Cold Open And Cast Intros

SPEAKER_09 0:16

Sorry, I wasn't listening, I was busy making smartest remarks.

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Welcome to Oathbreaker, a DD story. I am Brandon the Irish Wookiee, and with me today is Ray.

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Hey, I'm Ray, and I play Harleck, the eloquent Bard Warlock. And Bill.

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Hello, I am Bill. I play Zayn, the half orc warlock male.

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Justin. I left it hanging. There had to be another word to throw at it. Justin.

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Hi Brendan.

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Hello.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

Hi, everybody. I'm Justin. I'm playing Nelvax the Maddie.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

I told you guys to stop putting question marks at the end of the teleprompter. Alright, hi everybody. My name is Maddie. I uh play Voss Dane, a half-elftrist cleric.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Temp Temptress? Temptrist cleric. Temptrist. He's a whore.

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And finally, Andrew. Hey everyone, I'm Andrew. I'm playing Eldvar Olfredson, the not so eloquent fighter, Goliath, a little bit of ranger, multi-class thing.

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Recap Of The Street Battle

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Let's uh let's roll for some recap.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

We got an 11. 19! I don't win.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Natural one. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

You win.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Three.

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Bra blah blah, brava.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Does anybody beat a natural one?

SPEAKER_04 2:46

I beat it with a three.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Okay, great. I think everybody beats the natural one. Andrew, you wanna give it a go?

SPEAKER_07 2:53

Alright, yeah, it's gonna be a three-peat tonight. Uh so we uh after gaining a level or going up a level, we exited the builders hideout. Are you sure about that? Positive. Okay. Uh exited to the uh city where we heard some buildings crashing and some fighting in the distance. We went to investigate that uh thinking that there were citizens to save, and found a frost giant, two giant spiders, and six were guards uh all fighting. There was a building that had collapsed on a man and a woman, and there was a child just kind of standing by itself uh crying, uh, watching the melee landfall. Uh the party decided to act, um, probably in a way that Brandon didn't expect. So Elvar went to go help the giant by uh running up and attacking the Wareguard captain. Um Zane went to go comfort the child by summoning a rather large sword and smiling with his uh half-orc tusks at the child. And uh Nelvax went to go um, I think he first started beating on a guard and uh then maybe fought a spider uh with that. And then Harlach decided to disguise himself as a small child and ran up and uh eventually levitated some of the building rubble that was on top of the people to try and save them. Uh after a lot of missed attacks, um a lot of back and forth between the wear guards and the monsters, and the party just kind of being in the middle, uh we eventually uh got one of the people safe, uh as well as the child. Um Zane casts suggestion on the frost giant to have it kind of help us, and then Nelvax promptly then attacked it and broke that, but then uh uh Voss cast Hypnotic Pattern to just kind of stop everything as it was happening. Uh the party then left and on the way home encountered a traveling merchant by the name of Twill that was a cobald uh with a sack that seemed to be an extra-dimensional space. Uh we asked for a couple items. I think uh Nelvax bought a replacement lantern for Harlick. Uh he also bought himself a tentacle dildo sword. Uh Voss asked for uh Twill to get in contact with Eldvar asked for Twill to put a good word in with uh Voss's mother, and Zayn asked for anything that scared Twill. Um, and maybe something else. Uh I forget exactly what. Uh we ended that uh social encounter with Harleck getting a totally not cursed opal or no uh Onyx. And then uh headed back to our mansion where we had a little bit of RP between the characters. So Harleck asked Zayn to help him identify information about the cursed uh or not cursed um Onyx crystal, uh, which I think the Arcana check was like really, really low, so nothing to be had there. Uh Elvar asked Nelvax to help him uh animate the model of George by stuffing the of LeBron or Leron into it. Uh and after a rather successful strength check, uh George was shattered into four pieces, uh which Eldvar is now carrying around in a basket. And then also uh Eldvar offered some armor to Voss uh because he attuned to the Lux Eater armor, uh which is really awesome armor for um Eldvar. And then I think we took a long rest and oh yeah, uh during that long rest, while Voss was in his trance, uh he got in touch with his patron, uh, which some people think clerics have gods, but Voss is his patron. And uh changed his domain from Tempest or sorry, from trickery domain to Tempest Domain. And so he is now going to wow us with all his lightning prowess. A rhyme. Good job.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Nice. Anybody have anything to add?

SPEAKER_09 7:17

Uh that while we were gone, uh Bastion was more militarized than when we left. Seems that Lorne Sigmander has settled in with his troops and they are making themselves at home or making our home their home.

SPEAKER_07 7:34

Oh yeah, we have we have two catapults now.

SPEAKER_09 7:37

Oh yeah. And uh we were at the end of it, Zayn had a question for the group that never got answered. Um, are we the bad guys?

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Um goes without saying the answer to that question.

SPEAKER_09 7:51

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's uh statistically speaking, we killed more guards than we killed monsters.

SPEAKER_07 8:00

But the guards have attacked us in the past. The monsters had not previously attacked us.

SPEAKER_09 8:05

Technically speaking, the guards are monsters? Um technically. And uh oh, Steinmonder messaged or mentioned that uh we t when we told him about the creations from the builder, that he said there should have been a lot more of them, or something of that nature.

SPEAKER_07 8:27

He said that um Nader Tyke was supposed to stop with that. Because he thought initially that we saw one of them, and then we're like, no, we saw a whole bunch. And he said there were more.

SPEAKER_09 8:37

Oh, and he appears much older and tired than he did when we left. We were gone for like five hours and he aged ten years while we were gone, which is saying something for a dwarf.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Yeah. Well, he's had to give up his uh his his comfy house with the showers and everything like that. Now he's he's uh roughing it in your mansion. At our comfy house with the showers and everything.

SPEAKER_07 9:04

Just a lot in his life. I'm gonna point out that we have electricity.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Uh I mean nobody pigs showers is like one of their rooms, so we don't actually No, we have a spa.

SPEAKER_09 9:15

We have a ghostler.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

You do have a ghostler. We do have a ghostly spa. That's what I'm saying. Wipes you down with baby wipes every day. Spa treat. Alright.

New Powers And Morning Routines

SPEAKER_01 9:24

So right, a everything you said. So, Eldvar, as you are getting up in the morning and you're going to strap on your your brand new armor, um, you you put it on your skin, and the metal's cold when you first lift it. It's not like it's not cold like steel, but it's cold like it's never actually touched the sunlight. Um, and as you tighten the first straps around your body, a tremor runs up your arm, and the plates don't sit on your body. It feels like you almost have a second skin attached to you. Um, like it was made specifically for you. It is the best fitting armor you have ever worn. Uh and as you fasten that final buckle, uh, the world around you dims just a little bit. Um, it doesn't go dark, but it just dims a little bit. And it's as if the armor is drinking the light around your body. I am shadow. I am shadow. And uh Harleck, I need you to roll me a D20.

SPEAKER_05 10:20

Thirteen.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

Okay. Alright, so uh thirteen. Okay. So yeah, Harleck, this this this Onyx stone, it's you're drawn to it, and you need you need to hold it pretty much at all times. You feel empty when you're not touching it. But the the longer you hold the stone, the heavier it seems to be. And uh the glossy black surface seems to not it doesn't reflect anything. Like it doesn't it doesn't show you anything around the room, it doesn't reflect the light. Um but as long as you're touching it, the stone seems to pulse just a little bit. Not like magic or heat, but more like a heartbeat. And you feel this strong pull towards the stone, uh so much so that the first saving throw that you have to throw this this today has this advantage.

SPEAKER_05 11:20

Uh-oh. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

Alright. So, you guys are all up. Uh, what are you doing in the morning? Uh how what what is your normal root uh daily, your morning routine? Uh boss, how are you coming down after that that long night with uh your your uh patron, kinda your new patron, kind of giving you gifting you all these powers. What do the other players see where you're gonna be? Long night.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

Uh I think Voss is just kind of he's he's feeling like his fingers and he can feel the lightning like the tingly. Um he's probably just gonna spend some time in his workshop just contemplating, trying a few new things. He he's got some new spells that he wants to play around with, and just uh he he's gonna take some time to prepare a spell or two. I know that's like a new thing that Clerics have started doing in the most recent rule set. Um he's probably gonna do that. Take some time to prepare his spells.

unknown 12:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

And he'll just be hanging out in his workshop.

SPEAKER_04 12:23

Uh he'll go through his like normal more uh stretches. So is this like more of a whip or still kind of a short story?

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Like uh it's it No matter how the fuck I say this, you guys are gonna make fun of it. So it's a little stiff at first. Uh but the more you wave it around, it loosens up a little bit and it seems to like almost grab things as you as you uh as you move it towards objects. So uh one time during one of your swings you moved a little too close to uh the table in your room, and one of the uh the tentacle on it seemed to latch on and it pulled the table about an inch towards you.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

So is it grabbing like Indiana Jones wrapping around it and grabbing it, or is it cupping?

SPEAKER_01 13:06

No, it's it's the actual cupping on it and you're pulling it. Yeah, a nice cupping action.

SPEAKER_04 13:11

Uh and so the uh I'm just trying to get a visual for this thing. Is it still like a book cups on like the flats of the sword?

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Or is it like No, this is a tentacle, but the cups on it have these barbs that seem to dig in and cut as it touches things.

SPEAKER_04 13:27

Got like little claws and all stuff, and that's where the slashing is coming from. Yeah, so he's gonna spend some time in my just getting a he's gonna keep carrying his Sylvan Cemitar, but he's and he's gonna go get some breakfast.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Of course.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

What's Harleck doing?

SPEAKER_05 13:39

Farlek is probably probably fascinated with his little stone now. Rubbing it and whatnot. Um No, but he's probably getting up trying not to be a bother to everyone in the bastion, like waiting for everyone to get up and uh start moving around, but is eagerly trying to find out what they're doing next. Probably just bouncing around from spot to spot until everyone's up. Maybe hit up the garden.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

He's in there rubbing his stone, screaming, don't bother me while I'm cleaning my room.

SPEAKER_06 14:11

I can clean it as fast as I want.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Careful, buddy, you might rub a hole in it. What about Zane?

SPEAKER_09 14:26

Uh so Zayn will be getting up and he'll walk down into the kitchen area and and greet Mortain and ask him where the coffee is and get some coffee and head to his library to he'll he'll do some stretches, but for the most part he's not doing that. Um and then he'll get a vat of coffee and bring it up to his library and continue researching as much information as he can find out about the the castle and the um what you call it. But he'll have a conversation with the spectral or with uh Mortain while he's waiting for the coffee to be made, asking him anything interesting while they were gone.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Okay. And finally, Mr.

SPEAKER_07 15:10

Eldvar. Yeah, so Elvar was just inconsolable at the loss of George. Um he cried himself to sleep the previous night, uh, and as he puts on his armor, he's like, it makes sense that it's just sucking out all the light because the loss of George has sucked out all the light in uh Eldar's life. And so he begins thumbing through his um leatherbound book of giant magic, and he finds a spot in it uh with a spell that he thinks might be able to help him resurrect George because to him George was always alive, and so he's gonna spend a good hour just staring at this spell, trying to figure out how to make it work, and he's gonna cast Find Familiar, and he is gonna summon George as a familiar. Okay. And so once he has uh summoned George as this familiar, he's gonna just hug it and he's gonna carry it down, and he's gonna eat himself a nice large breakfast of a dozen eggs, probably a side of bacon, um, you know, a gallon or two of milk, and he's gonna be like trying to force feed George at the same time, uh, making sure that he gets his nutrients so he can grow up big and strong, like the children that the builder had. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Uh so does Eldar realize that this is not actually George, it's a Faye creature?

SPEAKER_07 16:44

No, this is this is George.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Okay. I am looking forward to killing this thing multiple times. You've already killed it once. I know.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

You killed it.

SPEAKER_07 16:57

Okay, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Okay.

Twill Dragged In By Guards

SPEAKER_01 17:02

So as you're all going about your normal daily routine, you uh you hear uh a little bit of a commotion outside. Um and the door the front door opens out to any of you that are in the uh the the main uh entrance to the bastion, and one of the guards comes in dragging a short cobalt behind him.

SPEAKER_04 17:29

Um does it look like Twill be Twill?

SPEAKER_01 17:33

It does look like Twill.

SPEAKER_04 17:35

I imagine we would have all heard it and showed up. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Unless one of you is actively ignoring it.

SPEAKER_04 17:42

Do we know this guard's name?

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Uh you've seen him around, but not you've never really stopped to talk to him.

SPEAKER_04 17:49

I'll jump in, but I'm not charismatic.

SPEAKER_09 17:51

So Zayn will walk down and and say, you know, it's it's okay. We we know this guy, we told him to come here.

SPEAKER_06 18:00

Yeah, that's our friend.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Uh the guard looks at both of you and looks down at at at Twill, shakes his head, and just releases him. He says, Next time, use the front door. And he starts walking away.

SPEAKER_09 18:15

Zane will sharply look at Twill. How did you try to come in? There's only one door. So had you gone upstairs into the second floor, you'd have been pretty pretty surprised. There's like literally nothing there. It is a void.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Oh, well. I wonder if there's anybody that needs any items on there.

SPEAKER_09 18:45

Nothing, including people, are there.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

There are other things besides people that need magic.

SPEAKER_09 18:52

It's a negative space.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

You're a negative space.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

Oh man, positivity.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Oh man, let me tell you, I got so many things for y'all. Okay, so first off, uh, saw your mom. Uh okay, here's the thing, boss. I I found her. Um he looks around conspiratorially, making sure that nobody's listening, even though all of you are listening. There are three other guards in this room staring around. And uh he leans in a little bit while not lowering his voice, and he says, Okay, she's in the tower. She's not a prisoner, not not a not exactly. More like uh a highly monitored guest. Uh she's got a fancy bed, uh, guards who never blink, and a window that doesn't open. Uh she's safe, but she's not really free. Uh you could call her a prisoner and everything but name. Um she's she's fine. Like they're treating her well. She gets food, she's able to go out for strolls, but she's under constant guard.

SPEAKER_07 19:59

Alright. Yeah, I mean, I I think we already knew she was pretty fine, but uh let's go here.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

That reminds me. Uh she pulls a paper out of his pocket and looks at it real quick and then shoves it back in his pocket. And uh she sa she looks back at Voss and says, Listen, I don't I don't really know this. Uh she she told me to tell you I don't know who Eldvar is, but uh I I would appreciate if you kept your friends on a leash.

SPEAKER_08 20:25

Yeah, I mean she can she can put me on a leash if that's what she wants.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

And I don't think that's uh quite what she was uh she was intending. So he was actually able to get a message to her? Are you asking that? No, no, so sorry, you're you're implying that he he actually was able to talk to her even though she's in this cell?

SPEAKER_01 20:45

He was able to get some kind of message to her, yes. Okay. She's not in a cell. She's not in a cell.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

In her prison.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Yes. She is able to roam the grounds as long as she doesn't leave the grounds.

SPEAKER_09 20:59

Okay. Is this the arcade the tower organization, or is this just the magic tower for the city?

SPEAKER_01 21:06

This is the tower for the city. Is it also the organization?

SPEAKER_09 21:10

Is it a tower? This is very confusing using the tower as both an organization name and a structure.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Okay, the tower is an organization. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Does the tower have multiple towers?

SPEAKER_07 21:26

Should we hijack a dragon to crash into the south tower?

SPEAKER_09 21:30

So my question is to for lore, is it the tower is the organization? That's what we call, that's what the name of the magic organiz the magic police organization that has since collapsed. The organization has fallen. Um, and then there's a tower, the mage tower for the city. Is that a you said that that's not part of the tower organization?

SPEAKER_01 21:58

It is okay, all magic, but then. Is associated with the government is part of the tower.

SPEAKER_09 22:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

The tower, the mage tower, and this is part of the organization, the tower.

SPEAKER_09 22:10

Okay. Because that's where she's being held as a guest.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Yes. Does everybody understand that? I think so.

SPEAKER_09 22:19

But even though it's even though the organization as a whole has fallen, I'm assuming then each organization, the overall organization has fallen, but each of the towers in their subsequent cities are probably still operating in some capacity. I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

That is probably a safe assumption.

SPEAKER_09 22:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Alright. Is there anything you want to ask, Twill or Jorvin?

SPEAKER_09 22:43

So you said that the guards don't blink? Is that literal literally or figuratively?

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Well, I mean they're not uh meaning they you know they don't really look away.

