WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:13.000 You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax and enjoy the feature presentation. 2 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.000 And remember, do your part. 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:31.000 Such as, like, comment rate. And don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time. 4 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.000 Now, where did we leave off? 5 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Ah, yes. 6 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.000 Before returning to Joel to meet the 7 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:59.000 others, Val and Uvaire planned to visit Val's childhood home and then travel to Trollforge. So, okay, going to talk about. I'm going to do a bit of. I'm. Sam's going to do a bit of a rant. 8 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:00.000 You're going to do a rant? 9 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.000 Do a bit of a rant. 10 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.000 All right, let's hear this rant. 11 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.000 I am upset. Oh, I saw the new Mortal Comet movie. 12 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.000 Get over it. 13 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:14.000 The movie was great. The movie was great. I love the movie. Excellent. Great stuff. If you are all interested in Mortal Kombat, this is the. 14 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.000 This is the movie Mortal Kombat. 15 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:26.000 They actually do the tournament. There's a lot of really cool stuff. It's written very much for people who like it. It's great. It's awesome. 16 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:27.000 But. 17 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:36.000 But we went to the Alamo, right? I've got a season pass to the Alamo. I've had a season pass to the Alamo for like a year, maybe over a year. At this point, I no longer have a season pass to the Alamo. 18 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:37.000 Oh. 19 00:01:37.000 --> 00:02:42.000 So apparently a couple months ago, and Olivia and I haven't been able to get out for a couple months, they've started rolling out something to all of the different places slowly. So a little context. A year, year and a half ago, Sony bought the Alamo Drafthouse. They closed a few locations to be expected, and then they didn't really do anything else. And I was like, okay, cool. It's all still good. It's all still good. A few months ago, corporate made a decision. Oh, so, you know, one of the big things about the Alamo is you go, you sit down, you got servers, the. They take your orders, you get food, you do all that great stuff. That's a big part of why you bothered to go to the Alamo. They now have done away with the server. You now have QR codes on your seats. You have to scan them for the menu, go to a browser. They encourage you to use their wifi and you have to order off of that. And if you want refills in the middle of the movie, you've got to use your phone. 20 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.000 But you're not supposed to. 21 00:02:43.000 --> 00:03:19.000 But you're not supposed to use your phone. And if you have complaints about people you have to do it with your phone. In the theater, everything's through your phone. They don't check your tickets at your seats anymore. They have, like, people who stand at the front door. Nobody checked our tickets. We went in. Nobody checked our tickets. And at the end, you have to close your own tab out on your phone. And me, along with several other people who you were using data, were not able to process the tab closing, so it just closed itself out and chose a tip to give on its own. 22 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.000 What? 23 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.000 It sounds like boycotting measures. 24 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:56.000 Yeah. It's utterly frustrating. It, like, messed with my whole experience that night. Like, why would I go to the Alamo anymore? Like, the servers were confused the whole time because, like, they're just getting random orders. They brought us drinks several times. They brought us several wrong meals that were, like, tables next to us. And, like, I don't blame them. It's not their fault the system sucks. Like, they did. They had gave them barely any time for the rollout of this. It just happened, more or less. They said they weren't gonna get rid of people, but now they're all understaffed. 25 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.000 Mm. 26 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:03.000 Because there's not enough for people to do anymore. One dude was covering three theaters. 27 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:04.000 Oh, my goodness. 28 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:29.000 Yeah. It's just like. And, like, they got. They fired, like, their social media event coordinator last month is what I heard something about that. And, like, so there's less events even going on now, which was also a big thing the Alamo did. It is just such a mess. It's terrible. And I know some other people said that the services have gotten worse, and a lot of that's just because. And food's gotten worse, and a lot of that's probably just going to be less people. 29 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:33.000 Overworked, understaffed, Overworked, understaffed, burnout. 