The. As Levis Javelin pierces through
the incoming dragon and the Dragon of Apathy just crashes to
the ground, two things happen. One is Cassie comes running out
of the apartment building that she was in.
And the second thing that happens is there is a rustling
in the bushes and a man with so blonde that it's white hair,
glasses, a little speckled of paint.
He looks up out of the bushes and is like, is it over?
I imagine this thing left me with an empty Python.
It did that thing where dogs will lick out everything and
just leave the container. I'm just looking down.
I think it's not getting up and attacking anyone.
It feels like a lonely story but the least.
Oh I am so sorry, are you OK? And I will walk over very gently
and just offer a hand. Oh, thank you.
And he looks at Lavie. That was incredible.
And he he's looking at you with awe when Cassie's voice cuts in.
OK, you've all made it. I think you are the 123456.
The six of you are the only ones to respond to my message.
Please come in. Please come in.
You get up to the third floor, the elevator doors open, and
Cassie rushes you into a a small apartment, modestly furnished.
There is a a feeling of warmth and a desire for everyone's
voice to be heard. I would you all like to make
introductions. I'm Cassie.
I'm Cassie Lopez, and I am the demigod of Democratic outreach.
There's a big book in Fane's hand, and Fane knows that there
are many passages in that book where it's important for one not
to be too eager, not to jump 1st and jump ahead of others, to be
selfless with your time. But there's also conflicting
information because when time is of the essence and there's an
urgency, someone must take control.
So he's going to attempt to split the middle and like, kind
of raise his hand, his left hand, the one not holding the
book. And he says that if it's OK with
everyone, I, I, I can go first. I'm I'm Fain Fontaine and maybe
you've seen me on on social media.
I'm not sure what I'm the demigod of, but I know I am 1
and I'm trying to do my best. And I open to a page in the book
that's just all about the most moral forms of government and
just kind of starts reading a few passes and most of it was
like, I know there isn't a perfect way to do this because
of how flawed people are, but it seems the best bet is to invest
in people. So when I heard that Cassie was
in trouble, I thought I should come.
That's so noble of you dude. Oh, I'm I'm just trying to do
what's right, that's all. No, no, no.
Well, you like did this for like good reasons.
I'm like, that's sick. Exactly.
No paycheck or anything. Right.
Yeah, exactly. Yes, yes, you.
Get it? What's up y'all?
My name is Opportunity. God, demigod of Opportunity.
I saw an ad and thought this would be fun.
So was I. Interesting way to introduce
yourself in this very serious situation, but thank you so much
for coming opportunity. Yeah, to be honest, I had no
fucking idea what I was getting. Like I, I, I showed up here on a
bus and y'all were fighting shit and like that was pretty fucking
crazy. But no, this seems like it'll be
fun. So like, you know, I'm here to
vibe. There's a look on Fane's face
where he starts to ask if fun is a legitimate reason to help.
I think Yarrow is going to sense that just very gently put a hand
on his arm and just, well, hi everyone, I'm Yarrow Mitchell.
I came up quite a ways from here.
I took a train. I did have snacks for everyone,
but well, that hydra outside ate it.
But I could probably whip something up for us all later.
Demigod of comfort boots. By the way, it's a pleasure to
meet all of you. And this is Sana Yaja.
Don't worry, she's got her vaccinations.
She's not rabbit at all. She's just entitled.
The old raccoon takes a comfortable seat on she Cassie
has one of those those kind of like rounded seats with like the
nice cushions and stuff like that.
And it could probably hold at least two people and the old
raccoon just settles into it perfectly content.
Like a Jelly in the middle of a doughnut.
Perfect. The man with the the the blonde
almost white hair looks and says yes, yes, my name is, is Ronald
Rutherford and I, I received your message.
I, I, I am my, my godparent is the the God of art history.
I I I still have to figure out which.
Can I Pierce The Veil on this guy?
Yeah, just. Like I opportunity just like
slowly turns to this guy as like he sounds way too nervous.
I would like to also. Oh, I love the -1 judgement.
Well, that that puts me at a three. 7.
For Opportunity, he seems like he is nervous because clearly
art history guys don't really get out that much.
And this was pretty frightening for him.
And it's similar to you, but he he doesn't then approach it with
the bravado that you do. It's it's much more of a a
nervousness and he's he's putting on a thing for Lavie.
You are also piercing the veil, right?
Correct. And I thought I could have said
I got an 8 actually. You got an 8?
OK, so you can ask 2 questions. How can I get this person to
show me their true colors? And what is the greatest danger
with this person? Because it's the preparedness
kicking in. You know, as someone who is
prepared and who is tactical because the warrior is tactical.
You know that with very tact, like tactical questions, you can
kind of tease out really for all of them what their real purpose
here is. And so by asking questions and
watching carefully, you can tease out what their true
intentions are. And the greatest danger with
this person is the same greatest danger with all of you, which is
that you're demigods, each of you has enormous power and and
are able to affect the the weave of the world.
He doesn't seem to have lost any of his mortality yet, so he's
probably not that strong. He's, you know, you recently
lost, you know, a third of your mortality and you can feel like
it's almost like a chain has come loose.
You are stronger. You're a little bit further away
from the mortal plane. He doesn't have that yet.
