, the small cracks that go throughout my arm that sort of reveal, the embers kind of broiling underneath, you can see even through the fresh bandage, they flare up underneath it. You can see the lighting coming through the bandage. And then it all sort of culminates in the palm of my hand, which normally you're used to seeing things come out of it or when I pull it across, you can see the way it tears the fabric of the universe on the other side of things when I pull out the spiritual weapon and so on and so forth, and some in celestials. But this time as it begins to boil over with these simmering embers that come out as these silvery blue things and then explode into little fires, time and space seems to sort of warp around my palm as all of us sort of twist inward into the center of my palm. Whoa. We're so little. And when we appear in the other space, it begins to my hand is the first thing to sort of appear from the other side of this reality as we all kind of spill outward with a billowing explosion is maybe too strong a word, but just a poof of just smoke in embers and debris as we materialize. Awesome. With that sort of, these embers and the flames sort of encompass all of you and then fade. Do they sort of fade into the either when they're done? They don't actually. They don't, don't rest. They don't land. The moment they're basically exposed to oxygen, if you will. They are evaporated inside of perfect, just flicker into nothing. And as the sort of last fading light of the embers fades, you all find yourselves once again within Olma's living room. That worked perfectly. Worked good. Were we in your hand? I don't know. Can I be in my own hand? No, no. We were definitely somewhere close to Zakriel. I'm going to need to sit down. Oh, I'm so sorry. Me too. As she goes to sit down. I just run over. Hey, when someone gets a new home and then you give them, what would you call that? What? Oh, like a house? A house warming. Gift. Is that what That okay. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Why? Hold on. And I'll take the flowers out of my bag and I will walk over to Olma and bend down. So you have a new home and this is to make it warm, so I think it's like a gift for you and your home. Do you put them in the fire? No, no, that's. No, don't do that. But he says it's to make the home warm. That's more Ceallach's thing for this is for you to put something on the top of maybe it's like a. Decoration. Makes the house look pretty. Oh. Oh, that's very nice of. You. I heard that sometimes people do that. Yeah. Where should I put it? Wherever you want. Wherever you want. It's your house. Somewhere where light touches them. Usually flowers need light to grow. Well, there's no light right now. Well, I didn't think about that. Well, there will be soon, right? Hopefully there'll be. Well, where would you put them if this was your house? How many windows are in the living room, I guess Is there a window sill that faces the east? Yeah, there are many windows throughout the house. The house has a really beautiful wrap around porch, but most of the windows are currently boarded up, but there are definitely east facing windows. As a matter of fact, the kitchen is what faces east. So as you walk in there above, you see a white porcelain, big trough sink right above it. There is a sort of one of those things, it's like, what's the word I'm looking for? An inlet that. Sticks out. Plant the like a planter's box. Almost. Like a planters box. Exactly. That is basically all, for the most part, all glass. And you can see from this vantage point, you can see kind of the raging woods, kind of the edge of them curling around from the western side up coming up from the south and the west as they wrap around. But you see out east kind of as the forest goes more into the rolling sort of hills that are to the north of Sunploom. This looks like it might've even been used for such a thing. Oh, okay. And I walk up to it and I put the flowers there and I push 'em in. Yeah, you put 'em up there. And I will, if there is a, I'm trying to think what there would be. Wait, are there any objects on this sill currently? Yeah, there's a handful of objects you can see. What looks to be is some of this house, it looks like it was literally left like midlife. There is dishes that are sitting there sort of drying in the sun. You can see a really nice wooden cutting board that's just kind of up there. You can see what looks like a small soap dish with a bar of soap that is covered in dust. You see a little, it looks like Keeper hasn't gotten to this portion yet. Speed it up. One person. It's been that long. And yeah, you can actually hear him clunking around first when you guys get there and you see there what looks like a couple of portraits also in this sort of window sill area off to the sides. And Olma, as you put the flowers there, you can see there are two, one of what appeared to be the older couple that you saw out in the woods. But when they were younger and they're holding a baby in their arms and you gather that this is probably your mother in their arms and you see another portrait off to the right of your mother as a young girl. And there's a pretty strong resemblance to you. I'm going to just tap the picture of Olma's mother, a standing piece and I'll cast light on it to accompany this plaza of flowers at least for a little while. And as you guys do that, you hear up as Keeper comes down the stairs and sees the placement of the flowers. Ah. Wonderful. Hello. Welcome back everyone. Hi Keeper. Hello. Keeper. Olma, you are back very soon. Excellent. I've already gone out and grabbed some of the groceries and he walks you over to the pantry and he opens it up and you can see a fully stocked larder this year. Now there is pretty much, I mean basically most of what you would need for cooking, there's all kinds of different vegetables and things like that. Some of them are maybe not quite as fresh as they would ordinarily be because of obviously the time of year. But there are tubers and different kinds of more root rootlike vegetables, lots of carrots and potatoes, things like that. There are a few handfuls of dried herbs and looks like some dried meats and things like that. Basically a full larder for what looks like about between seven or eight people maybe. Cool. Nice. But he leads you over and I haven't gotten to the rest of the errands yet, but that's okay. Is there anything you require? I think we're going to make dinner and then probably rest here for the night. Wonderful. I'll set about preparing the rooms. Thank you. You're welcome. And he turns and walks back up the stairs. Okay, well. Nice to have someone who thinks it's wondrous to have us around. Yeah. Welcome. I don't really know how to cook other than the mushroom soup we made the other day. But it looks like there's some stuff here for a nice stew, maybe some vegetables stew and there's other stuff. Sure. Maybe some noodles. We could do something together. I'll pull out a dagger and head towards some. Potatoes. There might be some cutlery in here, a. Knife in the kitchen Might still be a little from the beer. Cool. And I'll pull out bread, like whatever kind of crusty bread we have and I'll pull out the root vegetables and the carrots and things like that. I'll pull out, if we have any mushrooms, I'll pull out those herbs, check the faucet, there's water in the faucet, maybe some butter flour to thicken things. Just a couple of different items from the thing is if there's any kind of dried grains, I'll pull those too maybe to put those in the stew and make a nice hearty heavy duty warm. As you're sort of looking around Olma, you remember your time spent with Rosie? Yeah. The cook from the monastery and all of the things that she would grab with preparing food. And that's what kind of leads you to grab all of these things and you recognize all the ingredients. You're like, oh, I remember how to do this. And the longer I do it, the more it kind of kicks back. In. Yeah. Because I'd have always imagined that Olma, correct me if I'm wrong, but helped her out sometimes because. That's you spent time with because Olma. Yeah, Olma would hang out with Rosie and just chat and then Rosie would casually be like, and then do this and then go do this. So I think, yeah, maybe it's surprising to the rest of you to see Olma so deftly move through the kitchen, but eventually all the ingredients are gathered, all things are prepared. Potatoes are peeled with way more elaborate knives than necessary. But that's great. Very adroitly too. I may. Have one. There you go. But yeah, after over the course of the next sort of hour or so you all gather the ingredients and cook together your first meal in your new home, I think that is where we will go ahead and pick up next time. So Nice. That's very nice. Dinner. Well, that has been today's episode. Thank you I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did playing it. We thank you very much and goodbye nerds. Goodbye, nerds! Hey nerds. Rebecca here if you're enjoying VentureForth, please like follow and subscribe on whatever platform you're using and make sure to tell your friends if you're interested in going the extra mile. 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