Panatheon 35:Captain Riv

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Hello, hello, this is. Oh, where are we? This is 6 or 9. Yeah, it was the way you went. Where did you think we were? What? Are the podcasts have you been doing? Goddammit, the economy's fucked. You know what? It's not fucked. Hello, welcome to 6:09 and I was a DND podcast made by fucking idiots. We got there eventually. People unemployed. My name is Michael. I'm running this shit show at the moment. I'm joined by Maria Nicholson. I'm playing Ick Grassley. Carl Nicholson. I'm playing Bell Sephorus.

And Arthur Schoppenhauer, he was a pessimist philosopher. I will be playing. In like the 17th century or 18th century or something. I will be playing Captain Riv. See the guy that died in his bathtub? Captain Riff, Yeah. Yeah. Immortal Sailor isn't. That Scheuden Freuden No, there was a fucking he was He was either a parrot or a philosopher. He was, but he was German and he spent like. 40% he was either a parrot or a philosopher. Philosopher or a poet? Oh, OK. Who died in his bath? Yeah, he spent like all he, like all of his adult life, wasn't that.

The Eureka guy, he died in the bath, no? Aristotle. Is that Aristotle that did Eureka? He didn't die in the bath though, did he? He was in the bath when he had the Eureka. Yeah, that's our point. I think he's going to submarine floated, no? My parents used to tell me that my parents used to bath. My parents used to tell me that we had a basement and there used to be a serial killer who used acid to kill people. Your parents told you that? Yep, that's a bedtime story. What the fuck was in their basement but they didn't want you looking in there?

The best thing? What don't have a basement? I fully believed it. Yeah. You probably did a basement, but you never looked for it. Terrifying. We had a really big garage which. Is about the microphone. It was moving all the time. If you could stop kicking. Them. Sorry. Yeah, we're sitting in the living room. We're all a bit spread out and we're seeing if that helps with sound quality, but I keep kicking various tables, so apologies for that. Also Harley is jumping on Carl's there's. Lots of ADHD fidgeting going on in this room right now.

Yeah, it's weird. Could you please you? Got your? Kisses. Yeah, beautiful. Good Lord, you know he eats his own ass. Anyway, shall we do the fucking Greek out? Please. We can try.

Oh, last time you guys began the day by going to see the Princess present to all of you. In theory you all had a little bit of a gimmick on there, but mostly for RIB, the newly minted The night Hells come on, beautiful black lacquered quadromine remain. I don't know how to say that. Quadruple deck warship, 4 rows of wars, sails, battering ram on the front, all them details personalised perfectly for it crassly in that time. Bed.

You then returned to the Palace War Council ahead of the Prince's coronation where you discussed all of the most pressing concerns in the Empire, specifically Satya. Obviously the stronghold of Pancreatitis isn't returning any diplomatic calls from Amands and are starting to blockade the river. Casmaiden is a runaway state has basically responded saying you know we are interested and shuress an evil myth turn want to be God who is trying to take over the world. You ignored all of those problems and decided to have a big fuck off party for a.

Reason. Because wait a second, wait a second. Also, I want to make it very clear, right? Two of us wanted to put a pin in the party while we figured out. The party, it was a coronation, yeah. That's different. I trivialise it, it's quite important. But you have to stop calling him the Prince. Yeah, that's going to be hard, isn't it? He's the king. I have the king now, baby. King, Colon, Austin, are these? King Colon.

He will just be the Prince. He just is the Prince. He's Prince or Amos. Amos. Yeah, Amos. Oh yeah? Shit, I'm gonna have to go to cover. And us having like a separate name for him shows how powerful we are, yeah. Anyway, then you had the big coronation battle in a military parade up the streets through our ends up to the palace. Everyone got on stage. It grassly performed Queen's greatest hits and coronated the King and a big fuck off pie. Yep. Bell, let's play the drums. Where we are. The cable fucking pyrotechnic.

I did. It was fun. That was fun. That was very good. See, they all shit on my ideas and they all end up doing them. You can't argue because it's fact. I, I, I feel like we did it dragging our feet. You did it though. I don't care how you did it, you didn't kick it and kick it and fucking screaming. Because you would have cried if we didn't. I didn't want to. I win. I win D&D. Yes, well done. Good for you anyway. I don't know, don't look at me for help. We now go into today's. Episode. Oh yes, just right, that's where we are now.

So yes, you have a couple of days, Grace, while everyone slowly sobers up, all of the ink is dried on all of the contracts that put the king in charge and cement his counsel. But yeah, now it's time to get down to business again. You will return to the war room. And he's, he's got his full counsel around the table now. I got to Chad and do our secret handshake, OK? Grab each other's Dicks. And twist. Fist fucking I. Go up and do my secret handshake with Chad, which is whoops. Oh hey, Chrome Chrisley.

OK. Oh hey RIP. I'll see for Andrew because he doesn't know I'm behind him and I whack him over the head just. Backhand him. What the fuck? Hey, hey, RIP. He realised it was you. But he's secretly excited because he thinks you're finally coming around to him. Yeah. It's crazy. We're playing to get it out. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. What? Well, stood in a corner just sighing. I pour, I pour a glass of wine and I sit down at the table and I'm just ignoring you guys staring at the world map. Yeah, the king bangs his hand on the table to get everyone's attention, which is becoming a bit of a trademark.

