WWW #49: The New World

This is the sound of Worlds Beyond Number. The very first time the word cackle was used in Umora was not only to describe the general pitch of laughter from a witch, wicked or otherwise. It is actually intimately tied to the history of broomriding. The easiest household object to enchant with the capability of carrying its rider aloft into the skies of the world of Umora. Flying brooms have been a source of strength for the witches of this world for time immemorial. And in the very first instances of flight, certain commonalities were discovered. Ame, the witch of Toma, having flown many times before as a passenger aboard grandmother Rans broom, discovers that the experience of flying is nothing like being a passenger. Or indeed, as the broom shoots across the kitchen into her hand grasping the hawthorn, Ame feels what the very first witches felt. A gleeful, tickling, nauseating rise of the stomach deep in the cockles of the gut and the levitating magic raising the hackles of the neck. The hackles and cockles rising simultaneously etymologically created the first usage of the word cackle from a confused and giddy witch attempting to describe her physical state to her amazed friends on the ground, some ancient sum of years in the foggy past of this world. Ame, the broom in your hand, already raising the hairs of your arm as it snaps across the room, fills you with an ebullience, a levity, a joyfulness that does not match the horror of the burnt sky outside nor the menacing of the wizard slate who now beholds you and has no spell to counter, this magic of witchcraft being much deeper and older than any summoning of spell energy. The broom that you are holding in contact with your body, its bristles of twigs, a lighting underneath you, first removes weight from the center of your stomach as though rushing quickly and travel over a bump or sudden rise in elevation. As the stomach goes weightless, the rest of the torso starting low deep in the saddle rises as well such that one's toes or feet have to kick for purchase on a ground that they are rapidly departing. Even as you feel the weightlessness, some part of your legs is summoned to want to still have ground to stand on. Moving to the window to escape sudden death, the feeling of glee as the fox leaps into the satchel of your bag, and you can see that even the fox, by virtue of being your familiar, feels some weightlessness in this moment. To ride a broom as the witch holding the broom herself is to be well and fully weightless. There is no sense of sitting on the broom, but you suddenly realize that for the need to maintain contact with this thing that is now the sole thing holding you suddenly some hundred feet in the sky, you leave the window of the castle and suddenly a lethal fall is underneath you. You realize wrapping your legs around it and holding on with both hands is not necessary for weight distribution, it is just a pretty good idea given how significant this magical object is to your continued safety. Can you please describe what Amé is feeling in this moment as she takes to the sky? Wind rushes past you. The broom you are holding, the fox also cackling next to you. You tear off into the sky, the visual reality burns sky, no longer fire coming from arcane cannons, but instead shattered stone and rubble, the sort of shimmering force fields of arcane shields nearby calm because they are no longer under direct attack. All of this hellish wasteland around you is in stark contrast to the feeling of weightlessness, utter control, the feeling of panic as you some part of you goes too high, too high, too high, but as you try to counteract that and dip down, suddenly you're approaching the ground and that doesn't feel safe either. Nothing about this feels safe and everything about it feels joyful. Holding onto the broom with both hands, there is a sudden rush. You are doing this for the very first time and at this moment you are soaring, you are headed straight out and away from the wizard slate, it is dark under cloud cover but you are visible to anyone that would think to try to spot you and you are learning how to fly a broom for the first time. Go ahead and give me a air vehicle proficiency check. This will be wisdom plus proficiency. 25! Unbelievable, Amé, what are the first things you do to test out the broom as you fly it? It's hard to think in three dimensions like this. It's almost like swimming but with less control. In a lot of ways it feels like the broom is not the thing that's floating, it's just the ballast for me and so as I figure that out, I figure out the direction that I should be pointing it and the velocity at which I could, if I were Suvi, I'd be able to make the calculations in my head about the optimal way to fly this but for now this just feels like a deep visceral welling up from my soul like I'm meant to be flying in this whole time. I've just been living, walking on the ground somehow. Doing your best to get an intuitive grasp of the broom, the first tests are very simple in terms of understanding that the broom is ballast, the broom is the source of the magic, no no the broom is channeling, it's channeling. You feel stories and histories from this broom, you feel a scullery made dancing with this broom in the castle kitchens trying to build the courage to tell her true love, another scullery made down the hall how she truly felt, you feel the leather wrappings around the twigs adding in cinnamon to make the sweeping smell sweeter, all of the long years of this broom's humble service rush towards you, you feel this broom can move at a quick pace for those that wish to know it can move at a speed of 50 but taking a bunch of extra weight on it would still fly but it would fly much more slowly, you sense that the broom can basically lift you effortlessly but to add another rider onto it other than you're familiar would dramatically lower the speed of the broom almost slower than running, perhaps able to save someone's life if they were falling but not really make two person travel on your feasible, you can also feel you can uncross your ankles and push the broom stick a little bit away from you as you're flying and you're still flying you can maybe even let go with one hand and hold on with one hand because it doesn't feel too risky. Okay I do some tests, I'm still trying to cover ground but I still want to make sure that I can maneuver it efficiently and cleverly. Yes as you look and see the object of your investigation, the lights of the epiphany, the capital ship of the Citadel's fleet and the Kamsar as an empire, pulling off into the clouds you know that you have a great task ahead of you but your task will require expert piloting so as quickly as you can you push the broom away from you, you see that you can stay weightless with just one hand on this broom, you can hang in the sky holding onto the broom if you want but tilting it in a direction or other you feel very imbalanced, you feel that you want the control that knees and hands can give you. It's very interesting how a broom itself does not do the sweeping, it is the user that has to do the work and has to guide it and that is somehow inside my head as I fly and the broom channels. As you fly you get back into that riding position and feel yourself wanting more speed and feel yourself basically all you need to do is move your torso away from the broomstick to slow down, it's very intuitive it's it's there's already a wind resistance of exposing your chest to the direction that you're flying but it's actually the separation from the broomstick itself that seems to create that sudden slowness and to pick up speed all you have to do is hug that broomstick tighter to the point where you are almost wrapped around it, your sternum pressed to the wood of the broomstick, your eyes peeling ahead feeling the shaft of it up around your jawline, your legs wrapped around it, that is when you pick up the utmost speed surging ahead like an arrow in flight. You see the fox who has gotten himself now seeing the the degree of danger even though the weightlessness is making him giggle he has actually like opened and gotten into your satchel so he's in a little sidecar which is your sort of like traveling bag his little head pokes out and you see he goes this is absolutely amazing oh oh what are we doing we escaped what boss what's the plan oh yes uh the plan well we gotta go after suvi you have a plan right yeah what's your plan though oh spirits you don't have a plan at all there's no plan oh we're doomed we're dead come on okay okay okay here listen