Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - C2E12 Midnight Espionage

Episode Date: January 22, 2022

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Yeah. And unless we have anything else to say, I believe that gets this caught up and ready to dive into tonight's episode of Critical Role. Hello and welcome back. Welcome back. So last we had left off, the Mighty Nine had gotten seemingly in bed with a rebel group who had been meeting in the interior of Zadash, unhappy with some members of the local government of the city. They had been trying to discover a way that they can discredit some of the corrupt individuals that have been causing some strife in the city to some of the locals.

You had met with some of these individuals a few times, and had discovered that there was a harvest gala, an end of harvest gala, that was arriving fairly soon. And that was going to be a distraction period to allow them to infiltrate the abodes of two individuals in particular, Lord Sutan and the High Richter, Prusin, and to acquire, and you had discussed with them last time a plot, fixing their seemingly not very well put together plot into a better direction, thankfully. Yeah, we're all fucked.

But yes, to acquire a wax seal within the home of Lord Sutton, to create a letter that you feel would be incriminating, then to infiltrate the high-richter's do the same and then report them to the lawmaster, whoever else you think would be of higher estate. So this is transpiring tomorrow evening where we last left off. It was later in the afternoon after your final discussion and you guys have a day to prepare however you wish to. We have a whole day? Half a day? Yeah.

And then a whole other day more. So Mighty Nine, what would you like to do? What's that law master's name? Where are we right now? Dianna Proustine. Oh, Poo-Tas the High Record. Oh, the Orentha. Where are we right now, right now? Right now, you guys have just finished meeting with the other members of the Knights of Requital in...

The Song and Supper in? Song and Supper, yes. The band previously known as the Knights of Reital. Yes. No longer. Their symbol is... No, no empire. K.R.

Just a K-R. K-R. Well, listen, we gotta figure out we're fucking... Lord Sutton is at, right? I mean, we don't have any eyes on that location. I think it might also be smart to see if we can drum up any type of handwriting samples for possibly both the Lord Sutton and the High Rector.

So we can more convincingly forge documents. We guess I'm not a bookboy too. He could probably tell if they're the same or not with his. With his brain. With his head. Yes. Yeah, he's smart. Well, the eyes in it, but yes.

Wait, what did you say I wasn't listening? There was a spider web in the corner of the room, and it's really pretty. You're good at forging, right? Yes, I am. Why do you ask? We've got to get some handwriting samples, right? Of like the Lord and the High Richter, or that way we can write letters, make it seem like they're... Oh, yes. I'm very good at writing letters.

Okay. Where would we find something that's handwritten? On the job board at that place? Would that come from that, I don't know. We should look, though. I have some sort of edict written. by Prasine. Yeah, we didn't really check to see if they had, like,

signed any of them, did they? We had them, well, we have noticed if they were hand-signed or if they had been printed. Oh, yeah, looking at the board. No, at the job posting you'd seen on the task port outside of the Hall of King, they were handwritten, but they all seemed to have been written by the Herald of the Hall. Oh, fucking balls.

Because he was the one who was handling most of the jobs that were being distributed. So whatever information comes to him, he's the one who posts them, it seems. Well, I guess we'll just have to find a letter with their house and then I can just forge it right away. On the spot? How fast to forge you are you?

I'm a really quick thinker and I'm also a pretty fast writer. Here let's test you. Okay. I'm going to write down, oh what a goose I am. Copy my handwriting. Okay. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

I was gonna make you roll for it, but no, you got this. It's pretty kind of amazing. No, Nutt, I think we're gonna need you to both break in the house and also maybe into some like safe that they have in there. Me? Yeah, you're good of lock picking. Okay. Yeah.

Will I be in there alone? No, we'll be with you. We'll be with you. Okay. No, we will decide who goes in. I also want to discuss what exactly we are going to forge before we go in, because the plan that they laid out for us was not good. You can say it.

Shiza, I think, is going to be. Shiza. Shiza. It's not the word for it. It's a word for it. So they talked about making it look like Sutan had broken into Prusine's home and rolled it. I don't know what effect that would have on her. So I think maybe we had some sort of conspiracy between the two of them to assassinate Arendha.

So we will go to Sutton's house and we will leave. We take... I'm drinking. That's all. That's good. What, not. Sorry. What was the last thing Caleb said?

What did he just say? I always listen to Caleb. What do he say? He's my right-hand man. What did he say? Poutine. That's not what he said, but that is delicious. And now I want some.

Okay, follow me, please, for a moment. We have to do our homework first, but after we do homework, we go to Soutan's. We find this seal, we hold onto it. Yes. We leave communication, fake communication that you will write that is from the High Richter, calling for a hit.

But how will we leave something from the High Richter if I don't know actually what her handwriting looks like. Yeah. Well, I was thinking, hey, do they have post here in this city? Like someone that comes and picks up mail? Like, could we jack some of her fucking outgoing mail? You have stolen mail. I have.

You can do it again. How proficient in mail fraud? I am definitely proficient mail fraud. What time is in the day? They're also my... It's the later afternoon. Don't pull a Liam. A public record somewhere, right?

Generally, there's a book. A public record of her handwriting. Well, if she's issued any sort of royal official things, yeah, there should be some sort of record. She has a judge after all, right? There's got to be a judgment. And generally those public records tend to need to be open for, you know, right? These are the most intense public officials I've ever attempted to swindle, so I'm not entirely sure what we do at this level or anything. Well, I will say worst case scenario. We don't necessarily need to match maybe her handwriting, but some type of coding potentially linked back to her. I mean,

You know, we can almost mimic it. Look, you know, people who are doing sneaky things never use their real hand. Leave a mark on a tree, et cetera, et cetera, if you agree to these terms, and then we leave a mark on a tree, some more sort of thing. Maybe some accounts in the myriad, mentenit. A bag of gold in a trash receptacle? What the fuck are you talking about? What? We're leaving a bag of gold? What? Trash receptacle? I'm saying that there's nothing to commit proof other than money, actually, exchanging hands. We've used money for these things all the time back in, well, in my day. So if that letter asks for some sort of assurance or some sort of money to be

placed, please, please hire a couple people. You can leave some money in this location for them. And if they find that money, then they know that they actually consented and agreed to this whole argument. This is very complicated. Extremely. Isn't that complicated? What if we divide our forces for now and try to find that handwriting sample? One of us goes and looks for the post, the other one tries to find those public records. What if I go find the High Richter and ask for her autograph? Like you'd be a fan.

I don't know if Richter's have fans. She was kind of unpleasant. Really? Yeah, she wouldn't really about that fan life. She did not care about your puppets. That's right. Just taste right. That she was vain.

But the goal to be that we leave something in Surtain's house that would make it seem that the High Richter has ordered a hit on Orentha, and we leave something behind in Soutan's house, fake communications with the Myriad. So we tie Sutan to the Myriad. We tie Soutan to Richter, and then at Richter's house, we leave forged documents. We have a letter from Soutan with the seal,

with the seal, and also we leave communication with knights. What's it? Requital. And where I thought you were going, Molly, which isn't a bad idea to leave some sort of money trail, is leave a certain amount of money with any type of paperwork that might also be mentioned in a document in the adjacent house.

Exactly. So, because, so like, paranoid rich people are always paranoid rich people, right? So they always have these like safes filled with the documents. Oh, yes, we had one of those at our house. Right? Oh.

Were you guys paranoid? Well, no, we just had a lot of secrets. I'm back by the notion of building a box inside of a larger box, inside of a larger box to hold papers, but fine. Step one is find documents. Yeah, this is a series. This is the most exciting thing we've ever done. You also need to find where Lord Soutin lives.

Oh, so find addresses and documents. Correct. Address first. Cue the music. I bet that the people in the knights previously nights, they would know where Lord Soutan lives. And they might even have some sort of documentation or record. Remember, Dolan was saying that they got ousted

from their practice because of this Lord Sutton. Maybe they already have a paper trail. Don't we know where Dolan lives? We do. Not tracked them. I do. I saw his, their home. Did they, he lived? Oh, yes.

Harold? Also, they were put out of business. Is it possible they have some sort of paperwork that would come from the desk of the High Richter but writing on it? But if we go by there, we can't be seen. Knock on their door and find out. Can't be seen.

We'd have to be in disguise, or one of us would have to go over the back door, if such thing exists. There's no back door. Let's start by talking to our friends before we start investigating our Yes. Let's go that way. Do we have any, um, go get monk. That one's gonna be really cool when I can do that.

We're really cool. Catch a fly. Anyway, moving on, that was me. Those in the Doler's house? All of us? Is that how we want to find the Richter's at the Lord Sutanz's address? And maybe the Richter's handwriting to you. I wonder if we can track down Ulock.

That seems that's good at me. That's another thing and we can table this, but there is also the possibility that this is all just a honey trap and that we are being drawn in for as big a fish than the knights are themselves. You think we're big fish? Well, I think that they are looking for potentially big fish. I'm not saying that we are big fish,

but I don't want to walk into, well, we might be walking into a trap, so you know, eyes on swivel is all that same. Ulaug probably's in trouble and is gonna roll over on us in order to get something taken out of here. Potentially, or any of them. Ulog seems the shiftiest, but that doesn't mean that he would necessarily be.

Ulog's probably listening to us right now. To Dolan's, yeah. All of us? All right, let's go. All right, you guys make your way following Knott, who had previously trailed Dolan to the home, and you eventually find your way to the outskirts of what appears to be a very simple, It's a hovel, but only because it's been kind of in disuse for a while.

There is a single front door. It looks to be two-chamber home with one large central kind of main living space and one bedroom in the back. The roof itself is made of heavily pressed together like thatching stick. And as soon as you approach, you can see that the front doors closed and you see a little bit of movement through the window, someone walking around. Who wants to go knocky-knocky? But we shouldn't be seen with them. Yeah, you said there's no back door, right? Side windows, anything like that?

No, I just saw a window and a door, right? From what you saw, yeah. Well, it should be one of the three of us, because that's who they'll know. You two have been speaking to them the longest. Go do it for him. You are a good talker. Okay.

Is there a... The scars arises? Yeah, I'm gonna fucking change it up. Is there like a little alley that I can just pop into before I head over to his place of residence? Yeah, two buildings over and you look off to the side and there's a small alcove of shade

where you could probably pop in quickly and dispense a spell without causing any ruckus. Yeah, I just guess this guy's self and I turned back into that kind of black cloak with gold trim, the long black hair. The same figure you brought to the high records. That's right. All right.

I tie my robe. Okay. Nice. How are you going? It's all I got. Doesn't take a spell slot. But you're not going up there with him, right? Because he's in disguise now.

You look the same. Yeah. If you look like you, I got that. We don't want to have them see us going over. Okay, well then you go. Just feel free to give me like a. Oh, what's the sign? No, that's not it.

A peacock? I thought that was a hawk. Was that supposed to be hot? A pigeon? What's about it? Fair enough, it's a pigeon. It's a feral, feral pigeon. I'll listen for the pigeon.

What is this, what? What are we signalling for? I don't know if there's trouble. There's trouble. Okay. All right. There's a second. We have one.

I'll walk over to Dolin. All right, knock on the door. I don't know. All right, there's a, as you knock on the door, there's a pause. As you knock on the door, there's a pause. And you just see out of the corner of the window, like the edge of the face kind of peek out there, and then just peer behind. And the voice goes, um, uh, who is it? Yes, it is, I bring word from the Mighty Nine.

May I come in, please? Here's some rustling, some unlocking process in the door, and she opens up and you can see Horace opens the door and Dolan's behind. Oh, yes, please, come in. Looks just past you as you enter the building and they close the door behind you. Is there anyone in the room that I don't see besides Horace and Dolan?

It's just the two of them at the moment. Do I see? Sorry. Yeah, I'll drop the disguise. Okay. They both kind of pause for seconds. They both cannot pause for seconds. Oh wow, all right, you are as skilled as they say, it seems.

That's pretty useful. I apologize. We realize that after you, I apologize. After we finished speaking, we realized we weren't aware of where Lord Soutan resided. Oh, right. His abode, he lives in the gilded willows in the tri-spire.

I knew that much. He's, I would say, not too terribly far from the Skyscape Park and where the Constellation Bridge tower stands. It's a three-story house, dark wood, gold leaf carving. It's a bit gaudy, hard to miss, among some of the other ones there, although all of them are gaudy in their own right.

But look for the three-story kind of iron gated, like dark greenwood building in that vicinity. Great, I will do. Another thing that we realized, in our efforts to frame and forge, which are vast. You don't happen to have any handwriting from Lord Soutan, do you? Unfortunately, no.

Most lords are very careful with documentation transferred back and forth. They usually go through direct parcel services. There was nothing that ousted you from your business, any sort of receipt or... Oh no. Nothing that was directly from his hand at least. They usually go through intermediaries for that purpose.

Is there anyone else in the area that we should know that he does business with that he might communicate with regularly? Well, I mean, that would be the one that replaced us. And he kind of nudges over to Horace on the side. So that would be, I had that written down. Somewhere in here, shit, it's my older notes. The pen pal. I'm finding out who the pen pal is. Exactly. Yeah.

This is really good old to know. I'm glad we're getting all this overreaching. We're getting all this information. No, no, no, there's no fucking pigeons here. Hart, Hart. No, no. It's, I believe it's Ren Sutton. Ren Sutton.

Yes. Not the internet will correct me. Ren Sutton is his name? That's who he wrote to the book. Oh, I thought Sutton was a title, like Lord, Lord, Lord. No, Lord Didrick Sutton is his name. Ren, Ren is his son who he placed to destroy and take a over our practice.

Well, he sounds like a real son of a bitch. You hear a whores off the side, arms crossed now. Hearing all he goes, yeah, you can say that. This, uh, Rennes Sutan, any idea where we might be able to find him? Both kind of look at each other and you watch his Dolan kind of glance out the window. Not that far outside of the apple tree. tutorship vicinity, you will find a kind of white and peach building of the few banners in the front, and that's Wren's new practice. A physician also?

Yes. A dark physician most likely, hmm? I mean, sure. He looks confused. Dark. Dark physicianry, I guess, is an issue in some parts of the world, I suppose. Yeah, I'm ramping where I'm from.

Just real fucking dark. He looks back at horrors, or is like, right, well, if you come across any dark physicianry, please do your best to quell it where it seeds. Indeed I will, indeed. Thank you. You probably will not be hearing from us again before. The task is done.

No? No. No. No. We need it more. I'm trying to make this sound, it's just nothing's working. It's nothing about the iron. I don't know.

I'd say take the foot and mouth signed to the signal. We need the headwrecked or more. Then Lord Sudan's handwriting. You're not there. Get it. We blew it. We're good. We're good.

Thank you. We won't trouble you any longer. No worries. I suppose since I guess we'll be, Because tomorrow evening, when everything's set to go, me and Horace, Kara, we're not going to be present when all this goes down, so we have deniability

when we turn our information in for this whole endeavor. But I think Ulog and you guys should meet on the outside of the tavern that we met out earlier today to kick this off. Song and supper in. You got it. Mm-hmm. Well, good luck.

And... Mustard. Biscuits. You're just a little feller, you're Lock that door behind me, I'll leave. All right, locks the door. How did you go? You stupid pigeons.

Did you get the handwriting? Yeah, but I'm not sharing it. Yep, got it, got it, no problem. Read it, looked at it, I understand what it looks like. Let's go. We need it really bad. Sorry, not gonna help you. What did they say?

What do they say? A whole bunch of stuff, but I can't say it around them. I just won't, just want to print some. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but actually, do you think you could go back and say that you forgot to ask a question? Just why not to say, hey, the whole point of this was to find the High Richter's handwriting as well? I understand that these two are really busting your balls, and I commiserate with that, but we do need, in fact, to ask. Now, see, if you ask nicely, yeah, things will happen.

I walk back up to the door. Knock, knock, knock. The eye peeks to the window once again. One more thing. I'm keeping an eye out for anyone watching. Totally forgot to ask. You don't happen to have any handwriting from the High Richter, do you?

No, that would make this a lot easier. Yeah, I know. Great. Sorry. Have a good date. You too. No. None.

Okay, well, we checked that box off, so now we have to get to work. We got some good information. We got Sutan's address and Rens' address. Yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ren's address and the address. Now you got it. Oh, God.

It's super interesting. That's really good for it. They did a really good job in there. Also super interesting that they mentioned having other people do their work for them. Okay, let's go, let's go. Does that mention? He said they have other people to do parcel service

and stuff for him. Oh, okay, yeah. That's what it? See? So you're saying that we could use other handwriting as well, and it wouldn't be out of the ordinary, as long as it bared the signature and seal. of said place?

Well, and maybe not even a signature. Most people trying to be smart about not getting caught are probably, aren't like, my name and social security number. What if we just get some parchment that says from the home office of Lord Staten? Oh, let's have. Stationery. Beyond actually personal stationery,

I think the notion would be is that you would actually send your actual handwriting in something like this, just because that way they would know there was you. But you would be very careful about how and who you would send that through. You wouldn't want a second person taking dictation as you applauded to overthrow the government. Okay, well, how about this?

I think the seal's gonna be good. I think any type of money amount mentioned in any of the letters, and then we cross that, and then leave that type of amount of gold. And there's been money and off. We're getting ahead of ourselves. We're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's just stay on task.

Let's head to the Gilded Willows. We're in the Trisbire. Where the fucking Scottsdale party, what does the notes say? SkySkate Park and Constellation Boulevard. Knottsbury Bridge. Constellation Bridge. Yeah, that thing. Constellation Bridge.

In between Adventureland and Frontierlands. Yeah, I was driving real face. It's good there's the bathroom on the way to that. So we're going there with the express purpose of... Just recon. We're trying to see what his place looks like if we can see Lord Soutan. And then we'll make a decision if we go after a son or not, who maybe has some of that. That's in the tri-spire, so we need to go through the sewers to get there.

Maybe a birthday card. Or we can just go a few of us through the actual front gates and then meet up with everyone. Okay, well, how about half of us go to Lord Sue Tans and half of us go check out, check out, check out Wrens? Sure. Okay. Okay. And what are we looking for at Wrenz? Handwriting.

Okay. From his papa. And to see if Rens is a son of a bitch. Okay. I'll go to check out Renn. Yeah, me too, because I can't make it through the gates. Oh. I don't think anyone can make it through the gate. Except for you just.

That's why I was wondering what you were talking about. I thought we were going to take the sewer to get in there. I thought, I thought Bo would might be able to get through the gates, actually. I could go to the gate. Because she's got a cloak now? Huh? Because she's got a cloak now? Yeah.

And it's not a magical disguise. Okay. Cool. I'll go check out. Yeah. Okay. Caleb, where you want to go, buddy? I will go to Sutans.

Wait, they're both Sutton's. No, but the elder. I'm sorry. Will you be able to get in? Not without you, or you'll come with me? We'll sneak in through the sewers. Well, how do you want to do it? They're talking about going straight in through the gate,

because they're, you know, respectably. Well, it's just such a thing to get into the sewers. We have to make a distraction and everything every time. Perhaps we should just have a two-person reconnaissance for now. Right. We can manage ourselves. We're good. We're good.

Yes, we won't get into any trouble. Yeah, we'll bring back Quirolant. or nothing, it'll be great. We know our way around. Mm-hmm. Too soon. Can't be. We got this.

We got this. Let's go. Should we meet back at the Song and Supper in at what? Sunset? Or just the Leaky Tap. You got about maybe an hour and a half, two hours before sunset. Let's just meet back at the Leaky Tap. At the Leaky Tap.

Yeah. Do we hear the song and cover? We're talking about two different. Leaky tap. Leaky tap, an hour and a half. All right. Letky tap. Break!

So you both make your way towards the Tri-Spire. As you make your way towards the front entry gates there, one of the guards posted there is familiar with you. Let you let you through. As you approach, I'm going to pass through a few steps behind Jester. The guard approaches is, Halt. I don't believe I've seen you through here before. Oh, I am. She came through earlier. She's with me. It's literally like 24 hours ago. Yes. Very well. Thank you.

Steps back. You guys make your way following the directions into the gilded willows. You see the massive treetops that fill out the skyline from your perspective. Every home seems to have a row of greenery between. It's a very, very beautiful neighborhood. You can follow with the constellation which tower is it's kind of a beacon, and as it guides you towards its area, it doesn't take long for you to see the large, gaudy, three-story complex that is Lord Sutton's home. You can see the gold leaf carving along the edges of each of the various stories in between. The dark green slats that are there are coated in some sort of a lacquer material that almost glistens in the sunlight as it passes. You know, the sunset colors now starting to make their way into the cloud-covered sky.

You do see marble pillars at the corner of the estate's grounds with iron gates that link each of them with maybe about a five-foot bit of simple lawn hill to kind of separate the gap between the gate and the building itself. Are the gates like chained, shut? Or does it look like there's a lever? Well, the gates and all of them are solid, except for in the very front and the very back. And both of them appear to be closed and locked. You do see posted at the front of the front door.

There are two Crownsguard that are there, just kind of keep and watch. On the back end, as you case around to the rear side of the home, there is a singular crowns guard and a dog that is on a chain. Ooh. On in front. Does it look like there's any blind spots, any trees that kind of go up and kind of cusp over the walls?

Make perception check. Hashter, give me see a blind spot. Not good. Uh, 11. It's hard to see where any perspective might be a blind spot for entry other than above or from the sides. Because the front and the back is going to be pretty well covered by these guards as they're currently posted and standing there. So the only thing is that really makes sense to be either flanking the building or something that guides you over top.

