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Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Astro Media Listen with headphones for three
Speaker 1: D audio. Oh, come on serious, Ether will be back soon.
Speaker 1: We have to keep searching. We traveled all the way
Speaker 1: to the rope Bazar because they need to find the
Speaker 1: hidden entrance to the black market known as the Den
Speaker 1: of Thieves. That's the only way we can safely enter
Speaker 1: the desert. Remember what Ether said, We need to go
Speaker 1: through the den of thiefs black markets in order to
Speaker 1: gain access to the Azrael Desert for safe travel because
Speaker 1: they controlled the desert border. The success of our mission
Speaker 1: depends on locating its entrance. Strong remarkable, isn't it serious?
Speaker 1: Think order drance gorge? What? No, it's not dancing. The
Speaker 1: creatures swaying side to side. The performers hypnotize the gorgon's
Speaker 1: with the sound of their hand drums. But I still
Speaker 1: haven't deduced the finer points must be in the beat pattern. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't suppose you have a better explanation. Friends, find
Speaker 1: only two hundred common opal for the jug deal another
Speaker 1: street peddler. Let's just ignore until he goes away. Pretend
Speaker 1: you don't speak English or better, yet talk normal. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: For you toothpick, I'll come down. You just call me
Speaker 1: toothpick for this handmaid, expertly crafted jug one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty opals, my best price. Pardon me. I recognize you
Speaker 1: are ay of finely crafted goods, but I am not
Speaker 1: in need of your services at this time. I must
Speaker 1: request you moving. Okay, okay, okay, okay. How about you,
Speaker 1: burly man, you look like the big COONa. For you
Speaker 1: a special bargain, my friendly rate. One hundred and twenty opals,
Speaker 1: cheapest in the market. Don't know, Okay, all right, just
Speaker 1: for today, one hundred opals price. Okay, friend, take me
Speaker 1: all of earth. Nothing unbelievable, fine fifty olds. My kids
Speaker 1: will go hungry. You insult my family. I'll even lose
Speaker 1: money on this, but I'll sell it to you just
Speaker 1: for a good karma. Happy now, he logo, We go. Now.
Speaker 1: You're bad man, very bad man. You waste my time.
Speaker 1: We are only interested in the location of the den
Speaker 1: of thieves so we can get to the Azrael desert.
Speaker 1: Nothing else. Of course, you I wish you only misfortune. Huh.
Speaker 1: Of course your chief vagrants hid me. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? You do it? Down starts now
Speaker 1: you really did? Ah? Okay, either You've come to the
Speaker 1: right tent in the Roque bazaar to see your future.
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you the location of the den
Speaker 1: of thieves. Only the Crystal Ball can show. If you'll
Speaker 1: find its entrance and have safe travels through the Azrael Desert,
Speaker 1: prepare to peer into its depths and discover what lies
Speaker 1: within its lens. Oh, crystal Ball, I turned to the
Speaker 1: unraveled secrets I keep from me, reveal hidden truths urry
Speaker 1: down below of things we wish to forget, but always no.
Speaker 1: Like veiled stars shining bright, made visible only at night,
Speaker 1: we see exposed reality. The crystal leadons encroaching storm clouds
Speaker 1: lurk on the horizon. I see fields that are barren,
Speaker 1: trees that are hollow, rivers that run dry, a murky gray.
Speaker 1: I am beginning to make out the faint silhouette of
Speaker 1: a figure shrouded in shadow. Why during a lost near
Speaker 1: death in the desert, Who is this figure? I wonder? Ah,
Speaker 1: I'm losing it. The image is fading, the crystal Ball
Speaker 1: returning to slumber. Lady Foosia, No, but wait, it grows darker,
Speaker 1: shed black. What is happening? The crystal ball burnt my
Speaker 1: fingers A flash of lightning. I glimpsed a village. Oh
Speaker 1: no no, it's set flame to the land. Building is burning,
Speaker 1: people flailing, ablaze, Everything turned to ashes. A burth of water,
Speaker 1: putting the fire to rest, cleansing the land. Rain drops
Speaker 1: wash away tears. But but it is too much. Blood follows, bodies,
Speaker 1: floating people, drowning, babies swept away the village swallow rottle
Speaker 1: either Soon everyone will know Umbra's true call. It all
Speaker 1: will be erased. Look away. What you think you're seeing
Speaker 1: in the crystal ball isn't real, only subconscious manifestations from Umbra.