30 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:58.000 New people. Probably because a lot of the old people, I imagine, probably left. There were a lot of new faces I saw. It was just. It was awful. We were going to see Project Hail Mary two days later for Olivia's birthday, and we just. We just canceled. And then we just canceled our season pass. I sent them an email about why, and they were like. And, well, you know, we made this decision after a lot of time of thinking, and it wasn't made lightly, so. Okay. Well, all right. Thanks. 31 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.000 Yep. 32 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:14.000 Like, that sucks. I don't like the AMC very much. That's the only other real option around here. That's, like, a good quality theater. I don't like the ANC very much because its theaters are all really big, and there's so many people in. The seating is not great. I don't like those ones. I liked the size of the Alamo. 33 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.000 Mm. 34 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:22.000 I know there's a couple local theaters around, too, that are small, but I've never been to any of them, and I don't know where they are. 35 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:29.000 And, like, they're been. I've been to a few of them, and it's. They're there. 36 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:38.000 Yeah. I've heard some people on, like, another podcast specifically talk about a place that they really like. I don't even know what place they're talking about. I'm like, I try it, but I don't know what you're talking about. 37 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:39.000 Fair enough. 38 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.000 But I'm like, ah, that. 39 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:50.000 That's. That sucks. That doesn't even make sense. Is because one of the very opening. One of the opening things is like, put away your phone and. Except don't put away your phone. 40 00:05:50.000 --> 00:06:01.000 They added another slide. It says, ps, we're aware of the irony of asking you to report people using their phones on your phone. Don't be a jerk about it. 41 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.000 That doesn't. What. 42 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:14.000 It's almost like somebody in one of these meetings was just like, wait, that's not gonna work. And they said, don't worry, we'll just add a slide explaining people that were aware how stupid this is. 43 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:26.000 Yeah. And, like, if it's done. If that's like a slide only done by the local theater, I'm like, okay, I understand you guys are telling us, but if that's like a corporate slide, that's really. That's really dumb. 44 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:27.000 That's beyond. 45 00:06:26.000 --> 00:07:09.000 But, like, now, like, I don't know. I know people are still doing all the stuff, but, like, the 18% service charge doesn't feel as. It doesn't feel as okay for me to be paying on top of. Because that doesn't even really tip people as much as this goes to, like, I think, like, more of, like a pool. But, like, it just. I. We didn't talk to us like, a server at all aside at all. Like, and they. They brought our food. I thought my food was good. Like, I like their chicken strips, but they changed their queso. They're like spice. They're like jalapeno queso dip. It's not good anymore. I kind of liked. 46 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:18.000 Sounds like they rolled out a cost savings measure and did not do the proper rollout. 47 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:48.000 And it's frustrating because they're like, this is all part of trying to make a less distracting environment for people watching movies and to improve the movie going Experience. If I wanted that level of it, I'd stay at home. That's not what I'm going to the theater for. I like the people. I like connecting with servers. It's fun. They're nice people. I like to support them a little easier. I like that experience. The experience of the movie theater, aside from just watching a movie. 48 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.000 Like, I've heard that corporate jargon before. 49 00:07:51.000 --> 00:08:16.000 Yeah. Yes. And I'm just like, this is just frustrating. And I know it's not. It's not always going to be the case, but, like, the fact that several people at the end couldn't close out their tabs, me included, because we were using the data. I'm like, I don't want to use your WI fi. I don't like that you guys now have, like, a free WI Fi you're pushing on people. That always makes me very skeptical. I don't use public free WI fi for a reason. 50 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.000 Please use our Internet resources for your private banking information. 51 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.000 Mm. 52 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:34.000 Yeah, I don't dig. I mean, I'm giving you my card anyway, but, like, I don't dig it. It's not. God, I'm frustrated. I loved it. It was like a place I went. Me and Olivia went to a lot. 53 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.000 That's. 54 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:46.000 That is a shame. And. Yeah. Alamo. Come on, man. Like, why would you do that? I actually. I pretty sure I know the answer, but don't do that. 55 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.000 Yeah. Thanks again, Sony. 56 00:08:49.000 --> 00:09:04.000 Thanks again, Sony. Sony strikes again. That's a whole nother rank in and of itself. No. 57 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:11.000 Anyway, I don't think I've ever. I don't know if I've ever gotten to do a rant on the show. I know other people have, but. That was Sam's Rant. 58 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.000 That is Sam's rant. That's a valid rant. 59 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:14.000 Episode title. 