Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 14 - Shopping and Shipping

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

After allowing themselves a single night’s rest back in the city of Emon, Vox Machina sets out for their meeting with the Sovereign Uriel and the Council of Tal’Dorei.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So for those of us who, uh, one little heads up, up on here. The party has just returned after a long arduous trek through the underdark beneath the Dwarven city of Craghammer. They were sent to retrieve a paladin named Lady Kima of Vord, who was on a vision quest to stop some dark evil that her deity, Bahamit, told her was existing beneath this mountain range and needed to be swept. The party managed to salvage her from insidious torture and through her aid, as well as a mine flayer who had been outcast from the society. and the colony nearby, they managed to convince to help them as well, fought their way through the tunnels, past the Durgaar army, eventually to the underground mineflare colony of Yovril, where they found that this entity called Kavarn, this was then eventually revealed to be a mad beholder, Kavarn, who had been pseudo-possessed and given additional power by Horn of Orchus, a great and evil artifact, long forgotten, which had been found by this entity. So they managed to make their way into the temple, kill Kavarn, tear the horn from its forehead,

however, found themselves swarmed immediately by an entire colony of mine fliers heading towards the top of this temple. They managed to battle in battle, nearly losing a few party members, and, through some ingenuity, escape through the top, glide over the city of Yugvaril through this underground chasm to a distant embankment along the beach side of this underground river, lake, and teleport their way back to their base city of Iman. So they've come back to Iman, they've come to their keep, a grey-scall keep. They've had an evening of rest. Upon waking the next morning, they've managed to get some breakfast. They've freed Lady Kimma from her stone entrapment as she was turned to stone during the battle with the beholder and had a conversation based around what should or could be done about this Horn of Orcus evil artifact.

So there we will pick up again at that point. So the rest of you guys have have eaten your meal, Kima hungrily doing so, all of you guys both sore and exhausted, having barely seen sunlight for a little over a week, and being probably just the first or second good meal you've had since leaving Craghammer proper. You all finish your food. Grog hungrily so, double the size of his normal intake of delicious meats and starches. Tiberius has not seemed to have woken up or found his way down from his room as of yet. However, you guys did recently receive a rolled-up piece of parchment, a notification from the Council of Taldore, saying that you have been requested to the council chambers

at some point this afternoon around the midday sun to discuss your return and the kind of the situation and conditions about it. And that was all it said. Right. And is lady, I can't remember, is Lady Kima with us at this point? She's with you. She's with you. She's unstoneed. You've already had the conversation with her last week talking about the horn, basically interrogating her. But yeah.

And we said that we had it somewhere safe, but not, aren't we playing coy with that? You were playing coy with it. I got downstairs to go get Grog. Yes, and Grog returned with it, and you guys had the conversation basically saying, oh, it's safe, don't worry, it's fine. Grogabuch has it currently in the bag of holding. But we haven't told her that it's in a bag of holding, right? No, you just said you have it somewhere safe.

We just said we have it somewhere safe. Correct. Okay. Turn them up a little bit. I'm highly entertained. I think we're getting feedback. Oh, I said. Oh, yeah, that's us.

Right, that would be us. Yes. Sorry about that. We'll figure this out, guys. It wasn't too bad. Yeah, this is the new try, attempt of technology with our out of towners. That's amazing.

It's working pretty well. I'm kind of impressed. Well, we have some, have we actually opened up the parchment and read it yet? Oh, yes, you have received it. Oh, okay. And we just started, literally. Hey, ready?

Yes. And that's going to happen. And he's gonna crawl to the table. There you have. Good morning, sleepy head. Hi, guys. That's a couple hours have passed. It was very.

Hi. Oh, right. Oh, hello. Oh, wait, am I here? Am I? Yes, you've just come down. You've just now come down after many hours of breakfast have passed.

It's now pushing around 11 o'clock. in the afternoon, comparatively, and Tiberius come storming into the main dining hall of your keep. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. You seem so, what is that? Oh, this is my own bag of holding.

I walk over to Grog and I open their bag of holding and take out my will of mending and I put it in here. You got your own bag of holding? Yes, that's what I needed the extra gold for before I left. Where did you go? To get that. Oh shit, you're FaceTiming? Hi, guys.

Science. We are the coolest. I was like, that's Laura's voice. At least we think we're cool. Oh, Travis is like, I think we're cool. Sorry, I mean, yes. So Tiberius, we're just waiting for you to awake. I think we should probably go and see the emperor, like you do.

Talk about the problem we have. Wait, wait, wait. Where did you go and get a bag of holding in the time of us sleeping and you waking up? If you recalled, I actually went to Draconia. Right, this would be when we all woke up to begin with. You didn't tell us that. Why would I have to tell me that?

I didn't say you didn't have to. I was just saying you acted like I should know, and I'm saying I had no idea. I just want to cast that and said that last game. No, you just stayed in your room and did it your own. Oh shit. Yeah, so right now you're crazy to me. Right.

I'm also a little disturbed that it looks like that bag of holding is actually made of you. Yes, it does look like it's made of dress. That seems cruel. Actually, this is Wyvern-Skin. We use it in the Air Force of the Joconian Army. Air Force? Yes.

Zuconia has an army. Oh. 500 standing, 200 are airborne. But they have a Air Force. Yes. Do they fly? No, they just blow the fores hair. We have trained and tamed,

we have trained and tamed wire ones which we have utilized and they are part of our culture. I've never seen your skin one. Yes, and so I went to the local shoppy and purchased a bag of holding because I realized that I did not hold my own real of bending for a long time.

That was frustrating you was. It was frustrating you, wasn't. It was extremely frustrating, especially because it's my artifact. Sure. But, uh, yes. Well, that's good. It's probably good to have a second one of those. When it comes with water, how handy.

It holds a lot of things. How fantastic. So we should probably get off to see what the emperor wants. Before we do that. Um. Um. Are Scandal now? Not here.

Scanlan is currently in the room eating breakfast. Okay, we're all eating breakfast, all right? Yeah. Hi everybody. Well, not you, you've apparently been globe trolling. Right. In Scandon, I was thinking about our last encounter. And I'm going to take off my ironstone that's kind of chilling.

This is a particular thing that you've seen me use several times. And I've noticed in the last couple of battles you've actually literally burned out of spells to cast. I propose a friendly trade. A crown on your head allows you to do certain things which you have not utilised the last several rounds you've owned it. And it seems you've actually complained about not having extra spells to cast. Rounds of what? Rounds of battle, facts. Oh.

So, I assume that you could probably actually use this more. I have a tool that allows me to do it to begin with. with, it's coming rather handy, as you've seen. Uh, what say, Scamon? Scamon looks to you and thinks for a second, it goes, hmm, you know what? I'm gonna think on that. Wait till I'm of more, uh,

rested and solid and sound mind. Before I could make any sort of arrangements or trades here, it would be unfair, given our current state of... That's true, Scanlon. You should probably wait till you're feeling a little more present. Agreed, agreed. Agreed. a couple hours at the local brothel and all shall be fine.

He cracks his fingers, expectantly. Well, welcome back, even though we didn't know you were gone. I've eaten. Were you gone all night? No, just for about an hour. Oh. There's a quick trip. Just saying hello to family and that.

I just literally went to a shop I knew in Tricone and picked up the item. I wasn't sure if they had any one and really didn't want a waste any time. Well? Good on you. Shall we meet the emperor? I've eaten less politic. I think so. All right.

This is so. You guys hear us fine? Yeah. Let's make a trick. You can't skip out to talk is all. I'm scared to talk. Yeah, feel free to chime in whatever. One of us, one of us.

Balls, taint, ale, nipples. That's your grog. Hey, there's grog. Grog. Grog! As our wonderful giant now filled with various forms of delicious food matter, warm in his belly, gives a string of various curse words and enjoyment and sits up from the table with a loud fart, and you guys make your way out of Grey Skullke.

Towards the outer wall of Iman, in towards the entrance to Abadar's promenade, making your way towards the Cloudtop district where the palace itself resides. Is Lady Kima with us? Lady Kima is with you, yes. Oh good. Is there anything else you want to do or are you guys making a B-line for the palace? I would like to take another 500 gold from the Treasury before we do that. And I do. Okay.

You want to work? From the Treasury? You have to ask the Treasurer. How much do you want? 500 to replenish the one I read the 500 I initially took. I don't know if I will have to spend it at all. And if I do, I will completely share my plan with all of you. But I would like to see how what we do plays out next.

All right. Another 500? Yes. That's all I do. That's all I do. All right. Anything else? Is lady, have we had contact with Allura since returning?

Not yet. I feel good about her being at this meeting. Someone just got really excited when we mentioned the name Allura. I cast press digitization on myself and make sure my robes are all super clean and nice. As you guys, as you guys walk into the... the center of the cloud tossed it. Yes. The cloud house, you can see that her ivory tower,

which once collapsed around you, is now standing in its previous location, seemingly untouched and back to its original, esteemed visual. That is the question. Do we stop in first, or do we straight to? Did they give us, was there a time requested on that? It's just, around the time of the noonday sun.

It's probably about 30 or minutes, give or take. Laura's really the only person I trust. Perhaps we should not walk into the palace with this on us. so to speak. We don't have anything on us. No, no, we don't, but if we did, we should probably deal with it. Well? Yes.

No. Yes. Tibzy. Let's go ring Alora's bell. I'm not going to ring your bell. Ha ha! It is like having the internet right there. All right, so I just start walking off towards Alura's town.

I'll followbacks. Okay, everyone else go with them? Are you going? Yes. All right, so you guys struck your way towards the northern edge of the Cloudtop district. You ran about the series of very, very nice, fine marbled houses, finally crept of stone. This is the affluent area of Imon proper. It's then the secondary city wall, which, of course, the upper echelon of merchants and

those who have money are offered the secondary form of defense against the towns being siege at all. It's cool. You come around the corner on the fine kind of yellowish cobblestone road turn, and you get to the point where you can see it to the line. left of you is the giant portyard that surrounds the outskirts of the palace proper, with the giant steps that lead up to the kind of darkened purple marble that the entire structure is made out of. To your right, there's a few buildings and the white ivory tower

that Alura lives in. You approach, the front door is closed. It still remains that giant iron knocker on the front that hangs loosely, kind of like the giant wishbone that you kind slam into the front of the wooden doorway. Give it a couple hits. You can hear echo throughout the interior of the tall standing tower. A few moments pass. You hear the movement of chain, a creaking of metal, and then a shunk, some sort of large shifting of a wood platform or plank.

