Another realm is a narrative-driven tabletop role-playing game podcast. For this season we're using the Dungeons Dragons 5e rules. Hmm, kinda Sometimes the language on this podcast can get a little spicy, but if that doesn't bother you, my name is Will and I play Six. I'm Bruce and I'm the voice of Archie.
Speaker 3I'm Frazier and I play Mark Bark Smooth.
Speaker 4My name is Emily and I'm the voice of Osiris Tsun.
Speaker 5And I'm your Game Master, tanner, and this is what happened on the last episode of Another Realm, the Never there.
Speaker 3Wow, I justit was just a drop. Oh, shablee, I'm on your spilling at the vile hands of Dorm Loud the Revenant. I let that bastard out of the bag and he sent everything flying Hopes dreams, shablee. It took so much effort for Archie, six, osiris and me to get to that Hadley kid, but I think we ended up with more unanswered questions and, thanks to Dorm Loud the Dick, we couldn't even defend ourselves as we were whisked away to prison. Archie and Six seem to be familiar with this place, a gallery in where now you find yourselves in the gallery of a courtroom in Port Wayworth.
Speaker 5A stern looking man with long white dreadlocks sits in the judge's bench. Glyam Sphelik presides over a full room. His piercing blue eyes look down at the defendants. The local newspapers are calling them the Black Wolf Remnants. When he locks eyes with their leader, archibald Theodore Cromwell, he flashes an almost imperceptible knowing smirk. Looking around the room, we can see everyone who has made a name for themselves in Port Wayworth is here Alfred Liam Palmer, who leads the Bayside Princes, robert Vincent Chase, leader of the Good Men of Butcher Street, branson Parker Riley of the Westmakers, george Alvin Tillitson of the First Family and most notably the two Hadley sons, elliot Maxwell Hadley and his adopted brother Victor Rodney Hadley.
Speaker 5But there's been a lot of time between now and when we left the underground operation run by the Hadleys on the southern border of Atoria. You were all in a bad state after the encounter with Dormlaud the Revenant. You aren't even sure how you got out of there, but after that ordeal you spent a few days shackled in the back of a horse-drawn cart and then a few weeks in a damp cell that smells of sea foam and brine. You've had time to think, time to worry and time to pray, but, most importantly, time to plan, and all your planning has led up to this very moment, in this very courtroom. You used all the contacts and capabilities at your disposal to ensure that what's about to happen next works.
Speaker 5Here's what you know. You learned what you could about the other prisoners and used that to your advantage. You got a message out to those you thought could help the most, and you gathered everything you could from a jail cell to help with this plot. The only time that this all works is right now. But instead of focusing on right now, we're going to rewind a bit and see exactly what you did to try and get yourselves out of this mess Because, dear friends, I am sentencing you to death. There's my little intro.
Speaker 6Oh shit.
Speaker 5God dang it. This is the position that we end up in. Did that make sense for you guys? Did you get it? Did it?
Speaker 2Yeah, that made sense. Yeah, it made sense.
Speaker 4I heard I'm going to die. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3We were shackled up for a few days. Then we were in a jail cell for a few weeks.
Speaker 2I'm going to skateboard way worth again. What's fucking new man?
Speaker 1All right, hey, I get to do it for the first time.
Speaker 5Okay, so a few things. We are in a situation where you've all been locked up. However, you are not locked up together. You all been dropped in four separate cells, so everyone is in their own cell, but you're nearby enough to each other to speak. Any loud talking will be called down upon by the guards, so there are people listening. There are three other prisoners in here.
Speaker 5Now, a couple of things I'm going to tell you about this particular setup. A lot of it is going to be up to you as to who the people are that you interact with, who you're trying to send messages out to, and what sort of manipulations and planning you're going to do. So I don't have anything for these three prisoners. They are people that you're going to make up. If you choose to talk to them, I will then play them and we can see what help you can gain from them. The guards that are going to be involved are named. They are characters that have been created. They have their own ideals and everything else. There are some twists within some of the characters that are going to show up on this. If you've been paying attention to very small plot points in the story, you will know some of these characters. So let's go ahead and roll through it.
Speaker 5The four of you have just finished your long trek from the southern border of Vittoria. You know, even though you had limited visibility, with either sacks on your head or in a covered cart, you know that you followed a river which I would say that, archie and Margbark, you know that if you're following a river from a point where you think you were, you were probably going, you were traveling alongside the Canast. If you were traveling north along a river from the southern border and then Archie, you know that eventually you would cross the Broadswitch River to get into Port Wayworth. So you can know a couple of things about your trip.
Speaker 5You can ask me see if we can make that help to your advantage, but you know there was a group of injured men and women that were part of the Blackhold Collective defended you and everyone else from Port Wayworth. So, yep, you're all in cells. There are three other prisoners in here. I will give you today this is your first day in jail to act upon and talk to each other, and then events will happen. So what is the first thing that you guys start talking about as you find yourself in this situation?
Speaker 2You said I'm in solitary confinement right.
Speaker 6Not yet.
Speaker 3Oh, okay. So we've all just just now been kind of plopped down into this jail. We're separated, all in our own individual cells, correct? Do we have cellmates?
Speaker 5No, no one has a cellmate, but you do know that there are three other prisoners in here.
Speaker 2What are the doors?
Speaker 5like Iron Bard, more complex locks than the last time that you were here. It seems like they learned from what happened.
Speaker 2No, I just meant, like you know, some places it's like a door with a little peephole and then some places are just like actual cells. I was trying to figure out what it was.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, so enough to where you guys can talk to each other, but mostly so that people can have visibility in without having to open a door. The walls around you are stone. There is no light coming into these cells. There are cracks in some places where you do see some light, but that's most likely where you can smell the sea, air and things coming in. So yeah, everyone's in their own cell. The three other prisoners are in their own cell as well. They are small and cramped cells.
Speaker 3Um, can we see one another Like are we across a hall from each other, or something?
Speaker 5Yeah, you're all in the same basic location.
Speaker 2All right. So yeah, then Archie's just leaning against like his door, with those hands on the like out in between the bars just on whatever like metal pieces on the door, kind of just looking watching what's going on. Um.
Speaker 1Hey, hey guys. That was that was pretty crazy. Mark, what a good idea with that peg, I really thought you were gonna get us out of that.
Speaker 3I'm starting to question if it was a good idea or not. Uh, maybe that's why we're in here.
Speaker 2I mean, we'd probably be be dead if we weren't in here.
Speaker 1So yeah, I guess being dead is. Being alive is better than dead. Uh, always, um, um. I wonder what happened to dorm loud. Is he still, you know?
Speaker 3uh, chilling Dorm.
Speaker 2Loud has no chill, and he's a fucking savage.
Speaker 1Do I have? Oh, I don't. I don't seem to have any of my things either.
Speaker 2I wonder why they took my Mace Time to roll a slide of hand to see if there's a lockpick in my clothes.
Speaker 5I mean, they wouldn't. So yes, I did not give you that information. They would have strip searched you pretty thoroughly. Um, I will give you. Well, did you have lockpicks to begin with?
Speaker 2Yeah, I have my thieves, tools.
Speaker 5Uh, okay, yeah, yeah, I'll let you give me a slide of hand to see if you, uh, you still have those on me.
Speaker 2Something tells me it's not gonna matter Come something tells me I really hope this is a natural 20. Cause that's the only way they magically appear in your yeah, you pick the lock, the guards catch you immediately.
Speaker 3They put you back in the cell. They locked the door.
Speaker 1Good thing for you, they didn't check your butt?
Speaker 2Nope, they definitely checked my butt. They did, oh gosh, so okay, that's funny.
Speaker 5Yeah, uh, no lockpicks. Everyone, I'm gonna say everything that's important to you or useful, has been taken from you. There were. There was a lot of concern when they searched six and people were taken aback because they figured out that?
Speaker 1Oh no, I opened my chest.
Speaker 2Is my chest bored there.
Speaker 5Um yeah, your chest board is still there, oh yes, that's good, I don't think they would have opened your chest cavity. I had a moment of.
Speaker 1I had a moment of uh panic. I thought I wouldn't even be able to play chess in in prison. I feel like a rebel.
Speaker 4Osiris starts like frantically padding her pockets and like all of her clothing for her book, and um, she's oh, no, no, no, no. Where's my book? Where's my book? I don't have it, I don't have it. I need that. I need that really bad you guys.
