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Speaker 1: InterQuest created by Michael Freiberg, a production of iHeartRadio and

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Speaker 1: Astro Media. Listen with headphones for three D audio or

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Speaker 1: in you have to tell me what does the shadowland?

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Speaker 1: King's secret weakness Either the truth is the truth is.

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Speaker 1: Nero is no real king. He wields no actual power

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Speaker 1: except in the minds of his enemies. He has no virtue,

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Speaker 1: no followers who support him. He doesn't wish to lead

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Speaker 1: or rule. He only wants to conquer so others may

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Speaker 1: fear him. His kingdom is nothing but artifice. It simply

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Speaker 1: does not exist. Nero is an impostor, a poward, an

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Speaker 1: abstract manifestation come to life. If he could, he would

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Speaker 1: betray himself at once. Nero is the antithesis of a king.

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Speaker 1: He is a puppet of his own device. So how

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Speaker 1: do we use this to defeat him? All of this

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Speaker 1: he already knows to be true, but he's buried deep down.

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Speaker 1: Capturing and confronting him with the truth is the key

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Speaker 1: to his defeat. For as core as Nero's belief is

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Speaker 1: that he is a great king, a conceit essential to

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Speaker 1: his very being, his ego cannot fathom defeat. His body

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Speaker 1: would break down his mind rejected the mirror. Either the

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Speaker 1: mirror is the answer to deciphering the puzzle. By holding

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Speaker 1: a mirror up to his true nature, you'll expose him

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Speaker 1: for who he truly is. In the mirror, all will

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Speaker 1: be reviewed the mirror. Either sand and barrel and the

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Speaker 1: tea kettle, victory sword, no blade, black pages in the

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Speaker 1: books armor not army armor armor crash and look the

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Speaker 1: opals black dunbells. H. I should be going now to

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Speaker 1: the central bell tower. I must keep look out for dero. H.

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Speaker 1: I'll leave it once YouTube calm down. But either everything

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Speaker 1: fade nothing here is real. Whatever you're trying to say, stop,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. King Oran already told me everything I

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Speaker 1: need to know to open the black stone door to

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Speaker 1: the Oasis ground. We'll get the water we came for

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Speaker 1: and leave before a Nero even shows up. Thanks to me,

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Speaker 1: we won't be fighting Waterland's war. Come on to the

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Speaker 1: oasis door. No, what did Oran tell you is the

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Speaker 1: key to the door's hieroglyphics cipher. I didn't ask, huh.

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Speaker 1: But back in the throne room, Orn gave me his

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Speaker 1: Royal Waterland badge to wear in battle. You know his

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Speaker 1: prized emblem bearing his name with the symbol of the

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Speaker 1: water buffalo and the word flow. So you think the

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Speaker 1: symbol of the water buffalo is the cipher's key. Not quite?

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Speaker 1: See the mirror on the door, What about it? Oran

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Speaker 1: told me that the mirror is the key to deciphering

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Speaker 1: the puzzle, and the mirror all will be revealed. Look

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Speaker 1: the writing on the badge reversed in the mirror, flow

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Speaker 1: become wolf exactly. The key to opening the Oysters store

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Speaker 1: isn't the water buffalo. It's the symbol of the wolf. Brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Either don't thank me, thank the guardian, or blow the

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Speaker 1: waterland oasis, the one, the oasis waiting for us. Um

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Speaker 1: just a little farther, I can see it. He don't

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Speaker 1: stop now. We're almost there, by the mountain border at

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Speaker 1: the end. A few more steps until he reach water.

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Speaker 1: The water it's sand the oasis mirage. Oh what's that

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Speaker 1: ringing noise? Her time? We have to leave now, Hu,

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Speaker 1: don't just stand there, keep up, Oh, Neil put the

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Speaker 1: arrival of the King of the shadow man sage of

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Speaker 1: the ball. I turn up the night, but one true

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Speaker 1: king kay Sirrah outa flight, start aways the store still

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Speaker 1: up and get behind that dick car boring through fireball firecrackers.

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Speaker 1: He also will get to be carrying a round point

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Speaker 1: shovel over his shoulder. Welcome, Wow, comes on the Schapo

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Speaker 1: land all of your grain, King hero by royal subjects.

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Speaker 1: How nice have you to join me? You're just in

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Speaker 1: time for the coronation ceremony. Orn's gone completely mad. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we played pretend he let go good idea serious nero,

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Speaker 1: are one true king. Congratulations of the highest order on

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Speaker 1: your crowning. Poor timing, however, as you were just about

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Speaker 1: the league logo your king fyebrows. They burned him off.

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Speaker 1: It's a celebration. Deel the boy king long making rain

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Speaker 1: and life longer? Maybe rain? What do we do? Huh serious?

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Speaker 1: Charge him? No, it's too dangerous to defeat him. We

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Speaker 1: have to confront him with the truth. Ah Ord, that's enough,

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Speaker 1: stop this silly charade. We're leaving now. You must be mistaken.

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Speaker 1: I'm hero k up the shadowland or in I killed

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Speaker 1: him now, boy trying the celebration. The pigs, little pigs.