But all demigods are capable of good or evil.
I think as Ronald is finishing, Levy is posted up by the door.
Like wherever we are in, like where Cassie has brought us
into, like her abode, Levy is in a doorway, Levy.
Levy is near the exit. Levy is basically like not back
turned. But let's say if we're in
basically a like a living room, if there is a doorway, Levy is
like one shoulder on the door, but back not turned towards the
door. And it's that position of if
something were to come through that door, it's going to have to
go through Levi first. It's taking that almost like
guarding stance, but also just watching an absent mindedly like
as Ronald is showing these signs of being nervous.
Levi finds like a little bit of a touch of like there's
something going on with you. I'm going to just agitate this
and see what happens. Azlavy is pretty much like
wiping the blood from these creatures that were was on the
sword, like onto like the sleeve of their shirt absentmindedly
and then just flicks and swings like the sword around and then
puts it to where it's the tip of it is resting on the side of
their boot. And anyone who had seen Levy
before the fight, Levy is pretty unassuming, like Levy's fairly
tall and like there's masculinity and femininity and
something in between and the way that Levy presents themselves.
But in this moment, it's like there's a almost energy that is
kind of his pulsing out, where it does kind of feel like you
can hear the slightest hint of a heartbeat whenever Lavie makes a
movement. But it's that quickening of a
heartbeat. It's that moment before the
adrenaline hits, because it is only a moment before adrenaline
will literally hit you if you make the wrong move.
Wow, you're just really just a nervous little guy, aren't you?
Must suck to be you, doesn't it? Oh well, anyway, say lovey.
If you say my name, I appear. I'm lovey.
Demigod of adrenaline rush. You're looking for a fast time,
QuickTime. You want to take a risk.
I'm right there to help you with it.
Maybe give you that little push and hold your hand during it.
So I'm here to hold your hand, Cassie, if you need it, OK?
I'm, I, I saw what you did to those beasts that were guarding
me and I, I am so happy to have you here.
I, I think I, I mean I need all your helps and and you, who are
you? My name is Ron and I'm Canadian.
If you're the demigod of Canadians, that's that's.
All. Yeah, Canada, the USI mean we
survive by democracy. This I figured that this would
be just as important to you it. Is.
Still all of us here. So obviously my godparent is the
God of democracy and. I'm sorry, are you just like a
guy? Hold on, I'm going to roll 2D6.
Give me a second. Ominous. 5 + 1 + 1 that's seven.
So I'm going to roll short skirt, long jacket, which is a
Muse playbook thing, but I do have it as an extra to just
socially blend into this situation.
And then the 7:00 to 9:00, I have to describe what I do to
look like I belong, which is a good question.
So I feel like he's going to put his hands in his pockets and
he's going to throw his shoulders back a little bit and
she's going to look opportunity right there and say, what's it
to you? Hey, I'm cool with you being
here. I just, there's a lot of we've
already kind of set the whole like demigod thing and I'm
pretty sure we're not supposed to tell mortals or that was what
I was told last time I told immortal.
So I just want to make sure we're all Gucci with the mortal
here. And if so, I'm down.
Just wanted to be clear because I'm not trying to get in
trouble. That cannot be immortal that
that ain't immortal. If if that's immortal then like.
I mean he's not telling us if he's a demigod or not, and not
to say you gotta, but you also just seem to have claimed to
maybe be immortal so you know, like.
There's a rule book. What are the vibes here so far?
I feel like everyone's been powerful, a bit boastful.
That's the divide I'm getting right.
I wouldn't say I don't think I feel powerful.
Cassie, I can tell you what Cassie feels.
Cassie is very nervous. She needs something from you
all. She needs your help.
And so that's really what she's focused on.
I know from Ronald you are getting a little bit of like a a
nervous feeling, a little nervous tick.
Who do they want in this situation?
What kind of person do they want?
Oh, Cassie wants someone who will help her.
Who? Cassie wants somebody who
believes in the importance of democracy, understands the the
urgency with which if the God of democracy is missing, that must
be rectified. Can Fain offer to shake Ruhan's
hand like just from, from a, from a place of courteousness.
It's kind of like extends A handout.
Ruhan, it's it's a pleasure to meet you.
Thank you for coming to help. And it's like extending a hand
for like a handshake. They do, and they extend like a
black nail Polish covered hand. There's a lot of spikes on her
outfit. Very punk.
Lots of pro anarchy symbols. Looks prepared, prepared to
fight for what they believe in, you know, and goes to shake.
God, I feel like I'm going to regret this, Yeah.
I'd like to use psychometry. Yes, tell me about psychometry.
So I can learn about a person, place, thing or event by
touching it and after I noticed the room, wondering if this is
just a guy or a demigod. I think Fame has an idea of who
this is, given what Fame's whole deal is, but they're looking to
confirm that. You first look into his eyes
that look a bit glassy, and that's when you realize that
they're not breathing this figure in front of you.
The skin has a green tinge to it and as you look further you just
see them, not this person in front of you.
You see a decomposing corpse dressed in the wrong clothes,
but you can tell the same person on the bottom of The Cave where
he suffocated to death on poisonous fumes.
There, there's a fear in Thane's eyes and he's trying so hard not
to let go of this handshake rudely.
