Whispers in Wregate
Journey back in time with the Time Breakers as they infiltrate the Black Sun Festival, attempting to alter the fate of the city by thwarting a cataclysmic plot. But beware, for a greater threat looms that could overshadow even the consequences of their plane-shifting actions. Can this epic adventure be completed without too many rippling butterfly effects, or will they change the world for the better?? Come along and find out!
Whispers in Wregate
WiW 21: NoTa Wizard's Intention
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Can a helmet hold the key to understanding a wizard's true intentions? Join us as we uncover the mystery surrounding an enchanted helmet found in Thaddeus' home, leading Elise and Shimmer down a path filled with questions about loyalty and magic. As they grapple with the helmet's enchantment, they employ ingenious methods to alter its spell, shedding light on their connection to Fall, the tiny wizard who once aided their escape. Through meticulous planning and teamwork, they strive to protect the enigmatic artifact from prying eyes, all while navigating the thorny ethical dilemmas it presents.
As night falls, strategic creativity takes center stage. One member's quest to craft a unique mouthpiece runs parallel to a secretive mission set against the eerie backdrop of a graveyard. Sarah's determination drives her to dig up a random gravestone in search of elusive clues, culminating in a suspenseful moment that promises to haunt their journey ahead. Meanwhile, the group's camaraderie is showcased through comforting rituals and the clever concealment of their mysterious find. This episode is a rollercoaster of magical intrigue, strategic foresight, and the ever-present tension of an uncharted adventure.
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Hello and welcome back. I'm Baron Battlebred, your guide through the streets and whispers of regate Gather round lost folk as we spiral back into the Timebreakers, trying to rewrite history and change their fates.
Speaker 2Timebreakers. Time timebreakers.
Speaker 1When we last left off, elise and Shimmer, having cast Visibility upon themselves and left their teammates Sarah and Thaddeus behind in a fit of madness, just returned home, to Thaddeus' home Upon they found the door open and they crept inside, where they find a helmet sitting on the bed. Elise and Shimmer, what would you like to do?
Speaker 3I'm not touching that.
Speaker 4Yeah, Elise is going to reach out with her mage hand. Before reaching out with the mage hand, she's probably going to look around to see if anybody's still there.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, go ahead and roll me a quick perception check to see what's around you.
Speaker 4I'm going to use physical dice because my computer's being a pain in the ass right now. That's only a six.
Speaker 1You look around, there's nothing out of the ordinary here. No windows open, no doors ajar other than the one you came in, no ruffling feathers, no ruffling sheets or curtains, nothing for anyone to hide behind. You're all alone.
Speaker 4So, elise, without saying another word, after glancing around very quickly and not taking in too much of the sights, she's going to manipulate the helmet with her mage hand and bring it closer.
Speaker 1So the two can investigate. Alright, you bring the helmet closer to yourself. It is similar as you draw it towards you in that it is black. It's like a blackened metal kind of, with some silver accents. Very, very shiny, very shiny, very expensive looking. Go ahead and roll me an investigation. Check as you bring it closer to yourself.
Speaker 4Both of us, yeah, both of you. You should lick it. What Holy shit.
Speaker 1Where did a 32 come from?
Speaker 4Plus 13 investigation with the eyes of minute seeing, because it's within a foot. Good God, expertise, motherfucker, and you rolled a 19.
Speaker 1Okay, shimmer with a 19,. You can tell that this is definitely an enchanted helm, much like the one that Thaddeus was wearing previously. Elise, as you're going over this helmet, flipping it over with your mage hand, looking through it, you find, etched into the inside of the helmet, a small sigil and what appears to be a return label that says if found, bring back to fall 19 plus 13,.
Speaker 4Good God, elise is a modern Sherlock gnomes, Modern Sherlock gnomes, Gnomes, Shidna.
Speaker 2What do you make of this Sigil? Return to falls.
Speaker 3Who the fuck is. I've never heard that name no, that's a valid reaction is it a name? Is it a building it?
Speaker 2seems rather unintelligent, I would say, to include a return address on an evil enchantment, I must say.
Speaker 1Well, that feels like a trap, not gonna lie how about both of you roll me a history check to see if you recognize the name?
Speaker 3Reminder, I was not there during that episode and I rolled a nine.
Speaker 1With a nine. You do not, elise. You remember that after you guys escaped prison and you guys made it here, you were helped by a tiny creature, wizard-type, named Fall.