Speaker 1: What do you know of Umbra? Give me the palm
Speaker 1: of your hand. Why should I, Lady Vouza, I want
Speaker 1: to help fine. Your palm is rough to the touch,
Speaker 1: marred with deep grooves and wrinkles. Insult me tells me
Speaker 1: you've led a difficult life the years, turning you callous,
Speaker 1: I suppose, But who in the rock Bazar isn't I'm
Speaker 1: going to apply a slight pressure to the tips of
Speaker 1: your finger. Mm hmm, very little resistance, ample flexibility, How interesting.
Speaker 1: What does it mean You're very adaptable to new situations.
Speaker 1: Let me part your thumb. You didn't run away as
Speaker 1: a child, did you? I did? How did you know
Speaker 1: the edge of your thumb naturally bends backwards, pointing away
Speaker 1: from the rest of your fingers. You're an independent person
Speaker 1: who had to make your own way in life. When
Speaker 1: I was a child, the king of my land was corrupted.
Speaker 1: The villagers say he fell victim to his own humors,
Speaker 1: but I believe there was something more sinister at work.
Speaker 1: My father was his trusted advisor, and the king ordered
Speaker 1: my parents and siblings slaughter. He he massacreed his own people.
Speaker 1: I was chosen to be a servant, but two stars
Speaker 1: blessed me with a path to escape. Your trouble past
Speaker 1: reminds me of my own, and it's made you a
Speaker 1: compassionate person Beneath your heart and facade. This is more
Speaker 1: than my trade. People come to me in need, and
Speaker 1: I help them as best as I can. How I
Speaker 1: would have wanted, yes, But even though it was long ago,
Speaker 1: I since you're still scared, afraid you're succumbing to your
Speaker 1: own delusions and losing grasp of reality, even beginning to
Speaker 1: believe you really do possess the psychic powers you pretend
Speaker 1: to have. It is true, it is true. I feel
Speaker 1: myself slipping and losing control. And let me free you
Speaker 1: from these fears. In a moment, I'll ask you to
Speaker 1: think of a tool in your possession, something like a
Speaker 1: saw or a wrench. But think of your own. But
Speaker 1: first turn your attention back to the crystal ball. I'll
Speaker 1: repeat the question, I arrived with the entrance to the
Speaker 1: den of thieves. Tell me where is it? I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm forbidden to tell an outside of the location.
Speaker 1: If you were found to help the killeth, both fixate
Speaker 1: on the crystal see the answer within. You know that
Speaker 1: it's safe to tell me. All right, Go to the
Speaker 1: bazaar's end. There's a spy shop. Knock three times, ask
Speaker 1: for Rosemary. Tell them I sent you that you that
Speaker 1: you see good fortune. Thank you, lady Vosa. Now you
Speaker 1: know what you need to do. The mystic visions you
Speaker 1: think you see in your crystal ball are just projections
Speaker 1: from your own mind. Get a handle on this before
Speaker 1: it chisels away at you and you lose yourself in
Speaker 1: the intra. You need to break free now, picture the
Speaker 1: tool I asked you about vividly in your mind. Got
Speaker 1: it a hammer? But how did you know bring it forth?
Speaker 1: When you gaze into the crystal, the crystal gazes back
Speaker 1: into you. You've been chained to this crystal ball for
Speaker 1: far too long. Break free your mind, smash the ball.
Speaker 1: Do it now, leave this place before umber takes what's
Speaker 1: left of you. You're stronger than you know and can
Speaker 1: take back control, but you have to move on. Tell
Speaker 1: me the amulet you were around your neck, the golden
Speaker 1: sun was the all seeing eye in the center, the
Speaker 1: eye imperiad. What does it mean that there's someone watching
Speaker 1: over me? It protects me from umbra. It gives me
Speaker 1: strength to see clearly put me I'm sorry, Please mercy
Speaker 1: put them down. Serious, Lucky, you're crazy. You're all crazy.
Speaker 1: Of course I thought I told you to to keep
Speaker 1: a low profile. Song of the gorgon tamer music to
Speaker 1: the ears. If you're a sap, it's widely mistaken. The
Speaker 1: gorgons are hypnotized by the music, but Gorgon's can't hear
Speaker 1: a thing on account they don't have ears. But what
Speaker 1: about the dancing their motion? It's a warning stance because
Speaker 1: they view the performance restless Hands as a threat catchy
Speaker 1: beat though either we failed you. It's true, we searched everywhere,
Speaker 1: but we haven't been able to locate the entrance to
Speaker 1: the Denna thieves black market. No one would divulge its coordinates.
