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Speaker 1: mo Layer should be right here under the baobab tree,
Speaker 1: fifty pieces south of the stone faced bowlders, sixty degrees
Speaker 1: from the shadow nest the dunes. There aligns the tree
Speaker 1: of life or the molayer looms. That's what the map says,
Speaker 1: right logo technically, but are we sure this is the
Speaker 1: right tree? Logo? Look around? This is the only tree
Speaker 1: and the only sign of life within a hundred miles.
Speaker 1: So where is it? It is a rather massive tree.
Speaker 1: It must be ancient. The Molaire should be here. Are
Speaker 1: we lost? Serious? So hungry? Serious need food? We're not
Speaker 1: lost either. We're just experiencing temporary navigational delays. Now if
Speaker 1: you give me a moment to recalculate our position on
Speaker 1: the map, Serious as track mole air We recover satellite
Speaker 1: dish already and now eat. Sure we needs coordinates and
Speaker 1: directions when you have growls and grunts to guide you.
Speaker 1: Maybe if Serious didn't smear the map with his grubby
Speaker 1: paws when he stole it, we wouldn't be in this predicament. Now,
Speaker 1: only reason we have map at all is because of
Speaker 1: serious grubby paws. So we are lost. The sun's gonna
Speaker 1: be setting soon. If we don't figure this out, there'll
Speaker 1: be no shadow left to guide us. You would both
Speaker 1: just quiet down and give me space to concentrate. I'll
Speaker 1: have this figured out before you get Yeah, logo, no,
Speaker 1: have good instinct lead us lost. Now we become food
Speaker 1: for scavengers and starving desert sands. Oh serious, what did
Speaker 1: you do? Serious? Tantrum caused the ground to give way.
Speaker 1: We appear to have fallen into an underground dirt chamber.
Speaker 1: No signs of mole life down here, however, we're surrounded
Speaker 1: by eggs as big as cyclops. High oversized eggs stacked
Speaker 1: in the shape of a pyramid. Curious, isn't it? See? Follow? Serious?
Speaker 1: He's like king m serious weight. I don't think these
Speaker 1: eggs are for eating. This must be a hats Oh
Speaker 1: we've found the mole layer all right. I didn't know
Speaker 1: moles came from eggs. You have a lot to learn. Serious.
Speaker 1: The baby mole thinks hereous father a serious papa. No,
Speaker 1: it's so thinking fleshy rather unsightly. An appearance if you
Speaker 1: asked me, and what's it doing? Now? Looks like it's
Speaker 1: digging arms for serious? Serious, don't eat that. Ah, thank you.
Speaker 1: I call you Dicky because you serious. This specimen, while intriguing,
Speaker 1: is nothing more than a liability with a potential to
Speaker 1: undermine our efforts in recovering the satellite dish. We're ill
Speaker 1: prepared to care for any event, let alone run from
Speaker 1: a species we know nothing about. I know your reckless
Speaker 1: behavior may have led us to the molaire, but I'm
Speaker 1: sorry a line must be drawn. Continued disregard for proper
Speaker 1: protocol will not be tolerated. Any further engagement with that
Speaker 1: creature not only puts our current objective at risk, it
Speaker 1: jeopardizes the entire missions logo. I had no idea, though,
Speaker 1: I have to say the resemblance is uncanny. Congratulations, Mom,
Speaker 1: Now can you two stop playing house so we can
Speaker 1: go find the satellite dish? Come on, there's an exit
Speaker 1: out of the chamber this way and serious Logo's right.
Speaker 1: Leave it behind. Serious, say farewell to the baby mole.
Speaker 1: This is an official mission we're on with direct order
Speaker 1: from the agency. Dudley, you have good instinct, like Papa.
Speaker 1: What's serious on mission. You stay here, Oh giant tunnel
Speaker 1: like baby, It's absolutely breath take. I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it before. One big labyrinth of interconnected tunnels and chambers,
Speaker 1: illuminated by lantern fire. Quite spectacular. The tree's roots seem
Speaker 1: to extend all throughout the lairs main corridors. They appear
Speaker 1: to be vibrating of carrying signals. Watch out loose rock
Speaker 1: ah Moly roll Moly exquisite. Despite being quadruplets, the moles
Speaker 1: epidermal left allows them to support their bodies into spheres
Speaker 1: for rolling transport, a more efficient form of locomotion. This
Speaker 1: whole enterprise is truly an engineering marble, each moble operating
Speaker 1: individual dick scaptin rolling, fulfilling their own unique niche, yet
Speaker 1: all the while functioning as the building blocks for a
Speaker 1: larger ordered, unified complex. All a masterpiece at work. And
Speaker 1: look the more mature moles, even of plush brown hair,
Speaker 1: a welcome change from the eyes, or that's a flesh
Speaker 1: chalk like appearance of their youth. They look like junk
Speaker 1: collectors to me, are you saying the moles are smart?