60 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.000 Sam's Rant. 61 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:17.000 I'm. 62 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:25.000 Well, I'm in full support of your rant and the reasoning behind it. I, like people support the right word. 63 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.000 Yeah. 64 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.000 We support local workers. 65 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.000 Yeah. We like people. Stop giving us more machines. 66 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:37.000 I personally, not on behalf of Atomic Broadcasting, but I, Jordy, endorse your rant. 67 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.000 I do my rant in the name of atomic broadcasting. 68 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.000 I am atomic broadcasting. 69 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.000 I am. You can't just say stuff now that we're a business. 70 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:54.000 I am 33.34%. 71 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.000 34. Okay. Yeah, 33.33. 72 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:13.000 It was like, how much ownership between these three people? And it wouldn't let me do 30. It was like, that's only 99.99. Like, fine, I'll take the extra 0.101 percentage.01 repeating. 73 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:19.000 Well, I have no idea how to transition out of that. So we're going to start with the sun beginning to rise. 74 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:40.000 Balance yourself. Unless you're listening to us on a cell phone, then please don't. What? I'm sorry. Anyway, what did you say? Unless you're listening to us on a cell phone, then please don't silence your cell phone. 75 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:54.000 Oh, I thought you said challenge yourself. I was like I can't transition that you said challenge yourself. 76 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:02.000 Geez Jordy, why don't you just try a little bit? Try a little bit for once. Please. It's been 128 episodes and now with 77 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:07.000 all extraneous devices silenced, we find ourselves back in the world again. 78 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 To an alarm clock. 79 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:17.000 Uvert rolls over and silences the alarm. Upbeat music starts playing as the opening titles surf to show. 80 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 Ain't nothing gonna break on my stride. 81 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:34.000 Revealing that up until this point this has all just been Uvair's dream. Uber is now waking up in an 80s world. He's just a short guy, he's not even a dwarf. 82 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:35.000 Are we playing Call of Cthu? 83 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:40.000 And then Uber wakes up in the Nice pistachio. 84 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.000 Oh golly. 85 00:11:43.000 --> 00:12:04.000 And we camera goes down and like through the floorboards and now we're down in the common area of the Nice pistachio. There's pistachio shells everywhere and somebody's like starting to sweep them up as Uber's coming down the stairs and Val's already down there starting on her breakfast. 86 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:09.000 Famously Val wakes up before Uber 87 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.000 for once. No, 88 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:20.000 yeah, I have Mark, because I'm still working on those ghost pepper pistachios from last night. 89 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.000 Good morning Val. 90 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:27.000 Good morning there. 91 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:41.000 I think that we should leave as soon as we are able. After all we still have to recon reconvene with the rest of the party at a time decent time. 92 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:45.000 Right. I wonder what they've been up to today. 93 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:55.000 Or what they've been up to for the past few days. Awfully nothing too adventurous perhaps. 94 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 Knowing them probably up to something crazy. 95 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:03.000 That is what worries me. 96 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:14.000 You know, with Albert around, I'm sure things will be alright. I mean he's. He's pretty level headed. A little distractible but level headed I'm sure. 97 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:31.000 And as Uvarus says that you can see he looks very unconvinced and perhaps even more worried given his interactions with future Alward. 98 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:40.000 Yeah, plus you know, Zephyr doesn't murder people anymore, so there's not worry of that. 99 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:48.000 Yeah, he Glances around to see if anybody heard that there's just the one, 100 00:13:48.000 --> 00:14:08.000 like, maid who's sweeping up the. I don't know what her career is. I'm like thinking maid, thinking she's probably a waitress. But she's just cleaning. But she's sweeping up the pistachio shells. By this point she has about a bushel of pistachio shells and is too focused in her work to notice. 