Speaker 1: How come you can't take off your amulet and find
Speaker 1: the location. It doesn't work that way. It's not in
Speaker 1: the intro. I don't know how we'll reach the molayer
Speaker 1: to recover the satellite disian complete the agency's mission. If
Speaker 1: we can't even make it to the desert, it's all right.
Speaker 1: Serious lead us to the bazaar's end to a spice shot. Ah,
Speaker 1: you know its location courtesy of a like minded friend.
Speaker 1: Let's go. There's an eternal card game of a reverent
Speaker 1: fun for me too, and for you one. This one's
Speaker 1: your saint. These two the sinners. Avoid that fate. You'll
Speaker 1: be a winner. Now watch closely as they mix him up,
Speaker 1: and come on down to try your luck. I think
Speaker 1: it might be the middle one, but I'm not certain.
Speaker 1: I only have a thirty three point three percent chance
Speaker 1: of winning. If I guess, five will get you ten. Ten,
Speaker 1: we'll catch your twenty. I'll even flip a card over
Speaker 1: and let you switch your pick. Let's stay on track.
Speaker 1: But the odds just increase the two thirds with a switch.
Speaker 1: It's in my favor now, ah fools, game serious is right.
Speaker 1: It's not gambling. It's slight of hand and unwinnable proposition.
Speaker 1: Step right up and improve your might, strong enough to
Speaker 1: take on the one armed sinew and an arm wrestle
Speaker 1: to the end. Wid afraid of yet beat the champ,
Speaker 1: collect the purse. How about it, muscle man, are you
Speaker 1: an alpha or are you just a win a want?
Speaker 1: That himp champ, he looks sick, serious, crush like funk.
Speaker 1: That whimp could snap your wrist and pull your arm
Speaker 1: out of its socket all in one swift motion. Logo
Speaker 1: has a point. It's just not a fair fight. Arm
Speaker 1: wrestling isn't simply a matter of brute force. The science
Speaker 1: behind it relies heavily on technique. It'd be over before
Speaker 1: you even have a chance to square off. Don't be
Speaker 1: such willing tubes. These are all just scams, chief parlor
Speaker 1: tricks designed to part of Mark from his coin pose
Speaker 1: brib enough to step into the chamber of the intra,
Speaker 1: and here the cold of umbra sol no, in the
Speaker 1: name of field research. Really lave your sanity at the
Speaker 1: door as you descend into a world of madness. Last
Speaker 1: a minute and you shall climb the reward. Alright, go ahead,
Speaker 1: see for yourselves. You advancing yourself? Bright do yeah? Alright
Speaker 1: to common No bullech go a him, Come down, Come down.
Speaker 1: It's just nails on a ju for it. No peeping
Speaker 1: behind the card and trade secret. Come on to the
Speaker 1: spice shop. No more games. It should be just around
Speaker 1: the bend. We've arrived. It doesn't appear open. We should
Speaker 1: probably go Ah serious break dwar patience. Hello, may we
Speaker 1: come in? We're looking for Rosemary? Who sent you? Lady Wooza.
Speaker 1: We seek good fortune. Follow me the back. See that's
Speaker 1: the thing about his passageway. They're always in the last
Speaker 1: place you look. Hold on flax some us there. It's
Speaker 1: an ancient game I like to play called five finger
Speaker 1: play jabby not between my fingers, and I'm on the way.
Speaker 1: The only thing that fear is fear itself, and I
Speaker 1: got nither nerves of steel. I'm predicted to this state
Speaker 1: of mind. I'm starting for this meal with just one
Speaker 1: taste of flesh, goes pale. I feel it in my bones.
Speaker 1: Don't matter how he's slashing with this tissue. Are on
Speaker 1: your own? Oh, with idle hands, I'm killing them new
Speaker 1: numbers worried for free. But it's not a phase days.
Speaker 1: My finger play no place I'd rather be. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: but we're heading through that door right behind you. Mind
Speaker 1: if we squeeze by, only thieves can enter the dinner
Speaker 1: thieves and y'all look like the eaves to me, yo,
Speaker 1: look like suckers. Well not all thieves look like thieves.
Speaker 1: That to make them prime suspects, wouldn't it. Huh? You know,
Speaker 1: I would say to not think about that. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty good point. But still, look, we provided your associate
Speaker 1: with the passwords, so you'll let us enter. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: if I'll let you in and you ain't thieves, that's
Speaker 1: my neck on the top and box and I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: be my guest. Heck, you can stay all that because
Speaker 1: you ain't getting through that door. Well, we seem to
Speaker 1: be at a standstill that we are. Take note. Either
Speaker 1: is going to verbally disarm him, hand me the knife.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what he's doing. Either. I'll beat
Speaker 1: you at your own game. You you think you can
Speaker 1: hack it. Did I misspeak? Now, don't make me waste
Speaker 1: my breath. Give me the knife. Oh you got some
Speaker 1: mouth on you. I'll tell you what you make it.
