C1 Ep. 13 - I Wanna Hold Your Hands

Something stomps around in the night in Steamstead! What will the Hearth Guard find as they investigate the strange disappearance of Mira's brother and what lies beneath the village? Find out at the Good Good Table!

Content Warnings:
Course Language
The Occasional Bit of Innuendo
Nudity
Bad Accents
Gore
Descriptions of Bureaucracy
So Much Rain

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SPEAKER_07 1:56

Hi!

SPEAKER_12 1:57

I will be your DM and your host today. With me again are our wonderful players. We have Janus Genova.

SPEAKER_11 2:07

Elizabeth as Nanos Courtney as Luna.

SPEAKER_12 2:12

They won't let me leave. Brandon is in a hurry.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

And I am also here.

SPEAKER_12 2:20

We did things. We were gonna run we were gonna run this this village and and nothing happened. Is that true?

SPEAKER_00 2:31

I got to see my grandpa.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

And I got to be thrown upon by a large woman.

SPEAKER_12 2:36

It is true.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

We made you the new woman.

SPEAKER_12 2:45

Yeah, it's true. Yeah, Jenova. Jenova like had some real great fun time. And then we encountered Mira, the little fortune telling girl who uh gave a real fortune telling fortune telling. Fortuning, fortuning fortune. For everybody else, they got they got the fake motion. Fortune cookie.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

Yeah, Mira had like a whole feizer with Luna, and then everyone else was like hand express cookies.

SPEAKER_12 3:22

Here's some images for you. A burning tree. That's always a good imagery.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

A blind man arguing with you.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

An old man putting you in a coffin.

SPEAKER_12 3:37

Strange metal contraction.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

She took our money and then she has to be.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

We paid already and then we're we paid her to help. We're being hipster wannabe adventurers. We paid someone to then take us out to drink.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

We're going clamping.

SPEAKER_12 4:30

Well. Oh over overnight, because you know it it it did end up being nighttime eventually because time passes. Because overnight, you hear the sounds of thunder, but during during the sounds, there there are almost there are times where it almost sounds like footsteps like on the walls and and on the roof and stuff. Like there's there's a lot of noises that could be thunder, but it could also be something.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

I don't like that.

SPEAKER_03 4:54

Ominous. Yeah. So Dalos is conscious during this these footsteps, right?

SPEAKER_04 5:00

I'm I'm just not moving, that's the thing.

SPEAKER_12 5:02

Yeah, you're having your your six hours of just being still.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

Yeah, like I I'm aware of it.

SPEAKER_12 5:07

Most horrifying six hours of a of a clockwork's life every night. Yeah. No movement, just being still.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Can I can I break that to like essentially not get a rest if that happens? I this sorry, this is Elizabeth asking a mechanical question unrelated to what we're currently dealing with.

SPEAKER_12 5:24

Yeah, I mean, you know, you you get as much rest as you end up taking. So, you know, if it's like half of that six hours, then we call it like a short rest.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

Okay, cool. I'm disconcerted by the the spider sounded things, but whatever. The footsteps.

SPEAKER_13 5:36

Footstep sounded thing.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

Question.

SPEAKER_13 5:39

Um, dear player. Elizabeth, please.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

Uh, because I invited ALO AOL and I don't use my room, basically. I just stand in the corner. I'm assuming he just uses my room.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

You're saying you invite him to your room? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:54

Are you sleeping together?

SPEAKER_12 5:56

Well, okay, so do you just give him your key?

SPEAKER_04 6:00

Uh uh kind of, probably.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Uh in Lunette's mind, you guys are dating now. It's whatever.

SPEAKER_12 6:06

Like, you give AL the key and his eyes like light up. Like, oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 6:11

Oh, I simply don't need the room. I'll just I'll just stand outside.

SPEAKER_13 6:14

Well, I don't need the room either, but do you already need the room?

SPEAKER_04 6:19

Do you already have a room?

SPEAKER_13 6:20

I I mean, wherever you are, it's fine.

SPEAKER_04 6:23

But I've heard organics need sleep and uh usually beds and are we going to be sleeping.

SPEAKER_13 6:29

I Hello!

SPEAKER_04 6:32

I don't really understand what else you would need, but I don't know you gave me the key to your room. Yes, because I was given a room despite the fact that I don't really need those accommodations. And I was trying to be nice. I didn't I thought you might not have a room yet. I don't use mine.

SPEAKER_13 6:48

Well, I didn't want to be presumptuous, so I I go I did get my own room.

SPEAKER_04 6:52

Oh, okay, then I guess I I then you don't need mine.

SPEAKER_12 6:55

Dale's like reluctantly gives back to you. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Dale's assumed that he hadn't gotten the chance to go up there yet because I I thought that we were lower in the town.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Congratulations, Aylo.

SPEAKER_04 7:06

You have cooked yourself. Aol has chosen to not.

SPEAKER_06 7:11

It's all about consent.

SPEAKER_04 7:13

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Um, no, no, we need to change.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

We'll totally like play Matchmaker if that's what it feels like. I think it's just she's just like, there's so much fucking subtext flying around, like this.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

Whatever this guy's last name is, I uh this is an official bid to change it to uh try AOL Monster Fucker.

SPEAKER_04 7:31

Star Hammer. Change that to Monsterfucker.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

Oh, I was gonna say, I was gonna say Delosian doesn't really have a surname yet. And you have a hammer. Delosian Star Hammer.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

The ship name. The ship name is gonna have something to do with like forging or some sort. Study buddies?

SPEAKER_04 7:57

Is that a good one? I won't, I guess none of that happened. I was trying to be nice. And I was trying to also have a buddy. No, I'm keeping that in there. I was okay. Well, I was trying to be have a buddy because I was scared.

SPEAKER_12 8:08

Um you need you need somebody to Nope, I'm scared.

SPEAKER_04 8:12

No, don't finish that scene.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

He needs he needs a cuddle friend. Somebody keep you warm?

SPEAKER_04 8:19

Someone in the cuddle puddle? No, this should not be fun to cuddle.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

It does get really cold at night. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

So footsteps on the walls of the roof. Yeah, sorry. Since Delos is conscious, I was hoping I could wake someone else.

SPEAKER_12 8:38

Well, Ale will wake up. I'm like, all right, wah, wah.

SPEAKER_04 8:40

Yeah, but he's not in my room, so I already took my keys back. I said that. Okay, well, I guess it's just looked in the mouth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 8:49

Ale, Ail's not there, so it's just Delos in Delos' room.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

Just disconcern.

SPEAKER_12 8:53

Unless y'all all get a room together. Y'all room together. Cuddle puddle.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Cuddle puddle.

SPEAKER_12 8:58

Y'all cuddle puddle.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

That was what you used. That was talking about.

SPEAKER_12 9:01

One big room. One big room.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

Does it have a conversation pit?

SPEAKER_12 9:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Conversation pit for coffee.

SPEAKER_12 9:08

It's it's like it's like a room for four people, but for some reason it's built in such a way where it's almost like camping outside where there's just like a fire in the middle and then like places for sleeping bags.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

It's a studio apartment with a fire pit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

An indoor fire pit. That's so weird.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 9:25

That's what they had available.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Or all trauma bonded, like a pack of like separate anxious anxiety?

SPEAKER_12 9:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Like a bunch of little like anxious weenie dogs, so we all have to room together.

SPEAKER_12 9:36

Could I stay in here with you?

SPEAKER_04 9:40

Footsteps on walls and ceiling. Do does this feel like something that like I does it is it actually footsteps or does it just sound like footsteps?

SPEAKER_12 9:51

It's like it's like if you live with somebody, you can tell who's coming down the stairs, you know, by the way that they come down the stairs, kind of like that. It it sounds almost like footsteps, but it's not. Something's wrong about it. Something is off about it.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

Oh, so okay, something's bad. But because um if if I can intuit that something is wrong about these footsteps, Thalos will kind of like I don't know if wrongs are right.

SPEAKER_12 10:13

It's just it's just weird. Like you're you're hearing footsteps, but they're not happening in the way that you would expect them to.

SPEAKER_04 10:18

Um who has the highest second? Who has the highest passive perceptive other route? I have Dalos. I have an eleven.

SPEAKER_12 10:26

I think Jen has the Jen and over there. Oh, fifteen.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

I also have the alert feet, but I'm asleep.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

Then yeah, uh Dalos I'm I'm gonna say Dalos will wake up Venaria if you guys have the same. Um because you are the one who can tank stuff. And they'll be like, um Venaria. Venaria. Hello.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

Hi.

SPEAKER_04 10:51

Um I call it paranoia. Um there's a strange noise around the walls. It sounds like feet like people are are running, um, walking, stepping on the ceiling and the walls on occasion. And I didn't know if maybe this was something that happens.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

That organics do.

SPEAKER_04 11:09

Yeah, yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Um not not our type usually, but I still I do grab my hammer.

SPEAKER_12 11:16

Um like a thump thump thump.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

I just walk over the wall and go and like kinda listen a little bit and go thump thum thum. Um so Davis I just go get that response, and I was like, fuck it. I just like push the window open and stick my head out.

SPEAKER_12 11:38

You don't really see anything. Uh you can you can make a perception check for the five. Or I guess investigation. If you're if you're looking for something.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Do you wake anybody else up?

SPEAKER_04 11:50

Dales is waiting to see what Venaria does before waking anybody.

SPEAKER_12 11:57

So you don't see anything in particular. Uh well, I mean, you you don't see any things moving around. Um you do see some handprints kind of on the walls and stuff. Um but that's that's kind of all you're you're seeing in here. What size hands are there? Like humanoid.

SPEAKER_04 12:14

Average humanoid.

SPEAKER_12 12:15

Average humanoid.

SPEAKER_04 12:17

They also kind of turned over.

SPEAKER_12 12:19

Like a medium-sized category per hand.

SPEAKER_04 12:21

Do you think I should we should wake up the others?

SPEAKER_03 12:23

Well, someone's definitely been out there. But do while while I'm doing that, are there any further sounds?

SPEAKER_12 12:31

Fuds here and there, but it could also just be people moving around in the inn.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

There's no sign of threat right now. I'm gonna go back to bed if you hear anything else. Uh let's try this again. But uh something's moving around on the outside. But there's no sign. I was trying to kind of get their attention and then really get their attention by leaning out. So if they're gonna attack us, that would have been the time to do it.

