Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - C2E14 Fleeting Memories

Episode Date: January 24, 2022

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nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons. We are unfortunately down one Laura Bailey tonight because she got the Conflag from Chicago, and she needs a little baby to take care of. So she's gonna be at home watching and texting these guys if they do anything really wrong with Jester. Please just come. We almost have three women at this table.

Almost. Almost. But we have Ashley back, like back back for a while now. Yes. So happy you've returned. Me too. Sam, before we jump into the game, we have some announcements to get to tonight.

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So I'm proud to give you the first ever, D&D Beyond presents the Mighty Nine Welcome Back Yasha Ceremony featuring Ashley Ashley Johnson, everybody. There's the award show music. I'm your host, D&D Beyond presents Sam Riegel, and we're gonna go around the room super fast to honor Ashley's triumphant return.

Didn't work. First up is Travis. None of them work. First up is Travis. When I drink to you, Ashley, my heart is as full as my glass. That's enough. That's enough.

But there's no time. We gotta keep going. I can't do it for me. Now we're gonna go to Talison with a song. So it all acquaintance be forgot. That's enough. Marisha has a poem prepared. Welcome back Ashley, good friend of mine.

Goodbye blind spot. Hello! Prepared an old Irish blessing. Oh, may the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sunshine warm upon your face. We don't have time. Ashley, you are a good and create.

are a good and creative person and D&D Beyond wants you to honor the good I'm not you want you want you D&D Beyond wants to honor the goodness and creativity of the fine folks at 826 LA by kicking off the 826 LA charity push every Nat 1 rolled by us D&D Beyond will be donating a hundred dollars that true to 826 LA also D&D Beyond is retroactively donating for all the Nat ones we've rolled so far in this campaign. So many. Wow! That's like 4,200 bucks, but there's more. Once we hit the $10,000 donation tier level, I don't really understand this part, Critters will unlock a special discount code

for the legendary bundle on D&D Beyond. It's totally not toxic. It's in my drink, it's in my dream. Was this all planned for Ashley's return? No! This was planned far before. But hey, it sure feels like it. So from all of us at the table and the guys at D&T Beyond, welcome back, Ashwick. Just cringed as we just showered the table. Hey, actually, I'm going to tie it to your chair like we're at Applebee's. Lo, don't let them set the lights on fire. Oh, I forgot to give you your award of excellence. It's from Jurassic World. Yes! Oh, guys, come on, this is the best.

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All right. So, so the 826 LA, did you make, go all through everything there? I did. It was kind of chaotic, but they're donating for natural ones. They're retroactively donating for that one. Did you get to the matching the dollar amount? That's bad. No. Was that the 10K thing?

I was confused. It's all in the video at the break. Yeah, we have a, yeah, okay, we all the video at the break, but we have a fantastic critter who's gonna be matching every dollar, and donating to the charity as well, up to 40K. Yeah. So generous. Great stuff. Twitch Prime, if you have an Amazon Prime account, you can combine it with your Twitch account,

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They had gone out in the evening, infiltrated a few of the homes, and left this information behind, gotten a few scuffles, leaving one of them, the High Rector dead, and shortly after there was an attack on the tri-espire. What are you looking at the same? God-dain. That's it. You're in the clear. You're good. You're good. You're good. I'll remember this. Noticing there was seemingly an attack upon the tri-spire by two Jorhasian assassin-type You met with one in the sewer and trying to escape from being seen by the local guard during this confrontation and did battle with what seemed to be a crick warrior of some kind. You subdued it, removed most of its equipment, and conflicted over this strange artifact, this beacon that it was carrying, set it on its way. However, it was quickly hot by the guard and killed. You met on the surface the guard that were bringing the corpse and the object along, managed to spear it away the strange redahedron from the

the grasp of the town guard and absconded with it. You met with Dolan and Horace, who were currently trying to figure out what to do in case they were somehow implicated with the events of the evening. You took Horace under your wing, promising Dolan that you would somehow smuggle them out of the city as it's currently on lockdown during this investigation.

You all then managed to try and to find some sort of a lead on what the next step would be went towards the evening nip, apparently to seek possibly this individual known as the gentleman of which you had heard of previously, as Kara, one of the members of the Knights of Quaitil who had vanished, seemingly had some sort of connection there. So you entered the evening nip, the rather dark and strange interior of the small dive bar, gave the previously discovered words, the code words that allowed you entry, and were led down a long spiral staircase beneath the establishment into a subterranean bar,

upon which, after immediately stepping into the space, a Blackford female Tabaxi. approached Molly Mock over here and with a look of recognition said, Lucian, and then embraced you. And that's where we left off. Oh, God. Fucking inside, check on the elephant. No, I'm kidding. So, as you guys all watch this,

Darkford Debaksie, giving this big, strong hug around Mollymok's shoulders, pulls away and kind of just looks at you and goes, It has been too long, too long. Two years. Two years. Look at you. You grew out your hair. Ah, yes, it's been a, quite an interesting two years.

And you are covered in tattoos. We'll catch up, we need a table, we need drinks, and for me and my compatriots. Of course, you are, you, these are your friends now. It's a long story, I can't tell you everything right now. You know how it is. Very well. Well, and as the tobacco turns around,

you can see there's, posted right off to the right and around the corner, a hulking figure that has leaned around the edge that leads into this kind of L-shaped tavern, a hefty, muscular-looking ogre that is wearing patchwork hide armor and is holding a giant mall, just kind of resting on the ground, looks back around the corner with these beady, dark eyes

and large, looming jaw with angry, broken teeth protruding from underneath, just going, just kind of looks at the rest of you. Other folks around are looking a bit confusing, at your entry. Right immediately to your left is a table with what looks to be a rough and tumble-looking cutthroat sitting there eating a sandwich with a half-dricken drink who's kind of chewing slowly with this glare of mistrust in your direction. There are two balconies up above you in the chamber. You now get a better look up at the top. There are a number of individuals posted in some of them that appear to be drinking, but there are at least one of them, immediately in your view,

has two kind of skulking-looking individuals with long, dark cloaks and dark armor, carrying what looks almost like a heavy crossbow, but it's a long metal rod. You've only seen them in use here and there, but these are some sort of a rifle-like firearm that are usually reserved for the armies and blade garden into the far east of Jorjas, a recently emerging technology

that has been largely guarded within use of the empire itself. Literally everything coming back to Homme. Okay, cool. If we had to ballpark it, how many persons would you say are in this? 13 or so people in this tavern, including the bartender, the individual who rushed to you as you entered, and various patrons around that you can just get a quick beat on. The second she turns, I'm going to just turn and give Ford a little pat on the back and make a whisper really quickly. Okay. Make a whisper. Yeah, I'm just going to whisper in Ford's here.

Okay. I'm sorry, this is my nightmare. Please just go with it. It's Lucian. And I'm just back around. Pass it on. Okay. As soon as you see that, you back away and look right behind forward as you all are standing there, there's Yasha. What? Just at the bar? Just, no, right behind you. As if she had just come down the stairs with you. What?

Yasha! Hey, so. Yes, I'm apparently, it's the Lucian from two years ago. From two years ago. It's Lucian, remember. It's been ages. Okay, it's been a minute. Right. Hey, you guys walk right past me in the bar upstairs.

You are like a bad penny. We did not walk quite fast, we looked around. What a lucky one. You're big, we would have seen you. I've been right behind you the whole time. I don't know how you didn't know I was here. I'm so glad to see you. You're glad to see you too.

Hi. It's Lucian. It's Lucian. Do you want to private about our situation at all, right? There's people everywhere. Well, there's people all throughout the tavern, but there's some music playing.

There's two musicians that are in the process of plucking away at two instruments. Everyone seems further in the chamber, rather absorbed in their current rigmarole, but you guys have just stepped down into the stairs. You haven't left the stairs. You're literally standing right at the entrance of this tavern, and you've all been kind of taken it back by that encounter.

The realization that Yasha had followed you down the stairs and kind of whatever's about to transpire. I'll explain later, just go with it. Oh, Yasha followed us. She wasn't starting down here. No. Gotcha, gotcha. I don't mind Roland with this name Lucian, but does it bring any extra trouble with it? I don't know. We'll find out.

Fair enough. Just go with it. I'll explain later. All right. And it all makes sense to you? I'll explain later. This club is awesome. I hate you.

Do I have to change my name in this club? Are we all supposed to change my name? We should all come up with different names. It might be easier just to have them all killed right. I didn't say that out loud. I didn't say that out loud. I'm just thinking out loud. Oh God. It's going to be fine. I'm not panicking. Let's go get drinks. Let's go get drinks.

Do you think sweat? My hand claps. They do. And the tobacco is now at one of the tables, and it's kind of shoot off one of the drinks. This way, I found the table for everyone. Come sit down. I give the tabxia another hug as we sit down. How have you been?

It's been ages. It's too long. I apologize for using your old name. Nonagon, it's pleasure to see you again. I didn't catch that at all. Nonagon was what you got. Nonagon. Nonagon.

Nonagon. Nonagon. Nonaghan. That's the tobacco, not the ogre. No, that's the taxi said that. That's my name. Lucian Nonagon. Basically said, I'm sorry for saying your old name.

Nanagon. It was correcting it to Lucian to Mali Maude. Wait, is Nanakon like a slang or like a word for sorry? You don't know? Oh, I just run. Who can keep track these days? track these days. There's again a long story. No, Nunagon.

What happened? You watched you die. That is a story for another day and another drink. What did you see? God, what was, I don't know what that looked like from the other end of things. Well, it all went belly up two years ago. We told us to scatter and vanish if it didn't, you know, if things went wrong and wait until you returned. Buried your ass in the woods outside of the hideout. I mean, I'm...

I may not have been necessarily my ass that you're buried. I had a few tricks up my sleeve. Well, I mean that spells bitter lady from the capital, she said you were gone and she took the book and left. And her contract said she was in the right, and that we knew better than to go toe to toe with her and her ilk. Obviously. Is everybody else all right?

I know. It's been a while. I had to stay underground. Unfortunately, Jurel met with the acts of the law shortly after you left us. Damn shame. Zora noticed in Typhiel have all scattered amongst the Empire. Damn shame. Do you want me to find the others? No, no, actually, I'm still... I know where Typhel is.

Where is Typhil? I would rather, obviously, deliver everything in person. Honestly, if I'd known you were here, I would have made arrangements. I didn't want to... You talk you. She's up in New Grot. We can travel there. I can send a message and have her come down to us. I'm working on something very delicate. I need everything to be very quiet. Very well, long gone. I'm not very observant. I've missed your name. Where am I, my apologies. My name is Cree.

I am a member of the, well, the family around... How much do they know? We know a lot. We were told the name of the group that you traveled with, but I can't remember it now. They don't know a lot, but they're trustworthy. I've been putting my trust in them so far. I do. I know all of it, so you could just tell me if you wanted. That's actually fair. Make a deception check, both of you. Me? I'm the worst.

Ashley Fair. Thirteen. Because it's kind of the truth. Technically, all right. I'll give you that. It was an entirely lot. Technically. I got a 10. But yeah, technically, I know how.

I'm rolling at advantage. Yeah, I think that's advantage. I'm calling for advantage on that one. I'll give you that. 16. Okay, thank you. All righty. Ben, notes, get rid of those notes.

Shit notes. We were all part of the same order at one point. at one point and we splintered off. Luce Nonagon had a different path in mind for us. So we went north to Shady Creek Rodden. We started the Tomb takers. Tomb takers. It's just so good to see you.

It's good to be seen again. But again, it's gotta be very quiet right now. It's been like three other names since the last time I saw you. I should inform the others. Please keep it quiet for now. That book caused more trouble than you think, and it all laid on my shoulders. I was trying to protect the rest of you

from some of the worst elements of that, and I don't want, I don't necessarily want any heat dropping on anybody who doesn't know it's coming yet. Of course. But yeah, let me know where they are, and I'll get a hold of them. But don't let them know why yet.

DeBaxi kind of curls in a little bit, kind of leans over on the table towards you with this big ran. Does this mean that it worked? That's, again, mixed company and public company. You can tell us about the ritual? Ritual? There's a look of recognition.

Yes, it was successful. Remind me what it was again. There's been so many rituals lately. Mixed results. You are mentioning this group that the Tomb Takers You had another name before. Were you a group and our friend joined you at some point? Well, led us away from the original order.

They were a bit clouded. We had a new path. And what was the name of the original order? You were a part of one. Not the tomb takers. That was the splinter group. The one that came before. There's a few looks now of kind of the euphoric,

The euphoria is washing away from the face. You don't have to tell them anything you don't want to tell them. That's all right. Of course. Was he your new path? He brought us onto a new path, yes. Yeah. What was your unifying trait or pursuit?

Foolishness and thinking I knew what I was doing. That is not a good answer. That's the answer you're getting. Yeah, this is all well and good and kind of fucking boring. I couldn't help but notice that surly looking crew up there. Who might that be? Oh, these are all members of the gentleman's troop, as am I?

At which point the Tabaxi turns back, Cree turns back and looks, and you can see, in the far back right corner of the chamber, there is a long, dark, kind of mahogany, well-carved table. There you see standing, arms crossed, a very muscular-looking Goliath female with a very short, almost like a leather strap top

shaved sides of the head and kind of a tuft of a mohawk that curls down into a long ponytail that goes down the back, which is kind of glaring in your direction. Sitting beside this burly-looking Goliath, you see a high-back chair with like a red velvet mat and sitting feet crossed up on the table and like a nice long, deep blue coat, leather-gloved hands, It appeals to be kind of like a light teal skin, jet black hair that's long, just past the shoulders, like a widow's peak in the center, a bit of a dark goate male figure standing there, hands kind of entwined and crossed, just looking at you from across the way with a curious grin. The gentleman. You work for the gentleman these days? Well, we had to find work, and we didn't know if you were ever coming back.

