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Speaker 1: a distant future, long after the apocalypse was forgotten and
Speaker 1: the history of civilization lost, the world begins again. A
Speaker 1: primordial evil awakened at the time of the apocalypse, has
Speaker 1: the power to possess the mind. It exists solely as
Speaker 1: the voice of madness in the collective unconscious and rules
Speaker 1: over a mental realm called the intra. This dark force
Speaker 1: is a threat to end all life and is known
Speaker 1: as Umbra. Three Adventurers. Beser a smooth talking leader. See
Speaker 1: that's the thing about hidden passageways, They're always in the
Speaker 1: last place. You look serious, A big hearted brute, serious,
Speaker 1: crush like fun and logo. A nerdy savant. By my
Speaker 1: calculations that depends on a variety of complex factors, assumptions
Speaker 1: of variables. Embark on a quest that could save the world.
Speaker 1: So my partner and I give you this diamond crystal,
Speaker 1: and you tell us everything you know about the stolen
Speaker 1: Ambro or deal Amberorb stolen news to me. You know
Speaker 1: you have eyes and ears all over this city. The
Speaker 1: Orb's property of the Order of Hyperian Sages part of
Speaker 1: their private collection. Lucia, one of the order's own student,
Speaker 1: stole it out from under them, and now she's gone
Speaker 1: missing too. Go figure the Order of Hyperion Sages. Lucia missing,
Speaker 1: you don't say? It's probably the same old story. A
Speaker 1: lost soul in search of meaning devotes their life to
Speaker 1: an arcane order on the promise of answers and a
Speaker 1: path to enlightenment, only to realize there was never any
Speaker 1: truth to be found, and now they're trapped. I bet
Speaker 1: Lucia saw the Amber warb as her way out, sold
Speaker 1: the precious gemstone for whatever she could get, and skipped down.
Speaker 1: In any case, the Sages want their or back. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I've heard the first. How do
Speaker 1: I know if your diamond crystal's real? I can't take
Speaker 1: your word for it. You would enlie to me, now,
Speaker 1: would you. I know you're outsiders, but I run the
Speaker 1: streets in this sandy city, and I can spot a
Speaker 1: liar by tone of voice alone this irregardless, if I
Speaker 1: would lie to you, your guards outnumber me and my
Speaker 1: partner here ten to one. Don't take us for fools.
Speaker 1: We walked into your alley unarmed to ask you for
Speaker 1: a favor. In answer to your question, I can't say
Speaker 1: that I don't disagree with you, and you can take
Speaker 1: my word for that it's real. We'll prove it. Hand
Speaker 1: me that stone slate, one fine grained, heavy stone slate, durable,
Speaker 1: strong dance, get on with it. Diamond, as we all know,
Speaker 1: is the world's hardest material, capable of piercing through anything.
Speaker 1: It's essentially unbreakable. My partner sitting beside me will demonstrate.
Speaker 1: Show them. See what did I tell you? Cut straight
Speaker 1: through the slate, no damage to the crystal. This here
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent flawless diamond. Okay, we have a deal.
Speaker 1: Then I'll take the dime. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't
Speaker 1: just take the diamond like this, You'll risk exposing it
Speaker 1: to the impurities of the open air. It's not safe
Speaker 1: to transport that way, not without the protection of this
Speaker 1: plush velvet carrying pouch. Yours for the price of one
Speaker 1: black obal. Okay, one black obal. Someone coming there? You
Speaker 1: two are? I searched all over for you just to
Speaker 1: end up in the gutter of some dingy back alley.
Speaker 1: You must be the civilian mercenaries Ether and Serious. I'm logo.
Speaker 1: I'm here on behalf of the agency to seek your
Speaker 1: services for a mission. What's this? You three know each other? Yes? No, no,
Speaker 1: we don't, sir, you must be mistaken. I have never
Speaker 1: seen you before my life. You have the wrong people. No, no,
Speaker 1: you fit the description to a t. Your amulet the
Speaker 1: eye of Imperia, a golden sun with the all seeing
Speaker 1: eye in the center. You're Ether of Imperia either astro
Speaker 1: and Serious. The big hulking fellow sitting by your side,
Speaker 1: his size and features are rather distinct. There's absolutely no
Speaker 1: mistaking it. You two are the civilian mercenaries Ether and
Speaker 1: Serious Ether Serious. That's not who code names code names.
Speaker 1: But he was among partners. Silly me, I forgot our
Speaker 1: new partner would be joining us today. Our third partner logo.
Speaker 1: That's right, our third partner logo logo. You're late again.
