Cold Open Chaos And Banter

SPEAKER_07 0:00

One wrap battle. Do I have a skill challenge? We're gonna wrap that one.

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Thank god we have a bard. I want to hear Ray wrap this harlot.

SPEAKER_03 0:07

You homies ain't got nothing. Y'all ready to get down, geez?

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Oh god.

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You're all up in the clubhouse, if you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Oh man.

SPEAKER_06 0:26

Welcome to Oathbreaker, a DD story. I am Bren the Irish Wookiee and with me today is Maddie. Hi everybody, uh, my name is Maddie.

SPEAKER_07 0:35

I play a Voss Dane, a half-elferic, uh level six, and I have dark vision. You don't have dark vision. I actually do.

SPEAKER_06 0:46

Oh, do you?

SPEAKER_07 0:47

I'm not half elf.

SPEAKER_06 0:49

Okay. For some reason, I thought you're a human. You've tried to give yourself so many abilities before we started. This I'm just like, I don't fucking believe you.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

The only human in the party actually does have dark vision.

SPEAKER_07 1:04

Dark vision.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Yeah. I think they all have it.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

And Andrew. Hey everyone, I am Andrew. I am playing Eldvar Ulfredson, the Goliath Fighter Ranger. And I do not have Dark Vision, but I have the Light Cantra.

SPEAKER_06 1:20

And Harlech. Nope, not Harleck, Ray.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

Hey, I'm Ray. I play Harleck, the Kanku Bard Warlock, and I do not have Dark Vision. Or Light, I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:33

And finally, Bill.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

I am Bill. I play Zayn, the half-elfarlock. And I do have Dark Vision as well.

Social Shoutouts And Housekeeping

SPEAKER_06 1:43

Uh unfortunately, Justin is not able to play with us tonight. He is out enjoying a social life, which the rest of us do not have because we're here on a Sunday night playing DD. Alright. I want to say thank you to everybody. Following us like this, give us ideas. It means a lot to us. I have seen a little bit of a surge in our social medias since we started this new podcast, so keep it up, please. Check us out on Facebook at facebook.com slash ad story. Retweet us on Twitter or AX at addstory2. Follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com slash ad story. And finally, check us out on Blue Sky at B S K Y dot app at ad story. Um normally I have something else to add here, but I don't this time.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

So you don't have a sponsor or not a sponsor, but a partner or anything? Nope. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:31

Not at the moment. Uh actually, that's a good point. Let's let's split up. So here's a mic for our listeners.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_06 2:38

Uh do you have something to add, Bill?

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Yes, here's something for our listeners. If you want to partner with us, contact Brandon.

SPEAKER_07 2:44

I thought he was gonna plug his OnlyFans channel.

SPEAKER_06 2:47

Yeah.3. OnlyFanshilly B3.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

What if that's a real user though?

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Even better.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

I'm just trying to make sure that Andrew's notes things come up. Like, we're just getting into practice now.

SPEAKER_07 3:09

Somebody hits up the Discord, be like, dude, I checked out Bill's thing. This is are you guys sure you want him around? Isn't there some weird stuff?

SPEAKER_06 3:20

The best part is the face Andrew makes when we do this is the face that I used to make when I was editing. Like, I'm gonna have to take all this out.

unknown 3:31

All right.

SPEAKER_07 3:31

Well, last episode was only 30 minute long. Good job, guys. Um, we can't hear that one.

SPEAKER_04 3:38

All right. Um I'm just gonna start policing all the episodes as like YouTube shorts a minute at a time.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Perfect.

SPEAKER_06 3:46

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SPEAKER_07 4:26

Uh-oh. Might be me. I got a three.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

I got an eight.

SPEAKER_06 4:31

That means it's you, Maddie. Alright. Why don't you give us some recap?

SPEAKER_07 4:36

Andrew, I'm trying to answer a question in just a second. We'll do that after the recap. That works. Okay. So trying to think. I mean, honestly, I I think we Justin's recap at the end of the episode probably is is the is the absolute best one. Um we we we as a party of you know good-natured individuals um took our fallen companion's body uh away from the town's clerics and the people that if if he had loved ones that were gonna come looking for him, if Xanafer had loved ones, they would have come to this town and contacted the clerics, and now the clerics will have no idea where he's buried. And instead we took him back out to this random house that we just got in the countryside and buried him in the garden.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Uh excuse me, we've had that house for three days.

Shelter At The Manor, Ghostly Help

SPEAKER_07 5:29

Three days. We three whole days, and you all set up and just moved the bodies into the backyard. Um there is now a graveyard at the house that there wasn't one before, but we were convinced there was one. Um but anyway, so yeah, we we actually started out inside the lucky leap. We had all just finished running away from uh burying the king? What was the king's name? Can someone fill me in on that one?

SPEAKER_06 6:00

King's name is L King Waldron. Waldron?

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Waldron Azanar?

SPEAKER_06 6:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 6:09

So while we were uh you know part of the procession burying the king, then we were all attacked. Uh and we ran and suck went and got uh we hid. There we go, we hid in the Lucky Leap Tavern. Um we were hiding.

SPEAKER_06 6:27

Mm-mm. You did that and then went to the coronation to back up Lord Seinmander.

Are We Safe To Talk?

The Fey Rescue Tale Recounted

SPEAKER_07 6:32

And then the coronation was after that? Oh, the coronation is when everything like went to crap. That's right. Okay, thank you. Yeah, so we're at the coronation, and that's when the hags kind of showed their true colors and uh went unraveled on everybody, and we ran away. They attacked the masses and we ran to the tavern. There we go. That sounds more right. Um, in which in that exchange is where Xanafer was killed. Um yeah, so the clerics uh tried to revive him in the tavern, were unable to. Um, and then the party, uh, wanting to get back to our house and figuring the best way to go about doing that was to dis magically disguise themselves, um, enter the streets as uh well a couple of people were party members were invisible, and the other two were uh undertakers carrying a body, which seemed fitting. Um, however, comma, the hags had dispatched uh random gangs of where knights patrols out searching the streets, uh looking for, you know, random undertakers using magic to disguise themselves carrying bodies, and oh yeah, they found us. Um so a whole battle ensued. Um, one other thing that's worth note is we as we were leaving the bar, Voss uh noticed an old buddy of his, Ed Eldvar, um, and slipped him a secretive note, and Elvar kind of followed us um out into the town and kept his distance until he saw us being attacked by the Wernights and joined in on the fray. Uh, we were quickly overwhelmed, but yet we're able to escape uh running away, and finally got back to um our mansion, where uh we buried Xanafer's body, we took a long rest, and I think we ended the episode with Lord Seinmonder and a group of Merrimen.

SPEAKER_06 8:30

Lord Seinmonder and Aricio Tain, who is the owner of Lucky Leap.

SPEAKER_07 8:34

Okay. Uh came out to the uh the manor. Um says seeking shelter and bearing news. Were they actually seeking shelter in the manor or in our mansion?

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 8:47

Oh. Okay. Did we know the news that they brought?

SPEAKER_06 8:51

No. Nope. That's where we ended the episode.

SPEAKER_07 8:54

Well, that's all I got, folks.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Anyone have anything to add uh the gods were not answering. We got introduced to uh a priest. But we didn't get any loot unless you count Xanopher.

SPEAKER_06 9:10

Xanover was the loot.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Xanover was the loot. And Reese O'Tain came to the manor as well.

SPEAKER_04 9:18

Xanover dropped two uncommon items. Alright. He's no NPC.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

And did you say we bury we actually buried him in the back corner? Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_06 9:31

Under the dandelions.

SPEAKER_02 9:33

It'd be super fun for Harlock to go garden and be constantly reminded of his friend buried near the tomatoes and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

It's not. Look at the map. It's not, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_06 9:48

Oh, the the tomatoes look great this year. They're beefstick.

SPEAKER_03 9:53

So much extra nutrients.

SPEAKER_06 9:57

Alright. Good job, Maddie. You get some heroic inspiration.

SPEAKER_07 10:01

You give me inspiration on an episode where we're not gonna need to use it. You don't know. I'll forget. Actually, you know what? I'm gonna get so much heroic inspiration, I'm gonna use it all the time. I mean you use it once. No, I'm gonna use it every single episode because of the uh the space in the manor. What's it called? The workshop. If you hang out with the workshop for 15 minutes, you get uh inspiration the next episode.

SPEAKER_06 10:24

100% true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:32

We're gonna get like a portal gun just so we can go back there for 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_04 10:37

Grab a hearthstone.

Public Truth Vs Hidden History

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Yep. Exactly. Alright. Brandon doesn't get that reference.

SPEAKER_06 10:45

Nope. Alright. So like like Maddie said, uh Lord Signmander and uh Risiotain uh just showed up to the manor, and after getting settled in, the the knights are just kind of standing around the main entrance area of your manor, just uh among all the stair uh among the two staircases that are leading up to the second floor, and uh Lord Sign Mondr uh still with his cape dripping, and he's got a solemn face. Uh he's got a solemn look on his face. His armor and his cape are still streaked with rainwater, his eyes are set into a grim resolve, and uh Risio Tain is kinda leaning against a pillar nearby, playing with a dagger. Thank you. Thank you for welcoming us in. We didn't know where else to go.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

Did we actually welcome them in?

SPEAKER_06 11:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Okay. Zayn is not the person, but sure, Zayn will greet them. Um Zayn will say uh you may make yourself comfortable and shows them to the bar and goes into the dining room and pulls some chairs from the dining room into the bar area.

unknown 12:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Or like just pick them up trying to dote on them too. Like, oh, let me help clean you up there and try to do press and digitation, whatever you can get in to clean up their stuff and help him out.

SPEAKER_06 12:14

I don't know why in my head, I know that's absolutely not true. In my head, I imagine Harlack coming up with his really thin, like McDonald's napkins dabbing the rainwater off of their armor.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

He's using pressed digitation, but I mean, like, it can start off that way.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

Like, oh, this isn't really doing very much.

The Crown’s Curse And Plan Framed

SPEAKER_06 12:35

I don't know why that was in my head. Uh so uh as as Lord Seinmander sits down, the the uh a bottle of dark copper-looking liquid uh lifts in the air, seemingly on its own, and moves towards Lord Seinmander. And Lord Seinmander starts and stands up quickly and starts to draw his sword. After seeing after about a half a second, realizing he's not in any immediate danger, he relaxes and sits back sits back down and then looks to all of you to see if you're reacting.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Um Zane will just while he's carrying it, but he will probably not even acknowledge it. He's probably become accustomed in the you know three days we've lived here.

SPEAKER_06 13:23

You're you're used to your poltergeists.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 13:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

Anybody else?

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Yeah, I'm probably gonna be staring at it. I'll probably just be staring at it and not like not freaking out, but definitely keeping my eyes on it the whole time.

SPEAKER_06 13:43

Ray, I don't know how to tell you this, man. I don't know how to tell you this, brother, but you're the bard.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Talk about the floating drink, right?