We thought, so we had to move on. We knew you'd eventually return. I just did not know how long, and we had to make ends meet. How is it working for the gentleman? Well, its work is fine. You hear a... From the gentleman. So, we have company.

Strangers in our mists. Rites himself in the chair. Please, come before me, present yourselves. I want to know who. who has graced us with their majestic presence. Come, come, and the finger goes up and you watch us, everyone holding the rifles, cock them, and point down at you.

Fawrits, he's come. Is it? I'm looking at our friend. Yeah, Krigos. All right, I'll soften over my drink and sit down and sit down at the table. Come on, everyone. Let's do this.

So, do you all go and sit? There's a long bench there on the opposite side of this table where you can either stand or sit, since there's quite a few of you. I'll stand. Jester is kind of, I don't know what's going on. Sorry, Laura. I don't know what the fuck Jester would do. Jester is the most random character.

She'd probably try and go up in a running circle and leaflets. She's just going to have leaflets. I will also stand. As you guys approach, she goes kind of, There's a second balcony that was facing in the direction where you entered. As you look up, you can see there's another rifleman standing and kind of hanging by one arm off the side. You see this kind of craze-looking young gnome with this big mound of curly hair and this big chin strap beard,

who's just kind of dangling going, just looking over you all from a distance really creepily. And the ogres there still handling them all. Just... So, introductions, please. I think I have an idea who you are, but I want to hear it from your mouths. Please, tell me. Humbly, we are members of the mighty nine.

I knew it, I knew it. Oh, this is a gracious day. Very well. Welcome to the real evening day. Pleasure to have you, each and every one of you. I've seen you around upstairs wandering and skulking a bit. I didn't know you were part of this mighty troop. Well, I hang out with them.

but I actually like your drinks here a lot, so. Much better down here. Speaking of which, around please, and you see the bartender looking a bit frightened on the side, goes, and starts like filling tankards and... All right, so what brings such esteemed adventurers to my pocket of the underworld? Well, we saw it an audience, to be frank,

we thought we might find a little bit more of a warm reception than the one that we're currently getting. Oh, I'm sorry. They pull the rifles off, and it's habit, safety you understand. Oh, of course, easily understood. So, do you have in my audience? Well, we mean to make ourselves of service.

Whether it be for the good of the city or other endeavors, we are new here. We thought we would try and make as many introductions and have as many meetings happening as we could. Interesting. I have one question before we get two. too deep in this conversation. How did you find your way in here?

I, a bit of an enthusiast of the underworld, so I came across some information. Go on. Dimidon got his order of blood root. It's really good. Demadon gave you this information. No. Dimmodon was clumsy with this information.

Equally dangerous, good to know. Remember that. The Goliath kind of cracks in the case. All right, so, interesting. Now you know the way in. That's dangerous. As you've just made acquaintances, and you now know the direct path into my domain.

So, to make this a comfortable conversation and possibly an arrangement going forward that we can all agree upon, I have one small request. Oh, I'm sure we'd be all ears. Cree, please. And the tobacco sees you in the back, goes, yes, of course. Steps over to the side of the bar and picks up a small leather satchel, kind of puts it over a shoulder, walks up behind a table, opens it, and pulls out what looks to be an alchemist rack of a bunch of corked vicarct

vials, like small vials. I need, just, and bear with me please, just a small bit of your blood. The reasoning being, if I can't trust you and you can't trust me, how am I to know you aren't going to turn me and immediately upside to the King's Hall? I need some means in case you just absconded this information, perhaps make an arrangement with me and then leave town. I need to find you. Oh, of course, and forgive my ignorance, this would be used to locate us, who's asked

what this would be for. Oh, that is Cree's speciality. It is definitely Cree's speciality. Yeah, fuck it. All right, as you pull your hand out, Cree kind of does a flick of the finger, and you watch as the blood kind of trails off on its own, like a small serpent of mercury, and just shh.

And for a second, even though it was a small wound, it's bleeding quite a bit, and you're like, it makes you a little uncomfortable, and then all of a sudden the blood flow stops, the vials filled about an end. inch full, then she caps it. Thank you so much. How did you do that? It's the gift that I learned. The same place where the Nonogon's gifts were found. Lusian at the table is fine. Lucien. Right. Next.

Trust you with this. Don't get fancy. Same thing. Fills the next vile, strange, almost an arc. of crimson, finds its way, and fills a secondary tube. And there's like 12 tubes there, but she'll fill as many as needed for this one. Don't like it, do you? Can I borrow a tusk? Yeah. Goes ahead and acquires the blood from you.

Jester goes, me, me, me too, me too. Feeling left out in the moment. Gives her blood as well. Katov, are we doing this? No harm will come to you unless you bring calm to me. So this is just a precautionary measure. I appreciate your, Trust.

Three to go. With that, your blood is taken into a vial. All right, I'll follow suit. Your blood is also taken into a vial. Easy enough to do. Fair enough. Just take my finger and I just run it across my blade as I stare at it. The blood is drawn into the vial.

The final vial is capped. Cree closes the satchel, places it on the shoulder, bows and steps back, paying direct attention to the gentleman and then out of the corner of her eye towards you. Fantastic, I really appreciate that. And you're getting a closer look now of the gentleman. The teal skin tone, it's interesting. It looks almost like he's perpetually sweating.

There's just moisture on the outskirts of his skin at all times. There's a faint hint of whether it be condensation from the air around or produced internally. There's just a general sense of of dampness to the skin of this figure. So, an arrangement, you say. First off, just because it's fun for me, are you believers in luck?

Not anymore. Yes, I'd say. The destiny's looking out for you. I've seen enough in my time and have lived in spite of it all because something wants me here. Would you consider yourselves lucky? Yes? Yes.

Then let's gamble. Then what? Gamble. GAMB. Are you writing that down? That's Gamble. I want to know how lucky my investments are. So, Gabbitt Avord, who wishes to face me in this, who feels the luckiest of your band?

I guess her. I watched her play last time. I could do it. I could be... I could as well. Why don't you do it? I'll just drink. I need just a little loosener. All right. I'll feel lucky. Great. One pass. 50 gold buying. If I win, you're mine. If you win, then we can do business. Deal.

Deal. All right. He goes ahead and pulls beneath the table, a satchel of gold, pulls out a handful and plops it on the table. You watch on the side as the creepy, nomish figure that was hanging from the balcony earlier, leaps down, comes up, and he starts, pulls as a set of cards and he shuffling him.

And his hand as he kind of steps around the side. He's now flanking the right side of the gentleman, so you have the large, Goliath on one side, the small, creepy gnome and the others, shuffling the cards. Hands the deck to the gentleman, does one final cut, sets it down. So, what's your name? Four. Four. Let us steal. Did you put 50 gold on the table?

No. No, I did. There was nothing fishy in the card shuffle and cut was there. Make an insight check. Just do it. Get them. Give them. 12.

Seem to be above board. All right. I'm going to keep an eye on the deal as well. Okay. So the first cards are dealt out for the first round. This is Gambit of Ord. This is different from the Crick Queen's Call. This is a Marquisian card game.

Okay. So roll a D8, but keep it hidden to yourself. So now I'm going to go ahead and raise another 50 gold. My goodness, this is getting expensive quite fast. Well, we deal with quite a large amount of liquid assets. 50 gold. So you put another 50 gold? All right.

Go ahead and roll the D6 and keep that secret alongside that die. Do you wish to raise? You first. I raised first last time. I'm offering you the chance to raise if you'd like. Funny how that works. I'm good where I am. Interesting. I'll raise another 50 gold.

Sounds good. 50 it is. Go ahead and roll at D4. It's holding his cards in his hand. Looks across at you. Looks all throughout the room. Well, Ford. Looks like it's time to call. Well, we're not gonna bet again?

Put another 100 gold on the table. Let's make it 150. Very well. That's all of my have. Have we seen anything suspicious from the deals or the... Jester wants you to know that from home she is watching the gentleman and making sure he is not cheating. Make an inside check for Jester and you make an inside check as well. Since you were both keeping him close.

She wrote really well. What's her mother fire added to an 18? Plus 4. Oh, 22. Did you say... Plus 4? 22. Actually, there has been no weirdness with the cards. This is a straight test of...

of luck. Oh, this man has the luck feat. And yeah, you don't see anything, nothing that catches ya. Less than Jester. Yeah. So we're now at a pot of 150 times two, 50 times two. So 600 gold, I believe, right? 50, 50, 50, and then 150, 150, 150.

300 is a 500. Did you start with 50, though? We started with 50, and then raised 50, and then raised 50. So that was 150, so it's 600 on the table. I can do math. It's 300 from each of them. All right, and he presents the dice that he had rolled or the cards that he had found, which is a five, a four, and a one. A grand total of ten.

Oh my god, oh my god, come on, forward. A seven, a five, and a three. That's the first thing we've ever won. As soon as you revealed the cards, it was like a, you kind of gasp in the room, and the gentleman, like, his muscles tense for a second, and he goes, Well played and well earned. Take the coin, it's yours. Thank you. Nice hand. Good to know that we have luck on your side as well. That's very important to me and the people I do business with. So, you have some balls throwing down that change and going into a game with me. I like that. Hmm. So what can our many gifts and my associates present to you? What are your strengths? What are your skills? I've heard you've done some deeds. Here you killed some terrible creature in the sewers, is that correct?

We did. We did. Yes, we fought and killed a giant spider of sorts. Right, right, which helped us tremendously, because we use the sewers quite often. That had become an issue with some of our transference in the subterranean sewers of the city. And unfortunately, the underworks themselves have been a bit clogged as of late. So thank you for that. And one of our compatriots, and he points up to one of the balconies on the side, and you can see behind the individual that had the rifle, you see Kara, the half-feld. Oh, I was going to ask for.

Who's kind of like stepping forward ever so slightly. It says, one of our compatrients has kept us up to speed about your infiltrations, I have to say. I'm impressed. Yeah, then you probably know we are not the best you're going to find, but we are up-and-comers. Not too bad, not too bad. Barry Verso, I'd have to say, though. Balanced. Good skill set. A good profile but low profile. Well, we are a company that specializes in the completion

of the tasks and trading of things, perhaps not the most legal, things that are restricted by the empire. That means our skills are best through speed, subterfuge, darkness. We don't have the best aside from muscle, beside from, well, I had to keep Sorah at my side, just in the case. Is that the Goliath? That's the Goliath, he refers. Sorah.

Sora. Okay, sorah. Sorah. Wait, the Goliath or the ogre? The Goliath. The Goliath. Okay, okay. Okay, okay.

Thank you. We're very strong. Very good. As you can see, Yasha is very strong. Well, you've caused enough chaos in the trisphire. in the Tri-Spire, you brought down one of the more corrupt, though strangely uncorruptible from our end politicians we've seen, and from what I hear, Lord Soutan is already in chains.

We had nothing to do with it. Not, I think. She's quick to tell the party line. Yeah. That's fine. We'll see how long Sutan stays in there. He has his ways, but depending on how strong a case you left behind and a little fornagling on our end, if our, Partnership grows mutually beneficial,

perhaps we can push that over the edge for them and keep them away for quite some time. Now, apparently I've also heard they're still seeking the murderers of the High Richter, particularly a purple-skinned teafling who was spotted not far from the home that night with rather ostentatious clothing, as well as a wandering dark-skinned youth,

a woman with quite physical capability. So, that doesn't bode well for you, does it? It sucks being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yeah. Well, as seeing as how we're friends now, I can say that I could probably make this investigation go away. Is this an investigation that you caused to begin with? No, this is an investigation that you caused.

Doing your bidding through one of your associates. My associate was making sure that the events would transpire in our favor, but nevertheless, we were not the orchestrators of the Knights of Requital. Let's assume this is not a gift you are offering. What is it that you are looking for in return? Oh, well, many gifts come once we've established a partnership. We become friends now, and I like friendship. That's great, that's fine. But I deal in trade mostly. So, I would like a favor and kind. And he leans forward a bit, and you can see some of the condensations is slowly dripping down the side of the face. kind of making a few spots on the table. Can I offer him a napkin?

As you hold a napkin out, the eyes catch you for a second. The head turns confused for a second. Right thought, not now. He just seems like he's fissing. He's fissing. I mean, it's not even humid in here. He's got a problem. About a mile out of the underworks beneath the city,

down the underground river pass that our shipments to the underlock and barrel-bend pass through. One of my men noticed a strange wall uncovered by time. We sent a team of our best infiltrators to see what this was about. Within a purple light, and the promise of ancient spoils seemed to peek from within, some sort of an abandoned research facility from ages past. My curiosity got the better of me, so we sent the team in order to seek it out. But amongst these few golden Latin objects that enticed my men, they are a superstitious lot, and upon being beset by a series of phantom globes, they fled and collapsed the entrance behind them. And you see him glare past you, and you hear the shifting of a few pieces of armor

as three individuals kind of avert their gaze. So those fucks have failed. I would like you to return to that site for me. Find a way in, inquire within, seek and, seeing as how you're so good at eliminating monstrous beasts, clearing the space of any dangers. Hostile creatures, return with any of your findings. Do this for me, and I will see that the scent is thrown off you permanently.