The door then creaks open, and they're standing, a little bleary-eyed. I kind of slept in a bit, but in the process, I'm getting ready, you see before you, Arcanist Allura. Her hair is half-braided. Her long blonde hair is half-brated. She's in her darkened blue robes.

used to seeing her in Nassi, she opens the door, the sunlight hitting her eye, she kind of protects her vision for a second before they focus on the rest of the group. And she goes, my lord, you've all arrived. You've all arrived. And she swings the door open and runs forward. Immediately to you, the first person that's there, and just gives you a big hug, kind of holds back

and gives you a look over. Her eyes are open and kind of happy, you'd see, honestly, eager and happy to see everyone's here safe. I look over at Tiberius and just sort of sheepishly. She turns over to, she gives Pikewick hug. She makes your way around the rest of the group. She's like, you all, I'm so glad to see your back. I heard that there were some difficulties

happening in Craghammer at the time you arrived. She turns around and takes your hands, Keelith, and her own, gives you like a nod and then a small hug. Goes to Percy and gives you a hug. Gives the Tiberius, and also Tiberius, and gives you a big warm hug. She slowly pulls away.

Don't know me. She acquiesces to your longer hug, and then pushes us. away. It's nice to see you again. Awkward. The pleasure was mine, Ta-Guerre. And as she turns around, she sees, standing behind the rest of you, there's Kima. There's just there in her now freshly clean golden armor that she polished her

evening, so she doesn't smell of Durgar's sweat and blood anymore. We've brought you a present. There's this moment where they both kind of look at each other quietly, and then the Luror kind of steps forward and says, Kima, welcome back. I'll come back. And they both just run and get this big, kind of embracing bare hug. She lifts Kima up and there's like a slow, slow spin. You can see this kind of very, very strong bond of friendship of where she eventually puts

Kima down and takes the baby. She holds her hands for a second. You can see a tear kind of running down to lure his cheek and she goes, I'm so worried about you. And Kima kind of sheepishly turns her eyes to the side. It's like, oh, sorry for all the trouble. Oh. Oh.

Oh, story of my life. Friends, friends. Your assumptions, dragon boy. Don't mug yourself, don't mind yourself, mate. Oh, that's great. Come correct, don't mug yourself. Don't mug yourself. So they take a moment of kind of, you know,

She's lying to each other, and then she kind of reaches her hand out in front of Kima's head and kind of rustles her hair for a second and says, You had many of us worried sick. You can't keep running off like that. Which Kima goes, I know, I know And then Laura turns the rest of the group again says, thank you all so very much. You've done the realm and myself a great service in bringing her back At which point, Kimas is bringing me back. They help me complete my quest And you have some strong allies, Allie. And Loret kind of lets back to her starts heading back into her tower. Allie. It says, well, come, enter.

I have tea ready. You all look like you could use it, to be honest. Come, please. Well, all right, we have a moment we can spend. Long story. So as you guys all walk into her tower, you remember it untouched from your previous entry here. It was a weird moment to step into a tower

that you were once in as it crumbled and folded on itself to see it as if nothing had ever happened. Is there a new rug? There is not. Aha. Uh-huh. We're not giving it back. Don't tell her about the rug.

Don't tell her about the rug. You guys step into the center of the room and she's kind of talking to herself from a moment, basically saying things have been a bit crazy here. Obviously, now that the floodgates have opened as far as discussions with the council and people who have maintained a backlog for a while, it's been a bit busy.

But this is a wonderful moment of respite. I'm greatly enjoying the company, to be honest. But come, and she kind of guides you all to the center of the chamber. Once again, there's that large stone platform in the center that has the number of the inert runes carved into the stonework. As you all step onto it, she taps her heel against the bottom of it for a second. As she does, all the ruins glow with a bright flash of blue in a familiar sensation as that circular platform means to lift like an arcane elevator

up the center of the tower going up, one, two, three stories. As you're going up, you see certain sections of of wooden library shelves set up at odd angles along the top of the arcane tower itself. You can see there are small stairways that lead off into doorways that seem to almost exit into the sky. You've gotten into the idea that a lot of these

kind of powerful mage-built towers, the inner workings don't really match the outer exterior look. There are rooms that shouldn't exist at certain points as you lift up. I'd like to make a perfuner. I'd like to make a perfunctory insight check just to see if there's anything hinky. I'd like to Google perfunctory real quick.

You do that. Go for it. Okay. On a little bit of a profunctor. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, everything's probably fine. That's an 18. Okay. Best that you can gather,

she looks like she's a big groggy, having slept in recently, but she seems genuinely excited you've all returned and seems eager to kind of catch up. as far as what has transpired since last you met her. The platform continues until it reaches the topmost floor of the tower, before the slowing of the stone platform eventually comes to a halt with a slight jostling.

The ruins fade, and you're all on the top floor of the tower once again. This is her main chamber. You can see across the way there is her large, cush kind of canopy bed in the far corner. There are a number of desks. There's a small arcane laboratory on a far side. Looks like it's in a bit of disarray, and she's probably in the middle of a project.

and you do hear, as soon as you arrive, it sounds like the whistle of a tea kettle in the distance, at which point she immediately says, ah, allow me. And she begins to walk over, she lifts her hand, and you see a small drift of arcane energy as her mage hand goes and lifts and takes the water off of its burner

and begins to just kind of absent-mindedly mage hand various tea cups out of a large cabinet above the little kitchenette area. That's awesome. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. At which point everyone's kind of look around Kima amongst the rest of you guys.

It's been a while since I've been here. Everything's as grandiose and unnecessarily dressed as it always is. I'm glad you got rid of that old rug though. Oh, I'm sorry. Was there a rug? I'm fine. I don't remember that. Take a wool, come on. This rug.

No, no. Nope. Not here. Alura, who is now in the process of pulling chairs over and setting up like a small sitting arrangement, kind of a semicircle. Oh, it's so cute. I, when the last time the tower collapsed

and I was so rudely assaulted in my living quarters, and it appears my rug were missing. It's all right. I kept my out for a new one for some time. That was unfortunate. Magic, it's tricky. I mean, I had no idea. I dreamt out when that happened.

Speaking of tricky magic, she gives us a slow, kind of knowing look about the group, which just kind of gives that nod of like, I acquies to this, that's fine. You should have some, like, potted plants, Allura. Should, like, you know, some nice greenery. I'm going to try and feng shui the tower. Is that much? Wow, why not? That's not a bad idea.

Perhaps we'll discuss this thing. This is silly. Oh, yes, absolutely. Alora, we, it's a long story. A lot of dooga, a lot of mine player, a lot of mine players. and an evil god? A beholder? Yes, moreover, a beholder. Yeah, but who was pulling the strings behind the beholder?

Well, he thought he was an evil god. A beholder with a god complex? Curious. Which point, as you say that, she kind of does this with her fingers and all the chairs kind of rush in underneath you guys, and you kind of put into a sitting position.

And as you all sit, she begins to slowly mage hand over. Each one of you are freshly poured cups of tea. Oh. A look of concern coming across her face. You've found your way beneath the city, I assume based on the denizens you've mentioned, into the end of dark quapper. Behold, you say. Mindflay, as you say. Yes.

I, first off, must apologize. I was not aware I was putting you into such dangerous territory. Ha! It was really dangerous. There was nothing filled with just bartholes everywhere. Terrible. That sounds like a terrible city. Mm-hmm.

Well, first and foremost, I apologize for that. I'm incredibly grateful. We're all seemingly healthy and still here, and you brought Kima back to us, which is very important. Well, I guess this is an order, and she sits up for a second and walks over, and you can see she kind of looks back at the rest of you and brushes her hand for a second, and a sphere of darkness appears in the corner of the room

where you cannot see that entire part of the room. and just kind of sits there and hovers. Just a little pocket of darkness. Oh, man. What's that? You've been in darkness so long. Some rustling. The sphere of darkness finishes, and you see she's holding a sack of coins.

You don't know where she procured it from. She steps back over to her chair, sits down and says, Just a precaution. I like to keep my private things private. But a deal is a deal, and you've done as you've asked. So as we discussed, 10,000 gold pieces for a lot of you. My great sense. I hate that.

She hands it out to Vex. Eager palm is very heavy. But they know strong then, huh? With her nine strength, it sags. I know, I'm sorry about the hand just there. Stop it. Internet. She sits back down.

Well, you tell me what else? If anything's been out spot, I'll let you know it's you've missed. Well, yeah, we have Orcas's horn. So that's a thing. The, there's a slight pause before the actual sound of breaking glass hits your ears as the tea cup that she's holding shatters across the stonework on the floor. Elora's still sitting in her chair, hands in place, and says, I'm sorry, what did you say? Yes, that behold a butthole that we had to fight,

that we had no idea we had to fight, had this orcasone on his head. So we took it off, and we kept it safe. That's what you wanted, I was assuming, to destroy. We haven't touched it, though. No, no, no, no. All right. She looks over to Kima, kind of with the Shultms up,

and Kima gives her nods this. Well, to be honest, I wasn't sure that was the end of my journey, but it seems that great evil I talked about before. Well, we killed it and took its source of power. Now we're figuring out what to do with it. She gives a sheepish grin and a slight shrug in her armor. Allura kind of looks at the ground from it. It says, well, I don't know much of this object you say,

but if it was the source of this creature's power and it carries with it the connotations of Orchus, then this is a very, very, the omen indeed. Yes. This must be brought before the council immediately. The council? Wait, wait. Council?

Who? Council. The Council you are part of. Oh, yeah. Are you going there right now also? Yes, I was summoned to it. Here's the thing, Laura. Sorry, Mike.

The thing with this particular item is the more people know about it, the more dangerous it actually becomes. The fact that we even share this information with Kim and you is a very dangerous thing to begin with. I agree. I agree. Are the Council trust for me? Those who currently reside in the Council are. reside in the council are trustworthy. I assure you this. I've done my work with them for many years, and those that have passed been replaced with equally trustworthy individuals. And rest assured,

I have my checks and balances in place as well. I think what we're worried about most is the corrupting nature of this thing. And while the council may have good intentions, I think more than a few of us are somewhat nervous what effect it might have. on them, on us. Can you assess what the mistrust would be to not bring this before the sovereign and the council? Namely, if the immediate want is for it to be immediately destroyed, because that's what needs to happen with anything from Orcus,

as you very well know. I understand, and I don't think you'll find anyone disagree. But I also don't think you should so mistrust with the council by keeping any of this information from them. It's not about the trust. I don't mistrust the council, but Uriel has been corrupted once already. Exactly. This is true.

