Secret Level (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
Dungeons & Dragons: The Queen's Cradle
1
[pulsing music playing]
♪
[atmospheric music playing]
[gasping]
[gasps]
- [inner voices whisper indistinctly]
- Please.
[panting]
[rustling]
- [Ahokal] It's a human boy.
- [gasps]
[Tally] A kid?
What's he doing here?
[Luzum] Well, he's in a
cage. He's either in trouble
or he is trouble.
[Mora] We have to assume
the former, Luzum.
We're a rescue party now.
[suspenseful music playing]
- [inner voices echoing]
- [groans]
[Mora] These are hallowed
lands of the Loyal Fury.
- [blades sliding out of sheaths]
- Protected by the great Oriel.
- We offer you one chance
- [cultist yells]
- [grunting]
- [Tally] Follow my lead!
[Ahokal] Tally, no fire.
[roars]
[dramatic music playing]
[inner voices] It matters
not! You are mine.
[calm music playing]
[grunts]
[ominous music playing]
[gasping]
W-Who are you? What
do you want with me?
It's all right. We're safe.
My name is Mora.
You were a prisoner of
The Cult of the Dragon.
We're taking you to Oriel to
cure you of your affliction.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't
know he's not one of them.
- He wasn't
- How do you know?
- No, no, no.
- Those tattoos looks like somebody ripped him out
- of the Book of Vile Darkness.
- No, no. Leave me alone.
- Tally, leave it.
- You're in terrible danger.
Are you a cultist, kid?
Tally, the tattoos
mark him for sacrifice.
I'd venture they were taking
him to the Well of Dragons.
[scoffs] Marvelous.
[Luzum] Probably to be
sacrificed to Tiamat.
[inner voices
speaking indistinctly]
We're going to help you.
No. No, no. Stay
back. Stay back.
- She's coming - It's okay.
She's coming!
- [inner voices] Amid astahii!
- [Luzum] Mora! Mora!
- [Tally] How did he move so fast?
- I'm sorry.
- I-I didn't
- [Tally] I knew it.
- You're gonna burn, kid.
- [Mora] Stop.
[labored breathing]
[pained grunt]
[gentle music playing]
I've had worse.
Come with me, kid.
Mora
[Mora] We just need
a minute alone.
What we need is a cleric.
[gentle music playing]
What is your name, child?
Solon.
I think you didn't
mean to hurt me, Solon.
Whatever is in you, it's
strong, but I can see
- you are strong, too.
- [inner voices] Lies! Lies!
Lies! Lies!
Lies!
[panting]
You should listen to the others.
Just leave me.
- It'll be easier for all of us.
- Maybe.
Being easier doesn't
make it right.
[gentle music playing]
I wasn't always a
Paladin of Torm.
Most of these scars are
from fights I started.
I very nearly killed innocents
before I decided to change.
Before I took my oath.
But that person who
did those things
that's still me.
Now, that's who I fight.
Every hour of every day.
[melancholy music playing]
I don't always win.
It reminds me I'm not alone.
Maybe it will help you.
Hold on to it until
you reach Oriel.
[Ahokal whistles]
They found us.
[growling]
[intense music playing]
You really think this
Oriel will know how to help me?
[dramatic music playing]
- Hurry!
- Quiet! I need to focus.
[horses whinnying]
What in the Nine
Hells [grunts]
[grunts]
Oh
Mora, get him inside.
We'll hold them off.
Good luck, kid.
[dramatic music playing]
[inner voices
whispering indistinctly]
- [inner voices continues whispering]
- [hisses] No, no, no.
We have to go. We
have to leave now.
[Mora] It's going to be okay.
[dramatic music playing]
Oriel, this is Solon.
He bears a terrible curse.
Calm yourself, child.
You're safe here.
[Solon] She's getting loud.
[inner voices] Oriesj C'hazh.
Rhyst ah. Rhyst ah plythu.
No, no stay back.
This thing inside me
doesn't like you at all.
[Oriel chuckles]
The wicked do tend to fear me.
I will take whatever
is inside you
and destroy it.
I don’t want it to hurt you.
Your kindness is precisely
what makes you worthy
of being freed.
[wind whistling]
- [suspenseful music playing]
- They're coming through.
[Luzum] Incoming!
[cries out]
[Ahokal] Tally, we need fire!
[Tally] Okay. Get out
of the way. Here we go.
[low growl]
[inner voice] They don't
know what they're doing.
There are too many. Tally, no!
[inhales]
[ominous music playing]
[grunts, gasps]
[fighters grunting]
Tally.
[screeching]
[screeches]
[inhales]
Fire! Now!
[Solon cries out]
Finally.
[grunts]
[inner voices]
Astahii plythu nah.
Loaw tah nah!
Plythu tah! Vorae
[pained cry]
[Solon's cry echoing]
[grunts]
[mournful music playing]
[Mora] Solon. Solon,
say something.
It's
quiet.
[coughing]
[pained roar]
Whatever this is, it's loud.
Unpleasant.
You carried this
in you for years
Impressive.
[inner voices] Every dragon
is a gateway
[Oriel] I-I can't
hold it in.
Run. Run!
[intense music playing]
[Mora] Gods.
That's a whole lot of dragon.
Tiamat.
[grunts]
Well, guess we found our cleric.
Go.
I've been fighting
her my whole life.
I can hold her back on my own.
I believe you could
but you're not on your own.
