Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Shall I do it how Dan does it, or I just do this? No.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: We all do it on the count of three.
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Yeah, we all do it on the count of three. Rude.
[00:00:10] Speaker C: I see what you're all doing.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: Hello.
We all tried to be DM Dan at that one time, and it didn't quite work, but. Hello.
[00:00:26] Speaker C: What are we all doing here, then?
[00:00:28] Speaker A: We're here, like. Like, Dan's in an editing coma at the moment, so we thought we would just take over the channel for a bit, like, before he comes to. But we're gonna call this. What should we call it?
[00:00:40] Speaker C: Algons angels.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: Algon's angels. That's it.
This is our part of the channel where we're talking about sort of theories, conspiracies, ideas that we've had regarding the story that have not yet come to light.
So we've had, like, a little chat that's not had Dan in it, and we've been coming up with theories about sort of like, who certain NPC's are, who, you know, what things are going as, and obviously, none of that has actually. I don't think anything has actually conspired yet since we've been coming up with these series. Like, we. We think we have one that has. Dan has dropped small hints of potentially where it might be going.
So I think the.
The biggest one, which we can start.
[00:01:38] Speaker C: Off with is tarot, the purple lady.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: The purple lady.
So is there.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Of the many dragons, which one is the purple dragon? Because I'm still learning the lore.
[00:01:55] Speaker C: Spoilers on what the theory is.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: Our theory. Our theory is that Tarot is actually related to. Is I. Is either this certain God, or is a, you know, an acolyte of, like.
[00:02:11] Speaker C: An agent or an. Or a sort of embodiment of.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: So if people want to have a little chin wag about that, I will.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: Pull up the pantheon, because, yeah, she's. She's infuriating. She kind of acts as if she's more of an observer than an active participant in the world, the world of Alicia in the bubble, which kind of was the first real sign, I think, that something was up with her and that she may not just be this mortal.
Is she Loravar?
[00:02:50] Speaker A: She's Loravar.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: And there appears Lovar.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: Dan said she looks Loravar, but something is not right.
[00:02:57] Speaker C: There's something not right. So, yeah, so we started to think, is she some kind of higher power? Is she?
Yeah.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: And when I atta looked at her through the goggles, and she was, like, everything everywhere at once. Okay.
[00:03:11] Speaker C: Yeah, sure.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: So her name is Melodani. I think that's how I pronounce.
[00:03:17] Speaker C: Which dragon is that?
[00:03:18] Speaker A: That's the reveller. So she is purple.
[00:03:21] Speaker C: Is she divine or arcane?
[00:03:23] Speaker A: She is divine and her. So every dragon has like two things to them. So with Arya, who most people have heard of, that's order and light and a Khan who have other. So it seems like all of the divinity dragons, they have two little bits to them, while icann is like evocation.
So melodany has twilight and trickery, which is so a reveler. So obviously someone who revels in what is happening. Yeah, and Twilight and trickery. She's purple and we. I mean, Algernon was the one who got this information, so, JC, you might as well talk about it.
[00:04:15] Speaker D: Yeah. So one of my motives for going to speak to high Priestess Esoth in the last episode was to float some of these theories in front of her and get them sort of semi confirmed.
She called her a trickster and I started out by insinuating that she was a devil of some kind because I thought that the priestess would deny that more fervently, then confirming anything that I had to offer, which he did.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: So I think we've got some pretty strong motives to probably talk to Tarot again and we'll see how that plays out in downtime.
Now that I know that Catherine can speak draconic, that's obviously something we can bring into it as well.
But, yeah, there's.
There's definitely something about her that we need to find out.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: She was besties with Tavareen, wasn't she, as well? Because they met at the beginning. They met.
[00:05:28] Speaker C: Well, I don't know if they were besties. What she did say she'd been going around the city feeding the information about how the veil is failing two key people, just because. Because she wanted to see how the city would react to that information being ceded in key people. So Algarve, who's the head of, was the head of the city guard or the black guard, rather Tavarian as a sort of celebrated local leader.
And then a few other people. The head of the church.
A few other people.
Yeah. So they weren't necessarily besties, but Tavarian clearly knew her.
But I don't know if we. If our characters would know that that was a sort of off camera scene that we had as players, wasn't it? Yeah, but we've got Tavareen now.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: But we've got Tavarian now, which.
[00:06:31] Speaker C: So we need to do something about that.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, we don't necessarily have any theories regarding Tavarian, but I think we're now quite keen to have a chat with her.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it would be interesting to talk to her.
[00:06:42] Speaker D: I suspected from the very beginning that she had sort of foreseen her own assassination.