SPEAKER_04 12:58

Interesting. Well, uh, I I'll try and keep an eye out as much as I can.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Um I do I do go ahead and kind of like gesture out just to let uh Daylas know where the handprints are. Kind of scattered around.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Oh my comfort.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

Oh, that's that's a question. How many sets of handprints do we see? Three. Okay. Because at some point, well, okay, guys. I guess that's confident.

SPEAKER_09 13:29

There are three.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

There are always three. Okay, so three at a time, or it's like I can just th see three individual handprints.

SPEAKER_04 13:39

Like three sets, I think.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 13:41

Three.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Okay, so as as a without rolling history, she uh Venari hasn't seen many like humanoid people able to just scurry up walls, but she has met at least one monkey guy. And so I think once she sees kind of the size of the handprints, she's she's looking for a pattern of four.

SPEAKER_12 14:02

They aren't arrayed in such a way that you can really tell, like, if one hand is connected to like another handprint, you know, like like like a set of hands or whatever. You are seeing them kind of randomly oriented kind of around the the the the wall where you had just been knocking.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

I'm uncomfortable. I don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Wow. Well they're in the right place. Well nothing's happening right now.

SPEAKER_12 14:28

Okay, I'm still a thundering, windy, lightning. Make you sleepy.

SPEAKER_04 14:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Mm-hmm. Go back into sentry mode.

SPEAKER_08 14:45

And just go at the end.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

All quiet on the Western Front.

SPEAKER_03 14:47

See, I just I just imagine him like p like collapsing partially like Baymax every time he goes into recharge.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

You see his shoulders just kind of like suddenly go down an an an alarming amount. Like further than his shoulders should be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 15:00

Suddenly suddenly his neck is very long and then head starts swiveling back and forth. Like the little eyes light up, like a little watchtower.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

But like all of all of the like if there are like any hydraulic or whatever, they just like collapse down. So he gets a little bit shorter. His arm gets a little bit shorter.

SPEAKER_12 15:15

Dayload, then tree now. So yeah, you you get through the night. I mean, and you do occasionally hear noises, but again, you know, there's nothing to indicate anything dangerous in more than your name. Dalos kind of slept like shit, yeah. And you wake up in the next morning, everything's hunky dory and still kind of rainy.

SPEAKER_04 15:36

Okay, so it's just kind of gross outside.

SPEAKER_12 15:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:39

If is is Dalos in a visibly poor way from sleeping like shit. I mean, you've probably never seen him like essentially start up, um, but you're seeing him do that rather than nor him just being awake.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Windows did not shut down properly.

SPEAKER_04 15:55

Normally he's he's up for like two hours or an hour after you and he gets up an hour before you. Now you're seeing him wake up, basically.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Like, oh hey, are you good?

SPEAKER_04 16:05

Um just a strange noise last night. Uh, and I was a bit concerned, but um Venaria seemed to see that nothing was wrong and nothing happened, so I guess up. I I didn't know.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

I checked.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Not you, him, or not you, her.

SPEAKER_03 16:24

I checked. There wasn't I it's it was just sound of footprints, and there were some handprints on the walls, but I I put my neck out there like I always do for y'all. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

In this, we we we have we have in everything that we have been through together, since when would handprints on the wall not be a source of concern?

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Like I said, I made myself a target.

SPEAKER_04 16:45

It wasn't immediate danger per se. Uh it was definitely concerning, and it's the reason why. And he he's still kind of like voop voop like I slept poorly.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

Like he's got an arm up here, like he's supposed to go through like reconfiguration every morning. It's like oh, it's incomplete.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

He's essentially like putting his shoulder back in whenever you're he's saying that.

SPEAKER_06 17:09

Oh, it's sticking a little. Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Yo comes running in with some WD40. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

I have my own little bottle of mineral oil from Ignacio.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 17:25

Like, I slept great.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Lynette slept great and she's pissed.

SPEAKER_09 17:28

Lunette's one of the people that sleeps like like half off the bed, just like Lunette has slept in trees.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

She has done that. She slept in hammocks. She slept, she slept in the greenhouse the last time we were at the house.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Um, one thing I am gonna do just in case shit goes down, um, since I can do this now. Uh I'm gonna basically I just basically walk a lap of the room with my hammer just doing hard, guard, hard, guard, hard, guard. And that is gonna be me doing my rally maneuver to uh give everybody some temp hit points. Oh um, Jenova, you get five, Lunette, you get four, and Daelos gets seven.

SPEAKER_04 18:11

What's it based off of? I'm kind of curious.

SPEAKER_03 18:13

Um, I just roll my superiority die.

SPEAKER_04 18:15

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

And then I could take a nap since I was up in the middle of the night and I get all this back. So rest for the win. So so you're you're gonna do this and then you're gonna sleep for four hours?

SPEAKER_12 18:26

Yeah, look at it.

SPEAKER_04 18:27

Oh, I thought we should investigate and then I would like to investigate on. I'm a bit nervous as well.

SPEAKER_12 18:34

Okay, so so Venaria chants around the room and then goes to sleep, and then the rest of you are gonna go investigate, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

Okay, well, you know, yo, whatever. Dales will look at Venaria and be like, are you sure you wouldn't like to join us?

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Or just I'll I'll come f I'll come fine.

SPEAKER_04 18:50

Okay. Uh braces if you need us.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Still still early morning.

SPEAKER_04 18:54

Dalos will wait question. Can we yell through the bracers to wake people up?

SPEAKER_13 18:59

I mean you can try.

SPEAKER_04 19:00

Dalos, what once Venaria's cogged out, we'll just like loudly.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

So that's something I have worried wondered about sending, because like they hear it in their mind, like, what if they're having a dream?

SPEAKER_04 19:11

But but Delos is going to use the bracers, and just very loudly in your head, you'll just hear Fenaria.

SPEAKER_03 19:19

So they're gonna make a constitution check or it takes psychic damage.

SPEAKER_04 19:22

You just you suddenly like jolt. Yeah. Can they wake people up?

SPEAKER_02 19:27

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_08 19:29

Okay. Cool.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

I just volume. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 19:33

So, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:34

Delos will like tap his hand on like your shoulder once you've done like, sorry, I just need to make sure that they worked.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

No, I do need to actually go back to bed. I gotta migrate and I will, but okay.

SPEAKER_04 20:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

I'll come find you. Well.

SPEAKER_04 20:19

Um, can I look at the handprints that Venaria pointed out? Are they I mean, are they still there?

SPEAKER_12 20:26

I guess not, but I mean, they're they're kind of hard to do.

SPEAKER_04 20:31

Are they like scuff marks more like?

SPEAKER_12 20:33

Well, well, the problem is it's been raining. So, you know, like what would have been there could have been like dirt, maybe a little bit of scuffing. But you know, the the rain has washed away a good amount of it. We can make an investigation check though. Eight.

SPEAKER_04 20:48

I have a minus one to investigation. I'm wise, not intelligent.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

It's an investigation set? Yeah. That'll be a 29th.

SPEAKER_13 20:56

Hey, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

That's like you posters.

SPEAKER_12 21:02

I think kind of all together you kind of get there, and then Luna's like, oh yeah. Um you you find a bit of a fingernail. Like kind of broke off.

SPEAKER_04 21:11

Not like, you know, the whole nail bed, but you know, like it's something you would notice whenever you bring out. Yeah. Shit.

SPEAKER_12 21:17

You you see you see a bit of nail broken off in there. And and yeah, it looks like it's kind of been like clawed. Not not from something like clawing at the wall, but just, you know, it it been scratched a little.

SPEAKER_04 21:31

I'm just I'm gonna grab Dalos' arm and like the bro divot, and I'm gonna look I'm going to point at that, and I'm going to say, the next time you hear a noise, wake me up. I'll try. I I mean Dalos will do the only thing that he thinks can think of, and try to climb the wall.

SPEAKER_12 21:53

Okay. Um, well, roll athletic.

SPEAKER_04 21:57

That's what I thought.

unknown 21:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

Do you want to rage first so you get advantage of this?

SPEAKER_12 22:01

Natural 20 plus seven.

unknown 22:03

Cool.

SPEAKER_12 22:04

Yeah, no, there are plenty of little handholds on the side of this building. You just you just scramble on up like a like a metal monkey. Um and that's I'm trying to think of like how this building is oriented. So you my goodness. Okay. So you get uh expecting that to be an entry to I mean the the dice tell the story. You yeah, you might you climb. You kind of clamber up there and you end up on the roof somehow. And up here, this is kind of like kind of curved tile-y roof, you know. And while you're up here, a lot of the tiles look to be dislodged and kind of moved around.

SPEAKER_04 22:49

Is there like a clear like pattern to it, or is it just like it someone hasn't been up here to fix it in a long time?

SPEAKER_13 22:55

You can't really investigate.

SPEAKER_04 22:57

Can I perceive with my my beautiful eyes? Ten. If you gave me like any other one, that'd be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_12 23:05

Okay, so you you do see in a discernible path, uh, some some dislodged tile.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Okay. Dalos will like peek over to you two and uh whoever I'm assuming are in the window and be like, it seems like there's a path that we can follow.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

I think Lunette's still like, how the fuck? You just scurried up. I uh you know what? Alright.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

Uh I you I can only hear large feet above you.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_12 23:34

Oh, there it is again.

SPEAKER_04 23:36

Uh I go follow. Can I like how are we are how tall is the building, actually? Like, are we on the first floor building basically?

SPEAKER_12 23:44

You you got up onto the roof. This is would be the third floor.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_12 23:51

So like you you managed to basically find like a place where like the roof from the second floor got close enough you can climb up on there and you kind of you know da da da.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

Uh yeah, so with a nine?

SPEAKER_12 24:03

Well, with with the nine, you basically you tried to go up to the second floor roof thing that I was just describing. Elizabeth managed to clamber up and and you don't quite get it.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

I died.

SPEAKER_12 24:13

You fall on your butt. Which a little it's a tiny bit embarrassing. I don't have any rope, guys.

SPEAKER_05 24:18

Jenova rolls an 18.

SPEAKER_12 24:20

For athletics? Oh, damn. Alright, well, yeah. Jenova jump Jenova kind of goes, oh, sorry, and then climbs up.

SPEAKER_04 24:29

So I guess am I just walking along the ground floor while they go up there?

SPEAKER_03 24:33

You you can try again. Describe it to me.

