Just a Taste

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- Oh, hi, I'm James. I play Dagon the Eladrin Endurance. - And Valerie. - Hello, I'm Valerie Sheher and I play Matilda Wolfram, the human rogue. - And Michael. - I'm Michael and I play Fenris Basura, the warlock charlatan, human. - And Kelsey. - I'm Kelsey and I play Calypso Lovelace, the half elf bard. - And Ian. - Hey, I'm Ian, he/him, and I play Bittersweet, the Thetan Endurance, spooky boy. - And we're all here today to talk to you about the launch of our brand new Bitcoin. - It is our new cryptocurrency, it's gonna be big. - Don't scare people like that.

- Random coin, random coin. - You know what, I don't, yeah, whatever, whatever you wanna call it, I don't care. Give me money. It's what, no. (laughing) - Rug pulling before the rug pull can even be. - Yeah, I, ah shit, I should've waited. Ah, fuck, I'm terrible. - If you keep going long enough, some person is gonna think you're serious and stop listening. - No, no, God, no, please don't think that I could ever, I have a soul, so I can't play. - Yeah, you have to cash that in before we can get started on Bitcoin. - But we do have a couple of digitally badly drawn monkeys if you want any.

- Sure, I'll draw all the monkeys you want. - I want some dumpy NFTs, some dumpy NFTs. - Dump coin. - Dump coin. (laughing) - There we go. - You know, nothing can depreciate in value if it has no value to begin with, so. - Right. - That line's just straight. We have a mess, a little bit of a mess in this room as there are now scattered body parts and what was once a large spider-like creature is now sort of deconstructed. But we also still have all these doors and I think I've been waiting, I've been waiting a while to ask you guys, what is the plan? What's next?

Like what's- - Well, I think we need to talk about that. - Can we go to sleep first? - Yeah, I think first we need to go to sleep is- - Let's assume, I don't think, you guys aren't sleeping down here, right? - No. - We have like 50 different bedrooms that are like fully furnished and everything. - It was a joke, someone said, oh, we'll sleep down here, but like, you know, - No, we all sleep in the same room so no one feels uncomfortable. (laughing) - Let me- - Butt to butt. - Let me ask you a question. - Everyone feels uncomfortable. - Dagon and Tani are not allowed to be alone together and not because of this next thing, but because the last time they were locked together, they almost died.

- And they are children. - Yes. - Well, the age of consent and that, no, no, no, I'm not, that's two awful jokes right away. - You mean like in Alabama? - They're both children. - I might cut the mic. - Cut the mic. (laughing) - Guys, I have some thoughts on this. - What is the age of consent in Theria? - Not that we're not doing this. I've been asked that before and I don't, no they don't. - 43? - Okay. - You have to ask too young. - Yeah, it's 43. - Considering most creatures live a very long time, 43 sounds reasonable. - Here's the age of consent. If you turn to a friend and ask, would it be cool?

No, it is not. (laughing) So let me ask this. Do you guys, is this like, obviously there's enough rooms for everybody. Does everyone run off into their own room? And if not, who's bunking with who? Is there a consideration of like, look, we've been attacked already. Is that something that could happen again? - Yeah, well, we talked about this. And in the event that something did happen again, it'd be safer if we all stayed in the same room. - Yes, I think that was what we decided on. - Yeah, I mean, this is a big old mansion. There's gotta be some sort of like, kids room with like seven bunk beds, right?

- Or we could just drag some mattresses in the same room. It's a little better than camping. - One big bed, drag all the mattresses, one big bed. - Yeah. - So you guys are just California king in it, right? You're just putting a bunch of mattresses together and yeah, that's fine. - It's fine. - I like this. - Yeah, it's like a blanket fort vibe. - Yeah, yeah, this sounds very cozy. - The bed's gonna be way too comfortable that I'm used to. - Oh wait, I forgot, if I take a long rest, I might die. - Well, I guess that's true for everyone all the time, right? There's always a non-zero chance.

- He's exhausted. And I'm tired of having less than 100% of my hit points. - Yeah, you actually have hit points now. - Jason, what is the bathtub situation like? It has to be amazing. - Yeah, oh yeah. Like, okay. So what's- - 'Cause we all need a nice long shower/bath after that, I think. - This is one of those places where there's running water. There's, you know, like the magic takes care of all this. Right? So like, it's, yeah. Yeah, children die to get that, but it's piping hot and it's, yeah. So is it worth it? Yes. But the thing is, I would imagine you guys being, some of you are city dwellers, this has gotta be rough to go out in the road, be harassed by spiders and, you know, dead ghosts in this place and then a spider thing.

And you know, there's been things that you've had to, now you get to chill. All of you could have two bedrooms if you wanted to. There's hot running water. I know we're gonna have a talk about this, but it's gotta be kind of a difficult pitch to be like, and now we leave. Like, you know, it's- - Benris has found a really nice looking purple robe. He's just chilling. Also, mind you, he didn't get hurt in that last fight. So he is Cloud 9. - I would imagine, so there's a lot of the stuff. A lot of the stuff in the house is automated, right? Things clean up themselves.

You know, the hot water just runs. There's, you know, never a clogged drain, that type of thing. But there are a couple of things that I would say are quirks. Like, there's nothing that you could automate involving hands that, I'm going somewhere with this, Val. There's nothing you can automate with hands that would be the same. So if you'd like a foot rub, there are ghost hands that will come up and kind of like, yeah, no. So there's a spot after you get a bath, a shower, whatever your poison is. Like, there are lovely robes and, you know, there's stuff from when this place was a school, there's more than enough, like, you know.

And there's areas where you can get like a back rub, you can get, but it's like little ghost hands. - I love that. I love that. - Yeah, Calypso finds like the largest bathroom and just like closes the door and doesn't come out for two hours. (laughs) I just like, just don't want to deal with anyone right now. (laughs) - It's the tea situation. I imagine he has like this really like awesome tea that he's just drinking. - I mean, there's something about rich people homes. There's always many varieties of stuff like that. You know what I mean? Like there's a drawer with, you know, I mean, the poor use packets.