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It's not too big. Five-foot jump? Yeah. a swinging branch? From a rooftop to wall. It's five feet to the wall, and then about five feet from the wall to the actual building. So it's a 10 foot from the tree to the roof. Right. But I'm thinking the wall. You could certainly try. You can certainly try. Do they look like when I kind of... The gate's about eight feet tall, and the building is three stories. So I mean there

are some roof like edge perches as the stories kind of taper with each additional floor, so there is a small space, maybe a foot, foot and a half wide that you could shoot for, if there was something you wanted to try. Are there windows on that side of the house? There are no windows in the base floor, or at least none that you can see. The second floor, you do see what looks to be one set of double windows that open, though they're currently closed, and those are on the two side edges of the building. Is there a balcony connected to them?

No, there's no balcony. No balcony. So the building balcony you saw was in the large balcony at the front of the building. the High Richter's home, but not on this one. No balcony. Okay. So a few guards, a dog. A dog.

Dog. I like dogs. I love dogs. Okay. I don't wonder if I feel like. As you glance to the back of the building, the doors that you see immediately, there is one set of doors that is the front,

where the two guards are. In the back, where the other gate entrance is, there isn't another door that leads into the home. There is a double seller door. that descends beneath, but that is what is currently being guarded with the man and the dog. I wonder if anything would lure the guards away from the house. Maybe a drunker trying to break in somewhere else? Maybe.

Yeah. Maybe a drunk of... Public disturbance? Trying to talk to them in the front of the house or something. Yeah. Or in the back. I mean, our group is pretty good at causing distractions. They can do that.

Some people jump up and up in a house. People jump up and over? Yeah. It's gonna have to go fast. Yeah. Oh man. Maybe we could get some rope and they grapple. Yeah, we could do that. We could throw a grapple for ten feet. I know that. Do I have a climbers kit? Do I have a climbers kit?

I don't have a climbers kit, but we can go buy a climber's kit. We can go get a climber skit. We can totally go to the climbers kit. Now that we need one. Yeah. Okay. It's got a shitload of bulberry. I got ballberries.

I got ball bearings, man. Yeah. We just challenge ourselves. We have to break in only using ballberries. How do we do it? The new D&D nightmare mode. You need some ball bearings now? You're all level one bards with nothing but ballbearers.

Let's go. Call me a bull wizard. We could make a good job scouting this place out and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Do there seem like any weak points, any loose bricks in the walls as we kind of like... When 14... As we kind of walk by, I kind of just like, kind of like I'm playing with the wall, but I'm kind of testing for weeks more. Well, the wall is an iron gate. It's just like long iron fencing gate. And there are the marble pillars at the corner of each one, so it's open. It's a series of bars.

Are they pointy top iron bars? They are. They are poodle palers. Yeah, that changes the landscape. I understand now. You can see if it hurts your hand, it does it. I bet it does. Yeah, there's no...

Oh, can you stick your fingers through the bar? Do you want to try? Yeah. Okay. You die. Okay, as you place your hand through the bar. No, fucking what? Nothing happened.

Ah, you know, bitch. Okay. Okay. Well, game over. New character. Oh no. You know, when I used to hop fences back where I came from. Where was that?

You're not there. Oh, I'm not there. If you're ever trying to get over barbed wire or any pointy fences, you take like a rug or a bed roll and you throw it over there, and then you hop over and kind of gives you a little. That's personal Mauritia experience, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Just throwing it out there.

It works. Planket wood floor, too. It works. I feel like that would be a really good idea. I feel like it might be a little notable to carry around a rug. Bed rolls, not too bad. Most people in the Tri Spire don't carry around bed rolls.

Prybersack. Yes, but it's a little. Shh. You're not there. It's not him. It's a pigeon. That's true. You're right.

You're right, Sam. There's a meta-gaming pigeon in this. Oh, remember. Bonus action. Hibler's funny. Can we please make the metaggaming pigeon a thing now? I've played with a few in my time. I love it's a nurse.

All righty. Anything else you guys want to do while you're there? I think, are we good? Are we good? Yeah, let's, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. Okay, do you guys want to try and shop for a climbers kit on your way back?

Sure. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It takes a little bit time to find a place, because some of the shops are starting to close past sunset. And at the time it took you guys to get there, do a full casing and come back, the sun has set,

and the sky's getting darker. However, thankfully, Climbers kit is not all that expensive. With a full cost on that. Come on. All right, Climbers kit, that was wrong. 25 gold. But if we don't want the whole kid just the grapple part of it and the rope. Just a grappling hook? We have rope.

Two gold. And the rope. We're like just trying out the gym. We're not fully committing to it yet. The king of consultation first. Yeah. All right. What is fully included in the climbers kit? Climbers kit includes a lot of things.

Including special pitons, boot tips, gloves, and a harness. That's for like mountain climbing. Crossed t-shirt. I have knee and a hammer and some nice core balls you can sit on. Yeah, so you want a grappling hook and rope you can get those. Those are cheaper. That would be probably a bit more than. The rope is two gold and the rope.

Do you want silk or hempen? The cheap one. That would be hempen, so that's one gold. You're probably more familiar with... So three gold for a single grappling hook and... That I use for different things. Got it. I don't use them at all.

So mark down that you have grappling hook and 50 foot of hemp and rope. Okay. All right. accomplishing that the rest of you. I'll get rid of, I'll pay for it. All right. The rest of you, what are you doing? I don't think we want the group to be too big.

Let these two handle this Wren, and you and I will just wait at the leaky tap and lay low. You want to just let them go off on their own? We don't want to create, why do we want to a group? You know, there's a safety's in numbers, all that shit. They have to break in somewhere. They're going to be. Yeah, I mean, I just figured you'd be part of this.

I'm with you, Caleb. If you don't want to go, Then let's go back to the leakie. We're going to break into houses together. Of course I'm willing to do this. I just feel like for this, what are you planning to do? Are you planning to? Just some simple reconnaissance.

See if we can see Wren, maybe have a conversation with him. Maybe he's not a total prick. I don't know, maybe he's got some of his dad's head riding. Yeah, okay. We don't have to go, I don't care. It sounds scary to me. No, my head is not in the game. We'll go along.

Great, we're going to head towards the apple tree. All right. Tuneship? What are not right here? The Tudoring Village. Thank you. All right, so make an investigation check. Oh, God. 12.

12. Okay. It takes a little while to get through. You've not actually been to the Tudor Village before? 13. Okay. Same difference. So you managed to, through asking questions and finding your way around, you managed to get to the Tudor Village right around Sunset, and you do see about one block over the large white peach

built in that you had previously been told by Dolan. you see the sign up front called the Guided Hand Infirmary. And it's one story, but it stretches wide towards the back of it. It's like a large shotgun building. Guided hand infirmary? The guided hand infirmary. You can see light from the interior. There are two windows at the front, and a row of windows as he continues down the back of the alley.

And the alley you can see actually lights up because the really bright interior warm light is just kind of reflecting off the buildings on the opposite side down the alley on each parallel end of it. But the building itself seems fairly well made. fairly well made. There's elements of kind of a plaster material put against the wood to make it seem a little less cracked and broken unlike the vicinity around. It was like a little more money went into this complex than a lot of the surrounding buildings. Right, he's a physician. He's a physician. Well, before we put a personal touch on it, do you people with, you know, sneaky abilities

want to see what you can see in the windows? Yeah, well, we could send Frumkin to have a look around. That's a good idea. I send Framkin. He will run around the entire building if he is able. He's also to climb things. So I will get him up on top of window sill if he can to take a look inside.

OK. So as Frumkin kind of curls up and jumps onto the window sill and you glance through the vision of your familiar, the first window you come across, you can see on the inside, it's a simple room. It's painted a similar white kind of peach color. There is a single bed, maybe twin size with a single sheet. and you see an individual who is currently lying on it with not quite Caleb dirty clothes,

but not an upperclassman by any means. Upper classmen. Not what I was going for, that's fine. I'm saying you're not ready now. You know. Send him his high school football rules. Weird. But you do see this individual is currently has a full arm bandaged.

with kind of blood soaked and dried on parts of it. And they are currently just asleep. The door is closed. There is a lantern inside that is set to just keep the room warm. Is there the ability for Frumpkin to move around to the exact opposite side of this building? Yeah. I'm going to move around, go around the front.

Yeah, he will jump up to any window still on the back of the house as well. Okay. As Framgen keeps watch on each of these, each chamber seems to either be empty, or there's somebody in some state of either rest, or waiting. You see one person, a younger girl maybe 15 or 16 years old, who is waiting on the edge of a bed just sitting, quietly in the room by herself, kind of just glancing

around, looks over and sees from, and it was like, kitty, like makes the hand motion to try and pet. You're on the back door, and you can see one room has two beds that currently have two individuals that are coughing heavily. They're sick with something pretty bad, and there is a person inside that is dressed in a white robe that is in the process of bringing them both broth, but they have a mask over their face with a piece of cloth that's tied behind. And it looks like they're treating some diseased patients. This is, for all tons of purposes, an infirmary. Yeah, did you say this was a one-story building? It's a one-story building, but it's quite long. It goes back quite a bit. Other buildings kind of are spotting,

you know, kind of build the space around the outside of this block, whereas this infirmary stretches the entire length of the block. So five or ten minutes of hopping from ground to window a bunch of times, all I find are patient rooms, you know, sort of office or anything else, okay? It looks like it's built to all the rooms that have sunlight are the rooms where the patients would stay. Anything important would be kept in the interior of the building. One last thing.

How high is the roof? The roof is about, I'd say, 12 feet up. 12 feet up. Fort come here. Scoach down for a second, and I jump onto here, I'm taking the vision, I jump up onto his back. Now stand up. 11 strength, okay.

Okay. I snap it from and he vanishes. And then I reach out, and Frumpkin appears I'm now within 10 feet, I would assume, of the top of the building. So Frumpkin is on the roof. All right. And I will just send him to look around, and then I hop down off the Ford and just put my hand and steady myself on Ford. And let Fronkin look for any holes in the roof or if there's a skylight or anything. Probably not worth a try.

All right. As you're focusing, Ford, you notice a small child, maybe like five or six years old, this kind of scruffy reddish hair and a dirty, smatched face, walks up and goes, What happened to the kitty? Oh, you know, just ran up. On the roof, we were trying to chase her down. You want to see if maybe she ran around the corner? I was going up to pet it and it went away. Yeah, they're a tricksy like that.

The second time your catch is finished. I did it at that time. I tell you what, if I see it, I'll call out. What's your name? Oh, I'm Simon. Simon. Yeah. Okay.

Simon, we found him. Simon became a real boy. He's a real boy. Simon, I'll call out if I see him. Why don't you see if you run the other way? See if you can find him. Okay. He runs on the other side of the building.

From Kinna's on top. And looking at the top, the front of it looks really nice. The top, which nobody sees, doesn't look that great. It's a pretty shoddy, just wooden slats over wooden slats across the entirety of the roof complex. You can see what looks to be one small trap door about the center of it that is currently closed. I call him back. Okay. And then I just, and now he's on my shoulder.

All right. which point you hear a kid go, whoa. Simon's down the other side, just staring at this disappearing, reappearing cat. Yeah, cats are the best. I don't know what would we do. There's a trapdoor up there, but I mean, we're not going in.

Go away! Go away! Just chew. Go back. Make a persuasion of the child. 14. 14? It just runs.

Oh, sorry. It's well done there. So what do we want to do? This place is full of sick people. Right. I mean, unless Wren is actually on the inside, if they had an office, maybe we could just rifle through some. Yeah. And if we're going in, what do we do? We could have one of us be ill, perhaps. Yeah. Or just like ill on the front doorstep and keep them occupied? Yeah. Yeah. Now I could, you know, kick the shit out of a knot in the face and they're just, you know, like, oh. I mean, we've got Molly Muck with us. Why don't you just do the same thing to him?

So I could just kick the shit out of a knot in the face. I don't appreciate this at all. I feel like I'm being singled out. No, I think a better idea. Because I'm a woman. A better idea perhaps is for one of it, you're able to disguise yourself, right? I mean, to a point. There's three of us that we can all disguise ourselves.

I can make myself look like a sick person. Although he's a physician, so we might try to check. And I think up to touch it kind of falls apart. Well, you could make yourself look like you, but with not green skin. Standard Kearney practice to be able to fake boils and stuff with a disguise kit, right, to like leper up a bit. It would take you about an hour or so to do so, and to a study position. Probably is not going to hold them right now. But you can certainly try, depending on how high you roll.

Could fake some sick on people. Yeah, I mean, I could just mimic whatever you have and just try and stay at arm's length. You can just drag me in. Oh, I like it. I like it. Yep. And I can make a scene. Yep. I like that. And then you two try and get into the office somehow? If there is an office, I'm assuming there is. It's a doctor's office, right? There is some sort of trapdoor in the center of that building that I don't think is mirrored by any of the rooms that I was able to see on the outside of the building.

So there is, it's like a donut with the hole in the middle is where maybe what we're looking for. You're stunned it. I think that makes sense. We'll cause a ruckus. Yeah, ruckus. See what you can find. You and I go in. Okay. Oh God.

Have we talked about the other house yet? Because the distraction is obvious. Is it? What kind of dog was it? What kind of dog was it? Well, they're not here. Was it a guard dog? Oh, we haven't gotten back yet.

Never mind. All right. I'm jumping ahead. It was a chihuahua on a chain. We're in. Just fierce as shit. Spike collar. Tung out.

We're going to need a big moot. His name was Princess. Princess. You're going to walk right in. These two are going to create such a class. So how long you need to make your face all leopard up? About an hour. About an hour.

About an hour. You're just going to sit here for an hour? And who's going to do my face? Couldn't you maybe just... That's like... We don't want them to look at it too closely. You just look like you're just cough and stuff? Yeah, could you be a sick teeth fling.

Oh, I'm going to do that too. I got a plan. Price, you're going to spend time and apply. I've got it. I've got it. Faster. What if Caleb just burns all of your clothing and you go in as a burn victim? You're not going to touch my clothing.

I don't. We're not doing that. No, we're not setting fire to my clothing. I'm going to mess up my junk, what fears? Your junk? Gross. In the street? No, and back at the, are we, are we, I mean, like, do we have a place where I can work, or am I going back to the leaky tacks?

Going back to Leaky Tapper, is that too far away? I mean, it's up to you. You can try and duck into like a shaded corner. Spend an hour painting my dick. Yeah. I'm gonna need some privacy for that. I'm also gonna need to order some breakfast food, something eggy.

Oh, God. For what? Fuck sake, Jesus. Really? Really? Okay. All right. I thought you wanted it in this distraction.

I do. I'm all about this. Let's go find breakfast. Jesus. Oh my God. End. I already know this is going. We don't walk in just you and me.

We do. We do mother's love. Yes. We do mother's love. Just in case. Yes. Good idea. All right.

Can we find like a... Daddy is whatever. The worst is whatever. I hope the greasy spoon. Easy. You can get yourself some evening scrambled eggs for the five copper. I think we need sunny side up, don't we? No, I'm going to scramble everything.

I'm gonna get some beer, I'm gonna get some mayo, I'm gonna get a little bit of everything I'm gonna put it, I'm gonna put it in my, in my, in my, in your butt. All right, if you're gathering all those materials from like a scattered meal, a little bit of hot sauce. I'll put it at about eight copper for the top. I'll pay for it, don't, it's on me. No problem.

We're gonna put it in my, I've got my little, I've got like a little water, water sack. I'm gonna mix it all up and put it in there and wait till we're ready to go. Okay. I'm gonna say, I will. I will. I'm gonna say for this, go ahead and roll

Proficiency, add your Proficiency Bonus, and Intelligence Modifier. Come on, stage makeup class. D20 Proficiency Bonus, Intelligent Modifier? Yeah, because this is about trying to come up with an accurate means of looking like you've been infected with something. All right.

That's 11. 11, okay. You take an hour and you're pretty proud of it. You think it'll work fine. Do I dare look? I have no intelligence bonus. Great. Do I dare ask what it looks like? You can see.

No, no. Show us the goods. What did you do to yourself? Oh, I don't. Why would you even? Well, that's the brilliance is no one's really going to look that closely. That's in your brain forever. Is it gone? Literally forever.

For a month. For a month. This is going to be the weirdest fan art. Shit, I didn't even think about that. God damn it. How could you not? Just to sketch it up. I don't think about this.

How could you not? Are we ready to do this? Are you ready to make a damn fool of yourself? I'm always ready to make a damn fool of myself. Let's go. We go up to the front door. Where are y'all going? We are going to hang back. Is there like a nocron alley within view of this? I mean there's allies in each side, but they both have windows that are lit and kind of... Yeah, okay. So you'd be in one of those vicinity. Could we go half a block away or something?

You could. You'll be at a distance though. Yeah, that's fine for the moment. All right. For the moment, yeah. We're going to do Mother's Love. How will we know when to go? We're going to watch them at the door. Okay. All right, so the two of you enter, they'll go through the front door, it's a double door.

It pushes open, it doesn't appear to have resistance. It's almost like on a hinge. You push in, and at the front, there's a clerk there, wearing the same white robe. It'll be a middle-aged man, a kind of receding hair line, short hair, big bulbous red nose, it looks to be some pockmarking on his cheek,

and he looks up, can I help you? No, I'm fine. I'm perfectly perfectly fine. I'm not really fine. I don't need to do any of you. No, I don't know. I'm fine. He reaches down and pulls a cloth up and puts it to me over his face. Okay. Um, um, um, what's...

No, no, I don't like, I was born in a place like I don't want anything to... I'm gonna give myself a little... Sir this... And I'm just gonna go for it right in his face. Oh. The ruckus is audible all the way down the block, so I turn myself into a half-orke woman and pick up, not like my baby, and put her head on my shoulder and start. shoulder and start walking towards the building.

Okay. So as you're doing that, I need you to roll a deception check with advantage because you're helping. Oh, oh, it's shaking. How the fuck do they work? How the fuck do they work? That's nice. Oh, that's nice. 21.

21. As soon as you spray in the face, like, takes the scarf off and like, oh, sit down, please. Sit down, please. And he points over to, oh, it looks to be a bench right on the side. I'm gonna start crawling along the floor, and I'm gonna actually just cut myself a little bit on my neck since I'm used to it. I know I don't mind a little blood.

I'm just getting myself a good cut. Maybe there'll be a little ice fleck. I don't know if I want to activate that if it'll work on my fingernails, but what the fuck? And I'm gonna just start crawling, leaving a trail of vomit into the next room going, no, no! Take killing damage. Yep.

I go the opposite direction that he starts walking, is it like, the clerk at this point goes, oh, please, please, oh! Say tight, I'm going, shit, and he leaves the room. Here we go, here in the door is the, what is going on in this room? You walk in, just as you see, there's a spray of stuff across the clerk's counter, and you see both Molly Muck and Ford crawling in opposite directions across the floor as you see footsteps, and the clerk who just rushed out of the chamber down near my hallway.

Between them, like Noah through the water. Oh, that's the wrong, Moses, yeah. Right. That's true. Like, no, through the ark. Yes, yes. We know. There's vomit and eggs everywhere.

So what you can see now is there's actually, there's two hallways. There's one to each time as you enter. Because where the clerk's desk was, it looks like there's all the rooms you saw on the right side, all the rooms down the left side, and there are chambers in the center of the building with the two hallways that kind of bisect the two areas. So you choose right or left, up to you. The clerk went on the right side. Well, I will take the left one if the clerk went on the right side. Okay.

As you're rushing with not in the left, in your arms, you head into the hallway on the left side, and you glance and you can immediately see another person with the robe who was holding what looks to be a small satchel of some sort of a greenish material, and they walk and see, oh, excuse me, can I help you? Make a decision check, please. Oh no, me.

That's a negative one. You're better. The clue is, what seems to be it. See the problem, looks kind of, as opposed to being empathically interested in the well-being is genuinely kind of disturbed by the sound the child is making, Rosemary's baby style. Frumkin appears on the back of the guy's neck and just starts tearing in. Oh God! Oh, I can get into the tail!

You can do it! Roll an attack for Frumpkin, please. My allergies are going to go in about five minutes. Oh my gosh, for a cat? I mean it's a 13 plus, I don't know what. That hits. He's the wearing a robe. All right, so go ahead and roll. It just starts clawing. It's, it's, it's, we'll say it's one point of damage. It's a cat scratch. It's just flying and it's like, ah! Ah! Start screaming and takes and grabs Frumkin on the back and tries to just to pull them and throw him off. Frumkin like kind of like full on spin, scatters all claws and legs out,

lands on the ground. It's all like full pup-up-up, tail and everything. At this point, you watch another doorway, flip open, and you see a man come out with very, very short brown hair on the sides with almost like a pompadour in the front and a similar white robe, but it looks like it's longer-sleeved with more detail. And he goes, what is all this rock is happening? Ooh, I hate him. I hate him already. Where's the cat down? Did you get the cat? And he watches as the close. I don't, shoot, shoot, shoot, and is trying to get Frumkin to leave now. Off in the distance you have, you hear, you have no legal authority over me! There's now other workers in the infirmary coming out of the rooms that are all starting to gather. The one who saw in the hallway is now coming towards you while shrewing Frumkin out.

You watch as the guy who had left the chamber, head back into the office and close it. But people are starting to scatter. You guys are waiting in the two rooms now, you said. You found two separate rooms. I'm just running in the hall. You're just running the hall. I'm calling the hall. What are you doing?

I'm just standing there. I'm like, I'm like, I'm gonna shrieve my pants. Behind them? Oh yeah, I'm like, for us to just like step into one of these open rooms and shut the door behind us. We'll find out just a second, because now you have you, you know, spitting and freaking out.

The two clerks that are now trying to push Fumpkin out are trying to escort you. They see you. Sir, sir, and grabbing your arms and lifting you up. And I'm like still bleeding from the neck. And I'm like still bleeding from the neck. They start dragging you into one of the rooms in the side.