SPEAKER_09 22:54

Are they still all are all the guards still the were wolf variety? Yep, yeah, they all got big teeth, sharp claws. Who else is still in the castle?

SPEAKER_01 23:07

I didn't see many other people other than the uh administrators, some wizards, uh the guards. Saw the princess a few times, well, now queen.

SPEAKER_09 23:16

Are there any other prisoners other than Voss's mom?

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Listen, I went and got the information that I was paid to get. You want more information, you gotta pay me more.

SPEAKER_09 23:26

Okay. Well, did you get anything else we asked for?

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yeah, okay, so.

Prisoner Mom Intel And Tower Lore

SPEAKER_01 23:31

He pulls out his bag and starts laying some things out on the floor. And he says, as he's pulling these things out, he says, Oh, here's the thing. I have everything you guys have been asking for. I actually pulled it off. Money changed hands, favors were owed, promises were made, I'm in debt to at least two people who don't technically exist. And he starts ringing his hands together. But, you know, these kinds of things that come with a price. So uh monkey boy. You asked me for some bracers. I have three options for you. Who's monkey boy? The monk.

SPEAKER_09 24:07

Oh, monkey.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

Okay. Monkey. I get it.

SPEAKER_04 24:13

Oh, I didn't think you knew that they cut my tail off with a flying disc a couple years ago. That's a real surprise.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Alright, so I've got three items for you. Uh each of them, obviously, you don't have to buy them all, but uh I wanted to bring you some options because the only actual bracers that I found are these cool little things. And he pulls out uh two armbands. And uh it looks the bracers themselves look like they should have a spot to attach thin daggers to them. Um, but you don't see any daggers. And while holding them, he pulls one out, he pulls a dagger from the nothing and throws it into a wall, and it sticks and then it disappears. So called uh braces or flying daggers. Don't know if you really want it, it doesn't really help too much, but you can throw daggers and look really cool doing it. I've also got these things. Uh and he pulls out uh gloves with some claws on top that uh they're called insignia of claws. Uh they will um make your hits a little stronger, uh give you a better chance to hit. And finally, I've got these special bad boys from a friend of yours. Uh well, I don't think he's actually your friend, but wants to be your friend. Said sell them to me, so I can sell them to you if you wanted them. I said they're gonna help you get into places you shouldn't be in. So your three options, Justin, are the braces of flying daggers, insignia of claws, and the gloves of thievery. Um he has not given you gold prices yet, but those are your three items if you want to look at them while I'm going over everybody else's. Alright. Uh big tall bald dude. Fighter? Are you a fighter? I think you're a fighter. Okay. Uh you asked for a big sword. I found a sword.

SPEAKER_08 25:56

It's uh Is it great?

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty great. Okay. Yeah, he turns around and you can see him scribbling on something, and he turns the sword back around and it's in very rough black mark. It says great on the side of it.

SPEAKER_07 26:13

It says, Yeah, it's a big thing. It's just it's not happening this morning. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

He says, yeah, yeah, uh, uh that's a great sword. Um he found a great sword plus one. Okay. Uh alright. Uh Scary Fly Dude, I saw you. You asked for spellings. I've got some spellings for you. Depends on what kind of level spell, what level spell you really want to uh write in. Uh for the amount of ink, uh, it's 50 gold pieces for the first level.

SPEAKER_04 26:48

Is that the bird or the warlock?

SPEAKER_01 26:49

No, they're both warlocks, but I'm talking specifically to Zane. Arlock doesn't fly. He's a bird. He doesn't fly. The warlock that's a bird doesn't fly.

SPEAKER_05 27:00

Um he doesn't know that.

SPEAKER_04 27:07

I guess he flass his arms when he does it too, I bet.

Magic Item Catalog And Hard Bargains

SPEAKER_01 27:10

So I've got some spell inks. It's gonna cost you a few gold pieces if you want it. Depends on how much ink you need. So we can talk about that. Uh ooh, you got some sparkies going on over there, big guy. Uh you said you wanted something with lightning. I've got two options for you. I've got these uh these little gloves that have some I don't know, they're shocky, they hurt me. And then I've also got this uh this this big old javelin. So he pulls out uh storm gauntlets and javelin of lightning. Voss. And finally, for you, my bird friend, uh really between the two of us, you're the only one that's been nice to me. And I was able to offload something that's been worrying me for a long time to you.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

So, kinda like you.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

I found a couple things. You said you wanted uh something to help you disguise yourself a little bit. So I found two options for you. One, I found this cloak lets you change your appearance at any time. By appearance I mean clothing. It really only changes your clothing. It's uh basically like a like a quick slot thing. Uh and then I also found this hat that lets you change everything about you. So he pulls out the hat of disguise and cloak of many fashions.

SPEAKER_06 28:20

Oh, this would be helpful.

SPEAKER_05 28:22

Yeah, I'd probably go for the hat of disguise, even though I can do that now, but that is what I'm looking to get.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Okay. Uh so he says if you're looking at the hat, uh it's gonna be 450 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_06 28:35

Oh! Uh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

I brought you a cheaper option. The cloak over here is only 75.

SPEAKER_06 28:43

Oh, that's not a bad deal. And it does look quite spiffy. Oh. Would you consider maybe doing 300 for the hat?

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Oh, 300. You have no idea what I had to do to get this hat. Uh, roll me a persuasion.

SPEAKER_05 28:58

Only because he offloaded a cursed rock at me. Persuasion.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

It's an 18. Alright. I'll tell you what. I I I do like you, and I I feel a little bad about that whole Black Rock thing. Um, by the way, has it said anything to you yet?

SPEAKER_06 29:18

Uh well no, I don't know how it said anything, but it did look particularly shiny this morning.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Yeah, yeah, that's the first thing. You can never let go of it, right? Yeah, yeah. Um I won't do 300, but I will do 375.

SPEAKER_06 29:32

You got a deal.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Alright, please remove 375 gold pieces from your inventory and add a hat of disguise.

SPEAKER_05 29:39

Yay, redundancy.

SPEAKER_07 29:43

Uh anybody else? Uh Elbar is gonna is gonna test the weight of this great sword in his hand, and uh is gonna look down at Twill and say, um how much for this fantastic great sword?

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Ah, the great great sword, yes, yes, yes, yes. Um, okay, so uh it is well made. I know it's gonna be pricey, but it's gonna be 650 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_08 30:09

Um uh do you do you take payment plans?

SPEAKER_01 30:14

I do not, but we can talk about that in a second. Let me uh let me go around to your friends here.

SPEAKER_09 30:19

So Zayn will look at the investigate the inks and see what does he know about that like what can I use them for?

SPEAKER_01 30:28

Uh so you can use these as part of the magical uh magical ink and components that you need to write spells into spell books. For each level spell is about 50 gold pieces. So the spell ink that he's selling you is fifty gold pieces per level that you want to have enough. So if you want a third write of third level spell, for instance, 150 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_09 30:49

Okay. Can I use them for scrolls? Because warlocks don't have spell books.

SPEAKER_05 30:56

You could get a snazzy grimoire though.

SPEAKER_09 30:59

I could become I could get pack of the tome, but or you could dip a level into wizard.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Does he have enough intelligence for that? Actually, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_05 31:10

Next item, headbandabinelect.

SPEAKER_07 31:12

But you could grab um ritual caster, and that gets you a book as well.

SPEAKER_09 31:18

I think pack of the tome does that too.

SPEAKER_07 31:21

So uh, your packs of the blade, right?

SPEAKER_05 31:25

Yeah. You can have two packs, can't you? You can have all three packs now, they're just invocations.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Yeah. Alright, so depending on the level of spell, it's gonna take a certain amount of days to for you to do. Uh to scribe a scroll, you must have proficiency in the arcana skill and have the spell prepared on each day of the inscription. So from what I'm reading here, you already have to know the spell to write the scroll.

SPEAKER_09 31:49

That's fine. Okay. Uh he'll take some of the ink. Um and ask him if he has any tattoo ink as well. Because that's actually more what he was looking for.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

Sorry, I don't I don't have any tattoo ink.

SPEAKER_09 32:05

Magical tattoo ink. Okay, he'll take uh uh $250 worth of the ink.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

250 gold pieces. Alright, so he hands you five small bottles. Alright, finally you, my sparky friend.

SPEAKER_03 32:18

Yeah, what's the prices on the two items?

SPEAKER_01 32:21

So, uh if you want the gauntlets, 450 gold pieces. If you want the javelin, 550 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

Uh so Voss will uh pull the He's gonna take the ring of the Orator off of his hand and hold it up uh to him and say, Um be interested in taking both of them off of your uh hands. What do you say? Uh we we do the two, and I'll give you this uh for 550. Let's see. Ring of the Orator. Six charges. Uh you can protect your voice to be clearly heard by all creatures within one mile.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

That is a beautiful item. Uh I I I can't part with both of these for 550. But you throw the ring in, I will I'll reduce one of them down to 300. Or I'll give you both for 750.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

800 or both for 750. I think that's a rip off. Alright, well, yeah, how about what do you say? Uh you said 350 for one of them? Is that what your his offer was? I would uh I give you the ring and 200 for just the uh gauntlets.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

Throw him uh give me persuasion roll.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

Guidance persuasion with guidance for an additional because that persuasion check was so for the one on the guidance. That brings me to 11.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

11. Oh, sorry my friend. Uh can't go any lower than 350.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

Yeah, you drive a hard bargain. Let's let's do just a solid three and make this happen.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Taking a 350. Sorry, my friend.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

Uh, alright. Um uh I'm I'm I'm gonna hold on to my my ring. I'm not uh I'm not interested in uh working with someone that's not gonna be willing to deal with me.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

I am dealing, I dropped 200 gold pieces, but okay, okay, okay. I see what you're saying. We can come back to you with uh your friend.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

You dropped only a hundred gold pieces. And I'm giving you a ring.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

I gave either one of you for 350. So you could have gotten the javelin for 350 as well.

SPEAKER_03 34:24

You could have gotten the javelin or oh no, I was talking just one, I was talking just one item. I only want one item. So if he's a if if he's like let's go back. Let's let's keep working on this. Uh so what tell me exactly, what are you valuing this uh this ring here at?

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Alright, so I've gotta take it. I've gotta go sell it. Uh so that's that's time and money on my part. So while the the ring itself is probably, you know, I I probably get five, six hundred gold pieces out of it. Uh that's my time. So I'm gonna give it to you for 200 gold pieces. Or I'm gonna buy it off of you for 200 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_03 34:59

Alright, so uh you you'll give me 200 for the ring of order, and I'll uh I'll give you your original asking price for the gauntlets at 450.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

So you want to buy both for 750?

SPEAKER_03 35:08

No, I want to buy just the gauntlets for 250 plus the ring.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

He's only gonna drop it to 350. He said either item for 350.

SPEAKER_04 35:17

He wants to buy the the gauntlets for 350 and sell the ring for no, he's not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

Oh no, I wanted to buy the gauntlets for 450 and sell the ring for 200. Or, yeah, even better. That's nope, that's worse, but that was part of the trade. Nope, part of the trade. Part of the trade. Now about it, just give me uh 200 200 gold pieces for this ring. Okay, but I'm not gonna sell you these items afterwards. You don't want to sell the items? Uh that's that seems fair to you. Okay. Uh yeah, I'll give you 200 gold pieces. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Alright, he hands over 200 gold pieces. What about you, Nelvex?

SPEAKER_04 35:55

Uh, he's you know, he looks at these items that were- Yeah, these are pretty nice. Uh praise refined daggers seem really nice, but I don't know how far I'd use them. And the insignia clause is cool, but I think mine's about as good. Uh what do you want for these gloves or the ever?

SPEAKER_01 36:08

Gloves, the gloves, yes, yes, yes. Uh, so uh for the gloves, that's gonna be 450 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

You've been doing a lot of business today. Can I talk you down at all? It's been a good trip for you. It's not been that good. I just gave away 200 gold pieces. You didn't give it away, you bought you got a good deal on a ring.

SPEAKER_09 36:25

And you did also get 250 gold pieces for me and and so. Zane will attempt to use help Nelvax with his negotiation using his I'm not good at negotiation, but my my bastion thing, dohicky, right?

SPEAKER_04 36:43

So I've got a good feel for the market and the price and the value. Well you for switching with the gloves. I'm gonna uh give myself the old what'd you call it? Guidance persuasion. I got uh 14 plus I got a 18 per plus I hope pretty good, Zane.

SPEAKER_09 36:59

And if Zayn's fifteen helps at all. Pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 37:03

Uh yeah, I I could drop him down to 400 for ya.

SPEAKER_04 37:06

So then he uh like slide of hands them out of view, and they're like where the gloves were just were in his hand, now there's four.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

Okay. Alright. Uh please take four hundred gold pieces away. Alright, so for my uh my two my two friends over here, I can tell you want your your sword a little too pricey for you. You want your uh oh oh Ray turned his camera off. I thought Maddie just went where I was looking at Maddie, you disappeared. I was like, it's just the game, Maddie. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you.

SPEAKER_03 37:34

Hate you! Oh, I'm not done yet. We're still we're still bartering.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

You're fine, you're fine. So, uh I'll give you guys all your gold back that you just spent. I'll I'll even give you one item for free. Uh if you want to do me a favor.

SPEAKER_03 37:55

Uh before we start uh, you know, talking about favors here, I uh tell me a little bit more about this sword. You uh why don't you be willing to make me a deal on that gauntlet and the sword? I might uh be willing to part with some more gold for me.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

What Elvar sword?

SPEAKER_10 38:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:12

700 gold pieces 450. You said the sword's how much? 700.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

Swords fifty.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

Oh, I already dropped it then. It's 700 in my notes. Alright, 650, 350, 1000 gold pieces. Uh yeah, we can we can uh we can talk about that. I'll I if you're buying them together, I'll give them both to you for 700. That's basically your gloves for free.

SPEAKER_03 38:39

If you want to make that deal, I've got this here uh bloodwell vial. It's a uh wandrous item, so why don't you uh knock a hundred gold pieces off that press and I'll throw in this blood will vial for ya.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Not really interested in it, sorry, friend. I've already spent more than I want to.

SPEAKER_07 38:59

Elvar seeing that uh there's room for barter is going to produce his hand axe. He's gonna say, Oh, I I have um this hand axe right here, it's a it's a it returns, and he's gonna chuck it across the room and then he's gonna summon it back.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

Yeah. Buddy, I got he starts pulling hand axes out of his bag and chucking them across the room, and they just keep coming back to him. I got dozens of them. Don't eat it.

SPEAKER_04 39:24

I can take it off your hands. Nobody says. Guidance? I'll slap it on there.

SPEAKER_01 39:45

Can I help him too? No.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Uh I'm gonna go ahead and use my inspiration. Okay. Wait, inspiration?

SPEAKER_01 39:53

Oh yeah, from your okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

And then I'm gonna go back to my workshop again before we leave. Or maybe that's a once per day thing.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

I think it's a once per day thing.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

What you get?

SPEAKER_03 40:07

Oh, I got 13. Both times. And a one. Man, there's certain items I'm just meant to have. Uh yeah. So a total of 14. It's better than 11. What's a DC on that one, Brandon?

SPEAKER_01 40:21

Twill looks at you and he says, Listen, I'm already throwing you guys a solid here with 700. I'm not dropping it anymore. You can either take it or leave it.

SPEAKER_04 40:31

Listen, why don't you give him the deal for $690 and I'll give you 10? That way everybody wins. I'll I'll just pay him the 700, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Uh Twill just starts packing up his bag.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

Uh Voss is Voss is kind of feeling it as like, yeah, like he's he lost his touch on on negotiating magic items. Yeah, I'll go and give you the 700 gold for it.

SPEAKER_01 40:55

Okay. You guys have now spent more in the last 20 minutes than I've given you in the last campaign.

SPEAKER_10 41:02

So yeah, yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_04 41:06

Is that else or on you? I don't know who it's on.

SPEAKER_07 41:07

I don't know. Uh Elbar will um feel a little defeated that boss just bought his great sword out from under him. Um do I notice that he and so he he now understands it and he and he goes, um that cloak. Uh can I can I get that cloak? Uh for uh and he pulls out a pouch and he starts counting out um what's in the pouch. And he's got a pouch that has uh he'll pull 75 gold out of the pouch.

SPEAKER_08 41:45

You wanted 75 for right? You want it you want the cloak? Yeah. Okay. Everyone else is getting stuff. I I need stuff.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

Uh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. We get we can do that. You know what? Let's just make it 70. I feel kind of bad for you. Uh 67? Twill just kind of shakes his head a little bit and he says seven.