Speaker 1They probably took it.
Speaker 4I really wish I hadn't come with you guys.
Speaker 2I mean, I did tell you, uh, you could leave whenever you wanted to.
Speaker 4I wish I took your word on that honestly.
Speaker 1Yeah, obviously it was a little surprising you stayed with us.
Speaker 4No, no, guys, you, you don't understand. I really need that book. It's very, very important.
Speaker 2Well, uh, I'll be the first thing we get when we get out of here.
Speaker 1If we get out of here. Uh, there's no, if I I refuse to die. I think I'm pretty sure I overheard the guard captains talking about killing us.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, of course, I mean I've been sentenced to you know I mean technically I've been sentenced to like at least 45 persons worth of death sentences. So so you know they're over 45. So it's probably fine, right.
Speaker 1I. If anybody knows how to get out of this, it's you, archie. Any words of wisdom. Am I across from six?
Speaker 5Um, yeah, you can be across from sure.
Speaker 2All right, six, pull your chest board out, Ha.
Speaker 1I do so. Do you want to be whites or black?
Speaker 2I don't really care.
Speaker 1Uh, we can do it the old fashioned way. I put two pieces in my hand and I hold it out to Archie and say pick right or left. Uh, left, whites, it is, I'll you go first.
Speaker 2I set the board up. Pond to A to no all right. As I, as I began as I began telling him where to move pieces. That's like. That's the conversation that six and Archie are having right now.
Speaker 1Okay, pond to anything on the A file is a terrible first move, archie.
Speaker 2Something, something chest noises.
Speaker 1Um Osiris, I really do apologize for getting you into this mess. I feel like it's partially my fault, with my very friendly nature.
Speaker 4Well, it is okay, I just, once again, I didn't expect uh uh y'all to uh summon such a great, large lord out of a small bag. I could not have predicted that.
Speaker 3Well, technically we didn't summon him. He had been in my bag for quite some time. We really wanted him out of there.
Speaker 1It was a better time than any to get him out.
Speaker 3But damn the chablis.
Speaker 2Hey, at least you got a taste of it. Oh god.
Speaker 4Sixie really don't understand. A very important mentor gave me that book and it is very important that I get that book back.
Speaker 2Oh well, you can panic, or you can sit back and enjoy the ride, because right now nobody's going anyway.
Speaker 4I think I'm gonna panic.
Speaker 2It's probably best to be fair.
Speaker 5Roll for panic attack? Um, you don't have to, but if you actually do roll, okay, you have a panic attack.
Speaker 1Well, osiris, since we don't really have anywhere to go. Uh, follow up question who is your mentor?
Speaker 4Who Well um.
Speaker 2I don't think she's probably not gonna tell us that six. I mean we did, you know, kind of get her locked up in one of the largest.
Speaker 4My just well tries and it's a, it's a gentleman that I, um, I met in passing, actually, on my travels here to where, uh, to where I met you guys. Uh, I met him in the, uh, the dark spur ticket, but I I, I can't remember his name.
Speaker 1No, you can't remember his name?
Speaker 3Was it brother Gansel oh?
Speaker 2Hey six one night. I thought you were looking for that sounds familiar.
Speaker 4Oh I did, I did, I did pass by him and he, he was expecting me. Brother Gansel he, he taught me a lot of things actually, you say he was expecting you.
Speaker 2He was expecting you.
Speaker 4I don't know if we should be discussing this right now. They can kind of hear us.
Speaker 2I actually like presses his face against the bars to try to see down the hall both ways and he goes. No, it's probably fine, I don't see any gods.
Speaker 4Um, what about these other folks?
Speaker 2and oh hold on hold on. They're probably in the same boat as we are.
Um, there was a time. It was a time where I thought brother Gansel was my daddy. Isn't brother Gansel a fucking thief? I don't, he's a, he's a thief. According to argo malcott, I can't say that I know him very well.
Speaker 4But he he did teach me a lot and he gave me that book and it has all of my knowledge that I have ever collected. It's a. It's a very special book to me and I really really need that back. So you lost your diary and you're upset about it.
Speaker 3That was very apathetic of you, mark bark margo.
Speaker 4I think by now you should realize that he's a pretty apathetic guy like that hasn't been new.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, it just seems like you're pretty bummed about it.
Speaker 3Well, I mean, it just seems like you're pretty bummed about losing a sketchbook or something like. Why, like, let's why? Why is it so important?
Speaker 4Mark, it had the maps to the stars. The stars teach me everything. It's so important that I get that back. That is patronizing of you to say.
Speaker 3Well, please give me some knowledge you've gotten from the stars. What have they taught you? That's so great.
Speaker 4Well, they've led me here and they say that I, I let you to a prison, I let you to a prison, so, please, anything good. You can say that the stars have taught.
Speaker 3Did they teach you how to get out of prison? That would be more useful.
Speaker 2They taught me when to go to sleep and also when to rob people.
Speaker 4I'm sure if I had my book I could probably find something, or maybe I could look to the stars for an answer. But I'm out of luck.
Speaker 2Well see, here's the problem there's no windows, so it really wouldn't matter if you had your book.
Speaker 4Hey, um Tanner, can the the cell in front of me not be one of these fuckers? You wanted to be someone else she's straight across from me.
Speaker 5She's straight across from me. I'm beside.
Speaker 3Archie, she's beside six.
Speaker 5I'm straight across from you could be on one of the edges, and the adjacent cell could be one of the other.
Speaker 2She doesn't want to talk to us anymore. Is what she's saying? Tanner, she's size real loud.
Speaker 4Six is to my right. In front of six is Archie. In front of me as a random person, and then Mark barks over here when six and I can see him, archie can't wait, I'm separated from the group.
Speaker 3Mark would be. Yes, we're separated from the group. You're not special. No, because I made fun of your diary.
Speaker 5Okay, here's the cell setup. Closest, farthest from the door, um are going to be six and Archie facing each other, and then next to them are, uh, mark bark and Osiris. I don't care who you're next to, it's fine. And then next to Osiris and Mark bark are two other prisoners, and then one more space over is the third prisoner.
Speaker 4Fine, I guess I have to look at Mark Bart after you, hey Tanner.
Speaker 2Yeah, is it safe to assume that Archie would probably know he's gonna end up in solitary soon?
Speaker 5Um, you, okay, here's two things that that you get when you were brought down here. First off, when six was strip searched, you know they said alert the captain immediately, so something's probably gonna be happening from that. Um. Then the other one said uh, tell them he's back and Noted to you. So you know something's probably going to happen soon.
Speaker 2Okay, all right, that's enough of the bullshit, and so two things that we need to probably get out and open now um, one, six, uh, they're intrigued by whatever it is you have under what you got there, so they're probably gonna try and poke and prod you. Um, you probably prep yourself for that and we all should probably prep ourselves to be separated very soon. So we should probably figure out how in the hell we're gonna get out of here and stop talking about you know, I don't know books and Stars and stuff.
Speaker 4Okay, I want to try to get the attention of the one that's next to mark bark, who is in front of me. That I can like at least see.
Speaker 5You can see the other one too. Like the bars between your cages are not walls.
Speaker 4Okay, so I thought you were saying we were surrounded by like concrete and then just the door.
Speaker 5Oh no stone walls all around the whole area, but you guys are in bars.
Speaker 4I really have to look at mark bark gross.
Speaker 3Yeah, uh-huh.
Speaker 4What if we have to use the bathroom? Well, you use it, there's a whole oh, there's a bucket.
Speaker 2It's not even a whole man. This is.
Speaker 5No, it's it. This is a good prison. It's like it's. They're ready for it. It's a hole. Sure they don't want to have to clean it up and it goes right out to sea. Duh yeah.
Speaker 4Oh, that's pretty short, tanner. Describe the person in the cell next to me. Emily describe the person in the cell and okay, I want it to be this very big, burly, uh, um, hi, I'm in the cell next to you.
Speaker 2No, like big barbaric, like hi, I'm in the cell next to you, like.
Speaker 4Like, uh, I can't think of the the, the race.
Speaker 1You're praying. It's a goliath, a goliath.
Speaker 4No, um, they're like half orc yes.
Speaker 5Okay or orc, or yeah Full orc would be an orc in here, so we'll go with half orc.