Just like a OK guys. Wow. Glasses session. Attitude. Yeah, it's more just a handy way of getting everyone's attention rather than just yelling. We should get him a little gavel. Oh shit, that's great.

Engraved with pretty. Good night light to breathe like flames. Has anyone fed night light recently? He's fine. He's been given royal candles. Night light is starting to look a bit like your cat. His legs don't really touch the crowd anymore. She can't help it. Her primordial pouch. She's not fat, she's poofy. So it's not like. Luby's like 20 years old. I think we need to get off her back. Okay, That's an old cat. She didn't have to look after herself anymore. Who's she watching a figure for? I got a neutered when she was one.

Night light is does have to watch his figure Yeah, there's lots of other he's. Laying on his back on the table with his little pot belly, I cadda wax on his chin. I sit down at the table and I'm just like tapping his tummy. OK. So order of business. I think our our plan was to head to Olympus to go and have a look at this cult. Yeah. It's going to sail us to Olympus. You're going to take the night house out and you're going to head up to the Olympus. I'm excited to see your your sailing skills. Rev.

Do you not think when I'm rolling, rather than intelligence I should be rolling deception? Which means if you actually want to learn how to do. It I do want to learn, I'll learn. Yeah. So yeah. Because it knows that you don't know shit. So you guys going to head out to head up to Olympus, We're going to release fellatio with you. She knows the way, obviously, and Fellatia kind of steps forward. It's. Not sure is mom. It sure is Fellatia Cleatore. It sure eyes she is annoying. I have counterspelled out a lot.

More time than shore. Because I fucking hate that sight, Yeah. Silla steps forward and starts gesturing to the map and she shows you. She like kind of follows the river out of Anand's and shows you and it forks like a couple of miles out of the city and basically says that you can either go ahead head straight West and you'll come out like Sura or if you head southwest, you'll come out near Paliques. You can check it out on the map on 609 D&D on Instagram or check out Witch Mouse Wizardry. That's the map that we're using.

You'll come out to the coast at like 0 or Paliques. Olympus is along the coast in between them. It's rather marshy boggy land, so you'll have to travel across across country by foot once you get there, but it's up to you which route you take. You can go to like 0 power queues. Well, I think we should let Riv decide. Is there anything in particular in either of the cities? Are they? So 1. Better than the other maybe? You can roll a history check. I'll help with that. This is not brains party. 18.

So you know that like Sarah is a little bit Fram shackle. It's kind of a newer settlement and so it hasn't, it's not as as well established. It's more kind of like wooden shacks and like dirt parves. However, it is up and coming. It's actually where you guys left port originally, right? Start the campaign. Oh shit.

For reference I won't show it to you, but the picture I have on my laptop that tells me what like 0 looks like I believe is a picture of temp century Dublin. Fun. So imagine that I guess. Cool. Palacuse. On the other hand, this is 1 of Panatheon's most underrated cities. Once one of the biggest cities in Panatheon, it was dwarfed by Anand's soon after the War of Unification, but it's still huge. Located more or less in the centre of the western coast. Enjoys glorious sun most of the year, which along with its enormous temple complex dedicated to Apollo and Muscle Stadium which supports sports and entertainment events, is one of the most important tourist destinations in the country.

In the path, yeah. But on the coast, being on the coast is also a major trade up, and being incredibly close to the island of Elos, it takes in a lot of rare and more unusual goods that the island has to offer. So EOS is that kind of pirate haven island off the coast? I'm I'm vibing with park use so it's. A hidden gem. Yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking there for now to the beach, mainly because if we do want to pick up like shit, we might need like potions, equipment, anything like that. That's going to be a better place to be, right?

Yeah, so the temple of Apollo is a more so it has a really big temple complex dedicated to Apollo, has shrines to many guards, but the biggest temple is dedicated to Apollo. His association with medicine and health make it a destination for those seeking treatment. And there is a hospital on the temple grounds that is decorated and carved with moulded body parts on the walls or hung from trees. These body parts are dedications from people who have visited the hospital and symbolise the things that they needed fixed.

There is an entire building dedicated to moulds of penises. It's moulds of body parts, not actual. Yeah, yeah, I need my arm fixed, so I'm going to cut it off and tie it to this tree. And then there is the colossal stadium, the Palacusium, which is famed for its chariot races. But it hosts everything from discus, declared editorial battles to music and even debates. Oh, it's got his Hawaiian shirt on. He's got his straw hat. He is ready to go. Even Belle's excited about the Colosseum. We've heard about debates.

And was like, yes, A room. Wants to be Bella. You excited about the Colosseum? There are more important things to do right now than to partake in the gladiatorial game. I need to. Take them to the Colosseum in every. Single yes I also I also have to carry on my horse winning are. You going to take off a chariot? Yeah, 100% OK to all settled heading to Palacuse then? Yeah. Have we scoured the coastline? Do we know what kind of resistance we'll be expected to face when we get there? The councillor from Balakis steps forward and explains that the coast is usual Fantasy Coast Fair.