SPEAKER_08 42:11

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 42:12

Make it 69, we got a deal.

SPEAKER_08 42:15

Uh nice.

SPEAKER_07 42:18

And uh Elvar will double count one of the the gold pieces and give him 70. But say that it's 69.

SPEAKER_01 42:26

Okay. Um Twill takes it, picks up one gold, and fli and kind of flips it back at you. Overpaid there, my friend. Oh yeah. Uh I I I meant to do that, yeah. I mean, if it's a tip, that's one thing. Uh I mean, it's just the tip. Oh, well then I'll take it back. Uh, so do you guys want a chance to earn your money back?

The Fang Heist Offer

SPEAKER_01 42:51

Or just calling it good. I'm interested in Yeah. Alright, so uh you know that whole tower thing? Not the wizard tower, the organization. Just to be very clear.

SPEAKER_06 43:08

I think we might be a little uh a little knowledgeable of it.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So um most of the uh organization itself is kind of fractured apart, and the the individual towers are are individual like city towers, they're just kind of holding things together in in their in their own cities, in their own areas. Well, uh there's there's one in the next town over that uh it's an old one. It's kind of a a bad one, bad tower stronghold. Uh there's a vault underneath of it, and there's uh it's got something that my people worship. It's called the Fang of the First Cobold. Uh it's sacred to us. Uh priceless. Uh it's uh you could say it's hope in the shape of a tooth. Um and I want it. I I need it. So if you bring me the fang, all those items I just sold you, I'll give you your money back. What is it? It's it's Seems like you put a price on it. Yeah, I I put the I put the price on the items that I sold you. But it it you said it's priceless and you'll give us money for it. Yeah, yeah, sure, it's uh it's worth uh he does uh math real quick. I don't know how much you guys just gave him.

SPEAKER_04 44:18

Let's see, two fifty four fifty seventy, seven hundred seven hundred. So it's seven.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

Yeah, it's worth about sixteen hundred and twenty gold.

SPEAKER_09 44:29

So Zayn will kinda look at his face and try to look in his mouth and see if he has fangs.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Uh Twill?

SPEAKER_09 44:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

Oh. Uh Twill kind of pulls his head back from you a little bit. Wait, what are you looking at, my guy? Do you have fangs? He smiles real big, and his his his mouth reveals kind of like an alligator smile, so you can see his fangs in there.

SPEAKER_09 44:58

Okay. Okay. Well, learn something new every day. Hey, no, sorry. Huh. Is there anything stuck in team new every day?

SPEAKER_01 45:06

What'd you say, Justin?

SPEAKER_04 45:07

Is there anything stuck in his teeth?

SPEAKER_01 45:10

Um Yeah, there's a little tuft of brown fur in there.

SPEAKER_04 45:14

Hey, uh, Twill, you got a little he just like gestures.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Oh. He he uh kind of lifts his lip up and takes his finger, rubs it out, rubs it out, and then uh looks at the hair, puts it in his pocket, and said, I told her to shave. Anyway, you guys want to hear about this or not?

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Sure. Yeah, what can you tell us?

SPEAKER_01 45:40

And this has been Ray's Corner of Corruption.

SPEAKER_04 45:44

He's so happy looking over there.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

Should have seen his face when I said it. It was just mouth drop.

SPEAKER_05 45:51

Very unexpected. I was just not expecting it. Oh man. That was a random text I got the other day.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Somebody texted you. I just finger blasted that whole rope.

SPEAKER_05 46:09

Yeah, and they were like, just finished the episode. That was so good. I was like, that's awesome. Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 46:16

And that was your takeaway from it, huh?

SPEAKER_05 46:18

Yeah, it was uh one of those like, oh man, I woo, this is way too too many people I know are gonna be listening to this, apparently.

SPEAKER_04 46:26

So you might have more fan interaction than I do.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

So uh what are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 46:36

Uh yeah, tell us more. I'm all about a heist.

SPEAKER_01 46:39

Okay, so there's a lot of guards there. Uh at least the last time I was there. Uh, you're probably gonna have to sneak in. It's gonna have to be quiet. Um so I don't know what that looks like for all of you, but uh I I wouldn't do a frontal assault. Uh maybe try to get into a second story window. Hopefully there's not a void or a negative space there. And uh sneak in, get to the basement without being spotted, steal this thing, get out.

SPEAKER_04 47:05

Is there any kind of traps or alarms or anything to vaults?

SPEAKER_01 47:09

Oh, I uh I don't really know. Okay. I'm about to tell you guys something that I don't really share with too many people. Um, and you all hear Twill's voice in your head. Uh and he it says at the same time to all of you, and Twill's not moving his mouth when he when he's speaking. He says, uh, I can uh I can communicate telepathily to anybody that I see.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

Uh Novak winks at him.

SPEAKER_07 47:39

Eldvar is like looking around for the source of the voice.

SPEAKER_01 47:45

Everybody else taking it in stride?

SPEAKER_05 47:47

Yeah. Yes. I'm immune to telepathy unless I allow it. So I'm assuming I get like a probe of the we know who it is.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

Yeah, you see you see a box appear in front of your eyes, Harleck, and it says uh request from Corbin Twill. I figured it was like a deny.

SPEAKER_07 48:08

I figured it was like a 1950s uh operator. It's like, I have a mind-to-mind call from Corbin Twill.

SPEAKER_05 48:18

Do you accept Harleck was a psychide?

SPEAKER_01 48:23

Uh so he says, Yeah, uh the guy that I first sent in there got to a window. I was able to talk to him for a second, and then he was pulled out. So uh or pulled down from the window. Haven't seen him since. Uh you guys would not be the first ones that I've sent in there.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

What do you mean pulled?

SPEAKER_01 48:39

Uh something grabbed him from the window. Didn't see anything.

SPEAKER_07 48:42

Uh where is there? Because we have some other there's that we're supposed to be going to to put the the crown in the box and take the thing out of the box that can destroy humanity.

SPEAKER_01 48:55

Okay, I I I don't really know what that's all about, but uh it's it's in the next town over. Uh about probably fifteen miles down the road. Smaller town, outskirts. Could call it a suburbs.

SPEAKER_04 49:09

Is there anybody you know that might have some more intel on it?

SPEAKER_01 49:13

Unfortunately, not that I'm aware of. Uh but you might be able to find something in the town itself.

SPEAKER_04 49:20

Is there any kind of timeline you need this done by? Because as the big boy said, we're kind of on an important journey. We'd love to get it done. That's a lot of money. We'd like to help you.

SPEAKER_01 49:31

Absolutely, I'd be uh eternally grateful. Uh might have even might might even lower my prices a little more for you guys. Uh but I it it's I all I know is they're shipping artifacts away from these tower places to a central location, and I don't know where that's going. So I don't know when it's happening, but I've already seen movement from some of the other strongholds.

SPEAKER_04 49:53

Well, that might be a better place to get a heist on it.

SPEAKER_01 49:55

If you can find out when it's getting Again, I I I I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 49:59

No, we might be able to find some of that out if we get to the town. We're pretty crafty uh Intel collectors.

SPEAKER_04 50:07

Cool. Uh well if we uh manage to pull us off, how would we get in touch with you? Oh, we got you You have my business card. Sorry, does it like magically send I forget? Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_05 50:19

You did it while he was in front of us and then he blinked back into existence. He was unhappy about it.

SPEAKER_04 50:25

Sounds like God'd be willing to help. So we're what do you what do you plan to do with this uh it's a it's just a holy item for my people.

SPEAKER_01 50:39

It doesn't really do anything, it's just it's holy.

SPEAKER_04 50:43

Just making sure I like to feel a little responsible for the personal pride.

SPEAKER_01 50:46

Uh yes, you see, that's why you just selling things a lot easier. I don't care who I sell to as long as they give me the money.

SPEAKER_08 50:52

Uh speaking of money, um we're we're just the crown and the box kind of taking precedence. Can you can you up your price and give us more money to actually do your thing? Because we gotta put the crown and the box in the castle.

SPEAKER_01 51:09

No, I think uh I I I I think sixteen hundred and twenty gold pieces is a pretty good amount of money. Well, you did just tell us the last guy died. Yeah, that's why it's sixteen hundred and twenty gold pieces.

SPEAKER_06 51:20

Plus hazard pay.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

Same.

SPEAKER_09 51:25

So what uh Zayn will ask, so what's the time frame? I apologize if this was covered. I lost audio for a couple of minutes.

SPEAKER_01 51:33

Um Yeah, basically he doesn't he doesn't have a time frame, but he knows magical items are being moved from other towers um and from other strongholds into a central location, but he doesn't know where that central location is, and he doesn't know uh when this stronghold is going to have its items moved.

SPEAKER_09 51:51

They will look around the group and say that we we have some commitments that we have to take care of right now, but I can say that we'll definitely put it on our list of things to do. And he looks around the party to see if there's any a consensus of agreement or disagreement.

SPEAKER_04 52:07

No, I think we're also gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_07 52:08

Elvar Yeah, El Elvar will like enthusiastically nod his head. Um he's not sure that he understands what you just said, but he's not in an agreement.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

Yeah, Voss isn't gonna put a a uh a task for the cobalt above their other priorities. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 52:28

Saving a country and the world? Yeah, um that's higher priority.

SPEAKER_03 52:32

Or his mom. It's pretty high priority for him, too. Well, goes away.

SPEAKER_09 52:38

Your mom goes away too.

SPEAKER_03 52:40

I mean Yeah. Maybe.

SPEAKER_09 52:43

Yeah, maybe.

unknown 52:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:46

So uh tools say, alright, well, uh did what I could. Uh keep me in mind, I appreciate it. Otherwise, give me a coffee if you guys need anything else.

SPEAKER_09 52:55

So Zane will thank him and ask him if he sees any enchanted tattoo tools, tattooing tools, to keep him in mind.

SPEAKER_01 53:06

Uh yeah, I can definitely do that. I come across it every once in a while. There's uh there's normally one big bad guy, or or not bad guy, my bad. Uh one uh one big dude or another that that wants that magic tattoo. Yeah, we can do that.

SPEAKER_07 53:18

And um if if you if you see any giant artifacts, um I'd be interested in in getting some of my people's artifacts back.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Oh, like not just like giant giant the race, not like just big.

SPEAKER_07 53:33

Yeah, I can do that.

SPEAKER_08 53:35

I mean they're they're they're pretty big, uh, especially for you as a cobalt.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

It's uh obviously, and he pulls a little piece of hair out of his pocket. It's not the size of the van.

SPEAKER_08 53:47

Okay, yeah, but but these are these are big.

SPEAKER_01 53:51

Uh okay, yeah, I'll keep an eye out for him. Thanks.

SPEAKER_04 53:55

While they're talking, can I take my for a test drive and just to see if I can see if they work.

SPEAKER_01 54:02

Steal it off of us?

SPEAKER_04 54:03

Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna keep it. Maybe I'll can I do actually two different ones, one to steal it and one to give fucking L far fire. Try to steal the javelin off of No no no. Let's keep it in the house. We have this is a business partner.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

So yeah, that would be a contested role. It would be your sleight of hand versus his perception.

SPEAKER_04 54:23

Oh wait, I saw a guide.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Is that with the plus five from the gloves?

SPEAKER_03 54:28

Uh perception?

SPEAKER_01 54:30

Yes, please. Unsettling words.

SPEAKER_03 54:33

Uh I'll use my do it. Can I guidance myself on this?

SPEAKER_07 54:36

Since I'm would it be would it be passive because he's not actively trying to look around for this?

SPEAKER_03 54:43

I guess it's make much sense. Passive. 12 without the guidance, 15 with the guidance.

SPEAKER_01 54:49

So yeah, your passive perception is 13. Uh yeah, somehow, uh Nelvex, you're able to pull this giant fucking great sword from Voss without him seeing you pull it from him.

SPEAKER_04 55:03

Excellent. Now can I slip it into does Elvar have like a belt? Shimmy this thing into?

SPEAKER_07 55:08

I mean, it's like five feet long, but uh I'm not saying it's easy.

SPEAKER_06 55:13

Or twice his cheeks.

SPEAKER_07 55:16

Yeah, he he's there's a belt somewhere in that plate armor.

SPEAKER_04 55:20

How's the 262? Oh wait, plus a D. I think.

SPEAKER_01 55:23

Uh yeah, Elvar, hey, as you're staring at Twil explaining these giant artifacts, uh, you suddenly feel a weight on your left hip. How did the scrapesword get inside me?

SPEAKER_03 55:37

So, as bosses, uh Voss is a bit distracted because he's putting on his gauntlets and uh messing around with those. Um but then as soon as he he he does, and you feel like their conversation wrapped up with Trilly says, Hey uh Elvar, I got this uh this greatsword. Wait, where'd where'd the greatsword go? And he's kind of looking around like he dropped it or something. I don't need it. Yeah, buddy, you can give me whatever you want to. No, don't worry. Just here, yeah, you this'll this'll be good for you to have. Don't don't worry about it, buddy, here. But I can't I can't find it. Where did the uh where he's looking around? Do I see that it is now on El Dvar's belt?

SPEAKER_01 56:26

Uh yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty tran it's pretty apparent that his uh there the giant sword is on the on a loop on Eldbar's armor.

SPEAKER_03 56:35

Okay. So this alright. Uh hey, so uh I man, I I must not fully understand the magic behind these gauntlets, but uh yeah, yeah, that uh that guy that great score that great sword there, uh make good use of it, buddy.

SPEAKER_08 56:52

No, I'll I'll be sure to bash something skull in for ya.

SPEAKER_03 56:57

Uh will we have a time to attune these items as well?

SPEAKER_09 57:01

Yeah. Wait a minute. So Zayn asks him, do you know how swords work?

SPEAKER_04 57:06

No, Zayn would say you hold it and you punch them.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

Uh I'm gonna say, yeah, if you guys if you guys spend uh a short rest period in your own bastion, you can attune to the items.

SPEAKER_03 57:18

I'll probably go back to my workshop and play around with it for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 57:23

Alright. So uh I do want to take a five-minute break here, but before we do that, I I want to talk

Picking The Next Main Heist

SPEAKER_01 57:31

to you guys. What was uh what plans do you all have? Like what is the next part of the heist?

SPEAKER_04 57:36

I figured uh He seems to be the brands of the operation.

SPEAKER_07 57:39

Well, we've got two places that we need to go. We either need to get the key from the key master or we need to go rob a magic store.

SPEAKER_09 57:46

Yeah, that yes.

SPEAKER_07 57:48

So you've already got the key.

SPEAKER_01 57:50

We have the plans.

SPEAKER_09 57:51

We don't have to key that opens any lock.

SPEAKER_01 57:53

Sorry. You have the plans, yeah. You need to either get the key or you need to get the magic chest from uh Recio store and then take it to a place to open it.

SPEAKER_04 58:04

Uh wait, I thought I was the key.

SPEAKER_09 58:09

So I'm thinking we need to go to the spell warehouse place.

SPEAKER_07 58:13

Especially now that we know that magical artifacts are being like that's probably gonna be the versus a tomb that hasn't been discovered in however long.

SPEAKER_09 58:23

Right. We don't need the key that can open any lock to get into the that's for the to get into the um palace, right?

SPEAKER_07 58:31

Yeah. I still think I should take a crack in it. I mean we we could just go for it and we could open the box in the palace.

SPEAKER_09 58:38

We we talked about that.

SPEAKER_01 58:40

Yeah. Definitely can do that. I after you guys brought it up, I wrote a scenario for that to happen.

SPEAKER_07 58:52

Yeah, we can't let that effort be wasted. Speed run to the end. Alright, five-minute break.

SPEAKER_01 59:01

Uh, which one are you guys doing? Oh, magic items. Magic shop.

SPEAKER_09 59:07

Yeah, the magic storehouse. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 59:10

Yeah, let's take a look.

SPEAKER_09 59:11

That's what we're gonna tell you right now. Then we'll change our mind when we get back.

SPEAKER_01 59:15

That's what you guys are doing.

SPEAKER_03 59:17

And we're gonna go chase down the cobalt's quest.

SPEAKER_01 59:20

I'm gonna railroad the shit out of you all.

SPEAKER_09 59:22

We're gonna attack the palace.

SPEAKER_07 59:25

And we're gonna side with all of Gate. We're gonna go find the giant and we're gonna have them attack the palace.