Speaker 1: You know we hate it when you're late. It's always
Speaker 1: so disruptive to our work. Luckily, we were just finishing
Speaker 1: up here. When you meet glass crystal glass, No, no,
Speaker 1: not glass, he said, neck glass, as in necklace crystal,
Speaker 1: because diamonds are common gemstones using necklaces isn't that right, Logo? Correct?
Speaker 1: Diamonds are commonly adorned as ornaments around the neck. See now,
Speaker 1: as we just discussed, if you could tell us about
Speaker 1: where to find the object Lucia still, so we can
Speaker 1: recover it to its rightful owner. We'll be on our
Speaker 1: way just as soon as Logo puts the diamond back
Speaker 1: down on the table and the glass crystal. Grab the
Speaker 1: black opal run, don't just walk them. Hurry up. The
Speaker 1: street diverges up ahead. Should we proceed left or right?
Speaker 1: This way? Oh? No, we appear to have reached an
Speaker 1: impasse cornered between two buildings, you, logo, was it the
Speaker 1: door to the building behind you? Try the handle? It's locked. Serious,
Speaker 1: break get out away. Come on inside to the stairwell.
Speaker 1: The building own has trivate residence. There's nowhere to hide
Speaker 1: the roof. Head to the roof. Keep going up here
Speaker 1: any moments. What weapons do you have for defense? We
Speaker 1: don't carry weapons. Okay. The building's southern perimeter overlooks the marketplace.
Speaker 1: If a jump is time correctly, escape may be possible
Speaker 1: by landing safely on the passing fruit cart down below.
Speaker 1: Jump from roof? Are you crazy? How high up are
Speaker 1: we there's no way we survive. I can calculate the
Speaker 1: height of the building to check if it's viable, but
Speaker 1: I'll need to borrow the black opal. What's why I
Speaker 1: need it to measure the key variable? Serious? No, trust,
Speaker 1: skinny stick man, there's no other option. Just give them
Speaker 1: the OPAL series here, chick man, take black opal? Okay.
Speaker 1: Total distance is a function of the speed and time
Speaker 1: it takes for an object in free fall to travel
Speaker 1: from peak to trough. Given the mass and size of
Speaker 1: the OPAL, once dropped, its speed should accelerate during the
Speaker 1: duration of the fall, approaching but not reaching terminal velocity.
Speaker 1: Approximating its rate of acceleration, Taking into account that acceleration
Speaker 1: due to gravity is roughly nine point eight one meters
Speaker 1: per second squared, I can determine the height of the
Speaker 1: building by how much time it takes the open to
Speaker 1: reach bottom upon release. What that's your plan? Through a
Speaker 1: OPAL off the roof? See what serious say? It's necessary
Speaker 1: for the calculation? Fine? Go ahead, you can always recover
Speaker 1: it after we jump ready for release? Releasing now one
Speaker 1: point eight seconds flat. That corresponds to a building height
Speaker 1: of roughly fifty feet or five stories high. It should
Speaker 1: put the odds of survival it around fifty percent, with
Speaker 1: the fruit cart cushioning the point of impact depending on ripeness.
Speaker 1: I know serious. I don't like it either, but it's
Speaker 1: the best chance we got. We have to jump. Best
Speaker 1: of luck to both of you. I'll convene with you
Speaker 1: again post vectum. You're jumping with us? What why? I'll
Speaker 1: be safe up here. The guards will kill you. But
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. Okay, how should we time the jump? Now?
Speaker 1: U broke my car? My car? Who will pay for
Speaker 1: these plums? Now? Really? Sorry about that? Serious? You see
Speaker 1: the opal? There? A black opal? Think lucky stars. It
Speaker 1: must have fallen from the sky above. I could finally
Speaker 1: start the stand in my dream, selling fine glass figurines.
Speaker 1: No more rotten fruit for me, bull stop, No, that's ours?
Speaker 1: Oh the black opal come back here. The fruit peddlers
Speaker 1: stole our opal. At least we don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the cards anymore. Come on, seriously, have business to
Speaker 1: take care of you, Bobo logo whatever, leave us alone.
Speaker 1: I never want to see you again. Wait good, I
Speaker 1: can't believe we didn't get away with the con. We
Speaker 1: were so close. Everything right? Serious? It didn't even suspect
Speaker 1: a thing when you use your hands to break the
Speaker 1: stone slates. Yet somehow we're no closer in tracking down
Speaker 1: the Amber orders. Everything good until past logo show up.