Like every instinct is to want to jerk the hand away, like you
just had something gross at the bottom of the sink.
But they don't want to be rude to another person.
So they let go of your hand normally, kind of put their hand
in their pocket. And he says I I thought so.
That's why don't tell people. Yeah.
They always seem to freak out. I will risk back to that and you
can tell that fame is definitely freaked out.
Oh come on, you get to know. I'm a psychopom and I'm dead
mostly. Thing kind of speaks lowly to
Ruhan here and is going to say not for nothing and not to be
offensive here, but I have studied very hard and lived my
life in a way where when we're supposed to meet then it would
go smoothly. It always goes smoothly.
And he just kind of turns around very much so, like grappling
with the idea of what you stand for.
And it's kind of just gets really awkward and quiet in this
group now. Cassie does have divine charm as
the muse and she needs you all to focus so.
So she turns that on and you all feel your attention.
Kind of like shift directly to her democracy.
Is my parents and my parent is missing.
And you know the importance of democracy to everything,
everything that this world is. I don't, I don't know, can gods
die? I don't know where democracy is.
And as a result, my powers are waning.
It's I only have so much. And will you all help me?
Do you know when this started? I haven't heard from democracy
in over a year. And at first I thought they were
just busy and then midterms rolled around and democracy
always, you know, checks in with me to make sure that I'm, I'm
feeling successful in my ability to make sure that everybody has
the power to, to vote. And, and that didn't happen.
And things, things have been happening.
I don't know if you've been paying attention to the news.
Things have been happening that I don't think democracy would
let go silently. Uharo, incredibly intimidated by
the sheer power in this room and just thinking, well, I can just
summon muffins with a snap of my fingers, nods along to Cassie
because Lord knows that she has heard plenty of awful, awful
things on the news while she bakes and isolates and has seen
that in this moment of tenseness, in this sheer like
the discomfort of realizing, oh, this country is succumbing to
something awful and the concept of democracy herself is vanished
as a demigod of comfort food. What do you do?
Make sure that everyone has something to eat and think about
that isn't awful. You're just Cassie.
Would you mind if I used your kitchen for just a moment?
I can. Does anyone have any dietary
restrictions? I could whip something up real
quick. I, you know, pie, Hydra eaten
anything. Cassie, it gives you like the
sweetest knot that says yes, please go ahead.
You are such a dear. Thank you.
Come on, Sonny. Ashley, let's let's get to work.
You know I am craving Donuts. Does anyone have a particular
favorite muffins? Maybe some other?
Apple Apple Filling. Apple fritters gotcha.
Any dietary restrictions? None.
I'll have what everyone's having.
Take a risk. No.
I Des I now want you to take a risk, but I will get back to you
later. Book boy, that should.
Probably feel about that. Fiero was your name right?
Yeah, Hiero Mitchell, it's a pleasure to meet you.
So Libby, do Libby. Yes, Libby.
Say Libby and I'll be there. Take a risk, do something
exciting. Do you must have a recipe or
something that you've been wanting to whip up that will be
perfectly in tune with whatever you got going on?
You and your little friend. I believe in you and you're
going to do great. God, her heart's pumping, but
it's not adrenaline, just nodding.
And I am going to use regrowth 2D6 plus my weird and I'm going
to so have your favorite pastry prepared, but it's going to be
some Dannette Mexican fusion. So lots of cinnamon, lots of
herbs. That is A10 plus my weird which
is 212 total. So that is a 12 and you have
vital aura, so you heal one additional including the four
harm that you heal, and you can go ahead and distribute it
amongst the people present as you wish.
I think the moment you see Yarrow kind of bottle into the
kitchen, very nervously turns around delicious smells of
cinnamon and Yanabati and just every comforting smell from your
childhood when a parent was at the stove cooking comes and she
turns around. She suddenly has green oven
mitts on and there's a plate full of pastries.
All right, everyone here have some.
Eat up, Bradley. You look like you need it.
Hell yeah. Opportunity immediately just
starts chowing down. I'm also going to take a look
around this place. I want to get a a vibe for
Cassie. Are there any pictures of any
like pictures of herself? Pictures of her and her mom.
There are so many pictures. She is somebody who is well
loved, well regarded, surrounded by people at all times.
You know, she is the type of person who who makes you want to
be a part of a team and she is the type of person who can
fascinate anybody who's looking so you see so many pictures.
She's also someone who appreciates mortal kind.
You would guess that she's not the type of person who would use
her ascendance move. She's not the type of person who
wants to lose connection with her mortality.
Damn Cassie. All right, fucking getting your
democracy on, I say, as I'm just fully just going through her
house, picking up her pictures, looking through them with a
mouthful of apple fritter. Yes, Speaking of I, do any of
you have any ideas? You you got a whiteboard, you
got giant piece of paper and some sharpies.
You got a picture of your mom, so we know who we're looking
for. That's true 1st 24 hours after
someone goes missing you want to have that face from MRI.
And we're already 365 * 24 hours down.
This one's going to be hard. Do I have a picture of
democracy? Yeah, she's your like mom,
right? Democracy is my parent, yes.
Cassie opens a drawer and pulls out a painting.