101 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:27.000 That is true. He has turned over a new leaf for career wise, but I'm sure they're fine. Have you finished your breakfast? And he looks down at your ghost pepper pistachios. 102 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:36.000 Yeah, and I mean, they're mobile. I mean, it's like a walk. It's like a walk food. You can, you know, like getting a hot dog on the street. 103 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:43.000 Yes, but I think the. Andy looks next to the ghost peppers at the pitcher of milk on the table. 104 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 I am lactose intolerant. I don't even drink it. 105 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:51.000 The milk is starting to curdle. It's been left out all night. 106 00:14:51.000 --> 00:15:05.000 I don't know why nobody claimed this. Too many pistachio shells, I guess. But now, yeah, I can just put these in my pocket, my bag here, and we can head out if you're ready. If you don't want any breakfast. 107 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:09.000 I had a little bit of light breakfast brought up to my room. 108 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:26.000 Ah, nice. That's good. I didn't want, you know, to waste of these. Figured I'd eat them. We didn't eat much last night. A little too talkative. I'm nervous about going there again. It's been such a long time. 109 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.000 Well, are you ready then? 110 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:33.000 Yeah, yeah, as ready as I'm going to be, I think. 111 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Good, then we should get going. And Uwe begins working to walk out of the inn. 112 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:50.000 You know, I've never been back here since I was taken away. 113 00:15:50.000 --> 00:16:09.000 And as we walk outside of the inn and you're talking, Uvaire places his hand on your shoulder or reaches up and touches your shoulder. And mid sentence, as he's been looking at Geordi the last like 10 minutes, 114 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:13.000 he's been doing the incantation. 115 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:19.000 Uvair, I'd like you to roll a D10. And I will also roll a D10. 116 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:24.000 Can you look into my brain and see the right place? I don't know if Uber's ever been 117 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:34.000 to, other than he has not been. I'm assuming that Val gives him some, like, clear distinction of this is exactly where it is and describes what it looks like. 118 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.000 It's only been 14 years. 119 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:44.000 I'll have tens Sven, you will have the ones. What'd you get? 120 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.000 Four. 121 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.000 I got an eight. 122 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.000 Hey, 84. 123 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.000 I don't know what that means. 124 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.000 Isn't that bad. 125 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.000 I need to look. 126 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.000 Doing my math now, mathematically, we appear 127 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:59.000 a mile in the air. I have wings. It's okay. 128 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:12.000 I don't know why I did all that math, because now I'm just going to round it. You appear 0.84. So 84% of 1 mile off from your destination. 129 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:13.000 Goodness. 130 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:23.000 And I'm like, oh, that was gonna be so interesting. I'm like. You appear roughly one mile out of town. 131 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.000 Nice. I love it. 132 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:36.000 So, Val, mid sentence, you suddenly find yourself out of Kal's Guard and roughly one mile away from your hometown. 133 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.000 Just in the woods. 134 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:48.000 You're standing just in the woods. You do recognize the landscape, though. I imagine as a child, you would have been this far from town often. 135 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:54.000 Yeah, that was. That doesn't feel like 10 minutes. 136 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:58.000 I started the incantation a bit earlier. 137 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:07.000 Oh, okay. I guess that explains why you looked a little distracted. 138 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:15.000 Bit of skill that I used to not make my spells known. Ah. 139 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:32.000 Kill. There's. If I. If we are where I think we are, there should be a travel road just a little bit over there, just to the west a little bit. And then that should take us into town. We should run into a couple people on the way. 140 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:38.000 Maybe I will trust in your direction. I have never actually been here. 141 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:55.000 Yeah, I used to run around in these woods when I was really little. So as best as I can remember, this was. This should be. Should be fine. I've walked around in a lot of woods, as you have too, I'm sure. 142 00:18:55.