SPEAKER_01 59:32

Alright. Yeah. So is there anything else you guys want to do in here before you go talk to Reseo? Make sure that Twill leaves. Uh yeah, Twill is packing up his stuff and and he heads out the front door, and right before he heads out, he uh he looks at the guard that had him and dragged him through the door, and he smiles at him, winks at him, and then steps out.

SPEAKER_09 59:55

Um the only other thing that Zayn would want to do is check in with uh Seinmonder if Simon is awake.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:08

Uh he has a large cup of something steaming, but uh you can you can smell a little bit of booze on him as well.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:14

So Zayn will tell him we're heading out.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:19

Yeah, I I figured. I I heard I heard the cobalt out there. So uh make sure you talk to Risio before you go. He's got some more information you're gonna need.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:29

Do you know where he is?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:31

I I'm sure he's in a library, that's where he spends most of his time.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:35

Did I see him or did Zayn see him while Zayn was in the library? It's a big library.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:40

Yeah, it's a big library.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:42

Right, it is, but well, I mean it's actually two kind of separate libraries that are across the hall from each other.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:49

Maybe with their next to each other maybe like side to side, and we we installed a secret bookshelf that swivels so that you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:56

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's just the bookshelf to go from door to uh to room to room.

unknown 1:01:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:01

Research in the other one.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:03

He's always he's on the the bookshelf that spins, so no matter what we do, he's never in the same room as us.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:10

Right. Good old Scooby-Doo.

Meeting Risio In The Library

unknown 1:01:14

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:14

So you guys heading up to the library? Uh.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:18

Alright. Is this every I don't think everybody is? I'm probably still gonna be in my workshop till I get ready to leave.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:24

Okay. So all of you that are going up to the library, you find Risio sitting at a table, and he looks up to you, and uh he he gestures at the at the table, and there are five seats around it. It's almost as if he was expecting you. And he's got a map spread out on the table, and he says he says, Please sit. This uh this isn't a story for anyone else's ears. So I I I'm assuming you guys are going after the uh Emporium of Marvelous Rarities next.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:56

No, we're going to the tower.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:59

Oh, well, I'd have nothing to do with that.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:02

Yes, we're going there.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:04

Oh, okay. Uh I I know I told you we need to get in there so we can get you know, so you can open up this box and and get rid of everything, but uh I w I'm not gonna waste your

Emporium Map Keys And A Grudge

SPEAKER_01 1:02:17

time. I I do need to tell you a little bit of a background though. This this you're gonna need to take this map, and I I know exactly what the what Master Ranbert is, and I know what he did to my wife. He pulls a small locket out from his vest, and inside you can see uh a photo of a beautiful half-elven woman um with blue eyes, uh confident smile, and her hair tied back, and uh Recio's voice is barely holding it together as he continues, and he says, uh foolish. Foolish the way that love blinds even the clever ones. Uh my wife and I, Aranthia Avrathia, uh, we we met, we were thieves. Not the cruel kind, but the smart kind, the clever kind. Um the Emporium, it was the grand prize, a vault full of artifacts and horrors. We planned it for years. Uh Avrathea infiltrated the place as a student under the master uh under Master Randbird, and uh we thought he bought it. Act line, act, hook, line, and sinker. But uh this is what she's got. And he he reveals a map, and on the map itself it's got uh look it's got four X marks that have uh switch over top of it. There's two vault doors, and there are rooms labeled Sentinel Quarters, Lab, and Lecture Hall. And a scribbled warning that says do not touch the painted clock in capital letters, or in uppercase letters, like bold. Uh this is this is what she uncovered. Uh there are four switches to get into the vault. You've got to activate them, and then you've got about ten minutes to get into the vault door and turn both keys. Uh Avrathya mapped it all, and he hands you all the map. She planned uh she planned a waiting for me, but the day Rambert left the shop, she saw her chance, and she went in alone. As soon as she stepped into the inner vault, there was a teleportation circle, and she didn't know she stepped on it until it was too late. Uh his eyes lower and he his voice gets a little darker, and he says She found herself in an underground cavern beneath Cloud Peak, face to face with this massive crystal that stuffed out every spell she tried. Uh and someone was waiting for her. She said she saw Ranbird there, but the things he said, the way he spoke, it it it wasn't it wasn't him. I think that was the day that everything changed. She was able to get back through the circle. Uh she grabbed one thing on her way out, that that chest, and then she came here. Uh she she kissed me, gave me her notes, made me swear not to follow her, and then she disappeared and I never saw her again. But I know the truth, I know Randberg killed her. I can feel it in my bones. Now I hear he's got something in his chambers, something that looks like her. Something he's pieced together. I know we're here for the box and to get what's inside of it, but I want him, and I want him taken alive, and I needed to hear what he did. So I'm asking you all as a personal favor to me to bring him to me alive.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:35

We'll make every effort. Yeah, we'll do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:38

Does the party know who this Ranford person is? I know Mon or Voss is not here, but I don't recognize this name.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:46

No, he's the proprietor of the uh of the Emporium. Uh Risio then digs in his pockets and he pulls out a couple things. And He hands you he's already handed you the map and he's gonna hand you two keys and he says these are copies. Uh they they should work on the vault.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:11

Good.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:12

I I've I've never done it. It's it's she's the only one that's been in there.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:16

So the teleportation circle is in the vault?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

Yes, in the inner in the inner vault.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:23

How will we recognize it?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:25

How will you recognize the word?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:27

Or the teleportation circle.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:30

I'm not sure on that. I I imagine that there's some kind of rune or ritual circle there, but I've not seen it myself.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:38

I mean, is it a teleportation circle, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:06:43

Uh I can I try to do like an archival check to see if I would know what uh one of those would look like. I know I know the actual spell, uh, you have to write out sigils around it, and a permanent one I think has sigils and such, so. That's player knowledge.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:00

Yeah. Can I assist somehow? I think Novex would know about that. His you know, growing up, well not growing up, but like being a a monk, he would know something about stealing from magical incantations.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:10

You can roll it yourself, but he's trying to recall his own knowledge, he wouldn't be able to help him.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:15

I got a 21.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:17

Okay. A two. Uh you're not much help here, Novex. Uh uh, so uh Harlek, you you know that typically uh these circle of tra teleportations, they are intricate sigils that are twisted and coiled uh around a ring, and they're edged deep in some kind of stone or wood or other hard material so they can't be scratched out, and you've got to the the sigils themselves have to indicate a location that they will be teleported. Normally a one-way trip, so you can't go back and forth between them. Uh, it is just a from here to there type of thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:00

Uh and I I reiterate that as best I can to the like, uh well, if it is a teleportation circle, you know there should be signs and sigils and you know, some way of telling you where it's going, and we should be able to figure it out, at least know if it's there or not.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:17

So don't step on words and symbols on the ground.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:23

That's all easy. Always a good plan.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:28

Uh uh Reese smiles a little bit at your banter, and then he pulls out one other thing, and it's it looks like a little bit of a liquid in a normal clone bottle with a sprayer and all that stuff, like a bulb to spray it. And he says, This is uh this is something special that I've been working on. Uh it's it's I I I call it a cologne of dispelling. Uh you just spray it on a ward and it should immobilize it for a little bit. So if you run into a trap or something, some kind of magic item. I've tested it. It does take magic away from whatever you spray it on for a very short moment. So you might be able to use it in a bind.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:11

Ooh. That sounds quite nifty.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:15

Does it smell good?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:16

Uh no. It smells awful. Like, absolutely terrible. You ever you ever had a giant shit on you? And he looks over towards Elvar and he says, No offense, big guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:26

He smells like Bigfoot, dick.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:30

I didn't even realize I was present for this. Oh, you're not in the library? Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:36

Are you serious?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:39

Okay. Uh yeah, you ever had a giant shit on you? That's what it smells like.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:44

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:45

But I'll get drunk one day and I'll tell you some stories. Listen, I I've I've waited twenty years for justice, and I'm not strong enough to do this, so you've seen what's out there. And I've told you about crystals that kill magic. Like you've survived things that most adventurers never see even in their nightmares. Please help me finish this. Bring this man to me.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:12

How big is the chest?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:15

Uh so you've not seen it.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:18

But Oh, I thought he gave it to us.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:20

No, he did not give you the chest.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:23

You've not seen it, but uh, based off of how he's described it, it's uh it's about eight by eight by eight. Inches or feet? Inches.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:34

Okay. Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:35

Is there anything we need to worry about with uh Master R himself? Do we need to have like some kind of anti-magic warding on him or just some regular shackles or some rope will do?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:44

I I suspect that he uh he's made a deal with otherworldly powers. I think he's a warlock of some sort. So if we bring him back on like the brink of death, is that okay, or as long as he's breathing, I need answers more than blood. And once I hear the truth, then I'll decide what he deserves.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:04

I think if we break all his fingers and his jaw and make sure he has no spell components, he should be pretty much harmless, right? Right? He looks at the sp more magically inclined. I'm pretty sure that's how it works, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:11:18

Well, you definitely need fingers and and uh voice to to spell cast.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:24

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I guess if we break all of his fingers and shove something in his mouth so he can't speak, that would uh pretty much limit his ability to cast spells.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:38

Alright, let's go uh let's go gag some spellcasters.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:44

Sounds like a good day. Let's go gag some spellcasters. What are we gonna gag him with, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:50

Harleck's gonna just like snap a spangers and a whole assortment of like like ball gags and and crap gonna appear in the air.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:02

He's like, let's get to it, gang.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:06

There you go. Or like a leather zipper mask.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:10

Grey corruption, sixty-four percent complete.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:18

You could have pulled out knitkerchiefs.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:23

To raise family and friends, this is who you love.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:29

This is your fault. Don't let your friends play DD.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:35

The satanic panic was real this whole time.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:40

In case you're wondering the kind of dungeons we're talking about. You know.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:46

These dungeons got carpet on the wall.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:48

Um so where's the chest that we're going to disable or to empty?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:55

Alright, so this is the kind of awkward part of this whole thing.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:58

It's at the lucky leap.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:00

Kinda forgot to grab it.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:02

Looks at Risio. You forgot the key to the whole thing, and you've been sitting here for days.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:17

You're gonna go grab it, right? Alright. Uh well, I can't show my face.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:22

What do you think we're doing?

SPEAKER_09 1:13:24

You guys are a little sane will pull his into it, reach into his bag and pull out a decide g disguise kit and a dress. And didn't you already show your face when we went to the zoo?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:39

Yeah, that's why I can't go back. That was fucking scary. You won't even do this for your wife, Risio?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:49

I'm gonna die in the space.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:50

Or intimidation, depending on how you're doing it.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:53

Zayn is gonna pull out some intimidation if this is.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:56

I'll go persuade. Oh, yeah, that's a three. I uh I don't know where this is hold on a second, let's see what it is, right? Her name's actually a ride. You're not gonna do it for your wife and Ivy, bro?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:13

Uh Risia's eyes lower, and where there's normally a smirk on his face, it's completely gone, and he stares at you very coldly. And he says, Friend, I'm gonna give you a pass because I know that uh you've aren't you're under a lot of stress. We're in a weird situation. Um if you ever bring my wife's name up again, you ever bring my wife up again in conversation and try to use her to manipulate me, you and I will go to blows. I probably won't win, but I promise you're gonna have to put me down to stop me.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:45

Absorb up the step forward and say, all insults aside, this is this is something to save the realm and the country. And starts kind of taking us another step forward and keeps moving closer to Risio and says, You can't even be bothered to try to you're supposed to be some kind of sneak thief, and you can't be bothered to go back to your tavern to pick up the box that you're supposed to be providing to us.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:21

Call me intimidation.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:23

19?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:25

Uh without saying a word, Risio leaves the room.

Lucky Leap Detour And A Blowup

SPEAKER_01 1:15:29

He walks away from you all.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:32

That went well. Yeah, it could have gone better. Yeah, I guess we'll have to go to the lucky leap.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:40

Probably that first. I think it's probably easier than uh imagine.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:48

We we need the box before we get to the place, so.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:53

Even better.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:54

Alright. So gather up the troops and let uh Seinmonder know we're heading out and tell Mortain to keep the f keep the fires warm.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:05

Okay. So Alright, let me get the uh map together for this. Full disclosure, I was not expecting you guys to go.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:17

Yes. Well, we wouldn't have gone to the lucky league.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:24

I thought it was I already wrote all of this stuff. I thought you were railroading us through not. In the most the most respectful of good railroadings.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:36

We're gonna get there and find out that the box is actually at the monster menagerie. It's at the churro stand.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:43

It's a churro stand.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:44

You guys didn't see it. And it all comes back to the churro stand. You didn't mention the churros in the recap.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:51

Yeah, you're right, I forgot about that. There we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:07

I always forget to to in person I could do it with it.

Disguises And Walking Back Into Town

SPEAKER_01 1:17:13

Are you all going are you waiting for nightfall? Are you going during the day? What is the party's decision? How are you gonna approach this?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:21

It's like a two-hour walk, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:23

Yeah, it's about a two-hour walk. It's uh probably mid morning right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:27

Uh now, dresses. We'd like us to get there a little early and then scope out the joint and see on the outside, see what we can learn, because our intel isn't really great. Like those. We'd like to get get to the shop first, look around, hang out at the tavern, have a couple drinks, pick up the box drinks, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:45

At this point, we kind of know the tavern's not operating like a tavern, right? It's abandoned. We don't know. We don't know what it is. The owner of the tavern's seeking refuge at our house. Can't imagine the tavern's still operating. Well, no, but it might be half people.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:04

Yeah, there's beer in it, so there might be homeless folks, or there might be werewolves. We there's no idea there's no way to know. Just tell vacuum.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:15

So all the more reason to go when we can and pass by nonchalantly, see what we can see, learn a little something, so we're not the first time we see these live live action time.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:24

Do we feel as though is the um is the meter of our suspicion still high? Like if we venture, do we feel safe entering into the city without being noticed or targeted?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:37

So all of the guards that have seen you all have been killed. Uh well, all the guards that have seen you on your on your most recent trip in the city have been killed. The a few of the civilians have seen you, the citizens have seen you, but that's about it. So you could probably, as long as you were smart about it, confidently slip in.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:00

Yeah, because we've shown ourselves to do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:04

Dress as it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:06

Elkbar is an extremely careful person.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:09

So Voss will hold up his little pink fancy. Oh uh, do you think we should uh use these again to uh you know manipulate our way into the city?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:21

Well, they worked last time, and I do appreciate the airflow.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:25

It was quite nice if I do see so myself.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:29

Well, I definitely think we should be disguised when we go in there. Um although we we don't know what we're walking back into. It might be nothing there. I think maybe we should try to get close first and and see uh see what it's like when we get to the outskirts. That's just my th my thoughts. We could always change when we get close there.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:52

Sorry, you're suggesting that we change when we get closer?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:54

I was saying we could just travel and like when we get to the outskirts of things, depending on how things look when we're doing like reconnaissance and whatnot.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:02

Um I think Voss is already half putting the dress on and says, it never hurts nothing to do uh just to wear this little pink number into town. Take you out for a good night, you know, it feels good.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:17

Feels good on my skin.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:20

Zane looks at the rest. I think he likes the dress. Just see if we get back to town.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:29

He's got his new like sparkly gauntlets on with the dress.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:33

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Not gonna yuck anyone's yum.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:38

We get back into town, and the the guards in the city gate are like, oh good, the cross dresses are back. Must be Sunday. Going to fucking perform porch again. Which is a good way to earn some coin, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:54

Good. You do it's almost like you have a bard in the party. Alright. Let's give a second for Bill.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:00

No, damn it. Missed my keyboard.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:05

Alright, I'm back.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:06

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:06

Hey guys, can you hear Bill at all? No, I can't hear Bill.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:15

So uh you all are gonna go there during the during the day. Gonna go grab Elvar and Voss. Voss is wearing his dress, the rest of you are not.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:26

To be determined. We brought it up. We have our dresses.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:29

We all have the dresses. One other thing to add. When you guys walk into the workshop, you uh see Luss like holding or Lus. Voss holding the half-completed Lux Stone. And then he quickly like sets it down on the workbench and then gets up and walks out with y'all.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:46

What does it look like as a half-completed Lux?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:49

It looks like the L and the U, but the CK is just not there anymore.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:56

So it's like a hunk of rock that you're just like slowly like scraping over with like a pencil over and over? It's like like you're a junior high kid just scraping letters into a piece of wood or what?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:06

Oh, he hasn't it's it's just like a piece of stone that's like you can tell has been modified, but it's definitely not done. And I don't think boss even knows what to do with it. He just knows that it was uh Xanfers. So are you making a lust stone? No, luck luck stone. Oh. Well you said it just not making it. He was just holding it. And then he set it down and then got up and walked out. Imagine it looks like this.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:37

That looks very canonically like a sending stone.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:41

Instead of Hertzstone.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:44

Alright. So you guys are walking into town. Yep. I'm assuming you've grabbed Eldvar and Voss on the way.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:52

Ah crap.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:54

I knew it was double back and grab Eldvar.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:59

Eldvar is just like hanging out in the uh the bar area playing with George. Perfect.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:05

Yeah, I feel like there needs to be something about that. Uh hold on. Uh that's traumatic from my childhood. Uh so like immediately taken aback when I walk in and see it's how how like what, two feet tall, probably? Three feet tall, maybe? Not a full space.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:19

He he said it was one-twentieth scale, so if they were it's about the size of a raccoon. I don't think. It'd be bigger than that. You said full size, they were like eight feet long, so it's about the size of a raccoon. One eighth would be like half by half by half.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:37

About the size of a raccoon.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:38

Okay. It's about the size of a raccoon. Just playing on uh Eldvar's shoulder.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:45

Uh yeah, walk into the bar, and like as soon as I see that thing, there's a tentacle in my hand, and I'm like in a combat stance pointing my tentacle. You baby George. Oh, cocky.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:56

Don't don't point your your slapstick at George. Um he's just serving drinks. Aren't you, George?