It's generally peaceful, but there are monsters and sea monsters and things living in caves on the beaches. But particularly at the moment, the pirates that come out of Elos seem to have been emboldened of late, starting around the time you guys were attacked right at the beginning of the campaign. But yeah, pirates are a big issue. Once you get to the coast and into the open sea, the river generally is safe enough to traverse, and then it's up to you. Once you get to Palliques, you can either proceed on foot straight from Palliques, travel for a jungle and swamp and forest and so on, or you can head up to the coast, anchor off the coast, and then make your way so straight in from there.

You'll still have to travel through forest or whatever, but it will in theory be shorter. Oh OK. You just run the risk of me being attacked by pirates or monsters or whatever, but that will happen either way because it's DND. Because you had no bore. He was if I just bad enough listening to my voice at the best of times without just going. You walk peacefully through the forest. We didn't have encounters. What's the point of no fucking fireball? You're not getting attacked by government. You have your heading, you have your objective.

Sorry. Every time. I know I used to say 3 words all the time. Jesus Christ, you have your heading, you have your objective. Is there anything you'd like to do or arrange? Felicia is going to come with you. Obviously she knows where the temple is. She has a background in all of this stuff, so it makes sense for that to go with you. I would like to ask Shiv if she wants to come. Shiv since the battle initially she was very downcast, gloomy and she's like, what's the point? Everything is going to to end is going to be disastrous.

You guys have been having a bit of time together. You've tried to help her see the error of trying to appease mummy and. It's never going to work. Yeah, and she's coming out of her shower a little bit. She's been trying to help Primos and Archimedes in their lap with testing the bronze masks that you've been collecting and helping with the tests on pancreatitis body. So pancreatitis body is still corpse cold, but it's not deteriorating. It's not like it's just stopped. Clerics have been casting Spare the Dying and spells to try and maintain it, not restore it, because I don't want him coming back necessarily.

So she's been trying to help study whatever magic is going on there. So far, no one's really come up with anything. She's actually around the table as well. She's been kind of brought in as a kind of an observer, but like occasionally like an occasional expert, especially as she's been helping Archimedes and Primos. They've both been kind of vouching for her as well. But when you say you ask if she wants to come with you, she looks so flushes slightly like like can't really hold your gaze. I, I mean, I've, I'm, I'm needed here.

If you feel like, if you feel like I'm needed with you, then I appreciate that. You're the captain, so it's up to you if you've got room for me. I, I mean, I'd love to have you there. I think you'd be handy with information and seen as you've been working on the the bodies and the masks, you're, you've got knowledge that maybe some of us don't. I don't want to force you. If you enjoy your time here, stay here. You see, I pray was kind of like smirking in the background. He's like, I think she'll she'll be fine.

I she's proven her worth with us here. But I think a bit of work in a field might might give her some much needed experience. I think you'll all be capable enough to take care of her. Not that I think there are any any risks of betraying everyone looks changing allegiances again. Everyone avoids eye contact. Yeah, I'm sure you'll be fine. You can, you can keep in touch with us here if you need anything. We'll try and help you out. Well, good luck then. Shivari, you kind of like Pat's her on the back.

She's, she's like, sort of like flushing. I like, I like have my head up and I, I have like a smile, but I don't want to show her. OK, great. Don't crush this one. Yeah, please don't. It's so expensive. There's been so much money on it. The city is going to be in depth for so it's. Got to be TSD all right. Last time I was on a boat it fucking crashed. So you spend a couple of hours getting ready. The ship has been getting prepared since you saw it anyway. Like everyone knew that you were going to be boarding and you were going to be doing something.

It's got a full supply of food, water, booze, like rope, supplies for fixing things. Your crew is all there. You have there's, like I said, 4 rows of oars, which is insane, but you have plenty of people aboard, You've got the actual rowers, and then you've got like actual crew that are there to maintain the deck and if necessary fight pirates or whatever. And we have our two rooms that we picked right? What was it? The library and. You went for the library and the arcane study, so yeah, your library, you've been collecting books, so if there's anything specific that you want to have been sending people out for, we can say that that's in there.

Do you want like people collecting like history of Cosmida and stuff like that? Yes. Yeah, yeah. So I think we want like maybe the histories of the places that are being specifically difficult at the moment. Have we had any word from the temples in Palacuse? Is Apollo accepting offerings? The guy from Palacuse shrugs. And he's like, as far as I know, last, last I heard everything was fine. That's that's good. I'm going to look at Shivari and I'm going to say, is there anything in particular that you want to be brought from the labs?

Going shopping? Do you want anything? Well, I was she, if she's gonna be like, I'm kind of bringing her on board to be like research for arcane and stuff because she's a mage. So I was like. All right, no to read. Basically no. Yeah, you can send her in there and see if she can find out anything about Sharess or. Yeah, it's pancreatitis. I didn't I if there was any like stuff that they were figuring out here that she wanted to bring with her. Yeah, she takes some of her notebooks and sets up in the study, and then she'll carry on doing experiments and stuff.

