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C1 - Ep 16: Panner’s Past
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Panner reveals his past and what the future might hold, and a new member joins the party.
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On the last episode of 20 Sides, after the assault by Panner, Yarrost retreated and helped Seven recover, who in turn helped revive Leo. They decided to trek on to Pinegate, despite Panner heading in the same direction. They located the Death Sparks and arranged a meeting for later in the day. Seven found a temple of Karas and sought information. And while the party waited for their meeting with the Death Sparks, in walked Panner. And that's where we begin.
SPEAKER_08I'm your DM, Matt.
SPEAKER_02I'm Bobby, playing Yara, the Dwarven Barbarian.
SPEAKER_06Hey, I'm Jess, and I play Leona, the Moon Elf wizard.
SPEAKER_07I'm Philip, and I play Seven, the Warforge Cleric.
SPEAKER_04Hi, I'm Tyler, and I play the Half Elven Rogue or Devil.
SPEAKER_08Join our campaign as we unravel the mysteries of an ancient necrotic evil right now on 25. The door opens, creaks open. In walks a man with a wide-brimmed hat and grayish skin. Behind him comes a red-haired man. Both of these you know. One is Panner Glenwood, and one is Dahlman. As soon as they walk in, Dalman shuts the door behind him.
SPEAKER_07Are there any other exits? I'm nervously tapping Yarost. Yarost.
SPEAKER_08I see him.
SPEAKER_07I see him.
SPEAKER_08The only other exit would be where the receptionist left and walked toward, but that's kind of what you're assuming would be the direction of where the dusk sparks currently are. Kind of like their office or whatever, wherever is behind that.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. How big is this room? Probably 10 by 15. It's not a big room. Like a foyer.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I think so. I'm just gonna wait for his reaction. Right. Like see look upset.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I'm just gonna ignore. Uh just like eyes forward.
SPEAKER_08Panter tips his hat at Yarros and says, Well, well, well. I thought maybe you all would have gone back to Crow Reach by now. But maybe you can sit in on something for a few minutes.
SPEAKER_02Yes, yes. Just um just here to see the dusk sparks. Unrelated to you. Nothing to do with you.
SPEAKER_07I I I was I was trying I was trying to find work to uh pay that debt you were talking about because that's super important to me right now. So uh yeah, that's all. I mean, nothing to do with you.
SPEAKER_08A few seconds later, the door opens, out walks the receptionist, the Dusk Sparks, and a younger, half-elven girl.
SPEAKER_00And the receptionist says, Um, yes, Mr. and Mrs. Dusk Spark. These are the uh the three individuals who said they they had a meeting with you. And oh, it looks like the other um members for for the meeting are here as well. Mr. Glenwood and and Mr. Dolman.
SPEAKER_02Okay, well let's let's uh let's start our meeting that we're all here for and knew about.
SPEAKER_08So Panner walks past you two. Three, brushes past the dusk sparks, and this half elven girl walks in. The dusk sparks kind of give you all a curious look and turn around and just kind of motion for you to come with them. What do you all do?
SPEAKER_06I mean, I guess uh I'm gonna follow.
SPEAKER_08So Leo follows.
SPEAKER_06Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_07I'm following, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I'm going with them.
SPEAKER_08So you three follow behind, go down a small hallway, come to a pretty big-sized meeting room, a huge table in the middle of it. There's sconces on the wall. Panner and Dalman are already sitting down. By the time you get in there, they motion for you all to take a seat. At this point, the half-elf, I don't know if you would like to explain uh what your character looks like. Describe your character at all.
SPEAKER_04Okay. So, Ordella, she is a half-elf, um, and she has kind of a silvery, long-ish hair. Um, she's very pretty, but she has a scar on her face. Um, it goes over her right eye, um, pretty deep. And she has green eyes, and um, she looks a little ragged, like she's been like kind of like on the move a little bit, but there's also something about her that is um you can tell that she comes from like royalty, but you're like not sure what's going on with her right now because she's not looking super pristine. Perfect.