Speaker 4Oh, goddammit.
Speaker 2I believe the name of that small pixie creature that was in prison with us was in fact named Fall. What pixie creature.
Speaker 4The one who sent us back in time. Were you not there for that?
Speaker 3No, I was not.
Speaker 4She was in her necklace.
Speaker 3I was out and She-Ra was in the necklace. She-ra has no idea who this person is. No.
Speaker 2So between the time when you had entered the necklace and we had been imprisoned and the time we arrived in Regate, before the time-traveling event, there was a small creature that helped us, in fact directly caused our release into the past.
Speaker 3Is that helping? Sending you into the past? Given what apparently happened to Thaddeus, that doesn't sound like help, especially given the whole thing with the helmet.
Speaker 2It is all a bit relative.
Speaker 3I admit, what's the ward thing? Is it just the return label, or is it something else as well?
Speaker 1Oh no, that is a spell sigil etched onto the inside of the helmet. If you want to roll an arcana to investigate that more mathematically.
Speaker 3I was actually going to do something extremely stupid. Oh, what do you got Go ahead. I was going to have at least put it down and try and cast. Either press a digitation or mending, depending on what it was to try and make it go away to get rid of it. To try and make it go away to get rid of it.
Speaker 1You want to mend the etching so that it removes the spell. Yes, I don't think that's how that works.
Speaker 3It's a tear, it's a thing carved into a thing and it's not supposed to do that. That isn't considered a terror in my mind.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, hang on, I see where you're going with this. I now see where you're going with this. I've got the Mending. Does say rips and cuts and tears. Okay, and an etching is sticking into it. You could make it smooth. Okay, and an etching is sticking into it, you could make it smooth. Okay, roll me an Arcana check. Do you have proficiency in Arcana?
Speaker 3No, but well, technically I have half proficiency because I'm a bard.
Speaker 1Mmm. Okay, half proficiency is not the full proficiency. Roll me Arcana with disadvantage.
Speaker 4I think they're just allowed to roll any check Is the bard thing.
Speaker 1Okay, that still beats it. You believe if you cast Mending on this, it should solve the problem, so go for it.
Speaker 3I'm going to do that. Okay, and see what happens.
Speaker 1Okay, so you have Elise put the helmet down to do that. Okay, and see what happens. Okay, so you have Elise put the helmet down and you cast Mending on it. As you do, you watch as the sigil starts erasing momentarily and then snaps back into place and you take one point of psychic damage.
Speaker 3Honestly less damage than I was expecting.
Speaker 1So your mending started to remove the sigil, but it appears that the spell holding it in place might be more powerful than a cantrip.
Speaker 4Might be.
Speaker 3She hisses.
Speaker 4Just a whittle. There is potential for it to be more powerful than a cantrip. Well, it might need two cantrips.
Speaker 3It would have worked if there was potential there.
Speaker 2Yes, it seemed to react to your magics.
Speaker 1While Elise and Shimmer are investigating this helmet, we're going to jump back to Sarah and Thaddeus real quick Scene change Transition pen Wobble wibble, wobble. Thaddeus, sarah, you guys have been left behind by Shimmer and Elise as they made their way back and as Thaddeus was finishing up a fit of madness, you guys are still at the castle. What are you up to?
Speaker 4I'm putting away my rapier and then I don't know.
Speaker 1Well, you and Thaddeus are still in the castle. Thaddeus has just overcome his fit of madness, so he has stopped laughing and he has decided to never laugh again. Well, for the next three years, he claims. And you guys still have the helmet with you, though it is no longer magical.
Speaker 4Did anyone react to him laughing for several minutes straight? Yeah, I think I did.
Speaker 1I mean, like in the background characters, the backdrop Sarah, do you want to roll me a perception check to see if anyone saw this happen?
Speaker 3Shouldn't we talk shit about his laugh on the way back to his house?
Speaker 1Yeah, I know, you guys were 16. Okay, 16. You look around and you do see a couple of guards, but you know not too many. They are standing at attention outside their respective doorways or making their way down the halls in their patrols. But there's. They gave you a couple of cursory glances, but nothing too out of the ordinary to see random things happen inside the castle. Nobody's giving you a closer inspection than you would expect of somebody who's staring at somebody laughing uncontrollably.
