WEBVTT - Ep7 | Crater Tales 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.080 Introquest created by Michael Freiberg, a production of iHeartRadio and 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:19.239 Astro Media. Listen with headphones for three D audio. I 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.400 can't believe we recover the satellite from the molair even 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.400 if it's broken in three pieces? Can we get it? 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.320 There's no stop at us now? How should we proceed 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.600 from here? Head straight to the lighthouse drop off point 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.040 at the other end of the desert. Celebrate our accomplishment 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.840 with a rousing night of adventure. Log stop for woon pop, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:43.200 make sand bath or do you want to rest? All 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.000 I want to do now is take it slow, fight 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:53.159 somewhere peaceful and rest. O. Okay, rest is a good option. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:01:00.400 Rest serious astrom what part of take its slow and 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.280 find somewhere peaceful? Arrest? Don't you understand? Should we follow him? Either? 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:13.960 Yea logo? Come on serious, I will hold you down 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.640 and pull your eyelids shut if that's what it takes 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:21.920 to get some rest around here? Rest? Either he's found 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:27.440 a place? What down there? Interesting? I wouldn't have expected 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.160 to come across such exotic topography in the desert, Yet 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.960 here we are standing at the brink of a massive crater. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.160 Do you think it's quiet at the bottom well, given 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.959 the crater's convexity and desolate expanse, I suppose so right, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.920 last one down to the crater's center, cuddles the serious. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:59.440 Tonight's ah ah, quit me. We'll set up camp here 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.920 at the crater's Serious, gather some stones off the ground 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:13.480 and get a fire going for warm Yeah, how're cooking? Logo, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.400 Come join us. I don't know how you do the rest. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.800 We have yet to come up with a satisfactory explanation 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.760 as to why the craters here in the first place. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.799 Doesn't it strike you both? Is odd? Logo? Tonight, I'll 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.079 leave the big questions for you and Serious to worry about. Mentally, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:36.480 I am checking out. Serious, Put that scrap metal down. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.840 You don't know where it's from or what it's doing here. Serious, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.799 snow and Serious, no white hole here too. You do 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.480 drop it before you injure yourself. For all we know, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.799 it could be left over strapnel from who knows what 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:55.200 this steal from CFS blade of ancient warrior Princess Flora 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.919 see steal rank from blood of enemies that's called rusts. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.200 Serious and say you cut yourself and it gets infected, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.040 How are we supposed to get you help down here. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.200 Tell me about Flora Ether he's just making up a story. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:17.639 No story true. From Cyrisian legend Flora most fearless warrior 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.120 in all of land. Most men hide behind shield in battle. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:28.239 Flora fight with two blades and spin like store were impressive. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:34.920 Mm Flora leader of great warrior tribe called Nomad's tribe 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:40.160 of First Leaf. Here here is where they find desert 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.680 paradise here in oasis. What do you think this was 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:52.120 an oasis? Plants, food, water all here, This hole we 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.520 stand in filled with water. Seriously, this barren crater could 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.160 hardly be classified as an oasis. M oasis, no war 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.760 because most savage beasts known to world once lived here. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:10.800 Oh yeah, what's that? Oculus occulus from ancient warrior history. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:17.200 Oculus one eyed cyclops, size of ten men, strength of hundred. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:22.000 Nobody stands chance. He eats greatest warriors two at a time, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.920 and wear bones as jewelry. It's flesh now like us 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.960 either his body hard as rock, sharpest blades snap like 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:38.279 twig against skin, even against oculus eye. Only weakness is 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.680 soft spot on top of oculus head way out of 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:49.560 mortal reach and Nomad's h they come here to Oculus, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:59.839 home in oasis, one of the finding swimming in mos 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.560 a gray bottle. I drink to my bellies full. I've 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:09.520 been through my heart's contents. I am a happy sidecom 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:18.840 Homy rambles sounds like he's time for dinner. Let's see 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:32.000 what's on the menu for tonight, Hot Flora. We've journeyed 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.159 too far in the desert. Are no mad. People's face 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:42.400 thirst and starvation be spirits grow weak. Unless we turn 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.240 back now, this will be the end of our tribe. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.159 Elder one, This isn't the end. This is only the beginning, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.080 No mad. When you joined me on this expedition, I 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.680 promised you drink till you're drenched, food till you're plump, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.760 and riches beyond your wildest dreams. Some of you lost 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.920 faith along the ways, But today my promise is fulfilled. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:12.080 Just beyond these desert dunes lies our oasis, the whole paradise. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.560 Here here, Flora has led us to the promised land. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:24.960 Raise your swords, lift your shields, no man, three strikes 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:32.120 of your shield to Flora's honor. Put away your swords 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.240 and shields. There will be time for celebration later. Now 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:52.839 come our oasis. Await, Laura. Food has never been so filling, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:58.240 water has never tasted so refreshing, and the richest gold 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.520 has never shine so bright. My kin, your delight fills 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.160 me with joy. May we reap the spoils of our 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:11.480 journey for now and all of eternity. Laura, it's not 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.440 safe here. There are signs that leads me to believe 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:21.640 we are unwelcome visitors in another's home. This is one 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.640 home I don't mind, Sherry, but not just anyone lives here. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.840 I am afraid we may have stumbled into the home 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.160 of a cyclops elder one. You've said before, our people 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.400 have roamed the desert for far too long. You're right, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.000 but there's enough here for all to prosper. Have you 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:46.680 no respect for the hollowed law? Cyclopsis are the most 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.800 hostile beasts in all the leads. If the Cyclops doesn't 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:57.000 see eye to eye, my blades will talk for me. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:03.080 You must listen. Taken break up person in half with 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:08.800 his hands of weapons cannot pierce his body. No mortal 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:17.640 enemy has ever defeated the Cyclops in battle. No mad 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:23.160 be on high alert. Take cover where you can find it, Flora, 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:28.600 what's going on? We're expecting company. No, mad you heard her. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.800 Drop what you're doing and retreat behind the nearest boulder, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:46.040 a tall tree, high God, that was a fine tasty meal. Ivo. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.079 It was a bore of a vitough bore thing. I 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.640 nearly his fold at home. Ah, I can't wait to washington. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:09:00.840 That was some cold refreshing water. Wait a minute, someone's 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:09.640 been in my garden and they're still here. Are you, Marculus, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.760 ruler of these lands? Good? Does enter my sacred then 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.959 come out? Come out wherever you are, or I'll find 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:24.520 you any jew, I'll follow you all, Laura, we cannot 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:29.439 fide for long Beast as it stands. If we divide 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.840 into groups and make a run for it, at least 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:37.640 some may escape with their lives. No, that's the coward's way. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.920 I'll speak to Oculus. You'll have to get his attention first. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:54.000 What that tackles? Who goes there? Oculus? I am Flora Warrior, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.240 princess of the Nomad's conqueror of great beasts. Do I 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.680 have your attention? Yes, you have it, and you have 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.800 a broken blade as well. I lay my second blade 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:15.319 on the ground, a hollow gesture. May I approach? Approach, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.040 little wol My people have traveled a great distance across 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.160 this desert. This land is rich and bountiful. We only 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.360 ask for enough food and water to spend the night, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:31.720 and we'll be on our way before sunrise. Oh you'll 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.720 be lucky if I let you spend the night as 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.560 fertilizer in my garden. And I have one final proposal 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.199 to offer. Please consider it carefully. We don't want to 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:47.640 hurt you. You hurt me. That's like a fleet hurting 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:53.440 a bear. Though you do look a bit gamy. After 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.760 I eat you, I wonder if you'll hurt me with 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:03.200 a Tommy egg. You're folly amuses me. Calmly, I shall 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.920 extend ahead, step upon my palm, and I wish you 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:16.080 up level so we may speak face to face. Oculus, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.319 you are big and strong. I know, mad people, we 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.839 are great warriors. But here before you plead as humble. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.160 I have laid down my blade on the desert floor 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.800 and approached unarmed. Reconsider what I asked before, or we 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.839 will be forced to end your life. You know your 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.600 puny weapons cannot hurt me unless you reach the spot 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.760 at my tippy tippy top. Then you and your friends 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.160 will go squishy squishes. What indeed, I tell you, no 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.120 moral has ever reached a soft spot atop a cyclops. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.000 Very well, you leave us no other choice like please, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.720 you shall feast on your rotting carcass starting with your 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:13.360 high No man, I lead the charge into battle. You've 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.640 come with me this far, William fight beside me once again? 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:26.160 We fight together as one. Then today we earn our 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:33.000 prepare for comb fighting with the break formations around the flights, 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:40.160 me writing the trip wires to attack the BFI's lengths. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:46.640 I need to take my place to front. Oh wait, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:13:00.640 my command, you commence the pendulum strike. Now silence, where 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.719 are you bet your boo? I will dine on your 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.560 flesh and drink a puard of every last one of you. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:30.040 First quadrant, now, third quadrant. Go yeah, a good quadrant. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:58.400 Try one quadrant, So, Laura, the trichoire is secure. The 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.400 piece's legs are locked to weathers, ready on account to 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:23.360 pull the wires topped three. Two, Why the great Syclops, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:32.800 Laculus and you Oculus are at my mercy? Take it old, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:51.520 Please say that we will keep not we will Then 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.480 Flora and Nomad's take water and reaches from oasis and 0:14:55.640 --> 0:15:01.440 continued journey conquering more great beasts across land, until one 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.160 day no more beasts but for conquering, and no man's 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:11.400 realized only beasts left is damn And for this day weep, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.240 weep and weep, but kill o water. They don't promoculus, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.520 they cry out and tears turn into world's ocean, seas 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:29.119 and lakes. Serious, don't be sad. It's a beautiful story. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.680 I agree, despite the glaring logical inconsistencies that tall tale 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.280 could move anyone to tears serious, no cry serious, have 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:44.400 sand denied like oculus and no insistency story true? Well, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.840 for one, tears are naturally sale. So while hypothetically the 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.040 nomad's tears could be the source of the world salty 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.800 oceans and seas, how do you account for the formation 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.120 of fresh bodies of water? Yeah? And why would the 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.520 nomads leave so soon from an oasis they were trying 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.480 so hard to find in the first place. To explain 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:06.640 that serious no care serious no in hart story true, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.160 I don't see how you can argue with that logic. Logic, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.680 what logic? It's missing every component of a sound logical argument. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.960 You know, have better greater story, Actually I do. While 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.680 you were carrying on about the Cyrisian legend. I noticed 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:28.040 the marking on the southern perimeter. Follow me, take a 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:33.040 look at this. What is it? Shure animal in rock? Close? 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.240 It's a fossil. I've never observed anything quite like it before, 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.280 but it appears to be the imprint of a prehistoric creature, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.600 degraded over time by weathering and erosion. What's strange is 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.400 that it looks more like a stained outline than an impression. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.360 But I don't know what other than a fossil could 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.080 result in this mark on the surface's exterior. Serious never 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.480 see animal like that before. Technically, if you have, what 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.960 do you mean? Well, the impression looks like an amalgamation 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:07.960 of organic constructs. This can happen during diagenesis. Diagenesis the 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.480 physical and chemical changes exhibited in rocks as a result 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.840 of exposure to extreme temperatures and pressure. It can preserve 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.000 an impression, but often distorts the figure. So what well? 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:20.840 At first, I wasn't sure what to make of this. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.679 It could be a combination of creatures, an ancient ancestor, 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.320 or even the missing link between serious and modern man. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.320 But the more I thought about it, the more it 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.120 became clear. To me that the fossil source could only 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:40.280 be one thing, the contour Quava. The contour Quava. It 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.640 lives deep below the surface and is unlike any other 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.160 creature known to us. It has the head of a fawn, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.600 body of a person, and stands upright on goatlike hind legs, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.520 moving swiftly with the poisoned grace of a ballerina that 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.919 sounds like a hoax. There are countless purported sightings and 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.520 alleged accounts to support the existence of this majestic creature, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.560 though unfortunately none of the evidence is thus far verifiable. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.199 But that doesn't mean it's not true. Serious light to 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:15.240 meet contour Quava. No, you wouldn't. The contour Quava is 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.200 a hideous beast. It has alien like ruby red slits 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.359 for eyes, a serpent tongue that's always hissing and clicking 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.320 as it scans for prey, and twin serrated antlers atop 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.199 its head the size of anvils. They scrape against the 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.960 cave ceiling as it walks. Six golden spikelike books line 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.000 its back, and it has cloven hooves for feet. Oh 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.719 and did I mention the spiral mark on its forehead? 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:46.440 That glows crimson red in the dark. Log stop, you're 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.080 scaring serious. The contour Aquava's appearance is the last thing 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.840 he should be afraid of. It's nothing compared to its voice. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.280 The contra Quava's voice is said to possess a magical 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.480 quality when it opens its those who hear its call 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.160 fall under a trance like state as they're hypnotized by 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.760 its ballerina tippy toe dance. Hidden in the notes of 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.320 its siren song are believed to be the truth to 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.840 all the world's secrets. That's ridiculous. And I thought you 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.080 said it lives underground. Why wouldn't have been down here 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.720 in this crater. It must have been uncovered during a 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.480 mining expedition, which brings me to the only logical conclusion 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.040 as to the crater's origin. This crater we're standing in 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.880 is all that remains of an open pit mine mining. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:39.040 What exactly desert diamonds, sandstones, black opal and I'm afraid 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:51.520 they dug too deep. Drill hit a snag again. Warman 0:19:51.560 --> 0:20:01.680 Stone's not going to be happy, bottle Stone. The drill 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.240 must have caught on something could be opals. Why did 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.560 you say the black of the better get the digging 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.280 Sapphire Lazily, give me a hand here, sure thing, Amber Sapphire, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:28.120 got your pickaxe already? Headye, Captain Amber Lasily aloud clear 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:39.080 the debris. It's not oples it's a hole. No an 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.320 entrance too bad at least four and Stone can't say 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.159 we didn't try. Yeah, No use fooling around here and 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:51.040 getting ourselves hurt or in trouble. Ladies, We're not going anywhere. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.000 We've just hit pay dirt. Amber, slow down. We can't 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.760 go in there. There's no telling how deep the hole 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:02.400 goes or what's even down there exactly. The potential's unlimited. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:11.240 That's the best part. Come on, Or had to go 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.240 down the hall. She just had to go down the hall. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.080 We might find something valuable down there. Besides, can't let 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:35.440 Amber go alone regretless? Right, where are you? Okay, get 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:44.840 back here and get me those shappy Lazily got a 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.440 match for my lantern here, one for yours and one 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:56.240 for mine. At least I always travel prepared. What was 0:21:56.280 --> 0:22:00.359 that I heard something hiss? You? Probably just to match you? Thanks? 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:11.800 Whoa check it out? Okay, painting, I'm just some drawn 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.480 ages ago by early man. Just think of the answers 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.960 to life's greatest mysteries. We'll find out here, untouched by 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.959 modern hands and just waiting to be discovered. I've never 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:27.400 seen such exquisite detail captured in painting before. You can 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.320 make out the sheer awe on each person's face as 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:35.440 they run towards that haven in the light. Good. What's 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:41.480 that thing they're running from? Whatever it is? Ship True's 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:46.560 hugly looks deformed, must be their own version of form 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:56.240 and stone central tone branches off in the discrete past 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:00.960 like an underground lab. You know. Being down violates all 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.919 mining safety protocol which are put into place to protect 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.879 us from ending up in situations precisely like this, and 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.960 we're breaking them voluntarily of our own volition. We've just 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:17.879 discovered and as of yet unknown underground world full of 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:23.560 untold treasures, hidden knowledge, buried secrets, forgotten truths lost to time. 