SPEAKER_08So Ordella is now sitting at the table along with Yarost, Seven, Leo, Panner, Dalman, and both Dusk Spark twin. The female Dusk Spark speaks first. And she says, Mr. Glenwood, you have have called this meeting. Uh what what is it you you need from us here at Pine Gate? Panner takes off his hat. You can see he's completely bald. No hair whatsoever. And he says, Well, I guess it's time we had a little talk about what's going on. I'm gonna take you all back. Forty, maybe even fifty years now. I can't quite remember exactly. But orcs poured out of the Greywall Mountains in numbers we had never seen before, and ravaged the city of Om Seren. The seekers of light were supposed to be the eyes and ears of the realm. Nothing got by them. They stamped out any uprising, any evil before it ever began, unless, of course, one of their own turned against them. And that's exactly what happened. Orcs built up in greater numbers than were ever seen. The battle spilled over into Aylford, which had little warning. I stood in Aylford as the savage orcs barreled through the town. Virin. And at this point he's looking at the male dusk spark twin. You were there as well. We fought for hours side by side, and we knew Keras would protect us. He looks at you, Seven, when he says that. But alas, even the great Oland Willowfist fell to the axe of Basic, the Orc Lord. One of his closest acolytes was slain in battle. The clerics of Charis drugg his body away and into what was left of Oland's temple. His other apprentice, Aylbrick Willowfist, his son, was not slain. But Aylbrick watched his own daughter succumb to the evils tearing through the town. By sunrise the battle had ended, and the orcs rushed back into the Greywall Mountains from which they came, their assault complete. Aylbrick couldn't sleep for days, weeks even. The screams of his daughter haunted him. The ever-present hum of destruction and noise rattled through his head at all times. Even Karas could not comfort him. He ventured into the binds and heard a voice. A voice that promised silence, a voice that offered vengeance on those that wronged him. A voice that offered power, and in return, unflinching servitude. Bonds and chains that could not be broken. Aylbric had no choice. Everything he loved gone. So Aylric took that vow. A vow to Thormir, the ancient unbound, the Lich Thormir. Aylbric grew in power and obeyed Thormir's every demand. He began changing. His voice graded, and his skin grayed. Thormir granted him the power to change his appearance in the blink of an eye. His name no longer suited him. So Aylbric was gone forever. And Panner was born. A simple name. The seekers of light lost all respect and were no longer trusted. So evil could rise up without so much as a word. And over time, the cult of Thormir, the crimson silence grew stronger. But now dusk sparks, I grow tired, I grow weary. I long for the days of tending to the temple with Olin. I long for more days spending with my daughter. Aylbric is dead, as dead as Olin, as dead as my daughter. I wish for this no longer. But listen to me now. A storm is coming. A storm you cannot stop. Portals will begin opening all across the veiled lands, and hordes of undead and minions of Thormil will wreak havoc. We fought alongside each other all those years ago, so I tell you this now. Close your gates, let no one in, fortify your town and ready your men. My guess is you only have a few months. There's an artifact the Crimson Silent searches for. It may be the Veiled Land's only hope of surviving. This artifact has three sockets, made specifically for three gems. No one knows the artifact's whereabouts, nor do we know exactly what it is. We only know it's by its name, Eternal Rest. We have deciphered the Lich's ancient text and know it to be near Crow Reach. The three gems we do know their whereabouts. One lodged into the eyes of a necromancer druid in the death bloom, in the depths of the deep hollows. Another, a ruby, latched onto the scales of the red dragon Rolsindex, and the last in the battle axe of Basic the Orc Lord. My time has come. Thormir senses the change in me. Dusk sparks. I again hear Keris's call. The nightmare riders of the crimson silence will be after me by nightfall. Take this information and do with it what you will. But for me, it's time to see my daughter again. That is, if Keris will have me. He nods at you again, Seven. At this point, he pulls out a small box. About six inches wide, a couple inches deep. He opens the top. And you all can see it's a small jewelry box. And it starts playing this little chime. He puts his hands on it. He closes his eyes. And you all watch his painter completely disappears.
SPEAKER_06That was a lot.
SPEAKER_07For the first time, like Seven doesn't have anything to say. In fact, like Seven is Seven's kind of head down. Like, he doesn't know what to do.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so honestly, that was pretty rude. I thought he was going to help me, and so like, what who who are you guys?
SPEAKER_02Well, who are you? We work with the Seekers of Light, but now I don't know if this is a good thing. All this time I thought Seekers of Light were good people, but perhaps not. Um and I thought he was the bad guy. So we are we are confused as well. Um, who are you?
SPEAKER_04I am a princess, and my name is Ordella. Oh, jeez.
SPEAKER_02And you do not look like princess. You are wearing dirty clothes. I have met princesses. I have heard of princesses. I have read books with princesses. Have you not heard of They've never said princesses standing around in dirty clothes?