Speaker 2Hey who's on how'd?
Speaker 4you get in Art. Yeah, like this song, maybe um a goliath would be bigger than who's song.
Speaker 2That's why.
Speaker 4No, no, no, no, no, no. So just like big big guy big guy.
Speaker 5Big, big, big half orc Okay big guy.
Speaker 4Uh, uh, excuse, excuse me Sir what?
Speaker 5what does this guy sound like?
Speaker 4Oh, come on Big, or okay, okay, yeah we're a big guy, we're dumb now. Me and big guy if you, if you don't mind me asking how, how long have?
Speaker 2you been, oh, trying nap, midday, nap time, but yes, so in another cell we see um Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson peeing on a shirt and tying it to a bar Can we have a shirt and more.
Speaker 4All right, anyway, we have one of the jailers jail some guys be like wow, wow.
Speaker 5Wow, yeah, it's uh sure, if we're gonna go ahead and get all of these characters in, yeah the other, we can make the other one freaking Owen Wilson.
Speaker 4But his name is Bowen Wilson let's focus on.
Speaker 5Let's focus on very smart guy first very smart.
Speaker 4Um well, I I'm sorry to bother you, but I do just have a quick question, if you don't mind ask. Oh okay, Um well, uh, how long have you been in here?
Speaker 6Me. I'm not remember how long we have been away from family.
Speaker 5You gave me rain. You could have said intelligent, large, beefy man like, like, like nerdy, buff guy, geek, strong. But no, you said half work, big guy. This is a half work, big guy.
Speaker 2I hope that's his name Half work, big guy 100% half work, big guy.
Speaker 4Well, um, jesus, um, do you know how to get out of here? By any chance? Have you ever, have you ever, been outside recently?
Speaker 6Me. I'm remembering outside.
Speaker 4Do you really? Sorry, bro, she didn't get arrested a lot.
Speaker 2So you know she doesn't know. It's kind of rude to ask people if they've not been outside in a while.
Speaker 4I don't. I don't like being here and I really want to get out. It sounds like you really want to get out too.
Speaker 6Me am have question.
Speaker 4Me him have answered.
Speaker 6You dream in color.
Speaker 4Oh, of course. I dream of the most brilliant.
Speaker 6Me not. It black and white.
Speaker 4Well.
Speaker 1I fucking, I fucking knew this was gonna go this way.
Speaker 4If we, if we can get outside, I can show you lots of colors of the world, of colors of the wind. In fact, copyright I quite remind me of I quit you could paint with all the colors of them remind me of old, old family song Me am show you the world.
Speaker 1No, okay, all right, we're done, okay, okay.
Speaker 5Okay, all right, so you've, you've, you've made this guy.
Speaker 2He's a big burly, half work, uh she just takes his head and stuffs it in between the bars, reaches around and just snaps his own, all right.
Speaker 5What do you, what do you want to carry? So you've, this is step one. You've created this character, you've started a conversation. Um, we, uh, I think we've gone through enough. This will be our end of day one. You've got to go weeks to fill in with this so we can fill in some gaps. So, uh, at this point, through this conversation, this large half orc starts singing, which gets the attention of the guards upstairs.
Speaker 2This is not gonna be good for him.
Speaker 5One of them comes down, a very uh, tall, slim elf, um, dressed in full port way worth guard regalia, uh. He holds himself uh to high alert and is looking around and pinpoints in very quickly on the half orc and says you, sir, highlighting the rules of conduct within here, I need you to take it down a notch or else there will be repercussions. The half orc immediately stops.
Speaker 2Well shit, that was the nicest I've ever heard a guy speak to somebody in this jail.
Speaker 5There are laws, dear sir, and I Hold myself to them to the fullest. I am not here to enact my own set of Punishments upon you. The law will do that if it is just well, hold on.
Speaker 1Um, what if the law wasn't just? Would you be on the side? Of the uh. Unjustified. Wait, the the uh. What word? The innocent, the innocent, the wronged, yeah.
Speaker 2I.
Speaker 5Will always find myself on the side of the law. Uh, now, if you will, I must go and oh uh, see what we are doing with the two of you.
Speaker 4Excuse me, quick, quick, that's called lawful.
Speaker 2Stupid in uh dnd circles, just everyone.
Speaker 4No, please, sir. Good question Um. Are we allowed to make a um A call, a reach out to someone? Can I send a message?
Speaker 5I'll send an L messages will go through the correct channels. If you wish to send one out to alert any family members that you are here, I will check in with my superiors to see if we can get that done for you. I cannot guarantee anything, however.
Speaker 4Okay, thank you so.
Speaker 1One more question, Um. Are you familiar with the Hadleys?
Speaker 5I am familiar with the Hadleys. They are of great importance both, both in this area and now expending their reach towards the capital.
Speaker 2Oh, that's fucking rich.
Speaker 1Um I failed to see what is so well. What's funny about that is they were stealing crownswood. If I had proof of that, would you uh help me?
Speaker 5I am sorry, but I am unable to entertain anything from prisoners right now, especially regarding the law. You are, of course, assumed guilty. So, if you don't mind, I must return to my duties.
Speaker 1Oh, is that how law works here.
Speaker 3Guilty until proven innocent.
Speaker 2I bet his name's dread.
Speaker 5I bet that god's name was dread. I've never heard of guilty until proven innocent. Before a good, good day, he leaves and goes upstairs Um Fucking square.
Speaker 5A couple other guards uh, actually a regalia of guards comes down, um, and they line up in front of archies. Uh sorry, they line up in front of six's cell. Okay, I was gonna say we're gonna have some fun, because we're about to have some fun and they unlock the door. Uh, before they unlock the door, they say on your knees, hands between the cell bars, sir, Thing it hands it.
Speaker 1Oh, definitely he my name's hands. I.
Speaker 2He has two of those oh okay, okay, hands.
Speaker 1I put my hands through. I say, just do what they tell you.
Speaker 2I'll find you later.
Speaker 1What would you say in this situation, archy?
Speaker 2Do what they tell you. I'll find you later.
Speaker 5Okay, listen to the man, uh, and they make sure your hands are oriented vertically through the bar so they could put Cuffs on them. And then they say Three steps back now. One, two, three, okay, they open the cell door and, uh, to come in, come behind you. Two are in front of you and then Two more they've On uh, one on the front and one the back, so they have six guards on you currently Do you guys like this, and they lead you upstairs Shut up.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 5It worked wow, oh, all right, uh, so the three of you see, six led out of here. Um, One guard, as uh they are leaving, looks to you, archy, and says we're coming back for you next. Prepare yourself, and we don't want any funny business. We know who you fucking are.
Speaker 2Then you know you're gonna get funny business. Bruh shut up.
Speaker 5And they walk away.
Speaker 3You might want to bring more than six guards for this one.
Speaker 1Fine Archie's pretty strong.
Speaker 3He's my best friend actually six guards, for six was kind of overkill. He's not that dangerous.
Speaker 5Wow, wow all right uh so he's, he's right though.
Speaker 1No, do you know, do him some favors at least.
Speaker 2At least let him appear to be scary.
Speaker 5Okay, uh, so now it is just the, the three of you and the three other prisoners, uh, one half-orc strong guy, um, and then two others, uh, after a bit, a group of eight guards comes down, as suggested for archy. Um, the same procedure. They ask you to put your hands through the bars. I just leaning against the back wall like this.
Speaker 3Oh, you only brought eight. You guys are fucked shut up.
Speaker 2I'm a bit offended that you only brought eight people, so get me out of this cell Then. How many would you like? Uh well, let's see what's eight divided by two, because I ate them. Oh, four, right four. So before you left, probably I'm just kidding, oh jeez. No these guys are so tight, tight up nowadays he sticks his hands through the thing. Okay, they cuff you when he goes to them he rages and his hands turn into claws and he goes boo.
Speaker 6Roll intimidation.
Speaker 2Boo 20 non-natural.
Speaker 5Uh, the guy going to cuff you jumps back. Uh, he, he was startled, um, um. He lets his hands go back to the normal All right, uh, the other one that's kind of barking out the orders, grabs the cuff from the one guy that jumped back and and uh, comes up, puts the cuffs on your hands. Um, all right, three steps back now.