Speaker 1: I know who could have predicted that. No other leads
Speaker 1: never get that order. Back to the stages, we tracked
Speaker 1: down Lucia Kin for clue. Now she has no Kin.
Speaker 1: The order of Hyperion stages are in order of Ascetics.
Speaker 1: It means they've announced all lengths to the material outside world,
Speaker 1: having cut ties to both romantic and blood relations, and
Speaker 1: full commitment to the order. They believe it keeps them
Speaker 1: pure of mind and free of the foolish thoughts floating
Speaker 1: around the heads of us rabble, so they can pursue
Speaker 1: undistracted their higher calling and enlightened knowledge. For the sages,
Speaker 1: the order is their entire world. Either serious. I thought
Speaker 1: that was you two sitting over here. You again, you
Speaker 1: follow us? I thought we made it clear, leave us alone.
Speaker 1: But I never had the chance to deliver the agency's mission.
Speaker 1: It's a retrieval of a satellite dish located deep in
Speaker 1: the Azrael desert, where it is to be recovered from
Speaker 1: the mole layer and safely returned to the lighthouse dropoff
Speaker 1: point located at the other end of the desert. Oh,
Speaker 1: is that all? Are you sure you don't want us
Speaker 1: to sail into space and build a castle in the
Speaker 1: sky while we're there. No recovery of the satellite dish
Speaker 1: is all that is required of the agency. You don't
Speaker 1: get it, do you? You want us to go to
Speaker 1: the mole layer in the Azrael desert. Crossing the desert's
Speaker 1: hard enough, let alone the fact no one's ever been
Speaker 1: to the mole layer before. They're completely isolated from the
Speaker 1: rest of the world. And for good reason. What even
Speaker 1: is a satellite dish? Ah? What is satellite dish? It's
Speaker 1: a tool for communication. Well, whatever it is, we don't care. Look,
Speaker 1: just because your big bad agency send one of their
Speaker 1: spineless stooges to try to recruit us, doesn't mean we're
Speaker 1: going to accept the mission. Tell them to do their
Speaker 1: own dirty work. Ah. But besides, we already have a
Speaker 1: mission with whom The Order of Hyperian Sages. The Order
Speaker 1: of Hyperion Sages Guardians of Ancient Knowledge, a secretive fellowhood
Speaker 1: of ascetic scholars who collect and preserve ancestral wisdom with
Speaker 1: a mission of passing down this knowledge and service of
Speaker 1: the edification of society of venerable organization with a most
Speaker 1: noble cause. Uh sure, and thanks to you, we have
Speaker 1: no chance of fulfilling our end of a contract. You
Speaker 1: logo ruined our payday. Well, whatever the stage we're paying,
Speaker 1: the agency will triple it. I must emphasize that the
Speaker 1: recovery of this satellite dish is of the utmost importance,
Speaker 1: and you know the agency always pays its obligations. As
Speaker 1: is said, a contract with the Agency is as good
Speaker 1: as black opal in your pocket more tonight, good as
Speaker 1: wild goose cheese. Exactly. There's not enough black opal in
Speaker 1: the world to make us take on another one of
Speaker 1: the agency's missions. I mean half the time they don't
Speaker 1: even own the items they've hired us to recover. Well,
Speaker 1: I can assure you for this satellite disretrieval, everything is
Speaker 1: above board and honest, and at least you know you'll
Speaker 1: be dealing with consummate professionals, unlike that miscreant you were
Speaker 1: conversing within the back alleyway. Ah, that miscreant was our
Speaker 1: only lead and you blew it for us. Now we'll
Speaker 1: have to tell the stages we have no chance of
Speaker 1: recovering the missing item stolen from their private collection by
Speaker 1: one of their own members. No less so the way
Speaker 1: I see it, logo, you already owe us for the
Speaker 1: pay you made us lose out on ah. Now we
Speaker 1: never home to Imperia. Why can't you go home? Well,
Speaker 1: strictly speaking, when we left Impyia, it wasn't by choice
Speaker 1: Spanish Spanish. Well serious, and I are persona non grata.
Speaker 1: We can't go back home, at least not through the
Speaker 1: main lands. Legend of a sea pass, but what either
Speaker 1: The journey is supposedly dangerous, and we don't even really
Speaker 1: know where the sea pass begins, or for that matter,
Speaker 1: where they find the one person who does Who's that
Speaker 1: the night sun, the Night's Sun? None of this matters,
Speaker 1: For all we know, the whole thing's made up anyway,
Speaker 1: Maybe I can help tell me about him. Well, according
Speaker 1: to legends, somewhere just beyond the border of Imperia lives
Speaker 1: the son of a heroic night. He knows the ways
Speaker 1: the sea, and like his father before him, is blessed
Speaker 1: with the knowledge of safe travel to imperiod, we've been
Speaker 1: working in civilian mercenaries, taking on whatever assignments come our way.