SPEAKER_04Have you not heard of the Willow Falls? I'm kind of a big deal.
SPEAKER_02Well, kind of a bigger deal, but not okay.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_02The the willow falls?
SPEAKER_04Yes, of Dyer's rest.
SPEAKER_02You're making up words now.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so um I still need help. So what are um what are you guys doing here exactly?
SPEAKER_02We were warning the dusk sparks of Panner, but this all seems to have changed now.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, my my mind is just blown, so I can't even imagine what Seven's mind is like right now.
SPEAKER_07When you look at Seven, he's still just head down. He's kind of fidgety. He's trying to process. He doesn't he doesn't know what to think.
SPEAKER_04Is he going to be okay or yeah, he'll be alright.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'm I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm I I think I I think I don't I I I don't know.
SPEAKER_02So is this all news to to you? Uh I'll look at the female.
SPEAKER_08She also looks pretty shocked by this and says, Yes, this is news to us. Aylbrick was a companion of of Virin's, and um we we don't know what to say.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so you told me that he would be able to help me with this information that I have, and now I don't know what to do with it. And I came all the way out here and here we are, and he just poofed, and and now what am I supposed to do?
SPEAKER_08Where where exactly did you you said you saw an open portal?
SPEAKER_04I'm not exactly um sharing that information freely, and so now all of these people know, and so thanks a lot.
SPEAKER_08Yes, we are all a little shocked. Forgive me. Where exactly did you say you saw the portal open?
SPEAKER_04Do you think these people will help me? If so, I can share more information. If not, I'm really just gonna get on my way.
SPEAKER_08I I honestly don't know much about these folks. They approached us this morning with dire need of a list that Panna Glenwood had, but it it seems there has been a small twist of fate.
SPEAKER_07Seven gets up and walks out.
SPEAKER_02W what is it you need help with, little girl?
SPEAKER_04As you know, I come from Princess. Yes, thank you. As you know, I come from Dyer's rest of the Willowfall royalty. And there was a misunderstanding, and I need to get back in. And so if you could just help me get back in. Something just small happened, and I need to just like get back there, but it's like a little bit difficult. And so if you guys could just help me show them how great I am and how strong I am, then I can do those things. And in the meantime, I can share some information with you, maybe.
SPEAKER_06First off, I thought Panner hated us. I mean, he literally electrocuted me to like almost beyond saving. And then now he shares all this information with us. Yeah, I'm just looking at it.
SPEAKER_02It sounds like he has troubled past this Panner.
SPEAKER_06Obviously.
SPEAKER_04Maybe he'll just poof back.
SPEAKER_02Maybe. But perhaps for now, um, you you should probably speak to Willinor. Use our magic crystal. I don't know how to use it, um, and see if she knows about all this.
SPEAKER_06Alright. Alright, so I'm gonna pull out my other little girl.
SPEAKER_02We'll we'll talk about helping you after we heal from the princess, I'm a princess. Yes, little little princess and little girl. This will probably be the best way to call you both.
SPEAKER_06Uh, I was hoping like she would like replace me, but that's okay. Um Well, my name's Leo. Nice to meet you. Um, so I'm gonna pull out my sending stone, and I'm just gonna send a message. Um, oh man, okay, what should I say?
SPEAKER_02Is this the one where she only gets so many words? 25 words. Make them count.
SPEAKER_06Plot twist. Panner poofed, told us about an artifact.
SPEAKER_02Should we say something about the alluded to there being like a breach in the seekers of light, right?
SPEAKER_05Seekers.
SPEAKER_02I mean, that's 50 years ago. I mean, surely they plugged that hole, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I mean, one would think.
SPEAKER_02Are we the good guys? Right. Are we the good guys?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. Um now, I'm just gonna say, now what?
SPEAKER_07So seven comes back in. Okay. And he seems a little took a lap. But yeah. But now he seems like he's here for it.
SPEAKER_06So I'm gonna I'm gonna look at seven. I'm gonna say, do you need a gold coin?
SPEAKER_07No, no, I'm I'm I think I'm okay. I think I'm okay. Um, what what did I miss? Anything anything good? Who's the little girl? She's she's princess. Her name's Ordella.
SPEAKER_06She has a name too.
SPEAKER_07Oh, oh.
SPEAKER_06Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_07Or do I need to remember her name? Or we'll see. Or she's Dord. Or D? Or D Bordella. Oh. Okay. I I'm I'm sorry, I'm not great with names.
