Akkad Pt 2
Time To Get Moving
Whiskers and Sargon continue to plan the defeat of the armies of Kish while Aixxa, Elena, and Mason finally all connect in a medical tent. Elena, injured by an arrow, uses her distraction to gather information from the medical staff.
The Game
This Game was played using the Mavericks system. An RPG utilizing a deck of cards to tell the story and put fate in the hands of the players. It’s a story-forward roleplaying experience that encourages the players and dealer to work together to create the story. Check out the System Reference Document on Itch.io
https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
The Cast
Stella Cheeks is @stellacheeks on Instagram and Bluesky. Check out her other podcasts, Not Your Demographic, X-Treks, and Spooky Thirties.
Sara Moore is @pixiesandpins on all social media channels and at Pixies and Pins.com. You can also check out her Sarah’s Table livestreams on twitch @pixiesandpins.
Omar Burgos is @Taleweaver Check out his work on the Tale of D20s TTRPG channel. More information at https://ataleofd20s.com/
Ben Banks is @Dj_blindian on Instagram and Soundcloud
I’m Ansel Burch and you can find me @TheIndecisionist on all of the meta properties and on Bluesky.
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Transcript
Ansel Burch 0:06
I welcome adventurers from across time and space. Five creators have been brought together from across the internet for one purpose and one purpose alone, to travel through time and have a good time doing it. When big changes happen to the timeline, the change attracts other time travelers like gravity, they won't be able to move past it until they fix whatever was messed up. So our heroes are stuck together, but only for the time being. You
Music. Welcome back, adventurers. In our last episode, Pharaoh whiskers was advising Sargon of Akkad, while Mason aixa and Elena were in the medical tent deciding what to do next about the bows they discovered did not belong. The battle is continuing in front of you guys as this is all happening. And I think the question then is So, because this is the beginning of the conflict, and you, it seems like most of you are kind of not engaging without with the exception of whiskers, I'm curious, Elena, what do you think happens that injures or takes something away from you in this moment? I think
Sarah Moore 1:37
that this is the moment that she had, like, rolled in and she had done all the things right, and she she feels very, really heroic shot, and she's ready, and she's getting there. And then I think it's that thing where her team is looking at her in in horror, and she looks down and realizes that there's like an arrow sticking in her leg. And she's like, Oh, God, oh. And then, like, then that pain comes rushing in, and so she's, she's bleeding. Not the first time she does all of her own stunts. This is normal. She's like, All right, we have protocol for this. But I do think she's probably, she probably just, like, legit, caught astray arrow. But it definitely has to be the that trope both of like, all right, team, what are we gonna do? Why are you looking at me like that? And then, like, Look at the camera, pants, snap pants down, and it's just that, just sticking out. Arrow sticking out and stop, stop the bleeding. Yeah,
Ansel Burch 2:46
incredible. Yeah. That's great. I love that. I love that a lot. I also love that so far, we don't have a direct conflict with the with the armies that are going at it. So that's super
Sarah Moore 2:57
do I get to do it, even though I only have great
Ansel Burch 3:01
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Well, what else would you like to do in this? I mean, Elena knows
Sarah Moore 3:05
that the movie sets are really run by the little folk, the PAs, the base camp. This is where all of the work gets done, right? All the people with radios, yeah, walkie talkies. This is what is is happening, especially in a big war like this, there's like, shit on the fringes. There are people who have set up med tents. There's there's places where people who are not actively fighting will come back and refuel themselves, and that's where she wants to go, especially because she's injured, and she's like, well, obviously in this part of the movie, I would be going in, and I would be going into the meta, and then I could, like, infiltrate their thing and figure out what's going on. I'm injured, help. Oh, no. So that's where she's gonna
Ansel Burch 3:50
go. That is a great instinct. Yeah, I think that there's absolutely, like, medical tense towards the back ranks of this war, and that probably will take you over towards where, where whiskers ran off to honestly. So if I follow,
Stella Cheeks 4:08
of course, just like, come along five feet behind, yeah, and I'm just like, Okay, I like
Ansel Burch 4:13
that idea. Okay, so, so sort of this whole crew heads over towards these, these, like medical tents over at the back end of the of the battlefield. And you you kind of have to go past where all the charioteers are running back and forth, restocking everybody. You go past where Omar is chatting up Sargon, and you're sort of leaving behind poor Mason who is stuck in his hiding spot behind the tree. One of the people
Sarah Moore 4:40
that is with me always has an umbrella for me. So, like, we do have shade. So Mason Could, could hop in. Oh, Mason
Ansel Burch 4:46
could go with, yeah, well, and I will give Mason that option. Like, if, if you want Ben, I think it would make sense for you to before they leave. Like, go. No touch base with the other obvious time travelers, unless you have something else you want to do, sort of off on the sidelines here.