Speaker 5One, two and that makes a mighty three Okay they unlock the cage, three guards come in behind you and lead you out. Total of eight guards surround you as you are led up and out. Hi Mark, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2Don't worry, these clankers aren't too bad, they're okay. Really, they're not bad guys. You shouldn't be that mad. Where is six.
Speaker 5Very good fade away.
Speaker 3Where is six? Six is gone.
Speaker 4I'm yelling at them.
Speaker 5Oh, oh, they do not respond. All right, so some time passes and then your evening meals are brought in, margbark and Osiris. It's been a few hours and you have not seen six and Archie brought back down. The guard that brings you your food, however, is a small curly haired halfling, very upbeat. Seems to be a decent little fellow. As he drops your food in, he says hi, here's your dinner, enjoy. No, not enjoy. Sorry, don't enjoy, it's just I'm bye and he scurries out.
Speaker 4Wait, wait, wait wait.
Speaker 3Wait, wait wait a minute. Yes, come back here, please.
Speaker 5Please should be like. This kind of sounded like a demand first, and then you said please.
Speaker 3So um would you please come back, talk with us, please Roll persuasion oh, that's a nine plus something. Maybe, maybe a lot.
Speaker 5Yeah, it should be like six for you Maybe.
Speaker 3Unless, it's deception Plus four.
Speaker 5So 13. 13. Okay, he reluctantly turns back around um, dusts off his uh Portway with Guard uniform and marches back towards you. Um, sorry, sorry, I uh really shouldn't be talking with prisoners. Um, but is uh, is everything, is everything okay.
Speaker 3Um, no, everything is obviously not okay. Currently I'm imprisoned, and that is, one might say, less than ideal.
Speaker 5Um, but you, you killed a lot of. You killed a lot of people.
Speaker 3Whoa whoa.
Speaker 5I who name one person that I killed Name one I don't, I don't, I don't honestly know any of them by you don't know, basically you can't prove I killed, anybody is what you're saying, right? Is that what you're saying? I can't, I can't, but that's not my job, okay, you?
Speaker 3can't, so I'm innocent.
Speaker 5No, that's not how it works.
Speaker 3You carry yourself in a different way than the rest of these guards.
Speaker 5Yeah, I'm new.
Speaker 3Are you? Are you? Are you new here?
Speaker 5Yeah, I just said I'm new, I'm going to go now. No, no, wait, wait.
Speaker 4I actually haven't killed anybody.
Speaker 5No, you they. They said you killed a lot of people too. What A lot of people in the black hole collective. They said you, you, you just decimated all of them.
Speaker 4That that's. That's very false. Actually, I'm a little, a little upset.
Speaker 5Here's the thing. Here's the thing I know about murders and killers is that they lie. So when you tell me that that's not true, I yeah well, and you're a sheep that voice up ahead and I'm what You're a sheep. I'm a sheep. No, I'm a halfling, you're a halfling.
Speaker 2She got rude. She got real G real quick. You're a fucking sheep.
Speaker 4Look from one halfling to another. I didn't do it.
Speaker 5If I believed you that, I think that'd be like um racist or something I don't know Racist look you.
Speaker 3You just said from your own mouth that you can't prove I killed anybody. Would you testify for me in court please?
Speaker 5Um, I'm not. I don't, I'm not a witness. Do you know how courts work? Do I mean, I can explain to you how courts work? I think that might be part of my job description. Um, so so you go to court and they tell you whether or not you did it or not?
Speaker 3But you don't think we did.
Speaker 5I don't know. I think you did it, I was told you did it, and who told you that? Everybody.
Speaker 4Everybody in the black hole collective.
Speaker 5Well, they told the guys that, told my boss who is the captain of the guard, and they said that the judges have the information too. And it's just, I mean everybody, you guys are, you guys are part of the, you guys are part of the folks that did all the massacring of, like all those gang people all those years ago. I mean, you're part of the, the black wolf brigade. You know where the remnants of it?
Speaker 4I just met these guys yesterday. Who?
Speaker 6is the black wolf brigade lie, it's very likely.
Speaker 4I am.
Speaker 3Hold on, hold on. I think we've got some associations crossed up. Who is the black wolf brigade? You tell me.
Speaker 5I just got here. All right, I'm not even from Port Weiworth, this is. I've come here to do my duty, to get a promotion and go back to my hometown and live happily with a pension.
Speaker 6What's? What's your name, son?
Speaker 3What's your name, son?
Speaker 5My name is.
Speaker 3Mark, mark and I stick my hand through the jail cell to be able to shake his.
Speaker 5He goes to shake his hand. I got no. No, I'm not shaking your hand. What if you pulled me and bonked my face against the things?
Speaker 3I don't have any keys so you know, Then you could I don't know get your guard buddies to kill me or something. I have no leverage, I don't want you to know you have to go.
Speaker 5No, I'll give you. I'll give you my name and that is it, and then I'm leaving.
Speaker 3And I heard people from Port Weiworth were supposed to be mannered.
Speaker 5Well mannered, what Just goes to show you I'm not from Port Weiworth.
Speaker 3So you admit you're just a primitive, no mannered person. Just you can't even shake my hand. Yes, rude.
Speaker 5You. My name, sir, is Sardo Cable Doff, and you'll do good to remember it because I I will retire. I won't be important, but you should. It's good to remember names. Anyway. I'm leaving now unless you have any other real issues.
Speaker 2That definitely means we need to remember his name because we're going to run into him in a town later.
Speaker 1No, we've already run into this motherfucker. You don't remember Sardo from episode fucking two? Oh, that guard. Yeah, it's that guard, the one that got bonked on the head.
Speaker 4Oh, goodbye, Sardo. Sardo, wait, excuse me.
Speaker 3Sardo Cable Doff, the rude halfling I met in prison, I'll never forget.
Speaker 4Sardo, excuse me, I asked one guard before and he kind of brushed me off. But is there any way that we can send out a message to a loved one?
Speaker 5Well, you likely were talking to my dear friend Avonel of Ever Autumn, and if there's going to be something that we can get out, then the guard captain, our boss, is going to have to approve of that. So he put in the work order for it and we'll see if it comes back positive or negative.
Speaker 4It's it's very important and, like I said, I I just met these guys yesterday. I don't. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 5He puts a finger in the air and wags it around.
Speaker 4A likely story. I don't know anything about the BBW.
Speaker 5Well, shouldn't have joined.
Speaker 3No, no, really she did just, we just picked her up yesterday. She has no idea what's going on.
Speaker 4I'm going to look over to Mark Bark and say this very loudly Mark Bark, what was his name? Sardo.
Speaker 1Sardo.
Speaker 4Mark Bark, I heard that Sardo has a duty. He has to take a big duty.
Speaker 1Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6Jesus.
Speaker 1God Good jokes on this, let's make fun of him.
Speaker 6Look at little man with big duty. See it in pants. This is, this is peak.
Speaker 1This is peak Fucking improv. I thought.
Speaker 4I reached through the jail cell to high five, a big orc man.
Speaker 5It hurts, he do a big slap. Sardo looks as face turns beat red as he storms off back up the stairs. We could have been well, not friends, but like acquaintances who didn't hate each other. But now I hate you.
Speaker 4Bye, bye, mr Doodyman, wow.
Speaker 5What an episode, filled with goofs and also serious moments that really have a lot of impact on our character development. We're all over the place with this kind of stuff, which is really important because we are basically experts at this. Now, I don't know if you know this, but after you do something for a year, you become an expert on it, and why is that relevant to us, will?
Speaker 1Because our 29th episode is coming out, which is going to be our year anniversary, Believe it or not. We released three at the first time. 52 divided by two is 26. Therefore, 26 episodes later, 29 is a year. I hate.
Speaker 5I hate all the math that you just did. We released our first episodes on August 15th and our next episode comes out on August 14th. So that's a year.
Speaker 1Close to damn enough. No, no, no.
Speaker 5I like my math way of doing things I don't like it. It's not good math, it's not even bad math that you'd have in Dungeons, dragons or other tabletop RPGs, which is what we're playing. I don't know if you knew that, but that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1If you've made it this far, don't know what we're doing. Good on you, first of all. Secondly, maybe pay attention a little bit more and I just care, don't do that. You do what you.
Speaker 5you do you boo, boo If we are your background and beyonds while you're trying to get shit done. Man, I love it, I'm here for it, and this is just another bit of that. So here's some white noise.