SPEAKER_04What are you?
SPEAKER_07I we you know, we'll we'll just for now, I don't really know you that well, so we're just gonna keep it just at hi, my name is Seven.
SPEAKER_04So you guys, you think you're the bad guys now, or what's what's happening?
SPEAKER_02Well, Banner alluded to us uh to the seekers of light, perhaps not being above board. And we are part of this uh this group. She is talking to our boss now.
SPEAKER_08And about that time.
SPEAKER_04Do we hear when you talk back in the stones or does she only she hears?
SPEAKER_08Okay, you hear Leo. This is an interesting twist. Where was Panner working from? Maybe return there and see if you can dig up any other information. I've also sent a messenger to you to deliver coin, and that's what you hear.
SPEAKER_02So she's not gonna tell us anything about the money. Naturally.
SPEAKER_06So basically, she said that she is also surprised by all this, and that she was wondering where Panner is working out of, and maybe we should go there to try to dig up some more info. Um, she also said she's sending a messenger. I don't know. I don't know who to trust anymore. It's kind of confusing.
SPEAKER_07I mean, I I don't I don't know who to trust. I mean, I'm a good guy. Yaros is a good guy. There's questions about Leo, but we, you know, there I mean, I I feel like we should be on the right side, but what what do we what do we Yaros, what do we do? I don't know.
SPEAKER_02This is this is new. Um let's uh let's weigh all our options and talk about the best course of action. We we now have princess here who needs our help getting into kingdom.
SPEAKER_04Yes. So how about a little bit like I help you, you help me situation? You said you seem to be like you're the good guys and would very much like to be around those people during this journey. So if we could just start there, then I can share some information. But I would rather do it somewhere where these people are not.
SPEAKER_07So I look at the dusk sparks and I'm like, you you you guys are supposed to be like the the the people that know know stuff? What you what do you think we should do?
SPEAKER_08We we are pretty taken back by this situation as well. We had no clue of of any thing happening around around Pine Gate. You all brought to me this morning. They were repairing a a fort of of some sort. Could they have been working out of that? I I'm I'm n I'm not even sure where to start looking. We will we will heed Panner's advice, or Ailbrick, whatever his real name was, and and begin um shuring up the walls of Pine Gate and closing closing the doors. Readying our men, and even if he's wrong and lying, at least we will be ready.
SPEAKER_02Well, I zo um What about what about little uh what about this red-headed guy here, Dalmond? You were you met with Panner just before this meeting, is that correct?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, how do we know that you didn't poof him?
SPEAKER_08How do we know you didn't poof him? To be honest, we we had not dealt with each other that much. Uh we had shared a few correspondences, but nothing nothing along the lines of a of a cult. I'm as I'm as shocked as you all are. I don't know what else to say. I hope you all believe me. I've worked in Pine Gate for going on 20 years now, and I've been on the Duskbox Council for at least 10 of those, so hopefully my word will will go far.
SPEAKER_07Oh well well, uh okay, um maybe we go back to the um or or Decca or what um what you you well um where where do we go back through the pines to get to to wherever you are from? Where are you from? I am from Dyer's rest.
SPEAKER_04It's like by the water, but you know.
SPEAKER_07Are we gonna go back through the western pine eastern pine? What pine whatever pines they are? From from here, are we to to get there? Because we could stop by the we could stop by the, you know, where they were rebuilding to see if maybe maybe that that that's where Panter stuff is.
SPEAKER_04So, like before you got in here, I was talking with these people, but now I'm just very confused about what we're supposed to be doing, and they know about the portal, and I want to tell you about the portal, but like, do I tell them?
SPEAKER_08Um, I I you you you may be a little confused, Ordella. You you have already told us.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so I've told you, but now I don't know about like the other little pieces that go along with it and like the where it is.
SPEAKER_08I I I don't think these people are are bad people. They they came to us this morning to help save our lives, so I would assume they are good of good of hearts. I don't know if this one has a heart, but the other seems to be good.
SPEAKER_07I don't have one.
SPEAKER_06He doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep. Or no, or drink.
SPEAKER_07I can breathe underwater. You don't sleep?
SPEAKER_08Okay, uh you know are you? I I know we're in in in dire states here.
SPEAKER_07It seems I'm I'm warforged, um, so I I'm basically wood and metal. Um, no, no. I'm a sweetheart, really, but I, you know, I'm uh, you know, I'm a little new to a lot of this, and so um, yeah, you know, that's that's all you really need.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so little princess, you have seen portal open.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_02Where?
