Episode 11: Ancient History, Part 1

SCENE 1: Exterior - the woods far from civilization. A brook babbles in the distance.

[Tense music.]

[We hear the portal sound from episode 10. Three people roughly hit the ground. The portal continues to hum.]

CYRUS: Brynn, Jenna! Stay right there, don’t move-

BRYNN: No, we gotta get back before-

[noise as Brynn is flung backward. She cries out.]

CYRUS: That’s what I was afraid of. It’s a one-way portal. Hang on, I can fix this.

[Rewind the last three lines. We hear them hit the ground again.]

CYRUS: Damn! Can’t go back far enough!

JENNA: Go what?

BRYNN: We have to go back through the portal before-

CYRUS: No, you tried that already, it's one way.

BRYNN: What do you mean? I didn’t try anything-

[portal shuts off.]

BRYNN: And… it’s gone. Guess we’re stuck here. Wherever here is.

CYRUS: We were stuck here anyway. Its a one-way portal.

JENNA: How did you know that?

CYRUS: Chronomancy. I looped myself back but I couldn’t go back to before we got sucked in for some reason.

BRYNN: Mr. Graves, you’re a time mage?! Whoah, those are like, the rarest! Literally. What are you doing working as a librarian?

CYRUS: *sigh* I’m a 1, I can loop back a minute or two, that’s all. The weakest form of the rarest magic. So not all that useful, unfortunately.

JENNA: This is all really interesting, Mr. Graves, but, uh… where are we?

CYRUS: Could be anywhere. If we’re lucky, we were only transported through space, and we can find the nearest settlement and make a phone call. They’ll send a teleporter and we’ll be back at the institute in time for lunch.

JENNA: And if we’re not lucky?

CYRUS: Another dimension. Or the past. Or the future. No way to know.

JENNA: Where did that portal come from?

CYRUS: I have no idea. It definitely wasn’t in the library this morning.

BRYNN: These trees are the same species as the ones that grow in the forest just outside school grounds, so I think we’re probably still in Oswer. Unless other dimensions have the same plant species as ours.

CYRUS: Hmm. That’s a good sign certainly.

JENNA: If we’re trying to find a settlement, following that sound to the river then following the river seems like the best plan, right? Wherever we are, people build where there’s water.

CYRUS: Smart girl. Alright, let’s go.

[Electromancy theme music]

CREDITS: Electromancy, Episode 11 - Ancient History, Part One.

[transition/ running water noise]

JENNA: So you really don’t have any idea where that portal came from?

CYRUS: I have a hypothesis, but no way to gather evidence to back it up.

BRYNN: Heh. You sound like Pem.

CYRUS: What can I say? Pem understands the scientific method.

BRYNN: So what’s your hypothesis?

CYRUS: I’m thinking some time while the library wards were up- so some time in the last 200 years, I know, narrows it down a lot right? - someone tried to cast a portal spell and rather than dissipate it got trapped in the wards somehow. So when they came down it resurfaced.

BRYNN: That… doesn’t make any sense with what I know about metamagic.

CYRUS: Well, like I said it’s just a theory.

[someone emerges from the bushes]

ANYA: Ha-yos!

CYRUS: Hello! We are lost. We were hoping-

ANYA: Oswer-iknur.

CABE: Pa reyik Oswer-iknur.

ANYA: Ayer pa-ah Oswer-tish keevrab. Nai satna-celer!

[We hear rocks scraping and moving.]

JENNA: What the-

BRYNN: Oramancy.

JENNA: Stop it! I’m warning you!

ANYA: Patesh-Oswer-iknur !

JENNA: I tried to play nice.

[lightning blast]

ANYA: Retesh-la-uhn! Shavik retu!

CABE: Asee retu-ah Reletha-satur?

ANYA: Reletha hamez na.

[Jenna is hit by a huge rock.]

BRYNN: Jenna! No! Mr. Graves, can’t you-

CYRUS: On it.

[rewind sound again]

CYRUS: Well, like I said it’s just a- stop. Jenna, quick, you’re Ardovan, do you speak Ardovan?

JENNA: A little? They made us speak Oswerian at school, but my grandma- why are you asking?