Speaker 1 5:10
Yeah, I think I'm gonna hang back, make a couple of notes, just kind of evaluate the situation. Then when I realized that they're leaving, and I will, it would just be me in this tree in the middle of a battlefield. I definitely don't want that to happen. So I'm just gonna be like, okay, making notes here, following woman and crew, another person has appeared. Hands described as weird, is the only way I can really put that. And then I will kind of like, nonchalantly, like, like, I don't need to go there, but I'm just, like, I am also just walking in this direction.
Ansel Burch 5:45
I love it. I also appreciate that you have a context for what a camera crew is. Yeah, like, that's you're the you're one of two people in this whole situation. Who knows what a camera crew is. So let's go ahead and flip over our next set of cards, man, I am getting all the low ones out early. Me too. It's not going well. The Acadians are going to give a little bit of ground to the people of fish, but only a little bit because I've got a two and a three. All right, we got a king a three
Sarah Moore 6:20
ties go to the player. Maya, that's right, my king is marks too.
Ansel Burch 6:23
Is that a 10? Yeah. Ooh, what's the mark on your king? It's
Sarah Moore 6:27
a boob that is an ally. Oh, yeah. Remind me what puppy feet
Ansel Burch 6:31
are. Puppy feet generally refer to No, no. I know that generally refers to puppy feet refer to people who labor, it's my it's so farmers, my costumer. Costumer, okay, feel free to give a little extra focus to your costumer in this moment as they are helping you to achieve what's going on, or something they gave you is helping to achieve what's going on, which does make sense, considering that your your costume is going to probably be what gets you into this medical tent.
So as the combat is continuing and the majority of you are sort of headed into this medical tent area in the back with the support crew, I mean, the good news is that everybody is going to be successful at what they're trying to do, and your aims are going to come out on top. And that means that we kind of don't need to go one by one the way that we did previously. Let's just sort of tell the story of the middle of this battle, as the Acadians get pushed back by the people of Kish, their lines somehow break perhaps there's a I'm going to say, that the people of Kish come up with a particularly clever ruse that somehow gets a few of their fighters behind the Phalanx, and they sort of break out the shield wall and cause a route. So there's a lot of commotion going on around you guys, as the as the fighters in the back are trying to push the people ahead of them to get back into line. There's a lot of shouting, a lot of disarray around you. Since all, all four of you are at the back end of this fight, it's not endangering any of you currently, but that is the sort of context that you're in. So let's talk about what, what's going on with the four of you, and I think, because of the current split, let's start with Mason, aixa and Elena, and then we'll, we'll sort of pan over and take a look at what whiskers is doing with with Sargon. So what do you think is going on, guys? This is a collective storytelling moment. Yeah, I'm very
Sarah Moore 8:44
interested in just like, bursting into the tent very dramatically and then swooning once I have everyone's attention.
Stella Cheeks 8:52
So this is like a medical tent, right? Yeah, so I follow you in, and I see that you're swooning and you're bleeding from the leg, and I'll go up to you and I'll say, Excuse me. Do you need any help? I am well, I'm familiar with the human circulatory system. If you need any assistance, very,
Sarah Moore 9:10
way, weird way of saying that, yeah, no, I I think that you're one of us. Yeah, just a traveler's capital T, if you will. Yeah, cool, cool. Listen. Um, I'm trying to, like, play this up so we can get some information out of these dudes. Do you think that you could, like, Do you know what I mean? Like, maybe you could search or something. Like, while they all, I'll get their attention, and you can like,
Stella Cheeks 9:44
Okay, I really loudly. Then just go, oh, never mind. And then walk away like a weirdo.
I just like, blink a lot, and then I like, boom. Hmm, good. And then I look behind me, and then like, do, like, one of these, like, yeah, really proud of myself for having learned what a thumbs up. So we'll be using it a lot.
