Episode 29 - Siren Song

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Hey Al Hey Barry, Speaker 1 00:00:03 What Cantrell has the longest duration? Speaker 0 00:00:06 What friends? Speaker 1 00:00:09 There's like 10 seasons it's time for Capella duel. Speaker 2 00:00:12 <inaudible> hello Speaker 1 00:00:26 Everybody. And welcome back to Capell dual I'm Barry and I'm Al and we are a single-player Cody EMD, Dungeons and dragons. Fifth edition actual play podcast Speaker 3 00:00:36 Previously on compelled to Speaker 0 00:00:40 Parlay Cove. It's a town Speaker 1 00:00:43 Inhabited by dependent on and catering to pirates captain. I'm curious, how many, Speaker 0 00:00:50 Um, weapons Speaker 1 00:00:53 Did you manage to get through the checkpoint Speaker 0 00:00:56 Full life? That's really fucking impressive. Actually. Could you teach me how to do that? The captain pulls out a dagger and just pissed a website for 40 damage, and I think he fully breaks her nose. Leo has quite literally paid for a rogue level up in blood now. Yay. I can do things again. Grant Duchess. We never got the pleasure of a formal introduction, vice Admiral, Speaker 1 00:01:26 Defiance of Australian Naval special forces. Speaker 0 00:01:30 And I'm the grand Duchess. So unless there's something I should know, I have nothing to fear from the usher and Navy. She meets Speaker 1 00:01:38 Your case, but then shifts her eyes over Speaker 0 00:01:41 To Leo. You don't. She has murdered one of the few people that can stop her from knowing what she wants and now her ships can go wherever they please within the woman's territory, which for the record means that she can go within the leagues of power port and the Zephyr Royals don't have a fancy Navy keeping us safe. We have meat was been coming a long time and it's built on a fuck of a lot of business. And if I'm going to help put it to a stop, Speaker 1 00:02:12 I need to get to Kim Tara. Speaker 0 00:02:16 How does a nice girl from the silent city, I end up working for the beacon, the Navy, and a pirate fleet. Speaker 1 00:02:26 See, that's the thing about playing both sides. Grant address. Speaker 0 00:02:31 You never lose best to get ready to set off as quickly as possible. Coming up on storm season, Speaker 1 00:02:51 The captain talked a big game about storm season and the Zephyr Isles, but fee you don't really see what the big deal is after the next couple of weeks, Speaker 4 00:03:01 The weather's more mercurial Speaker 1 00:03:03 Shorts, gray skies and driving rain, but nothing too terrible. You might even say that you've seen worse before. So when you're not stuck below deck on the rare days that the sun is out, Leo starts taking his rogue training very seriously. He spends a lot of time with the captain learning all kinds of knife tricks and different maneuvers to get him out of close combat situations. You spend a lot of time with the captain as well. Speaker 4 00:03:34 The initial dinner Speaker 1 00:03:36 Date scenario that you guys had reveals itself to have been a bit of a show off technique. Most nights, he takes his dinner with the crew, unless he's really busy working on something. And he typically sits next to you and you guys have a few more conversations, more shameless, flirting. We pick up on a rare sunny day. As you are making your way through the Zephyr Isles. You walk up on deck and hear your brother just cursing to beat the band. Well, you look over and he is hunched gremlin like over a big locked padlock with a set of lock picks in his hand, just shouting at it. He looks up at you, hunches down a little more and goes, I'm afraid fucking shell of a man. I used to be able to get into father's liquor cabinet with a bubble. Speaker 3 00:04:34 Well, I'm guessing that involved significantly less yelling, maybe try that he flips you off and goes back to the lock Speaker 1 00:04:43 Behind you. You feel a hand at the small of your back and hear a low quiet laugh next to your ear. Followed by the looks glued shuts last don't tell him Speaker 3 00:04:58 He slaps the hand over her mouth to keep from laughing because a very deep breath and just very quietly says that's terrible. The captain Speaker 1 00:05:07 Takes a step to the side and just fixes you with this big rakish grin. Terrible is what to do best. What can I say? Speaker 3 00:05:15 I'm a bad guy. Any winks fi purses, her lips. So she doesn't smile and then says a villain and a scoundrel. Sir, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were coming on to me. Fi raises one eyebrow says, do you know better? And then walks fast. As you want walk Speaker 1 00:05:35 Past him with a rural or Leo stands up and launches the lock. It goes flying behind the captain's head and over the railing and into the ocean. A plop, Speaker 3 00:05:48 The captain totally unfazed goes, and that's Speaker 1 00:05:51 The fourth one today. Lot. If you keep doing that, so I'm going to start Speaker 3 00:05:53 Charging you for him. And then he reaches into Speaker 1 00:05:55 His pocket, pulls another padlock, gives it a tug as if to make sure glue is holding and then hands it to Leo. After Leo sulks off and starts going at it with the lockpicks again, he turns back over to you shrugs and goes. I promise it's coming from a place of here. Speaker 3 00:06:12 Intentions. He's good for morale. The crew hasn't had entertainment like this in years. Fi looks at him, looks over at where Leo is soaking with another padlock and then says, well, at least padlock shot. PUD is getting his strength back up high. I suppose it's good to give him some enrichment that's on your radar. We'll be way an anchor and Ms. Burrow later on this afternoon, just to get some supplies and Speaker 1 00:06:38 We'll be heading down the Southern route to get to peril ports. It'll take a little bit longer, Speaker 3 00:06:42 But we'll be avoided in the worst Speaker 1 00:06:44 Of the weather and anybody who, uh, could potentially be following us. If you know what I Speaker 3 00:06:51 Mean. Think I do Speaker 1 00:06:54 Under his breath. He goes fucking defiance and then leans up and yells up into the ringing Pelican. I want full sail. We need to make good time. Speaker 3 00:07:03 There's a ruffle feathers on the ice Speaker 1 00:07:06 From the rigging and the ship sails on. Speaker 3 00:07:10 He's going to go sit next to Lee and uh, hold a handout for the lock and say, let me see that for a second. Speaker 1 00:07:18 Leo has been stabbing a lockpick down into the key hole, just like a cave man. And he looks up glares at you and wordlessly holds out the lock. Speaker 3 00:07:31 Okay. I'm going to cast the lightning layer on the lock. Okay. Um, yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:38 Well the lock is a lock and can't save. So roll damage Speaker 3 00:07:43 10. Okay. You do Speaker 1 00:07:45 A pretty significant amount of damage to this inanimate object. The key hole melts, and scorches a bit from the Speaker 3 00:07:52 Lightning. You see the metal go really hot for a second. And if you were Speaker 1 00:07:57 To pull on it, the lock would open because it has melted Speaker 3 00:08:00 The glue. I do not pull out it. I had to back to Leah. Once it's cooled down, Leo gets his lock, Speaker 1 00:08:06 Picks back out and fiddles with it a little bit more. And the lock opens with a click and he goes, oh, damn, thanks. Wait, hold on. Why are my hands stick? Is that, oh, you've got to be kidding me. The city of Ms. Bro is on a much larger island than parlay Cove, but the geography of the place is much the same. This island is this huge, massive stone shooting straight up out of the water. Speaker 3 00:08:39 And Speaker 1 00:08:39 As the ship draws closer, you can see that the town is literally hewn out of the rock. All of the houses and buildings are carved into the stone in this city that steadily climbs upward along the face of this rock up at the, there is a huge castle looking building, just massive towers of stone shooting up into the sky. The crew is running back and forth across the deck, getting everything ready to dock the ship. As you pull into the Harbor and you see the captain moving at a brisk pace across the deck with a, an extremely nervous looking Ascot trailing behind him, jogging to keep up. Ascot has a clipboard in his hands and is scribbling frantically. As the captain is just a stream of consciousness, giving him a shopping list, essentially of things that the boat needs under don't necessarily know if Ms. Burrow is going to be flushed without chemical supplies, but glass has this pitch and a fit that we need more salt beater for the guns. So do what you can Speaker 3 00:09:40 Work. Your magic Ascot goes, Speaker 1 00:09:43 I haven't go to any magic. Surrogates will do my best. Um, you, the first mate is also standing up on deck and she is just kind of glowering out across the Harbor at the city. She looks a little on edge. The anchor drops down into the water next to the dock with a Creek and a rattling of chains. And you says, Speaker 3 00:10:07 Captain, the captain Speaker 1 00:10:09 Is not paying attention at all. He's just still rattling something off to Ascot. They put the gang plank down and he goes to hop off and you reaches out and grabs him by the jaw. As he passes and forcibly turns his head to look over the Speaker 3 00:10:25 Railing. And again says, captain, he goes to batter off and goes, boy, what year are you on about, oh, shite, his Speaker 1 00:10:35 Eyes go really big. As he's looking out over the Harbor, Speaker 3 00:10:38 Uh, I'm going to follow both of their line of sight and see if I see anything roll investigation, uh, 17, you see an empty Harbor, calm seas, nothing visibly wrong. The captain and you both look really unsettled though. I'm gonna walk over and lean over the captain shoulder and say, what are we looking at? There's no one in the Harbor this close on Speaker 1 00:11:07 Storm season. The peril divers should be out to trying to get their last Speaker 3 00:11:10 Haul in and the fishermen too. So why is attempting? Oh shit. Hi. Speaker 1 00:11:19 After the hurricane and into the crackheads mouth, it seems the captain just jogs down the gangplank. I'm guessing you follow. Yes. Speaker 3 00:11:28 Leo who has Speaker 1 00:11:28 Amassed a small pile of padlocks around him at this point just waves. As you go down the gangplank and goes, I don't want to go in the crack. Ann's mouth have Speaker 3 00:11:37 Fun. Noted, have fun with your glued shut padlocks. Speaker 1 00:11:41 The captain still looks a little worried as you disembarked, but he does snort quietly to himself. You hit the boardwalk of this long dock. Again, you