4.14: Man or Puppet

[00:00:13] Speaker A: All right, welcome to Spells and Whistles. It's some kind of tabletop podcast, like every other one out there, except it's us instead of them. So Meg's gonna do the recap this time because I didn't write one. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Okay. Previously on Spells and Whistles. In the aftermath of Myla turning into a little puppet and ID getting some mockery from the puppet, everyone kind of freaks out, and we're like, ah. And so we decide to do the thing that we do best, which is talk to people and ask questions and research. So the first thing that we do, we go to the yellow Church, which isn't actually a church. It's just kind of a nice lawn space with trees and, like, trellises and planty goodness and stuff. But anyway, we go to the church. We don't get much, so we decide to hit up the library. Autumn looks up some stuff about yellow Magic and learns that there's not really a whole lot of connecting factor between a lot of the different branches of it, because there's the universe that is represented by it and a large spread of lots of things that can fit under that umbrella category. So while she's looking at that ID is looking at stuff to do with what was ID researching. [00:01:34] Speaker C: He ends up reading stories. I think he was trying to figure out. [00:01:38] Speaker B: He was looking at, like, people turning into puppet lore, of which there wasn't much. We. [00:01:44] Speaker C: We reached that. Oh, no. Yeah, because that's how he ended up reading stories. [00:01:49] Speaker D: I was just like, we reached that from other things. [00:01:52] Speaker C: And I was like, no. That is where Ben started, isn't it? [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Melwyn got a little more information learning about fiends, powerful fiends, and learned that stuff can kind of ascend to that level. It doesn't necessarily have to be, like, someone turning into a God, but someone who becomes very powerful in a certain field of sorts will allow them to, you know, ascend and such. And so that is a theory that we have about the puppet. Melan also learned that. What was the other thing that you picked up on? [00:02:30] Speaker A: Oh. [00:02:30] Speaker C: Melon used her previous knowledge of her connection to, like, kind of figure out some shit, and that's how she got, like. [00:02:39] Speaker D: That's how we got on. The whole puppet was months mortal and became. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Yes, that's what it was. [00:02:43] Speaker C: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. [00:02:44] Speaker B: Great. [00:02:44] Speaker C: I took decent notes. For once in my life. [00:02:47] Speaker B: I'm proud. Hey, you say that like you're not, like a fabulous note taker with. [00:02:51] Speaker C: Honestly, call out it. Some of our recent sessions, I'VE written, like, two things down. Cause I. [00:02:57] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:02:59] Speaker C: I was like, I'll just listen to the episode. [00:03:01] Speaker B: I know that's the terrible trap that. [00:03:03] Speaker C: I fall into, too. And then I don't, because I hate listening to the sound of my own voice, which is shocking to anybody who's ever heard me talk. Talk for more than five seconds. [00:03:14] Speaker B: We finish up at the library, feeling discouraged, and head back to our apartment. Nadia is there, and she's like, well, did you try just talking to the puppet? To which we're all like, oh, actually, no, we didn't. So Id took the puppet outside the Myla puppet and asked what it wanted, and it wanted a body. Either we kill someone mostly, and then it hops in the body, or we build a body from scratch for the puppet to inhabit, and it gets the sense that it's like a kid and that it's been doing this maybe before the puppet. OG Puppet said that it's done it 3,000 times, but it's calling that a lie. And so we all reconvene. We discuss why they want a body, why a kid would want a body, why a kid would be so powerful at magic, and start speculating about who the true identity of the puppet really is. Yeah, we didn't do a whole lot of research into severing Nadia's magic connection. So I think that if Nadia is interested in coming along with Auden, might suggest she doesn't want to go alone because she knows it won't go well. But if Nadia wants to go and do some investigating of that, that Auden will kind of go and help out with that. She'll bring the, like. I think unless anyone else wants to have the Myla doll, Auden is probably gonna carry it around like a sad child, just like, I don't know what. I don't want to leave it alone. I don't want, like, you know, So I think she just, like, continuously just has it, like, poking out of her backpack a little