Fists, Fur and a Mountain of Trouble - Pt_7

Having got the injured Captain Smythe safely to the Seatower of Balduran (Flaming Fist HQ) the remaining pair are confronted with a new task and take on some unconventional help as the head to Sewer Keep at the Western Edge of the City and Harbour.

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Transcript

Aukan : 0:49

Richard as well. We each have a role in life I was just maintaining to is we do not judge Throw that term around to too heavily. Uh, my apologies. Thank you gonna give part of weird look. He's saying that like my lady Capelli will be join you shortly if you're waiting in the restroom. Hi, thank you for that call. Hey buddy. We got to get paid for this. Yeah, I'm sure any job in the city pays your Charlotte. Charlotte provides money. How come you're here? Was it hard? Yes.

Unknown Speaker : 1:40

But I'm surprised we've got time to talk to me over resting sort of cutting creatures. Well, I used to be part of the flame fest. I always believe I still am but I lost my unit there. And fighting. beasts are humans that can change form change shape.

Unknown Speaker : 2:00

I've spent years training up to, to pretty much exact my revenge on it's probably the best way to put it.

Unknown Speaker : 2:07

And, and I've just I'm going across his stories, you know rumours of men turning to beasts. No no much more sinister than that. They have no control when they change.

Aukan : 2:22

They they kill for sport and they kill for. For the enjoyment Really? No Druids? No. Have you heard of lichens?

Unknown Speaker : 2:30

Like, I've never heard of like and before I heard about them and stories

Hod : 2:35

where I will swear by tigers.

Unknown Speaker : 2:39

Bad Boy.

Revan : 2:42

Okay. Ah, so the names Raven if you I mean, I would prefer if you called me Raven to the flute boy. You sound like

Aukan : 2:53

us boys. Perfect. Okay, big man. What are we gonna call you tiny Tawny owl told us he name oh geez. My height is overcompensating for something clearly. Intelligence and I'm all for that. I'm fight for.

Unknown Speaker : 3:18

Okay, buddy. We all passed by

Revan : 3:22

how cool everyone is. The main reason why I'm here is obviously have to my service to the Flaming Fist. So I want to be in here. I want to be out. I don't want to spank.

Unknown Speaker : 3:35

I want to get paid. Okay,

Aukan : 3:39

it's your little Looney Tunes in the background while we do the real man's work. I'm sure we can get along

Revan : 3:44

fine. Hey, man, I'm a jack of all trades. You know, I'll probably end up helping you out more ways and you know,

Aukan : 3:53

move ahead with your loot as well. Oh, man, I'm not afraid of a fight if a fight is what we need. Like that. You'd boy Hey, well, you know, you got to keep gotta keep things fresh Evan yeah

Unknown Speaker : 4:07

a lot of danger around boulders gate. Maybe we're gonna have some fun together a

Aukan : 4:14

as long as there's a lot the end of it on that's always a good goal of mine.

Revan : 4:17

l if you stick with me I'll find you some good ale houses also you're out

Aukan : 4:23

what do you do best as well? Is it does it reset your maximum entropy or not? Or is it short rest is um, so if you click short rest, it will say that he's up he hit dice. Yeah. So this is mine says one D eight plus one. So you roll for me a DA and then you add the one and then you add that to your total of hitpoints. As a life cleric, I can set maximum HP ci thought that we set to maximum age Pay change attend this rest option I think yeah, I think I think you can just reset it if if it's deemed that way. Yeah, well, I can I can sing a song of rest which gives you a plus sex and we have a life. Eric so I'm guessing right okay. Well

Unknown Speaker : 5:19

mean sure it doesn't really give me anything back apart from my childhood entity

Aukan : 5:24

can heal us if you want yeah I'm 20 It's okay if you do breast plus a hit dice touchwood fully heal you both up surely this one?

Unknown Speaker : 5:36

Yeah, I think so. And he the

Aukan : 5:38

rest of the action surge as well because I used it in the fight before dinner

Unknown Speaker : 5:41

is your actual search. Yeah, full rest, though. It might not be after rest. Oh, okay. Yeah, you find them?

Aukan : 5:48

Yeah. So when you click short rest of the top, you just click one of the hit die. And then you just take a short recess. just confirm.

Unknown Speaker : 5:56

And then you can just roll the DA and then add three lights. Sat three for me. But add one for me.