listen okay uh-huh yeah this is this is actually kind of easy right this is kind of easy because all you have to do is come up with a plan but not a plan that a wizard could guess because they're the best at plans right don't do too much of a plan do enough of a plan that there's a plan but not so much of a plan that they can guess your plan right you have to be a hero you have to save sufi you love her you have to be kind oh but don't actually be like kind kind because you know you don't want to do a trap so and that ship is a trap so don't do that but that because that's you have to be cunning so remember to be cunning do everything smart and remember you're the witch of the world's heart so you have friends everywhere but don't just trust everybody thank you fox i hope that was clear that was a very good rundown of uh all the important pieces yeah whatever you do this okay don't freeze up you have to follow your heart all right don't freeze up follow your heart just don't make any mistakes box all right huh i think to myself what is my plan i didn't really have much beyond we get the kids through the door i take the door knobs i don't abandon sufi but she told me to she told me this was a trap she told me i should run this is the opposite of that uh but oh i don't know i said i wouldn't leave her again the fox looks up and says boss listen that's a giant airship we have no idea where sufi is and you hear and there's a projection of an arrow in light on the front of your broom as task pokes his head up out of your bag and makes the little arrow position point towards the epiphany you see the fox looking at the giant cannonade of the ship whips around and looks at task and says who asked you task do you can you sense sufi and where she is little mirrored spider head nodding enthusiastically oh that's wonderful are you able to contact her you see task reaches out and feels a wall you see the task projects the word wall in front of you in light and uh once again gestures with an arrow to the epiphany you wonder if the wall is actually magical in nature some kind of block barrier or otherwise prevention of tasks ability but sensing the direction to his mistress is no challenge to him okay uh so i i am uh i had a plan before but i'm amending it and we are going to go follow the directions to sufi we're gonna get close to her see if we can uh knock down a potential wall that's blocking uh tasks ability to communicate with her because maybe i don't have a plan but i can almost guarantee that sufi will task nods enthusiastically uh and i want to need a stealth check from you difficulty 15 20 would be great oh okay um can i get uh this is from the fox help from the fox 16 plus three is a 19 incredible you peel off you can look down and see yourself getting scoped by some members of the imperial army but there's so much chaos immediately post battle remember this is in the first 20 minutes after the conclusion of the battle that they just see something flying smudged against the sky but it's easily could be a wizard or anything else from the distance you're flying already to make out a broom with the level of haze and fog of war in this place would be very very challenging but you do see some beings below maybe tomory or wizards or other things spot you as you go and you see the epiphany pulling up into the cloud cover if you go into the cloud cover you'll lose visibility maybe you'll see the lights of the ship up ahead of you but uh you will uh if you stay under the clouds you will have to contend with maybe being spotted by anyone below you i move about the clouds sure that i can have task be my guide are you gonna go all the way fully above the clouds yes all right you pull up through that space night stars sky for the first time and you don't even know how long you're not under the orange burnt clouds of the shroud mountains i didn't realize that i had been breathing so shallow but now above the clouds i take a deep breath it's calming i follow tasks directions trailing behind the epiphany as you begin to trail behind the epiphany sailing over the clouds the fox and task passengers in your bag both take a moment to look out over the starlit cloudscape it is a countryside of vapor that perhaps neither of them a woodland creature an artifact of magic ever thought that they would see looking down you can feel the doorknobs of common cause knowing that irsalon and the granade children are on the other side of that door they are there in that bag waiting for you task continues to point the direction to the epiphany how long do you keep flying is there anything else you do in mid-flight mid-flight if task is able to multitask i would like to ask him about if not blueprints most likely lay out an information about imperial sky ships give me arcana with advantage on my own i know next to nothing about sky ships imperial or otherwise but with tasks help and a 19 total i think that i can keep up with whatever task throws at me on that arcana you get a sinking feeling in your stomach the gunnels of the epiphany are inscribed with powerful runes massive magical lanterns capable of having an iris focused into spotlights adorn the back of the vessel those are the lights that you're literally allowing you to follow it before a task could point the direction on a 19 arcana ame can rule out the ability to arrive on the deck of the ship in mid-flight one of several things would happen probably simultaneously that powerful divinations would auto fire on you to glean your name see invisibility cast out any potential of approaching under disguise or illusion it is possible that even your name would attempt to be discerned by that and your location would quickly be fixated on by those lanterns now even if you could dispel one component of these or another you don't think you'd be fast enough to dispel them all simultaneously and those cannons on the back of the ship were manned as task and sufi approached the ship and i think there's a part of you too even in asking this a very different ame perhaps an ame of some week or two ago would have seen the goal of alighting on the deck of the ship as being so worthy and noble that it should just be attempted and yet a cunningness to go this thing that i wish to do may well be impossible now surrounds you as you think about how paranoid wizards are they will have taken great pains to make what you wish to do impossible with this wisdom that comes to you as you review tasks memory i want you to make a perception check with advantage as well 17 you look at some of the runes on the back of the epiphany as task lays them out before you you are the witch of the world's heart and you have to amend some of your image of yourself because all of a sudden you realize something which is very true you've seen more of imperial magic than not only the vast majority of the world but probably the vast majority of witches you've been in the heart of the citadel your one of your closest true friends is an archmage apprentice you have seen great battle unfold you have seen the sword of the citadel in combat and you get a sense of what the outer periphery of the epiphany's divination magic would be and on a 17 perception you become suddenly aware that there are two spirits flying underneath you in the clouds who do not know that they are about to trip the defenses of the epiphany as they begin to close in on it i immediately dive down to observe the spirits with cloud cover diving back into the clouds one is about the size of a human being the other much smaller flying in its wake both of them winged flying ahead of you as fast as they can their wings beating and so in seerle pursue the epiphany and so seerle twirling around you see enzo you see seerle goes and you see enzo turns and goes oh mr. sumi grabbing seerle in his hands to protect his little blue brother enzo of the world's heart what are you doing here what are you doing here you see he turns to continue to pursue the epiphany but suddenly goes do they know we are here no no and we do not want them to know that because suvi is on there and she has been arrested what the wizard sky is aboard that vessel he seems to be just flying after it and you see no no no no we need to be smart about this you see the fox looks up and a tear forms at his eye and he goes that's my boss you see all right you know what that feels patronizing i don't know what that means you see he looks up and uh but you see that enzo whips around at the fox and goes in the manner of a patron paternalistic condescending and then turns back and looks at you uh as you stop