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Quite a few, I would say. Now let us go visit your town, your home. 143 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:09.000 Yeah. I hope they remember me. 144 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:14.000 I don't think there is a fear of that, Val. 145 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:54.000 As you head down through the woods, you eventually come across the path that you were looking for. And you start following it into town. As the trees clear, you see the familiar sights of the buildings. But something strikes you as just a little bit odd. Just something off in the back of your mind. Maybe it's just. It's a little quiet. There's not a lot of smoke out coming out of chimneys. There is one tendril of smoke coming out of one chimney. And outside in the town square, there is a hooded figure. 146 00:19:54.000 --> 00:20:09.000 Val's kind of just looking around like there. Something. Something feels a little odd. It's really quiet. I'm gonna you. 147 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:32.000 As you say that, and you look over at Uber, he has a very concerned Expression on his face. And he might have picked up on it a bit earlier than you, that you had said we might run into anybody, and there hasn't been anybody. And in fact, the pathway, I would imagine, might look a little overgrown. 148 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:44.000 Yeah. On that reflection, the path to town does seem a little bit less used than you might expect. 149 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:46.000 Hello. 150 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:58.000 The hooded figure turns to look at you, and it's an older man. And he points, puts the hood down and is like, hello, can I help you? 151 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:07.000 Um, maybe I was coming to see my family here. 152 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:26.000 He looks a little bit confused and he's like, were you expecting to meet anyone here? And as he starts walking towards you to meet you, you notice that around his neck is a chain and a medallion with a spiral symbol. 153 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:32.000 Oh, okay. What's phasma? Oh, it's for asthma symbol. 154 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.000 Gotcha. 155 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:48.000 Yeah. I grew up here. It's been a long time since I've been back, but I came back to see my family. What's. What's going on here? 156 00:21:48.000 --> 00:22:13.000 A look of just profound. At the same time, grief and discomfort comes over his face and he's just like, I'm so sorry, my child. I. You may want to sit down. 157 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:19.000 What's. What do you. What do you mean, what? 158 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:28.000 He notices your face paint and your holy symbol. Where, I forget where is Pharasma's symbol displayed? 159 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:32.000 Like an amulet that was displayed. 160 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:42.000 So he notices your face paint and the. The amulet and he's just like. Like, I see you are a servant of the lady of Graves as well. 161 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:50.000 Yeah, yeah, I am champion servant, yeah. 162 00:22:50.000 --> 00:23:20.000 Well, then you must know that sometimes the tasks she gives us are not the most pleasant. My task for the last while has been to bring peace to those who perished in this town. It seems that there was some form of calamity and they were all killed. 163 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:33.000 What? What. What do you mean they were all killed? A whole. The whole town. How could something like that happen? What? 164 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:53.000 I do not know. Pharasma did not tell me the cause of this event, merely that my presence was needed here to bring peace to the souls and to ensure that no one was to meddle with the remains afterwards. 165 00:23:53.000 --> 00:24:05.000 Surely not everyone died, right? There was a family. Faren was the father. Were you able to find him? 166 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:14.000 He reaches out, like, to take your hand, but, like, doesn't immediately grab it. He's like, reaching out to see if you will reach back out. 167 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.000 Sure, yeah. 168 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:31.000 He takes your hand and does, like, the patting the back of your hand and he's like, my child. I can show you where they were laid to rest, if you would like. 169 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:42.000 I. Yeah. Yes, sure. Yeah. 170 00:24:42.000 --> 00:25:38.000 He guides you down the paths of Otherton that were once very familiar to you, but now are strangers, overgrown with grass and weeds. And the streets that used to be full of life and the smells of baking bread are now just empty. And he takes you to the graveyard you'd mentioned earlier. And when you last remembered seeing the graveyard, there were. There were headstones, there were graves, but now there's dozens more. The graveyard is just about full. He takes you up to a pair of headstones, side by side, where you find your adopted parents, Faron and his wife, laid to rest. 171 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:55.000 She's gonna kind of go up and kneel next to Varen's little gravestone, and I. When did this happen? How long ago? 172 00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:18.000 It's difficult to say. I know it was not recent. I'm sorry. I know this is difficult for you, so if you just. If you need time, just tell me to stop. But it seems that it was some years past. 173 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:29.000 Well, you can keep doing whatever you were doing. I'm just gonna stay here for a bit. 174 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:55.000 Of course, my work here will be finished before too long. But I will still be here for the next few days should you need someone to talk to. And he gives a deep nod and then quietly leaves you in the graveyard. 