And was it not by your hand that he was freed and his family kept safe? Understand that this is a man that owes you, him, and his family's life. I think he would take into you his ear bent in your direction quite strongly.

Correct, but couldn't you also safely say that he is therefore fairly easily corruptible if he had been corrupted before? Even not if subconsciously. I'm not saying intentionally, but he clearly... You would know best what was responsible for corrupting our sovereign

as you did fight and one was fell by its own strength. I'm saying Lady and Laura that there's essences, there seems to be magical properties to this horn that corrupts even some of the strongest-willed individuals.

Then we must be rid of it quickly. And I think we need to at least discuss this with the Council. I've not presented. Bring it to their attention. There are ways arcane not very approved ways of nullifying targeted memories.

The rest of the Archana Penzophical have banned the use of such magics, but if we could have approval understanding the safety concerns of this object from the council, we could override the Archana Penzofical, and I could employ some of these magics to make sure that once this artifact is destroyed or taken somewhere to never be found again, we ourselves, perhaps not recall it ever existed. And that in itself is the safest course of action. I agree.

Well, I think that we trust you, and you trust the council. That's enough for me. That's enough for me as well. Pike, who do you say? And just so you know, is all right? I might have a solution. It makes me nervous as well. So I will find a lead.

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I might have a solution to destroy it outright. Why don't you share that with us now, Tiberius, instead of keeping it secret. Oh, very well. I'll pull out my bag of holding. What is this? The mending wheel? No, the bag.

An empty fist? He pulled up the bag. Okay, would you care to elaborate Tiberius? Oh, I'm sorry. It was part of the thing I wanted to tell all of you at breakfast, but okay. The idea is, with some research, I've come to find that if anything is in a bag of holding, and the bag of holding itself is destroyed, the items or whatever go into a somewhat void that cannot be retrieved by any one particular thing.

thing. If we are to have our memories erased, as you say, then it would guarantee that when we place the thing in a bag of holding and destroy that bag, it will then be dissipated into this void. At which point, Alora races, Your Hades, Tabiris, you, as a very trained sorcerer, I have some knowledge in this regard. I've been crafting bags of holdings since I was a child as a way of keeping my weekends busy. I have to notify you that should such a pocket of interdimensional arcane space is disrupted in this way. It doesn't send them into a void. It jettisons the contents into the Astral Sea.

The Astral Sea, which has many denizens that could come across this object. Gith Yankee themselves and the great ships. I hate Yankees. So it could be bad. There are things in the Asterile Sea. There are many things that exist in the Astral Sea that could recover this item. I'm not saying there isn't merit to this, but I think it would be best to we put it somewhere where at least we know for certain no one will find it,

as opposed to just hoping it disappears somewhere. But the memory thing is crucial. I think that... What about those who might be uncomfortable with, you know, just toying around with my memories and tramping along and ground in my head? I don't really, you know, once, you know... Why don't you think about it for a while? Yeah, my head's pretty fragile as it is.

We're talking about erasing the path back to this thing. We're not talking about removing your adolescent years from your memory, just this one thing. How many lessons have we learned in just the time? Wouldn't we have to erase all memories surrounding it? We wouldn't even remember our trip into the Ander Dark? I think we could perhaps just erase the memory of where we put it. That is what I am assuming.

That is possible. Like I said, these magics have not been tampered within nearly 200 years. Whoa, oh, so we're going to break the seal on some untampered with magics and just experiment. I am part of a group that oversees civilization. We can't come to too much detail, but they are responding to keeping such ancient magics, long-forgotten magic such as this. I would have to meet with and discuss and approval from them for its use, but for an item as dangerous as what you say, perhaps this is one of those special occasions. I mean, she's working for the Illuminati and we're basically the A team, so I think she might know a little better.

The I team. Um... I don't know. What do you think, Pike? We've been quiet. I feel like at this point, we don't really have another option. So I, and I do trust to Laura. So I feel like if we just maybe go check it out, I don't really know what our other option. That was a good one.

And if we don't like it, we can step. And if we don't like it, we can keep thinking of something else. We have time. This is true. And who knows what wisdom the rest of the council might have within their midst as well? We have members from all across the world. We'll see which these sources they have at their disposal. I'm sure they're waiting for us.

Well, I am, that'd be free of my usual business. You guys familiar with the world offends? The wild offense. The wild offense. The wild offense. The wild offense. There are a bloody merchant guild. We've left our chambers and samples.

Look, since you've been gone, then the council matters have been brought up to speed once more. We've had to deal with the backlog of all the various council meetings that have been pushed back and pushed back for months and months. It's been a nightmare. So this, how dangerous as it is, I'm taking it as a nice change from the usual, pardon my speaking, political bullshit I've been. bullshit I've been dragged into on a weekly basis. Between the the Will Defends and God there was the Cortigian League from Wild Mound and they just tore through him on with a caravan of parting gypsies that destroyed everything in a path. Who? Damn gypsies. The Cortian

League. Cortigan League. The Cortian League. From Wild Mount, and North. We fought stitch monsters that was mostly what we... It was guns and swords and... It's far more interesting. Most of our guests have been a bit rough around the edges. Although I will say, we did manage to meet with Sildur of Singon. We may have some business there with getting Singon situated. Oh, Sizzler. ...bride were rather nice to us when they came in for the town.

Um, so business has been fair. We will... Shall we take this to the council then? Yes, we are pressing matters. We'll get to that later. All right. Let's go to the council then. Then, as you guys make your way back down through the tower, you eventually ventured through the castle top district to the front of the palace. The guards stand there with their long red velvet cloaks and their brass plates. They recognize both Allura and you as you approach,

and they kind of step aside, put their spears towards the steps and kind of give you a grand entrance to the front of the palace. As you step up, the front doors open on their own with a large, heavy, shaking up the wood as the palace doors open. You guys are led into the central chambers of the main palace walkway, which splits to the right left, and then across leads to the main throne room. However, you guys are meeting in the council room, which is to the left. You've been there twice before. So you're led over to the council chambers, which as you enter the main circular room, you're brought into the nice hardwood floors, the kind of dark forest green-colored these long tapestries which recall various battles of history and

broad mountainous landscape showing settlers making their way across dangerous terrain You can see various weapons from different civilizations that were brought as gifts to him on that have been mounted on the walls as a presentory kind of atmospheric decor and in the central room You can see what currently says the entirety of the Tal'Dore Council in a kind of a hush discussion. The council, of course, has at the center across the table from you, sovereign Huryel Taldori the second himself, the leader of Iman and the current sovereign of all of Taldore,

this section of the continent. You see him with his characteristic, dark hair with kind of graying sides, kind of cut shorter than you recall, like you just recently got a trim, and some very, very well-kept facial hair. hair. He's wearing his ceremonial robes, which are the same kind of gold and red color as the armored soldiers that greeted you at the front of the palace. Next to him, you see Lord Riskel Daxio, which is the Elvin Mail who helped you guys handle your purchasing of the keep when you were

awarded that at the end of your last journey. He's the master of trade currently within Iman. You can see he has kind of a long, kind of strawberry blonde hair that is pulled into a tight ponytail to the back and he wears kind of darker clothing, more for decoration than actual use. His armor seems to be loose and more decorative. Next to him is Guardian Tofor Britoris, which you've heard up and have not met before, a female dragon-born paladin. Say that one more time. Guardian Who's a what now? Guardian. Guardian Tofor Brotaurus.

Tofor. T-O-F-O-R. Ratoris. Her name's been mentioned before, but this is the first time you guys have actually seen her in person. It's a girl. It's a female dragon-born paladin. She is adorned in full silvered platinum plate that is currently carved multiple symbols of Bahamut, the Platinum dragon. As she kind of looks up and notices, you can see, she gives kind of a hand up, kind of a symbol of a greeting towards Kima.

As Kima also gives her hand up, and they both touch the front of their armor. It's kind of a symbolic holy way. They're both being followers of Bahamut. you would immediately make that religious connection between the two of them. She looks across the rest of the group there that she doesn't seem to notice eyes meeting with Tiberius.

And this is strange, you haven't seen very many Dragon Board at all with any Mon. And as soon as she meets your gaze, she kind of gives you a look of deep, deep stink eye. Oh, hello. My name's Tiberius Stormwind. Of how Storm went from Dachonia. From Draconia, you say.

Hmm, yes. I'm sure you've heard of my father My mother, Penelope. Then perhaps you should close that trap and sit across the table. The far from me as possible. She used to spit the words almost. He sits back in her chair.

Mind your tongue. There's the council's, you know, kind of talking amongst themselves and kind of hearing this slight discussion. Next to her, there is a halfling male and kind of rangerish garb wearing what looks like some really fine, chain shirt with a thick, dark black cloak. He's shaved bald with tattoos on one side of his face.

And he introduces himself, please. I'm terribly sorry. I did not mean for there to be any sort of misunderstanding here. Kind of gives a slight nudge to Tofore. I do not believe we've met at this time. My name is Seeker Assum Emring. I'm the Master of Secrets here within the council. He kind of extends a hand towards you as almost like alleviating the tension.

Hi. I'm storming here. Well, I assume you're the ones waiting for, please have a seat. At which the sovereign finishes discussion with another human which you've not met. He's kind of a built and armored individual. Looks probably stands the tallest of the entire group, thick square jaw, kind of unshaven. At which point he kind of puts his hand on the sovereign shoulder and says, I suppose I should introduce myself as well. I've heard much about you, Voxmockinga.

I am Arbiter Brahm Goldhand, and I have reached I've recently taken up as of three months ago the position that General Krieg once held within the city. Since he was unfortunately lost to us, there was need for a new master of law. And as since I've had a lot to keep up on, unable to meet you personally until now. But it is a pleasure. I've heard nothing about great things. And he sits down in his chair. Allura finds her side of the table and gestures the rest of you. Please have a seat. Sovereign is in the midst of... I stand. I don't sit.

All right. Sovereign finishes writing some papers, rolls them up. Snaps twice, and a gentleman comes by, and he hands in papers and says, give this to Lady and Lord Briarwood as soon as possible, thank you. All right. So, first of all, I want to welcome you all back. It's been a few weeks since we've seen each other.

