WEBVTT - Ep3 | Uncanny Valley 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.080 In request created by Michael Freiberg, a production of I 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.880 Heart Radio and Astro Media. Listen with headphones for three 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:21.040 D audio. The gate that's gauntlet ahead of the tunnel corridor, 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.720 three drop gates, and a final swing gate with archers 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.160 and spearman guard in the exit. Our only hope is 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.639 to clear it. The fourth shuts keep running a don't 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.000 stop until we're saving the desert sands. That's the landing 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.280 rub us. There one more to go into the final 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.160 Blackstone swing gate, but that's we're beginning to down. We'll 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.120 do a single file. I'll leave the way Love go Serious, 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:55.720 come on, third game, Serious Lee trapped behind the drop gate, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.320 don't worry. Serious, we'll get you out. On what happened 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.960 third Gateail bunchetions it didn't. Then it dropped immediately too late. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.160 By the time we managed get Serious free, the doors 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.000 of the final swing hit will have already close shut, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.840 sealing us inside of you. The drop gates driving. But 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.200 why no time for questions. As soon as Serious sway right, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.319 the final swing gate is so open, listen. The best 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.440 chance we have of making the best of guards outside 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.560 is to spread out the dunes and six agg as 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.080 we run follow my lead. Okay, see, I'm ever your 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:42.200 side down. Get that fiery something drop, go keep moving, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.639 run towards the seting sun downs a chance to escape, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.480 Give them safe passage onto the dudes. I secured the 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.400 gate with them, But sir, you're letting them get away. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.040 So to be it an arrow or spear through the 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.000 head is too good for these three? A quick and 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:03.400 painless death. What would be the fun? Let them get 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:22.960 lost in the desert and sucking either water plumbs this time? Ah? 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.480 Are you too? Okay? From the fall, I'm a face 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:31.960 full of sand like you're just serious? Okay, technically I'm 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.840 still mobile. Then, Welcome to the Azrael desert. We're lucky 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.400 we made it here alive. Our number one priorities should 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.959 be finding a path back to the main route that 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.799 leads to them all layer all we have of the 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.160 supplies on our back, so we'll have to be resourceful 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.520 if we plan to survive out here. Speaking of which, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.880 we're in the desert. Are we surveying the immediate grounds? 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.520 We appear to be standing at the bottom of a 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.440 deep and narrow chasm of valley. To be precise, to 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.240 our rear and sides are towering rock face too steep 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.800 to scale without proper equipment. In the distance, at the 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.320 other end of the valley, there's some sort of unidentifiable 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.760 black land mass. I venture to call it a small 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.880 mountain and silhouette, but I can't be certain from so 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.639 far away. Map. Indeed, only we had a map, I 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:16.720 could pinpoint our location in the desert. Map. Oh, what 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.919 do you have there? The map? Yes, serious, you grabbed 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.680 it off the gate man's desk before we left. Let 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.920 me take a look. M h, it's all here, the 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.200 main route across the desert leading to the Molair, the 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.120 baobab tree marking its location, and a pathway from atop 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.800 these cliffs to guide us there. It plots out everything 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.840 required to find our way to the mole Air, recover 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.160 the satellite dish, and complete the agency's mission. Everything that is, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.720 except for a current location. This valley is missing from 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:49.640 the maps diagram. The unidentified black land mass. Assuming it's 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.320 a mountain, it could have a trail leading out of 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.040 the valley. With terrain, we can actually climb. Well, it's possible, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.840 but that's the only path forward. We have to keep moving, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.920 keep trying to find a way out. Sure, either good. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.480 Let's get a move on then. Now, as long as 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.480 we're traveling through uncharted territory, it's imperative we remain on 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.720 high alert of our surroundings. Otherwise, could we expose ourselves 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.160 to unwelcome surprises and may fail to identify opportunities along 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.480 the way. And need I remind you too, it's only 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.159 a matter of time until we run out of food 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.560 and water, our hope of escape dwindles, and we end 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.640 up trapped in this valley with no way out. Stop 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:30.400 my toe on this pesky rock. Wait, that's not a 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.920 rock either. It's a cock show. What's a cock shell 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.960 doing in the middle of the desert. Serious? Here, Hold 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.120 it's your ear and listen, you can hear the ocean. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:05:02.000 Oh wait, pretty pink? Serious? Alright, serious, knock it off. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.000 This is exactly the kind of negligence I warned about. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.960 Serious as antics may have given away our position. He's 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.159 just having some fun. Besides, we're the only ones down here. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.320 Good reason. Still, we need to proceed with the utmost 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.479 caution until we confirm we're indeed alone. Despite what seems 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.839 like a foregone conclusion, who knows what could be lurking 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.520 in this valley. I'll tell you what's lurking in this 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.839 valley right now, sand rocks and the grating sound of 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:33.000 your serious, I said, knock it off, the serious, No 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.960 make sound? Where did that come from? I have a 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.400 theory either, but I'll need you to be absolutely quiet 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.680 as Serious sounds the shell again. Go ahead, blow the 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:51.800 shell A three four, Serious come here for a moment. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.000 This mission maybe too much for Logo. He's been acting 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.200 weird since we met him, and the fall probably pushed 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.400 him over the edge. Keep an eye on him. Big brands, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:06.520 more fragile logo. It's all going to be okay. We're 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.800 gonna get you some help, and you can stop counting now. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:20.000 Precisely as hypothesized, Serious sounded a final time. Hum him. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:26.799 I guess serious Blue into the shell. I started counting 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.120 seconds in my head. I'm confirming it now, but I 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.640 believe we're about five miles away from the black Land 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.159 Mass at the valley's end. How do you figure? And 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.680 what about the sound we just heard? Where did that 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.760 come from? It's an echo. It's all quite logical. As 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.320 observers at ground level, our lineup sight is limited to 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.919 roughly three miles beyond which objects seemingly vanished past the horizon. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.000 The only reason we can identify the Black land mass 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.080 the head is due to its great height, allowing us 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.679 to make out the mountaintop while it's base remains hidden 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.800 from view. Sound, however, is unencumbered by these optical limitations. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.080 When serious blows through the cock shell, the sound travels 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.960 all the way to the black mountain mass in the distance, 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.240 and then returns to us as a reflection of the 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.400 original signal echo. Precisely, and given that the speed of 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.679 sound and dry air is roughly three three per second, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.880 I can calculate our distance from the mountain working through 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.840 the formula speed of sound equals distance divided by time, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.160 and then having the answer to account for our one 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.480 way direction of travel, brings us to the five mile 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.880 marker I alluded to, which is the total distance to 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.120 our path of escape and wherein life the basis of 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.840 the reverberation of sounds throughout the valley magic not magic math, 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.320 and like before, the sound should be coming back to us. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.480 Intent nine eight seven sounds like you're off by a 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.560 few seconds must be a rounding error. No, I stand 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.560 by it. Total return time for the sound is a 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.200 function of its distance travel. That can only mean one thing. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.680 The Black Mountain Mass, whatever it is, is moving towards us. Ah. Oh, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.360 then let's get a move on. Come on, but didn't 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:56.920 you hear what I said? We could stay here and 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.840 wait for it to come to us, or we can 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.960 go and face it head on. I choose onwards and upwards. Serious, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:12.400 wait for me. Since we're proceeding forward, it's important to 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.080 note that every five second reduction and echo return time 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.560 corresponds to approximately half a mile nearer in distance. So 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.040 the sooner the echo returns, the closer we are noting. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.800 Serious sound the shell from time to times, so we 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.880 know how far we are away from the Black Mountain Mass. Now, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.840 if we could only reach a higher vantage with increased 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.839 range of sight, we might be able to identify the 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.120 nature of the approaching object and even chart out a 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.920 path back to the main route. We'll be on the 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.160 lookout anything else. No, let's just hope that Black Mountain 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:45.719 Mass doesn't speed up. Oh, no, logo, I think I'm 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.600 starting to lose it. My eyes are deceiving me. Too 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:54.080 serious informations, too much. Step man, snap over on the right, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.680 on that nearby isolated cliff, side. I see a beam 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.240 of light coming from what looks like a lighthouse. There's 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.240 even steps car up into the rock face leading up 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.200 to it from the valley. It must be a symbol 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.440 for my subconscious. Do I go into the light or 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:11.080 run away from it? Lighthouse on lone cliff? Serious, you 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.200 see it too, see logo? Don't be so dramatic. Thanks, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.680 you're looking up all right, you're right the lighthouse. There's 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.960 our higher advantage point. I bet we can restock on 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.160 supplies too. There may even be a way to call 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.000 for help. We're saved. Well I didn't quite save that, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:37.160 but we're saved. We're saved. I'm going into the light. Ah, 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.079 come on, serious Logo's head into that light like I'm 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.120 off the flame. We might have to save him from 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:59.240 getting burned. Here we are the lighthouse. Hello, anyone home? 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:14.040 No answer? Serious, No, don't do it. The doors unlocked. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.360 Make sure to be on your best behavior when we 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.360 meet the lighthouse keeper. Were lucky. We'll learn the fastest 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.080 way out of this value back to the main route. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.440 This place is all run down, it's full of cobwebs 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:39.520 of all Then that door, it must lead to the 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:46.360 keeper's quarters. Wait, before we enter, it would be wise 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.319 to formulate a plan. One of us should stay behind 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.280 at the lighthouse to try and mind for supplies and 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.320 information from the benefit of this hidvantage point. That way, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.240 the other two compare up and continue exploring the valley 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.000 and share their findings upon return. Okay, how do you 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.040 propose we split up? It should be merit based. Serious. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.120 You're a natural tracker. You can locate trails or detect 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.480 hidden dangerous and your talents are best utilized down on 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:16.520 the valley floor. Either you're you're you like to talk 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.400 a lot, so you should be a little bit quick 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.160 friends out of any hostile strangers encountered out in the valley. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.880 As for me, well, I'm an intellectual. I could ingratiate 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.439 myself with the keepers. I'm sure this lighthouse is full 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.679 of complex machinery that requires a lot of technical know 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.080 how and a scientific knowledge to operate things that would 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.080 be painfully boring to the average individual. For the sake 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.240 of the team, I volunteered to stay be hide. Oh 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.840 how brave of you? Logo? Serious? Do you agree to 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:52.120 our hero's proposal? Chicken hardball baw baw deal Waiting One 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.240 last thing? What if I need to protect myself when 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.760 I'm alone. Can I borrow a weapon? We don't travel 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.719 with weapons, remember, but you do go emissions that take 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.400 you to places like this. What do you mean you 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.559 don't travel with weapons? We found bringing weapons into unfamiliar 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:11.200 places just invite trouble. Besides serious protects us. Now let's 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:19.880 go in MS. How nice? How long you're just in time? 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:29.000 Thank you? We're aching. You were expecting us? No, oh, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.720 it kind of sounded like you were. How good of 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.360 you to come? If I don't, you'd be early. I'd 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.000 have finished tidying up. We don't mind. But wait, we 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.440 didn't plan to come here. We happened here by chance 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.360 and a little late. If you ask me. It's tea time, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.480 but I'm afraid it hasn't much left. Please help yourselves 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.240 way ahead of you. Now that you're here, we can 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:57.400 finally start. Okay, Oh, I'm ether. This is why are 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.080 we fellows? Logo and big guys serious? And I'm shullock. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:07.280 Have a seat, So tell us, Sherlock. Why is there 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.720 a lighthouse out here in the desert? The lighthouse? Why 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:15.679 is it overlooking the desert? The lighthouse? Desert? I don't 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.360 follow the building we're in right now. Normally it'd be 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.959 overlooking an ocean, but instead it's here in the desert. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:33.360 Oh yes, that lighthouse. Well, let's see, it's a long story. Ah, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.640 you were saying, what the story you were gonna tell us? 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.800 The story behind the lighthouse? Oh yes, back to the 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.440 days when it was wet all over. At the time, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.320 I was a sail stationed on the s S. Pangaea. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.760 Beauty of the vessel, fabulous true, love them like they 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.360 have a family, which they were. I come from a 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:00.600 long line of seafars, bus and tame the wall. Next 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:11.000 thing I know, we're surrounded, and then cannon bar blood 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.040 right in the hole caused us to bear up bos 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.120 and we never had a chance. Once we hit that 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.000 ice bag. They say n an icebread lies beneath the 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.000 water service, and one hundred percent of the time I 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.920 found that to be true. I'll tell you. It took 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.960 us grab and to get those anvils back on board 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.360 the ark. But I digressed. We were gone. Just then 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.600 we saw the guiding light of this lighthouse and swam ashore. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.800 We made it to our new home, and over time 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:46.720 I became its captain. What eventually came to darkness that 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.760 covered the land. The water turned to vapor and was 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.440 sucked up by the night sky. Then it got hot, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:02.320 real hot. That's try eat red toe stick together and 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:08.120 lips shut. I started sweating. I felt moisture pulling up 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.880 on my brow, maybe thirsty, So I decided to come in. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.960 He makes some nice tea. Then you three walked in. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.000 How in considerate of me? Let me get you a refill? 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:29.040 S No, I am, I'm all right, nonsense, I insist 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.240 more tea would be lovely. About the lighthouse, though, how 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.640 long has it been here? Shoot? About as long as 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.120 I can remember, I reckon since the dawn of time. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:46.960 It's so that dang grandfather taunting me for an eternity, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:53.720 TikTok TikTok, calling my name, trying to hypnotize me with 0:15:53.800 --> 0:16:01.240 its golden rock. Sherlock, Sherlock, prodding me with a pointy hands, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:07.960 old croc old croc driving me cuckle goockle. Why I 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.040 ought to rip your hands right up and break your face? 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:23.720 Who's killing time? Now? Grandfather? Okay, where will we serious? 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:28.120 And I were dressed on our way up leaving so soon, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.240 really wish we could say, but we have business back 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.520 down in the valley. Wait, great meeting me too. I 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:40.720 should also be your best behavior logo. Remember you're a guest. No, please, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.520 don't leave me alone with this insane lee, gracious host. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:17:04.680 So do you like being a lighthouse keeper? There's something 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:12.680 off with Sherlock. He's a little but scatter brain. You 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.720 dodged a bullet with that one. Hey, keep sounding the 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.040 shell while we walk. Someone could think it's a distress 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:30.560 signal when we come to our rescues. Well, serious, it's 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.800 just us too again, out on a mission. Just like 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:39.800 old times. We're a long way from imperiod. We go 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.720 home soon. Yeah, assuming logo actually knows what he's talking about. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.680 With that astronomy, mumbo jumbo can show us how to 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.399 reach imperiod by following the eclipses path of totality dress 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.520 logo logo Smart, I know, but I just can't stop 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:03.040 thinking about it. The day we returned home, part of 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.199 me worries that maybe we've been gone too long, too 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.840 much time has passed. We'll get back and everything will 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.280 be different. At home, we knew that people were trying 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.159 to save all have changed so much so they might 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.840 as well be strangers in some foreign land. Another part 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.480 of me worries that we'll get back and find that 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.439 nothing is different. The people in places preserved same as before, 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.440 but Imperia no longer feels like home because we're the 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:34.280 ones who have changed. Hear that the sound returned more quickly. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:45.080 The black mass must be getting closer. Ah, what is 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:54.240 the series? Spot? Something traps white flat thorough like follow? 