She brings one of the masks with her. She asks if that's OK as long. As it stops screaming at me, it's fine. It's fine as long as we don't put it in the fire. Correct. I want you to know you weren't. There I heard about it. I heard how weird you were about it. One person who actually has infernal knowledge wasn't even bloody around to see it happens. Right, we can put it back in fire. Yes, please do and then explain to me why it does that. Yeah, I think you think I know a lot more than I do and I don't.

You come from hell. Doesn't mean I liked. It you come from Casmida, do you know everything about fucking Helios? So your library stocked Dry King Study is stocked and stuffed. Now everything you need to set sail is ready. There was nobody else we wanted to bring. We're leaving the prints here, got everything we want. Oh man, it's going to feel weird. We're like, wiped right here, yeah. Yeah, So you're like on the dock now, getting like basically last few bits of luggage and stuff are getting carried off the gang gangway.

And you're all stood on the dock, soldiers all around, crowd around. Everyone knows who you guys are now. And see, as the last few people go up the gangway, you guys are just on the dock like the great havens at the end of Lord of the Rings. The Princess stand there flanked by Archimedes and Chad. And he's like, I'm going to miss you guys. I'm not going to lie. I'm going to feel quite as safe here in the past without you. I trust you. It wasn't anybody else to to do this. I dropped my arcane blade, my hand into the Prince.

Oh. Shit, fuck the fuck. He drops it, clangs up the pavement into the sea.

Shit, he's like holy shit, Bow. You sure? I will not be here to protect you, but my blade will be. A tear of Welsh rolls down his cheek. I am. You know what to say. It is the least that I can do. Maybe this will go some ways towards preparing my actions in the post. You know anything to apologise or make events for man. I have to leave now. Yeah yeah, he's both kind of like you do like this man the man like big hug slack jumper on the back and it both like looked down on the floor and shuffles up the candle.

I. Feel like Bell would like hold his shoulders, you know, like they do in Hollywood movies with mics and shit. Yeah, just like holding here and be. Like he just, he's like, hello, you hate me. Hello, you really work hard to get me here despite having no belief or trust to me whatsoever, so thanks I guess. Turns around, bends over as a. Child. The Prince, not a child, and I flashed my bum. Not my junk. OK, well, that's something. Still flashing. Well. That's a salute. Chat. Cheers. Yeah.

Picks up a giant bottle, throws it over his shoulders like, oh, the Prince said. I was coming with you by the way. Legit just get up, no chance allowed. Yeah, and then he chose to ship. He's like ship. I really hope you you understand. I need you to keep keep these guys from killing each other. OK. Are. You talking about Riff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's OK, it's only one letter difference 2. Yeah, he's like you got. You need to make sure the bow and and don't kill each other. And yeah, I really appreciate everything you've been through and done for me.

And I hope this shit helps make up the loss of your previous one. And yeah, you guys, you guys, the most important people in the Kingdom right now. You've got a lot to do, so good luck. I no pressure. I I hold his shoulders and say you've got you're going to be a great king. And then I put them into a hard. Scan ripped every with you. Oh my God, you're going to be fine. Experienced advisors champ, for fuck's sake. I'm also terrified. I can't tell you why. It slaps the Prince around the face and I agree.

We're both going to new learn new things and it's going to be great, OK. You you climb aboard a troop of ickrassley impersonators line up a lot. No, no, no, I only want one. Stop playing bagpipes, you set sail.

Fuck it. Yeah, OK. And you know what? I'm going to use Tidy chaos. Check or something to get out. Fuck take the wheel fucked guys was. So fun, I need you to help me now. Yeah, but I, I need to, I need to be the. Val. Doesn't know that Riff. Doesn't know what the fuck Riff is doing, no. No, she's still understand why she's breaking up so much. It's living for it.

OK, I'm I've got 17 and then I'm also going to use Ben lock to add more to 118. Cool. Yeah. You managed to pull up the anchor. Yeah, you go over to the wheel and the helmsman is just stood there like at ease. I feel like, I don't like take the wheel. I feel like I I want, I want all the like people on there and I want to stand up in front. You're like, yes, this is a very nice fancy thing. Turns yes. I, I, I want to like, make a make a speech about the journey, about the adventure. Are you going to explain to people what you want them to do when you don't know what any of the jobs are?

Point. Yeah, take us out, Captain. Hey I got an 18 I buy blag it pretty. Well, intelligence then, yeah, I say you can take the wheel, which is. Yeah, fuck it. Yeah, take us out. I go 2 power queues. Yeah, slide inside, but then. Anchors the wrong. Way. So we're just turning. Sorry. Anchor, lift, starboard, bunch of words. Anchor lift, Anchor lift on the starboard. Put it in the the storage chest. Start acting. They're like, what did she say? I think she wants us to leave. OK, cool. If anyone gets off this boat, I'll kill you.