What do each of you see when you look at the painting of
democracy? I think Fane when it comes out
initially, is Fane is seeing this ideal person, if you will,
at face value at first inspection.
This would be someone where you look at them and go, this is
someone that I would want to associate with.
This is someone whose ideas I want to hear out.
And I think for Fane, as is with everything in his life and his
philosophy, unfortunately the longer he looks at it, the more
he starts seeing small flaws with the form.
And this could be things that are physical, but this could
also be things where make maybe there's an expression that he
would deem to not be totally trustworthy.
Or maybe he's thinking the fingers are crossed behind their
back or something. And it it's hard for him to ever
know completely if someone is worth listening to or not, but
when he sees us initially, he sure would like to trust in this
person. What hero sees as she looks at
this picture of democracy, She sees an older woman in
traditional garb. She's wearing a velvet top.
She's wearing a squash flower necklace.
There are people of all ages surrounding her.
There are men. There are children at her feet.
And her appearance is serene. It is almost too ideal.
There's something aged about it, as if this ideal has not been
realized for a very long time. There's a nostalgia to it, a
want, a hope even that that's a possibility.
Levis sees a crowd of people. No one person is more important
than the other. It's a lot of hands being held
together, hands reaching out to others to help them up.
It's almost, if you could paint what a voice sounds like in
unison, that's what it is with like this kind of like
discordant texture underneath it.
So Levi isn't seeing a person. Levi is seeing brush strokes,
like the idea of democracy being built with every stroke of the
brush, with every dip of paint. And so everyone looks different
but united but still disjointed. And there's this almost motif
that lingers in it of the like a blindfold being taken off.
It's almost this thing of a scale being like trying to find
balance of a torch that is flickering and seems to be
dimming. It's all of the things that Levy
grew up with still in mortality about what democracy was
supposed to be. It's like a almost a silhouette
of the Statue of Liberty and Lady Justice holding hands
together, but they can't quite reach each other.
But there's still this feeling of every single body in this
piece is supposed to be united. They are supposed to speak as
one, but still together. But still, even if they speak
differently or even if they sound different, they're still a
person. They still have a voice in this.
And Livi blinks, and it's kind of that same thing of anyone
who's near Livi, like, can kind of feel that staccato and
heartbeat again. It's not your heart skipping a
beat, but it's your heart realizing that it needs to be in
tune with something, and it's trying to find that tune and in
trying to be prepared to be able to recognize democracy.
Levy is staring intently, but still with a split focus of I
need to be aware of my surroundings, but I want to know
what democracy looks like. But it's a big picture, and Levy
is trying to memorize it in this moment.
Not really a person. In fact, it's people.
Dozens of people taking the place of one another faster than
the eye can see. Each of them raising their hand,
giving a speech out in the House of Commons, switching between
people to the next person to the next person.
Not just in the House of Commons, but in fields, in front
of podiums. Round of Fire throughout
history, all of them looking different, all of them different
ages, different ethnicities, different hair types, different
genders, different backgrounds, just everyone being able to
speak up and share a voice. Opportunity sees a black and
white photo of a stick figure. To Opportunity, democracy is no
different than anything else. It is but a tool that you use to
move forward, so when opportunity sees it, opportunity
goes well. That doesn't help at all.
That's actually a bad picture. I would say that's your picture
of your parent. You drew that.
It's more like, you know, a God beyond just simple descriptors.
I don't know if we're all seeing the same thing.
Oh. We're definitely not.
You're probably not. OK, because.
God's rarely come in one form. You know, that's fair.
That's fair, all right? You know.
Gender is ambiguous. I don't need that anymore.
Give me a demigod. It's right.
Death. I'm good.
I don't need gender. Gender is kind of bullshit.
I mean, I'm not saying I know it is, but I'm more like I thought
you were making a double and never mind.
Oh, double entendre I can make what if you'd like.
That's all right. All right, so about that
whiteboard battle plan. I guess every every planner has
one and she pulls one out. Fantastic.
I'm gonna borrow this. You got a dry erase marker?
You got an Expo or a Sharpie? Sweets right there, not not the
sharpie. She takes the sharpie away from
you and then puts that in her pocket.
Levy is starts basically listing out everything that has gone on
so far. You everyone sees Levi like it's
this preparedness taking over Levi's kind of on autopilot at
this point. The the whiteboard has been
almost tacked up against the door and it's like carefully
goes guess it's like, can I borrow can I borrow that photo
of your mom real quick just. Yeah, cool.
And then very gently also like puts it to rest on like the lip
of the whiteboard to sit against it and put and writes democracy
over it and missing. And like all the information we
know so far from Cassie. And then everyone's descriptors
are all put on the whiteboard as well, including the nervous one.
But he's just written in as the nervous one.
What is his description? By the way, yeah.
So you, you don't know what Ronald sees because he he
doesn't tell you, but he does lean against a doorway.
Well, it's not like you want us to find her right?
And that is what has been. Roll TD 6 plus judgement to
determine someone's guilt on a specific matter or the deepest
regret. Make your accusation.
I made an accusation and I'm going to weigh their soul.
Over give a fun tag team situation you and I.
Do you want to? Do you want to aid in some way?