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Speaker 1: Fine the flat stone door wide open and let the

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Speaker 1: big bad come in. What's he doing out in the

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Speaker 1: grounds and digging? Some kind of hole. Given his pension

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Speaker 1: for fine grade pyrotechnics, and using the basis of inductive reasoning,

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Speaker 1: logic dictates that he's digging our graves when he kills

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Speaker 1: us then buries our bodies out in the fake away.

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Speaker 1: It's a san right to the drawbridge. Sin right now

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Speaker 1: the torch lights in the ground. Holler out, which way

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Speaker 1: do we go? Serious? Track one? Printed dark? All right? Follow?

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Speaker 1: I had draw bridge? All right? Wait, don't take another step.

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Speaker 1: There's a trip wire on the drawbridge. It's rig full

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Speaker 1: of explosives. Who now run the fire ship and off

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Speaker 1: and it all that? Look the bridge? Are we out? Nero?

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Speaker 1: What do you want from us? Never? Is it water

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Speaker 1: you're after? We can take you where or in hit

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Speaker 1: his barrels of oasis water. Just put down the fireworks

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Speaker 1: and you can well, devils. I know there's no oasis water,

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Speaker 1: and never was. I came from the royal chalice, buried

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Speaker 1: under date the sand of the Imperial House, and now

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Speaker 1: it's all mine. That water cup from Castle Banner. You

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Speaker 1: got what you came for. Let us go to leave

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Speaker 1: this kingdom. There's only one way out. You must pledge

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Speaker 1: royalty to your king and seal your fate through the

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Speaker 1: divine drinking ceremony. Divine drinking ceremony from the royal chalice,

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Speaker 1: we shall consume me the vial of sacred redwater containing

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Speaker 1: the blood of m Then I shall reign eternal in

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Speaker 1: the intra, with you serving as my subject for ever

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Speaker 1: in this realm and the next sacred red water. Ether

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Speaker 1: that sounds like roaming unnaturally occurring toxin found in seawater.

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Speaker 1: It's poisoned. I figured as much, Nero. There's no realm

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Speaker 1: in this world where we serve under you as king

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Speaker 1: of the water. I'm royal. Get it off me, Get

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Speaker 1: off extra now quick. Let's head to the throne room.

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Speaker 1: And it is it orangs escape tunnel, which leads to

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Speaker 1: the outside right rod rod behind the throne. The entrance

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Speaker 1: to the escape tunnel was hidden in the wall ron

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Speaker 1: heavy her the door. The door to the tunnel's locked.

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Speaker 1: Move serious smash. No, this door, like the one in

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Speaker 1: the grounds, is made of impenetrable black stone. The only

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Speaker 1: way to open it is by solving another hieroglyphic cipher.

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Speaker 1: Try the symbol of the wolf. That's not it. It's

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Speaker 1: somebody crying. Wolf sounds like my audience to bang it out. Bravo.

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Speaker 1: Lucky for you three, there's still more to go. I'd

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Speaker 1: saved the best for laugh a spock tractical to handle

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Speaker 1: the show. If you out serve me in this life, yeah,

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Speaker 1: serve me the next one. Oh, it's dynamite the bladder,

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Speaker 1: the room. I didn't make you a ten seconds to

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Speaker 1: build that naked into the water. Well you go, well,

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Speaker 1: well you good lie at the bottom of a talking

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Speaker 1: win cat her light narrow you win. We'll pledge loyalty

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Speaker 1: to you and perform the drinking ceremony. Just lower the

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Speaker 1: rope and let us out of here. Ah, so you

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Speaker 1: wish to save as my royal subjects? After all, I've

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Speaker 1: lowered the rope. Now prove it kiss the kings? So

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Speaker 1: what prove your loyalty? Before I let you out? I

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Speaker 1: want you to climb. I'm up here, one by one

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Speaker 1: and kids the King's dude. Oh okay, okay, we'll do it.

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Speaker 1: I can't bear it down here. I'll go first. M

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Speaker 1: pick one's nuts. Come here and kiss the King's doe. H.

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Speaker 1: That's sure to leave him. Bump on the old noggin

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Speaker 1: buffoll of you. What do you doing here? Daddy? Would

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Speaker 1: keep you safe my leash. Thank goodness you're awake. You

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Speaker 1: had quite a stumble, Yes, yes I did. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: the BG one. He knocked me out after you kissed

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Speaker 1: my toe. No, no, no, no, you're mistaken. After we

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Speaker 1: pledged our allegiance to you, your highness, you became so

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed with rapture it seemed as if you were about

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Speaker 1: to ascend to Umbrah's realm of the Intra without even

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Speaker 1: conducting the drinking ceremony. That's when you passed out. Ah

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Speaker 1: ah hmm, yes, yes, now that I think about it,

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Speaker 1: of course that's what happened. He How could the light

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Speaker 1: of you and then opposed a threat to the great king? Nero? Now, subjects,

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Speaker 1: we must resume where we last left off the drinking ceremony.

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Speaker 1: The chalice demands we drink from it harmdus milk, the

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Speaker 1: blood of Umbra. We shall transcend this motor realm, and

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Speaker 1: I will rule eternal patil. Where are the three of you?