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Yeah, but you're the bard. You're supposed to be the one doing all these interactions.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

Sorry, sorry, sorry. I feel like you know, normally with Justin has like the the flow with this guy, so I usually let those interactions go.

SPEAKER_06 14:06

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

What's the guy's name?

SPEAKER_06 14:11

Seinmander?

SPEAKER_01 14:12

No, the Unseen Servant.

SPEAKER_06 14:17

Yeah. Mortain.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

I also forgot that guy's name.

Heist Pieces: Key, Chest, Architect

SPEAKER_01 14:24

Okay. Um, yeah, so Zayn's charisma is based off of the other side of charisma.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Are you not as hospitable then? Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

No problem. Oh here, sit down, have a drink. You know, try to make sure you and your your you know, your troop here are comfortable. Then uh were you guys followed, if uh if you have any idea.

SPEAKER_06 14:52

Uh a few of those beasts tried to follow us, but my my knights took care of them. I'm relatively confident we were not followed here.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

So how many did he bring with him? Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 15:07

Uh he brought a dozen knights.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Sorry, you can continue. I apologize.

SPEAKER_06 15:13

No, you're good. Uh he he brought a dozen knights with him. He said uh unfortunately that means we had to leave all of our more magical items behind. I don't know if you saw it, but they had some sort of tracker.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

You did see that. I mean, looked like it was to be able to pick up on I mean, I was invisible, and I'm pretty sure they knew exactly where I was.

SPEAKER_06 15:39

I I believe that. We lost a few good ones, just uh just trying to prevent them from following us. We found out very quickly that spells weren't the way to do it.

SPEAKER_07 15:51

Right. The the magical tracker that finds out you're casting spells. We we learned that lesson too, the hard way, if you know what I mean. I wasn't trying to be that funny, but the tracker for Cusco.

SPEAKER_06 16:08

Cusco's tracker.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

That's exactly.

SPEAKER_06 16:15

Fucking brilliant. Good.

SPEAKER_07 16:21

That's that's what it's gonna be called now, Cusco's tracker.

SPEAKER_06 16:23

That's the only thing I heard the entire time you were saying that. Right, the tracker. The tracker for Cusco, Cusco's tracker. Such a good character. Alright. So uh funny go ahead, Bill.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

No, I'll let you continue.

SPEAKER_06 16:39

Oh, I was about to jump into it. What you got?

SPEAKER_01 16:42

Uh so Zayn will get his um have his hirelang come in and show the dozen knights where the barracks are. Uh help them. Uh he's Zane is not gonna help them settle in because that's not his shtick.

SPEAKER_06 17:02

But yeah, I don't imagine you're well, you are a half orc.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 17:07

He he leads him into a room and casts fireball and they're settled in permanently.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

In a light dusting out of the room.

SPEAKER_06 17:18

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

So much experience do I get?

Secret Tunnel And The Architect Lead

SPEAKER_06 17:24

Oh man, I never want to like I thought about doing a campaign with experience once or twice, but the amount of tracking that would require, I do not want to do that. Okay. So as as Lord Seinmonders knights leave the bar area, the study area, uh, he settles in with his freshly poured whiskey, and after taking a sniff of it and realize that it's fine, and uh nothing's wrong with the glass itself, he is he's he's drinking deeply of the cup. And he's had as as soon as he's done his first cup, he sets it back down, and it automatic not automatically, but an another cup is poured for him by uh Waldron. Not Waldron, uh Mortain. So in the study itself So we've got a new ghost. Yes, yeah, we're gonna go all of the ghosts. All of the ghosts.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

This is a center at our bar. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 18:22

Have you guys ever seen Honda Mansion? Eddie Murphy's gonna show up at some point. Alright. So yeah, the the the the fire for uh the firelight from the fire and the candles flickers in this hall, and shadows are stretching across the stone walls of the study. Lord Seinmonder sitting at the bar. Um he's he looks very solemn. He's speaking in very steady tones. And he says, Are we are we safe to speak here? I think it's time you knew everything.

SPEAKER_03 18:59

I'm gonna look around at the group. Uh I I'd think so. I don't know about our our poltergeist butler. I don't know how much he gets out. But I think everyone here pretty uh lock and key.

SPEAKER_06 19:14

Uh sir. I cannot leave this mansion.

SPEAKER_03 19:19

Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

Would he admit it if he could? If he was a spy? I mean but Zayn will say he's pretty shy.

SPEAKER_04 19:34

Calling out your unseen servant. He's not he's not my servant, I just showed off.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

He's our servant, right? He's more Maddie's servant.

SPEAKER_08 19:44

True. Or sorry, uh He he answers to me, trust me. He's not gonna tell anybody.

Why The Knights Can’t Do It

SPEAKER_01 19:50

He's Voss's servant. So um Zayn will say yes. Yes, we are fairly secure here.

SPEAKER_06 19:59

Okay. What I tell you now is uh is no rumor, but it's a it's a tale that's been spoken spoken in King Waldron's court many times. It's the public truth. The only truth I'm sworn to s sworn to speak. I owe a vow it Master Eden and I vowed never to reveal more than this, and though the weight of that oath grows heavier by the year, I will honor it. He takes another long pull of his drink. And then says, Fifteen years ago, the Seder Lord King Dasmag of the Fey Realm.

SPEAKER_07 20:38

Das Mag?

unknown 20:39

Oh.

Oath Broken: The Prince’s True Fate

SPEAKER_06 20:40

Saw him playing with himself over there, so I decided to just stop and watch. I don't think that's gonna help you get a better angle, Matty. Alright. Sorry, my battery died. No, you're good. You're good. I saw you do that, I was like, oh, there it is. Alright. Fifteen years ago, the Seder Lord King Dasmag of the Fey Realm kidnapped our queen, Queen Laurentia. King Waldron gathered a company to rescue her rescue her. It was myself, his firstborn son, Prince Krasnar, Father Lester of the Temple of Knowledge, and Master Aiden, Archmage of the Arcane Tower. Together we cross into the Fey Realm. Though by what road I can't recall. My memories blur, as if I dreamt them, and I remember a tree, a strange, vast tree with eyes that followed us. You hear Risio in the corner kind of snort while he's still playing with his dagger, and he says, Ha, eyeball, trees, drunk satyrs, missing heirs. Sounds about right for a royal adventure. No wonder the details keep changing with every telling. Sidmonder ignores him, he takes another drink, and he uh he continues on. Once we finally caught up to the the Satter Lord, King Walker. Waldron fought him in single combat. He defeated him, and curiously the Satter King admired him for it. He returned Queen Laurentia unharmed, and the two kings, proud, haughty, strong men, both feasted together in some sort of sudden friendship. At that feast, Dasmag blessed the crown of Aglaglarion with abundance as recompense for the trouble he caused. I'll let you roll me an insight check.

SPEAKER_07 22:31

I'm about to figure out if this guy's drunk at eight o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 22:36

Twenty-three, we all. Sixteen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 22:41

I'm gonna use my heroic inspiration. For a sixteen, you're gonna This might be the only roll we get today. I got another sixteen.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Okay. Uh Zane got a one. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 22:58

Um, uh Harleck, Eldvar, and Voss, you the three of you notice that uh Seinmander's jaw clenches a little bit, and the next words he speaks are a little clipped. On the return journey, Prince Krasnar and Father Lester were swallowed by Quicksand in the swamps. They perished there. They tried to save him, but they couldn't. That is what his majesty decreed, and what all have since believed. Risio kind of leans forward once more and says, Heh! Quicksand, huh? Funny how convenient Mutt how how convenient Muk tends to swallow up heirs and priests who ask too many questions. Does anybody have any questions for Seinmonder?

SPEAKER_07 23:46

No, I'm I'm actually curious. Like, Riscio, did Seinmonder start out by saying that Risio was there and he's been a privy to this whole thing?

SPEAKER_06 23:52

No, Risio is not there.

SPEAKER_07 23:53

Oh, Risio's learnt hearing this for the first time.

SPEAKER_06 23:56

This is a common tale that is told in the kingdom. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Yeah, he said something about um it changes with each telling or something like that, or the details change with each telling.

SPEAKER_07 24:06

Oh, Risio's the the bar owner, so he's he's heard this. Risio's the bar owner. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

And he said that this is the public truth, right? That's what the words you used.

SPEAKER_06 24:14

That is the words that Lord Seinmonder used used, yes.

SPEAKER_07 24:18

Canon now.

SPEAKER_06 24:20

Canon. Um I'm sorry, guys, my wife just laid down. Can we take a two-minute break so I can just go say an eye to her? What are you gonna do with the other minute and a half? Fuck you, Matty.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

A beer back. Yeah, I'm gonna go grab a drink and still work. Yeah, me too. Finish strong, Brandon. Finish strong.

SPEAKER_07 24:38

Play hard to get, buddy.

Connecting Queens, Hags, And Plots

SPEAKER_06 24:43

Hello. Hello. Everybody good? Good, good. Alright. Let's uh throw a note in here for Andrew. And a break. G F Y. G F Y A. G F Y A. Go fuck yourself, Andrew. There it is. So, Lord Seinmonder kind of drops his head a little bit, and he continues. I have my suspicions. Darker suspicions than I'll speak, but I have sworn on my honor, and all that is holy. I cannot confirm what I fear. I ask you to trust me and to act regardless. The curse that plagues this realm festers in the crown of Aglarian itself. The Satyr's bargain tainted it. I am sworn to protect it, and if need be to cleanse it or destroy it. If my divine strength can't purge it, then perhaps Master Eden, who hijat in the Arcane Tower, may know another way. And if no remedy remains, then the crown must be shattered. Risio finally takes this couple steps off the pillar, and he walks up and uh still spinning the dagger on it on a single hand, like is spinning the dagger with the tip of it on his finger. He seems very comfortable with it. And he says, Yeah, that brings us to the fun part. We gotta steal it. The royal carters aren't exactly welcoming to burglars, but I know a way. There's a key. A master key, if you will. Opens any lock, mundane or magical. Last I saw it, it was in the hands of an old partner of mine, Davrilio Prankar. Brilliant thief. Terrible gambler. Took the key into the tomb of the constructor.

SPEAKER_05 26:34

And well, never came out.

SPEAKER_07 26:36

Ask a question real quick.

SPEAKER_06 26:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 26:38

The little last lore dump that Seinmonger gave us. I I'm not quite making heads or tails of what that what's going on there.

SPEAKER_06 26:47

So, uh what he's saying is that the after lore or after King Waldron defeated the Satter King, the Satter King blessed the crown of Aglarian. And he's saying that that blessing was actually a curse that it tainted it.

SPEAKER_07 27:06

Do we know what the curse was?

SPEAKER_06 27:08

Uh not at the moment, no.

SPEAKER_07 27:10

Are you about to say that next?

SPEAKER_06 27:13

If so, we should have further. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. We'll just delay it. We'll just push it back.