Speaker 1: Once around, I'll let your pazz and if I come
Speaker 1: up short, you sit here playing into your hand is
Speaker 1: a mangled stump, and I'll sever your tongue out so
Speaker 1: I don't have to hear you scream. Okay, fair enough,
Speaker 1: you're trying anything funny. I got my hand on my
Speaker 1: spare day. I'll play by the rules. Serious, hold my amulance.
Speaker 1: It's okay. I need to go inside my mind here.
Speaker 1: Nice seems rather dull. It's an ancient game I like
Speaker 1: to play called five figure fill a. I chat my
Speaker 1: knife between my fingers and underway. I made a friend
Speaker 1: of horror long ago, and now I got brass knuckles.
Speaker 1: I live in a state of feeding franzies, and the
Speaker 1: chop play makes me chuckle ha ha. I'm speeding up lafts,
Speaker 1: heating up. I'm not going by the book of Chase
Speaker 1: the rest of PC because I'm a master cook. Oh
Speaker 1: with fattle hands. I'm killing time doing offers work for free.
Speaker 1: But it's barely A gray scar suit and fate if
Speaker 1: I figure fill a if you go for days will
Speaker 1: never be game's over. Don't think about reaching for it?
Speaker 1: Serious my amulet, but what how call it blind luck?
Speaker 1: Now let us in if you don't want trouble, okay,
Speaker 1: of course, of course, apologies for down right this way.
Speaker 1: Gad you shocking rock? Oh mama, eat her full now either,
Speaker 1: are you okay? Seconds to recover, forget about it. Finally
Speaker 1: here will be in the astral desert. No time after
Speaker 1: we arrange plants for trapping mess. She just back on track.
Speaker 1: There's a common saying, if you've lost anything along the way,
Speaker 1: there's no need to grieve. You can always buy it back.
Speaker 1: In the dinner thieves, you're a stamn you're rubbist snamn
Speaker 1: you listen all he comes the doo boots he caught
Speaker 1: bo crit he too? Is this not your morning? Get
Speaker 1: in your to rout the seaver and morphine deck a
Speaker 1: cart's ripe in the trip of the Simony. Now the
Speaker 1: vendor he has the cadence of a snake oil salesbody
Speaker 1: can't make out what he's saying. The drawnecker guard even
Speaker 1: it's not snake, oily headling, it's ah call her. I
Speaker 1: don't right, then, I have a feeling if we deal
Speaker 1: with him, he might get burned. They should be speaking
Speaker 1: of former thieves. Can't but this just sounds like complete gibberish.
Speaker 1: How are we supposed to find out who's in charge
Speaker 1: here so we can secure access into the desert if
Speaker 1: we can't even speak the language logo? Can you make
Speaker 1: any sense of it? Negative? This dialect isn't even registering
Speaker 1: as a code. It'll be impossible to decipher if I
Speaker 1: can't make out a pattern. Why almost every faction of
Speaker 1: the Thieves Guild insist on having its own dialect make
Speaker 1: confuse exactly to keep scoundrels like us out. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, but with a universal language, they could achieve
Speaker 1: an optimally efficient unified front. True. Then we'd no longer
Speaker 1: have to waste our time cracking the code, because we'd
Speaker 1: have no shot of setting foot here in the first place.
Speaker 1: Problem solved. That was sarcasm. In case that didn't register either,
Speaker 1: I got it. Well we'll just have to regroup. Okay,
Speaker 1: come on, serious, come back here. You look like an
Speaker 1: amulet term marks. Excuse him, he was just browsing a one. Serious,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here, no for either, give him strength.
Speaker 1: We don't want any trouble, sir. We'll leave now. You
Speaker 1: carban you, yabbit. I don't lose trouble you let the
Speaker 1: name tag. Come on. I think that was a threat. Oh,
Speaker 1: don't mind them. These two are harmless, a bit of tools.
