Episode 30 – Morris Wadge, Master of Arcane Architecture

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Rogers would let you drop kick him And he'd be like are you okay Did that make you feel better You're being really violent why Gather round friends let me tell you A tale of three heroes noble and bold A brute a druid and a thief Who is but nine years old You know them by name You know them by deed Their quests are famously daring So Here I sit Singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing Tuck is the brute He knows not his home He loves to sing and fight Fingers half-elf He shifts his shape And wields a spear with great might Billy's a thief His tiny size Does Max the largest part Best and brightest They may not be But their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round friends And listen close For the tale of three heroes noble and bold A tale's about to start A tale's about to start Where a woman runs a you do I mean that is 100 our move yeah you guys have consistently lived in the sitting rooms totally you go into a fancy place this is the nicest most deluxe room I've ever been in I'm never leaving it's a little cramped but it's beautiful there's a bowl with keys and shoe mats this fully betrays our dumb kid like personas actually in real life where we are where the kind of kids that would walk in and be like what a beautiful home you have it's like this is our mudroom and a beautiful mudroom it is mudroom my I slept in the mudroom of my house for years for real yeah 100 as a kid it was great I loved it I had a bunk bed with no lower bunk but like a desk underneath I felt so cool that's pretty cool um until I was six foot two like 180 pounds climbing up a rickety bed like king kong yeah you know at a certain point when you're a really large teenager you don't need a ladder on your bed anymore you just kind of lean forward yeah you're just so horny your giant bone zone pops you up there every night your parents every day your parents are like squeaking squeaking we gotta get rid of sean's bunk bed it's creaking too much there's so much creaking I have to tighten those screws every day every time he wakes up his bed is like four feet further away from the wall because the legs are so tall any of any movement because apparently no one had ever been kind to victor yeah he's a rescue well we like to think that he rescued us from the time tunnel that broke our minds uh they just hung out for a little bit got some rest took a little nap and during the night's watch tuck checked out the book case in the foyer with a brand new copy of a dirk adventurman novel that he hadn't read before and was swiftly attacked by all of the books on the shelf uh the party did battle with that's the last time tuck's gonna trust a book you already were weary there's some kind of metaphor for sure is what tuck says uh they survived the book battle uh moving further into the building and discovering a dining room with a beautiful centerpiece of flowers that they swiftly discovered were not planted in anything but perfectly alive uh billy of course at this point ate one and found that he was vivified revived in a way his his his biology singing with the the energies of the flower giving him one additional bonus health point against my better judgment so of course the rest of the party began eating flowers so they're all fully healed and then some yeah uh then next the party continued their explorations of the tower discovering a ballroom upon entering music began to play and as if from the very seat self exact copies of the party knit themselves together from what appeared to be true flesh and bone asking if they would like to dance and upon refusal they were attacked very quickly by their dance partners until ving convinced everybody to dance with them maggie did some uh square dancing with her partner perel with his perel did a beautiful emotional napoleon dynamite style dance interpretive dance and a woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's woman's 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to heal itself crashing into the workshop below the room as a door slammed on the other side the party did a chase down the stairs kind of chasing each other but also chasing the person that they were chasing arriving in a room surrounded by shelves covered in mysterious items tuck arriving first found the room empty of people and then immediately said I'm gonna smash everything in this room if you don't come out right now maggie talking down the party arrived billy in an attempt to find the hidden pursue we took perel with him into the fairy realm using his new move midnight waltz upon which perel was almost immediately overwhelmed by the energy he could feel billy continued to dreaming his magical gene oh he fucking creamed him hard dude thalmic thalmic lee dreaming his thalmic genes yeah because this is a hot spot too so this is like drinking from a fire hose so actually that's another thing that we just suck and cream out of a hot spot a hose oh yum oh my god billy no get away from that hose billy jessica's never been more on board cream hose um billy sent him back to his body but remained in the fairy so they could keep looking around and perel found himself wandering over to a rolled up piece of canvas that he unrolled exclaiming morris and the party saw a portrait of a wizard presumed to be morris wadge which then turned into a picture of a wizard blinked and that is where we find ourselves now billy is still in the fairy realm yes yeah and perel is holding a portrait that has blinked and the portrait starts to shake in his hands whoa and kind of like flap a little bit and he drops it he backs away and drops it on the ground what was that piece of cloth too heavy ving says and goes and picks it up and perel doesn't know like as you're going to pick it up the portrait starts to you know in like like in the fairies world you know like looney tunes when someone gets like crushed by a safe and they're all 2d and they start to lift themselves up but the end of who frame Roger of it yeah that's what I was thinking yeah completely flat the man in the portrait begins to lift up from the canvas and starts to like origami unfold yeah like his limbs start to extend creepy and then there's like slices of him that are filling in behind wow coming facts 3d yeah he starts to becoming like three-dimensional and within I don't know 20 seconds 30 seconds there is now a man standing before you he's on the shorter side probably about five six five eight but broad you said he was really burly stocky yeah and he's wearing previously very fine robes that are now tattered maybe like a kind of burgundy and gold sort of like paisley ish yeah you know like kind of floral and guilt mm-hmm but really tattered and then he's got big mutton chops he's kind of balding on his head maybe like it's receding he's got a high like widow's peak oh cool and then no mustache or beard what's the hairstyle I think like bullish you know like a old king oh yeah yeah I was down and totally I expect I'm imagining it like swept back for the most yeah kind of long almost like down to his shoulders like he's been living rough for a little while yeah okay like maybe this was a really nice hair haircut two years ago he still has the time to shave the mutton chops and Perel is just standing there slack-jawed tuck is being very quiet cuz you know it's it's a big moment am I still in the fairy world or can I pop back oh you can pop back in yeah yeah I'll pop back in yeah totally so you make sense if something is yeah there's holding in the room there's a big like disturbance in the shadow world you said tuck throw up yes and I'm like I'm gonna throw up I'm gonna throw up I was like oh I should get back there yeah so you all have the mints you like you need some help so yeah I'd like the the energy that Billy saw in the fairy world on the portrait has like blossomed into this like bright shards of light I like yeah yeah the spectrums holding and now it's weird it's this like it's like this glowing torch now almost what Perel looked like when he was here but now he's quite dimmed in his material form and then he's like oh I should get back in there and he says hello Betty and Perel steps forward kind of like shell shocked Perry Dexter's crying Harry this name is so sweet I've never thought of I didn't know we could give him a nickname oh yeah Billy has big anime tears and Perel we all hugged him together we all see him behind you guys are just hugging the end of a George Lucas movie looking at these people meet again crying silently quivering lips and Perel is like gasping almost he's like and then he just balls up his fist and he punches Morris right in the nose he's just like you son of a bitch you left me you left us and there he's like trying to grab Morris oh I tuck goes forward and he holds Morris down get him wraps around Perel to hold Morris down it's like he goes it looks like he's going for Perel to stop him but then he holds Morris's shoulders and pins him to the ground between you and Morris get him I imagine tuck is like pretty like gentle and businesslike about it too like just there you go Perel here you go do whatever you need to do let uncle tuck help you and yeah Perel feeds him a couple more hours and it goes slow-motion pink haze and I need you know and Morris very notably is not really fighting back he gets slugged a couple times and then Perel stops and grabs him by the front of his robes and pulls him up and hugs him and just holds and is you can he's like shaking tuck is also holding Morris so now they're hugging inside of tucks arm arms and then tuck like hugs them both can we go I want to go hug I'm going inside hug so Morris emerged from a portrait from a two-dimensional plane to get punched in the face three times and now he's being hugged by people he doesn't know okay I go hug well I go hug I hug Ving's leg yeah who's on the back of Morris yeah and Perel's got his face like buried in Morris's like neck and he's just hugging him so hard just breathing it in yeah and then he pulls back and he kisses Morris and he just looks at him like he's just looking in his face and then Perel's like I get you guys can get off did you get it do you want me to know just stop just chaos and pride it's like also leaning with his eyes closed with his lips I like I guess we're kissing now is this is this not is this normal now is this like a this a normal part of your life yes it's hard to say I'm not sure if I'm a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman a woman wadge big fan uh of course you would be wouldn't you love this guy love his attitude and uh uh billy is like kind of shy and he's like um do you guys want adult time should I go wait out in the hallway oh uh no billy no no no I think everybody has some questions I know I've got some fucking questions I think you've mostly got questions and yeah if you've got fucking questions we don't have to be in the room when you ask them hey it's understandable I I I can look I can answer any questions you want are you alone here yes are you telling the truth yes why would I lie I don't know you're a wizard oh because I'm a wizard I lie that's that's what you're suggesting well we're also here looking for someone else we didn't really expect to find you who are you looking for all water good luck you what's that supposed to mean I've been here for weeks not a soul until the three of you why are you even here oh uh yeah that's a great question tuck that's a great question uh how did you what are you how are you here it's uh it's difficult could we go somewhere maybe more comfortable I well you know we could go back to the fanny pack we have that right yeah billy takes it off of his waist and he starts setting it up morris you sees the fanny pack and laughs I can't where did you get this what did we get this we found it in a treasure worm and then a bird gave it to us treasure worm wow I mean what do you think it's beautiful it's pretty cool yeah it's home to us yeah it's nicest tent I ever stayed in yeah I was gonna I was gonna mass produce these things but this ended up only being a proof of concept it's really cool it's we've uh and then tuck realizes that it's fucked up and something like that yeah it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool it's really cool kind of took liberties yes we lost track of it for a while and some kind of stuck in there You know, I'll get, no.