Speaker 4Yeah, no, that's. I mean that's. That's odd that they're not really inspecting it, but that's kind of expected.
Speaker 1Even Gregory isn't really looking at you anymore.
Speaker 5In my mind. I'm thinking that they probably just thought the lizard did something to me and they're just like, oh, this is normal.
Speaker 4Yeah, put on another one of the lizard's weird toys.
Speaker 1Well, Thaddeus, you don't have the helmet with you and it is currently out of your grasp. You guys are at the castle. You have the evening ahead of you. What would you guys like to do?
Speaker 5Well, I'd like to get to my feet and I'd like to turn to the lizard and I'd like to look at the helmet and Thaddeus is going to say Never have that helmet near me again.
Speaker 4I'm putting away my rapier, I guess because we went back.
Speaker 1You watch as the lizard picks up the jar and just kind of puts it behind his back, giving you a questionable glance, like these Further away, if you can. Okay, gregory, go put this in the vault. He's going to pick up the helmet and he's going to walk away mumbling like, yeah, stupid laughing helmet, had to put it on my head, can't believe I had to do this, this fucking lizard and these guys laughing at me, and he's just going to mumble as he walks away down the hallway with the jock.
Speaker 4Something like Reese Darby.
Speaker 5Thaddeus is going to now ask the lizard where did Shimmer and Elise go?
Speaker 1Oh well, it seems that, as you were having a laughing fit, they scuttled off. I can attempt to discern their location for you if you so wish.
Speaker 5No, that won't be necessary.
Speaker 1Oh, but it's great fun. Let's read the bones.
Speaker 4Oh, this guy.
Speaker 1And you watch as he takes the pouch off of his thing and he throws it on the table and he's like Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm, he watches, he takes the pouch off of his thing and he throws it on the table and he's like it says here that your friends have returned to the site of your greatest despair.
Speaker 5Okay, Sarah, we're going home.
Speaker 1The lizard is going to look at you just kind of horrified.
Speaker 3I turn to the lizard.
Speaker 5I turn to the lizard, I look at him and I say and then I just walk off- Weird bunch.
Speaker 1Alright, so you and Sarah make it out of the castle. Um, I well, actually, sarah, are you going with thaddeus? Yeah, all right, thaddeus and sarah, you make it out of the castle and you start heading home. As you guys leave the castle's main gate, I want both of you to roll me a perception check real quick. Eight Another 16. All right, thaddeus, you're busy lamenting the fact that you're heading home again. Sarah, you still bright-eyed to the world, are looking around and you see Gregory get in a carriage. Uh-huh, yeah, gregory. The guy you saw walk in, the guy you saw walk further into the castle, is now outside and just got into a carriage and is riding off.
Speaker 4Oh, the directions didn't match up. Okay, I was gonna say I have no idea where the vault is. Um, well, he didn't go that way.
Speaker 5Hmm, who didn't?
Speaker 1Greg points to Greg Thaddeus. You look up and all you see is a carriage just kind of plopping off into the distance.
Speaker 4I'll be like let's follow them, and then I'm gonna start moving as fast as I can.
Speaker 5Just terminate or sprint after it.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 1What's your move speed? Sarah, 40. Okay, the carriage started moving before you did you make it to the end of the street where it turned a corner. I want you to roll me a perception check.
Speaker 4I'm going to say I am double moving. There is that That'd be a 14.
Speaker 1You turn the corner and you look down the way and you can see many carriages all moving in different directions. Give me a quick investigation check to see if you recognize that's intimidation that is intimidation.
Speaker 4I need a quick investigation sarah is intimidating the investigation yes, I'm intimidating the dm DM to make me at work.
Speaker 1Even with a 15, you look left and you look right and you look forward and Gregory's carriage has disappeared.
Speaker 4Hmm, well done he's got a magical carriage.
Speaker 1Thaddeus, you watch Sarah?
Speaker 5sprint off to the end of the road and is looking frantically in all directions. I'm running towards Sarah. Unfortunately, my speed is 30 feet, so it takes me a bit to catch up and I'm slightly out of breath because of all the laughing.
Speaker 1It takes you an extra round to get there and by the time you do, Sarah is done, looking around and just kind of staring at you coming up.
Speaker 4Are you okay?
Speaker 5Did you see which way they went?
Speaker 4They're gone.
Speaker 5Do not laugh and then run.
