Bone Broth-Ep 103

Violet and Ahri leave the shop to find patrols uniquely equipped to deal with haunties and with wasting only a little time they quickly make an escape. Returning to their fishing outpost they struggle to make friends. They decide from there that as undead the best course of action is to desecrate a graveyard. They were not prepared for the consequences. 

Pathfinder Second Edition Remastered and the Season of Ghosts Adventure Path by Paizo Inc. Used under Paizo’s Community Use Policy. https://paizo.com/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:31

Turn to sand. Trees become the soil. Stars become dust. Stories turned to whispered rebellions. Whispers fade entirely. But no silence lasts forever. Every now and then something takes a bite back out of the universe. An idea, a melody, incessant laughter. Hope should stay dead, but surrendered should always be false. And that's what we're feeding you tonight. Welcome to the Oddbox Podcast. What is something you think humanity has forgotten that we've just learned to live without?

SPEAKER_04 1:07

Horses?

SPEAKER_03 1:10

I was gonna say decency or something, but I don't horses is way better.

SPEAKER_04 1:15

I honestly, I mean What the fuck is a horse? I rarely think about horses in my day-to-day life.

SPEAKER_05 1:20

So you are society?

SPEAKER_04 1:22

They're all over. They used to be all over the fucking place. You represent society? I think that I represent a um what is it? Like an average. Again, it's really funny.

SPEAKER_06 1:37

I'm average male. You know what's really funny about Jeff's answer is where he lives, there's just horses everywhere. Actually, yeah, like a block away, there's um uh it's filthy with horses.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

I don't even know why we're still recording. That should have been the end of the episode when Tony said, What's a horse?

SPEAKER_04 1:55

But yeah, like but again, what what is it? Like England used to have a huge problem because the whole the streets would just get filled with horse shit because there were just horses everywhere, right? And now again, we've forgotten how to deal with horse shit.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Yeah, like I don't know how to ride a horse. Okay, I'm gonna dip into history on this one. Apparently, Atlantis had some pretty phenomenal technologies, you know, they could m make death lasers and stuff. So death lasers, apparently. The history of fables that people have written down somewhere, Atlantean history. Uh the fictional metal that we play with in our game. How do you pronounce it? It uh every time I say it, Courtney makes fun of me. Oracle cum.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

Oracalcom?

SPEAKER_03 2:37

Oracalcom? Oracle cum. Um, yeah, they all get it. Talking about orc cum. You can always see it coming every time. As soon as I go to say it, I'm like, Courtney's gonna roast me for this one.

SPEAKER_05 2:50

Um I mean, it is because of how you say it. Yeah, I don't know how else to say it.

SPEAKER_03 2:55

That's what it looks like. Despite the fact that Courtney cranks you every time. There's no way I can ever get it right. Wait, how do you say it? Oracalcum. Oracalcom. That sounds like bullshit. Um and the identity of the sea people that caused the collapse of the Bronze Age. That also is something that we've lost to history that we we've learned to live without. I guess.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

You don't like his answer?

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Nobody else is correcting him. You should though.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

That'll be the best part. Why would I? I'm gonna just let it slide this time. Why would I? Yeah. Because we can still we can make better death bla lasers than better death blazers? Yeah, you know, coats that you wear together. What are we talking about? Death blazers. I am so lost right now. We've changed the subject since the last one. Are we talking about the identity of the sea people?

SPEAKER_06 3:50

No, Kyle's missing out on Atlanteans. He misses Atlantis. He wishes it was here. It's it was here allegedly, and now it's not. Sure. And he doesn't know how to carry on.

SPEAKER_05 4:01

Were you gonna join us on Foundry?

SPEAKER_06 4:04

Never.

SPEAKER_04 4:06

Does anybody else have an answer? Are we just going with horses? What do you mean horses?

SPEAKER_06 4:11

I say the checklist, it doesn't mean anybody has to pay attention.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

Horses wins over Atlantis. Oh, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Why are we competing about your terrible answer?

SPEAKER_04 4:20

We compete about everything.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 4:21

Well, does it do you have an answer?

SPEAKER_02 4:23

Uh right. I think society has forgotten how important nature is to our survival.

SPEAKER_03 4:28

100%. That's a good answer. Yeah, Courtney's right. She beat both of us.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

Horses are a part of nature, so I guess people have forgotten about horses. Horses are not a part of nature. I do think about horses a lot, though. I'm actually watching a documentary on Netflix right now that's about horse racing.

SPEAKER_05 4:41

That's an interesting uh take. Like, are horses more part of nature or civilization at this point?

SPEAKER_06 4:46

Yeah. Well, nature now and civilization then. Yeah. Because I mean they were the they were the backbone of industry. Well, right. Industry.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

I definitely wouldn't call Kip wild, right? Like I wouldn't say he's a part of nature.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

He thinks he's wild. Sure, that's great.

SPEAKER_05 5:00

That's good for him.

SPEAKER_06 5:01

He's a party animal.

SPEAKER_05 5:02

Um I'd like to think I'm masculine.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

You are.

SPEAKER_06 5:06

Thanks. Yeah, you are. That's very close to my answer.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

He's a good friend.

SPEAKER_06 5:10

We the the thing that I think we're missing is uh we used to have like agrarian uh villages and people just like grew what they needed to eat and then they took care of the people in their village, and uh and I think that was I think that was uh an important part of of uh human society and we could still have it, but we choose not to. And um, you know, not a perfect system by any means, but uh I always think all the time about the story of the guy who brought um fertilizer over to China and he went to this village and he showed up and he was like, uh, you know, throw this on your plants like this. And he came back three years later and they're growing half the crops, and and he showed up and he was a town celebrity. Everybody was like, Oh my god, thank you so much. This is so awesome. He's like, What are you doing? Why aren't you growing twice as much and selling the and they're like, Why do why would we want to?

SPEAKER_03 6:02

Yeah, I don't want to I don't want to work in the field, I want to hang out with my kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Now we have all this extra space, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 6:08

Time and energy, and you know, so I think I think we went the wrong way.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

Yeah, it's just a town there now.

SPEAKER_06 6:16

We've lost out on on true community.

SPEAKER_05 6:19

It's funny because you made me think of like how schizophrenia will present differently in different cultures. Um, because like you know, if you just like show up and take care of people, the symptoms are extremely more mild than you know, if you were to just like abandon something. Institutionalized.

SPEAKER_06 6:34

The vast majority of the world, they're pleasant and nice, and you get into America and we've got bad schizophrenics. Well, they're not we got the bad ones here, they're not morally bad, they're the bad people, but the the subtext will be good.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

The system has been bad to them.

SPEAKER_04 6:48

Yes, yeah, it's not their fault. We don't take care of them, we just let them run rampant and do whatever the fuck they want.

SPEAKER_02 6:54

So just ignore them as long as they're not bothering us. Where's the money in it?

SPEAKER_06 6:58

Right. Everybody else in the world gets kind, loving voices telling them to be nice to each other and themselves.

SPEAKER_03 7:05

I found that out taking a psychology class from a guy who uh grew up in Tibet.

SPEAKER_05 7:10

I think you're actually the first one who told me about that. Yeah, and then I started doing more research into it because I'm like, that doesn't sound right. The DSM speaks for the world. Yeah, and uh yeah, that was a really, really interesting research. You know what it's funny?

SPEAKER_03 7:23

He's hysterical.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

Like, tell your story.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 7:26

Um so tell me originally what you're gonna say, isn't it funny? And then go back and tell your story.

SPEAKER_03 7:31

Okay, I can do that too. Isn't it funny that like you're a pretty self-aware guy and you still trust step in step in that trap, you know? Like um, so with the we were talking about medication, and he was like, Well, we don't use a lot of medication where I'm from in practice, it's pretty rare. And the guy's like, Well, what about people who have schizophrenia or whatever? He's like, Why they people just bring them food and invite them to the barbecues and they're fine.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Like them for a while.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Yeah, like, well, how do you deal with like the paranoia and the violence and stuff? He's like, I never had a violent schizophrenic. I don't know. It's like we just give we just meet their other needs and it kind of goes away. Yeah, you don't have to worry. I mean, they're still crazy, but you know.

SPEAKER_04 8:11

Right. So I just want to tally up our answers real quick because as we discussed, this is a competition. Uh-huh. The question of what has humanity lost, or something, or rather. Does I remember the answer were horses? Yep. See people. No, nature. We're getting there, schizophrenia, no, and fish people. Not even a lot of things.

SPEAKER_05 8:33

You missed it. I brought up I brought up mental health. It was life that brought up uh like nature and being there for people, just like in general. Schizophrenia, but still I didn't think I answered. I was just fish people.

SPEAKER_03 8:45

No, not fish people, sea people, people from the sea. They aren't fish, they're regular human.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

All things in the sea are f is a fish. No, they're regular humans.

