Yes.

Well, that is the question, is the notion was to convince him to stay here by giving him the thing that he wants, but if the numbers make more sense for us to just use this as a distraction and as a way of catching up, we are going to get his daughters back eventually anyway.

Yeah.

Well, certainly.

If I know anything about this sort of skullduggery, it's that if you want to hide a ruby, you hide it in a stack of gold.

If we steal everything of theirs, then they don't necessarily know who we are.

It becomes a little more difficult to find out what the target was in the first place.

Maybe we just-

[laughs]

Uh, I just, I gesture out to, uh, the Rookery around us.

Despite the fact that he, all, for all his 99 years, has ruled this corner of the city, he's been pretty neutral as well, so hard to read.

Probably need to figure out who is definitely siding with the council and i- in its current form-

Oh.

Get them in the mood for resolve, and then, uh, an after dinner, uh, as thanks to, to, to representatives of the city.

Maybe we could arrange some sort of, uh, a chill but refined dinner and try to understand better.

Mm-hmm.

He doesn't know what kind of game they're going to be playing next.

He's wondering if it mattered, if it will have an effect on people, if it wasn't just a flex of artistry but more akin to something his brother would have done, his brother who is here almost, possibly maybe.

Not alive, not breathing, not gone as we'd all believe.

It doesn't matter.

The danger to him doesn't matter.

Of course he's going to try to wriggle out of the trouble that's coming his way, but enough is enough.

Yes.

What can people expect over the next few weeks?

Yeah, well, like that, we're an archive that people can engage with.

It doesn't just go into another attic.

So we've seen a huge demand for adult classes in the last while.

And adults, especially when it comes to classes and instruments and playing music, it was often left to the side because family life took over or jobs or whatever.

We see an awful lot of people coming back to music.

So we decided to basically set up a pilot series of free adult daytime classes, which is 11 to 1.

But if people want to find out details about the other ones and sign up, how do they go about that?

What do the rest of you do?

Um, okay.

Caleb drops the wall of force, immediately turns to the group, "Get ready to pick up the pieces," and he turns back towards, uh, their target and arcs his hands in a massive circle in front of him, weaving his hands rapidly, and half a mile in the sky a hole opens up-

[cheers]

... as hunks of the Cognouza Ward broken into pieces float by.

And I yank my hands, and huge pieces of the Cognouza Ward are pulled through that hole as I cast ninth level spell meteor swarm.

Let me sleep.

I'm sorry, I'm, I'm really not myself.

I haven't slept properly in about, what, two weeks? And, uh, I, I have been trying to give, uh, you know, Veth and, and, and her husband some, you know, private time for, you know, boomson and, uh, I've been up many nights the last couple of weeks with little Bren-Bren, and he's a delightful boy.

I love him very much, but I am tired, so I may not be on my A-game today, so hopefully nothing too, uh, grievous or important is going on.

Feast had.

Uh, over at, uh, Veth's home, I, uh, draw a...

Oh no, it's permanent, it's permanent.

It's ready.

Then I reach out my hand and point

pointDown slope from Veth, where she stands, and a portal opens up before her just below, and an identical one pops into existence high above in an out of reach place.

Then I cast level one spell Grease beneath her-

Okay.

Hmm.

Uh, I would like to use, uh, Caleb One will use Rapid Cast, my legendary action, to cast Telekinesis and rapidly yank the other twin up to myself.

He lands on the ground, pulls out a familiar transmuter stone, and shoves it against his twin's chest.

The rock shatters to bits, and Caleb, who had looked haggard and rough, stands tall ... uh, singes and bruises moving away, and he is healed full, I believe

Annie's, ingredients for childhood.

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What does the first window reveal, Caleb?

Do you ever go close to Ambrano Moor? Would you ever have been anywhere near close enough to potentially have been in harm's way?

No, I mean, we're restricted in the distance that we can go to the Cliffs of Moher by the Marine Survey Office or the Department of Transport.

So, you know, all our tours are well within a safe distance.

If anything, it would be to be on a tour when that would happen would be a fantastic thing because, you know, it rarely happens.

And now it really happens on one of our cruises.

We have like four a day.

So the chances of it happening when one of the cruises is down there will be like one in a million.

Do you have any concerns about that going forward? There isn't really much we can do to prevent this and look, while it will take a very long time, eventually a lot of these sea stacks will be eroded.

What do you take of the fact that, yeah, maybe we're just not designed to handle this the same way that they are over in Europe?

what i would say is that um i agree that not all of our areas are designed for that and that's largely a fault of you know previous urban planning um but the course of our cities you know whether it's ottawa or calgary or edmonton are very dense so um i don't think this is a strategy that we implement in isolation we should be at the same time ensuring that there's a good mixed use of development so so housing uh retail etc and the retail shouldn't just be banks and boring you know relatively boring things that have no appeal when you're walking by we're talking you know bars and restaurants and window type shopping that you'd actually want to do so absolutely it's viable here and all you have to do is look to places like montreal where it's Incredible.