Speaker 4I don't believe I have that capability. We'll install some monks, don't worry. We'll install some later.
Speaker 1Well, with that being the excitement for your evening, would you like to continue heading home? Let's get home. Alright, you guys start heading back to Thaddeus' house and, after about 20 minutes or so, elise and Shimmer, you have finished investigating the helmet to the best of your ability. When Thaddeus and Sarah walk in the front door and see you standing there holding a helmet, we're not holding it.
Speaker 3It is on a table.
Speaker 1I was going to say I pull out my screen. They see you surrounding a similar helmet to the one that was recently pulled off of Thaddeus.
Speaker 4I pull out my ring here.
Speaker 5As soon as Thaddeus sees the helmet, he looks in shock and he's like no, just no. He walks over to the table, he grabs the helmet and he throws it out the door.
Speaker 3I was gonna suggest we take it to the lizard, given that one has a return label.
Speaker 5We can do it tomorrow if it's still there, and then Thaddeus is gonna go to sleep.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 4As Thaddeus walks, out of sight, elise will mage hand it back into the house, out of sight.
Speaker 1Elise will mage hand it back into the house. Yeah, okay, that's easy enough. It didn't go very far.
Speaker 4Makes a crowning achievement.
Hidden Helmet and Midnight Plans
Speaker 1People throw it out a window, so Elise brings it back to the house, thaddeus goes to sleep. What about the rest of you?
Speaker 4I guess I'll return to attempting to make a mouthpiece for my own design.
Speaker 1Make a mouthpiece for my own design. Make it, make a map. Oh, okay, um roll, roll me a Roman intelligence check To to work on your stuff.
Speaker 4Or.
Speaker 1You're working on it, but it's tough. You're not quite sure how jaws move.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1That's weird. You're sure there's some kind of hinge or something attached to it, but you haven't seen one yet, so you'll have to go looking later. Shimmer and Elise, you have the helmet back. Thaddeus has gone to bed. Sarah is drawing on a piece of paper. What are you guys up to?
Speaker 3I think it would be best if we tried to find something to put it in that like conceals it at least, both for the sake of making sure that the owner doesn't come back for it and also so Thaddeus doesn't see it and try to throw it out again while we're sleeping.
Speaker 1Okay, you want to look around the workshop see if you can't find a container to hide it in or a blanket to wrap it in or something? Yes, all right, at least we'll assist, okay. I would like one of you to roll me Investigation with Advantage.
Speaker 3I think you have better Investigation. I have a plus two.
Speaker 4Advantage, okay, 31.
Speaker 1Damn Gotta stop doing that. 31. Elise, you find three objects that are perfectly capable of containing this helmet. You find a small cage that fits the helmet, with a lock on it, though it does have bars so you could see into it. You find a large blanket you could wrap it in that folds into its own satchel. And you find a small wooden box that does not have a lock, but it does have a lid. You also find Sarah, who is capable of containing this helmet.
Speaker 3How would I suggest we put it in the cage and then wrap the blanket around it?
Speaker 2I was thinking exactly that. Yes.
Speaker 1Okay, you lock it in the cage. Do you lock the cage or do you just put it in the cage?
Speaker 3without the lock. I intended to lock it.
Speaker 1Okay, you lock it in the cage. Who wants to hold the key?
Speaker 3I'm going to be going into the necklace so I'll hold it. Can't really be stolen if it's in the necklace with me.
Speaker 1Okay, shimmer has the key. You guys lock it in the cage, you wrap it up in the blanket. You now have a helmet in a cage and a satchel, essentially.
Speaker 3No one can touch it now.
Speaker 1Success. Alright, and it is getting late into the evening, if there's anything that anyone? Would like to do.
Speaker 3I am going to write a letter to my parents telling them to invest in the NADA company, and it would be best to do it during the festival because that would be peak investment time.
Speaker 1Got it Investment with a sense of urgency. Okay, do you know how you planned to send this letter off?
Speaker 3there's probably. There's like a magical uh delivery service, probably used by my family, that like actually does do things like fair, much quicker than normal delivery service. Okay, like so she's probably gonna, so she'll send it through that uh channel okay, first class, we will first class mail. We'll come back to that and then after that as soon as after she's done with the letter, she's gonna go into the necklace and go to sleep okay, uh, that leaves elise.