You guys stay here. Yeah, you guys should hang out here and we'll go inside. Yeah, you don't want to be in here. It's got a lot of things written on the walls. No, that's, I mean, I've seen it. Oh, right. You were in it. I was. I wasn't sure who had it, so I didn't stick around for long, but I did take a quick visit. Let's just, let's go in. Let's go in. Okay. I've had enough of this ice. It's not, I don't love it thematically.

You know, it's not my proudest work, but let's just, let's head inside. Okay. My face is getting cold. Not so much on the sides here, but right in the bottom. Right in the chin and the nose area. Right underneath the nose. And, you know, a few minutes later, you guys are kind of arrayed. Morris is kind of walking around with his hands on his hips, just like, ah, yay. This is great. Just beautiful. And he pats like the lintel on the fireplace and adjust.

The portrait and touches the safe and shit like that. I like that. It looks a little bit different here. Things are like, is it more roomy because he created like, and he has mastered space. So space is different. The spaces that he's created are slightly different when he's in them. Space acts different around him. Yeah. It would like know what he wants. Totally. And he would know how to tell it. He can walk towards the danger wall and it just like fades a little bit. Yeah.

Room gets more comfortable. And when he pats the safe, it like automatically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It automatically repairs itself because we totally fucked it up. Did you put that, that terrible watch robot centipede century. Oh, the century beat. Oh, you tried to get in. Oh, I see. Didn't you use the key? What key? What key? I left a key in the safe. There's no key in there. Perel. Did you not get, you found the letter. It wasn't there when I went in. Yeah.

I found your letter and he reaches over and he takes the letter from Perel.

And it's like a sheet of paper and he kind of grabs the edges and sort of uh rubs them together rubs his fingers together and the paper begins to like fold out from itself and then fold back in and creates this very stylized but simplistic like key shape oh and he says you have lost your touch it's been a long time bro I'm not familiar with this anymore and uh he goes over to the danger room wall and begins unclasping it no no no no no no no no no not do that why not we shoved the broken sentry bead back in there but we don't know what it's gonna do you shoved it back in yeah oh to like the dark place that it came from oh also we have I don't know what effect this will have on the rest of the space but we have been treating it kind of like a toilet yeah you!

