Light and mercy, cleanse the soul.
Light and mercy,
cleanse the soul.
Light and mercy, cleanse the soul.
Everlight...
I need your guidance.
Where are you?
No!
The darkness lingers still.
We'll try this again in a few hours,
when you've regained your strength.
No.
I'll try again now.
It's too dangerous, Pike Trickfoot.
Do not indulge madness out of desperation.
This chamber is a conduit
for more energy than any one person can channel.
Especially one for whom the connection
to the Everlight is... questionable.
If you won't aid me,
then I'll do it alone.
Leave me.
Once more.
Cass!
Stay with me.
I've wanted
to do that for longer
than you can imagine.
Keyleth, hurry!
Vax!
I need Wanderer's Moss, Flicksilver
and, uh... the bag that says "dirt."
Need pressure on the wound before the spell can hold.
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
- Okay.
You can do this.
Oh, the joy in watching
a de Rolo child meet a painful end.
Cheers.
You son of a bitch!
We're all sons of bitches, de Rolo.
You in particular, from that bitch
who bore you.
Aw!
Did I poke a sore spot?
You didn't know your parents like I did.
They took every opportunity to keep an intellect
like mine nose-down
in the dirt, tutoring their...
misbegotten spawn.
Unlike you de Rolos,
the Briarwoods see me for a greater purpose.
And for my efforts, they have given me a great many
rewards.
Rise, armor of old and greet our guests.
No.
My turn.
Damn.
Oi! Heads up!
This revenge is mine.
Not if you're dead.
We're in this shit together.
This will teach you not to shoot my friends!
Pin the bitch down!
Shite!
You're unbelievable.
I know. It's annoying, isn't it?
I realize it's a long shot, but...
any chance for a private lesson?
Not that long of a shot, really.
Uh, if you're not dead down there,
we could use some help!
You and you, on the white-haired one.
Right, um, which one can I kill?
Literally anyone.
Aw, come on, come on. Work for me.
Okay, come on. Come on.
Please work.
Cassandra?
Cassandra, can you hear me?
No... No.
Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to--
I'm, I'm Keyleth, I'm...
sort of friends with Percy, and, um,
uh, forget it-- you're alive! Just wait here!
Not even a scratch?
That's one! That's three!
That's 11!
All the letters!
As much as I loathed having to teach you,
I'll relish watching you skinned alive.
The slats!
Having trouble there, Grog?
Because it looks like you're having trouble.
Don't you do nothin'.
Don't get mad, big guy.
Don't tell me what to do, smaller guy!
I hate your face so much.
- And you.
You look like you need killing.
How would you like to kill
your friends for me?
For me...
Huh?
At your command.
He wouldn't.
Kill Vox Machina.
Uh, Grog, what are you--
Delilah?
No!
Pike!
Can you hear us?
- You must stop!
I can't go.
I won't go.
No!
Not without...
an answer!
No!
Please! Everlight!
You heard me?
Thank you.
I-I was trying so hard to find you.
Everlight?
Is that really you?
Speak, child.
Who are you?
I'm... lost.
I-I tried to live up to your standards.
To-to be a steward of your faith.
But I... I failed.
I need to find my way back to your light.
Lies will not lead you back.
I'm...
I-I'm not lying,
I...
If I'd known how much fun this was going to be...
...I'd have possessed this lummox
and made him rip you apart right away.
Please, Grog!
We're your friends, remember?
We love--
Stay out of his range.
There's no reasoning with him while he's charmed.
Or, you know, ever.
We have to disarm him.
You go high, I'll go low.
Yes.
Don't stop now,
you giant half-wit.
Didn't want to have to do this to you, but...
The fuck?
Why is he only after me?! Oh, gods!
Faster! Kill them faster!
We can't stop Grog,
so let's stop wasting our time on him.
Enough of this.
- Vex?
If the dumb one can't complete my task, there are
many more resources at my disposal.
Pay attention, de Rolo.
I want you to know how you died.
And who did it to you.
Your friends.
No escape this time, welp.
I owe you an apology, Professor.
You're right-- the de Rolos treated you poorly.
My parents never recognized my potential and clearly
missed yours as well.
A talented mind needs time to cultivate, to think,
to work out all the angles.
Nice try, de Rolo.
But flattery will not prolong your life.
And yet, it bought me all the time I needed.
- What... - The fuck?
Get it, I guess?
Oh, look at it go.
Got it.
We trusted you.
You were our teacher.
We would've done anything you asked.
And you betrayed us when we needed you most.
You're the face I saw when murder entered my heart.
Guys, the smoke!
Percy?
Are you all right?
I think she's going to be okay.
Come on, clear the house.
Look for anything useful, and make it quick.
When we escaped, I saw you fall.
I thought you were dead.
And I thought you'd come back to check.
The Briarwoods.
They kept you alive?
Of course they did.
They had use for me.
Parading me in front of Whitestone.
Loyal and loving.
But I've been using them, too.
Feeding information to the resistance.
You must have wanted to escape.
Running away was never my strong suit.
We don't need to anymore.
We're together.
Apparently Anders' only
valuable possession was in his mouth.
However, I did find this.
Oh! Hey, is this
one of them connect-a-dots?
It's a star chart, Grog.
These symbols show the sky at a specific time and date.
The solstice.
That's five days from now.
Why would they have this?
We need to signal Archie.
Let him know that Cassandra is safe.
I might have something for that.
I've always wanted to try this.
Kind of terrified.
Kind of impressed.
Where's my steward?!
- I-I'm sorry, Lady Briarwood.
Did you need me to bring you something?
You already have.
Delilah, what are you doing?
Protecting you.
Dreezala kruum.
Venz-shi-thradi.
Dwem rastathek.
Oshem Sutreeporvas!
We've done all we can do for her.
She's too far gone.
If Pike is to return to this plane,
she'll have to find her own way back.
And if she doesn't?
Then her body will be but an empty shell.
The flames will burn away your falsehoods
and reveal the truth.
I'm not lying to you, I swear!
Not to me, little one.
To yourself.
The truth?
The truth is... I...
I left the righteous path.
I was drawn to depravity and violence.
When I'm with my friends, we-we mix it up.
And we drink, we fight and curse and...
I love it.
But I know it's wrong.
Why do you think it's wrong?
Because I put them before you.
I mean, they're why you cut off
my connection to your light.
Unless...
you didn't sever it.
I did.
Now you speak truth.
Your friends share your passion.
Your temple shares your faith.
Then...
I have to choose?
We do not choose.
We walk down a path.
Any path can be a holy one.
So long as one walks it
with truth.
You can be whomever you want to be
in the Light, Pike Trickfoot.
So I ask
a final time...
who...
are... you?
You, you, you...
Ow! Huh?
Whoa, huh.
Fuckin' A.
Whoa.
Oi! You fellas got room for a third?
I just got done being a big bad hero,
and I'm down for a little ugly bumpin'.
Aw, come on, I got enough magic
below the belt to make ya feel young aga--
There.
Everywhere.
Of course it's zombies.
Yeah. Because fuck me, that's why.
The rebels should be gathering.
If they saw the signal.
Maybe we shouldn't have announced ourselves
with such... flair.
Well, we wanted the people to know
the resistance is still alive, right?
Ay, oh!
Scanlan, oh, you fuckin' missed it!
I got arrowed a bunch, I had two voices
in my throat, I stabbed a stupid tongue in the face.
Oh, shit.
Hey, are you even listening to me?
There's a hor...
hor... there's a hor...
Yeah, not really the time
for one of your whorehouse stories.
No... No.
A horde of undead!
Oh! Horde.
Got it.
Chirp.