Speaker 1You're the only one still up and alert outside of your own interests currently. What are you up to?
Speaker 4Elise is making a pot of herbal tea before resting for the night. Nothing else too eventful.
Speaker 1Yeah, easy enough. It's pretty easy to find pots and fire and water inside the tinkeroo's shop.
Speaker 3Which one of us goes to sleep first.
Speaker 1Thaddeus.
Speaker 3No between me and Elise.
Speaker 1No, you would.
Speaker 3Okay, so, as she's like sipping her tea or making her tea Shimmer, will just kind of walk up to her hand, her, her necklace, and disappear.
Speaker 4Elise will just look at the necklace in her hands, see Shimmer disappear and says and pocket the necklace. Quite a talent.
Graveyard Dig for Clues
Speaker 1Then you guys head to bed see shimmer disappearances and pocket the necklace. It's quite a tell. Then you guys head to bed. Everyone gets the benefit of a long rest.
Speaker 4I was going to say hold on, oh, as they're going to sleep. I'm getting frustrated about my inability to conceptualize the correct engine motion for a jaw and I'm going to head off to the cemetery.
Speaker 1Alright, then you get to head out after Elise goes to sleep. Elise, seeing as this is kind of your area, go ahead and roll me a perception with disadvantage as Sarah closes the door.
Speaker 4Fourteen Hold on, I'll roll stealth.
Speaker 1Yep, go ahead and give me stealth, sarah. I succeeded With a 22,. You do not wake up and see this happen, at least, sarah. You sneak out of the house and you make your way through the darkened streets of regate, previously bustling with people. It is eerily quiet out here and you said you are headed to the graves. Okay, you make your way across town to the graves.
Speaker 1It it took you know, maybe 40 minutes, about an hour, because you're sneaking along, but you make your way to the graves. You can see a temple in the distance. At the edge of the wall, you see a number of, basically a field of gravestones in this area. What would you like to do?
Speaker 4I will walk up to a random gravestone and start digging.
Speaker 3Imagine this gravestone happens to be a guy who is capitated and doesn't have a head.
Speaker 1Son of a. Sarah, you're walking up to a random gravestone and you're going to start digging right. Mm-hmm, yes, okay, you're walking up to a random gravestone and you're going to start digging right.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 1You walk up to the first random gravestone and you start digging. How are you digging? Go ahead and With your hands Okay, give me an athletics check Seven, seven. This is really Really hard dirt. You are making almost no headway into this grave space and as you continue digging down, suddenly your fingers start clanging as you run into what appears to be several large rocks used to fill in the space. Would you like to continue in this area or move on to a different grave?
Speaker 4I'm kind of using my shield as a shovel.
Speaker 1Okay, roll me an athletics check with advantage 15. Alright, you, it takes about another hour of your time, but you do manage to move most of the rocks Out of the way. And you're digging down and suddenly you hear the thunk as your shield taps against the wooden coffin. Would you like to continue digging Until you're able down? And suddenly you hear the thunk as your shield taps against the wooden coffin. Would you like to continue digging until you're able to open the coffin or do you want to break through the coffin?
Speaker 3Or dig around the coffin. Yeah, or dig around the coffin.
Speaker 1How would you like to go about this?
Speaker 4Dig around the coffin so that I can open it. Just have a little cave space because I'm so short.
Speaker 1Yeah, easy enough. Go ahead and roll me another athletics check with advantage 12. This, the dirt around you, is getting hard and compacted. It's pretty tough and as you're digging you find the shattered remains of several other bones in the space around you. But You're unsure. They are broken and splintered.
Speaker 4Hmm.
Speaker 1But you do manage to dig out enough of a space to open the coffin and it doesn't look like this coffin has been nailed shut. So give me a DC 10 strength check to see if you could pop it open.
Speaker 4I mean use. I use the shield as leverage.
Speaker 1OK, you can roll it with advantage.
Speaker 4Yeah, 30, 20.
Speaker 1All right. You take a look at this, you place your shield up against the lip of it and you push down with all of your might, and this coffin lid flies open completely uncontested and you're staring at the decaying body of a lady. Yeah, there we go. That's the name I got. They do have a head, though. Go ahead and roll me investigation.
Speaker 4So, real quick, I'm going to turn off my olfactory button You're going to turn off your nose.
Speaker 1Okay, yep, sure, go ahead. Easy enough. Go ahead and roll me your investigation on the body.