[Anya emerges from the bushes]

ANYA: Ha-yos!

CYRUS: (under his breath) I just looped back when they heard me greet them in Oswerian they attacked us, so can you try and talk to them in Ardovan please?

JENNA: Got it. I’ll do my best. Ha-yos. Na-ah haz-goh. Na-ah helae ha spira ocal… ocal… ocal [searching for the right word] zua!, ocal zua na-ah phone call yakulin?

[beat]

ANYA: Na-ah ha gwel zua, ayer ya rikkayen “phone call”.

JENNA: (whispering) I think we’re in the past.

CYRUS: Why?

JENNA: Because phones haven’t been invented yet.

CABE: Oswer-iknur?

JENNA: [thinking quickly] Rik! Rik Oswer-iknur, Oswer-tish ool tish ekekek dala na keevrab.

ANYA: Oh. Well in that case, we’ll speak it as well.

CABE: Wouldn’t want to be rude. Come, this way.

[a little walking]

ANYA: So, three travelers, in very odd but matching clothes- well, two of them matching, anyway- with only Oswerian as a common language. Let me guess, you escaped from one of their slave convoys.

CABE: That would make them mages. Are you all mages?

CYRUS: Yes! She’s Ardovan, I’m Culari, and Brynn is from -

BRYNN [obviously lying]: Dakora. Southern Dakora. I’m one of the Laynu people.

ANYA: I’ve never heard of Dakora. It must be far away. I didn’t realize the Oswerians had gotten so ambitious in their mage-snatching.

BRYNN: Oh yeah. Super ambitious. They’re just… snatching mages from all over the place now. Yup.

ANYA: Well, it’s a good thing you found us when you did. I’m Anya, by the way, and this is my brother Cabe.

CABE: Pleased to meet you.

ANYA:There’s Oswerian patrols in the region. We should get back to the village before we run into them.

BRYNN: Oh, uh, if you’re worried about being spotted, I can, uh, help with that. I’m an umbramancer.

CABE: You’re an umbramancer? Why weren’t you hiding yourselves before?

CYRUS: We thought we were safe.

ANYA: Well, again, lucky we found you. For all of us I suppose. Shroud us, Brynn of Dakora.

BRYNN: With pleasure.

[umbramancy sound]

CYRUS: So, if you don’t mind my asking, how do you come to speak Oswerian?

ANYA: Believe it or not, our people used to trade with them. Before they started kidnapping mages from all over the continent.

CYRUS: I see.

BRYNN: Psst. Jenna.

JENNA: Uh, yeah.

BRYNN: I am the best umbramancer in the world!

JENNA: Are you now?

BRYNN: Yeah, cause I put a cone of silence inside my cone of silence. Mr. Graves and those two Ardovans can’t hear us talking, and if they look back, they’ll think we’re just, like walking silently and paying attention to their conversation. But if anyone farther away sees us - invisible. Wow this is hard. Multi-level illusions while you’re walking and having a conversation- tricky stuff.

JENNA: [sarcastic.] Very impressive.

BRYNN: It is! But it’s important. Look, we’ve gotta find a way to ditch Graves.

JENNA: Why would we do that? We are stranded in the past, Brynn. Ditching the Chronomancer sounds like the absolute worst plan.

BRYNN: No, we’re not stranded, I mean, we are, but this is an opportunity! The Oswerian empire is tiny right now, Jenna, and we are two very powerful mages. We might be enough to tip the balance. We could free the world!

JENNA: I don’t think that works Brynn. If we change the past, we’re never born, and none of our friends and family are born-

BRYNN: So what! It will be a much better world. I’m sure it will have equally cool people. And we’ll still exist, cause we’re here.

JENNA: Will we? How do you know? Is time travel being real another one of those things mages just know about?

BRYNN: Chronomancers are so rare. It’s literally the rarest form of magic. So no, we don’t spend a ton of time studying it, but-

JENNA: I bet Mr. Graves has spent a ton of time studying it.

BRYNN: Yeah, but he’s a teacher, and former magecorps, so we can’t trust him.

JENNA: We can find out more about how this works from him without telling him your plan. But do you really want to just… erase everyone we know? What about Devon?