Every summer they open up, I think it's seven kilometers worth of roadways just to pedestrians and cyclists, and it is packed, and those businesses are dying to be there.

So some folks on the text line are like, well, this sounds, this notion of pedestrianizing and blocking off half a kilometer, a kilometer of route, that is a war on cars.

Well, I fundamentally respectfully disagree.

These areas, if you have the privilege to go to them, are so pleasant because no longer are you as a pedestrian or cyclist restricted to like a meter.

And, you know, it's so narrow that you can't even talk to the person beside you because you're always looking out for obstructions and so on.

These streets are really pleasant because you can walk three, four or five people wide.

What do you take of the fact that, yeah, maybe we're just not designed to handle this the same way that, you know, they are over in Europe?

What I would say is that I agree that not all of our areas are designed for that and that's largely a fault of, you know, But the core of our cities, whether it's Ottawa or Calgary or Edmonton, are very dense.

So I don't think this is a strategy that we implement in isolation.

We should be at the same time ensuring that there's a good mixed-use development, so housing, retail, et cetera.

And the retail shouldn't just be banks and banks.

boring you know relatively boring things that have no appeal when you're walking by we're talking you know bars and restaurants and window type shopping that you'd actually want to do so absolutely it's viable here and all you have to do is look to places like montreal where it's Incredible.

Every summer they open up, I think it's seven kilometers worth of roadways just to pedestrians and cyclists.

So some folks on the text line are like, well, this sounds, this notion of pedestrianizing and blocking off half a kilometer, a kilometer of route, that is a war on cars.

[laughs]

... keep him on point on stage.

And as he goes out and begins, Hal is, is, you know, he is a, a mix of conflicting feelings.

There is a foot waiting to drop either tonight or tomorrow.

Uh, the Halavars are going to be pissed.

He has put all his money in and is betting on this play, which is a tragedy, which tells the story of, uh, Vokion Mirzat, who was a precursor to the Shapers War.

One Rongyanni who tried to, uh, overthrow the chosen of Osgra, the priests, two centuries before the Shapers War, and was struck down.

One day."

necessarily

because we all started on the Tim Whistle.

We were all around the four or five age where Mam had the music school and in the evenings there'd be classes on and you'd be doing your homework in the back of the room or you might sit into a class.

That's kind of how it really started.

It just so happens that like we all play different instruments but we all did classical piano as well out in the convent here and uh with Lorna out the bog road here but uh yeah so we all did two whistle and piano to start with and then we kind of got an ear for different instruments or see what we might like so as I said there was no pressure put on but if you showed an interest an instrument would appear so I think it was nine I was nine when I was like oh yeah I like the I heard Noel Hill and Tony LeLan legendary record like and then I was like oh I like the sound of that 50 pence looking instrument because we still had pence at the time and I was like maybe I'll start on that and then when I'm older and bigger I'll go on to the the bigger one I didn't know there was a difference between the concertina and the accordion but sure lo and behold after even saying that my 10th birthday a concertina appeared which was in the middle of May, so it was kind of coming to the end of the school year.

So yeah, I was, got to Constantine then and I was raring to go, but I kind of had to wait till September then to go to classes during the school year, if you get me.

So I remember Anne McAuliffe from Castle Island there, she was up for the Sculls Scorer, Willie Clancy, and She wrote out the scale for me and Mam wrote out a couple of tunes like Twinkle Twinkle Knee in the Law and Our Ron the Lower I think was the other one, the great Kerry Eyre.

in ennis when you got your degree you weren't too enthusiastic about doing the masters straight away but you did go back to do your masters

The gods are honored by your sacrifice.

You know, I haven't been with you folks for very long, but from what I've seen, you people are ready to die in a good way, and I'm ready to die with you.

We're here together, so we'll eat this meal together.

And when we collect water, we'll drink it together.

And when we walk, we'll walk together.

[laughs]

And I throw it.

The bottle hits the top of the fence, and- and it ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.

Hal, as you look out and can see the spell unfurling, uh, uh, uh, what are you doing, uh, uh, you and Tisha, as the intermission occurs here? [laughs]

Well, I think in that freeze frame, as I'm looking out at people rising from their seats and milling about, and watching, um, spirits drift through the crowd, looking out at Tisha, I am thinking of years of work that she and I put in together, and the belief that I had in this place, which wanted...

Th- this society wanted to forget this place, to bury it, to cast it aside as a, a shameful place of our past.

And I always believed it could be reclaimed and repurposed for the people that live here to start a new chapter in the history books for our people and for all the people of Dolmakyar.