SPEAKER_04 24:35

Describe it to me. This is Taylor's.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 24:40

It's like you just have to use the windowsills, and then there are a couple ledges around the edges. It's it's real simple as long as you make sure you're you're really precise about where your feet are placed. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

So is this the health action isn't getting advantageous? Yes. Yes. That's a natural 20. There you go. Okay. So that's a 23.

SPEAKER_12 24:59

So yeah, she tells you, she tells you, or pardon me, Dalos tells you how to get up there, and you're like, oh duh, and then you just climb up.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 25:06

Like, oh, of course, yeah. And then you just get up there, no problem. So the three of you are up on the roof.

SPEAKER_04 25:11

Dalos will point out the uh path and try and start following it.

SPEAKER_12 25:16

Yeah. So this this path goes along the roof, and then you can see there's a spot a little farther on the next building's roof where it looks like something may have kind of hopped over and landed over there. Uh, but then it goes back down to like the street level.

SPEAKER_04 25:35

Is there any like stuff anywhere else, like like other than the the scuffled tiles? That is like obvious that like you know, maybe they dropped something or they had to use a tool to get up somewhere or anything like that.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

I'll investigate. What was that?

SPEAKER_04 25:51

Investigation doesn't like me, it's a seven.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Ah, no.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

That was like as far as I can take us. Then over at World X Well. You have a like full of yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

It's a seventeen. But like it could have been higher on the day. Yeah. If I had gotten like a seventeen, then I could have been a twenty-seven, I would have perceived all of it with my special eyes.

SPEAKER_12 26:13

I think kinda kind of the aggregate there, you do see another spot where it looks to be clawed and and another little bit of of nail.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

What the fuck is why see people not cutting their nails short?

SPEAKER_00 26:25

I hate everything about this. This is gonna be something crazy.

SPEAKER_12 26:30

Like a fingernail.

SPEAKER_05 26:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:32

Like a little sliver.

SPEAKER_12 26:33

Like like a like a humanoid fingernail.

SPEAKER_04 26:35

Okay. Alright. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 26:36

Yeah, no, it's not it's not beastly in any way. It's like this looks like somebody's like clawing their way.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Can we can we try and follow the path to its its logical conclusion, quote unquote?

SPEAKER_12 26:49

Um, you can. Yeah, uh we this would be a survival check. Doing some tracking. Okay. Here we have an outlander that might be good at survival.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

Uh we can fucking know. 214. That's a 14.

SPEAKER_12 27:10

Alright, well, Jenova manages to to find the trail. Um, it does, as I was mentioning, kind of lead off of the roof down to the ground level. And then it heads off around a corner, but you kind of lose the trail after that.

SPEAKER_04 27:25

Why'd they come up onto the roof then? Just to make a noise. Um sorry.

SPEAKER_13 27:35

No, I'm scared.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

I'm scared of getting people back down. What if the dice are meeting? Uh roll to dis to climb down the wall.

SPEAKER_12 27:46

Yeah, I mean you can just just go back down the way you came and you can find your.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Can can we follow the path to that corner that uh gen of the corner?

SPEAKER_12 27:54

I mean, because you can see clearly where it is. You just need to, you know, get down to it.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

We just clamber back down.

SPEAKER_12 27:59

Um and while while you're heading that way, uh Mira will will kind of bump into you.

SPEAKER_06 28:05

How are you are you where are where are you headed?

SPEAKER_04 28:09

Well, last night there was uh a a suspicious number of footsteps on our roof. And so we were investigating that and uh following it to its logical conclusion. Where were you headed?

SPEAKER_06 28:21

I well I I came to to talk to you about about my brother who wanted to give you some more information on on what happened.

SPEAKER_04 28:29

Like imagine at this point the net does fall off the roof. And you just hear the ah dills will like flip around to try and catch. Like she's trying to go, her hand mess like her metal hand messes up.

SPEAKER_12 28:40

I'm gonna make y'all roll if this is what you're doing.

SPEAKER_04 28:42

I will catch I will try and catch you.

SPEAKER_12 28:44

Roll roll roll dexterity. Is it a save? Uh no, to check.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

It's a 12, and then my dexterity.

SPEAKER_12 28:54

No, not you. This is Dalos to catch you.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

What is that?

SPEAKER_03 29:02

That's 30 feet.

SPEAKER_04 29:05

Dalos goes five.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

She takes double fall damage because you're made of metal.

SPEAKER_12 29:09

Delos tries to catch and and and you weren't quite prepared for it.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

So Lunette gets like five feet down and then just like and I hear this noise and I flip around to try and catch, but I am a metal being.

SPEAKER_12 29:22

Yeah, like you manage to kind of slow it, but she like bounces off your arm and like rip her back a little bit. No, you you take six fall damage.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

I'll take it, it's funny. Sorry, Lunette.

SPEAKER_08 29:33

I just imagine Mira's like, what the fuck? What happened? Are you okay?

SPEAKER_04 29:38

I I'm fine, what's up?

SPEAKER_12 29:40

Uh well, I I just I came to tell you what what what I knew. I thought maybe some more information might help you with the investigation.

SPEAKER_04 29:48

More information's always good.

SPEAKER_12 29:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:50

Well Does your brother climb roofs? She's still on the ground.

SPEAKER_12 29:56

No, typically he goes down into the to the uh the steamworks underneath the village. Oh god damn it.

SPEAKER_04 30:02

I thought you were gonna say that.

SPEAKER_12 30:03

Yeah. Well, I mean he was he was a boiler man. And uh the the red termi were were working him since he owed them money.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

Um, you had talked about how he was a boiler man um beforehand. Uh with his tools. Um did you happen to think of something else that you wanted to tell up?

SPEAKER_06 30:22

I've heard some rumors about what they're they're calling a demon in the mist.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Oh, that's uh bitch.

SPEAKER_12 30:31

Well, people people like to inflate, but I think they're attacking the red terme.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

Dailos will turn to to Mira and be like, um we will go out of our way to make sure that we are checking out whatever that is. Uh right now we were just investigating something from last night, uh, while one of our party members was uh uh recovering from the rough night that we had.

SPEAKER_06 30:55

I I I can help any way you need. I'll I'll just tag along. Uh I don't I don't have anything I can pay you with, but I can I can work off the debt.

SPEAKER_13 31:07

Whatever whatever we need, I just I just need to find my brother.

SPEAKER_04 31:11

The business of dealing in debt. And we're just gonna do it. And I I don't really want you to get hurt if this demon is uh demon.

SPEAKER_10 31:20

I could I can cook for you. I can clean whatever you need. I don't like owing anyone things. That's how my brother got disappeared. House sandwiches. Can you use sandwiches? I can make a I can make a sandwich.

SPEAKER_04 31:35

A mean sandwich.

SPEAKER_10 31:35

You just have to tell me where everything is since I can't see, but I will I will make the best sandwich that I possibly can.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

This is our new NPC mode. Take her back to Zervin Man.

SPEAKER_10 31:46

She can she can do the vibe cut. I'm a I'm a I'm a blind fortune teller girl. All I hear here out on my own. My my brother's not here. Whatever will I do.

SPEAKER_04 32:01

Like, hey, if you want, you can just crash at Zeffrin Manor. Just stop getting in debt with strangers and maybe don't piss off people with fake fortune telling.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_10 32:17

Everything that I say is technically true.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

Um don't worry uh that much about the debt as you're not in debt. We haven't done anything for you, we haven't found anything for you. Um But we can talk about this if we find your brother.

unknown 32:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

Otherwise, uh the this demon in the mists is clearly a bigger thing than just you. It's not a favor we're doing for you.

SPEAKER_10 32:42

Well, I will wait at at my little spot by the street and continue throwing the. Shiver in the cold. Shiver in the cold.

SPEAKER_03 32:53

It's actively raining right now.

SPEAKER_09 32:55

She's like, she's like in her twenties, but she's doing her best to look like a little, like a little scared, shivering girl.

SPEAKER_04 33:01

I think at this point what Lunette's gonna do here is uh she's like, look. All of Lunette's belongings are on her person. I'm I'm nervous that there's a sleeping NPC. NPC? Not NPC. PC. PC. Uh there's a sleeping party member in the room, and I as much as I would love to invite her to go back there, I am scared of I forgot that we did cuddle puddle shit. Her not being what she says she is.

SPEAKER_12 33:27

Yeah, it's like y'all are talking about Venaria and it swings back at Venaria, and there's like a spider crawling on her face, and she's like, You should eat that, it's good protein.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

I feel like yeah, I feel like in some way she's gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_04 33:47

Um, are you are you looking for a place to stay, to sleep, to get out of the rain?

SPEAKER_06 33:53

Well, I haven't been able to pay rent since my brother's been gone. He took care of us, so I I could use a place to stay, yes.

SPEAKER_04 34:01

Then maybe I have a friend who could help you. And he's gonna be like, you guys follow the path as far as you can. Um I am going to take her to Ale and have Ayo come to our room, so that we have someone we trust in the room, but we don't have but she still has a place to stay, because I feel I don't want her to shiver the gold. Yeah. Is that alright?

SPEAKER_05 34:22

Sounds like a good idea to me.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 34:26

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

Operation distra Operation Ale distraction is go.

SPEAKER_04 34:30

Give him a test. So he loves he loves a quest. Okay, so you No, Delos is going to ask him explicitly, hey, there's this little girl, or this little girl, quote unquote. She's twelve. According to according to Delos. What she is presented herself as. There is this woman who is asking us for help, and we're planning on helping her, and she needs to not be in the rain, but Venaria is sleeping. Would you want to stay over here and she can be in there, and then we're safe.

SPEAKER_12 34:57

Okay, so you are you are running Mira over to Aole's room. Yeah. And and and then there are two.

SPEAKER_04 35:03

Which of course he gave to me in in in a wink wink. He did. Um, so Dayless knows.

SPEAKER_12 35:10

Okay, so Alright, so yeah, you you run her over and you knock on on his door, I suppose. Yes. Okay, he'll he'll answer the door and he'll look at you and see a shivering woman next to me.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

I I don't know if I gave the wrong impression, but I'm not into that.

SPEAKER_04 35:24

Oh, um I don't know exactly what kind of impression that you're thinking on taking. I this is Mira. She's a fortune teller who works in the city and it has asked us for help dealing with a case of a missing brother.

SPEAKER_09 35:38

Oh, okay. And he kind of just like straightens up a little bit, like closes his shirt, he had it unbuttoned a little bit, and like, oh, oh, of course, of course. Yeah, no, it's like he's got like chest hair, like the gold medallion sitting on it, and it smells like musk.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

Put that away.