BRYNN: Oof. Okay, didn’t totally think that one through. That’s - tough. Definitely. But even so, if we have a chance to liberate the whole continent before it’s even conquered, how can we not at least consider it?

JENNA: You… have a point. This is… gods, this is a lot. Let’s just- find out if that’s even possible first.

BRYNN: So if it is possible - you’re on board? Stopping Oswer before it starts-

JENNA: Brynn, of course I want to stop Oswer. You know that about me-

BRYNN: Actually I didn’t. The way you act at school-

JENNA: Well, I’m pretty exposed at school.

BRYNN: Sure, me too, but I still find ways to- [she stumbles. The shroud starts to waver.] whoah.

JENNA: Brynn, you don’t look so great.

BRYNN:Yeah, feeling a little woozy. Too many illusions. Uh. [shroud dissipates] Sorry guys, I, uh, lost it. We’re visible now.

CABE Not much of an umbramancer, are you?

BRYNN: Hey! You try shrouding and silencing five people while also walking.

ANYA: Cabe, she’s a child. Thank you for your help, Brynn. It’s alright. We’re nearly there.

[Happy, pastoral music. We hear some background voices]

ANYA: Welcome home.

CYRUS: Where are we, if you don’t mind my asking?

ANYA: Pazia. One of the last strongholds left in this mountain range that Oswer hasn’t taken or destroyed.

BRYNN: Why do they want this area so much?

ANYA: I couldn’t tell you. They’re building something in another valley not far from here. A fortress of some kind- there’s a tower we can see from our lookout posts. My guess is they don’t want anyone close by enough to stop them from completing it. But our people are ready to fight.

JENNA: What are you doing out here anyway? This isn’t the Ardovan Mountains.

BRYNN: How do you know that?

JENNA: The trees are all wrong, for one thing. The mountains aren’t tall enough. And it's too warm for fall in Ardova.

CABE: You must really be lost. No, we’re a long way from home young one. Pazia is an Imbiran village. We’ve come to help them fight back against Oswer.

ANYA: And now we’ve brought three new mages to that fight. Assuming you’ll help us.

BRYNN: Yeah, of-

CYRUS: [cutting her off] I’m not sure how much help we’ll be, after all, these two are only children and-

ANYA: I was younger than them when Oswer first raided my village. They took my mother. She was a pyromancer, and a seer as well. Powerful, and wise. Cabe hadn’t shown his powers yet, or they would have taken him too. A few months later I took up the sword. A year after that I killed my first Oswerian soldier.

CABE: We didn’t have the luxury of a childhood. If these two were taken, I don’t think they do either.

CYRUS: Of course. Of course we’ll… do what we can to help. It’s just - we’re not well trained-

ANYA: Tell us about your gifts. The umbramancer we know- she can’t hold a shroud for long, but maybe long enough to get a group of soldiers deep into an enemy camp. What of you, Cyrus, and what of our young countrywoman?

CYRUS: I’m no good in a fight. I see visions sometimes- the past, the future. That’s all the magic I have. And as for the girl-

JENNA: Ya-ah keva Relatha-satur.

[beat.]

CABE:Hamez ya, ya-ah rikroda tayum. Ska -

JENNA: I’m not - I mean, get up, you don’t need to do that. I’m just an initiate.

ANYA: Tee-ha Reletha-Satur, ska ushtara Senkrit-sig aket-ora?

JENNA: Oh, my necklace? Uh, it’s a long story.

ANYA: I see. Perhaps I’ll hear it later. Well, we’re a long way from the temple of glass, so let’s not stand on ceremony. A daughter of Reletha could be a major boon to us, the storms in these mountains can get pretty intense. As for you, tell us if you foresee anything interesting.

CABE: You can stay at my place. Brynn, in the morning will you consider taking a scouting party to try and see if we can learn any more about this tower? Sure would be useful to have them be invisible.

BRYNN: Sure!

CABE: Alright. Come with me. I’ll get you some dinner.

[transition music]

[SCENE 2- Interior, Cabe’s house.]

JENNA: That was delicious. We’re grateful for your hospitality.