And I'm drunk with the, um, singular inspiration that is, is just flowing through here like the waters of the waterfalls of Dolmakyar.

Am heady with the magic of it.

Yeah.

You are heard.

First of all, when you watch that film and you just like, you see that level of ripping combined with that level of creativity, what's your takeaway?

Oh, it's so cool.

Darce is just, yeah, he's a creative, mad genius.

And he's got such a good eye for... just, like, pretty framing and light and all those sorts of things.

Like, there's so much detail in his shots and where he sets up and how he shoots that you don't really notice straight away, but it just gives the whole...

All his footage is such a beautiful look and I think a lot of that footage showed that, especially that stuff of Louis at Deserts and the way the light's shining through the back of the wave and it's just...

I don't know, you can just watch...

I know you didn't get it done, but fuck, man.

... you're-"

I'm outside looking for the falcon.

And I'm walking on the tracks, and he's kind of looking at this in his hand, and he keeps looking at it, and he smells it, and he holds it again.

He looks up and just kind of stares at the sky.

Sees a little moo.

Falcon comes down, 'cause he's wearing a good canvas jacket.

He kind of pulls it over his hand a little bit so it doesn't scratch him, 'cause he never knows where the falcon's been.

First thing you're gonna do is tell me who this little one is before I even let go of her.

Can you remind us, first of all, for anyone who's not familiar with it, of the background to this story?

Yeah, so the story begins back in September 2016.

This couple, they're originally from East Africa.

They're living in Ireland about 10 years at that point.

And they bring their 21-month-old daughter to CHI in Crumlin for a genital injury.

So they described when they got into the hospital that she had fallen on a toy at home and she was bleeding.

And then subsequently, over the next few hours and days, actually, hospital staff suspected what they refer to as a non-accidental injury.

were

How much has your head inflated after hearing that wonderful comments from him?

Well, good morning.

Yeah, no, it's fantastic on this lovely summer's day here in Doolin with the rain coming down and the depression.

And for Joe to bring me up like that has been fantastic.

I feel way much better now.

I mean, sure,

they are a voluntary organisation and they do an incredible amount of work.

They're obviously very important to all the coastal communities and anyone that's out in the water.

Yeah, yeah

... about people who are high up in these companies.

And I mean, I...

You know, if you scan way back and go like, "Oh, this is mankind's evolution to being pure light," like maybe you'll feel a little bit better about it.

But here on the ground, you know, LA's got car- self-driving cars, customer service jobs have been reported by chatbots.

So like we're seeing jobs vanish because of it.

So it's even, even...

You're all good.

want to ethically do

this.

I mean, the union has been trying to achieve that.

Whether or not they have made sufficient gains in that ground is debatable.

I don't know that I personally have a ton of faith in the letter of the law or the spirit of the law being upheld.

Right.

I would still wonder if this stuff is just being done under the table anyway, especially when so many instances are like, oh, we didn't mean that to be in the finished game.

I

Building.

I see all of your hard work.

I wanna thank each and every one of you.

I know the time that you've put in.

Thank you, thank you.

I, I'm afraid I have a bit of tough news, however.

Um-Every one of you feels the pressure i- in this city, the temperature change.

Just total silence from the cast as something is said this definitively.

[laughs]

Um, all right.

Let's get into the city.

Why don't we go to my house? And you guys can wait for, wait for Murray and crew, unless you have pressing business?

Let's go to your house.

Uh, I just wave at, at, uh, Neveda and just go, "Very well.

Yes.

All right, everybody.

Mm.

But when you're willing to fail in rehearsal, amazing things happen, and that's what's going on in this game, is that we're not, we're not making a movie.

It's still a game.

We're only in character, like, 80% of the time or 85% of the time, and then you're seeing us, like, laugh at what just happened because we're, we're saying, "Well, it's just, it's a game.

We're trying something." And there's something about that that gives you more freedom than if you've got a script and there's cameras going-

[laughs]

... uh, working in the theater.

But I, I did it for, like, regional theater and off-Broadway for four or five years, and then, uh, wanted to get out of New York when things got sour in New York, and, um, thought, "You know, it's probably too late for me to be on camera," but I'd started to do a little bit of dubbing anime, 'cause I met a guy doing a play, and I said, "Maybe something will happen with voiceover.

Yeah.

But, you know, the, the beauty of what we do at the table is, like, we take huge swings.

We do make big mistakes, but the big mistakes go on to be, like, you know, the best twists in the story, and then we build off of them.

Um, there was one moment in the second story we told where we were in, like, the throne room of a queen of an opposing kingdom, and we were hiding their most prized relic.

And I didn't plan it beforehand, but, um, I just...

This, I'm talking about my make-believe game.

Sorry, guys.

[laughs]