I'll even let you keep some of the spoils. This is most intradict. I hope we would be able to interview your previous compatriots. We'd like to know what they saw before what we might expect. Of course. By all means. Do we have a deal? To clear our name here in Zadash? How do we know that you can clear our name? We've proven to you that we're lucky. You know our reputation. We don't know anything about you. Let's say I've lived and worked a solid 15 years. 15 years orchestrating the seedy underbelly of this entire city. I've never been caught,

I've never been arrested, and I thrive in a pile of gold and riches you can only begin to imagine. I'm beginning to imagine it right now, actually. Good. That's very nice. Insight check. Make an inside check. I bet he edubates on that pile of gold. That is certainly one to grow on. Not good enough. That's... He's 12. I mean, he's a shifty individual by nature, but it's hard to get a sense of whether or not he would be trying to lie. Yeah, he's sweating. He must be nervous. If I may, we passed a test for you. Would you pass one for us?

Little what? You intrigue me. Young green skin. So overtly walking. overtly walking amongst the nobles above, and yet you've kept your throat. That says a lot about you. Yes, please tell me, what would this trial be you would ask of the gentleman? May I have three of those vials,

just the empty ones? Cree. Fumbles in the pouch brings out three of the empty glass vials and hands him over to you. If I were to fill two of these vials with ordinary alcohol and one with something else, would you be able to tell which is which? with your discerning eye and your years of experience.

Hmm, certainly. I feel confident. I'll take out my shitty flask, as my good one's gone, and fill two vials with alcohol, and then take out my vial of acid and pour it into the third. Are they reasonably the same color-ish?

Reasonably, I'd say the alcohol's a bit more brackish, the acid itself is a little more translucent, but you could possibly add a little bit of alcohol to it. All right, I'll take a little splash of alcohol and some deeper, some darker stuff, and sort of mix it around. You're an alchemist, you've dealt with varying chemicals. So I'd say, given a moment, you can go ahead

and match it fairly close, sure. All right, this one is the acid. These two are booze, and now I will try to. It doesn't actually switch hands, you just didn't miss a lot. Never mess with a goblin when death is on the line. Make us light a hand check versus his perception. You're gonna kill him, total.

15. 15 total? All right. You present the vials? If you die, I'm sorry. This one is alcohol. This one is alcohol. This one is acid.

And takes the acid from your grasp and uncoor. and drinks it. So roll the damage for your acid. I don't want to roll. It's 1d6 or something. It should be on the breakdown of your week. It's a little bit by alcohol. Acid vial.

I have it here actually. Wow. 2D6. Yes, roll 2D6. That is so bold. Oh my God. 11. 11.

All right, so he downs it, but it doesn't seem to have as much of an effect on him. It looks like it hurt. and he like kind of takes it and you know the muscles tense a bit the face twitches as it goes down and it burns but then he takes the vial and corks it again rolls it across the table does that satisfy your inquiry that's good that was impressive I mean you passed the test sir Good, good, I like it. I will say the only thing that I can think of that I would want to,

not even necessarily addend to this contract if we are going to do this to you, is I'm looking to stay on the down low in general. If we can just agree that even my presence in this city necessarily, as far as it's concerned is none of anybody's concern outside this bar, I would be forever grateful. We deal well in secrecy, my friend. I figured you would. Lucian, was it?

Sometimes. Very well. Sir, I couldn't help but hear that you said this is about a mile outside of the city. Is that correct? Correct. Are you operating on any sort of a timeline? Might we have a little bit of lenience with how quickly we get this dealt with? The sooner the better, because we can begin opening that line. We've now two weeks and three shipments lost. I've just had a thought. Actually, if you could help us at the same time, we're trying to get a friend of ours out of the city, and recent events seem to have clogged up most entries and exits. We have a friend, Horace, that needs to find his way to a safe spot.

Kara knows him real well. Right. This would be Dolan's partner, yes. Indeed. Discretion is appreciated. We specialize in discretion and specialize in smuggling. And specialize in people. I figured you might. So, do this deed? We'll consider this part of your gift. Outstanding. I think we have a deal, do we not?

Yeah. I find all of this very agreeable. Good. Very good, quiet one. Now, we have access to the tunnels. Of course, we'll have to blindfold you to bring you through the underworks to the tunnel that leads to this underground river when you decide to leave, just because there's a lot of secrets down here and we're still building our trust. But come back in whenever you're ready. We'll be happy to escort you and send you on your way. Outstanding. How long do you keep our blood for?

Oh, as long as we have our arrangements. But we get it back when we're done? Or if we decide to not work with you anymore? If you've proven yourself trustworthy enough in the long term, perhaps. But understand, this is just a... Precaution. Who's to know? Perhaps things go sour in a few months. I want to make sure that you don't double cross me and send the guard down. Does he look like he's speaking from experience? He's a little twitchy. Make an insight check. Then 14.

It seems that he's... It's more that he's lived this long by being careful. And when a bunch of strangers suddenly find the secret pass into his layer, he wants to be damn well sure. That he knows where to find you, if need be. Fair enough. Never the name Lucian doesn't leave this bar outside, I never want to hear it uttered. I don't know who any of you are outside of this bar. Really? Don't worry. Anyway, he throws his feet back up on the table.

Drinks are on me till you make your leave. Fantastic. Not pace yourself now, you hear. Quality, not quantity. Quality, not quantity. Is that Goliath wielding any of... wielding any sort of visible weapon? At the moment it does not appear there's a weapon immediately on the Goliath, but as you look behind in the corner, right behind the chair where the gentleman sits,

there looks to be one hefty ass mall, like a giant just chunk of solid metal with a long handle on it that is just kind of resting against the stone. Ogre and the Goliath malls each. Look. They like to break the wall. Who were the two guys that said that they passed out trying to get away from the creepy ancient facility?

Yeah, they were armored behind us. There's three guys. There's three guys. There's the bar of the chamber, and then next to that, to the right of the actual bar, there's a doorway that opens up. It looks like a storeroom. It's kind of underneath the top balcony. And underneath the balcony right next to where the ogre is kind of posting watch here in the center of the tavern, the three of them are kind of just sitting on the side of the tower.

were kind of just sitting off to the side, looking uncomfortable. They were sitting earlier, and since all this happened, they kind of stood to attention and haven't found a comfortable moment to sit down. Just like kind of three-shifty, kind of roguy underbelly types. Yeah, you look over, you see two of them appear to be human, relatively young, probably mid to late 20s. Scruffy looking one has like a darker kind of more of a froy hair

that's kind of uncapped and covering part of his face. The other one has very, very short cut hair and a dark complexion, kind of brown red. They're both wearing darker leathers and cloaks that are kind of thrown over one shoulder. They're holding tankards in their hand, and they're both kind of talking amongst each other while keeping an eye on you.

That group looks like your type. Feel like making friends. My favorite pastime. The third one appears to be a half-link female who is kind of just sitting in the corner quietly, sitting out of the tankard and looking nervously around. Want to accompany me? Would love to.

Let's go. So just the two of you, Poachin? Sure, anyone else wants to join. I'm taking a long look at Crea, and I want to see if I see any of the things that I expect to see. What do you expect to see there, T? You know, dander. I want to see if there's any markings or any otherwise that I would expect to see. Oh, I can make a perception check.

All right. Why are you locking your iPad between every move? Because it's better that way. Perception check. Both notes. Wow, that's a terrible role. That's a five. A fur covered to back, see it's hard to make any details out beyond the fur, unfortunately. All right, that's fair.

All right, so the two of you approach the corner. Cara's kind of watching you as you step past and kind of steps back into the balcony, outer site. I just kind of give her like a little one another walk by. She kind of goes... Deal with that later. I was going to say the same thing. As you approach the two two. gentlemen in the female half in the corner and they just watch you they don't engage you

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That was mine. He takes it and the guy with the larger, curly hair kind of takes it and pours it into his own and sets it back down. Thank you. So, I heard you guys got all eb-be-geby-past out in your last little mission. And then the guy kind of elbows him.

He's like, shut up. Now that's cool. We're here to clean up your all shit, so. No. Look, we signed up for this to make quick money. We're good at moving quickly. We're good at seeing what's worthwhile. We're good at picking things out.

We're not good at dealing with spooky, fucking undead ghost things, okay? So we went in, we went through this path, we found a crack in the wall, we kicked it down, we went inside, there was a staircase, went up and down, It went downstairs, it seemed empty, it was kind of confusing, and we didn't see anything of interest. Went upstairs the staircase, a little spiral staircase, and there was a much larger chamber, and we started looking around for anything worthwhile.

It looked like it got picked clean long ago, dust everywhere. And the more began to look, there was just this cold temperature in the room, and eventually these little lights began to just come out of the wall. And at first we were kind of curious by them, but one of them, got really close to Theret over there, and he suddenly shocked in his serious jolt, and you see him on the back, enough, like looking a bit spook for calling the story. He goes, we knew him within these,

whatever the fuck these things were, they weren't friends of ours, so we got our shit and we ran him. We had a small explosive, so we threw up behind us to collapse the wall and hoping that at least it would slow him down. We realized in hindsight it was pretty stupid, because if they were spectral enough come out of the walls, they still could have followed us,

but we got up the river from there, We got our boats and made our way back. Let me get this straight. A bunch of fucking floating lights came out of the wall, gave your boy a little static shock, and you ran? They both look at each other and look at the half-lang and the half-ling. It was like, I wasn't gonna stay behind.

Yeah. Well, they're calling in the big leaguers now, so we'll take it from here. You're way up and down those stairs you mentioned. Do you get tripped up along the way, or was it just easy sailing? Any traps? We didn't go into the bottom chamber.

That looked ominous enough. Why? Why? What about it was ominous? It's just like a big kind of octagonal dome chamber. It had this kind of faint purplish glow in the inside. Are you afraid of geometry? I don't.

Yeah. Scared to school. Yeah, oh yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, old terrors. Uh-huh. Look, can come by and sats me all you fucking want. I've been here for two years. You newcomers walking here and think you're all tough shit.

You think it's so great, go. Go in there, come back. Try to turn in the garbage to the hang of balloons. It's all the whole. Still again. Sorry. So I think you're tough shit. You go take care of it.

I appreciate your passion. I don't think you're really in great favor in this room at the moment. And you see that really tall woman over there with that big great sword on her back? She doesn't appreciate when people talk to us like that. Make an intimidation check. Do I see him point at me? Do I see him point at me? Flex.

Thirteen. Thirteen? Okay. No, no. Fifteen, sorry. He was looking over at you, kind of, you could see him swallowing hard. Put my hand on my hilt, and pull it out just a little bit. Hey, no, I understand that, and that's great.

It looks like you guys are much more well equipped for this shit than we are. Look, I'm not saying we're better than you. We're better at some things. You're better at others. That's why they're sending you in, because we can't fight fucking ghosts. You go for it. No, we're just giving you a hard time, man. We're just, it's fun.

The whole time this was happening, I was like rubbing my feet against the ground building up the static shock. It's stone, but sure. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

My shag armor. Yeah, just re-bar my friend. All right, thank you so much, man. All right. Sorry, can help us. Did you three have a name? The mighty, mighty dry. Don't be ashamed if you don't.

The guy is talking to us. That's Hannah there. I'm Luis. He takes your pauses for a moment. Takes your hand. Go get this thing. Don't worry. We'll clean it up for you. Enjoy your drinks.

We'll join the others. Yeah. Do I do this? Do I not deal with this? Well, I think you should deal with this. I don't want to deal with this. Does any of this sound familiar to you from your past? I hate this.

I'm gonna stand up and walk over to Cree. Okay. Cree is kind of still standing by the bar with the satch on. As you stand up and start approaching, she kind of smiles. Lifetime ago. Indeed. I can't tell you. It's so good to see you. I have a weird question. And I apologize for it.

I apologize for it. The spell I used to get away. It meant I wasn't there for as long as you thought I was. I missed how a bit of everything ended in the end. I hate to ask, but I was long gone before anything really started to go down. How did everything end? Can you just, I just, I'll explain why in a moment.

Well, I mean, you had acquired the tone with the ritual spell that she required to attempt to reach the city. And that lady, I don't remember her name, the Spellinger from the capital, she came and oversaw and performed the ritual for you. I don't trust those folk, but I trust you. And if you trust it, then that was enough for me.

Oh, I... And you gave us a... We had a fine meal, and we all got ready there in the forest. That's why I lost you then. And she said it would be hard for us to tell whether or not it worked at first, but we went and checked and you are not breathing. For a good hour, you are not breathing and you are gone cold. So we knew then that we had lost you.

We checked nigh, and I, And I'm very attuned to vitals, as you know. So there was no heartbeat. So we waited longer. The sun rose, nothing. So as you told us, if anything were to go wrong, we had to give a if any sign, any trace. So not far from the tomb taker hide out, we buried you.

and we went our separate ways. She took the tomb, the mage woman. That was part of the arrangement you had with her. I'm gonna have to find her again at some point. The reason I've stayed quiet, it was never going to work. Somebody was working against me. I don't know who, but I can't trust anyone. I saw how you reacted to seeing me and it was,

I'm willing to believe it wasn't you who turned. But it could have been her. but it could have been one of us. That's why I needed to keep it quiet, please. Make a deception check. You're starting to get in deep into this now. Oh, 13. To see if I can overhear anything. Make a perception check. Oh.

I can't. 12. You start wandering over, but there's too much noise and general din in the chamber around you to make anything out. There'll come a moment where I can tell you everything, but it's so complicated. Please just keep it quiet for now. Of course. Until I know that everyone's going to react the way that you did to see me. Right. Of course, Lucien. I will tell you everything eventually.

Please, please too. I give a hug. There's like a moment pause and then Cree kind of takes in the hug too. Too long. There's like a faint purr in the ear and then you hear the voice kind of whisper to say, it's good to see you. I'm sorry for everything. I have the pat and head back to the table.

Me too. As you walk away. Well, that conversation happened. Yes. Can I speak to you just for a second? Would. That was a princely son you just wager to it there. Yeah.