Yeah, you know what I do because I have a an ability called
trusted advisor and I can add an additional plus one on providing
aid. So I think as as Ruhan is doing
this accusation, I think Fain starts to open the book because
the idea of of guilt and wrongdoing is something he's so
vehemently opposed to. I think he kind of unwittingly
almost saddles up next to Ruhan and is just opening through the
book, flipping through things and is prepared to combo
interrogate this motherfucker. And if you're providing aid,
what is the tangle that you feel with Ruhan?
Oh man, it's fear. He's afraid of this guy, which
makes him want to be on his good side.
Fane inherently knows that the only consistent constant that is
true no matter how you live your life is you will die.
It is the unsure of what happens next.
But if anyone is sure of what happens next, it's Ruhan.
So Fane wants to be on good terms with Ruhan.
So if there's any way that someone can be an advocate for
Fane, there you go. So yeah, I would say that's our
tango right now. And Rouhan you actually get +2
because you are given an additional plus one by the
providing aid through idea or insight.
So that is very good because I only rolled enough for an 8, but
with that +2 it does turn into a 10 on A10 plus quote.
You know if they are guilty of the accusation made.
And it is not an easy thing to do because generally when you
weigh a soul, you are weighing A mortals soul.
This is not a mortals soul, this is a soul that has the same
spark of divinity as you do, but you still know.
They don't care if you find where democracy is because they
know where democracy is. Democracy isn't dead for sure,
you can tell that looking. But democracy has been hidden
somewhere, and Ronald knows where.
There's a flash and all the punk clothing that she was wearing
vanishes to be replaced with like a a tweedish waistcoat and
a a black long sleeve tee with a gigantic anka on it and nothing
more. Interesting that he looks a bit
out of place and he raises his forearm, shoves it against
Ronald and used it to push him against the wall.
What is this? So where is she?
And the nervousness drops and the smirk is now there for all
of you to see. Well, Cassie looks like.
You've managed to assemble yourself a pretty good team.
I thought it'd take much longer for any of you to figure me out.
How about this Ron Best 7, huh? OK, amazing because he was about
to disappear, but tell us what best of Seven is.
You're able to challenge anyone to a contest of skill that can't
rely entirely on luck, set the terms to the death wagers,
etcetera, and if they agree, you will both be held to the
contest. Never go in against a Reaper
when death is on the line. You choose the game, Ronnie.
But if we win, actually you know what?
Me against you if I win. You tell us where democracy is,
and you stand aside if you win. I want you to accept what's
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A banner was raised here, one that called these harbingers to
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again. If this time was the first, what
came before? What changed?
Why don't you tell me? We see the sunlight land on
Willow kept as though it knows it's only a visitor here.
The clouds will come, the Gray will come.
But in this moment, the light has arrived.
Lord, I lay my hands upon Him today so that Your light may
flow through me and into Him. I bet you want more than water
now, huh? This is my purpose for now,
whether it means my death or another's the.
Family is coming together, I see.
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What a good deal. Now, without further ado, I
reintroduce you to the world of American demigods.
Ronald looks to you. You can have your friend's help,
whoever can find 5 ballot boxes and bring them back to this
apartment first. And the time starts now and he's
gone. Oh.
That slime up, OK, I can go out and start looking.
I I can't move very fast. I can't do the whole like flippy
power Ranger stuff that you can. I'm just going to go and start
looking. Hold on, hold your horses for
your raccoon, for your pastries, very good pastries.
What is everybody capable of before we go out running around
like it's just kind of we should be prepared.
Like a bad Disney film, animals will listen to me sometimes.
Cassie, do you have a tissue box?
Yeah. Thanks.
Well, you know, I drag people to the dead and he's writing on the
tissue box. The word ballad.
So who should be leader? Put your votes in here.
Got another tissue box, Cassie? Yeah, here's another tissue box.
He takes out tissues. A shoe box.
Got a shoe box? She pulls out these strappy
sandals from a a shoe box and and slides it over.
Pastry box. Very nice.
Who's the hottest on the second box?
This is what democracy looks like.
It's true. Best sensible shoe on the shoe
box? One more Oh, wait.
Oh, are we sorry? Are we doing this ballot thing
right now? Are we still answering your
question? I don't know which we're doing.
I both my vote is you at the same time and I I I don't I
don't really do anything. I guess I just kind of I'm here
to vibe. I don't yeah, I don't really do
anything. Oh, wait.
What am I saying? Hold on.
I completely forgot I could do this and is going to I think is
going to like spin around and by the time they finish the 360
they are going to look like I look like they in full like
clothes and all. I'm just all of a sudden a white
blonde man and I pull from behind my back a book that looks
exactly like your book, and I go.
What's good and evil? Hey, but it's in like your
voice. Thane is just looking in in
disbelief and like the his inner thought is I, I this has to be
against the rule somehow but I don't know how.
When I pulled the book out that was me using Oh, you mean this
gate kid? I can do this.
And like out, like opens up the book and it's a tissue box like
carved out in the middle of it. And I just start pulling out
like colorful, like colorful handkerchiefs all tied together.
I can do this all day. Can you just do a classic ballot
box? I mean, yeah, but that's kind of
boring. Closes the book, puts it behind
his back with one hand and pulls it out from around the other
side and it just says ballot but one of the L's is backwards.