Speaker 1: So we can earn enough opals to find and hire
Speaker 1: him as our guide and hope of finally returning home.
Speaker 1: But the Knight's Sun might not even exist. It's from
Speaker 1: a local prophecy, our bedtime story told to Imperian kids.
Speaker 1: The return of the night's Sun, and the night's Sun
Speaker 1: is overtaken by a darkness sphere, the secret path to
Speaker 1: Imperia will be made clear you you know it, the
Speaker 1: return of the night Sun. The prophecy doesn't refer to
Speaker 1: a person. He refers to a solar eclipse. I've researched
Speaker 1: this before. It's in reference to the Sorrows cycle. Sorrows
Speaker 1: cycle an eclipse cycle. Eclipses occur on repeated intervals of time,
Speaker 1: approximately every fifty four years, equivalent to a triple Sorrows.
Speaker 1: A near identical eclipse repeats in the same geographic location
Speaker 1: at the same time of day. That's when your path
Speaker 1: home will be made clear. And to think of it,
Speaker 1: the last totally eclipse visible to imperiod occurred fifty three
Speaker 1: years ago. What ether. I'm trained in celestial navigation. As
Speaker 1: a reward for completing the agency's mission. In addition to
Speaker 1: payment of the opals, I'll guide you to the eclipses
Speaker 1: path of totality and show you your way home. I
Speaker 1: need a moment to talk over this with serious and
Speaker 1: private of course serious. Do you know what this means? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But serious? No trust stick man. Well, maybe make big promise,
Speaker 1: send us on crazy mission. Crazy mission lead to Yes,
Speaker 1: this might be our one chance to return home to
Speaker 1: imperiod and if we don't take the mission, we may
Speaker 1: never get back. You're right, he might be selling us
Speaker 1: a false hope or even plain line. But isn't it
Speaker 1: worth the risk to find out the truth? Okay? Serious
Speaker 1: goal for you, sir. Thanks? Serious, if you're a true
Speaker 1: partner logo, have you come to a decision. We're in
Speaker 1: splendid Naturally, it's best to leave as soon as possible,
Speaker 1: to begin the journey while they're still daylight. I say
Speaker 1: you're coming on the mission, of course, say retrieval of
Speaker 1: the satellite dish's top priority. The agency insists, I joined
Speaker 1: forget it. No, the mission is dangerous enough without you
Speaker 1: getting in our way. What when we said we want
Speaker 1: nothing to do with you, we meant it. You're dead weight,
Speaker 1: you'd get us all chilled. You're turning down the mission,
Speaker 1: but you have to accept no, we don't come on. Serious,
Speaker 1: we're done here. But I was sent with very specific
Speaker 1: instructions to recruit you to It's my first assignment. I
Speaker 1: have to succeed. We work alone, always have, always will.
Speaker 1: So thanks, but no thanks. We'll stick to earning opals
Speaker 1: and make our own way home. Serious back to the
Speaker 1: Order's mission of recovering that stone in gemstone. One way
Speaker 1: or another, we'll find and return to them. That amber
Speaker 1: or amber or amber is a natural palmer of fossilized
Speaker 1: tree resin. Typically orange, is brown in color, and four
Speaker 1: millions of years ago. It's not just valuable as a gemstone,
Speaker 1: it's also coveted for the ancient object preserved inside. What
Speaker 1: did you say about amber? Amber is a record of
Speaker 1: the past. The object and organisms frozen inside the stone
Speaker 1: shine a light on ancient life from time immemorial. I
Speaker 1: know an antique dealer who specializes in these sorts of things.
Speaker 1: I can bring you to him at the Toepol. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can take us to him, but that's it. Great.
Speaker 1: The walk over through the market will give you more
Speaker 1: time to consider my proposal. Let's go the market. Share
Speaker 1: is a bustling Hey scarves, fine scarves, essential accessories for
Speaker 1: the modern traveler. Which cloth suits your needs? No thanks,
Speaker 1: kid logo. Where's this antique shop? It's straight this way,
Speaker 1: just over on the other side of the market. These
Speaker 1: are handwoven, artisan crafted garments. You won't find any better
Speaker 1: quality in these parts. How about a shiny silk scarf
Speaker 1: to match your amulets? We said, we're not interested. You're
Speaker 1: sure this is the fastest way to the shop. We
Speaker 1: can take side streets, but with the abundance of shady
Speaker 1: characters lurking in the market, it's the beft. We stick
Speaker 1: to the main path. Try it on and see for yourself.