Speaker 1: I'm only theorizing up here, but yes, we're likely in
Speaker 1: the profressence of a highly sophisticated, ultra intelligent advanced society, Grace,
Speaker 1: But we're not here on a science expedition. Maybe one
Speaker 1: of them can tell us where to find the satellite dish.
Speaker 1: What about O sound good observation? Serious? This um makes
Speaker 1: for a rather exotic acoustic ecology. The moles appear to
Speaker 1: mimic the sound, harmonizing to form the grand droning melody
Speaker 1: echoing throughout the corridors. But as for its purpose, I
Speaker 1: can't get drunk conclusion without gathering more data learning to
Speaker 1: the topic of our mission, the whole reason we're down here.
Speaker 1: The satellite dish can be in any one of these chambers.
Speaker 1: We can't possibly search them all. We need a plang Serious,
Speaker 1: what is that thing doing here? I told you to
Speaker 1: leave it behind the hatchery? Serious? No Greek Diggley, diggle
Speaker 1: it mallow, fine, whatever, but it's a liability to our mission.
Speaker 1: There might be a way to use diggley as a
Speaker 1: bargaining chip to get the most help us. Now, come on,
Speaker 1: and no more distractions from either of you. Roll right
Speaker 1: into us a watch roll moll almost higgle either? Serious?
Speaker 1: A little respect for our friend here where guests in
Speaker 1: its home hardened us mole. We didn't mean to intrude
Speaker 1: upon your work. We were just on an intersecting pet.
Speaker 1: Please carry on with your civic mold duties. Serious restrain
Speaker 1: that mold. It's not join anywhere until we find out
Speaker 1: what it knows. Settle down. We need you to answer
Speaker 1: a few questions before we let you go. You're here
Speaker 1: to retrieve something called a satellite dish logo. Please describe
Speaker 1: it to our friend. Here's a large, round, concave piece
Speaker 1: of metal used to receive and transmit signals. This one
Speaker 1: happens to be white and shiny. Maybe you've seen it
Speaker 1: and mistaken it for a communal water bowl, or perhaps
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. It's of no value to you molds.
Speaker 1: We've been hired to recover it for our employer, the
Speaker 1: rightful owner. It's among the dug up garbage around here.
Speaker 1: Where can we find it? Logo? You said these things
Speaker 1: are smart? Is it just playing dum on purpose? Maybe
Speaker 1: this one's only a worker mole. Excuse me? Do you
Speaker 1: have a superior or is there someone of higher authority
Speaker 1: to whom we may address our inquiries. I take it back.
Speaker 1: Either at the individual level, these most clearly lack the
Speaker 1: capacity for higher level thought. There must be some kind
Speaker 1: of smarter super mole that's orchestrating all this from behind
Speaker 1: the zines. Serious, release the mole. Get out of here,
Speaker 1: your rascal. You're already shoot roll away while you still
Speaker 1: can no yelling. Scared, Diket you don't it? Okay, pop
Speaker 1: the deep you safe from me? What do they do?
Speaker 1: Deeply sensitive to Tom, I can't be. I'll scout ahead,
Speaker 1: see it. How do you make it stop? I apologize
Speaker 1: to Diggley face to face. Can't you just like shush
Speaker 1: it or something? Okay, Okay, I'm doing it. I'm here, Diggley, Diggly,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you're raising my voice. You stopped crying
Speaker 1: now either? Uck you like your shiny hand reeling? Who
Speaker 1: Maybe Diggley try it on, you know, taking it off
Speaker 1: as a bad idea, but look, you stopped crying. I
Speaker 1: scot it a chamber. I'm ahead. It might be worth
Speaker 1: investigating on our way o. No. Judging by the sounds
Speaker 1: coming from inside of this chamber, I think it's best
Speaker 1: we skip going in. I'm trying to listen on Deickly,
Speaker 1: No listen poison Deeply's ears change what I don't get
Speaker 1: it either, But where are you all? Change of plants?