notice there aren't that many ships Morde here and it looks like the ones that are have been here for awhile. Speaker 3 00:11:58 The captain kind of Speaker 1 00:11:58 Has his head on a swivel as you move down the boardwalk until he lays eyes on two young storm folk women. One is the equivalent of like late teens. And the other one is probably Elvin equivalent of 13. They are dressed in long plain gray robes and have little gray cloth headscarves tying back Speaker 3 00:12:22 There, right? The captain points. He Speaker 1 00:12:25 Goes, oh wait, and goes running off after Speaker 3 00:12:27 Them. I guess we're running now because after him, you close Speaker 1 00:12:32 It off. These two young storm folk women and the captain slows down tips his hat, a very respectful little bow. Speaker 3 00:12:40 How <inaudible> is your Harbor master? About the older of Speaker 1 00:12:45 These two girls looks at the captain with just really nasty look and sniffs and keeps walking. Speaker 3 00:12:55 But the younger one stays behind. She regards Speaker 1 00:12:57 Him much more kindly. It gives him a little smile and says, captain, did you bring us anything he frowns and says, now last, you know, you're better supplied here than most of the other Isles. In fact, we came here to get some things from you, this little girl, frowns, oh, well, that's going to be hard. Well it's with the sirens and everything Speaker 3 00:13:17 Feel like raises one finger. It goes the, what this girl looks over Speaker 1 00:13:21 At you for the first time fee and fully takes a step back eyes going Speaker 3 00:13:25 Wide. Oh, is encouraging. When people do that next Speaker 1 00:13:28 To you, the captain shrugs goes, ah, you get used to it. Now last what's all this about the sirens. The girl kind of still giving you a side eye fi says, well, they've been out on the rocks, outside the Harbor for weeks. Now we can get some shipments in, but a couple more of them. Have Speaker 3 00:13:48 She mimes like a ship crashing into the rock. The captain nods and says very illustrative and no one from the fleet spin by to help you. She frowns again and goes, oh yeah, about a week back. A small boat came in and we never heard from him again, Speaker 1 00:14:06 The captain curses very quietly under his breath and looks over at you. His worry has ramped up by a factor of 10 and Speaker 3 00:14:15 Fi nods. She goes interesting. Ah, captain sidebar, he Speaker 1 00:14:21 Turns away from the girl and takes you a couple paces off to the side. So, ah, what do you know about sirens? Speaker 3 00:14:28 Nothing I was about to ask here takes Speaker 1 00:14:31 Off his hat, runs a hand back through his hair, puts the hat back on. Ah, well, uh, it's probably for the best that you don't know anything because at least then you don't have the same delusions that most people have about soybeans being fair losses, sitting on rocks with their tits out Lira and weak-willed men to their doom. They're a bit nastier than Speaker 3 00:14:48 That. Well, that's disappointing on a rock with your tits out. It is a noble profession. You want to get to any argument from me on that part. The issue is, well, number one, we're not Speaker 1 00:15:02 Going to be able to supply, which means we'll have to take the shortcut to peril port, which means Speaker 3 00:15:06 Storms and defiance and time delays and defiance. Speaker 1 00:15:13 But the more present mater is if these people don't get supplied before the worst of the weather moves in, Speaker 3 00:15:19 They could starve. Speaker 1 00:15:21 We're going to have to take care of this loss. You understand? I can't just Speaker 3 00:15:24 No, no. Obviously, yes. If they're strong Speaker 1 00:15:27 Enough to have taken out members of the fleet that came to take care of the problem, Speaker 3 00:15:31 Cave, his breath, he turns Speaker 1 00:15:33 Back around to the young lady that he was just talking to kneels down. You see him put a mask back on. He looks like the consummate jolly pirate, even though he didn't a second ago, thank you for your help. Last, I'll be sure to take Speaker 3 00:15:45 Care of the problem. And, uh, I know I said I didn't bring anything, but he reaches into his pocket and pulls out Speaker 1 00:15:53 A perfectly round gleaming, black Pearl, and he presses it into the girl's hand. He goes, Speaker 3 00:16:00 Don't let your matron catch you with that. I'll fit that Speaker 1 00:16:03 This little girl just grins and turns around and runs off Speaker 3 00:16:08 Fi nods after her and then says to the captain, I'd make a joke about you making friends everywhere. But, uh, the other one didn't seem too fond of you. He shifts a little Speaker 1 00:16:21 Uncomfortably as he watches the retreating back of this girl, as she hits the end of the dock and turns down a side street. Speaker 4 00:16:29 Well, I don't know if you've noticed last, but among my many talents, pissing women off is pretty near the top. Under 10. Agree to those are a little easier to piss off the most, their acolytes part to Zephyr Isles, state service. He'd Speaker 1 00:16:45 Nods up the rock of the island where the big castle is Speaker 4 00:16:53 State service verify. He shifts Speaker 1 00:16:57 Again. He's like squirming. He looks deeply uncomfortable. Speaker 3 00:17:03 I mean, I don't mean to be culturally insensitive. Speaker 4 00:17:05 I'm just not sure what's going on. No, you're, you're fine. You're fine. It's um, state service is a governmental system here in the Zephyr Isles that takes in, uh, orphans foundlings. When you're a child, you start as an acolyte and you work your way up. Get trained for certain jobs that keep the oils running. Once you reach adulthood, you become doctor, teacher, or Harbor master, things like that. And, uh, they don't like me much Speaker 3 00:17:45 Interesting. Can I ask why it seems like your goals are mostly aligned with theirs? Speaker 4 00:17:54 I same goals, but vastly different methods of achieving them, which is the issue Speaker 1 00:18:00 He looks up on top of the rock at this castle. Speaker 4 00:18:04 That's been hewn out of the stone Speaker 1 00:18:06 And briefly just looks raw and hurt. Speaker 4 00:18:12 Well thought in the fact that I wasn't too good at my job back when my name was acolyte. Speaker 1 00:18:21 And without saying anything further, he pivots on his heel and starts marching back towards the ship. Speaker 3 00:18:31 So back on the boat, Leo, what are you doing? See, Speaker 1 00:18:35 The thing about Leo is that he has never in his life, learned a lesson the first time that someone has taught it to him. Speaker 3 00:18:43 I'm on deck gambling with boots and Pelican. You mean you're losing at gambling boots and pelicans? Yeah. I probably lost my shoes again. So you're sitting there playing cards, boots, shuffle through his cards and he says, right. If we could put a pause on it for a moment, gents, and then he puts cards down and like dust his hands off and says, well, I would like to prepare the kitchen for whenever Ascot gets back with groceries, Speaker 1 00:19:10 Which should we give Ascot a cart or anything? Or is he just going to have to carry it, all that stuff. Speaker 3 00:19:15 It's waves. You often says, ah, he's a strapping young lad. He can take it. Well, it's probably Speaker 1 00:19:20 For the best that we stopped before I lose my shirt again. Anyway, Speaker 3 00:19:24 Where are my padlocks? You boots and Pelican in unison turned to look at pelicans bird who has picked Speaker 1 00:19:32 Up one of the padlocks that is just messing with it with its horrible little Speaker 3 00:19:35 Bird feet, but says right, let you handle that. And then he bustles off. Speaker 1 00:19:42 I attempted to take the padlock from the bird. The bird looks at you with a one BB LOI Speaker 3 00:19:50 And then Pelican whistles quietly and snaps at it. And then the bird drops the padlock and just shuffles up his arm onto his shoulder. Thanks the Speaker 1 00:20:02 Padlock up and looks at the horribles on B Pelican, really intently for a second. And then turns back to Pelican the person Speaker 3 00:20:10 And says that is a Speaker 1 00:20:12 Really interesting familiar you've got there. Would it be rude to ask how you came here? Speaker 3 00:20:17 Pelican raises an eyebrow at you start straightening out his hand to cards and boots and a little piles. And the bird says, well, you see young man sometimes when one washes up on the shore of a far-flung sandbar, one acquires unique companions. Speaker 1 00:20:39 Uh huh. Well, I can certainly, uh, understand coming by unique companions. That seems to be all I've been doing lately, Speaker 3 00:20:47 Pelican trucks and the bird kind of bobs. And it says he is quite unsettling, but the most efficient mode of communication that I've come across in my years of life, Speaker 1 00:21:00 Picks up his padlock and starts fiddling with the lockpicks again and goes, Hey, understood. Now that does bring up the question though. Everybody else has gone. Why are you in boots? Hanging Speaker 3 00:21:12 Pelican? The man makes kind of a uncertain humming noise. Like, and then the bird says we are approaching the end of the year, which tends to be a time of much spiritual gathering and contemplation, which I find it prudent to steer clear of Pelican. The man, again, just shifts a little bit uncomfortable. And he says for you, see, I was once a normal man who needed to do things such as eats and breathe and sleep. Now I mainly do those things in the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure Speaker 1 00:21:57 Looks down very intently at his padlock. So Pelican can't see his eyes going super fucking wide, but he just nods with his lips pressed together Speaker 3 00:22:09 To clarify, I am not dead. I merely have died and been resurrected through means unconventional and quite frightening, which makes me somewhat of a paradox of ritual impurity. You understand? Yeah. What's not understandable about that. Let's make a very long story short. I once asked a religious authority, his opinion on whether or not I should partake in festivities and he responded that he needed to send a letter. It's been 26 years. I still occasionally receive correspondence from someone asking follow up questions. I simply find it more convenient to stay out of the way public. And I hope this isn't too forward, but I do Speaker 1 00:23:00 Not understand how you can be so unsettling to be around. But all I want you to do is say more things. So, you know, in terms of the bird, I had some questions about your Speaker 3 00:23:10 Marriage. As you're saying that from behind you, you hear go, let's