Speaker 1: Don't the big man, book brain tell me? Doesn't your
Speaker 1: friend look like a million black opals? Book brain, get
Speaker 1: your scarf off my neck right now, or they'll be
Speaker 1: using it as a rag to mop up what's left
Speaker 1: of you. Okay, okay, don't need that talk. I'm taking
Speaker 1: my scarf and go. A garment of this quality is
Speaker 1: far too fine for the likes of you anything, at
Speaker 1: least that's over. Talk about a pest ast my amulance
Speaker 1: that kids so ambulances come back to you, your little cheeks.
Speaker 1: What's wrong? You don't understand? Amulet more than shiny object. Amulet,
Speaker 1: keep me for safe? Here we follow? Are you to me?
Speaker 1: I lost him? We recover amulet? You rest logan, Come
Speaker 1: look up there by the stick carts, last figures, bye,
Speaker 1: last figurine, by the figurine of your dreams to day again.
Speaker 1: He's like roue dizzy, serious, make and crash. He's fleeing
Speaker 1: with the amulet. But I have an idea where too.
Speaker 1: If I take the back alleys, I might be able
Speaker 1: to cut him off. Serious, get either and meet me
Speaker 1: at the other side of the market. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get his amulet back and we're gonna got him. He's like, go,
Speaker 1: like go book brain either serious over here my amulet,
Speaker 1: honest mistake. Yeah, we'll just don't make my mistake. And
Speaker 1: like the life you were born into become the life
Speaker 1: you lead. Get out. Uh, we've made it to the
Speaker 1: antique shop. She's kin upon my amulets exactly. Now let's
Speaker 1: go in, dog, my friend, How good to see you, Urian.
Speaker 1: I hope you've come at a good time with me.
Speaker 1: Are my companions ether and serious? Are you and your
Speaker 1: friend's logo? I always have time? Ether? Serious, Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: Please come in Serious logo, and I will talk with Urian.
Speaker 1: You see if there's anything useful around the shop, but
Speaker 1: don't touch okay, ah your amulet, I see you where
Speaker 1: the eye of imperial a goal and son with the
Speaker 1: all seeing eye enclosed in its center missticks believe it's
Speaker 1: watchful eyewards off Umber's shadowy influence. Who protects the wearer
Speaker 1: with clarity of mind. It's not every day a rarity
Speaker 1: like this walks in the eye shop. How much my
Speaker 1: amulets not for sale? Serious? Oh? Sorry? So how can
Speaker 1: I help? My partner and I have been hired to
Speaker 1: recover an item stolen from the private collection of the
Speaker 1: Order of Hyperian Sages ah Yes, the Order of Hyperian
Speaker 1: Sages preservers of world history. They believe absolute knowledge is
Speaker 1: the ray of light in this darkened world, that it
Speaker 1: will unlock the path the higher planes of enlightenment. The
Speaker 1: Sages are the foundation of stability in this unstable city.
Speaker 1: The faith of the people depend upon their strength. What
Speaker 1: Adji has been stolen from their collection? An amber orb
Speaker 1: amber orb Yes. Amber is believed to be a gateway
Speaker 1: to the past, to life no longer living. It preserves
Speaker 1: the accumulated wisdom of history, with each piece deriving meaning
Speaker 1: from what is contained inside. In mystic circles, it's believed
Speaker 1: that amber can be used to channel the spirit of
Speaker 1: ancient beings. Of course, the orb itself doesn't have any
Speaker 1: real power, only a connection perceived in the mind of
Speaker 1: the possessor. Have you seen it the orb? Sadly it
Speaker 1: has not passed through my shop? Tell me what's this ideal?
Speaker 1: Of serious? Serious? No touch. When we received the mission,
Speaker 1: the sages wouldn't tell us any details about the orb.
Speaker 1: They deem the information too sensitive to share in case
Speaker 1: it leaked outside the order. So we've been operating on
Speaker 1: a need to know basis, and once we've recovered the orb,
Speaker 1: we're to bring it straight back. Well, then, there are
Speaker 1: some things you should know about amber to help you
Speaker 1: identify it. First, amber has a distinct sense that gives
Speaker 1: off a coniferous fragrance. Second, it feels warm to the
Speaker 1: touch when rubbed, and third, amber has a low melting point.