Ansel Burch 10:14
Cool with your creepy spoon becomes, I love it. But then what is Mason up to in this dark Yeah,
Speaker 1 10:24
I think he is actually like snooping around and looking for stuff. Elena, yeah, because that, that's his forte. So, yeah, just kind of seeing what info I can pull out from just kind of, maybe I wouldn't recognize anything, obviously, but maybe I've seen something in a museum. A museum or something like that. That kind of placed me where, yeah, I
Ansel Burch 10:46
mean, let's, let's go ahead and do a draw for all three of you, as you kind of come into this moment since, well, Stella, you've already done this kind of when you did when you assess the spear. So let's, let's get Elena and Mason do a draw, just to see how your history is. And this is our first time getting to do a paired skill check, skill contests in in this game, you are working together, so only one of you has to be my card. I hope
Sarah Moore 11:18
you draw, because we drew. Win, draw grade, I don't think, or is the ace the
Unknown Speaker 11:23
high? I think ace is high. That's
Ansel Burch 11:25
an ace. Yeah. Ace is high, yeah.
Sarah Moore 11:27
Ace is high. Okay, I wasn't sure if it was a one. Couldn't remember, yeah, and
Ansel Burch 11:31
I got a seven, so that's gonna go to Mason. I mean, that's fair, because I'm the diversion. Yeah? So Mason, you, I think probably paid pretty close attention in high school history. And I don't know maybe you had to do your book report on the on Sargon or the Acadians, or code of Hammurabi or something. The
Speaker 1 11:58
Ace of Diamonds is actually one of my allies. So it belongs to the when I was in the police force, it belonged to my captain. So I think maybe Sargon was, like, his favorite. And it was always carrying on about Sargon. So, like, I know too much about Sargon, and I'm like, oh, oh, okay, this is what Captain Brian was always talking about. This is this is this
Ansel Burch 12:20
guy, dope. Now that I'm,
Unknown Speaker 12:23
yeah, he isn't kind of cool.
Ansel Burch 12:26
I like the idea that Sargon is absolutely the sort of historical figure that would be somebody's like, favorite. Like, yeah, let me refer back to that thing that Sargon supposedly said back in, you know, 2500 BC, which I one of my personal favorite things I learned in doing research for this is, is, there's, there's a lot of written history about this time period, but there is very Little written history in this time period. So everything that that you read about the Acadians, reasonable historians, will always start with now, this is a legend, just to be clear, this is a legend, and a lot of it was written by the Mesopotamians trying to, like, give legitimacy to later rulers who are descended from these guys. Ah, so there's a lot of, like, hero worship and stuff like that, which means that your your captain, probably had a lot of really cool hero worship, the sort of, yeah, you know, oh yeah, he's super cool stuff, you know, king of battles sort of thing. Yes. So given that we've kind of talked a little bit about the history already, and I don't want to make this this is not an educational podcast, just to be clear, it's not.
Stella Cheeks 13:52
I'm learning a lot.
Ansel Burch 13:54
Hey, some of it might even be true. So what I'd like to give Ben the player is the chance to ask some additional questions that we haven't kind of already covered. Because I think you you get a lot of the same vibe information that we've already talked about. You know, like you get an idea of the historical period, you get an idea of the technological space. You probably recognize Sargon of a cod, if you you know, since your captain was into him, that dude over there, that's, that's him, for sure. That's what was on them, on the money. But are there any additional questions you want to ask about, sort of the historical space that you find yourself in?
Speaker 1 14:41
Not I think I kind of like, like we discussed the captain always talks about Sargon and had, you know, maps and everything in his office. So I kind of get the vibe. But I'm curious about the other quote, unquote travelers, um, my companions here, because. Because everything kind of fits. Everything else kind of makes sense, but they definitely stand out a little bit more.
Ansel Burch 15:08
Yeah, these guys are definitely not supposed to be here, right? Do you think that you have run into other time travelers before? Oh, absolutely. Okay, that's cool. That's a cool choice. Yeah? So, yeah, I'm gonna let you figure that part out in role play. I don't, I don't think there's anything which I can tell you, aside from, yeah, you for sure can tell like these guys do not belong here.
Speaker 1 15:33
So, yeah, seeing Elena going off and doing her thing and being a distraction, I'm gonna go to Stella. How do you pronounce your character's name again? I name? Again, I'm gonna go to iexa and just kind of like, Hey, I'm trying to figure out what's what's going on. Do you know you? You seem to have some knowledge of what's happening.
Stella Cheeks 16:00
Not really. I've run into other travelers once or twice before, and we sort of work together until we don't, I don't know a ton, but it's good that we're here together. It seems safer. Well, marginally, she did get shot in the leg.