They open one room and there's somebody in there already who's like, was sleeping, but it's starting to come to going, what's happening? Sorry, close the door, go to the next chamber and start dragging you an empty room. I'm going to go limp. Okay. And then the minute that the door is open, I'm going to make a break for it. All right, they open, they open the door. I don't know that.

You just bolt? I'm going to bolt. Full speed. There goes on a strike. Make an athletics check. All right. Athletics or acrobatics? Athletics.

This is gonna, actually this would be your choice. Oh, yay, that's nice. That's nice. Nine? Nine. Nope, don't actually do that. You try and pull away, but in the moment, they're genuinely worried about your well-being,

and they probably had patients try and make big physical actions while they're in their care, and they just hold you back. It's magic! I'm possessed! I turn to one and it's, and I'm going to use, I'm going to use Devil's Test, I'm gonna use devil's tongue, and I'm going to do a couple points of damage to him. My devil's tongue or vicious mockery? Vicious mockery.

It's only a couple points. Okay, that's 11. What's your DC on it? Oh, that, um, vicious mockery? I was, where's my, I'm not used to magic, it's so weird. I'd like to say, I was going to say, I feel pretty good about our casing missions. What's your modifier? Is zero.

Oh, it's where? Oh, there it is. The monifiers right there. Is it? I'm blind. Where does it go? It's fine. Oh, yeah.

So they succeed. So you shout this finger and one of them kind of like, ugh. They grab and just throw you into the room. Oh, damn it. And so you go into the chamber and they close the door, pushing you inside of it. It would have been a plus three modifier, sorry. What was the DC at the spell? I'm trying to find that.

I'm just not used to magic. It's okay. Yeah, never mind. It's fine. So, they shove you into the chamber, they close the doors as soon as you kind of land on the ground and you hear it lock behind you. Oh, alright. Because you're now a danger, patient who needs other glancing. While that's happening, and they're talking about that, you guys can...

Look for an empty room if there was every room in the house full. That's about half of them are full. You see two chambers that are empty. Okay, so go in and shut the door behind us. All right. You close the door. I guess both makes stealth check real fast. 21. All right. All right.

So you enter the room and close it. All right, what are you doing? What are we doing in here? We have to go back to the office. Yeah, but he's in the office. Yeah, we can, you're right. Maybe we should just leave. Molly and Ford will be fine, we'll just leave.

We don't know that's, no, we're working together. We're trying to work together with people. No, we have to get all of us out of here, which is more important than finding this asshole in the building. What do we do? We have some. We could, I'm looking. What do we got?

What do we got? Oh, we could do enemy of my enemy? That seems extreme in this moment. We could, you could set the place up fire. You could, I don't know what to do. Hello? Is there somebody in here? The door opens and you see there's a clerk who had apparently heard the door closed behind you, behind you as you would enter the room.

It's now walking into this darkened chamber. As soon as the door opens, you guys are on the opposite side of the door, walks over towards the lantern in the corner to light it, because the room is dark that you're in, and there's nobody in there at the moment. Oh my God. Walks over. Let's go. We're just going to run out the door.

Okay. Wait, wait, wait! And you guys just bolt past into the hallway. This is the hill game I'm wanting. You're going to start out to the entrance and out into the night air. No, no, out of the hall. I wasn't saying that, but I don't. Just out of the room.

We guys are out of the room and the person sees you. No, but we'll go down the hall towards the front of the building. I would assume Ford and Molly at this point. You just find Ford there coughing loudly while you are currently locked in this room. Is there a window? There is. In the door? Yeah.

And is there a window in the room? There's a door, it's a closed solid door and there is a window looking outside. Are there bars on the window? There's not, okay, no. There is one crossbar that is maintained there. It's more just to support the four. pains of wood of glass but that's it. A bit of laminar glass.

Yes! All right, I'm gonna just kind of peek out the door to see if anybody's coming for a minute. Pick out the door? I mean like the little door window. Oh sorry, there's no window in the door. No window in the door, the door's locked. Okay, I can, I'm gonna just start gently

meditating on breaking the window or opening the window. Okay. While you're meditating on that? Ford is alone in the room. So I turn and show him not. We gotta go. We gotta go. Did you get anything? No.

Don't give me. I walk out towards there. I'm like, do you have a privy? I think I shat myself. There are two clerks now that originally fleeing to get help have come back now with a gentleman with the short brown hair who has exited the opposite side of the chamber now. It's like, we've brought the doctor. It was before the doctor who approached us, All right, so you appeared to be sick. Yeah.

I just have a terrible coughing. Apparently my breakfast didn't agree with me, and I kind of coughed a little too much and felt a pack in my pants, so. Make a deception check. Oh, shit. Is that the doctor that we saw before? Yes.

Papadour? Oh, 15. 16. 16? All right. Please have a seat in this chamber. I think I got shut. I just visit the bathroom real quick. I don't want it run down my thighs and stuff.

There's a outhouse about two blocks down outside. Come back in the building. In the building? Get in the room, we'll get you a pen. All right, yeah, I go on the room. All right. You go in the room and one of them pulls into a metallic bed pan and just sets it down on the side.

Can I have a little privacy? Well, I check my undercarriage. Close the door immediately. Right. And they turn to you two. All right, we'll get to him in a second. What's your problem? FIFA.

You're a FIFA? Let me see you. I'm going to come forward and puts his hands out towards his eyes. Do you do that? Negative intimidation check with advantage. This is everything I wanted. This is a bad girl. Yes.

Negative three. Possible. 13. 13. The physician goes, falls back the other two clerks or physician helpers catch him like, I'm gonna scamper towards the office if I can, as fast as I can. Make an acrobatics check to try and dodge past their grasp as you begin to dart through their...

A nine. There's a tug on your cloak, and the same younger physician who had told you to get out is clutching the back of your cloak and lifts you up off the ground. Well then, someone's gonna play nice with the crownscarred and turns and starts bringing you towards the exit. You two, outside! Oh no, this couldn't have gone better. Am I in the room by myself? Yes.

Can I cast this guy's self and give myself the same sort of clerk or orderly outfit as... Yeah, easily. Maybe just not looking like exactly one of them, but like them in a uniform? Yeah. Okay, can I exit the room and come out into the hall? Sure. The two other ones looking to be confused. He's currently dragging, not as like flailing

on the edge of the cloak, dangling out into the main area. He's out of here. And I'll walk past them towards the office where the doctor is. Okay. Goes and throws you out onto the street. Pushes you out, Caleb. And goes, God!

And McGeons pointing loudly over there, down in the direction of where you just like tumbled and landed on the ground. Wait, so who's where outside? You just got shoved out into the front, of the facility, Nott got tossed, landed and stumbled a few feet, and they're now shouting for the guard and pointing at Nogh. Pointing at us. Okay. Enemy of my enemy now!

Oh, that seems, it still seems extreme. We should just book it. Are you fast? All right, fine. Yeah. I'm not leaving you. I'm much faster than you. Not leaving my wing bit. Let's just start to bring away. You guys start bolting? All right, we're going to start to run. All right, as you guys run, they don't give chase because it's not their, job to do so, but they start shouting and shouting. I want you both to roll stealth checks to try and see if you can avoid the sight of the crown guard that are on the process of

responding to the shout. Fifteen for me. Only a ten for me. Okay. All right. So as you guys dart into the nearby shadows, plugging down a few alleyways, you hear some voices in the distance, some conversations, some shouting, and then some footfalls to get loud and then get a little softer, and eventually a little softer in favor. off. So yeah, you just barely scrimp by on that one. Oh my God. You, however, have darted off towards the open office. And as soon as you glance in there, you can see there is a desk set up. There is a chair. There are a number of large books and stacks of parchment. It looks like there are

a whole rack up top of various medicinal herbs and salves that are categorized into small, makeshift cubbies. This is where a lot of the treatment seems to be mustard. Can I turn, as I start to close the door behind me, can I just look down the hallway and see if anybody's walking towards me in the hallway? Is it relatively clear? Well, it's clear for the moment, but the man who is just in this office has just finished throwing not outside, and is in the process of talking with the Crown's Guard.

You don't know how long you have to leave this. Oh my God. Yeah, can I just grab like a handful of papers off the desk and put them under my shirt? Sure. And start to come walking out. Just palm a bunch and throw it in there. All right. You exit just as you see them returning to the hallway.

and the physician kind of straightening his outfit, making his way in your direction, doesn't even make eye contact with you, just brushes by and shoulder checks you, which is hilarious, because the size of your visual is much smaller, so you're like, watch it, and it was actually like two inches away, but doesn't seem to notice in the moment

that he actually did so. Makes his way into the office, to hear the door closed behind you. And the two other clerks kind of frustratingly start scattering and making their way to the other chambers. One of them was talking the other about, I don't know what happened. He just went crazy and started spitting.

and it's bleeding everywhere, and they're both making their way to the doorway where Molly is in. That was very unruly. I need to excuse myself for a moment, and I'll head out of the infirmary. Okay, you head back out of the street. You are in that chamber for a while.

Are you doing anything? How long has it been? I'm getting out of the infirmary, and I'm gonna start wrapping around the building towards the side of the building that he was in. I'm seeing how, is it possible to open the window? Make an investigation check. Mm-hmm.

All of these numbers are. I used to be good at that I'm not good at anymore. 10. 10. Nothing easily done so you could try and pry one of the pains out, but there's a decent chance I might break in the process if you're not careful. That's fine. You're going to try? Yeah.

All right, so you take one of your blades and kind of wedge it up underneath where the metal bar is. It's kind of holding the pain in place to see if you can wedge it out. So just go ahead and make a dexterity check, just a straight dexterity check. Nope. Nope. One. It shatters and breaks on both sides of the window. You watch as the window just shatters outward. I'm just going to jump out of it.

All right, well, the pain itself is about that big, so you're going to take more the window with you to do it. Yeah, it's okay. All right. You just shoulder roll, leap through, shattering the window out of the infirmary, rolling into the alley. You see this happen as Molly just like chaotic spill of glass shards and purple skin. Run!

You guys bolt, at this point, As you head back, you've now seen the guards that have just run off to go after not hear the shatter and turn around to begin some of them to double back on where the sound of the glass breaking came from. Can I point off in a different direction that Molly's running since I look like a hospital clerk, nurse? I'm going to jump into your arm while you do that. No, no, no, no.

No, no, no. It's too late. No, wait too late. I'm trying to understand the scene here. I thought they were looking at him. They are. They're looking at him, but you were running. You were running away.

Oh, if I'm already, because I didn't know if I was just staining. Okay, sorry. Okay, I'm trying to, yeah, paint picture. All right, 15. So the guards approach, and they both kind of look antsy, but they see you pointing away, and they both go and head in the direction that you were kind of heading them off towards,

as Molly's about to leap into your arms. I was already, yeah, yeah, it was already up, yeah, so. So yeah, you guys have managed to find yourselves back into the chaotic evening of the streets of Zadash. I was imagining like a small mom and pop place with two physicians, but like 50 people in white coats. Yeah, no, that was a little more than I was expecting. I like six.

I think it was more like 72, Matt. Let's be honest. Right, yeah. In the meantime, me and Jess are like, what's taking them so long? Meanwhile, the leaky diver. Oh, that only took five minutes to go that bad. Yeah. He took an hour to cosplay his dick. Yeah. I had the whole plan, we never, like, it never got there. Which is still there. By the way. I know, I'm going to save that for later.

As we're walking back. Can I'm melting? Just looking over the papers and looking for some sort of a signature that says Richter or Prusine or anything. All right. So as you guys make your way back to the leaky tap to eventually meet up, going to paperwork, unfortunately none of them have anything that signifies the High Richter. They all seem to be various quick notes on bone breaks and resets on various illnesses that have come through and treatments that have been applied, keeping tabs on return visits. It's all just various notes of...

Anything from his dad? Nothing from Lord Sutton, unfortunately. I was just on the top of the desk. Yeah, if you would possibly search for the longer, you could have maybe found something, you think, but given the circumstances, it did not occur. I don't really have anything, but I called him. Crowd of Madness!

So, you didn't find anything you wanted to, and you probably definitely fucked up a few people's recovery routine, but that's fine. So anyway, you guys eventually find your way back to the leaky tap, your monk and your cleric are waiting for you, and you watch as these four individuals walk in, looking a bit haggard. Great success.

Just went off without a hitch. Not without a single hitch. Why are you covered in mayonnaise and egg? Why does you smell like beer? Well. Hot sauce. Is that hot sauce? That is in fact hot sauce. I'm going to empty out my canteen into the fire.

No. Gross. So. I was making a distraction. We found Wren. He's heavily guarded. There was nowhere to get close enough. Did you go in and say, can I speak to Ren and then somebody else go in his office while somebody was in the front asking to talk to Ren?

That's actually exactly what happened. It just didn't go as well as you thought it might go. Great minds think of like the gesture. Fulls seldom differ. You guys look real defeated. Over here. You look like palpably defeated. We almost had to kill an orderly. What? Very embarrassing. It's true. It came very close. How'd it go for you two?

Oh, well we cased out his house. Yeah, pretty great. I got an entire page of notes. We found a big tree that we can hop the fence with. Oh, and we bought this rope and this grapple so that we can climb. So you looked at the house and then you went shopping. Well, so that we can break into the house. Tight, that's tight. Yes.

I jumped through a window. You what? Like full glass. Is that what all of these things are? Well, some of those are sequins, but yes, that is actually. They're sequenced. Marmite sequence. All right.

It was a good dry run for our real heist that we're going to be doing in a day. So we're working out the kinks. I'm not from. Oh, dear Lord. It's not about the plan, it's about the desire to improvise. I can't secure wounds on Molly. Oh, yeah. I had very little, so thank you for that.

You know this could lead back to make it look kind of suspicious if we go after Lord Soutan, if his son was just broken into, right? Well, don't worry about that because they definitely saw our real faces. And we didn't technically break in. They only saw my real face, so maybe that's okay. But he's gonna know that his medical notes are missing, right? It's an infirmary. They gotta see terrible people in there all the time. Yeah, they agreed. In the hospitals you see. He didn't, yeah, the orderly saw my face.

All the nature of people. All right. Okay. Yeah, and nobody mentioned anything about needing handwriting, right? No. No. You guys are... No, there was not an awful lot of talking that was done. No talk of his father.

There was not a lot of talking, in fact. It's probably just an attempt to steal medicinals. Sure, sure. All right. Well, we have Wren's handwriting. We could potentially put a note in somebody's house with his stuff, but I don't know if that's what the plan is. Well, I mean that kind of works, because as Dolan's

said these fancy people tend to get other people to write their mail and do their paperwork for them. Well, it could add credibility to the tapestry that we're trying to weave here. The goal is still to get into Sutton Elders home and get this seal. Yeah. That never changed.

Within the writings that we forge, we could include some by the junior Sutton, so that would add some credibility to what we're doing. Might get us in and pass that out at least. Oh, right. But there's also, we still have to figure out what we are going to, if we are starting at Sutton's house, then we don't have any writing of the high rector's.

We are they trying to focus on finding that somehow, or going with what you're discussing, which is creating the appearance of like an underling or a for hire of the Hyrector's or some kind of code, saying that they're communicating with Sutan Elder on behalf Of the high director. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Not over here, no, a little bit of thieves can't. Do you need me to write something?

It would look shifty. If you're trying, I'm just saying, from my experience, normally if you're trying to, you know, do a coup. Experience as a what? As a rebellious teenage woman. In my experience, normally if you're trying to do something, you know, bad. You're not like, Dear Diary, I did this bad thing, signed Beauregard. Yeah. You get what I'm putting down? Yeah, it'll be obvious. Correct. We want to look, if it's too obvious, it's the opposite of convincing.

Signed it's somebody else's name. This guy goes by the gentleman because he is smart. That's all I'm saying. Well, so we want to put information. information in Soutan's house, Elder, right? So we could have some sort of writing that is not from the High Rector, but that says the HR would prefer to plans to go into motion. HR wants a meeting with you. No.

Spoke to the myriad. Finalize the plans. I propose that we make it seem like Soutan and the High Rector were conspiring to have Orenthe Kilt. Okay? So we have a note that we have a note that that is put into Sutton's house that says, on behalf, from an intermediary, on behalf of HR,

wants the plan to go into motion immediately and that Orentha will be out for the festival tomorrow night. The big O, we should say, the big O. That's good, that's good, yeah. We're so much better than the other people in planning like this. Then we plant that in Sutan Elders' house when we successfully quietly break in.

I'll stop writing that. note right now. Yeah? In what sort of, in like block letters? Can't be traced to anyone, that sort of thing? Well, it's an intermediary, so it does not have to look like. It doesn't really matter. I'll make it look kind of crisp and like.

And here's the thing. All we need to tie. Evil calligraphy. Yeah, like evil handwriting. And this letter perhaps on its own is not enough, but with the seal, if we have a sort of matching letter planted in HR's home. Got your message. Yes.

We'll move the meeting up and the big all of it. was going to die for sure. And a little bribery if we're trying to go for something. Yeah, but where are we going to get this money that you keep talking about bribe? We can just promise the money. Because here's the thing, having seen people be bribed before, you need very large sums of money

for bribing, especially with rich people. They're not going to need 500 gold to do this sort of thing. They want like 5,000 gold to do this sort of thing. It depends if you're just handing money off to an assassin, to a lowly level person might not need much. Does it need to be the whole amount? Just needs to be a payment, maybe? A check. A check, and I owe you.

On behalf of HR. Keep your writing. Very plain, yeah? Yeah? Not immensely charming. No, I mean not charming like the way you speak. So no hearts above the eyes then? No, no.

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It will commence as disgust. Commence as disgust. Sounds official. Yes. On behalf of HR, the plan is moving up to tomorrow night at the festival. Yeah. is moving up to tomorrow night at the festival. The moment has come and it is time for us to seize it.

To strike. That's what I write. Okay, yeah. You work out the logistics of that letter. And it sounds super box. Yours truly, whatever and ever, your BFF. No, no. No.

And take out the power where you say, do you like me, if so, check this box. We thought we've got to tie the whole thing together. I thought it was good. I thought it was good. perfume on the letter. Yes, oh, you made me to it. Litter, no.

No, no signing it with a kiss. But can I fold it up like a little, like, triangle that you... You can't... Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, what kind of dog?

What kind of dog? Wait, wait, should they fold it or should I scroll it? Scroll it. The guard dog that was outside of the home? It was a mastiff. It was a mastiff? Was it a well-kept dog or was it just, was it just, was it just, was it just, was it just, Is it a dog of pride or just a dog of?

From what you guys saw of the Mastiff, it wasn't a show dog by any means, but it wasn't a street dog they're just using for the moment. Wasn't it a talking masting? One way to find out. Does it look like this sort of dog can actually be proud of or is it just a utility? It was like it's a utility dog.

It's probably something that, and you've seen some dogs go around with members of the Crowns Guard before, usually just as part of the general. There's more for intimidation tactic. They're rarely ever utilized, but the presence of a dog just make some people, especially those who work in darker categories, unsettled. We have a cat. Can the cat become a mastiff?

Can the cat get the dog? Get the dog. Yeah. And then someone would have to get the dog back. You could just shoot the dog with an arrow and just get it. I'm just talking about getting the dog. No. No.

No. Okay. Somebody's going to have to retrieve the dog if the dog goes running. And here's the deal not. We don't want a dead dog. Yeah, we need to leave no trace. The only way this gets pulled off is if... This is the subtle one.

Is if no one thinks anyone was there ever. Show the dog, you dick. I'm not showing anybody, there's no more of that. What if the dog runs? The guard will have to get the dog back. Yeah. Frant can do that very well. So we can try that if it doesn't work, then we try to jump up and over.

Yeah, and also, sausages are very inexpensive. so we have that as a plan B. We also have good old Ford who can always disguise himself as a guard. And relieve him. Correct. Say that somebody really wants him over at the party. Are they private guards though?

Or are they crowned scouts? They were crown scouts. They were assigned. Okay. So they are disinterested. Do you know not if you want, one idea, if you want to help is you could also write a note in your thieves can't.

It should be vague on, vague on details, details but a message from the myriad. Or don't even get that specific, but just write in Thieves Canter note saying that everything is in place for the festival. I think that's a good idea. All right. Sure, we'll leave it with these papers. A few papers are always good. All right. As you guys work your way through preparing this letter condensing your plots for the next evening and eventually find yourself to a night's rest in preparation for the next day's events. We're gonna take a break.

Oh, man. No, but you know, I think we should go back to the hospital one more time. Fucking D&D. Watching your face, Matt, is all that was happening, you were like, like, what are they doing? Those are my favorite moments in the game. I'm just like, I don't, okay, guys, this is happening. This is all your fault.

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into the chat room. The word for this break is heist. H-E-I-S-T. Remember, only enter it once. If you enter it more than once, we'll be disqualified unfortunately. So we'll get to that and we'll have the winner into the break. In the meantime, we'll see you back here in a few minutes. Hello and welcome back everybody. So we have a winner from the chat. Congratulations to Pyro Malibu. Piro Malibu is the winner of the box. There's a no, but we'll get your information in the chat if he hasn't already, and we'll get that to you. So we have congratulations. All right, so as you guys all prepare for the evening's rest for the next day,

is there anything you needed to do before the next day happened? I would like to talk to, I would like to talk to Caleb. Oh, Caleb, not here. I have a favor to ask of you. I absconded with some items recently and I wanted you to take a look at them with your keen eye. Where did you get these items? It was not, I didn't break in anywhere. I mean we did, but it was cool because other people were with me. It's when we went down into the basement to scout around for other entrances into the bottom of the leaky tap. Under the leaky tap, and you found... I found a skeleton that had these bracelets on her, him, they. You found a skeleton? Yeah, I don't know. I didn't really have time to look at it, but

You found like a dead person under the Lakeyatta? A very old dead person. Could be ancient. Yeah, but you know, it's not really typical to keep a dead, like a skeleton in your basement. I didn't think about that, but yes. No man your club. Well, that's a topic for the group. I mean, we're staying in an inn where there was a dead person under the room. It's haunted or anything.