Like they probably have like- - Who sleeps is not an expensive thing. (laughs) - You hear that everybody? You hear that? (laughs) It's the 1% over there talking. (laughs) - Yeah, okay. (laughs) - So there's plenty to be comfy with. Which again, probably makes this conversation worse because like if you want food, there's a private chef. Like it's magic. Like, you know, you can, you know, we can whip that up. - I think it'd be fun if Fenris had two different types of teas, but they don't really gel well. But he's like, "Oh, these are the fancy ones." And maybe they don't mix well, but he's just like, "This is awesome." And just puts them in there.

And so like- - There's like an Earl Grey and a berry blend. And it's like, "No, these are mine. Like I have these." They smell rich, a bit. - They smell rich. - Both these wines are expensive, but probably taste best together. - Exactly. - You know, okay. You know like at Dragon Con- - I didn't hear about that. I didn't hear about that at Dragon Con once. (laughs) - At Dragon Con, you know, there's like that sleepover vibe that you haven't had since you were like a kid or something. But there's that after people split up and we're in smaller groups. Like we're in the hotel for the night or we're, you know, the Airbnb, wherever it is.

And there's that let's stay up late, irresponsibly late, and talk or laugh or cry or whatever it may be. - I've done it all. - Night. (laughs) - The whole gambit. - In a single night? (laughs) - I think so, right? - Yeah, honestly. - Yeah. - In one night, yeah. - Now it's real emotional, don't underestimate her. - She's just living life. - Just underestimate a 21 year old with trauma. - So after everybody gets comfy, it's gotta be kind of nice to, it's like, hey, you're warm, you're safe, you're fed. You got tea, you know, like you're clean. It's nice shower.

There's a nice, like someone could be getting like a little baby shiatsu, little magic hands doing, it's like, oh man. - Oh yeah. - It's got a lot of tension, you know? So I would imagine in situations like that, like it's like conversation just kind of happens and there's a relaxed position in those conversations, like an honesty that just doesn't happen. If you're all sitting around the bar in a crowded hotel room or like a hotel room, like a crowded hotel bar type of thing. So I guess what's on everybody's mind? Like what after that, like what? - Do we talk about anything while Calypso's in the shower for those two hours?

Do we have a conversation? - I think that'd be rude to leave out the group leader. - Yeah, we all just sit quietly until Calypso goes. - I thought we were all in our own. - Yeah, I figure everyone else is already. - We're gonna break for a little bit and then we're gonna come back. - A lot of people, especially like Tani is like covered in blood. Like that takes a bit to get out. - I don't know. - Tani is not a two hour in the bath kind of gal. And I don't, yeah, Bittersweet doesn't strike me as a two hour bath kind of guy. - No, but I get the sense that Calypso is like, people will wait for me.

I will show up. - Not so much, it's not like, they probably don't even intend to talk to anyone tonight 'cause they're just like, Bittersweet can probably feel it's like, if this was animated to be like the visual, like negative aura, like, and then hating off of them, just the emotion just. - Does Dagon play cards? - I wanted to say that he is totally a two hour bath kind of guy. - I think Calypso is out there. - He's probably doing that. - Okay, that would definitely be a thing where, like, you know, Tani would be sitting there, it'd be like 10 minutes.

It's like totally clean, wet hair, just sitting there. The hell's taking him so long? Like, why is it two hours? Like why, like, it's like, what are you doing in there? - We probably found a cucumber somewhere to put on his eyes and he's just, you know. - Oh, you know there are potion bottles with bubble baths. - Yeah. - And I'm guessing this water doesn't cool off, right? - No, what's the sense in killing kids for magic if you can't have warm water when you want it? - Thank you. - I'm glad you get on my wing cards with him. - Cucumbers, I don't know, incense or something.

- I'm sorry, there'd be back and forth. Like, it's like, oh, what do you drink? Where'd you get that? Like that type of thing. Like just basically it's all the, oh shit, that they have, I want something to eat. Let's go, you know, it's all that, you're not taking a two hour bath, but you're taking care of yourself in another way. There's a, everyone break, let's cool down. And then after about, I don't know, half the runtime of The Hobbit, we'll all come back and like, we'll, yeah, we'll chitchat again. - Really like, and dumpies like all like blow dried, like fur, like poofed out.

- Snuggled up in a big comfy robe in like a sleeve of a big robe that Bittersweet is wearing. - There has to be some sense in the back of our mind though, that something could just jump out and try to eat us, right? Like that was pretty, that was pretty intense. We got attacked on the way in, we got to attack in a couple of times. I would assume it's not over. - I feel, yeah, I don't know if the like danger sets it up, but I, I get the feeling like with everyone going off to like clean themselves and stuff, even if there's a tension that was on, it's eased a lot.

At least that's the way Bittersweet would feel because he's a very social creature. So it kind of like picks up on that vibe, like right away, like, oh, we're relaxing right now. Okay, cool, then that's what we're doing. - I also feel like nothing bad happened to you in this area, right? Like while you were walking around downstairs, upstairs, like everything was fine. Weirdest thing was that door. That's not really our concern right now. So you were told about the thing hunting you before it, you know, so like. - Yeah, yeah, there's a darkness in here, but it's out of sight, out of mind right now.

It feels. - Yeah, you probably flipped the latch on the basement door when you come on up. (all laughing) Fuck, just in case. (all laughing) - I do, I do wanna. - Yeah. (all laughing) - While Fenris is playing cards, maybe I like tap him on the shoulder and I just sort of like scribble poorly on the little slate, like, thank you. - Fenris is gonna look up quizzically. - For the gifts. And he like flexes his arm. (all laughing) - Hmm. - Fenris will say, it was with Edea the whole time and he's just, he's already there. Just takes time to get, we just accelerated that, so it's not me, but you're welcome.

- I, if you're okay with it, Tani would absolutely be playing cards with you, like. - Yeah. - She's not great at it, but like, you know. - And she'd probably make a noise while you're saying that, just like, eh, like kind of, (all shushing) it's like, ah, I don't wanna pick a fight, but you know, like that kind of noise where someone's got something to say. - Just look at her. - I'll scribble on this slate, like, did you choose? - Well, her or to Tani, yeah. - Oh yeah, I took a whole bunch of years off. I probably won't meet that, those are the shitty ones, right?