CABE: Of course. I’m going to turn in now. Please, let me know if you need anything during the night.

[Cabe walks up a flight of stairs.]

CYRUS: Brynn, you can’t take a scouting party tomorrow.

BRYNN: Why not?

CYRUS: Because, this is the battle of Imbira valley. History recorded the number of mages the coalition forces had. They didn’t have an umbramancer. If you change the past, we can never go home.

JENNA: How much do you know about this battle? I don’t think I ever learned about it-

BRYNN: You wouldn’t have, at mundane school. But the battle of Imbira valley was pivotal to the formation of the magecorps.

CYRUS: It was- is- about 30 years after Alexei the first regained the throne following the coup. He revolutionized magical training inside Oswer’s borders, and he wanted to do the same for the rest of Lusara-

BRYNN: Lusara?

JENNA: That’s what they used to call Osweria.

CYRUS: Very good. Anyway, history says the coalition got scared of all the foreign mages Oswer was training and decided to come together and put a stop to it. But at Pazia, in the Imbira Valley they were soundly defeated. It’s what made General Norris into one of the greatest heroes of the empire - though she went on to have a pretty huge influence on the unification of the continent. We still get her birthday as a national holiday today.

JENNA: See you call it unification, but the people here would call it something a little more brutal.

BRYNN: But Anya said they were already kidnapping mages? I thought that didn’t start until after the war started?

JENNA: Yeah, that’s what the official history books say. In Ardova we learned a slightly different version. One advantage of ruling a whole continent, you can pretty much change the past when you feel like it.

BRYNN: Speaking of changing the past, though - is that something we should be worried about?

JENNA: Yeah, I thought the past was fixed. Isn’t that why prophecies work?

CYRUS: I don’t know, Jenna. Prophecy is- a whole other thing. They’re - they’re not actually inviolable, but- that’s neither here nor there. Changing the past with chronomancy, though- look, powerful chronomancers come around once in a century, and even they can travel 10, 15 years at the most. If this is the battle of Imbira valley, we’re 400 years in the past. I don’t know how that’s possible.

BRYNN: But even a few years should be enough to know if you can change things, right?

CYRUS: It’s something we’ve been arguing about for centuries. Chronomancers who travel deep into the past with the intention of changing something - they just vanish. They don’t come back. Those who have traveled deep into the past and returned have done so by making as few waves as possible. That’s why that’s the first rule of time magic.

BRYNN: Funny thing about rules, Mr. Graves. I’ve never really been a fan of them. Let’s get some shut-eye. I’ve got a big day tomorrow.

CYRUS: Brynn, as a faculty member I am ordering you-

BRYNN: Faculty of what, Cyrus? The institute hasn’t even been built yet. And if things go well tomorrow, maybe it never will be.

[different tense music]

BRYNN: Hey. Princess. Hey. Wake up, time to go.

JENNA: What? Go where?

BRYNN: I’m joining Cabe’s scouting party. And you’re coming too.

JENNA: Mr Graves?

BRYNN: We’re ditching him. You and I need to talk. Plus we could use your firepower if we run into any of those patrols.

JENNA: Just once I’d like someone to want me for something other than my ability to fry other people.

BRYNN: In that case we’re in desperate need of a mediocre salpinette player. Now c’mon.

[we hear some light rainfall as Brynn and Jenna leave the hut.]

BRYNN: Well, glad the weather’s finally decided to cooperate.

JENNA: We need to think, Brynn. I know you hate the empire, but if we help these people, then when we get back to our own time-

BRYNN: What makes you think we’re ever getting back to our own time? We’re hundreds of years in the past. We have a chronomancer whose barely a 1. Unless you know a lot more magic than you’ve let on, I don’t know why we’re thinking about this like it wasn’t a one-way trip.

JENNA: I don’t know a lot about magic okay? But maybe I know… a little more than I let on at school.

BRYNN: I’m listening.

CABE: Brynn of Dakora. You ready?

BRYNN: Yup. Bringing this one along too.

JENNA: Uh, hi.

CABE: Daughter of Reletha. I wouldn’t want to put you in any danger.

JENNA: We’re all in danger anyway.

