#and ohhhh you can tell sometimes how its eating him alive. then those two voices in the back of his head nag at him

[fire-in-my-woods]

Thinks about Kyle Garrick. Thinks about Kyle Garrick. Thinks about Kyle Garrick. Thinks about Kyle Garrick. Thinks about Kyle Garrick. Thinks about Kyl

[iztarshi]

The Eleventh Hour -- Episode 45

"Announcer: I hope our boys have a very big salt shaker! I don’t actually know if salt kills worms, it’s hard to think of things to say sometimes. The Adventure Zone!"

You know, they actually do? But I think all the magic one would do is tell them whether the worm is safe to eat.

Yeah! Get a part time job! Go cook!

Taako's only got an hour, so I hope he can get an advance on his paycheck, but I am really invested in him actually having to cook.

Oh, I see, the ruffians are the ones dissatisfied with the bubble. Which is fair? I'd be dissatisfied if my town got bubbled.

Taako's such a con artist. I'm not even sure he needs to con Ren into offering him a job, but he is anyway.

I thought you were getting a JOB Taako, not trying to hold a seminar.

*laughing* This conversation with Ren is amazing.

"Taako: Great! I do just have to say, my lawyers, this is funny, it’s gonna sound like a joke, but my lawyers have told me to say that if there isn’t a tomorrow this is null and void. But, [laughter] of course there will be a tomorrow! Right?!"

Does Taako just say everything that comes into his head, but fortunately most of what comes into his head is glib lying?

I'm disappointed there will be no cooking, but that was amazing, and Taako has ten diamonds.

Zoooooone of Truth!

So, Cassidy's been in jail for a few months, since she saw the worm. The giant worm is angry because it got separated from its babies by the bubble? In which case I guess this IS the fault of the chalice. And Cassidy is not the one who has been setting up traps in lockers, so that's probably Isaak. He's probably behind the second door? The one with the bubble over it.

A god named Istus or Isthmus. Who, I think, remains a character? Pretty sure I've heard him mentioned, but not enough I know which of those is actually his name.

Griffin's retcon does speed things up, but Justin was the one who had Taako only go for ten diamonds. Taako could easily have asked for more.

Okay, I recognise the colours of this second teardrop that's about to shatter and they're the same colours as the gem-glass that didn't connect to a plane, that the red-robe-lich used to represent the Hunger.

"Paloma’s Prophecy Voice: In the future, you will be offered a terrible choice between two options that will determine the fate of reality itself. In this moment of crisis, remember. There is always a third option."

BIGGEST prophecy. The overall situation not just for the town but for reality and the overarching plot.

Taaakoooooo. No, I do think he was listening, he just has to mess with people.

Hm. Small prophecies are a LOT more focussed.

Okay, the rusted hands of the clock are a bit suspicious. Would it rust in a few months? …okay, I guess it would, not suspicious then.

"And she’s represented by a woman who kinda moves between these different ages, uhh, is sorta, in summary, sort of thought of the keeper of fate and time."

Person with a chalice or actual goddess? It's not unreasonable that an actual goddess of time might turn up, in the same way Kravitz was acting on behalf of the Raven Queen when people started messing with death.

No one's been to the temple for what looks like a thousand years. So, it wasn't in use, apparently. Or it's aged really really fast.

Ooh. Merle's prayers get answered.

"Clint: W-we have kinda established the dynamic of him barreling in, me trying to make him stop, and Taako hangin’ back."

Yep.

*laughing* Travis' wanting to know if the skeleton was alive is justified it seems.

"Taako: Give us your secrets! Skeleton: Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop."

*pfffffhahahaha*

"Griffin: I debated about this because you’ve talked about looking for a thing and people were like “why wasn’t that staticked out?” but I think if you just reference a chalice it’s not-"

Oh, I see. I wasn't sure, because I was pretty sure "gauntlet" was getting stacked? But anyway. It's good to have that explained, because it means Roswell not getting staticked wasn't because they're an earth elemental. That's one less complication.

Although in this case I THINK this guy is probably dead? And we've established that dead people don't get staticked.

"Luca: I was in the temple just doing my prayers, doing my scribing and such, counting the offerings, when it just… Something happened. Everything inside the temple aged very quickly... And luckily I was the only person inside, and none of my- none of the followers of Istus were harmed but I- that’s how I ended up in this sorry state and how the temple ended up in its sorry state. I don’t know what did it but I suspect it’s the same thing that’s causing everything to be all screwy in this town."

Ohhhh, interesting. Well. Luca hasn't been to the, drat, not the ethereal plane. The dead plane. And back. He's more like our boys, I guess? He didn't check in. Not that much like them, though, because he's a skeleton.

This was a few months back, so it's neither at the same time the bubble went up nor the same time that time started repeating, which was, town time, an hour ago. I've been saying a day, but no, it's an hour. It's been four years of ONE HOUR.

Okay, so Redmond's trying to force his way out of town. MAYBE with the help of the purple-kercheifs.

And the old woman is lying on the floor which probably means they're getting close to the solution, because Griffin wants to ratchet up the tension not set them up to fail.