Speaker 1: If there's actually a smarter mole in charge, I bet
Speaker 1: it knows the location of our satellite dish? How do
Speaker 1: you plan on finding it by heading straight to the
Speaker 1: source of the elm I have a feeling that behind
Speaker 1: the sound will find the mole who knows where our
Speaker 1: satellite dish is. You hear that the elms sound is
Speaker 1: getting deeper and more resonant in this direction. The tree
Speaker 1: route seemed to be getting thicker as well, which must
Speaker 1: mean we're getting closer to the tree's trunk. What is
Speaker 1: that that thing that mold mole side boulder? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it happens to be blocking our entries to the chamber
Speaker 1: where the almost coming from. That male looks like it
Speaker 1: eats other males. Ether, I suggest we find an alternate
Speaker 1: route for a biggly sick logo kind of look like
Speaker 1: a mall with squid eyes? I do, I do kind
Speaker 1: of look like a mall series. Do you have any
Speaker 1: more of those worms you ate here? Either? You're hungry,
Speaker 1: just ask and thanks? But they're not for me. Hey,
Speaker 1: big boy, got something for you, dinner boy? You want
Speaker 1: those worms. Go get those worms. You like those worms,
Speaker 1: don't you? Yeah, you don't get those worms. How did
Speaker 1: you know that would work? Oh? No, like tasty worms. Now,
Speaker 1: before we enter the ome chamber, know that once inside,
Speaker 1: things might go south. Quick a moment to stead yourselves
Speaker 1: and brace for the worst. Serious and deadly grip me too.
Speaker 1: All right, we're about to pull back the veil and
Speaker 1: be behind the curtain. Oh what that source of home?
Speaker 1: There's the satellite dish. What do we make of this?
Speaker 1: An elderly, gray haired moule is projecting its voice directly
Speaker 1: into our satellite dish to create the home sound. I've
Speaker 1: been done trying to make sense of things since you
Speaker 1: and Serious became parents to a baby moul. Let's just
Speaker 1: grab the dish and get out either. Wait, satellite dish
Speaker 1: look important, mole. Serious is right. The dish is suspended
Speaker 1: like a gong in the center of a wooden frame apparatus,
Speaker 1: bound together with tree roots. It appears to be some
Speaker 1: sort of shrine. I don't think she'll just let us
Speaker 1: have it, and we'll have to take it by force,
Speaker 1: you elder mole. Listen, My partners and I have traveled
Speaker 1: halfway through the Azrael desert to get here. That device
Speaker 1: you're coming into the circular piece, it belongs to our employer.
Speaker 1: So you have two choices. Give it to us willingly
Speaker 1: and we'll go in peace, or resist and we'll take
Speaker 1: it by force. So what's it gonna be? Oh, she
Speaker 1: don't care. Just humble home, mam. If you don't respond,
Speaker 1: your choice will be made for you either. She must
Speaker 1: be in a state of deep trance. So this is
Speaker 1: clearly part of some ancient whole ritual. She's using our
Speaker 1: satellite dish to meditate. There's no use shouting. She can't
Speaker 1: hear a thing. Fine, by me, serious, get the dish,
Speaker 1: a serious go, I'll watch digley ah ah, be careful
Speaker 1: taking it down with the frame. The whole setup was
Speaker 1: very fragile. Weaver, who are you? Why are you doing
Speaker 1: in the shrine chamber? How did you get that bother?
Speaker 1: You've come for our oil out tider? How haven't you are?
Speaker 1: Haven't you either? Either? All? Wake up? More of you?
Speaker 1: Oh and you'll take it one of our newborns hunted?
Speaker 1: Oh please please, I think you don't defile the shrine.
Speaker 1: You can have the oil. What the shrine must remain
Speaker 1: in chat We didn't come for your oil. Your shrine
Speaker 1: is our satellite dish, and we're here to take it back.
Speaker 1: You don't understand. If you dismantle it, you'll destroy how
Speaker 1: divine all have settled an irreversible shame reaction when we're
Speaker 1: leading to our colonies demise ether. Maybe there's some way
Speaker 1: to compromise. Grab it serious, grab the satellite dish. It's
Speaker 1: the only way serious. I told you to be careful.
Speaker 1: The Agency's not gonna be happy about this. Sorry logo, right,
Speaker 1: a serious grub your clock unleashed, play our colony, but
Speaker 1: you kill those either. This sounds bad and Diggley's crying again.
Speaker 1: Stopped crying. Look at the shiny amulet like that, like
Speaker 1: the shy. Now, you two, come on, we have our
Speaker 1: own problems to worry about. Help me pick up the
Speaker 1: broken pieces of the satellite dish. How about the damage.
Speaker 1: From a precursory assessment, it appears to be a clean break,
Speaker 1: fractured into three even pieces. Fortunately it looks like a salvage. However,
Speaker 1: I won't know if there's any structural damage until I've
Speaker 1: got the chance to perform an in depth examination. Let's
Speaker 1: each take a piece of the dish and head out
Speaker 1: of here. We're back above ground. We can figure out
Speaker 1: how to piece it back together like new. Everyone got
Speaker 1: their third of the satellite dish. Yes, mine's safely secure
Speaker 1: to my pack, serious strap to back. I'll hold on
Speaker 1: to my piece for now. Let's go. Ether Mall's going
Speaker 1: to be okay, Sure they will. They take care of
Speaker 1: their own, just like we do. Already we've caused enough
Speaker 1: trouble and left us and ruin. At least give us
Speaker 1: the dignity of dying in peace. Ether doesn't feel right. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, if we stop for every crying over dramatic Mall,
Speaker 1: we'd never have made it past the hatchery chamber. We're
Speaker 1: the ones with a broken satellite dish. We have to
Speaker 1: help ourselves. And Diggley who helped Diggley. I'm sorry. There's
Speaker 1: just no way we can care for a baby Mall
Speaker 1: right now, you can drop them off at the hatchery
Speaker 1: on our way out. It's the best we can do.