CABE: I suppose that’s true. Do you know that spell that makes everyone’s swords fly away from them? Saw a lightning mage do it a few years back, seems like it could be very useful.

JENNA: I haven’t learned that one yet.

CABE: Pity. I should- with all respect due to your gift- is it alright, if I remain in command? I know we have our ways, but I’m familiar with the field of war, and a bit older, and with non-Ardovans in the coalition-

JENNA: Of course. Like your sister said, we’re a long way from the Temple of Glass. And like Senkrit said to Moashtir, the rod that bends the most breaks last. I will follow your lead, taros-satur.

CABE: Such wisdom from one so young. Brynn, you think you can hold the shroud a little longer this time?

BRYNN: Yeah, I had a full night’s sleep, so-

CABE: When you’re ready.

BRYNN: Just the three of us, then? When you said scouting party, I thought-

CABE: If we’re captured, one or two more won’t make much difference in a fight. Better to minimize our losses - and the fewer of us you’re shrouding, the longer you can keep it up, right?

BRYNN: Makes sense, I guess. Ok, here goes.

[The shroud goes back up.]

CABE: How far ahead of you can I go and still be invisible?

BRYNN: I’ve never tested that. Uh… I’m a 6?

CABE: I don’t know what that means.

BRYNN: Just keep walking forward, I’ll tell you if you’re too far.

[beat]

BRYNN: Ok, what was all that about?

JENNA: Ardovan stuff, don’t worry about it. An Earth mage could never give orders to a lightning mage, not without permission. The gods would be offended. I quoted the book of Yakira because Cabe thinks I’m a priestess - well, an initiate anyway- so I figured I’d try and act the part.

BRYNN: Okay then...

JENNA: So you’ve given up on going home?

BRYNN: I didn’t say that. I just don’t really have any idea how we possibly could.

JENNA: Mr. Graves might.

BRYNN: And I’ll be happy to consider them if he does. But for now, this is the world where we are, and I’d like to be a free agent rather than a slave of the proto-magecorps, so I’m going to do what it takes to win this battle. Too far, Cabe!

CABE: Uh, this good?

BRYNN: Yeah, beautiful. Uh, you just stay exactly that distance away and we’ll bring up the rear. (to Jenna) In the library, two days ago -

JENNA: Or 400 years from now.

BRYNN: Sure. Yes. You know what I mean. You told me that I don’t know you. Well, we’re not surrounded by telepathic spies anymore. You don’t have to blend in. It’s just you and me. So tell me. Tell me what I don’t know.

JENNA: So you can spill my secrets to anyone who will listen when we get back?

BRYNN: If we get back. And I wouldn’t do that. We’re on the same side.

JENNA: You’ve never acted like we were.

BRYNN: Cause you’ve always acted like such a narc! If I’d seen your secret umbramancy necklace right away, maybe we would have started off as friends.

JENNA: That would have been nice..

[beat]

BRYNN: I’m sorry.

JENNA: Sorry for what?

BRYNN: Sorry I thought I knew everything about you on day one. Sorry I tried to embarrass you. Sorry I… screwed up your music thing.

[beat]

JENNA: Apology not accepted.

BRYNN: Seriously? Jenna, I never apologize. I never admit I was wrong about anything. Do you know how hard that was for me?

JENNA: You bullied me for weeks, over nothing. You don’t just get to walk it all back. You want my friendship, you want me to trust you with a secret- you’re gonna have to earn it.

BRYNN: How do I do that?

JENNA: I don’t know yet.

CABE: Brynn, Jenna. Take a look at this!

BRYNN: Oh. Uh… Wow.

JENNA: Ok. That’s… familiar.

CABE: Familiar? Were they holding you, in a place like this?

JENNA: Not exactly…uh, will you excuse us for one second? *to Brynn* That’s-

BRYNN: Definitely the Institute. Or at least it will be.

JENNA: That- makes sense, though, right? The portal took us really far through time, but not that far through space?

BRYNN: Magic very rarely makes sense. But… Leonard said that mana battery had been there for hundreds of years. It might already be in place.

JENNA: And if it is, maybe it could power Mr. Graves up enough to send us home!