We didn't know where to put that stuff so your house didn't have a bathroom in it so we were shitting outside for a while but then we killed the sentry bead and it was this darkness just became toilet zone so you've never been outside the servants quarters sorry this is another foyer situation he looks around look there's a kitchenette yes little sitting area this is the nicest house I've ever lived in yeah this is literally the nicest house I've ever lived in yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yeah it's definitely got like and I like thick wooden beams abdul's it's a blanket fort it's got a blanket fort vibe on the outsides of it but then like inside it's like a very fine living space yeah I love the idea that it is this like vaulted room made out of like the material of the tent yeah but it's like you look up and it's like the spiral staircase goes up to a telescope and it's the night sky oh I love that that's very cool it's kind of like you know how like jasmine's room in the aladdin where it's like kind of indoor outdoor vibe totally yeah yeah so this is the this is the study slash observatory this is but one of many rooms that I designed for the fanny pack there's more this is this was designed to be a portable palace ving's legs give out he needs to sit down to catch his face waving his face billy wave some smelling salts under things nose oh my god sorry fingers fucking reek billy I'm sorry thank you no they wake me up it's the cheese oh my god and perel is walking around looking at this taking it all in there's like yeah there's the spiral staircase that goes up to the observatory there's a balcony up there there's like huge library shelves with books on them and there's like tables and chairs and what looks like a little bar area well I like that he picks up a book and throws it up in the air and lands on the ground and poof pops out into a giant tent like a some of these books are also like you can just take these out to like the other rooms yeah one of them you can pop them into a handsome cat he goes they're pop-up books I like that a lot I love pop-up books yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean this was gonna change everything until you know people decided that uh maybe it wasn't worth having us around anymore didn't you make this so that you guys could just like fuck off and leave make what wasn't like the fanny pack part of like the waywalking project you needed this to be able to live outside of the universe no this was a separate project of mine that the extra planar evacuation project was different.

It was a success, but a failure. Let's maybe take it from the beginning. How did I get here? Is that question one? Yes. And he stands and he grabs a couple books off the shelves and he throws them in front of them and they all just like become like chairs that he stands around like in a semicircle around him and then he takes another and he throws it in front of him and it becomes a lectern. Cool. Alright, please if you don't mind, take a seat. Tuck goes and sits down.

And he reaches over and he grabs a couple other books and he throws one like further away from you that unfolds into like made of paper and leather like a butler. Whoa. Oh, cool. With a tray of like little like cups and plates. Oh, Billy standing up on the chair like, oh boy. That as you're watching, they like they fill themselves with various liquids and foods. Oh, cool. And the paper butler you hear like like shuffles over to you.

Billy grabs the throat blanket and tucks it into his collar like a bib. A full blanket that covers his entire body. Just his arms coming out. Like a snuggie. Yeah. And the paper butler hands out yeah, food and drink. And whatever you take off the tray you find is whatever you wanted in that moment. Oh, cool. Tuck takes a thing and it's ox's blood. Yeah. Because he hasn't had in a long time. Yeah.

And then he is he's wedged because these are you know those university type seats where it's like the desk. The desk folds up and over. So he like he's like too big for it. So he's like trying to wedge himself in and then pull the desk up but he wrenches it off. He's like, all right. He's really small. Just settle in. Settle in. And then as you kind of stop fighting the tape, the chair, you feel it. Yeah, you feel it unfold a little bit more underneath you. Okay. To become more comfortable.

Thank you. And Billy's actually folds in a little bit. Yeah, it's made a little like a baby chair. Like a high chair. It rises up a little bit. So your eye level with the adults. Yeah. And has a little tray. Wings pops out like a lazy boy. Oh my God. Feed up. Feed up. Impressive, right? Amazing. Is this a lemon snow cone? I haven't had one of these since I was a kid. It's whatever you asked it to be. Wow. There's a lot of dirty cubes of beets and turnips and then. Raw? Dirty cubes?

Yeah, they're raw. And then a pot of honey. Yep. Oh, honey pot. Yeah. Beautiful. There is more. The butler keeps dropping off like little samples of things. Yeah. He goes to walk and you're like, oh. Yeah. There's a quarter of an egg sandwich and a quarter of an egg sandwich. Yeah, he pulls a little small amount of sandwich. A quarter of a really big egg sandwich. But like, yeah, magically a full egg sandwich was generated and the quarter was removed. Yeah. And then he has a gravy to go with it.

And then he has a chicken soup with gravy to go with it. And so there's two separate kinds of gravy. Yeah. He has pudding. Savory pudding. And sweet pudding. Yeah, savory and sweet. Rice pudding as well. Sweet. And Morris is just watching this. And an apple that's cut up. This is beautiful. This is like a stress test. This is amazing. I've never had someone so hungry try and use the golem before. It's incredible. There's those like pouches that babies drink from like the smoothie, the goo bag.

There's a couple goo bags. He really likes those. The table keeps getting big flipping. Yeah. And loose Cheerios. This is, I mean, please as much as you want. I want to see if there's an upper limit to this. You sure you want to see more? The page can bring you whatever you want. It's called a page. That's great. I came up with that while you guys were talking. That's so cool. Pizza toppings. Just the toppings. Why am I going to waste my time with the crust? Oh my God.

You brought it up so sheepishly in the end of this. So vehemently. This is just, it's literally like a programmer making a program that is like, I've thought of everything I could and then a user interacting with it and doing the weirdest shit possible. So it's just a bowl with marinara sauce, cheese and vegetables. He brought a pizza and he slid the toppings off onto a plate for Billy and then he brought a full pizza?

And then now there's a little plate with spaghetti and meatballs that Billy's eating with just his hands. Wow. And a side of cheese, grated cheese that Billy's also eating with his hands. Those puffs of cheese. It's been just 10 minutes. We all sat down and we're done. Our drinks. He came by and was like, no, I'm good. Maggie and Perel, who very notably did not sit down or accept any food or drink, have been watching this so long that they got thirsty. They both grab a drink.

Ving's doing that thing where he's eating the bottom of it. Pizza. He's eating three quarters. You just got the mom meal. Yeah, the leftovers. He's eating some marinated beans. I haven't even seen some of these foods before. Borscht. Borscht, I am familiar with. Then just a handful of garden weeds. Like for a palate cleanser. I wish I could speak to the order that designed this spell for me. Billy is like his eyes are glazed over. He's done. I think he's done.