Speaker 1 16:21
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just trying to figure out other travelers. You said, What? What do you mean? Oh, yes,
Stella Cheeks 16:28
well, I am not from this time. I don't know if you could tell, but and you do not look no offense like you belong here either, and she comes with accouterments that are not time appropriate. So yes, it stands to reason that we are all from different time periods or different planets,
Speaker 1 16:54
different plant, okay, see, because I know that I'm really drunk, passed out in an alley, right? Now, this is all I'm very hung over, I assume. And you know, my captain always is talking about Sargon, so I think I'm in one of like a drunken stupor. But I'm not sure where, how you fit in. Are you? Am I dreaming you as well? This is because this is all a dream. This is all whiskey induced dream, right?
Stella Cheeks 17:21
Perhaps dreaming is just another time travel element. So you might be,
Unknown Speaker 17:30
am I? I Okay, I'm Are you an alien? Is that what you are?
Stella Cheeks 17:37
Technically, yes. How loud
Sarah Moore 17:39
was that
Ansel Burch 17:40
the question, are you an alien? Yeah, yeah, in the town like it was loud enough,
Speaker 1 17:47
yeah? Because I think it's, this is all a dream. So I'm just like, obviously I got drunk at the bar, passed out in the alley. I'm dreaming about Sargon because Captain Malone's always talking about him. But these people are also operating strangely. So I'm coming to the realization,
Sarah Moore 18:05
when I hear that, I definitely want to cover that, because that's not which that's not a thing we should say too loudly. So I think I'm going to, like, play it up and, like, just maybe snap that arrow off and, like, be very loud to try to, like, just attention back over here.
Stella Cheeks 18:36
Do you scream or make a weird noise?
Sarah Moore 18:39
Oh, yeah, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a loud, guess it's big, yeah,
Ansel Burch 18:44
and I think
Stella Cheeks 18:46
if you scream, then I immediately scream too. Okay,
Sarah Moore 18:49
all right, we're all screaming. Great, choice.
Ansel Burch 18:54
Uh, I, I do want to focus the camera back on, uh, Elena, just for a second to to pay off that your initial distraction tactic is working. You've gotten a few of the medics over. They're like trying to give you help. It is very clear to you that medical progress in this period of history leaves a great deal to be desired, for sure, and so they are mostly praying. A lot of what they're doing is basically praying. So snapping an arrow off of your own leg has definitely achieved the goal you are. You are maintaining control of the situation.
Sarah Moore 19:34
I don't have much more of this arrow left. Tighten it up, guys.
Ansel Burch 19:41
The question that I have for Mason and aixa is, do you think you pick up on her trying to stop you from the thing you're doing? No,
Speaker 1 19:50
I might, because I'm realizing that that scream is of like real pain, and this might all be real. This is it's like, slowly. Hating that this isn't because, like, like, I said I would if I fell asleep, drunk or whatever, I'm dreaming about all these battles and stuff. But like, why would I an alien and then, like, this woman that's like, hurting, like, and breaking off an arrow in her own leg, why would that be in my subconscious? Like, what's up with that? So I'm like, do we need to check on her? Is? Is she okay?
Stella Cheeks 20:27
She has to nine my, uh, my assistance with her circulatory system. So I think that she is fine, okay,
Speaker 1 20:34
because we're you were both screaming. She was screaming. You were also screaming. So I it
Stella Cheeks 20:38
just said, just, you know, she just startled me. Sorry for screaming in your face.
Speaker 1 20:43
You're okay. I just this might be real. I'm coming to that slowly coming to that realization that this is not a dream.
Stella Cheeks 20:53
I find in these situations, it's best to just accept it and move forward. Okay.
Speaker 1 21:03
Is there a way forward? Is there a way to get back to where we're from?
Stella Cheeks 21:12
I am not sure, but we can do some investigating with like you are doing with your pad.
Speaker 1 21:22
Yes, I am taking notes, and I like try to hold it towards you so you can't see the part that I called your hands.
Stella Cheeks 21:33
Perhaps we should help her with her blood and then find the cat.