Do not leave me the anchor of the storage chest. Have you ever been on a boat? Never. Except for when you fell in the water. Oh, no, that's my mum and I I drove the boat. But it was, yeah, it wasn't very difficult, yeah. Good. You drove was a 2 by 4, so. By sheer luck, hey? Fucking. Work, but your crew seems to know what they're doing. Mercifully, they. Don't want to make you feel bad about yourself so they're just getting up with. It I get a glass of wine and I sit back in my captain's chair. Somebody bring me a fancy looking coat so I can recline in a chair.

I need to recline. Somehow you don't know where I got it, but I have a try corner. It's so annoyed at the fact that Rib pulled this off, but he walks up to her little captain area, just does a massive disgusting smelly fart behind her and then leaves and shuts the door behind him. The smell of the sea. Goat is the smell of adventure.

Oh. Yeah. What we don't know is I get really badly seasick. No, I mean, I've worked on like my historically, I've actually worked on boats in my back story. I've just never was a captain. Yeah, so I know kind. Of like I'm drinking and swim and shit I. Was like manning a boat. Yeah. But and what role like when you say manning a boat, were you on the rigging? Where you. On, I don't think we need to be that particular. We were kind of all just shared it because it was really, really messy. I mean, you saw the boat we were on, you were there.

Yeah. I was literally, I was literally with the crew. You weren't doing anything though. I was just in. Yeah. You just don't like the fact that I've actually been in a boat. Well, it knows that you were lying sack of shit I. Thought I have been on boats. You were never. On Captain, exactly that is the lie. I think it's a white one. We're literally on a boat called the 9 Hells because of you. Yeah, we are now at your mercy. Isn't it a nice boat? Everybody it'll. Be nice if you don't sink it or capsize it or get it stolen by pirates.

Very, very difficult to do. Belle Paul, the anchor. What makes you think you have any right to order me? Plus you already told them to do it, so it's. Yeah, you're already, you're already like a storage chest. Who are you? What have you done with Alex?

Oh my God this is a bad idea. I feel like you need a nap probably. So you get out of that ends, here's a couple of days downriver to get to paddock use. So while you're sailing and while you are learning to be a captain for all intelligence cheques to just make sure everything's good and under control the first day, I'll say you, you rolled so that you got out of docks. So everything's fine. You spend the night on the on the waters, on the river. In the evening of the first day, everyone's gotten out of out of port.

Yeah, everything's going well. You have a meeting in the captain's quarters. You have a guest suite, guest room for Shiv and for Fellatia Bunk. Shiv have bunk beds. No, I'm checking, sorry. You can have bunk beds if you want. They're hammer. Whatever. That's really cute. Yeah. You you order one of your guys to set up a second hammer. Can you in? Your bedroom. And then, yeah, you gather around the table in the captain's quarters to have some food and some wine and enjoy, enjoy the journey. And Fallacious sits down with you.

So to tell you what's going on in Olympia, Yeah. What are we walking into? Sure, S is one of the nymphs, powerful near primordial beings that came into existence shortly after the dawn of the universe. The ghosts created the nymphs as a form of companionship, but also to help rule the world, and as such many were incredibly powerful. During Hera's rebellion, in which Hera herself in a section of the pantheon in Defiance and Zeus, many nymphs had to pick a side in the war to come, Though Dionysus sided with Zeus.

Charest, Dionysus's wife at the time, sided with Hera. Although Hera's rebellion ultimately failed, it led to a rift in the pantheon that took aeons to resolve, if not fully heal. One such rift was that between Dionysus and Charest. So Dionysus was willing to let Charest transgressions lie. Charest could not reconcile their differences. Dionysus viewed newly formed mortal races, Humans, Staters, etcetera can perform acts of greatness if guided properly. It was worth walking among them and taking an interest in their lives.

Charest, however, saw the mortals as tools and a means to an end. Why should they? The gods walk among mortals rather than simply have them do their bidding. And so they split due to the rigid hierarchy held by Zeus. Shares was still a minion of Dionysus to be a powerful one, but they were no longer romantically linked. Instead, as Dionysus took the ruling his domain of wine and merriment, he divided his dominion amongst his followers to his least favourite. He delegated the role of lust and lustful love, believing it to be a great offer and completely misunderstanding his ex-wife.

Classic man Cherastic on the role is the God of lust and encourage the followers to live a life, have merriment and sexual liberation rarely seen anywhere else. Point being, Cheras was the wife of Dionysus. They split up after Harrah's rebellion. We ended up devoting our temple to her. Why? Why? Why? Forgive me, but if you from the historical text, if you knew that Cheras was in the wrong, why would you decide to have a temple dedicated to her? Ultimately, between the gods, there isn't really a a good and evil, such or right and wrong.

Shirass is a nymph. She's powerful. She's been given the role that Dionysus gave her. She encourages us to grow wine and grow food. And as such, as a as a priestess of Shirass, I've become wise in the way of nature. It's gonna be so annoying. It's. Not like eating candles. Yeah, it's not like eating a candle in the corner. So loud. I my druidic powers I gained from knowing Sharess in her ways. She wasn't always she wasn't always like this, like how she she seems to be acting now. Our temple was a cloister was fairly well isolated.