I mean, I think he could go further. If I'm being honest. He's done. Right. The weeds are an indication that you're at. You're like fairy. The fairy hunger is like dandelions are starting to come out of his head. Morris, what were you saying? That was I can't remember. That was astounding. I basically Oh, what? All right. He's like kind of looking at Perel, but kind of trying not to look at Perel because he can just feel the like rage boiling off of him.

I'd like to take this opportunity to answer any of your questions so we can sort of get this out of the way. Carry on with our lives. So, yes. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Yeah. Fuck. Were you going for that? Oh, no. I ruined the joke. I was going to say, where did you? I thought of it, but you know what? Because I respect women and their ability to tell jokes. I did not jump on that. I'm famously a misogynist and I think that it's time we talk about it. Because I am an ally.

I'm so glad how you got there. I know it took some time, but thank you. Welcome. Thanks. Short answer is I escaped. The extra planar evacuation project using a complicated and difficult application of the Thaumic Tunneling Principle which allowed me to arrive at a point not of my choosing connected to work that I have done in the past. What do you mean escaped? Were you a prisoner? Right, I suppose. I haven't actually talked to anyone outside of it.

The Exodus was not what you may have thought it to be. We were deceived. By who? I wish I could answer that, but what we do know, what I do know, is that we thought that we were leaving a world that no longer wanted us for one of our own design. But it was not a paradise. It was a prison. Whoa. What was the prison? It was what we were told. It was a world that we were creating for ourselves. Worlds unto our own, but once we entered, I found I could not leave. But you weren't allowed to leave.

I was unable to leave. It was a one-way hole. How'd you get back? When'd you get back? I was there for, uh… I don't know what year it is. We also don't know what year it is. Actually, we do kind of know what year it is. Right. We don't know what the calendar is, but we did suggest that the beginning of the show took place in the year 420. Because we thought it was funny. No. Yeah. So is it like 422 now? Yeah, it's like 422 on a calendar. We haven't established. Yeah.

Because I was thinking about this. 420 is funny. And then if you go 40 years into the past, when Mall Brats takes place, it's 480. It's the 80s. Oh, cool. Wait, 380s. 380s. It's the 380s during Mall Brats. So it's the 420s right now. Oh, cool. We are in the uh, oh, what would it be called? Like ages. I like coming up with the ages. Yeah. I feel like it's maybe two. Second grieving or something. You know what I mean?

So I know the grief, in my mind the grieving took place at least a thousand years ago. So I think we're maybe like two ages past the death of Rian. So maybe that's what it is. It's the third age. Well, what's the steps of grieving? Not that we have to abide by it. Yeah, like anger bargaining acceptance. Oh, yeah. We are, I guess it's depression now. That makes sense. It's a great depression. Yeah. It was a great depression. Great depression. It makes sense. Year 22. Yeah. Totally.

The most depressing year. And it's like all technology is gone. Everybody lives in like an apocalypse. Yeah. Potatoes are worth a lot. There are wars starting to pop up. Yeah. Third age of grieving. I like the third age of grieving. I like it too. Yeah, that's pretty good. Which is also called like the depression. But like the wizard stuff in the golden age was all the last like couple hundred years. But the grieving happened a long time ago, right?

So it was like that was the war itself was the grieving. And then whatever came after it was the second age of grieving, which ended in like the golden age of technology. And then the third age of grieving is the apocalypse. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. So when you tell him that it's 422, he is kind of like wide eyed. I was in there for over 90 years. I've only been out for a month, two months. Oh, wow. Oh, it's been hard to keep track of time.

The first few days after I first few weeks, probably after I escaped, I was not myself. How so? It felt like I'd been dumped into a freezing lake like something had been torn away from me. Oh, whatever has happened in the last 90 years, something is missing and my lack of connection to it. Disoriented me greatly. And Perel steps forward and says, what happened is they fucking killed us, Morris. All of you left and the ones that were left behind were wiped out. It's like a silence. Yeah.

I'm like twiddling my thumbs like this is awkward. My grandparents are fighting. You're a cup. Yeah. My sippy cup. So loud. It hits the ground and then like bounces a bunch. It's clanging for so long. And then when it's done. Sorry. And after the sorry, the silence continues to stretch. And then Billy goes. Yeah. And there's just the occasional like as the page starts to move and Morris holds his hand up and then Billy starts drinking from a sippy cup again. The page is shuffling uncomfortably.

It's like adjusting. It's like origami. It's really crisp shirt. It's basically doing Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah. This thing is basically made of really crisp shirts like it's all folds and flat planes. So it's just like it's a thawing construct and even it is uncomfortable. It shouldn't have emotion palatable in here. And then I I waved the page. Can I see a menu? Do you have a menu? And it reaches into it. It reaches into its coat and produces a menu made of the same paper that it's made of.

And I take a glance. It's furtively over at the standoff between Perel and and I guess they've just been staring at each other. I wonder if they can read minds. They're communicating telepathic. I say that to being really loud. Well, it's only loud because it's so quiet. No, we can't read minds, Billy. He's just not fucking saying anything. I don't know what to say. I don't. I can't believe it. How did this happen? What do you mean? How did this happen? Says Perel.

Now I'm fucking audiobook mode. Hell yeah, thing has got a big bowl of popcorn. This is awesome. The strength of Wizards was never in our magic, and you know that it was in our unity. It was in the gathering the community, and when Wizards first broke that we were left defenseless. We were on our own. Aquaria almost died. I was in prison for a hundred years. And where were you? I was trapped. Perel, I was trapped. I made that world for us.

I said in the letter, I was making it for the three of us. We could have lived there forever and been happy forever. But I couldn't come back. And Perel thinks for a second. I didn't realize I didn't get that from the letter. I said in the letter, I was going to show you that I was sorry I had to leave, but I would show you that it was all worth it. What do you think I meant by that? I don't know. I found a letter from you for the first time.

I read your words for the first time in what felt like a millennia, and I didn't know what they meant. And I was angry and I was sad. Did you really try to come back? And he doesn't even look at he like slams his hands on the lectern a little bit. He's like, of course I did. Why? How could I abandon you? Why? Why? Why would I do that? Why did you think that of me? I didn't know what to think of you at that point.