175 00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:07.000 They are one of the really only good people I knew for a long time. 176 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:11.000 I'm sorry, Val. 177 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:32.000 Has to be. I don't know. Some way we can figure out what happened, right? I mean, surely Phrasma knows what happened. Or Barzok. I mean, they never said anything. 178 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:48.000 There surely is a way, Val. But do you really want to know why? Or why? Do you want to know? 179 00:27:48.000 --> 00:28:11.000 Feels weird, something like this to happen to all of them. A lot of weird stuff's been happening, but. I don't know. Closure, maybe. I want it to be connected somehow. For some 180 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:19.000 to find the reason of why something so senseless happened. 181 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:20.000 Yeah. 182 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:28.000 Yeah. Would you be able to deal with the fact that there was no real reason? 183 00:28:28.000 --> 00:29:11.000 I know people always have their time. Everyone's going to go at some point. This is gonna happen. But I just. I like to think I'm prepared for when people have to go. It's part of life. It's a big part of what I have to do. But just. Just to hear that they all died together years ago, and they just. Their bodies just sat out here till this priest showed up. Nobody ever came by. Did anyone even know that this happened? 184 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:16.000 Pharasma did. And sent her servant. 185 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:25.000 Yeah. Kind of wish. I don't know, maybe she sent me here earlier. 186 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:35.000 But would you have been ready? Would you have been able to deal with what you would have found? 187 00:29:35.000 --> 00:30:01.000 No. Barely keeping it together right now. I mean, I've been around a lot of dead bodies lately, and I've gotten a chance to talk to them. I mean, are there souls still here? Can I talk to them now? I are. They are already gone. I guess. 188 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:24.000 Val Uver's been standing behind you as you've been looking at the graves. And you feel him turn you so that you look at him and you see tears in his eyes and sadness on his face. 189 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:33.000 And that definitely sets up vowels. She's been holding back. Just pouring out. 190 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:48.000 It's okay to grieve, Val. It's okay to let go. And he just holds you. 191 00:30:48.000 --> 00:31:32.000 I think probably for a while, we just sit there. And then she'll kinda pull back and look to the grave again. I hope. Maybe I somehow. I don't know. I just. I wanted to just share so much with them that I haven't gotten to in so long. But maybe I'll get the chance later. Or maybe I never will. I just. 192 00:31:32.000 --> 00:32:23.000 I think you will, Val. Perhaps it will be a long time. But death is not the end. It is only another beginning. Yeah. Now is not the time to think about what can happen in the future. Now is the time to grieve. If you wish to find out what happened, then by all means, reach out to Pharasma and see if she gives you answers. Be prepared that if she does not, perhaps it just might mean that you are not ready. Yeah. 193 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:38.000 There's been a lot of things I've been given that I'm not ready for. And almost wish this was one of them. But maybe. I don't know. Like you said, maybe she's got it for me. 194 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:52.000 And maybe she is preparing you. Val, if you choose to walk the path that has been put before you, this will not be the first scene that you see. 195 00:32:52.000 --> 00:33:43.000 Yeah. This is just the first time it's been so personal. Yeah, I've been hurt before. I've been betrayed. But I haven't lost people like this. I guess it's good to know what it's like. She's gonna try and stand up a little shaky. And then she's gonna pull out the clay tablet. I guess there's no one left to really tell about this. So. Hope I make you all proud. And then she's gonna kind of squeeze in on the tablet to start crumbling it over the graves. 196 00:33:43.000 --> 00:35:07.000 Val, as your hand begins to crush the Tablet and cracks begin to spiderweb through the clay. There's almost a seeping of that same astral energy of a starlit expanse that's almost oozing out of the cracks until it finally collapses in your hand. And then it's almost an explosion or an implosion of space as this astral expanse, this cosmic endlessness, bursts out into a sphere. And both you and Uber find yourselves floating in nothing and everything all at once. You can see below you is the spire, Pharasma spire, and the graveyard of souls, the astral plane itself, just spiraling in a maelstrom of perfectly balanced chaos around you. And then, just as suddenly as this all happened, everything is drawn back in. You're back in the graveyard, but there's no tablet in your hand anymore. But through your skin, instead of seeing the red train, the red ruddiness of life under the translucency of your skin, you now see this bluish, starlit, as if your blood has now been replaced by the cosmic endlessness of space. 