We're a colony of satyrs. We're normally from the the fae realm. We we stuck to ourselves. We invited people in. We wanted people to come and celebrate the, the life of Shiraz mostly. It was one big fuck off party and it was it was great. It was honestly, it was honestly great. My husband Hereticus is the head priest at the temple and we had three beautiful daughters we had and my eldest Shora, who is well, I was training to replace me one day as head druid. And then my my youngest, my twins are Flick and Bean

Hereticus and the other priests, they seem to have lost their way, or at least I think they have. They they claim that shares has been demanding more of us that they've been demanding she's been demanding sacrifice slowly hereticists and the other priests have been demanding more from us we'll sacrifice and eventually we've started asking for blood sacrifices. They've even been sending people out of out of the temple to go and round up people from the lands up around bring them back to the temple.

This, this is what caused me to to leave in the 1st place. The MPs is only a small village, there's not so many people there. But if it carries on, they'll be ranging wider and attacking more people and I'm not even really sure what it is they're doing with them do. You know about the the mosque. This is new to me as well, I've I've not seen anything like that linked to Sures before. However, from what yourself and Shiv have been telling us, it sounds like Shiv is trying to take over some of the domains of the house.

So perhaps there's someone in the hell that's helping her do this. She's doing it herself. I we know that our mother has closed the doors to hell. I don't know. Well, that would be troubling for just generally everybody in in the world. Yeah, she said that the last time I spoke to her. She said not to trust sure as. And probably wise, At least it sounds like she's probably not on the same side. That the gates are closing. Roll a religion check and everyone can do that if they want. No minus 1/16/19.

Not 20. Holy shit, OK, you guys have been studying this shit. Everyone's been talking about it for like the last week and obviously ships here as well. So she kind of fills you in that essentially the way the afterlife works in in the mythology of Panatheon is you die, your soul leaves and goes to the Hells. They have to cross the river Styx. Generally they go through Chiron, who is the boatman. Everyone goes through him during burial. When someone dies, usually you place a coin on their person and they use that when they get to the other side to pay Chiron.

Richer people, so kings or whatever that die and have loads of burial goods take buried with them. The idea is they take their shit with them too. That's why they do that. Once they cross the sticks, they enter the realms of hell. You've got the Aspadel Meadows. Basically, most people end up, it's kind of just sort of like filled with basically the ghosts of the people who died. You have Elysium fields, which is where great warriors and heroes go. Places like Tartarus, which is essentially the lowest level.

That's where people who are singled out for the worst punishments get sent. However, there is kind of a recycling system. So the idea of going to the Fields of Elysium is you're a great, great warrior, and so you get to live like this, eternal, like Valhalla. You get to fight and drink and fucking do all the great stuff and forever essentially. It's great. If you go to Tartarus, obviously it's bad, but if you're in the Elysium fields, you have the potential to return. So it's essentially A reincarnation, and it's kind of pure chance that that can happen.

No one really knows how it works. No one really knows why it's a known phenomena. So you're thinking that they're forcing reincarnation? Well, if hell is closed off, no one really understands what that means at the moment. They're trying to work out the extent of that, but it seems like people are coming back. The returns that fight for pancreatitis, the. Question. Yeah, seems. To be people that have died, who have come back recently. So maybe not reincarnation, but we're we're thinking about the fact that they're not even getting past Chiron.

Sorry. I'm just spitting theories. Who else joined Hera during the rebellion? Sorry, do you not have your? List of names Jesus Christ. Hang on.

So when Hera originally decided to, she went to Poseidon, who was quite happy, and even even Apollo disagreed with how Zeus was ruling the world, ruling the universe, and so decided to fight up numerous gods fallen aside. Hephaestus even, who once had been a great friend of Zeus, helped make the shackles that bound him. It was only through the intervention of Thetis, another nymph, Zeus was able to escape. Hades doesn't seem to have been interested at all. Hades was very much has been since he was given the role of ruling the underworld.

Kind of just kept to himself apart from that one time he kidnapped the lady. Not entirely her. Fault. No, it was, it was always entirely her fault. If she didn't go down there and eat a bunch of pomegranates, that's on her.

So yeah, it's we're not really sure what to what extent Hell's been closed. The theory that probably you're not getting past a certain point is, is a pretty strong one. I. Have been we have been trying to get back in contact with my mother. I wonder what damage? I can understand the fear not wanting to get involved with Sharess, but shutting off certain parts of hell probably is only going to play into her hands. Is it outside the realm of possibility to think that maybe Sure S is getting the old war band back together?

We were in Amnesty, or damn near that was being they. They worshipped Poseidon and Poseidon wasn't accepting any offerings. The offerings were piling up because they weren't being accepted. There's word of professors abandoning his duties as well. She looks like quite wide eyed and worried. She's like. That's probably quite a good theory then. The only outsider is is Apollo and as far as we know he is still accepting tribute. Well, we're going. We're going to where they're. Going the big. Table with with Apollo, aren't we?