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:29.600 Turn back if you want, I'm forging forward as right 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:37.040 be the side of a lifetime. Fine, at least let's 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:59.160 stay together this way. I heard something lazily quick complaining 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.960 which try to at least enjoy the adventure. But I 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:14.200 wasn't saying anything sapphire me neither. Then? Who is the 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.240 words seem to float through the air and rush past 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.359 us like wind. Whoever speaking must be up ahead. Sh 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:31.560 I've heard about this phenomenon before. Phantom whispers. Phantom whispers, 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:35.840 they're fragments of words from conversation spoken hundreds of years 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.119 ago by the ancients who dwelled here. The acoustics of 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.359 these caves have preserved their sound as echoes and trapping 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.240 them in time from the bottom of this cavern where 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:49.040 they lived. Slowly over the centuries, their words rise up 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:52.080 through the tunnels to reach the surface, similar to how 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:54.639 light from stars that died millions of years ago is 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:57.879 just reaching us now. And do you know what that means? 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:02.840 That we're easy dropping on ancient civilizations. And I'm pretty 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.440 sure they wouldn't be happy about this. That as we 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:09.880 descend deeper into the bowels, it's like we're traveling back 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:13.960 in time itself. If we can puzzle together a full transmission, 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.440 who knows what secrets of the universe will unravel. We 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:27.600 have to keep going, We have to reach the source tremors. 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:30.439 We've gone too deep. We have to go back now, 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:48.760 for it's too late. What it's what I can't I 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:58.040 can't it's fun. Attention, its foment arms. What are we waiting? 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:05.440 I don't leave the glowing mark of the crimson spiral 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:40.440 on its forehead, the contra que buff it's real. I 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:44.480 have to follow it. I have to learn the secrets 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:47.719 of its song. If you taste that thing into the abyss, 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:52.280 you'll only lose yourself. She's right, you can have my 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:54.879 share of the opals one. We're done with the job. Please, 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:59.119 let's just turned back. It's not adopt the opals. It 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:03.440 was never about the opals. Don't you understand. We're at 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:05.879 the precipice of all that is known and all that 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:09.520 is hidden. The monumental truths that we stand to uncover 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:13.359 will bring forth a new era of enlightenment and forever 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.560 change the course of life as it stands. I have 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:24.919 to go after it ever lively. Go to the service 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:28.640 and get out. I'll track down am No way forget prtocol. 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:39.360 We'll find her together. Okay, where to go? She could 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:52.400 have disappear down any one of these tunnels. This way 0:27:52.680 --> 0:28:21.280 we have to go. We sealed off from her, managed 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:23.320 to clear a path in the rocks. Amber won't last 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:25.160 the night. On the other side of this Caden. That's 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:29.520 if she's even still alive. Don't talk like that. You're 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:33.840 not giving up at her all that. Ever, we'll get 0:28:33.920 --> 0:28:36.800 you out, even if it takes us all night. We 0:28:37.040 --> 0:28:42.160 won't stop until no stone is left a drunk Sapphire, 0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:47.680 help me clear some box. You have to create a 0:28:47.720 --> 0:29:01.680 passage for airflow. What we're not meant to know? Me 0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:10.120 some secrets of the universe are getting open and not 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:17.240 for us to understand. I don't know. I don't tend 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:26.960 to find up. Yes, that should find some airflow, Stamphire, 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:32.120 don't block the opening. Ever, can you hear me? If 0:29:32.160 --> 0:29:37.480 you can hear me, walk towards my words, stay focused 0:29:37.520 --> 0:29:46.120 on clearing the rocks. Ever, ever is that you? I 0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:48.719 think I see her do the opening slip last one, 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:53.880 pass me the lantern. We can find a way to 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:58.080 reach her if you could just listen to me. Ever, 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:01.960 follow the sound of my We're going to get you 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:08.440 out of here. Nothing never look closer. I can almost 0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:17.240 make out her face. Ember, it's you. What's that mark 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:26.000 on your forehead? The red spiral neber Amber is no longer. 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:32.440 I have spoken the words to unlock the master door. 0:30:33.960 --> 0:30:38.120 I have learned two It's beyond the conscious mind. I've 0:30:38.200 --> 0:30:43.040 experienced the sound of silence, the color of darkness, the 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:48.120 size of the infinite. But what I could never have 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:52.800 imagined is that the path to enlightenment has always been 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:58.920 concealed within How twisted is reality, and that the true 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:02.720 nature of exists it at once at our fingertips get 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:08.960 always just beyond our grass amber. We're not meant to understand. 