Aukan : 6:02

That's constitution and it

Unknown Speaker : 6:04

just really done it. Well what is it Sandra? Hey

Aukan : 6:10

Bobby a 10 or 12 because one d 10 plus two. Okay, so yeah fire. Yeah, we'll do 10 and then I will give you

Unknown Speaker : 6:23

some singing my song, another three points that temporary. Now it's full of him as everyone is some of rest.

Aukan : 6:32

Nice. So I've got one plus two so that's three games six, six year sound.

Unknown Speaker : 6:40

So you can you can roll another dice if you want.

Unknown Speaker : 6:44

Yeah, but when you do a long rest you only get half those dice back.

Aukan : 6:48

Yeah, that's the downside to it. Now I'll just leave it over 26 or 28 so far.

Unknown Speaker : 6:53

Oh yeah, that'd be enough. Yeah.

Aukan : 6:56

Wow, I feel so rested.

Unknown Speaker : 6:59

Wow. Yeah. I'm gonna just

Aukan : 7:01

play him a gems best I think there's some songs that you can sing us over them a chicken.

Revan : 7:08

Hey, man. Oh yeah. Oh, oh, I will make some I probably I've already to scream down the mic and just say something something and then hope the dice roll Well, okay, maybe it will be one as long as I have your name's brown or cat and is it hood hot hot belt hate. Okay. D hot. Okay head of department. Oh, yeah, exactly. Okay. And we have a dwarf life cleric a Goliath fighter and they have fought something I'm just declaring. Oh, yeah, that's fine. You're just a cleric. Oh, yeah, okay. You just declare itself donate that dwarf cleric. Half orc something. Okay, that's cool, folks. Something Yep. We don't know yet.

Aukan : 7:58

yet to be met. testified today. Yes, that's rested isn't it?

Unknown Speaker : 8:03

Yeah. It took about a half an hour's it

Aukan : 8:05

was just Yes. That's your solid rest. rejuvenate to the party and you satin. There's, you know doesn't mean that he's in the restroom you can have a tea or coffee. Oh sweet. What did I do the rest sound like? It sounds slow, heartfelt, very much a lot of reverb. It's some

Unknown Speaker : 8:32

very see if I got my guitar here. It's like oh god

Aukan : 8:38

do it. It's like a like it. I see basically,

Unknown Speaker : 8:57

you are settled stomachs are settled minds are focused. ready to party? So how I like my friends or people I seem to be around my wealth around me without any any reason why I'm here you want us to party

Unknown Speaker : 9:13

maybe later no okay.

Unknown Speaker : 9:16

It might be fun your head

Aukan : 9:21

okay man even enjoy yourself Yeah, bye that's a lot we'll go to a

Revan : 9:30

fine ladies establishment after this my

Aukan : 9:34

tree okay now I know a place three

Snyder’s Return : 9:41

as your conversation turns to this evenings entertainment a well dressed well turned out

Aukan : 9:52

lady walks in human lady tennis shoe says oh I see that Have a mixed bag. I was hoping for more but I guess you guys will fit the bill. I guess

Bron : 10:08

for the moment I we've got a bit of backup on this way.

Aukan : 10:12

excellent excellent. Ah good see the Flaming Fist so well represented there was two of you sure about the man with the loot

Snyder’s Return : 10:25

bus. He plays a good song. I'm sure he like a good t as well but he never asked for that. Yes, thank you. Moving on. The problem we have here with the saw works and the sewer keep is something in our tunnels. Now my teams work tirelessly for the city, my Druids work tirelessly for our city. I need you gentlemen to get down into those tunnels. I'll give you a guide who will point you in the right direction and no more

Aukan : 10:57

and you will deal with it. is in the shoes of our city

Unknown Speaker : 11:04

try not to get lost these are like a warren underneath you have any mini any map or anything like that we could use or any kind of like layout that could possibly help us find this

Aukan : 11:19

problem you understand that the as a member of the Flaming Fist your access to the city is second only to ours we can get to anywhere such knowledge in the wrong hands no disrespect is a valuable asset. So my guide will read pertain any map required you understand he doesn't try bro. Can I insert checker? Yes. Just seems a bit

Unknown Speaker : 11:51

odd. Well they don't like

Aukan : 11:54

what this is and if I don't know once you get 1414 it's very authoritarian. It's the protection of the network. Should we say that off lands more than sort of concealment of other information? she's using her position and her words carefully. So not to give too much. And you're not without information, but you don't necessarily have all the information. Okay, I'm just gonna put a levy on thing. All right. Fair enough. You guys will have to do.