SPEAKER_03 8:54

Even the islands. Say that to a fish person's face.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

Coral fish.

SPEAKER_03 9:00

Salt fish. Salt fish, water fish. Seaweed? Fish. Slow fish.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Slow fish.

SPEAKER_06 9:07

Slow skinny fish.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Don't say that.

SPEAKER_06 9:10

Those salt water dogs, they're just a few millennia away from being whales or something. Also fish. Also fish.

SPEAKER_05 9:18

Sea creature. Not a fish.

SPEAKER_06 9:21

Sea cucumber. Sea people isn't a thing. People are on the sea, Jeff. No. There's lots of people on the sea.

SPEAKER_05 9:32

Jeff doesn't believe in semen.

SPEAKER_06 9:36

There's lots of people who make their living on the sea. What was the name of that? There was that whole uh group of people.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

Dangerous Catch?

SPEAKER_06 9:42

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Deadliest catch.

SPEAKER_06 9:44

They live in like uh Polynesia or Micronesia and they just they live on rafts and they literally spend their entire lives just floating and like harvesting seafood and Kevin Costner?

SPEAKER_02 9:55

I wouldn't I wouldn't do well. Just living on the sea?

SPEAKER_04 10:00

It's been a long time since I've watched Waterworld, and I really want to watch it again in my like adult life. You should just to see how well it holds up. Yeah, terrible.

SPEAKER_03 10:09

It's not a good movie.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

I see that's what I remember. This is what I remember, but so many, so much I've heard recently, like it's a cult classic, and like I I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 10:20

Bad cult.

SPEAKER_04 10:22

Probably. Yeah, I mean cults are bad cult. Cults are bad for bad touch.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

I mean, you know, I mean maybe cults are getting a bad name. You know what I mean? Like we definitely hear about the bad ones, you know, but that's just US news. Same thing. DDSM has all the answers. Just because in the news, the cults are bad doesn't mean that they're is it the US Constitution or the World Constitution?

SPEAKER_05 10:42

I think very much.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Tony and I have talked on several occasions about trying to find a way to buy 40 acres and just like, you know, populate it with friends and family and stuff. That's basically a cult, right?

SPEAKER_04 10:51

No, that's a commune. And one of a friend I have is doing that in Hawaii if you want to join.

SPEAKER_05 10:55

I do want to do the commune.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

Yeah, let's join the cult.

SPEAKER_04 10:58

It again, anyway. Doesn't I guess tomato?

SPEAKER_03 11:03

If you want people to know that it's spicy, it's a cult. And if it's just like we're just gonna all live together and support each other, it's a commune.

SPEAKER_06 11:10

Excuse me, I'll take some diet cult, please.

SPEAKER_05 11:15

So I joined a brainwashing sex commune. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

I'm very adamant about making that clear.

SPEAKER_03 11:25

Everybody's consensual about it, Jeff. Get on board. Everyone's consensual about it. Very mild brainwashing and sex.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

Very mild.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

Very cult. What I remember. What does a diet cult look like? Which one do you give up? The brainwashing? It's still the drugs and the sex, or you just last as long as you can. I'm half convinced this is a mild diet cult.

SPEAKER_06 11:46

Mild diet code.

SPEAKER_05 11:47

Mild diet. Kind of diet.

SPEAKER_06 11:49

I like my cult warm.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 11:58

What is happening?

SPEAKER_04 12:00

Didn't we come here for a reason?

SPEAKER_02 12:02

We're meeting really late.

SPEAKER_04 12:03

What are we here for?

SPEAKER_02 12:05

We're usually almost done by now.

SPEAKER_04 12:07

Yeah. Aren't we here to play some kind of game? Whose cult are we in?

SPEAKER_06 12:16

Whose cult is this? Just a diet cult. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_05 12:22

Last time you guys made friends with a bird person, not to be confused with a fish person. Not to be confused with a sea person.

SPEAKER_06 12:29

Not to be confused with a sky person.

SPEAKER_05 12:32

Uh you decide against his help. He's like, I think I can help you. And you're like, nah. You think that the task is best left to you who have ghost powers.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

The professionals.

SPEAKER_05 12:44

You scout out the fortress, and in the center you Now it's over. You scout out the fortress in the center of Karahai and drop the guard captain's body over one of the gates before starting a fire in one of the storerooms.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

One of our best moments.

SPEAKER_05 13:03

You retreat to the west of town to watch the chaos unfold before returning hours later to go shopping utilizing Ari's disguise kit. And it was after talking to, I believe her name was Cramley.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Cramley. Six kids.

SPEAKER_05 13:21

What were their names again? You uh You're not even there. You leave and you hear like commotion. Something is happening down the street. The party is split right now. Uh two of you are up on the bluff. It's like 700 feet away, down looking on this town, while the two of you are in the center of town doing your shopping. What is the hero point situation? I don't believe those were on the checklist today. Oh snap. Oh uh which again, though, we don't write down the checklist.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

He's slipping.

SPEAKER_06 13:56

Alright, it's two. That's over now. It's over, alright. We're getting a full-blown checklist now.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

On episode 104. Oh yeah. I'm about to turn into a real problem with. No, it's 103. This one? Yeah. But we don't have the checklist yet. So the one one that we'd have the checklist for would be 104.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

So I have one hero point.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Not zero. I have uh I have a O written down, like a circle. And I think that is supposed to represent one of the coins.

SPEAKER_05 14:29

I thought O. I thought that I thought you were using the alphabet to numerically demonstrate how many you had. So that's like 15 or something.

SPEAKER_06 14:38

What does that mean? Is that in Roman? Uh numerical?

SPEAKER_04 14:42

I have three. Damn. I am maxed out still. Just try I already have mine.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

Never mind. Anyone else?

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Take them home. I mean, I would like one, but I have to earn it. I know. I was the one who brought these in. I have a stash at home. I just That's why he brought them in.

SPEAKER_05 15:01

He's like, you should start using these.

SPEAKER_04 15:03

Yeah, these are for the show. These ones are so much cooler than the ones we had. I don't have any at home, if that's what you're implying.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

Did we leave the shop already?

SPEAKER_04 15:12

Yeah. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_05 15:15

You guys are Violet. Turn and look. The sun is just beginning to rise. It is still drizzling. It is cold. And as you turn and look down the street, there are people beginning to hurry, making their way to the Karahai Fortress to begin their work, to begin their day. But coming down the street in the opposite direction from the fortress, you see a woman clad in blue with a big long bow across her back and a quiver. She seems to have a mace, like a white mace on her head. And leading her through the street, you see something familiar. And it just sends a shiver down your spine. A figure clad in crimson robes wearing a mask. And despite the rising sun, she clinches. A lit torch. Smoke is coming off in great bellows. There's something on this torch to make it smoke more than necessary. And despite her distance, you can already smell like this incense coming off of it. And then you get lightheaded as that smell hits you.

SPEAKER_04 16:41

Uh oh. You're getting cleansed.

SPEAKER_05 16:45

What would you guys like to do?

SPEAKER_03 16:46

We walk other way. We go other way.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

I gotta go. We're gonna try to get out of town casually walking away. Act natural, okay?

SPEAKER_03 17:00

Always natural. Natural lizard.

SPEAKER_05 17:05

You guys turn, start walking the other way, and you realize that the blush that you have put on to make yourself look more alive, the fake nose that you had to put on the end of Violet Snout to make it look like a real human nose. And a little mustache.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Alive That's all we were going for.

SPEAKER_05 17:30

Fake mustache because it all begins to run in the rain. You don't have long for these disguises to last. And then you hear shouting behind you What is who's that?

SPEAKER_03 17:41

Stop there.

SPEAKER_05 17:42

People are calling at you from behind. Do we run?

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Uh yeah, Ari will cast fly on both of us and we'll get out. Time to go!

SPEAKER_04 17:58

Do you still have spell slots? How many did we did we use?

SPEAKER_02 18:02

I used three second-level spell slots for invisibility.

SPEAKER_04 18:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Right?

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Yeah, so you got one fly left? Yes. If you cast on me, can I drag her out? Or can you drag me out? I can.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Um okay. That's weird though. Anyways, how far are we from the exit, I guess? Like, how far are we from getting out of town?

SPEAKER_05 18:27

30 miles. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 18:29

It's a big town. Whoa. What do you need?

SPEAKER_05 18:33

What are your answers' options right now? You guys are being You guys are being called from behind. You have seconds to decide what to do. You hear footsteps approaching quickly. They start running after you.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Um, I think we should go.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

10. 9. Cast fly on me how much.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

I'll cast fly on Violet Wagon.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Okay. Yeah, and I'll grab Ari and Scooch.

SPEAKER_05 18:53

Fourth level spell slot. Um what is fly speed? How does that work? Is it like your movement speed or that's a good question?