Good thing I won, huh? Yes, it is. That wouldn't have, by any chance, it would have been recompense for everything we did the other night, or are you rolling in it? Am I rolling in it? Yeah, I'm wondering if you just wagered the party's funds on a very calculated risk.

Oh, no, I was actually only gambling my funds. So you come with funds on you? Yeah. Do you know I would be all right if you had? I am a fan of calculated risks. Are you? Yeah? It was just, you know, you're flush, I understand. At the moment.

Inside check. You're getting inside check. I'm telling the truth. Yeah. Okay. I didn't, I didn't even divvied up that amount from Dolan and everybody else. Seems forthright. Good to know, calculated risks.

I'll keep that in mind. I thought you'd like to play things close to the chest. Oh, if the reward is good and it's not stupid. Sometimes you gotta get a little stupid though. Maybe. I'm gonna walk over with a new round of drinks. Here, drink this, I'm told they're stupid. Oh.

Molly, you have, sorry, Lucian. No, that's not it either. Sorry, non-nagnagatech. Yep. Lucien for the moment, we'll talk about it later. Would you like us to call you Lucian or do you want us to call you Molly? In here we're Lucian. How many names are there? Is it Overton or Under?

Let's have a conversation somewhere else. I don't know who's listening here. She seemed like real into you, but not like an into you, like a, oh, I want to tap that kind of into you, but in like a, I've watched you walk on water type of into you. Yeah, that was a weird amount of into you, wasn't it? Yeah. Can you change that alcohol into wine?

Yeah. I'm gonna cut my finger. Just a bit and bleed into it. With one of your long finger names. Holy shit. You know, to a dumb ass that actually is kind of convincing. It's alcohol one way the other all fucking drink. Is it wine?

No. Oh, that's a bloody wine. It's water with a hint of iron afternation. Well, worth the try. Right with you know, Talison. Molly, oh, excuse me. Lucian. Nantucket.

Yeah, how many others around here might we expect that have that same reaction towards you? We will have this conversation outside this bar. This is basically Talasin at Rinfair. Lushie will... Oh, Lord Talison! Lord Talison! This is fucking Stacc.

He's coming out of every stall. What the hell, man? She's not going to answer any questions, Molly will answer. Every question you have later. If you're not going to answer any questions, can we please direct some to Yasha over here? Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming back.

I've missed you. Where were you? Where'd you go? Why did you leave? Sometimes I have things. to do. Can you just tell us what you're doing? I'm sorry if I just leave. Why do you need to know so many things?

You're not afraid of inclement weather or anything, are you? I mean, it'd have been real fair that storm rolled in, and poof, you were just fucking gone. She left us before. We were ambushed in all field, and when she left us this time, we were almost died in this plot to overthrow the empire or whatever it was with Cric soldiers. Maybe it's related. Pretty shit luck for you, then. That's nothing to do with me. Look, I respect a woman who can handle her business on her own personal time. Thank you very much, Bo.

Thank you. I just, sometimes I just need to leave. I'm plus I barely know you guys, so. They're not used to you yet. That is true. Do you think you will be able to travel with us for a little while, perhaps? And I get to know us.

I could use a hand for a bit. We'll see. Did you handle what you needed to handle? I think I did. I think I'm just looking for something, answers for something, and I don't know if I received any more, but I'm still looking, so. If you told us what it was, we could help you. I don't know if you can. Oh, you know, no pressure at all, but it is nice to have some muscle around. Lots of pressure. Thank you. A maximum amount of pressure. Thank you not. I'll stick around and offer

my strength as much as I can. She is just Josh and you. I am not. I am not. She is definitely not Joshi. I just make sure not strength is full all the time. Can I look around this unsavory place that there are no faces that I recognize, right? Glancing around, no?

Other than Vincara, who you would speak. spoken with previously. Nobody else catches your attention. What is she doing right now? She's still watching us? No, she's not watching you. She's kind of receded into the top balcony into a chamber behind. Did we, I mean, it seemed like the gentleman, who was very impressive, by the way. She was. Knows a lot about stuff, including the fact that we were involved in the plot and frame the Sutan fellow. He knows Kara pretty well.

Do you think he would know if the Jorjas invasion at the same time as our little plan was part of a, was a bigger conspiracy where we set up? Well, why would we be set up? I don't know, but it seems quinky dinky that we were just there on a night when towers were exploding. I think we should talk to Kara. I've just kind of been like playing hard to get, kind of just waiting to see if she, you know, mingles around to us, you know? You're so coy. Yeah, I think Carr's the way to go. We start asking him questions about something that big.

Maybe he won't like us poking our nose around. Yeah, well, check, I mean, shit happens, and you've got to be doing something when shit happens. We just happen to be doing something. When shit happened. It's hardly a coincidence. You guys are going to Johras? No.

There was a bit of a beat down the other night. A trispyre. One of the towers was attacked. When did you get in town? I saw that. You were here. I was here. I've been here the whole time.

What were you up to? I was just trying to figure some shit out. What was it? What we commonly refer to in the circus as Yashaing. Oh, Yashing. I like to, I'm... Make it happen. We have been getting our hands dirty a little bit.

Are you sure you want to get your hands dirty with us? That's all I like to do, my friend. That's direct. It's a sight to behold. Well, uh... You want to go talk to Kerrari. before we get out of here. Wait, what was the Jorhaus?

Oh, Jorahsassans tried to steal a box of some sort that was a weapon of mass destruction or a portal to another dimension or some sort of font of energy that powers their race. We have no idea, but they stole it. We encountered them in the sewers. We did not kill the Jorahs assassin, but he was killed shortly thereafter and we stole his magical Dentecahedia. You said that in this bar. We stole it from the Crownscar.

You said that in this bar. Oh, God. Let's not, let's not, let's not say anything in here that we wouldn't want to be circulated through. All you need to know is, you know, yeah, we're among. The people from Jorhaz are dead now. Do you, do you know people from Jorahas? I'm from Johas. What?

Who are you? Wait, is that a beer? Yes. Pots of, but not, probably not where they were from. You're a, is it, can I say Crick? Is that okay? Do I have to be a Crick to say it? No, I wouldn't be. It depends on who you're talking to. I don't think I'm where they're from, but I'm more southern parts of

Baptist. Jorhaust, so. You're from that part of the world? No, I don't know exactly where they were from. I don't know who they are. I don't know anything about them, so. Yeah, they came in trying to steal this beacon, this glowing beacon, which we still have, but they were mighty upset about it. Okay.

How long have you been in the empire? Just make sure that was wrecked, actually. That is great. Yeah. Well, you don't know if you were born there or just... I was supposed to be a little different. A little different. I grew up there?

Yeah, yes. How long have you been here in the Empire? Well, for about, I don't know, when did I meet you? Oh, God, was it a year and a half ago? Yeah, give a take. How many people are listening in on this Quirley right now? Yeah, make a perception check. I'm doing a scan, see if there's any wondering eyes.

14. Okay. Actually, 17, sorry. 17. 17. As is the nature of CD Underbelly, there are a lot of individuals who are very interested in the newcomers that Waltston made a deal with their boss

and have sat and had a drink and are talking all sorts of business. So there are a number of folks that are like slowly creeping in. Please stop talking in here. What do you mean people who are listening to heavy metal guarbabe, Purple Guy and Little Green Girl and Adonleger? Of course they're listening to everything we say. That's good point. Let's retire for the evening.

Don't we need to talk to Kara? We can come back and do this tomorrow. No, she's right here today. You talk to Kara then, but no more, no more whatever this is until. Why, Lucian, you afraid the myriad will hear? Are you working for her? What's his reaction?

He definitely got a thing. Should anyone lay a little drunk and didn't remember who the myriad were? Do I believe him? I make an inside check. Oh. Shit. 11.

What am I doing? Deception? Uh, ten. So I have to tell the truth. Yeah. I have no idea. I literally forgotten because I'm a little drunk and I'm really preoccupied right now. You don't know.

I'm just doing it to me. Just the fuck with it. I am going to have Frumpkin jump into Knott's lap and just sort of do that on her fingers just to keep her occupying. All right. I'll eat you. I'll eat you. Do you know Lucian 2? You go through the door and there's a switchback stairway

that leads to the upper balcony area. And as you head up there, it looks like there's a weapon rack, it has a bunch of weapons set up. Kara is currently sitting on the edge of a bench and it's just kind of sharpening the blades, like small daggers and stuff and looks back. Oh, hello. Set it aside.

Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to deceive anyone. That's sort of my business. So you were deceiving us. Well, I was just keeping some things close to my chest, like I'm sure you do. Mm-hmm. What's that saying? Be careful the toes you step on, they might belong to the ass. You got a kiss later. That's a good way.

I don't remember that one. Yeah, yeah. Look, I deceived no one outside of what you needed to know. We got our business done. I've done nothing wrong. How much of this was orchestrated from the beginning? Were we a distraction? for the bigger picture. What do you mean? The attack on the tower.

Oh, the Craig attack on the tower? No, no, no, no. Nothing to do with us. We're not gonna work with those savage beasts? Inside check. Go for it. I was looking at you. Yes.

21. 21. Free and tubing. You still need a whisper quarter. Ashley, Ashley's back. That's me, that's me, that's me, I'm sitting here. As we're back in the game, we're not sure, we're waiting to find out. But here, I'll be here for a minute now.

That wasn't planned by anyone. If anything, it might have saved our asses because it made it kind of what you did, small potatoes by comparison. So I'm thankful that happened, but that, look, those things continue to attack us from the eastern border, eastern border and from little information's coming through, which is getting worse with each passing week, so the last thing I want to do is let any more of them into our backyard.

Oh, all right. You won't want to frame them in any type of larger scheme, considering it seems like you're quite irritated with them. Look, I know my limits. Not some mastermind. No, it's not- I want to make some coin, I want to work with one of my skillsets, make the boss happy.

I stay mainly within the city. I don't want to deal with any bigger stuff than that. I'm just a girl. I'm asking you a question, you're probably not going to give me the truth to. Is your relationship with the gentleman one of a debt or one of convenience? I was one of convenience. It was keeping it short for you. It sure beats pit pocket on the streets and being beaten when I'm caught.

I hear that. Interesting. How long have you been working for the gentleman? About eight years. It's a long time. I work my way up. So you feel the same about the Jorhasaan as you do? As far as I know, yeah.

It's not good for business. You know, it's not as difficult to rally a society of people against another. It's not too easy or not too hard to start a war if you really want to. That's true, but I don't know of his whole plan per se, but you know, business works well when things are predictable. Right? And when there's war involved, things get real and predictable. Motions are high, being the amount of armed guard

and military gets high. We're kind of forced to skulking the shadows until it blows over. Last thing you want is for all this to get any crazier than that. I only have one other thing. I was taken by Dolan's passionate message. Dolan's a good man. He's not caught up in all this. Don't try and mix us up in that right.

He doesn't deserve it. All right. Is some of the business that we can expect gonna go against the fair people of the city? Generally, no. Most of the folks that work with the gentlemen and that we work for are well paying because they're well off, and some of them

aren't the most moral either. We don't do anything that hurts the folk that don't deserve it, at least from what I know. We don't kill, we don't murder, we just, move and sell and deal in various goods that aren't perfectly legal. Did Ulaug and Dolan know about your involvement with the gentleman?

No. All right, so here's my question. Ulog was in it against the high Richter. That was his motivation. Right. Dolan wanted to get after Lord Sutan for running out of his practice. Right.

What did you get out of all of all of us? all this? Well, if I have a friend that makes it high in the political chain of the city, Dolan, and I have the ear of the gentleman, well, that's a mighty powerful ally to the underworld without that ally knowing. Indeed. That's a connection worth the trouble. And you're only in it to be a middleman. No goals or aspirations yourself? There's good money and being the middleman if this works out. And to be honest, it sure beats having to shuffle in the shadows. I work better in public anyway. That's kind of what I do for the gentleman now.

Yeah, you got a nice face. It's good for presentory purposes. You got a nice face? She does. Look, she's got a good face. I'm glad you found a place here. It was good to see you again. You too. Sorry.

That was a compliment. Did it not? I know. If I could, you didn't. That was a compliment. Guess we'll see you around. Stay safe. You know where to find me or at least ask about me now? Looks like we're in bed one way or the other.

I mean. Leave that one alone. All right, yeah, let's go. We head downstairs. All right, you're joining with the rest of the crew. You guys have all gathered again. What would you like to do? It's like six of one. Like situationally, I mean, it could be a thing. They're talking about the sword.

Yeah, we've been talking about the sword. Oh yeah, the one that we had for... Yeah. Jester has it, isn't she? Yeah. Jester, by the way, you seriously, your farts have been disgusting tonight. I've been sitting next to you all night, and it's just foul. It's foul.

It's like sprinkles and hard candy, just... P... That's not me. That is just a gift from the trevor. Her skirt is like... This is why you don't miss a game, Laura. No, no, I know. It counts tonight.

Jester, why are you smearing feces all over your face? It's waffing over. Oh, anyway. Lucian... We can pass out the sword later, but do you think it's something you could use? Yeah. It's a, like a dark, graphite-colored blade that's hooked in places and this kind of gradual It's a long sword, so it's not the beefy thing you're used to.

What does she wield usually? Great sword. It's a big, a big, heavy blade. A moon-touched sword. So what you're used to, this one's a little smaller. It's still helpful, but... Okay. It's your call.

I think I really saved up for the sword that I have, and... I feel you. I think you guys for thinking of me, but... Could you have it as a backup weapon or something, or... You could shoulder that, motherfucker. Could you do you do it? Or like two on one side. You could use it with your hexplate, yeah.

But it means you can use it two-handed to do with the ten, but it's up to you. It's not as hefty or sentimental as the one you have. We'll hold on to it. Hold on, we'll see if you want to play around with it. You could use it, you know, for a swimmer or a little. Literally, I think it's taller than not. Yeah, it's taller than not.