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:04.199 Where do you think leads? M flowers? Field of white flowers? 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.960 A serious? You know what this means? There must be 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:28.920 water nearby, but now vultures free block. I guess there's wrong, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:36.240 doesn't after all? That makes begamating cold? Can't running good? 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:45.080 To resist? Ignore it, don't engage, keep moving, Hi, stop running, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:50.479 but will open byre do it? Do it? I think 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:55.280 they're bluffing or they actually have a gun. Gun scared tactics, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.000 No way, it's looting. You can't get bullets in this hemisphere, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.159 for it's a warning shop, and I'm warning you. I 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:09.760 never missed twice. I stand corrected. You don't fire, We'll cooperate. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.560 How about a compromise. If you want oil, we can 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.200 get you oil. We've got oil. And it ain't just 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.159 for fueling, neither it's for burning. It's the amulet. You've 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.560 got paid by thinking it. Menched my host a rather nicely. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:30.360 Don't either his life nor his amulate our eyes to tea. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:37.400 They're only tess want this service? Fine? And where am i? Men? 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.600 Allow me to make a proper introduction. I'm fat chief 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.560 alchemist of the Necronos. Please here a Zipper and Luna, 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.760 sunken charls. We welcome you to our hello grounds, the 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.800 valley of the shadow of Death. We'll make ourselves right 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.560 en up. Check out the big man. Looks like we've 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.879 got ourselve green dumb came across all flowers? Did you 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:09.200 pretty unknown? They only grow here in the billy Something 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:14.360 about the nutrients in the soil, our own organic fertilize 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.639 the blood of heathens. And if you peel back at 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.159 the petals, you'll find a secret in side. When the 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:27.440 flower dies, it releases spools. Just one taste of the 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.639 interior risk will bring you closer to the inner truth. 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.960 We're not here for your flowers. Oh, we're not worried 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:39.560 about that. What do you want? It's what our master designs. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:45.320 Your master. You'll meet her soon enough, Zeppa, Luna, load 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:52.880 up Chicago for transport. Give me arist of time there, 0:21:53.320 --> 0:22:10.879 get to walk in walking, You're walking. Oh God, we 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:15.840 can't believe. I'm better ask Sherlock for help, as either says, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:21.200 desperate times call for desperate measures. Sherlock, my travel companions 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.800 and I are experiencing some navigational difficulties. Our map of 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.880 the surrounding area is incomplete, and while I can overlook 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:31.560 a few missing topographical features and contour lines, the valley's 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.280 absence renders the map inadequate as a cartographic guide. Since 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:37.840 you reside here, it would be highly agreeable if you 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:39.959 would please direct me to the nearest path leading out 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.879 of the valley. So you're seeking direction in life, I 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.840 suppose you could say that be aware what lies in 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:53.880 the desert, What lies there? The black viper, the call 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:59.200 of the void shadows. People can spend a lifetime chasing echoes. 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:04.920 So I'm getting lost along the way Others others fine, 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.600 what they were hoping to hear? Which is the song 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.960 stress at the end of the tune? Do you know 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.880 who's behind your lullaby? I'm sorry, but I can't interpret 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:27.120 your cryptic language. Simplize, symbolize, simplize. Look, here's the map. 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.800 How about you point to our current locations, and we'll 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:34.480 use that as a reference marker. Oh me, but I'm 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:39.680 not even here right now, of course not. Do you 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:44.000 have any travel insight or just more in a nonsense. Well, 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:47.760 I'm a traveler too, you know, a time traveler. I 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:50.960 live in the future. I dwell in the past. You 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:58.959 won't find me in the present. Now, what are you doing? Drawing? 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:05.280 Is your path forward? A circle? You drew a circle 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:09.000 that which has no beginning, has no end. Bound to 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:13.720 repeat this endless loop we are I'm hunger insatiable, like 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:17.240 the serpent that face on its own toe. I can't 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:23.720 take much more of this. The problem you faces You're 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:31.520 too smart for your own good. What well your problem? 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.600 Your problem is that you don't make any sense. I 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:37.600 can't even understand you because of the way you speak. 