pursuing the epiphany for a second to hang here in the glass he flaps his wings holding himself aloft but you can perfectly hover on your broom within the fog he turns and says the wizard sky is aboard the epiphany she is well why didn't she take these letters to those wizards herself well i don't think that she knew she was going to be on the ship today or to see them today or possibly ever again did you not deliver them yet we're trying the wizards are aboard that ship you see sir logos by poo interesting interesting well i'm trying to pursue the ship and not be caught and i think perhaps it's to our advantage of you also are not detected by them i understand that you were given this missive as your final request but perhaps could you hold out a little longer and well help me figure out how to get to suvi give me a persuasion check that's a nat 20 baby on a nat 20s you look you see that enzo's long pointed nose and long pointed ears turns and says for the witch who saved our brother vandal we would perform any service asked freely and you see both of them bow in midair oh thank you i hope that little fart nugget is doing all right with suvi hey love for me called that yeah thank you enzo turns to you and says where is our brother oh task here uh do you know task see tasks shows suvi walking aboard with vandal's book he can guide us uh task can guide us to suvi but uh can't seem to be able to communicate with her right now enzo turns and says the ship travels away at top speed but it is worth mentioning now i think that if the ship has defenses pursuing it makes sense but understand this before the ship arrives at its destination this cloud cover will end and we will be pure and plainly visible we need to remain hidden but i don't believe that there's a way that we could make ourselves undetectable to all of the wizardy runes and divinations and so sort of cocks his head and says i have some magic of my own now that i am unbound but i am not a creature of that ship were we once again in the citadel the place of my birth i might be a little bit more useful than i am here but the truth is i would have to approach that ship before i knew how to undo any of its writings see ciril turns and says we chase many treasures aboard the ship but in point of fact but in point of fact we do not chase the ship itself that's true we don't need to get aboard the ship if for some reason they take suvi off of it you see the fox looks up and says well boss they'll take her off eventually right they're not gonna let her live the rest of her life there no yes i i realize but oh are they do i know does it look like they are going to the citadel directionally yes our best bet would be to somehow meet them or intercept them at the citadel but that seems like it'd be even more difficult to get into go ahead and give me a history check no help on this one call it dc 15 that is a 15 on the die um you see that ciril begins to weep and goes it is hopeless companions four you see task chirps and goes companions five a bitter end a loss of letters loss of friend the ship that soon will leave the clouds abandoned hope abandoned shrouds and you see enzo turns to him and says yes once it leaves the cloud cover to think that the ship will head over the arulian desert there will be zero humidity or moisture in the atmosphere two demons a witch a fox and a mirror spider will be visible even to the most lackluster century aboard the back of the epiphany um you see the fox goes yeah point there was some way to beat them to the citadel and not have to cross the desert ame your favorite neighborhood in the citadel haverward and you remember where did that orange glow come from in haverward four gates four permanent teleportation gates do i know where the gates came out i know that there's one in caro there's one in caro and caro is a hell of a lot closer than the citadel beautiful bambling brook clucking of chickens the buzzing of bees shouting and splashing of young children ame's cottage is alive children splashing in dalma's stream children chasing a loose chicken children in a fight some of the older boys hitting each other in the dusty patch outside of the weaving room inside the house some others seated together eating some have overeaten due to a level of starvation or hunger some are catatonic in a corner having been in captivity for too long the responses of these children to the traumatizing events that they have been through varies varies based on their temperament varies based on the circumstances that they arrived some of the children know where they can go to find their parents should they somehow be returned across the sea to the shroud mountains some have only been in captivity for a very short time perhaps less than a month others it's been longer there are others who even before the empire found them did not have parents to return to there are some 80 children here varying ages each of their stories is their own but what they all share in common has urselon beholds them is that now under his eye they are free and they are safe urselon there are friends here as well that you have dr. yagi in the kitchen is carefully you know after sort of the triage of seeing any immediate injuries of which there were blessedly very few is now more in depth going about tending to and healing the children here a lot of the younger kids are sort of playing with henna henna mohe's got this sort of wooden scarecrow staff around elbeth is feeding any kids that have not gotten a chance to eat yet as is dalma who is cutting up stalks of scallions for a big stew nearby i think you also see nief seated on a stoop reading a letter from ame to her the note that ame penned and she reads it aloud so that you can hear i think these are the children of the granel they are scared and have been through hell please care for them be gentle and he will take them to their families or find homes for them you're doing great how does she know i'm doing great i might not be doing great nief you are doing well nief turns up to look at you and goes i know this happens like this do you is is ame okay or is everything is i mean oh god this is really tough this is really tough this is really tough it is it is all quite immense and that's why i believe we should focus on what is in front of us these children and what we can do for them today you see that two of the older boys walk over and approach you are you wearing your glamour in this moment or no no you stay at just beautiful sunlight standing in this yard you look over and see there's that beehive that you ate that honey from all those years ago it's just now these kids all throughout um and you see that these two kids walk up one of them looking at you and points to the sword on your waist he goes is that your sword uh it is uh one of them says i didn't get to see he killed a guy with it he killed him and you see looks up and says uh that's are you are you a warrior i i am you see that the other kids says uh he's got other kids like picks up a stick nearby goes like i'm gonna learn to sword fight and you see the or salon is immediately overwhelmed i think there is i think as he stands here like surveying this group i think in bringing the children to safety there is now the managing of this group of young young people that is like not have has always been the domain of his friend ame and there is something as these children as a child picks up a stick that salon kind of uh kind of freezes up and it's just don't do that don't do that put the stick down what okay um uh a warrior's greatest assets not his sword but his shield you see that a little kid comes up and uh this young little girl says i can't jump anymore and just starts to cry she's like seven years old she's going i can't jump anymore oh you know uh or salon's gonna pick her up and just hold her you pick her up uh another little kid is about five comes over and uh is crying and just has grass all over their hands because they were eating so much honey that they got a bunch of grass on their hands and you see that the older boy says i mean i could pick up a stick because of you i didn't you you you did you fought those guys it was great he killed his blood everywhere and the other guy died and you see that another kid who is hearing this and is not as callous as this like young teenage boy he's being reminded of the epic violence that just freed them all and just falls into a hole in his head and goes and sits against the stoop with his back against the house enough enough enough of that um what i did to those gods i wish i had not had to do i'm not proud