Speaker 6Perfect, perfect, you're so good at that.
Speaker 5We're going to release it on Spotify. Oh, it's like Will ASMR or something. Hey, hold on, should I?
Speaker 1just turn it up and just let me get it in.
Speaker 5No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not actually doing it. We're not actually. Oh my God, I have an ear infection. That was terrible for me. Hey, stay tuned to the rest of the episode. It's really good. The next episode, like I said, coming out on August 14th, has a bunch of big reveals leading into a couple of episodes that just have a lot of stuff going on. So if you're enjoying the story so far, I think you are going to be in for a big, big bit of happiness.
Speaker 1Yeah, we are. We are having fun here and I hope you guys are too. As Tanner stated earlier, if you want to be a part of this, the best way to do it is to share and get on another realmcom. It shows all links to all of our social media. Since they're all changing names all the time, it has links to them. You just click and go and boom there.
Speaker 5Well, they're not changing, they're just. We just don't remember them.
Speaker 1Guys, thanks so much for listening and hopefully you enjoy the rest of the episode. We'll see you on the next one.
Speaker 5It is a couple hours after you guys are fed dinner. Archie and six, you have not been brought any sustenance. First off, Archie, we'll kind of focus on what's going on with you first. You have been brought through a couple levels of this jail, a few that you've seen before. Of course you've made your way through these halls on occasion. They bring me All right. Anyway, they bring you to a solitary confinement location. These are relatively new, since you've been here last Did you guys build these because of me?
Speaker 2Shut up.
Speaker 5That's a yes they. They come up to this large Flat steel door that has a little slide that they would present food in in the middle of it. It is attached to these very right angled Hume stone segments of wall and they open. This door doesn't even creak as it opens on these thick hinges and they shove you inside. One of them says Turn, we'll take the cuffs off. You fight, any will strap you up harder.
Speaker 5All right, geez, you guys are no fun All right, they unlocks the cuffs, take them off, walk out of the room and slam the door.
Speaker 2Archie, you can hear you forgot to lock it.
Speaker 5Someone comes back and checks to turn to turn, fuck you. You can hear screaming nearby. You do know the stories of solitary confinement. You may have experienced it before. It's where it is just people being left here to rot, especially within their mind, because that sucks.
Speaker 2Hi guys, probably been here at least six months. That means I only have to listen to him for about another 30 days. That'd be all right.
Speaker 5All right. The little door slides open, just a hunk of bread is tossed in. It is stale. Before it shut, the guy on the other side, which is a voice that you didn't hear in that group of guards. He says, hey, an ESL be by soon. And slaps the door slot closed.
Speaker 2No, this is gonna go All right, warly six.
Speaker 5They have taken you to a strange location. This area is a little bit detached from the other cells. You do hear pain screams in bursts from some of the other doors that you pass by and they eventually lead you into this room. There are contraptions, looks like torture devices lining the walls. In the center there's a chair with straps on it and they shove you down into it, remove the cuffs and place your hands Into these slots and your legs into these others and strap you in by all your limbs. They leave and in walks in two men in Robes, white, pristine robes. They have an air of authority about them and they're whispering to each other, looking over some notes as they eye you up and down. One of them walks up and says uh, hello, if you could please state your name, which one?
Speaker 1Yours. I've got a couple. They both are relevant.
Speaker 5All right, then all your names and aliases will be fine as well, you can?
Speaker 1you can call me Argo Malcott.
Speaker 5I'll go Malcott, all right, let me write that down in his notebook.
Speaker 1Okay, really, no, that didn't ring a bell for you guys. Are you from castor Haven?
Speaker 5Uh, you don't need to know anything about us. I think you're giving that can't tell you other aliases. I'm just, you go by cantelli.
Speaker 1Oh, dang it. I was really hoping to pull some threads here.
Speaker 5Just call me six, please six is that what you primarily go for? That?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 5Fine, okay, and it's six. Some sort of numbering system for you, oh.
Speaker 1Probably.
Speaker 5No, okay, and you are actually yes.
Speaker 1I think, no, that's, that's very true. My last vision yeah, there was a five. There was five.
Speaker 5I was part of the creating.
Speaker 1It didn't work out too well. You created another one of your numbers, so technically I created myself a little bit In some ways, I do believe. Okay, I'm starting to think that me and Argo we were best buddies. My name's not Argo, your name's not Argo, okay.
Speaker 5No, do you play chess On occasion? I do? All right, I pop open my chest board.
Speaker 1I think I got a mechanisms less pop without you To my hands and the chess board already set up from what I was playing with Archie.
Speaker 5Ah, interesting. Okay, so no, internal organs make a note of that, all right. So how old are you? How long have you been Alive? Operational, I oh.
Speaker 1Oh well, I'm at least four. At least four. Okay, that's as far as I can remember. I was ahead in a bag.
Speaker 5You know. So your limbs can be detached, your head can be detached from this central body, and you would still exist, correct? All right, we'll make a note to run that test later.
Speaker 1Wait, oh, hold on, piat, belcom.
Speaker 5Piat belcom. Do you know of Piat belcom?
Speaker 1Yes, Supposed to be okay after I finish a mission which it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to finish, all right and then what?
Speaker 5what relation do you have to Piat belcom? None, okay, all right, uh, well, um, that's what I was gonna meet, to help me meet him. Tallest job. Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1I know some pretty high up people that I was trying to help.
Speaker 5Oh, uh, sure, yes, that's fine, okay, so, uh. So tell me, are you Capable of Feeling, uh, Pain, pleasure, hunger?
Speaker 1Yes, I found out on a bridge. You found on a bridge that you could experience all of it. Well, pain Is. I do know when I'm hurt. Okay but I don't know if it's the same pain that you would feel.
Okay, uh, let's run some pain tests. Sure, uh, yeah, we could. We could measure it with that utensil. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1Okay, um, need to eat sustenance, uh how do you maintain yourself oh, I don't need to breathe either.
Speaker 5Excellent, okay, uh, very interesting.
Speaker 1I can turn on my laser eyeballs. What's a laser Good point? I don't know, it's just sounded fun to say Okay, I turn my eyes red.
Speaker 5Interesting, uh, capable of creativity? Um, so, potentially lies, uh, if they're. Yeah, I don't know if all those people exist. No, that's fine. Um, yeah, we'll dig into that later. Okay, all right. So, uh, you said you created yourself.
Speaker 1Um, how, oh, I don't have a clue. All right, I haven't made it that far in my memories yet. Oh, hey, uh, can you get a message to cantelli from castor? Haven for me, okay. I consider it a last will and testament, just uh, consider it a last request, because I don't know that I'm making it out of here. I need to, I need to, I need to speak with him, can tell you, and castor haven, Um, this is this is.
Speaker 5I mean, you've mentioned that you know them. This is someone that you Do you expect me to know?
Speaker 1No, tell him that jason asked for him.
Speaker 5Tell cantelli that jason asked for him. Yes, um, yeah, sure we can, we can do that. The other one nods at him. Fine, all right, uh, so this line of questioning continues on, unless there's anything in specific that you'd like to either give them knowledge of or ask them. I will give you one pertinent question.
Speaker 1That was uh, that was kind of a thread. I was gonna see if it would play. Yeah, that was, that was the play here. I don't know that. I got that kind of came out last minute there from my brain hole, so I don't really have anything else to talk to these guys about.
Speaker 5Then we will move back down to Mark Bark and Osiris. You guys have been brought your meals by both Avenel and Sardo for the day. The other two prisoners in here have pretty much kept to themselves. So unless you'd like to talk to them, how do you want to spend your day?
Speaker 3Being in prison. Being in prison. Okay.
Speaker 5Alright.
Speaker 3What are our choices? We're in a stone prison cell surrounded by bars.
Speaker 5Yep, but you can whatever you want to do to try and get a message out or try and convince these guards of anything, because both of them don't seem to be against you. You also have the opportunity to talk to the other two prisoners and Half-Orc Strong Guy is here too.
Speaker 2Definitely going to have to save Half-Orc Strong Guy.
Speaker 3Alright, I was trying to avoid this, but why don't we just talk to the person that's so? Osiris is across from me, right, and then there's someone over across from her.
Speaker 4Big Orc dude.
Speaker 3No, no, no, that's over beside me right.
Speaker 4No, no, no, he's beside me.
Speaker 3Oh, he's beside you.