SPEAKER_07 27:18

Kind of. Uh I won't I think we need to go harvest some vegetables in the garden because they're growing really well now.

SPEAKER_06 27:23

They're growing really, really fast.

Accepting The Quest

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Just dabbing himself with his scarves, like, oh, I don't know why.

SPEAKER_06 27:34

We should lose friends more often. Crop's great this year.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

Oh, I can make so many healing potions.

Factions, Tower, And City Intel

SPEAKER_06 27:46

And then uh Lord Seinmondra continues. Um, and there is more. Risio possesses a chest of magic nullification, a tool that might suppress the cursed power of the crown. But uh Risio just kinda steps in, grabs Lord Seinmondre's drink, and downs the rest of it. And uh then chuckles a little bit and says, But of course, they're not that simple. Chest already has a little uh surprise inside. A vile idol, green stone, teeth, and horns like nightmares made flesh. Nearly killed me when I opened it once. Dried me out like an old parchment, and every tree in sight withered. Lovely thing, really. We'll need to get it out before we can use the chest. That means breaking into the emporium of marvelous rarities. My late wife stole the chest from their vault years ago, and they've never forgotten. Traps, alarms, wizards, it'll be a stroll through hell. Everybody following so far?

SPEAKER_07 28:45

Gotta steal a crown. And put the crown inside of a chest. But first we gotta go get the chest, then we gotta empty the chest.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

No, no, no. Risio has the chest. We have to go to the Imperium of something or another, of wondrous things or something that Risio's Ricio's dead wife stole the chest from, but I don't know why we need to break into there. Maybe there's something to nullify the monster staff thingy that's in the chest.

SPEAKER_06 29:14

Uh he yeah, he it's something to nullify it. He hasn't gotten to that part yet. So, first thing to actually get into the kingdom or the the to the throne room itself, you need a key. So you need to steal a key. You also need to uh empty that uh empty that chest out so you can put the crown in there once you do get it.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

So it seems like we have to go to some dungeon that his friend something or another what was the friend's name? Tomb.

SPEAKER_06 29:45

Yeah, Vrillio Prankar. And you gotta go into the tomb of the constructor.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Prankrum?

SPEAKER_06 29:51

Prankar.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Prankar R.

SPEAKER_06 29:57

Prankar R.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

In the tomb of what? Constructor.

SPEAKER_06 30:01

Of the constructor. Is that like a god in this world or uh a lesser deity, yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

The constructor is a lesser deity? Okay, so we've gotta go to this tomb, find Davrillio's corpse, take the key, go break into the actually first then we gotta go find the thing to nullify the thing that's in the chest. So that we can nullify that and then use the chest of nullification that somehow didn't nullify that thing that's in there, and take that with us to the tower where the crown is?

SPEAKER_07 30:36

It nullifies it whilst it's in the chest. But once it died, yeah, yeah. It no longer nullifies it. Correct.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Okay. Alright. Okay, so we've got a heist going. I got a series of events that we have to do.

Vorden Revealed: Anti-Magic North

SPEAKER_06 30:50

Yep, and one more coming to you, so to speak. And even one more coming to you. Uh and then Lord Seinmonder, after his glass gets filled once more, kind of stares daggers at Risio and says, And even then the palace remains barred. Yet I know of a way, a secret tunnel built by Master Arlen at the king's command. It leads directly to the royal quarters, bypassing most of the guards and gates. Only uh only Nader Take, the royal architect, knows the entrances. NARDR TYK. He lives near Dawn of the Ages, an antique shop in the North District. But mark me well, the Queen's Ancients may already be hunting him. Ceresio steps forward, uh, grabs the glass off the shelf, and goes to pour himself a glass of whiskey, but uh can't remove it from the shelf, and finally gives up, and then that glas that bottle of whiskey moves and fills up his glass. He says So to sum it up, tomb raiding for a magic key, robbing the city's most secure emporium to clean out a cursed idol, and hunting down a paranoid architect before the Queen's hounds find him. Easy work, really. Almost nostalgic.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

That sure sounds like we have a lot to figure out.

SPEAKER_06 32:13

Oh, god. And it's not something that the knights and I can do. Are you asking us why we can't do it? You saw us back in the in the coronation. We barely held our own, and that was with all of our magical items. We don't have none of those now. Now we're just a lot of big guys in armor. And by a lot I mean twelve plus me.

SPEAKER_07 32:39

So about five more than us.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Yeah. And it's not like we got a lot of m a lot of magic items. So uh Sure? We'll go dungeon diving. I mean, step one, enter the tomb. I think I'm not gonna speak for everybody, but enter the tomb of the constructor? I mean, that's a good start. You don't have magic items, can you go get that architect guy? Should that take a magic item?

SPEAKER_06 33:11

I don't know if I can find them, but we'll send some people to look.

SPEAKER_07 33:15

Well, should maybe we go get the architect first, before the uh queen's uh goons find him.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Well, that's not a bad idea if he's being hunted down.

SPEAKER_04 33:25

But Elvar's gonna be kind of just standing in the back and raising his hand, waiting for someone to call on him.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

Oh, you sir!

SPEAKER_06 33:37

Yeah. Harleck, the guy that's known you for a total of five and a half minutes.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

Big guy in the back. Go right ahead. No, it's oh, it's the next day. You've he's known him for 12 hours.

SPEAKER_04 33:48

Yeah, at least. Uh so Elvar's gonna ask. I I'm I'm interested in what's in the box. Why can't we just release that?

SPEAKER_06 33:59

Uh Rizio says. I mean, you can. Uh everything will probably die around it.

SPEAKER_04 34:05

No, we just need to release it where we want everything to die. And then we're good, right?

SPEAKER_06 34:12

Including the person that opens the box. So I'm not willing to risk my life for that, are you?

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Details, details. What's the range on the death circle?

SPEAKER_06 34:24

I don't know. Uh when I did it, I was in the in a cabin in the woods and it uh it killed things for a pretty long way out.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Can you tell me miles? Yards? Feet?

SPEAKER_06 34:37

Uh I I would say it it took me close to a quarter hour to walk past all the death.

SPEAKER_04 34:45

But but you lived through it.

SPEAKER_06 34:48

That's because I shut it really, really fast. And it still killed everything that wasn't sentient. What's what's sentient? Not you, apparently.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

Oh, that's not good. I'm not opening that box then.

Magic Unbound: Power And Peril

SPEAKER_01 35:07

So why don't we just take the box to the castle and open it and run?

SPEAKER_07 35:14

Tie a rope to it.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

Oh, we can make it look like a treasure chest. Or a present. Here you go, your highness.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

Uh we can put a sign on it that says do not open. Open.

SPEAKER_07 35:35

We just found your loophole, Brandon.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

Maybe you did.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

You have to be careful though, because a small child that can't read might open it.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

No, just because I'm small, I can still read, Eldabar.

SPEAKER_01 35:50

Are there children in the castle? Are there children in the castle?

SPEAKER_06 35:54

You're asking me? Yeah, yes. Yes, you have seen children in the castle.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Well, we can put them out of their misery. It can't be pleasant. Live in a castle?

SPEAKER_04 36:07

I can imagine that that's very pr pleasant. Did you not hear what happened at the coronation? No, I I I didn't, in fact, hear. I was just in the Lucky Leap Tavern, having myself a good time with a couple gnomes I know, and then uh I get a note from Vossi over there, and uh next thing I know, there's some weird things chasing you, and yeah, I kill one of 'em and run away with y'all, and then there's like a funeral or something, but no, no one's really sat down and told me what's going on.

SPEAKER_07 36:40

Oh, I'll have to catch you up on that Edvar later.

SPEAKER_04 36:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 36:46

This isn't Glenn.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

I know.

SPEAKER_06 36:53

Thought you were gonna be one of Glenn's recaps for a second.

unknown 36:57

No.

SPEAKER_06 36:58

No, I was I saw you say so and then take a deep breath of like, no.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

No, I was gonna say so. Hear me out. Get a catapult, launch the launch the chest into the castle courtyard. Prophet.

SPEAKER_07 37:15

It just opens. Leave the chest unless you're gonna get it.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

Alright. Um do we actually know what what's inside the chest, or we just know that it's dangerous? Well, I guess this is more for Ricio.

SPEAKER_05 37:33

Well, I I took a good look at it for the five seconds it was open before I started feeling a little nauseous. Uh, it kind of looked like a uh a lizard, like a big lizard, like a dragon almost. But like if a dragon had sex with a demon, and then whatever came out of it was that.

SPEAKER_07 37:56

Well, how big is this chest?

SPEAKER_06 37:59

I mean, it was a is a figurine. I mean, I have a toy whale in my shop. It doesn't mean it's the actual size of a whale. Come on now.

SPEAKER_08 38:06

I I thought you meant a real dragon.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

You left that out, Risio. You didn't say it was a figurine. It's in a chest. How big do you think this chest is?

SPEAKER_07 38:15

Well, that was our question, precisely.

Disguises, Trackers, And Travel Plans

SPEAKER_01 38:19

I didn't know if it was a little lizard in there. I mean my my chest is 54 inches. And chests do come in different sizes, and he points at Harlink.

SPEAKER_03 38:34

Oh, that's that's true. It pops out, pops out as chest.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

So there's a figurine of a lizard demon or demon lizard in this chest that causes ruin when the chest is opened. Okay. And after three seconds, it hurt you enough that you almost passed out.

SPEAKER_06 39:02

Well I didn't almost pass out, but I did almost lose my lunch. Had a really good lunch that day, had some fresh fish chowder. Man, had that stuff imported. It was delicious.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

You were in a cabin in the woods hot never mind.

SPEAKER_06 39:16

It was imported.

SPEAKER_08 39:18

So this chest is there uh We are talking about okay.

SPEAKER_05 39:22

Oh, hold up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Voss. Just give me a second here. I need to get this point across. We're talking about dragon demons, we're talking about hags, curses, satirs, fee realm, and the problem you've got with this entire story is the fish chowder.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

No, that's just one problem of many, and who mentioned hags? I don't remember anybody mentioning any hags.

SPEAKER_06 39:51

Monty did. Or not Monty, Voss.

SPEAKER_07 39:54

I think I mentioned it, not not Voss. Oh, okay. I ref I've referenced the hags, not Voss.

SPEAKER_01 40:00

Because we don't know about the hags. The party does not know about the hags. Well, you did see her. I was saying we saw her transform.

SPEAKER_07 40:08

We saw them transforms. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

Somebody determined that they were she was a hag.

SPEAKER_07 40:13

Or witch.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Okay. So we live in a magical kingdom, so none of this is out of but you said fresh and imported, those things typically are anyway. Um I guess you could have teleported it in. Alright, so get the architect, go to the tomb, get the key, break into the is that key one-time use? He looks at Risio. I'm I'm not really sure. Alright, so figure out if the key is one time use. Use the key to break into the Emporium if it's more than one time use. Emporium of funny things. And then we'll break into the castle when the architect tells us steal the crown, put the crown in the chest of nullification after we figure out what to do with the Why don't we just open it really quick and throw the crown in there with the demon dragon figurine? Is there enough room in there for two things?