not hi guys. How was the proverbial crack in his mouth? The captain says hungry. Fi sys walks up and sits down next to you. Apparently Ms. Burrow has sirens. Can I roll a history check to see what I know about sirens? Yeah, sure. Uh, 14, you've heard some stories about sirens. There's a lot of singing and learning ships onto the rocks. Leo raises his eyebrows sirens. Speaker 1 00:23:48 Do you mean like with the, and he hovers both hands in front of his chest, a little suggestively. Speaker 3 00:23:54 The captain says, no, not at all. He nods the Pelican. He says, you want to get the bird up? See what we can say. Pelican gives a little salute. The bird also gives a little salute and says yes and flies off that birds growing on me, the captain says, oh, I like mold. Speaker 1 00:24:18 I mean, it, it does have some mold. I mean, yeah, we can all see Speaker 3 00:24:23 Pelican gives you a dirty look for a second. And then he like raises his hands up. Makes a couple of gestures at the captain who says, I apparently one of ours came in to take her over the problem. And wasn't heard from again or so I heard from a couple of accolades at the docks. Pelican makes a couple more hand gestures and the captain says, yeah, yeah, that's fine. We'll just have to take care of it. We'll need you to chart a new course prep part. And then he paused himself. And just to the group of you at large says we'd all best. Be ready for a flight. I'd like to pull fie off to the side if I can. Yeah, sure. If she goes with you, we didn't sign up to fight sirens. He makes a face at you. She says, no, we didn't sign up for any of this. But, and then she likes to gesture at miss borough. The sirens are stopping people from getting supplies and it's coming up on storm season. Great. So Speaker 1 00:25:24 We get another hurdle to jump over, to try to get to Pearl port. Speaker 3 00:25:28 We're never getting out of here. She looks down at the captain and then in a lower voice, she says, we can't just leave people to starve. Leo. I know that. Obviously I know that it's just every day that Speaker 1 00:25:41 We're sitting down here dead in the water is another day that thousands of people could be dying in Australia and vaudeville DERP. So forgive me, my frustration with the situation. Speaker 3 00:25:53 There's nothing we can do about it now. Right? Let's just take things as they come. How many punches can we roll with before we get knocked the hell out, feed just grimaces. And before she can say anything, the Pelican started circling in the air, above the ship and then goes down to land on Pelican shoulder. It says this fuzz. I can see, we have full sirens on the rocks. It and Pelican, not of the captain kind of in unison. And the bird says, and I saw the record of the Calliope. The captain sucks in a breath. There's teeth nods, any survivors, the bird and Pelican again in unison. Just shake their heads. Ooh, yikes. The captain nods again. He says, right. Well, we should probably go after him at night. Try to get them while they're sleeping. We're going to have most of the crews stay back. See what people in town need. I don't think we need everybody for this. You Speaker 1 00:26:58 Don't think we need everybody for this. Those things killed a whole ship full of people. Speaker 3 00:27:03 The captain grinned a little bit. And he says, hi, but we've got you. So Leo Speaker 1 00:27:09 Puts a hand up to his chest. So flattered. Well thank you. Do you really think I'm progressing that fast? Speaker 3 00:27:16 No. E you Leo deflates significantly looks over at fi sighs and goes, Speaker 1 00:27:26 All right, let's go fight some sirens, I guess. Speaker 3 00:27:29 Yes. That's Speaker 1 00:27:34 Several hours later. You find yourself sitting in a rowboat with the captain, Leo and you over the dark horizon. You approach a collection of rocks scattered across the mouth of Mr. Burrow Harbor. Speaker 3 00:27:51 But more concerning Speaker 1 00:27:52 Is around them is an absolute graveyard of wrecked ships and boats clawed open on these rocks, littering the shores, the captain whispers something unintelligible under his breath, and then turns back around to the three of you and says, so the thing about sirens Speaker 3 00:28:12 Is they can get in your head. They know things, things you want Speaker 1 00:28:19 Things you need, and they can use that against you. So whatever they say, Speaker 3 00:28:25 Try not to listen to them. What an interesting and not ominous at all thing to say, Leo Speaker 1 00:28:31 Raises an eyebrow at the back of the boat and goes well, fi you and I should at least be equipped to deal with this. We've been training our whole lives for it. Speaker 3 00:28:41 You have a point there. At least the siren will be more fun to look at than the old man. Yeah, I think Kimra, Speaker 1 00:28:48 We never had to see him sitting on a rock naked. And the captain just scrapes a hand down the side of his face and goes, I told you that Speaker 3 00:28:54 The don't he says, we know, we know from in front of you Speaker 1 00:28:58 In the boat, you start to rowing a little more intensely and mumbles Speaker 3 00:29:02 To herself. Let's just get the damn Speaker 1 00:29:04 Boat on land. I think I can feel myself getting less Speaker 3 00:29:06 Intelligent. Speaker 1 00:29:09 You eventually make landfall on the biggest of these rocks. I am going to have the captain and Leo scout ahead because they both have ridiculous stealth modifiers and might be able to get a surprise round on the sirens. The captain waves you up this narrow Rocky passage, up to the top of the rocks. And you look down and to see a nest of four sleeping sirens. They are not pleasant to look at at all. They have scaly bodies and really sharp, pointed talons on the ends of their hands. Pointy almost bird-like features, scariest shit, even asleep. And moreover, this nest is littered with humanoid bones that appear to have been not on pretty voraciously. Speaker 1 00:30:11 The captain curses under his breath quietly pulls his Cutlass out of its scabbard. And beside him, Leo pulls out his knife and a Cutlass as well. And I'm going to roll those self-checks for them. Okay. The captain rolled a 13. Leo rolled a dirty 20. So let me real perception for the sirens. So that's 13, 13, 18, and four. So that means that the captain can get a surprise round in, on one of the sirens and Leo can take his pick. So I'm just going to do that. I'm going to roll to hit for Leo. He is going to have advantage because it's a surprise round, which means he's going to get sneak attack if he hits a okay. And he is going to hit 12 damage and the captain's also gonna roll to hit on his Hey buddy. Yep. He's definitely gonna hit. So with his sneak attack, that's going to be 66 plus five 24 damage. And now we are going to roll initiative. Speaker 3 00:31:25 That's an 18, but fee gets plus eight two initiatives. So it's 26. Speaker 1 00:31:30 So the captain gets 29 two initiative. Leo's coming in with <inaudible> 16 and you got Speaker 3 00:31:44 A dirty 20. So let me roll for the sirens really quick. Speaker 1 00:31:51 Okay. So the way we're going to do this combat is it's going to be paired off kind of like we were in the season one finale. So we'll be going in order of the PCs and NPCs Speaker 3 00:32:01 Initiative. And because Speaker 1 00:32:03 You all rolled collectively higher than the sirens, your team will be going first, Speaker 3 00:32:09 First up in the initiative, we have Speaker 1 00:32:11 The captain and his siren. The captain uses his movement to fucking book it as far away from the rest of you as he can, because he needs that distance to use as a rakish audacity. And he's going to ready and attack for when the siren comes after him, which it does. So let me roll that attack. Speaker 3 00:32:31 He doesn't hit. And now it's the sirens turn all four of Speaker 1 00:32:35 These sirens, lurch awake with the one. The captain stabbed follows after him up onto the rocks where he has run stops short as he swings his Cutlass out. It again opens its terrifying fanged mouth and the most beautiful sound you've ever heard comes out. It's this haunting theory will sound that doesn't feel real almost. And as this siren sings, you hear whispers and murmurs stirring under her voice and they start off very unintelligible, but then start to solidify. As this thing looks at the captain and opens its mouth. You start to hear Speaker 5 00:33:29 No matter what you do, it's never going to be enough for them, your blood and sweat and tears for these people. And you see how they look at you. You could stay with us. You could be a hero here. The captain's going to have to roll an intelligence, saving Speaker 3 00:33:48 Throw. Oh, that's going to be great with his intelligence score of eight, his intelligence Speaker 1 00:33:54 Score of seven don't overestimate him. Oh boy, here we go. Well, he rolled a natural 17. Oh, but he has proficiency in, in saving throws. Cause he's a rogue. Fuck. Yeah. Okay. So that's actually a 19. So he saves Speaker 3 00:34:16 That. That's my man. He tilts his head to the side, raises the point of his Cutlass a little higher and goes, I appreciate the proposition loss, but I'm a married man fee. It's your turn? What are you doing? Can I get all of them to roll concepts for me? Okay. What are you casting? I'm casting a fifth level shatter. What kind of damage to shatter? Do a thunder buddy. I got some bad news for you. You drop Speaker 1 00:34:46 The biggest beefiest shatter, spell. You are capable of summoning and you watch the magic go around the sirens. It doesn't even affect them. They are immune to thunder Speaker 3 00:34:57 Damage. Wow. Fuck me. I guess. Yeah, fuck you. Because now it's the sirens turn Speaker 1 00:35:06 As your spell fades and only the sound of crumbling rock is left behind one of the sirens whips its head around to look at you opens its mouth and starts doing the exact same thing that it did to Speaker 3 00:35:19 The captain. Speaker 1 00:35:21 I have a question from a DM perspective for you of what happens next. Speaker 3 00:35:26 What Speaker 1 00:35:27 Does fie want more than anything in the world? Make it concise. Just give me one concise thing that you think he wants more than in the world. Speaker 3 00:35:40 Freedom and acceptance. The siren Speaker 1 00:35:43 Sings at you and you hear this alluring gorgeous voice say Speaker 5 00:35:51 You've been searching so long for somewhere you belong and you haven't found it yet. Why don't you stay with us? There's nobody here who can hurt you. You could be free role and Speaker 1 00:36:06 Intelligence saving throw for me