SPEAKER_02 19:00

20 feet or your fly speed, whichever is greater.

SPEAKER_05 19:05

Or your fly speed? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Gain a fly speed equal to its speed or 20 feet, whichever is greater. Yeah, 20. Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 19:12

So, Viola, how fast can you fly without the fly spell?

SPEAKER_03 19:15

Um so my speed is 30. But I got my armor on now, so my speed is probably 25. I'll have to double check that because we just bought the armor.

SPEAKER_05 19:24

Did you put it on right there in the store, I guess?

SPEAKER_03 19:26

No, but I have it.

SPEAKER_05 19:28

You know, it's well Well, then you're just calculating bulk, like pairing.

SPEAKER_03 19:31

Okay, so then bulk is fine. So yeah, that's 30.

SPEAKER_05 19:33

Okay, cool. Um now I'm picturing you like walking down the street, like trying to put a leg on as you're moving through, you're like half-dressed, and they're like, hey, what are you guys doing? Um Ari rolls her eyes, uh, you pick her up, and you fly out of town at 30 feet, and they are trying to give chase on the ground. Yeah, we just they're kind of keeping pace.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Do a barrel roll. I mean, we're just going straight for a fence, so hopefully at the fence they gotta redirect you know.

SPEAKER_05 20:06

And that's what I was just asking.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

I was hoping you guys would decorate it, but no, we're like one of the bunnies in our bunnies in our neighborhood, and they see a car is coming down the road and they run in front of it in straight lines.

SPEAKER_06 20:19

Or the car. We can intimidate this thing. This feels good. This feels like the right way to get away.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

They're still following me!

SPEAKER_06 20:26

Wait, do I go at the fortress?

SPEAKER_02 20:30

The busier the better.

SPEAKER_05 20:33

The smell of the incense is still lingering in your nostrils, and you still feel lightheaded. Give me a fortitude save. Oh, okay. Wait, which dice do I want to roll?

SPEAKER_02 20:44

I should have a plus one, I believe, from the ritual.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

Gardas is full on laying down on top of the hill just staring at the at the sunrise, going, Man, it's more beautiful than I remembered. Do you think the Mindscape got it right? 26.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

I rolled a natural two. I want to re-roll that with my remaining heroes.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Last hero point.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Natural 13.

SPEAKER_04 21:07

It's a lot better.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:08

It's DC twenty-three. Oh, I made it.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

Fortitude. Uh 26.

SPEAKER_05 21:16

You guys are fine.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

And you fly to your knoll in your green hill.

SPEAKER_06 21:24

For all we know, Gardas, this could be another minescape. It could be an endless series of minescapes, one deeper than the other. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_04 21:33

I didn't even think about that.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Guys, we gotta go.

SPEAKER_06 21:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

When the hell did you get here? People got suspicious.

SPEAKER_06 21:40

Who are you? Wait, hang on. Can I put on my armor?

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Can we like go find some cover and then put on your armor?

SPEAKER_05 21:47

You guys are pretty secure at this hill. Yeah. Um 700 ish feet away from town, um, overlooking, you know, this is where Gardas and uh almost said life pops. Almost. Osu after I said light. Uh laying down, looking over, like, you know, people don't typically come up here, you're off the road a bit. Um, Willow Shore is a few miles to your back.

SPEAKER_06 22:12

I think we should maybe get some rest now.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

I mean, yeah, we've been having a pretty easy time just skirting around, not even going into town, to get to our uh little fishing hole.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_04 22:29

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 22:30

I'm getting tired anyways. Uh you take the 30, 45 minutes to make it back to the uh fishing spot, the small abandoned outpost just south of Karahai. And Raisho is not there. He is not there waiting for you, though it does look like he's left some of his stuff, as if he intends to return at some point. Uh it looks like he is out on other business.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

I'm gonna root through his shit. Does he have anything good?

SPEAKER_05 23:02

Uh you find about forty pieces of silver.

SPEAKER_04 23:06

I'm not taking any of it, but I am gonna leave it kind of strown about so it's obvious that we looked through it.

SPEAKER_05 23:11

Uh you find a notebook. It seems to be filled with poetries and letters to his daughter. And uh give me a perception check.

SPEAKER_04 23:24

Oh wow. Natural 19. Wow. Uh for a 35.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

All of his stuff is in code. He's actually a spy.

SPEAKER_04 23:34

Yeah, right. He's a gor Joramundo spy. I'm just flipping through the pages.

SPEAKER_05 23:40

Uh, you do find a rune uh amongst his stuff. Like a weapon rune. What kind?

SPEAKER_04 23:47

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 23:48

We'll look at it. Put it back, artist. Crafting check. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 23:52

Oh, crafting check.

SPEAKER_05 23:53

That's probably a good way. Or some sort of magic.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

Natural 19.

SPEAKER_05 23:56

Uh, it is a greater striking rune.

SPEAKER_04 23:59

Ooh.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

We should ask him if he wants to sell this.

SPEAKER_04 24:02

Yeah. We can afford that. I don't know. Well, we can talk him down. Uh again, leaving everything just kind of strewn about so that he knows we went through a shit.

SPEAKER_05 24:12

But I'm not like right on top of his pillow so we don't forget to talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 24:15

Yeah, I'm I'm not taking anything. I'm not trying to steal anything.

SPEAKER_05 24:20

Great.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

Ari, well, once he's done, go and like put his stuff back like as it was beforehand.

SPEAKER_05 24:26

As close as you can get it.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Yeah. Don't be rude. It's not your stuff. He's letting us stay here.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

He's not letting us do anything. We're just doing it.

SPEAKER_05 24:36

The sun is up, but still pretty low. Uh it's probably what? 9, 10 a.m.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

Okay. Who wants ghost dinner? Sleep time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:50

You like that ghost food? Eggs. I'm gonna throw you a throw you a steak uncooked. Yeah. Just raw pork. Yeah, chomp, chomp chomp, chomp. Eggs.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Eggs.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

I just threw you a pork steak. Where?

SPEAKER_03 25:02

You ate it. I don't see steak anywhere. You ate it.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

Like it bar it didn't even touch the ground.

SPEAKER_03 25:08

You know how hungry Violet is.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Um don't be stingy, Gardis.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Give me eggs. Okay, okay, good.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

You might still be growing.

SPEAKER_04 25:17

Please and thank you. I'm gonna start a small fire just big enough to cook.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

No fires.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

Fine.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Sushi tonight.

SPEAKER_04 25:24

Ah. Hey, Violet. Yes. Open. Ah. And I'm just gonna throw eggs, like raw eggs, at your mouth. More eggs. As many as I have. Holy shit. This violet's like an endless pit. I haven't eaten in forever. We had breakfast this morning.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

I might still be growing. I'm only like four days old. Yeah. Two days old.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

She's hungry.

SPEAKER_04 25:51

Alright, let's go to bed now. Or whatever we do as ghosts.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

Haunties.

SPEAKER_06 25:58

You can't call me that. I get to say it now.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

Yeah, we're taking it back.

SPEAKER_05 26:07

Uh setting watches? Not setting watches? Watches.

SPEAKER_06 26:10

Oh, I do first watch. Okay, I'll take second.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Okay, wake me up when you're done.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Okay. Gardens, do you get last watch? Yeah, I don't even that's why I don't even try to call it. Because you make dinner. Breakfast. Breakfast. Are you going to be able to make more eggs? Sure. The blue eggs taste better. Than the white eggs did. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 26:36

Ari.

SPEAKER_02 26:37

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_05 26:38

You're sitting in the dark. Uh are you in the hut or outside the hut? Where do you keep watch at?

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Um, I think in the hut, just kind of watching the door.

SPEAKER_05 26:49

And it slowly creaks open. And due to your spirit sight, you see the outline of a tangu walk in.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

I uh have a spell readied and then I just kinda let it die down in my hands. Oh. Hello, welcome back.

SPEAKER_05 27:08

Thanks. I know you guys eat I wasn't sure if this food would suffice, but I have some stuff. And he just kinda like lays down a rucksack uh at your feed, and it's filled with almost said human food. Um, non-spirit food, like normal real-world food food. And it's like rice balls and sweet cakes and like pretty decent stuff.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Where did you get this?

SPEAKER_05 27:39

Karahai.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

You stole it?

SPEAKER_05 27:42

I wouldn't say stole. I don't know if people are gonna miss it.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

Go on.

SPEAKER_05 27:50

Karahai is struggling. Kaimago has taken advantage of these people. And many inside the fort are living quite comfortably. Apparently there was a fire in the fortress last night.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:07

And I took advantage of their distractions. And went to their kitchens on the south side of the inner circle and took what I could.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Cool. She'll grab a rice ball, start eating it. Uh, this is delicious.