Speaker 1: It will begin to decompose when exposed to the flame
Speaker 1: of a candle. But of course, the knowledge of what's
Speaker 1: inside the amber is the real key to understanding its significance.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Urian, we'll have to return to the Order
Speaker 1: to see what we can learn very well, and please
Speaker 1: offer my condolences to the sages for the head Scholar.
Speaker 1: What about the head Scholar, he's just past. He'd been
Speaker 1: ill for a while. Haven't you seen the white smoke?
Speaker 1: Quite smoke, the white smoke rising from the beacon signal
Speaker 1: fire burning atop the Orders institute. It symbolizes strength to
Speaker 1: the people at a head scholars time of death, who
Speaker 1: believe it carries his spirit away to the clouds above
Speaker 1: and signifies successful transition within the Order. Its absence would
Speaker 1: devastate the soul of the city. As night approaches, the
Speaker 1: sages will hold a candlelight vigil before that procession to
Speaker 1: the funeral pyre, where the head Scholar's body will be
Speaker 1: cremated so his spirit may pass on from this world
Speaker 1: to the next. A ceremony shouldn't be starting soon. Serious
Speaker 1: not serious spirit, evil spirit in box. We should go now.
Speaker 1: There's no time to waste. You're in Thank you. We'll
Speaker 1: be sure to offer your condolences at the Order logo.
Speaker 1: You can't come with us. I mean, you've been helpful
Speaker 1: in bringing us here, but going forward you'd only slow
Speaker 1: us down. I beg to differ. On the contrary, I
Speaker 1: possess intimate knowledge of scrolls, artifacts and relics. Not to mention,
Speaker 1: I have a photographic memory and a pension for the arcane.
Speaker 1: If you're going to the Order of Hyperian Sages, you
Speaker 1: don't just want me by your side, you need me. Now,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. Serious logo will lead the way.
Speaker 1: Good luck either serious logo, But be careful chasing shadows
Speaker 1: or you will find them chasing you. And there are
Speaker 1: three of you. Now, have you retrieved the orb? Vice Scholar,
Speaker 1: not yet, but we are very close. All we need
Speaker 1: is more information to understand Lucia's motive for why she
Speaker 1: stole the orb Lucia the Wayward Pupil. Naturally, we'll have
Speaker 1: to search the private collection where it was stolen from
Speaker 1: for clue. Absolutely not, as long as I'm Vice Scholar
Speaker 1: of this order. Like I told you before, the private
Speaker 1: collection is strictly off limits to oxiders. The items are
Speaker 1: still undergoing study and are two live of the damage.
Speaker 1: They are only to be handled by those in the
Speaker 1: Order with expert knowledge. Besides, there is nothing in are
Speaker 1: pertaining to these matters anyway. But Vice Scholar, no, the
Speaker 1: answer is no either. Now the head scholars funeral is
Speaker 1: this evening. The white smoke is already rising from the
Speaker 1: beacon to alert the public of his passing. There are
Speaker 1: to be no disturbances. Do I make myself clear? Yes?
Speaker 1: Loud and clear. Good. The ceremony must proceed without a
Speaker 1: hitch to assure the populace that the orders affairs will
Speaker 1: resume as normal and we will remain the pillar of
Speaker 1: strength underpinning the community. As we speak, the funeral pyre
Speaker 1: is being prepared for the head Scholar's cremation ceremony. I
Speaker 1: must take my leave, and just so you're not tempted, no,
Speaker 1: that security will be arriving any moment to guard the
Speaker 1: planet collection from the duration of the ceremony. Now, if
Speaker 1: you want to get paid, I suggest you get back
Speaker 1: out there. I want to see you back here in
Speaker 1: my office now. One either, we had to the private collection,
Speaker 1: but you heard the bi Scholar. We're not permitted access. Besides,
Speaker 1: we don't even know where within these vast halls the
Speaker 1: collections located. Oh watch this, excuse me, Junior scholar. Yes,
Speaker 1: we three or the outside security team from any Shire
Speaker 1: hired to guard the Hyperian Sages private collection, you know,
Speaker 1: the room with the widgets and wadgets. We were hired
Speaker 1: by Dean you know who, Dean Ratio, Yes, Dean Ratio.
Speaker 1: He gave us very specific orders that we are to
Speaker 1: report directly to the Private Collection and not inform anyone
Speaker 1: of our arrival due to the confidential nature of the job.