Speaker 1 21:39
Yeah, the you saw the cat too. Okay, I'm not. I thought I was the only one. I was ready to write that off as dream logic, but you also saw the cat. So the cat, Okay, gotcha, okay, let's help her. With her. You said circulatory system. I
Sarah Moore 21:54
love I love that. The line makes total sense in this particular, very specific moment, but perhaps we should help her with her blood and then go find the cat. Just
Ansel Burch 22:15
context, fantastic. So the two of you have come together in this moment. For Elena, you are trying to distract these guys, but you're also attempting to do something else. What was it that you wanted to get out of them now that you have their attention? Normally,
Sarah Moore 22:33
when I land someplace, it is because something is wrong, something has gone awry here. And so I so you kind of
Ansel Burch 22:44
exclusively go to these dense points in time. I think
Sarah Moore 22:49
so, yeah, and I think, I think she leans real heavily on the like damsel in distress, sort of ingenue moment at the beginning, because people say a lot of stuff in front of pretty ladies that they maybe wouldn't at other times, she's very non threatening. So like, now she's injured. So like, I think she's trying to get information out of like, what sort of weirdness has been happening here. What is something that should not be happening, but is because usually people are very on edge when, and not just in a war situation, but like things have got a little FUBAR everywhere she lands. So she's looking for for those places for
Ansel Burch 23:37
so I have an important question for you. Then, okay, as you travel through time, what is the logical explanation for why you're able to understand people? Because
Sarah Moore 23:50
she doesn't think too hard about it. Okay? It's not about that. It's um, I mean, they're making a movie, and in in movies, you could talk to everybody speaks the same language. You can you can talk to whoever. So if I
Ansel Burch 24:09
like the idea that somehow, just in the like area of the camera, it's all happening in English. They all have British accents for inexplicable reasons, very strange,
Sarah Moore 24:20
often only if they're bad guys, though they have a British accent, which is a good tip off for me, Romans,
Ansel Burch 24:27
which frequently are bad guys, yeah. But
Sarah Moore 24:29
also, oftentimes Romans have British accents in some some movies than we have seen, because they're the bad guys. But like so yeah, they might speak accented English, but it is always
Ansel Burch 24:45
English. I like that idea a lot. And yes, I'm gonna ask all of you what the interior logic is for why you understand everybody. Universal translators are amazing. And I think that the mental gymnastics to make. Them work are even more amazing. But, yeah, that's great. That's great. So, yeah, I think that you, you're able to, first off, you're able to pick up sort of the conversations that are happening around you in the initial moment. So, like, you're able to tell that, like, these are, this is a medical tent. These people are treating other people. They're talking mostly about like, this person's had an arm chopped off. That person's like, got an arrow in their face. You know, they're a lot of business, like conversation prior to your coming in. You, however, are an anomaly, mostly by virtue of being a lady person. They didn't expect to see any lady people coming into the medical tent today. There just aren't a lot of them on the battlefield in ancient Mesopotamia, sure.
Sarah Moore 25:51
But wouldn't there? This is a maybe a history question, but like, wouldn't there be lady people on the fringes? Like,
Ansel Burch 26:01
yeah, probably Yeah. And so I think that's the the question they're going to ask you is, how did you get into the like, line of fire and sort of and move into that? But I don't think that's the more interesting part of the scene. I think the most interesting part of the scene is the information that you're getting out of them. So I think the question is, do you think you drive them towards questions about the organization of the conflict? Do you look for other anomalies, like, what? What do you want to sort of trick them into doing as they try to help you. Yeah, with this injury,
Sarah Moore 26:47
I want to know what's out of place. I'm looking for the anomalies. I'm looking for the weirdness, because
Ansel Burch 26:57
we know that you didn't super remember anything, but you, you are able to understand the context because of Mason. I think that the the thing I will impose in this moment is that you're asking these questions loudly enough that Mason is able to pick up on and react, sure, and I think you're reading, I think you're reading Mason's reactions as much as you are the reactions of these medical
Sarah Moore 27:32
staff. Okay, is this a draw or No, I may
Ansel Burch 27:36
ask you to draw later, but right now, you're covered by your initial Okay, cool. We haven't done anything special. So, yeah, yeah, I think you're able to, you know, your chit chat with these guys and try to trick them into revealing
Sarah Moore 27:50
what you said. A lot of them are, like, praying over me. Yeah, there's a lot of, I mean, I think I would lean into that. I think in all of her travels, she has found that people of the cloth, one way or another, are always very interested in sharing their stories, because they feel like it's going to save her because she's usually not, yeah, in whatever proper context they are expecting her to be, which usually means that there's some sort of a problem, right? So I'd like, I think she leans into that. And like, you know, what else has been causing you to have distress, and causing you to have to pray, and what, honestly, you are you fixing? Basically,
Ansel Burch 28:37
I love it. I will have you draw actually, to see if you're talking out of it. Oh, and I have a feeling you're gonna Oh, God, I
Sarah Moore 28:47
hope so it's okay. It's not super high to eat. Oh, okay,
Ansel Burch 28:53
I got a two. Like I said, I'm apparently exclusively low cards today. I
Sarah Moore 29:00
feel like that's gonna be bad for us later. Yeah, yeah,
Ansel Burch 29:04
probably, but this is super good for you right now.