I've been recently given word that you so unceremoniously appeared in the center of the Lyceum not but 12 hours ago, worse for where. So I would like to know, first off, why you've returned in the center of our city and I want to see how your well-being has been these past few weeks. I apologize and I'm a bit scattered. I've had a few things in my mind as late. But yes, how is Voxmachina? If I may. We didn't choose to dump us right in the middle of the city. That was born out of necessity, not out of choice.

The task we set out to finish proved a lot more complicated than originally perceived. Frankly, I worry about the safety of the city of Craghammer underneath their home down in the bowels of the earth. I don't know how much the council knows about the race of the Illithid. but we stumbled into a veritable hornet's nest of them below the city. Most faces are blank.

Allura, of course, has her hands on the table kind of, you know, listening intently. As you say, Illithid, you do notice that Seeker Assam Emring, the halfling, immediately sits back in his chair with a look of, oh, snap. I see a lot of blank stairs at this table. I wasn't very familiar with them either.

There is an entire city in the underdust. dark beneath Craghammer and in their midst was a beholder that was controlling the entire city we ended up destroying it barely escaping with our lives fleeing the city destroying a god I think I don't think we destroyed the god I think we destroyed it's a demi demon yes something he had possessed but the god still lives. But the, yes, but Orcus was behind the beholder. Well, that's just, well, no, there's just a horn. We just had the horn. We killed Kavan and then he got back up again. He didn't get himself back. Because Orcus is a god of

necromancy in that house. That's what the horn did. It brought him back to life when he would die. That's why I ripped it out when he did it because I knew that what was going on. That's what that's what the horn does. I just worry that it's not just you know, an appliance. It's got him in it. Oh, you absolutely. He doesn't. Remember, it laughed at me when I tried to crush it, is what I'm saying.

Right. Laura kind of looks you strangely. Tiberius, you sound different. I'm not, I was talking about tonight. I'm sorry. Come on talking right now. Be that as it may, we riled up a city of Rangflare.

Buttholes, as Tiberius would call them. very unhappy race of things below the surface of the earth now we're here today because Tiberius, crafty as he is, was able to flee ahead of us and create a portal back here

and we ended up falling ass over tea kettle in the Lyceum so here we are welcome back thank you. It's good to be. Glad to see you're safe. We've brought a little bit of the evil with us. I don't know. Which point the table gets extremely uncomfortable suddenly.

And as everyone steps back, Kima steps forward, which she's kind of kept to the back at this point and says, It's all right, it's all right. I will speak for this group, as you also know that their exploits and their abilities, they saved me from what was probably a certain death and torture and aided me in stopping what darkness was beneath Craghammer, at least what we could.

But listen to what they have to say and understand that they are as trustworthy as they come, at which point the sovereign can elives the hand, or says, well, Kima, your word is trusted, and I appreciate you also have returned to us healthy. So what does this evil you bring with you? Well, we have it stored safely away. Yes.

But this beholder was using an artifact, a horn, emanating darkness and shit. And Tiberius, in the heat of the battle, ripped it from it. It's paint, and we brought it back with us. It is one of the two horns of Orcus. At that notification, you see the name Orcus, and you can see there's a whole kind of energy shift

in the room at which point. A lot of furrowed brows drop to intense. The actual air of the room seems to come still for a moment. And from what you can see, Sikker Asun and Tofur, kind of grit their teeth and lean it forward as you say this. And so forth says, You said, Orcus. Yes, are you deaf?

It's her furious. Madness. We see the apprehension written on your faces, and we are nervous as well. But the alternative was leaving the horn with these illifid, hundreds, if not thousands. if not thousands of Ilethid. And we had to make a judgment call rather quickly,

and, frankly, leaving it there with them seemed like it wasn't an option. You've done right in bringing it here. This has to be destroyed, sent as far away, rather of the hands of whoever this is indeed an artifact of Orcus. It cannot exist on this plane. Plans must be drawn up. That's kind of what we thought. Yes, we know this already.

At which point chemo steps forward. and kind of says, now, understand this, this is not something you can lock in a box or put some guards around it. There was a reason this was forgotten and needs to be again. Now, with the proper surrounding strength and formidable individuals,

I can take it to the Grand Chantry in Ostania where the High Paladin Archibald will reseal it, far away from the eyes and minds of the world, lest we can come up with some sort of way to destroy this item, on which point the arbiter, Brom, steps forward and goes. If you think there's possibly a way to destroy this, we need to discover this here.

We cannot allow it outside of the midst of this to some chaotic winds and whim of the world around us. We have the walls of Imand to keep it safe. Why not take it to the Lyceum? I want to make an inside check on the whole table. I want to also double check. Who was it that handed off the letter to the Briar Woods? That was the sovereign.

So, sovereign, thank you. So which individual? The arbiter. Yeah. Arbiter bomb. What did you roll? Is it the 10. Can I insight the seeker?

Sure. What should insight roll? 13. 13, okay. And I would like to insight the sovereign just because for reasons. One. Start the game off strong, guys.

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Yeah, I think so too. I want an insight check as well Because Matt can totally whisper to me if I get this good He'll text you. I'll text it to you. Roll high. Hold on looking. Keep rolling.

He's rolling. 11. 11? 17. 17. 17. 17. A total of 17? 117. On which individual?

Which person at the table, sis? You. On your brother? Oh no, on the deep-voiced guy. The arbiter. Okay, the Arbiter. Yes, the Arbiter. Okay.

You. Why don't be like that, huh? I'll say, I'll say, and a general feel about the room, but the Arbiter specifically. specifically. There is definitely a sense of a very quick rising intention, fear and adrenaline in the room at this conversation. Fear is the main thing you're getting. I wouldn't say that you sense any deception. You just sense like the stakes have just suddenly jumped for

what they were expecting their morning to be, and they're trying to wrap their head around it. So nothing in two particular catches your Shit Radar. All right. We are not leaving the horn here. No. We would have to leave you here. As Grog speaks up to the arborist,

I'm not saying we leave it here. I'm saying that while we have it here, have it studied. Bring it to the Lyceum. The headmaster in his entire research facility could possibly find a way to destroy it. There is no finer arcane focus than that Lyceum in the city.

They're responsible for the construction. of our sky ships and the crystals that keep them elevated. I love sky ships. I believe the power will be too great. It will corrupt. People will want to take it to themselves. Then it has to be taken elsewhere in Seagull. Akema was requesting.

So you're saying essentially our two options are we can either keep it here and study it to try and figure out a way to destroy it and have all of the risks of this horn being inside the city, Or we take the other massive risks of trying to ship it off somewhere and hope that it gets sealed away. At which point, Tofur, the female dragon moors kind of sits up in her chair and says, Regardless, it should not stay here, in my opinion. Understand the longer it resides within Emon, the more world will spread.

And more despots will be drawn to our city to claim it. Do you wish to have all the darkness of this land slowly swarm in on this city? I think we're of a like mind. Yes. Yes. I think it's a giant target on our backs right now. I turned to the arbiter. I was like, there is something that you should know.

During our battle with Kavan, which was the name of the beholder, which the horn resided upon its head. When I ripped it from its head, I held it in a telekinesis state. I attempted to crush it for not knowing what it was at first, just knowing he was bringing creatures back to life. When I attempted to do so, I heard somewhat of a laughter on the back of my mind. I fear whatever this is attached to might be aware, or, if anything, more aware than it was previously. I'm not sure if it was alerted by being placed on the beholder's head to begin with, but I heard something. Looking at Tofer, I agree with the peasant that we should get it out of here immediately. Which point the sovereign has been kind of quiet, so much says.

Well, the best I can tell at this point, it should not stay in Amman. We've had enough trouble in this city and enough issues here that we're having to deal with in the aftermath of the attack on my family. We do not have the mental will nor the ability to withstand any sort of assault by the from the inside or the outside of the city. If we ought to take it elsewhere, I trust the opinion of you of Kima and Alura. Which point Alura takes moments, says.

Just the knowledge of such a thing existing, let alone two in this world is dangerous. Who knows what horrors an individual could achieve should they find both horns? Now, wherever this gets taken, the knowledge that all of us know that these exist now. And anyone else beyond this means that that's a leak. That's a weakness.

Now I've heard of some magics that can erase selected memories permanently. Ancient magics, at which point as she starts saying this, the rest of the groom kind of shifts uncomfortably, and you can see Tauphor begins to raise your hand to protest in allure and shudher dances. But I would not employ these unless they were absolutely necessary. I need to speak with the archana pansofical

and see if this is such a strange and necessary circumstance to allow the use of such magics. That will take me some time to get the entire conclave to agree, but I think it's possible. And maybe the only way, if we cannot destroy this, to make sure that the rest of this world never knows that it existed. I think that's the safest route.

As to getting out of the city, I feel that we have two individuals here, two followers of Bahamit, both the deity that saw the evil, brought the vision to Kima, and presented whether in a roundabout way the power and strength of these individuals to eventually retrieve it and prevent it from being an artifact that instrumentally destroyed the Dwarven city

and quite possibly all of Taldore. So I think if there was a god whose guidance we could look into, I would put my trust in the clergy of Bahamit. She looks to Kima, and Kima kind of nods her head. I, of course, would agree with such sentiments as well. Kima raises her malice as an honor.

shoulder. Well then, if that's to be the case, and I'll send word over to the rest of my temple. We'll send over our finest paladins and clerics and guardians. Prepare a box for travel. We'll take it across the sea. We shall seal this bastard. Kima. Yeah. Kima, when you do approach your king, propose because Ocus's home is pure, black, evil. Perhaps the sight of light could help as well. The blessing of Severn Ray and other light sources, divine powers, could be helpful as well. The horn will remain here until the vessel is brought over,

but we have holy vessel specifically designed for the keeping of remains or things that are of great evil. And we would gladly welcome the blessing of something from Seren Ray as well. After all, there is nothing wrong with more positive energy instilled to maintain such a negative force. I personally don't trust. This horn traveling anywhere without at least one of our supervision.

At which point the sovereign can speak, seven, sis. And to be completely honest, we are very grateful you've brought the horn here, but you are a motley crew. Who is to say any of you are also immune to this corruption as well? Who's to say you, eight, carry the mental willpower to withstand this darkness any better than a group of paladins designed and trained their entire line. to withstand and destroy this evil.

What assurance do I have that your attachment to nature would not become some dark, brambled, twisted thing in the proximity of this artifact? None. Just keep that in mind. I look to the group and do this to Scamon. Taking quite advantage of his kind of state of mind. You have no idea what I'm going to do for the rest of the game.