SPEAKER_05 28:24

I'm gonna go to bed now. Who went through my stuff? What the hell? Turns and looks at you with a frown on his spirit on your spirit side face. You can see that he's pretty upset.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

Um, yeah, Gardas, I couldn't stop him, was going through your things. He didn't take anything.

SPEAKER_05 28:41

I should skin that dwarf.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

Yeah, a lot of people say that. Um just try to forgive him. He's very difficult difficult. Um, and he doesn't trust anybody. He's just kind of a jerk. But we need him, so just I'm sorry on his behalf. I try to put it back as neatly as possible, but So you both went through my stuff. No, I was putting it back. He left it in a mess. It was rude.

SPEAKER_05 29:15

And you see he begins to pack it up, maybe even more than it was before. And he just kinda like stands there afterwards, like looks over his shoulder at the door, looks back at his, you know, his betting. And just like sits down cross-legged, facing away from everyone.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

You have to understand that we've had it pretty rough.

SPEAKER_05 29:41

That is no excuse. You aren't the only ones that have struggled.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

And I would understand if you went through our stuff while we were gone.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

Can I go through his stuff?

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Sure.

SPEAKER_05 29:54

I'll help you. Sleep.

SPEAKER_06 29:59

I actually do have a character sheet for this guy. Have a drink out of this flask.

SPEAKER_05 30:07

So he walks over and begins trying to rifle through your stuff, and he gets a 40 on his stealth check. Nice. Sorry, 39.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Do you hear him? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

He doesn't actually sleep.

SPEAKER_05 30:22

Uh, what does he find as he starts digging through your stuff?

SPEAKER_04 30:25

I mean, you know. What do you what do you want a full thing?

SPEAKER_01 30:28

What do you see?

SPEAKER_04 30:30

He finds a bag of holding. Yeah, like a bag of holding. No, it doesn't, no more dead bodies. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

It's just blood.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

Bag of holding, uh like armor and stuff. Like, I don't put that stuff in the bag of holding. That stuff would have just been like left out, like my normal weapons and everything, right? Um, bag of holding has like a shitload of bones in it still. Um an empty cask with the dyed ale. Do you think that we're the worst party ever? You can get a bag of wine. It's like empty casks, potions, bones, bones, antidotes, books. There's like a shitload of books in there. Um, some keys, just random keys to stuff in uh Willowshore. He'll take your meat cleaver clandegger. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

You can't keep that.

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Are you gonna be able to take it from me?

SPEAKER_02 31:23

What's your deal?

SPEAKER_05 31:25

I have spirits haunting my hut. I tried to be cordial and give them what they want, and yet still they torment me. I think a better question is the fuck is your deal?

SPEAKER_04 31:37

We're trying to Is this conversation gonna wake us up at all? Because they're not being quiet anymore.

SPEAKER_05 31:45

They're not being loud either.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

We're trying to save our town. We told you.

SPEAKER_05 31:51

I have no investment nor care for Willow Shore. And he goes back over to his bedding and sits down, kind of like twirling the cleaver in his hands.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

I still think that we can help each other out.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

But you weren't interested in my help.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

What do you mean? Just because we didn't have a task for you doesn't mean we didn't want your help.

SPEAKER_05 32:10

It's f I I brought you food. What more do you want from me?

SPEAKER_02 32:14

I just feel like there's still s there's some animosity here.

SPEAKER_05 32:18

You guys went through my shit!

SPEAKER_02 32:19

No, Gardas did. He ruins everything. No, I know you've gone through a lot. It must be really hard to lose your family.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

Do you have family?

SPEAKER_02 32:34

I did.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

What happened to them?

SPEAKER_02 32:39

I was gone for 115 years.

SPEAKER_05 32:41

How long do gnomes live for?

SPEAKER_02 32:44

As long as they don't go through the bleaching.

SPEAKER_05 32:48

So you don't know what happened to your family?

SPEAKER_02 32:50

No, I haven't seen them in 115 years.

SPEAKER_05 32:54

Have you tried to find them?

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Well, we couldn't even get out of Willowshore for the longest time, and now everybody's in danger. Once we save our town and ourselves and come back to the real world permanently, then I'll try to find them.

SPEAKER_05 33:07

Nothing is more important than family.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

We could be your family.

SPEAKER_05 33:18

I have not fallen that far yet.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

We might win you over yet.

SPEAKER_05 33:24

Turns his back to you, uh, sitting on his bed and just like twirls with the plays with the clandegger.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

She goes over and gives him a hug.

SPEAKER_05 33:31

He fights you off. No, no, don't, not like that. That's weird. Stop it. You're cold.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

It's okay, you like it. No, you're ghostly.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

It's weird. Kind of squishy. Give him kiss. I've been listening to the whole conversation.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

Uh she'll finish your watch. Finish your watch.

SPEAKER_05 33:54

And then we uh you'll have to wake up Gardis.

SPEAKER_02 33:58

She goes over and pushes his shoulder with her foot. Get up, Gardis.

SPEAKER_04 34:03

Okay. Time to start cooking. What is all this garbage? I see all the food that he brought us on the floor.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

It's really good. Be nice to him, okay?

SPEAKER_05 34:12

Oh, yeah. Check this out.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

He knows you went through a shit.

SPEAKER_05 34:15

I just keep laying down now. Like after you guys finish us watching it look like he's trying to go to bed.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:20

I just cast a spell and like there's uh now more food than what he brought. Haha. Why do we need food? We've got plenty. Ari's already laying down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:31

I just can't right now.

SPEAKER_04 34:33

Okay. Uh as I go to start cooking, I'm like, hey, where's my clo- where's my cleaver? My dagger. I use it to cut things.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

She's sleeping.

SPEAKER_04 34:46

Oh she's I'm gonna go over and kick Ari away.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

Oh, you're a bitch!

SPEAKER_04 34:51

Where's my dagger? My cleaver.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

I don't know, you must have misplaced it.

SPEAKER_04 34:57

Well, I kick her. Where did I misplace it?

SPEAKER_02 34:59

I don't know. Stop kicking me. Okay? You'll have to use something else.

SPEAKER_04 35:04

No, I don't have anything else. I don't have anything else to cut with. I've got a hammer and an axe- I guess axes can cut.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Yeah, get creative.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

But it's not made to cut food.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

Just deal with it, Gardas. Okay? Make things that don't need to be cut.

SPEAKER_04 35:19

I'm gonna start going through everybody's shit. I'll start, I'll start with ours. Um and then when I don't find it, I'll start going to the tango. I'm doing this loudly too, so people might wake up. I assume everyone's probably awake at this point.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

Violet wakes up and is pissed that she had to wake up early, so she's gonna full-on threatening approach you.

SPEAKER_01 35:39

She's cranky.

SPEAKER_03 35:40

And she sleeps in her armor now, so she's in full plate. Um she's seven feet tall and 400 pounds, and she's got her frills going. Here we go. Intimidation. Oh, that's cracked. 18 on the dive, 33 to intimidate. How intimidated are you?

SPEAKER_04 35:55

Intimidated, yeah. I'm a full first one success. Okay, so you're frightened too. Okay, for little over twelve so twelve seconds.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

Yeah. What the hell, man? Put that away. And then Violet's gonna like push on your arms, like, you leave my stuff alone, you get your stuff. Violet's literally only got armor and a backpack and a shield, and she's just pissed that you're trying to take her stuff away. I'm not trying to take anything.

SPEAKER_04 36:18

Somebody stole my dagger. Wait, hang on. How does a shove work here?

SPEAKER_06 36:21

Stole it or did you lose it?

SPEAKER_04 36:24

Probably the second one. I had it when I cooked a bunch of eggs and meat and stuff last night.

SPEAKER_06 36:32

Violet, you didn't accidentally eat his dagger, did you? That's a possibility.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

She has an iron stomach.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

So, wait.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

We'll just get you a new dagger.

SPEAKER_03 36:44

It's not that simple. What do you shove against? AC or fortitude? AC. No.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

Can we just flavor it? Does it flavor shove?

SPEAKER_03 36:56

It doesn't need to be. Well, it matters because you're gonna take damage. I don't care. Okay. Uh you take 10 points of damage. Alright. What does that do? Fortitude DC. Fortitude DC. Uh I'm gonna push you back like across the corner of the bed so that you trip on it. Uh would you take damage? Because I have this really cool feat. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, got it. Yeah. Um, and then Violet. What did you roll?

SPEAKER_04 37:23

Um I rolled a 32. Okay, so it's a one, but then I don't fall and you push me back half of what you thought, because I have the like rock dwarf or something.

SPEAKER_03 37:33

Oh, so that's pretty sick. You still take 10 points of damage. Yeah, yeah. I still take the damage. So Violet grabs her shield and her backpacket curls up and a ball lays on him in a big huff. Big mean card is a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04 37:44

I'm not trying to I'm not trying to take your stuff.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

You were being mean.