It just seemed like someone, it was stuffed way in the corner behind some boxes, like someone wanted to just sort of... Yeah, that's worse. That's not better. That's worse. I didn't, I mean, I'm really just interested in these. Okay, well that's somewhat unsettling, but show me these items that you have. These are just bracelets that I found out. I was wondering if you could use your magic skills. I place them down on the bed and go through the process of casting identifying. It takes about 10 minutes. All right, as you finish the focus, you glance down at then kind of extending your consciousness to see if there's any sort of residual magic energy, they are not enchanted.

But they are made of a very nice, kind of solid platinum of a gold spiral lay on them, which kind of pull the dust off, so they're probably worth a little bit of money. You should sell these. These are not little and adorable like buttons. No, but they're shiny and nice. You want to wear them?

Maybe I could. Well, you could. They're what... Are they big? Yeah, they're huge for a goblin's little For Goblin's wrists, they're pretty big. Looks like they're more, yeah, they may have been made for, I mean more masculine figures wrist probably, or a thick arm of the last. Yeah, maybe your ankle or calf you could put them on. Or sell them, you know, and then you could put them to use. Okay. I mean, it's still a little disturbed that there's a dead person under this inn that we are in right now. I understand. Well, we can go back and I can show you if you'd like, but.

No, it just didn't seem like... Well, I take your word for it that it's there. I don't need to go poking about. How do you do that where you look at something and you just see what it is? Oh, I don't... It's... Well, it is a spell that I learn when I was...

It's so cool. It's so... It's very impressive. You could potentially learn this as well. Really? Of course. If you apply yourself. I don't know.

You know so many spells and so many things. You're very strong. I'm continually impressed by you. I must say. How strong would you say you are? Just like on a scale of like one to 20. How do you mean? I'm not very strong. Not. I do have things that I want to do with my life, and I mean to apply myself and study and find knowledge. Is that the way you'll get even stronger, but through study and books? Yeah. That is the best way to do that. For Would magical items help further your abilities or blessings?

That seems like an abstract question. I mean, there's certainly very useful things that can be found in this world in heaven and earth, yeah. All right. Are you okay? Oh, I'm fine. I'm just, I'm fascinated by all things wizard, and I want you to succeed, that's all.

I have great faith in you. I know you'll do great things, and I just want to help you get there. Well, thank you, friend. Sure. Yes. Anything to help the calls. Well, maybe we go to bed and tomorrow

we don't tear the roof down off of every building we go into again, yeah? Okay, that sounds good. Okay, so I take out my silver thread and I start casting the alarm spell on our room before bed, and then I go to bed. All righty. Anybody else are you going to do before the evening's rest,

or are you happy to continue the next day? Next day, for a free. Pillow-Fy! No! Oh, Bo gets a little too aggressive with the pillow fight. How apt, okay. I'm kidding. This, we're done.

Sorry, we're done. Sorry. Letting know, it's a chip two. Good evening. Good morning. All right, so as the evening comes to a close, the next morning greets you on a somewhat chilled misty morning, the sky gray, but the light is out, and you can see a faint mist is burning off the streets in the early morning, like six or seven-ish.

But you all gather yourselves. Is there anything you wish to come as during the day, or do you wish to jump ahead to the meeting of the afternoon evening? Should we get some, like, awesome, all-black clothes? Maybe we should so that we stealth, better. Yeah, yeah. Some are a little bit more stealthy. And we can put it in the pink back.

Oh, I like that. Yeah, I like that. I was thinking some carnival masks in the other direction. Yeah, old black's kind of, you know, looks like you're up to no good. Yeah, and if you're actually in the dark, you can't tell the difference. And if you're on the light, you look like a ninja,

so I think we're good, maybe. I see what you're saying, I'll let, yeah. Everyone's gonna be pretty fancy dressed. And the carnival is going to be pretty fancy dressed. on today, that's happening. Yeah, the festival is happening this evening. Do we know anything about this festival? Like, culturally, do they wear masks?

Yes, festival. I mean, the harvest is celebrated at different points. And in a few weeks is the official Harvest End Festival. Right. This is done in advance. It's more of like a private event. That is for the more elite.

Some folks come in from out of town, from local smaller townships that are pretty well off and trying to rub elbows with the the local elite. But yeah, it's a festival that contains food, music, drink, and it's all, you've never been to one, of course, and you've heard of it from the time you spend in Zadash. You've never seen it. But you know, you've seen folks take care just through the street towards the event, and it seems to be fairly kind of like a more subdued Mardi Gras colors, but the colors are more like reds and browns and golds, and they have masks they'll wear for it, but like aren't full-face, but like just a bit of a bit of a bit of

potential eye masks. Only some will. Some folks don't get fully into the spirit. I think we should go shopping. Masks on sticks? Masks on sticks. Well, we're not actually going to the fancy gala, so we probably don't need the fancy stuff, because it's just for the rich people. But will it get us through the gate? Well, I figured for all of us to get in, we should go through the sewers, probably. But if someone stops you, if you have a mask, they know why you're there. Yeah, in a pinch. Sure.

A lot is riding on, on, on Soutan and the High Richter going to this festival. Yeah. That's it, that's just. I was really expecting more there. I don't know why. No, it's just pessimism. All right, let's go buy some masks then. Are you afraid they're not party people? Well, I worry that if we break into Soutan's house and stuff a bunch of letters there,

but the High Richter stays in with the tummy ache, then it all falls apart. Well, then we go from there. Yeah. Yeah, well, improvise. There's no point in worrying about things you can't change yet, Caleb. She's got a, she's got a point. Be the chaos you want to see in the world. Yeah, no point in worrying. It'll make it hurt twice.

Yeah, lead the way, I'll be the caboose. All right. So, who's helming the expedition to acquire costume pieces? Molly. Molly. Do I make an investigation? And I'll say, because of your dress, I'll give you advantage on this. Thank you. I'm going to try and do that much more.

Show us where Melrose is. Show us. Wasteland. Eleven. Eleven. It takes you the better part of the morning. About noon, you manage to find a place that will sell similar outfits. Since a lot of them are either custom made for the individuals that are going, it's hard to find a place.

There is no like shop that sells fancy clothes to the random folks who aren't going to the event. But you manage to find a few individuals that can cobble together a few masks and basic attire. Because it's a quick build, it's going to be a little price here than the normal cost. So the commission will take the better part of the afternoon. I'll be ready by sundown for enough outfits for six of you. Or like accoutrement. I was about to say I just, I don't need much. Yeah, you'll be fine.

So I'd say between all of you for the time, the materials, and the construction of it, it'll run you about three gold pieces. I'll pay that. Okay. So I'll pay for all of it? Yeah. I will probably also. I'll get reimbursed at the end.

Pick up some sausages. Okay. Okay. How many sausages do you want? Oh, just one, like a string of them, four or five. Maybe two strings. Two strings in case, yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. And I'm going to write a letter. Put you back a silver. Okay. I'm going to write another letter that says something about the Knights of Requital that says, just like, I'm glad to be, what should it be like, glad to be working with you? You sure are nice.

Big fit. What about like a sign-off, like the Knights of Requital and write- What if you take a letter and just sign it, Knights of Requital, and just rip off the rest. So who knows what it was. It was just from them. Yeah.

I'll end it with the big red door, the Knights of Requital, and then rip it, and then it's just the bottom part and leave it in the Hyder's house. Big in the trash. Yeah. That's not bad, that's not bad. Oh, can somebody just burn the edge like the rest was in the fire or something? Oh, and then we can put it in the fireplace like the rest of the letter was burned.

Man, that is the oldest trick in the book? Sure. Hey love, burn just these edges here. Okay, put it down on the ground. But just the edges, don't set the whole thing on fire, because they spent a really long time writing that little bit. Oh, well then, you know, just use a hearth fire or something, because I will probably put that into flames.

Also, alternatively, would we want maybe something instead that said that the knights are ready for this evening's pursuits and there to support in the endeavors as needed? Great High Richter. It is time for change. We'll write all of that, okay, fine. Don't write the knights, though, just write the little symbol. Yeah. And then I'll put this symbol, but I'm also going to keep this one to put in the fireplace. I think it'll be really cool. Yes, the two together, but I worry that it's just the one piece she could have.

have written it down on the list of things that she does not like. It's not very conclusive. Doesn't like red doors. She doesn't like letters. Right. Okay. No one likes to work. So now we have those letters. I'm going to keep track. I'm putting them in the side pouch. Those are the side pouch ones. And have you written your letter in your thieves thingy that you do? Yes, my handwriting is not as good.

Is that going at Lord Sutton's place or the High Rector's place? That's in the Sutton's place. So I'm putting that in the other. We want to tie Sutton to the Mariet and Hyrector to the Knights and Hyraktor and Synta together. To fight Arendha. Yes. And take that seat to enact the change that the people need.

This is going to be real good. I feel so political you guys. I feel like I'm participating in our politics. It feels nice to participate in a democracy like this. It feels like I'm making a difference. difference. One monk, one vote. Feels like it matters. Did we get paid in advance, by the way? Yeah. Are we being paid for this? No, we didn't get paid in advance. Hope that doesn't come back to buy it.

Did we get half of it even? You showed us the money. It's actually for the best, because now there's no paper trail just in case they are. Is Ulog around? I'm gonna look for Olog. It showed us the money. Ulog is meeting you guys. You can go on trying to change form? Yeah, I want to look and see if he's around us though. He's probably been following, yeah. He's been following this. Shit.

Agam's this shit. Wow. You have no idea where Ulaug is or if he's in the vicinity, unfortunately. All right. We should also, you're invisible. We should also discuss who's going in, who's outside, how we are tackling each house. I should definitely go into Lord Sutton's place because I have this really fun spell that lets me find things. So I could find the seal.

How does it work? I go, I want to find this wax seal, and it'll help me find the one that's closest. Well, then you are right, you should go in. Yeah. Not you should go in, because you're going to pick locks, yeah? Yes. If anything is locked.

Sure. I strongly believe that I should go in as well, because these are two very wealthy, powerful people, and there could be magical. And you like to steal some stuff? Only if that is, you know, easy to do. Once again, we should leave no trace that we were there. Don't worry about that.

I'll eat everything we leave behind. Now I'm really worried about it, actually. I'll be out front, and I can be a crown's guard if I need to. And I can be in the back and be drunk and lookout. Which is our first house that we're attacking? Lord Zutantan. And we know that there's a guard and a dog out there. Correct.

So first we need to distract the guard. With the cat. We've got the cat plan. And the sausage. And the sausage. And the sausage just in case. Also. Sausage for the guard, cat for the dog.

Regardless. Even if this goes belly up, we just disappear, you know, we have no ties to this, we walk away, yeah? We just get out with our skins, even if things go as badly as they do to the hospital. And then we go, we just walk away. Yeah, last thing when we won is for the Crown's Guard to think that this was all us.

Where are we meeting Ulaug? The song and supper in. Okay. Oh, so Frumpkin is up here in my sort of scarf position, and I bring him down to my lap and I take the sausages out, and I sort of like knead one of the sausages in my hand a bit, and I say, you know, I'm sorry, but the next time that you go off to your pocket place and come back, this will be gone. And I start squishing sausage

sausage grease into his hair and rubbing it down his back so that he smells like sausage. That's a very good plan. But I love you very much, so thank you, Phyllis. Okay. No. All right. It's greasy. You want to eat them even more now? Some other time, perhaps.

I can, I'll drink instead. All right, so you gather the outfits that were commissioned for you. You have your materials. As the day grows later and later, eventually the sun begins to crest over the western mountain range, the sky. Though cloudy still, the colors begin to shift to the oranges and purples of dusk. and you begin to see carriages come to the streets

and make their way towards the Tri-Spire District. I wonder if we can hide under the carriages I was going to have a ride? I mean, was one of the carriages that just passed you it's about to block up the way if you don't try and catch up. No, that's all that brings a lot of attention. It's all about trying to get into the sewer system. Can we just go to the sewers?

Just go to the sewers. All right. So, as you guys head back towards the entryway to the sewers, to the sewers where you had previously been, with your various outfits and attire. You can see now, there's not two-count's guard, this is a single-crown's guard at the moment. You approach and you see they're not directly

against the grape, they're across the street. It doesn't appear to be watched at the moment. Maybe I can go talk to the guard. The entranceway into the sewer. Oh, got it. And distract him? Well, it seems like they're not looking right now. Oh, he's not even looking at the gate?

No, they're not looking at the entrance way the sewer. But it doesn't mean that won't change in 30 seconds. It's dark outside too? Yes, but there are lanterns and stuff up the side of the street that are keeping off the way. Do you want to distract him and we'll meet you on the other side? Oh, sure. Okay. We'll go meet you at the sewer entrance on the other side. Okay. Perfect. Not our Caleb can send you a message. Okay. I walk up to the guard. Okay. Evening. Evening. How are you doing today?

I'm well. How are you? Pretty good. I was wondering you guys. I was wondering you You could answer a question for me. Everybody else, I'll roll out check, please. I was looking around this area earlier for a candy shop, and I couldn't find anything that seemed good. I was wondering if you could point me in the best direction. You could try the pentamarket probably. The pentamarket.

Okay, can you tell me exactly where that is, because I'm not familiar with the area? Make persuasion, check. No. Oh, that's so, that's so funny. All right, so down this way and starts giving you the full, like, play-by-play of the street corners to the penthouse market of where a candy shop is that you've missed earlier, so now you know there's a candy shop. Yes, that's a dash.

As it's happening, what's your roll? 12. 15. Eight. Natural one. Oh, come on. 19. Appropriate.

Natural one, eight. Approximate. 19. 15. 15. Okay. That one's tricky. Plus eight.

Still natural one. But yeah, no, that brings it to nine. So as you guys all begin to quickly slide in one after the other knot, as you're rushing down, you're kind of glancing off, because you hear them talking about candy for a second off the side. And as you rush it on the side, whack, you hit your head and give it like a, a natural instinct of a pain squeak. As you do, the guard who's talking to the guard who's talking to,

The gesture, make a deception shot. Oh no. Seven? Seven. Just a second. Oh, I can't read. Oh, I can't read. Oh, I can read.

Oh, I can read. I can read. It steps over and begins to glance down. I fall over on the ground really like. He's looking back, he's like, yeah. I send Frumkin screeching away from us up the street, clattering into anything that. From where? Out of the sewer, you mean?

Yeah. Yeah, I pop him back up. As soon as the, as soon as pumpkin, kind of like kicks and misses. Oh, yeah. Because, fucking, I'm gonna get the car. What you're saying? Oh, God.

Kicker. Caleb appears at the sewer like Pennywise. Why is that their natural response to this stuff? We got scared by the cat. The first guy was a dick. The first guy was a dick. This guy was just, ah, like, you know, kicking wildly. Anyway, he kind of falls back and the pumpkin runs off.

He's like, ah, it seems to be enough to take him off the scent of not in the same. Sorry. Miss, miss, walks up and kind of helps you. Oh, it was my spit. I was choking on my own spit. Right, all right. Well, go get your candy. Have a good night.

Thank you very much for all of your help. Let me guys back to his post. You guys make your way through the sewer back up through the T intersection. Mindful of the damn rats. Yes. Rat balloons. And I held back two minutes to let Frumkin quietly come back. Fair enough.

Frumkin does slowly make his way back to join you. You make your way towards the gates and without issue are entered into the Tri-Spider. You make your way towards the side of the alleyway where the kind of- The guy at the song and supper. You did not. Oh, fuck. Fuck! Wait, what guy?

Shit, we were supposed to go fucking meet Ulogue. Damn it! We're so good at this. Jester, do you want to go do that? Yeah, I just remember that. I'm going to go to Song and Supper in. All right. We're going to sit in the sewer like so much clown.

We have the break, too. You guys are sitting there waiting for Jester to just to show up to meet you at the top to let you out. I asked you a few times. We're here. Where are you? Where letter R, letter you? No.

120 feet. Yeah. You, however, do you make your way to the Song and Supper, and on the inside, you can see nervously at a table and like the dark cloak, Ulogs, gets up and kind of meets you outside, kind of like shubs you back out there, and you both begin to walk side by side,

he's like, I was waiting here long enough. We were waiting for you, it's so weird that we totally missed you though. Make a deception check. Oh, God. Boom. Clombing my mind. Nope. Well, well, well, 11.

He goes, right. Well, where's the rest of your team? Here's the thing, how rich do you look? How rich does he look? He looks down and he has fairly plain dark clothing for night stealthing. He has like a single, looks like a gold chain of some kind with a single kind of yellowish amber orange bead on it. That looks like it's worth a gold or two. And a dark green brown cloak. It's kind of hard to see the color this late at night. It doesn't look super Can I put some of my costume on him?

Yeah. Yeah. You put some of the festival wear on him. It's not at all fitted for him and he kind of looks like a kid who's outgrown his snow outfit, and he's just like, it's just humiliating. It'll get you in the door. Don't worry. Here, put this mask on.

Ooh, he's exceeding beneath it. You can see him grinding his teeth, but he follows you nevertheless. Candy themed too. Oh, that's great. All right, so you make your way to the game. to the gate once more. The guards there. One of them kind of walks up and the same one from earlier gives you a nod. Up. Holt. Guess Devonler for the night, he's a comedian.

Make another deception check. That's ridiculous. It is just being so mean. Seven. God damn it. He goes, a comedian. Tell me a joke. Come on, Ulaug. Go on. No. He looks at you with a mask. Back in the car. Come on. It's open my night. You got this.

Performing me. Oh, you got this. He goes, what do you call? What do you call the king on his birthday? And the crown goes, I don't know. What do you call a king on his birthday? In our soul. The guard goes, oh.

So here's the thing. He's not a joke-telling kind of comedian. He's more of a farce kind of kind of. You know, he's, yeah. His physical comedy. He's more of like a jester, if you will. And I push him in so he falls down. See? Like, whack, and which point the two guards go. He's so good. He's really good. He really sells it. Ulog kind of like gets him off the ground, kind of glars at you, this very furious, fiery stare, and then gets up, and then, oh, stumbles again and falls in the ground, flat again, and

so I goes, ha ha ha ha. All right, get in. You pick Ulaug up and Ulog now has like a bloody nose, and as you kind of usherman, looks back, he was like, I will gonna talk later. But I got you and it's all right. You eventually make your way over to the edge of the alley, coming up to the hatch that leads you out of the sewer. And there you guys eventually see the two approaching shapes of Jester and Oolag.

Oolog looking festive if the wear is a bit tiny, making his hair and beard kind of at the sides of the mask. Oolog. Oolog's job in this. I have no freaking clue. Hey, Olog, what do you want to do? Well, first off, I'm pretty keen at infiltration.

I have a long past of doing sort of the breaking and entering thing. Um, plus, I want to be there when this happens. I've got personal stake. Yeah, he should be part of the team that goes in. Okay. How well do you know Lord Sutton's place in the area? I know the area, all right. All right. We cased it earlier. Do you can know where he lives?

Yes, you do. All right. That's all we need. The rest we can all do. Lead on. Can I inside check him to just get a feel for that? Yeah, go for it. Nice. That is 17. 17? Yeah. Whispers! Whispers!

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Guys, it's Larkin. Oh. Well, there's the goes to campaign. All right, so as you guys are going to make your way through the city streets, you can see the close you get to the silken terrace, for one, the usual silk banners that adorn the various edges of the street have been changed from the usual white silk banners to bright yellows, bright browns, bright reds.

The colors of autumn are now starting to show and appear throughout the vicinity. I hate the color yellow. Really? Why? I just hate it. You would look really pretty on you. I don't think that's true, actually. I think she's more of a...

The blue works. Let's stick with what you know. More of a spring. You also hear the music begin to swell of the various performing bands towards the center where this gala is. You can see all the banners kind of leading to the center space. The sunset colors have vanished now the night.

night sky holds above. The Crown's Guard are clustered in greater numbers in the tri-espire, specifically to kind of keep a perimeter around the event. As you glance off to the entrance gate where you were, you can see there's now stationed more towards that space since you've originally passed through. More musicians are arriving, some locally, some may appear to have been from other areas within the actual empire. The social elite are gathering at the center of the Silicon Terrace, and you can now see where the small All carriages are stopping and letting other individuals out to join the crowd. The mingling's beginning. You can already see about 60 or 70 people with more still arriving. They all have their

various colors and masks on. They're all grabbing drinks and laughing and seeing old friends and introducing themselves to people they haven't met before. Some that lives in the tri-spire, Sun that lived throughout and beyond. Anyone look familiar? Make perception check. Don't fuck me, Gil. You did. You did. Kind of fucked me there. I also did the same thing. Ten. All right, accept and check. No, not good.

Eight. Unfortunately, too far away in the masks and outfits kind of obscure, any sort of details you're unable to see anyone you'd recognize, per se. But you do see there are long tables that kind of mark the perimeter that are all holding already preset glasses of wine and ciders. You can see the central tower of the Triumph Chime sits glowing right at the front and center of this gala. It's all kind of surrounding the base of it.