You literally do that to Scandon like you, you, to Scandon? No, I was pointing at. Right in the air. Right there. Right there. What will he? To our little gnombard. You miss you, Sam.

Yurya looks around. Well, given this circumstance, I would say that our best bet now is to have Kimo and Tofo reach out to the grand chambers of Bahamut, have them bring a vessel and seal it somewhere that they find fit for an object of this dark presence. Is the council an agreement of this? unless some other better means arises.

How long will it take this festus to arrive? Which point Keem kind of scratches her chin for a second? He goes, by the fastest ships, especially if we're using some of your fancy sky dinghies, I can't imagine more than two weeks. Which point, at which point, 14 days you're honest. Life was adorable.

A far night. At which point, Allora, Allura stands forward in some says, ah, it's in the means of... You guys don't have any holy ships here? Like, you don't have like a ship dock? I'm sure if they did, they would probably use that one. Yeah, but I'm using it.

But I'm using it. At this point, at this point, Alora kind of sits forward into the rest of the group and says, to be fair, Kima, in my experience, and knowledge ships function well for the movement of goods and large objects. The speed of this requires some expediting, and well, I happen to have a friend who is over in Austenia, probably not far from your clergy. Perhaps we can facilitate a two-day travel. Which point the rest of the group kind of leans back for a second, then he goes.

Well, well, fine, yeah, I guess. It kind of shoots a dirty look a little bit. Can I do an inside check on the Lurro real Sure. You're saying a ship would be ready in two days, or would take two days to travel? No. Laura's saying, depending on the size of this vessel, why do we even need a ship?

We have the ability to transport between the cities. If we can pull our resources, there's no reason why we can't bring them here nearly instantaneously. Thirteen. Thirteen. Best you can tell, Laura, I mean, who's really hard to read. She keeps him a smile, but she definitely has her intense face on.

She's deep in the moment. No real gives one way or the other. Real gifts one way or the other. The rest of the room kind of looks around and, Archonist, in the silence, goes, Belethyn, I think then me and Keman, Tofer, if you'd like, we can designate a way of bringing this relic container as fast as possible so we may get this going.

I wish not to keep this within our presence much longer. Do we agree to that? Yes. Yes. We do. I think we would feel comfortable going on for the ride. and seeing this thing through to the end. She kind of glanced over to the sovereign and the sovereign. He gives a nods.

Very well, very well, I'll allow it. I may have some business for you coming soon, so try not to be gone too long. Although this is much more important business, I too agree, and then he kind of gives a laugh and a smile to raise a bit of levity of the room that nobody seems to respond to. But nevertheless, if you wish to travel and see this through, I don't see there would be any complaint.

He looks to Lady Kima, and he says, Oh, no, not at all. We've gotten along swimmingly so far, mostly. Very well. Then I'm bad at this political stuff, and Kimmy kind of steps back a little bit, and I defer to the rest of you, because they're mace on the ground

and her wall in the ground, and kind of awkwardly looks away. So I'm going to settle. Reach out to your clergy, bring the vessel, Allura, facilitate its arrival. We look at this artifact as far away from him on as possible. This is adjourn. Thank you all very much for coming to this council meeting.

I'm waiting until he, I'm going to catch the sovereign on his way out. All right. At which point everyone kind of gathers the rest of their papers and parchments, they're rolling up scrolls. The arbiter gets up and kind of lumberes his way out of the room. The seeker, Assam, steps up to the rest a few once again with a final handshake. A pleasure to meet you all once again. I've heard so much. You're doing fine work.

And he seems like, strangely, I'd say nervous, but in a weird way he's... A gentle hint of fanboy. I wink at him. Oh, stop. He slightly winks back on his way out. As he exits, Tofor stands up, and now at her full, you've only seen her sitting since you arrived. As Tofur stands in her female dragon-born form,

she is probably a good solid foot taller than Tiberius and is a thick, muscle-bound dragon-born paladin of Bahamit. As her armor kind of shifts as she stands, to make her way towards the door, not even with a glance in your direction. That means she's as tall as you, Grog. She's as tall as you. I just whispered to Tiberius and say,

are all the ladies that big in draconia? You know, it all depends. No, not really. She's bigger than usual. She's a wretched peasant, so I cannot. That's so mean. It's a little harsh. She takes it, Oluura stands up.

Being as to leave, the sovereign stands up, and as he stands up, the guards come out, kind of come to his side. Good, Sorin, if I could have a moment. Did I hear correctly that Lord and Lady Briarwood were in town? They were about a week ago. They were but a week ago, and they've left, have they? Yes, yes. Do you know of Lord and Library? Oh, just in passing, just in passing. Did they have business in town? Was there something in particular? I'm just curious. It doesn't really matter. I mean, it does matter, but not particularly. It was, it was relatively routine. We're establishing an official trade route through the Northeast, spanning

the Boreal Plain to Whitestone. Oh. They inherited the region after the unfortunate demise of the DeRola family. Yes, yes. However, our ambassador has noted that they've rebuilt rather well and honored the memory of the family, and they're really committed to reestablishing the foothal of Whitestone in the North, and so they came here on a diplomatic mission to open trade. Oh, that's That's nice. I would love to, please keep it quiet

but if I could be notified if they're coming through again, I would like very much like to surprise them if that would be possible. Am I sending next to Percy? Am I hearing this? Yes. Okay, good.

So, just this is old business. It would be very interesting to see them again. for the sake of this conversation I'm asking a roll of deception check okay ooh natural 20 oh pretty nice don't fuck with me the sovereign gives you certainly

very well I won't notify you should they come through again deeply humbled by your thoughts I think as at the end of this conversation I'll rip off a piece of the scroll of teliscription I want to approach like when you do that all you do is like the message to this and we will receive it. It's a chanted parchment. I will receive the message. So we will. I know how things right. Yes, thank you. And as you presented, he kind of walks by and one of his guards takes it from you and kind of gives you a nod. And they exit the chambers.

You guys are escorted out into the main hallway at the palace. And as the rest of the council scatters amongst the palace proper, you all left, the doors closed behind you in the echoing hallways towards the central left side of the palace. Oh. Percy. I'm fine. You're sweating. I know. Why are you sweating? It's hot. What happened? Nothing.

The sun comes up and it gets very hot. I'll tell you later. Okay, very good. There's a discussion for later. There's more important things. Okay. Moors. Kima and Alora are near you, at which point, Kima looks the rest of the uses. I apologize. I have to figure this out now. So I'm going to go head to the near symbol of Bahamit and see if we can reach out quickly. Oh, so what should we do? That's up to you. She looks to Alora kind of question.

Laura, well, in the event of this blessed chamber arriving, you'll be notified. We will request your presence to bring the artifact in question, seal it, and then we will begin our journey over to its place of hopeful destruction and or proper banishment. Would you like anyone to go with you or you just want to go alone? To... To work out to the deep.

To... details of all of this. Uh, uh, for me, it's just preparation of the arcane transference ritual. I'm going to go meet with a friend of mine over in Ostman,

Ostania. I will say we haven't replenished our potions yet and we could go to a visit our old friend, uh, Gilmore, Gilmore's Glorious Good. I would feel much better than a visit to Gilmore's. So you essentially just want us to wait? You will.

You, you, Whatever business you need to get done, it should take no more than two days to get this. Two days? Two days? You guys, we have a weekend! This is Alura and Kima who are here. Yeah, the only two have stayed behind with you guys

outside of the council chambers. I take Pike by the hand, and I walk over to Kima, and they're short, so I kneel down, and I say to the both of them, I've never pretended to be a man of the cloth. I know little of the gods, but the brush, had down below has left me shaken. What can the gods tell us? The gods stick their noses into our doings whenever it pleases them. Are they not here? Have they anything to say for what is happening now? I'm with this guy. High five facts.

At which point? If you wish to respond to me, you may. Well I just know I I tried to have a response from my god down below, and she didn't really respond the way I would like for her to, but maybe things will be different. I think I, what were you gonna say? At which point, Kimo, can I, looks to you at what you just said with a look of curious worry and says, oh, well, if what you say

is your faith has been shaken, There is always room at the temple of Bahamit to find redemption, strength, and guidance. Oh, she's trying to get you to come to her to marriage. She's trying to convert. She's trying to convert, get the leaflet. The platinum dragon has guided much of civilization's growth, expansion, and survival for thousands of years.

The eternal battle between him and the darkness that is Tiamat and the chaos beyond that. We thought to respect Kima. That is good news. It's very good news. I don't think that was Vax's question. To get to the point, I apologize. The gods are many,

and the gods have been at war for as long as we exist. There are some that believe that we are nothing but the aftermath of their squabbles. But nevertheless, there is much good in this world that guides us to our ultimate destiny. And if you herself feel that you're lost amongst this chaos, don't ever be afraid to stop in and ask a few questions.

I was just wondering if I could ask you to ask them to maybe help. I would never think to ask the guards for help if I wanted a shiny new sword or a pile of riches, but this is something different. Well, let's take a gist a pile of riches. Or a shining sword. Good point. At which point, Kimmel laughs, there was something. Well, I mean, there are benefits to being a very good point. being of the order. Kimu, who does not have an accent, did not say it that way.

Too many MTCs in my head right now. But understand, whenever I felt lost, which is often, it's good to have that guiding warmth to turn to. And sometimes it brings you into a subterranean mountain being tortured by dwarves. sometimes it guides you to new friends and allies. Strange the way the gods work, but when you put you all into it, they've kept me alive so far.

That's a really good point. I guess that's a positive way to look at it. I really like long walks in the forest when I'm feeling disconnected. That works too, you know? Lady Kima, do the gods allow you to have relationships? Kima, you asked this, and she kind of gives you a look of confusion.

And then, I mean, she already has kind of a darker complexion for a halfling, but her cheeks grow noticeably rudderier. And she kind of, overze this. Well, uh... I still trying to do my best Vax Wrig. I'm Vex. Vex. Vig. Vig.

She kind of versed gaze. I know where it's a guy, well, as far as I know, it is not a vow of chastity within the order. You're saying there's a chast. She still is kind of looking away. She looks away and kind of looks the rest of you, looks to Allura, looks to you again, and he goes, ah, I really have to get to work on this.

And she kind of leaves the group and kind of continues down the hallway. Quick steps. A lot of math involved in that equation. Allura kind of chuckles to herself and steps into a place where she was and goes, I can not to solve the puzzle. As a note, as a note.