Speaker 1: Grab Diggley and come on, relief. A little one doesn't
Speaker 1: matter unless the divine ome is restored. No Mall has
Speaker 1: a future down here, all all right? Go on, tell
Speaker 1: us what's so special about the home sound, which useless
Speaker 1: trying to explain to an outsider. Besides, I cannot tell
Speaker 1: you what home is any more than I can tell
Speaker 1: you what it means to be yourself. Oh please please
Speaker 1: tell We want help a very well. Then, Ome is
Speaker 1: more than a sound. It is a path to a
Speaker 1: deeper understanding of the true nature of the universe. Now
Speaker 1: we hear it in the divine harmony of the spheres,
Speaker 1: the resonance of the cosmos, the life force which echoes
Speaker 1: through the souls of every living being. OM is the
Speaker 1: natural frequency at which all energy flows. But why is
Speaker 1: am so important to you most Why surely you've noticed
Speaker 1: the lanterns and our home. Just as we use oil
Speaker 1: to illuminate our tunnels, we use home to illuminate our minds.
Speaker 1: Through Ome, we unite our consciousness into one. You unite
Speaker 1: your consciousness. I knew it. Each mole is like a
Speaker 1: node operating in a giant neural network. Precisely, our colony
Speaker 1: has evolved as a shared consciousness, experiencing a singular existence,
Speaker 1: living for one collective purpose. Now all things are one,
Speaker 1: a Ome, unite all things. To be in sync with
Speaker 1: Home is to we in sync with the universe. Why
Speaker 1: do you need our satellite dish? You mean the singing bowl?
Speaker 1: Sure right? Isn't it just another piece of junk? You
Speaker 1: Moll's dug up. The singing bowl is an ancient Moull relic,
Speaker 1: our oldest artifact. It is the conduit for channeling home
Speaker 1: the diviners. Singing bawl possesses an ethereal sense and resonates
Speaker 1: at Owen's natural frequency. You know, when a conductor Moll
Speaker 1: like myself, focuses their energy into the shrine, the ball
Speaker 1: absorbs and amplifies the force, which is then channeled through
Speaker 1: the tree roots in our tunnels and chambers, allowing OH
Speaker 1: to radiate throughout the colony. Now, this energy, when harnessed
Speaker 1: through the ball, unite the consciousness of each mole into
Speaker 1: one connected universal mind. Without the ball to keep our
Speaker 1: colony in seek with Home, the harmony between the moles
Speaker 1: will fade into the chaos of darkness. How come gray
Speaker 1: hair Moll can talk of like not roly poly mall
Speaker 1: in tunnel Because as I said, I am a conductor mall.
Speaker 1: I've studied the common tongue. A conductor is a mole
Speaker 1: gifted with superior spirituality and mind. For this conductor soults
Speaker 1: are said to be naturally in tune with the universe,
Speaker 1: which gives us a heightened sense of intuition, a sixth
Speaker 1: sense beyond ordinary perception. Admittedly, my sense is done with age.
Speaker 1: How many conductor malls are there? You're looking at him
Speaker 1: around Every sixty years, a new conductor mall is said
Speaker 1: to be born and is then trained as a master
Speaker 1: in the ways of home, to one day relieve the
Speaker 1: prior conductor of her duties and take the helm At
Speaker 1: the shrine chamber's singing boll our colony is actually overdue
Speaker 1: for a new birth. Nevertheless, midway through a conductor's training,
Speaker 1: the apprentice leaves the colony unsabbatical and for a short
Speaker 1: while enters the outside world to acquire knowledge and learn
Speaker 1: the common time. So you've experienced life on the outside.
Speaker 1: I may be a very old mole, but from what
Speaker 1: I remember of the outside world, it is a cruel
Speaker 1: and unforgiving place. Not true good exists. They're true during
Speaker 1: our journey. If we come across another bowl with the
Speaker 1: same home frequency, we'll be sure to send it back
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah right, yeah, an empty gesture. There simply
Speaker 1: isn't time, not enough time. What do you mean. Do
Speaker 1: you see my drinking bowl? You notice it empty? Big
Speaker 1: empty glass bowl. And unfortunately there's past year has been
Speaker 1: the greatest drought in our colony's history since the first birth.