Honestly, this wizard's first stuff, it feels like it got in your head and it turned you into someone that I didn't know and that I didn't like. And I thought that this was just sort of the final twist. The final twist of the knife was you leaving. And Morris like grunts and kind of like sniffs a little bit and kind of like, I don't know, I don't know. He kind of like sniffs a little bit and kind of coughs and he's like, all right, well, I didn't. I didn't leave.

Now, do you have any more questions? Did you get your menu? He says it so derisively. Yes. Oh man, he's just. Oh, I'm so mad. He says it like Gordon Ramsay. Did you get your fucking menu? Your donut. Yeah, I got, I got the menu. All right. Let's just, let's, let's crack on. You got any questions? Let's get them out now. Okay. Oh. Do we like discern. Oh. Oh. Yeah. I mean, you could discern realities. Or a spell Lora, I suppose. I mean, maybe each of you gets one question. Does woman do. Yeah.

And do we have to roll for it to. Do we get yes. About Lora. Do we get a quest. Lora about it. And that will determine. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. How much Morris actually knows. Oh, smart. Love it. Okay. Okay, so who's going first? Who's got a question? I want to know what Morris knows about the man behind the plan of Wizards First. You know what I mean? Right, yeah. Wizards First sold this idea of the Extraplane or Exodus Project as a paradise, turned out to be a prison.

I want to know if Morris knows who was the person who was actually pulling the strings on Wizards First. Oh, I see. All right, I'll spell it. Yeah. Here we go. First roll of the game. First roll of the game. Fuck. Get 12. Get 12. 12. 12. Shit. Four. Four. And you know what? This is perfect because, so he knows plenty about the people that were involved in Wizards First. As a movement, it formed in the early days of what would become the Wizard War.

As we sort of came to realize that humanity, the mortal people, didn't appreciate what we added to society, everything that we could do and everything they needed from us. A natural and understandable resentment grew amongst us. Wizards, as we realized that people that should have considered us their betters, saw themselves as having power over us, the most powerful beings on the planet. But I was but a piece of a project. The membership of Wizards First was in the dozens.

Easily three dozen wizards working in concert on a task and project that had never been conceived or considered before. Wow. Clearly, there were ulterior motives amongst some of the membership or perhaps an outside force, but I was too focused on my work to have the safeguards necessary to see the trickery that existed at the heart of the movement. Were you alone in the prison? Yes. What? You didn't, you weren't in contact with the other wizards that were?

No, part of the project was that we would create worlds for ourselves. Self-contained universes. I realize now that the key to this plan may have been to separate and isolate us. Oh. If we were able to work together, we may have been able to break out sooner. But unfortunately, I was alone and frankly mad for a number of decades. Whoa. Coming in and out of consciousness and in and out of reality. And it wasn't… It wasn't until I was able to regain my senses that I was able to work on escaping.

Who's next for question? I want to know what he came to Adarnax Tower for. What is he looking for? Yeah, totally. So 2d6 plus intelligence. 11. 11. Oh, smart! Interesting and useful. Yeah. The delta between our average roles is fucking crazy. I think it's because Billy ate so much, so his brain is like on all… It's on. He's finally got all the nourishment he needs. Uh-huh. It's on a different plane of existence. Exactly. His eyes are facing different directions. He's connected to the overmind.

The food baby has arrived. You're the food baby. I am food baby. Like floating with your fingers like this, but there's like corn dogs in your… Oh, yeah. Connecting your thumbs and your middle fingers. He's got little raspberries on the ends of his fingertips. Some bugles, maybe. Yeah. When I was able to escape, I came out in my own tower and immediately was disoriented, as I said, from the lack of, I'm realizing now, connection to the Thaumic field that wizards cast over the world.

I, rather than use my natural ability and my gifts to get where I needed to go to find others, I used back doors that I had built into various towers that I'd worked on. I realized as I left my tower to the next that I was unable. I attempted to return the same way and ended up somewhere else. So something's broken down with the way that my work connects to one another. It seems like it is an unreliable, method of transport.

So I found myself jumping from place to place, hoping that I would find someone. Hoping that you would find your way home. Wait, is that a song lyric? Tex says, you know, you're, you know, jumping from place to place, helping out people whenever you can, hoping that the next jump will be the one that takes you home. Quantum leap. Doing these quantum leaps. Because you said you'd do that kind of quantum leap. Tunneling victory. It's like a thalmic tunneling, yeah. Yep. Thalmic leap.

Doing these thalmic leaps references to a show that the person doing my voice is not super familiar with. But I became wary and cautious, focusing most on my survival. So I stopped making quite as many jumps and I've only been leaving places when I've been forced to. What forced you out? Just kind of overstaying my welcome, so to speak. Some places have stores or places to conjure food. Some places I would accidentally break the spell necessary for clean water, for example. Oh.

And I was, um, I hesitate to say afraid, but definitely cautious of leaving. That's okay if you're afraid. I was not afraid. But you know, sometimes we're all afraid and that's where real bravery comes in. You gotta be afraid first to be brave. Some, perhaps, but not me. You're wrong. And as this back and forth is happening, Tuck is snuck up behind Morris and then he goes, and he actually, he… He folds out of existence for a second. He does.

He tenses, he folds up like a piece of cardboard and then unfolds somewhere else in the room. Oh, that's pretty fun. I was not afraid. That was a natural defensive instinct developed over many years by a professional, unskilled wizard. So you came here because you were like, I'm hungry. I'm gonna see what Adder and X got. I wish that I could tell you that I had deliberately came to this tower.

But anytime I moved, I was rolling the dice, taking a crap shoot, ending up somewhere I'd worked before. I see. Otherwise, I would have been at Aquarius Tower this whole time. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Oh, he's been going from, like, like, tower to tower. Some of those towers are probably vaults. Oh, yeah. And he, he wouldn't know what hotspots are. Yeah, no. Because he, yeah, hadn't seen them. That's probably what it is.

Like, coming back to this world where magic is so sparse, but also, like, aggressive in some spots was probably really disorienting. Right. I feel like his, where he's folding in and out because he's the, one of the engineers of the place, hotspots are where he's folding in and out. Oh, that's a really good point. So if he's going from place to place and where he's ending up is where hotspots are, even if he doesn't realize that, Yeah.