Yeah, many things are taller than not. I could use it as a makeshift shelter. I think they did a poleball today. It's got some interesting stuff there. What do you think for it? Yeah. I think it's got some potential. You might have I hold on for a bit? No, by all means.

I think I'm a bit attached to my sword. Can I just kind of clock the Tabaxi and see where that satchel with our blood in it is? Did she happen to put it down while she was over her shoulder and by her side? That's a shame. That's a shame because I wanted to get it back. Take it. Now, why don't you ask that big over by the door what their name is? Why? Why would I do that?

You just have such a way with people. I do not. You knock down the barriers, you get right in, icebreaker. No, it's not true at all. I will go with you if you want, if you want to ask this. There is no part of this that I want. But if you would like to go over there, I'll be your second. To the ogre.

Yeah, we're just going to, I'd be comfortable talking to that little crazy no. Always going to be very close to the door. You gotta know this. That's a fair point. All right, we can go talk to the ogre. Tell them that stupid, though. All right, sure. Let's go.

All right, can we go by the bar though? This is a people building exercise. So to lay it out, the whole room kind of shaped like an L. So if you look like, here's the far end, and this is the chamber, right? You guys entered from this side, and so around the corner the ogre's right there.

The bar's up here, and this is where the gentleman was. I'm just going to swing by the bar, I need a refill. Yeah, okay. Okay, give the bartender my flask and say, could you fill this entire thing up? Yeah, no problem, bar said it's fine. Excellent. Thank you.

Just practiced. It's a little spilled, a little, it wasn't the left, it's a little messy. I don't tip. Character choice. Character choice. Oh, important note. Laura Bailey has texted in that she hates us all.

All right, we'll go over to the ogre, I guess. Sure, this is easy. We're all going to die. You approached the ogre? Yeah, yeah. The ogre is standing about roughly 10, 11 feet tall. This is a male oaker. This is a male oaker.

wearing kind of like patchwork hides and fur over one shoulder, large belly, rippling muscle arms. The mall kind of held in one hand kind of resting against the chest. That deep, angry jaw that has like a jowls that almost swing as it turns its head to look towards you. Both the eyes are like dark and beady with like a brown iris you can barely see under the folded brow. As you approach, you kind of... I also grab a jester by the wrist and drag her along because she makes everyone and smile, so I bring her with. Yeah, hello. I'm sorry to bother you, but I think that we are loosely connected through work relations now.

This is... Hello. This is my friend Not. This is Chester. My name is Caleb with our guest. And we are working for the gentleman, much like you are. So I was just, you know, we are going to be here. What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea!

My dear! No. Oh, oh. You were open. Come on. Come on. Oh, that's great. Oh, no.

It didn't work. It didn't work. Literally rolled an intelligence check to see if it got it. And did not. You know, we don't want to take up too much of your time. I was just hoping to learn two things. Two things. One, what is your name?

Who, sir? Jesus. I wipe the warm breath off of my face. And my second question is, do you like working for the gentleman? I've been informed by Jester that she is now to use the wand of smiles. She strikes. It looks so painful. It looks so painful.

Thank you, Laura. And Elaine? I can talk it to you. It was like clawing at the jaw trying to pull it down. I will take that as a yes. I am glad we are doing business with this gentleman. Good to meet you. You do this.

No, no, he wasn't. Let's go, let's go. Where's you go? Let's go. This terrible grinning ogre who seems confused with the facial muscles of the not functioning. We go up the stairs and out. All right.

You guys made friends. That's all we do is my friends. K-Thaw. K-U-T-H-A. K-U-T-H-A. K-U-T-H-A. K-T-H-A. Kut-T-H-A.

Kut-T-A. Kut-A. You guys make your way back up the spiral staircase, out through the trap door in the back storage room at the evening nip, exiting past the bar where Clive Benz sits there waiting with his half-burned-dwarven face who gives you a nod as you exit back into the city. Now, I believe in the city.

late afternoon near dusk, the sky grows darker as you proceed on to the next leg of your venture. That's where we're going to take a break. We'll be back here in a few moments, guys. Please stick around. We have a great little video about 826 that I think you want to check out. It's awesome. A bunch of us went down there and I hope. The loveliest time, it was a great day. Please check it out. We've got back again on Saturday to finish up our campaign for those kids, which is going to be exciting. But yes, so we have our Wormwood giveaway, of course, for you folks out there. So those of you want to come over into Twitter,

To enter the code for tonight is Gentleman, a singular, Gentleman. Gentleman, not men, man. You can only enter it once in the chat, any more than that, you'll be disqualified. This is good for everyone in the United States, Canada, excluding Quebec, unfortunately, due to crazy rules and laws. But here you have this fancy zebra with deck box, which is nice material that we're all going to be signing and sending out. So we'll come back from the break with the winner. Until then, hang tight, enjoy the break, and we'll see you. We'll be here in a few minutes. Ladies,

Yes. Welcome back. Great time. Yeah. So, we have our winner for the evening for the warm one giveaway. It is Luke Rouge. Louvreau. Congratulations.

Donobo will get your information, and we'll get that sent out to you ASAP. So congrats! All right, bringing us back into the game. You guys have all reassembled with a moment of your thoughts on the outside of the evening nip. Just as the sun has set, the oranges and purples that the sky have taken over with the little bits that you can see beyond the cloud cover that still seems to permeate the atmosphere above you. With the recent storm mostly past, it seems at least the gray skies are cleaning as hard as they can. What do you wish to do? The sun's on its way down, you said? The sun has just recently said. I feel like I should divvy up that gold that I didn't add out earlier.

I think it's a very fine idea. Yeah, I'll remember to go back to the leaky tap. I have to remember to do that some other day. That also sounds like a very fine We know that's safe. We should also probably check in on the Dodeca Dohiki as well. He's a fair point. Oh, right. Does Jester have that? Yes. Juster has it, yeah, inside the... Oh. She has it. Right, she has it. Everybody knows me. And I guess we should let Horace know that he'll get an escort out of town, right? Yeah. He was at the Leaky Tap, right? We loved one.

Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Let's do that. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right, so you guys head back to Leaky Tap. You head back to your chambers, and within the one room, Horace has been very careful. As soon as you open the door, Horace me like grabs the nearby chair and gets ready. Oh, you've returned. Going for the chair. I'm into it. Yeah, right?

Sorry, just a little jumpy. How are things going? How's the search been? It went well. I think we found suitable passage for you out of this city. Needless to say, without involving you too much, we're gonna have someone take you out a secret entrance and make sure you're safe on your way out. I hope you're okay with being blindfolded. I trust you, yeah. Sorry. Yeah.

I was. Yeah, I guess it was. Okay. No, that's fine. Oh. Thank you. I can't even begin to express my things. Much fucking gold. Stred by there. Six hundred and twenty. Is Dolan?

Dolan gone already? Dolan's staying. Dolan's staying. Horace is getting out of Dodge. Okay. Horace, have you heard anything while we've been gone, or have you been kind of staying in here? I've been staying in here.

I've been looking at the windows. There's been more guard activity in the streets. It looks like they're making their way inward into this city and beginning to inquire at least from what I've seen. That's it. Other than that I've just been bored and reading this book. Page Turner.

Any favorite parts? No. I hate those. Pictures are good? There aren't any pictures. The fuck are you reading it for, then. Anyway. Your grog is showing.

Yeah, sorry. Listen, everybody gets a hundred and four gold. 104 gold. Yep, and three silver. No, not you. Not yet. Fuck off. I was there on the spirit.

How many sold him? What did you say? Three silver. This is a good time to mention that in between last game and this. Oh, right, right. T-A-trip's not. You can buy can't trip scrolls. Right, but Caleb would have known that after Liam had asked the DM.

So we're switching out that cantrip for hold person if that was at the store. Right. Yeah, it was. And it paid a difference. And Caleb is flat broke until right now. There you go. We're skirting that edge. I live that life for three years. There's so much ramen. It's D&D ramen. Paycheck, paycheck, it's gone. Yeah. Anyway.

Well, I assume they'll come for you sometime in the night or in the morning. I hope you won't mind if we don't wait. We kind of traded your expedited journey out of the city in order for us to go and take care of something. A bit of business for them. Very well. Just tell me what you need of me or what I should. should do. We didn't really ask, did we? I thought he was coming with us when we go to leave. That's what I thought.

Oh. But is that, or am I mistaken? No, I think that's probably right. You didn't specify, but that seems like it might be a viable plan. Either that or they'll kill him. What? Out of game, out of game. Don't, you're not. DM's not here. DM's not here. DM's always here. We should probably blindfold him ourselves on the way there, so we just don't even. We'll figure it out, we'll figure it out. You blindfold him on the way to being blindfolded?

Yeah. Because if we take him down into the evening nip with us and they're going to want to do the whole, let me take your blood thing and you weren't here and who the fuck are you and all that shit. Oh, true. So we don't want to do that. How are you going to do that? Sorry, also Marisha talking right now. Maybe just before we go in.

Sounds far. Anything we want to do before we go out on this errand? Oh, I think there was one thing. Tell us everything about you. Horace. Oh, are you fucking kidding me? Leave. Leave Horace, leave.

You might go downstairs for a second. I'll step into one of the other rooms, so a key I could over up. I toss them one of adjusters key. Get into the next chamber. Just don't steal any of the pillowcases that go through and you have a luggage. You got their booby trap. Okay.

Leaves the room. So you know, he's the room. Jessica goes. Okay, so tell us about you. Each. I mean, this is not about me right now. It could be. It doesn't need to be.

Well, you have secrets too. So do you. And you're a pair. You know, I distinctly remember a moment when we were the shady pair of this group, but now it looks like you guys are. Everyone's a shady pair in this group. Somehow, even as individuals, we are all somehow shady pairs. It is just inevitable. Now I'm hungry for pairs. It sounds like retirement home. Shady pairs. Shady pairs.

Shady pairs. Oh, good. Just outside of white, too. Yeah. I mean, Lucian, Nagin. Oh, God. What the fuck? All right. Lusion sounds very like I'm trying to find myself, by the way, just throwing it out there.

No, that's fair. Axty T. Yeah, it's very extened. Is your real name Peter? I dated a few lutions, like way too many lutions. Is this... Marisha or is this... This is this...

Okay, never mind, never mind. Don't want to know too much. Oh, but it's still not necessarily untrue. I've been the lution in... We've all been losing. We've all been losing. No need to tell you. Six to one, half a dozen of another.

A board of the story. A lot of guys in bands, it's Rio. So, well, I was born on the continent of him. I really, hmm. No, no, stop. Just keep going. Would you like a drink? Yeah.

Super epic. Yeah. It's filled with many alcohols from different taverns. I genuinely thought I would have some bullshit together by now, and I'm really sort of stuck. sort of stock. Listen, I've never pushed you to talk about anything. If you don't feel comfortable, you don't know any of us anything. It's dangerous, though. It's officially dangerous. What, to tell us what you're about to tell us? For us or for you?

At this point, what's the difference? Well, one's us and one's you. We definitely loved our vials in a shady cellar with a bunch of underground criminals. I don't... I stole three empty vials from that place. I'm very empty vials. I'm very excited about them. They're empty, but they're still really shiny. They're all the same note, because they're all fucking ugly. Oh, no, I wonder. But seriously.

But seriously. I have been part of a shady group. I've been dealing with shady friends for as long as I can remember. If there's one thing I've learned about dealing with people that you can't trust, is that you kind of have to trust them where you can and not trust them where you can't. And I'm not saying I have, I'm not saying that I'm, I know what I'm doing or anything, but I don't want anybody, I want this to work. I need this to work. So I've not done this in a while. All right.

I noticed that she kind of had the same influence over the blood that you have. but different. Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? This might even be easier if you just ask questions. I really don't know how to tell this story. Why do you have so many names? I woke up without any names or any past, buried in the ground two years ago.

Buried in the ground. You woke up buried in the ground. Were you dead? Obviously not. In a box, in the dirt? In the dirt. And you are saying that you have no man. My first memory, my oldest memory, is dirt in my face underground.

Is that what that one? Jester would like to cast Zone of Truth. Oh! Oh, no. Oh, no. All right. Good girl. Keeping a reel in the field line.

She says, I would like to play truth or dare, but without the dare. How honest do I have to be? We'll find out in a second. Okay. Well, you can say whatever you want, but whatever you say, has to be true. You cannot speak a lie. You can also just say I don't feel like talking.

All right, all of you who are in the 15 foot radius that's being cast in, which would probably be, everybody. If you're all staying close on this, everybody, please make a charisma saving throw. Wow, boy. Charisma saving throw. I got a one. $10.

$10. It's $100. $100. $100. What? That's even better. $100 for every natural one. I don't roll to four.

Okay, you're in. 13. 16. 22. You were the only two that succeeded. Wow. Everyone else, you have to speak the truth for the next. But if I'm a DM, we know that that's, we feel it, according to the spell.

Yes. You all sense the kind of the energy come over you and for a second you're, you're a little confused by it. Postering coat, posture, posture, all that's not entirely true. It's a vague memory. I don't really remember it. It's kind of all of jumble. It's what I've been told. about some of it. It's... Is that rituals she was rambling about? I don't know.

So before you woke up in the dirt, nothing? There is no before. Whatever happened before is not me. It's not part of anything... Like your life reset somehow? Or you just don't remember? Some asshole got buried in the dirt. Fuck him.

I am enjoying what I'm doing. I want nothing to do with that. Anything that came before, I was happy to just leave it be. Yeah, but do you have any theories for what happened before? No. Did you look the same, or did you come back? How would I know? Well, huh, they're... So everything before two years ago is nothing to you. Black. That's somebody else.