SPEAKER_04 37:47

How?

SPEAKER_03 37:48

You woke me up. Violet needs sleep. Only this many. And she holds up some number of fingers that is close to the number of things that sleep in here.

SPEAKER_04 37:58

Okay, so I guess next entourage show.

SPEAKER_05 38:01

Like, did they hide it or I mean you don't immediately see it, uh, but you like walk over, put your hand out to like grab his backpack sort of thing, and from what seems to be him sleeping, he catches your wrist. The next time you touch my stuff, dwarf, I will banish you.

SPEAKER_04 38:21

How much you want for that greater striking rune? Straight into a deal.

SPEAKER_05 38:28

I have no interest in dealing with nosy pestilent dwarfs.

SPEAKER_03 38:36

That's fine. Haunty dwarf. Nosy pestulent haunty dwarf. Or ghosts. I was trying to back them up.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

So you said it's not immediately I don't immediately see.

SPEAKER_05 38:46

You could give me a perception check, but it's gonna be pretty high DC.

SPEAKER_04 38:52

Um that's not bad. 31 fail. Wow. Yeah, but it's close.

SPEAKER_06 38:59

Yeah. Um starting to think we shouldn't mess with this guy. Please. We should ask him for more help.

SPEAKER_04 39:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

So why'd you steal my shit? What makes you think I took your stuff? And he kind of looks over, he like his eyes dart towards Ari and then back at you real quick.

SPEAKER_04 39:18

Mm-hmm. Cause we've been together for a long time, and my clan dagger's never gone missing. We've been together for 115 years, and all of a sudden you show up and it's gone.

SPEAKER_05 39:29

I think you misplaced it, dwarf.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

I used it last night when we were cooking and then went to bed. I got my eye on you, bird.

SPEAKER_06 39:38

Pops is like rooting through all Gardas' stuff and like tipping over the bag of holding and like kicking up dirt around where he was sleeping. I'm not seeing it anywhere. What is your perception DC, Gardas?

SPEAKER_05 39:49

Um You don't have to tell me, I'll just roll 17 plus.

SPEAKER_04 39:54

So 27.

SPEAKER_05 39:55

I only got a two on the dice for it, 25. So you you it's 27, you said? So you see he like reaches over uh like on your belt, and you see that he's like hiding it up his sleeve, and he pulls and he acts like he's like pulling it from your belt. He's like, Looks like you've had it all along.

SPEAKER_03 40:16

Yeah, big selfish Gardas.

SPEAKER_04 40:18

What the fuck? That was up your sleeve, dick. I just take it back and huff off. I could see it. He frowns, kind of confused.

SPEAKER_06 40:27

No one's ever seen that. We all have bad days, friend.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

Hey, look, I went through your ship, but at least I didn't take anything, and we will pay you for that at some point if you want to sell it. Anyway, you want some breakfast?

SPEAKER_05 40:42

Again, I'm still not convinced that I won't be banishing you by the end of the day.

SPEAKER_04 40:46

I mean, you can try, but until that happens, do you want any food? I mean, I I see that you brought us some garbage that you found in around, but I can actually cook. He lays back down.

SPEAKER_05 40:59

I know you spirits have odd hours, but it is nighttime, and I am tired.

SPEAKER_04 41:06

So no. Alright. Just gonna start cooking.

SPEAKER_03 41:13

Okay. Is it wake up time yet? Are you is it wake up time? Are you awake? Kicking at you with a light.

SPEAKER_02 41:22

I was trying to sleep.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

Okay, I'll go back to sleep then. Pops, what are you doing? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 41:30

Pops never woke up this whole time. Cardis, teach me how to cook. Teach me how to cook. Okay. Uh you get this fire here. Yes. Light a little fire. Yes. Um, you do this, and I start showing you, like, just in general, how to cook. Like, uh, cut up the ingredients.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

I went stamping out the fire with her new gauntlets. What are you doing? There's no supposed to be any fires, smokes.

SPEAKER_04 41:51

We made a fire during the daytime. We did? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

We were specifically trying not to light fires.

SPEAKER_04 41:58

Who?

SPEAKER_05 42:00

This would be the first time you guys lit a fire if you do make a fire.

SPEAKER_04 42:03

It was immediately stamped out. God damn it. Now we can't cook. Here, just see this? It's just a big again, uh, steak. Just gonna throw it at you. What steak? What eggs? Holy crap. I'm gonna I'm gonna need to get more eggs for you. Couple hours passes.

SPEAKER_05 42:28

Yeah, you guys take me there. Like, uh, I don't I don't have anything for you. I don't have like I you guys I I've presented the sandbox. I don't know what else. I don't know, I don't know what else to give you guys right now.

SPEAKER_06 42:38

It's nighttime we're full rested. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:39

Yes, full everyone has a full rest. Let's get back to the sorry, is that what you guys were missing?

SPEAKER_04 42:43

Yeah, full rest.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

Making sure that the rest was over.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

I'm kicking Ari again to wake her up. Daily preparations.

SPEAKER_05 42:49

Yes, almost got on a few hours to no consequence.

SPEAKER_04 42:53

Throw up throw a plate of uncooked food like next to you. They won't let me light a fire and walk off.

SPEAKER_02 42:59

Don't kick me again.

SPEAKER_03 43:02

Okay. Okay, guys, we need to go terrorize the fort again.

SPEAKER_06 43:06

Yes. Let's see here. We have that bag of bones, yes? Oh, I got bones. Very good. I submit that we should uh make effigies of the bones and hang them in trees around town.

SPEAKER_04 43:20

Wait, we need to get more bones, though, because really most of these are just fish bones. Oh, yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_06 43:26

We never did go to the graveyard, did we?

SPEAKER_04 43:27

Yeah, let's go get some bones first.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

Okay, on the way, can Pops and I light ourselves on fire and run through town real fast? Yeah, I don't see any problem with it.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

I think that's a terrible idea.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

Do you guys have any spells that make us faster?

SPEAKER_02 43:40

No, I have haste, but it only lo it lasts for like a minute.

SPEAKER_06 43:44

Do you have uh do you have do you have flight for your major power?

SPEAKER_03 43:49

Um, I mean I could change it, it's still preparation.

SPEAKER_05 43:51

Yeah, everyone make sure you do your ghostly powers as part of your daily preparations.

SPEAKER_04 43:55

I was planning on changing it back to what I would normally have, which is the resistance or something. Not taking flight. Unless we want to keep flying thing places, then I was gonna just change it back.

SPEAKER_06 44:07

I don't know. It's it sort of seems like uh flight might be real valuable to have in our back pocket if we ever need to get away. Yeah. No, I think we should I think we should save it for now. One thing at a time.

SPEAKER_04 44:20

Graveyard. Let's go. Alright, let me get my shovel.

SPEAKER_06 44:26

Oh, we're not going to need a shovel. You leave that part to me.

SPEAKER_04 44:34

I can help with that too. Alright, out the door, right?

SPEAKER_05 44:38

Right show gave you directions. It's pretty easy to find the graveyard just outside of Karahai. Uh as it's, you know, dark out becoming later in the evening. There's no one out here. Uh it is a relatively small graveyard, but you do find I don't know. 40-50 graves. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

So I chose flickering figure as my major spirit power for today, so I can uh become I can like shimmer and blend into my surroundings and become concealed for ten minutes, and this allows me to hide. Cool.

SPEAKER_04 45:12

I also I did my vital beacon instead of preparing everything flies, I did my normal preparations, so vital beacon is one of the things that I'm casting at level four. And I'm gonna I guess I am, since we brought it up, I will keep the fly as the as the major power, my major ghost power, which means I don't have the resist death one. That's my preparations. In case this turns into a fight. As graveyards tend to do.

SPEAKER_06 45:44

Sometimes. Hopefully not this time. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 45:48

Do you all four of you go to the graveyard? Yep.

SPEAKER_01 45:51

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 45:52

It's up on a hill. Find forty to fifty graves, some more marked than others. Uh a tall but dead tree stands near the center of it.

SPEAKER_06 46:03

Let's just have a quick look around and see if there's anything that jumps out at us.

SPEAKER_04 46:09

Okay. I'm gonna go to where the biggest cluster of graves look like they are and cast Soothing Spring.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

Why?

SPEAKER_05 46:20

To make like a bone broth.

SPEAKER_04 46:21

A broth. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

We just get a big ladle out.

SPEAKER_04 46:24

Yeah, yeah. So it'll be easier to scoop up the bones just off of the like skim them off the top rather than having to dig them up.

SPEAKER_05 46:30

I don't think that's how this spell works, but I will it does.

SPEAKER_04 46:33

It says it like it needs earth and it like carves it into the earth and everything. It doesn't just like appear.