And up in a spiral, you can see lanterns and the similar kind of colors of autumn that spiral up the front of it. You guys begin to carefully and out of sight make your way towards the estate of Lord's intent. Please make self-chucks. This is a lot of people. Who sucks? God, fuck. I rolled them. Who hasn't rolled yet? I give you blessings. All right. And then that's awesome. 14. I feel like you roll crappier when you're lower level. 13. 17. 13. 20. 19. It's a pretty good spread. You guys, ducking between avoiding being seen and just blending into the crowd as you pass other individuals

that are making their way to the actual gala event. There are nods and smiles, occasional laugh as folks are conversing and chatting as they pass. You make your way over to the outskirts of the gilded willows beyond the Skyscape Park, and where the Constellation Bridge Tower stands to see, for many of you the first time, the three-story darkwood home of Lord Sutton. The marble pillars mark the cornerstones

of where the metallic kind of iron fence gate matches the perimeter. There's a singular tree, and still there are two guards posted at one, and the same guard with the dog on the other. Same guard. We're getting tired. I'm sorry, can you set the scene on, two guards on one end, one with the dog on the other?

Are we casually about the same time? Yes. So this is his shift? Same watch. Seems to be. And it's like corner corner or front and back? Or? So if you look at the, like, if the building is a square,

the house is mainly built to be like a rectangle, there's the front door and the back where the cellar door is, and there's the perimeter fence. Okay. The front there are two guards. In the back where the gate and the cellar door is, there's a singular guard and his dog. The tree is up on this side.

Near the back door. But there's still a gate all the way around. All the way around. So guard with the dog is within this perimeter. fence. Is just on the interior of it, just within the gate. And the gate is closed. Correct. So. How wide are the openings in the gate? Does it look like the mastiff could get through the openings in the wrought iron fence? Probably not, no. Okay. But you can still be enough

of a distraction to get the guard to chase the dog while we get in if he can get the dog. To the front side of the home, but that's a... Maybe to the front side. Maybe temporary though. Once we get in. So we can get in through the gate and then we go to the tree or we're just going to go straight Get into the cellar, cellar. Yeah, I was thinking I'm going through the cellar. We could use the tree to get over the fence and then run to the cellar.

As soon as the dog takes the way the cat. Yeah, but what about our exit? Because we have to come back out. Well, worry about that later. No, no, we worry about that now. Maybe that's when Ford can come and relieve the guards. Or I can do that now. Or he can do that now.

But how do we get Ford on the other side of the gate? He just walks up to it. That's very risky now, because what if the guard says, I don't know you? You know, then the plan never starts. If we do that at the end, at least we have a fighting chance. That's true. I could wait. Look, I'm getting stuck in that, though.

What do you think? You're really good at this. All right, so who's staying outside? I am. I am. The two of you. All right. What were those guards names? There were so many guards. Those are the High Richter's house.

That wasn't here. Yeah, that was at the Richter's. Yeah, but as long as you do a guard that's semi-recognizable. If we can manage, if what you're saying about this tree, we could possibly just scoot past the visual range and we'll have to worry about it. And just use that as a backup. Right.

Have you got climb a tree? We can climb a tree. We are good at that. Yeah, well treat me as a worst case in area. And I've got this grapple so we can. so we can swing it across to the roof on the other side. All right, so those who are staying at the base, the rest of us, let's get it climbing. Also, here we'll hear the dog bark we can walk by.

I have another question. How far from the fence to the home? It's about five feet. Five feet only. Yeah. Spikes. I'm rethinking. If Frumkin gets away from this dog in the beginning, he can run outside the fence, and then he will not be far from me. I can stay in touch. with him. So when it's time to leave, I can have Framkin just re-enter the yard and create mayhem a second time. Or just let him create it the first time, because we might not need it. It might not, but if we have no other option and we are trying to get out and there's guards in both places, Fram can come back in and create mayhem again.

For the dog to have a... Anyway, just an option. Just an option. Okay. All right, so we get at the top. You use your little cat thing to distract it, preferably the other side of the fence. He's just a cat. Right? You're a cat on the other side of the fence, while there's a cat. faced and focused in that direction, you make it over. Somebody needs to make a loud noise when we throw the grapple over. You can call for something.

So that it doesn't make a clang sound that they hear. That might be one of you. A natural sound. All right. I will signal you when we are grapple throwing. If you also hear me make the same sound again, that means trouble. I could maybe use like tomotarchy to create a thunder sound. Oh, that's good.

What is? The weather like, though. Okay, I'll do that. How's the weather? How's the weather? Is it clear or great? It's cloudy. Like the sky itself is cloudy and has been like,

even though the storm kind of blew by, it's still pretty heavy cloud cover. Yeah. On the bottom. All right. Up the tree. All right, those are climbing the tree. Athletics checks please. I'll go first so I can try and help anyone else as I go up.

Can I do that? Yeah, you can do that. So I'll go first. Athletics or acrobiotics? For climbing, we'll say athletics. But... Parkour. It doesn't have a lot of branches.

But parkour. We get advantage because Bo's helping us. That's not great. She's got to get up there first. I got to get up there. She didn't roll that girl. Eight? Eight?

Well, you're not helping anybody. Oh. You get part way up and uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh he's doing fine so he's doing fine. So he kind of pushes you up the rest of the way. I rolled an 18. You climb up fine after he's skittering up. You actually climb up.

over, Bo and Oolog and get in the top first. Watch my name. 11, that's fine. You managed to get up there and kill it. 17. You guys all get up there, are Bose the last to arrive. I thought you were a monk of some sort.

I'm a sprinter, I'm not an endurance person. It's one of those things too, like she starts first, but each person kind of like keeps putting their feet in her face in the way up. All legs and no arms. Okay, you guys get up to the top of the tree. You're up in the branches and the bow

and you can see now it's a beautiful view of the gala in the distance. You can see the three towers all kind of arcing up all lit from underneath in the lanterns and the light that have been significantly brightened for the events of the evening. You have a clear shot of the of the of the rooftop, which is at a slight decline from this current position. It's that it's about 10 feet from you and about three feet down below. You can see there are two smokestacks that are attached to fireplaces that might be good indicators of places to connect the road. Okay. So who's throwing the rope? Should I try it? Your strongest. Okay. What is, what? It's a grapple connected to a rope. All right. So I hand the other side of the rope to Oolag

just so it doesn't, you know, fall. He's like, all right, you're pretty good at aim in this. Yeah, are you? It's about 15, 20 feet from here. Well, I'm strong. Can you aim it? Yeah, but you're weak, aren't you? I don't know.

I feel like I'm more precise than you, but no, you're strong, you go for it. No, but you're precise. I don't. Brumpkin is pacing back and forth. It's outside the fence. Parchment, Polar Shears? On three?

Yes, on three. One, three. Okay, I'll throw it. So go ahead and roll a D20 and add your strength on fire. Oh, that's good, okay. Eleven. 11? No.

12. Okay, so you throw it. Tink, tink. Thunder, thunder, when I did it. Does this roll of thunder off in the distance? It didn't catch anything though, and it's like kind of scraping. Pulling back a little bit. More thunder.

Another thunder. It's not staying? It's not staying on. It's got over to the roof, but it's currently didn't catch anything. Oh God, reel it back in, really beckon. Okay, I do another thunder sound right when I pull it, so it doesn't make noise. Okay, so he pulled in the scrapes, falls and dangles down, and you managed to pull it up a little bit. Didn't let up yet.

Give me that. Give me that. Here. It's a strength thing, though. Are you just throwing it? Yes. Natural one. Oh, no.

All right. So you've lost our grapple. We've lost our grapple. No, Lug was holding on to the end. He was holding the other side of it. The grapple, it arcs up really high, and just arcs past. There's a brief moment where you see it go up and then passed by you heading down towards the wall. towards the wall.

And anyone gonna do anything? I try to catch the rope to try to keep it from hitting the ground. You can try. Oh boy. Mm-mm. Try. Yeah, try.

Go ahead and roll. Can I also get a, is it flying out of our grasp? Is that what's happening? It looks like it's just out of the grasp. She's gonna try, so go and roll it 20. Just gonna catch it. I rolled a 19, I don't know what I'm adding. All right, that's fine.

So you just catch it, holding under the edge of the rope. Before it clinks onto the ground, it's kind of like, just dangling now. Oh my God. You pull it slowly, back up. I'm... This one's not. Wait, I thought that.

Hang on. Maybe I... You said, I threw his heart. Under. Maybe... Over. You can jump ten feet. I think I can.

Oh, God. What did you fall on the ground, bow? What this happened? Look, we're basically gods, okay? I can make this jump. You can try? I'm gonna cast up at the wind. Sorry, I'm gonna not cast it.

I'm gonna use a key point. I'm gonna take and kind of gather my chi, and along the edge of the branch, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, anime run. Okay, then the leap. Alright, go ahead and make, make an athletics check. I'll give you advantage because of the step of the wind. Step of the wing gives me like double jump distance

or triple jump and dump just didn't. We can jump it and go in chifes. Triple dungeon is class. Oh God, we had the Ring of Truth cast. You can't lie. Kausen did triple dump earlier. I did. Solid.

Hang on, hang on. Your jump distance is double. Yeah, you're fine. Ha ha ha ha! Yeah! You're fine. No roll. So just roll for the hell of it.

Just want to see what happens. Just so it's not a one. No one's. I don't trust Gil right now. I'm not going to trust Gil. I'm going to go with the whole ball die. Oh, natural 18. Yeah.

You off the branch, leap. And I kind of like, no sound. Go along the rope and kind of tighten the rope as I land. All right. Oh, were you holding out of the grapple? I was kind of like tracing the rope. You grab it, you're gonna fix it easily to one of the smokestacks and find it there.

She's really cool. All right. She's amazing. So we'll tie on the other side. And you guys can all begin to just shimmy across and make your way. We shimmy. So the rope is set up. Are you guys just going to shimmy across?

Sure. When do we do the cat? Oh wait, do we have to say cast to have a distraction. distraction. We're gonna shimmy across because what if the guard looks up and sees her? The cat out! The guy is down at the bottom of the tree. He runs around and... So we do that now? Yeah, I think... Well, we'll do that slowly lower into the cellar right when...

No, we're going on through the roof now, I thought, no? Well, how... Wait, hold on. Is there entry through the roof? You're not there, you can't see from here. We can't see from here? There is a chimney stack though, right? Yeah, there are two chimneys. There are two chimneys. We are now. We are now.

Is there a door on the roof? How would there be a stupid door on the roof? Sometimes there's balconies. There's no balconies. No balconies on the top. Look around for a door on the roof. What? I would have a door on the roof.

Do you? Make an investigation check. Is there a door on the roof? You mean like an access or something? French roof. 18. 18. You don't find an entryway per se.

One of the chimneys is wide enough for someone to pass through. And it looks like there is a part of the roof that if you were to try and remove some of the shingles, there might be some sort of entrance below it. But you're kind of on an angle there on each side. It looks like they need to re-roof. They haven't done it in about 15 years, right? Sure.

So maybe we could get in or go through the cellar or be like Santa Claus. I think we should go and through the roof. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But shoot me across. We already see me. No, we didn't. It's happening now, it's real time, real time.

We're ready? Yes. I'm sending pumpkin now, okay? Sausage cat. You watch as pumpkin runs past. Right outside of the gate, immediately, like, no, go, go, go, and the dog just rags them to the opposite side,

like around the outside, into the fence, and is now like trying to bite, and pumpkins in the side of the fence, going, Right into the fence, the guy's still holding back, like, shit, no, stop. Stop it! Stop it! It's just pulling.

You guys all make it across. No one seems to notice. None the wiser, onto the roof. Hey, look, send a message to Ford and say, Hey, did we look cool just then? Okay, I take up my little piece of wire, and I whisper the incantation and do the motions. Hey, Ford, Justin wants to know, did we look cool?

You can respond to this message. Did they go already? He said, did they go already? I heard a dog barking. I feel that this plan was no better than ours. You guys are watching. You guys are on... We're keeping an eye on the street. We're keeping an eye on everything. Where are they in relation to us, too, by the way?

That's up for them. I don't figure around a corner, like, far enough away from the house not to be... I want to know if you're within view of the guard with the dog's initial position. 16. 21. Okay. Keeping an eye out there, there isn't any, at the moment, notable individuals wandering towards or snooping around the house or your position, so you feel pretty safe. And you look like a guard.

Not yet, but I should. Yeah, I'll wander into like an alley. And you go ahead and change into Crown's card? Yeah. Okay, got it. Got my card, sorry. You guys, you're on the roof. There was a guard named Kloin, who is the guard who saw the spider. There are two chimneys, and there is the slight roof thing that you saw.

So what I would do is also once we're in position on the roof, is I would tell Frumkin to back off away from that dog out of vision, and wait a few minutes, because he's within 100 feet of me. If so, we're good, and tell him to find Molly and sit with Molly, and he'll always listen to me, but I'm also sending him the command to listen to Molly, if need be. Easy enough to do? Yes. All righty. But you don't know that, but still. The barking slows. The dog is still barking in the direction of what was there, and it seems to be still, it really entranced the possibility of getting that fucking cat.

But Frumkin does find his way to you, Molly. You guys on the roof, what are you doing? Gotta get through this roof. What were you saying? Just probably have these shingles. Look at that. I'm gonna go down in the chimney. Yeah, could we cover, but if we do the shingles,

how do we cover them up when we leave? We're trying to leave no trace. It gives the shit that's going to be on the fucking roof, right? No, no one's going to look. I can step around how do the shingles they feel? You don't. Something kind of loosely and slip a little bit, and you can see, there's a very, very,

faint groove on the wood beneath it. Everyone can fit with a chimney. Not. Like a gap. Not. Do you have a dagger? I have a short sword. Can I borrow it? I have a dagger.

Can I borrow any bladed thing? I don't like to mend my items. I'm gonna kind of jagging up and see by in. You start lifting. Okay. Off from the distance. As you begin to pry a little bit, it begins to move up. There is some sort of a hatch.

Does it feel like a trap door? It feels like a trap door a little bit. Oh my gosh. pulling up, the shingles that are overlapped on it are overlapping the gap and start like sliding a little bit and you immediately feel like if you open this, you're going to send a bunch of shingles sliding off the roof. Catch them. Catch them. Let's go down the chimney. At least I can go down there and look to see if it's... There is a very faint trail of smoke coming out of the chimney, by the way.

There's a fire in there. What if we just pull up these shingles? Yeah, pull up the shingles. And like stack. So begin to collect them. Where are you putting them? In my head or second. Okay. So you take a moment to go ahead and carefully You have a collection now of roughly 23 roof shingles in your hat. Those are you valuable.

Add that to your equipment. Are they clay shingles? Very valuable. Look out, giant red dragon. Yeah. But we'll say it takes you about five minutes or so to finally get all those off carefully. You manage to pry it open and it opens up ever so slightly.

And there's a chain on each end that prevents it from like, cladic omen, it opens up just enough where you can like slip inside and there is a small ladder there that you can use to kind of slowly get down into what appears to be a small attic. If you guys go scout? Okay. Do you want to let them know that we're going in? Yes. I hold up my thing and I do my thing.

And Bo we'll go down first. We're going in to the house. You can respond to this message. They're dead. I drop him at the Borogad and I cast detect magic immediately. Okay, so you cast it magic. 30 feet.

They're going into the house. Right, 30 feet in the vicinity. Yeah. I do the cool thing where like I kind of slide down, like firemen down the ladder, just a little bit. Okay, it only goes down about five feet or so. It's a very small crawl space. I look real cool for five feet.

You do. It's a very small crawl space. It's maybe like 10 foot by five foot, and it's very dusty in here. It looks like there are a few clay pots that looks to be a portrait, like some sort of of a large art piece that is going to lean against the wall and has some cobwebs over it. Other than that, it looks fairly empty. It hasn't been used fully. You casting Tech Magic. Detect Magic, yeah. Check you're all fast. All right, yeah. So you look around the vicinity in this chamber and you do not see any sort of faint magical aura in the crawl space. No. Okay.

Are there any other doors in this crawl space that lead into the main? Make an investigation check. Natural 20. Hey! You do find there is another trap door on the opposite end of the crawl space. that is partially blocked by the art piece that's kind of leaning against it. You shift it out of the way and you unhinge the top, and it opens and drops down into a hallway that has like faint kind of crackling firelight in the inside of this hallway. You kind of glance down inside and you can see what appears to be a long hallway with tapestries on each wall of beautiful writing. There are two ornamental like armor sets that are set up on the side. You can see what looks to be an ornamental sword that's bolted to the wall on the opposite end, and it looks like there's stairs not

too far from where you are that head further down into the building, and there's a doorway that leads to the right on the opposite end of the hallway. Chester, can you go and cast your spell? What spell? The locate. The thing spell. I'm distracted by looking at this beautiful piece of art. Do you want to draw a mustache on it or something or a dick, a dick butt? I think I studied this artist back at home. You know, we want to be efficient here. Quick. Oh, okay.

It only lasts for 10 minutes, though, when I do it, so if we don't find it soon, then... Yes, save what I'm doing. So let's start moving, and are you looking for, you know, bad physical things? I'm going to? Traps? Yeah. Oh, God, yes. Oh, God, I forgot to look for any traps. Shh!

Sorry. I can take a big drink. I was going to take a big drink. Also, Olaq can look for traps, because he's also a rogue, right? He is, but he's kind of behind you guys at this point. Ulock, help us, please. All right, the two of us will go ahead and keep it all of traps.

We'll give you advantage. He's giving you the help, actually. Okay, so. So you go down and you're casting what spell? You're casting. I'm going to close locate object. Mm-hmm. And I'm going to search for,

I'm going to search for a wax seal. Okay. What's the light situation like in here? It's, it's, as you go down there, you can see, there are two, torches that are kind of just burning in the edge, but they don't have a fuel source. They're kind of an ever-burning torch,

and they're both kind of fixed to the wall, giving this kind of flickering light in the vicinity. And you've come down into the hallway? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you guys have made your way down into the hallway. You're still concentrating on your spell, right? The L's is, yes. There are magical aura emanating from both of these torches.

They're both ever light. You've seen this magic before. They just continue to burn, this continual flame. You also get a faint magical aura from each of the suits of armor. and a faint magical aura from the sword across the way on the opposite wall.

Okay. Like traps, or are they just really cool? I'm going to look for traps. All right, go ahead and make an investigation check with advantage. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. You finish.

Do I know the school of magic? 20. Woo! Ooh! Oh. Does you know 20? 20. 20.

20. You carefully go forward, and both you and Ulaug kind of pay attention. The floorboards of this hallway progress one after another, and it looks like there's a cluster of about four of them, about a foot and a half across each of them, that are slightly lifted on one side. And glancing forward, you can see there are probably some sort of a pressure device that triggers when those boards are stacked on. And there's no magical aura from those at all. Those are separate. Well, you're not saying. You're not sure. Okay. No, no, I didn't find anything. I found a trap.

The spell also says, actually, oh, fuck. The spell also says I know the school of magic for what's on these things. Are you able to tell me that? Correct. I would say, it's an interesting question. Necrowly. Let me check something real fast. Yeah.

Just keep it two bodies in the armor. Children's, we'll say, because it can go in a few different ways, I'm not entirely sure. You don't know how to answer, that's fine. No, no, no, no, I do here. It would be breaking the law, breaking the law, Breaking the law. Breaking the law.

We'll say conjuration. Okay, yeah. Transmutation, which you know well. I have a very... Edgubation. Yes. I'm an expert in edubation. That's Liam not.

I have a very bad feeling about the suits of armor that are... So we won't catch them. That was him. That was him. I was him. I'll jump over this little hump. Yeah, okay. I don't know exactly how these work,

but I have a strong suspicion that these things could start moving and trying to cut us up. Both these suits of armors and that weapon. The traps would set them off. Juster. Maybe. Oh, boy. As you finish concentrating on the spell and focusing on the wax seal,

you get a blip of its location in the next chamber beyond where you are and the door to the right. Oh, traps. Just jump over the little hump. Hopefully things will go very well, but there's a chance that this thing that you're indicating is not connecting to those, so be ready to fight.

So duck down. It's like the never-ending story. Oh, oh, oh. Don't be afraid, you guys, just go. Wait, wait. What if, what if this? We are up, we are up Schitt's Creek, so we need Schmitt's Creek. What if you have Schmidt do something?

Can Schmidt go do something? As this is happening, Ulaug is like, sign loudly, pulls out some tools, and begins to fiddle with where the boards are on the ground. Oh, don't puck it up. He manages to get a short sort of his, kind of pressed underneath where the boards are, and slips it across, kind of slightly lifting each one

as he goes until the sword kind of peeks out the opposite side, acting as essentially a platform beneath. And he goes, I told him to do that. I sort of watch and learn, little one. It's like a training. And he goes and carefully steps on the boards, and then steps across with no one. He's going to me.

Rogue's planning, technically. Go. He's excited. Let's go. Let's go. Go, go, go. Someone stay watch. We're going to go this way.

We're making progress. You can respond to this message. I'm over here. We're making progress. All right. So as you guys head to the, there's the closed door that leads into the chamber where you're sensing this aura. Okay. Still looking for traps, still looking for stuff. Look for traps on this door. Me? Oh, okay. I'm gonna look for traps.

Eight plus five, 13. 13. Okay. That is trapped. It's a door that's trapped? Yes, it's not locked, but it is trapped. Do I hear any movement in the house? Make perception check. How do we disarm a trap? Not bad, not bad, not bad. Who locked? 15. 15. You listen out, you do not hear any movement in the house other than what you currently are making. Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight. Oh.

A hiccup from out in the distance. A random ass, I go. No. Reception check from both of you guys, by the way. Oh, I wish it. 11. 11. Okay.

You don't seem to notice anything. Fuck. All right, so you guys. I'm going to try to disarm it. All right. Do I see the triggering mechanism? We'll find out. Go ahead and make a thieves tools check.