Two years ago, did you have all those tattoos? No, not exactly. Any of them? Some of them, yes. How much time passed between waking up in a day? dirt box and the circus? Days. I was a bit out of it. It's hard to remember I wasn't speaking, really. It's all, do you have memories from your childhood? Yeah, many. Sure. It felt like that. It's all bright and more meaningful than it should be. There was just nothing. I was practically kind of tonic, I was barely speaking.

Did you wake up two people or alone? Alone. Are you a good guy? I'd like to think so. Why did she seem like she looked up to you so much? I don't know. I don't know who that was. I've never heard the name Lucian before, or that other name.

I've never heard of any of it. You didn't realize you did a good job at pretending. Yeah, well, I like pretending. I like pretending. Pretending's great. Who cares where anybody came from? How do you know she actually thinks it's you and not, you know, maybe she just mistook you for someone actually named Lucian.

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That's possible, except, of course, she had weird blood powers. So this happens to you? A few months after I came to, I started noticing I could do things. I knew things that I didn't necessarily know. I knew. You're talking about your abilities? Yeah. I can...

Can I see that dagger? I have three of them. Pick one. Ice. You watch as this large cluster of moisture all of a sudden solidifies around the outside of the blade, and the blade is now encrusted in jagged ice shards that just kind of stick out, the steam kind of

coming off of it. That's amazing. That's amazing. I would ask about how you discovered that, because that would not be something that I would ever just do just to just see. But we'll leave that for another day. Oh no, I can, we're here, this is happening, that's fine.

Question, go back to two beats. You said, who cares about what happened before? Yeah. Do you really not want to know your past? answer truthfully. I really don't. I... Whoever that was

came to that end. And I want nothing to do with that. Whatever it was, it doesn't feel good when I... The moments when something creeps through, I don't like it. I don't want anything to do with it. I was happy. I... I liked the circus. The circus was great. Oh!

I have a question. Is there any one? one in the group that you find super attractive. Is it a text from Laura? Yes. I think she was asking Yasha. Oh, ask Yasha, oh. Too late.

What about you? And as the nature of the spell, you know you're under the effect of it, and you can be dodgy if you need to, but it's up to you. You can... It's a good Laura. I feel like I...

It's a very good Laura. Yes, of course there are people here that I think are very attractive and charming, but that doesn't mean that I will act on that. I can be mama syllabic if you like, in the least people. Molly. In the years that have gone by. Gosh, I have a crush on me. Has anyone called you any other names besides Molly, Lucian or?

Monaghan. Yeah. Phnomagon. whatever that was. Not without me feeding it to them first. I mean, I've conned people. We've all conned people. I've used other names before.

No, but did they know you? Did they come up and give you a name? This was the first time that's happened. I, a lot of this was in the hopes that maybe it would never happen. Keep moving, keep quiet. You don't know anything about the ritual that she was talking about. Nothing. But I'll say this, and I'm gonna put the night

knife down and just, is there anything sharp around, anything at all? I mean, this group? Yeah, plenty of things that are sharp. Something that's even ridiculous. Like something not normal. Yeah, I mean, there are jagged parts of the wood frame of the bed. Perfect. I'm going to just cut myself again on the wood frame and grab it and use radiance. Okay. You watch this bright, vibrant light just billows out of it. kind of glowing in the vicinity, similar that you've seen it encased the cimitar. I'll admit this is new.

Yeah, that's a hell of a thing. You got to see the first time this happened. Right. And Yasha, how much of this was under wraps? You know none of any of this? In your time in the circus, we knew that he woke up and he did not know who he was. But this was the first time that this has happened where someone has come to us and recognized him from his past. Molly, what about have you ever put your pants?

That's actually in the text thread, too. Ever any time? This is all right. Not that I'm well, no. That's fair, sure. It was worth it every time. I'm sorry to believe with this, but what if you had a good life before this? What if you were famous or rich or had friends or family?

I think you are quite an amazing person. Okay, here's the thing that you're not catching. That wasn't me. This is mine. I don't want anything from that other person anymore. That person is someone else. I don't want anything to do with it. I did not feel good coming out of that.

I'm in for a penny of mine as well. I am told, although I don't entirely remember this part, that I only said the word empty, over and over again for the first week. Empty? Empty? I don't know what that means. Or empty?

Empty. Empty? I don't know. Jester? I barely remember. I feel your touch on this conversation. Is this all accurate? As far as I can tell, yes.

He didn't eat poop his pants. And the rest? Oh, that too, yes. Yeah. Empty. That sounds terrible. I... I don't want anybody, I don't want to remember anything.

I don't want anybody else's baggage in my head. I don't want anybody else's problems, thoughts, ideas. I like this person right now as a good person, is a fine person, is a happy person. She kept Royfermising a book. No idea. Sounds shifty. What if we could find the book?

I don't want it. Well, I will say I'm a little concerned about, you know, loose ends coming to bite you, and us in the butt, however. We all have a few, I assume. I believe in second starts, and that's enough for me. There, you know. Can you imagine what it would feel like to not feel anything

about anything that had happened to you so far? No. No. Yes. Why am I not surprised? What do you mean yes? You can imagine what it's like to not feel anything before this moment?

Have you died before? No. Doesn't mean you have to find meaning and meaningless things. It's very freeing. It's the best thing. It's the thing that happened to me. It's not the best thing that happened to me. I found peace in building a new person. The Moon Weaver.

You know, just because if you know about your past, doesn't mean you have to be beholden to it. If you... What if it feels that I owe it something? You don't know your past shit. If I don't feel anything about my past, but I still remember it, and I still don't give a fuck about where I came from, then why should you care about shit that you don't even remember?

Layered question. I... I... I spent two years before I met you all cajoling people, occasionally ripping them off, occasionally doing a good turn here or there. here or there. Never trust the truth. Truth is vicious. The truth thinks you owe it something. None of that. I like my bullshit. It's good, it's happy, it makes other

people happy. But it's not who you are. It is exactly who I am. Can I ask you, when you're praying over your swords at night, are you actually doing anything? Well, do you know who the Moonweaver is? No. Excellent. Ah, the swords are cheap carnival glass. There's nothing special about them. May I make a check to see if I ever heard of the Moonweaver? Make a religion check.

Is the Moonweaver not real? Cheap carnival glass. 23. Oh yeah, you've definitely heard of the Moonwee. Literally decorated a pair of swords to make them look special. Moonweaver is classically more of an elven deity, but this kind of... They were a... a god over a knight of shadow, music.

There's a lot of variations to what they go over, but they're definitely not one of the approved religions and the empire, and is considered, not considered one of the betrayer gods classically. But is an inspiration for a lot of art and classic, elven history and even some modern. The caretaker of evening trists has a lot of unique history to the Moonweaver.

So it's you that's special, not your swords. That's true. Molly, you seem like you have a pretty solidified identity for someone who has only had consciousness for two years. Things came back quick and the circus helped. They were good people. They did a lot for me. And joy can fill an awful lot of a person's life.

Things came back quick. Do you feel like there are still remnants of whoever you once were the help and informed who you are now? Maybe. I feel tinges of things on occasion. Nothing I like. Interesting. If you always lie in bullshit, how are we ever going to believe you? Because I always lie in bullshit. I can kind of agree with that. Cheers to bullshit. I'm not a... I may be a liar, but I'm never a betrayer. I'm almost honest in my work, and I believe I believe.

I believe in doing a good turn. I've never cheated you out of money. I never robbed from you. I know how, I stayed with that circus for two years, and I know how people treat each other. It's important. And all that stuff you told me before, I gotta admit I didn't even listen to any bit of it.

I was just trying to teach you a lesson. I don't care where you've been. I don't care what terrible things any of you've done. You're here now, this is how it works. Molly? Yes, darling. I have a question. Of course.

Oh, no. Can you really read fortunes? I use fortune. fortunes to tell people what I see in them. But sometimes, sometimes I feel like maybe there's something tickles the back of my head, I will admit. You have a feeling? Some days.

Don't believe him, Jester. Am I telling, am I lying? He has to be telling the truth. Thank you. I do feel like you actually, weirdly have a gift for that. I always try to be helpful when I turn cars for people. You ever think you could actually be doing damage, though? No.

Set people on false paths. People are looking for a path, they're looking for a path. And I'll tell you, and this is true. I did my best every town I went to and every town I left, no matter how they treated me and a lot of them treated me with deep disrespect. Some people are vulnerable and looking for answers. I left every town better than I found it.

Which tattoos are the old ones? I don't want to see your naked body or anything, but do you have some? Is it? Yeah, no. So I show off the peacock a little bit, and one of the peacock feathers on the neck. What about your tattoos though?

Thank you, Liam. One of the eyes and one of the peacock feathers is a bright crimson red, which any of you have ever made a fucking inside check would have noticed. God, I was waiting for you to fuck with me. It's also the same place that he bleeds every time that he uses any of his powers. There's also a red eye on the snake on the palm, and there's a red eye on the snake on the opposite side of the head.

What does that mean? What does it mean? Caleb, what does it mean? It's a lot of ink, man. Red eyes or something? There are various, there are various... Hey, does it mean that symbology mean anything to me? Not at the moment. How much do you show?

I'm just showing the snake, the two snake eyes, I'm showing the peacock eye, and I'm going to show the eye in the floral arrangement. Okay. Come on, Patterson. Come up. This is your day job. Okay? This is your day job. Okay? I tried to cover them, but they wouldn't take ink, so I just did my best.

They're not tattoos? No, I don't know what they are. They are. They're just markings? I don't know. You don't remember getting them, or you, they just appeared? They were just there. Caleb, I have a question.

Do you shave your butt? I can truthfully say, no, that was... But now that you bring it up, because I'd never occurred to it, I might start. And Mr. Caleb. Oh, that was for Caleb, never mind, sorry. No, that's good to know. Now you know that neither Molly or I shave our butt. Who butt shaved?

And also there's not a lot of hair there anyway. Wax your butt. And also there's only a couple minutes more left from the spells. Anything else before we're done here? Did you ever know anyone who did used to try and set people on wrong paths with their fortune telling? No. We tried. That's dangerous work and it'll usually black backfire. It's no interest in that.

It's mostly just trying to help people get their shit together. Did someone send you on the wrong path? No. That's fair, I don't care to be fair. Still in some truth, no. Is there anything about you that you don't want us to know? Yes. Everything. I like the safety of it, but, and if I had had my way,

this would have been a conversation for a later date. but I need to protect you and myself from whatever that is, so you need to know that that is a wild card. I appreciate that. Well, this was fun. I feel like we should do this every night. But I will say this. Luschen. It's terrible name.

It's terrible. I don't want to ever know who that person is. It's like a kid with like a soft mustache. It's not like a real, you know, like a... Although there's super-upes- Let me make this abundantly clear. My name is Molly. That person is dead and not me. It's just a person who had this body.

They abandon it. It's mine now. I think that you need to know where you've been, to know where you're going. And I respect your feelings. And I feel that you're fretfully ignorant and filled with platitudes. I still like you regardless. I feel like when you're ready to know your past,

I would support that and I would help you find it. Maybe he killed goblins. Maybe he was a goblin hunter. Maybe he ate them. Raw. Perhaps we have learned all we need to learn from this conversation. Maybe it is time to turn in. We have some things to do tomorrow.

I am satisfied, Mollymouck, tea leaf. For now. This was not how I expected this to go. Thank you. For what it's worth, I like you a little better now. You don't have to reciprocate it. I'm waiting for the spell to dissipate before I say. About now the spell is dissipated.

I both like you more and less at the same time. I get that a lot. Is this spell gone? The spell's gone. God damn it! Yasha tell us everything! Fuck! You can still press her. Thank you, dear.

Joe, we turn in before we head out tomorrow? Oh yeah, Ford and I found out that we're probably going to be facing some undead wispy things that might electrocute us. Do we all find out? I feel like I'm feeling pretty sure. We came down and told you. Does that even that undead wispy things, is that triggering anything in the brain? You know, go ahead and make a... Make a religion.

Make a religion. It was the gentleman who The gentleman described the research facility to everybody, right? Before they split off. The gentleman described the research facility the job to everybody. To everybody who was present at the table

and who may have been the same at the moment. Right, so we all heard that. 19. Yeah, you're familiar with these entities. They're generally like undead orbs that haunted swamps, haunt areas where they They seek life force to siphon it in devour.

They're willow whips. They're basically willow-wisps. They usually find them in swamps or things like that. Okay. You know how to fight them? Yes. Am I smoldering? I don't know.

It's so good. It's a good movie. I know. Anyway. All right. I want to go to there. All right, you guys all turn in? Yeah.

All right, an evening's rest takes you as you all take a while ruminating on the events of the day, the information acquired. and the path before you, you eventually find yourselves to sleep so you can go and take your long rest for the night. What? Are you doing anything with the sword? With the sword? Yeah. The one you mean... The one that you took from the last?

Oh. Not yet. Not yet? Not yet. Anybody else, anything? All right then. As the morning comes to, you all wake up relatively early, because you went to bed relatively early. It's like shortly after sunrise, you find yourself conscious.

Some of the first to really hit the downstairs tavern for breakfast. Food is served, drinks are had in the morning, and day is yours. What do you wish to do? How long does it take to attune something an hour? Maybe I should have. Short rest. You need it if you want. You're doing it, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, I want to try to attune to the waist on our blade. Okay. So you focus on it. and as you lie there concentrating on it, you kind of extend the essence of whatever pact you've made with this entity into this weapon. And as you finally finish the period of time, you hold the blade in front of you, and it vanishes into the pocket. As you force it to operate once more in your grasp, and the blade returns, it has the same hooked shape.