[00:06:49] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:06:50] Speaker D: Potentially the way she would. She was speaking about sacrifice.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:06:56] Speaker C: And she was so calm about it at the end, wasn't she?
[00:07:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
And, like, one of my. One of my original, like, goals in that first episode was to speak to her and try and, like, confirm what she thinks should happen. Like, what? Does she know what's happening? I didn't quite get there with the dice.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: But now you have the chance.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Now we've.
[00:07:21] Speaker C: Now we've got her spirit in a ball.
Getting chatted up by wizard ball in our base.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Wizard has been the worst decision. I feel like Atta fully believes that he'll be useful at some point, but Errol.
[00:07:37] Speaker C: Errol, spirits up.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: We had all those magical items we could choose from, and I was like.
[00:07:45] Speaker D: I keep looking back at that brooch, which could have had us pretend to be any faction in the city.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: Where is that? Did we give it to the church?
[00:08:02] Speaker A: We gave it back to the church.
[00:08:03] Speaker C: Can we steal it back?
Steal it back from them?
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Speaking about the church and its, like, fascination with removing magical objects from existence, I kind of wonder what they do with them. Like, because I.
[00:08:19] Speaker C: Like, there's a couple.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a couple of different, like, I suppose, theories that you could mess around with. Like, do they deactivate them in some way? Do they, like, you know, blend them up into a soup and, like, magical soup?
Or do they, like, lock them away or are they willing to use them? Because if they've been amazing.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's what I was trying to get from the last downtime when Cavern went to go talk to some people, but unfortunately, I didn't roll very well. But we did learn about them, obviously, doing naughty things to the sangreva. So that's a little bit of good information that we needed. Well, not great. It's not wonderful to hear, but it's good to know.
[00:09:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Shall we talk about the church's plans for the sangrevar, maybe?
[00:09:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
They're gonna kill him.
[00:09:11] Speaker C: It's gonna murder all the sanguivari in captivity, aren't they?
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: I think that there.
I think that there's, like, a machine in Elysia, and it. It needs components of divine magic and components of arcane magic to keep the bubble alive. And they. It's you know, they feed it with magic items, and maybe they also feed it sanguvarouse.
[00:09:34] Speaker C: They make soup with sanguina soup.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: Sanguina soup.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: Sanguivar soup. I don't know. Terrific. I feel like we're gonna get underneath the city, and there's gonna be, like, all these. The prison, like. Because I think in one of the. I read, like, the city districts quite a lot when. When other stuff is going on be, like, people are having scenes, and I kind of, like, check. Oh, yeah. What goes on in this? What goes on in this region? And I remember reading the prison area. I think there's, like, underground passages.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: Where.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Like, they send convicts to get rid of the mutant rats. Because I was like, mutant rats. Eh.
[00:10:15] Speaker C: It's interesting.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:18] Speaker D: I've never thought of.
[00:10:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:21] Speaker D: The sanguivoir affliction comes from the connection to house Antalya.
Obviously, have a historic authority over Alicia.
[00:10:32] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:10:35] Speaker D: So it could be related to that. And I also think we. One of the things we picked up recently is Lady Anthony's crown of authority, which I know Dan made up on the spot, but it could be a good thing for us to use as, like, a spell component or, like, an item of magical significance.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: We could summon the ghost through the crown if we have a like item. I don't know.
[00:11:06] Speaker D: Because Algernon's core belief is that arcane magic is somehow the key to solving all of this.
And it's like we've got the spirit of Tavarian, who's, like, the spirit of leadership. We've got the crown of authority. Those sort of neurons are connecting in Algi's head that we might be. We might be getting spell components to cast some kind of arcane.
[00:11:38] Speaker A: Speaking of Algernon, let's move on to Blackthorn. What are theories about Blackthorne?
[00:11:45] Speaker D: The main. The main kind of wild card conspiracy? The thing that I've written down is that her heart I saw in my latest vision of her. She has a crystal heart, which is similar to the golems that we found in Castle Antelope. They also had crystalline hearts. So maybe she's a construct of something or someone.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: Do you think she might be an antilia?
[00:12:15] Speaker D: Yeah, maybe.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Yeah. She does have glasses on.
[00:12:20] Speaker D: She's also the only other person who I think is using foresight.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: Maybe that's how you connected. Maybe she was also on a foresight bender when you saw that vision.
[00:12:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: And she was actually talking to you.
[00:12:33] Speaker D: I'm not obsessed with her or anything.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: I like that y'all have, like, really, like, involved rivals. And Attas is just like, some hot dude.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: Oh, don't worry, I'm sure Catherine will be very involved with him very soon.