Sarah Moore 29:07
Oh, and it's a marks card. Oh, what's the mark? It's got a circle with a like a line,
Unknown Speaker 29:18
like a half, T, yeah, looks
Ansel Burch 29:21
like a steering wheel,
Sarah Moore 29:22
huh? It does kind of look like a steering wheel. That is an enemies card.
Ansel Burch 29:26
Oh, yes. So you were gonna draw a second card and take the lower of the two. Okay,
hey, all right, so that's still an eight is higher. So we're gonna stay with the eight, which is still higher than my two. Okay,
Sarah Moore 29:45
that was the nephew of the studio head who's a PA and is out to get me. It's real. Mean, what do
Ansel Burch 29:54
you think it is about this situation that reminds you of him? Oh,
Sarah Moore 29:58
I think a lot of these people got. Their job because of their families. Oh,
Ansel Burch 30:03
yeah, this, I mean, this is the the priesthood of a cod. Yeah? Absolutely, nepotism all the way, yeah,
Sarah Moore 30:12
yeah. And I think, in fact, I think familial
Ansel Burch 30:16
resemblance to a bunch of them, yeah, I think they're all
Sarah Moore 30:19
cousins. I think some of them are probably touch dim witted, maybe all of them, to be honest. But like I also think that could be very useful, because if I could pinpoint the dimmest one, maybe he won't realize that he's not supposed to tell me stuff. Perfect and I'll just like bet my eyes Adam and see what happens.
Ansel Burch 30:49
Lady, it is so wonderful that you have come into the house of injury today. I It is our pleasure to pray over you, but you seem to have some concern. How is it that we can assist you with other other observations of the I do not think I understand it. There's so much to observe on the battlefield today.
Sarah Moore 31:23
I feel like I would, because I'm adjusting where I got shot in the leg, right that she would. Maybe I also think all of her costumes are touched tear away because they're all staged. Oh yeah, costumes. So she like tears it open on that side, sort of revealing more, more leg, and is cleaning things up. And is just like, I'm just, I'm worried about there's rumors everywhere, and I just, I don't understand them. But you, you seem like you would understand being so connected with the gods and everything like perhaps you could explain to me what some of these terrifying rumors mean.
Ansel Burch 32:13
I You speak just like that, that historian who comes that Mr. Quilan, I such broad observations are, I'm afraid, beyond me, but hey, perhaps some other scholar such as he might be able to assist you in identifying what is goodness.
Sarah Moore 32:42
Where do you think I might be able to find this? Mr. Quilane,
Ansel Burch 32:46
oh, well, of course, he is to be nigh unto our King, as I'm sure you are aware, he has been shadowing the king for some time.
Sarah Moore 33:02
Remind me how long that's been. I can't seem to keep it all loss of loss of blood. You understand, I
Ansel Burch 33:09
have, I have been aware of him for some two weeks, perhaps,
Sarah Moore 33:15
sure, yeah, and just, just arrived out of nowhere, definitely not a local fellow. Is he?
Ansel Burch 33:23
No, well, I understand that he is from somewhere across the river, but I do not pretend to know the full breadth of the world.
Sarah Moore 33:38
I think it's very important that I go see him.
Ansel Burch 33:45
If it is your wish, madam, certainly we would be happy to oblige. Once you are healed.
Sarah Moore 33:55
I'm sure I can make that. That's I appreciate that so much. I'm going to just like lean and look at aixa and say, new friend. Do you think that you could look at my circulatory system now,
Stella Cheeks 34:16
I like beam, and I'm like, I would love to
Sarah Moore 34:21
if. And then I just, sort of like, ask the priest, like, if you could just, just make, just make a little bit of room for my, my friend with the hands, if you could. Oh, just, certainly, of course, wonderful. Thank you. Uh, what I
Ansel Burch 34:36
if we will return to our praying.
Sarah Moore 34:40
Yes, keep praying. You are doing a bang up job. Wonderful job.
Ansel Burch 34:44
We left off at Ishtar. Everyone, all right, Ishtar, bless the wonderful, yeah,
Sarah Moore 34:49
if you could just like, just like, tiny bit quieter. It's um, I heard, I have heard that God is very the gods are very interested in your heart. Reverence.