SPEAKER_12 35:57

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

Sentient old spiced commercial He's like on a horse for some reason.

SPEAKER_12 36:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:03

Uh no, oh come in, please, please, come in, come in.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

Um, we were in the process of investigating. Did you notice the footsteps on the ceiling and the walls last night?

SPEAKER_12 36:13

Uh he's like over there, like fixing a cup of tea from a little pottery.

SPEAKER_08 36:16

I uh uh no, I I I don't I don't I didn't hear any of that.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

Well, we were following a path doing that, and then she found us along the road, and uh well, I know that you all are uh particularly affected by cold and hot, and it is actively raining outside, and isn't the warmest. Um and so I wanted to make sure that we could find Mira later, and also so that she wouldn't shiver out in the cold if I frankly feel bad. And I we're simply trying to make sure we do that. But Venaria is leaving in our room because of the noises that we heard last night. And so I sorry uh look at Mira. I think I don't trust you, but we have been leaving the comfort and I don't know you.

SPEAKER_06 37:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 37:03

Um and I it's not that early in the morning, so I assume that you would be awake. Yeah, and if you'd like, you can come to our room if you're uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_12 37:13

You will hand Mira the cup of tea and get her sat down a little here. I if totally fine.

SPEAKER_13 37:18

You just need to stick yourself down, we'll have ourselves, and we'll get fine.

SPEAKER_04 37:24

I was also a bit concerned as her brother is gone to it, and I didn't want it to disappear.

SPEAKER_13 37:36

They're all very good up until you get another day.

SPEAKER_04 37:38

Well, we're hoping to find out where he went. Um thank you. I think we're off tracking the uh the footballs from the on your way out if you kind of turn around like, okay, yep, we're gonna we're gonna listen to the program.

SPEAKER_12 37:58

Yeah, you will you you you head out there and we well think we have Venova and Unit investigation. There you go. All right, so you all where where are you investigating? What are you doing? With the with the skinny, with the VOP.

SPEAKER_05 38:23

We are left to our own devices. You said that in my brain immediately when you like.

SPEAKER_12 38:27

Who squirrels out on the town?

SPEAKER_00 38:30

Yes, that we'll be about to go.

SPEAKER_04 38:33

Uh so we were told to follow the path as far as we of like broken tails. I mean told to. I just yeah, Dale's told you.

SPEAKER_12 38:42

Uh so I guess gave an order.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

We are searching for any more any more evidence of, I guess, broken nails. Well, no, just like following the path because Jenova tracked it to a corner. So we'll continue to follow the path that Genova found, and we're just gonna keep looking for more evidence of what the hell is happening.

SPEAKER_12 39:02

Okay. Excellent. Cool. Uh, so do you do any like talking to people during that, or are you just Are there what people are around? Well, this is a village full of tourists and stuff, so there's lots of people around.

SPEAKER_05 39:16

Are there any guards posted?

SPEAKER_12 39:18

Yeah, but they're they're all wandering around. I mean, they've there are they're of course like back alleys and stuff where there's not a lot of people looking around, but yeah, the the Red Termai have a pretty good presence out and about. Um they they do keep order. You don't really see them doing anything unjust, technically. You do occasionally see them like wailing on somebody a little bit, but they're always at the same time going like, hey, you didn't pay what you owe, or hey, don't steal from them. That's not okay. We have to keep the peace. You know, stuff like that. So they they seem probably more in like if you had to tie an alignment to it, you're probably seeing more like lawful neutral behavior. Where there's like we're we're keeping things steady.

SPEAKER_04 40:01

A little authoritarian.

SPEAKER_05 40:03

We flag one down to ask them if they've seen something.

SPEAKER_12 40:07

One of the one of the red termi?

SPEAKER_05 40:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 40:10

Yeah, you can absolutely flag one of them down.

SPEAKER_05 40:12

Hey you over there. Hello.

SPEAKER_13 40:15

Hey, hey, how are you doing, Toots?

SPEAKER_05 40:17

Oh, goodbye. I'm doing great. How are you today?

SPEAKER_13 40:20

I'm much better now. Oh how are you fine ladies doing? Yeah. Always a good day. We are beautiful women.

SPEAKER_04 40:33

Oh goodness. Like, like Lunette is gonna face Palm with her metal hand on Palm forehead, sir.

SPEAKER_05 40:40

Um we didn't sleep the best last night.

SPEAKER_13 40:43

Oh, I don't think I can sleep if I was with you.

SPEAKER_04 40:46

Father helped.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

Oh, I yeah.

SPEAKER_13 40:48

Hey, like Lynette's gonna like compliment the lady.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

Going to the gangster be like, uh from a 10 to a 2.

SPEAKER_13 40:57

I apologize I apologize. I apologize. How can I help you?

SPEAKER_04 41:02

Uh we were having some trouble sleeping because of some crawling sounds on the walls.

SPEAKER_05 41:07

What was that about? There there's there's obvious signs of something being up on top of the roof, uh broken nails.

SPEAKER_04 41:17

Heard some some weird local stories about something in the mist.

SPEAKER_12 41:20

Hey, well, you know, sometimes as people they get a little crazy, they start climbing the walls, you know what I mean? No, no, we don't joke. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:30

Lunette goes, eh.

SPEAKER_04 41:35

What Lunette's trying to do here is she's trying to just figure out what the vibe is supposed to be, and what she's getting is like, bruh, unique company, not mine.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

Uh if I can get it.

SPEAKER_09 41:53

He's got like one of his buddies that elbows him like, hey.

SPEAKER_04 41:58

We were just wondering if you guys could tell us a little bit more about that uh what is it called?

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Uh demon of the mist.

SPEAKER_02 42:04

The demon of the mist? Uh yeah, you can you roll. Roll roll perception.

SPEAKER_00 42:10

That's a uh a twelve?

SPEAKER_12 42:12

Hmm. Yeah, no, you you mentioned the the demon in the mist, and they all kind of like shake their head a little bit. If I play I haven't heard any of that, no.

SPEAKER_05 42:20

If I play into their stupid weird dude brain, do I get advantage? Has anyone seen any anyone on the roof? Any of you guys?

SPEAKER_12 42:28

No, no, nothing. And and what do you what do you mean playing into their stupid dude brain? Or are are you gonna like push your tits together?

SPEAKER_04 42:35

Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_12 42:36

I don't know. That's why I'm trying to find out what's going on.

SPEAKER_04 42:38

If I play like scared lady in a new town thing. Okay, that's different. Red as if I seduce him. That's my thank you. Yes. I'm not gonna do that. If I were to play a little more damsel in distress, you do I get advantage on my next one?

SPEAKER_12 42:54

Uh you're okay, so roll persuasion to to do the the damsel in distress part. Yeah, then you have to be convincing. And then then we can get advantage on the other thing.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

So it's just a flat nine. No, it's it's eleven. Oh, it's a flat eleven. So not good. 16.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

I might be able to persuade a little bit. Lynette's like, I'm so scared.

SPEAKER_12 43:17

Lynette's like, oh, look at me, whatever am I gonna do.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

I'm so frightened.

SPEAKER_12 43:23

Uh no, uh how like really we were very concerned.

SPEAKER_05 43:30

I didn't sleep well, and my my little fire otter, you know, he is just feeling so bad today. And I'm but it would really make me happy if y'all could like find out what was on the roof for us, please. I mean, you are guards, you do investigate, right?

SPEAKER_00 43:52

Luna in the background for your fucking job, please.

SPEAKER_12 43:56

You know, and we do our best to to keep things safe around here for you. Oh, thank you. Yeah, well, you know.

SPEAKER_05 44:03

And and very smart, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_12 44:07

You know, like flexes a little bit, like yeah, thank you. Uh you know, I go to the gym, you know, like Tuesdays and Thursdays, you know.

SPEAKER_05 44:17

I can see that, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

That's like rolling her eyes so hard.

SPEAKER_05 44:21

Maybe maybe y'all could like come up there and investigate for us.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

Uh you know, I would be happy to climb up there and take a look for you. Hold hold hold my spear.

SPEAKER_04 44:32

Hold my spear. Hold my spear. The deal is gonna come back.

SPEAKER_12 44:40

I'm gonna be after he starts climbing. As he's trying to climb, I gotta roll for this guy.

SPEAKER_04 44:47

Okay. He can't fuck up.

SPEAKER_12 44:54

He he gets about like halfway up the wall, and then you hear him kind of go, fuck. But he does manage to climb, climb up there, and just scrambles up onto the roof, and you're like, okay, okay. Yeah. Oh boy, that's tough. All right, yeah. Uh so what am I looking for again? He's calling down for a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 45:11

What am I what am I looking for? Do you see any like claw marks, nails? Anything spooky? Anything so scary?

SPEAKER_04 45:20

Broken tiles.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

Broken like that's like Lynette's trying, it's not working. Yeah. Anything so scary?

SPEAKER_08 45:28

I I see tiles. I see bird shit.

SPEAKER_00 45:31

I see uh are any of the tiles broken?

SPEAKER_12 45:34

I mean, there's lots of broken tiles. I you know, I'm not seeing any nails. Any fingernails?

SPEAKER_00 45:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 45:41

I know, I don't see anything up here. It's just it's just a roof. What was I supposed to see up here?

SPEAKER_00 45:47

Broken tiles, nails, creepy shit. I don't know.

SPEAKER_12 45:50

Well, ladies, I think you're safe up here. We'll we'll we're gonna keep a real good eye on everything, you know, and I bet I bet if you let if you came to my room tonight, I can keep a good eye on you right in there.

SPEAKER_04 46:00

Then that's gonna grab you now, but we're going.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

Like, let's go before it gets back down.

SPEAKER_04 46:04

I'd love to watch you go.

SPEAKER_00 46:07

Tomato, tomato, tomato.

SPEAKER_05 46:09

I appreciate I appreciate the offer, but if you could put an eye out. Tell them where we're sleeping.

SPEAKER_04 46:18

Tell them tell them a different building.

SPEAKER_12 46:20

Yeah, the two buddies that were down there with them are like getting real close. Like, where?

SPEAKER_05 46:24

Um We're staying in the area, and if you could keep an eye out for it. Because we would like to sleep, and there was something knocking, and of course, you beautiful lady.

SPEAKER_13 46:39

Absolutely. Whatever you need.