Unknown Speaker : 12:48

Let us be on our way we can deal with problems. fast as possible.

Aukan : 12:53

Of course. Excellent. This is music to my ears. My bodied friend. Please follow me. Lister here and the shambling guy that you met around on the waterfront Lister here will be your guide who will be leading this exposition alongside Lister

Unknown Speaker : 13:22

Rhonda she's not a lead I I know these places I mean maybe boy maybe no he's better in the city some boards I mean if terrible thought I don't know about yourself well

Revan : 13:35

I know my way around the city well enough

Hod : 13:39

I'll tell you at least for now but obviously we're a team so

Aukan : 13:43

I team play out oh so much I'll try. So we go from

Unknown Speaker : 13:50

Yeah, please.

Aukan : 13:53

Maybe stick me at the back I would say okay, so who's and who's behind doubront I will be revamp revamp and hold on

Snyder’s Return : 14:12

Mr. Sort of shuffles back over and that the smell has not dissipated but she seems to be hiding it well that it offends her nostrils he says yes, we will descend into the tunnel network if you guys are happy be aware we have our own creatures down there to help with the network and an actus guards plus our own team so please don't just attack the first thing in the boobs you may be doing more harm than good in this in this place. Well if they attack me I'm gonna kill them. Oh no the the trained and recognise. recognise me.

Revan : 14:58

Oh, yeah, exactly. Because if you lose you once you've read go down,

Aukan : 15:03

cross that bridge when we get to it, buddy, don't worry about it. Then you'll see how well the sewage treatment plant works. I guess if you're unfortunate enough. You'll be unfortunate when you well we did as fortunate yesterday.

Snyder’s Return : 15:22

Please, do you have everything you need? equipment and things.

Unknown Speaker : 15:27

I was wondering if I could have a look at that map real quick. You got there?

Snyder’s Return : 15:32

Well, I'll collect the map as we descend. We don't keep it here in the restroom you want

Aukan : 15:37

okay. Yeah. Cool. All right. I just want to get my bearings and all that's all.

Snyder’s Return : 15:41

Well, behind us itself in front of us is north.

Revan : 15:45

Canadian. Love it.

Aukan : 15:49

I try. It's the only thing that keeps me working. Clearly and then my good friend slimy

Bron : 15:57

and your good friend, slimy.

Snyder’s Return : 16:00

I'm his. He's one of the shambling mounds we used to break down the sewage lives in a tank easygoing work. And it's something that the officer wasn't telling us because he pretty secretive about it as well. In perspect Yeah, I agree with Mr. copier. I mean, I don't mind a good faith but I'd like to know what I was fighting against. Well, that's the problem. You see, that's what you're going to help us find out. As I say we have our own employed creatures beneath, trained as they are but one in particular is is harming our operation, our sewage treatment plant and threats the city so I, I don't believe Miss Miss Kapali would be keeping anything from you in that respect. So it was something that belong to the organisation then. I mean, us as the suit Keep us I guess we'll head off Emma. We're ready. Yes please please. And he leads you through and you go sort of past the sort of the tail end of the workings in these massive vats and as he walks past one of them he sold rubs it says, Ah, good work slimy, good work. It's just ads normally it is just a metal drum, you can't see it can't see in it. You just you can see the pipe work and all the rest of it that sort of channelling in. And the noise that sort of picks up the flowing of water through pipework into into these fasteners then sort of channelled out having been treated on to the next stage and then out to the river. He

Aukan : 17:50

says, This way we we

Snyder’s Return : 17:52

go down the access ladder and then and then we'll be in the sewers proper. Is everybody ready?

Unknown Speaker : 17:59

soon. We're happy about doing this. Yes.

Aukan : 18:03

Boy Boy doing this only recently but yeah, we already we have to wait. We have to wait quite some time for school fees. Okay, I asked you don't take a torch

Snyder’s Return : 18:18

no tea no flame, no open flame

Revan : 18:21

right we have other ways of finding ourselves around I'm a man of many talents Can any of you see in the top?

Bron : 18:31

Yeah, I can see in the

Aukan : 18:34

world couldn't Yeah, I just realised

Bron : 18:38

Polly is in Kobe like Japanese drink media anyway carry on.

Aukan : 18:46

Yeah, I mean, maybe our big friend day I don't think he can see in the dark. No, I definitely can't. I'm just blind is about Would you like me to? Would you like me to put some lights on for let me

Bron : 18:57

just grab my orb of blind sight lights. Let's go.