Speaker 4I mean their locations are relatively irrelevant.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, that's right, they have five, but so you want to talk to a second prisoner?
Speaker 3Alright, I'm going to talk to this person over here on my side, okay.
Speaker 5Who are they?
Speaker 3I don't know.
Speaker 4Make it a woman. Come on, you can do it.
Speaker 3Make it a young woman who looks like she does not belong in a prison cell. She is small, has blonde hair and looks very scared and confused.
Speaker 4Has murdered 13 people.
Speaker 3She's just. She has no idea why she's here. She is just terrified and scared and needs a hug.
Speaker 5Yeah, you see this young blonde woman huddled up in a corner. Human Whatever? Okay, human we'll go with. Human, okay Alright. She is huddled up in a corner and she's been shivering just for the past day while you've been in here, trying to keep to herself, just very uncertain as to what's going on.
Speaker 3Excuse me girl.
Speaker 5Yes.
Speaker 3Are you okay? I notice you seem a bit off. You haven't said a word to anyone.
Speaker 5No, no, I don't. I don't want anything to do with any criminal activity or whatever you've done, I don't.
Speaker 3No, no, you've got it all wrong. We are not criminals.
Speaker 5I'm not either. I shouldn't be here, I really shouldn't be here.
Speaker 2I feel like someone just called and said I wasn't a criminal. I'm a bit offended by that.
Speaker 4His criminal senses are tingling.
Speaker 1Well, somebody said I was a good guy.
Speaker 2Like when your nose is itching or what the fuck are you talking?
Speaker 4about May. I'm not supposed to be here either, but why are you here?
Speaker 5I. He said I, but I didn't. I don't know. I don't know why I'm here. They've said I've done so many different things, but I didn't do any of them. They said I killed someone. They said I stole some things. They said I did all of these, but I was just asleep. I was asleep and then I woke up because the house was burning. And then they came and they said that I did it. I didn't do it.
Speaker 3Where was your house?
Speaker 5It was near the northern wharf, overlooking the ocean. It was a beautiful house, it was white, it had these massive columns and they're gone. They fell in the fire, the whole thing, just it's gone.
Speaker 4What's your name?
Speaker 5Frazier, what's your name?
Speaker 3Fuck you what's?
Speaker 5your name.
Speaker 3Melanie.
Speaker 4Her name's Avery.
Speaker 5I'm just kidding, it's my name's Melanie.
Speaker 4Melanie, I'm so sorry that you're here. I hope everything works out for you, thank you.
Speaker 5Would you?
Speaker 4like to get out of here.
Speaker 3Yes, yes yes, sir, I really would Do you know of any way we could send a message to the outside.
Speaker 5Well, some of us could visitation. I know there were a couple of people before they were getting going to trial. They somehow got their family in here and I heard what they asked the guards, so maybe we could do that. I don't have my family's all dead, but I could. If you get me out of here, I can help you out with that.
Speaker 4I'm so sorry to hear that, Tanner. Are there guards in the hallway or something?
Speaker 5Roll perception.
Speaker 4Uh, the be Um, that's a seven.
Speaker 5You're not sure.
Speaker 4Uh, I'm gonna. I'm gonna call out, excuse me, guards, hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 5Uh yeah, if you're calling out and trying to yell upstairs, you know, eventually Avonel of Ever Autumn comes down. Sorry, this is not a uh hotel. We're not here to provide a service. Are you in pain or something?
Speaker 4It once again. I have a very, very important message I need to be sent out before I'm sent to court.
Speaker 5Ah, yes, I did ask my captain about that. Um, I think we can. If we can read it and we approve it, then we'll send a message out, if that's what you're looking for. Um, I can assist with that.
Speaker 4The only problem is. The only problem is um, I don't. My family just moved and I don't remember their new location. I have it written down in my book and I don't know where my book is.
Speaker 5Ah, confiscated materials um would be in the confiscated materials box.
Speaker 4Is there any way I can see? It's just a book. It's just a book. Is there any way I can see the book, so at least I can reach out to my family, please?
Speaker 5Um, we'll have to, we'll have to go through it and, uh, I will read through the whole thing myself and there's anything that I will look for an address.
Speaker 4Well, I don't think the language is gonna be legible for you.
Speaker 5Um, I speak quite a few languages. How many languages is it in? Or what, sorry, what language is it in?
Speaker 4Um, I kind of made it up myself, if you will. It's quite a? Um special type of language. I would like to roll persuasion.
Speaker 5Uh well, is it written in a special type of language? And I need you to be honest here. You've written it in one of the languages that you understand.
Speaker 4Well, okay, the thing about the book is no, you're being honest with me.
Speaker 5You're being honest with me.
Speaker 4I'm being honest with you and that I didn't actually write anything in the book. The book writes itself.
Speaker 5Oh, okay, that's what we're going with. Okay, so what is the book? What language does the book write in?
Speaker 4Um, okay, how about a draconic?
Speaker 5Okay, so that is a language that people can speak. You just said you made it up, so this will be a deception rule.
Speaker 4Shit, okay, alright.
Speaker 1The question is does Avonel speak draconic?
Speaker 4Oh, is he thinking she made it up. I got a 19 total.
Speaker 5Ooh, oh, very nice 18 plus 1. Alright, uh, that is a very good roll. I will um sure. If it's approved, I will bring your book down to you.
Speaker 4Thank you. It's just my family. I'm worried about them, Thank you.
Speaker 5Sure, and I know that a lot of these trials can end in death, so we will try and get a message out to them sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4Oh, okay, hopefully. So when is our trial?
Speaker 5Uh, I'm not certain. A date has not been set.
Speaker 4No, I don't, I don't belong here, oh God okay.
Speaker 3Could you bring down some extra towels and tell the manager, the continental breakfast sucks.
Speaker 5I'll pass that along. He rolls his eyes as he walks back upstairs.
Speaker 4Oh God.
Speaker 5Alright, anything else that you want to have a conversation with Melanie, she's given you information that you might be able to get some of the information you potentially have access to your book. It depends on how that role acts with this whether or not he looks through it. So that's what we're hoping for. He doesn't look in and he doesn't understand Rekonic.
Speaker 4Okay, I'm going to look over at the Orc man you really want to get out of here.
Speaker 6Me. Do not want to be here. This place suck real big.
Speaker 4Well, I really, I really like you and I think that.
Speaker 6Will you marry me? I will leave with you Quarezla.
Speaker 4That is quite.
Speaker 6Mom said I needed to be married by 18, me am 19.
Speaker 4Oh, how about we go?
Speaker 6out to a nice dinner afterwards. Let me take you from dinner to propose yes in front of people, witnesses in regular places.
Speaker 4Maybe, but what if we got out of here? Yes, you and me, we get out of here, me maybe, me am done with this plan.
Speaker 3Well, he seems like quite a striking young lad, osiris. Maybe you should take him up on it. Me am catch, you hear him, he am catch.
Speaker 5Me understand. He rolls up one of his pant legs to show you his thigh.
Speaker 6Look, look vascularity and die.
Speaker 4That is that.
Speaker 5He flexes his muscle, it's, it is sinury.
Speaker 4That is great for your future. There's not an ounce of fat on half-orc strong guy that is great for your future children.
Speaker 6Oh, we already talking children, Me am give you big belly of kids. Oh my God.
Speaker 2Oh, it's gone so far.
Speaker 1Wedding bells death of enemies.
Speaker 4How about we make a plan first on how to get out Wedding plan? Yes, no, no, no. How to get out.
Speaker 6We need to get out, not big wedding, small wedding, only close friends and family Me, mom, me dad, me brothers. I have 18 and a half brothers, then me sisters, 22 sisters. Very small family.
Speaker 4And a half. Excuse me.
Speaker 6He got chopped in half oh.
Speaker 4Tell him about half-brother, just half-brother. Let's talk about getting out first and I'm done with this conversation.
Speaker 2Yes, yes, future wife, what we plan. I'm sorry that fucked me up. I was not.
Speaker 4Mark, I think we might have for someone to help us get out of here. This is my friend. Well, I just met them yesterday actually, fiance. No, no, no, I just met them yesterday.
Speaker 6Future baby daddy. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3And the next day. The next day.
