Death and Debts: Episode 07

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***Death and Debts* Episode 7** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on September 23, 2020, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on October 28, 2020.

## Summary

             Umi moves up to support Zara hold off the Acolytes, holding them back. Behind the two, Madeleine backs them up with her crossbow, finishing off each of them one by one. Revlis uses her spells to back up her allies. Vaeri sets up an ambush and tries to get her teammates to get them to fall back so they fall into it, but they keep fighting instead. Eventually, she grows tried of waiting for them, but she finds it difficult to squeeze through to attack.

           Meanwhile, Terryn goes around the long way, finding a room full of potions. She tries to shoot one of the potions closer to her, but ends up shooting herself in the eye. After pocketing one potion which creates monsters, she turns to Doug and tries to attack the Acolytes from beside them. In the end, she lures one of them, Doug’s friend, off to the side, and stabs him. Terryn reveals her true form, causing the man to panic about the fate of Doug, before Madeleine shoot the man in the back.

           Midbattle, Revlis realizes that there is another person approaching from behind them; a samurai mercenary, hired by the Acolytes for protection. Zara, seeing a worthy challenger, leaves the few remaining Acolytes to be cleaned up by the rest of the group. Most of the group try to talk the samurai out of trying to kill them, but she is honor-bound to fulfill her word and Zara, on her honor, will not end the fight. As the fight draws towards its end, the samurai draws her second blade, knocking out Zara and Umi, before Momo crushes her into the floor. As she hits the floor, a silver mirror rolls out of her pack.

           Revlis, showing respect for the samurai, takes her hat and lanterns for herself. This starts out with arguments between her and Vaeri, with Ravlis not seeing a reason to kill her since she was attacking nonlethally, while Vaeri argues that, even if the samurai was sparing them, the Acolytes would not. Terryn distracts them by, as Doug again, taking off her pants to see if she is “accurate.” However, Umi waking up reignites the arguments briefly, with Vaeri taking the burden of the kill for herself, while Revlis telling her she does not have to hold that burden alone.

           The group inspects the dropped mirror, finding it being a holy artifact to an unknown god, imprinted with the symbol of a white, two headed serpent. When Terryn looks into it, she gets pulled into a mirror world. Within, she sees other Changelings and a giant two-headed serpent. The serpent leads her to a giant pool of glass, which takes her into the depths of Astral Sea, where she meet Tomen. He tells her about the new home world of the Changelings, but needs now focus on the violet menace. He states Terryn, along with her traveling companions, needs to meet up with two other Changelings in order to find one of the artifacts needed to defeat the enemy. First, however, they need to finish the current mission to free themselves for the mission. He then briefly shows her Neve and Ahst before sending her back to the sewers.

           She returns to the group, where Terryn, overwhelmed and still high, panics and passes out. Not sure what to do, the group looks at notes the girl has on her, finding she was in the group to meet someone, and that the girl has some destiny. This leads to another debate within the group, about whether to take the samurai to Babylon or not, raise her or not, to do so now or not. Vaeri just wants to take the body to Babylon for some repayment, Revlis wants to resurrect her, Umi is against being anywhere near Babylon, Madeleine wants to finish to mission without any opinion on what to do with the body, and Zara just wants to fight people.