Wish to tell you, I already know. Be careful who you ask those questions too. You may get as an earful. And allura kind of smiles and emotions towards chema. I mean, don't get me wrong, you're more than welcome to explore as you like, but that's a rabbit hole. friend.

I'm calling it these days, Arrida. You feel a gentle slap from some unknown arcane force across your cheek, grog. And Alura gives you a stern glare. Oh, don't talk about her girl that way. Don't make me take my errands off. Anyway. So two days, we'll call for you when the item is to be transferred and probably brought to its destination.

In the meantime, prepares you see fit, enjoy this well-earned rest, and we'll take it from there. I have much travel to do myself. See you all very soon. She means to step up the hallway. As she steps up the hallway, you can see there's kind of a light,

yellowish glow about her form, and then with a sudden flash of white light, Allura's just gone. So, guys, I'm thinking we take a local tour of all of the historical highlights of him on. We've never really gone for like site sitting and then maybe we can catch a nice dinner in the city tonight. Oh, look at the time. It's getting so late. It's like 1 p.m. We've got the whole day.

It feels like eight. It really feels so late. I picked up one of these pamphlets while we were in the palace and apparently there's a nice, a national history museum. Gilmore, Gilmoss, your highness, Gilmast. What is a pamphlet? Gilmore. A lot of paper. Gilmores. I'll be at Gilmore. Oh, it's like a mini book. It's like a tiny scroll.

It has pictures. Yes. Does it the natural history museum look nice? All right. So as you guys exit, we'll go to Gilmores too. All right.

You guys exit and find your way. Exiting the palace in the Cloud Top District to make your way to Abadar's promenade to enter and reunite with your good friend, Gilmore. It's back to the game. Gilmore! So you guys, you make your way outside of the Klaselop district into the center of Iman proper,

returning to Abadar's Promenade, which is the largest central section of the city, where most of the merchantile itself seems to have gathered and been a serious conglomerate of all business in this city happens. Those who, like a quick little visual idea of the city here, this is Iman. Right there, it's a small little. There is an amazing print out of this that they've, actually Lauren Travis have framed and put up in their room some time we'll have to go ahead and bring on the show and show you guys we're gonna bring it to put on the set

though at some point yeah we'll have it so anyways the castle top district is here the inner portion you guys have made your way out south to the central district and then towards Abadar's Promenade which is right over here so you guys would have gone this way actually so you have to Abadar's Promenade. On the far eastern side of Yaman where you eventually find your way to the outskirts of your favorite purveyor of arcane mystical artifacts. Gilmore. Sean Gilmore, himself.

Sean Gilmore. So as you guys... Is his first name? I know, I didn't know Sean was his first name, I learned either. Sean Gilmore, but you've always called him Gilmore. We're on first name basis now, guys. No one's on first name basis with Gilmore. We are.

Gilmore is Gilmore. Except for maybe, maybe back's in there. Except maybe, maybe Vax. So, at this point now, you're pushing about two in the afternoon. It's extremely busy. You can hear the clopping of, of, of, horse, you know, hooves in the ground, people walking past, and you swear as you're stepping through the city, maybe a handful of people kind of stop and watch you guys walk through,

stunned and almost like they'd seen a celebrity on the street. As the most recent makeup of the Winter's Crest Festival was a celebration of you being the heroes who saved the city of Imon and the sovereign and his family. Apparently, you're now recognizable within the city of Imon. My sister winks. All right, so Vax, Wills, Vex to wink. Wex, do you accept this wink from your brother? Waxe. All right.

Perfect. There you go. Just let it right. Perfect. You can blind it up. As you walk across the main thoroughfare, you make your way to the large, the wide but single-story building that is Gilmore's glorious goods. It's of all the various shades of brown and red and brick that makes up all these buildings, Gilmore's Gloria goods is presented in fine, deep blue and purple fabrics and a paint scheme that would look

like the worst fun house to enter. Worst or best, depending on your opinion. The entranceway is not a door, but a series of hanging beads and large cloth drapes that are kind of gently falling and to be brushed aside as you enter. It's not as big as you remember or recall you seemingly, but then as you step through the front doors you remember why. much like the Tartis, the interior of the Gilmore's goods is bigger on the inside. There is a magical enchantment based in this building where the interior is actually a two-story

and much larger place of business. Immediately the smells of incense and fine perfumes, kind of salt your nose, like a terrible medieval Sephora. It's like coming home. Medieval Sephora? Medieval Sephora. A series of, A series of magically flickering, ever-burning candles,

adorn sconces along the walls. You can see there are glass cases set out in the center of the room. There's the long wooden bar in the far end, which has itself its own beaded curtain that is closed. And there are three employees of Gilmore's glorious goods in their ceremonial blue and purple robes that match the exterior, kind of just staring about while there are a number of other possible customers

that are kind of just looking about. There's numerous bookshelves along the walls. You can see there is, next to the stairway on the far left side of this floor, there is an herbalist who specializes in dried herbs and sales in that regard. You haven't been to the upstairs yet in this complex, but you now are standing back in the comfortable,

although slightly offensive to your senses, interior of Gilmore's glorious kids. I'm scanning the entire store for him, I wanna find. Oh, he's not currently visible. Oh, he's not here. He's not visible, not the main room, no. visible. All right.

He has a prize of us. Yes. Yes. You should get that evil Chlorota helmet checked out and see what all good it does us. Got this one. Ding, ding, ding.

Yep, that one. Yes. Um, facts. I see you be the point man here. I think so. I would agree. I would agree. I second.

With that motion. Yes. Quintapult. And yeah, the Twinsies. To start looking around. Start shopping. Don't pay for anything yet because I have an arrangement.

Okay. I, um, I, I go up to, um, I go up to, two backs and I just put my hands on his shoulders and I say, you got this. And I cast enhanceability on him. Yeah. For, uh, charisma, I guess, I'm assuming. Just make my hair even glossier than the other.

Yeah, and I, um, I give him a little bit of the dad thumb. Oh, Bill. I know that thumb. Yeah. The dad thumb. wipe the morning breakfast off of them before I send him on the school. And I give him a little love tap on his behind and send him on his way. Oh, shoulder massage.

All righty. So? So you have a dependency for... Is there like a front desk or sort of... Yeah, on the far back side there is a very long, well-crafted kind of darkwood desk that is adorned with, looks like small alchemical components, glass tubing and... and be a bit louder with those red vines. I'm sorry.

I'm good, thank you. We're good, we're good. You can see there there are a number of glass containers and small corked vials. I'm sorry, it's like, he's looking for Gilmore. They're gonna flirt together. You're watching a movie.

Sorry. It's all right. There are some books stacked up, and there is a small embedded glass case that seems to have a couple of items that are under a purplish maroon velvet piece of material that's currently covering them. And there is that kind of beaded curtain with strips of material that block the back room. And there's a person manning the... No, not currently.

It's just an empty desk. Is there a bell or anything? Oh, there is a bell. Yeah. Ding ding ding. As you hit the bell, one of the employees who's helping somebody looks around, and goes, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

And what you see is, it looks be the half-elven woman with thick spectacles who is currently stepping over to try and stop you. However, the beat of curtain swishes open with the grandiose gesture of one slightly meaty hand and stepping out in his fine gold-trimmed purple robes, his longish, thick black quakes. his hair pulled into a nice ponytail,

smoothly shaved face with a slight little hint of a braided goatee that dangles about three inches from his chin. Will you remind me, sorry, DM, because it's been a while. Gilmore's a good-looking man, though, is it? Yeah, he's handsome. Yeah.

Is the braid new? Is that a new in the shirt? He's so handsome, Max. Oh, the braid's new. He decided to rock the braid. Go for it. Gilmore's a very handsome gentleman. He's, you guys know.

I would say he's, He's not like fit and muscular. He is, he is a handsome, comfortably jovial gentleman. I'm picturing Jeremy Irons and a wizard's room. Kind of. Imagine with a little more punch. Okay. But very charismatic and, you know, open chest to his vest with a number of gold chains and medallions

that kind of dangle around. I feel like. It's almost like a wizard's track suit. Oh. Oh, that's ruined it for me, man. And it's dead. No. So you still mean it says like arcane on the butt?

No, no, no. No, he's better. He's very well dressed. His presentation is definitely a presentation. As the hand swishes open, he goes, I'm sorry was I being summoned? Yes. He immediately looks just, yes.

Oh. Oh, you've returned. Gilmore. Gilmore. Glor. Glorrious bastard. How have you been? He immediately rushes the edge and kind of like, leans over the counter to give you a grandiose hug

and actually lifts you off your feet. Much stronger than you anticipated and he goes, Oh, Vaxalius, far too long. He sets you down next to him behind the counter. He gives you a big, big hug. Strong wizard arms around you. A scent of, it's almost like fine herbs. It was like a hint of pechouli kind of heat your nose.

You naughty man, you just called me by my sister's name. That is going to cost you. He said, I said, Vax? What do you mean? That's ridiculous, for Pository. Can we go to the videotape, anyone? Instant replayed.

Actually, Vax, he was correct. He said your name correctly. I believe you owe him a little something. I think it was actually a little bit of, a little bit of combination, a little bit of calm, a little bit of calm. I think he called you Vex Alia. Water under the bridge.

Or Vaxalia. That's what he said. He's going to told you Vaxalia, which I call you in my sleep. Shut up you. I lean in. The Felix genuinely like perturbed and embarrassed by the whole circumstance. He's like, oh, well, I lean him, I pat him on the hand. Don't you worry?

We have come from far and away. You would not believe the shit we have been through. But I don't want to talk about me. I want to talk about you. What has been going on in this city since we've been gone? Well, you kind of looks about the rest of you says, obviously you've brought the rest of your friends here. Come sit, sit story time, story time.

Please sit around. Fantastic. We have been doing marvelously. Trade has opened up wide and long. We've had travelers from all over Tal'Dori and beyond. It's incredible. We... I'm in the process of finding an expansion to the town.

Perhaps even. Perhaps even. Get this. Opening a second store. a second store in Westroon. You're going to own a shame? Congratulations. That is a big step for any business.

It's spectacular. Spectacular. But yes, no, I have been able to take on two more archinists. We've been in the process of designing some more interesting, wondrous items. We have start many of our recent possible and available items. We are doing quite well for ourselves. Are you looking for it?

I'm looking for investors, Gilmore. I mean, I technically am your investor in a way. Oh. It is true. We are sponsored by a lot. But, I mean, if you have the money in which to sponsor our business, that's a whole not discussion. I wrapped you.