Choose First Step: Find The Architect

SPEAKER_06 41:17

Uh Seinmonders speaks up and says, It's it's rumored that it can only maintain one magical item at a time. What happens if it has two? I don't know. I'm a knight.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

Are you a knight or final? Okay. So we've also got to slide something in there to figure out when to get rid of this demon thingy demon dragon figurine. Alright.

SPEAKER_06 41:47

So Well, that's why you are breaking into the Emporium.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, that's right. That's why we're breaking into the Empire.

SPEAKER_06 41:55

So the three things that you need to do is get the key so you can get into the the the the uh royal throne room.

unknown 42:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 42:03

You need to break into the emporium so that you can uh cleanse the chest. Uh the item inside the chest, so you can put the crown in there. And then the third thing is you need to find the architect so you can find a safe passage into the throne room. Or into the the castle using the key. The castle. Using the key.

SPEAKER_07 42:22

To get the crown to put in the chest.

unknown 42:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 42:25

The crown. The crown for Cusco. Cusco's crown.

SPEAKER_07 42:28

So I have another question once we're done talking about the quest inside quest and main quest.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

Architect key. Emporium. Crown. Castle.

SPEAKER_06 42:41

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Alright. Zayn will look at uh shit. Hold on.

SPEAKER_06 42:48

They shouldn't have done that there. I'm sorry, it might haven't really had a bathroom in a while. I'll have them clean that up.

SPEAKER_00 42:56

Oh my god!

SPEAKER_01 43:00

Zane looks at Eldvar, you got all that?

SPEAKER_04 43:04

Uh yeah. We need horses. Fetch horses.

SPEAKER_01 43:13

Love it. Love it. Zane nods.

SPEAKER_06 43:19

I still love that Eldvar and Voss were partnered up at one point in their lives, and Voss was the smart one out of this team.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

It is very scary the lack of intelligence in this crew.

SPEAKER_04 43:36

Yeah, truth. But very funny. Yep. Very funny. You'll got plenty of intelligence outside of Voss and Elbar.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

Yeah, my plus one's gonna get us real far.

SPEAKER_01 43:46

Yeah, my we have two with plus one. That's it.

SPEAKER_07 43:54

I might not be a smart, but I know what love is.

SPEAKER_06 44:01

Alright, so uh did you have a question, uh boss, before we move along?

SPEAKER_07 44:07

So Krasnar's quicksand, the quicksand for Krasnar, the the quicksand that killed Krasnar. Do we actually know what happened to him?

Downtime: Research, Smithy, Garden

SPEAKER_06 44:15

Uh Seinmander clenches his jaw a little bit, and uh he says, I've told you what the official story of the crown is. So what you're saying the unofficial story is I've been sworn to not ever speak it again.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

By who?

SPEAKER_06 44:39

The king.

SPEAKER_04 44:40

So maybe maybe we don't talk about Krasnor, but if I was in the Fey realm and there was quicksand, what would really happen to me if I were to say disappear? He'll even drop some uh air quotes when he says Krasnor's quicksand.

SPEAKER_08 44:59

Similar quicksanding what Krasnor? The quicksand the quicksand for Krasnor? God.

SPEAKER_06 45:06

Alright. Um, so so he Simon will say to you, Xanover. Well, if you were I'm not Xanover. Yeah, yeah, you should probably get rid of that name. Uh he's down in the garden. Yeah. Xanover. Umder will say to you, Elvar. Well, if you were if you were in the quicksand with everything you're wearing there, I'm sure you'll just you would just sink. You would also disappear very quickly. And you know this first hand? Yeah, I've I've seen people go into quicksand before. Don't you remember all those like instructional classes we had when we were kids about quicksand and how to get out of it?

SPEAKER_04 45:51

Well, yeah, but you just lay out with your arms and somebody brings a branch, and then some other guy's like, the more you know, because noids have to battle.

SPEAKER_06 45:59

Yeah, it doesn't work if you're wearing plate armor, apparently.

SPEAKER_08 46:03

So was Krasnor. Stop drop and roll, right? Plate armor? Would you would you say Krasnor actually sank into the quicksand? The quicksand for Krasnor? The quicksand for Krasnor?

SPEAKER_06 46:17

Uh he says, yes, that is the that is the crowns. That is the crown story.

SPEAKER_07 46:23

So well, it's not the crown story.

SPEAKER_06 46:28

You you can try to give me a persuasion check. It is gonna be a high DC of 19.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

Can I assist?

SPEAKER_06 46:35

Yes, you can. How are you assisting him?

SPEAKER_07 46:40

See how this goes what it did last time.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

Zane, how are you assisting him? Zayn will be uh as Yep, I am not doing great with names right this second. Um so Voss, as Voss is trying to convince him, Zayn will be adding alternate ways that Zyemonter can explain it as in what are some of the rumors that are being told about it? What are some of the alternate stories that may have been told that may or may not be true?

SPEAKER_02 47:17

I also want to offer inspiration for this.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Offering him an out to not necessarily violate his oath, but just to clue us in on what are some of the other stories that are going around.

SPEAKER_07 47:32

Okay. Man, I really wish I would have saved my heroic inspiration for this role. But I guess we're gonna get it anyway. Uh, can I add guidance to myself on this, or is that essentially what Zayn is doing right now? Yeah, it's essentially what Zayn's doing right now. Okay. Alright. Persuasion coming up at advantage. See, there is a button for super advantage. But I think we don't get it to use that. Nah, apparently all my persuasion checks against Seinemonger are gonna go this way.

SPEAKER_06 48:02

Yeah, absolutely. Uh I I uh soinmonger finishes grabs his drink and just downs it. And uh he holds it out and gets a refill of another whiskey, and uh takes a sip of it, clears his throat, and says, I need you to know that what I'm about to tell you violates an oath that I took. And though you may not realize the severity of that, it is a large deal for people of my order.

SPEAKER_07 48:36

Yeah, it's literally the name of the campaign, so you're the oathbreaker.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

So just tell us a hypothetical. Don't tell us the actual thing.

SPEAKER_06 48:47

Oops, we made a paladin, violate his oath, and created a super villain.

SPEAKER_07 48:53

He is now the BBE.

SPEAKER_01 48:54

Or we can just forced him to break his oath.

SPEAKER_06 48:59

This is not gonna huss at all. He says, I saw the king and the the Satter Lord whispering a lot, and they definitely struck some sort of deal. I'm not sure what it was said, but I know that the prince heard it. Uh he was in a foul mood after they had spoken. Uh the prince after speaking out against his father, he did not die from quicksand. He he called his father out in front of myself and in front of the Archmage and or the Archmage and the King and him fought in in in combat. He demanded that the king step aside. King Waldron fought him and slew his own son. Afterwards, Father Lester refused to swear silence, so Waldron exiled him from the material plane, never to return. I've always suspected that Queen Laurentia and Queen Ephina may have been complicit. I I'm not I I knew Queen Laurentia knew of the the tragedy to some degree, though I don't think she's ever openly accused her husband. And Queen Ephina, I'm all but sure that she knew what happened. Now I must ask you, even though I have violated my vow, you must trust me. I need your help with this.

SPEAKER_08 50:30

So I forget what you're saying here. When Queen Laurentia faced off in the the Crown Cup?

SPEAKER_07 50:41

King Cup?

SPEAKER_08 50:42

The King's Cup.

SPEAKER_06 50:44

The King's Tournament.

SPEAKER_08 50:45

The King's Tournament, she accused him. Tournament of Kings. King of Kings. She accused him of being a kin slayer. She wasn't some crazy nut job.

SPEAKER_07 50:56

Sounds like she might have been onto something.

SPEAKER_06 50:59

I fully believe she was dead. I I d I have not seen her in years, and the fact that she disappeared and in that form definitely shows some some serious disturbance. I don't know who she's working for or where she is.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

Did the Queen come back with the King?

SPEAKER_06 51:21

The Queen did not go to the Yes, the the Queen did come back with the King. She was released.

SPEAKER_01 51:27

And then she got sick and quote unquote died.

SPEAKER_06 51:32

Yes. About the same time that at that at that point uh Lady Athena showed up.

SPEAKER_08 51:41

So the Queen had a sickness. A sickness for the queen. The sickness that killed the queen.

SPEAKER_06 51:50

Yes, exactly. I why are you repeating yourself three times? I thought I was very clear on this.

SPEAKER_08 51:55

Yeah, I'm not sure. Let me go grab some more spinach buffs and just chill out for a minute.

SPEAKER_01 52:01

So hold on. Are you talking about you mean Queen Lorencia?

SPEAKER_07 52:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

Sorry, Lady Lorencia at that time, who later became Queen Lorencia.

SPEAKER_06 52:19

Correct.

SPEAKER_07 52:20

Lorencia, Lorencia is the mother. Is the mother of Krasnor. Correct?

SPEAKER_01 52:27

No. No, no, no. Alyscia, Alyssa is the mother of Rasnor. Lorencia is the mother of Athena. Athena is the one that transformed into a hag and became the quote unquote queen.

SPEAKER_07 52:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 52:41

Yes. I gave you guys wrong information. It was Queen uh Queen Athena who was taken to the Fey Wilds originally, not Lorencia.

SPEAKER_01 52:53

No, no. Alyssia. Alyssa.

SPEAKER_06 52:55

Alyssa. Yeah, Alyssa.

SPEAKER_07 52:56

Queen Alyssa was taken to Feels.

SPEAKER_06 52:58

I'm getting confused in my own names right now.

SPEAKER_07 53:00

I have notes right here to help me keep track of I was wondering why Queen Alyssa is not in NPCs right now.

SPEAKER_06 53:07

Queen Alyssa was taken to deceased. Yep. She's not deceased.

SPEAKER_01 53:13

No, no, no. She's in the deceased in the notes.

SPEAKER_06 53:17

Unknown. Queen Alyssa was taken to the Fey Wilds. The king went to go save her. Saved her with her with their son, Prince Krasnor. Prince Krasnor died there. They saved Alyssa, brought her back. Alyssa got sick. Queen Laurentia showed up, gave birth to Queen uh the Princess Athena. Queen Alyssa died, and then showed up during the tournament of kings and slew King Waldron.

SPEAKER_07 53:46

Accusing him of being a kin slayer.

SPEAKER_06 53:49

Correct.

SPEAKER_07 53:50

So come to find out, she wasn't as all cracked up as she seemed to be.

SPEAKER_01 53:55

And who's Master? Okay, so we have a Master Eden and a Father Lester? Is that correct?

SPEAKER_06 54:04

Yes. Okay. Master Eden, don't worry about him too much. Father Lester is the one you gotta be concerned with.

SPEAKER_01 54:09

So Father Lester was exiled to exiled from the prime material plane.