SPEAKER_04 46:41

You did it, you played like telemarketing sleep. What's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_12 46:49

They will they they will absolutely assure you that they will do anything and everything to to keep you all safe. Yeah, flexed.

SPEAKER_00 46:56

Is that what they're calling it these days?

SPEAKER_12 46:58

Yeah. So and then and it's a series of other like cat calls and hey.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

This episode is labeled misogyny. Yeah. I think whenever, like, whenever they get out of their conversation, that's probably whatever I'm gonna apply. They'll also be like, they'll go over the writer's like, uh, how far have you guys gotten? I'll meet up with you. Not no. Guy on the roof, like just start making his way through the roof. And then it's like, there's a guy on the roof, and that's gonna be like, Who are you?

SPEAKER_00 47:29

Uh just go where there's like a guy dancing on the roof.

SPEAKER_12 47:31

I'm gonna have his turn it come off.

SPEAKER_03 47:32

I was gonna say, I'm waiting for it to be like, What you can't even arrest me.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

It's just like just go full cock and balls and this episode is labeled Sandry. No.

SPEAKER_04 47:46

I am surrounded by I just realized.

SPEAKER_12 47:49

Yes. I was gonna say, you know, it didn't the makeup of this party is wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 47:52

A real thing that a real thing that my friend Olivia, the artist for this podcast, has said before is I love that what this that this party is, three bad bitches in the roomba they adopted.

SPEAKER_03 48:05

Put that on the banner. Put that on the banner art.

SPEAKER_00 48:08

Like, it's three bad bitches and a robot.

SPEAKER_12 48:11

Put that in the Discord. Somebody quote that. Three bad bitches in a roombo.

SPEAKER_04 48:15

They adopted um the roombo they pack bonded with. Well, uh, Dalos hearing that people are being stupid, and then there's a man on the roof. Well, hurry to you guys. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_12 48:27

Yeah, by the by the time you get up there, he is he is like absolutely naked, just swinging in his his Yukano around. Balls just swinging in the wind.

SPEAKER_04 48:37

Um this episode is labeled Induced and Exposure. If Delos was going to help him get down, he is no longer going down.

SPEAKER_12 48:46

Oh no, he's not coming down. Sir, you seem fully in control of the situation. Somebody's tossed him a beer. Like he's he's up there for probably a while.

SPEAKER_04 48:53

Um are they just like around the corner or whatever?

SPEAKER_12 48:56

They're they're down. Well, so basically he just climbed the nearest roof.

SPEAKER_05 48:59

Oh no, talking about uh Oh, them.

SPEAKER_12 49:01

Oh, I mean, yeah, did you stay there to watch the naked man dancing on the roof?

SPEAKER_04 49:05

No, we swinging his nuts in the air. We're like, okay. Uh yeah, Taylor's will just like, oh, that's a thing, and we'll try and find you guys.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Didn't do anything.

SPEAKER_05 49:16

Alright, well, we lose faith, and I guess we don't know exactly what caused the noise.

SPEAKER_12 49:21

As as as you all are standing around, kind of not not sure what to do next, and and you know, hearing the ball swinging in the wind.

SPEAKER_04 49:31

Nope, we're far enough away.

SPEAKER_12 49:33

He's achieved he has achieved lift from the helicopter motion of his genitals.

SPEAKER_04 49:43

This is the first time that I've ever really like I need you need to take the content warranty.

SPEAKER_12 49:49

No, for real. So, yes, as as you are you're you are kind of getting away from that, um you actually do hear a scream of dismay.

SPEAKER_04 50:01

That's beautiful, thank you. Um welcome. Is that your damsel in distress, boys?

SPEAKER_00 50:06

Oh no!

SPEAKER_03 50:07

That's that's Venaria waking up from Ball's dreams for some reason.

SPEAKER_00 50:11

No, what if if if we're not stopped? That image of the gonna be like a street thing lift.

SPEAKER_04 50:17

What's she gonna do? Is she gonna mind beam that to Venaria to wake her up?

SPEAKER_09 50:25

You wake up to the image of a man helicoptering through the air by his venom?

SPEAKER_00 50:31

If I have to see it, so do you, bitch.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

I'm just like wiping spider detritus off my face.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Eating three spiders that are fleeting. The whole group just what the fuck? Where are you? Good morning, Venaria.

SPEAKER_03 50:52

We're over here like we'll give you directions. I'ma jump out the window.

SPEAKER_00 50:57

Yeah, I jump out the window.

SPEAKER_03 51:03

17.

SPEAKER_12 51:05

Yeah, you manage to get through the window and you know where I get aura for the wind.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

Yeah, you can get through. Take off running down the street before. Excellent. As as if as if helicopter dick is the monster that's attacking people. Like, where is it? Oh my god, we're gonna be ready.

SPEAKER_04 51:21

Um I I would start like have us start making our way to the screen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 51:26

Yes. You all you all you all zero in on the screen, and there's a cluster of people about, and this is off in a uh kind of a back alley. Of course. But eventually you you kind of like push your way through, and you are presented with the scene of Well, it's covered in hundreds of handprints, kind of all over the floor and all over the walls, and a lot of them are bloody as you're looking at kind of the crushed and dismembered remains of a person.

SPEAKER_00 51:53

Kind of a bitch. We're very excited.

SPEAKER_12 51:55

You are welcome to make any investigation roles, insight, what have you. Just tell me what you're looking for.

SPEAKER_03 52:02

Is in is is it insight to try to recognize like the face if there is a face?

SPEAKER_12 52:07

I would say probably still perception on that.

SPEAKER_03 52:09

Okay, seven on perception.

SPEAKER_12 52:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 52:12

Wow, we're rolling bad.

SPEAKER_12 52:14

Stellar rolls, y'all.

SPEAKER_04 52:15

We're all distracted by helicopter dick. They have ten.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

Yeah, everybody's still distracted by the horror of helicopter dick. Okay, no, technically it's an eight. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 52:26

So well, you're you are seeing a pretty messed up body. Um, but to to your credit, it is a pretty messy scene, because like I said, this guy looks to have been set upon by something that tore him apart and then crushed it and then just spread it around. You do see, as I mentioned, hand prints all over the place. But they are also leading off in a particular direction.

SPEAKER_03 52:54

Uh we need to set fire to this body.

SPEAKER_04 52:55

Looking at the body, or is it like in a uniform or anything like that?

SPEAKER_12 53:03

Uh you do see one of those red termi UCAs.

SPEAKER_00 53:08

Uh uh. Oh. It's a cop. Uh it was a cop. Says the cop.

SPEAKER_04 53:12

Says the federal agent.

SPEAKER_00 53:15

She's just like, uh, it's a cop. It's a cop killer. It was a cop.

SPEAKER_03 53:18

It's a local issue. We don't handle this.

SPEAKER_00 53:20

Yeah, shit.

SPEAKER_04 53:21

We're gonna have to handle this because of like Ashlaw, aren't we?

SPEAKER_12 53:23

Ashelaw is something that is declared. Um, it it has not gotten to a point where that would be happening. Like, Ashelaw tends to come into play when you are seeing undead. Right now you are seeing it.

SPEAKER_04 53:36

Uh takeover or whatever. What is it? Military law. Martial law. That's what I was looking at.

SPEAKER_12 53:41

Yeah, yeah, that's that's a good kind of like uh analog there.

SPEAKER_04 53:44

Should we use a lantern pin to try and get a lantern over here? Or should we go and find another or should we follow the trail of handprints? I think dead body here. I think I think we should follow the trail, and considering the fact that this is a village of size, no matter the size, they have some way to process their own debt.

SPEAKER_12 54:02

If if you if you think of the red terramai as the local authority, they are present and they look to be, you know, starting the pre the the process of doing what they're gonna do there.

SPEAKER_00 54:13

I thought this was just a body in the corner. I thought this was just a body in the corner, and I was like, maybe someone found it.

SPEAKER_12 54:19

Got a crowd. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_12 54:21

I just I was like, maybe we should tell someone about the basically you showed up and like some other red terramite members are showing up. You know, but they're it's being handled. Let's follow the trail before they fuck it up. Yes, I agree. Excellent. So go ahead and make survival check.

SPEAKER_04 54:37

I rolled a seven, but twenty-four.

SPEAKER_03 54:41

I got a dirty twenty. My paladin dice is failing me. I got an eight. Oh. Okay. But it wasn't a one.

SPEAKER_12 54:47

The the the outlander tracker person with the twenty. Yeah, uh yeah, you you do manage to follow the trail. And it leads off kind of around the corner and into what you can probably assume would be a maintenance entrance to what you've heard referred to as the steamworks. Yay, the boy.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Would you say perchance it'll be dark down there?

SPEAKER_06 55:11

It might be dark down there.

SPEAKER_00 55:12

I guess it disappeared.

SPEAKER_03 55:15

Like she Luna goes down first, suddenly it's like, where the fuck did she go?

SPEAKER_04 55:19

Have there just been like a bunch of handprints that we've been following this whole time?

SPEAKER_12 55:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:23

Okay. Like like too many?

SPEAKER_12 55:26

A lot of handprints.

SPEAKER_04 55:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 55:28

More more than makes sense for just a person.

SPEAKER_04 55:31

Based on what we've seen of Necromera, they can have lots of arms. Lots of lots of hands. I need to try my new hammer.

unknown 55:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 55:40

Okay. So are we heading down into the maintenance tunnel? Alright. So.

SPEAKER_06 55:46

In the steamworks, it is dark and narrow and sweltering.

SPEAKER_12 55:50

At first the walls look to be painted with a strange textured pattern. You can make an investigation check.

SPEAKER_04 55:57

I rolled a zero. Now on mine.

SPEAKER_12 56:00

I have no idea what's going on. You you do that thing where you like walk through a doorway and you forget what you were doing.

SPEAKER_00 56:05

I got a 19.

SPEAKER_12 56:06

Excellent.

SPEAKER_05 56:07

Never a 17.

SPEAKER_12 56:08

Seventeen. I got a 12, only because of my of my head. So Genova and Lunette, you look at that textured kind of painting on the walls, and what you're seeing is so many densely packed handprints that it just looks like a textured pattern.

SPEAKER_04 56:25

It looks like wall texture.

SPEAKER_12 56:27

It looks like walls, like like somebody did a little bit sponging on the wall. Yeah, but it's just there's that many handprints on the wall.

SPEAKER_05 56:33

Oh, it's oh it's this is bleak.