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Just like kinda microtransactions your life away like that type of thing? Like, have you done that before? - That is the first time anything like that was proposed. But it's more like, and I'm gonna put my cards down and it'd be like, it's more like possibility and I'll like flip it over. It'll be like a king, a queen, and then I'm like, so there's a chance that things will go my way and I'll like pull it over into Jack. And then I'll be like, and sometimes not, and I'll pull it over, it's like a two of hearts. And I'll be like, and sometimes it's not always what I expect it to be, but I play the odds and I try to play to win because I already felt like I've lost it all before.

- Win what? - To keep going. Another day, win another day instead of lose and don't have a day, a moment. - So like you wake up every day and you just kinda throw it all at the wall and you don't know what's gonna happen? - Yeah, I think it's funner that way. - See, that would drive me nuts. Like, okay, when I like, eh, like that hurts like hell, but I know what's gonna happen basically. I didn't know that horror puppet was gonna happen earlier, but like for the most part, I know I'm making something happen, right? I couldn't do what you do. Like that just seems, I don't know, like you can't rely on it, you know?

Look, what if your guy just doesn't show up one time? - That has happened, but then I rely on my possibility, my luck to get through it and believe that I'm gonna come out on top. 'Cause it's like, what's the point if you're kind of just halfway committed, if you're halfway into things and then know like, oh man, I could have done this if I was just full in 100%, but if you were halfway and then you lose, then you know, as you're bleeding out and you're regretful, rather just go the, well, I did everything I could and still lose, then go halfway and wonder if I could have done more. - That sounds determined, but lonely.

- Yeah, well, you're the first group that has been around me longer than a few days. - Not surprised. - So I would say, well, it's not because they followed me or not followed me, it's more out of my own trust of others. So this was a risk for myself to stick with you and not go my own way as I have done and trusted. So this was, it's kind of led this way to trust this and gamble on this group. - Bittersweet will lean in a little bit. He's like, to you, what's the worst scenario in trusting us? - A knife in the back. - See, I'm not at the point where I can cast any spells with someone else's blood, so I don't, I'm not gonna, I don't see why.

BS, do you, and she'd look at Bittersweet. - So like, how does your thing work? The nightmare thing? Like, how does, like, are you giving up something? How does that power work? - It's something I was born with, just something I am. I didn't give or take anything for it. - I'm starting to think I got a little screwed over here. Do you get, okay, wait, one more question. For your guy, do you get like, do you get like partial souls for every soul you sign up? Is it like an MLM thing where like, for every year we shaved off our lives, you get a little cut, like something like that?

Like if we get 10 more people to sign up under your demon, what do we get? (Brennan chuckles) - It's, he deals with possibility. And so generally when I take someone else, I would take their possibility, as it were, their potential future, and then I can help craft my future or their view, but we're kind of aligned as far as I knew last time, but things might've changed based on some conversations I just had. But generally it's about trying to make a possibility of what the future will be and trying to be more certain about it, kind of like better the odds, as it were.

- Where's Matilda while this is going on? Is Matilda a two hour bath person? - What a great question, Jason. - Thank you. - See, I think, I don't think Matilda realized that there was gonna be like, oh, let's like have conversations after. So she definitely like took a bath, cleaned herself off, and she is asleep in the corner of the room, dead to the world. - Oh, that's like me at a sleepover. (all laughing) - That's what I like to do. - Get a penis drawn on your face. That's all I know. - We've already like dipped her hand in warm water. All of this is, they're just doing stuff to her as they're talking.

It's like, really, that's fascinating. (all laughing) - They're all just like huddled over her. - Cut her hair, like just give her bangs. Oh, give her bangs. - She already has bangs. - Cut off her bangs. - Yeah, oh no. - No, we got to trust here. We have to trust each other. - So Fenris will ask Tani, well, what do you get out of, you know, stabbing yourself? Like what, it sounds like you do, looks like those, I see what you do with said stabbed blood, but is there more behind the scenes? Kind of like, I mean, just what he's not mind, but what's your setup?

- Okay. - If you don't mind me asking. - You know, no, no, no, no, no, no. You know when someone's trying to teach you a new game and there's a lot of rules to it, so you just go, I'll figure it out as I'm doing it. And I'm kind of, I'm kind of in that phase. And what's weird. - Up to five minutes ago when I'm teaching poker and she's like, I'll figure it out. - Yeah, it's fine. She's down $200 something. She's gone all in every single time. She is the part of me that skips every game tutorial I've ever been presented. - And then you complain about like, why you can't figure something out.

- You're like, I don't get it. This game's so hard. - You're so hard. I never said I wasn't stupid. I said. I definitely got me into this situation, but yeah, no. So that's, that's, if, okay. Imagine like going to a restaurant, right? And like there's portions of the menu you just never look at, cause you know, it's like, I can't get the lobster. Like I, you know, that's not me like, but the chicken thingies, I love chicken thingies. So like all of a sudden I feel like, like new pages of the menu were just like open and I could just order all kinds of stuff, but I've never tasted any of it before.

So I don't, I don't, I don't really know what I'm doing. So I think I'm going to like keep it lower from now on. Cause like I was kind of thinking and like, what if I accidentally did that to one of you and I don't, you know. - Is that possible? - I don't know. I mean, I don't, I don't think so. Cause I wouldn't hurt any of you, not purposefully. Like, you know. - What, what made you open the menu? - So, okay. My mom is kind of a dummy, right? So she hooked up with this guy and she kind of keeps going back to him and he's not, he's not a great, a great guy.

So I kind of, I kind of learned it for self-defense, but then it was just fun. And you know, I was kind of good at it. - You are. - Well, okay. You got to take that last one off the record. That's not, that don't count. Like, but, but the rest, I just never, what the monster thing, I was trying to make a monster. I was just trying to kill the spider scorpion thing. So. - And we did. - Yeah, but then it stuck around in like weird puppet pieces. And that's not, you know. - That was, that was, that was something. - It was messy. - Get that off the menu. - I imagine eventually Dagon and Calypso wrap it up.

Right? Like eventually. - I think that Dagon takes longer than Calypso. - Yeah. - They both have identical, like huge towering towels. - Oh yeah, for sure. - On the other end. - I already thought. - Can I tell you, like, there's an image of Dagon I have grabbing a stack of dry towels and throwing down a towel in front of him, like a red carpet he's making himself so that his wet feet don't have to touch the ground. Like, boom, boom, boom, like just a, just a, like a, like a, like a trail of partially wet towels now, just a single footprint in each one of them.