SPEAKER_06 54:15

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

From the Feywild?

SPEAKER_06 54:19

To the Feywild, yes.

SPEAKER_01 54:21

To the Feyewild. So he was basically blocked from returning.

SPEAKER_06 54:24

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

Because they were already in the Feywild, right? Yes. Because he refused to go along with the king's story about the print Prince Krasnor.

SPEAKER_06 54:35

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 54:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 54:36

And then Master Eden, who is the Archmage of the Arcane Tower. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 54:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 54:44

Oh, if I could ask, what did anyone see Queen Alyssa pass? Or what happened? I mean she clearly showed up later on. Was there some sort of fake funeral, or I know she got sick, but It was a small family affair.

SPEAKER_06 55:04

They did not allow allow anybody in. I said guard to that funeral myself, but I was outside of the doors.

SPEAKER_01 55:12

Okay, was she a Was she a Aaron or a wing? She had wings in the fight, right?

SPEAKER_06 55:20

Yes. When she showed back up, she looked like an Arance.

SPEAKER_01 55:24

So was she like that before?

SPEAKER_06 55:28

No. No. Uh Seinmondur said that she looked like a a beast in that new form.

SPEAKER_08 55:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 55:36

Alright. Good news portion, guys. Lore dropped up. Uh Seinmonder says to you all, The Knights and I cannot do this. Too many eyes are upon us. They know what we look like, they know to search for us. But you, you all, you may yet move unseen. Strike where others cannot. The crown must be cleansed, and if it cannot be cleansed, it must be destroyed. If it cannot be destroyed, then we return to the Fey realm itself and bind this sadder king to undo his blight. I ask you all instead. I ask you all, will you stand with me?

SPEAKER_08 56:14

Yeah, I think you've got us in for this one.

SPEAKER_03 56:17

You have my Saturn.

SPEAKER_07 56:23

Well I gotta do something. I gotta do something with this fancy shield.

SPEAKER_01 56:29

Our interests are aligned for now.

SPEAKER_04 56:32

And Eldar is just gonna kinda look around the room and be like, uh I'm with Vasi, so I guess I'm in too.

SPEAKER_08 56:39

Yeah, come on, buddy. This will be fun. I promise you they'll uh I promise you there'll be a few uh there'll be a few skulls we can smash along the way.

SPEAKER_04 56:50

Oh that's good, but uh when this is all said and done, I'll need you to help me find uh some tiefling that the tower sent me over after.

SPEAKER_08 57:06

What was that tiefling's name? Father what's his face? Solemn Father Solemn. Let's let's go grab him.

SPEAKER_04 57:15

I don't think that's the one I'm looking for. This one's a wildling, he's not really with the with the religious order or anything, but uh so just any tiefling won't do.

SPEAKER_06 57:27

Does Voss think all tieflings look the same?

SPEAKER_07 57:30

Sure, we can go with that.

SPEAKER_01 57:32

Oh man. Well, he said a tiefling, so just grab any tiefling. Oh, it's a specific tiefling that you're looking for.

SPEAKER_07 57:43

Oh, I gotcha. That'll make it a little bit more difficult. Specific tiefling. But this is not the teefling for.

SPEAKER_01 57:52

But when uh Elvar says that he's looking for a tiefling for the tower, that does capture Zayn's attention to these. So uh Zayn will also say Um, what are your plans while we're attending to all this? You say I'm on order? Yes, it's a Simon order.

SPEAKER_06 58:19

I mean, you guys have a pretty good bar. I might hang out here for a minute or two.

SPEAKER_01 58:24

I mean, can you is what's the status of your estate?

SPEAKER_06 58:28

I cannot return to my estate at the moment. I'm a fugitive in my own city.

SPEAKER_08 58:33

Well, you can hang out here, my friend. Just make yourself at home, and uh while you're at it, why don't you uh you know polish up the place a bit?

SPEAKER_01 58:41

I mean, we have a barracks that can house twelve people. One of the beds is taken with our guard. But if you want to stay here, I think you could stay here if you keep the place secure. I think we can do that.

SPEAKER_07 58:59

Go uh hang up a workshop. You might find it rather inspiring once a day.

SPEAKER_01 59:09

Um I think yeah, so Zayn will will also say um or will ask what the um hold on, May Athena said that the tower works for her now and all gold is hers. What's the status of the other factions? The tower, the um on that note. Uh the tower, the different houses, where where are we at with the everybody else? The golden masks, the red cloaks, the tower.

SPEAKER_07 59:47

Um, so on along those exact same lines, I was actually wanting to talk with you, Brandon, about um, I believe Voss would have some form of a communications channel with his mother. Uh oh, what is her name? El Reyna? I literally just looked at the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:04

Do you even know your mother's name?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:05

I'm trying to remember. Well, he calls him mommy. Mommy. Hey, mommy. She comes up here and give you a yes. Um, so El Reina, uh, she's she's a high-end, just so everybody in the listeners know, she is a high magistrate of the tower and is somebody that regularly feeds Voss information uh that would not be privy to anything that the tower knows, she's going to know. Um, so at some point, Voss, after this whole thing would go on, Voss would be using one of their secretive channels of a messenger or a drop fox to send her off a message. I don't think it's anything, it's not gonna be magical in nature, so it's not gonna be an instant comeback. But at some point, could you give me like a message from her or things that I would have learned from um El Reina?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:55

Yeah, so I would say you haven't heard from her yet, but yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:00

But I have I definitely would have sent off. Yeah, it's only been I would have sent something off.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:04

It's been less than a day, it's been like twelve hours.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:06

And if he's if he doesn't hear anything back from her, that's actually going to be quite concerning to him because he does care very deeply for his mother. He has a giant man child, after all. Uh so he would uh probably be departing from this crown venture to go find his mommy.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:27

Elira, yeah, that's her name. Yeah. So uh yeah, absolutely, Maddie. Um I I do plan on having her speak to you at some point, but you have not heard from her at the moment.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:40

That's fine.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:41

Uh to answer your question.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:44

Off off air about it.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:46

Okay, yeah, we can do that. Uh yeah, if you guys have ever anything you want to talk to me about, just message me. Uh Andrew does this every once in a while too. Just message me uh in the offline chat and I'll answer you to the best of my ability. And as long as you, you know, talk about it during our next session, we're good.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:04

I'm gonna send you between now and our next sessions at least 25 DMs asking questions. Why are you sliding my DMs?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:15

But to answer your question, Zane, uh Signminder says, uh, you bring up a truth that we just cannot ignore. The tower, it's it's its fall is not just the end of an order, but the unbinding of magic itself. You must have spelt it you must have felt it. Uh the magic that you cast. The way the weave answers more swiftly, more fiercely. The hag has broken the tower's grip, and with it the safeguards that we've put in place over the last few decades have fallen apart. Uh Risio speaks up at that point and says, uh, safeguards, please. Tower didn't safeguard magic, it strangled it. We've uh we've smothered the spark, buried it in chains, and hunted any poor soul who dare kindled it outside their ranks. And now the fire's loose. You feel stronger? That's cause you are. Every mage, every witch, every wit every hedge wizard across the land is feeling it. The air itself is humming like a plucked string.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:17

Um Well, I sure hope all those folks have prepared their spells. Cause it sounds like they've got something great to do.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:26

Yeah, I hope everyone remembers them too.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:29

Yeah, of course, you could you should probably cast your spells. That's how why would you not prepare it? That seems like a very poor magic user.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:35

Hey, you know, I'm not trying to say here nor there, but some people forget to prepare their spells on occasion. How are they?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:44

Sometimes it ends up slowly slowly. You forgot to prepare your spells again.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:54

I never forget to prepare my spells. But there was that one time. But it's okay, nobody died then.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:03

Uh Lord Seinmonder stands up and he's a little wobbly at this point. Uh he's had a few drinks, and he says, I want to be very clear here. Do not mistake strength for safety. Magic unbridled is as dangerous as it is intoxicating. The Hag's curse may give you more power, but at what cost? We've already seen spells go wild in the town. The effects run wild, spirits stirred where none should walk. It's not the blessing that it seems. We put the tower in place for a reason. I'm not saying everything they did was good, I'm not saying everything was warranted. But my my father's father was alive during that and he told stories. And the magic that ruled this world was was strong and it was powerful, and it didn't care if you had a daughter or a son, it didn't care if you were a mother or a father. It killed indiscriminately. So what I would like from you all uh I would say it's uh it's about noon right now.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:14

It's about noon. So I think uh like hearing him like somewhat slurring and stumbling over his word, boss is gonna look over to Mordain, kind of give him the like the silent like cut him. He's done.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:28

Yeah. Uh Mortain says, Oh yes, of course, sir.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:34

Flagged. Voss gives him like a giant wink that probably everybody can see, but Voss thinks he's doing discreetly. Squeaky, squeaky shriek.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:44

Uh Lord Seinmander looks at you and he kind of leans back and squints his eyes. He says, Who are you winking at? I I'm the one that's been drinking. Why are you looking at me like I'm the cute one?

SPEAKER_08 1:05:58

Well, you know. When you know, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:02

I know, I know, no. And he kind of stumbles off towards the barracks.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:07

That's what I was thinking. You know, he's gonna go get a little nappy poo.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:13

So Alright. So, what I would like from you as players, Bill, did you have something?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

I I was gonna kid I was gonna talk to Risio, but if you want to move forward with something else.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:26

No, no, no. You can absolutely talk to Risio. I just I'm gonna set up the next part of this. Uh I would like to know your decision as players as to and do this in character, please, as to which path you're gonna go down first. Which of the quests you're gonna go after. And then I would also like to if any of your characters have any thoughts on with the tower falling, how that how that affects you, how you feel about that, you can do that in character, like talking out loud, or you can just say how your character would feel, whatever you're more comfortable with. Uh but yeah, if you have a question for Risio, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:03

So, well, Zane, based on the uh conversation that Risio has been having, it seems like he is connected to a lot of different information sources. So uh Zane will ask him where do the where do the golden masks stand and do you have any contact with the Gilded Seekers?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:27

Uh yeah, it's uh I normally got a person or two. I got a guy, if you know what I'm saying, but uh I uh I haven't heard from him since I left. Had a had to leave pretty quickly. Need to make sure Mondr over here got here. He's uh he's not doing too well. Lost a lot of people.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:43

I'm really glad we chose not to stay in your fine establishment, you know, the lucky leap.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:49

Call that place our home, but we would have been goners if we would have stayed there.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:53

Yeah. Would have been a real shame if you would have stayed in the tavern. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:00

So you've you have a contact with the gilded seekers or you have a contact with the golden masks?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:07

I know some people, yeah. I I wanna put my I have my feelers out.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:11

Uh I I I need to find out what's going on in the city in general, but uh as a as of this moment, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:20

What so if you have contact this Regio?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:23

What did you ask Maddie?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:25

What race is he?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:26

He is a human.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:28

He's a human? So boss is gonna like look intently to the top of his head for like antenna or feelers. And then see that there are none, and then just kinda have a quizzical look on his face.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:40

You're not that dumb.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:44

Uh Risio is gonna stop mid-sentence. He's gonna say, Yeah, like I said, I've got some. What the fuck are you staring at? Sorry, that was sign letter.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:53

What the fuck are you staring at?