SPEAKER_00 56:36

Yeah, so Luna's gonna reach into her Luna's gonna reach into her pocket uh and she is going to withdraw one of her Meterium knives. Yeah, she's like, alright, everybody, get ready.

SPEAKER_04 56:48

I'm assuming you guys describe this to the tanks who do not know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:53

Have you guys ever seen like an abstract painting?

SPEAKER_05 56:55

Bloody bloody handprints upon bloody handprints upon bloody handprints. So that's what's on the wall. That is what this is.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

Oh, fun.

SPEAKER_05 57:04

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:05

Yeah, everybody ready up. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 57:09

Lock and load. Can I bold link on everyone? You can. I will do that.

SPEAKER_12 57:15

Cool. So you all head down in the steamworks. This this is basically where all the pipes and water and steam and stuff kind of run underneath the city. Uh there are, of course, natural springs and everything, but you know, they have they have pretty well industrialized this area. So there's there's a lot of that running underneath the city. There's there's like hot pipes, cold pipes, so it's cramped. It is, as I mentioned, kind of sweltering because it is hot and then it's also humid. So it's not a comfortable place to be. It's dark. But you do manage to kind of work your way through the area. Um there are certain parts that are locked off by gates, uh, where it looks like you know they've they've got like some businesses piped. It leads it it's kind of maze-like is kind of the problem that you run into. Kind of like, yeah, like how you handled uh under Haven Watch, where you just put your hand on the left wall and kind of walked.

SPEAKER_04 58:17

Yeah. We're good at mazes, I guess.

SPEAKER_12 58:19

Yeah, you know, it does it does help you, and you do go for a while. Eventually you do find um one of those gates, but it's like been torn off and and and and it is like busted out. Uh you were you are welcome to make whatever kind of check around that you might want.

SPEAKER_04 58:41

Can I see if there's anything on the parts that are like jagged investigations?

SPEAKER_12 58:44

Like investigation.

SPEAKER_04 58:45

Uh yeah, or perceiving with my beautiful eyes.

SPEAKER_12 58:49

Well, if you're looking for something that's investigating.

SPEAKER_04 58:51

What do I'm seeing if there is flesh on the floor?

SPEAKER_12 58:54

You were arguing for the thing that you have a better voter for.

SPEAKER_04 58:56

You're right, but I will investigate if you want.

SPEAKER_12 58:58

Oh yeah, okay, you can you can perceive.

SPEAKER_04 58:59

I I can investigate if you want.

SPEAKER_06 59:01

No, you know, you that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 59:03

What do I investigate with my 25? 29.

SPEAKER_12 59:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

Also, you had to roll your D4. Ah, son of a bitch. Hang on, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_12 59:14

Hardy boy over there.

SPEAKER_04 59:15

Where you're 28. 28.

SPEAKER_05 59:18

I'm investigating with 28.

SPEAKER_12 59:19

15.

SPEAKER_05 59:20

That's 15 three times in a row. Excellent.

SPEAKER_12 59:23

So everybody, everybody would win. Yay! Um, no, you can you can actually deduce from the way that the frame that's left behind is kind of twisted. Like something broke out of there, not yet.

SPEAKER_01 59:38

Yay.

SPEAKER_12 59:39

Um. So yeah, whatever was back there came out of there.

SPEAKER_04 59:44

And has proceeded to go back?

SPEAKER_12 59:46

All you can tell is that something came out of there.

SPEAKER_04 59:49

Okay. Unless it just stopped on the body and then disappeared. It grew wings and flew.

SPEAKER_12 59:55

Well, I mean, that's that's what you can see right now. Um, and the path just kind of ends here. So of the textured walls. Well, the way that you came. And it's kind of kind of a maze-like, so you could probably follow your way back out, but getting back to this specific spot might be kind of difficult. But this is this is what you're seeing right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:18

Can we go past that gate? You can look back there.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:23

Sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:23

No, like the gate that was busted open.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:25

Yeah, you can look in there. Yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:28

That's where I would like to look.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:31

Considering the fact that it's gonna be hard to get back here, I guess.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:33

So do you do you have dark vision or anything?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:35

I do not have dark vision. I'm just blind, guys. So it's dark.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:39

It's dark.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:39

It's been dark this whole time. I know, I'm just uh, does anybody I've been going off of the soft glow of the materium, specifically?

SPEAKER_12 1:00:49

Now who's gotta look at their notes?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:51

Uh specifically, the tool talon that is inside the the pipes to keep the water hot. Uh that's what I've been navigating by. Nice. Has you guys have directed? Tooling, yeah. Does has anybody yet noticed that Lunette is invisible?

SPEAKER_12 1:01:09

Are we worried about just like the pipes and shit?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:11

No, yeah, we're just looking ahead. We hear footsteps next. It's like, yeah, they're there.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:14

Dalos can't see you anyway, so.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:15

So like, it's because I don't think Lunette's gonna notice. That's the plan, is that Lunette won't notice until someone else does.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:21

Well, we probably say I do have dark visions. I'm no longer wearing my Robobias, so I don't have like.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:27

Well, then we either we probably put you in the front and then Dalos near the back.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:33

I didn't I just need to know who's walking into the thing and if they can see what's happening or not.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:37

Do you guys have a torch? Oh yeah, I have six I have 60 feet too. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:43

It's like I can see it. I have a candle. I have a torch. Where's where's Fritter?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:49

Oh true. Fritter puts out light, yeah. True? Yeah. Okay, so every everyone can see, so it doesn't really matter who goes in.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:56

Okay, so who's keep your eye on Fritter? Yeah. Who's who's going in? I'll go I'll go first. I have dark vision.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:02

Yeah, I'm the only one without dark vision. And then uh I can offer to go behind Venaria.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:06

So you take you take your steps.

unknown 1:02:08

Boom.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:10

I am attention to stealthy. No, no stealth. No stealth in it. Try for it. Be stealthy.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:19

19.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:20

Okay, so Dalos is very quiet. That's a three. Excellent. Venaria is not at all. Okay, that's Venaria's in the front.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:29

But that's the thing. I want to be this- I want to draw attention. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:32

That's another 25.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:33

You're invisible.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:34

I know, but I have stealth. So if you're rolling stealth checks, I got a 25.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:38

So you technically roll that with advantage because you're invisible. No, nobody knows where the fuck Lunette is. Lunette's just disappeared.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:45

Lunette has disappeared. I got a 27. Lunette's just gone, as far as y'all can tell.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:52

It's like I ran off on it. So, but yeah, you all you all slowly make your way to go in very walking carefully. And you come to the end of a hallway, and the floor is stained red. You're not seeing any gore or anything.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:15

Except for the floor is fine.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:16

But the floor, the floor looks to maybe have seen blood at one time. It's it is it is like stone. I mean you are you are welcome to to investigate here, but there's nothing immediately dangerous as far as you can tell.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:34

I mean I'm doing my job as a DM investigation, okay?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:44

14. That's what Dalos can see.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:56

There has definitely been a lot of blood here.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:59

There are pipes around too. There's lots of pipes here, too.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:03

Some of them are real hot when you touch them. Yep. Dalys is like, don't touch this pipe.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:08

That one has two leaves in it.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:13

But yeah, there are there is evidence of like violence having had having happened here. But there's no lasting remains of it.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:22

No active violence.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:23

No active violence. But something has happened here in the past.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:27

Pretty unsettling considering that no work down here.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:33

I am concerned about this, and I feel like I know whatever whatever violence this is. Okay, guys are talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I guess the only option here is code either. Why do you think even his opportunity?

SPEAKER_12 1:05:03

And then one way went off to kind of where you ended up, and then they were like another way down. You went back in this entrance room. It looked like it may have been like a like a maintenance hall or something like that. Um there you run across, there are some red hairmite hanging out there. And one of them looks to be probably a little higher up instead of wearing just like that, Yukana, he's in like a red suit, and he's got uh a red hairmite hand on the lapel of his shirt. He's got this charming smile on his face.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:43

Pardon me for disturbing you. Is there something I can assist you with?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:49

Have you been through these tunnels lately? It seems like some violence and breaking of gates has occurred.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:00

Accidents can happen sometimes down here. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Renashi Galius. I uh I serve the baths in a supervisory capacity. Please, feel free to ask me any questions. It can be dangerous.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:24

I highly doubt that it would hurt us. Um we are fairly um

SPEAKER_13 1:06:30

Oh, I would love to. Experienced. Absolutely. Of course.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:33

Um where you live have you heard about the incident in the courtyard?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:38

In the courtyard? What incident would that be?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:43

Um, it seems as though one of your guards was crushed.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:46

Oh well, what could you do?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:48

With hundreds of handprints surrounding him.

unknown 1:06:51

Well.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:53

When some when when people come and they disturb the uh the scene of the crime, it can be hard to do the investigation.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:58

Most definitely.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:59

Yeah. But we do what we can.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:03

If this this is Dayless going, you're not a lawful.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:08

Quick question, really quickly, and this is this is for practical, this is for Alex. What is the lighting in this room?

SPEAKER_12 1:07:14

It's dimly lit in here. But there's light.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:18

Okay. So I'm trying to see if they have seen me yet.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:20

They they would be able to see you in this light.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:23

Just gotta back away before you're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:27

You didn't see me anymore. I have been viewed. Like a cat realizing that they can be seen.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:31

Dalysel uh look at him. Since you so graciously offered to answer our questions, um, do you happen to know of an entity with many hands that could have done some of these things? It could be a rack.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:44

Well, that could be that could be used to describe my very organization. We have many hands.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:49

Ideally, a single entity rather than an organization.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:53

Can I ask what such esteemed personages such as yourselves would would be doing in the maintenance tunnel?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:58

We came down to the maintenance tunnels specifically as we have suspicions that it may have necromeric origins. And as lanterns, that is important to us to make sure that we are following through with the business of our organization. Um, we I also thought that maybe you all would have some concern for something, a threat beneath your city.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:20

Well, of course, we we do what we can to uh accommodate the needs of of our guests, especially such a rising star as the Hoth God.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:31

Then you wouldn't have any problem with us with an Orange. Why why would it be?