[grunts]
[Mora huffs]
[Luzum grunting]
[hisses]
[growling]
[gentle music playing]
♪
♪
[pulsing music playing]
♪
[atmospheric music playing]
[gasping]
[gasps]
- [inner voices whisper indistinctly]
- Please.
[panting]
[rustling]
- [Ahokal] It's a human boy.
- [gasps]
[Tally] A kid?
What's he doing here?
[Luzum] Well, he's in a
cage. He's either in trouble
or he is trouble.
[Mora] We have to assume
the former, Luzum.
We're a rescue party now.
[suspenseful music playing]
- [inner voices echoing]
- [groans]
[Mora] These are hallowed
lands of the Loyal Fury.
- [blades sliding out of sheaths]
- Protected by the great Oriel.
- We offer you one chance
- [cultist yells]
- [grunting]
- [Tally] Follow my lead!
[Ahokal] Tally, no fire.
[roars]
[dramatic music playing]
[inner voices] It matters
not! You are mine.
[calm music playing]
[grunts]
[ominous music playing]
[gasping]
W-Who are you? What
do you want with me?
It's all right. We're safe.
My name is Mora.
You were a prisoner of
The Cult of the Dragon.
We're taking you to Oriel to
cure you of your affliction.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't
know he's not one of them.
- He wasn't
- How do you know?
- No, no, no.
- Those tattoos looks like somebody ripped him out
- of the Book of Vile Darkness.
- No, no. Leave me alone.
- Tally, leave it.
- You're in terrible danger.
Are you a cultist, kid?
Tally, the tattoos
mark him for sacrifice.
I'd venture they were taking
him to the Well of Dragons.
[scoffs] Marvelous.
[Luzum] Probably to be
sacrificed to Tiamat.
[inner voices
speaking indistinctly]
We're going to help you.
No. No, no. Stay
back. Stay back.
- She's coming - It's okay.
She's coming!
- [inner voices] Amid astahii!
- [Luzum] Mora! Mora!
- [Tally] How did he move so fast?
- I'm sorry.
- I-I didn't
- [Tally] I knew it.
- You're gonna burn, kid.
- [Mora] Stop.
[labored breathing]
[pained grunt]
[gentle music playing]
I've had worse.
Come with me, kid.
Mora
[Mora] We just need
a minute alone.
What we need is a cleric.
[gentle music playing]
What is your name, child?
Solon.
I think you didn't
mean to hurt me, Solon.
Whatever is in you, it's
strong, but I can see
- you are strong, too.
- [inner voices] Lies! Lies!
Lies! Lies!
Lies!
[panting]
You should listen to the others.
Just leave me.
- It'll be easier for all of us.
- Maybe.
Being easier doesn't
make it right.
[gentle music playing]
I wasn't always a
Paladin of Torm.
Most of these scars are
from fights I started.
I very nearly killed innocents
before I decided to change.
Before I took my oath.
But that person who
did those things
that's still me.
Now, that's who I fight.
Every hour of every day.
[melancholy music playing]
I don't always win.
It reminds me I'm not alone.
Maybe it will help you.
Hold on to it until
you reach Oriel.
[Ahokal whistles]
They found us.
[growling]
[intense music playing]
You really think this
Oriel will know how to help me?
[dramatic music playing]
- Hurry!
- Quiet! I need to focus.
[horses whinnying]
What in the Nine
Hells [grunts]
[grunts]
Oh
Mora, get him inside.
We'll hold them off.
Good luck, kid.
[dramatic music playing]
[inner voices
whispering indistinctly]
- [inner voices continues whispering]
- [hisses] No, no, no.
We have to go. We
have to leave now.
[Mora] It's going to be okay.
[dramatic music playing]
Oriel, this is Solon.
He bears a terrible curse.
Calm yourself, child.
You're safe here.
[Solon] She's getting loud.
[inner voices] Oriesj C'hazh.
Rhyst ah. Rhyst ah plythu.
No, no stay back.
This thing inside me
doesn't like you at all.
[Oriel chuckles]
The wicked do tend to fear me.
I will take whatever
is inside you
and destroy it.
I don’t want it to hurt you.
Your kindness is precisely
what makes you worthy
of being freed.
[wind whistling]
- [suspenseful music playing]
- They're coming through.
[Luzum] Incoming!
[cries out]
[Ahokal] Tally, we need fire!
[Tally] Okay. Get out
of the way. Here we go.
[low growl]
[inner voice] They don't
know what they're doing.
There are too many. Tally, no!
[inhales]
[ominous music playing]
[grunts, gasps]
[fighters grunting]
Tally.
[screeching]
[screeches]
[inhales]
Fire! Now!
[Solon cries out]
Finally.
[grunts]
[inner voices]
Astahii plythu nah.
Loaw tah nah!
Plythu tah! Vorae
[pained cry]
[Solon's cry echoing]
[grunts]
[mournful music playing]
[Mora] Solon. Solon,
say something.
It's
quiet.
[coughing]
[pained roar]
Whatever this is, it's loud.
Unpleasant.
You carried this
in you for years
Impressive.
[inner voices] Every dragon
is a gateway
[Oriel] I-I can't
hold it in.
Run. Run!
[intense music playing]
[Mora] Gods.
That's a whole lot of dragon.
Tiamat.
[grunts]
Well, guess we found our cleric.
Go.
I've been fighting
her my whole life.
I can hold her back on my own.
I believe you could
but you're not on your own.
[grunts]
[Mora huffs]
[Luzum grunting]
[hisses]
[growling]
[gentle music playing]
♪
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