Speaker 1: Sure wouldn't hurt a fly, though, Trust me, I'm their handling. Ta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, best of luck with your business. We'll
Speaker 1: be keeping out of your way. Let's go. Ah what
Speaker 1: the merchant's tone? It almost seemed too warm when he
Speaker 1: addressed me. Well, of course that's not too strange, rather
Speaker 1: expected if you asked me why I missed it? What
Speaker 1: wasn't those jars he was selling? Oh, you know, nothing
Speaker 1: out of the ordinary, various knickknacks, novel peas and sundrys
Speaker 1: of the biological persuasion logo organs if you must? And serious?
Speaker 1: What was he doing? Are going a jar of preserved eyeballs? Should?
Speaker 1: I guess? I guess you noticed the resemblance to the
Speaker 1: eye on your ambulant Yeah, well let him look next time. Serious,
Speaker 1: you're a big guy. You can hold your own right,
Speaker 1: you dog eras and nuts mix? My god? Um, we're
Speaker 1: in need of supplies to cross the dunes, guides, camels water.
Speaker 1: Can you help us? God dog kill the nick? What
Speaker 1: just happened? I'm not entirely sure, but I'm beginning to
Speaker 1: pick up fragments of sentences. I'm quite convinced we need
Speaker 1: to each procure a name tag, name tag a tang
Speaker 1: the merchants keep referring to them. Perhaps that word was
Speaker 1: directly integrated into their lexicon. At any rate, it must
Speaker 1: be their form of identification to verify we're card carrying
Speaker 1: guild members and establish us as a credible counterparty for transactions.
Speaker 1: Sounds like we have to get our hands on some
Speaker 1: name tags, just the thought. Might it be easier on
Speaker 1: us if we actually just joined the thieves Guild? Serious,
Speaker 1: give me a break, Come back, fine, go suit yourself
Speaker 1: either you expect me to dignify that with response? You
Speaker 1: know we work alone. I know, I just it's that enough,
Speaker 1: all right? Forgive me for bringing it up. Oh, over there,
Speaker 1: there's a rare items dealer. Maybe he can help us
Speaker 1: with some of the supplies. Be wrong, let us it's so.
Speaker 1: God evo a t A two can route phil a
Speaker 1: late tap no payoff tweet cottage. Yo, it's a gut there.
Speaker 1: It's a polyethylene a plastic bag. Serious would love this.
Speaker 1: We gotta get him one. Hey, get na good n
Speaker 1: where'd you go? He just followed that woman inside a
Speaker 1: storefront and disappeared. What relax? Let him go? You were right,
Speaker 1: he can handle himself plus can't cause too much trouble.
Speaker 1: What does it look like? It's semi translucent, off light
Speaker 1: in color with the words thank you, have a nice
Speaker 1: day in solid black type face mid condition to not
Speaker 1: the bag the building. Oh, green lanterns above the door,
Speaker 1: possibly infused with borron or copper sulfate, and it's called
Speaker 1: Madame Lulu. We have to go after him. Green lights
Speaker 1: means poison. It's not safe. Wait. I can tell he's
Speaker 1: about to bring out the bubble rap now. You barely
Speaker 1: said a word outside. Not much of a talker, are
Speaker 1: you well? I, for one, can appreciate the strong, silent type.
Speaker 1: You look like you'd make good use of a potion
Speaker 1: that could end a conversation and put someone try sleep permanently,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. Let them drift away
Speaker 1: to sleep and catch some z's sleep, Catch some zed zack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this potion house sells anything a thief could need, acids, poisons,
Speaker 1: even the deadliest of venoms. And now that we're alone,
Speaker 1: we can speak freely. Tell me what can I get? You?
Speaker 1: Pick your poison. Apologies for the disturbance. Hello, serious, sorry,
Speaker 1: fastened through, serious, come out, it's ether serious us. There's
Speaker 1: no sign of them out here. Anyone look like they're
Speaker 1: connected to name tags. Unclear the way some of them
Speaker 1: are dressed. Even if they had one, it wud be
Speaker 1: under layers of protective hazard gear. There's a hallway over here.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's in one of these rooms. I can't help
Speaker 1: but feel this is an invasion of privacy. We'll knock.
Speaker 1: All the doors are bead curtains. You should go first.
Speaker 1: You're the brave one. Oh thank goodness, I recognize that snarl.
Speaker 1: It's him. Serious, we're coming in. Are you hurt? Are
Speaker 1: you okay? You really shouldn't have run off like that.
Speaker 1: You've taken us off court. Serious, Lead search, find sleep
Speaker 1: potion to catch some set zh. Who's your lovely new
Speaker 1: lady friend? What's this now? No way, this is not
Speaker 1: how I do business. This was a private transaction. I'm
Speaker 1: not selling to any of you. Now. I want information
Speaker 1: I'm in search of the name tag. Where do I
Speaker 1: get it? Name tag? Why so everyone at the Potion
Speaker 1: Health can tell you're a chump. I'm not dealing with this.