of what i did you see that the little the younger boy who looks sort of more disturbed looks up and you can see feels safer in your presence our world is scary and filled with people who do not understand each other who do not understand me and who do not understand you i wish for other means to deal with those people but in certain times and moments yes we must fight but it is never the ideal you see that the younger boy looks up and says are we gonna get to go home you are you see he nods and just goes and puts a hand on your on your cloak and just stays close to you see the older boy is about like 14 one of the older ones who's here goes i'm not scared of fighting and i'll i'm i want to stay here this place is nice i'm from caro caro's not nice i don't even live with other granol i don't speak the granol language i don't even do any of that stuff i was already i was on the street i did lots of fights i've killed people i'm sorry you had to do that you immediately see the lie that he has told that he has killed people sort of break on his face with the weight of your response which is the true response you would give to someone that had had to do that you see he goes fine i should get to stay here if i want this place is nice i can go where i want and you see that he walks off the little girl nearby who you're holding is just sort of crying these sort of long sort of whimpers in your arms nief looks over and you see nief turns to that younger boy and walks after him for a moment and you see she goes you don't you don't have any parents um in caro and you see he turns this no i don't even remember my parents i grew up i grew up in a hard part of caro i was raised by some older kids and they put me in there was a school i was in for a little bit of time but that place was that place stunk i got out of there and you see that nief was only a few years older than this boy goes well i think that i think that ame would be happy with you staying here if you want it are there other there are others like you here that don't have parents to go home to aren't there you see turns and says yeah yeah there's there's like a bunch of us yeah and you see that nief looks up uh rislan give me a perception check only a six you look and see nief her eyes kind of darting back and forth with something not sure what she turns and says huh okay okay and you see the nief kind of walks with determination into the cottage i'm gonna put the young girl down that i'm holding if you sit here i'll i'll come back would you like water cake i'll see if we have cake and you see that she sits there with her hands crossed you see another little kid comes and sits next to her uh in a strange little odd act of child kindness and just starts putting dandelion heads in her lap as some kind of gesture of a child-like solidarity with no words spoken between them i'm gonna turn and walk into the house you see nief bounds up the stairs uh elbeth and down i have a bunch of kids in the kitchen elbeth is giving little sweet treats as down makes the soup down my turns to look at you says busy in the cottage either sula yes um ad children it's a lot of children it's a lot there was we're we're packed into the rafters and as he says that you see a bowl a full ceramic falls from the rafters smashes on the ground in the charts there's like three kids up in the rafters please come down from the rafters uh i'm gonna reach up and try and bring them down uh give me a tack roll uh natural one uh you jump up and another bowl this one filled with cream falls on your head we had to climb up here we can't jump anymore you had to climb up there are you gonna fix it i'm going to try uh okay try i i will try later did you kill that guy all right elbeth do you have more cake what do you have i don't have any cake i'll make a cake i'll make a cake you can make a cake i'll try what that's all we can do all right i'm gonna head up the stairs uh and you head up the stairs and you see in grandma ren's study with all the sort of books that nief has organized absolutely beautifully that there are papers that she's arranging and she's making a little journal book for herself and she takes it uh and takes a little pen and looks up and says uh too too many too many kids this is so many children yes 80 80 children is too many children um so so i'm gonna start to interview them i we need we need to get this this has to be we need to learn where they're all from and we need to start to compile and some of them are too little and they might not know the name of their town so we need to get the other kids together to help explain and some of these children are young enough that they don't speak any impure they only speak to roy and i don't speak to roy so we need to um figure this out um i'm gonna get started uh great this is excellent nief okay okay okay okay okay i saw you speaking with the um the young boy from carol i think you being closer to their age it means something to them thank you i just understand i think i just understand because i know um before entry found me i i i didn't have a home to go to and um and even when i was with entry i didn't have a home to go to and now i'm almost an adult and this is the first home i ever had and the person who's home it is isn't around because she's out um doing very important things i think i'm about to turn 18 and all of not had a home but there are many children here and they have years in front of them and most of these children have parents who are desperately looking for them and they have you to thank for a chance to be reunited but there are some here that that work is not going to be finished easily and that work matters and if it didn't and you see that she just starts shaking and goes if it didn't happen for me maybe something close enough would be it happening for someone else erzlana's going to walk up to nief kneel down to be at her height put his both his hands pause on her shoulder and you are doing great this is great work for the first time under your hands your breath all around you there's a feeling of certainty which you have been carrying for some time and at your touch you can share that certainty with her and there is a break and blessed relief and her nervousness collapses into tears and she falls forward with a face on your chest and shakes and cries for a brief moment she just needs a second she gets up and wipes the tears from her eyes and says I don't know what the plan is and that makes me scared but I know that you have a purpose and if you'll have me I'll help I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that these kids especially the ones that don't have somewhere that they need to get back to they find somewhere to get back to I will have your help and it means a great deal to me okay um I'm gonna get started talking to these kids and you see that she hustles downstairs with their journal clasped to her chest I think erzlana stands for a moment feeling the cream drying on its fur thinking of this idea of home and thinks back to that summer in this place albeit for one summer was his home and the sense of belonging in place that he found here I think moves back downstairs to give that same feeling to these children you walk downstairs soup is on everyone's gonna get like a little tea cup of soup and you see uh you walk downstairs to give people a feeling of home elbeth looks up and says I don't know that we have the cake I don't know that we have what we need to make a cake I'm gonna I'm going to go into town see if I can get more supplies okay okay uh uh yes and you see that uh they they look at she says we'll manage them here there's a little bit of soup to go around but as much as you can get um and I think you see nief goes uh and she's talking to another boy who's also a little bit younger than that boy from caro see he's about like 11 or so but he looks really bright little sort of blonde headed boy she looks over and says he's gonna help me uh he's um he's gonna help me uh uh talk to everybody because he speaks to royann imperial and the little boy looks up and says hi I'm buckles nice to meet you it's a lot hi nice to meet you um well I'll give I'll give everybody a hand if I can thank you buckles it I'm eager to see you all return to your homes and nief is but one person so it means a great deal to me that you are assisting her thank you and you see that uh once again with your words you find yourself centered in that feeling of home and as rattled as you were mere minutes before wow how confident does one feel when imparting confidence to another holding a line together side