please. Speaker 3 00:36:10 No way that was the natural 20 fee. I think hands still raised from casting. The shatter smiles tightly at the siren and says sorry to disappoint. But I have been offered gilded cages before. Fuck it. Nice. All right. And now it's used turn. I apologize Speaker 1 00:36:31 For all the dice rolling. That's about to happen, but you is about to absolutely wreck Speaker 3 00:36:35 Shop. You've Speaker 1 00:36:37 Never seen her in action before. You know, she walks softly and carries a big sword as it were, but she cracks her neck, pulls the great sword off her back. Very calmly runs up on one of these sirens and lets out a scream of pent up rage. And you watch some sort of weird fucking magic coalesce around her as she does this. This siren is for sure in her storm or us. So it's going to have to roll a dexterity, saving throw, Speaker 3 00:37:11 Which it tanks. Speaker 1 00:37:12 It does not meet the DC 15 that it needed Speaker 3 00:37:14 For that. So it's Speaker 1 00:37:16 Going to take 2d six lightening damage. It took nine lightening damage just from the storm or up. But you watch as the lightning flashes around you, as she starts to swing her sword down at this thing, the lightening puts a real hurting on the siren. It actually is going to take 18 damage Speaker 3 00:37:38 And now you's actually going to hit it. So first attack not going to hit. Second attack does hit. So a further 15 damage. You Speaker 1 00:37:53 Absolutely wrecks this siren shit. It does not look like it feels Speaker 3 00:37:58 Good. I think she knocks it down to the ground with her sword and from Speaker 1 00:38:04 The ground, it looks up at her hisses. And then you hear the song. Start again. This unearthly music comes out of the wounded sirens mouth and you hear Speaker 5 00:38:17 All your life. People have been giving you names and taking them away. Don't you want something? That's yours. If you stay here, we can help you figure it out. Speaker 1 00:38:29 You just going to have to make a DC 15 and save exactly 15 on di plus two, that 17 is fine. Just say you watch her heave her sword back up in front of her. Not at the wounded siren down on the ground. Speaker 3 00:38:48 I don't think that's any of your fucking business. She's right now it's Leo's turn. Leah is Speaker 1 00:38:56 Going to use his movement to get back to back with fie on a diagonal number one so he can cover her back. And number two, because I want that flank for sneak attack and he's going to run an attack for whenever a siren Speaker 3 00:39:10 Comes up on him. And Speaker 1 00:39:12 I think it does that. So he's going to go ahead and do that. Ready to tack action fees within five feet, 18 on the dye. He's going Speaker 3 00:39:20 To hit 10 damage. Hey Barry. Hey Al, are you about to tell me a joke? No. What does Leo want a stiff drink right now? What is Leo want more than anything in the world? Unconditional love, real unconditional love. Well, now that you've let me see the sirens. Stop luck. You start to hear that other worldly, beautiful song that you've heard free times. Now it starts to wash over you and you hear the slow murmur under it. As the murmur starts to coalesce into words, the sirens scaled body in front of you starts to warp and twist and shutter. And then you blink and Zetta standing in front of you, oh fuck this. He grins that big crooked grin. And hold that a hand to you and says, Speaker 5 00:40:32 Aren't you getting sick of this? Does she just want to stay here for a bit? Speaker 3 00:40:42 You watch that crooked granted kind of shift into the real genuine smile that you've only seen a couple of times, Speaker 5 00:40:51 Come on, stay with me. Okay. Time for me to make an unsafe fuck this man. Speaker 3 00:41:02 11, I don't do it. Leo let's Speaker 1 00:41:07 His arm drop. And the tip of his sword drops down to the rock Speaker 3 00:41:10 And he just nods. Yeah, I'm exhausted. Speaker 1 00:41:18 And he stunned until the end of his next turn where he can save out again or until he takes damage and are back up at the top of the order with the captain who is going to take another swing. The siren 19, that's going to hit. So Speaker 3 00:41:35 29 damage on the siren. Speaker 1 00:41:39 Yeah. So the captain makes that crack about being a married man, stabs the shit out of this siren again. And it is looking Speaker 3 00:41:48 On death's door. It's going to try Speaker 1 00:41:50 To sing at him again to try to get him stunned so it can get some Speaker 3 00:41:54 Distance. It hisses Speaker 1 00:41:56 Blood just hemorrhaging out of its torso. Speaker 5 00:42:00 Weren't good enough for her either. It's why she left. Why are you still fighting so hard for people that don't want you, but we do. He's going to roll to save again. Speaker 3 00:42:16 The 11 captain doesn't do it either. You see Speaker 1 00:42:20 This absolutely gutted look, cross his face and he falters, soar drops down to his side. He stunned Speaker 3 00:42:31 Fear up. Yeah. I'm going to cast a fourth level, which bolt on the siren in front of me. I'm going to use one of re rolls off gift for this arm right here. There we go. So 24, that absolutely Speaker 1 00:42:45 Hits. That'll be 40 12 lightning damage please. Speaker 3 00:42:49 And I'm going to use one source rate point to use empowered spells. So I can reroll up to five damaged ice. So that's 38 and I believe they are vulnerable to lightning damage. Yes, they Speaker 1 00:43:01 Are vulnerable to lightning damage. So 38 damaged doubled is 76 lightning damage. Speaker 3 00:43:09 You fucking one hit Kao this siren fee. And while I'm at it, I'm going to use to throw three points to do quick and smell. And I'm going to cast lightening lower on the siren that it has stunned Leo. So it's going to have to make a DC 17 strength saving. That would be a 12. So it Speaker 1 00:43:28 Does not make it. So it will take that damage and be pulled away from Speaker 3 00:43:30 Leo that's 11 lighting damage. So 22, you pull Speaker 1 00:43:36 Up this, which bolt absolutely decimate the siren that's in front of you. It electrifies with a crackle and a scream and just drops to the ground dead. And then you whip around and lasso this siren. That's up on your brother that looks like, said who you've met before, which is really weird, but it transforms back as you rope it away. And it shrieks as it takes this lightening damage. Speaker 3 00:44:02 And now we are back to you. Well, not you, but you, Speaker 1 00:44:09 I hate what we've done with this. Speaker 3 00:44:12 You is still Speaker 1 00:44:13 Right up on the siren that she is engaged with. It is still in her storm aura. So it's going to make a dexterity saving throw, and that's a 10, that's not going to do it. So it's going to take that 2d six lightening damage to start off the round. That's nine doubled as 18 because it's so it is already looking quite beat up. And now you's going to try to hit it twice. First, one's going to hit, and that is 17 damage, which is way more than enough Speaker 3 00:44:44 To kill it. The siren Speaker 1 00:44:46 Opens its mouth to try to sing at her one last time. And you just jams the point of her great sword through its open mouth twists, yanks the sword out and starts sprinting for the captain. She has faster movement than either you or Leo because of barbarian things. So she is able to close that distance up behind this other siren. And she's going to try to hit Speaker 3 00:45:09 It. Does not hit it. Her siren's Speaker 1 00:45:13 Dead. So that takes us down to Leo who has to burn his turn, trying to make another int save. Doesn't fucking do it. You lightning lore. The siren that looks like Zed out from, in front of him. And he looks like he has just been stabbed. It's like he is physically watching Zach get hurt, even though, you know, Liotta probably be smart enough to be able to figure out that this wasn't real. He looks like he buys Speaker 3 00:45:44 It for all the world. Well, the sirens engaged with me. So what does it do? And it's turned, it is going Speaker 1 00:45:53 To swipe at you with its claws. Does the 21 hit your armor class? Speaker 3 00:45:58 Does it hit my armor class of 13? Speaker 1 00:46:01 I know. I just like asking it when we're in combat. It makes me feel Speaker 3 00:46:05 Good. Hate your ass. Okay. Speaker 1 00:46:08 So yet this thing gets you with its claws for 11 damage. And then we're down to the captain who also has to try to save. He also does not do it. He rolled a five on the die. So that's a seven. Speaker 3 00:46:23 He Speaker 1 00:46:23 Just stands there looking spaced out and traumatized. And as you swings her great sword around for another slash Speaker 3 00:46:32 Scheels, look at life. You bleed in Egypt, fi looks over at you and yells back. I wholeheartedly agree. It seems like we're doing all the work here. Oh yeah. It's what Speaker 1 00:46:43 Happens when you send men to do a women's job, where do you think the stories about the tents Speaker 3 00:46:47 Came from? And she tries to swing at it again. Speaker 1 00:46:53 It's the captain sirens turn. However it looks on death's door, but it is still capable of causing harm. The captain is stunned. So he's not a threat. It's going to turn around and try to swipe at you. It is going to hit her, but don't worry you and all 112 of her head points will be just fine. So it's going to do Speaker 3 00:47:12 11 damage and she still got over a hundred head points. She's down to a fragile one oh one. You looks more annoyed than anything. So fee you are up again. I'm going to go ahead and cast a level, which will all right. Roll to hit on that for me please. 