Previously on the Adventure Zone, you've been able to withstand the thrall of each of the relics that you faced so far

and that is commendable but there there's no power and no treasure more seductive than that which the temporal chalice presents.

It will tempt you in ways that you've never been tempted before and I have no way to aid you except to warn you

that the power to fix your mistakes is a power that is nearly impossible to resist.

But I truly believe that together we can fix the wrongs of the past and we can make this world better in the process.

I just want you to hear me out and then I'll release the girl and then I'll go with you in peace.

So you're the cop. Let me do some quick calculations. According to my math there's a zero percent chance the boys don't weighing this one up. It's the Adventure Zone.

You don't have to use your character boys. You just talk to me like for now.

Okay. So, Merle, you are standing in a space that feels kind of similar to the white space that you've found yourself in

so many times whenever the loop resets but as you look around it dawns on you that taco and magnus aren't here anymore.

It's just you and standing immediately in front of you as June who is holding the temporal chalice and already she actually looks a bit more vital than when you spoke to her just moments ago.

Instead of this like you know 90 year old woman she looks like she's in her 60s or so.

Nice. Yeah. Okay. All right. She is deep in concentration and you realize it's because she is scanning through your memories.

And those memories are being represented in a very real way everywhere around you.

It's almost like you're standing kind of in the holodeck if you will and and your life is flashing before your eyes as June kind of goes through your memories and you find yourselves in all of these different scenes as she rewinds the span of your life.

So you see like the past few loops as she's scanning slowly at first and then you see your entrance your your cannonball entrance and a refuge and then you see your time in Lucas's laboratory and she she slows down a bit there and she nods and then she she rewinds a bit faster and you're in rock port and then you're in fandalin and then you're in the years.

And then you see the years proceeding fandalin and proceeding the adventure that has been covered in this show and and this brings us to our first of a few pot of a few questions that I want to ask all of you guys to kind of flesh out your characters a little bit.

And that is how did Merle come to be an adventurer like I want to get into like how he became a man of the cloth a little bit later but like how did you decide to sort of.

Um big become an adventurer is this is this like your first real quest where you a a priest of fortune before that like what's how did Merle get into this adventuring life.

No this was not this was not the first no really had a terrible home life.

Uh okay he was in a loveless marriage. Oh interesting. All right. I mean it was it was ugly. The what was what was his husband or wife's name.

Uh hekaba it was hekaba. Okay. It was uh you know dwarves marriages are usually arranged marriages you know because we really into this whole you know keep in the gene pool you know share share share.

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