SPEAKER_12 1:08:35

Well we just asked that guests refrain from heading down into the steamwork as it is off limits to This is the first time that we've heard about this, considering that all of the gates were either open, unlocked, or broken. Well, we don't want to operate on distant distrust of the local people. We we we trust that that they will know not to come down there.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:59

I want to blow this.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:00

But guests don't necessarily understand that, so we educate them on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:05

Wonderful. We're also investigating.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:08

I want to kill this fucking guy. Are you saying this out loud? No. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:13

We're we are also investigating the disappearance of John O.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:17

Oh, uh John John O'Olin. Dono Olin. Yeah, unfortunate. Uh uh, he hasn't come back to Well, no, he hasn't shown up for quite some time.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:27

Uh we we can't afford to to uh employ people who won't show up for work. Well But we do have we we do give our condolences to Mira.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:36

So you have some record of where he's gone.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:38

Well, he did work as a boiler man. But he hasn't reported for work in a couple months.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:43

Do you have a date specifically that he disappeared?

SPEAKER_12 1:09:46

We we just know that one day he didn't show up.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:48

And he was never reported for not showing up, but you fired him for not showing up? Because uh that would come with a date on it.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:55

He didn't You you asking me to come up with a date right here at the top of my head, sir? You think I have a calendar in my head?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:03

More specifically, we just had uh the more pressing issue of a creature with many hands killing your guard.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:10

Well, I mean, I have heard of some accidents and I have heard of some hand prints being around. Uh I can't speak to it being specifically our people. You know, sometimes it's just accidents.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:22

What exactly happens to the dead of Steamstead?

SPEAKER_12 1:10:27

We do what we can to dispose of bodies properly.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:30

What does that mean here in Steamstead?

SPEAKER_12 1:10:32

I mean You burn them.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:34

That's that's normal. I think they might be making Rat King. I don't think they might be making a rat king. It feels like 1,000 hands, it feels it might be a rat king. I get nervous. I I I get noivous. I'm just like You're making me nervous. He feels like such a rat king maker kind of guy. Like this DM would make a rating.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:52

How do you define a rat king maker?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:54

Like, I think if I think you would make a rat king, I think you would make one. I think you would find a way to make one. Or some kind of chimeric bomb. Yes, you.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:03

You some you like chimeric flesh wad with many hands. I don't I'm not a fan of it.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:12

I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:13

Bullshit. Um, well, Renashi, it was uh wonderful to have a conversation with you. Uh do you happen to know about where this accident has happened gone? Happened to have gone.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:28

Well, if you're talking about something that just happened, I wasn't there personally, so I wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:33

Reveal to us the oopsie daisy. Did you get to hear something come through the tunnels recently?

SPEAKER_12 1:11:38

Uh no, I wasn't down here. I'd like to do my detector insight check. Oh, you want to make an insight? Yes, make make your insight, yes. Jesus, fuck, I'm rolling like shit. I mean it's it's still a 12. He appears to be telling the truth. You said you wanted to roll an investigation.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:52

I am looking for any signs of cock and bull.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:56

I'm bullshit. I'm looking for smears on the floor, I'm looking for doorways, I'm looking for anything that these people might be covering up.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:04

Okay. Go ahead and roll that.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:08

That is an investigation. That's a 30. That's a dirty 30.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:12

Okay. You you see the tracks that that brought you in here. You see a lot of those. Um, you don't see any evidence of any of that having changed. You do see another trail going off into another direction.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:27

So over the bracers, uh, Luna is going to be like, hey guys, there's a second trail. Delos. That's as Delos is asking the question of like, well, where were you and how'd you get down here?

SPEAKER_12 1:12:41

Well, I was doing my rounds as as a supervisor. As I mentioned, I I handle supervisory duties, so I'm not always here.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:49

Like, after that, after him, his avoidant answer, and after Loon's, hey, there's another trail cut. Sorry. After Loonette's uh, like, hey, there's another trail right here. Um, can I make an invest or an insight check to see if he's not telling all of the truth?

SPEAKER_12 1:13:07

You sure can.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:08

21.

SPEAKER_12 1:13:10

He's telling the truth. As far as you can tell.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:14

Like this guy. I want him to explode. Um, if you don't mind, I will just follow this trail in an attempt to neutralize what we saw as a possible necromeric threat.

SPEAKER_12 1:13:26

Absolutely. Now, I will I will have to ask you to vacate the premises. Uh, but we will take that under advisement and and that was not what I said, and you said absolutely to.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:38

I am more than willing to go with your own god. Like, uh you one of your god can come with us. But I doubt that you have the weapons to deal with threats of this caliber. Dalos is kind of like a dog with a bone with this sort of stuff. You're really not gonna convince them out of it. I will if he fights it back too much. It's just Dalis is really trying to like, please just like don't it feels weird that you're kicking us out whenever we literally have a Joe Wither.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:08

As much as I do appreciate what you're trying to do, uh when that is needed, we will absolutely call in the lanterns.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:17

As much as I would love to not be such a lantern about things, unfortunately, a very scary lady made me take a very long oath, and one of the things in that oath happens to deal with not abiding the existence of Necromera or anything kind of like it.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:32

So I really think it's time to call in some lanterns. And we're not gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:43

Right there. That's not enough.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:47

There is evidence of a thing happening. There's not evidence of Necromera specifically.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:51

Yeah, that that's why specifically I wasn't saying the charter, because the charter does say that we can go over their laws only if we have proof that it's undead. And we don't have proof yet.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:02

Would it be against policy if I have to give yes? Yes, it would. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:09

100% it would.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:11

Okay. Can I just say let us go do that?

SPEAKER_12 1:15:13

I love how I love how often this this group goes to. Can we just cast Gaiche on him?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:17

Yeah, can we just make the nap that I want? Can we just like I'll send him home from work. Really? You wanna go home and take a nap.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:25

I'm just saying the last time the last time something gnarly was under a city.

SPEAKER_12 1:15:28

Now, absolutely, if we find evidence of a necromera, that's not for us to handle. That is absolutely the territory of a lantern.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:36

That's why Daylos was kind of like, this is the threat that we think this is, but we don't know it. That's why we're still allowed to investigate it.

SPEAKER_12 1:15:43

Yeah, yeah, you were you were trying to do the investigation without the warrant. Yes. Yes. Trying to trick them into inviting you in the world. I want to blow this guy up with my mind.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:52

I want to blow this guy up with my mind. I hate him.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:55

For the time being. What?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:57

Uh no. I was going to ask if I could roll, what is it, insight to see if he's lying? He's not.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:05

You absolutely you can't. He's he seems to be doing everything by the book, like like strictly by the book.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:10

Unfortunately, the book has loopholes. That's what I'm actively using.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:14

He's that.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:15

So that'd be 24.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:18

He is not being 100% truthful.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:22

No shit.

unknown 1:16:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:24

He is he is he is doing he is basically doing like the lawful evil, like I I am doing exactly what the rules say.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:33

Oh, this malicious compliance ass.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:35

There's something crazy down there. They also just like turn to him and be like, I appreciate your compliance on this, and please let us know if you do find anything else.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:43

Oh of course. Please. Any any way we can help.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:50

You don't mean that.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:51

Where's the door? They will part and direct you back out the way you came in. So you all exit the steamwork. Are you heading back to the to the crime scene?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:06

Yeah. They it is it is the the crowd has been dispersed somewhat. There are still, you know, like like um rubber neckers, you know, essentially. People kind of peeking as they're walking by. But um the the red termi have kind of cordoned it off a little bit, and the the body parts are being bagged and taken elsewhere. And you know, they've got somebody kind of half-heartedly scrubbing at the walls. Uh, can I like grab that dude?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:34

Hold on a sec. Hey, what? Huh? What? Uh lantern checking for evidence of undead presence. Okay. Go back to scrubbing. Grab him, pull him on the shoulder, pulled him up. Take a break, sir.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:48

Fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:49

I think I smoke. Get a new port. Oddly specific. Where is this new port?

SPEAKER_12 1:17:57

Yeah, this is new new port twabac. Smoke a pipe over here.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:02

You get it at the Yield 7 Eleven.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:03

Yeah. Down the street. Yeah. Can I uh try to search for any like detritus that's not from the victim? Well, or there's anything, and then we RO investigation.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:15

Can I try and help? You can if you like. Do whatever you want.

unknown 1:18:19

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:21

I guess help. I'll help as well.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:23

You can smack Benari on the ass, give us some guidance. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:26

There you go. Ass clap. 17 silver 18.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:29

I got a 27. 27. What are we doing? I'm investigating for Dark American. It's a fucked up crime scene. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:37

Trying to find undead flesh rather than just dead. Recently dead flesh.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:42

Yeah, it's hard to tell because they've been bagging up some of the parts, but you're not seeing like limbs. It's just people. Just bits of person just kind of smished into the stone.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:51

You. I didn't. Smished.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:53

That's another fun word.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:54

I feel like this is another great example of this episode being the mature content.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:00

Yeah, yeah. It's real gross. Squelched. Yeah. Helicopter Dixon squelched. He's still spinning around up there.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:09

I don't know how to make it stop! I'm scared! You're gonna need a doctor for that, my guy. It's been four hours! I gotta go to the doctor!

SPEAKER_03 1:19:21

Okay, so that's what you got from what's left of the crime scene. Okay, so we can't so we can't really tell if it is if it's undead or not. It's just there.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:29

Roll insight, actually. Because you did get some information from the investigation, but there's there's a little more you can kind of intuit there.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:36

23.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:37

Okay, yeah. So your your experience with Necromera so far has indicated, and and you can remember this from the first one that you fought. They absorb corpses and stuff. This doesn't look the same because there are body parts left over.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:52

It left the corpse.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:53

It left the corpse, as far as you can tell.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:55

It left this corpse.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:56

So yeah, in terms of Necromera, this is this is not tracking with how that works.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:01

Yeah. It's gonna be some linder shit. It's gonna be a hunk of gross, nasty, it's gonna be chunk basement. It's gonna be sound.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:09

It's gonna be ooze. As you were as you were considering the ramifications of what you were seeing, Mira will will appear next to you again.

SPEAKER_11 1:20:16

Hi!