SPEAKER_04Should I tell you?
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_04So I was minding my own business, walking down this path in like, I don't know, the Eastern Pines or I'm not really sure what directions they are. Anyway, um, I was coming from Pine Gate, and I I like saw these weird guys, and they're like dressed kind of dark and like roby, and I wasn't really sure. But then these like two horse-drawn carts were like full of like some like dust or like powdery stuff, you know what I'm saying? And so um, I'm a little bit nosy, and so I was just like, maybe I'll see what they're doing, and so I followed them. And next thing you know, they're at this like weird little broken down fort, and I wasn't really sure what was happening, and they like went inside, but I couldn't just like follow them and like all by myself, and so I like got a little bit sneaky, and so um actually I like pried open some bars in the back. I'm like kind of good at like sneaking my way into things.
SPEAKER_02That's a trait you learned at princess school. I mean, I'm pretty good at sneaking too.
SPEAKER_04I actually snuck out a few times out of the castle and learned a thing or two. Um, but so I'm like crawling my way through there, and there's this like weird, nasty swampiness and like a sewer kind of situation happening. Anyway, I found a ladder, I climbed it, I got into the fort, and then y'all, you guys, there was this like magical looking thing. Oh and I am not like super magical until like I wasn't sure what was happening, but it was terrifying, it was like very portal-esque, and I did not want them to see me, and so I ran here because I'm like all by myself and I could just use um some help.
SPEAKER_06Wait, so is do you think that's the fort that we saw on the way in? Or perhaps, perhaps. Well maybe it was like gross, so I don't know.
SPEAKER_08The second thing I've made that people have called gross that's so funny.
SPEAKER_06How many broken down or like forts being rebuilt are there in this area?
SPEAKER_04I mean, I could I could take you there if you let me.
SPEAKER_02Let's go there, and perhaps it's the same place we need to go anyway to look at Panner's what he was working on. Okay.
SPEAKER_07What about those guys that were with him? Because they they looked like they they they were not happy people.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I wonder if they were the same people. And then also, lest we forget the deal we made with the dragon for Panner's head, and now there's no head today.
SPEAKER_04Huge dragon or like kind of dragon are we talking about?
SPEAKER_02And empathy.
SPEAKER_04Well, see, we had a dragon back at the castle, and it was so sweet and so cute, and it stayed in this little room and we weren't allowed to go in it.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, I know this was about it. This was not baby dragon. No, it was scary. Yeah, yeah. So right now we go to Fort. Yeah, uh let's go. Yeah, let's go, yeah, let's go to Fort.
SPEAKER_06It's the best idea.
SPEAKER_02Okay, you you take us to Fort that you know and see if it's the same fort that we know.
SPEAKER_06Okay, let's uh let's go do it. Okay, so what time is it?
SPEAKER_07Like 10 30, right? It's like morning.
SPEAKER_04Uh it's 6 57 a.m.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, it's probably almost midday.
SPEAKER_04So um, where are your um like horses? Carts?
SPEAKER_06Or we have we have this one horse and uh this one cart parked over here.
SPEAKER_04Okay, um, I'll just get into that and then like somebody can pull it, or how do we how do we get there?
SPEAKER_03That's good. That's good. Uh uh.
SPEAKER_07Um, I don't care. I don't need the I don't need it, so I'm the female Dusk Spark says, you you all are more than welcome to stay in this room.
SPEAKER_08We are um we're going to go discuss with the guard and let them know and lay out a plan. Feel free to be in touch if you need a place to stay. There are a few larger homes here that we can allow you to stay in. Do you have any magical weapons or or anything that could aid us? We don't have those to give away. However, you could you could check out Zephyl's stock if you have coin. And they they stand up and she says, Is there is there anything else you would need from us?
SPEAKER_06Uh, maybe like another horse. Do you have a horse?
SPEAKER_08We we may could arrange that. Or two. I'm not sure about two horses. We may be able to arrange one more horse for you.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I I thought I thought y'all like were like the big in the town. I thought y'all like ran ran the town. We we do. However, we But you can't get more than one horse. You can't that's interesting. I I just thought people that like ran the town like did whatever they wanted to.
SPEAKER_04Is that not is that not how that works? I mean, my family runs our town, and so like that's what I'm used to. So yeah, I'm just gonna do it.
SPEAKER_07I thought, yeah, do do whatever you want. I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, her town has a lot of horses.