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:41.399 Talk without rhythm, don't alert the priest. Walk without rhythm, 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:48.600 don't attract the beast. Walk without rhythm, don't attract the beast, sherlock. 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:50.920 If you didn't want to help, then you should have 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:56.160 just said, so, okay, I'm headed up to the observation 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:57.640 deck so I can get a view of the valley. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:24:59.720 At least then this visit will have the more something 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:14.040 true about living down. High Priestess Nadia, we brought you 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.640 two outsiders, caught them trespassing in the near the gardens. 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:23.000 You too, what do you call yourselves? I'm ether, that's serious. 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:29.760 We stumbled here by accidents, Ether serious, how fortunate an accident. 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:34.600 You're just in time. The moon's almost at zena. Our 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:40.200 ceremony is about to begin. Fang, Zephyr Luna, show our 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:44.119 guests of honor to the observation brig where they may 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:50.719 be whole the awakening at one Cypriestess, you heard her 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:55.440 prepare to get walking. Now. The big one had with 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:58.080 him this comb shell. I took it so he wouldn't 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:01.840 disrupt the ceremony. I want to tell, said how rarefined. 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.200 Let him hold on to it. I don't think it's 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:08.040 a good idea to an outsider being position of an 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:10.760 instrument during the ceremony. Yet you think it wise to 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:15.680 talk back to your High Priestess. Sorry, Fang, question my 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:20.680 command again and I'll ensure you die and unholy death. 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:26.360 Luna return the shell to him right away. High Priestess, 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:32.160 here serious, I invite you to join us and honoring 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:36.200 our master with your music, the sound of your shell 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:42.879 will add to the symphony of the summoning a h 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:52.840 Now take them away to the brig my pleasure. High Priestess, 0:26:53.680 --> 0:27:05.479 you too, get a move on. Even from up here 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:07.840 on the observation deck, I still can't quite make out 0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:10.359 with that black masses. The distance is too far away, 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:14.920 and it's dark and foggy out. Now where's it headed? 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:21.080 Retract the optical magna fog? Sherlock, When did you come 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:25.080 up here? But yes, good idea. If I adjust the 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:27.640 beacons angle to refocus the light upon our immediate vicinity, 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:30.159 at least I can observe if anything of notice happening 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:41.359 on the valley floor contracting, contracting testing, ocular realignment. Oh 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:45.480 no either and serious. It looks like they're in trouble, Sherlock. 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:48.159 Those people down there, they'll see the light and know 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:51.440 someone's up here. Will they come for you me? No, 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:57.080 I'm nobody, and you can't hurt someone with nobody. I'm 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:02.160 a ghost and I hoped myself, so I think they'll 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:05.800 leave you alone. People come to the lighthouse looking for 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:10.160 the key to Sherlock, but they lack the right frame 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:13.680 of mind to open the door within. You know, I 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:17.680 used to be just like you. I remember it like 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:21.800 it was tomorrow. In a future life, I was the 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:27.040 queen of the odd country. Then she took everything from me. H. 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.879 She lives in the walls of my attic, and she 0:28:32.160 --> 0:28:37.359 kills me every night, sherlock. When she visits you turned 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:40.760 down her offer. The Golden Goose comes with a noose. 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:44.560 Once she catches you shall never let loose. She hunts 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:48.560 the game. You're paying her game. Only yourself to blame 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:55.960 when she drives you insane. I've said too much. Please 0:28:56.040 --> 0:29:04.160 look at come on, get moving, he says. No way 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:07.880 to treat your guests of honor? Now is it? You 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:10.360 made me waste my last bullet on a warning shot. 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:13.480 Now you're gonna wish it was you I wasted instead. 0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:20.360 Zippa the brig. The door to the cage is open, 0:29:20.520 --> 0:29:34.200 and the waiting filler up. You too, get it perfect fit. 0:29:37.400 --> 0:29:43.160 Don't be said you too, I'm jealous. After all, you've 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:46.080 got a front row view of the ceremony. Hi Priestess 0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:51.560 approaches how our guests doing sitting pretty in the brig? 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:56.720 They ain't going nowhere? Thank go prepare the tribute for 0:29:56.800 --> 0:30:02.040 the awakening. Hi, Hi Priestess Luna Zefyr ready the grounds. 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:06.400 I'll speak with our guests and enlighten them on a ritual. 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:12.240 It will be our honor comes after her, My fortunate sons, 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:16.400 Your arrival is a good omen a. Few outsiders ever 0:30:16.480 --> 0:30:21.640