19, that Speaker 1 00:47:34 Will just barely do it. Go ahead and roll me that 2d 12 damage Speaker 3 00:47:37 Please. Whoa. That's two twelves. Holy shit man. So that's 24 damage Speaker 1 00:47:48 Doubled. So 48. Oh it's it's oh, it's so dead. It was already mostly dead. That was just overkill Speaker 3 00:47:55 For my sake. And for posterity, when you pull that, SnapLock up, could you tell me how much I overkilled it by? I just want to know you over killed it Speaker 1 00:48:04 By about half of its original max HP. There is no siren anymore. It's just a scorch mark on the ground. And then there was one. Then we're down to Leo again, who once again has to try to make this in save 16. He's just Speaker 3 00:48:23 Barely out of it. Speaker 1 00:48:25 He snaps back as you obliterate this siren in front of him and goes, Speaker 3 00:48:31 Whoa, fi one hand still raised and like crackling with leftover electricity, grins at him a little bit on hinge and say, good morning, sunshine. Are we awake? Alert alive, enthusiastic. I Speaker 1 00:48:46 Think I'm like one of those things. Yeah, let's the end of Leo's turn. He can't attack her anything because he had to burn his turn Speaker 3 00:48:53 To save out. Speaker 1 00:48:55 So we are back up at the top of the captain who is going to try to insane again. He just barely does it this time. Speaker 3 00:49:05 You screams insults Speaker 1 00:49:08 At him. And that seems to jog him out of his reverie quite a bit. And he lurches forward raises, Speaker 3 00:49:15 Oh shit. He can't Speaker 1 00:49:17 Not attack though. It eats his turn Speaker 3 00:49:20 To save out. So then we're down to the siren, man. These roles suck. These fucking sirens took Speaker 1 00:49:27 Out both of our rogues for a couple of rounds, which makes it even more horrible that the siren is going to sing at him again and try to stunned him again. So it can put some distance between itself and you, and try to stay alive a little longer. So the captain's going to have to save again. Speaker 3 00:49:47 It's a natural seven, nine, nine total. He's under again, Speaker 1 00:49:54 This thing, bleeding from every orifice on hinges it's jaw. And you start to hear those murmurs and whispers come out again. And it does the same thing that the siren that was fighting Leo did where it's skin shifts and ripples and its body starts to change in shape until it appears in front of all of you as a willowy and fertile elf woman with spiraling horns dressed in pirates garb. And this siren that has taken the of defiance looks over at you fi does it perfect imitation of that hungry smile that she has. And then turns back to the captain and says, she's going to leave you too. Speaker 5 00:50:43 Wouldn't it be smarter to just cut your losses at this point, stay with people who actually love you. Speaker 1 00:50:51 Is it my turn? Yes, because you go before you does. Okay, I'm going to cast me a guiding bolt. That's a twenty-four that'll do it 12. You watch the captain's sword waiver and dropped to the ground. Again, this siren that looks like defiance reaches out for him. He reaches back and their hands are almost touching when you just absolutely fry this thing with a guiding bull, the radiant energy hits it and it sizzles and screams and reverts back to its true form. A second before dropping to the ground stone Speaker 3 00:51:30 Dead. And as Speaker 1 00:51:33 Soon as the siren goes dead, its song dies with it. And the captain lurches forward blinking, like he doesn't realize what's going on for a moment. All is quiet, nothing but the sound of the sea breeze and the rush of the waves hitting the rock. Speaker 3 00:51:51 Leo still Speaker 1 00:51:52 Looks really freaked from that whole situation. The captain looks like he's trying to hold it together probably Speaker 3 00:51:58 Better than he actually is. You is just very Speaker 1 00:52:02 Calmly sitting down on a rock and starting to wipe the blood off her sword with a rag. She's looking like this is just another Tuesday Speaker 3 00:52:10 Fi as the only one who has taken any significant physical damage is going to straighten out one sleeve. Cause I think like the siren got her across the shoulder and she is bleeding. Roll their shoulders back cracks. Her neck says right. Gentlemen, remind me what the legal drinking age is and does Fri ELLs. Cause I'm buying you a pint. The captain blinks and goes legal drinking old enough to see over the counter. And Speaker 1 00:52:40 Frankly, as flattered as I am by your appreciation of my youthful physique, uh, well I'm 160. It's been a few decades since anyone's tried to card Speaker 3 00:52:48 Me, the holds up a finger at him and says not you and then points at you and says you, you up Speaker 1 00:52:57 From where she's still cleaning her sword and Gurindji Speaker 3 00:53:00 Oh, bloody excellent. As the only other person that killed one of these things, you've earned it. Speaker 1 00:53:10 The captain Leo, both still looking very shocked, go and pile back into the robot. Speaker 3 00:53:16 You do see the captain and you stop at Speaker 1 00:53:20 The wreckage of one of the ships. That's washed up on the rocks and comb through it for bit, but they don't come away with much, a couple of scraps of clothing. Someone's hat. The captain looks over at you size shakes Speaker 3 00:53:34 His head damn distress signal. Didn't go off again. We'll have to get glasses working on a new prototype. They look Speaker 1 00:53:43 Really somber as they carry all of this stuff back into the boat and you guys start rowing back for the ship. Speaker 3 00:53:52 It is just after sunrise, but at the time you all get back to the ship. As soon as you disembark feed just grabs you by the elbow. And just start to tell that are off. Leo Speaker 1 00:54:05 Is still looking like a fucking shell of a man Speaker 3 00:54:07 Goes, how fun girls? Not even looking over her shoulder. If he says, take a nap, you'll have a better attitude. Leo raises Speaker 1 00:54:16 One finger. Like he's about to give her an earful, but then slowly puts it down and goes actually a nap. Sounds really good. I'm going to go do that Speaker 3 00:54:26 Before you stumbled down to the cruise quarter, you see Pelican just playing solitaire on a box and he does nods at you. Leo Speaker 1 00:54:36 Looks over at him, just haunted nods slowly Speaker 3 00:54:39 And goes sirens. Pelican inclines his head. Indeed. I'm going to go. Don't wake me up unless the boat's on fire behind you, the captain and raises the hand. He says I that goes through right here and just stumbles off towards the captain's gorgeous Pelican does a slow like golf clap and just in tones with the utmost gravitas rest, wary here is and goes back to a solitary. How Speaker 1 00:55:14 In Carol's name are you so enchanting? I go take my trance Speaker 3 00:55:20 Just about as you are rousing out of it fi stumbles into the shared little room that you guys are bunking in and you notice that because she wakes you up by knocking over a table. Did you, did you have a good time fee is like looking at the table that she has just knocked over hands up eyes, very wide. She goes, whoops. Leo sits Speaker 1 00:55:46 Up bumps his head on the bulkheads since he's on the top bunk and then just flops back down onto his back, defeated and size too depressed to be awake to traumatize, to trance my sister's drunk Speaker 3 00:56:01 Fee with the utmost of just offense, swishes, her cloak and sniffs and says I'm not drunk. Leo fi Speaker 1 00:56:11 I've known you for most of my life and you start just stimulating with your clothes. You're hammered Speaker 3 00:56:16 One hand still up. The just releases her grip on the edge of the cloak, smooths out her skirt and says points taken, Speaker 1 00:56:27 Lay down. I'll bring you some water. And then I'm going for Speaker 3 00:56:30 A walk. She steadies herself points at you. Speaker 1 00:56:36 You're so smart. And as he's climbing off the top bunk in priests tongue, he says, man, in Vienna, Speaker 3 00:56:45 If he just like grabs you by the face and just look the deep into your eyes, oh, don't do that. She's still just holding your face as she just giggles. I'm having a fantastic time. My shoulder is quite torn up though. Okay. Well, glad one of us is, uh, Speaker 1 00:57:09 You should probably go see doc for that later. I will bring you water and then I'm going on a walk. Okay. Speaker 3 00:57:20 And then if he just lays down, I go get her Speaker 1 00:57:23 Some water and just leave it on the bedside table. As she passed out Speaker 3 00:57:28 Quite, quite easily. And as you're going to get water, you hear you yelling currently at ASCA also like audibly, tipsy, Speaker 1 00:57:39 No poor ass. God. He was just out getting groceries all day yesterday. He doesn't know about any Speaker 3 00:57:45 He's innocent. Leave Speaker 1 00:57:47 My boy ass got a loan. He didn't do anything. Speaker 3 00:57:50 She doesn't sound mad. Just belligerent. As far as you can tell, she's challenging him. Do a game of poker. Hey, you use head peeks out from around the corner. She yells. Why? What? You're like Speaker 1 00:58:06 Instable after last night. Why are you going after small fry? Like Ascot, come here, come here, come here. Let me give you an idea. Speaker 3 00:58:12 She narrows her eyes at you and then like slowly shuffles out from around the corner. I'm listening. Ask Speaker 1 00:58:19 Them it's a small fry. Like look at him. He's got like five tells. You'll be no problem. If you don't want to seem soft in front of your own crew, I think you should go talk to boots. Speaker 3 00:58:30 As you say something about her seeming soft, her jaw just drops in a fence. She points at you finger at your nose, wobbles a little bit on our feet and then says not soft, mostly not stupid. Speaker 1 00:58:46 Hey boots. You want to play around a poker by before I get off the ship though, I am going to swing by the infirmary to let doc know that fee's shoulders really fucked up Speaker 3 00:58:57 Doc and the captain are both in there. The captain is kind of lounging on a chair as doc, hands him a little glass while they both look up. As you walk in, doc says it's courteous to not before one enters the room loud. Will you ignore Speaker 1 00:59:12 Courtesy? If I tell you that we have an open wound on one of the upper decks, Speaker 3 00:59:16 Duck size so deeply. All right. All right. Well, she's no rum Speaker 1 00:59:23 Coma right now. So if you hurry, you can probably stitch her up before she regains Speaker 3 00:59:28 Consciousness. I'm guessing we're talking about your sister. Uh, yeah. Yeah. She was one of the two people that was physically Speaker 1 00:59:35 Injured last night. And Leo nods very knowingly and empathetically at Speaker 3 00:59:39 The captain. But something tells Speaker 1 00:59:41 Me that you doesn't like going, looking for bandages unless she really needs it. Speaker 3 00:59:47 Doc snorts, have you right on that one, I'll go handle that. Doc stops turns points to the captain and you will follow doctor's orders or I'll have your height as a duster. And the captain nods. It says his mom, Leo Speaker 1 01:00:05 Until doc leaves and then looks over at the captain or raises an eyebrow and goes doctor's orders. Speaker 3 01:00:14 The captain pinches the bridge of his nose. He says, Simone. She always gives me trans more wireless. And in addition, and he rattles a little glass vial that she handed him guessing I won't be getting much on aided trance the next few days. And I'm getting a bit old for my liver to tolerate to the amount of liquor that it would take to put me out. So fucking sirens, huh? Fucking