by side you see buckles turn to nief they get to work uh and you head into town we I think for the first time in the camp or close to no except for batzuri but we see toma um a beautiful water mill spinning over in the corner down the little lane there's a cluster of buildings all together with a smithy and a little summer stage for festivals or music a small shrine in the center populated with images and idols of many of the great spirits of a calm and those honored friends that hold places of high virtue and esteem amongst its peoples among their number you see hidden away some of the great bear some of neram some of the king of storms the merry hunter uh and even one to orina in the corner uh and as you walk forward through toma you've been in many years ago but maybe didn't I don't know if you left this way when you left grandma wren's cottage you look to the summer stage where the little festivals are held and out beyond it in a field of small sort of easy pastoral flowers blowing in the breeze uh there is a tall maypole and hanging from the summer stage you see that there is an emblem of a spirit uh there and you see an emblem of the great bear hanging over the stage you depart walking forward uh and up ahead you smell the wonderful smell of fresh baked bread it seems we both know where I'm at walking forward uh lohan steps out a little bit a little bit more crow's feet around his eyes and some gray around the temples looks up and goes oh bear no um good to see you good to see you how are you doing I'm well um uh two baguettes and some fresh butter um I'm going to eat much more than that friend I don't know quite how to say this there are four score children at the cottage I've brought them here from war they are under my care and they need to be fed I can pay you as much as I have um your turn uh just stares and says uh all right we can talk of coin later I have a rent well ame's tab uh running uh but she is of course the witch of the village so mostly that's a that's a kindness four score children yes some eating did they come up through silvery I haven't seen anyone traveling all day no it was the great workings of the witch of the world's heart they brought them here what yes what like medicine hmm like a little medicine like a little medicine what do you mean workings of the great witch of the world's heart oh um ame has her ways oh oh a witch's ways never mind I don't need to know I don't need to know well uh bread um muffins um do you want cake we'll take anything all right let me get a wheelbarrow um I'll do you need I'll I'll get word out into town no yes if um toys if other children would like to come by and play with them I mean well truly anything that anyone can provide we will have I'll see it done anything for the witch of toma um he looks around at his bakery he goes okay this we may have to talk of coin and of course and and I I can help yes uh oh all right um we'll we'll speak it all out I'll go get help buzzing bees fade to twinkling fireflies as an impromptu festival occurs in the yard grandmother ren's cottage there is bread townsfolk have come up with other forms of food people are bringing clothing and people are bathing and you see that people are talking and uh a bunch of the townsfolk at toma has leapt into action at this strange and wondrous site and you see that uh people look around some of them are going children appear out of nowhere which is ways are mysterious you see some of this but with ren it never and you see someone else turns it says it weren't around when my grandmother told me stories of when ren first came to toma those were strange times a young witch is much more tempest than teapot I'll tell you that right now um and you see that uh uh the children are out and there's a moment as these adults are sort of around helping that you see nief is still sitting with buckles talking at her she's filling this journal up and there's a moment that is just you dr yagi henna henna mohe elbeth and dalma all kind of standing a ways I mean maybe like a little bit up the hill towards the shrine just to keep an eye on everything and you look to your right and see these four spirits to the side of you give me perception or insight in this moment 14 perception this is the first time you've seen them since you spoke with the man in black on the river since you dedicated your breath to something great I think standing here you look at dalma who's in his old man glamour but even when you saw him in his spirit form was a little poor cyan green man but you look at him and see something infinite stretching behind him a stream that has run for centuries you see water and life and growing things and you look at elbeth and see not only the buzzing of bees but you see industry labor effort you see the making of something flower to flower busy busy busy buzzing you look at dr. yagi and see a goat but also behind that wisdom healing medicine something ancient and profound and you look at henna henna mohe this silly scarecrow with a wooden stick and you can feel ringing from behind him something like the ringing of a sword and shield as you look at a guardian spirit and for the first time you see that there is no such thing as a lesser spirit each one of these spirits has come from a world eternal and unending and though they aspire to humbleness here they are every bit as infinite as any spirit which would be regarded as great it is one turns to behold these four caretakers spirits thank you i know this moment was thrust upon you but you've all handled it beautifully and it means a great deal to me it was one thing to free these children but i feel that there is much work to be done in getting them home and i'm thankful to not do that alone your companions here on the low side of the hill turn and i'll smile at you you see henna mohe goes well thanks so much that's very kind of you to say and dalma looks and says brother don't lessen the effort it took to free these children if i'm not much mistaken i hadn't really seen you before and you see the the other three that here dalma say that turn to look at you and go oh and you can see they are seeing what you are seeing in them dalma smiles and says i need no shrine or offering to tell me when i see a spirit dedicated to something so virtuous and good i am happy to tend to my stream and caretakers are we all but rare and mighty are those spirits who work great change upon the surface of the world thank you mr soup you see dalma laughs and sort of spins in the air for a second unseen by any of the humans below and goes look at that well oh mr soup never mind it a joke and you see that um he turns and says well but to speak of the business at hand i think you are right there is much work cut out of you how do you intend to get these children home you see that our elveth says we would help you if we could but we are spirits of this land and place it is ame's cottage to which our breath is tied the same is not so for you well it's my hope that when nief is able to find where these children come from i will be able to transport them home or request aid or rima wants i once encountered or rima in the near spirit and she gifted me a great steed i i thought to pay visit to her shrine and perhaps ask if she could aid me again dalma nods and says i think it a wise choice a wise choice and true you'll need more than a steed even a great beast to carry this many children is hard to think of how one might do it safely you see that yagi sort of nods and says a vessel is what's needed now something that can take them they are from lands far far removed from a calm that is to be sure elveth the copson goes rima is the right one to talk to i think she has a shrine in toma and it would be well for you to go i think arsalan and nief has offered to help you with this endeavor yes she is um creating a a catalog a record of where each of the children are from and she has a young one named buckles who speaks to rye assisting her elveth nods and says well we'll we'll keep an eye on things here and tend to the cottage but i think with the villagers here none of them will mean harm but word will get out and i think there is some urgency very well well then do you intend to speak to orima tonight or i thought so when when we'd gotten most of the children to bed or as many as we could to bed to bed actually that's quite an endeavor we should talk to some of the people that brought clothes to see if they can leave and we can pack some some bedding or maybe some can stay to sell it may be a while or so on i think if you want to go you'd best go if you believe it