He's being, for lack of a better term, recharged really erratically. Yeah. So his magic is probably all over the place, which explains why he isn't able to direct it. And it also explains why he's, like, kind of looks sort of fucked up because he's, like, being exposed to radiation all the time, basically. And he seems a little off. Like, it seems like he's, like, kind of jumpy and he's distracted a lot. Uh-huh. Because he went crazy, he said. For a while, yeah.

Because he was in solitary confinement for a hundred years. Yeah. Like, Perel. Well, well, Perel at least had this, like, he's only energy state. You know what I mean? Like, he could probably tune out. Oh, yeah. He probably wasn't fully conscious at all. Yeah, until the words started to break. That's probably when he started becoming conscious again. But, Yeah, but, Morris had to be conscious for 90 years. He was in personhood for that whole time.

And Perel didn't really gain consciousness until he kind of was infiltrating Billy's mind. Totally. Right. He was sort of reconnecting at that point. Mm-hmm. And even then, he was, he was mad because he was like, Pilar was still Yeah. A part of him at that point. I like that he was using Billy's phase, the fae part of Billy through the fae part of Billy's connection to his wanting to be rooted in this boy. Yeah. Oh. Like, Billy's, like, really deep connection to the human boy. Wow.

Yeah, because the same way that Billy has used the boy to come into the world, Perel used the boy to come into the world as well. But also, holy shit, I never even thought about this. But because Billy was a fairy, even when Billy didn't remember being a fairy, he was able to use Billy's, like, mercurial, like, way walking Yeah. To sort of leave that Thalmic prison and enter a sort of midway state. Yeah. That's really cool. Wow. Because we've talked about how the three overlap a bit. Yeah. Yeah.

I think we've suggested that the place that Billy met Perel for the first time was in the fairy. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Yeah. That's so funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's fucking cool. Our show is so cool. It's fucking sick. God, we're good at this. Because the fairy realm is also a constructed realm that the fairy's made, so it has its own rules. Yeah.

I was just, yeah, because I was thinking that, like, the Exodus project was probably, like, a construction site with a bunch of, like, contractors that are like, ah, yeah, these are the plans, this is what we're gonna do. And then the fairy is just, like, a treehouse that a bunch of kids, like, slapped together. It's always like that. Yeah. So cool. Where the nails are alive. Yeah. Yeah. All these nails have names, unfortunately. Uh, all right. You have a question.

Ving wants to know what, knowing what you know now, and in this place, and who you are, and reconnecting with Perel, and here we all are together, what do you want to do? Four. No. Four. Then I think the answer is not good. Oh! So what do I want to do? That's an interesting question. It's one that I have had many answers for over the nearly century that I was trapped. First, I think the answer was I wanted to be free. And then I wanted to be with the ones that I loved.

And then for a long time I wanted to be a horse. And then I wanted to be free of the horse dream. Tuck's like street kid instinct kicks in here. Cause it's like, when you're on the street you get like really used to like being like, Who's dangerous? Yeah, like, oh that guy is not okay. I gotta get out of here. Yeah. And so like, really imperceptibly, Tuck like leans back in his chair and puts his hand on TLC. Cause he's like, Ving sees this. This, this, just became wrong. Uh huh. Yeah.

Um, and then for a long time I didn't know what I wanted. I didn't know who I was. And once I remembered who I was, I remembered that I was Morris Wadge, Master of Arcane Architecture. Lord over time and space. And now that I'm back, and I know what's been done, I want to write what's been wrong. This world would fall apart without us and it sounds like it has. Tuck looks over and he notices that uh, Morris, he was like, where he's gripping the lectern his hand is bleeding. Oh.

Cause he's holding it so tight. Mm-hmm. And now, I have a question for you all. Will you help me? Help you what? Put things right. I mean, we're kind of trying to do that already. Right now. Excellent. He like lifts his hands up and you see like blood dripping from his right hand. Oh, like Leonardo DiCaprio? Yeah, he's like got his fist clenched and it's like leaking between his fingers. And Tuck goes, oh god, he's DiCaprio-ing. Excellent. Then the next step is to find others.

Free the remaining wizards. If Perel is not there, he's not there. If Perel was imprisoned, that suggests that there are others. Well, Perel's not really a wizard anymore. Yeah. He's kind of a was wizard. What are you? He's a wizard right now. What are you? Burn. What do you mean? Perry? What do they mean? And Perel steps forward and like, you know, gets up off the like post that he was leaning on. That's all stacked books in a spiral. It's true. I don't know. I don't have my magic anymore.

And Morris, his face clouds. It's like, what do you mean? What happened? Tuck knows what happened and he, you like every muscle tenses in his body. Who did this to you? Nobody. Nobody did it to me. It was a necessity. Look, I didn't take my imprisonment well either. When I was released, I was released by these three. They saved me. A part of me was released as well that represented all the times that I'd gone too far. And I'm a better man now.

But that part of me wanted its power back and tried to take me and these three saved me. And as a consequence, I am currently without my magic, but we're working on a solution. So, yeah, I mean, Morris, I sense the tension. And I'm like, that's why we came to the tower because we were hoping that this tower would lead us to the clues to help our friend, your friend, get his power back. Perel, you said as a consequence. As a consequence of what?

As a consequence of him killing me, we simply made him a safer person to be around. What do you mean you made? And you feel the room start to scrunch in around you. Billy slides out of the high chair and like takes the blanket off. He's like, well, that was a really nice lunch. Thank you so much. We can answer your questions outside of the tent. And out of the corner of your eye tuck, you see Maggie kind of start sidestepping around like the other side that you guys are on.

And you can see your hand like going to her belt, which is kind of a dagger. And Perel starts walking forward with his hands up. She's like, Morris, stay calm. It's okay. Everything's all right. What do you guys do? I don't want to fight Morris. No, you don't. No, we can't. I don't think we can. And here at least. I have an idea. So I rolled the Spout Lore, right? Yeah. And he said that he didn't know who was behind the Exodus project. And I have fount of knowledge. Oh.

