As The Waters Cover The Sea 22: Where Eyes Wide Eels Dare · The Apocalypse Players · Radar

Montjoy receives Wardlow’s urgent letter0:00 – 7:23

Joseph ChanceHost

0:00

[fire crackling] [knocking]

Voice ActorVoice Actor

0:07

Yes, Edmund.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

0:08

Come in.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:08

[door opening] [door closing]

Voice ActorVoice Actor

0:10

Uh, forgive me, uh, my Lord Montjoy.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

0:13

I know it is a late hour, but I was delivered this from Mr. Wardlow, sir.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

0:18

He said it was most urgent that you have it upon the business of the meeting at the end of the month.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:24

I see, Edmund.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:25

Uh, you did the right thing.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:27

Here, bring it here.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:29

[paper rustling] Uh, you may go, Edmund.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:33

Thank you, and please attend the fire as best you can.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:37

Check that Marie is asleep.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:39

I know she frets.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:40

[door opening] [door closing] What do you say here, Wardlow? [paper rustling] What news reaches us from your coastal shores? Come now, come now.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:56

A tight script.

Joseph ChanceHost

0:57

[gentle music] My dearest Montjoy, Prince of Foxes, we cannot allow the Merrow to take advantage of St. Ursula to come.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:07

This moon is ours.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:09

The Ursine star is ours, and Monmouth means to steer us from our shore.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:15

We are the land.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:18

I know your dream frets you, that your great name will die in treachery and be replaced by this other man you saw, this Launceston.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:27

Oh, heavens.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:30

This Launceston whom you saw in your vision.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:32

But what did Tamlin Godswood warn us of in his great colloquy by way of trusting to our dreams? That they are not writ in the quantock stone.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:42

This fate may change.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:44

Even the whispers of the desert wizard Ivan speak as much.

Joseph ChanceHost

1:48

And do we not have hope from Hyperborea? The stag, Poulton, has the rod, and with your Disc of fabled Ind, the means to a greater future now than that blasted Merrow Lemuel's prayers promise.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:03

I swear it.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:05

We must trust the voice that speaks to us through that stave of power, the one that Ivan calls the Yithian.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:13

We must trust also to the king.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:17

What Monmouth does is his business, but we would be fools to leave this feast of St. Ursula without action.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:24

Our eleven thousand will not count us amongst the dead, no.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:28

Better that these pretenders with their ill-gotten wrack rights be swept aside by the light of the land and the river.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:37

By Condatis, this moon we may make our claim.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:43

Take the old mother, the Hydron Bast, to Horror's Coom if we must, to Alfoxton and the Shadowganger, to the spring there that we know does not run dry.

Joseph ChanceHost

2:54

We may drink freely of it then, away from these waves and wars.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:00

But we must move quickly.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:02

Why, only yesternight, Wendrove himself told me one of his most trusted lieutenants did not answer him directly if he could be counted on.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:13

I fear Lemuel's rely on promises may have begun to sow discontent among the faithful.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:20

If those damned Merrow have reached so high amongst even Wendrove's peaceful hares, who can say for owls or boars? And all the time, poor foolish Clarendon dithers and dallies and knows not what he is about.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:36

He lives in the fog of the past, where peace was won by his father.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:41

But he is no such man.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:43

Forgive me for saying it, and yet I write it here in truth.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:47

No, our time is now.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:50

We must strike, Montjoy, before we ourselves are struck.

Joseph ChanceHost

3:56

Let us bring the artifacts together this moontide.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:00

I know it is a great danger, but better to be knowing of it and able in the taking of action with them.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:06

And let the business of it be done upon their ground, the Merrows, at the Cliff Barrow.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:13

Damned be those merfolk and their winnowing ways.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:18

Your Lemuel has led good men away from us and fed them false promises, I swear it.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:23

As indeed, I swear my loyalty to you and to the Ashfolk.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:29

If you see Crevic's men in the masks of my Crayfolk in league with the Mer, with the Merrow filth, then you must know that they are false and not of my company.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:38

I swear it.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:39

I swear it thrice over.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:40

I swear it.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:42

I rest your honored friend and loyal in the compact of our powers.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:47

By Ursa, by Strix, by tusk, horn, and hair.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:51

Yours, Horace Wardlow, Prince of the Crayfolk.

Joseph ChanceHost

4:59

[fire crackling] This is a dreadful business.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:03

[bell ringing] And yet, I know not if I can trust you, Horace, my oldest friend.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:11

[door opening] [door closing] Edmund, quickly now.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

5:14

Yes, my lord.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

5:15

What is it? What would you have?

Joseph ChanceHost

5:17

Fetch me my horse.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:19

I will ride to Wardlow's tonight.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

5:21

What all the way, sir? It is a cold evening.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

5:25

Uh, you shall catch your death.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:25

No, no, no.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:27

Warm some brandy for me, uh, and do not wake Marie.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:31

No.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:31

Better that I go in secret.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:34

Better that all of this is done in shadow.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:38

Would that I had never had that dream.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:41

Would that I had never laid eyes on that man, Launceston.

Voice ActorVoice Actor

5:47

I shall fetch the mare for you, sir.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:49

Do.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:50

Good Edmund, do.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:53

And Edmund, here, a shilling for thy care.

Joseph ChanceHost

5:57

Edmund, tell me, have you heard tell ofRebels in the skirts of the land.

Dan WheelerPanelist

6:07

What? No, sir.

Dan WheelerPanelist

6:08

I know only loyal folk true to the king.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:12

And you have heard of Monmouth, though?

Dan WheelerPanelist

6:14

Well, of course.

Dan WheelerPanelist

6:15

We all have, sir.

Dan WheelerPanelist

6:17

There are rumors.

Dan WheelerPanelist

6:19

There are tittle-tattle gossips who would spread discontent, but me and my Marjorie, we have nothing to do with that, sir.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:27

Good man, Edmund.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:28

Good man.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:29

I expected nothing less of you.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:32

I have trusted you with much.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:35

Come my return from the moontide, there shall be a gift for you and your family as always.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:42

You have done so much for us.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:44

I sense great change ahead, Edmund, a brave new order to things.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:53

Would that it would come as soon as now.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:57

But now I must ride.

Joseph ChanceHost

6:59

Thank you, Edmund.

Joseph ChanceHost

7:00

That will be all.

Joseph ChanceHost

7:00

[door opening and closing] That will be all.

Joseph ChanceHost

7:09

For all shall come from all or nothing yet.

Dan WheelerPanelist

7:17

Launceston, who are you? Why do you haunt me so?