SPEAKER_05 46:38

It's not an extra-dimensional space or a thing.

SPEAKER_04 46:40

No, it like creates one.

SPEAKER_05 46:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 46:46

That's the name of the episode. You've made you have made a bone suit. Takes yeah, it takes one minute to cast.

SPEAKER_05 46:52

Damn. Okay. Uh there's stone headstones floating, like sinking through it, and bones rising up to the top.

SPEAKER_04 47:01

Yeah, I just got like a stick and I'm trying to like just rake them together. Exactly. So messed up. Filling up my bag of holding. Anyone else?

SPEAKER_02 47:12

Ari's going to go around and look at the tombstones and look for names that she recognizes. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 47:19

I just I just made broth. Yeah. With your ancestors.

SPEAKER_02 47:24

That was my family's burial site. Great, great, great grandparents are buried there.

SPEAKER_03 47:32

Pops, good to use the bones. We can reinforce Raju's tent, and it'll be stronger and it will have magic. Right?

SPEAKER_05 47:39

There was so much wrong with that sentence.

SPEAKER_06 47:41

Yeah. Pops goes over to Ari and and uh says Ari, we must remember our goal. We must remember our mission. We cannot allow the forces of necromancy to proliferate. I'm sure the spirits of these people will forgive us in our cause. And he starts casting Rays Island. Once an hour? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:07

All of the graves overnight.

SPEAKER_03 48:09

Just ten feet pillars.

SPEAKER_06 48:11

Well, 15 feet across, 15 wide.

SPEAKER_04 48:13

So we're just gonna we're just gonna spend like all night here just gathering bones.

SPEAKER_06 48:19

And hopefully a fresh corpse or two. Yeah, right. I never know. If the captain's still there with the uh and or on his back, or no, the uh or else. Or else, yeah. Sorry, I got my logic gates mixed up. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 48:34

Everyone give me a will save. Okie dokie.

SPEAKER_06 48:40

31? 32? Graveyard madness.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

We have plus one, right?

SPEAKER_06 48:44

Yeah. Not super great.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

Twenty-two.

SPEAKER_04 48:51

Uh how do I do math again? Thirty two. We died. Thirty-three. I forgot the plus one.

SPEAKER_05 49:01

Gardas and Violet are doomed one. Oh no. Ari Pops are doomed two. As you guys begin to have these visions, and it's being you get the feeling, the sensation, like in your gut, that you are being dragged to the boneyard. That you are seeing your final death and destruction. I guess. Let me see real quick. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 49:37

Doomed. Your soul has been gripped by a powerful force which calls you close to death. Doom has always included a value. The dying value at which you die is reduced by the doom value. If your dying value reduced reduced is reduced the is reduced to zero, you instantly die. When you die, you no longer are doomed.

SPEAKER_05 49:54

Um, Gardas, you get the sense that uh this is something celestial. You feel uh your connection to your god weaken. I rolled a critical success for Pops, who realizes that uh despite your dire need, you have pissed off the goddess Pharasma. Nice. Uh as a spirit desecrating the dead, she is frowning upon your deeds. You guys have as many skeletons and bones as you would like uh and mummified-ish corpses.

SPEAKER_04 50:24

Wonderful. Sweet. Are we gonna do are we setting up up here or do we want to set them up somewhere in town?

SPEAKER_05 50:29

Do keep in mind that with this doom value, threat level has increased.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

Yeah, it only goes down after uh full night's rest. Yes. Goes down by one. Yeah. Um, so when this happens, Ari just like starts just like whimpering and like cowering, and then she's just like trying to get out of the graveyard. We gotta go. We gotta go. We can't do this. This is bad. It's so bad.

SPEAKER_06 50:54

Pops plowing the bones into the bag. Yeah. Same. He's resolute. How long have we been doing this for?

SPEAKER_04 51:01

Do you think?

SPEAKER_05 51:03

Like 15, 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_04 51:04

Oh, so not very long.

SPEAKER_05 51:05

I mean, it only took you a minute to cast your spell. Yeah. Raise Earth, we know is uh two act or three actions, yeah. Sorry. It's three actions? Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_04 51:13

I don't know, still like one turn. Exactly. Yeah, three actions.

SPEAKER_05 51:16

Okay, so six seconds there, uh six D seconds there. Yeah. Um and and now I'm assuming you guys have also collected the bodies that you have wanted. So 15-ish minutes. Alright. And Ari's probably been freaking out for five of those. Alright, stop freaking out.

SPEAKER_02 51:32

And she's just leaving.

SPEAKER_04 51:34

Alright, alright. We do we we got enough. I think so. I guess we don't build them here. Ari wants to take off. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 51:43

She's not looking back, she's just going.

SPEAKER_04 51:45

Alright, let's let's keep up. Let's not leave her on our own. Do I need to get out of pool?

SPEAKER_01 51:53

Swimming in there. Yeah, picking up the bones.

SPEAKER_06 51:57

He's gnawing on bones.

SPEAKER_05 51:58

Sorry, we did kind of brush over something, so I need to go back just a little bit. Alright, give me a perception check.

SPEAKER_02 52:04

Okay. Too many papers. Twenty-eight.

SPEAKER_05 52:12

It's not quite a tombstone, and it's definitely not a grave, but you find a small shrine near the big tree in the center. It reads Elzeera, Beloved Mother, Wife, Craftswoman, and Shining Star. There's a candle that has long burnt out there, and a contraption that you can't quite make out. It seems to be made of uh like a wheel with a stick across it and string that has long deteriorated. And this is before you got cursed.

SPEAKER_02 52:49

Okay. Ari will drop to her knees and she'll start crying, and she'll rifle through her backpack, and she pulls out a little flask that she had um stored her mom's necklace in that smelled of like rotting.

SPEAKER_05 53:11

I definitely remember that now though.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

Yeah, so she pulls out the flask and she'll just take the smelly necklace out and lay it on the shrine.

SPEAKER_05 53:24

As you take it out, you do not catch a smell from it.

unknown 53:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:28

She's like, I'll miss you, mom.

SPEAKER_05 53:29

And then a curse hits you. Boom.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

And now I'm doomed. She fucking runs. Doom three.

SPEAKER_04 53:38

Doomed three is how it's a column of corpses rise behind you and you feel cursed.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:44

Oh right. Doomed two. Like if you're downed once, you're dead, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 53:52

Pretty pretty dangerous. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 53:54

Let's go get and fight.

SPEAKER_06 53:55

Yeah. Tonight feels like maybe not the night. I'm feeling good about it.

SPEAKER_03 54:01

Okay. Ari, can you at least fly over town and throw a fire at me? She's running. I made that clean.

SPEAKER_05 54:08

Come on, let's not. Keep up. Violet's just in the back climbing out of the pool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:14

Thinks like a tombstone is Ari, like it's just like in kind of the shape of her just talking to her. How long have you not been Ari?

SPEAKER_03 54:22

Violet's using a tombstone as like a chew toy, like she's like scratching the back of her teeth, like R R R R. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 54:29

Alright, back to our base of operations then.

SPEAKER_05 54:33

Easy enough. Quick John and a skip.

SPEAKER_06 54:38

Gardis, can you arrange these maybe with some rope to turn them into sort of I don't know, say a horrifying chandelier?

SPEAKER_04 54:47

Yeah. I I just want to I'm like I just want to like take all the bones and make them all look like the Blair Witch like little people type thing. Do you know what that is? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 55:00

I've seen movies.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

Okay. Like the Blair Witch effigies. It kind of it kind of looks like a very rudimentary person with like an upside-down triangle and some little arms and legs and stuff.

SPEAKER_05 55:12

How many of those do you think you can make?

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Uh as many as I have the bones for. Should we roll for it?

SPEAKER_05 55:17

Well, yeah, I guess uh sure.

SPEAKER_03 55:19

Let's roll for it. They're called twanas.

SPEAKER_00 55:21

That's gross.

SPEAKER_03 55:23

That's gross, man. Why would they bring that up? Two, three, four, six to make a twana.

SPEAKER_04 55:27

Why would you bring that up?

SPEAKER_02 55:29

Or bones.

SPEAKER_04 55:30

I guess crafting? Sure. Nineteen on the dice again? Yes. Just as uh uh thirty two.

unknown 55:42

Damn.

SPEAKER_05 55:43

Uh you can make you can make eleven.

SPEAKER_04 55:47

A shitload of them. Uh alright. Let's we've got them on ropes just kind of ready to tie up into a tree. Is there a big tree or something anywhere in town? Probably not.

SPEAKER_05 55:58

I mean, there's there's not one singular tree in town. You guys would know that there's a few bare cottonwood trees uh in the center of the Karahai Fortress. Um but uh yeah, that would be hard.

SPEAKER_04 56:10

I'm still I'm just trying to think of a good spot where we could put these.