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You manage to get your tool underneath, and you find where the spring is. It's barely in the space between where the door and the edge of the door frame is, and you get the tool underneath, capture it. As you pull the door open, it prevents the spring from pulling back into the device. You slowly, as you expose it, reach in, snap the opposing side and remove the spring entirely, leaving the travener. Oh! Oh! As the door opens, it looks to be a fairly well-decorated master bedroom. You see a large, a large canopy bed, a beautiful, like, detailed, embroidered rug that kind of consumes

the center of the floor. You can see a fireplace to your right. The one that you saw was attached to the fireplace on the top of the roof that has a fire burning into it, has these two giant statues of lions on each side. This quite detailed shelf there. You can see a table with chairs to your left. You can see what looks to be a slight opening to a balcony that's not visible from the outside. Oh, an invisible balcony. I walk up behind Knot to scan the room with the spell. Okay.

You're just scanning the room? I'm just walking up behind not, no further, and looking in to see what glows. All right, as you glance in and look, there is immediately to your left what looks to be a large metal cabinet of some kind. It is made of dark iron, and it gives a very faint magical aura to it.

The rug in the center of the room gives a faint magical aura as well. The rug? Just focus, just focus, just focus. Look for traps. Look for traps in the room. Okay, okay, okay. But did you see the lock? Okay, okay. Can I see where? 19. The rug is a trap from math to rest.

You're looking for... Traps. Okay, investigation check. Okay, you glance around. All right, you glance around, let's see here. You glance around and look in the chamber, you don't see anything that gives the essence of a trap to you. It looks like the trap was part of the entry to here,

but there's nothing in the vicinity that resembles a triggering trap. What kind of magic is emanating from the carpet? What school of magic? The carpet is also transmutation, and the magic on the large case has a, A faint abjuration. Abjuration.

Where's the glow for the seal coming from? It's underneath the rug. I alert everyone. The carpet is magical. We should not step on it. Well, I need to move it because the seal is under the rug. The seal's under the rug? Do you have anything that can negate the magic?

Or? Do you have it to spell magic? I do not. Can Schmitt stand on the carpet? Oh, I could move it with the... I could move it with my mage hand or something, or peel it back with my mage hand. Schmidt can also.

Mage hand, very helpful when setting grappling hooks and roofs. Oh shit! Shut up, Oolag! I'm just saying if I knew you could do that, you could have, that's right. I know what I'm doing. You also move the fucking carpet. You want me to move the carpet?

You want the rug? Can I do a look for anything that looks out of place, any papers, anything? Trapped Ors? Investigation check. And I have a question. The carpet reeks of abjuration? Or I would know that the carpet is magical.

Transmutation. Yes. The safest. The carpet is magical. It wouldn't say, I wouldn't be mistaken in it. You can only see the magical sources from what you can see. Right.

So things behind a wall or behind an object, you don't see an aura. Right, right. But I wouldn't, the carpet seems magical to me. I wouldn't think that something under the carpet is magical. Yep, I saw it. I saw it. Natural 20.

Natural 20. As they're having this conversation, you glance by the fireplace where the fire is crackling in there, and you kind of glance down and right underneath the hearth, up where the fire is tickling, you see a piece of the stonework that doesn't match the others. It's slightly off-colored. It looks like the burning of the fire that's been kind of getting dark and blackened look to it. There's one brick there that doesn't seem to be affected by any of the sit at all. I kind of avoiding the rug, kind of lightly step over it and kind of see if I can jiggy the brick out. As your finger presses against the brick, it kind of slides in about

a half an inch, and you hear this sound over by where the metal large cabinet is. You just unlocked the fucking metal jay! Oh shit! Oh shit! Do I see any change in the abjuration magic when she does that? Yes. Does it go away? It vanishes. Banishes. Yes message. We are the fucking best. I can't get the seal.

I'm just paying the cabinet. What you just did, dispelled whatever ward was on the cabinet. However, the carpet, I can't tell exactly what's going on, but there are something. Use the match hand to move the carpet. Give me the papers. All right, I'll cast mage hand and slowly peel back a corner of the carpet. I hand the two letters that we made for Lord Sutton. Okay, the carpet peels back and it reveals beneath it a slight piece of section of the wood.

that has a hinge bolted to one side of it. It's a square that's cut out of it. It looks like it's an open case. The carpet peels back, and then begins to kind of fold back in its space, and then fold up again, and it begins to slight a shift and rise. And the carpet almost seems to be just kind of gliding in the air on its own in the vicinity.

What? Like flying? And it spins towards you, and then rushes in your direction. I don't even roll initiative. What? Carpet! It's an animated object. It's an animated object.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yeah, my kids have fought a broom. Yeah, this happens. Whoa, look at that carpet. It's now gone because instead you were fighting that carpet. Yes, Maga-Cola.

All righty. So, not would have been over here. Is it a roll initiative? That's what we're doing? Yes, roll initiative please. Bo, you were over by the fireplace. You just seen that happen there. And I think that's, that's, oh, and that's,

Oh, and then there is... I would be by bow because I clapped her on the shoulder. Right, right. Yeah, Holly. I forgot my dwarf man. Oh no. Oh no. It's in here somewhere.

Oh no. It's in here somewhere. You got to bring it out. I'm unprepared. Oh, no. She's a D4. You have in the head. You are not prepared.

Oh. Oh. All right, that's fine. I'll use this. I love dogs and you are not prepared. I'll say that simple. That's fine. All right, so, given that case, guys. The fires are flickering.

So first is a surprise round as it whips its way over towards not. It gets a surprise round. It does, because it just suddenly rushes in your direction. Sure it does. All right, so that is going to be a 21 to hit. That hits. Matches 16. So it goes and wraps around.

wraps around you and completely envelopes you within itself. All of a sudden, you just see darkness, and you cannot breathe. Oh, this is gonna suck. All righty, so currently you are just enveloped by the rug of smothering. Now, initiative here, oh shit. All right, so top of the round, 25 to 20, anybody.

Oh, we're rolling out. Initiative, yes. Oh, 24. 24, that would be you first, not. All right, 20 to 15. 17. 17. 15.

All right. Oh. 15 to 10? Yes. 15. Yeah. Did you get Caleb? Well, you know I wrote a 9.

Oh my, oh. Yeah, I'm not in this motherfucker. You guys are the best. That's the last we heard. You're the best. Oh, we're the best. It's true. All right, so, knot.

It's your turn first. You are restrained. You are blinded. blinded and you are suffocating. At the start of your turn, you immediately take 12 points of bludgeoning damage, as it's now crushing and constricting your entire body. You feel your life being pulled out of you as you're just like gasping for breath in the space. What are you going to do with your turn? A VS spell is verbal. Can I talk?

Yes, you can still talk. You're just boom, boom, voo, boom. Okay, I... I... You saw the breath you have in your... in your body when it went around you. So you can cast one spell. So you have enough air for one spell. And then that's all. Shise. I will use, I will touch it with shocking grasp

and cast shocking grasp on it. Alrighty, is that a spell attack roll? It is a, it's touch to hit plus five, so I have to roll. Yeah, you would have disadvantage because you're restrained, but it's also smothering you, so I would give you advantage to that, so it's just a straight roll. 13 plus 5, 18. That hits, good and well damage.

Okay. One point of damage. One point of damage. However, it can't take reactions until its next turn. Good to know. Good to know. Does it let me go? Nope.

All right, that is... I can't move away from it. No, you are restrained. You can try and break free it, but takes an action to try. Oh shit. Well, poo. But hey, there you go. All right, Jester, you're up.

Okay, I'm going to cast guiding bolts on it. Okay, you see it now, like, wrapping it out and knots like, yeah, what is this flailing about as this carpet is crushing her little body? Go ahead and is it. Roll a ranged attack. Yes, go for it. Oh, 19 natural 19. Oh yeah, that hits.

Go to all damage on that. Okay, so that's 4D6, Radiant. Yeah, yeah, give it. Damn, 12. Damn. 15 damage, and the next attack has advantage against it. Okay, it takes eight points of radiant damage and not take seven points of radiant damage.

Oh my gosh. As you blasts it, you hear not, underneath. You get the sense, all damage delta this rug is divided with whoever it's enveloped. Oh no, I'm sorry not. I can't hear you. He doesn't know who's doing it.

Oh no. So Jester, can stay where you are? You want to try to move. That's really bad. Oh, I'm sorry. You would have been probably over here. Oh no, how do we get it off? We damage it.

No, but we can't damage you. Do you want to move or stay where? I'm going to- I'm going to stand on the bed. All right, so you move around and you stand on the bed. And jump. All right, that ends your turn, Jester. Bo, you're up.

All right, I'm going to run up with my staff and do a crack, crack. No, but... Let me do my fucking thing, man. Let me do my fucking thing. I have no fucking glim. Save six seconds. You just heard no, but you just heard not scream. Who the fuck knows?

Sir, not crack. I'm hurting. You can reply to this message. 16 for the first one? That hits. Okay, that is, sorry, that is six damage. All right, so that's three to you not? Uh-huh.

I'm unconscious. Are you? Uh-huh. Oh, shit. For the second one. Death savings out, here we go. That's a motherfucking hit. That's a natural 16.

And that's seven damage. That's seven damage. That's four damage to do that thing. And I'm going to spin a key point. Doesn't he fail two? No, just fell so far. It wasn't attacking not specifically attacking the rug. I'm going to spin a key point and do something that we have yet to do, which is

extract aspects. What is that? It can't have a hit by five. So you hit twice. And then I'm going to see if I can catch any reverberations off of the rug. All right, and so what saving throw? Constitution.

That is an 11. Fail. All right, so what do you want to know about it? I want to know it's damage vulnerabilities. What's it vulnerable to? It is actually not vulnerable to anything. What? Do I get something else?

No. But you learned it's not vulnerable to anything. Anything. You learn it's badass. God, D'Awer. We just have to try to pull the rug off, and we have to out-strength the rug. Next, moving on. Hey guys, knots's in the rug.

Woo! No! No, no. All right, so now it's Ulog's turn. Ulog who sees the rug there is going to go ahead and rush over and attempt to, uh... Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, it's a little, uh, Belize I have time to this.

I know, the best I could find in the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It works. It's fine. Rolls a two, because NPCs that I try and fight with can't roll shit. That misses. That misses. To your benefit, Bluog tries to stab and is just missing or hitting the edge of the tassels.

Like, it's not even making an impact on the rug. It's going to use a bonus action to disengage and head back towards where the balcony is. All right, so that goes ahead and ends that. That brings us to the rug's turn. The rug is going to go ahead and release knot. Oh, why? Oh, yeah, one conscious. And is going to attempt to completely envelop Bo.

Hey guys, knots dead. Oh, shit. It's cocked. That is another 16, 21. Hits. All righty. So you, Bo, are now enveloped by the rug. Hey, guys, I think this is a .

How do we defeat this rod? It's wrapped up into it. All righty. That's going to go ahead and end the rugs turn. How'd you guys die? A rug. The rugs are the new doors. Actually the rugs are the new doors. The rugs are the new doors. That's speed's nothing, never mind. What, it moves into the fireplace? Yeah, no, it's not going to do. Yeah, it's not enough movement to move much. All right, so that brings this to the bottom.

Caleb, you're up. Yeah, so I pull the potion of healing I have out of my belt and I run over to knot and jam to her mouth and pour it in and the whole time I'm going through my list of spells thinking of what could help. There's nothing but I'm going to dancing lights, fireball friends, alarms, burning hands, chromatic, off-compromine, languages, detect magic, and heal, not. Oh yeah, before I got wrapped up. I said, oh, it's not immune to . It's not immune to F. That's all weaknesses!

All righty. So how much is not heal? Fourteen points. Whoa, from one healing potion? Killer. Greater. Oh. There you go. All right, top of the round, not your turn.

As you come to consciousness, you are still prone. Return that damage. Kayle moved around to join your side there to go ahead and apply the potion. We can't hurt both. That's fine. I will go and try to wrestle your knot. You know what? You know what?

Go and make an athletics check. Two. No. You rush up and you grab it and it actually lifts you off your feet and you're now like being flailed in the air as you're grappling the edge of the rug. The rug goes going, ah! All right, that ends your turn. Jester, you're up. I'm going to try to go help knot and I'm going to do the same thing. I'm trying to pry the rug off of bow.

Okay. You move up. Go ahead and make an athletics check. No, no, no, obviously, no. No. No. That's a number. That's a number. It's a 12. 12, you grab and you're not pulled off your feet, but the rug is just too strong and it's not quite releasing its hold on Beau. Bo, it's your turn to the top of your turn. You suffer 10 points of bludgeoning damage. Wow. This is really. It's just crushing your body on the inside and you cannot breathe. It is your turn though, still. You can still go. He's killing our nostalgia for the carpet.

I wonder if there's something in the room that will like... Turn it off? Turn it off. He would have to have told me if there was magic anywhere else in the room. No, because the... The thing in the fireplace was not. Physical, that's true. That's true. Oh, fuck. Are you and Bo?

Can I do any type of attack? Yeah, you just have disadvantage in the attack. I just have disadvantage. Come on, you are a bad ass. Roll that fucking shit. Roll that fucking shit. Roll that fucking shit. Roll off and twice.

You're a total of us. I am the best of all of us. I am the best. That's, fuck you, Gil. Fuck you, Gil. Terrible. Just awful. God damn.

Wait, did you roll a 20 and an eight? A six and a five. No, I rolled my damage die. So it's 11. Oh. Yeah. For the first one. Misses.

Uh-huh. Second one. Come on, Bo. No. Nope. Two. It's just too tight. You can't quite get any movement to hit it.

It's a bad space for you. Oh, wait. You said, well, it's disadvantaged. We're the best. Yep. All right. That ends your turn. It is now Uloggs go.

Ulog is going to rush up and attempt to stab at it. As he sees you wrapping around there, That is a 12, that hits. The 12 hits. Yeah, I know. Guys. But it hurts. I know.

It does do sneak attack damage because you guys are in the vicinity. Oh, sneaky attack. Wait, what? He's doing sneak attack damage to the carpet, which translates to you. That's fine. He doesn't know. He's trying to help. That's going to be... I said don't attack them.

Twelve points of piercing damage, so six to the rug and six to you. Oh, okay. It's got to be good for us. The rug's starting to look torn up in places, and you can see bits of bow kind of showing through where the gashes are stabbing through. It's looking fairly hurt. Parts of bow are showing. Bits of bow we're showing.

Who were at best? So the rug's turn. The rug is going to attempt to shift itself and bow a little bit away this direction. It can only get five feet as having you pulling you along with it. Its speed is 10. So not you get an attack opportunity if you want to take one. If you want to take one. Weak, it's looking weak. Sure, I'll swing a short sword at it. Okay, so you whip out your short sword quickly.

21 to hits. That hits, go and roll damage with sneak attack. Guys, I think it got this rug and my track. If you want a sneak attack, you don't have to- Yeah, sure. If I'm gonna hit it, I'm gonna hit it. Whoa. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fourteen, fifteen.

Yep, yeah. Fifteen, all right, that's eight to the rug and seven to bow. Oh, she's out. No, she's not out. Oh, she's hanging on. The rug is barely holding on by a thread. You see it still keeps her constrained. Part of its body is like you see parts of it are fraying and falling apart.

The threads are dangling, but it's still keeping its mass strongly and tightly around her, where it's still crushing her and mainly wrapped around her face so she can't see and she can't breathe. All right, so that ends the rugs' turn. Caleb, you're up. Caleb. Yeah. You're up. What am I doing? I rush forward and I'm going to try to pry the rug off of her. Make an athletics check. Yeah. Come on, roll big. Nope.

Athletics? Nine. Nine. There it is. You're trying to pull and you get some threads and snap off and you're like, shit, it's just not working. You're not getting the right grasp on it. Next. All right, it's Caleb's turn. Not you're up. Me? What about Jess? No, no. It's you and the jester. You just took a reaction. Oh, that was a reaction? Yeah. Well, I guess I see how bad the rug is doing, and I will swing that short sword again. Why not? Vengeance.

It's, what, plus six? So 15. Yeah, that hits. Go to roll damage. If you want to do it, it was sneak attack up to you. You said it was hanging by a thread, right? It looks like it's doing pretty rough. It's up to you. Maybe just not sneak attack damage. Six. 10 points. So it's five damage to bow in the rug. Guys, this rug's expensive!

So you tear through the rug, you cut through and the rug just bisects, but you also see the where you cut through also cut across the front of bow as her eyes roll back and she plops onto the ground, the rug kind of falling in pieces to the ground around her coming to rest. Don't let me bleed on it! Okay, go ahead and cast your wound, steal. Eight points. I didn't bleed on it.

The rug is shredded. The rug is shredded. The rug is shredded. I'm gonna cast a message. Uh, remember the hospital? That! You can reply to the message. He's going as well as a hospital.

Oh no, oh no, oh no. That seems fair. He's going to know we were in his room because the rug is messed up. We'll fix it later. That's okay because if the plan goes according to what... To plan. To plan. Yeah, allow myself to introduce myself. If everything goes well,

we get Arendha to fall on both of these people at once, so let's finish what we're doing. Yeah? Okay. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't matter. No one's going to care about a rug or him screaming out rug. Okay, well, let's gather up all the pieces of the rug so it's not, you know, maybe... So you gather all the pieces of the rug to join your... Yes, yes. Okay, check the fucking thing if it's trapped. Check that armoire or whatever it is. No, no, check the thing on the ground and see if it's trapped first.

Check them both. All right, I'll check the thing on the ground while Olaug checks the thing on the mantelpiece or wherever... It's safe. It's safe. away from the floor. So. What do I check in? 14 on the thing on the floor.

14 on the thing. Okay. It does not appear to be trapped. It does appear to be locked. So no more magic. Well again. Correct. 15 plus thieves tools.

Yeah, easy enough. You managed to open it up and there is a small chest about that big that rests in a small cubby beneath. Quick. What is it happening? What is it? All right. So as you open the chest, make a constitution saving through. Oh, shit.

Ten. Oh, no. Okay. So, so first, there's a sudden burst of a brief light through and all your muscles kind of tense up and you are paralyzed. Motherfucker. Okay, okay. It's okay. It's okay. What about Ool? Yeah, what about Ola? Because it's simultaneous. Ulaug goes, no traps, pulls it open. No issue.

What is in there with Ulog? So inside with Ulaug, you see a beautiful set of burgundy and gold robes that are like kind of uphanging. Yeah. You see a set of polished bracers made of cobalt steel that are both kind of dangling on a hook. And you see three ancient statuettes, like relics or collectors items that are kind of arranged on the bottom of it that all look, you know, like old museum pieces. Do they have any symbols on them, on the statues? Well, all magical, I assume. I assume they're glowing. Are you still concentrating?

Well, yeah, I haven't cast anything. That's true, yeah, you haven't taken damage. None of them are glowing except for the cobalt bracers. That makes the braces? Do I recognize any symbols or see any symbols on the statues? Make a history check. Ten, you do not, unfortunately. We're not just collapsed on the floor.

No, not paralyzed holding on to the chest. We're holding into the chest. The chest which is now open, just in Knott's hand. I am petting Knott's head and going, don't worry. In the morning, I can take a spell that will heal you. So we'll just carry you out if you're okay. Everything will be fine. I pull the chest free of Knott's hands. Is this chest glowing? No. No, it's got the seal in it. Does it have the seal in it? Oh, on the inside there's a faint glow. Sorry, on the inside of it. If you look inside, you see there are, there's a cluster of platinum pieces.

They're just kind of stacked on the side that's kind of shifted around from it. from the movement. You see a single polished, like it looks like a riverstone, about that big. Yeah. That is giving a glowing aura. And you see a few sticks of wax and a single pressed wax seal.

Great. Okay, I sit down. Oh, do we see his handwriting anywhere? Any letters? You do not see in this vicinity any letters or handwriting now. It's okay. He always gets his squires to do his dirty work. Okay, okay, okay.

I'll sit down and I'll write a letter really fast that says, the plan. He's working with the Myriad. Yes, all this of earlier. We have that already. We did it in advance. I start rooting through Knott's pockets to find the letter from his Thieves Can't, yeah.

No, we already, that's different. Those are letters we were leaving here. Yeah, Thieves Count were leaving here. Yeah. So we should leave them here. But we wrote up the letters for the High Richter Tuesday so we can stamp. He didn't actually write that letter yet,

because I was waiting for his hand. Yeah, we did, we did, because we put the nitroquital in it, the KR symbol. Sure, why not? From Richard to Sutton, we did, so we're leaving those. And we're leaving a note. We're leaving a note from here, from not fake myriad note, we're leaving here.

So I pulled that out of not's pockets. 18? You do glance, okay, good to know. You glance off to the side and there is a desk in the corner that has, looks like two sets of drawers that are currently closed. And while Jester and Caleb Arguing, Caleb grabs the little magical stone that's in that box. All right.

Put it in his pocket. I stuffed the letters that we were planting on the High Ector, sorry, on the Sutton, into the safe. Okay. Close the safe. Okay. Run over to the desk, open the desk,

look through it. Do you see anything? There are mostly, mostly it's just blank parchment. You do see a few notes that are partially written letters that were cumbled up and thrown in there. That are Lord Sutton's. Let me see them, see, let me see, go, go, go, go, go, go. Okay, look at the, and then I sit down and write the letter and go, okay, what's her name?

The Hyderick, what's her first name? Prisene. Prasine. Diana, okay, I know, right. Diana, got your message. A plan is moving forward exactly as we discussed. The myriad has our back. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sure, and then sign it over. How many to run. Sure, sure. Oh, and something about the back. the big O going down. The big O will go down tonight. There's a plan happening. Sooner than later. Go ahead and roll for your forgery kit. So roll a D20, add your proficiency modifier, and your intelligence modifier. This is hard being outside. I'm sorry guys. It's okay. Someone had to do it.