(laughing) Just the most wasteful. - He's like, what? - Yeah. - Me and my bittersweet hat, there were no towels left. So he's just drip drying naked, like standing there. Dagon's like the Keurig of people. Like it's just the most wasteful. (laughing) - Excuse me, Dagon would have a Nespresso, not a Keurig. - Oh, you're right. - That's true. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Don't demand plastic bags at the grocery store. (laughing) - So you guys, you come in here, you know, the lights are kind of lower and you might be, like you might pan over to Matilda and it's like, see that makes sense, like that, the sleeping, that makes sense.

And this little slumber party gathering of playing cards and talking about stuff, it's like, why are we doing this? Like, God, like I didn't, God. So I guess do you join in the conversation or you just go right to bed? - Calypso's intending to go right to bed unless someone like starts talking to them. - Bittersweet will wave them over just when they, when they're coming in. - They kind of sigh a bit, but they'll like walk over and look at Bittersweet and just, yes, is there something you need to say? What? - Tell us about your fiddle demon. - Sorry, what?

- Whatever you want to call them, the higher power, the demon where you get all your fiddle powers. - There's no demon, it's just magic. - So it's like a really good fiddle? (laughing) - There's a part of it that legitimately thinks like, oh shit, maybe if you spend enough money on a fiddle, they just come with extra shit. Like, I don't know, like. - They got wands and rings and stuff, why not like magic fiddle? - I mean, it's a family heirloom, but that's not, that's not where the magic comes from, that's just how I express it. - Will you play something for us?

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What's next? - Yes, we all need to have a long conversation. - Where's Dagon? (laughing) - Dagon is so slowly making his way through. - Dagon's coming out with his trail of towels and... He'll just plop himself down, right, and, you know, amongst everybody. Kind of look around while he's drying his hair. - That's a man of the people right there. - Yeah. - There's a stack of coins on my side, like two coins on Tani's side on that book. She's like, "I'm gonna get it this next time." - Oh, I almost got this. Like... - She doesn't got it. - She doesn't, not even close.

- She doesn't got it. - I just look at myself and I move a coin back over to be like, "Okay, let's just try this." (laughing) - It's probably a thing where like every time you win with a hand, it's like, "So I gotta get that hand." Like it's her trying to emulate the last... It's not like getting the reasoning behind. - Dagon will look at them and be like, "Did any of you find some lavender scented lotion?" - Well, we all look around at each other. - No. - Are you sure it's just lavender that you want and not something a bit more exotic? Seems a bit pedestrian for your taste.

- But it puts me to sleep. - I'm going to bed. (laughing) - I like that Loshia was the breaking point. That's interesting. (laughing) - I'll wave Dagon over it. Do you want in our game? Maybe a game or two before bed. - I'm just about to win. - I look at Dagon and shake my head, "No." (laughing) - I'll just watch. - I would imagine if as you're playing, you might notice if you're counting like the number of aces or the number of Kings that it seems to be more than it should be. - Tani has no idea how many there should be. So it doesn't matter. - Sheeting, yeah.

- I'm a Charlotte enhancing possibility. - Yeah, like self-proclaimed like demon god of luck. Maybe don't play cards against him. - He's a self-made man, Jesus. (laughing) - Sometimes you gotta make your own luck. - The evening's gonna die down eventually. Tani gets no closer to figuring out this game. And the last little light goes out. Everyone's gonna get a nice long rest. No shenanigans. And the next thing you're all gonna smell is bacon. However, it's bacon tinged with burning. (laughing) And Tani will come in with breakfast, kinda. And so some of this, some of this is nice.

Like there's eggs, there's bacon, there's like breakfast stuff, there's like a nice little rye toast type of situation there. But the bacon is on, let's call it the Cajun side, right? This is blackened. And she's gonna kinda like sit, trying to like wake people up if they haven't already. Some ghost was fighting me over the bacon and I like it crispy and it wouldn't let me make it crispy. So I just had to keep putting it back on and it's crispy. Like she just, that's the last thing she says before. (laughing) I accept the plate. I write thank you, accept the plate.

I don't care if it's burnt, shove it in there, baby. In fact, that's what I do. That's what I do right away. I take that scrumptious plate and I just shove it right in the middle. Right in the middle. Plate and all. Cold plate, yeah. He's a whole plate kind of guy. Shut up. (laughing) There's gotta be, there's a learning curve for that. Like, where do you look when that happens? You know what I mean? Like, it's fascinating, but it's like, is that rude to like stare while you're eating? Like it's when your chest cavity's all open like that? Is that weird? Like?

Not weird for me. Very sweet. I guess you don't wear a shirt, right? Yeah. Okay, 'cause I also think it'd be pretty funny if every time you have to eat, you're just like... You're like pulling the hoodie. Pull the hoodie up. Show it on him. Like a fucking Abercrombie model, just like, oh. Give me one second, guys. Pulls up his Team Jacob shirt and first pulls it up. Oh, hey. (screaming) And it's a Lottie steak when he burps. (laughing) Yeah, it's like the sand worm. (growling) So breakfast is served and there'd be a very, she'd sit down, it's like, all right, what are we doing?

Where are we going? Here's the question. So... No one just stares. It looks like slowly just puts down their mug of tea and just... like looks over at Fenris and says, you can't do that again. Do what? I did a lot of things. Whatever offer or deal or whatever that was, that was... I think the word you're looking for is great. How many years did you take Dagon? Oh, I don't know. It was like 10 maybe. I mean, that's why. Obviously, there's that weight. 11 live a long time. It's nothing. So like there's, everyone was presented with the same deal. So when he says 10, it's like 10 bundles.

You know what I mean? It's like, you know, whatever. 10-ish, like it's, you know, yeah. Yeah, Calypso just like closes their eyes. Just... You offered that to a child, Fenris. I think he had a right to choose. Everyone has a right to choose when an opportunity appears, whether that choice is to decline or to accept. Yes, and there's a reason why we don't go around offering every possibility of the world to children, because I don't have the experience necessary to make wise decisions. You can't make wise decisions if you're dead, though. He has been getting beaten up so much.

The first day I met him, we got our asses kicked. And then here we were, faced with a very scary thing that did not have the odds in our favor. It was an option to change that option. Yes, it's very convenient, isn't it? That just when we needed it. If this is a valid point, you didn't see what was behind the door, Tanning, right? Yes, it is a valid point that the two of you when left alone went gallivanting off into the door leading to nowhere. That's maybe the kind of decision-making by someone who shouldn't be trusted with whether or not to spend years or decades of their life.