sirens, fucking defiance. When you told us she was a piece of work, I thought Speaker 1 01:00:47 You were selling her a bit high, but it turned out Speaker 3 01:00:50 Captain and grimaces. He goes, and on that note, he gets up stretches the shoulders. I am officially uncomfortable with this conversation. That's Speaker 1 01:01:00 Fine. I don't want to have any conversations about anything. I just want to get off this boat. So I stopped feeling so fucking sick and take a walk. Would you like to come over? Speaker 3 01:01:09 He looks like he's considering it for a second. And then he says, why not lead the way? I Speaker 1 01:01:15 Mean, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going off the ship and down the boardwalk, Speaker 3 01:01:19 I guess after a second on the edge of your hearing, there's a sound and the captains might want to block your ears. Lad, fuck Speaker 1 01:01:29 You. If you're about to tell me there's more sirens, but then Leo claps, his hands over his ears. Speaker 3 01:01:34 Even with your hands over your ears, you hear as a slow building, chorus of horns, ring out over the town of Ms. Burrow. The captain spreads his arms wide and tilts his head back and just not see himself. The sound dies down and the captain says, right, don't expect you celebrate, but happy new year smart money says that all of woken your sister up, you Speaker 1 01:02:00 Vastly underestimate FI's power to trans. When she's fucked up, my friend, Speaker 3 01:02:07 He lapsed far enough and then he just starts off the boardwalk. He seems a little lighter. He's got a little more pep in his step, walking the other way. You see a, about the equivalent of like 13 year old storm folk girl in long gray robes with her hair tied back with a gray scarf. As she sees the captain, she just beams and like runs up and starts chattering away. It's a little hard to make out because she is speaking Aquan. But as we've said, Aquan is like mutually intelligible with Elvish. So you mostly understand, she talked about the siren. She's wishing him a happy new year. The captain puts his hands up. He goes, whoa, whoa, slow down. This girl like takes a very deep breath. Anyway, did you kill the sirens? And they haven't says the sirens are dead. It's all. Well, it should be getting regular supplies in within the week. This girl just now to herself. And then she looks at you for the first time in this conversation. And you watch her shrink back a little bit. I mean, I Speaker 1 01:03:15 Was a little bit confused by that. He's not visibly armed. He's got Kim rose blade up in his sleeve, but he doesn't have a sword. Speaker 3 01:03:25 The captain looks at this little girl and then looks at you. And then with a tight smile says what dear. This is. Ah, and then he pauses. Like he's thinking for a second about whether or not he should give an alias and then shrugs and says blame. His sister is the lady that was with me yesterday. This little girl looks at, you, looks at the captain, says in awkward boom with the Cape. And the captain says exactly. He looks at you and he says, Leo, this is one of Ms. Burrow's esteemed acolytes. I mean, can I Speaker 1 01:04:02 Insight check this girl if I'm making her uncomfortable, I don't want to hang out. Speaker 3 01:04:06 Yeah, sure. Well, I'd say that's a 15. She looks a little spooked, but not super uncomfortable. She looks Speaker 1 01:04:16 Wary, but curious. Speaker 3 01:04:19 She does a quick clip, little bow and says pleased to meet you, sir. Happy new year. Yeah. Happy new year. Hi. You can call me Leo. What's your name? You know the transformation that comes over a 13 year old's face. When you say something, they think it's stupid. Very intimately. Yes. Yeah. That happens. This little girl's face. She squints. He or she says, what, you're your name? What's your name? Very slowly. She says, well, I'm an acolyte. The captain, his lips pinched together for a second. Like he's trying not to laugh. And he says a feature of Zephyr Royal state service is that there's not so much names. As at wire. He makes a vague gesture. Like he thinks for a second. He says you're acquainted with Kacha. It's a bit like how in a Squire people tend to be named by deeds. Yes. Hi. Speaker 1 01:05:18 I'm here at the crag. Kat. Nice to meet you. Speaker 3 01:05:22 Right? Anyhow. A feature of state service is people tend to be named by how do I say it by the drops? By the rules. And he nods back towards the chef. He says like, doc. Oh, okay. Speaker 1 01:05:43 Leo nods at this girl again. Speaker 3 01:05:45 So it's just acolyte then. That's okay. She gives you another one of those looks like she thinks you're very stupid. And she says, hi, that'll do okay. Well, nice to meet you. I, I Speaker 1 01:05:59 Have a very long and contemplated walk to take everybody, have a happy new year, enjoy yourselves. And I just take off down the boardwalk. Speaker 3 01:06:08 The accolade actually runs after you. She like grabs your sleeve. She says, wait, wait. She pulls you up to a stop. And then she says, so what happened with the crackpot? Leo freezes Speaker 1 01:06:23 Really awkwardly and then looks over at this trial. Speaker 3 01:06:27 Oh, the crank hat you, you want to know about the crack cat, her face screws up a little bit. I want to hear a fun story. I've never left Ms. Barone. I've heard all the captains stories. Leo, here's the opportunity Speaker 1 01:06:43 For a fun story and against all odds kind of breaks out into a smile. Has anybody ever you that in a sky, everything is 10 times. Speaker 3 01:06:56 Her eyes go very big. She says it is not. Oh yes, it is all of the animals. Speaker 1 01:07:03 Even the trees. They're bigger than your castle up there on the mountain. And he points up to where the Citadel is. Piercing the skyline in the distance. Speaker 3 01:07:14 You start telling this kid this story, she leads you down the docks. As you're talking and slowly amasses, a small crowd of other like middle school, age children, Leo, Speaker 1 01:07:27 Just into a pretty embellished story of the crab cat fight that makes him look a lot more heroic than he was. Speaker 3 01:07:35 But does do a, uh, yeah. Speaker 1 01:07:37 And that's where I got this and points to the big scar across Speaker 3 01:07:40 His face. All the middle schoolers go, Ooh, yay. I'm hit with the youths. One shitty teenage boy just goes, well, I don't believe that actually happened. And the accolade goes and then points to you. And in Ocwen, she says, he's traveling with the Compton. He helps kill the Sawyer ends. Oh, helped. I did it. Single handedly, my friends roll deception right now. Okay. 17 kids at Alta six to insight. One of the younger kids, they're like probably about 11 or 12 equivalently pipes up. Why would you kill the Sawyer ends? I thought it's dry. Speaker 1 01:08:33 Leo stops in his tracks as he's walking Speaker 4 01:08:36 And kind of just grits his teeth and hisses. Um, yeah, buddy, you're not wrong for the most part, which is something that I didn't learn until not very long ago, but what's important for all of you to know, is that the vast majority of people in Australia don't know about the bad guys, they don't know about all of the bad things that the people that have power in Australia do, um, acolyte, you met my sister yesterday, right? She was very tall and I am very not. And I Speaker 1 01:09:28 Understand this and I've been told it my whole life. Speaker 4 01:09:33 My sister and I are trying to stop the people in Australia that are making all of the bad things happen. But we're not, we're not heroes. We're not like the captain. All right. Where people who did the wrong thing for a really long time who have realized what the right thing is and are trying to make that happen. Does that make sense to you guys? They Speaker 3 01:10:11 All kind of nod and there's like a beat of silence. And then one of the kids says, do you have any other stories you guys want to hear about that time? I fought a giant crocodile. Albert Rory, as the flaws, uproarious, cheers from the children. It all begins Speaker 1 01:10:33 In a swamp and oh, Skyah fi you wake up to the worst hangover you've ever had and also fresh stitches in your shoulder that you definitely don't recall Speaker 3 01:10:47 Getting cradling her head. And one hand fuel slowly, sit up and try to get her bearings. You are alone in your bunk. Leo is not there. There Speaker 1 01:10:59 Is a big glass of water on the table next to you. Speaker 3 01:11:01 However, you do notice that Speaker 1 01:11:04 The crew's quarters is much quieter than usual. Even during the day, there are some people that are down here on their breaks and you can hear them because the walls really thin. There's nothing. It sounds like the entire cruise quarters is empty. Speaker 3 01:11:18 Fee's going to downer glass of water and then try to go up on deck. See what's going on. Decks, empty too. It looks like there's nobody on the ship. But then from behind Speaker 1 01:11:31 You, you hear a ruffle feathers and a voice dripping with gravitas saying, ah, Speaker 3 01:11:38 You awaken Pelican. I'm going to, oh, so politely request that you get into my eyeline before you talk to me, Pelican walks Speaker 1 01:11:50 Around to the front of you, as you requested. Yes. I have been told that's my presence can be alarming. And then he holds out a flask to you and goes hair of the proverbial dog Speaker 3 01:12:03 Feet looks at him like that. The flask slowly reaches out to grab it and says, it's not so much that your presence is inherently alarming. Although it is, it's just the surprise. You understand? And then she takes a swig out of the flask. It's straight rum. All right. Uh, where is everyone? They would all be in town for the Speaker 1 01:12:30 New year's festivities. I remained behind because Speaker 3 01:12:35 Well, Speaker 1 01:12:36 And he takes the flashback. It takes a big pole Speaker 3 01:12:38 Out of it. Fee nod. She says, you know, pelicans. Sometimes you say things that I feel like you're fishing for a reaction out of me. And I'm just not going to give you the satisfaction. My idea. Speaker 4 01:12:50 Look at me. I do not fish for reactions so much as the reactions jump into my boat. If you would like to go down to the festival and find the rest of your compatriots, I am sure that they are enjoying themselves, pursuing Speaker 3 01:13:03 The delights of the living fee. Put the hat up to her head and says this hangover makes me unsure. Whether I count as the living or deserve joy. I assure Speaker 4 01:13:15 You that we'll be people at the festival that can answer that particular theological conundrum for