But now this blade is encrusted with barnacles along the base of it. Edges of it have curved around in water continues to drip off this. It seems to have transferred whatever the essence of this pack blade is to this one. And at this moment you realize whatever blade you, weapon you seem to bond with in this way will carry that same aquatic essence based on the communion that you've acquired. Did you do this alone or was I in the room when this happened? I would have loved to have watched this. Yeah, you were there. I walk up, get a little uncomfortably close, put my hand on your chest.

The power was in you all along. Oh boy. See you breakfast. Oh no. Oh no. Hey, I'm going to scuttle off and go over to Pumats. I need to have a little, just a short little shopping. I need to go as well.

Okay, so I'm having bacon down below, so I'll wait till I see you. Anyone need to go to Pumontz? Oh, you know who should come. Yasha. She's never met Pumats. You have never met Pumat's. Poor. Pumats?

The invulnerable. It's a duop group. Yeah. It's crazy. You need to let your soul glow. Okay. Hey, would you all mind looking into Zeme if you find any like throwing stars or any throwing darts here?

I'll give you some. Sure. Sure we can. See, I need something. I give them a little bit of gold to see if he. Okay. How much is a little bit? Here, here's 10 gold.

Hey. Bring me back change. For throwing stars from Plymouth. Okay, I will definitely ask him if he has throwing stars. If he does not have throwing stars, ask for darts or the equivalent. Do not fuck me here, Caleb. Do not fuck me. Not interested, but I will ask about the items you are.

Aggressive for a favor. Classic Borega. You'll like this. Pumar Sol is, how would you describe? Unique? Well, not one of a kind. Mm-hmm. Maybe we should just... Did you just tell a joke?

No. It's a shame it was a very good one. Germans don't tell joke. Zemnian. Zemnian. Zephneans, experience only pain. Anybody else coming to the invulnerable vagrant? Yeah, four.

What's it called? The invulnerable vagrant. I'll stay in here and watch Horace. And Justin, I'm going to stay as well. There you go. I'm going to wake him up. He's been sleeping in. I have the diarrhea.

Come on, Jesser, come on. Don't make me laugh. Oh, boy. Laura is texting with a full case of FOMO right now. Slowly sharpening a blade at home. We missed you, Laura. Next week, next week. All the lights me off, but just a candle, a chair.

When you get home, just the blinds are open. Alrighty. So those of you are making your way towards the pentam market, you eventually find the outskirts of the invulnerable vagrant. You enter the interior, and there are two other individuals that are doing business with two of the Pumontas. Do we recognize them? You do not.

They seem to be just asking questions and looking about the vicinity. Before they leave, can I just be like, don't forget they're looking for us, to Mully. Do I recognize those people? You do not. Okay. I may have the chill cloak flipped just to sort of try and be a little less conspicuous rolling around for what it's worth. Thank you. You did an artist formerly known as Prince.

All right. All right. So as you enter the chamber and you see the two Pumontas are busy, the counter is currently not helmed in during the discussion, but one of them turns and kind of acknowledges you enter, oh, it's real nice to see ya, just relax there a bit. If you need help immediately, we can see if prime's available. Well, if you wouldn't mind, this is one of our compatriots.

This is Yasha, new to your establishment. Yasha, that's a wonderful name. I can't help you because I'm helping this person, but just hang tight a second. Pumat? He'll be right with you. Isn't he Pumont? You see two of them that look identical in the room.

Oh, you guys are twins? Something like that. He'll be right with you. Turns around. Just breathe it in. Okay. You hear a couple heavy footfalls. What sounds like a toppling of some metallic pan,

ping, pampo, like, I say hello. And the curtain opens and you see one of the Pumats, but with a set of goggles above the head, what looks to be an apron on with a bunch of different tools and various accoutrement kind of stuff into different pockets. Hey, so I'm helping someone.

Who needs help? Well, actually. Okay. This is our friend Yasha. She's new to your establishment. Hello. Right now you've been here before. You were working the other ones.

All right, good morning, morning to you. Hey, can I help you? I just, I mean, do you have Chinese stars? Throwing stars? I don't understand what that is. They're like pointy things that you throw in the middle. Oh, you're talking about like a dagger or a dart or something like that?

Darts, daggers, darts. You can probably go to a blacksmith and get that made for you. I don't really craft things here from their base components. We generally take them and I enchant them to a better degree. I make generally not so great things pretty great. I gather we all hear this conversation, yeah? Yeah. And you're catching this one.

Pramot Prime is a little surlier than the other ones. He seems like he's a little more down to business than the various versions. of him out there. We're probably going to be dealing with some restless spirits, actually, so if there's anything to deal with like these phantasmagorical creatures, Willa Whistps, that sort of thing. Yeah, interesting. You're going to be dealing with some of the spiritual realm, you say. Yeah, inevitably. All right. Let's see, I'm pretty sure I got maybe a vial or two of Holy Water if that's

what you're looking for. I don't, that's not usually my purview, but we keep a couple in stock just in case. Let me see what I can muster. And he goes ahead and drummages through. In the back a bit, you hear more metal and glass clanking and one box gets shifted up on the side. Yeah, yeah, but. Yeah, sir, do you have any healing potions? I don't.

And that's actually, I wanted to get some. To see if I don't. All righty, comes out. I've got two vials of holy water remaining. Those will run you about 25 gold pieces a piece if you wanna. Perfect, that's exactly what I was looking for, was two vials of holy water. Well, look at that.

It's like it was Man Tibby, straight up destiny. I probably need some healing potions or some. Yeah, do you have some healing potions? I see, the funny thing, these adventures keep coming in and kind of clearing me out. We've got maybe two more, but you've got to give us time to restock. You guys, your friends here have been mighty hungry. Well, they're the mighty nine. Oh my God, that's a capitalized.

For initial regret? Immediate, no. How much are they? No, those will put you back about 50 gold pieces apiece since we have the friendly discount of repeated customers. Isn't that right, one of the one of me's? That's correct, they've been in here a few times. He's like, all right, great, thank you for looking out there, buddy.

Man, I'm really glad to hear that. That friendly discount's getting even friendly. That really nice cloak you have on the wall. Yeah. How much is that? Oh, you're referring to that protection cloak. Let's see here. Takes it off the counter and checks it.

That'll run you back about 800 gold pieces. I fell face first into some coin recently. I think I'll take that. Whoa! Well, and you watch the demeanor shift a little bit from like the, I'm busy kind of like, like, Well, happy to see you. Big Spender coming on first thing in the morning. And you see now, you start seeing more of the connection with the other Pumontz. Regular Permanagh.

It's like Selling me of Buick. Well, and might I have your name? I don't think we've had the pleasure personally. Ford. Ford. Tough. Ford Tough. Pumat sold pride. And I believe this is is now known as Ford's cloak. So does that mean that the, that the, I've seen a deal somewhere

with somebody also threw in some healing spells when they bought a cloak? Is that a thing? You're looking for a discount for the healing portions? Yeah. Make a persuasion check. My charisma is fun. I know.

But hey, never know. I like it. Yasha and Caleb in the Bullion Dynamite. Oh. Can I get a discount? 14? He goes, you know what? I'm not gonna lie.

I'm not kind of a fan of the no-nonsense kind of a lady. So sure, I'll throw in, put a 10 gold discount on each of those healing potions. So that's 80 gold for you for the two. Okay. I'll take him. All righty, here you go. Thank you. Okay.

Hi. I'm sorry, I have a simple request. That's all right, simple requests are always open, what you need. About a hundred gold worth of ink for transcribing arcane knowledge. Yeah, more of that wizard stuff. I got that for you.

All right, we got two ink files. I'll ask you for a little while. Get that going for you, some parchment. All right, hundred gold, friend. Thank you very much, pleasure doing business with you. I have four gold to my name again. Oh, if you need a loan, I can. They're basically a good.

Being a wizard's expensive, yeah. It is, it is. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I have no money. I got two-y-lid. A lot of gel.

I'll make some money. Not gelb. Gelt. Gelt. Were there any throwing weapons that you have? have even if they're enchanted? Oh, well, I do have one enchanted dagger, if you're so interested.

Do you think she would like this? I don't think she would, actually. She doesn't like to throw daggers. She only likes to throw. She might, but it doesn't seem her back. Well, this one, when it's thrown, if it misses, it comes right back to you. It comes right back to you?

If it misses. A dagger that comes back to you? If you miss with it. Caleb, did you hear that? Sounds like bullshit to me. That's incredible. It's pretty useful. I don't know about incredible.

It's not a... You miss with it. You're not a... Look, I'm just being straight with you. It's a pretty useful thing on occasion. What about yourself? Oh, I'm fine. He's already...

They're already making me something, and I mean, I... I've seen you throw a dagger or two in your time, and you always have to walk out to the tree and pull it out, or walk out to the knoll and pull it out. this way I'll come right back to you. Think about it. Throwing a dagger just seems so inelegant to me. I don't know why.

They're meant to cut food and to eat food with. I mean no offense to any of you here, but I gotta get right back to work. Looks like one of my mees is available to help you for the rest of this. If she changes her mind, we'll let you know. Yeah, no, we'll let them know. Thank you so much.

Have a wonderful day. It's a pleasure to see you again. Nice to meet you as well, big lady. Well, big lady, takes his goggles down. Have a good day. Turns around and goes into the back chamber, which somebody's saying big lady, because he's huge, he's bigger than you are.

Goes into the back and goes right back to work, and you hear another, like a foot hit the panel, like, I need a, oh man. How high are the ceilings in the store? The ceiling's probably about 10 foot. Yeah. I love how your voice went, the ceiling's about.

The ceiling's about. Okay, got it, got it. other from a... Hi, sorry about that. I was helping a customer, but he's left now. Not purchasing anything, so I'm happy to help you. What can I do for you? I think we're pretty well taking care of this way. We've got everything we need, so... Yeah. All righty, we'll have a wonderful day and come by whenever you like, Big Spender. I saw that. Is my flasker coming along all right?

Coming along, fine. I think that's part of what Pumat's working on right now. Friends are busy. Add any sort of shiny finish to it or some extra flare or bubbles to it, that would be fine. I'll see what we can do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. We leave. All right. You're neat, huh? That's, I've never, I've never seen any. I thought they were related and then they all have same name, so I guess that's another thing. Yeah. You're quite the word wizard with the Haglan there.

Listen, I realize I'm not great with people. Just no need to point it out. I was being honest, you actually got money off. Well, I forgot about that. Yes, I did. Yeah, nice job. I've never seen you blush before. Because you spent a lot of money, you know. She is quite pale, it's hot hotel. Well, what do we here to do?

Are we doing... We should probably run the... Attention is a bitch, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nine. You should probably get a blacksmith at some point.

Easily enough at the blacksmith, for the sake of brevity here. Yeah, you can pick up... A thousand throwing stars. No, for ten gold. Just ball bearing some throwing stars. For a single dart, which is the equivalent you could ask for, we'll say there are There are darts and there are throwing, we'll say throwing stars, sure, why not. Because the archives nearby would be a use for them, they're not often called for, and

it's probably a bit of surprise in wanting to purchase them, but they have about 20, we'll say, throwing stars, which act as darts for five copper apiece. I hand Yachta one of the ten gold that Bo gave me. This is Bo's money, so I think she'd want you to purchase them. No, she gave you the money. Yeah, but she doesn't like me very much. Well, maybe that will make me like you more. That's doubtful.

I, why do you think that? Why do I think it's doubtful she will like me? Yeah. She doesn't like anything. She has threatened me constantly. She is very aggressive. She is very surly. She doesn't smile a lot unless there is a spellcast on her.

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I think she likes you. The only reason I might disagree is because she did give you money. Mm. I'll take that money, that'll be no problem. I give one gold to Yasha. I hold onto the other nine. Okay. I'm not going to do with her anything.

What are you going to do with her sent? I'm going to give it back to her. We can, to be fair, get all 20 of those throwing darts for one gold, for one gold. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So the transaction completely, you have a bunch of these throwing stars. They're metallic.

They're triangular in shape and bladed at the edges. Pretty light. Test one out. Sure. Go ahead and roll your toilet. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's going to sweat through the wall.

Mama. Nope. What's that? Seven. Broken. Oh no, sorry. Nine. Nine. Nine.

Nine. You throw it towards this post and it. This horse kind of all of a sudden bucks and kicks the side of the stable nearby, and you hear the wood, from the kick and all of a sudden you hear voices of two stable hands trying to hold back on this horse. Like, uh, says 19 throwing stars. Fuck, sorry.

It was worth it. Admittedly, I'm not good at throwing things, but I just, it looked really cool. Okay. Did we bring Horace with us? No, I'm watching him. No, no, horse is back with that. Well, while you guys are doing this, I'm like, check under your bed. Did you leave anything behind?

Go pee. One last time, man. Come on. Come on. Too real for me. Yeah. Camp counselor, Beau. Incredible. All right.

Caleb, Molly, and Jester, actually, as you guys are walking back, you notice that there are now clusters of about three or four Towns Guard at different places that are in the process of just asking questions to people, going from place to place and inquiring. I'm going to turn around and head toward, I'm going to immediately turn around and head towards the the other bar, the evening night. Yeah, the evening night. Jester is not with this. Right, just not with you, right.

So yeah, I'm gonna let you know, tell them I'm hiding at the bar and I'll meet them there when it's time. Yeah. All right. So we see guards asking around. Yeah, like talking to people, asking questions, and just kind of, uh.

Okay, I'm just going to pull my cloak up and put the hood up. Okay, that's all. You guys make way back to the leaky tap. What little Horace had on him a little bit of change and materials to leave is ready to go. Bo and Jester are propped and ready as well, I assume. What do you guys do? Should we go on our mission or should we get rid of Horace? Well, we're dropping him off at the- Well, Horace is part of the mission. Yeah, he's dropping him off at the evening nip. We should go. Let's make hay while the sun shines.