SPEAKER_07This Ordesis is a smart one.
SPEAKER_04She's you can just call me princess if you want. I mean.
SPEAKER_02Oh, oh, well, okay. I mean, it is best to do like this on like air quotes when you say this princess, because we're not really sure she's princess yet.
SPEAKER_04Have you not heard of Dyer's Rest? Though Willow Falls, we're kind of a big deal.
SPEAKER_07Nope. Nope. We are going to take our leave now.
SPEAKER_08Does sparks walk out with Dalman kind of on their heel?
SPEAKER_07Have you ever heard of Yarost?
SPEAKER_02He's a big deal.
SPEAKER_04Whoarost what what is a Yarost?
SPEAKER_02I am I am a Yarost. Uh perhaps you've heard of me. I was undefeated in the fighting pits in Belmore.
SPEAKER_04But you're so small, so how?
SPEAKER_03That's good.
SPEAKER_07Oh man.
SPEAKER_03That's good.
SPEAKER_04You're going to help me and I will just kind of show you where this portal is.
SPEAKER_02Yes, yes. Let's uh where did we leave our horse and cart? Oh, I think I think it's at the inn.
SPEAKER_07I think it's with Riff.
SPEAKER_04Should we stay at like the biggest house they have here? Or are we?
SPEAKER_07Are we not gonna go now? I thought we're going now sleep or anything. So I can just go today. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Do we want to head back to Riffs then and gather up some stuff? Because we don't have any money to buy anything.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You don't have any money?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's okay. We can just maybe be a little sneaky with it. Oh.
SPEAKER_06Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07Oh, she steals stuff all the time. Yeah, Leo steals books and stuff.
SPEAKER_05Maybe two times. May maybe three times. Okay.
SPEAKER_08So you all walk out of the town hall. The fog at this point has lifted a little bit to where you can see enough ahead of you. You're not gonna have to make your survival check now. Seven's still flailing his arms. Yeah. Just naturally. Yeah. As you move through, you do see a younger, probably teenage, 15 maybe, walking around. He's got a big pouch on his waist that he's holding, you can see really tightly. Like his hand is gripping it really hard. And he's he's pointing at people and talking to him and then shaking his head, and then he'll he'll walk off and try to find other people.
SPEAKER_09And you all pick up and hear him say, Has anyone seen uh a creature that looks like he he's got he's made out of metal and a small dwarf. I'm looking for them. Has anyone seen Hey, hey buddy! Hey, are I I'm made of oh I mean, no, no.
SPEAKER_07And I look at Yaros like my bad, my bad.
SPEAKER_06I don't So I'll walk up to him and I'm like, What's up? Uh are you for Leo? Yes, thanks.
SPEAKER_09And that one over there. He pointed to seven and says, that that one's the seven. Yep.
SPEAKER_07Can you just can you stop? And you're you're your host. Oh yeah, yes. Do you know him from the fighting bits?
SPEAKER_06Is that my no no no more I'm This is Willanor's friend. Serving us as a messager.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04Willanor's okay, Ordella just kind of like stalts aside if there's like a tree or something because she's like a little bit like what's happening? Like she wants to kind of listen in to see what he says to them to see if she like you know wants to stick around.
SPEAKER_08Make a stealth check.
SPEAKER_04Here we go.
unknownOh!
SPEAKER_04That's a 20! Oh my god! Can you believe plus seven, twenty-seven? 27.
SPEAKER_08Gee, the plus seven already. You poof. You pan or Glenwooded. You're gone. Um, you're able to find some shadows in a tree and kind of wedge yourself in between a bush to where you look and you don't really see an ordella anymore.
SPEAKER_06Like that Homer Simpson uh Jeff.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's perfect. Pulls back. Yep. Ordella, you get close enough to where you can hear him, you're not able to be seen.
SPEAKER_09And he says, Yes, I have.
SPEAKER_08Uh maybe we should go somewhere else to give this out. And I had to take one thing because I may have fallen and hurt myself. But everything else is in here, I promise. Where do you all want to go? We can do it here, but it may not look good.
SPEAKER_05What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_02What is in bag?
SPEAKER_05Leo, Leo, I have your money. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06Okay, you can just hand it to me.
SPEAKER_02You did not tell us that Will andor was sending money. She didn't say that. She said it like you knew about it.
SPEAKER_06A messenger. I didn't know there was gonna be money. I didn't know what he was gonna do.