Speaker 4I am going to remove it from its shoulders. You're going to take the head, take the head. Okay, yeah, easy enough, I'm going to put it in my storage department and I'm going to go home.
Speaker 1Okay, as you clamber out of this, well, grave-robbing escapade, roll me a perception. Check Another 16. Robbing escapade roll me a perception, check.
Speaker 4Another 16.
Speaker 1As you climb out of this hole, the area around you lights up bright orange and you turn to see the source of the light and the temple in the distance is on fire.
Speaker 4Oh no, I will run after the temple.
Speaker 1As you start sprinting towards the temple, the flames are burning higher and brighter, and then suddenly they go out.
Speaker 4I'll turn around and go home.
Speaker 1All right. As you turn around to leave, the flames flare up again behind you and then after a few seconds, they go out again.
Speaker 4I'm gonna go home and wake up the party.
Speaker 1Okay, it's fine, they're just having a rave. Yeah, sarah, you end up heading home. It takes you about another hour of your time. You have just enough time to go into your trance state to receive a long rest before morning, unless you feel like waking everyone up right now and they will only receive a short rest.
Speaker 4If there's just enough time for them to do that then You've been gone for about four hours. Yeah, I'll let them get their long rest and then wake them up immediately as soon as the long rest period is over.
Speaker 1Okay, you slip into your trance state with a head in your chest cavity.
Speaker 4A putrid rotting head?
Speaker 1yes, Mm-hmm, and you go to sleep for your four hours. After four hours, dawn is here. The sounds outside start bustling. You flare back to life. Well, back to sentience.
Speaker 3Shiver is probably going to wake up early because she does have a meeting at the crack of dawn with the Nauticompany.
Speaker 1That is true.
Speaker 3I imagine she was probably the first one awake and as soon as she leaves her necklace basically can she smell the rotting head.
Speaker 4Go ahead and roll me a constitution saving throw Hang on.
Speaker 1First, we have to see if she smells it first. Shimmer, based on your noble upbringing, go ahead and roll. Me a perception with advantage, because rot is not something that you are used to. 14. Me a perception with advantage, because rot is not something that you are used to 14. You definitely smell something foul as you enter, as you come out of your necklace, as you come out of your necklace space. It's terrible out here.
Speaker 3She'll start retching a little bit, plug her nose, cover her nose and mouth and be like, and Jocelyn like the fuck is that smell?
Speaker 2what is this jeez?
Speaker 1what that's putrid as Shimmer and Elise Are retching in the distance. Thaddeus, roll me a perception check with disadvantage, because you're still asleep.
Speaker 5I got a 19 With disadvantage.
Speaker 1Alright, thaddeus, thaddeus, you wake up. I got a 19. I'm teaching you. Alright, Thaddeus, Thaddeus, you wake up to the sound and the smell. This is. You've made some accidental foul concoctions in your tinkering moments. This is worse than any melted belt, any burnt motor. This is worse than any melted belt, any burnt motor. This is worse than when the rotten oils fell onto the floor and you couldn't get that sent out for weeks. But it is foul. You are all woken up to an olfactory assault.
Speaker 5You know that's gonna stain, so Thaddeus will cover his face so he doesn't have to smell that so badly.
Speaker 3Shiver has been trying to put nice smells around her nose and mouth. But it's like trying to put nice smells around her nose and mouth but it's like trying to put like essential oil on top of like rotting food type of situation where it just makes it worse, Yep.
Speaker 1Uh, I need everyone.
Speaker 4I imagine that she was going to use like a uh, what's called it, like the black, like, I think, the uh, the mask that they wear. Oh, the flowers and incense all on the beak, yeah yeah a plague doctor mask pretty much just pulls out a pouch to sit under her nose. I have a lady it's just disguised, like you know, a nice little face covering.
Speaker 1With you all having woken up and realizing that this scent is in the air, I need all three of you to roll me a constitution saving. Throw please, Corpse rod I said saving, Roll the thing.
Speaker 3Thaddeus a three.
Speaker 4One for two, I got a 23.
Speaker 1Thaddeus, you are the most accustomed to lingering horrible scents, so you do not have to worry about this. You throw a bandana over your face and you're good enough. Elise and Shimmer.
Speaker 2They both rolled a two.