SPEAKER_08 1:24:03

Go get the man a whiskey.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:05

Uh yeah, George jumps down to the bar and even he he spills a little bit of whiskey, but he's able to get uh about a half a shot into a glass and he pushes it towards Melbax. I'll pull the glass closer to still eyeball that little f George gives you a one-handed salute and then jumps back up onto Eldvar's shoulder.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:27

Wasn't how did this wasn't how when we left him, it wasn't like this. What's Eldvar?

SPEAKER_08 1:24:35

Oh, I I I found a a spell in my my book of giant magic. Um it it took a while for me to figure it out, but once I figured it out, I was able to summon him.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:46

Uh Novax points at him, like, that's giant magic? He's not very big.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:50

I I mean, I'm not very good at it.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:52

Fair point. Well, as long as he doesn't try to like other the people I care about, I guess I couldn't.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:57

He's a total pacifist.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:59

I I don't even think he'd bite me if I stuck my finger in his mouth. I'm gonna stick my finger in his mouth and see if he bites.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:05

I kick his I kick his hand.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:09

The familiar does not bite your hand, but he kind of pulls back, like if you were to stick your finger in your dog's mouth and you hear an audible gagging from him.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:21

I just imagine this thing makes like the worst noises. Like Elbar's like, oh, look how cute it is, and things just like make like all these gurgling clicking noises.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:34

Zayn is just standing by and wait looking in between these two and shaking his head.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:40

He's like I mean, if you guys are cool with this, this is uncomfortable for we'll be fine. But like, we did just see what they we saw what happened to Paul Derrick.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:50

I mean he's it's gonna be a while before he grows to be that big. He he didn't hardly touch his eggs this morning.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:58

He laid eggs turning.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:09

I don't know if you guys heard about my tragic backstory, but you've laid eggs?

SPEAKER_08 1:26:19

He's beautiful. So are we we sitting around drinking or is are we is it time to go somewhere?

SPEAKER_09 1:26:25

No, we're we're leaving. And hands he'll hand Eldvar a large dress.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:31

Oh no, uh my cloak takes care of that, and he will change his cloak of many fashions into a pink uh pink and white polka dot cloak. And then just kind of drape it around himself.

unknown 1:26:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:45

Ooh, so touching.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:46

Yeah. You guys see Elvar in a beautiful pink dress now. One that actually fits him.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:52

Risio's not in here drinking, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:54

Uh, you do not see Recio. Okay, we leave. Alright, uh, where to?

SPEAKER_09 1:27:00

Back to town.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:02

Okay, here we go. Town that we're not welcome in. And Elvar will just like get up and start walking towards town. And then we make it there uneventfully.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:13

Get the box and head to the wonder. Are you guys going are you trying to sneak in? You're going through the front gate. How's this how's it look when you guys get into town?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:22

Uh what does it look like when we get to town?

Magic Detectors And Street Tension

SPEAKER_01 1:27:25

Uh you can see you can see some of the werewolf guards they're patrolling. Uh nobody's really paying attention. It looks like they're more there to keep the peace. So they're not really looking for anybody specifically. Uh you do see a few uh or sorry, you see one particular uh group of these were guards carrying a device that looks familiar to you all as the the magic detectors, but it doesn't seem to pick up on Eldvar's cloak.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:54

Uh is there any are any of these guards recognizable to us as like transporting with? Leadership because we knew like of the of the guards that were assembled who transformed. It's like, do we recognize any of them as people that we need to be wary of?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:07

Nobody sticks out.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:09

Then I would s uh Zane recommends to just cat excuse me, to casually go towards the lucky leader.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:18

Do some uh Assassin's Creed blend in with a crowd and just kinda keep our head down and try walking through.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:24

Yeah, so I do want to try something.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:28

Ooh, okay, try it.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:29

After after we saw the I I was gonna specifically ask if we saw anyone with those magic detectors. Um but if uh if I do see if we do see them, I want to try to uh as indiscriminately as possible uh cast silent image of like a bird and try to see if the detect m if the detector is picking up where the illusion is and where I'm placing the magic, or if it's come if they're detecting where I am casting it.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:03

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:04

Until we get in a fight.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:05

Good call.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:07

Well, I shouldn't it should be pretty much like subtle casting since it's the eldric invocation. I don't have to do anything um other than maybe say something.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:17

So you see over you see uh so har like you see the uh the guard with this device, uh uh it starts beeping suddenly, and he looks up at that bird, and then uh he looks back down at the device and looks over in your direction.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:37

Alright, and as soon as he starts to look over towards me, I'll I'll drop it and just move into the crowd.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:43

Yeah. Uh as soon as you drop the image, uh the guard is looking around and looking down at the his device, but he doesn't he doesn't he can't seem to pinpoint you.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:53

Alright. Alrighty, good.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:56

Um your group casually goes towards the lucky leap. Uh a talking bird, a uh monk that likes to hide in the shadows, a red bearded triangle top-shaped cleric in a dress, and a large Goliath in a pink dress um walk towards the lucky leap casually. Zane's going, Zane. Are you are you in all your dark attire?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:25

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:26

Okay, yeah. And Zane in his dark attire. So you get to the lucky leap.

Inside The Lucky Leap Tavern

SPEAKER_02 1:30:36

So it works.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:41

So you get to the lucky leap. Um, you see uh a single werewolf guard standing outside uh with a uh longsword on his back, and uh patrons walking in and out. Do we Elbar see Oh, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:00

Do we recognize this particular guard?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:02

You do not recognize this particular guard.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:04

That's good. That means you probably don't know who we are.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:06

Does Elbar see the gnomes that he was talking with in his first scene? Uh no, you do not see the gnomes. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:14

So are there like wanted posters or anything in town?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:19

Nope. You don't you don't see any wanted posters. Um as you're walking through the town, you can see that the people are avoiding the guards. They uh seem to go from building to building as quickly as possible. They're not dilly-dallying the the market that you normally see that it's bustling with people exchanging uh conversations and and telling rumors. You you you don't see any of that. If anybody's at the market, they're there to get whatever they need and then hurry back home. Nobody is is nobody's really free, it seems like. Everybody's going about to do the whatever they can to survive.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:55

And yet there's people in a tavern. Yep. You gotta drink. So how uh looking at the guard I'm sorry. Looking at the guard, how well is he paying attention to the people coming and going?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:11

He is looking at them as they go in and out. He's not stopping or challenging anybody though. Is he carrying anything with magical doodad? He's not carrying a magical doodad.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:20

Dane will look at the group and say, get a drink.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:24

I like drinks.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:25

Um so do we Side chat? Uh do we know where the box is?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:31

No, but it's about this big. And he makes an eight by eight by eight gesture with his hands.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:36

Inches or feet? Just kidding.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:38

I mean, if I did it with my hands, I got good reach. Can I do it with my hands, Brandon?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:44

No. What? No. That's the last thing I need. Give the give the monk an eight-foot reach.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:53

I mean, just checking, it's their world, I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:56

Alright, so I guess get some drinks. Yeah, walk towards the bar. Bless you.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:05

Gonna blend in. Um, as we walk in, I'd like to use my heightened sleight of hand ability to like flick a and like have it like roll past the guard and have him just distract him a little bit to look away from us as we walk in, so not looking at us. Doesn't know that we threw it necessarily, but just like, oh, where'd this coin come from? Oh, is that silver? Damn.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:23

So uh the guard as you approach, he he says very flatly, uh tavern's open. Welcome in. And your silver piece drops onto the floor and he looks at it and then looks away from Zane says and walks in.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:44

Yeah, I think the boss is interested in know how the tavern's still open if the owner of the tavern is not here.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:53

Zane is interested as well, but he's not gonna ask the guard.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:57

He's not gonna ask the guard, we're gonna walk in.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:59

Alright. So you walk into the tavern, and you know, it is midday, so the sunlight filters through the dusty windows. Uh, you can see moats of dust and and and flour uh kind of floating inside the bar itself, as a barmaid carries a tray of bread and stew to a group of miners that are in a corner. The bar is about uh the Lucky Leaf is about half full right now. Uh kind of miners?

SPEAKER_09 1:34:24

Serving miners.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:25

Rock miners?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:26

Like hold up. Quarry workers? This is a bar, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:34:30

Miners as in like stone and pickaxe.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:33

Not underage, but stoner miners.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:37

We're in the middle of a city. Yep. Sorry, my mistake. I've okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:44

I mean, underage drinking is just that's too far for this problem.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:47

It is a serious conversation. It is a serious matter.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:51

We joke about a lot of things, but we're not gonna underage drinking promotion. Nope.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:57

Oh bar's only 13. What do you guys want to do?

SPEAKER_03 1:35:00

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:00

Uh go in. Who's serving? Do the we recognize does Zane recognize any of the servers?

SPEAKER_01 1:35:07

Uh you don't recognize the servers.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:10

Same question for all of us.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:12

Yeah, none of you recognize them. You don't recognize the barkeep, you don't recognize the server.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:17

Uh Nelvax will go up to the bar and order around and try to get friendly with whoever's available. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:24

Uh boss will join him feeling pretty in his stress.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:28

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:30

I I assume at some point during the walk they we talked about what we're actually looking for here.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:38

Okay. Uh Elvar is gonna send George to start looking for the box. Just like hide under foot.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:47

Yeah, I'll send Ember too to go with uh George. What is Ember? Currently a fox.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:54

Zane will be wandering around the room trying to get a feel of what's going on. Like, has anybody heard from Risio or the original serving staff?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:06

Okay. So uh for the people that are at the bar. The barkeep walks up to you all and uh says Welcome in. Uh you're just in time for lunch. What'll it be?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:20

Uh definitely some ale. We're really happy to see you guys are open. We're worried with uh the city. You know, we just got into town. It's seems kind of dead outside.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:29

No, no, no, no. Everybody needs a drink.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:32

Elvaro start off and saying, Do you happen to have sandwiches?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:39

Uh The barkeep looks at you, looks up and down, spends a long time staring at your very red beard. And then says, Yeah, we can we can put something together for you, miss.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:56

We'd be happy to take a couple sandwiches. It'd be very nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:00

Yep, sandwiches. I I can do that. I we've got some some some beef. I can throw in some bread for you.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:08

Turk turkey, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:10

Hey, we don't we don't have any turkey.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:12

I got ham.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:14

No, we have beef.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:16

Chicken?

SPEAKER_01 1:37:18

No, we have beef. Uh sir, can you please explain to your beef girlfriend?

SPEAKER_10 1:37:27

Is it roast beef?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:29

You think I can do anything about this? I'm whipped. What can I tell you, man?

SPEAKER_01 1:37:36

Alright, I'll get you some ale. It's not roast, it's just Yes, I'll get you some roast beef sandwiches. I'll be right back. And he steps away.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:49

Speaking of roast beef. I'm pretty sure you you said that Eldvar was?

SPEAKER_05 1:37:58

Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:58

Oak's boss.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:59

And now I want to switch into a lady disguise as well, but like a grizzled street lady. Like, oh hello, doll.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:07

The smoker, Scott.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:08

Yeah. Hey boy. Dude, the doctor girlfriend voice. Like, ow, get over here.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:14

It's not too late. We're distracting with our You've got a hat that lets you do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:20

I mean, I can do it just by snapping my fingers. Yeah. And then in like 70 more episodes, when we finally hit that level, I'll ask if I can shot swap out that invocation. 70 more episodes when we get A level. Well, I mean, technically I need a warlock level. I'm trying not to hit that until uh until I get uh bard six, but Oh no, he's back! Stop talking.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:44

It's all recorded. I could just go back and look at it.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:46

Oh shit!

SPEAKER_01 1:38:47

No, you can't.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:49

You can't listen to it.

unknown 1:38:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:53

Uh yeah, the barkeep walks away, uh, kind of shaking his head a little bit, and uh he's gone for a few moments. Nelvex?

SPEAKER_04 1:39:01

Ray had his hands up. At least one hand up.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:05

Yeah, can I could uh for did we we when we were switching into our disguises, Harlack's just gonna alter his to be like uh a little bit more like a grizzled old lady.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:16

Okay, alright. Are you walking to the bar with Nelvax and the bigger?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:20

Yeah, I'm with I'm with Nelvax and boss. I'm just uh you know behind behind boss. Ow, give me a drink.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:29

Me and my ladies, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:32

I just need the barking.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:39

You just keep puffing, it's just like three inches of ash though.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:44

The smell is just walking everywhere, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:47

Uh the barkeep looks to you and says, uh Man, there's no smoking in here.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:53

Oh well, sorry, sorry. Everyone's so sensitive.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:58

How could she stop being smoking? Um I'm not there though.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:04

Uh Barkeep says, Yep, one more ale, got it. And he he turns away and uh walks back into the back room.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:13

Oh, it's actually five. I'll shout at him as he scoots. What did you say? It's five ale. I shout at him. Five, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:24

Oh, what are you sorry for? I that was what the barkeeper said to you. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:28

Well, Bill was talking and I shouted distracting.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:34

So all five of you or where is Zane is going around talking to the other patrons?

SPEAKER_09 1:40:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:40

Okay. What is Eldar doing?

SPEAKER_07 1:40:43

Uh he's grabbing a table.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:46

What is he gonna do with it? There are a few tables open. Because I'm pretty sure if we told Eldar to go grab a table, he would go grab a table, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:59

Zayn, uh, what are you saying? There are a couple tables of people around. There's a table full of uh some kind of quarry or stone miners. Uh there are a few uh there there's a there's a couple at another table, there's a few uh I would say middle-aged men drinking around the bar. What do you want to say to these people? Or what are you asking?

SPEAKER_09 1:41:29

So he'll say that he's been out of touch for a couple of days, and that he thought that this place was closed because the proprietor was gone and try to and he didn't think we were allowed to drink liquor anymore.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:47

Nah, uh one of the uh one of the guys says to you, nah, it was it was closed for a little bit, but uh they opened it back up like two or three days ago. Uh full service. Prices are even cheaper under uh prices are even lower under the new establishment.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:02

So who's running it?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:04

I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:06

So any idea what happened to the people that used to be here?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:13

Uh I I I saw that guy every once in a while, but I I didn't I don't really know him.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:20

Oh, it's more interested in the the the hostess.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:25

Oh, I ha I oh Brandina, I haven't seen her in a while.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:30

Isn't it? And he'll be wandering around between different people and and will say, isn't it odd that they're reopening this bar? They wouldn't think that they would want people at a bar.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:44

I mean, alcohol makes problems go away. If you're drunk, you're not worried about anything. Um second one, probably true. First one, not so much. Listen, I've got bread in the house and I can afford a beer. What else do I have to worry about? If if people are arguing over a crown who's in charge, doesn't affect me at all.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:06

So you're just living your life and nothing has really changed for you?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:10

Yeah, not really. Makes sense. I mean, there's some furrier guards around now, and he kinda elbows you a little bit. But uh nothing really changed other than that.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:23

Alright. So anything else he hears as he's walking around making conversation with people?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:29

Um, roll me an insight check, Zayn.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:32

Insight? I was kind of hoping to use my ins my uh charisma, but okay. Uh five!