197 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:13.000 You've made your decision then, my young friend. 198 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:25.000 Yeah, I guess I made it a while back and I just wasn't ready to let go. But I guess it's time then. 199 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:59.000 As you begin your journey, your transformation, as in your future walk, you lead others and families, the dead and the dying. You lead their souls to Farasma. Than you will remember this day. Keep in mind the grief and the mourning of those that they leave behind. And one day, you will lead me on that path. Perhaps. 200 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.000 It would be an honor. 201 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:14.000 Bring peace. Bring order. That I believe you can do that I know you will do. 202 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:23.000 Thank you. And she's going to kind of nod and make her way to the center of town. 203 00:36:23.000 --> 00:37:18.000 Ufer doesn't follow. He continues to stand at the graves and leans down at your adoptive parents. Rest easy, all of you. The daughter you have raised has grown strong. And now she has started on a path that I cannot follow. I promise quietly that I will support her as long as I can so that one day she might meet you all once again. And after saying that, he gets up, turns, and walks out of the graveyard. 204 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:22.000 So, Val, you were heading to the center of town, you said? 205 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.000 Yes. 206 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:39.000 In the town square, there is sort of a. A dais. It's got like, off to the side of it, there is like a strong wooden beam that's kind of hanging askew. 207 00:37:39.000 --> 00:39:37.000 While Val's walking towards the dais in the center of town, she's like replaying memories that are coming to her head of her family together. Singing songs with Shell and dancing time, hanging out at the graveyard, running around hide and seek and all that. And this family time with dinner. And it's just like, interrupted very abruptly in her mind with just like a storm and then like a door being broken, broken open. And just her being just dragged out into the weather by Hamir. And then just like all these memories of isolation, of just being separated from everyone, sitting in the graveyard alone with a book, just looking out the window at all the families. And she's replaying all of this in her head as she's stepping up on the little dais to kind of start looking around. She's just kind of going to, like, hold on to her amulet from her asthma and kind of look over herself. She feels different. And she's looking at her right arm, that's all still cosmic. Y all still looks like the stars are overlaying it. And her left arm, that's still just her prosthetic that Pilgrim had given her. And she just clutches onto that amulet, and she's like, I'll ask here 208 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:38.000 if 209 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:58.000 it pleases any of you to help me understand what happened here, Shallon or Phrasma or Barzak or anyone. If not here, then I understand. 210 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:16.000 Value receive no answer in words to your plea, but you do have a strange sense of peace that settles over you. 211 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:29.000 Okay, all right, then she'll kind of hop off and make her way back to there. 212 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:38.000 When you turn to get off the dais, you see Uvaire waiting for you quietly at the edge of the town center. 213 00:40:38.000 --> 00:41:28.000 She's gonna walk back to the grave one last time, up to Faren's tombstone and pull out her last holy symbol of Shallon. And she's just gonna kinda hang it from his tombstone. May the eternal rose bring you love and comfort in your time. And then she'll stand up and go right to there. I think that's all that can be done here for now. 214 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:35.000 Then we shall leave, 215 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:39.000 and she'll turn back to that hooded guy, assuming he's still around somewhere. 216 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.000 Yeah, he's easy enough to find. 217 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:46.000 Thank you for taking care of these people. 218 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:54.000 Of course. I wish you only the best in your continued journeys. 219 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:59.000 Thanks you as well. 220 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:28.000 And as the two of you, I'm assuming, walk away from him, kind of heading down the road, the camera stays focused on the hooded figure who looks over to the gravestone with the symbol of Shelyn. And he nods, gestures behind himself as a door to emptiness and darkness opens up and he steps back through. And that is where we'll end this Episode. 221 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.000 He might be Barzok in disguise. 