Speaker 1Shimmer, you are not accustomed to these scents at all and, elise, you were not prepared for it. And one thing when you can steal your stomach against it, it's another thing to wake up to it.
Speaker 4But you both, unfortunately, have lost your lunch do they at least get to sit up before losing their lunch?
Speaker 1Oh they set up.
Speaker 3I was standing up because I just came out of a necklace. I'm just having a good morning. I've had breakfast and everything already in the necklace.
Speaker 4So, you lost your breakfast too.
Speaker 1You lost your breakfast. Elise Shimmer Shimmer lost her breakfast. Elise didn't have breakfast too. You lost your breakfast. Elise Shimmer Shimmer lost her breakfast. Elise didn't have breakfast yet.
Speaker 5I see why you stumbled over dry peeve.
Speaker 1Yeah, pretty much. What would you two like to do?
Speaker 4I will report that there was something crazy happening at the temple last night.
Speaker 1While they're doing this Okay, While you two are doubled over Sarah walks up to you and reports that something weird happened at the Kelimfor Temple last night.
Speaker 2I don't want to hear about any of your misadventures. I'm leaving.
Speaker 3I don't know why Does the thing get stronger as he approaches adventures, I'm leaving.
Speaker 4I don't know why Does the scent get stronger as he approaches, probably. I'm the source of the smell. Liz, there was a little voice in the back of my head when you were digging.
Speaker 1was hoping you were going to pull up the head of a bug, not with that perception check, Shimmer. You are currently dealing with it already. You are currently dealing with it already. You are not focused on whether the smell got stronger.
Speaker 3Shimmer is not even going to say anything. She's running out of that house after Elise.
Speaker 1Got it, elise and Shimmer, book it outside, outside the home, you guys. It's fresh air, it's lovely. It's the scents and smells of a festival town. Spices are in the air, sweets are in the air. It's delicious out here.
Speaker 5Yeah, but I'm also imagining as shimmer's running out. She's got like sick all over she is casting presentation constantly to try and get rid of any.
Speaker 3Well, yes, to clean herself up, get rid of any trace of that smell, trying to put good smells on herself and on Elise, because she is around Elise a lot and she does not want her to smell bad around her.
Speaker 1Okay, while you two are outside cleaning yourselves up, thaddeus, you are still inside the house. You can stomach the smell, but go ahead and roll me an investigation, check to see if you can figure out where it's coming from. I got a 16. Thaddeus, you know that that smell isn't anything in your room. So you walk out to the living room, you watch Shimmer and Elise book it out the front door and you just you're kind of like you go over to your bench. It's none of the concoctions that you have in here, none of the oils or lubricants You've got. Uh, no, not that, not that, not that. Suddenly you turn towards sarah and you're like, oh, he's coming from you. Did you burn out a motor? Thaddeus, you can tell the smell is coming from sarah and as you look over her you can see that her fingers are like her feet and fingers are covered in dirt. Her shield is kind of muddy.
Speaker 5I look at Sarah and I say what did you do?
Speaker 1I open up my compartment and pull out the severed Thaddeus, I need you to roll me a constitution save because you were not expecting that.
Speaker 4Sarah casts 7th level gas bomb. I got a 12.
Speaker 1That is enough to hold it. You are right on the edge and should something else happen, you will make it the save with disadvantage, but currently you are keeping your stomach down.
Speaker 3Oh God.
Speaker 5Oh, why, sarah, why?
Speaker 4And I will still holding the severed head. Pull out the schematics. I was trying to figure out how to make a mouth that moves, so I needed a reference point. She wasn't using it anymore.
Speaker 5And Thaddeus will walk over to one of his cupboards and he'll pull out a bag of holding that he happens to have and he'll just kind of hold it out and he'll be like here, just put it in to have. And he'll just kind of hold it out and he'll be like here, just put it in here, put it in here.
Speaker 4I'll put it in there.
Speaker 5And then he'll close the bag of holding.
Speaker 1Yep, okay, you now have a severed head in your bag of holding.
Speaker 5It's not my bag of holding anymore.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Who are you? Are you giving it to?
Speaker 5Sarah then, no, I'm going to be disposing of it later. It just became a trash bag Of holding.
Speaker 1You now have a severed head In your trash bag of holding. The smell Persists Through the bag of holding.
Speaker 4Not through the bag of holding.