Speaker 1: As we've grown physically weaker, so too have the mental
Speaker 1: bonds uniting our colony. Now soon, one by one, each
Speaker 1: mole will fall out of sync with Ome, and our
Speaker 1: divine sound will fade, with nothing left to preserve our
Speaker 1: delicate equilibrium. The drone of madness will spread through our
Speaker 1: home and the darkness will once again return. That was
Speaker 1: never our intention. There has to be a way we
Speaker 1: can help now. I wish there was, outsider. But once
Speaker 1: the last mole has turned dark, our tree will die,
Speaker 1: and all hope of restoring the balance will die with it.
Speaker 1: For our colony, there will be no coming back to
Speaker 1: the light. Serious logo. If what the conductor says it's true,
Speaker 1: we need to leave right now before things take a
Speaker 1: turn for the worse. Agreed for the sake of the mission.
Speaker 1: Ah ah, go then leave my chamber. The exit from
Speaker 1: our colony is through the tree tree. The tree's trunk
Speaker 1: is hollow, insider wooden stairs. Presumably that is how you
Speaker 1: entered near the top. There is a hole in the
Speaker 1: trunk from which you may exit to return to the
Speaker 1: outside world. Where do we enter the trunk through the
Speaker 1: base one level directly above this chamber. Now please leave
Speaker 1: me me we're going ah serious, now leave giggly behind. Sorry, serious,
Speaker 1: but he's not our responsibility. As I said, we'll return
Speaker 1: him back to the hatchery where we found him. It's
Speaker 1: for the best. Ah no, oh no, The buzzing to
Speaker 1: break down of the omen has begun. The sound of
Speaker 1: males turn to furious even how we find our way
Speaker 1: to the base of the tree trunks? Um, all roots
Speaker 1: lead to the tree trunk. After we stop at the hatchery,
Speaker 1: we can follow this tree room. We should be able
Speaker 1: to track it all the way to the base of
Speaker 1: the tree. From there, we'll go up and exit through
Speaker 1: the hole in the tree's trunk. Like the conductor said, now,
Speaker 1: come on this way right, keep up? Are you okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That grace wolf came in newhere. What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Moster and violent fight? Old grammy? Oh lud, let's go.
Speaker 1: The hatchery is just up ahead. Serious, I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: you to know that, as bad as it may seem,
Speaker 1: returning bigly to this hatchery is the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: He's better off down here with his own kind than
Speaker 1: outside in the harsh desert. Stands with us. The desert's
Speaker 1: no place for a baby moll and the conductor. The
Speaker 1: colony has been in darkness without hom in the past.
Speaker 1: If they came out of it once before, they can
Speaker 1: find a way out again. Logo and I will wait
Speaker 1: in the main passage way so you can say goodbye
Speaker 1: to Diggley. Logo coming. I'll be right there either, Diggley.
Speaker 1: I have to be quick, and I'm afraid I'm not
Speaker 1: always so eloquent with words. Although our time together has
Speaker 1: been breathed, I want you to know that I consider
Speaker 1: you a very special mole. Take care now, Diggley. I
Speaker 1: must be going. Logo coming either, Ah Deglee good agree,
Speaker 1: deadly serious, have to leave now, but be strong more
Speaker 1: brothers and and sisters need you strong more, Conductor, need
Speaker 1: you strong? Serious serious, need you strong? Oh Diggli Diiggli serious?
Speaker 1: What are you still doing with Diggley? I thought we
Speaker 1: came to an understanding Dogie eyes still with Siddle Diggley
Speaker 1: starting to turn dig sick. Listen, No, it can't be
Speaker 1: your madness is umbrus called it's not safe here. The
Speaker 1: darkness overtaken the colony is umbra. The mole layer won't
Speaker 1: be stable much longer. How do you know? Trust me?
Speaker 1: We have to leave now, then go without serious here
Speaker 1: piece exactly likeiteness, No serious. We've already sacrificed too much
Speaker 1: for this mission. You can't just give it all up
Speaker 1: from one tiny mole. We leave Diggley behind, likeness, We
Speaker 1: leave Giggley to die. Okay, Okay, we'll help them, we will,
Speaker 1: how I don't know. Maybe if we find Digley's actual
Speaker 1: parents don't know how to take care of them at
Speaker 1: the very least under their parental guidency, stands the best
Speaker 1: chance of recovery. But either we can't count on finding
Speaker 1: Diggley's parents down here. We don't even have a way
Speaker 1: of communicating with the moles. Besides, even if we some
Speaker 1: show manage to track them down, there's no guarantee it's
Speaker 1: not too late. They may have already no terms. You
Speaker 1: heard what the conductor said. The only certain way to
Speaker 1: help Digley is to restore the Ohm sound and bring
Speaker 1: back harmony to the colony. Yeah, but the om was
Speaker 1: funneled through the satellite dish, which is now broken and
Speaker 1: which you have to bring back with us anyway. There's
Speaker 1: no chance or stories, no need more barren serious, deady bearing, deady,
Speaker 1: no need all me there did already needs serious love
Speaker 1: right deeply right, Oh, the drone of madness. It's spreading
Speaker 1: rapidly throughout them all areas. That's hard dirt walls, burt
Speaker 1: that sounds colis tongue all he was right most you're
Speaker 1: turning self destructive and alarming rate. They appear to get
Speaker 1: first and self head first against the walls of their
Speaker 1: own colleague. If this continues, the whole are found the glass.