best i trust you it will stay busy here for some time getting everything ready it will be likely a later night i think we'll want you back at the cottage when all of the the grown-ups return to toma agreed uh i think arsalan is going to make a point of thanking villagers who've come to the cottage as he moves to the crowd and then back down into toma after saying goodbye you head on the road and start to head back to toma your boots crunching here and there it's not a gravel road but there's enough little stones every once in a while you get that little scraping noise of stones and the dust as you head down the road give me a perception check 19 as you are walking down the road about halfway to toma it's about a 45 minute walk there are boots walking down the road behind you arsalan stops to listen and see if the boots also stop they don't they never do the captain's quarters of the epiphany the decked in gold a massive desk marble rich warm wood golden pen behind it fleets of windows surveying the retreating skyline of 12 brooks highest most and raised in the aft of the ship surrounded by windows on all sides this massive quarter behind a door the actual bedroom of the captain but here in the state room so to speak the desk and behind it a massive spinning orary transmitting energy of abjuration across the back of the ship grand carpets a small table adorned with fine liquors and glassware here much like a university's moving chalkboards slate and spell chalk hanging from a basket suspended in mid-air glowing rune underneath it to be moved and left at arm's reach maps and maps and maps unfurling a small helixing private library of spell books at the behest of the sword of the citadel to one side a working fireplace a small low raised table two sets of sofas and four armchairs around it to have a staff of no less than a dozen come to make meeting in this place this palatial captain's quarters smells of rich incense burning cedar a deep floral of a jasmine or perhaps some rare flower a hidden orchid deep in a jungle capable of granting wishes used instead to simply sweeten the air of the quarters of one who can grant wishes for herself the sword of the citadel sits at her desk uncomfortably pivoted outwards a sleeve of her armor removed as a busy citadel doctor tends to her she writes furiously several missives each missive not being handed to anyone in particular but instead being rolled up placed into a helix of six emeralds flashing in light and vanishing as the smell of earth fills the cabin a raid before her are citadel staff only all name cloaked all wizards of the citadel as well as several tamori attendants and one or two you recognize bound spirits in the service of citadel wizards here who do not tend to walk the citadel grounds with these bound spirits visible you are marched into this room to see this site unfolding by two warm ages behind you who bring you to attention in this place as you march in where does your attention go to am i still gagged and bound you are no longer gagged and bound i think her eyes immediately go for the like the windows in the back and can't leave her understanding of 12 brooks and it's that weird your eyes are looking because you're thinking about the thing you just experienced and then there's the dissonance of that like scent in the room the incense when she knows based on what she's seeing we're not far enough away yet we should still be able to smell the burning and the mud and that dankness and the blood and i hate that this room doesn't smell like the thing i still see behind my eyes but i work very hard to not make eye contact with any person in this room you look and are the last one to observe the ruined fields of 12 brooks the quickly rotting corpses of kashifi dreadnoughts the castle give me a perception check dc is 20 dirty 20 17 on the dice on a dirty 20 you look out and as the clouds envelop the epiphany and that ruin is racing away from you something darts from a window of the castle into the sky and then clouds orange vapor and it vanishes i think there's just it's noticeable enough like without recognition or hope or understanding like a couple of her fingers just drum against the side of her leg as her brain just goes remember that for whatever reason one of the wizards speaking if the other houses marshal quickly but by all accounts this will come as a surprise that and you see that steel does not make eye contact with you but points in your direction and she finishes writing something and says move her to the corner and you are moved to a corner of the room near some of the spell books sliding the wall and there is a small am i touched yeah the warm ages put their hands on you and move you to the corner physically okay noted you are standing in a circle of golden runes in the lingua arcana and you see that steel snaps her fingers uh and a cylinder of silence okay i can still read mouths observant what are they talking about this is my favorite feat i've ever taken and i will do my best to school my face to like neutrality while trying to watch as much conversation that's being directed at steel as possible in her presence nobody here is speaking to each other so it's easy to follow the conversation this is a room not of jocularity or familiarity this is a room um steel continues to write proffering her left arm to the doctor you see the doctor sort of behind her so you can see both of their mouths at the same time goes um sword the uh this is a heart seeker curse i it is beyond my she absent mindedly says stop stop stop touching me stop and you see that the doctor lets go and she goes it's fine it won't find it is there anything else you've bandaged what you need to you're dismissed you are preventing more important conversation from happening from being here thank you doctor the doctor looks stunned walks quickly out of the room closes the door and steel looks up shut up to the wizard who is currently speaking to her unimportant leave you make a report later and uh another wizard says waiting for that dismissed party to leave turns and says wizard steel you are badly injured do you not think that perhaps you should adjourn yourself to the tower of the sword back in the citadel she puts her now reclaimed elbow unarmored on the desk massages her eyes blood is caked around one of her ears uh she has a wound bleeding that's been bandaged around her midsection that arm now that you can see it there is a clear angular red veins her veins in her arm are changing to become geometric and rising to the surface of her skin like arrows pointing up as it crawls up her arm and every time it gets to her elbow you see that it turns around and the veins disassemble and fall apart and then the curse starts working its way back up her left arm god i hate that identifies and the fucking touch spell i've never seen anything like that before have i no fucking dope so suvi's experience with curses is what she's seen uh flashes of what she's seen ame is capable of and uh the ones that ren and ame have suffered under that both were accompanied by the like wisp of smoke in the mouth is there anything like that in and around her yeah you see that there was some smoke coming out of her mouth there's some intense curse that's been placed on her okay okay is it even worth it to try to suss anything out at this distance give me an arcana check 16 the spell is beyond your reckoning uh it your your guesses are sorcery but it also could be shape changer magic it's like visceral body stuff there's something going on yeah you wonder if the geometrical veins are what the spell normally wants to do or if something that steel is doing is turning the veins geometrical dope dope yeah that bit of specific abduration is fascinating i think yeah suvi getting lost in the like what is this what's making it turn back at the elbow why did she say it won't find it context like my my grasp of imperial would suggest that that meant her heart what and i think is she's just actively openly agog staring at steals like forearm you see the wizard turns this i think it wise that you teleport back to this i can't she says i'm all but spell tapped um i have used almost all of my magic in this battle defeating uh ronza so no i will be accompanying and you see that one of them says the uh well i might call i similarly have used my ability to do so but and you see one of them proffers a eryth ring over to steel and steel says no no no no give the order actually on the boat no one use their eryth our victories today are not confined to this continent we have much to celebrate everything left in