Speaker 1: I'm finished. Don't walk away from us. We're not done here.
Speaker 1: Halt Tell me where I can find the name tag.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Came away from me. Please,
Speaker 1: This is a simple misunderstand. We don't mean to impose.
Speaker 1: We're actually very reasonable people. We just want to go
Speaker 1: about our business. You're a hard working person and wants
Speaker 1: to go about her business to write duh, Well, at
Speaker 1: least we're on the same page. It's just our business
Speaker 1: lies beyond these city walls, and before we can get
Speaker 1: out to the dunes, first we got to get the
Speaker 1: name tag so we can get a meeting with the
Speaker 1: person in charge to make arrangements to enter the desert.
Speaker 1: Not my problem. I'm leaving. I know you're about to go,
Speaker 1: but I have to ask if you have any info
Speaker 1: that might lead us in the right direction. I told you,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Please any info at all. Your best
Speaker 1: bet is probably at the club next door. Just don't
Speaker 1: tell anyone I told you, or I'll get in major trouble.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. We won't get in trouble with whom?
Speaker 1: And why did that woman even talk to Serious without
Speaker 1: speaking in code when he's a stranger, Because he wasn't
Speaker 1: a stranger, who was a client client in a private room.
Speaker 1: That's a shame we spooked her. Could let us straight
Speaker 1: to the name tag? Oh well, shall we head to
Speaker 1: the club? This is it club demo? After you tube anything?
Speaker 1: Stand out? I agree? The band is loud. No any
Speaker 1: leads on the name tag. Can't manage to tune out
Speaker 1: the drivel? Dang the tentative airs. It'll be quieter by
Speaker 1: the bar, might be easier to hear yourself, think serious,
Speaker 1: stand guard weeks here, I'll say it to Elcolm's not
Speaker 1: our knock. We have rested a ragga talk of type work.
Speaker 1: It's the law to evan naber knock you yap him
Speaker 1: to eat a rippo rednew the radar radar, that's it
Speaker 1: radar from the expression under the radar, Well yes, but
Speaker 1: also from radar a system that transmits and receives signals
Speaker 1: similar to a satellite dish. Oh yeah, you said something
Speaker 1: about what a satellite dish was back when we met.
Speaker 1: Now what are you saying about a radar? Never mind,
Speaker 1: Just know that radar is a palindrome, So radar recites
Speaker 1: the same spelled backward or forward. That's our key come
Speaker 1: on logo. Growing up on the streets of imperial words,
Speaker 1: where all I had to survive, I am well versed
Speaker 1: in rhetoric, even paladromes. But you're still gonna have to
Speaker 1: unlock this one for me. Reversals, it's how their code works.
Speaker 1: You yap him to eat a repo rednew the radar,
Speaker 1: You pay him to operate under the radar. Huh huh
Speaker 1: h h. Now you're getting it. It's remarkably simple. It's
Speaker 1: simply remarkable. For keywords, they reverse the spelling and then
Speaker 1: recited backwards. And for filler words such as such the
Speaker 1: two key she and and they leave them as is.
Speaker 1: To communicate, all we have to do is flip the
Speaker 1: keyword around and then pronounce it as spelled. It's a
Speaker 1: form of back slang. And how is this supposed to
Speaker 1: help us find the name tag listen, he who slourt
Speaker 1: knock the revel slourt knock the wolf of d art,
Speaker 1: He who controls the lever, controls the flow of trade.
Speaker 1: The name tag. That's it. I'm going over there to
Speaker 1: see if there's anything they'll tell us. Come on serious,
Speaker 1: Ah no, wait, at least wait for me do deep
Speaker 1: name tag. We're not looking for the name tag, We're
Speaker 1: looking for the gate man. Okay, then that's him. Whosy
Speaker 1: with back table alone is puny thug? Leave now perfect?
Speaker 1: Let me do the talking. Okay, but remember he won't
Speaker 1: speak plain English or formalize a contract in a public
Speaker 1: place where he can't tell who might be listening. You'll
Speaker 1: have to convince him to go with you somewhere secure
Speaker 1: to close the deal. Get him behind closed doors. Got Also,
Speaker 1: if you take too long to respond between the time
Speaker 1: you decipher what he just said and translate your own reply,
Speaker 1: you'll out yourself. So you'll have to be lightning quick
Speaker 1: with your answers. I'll keep it brief and a last reminder.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is flip the keywords around
Speaker 1: and pronounce it normally. It's back slang or should I say,
Speaker 1: now's cab? Oh dear, this is going to be harder
Speaker 1: than I thought. Name tag a coach a joke aloof
Speaker 1: ergo zaps claw into a rap fool spouse walking into
Speaker 1: a baro, you have goodnet to most rough me rednots.