Speaker 1: The Private Collection found in the watchmaccall wing of the Order.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with it, the Falsome Wing? Yes, of
Speaker 1: course right. We were on our way to the Falsome Wing,
Speaker 1: but we must have taken a wrong turn. These massive halls,
Speaker 1: you know, quite the labyrinth now, I know it's hold
Speaker 1: this umpteen times. But the thing, the jag that marks
Speaker 1: the wing, it's that a way right correct, The symbol
Speaker 1: of the owl head that marks the Falsome Wing. It's
Speaker 1: straight ahead and then left at the end of the hall.
Speaker 1: That'll lead you directly to the private collection. Exactly as
Speaker 1: I thought. Thanks for the chit chat. Well, you three
Speaker 1: better get a move on before someone unauthorized enters. This
Speaker 1: is it the door to the private Collection. It's lies serious,
Speaker 1: come on, let's enter, ah either this collection is astounding.
Speaker 1: I've never seen so many rare texts, artifacts, and valuables
Speaker 1: all in one place. Not to mention the assortment of
Speaker 1: curios out of these and obscura. But remember, stay focused
Speaker 1: on finding clues about the Amber organ a volume of
Speaker 1: the Old Mariner's Almanac. No remaining copies of the manuscript
Speaker 1: are known to exist. I can't believe it's here and
Speaker 1: right next to it. Oh, one of a kind marble
Speaker 1: engraved celestial glue, But the geographic coordinates appear to map
Speaker 1: to fictitious constellations and areas of the sky devoid of stars.
Speaker 1: It must be an early cartographical misprint. Interesting logo. This
Speaker 1: collection is like a treasure drove of ancient knowledge. Shiny serious,
Speaker 1: don't I don't believe a life science mechanical fortune teller automaton.
Speaker 1: The machine's complex ranks, gears, and levers operate in unison
Speaker 1: to create the illusion that it's acting of its own
Speaker 1: volition and engineering marvel. In fact, the art of the
Speaker 1: automaton was thought to be lost, but here it is
Speaker 1: fully functional and perfectly int at great. Maybe they'll use
Speaker 1: its crystal ball to protect the location of the Amber
Speaker 1: orb that seems to be our plane with YouTube fooling around, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: the amber orb. The objects seemed to be arranged by
Speaker 1: nature of origin. Given the organic composition of amber, it
Speaker 1: should have been classified as part of the biogenic relic
Speaker 1: sessions over here. Ah, it appears this empty, square glass
Speaker 1: container mounted at the top of this wooden pedestal must
Speaker 1: have served as the amber orb display case. There's even
Speaker 1: a descriptive plaque confirming my suspicions. Amber orb with skull incased,
Speaker 1: date unknown, origin unknown. How strange a skull inside the
Speaker 1: amber orb? Of what creature? Look on the pedestal space?
Speaker 1: Someone scratched words into the wood for lies locked away
Speaker 1: in gilded cages. The Order shall return to the darkest ages.
Speaker 1: This is the end of the hyperion sages. It's a threat,
Speaker 1: taunting the order. I sense another presence as at work here.
Speaker 1: There's more to lucious disappearance than the amber orb. Umbra.
Speaker 1: I need to take off my amulet. I have to
Speaker 1: see for myself what happened? Now? Are you sure didn't
Speaker 1: Urian say something about it? Warding off? It's the only way.
Speaker 1: If I let Umbra in, I might find the truth
Speaker 1: in the entra me he lapsed either He's either okay,
Speaker 1: I'm all right the tone of the dead. There's a
Speaker 1: message hidden in it. That book should be over this
Speaker 1: way in the funerary text section. Here the back of
Speaker 1: the book. Either those are just the blank pages that
Speaker 1: book end the text. Sometimes there's more than meets the eye. Seriously,
Speaker 1: give me a candle off the wall. When the paper
Speaker 1: is exposed to the flame, the writing will reveal itself. Look, huh,
Speaker 1: how is that possible? Invisible ink made from sisters juice.
Speaker 1: Here it's a letter to my dearest love. I long
Speaker 1: for the day when we no longer have to correspond
Speaker 1: in secret and hide our truth from the order. Since
Speaker 1: our last night together, I've missed you more than can
Speaker 1: be put in words. I've never been so lost as
Speaker 1: I am now without you by my side. But I
Speaker 1: know our hearts were made bound. I fear this final
Speaker 1: letter maybe have written too late to reach you, but
Speaker 1: it is not in vain, for we will be reunited soon.