CABE: Looks like they’re using oromancy to speed up the construction. But there’s fewer soldiers guarding the site then the last team reported. Like a lot fewer. Where did the rest of them go?

BRYNN: I don’t know, but if it’s relatively unguarded, maybe we should get a closer look?

JENNA: That’s still a lot of soldiers for us to take in a fight. Plus I’m sure those oromancers can handle themselves pretty well.

BRYNN: I wasn’t saying charge right in. Let’s climb down and see if we can get inside. It looks like most of the guards are clustered around the gate to the outer wall - they won’t be expecting an attack from above.

CABE: I’d guess those oromancers are in tune with the rock face. They might be able to feel us climbing down, even if we’re shrouded.

JENNA: What do you mean?

CABE: I can feel anything the rocks around me can feel. Pretty common gift for us. Makes us tricky to sneak up on.

BRYNN: Damn. So, what, we just turn back?

CABE: We don’t have any far-sending psychomancers, unfortunately. If we did, we could leave a scout here to report back.

BRYNN: Report what though?

CABE: That half of their troops have gone somewhere?

BRYNN: We need more intel.

JENNA: Aren’t photomancers seers? I mean, can’t you look inside from here?

BRYNN: All seers are also photomancers, but not all photomancers are seers. I’m great at bending light to affect what other people see, but the second sight is not a gift I was blessed with. Trust me, Professor Rosario tried really hard to coax it out of me. No dice.

CABE: I thought you said you were an umbramancer.

BRYNN: I am! Mostly. Maybe I’m like, a tiny bit also a photomancer.

CABE: Dual-natured? Why would you hide this from us?

BRYNN: I didn’t trust you, okay! Wanted to have an ace up my sleeve. Can you really blame me?

CABE: I suppose not. And what about you?

JENNA: Just a lightning mage.

CABE: And not a very sophisticated one?

JENNA: So far, no. Hey, wait a sec, I have an idea. C’mon, this way.

[beat]

BRYNN: What are we supposed to be looking at?

JENNA: That oromancy trick- rock empathy or whatever- so we have to actually touch the rock for it to work?

CABE: Pretty much.

JENNA: So if we climbed down that big tree, Brynn could keep hiding us?

BRYNN: What are you suggesting, we jump and grab onto it? We’d never make it.

JENNA: No, I’m suggesting I knock it over with a lightning bolt and we climb down that way. It looks sturdy enough.

CABE: They’ll see the lightning.

JENNA: Yeah, but it’s already raining.

BRYNN: Not that hard.

JENNA: Give me some illusory thunder, then. Help me sell this.

BRYNN: Yeah, I can do that.

[huge thunderclap and lightning hits a tree, knocking it into the cliff face.]

CABE: I’m not sure this will hold my weight.

BRYNN: You can wait for us up here then. Hide in that clearing. We’ll come back when we’ve seen what’s inside.

CABE: I couldn’t put you in danger like that. My sister-

JENNA: Your sister will understand if you tell her the priestess of Reletha ordered you to let her go in alone.

CABE: I thought I was in charge?

JENNA: She doesn’t need to know that. Look, if we don’t come back, go back to Pazia and tell them what we’ve learned. You can mount a rescue when you have a proper force behind you.

CABE: I can’t promise that. If I leave you at their mercy for that long-

JENNA: Trust us, okay. Or - trust in Reletha, at least? To protect me. Senkrit too if it helps.

CABE: I - *sigh* If you don’t come back, I’m going after you.

BRYNN: You do you, big man. C’mon Jenna, let’s roll.

[beat. We hear the log creek as Jenna pokes it with her foot]

JENNA: Uh, you first.

BRYNN: Nuh, uh. If I fall to my death, the illusion breaks and they’ll spot you for sure.

JENNA: Fine. I’ll do it. Ugh. Reletha protect me.

[We hear the log buckle as Jenna climbs down it.]

BRYNN: Okay, coming down.

[same noise and then suddenly, a crack. Brynn cries out.]

JENNA: Are you okay?

BRYNN: Yeah, but- I may have.

[shroud ends]

SOLDIER 1: Did you see that?

SOLDIER 2: Yeah, that log just snapped in two all by itself.