bit. [00:04:58] Speaker C: That's not creepy or weird at all. [00:05:02] Speaker B: She's unwell. She's sad. She misses her buddy. [00:05:05] Speaker C: It's fine. We're fine. This is so normal, guys. [00:05:11] Speaker E: Yeah, everything's chill. [00:05:13] Speaker B: That's the direction that. [00:05:15] Speaker A: I'm so glad you think so. Sorry, what was the question? [00:05:21] Speaker B: Oh, I was just saying that's what Auden is interested in doing, so. So if other people want to also tag along or go about their own business, I am. [00:05:29] Speaker C: I am. [00:05:29] Speaker E: I think I will go about my own business. I think I.D. i mean, maybe we can just like before they finish up. It's training because we don't miss it for another. [00:05:39] Speaker C: Oh yeah, please. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Yeah. ID and Nadia were training for like the two weeks that Myla and Moen and Keith here some spell writing. My follow up question for that is what I have. I have an idea, but what do you want out of this? [00:06:04] Speaker E: I will literally take anything. The last. Last time I got something from training I think was this is not a dig against Anastasia. This is me remembering a cool thing that happened and wanting more cool things to happen. Was a really long time ago. Outside of the. [00:06:24] Speaker C: Back in the Sanctuary. [00:06:26] Speaker E: Back at the Sanctuary, I trained and like got plus one to stealth because I trained with a Tabaxi guard who was good at wearing armor and sneaking around and it has been riding that high for like months. [00:06:42] Speaker A: So my. So my thing is with you and audio training together, when it comes to combat, mechanical D and D combat, if one of you wants to give up your action to the other one, the other person can add the damage from the second person to their original attacks. Does that make sense? So if Nadia is set up to do sneak attack, but she gives up her action for you on your turns and you make an attack, you can add her like you can add whatever her weapon would have been plus her sneak attack damage. [00:07:24] Speaker C: That's right. [00:07:25] Speaker A: Your own weapon damage. [00:07:27] Speaker E: That's rad. That's so sick. It's like we all. We both create openings for each other to get like free damage in. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:34] Speaker E: That's awesome. I'm gonna call that tag team in my feats list. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Okay. She. Yeah, I mean she does give up her action to do it. She still has a bonus action, but so it's like not a whole lot of extra damage if both of you were to hit. But if you like crit 20 on your hit or whatever, like it doubles like literally everything. [00:08:00] Speaker C: That's awesome. [00:08:01] Speaker A: So got it. [00:08:02] Speaker E: So would it. Would that be something that I would like say on IDs turn or Nadia's turn or like Nadia uses her action and then on IDs next turn it would add that damage. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Depending on where you guys are in initiative. Yes. [00:08:21] Speaker E: Got it. [00:08:23] Speaker A: If you said. If you said to Nadia like, hey, you got my back or whatever, like an in game way of asking the tag team, then it would just be on your turn and then she would have to like lose her action on her following turn or whatever. [00:08:38] Speaker D: Kind of. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Whatever makes sense. As long as there's an even no action for one person and bonus ability for the Other. That's so intense. [00:08:50] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:08:53] Speaker A: But the damage type is whatever your weapon is. So if you do a bunch of thunder damage for some reason, then it would just be more thunder damage. [00:09:03] Speaker C: Kind of reminds me of the baton pass in Persona. I will find a way to relate this to any video game if I can. [00:09:15] Speaker A: So that's what you guys get for training for two weeks together is the ability to, like, toss weapons back and forth or like. Yeah, you know, flank. [00:09:26] Speaker E: Figure out each other's patterns or. Yeah, Yeah, I like it. That's awesome. [00:09:30] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Was that business that it was attending to or is that a content continuation? [00:09:38] Speaker E: I would say go, go do your. Your thing now. I'm. I'm happy for a while. [00:09:44] Speaker C: I'm happy for a while. He says, yeah. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Where are you headed? Library. [00:09:50] Speaker B: With Nadia, the library has been. [00:09:55] Speaker C: Helpful. [00:09:56] Speaker B: I mean, Auden just doesn't know how to navigate a library. [00:09:59] Speaker A: How dare you. I gave you so much lore. You guys have learned so much stuff the last two sessions. Don't tell me the library's unhelpful. [00:10:09] Speaker D: I'm kidding. [00:10:12] Speaker B: But I think that, you know, in Auden's brain, she's felt very frustrated by, you know, not being able to do much in terms of like, magic study, learning kind of stuff. So I think that she is gonna see if she can track down somebody that like a. She's much more of a people person, believe it or not, then, you know, not, you know, just figuring stuff out on her own. So I think that she is looking for. Are there any does. I can't remember if Nadia has any connections to people here in Vita, and if she does, maybe like, those connections would be helpful to her or if there's like any. [00:11:08] Speaker A: No, she doesn't know anyone in Traylo. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Is Arcanist a common, like title? Because we know, like, Amali used the title Arcanist. Are there other, like, arcanists? [00:11:21] Speaker A: Yeah, they're kind of few and far between. It's like a high title that used to be given out by like universities and things. Kind of like a Ph.D. right? Like, but now is mostly just used as like a self given title of like, I feel like I know a very much a lot about magic, so. [00:11:46] Speaker B: And is there a fantasy equivalent of like the Yellow Pages, like if she asks around on the street, like, where's the nearest arcanist? Or like, you know, are there any like, shops that sell like material components for spells that there might be someone who knows magic popping in to buy some stuff, things like that? [00:12:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's easy to find that the arcanist here also is like the head of the university in town, in the city. So they are there then. [00:12:25] Speaker B: I think that Auden is going to mosey over there with Nadia just kind of. I think her only other experience with universities was the one that we were in. I think it was in gear, which wasn't a very great experience, all things considered. So I think she's gonna go in a little sour faced and just kind of say, I needed to speak with your head of the university. How do I go about doing that? [00:12:55] Speaker A: I think their office is like in the west wing and the top of. [00:13:01] Speaker B: The tower and I can just like go there. [00:13:05] Speaker C: Sure. [00:13:06] Speaker B: Okay. Thank you. She nods to this student or whoever. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:12] Speaker B: And we'll go and wrap, wrap, wrap, wrap. RAP ON THE DOOR this school is. [00:13:17] Speaker A: A lot bigger than the one in gear. It's. Yeah, it's like a fair. It's like a large castle type building. So it takes you a little bit to find like the west side, the west wing and then the tower and all that. But you guys head up there and. Is Melwyn there or is Melwyn doing something else? [00:13:43] Speaker C: Melan's off doing something else. But do Meg's thing first. [00:13:48] Speaker A: No, I know, I just was like, yeah, of course. I just wanted to make sure that if you were there, we established now before we get into a whole thing. [00:13:56] Speaker C: No, because. Because Grace is trying to think and if I try to think and talk at the same time, it's just going to end up a mess. [00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah. You knock on the door and the door opens and the voice inside says, yeah, come in. [00:14:15] Speaker B: She squints her eyes a little bit and looks at Nadia and she's like, it's already a lot more different than the last school. But she'll go inside and she'll just. [00:14:26] Speaker A: Nadia shrugs. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Hello, my name is Auden. This is Nadia. [00:14:34] Speaker A: Hi. Give me two seconds. And she has her back turned towards you, but she has very white hair, super long braided pretty intricately. And she's scribbling something on a table on one side of the office. It's like brightly lit in here. There's like, it seems like there's like multiple instances of dancing lights going on with. So it's like very colorful but also just kind of very slow floating little orbs just kind of rotating their way around. Her office is like covered with floor to ceiling bookshelves, a lot of old books. One of the fun like slidy ladder thingies so you can get to the top shelves there is like an actual, like, office type desk in the center. But then there's also a bunch of tables on the sides where it looks like there's just, like, papers, books, things scattered everywhere. It's, like, pretty messy in here. Kind of for being in, you know, an office of. Of a professional human being. But. But she, like, scribbles down something and turns it around. And she's pretty tall. She has, like, very pale skin, and she's wearing these, like, what seem to be very dark green robes with some accents of a lighter green. Hi. Auden and Nadia, like, looking between the two of you, trying to figure out which one is which. Nice to meet you. My name is. Is Joy Willow. What. What can I help you with? [00:16:19] Speaker B: Um, okay, so we aren't students here, but we have heard that you are the closest thing, if not an Arcanist to an Arcanist. Would that be true? [00:16:35] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. Yeah. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Okay, great. [00:16:39] Speaker A: I didn't give myself that title, but others continue to. [00:16:43] Speaker B: So Arun's gonna. If there's a chair that a student might sit in, she's gonna kind of point. May I sit down? I have a lot that I need to kind of COVID here. [00:16:52] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:16:53] Speaker B: She's gonna plop down in the seat and she's gonna tell her. She's not giving her all the nitty gritty details. She's not gonna tell her about Errandril and all this stuff. But big key points, like, Nadia is tethered to somebody else who shares her magical ability, and that other person is undergoing some unfortunate changes. Not puberty. When I say it like that, it sounds like that magical change. And so she is just gonna be trying to see what can be done to sever that tie while still preserving the magic of Nadia and not allowing that the changes to transfer over to her. [00:17:42] Speaker D: Mmm. [00:17:43] Speaker A: That is. That's a dilemma. I've. I've only dealt with this kind of thing once, and it was not nearly at this level. Although, is this magic that only the two of you do, or. It's magic that is pretty common, and. [00:18:02] Speaker B: I've only seen the two of them do it before. And she kind of looks to Nadia to confirm. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Yeah, Nadia. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. [00:18:13] Speaker B: You said you've seen this before, but on a smaller level. She's gonna, like, shuffle around and pull out the Mylar doll and, like, kind of have it out so in case Myla can hear through the doll. She can. Better. [00:18:26] Speaker A: She just gives you a look like. I didn't know this was a stressful conversation and we needed, like, support system but okay. And just. Just says yes. As is fairly common with magic types, everyone who uses magic of a certain type will connect themselves with those who use magic of another type. Like if you can think of a spider web and every person being like a nexus point between all of the strands. So the more that people use it, though, the less connect. I mean, the more connected they are, but the less strong that connection is. And, And. And it's all pulling from, you know, one sort of main source, I guess you would call it. Okay. I think I would need to see it to understand what I need to do. She looks over at Nadia, and Nadia just kind of is like, I mean, if you want, I. She pulls out a. Her notebook and pen and just scribble something real quick. And a small little leaf just kind of floats down from somewhere in the ceiling, appears out of nowhere, just kind of floats down weirdly. Looks a little like Yaren, but it's not Yaren. It's just a leaf that kind of looks like yarn's default leaf shape. And this arcanist grabs the leaf and kind of inspects it and then watches it disappear. Huh. Well, that is strong. I assume it's more than. More than just that. And Nadia, like, you know, bobs her head. Yeah, it's. It can be a lot bigger, a lot more complex, too, if necessary. Okay, yeah, yeah, we can do this. It's just. Well, it's dangerous and time consuming, but it's probably possible. [00:20:49] Speaker B: Dangerous? Like how? [00:20:51] Speaker A: Well, this kind of magic is not. You can either. You can either sever the connection entirely, and the two magic, the two magics will grow on their own, in which they are still kind of connected at the source. Does that make sense? Like, if someone traced it back enough, you could reach the other person. It's just a lot harder. Or she can lose her magic entirely and not pull from that source anymore. I don't know the other person who does this, so I can't stop their connection to this magic. Sadly, I can only stop hers. But either way, she's still going to be connected, and that connection will reform over time unless you maintain it. Does that make sense? [00:21:53] Speaker B: Think so. So you can. You can make it so they're not affecting each other the way that they currently are. But it's something that needs to be upkept, and it's not something that you can just shut down from the other end. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Yes. Like, if you think of that spider web, right, and you cut one strand of the spider web, there is still a point from the original point. To the other one. It's now just longer. Right. All we're doing is cutting that shorter route. [00:22:33] Speaker B: This is like what will eventually reconnect that anyone has explained. Like magic stuff in a way that like, makes sense. So I'm very impressed. So thank you. You are good at what you do. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Happy to help. [00:22:47] Speaker B: She'll like, kind of, you know, under her breath towards the myladah. I don't mean you in that you explain stuff really good too. Okay. So, Nadia, does that sound like something that you are willing to try? Is there anything that I can do to make it less dangerous? [00:23:07] Speaker A: Unfortunately, it's just kind of dangerous in what it is when you're dealing with strong, strong magic. It can go sideways at any moment. So it's. It's just dangerous in that way. Um, yeah, I mean, it's probably something we should do. [00:23:30] Speaker D: Kind of. [00:23:31] Speaker A: Not. I don't know, I'm a little bit like, ah, fuck it. But also, I don't want to die or get taken over before I can do something about it. So. [00:23:43] Speaker B: How long will it take? You did say it could take some time. [00:23:49] Speaker A: It could take time if it goes the way that I don't intend it to go. Oh, if it does, then not very long at all. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Oh, great. Plan on that then. [00:24:07] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:08] Speaker B: How much would we owe you for this? I feel like just asking you to do it for free is a bit of large expectation. [00:24:17] Speaker A: No, it's. No. I'm here to help the students, but also the city that I live in. So no worries. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Okay, cool. We'll be back in an hour then. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Great. See you then. Melvin, what are you up to? [00:24:45] Speaker C: Did Id have a thing or. No, Because I don't. I don't want to take away from Ben getting to do things. [00:24:53] Speaker E: I did a thing. [00:24:54] Speaker C: I know. [00:24:55] Speaker E: Who hasn't done a thing yet? [00:24:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why I'm asking you. [00:24:58] Speaker C: Yes and no. But like, you didn't get your thing thing for two episodes, cuz we got really sidetracked. [00:25:04] Speaker E: Go forth. Do a thing. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Did you want to do more? Did we need to like play out a training scene? [00:25:12] Speaker E: No, go forth and do a thing. [00:25:15] Speaker A: I like. I think Ben just wanted the mechanical benefit. I don't think he cared much about that. Yes, I did role playing and boy, yeah, that's what I thought. [00:25:26] Speaker C: I have a terrible idea, but I'm gonna save it. All right. [00:25:30] Speaker A: What's Melan up to? [00:25:32] Speaker C: Yeah, well, if Ben doesn't have a thing. Ben was. It was part. Not Ben. Not Ben. The human id, the human specifically Ben, you both happen to be humans or human adjacent. I don't know what it is anymore. That one's gonna go up to ID and be like. [00:25:49] Speaker D: Okay, wait, so you can talk to the thing, right? The whole puppet? You did. You talked to it earlier. Yeah. I realize it's possible that ODIN probably should be here for this, but do you think it. Do you think it could help with the whole Erendro situation? Given the whole it took away Myla thing? [00:26:15] Speaker E: Yes. I'm worried. Well, my initial thought was that we kill Arendril and then he takes Arendril's body. I feel like that's what's gonna happen. [00:26:31] Speaker D: That's entirely possible. Yes. [00:26:35] Speaker E: I ha. I think it's possible to have a situation where we, like. I don't know how this works. Like, curse are body, so then when he jumps into it, it sucks for him. You know. [00:26:56] Speaker D: We do have the formula for the created. [00:27:01] Speaker E: We do. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Oh. [00:27:04] Speaker C: We could have this conversation freely because Aten's not here. Sorry. [00:27:11] Speaker E: We do. I don't know how that would interact with Aaron Drill's body. [00:27:16] Speaker D: Probably poorly, considering how we've been seeing. Well, what we have seen and also what we've been hearing. Because we've been hearing a lot of crazy things. [00:27:28] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:27:29] Speaker C: Too much of grace is coming through Melwyn right now. I'm sorry. [00:27:35] Speaker E: It could work. [00:27:38] Speaker D: Okay, but suppose that this thing actually is responsible for, like, creating the whole world. I don't think that's quite the case. [00:27:48] Speaker E: No, but, like, so either something that I think this. The thing that is smartest to do is to somehow bait it into going into a body that we can easily, like, contain and. Or kill again or shut away or something. Right. If it's in a body, it can influence other people, but it might not be able to leave until it has an opportunity to. Right. Well, I guess it had an opportunity and it just, like, jumped and got Myla. [00:28:32] Speaker D: So. [00:28:33] Speaker E: I don't know. [00:28:34] Speaker D: Odd theory. [00:28:35] Speaker E: Understand. [00:28:39] Speaker C: I don't know that Melan would reach this conclusion, but this is gonna be a very odd question. There's usually a way to tell if your character has died before in D and D. What church would be the best one to go to to try and figure that out? [00:28:58] Speaker A: Probably a. Well, black magic doesn't tend to have churches. You'd probably just have to find a person that does black magic. [00:29:07] Speaker C: Great. Cool. Love that for us. [00:29:10] Speaker D: Yay. Yay. [00:29:14] Speaker C: Melvin is gonna not too keen on going back to the people in the Yellow Commune simply just because they were not very helpful. And none of Them were the most help we got was from a fountain. That was also not very helpful. So. [00:29:34] Speaker A: You got to commune with a fountain for the cost of one gold piece? I think that's pretty okay. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah. But they didn't believe in me and my convictions. [00:29:44] Speaker C: Technically five gold pieces, but actually. No, I'm kidding. I'm being an asshole. I'm sorry. [00:29:54] Speaker D: So. Terribly concerning theory. Patron pact. Right. [00:30:03] Speaker E: Okay. [00:30:05] Speaker D: What the. What if the reason why it was targeting me was because. And now it's targeting you was because it was trying to take over our bodies. [00:30:24] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:30:28] Speaker D: Weird liminal space in between the tavern and emotions or whatever. Trying to figure out if I've died before. More or less at the moment. [00:30:46] Speaker E: Yeah. It did say that it wanted like. If it had to jump into a body, it wanted a body that was like so freshly dead that it could just like slip in while their ghost was leaving. You know, I was. But I was nowhere near dead when we were fighting it. [00:31:08] Speaker D: No, but we were in a very weird in between. [00:31:11] Speaker E: That's fair. [00:31:12] Speaker D: We might. [00:31:14] Speaker E: We just have to give it a really interesting body that it wants to jump in and then like trap it somehow. [00:31:20] Speaker D: I mean, it does seem to like toys a lot. [00:31:24] Speaker E: I wouldn't. Yeah. [00:31:28] Speaker D: Oh boy. [00:31:30] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:31:31] Speaker D: I suppose it's not a normal question to go into a church and ask if you've died before, huh? [00:31:36] Speaker E: No. Okay. We can. Yeah. I don't know what to do about this. I. I really. I mean, we've been preparing for Errandril for a long time. It feels wrong to not try to do something about that. We have the recipe for the antidote kind of thing that we could pass off to people. [00:32:03] Speaker D: That is true. We should probably be careful about who we pass things off to. I feel like that's what Milo would want us to do anyway. [00:32:11] Speaker E: Yeah, but it's an antidote. [00:32:12] Speaker D: You know, it's. [00:32:13] Speaker C: That's true. [00:32:16] Speaker D: There is a school nearby. Yeah, those very much. When do we go find Odin? [00:32:25] Speaker E: I think so. All right, then maybe chat about antidote things. It just like has a headache trying to think so hard. [00:32:43] Speaker C: It's like. No, actually he's. I mean he's not stupid. [00:32:48] Speaker E: He's not stupid. He does have 10 intelligence. [00:32:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just like, you know, easier to remember than this. Like, you know what for so long. [00:33:00] Speaker E: On Myla like thinking things through that now he's like. Oh my gosh. [00:33:06] Speaker C: I mean, Melon's first Melon fully does think like. IDs the smart one. Milo's the strong one. Auden's the Brave one, but Myla just happens to be the one that's good at coming up with ideas. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:20] Speaker E: All right, we go over to the school, too. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Cool. [00:33:22] Speaker A: You guys find Auden and Nadia? Just kind of waiting around. [00:33:29] Speaker D: Oh, thought you were talking to someone. Did you not get your meeting? [00:33:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we're waiting. So the dean or whatever is way better than the one at the other university that we were at. She was so nice and friendly and, like, freely gave information. [00:33:48] Speaker D: The bar is so low on it. [00:33:51] Speaker B: I know, but, like, even if that's true, like, I'm very impressed. Anyway, so she said that she could help sever the tie between Nadia and Opal. Well, we didn't tell her that her name was Opal. We kept a lot of things secret. Thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, she's just having to gather some materials and then should be able to do that. So we're just kind of kicking it for a little bit. What brings you guys to a school? Did you know we would be here? [00:34:22] Speaker E: Well, yes, we did know you were going to be here. We've been thinking about, like, things that we could do that would still be really helpful. And I really want to go after Aaron Droll. And I thought that this would be a good place to tell somebody really smart about the antidote that Myla mostly came up with. Slash configured. [00:34:47] Speaker D: We do. No, wait. [00:34:49] Speaker E: It hasn't been tested. [00:34:51] Speaker C: The brain. We haven't heard much about what's happening here. But they know about it, right? [00:35:00] Speaker E: They definitely know about it. [00:35:02] Speaker C: Okay, if they haven't, it would have. [00:35:05] Speaker E: Told them over the two weeks. [00:35:09] Speaker A: About what? No. Who knows about what? [00:35:11] Speaker E: About Aaron Drill. Just, like, existing and taking over things. And it told. It told the government of Gaznish to. [00:35:19] Speaker C: Like, spread the word to people. [00:35:21] Speaker E: So hopefully they've been doing that and just, like, warning people that this is happening so long. So maybe we can get some help here getting an antidote. Like, test, and then we can go test it. In a low risk scenario, do we. [00:35:42] Speaker D: Pass that off to the dean, or do we pass it off to, like, an alchemy person? [00:35:48] Speaker E: Probably an alchemy person. [00:35:50] Speaker B: If you guys can, like, wait for another. She looks at her wrist and then realizes she doesn't wear a watch and then looks for a timepiece somewhere on the wall. We can probably ask the dean who to pass it on to. And also, like, if you want to be there for, like, moral support and stuff, that'd probably be nice. Right, Nadia? [00:36:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:13] Speaker D: So how did you figure out how to sever the connection if at all magic kind. I mean, yes. [00:36:21] Speaker B: I don't know the details, but she had this good analogy, like a spider web of everybody who uses a certain kind of magic being kind of tethered together. But some is a lot stronger of a connection. And because there's just the two people that are using. Well, as far as we know, the two people using the kind of scribbly magic, the connection is a lot stronger because it's not as, like, diluted, I think, was what she said. And so she can snip one end of the cobweb and it will keep it from being with the rest of the spider and bugs and webs. It made sense in the moment. [00:37:03] Speaker E: That makes sense to me. [00:37:04] Speaker D: No, that makes a lot of sense. But also. [00:37:09] Speaker C: And Melwyn will. Never mind. Not do that because there was a verbal component to that spell. I would have to say it out loud anyway. Melwyn is gonna very, very quietly whisper. [00:37:23] Speaker D: Oh, right. So there's only so many people that use purple magic, and Myla is one of them. [00:37:33] Speaker B: So it's probably, like, super strong when she does it. [00:37:37] Speaker D: It's entirely possible. And probably yes. But also at the same time. Does that mean that Myla is connected to these people in a way that we were not aware of before? [00:37:51] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good question. [00:37:55] Speaker E: Well, I. I mean, I guess also my heart thing mixes blue and red into a purplish kind of situation. I don't think it's the same at all. [00:38:07] Speaker D: No, but it's. [00:38:11] Speaker E: There is a point to that. Purple is purple. [00:38:13] Speaker D: No, there is. It's probably. They were probably trying to recreate it, whatever the fuck it is that my has done something. Something. Milo made a spell to eat the magic. [00:38:26] Speaker E: Right. Do you guys know that there's edible paper? That'd be, like, the ultimate. Yeah, for, like, doing spy stuff. Like, you write somebody a letter on edible paper, and then they read it and then they eat it. [00:38:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:41] Speaker B: I mean, you could just do that with, like, cherries or