Toss it on the table. All right, everyone.
He pulls out some sticky notes. Make a vote, put in the box and
I'll call Ronnie. I thought we had to steal them.
Oh, wait, this is easy and I'm going to reach inside of my I
still look like Thane by the way.
I reach inside my shirt and pull out a sharpie and then I'm just
going to put owned by Cassie, owned by Cassie, owned by Cassie
on all five of them. And then I'm going to say.
Hey Cassie, can you pick these up?
Cassie picks them up. Yep, and I just grabbed the mark
from Cassie. Bang Bang, look at that.
Easy as pie. Ronnie, you can hear me.
Come on. You call Ronald, you look, you
look over and there is a stopwatch that has been going on
since he said go. And as you say, done, it stops
and then there is a doorbell and Ronnie is outside.
Sorry that took so long. I don't know if this matches the
rules. Would you like to cast a vote?
You didn't really specify that it had to be like an official
ballot box and really definitionally any kind of
ballot box. It's just a box you put ballots
in. Did you want us to go high
school to high school and see who's going to be prom king?
Did you want to vote on what's the best sugar alternative?
He looks at all of you. You're all so proud.
You've all worked together. There is a little bit of worry.
I see I'm beaten. Democracy is being held in the
realm of fascism. But I don't have to tell you how
to get there. And I may stand aside, but I am
not the only demigod on fascism side.
Can I walk up to him? I still look like fame, to be
clear. I'm going to walk up to him like
real close to like I'm going to try to get like face to face
with him and then I'm going to sniff him and I'm using this as
a distraction so I can pick his pocket and take his stuff.
Amazing. Amazing.
OK, please. I have larceny.
Larceny. And I do also have
Prestidigitation so I'm going to roll plus weird.
OK, perfect. I'm going to tap my thread that
I have with Opportunity, which is resourcefulness.
Is is hand in hand with preparedness.
Opportunity seems to be somewhere in between.
La Vie is going to once Ronald makes an appearance and
everybody's making the ballot jokes once again.
Take up that sword that slayed the dragon and just start
tapping it against their foot and point it out wrong.
Do me a favor. Roll me aw.
Double fours plus one is A9. OK awesome, that is a + 1 to
your two D6 plus weird. Oh amazing.
Cool. That's great actually because I
rolled A6 so that makes it a 7. I'm going to get really close to
him while he's being threatened by Libby and while looking like
then I'm going to get like nose to nose with them and just.
You smell scared. What is the complication?
Let's go with. It takes longer than it should.
So as like, like, I'm trying to, like, I, I'm getting like close
to him and like, I'm trying so hard for him not to feel like
the way in which my hand slides into his pocket.
And so I'm having to get like, really, like, really, like,
uncomfortably close to him. Come on, you're scared.
You're scared of us. Come on.
I thought you were art history. You should know.
You should know, nerd. You should know that you could.
Probably. Take us, You can fight us,
right? Come on, Big art history faster
than boy. Run like leans over to to thane
I is which one's you? I think Thane this whole time
has just been seething and trapped in their own headspace
because we have deliberately cheated.
But the cheating is to get to where we're supposed to go.
But you're not supposed to cheat, but our our cause is
good. And then there's this clearly
demonstratable man who is aiding and evil, but we're doing an
evil to conquer an evil opportunity is literally
stealing from art history or just trying to distract.
And I think in the space of all this happening and the insanity
that has been the forming of of this plan, the, the two
different things all at once, the voting, the deciding who's
in charge, the metaphor is getting too thick in Thane's
brain. And I think on accident, he
triggers his ascendance move. What?
The. Fuck out of anxiety.
Out of anxiety. What is your ascendance move and
how does that happen here? My ascendance move is called
Oracle. The stars align as every strand
that spools out before you step calmly through the mayhem,
predicting every twitch and gust of wind to set things back on.
The course you've determined is correct, I think, when Ruhan
asked me which one is you. Bears a very literal gust of
wind that goes out from under me.
The book flips open, pages going all over the place.
I'm full Oracle mode. I've got storm eyes right now.
I've got white eyes, hair standing up a little bit as much
as I can. It's a conservative haircut, but
you know, it's like when a kid in 8th grade finally discover
his hair gel and spikes his hair.
He is walking slowly up towards opportunity and art history.
The ballot boxes are kind of flying everywhere.
And to set the course back on track, Fame looks at Ronald and
says this has happened before. You know this has happened
before. You can identify it before any
of us can, and you did not signal the guard.
We know where the realm is, but you know where in the realm it
is. If you do not guide us, we can
deem you irrelevant. In the eyes of history.
Perhaps democracy already has deemed you irrelevant and that
is why you now see solace and wrong.
But this can be undone. It must be undone.
So how do you want the scene to resolve?
This is still your ascendance move.
So I want the scene to resolve with fame and getting a very
clear understanding of where exactly democracy is being held.
Faye knows it's in the capital. Faye knows it's here.
Faye knows that all this has happened before and will happen
again, but this time he's in control of it.
So, so he wants to know exactly where this group needs to go.