SPEAKER_02 56:14

I feel like we could find little hooks on buildings and you know, like if there's any shrines, like we can hang them from different places. Yeah, okay. It wouldn't be too hard.

SPEAKER_06 56:27

All right.

SPEAKER_02 56:28

Signs.

SPEAKER_06 56:31

Wherever people are gonna see them. Yeah. Fire hydrants, stoplights.

SPEAKER_03 56:38

Who's good at stealth?

SPEAKER_06 56:39

I am, but I should probably not risk any kind of encounter tonight. My soul feels weak.

SPEAKER_02 56:46

Ari's been pretty quiet the whole time, and she has her um she's got her like writing set out and she's drawing pictures.

SPEAKER_06 56:56

Pops is praying to Pharasma. He's like, oh yeah. Maybe maybe that wasn't such such a great idea.

SPEAKER_03 57:04

Or are we just staying in today?

SPEAKER_04 57:06

I guess so. These two don't seem like they're uh up for doing anything.

SPEAKER_05 57:12

Yes. You guys spin just take a down day?

SPEAKER_04 57:16

I think so. That's what uh everybody seems scared. I'm scared.

SPEAKER_02 57:21

Yeah, Ari found out that her mom is officially dead and then got cursed by Pharasma, so she's not doing well.

SPEAKER_04 57:28

Hey Ari, did you find any of your uh ancestors in the graveyard?

SPEAKER_02 57:33

I don't want to talk about it, Gardis.

SPEAKER_04 57:35

Oh, that's a yes.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

I'm not in the mood for being made fun of and picked on and kicked.

SPEAKER_04 57:41

I wasn't gonna do that till later. Not right now. Sorry about your ancestors.

SPEAKER_02 57:47

She like throws something at you. Leave me alone!

SPEAKER_05 57:50

Rysho is typically trying to sleep at night in the hut. So are you guys like doing this in there? Of course. Okay, like I give a shit. Yeah, he just like sits back up staring at the wall.

SPEAKER_04 58:02

Raisho, I thought you were trying to sleep. This dwarf.

SPEAKER_03 58:09

Should we go outside?

SPEAKER_05 58:11

You should probably go back to where you belong.

SPEAKER_03 58:16

We can only be here for a few more weeks.

SPEAKER_05 58:19

That's rude. You have died. Move on. You go back to where you belong.

SPEAKER_06 58:27

We are trying to move on.

SPEAKER_05 58:28

I'm trying to find a place where it feels that I belong, but everything in this world keeps getting taken by me from me.

SPEAKER_04 58:34

So out here on the docks, that's where you found alone.

SPEAKER_03 58:37

Hey, Raijo, you could come stay at the boar with us if we fix it.

SPEAKER_05 58:42

I don't think I could the Cerulean boar. Take much time around this dwarf. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:48

He had a house too. You could take his house. It needs fixing.

SPEAKER_04 58:53

It collapsed. It was underground. I think it I need to go for a loss. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 59:00

Stay away from the graveyard.

SPEAKER_06 59:07

No reason. Yeah, right. It's fine. There's just there's bone chimes laying around.

SPEAKER_04 59:15

I I imagine we weren't able to get all the bones before we kind of had to rush out. So there's still just some bones and stuff laying around.

SPEAKER_05 59:23

Well, we know that like once he raises Earth, like things don't just magically go back to how they were afterwards. And you know, you made a pool that we decided isn't an extra-dimensional space. So once the pool goes away, everything that was there, tombstones and bones are just there on top now.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 59:39

So um you guys have, I guess, a down day to do crafting um rune stuff. I don't know if you guys have anything like that. Uh you all benefit from a long rest, but you do not decrease your doomed value.

SPEAKER_06 59:56

No.

SPEAKER_02 59:57

Really?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:00

Uh-oh. You have been cursed.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:03

Guess I'm just gonna spend the rest of this part of the adventure in this hut.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:08

Just hiding here.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:11

Um Gardis, is there another day down. I feel I feel unwell, Gardas. Is there anything you can do? Oh shit, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:21

To lift what feels like a curse. I think it sounds like you pissed off Pharasma pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:29

Um, and all of your dreams are just uh you dying in a bunch of different ways.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:34

Terrible nightmares. It's always my dreams.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:39

But the rest of you have dreams of you dying in a thousand different ways.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:44

Um, I mean, I can look I can look up spells and stuff. We just keep playing. It's just it's just my time on the path.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:50

Yeah, they live it all. Yeah. Um, there are not uh I mean there's probably like a remove curse spell, but uh the counter counteract modifier would be against Pharasma.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:01

So that's pretty difficult. Okay, Pops wants to pray for forgiveness.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:09

Ari will be joining you with that.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:12

Can I do a religion roll?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:13

Sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:14

Sweet. That's a natural two on dice. Plus religion 14 for a 16.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:22

Your uh you fail, critically fail. Uh classic. Your visions continue into your waking hours as well. You see them in front of you. You take a minus two status penalty to all initiative and perception checks, as you are super distracted by uh your daydreams, your horrible, horrible nightmare daydreams.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

Okay. Um can I do like a Sangpachi lore or should I do religion?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:48

For to what end? What are you going for? She's doing the same thing. Try it.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

Okay. So she's just like playing her instrument, trying to attune herself to her like true self and apologizing to Pharasma. That's gonna fail. It's uh 19 total from Pochi Lore.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:09

Critical fail. Uh so same thing. Your nightmares continue into the real world to take a minus two to your initiatives and perception checks, as you're distracted by horrible, horrible day mares.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:22

Okay, I can uh get cleanse affliction at fourth level. So use my other two, and I guess I'll try it once on each of them to cleanse affliction, which is an attempt to counteract the affliction if it's a curse, disease, or poison. So curse is on there. Um again, you said it's not gonna work, but this is what Gardas would try.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:46

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's you guys are, you know, downtime sort of thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:50

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:50

Um and you said at a fourth level? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:54

Attempt to counteract the affliction if it's a curse, disease, or poison. So I still don't know how counteracts work, so I'm just gonna roll the dice. Uh this one is for pops, let's say. 17 on the dice. Again, I don't know. Do I just add my spell casting modifier? Yes. So that would be plus fourteen, which would be a 31. So 31 for pops, and then a 13 on a dice, plus 14, so that would be a 27 for Ari. Whatever that does.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:27

37?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:29

31, 27.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:30

Uh, both of those are fails. So you would successfully counteract it if the target if it's uh if it is a rank lower than your effects counteract rank, and this effect is not lower than your counter uh counteract rank, so no effect.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:43

Oh shit. This must be some uh big magic.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:47

I am starting to think we have made a large mistake. That was my most powerful spell, and it didn't do shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:53

Maybe we should take the bones back.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:55

I think that's an excellent idea.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:57

I mean, we already made them into effigies. We yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:02

I had no part in that. I didn't even have any part in taking the bones to begin with.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:08

I tried to make an effug, but it didn't work good.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:12

Fug. Yeah. I mean, I'll let you do whatever you want, but I don't think it'll help.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:19

We have to return the bones. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:21

Ari says we return bones.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

Is it still nighttime?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:25

I'm trying to so you guys had a down day and then you came back, and now it is nighttime on like the fifth day, and we just did all this stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:33

Like evening time. We tried to sleep it off and it did not work. Got worse. And then I try and then I prepared the remove curses, and that didn't work. And so now we're It's that day.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:44

You cast those spells, it's that night.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:45

So we still just kind of woke up.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:47

This could like could still be that. Hey, do you guys remember if I asked if it was okay for us to be bad guys? No.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:54

I think we've talked about it many times.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:57

I think we found out it's not okay. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:59

I think we still have um I mean, you guys could still be bad guys. You guys are choosing to be paralyzed by your doom value. That's true. There's also other things to do to be bad guys other than you know being undead and have and going and desecrating a bone yard.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:14

Like there are other options. Yeah. Yeah. Not any good ones. But that one did sound like fun. Yeah, it did.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:21

And I mean, personally, let's see. When we die and get wounded and stuff, we don't we don't die, we just get this soul degradation thing. We're not even tracking deaths. So, you know. Tomato tomato.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:38

I I would also like to not be doomed for the rest of my for the rest of the month.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:43

To to level twenty. Honestly, well, I think we're doomed for the rest of the month.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:48

The rest of the time we're here. I don't think doing anything with the bones is gonna get rid of it. I'm not gonna say I won't argue with attacking.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:55

I'm just trying to roleplay my character. No, I understand a terrible thing happened and clearly it had an effect. off of like immediate effect from you guys taking the bones. Yeah. And she feels terrible about it. And she's thinking it would make the most sense to apologize to the god that clearly is angry. And uh that didn't work. And maybe we could make it right. It's kind of like in her mind the situation with uh Hauntie and the baby. Like she haunted us, we desecrated that bone yard and then you guys put it back together and it was better.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:27

