The Outpost

Mistress: Previously on "The Outpost"...

- For the Queen. -

- This man murdered Kezzun. - He was defending the Queen.

Captain Garret Spears, you are sentenced to death by drowning.

Talon passed you a sleeping death elixir

- when she kissed you. - How could you know my father?

I knew him in the Plane of Ashes.

You must go to Aegisford. Raise an army.

The only thing that matters now is finding the lost kinj.

This is what will free us all.

- Incredible. - Where does it lead?

Maybe the ancient Blackblood city.

Hm. It looks bottomless.

Don'’t!

Not bottomless.

Talon: What'’s that?

It'’s Wren's box. It had the map that led us here.

I'’ve seen it before.

- Wren, Zed, come. It'’s time to go. - No, Zed can'’t go.

All right, who'’s going to keep the Blackfist in order?

Barely keeping it together as is.

If we succeed, none of that will matter.

No, no, she'’s right. I should stay.

- We also need Janzo. - He is a human. This is not his concern.

It'’s all right. I don'’t have to go. It'’s really no problem.

- I can just stay right here. - Janzo has a different

kind of special way of seeing things.

He might be the difference between finding what you'’re looking for or not.

- Really? - Don'’t let it get to your head.

- I'’m still smarter. - I doubt he knows anything that you do not.

But if you think he can help us, you may bring him. Come.

No. Janzo'’s not going down there without me.

The smith was hiding this for a reason.

Perhaps you were meant to help me.

When we find the kinj,

we shall each have a share of the glory.

Wren, come.

Just what Talon and I always wanted.

Tell Gwynn everything. She has to know where we'’re going and why.

- Give me your word. - You have my word.

They found the entrance to a vault under the Outpost.

- Talon and Janzo have gone down with Yavalla. - What kind of vault?

Wren thinks it might contain the kinj we'’ve been searching for,

the one Yavalla says will make peace between us.

Well, I hope they succeed, although true peace won'’t come from a kinj.

Oh, I see. So does true peace come from starting a war?

What are you talking about?

Where is Baron Aegisford?

How would I know? I'’m always locked up in my room.

Except for the night you left and got your friend killed and a Blackblood executed.

He was executed because he was a detestable maggot.

You were out that night scheming with Tobin Aegisford.

- That'’s not true. - And now he'’s missing.

The one man who could return with an army.

And did you really think that we wouldn'’t notice he was suddenly gone?

How did he escape?

How do you know he'’s not dead in a ditch somewhere

at the hands of your Blackfist?

So you'’re not going to tell me?

Have it your way.

- - Vikka...

...Lord Tobin.

Bring him back, please.

Lock her away in complete isolation.

Oh, and no more visits from her handmaiden.

This is not what we agreed, Zed!

- I may say the same to you. - Zed!

- Janzo? - Hmm?

If we put these keys into those locks,

is that a good idea or a bad idea?

Yindrian pictograms, and this is the one for "hourglass."

So we'’re supposed to find the hole with the corresponding symbol.

I don'’t know. Talon'’s asking all the right questions.

It all seems a bit too easy.

- Here'’s a match for this one. - Wait!

In Yindrian, a full hourglass means "the beginning."

Whereas an empty hourglass represents the end.

Yindrians were masters at puzzles.

They were also masters at ingenious traps and murder devices,

so we have to be very careful or we all die.

- Mine has a triangle. - Triangle'’s a Yindrian symbol for fire.

Oh, and mine'’s a skull.

And a skull is the Yindrian symbol for, um, sacrifice.

Fire and sacrifice?

Pretty foreboding symbols, don'’t you think?

It'’s ashes.

We'’re standing in a pile of ashes.

- Janzo? - Hmm?

- No, no, no! - No!

We'’re in an oven. We'’re gonna be cooked alive!

You got anything to smoke?

- No, no. - Just one--

No, no, no. This is Mum'’s pipe.

I don'’t smoke it. I just like carrying it around.