Oh, okay, come on. I, my parents are at home. I don't need this right now. Do you? Because we were told that you were dead and it was only happenstance or divine intervention or whatever that you aren't. I wasn't dead. We were a little dead. Partly dead. Tiny bit, tiny bit dead. So were you. Okay, yeah, I didn't say I wasn't. Look, okay, I will cosign what Fenris said. Dagon is a beautiful dandy. He got hit a lot. So I understand, like he, you know, but like he's grown up in Aladrin years and that's like seven of our years for each one. So like, he's like, it's like a sexy older guy, you know?

Calm, calm down, Andy, calm down. I'm actually, I'm the same age. Anyway, I am stronger now and I'm tired of getting beat up. Bittersweet writes, like, would you rather never have the choice? We don't know what the choice was. I mean, considering how I'm handling manage that thing, I could think we can fairly assume you didn't need to take as much as you did at least. Okay, okay, consider this, consider this. Consider this thing I live with every day. There is a little device back home. If it were to break or maybe even be moved, I don't know, I would pop out of existence.

So although my life is long, it's actually rather short or it could be. That's no different than the rest of us. Me taking reckless chances is kind of like par for the course here because I might not see tomorrow. I might not be around in five minutes. Your life being tied to luck and happenstance makes you no different than the rest of us. I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm kind of another person's past. Okay, no one else got that either, right? Like, I'm not stupid. Like, that was just weird, cryptic. That was new even for me. Mm-hmm. Who's past, who's life?

I can't remember how much is known about the Aladdin. I know there's like, people know that there's like the new Aladdin from Odysseus, but I don't know. Yeah, it's, ah, man. I think it would depend on how much you want to know because there's a lot of information flowing around, but there'd be information from two sides. So between the two of them, you'd probably get the whole story, but some of it's exaggerated, some of it, you know what I mean? Like it's, you know, it's a bit confusing, but the long and short of it is if you see an Aladrin, one, they probably have money.

Two, they probably have influence somewhere. And three, they could be a bit emotional if you ask them about other Aladrin. Look, it's a long story, but I'm here actually because, I mean, I'm here in Brightport looking for myself, or at least clues about myself, because the rumor is that my other older self is the one that actually brought me back and our whole city, our whole population. Then what? I don't know. I don't know why I, that's why I'm here 'cause I heard that he lived at House Dragonkeep for a while. What would they say? I haven't made it there yet.

Yeah, I guess I still owe you that route. Okay, so, okay. So you're a younger version of you and you like come from a pocket watch or something? Yeah, yeah, in a nutshell. And if the pocket watch were to stop working, so would I. So yeah, I don't regret doing the door thing then. Like I was, here's the thing, I was gonna say sorry, but like it just kind of affected me and Dagon, so like it didn't hurt anybody else and you know. Well, I did think I'd have to give a favor to bring you back, but I didn't have to out of another chance. So there's other things at play then, you know, like I said, I don't control the odds, but it's nice that you guys made it out of there.

I appreciate the thought, like that's real nice. Your life has value, both of you. Look, I'm on level with you. I don't want to go back to what I was doing 'cause I wasn't doing nothing. So this is like the most fun I've had in a while 'cause different stuff is happening. And it kind of feels like I got some kind of call over what I'm gonna do, you know? Like I got all this new power and I look, granted, I'm trying to learn how to use it and I'm gonna be real careful from now on. I got this hot frail boyfriend who could just blink out of existence at any given moment, which kind of makes it sexier somehow.

And I didn't think that could happen. Is Stake on React? Yeah, he's kind of like... (laughter) But it's being spoken into reality now. Yes. Now look who's just throwing everything at the wall. This is exactly what Better Suite had been suspecting all the time. So he's just nodding, nodding along. Exactly. Yes. She's just manifesting. That's just like... (laughter) Like, I want to help out. Like whatever you guys want to do is fine. It's just like, what are the odds of that ever coming up again? 'Cause I don't worship Fenris' demon guy. I put a hand on Tani's shoulder and then I write like, "It's fun now, but it could get dangerous.

Will you still feel the same way when that happens?" I, there definitely be a couple of beats where you're just thinking about it. I don't know. Look, I just, I like having a say in things, you know? Like I want to help and I want to like, it seems like, I don't know, it seems like you guys are being tapped for big stuff. And I don't know, like, like maybe we should focus on that. Like maybe we need to find Dagon's Dagon or something, or take one of them fancy, we can try another door. Last door. Okay, so there's real shitty construction. 'Cause like the whole thing fell apart on us and that was not our fault.

We didn't touch nothing or do nothing. And it just kind of started, you know, folding in on itself. Calypso, like, doesn't say anything, but looks over at Matilda. Matilda doesn't say anything. She's like, "Mm, interesting, ooh." (laughter) Wow, that's so weird. Yeah, we didn't touch anything. No, you didn't. Not a thing. You didn't touch anything. We know that for certain. Okay, as long as we're agreed, we didn't do nothing. Like that, like we went in, but we didn't break nothing. We did nothing. Yes, you didn't press any big, glowing red buttons without knowing what they did.

That would be foolish and dangerous. It's oddly specific too. Yeah, no, we didn't do none of that. Calypso's saying all this while just looking directly. (laughter) That is a strange thing to say. Weird example off the top of your head and all, but... Like, I imagine Dagon and Tani are just glad that they're not being yelled at right now. So it's like, "Yeah, we're all in agreeance. No red buttons." (laughter) We're not in trouble. Yeah. (laughs) Can I add the keys to the car? (laughter) There's a lot of finger pointing right now, but what I want to know is what's your uncle conscripting us into?

Well, that's what I'm trying to decide if I should even, if I can trust you all with being conscripted, if that's what we are being. Who says we want to be? Exactly. What we're dealing with is, it's dreamly serious and has potentially some pretty heavy consequences. And I don't know if after the past day or so, if this is the right group to handle this sort of thing. So it's two things. Yeah, it's two things. One, if you'd like, we can have it in a court of sort where I do not send flashy possibility things in front of everybody. And we try to rebuild some of this trust.