Speaker 1: What you saying? There must be something where miss see
Speaker 1: Do you hear that? What a rumbling noise? Tell me about? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Where's it coming from? There? Behind us? It's but that's way.
Speaker 1: There's no time to change during cour us skip in
Speaker 1: the end squashway Big Bubba giggling come back and even
Speaker 1: Diggley's abandoned us finished gold Digley kicked down game and
Speaker 1: turned of course digging down worry help digging day from
Speaker 1: Dick didn't even up. Dahle say it works, Babba, roll
Speaker 1: right over, Giggli save us well we're still inside an
Speaker 1: underground collapsing layer. First things first, up and out of
Speaker 1: this hole, Giggle? Serious? How about the hole? Serious? Way,
Speaker 1: don't get Diiggli up just yet. You can leave your
Speaker 1: pack in the hole for now. I need to talk
Speaker 1: with you and Logo in private. Wow, he's that everything? Okay.
Speaker 1: There's no easy way to put this, but clearly there's
Speaker 1: no getting Diggli the help he needs down to you.
Speaker 1: We don't need another close call with death to tell
Speaker 1: us that. Right, we have to head for the exit.
Speaker 1: We'll find Giggli the help he needs once we're on
Speaker 1: the outside. Land's change to bring Giggli with us. Not quite.
Speaker 1: As I said before, Diggli won't survive in the desert.
Speaker 1: It's no place for a baby mole. But down here,
Speaker 1: even in this current state, he's still has a chance.
Speaker 1: You prom no, but that's the only way we make
Speaker 1: out of this alive. It's too dangerous for us to
Speaker 1: be down here. And if something happens to us, who's
Speaker 1: gonna help Digley? Then? Lo go? There's right? Serious? Are okay? Serious?
Speaker 1: To Dickley, I don't even know you're making the right choice.
Speaker 1: But we'll come back soon. We're now absolutely did you
Speaker 1: disappeutiful mom? What what? Pretty? Go? Serious? Where's your piece
Speaker 1: of the satellite dish? It's missing too, it appears Dickley
Speaker 1: dug even further down into the hall, taking seriously piece
Speaker 1: of the dish with him. Why what get Dickley? What
Speaker 1: were a piece of satellite dish? Maybe he even safe
Speaker 1: for us until we return, or more likely it's just
Speaker 1: because the satellite is just shining the same reason you like.
Speaker 1: Either's a ah. We have to fight Diggley and get
Speaker 1: it back. We're not leaving without it. The only one
Speaker 1: way to go from here. Help me dick down in
Speaker 1: the hall, faster, faster, stout his trail. Where are we?
Speaker 1: We seem to have emptied out into a vast muddy
Speaker 1: plane at the colony's base. It's slip by lantern fire
Speaker 1: and the ground is covered by tree roots, but it's
Speaker 1: completely devoid of all mole life. In fact, there are
Speaker 1: here to be no natural passageways in or out of
Speaker 1: this chamber. So we've tunneled so deep we've reached a
Speaker 1: secret chamber in bedrock. Now where's Diggley. Diggley footprint ah,
Speaker 1: our footprints lost in tree roots? A serious what is it?
Speaker 1: Large round pit in chamber center tree roots lead straight
Speaker 1: down to a pit bottom. Careful, serious, don't get too
Speaker 1: close to the pit's edge. M Two wooden poles staked
Speaker 1: around the pit circumference, a central axle with a hand
Speaker 1: crying mechanism, and a rope. Although the connecting pail is
Speaker 1: no longer attached and lies sidelined on the ground, It's
Speaker 1: unmistakable this is not simply a pit. It's a well.
Speaker 1: The secret chamber must be used to house the mole's
Speaker 1: water supply logo. I can't quite see to the bottom,
Speaker 1: but it looks to be completely black down there. There's
Speaker 1: no water in that well. Precisely the conductor said, there's
Speaker 1: been a devastating drought, so it makes sense it's empty.