And as that thought becomes clear, the ballot box to elect
the leader kind of zips into his hand, maybe unwittingly, maybe
as it goes there. But he's holding it out in front
of Ronald, the demigod of art history, to kind of guide them
to which art installation they've hidden her.
As you walk up to Ronald, everything flapping in the
breeze, you saying your speech, you give Opportunity the time to
get that phone and normally the phone would be locked, you would
still have a problem. But at this moment, Opportunity
looks at the phone while you stare down Ronald and a little
Uber notification pops up that his Uber is about to arrive and
he happened to order the XL. This is the freakiest shit
opportunity you've seen in a while.
And so like, I think over the course of you slowly getting
closer to us, I have changed into Ronald and have this like
the exact same like horrified face that he has on.
And so it's just like both of us standing there.
And I don't know if Ronald's recognized that I've turned into
him yet, but he will soon, I imagine.
You now have the way to get to where the entrance to fascism's
domain is, and you also have opportunity looking like Ronald
so that you can all take the Uber.
So we should do something with this guy, right?
Like we should like tie him up or something.
I might have a solution for that.
So there is this lovely thing that the virgin can do called
for the swarm. I can somebody command a swarm
of insects, rat, spiders or small birds.
They can inflict harm, but their usefulness lies elsewhere.
I'm basically going to hire, in this case, a raccoon security
guard gang to keep him in this apartment and keep him escaping
from all needs. I think this entire time as
these terrible godly things are occurring and you're always just
Oh my God, I thought he was just nervous.
Little thing, you know, I was actually shaking Fascism's hand.
And Yaji just looks at her funny as she just goes, nods her head
and Yarrow does that classic thing.
Switch 2 fingers or mouth and whistles and the ground rumbles
is pouring from the windows. Dozens of raccoons start pouring
in and holding down with their little hands.
The windows, the locks, the doors they serve.
They're like a. Security team.
They start dragging Ronald away as he looks in horror as his own
visage stands before him. His phone, his own phone in that
visages hand. Thane's eyes are still white,
there is the specter of death and warrior standing, and now he
is drowning in raccoons as he has dragged to the bedroom and
tied up by clever little hands. And all of you head down to the
Uber. My eyes have stopped glowing and
I'm very clearly back to my my normal position and I've just
been profusely apologizing to the group for seizing control of
the situation like that and just be like I was just nothing was
making sense and I was trying to connect everything that was
happening and I didn't understand.
And then that started happening, and that's never happened
before. Dane, Yeah, took a risk.
Did a good job. Just like I told you you would.
I almost pissed my pants. It was pretty Gray.
Thanks. That's what I feel like.
OK. It's the adrenaline rush.
You're going to meet the, you're going to come down from it, and
Livia is going to hold out a hand to Yarrow.
Going to take it and give you a reassuring squeeze.
And then it's going to bring Yarrow's hand to thing.
It's like I'm the high point, I'm the comeuppance of it.
Girl will help you come down from it.
I think Girl is comforting. OK, thank you.
I'm not supposed to let people serve me, but I will accept
help. Serving your community.
Yeah, it's my job to help you through it.
OK, and and zoop, for my my permanent consequence, I'm going
to move my harm, the penalty to three harm instead of 4 harm.
Oh OK, it is easier to harm then now.
Is there any visual representation of the loss of
1/3 of your mortality? If it's OK with Abby Yarrow, do
you notice anything different about Thane when you put your
hand on him? I do, actually.
There is a thing when you are working in the medical
industries. I have.
When a person is closer to death, their skin will actually
become papery or become thinner. It loses its elasticity.
Now Zero is giving that reassuring squeeze.
It gives more than it should. And she has that moment of this
feels like my grandmother's hand, and she'll listen.
Hey, that thing. Would you like a glass of water?
You seem very dehydrated. I I imagine shooting lightning
from your eyes. But do that.
Water can't. Let's have water.
Is there lightning? I'm sorry.
Were glowing. It was it was really cool if I'm
being honest, but like that probably isn't great for your
health. Go on water, drink, OK?
Water. Thank you.
So as the raccoons tie down Ronald, you've taken his phone.
He is unable to signal to fascism that there is a problem
and that people are coming and you have the means to get there.
Can I go through his contacts and like recent texts?
Can I be hashtag blessed and he be stupid and have face
recognition on his phone to? Think about his art history.
Of course he's going to partake of his own image.
Of course he. I wanted I wanted you to to get
to to roll something else. But but listen, you're right.
You have taken on his face and you just take a peek and the the
whole phone opens to you. Who's he been texting?
Who's he been calling? Who should we expect?
You see a couple a couple names in his on his speed dial.
You see his mom, Rita Rutherford.
You see a Johnny Rutherford. You see a Martin Buchanan.
You see the Capitol Police. You see names that you recognize
as being part of the House and the Senate.
You also see one that just says Dad.
OK, All right. So we've got some options.
Has he been texting anyone recently?
Like hey, I'm on the way kind of text.
You open his texts and he's been hitting up a lot of a lot of
numbers with some. Some of them are a little
innocuous, some of them are a little gross, a freak.
You you clearly are getting in the way of his like booty call
day. He was going to kill democracy
on booty call day. What a Jackass.
You do see one text that says Cassie put out a call for help.
Who did he send that text to you?
Craig Manwhite. OK.