SOLDIER 1: No, not the log, the girl! I swear a girl appeared for a few seconds, then she vanished.

SOLDIER 2: Illusionists. We gotta tell HQ-

[Lightning noises, bodies fall]

BRYNN: Forked bolt, nice! C’mon, quick before someone finds them.

JENNA: Hang on, I want to make sure I didn’t kill them.

BRYNN: They’re the bad guys, Jenna!

JENNA: That doesn’t mean they deserve to die! Plus, if they were supposed to survive the battle, then I didn’t just kill them, I killed any kids they might have had later. What if this is Ellie’s great, great grandpa? Then we’d have no Ellie when we get back.

Ok, pulse, pulse - uh.

Still breathing. Okay, good, let’s go.

BRYNN: We don’t have long. And we can’t go back up the way we came.

JENNA: How are you doing holding the invisibility?

BRYNN: Oh, fine, this is easy mode on that front. Now c’mon. I want to see if that mana battery is still there.

JENNA: You’re sure they can’t see us? Or hear us?

BRYNN: I mean, one of them could be a photomancer, obviously best to keep our distance where we can. We need to find the same tunnel entrance we took when we were fighting the monster, otherwise we’ll never find the secret battery.

JENNA: What does it look like?

BRYNN: Like a big, glowing blue egg.

JENNA: Like those big eggs?

BRYNN: Sweet lord of autumn.

JENNA: Those are batteries?

BRYNN: Yeah, but they’re not charged. Dammit. If they don’t have any magic in them, we won’t be able to use them to get back.

JENNA: How does one recharge a mana battery?

BRYNN: I have no idea, it’s top-secret magecorps knowledge.

JENNA: Okay, well, we saw what we needed to see, let’s get out of here.

BRYNN: Sure. Uh, this way.

[Gossip Grooving plays]

CREDITS: Electromancy is written, produced and directed by Nathan Comstock. This episode was sound designed by Austin Cruzen with music by Thomas Dwyer. It starred Azul Nova as Jenna, Leslie Gideon as Brynn, Bryan Green as Cyrus, Allegra Rodriguez Shivers as Anya, Spencer Hiroshi as Cabe, Emma Laslett and Nathan Comstock as Soldiers and Marta Da Silva as General Norris, although you haven’t heard that bit yet. You do know we have a little scene after the credits, right? And then after that we’ll have a trailer for another show you might enjoy. Thank you for joining us again for season 2, and thanks to everyone who contributed to our crowdfunding campaign to make this show happen. This episode, we’d like to offer a special thanks to Alice Bell. Thanks Alice. We couldn’t have done it without you. You can find out more about us at www.electromancypod.com. We’ll be back with another episode in 2 weeks.

SOLDIER 1: General Norris, we’ve got invisible mages here! They’ve breached the perimeter.

NORRIS: Spread the word. How many photomancers have we got on site?

SOLDIER 2: Three sir! The rest went with the assault

NORRIS: Station one at the outer gate and have the other two form search parties. We’ll smoke them out.

OCTOBER JONES: Fall 2022. October Jones and Fish with Legs return in their most daring adventure yet…

FISH WITH LEGS: We’re looking for the Elemental Creature of Earth!

OCTOBER: Yeah, I was– I was building to that.

FISH: Oh oh okay, okay, okay. Suspense… Thrills… Intrigue-ooooh-oooh-oooh, BAH.

OCTOBER: October and Fish is a buddy adventure about me–

FISH: October!

OCTOBER: –and my friend–

FISH: Fish with Legs!

OCTOBER: And in Season 2 we’re going on all new adventures.

FISH: I’m gonna face a dragon!

OCTOBER: And I’m gonna solve a murder mystery.

FISH: And together we’re travelling to the distant land of deserts and ancient treasures… Sandlantis!

OCTOBER: Find October Jones & Fish with Legs on Spotify, Apple, or anywhere else.

FISH: And visit us at octoberandfish.ca for pages from October’s scrapbook–

OCTOBER: –research journal–

FISH: –and other bonus content. Buh-bye now! Buh-bye.

OCTOBER: (awkwardly) Okay bye.