Was it I think so right okay I'll try whatever but I don't think it's gonna do anything. As far as I'm concerned the damage is done but if you want to put these um uh what are they called back it was a bad word I got in trouble for saying it oh yeah twanas twana it still sounds funny um yeah if you want to put these twanas back in the ground we can do it okay don't forget shovel I never do anymore now that I have the bag of holding it just goes in there okay back to the graveyard Gardas is just whistling while he works uh you guys start heading up to the graveyard and you can see that there are like standing torches and candles going up there.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:18

Uh there are clearly people up there. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:22

You guys we might be in a pickle or a jam let's let's get a little closer and have a look um maybe you might want to stealth up yeah I'll I'll uh I'll go and scout it out.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:37

Okay by yourself self check 19 on dice stealth nineteen for a 38 Wow 39 you uh not touching the ground at all float your way up there from tree to tree and you see again uh well you sneak to the outer edge of this graveyard and I can't really remember if you've seen these people or not but uh you see two women uh each of them clad in like these blue robes longbow on their back mace at their head I know Ari and Vox saw them earlier could just a couple days ago uh and they seem to be saying prayers over these graves. They seem to be sorting bones, erecting the tombstones back up, uh cleaning some of the graves that look like they haven't been desecrated, but cleaning them and honoring them nonetheless. And in the center of it all you do see something familiar a person clad in crimson robes, flowing robes, mask on, holding one of the torches of several that are lit around the area I want everyone to give me an intimidation check natural nineteen for a 35 natural 17 for a 17 four plus zero for four of a casper vibe on the dice uh a total of twenty and there yeah that's what you see you see probably about uh four or five people um whether they're in purple or red and then maybe two or three civilians as well all just up here kind of like working away. Uh it seems especially the the civilians in like regular clothes really dirty dirt on their face uh and it seems like they've been out here you know all day all night sort of thing working away.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:41

Uh I go back they have no idea you're there.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:44

I s I sneak back to the group turn Oh sorry you also get a waft of incense and it makes you lightheaded. Here we go. Uh yeah sure you know what I wasn't gonna make you roll but I like this so uh you grabbed your dice you wanted to roll give me a fortitude save. That's a two on dice plus fortitude 18 for a dirty twenty that is a standard fail you are second two sick and two and lightheaded as uh these uh incense fumes go straight to the noggin. Sickened for those of you that don't know take a status penalty equal to the value on all checks and DCs you can't willingly ingest anything. You can spend an action wretching to attempt a forty to save against the DC of the sickening effect. But I don't know if you want to do that now while you're within earshot of these people. Probably not everybody is just hearing this you can start feeling better pretty quickly once you distance yourself from these smells okay yeah I sneak back to the party and make a report.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:50

So you all have that information now looks like they're kinda doing our job for us right I don't know if that's how it works.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:58

Oh who do you guys think these people are I think they work for the fortress.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:03

That means we can fight them they have these torches they make me feel so sick.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:08

Well I think at least that red robed one does because you guys ran into him the other day too and a blue robed one.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:15

Oh you weren't listening again just for you guys and mostly for our listeners you guys would remember the people in red robes from the exorcism earlier on in Willowshore when the paper uh cloud paper house burned down uh and we had those phases you had 10 minutes and Kyle got really frustrated that he couldn't spend 30 between each fight like he normally likes to do um you guys saw these people kind of like popping in and out of reality and Gardness is like why isn't my scene visibility doing anything that was before you guys knew you were in a mindscape right um it these people were trying to exercise you in Willow Shore um they had the four golden eyes the flowing robes and it looked like they were just kind of eating reality with them.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:01

That is where you recognize these people from so we kinda so we beat them before we can beat them again I don't know if I'm in much of a position to make any decisions anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:13

I don't want to get close to those fumes fumes okay well let's at least set town on fire when we go back I like where his head's at her head's at um yeah well maybe while they're down here we can go up to town and do something.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:30

Yes like stash these effigies in places I thought we were going to put those back oh I th uh I said earlier that they look like they've doing the job for us and I thought that was it.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:42

Do you think maybe we should leave the effigies here in the trees it might scare them and then they could put it back and we can come back and apologize later. Okay fine we can once it's all done because I don't think they're going to leave till it's done.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:54

If that's what you want to do let's let's how about this we put them at least in the path that they'll have to walk back to back to town. I like that at least at least we do that. Okay. And then I'll light some incense as well alright so the so yeah we're gonna hang up the effigies like we'll look at what we think their path going back to town will be. It's pretty obvious and yeah and like hang up just one path right like hang up the effigies the twanas on in trees or something along the path so it's obvious for them to see them as we kind of go to the outskirts of town yeah yeah what do we want to do it while we're here now just or light it on fire do we have any more do we have any more invisibilities?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:41

Not me. Yeah I have three do you have invisibilities Pops no but I can fly I can fly too and you're sneaky sneaky pops sneaky flyer did that sick and two go away?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:56

Yes I don't know yeah I don't know what else to do unless we just want to like go in the fort or something at one of the least guarded places.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:10

We could start probing the defenses we know at least one of the incense ladies out or incense lady man.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:18

Right exactly so so the the tiger gate is the least guarded one I think or the most guarded one where like people go in and out so we should probably either go to the and sort of the the lumber storage was on the east side so maybe if we go to the north gate it won't be heavily guarded. Question mark? Okay let's try it all right so we want to sneak around town the outskirts of town before going into town get to the north side and then do we want to fly in or do we want to try and sneak in?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:57

We should save our fly for our escape that's kind of what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:00

Yeah so I guess sneak sneak sneak in team sneak sneaking into the fortress?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:09

No this is sneaking in from the outside of town like going not necessary.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:14

There's people aren't guarding there aren't guard patrols like around town at this hour of night.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:18

Okay so we want to sneak up to the northern gate and see what's there I guess. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:23

So you guys go past all the buildings the you know the slums that are falling apart scare cat and runs off in the distance it's still raining and it's covering what noise you do make until you get to that northern gate and you realize you're gonna have to be super selfie as you see people patrolling in the upper rings that circumvents the Karahai fortress.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:51

And we're going to be a lot of Did I tell everybody about uh that I was looking at the AI thing for our show that was last and I was hoping you would do it again because Jeff wasn't here for that okay so when we got together I had spent a little time asking like the Google AI about our show. Yeah and it was like oh it's a live play Pathfinder series and I was like can you describe the sense of humor because it was it gives you a list of things that it can tell you about the show right now it was like yeah describe the sense of humor it's like it's deeply controversial sense of humor. And I was like okay and then it was like it gave me some more options for breakdowns I was like yeah tell me about the characters and it said standout characters are Gardas at number one was our top guy uh red violet and then Jeff so Jeff I'm a character you made the that was that was the four favorite things yeah those are the four they listed Gardas Red Violet Jeff it's been in a trip all along so who actually plays Gardas is the real or Jeff is the real Mr.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:29

People are going to be shocked when they find out we have uh fifth player AI at the table.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:33

Well the question is is it Jeff playing Gardas or is it Gardas playing Jeff?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:38

Someone playing Jeff who's pretending to be a person playing Gardas I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude I was just thinking so three Kovolds and a transfer Robert Downey Jr.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:51

I would fire Jeff so fast for Robert Downey Jr.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:54

Jeff doesn't exist though we gotta roll the table for a bit of character yeah do some casting was that good for a soundcheck were you watching Tony's making noises for some reason don't tell me what to do I run the shit it's got tippy taps um yeah we're good on soundcheck stop you're being annoying he's got the zoomies and guard us do you want a five hour energy drink?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:22

No we'll kick it up a notch I was actually feeling kind of tired so I had a Diet Coke and I'm like that wasn't enough so I had a little bit of vodka and I'm feeling better.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:33

Diet Coke was there Red Bull in the vodka because that would kick it up a notch I had a Diet Coke chaser so there's more caffeine there. That's fair. Five hour energy drink has 200 milligrams the Alani has 200 milligrams and I'm splitting it in two so by the end of the night I'm gonna be rocking 400 milligrams of caffeine within a couple hours cherry like I just like I don't handle it well. That's part of the point like I want to be cherry I want to feel there there is a level to where it like kicks it up and it's like yeah I'm in the fucking zone but that zone is definitely a notch above where my energy normally would be I have to do it at work too I supplement work with so much caffeine.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:14

Every time I see you you're just like drinking sugary caffeinated beverages I have to I can't be charge I can't be charge nurse without it.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:23

If Jeff's insides aren't actively shaking he doesn't feel right can't perform it might calm you down if you don't have so much caffeine all the time are we wanting to calm down yeah is that the point it might not be so terrible what's terrible how many how long have we been recording for what's the time at uh three minutes and ten seconds outro banner yeah