the citadel will be kept for the citadel's defenses and you see that this is you don't imagine wizard steel and she says i don't i don't imagine and if our enemies do they should know that there will be doom waiting for them we will be safe we will take things one step at a time i can wait a couple hours to be home all right um do we and you see that there's a knock at the door and she says what uh and the door opens and you see a black clad imperial bureaucrat enters and says uh wizard steel we have received missive the emperor wishes to speak with you is there and you see the bureaucrat says it is pressing wizard steel thank you very much please close the door door closes and she made hands a what looks like what you think of you think of like the door to grandma ren's attic in the ceiling but is actually a almost even in a place this palatial it's still a ship and space is still significant a hinged beautiful door in the ceiling hinges down and swings low to extend a full speaking mirror in front of steel do i have eyes on the reflective side of this mirror and are give me perception dc 15 okay it's a 19 on the die 22 uh you don't have eyes on the mirror but you do on the windows behind it perfect i love it here i turn i i hit zoom in and hands on my little contacts um in a flash a face that you have seen in portraits and murals throughout all of your time at the citadel appears before you a thick manicured salt and pepper beard and a widow's peak glorious gold brocade on a vast chest emperor a rochmundia carby saraz you see that this howling man who the mirror lights up and you can see a balcony behind him you can't see color because you're seeing it reflected in glass but you can see the sparks of fireworks behind him as he goes there she is there she is the woman of the hour wizard steel use dog you sly dog and you see that uh she goes emperor you honor me with your words he goes well listen what a victory what an achievement my god and they thought 12 bricks would be a skirmish tell that to those rounds of dogs oh wait you can't one down 11 to go you see that she says your majesty your joy is all the reward that we require well listen i know that you have uh wounds to lick i'm sure and uh you know gems to tally or however it's done but i'll tell you this uh my nephew kamari who was a a boon and and i think did an exemplary job in the shroud mountains he absolutely did your majesty well uh he's back home in saraz mere and and we're gearing up the celebrations and we've lit the fireworks and the parade is starting we would love and i think it would be very special for him to see the epiphany would you mind uh flying it by uh just just this once your majesty your wish is my command the the epiphany has just been through pitched combat and many aboard are wounded the the cannons have been firing their the ship has taken damage the uh it will take some time the it is not in parade form shall we say oh well of course of course well i imagine you're some hours away so the parade can wait until you get here and if you can repair it on the way given the time then i'm sure and you see that she goes a capital idea your majesty we'll change our trajectory we're en route bully bully bully very well well uh i believe tel neket has some business for you and i'll let him handle it i'm off to pop the champagne and prepare for the festivities they'll get my balcony ready uh and you see that the emperor strides off uh and a man who bears a striking resemblance to the lady irriman you believe her father enters the frame uh this is the lord of far away tell neket um so a pleasure we appreciate you accommodating the prince's request more than happy to do so lord tell neket this is more than i think simple courtesy uh lau dorset and adisami have been um back channeling with some of our other lords and ladies and apparently they've reached out to some welcoming years in the faraday consortium i think a show of force would be helpful for mustering loyalty and morale in this extremely critical imperial victory she nods and says we serve at the pleasure of the emperor do you have any ideas about what comes next with rounza you see that steel cocks her head and says laws of the conteranot being what they are there are lesser houses vassals that will move into a position into the open seats not like it hasn't happened before it's just never happened because of an outside force so i have thoughts do you have more than thoughts the citadel has more than thoughts we have friends you can always be relied upon sort i'll i'll leave you to the wizard gray and you see that uh he turns to follow the emperor the wizard gray enters and is the last person standing in the imperial chamber the wizard gray looks and says exceptional spellcraft on the battlefield the wizard steel are you indisposed at the moment are you alone in your chambers steel looks to the windows behind her the ucc just quit cataclysm her head and realizes that gray can't see the audience of exclusively citadel wizards in front of her and lies she says i'm alone gray gray looks at her and says a spell that kills bloodlines it's pretty cute steel looks at her and goes i was asked to kill a house of gautama i assumed you didn't mean physical structures that's what a house is gray it's a family i am certain the emperor will be very interested to know how long you've been working on a spell capable of doing what it did today i did what i was asked to do you accomplished what you were asked to accomplish the means steel as ever matter quite a bit there's a long pause steel goes get the fuck out of my mirror you guild mage trash and gray dispells the speaking mirror and steel raises it back up and you see there is a little bit of laughter and some light claps from the citadel wizards in front of steel you see that steel looks out at the citadel wizards in front of her and says i can't seem to help these people and you know what no i think suvi laughs inside of the yeah that's the point she gives herself away if anyone's looking your steel looks up sees that you can understand everywhere that's been said can't help herself smiles out of the corner of her mouth and goes all right everyone out i have to execute my daughter and all of them turn and leave the two war mages stay and steel looks and says you both too i shoot them also yeah you shoot them you see that they leave steel stands up one of her arms unarmored she shakes you can see that standing up makes her lightheaded she gets up and dispells the silence after the door closes i immediately cat oh no can't cast never mind strike that fuck no it's a reaction this is not a thought it is the thing to do when someone you love is hurting she sees the woman who is in all but blood her mother in pain and without thinking cast protection from evil and good on her steel counterspell looking shocked as you go to protect her and you see steel's impulse is a sudden incoming spell and goes sorry sorry sorry hey hey hey um sorry i'm jumpy no i i know she walks over gets to like within arms reach but stays there and goes do you see that spell i cast back there yeah how about that holy shit not bad for an old bra right girl you still got it you're telling me she puts a hand on your shoulder brings you in embraces you and gets her face in the crook of your neck and just starts crying shaking and crying i think immediately like she was so ready to fall into steel's arms she's so used to it but like in that moment feels herself take on the like contraposition of like i'm going to hold her up and does and is trying not to cry and is feeling herself at the edge of breaking down or being exhausted or letting something go or something drop but is honestly really grateful for whatever this is a couple more seconds before a conversation that needs to happen and that gets to just comfort my mom and that's really nice i thought you were dead i also thought i was dead who cursed you i don't know somebody's still alive out there you see that she peels back those feels like i don't know shape changer magic probably meet any shape changers recently i mean the ones that tried to kill me me yeah found your dad's ring in a sigil of blood you found it yeah right away yeah yeah it's the first time i've been able to find it why all this time you've never been able to and i think back i know i know now my necklace i've given so much away and i don't want to lie but i can't give up anything else can i make an insight check yeah go for it yeah they're they're soothing 12 the pendant when you cast that divination in Injury's palace and saw all the scrying