I just wanted you to talk to me for a little bit. I'd take it away. Dragon Boar. But yes, how about yourselves? You look like you've, how do you've, you've, He kind of gives you all look over and look like you've maybe not slept in a fortnight. Well, we're lucky we're not dead.

It came close a couple of times. We're off on official business for the emperor. We've been underground for weeks and weeks. We've only seen the sun for a couple of days. Oh, that kind of a weekend. Now how that goes. Needless to say, our stores are terribly depleted. We are going to need to stock up a bit before we head out of town.

I don't want to rush things though I think my friends probably want to shop about my sister can probably handle things for me I would love to take a stroll with you around the city get a bit of lunch to bite and hear about what's been happening hear the rumors of town I we all know nobody matches your shrewdness in business that's no surprise but I'm wondering what you've heard what's on the wind Can you take the afternoon off? He looks over at the same half-gleton woman who was trying to stop her earlier, and she kind of gives a look of like,

what's he going to say? No one's ever asked him this question. And he goes, for you? Of course. Mandate, mandate. Go for it. Don't worry, Gilmore. We'll take wonderful care of your employees.

Oh, well, if you wish to do business, why not do that now? We need to shop around first, of course. Very well, very well. Emily, so curious as any of these interesting and fascinating things that you've developed in the several weeks since it's been that we've been here. We'd love to see what you've been working on. Emily? Sherry! And let's see one of those. Can I kind of her shoulders drop?

Yes, uh, Gilmore. It should be so kindness to see to whatever our friends need. These are vansmarking the battle. They are currently sponsored by Gilmore's Loria's Goods, Inc., and I would very much like to make sure that they are taking taken care of. Yes, sir, I'll make sure that happens. So, shall we? I think this will take a while. Let's.

Have a wonderful time, brother. I look to my sister as we go and just skip what I need. Will you? I'll leave the door. Of course. Thank you. And stroll out the door with Yilmore. Have at it, ladies and gentlemen.

Yes! All right. We'll leave dinner on the stove for you. So, sure. kind of looks at us as they leave us. So you're all friends of Gilmore then? Yes. Yes.

I mean, business friends. Yeah. Business friends. We're mutual fans of one another, if you will. All right. She can adjust to her class. Then let's continue with the business. What are you seeking? What do you need? What are you looking for?

I don't know. We like all kinds of things. Well, we definitely need potions. Potions. Some health potions. Health potions? Health potions of healing can be provided. What you have right now? And she kind of goes behind the counter for a second.

It kind of mumbles through stuff, goes in the back room, comes back out with a wooden crate pretty much. And you hear the glass jingling inside as she moves it, says on the counter with that, T-in, they all eventually come to rest. She was, all right, looking through here, looks like we have about 12 regular potions of healing. We have six of greater healing, and it looks like three of superior healing. Oh, take the lot. It's a lot. Superior healing again? Superior healing, let's see. Currently, those go for about, and she kind of looks at the price book going through. Those will run you. And as I go

to my price book. We're also, we keep getting turned to stone. We do keep getting turned to stone. This has been a problem, and it's, and it's been sticking around of it. I feel like we should maybe take some precautions. For the inevitable next time this is that. Yeah. There would be 1,500 gold pieces per superior. Is that with our sponsorship prices? Right. You mentioned your sponsor, so that would be a 10% discount. So that would bring it to about 1350. Should you purchase them individually?

Okay. I definitely be one of those. Wait, wait, wait, how much, if we're purchasing them individually? 1350 gold pieces per superior healing potion. How much for you? And if we buy in bulk, what can you bring it down to? If you buy all three, um... A thousand each?

I'm sorry, you've already been given the discount via Gilmore. Um, that price stands as it is. If you buy in bulk, let's say you buy the three remaining items, I'll give you, let's say, 1,200 apiece. And even that I'll probably get in trouble for, but he seems to like you. 1,200 a piece. Yes? Yeah, we'll take that.

That's good. Very well. So, 3,600 gold pieces, pretty superior are yours. She kind of pulls them out of the crate and slides them across, and they are these thick, very heavily made glass vials with these small glass handles in the side. You can see the interior, the liquid itself is kind of a reddish purple, almost blood color, but there's a goldish sheen as you kind of shake it in the light. You can see there's like a spark of kind of divine glow to it. Like a glassy. Kind of, yeah.

Yeah, it's the worst of healing gold slugger. Is that all you require? Is that all you require? Do you sell any love potions? She gives you the blank stare and goes, no. If you're asking, change. I would also say we should take the six superior healing potions as well. Oh, absolutely.

The greater ones. Greater, great. Oh, wait, what if we just buy? Why did we just buy? We didn't buy superior. We bought the three superior. We should also get the six greater. Three superior. Six greater, all right. How much is that? Those are 500 apiece. With your discount, that would be 450 apiece. But if we're buying all six, four hundred a piece is a very good price.

No, this is the persuasion check. Persuasion check. Persuasion check. Pets hasn't had a chance to haggle on this since the show started. Yeah, it's been on it. She used to do before this show was a haggling. She used to like take food breaks. She had to go all this. No!

14. 14? She goes, let's call it an even 425 gold pieces each. I like this. I'm comfortable with that. All right. 425. She brings out her arcane calculator. Her archa calculator.

Okay. One of the two, 550 gold pieces. All right. And she pulls out the six that are there, and she kind of slides them over the counter to you. One kind of tips over, she catches it, and leaves them there at the far end. Careful, careful.

They can take a beating, the design that way. And so can I. She pushes her glasses up and was vastly unimpressed in the presentation. How much for the superiors again? The superiors were 1,500 brought down to 1,200 apiece. 1200, yes. Which came to 36?

36. Yeah. So do you have anything? We keep getting turned into stone. It's been sort of a running theme. We were hoping you might have something to help alleviate stone skin or any of the... We do have potions of petrification removal. Yes, petrification.

Let me check in chief. It was in the back room. I'm just around for another minute. comes out and she presents two. They have a clear, clear liquids that looks almost like dirty water. And they're like thin little vial. She goes, these potions

when applied to tooth of flesh, will, more of an oil, I guess you would say, removes the affliction of petrification. These do cost 750 gold apiece. We have greater restoration from Pai.

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How many potions do it? Are there? But the heat of the moment. The heat of the moment, though, it might come quite handy. A stone broad and it takes her a day to learn that, and she can only do it like once or twice. I think I think you get it. I'd rather have the potions than the gold, to be fair.

I mean, you should just give one. And we haven't discussed on this now. I should learn how to make potions. We haven't had access. We haven't had access to these things. This meant the spending. Do we want to take one? We take both.

I say, I actually say we take both. Not that I'm here. Take both. 7.50 was not the discounted price though. No. She gives you another look of like, eh. She dressed her glasses. To be fair, we are spending a lot, right?

Overall, so, you know. That would come to 1350. 1350. 13,500. 1300. Remember, we're very good friends at the Omwors. the only sensitive treat as well. Make another persuasion roll.

This is my new fan dice. Awesome. Oh, that was really good. That would be 21. Ah, that's a good thing. She gives him to look as her. I don't like you. 1300.

1300. Lovely. Thank you. Thank you. Um, Sherry. You're Sherry, right? Yeah. Sherry.

Do you have any, like, books on, like, how to learn how to start making your own potions? Or do you know of any classes in town where maybe I can sign up for, like, a potion workshop? Nothing here, but that's not a bad idea. I might run that past Gilmore. You should offer a workshop. You should absolutely offer a workshop.

Otherwise, the lyceum would be the place to learn. Lysium. Yes. Okay. Do you have any potions of strength or any penalty potions? She leaves for a second because that goes, No, I'm afraid this we're all purchased. However, we may have more than a few weeks or so.

They take some time to create, and the ingredients are a little bit scarce. However, trade is opening, perhaps. Someone purchased all of your potion of strength potions? Yes. How many did you have? We had four, I believe. A varying giant strength types.

One person did, or it was just a bunch of people just buying? a handful over the period of time. Oh. I'm going to hand her also a ticket of scroll of telelscription and be like, when it comes in, please, write that it has and I will be notified

via this apartment. She folds it and kind of like places it a little cubby on the side. Thank you. Is there anything else you require? We have many magical various alma mints and or protective items.

Oh, amaments, yeah. What kind of al-humans you got? Well, if you'll follow meeting, and she leads you up to the stairway to the second floor. The second floor itself is just a series of glass cases that are leaned at angle. Within these cases, you can see there are different items just kind of laid out with small labels at the bottom

with a brief description of the enchantment. And she leads you across, she goes, well first we'll start here with the ring section. And you can see there's a small case that has, along this kind of purplish velvet pillow, bunch of different rings set out. She goes, we have varying degrees of rings of protection. These rings are designed to protect the individual who wears.

We have one with a basic enchantment and one with one step higher above that. The equivalent of a ring of protection plus two. That ring runs 6,500 gold. We have a ring of psychic resistance that does protect yourself from various mental inclusions. We have a ring of evasion that can be utilized. three times a day per se, or one to three times a day,

that should one of you not be quite quick enough to avoid any sort of incoming danger, you could allow yourself a successful escape. That one runs 4,500. You also have a ring of water walking. This one has been popular in the past for some traveling troops that wish to do various performances that require defying the surface of water.

I guess it's a bit shifting now that I think about it, but you know, whatever. I'm trying peasantry, some is easily pleased. So those are all rings at the moment. Should any of those tickle your fancy? Please do let me know. Here, and she kind of points over, there is a thick leather belt with like three straps across

that looks highly well made with, looks like kind of square runic carvings on the side. This is what is referred to, and this was an import, actually, from Craghammer, but we've had in here for quite some. a belt of dwarven kind. This belt when adorned does increase the physical heartiness of the individual, as well as giving them

positive interaction with other dwarves. We haven't fully tested it yet, but apparently it seems to also resist against poison intrusion on one's body. It allows you to see better in dark places, and apparently grants you the capability of speaking, reading, and writing dwarfish. Oh, wow. I need that.

It's 5,000 gold, 30. One month ago you need. Yeah. Yeah. What was the first ring? The first ring of protection. Plus two, right? It's okay.

Essentially gives a plus two bonus to AC and saving throws. Okay. It's really good. What was the evasion? Oh, that one, that's the ring of evasion. Yes, what was that? It has three charges. It regains 1D3 charges at per day.