Which means if nobody knows about a thing, I take a plus one and I Spout Lore against it. So I want to Spout Lore on who the fuck was actually behind Wizards First and was behind imprisoning and taking all of these wizards off the board. And taking the blanket of magic from the world. Yeah. Because I think I know. I think you know too. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to take a plus one forward which means it's a flat 2d6 roll. I want to hear it. Yeah. Play. Yeah.

Because if I can figure it out that I can give him a different target. I can give him a different thing to be mad at. Yeah. Where it's like instead of fighting us and like humans fight the actual person who took you away from your family. Yeah. Just redirect his anger. All right. 2d6 plus zero. Jesus fucking Christ. That's fine. It's good. Yeah. This is not a pivotal role at all. Nah. It's moments like this that I wish we fudged roles on this show. We're not going to. No we cannot.

Gonna get a 12. Feeling it's a 12. Six. Great. Eight. Eight. 100% I'll eight. Okay. 2d6 plus bond. Coming in. Plus one. Nine. Yes. Okay. So that makes it a seven. Okay. All right. Well I think that Tuck's probably put some pieces together. Yeah. He's back in the pizza hut. The pizza hut palace? Yeah. He's back in the pizza hut palace. The pizza palace. Yeah. And he's he's sitting there eating a pizzone.

And there's a version of Tuck with a backwards hat and like a tank top and board shorts at a Mortal Kombat machine. Yeah. Just so our listeners who maybe haven't heard the other episodes are aware this is like being John Malkovich for Tuck to go into his mind and figure out how to do it. And figure out what he's actually thinking about. He always goes to a sit down pizza hut. And he talks to a version of himself and everyone in the pizza hut is different versions of him. Yeah.

This one's playing Mortal Kombat. And he's got his mouth full of dessert pizza. And he's just like he's like it's obviously a fucking gibbous man dude. And then it's like he's out of the pizza. That was it. That was it. That was it. And then it's just like fucking gibbous man man. Oh my God. Obviously. We spent all that time at that bus fair getting to the pizza palace just to get slam to get a three word answer and then leave just drinks a seven up get the fuck out of here. We're closed.

I'm trying to kill Melina and then slam back to the Fanny Palace and no that's not going to work. I thought that's what we called it. And then Tuck goes Fanny Palace. And Tuck he picks up TLC and in his mind lets them know that they need to like pump out as much spirit energy as possible.

And he walks up to Morris and he takes the bag of obsidian coins that he has and he's like I know you're mad and I know you want to take it out on somebody but I think I know the person who orchestrated this whole thing. You should take it out on the person who made it out on you. Who made it out on you. Who made it out on you. Who made it out on you. Who made it out on you. Who made it out on you. Who made it out on you. Who made all of this happen.

Not on the people that were manipulated into fighting each other. And then he like tosses the bag of coins at Morris. And they'll spill out of the bag. There is a guy walking around the world giving these things out. He runs an organization called the Dark Guard. They've been making big moves to change the world into a realm that's not that will house icons more easily. And the first step of that was getting the wizards off the map. So I don't think you want revenge against us.

I think you want revenge against Gibbous because he's the one that kicked all of this off. 2d6 plus charisma. And it's I guess the parlay is I'll give you I'll give you this information. And okay. We're actually sorry. Remember with parlay if you get a lot of you get a seven to nine they need concrete assurance. Okay. How about the parlay is we'll help you kill the Gibbous man. Oh smart. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Because we've been looking for the Dark Guard to kind of I mean we've got like our list of priorities. Mostly this season was a boat trip but we did to kill the Dark Guard when we left the library we said we were going to find the Dark Guard. I keep stacking very important tasks. I try. I think I have a price on my head. Oh you do. Oh and you're supposed to kill your dad or you die. No that's like priority number two right now. A big seal wants to kill you. That's the low that's Who cares?

Can we cut to like what a stone eye is doing right now? Oh and he has built a shrine. There's like he's painting things on the inside of a sea cave. Oh yeah. He's looking at a picture of Ving like crouched on a beach. In the candlelight. Yeah. He's like ceremonially draped in kelp. He's like painting his face. Yeah. Like he's got war paint underneath his eyes. There's like two Selkies like standing ten feet away that are like he's really going off the deep end. He's lost a lot of weight.

I swear by the salt of the sea by the old gods and the new. That's pretty cool. The stones at the base of the world I will get my vengeance. And then you guys are just back here like you guys remember that foyer you guys remember Jesus. That was nice. Wow. All right. 2d6 plus charisma. And I'm rolling the bone dice. Don't fuck it up. No. It's high risk. Nobody fucks bone dice. Yeah. Cause if this fails I'm gonna have to kill more. If this fails we have a new villain. Yeah. Potentially.

So bone dice. Bone dice. Five. Five plus three is eight. Okay. Okay. Consult a sage sounding board on an aid. Oh does that let you give a plus two forward on a spell or discern realities. Okay. Oh this would have been for the previous thing. Oh. Cause this is a parlay. Everyone's studying their sheets. I didn't even know I had sheets into this moment. This is so rare that you guys that we actually read. It's only it's always only in the final episode of this season. I know.

Technically you have weed. You can share the weed with him. Which gives you a bonus on parlay. And then someone can aid you. As the standoff is in the weed. As the standoff is happening Ving throws weed. Yeah totally. Heads up. I mean what's the what's the worst what's the scenario here is that you're you're honestly you're just offering to help him. I'm offering to help him and I think I know what the concrete assurance I can give him is. Okay.

I could use bardic lore and to like the concrete assurance is to give him is to figure out who the gibbous man is. Like get him from it and then give him that. And that's the concrete assurance. Have you asked a question about the gibbous man before? I don't think so.