0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:12.640 We're not meant to know the secrets. Coming here was 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:17.920 a mistake. This was no mistake. Down here, I have 0:31:18.000 --> 0:31:21.480 communed with the cosmes. I have stared into the soul 0:31:21.600 --> 0:31:24.560 of the sun and witnessed its blinding rays of light. 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:32.160 There's no return, there never was. This is can't be truth. 0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:37.719 I would accept it. Then you must hear for yourself 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:44.040 what is hidden shall always be buried. List him and 0:31:44.240 --> 0:32:06.000 learn the truth. I'm never mind your mockery. Now that 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:08.080 we've come together in agreement as to why the crater 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:11.760 is here, I suppose we can finally get some rest. Yeah. Right, 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:14.920 your story has all the credibility of a conspiracy theory. 0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:17.560 It's full of holes bigger than the crater worth standing in. 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:22.360 No such thing as contour quava. Well, you'd believe me 0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:25.160 if you heard its call. But I understand it's hard 0:32:25.240 --> 0:32:30.720 for lesser minds to fathom abstract concepts such as forbidden knowledge. Fine, 0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:33.600 the mystery of the crater's origin will forever remain unsolved. 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:41.280 Have it your way, Uh, I think I found what 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:44.280 caused the crater, or at least what's left of this. 0:32:46.360 --> 0:32:51.520 Either that rock come from ground to probably black opal 0:32:51.560 --> 0:32:56.280 from the open pit mine. No, this is something entirely different. Well, 0:32:56.440 --> 0:33:01.040 let me take a look. I suppose rocks go. It's 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:05.480 not uninteresting. It is a green clash like appearance. Hard 0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:08.560 to say if it's igneas sedimentary, or metamorphic. You don't 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:10.760 come across the specimen like this every day, but I 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:13.600 wouldn't say it's particularly special. Keep it as a souvenir. 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:18.640 You're both wrong, and whatever made this crater, it wasn't 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:28.960 monster or machine. It came from the night sky. Joseph, 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:32.720 my father, it's time we must leave now. Our people 0:33:32.800 --> 0:33:36.760 look to you for guidance. What is the meaning of 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:42.840 this ceremony? Blood magic? Father? You can't, My dear daughter, 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:45.720 you should not have entered my tent unannounced that the 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:49.520 final plague, the Plague of Eternal Night, has begun. It 0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:54.240 envelops our city comat in total darkness. I know, and father, 0:33:54.800 --> 0:33:57.880 do you not hear the bells tolling for us? Listen 0:33:57.960 --> 0:34:02.040 to their chimes, Gay, sound like the most heavenly music 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:06.240 to my ears. Taar, my daughter, I do not hear 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:10.719 the music. But Darren rings the bells of freedom. He 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:14.520 has promised to let our people go. Yes, yes, that 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:18.120 is all very well. We shall finally be free from 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:22.120 his tyranny and oppression. We must leave from Huxlaris under 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:26.160 cover of darkness to receive our lord's commandments. Tar, my, 0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:29.400 dear child, you do not know Farn like I do. 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:33.600 He is a diabolical man. He murdered his own father 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:37.040 for the throne. He slaughtered his own son in a 0:34:37.160 --> 0:34:40.920 fit of rage. Only a fool would believe fair On 0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:45.680 will honor his promise to free our people. But Arkhan, 0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:50.640 our cold, watches over us. Arkhan watches over us. Will 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:53.720 our lord watch over us as we wander the desert, 0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:58.640 as we scavenge the sand for scraps, daughter, This is 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:03.080 our land, Kumat is our home. When we are but 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:06.160 not even one hundred steps from here, Pharaon will send 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:09.640 his soldiers to hunt us down and slay us Where 0:35:09.680 --> 0:35:13.880 we stand, Ar Khan will protect us, just as he 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:17.320 set the plagues upon Kumat. He will deliver us to 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:21.480 freedom and show us the way to salvation. When Phaon 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:25.279 brains a hail of arrows across the sky, when he 0:35:25.360 --> 0:35:29.279 sends his hounds to smite us, when his stones a 0:35:29.400 --> 0:35:34.279 fire stormed down upon us, How will our Khan protect us? Then? 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:38.640 Can we truly put our faith in that? Ar Khan 0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:41.880 may have answered recent prayers, but where was he or 0:35:41.960 --> 0:35:45.920 the lost generations who lived and died as slaves under Pharaoh? 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:49.440 How can you say such things? Because we must take 0:35:49.480 --> 0:35:53.399 our people's future into our own hands, forge our own path, 0:35:54.120 --> 0:36:02.040 fight fire with fire, You do not such vile things. Father. 0:36:02.840 --> 0:36:07.160 Now I must return to our people, my daughter. Just 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:10.880 as there are the powerful forces of good in this world, 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:15.040 there are even greater forces of evil. Once you know 0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:18.160