Unknown Speaker 35:05
She says very
Ansel Burch 35:11
rhythmic chanting,
Sarah Moore 35:13
um, I'm uh, Elena. What should I call you? You can call me Alexa. It's wonderful your hands are different than mine. Oh,
Stella Cheeks 35:25
yes, sorry, no. And then I like gloves that are
Sarah Moore 35:31
absolutely I was just letting you know that I realized that we are perhaps from not the same place
Stella Cheeks 35:42
that would be correct. I do not live here in any time.
Sarah Moore 35:48
That sounds lonely.
Stella Cheeks 35:52
It is not like there are people where I live. I did not say I literally not there.
Sarah Moore 35:58
You came here by yourself in in like a really beautiful sort of Misty glitter fall thing that was nice.
Stella Cheeks 36:08
Oh yes, I am, I am the I am the person the source has chosen. So I travel here whenever she thinks it is necessary.
Sarah Moore 36:24
Interesting. Um, I've got this, like, do I mean, yeah, like an arrowhead, just like, real deep in the meat there. If you could just, I don't know how you do it, but you seem confident. And I like that. I'm
Ansel Burch 36:41
curious what Mason's inner monolog is for this.
Speaker 1 36:49
Yeah, Mason has found some shadows in the tent. He's just like rhythmic chanting. I can hear it all around me that it's now in hushed tones, as recommended by Elena Hake says, approaching her with her hands, those strange, wonderful, terrible hands.
Stella Cheeks 37:08
Wonderful love that, um, I think this goes back to kind of when Ansel, when we did our like, backstory stuff, the like tinkering, even on bodies type thing. So I would like to maybe flip to see if I can fab,
Ansel Burch 37:23
absolutely. Go ahead
Unknown Speaker 37:27
and draw a card. All right,
Stella Cheeks 37:32
not bad, not great.
Ansel Burch 37:33
I have a nine.
Stella Cheeks 37:37
Yeah, I'm gonna fuck with your bad negative or your blood negatively
Ansel Burch 37:40
So, but not like, super bad,
Stella Cheeks 37:44
right? I think maybe how that plays is, I just rip a narrow head out. I don't I'm just like, gotta get this out first.
Unknown Speaker 37:52
Yeah, I buy that. Oh,
Speaker 2 37:57
I also scream when she screams. So I also scream, and she screams. So everyone, at the same time
Ansel Burch 38:05
as everyone in the tent looks back at you guys. Boy, I think this is a great moment for us to cut the scene and pop back over to check in with whiskers. So whiskers, you have jumped into the chair the war chariot of Sargon, the great Are you? Well, you immediately jumped in and started giving him orders. What do you think is the internal logic by which whiskers is able to speak to everybody as he travels through time?
Omar Burgos 38:37
Whiskers is divine. Not only he's a pharaoh, which are, are basically the he the the humanoid, or just say, the earthy versions of the gods. But he speaks with fast and who gives him all the wisdom that he needs to solve any type of issue, and, of course, translate anything, and say, instantly, he's like a savant when it comes to languages. So he knows I love it everything at any time
Ansel Burch 39:05
that makes perfect sense. So you're in this chariot with Sargon. And Sargon is, at first, I think, taken very much aback by, you know, a kitty cat showing up and giving him orders. But cats are blessed of Ishtar. So I think he's like, okay, I can actually, I can get down with this. This is fine. And he's gonna start trying to follow your orders and that sort of covers where we left you as we continue forward. Are you just gonna keep going with trying to direct the course of the battle, or do you have another, another direction you kind of want to go now that you've had your initial influence on Sargon, it is worth noting that while your ideas were good, they have started losing a little bit the ego
Omar Burgos 39:56
of whiskers has been. Slightly bruised, and for the beginning of it, he will command Sargon, because these are technically in history, the ancestors of the Egyptians. Yeah, they share. So he sees that he probably knows how this battle will go, or how it should release much about it, but he's intent his ultimate goal, as he probably has been traveling time traveling a lot, maybe didn't meet with a lot of time travelers. I will say he hasn't met with much he's seen people of the time. So he would be shocked eventually when he sees other people who have this ability, because he thinks this is God's given, right? His goal is to figure out what's going what's wrong with this. Because his ultimate goal is to try to get back to his own time. Oh, sure, and he needs to, but to do so sure, he has to solve the issues of this time period. So definitely, what those bows and those bows that were out of place, it would be would catch his cat's eye, and his goal would be to kind of surmise and figure out what that is, and what he could do to kind of right the wrongs that are happening
Ansel Burch 41:15
absolutely okay. So, yeah, I think as you look around the thing that I will give you, as just a fun fact, is that one of the things that the Acadians are famous for in this particular period is composite bows. So these are bows made out of wood and horn that are stronger and throw arrows better. And, you know, they're just better technology, and that's one of the things that made them dominant. Whiskers is able to spot that these guys are this army is carrying what are called self bows, turbos, which are made out of one material. And they seem to be aware of the fact that they're carrying the wrong weapons, like the archers are firing an arrow, and then looking at their bow, you know the way that you do when you you know, like the tool you were trying to use isn't quite doing the thing it's supposed to do. You're like, I, man, I knew this was the wrong screwdriver. I maybe I gotta go back to the tool bag, or whatever. They're definitely giving the the bows a second look he would,
Omar Burgos 42:22
he would probably first start off with seeing the battle fail that he's trying to guide for the Arcadians hop on to the shoulder of Sargon, the great and just with a paw, just kind of give him a little pause, smack across The face.