Is it is it something that you can't use if you've asked what it's the first so the way it reads is when you first encounter an important creature location or item your call covered by your bardic lore you can ask the GM any one question about it. The GM will answer truthfully. The GM may ask you what legend song or tale you heard that information in. I honestly don't think we've ever like in game at least talked about the gibbous man. No, not really. I don't think we have. Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe we should explain what the gibbous man is for the listeners that maybe don't have access to the bonus stuff. So in the song the thief and the maid which played at the end of season six the gibbous man is referenced as a similarly similarly ancient figure to Lillian who was responsible for capturing Lillian and trying to bind her in some way until she was freed by chimes. Yeah. So that is what we know about the gibbous man.

Then we also know that the gibbous man or a figure we assume to be the gibbous man was responsible for recruiting Roth of the Medjay. Right. Because we saw that vision when he was dying. Yeah. And that's that's really all we know. Didn't we also know the thing that we got from Farhan who was the torch was that there was an outside force directing the the demon of zealotry. Yes. And that the dark guard might not be the demons.

And also don't we know or it's like suggested in like text that he's like a warlock. Is that what they're talking about when they talk about like Lillian and Lillian's tomb. Yeah. I think there is a connection to warlocks that is unclear. His nature is unclear but he we do know that he looks like a man wearing a big hat. Yeah. He's like a kindly old man. Yeah. With like a kindly aspect. Yeah. All black. Yeah. Traveling clothes and like a staff. Yeah. He's just like walks the world.

He kind of looks like the like classic depiction of Odin but old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Odin like the one. The wanderer. The one. The guy with the big hat and the staff. You have one eye then? No. I think. I think he looks like Odin but he's got both of his eyes and no beard. Right. Yeah. He's clean shaven. His eyes are black. Oh I want him to have beard. Okay. Beard and black eyes. That's cool. I think.

I think it's like he can disguise himself to look normal because he he comes as a kindly man to help. That might not be his true. Yeah. Nature. I think his. Yeah. I think in art he's been depicted in old art he's been depicted as wearing all black with black eyes. Yeah. Very manipulative person. Yeah. The photos were like black eyes or like one black one blue. Oh I like two different like he has one black one blue makes perfect sense. He has heterochromia. Yeah.

I mean is it heterochromia or is it full eye like his in his in his kindly forms he's depicted as having heterochromia. But like in his true form it's a full blue and a full black eye. Yeah. Oh I like that for the day and night. Right. Sky blue. Because he's the gibbous. He is both the dark and the light. Like he is he's the sliver of light. Yeah. Right. Because it's the gibbous is very right before the full and the new. Yeah. Oh. Because there are two gibbous too.

There's the waxing gibbous and the waning gibbous. Depending what he's doing. There's twins. Yeah. Oh. Oh yeah. I feel like we're right on the edge of something that I want to say. I want to see it. So I feel like I wanted to hold on to this for a long time. We're almost done. It's the dice man the dice decide. Okay. So there are some some depictions and some Wait. What are you asking? I I want you to tell me the thing that you're going to say. No. I want you to I want you to ask me a question.

I think the question we're circling around is like what is the gibbous man? Because that's the unknown. Like he's likely in charge of the dark guard. We know the dark guard's vague plans and like the consequences that that will have. On the different realms. But I think like the question is like what is the gibbous man? And what is his end game here? Pretty good question. What is the gibbous man? What is his end game? But all one question. No, no punctuation. Yeah. One or the other.

No, if you don't add any commas or anything like that. So just one question. What is the gibbous man? So the gibbous man and what is his end game? Where does he come from? Where does he go? Where does he come from? Can I tell? Nice try, fucker. The gibbous man. Like based in your like year of research at the Margani library. Well, maybe it's like I did a year of research and then from the mists of my mind, a song returns. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.

So the references to the gibbous man are few and far between. But references to beings of similar aspect you found more common early on. In the early ages of the world. And based on songs and art and writings that you've found throughout your time. You think that the gibbous man must be a name that was given to this person at some point by some culture. But not the only name. You would think based on his connections to the dark guard and his connections to warlocks and demons. Yeah.

And the references to Lillian. That he is of multiple aspects realms. He seems to be based on depictions of the blue of day and the dark of night. And the connections to giants and the obsidian coins and the iconic realm and the outer dark. Leads you to one conclusion. The gibbous man is the god of the sky. And that's where we're going to end it for this week. I'm your game master Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdulaziz. So long.

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I think that was a great answer. Who else do we know of gods? Well we know that the sky god was the father of the god of the of the god of the flame. Oh. Yeah. That's why sky god was the first god we ever talked about. That you talked about. Yeah. And the god of the flame. So two people were the story goes two people were copulating in a field. Yeah. And under the blue sky of day and a bolt of lightning. Put your headphones on just so I can use this just in case.

Copulating in a field under the blue sky of day in McCall many many many many years ago and a bolt of lightning struck down and blessed their union and the child that was conceived there became the god of the flame. Oh my god. Yeah. So was the father the guy in the field or was the father the lightning bolt? Welcome to Christianity. Wow. It's a lightning bolt. It's a great question. Oh it's definitely the lightning bolt.

So yeah that's the thing with the god of the flame is his like it's always been is he man? Is he god? What is he truly? Yeah exactly. He is kind of a demigod in a way but yeah his like his vibe is Hercules. Wow. Yeah. Hercules and like King Solomon. Yeah. The god of the flame is Hercules. You mean Gibbous man is Hercules. No the god of the flame. Yeah. Gibbous man would be more like Zeus.

This makes so much sense because if the moon is falling in love with a mortal of course the sky is going to be like excuse me how dare you like try to leave our realm. So he locks her up because he's like you're mine. You don't get to leave. If he is the god of the sky that means Lillian is his daughter. Yes. Oh that makes a lot of sense.

Yeah like I guess that would I guess the origin myth of the god of the flame if that's true suggests that Lillian and the god of the flame would kind of be different children classifications. Right. Yes. But like similar parentage quote unquote parentage. Yeah. Shit. And I guess yeah parentage could in some ways work a little differently. Oh yeah. We're talking like myths here. Like this is not necessarily like I I'm the Gibbous man. No I know. This is Lillian's mom Sheila.

We're not together anymore but you know we're trying to co-parent. She's with Glorgug. Glorgug. She's with Glorgug. Lord of destruction from a separate sphere. You know whatever. Um that's really cool. Lord of the sky.