SPEAKER_08 1:08:55

You said you had your feelers out. I I don't see anything sticking out of the top of your head.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:00

It is not possible that you are still alive.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:04

But yet here I stand.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:06

I literally saw you walking and breathing. You can't be this dumb.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:11

So Go ahead. Zayn will shake his head at at uh at Voss. I think he's been hitting a bottle too. Um but if you I would recommend reaching out to the Gilded Seekers, they seem to have connections with uh some information that we might might be helpful for us in overthrowing this power. They've seemed like they were involved with the last time that a power tried to take over, the fallen angels and the dark heart and all that, that they were involved in that. If you have a way to get information over to uh hold on. The place. Um nope. I don't have Borden. Borden. If you have a way to get information in and out of Vorden, that that they might be helpful to get on our side.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:16

Uh Voss is gonna give like Mordain like an under-the-counter like wave off as Mordain's like bringing him another drink. He's gonna wave him off. And Mordain returns it to the bar.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:30

Yeah, so of course, sir. Would you would do you want me to just put it back in the bottle?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:34

Uh I don't know what you're talking about, Mordain. Uh you you're you're you're fine with whatever you're doing.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:41

Uh Mordain, obviously realizing that he has embarrassed you, uh looks at the cup and then tries to drink it himself and it just goes straight through him, splashing onto the ground.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:53

Knights, they've been peeing all over the place. Defecating in the middle of the what are what are these what's the world coming to?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:01

So with uh Zane's mention of Vorden, um Elvar's gonna kind of perk up and say, um, you don't really want to involve Vorden in this mess. You uh this kingdom enjoys magic. Maybe it's a little unbridled right now, but Vorden is completely against it. Uh if it's not mine, then they want no part of it. And so inviting them here might be an end to all of the magic that this kingdom has, not just the uh the the small bits that you want to get rid of.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:42

So Zayn is confused by that? Um mainly because when he I mean the exposure we had to Vorden was Lauren, and Loren basically said they celebrate magic. So Zayn is a little confused.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:59

Vorden does not celebrate magic. Vorden is an anti-magic organization. They because they lack the comfort of magic use, they have advanced technology, especially in building complex mechanical tracks, war gear, and war machines.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:13

When we met Lauren, he said that they celebrated it. That's Zayn's information source. He might have been lying. Well, I mean he invited a group of magic users to come there and be celebrated. So unless he was they were trying to capture us and kill us, it didn't make it so yeah. And I would have failed Zane would have failed an insight check anyway, so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:41

Um Andrew, do you want to talk a l I may have given you wrong information. That's on me. But Vordane as a city-state or as a country nation, as a nation, does not celebrate magic users. They actually haunt them down most times.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:58

So everyone's magic users.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:00

There are a couple of nations that celebrate it, but Vordane is not one of them. Vordane or Vordan? Uh Vorden. V-O-R-D-A-N. Okay. Uh Andrew, if you want to talk a little bit about Elvar's background. Uh sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:19

Um so seeing the confusion on Zayn's face, uh, Eldvar will probably go a little bit into his backstory. Uh seems you may not be uh as informed about your neighbors to the north as as you thought you were. Uh I grew up on the slopes of the Glow Yarl, uh beautiful fiery volcano, uh the source of my people's power, it seems. Uh one day I uh stumbled upon a tome. Uh hidden within it was ancient giant magics that uh unlocked for me a new world, um, with powers that hadn't been seen in Vorden for years. Well, I wasn't careful with this magic, and it made me a target within my own country. And while my tribe was somewhat accepting, um Greater Vorden wasn't and soon I was haunted. Uh and then I fled here because I heard that though regulated, magic was at least tolerated, and it was better than being hunted at the end of my days. So do excuse me if I'm not willing to immediately engage with my countrymen, knowing that uh knowing that there may be a price on my head if I were to return back there.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:41

So Zayn will nod his head and and look at Elvar and say that my only exposure was to Lauren um Lauren Kalen of the Gilded Seekers, or the Gilded Seeker, or Squeakity Squeak, Squeak. I really got lost in that conversation. But he's either of the Gilded Seekers or is a Gilded Seeker or is the Gilded Seeker, but his brother is also the Gilded Seeker, so I'm really I think they have pronoun issues. Or noun issues, I guess. But his exposure, and he seemed very adamant about it. I am not questioning you, I'm just telling you that that is the exposure we had. They seem to have information that might be useful to us, but I can understand completely if you don't want to have contact with them because they persecuted you. That makes sense that you don't want to, and we should avoid it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:52

Yeah, that doesn't sound good at all. And I mean, as someone who likes to play around with magic as much as I do, and I'm just gonna just make a bunch of like butterflies and dumb pop and stuff around me with the illusion stuff. Yeah. That certainly sounds like it'd be a terrible place to well I I guess be hunted down and it just sounds awful.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:17

I don't think there are very many good places to be hunted down.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:21

No, you're right.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:23

I can't I can't think of many myself.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:27

I mean, maybe that next thing that you guys were talking about a couple of days ago. No I don't know about that The Forest Sex Party, I can't remember. But they also had some information about the Dark Star and the um Fallen Angels catastrophe of several centuries ago. But if you don't think that information is valuable, then we can move on to a different thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:03

Well, I guess anything anything information-wise that could help us either get what we need or take down the hags is is worthwhile.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:14

Well, I I think what we need right now is to go find this architect.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:19

I I will agree. I will say that my take on the tower falling is I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:31

No, it might not be. Let's uh let's let's give it a a a a day.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:36

I should hear back from my mother. She'll she'll loop us in on potential the ins and outs of of of what's going on there. But I think in the meantime we can continue with where uh old sign monaries uh the direction he's pointing us towards.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:53

Well, I can agree with that. Um there's uh archetype architecture.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:03

The architect I got I got you, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:06

Alright, we should we sh we should fetch him. Like a horse.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:11

I don't know if we need to fetch him or not. I think he might just be able to tell us where we need to go next.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:17

No, I think we need to I think we need to go bring him here. He's in danger, and he might be able to offer us more information. We have a little bit of documentation on the castle and palace, but it sounds like he'll have more information, and I think if we go rescue him now, rescue take him into protective custody, whatever, bring him here, and we can set him up in one of our workshops or libraries, and he can put together some plans for the castle to help us navigate in there while we're going to get that key thing that and he nods and Zay nods over at Risio. That that Risio mentioned going into that tomb to get the key. So I think those are our next two steps. I think based on what happens from there would be we'd have to make a decision then. Anything be planning beyond that is kind of fruitless.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:20

Yeah, let's go get him and bring him back here. That sounds like a good plan. Anyone else think? Have you asked where'd where'd that Joker Nilvax go? Man, he's been in the bathroom for a long time.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:35

He said something about settling everybody in. I I do have some concerns though about uh walking through the city. Uh aren't we kinda on like wanted now?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:51

It might be a little harder to get through everything, and with them having their you know fancy little trackers, uh my normal means of getting around, and I snap my fingers and turn into one of the Ware Knights real quick with disguised self, and it's like uh normally I would just transform into something and you know disguise and masquerade as one of them, but I don't know how that well this will work if they could track me. And I just go back to Harlack.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:18

That didn't seem to work too well.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:21

Good fucking RP, Ray. That's good. Good job, Ray.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:32

Last time we tried, that didn't work out too well for us. I don't know how we're gonna get through town.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:37

Um so Zay will say we could probably just use regular disguises and not use magical disguises.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:51

Uh Boss will will look at you in the same like dumb look, and but then he's gonna turn to Mordain.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:59

Hey, hey, Mordane, you got anything laying around this here castle that we could uh possibly use to disguise ourselves, but but not disguise self?

SPEAKER_06 1:21:10

Ah, yes, of course, sir. Uh the lady of the mansion kept a very nice vanity upstairs filled with makeup.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:18

Great, we're all wearing dresses, guys. Alright, here we go. 2025. If you can't cross-dress in DD, I don't know what the heck you're doing in life.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:28

Why do you need to wear a dress to wear makeup?

SPEAKER_07 1:21:32

It's the ladies' wardrobe.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:35

I you don't have to there's makeup and clothing. I'm pretty sure that Zane is not gonna fit in any of the ladies' clothing.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:46

Ray, we're gonna need a new like image of our group in dresses.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:01

Sneaking from the town.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:03

I mean the the dress, the pink really accentuates the you know the natural glow of the shiny armor. It's the real f the floral print, really the brings out the uh the the helmet in its in its true form.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:18

Okay, you guys want to go after the architect? Right?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:25

And Zayn has uh given his feelings towards the tower. How does how does uh Harlech feel about the the tower crumbling and now being subject to whatever Queen of Fina states?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:40

Uh, you want in character uh or just disgust real quick?

SPEAKER_06 1:22:44

Uh no, in character would be great.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:46

Oh as far as the tower fallen, and I've never been too fond of their catch everyone who's doing magic just in general. I kind of believe that magic should be something freely used as long as you're not abusing it. Um, you know, kinda innocent until proven guilty in a in a way, but I mean I don't I definitely don't agree with uh the hags taking control of it. I think hunting people down is gonna be a lot worse now.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:19

Voss shoots like a look over to Eldbar. One of the mention of hunting people down. And he gives him a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:42

Yeah, and you're right stuff. No, no, no, he was something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:47

He was a bounty hunter, or he was or you have multiple people in the party that were ostensibly hunters for the cr for the tower.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:56

For the tower. Well, I was a bounty hunter and of our. But we were still bounty hunters and trackers of which is fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:11

But Harlex, like in this moment, Harlex saying like they're gonna go after like you know, some guy using pre precedation to clean his kitchen. You know what I mean? That's that's his view of it now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:22

So I totally agree with what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:25

So Zayn will not even identify as somebody who hunt because that's not he he did it, he did hunt them down, but the idea was more he was keeping helping he was helping people more than he was actually he was hurting the tower more than he was helping people, but by hurting the tower he was helping the people. Um in his eyes anyway. So and he wouldn't identify with you saying that as it was a dig on him because that's not what he thought he was doing.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:58

So look, buddy, in 77 Dragon Age, you can identify however you want.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:10

Oh, yes, of course, sir. Right this way. Uh Risio kind of steps up and has a new glass of whiskey somehow, and he says, just keep in mind, guys, yeah, the tower may be gone, but uh magic roaming, unshackled, unfettered.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:31

Uh, especially with a course uh a curse thrown in the mix, probably not a great idea. Um maybe the tower falling was inevitable in our lifetime, maybe it wasn't.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:40