SPEAKER_04 1:43:41

Hidden.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:42

Um you you get the sense that uh the people in this room are are a little they're avoiding something. Like they they they're they're not looking at you all as a group unless you approach them directly. Uh they seem to be whispering when you're when your backs are turned to them.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:04

Okay. Is everybody pretty subdued? Like no troublemakers, nothing like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:10

Nope, nobody's rowdy. Everybody's seems to be drinking, having a intimate or private conversation. Okay. It's much much quieter than the lucky leap that you all knew.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:21

So Zane will go back to the or go back to the he'll find Elvar's the table and tell Elvar to set the table back down.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:30

Um so with your familiars, you can see through them.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:35

Uh as an action, but I think we lose normal sight. It's like one or the other.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:40

Yeah, we we lose our sight and our hearing, but if Elvar is able to secure a table and stick his back against the wall, he'd probably slip into George's senses.

unknown 1:44:51

Okay.

Familiars Find Screams Upstairs

SPEAKER_09 1:45:11

So Zane will carry on a conversation knowing that neither one of them are gonna respond and they're not paying attention, but he'll carry on a conversation with them to make it seem like they're not distracted.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:26

Okay. Uh so through George, uh you see a little puffy foxtail flickering in and out of George's peripheral vision. And uh as you're as George is going through the the back behind the server counter, behind into the back rooms, um, you start to hear what sounds like uh uh groaning. And uh you hear a couple muffled screams as you as George leaves the the the noise from the main room. Uh George goes up some stairs, and you can still see the fox going along with him, and uh you can see a a you see a door at the very end of the hall that's shut with a guard standing outside of it, and he uh and that's where it seems that the that scream the screams are coming from.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:23

So Ember is with George. They're both kind of screen off together, is that right? Ember is with George, yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:29

Have we made it back over to the bar or to the table with our drinks and rust?

SPEAKER_01 1:46:35

Yeah, the barkeepers come out with your sandwiches and drinks.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:38

Okay. So we're we're sitting at the table with everybody?

unknown 1:46:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:41

Novax. Well, actually, yeah. You just said you're already over there. Okay. So would we pick up on this?

SPEAKER_04 1:46:48

So we can still communicate to you guys. Uh we won't be able to hear what you're saying, but we could like whisper or like I think it's like relatively in action, like every six seconds you'd be one to like see some shit, give some instructions if you're familiar, come back and communicate what we saw, or like do the whole thing together. I don't really know. We would probably have some kind of norm for this for the the times. Uh so as soon as you'll actually be aware of what we're expecting.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:16

As soon as boss is alerted to this, he's gonna stand up and start walking to that back room.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:20

It's just upstairs down the hall, right? It's not like a private No, it is private, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:26

It's private.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:27

Okay. So what's what's in between the between us and that that room?

SPEAKER_01 1:47:31

You've gotta walk behind the bar, upstairs, and then there's a couple of rooms up there.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:37

So Elvar will give George a mental command to try and climb up the guard and just kind of like playfully dart in and out its clothes, down the like the neck of the shirt, you know, pop out of a sleeve, um, you know, not be super threatening, but just kind of distract him a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:00

Yep. And Dev also just start he'll walk right behind the bar and mutter something about the roast beef sandwiches as he's walking past the barkeep and head that way.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:13

So uh go ahead, Arlock. Uh, I was just gonna say it looks like without reading the Fine Familiar thing that it just says that you sh you uh can take on the sight and hearing of the familiar. I think you'd be able to, like, like with astral projection, be able to like say what you're seeing and and hearing. Um just you'd be deaf and blind to what's happening in your own physical body. That's just what I'm reading right now. I was just I was just curious as we were looking at all as we were talking about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:42

Yeah, that's how I was that's the thing that I was I was trying to communicate too is like I couldn't see or hear, but you could still communicate and control your own body, right? You're not less.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:49

Yeah, it it seems more like when um you'd see like uh like a force projection or something like that, and then being able to discuss it.

unknown 1:48:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:58

As I said, that's just what I was just reading, but it made me curious when you guys were doing it real quick. Sorry for the interruption. No, that's a good call.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:04

I think it was clearer in the the five year rules, the 2014 rule. Yeah, 2014. I think it actually told you like you lost your own senses, which is I think where I built that from.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:13

Okay. So um it is a 20-foot hall, Eldvar, for George to get to this guard. Yeah, yeah. So he's probably gonna see him.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:25

He's like running up, non-threatening, trying to be cute as his, you know, monstrous nightmare self-committee.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:35

Uh so you see the guard, you see the guard react to George running, and he pulls his crossbow out and takes a shot at George.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:44

George would like to take the dodge action.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:46

Ember's gonna get in there too. I mean, it's all back at the same time. Can I get aid? Help. No. Assist? No. Cast I can cast spells. Through my critter. Can I guidance him? No. Why?

SPEAKER_09 1:50:06

Because he wants to bring it. Because he wants to kill him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:13

Yeah, he's taking a shot at him. So you've got to as as an action, it's got to be during like combat during your turn. I don't think you'd be able to do that as a reaction.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:21

Well, if he's pulling out a crossbow, melee range is disadvantaged, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:25

It's not melee range.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:26

Yeah, but it's a haul. If if he's pulling out a crossbow, then I I should be able to dodge, right? Like we're in combat at that point, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:50:35

Well, you can roll for combat if that's what you want, but it's the guard's reaction to pull a crossbow out as this nightmare creature is running up to him.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:43

That is pretty freaky. See, roll back reaction was normal. Fuck you guys.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:49

But if he can pull a weapon as a reaction, why can I not dodge as a reaction? You cannot dodge as a reaction.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:54

Dodge us to be taken.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:57

He wants to kill the familiar. I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:00

You do drawing weapons as a movie. Guys, if you're if you're gonna have familiars charging through a bare hallway where there's nothing to hide from towards a guard with a crossbow and a sword, he's gonna take a reaction to try to stop this nightmare from getting to him.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:14

It's not a reaction. It's an action.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:16

Fine, it's an action.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:18

Rolling initiative.

Things Turn Into A Fight

SPEAKER_01 1:51:19

Alright. There's a 16 hit.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:23

Uh if I can cast spells through my familiar, he's gonna shield and it will miss. Yeah, fine. 16 hits, although like, are are we rolling initiative? Do I get to dodge?

SPEAKER_01 1:51:38

Sure, we can roll initiative for the guard and you're familiar. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:42

One familiar? Both your familiar, sure. That's a natural 20 for a 23. Brennan. So what would you like to do, Andrew? I would like to take the dodge action.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:53

Perfect. What would you do? What about Ember? What would Ember like to do?

SPEAKER_04 1:51:58

Uh so has the guard pulled out their crossbow?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:02

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:03

Do I know I'm in danger?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:04

No, he hasn't taken his turn yet.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:06

Uh I'm gonna try to hide behind one of the door jams. I might have some like.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:10

Okay. He has a three hit. No. Okay. What would you like? What would you like to do during your turn?

SPEAKER_07 1:52:21

Gonna dash away now. Now that I'll be shot at.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:24

What is Ember doing during his turn?

SPEAKER_04 1:52:27

Yeah, it's probably time to leave.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:29

And at this point, um Novax is pretty worked. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:33

Boss is already heading that way.

unknown 1:52:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:35

Novax stands up abruptly and aggressively. But also agile.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:41

We probably are not gonna have time for a full combat. I mean, I'm good if we want to continue for a bit.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:48

How long do you think this guard's gonna live, Brennan?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:50

It's not just one guard.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:52

Because he's going down in the first round, I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:55

Harleck moves to make a scene.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:59

Hey guys, looking over here.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:04

And just start going nuts.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:06

So there's we we have to get over the bar, up some stairs, down a 20-foot hallway.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:11

Yep. Let me let me build a combat map.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:14

Brent, I'm so proud of you for having predicted our stupid Most DMs would have not been prepared for this, but you know how dumb we are.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:23

So he's like, oh, these guys, they're gonna step in it. They're gonna step in it good.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:29

I know you want to kill my familiar, but shoot.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:32

It's not that it's it's shot. It's like it's supposed to be a smooth like playthrough. You can't rules lawyer your way out of everything.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:40

I think actually in this case, we were rules lawyered our way into.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:46

I gotta give I gotta give the guard credit though. If I were to see any size creature that looked like George, I also would probably react pretty hostily.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:58

I'm just saying seems to be the only reasonable one of the fucking five of us who's cool with this fucking monstrosity just strolling around with us. The guards let us through with this thing? What are they doing? Oh, bad guards.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:11

Uh what is what is the image of George? What is he again?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:15

He's uh the nightmare aliens from fucking Chronicles of Riddick.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:19

Oh, he's one of those things?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:21

He's one of those things.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:24

It's cool. So I will be cleaved in twain. Zane is confused.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:37

None of us were when they shot.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:39

I expect it everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:42

Which is reasonable. I still think is the right move.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:46

Did we investigate what kind of screams we were hearing?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:49

No, we got shot at. We're gonna go find out though.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:53

You are gonna go find out.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:55

Or we're all gonna die.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:57

Death is just a start of a new adventure. Well.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:02

Alright, that'll work. I think last time I was in combat in a tavern with most of you. Everything ended up on fire. Probably true.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:13

Oh goodness. History likes to repeat itself. Yeah, that wasn't with Contente Shirone. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:22

Brennan had his fire turtle. The the murder hobo campaign.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:27

Yeah, the fire mage that is infatuated with fire and was playing with fire and he's also hugely quickly.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:35

If you're not like a hundred, he's not worth or you're not worth his time.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:37

Uh no, that was uh uh Rob's character.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:43

That was Rob's No the Fire Turtle!

SPEAKER_04 1:55:46

The Fire Turtle was up too, I thought though.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:48

He said he was something. He had some weird quirk that yeah, yeah, I know you're right.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:52

Uh Dorvy was definitely Aegis.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:55

It wasn't Dorvy, it was Dorvy's character in your campaign.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:59

Oh, you're right. Shit, that old uh Real? Reardrin. That's what it was. Rearden! Rearden! Reardon, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:56:09

Yeah. That was a long time ago, Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:14

We did it. So sorry, I'm trying to get the map together.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:18

No, don't be sorry. We could surprise you with which I'm really excited. We didn't do violence. NPC did the appropriate thing and chose violence.

SPEAKER_09 1:56:33

And we didn't just, you know, let it go with the in-caps completely revivable familiars.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:41

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:43

No, it's fair. Alright. Some tokens. Where are my players? Harleck, Eldar, Xanover.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:51

Not Xanover.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:52

Not Xanover. Well, Xaniver's body's in here. He's the one you have to say.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:58

Yeah, you can probably just try to probably in the cellar at this point. It's stuffed into one of those barrels.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:03

You already buried him.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:05

Maybe some of his blood. Wait, was he he wasn't even bloody, was he? He just got power wood killed. Death?

SPEAKER_00 1:57:10

Yeah, just died. Like a bitch.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:14

Maybe maybe some poop. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:16

Guards. Yeah, it's just the play button.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:23

Well, it's not likely we're gonna kill the dude here. And if he just kept a hold of his thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:29

Okay. So um I got this guy. Alright. If you guys can join and let's roll for some initiative.

Upstairs Guard Dropped Fast

SPEAKER_04 1:57:39

Uh are we keeping our familiar numbers?

SPEAKER_01 1:57:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:41

Meldex has a Elvar has a 21. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:47

Uh 13. That's what my Fox's dex is. No, wait, 16, sorry.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:52

I got a three. Not one. Zayn is got a 19.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:58

9. 9. Okay. I think I beat Zayn, right? Yes. No, you don't have index too. I do.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:07

Yeah, I have 16.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:09

Yeah, I'm 17. So I got you still, but index is high.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:13

Okay. Alright. Uh there's George. What do you have, George, as?

SPEAKER_07 1:58:20

A weasel. Because they've they've got a climb speed. I couldn't find something with a climb five fly and burrow speed. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:30

A tiny areas. Look how cute. I'd hug that. So it looks like the bar. Are we sitting with our backs to the bar, Brando? Uh yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:40

Yeah. I just had you place you guys around the seat.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:44

Uh that's totally fine. I'm just trying to figure out the layout of the floor. Cause I see like there's a stairwell with a door. I'm a is the space behind us the bar?

SPEAKER_01 1:58:52

Uh yeah, the space behind you is the bar. No, well, yeah. The space behind you is the bar, and then this is the area that you gotta go through to get up the stairs, which will lead you out here.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:04

Oh, so at that little door right by George's?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:08

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:09

And Elvar, I believe you're up first.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:11

Sorry, Brandon. How do these two separate areas map connect? Could you flash that again?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:18

Yep, you gotta walk up the stairs here. And it leads you out here. There.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:22

Where the the little gray bar next to George. Yeah, that that one right there.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:25

Alright. Elvar, I believe you're up first.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:28

Alright, uh, Elvar is gonna take a magic action to temporarily dismiss the familiar into a pocket dimension. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:37

Smart. Gotta protect that, George.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:39

And then uh How does that what is what is the Elvar thinks this is George, right? Even though he's holding the four parts of George in his backpack.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:49

No, I mean he left those four parts back at the bastion because he now has George 2 2.0.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:57

Living breathing ish.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:59

Okay. He summoned uh actual George through his giant magic. Fair enough. And then uh he's just gonna end his turn. Okay. Zane.

SPEAKER_09 2:00:10

Uh Novax is in front of me.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:12

It's me. My dex is higher. I didn't show that on the initiative order.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:18

I guess initiative order doesn't put that into Yeah, we both have plus three, but I've got a 17 yes. Um so we do have the one guard. Sorry, this is there a person behind the bar right now?

SPEAKER_01 2:00:31

Uh yeah. Yeah, the barkeep that served you all.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:35

Um I think Nelvax is gonna jump over the bar and then grapple that person and pull them into the back. Just like muffle them and try to have them like not make any noise quietly, discreetly as possible, to like not alert the guards and kind of like keep this from getting out of control.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:52

Uh so I can grapple, but he's probably a commoner. Unless he's a retired veteran hero or something.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:58

Yeah, you're able to grab him pretty easily.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:01

Yeah, pull him back uh out of sight from the the tavern there.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:05

So are you under the stairs?

SPEAKER_04 2:01:08

I I guess I don't know. I guess I'm at I'm at the bottom of the stairwell, looking up like out of out of view from anyone else, and like looking up the stairs, I can see boss is about to go up. Ember's on his way down. I don't I can't see to the top of the stairs, I don't think. Well actually, I guess I don't know. How big is the space? Could I just could I drag him all the way up to the landing there?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:29

Uh you mean up the stairs? Like halfway up to like Yeah, uh uh yeah, I think you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:35

I don't think I want to get if somebody needs to come or go, I don't want to be in the way. I'm gonna keep him out of the way, I think, is the right move. Because I'm holding on to a little dude. I'll just draw I got a homie with me. Uh and I'm yeah, I just gotta hold on this guy. Just gotta keep him quiet. It's like Shh. Got him. Mouth hand over mouth, hands. I got like both of his arms behind his back, just holding him in place, freaking out.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:59

Okay. Yeah, he's he's uh after the initial reaction and you grabbing him, he uh he's not struggling anymore. He realizes that he is very outmatched. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:02:10

Uh yeah, Zayn has absolutely no idea what's going on. That's fair. So because we've escalated to what might be violence, Zayn is going so are there other guards in the room or just outside?

SPEAKER_01 2:02:25

Just outside. And the guard that you saw at the top of the stairs.

SPEAKER_09 2:02:29

Oh, can I see the guard at the top of the stairs?

SPEAKER_01 2:02:32

No, sorry, the familiars and sol.

SPEAKER_09 2:02:34

Okay, so Zayn will be looking towards the guard that's outside, and he's gonna ready an action, and if the guard comes in with a hostile action, he will shoot him with uh Eldritch Black.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:47

Okay. Uh I've got a uh sensory question for you, Brendo. Sure. Hear the crossbow shoot and hit whatever else is around us.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:00

No, yeah, he he didn't hear any of that. So except for Eldvar and Nelvax, I would say that none of you really knows that this has escalated.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:12

Voss scooted off, so I don't know. I mean, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:14

Well, I thought that was yeah, I scooted off based off of what they were feeding us.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:19

Yeah. Yeah. So I guess then they would know that there's a guard and they shot, but not much else. Uh weird behind the door.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:27

Yeah, Voss was already on his way before that shot even took place. So I don't even know if he knows that.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:34

Yeah, Voss took off because he was told that they were screaming.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:37

Yes. So yeah, you guys would be aware of that, but uh I mean, hold holding on the doors.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:43

Where is the door?