spells swirling around you or reama being unable to hear you the pendant galt ren your mother stone stone's pendant her putting it around your neck in the back of that carriage trying to protect you you look and see steel looking at you with this look of confusion and dread like she's looking at something that should be second nature and instead it's a riddle or a puzzle this anger from not understanding something that she thought there's so much that she has to think about and she's looking at something that she thought she could rely on and it's gotten complicated why did you dare get complicated thanks for that flair by the way on the battlefield you saw oh sure i fought like a woman who suddenly realized that she still had a chance to save her daughter oh we have to talk but like a real conversation please you are my mother and i love you so much but i've seen a lot and i just need to know if we can talk not as mother and daughter but just we both are wizards of the citadel and there is a lot going on and everything is much more complicated than i thought it does my heart good to hear you refer to yourself as a wizard of the citadel that is not the impression that the headstrong wizard silver held even as early as this morning you see that she walks over to uh the liquor area pours you a stiff drink pour yourself a stiff drink sits quite near the fire in the fireplace one of the arcane cannons on the back of the ship fires it's like the longest range gun and you see through the back windows it and there's a little blast of something steel barely even notices it still notices you noticing it and it's like that's someone's familiar shape changer something who knows wow okay all right uh mopping up is always a huge pain in the ass it's this you know there's gonna be shape changers hiding out in the woods it's gonna take a long time to mop all this up okay the wizard silver held the notion that you had departed after being told to remain in bracken to help okay i know we just talked about doing a sort of wizard to wizard and not mom to daughter thing but i don't think anyone told me to stay in bracken hmm hmm i said i'd be there in a few days yeah all right continue suvi look at me this is not a joking matter did you do anything today that you must never have done yes how many one just one why he fired first why because you were infiltrating his position you were helping a witch and a wild one would you have fired first wizard sky yes got it so here's where we're at if that happened in a way that someone important can find out if that happened in a way that i can't dismiss they're gonna make me kill you i know where we're at today is i'm gonna take the wizard silver and send him to a rock at the farthest edge of our empire because what he thinks about you can hurt you and hurt me as a result he had a promising military career in front of him and because you told him what was on your mind now his life's over he did what he thought he had to do he did exactly what he was supposed to do and because you are my daughter now he's fucked where's the loyalty where is the sense where's the self-preservation i i i i wanted to see for myself i know it's not an excuse i know i know what did you want to see for yourself why were those shape changer children still being kept in the central garrison after the destruction of the great bullfrog the silence's spell was supposed to happen under more optimal conditions the garrison got pinned down in 12 brooks the the timing the calendar timing of it was a part of the spell we had to go when we had to go the children's parents are who knows where returning them to their parents is why don't you know their kids they're just kids stop saying that do you know the choices i have to make do you know the responsibilities i shoulder the things i've seen the things i've had to do trying to make all these sacrifices matter trying to make all of this matter i'm gonna hug her she accepts and does not return the embrace it's okay i only have an inkling and i'm sorry it's so hard so so yeah you know the i i there was an imperial officer that was tasked with finding the kids and you know the task of keeping a track of the parents didn't have enough on my mind have enough on my mind with with this this project the the shape changers of attacking the shroud mountains what this has all actually been about we're so close we are so close to being able to end this once and for all so yeah i don't know what was going to happen to the kids suvi they got taken from their homes they got taken from their homes like we all did except you you i got taken no one came to rescue me no one came to find me and i was happy for it because i made my whole village proud i made my father proud when they brought him home with his fucking war staff next to him and they buried him in the ground and i didn't get to go home and see him i was proud too not everybody gets to go home not everybody gets to see their parents and if we fight we make it worth it why did you forget that i haven't forgotten anything i started off not knowing anything you were there the last time i saw my parent i didn't know i was a new all until a month ago i was raised in your home under the best of intentions and do you think for one minute they didn't take me from a home but i had no other home if i had failed you if i had failed one fucking test i would have walked off of mallocanth at noon before living with the shame of failing the great potential of my parents you included so i know all of them are not a little something about fucking pressure it's not an excuse but don't you ever look at me like i did not pay in blood and sweat and tears like every one of us i know i know maybe this talk has been a long time coming suvi you mean everything to me me my my kids are cruising straight to be half rate fucking wizards they take everything for granted even kadeela's she has the skills but there's not a fire there's not something to prove and i look at you and i see the fire i see the potential you hate that i put you on the leadership track because i didn't want you blasted apart on some battlefield somewhere i there's great things afoot for you there's a world that comes after this we are so close we are so close the world becomes after is going to need you it's not going to need me and if i could set that up then it would all be worth it and yes there are hard costs to pay there are costs that break your fucking heart there are costs that make people think you're a monster and the kindest thing i do is i pay those costs so that other people don't have to and i'll keep doing it as long as i have to because i believe in this and us and the question i keep having to ask myself is where did i go wrong because i know you believe it too but it's not the only thing in there is it no then what is it and how did it find a home in your heart i do the best work i can do when i have all of the information and when i when i can feel the absence of something important and i can't do what i need to do and there have been a lot of little holes in the grand tapestry that is the citadel and the empire and the future we are trying to build and i want to believe but i don't understand cards on the table what happened after the judge told you that you were pardoned after finding the leak of whispers what happened after the night that sent you to silvery why did they keep running and why did you go home it destroyed me we're going to get home to the citadel and i'm going to tell you all about the past i am i'm going to tell you about the accadeter and what our work meant why we trusted your in ren your mom and dad i'm going to tell you everything i can as well as i can remember it but before we can talk about the past we have to talk about the future i need you to be there i need you to take this when i can't carry it anymore we're going to talk about what you did and what people might know and how to protect you from it and then i need to tell you what we're doing what we're really doing what we've been really doing because we were wrong the league of whispers whatever we thought that was opened a door and on the other side of it is a world without want or fear or war and that's the world i want to show you you that was lu wilson as ursalan erike ishii as ame abria ayengar as suvi and brennan lee mulligan as everyone and everything else worlds beyond numbered is edited designed and scored by taylor more at fortunate horse with additional sound designed from michael gellfey studios for even more like this join us on our patreon we'll see you there oh