So that's. Good time to try and investigate that I suppose. Can I try and contact my mom again? Yeah, make a relation check. Get Shift to help you hold that advantage. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you kind of like hold hands and. Shit like, no, you don't want to talk to her, and this is probably gonna just dredge up a lot of shit, but you don't have to talk to her. I'll do the talk 17. Yeah. So you sit in your in your captain's quarters, you reach across the table to take Shiv's hands. And so you're both, you're like sat opposite each other and you're like holding hands with each other.

And you start after a prayer to Hecata, you guys don't notice anything. But around you, everything starts to go dark. You get light leaves, warm leaves. And you feel kind of nothingness. Like, you know, when you go outside and there's just a complete absence of weather. Yeah, there's no wind. It's kind of cloudy, but very cloudy. And it's just meh. Yeah, it's like that, maybe a little colder. And you just hear this like voice in your head. What do you want Rivari? I need some stuff answered. Shit is going bad here.

Mom, you need to hear her out if you hear like this. Booming.

OK, what? OK, so we we are learning more about stress and what they're trying to do. There's people coming back from the dead. There's some weird fucking masks involved that scream whenever you put them on. They're exploding in fire. We're on our way to Olympus to the shares temple to. I told you to stay away from shares. We can't stay away. It's, it's going to kill people. It's, it's, it's literally bringing zombies back. It's not something that we can just turn a blind eye to, unlike what you're clearly doing by closing the fucking gates to hell.

Like what feels like an eternity Yes as the sort of sting sure S is insane. She she she thinks that she can just overthrow all the other guards in the pantheon. She thinks she can beat Zeus eventually, and then she'll be free to do whatever she wants. Do you know why Zeus keeps control of everybody? What like what his his prime rule is?

No extra check. Do history if you want, or religion. They're both just about each other. Oh, 17, OK. One of the core tenets that you were taught growing up in in Hades and Hell, you were taught that like one of the main sort of like core memories is one of the teachers that you had teaching you that gods are not allowed to actually affect the world. Like they can, they can cause an earthquake or a famine or a sunny day or a bountiful harvest, or they can sleep with some guy's wife or some wife's husband or whatever.

Like they can do, they can do stuff. They can interact with the world, but they're not allowed to like exert proper influence. They can't raise an island out of the ocean. They can't raise the debt like they're not allowed to, like do anything that would ruin balance, right? Yeah, yeah. Which is why Zeus in theory could have been powerful enough to rule everything, but he had all of these powerful siblings and children and they all wanted to do something. And so he kind of like passed away all well, they all can't fight each other, so you have to rearrange it.

And eventually you end up with Hera's rebellion because she doesn't know what he's doing it. So then he just says, right, that's enough. Like I'm in charge, I'm the king. It's like you'll work for me however you want to see it. But like you will, instead of having instead of you being in charge of this bit of land and that bit of land, because borders bullshit, he came up with different borders. You're in charge of healing or music or magic or whatever. And there's a bit of overlap in in each of them different gods.

So you know, Athena, Hercules, Aries, they all have aspects of war and some violence and battle and stuff, different aspects, but you know, they all essentially are war gods. Even people like Nikkei, or if you're on, if you're at sea, someone like Poseidon, you pray to and they're allowed to respond to these prayers, but generally they're not allowed to just go out on their own and do whatever they want. Cool. Because it just caused too much fucking hassle. Is balance, yeah, that's the most. The reason, and you were taught this by some of your teachers when you were young, the reason that someone like yourself or Shiv are special and perhaps even in the long term a threat, and why generally you're kept a close eye on is because you can, although you have kind of deific blood to an extent, you're free to just enter the world, do whatever you want.

Shiv kind of had that Stockholm Syndrome thing of, yeah, I like, I'm here, I want to do what mum says I want to. Like, she can see that you're getting all the attention and all the glory and she's trying to do that, whereas you found it all stifling and suffocating and fuck this. So as soon as you're old enough and had the opportunity, you fucked off. Cheres isn't a God. Cheres is a nymph, so one of these like demigod species that basically split off. So conceivably if she can gain the power of a God, she can do whatever she wants.

And that's essentially what I just told you. Like, like you asked the question and instead of like, getting an actual response, all of those like hogs kind of like into place and grind together. Yeah, seems like if you're going to shares temple to stop shares from or shares followers from performing another ritual similar to the one that you stopped potentially before with the Kota, What you learned before was that it seemed like they were trying to raise a gold that was like a power that they had.

Seems like maybe that's what's going to happen now and that's why Hecate is afraid. I don't want to be around when everything comes out of balance. Perhaps my actions will bring that around sooner. I don't know. But I I don't want to be around when Zeus finds out. I don't want to be around for the war that follows because it will be a war on unimaginable scale. This has made me more frustrated than I wanted to. I just what does that mean? Spam if the. Gates are closing and they can't go in. Where are.

They going thank you. I don't know these questions like this conversation. I mean you you probably hear me talking. I was a shit. Although we don't know that. I mean like. Yeah, like time has slowed down. Okay, all that aside, if the assumption is is they are being taken before they're getting to Chiron, do you know if that's the case? If they're not being able to get into hell now, where, where do they go? People are able to get to hell. I'm only closing off the Aspadel Meadows. I'm only closing off Home Rivari.