Speaker 1: I hope you have something for me anger a deed
Speaker 1: a deed a gig a gig a gig? What he
Speaker 1: meant of you? At what time of day? Noon? What's
Speaker 1: the annoyed tant said? What's the destination where things live? Evil? Stressed? Stressed?
Speaker 1: Your mood deserts deserts your doom? You stunned, stunned, you
Speaker 1: nuts nuts, I'm mad, damn cook. We have drawer, you'll
Speaker 1: get snap diaper. We have reward, we'll get tons repaid ah.
Speaker 1: I have your spam brag drowns for your reviled. I
Speaker 1: have your maps, garb sword for your delivered. Layad deal,
Speaker 1: layad lad. Now that we've settled this as summer private,
Speaker 1: we can hash up details all off follow you'll slip up?
Speaker 1: Huh slip up? Oh no, backslige for pupils. Either thinks
Speaker 1: he slipped up, when really it refers to the eye
Speaker 1: on Ether's ambulet. My I sees the brats, My eye
Speaker 1: sees the star. Wow what oh go go? Either talk
Speaker 1: like me? Didn't you hear Ether slip up? Stood up?
Speaker 1: The gate man thinks Either wears his ambuletor chattel the stars.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the stars do aligne me so happy we could kiss.
Speaker 1: You're serious, SnO logo, Sure have away with words. You
Speaker 1: can see the same for you. Give me a moment
Speaker 1: to seal the office, dool. Non sanctioned travel on the
Speaker 1: dunes is forspid. Yes, I'm aware now for nothing. No
Speaker 1: skill traveler can last more than three days out there.
Speaker 1: Civilians dead by nightfall, and we sure don't want whatever's
Speaker 1: on that side making its way in. You may have
Speaker 1: picked up some shoddy backslang, but you ain't from around
Speaker 1: these parts. Tell me who are you? Bandits? Smugglers, scammers?
Speaker 1: What kind of thieves am I dealing with? We don't
Speaker 1: conform to the narrow designations typical of the guild, No
Speaker 1: you don't. Our diverse set of skills allows us to
Speaker 1: engage in a broad spectrum of complex affairs, utilizing bespoke
Speaker 1: tactics in a dynamic approach. What nonsense is? This is
Speaker 1: your membership and good standing? Are you thieves the stars?
Speaker 1: Outlaws of the guilt? Dear are you? Dear you? We're
Speaker 1: civilian mercenaries. When we take on a mission, we're loyal
Speaker 1: to the end. Very well I suppose the less I
Speaker 1: know the better, And if you try to steal from me,
Speaker 1: my gods will hunt you down. So all on other
Speaker 1: guild's code. If it's lucrative enough, what do you need
Speaker 1: the essentials? We have some basic supplies in our packs,
Speaker 1: but we still need an armed caravan for transport jugs
Speaker 1: of water. Your best guides must be after something with
Speaker 1: a shiny opal if you're going all the way into
Speaker 1: the desert to get it, I'm not at liberty to
Speaker 1: discuss such matters. You want my guides, my supplies, my blessing,
Speaker 1: and you won't even tell me what it is. I'm
Speaker 1: backing fair enough. It's oil. We're after oil, ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: And where do you expect to find this? Boil? The
Speaker 1: mole layer? Those mutants, you're even crazier than I thought.
Speaker 1: I already told you that. What else is there to say?
Speaker 1: How do you plan on negotiating? Please? And thank you
Speaker 1: a firm shake of their webbed paw agreed to carry
Speaker 1: their eggs inside you. I'm confident we'll get it done.
Speaker 1: Confident good It doesn't ha h? I like that? Yes
Speaker 1: m hm, yes, yes, but that mean that m m
Speaker 1: I'd like that all right, you'll have your chance. I'll
Speaker 1: provide you three camels, this hair map on my desk,
Speaker 1: a canteen, sword, and functional wear packed and ready to
Speaker 1: go noon tomorrow. Other than that, you're on your own.
Speaker 1: But if you don't like, you're welcome to try your
Speaker 1: hand scaling the mountains of North or wading through the top.