But uh if that rot's not cut from the from the heart or cut in the root, you know, then if we don't end the Hagener curse, then this gift is gonna devour the entire realm.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:54

So yes, that is what we're trying to stop. I don't think that's you just posted That's so good.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:07

I'm literally doing the same thing for Voss right now, so I'll have it in a sec.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:12

So who is is that supposed to be Zayn? That's Elvar. Oh, Elvar. Oh, because it's green. Uh okay. Um So for our listeners, a picture was just posted in the chat of a large greenish gray creature carrying a flaming sword wearing a pink with white polka dot dress and a bonnet. Bonnet? White bonnet. Oh my goodness. Anyway, I don't know what I was saying. Oh, um, so Risio. So Risio, we understand that there should be some controls on magic, but most magic schools have control in their own ways. The divine magic has the de the deities that control it. Mages have to study to get control. Well, I mean, sorcerers really don't have any control, but the other most of the Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:19

I it's not like uh you can just you know give your soul up and then get some magical powers, am I right? That'd be ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:26

Right. You you can't do that. No, no, no. As Zayn slides his eyes back and forth soul.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:36

Yeah, um that the the point is that magic unfettered without any kind of restrictions is just as dangerous as restricting magic.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:45

Zane will say, Right, there should be some control, but the power had all the control and all the power and hunted people down and killed them for not bending the knee. That isn't good. I'm trying to be serious, but it ain't happening. These pictures, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:15

Oh he's so buffed.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:18

Andrew, I don't know if we can if if we gotta set a reminder for ourselves to post these photos when this episode comes out.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:25

Yeah, so I I've started a folder on my computer um where like with the episode I stick all the inf like all the clips and everything that I do with it so that when you post it I can go back and do like a reel with a 15-second clip or a picture of boss Dane jacked as fuck in a pink princess cut dress with a uh squared off neckline showing off his pecs.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:53

I can't believe how good that turned out. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:56

Phenomenal. Yeah. Yeah. I'm making sure that I see that picture.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:02

Yeah, so Risio says to you, Zane, yeah, I'm I'm not arguing that fact at all. I didn't like the tower.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:09

Some of my some of my closest friends are magic users. I don't think it's good.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:14

But what I'm going to say is But what I will say is uh a hag's magic thrown into it, probably not a great thing. I think that's gonna be uh I think that's gonna ruin some things around this parts.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:28

So let's just take care of the hag.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:30

Three-step process.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:32

I agree. Get the key. Clean the chest. Get the craft and then profit. I guess a four-step.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:42

It's for the first time in our uh campaign we haven't negotiated a price for this. I guess that maybe that's where an LVAX would have come in.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:50

Yeah, I I think right now the price is safety. Maybe uh not dying in the next 24 hours. And who knows? I mean uh a crown room probably has some jewels or something that we can take along the way.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:06

You think they would miss it?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:08

I think they're gonna have bigger issues than a few missing gems. Uh especially once that idol is released in their uh their crown room.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:20

That's if we mess it up. Yeah. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:23

Um the neighbor the neighbors to the north, all about the war crimes, alright? That you need suggestions, it's gonna happen. How does uh Elvar feel about the tower falling? Uh confused mainly. Um uh so you know, he thinks to the parting words that he had the on this last mission that he got, where they said, uh, your path leads from the tower, and then when it's done, keep walking. Uh so you know, in the back of his mind, he's thinking that the tower knew that they were gonna fall and they were looking out for safety, but in reality they were just telling him never come back.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:03

Okay. And uh Vasa said, let's kind of see how this plays out. Is that that his true thoughts, even with his mommy in the tower?

SPEAKER_07 1:31:10

Well, with his he he wants to hear back from her first before he has a conclusion on exactly how he feels about the tower. He's never liked the tower. Um, but his concern right now is honestly focusing on his mother. Why do I always have like a character that's gotta everybody has a character that all their parents are dead, and I build a character who has a stream dependency on one of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:35

No, Parlack's parents are dead. I just don't think I think Kenku's just don't have like good family ties.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:43

I'm trying to remember so no, Zayn Zane's parents are just gone. Nobody I I don't I don't know that Zayn him and his sister that you guys don't know anything about. Um were orphans, and that that there's no that assumes that the parents are dead, so yeah, but there was nothing really talked about.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:05

What was his sister's favorite color?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:07

Yellow.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:09

Sorry, I was looking up Kanku family ties. Uh yeah, there's nothing. There's live in Lard Bruges.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:16

Yeah, it's like they live in like the like like the alleys and crap and back alleys and stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:23

Okay. Um I think I think El Elvar will say, well, uh night's getting it not getting any younger if or day. I forgot what time of day it is. It's lunchtime. Lunchtime, yeah. But uh if we're gonna find the architecture, um we probably should find him sooner rather than later. Because uh if they're looking for two, then they may be on them before we get there.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:51

It's funny hearing Andrew, who I know is an extremely smart individual, uh struggle with three-syllable words.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:01

Alright. So are you closing it or are we going for a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a no?

SPEAKER_06 1:33:07

What I was gonna say is I don't have the architect thing prepped at the moment. So if there's anything you guys want to do in the mansion itself, we can go through that. Otherwise, we're gonna call it kind of early tonight.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:21

Um, so Zayn will want to continue his research. And did you I apologize if you said it. I can look through the notes, but I don't have I can't find any notes. But uh did you give a does my uh Hireling have a name? Did we talk about that?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:41

Oh that's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:43

That's right, and my answer was fuck you. That's right.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:48

Yeah, it's Bill.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:51

What about the other one?

SPEAKER_06 1:33:53

Billion.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:55

No, you can't have two of them.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:57

That was that was a guard earlier in the episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:59

Yeah, that was the guard that says uh what do you call it?

SPEAKER_06 1:34:03

The Dunhollow.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:05

Dunhollow, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:06

You have two?

SPEAKER_01 1:34:08

Yeah, there's one at the one in the library and one in the uh the arcane study. Making sure I don't have it. So we have the pictures of everybody in dresses.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:28

I love the I said to make it look like it was a Victorian doll. So the match the art style.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:35

The best part about Arlex is is he doesn't know that there is a Victorian maid's dress hanging up in like the west wing of this house. And just rarely pick an outfit that looks like it.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:51

Perfect.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:54

Uh so the individual in the arcane tower is named Roland.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:59

Roland Roland and Bill is the librarian. Okay. Correct. Alright. So um, if we're not gonna be able to go to the architect to go find the architect, um Zane will probably go to the library to find um more try to get more information and also to probably look into any documentation on um Varden. Varden, is that right?

SPEAKER_06 1:35:28

Vorden.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:29

Vorden. Yeah, to look into Vorden to see how he could have been wrong. Or not how he could have been wrong, but how the guy could have been so convincing that they were accepting of magic. But um, so he will be looking at that and that research. That's what he would be doing if we're not gonna sneak through the city and do another skill challenge, but not be able to use stealth.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:55

People did use stealth. And you could have used stealth.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:59

Nah. That's no fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:01

Okay. Uh I do have some notes on a board. Um. Do you want me would you prefer if I read it to you or sent it to you offline?

SPEAKER_07 1:36:12

Um that way it goes into the uh transcript. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:17

You ready for your book, Lure? Drop there, Bill. Yep.

unknown 1:36:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:22

I'm not gonna take notes, I'm gonna use the transcript.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:25

Totally fair. I'm about to read a whole bunch of stuff that uh Chat Gipata helped me create here.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:32

How dare you use AI?

unknown 1:36:34

No.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:34

I thought you were building a world here.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:36

You're asking for lure for an entire country. Alright. So uh yeah, you find a book called uh Fordain and Me, How I Can Fit Into the Mountain Clan.

unknown 1:36:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:50

For the record, made that title it myself. Yeah. Vorden and me. Yeah. Vorden and me, how I can fit into the mountain clan. So there are pages and chapters and chapters and chapters about this, but the the chapter that really catches your eye is uh when the Darkstar and its fallen angels were defeated, a confederacy of hardy mountain tribes was formed in the northern mountains to resist the theocratic oppression of the forces of the Order of the Eternal Light. These tribes, only a handful of family clans at that time, fled higher into the mountains of the north to escape their zealous pursuers, who used divine and arcane magic to track and combat them. The tribes used the mountainous environment with which they were so familiar with to gain the advantage. Combined with their ferocious fighting prowess, they kept the armies of the cultists of the Order the Eternal Light at bay for centuries. Exposed to external threats from otherworldly beings and later being continuously assaulted by the spell-wielding theocracy, Vordanis have become hateful towards magic users and magic in general. The only magic they tolerate is the one that helps destroy magic. The people of Vordain grew in numbers over the centuries. They became an atheistic, sometimes uh somewhat barbaric society, where the use of any form of magic is despised and seen as an unreliable, untrustworthy power. The Vordani are hardworking people who rely on their skills and personal prowess, brandishing strength, wits, and endurance over all else. They don't consider the afterlife as something esoteric and face death knowing that they simply cease to exist. Death is seen as the natural end of life. They live every day as it would be their last, trying to fill their days with meaningful tasks and challenges. Verdani society is composed of clans based on family ties, led by the most fitting member of the tribe, who have proven their value in a significant way. Lacking the comfort of magic use, the Verdani have advanced have advanced in technology, especially in building complex mechanical traps, war gear, and war machines. One of their most dreaded war machines, drawn by beasts, is a massive rolling battle tower which can carry a crew of a dozen fighters and feature numerous smaller and larger ballista as well as flamethrowers. Their other famously fearsome tool of war is a hydraulic torso mounts its support with two arms, which allows its wearer to wield extra large weapons with great agility. It goes on to say that the Vordaini are slave owners, and owning a slave is considered a luxury in Vordain, and only a select few can really maintain that lifestyle. Uh, and the number of slaves a Vordani household has measures their wealth to the outside world. Uh slaves are rarely used outside of the house of their owners, where they act as servants, guards, pleasure slaves, or work on menial saving time for the a menial task saving time for the wealthy. Their current king of Ordain is uh Ralakar Doomhammer the Fifth. R-A-L-U-K-K-A-R, Doomhammer the Fifth, of the long lineage of the most powerful clan, the Doomhammers. Uh the family have been def uh defended the uh Ralakar and his family have defended their position for over a century now, which they gained after the power vacuum created during the failed invasion of Aglarian. And uh King uh Ralakar's last latest famous act, which had significant repercussions within many Vernani tribes, was settling non-spell casting priests of the efficient master, the god of competence within his borders. These priests, who call themselves the pure, and who are deemed radicals even within their own religion, vowed to teach and encourage manual skills and assured the king that they would not cast any spells, as it is against their religious belief to rely on the use of magic.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:00

You had to bring slaves into this whole thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:03

I did.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:06

One more thing to topple.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:09

I think it's so after Zane found finds that book, he decides that that is way more important than dealing with this kingdom.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:18

You guys want to go tapple uh Dane? We can.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:22

I want a new character named Lincoln Abraham.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:29