SPEAKER_08Um, do you do you all want you just want it right here?
SPEAKER_06No, can we let's just go in the tavern real quick and we'll Are you gonna count it?
SPEAKER_01Uh now we are.
SPEAKER_08Okay. I'll I'll follow you all.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so let's head into the tavern and we have room still.
SPEAKER_08Riff's yeah, yeah, yeah. You still have room. The whole time he's like whistling new.
SPEAKER_06Oh no, he's gonna try to pr push his stew on us again.
SPEAKER_08You enter back into Riff's tavern. Ordella, are you?
SPEAKER_04I'm just like staying away still, but I'd want to hear what's happening.
SPEAKER_08Okay. Get in the tavern. As soon as you walk in, Riff uh waves at you again and says, All right, look, you all are back. I know you were coming back for more Riff's stew.
SPEAKER_02Not here for the stew. Moving on. But we keep moving. I don't want to talk to Riff.
SPEAKER_08Y'all go up to your rooms? Yeah. Okay. Go up to your room. Kid sits the the the bag on your bed and says, There Okay, so there's a thousand gold pieces. It's it's more. It's Willanor said it was more than than you all had agreed to, but she said you were looking into something else. At least that's what she told me last night through through you know, whatever. Anyway.
SPEAKER_02I don't even remember how much we were supposed to get paid for this. What we're supposed to get paid.
SPEAKER_07I I just want to know if you got a different uh a different emblem, maybe that doesn't say initiates. We we could really use Yeah, they're in the bag. There are three of them. Sweet. And then there's there's a thousand gold pieces. For real? Yes. It doesn't say initiates?
SPEAKER_08No, no, no, no. She said y'all y'all are y'all have been accepted as seekers. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because we got hung up on that. I I yeah. I'm okay.
SPEAKER_08Probably I can tell. So so there's there's that, and then a thousand gold, and there are five healing potions. Again, two for each, but sorry, guys, I had to use one. I fell pretty hard. I scraped my knee. It's not scraped anymore, though. I took the healing potion and it went away. Can't have bad knees, guys. That's what they say.
SPEAKER_06So what else do you want to do?
SPEAKER_08I'm gonna be a fighter one day. I'm gonna be I'm gonna go to the pits at Palmore and and I am gonna be just like Yarros over here. Oh undefeated.
SPEAKER_02There we go. See, now are you all here?
SPEAKER_08Undefeated. That's what I'm gonna be.
SPEAKER_02That's right. Undefeated.
SPEAKER_08Yaros, before I leave, can you show me a bunch of your moves? Oh my gosh. So I'm gonna go to the house.
SPEAKER_06Um, and I'm going to check like his pockets and stuff because I was like, what else did you take? And he just kept on rambling through.
SPEAKER_08Okay. So the mage hand starts moving forward and he goes, Hey, what are you what it nope? Nope. And he he's moving his hand. Make a uh just make an attack roll with attacking the messenger. I mean, I'm gonna make a an acrobatics. Can she hear what's happening?
SPEAKER_04Oh, like with the door shut? She because she's okay. She's trying to listen in.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so I rolled a 15. Oh, wait, what's that?
SPEAKER_0815 plus.
SPEAKER_06So yeah, so 15 plus five.
SPEAKER_0820. He rolled an 18. So he's trying to move this mage hand and grab it and whatnot, but you keep moving it in and out and you are touching him. You feel a little clanging, like there's some there's maybe some coins on him. You don't know how many based on the touching because you're already on the room. You can't really feel with mage hand. You can hear you. Um, can you get this can you get this hand off of me? Please I can't. Can you please get this hand off of me?
SPEAKER_06Did do you have those coins? I had these coins.
SPEAKER_08Willinor paid me to come to pay you guys.
SPEAKER_06Okay, just usually when people talk a lot, it's not a well, they always say I talk a lot. Yeah, please stop.
SPEAKER_02Well, good luck in the fighting pits. I think you'll do well.
SPEAKER_08Could I pay you for some training?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, not not interested in uh in training. But maybe little girl can help. She is uh she is accomplished. I'm better with my sword. Yeah, yeah, she's good with that too. Um, a thousand gold? Yes. Can someone count this? I can't count that eye.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so I'll I'll step aside and I'll like count the gold and I'll put it in my back holding.
SPEAKER_02I need a two-step verification.
SPEAKER_04Trust her with Bordella's just like outside of the door, like with her head, her hand on her head, and just like, what did I get myself into?