Speaker 1: Too bad. Where Didgley go? I'm sorry, serious, but given
Speaker 1: it's an open well, Digley may fallen in well bucket
Speaker 1: on ground. Moving inside the bucket. It must be day
Speaker 1: Papa coming Dagley. This is Mama speaking. Complete Stay away
Speaker 1: from the well's edge. Look at the shiny anelated Dagley
Speaker 1: like ammulate hamulate God giggle saved. Why scare Papa like that?
Speaker 1: Playing in bucket by whole serious could loose Diggley forever. Diggley,
Speaker 1: I want you to recognize how much danger you put
Speaker 1: yourself in. If you had fallen into the well, we
Speaker 1: might not have been able to get you out. Wait,
Speaker 1: we're serious, piece of satellite dish. Ether, where are you going?
Speaker 1: You're getting dangerously close to the well. I see it's
Speaker 1: the satellite dish pieces snacked on a tree root dangling
Speaker 1: just inside the wall was opening if I could just
Speaker 1: anchor myself through a Wait, don't do it. What's so funny?
Speaker 1: Found what the satellite dish beef? No, the moles secret
Speaker 1: reserve what they keep inside the whil It's not water
Speaker 1: and it's not empty either. It's oil. Look, why would
Speaker 1: Digley have come for the oil? O shiny? Of course
Speaker 1: the refractive property of oil. Digley was attracted to the
Speaker 1: oil sheen for the same reasons he was attracted to
Speaker 1: my aMule and serious piece of satellite. Okay, now, what's
Speaker 1: the fastest way out of here? I have her exit plan.
Speaker 1: It's right in front of us. Ah. No, don't even
Speaker 1: say it. Hey, oil is flammable, right ah either you
Speaker 1: cast we have everything we need fire from the lanterns,
Speaker 1: tree roots covering the ground and a well full of oil.
Speaker 1: We can set off an explosion and blow our way
Speaker 1: to the surface. But an explosion will undermine the entire
Speaker 1: structural integrity of the layer. This whole place could collapse.
Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time until it collapses. Anyway.
Speaker 1: The molts can always tunnel their way out, but we'll
Speaker 1: be bury alive. All we have to do is light
Speaker 1: the far end of the tree root on fire. Waits,
Speaker 1: the flame trickles down like a fuse into the well,
Speaker 1: and then when it hits the oil, boom. Freedom and
Speaker 1: DIGGLEI change your plan. Diggli's coming with us, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. Fresh air will do them some good, but
Speaker 1: we have to act fast, okay for Diggli serious, Put
Speaker 1: those grubby pots to work and take down one of
Speaker 1: the lanterns off the wall. You do know that once
Speaker 1: we light the tree root, there's no going back. Then
Speaker 1: what are we waiting for? Let it burn? Let it up? Serious? Ah? Okay?
Speaker 1: How long is till reaches the oiliate? Just over a minute? Okay,
Speaker 1: Everyone away from the well, hold on tights, your satellite
Speaker 1: dis pieces and we'll be out of here in no
Speaker 1: time either. Now, what me. Moles total him from chamber walls.
Speaker 1: There's a dot of them. What do they want? Perhaps
Speaker 1: they've come for the oil or maybe moles across. We
Speaker 1: can't let them put up the fuse. It's our only
Speaker 1: hopeful to escape serious protect us from boles. Adang serious,
Speaker 1: don't just stand there during health fights the health. This
Speaker 1: is the battle of wits, in the battle of him
Speaker 1: and stuff that. Oh, this one seems understand. I wonder
Speaker 1: how to molst it into the hall, whether I could
Speaker 1: possibly roll it with sufficient bol lost and precision. At
Speaker 1: the approaching group, Males goes nothing. I'm not thinking about
Speaker 1: the deck to them where heat back near the well?
Speaker 1: He's going for the oil Diggle No, Digley going to
Speaker 1: the oil well fil to deferent, to trim it. More
Speaker 1: holes just wild it serious, going to wow rescue Diggley.