SPEAKER_12 1:20:18

Oh, sorry, I I I'm kinda quiet.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:21

With a passive connection of 17, you snuck up on us.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:27

Mira will will show up there and uh So what did what all did you find? Did you find my brother?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:34

Uh we don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:35

Not yet, but uh that's honest, that's the truth.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:38

We don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:39

The red the reds are are are stonewalling us right now. The the red the red termi?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:45

We uh we followed uh the trail from this area, uh blood and handprints and bloody handprints.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:51

While we were making our way back up, um did is the materium like anything other than what it has been this whole time? It's just a hot running the hot water, nothing else. Sorry, like through the pipes that were were covered in the handprints.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:07

No, I it I mean if you checked any of them, they didn't seem to be malfunctioning in any way.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:12

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:13

But Mira will will kind of continue as as you're going along. Like, are you gonna go back?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:20

Back down.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:22

Oh yeah. Wasn't there another path? I'm assuming that you told me.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:27

I was about to say, I'm just concerted that you know of mine reading, you freak.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:31

I know things. No, you could you could go back tonight. They won't be there.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:39

You know a way to sneak in. Um I don't know if that's something we should necessarily do. That's my job, man.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:47

Right? You could you could just go back and take a look. What are they gonna do?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:54

I'm skeeved.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:55

I'm trying to find my brother. I know, but like aren't you looking for your brother?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:59

Stop that, you quit. Like again, Lynette's yanking her hand away. It's okay for me to know things.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:07

You know, I just kinda like sits there just looking at Lynette, like, well, if you don't mind a scouting run.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:12

I'd love it. Would it piss off the would it piss off the guys in red?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:16

Only if you get caught up.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:17

Lynette like slides her little skull cap down.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:19

There you go. Uh a little bit of sneaky sneak. You know, we could go with you if you don't mind turning into something mouse-like.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:27

A little mouse. Could you imagine a least weasel? They're about like this long.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:33

Yeah, between the two of you, I think you're fairly sneaky for this one.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:36

I do be sneaking.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:36

Yeah, for exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:37

So I am very excited. I get to do rogue shit. I haven't, it's been many moons since I've got to do some rogue shit. Daylos will just kind of like look at you and be like, oh, oh, oh, oh. The only reason why I can even kind of condone this is because it seems like there is some bigger threat down there. But at the smallest thing, and if you get caught, you need to call us. Are you worried about I I'm worried about you getting caught on the wrong side of the law because I will not be breaking you out.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:10

You get arrested, your ass and standing there, baby girl.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:15

Like, don't look at me because I won't help you. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:18

In the interest of this being a two-pronged deal, since this thing has uh climbed the walls of our hotel. Uh well, maybe while they're going down below the roof. Yeah. I mean, you don't have to sleep, and I can skip at night.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:32

We have established that you two are doing this thing. Yes. Excellent. And then you two are camping out on the roof of the hotel.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:38

Overwatch. Yes.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:39

Okay. So the two of you. Lunette. Yes. Jenova. Junette, as it were.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:47

Two bad bitches. Let's go. Two bad bitches on the bad bitches breaking the law. I don't care about laws. You're starting to resent them. Let's go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:56

The two squirreliest members of the party are heading down into the room.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:58

Literally, uh I'm literally like, I'm gonna like high five her so hard. It just goes to grab her hand. Let's go, let's go. Yeah. It's time to break the law. Let's go.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:09

So just just okay, so just for the through the image, we've got Lunette who is essentially invisible. And then we've got Jenova. What form are you taking? Let's lock that in. Let's see.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:20

Yes, let's see the bat.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:23

You can cling. You can cling on to my like, I guess, clothes as I'm screaming around.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:28

Yeah. Alright, cool. So you all head over there, sneaky as hell. Uh there, and you know, like Mira was saying, there was nobody over there. They're not they're not watching it. So you you get back down into the tunnels. And then uh you get down to that entrance area, and that that trail there, it is, it is fret, like something moved through here recently.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:51

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:52

And as you head down through this other path, it goes on for like a ways, like much farther than than the other path did. And then eventually, where a lot of like it, like the walls are done up in like tile and kind of you know painted, you know, just to to keep it kind of maintainable. It starts breaking way into like brick and stone. And you had noticed there was a kind of white noise of like the hiss of steam and like water moving through the pipes. You don't hear that as you get further into this. And there is absolutely no light in here. As you're heading along, like it's becoming increasingly dilapidated. There's a section of pipes that are just hanging broken from the ceiling. And then the air is getting still and stagnant and kind of dank and musty uh the further you go down. Eventually, you reach an open chamber. Um, and it's got a lot of old abandoned workbenches, but they've been like shoved against the walls, and they're like busted up into splinters. And in the back of the wall, like in the center, there is a broken pressure gate with its door swung swinging wide open. And there are hand prints covering this door.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:11

Swinging actively?

SPEAKER_12 1:26:12

Like it is on a hinge and it moves freaking. You know, it is not currently moving. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:18

Just gonna like look at the bat. The bat looks at me, we're just like.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:22

The bat looks at me. But yeah, but beyond that door, it is it is so dark, it's hard for your even your dark vision to penetrate it.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:33

Are you fucking with me? Probably.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:36

Okay. Even even even dark vision, you still need a tiniest bit of light to be able to see things.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:42

Okay. Fuck it, we ball.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:44

When I wild shape into animals, am I still wearing a little bait bracer? You know, how does that work? I think it's like a little bat.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:50

You know like how they tag animals on their little legs? Yeah, it's on your ankle. It's on your hook. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:55

Alright. You got a tiny bat bracer. Yeah. It looks like a foot loop.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:01

Let's just see, but all anyone else hears is, can you? Or am I able to do that? No, you keep your mental stats.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:13

You can you can communicate with telepathy normally. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:16

Okay, good deal.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:17

Alright, that's what I yeah, but you you try to speak out loud, it's just gonna be bat screech.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:25

In this dark room with the with the with the door swinging open.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:29

I was gonna see if I can s investigate anything from that position in the door. In the door.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:34

So you're you were you were looking into the into the thing into the yawning abyss. Trying to yeah, okay, go and roll investigation.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:43

27. What do I see?

SPEAKER_12 1:27:46

You see a dark tunnel and you see handprints absolutely covering the inside of that tunnel. So that's that's about all you can really see.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:57

Okay, so into the bracer.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:58

It looks like it might well, I'll I'll give you a little bit more. It looks like it might be collapsed. Like farther back into it.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:04

Okay, so if anything is down there, it can't be too far in there because it is orbit.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:11

You're basically seeing like cracks and and bits of stone. Like you you still can't see into the back super great, but it it it from indications of what you're seeing right now, it looks like it is no longer intact back there.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:24

Okay. And so thinking through the bracer, I'm going to let everybody know Hey, in here there is what.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:30

appears to be a collapsed tunnel. Shit's covered in handprints. So methinks whatever we're looking for is probably in here. Do you guys want to stay on the roof or do you want to help us not die?

SPEAKER_12 1:28:48

I don't think anything.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:53

Do I hear anything coming from the tunnel?

SPEAKER_12 1:28:56

Roll perception.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:00

Is it perception? A 22.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:04

My bonus would be 18.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:07

So you you don't really catch anything, Jenova? Lunette, you hear something kind of rustling in there.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:15

Into the bracer immediately. Yeah, nope, something's down here. Come here, come here, come here, come here, come here.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:20

I don't think we had a plan for getting to them.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:23

I mean it's just book it basically right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:27

Jump off the roof.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:30

I can send Frit Fritter to the entrance so that he can provide some light.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:35

We've got uh Dalos and Venaria heading down into the tunnels. Yeah. Fritter shows up and you you follow the little flaming mustelid down into the tunnels and and end up into this what what what you can probably assume is a little maintenance sectory kind of thing with that door hanging open.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:55

Um are are did you guys like come back a little bit from it or did you just essentially freeze? I'm not moving for shit. Uh it hasn't seen me yet Uh can can we approach quietly at least as quietly as we can.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:09

Yeah just tell me what you're doing.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:11

Uh I just I mean I can't really see where they are. I don't know where they are.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:16

I'm just You can't see me oh no so okay so you all are in the room. Basically are are you trying to light up the the hallway? Are you trying to like go in there? Like what's what how are we doing this?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:28

Dalos will ask you all over the bracers like I am significantly less effective whenever I can't see all of you.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:36

I I just I just hear that I just hear that through thing and I just immediately reach for a torch. It's like fuck it.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:42

Excellent so you light up the torch and almost immediately bot before no cutscene but that was what I was literally gonna do.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:52

You did not prepare an action cutscene an opportunity to prepare an action Brunaria lit up a torch.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:59

That was a trigger I was making sure that's so lights up a torch light floods up the room back there and you you hear before you actually see a rustling and then a muttering sound coming out of the tunnel as something rushes out through the doorway and past you some fleshy thing. I'm gonna piss my never forget never forget them never forget never forget them never forget rushes past.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:27

I need people to make a dexterity save is it against something I can see well okay yes yeah because you this is the torch.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:36

Everyone who's in within 10 feet of me had a plus three I got a 13 I rolled a 22 I have advantage against the dex save decks and strength saves that I can see.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:48

There you go De Nova rolled 23 excellent just dexterous I got a 33 Venaria rolled a seven excellent so Venaria and Lunette are knocked flat on their ass as this moving pillar of the something fleshy slaps its way out of the tunnel and back behind you and out into the out into the city? Out into the city son of a bitch and that is where we will end our episode Will the Hearthguard hunt down whatever fleshy monstrosity that was that just came out of the tunnel. Will the guy flying around by his dick in the sky ever come down who knows find out next week the fate of our heroes and that poor guy as they continue their adventures in tomorrow he's gotta see the good table wonderful players where Jen Walk up as Jenova Elizabeth Nichols is nailed Courtney Craig is Lunette help and Brandon Rose is Venaria You can follow us at the Good Good Table Most Places and at that GoodgoodPod on X. Talk about the show using the hashtag the GoodgoodTable wherever you do your social media and we may use your name for an NPC or location in the show. Remember to subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and then brag about it to your friends, your coworkers, that guy who's always walking that really cute dog in your neighborhood and you really want to pet the dog but you have to talk to the guy too tell him about the show and go pet the dog. And pet the dog Word of mouth is the way these shows grow so feel free to talk us up. A rating or review is always great as well. I have been your DM and host Alexander Wright thanks again for listening and we will see you again next week at the Good Good Tablevisory duties so I'm not always it supervising but it's good I hate talking to this I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna start giving you like negative inspiration every time you make a D's nuts joke.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:06

It's been a two it's been a whole episode since I've made one I've been so moratorium on D's nuts. It's been it's been four recording hours since I've made one I've been so good good get a scraping of something a scraping of something?

SPEAKER_03 1:34:22

Well forensics baby CSI time we gotta put a bell on here Jesus Christ will that happen when I'm living in your in your in your weird manner we haven't even made that offer yet dude slow down the future also it's weird to be jumping ahead of putting a cat bell in the main direction It's a turn of phrase you animal