I'’m going to give it to Auntie Gertie when I tell her the bad news about Mum.

I figure she'’d want to have something to remember her sister by.

I'’m sure Gertrusha will appreciate the gesture.

Yeah.

Sometimes I think what would Mum have me do here?

Sometimes I do it. Sometimes I don'’t 'cause--

because you can'’t just go around killing people.

Well, I know she'’d be proud of you, Munt.

You'’re a real war hero, Munt.

You probably killed two dozen Prime Order soldiers with that hammer of yours.

Tobin, if I'’m a hero,

how come I couldn'’t save Mum?

Oh.

You can'’t save everyone, my friend.

But you saved a lot that day.

A lot.

Do you have any other songs?

Yeah. We got...

I know you'’re all thinking really hard right now,

but it'’s getting hot in here.

Hurry! Use the keys.

Thank the gods! A door!

The door'’s stuck!

Maybe if we keep using the keys,

it will open the door even more.

- Or close them. - Talon, over there.

Yes! Hurry. Use the last key.

It'’s a skull. There are no skulls!

Wren, if the human will not find it, take the key.

She won'’t find it either because there isn'’t one.

Just accept it. We'’re done.

What did you say the symbol of the skull means?

- Sacrifice. - Sacrifice.

- No, no, no! -

Wren!

Janzo, why would you be so stupid?

It had to be a sacrifice.

- - Come on, Munt, stop.

- Be quiet. - I'’m always hungry.

I never could find enough to eat.

One time, Mum locked me into the cellar for three days with no food.

- I ate my own shoe. - That sounds like Gertrusha.

She'’d lock me in a closet without dinner if I misbehaved.

Auntie Gertie.

Well, they were sisters. Family is always alike.

Though me and Janzo are brothers.

We'’re nothing alike. That'’s the difference between brothers and sisters.

You'’re going to need to keep it down if we'’re ever going to find food, Munt.

Sorry, sorry.

- - I talk a lot when I'’m hungry.

Tobin: I think we may have run into some luck.

All right, so I'’ve never hunted wild boar with a sword and a hammer before,

but the concept should be the same.

One gives chase and drives the animal into the other'’s clutches.

- I'’ll give chase, you be the clutches. - Munt! Munt!

You idiot.

- No, no, no, no. - No, Wren!

You brought jade-lily salve? It'’s worth a fortune.

- Yeah, I stole it from you. - Huh?

Thought it might come in handy.

Someone was bound to get hurt.

I'’ve been saving that for years.

Never thought it would end up on me.

What you did was brave. Stupid, but brave.

You know humans don'’t heal as well as Blackbloods.

Even with this, your arm may never heal.

Any longer and we would'’ve all been unconscious and cooked alive.

He did the right thing, just like Janzo always does.

There does not seem to be another way out.

And these people, they did not die well.

All this writing, it is just a history of the Yindrian elders.

Yindrian.

Is that the language the smith'’s books were written in?

Hm. You remembered. Yes.

Yindria was a human civilization.

They lived alongside Blackbloods centuries ago.

No handles, no levers. Just the door we came in by.

- It'’s a complete dead end. - Bad choice of words.

There has to be another hidden door here somewhere.

Three of us can read Yindrian.

Let'’s split up and start reading for clues.

Great. I'’ll, just, uh, stand here and be useless.

- Guards? -

Please inform Zed that I wish to speak with him.

A casual meeting. It will require tea.

How did my father die?

A painful disease.

Fortunately, he went fast.

Is that when you took the box from him?

You recognized the meld box from your childhood?

Yes. Something about that box terrified me even as a child.

My father took it with him when he left, didn'’t he?

Yes. And I did not take it from him.

He gave it to me, Talon.

He passed it to me because he trusted me.

He knew that in that box lay the salvation of our people.

He could not have imagined that you would be the one to help me achieve that goal.

Maybe if he didn'’t abandon his family, he would be here to see it.