I'm new to having more than just me around and taking my own chances. Second, we should maybe consider what happens if we decide not to follow this through. And if there are the things at play that, whether it's fate, random chance, whatever it may be, I don't know where you've got this place, you sound like this was also kind of new and out of the blue. What would happen if we just washed our hands of it, walked away, would you be satisfied with those outcomes? How easily would you find a new group if you did decide when we're all, as far as I know, I'm willing to sign up for it.

Well, we don't really know what we'd be signing up for yet. That's sort of part of the problem. Our conversation was interrupted. Yeah, I don't wanna get yelled at again. I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Oh, right, you weren't there. You were busy being sucked into the void of endless horrors. Okay, we could talk all day about who got sucked into what and who touched things, but I thought we were beyond that. I don't think that's something you get to be beyond. That's not something- We could all agree, I didn't touch nothing. No, no, we are in agreement on that.

Okay, all right. Feel like we keep circling back to that. No, we were the victims. That is exactly how I would put it. Partly, yes. You were also in the position to be victims because of your own decisions. It's a complicated situation, but- I'm not a victim. Because Dagon's a child. Well, you both are. We had to agree to disagree, you know? I feel like Dagon's seen less, so like he's younger, kinda. Decision-making wise, baby. Not like, you know, you're a dumb-dumb or something. I'm not saying that. I'm saying like, street smart. You're both young. You are both babies.

You're both young. I... I'm in. You know, now that... You know, now that I'm a bit stronger here, I'm in, 'cause I... I feel like I'm living now. But I should say that if I stray too far, I might get a visit from my parents. So... Why don't you stay in the city? Should be okay. Do they have people watching you? Or do you have a babysitter we don't know about? Like an ankle monitor? Are they strong? Can we add them to the group? Or your parents? Yeah, actually, wait, hold on. Can we trade Dagon for Susan's Dagon mom? She's very good with a knife. (laughter) Abby...

Do not let her get close range. But I was given a head start, so... You know, a long head start. That makes it sound like you're... Oh, you ran away from home. That's adorable. I didn't know. No. I mean, they didn't... So define head start. They didn't want me to go, but let me go. But someone will be checking up on me. Mm-hmm. Okay, two things. One, I still don't know what we're talking about doing. And two, it's honestly probably the time in our relationship where I meet your parents anyway. So it's gonna happen. It's just, you know, it's fine. I'm sure they're reasonable.

Reasonable and elaborate. I don't know if I've ever heard those two words together. (laughter) Tani, imagine for a second the kind of parents that would produce someone like him. Be careful with that question. (laughter) Like some really sexy electric at all. Ooh, is he something like two... You mean like two really hot parents? This real Bradjalina thing we got going on? Like, you know, like... She's like, "Yeah, I gotcha." (laughter) I'm thinking about it. Like just, it's like, "Yeah, I'm thinking about him being made." Like, "Yeah, I'm in." Yeah. It's just like a slightly older, sexier Dagon and then like sexy Dagon, but just with like lipstick and eyeshadow.

(laughter) 100%. So, okay, just going back to the... Kill'em Soap like takes out the Abernathy rock, the crystal, that Abernathy, so it just like plumps it on the table. So this crystal has whatever impression or ghost, I don't know what it is. It has Abernathy in it. We were talking to him in that room downstairs before, as I said, we were interrupted. I tried the crystal out in case the monster thing that is supposed to eat magic ate him. He told us, he did tell us a few things before that happened, such as the fact that you had been, and I quote, "eradicated." You guys look good for eradicated.

I didn't feel, yeah, I didn't feel eradicated. I felt like decimated at most. Like not eradicated. I mean, I didn't feel anything. I mean, how'd you get out? How'd you get back? We, well, we were sent back. Yeah, well sent. So everything folded away and the thing that was chasing us. Huh. Uh huh. I think we just skipped all that middle bit and just came back. Uh huh. Things work out, you know? Okay. I would say the odds of that are not looking good. I think there's a little bit missing there. I don't think the odds of you winning 23 straight hands of cards is right either, but you know, sometimes things happen.

And sometimes you miss something. I'm good at cards, is what I'm saying. Demon and luck and possibility. But. So, how about nothing tells that that space that you were in, apparently they tried to make it several times and each time that thing that we thought thought would end up reappearing in that space and continuing to every time it got larger and the place would get twisted and corrupted and. But we're not making that space. He wants you to kill people. I'm getting to that. Wait, who we killing? Exactly. I turned to Tani like, yes, exactly. 'Cause it was like real estate for a second.

It's like, and then we murder. It's like, wait, what? Like just. Capitalism. The doctors, there are multiple doorways in that room where we killed that thing. And each of those doors apparently can transport you to a different place in Brightport. At this point, I can, I'm thinking Matilda's gonna pull out the map that she has with all of the dots on it and kind of, I assume we're kind of like all in a circle. So she's gonna spread it out in the middle of everybody. Perfect. The thing is, is that apparently each of those doors and the power that is behind this house and everything is coming from the souls of children.

Yeah, that was a real bummer to find out. What? Okay, when you say children. Does it only work on the souls of children? I write. How young are those children? Can we put take on into the souls? Yeah, just, 'cause I know you're mad, but like. I'm not, I'm not a child. No, I mean, we're basically. She didn't give exact ages, but I'm going to presume younger than the two of you by a fair bit. Yeah, and actually orphans. Yeah. There are 15 doors, so we can assume that at least 15 kids were sacrificed to power this whole venture. So, okay, wait, does this have to do with the rich people in the office, the burn it down thing?

Yep. So they killed kids. No, no, that was just Abernathy, 'cause this is apparently his plan to fight against the people that we saw. So wait, the good guy killed kids. I mean, the question wasn't whether he's the good guy or not, but yeah. And wasn't he one of them? Yes, he was one of them. The elite is what he referred to them as. And apparently he wants me. So you say we gotta go kill rich people. To finish the job, which from what it sounds like, the amount of power they have, even with this dead child teleportation system is a bit much. So do you think one of those doors goes to House Dragonkeep?

As we look at the map. Yeah, yeah, just totally ignoring the fact that a child's soul powers it. Close up on the map. Enhance. There's absolutely one right smack dab in the middle of the houses too. Like there's, yeah. I can't remember if we asked this before, but if we asked about, if Matilda knows anything about the elite when we were in that room. I don't remember if we did, otherwise I was gonna ask. I don't think anyone does. I think that's the whole thing. I think I know I rolled something at some point and I super failed. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I don't think we know.