So this is still on day two for Archie and Six, so we'll move over first to Six. Six the same two white-robed men come into the room and they start pulling instruments off the wall. What they do next is try and figure out how your face plate is attached, which is your mask. So they are trying to first delicately remove it. Excuse me, could you please, since you made yourself. You said how do you remove your faceplate? This much.
Speaker 1Oh, that's a different story. I didn't do this. It doesn't come off. No, yeah, no matter how hard you try, you'll have to look at it after I'm dead. Challenge accepted.
Speaker 5Yeah, all right. Mask review post mortem All right. Well, forgive us if we try a little bit now. Sure, be my guest.
Speaker 1All right, I haven't seen my real face in a while.
Speaker 5They take some tools first, delicate instruments at first, couple of them that they're spinning of, and they begin chipping away, trying to. At this mask Mask, you can feel it chipping into your head, basically the spots around the mask that they're trying to get underneath it. The mask is not budging, however, but you do take three points of damage piercing damage.
Speaker 1Yeah, so I know I don't experience pain, but I do know that that is digging into me, which the mask is a part of me. So anything you do to the mask is hurting, hurting me. Is this necessary?
Speaker 5They don't respond to your questioning. One nods to the other and he goes and he gets a very fine tipped chisel and a mallet, places it in between where your face meets the mask and starts tinkering away very lightly at first, tink, tink, tink, tink and hammering increases in power as he hits the head of this chisel, one particularly hard hit that comes down. You get this quick flash of gold and see Saint Sebastian dancing in the cathedral very quickly and then it fades back away and you're once again back with the hammering of your mask.
Speaker 1Hey, listen, hit me harder, daddy Wow.
Speaker 5Um wow, Seth Olin Wilson guard that actually might be required. Sure, the patient has. I mean we can say that's a good question.
Speaker 1Do me a favor swing really hard this next time. All right, yes, so the guy pulls back.
Speaker 5The guy pulls back and says I mean, what if we damage this specimen? No, don't, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1Um oh, you can't damage me. I got a helmet, all right.
Speaker 5Uh, clang, uh, he takes a good hard swing at it. And vision, very much a burst of gold, you call out. It doesn't seem like he hears you. Oh, but it is a prolonged vision. Um, you could try reaching out with something other than your voice.
Speaker 1Okay, I'm going to, I'm going to use stomatorgy in the thing, okay, and I'm going to uh put a, put a big glowing image of my mask where he is. I'm going to try to. At least that's what my goal is. Just a big, big, like a bat signal of six is face.
Speaker 5Okay.
Speaker 6I like it.
Speaker 5All right, this is um how role religion for me, please? Okay, I'm good at that. See, just make this a religion connection and I'll be very difficult.
Speaker 1Oh no, I'm not good at religion, oh boy. Okay, difficult role 16 plus zero. I don't know how difficult you made it, but that's a 16 plus zero. I made it a 16. Did you actually?
Speaker 5make it. I did really die. Ghost of the attacker. Yep, okay. So, um, I was like 15. I was like, no, it's a little harder than that. 16. All right, so you make this big uh version of of your mask or your face.
Speaker 1My mask, the mask, all right, I've tried to do it as much as I. I've seen reflections of myself as time passed, so Yep.
Speaker 5So your mask, uh, with its mustache and gold cracks along it, uh, flashes very quickly, um, in the, the cathedral of opulence, uh, St Sebastian stops his dancing and your vision fades Um and it comes back into the room. Uh, even, uh, incredible, or considered forced. Does not remove the mask.
Speaker 1Further testing needs to be done again. I kind of figured, kind of figured that to be the case. I know you're not talking to me, hey, what was your name again?
Speaker 5I'm sorry, we, we don't give out our names. Um, all right. So, uh, the the back plate. Let's try and remove love that. And then, barring any success there, uh, we will just remove the head, since that seems to be detachable. All right, um, so they actually come to the, the back plate. That seems to be a different metal than the rest of it. It's more crudely made. And they begin removing the rivets. You remember that this was put there by Father Dell? Yeah, so it is not as thoroughly made as everything else. That's my helmet. I told you this was going to come back to bite in the ass, saying that you have a soft spot and now it has. All right. So, they, they get that removed and, uh, they basically see more metal in here. But a little bit, a few exposed contraptions of your working. Um, the one that's operating behind you turns around to your face. Okay, so what does this? Um, what do these mechanisms do if we interrupt any of their operation?
Speaker 1Which ones? What? What are they asking about? The ones in the back of your head? Oh well, unfortunately for me, uh, if you mess with those too much, I would not be able to tell you anything. I guess that's kind of unfortunate for you as well. That plate was put there to protect me from what you're about to fuck with.
Speaker 5Uh, so potential um obstacles to cognizance? Uh, noted, okay, sure. Um, all right, we'll we'll come back to that later and they start getting more utensils and getting more thorough to what they're doing.
Speaker 1Suggestion suggestion, I would put the plate back. Uh, if you want to learn more about me, I can answer any of your questions. You don't need to take me apart. It makes no sense. I'm complete, plus, I'm partial to this body.
Speaker 5Leave the plate exposed. Um, we will continue our operation as we see fit. I'm not certain that, uh, a being typically knows much about its own operation If it's not been taught. So, um, you said you created yourself, but tell me, how is that possible? Oh?
Speaker 1Oh well, at this point I don't know that I really want to. I think you guys are probably very fun at parties.
Speaker 5All right, um, that's sarcasm, agreed, all right? Uh, I'd like to tell you a couple of things about your request that you made yesterday. We reached out to a few of those, especially at Castor Haven Um. Nothing was returned. There is no cantilever at Castor Haven, um. Whether or not you believe me on that is up to you. None of your, none of your other names returned anything either. There was no, uh, argo Malcott, um, and uh, I understand, I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1I don't know about the cantilever, but Argo does make sense. One more name for you to check out for me. Please reach out to my really good friend Bindover.
Speaker 5How could you make a note of Bindover?
Speaker 3And his wife Eileen Dover.
Speaker 4God.
Speaker 5All right, um, and and just to, to note as well, uh.
Speaker 2My comedic sarcasm senses its angling.
Speaker 5Uh, the, the Queen's, uh, primary historian, um, has no recollection of you. They are not curious in this particular operation we're running here either, especially when it comes to criminals. So sorry to say that, uh, they won't be reaching out either. Dope, dope, dope Um very, very interesting.
Speaker 1Um, okay, Okay, well, continue your business. I suppose I don't think I have a choice.
Speaker 5Um, after some increasingly intense rounds of of probing, uh, they end up uh leaving and taking their notes and everything with them.
Speaker 3Intense probing. Intense probing Six gets probed. Intense.
Speaker 4Click now. Click now for probing.
Speaker 1Um, okay, don't click that.
Speaker 5Okay, okay, uh, we'll switch over to Archie now. Archie, you have been pretty much uh without contact for the past day. Um, you've gotten a bowl of soup, uh of gruel, and a loaf of bread, uh, as you are meals today.
Speaker 2Oh shit, they're giving out soup now.
Speaker 5It's uh, cold, um, eventually, you do hear, uh, the clicking of boots against the floor Expensive boots, you can tell and the slide on the door opens up and you can hear a voice coming from outside. That is very familiar.
Speaker 6Hello brother.
Speaker 2You don't get to call me there anymore, oh are we not family anymore? No, but I know what your family looks like now.
Speaker 6Well, that's that's all right, because uh they're gonna know what it looks like for you to hang Hardly.
Speaker 2I'm gonna burn you and everything you love to the fucking ground and dance on the ashes.
Speaker 5You uh you kill kids, uh you uh kill my sons Both of them.
Speaker 2I'll kill anything with the name Hardly that originally had the name Hardly. I will sort the fucking ground your family was born on.
Speaker 5Do you? Uh, you wanna know what I've been doing the past few years.
Speaker 2Uh, hopefully rotting, but that doesn't appear to be the fact.
Speaker 5So no, no, I've been thriving, it's been good. Business is booming. Legitimate now yeah, you always talked about that. Maybe one day we could be legitimate folk. Uh yeah, didn't think it was gonna happen your way, so it sure as shit happened mine.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, the way that you know you murdered everybody who ever did anything good for you. Yeah, it's a great way to pull it. It's a great way to pull it. I mean, I didn't murder them.
Speaker 5What? My hands that slipped votes Well, except for, except for one. Uh, uh, I see I can't. I can't remember his name. Uh, it's been so long. Uh, james, was it? Yeah, remember how that felt.