Speaker 1: Wait serious, I'll go. You're more healthy Diggley up here
Speaker 1: of fending off the hostile holes. He started saying, I
Speaker 1: will logo and needs your health. Come with me to
Speaker 1: the well. Let's go going in after Digley. Even the
Speaker 1: claim is going to reach the oil thirty seconds to
Speaker 1: we don't have an opportunity to distinguish it with all
Speaker 1: these molten ways. You won't make it in time. I
Speaker 1: have to try. How are you gonna find him in
Speaker 1: the oil? It's too dark to see down sick. You
Speaker 1: need mother Daniel to it to Dixon. The intra unrolled
Speaker 1: the second arcas. I'll count down the seconds until dead
Speaker 1: pation by the under that second, I need you out
Speaker 1: of the tent. Five second, Oh by zeconds call tue serious,
Speaker 1: Oh no pious neither Texas can you hear me? Get
Speaker 1: out of their new What happened there is just warmed
Speaker 1: up collar horse run away. They're drinking water from the
Speaker 1: well water. A guiser of water erupted from the well
Speaker 1: and extinguished the Hugh, stopping the explosion. And either deple
Speaker 1: got him, Get us back up, either Diggley alive, either
Speaker 1: I'm throwing down the road. Tie it around yourself and
Speaker 1: Diggley and we'll lift you too up. Ready, h r
Speaker 1: water under the oil of course the water table. It
Speaker 1: all makes sense now. The dress leading into the well
Speaker 1: and the face of the molar absorbed the water underneath
Speaker 1: the oil to support the Bayo battery about Stifly must
Speaker 1: have somehow instinctually know that the entire time and never
Speaker 1: stopped digging until he greeted the water. Mama raised a
Speaker 1: ginion loganamile here, thank the stars. You're okay. Good to
Speaker 1: be back on solid ground, even if we're so far
Speaker 1: beneath the surface. And with all this water last, we
Speaker 1: can refill the mold conductor's drinking bold as a consolation
Speaker 1: by destroying the owner ah more drowne madness lesson after
Speaker 1: drinking water. Maybe maybe water helped digger. That's it to restore.
Speaker 1: Oh the water. Fill the well's bucket along with our
Speaker 1: canteens and come with me. Serious spring dict. We have
Speaker 1: to pay the conductor of visits. I'll fill you another way.
Speaker 1: There's no time to waste time. Excuse us. We don't
Speaker 1: mean to barge in. But Bubba wasn't at his post.
Speaker 1: Shall you stayed to Winders? The demise of our colony entertaining?
Speaker 1: Is it? I think we can help. We may have
Speaker 1: found a solution, you three. I've done enough already. I
Speaker 1: look around. I am the last remaining mole that is
Speaker 1: yet to turn, and once I go, that will be
Speaker 1: the end, at least in darkness. I'll join the others.
Speaker 1: But we find water for drinking ball, It's too late
Speaker 1: for that, my Thursday. It is all dry it up.
Speaker 1: The water is what can restore own. I'm done playing games.
Speaker 1: There is no restoring home after you've re destroyed the
Speaker 1: singing bowl. Now, please let me go peacefully into the dark.
Speaker 1: But you still have your drinking ball, which you know
Speaker 1: does not resonate a desame frequency as our divine home.
Speaker 1: But that's it. We can transform it. We can alter
Speaker 1: the frequency of your drinking bowl by altering its water
Speaker 1: level and make it resonate home. Fah impossible. The bowl's
Speaker 1: frequency is based off the speed at which vibrations travel
Speaker 1: through it. By adding water to the bowl, we can
Speaker 1: alter its resonant frequency, as the bowl will vibrate with
Speaker 1: the water inside it. To find home, we just need
Speaker 1: the right water level in harmony with its degree of vibration. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've made a mockery of our colony. I will not
Speaker 1: allow you to make a mockery of hour to find
Speaker 1: home as well. Please give chance for mallsily all right,
Speaker 1: I'll put myself through one last humiliation at your hands.
Speaker 1: M hmm. Okay. As I'm pouring the water into the bowl,
Speaker 1: keep channeling home directly into the center. Don't stop until
Speaker 1: we hit the water level that matches the frequency very
Speaker 1: well on my account. Street two one. It can't be.
Speaker 1: It can't be. I don't believe it. Home, it's in
Speaker 1: my water bowl. It's restored. Thank you outsiders, you've shown
Speaker 1: me there is still light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: DIGGLEI stopped drawn madness, the Diggli cured. Diggli get away
Speaker 1: from new Hombole. What do you listen to that? Diggli's
Speaker 1: a natural. There's little one is a conductor mole my
Speaker 1: Diggli and doctor No. Diggley is destined to one day
Speaker 1: served at the helm of our new singing bowl, spreading
Speaker 1: home throughout our colony and ushering in a new era
Speaker 1: of prosperity for us. Moves. With him by my side,
Speaker 1: we will rebuild our home. Serious, I know, I swore
Speaker 1: to you. We dig Diggley with us. Oh no either, Diggley,
Speaker 1: but along here. That's bold layer conductor, Spread home, Diggley,
Speaker 1: make Papa proud. One day meet again when Giggley big
Speaker 1: and grown. We go. Now we spread home through land, farewell,
Speaker 1: friend farewell indeed h ah ah oh serious stucking tree
Speaker 1: trunk hole, Come on, logo, give me a hand, help
Speaker 1: me pull serious free from the tree trunk's hole. Ow
Speaker 1: Ow look the bay of bab tree. It's beginning to blossom.
Speaker 1: But you look at that flowers sign of new life.
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