Revan : 19:03

You guys got all the

Bron : 19:04

blind sight.

Aukan : 19:06

Fucking,

Bron : 19:07

I'll tell you about that later when you showed us this lady's house that you're talking about,

Revan : 19:12

you go away for the ending.

Hod : 19:14

Well, let's go.

Revan : 19:21

Let's get this done. And then we'll have more time at the house.

Aukan : 19:25

As you descend the ladder and follow listed down. He

Snyder’s Return : 19:34

gets down to the bottom and and you hear that or clanking of metal rungs sort of feet on ladder and then that sort of splashes he sort of lands in a couple of inches of sort of stagnant water that sort of sits in this section of the pipework, where the, the sort of the main flow is channelled overhead, down into the VAT

Aukan : 19:55

back the way he says this way, but some But do bear with me a moment.

Snyder’s Return : 20:06

And as you guys descend the ladder, one after the next So Brian revenue come down harder then finally all can the light behind us or floods in part into part of this

Aukan : 20:19

circular

Snyder’s Return : 20:20

tunnel network and then he sort of moves just away from you probably about 1015 feet ahead and says just just bear with me and in a similar trick to what you saw cricket do this morning

Aukan : 20:38

this drew just change the shape drops and the form is that of a like a is a

Snyder’s Return : 20:53

eijah type thing is able to break through ground able to sort of move through knowing that the The water down here shouldn't be too deep. This this form appears with list of was

Revan : 21:07

pretty neat trick.

Snyder’s Return : 21:10

So not that you to sort of follow on behind

Aukan : 21:16

if they really want to follow the Badger, I will lead on

Revan : 21:20

the field. Nobody's going felt like I'm tripping balls here.

Bron : 21:25

You've never seen a dude do his work at a bar.

Revan : 21:29

I just didn't assume it was gonna happen in a sewer. I mean, they're the ones that can afford it. And I was

Aukan : 21:38

I thought it was supposed to be well versed.

Revan : 21:42

Obviously, it's fucking wrestling so he's gone. Wow. Wow. Okay, I will see how this is gonna go. You can forget about the whole house.

Aukan : 21:51

Oh my god. That's number one. Yeah. All right, who's dwarves for a man that I literally just said you're following a song. I literally just a man requested help from me. request is great word. Order. I know you choked off. I mean last time I fucking The Flaming Fist I got arrested. It's not the best thing. Oh, that's just a label. I appreciate you being here. Well, thank you. I hope I am some of some assistance but you know if a guy is sold, you know many about definitely. Okay. No pressure. No pressure now. Yeah, I think we should just follow the budget. Yeah,

Revan : 22:45

follow the budget. I'll be a new song we write that down.

Aukan : 22:49

Follow the,

Unknown Speaker : 22:52

what would it sound like? Follow the Badger Badger follow the Badger what

Revan : 22:57

that's, you know

Bron : 23:00

Yeah, at least it's understandable. That's, I mean, it definitely sounds like early stage video like,

Unknown Speaker : 23:07

Adam come in and tell you how to frickin punch people in the face. Don't tell him how to write songs.

Aukan : 23:12

Or he'll boy.

Unknown Speaker : 23:15

Okay, whenever you say real man, right? Cool. Let's get on top Becker. And

Snyder’s Return : 23:21

Lister is already sort of started trotting off into the tunnel is and he starts leading. It's not big visual range by any stretch but he is moved on. And you can hear as you sort of follow him on and start moving through the network. You can see various junctions as the top of the network sort of splits between the various where you were imagined to be towards various parts of the city. And echoing down certain sections as you move on to left turns and right turns and all this type of water you can hear groups of voices dissolve echoing down through as as noises of tunes and other sounds that seem to be sort of echoing down to your ears and brown your other front and using your dark vision just to keep an eye on listener as he moves forward. And you're probably going for 1520 minutes, maybe even half an hour, it's hard to judge sort of the time exactly you saw weaved and follow this turn to hear and then that turn to there.

Aukan : 24:37

And then you get to a point

Snyder’s Return : 24:39

in sort of, there's a junction and then just beyond that Lister in animal form stops. And again, he sort of looks back to you and for uses his nose to and grunts to intimate that. That's the direction you need to go. Thanks for listening, if you want to hear more of us or to get in contact with us, you can find us on Twitter at Return Snyder. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, and also if you wish to support the channel on patreon@patreon.com slash nice return. music and sound effects provided for this episode are from epidemic sounds.com Transcribed by https://otter.ai