Speaker 6Fuck.
Speaker 2I hope you revel in it. I truly do Cause for every second of pain you caused my brothers or cost you an hour, a pound, a shekel or a fucking Eider of your family's flesh, and I will have it, even if it's the last thing I do.
Speaker 5You know, I do, uh, I do want to say I, I can't feel bad for these kids. Um, never could find the older one. Yeah, he seemed to have disappeared afterwards. Shame seemed the enterprise and sort. But uh, the younger one, well, victor, he was, uh, he's a good boy. He doesn't really know what all happened, thinks you're a bad guy, thinks you killed his dad. Uh, so he's doing well in the business. I've got to say my business in case I wasn't clear.
Speaker 2Victor can do what he wishes after I get my weight that is owed in Adley flesh. If he chooses to come after me because he does not believe what really happened, that is his choice as a man. You, however, signed your death sentence a long time ago and I'm going to enjoy pulling your tongue out of your fucking throat.
Speaker 5Can't do much from inside this cell, can you? And I think, uh, I think we might have gotten a good old Glyam's felic on the case for this one too. So I think you'll probably be getting the death sentence this time. There's no shipping you down to the camps, uh, and there's certainly no, uh, no sense in trying to lock you up again. We both know how that ended last time.
Speaker 6So look forward. We'll make you think it's going to end any different.
Speaker 2I'm going to chase you like a pack of wolves chases its prey.
Speaker 5Oh, I'm the wolf now and yeah, good, old, old old Adley in charge of the white wolves, kind of an homage to what you did.
Speaker 2You didn't even come up with your own fucking name. Good niece, I should have left you on the fucking stone crying in the rain, like I found you, you know that's funny.
Speaker 5I did, I did love you. I could, brother, and I know you might not believe me, but you just couldn't see the bigger picture. And when you toss all my ideas aside every fucking time, we could have never worked it out.
Speaker 2I always knew you were a fucking sod. All right, okay, I'm behind a metal door. Oh, can't even look me in the fucking face. No, as usual, adley, you your business. Your son's not Victor, of course, because he's not your son, but that's all right. All cowards, because that's all. Hadley's ever breed. And now you know how it goes. Anayus, because the wolf is on the hunt and tonight the blood will spray.
Let's we move back over to the cells there are. I mean, it's always dark down in here, but from the few slivers of light that you get, you can tell that through your hole, your toilet hole, is in the ground. You can tell somehow that it's nighttime outside. Actually, the most telling thing is that Sardo is currently on duty. So Sardo has just dropped off your food, indicating that is this is your dinner and some time passes. What do you do?
Speaker 4Mark Park. I think I have an idea.
Speaker 3I was thinking about asking if you had any good tricks up your sleeve. What do you have in mind?
Speaker 4I'm going to go to sleep.
Speaker 3That sounds very boring.
Speaker 4But, but I'm not actually. I'm going to make a pile of clothes because I'm small and we have a blanket, right? Do I have a blanket Can?
Speaker 5I have a blanket, please.
Speaker 4OK, I'm going to. I'm going to, I'm going to strip, but I'm going to put my clothes under the blanket and make it like a little little bubble under there and make it think I'm asleep. But I want you to talk to Sardo, so he comes out here and the door is open, so maybe I can go upstairs.
Speaker 3Oh, you're going to sleep. I got it, marburg has hair quotes and winks.
Speaker 4Yeah, I'm going to sleep.
Speaker 3Oh, ok, all right, I'll distract Sardo. Hey, hey, and I do. I have something that I can grab to like a nice little metal bars. All right, I take my metal cut and.
Speaker 6I bang it between the bars.
Speaker 3Hey, sardo, come over here please.
Speaker 5You hear? You heard small steps coming on the stairs. Hey, it is sleep time, sir.
Speaker 3Hey, listen, sorry, sardo, please, I just wanted to. I wanted to give you a chance to redeem yourself and see if you wanted that handshake, and I reach my hand through the bars in an attempt to shake his hand again. Please, brother, we're not enemies. All I want to do is show you kindness and friendship.
Speaker 5All right, he's going to. I'm going to let him roll insight on your persuasion. Check to see if he thinks I mean, are you intended to do that? I mean, are you intending to fuck with him? Maybe just roll persuasion. I'm not worried about just roll persuasion, it's a 13 plus four, 17. Ok, 17. All right. So, while that's going on, Osiris, what are you doing?
Speaker 4I'd like to wild shape into a rat. I imagine that was like hiding somewhere under the bed or you know, somewhere not as easily spotable, I guess.
Speaker 2They probably wouldn't give a shit about rat anyway, I mean it's a rat.
Speaker 4You know there's probably tons of rats down here, or something.
Speaker 5OK, all right, so you've, you've, turned into a rat. Sardo's moved over to reach his hand out to Mark Bark because he's facing Mark Bark, or at least looking at him.
Speaker 4So he's not looking really behind him. So I'm going to like rat rat crawl my little way through the bars, OK so there's going to be a couple of things here.
Speaker 5He reaches out to shake his hand, to shake your hand, mark Bark. He's like all right, by guns, be by guns, I am, I'm this is so weird. But he reaches his hand out.
Speaker 3I could tell you were a smart gentleman, and I shake his hand.
Speaker 5OK, all right, roll stealth for me, please, at advantage.
Speaker 4OK.
Speaker 5It is going to be rat stealth. So what are rat stats?
Speaker 4What are rat stats?
Speaker 1I'd imagine they're pretty stealthy.
Speaker 4Well, they have good dark sense and a keen sense of smell. Let's see.
Speaker 3Mark Bark is like still kind of gripping and vigorously shaking his hand.
Speaker 5OK, yeah, you get a plus zero to stealth. Ok, that's fine, so roll just straight D 20.
Speaker 4Fifteen.
Speaker 5That's advantage.
Speaker 4OK, let me roll again. Nineteen OK.
Speaker 5There you go. Ok, all right. You slide between the bars and begin making your way up the stairs. Mark Bark, do you Sardo, sitting there shaking your hand, do you just? Is this a normal handshake?
Speaker 3I'm gripping it very, very, very tightly and I slow down the speed of the handshake and I look at him and say never trust a criminal son. And I pull him forward so he bonks his head on the bars.
Speaker 6OK Roll strength.
Speaker 5He's going to roll actually roll athletics. He's going to roll at disadvantage against you. He wasn't expecting this.
Speaker 3That is a 17 plus two.
Speaker 5OK BONG, you slam him into the bars and he ricochets off. Are you or do I mean, are you trying to pull him in close against these things?
Speaker 3No, no, I just like wanted to bonk his head and let him go.
Speaker 5OK, all right. Yeah, he falls down on his ass and he goes. I oh, you've taught me a lot about criminal scum. He said, huh, and he marches out, storms out back up the stairs. All right, when I?
Speaker 2remember that?
Speaker 4Yeah, are you waiting at the door up at the top, Osiris well, would he have left the door open if he was just being called down there?
Speaker 5You look up the stairs. He did not leave the door open.
Speaker 4Hmm, so is there like a clearing at the top of the stairs? Like you know, more than just a little like OK, I'm going to. I'm going to go into the corner where on the side where the door swings open, like I'm in that corner of the door swinging this way, like closest to the entrance, and I'm going to like sit in the corner facing away from him and nibbling at something in the corner.
Speaker 5OK, All right. He walks up the stairs and I mean, if you're trying to, if you're no longer trying to, you're just trying to be inconspicuous. No longer stealth and hide.
Speaker 4I am being a rat.
Speaker 3OK, Quick rat Cyrus climbed through the pool.
Speaker 5Yeah, eww, fucking this guy. Well, the decision has already been made. Decisions disgusting creatures and he kind of should put a foot towards you as he opens the door and walks out of the room or walks into the other room.
Speaker 4Can I like? Scurry past him, scurry on to him, sure Jump around.
Speaker 5Yep, you walk in rabbit Act, rabbit Sure Like no, no, no.
Speaker 4I don't know if I want to act. Rabbit, because he might kill me.
Speaker 5All right, what do you want to do?
Speaker 4I just want to be a rat and try to scurry past him, because I see an entrance.
Speaker 5All right. So you scurry into this next room with Sardo and the door shuts behind you.