you. There will also be more booze. Speaker 3 01:13:23 Good enough. Phenology says have a wonderful day. Pelican. Do you want me to bring you anything? If you should stumble Speaker 4 01:13:30 Across my husband, please inform him that my avian companion requests, some of the fried fish, if they have any extra, Speaker 3 01:13:37 We'll do the bird squawks at you appreciatively. All right. If he's getting off the boat, Speaker 1 01:13:46 You get off the ship and walk down the docks into town. The docks are also dead silent. There's nobody moving Speaker 3 01:13:53 Around. Most of the streets are empty, but then you Speaker 1 01:13:57 Start to hear the sounds of congregating people down towards what you would assume is a town square. And Ms. Barrow, you vaguely remember being here Speaker 3 01:14:05 Last night. You do see Speaker 1 01:14:07 A dumpster that you fell into and you do recall Speaker 3 01:14:10 That he gets her bearings and then head that way you emerged Speaker 1 01:14:15 Into this big town square much like the rest of the city. It is all just hewn out of the rock of this giant stone that makes up the island that shoots up. Speaker 3 01:14:25 See the square is also Speaker 1 01:14:28 Empty, but it is set up for what appears to be a very large party that is going to be happening soon. There are long tables that already have plates of food on them. Speaker 3 01:14:38 Big fire pit. It's not lit yet, but most Speaker 1 01:14:42 Of the sounds of congregated people that you're hearing are coming from this big open front bling that is towards the back of the square that you can see. It's just packed Speaker 3 01:14:52 Full of people. All right. Uh, do I see anyone that I know, uh, if you'd like move closer, enroll Speaker 1 01:15:00 Me in an investigation check. We can figure that out Speaker 3 01:15:04 Natural 18 and with her mom modifier, that's a dirty 20. So yeah, you move a little closer. Speaker 1 01:15:11 You can see pretty much the entire population of Ms. Burrow is packed into this building, but dotted back among them in long stone, benches that are inside you spot dock, kind of close to the front in the nicest clothes you've ever seen her in these very like long and nicely pressed gray robes. You see boots because boots is hard to miss. He's about to heads over everybody in this building and kind of hunched uncomfortably Speaker 3 01:15:36 On them. And Speaker 1 01:15:38 Towards the back back closest to you on the back row of benches, you look over and you see the opalescent flash of sunlight off of a long shock of red and gold and orange hair. And you see the captain's hat just kind of bowed down Speaker 3 01:15:56 Fees, going to like cautiously kind of duck in and sit next to the captain. There's absolutely Speaker 1 01:16:03 Room, right bench for you to sit next to him. You notice that all of the other people around him are giving him kind of a wide berth. Speaker 3 01:16:10 You also notice that he looks Speaker 1 01:16:12 More subdued than you've ever seen him. He's just sitting very quietly attending to what's going on and up at the front of this building. You're starting to realize it's a temple. At this point, there is an older storm folk lady about Speaker 3 01:16:27 Doc's age who Speaker 1 01:16:30 Appears we'll be wrapping up some kind of religious service. There's a great big leather bound book on a podium in front of her that gets shut and put away in some kind of case towards the back. And everybody start standing up. The captain remains seated. You look over and you see that he has this little pocket sized leather bound book in his hand, that looks very well taken care of, but very worn and really old that he's leaving back through. And it's filled with Ocwen script and he's just sort of following along with the end of everything, but then stands up to go and he snaps it. Shut, shoves it back into the inside pocket of his big fancy Brocade frock coat. It turns over to you still looking very subdued. Speaker 3 01:17:21 Hi, glad to see you survived to drinking with you. Not everybody does feed laughs. She says barely, but yes, the mystery of how one small teenager can put so much away will probably confound me for the rest of my life. Well, my personal theory is that she's got extra Speaker 1 01:17:38 Space to put the alcohol in the empty vacuous void where all of her kindness and is supposed to go Speaker 3 01:17:46 Feed laughs and then like claps a hand over her mouth. Well, you're certainly one to talk. I'm kind to talk to. I'm going to remind you that you did kidnap me 10 minutes after we met. He Speaker 1 01:17:59 Tries to smile at you, but it still comes out a little sad, ah, extenuating circumstances. Speaker 3 01:18:06 You see his Speaker 1 01:18:06 Eyes kind of dart back and forth to the people around again, a couple of those people in the gray robes from state service that are here, just giving him kind of dirty looks Speaker 3 01:18:18 And he Speaker 1 01:18:19 Coughs a justice hat on his head Speaker 3 01:18:21 And goes, ah, I must be going high. Probably outstayed my welcome, right? I'll walk you back to the ship. I'll be fine. Without an escort last I would hate for you to miss the party. It's going to be a good one. Now that, uh, hold the supply channels are open again. Nobody's afraid to celebrate. He kinda crosses her arms over her chest. She says, and I would hate for you to walk back to the ship alone. I really must insist Speaker 1 01:18:49 He takes his hat off and runs a hand back through his hair back on. Speaker 3 01:18:54 Right? Well perhaps it's best to at least Speaker 1 01:18:57 Stay safe or drink. And a dance doc will probably try to string me up by my own intestines. If I do Speaker 3 01:19:02 Charlie and he goes Speaker 1 01:19:04 To the farthest flung table, he can find and just posts Speaker 3 01:19:08 Up. Okay? Yeah, he's going to post that. But then you see this, you Speaker 1 01:19:12 Starting, people are gathering in the square, talking laughing, Speaker 3 01:19:16 People start bringing Speaker 1 01:19:17 Out big cover dishes of food. Somebody pulls out a fiddle there's music starting to go. People start dancing. It seems like the type of environment that the captain would typically thrive in, but he is still just looking a bit put out. He doesn't really try to engage you in any kind of conversation. Just occasionally looks up at the party going on around you and pulls that little book back out of his jacket and starts leafing through. Speaker 3 01:19:49 If he's going to kind of elbow in the ribs and say, watch out. I prefer to be the gloomiest person to any given gathering boy. And I'd hate to horn in on your aesthetic. But, uh, he emphatically flips another little page in the book last night. Wasn't fun for me. And today hasn't been either. I understand that, but we beat the sirens. Things are and then cheat gestures at the party going on around them going well. And miss bruh, it seems like righteous rain and Ms. Burrow, everything is, it looks really Speaker 1 01:20:30 Bitter for a second snaps. The book closed. Yeah. Speaker 3 01:20:35 Everything's back to normal Speaker 4 01:20:36 And our entire course has Speaker 3 01:20:38 Thrown off. We're going to be under supplied. And the thing about killing monsters that can talk is it doesn't erase the things they said to you. Well, in my experience with things being said for the express purpose of causing pain feet reaches up one hand attached to the face for throat. Nothing better not to dwell on it Speaker 4 01:21:04 Until usually don't, but a recent situations and present company make that a little hard. Speaker 1 01:21:14 He looks off towards where some of the state service people who are helping Dole out food at the tables are still kind of eyeing him. And winces really hard. It's not like a blame them. You know, he reaches back into his pocket, waves the book in the air and puts it down. Speaker 4 01:21:42 It's like it says in the book, if your neighbor's house gets struck by lightning and help him rebuild it, cause it might strike yours next. It's not illegal to leave state service. I mean, anyone who wants to can, but most people don't. Why would you they're the most respected people in the Isles. They're living the dream. You're set for life. You're taking care of taking care of other people. But uh, our teachers, when we're growing up, they help us figure out what we're best suited for. When it comes time for us to actually start doing our duties. When I was younger, they wanted to fast track me into some big fancy career as a legislator. And I don't know who that person would have been, but Speaker 1 01:22:39 He reaches down to where he has that same old linen shirt. That's open all the way to his waistband and kind of rubs at one of the horizontal scars across his chest. Whoever that person was. It wasn't me. Speaker 4 01:22:55 I mean, could you see me sitting pretty at some high table in power ports, talking about trade routes while people are getting picked out of the Dragon's mall every day? No, no, I don't think I could. I neither could tell you. That's why I left. And I'm a man of faith last. I've always done my best to do right by my people without compromising everything about who I am. Speaker 1 01:23:32 He looks out at where the party is swirling around you. There are people starting to dance. You hear a couple people starting to sing. The captain just sighs again and shakes his head, Speaker 4 01:23:44 But they don't see it that way. It's different on the farther flung Isles, the places without citadels, those people will take all the help they can get. But here, here, I'm always going to be the good for nothing pirates with no name and no principles that turned his back on his people when they needed him. I know it, they know it was fucking sirens, knew it. And when that many people around, you know, the same thing, it gets a bit hard to ignore. Speaker 3 01:24:18 He kind of reaches back, messes with their hair a little bit and says, well, if there's anything I've learned in the last year, it's that the things we think we know about ourselves are often misconceptions. And she like reaches up and straightens the cloud on her shoulders. Speaker 1 01:24:41 He looks over at you and smiles, but it's still kind of sad. I suppose they are. That's Speaker 4 01:24:47 Why most of this bullshit doesn't bother me. That's often not the end of the day. It's not the entire population of Ms. Burrow to have to translate. It might just myself and unfortunate winds are blowing some fair, louder loss from a pleasure house and parlay Cove and a trans fine. Most of the time when, uh, you know, scaly