SPEAKER_06Okay, it's all there.
SPEAKER_08There's 998 gold pieces. What? Okay, I'll see you guys later. And he walks out.
SPEAKER_02We're not going to chase little boy for two gold. I was just kidding.
SPEAKER_08Not really. So 998 gold pieces, five healing potions.
SPEAKER_02Need new emblems?
SPEAKER_08Three new emblems that no longer identify you all as initiates.
SPEAKER_02Alright. Um, alright. We have some gold now. Just a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. So we will get to the game. It's like all we have. Oh, where did Princess go? Where did little princess go? Need to tie a bell around her neck. Never know where she's at.
SPEAKER_06I think she's out in the hallway. You can come in, Ordella. She just kind of stranger danger.
SPEAKER_04Opens the door real slowly and looks in.
SPEAKER_07Seven jumps.
SPEAKER_04How did that go?
SPEAKER_02We have a little bit of money, you know. We didn't know it was coming. Didn't know. But we didn't.
SPEAKER_04Who who um who sent this to you?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're not initiates.
SPEAKER_04Very cool.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, thanks.
SPEAKER_04We love that for you.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, thank you. That feels pretty good.
SPEAKER_02So now we we go to Fort. You have everything we need? Yeah. Everybody's good. I'm good.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Yeah. So I guess um when we go downstairs, the horse, the cart, and then the dust barks. Did they ring another horse?
SPEAKER_08Are y'all y'all are going downstairs now?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_08You get downstairs, and sure enough, there is another horse. This horse does not look as sturdy and strong as the horse you guys purchased.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so its name is Onyx, the black one. Okay. So now what describe it? I'm really into horses, so I just you're a horse girl.
SPEAKER_08No, this is a much smaller brown horse. And it's kind of got a marbled light brown, dark brown. You can tell it doesn't look as great. One of its eyes is droopy.
SPEAKER_03Not the droopy eyes, the droopy-eyed brown horse.
SPEAKER_08And it it as you take off its gait is a little wobbly.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so that one's name is Kiply.
SPEAKER_08Moves to the left a little bit.
SPEAKER_06Okay, I will take the black horse. Thank you. No, that's my horse.
SPEAKER_04Okay, I will be in the cart.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you can just hide in the cart.
SPEAKER_08You all are heading back to, or you're heading to before that Ordella. So we're kind of letting her lead to make sure it's just the same for.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, she's kind of um just feeling a lot better. She was, y'all, this poor girl is just like she has been on her own for a little while. And so she's still putting on her like, you know, her face for you, but inside she's actually feeling like a lot safer. And she's hoping that she made the right decision because she's really not sure what kind of group you're a part of or like why you want to be in it.
SPEAKER_03Nobody's gonna be.
SPEAKER_08She's back cart driving.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_08No, no, to the left a little bit. No, to the right a little bit.
SPEAKER_04Like laying back on like flower or whatever. She's pillowy.
SPEAKER_02As we're walking, I'm gonna kinda since means they're kind of on horses and yeah. So I'm gonna go to seven. Do you remember Panner talking about um artifact with three sockets? You remember this?
SPEAKER_07Well, yeah. Um Panner, when he got into his story, things got a little fuzzy for me. So I remember him saying something about that, but I don't I wasn't I didn't hear a ton of that part of it.
SPEAKER_02I wonder, my this mall I found, it it has three sockets. Oh yeah. Hey, you well do you think you think that's it? Maybe, but it's just between me and your friends. But he said he said they didn't know where it was. I know.
SPEAKER_07That's but you had it and you didn't say I think it's right here. That's why I'm talking to you now, so me and you. Oh, okay. Like our song.
SPEAKER_01Sort of like song. Oh, it's bigger secrets of this. Oh, okay. Song is top classified.
SPEAKER_07I love I love that we have we're we're like forming a friendship. This is great. Okay. No, no, no, keep going. Keep going.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but that I just wondered if you perhaps if you I th I think you're right. Alright. I just wanted to run it by someone. But it's already holding something though, right? Yeah, we did absorb something, but there's a way we did not sock it. We did not put gems in it, but okay. I just wanted to run that by you.
SPEAKER_07Well, remember, remember that guy in the woods? That was was he you think he was coming after the the artifact or the thing in the artifact?
SPEAKER_02I don't know. They're now one and the same, so. Okay.
SPEAKER_07Oh, interesting. So but we're keeping this a secret.
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