I'm going to call Craig, man, while we're like getting in this
Uber. OK, You're going to call Craig
Manwhite. I do also have his voice by the
way, so. Did it work?
We're good. I'm on my way back.
I also happened to I will have company some others who've seen
the light. I'm going to try to fake news my
way through this. OK, you're going to fake news?
Yes, please. Do to to to sway some to to sway
him into believing that the people that are coming with me
are chill and cool and we don't get to worry about it.
OK, so you have a silver tongue and you're using fake news, so
you roll with fate's favor. Cool, that is 8 + R which is 10.
All right, with A10 sway someone means that they accept your
reasonable argument at no cost. I'm persuasive, what can I say?
Once they saw the true power of art history, they knew that
there was no other choice but to switch sides before things got
too rough. I almost wasn't making.
I'll roll again. Yeah, I'll roll again.
That's a 10 + 2. That's a 12.
OK. He's a.
He accepts what you're saying with consternation.
You never believe. I say out loud.
I say to him I'm pushing opportunity.
It's going to push. Yeah, but I don't believe in
many people. And he hangs up.
Got through that one. All right.
Yeah, let's that Uber is pulling up so we should hop in that.
Do you mind if I do like some video calls while we're in the
Uber gang? I'm going to FaceTime every
single person that he is booty calling to just then just like
I'm going to fake being like inebriated, like I'm drunk
calling them and like just like be the most rancid, right?
Be them like be absolutely heinous to such a degree that
no, not even like even unreasonable people would be
like, shut the fuck up and leave me alone.
Like like just incredibly annoying and clingy and like and
like pathetic in such a way and like not hot like like and like
clearly other people were around me.
And so it's worse that like it's not a private thing of being
cringe and like terrible. It's also just like, what are
you? What are you doing you?
Know what fine Ronald aid in this?
Bed, death. Bed death.
Let's go. Yeah, his outfit shifts.
It's like some sort of freaky harness and he leans in and
saying you come to bed or what? Oh, yeah, don't worry.
Wait, Oh, wait. OK.
I just met this awesome guy. Hey, everybody, say hi, say hi.
And like, just this kind of have and like truly, 100% I'm going
to make this man seem like the cringiest, most pathetic loser
on planet Earth. I'm going through his phone.
If he's sending raunchy texts, he definitely has nudes.
I'm posting it to every single social media that he has logged
in onto his phone. And I'm like in just like I'm
ruining this man's life. I'm ruining his life.
You see the Speaker of the House comment on the news being like,
did you mean to share this? I respond, oh sorry, that was
just supposed to be to you. This Uber takes turns through
the streets. Hashtag blessed means that the
lights turn green when you need them to, that people just get
out of your way. For some reason, the people who
are walking, the pedestrians know to stop and let the car go.
And there is a parking spot right outside the World War 2
memorial. Whenever we are getting out of
the car, Levi is going to basically snap and point at
Ruhan and say it's like, so do you like being up close and
personal whenever you fight or you prefer to be far away?
I mean, I don't really get hurt, so up and close personal is the
way to go. Fantastic.
I have a gift for you, and I'm going to sacrifice my gift of my
melee weapon by giving it to. Beautiful.
And I am going to basically it's this moment of like the sword is
taken off of like a belt that appears out of nowhere.
And it's this beautiful sword that seems to meld into whatever
shape you need it to be it. And as Levy is holding it out to
you, they are going to offer a hand to you and say it's like,
do you want to take this risk of me?
I would think of no other better thing to do, and they're going
to grasp it. What does the sword turn into
whenever you take the gift from another dummy dog?
She reaches for the like the right the middle of the sword,
right at the middle of the sword, and grasping the blade,
it instead extends into a round flat handle before sharpening
right at the end to a spear tip. I did not expect that.
Can I tighten my thread with Reuhan?
Yes, 100%. I'll tighten my thread.
You tighten the thread. Ruhan, please take Epic melee
weapon as one of your gifts. I'm going to roll 2D6 plus.
Oh, hold on. So in the balance I'm going to
ask you for a trade. But I don't need a trade because
I silently asked you for your trust and you gave it, and in
this moment I rolled A7. So you'll heal whatever harm
you've got left. Really.
It's 3 and I will take one armor.
That's not what I was hoping for, but it's fine.
I'm going to use tactical brilliance because I hold 1 so.
I'm taking the harm from you. We're fine.
We're all fine. All right, you're all completely
healed up. That was beautiful teamwork.
All of this team building occurs
as the Rivian swerves through the streets of DC towards the
World War 2 monument. Disgusting looking thing that
looks weirdly like a football stadium and you get ready to
maybe save democracy. Let me look at my character art
and see what I can change without needing new art.
Hey, it's changing in the third episode.
That's fine, Go crazy. Go crazy.
Go somewhere. Got that art?
Me is so good. That me is so good.
So. Wait, I have not seen the art
yet. Oh, you're not in the art chat
Because it was secret. That's right.
Why don't I? Call.
You. Zoom, you should seize the art.
I don't. Everyone's attractive, and
apparently it makes every gayer. Every passing person we just.
I'm a 7 on the Kinsey. There's some incredibly hot
people, and then there's this sweet poor boy that is.
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