Ansel Burch 42:39
What? What? What is it? My friend,
Unknown Speaker 42:46
speaking cat,
Omar Burgos 42:49
you should know you are Sargon the Great, yeah, you defeated King lugal zake won the army to your side and took over, and yet, this is how you do with your you, with your army around you. Let me teach you. I think, Oh, this is
Ansel Burch 43:10
a lot of people are showing up and trying to teach me things these days. I'm starting to get a little tired of it.
Omar Burgos 43:17
But then maybe if you listen and learn, they won't have to do use a tactic about 200 years in the making, divide and conquer. Send your men over there, and then we'll see exactly how victory will go. But before you do answer me this, what is up with the booze? That is not right. Where did you learn of such things? I
Ansel Burch 43:43
Mr. Quilan insists that the bows were promised by Ishtar and that they these bows are going to give us victory this day, and that Ishtar does not like the mixing of materials in our warfare. So if you've got a problem with the bows, I says, qui Lange, come here. I and this cat both have problems with your advice regarding the bows. And with that, another chariot, sort of like pulls up from along the side, and you see a person who, to all intents and purposes, looks like they belong. This guy looks like all the other Acadians. He's wearing the same Acadian gear. He's got the right, like, facial makeup and whatnot to sort of suggest that he's genetically of this time period and place, but there is something about him that just doesn't feel right to you, whiskers, and I think that it is at this point that he he like looks at you, and then he looks at the king, and he looks back at you, and. He says, I Your Royal Highness. I think that I need to have a private conversation with your new military advisor.
Omar Burgos 45:16
Yes, I would agree as well. Sargon the Great. We should talk in private. What was your need again? Quilan frizz,
Ansel Burch 45:24
quilang, yes,
Speaker 3 45:30
come, you come? We just speak over here. No, no, you come, as
Omar Burgos 45:37
it kind of gets into that tall hissing cat, someone defying his his ruling, his commanding.
Ansel Burch 45:46
And I think that is where we will end this first episode, so that we can pick back up with the conclusion of our conflict and this meeting between whiskers and FRIS quilan, if you are thinking, Gosh, that must be the bad guy, good work, acknowledging the hopefully obvious clues.
Sarah Moore 46:08
We did it. We
Ansel Burch 46:10
did it. We did it all right, so for us in the room, it'll be a few minutes, but hey, for you at home, we will be back in your podcast feed soon with episode three of our first adventure and I hope that you will join us again. Then thank you all so Stella cheeks is at Stella cheeks on Instagram and blue sky. Sarah Moore is at pixies and pins on all of the social media channels, and at pixies and pins.com you can also check out her Sarah's table live streams on Twitch at pixies and pins. Omar Burgos is at tail Weaver. Check out his work on the tale of D 20s. TTRPG channel. More information at a tale of D twenties.com, Ben banks is at DJ underscore. Blendian on Instagram and SoundCloud. I'm Ansel Burch, and you can find me at the indecisionist on all of the meta properties and on blue sky special. Thanks to Cameron ivesque Davis for the song you're hearing now and at the beginning of the podcast, this has been an indecisionist production. Go to indecisionist.com to find more of our work, including my monthly gaming event, TTRPG pickup con, and my other time travel podcast, time to party as you travel at one second per second, take some time out for these intrepid adventurers. They may be in trouble, but only for the time being you