Speaker 1: When you burn, my body will burn with you, and
Speaker 1: I will find you in the intra. May our unborn
Speaker 1: child be spared from this life. You're guiding light now
Speaker 1: and forever, Lucia, Ah. I didn't think the stages were
Speaker 1: allowed to have romantic relationships, they're not. Lucia and the
Speaker 1: head Scholar wrote each other letters in this book to
Speaker 1: communicate in secret. They hid their forbidden affair. Candle wax
Speaker 1: drippings on floor, still warm. Lucia, here in order, serious
Speaker 1: is right? The trail of candlewax leads just outside the
Speaker 1: door to the staircase. Staircase that leads to the roof.
Speaker 1: There's nothing up there but the beacon fire. Come on
Speaker 1: before it's too late. Hey, you three stop order secure
Speaker 1: by scholar. You're expected of the funeral pigher Momentarily were
Speaker 1: you three doing in the plant of connection? Quick the
Speaker 1: stairs amber Orb of eternal Death. You've shown me ancient
Speaker 1: memories of worlds long forgotten. I've lived your dreams of
Speaker 1: days gone by, and learned your knowledge of the secrets
Speaker 1: and hidden one thought lost to space and time. It
Speaker 1: was all never so distant. You've shown me. The lives
Speaker 1: we lead in this plane are not fact but fiction. Lucia,
Speaker 1: put down the orb, back away from the fire. It's
Speaker 1: not you talking a human skull inside the orb. But
Speaker 1: how is that possible? It takes millions of years for
Speaker 1: ember to fossilize the world must be older than we know.
Speaker 1: The private collection is the preserved knowledge. It's the variant.
Speaker 1: They shadow truths and phantom realities crystallize in my mind
Speaker 1: as your darkness takes hold and descends upon my soul.
Speaker 1: I give my life to you, and I'm yours forever,
Speaker 1: eternal in time. Umbra, be my guide on the inner
Speaker 1: plane and illuminate my path to Lucia. Please don't do this.
Speaker 1: Umbra is using your despair to hurt you, and only
Speaker 1: making you think that the Amber or will reunite you
Speaker 1: with your lover at the tolling of the funeral bell.
Speaker 1: Cast me away in a pillar of black smoke, darkest night,
Speaker 1: and shroud the world and shut so only fear you
Speaker 1: are true. Oh No, Lucia's planning to sacrifice herself in
Speaker 1: the flames and turned the beacon's white smoke black, covering
Speaker 1: the land of darkness, shall expose the order and break
Speaker 1: the spirit of the city, so Amber can attack. We
Speaker 1: have to stop her. All the time is come. With
Speaker 1: each toll of your lasting morn tis outside you, my
Speaker 1: love Eve the good I'll deal with. Lucia. Stop this
Speaker 1: foolishness like ones and get away from the fire. Ah
Speaker 1: By Scholar, you don't understand Lucia's going to bring down
Speaker 1: the order Silence. You've got enough. But ah, my blood blackest,
Speaker 1: vile and hottest cold burns clean to feel the fire, Lucia,
Speaker 1: what do you think you're doing? This can all be over.
Speaker 1: Just return the old two bodies burning is one eternal
Speaker 1: and flame like remains preserved in ember Lucia. This won't
Speaker 1: bring back the head, Scholar, My love see you on
Speaker 1: the other side in the I will be your bride
Speaker 1: for me. The air Or gets into the fire, m hmm.
Speaker 1: The amber Or has been lost to the world in flames.
Speaker 1: It'll be nothing more than molten rocks. Good you three,
Speaker 1: you're free to go. Released from the assignment. We'll take
Speaker 1: care of Lucia, right, Scholar, Now we go, Sir, I agree,
Speaker 1: let's leave. Point. What about our payment? The Amber Orb
Speaker 1: was never returned, but at least its knowledge has been
Speaker 1: kept safe from the public. There are some truths we
Speaker 1: are not yet ready to learn. But now that the
Speaker 1: orb is destroyed, your payment is that you get to
Speaker 1: leave with your lives. Go before I change my mind.
Speaker 1: So in review the mission to recover the satellite dish
Speaker 1: for the agency. First we head to the molayer deep
Speaker 1: in the Azrael Desert. Then once we've secured the satellite dish,
Speaker 1: we'll travel across the desert to liberate at the lighthouse
Speaker 1: drop off point located at the opposite end. It'll be
Speaker 1: like an adventure Stirkman, stick around, It's okay. We'll complete
Speaker 1: the mission. Make it home a matter the path onward
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Speaker 1: by Trey Toy. Performances by Matthew Brissard, Ether, Mike Leibovitz,
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