222 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.000 Oh, he's kind of bringing comfort to me. That's nice. He didn't tell me crap. 223 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:49.000 Yeah, I'll go ahead and say. There's really no way for you guys to know that canonically in game, so. Yeah, that's what it was. It was Barsock. But with that end of the episode, you both level up. 224 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:54.000 Oh, whoa. Hey. We're level up before the others. 225 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.000 Or with the others, maybe. 226 00:42:56.000 --> 00:43:18.000 Who's to say you guys don't know what they're doing? Maybe they leveled up twice. All right. And the hero point for today's episode goes to. Sam. And I don't know if this got kept in from the first time I said it, but these two hooligans have leveled up. We are now up to 14. 227 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:32.000 For the others, it's official. Arrows to level 13. Those losers. And we're level 14. They definitely. You did not listen. You did not listen to it. Episode last week that may have included them leveling. Yeah, that didn't happen. 228 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.000 As far as we are concerned, we were the first. 229 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.000 They haven't even recorded a single single episode yet. Of the split. We've done all of them. 230 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:41.000 I reject any possibility being different. 231 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:46.000 Super late. We're gonna finish ours before they are though. 232 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:52.000 Best part is, I'm just sitting here like, I don't even know what order our editor is gonna send these episodes out, so I don't even. 233 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.000 It doesn't matter. 234 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.000 We are first regardless. 235 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:10.000 Well, thank you for the hero point. I'm gonna go, like, I don't know, cool off a minute. These last two episodes have been very emotional. A lot going on. We recorded these two back to back. 236 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:11.000 Yep. 237 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:16.000 We're about to record the next one. It's a good time, but man, I'm getting all teary eyed. 238 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:17.000 It's. 239 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:20.000 It's good, it's good. We hope you guys enjoy them. 240 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:26.000 I hope you guys really aren't like, oh my gosh, another episode, please. 241 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.000 I know we don't have Harolds, but, 242 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:31.000 you know, it's fine, it's fine. No more pity hero points. 243 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:35.000 No more pity hero points to the visitor. 244 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:39.000 I'll make sure he's never in this show again. 245 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:40.000 Actually, no, no, not really. We love you, Harold. 246 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:46.000 It would be great, actually. We do like him. Yeah. 247 00:44:46.000 --> 00:45:43.000 Well, goodbye. This has been an Atomic Broadcasting production. If you enjoyed the show, make sure to give us some support by liking, commenting and following. These things really do make a difference in getting the word out and helping our community grow. Also, make sure to check us out on threads and check out the Discord server where you can chat with other fans and discuss all the recent developments and happenings. Links to all these good things in the description below. The Written and the Lost is an original story that uses trademarks and or copyrights owned by Paizo, Inc. Used under Paizo's Fan Content Policy. Atomic Broadcasting and the Written and the Lost are not published, endorsed or specifically approved by Paizo. For more information about Paizo, Inc. And paizo products, visit paizo.com hope to see you all in the next episode. Until then, have an Atomic time. 248 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:48.000 You okay? Jordy? What's up? 249 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.000 Something in my drink. 250 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:55.000 Was it dihydrogen monoxide? 251 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.000 More like eggshell. 252 00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:57.000 Oh. 253 00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:57.000 Oh. 254 00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:00.000 You drinking egg whites this morning? 255 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:06.000 No, it's supposed to be drink. Yeah, that's gotta be egg. 256 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.000 What kind of drink are you drinking? 257 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:12.000 Well, I poured a bubbly into the leftover ice from my Brahms beverage earlier. 258 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:16.000 Huh. So maybe the bubbly is made with eggs, Right? 259 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:20.000 Who knows? I think I'll just be done with that drink for now. 260 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.000 Okay. 261 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.000 Protein anyway. 262 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:28.000 Calcium, iron.