SPEAKER_04 2:03:44

There's the door southeast west. The west side is the exit from the bar? Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:50

That's what I was asking. That's where the guard is. So Zayn will move towards the stairs, but not up the stairs. So basically, just to get a better view, so he's got his back to the wall, so he has a view of the entire room. And but his ready to action is at the guard outside. If he comes in with a hostile action, he will shoot him with the Eldris Blast. Or he will shoot he will cast Eldris Blast at him.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:16

What is that square? What are these squares?

SPEAKER_04 2:04:18

This is these are the this is like the bar area, is what I was trying to draw in here. Right?

SPEAKER_01 2:04:24

Yeah. Okay. Alright. Pass turn. Alright. Last year, turn. What is it?

SPEAKER_03 2:04:32

Uh can you help me figure out exactly how far I can make it? I think I should be able to get all the way to this guard, correct? Within five feet.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:40

Uh, what's your movement speed? 30?

SPEAKER_03 2:04:42

30.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:43

He's so fast.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:44

Yeah, you'd be able to make all the way to that guard if you'd like it.

unknown 2:04:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:48

Uh so I'm uh gonna run to the garden. Hidden.

SPEAKER_09 2:04:57

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:59

Uh I mean, I think Voss just uh to kind of think where Voss's headspace is. He he knows this this bar was run by somebody and has been taken over and just kind of put back into commission. They don't actually own the bar, they're just operating it. And uh he can't think of anything good happening here, and they need to get this item. Um it's enough for him.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:25

Okay. The way I I see that in my head is like Voss is now charge with all this lightning energy. He just got this new adamantine plate, so he like just starts screaming and running up the stairs and then coming down the hallway and just like body slams this dude into the door, just like in his dress.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:40

Yeah, with his dress over it. Right. Yeah. So I'll I'll swing it with my uh mace uh using booming blade. Say Bacom! 19 hit.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:56

Bakum?

SPEAKER_03 2:05:56

Uh 19 doesn't say kaboom. I don't know. Does does booming blade have to have like a keyword or something? Is that like so no?

SPEAKER_09 2:06:04

No, it was the first time Glenn used it, he says kaboom. And Brandon then said, from now on, you have to say kaboom when you use booming blade.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:13

It's actually just material and somatic. There is no verbal component. Except for Glenn.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:19

Except for Glenn. Except for Glenn. He's a wizard. Uh shouldn't Booming Blade be a cantrip on my kitchen?

SPEAKER_04 2:06:31

Did you not have it prepared? I'm just looking for I was literally doing I was doing that before.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:38

That's what Brandon and I were talking about. Oh, I didn't pick the Did I not pick the spells for my magic initiate? Oh no. Wizard? Yeah, I'm not sure. You only have four four spells and all the cleric spells. Yeah, okay. Yeah, four clericantrus, brother. Well, I know, but I literally talked about that one feat with Brandon prior to this. And he added it into me. And apparently I didn't add the feet.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:03

Yeah, you only have cleric spells.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:05

Yeah. I'll add that. Uh yeah, so I got 19. Yeah, 19 hits. Damage. Uh oh, so I get the 1D eight for just regular booming blade. Wow. Is that correct? So nine.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:24

And then if they move, they take additional damage.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:26

And then they move, they take additional. So I take uh so that's total, so it's nine plus one from my gauntlet, so that brings it up to a total of ten.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:35

Plus an extra d8 thunder damage, because you're we're above level five.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:38

Yeah, uh I'd added one d8, yeah. On thunder damage.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:44

It's one d8 plus an additional one d8 at level five. So you're doing two d8 roads.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:49

No, it's it's one d8 at level five.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:51

One d8 at level five, and then two d8 at level 11.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:56

And if he moves, it will be two d8 thunder damage.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:58

That's okay, yeah, you're right. That's what it is. 1d8 for the hit, 2d8 for the hit.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:03

But I want to make sure I use this shield master. If I attack a creature within five feet, it's part of my attack action with a melee weapon. You can immediately bash the target with your shield if it's equipped. Target must make a DC third or DC 13 strength saving throw throw. And if not, they move. How much damage did you deal? Uh 10.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:24

Okay. Uh so yeah, you're you're so honed, uh, you're like your your martial prowess, I guess, is so honed that your mace comes down and bashes this guard, and as your shield comes forward, the guard is already falling to the ground dead. Oh and so you bash his dead body.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:45

Into the ground further. Into the ground further. Five feet into the floor.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:50

And with your Thunderbolt strike, you knock him back ten feet. Because you did lightning damage to him.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:57

Yep. So he slams into the back wall and crumples to the ground.

unknown 2:09:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:01

That's it for uh my turn. How loud is that?

SPEAKER_01 2:09:05

Uh very loud. Yeah, you all heard that from downstairs. Like like a mouse. Like lightning and thunder damage loud. Uh take up the rear, Harleck.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:16

How many people are still down here? Like, is the bartenders and stuff still down here?

SPEAKER_01 2:09:20

Uh the bar keep is being held behind the bar by Nelvax.

unknown 2:09:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:27

The uh patrons are aware something is happening, but they're just kind of staring wide-eyed. Nothing is threatening them just yet.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:37

Uh okay, well, um, I'm going to try to, instead of getting involved in the fight upstairs, I'm gonna try to keep things um distracted down here, and then Harleck is just going to like shatter a table full of drinks in a drunken, in a faux drunken stupor, just to try to get the attention of everyone downstairs and mask the chaos upstairs. So, oh and then just slam into a table full of drinks. Just forgot you were the Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:09

What is you're reminding me of somebody who what character you're trying to be? Doctor Girlfriend. That's the voice I'm doing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:16

Oh, I was thinking the old lady from uh Monsters In.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:19

Oh yeah, Roz, that's another one. Mike Mike Wizowski. Yeah. Pretty graveled old lady voice is is pretty pretty along that line. Alright, give me a performance roll. A 16. But I'm actually gonna use one of my Kanku recalls uh to try to give myself advantage.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:41

Okay. What is Kanku recall?

SPEAKER_05 2:10:44

I can give myself advantage on a skill I am proficient with. Up to proficiency bonus per day. So let me try that again. Yeah, that one's a 23.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:56

Okay, yeah. Uh all the pay other patrons are staring right at you, Harleck. Nobody is uh really worried about anything else that's going on. Just seeing an old woman smash glasses all over the place.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:08

Yeah, I'm just gonna continue to just be like, oh I'm sorry, as I make a bigger mess. Like continuing on the other patrons' tables and such.

SPEAKER_00 2:11:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:17

And then I will also just uh blow a kiss over to uh Elbar and give him uh Bardic inspiration.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:28

How you doing, twits?

SPEAKER_07 2:11:31

Eldar would like to use this reaction to catch the kiss. Does Eldvar know that this is Harleck? Probably not. Even better. Alright, Eldar, you're up. Uh, Eldar's gonna look around and see that uh Voss Dane has disappeared. Um and then see Nelvax is kind of like across the bar, so he will get up and uh similarly move. Back towards where the uh guard was. So I think that his 35 feet of movement probably puts him kind of right at the opening of the hallway where he can now see that Vosdain is standing over the body of a dead guard. Uh yes.

unknown 2:12:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:19

And then um I guess he might as well dash because there's nothing else he's gonna use his action for uh to catch up with Vosdain. And in his turn there. Alright.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:30

I mean nobody came in?

SPEAKER_01 2:12:32

Nobody came in.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:36

Who do you want? Novex is supposed to be first.

SPEAKER_01 2:12:39

Oh yeah, Nelvex. I don't like Oh, because it's just that your actuality is one higher than mine.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:48

Yeah, yeah. Same initiative score, but because it's a tie, the high dex is Yeah, that's weird that doesn't track.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:55

Well, it's actually the rule is the higher uh modifier goes first. But we're both if we both have the same modifier. Right.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:05

So do we just make a choice? Uh I'm going to do non-lethal damage and uh whisper sorry into this barkeep's note uh ear as I just like give him a quick little whack in the back of the head just to make him unconscious. Non-lethal? That's still a choice, right? We can do that?

SPEAKER_00 2:13:21

Yeah, non-lethal's still a choice.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:23

Yeah, just don't want him to fucking rat me out.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:27

So I'm just gonna give him a little blank laying down gently in a sack. Uh there's probably like barley or potatoes or something softish back there. I'll lay him down gently.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:36

Uh yeah, there's some there's some stacks of or there's some stacks of uh things back there.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:42

Just like not a hoe or like a trowel or something.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:45

I mean it's a bar floor, so it's still pretty fucking gross, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:50

But like, I want him to not die very very explicitly.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:53

Yes. You you knock him out.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:57

King Bill from our campaign. Okay. Uh and then yeah, I will also uh rush upstairs. And Ember is gonna join me again. We'll be as one. He'll be on my hook. Okay. Uh and I'm quick as fuck, so I'm just gonna I get up there and I'll say holy shit and uh past turn.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:15

Alright. Uh Zane?

SPEAKER_09 2:14:17

Um do I see any movement out the door?

SPEAKER_01 2:14:21

You don't see any movement out the door.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:24

Alright, Zayn will go upstairs. I think he'll get to about here.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:28

Okay. Um actually let's say keep the map up, but I'm gonna say you're out of combat for the moment.

Stacking Up On The Door

SPEAKER_01 2:14:37

What would you all like to do?

SPEAKER_03 2:14:38

I got it. Someone's gonna do that corpse. Zane's gonna err Voss is gonna look down at the corpse to see if he finds anything, because he's kinda standing over it right now.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:45

Uh, you find two silver pieces on the guard. Okay. Do we still hear the the groaning sound and the screaming or whatever? You hear what sounds like quiet sobbing.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:58

And so I got two doors to my left and my right. Is there anything behind the guard? No.

unknown 2:15:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:15:02

Sorry, it you've got you've got one door. It's directly to it's to your left.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:08

To my left, okay. So kind of turn to the north. Uh Voss is going to like put his ear up to the door and listen.

SPEAKER_01 2:15:19

Yes. Yeah, you hear something, it sounds like something scraping on the floor right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:24

He'll uh motion for everybody else to move up and wait at the door. He doesn't want to try to open it without the rest of the team being there.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:35

I mean, I can go run and get Harleck. Grandma Harleck. Zayn was just gonna yell.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:40

Zayn was just gonna yell, hey Marge!

SPEAKER_05 2:15:43

I was gonna message uh Nelvax actually, that was what I was gonna do. Uh gauging how uh downstairs was, is everyone thoroughly distracted? Uh I was gonna cast m uh messages like, oh, how's it going up there? You know, just to see what's up.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:59

I think we're gonna we're gonna need you up here.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:00

I'll send back to uh if everyone downstairs is thoroughly like, oh, this is drunk old mess, uh I'll just like make my way to the stairs. Like I'm gonna go clean myself up somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:11

I need to talk to you.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:12

Don't mind me, don't mind me.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:15

So we're all stacked up slot style.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:18

Yeah, you guys are all stacked up flats mobby. Great time for a fireball trap. Or lightning? Or lightning or poison gas.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:29

Fog cloud. Yeah, I I think when uh Elbar sees Harleck coming up, or really Marge, he's gonna count that there's five people, and that's good enough for him, and he's gonna try and kick the door and with uh Voss with his ear up against the door. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm gonna plant a foot right next to his ear.

SPEAKER_06 2:16:50

I mean, he brings the thunder, right? Have we tried the doorknob yet?

SPEAKER_09 2:16:55

Nah.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:01

Alright. Eldvar, uh roll me a strength or athletics check at advantage.

SPEAKER_07 2:17:07

That would be day 25 to You already get advantage on athletics checks?

SPEAKER_01 2:17:12

Uh to escape grapples. Oh, okay.

Risio Found Tortured And The Box

SPEAKER_01 2:17:16

Alright. Yeah, uh the door slams against uh a desk that was hastily put that behind the door, and the the desk flies out of the way. Uh uh inside you see a human guard uh with his sword drawn staring at you, and right behind him, uh and sorry. The first thing that hits you is the smell. It it smells like uh like blood, um scorched wood, and then you can see that the the guard is staring at you, or is standing between you and somebody hanging behind him uh from his wrist from the the support beam in the ceiling. The guard sees you, Eldvar, and drops his sword and uh puts his hands up.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:05

Quick You said human? Is that a mistake or actual?

SPEAKER_01 2:18:10

No, actual human.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:11

Okay. So not a werewolf.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:13

The guard in the hall was also a human. I thought I had said that.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:17

Uh oh. I kind of thought I was a werewolf. I shocked it died so easy. That's okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:22

I picked the wrong team. I mean he's just guarding this fucking. We'll see how it goes.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:26

I I mean he's guarding somebody that's hanging by their wrists? Is that what you said?

SPEAKER_07 2:18:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:32

Yeah, that's not how you win prisoners.

SPEAKER_07 2:18:34

I think Eldvar is gonna just kinda come into the room, grab the guy by the throat, and slam him against the nearest wall. The human guard. Are you trying to hurt him?

SPEAKER_01 2:18:45

Uh within an inch of his life, but not kill.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:49

Sounds like intimidate.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:51

Uh yeah, the guard's head smacks into the wall as you slam him up there, and he's he's dazed. He's still alive, but uh he's he's obviously hurt. You're able to lift him pretty easily.

SPEAKER_03 2:19:04

Do we see the source of the screaming that we heard?

SPEAKER_01 2:19:06

Yes, probably the guy. The man hanging from his wrists from the support team. Okay, sorry, I didn't hear that part.

SPEAKER_09 2:19:13

Are we all in this room now or yeah, I think we shuffle in and close. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:19:18

And probably drag the dead body in with us.

SPEAKER_09 2:19:21

Um, just real quick, the there's the picture has other doors. Are they are those real doors or not real doors? They're not real doors. Okay, so it's just the one door into the room that we're going into. Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, so I Zane will look right. Does the person look familiar? The one hanging?

SPEAKER_01 2:19:38

Um Yeah, so he's got blood all over him. Uh obviously, he's got a swollen eye. And uh he looks up and meets your eyes, Zayn, and it's Risio.

SPEAKER_06 2:19:50

Oh no!

SPEAKER_01 2:19:51

He says, You're you're a little late.

SPEAKER_09 2:19:55

Well, you're still alive, so not that late.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:59

He coughs once and winces, and a little bit of blood comes out and splatters on his chin.

SPEAKER_05 2:20:03

Can I rush up and use cure wounds on him?

SPEAKER_04 2:20:06

Yeah. Can I cut him down? My spells aren't gonna help him. Burning hand! No, Zayn, no! Nah, it's fine to lacoterize it.

SPEAKER_05 2:20:23

Come and live! And live. Uh yeah, Harlech runs up and then just you know, pulls out the Sittern really quick and just like, oh, you gotta feel better, man.

SPEAKER_06 2:20:33

This doesn't look good.

SPEAKER_05 2:20:34

Yeah, while he just plays a little Diddy and then uh pumps 10. Did you ship 10 HP Marge? Well, yeah, we have the door closed, so I think okay, it's okay in here for me to to be Harlec. It'd be so much better if you were a Marge. I run up and just give him a nice big wet kiss on the cheek. And then uh and then he gets the there you go, there you go. Marge will take good care of you.

SPEAKER_01 2:21:09

You you see wounds on Risio's face actively uh closing up, and he's rubbing his wrist a little bit from where he was cut at where the rope was was obvious was cutting into his wrist, and he uh he looks all of you and says, I uh not gonna lie, I wasn't sure you'd all show up.

SPEAKER_09 2:21:29

Well is Elbar We need the box, and you didn't tell us you were coming here.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:35

Is is Elbar still holding the uh the last remaining human up against the wall?

SPEAKER_07 2:21:40

Yeah, he's squeezing on the sides of the throat though to make the guy pass out.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:45

Uh Voss Voss will look over and he'll say, Yeah, I've I've I've really been wondering what it feels like to punch someone with these gloves on. I wonder if it hurts, and he's just gonna hit the guy in the face that Elvar is holding against the wall.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:03

You're just gonna kill him?

SPEAKER_03 2:22:04

Are we the bad guys? This is unarmed strike, so it's punching. No, I killed someone.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:11

You're you're gonna kill him. So if Zayn has a reaction Why would that kill him though?

SPEAKER_03 2:22:18

Uh he had an inch of his uh Oh okay, I guess I didn't know that. I thought he was still perfectly healthy. Yeah. And I'm doing 1v4 of damage.