[00:12:52] Speaker C: On your behalf.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: I fully endorse this. I fully endorse this.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: I mean, I mean, to be fair, your rivals only appeared. He's only just appeared. So hopefully you'll have, like, a little bit more air time as well.
[00:13:04] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Because I'm hoping that sooner or later we'll get magpies friend as well.
[00:13:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Samuel, he's been missing from this whole arc because he's been in prison.
Yeah.
Can we talk about the biggest reveal that there are ghosts everywhere all the time, please?
Because I think that was pretty alarming. Yeah. When we in the mausoleum, remember, we discovered that there are. There were just ghosts floating around that weren't attacking anyone. And the Met, the myth that has been peddled to everybody all the time is that we need bubble because all of the ghosts of have to be kept out. If a ghost comes out of a dead body at any point, it will go on a rampage. And that's why you always need to, like, whisk bodies away to the mausoleum and they'll process it all there. And actually, they were just round, weren't they?
[00:14:07] Speaker B: So we've never had any firsthand evidence that when person die ghost. Bad. We've had evidence that when person die.
[00:14:14] Speaker C: Ghost, the body gets whisked away by the authorities all the time. And I assume there's been an aggressive marketing campaign ever since the bubble went up from the authorities saying, is granny getting on a bit? Make sure you call us when she dies.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: I mean, I guess it also depends on, could it be what kind of ghost they are that is actually aggressive? Could it be like they. They are ghosts of Sangrevas that are, you know, angry about how they were ousted from the city, how they were turned?
Yeah, I don't think there may be that many, but, yeah, there must be a reason why there are angry ghosts out there that want to. To drain people. But then there's ang. There's completely chilled ghosts actually inside the bubble that no one can see.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: It's a good theory. I think there could well be something like that.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: I suppose. One thing that I'd been thinking about since the start, and I suppose this was one of Ata's whole things, is like, why do the ghosts want to get inside so bad? Like, is it that they just. Is it that they just want to eat us or do they want to get to something?
[00:15:35] Speaker C: Like, maybe they're cold, they're cold outside. They just want to come in and they say, the war cold.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Your ghost.
[00:15:46] Speaker C: They just run up to you going, oh, warmth, warmth. And then they freeze you to death or something.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: Mmm.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: Or maybe it's like a disconnect between, like, if bodies have been processed or if something else has happened to the population of Elysia and it's happened since before bubble, then, like, the ghosts are trying to get to something. Yeah, like, because I guess, like, if we're looking at. If we're thinking about typical ghost lore. Ghost exists because unfinished business.
[00:16:18] Speaker C: Yeah, sure.
I can hear Dan singing to daisy upstairs.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: I know. It means he's waking up.
Let's do one more then, before we call that an ending.
The head of the kindling.
[00:16:37] Speaker D: The infinite.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:41] Speaker D: Do we think. Do we think he's gonna be someone that we will recognize once you take the mask off? Like a Scooby Doo situation?
Is it gonna be a new person? Is it gonna be Fairfax?
[00:16:54] Speaker A: It was Fairfax all along.
[00:16:56] Speaker C: Could be Fairfax. Yeah, that's a good idea. I think he is someone who burned, and that's why he, like, developed his whole, like, impenetrable anti fire suit and started using the sort of hellfire stuff that burns even rock and has become obsessed with fire being the answer to cleansing. Alicia. That's my theory. I think that's why he dragged algar.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Into the well, I agree with that. And following on from that, I think. Because I think Dan dropped it again in another episode where he's, like, where betrayal and things like that. Cut sort of, like a little bit extra.
Do you think he was probably portrayed by Algarve because he. It's a big notice that he's got these, or he's also got, like, these orange goggles.
Do you think he used to be part of the blackguard?
Because he's got the same. Because he's got the same eyewear as.
[00:17:56] Speaker C: They have in the helmets, that soul seeing eyewear.
Although we haven't confirmed it's exactly the same type of goggles.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: No, just that we know that they're sort of orangey.
[00:18:09] Speaker C: Yeah. It's a shame that Frieda made a bid to get in with him and failed. So Lily got duffed up by Jeff. Yeah, Jeff.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Maybe it's Jeff's the big bad. Who knows?
[00:18:24] Speaker C: Like, is Jeff the big bad?
[00:18:25] Speaker A: Jeff is the big bad.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Could be. I also want to know what Umi has made the perfect specimen of evolution.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Or something like that.
[00:18:38] Speaker C: They needed spirits to experiment on the. The hollow, and then. Yeah, they've that elsewhere. We had last episode was. Yeah. Umi. With Caleb looking at this next step in evolution. Bit alarming.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: I wonder whether or not it's like the diving suit that we saw back when we did ransack the hollow.
