He smells the egg salad Camille ordered in the fucking AIR
He asks Foo how he makes food so quickly — Foo says it’s magic
He asks for a BLT with a “special tomato”??? (to test how good Foo’s Food Magic is ig 💀)
A solid 60 seconds pass and Foo HAS it
Cal RUNS to the kitchen to try and see how Foo’s Food Magic works (he thinks it’s the door, like some kind of dog)
Foo informs Kaya and Cal that Camille and Cordelia already left for the mines
They leave to join the rest of the gang!! (they don’t see the other two yet)
CAL TRIES TO RACE KAYA?? HE DROPS HIS SANDWICH IN THE PROCESS
He has to roll for Athletics (Kaya doesn’t have to bcs she has a faster walking speed)
9: Cal runs into an alleyway going in the WRONG DIRECTION LMAOOO 💀😭
Kaya notices he’s not behind her anymore, and decides to fuck with him a little
She climbs a building and tries to spook him from there
CAL’S AT THE TREELINE BOOKING IT TOWARDS THE MINE!!! (he waves at her like a cheeky mf 🤭🐒🐵)
KAYA STARTS SPRINTING AFTER HIM
Cordelia asks Camille how they’re doing 🥺
Camille admits to compartmentalizing
Cordelia asks what the paper Vallen handed them last night was
Camille says it was his will, and tells her to ask Vallen himself (for his reasoning on why an immortal man needs a will)
CAL AND KAYA CATCH UP
Kaya uses Mold Earth to put Cal in a pit, and she wins the race!!
Cal throws a fit at losing, Camille gives him their sandwich as a condolence prize
Camille pitches the “we each take shifts keeping Vallen company at the mine” idea
Camille is going first, Cordelia going second, and Cal and Kaya can quartz, parchment, shears to see who goes third and fourth
Cal will go third, Kaya will go fourth
Arriving at the Mine
We hear some kind of mechanical revving? in the direction of the mine???
Camille and Kaya starts running towards the sound
Space seems to distort in a wave as we get closer?
GROUP STEALTH
We see Vallen (near the mine, around where the cart was) — no-one else is there. The sound is coming from him?
He seems to be practicing throwing this wave
HE’S NOT! DRENCHED IN SWEAT ☝️🤓
He looks exhausted and like he’s been doing this a while
Camille approaches Vallen and gives him “breakfast” (slab of raw meat)
He’s like why is everyone here???
We’re here to do our fucking job!! (and to take shifts and take turns keeping Vallen company)
We learn that the Garrison is sending more people over to watch the mine tmrw, so we won’t have to do our job anymore (as if we were doing it at all 💀)
Vallen says that he talked to Investigator Teasley last night and came to that conclusion
Camille and Kaya admit to eavesdropping on him
He’s chill with it, but admits to eavesdropping on everyone else’s conversations
CAMILLE’S LIKE?? AND HE’S LIKE “DON’T DIG UP THE PAST”. THEY CONNECT THE DOTS AND REALIZE THAT HE WAS FOLLOWING THEM TO Lycoris
Kaya asks Vallen about our next mission
He hasn’t heard anything about it :(
CJ ASKS FOR EVERYONE’S PASSIVE INSIGHT
Everyone that has a passive insight of 14+ knows he’s lying
We’re going to be sent back into Diamond
Vallen says that we almost died last time!!
Cordelia and Camille say that he can’t keep us safe by keeping us from doing things — Cordelia wants to learn more about her cards and the book, and Camille says that they’ll be ok because Vallen will be there to keep us safe 😊🌸💕
Vallen concedes, and says that we’re going to be expected at the Clover Capital tonight
SHENANIGANS ENSUE 👎
Note: Camille makes a note to learn what a “twink” is later
Camille asks what “come in men” means
Vallen is deeply upset by this
Cordelia says that she’ll leave them a book about it tn
Note: Lily wanted me to say that Vallen has a dick bulge :(
Camille hands Vallen a note (the note that “twink” is written on)
At some point Captain Purah walks away frustrated, and as she does, Ozwin calls out to her loud enough for everyone to hear: “When the mithril mines dry up, do not come back to me.”
According to Ozwin, Captain Purah wants to divert troops from the mithril mines to shore up Clover’s borders
Ozwin says that Dr. Pope has gone missing, and that some agents sent to Diamond to keep track of him have gone missing as well. His last known location was Iron Forge
Camille commiserates with Ozwin, and casts Guidance on him
He thanks them and says that if there’s anything we need, we can just ask him
Ozwin says that the Keeper should be ready for us
We can skip the line!! (filled with politicians and people wearing faction colors)
Also has some choice words to say about how the Keeper organizes things (mans is stressed as hell)
Speaking to the Keeper
There are two people - one wearing a red robe (Fire Faction) and one wearing a purple robe (palace colors) - yelling in front of the Keeper’s desk
The Keeper greets us, asks us why we’re here
Camille addresses him by name (V), and he’s like 😊 omg u remembered!
They ask if “V” is his full name — it’s not, his full name is Vyapada
It was given to him, but not by his parents. He didn’t know his parents.
The Keeper asks if we saw anyone from Diamond — we did, there were lots of higher-up Diamond officials in South Haran (there were some lower-ranking officials, but there were mostly higher-ups)
He asks us why there were so many higher-up members. He suspects that the Diamond military is VERY QUICKLY losing control of its warforged army
There has not been a single Diamond insignia on the warforged
The Keeper still hasn’t confirmed the location of the Pyramid — he’s asking us to confirm its location
He sent a group of rogues to check on it in Iron Forge, but he hasn’t heard back from them
The Keeper mentions that WE mentioned that there was a “benefactor” who actually HAD the Pyramid in Diamond
He was originally a resident of Clover, but after his pupil passed, he decided to make a home for himself in Diamond
He isn’t mentioned much nowadays, because it’s “in bad taste to leave your kingdom after you are the fucking Keeper”.
HE WAS A TAROT USER
The Keeper drops the idea that - if Cordelia were to apply for the position of Keeper - she would probably need to work her way up through the military and work on her powers
Her father and mother probably requested that she would (work her way through the military) actually
Keeper says that Cordelia can find Balthazar in Wigson (this is said VERY quietly)