SPEAKER_04 2:22:28

It's fine. There's a uh like so a decapitated snakehead over here if you want to use that instead.

SPEAKER_01 2:22:35

Maddie just plays the same character.

SPEAKER_03 2:22:37

I mean, he's just really pissed that he's hurting somebody he knew. And he wants to make him suffer. Okay, if he's already suffering, then the job is being done. I thought he was just full health being restrained. I didn't know he was actually hurt.

SPEAKER_01 2:22:49

No, he's he's hurt. Yeah, Eldvar slammed him up against the wall as back of his head hit the wall as it slammed into it.

SPEAKER_03 2:22:57

Alright, never mind then. No action.

SPEAKER_07 2:23:00

So, um, do we leave witnesses or do we get rid of this one?

SPEAKER_03 2:23:07

First, we need some answers from this guy. Well, where's the box?

SPEAKER_01 2:23:11

Rizia walks to a back corner and pulls a loose stone up and he pulls the box out of it.

SPEAKER_04 2:23:18

That didn't seem so hard.

SPEAKER_07 2:23:20

Oh, a hidey hole. And Eldvar is gonna start pulling at every stone he sees. Sorry. Still holding up the guard. He has two hands. I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:36

Uh for those of you staring at Eldvar, you see the guard's eyes kind of flicker a little bit and then they close as he passes out in Elvar's hand.

SPEAKER_03 2:23:46

I uh feel like we should get some uh questions answered by this guy. Let's tie him up and make him wake up.

SPEAKER_06 2:23:53

Yeah, Elvar, we gotta work on your uh on your cuddling abilities.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:00

Nelvex pulls out a spray bottle, squirts Elvar in the face.

SPEAKER_04 2:24:03

What's his command again? Leave it?

SPEAKER_01 2:24:06

Drop it. Drop it.

SPEAKER_03 2:24:09

Someone's getting bottle fella. The nasty magical diffusing stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:19

Yeah, Risio's cut down. He pulled the box out of the out of the out of this room. He was in a high under the floor.

SPEAKER_03 2:24:25

So can we restrain this guy and then wake him up?

SPEAKER_01 2:24:28

You can restrain him. How are you gonna wake him up?

SPEAKER_03 2:24:31

I can sleep a lot.

SPEAKER_06 2:24:34

Uh I've got a few healing potions. I don't really want to. Let me try the slash first.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:43

I I really want to know how the half orc warlock is the the like morality compass of this group.

SPEAKER_04 2:24:50

It's not gonna non-lethal, I said. I'm talking about healing people.

SPEAKER_09 2:24:56

It is 100% not morality. He wants information and we're killing and because it doesn't make sense right now because we've got two human guards, not the bad guy guards. So I don't know why these humans are here holding Risio and involved in this in any way. And we're not gonna get any information if Voss punches him in the head, because it's gonna kill him.

SPEAKER_03 2:25:19

Well, I'll go ahead and use it. I'll use a cure wounds on him. Oh, that, to wake him up. Okay. First level. Uh so he gets back 12 points of way better of this type of cleric.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:35

Whatever happened, keep it up.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:40

As he returns to consciousness, Elvar's gonna start squeezing a little bit harder.

SPEAKER_03 2:25:48

Uh yeah, Voss will kinda slap Elvar's and no we're hey, we're trying to get some uh we're trying to get information out of this guy. Don't uh don't send him back to Sleepy Sleep Land.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:58

Oh okay. And he'll uh just kind of toss him and go back to looking for hidey holes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:26:04

Uh so do we know that this was the guard that was was he just looking after or was he actively torturing him or hurting him?

SPEAKER_01 2:26:14

Uh you can see that his sword has some blood, dried blood on it. Uh some sorry, some fresh blood on it. Uh his hands have some marks. Uh his his knuckles have been roughed up a bit from where he was hitting Risio. And Ricio is staring at him very angrily.

Interrogation And A Brutal Finish

SPEAKER_03 2:26:32

Okay. Uh so Voss will look at him and say, uh, who are you working for?

SPEAKER_01 2:26:37

Hey, we my my contingent and I we were we were enlisted by the guards.

SPEAKER_03 2:26:44

Do you mean the uh the werewolf guys out there?

SPEAKER_01 2:26:48

Yeah, they they're starting to they're starting to hire and or they're starting to train normal civilians to complement their their ranks.

SPEAKER_03 2:26:59

What did they tell you to do? What were your marching orders?

SPEAKER_01 2:27:02

Well we were and he coughs a little bit, uh rubs his throat, and he sa and then looks up at Elvar and says, Well, we we were just told to guard this to guard the tavern. This is one of our favorite their favorite places, and when we saw Risio come in, we thought we had an opportunity.

SPEAKER_09 2:27:26

One of your favorite places, so you beat up the proprietor of your favorite place?

SPEAKER_01 2:27:30

Not the proprietor anymore, he's a traitor.

SPEAKER_03 2:27:33

What do you mean by opportunity? You might want to choose your words carefully here.

SPEAKER_09 2:27:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:45

I he looks over at Risio again and says, All he had to do, like the rest of us, was keep his mouth shut and keep working. That's it. They're not doing anything to the rest of us. So who are they doing something to? The ones that are that have started this whole rebellion. I'm assuming you know where Seinmonder is. I lost his name for a second. I had to load it.

SPEAKER_09 2:28:14

So you're okay with being led by monsters.

SPEAKER_01 2:28:18

I gotta take care of my family somehow.

SPEAKER_03 2:28:20

So we've been looking for Seinmonder. Where do you think he's at?

SPEAKER_01 2:28:24

The guard looks around, uh, or the human looks around, and then kind of uh he clams up, he doesn't say anything.

SPEAKER_03 2:28:33

Silence isn't your friend, friend.

SPEAKER_09 2:28:36

You know, we do have the spell speak with dead. So that's some good advantage. You can talk now, or we can get information later.

SPEAKER_07 2:28:48

Lomi intimidation. Eldvar got a 16 on insight, so he's gonna assume that he understands that Voss is lying about not knowing where Seinwander is, so he is not gonna speak up.

SPEAKER_09 2:29:02

Pretty good. I only got a 12.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:04

That that would be great. He's back in our house. We just left him. We just saw him. He was drinking in our kitchen. He's back at Bay Ram Grove.

SPEAKER_07 2:29:14

Yeah, he's in Bayram Grove. But but in all seriousness, Elvar is pretty certain he's gonna kill this guy at the end anyway, so he doesn't really care about what information they give him.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:27

Uh Zane, you also have guidance to add to your role.

unknown 2:29:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 2:29:32

That's 1d4.

SPEAKER_03 2:29:34

I'm painting and drinking No, I'm a cleric. That's my job. Give everybody guidance unnecessarily.

SPEAKER_09 2:29:41

So 14 total.

unknown 2:29:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:43

I got it through Druid, so the guard uh the guard pulls the sleeve up a little bit, his chainmail, and on his wrist you can see a small tattoo, and it looks like a human skull, but where the incisors normally are, there's no there were no fangs there. And in common it says hollow fangs, and he looks down at it and he says, If I tell you, they'll kill me. I I or you'll kill me. Either way, I'm dead. I'd rather not betray my city.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:14

So you know, so he looks uh Zayn will look over at Sign or at uh Sidemoners here. Ricio and say, Do you know his who his family is?

SPEAKER_01 2:30:27

No.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:28

Well, I'm sure we can find out who your family is. You can die here, you can die later. The difference is is what happens to your family.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:35

Oh, you were asking Risio if he knew the guard's family. Understood.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:39

Okay. Yeah, Risio says, No, I I've not I I've seen him in, but I've not I don't know him.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:44

I'm sure we'll figure out.

SPEAKER_04 2:30:46

You can room Risio. Come on, bro. Can I give him guidance from the book? Sorry, that's fine.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:55

So I'm gonna continue to intimidate. Okay, uh roll. Um Elbar would like to questions.

SPEAKER_07 2:31:01

Assist with the intimidation, but okay, well never mind.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:06

20, 2-0.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:08

20, okay. Um says he says to you, uh the fangs will protect them. I I I'm confident in that. I don't have any other information. What do you want me to tell you? I'll tell you what you want. Doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:22

I can't remember the question I asked.

SPEAKER_03 2:31:28

I was trying to figure out if they knew where Seinmonger was.

SPEAKER_07 2:31:30

I think it was who he works for.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:32

Yeah, who he worked for and in other things.

SPEAKER_04 2:31:36

No, it's where is Seinmonger? What do you think Seinmonger is?

SPEAKER_01 2:31:38

Yeah, I don't know where Seinmonger is. We assumed he was with all of you.

SPEAKER_06 2:31:42

Oh no, we haven't seen him since the whole thing broke down.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:47

Since your new masters decided to start randomly killing people. These ones that you say are not no better that are no worse than the old king who didn't randomly kill people.

SPEAKER_01 2:32:01

You mean the person that was given the crown as part of her royalty, and then the new the soldiers didn't swear loyalty to her?

SPEAKER_09 2:32:12

She just started killing people, including our friend.

SPEAKER_01 2:32:17

Because they wouldn't swear loyalty.

SPEAKER_07 2:32:23

He's got a point there.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:27

Who's got a point?

SPEAKER_03 2:32:30

The guy. The guy.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:34

Uh she never actually asked for loyalty, she just turned people into werewolves who had already sworn loyalty and then started they started killing people.

SPEAKER_01 2:32:44

Actually, she did say vow and uh declare your loyalty to the crown. And those who didn't then started getting attacked.

SPEAKER_04 2:32:53

Who was that? Uh could I have been a werewolf this whole time?

SPEAKER_01 2:32:57

You could have.

SPEAKER_03 2:33:00

Can we back up? Can we get a review on this?

SPEAKER_01 2:33:02

I legit have that written as part of it, because I thought at least one of you would have bowed.

SPEAKER_03 2:33:08

Or no. So Voss Voss will simply say, Yeah, I think we've got enough information out of uh this guy. We'll turn around and walk away, uh, handing um the owner of the bar. Gosh, what the guy's name. Yeah, I forgot. And I'll hand Risio a dagger and say, He's all yours. I think uh I think you uh I think you can take it from here.

unknown 2:33:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:33:33

Uh Risio looks at the dagger and looks at the guy. Is Elvar still holding him?

SPEAKER_07 2:33:40

Uh he had previously released him when uh Voss had healed him.

SPEAKER_00 2:33:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:33:47

Alright. Yeah, uh Risio with the dagger in hand almost casually flicks it towards the guard, and the knife sails through the air, uh burying itself in the guard's neck.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:02

Yep, I guess. And then uh Zay will casually look over at Voss and say, Do you have speak with dead?

SPEAKER_03 2:34:13

I'm still figuring out how these little spell things work. He pulls open a book and he starts flipping through it and he's like, I think I got it in here someplace. Uh who knows? But that was good. Uh that was I liked that one. That was pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 2:34:28

Alright. So Do I actually have speak with I don't think either of you did? I looked through your screen real quick. I didn't see it. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:34:35

No, no, I don't. Oh no, I do. I do have it. Yeah. Oh nice. I got it. Third level. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 2:34:40

It's gonna be the card, baby. Did Elvar find any other hidey holes? Um you were able to wiggle out a few uh a few stones just through brute strength, Eldvar. I and you didn't find anything like a value or anything like that, but you did find a small piece of paper that uh has uh a a little note that says I love you on it in childish handwriting. Alright, I will keep that and the stones. Add three floor cobblestones to your inventory. We'll do.

SPEAKER_03 2:35:17

You start taking apart a Risio's bar.

SPEAKER_09 2:35:19

I mean, I do have a hand drawing of somebody in my inventory.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:25

The guard has no like information or paperwork or anything on him, right? Someone should search the body. That's what I was that's what Harlike's thinking of doing.

SPEAKER_06 2:35:34

Did we ever find out, like, what he was planning to do with Risio other than turn him in as a traitor? And keep him from taking the bar back. I just want to know, you know, maybe what their roles are, maybe a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:48

It sounded like they're just extra muscle for the local guards.

SPEAKER_06 2:35:52

Well, making sure.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:54

I just wanted to see if there's any type of like if they were given like seals of any kind to to or deputized by anybody in particular.

SPEAKER_03 2:36:04

Well, like this whole the fangs thing.

SPEAKER_05 2:36:06

Yeah, that's like he he referenced the fangs, and that's why I wanted to see if maybe they had anything on them like that The tattoo. Allowed them re other than the tattoo, yeah. Weren't they fangless or something?

SPEAKER_01 2:36:19

Yeah, where their incisors are, there's no fangs there.

SPEAKER_09 2:36:22

Okay, so Zayn will look at uh Oh, I'm sorry. Zayn is gonna look at Nelvax and ask him if he's familiar with the toothless gold or whatever the hell he just said.

SPEAKER_04 2:36:33

Perfect. The yeah, the the fangs. Uh so we're all local. Would we know or have heard of these?

SPEAKER_01 2:36:39

The Holofangs? No. Uh this is based off the conversation you just had, this is something that was started by the werewolves. Holofangs, you could probably guess, is a kind of like an insult from the werewolves, uh, making fun of the humans for not really having any teeth to bite with.

SPEAKER_04 2:36:58

Uh they're like the lowest tier of local guards, effectively. Not like some other criminal. Correct.

SPEAKER_05 2:37:08

Yeah, it's pretty fresh.

Rules Debrief And Table Talk

SPEAKER_05 2:37:10

It looks I was saying it looks like Bill is talking, but nothing is coming through his uh Yeah, his headphones died again.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:17

He's been having problems with his computer. Okay, so uh real quick, looking up rules between things and everything. Uh about the hall. Uh you can't really pull a crossbow as a reaction, but you can take a melee reaction when somebody gets close to you. So technically I would have had to wait until the familiar got close enough in melee range for the guard to take an action against him. Sorry. Or for you. I don't say you were right, Andrew.

SPEAKER_09 2:37:45

Don't tell him that.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:46

Technically, which is the best type of right.

SPEAKER_09 2:37:49

Yeah. I'm sorry, I lost my headset again. I don't know what's going on with it.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:56

Um this is this is a game about teaching people how to play DD.

SPEAKER_09 2:38:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:38:01

When I'm wrong, I've gotta say that I'm wrong. As much as it pains me.

SPEAKER_07 2:38:06

Embrace the toxicity.

SPEAKER_09 2:38:08

So did somebody was somebody able to figure out that the tooth l or the hollow fangs were the representation? Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:18

Yeah, so it's uh just a quick recap for you, it's the guards, the werewolf guards tattoo that onto the huge and it's kind of like a mocking rank. They are not lycanthropes.

SPEAKER_05 2:38:30

Uh I wanna make a like a sketch of it on a piece of paper so that I can mimic it and copy it later on. Oh, that'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:38

I think he's saying that like in his inner.

SPEAKER_01 2:38:40

Oh, in character, yes. Absolutely. I it is a human skull with the two insides just completely missing. Um that's that's it. It's nothing fancy about it.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:51

Is it filled in or just like a single?

SPEAKER_01 2:38:54

No, it is filled in, yeah. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:55

And Ray's done with us.

SPEAKER_01 2:38:57

Ray said, fuck you guys. And he's back. He's like, I got what I needed. I'm done.

SPEAKER_03 2:39:02

We go draw some pictures now.

SPEAKER_01 2:39:04

Alright, see you guys. Alright. So that is where we're gonna call it a night, uh, unless anybody has any other questions. Bye Ray. Fuck you, Ray. Ray, Ray's done. Yeah. Can you hear the people leaving and entering Discord, Andrew? Okay, I didn't think so. Alright. No, you can't.

SPEAKER_04 2:39:22

All the more reason we should announce it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:39:26

Andrew's just gotta do this every time Andrew proves me wrong, I'm just gonna make him edit more. Uh Andrew. It's gonna be a lot of editing.

SPEAKER_05 2:39:37

I don't know what kept happening.

SPEAKER_03 2:39:39

Ah, we already signed off. We said that the final thing, uh, we're we're we're done.

SPEAKER_01 2:39:46

Alright.

Social Plugs And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_01 2:39:47

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SPEAKER_09 2:40:30

It's been nerdy.

SPEAKER_01 2:40:33

It's been nerdy.

SPEAKER_09 2:40:34

It's been nerdy.

SPEAKER_04 2:40:35

It's been nerdy.

SPEAKER_05 2:40:37

It's been dirty.

SPEAKER_01 2:40:41

It has been pretty dirty.