Speaker 1Would this smell be strong enough for an owlbear to pick up on? Probably Not from their current location, but you can tell that Sarah's been holding on to this head for some time.
Speaker 5Thaddeus, given that he has worked with Rolt in the past and everything like that, he has asked Rolt for a kind of a cleaning solution that gets rid of really foul smells Because again that grease, you know that didn't come out for weeks.
Speaker 1Okay, roll me a d20 on that, alright.
Speaker 4It also turns. Whatever you clean, it turns it a shade of blue. That's going to be an 8.
Speaker 1Yeah, you have some. It will work, but you're not going to be too keen on it. This is definitely an emergency situation, though.
Speaker 5Yes, do you wash out the?
Speaker 1inside of Sarah.
Speaker 5I'm going to wash out the inside of Sarah. I'm going to wash Sarah completely down.
Speaker 1Okay, Sarah Thaddeus washes you Yep.
Speaker 4Inside and out.
Speaker 1Inside and out and you smell lovely.
Speaker 5Grumbling the entire time.
Speaker 1Playing working at, not a car wash.
Speaker 5Dang it.
Speaker 1You do notice that in the permeable sets of your body, anything that is not made of straight metals is dyed blue. Oh, so your joints are now blue. Your eyes are kind of a bluish tint now. You're just a little bit bluer than you expected. Anyway, sarah is blue, the scent is gone. Elise and Shimmer, you guys are cleaned up. It is first thing in the morning now. What would you like to do?
Speaker 5Before they decide what they're going to do, I'm going to pop out the door and if I see Elise and Shimmer there, I'm just going to say I got it cleaned up.
Speaker 2They don't know what happened. We're probably not going to know what happened.
Speaker 5I'll explain later.
Speaker 3That was absolutely horrid.
Speaker 5That's a rancid display from your machine yeah, I don't know what she was thinking who's down blue but?
Speaker 1what are you guys doing?
Speaker 3after they were getting cleaned up. She's been trying to set up the morning plans with Elise because she has a meeting that she can't skip with the Nata company. But they need to go to the Lizard, so she's probably going to do that immediately, head straight to the castle immediately after her meeting and trying to figure out the logistics of that with Elise While Thaddeus is doing cleanup inside with Sarah.
Speaker 1That's easy enough. Shimmer will tell you about her meeting and she will head off. Okay. Shimmer is going to head off to her meeting. You guys finish your cleaning.
Speaker 3The meeting will. She'll leave after Thaddeus pops his head out and is like it's over. So she's going to leave right after being like it's over. So she's gonna leave right after being like the fuck. That was horrid.
Speaker 4To Thaddeus. Cool.
Speaker 5Okay, so Thaddeus is going to be like he'll look to Elise and he'll just be like would you like to go out for breakfast?
Speaker 2Yes, I find myself rather hungry now that I've got some fresh air. Now that I have some fresh air, my stomach is settled. I'm feeling a bit hungry.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, sure, you guys.
Speaker 5Wait one second. Thaddeus goes back in and he labels the trash bag of holding as trash. You do not want to open that again.
Speaker 1That is easy enough. Do you guys want to wander out into the festival See if you can find some good breakfast? Do you plan on just going to a restaurant? What's your goal here?
Speaker 3Avoid the brunch place.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, we're not going to that brunch place again.
Speaker 4Before you leave, I will retrieve the trash bag of Holstein.
Speaker 1Okay, are you hiding that you're grabbing this? Not really.
Speaker 4But I'll roll stealth at disadvantage.
Speaker 1Yeah, roll me a sleight of hand.
Speaker 4That's not the right. This one Disadvantage I got 14.
Speaker 1Okay, thaddeus, what is your passive?
Speaker 5perception. My passive perception is 17.
Speaker 1Thaddeus. You see, sarah, grab this bag.
Speaker 4Put it back in her storage compartment.
Speaker 5You know what. After what I went through, I don't really care. Maybe I can coax it out of Sarah later on to dispose of it somewhere else. Okay.
Speaker 1Alright, so. Sarah you pocket this item, it out of Sarah later on to dispose of it somewhere else. Okay, alright. So, sarah, you pocket this item, you guys gather your things and you are going to head out on your way through the festival to see if you can't pick up breakfast and meet the lizard in the castle. Excellent, solid, alright. That'll be all for now, but when we return next episode, I'm sure that the Timebreakers will continue to impress us.
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