whatever. [00:38:44] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:38:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's gross. Even the edible paper is still kind of gross. It just dissolves faster. [00:38:51] Speaker D: I'm sorry. Wait, have you had it before? [00:38:54] Speaker A: Yeah, once. [00:38:56] Speaker E: Yep. A couple times. [00:39:00] Speaker C: Random it. War. Drop. [00:39:03] Speaker E: And also. Ben. [00:39:05] Speaker C: No, that's. That's Melon's reaction to that. It's just. [00:39:09] Speaker A: I, Anastasia, have never had edible paper. [00:39:11] Speaker E: So it's not good. [00:39:13] Speaker A: I didn't think it was gonna be good. [00:39:15] Speaker E: It's, like, a little waxy. And, like, if there. I had, like, a spy. [00:39:19] Speaker C: It does not taste good. [00:39:20] Speaker E: From the international spy Museum what I was looking for. [00:39:25] Speaker C: But if the paper does not taste good. [00:39:27] Speaker E: No, it does not. [00:39:30] Speaker B: Okay, so we can ask more details about, you know, the. Anyway, just, you know, as the boss of the school, you probably know all the good people to talk to if we do want to distribute the antidote. [00:39:44] Speaker D: So we're just like. So we're just, like, hanging out while we wait. [00:39:48] Speaker B: I mean, it was, like, an hour wait. Ish. And by the time we got back home, we just kind of had to turn around, so we just figured we'd stay and hang out here. [00:39:57] Speaker D: I mean. I mean, it sits down also. All right, then. All right. [00:40:05] Speaker C: Melon will pop yarn down next to wherever the Myla doll is. I don't know why I said that in the most robotic, broken way. [00:40:16] Speaker B: I could have my. I love it. I'm just going to kind of, like, side ey y a little bit, make sure he doesn't get annoying. [00:40:30] Speaker A: I need y. Yeah. What are the chances of that? [00:40:36] Speaker C: I love this stupid little green boy. I'm going to. I'm going to turn him into a bomb. It's going to be so great. [00:40:46] Speaker B: And I think we'll probably just hang out and wait until Joy is ready to rumble. [00:40:52] Speaker A: All right, you guys wait around for a little while before arcanist Joy kind of walks down these stairs and comes and meets up with you, and she says, okay, I'm gonna need some space for this. So we're gonna go out to the courtyard. I just, you know, don't want to explode a building or anything. All right. [00:41:14] Speaker C: The Grace in me wanted to go, Aw, but that would be fun. Melon's not an arsonist. Grace. The human, however. No, I'm kidding. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Oh, follow. [00:41:31] Speaker D: I think we're all following. [00:41:32] Speaker C: Maybe. Follow, follow, follow. [00:41:34] Speaker A: Awesome. [00:41:35] Speaker C: Will not make any assumptions on behalf of I.D. [00:41:38] Speaker E: Yep. [00:41:39] Speaker A: You guys go with. And I want to do this description when I have a better brain and more energy. So we're gonna stop an episode here. It might be a kind of short episode. Sorry, gang. I want to do content that is fun and engaged, and I'm getting really tired. So stop the episode here. But we're prepping. It'll be fun, hopefully. Oh, I was actually gonna say, if spells and whistles is part of your Spotify wrapped, you should share that with us, because we want to know. Oh, yeah, and that would be really cool. [00:42:21] Speaker B: That would be sad. That should be coming out, like, when this episode comes out, too. [00:42:26] Speaker C: Last year, I was one of our top listeners because of how much time I put into don't take it. I don't think that's the case this year because since I have joined, I don't need to listen to Shannon. [00:42:39] Speaker A: So, yeah, tag us on socials or show us in the discord or something. Yeah, thanks for hanging out. We will see you next. [00:42:49] Speaker C: Let me know if I made it onto your Spotify account. Also that. [00:42:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:53] Speaker C: Because I have music count. [00:42:55] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:42:56] Speaker C: Which is wild. [00:42:58] Speaker A: Also that tell us what grace is on your Spotify wrap. [00:43:01] Speaker C: Actually, don't. I think. I think I'll melt into the earth. [00:43:05] Speaker A: Good. All right, we will see you next time. Thanks for listening. [00:43:11] Speaker C: Okay, bye. [00:43:12] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh. Wait, is that a microphone? [00:43:15] Speaker B: Oh, hang on one second. [00:43:17] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh. I always wanted to be on a podcast. Wait, hang on. [00:43:23] Speaker D: Okay. 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