Roll T plus my intelligence. Oh my intelligence. Why not wisdom? Nine. Is there any way I can help her, like being also proficient in forging in this background? Sure, I'll save since you were helping her, so I'll give you advantage on the rolls. Roll one more time. That's so much better. Yeah. 22! Okay. So you finish, you start making one, and it's not quite working out and bulwicks of your shoulder points it out. You take it- He's got little hooks on the G's, hooks on the G's. You throw in the fireplace and incinerate that one and then make another one. This one is pretty solid and it matches the writing perfectly. This is really good.

Okay, okay, so we roll it up, we roll it up, heat up the wax, seal it. Done. Put the letter in the bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a relator. And then I go and pick up knot. Okay. Let's get out of here.

Let's get the fuck out here. And we've left the Thieves Canton out from the myriad and we've left, yeah. It's all in the notes. Does he have any books around? In the current room, there is a shelf in the hallway that you can see that has a few books. But nothing is there anything glowing there, though? No, there's nothing to look. Okay.

I'm going to take out one. of the pamphlets for the traveler and stick it into one of the books. Okay. Okay, and then I pick up knot. And then I'll go. All right, so you guys make your way back up to the entry's way, up into the crawl space above, the attic. Pull it, close and latch it. Move the art piece back over.

You make your way back to the edge of the roof where you guys at exited, climbing up the ladder as attached to it. Making your way onto the roof, getting knot up there, manhandled. Ulogg following you as you get to the top, you close it. Put some, put the shingles back. Put the shingles back. For that, I'm going to have you both roll dexterity checks, please. Or since you're helping, have you rolled dexterity check with advantage because you're helping her. Okay. Just straight dexterity, 15.

15. You manage them in a way where they aren't going to slide off. And even with a bit rain that's in there, you find the pockets where they originally mostly sitting, so they're not going to coast with any sort of weather shift. Okay, okay, okay. Pick up not. All right. All right. You guys are noticing at this point as they're on the roof, you are just because you're paying attention, you can see them begin to emerge on the roof, as you begin to see

a cluster of Crown's Guard just doing a pass with the street. I'm going to... So I know that we can see that they're coming through. Yeah. We may need to distract. I'm going to go fuck with the dog. I push the cat away with that and... Do you want to go out?

Do what? Do you want to distract Crown's Guard? Yes, we're going to... There's four of them that are approaching and they're just kind of going by and keeping an eye on things. I'll walk up to the four of them. Okay. I heard there's a disturbance over here.

I need some assistance, please. What kind of disturbance? There's a rowdy bunch over here, been drinking too much already, anticipating the festival. Would you come with me? Make a deception check. Oh, God, 13. Can I assist?

Technically no, because you weren't part of it. Yeah, I know. I was like, had to catch before the roll, unfortunately. That's okay. We rolled the one. Well one. Snitch isn't working for me tonight. Oh, God. So two of them don't seem to quite buy into it,

but the two of them go like, All right, we'll follow. Lead on. And you jog along, two of them continue, while the other two continue their route. How's your evening going, gentlemen? Be moving along. Want a free tower reading. I'm on a five minute break for the entertainment.

We're all right, but thank you. We'll keep walking. I sent the cat. so the cat should be. All right, so Pumpkin makes way around. Hmm, h, h, h, h, h, hugh, ho! Again, the dog just unleashes a torrent of barks. Like, no, not again!

They're being pulled across the yard, you're being dragged through the wet grass. You guys all begin to make your way across. Who's carrying knot across the rope? I will. But I'm gonna, like, try to, like, hook knot over me, so, like, she's attached. You know, as you try and make your way across the rope.

And I'm gonna try and hold the rope. as hard as I can. Athletics check for everybody, right? Oh, come on. Come on, girl. Oh, few. Five. Oh, good a second. I just bought her eyebrows up. So do you want to save yourself or not? Because one of you is falling. I save not. Okay. And I'll fall. So as you grasp, you loop knot around the rope, as you lose your grip, feeling it coming, and you just tumble down. Following three stories. Is that many stories? Three stories?

Yeah, we'll move three stories out. So you take 12 points of bludgeoning damage. As you crack, hit the ground. Oh, Domitur, G. As you impact the two guards that were talking to you in Conchidgen, immediately went around and see Jester on the ground and kind of put their hands

to their weapons and begin rushing towards her. Am I on the outside of the... You're on the outside of the fence. Oh, that's great. You've just barely. You missed the wall. And I have knot on the rope? Not as kind of just up on the rope, kind of hanging and just dangling.

Can I kind of pull knot up and like roll over and hide kind of on the rope or on the roof? Sure. You tug it over on the roof. There you are dear. Am I 12 damage? 12 damage. 12. Okay. I'm running with them to see what happened. There you are dear, good God. There was those hooligans that were roughing us up earlier. Are you all right? They hurt me so bad. I knew you're gonna be okay anyway. Could you mind helping? Make a deception. I know.

Fucking. Come on. Montel. Come on. Nope. Four. But I was helping because I'm bloody. I did that before the rule.

Okay. They both kind of go, all right, miss. And they pick you up, and the other guy takes your arm and it's like, thank you, I'm only a little drunk. Right. And they drag you and start bringing you towards the gates out of the dry spire. That's fair. So she was on the other side of the gate.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's fair. So you two make your way. But I'm staying at the pillow trove. I'm staying at the pillow drove tonight. Missy got to sober up and you can find your way back to more and more. So they escort you out of the tri-spire. You guys are pushed beyond the gates, and there's now like eight guards at each gate that are preventing any passage in that. You're shoved back out. You're a gopicer and a nettlement. However, that distraction gives you guys enough time to get the rest of you over and down to the tree.

Yeah, I kind of like do like a call. climbers loop harness and kind of tie not around me, around my middle section, and then get over. Okay. So you guys all get across. Are you leaving the rope there, or are you attaching it? No, and I'm trying to detach it if I can, no trace. Okay. This low facial expression is going to be great. Make a nexarity check. Mm-hmm. This is...

Fucking gay! Aw, Gil. Six. I love you, Gil. How far away is where the grapple is hooked from us right now? It's about 10 feet from you. Oh, I cast Unseen Servant. And Schmidt lifts up their... lifts up the grapple and tosses it free.

Okay, the rope does break, and the grapple kind of bends. The grapple's not usable anymore. You do remove the evidence, but the grapple is not usable. Your lips are getting purple again. Yeah, you're deaf. All righty, so if you guys kind of pull yourself away from the vicinity, about 45 minutes later, as you guys are kind of collecting yourselves,

eventually the paralysis wears off. Oh. How long? It lasted for an hour total. Oh my god. Wow. You have time to think about that. The chest is trapped.

What are you guys doing? We are booking it to try to get to the sewer entrance so we can get back in. And we'll, I guess, we'll try and meet up with these guys. We need to get to our next target immediately. But I've got the fucking letters. Correct. So let's, they'll know to meet us there. Everybody's going to the same place. Correct. Let's get there and then we'll get there.

there and then we'll wait for Jester and Jester. Ulaug pulls out a pocket watch and he kind of looks at it and he's like, she better fucking hurry up. Let's go. And you guys make your way over towards where the High Rikter's home is. How is she gonna get back in? The two of you guys. We can disguise you.

The two of you guys head back. Oh yeah, this guy's charm. Well even, no, the charm won't work. You guys are heading back to where the sewer is, you said? I was thinking about pushing just straight through the front door again. I've got a coat and a mask. Is there another entrance we can go to? There's another entrance.

Yeah, it's on the northern side. It'll probably be faster to do that than to go. Could be. Okay, we'll book it to the other end. Okay, so you rush around through the street, you make your way back to the northern gate to the district, and there's another nine or ten guards station with one on the top of the wall with their crossbows ready.

Look, Christine, it's over. As you approach one of this, aye, aye, so in no entry. They got us tonight. I know, we're going to... the gala, obviously. Masks. Make deception check. Am I?

All the checks tonight have been so good. I know, the rolls have been phenomenal. Okay, 18. 18? Yes. Give you both a look over. All right, in. We're right.

It's rest. To pass the gate. Two things to school. How long are we waiting there? We will wait in long enough to where we can take a short rest? Yeah, because the very happens way, yeah, you can take a short rest. Fuck yeah. All right, so you get that back. I guess I'll cast cure wounds on myself as we're running.

Sure rest, can we use hit dice? Okay. As we're trying to get there. Yes. But. So you guys get to use hit dice, they do not. Okay, so eight points healed. That's nice. Wait, wait, wait. Psyt. Mershah, how do you tell any hit dice you have? It is generally your level plus whatever your class is, so I'm one day.

D8 plus three. It's in your short rest button. It is. Yeah, go down to short rest. Sorry, I currently have three D8. Short rest is down at the bottom. There you go. Okay.

So we're trying to avoid the guards so that we don't get spotted again and get kicked out again. So you guys carefully find a space to weigh and out of sight. Probably like by one of the small fountains in the side and just sit there and rest for a bit having drinks. Eventually you guys manage to catch up with the rest of the group as they're finishing the short rest. So you've reconvened, you have your materials. That went really well, I think. Did we put everything back in order before we left the room? We did, right?

Yes, we did. Yeah, I mean, good enough. The only thing that's going to be obviously missing is the fucking rug. The magical rug. I wasn't anticipating a rug. We beat the rug. Good job, guys. Get it, we beat the, we beat it.

Yeah. Is this the thing that really happened? Yeah, there was a rug that's a rug that's... Yeah. turn to wife and attacked us. Ulog's staring at his pocket watch again looking off at the gala in the distance, goes like, all right, if I're gonna fucking do something,

let's do it. Let's go, let's go, we go to the High Richter's house. Ula, how much longer do you think is left of this gala? He looks off and he's like, fuck it, let's go now. Okay. I can't wait any longer. Molly, if the High Richter tries to come back, you have to drunkenly distract her, okay?

You cannot let her come in this house. How do we know, how are we getting into this house? Well, we scouted it before. Yeah, we found out that there's a door. And more guards. But that doesn't give us a way in. Same plan. Just do it.

There's no trees. Shut up, there is. Are there trees? Are there trees? No. As you've got the outskirts of the home, and you've been here once before, there is the, this wall is not an iron gate.

It's an actual solid tall, like, stone and mason wall. That's pretty tight. There's maybe like a three foot gap between the side of the house, like three or four foot gap from the side of the house to this. The building is two-story. There was the upper balcony that kind of overlooks the whole exterior of the area before it.

There are the two guards at the front. We need to take them out and go through the front door. Somebody want to look like the High Richter and walk in without saying anything? You? You want to be a guard, then I can look like the High Richter. Let's do it. Okay. We met the High Richter before you know.

Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. to look like a cross-growing. I'll cast this guy's self and look like the hyrictor. Okay. Oh God.

In what outfit? She had ceremonial armor. Yes, but she was going to a galate tonight. That was golden white ceremonial armor. Yeah, but I'm sure. Before you do this, why don't we go to the festival and just see what she looks like? We don't have time. There's no time.

There's no time. What if she came home with some crazy outfit? I'm going to put her in like a cloak that looks like it had wine spilled on it. Like covering up the rest of the outfit, a big, like, A white cloak? A white cloak that looks like it has red wine spilled down the front. Good, good, good, go. And Ford, you explain to the guards that I'm very, very pissed off because someone spilled

their drink on me. Yep. All right. Where the best you guys doing? I'm gonna go around to see if there's any other entrances or if there's any other guards around the perimeter. And I join not, we'll kind of flink. Same, same, same, so make perception check with advantage because they're helping you on this one.

K-7. You don't see any secret entrances, you don't see any other gates. Looks at the front door is the main way to get in or over the wall. There is no one seemingly watching the back as it is a solid gate. It looks like the only entrances from the front, and that's probably intentional. How high is the wall? From a defensive statement. The hall is about, let me go check well fast.

This would be... He's got on a little bit of a bay foot. Seven foot. Seven foot. No. That's not right. What do I see? Okay, you glance down.

It looks to be a small area of kind of like wild, wild. Wildflower and natural bushes that had kind of like grown to fill the space in between where it's kind of like knee or thigh high. It looks like there is a door in the back near the wall that is with like a small yard maybe about a 10-foot yard towards the very very back area. We look like there's a small porch area with a nice chair and like a little reading nook. There's like a book left outside that looks like it's got rained on and forgotten. It's kind of dried and crinkled. There is a door that leads in from the back of that porch area. Is there any people back here?

There are no, there are no people in the back. In the back? You want me to give you a boost? So yeah, yeah, so I relate that all to them. There's nobody back there, right? Yeah, seven feet tall, easy. God, come on, ready? Me and Caleb.

Yeah. One, two, three. All right, make an athletics check, or so acrobatics for you. Why are you going in? Back up. Just in case. Back up. 17.

Yeah, you've been on the inside. Without even touching the wall, you just double flip in the air and land, ever so sound. You just almost land on the book table, causing it to knock over, but you just miss it. You're there quietly now, and there's just the door across the way. What are you guys doing? We're going to? We're disguised and we're walking straight up.

All right, so you approach the two guards, and they both kind of suddenly... I look incredibly angry. I'm about ten feet in front of when I walk over, like, hurry of lads open up, she's in one of her moods, had wine spilled all over her. Hurry up! Make a deception check. This is it. Oh, that's good. That's good.

They both go. They both go. Right in, right in. Quickly, I like this detail. Open up. Pulls up the key and unlocks the gate, and they open from each side as you rush through, make a deception check for you as well.

Just walking? Why, but I'm walking? Walking. Just a past, with advantage because your address. Thank God. Much better. Okay, I think that's 18, 18. They both go,

they both pull back, frightened. You go to the front door, it's locked. You fools open the door. Can you have keys on her? Can't you see she's an estate? One of the merges for, and unlocks it, the kind of glancing out at the side of his eye towards you, looking like shaking. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Hyatt. I assure you this night is almost over. Would you hurry? My God! It opens the door and, like, it throws them. I follow him behind. They closed the door quietly behind you. Everybody inside the house?

No. It is dark. Oh, God. There's no light source in the inside right now. I've got dark vision. Done. Can I see anybody? Anything?

It's low light from the vicinity. You see the interior chamber that is... No, you know. It is... Goddy is fuck in here. Oh, yeah. You see, like, all the walls have really intricate, you know, sighting, and there's inset kind of designs that are carved into it

with statues and busts of various elven figures. The main chamber that leads to a spiral staircase that leads to the second floor, you can see three busts in each side of all these different elven, Very regal looking figures that are kind of joining each side. You can see around the side of it to the right there appears to be a dining hall that the long table. Sorry. There you go. To the left, it looks like to a kitchen vicinity.

And there's this spiral staircase leads up. We should go up. There were a lot of traps in the last house we were in. Outside of the wall where you guys are, the log's like, all right, my turn. Me lift. Look. God, are you sure? You're going up?

You're going up? Is, oh, oh, if you're not going in? I'm going in with her, I don't want to. Kneel down. I'm gonna climb up on his back and start to try to climb. Okay, make an athletic track. Why? Why are we adding what a thing?

You at least need a rogue. All you need is the rogue. Don't have to do it all. Uh, 17. 17. You climb up over the wall and get to the very top and he puts his hands up, help me. Sure.

Do you do it. Do you do it. Do you do it. Let's just fucking stay. Because I help put this together. I want to be here. I want to make sure this happens. Ulock, listen to me.

You are here. Let's just go. You are a part of it. Just let them do this. Trust us. Understand. She might have paperwork up there. That could have solved my wife.

Ulaq, this is not the point of why we are here in the moment. Stay focused. We can get your wife out later. Kill her. Don't blow the whole operation because of your wife. Make a persuasion check. Fuck.

Get it. Bo's got all the persuasion. Roll like his last season. It's not my thing, you guys. Four total. He gives you a nice solid look and goes, Understood. And then leaps up onto the wall of the other side,

landing next to none. Oh, he leaps? I was going to say seeing that argument that I just dropped down to the ground on the other side and not helping. Okay, yeah. You can glance it up and sees your ground, and just like leaps and p.

Like he just barely crest the top. He's a nimb. He's a nimble dwarf. God, does everything. I've set up just slightly ahead of the house so I can see if people are going to be approaching the house. I put my jacket down and set up a little busking, a mild busk.

All right. Jester and I know we have to move. And it's not our thing. Can we just roughly check the stairwell for traps? Make an investigation change. Yeah, same. I'm looking around. Yes, so make it with an advantage. Natural twilight.

Yes. Okay. As you glance about it. As you glance about the space, you can see the statues that are facing each other on each side. It looks like the dust in the pedestal is kind of brushed off in an arc. Like they're often rotated.

Yeah, this is set up to, wait a minute. If we came home, there's gotta be a way to turn it off, right? I mean, if she had walked in, she wouldn't just be trying to look out for the traps. It's true. Security system. Maybe there's something like by the door jam or in the wall or like a something that we can press. There was a little, like a brick that turned off all the magic things in the other place?

Yeah, in the other place. So maybe can I just look around on the walls and see if there's, yeah, some sort of. Can we check the door jams and the walls and the, just for anything that looks like you come? Because you roll the natural 20, you notice that the dust that's grinding, it's from the sliding of the statues. and they all seem to slide towards the stairs. Like the heads, like if you look what the dust is on them, there's a slight outcropping on each of them, and the position appears like they've been moved many times.

By hands. Like, they're facing each other to look towards the stairs. Oh, so let's turn them. We go at the same time, one at each. One, two, three. As you do that, they look at all, and you hear this sound. Yes.

So the first two, they shift over towards that, matching the space where the dust had shifted, and you hear a slight click or release sound. Okay. Okay. We head up the stairs. Yeah, sure. We start walking to look for her room.

Okay. Well, there's three sets of these. Oh, well, yeah. Each one. Each one. One, two, three. Yeah. So you do it together, all three of them shift,

and with each one you hear a click and release. Okay. All right, you guys are in the backyard. Are you doing anything? I'm gonna try to open the back door. Okay, so the three of you are back there with the look. It has to detect magic. Okay.

sarcastic magic. The back door is locked. Make an investigation check if you like to. Natural 20. Natural 20. It's coming back around. I know. Look at this. Yes! The back door is locked. It is not trapped. Okay, I will unlock it. Not so good. Nine. Nine. You go and get the tools in there and...

It gets kind of stuck. Oh, look. I need to help. Oh, so now you need my help. Perfect. Yeah, that'll do it. He goes ahead and takes them from you and then gets it, pulls them out gently, hands him back to you. Does he come around the back of me? Yeah, like ghost-style. He does so, but he does so begrudgingly. He's like, I don't know, he can it, pulls away. He quickly gets it and hands him back to you like,

here he go. The pressure was so much. It opens the door. You guys hear the slight creaking of a doorway down in the second floor. as you're ascending the stairs. I grab both their shoulders and peer in to see if anything glows. Okay, you glance inside. It does not appear anything in the vicinity. It's a dining room. You could see the opposite side. It would look for a long table with chairs. Any books?

No, make perception check. Books? And in a time like this? No, you heard a door down below. You heard them enter from elsewhere in the building. The pike die. Don't want the pike die. Do I still see, do I still see Frumkin on the wall?

Was what? Do I still see Frumpkin on the wall? Yes. I'm going to try and get Frumpkin's attention and be like, tell, tell Caleb to watch out for Oolok. And then jumps down into the back and goes and catches up to you. You glance inside, nothing magical catches your attention in the chamber. Can Bo kind of be casing and kind of be full on self-mode watching for anything?

Yes. Make a step to check. And you, as you begin to set up busking, one of the other guards, wondering if you by, As buying kicks your cards about and goes, hey, hey, move along. No street buskin, too late, gala's on. Oh no, I'm on break. One on the house. I said, piss off, keep moving. I'm gonna very, very slowly put my stuff together

and fold it all up. Okay. It just watches you do it. Yeah, move around, but yeah, as long as I have an eye on the main thoroughfare. Okay. What's your off stuff? Ten.

Ten. I'm gonna flip my coat to the brown side. Okay. You walk around as you're casing the joint, and as you're watching. The Browns' Eye. As you're watching, you keep an eye on the two guards at the front, and the two guards are kind of looking out,

and one of them makes eye contact with you. Uh-oh. And as you walk, he just kind of watches you walk, and you realize that moment that you've been noticed. I just keep walking. You're just being watched from a distance. You've been made. I just keep walking, and I look casual.

Do I see any crowded areas? Is I walking? No, most everybody is at the gala right now. So, like, you mean, you can see in the distance. You can see the party still going on, the music still playing from the distance. They're still drinking in revelry, like in the dimmuffled in the distance, the din of the crowd, just kind of give him this low, kind of, ah, as well as the music's getting you. If I get a chance, I want to try and lose him as soon as I'm, like, out of this.

He's not following you. He's just watching you as you walk. So you're going to try and move out of his eyesight. I'm just going to kind of try and move around. Yeah, and move out of his eyesight. Okay, so you move out of his eyesight. Anything? Do I notice any following me? Perception train. Not today. Almost a one. Ten again. Nothing seems to catch your eye, no one following you. You guys, you heard the creek from downstairs. What are you doing? Keep looking for traps upon the top floor.

You get to the top floor, investigation check both of you. You guys, what are you doing? What do we see? What do we see where we are? There's a long dining room table with chairs set up. Doors out of here? It leads out into a four-year area. Okay. Nice, 15 for me. Okay. All right, you get the second floor. There's a small landing and a singular door. The door does not appear to be locked or trapped.