Is he a vampire slayer?

unknown 1:41:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:33

Uh Lincoln, uh, there's a nice little performance going on down the street. You should go check it out.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:43

I true as a perception check to not yet.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:48

Uh too soon? Uh no. We're joking about 9-11. Abraham Lincoln's death is not a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:58

Um, okay, so uh Zane will after uh it'll probably be late night before he is able to feed that information to the team, but he would share that with the team that it doesn't look like um there'll be much of there'll be a source of much support in this endeavor, and that we may need to go over there and solve their problems for them as well.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:24

I mean it kind of depends on how you look at it, right? If uh magic is being unleashed to its fullest extent, maybe Vordain is the way.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:34

But nobody in our group would be able to go communicate to that to them because we'd all be imprisoned.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:41

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:43

That could be an issue one extreme or the other.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:49

Actually, Nelmax kind of could. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:54

Nelvex the monk that can cast large-scale darkness spells?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:01

He's the least magical of the three of you, I think. Or the the five of you. I don't know. I might be the least magical. He's a five all of your five spells.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:12

I mean, I can I can unprepare all my spells, and I'll be the less magical of the group.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:16

There you go. Uh, is there anything else that anybody wants to do? Uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:23

I mean, I heard magic was running wild. I don't know why we wouldn't. We're now more powerful, right? True. He's thinking about it. This is probably the closest we've ever been. Uh so Eldabar would just kind of wander the grounds a little bit and he would stumble upon a smithy um that seems to kind of be sitting there idle. Uh, and he would talk to um Herbert, the master smithy at the Smithy, and uh he would ask him to craft for him a great axe.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:56

Herbert is the Master Smith.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:59

Yeah. Actually, never mind, I don't think I can actually get him to Oh yeah, anything that can be made with Smith's tools. So I would ask Herbert to make me a great axe.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:09

Does that c like walk me through what that entails? Like, do you have to pay money, provide materials? How does how does how does using the Smithy work?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:19

I would probably need to pay money for the materials. Um a I'm gonna get it up right now, a great axe costs it costs uh 30 gold pieces, so I would need to pay for half. And then I think he can do five gold worth of value a day, so it'd take three days for him to make it. That's part I'm a little hazy on.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:46

So I think uh Yeah, you need uh 15 gold pieces worth of iron steel wood, and then crafting would take seven days in game. Seven days. Yep, it's one bastion turn, which is a week.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:01

Can uh is can he only do a job at a time? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:08

So do you need something from the smithy? Because No, uh that takes seven days. I I can pay 30 gold and buy an axe instead of commissioning one for 15.

unknown 1:45:20

I don't think.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:21

Yeah, but it might be a special axe.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:24

Not at this level. It's just a regular roll and axe.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:28

It it could be, if Brandon wanted to do that, he could make a special axe. It's not gonna be like I wouldn't say it's gonna be a magical uh sentient axe or it, but it could be special to you. You never know.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:43

If you want to put in for a great axe plus one, it would require I would say an extra fifteen gold pieces, so thirty gold pieces total. And you would need to uh let me think about this. How do I want to do this? You want to make it a little bit?

SPEAKER_04 1:46:00

Yeah, um we would need to be ninth level for me to get a uncommon magic item from the armaments table. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:12

How do we get to uncommon?

SPEAKER_04 1:46:14

I I'm just I'm looking for a backup, right? Because if I was gonna spend money to get a plus one, then it would be a great sword, not a great axe.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:24

Are we gonna have a chance to go buy an armory to purchase something in the near future?

SPEAKER_06 1:46:31

Depends on how good your dress is for you.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:33

I I think we're gonna go I think we're gonna rob a magic store is what I heard.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:39

True. That is very true. Well, I think here here's what here's what Voss would like to do. Um to to to add on to your RP of he he's gonna uh venture over to his workshop and spend some time in his workshop. Just approximately like 15 or 20 minutes. He's not gonna hang out here for very long. But he'll uh but then he's gonna find his way over the armory and he's gonna see uh Eldvar ordering a great axe and uh kind of throw out his his gold bag there and say, Hey, well, while you're on it, can you uh make you know make me a better mace than what I've got here? And he'll he'll show the armor his mace and uh want like a mace plus one, I think is pretty much what he would get instead of what he has. I don't even know what'd be an upgraded of for my mace. Uh but this is gonna offer to pay for not only his item, but also Elbar's as a just shine of uh as a sign of friendship.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:41

Okay, so how I would do this with level 5 Bastion, I'm all good with you guys trying to get a plus one. Um I would make you pay the full price for whatever it is, so instead of 15 gold, it'd be 30 gold, for instance. Uh and then when it's done after a week, you would have to roll to see if it was a magical item or not.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:01

And the DC for that would be 15 or higher.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:04

So we're doing a great axe and a mace. Yeah, a plus one great set axe and plus one mace. So what's the total gold piece for that?

SPEAKER_06 1:48:12

You would like a sword instead?

SPEAKER_04 1:48:15

Yeah, if if I'm trying for a plus one, I'd like a great sword, a great axe.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:19

Okay. So the great sword would be first in Q, so that would be the first bastion turn, which is seven days. And then after that, the what did you say? Did you want mace would be the week after that?

SPEAKER_07 1:48:31

Okay. How many total gold pieces am I subtraction for both those?

SPEAKER_06 1:48:35

60.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:36

Easy money.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:38

And uh you said it's uh a 15 on the roll. What skill?

SPEAKER_06 1:48:44

Or is it just a flat flat d20? Straight flat. Straight flat d20.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:48

Yeah, I got guidance. Okay, I subtracted gold pieces for it.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:52

I think that's fair with uh level 5 Bastion.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:58

I think it's more than fair. I like how Harleck is still putting up pictures. I'm liking the neckline there, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:49:08

That's that one's the best.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:09

That's the way it's when you when you said that you were going for like the lower cut, I was like, alright, let me see what I can let me see if I can get it done real quick.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:17

Alright, let me take notes that this is what I said so I don't forget about it. And you also said that we get a level up. Nope, didn't say that.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:29

My notes say you did.

unknown 1:49:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:31

Your notes are wrong. Remember how you say you said to your AI that you're not the DM and you can't make up rules? No. Oh. It's definitely on this recording. What is Harleck doing during this?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:55

Uh Harleck's probably gonna try to try to make up some. Some uh health potions because if there's detect you know, they're detecting magic and healing is seen as like one of the worst things to do. Healing and divine magic, he's gonna try to make sure that there's healing potions around for you know the now Sign Monders guys, too. That's what the garden lets me do. I get to make like one healing potion every so many days or something. So tend to the garden, work on some healing potions and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:29

Tend to the garden. Panic lookovers, yeah, make sure that's not raising for the fertilized right now.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:39

Okay. Uh is there anything that Harleck is growing specifically that he really enjoys? Like uh Nightflower or Sussex Bloom or anything like that?

SPEAKER_02 1:50:48

Uh yeah, we'll go with like Sussex Bloom and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:51

Drown some Sussex Bloom. Alright. Uh Ray, do you actually know what Sussex Bloom is in DD?

SPEAKER_02 1:50:58

Uh it's an ingredient for something on the alchemy table. I know that much. I forget what it's for.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:06

Anti-magic specifically.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:08

Oh. I was gonna say it sounds really familiar.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:12

Okay. I think I think we just made a connection that uh Zane's sister is Sam.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:22

Sam's of Anarchy.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:25

Sam's of anarchy.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:27

Alright, so I think we covered what everybody was doing, right? Zayn's reading in a library. Eldvar and Voss are talking to the Smithy, and Harleck is uh growing some Sussex bloom. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:43

Um Zane will tell his tell Oh, I forgot his name. The assistant guy in the arcane study. Tell him to create his name is Roland. Roland, yeah. He will tell Roland to work on creating a book.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:00

What kind of book?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:02

Just a blank book. That's all he can do at level five.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:06

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:08

Alright. It's it's worth ten gold, so it's ten gold worth of work. So I don't know, that's what it says it can do. I mean, I I was thinking, well, maybe they can work on some, but there's nothing he can really do that would be possibly a magic item. Unless he can randomly create a book that is better than that can be used for something magical, but I don't the other thing the only other thing you can do is make a an ar his uh arcane symbol, but he carries his arc his arcane symbol is generally speaking his sword.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:42

So I'm reading it right now. It's just a blank book, it's not a spell book or anything, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:47

Right. It's just a book to be used for you can take it over to the library and copy books. Cause while we consider books not that valuable, freaking books in medieval times were very valuable things.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:10

He's gonna forge the uh history of Bold Arn to be magic. Borden. That's the that's the one.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:21

Borden. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:23

I mean, I could have him create a an arcane focus that's worth 20 gold instead. I mean, it's just have them doing something. I want to issue an order to them.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:33

Does it cost you anything?

SPEAKER_01 1:53:34

No. They're because the idea being that they're making other stuff and selling it is the the lore side of it. They're making things and selling them and doing stuff to make gold. That's how that's why your none of your hirelings actually cost money. And the low-cost things like books and arcane symbols don't cost anything because they're fairly low cost. And the materials are all there. Like your workshops, your smithies are doing work and then selling the work. And that's how they can not have and that's also why it takes seven days where it would normally only take three. Because they're doing other stuff to offset the cost.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:22

At least that's my impression of the case.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:25

I just always thought that when you have them create something, you still have to pay for materials.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:29

For the higher dollar ones, yes. Are you getting your book? Oh no, the sorry, the book does cost 10 gold. Yeah, the book costs 10 gold, but the arcane focus doesn't cost anything.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:41

Okay. Uh so you want to make the book?

SPEAKER_01 1:54:44

No, I'll make the arcane focus.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:46

Okay. What do you want it in the shape of?

SPEAKER_01 1:54:49

An orb. Okay.

Sign-Off And Credits

SPEAKER_06 1:54:51

Alright. So our next session then, we're gonna get into finding the architect. Uh, Justin, if you're listening to this, get ready. Alright. On that note, I wanna say thank you to everybody for following us like this, give us an idea. It means a lot to us. Make sure you check us out on our social media platforms at facebook.com slash ad story, retweet us on Twitter or ex at ad story too. Follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com slash a d story. And finally, check us out on Blue Sky, BSKY.app at a D Story. If you like all the sound effects and music you've been hearing, make sure you check out Sirenscape at sirenscape.com. I use it for my in-person sessions as well. It really does help set the mood. Um, or just you know, kind of help help set that that silly undertone if you're if you're trying to do something absolutely ridiculous and your players, and none of us ever have this happen, your players take a serious situation and turn it into a circus. Um, never ever. Or they're all wearing dresses. Or they're all wearing dresses. And he froze. And and finally, uh Ray, why don't you take us out tonight?

SPEAKER_02 1:56:06

Thanks for listening. It's been nerdy. It's been dirty.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:13

Man, Ray, why'd you have to mess it up? Okay, bye. All right, bye.