But isn't that where? So, so they're all going to go to the really fucking bad place or, but they can't get into the the Kingdom of warriors or wherever the fuck it is. And then it's no whatever. Mom, shut up, Mom.

Oh OK. OK, so you're shutting off the only place where reincarnation can happen? Hopefully I I worry. But they're not reincarnating. They're not even getting to hell right? I don't know, I, I don't. So then your plan is fucking stupid. Transparent. I'm that's the word you're looking for. Transparent the souls being transferred. I'm not. As I said, I'm not trying to get involved. I'm. You need to be involved. Doing as much as possible to not be involved at all. I I have closed the meadows so that I can I can just stay safe and be left alone.

What about everybody else? I don't want to be attacked by Charez. I don't want Zeus inflicting revenge. I. What about us? I gave you a chance, Ravari. I did everything in my power to raise you and to make you understand your importance, and you threw it away. And then? Didn't throw it away, I just chose not to be a fucking coward. You are going to be involved whether you like it or not. It sounds like it's going to happen whether you want it or not. So this is just you're just preventing the inevitable, Not preventing what is the word.

Causing. Yeah, literally you're, you're causing, you are maybe slightly pushing back the timeline there's. Another question there. It's really annoying that I'm not here, but there's. You can still just but. We're in the same room, yeah. If the Aspadel fields are being closed off and it's not Hagata, what other God has the ability to play with souls on a level where it can be transferred from one body to another? So you know, these people are walking around in Thanatos masks, Dantos tattoos, and Dantos garb.

Dantos is a weird God. He doesn't really have temples because he's just the God of death. He's the grim Reaper. So you're not celebrating anything. You're not asking for anything necessarily. He has his shrines and so on, like in Mortuary houses or whatever, there's a shrine there so that he can basically keep an eye on stuff. Like a shrine is like a sort of like ring doorbell or whatever for the gods. They can see what's going on around them. Thanatos's job is to, when a soul leaves a body, collect the soul and then escort them to essentially Karen.

He takes them to the edge of the sticks. Karen picks them up, takes them into the Hells. Thanatos, it seems, is working with Charest because all of these guys wearing Thantos masks are working with Charest and cultists is. There anyone that works closely with Thantos? Again, he's kind of like a weird, weird loner, you know? Like he, he literally is like trapped. Even Caron gets to go from the living world to the Hells you know, whereas Thanatos literally just lingers on that very thin line between life and death.

I want to ask my mother if she knows it and what he Thanatos has been doing. Seen anything? Heard anything? Seen Thanatos in some time. Do you believe that he would be doing this? Because that's what they're implying with the masks and the outfits. Thanatos tends to keep to himself, I can't imagine why he would be helping a runaway nymph with delusions of grandeur. Perhaps it's equally likely that Shares just defeated him and took his power and is wielding it herself. Which again, is why I am securing myself.

I will consider your words, Ravari. You seem very impassioned about the whole thing, but. Well, me and Shiv will be doing something about it. Fine. And you, you can sense a hand wave and the kind of like darkness drifts away like smoke. We we come back and I'm just like. Wow, she was very angry. Yeah, that was roughly how the conversation went last time as well. Well, she doesn't seem very helpful. I I do relay all the information back. That we got OK, well. Shiv, can you look into some of the gods?

Maybe look into Thanatos a bit. More I will look into Thanatos. I will look into other gods in Hades and Hades I. Suppose anyone who is. Other gods in hell? That process from life to the hell. I'll see if I can find any information about it whatsoever. And she immediately gets up and runs off to the study, but it's pretty much bedtime. Thank. God, I always take the takes it out of me. So everyone goes to bed, lovely sleep, and they will pass a couple of days and a few days later the sun rises. On the third day you see in the distance the gleaming white walls, the city of paracues.

That is where we'll end the session.

I swear, I swear, someone can fight something soon. It's fun I but I I do love law. I do love finding shit out and like talking to people and. Yeah, I like trying to like thinking, yeah, I know what the story is and I know what everyone's going to do. And someone asked something it's like. Who was this person two years ago that we've never mentioned before? Yeah, shut up. No. That's stupid. You don't get to ask that question. Hector looks away.

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And yeah, don't do like great. Subscribe, share, throw bricks at ICE offices and see you all next time. Bye bye. But I promise so if they ring me about the job, I won't answer the phone by going hello. I will hello this. Is the secretary. What can I do? Don't be. Like hi, it's that Maria and I'll be like, no it Grassley. Grassley Well, fucker motherfucker, it's a power play. Because I really, really want this job. Yeah, Oh yeah, you got Power Player then it's got all of the paper. This doesn't match any of the notebooks I've got on my table, on my desk.

It doesn't make any sense. Hence I'm using this Cool Dragon 1 and. It is very cool. It's very cool. It's just. Weird. Vanished so as present friends set the game up. Brother-in-law #2. Respected. That couscous was good good. Shut up.

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