Yeah. What it's in front? So no, we move forward. Okay, you ten feet in front of me, I will look for magic, you will look for physical obstacles. Great. Here we go. Let's go. Checking for traps.

Checking for traps. Checking for traps. Regular traps. As you guys head through the dining area into the main foyer, you see there is the hallway that leads into the kitchen. You can see the staircase that spirals upward, and you can see these statues that are all facing towards the stairs. The statues give off the magical glow. and you hear the sound of an... Upstairs, a door slowly freaking open.

As you guys look into the chamber, as the door swings open, you see a darkened bedroom equally gaudy as the rest of the house. You can see along the walls there are portraits of men, human, different ages, that are all just kind of lining it. No! You can see there's a small chamber, like an archway that leads into what looks to be a washroom. You can see. see like an ivory basin that's barely visible from the little bit of the moonlight that's

coming through, what appears to be a gable window on the opposite side of the chamber. What's a gable window? It's like, it's, yeah. I think you have one. At your house. Or had one, yeah. In your kitchen. It protrudes a bit, arcs and then ends there.

And in the center of where that gable window is, there's a cracket. A roller desk. The front has been rolled shut. There's a door on each side of the gable window that leads to the balcony that you saw before that looks over everything, and it's just a giant glass window that looks out over the city. It has a beautiful view of the tri-spires and the gala in the distance. You can see the light emanating over the dark night sky. Can you message the others? There is a large bed, and the floor itself is covered in like tiger and animal skins

as a means of decor in the space. The walls themselves are almost like a faint gray-blue velvet texture almost. It's terrible. But that's what you have in front. Should we look for traps in here? One more time. One more time. We're looking to the foyer.

Just reading that's an obvious like a trap in the bedroom. We're moving through the foyer. We cast message upstairs blindly, not knowing where they are, saying, We're in the house. We're coming up to help you. You can, of course, reply to this message. Fire! 23 investigation.

Nice. I rolled a 12 investigation. I respond and I say, oh, we're upstairs in like our bedroom or office or something. They're upstairs. Let's go. Tiki-T-K-K-T-K-K-T-K-K. Ulaug, they're not upstairs. Right.

You guys all hit up the stairs together as a group. Perception check on both of your guys' points. Oh, shit. Nope. Oh, my God. It's on you. Seven. Oh, did you see it?

Lookouts. Everyone thinks that Matt is managing three storylines. right now, but there's actually a fourth that we don't even know about. Five. Five. Seven. Okay. You guys keep an eye out in the vicinity. Nothing seems to pique your interest. I switch my robe. Again. Okay. Good to know. All right. You guys should go around. There are no traps in the vicinity. You do, as you approach to the roller desk. It is locked.

There is like an actual key hole and there is something that is meant to unlock the desk. The desk. Fuck. There's a key. Not and Caleb are still going up the stairs. Yeah. Ulaug, you guys all come up to the landing. You can see the door inside.

Nothing magical in the vicinity other than what you guys have on yourselves. If you own the edge under her mattress and see if I can feel any keys. Underneath the desk and behind it, underneath it. Okay, make an investigation check. Strope that desk. And he thinks she's like stuck. 17.

Yes, look at you. Reaching her on the desk, there's no tricks, no trips, no buttons or anything. You are looking to the bed? I'm like, yeah, I'm reaching under her mattress and seeing if she stuck anything between. make an investigation chip. What kind of fold she uses on her under sheet gets like that. Nice. So you're reaching underneath, you find what looks to be a hard, like, object, a bound, a binding, and you pull it into book.

And you slowly pull it out and take a look at it. Dust glove. No. Volume one. It's signed. It's a familiar leather tone that was an illegal story. story that was previously presented to you in a smut bookstore that have been hidden in the cushions of the bed. I can be giggling. It has a place marker about two-thirds the way through.

Oh, she's naughty. Ulaug at this point is looking about the room as well. He rushes over to the desk where you are, and he goes, Don't worry, I got this. He doesn't go ahead and attempt to pick the lock on that. Have the vagrants caught up yet? Yeah, you guys have all caught up. You're in the room now. Detect magic wipe in this room. I know that's what I said. As you glanced through, there is a faint magical essence that begins to appear from the desk

as Ulaug opens in it. It slides open. And you just see a faint and glow from what looks to be a small case about that large sitting on the desk. That boxed that case, that boxed that kid. Be careful. That's fine.

No, no. No, it's not. No, he's going through paperwork. He's grabbing books and he's starting to thumb through and... The priority is the letter. I run over with the letter and can we put it in our desk to hide it. Yes, the sealed letter. Go ahead and place the desk of the letter in there.

Should I open the little box again? Oh, is there a fireplace? There is no fireplace. Aren't we supposed to toss the room or we're supposed to make it? No, we're coming in outside. Is there a waste basket? No, I don't see a waste basket necessarily. No.

There's a small, like, almost like, a pot of some kind that is set next to the desk. It looks like it might be used as a receptacle occasionally. Oh yeah, like a bedside pot. What is the type of magic emanating from the case? That would be evocation. Evo. It's a different thing. That's bad.

I'll leave it alone. All right, let's get the letters in. And the seals. It's place it all. Make it an intelligence check. Suspense. 18. 18.

While the shape is not familiar to the size and the length of it, you've seen these type of cases before. They usually use to contain important rolled pieces of parchment, specifically those that need to be protected from the elements because they contain enchantments on them. This is a scroll case. Take it. Take it. What are you doing?

What are you doing? What are you doing? Let's go out. Just going to make the investigation check. No, no, no, don't fucking compromise everything. Caleb, I swear to fucking God. Come on, come on. Let us.

Okay, I'll take the, um, oh, I'm going to take the, like, torn piece and, like, hide it under her bed. And then I have the leather left, the Knights of Requile letter. What should I put this? I mean, just right on the desk, right? We should just put it right there. On the desk as well? No, we should scatter it around so that if certain things don't get found. Is there any other good place like in her bedside tables or anything like that?

That looks like a space. They're like a little, it's a table. It's not a drawer or anything, but this table you can hide something, put something beneath. Yeah, like if there clutter on the desk at all or like decorations and stuff? There's like a candle and a small piece of clockwork. I'll fold up the Knights of Requital letter and hide it under her clock. Okay. At that point, Ulau goes,

But leave a little bit showing in the back so that somebody could find it there investigating. There's another thing that you see there. There's a small box that's wrapped in silver cord that is kind of resting on the desk on top of what looks to be a stack of books. books. Yeah, we've seen those cords before. Do not touch that. Also, there is no other magic around this room in the walls or anything, right?

You've indicated everything that's here, good. Everything that you've seen, yes. Are there any windows? There's a giant cable windows. You have the most beautiful view of the city. Can we see anything out the window? Is anybody coming? Make perception check.

Does it look like the gal is ending? So do they open or are they picture windows? Wow. A perception check? Yes. 21. Okay. Well, first off, Ulog at this point is going through and he goes, I found this. And he's reading through and he's like frantically going through the words.

What does it say? And he starts reading out loud as you're kind of glancing over her and he says, these are the notes on Ilya's case. Saying that she wanted to sure that even the most an assuming dwarf can be a cutthroat. He admits that she admits that she admits that she She was innocent, but anyway, just a certain example. So we can show this as evidence. He takes and kind of folds it and, oh yeah, we can.

He holds it in his hand. As you glance over to the side, you can see the front gate kind of open to the, or sorry, you see it closed, and you hear the sound. You guys hear this as well. Though you were trying to keep an eye over there, you totally kind of found yourself spacing a bit didn't notice something shifting towards the front door. As I'm walking away from the house, I start singing loudly, drunkenly. I saw the moon in old.

Somebody just said. In the darkness. Somebody gets got home. We gotta get out of here. Run. It was a nice. And I'm just going to sing loudly as I'm slowly drunkenly making my way. Okay.

We've laid the letters. Touched nothing. Let's go. Run. Is it all set? All right. All right. You guys all heading outside?

I'm the last one to leave the room. No! No! I summoned the falch and I hold it right up to his throat. You have to detect that I did it. Did you reach for it? I was the last one out of the room. Are you in the back?

Make a perception. Yes! I was up here first. One. Make a perception check, make a slight a hand check. That's what this is for. I said I was the last one in that room. You were.

Okay. Thirteen. Eight. Eight. You notice him go for it. Leave no trace. No, I'm taking this. Put it back. This isn't worth my time. I'm taking this.

Put it down, or I'll leave you here. You guys all stop at the landing as you turn back. Ford, put that fucking thing down. My hand starts to glow with Eldridge Blast Energy. I will fucking leave both of you here. We're either a team or you're working for yourselves. Decide. You guys are all watching this in the landing.

I walk out. Somebody's coming. As you all slowly come to rest and look back, Caleb, as you walk out, as you walk out, You stop at the landing next to Ulaug and Bo. What's that? You're not there. You stop next to Ulog as right there at the bottom of the stairs,

looking up, you see in a very beautiful, elegant kind of dark green dress, the High Richter Prusine. Oh, my, my. I'm glad I forgot my gift, or I would have missed your reprobates, breaking and entering the home of a High Richter. I believe that carries a life center. sentence in the Amber Dungeon? Wouldn't you say, if I might ask, what are you looking for?

You have my curiosity peaked. There's a brief pause as you all kind of glancing down. And Ulaug kind of holds up the paper in his hand. He goes, You put my wife in chains. And you know she's innocent. We got proof now. It's over for you. She kind of chuckles and scoffs as she falls under a bit.

back leg. And how do you plan to deliver it? Curious. You think my home won't be swarming with guards in a few minutes? She pulls a brass bell out from under her pouch and kind of ding, the ding, ding, ding, ding, rings it outside. I was going to say I cast guiding bolt at her, or, but it's right at the time. It's such a fast moment. If you weren't having anything prepared, it happens to quickly. You go like, ah, the bell rings, ding, the ding, ding, ding. And you stump sucker. I'll just bleed over the extra years of your sentence into your wives. That way you can both rot together on opposite sides of the dungeon.

Ulaug kind of looks at you all like absolute fury and sadness in his eyes. You see like tears down at it. Yeah, I had it. Prepared it. That's what I wanted to guess. He goes and takes the paper in his hand and like kind of puts it in your arm, Caleb. I'm taking her contact with you and goes, promise me you'll see her freed, friend.

I cast both person on her. On her? I'm just gonna do it. All right. Do it anyway. Natural 20. She was, she goes, what's you trying?

And Ologge goes, grabs towards his neck and runs, leaps off the stairs towards her, and attempts to tackle her. We should just take off one. You watch. Yeah, he goes and she falls onto the ground and the landing of the spiral staircase. They both gonna slide a moment.

You watch, as he goes, what are you? And he grabs and pulls that orangeish bead that he had on his necklace and slams it into her mouth and holds it over. And there's a moment of tension before a flash of white, fiery burning light explodes, a fireball, sundering the interior of the staircase. You all have your ears ringing, the pains there.

The ones that are closest by would have been you, Kelvin, need you to roll, dexterity saving throw, please. Seven. That's a failure. Thankfully a shitty roll for you. That is 21 points of fire. I'm not sure. Caleb goes unconscious onto the ground.

As you guys all come to in the moment, you look down at the middle of the staircase. The walls are blackened. The staircase is currently in the process of burning, And down you see the twisted gnarled corpses of both Ulaug and the high Richter Prusine. We have to get out of here. You hear.

Oh, I went down. Against the front door. We run out the back door. You guys head down the stairway, you can see the front door being hit from the opposite side. What did me and Molly see? You guys watch this flash of light, the glass windows shatter outward from the balcony.

And the two guards in the bottom go, they quickly throw up in the gate and they're now currently slamming themselves trying to barricade into the door. To the back. Yeah, we're gonna start. Flank to the back. Flanking to the back.

Okay, as you guys are rushing, make a perception check. Oh my God. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Now's the 20. Finally. Okay, as you guys are rushing, you suddenly hear this very loud, high-pitched wine sound. And you're like, ah, it kind of causes your head to look.

And you, especially, glance over as you begin to surmise the direction. You look past, and you can see the tri-spires there. And in the trispires there, and in the deep, direction, you see the mighty Zobber Spire of the halls of Eredition there in the distance. And you see there this growing black spherical mass beginning to emerge from the side on the lower third of the tower. You watch as it expands, the winding gets louder and louder. I'm going to uncover. You hear this crack sound as the black sphere suddenly folds into nothing. And where it was, you see all the stone that made that part of the tower, collapse,

crush, and then stumble. The tower, begins to slowly shift as you hear in the distance, screams, echoing around. The music stops, and the attention of the guard suddenly shift over from the banging door to the tower crumbling. You watch the tower, suddenly there's a flash of blue light, and the tower stops, and you see a brief shift of a forest field in the bottom that holds it in place, partially collapsed.

And you see two figures take off in the top. What is going on? You see two other figures leap out of the hole, from where the explosion kind of weird black sphere was at the base of it, and leap down about 35, 40 feet below the tree line. You see the two figures kind of begin coasting, flying through the air in the direction of where they were as bolts of energy start arching out of their hands towards where those two other figures fell. The screams are getting louder now, and you can see now the guards are starting to rush out of the very

street corners. You guys are rushing around, like you were rushing towards the back, and then kind of slowed as this started happening, just distracting you. you guys kind of start hearing this cacophony outside as you rush through the back door, you get to the back wall, what are you doing? There's something bigger going on other than us. We've got to get out of here. Caleb's unconscious, we gotta get them out.

I try and... I don't have any spells out. I have a healing potion, I'll put it in Caleb's mouth. I try and get that back door open and try and get them out. Okay, so you get that door open. You guys start rushing out there. You heal up Caleb, you come to conscience, it's being dragged.

Your feet kind of grinding. I was just doing death saves and it was not going well. Just for shits and giggles. Alone upstairs, I pick up the scrolls and put them in my pockets. I'm in the house of fire now. I'm gonna open the gable windows if they open and jump up. The windows are shattered. The explosion.

Jump out the windows and scatter as far as I do. All right, make an acrobatics check. Followed by a stealth check. Holy shit. Acrobatics, not great. 10. And stealth, 16. Okay, well you reduce the damage you take by one die,

so you only take two points of bloods and you damage. As you land, your ankle kind of twists, and you tumble and roll and you get up. And what's your stealth check? 16. 16. Using the chaos that way, and the guards that are now kind of out in the street, you land kind of behind them.

One of them goes to turn in your direction, and you dart behind the wall, leap over the side, and arc around to meet the rest of the party as you all slowly begin to climb over the back wall where Bo and Molly are waiting for you. We've got to get it out of here. That went so bad. I think we're a bigger distraction.

Oh, my God. I think there's something else going on. Did we do this? No. We didn't. It's Molly, isn't it? No, no. Run to the sewers.

All right, everyone make a stealth check. It's just trying to make your way through there. People are now starting to run back to their homes. You can see people running and screaming now. Dressed in like full attire for the gala, just leaving their masks behind, screaming bloody murder. 15. Five, 12. 15.

Okay. Lots of teens and five. I don't know. That's okay. but for the most part, you guys averaged okay. Thankfully, the chaos and the way of your address, you managed to push through and mingle well. It wasn't too hard.

You make your way through the town, you can see the tower still being held in place, and the two figures that you saw gliding before, as this is happening and you're rushing through, you see fewer bolts hit a large bolt of lightning, grind down in the distance, before eventually they both begin to peer over and are now looking up and down the streets.

As you make your way, back towards the alley, over by where the gala is, you see a shadowed figure dart out from behind and a bolt of lightning strike. There's a detonation, a burnt ozone as the figure falls to the ground smoking. I go over to the figure, I go over to the figure. As you walk over to the figure, you see one of the flying entities like kind of clothing down. You can see now this robed mage figure with a staff in hand, wearing a large, what looks like ornamental mantle. Like long, kind of grayish hair is now just gliding down in the direction of the dark figure on the ground.

Male or female? Male. Stere clear of lighting people. You need to write that down, you remember? Age. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys see this as you come around. Age.

Then, oh, the age, roughly from this distance, when you can see it's later. More, more older age, 70s, human, if human, but you can't kind of get the details. They start shouting, One has fallen, find the other. And kind of coasts back off and begins doing a pass, looking through the various streets.

Once he's gone, I don't want to wait until this. Oh, the guards have rushed forward and grab the body and are dragging it back towards the tower. What does that body look like? Make a perception check. Come on. Big, fucking shit! What is with these fucking rules?

Sorry, Chris. 18. Or sorry, sorry. No, that's super wrong. I was adding, I saw it, I saw an eight and I was adding shit. 11, sorry. All you can see is the cloak that the cloak is blocking most of the body. You see a hand behind that's like leather gauntlet except for fingers exposed.

The fingers appear to be, but it's a glove or design of it, almost like they were dipped in blue. Like there was some sort of a blue-tipped glove. As it's dragged back, that's all the details you can make out, unfortunately, as it's being pulled away off the street. The guards are now swarming, people are trying to be, get back to their houses, people are swarming the gate out of the trispire, and the guards are like trying to hold them back,

like calming them down. It's nearing a ride at this point. You guys make your way over to the edge of the sewers, begin to look around for a moment where nobody's watching, and one by one, I'll make your way down into the darkness, closing it behind you, as you all get down. to be quiet of the underground. There's a moment where you can hear the distant muffling

of movement action, footsteps making their way back and forth, cross the alleyway, other yells and screams, information kind of in the distance, far too far away for you to make out the details of what's being said. What do you do? It was a flag. Those men were superpowers.

Get far away from here. We had to get back to the other side. Yeah, back to them. Oh my gosh. But who were they targeting? They were targeting. They were targeting. I don't know.

Not us. Are you sure they weren't looking for us? No, I don't think so. This was something entirely different. We need to go find a shitty place and lay low. We've had a leaky tavern. He was in blue. He was just leather gauntlets were dipped in like blue.

Like the cobalt people? Let's get back to the Leaky Tavern. We've seen the power of the Duendalean Empire that. That was more than anything I've ever seen. We've got to get back. I've never seen someone fly before. Neither have I. Lightning.

It turned him almost into Ash. Let's get back. We can talk about it when we're on our room. We're going to say. The high rector's dead, you guys. That was a part of the plan. And Ulaug too, and I think I was sort of mean to him. What happened? I tried to get Ulogg to stay and he didn't listen. Ulaug sacrificed himself.

He killed himself again the Richter. Caleb, to this point you glass down, you can still, like, you're still clutching the in your fingers, know the paper that Ulog left behind. As you guys are also like, are also like making, are you making way back to? No, yeah. Okay, so you're heading back through the sewers, the direction you came.

We are walking away. Being aware of the rat balloon. So barely just thinking away from the insanity of the district. You walk through the darkened sewer, it's on the same familiar path that you walked to make your way at your exit there. Coming up on one of the false junctions where the left side of it is partially collapsed, but the right side continues to where the T-section is. Beauregard, Caleb, and Molley and Jester, because you guys all have the higher passive perceptions, you begin to notice this is this is. area where there's no water that drains down the center groove of this part, you see like spatters of liquid.

Does it look dark? What is it? There's no light in here currently. Oh, f-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p. Open up the area here as you hit the intersection. You can see it is dark and red. Blood. It is spatters of blood.

And just as you glance up right there at the intersection, you see a figure one hand against the wall breathing heavily. You glance towards it and take a moment as you kind of the light gloves are just now shifting out to light the space. you see a humanoid figure, seemingly male in an outline adorned in jet black, almost insect-like leather armor that protrudes in large sweeping hooks at the joints, the elbow joints, the shoulders, a helmet that's form-fit black leather and onyx studs wraps around their head and what looks nearly demonic, the browplate sweeping backward into rear-facing horns. The other hand is dangling,

clutching what looks to be a cannonball-sized, 12-sided dodecahedron-like shape about that big that has a handle on each side. It's emitting a dull, undulating gray glow. Just... I cast armor of Agathez on myself. All right. As you cast armor of agis on yourself, the figure, which you now see is the source of the blood. It looks heavily wounded, and is breathing heavily.

The lights now up, its head kind of turns towards you, and you hear a voice say, Kravach. Does anybody here speak undercutt? I cast comprehensive language. Oh, wait, wait. Undercomment? Undercomment?

Undercommon, anyone? Undercommon, undercommon? language. No. Okay, as you begin, what are the components to that one? That is verbal semantic and material, a pinch of soot and salt, which I just throw out in front of it. All right. As you begin to make the incantation, the figure pulls the hand away and draws this horrible,

gnarly looking hooked blade from the side of the sheath and goes, and rushes in towards you. And that's what we're going to pick up next to the week. It went to shit. It went perfectly! That was a crick. What's the crick? People from Shoreha. Trust the porn.

It's edubation. That's why. Oh my God. Such good imagery. You would be doing that. You adjubated every night. There were a few chances for you to see that the two of you to see Hite Proustine arriving.

But you kept relying low perception on the outside. And I was like, all right, she's going to get the drop on you. She's gonna get the drop on you guys. There were so many different ways that could have gone. It was so hard. But it made for an interesting story. It's a cluster. That was amazing.

You're all terrible people. Edgibate once a day. Oh, my gosh. All right. It's good for your, what? Hippathalamus. Ford, it is over. I don't even know.

It'll be over. Oh, I was so, I cannot wait for this shit. I am in this shit. Finally. I'm so excited. Oh man. It's so good. Guys, that was awesome. Well done. Not taking it anyway. No, she dead.

All these guards are too sick. She's dead. She's dead. The owner is dead. Well, now. At the moment though, there's no excuse. It's their job to not trust people that don't look trustworthy like you, Molly. God damn it. Of course. Doesn't mean they're not shitty selfish ones. They are shitty selfish ones.

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