It's kind of a point of the whole Secret Society thing. Yeah, yeah. You can't have those eyes wide shut parties out and about, right, that's gotta be, you know. Yeah, I was relying on the whole like, she lives at the library and then like, she would maybe wake up in the middle of the night when there's a secret thing, you know, whatever joke that you put in there. But maybe she would find something or know something. But we do know that Abernathy, he did confirm that he collaborated with the Cordata family. That's helped with the doors. So probably have to hit them up at some point.

And we didn't really get much else before. Do we need to plug Abernathy back in to kind of ask like finalizing questions? 'Cause do we? I presume so. I was also hoping that the house would take care of the mess downstairs. But I guess we'll find out when we get down there. I don't know if we're supposed to kill, eradicate all the elite or like, could we even do that if that's what we are tasked or like what the real mission would be, or if it's like undermine their mission. I don't really understand the full plan for us. Yes, he was very, very vague. And I, well, hopefully we'll get to ask him to clarify a bit more. 'Cause at the moment I see very little reason to continue with what sounds like a pretty impossible task.

And certainly not one that uses such a resource. I feel like if he was killing kids, then like he probably doesn't wanna go ask us to talk to the elite, right? Like, they're probably not gonna give up power willingly. No, yeah, I mean, I think that's a fair assumption, but we don't even know who they are, where to start or what he knows. So if we were going to do this, we would need to start finding information. We could start with one person and the only lead we have is the Cornata family, correct? That's a way to start systematically. But the question we have to answer, erase, erase, erase, erase, erase.

(laughs) Turn this light over. Is if any of us want to do this, and the question for you that you posed is if you want any of us to do this, that's where we have to start. - So first things first, I suppose we should go back down there and see if this will work again. And if we can ask him anything else. - I'll look at Calypso and say, are we good? Or is there any terms we need to set? - I don't know. That's, I don't know what good setting terms would do. It's, I mean, I feel like once you cross the lines of doing what you did, it's not, it's not a good setting.

- I have a term. - Yes. - Thank you. I agreed to escort you here in exchange for housing for my friends. Not sure this is the greatest house for that. - Yeah, I would want to confirm that this place is safe before we spend another night in here, let alone any unsuspecting citizens. - So, and I thank you for that. If I do this, your obligation still needs to be met. - Absolutely. - Housing for me, housing for my friends. And if we do this, attempting to take out the most powerful people in this city, a place for Thedans, you will have to help us. - Your people do, is there something more that you need?

Like? - Yes. - Like? - A home. I'm a hearth finder for my people. We are looking for a place where we can be safe. We've been looking for a while, we've sent out several of us. It's why I was in Brightport and we haven't found it yet, but with your resources, in exchange for my help, you can provide. I don't know if Brightport is somewhere I would-- - Not in Brightport, not in Brightport, underlined, underlined, underlined, underlined. (laughing) - That would be a longer term project we've met. It's a bit beyond my area of expertise, but I mean. - This is all outside our area of expertise, I think.

- Yes, which is why I'm not currently thinking about doing whatever I want, to be honest. - I will say, if we are killing rich folks, like we could just take one of those houses and like, just give it a bittersweet. - I guess that's an option, but. - I'm just trying to solve problems here. - As long as there's no more dead orphans. - Yes, no, I think we can all be in agreement on that. I hope. - I mean, we've only just started here, who knows, but we'll find out there. - Tani would definitely lean over to Dagon, like, we're not killing no orphans. - I didn't, no, I'm not killing no orphans.

(laughing) - Don't be that guy, babe. (laughing) - I don't know why he's so reluctant to say anything, like shut it in, he's like, "Feels bad now." - You're just saying it's just out of politeness that you guys will be married with children. (laughing) - I think after the upgrade there, I think he just, it changed him. - What does that mean? - I don't know. - He's a family man now. - It's like this boost, he was so like, like I said, he's on like a little... - Rum Springer. - On his own, but you know, without, there's sort of a supervision thing and he's kind of like his first taste of life, really.

- Oh, that, yes. - First taste of Tani. (laughing) - Episode title right there, got it, okay. - He's probably shocked himself that he hasn't told her to shut up yet. - We'll get there, don't worry, it's fine. You're still in that afterglow of killing monsters, like I don't get it, you know, that's fine. - As long as we're making deals here, I said I'd wanna help and I do. I would like to walk through one door first, if I may. - By yourself? - Dragon's keep, wow. - I believe I know we could also walk there, it's not that far, we already took the journey once.

- Mm-hmm. - That was a long journey. - There are spiders in the yard. - I almost died out there. Yeah, but that was like, that was old you. This is young ripped you now. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah it is. - How many points in strength did Dagon take when he leveled up? - No, he's still super weak. - Yeah, he's big in spirit. - His ego took the biggest booster. (laughing) - What have I created? - Can I, okay, again, I wasn't here for the whole Abernathy thing. Why we keep talking about the Coronados? - They keep coming up, apparently they were involved with the whole dimension thing and the teleporting doors and stuff, why do you know anything about them?

- I mean, I know one of them, Serena, I mean, we've hung out, she's nice for like, she's a little rich, but like she's nice. - Well, that's good, we have a connection. - Well, like, okay, yeah, she knows a lot about wine and like that always comes up and she always orders something that I don't know nothing about. So then I gotta fake it and go, ooh, yeah, I smell roses in there too. And I don't smell no roses, but like, she's still nice. - Are you, do you hang out outside of work or is it more of a like work interaction connection? - Oh no, okay, so look, Serena would never be caught dead where I was working, but she was downtown once and she was getting harassed.

So she kind of waited with me until her dad can send somebody, Oliver, Oliver, and he's a nice dude, but now she's always gotta have Oliver. So, you know, he's fine. I look, I usually kind of sneak her away from him anyway. He hates me, but you know, yeah, I just saw her like, I don't know, three, four weeks ago. Do you want to meet her? 'Cause like I can take it and meet her. - That would probably be useful, yes, but how old is she? - That's kind of rude. - Seven. - Seven? - I mean, okay. - She's drinking wine at seven? - She's a stay-at-home person. - She's maybe in Brightport, like that's it.