sea monsters, aren't turning into fucking defiance right in front of me. How about you last find her by the day captain. That's good to hear he Speaker 1 01:25:22 Does off the front of his coat and stands up. Speaker 4 01:25:25 Well at any rate, I'd like to be back on my ship, where I'm in command and the only person giving me dirty looks as my first mate, Speaker 1 01:25:34 Understood lead the way you go back to the ship. You're the first people from the crew to kind of leave this party and head back, but they don't Terrie very long after you leave pelicans back on the boat. When you get back playing solitaire on deck, Speaker 3 01:25:55 The captain goes off to Speaker 1 01:25:56 His quarters to either sulk or contemplate. You're not really sure what he does in Speaker 3 01:26:00 There. A couple of minutes later, Speaker 1 01:26:03 See you who you did not see at the party. She was also probably off sulking, somewhere, trumping up the boardwalk and she gets on the ship. Doesn't say anything to you, but gives you a nod of solidarity and your hangover Speaker 3 01:26:16 Fee nods back at her. And Speaker 1 01:26:18 Eventually the rest trickle back. Ascot comes back with this huge wagon full of supplies that he hauls laboriously up Speaker 3 01:26:26 Onto the boat. You see Speaker 1 01:26:28 Glasses and boots and doc and the rest of them all starting to trickle back in. You're getting ready to pull up anchor and get the hell out. When you hear wait from the end of the boardwalk, Speaker 3 01:26:41 Okay, let's go on out at the end of the boardwalk, you see your brother Speaker 1 01:26:45 Full tilt, sprinting down the dock just as the captain is getting ready to pull the gangway up from the pier. Everybody kind of assumed that Leo was on the boat, but he is not. He is down on the docks sprinting for the ship and followed like the pied fucking Piper by this amalgam of children that are just chasing after him on his heels. He skids to a halt at the bottom of the gangplank points up at the captain. He goes, where you going to fucking leave me here? No one thought to check. If I was on the boat surrounding him again, just this gaggle of children Speaker 3 01:27:24 Fi you do spot the acolyte that you met yesterday in the crowd. Speaker 1 01:27:29 She sticking really close to Leo. The captain is holding the gangplank. And for a moment you really see him debate. Just pulling it up. He is going Speaker 3 01:27:38 To just very quietly smack the back of his hand and don't you dare fine. And he puts it down. Wouldn't keep his name. Are you doing down there? Leo just kind Speaker 1 01:27:51 Of looks up with this lopsided grin scar tugging down at one corner of his mouth and Speaker 3 01:27:57 Shrugs. I went for a walk. I met these children. Speaker 1 01:28:02 They think I'm cool. And now they have made me their Speaker 3 01:28:04 King, the acolyte Speaker 1 01:28:07 Who's still standing next to him, raises one finger in the air and goes, Speaker 3 01:28:09 We don't have Kings. Leo rolls his eyes. He goes, and now they've made me their leader fee pinched the bridge of Arnaz and says, and even that is a frightening amount of power in your hands. Get on the fucking boat. Okay? Okay, fine. And he hops up on the boat. The captain and boots Speaker 1 01:28:30 Finished hauling up the gangplank and the ship takes off into the Harbor. As the sun sets beyond the horizon, several hours pass Ascot gets all of the new provisions, put away. Boots cooks all of you dinner, Speaker 3 01:28:45 You and Leo, not Speaker 1 01:28:46 Too long after sundown because you are probably both still pretty tired from your ordeal of the past day. Speaker 3 01:28:53 Go off to take your trans. You're not Speaker 1 01:28:57 Quite in your trance yet. When you hear a little wrap on the wall of your bunk with Leo and a quiet Speaker 3 01:29:04 Voice, you'll wake in there am. Now the captain's head pokes around the side of the wall. He looks like he's Speaker 1 01:29:17 Ready for bed. He's ditched the coat and the hat has hairs down. He's just got on his usual pants Speaker 3 01:29:23 And shirt and he goes, come up on deck. There's something I want to show you. If he's going to follow him up on deck, Leo mumbles, Speaker 1 01:29:32 Something in his transplant, doesn't wake up. You and the captain go up on deck. The night is almost deceptively still. You can't really hear anything other than the gentle rolling of the waves against the hall of the ship, but the captains squints out over the railing. As soon as you guys get up on deck and then turns up to look towards the crow's nest Speaker 3 01:29:55 Pelican. I won't tell those sales firearms. We Speaker 4 01:29:57 Got a big one coming in and I'm not turning around to go back to Speaker 3 01:29:59 Ms. Burr feathers, ruffling I saw. And then Speaker 1 01:30:05 He grabs you by the elbow and tucks you over to the railing on the side of Speaker 3 01:30:09 The ship. As you look out Speaker 1 01:30:12 Across the water and the stillness of the night settles around you, you see in the sky over the horizon, that same weather phenomenon that you've been seeing that Aurora like flash of the dark greens and purples and blues Speaker 3 01:30:27 In the sky over your head, but it Speaker 1 01:30:30 Is money closer. Now it is almost directly over your head and covering much more of the sky. And the captain just nods up at it, looks over at you and grants. Speaker 3 01:30:42 Just looking at that. It, I, I didn't know. We could get closer to it. I thought it was just something in the distance, the cap Speaker 1 01:30:57 It's in his looking up at it in the same direction as you are with just this awestruck open mouth Speaker 3 01:31:04 Gran. And he shakes his head, the lights flashing Speaker 1 01:31:07 Overhead set off the Opalescence at his hair. And it is freckled Speaker 3 01:31:12 No, it gets a lot more intimate during storm season. We call it Kivas mantle because of Speaker 1 01:31:20 Well, and he plucks at his shoulders where at the scale mail of your Cape would usually, Speaker 3 01:31:25 And when it gets this close, uh, that's when it gets really interesting. Speaker 1 01:31:31 Most of thunder that you've been hearing and the bad weather that you've been seeing have all been kind of distant and removed, not threatening really at all up until this point. But as he says, this, a peel of thunder ripples down from these lights flashing in the sky and it shakes your bones. It shakes the timbers of the ship. The captain just smile, widening looking, and thrawled says, give it a moment. The Speaker 3 01:32:03 Spreads her hands a little bit, just trying to feel the vibrations of the thunder, still in the timbers of the ship. Speaker 1 01:32:10 And then you watch a huge bolt of lightning coalesce up in these lights over your head and shoot directly down into the sea, off the side of the ship. And it just lights up everything with a blinding brilliance for a moment, and then just opens up the heavens and starts pouring. The rain comes down in sheets. It is an absolute deluge. You are soaked within a second Speaker 3 01:32:46 Fi laughs and just tilt their head back. Speaker 1 01:32:51 The captain laughs with you, his hands just closed around the railing bracing against a howling wind that starts to blow down out of the sky and tilts his head back and lets the water run through his hair up in the rigging. You can hear deckhands hands yelling at each other, trying to get the sales for olden because apparently this is about to be a monster of a storm, but he just looks like he's having the time of his life. He's still got his head tilted back, looking up at the lights that are still flashing. Even as the storm, clouds are starting to thicken and grow between them. Speaker 4 01:33:29 It's beautiful. Isn't it? It's it's fantastic. Speaker 1 01:33:40 The captain looking like a drowned rat after like five seconds in this rain turns back over to look at you and he is looking at you the same way he was looking at the lights flashing up overhead for a moment. There's just this breathless pause between you as the storm starts to roar down out of the sky, but then a more serious look flat washes across his face in time with another bolt of lightning shooting down into the sea and over another rumble of thunder, he has to raise his voice a little bit to talk to you. Speaker 4 01:34:19 I heard what they said to you to the sirens. You helped me put a lot of things in perspective today. So I figured I would give you a glimpse at the bigger picture. Yes, this is, uh, this is wonderful. Thank you. Another Speaker 1 01:34:37 Long pause as the thunder and lightning continue to roar around you. But after a while, the captain who's been looking out to where the waves are starting to get rougher and the water's starting to get higher purses. His lips together nods and says Ferrara, it's the time he's ever called you anything but last yes, captain, he turns away from the railing and takes a step closer to you. And one rain soaked hand comes up to press against your cheek Speaker 4 01:35:13 About what the siren said to you. I don't know if it'll help or what it's worth, but coming from an old Seadog like me, who spent a lot of years trying to figure out where he belonged the thing about the place where you belong, the place where you really belong. Speaker 1 01:35:32 He leans in close enough that your noses brush let's go to way of finding you. So if he's going to kiss him on the mouth, he loops his other arm around your neck and pulls you down into this kiss as the thunder roars and the lightning flashes, and the rain keeps falling down around you and sheets. Just these intense few moments before he pulls back, lets go of you and takes a step back. Speaker 4 01:36:11 Right? Well, uh, you must be bumping down for the night. Last, the storm is only going to get worse. Speaker 3 01:36:18 We'll see you in the morning. Feel like futz is with their hair, puts out back together, Speaker 4 01:36:27 Right? See, in the morning captain, he fully swaggers Speaker 1 01:36:34 Off to the captain's quarters. You can see it in the way he is walking. As he turns around and walks away from you and opens the door to the captain's quarters and shuts it behind him. Speaker 3 01:36:46 Fi stays there for a second. Just letting the rain fall on her. It's a very deep breath, says shit and goes off to her, a bunk Speaker 1 01:37:00 And as the storm rages on and the ship moves forward through the tumultuous ocean towards Pearl port. That is where we end for this week. Speaker 3 01:37:15 How's fi doing to bisexual for this. So true. 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