Drop off Horace and then go. Do we know where we're going for this mission? Mile out of town. It seems like we're going to be- The evening net and then they're going to escort or something. Oh, okay. Yeah. You're blinded. Oh my God. Beau, Caleb got these for you. Oh, perfect.

Yes. Thank you. There were not 20, but the one of them fell out of head. Yes, they were so heavy and I am so weak that I gave them to Yasha to carry. Here's your change. Thank you. Why are you acting so weird about this?

I'm just weird in general. Thanks for the change. Thank you. One of them's missing, but it just, I think it fell out of the... There was an accident. There was nothing suspicious about it. I think it fell out of the bag. We should go. Okay.

Horace, we're going to try and get you out of here. Miss, thank you. Thank you. Whatever you need to work, but... What? This is a Liam thing, not a cable plan. I'm just going to say, right? Right now, where we are, Frumpkin, I'm telling him to follow us all about 55 to 60 feet-ish back behind us. Easy enough? Yep. All right, as you guys make your way towards the evening

nip, Horace is looking a bit nervous, but does look around and seems genuinely very thankful. I was like, seriously, this means a lot. It's both me and Dolan. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. And then I put a bag over his head and I say, Sorry, sorry. I think that can probably wait till we are at the evening nip. Well, you can't see where we're going, right? Yeah, sure you can. We just don't want a crown start thinking we're walking around a hooded person.

Well, I figure we're right, we're on there's just, all right, all right, all right. We'll say for the purposes of this, you're pretty close to the evening nip when you do this. Okay. All right. Down to your house in time. Okay, okay, no over his head. Just a lot of his head. Just pushing around a guy with a bag on his head.

No, it's cool. He's going through like a... Is that too much to drink? He's going through Jake Jill in all face. His eyes are dialing. Happy Halloween. Over. All right, you guys enter the evening nip.

Clive is there at the end. Hey, you're a friend with a bag. We made arrangements with the gentleman downstairs. Needs you to the back, opens the, shubs things off of the latch, pulls up the trap door, down the stairs, and you eventually make your way back. into the tavern below, where Molly Mock is waiting, nervously, drinking. I don't like the proximity here. Frumpkin's gone. Out there, and then once we're in the speakeasy, sorry, Judge Parker.

Once again. Frumpkin's under a table. Okay, gotcha. All right, as you guys head back down, a horse, like, I trust you guys, I trust you. You make a way down. The room is not as busy as it was last two left from this. left from this, maybe like six individuals in there. Most of them are the individuals who

were previously posted with rifles or new individuals also posted with rifles up on the top. There is the gentleman finishing a meal at the table with Saurah, his bodyguard at the side. Ah! Nice, you've made it. That's the things down, pushes the plate to the side. So I take it this is your contraband. Yes. Very well.

And you would wish the smuggling to head where. Our cleanest, to be fair, our cleanest means of smuggling out would be actually through the river after you pass through, as that leads us to the northern swamps of Berlin. And that would be probably one of the safest spaces still easily able to keep him out of sight into a safe space. out of the Crown's Guard's watch. Outstanding, we defer to your expertise. Great, then we'll wait an hour after your passage forward and send your contraband on his way to safety with two individuals to escort him

and lead him to civilization beyond the outskirts. Sound fair? Yes. Sounds fair. Very well. Take care of him, please. They pull the shoulders of Horace back, You know, it's like, oh, all right, be safe.

It's all right, go with them, you'll be fine. And you know what? Kara and we'll say, Dweez, you go ahead and lead them down to the... Dwees. That's partial. Lead them blindfolded, of course, through the underworks, to the dark sense, and send them up the way to their agreed upon task. And you see Kara come back through one of the doors on the steps in behind.

You see that creepy gnome from earlier, some behind. Great man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cara goes, all right. Well, and she pulls a few pieces of cloth. It looks like they're used to moving individuals through and they have already prepared blindfolds in place.

Passes them out to you and instructs you all to put on a blindfold and take a hand. As soon as the blindfold is on, I'm going to pass my sight in hearing over to Frumpkin. Nice. That's a good call. I'll hold on to Kalim to make sure he can still walk. Okay. The next blind woman. So.

Well, they said I'll hold hands. Who's the very front and who's at the very back of this chain? I'll stay at the front. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Had to get an opportunity in the end.

Sorry. Wouldn't mind having some other. I'll go behind Yon. Okay, I'll be behind. I'll go behind Yon. Okay. Who's after my mom? Jester.

Going. Jester. All right. Who's after Jester? I'm with Caleb in the back. Okay. Not? I'll hold on to Caleb as well.

Yeah, that's a good order. So there, I'm going to get Frumkin, trying behind. All right. So forward to the very front, Kara, takes your hand, and begins pulling, and in the very, very back, Caleb, this tiny numb hand grabs your hand, and she goes, Hold on. This is okay.

They loop you through the room a few times, kind of discombobulate you and direction in the chamber and pull you through in different ways to just kind of prevent you from orienting where you were and where you're going. Eventually you're led through a doorway, you hear some things shift, and then turned around a bit, and then led down a ladder.

The ladder goes down. for about 20 or so feet before your feet touch what seems to be some sort of soft dirt, packed dirt-type feeling. The sound of the music and the chatter vanishes up ahead and you hear as soon as you all head down the ladder a latch close and lock above you. How did my cat do? Your cat managed to actually make a stealth chair. A fronon. More fronkin.

Oh shit. What? Total shit. Five. Five? Yes. As Frumkin's trying to trail behind, Duiz, turns and goes, eh, no, no, and puts the hand out and kind of grabs Frumkin by the scruff and holds Frumkin up, and then throws Frumkin back into the bar.

Okay. If I saw that I would snap my fingers and make Frumpkin poof out. Okay. And I'm going to bite my time and bring Frumkin back. Okay. Duiz is clutching the back of your hand. It's probably goes, huh? It's just a nervous tick.

I'm a nervous fellow. Sorry. Mother fuck. Okay, so you head back down. You are led down a tunnel. It weaves a bit. Turn to the right, down another tunnel for 100, 200, 300 feet.

Brumkin back in. 50 feet. Right, and you can see this a bit. These are tight individual tunnels. It feels almost like a mine in the fact that it has occasionally occasionally a wood structure for just support between it. And a lot of it's packed earth, it's just been carved out. Eventually it'll split off into two, and you'll see what looks to be a small resting chamber

with another set of tables in a bunk. You go past another area, and you see what looks. And there's occasional torchlight just kind of set up on parts of the wall. You can see a couple of the shifty individuals that are in the process of stacking crates somewhere. There's other people down here doing shifts as we walk by. Yeah, they'll walk by you and occasionally like look and One of them will stop and inspect, and they'll move on. No one seems to fuck with you at the minute because you're being cared.

In fact, one of them seems to get kind of close to you and looks and sees dewees and goes, and just moves on. You do hear a noise, a strange, like, and you hear, kind of echoing down the hall. He move around one spot, and there's one archway that Frumpkin passes by looking down, And you can see there's a pit, and there are a number of cages set up in there, about four of them,

that have different creatures inside. It's too low lit for a Frumkin to really see from this distance what's in there, but one of them is currently having a bit of a connection fit, and you see three cloaked figures that are on the outside, kind of like one of them is trying to whip elements of them that are coming at the other one, and they're trying to prod it in the sides,

and it's getting agitated. Jester has a question. She would like to know what it smells like in here. At this point, it smells like wet dirt and earth. That's about it. It smells like a dank subterranean tunnel. As you pass by the creature's smell, you can smell hints of dung, fresh and old,

and some sort of a pheromone, like a very strong pheromone that's very unpleasant to the scent. Continuing on, You move through another tunnel. Another figure kind of walks by and stops as you pass and just watches you as you continue. Down another set of stairs and then eventually the sound, the echo begins to get a little louder. Your feet hit wood. From can see this as you pass in, you've hit a dock.

This is now a natural cavern. The moisture catches you first. What was initially kind of somewhat cavernous stamp has now become very moist, and you can hear the slats, A slight sound of a river moving through. And Frumpkin can see this too. There's an entire underground river that is now curving past this entranceway, leading in two different directions. Along this river, you can see there are a few lanterns that are set up with this kind of soft, greenish glow that is, they're just perpetually burning in certain areas that are bolted into the rock and stone. There on the side of this dock, you can see four different boats that are currently roped and tied to the edge there.

there is a figure sitting on a stool who's just kind of taking a dagger and moving it on the edge of one of the wooden poles that is in the very outside end of the dock. At this point, all of your blindfolds are removed, and you've come to the end of this part of the journey. Clark, sorry about that, but you're very respectful, thank you. She collects the blindfolds, and Dewey's still kind of clashed in your hand and lets go and goes, I'll pick that little. All right. Two of these ships you're yours to use. You're heading up that path there. About a mile or so. It's with the river, thankfully,

so the stream will be carrying you through. So the paddles to each of you. Whoever wants to helm that, that's up to you. Pay attention from what I've been told. You'll see the change in the text of the wall on the left-hand side, traveling northward. Look for the small collapse on that end. Collapse on the wall.

Correct. Be spry, sometimes some creatures do find their way living down here, so be ready to move past quickly or find a way to duck him if you can. We can take it from here. All right. Good luck. Thank you. You'd be able to find her way.

way back, right? We'll be fine. I'm not going to joke. The guy at the edge of the dock sits up and caught goes, the dock too for these folks, let him go. Gentleman's orders. Doesn't say anything, just sits up. You see the hood that's up, he kind of pulls it back a bit,

and you can see there's this old or grizzled human with very, very short gray hair, deep scar across the back of his head that kind of curves off to the top of where his receding hairline is that's just been very deep set where the very deep set, the skin dimples heavily along the edge of the scar. He's got this very kind of scruffy looking gray and white beard. His head's a bit sunk into his shoulders,

and he kind of walks over to the edge and unties each of the boats and hands the rope to one of you. The first one goes to Ford, and the other one just goes to Bo, goes back to his station and sits down, sticks his blade into the side of the wood and just keeps wedging it in there. And you get a better look at there, and you can see this wood is just splintered to shit on the top.

This guy has been over time just slowly pushing away at this wood for whatever amusement he needs to pass the time down here when he's stationed. These boats look like they'll fit three to four each? These boats look like they'll fit about four people each. Okay. All right, two boats. Gestors in mind. Yasha, you should go in the second boat. We're going to need muscle in case we need to move fast. Okay.

I get in with not. The Yasha boat. Who's piloting our boat? Yasha's one and then Jester's the other. She's piloted. Do you know how to drive a boat? Well, we'll find out. Yes, I do. We have needlessly scaring me for no reason.

So we have four, Jester, Mali, and Bo in one boat, and Yasha and Caleb and not in the other. Is that how it is? Sure. And I send away from them. Okay. I'm going to place on my ring of water walking that I stole from Jester. Do some boat with like two wars? Two wars on each side, yeah.

You guys all get in. It rocks a bit as you all adjust your weight and find a place where the boat itself isn't listing too far to one side of the other. The river current is pulling it along, so as soon as you step off the last person holding the rope, they immediately start following the current of the river, which is not rapid, but it is moving at a fair speed.

You'll all gather yourselves in, follow it down, and as you progress, you notice those green lanterns that are lit. Only seem to cover the vicinity of that dock until eventually you're going into a pitch black cavern. On our own. Yeah, we're all on our own. You're on your own, yeah. Pitch black.

Yeah. You want to do your... Fred, my mind. I break up, put on the goggles. Two of the globules hover around the front of each boat. One at the front and one of the back of each part. each boat. All right. So as the orbs float along. There you see her. Did he get her? She's got a giant sword, but who cares. You've got to ask her.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Hey, Bo, I pull out one of the Holy Water flasks. Think you know what to do with this? I think I do. Just in case. Put it away. Who do you think the other one should go to? Anyone who can beat face but doesn't have magic. Yahshah, maybe.

Not? Maybe not. It might be safer. What do I do with it? You're not in a boat with us. What do I do with it? You tip your ammunition in it. This one, no, you throw. This is a different throw.

Oh, it's a throwing one. This isn't an oil, it's a water. Oh, never mind. How do you know how to throw stuff? No, I've never thrown anything in my life. If there was a basket for trash and he threw. As he's talking, I throw a piece of a gold coin at his head. Okay, roll a D20, add your next day or any modifier.

Oh, well, that's a D20. I mean that's a natural 20. Oh, does that count? That doesn't count. That's, that's cocked. You want me to redo? No. Can you balance a dial?

Sure. Redo. Think about 826, L.A. Way less. Dexterity what? Your dexterity modifier. Your dexterity modifier. Jumping up on the large all the time.

Ten. And she goes right past it and you hear it. Shit. Boom. Into the water below. I'll take that. So when we get into the boat together, I'm going to give you the other holy water flask. How big is the chamber that we are traveling in?

The chamber, it seems to shift at times. Sometimes it squeezes in where it's just the river and the edges of the tunnel at about 15 feet from somewhere. 15 feet from side to side. Jesus. With my dark vision, how high is the ceiling in here? The ceiling is roughly 15 feet as well. It's a 15 to 10 feet. Sometimes it coasts down and comes a bit lower.

It is a natural river. I go at the edge of the boat and I say, Oh, Scott! He's there no echo. That was pretty good. That's pretty good. As you guys had deeper into the subterranean tunnels towards your destination. Weapons at your side, prepared

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Come on. And you have a holy water now. It's like playing a video game for 30 minutes. It's so unsatisfying. Get him three hours. I know it's coming. I know stuff is coming. So yeah, before we get too deep into this, we'll go ahead and pick up next week when Laura can join us.

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