Like she's smoking too, like. It's like, no, she's older than me. Like she's, you know, I don't know. She's human, she's like in her, I don't know. When do humans get to like five foot something? - That depends on the human, they're all different. - What if you're rich? Is that affected at all? - Or younger, I would imagine. - Right, right. - No, but. - Anyway, she's like older than me. I don't know, she's in her 20s or 30s or. - Okay, I just wanted to make sure we weren't like asking to meet with a 12 year old or something. - We wanna meet her. - That's a trap.

- That'd be so fucked up. How could you say so? - Yeah, why would you? - We wanna meet her. - Why don't you have a seat right here? - We wanna meet her to meet whoever knows about this. - Yeah. - Unless it's her. - It's probably your dad. - I don't know. - I think so, she was even alive when this all happened. She probably would have been very young. This seems like the sort of thing that's kept pretty tightly under wraps. - Though, if we want to, if we wanna stay out of the limelight, I guess, of the elite and we know about the Coronado family, I don't see why they wouldn't also know about them.

Do we want to show ourselves, I guess, so early on? - I have a crazy idea. And take it with a grain of salt as I look over at Calypso. - Your last one worked out great. Let's go with it. - Yeah. - So we know that the Coronado family worked with the Abernathy. What if we leaned into this and we have a, we just be a, we have all of this and appear like we belong in the upper echelon, have a different name or something. I'm sure I could draw up some good looking documents and maybe with Matilda's help, make sure that they look what they need to be so that we have access and then we could meet with them and we could have that private discussion.

- Why do we need fake documents? I own this house, it would make sense. - I'm talking about Brightport, mingling in Brightport for covert. - Do we need to pretend to be rich? - That might work for some of us, but not for me. - What do you mean pretend? - Do you, you could be my new bodyguard if you want bittersweet, that could be something we could do. I mean, you might have, I might have to get to you a little bit of a nicer outfit, but. - What's wrong with my outfit? - There's rats in it. - I am a performer. - That's a strength. - I have a visual reputation to keep up, shall we say.

- Can we have fake names and accents? - No. - What about the doors? - Yes, that's we. - Maybe there's a door to their place. - Yes, let's just teleport in the middle of their house. I'm sure that would go great. - Well, we could just peek through, maybe it's. - I also want to point out that Abernathy did say that this was not unlimited, the power source, so that if we are going to use it, we would want to make sure it's worth it. - Yeah, I feel we, the decision of taking down these things, these people or this group, or understanding, I feel like we need to be closer to that group, kind of get that feeling, or if we even find a way to that group, but kind of, 'cause they're in that echelon, there's that circle that we're not a part of.

We might be, we might have this, sorry, Calypso, you may have this place and have all of this, but I don't think it's recognized from Brightport. I don't think we'd be invited to any secret parties or understanding, you know, if, and this is of course, if we want to go down this route, but if you really want to understand, is it worth going after, is the danger there, we should kind of rub shoulders, find out, is there something bigger at play without tipping our hand? And also not jumping into a battle and getting beat up again, but just kind of take it slow and kind of recon, get info.

Yes, Abernathy may have abandoned his position with them, but since his inheritance passed to me, I don't see why I couldn't take up his mask to at least see what they're all about. And... Oh, that would be way easier to get one person in instead of all of us. That leaves you very vulnerable. I'm presuming they're trying to kill me. I don't know. I don't know these people. It's not like considering how much power they supposedly have, it sounds like if they wanted that, it would be pretty easily done regardless of whether or not I'm alone at a party. What if we came in as a group that was kind of like, we have Bun-Nee from a different place and we're thinking of moving to Brightport because we want to get some influence, like we want to establish some influence under the key, kind of like make it seem like we're trying to do something with a little bit of fillers out there, like we're trying to come to the place and kind of let- Normally, I would say that there is absolutely no chance in hell that would work considering who they are and who they know, but fortunately, we actually do have someone with us from out of town that has a lot of money that we could say was looking to invest.

- Maybe I have some money. - You know what, dear? Mama and Papa don't want to get you a vacation home down in the lovely, victorious city of Brightport. - I mean, I could lend you the money. (chuckles) I mean, rich people love other rich people, so like, if, let's say, we go to Brightport and we take care of this whole finding Dagon's other Dagon thing, and while we're out and about, we just kind of like, font your cache a little bit, showing off. I could see if I could find Serena and that's another rich person. - Sounds like two. - Good chance to show off your upbringing.

- Oh, I bet you know all kinds of wines. - Well, I mean, of course-- - Not the wines that we drink around here, I don't expect. - Of course I could do it. Of course I can do it. I can do it. - I know the social scene well enough, I could at least give you a primer. - I mean, I'm only just learning about Brightport in its wonderful ways. - So are we doing two things or are we doing one thing? - We kill the rich. - That's something. - I think the first thing that we need to do is talk to Abernathy again, if we can. That sounds like a fair plan, yes? - Sure. - Yes.

- We should get some maybe role rules or understanding or even his view. - Okay, Calypso gets up from the table and grabs the crystal again. Well then back off to downstairs and hopefully the cleaning spell does affect that area of the house or if not, it might have to do some work of our own. - Just don't go down there. Just don't go down there. - Yeah, it's a good time for us to stop for the night. - Yep. - 'Cause next thing is probably gonna move us into whatever the next phase of this campaign is. I don't know. - Yeah. - I don't know. - I don't know. - I don't know.

- I don't know. - My mission is. - But it's fun. - Yeah. - I like the plan to find Dagon's other Dagon. That sounds good to me. - Yeah, that's not gonna go well. But. - Well, I think it would be very interesting for Dagon to talk to people like, how could he keep that dead no his other self, like that first of all, I think it's interesting. Second of all, I don't know if it's possible, but if we could somehow engineer things to get this Dagon to talk with Mazoga, that would give me so much joy. - Boy. That's not a scam I could handle that well at all. - That's a fast role play James.

You're kidding. - Exactly. (laughing) - That's when we all sit back. - Might have to get drunk for that. - No, no, but yeah, I think that that'll be fun. That's just to have him like learn more about his other self. - Meet his son who's older than him. - Family's complicated man. Like. - Let's just stay away from the orphanages. - Flight of the navigator situation. (laughing) - Wow. (soft music)