[00:19:05] Speaker C: What it's been like infused with spirits or something.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: I think maybe even that it's been used to like, test as something to go outside of the bubble so that he can actually now.
So he's kind of thinking like, oh, now I can go punch God or something. Like.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: I can destroy God.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I have no idea what the kindling leader would be or.
Yeah, I feel like I'm like, doo doo doo doo doo. I've got my wizard orb. I'm making weird things. Do, do.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I think then we've got.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Oh, sorry.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Go for it, Errol.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: I was just. I've been thinking about the leader of the lodge Rettas as well. She seems.
[00:20:01] Speaker C: Oh, Neffone. Yeah, she thinks arcade magic is the answer as well, didn't she?
[00:20:09] Speaker D: Yeah, it's interesting. And we have her favor as payment for that Castle Antillia job.
Assuming we want to give the box to her, whatever the box is.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Are we gonna look in the box?
[00:20:27] Speaker A: Well, we. Well, we already kind of know. Well, that's. That being said, she said what it might be, whether or not it is that.
[00:20:35] Speaker C: What did you say?
[00:20:43] Speaker A: I think Harmon taking a peek.
Our time is almost up. Is there anything else that anyone wants to raise before we shake down awake?
[00:20:59] Speaker B: What trauma are you gonna go for, JC?
[00:21:02] Speaker D: Hmm?
[00:21:03] Speaker B: What trauma are you gonna pick if you have to pick?
[00:21:07] Speaker C: Oh, that's a good one.
[00:21:09] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm leaning towards vicious for Arganon. Oh, he's very. He's very eloquent and, uh. Like, um.
Yeah, he's kind of very eloquent and, uh.
I think it would be funny if he's vicious and like, just gives up on any kind of pretense of nobility when he's dealing with people he doesn't like.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: He's very cool and collective a lot of the time. So being vicious, I think, would be quite fun.
[00:21:48] Speaker B: What about you, Cav for Cavern? Magpie? If you had to pick a. Without, like, the context, if you had to go for one, would you go for.
[00:21:59] Speaker C: Um. I think.
I guess Magpie maybe would go for something like obsessed or paranoid, possibly like this sort of paranoid that her cover's gonna get blown or something like that. Or maybe just really obsessed with saving the city. Like we have to do it. Who? No one else is going to do it. Just like at any cost.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: I've got to save everyone.
I would say Cav may also go upset as well, but possibly cold or maybe even reckless as well. I know that Frieda's already a reckless.
[00:22:44] Speaker C: Cold would be an interesting one for Katherine because he's all about the interpersonal, like, knowing when to turn on the charm and the warmth, like, getting busy with people. Like intimacy in his own way. So cold could be an interesting one where he feels just a bit cut off, just going through motion.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: What about Atta?
[00:23:09] Speaker B: I feel like it would be really hard for me from an RP perspective, but I feel like unstable would be fun if I could do it.
Oh, hi, Meryl.
[00:23:19] Speaker C: I'm the most stable person ever. I can't necessarily roleplay unstable. Is that what you meant?
[00:23:25] Speaker B: I feel like there's a, like, if you're playing like, an unstable character, you really have to, like, lean into, like, the.
The randomness of that and I depends.
[00:23:39] Speaker C: What brand what, like, what flavor of unstable she is, though, doesn't it?
[00:23:45] Speaker B: I feel like it would be Umi. Umi vibes. I think it would be like just full. Like, I can't remember where I left my bombs. Ha ha sort of thing.
[00:24:03] Speaker C: You're nailing it. You'd be great at it.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: It's quite, I feel like that kind of, that kind of character trait is quite hard to do off the cuff. And I'm still learning a good improv. So I think that's kind of a skill level where I haven't kind of got to yet. But I feel also maybe haunted might be fun if it was, if Dan was willing to also like half and half take the reins actually possessed.
And so there are just moments where Ata, Dan just does something with Atta and I find out afterwards, like, I wake up.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: So cool.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: That'd be cool. I'm pretty sure he'd be up for that. Have a chat with him. And speaking of Dan, we're now gonna go wake him up from his little coma. So thank you very much for watching. Thank you everyone for having a nice little chat about this.
[00:24:53] Speaker C: Maybe we'll do this again.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: Maybe we'll do this again sometime.
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[00:25:10] Speaker C: We've just done session eleven, haven't we?
[00:25:12] Speaker A: Yeah, we've just done session eleven at this point. And if you want to see if we're going to actually do what we theorize. If we're going to look into it a bit more, you can watch into episode twelve.
So, yeah, hit that notification button if you want to know more. That's going on with us.
And that's it for the cruise retrospective. We will see you in an episode.
Bye.