Speaker 1: It's down the south, of course, if you want the
Speaker 1: direct route east. I'm the only one who controls the gate,
Speaker 1: so I control what goes in and out of this wall,
Speaker 1: your gates, the rather majestic wonder. Just a few steps
Speaker 1: behind you lies the entrance, where within a narrowing chord
Speaker 1: or a week three evenly space, sequentially descending heavy lattice
Speaker 1: squilled overhead drop doors, each iron clad and brandished with
Speaker 1: steel spikes at their base. They funneled to a fifty
Speaker 1: by a hundred foot impenetrable black stone swing gait, which
Speaker 1: itself is fortified with archers, spearmen and outfit it with
Speaker 1: brace wire topples. It defies your typical gait closer to
Speaker 1: a gauntlet. Really, how long does the process take activated
Speaker 1: via level, It's a minute. A drop tours three for
Speaker 1: the final gate that's to open the pathway to shut
Speaker 1: have that figure, and to bear witness to its inner
Speaker 1: workings in action, to bask in the music of its
Speaker 1: restless metal, and really appreciate the craftsmanship of which you
Speaker 1: are experiencing as you take it all in. It's truly
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. Of course, once said into motion,
Speaker 1: it can't be stopped until the mechanism of chain linked
Speaker 1: rope and police has fully run its course. But who
Speaker 1: would want to interrupt such a thing anyway? You've sold me?
Speaker 1: Shall we discuss payment? Now you're talking my left the
Speaker 1: guilt's usual ten percent tithe of the spoil us upon
Speaker 1: return if you return, And no, the risk is too high.
Speaker 1: I need to ensure a handsome profit on my investment.
Speaker 1: Something like this, I want half to take. Are you
Speaker 1: out of your mind? Give me a moment to talk
Speaker 1: this over with my associates. It might not be my
Speaker 1: place to comment, but half seems absurdly high. Don't forget
Speaker 1: it's the agency's satellite dish. We're after only selling him
Speaker 1: on the oil. But you said he knows the rules
Speaker 1: as well as anyone. Buy or beware, and if all
Speaker 1: goes as planned, we won't be coming back it's a deal,
Speaker 1: or should I say a layad. I'm glad we could
Speaker 1: see I this is going to be a very successful
Speaker 1: venture for both of us. I know it. I'll make
Speaker 1: sure this operation runs smoothly. From A to Z. Oh no,
Speaker 1: the thieves dialect either said Z when it's pronounced vent.
Speaker 1: What faction of the guild did you say you belonged to?
Speaker 1: I didn't a raid rail leaf it in my tongue,
Speaker 1: A dear liar feeling in my gut. I'm sorry, you retool,
Speaker 1: there must be some kind of misunderstanding. Try to reflip
Speaker 1: from me, Try to pilfer from me. You've lost me here.
Speaker 1: Reflip reflip? Is his up his back? Sling Um, you're
Speaker 1: the y the day serious? Now a leash logo the lever.
Speaker 1: How long do we have? Let's see to open three
Speaker 1: vertical doors at a minute of peace, plus an additional
Speaker 1: three for the final game at six minutes, an additional
Speaker 1: quarter of that time to close, taking into account of
Speaker 1: one started. The procedure can't be interrupted. I thought he
Speaker 1: could halt get quarter. If you want to come out
Speaker 1: with your head until attach to your body. Spikes at
Speaker 1: their face went on their way down the doors become
Speaker 1: a guillotine if you don't clear now. Figuring the moderate
Speaker 1: level of drust on the level as a proxy for
Speaker 1: the cognition of the rogue pulling system, I factor in
Speaker 1: a short refractorate period before he's able to reverse the process.
Speaker 1: So will pick up an extra thirty seconds in lag
Speaker 1: time by my calculations, assuming diversity ecodistant segments takes I
Speaker 1: don't know, say thirty seconds a piece. Can we make it?
Speaker 1: That depends on a variety of complex factors assumption to variables.
Speaker 1: I really can't estimate our chance of success beyond a
Speaker 1: few standard deviation logo plain English before it become unhind
Speaker 1: If we leave right now, it's technically possible. Serious office
Speaker 1: stores walk break it. The no one follows us in
Speaker 1: prob the map looks ball. You don't stand a chance.
Speaker 1: The dunes will be the least of your worries. Even
Speaker 1: if you somehow beat it through the drop doors, mine
Speaker 1: their sky cards wouldn't quite welcome You're on. Expect to
Speaker 1: arrival in the final swing game next time before you
Speaker 1: tackle back to say, make sure you first mess in
Speaker 1: your ABC. All the way through X Y and said
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