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Speaker 1: Where's the one with the ambulance? Ether he's out securing

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Speaker 1: in the castle perimeter. He'll be right back. That breaking noise?

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Speaker 1: What is that? Nero, my lord? We're under siege? What

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Speaker 1: we're being attacked by who? Or but that's impossible, or instead,

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Speaker 1: I assure you he's very much alive, my lord. He'll

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Speaker 1: soon have crossed the exterior mote and breach the castle walls.

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Speaker 1: We don't have much time, Oran. There's nothing I'd like

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Speaker 1: more than to slay you again. Battle, stay sentence, prepare

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Speaker 1: for war. My subjects serious thought to the barracks, report

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Speaker 1: to the war room at once my lead, and you.

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Speaker 1: Either you'll stay with me here in the throne room

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Speaker 1: and help me get inside the mind of a fallen key,

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Speaker 1: orin is no match for King Nero. What could Ran

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Speaker 1: be after? There's nothing left for him here. All his

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Speaker 1: people abandoned him long ago, Nero, my and true King.

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Speaker 1: I served under Orange in the Waterland Kingdoms. I know

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Speaker 1: how he thinks. What he's after. He's come back for

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Speaker 1: the oasis the ohsus. Then we must protect the imperial

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Speaker 1: grounds at all costs. An explosion in the barracks probably nothing,

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Speaker 1: but I'll go check out and stay here in the

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Speaker 1: throne room. Or an attack flame and time AfOR trate

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Speaker 1: it out. Put it out? Is the sen from the

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Speaker 1: bar room. Er Just stand in by Evan car her

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Speaker 1: everything white Wiking. Yes, yes, of course, any news to report.

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Speaker 1: Have we kept Oran outside the kingdom's walls. I'm afraid

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Speaker 1: not Orn and his soldiers have entered the castle. Yea,

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Speaker 1: how could this be? Shell? They head down to the

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Speaker 1: imperial grounds and secure the oasis door at once, either

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Speaker 1: at once. We must do everything in our power to

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Speaker 1: insure Oran never gets his hands on the Oasis water

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Speaker 1: the war room, White Lord, ye war go down to

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Speaker 1: the imperial grounds, secure the Blackstone door and make certain

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Speaker 1: the mirror is in place to keep Oran out. I'll

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Speaker 1: check out the war room. What happy here? Cannon fire, sir?

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Speaker 1: They have the castle surrounded with heavy artillery. We've sustained

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Speaker 1: critical damage on the western front from the blast. A

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Speaker 1: cannon ball not too close. It might still be active.

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Speaker 1: It smells like a big ball of beetle poof. That's

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Speaker 1: what cannon fire smells like. Good start, get that out

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Speaker 1: of my face. That's not fit. The gris a king.

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Speaker 1: That's not all. They sent a message, Nero, I am

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Speaker 1: the physical reflection of your greatest nightmare. I've taken the Oasis.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming for the throne, signed Orn, King of the

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Speaker 1: water Land. I must return to the throne room at

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Speaker 1: once eat where are you? There's no human defending the castle.

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Speaker 1: They must perform the drinking ceremony before or in and

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Speaker 1: his soldiers or silver Nights. One of them wears either ambulance.

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Speaker 1: The three myself killed them. Now come for me, stab me,

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Speaker 1: I thank you when you take the part, get the

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Speaker 1: royal tars that he really that's all this about them?

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Speaker 1: Ta me one, you come back to finish me, suspend

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Speaker 1: it or a fright the moor on silver in the

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Speaker 1: arms of your nights, and you've brought your own pouch

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Speaker 1: of firework this time just like wine. M M. Put

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Speaker 1: all ends here steps from the royal water well? Shall

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Speaker 1: we read us on to these bag of tricks? Good?

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Speaker 1: You agree? I want to face you man to man. Oh,

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Speaker 1: We came to rescue you. I must have passed out again.

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Speaker 1: Who did this to me? It was Nero, wasn't it? Yeah? Nero? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I knew he'd return. Is he still here? He's been

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Speaker 1: defeated for now? Then the oasis water is safe. There's

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Speaker 1: The truth or the truth is that you're Nero. Impossible,

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Speaker 1: It's beyond possible, it's certain. How how can that be?

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Speaker 1: Nero was nothing more than a manifestation of umbre. I

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Speaker 1: But then we want the truth. What really happened here? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I was Nero and Umbras to blame. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: time to the oasis sands. Okay, we'll go with you, Oran, Oran,

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Speaker 1: What else you have to find out here? Something I

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Speaker 1: the hold beside my chalice. Okay, serious, logo, Hand me

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Speaker 1: the fireworks. This should be sufficient time to get rid

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Speaker 1: of these, for the king is dead. Long live the king.

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Speaker 1: Go to the cipher on the escape tunnel door leading

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Speaker 1: it never did me any good. I was always too

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Speaker 1: afraid to leave this place. Before you leave, it would

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Speaker 1: How will you survive? And if Neuror comes back, what

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Speaker 1: Water will keep us hydrated during our journey. What's this

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