When you fail a dexterity saving throw while wearing it, you can use your reaction to expend a charge and auto succeed on the savings throw instead. Good for people have low-nexarity. The one that protects you psychically, could you repeat that one on the menu, please? The ring of psychic resistance.

Oh, God. It gives you resistance to psychic damage. So anyone does damage that is psychic based, you take half damage. That's not quite it. Well, it's not good. No, it's not quite the same case. No, even for me.

Do you have anything you can make Crogg's Well, fuck off. She looks over him for a moment and goes, No. No, we don't. Maybe any crayons so he could be occupied. We have colored writing implements for children if you'd like. I mean, I saw a few children in town, maybe they would like them.

She goes back downstairs and comes back in a moment and she brings up. comes back in a moment and she presents these two small boxes that contain small colored wax things. And you see on the outside it has a picture of Gilmore and he's doing this that says Gilmore's glorious colored sticks. Of course. Of course. These are usually reserved for the children of our customers. So if the children will enjoy it, enjoy.

I'll take one of those please. Yes, trust me. The father's are quite nice. The children will. Five gold pieces apiece. Five. I thought they were free. Like when you go to her own Charlies or an Applebee's.

What's an Apobese? It's some hellhole apparently near where she used to live. It's one of the layers of the abyss. It's like around. It's one of the layers of the abyss. It's like layer 943. It's getting pretty low. Yeah.

So I've been talking with Scanlan. And I know he wanted, he was interested in the plus two, AC, uh, three. Yeah, I think. We should pick that up for sure. What's the price on that? 6,500 gold pieces for that. With your discount, that would bring it.

Looks back at this again out of her magic calculator. I'm an actor, I'm an advocate. That's an advocate. That brings it 5850. Well, he does have this amazing ruby gem. He was maybe thinking of freighting that for. Maybe bringing down the price?

Do we know how much that would work? Scanlan looked at his sheep and found what it's worth. Scanlan. Scandlin. Speak up. How much was that? Do you know how much the ruby is worth? I believe you wrote it down.

He's been talking quietly. There was a diamond also that was repaired in the mending wheel. That's true. Are you OK? Look that up as well. The notes. Vex, do you remember how much that diamond was worth? Who's got that diamond?

We lost them. We lost them. Oh no. Redial. This is important. I got it. How much is the diamond worth? We never get it with praise.

Regardless. This is other things of interest. I have nothing that we're making smarter. I can make him quicker. This is so period. It's just like Lord of the Rings. Bebe, beep, beep, beep. Magical sending stones, yeah.

God damn it. Answer. Answer. Enter, bitches. Thanks. Go into quiet. and you know that they're there and they don't pick up. Well, I'm not here anyway, so I'm just gonna keep doing this.

You guys, as you were. We'll come to it. Regardless, she continues on, showing through. She goes, well, I don't have anything that would necessarily make him smarter. We do have something that would make anyone quicker. And she goes to another second, there was a big, thick leather toome. This is an ancient tone that was enchanted many, many generations back.

Upon properly reading and studying this tone, one could increase their physical dexterity permanently. permanently. Ooh. I like that. It only has its bill as a power once a century, so it does come quite price. What is that price? Uh, 1500 gold pieces. Hmm. We should, we should buy that. What? We should probably buy a... A tome that increases your dexterity. It's all like, oh now. That's squitch. That's okay. The ring of that...

What is it the ring? So there is the manual of quickness of action. We also have the hat of disguise, and she's produces this like, go. She produces this fine brass cap that has kind of intricate swirling ruins on it and what looks like a small set of ears that are kind of pushing the sides when it fits in the head. It looks almost like a smaller head on top of ears. This cap and worn, however, one can alter their appearance. However they see fit.

We also have, and she pulls out this thick leather armor that has kind of a brownish with blue trim hue to This is infertive is cold snap leather armor. It has an enchantment to improve one's armor class by two. While wearing it, you have resistance to cold damage. Is it leather armor, you said? Leather armor, yes. How much is that? That is 7,500.

You also have the cape of Montbank. It is a cape that when triggered, and she kind of takes it and ships it for a second. You can see a little bit of smoke kind of plumes off of it. It smells kind of sulfurish. While wearing it, you can use it to teleport to yourself of short distance instantaneously. Once per day.

We have this, and she pulls another dark cloak off the wall. And this one, it looks like it's made of dark fur, but as she shakes it, you can see these two little tendrils are on it, that kind of wiggle about with these little kind of spiked edges to the tendrils. This is a cloak of displacement. Enchanted and taken from the body of a displacer beast, wearing it makes it so your body projects an illusion. Anyone attempting to cause you harm has difficulty actually finding purchase on your physical form,

not knowing where you truly truly. stand. I will take that cape. That is 4,500 gold pieces. Wonderful. Uh, vex. Oh, shit. I'll put this aside as a possibility. We have a pearl of power. And she pulls up from this small box, she opens up the top lid. This enchanted pearl, you can use it to speak a command word

and regain one expended spell slot up to third level that you've already used. Once you've used the pearl, it can't be used again to the next on, so once per day you can just return. So it's for your caster types. A third level? Yes, up to third level. One spell slot immediately restored. It does require attunement, however,

and you can't have more than three items of tune to you, so be aware of your limitations. What's the price on that one? This is 550 gold pieces. Pipe, do you have any third level healing spells? Do I have third level healing spells? I do. What to decide is a possibility.

I also have, and we move over to the issue I'm going through the armor section as well. She goes, I have a mithral chain shirt, as well as an enchanted mithral chain shirt that is a plus one enchantment on it as well. They are flexible and can be worn on normal clothing. It does not impose disaventure and dexterity of stealth checks.

It's considered light armor. There is golden chain mail. It's a plus one entachment. Then she goes to, it looks to be a series of weapons. She brings forth a very fine looking dagger. You guys, everyone hears from the back, Scallon's voice popping up saying, just buy all this shit.

Just buy all this shit. How much money did we have? Didn't we have at least 30? 30-ish. I mean, I'm not here, but. And you still have it collected in Crackhammer too. Huh? There's money you still haven't collected in Crackhammer.

Oh. Lord Nostok Grey Spine. You guys made a deal with him before you went down to the, yeah, so we could maybe open up a line. I'm sure you guys could open up a line of credit with my buddy Gilmore. line of credit. Yeah. Yeah. And I-O-U.

Once we're back from my date, yeah. So we got like roughly 30K? In our possession now, yeah. Yeah, well, we have... We have over that. Because Vex and Grogger are with us, and they have... And this is... It's stupid that we're not in the money.

So we'll just keep track of what you guys spend and bring it back to Vex, your treasure, and she'll be really angry that you guys spend on a bunch. The death is... It's ridiculous that we don't know how much... What's the total is? Well, we generally would if, you know, our party is here.

She just can't tell us at this moment. It's well over 30. I think we have closer to 50. Maybe 40. So she presents this dagger. We don't want to put all of our . We also spend a lot on the keep. Don't forget that.

We dumped a lot of money into the keep. Yeah, you did. So we might have more like 30. You guys spent quite a bit on the keep. All right. What's this dagger? This dagger actually can take the life force from an enemy when delivering a very strong blow. Essentially, we're on a critical hit on the attack roll.

There we are. How much money do we have? We have, hold on, let me look. 24,000. I normally don't. We have about 20,000, all right? So we have 50,000 total. Because we just had 30, we just got paid 30 in grand, right?

No, 10 grand. You got 10 grand from Allura, and you currently have a floating... And she added that. I already added that. We're at 20,000. We spent almost $50,000 on our keep. Right. Those folks and craghammer owe as a fortune.

Yeah, 25,000 gold is still owed by Lord Nonsukkah. That's who is... That's what we're saying. That's why we're saying we only have like 20 or 30. No, we have... That is 12,000. We ran. You're welcome.

So we have to get that. Is that okay? So, will you point us a little bit out so we can see? As I was saying, this dagger, upon a very impactful wound on a foe, steals a bit of its life force, stealing an additional 10 necrotic damage

and then gives the wielder 10 temporary hit points. Well, that's major. So there's that. We also have an enchanted heavy mall, and we have, oh, this is quite a, I find here, and as she pulls out this wooden case, she pulls back the wooden top to her. As she does, you can see there's a little bit of ice crystal

that's gathered along the interior of the wooden case. There inside sits a short sword. A relatively thick short blade, but the blade itself is like a blue, almost glimmering metal, and there's actually a rising kind of frozen mist that drifts off the blade. This is an enchanted Frost brand. It acts as a short sword.

Whenever it does damage to an enemy, it does an additional 1D6 cold damage, and while you hold the weapon, you have resistance to any fire damage you would take. In freezing temperatures, it sheds a 10-foot radius of dim light, and when you draw the weapon, you can extinguish all magical flames within 30 feet of you. Fancy.

And those are currently all the things we have at the moment. We're working on a few more things to be ready in the next couple of weeks, but those are the current haul for above for the average consumer magical creations. I have a question. Yes. Do you have anything that can make armor quieter?

Or maybe like a really, really heavy armor that's really quiet. Bad oil from the Wizard of Oz. Yes. We don't have anything for that, but we could have it commissioned if you like. I would like to see about that, actually. All right, I have Dr. Gilmore.

That's more in his realm of enchantment, but that is a possibility. She can't have just her glasses again. When he returns, whenever that is, we can discuss with him which you'd like, yes. That would be great. All right, all right. I wouldn't take the enchanted mithril shirt on the cape,

thank you very much. All right, and she grabs the... Before I'm not... That's not the total. Jake's has to talk about the rest of what we want. What's the price on the dagger and the sword? Okay, the sword is 8,500 gold pieces. The dagger is 7,800 gold pieces.

This is without your discount. The Missile Chain shirt, sorry, it is medium-al. It is 5,250 gold pieces. You can I? You can't wear that. You can't wear it. And you're looking at the pearl power, which is 550 gold, and there is the cloak of displacement,

which is 4,500 gold pieces. So we should get that shirt. Would you be interested in trade. Why do you have to trade? We've got lots of bits from dragons, lots of bits from umberhawks, and we've got Basilis eggs. We also have that diamond and the ruby. Do we know how much that goes? We also have some jewels. Yes. I definitely say we pick up that ring with the AC and I wouldn't mind having that leather. That ring of protection that gives you plus two to your AC that we need for somebody. And I wouldn't mind having that leather armor. I'm not gonna lie. That adds a plus two to my AC.

The cold snap? Yep. All right. There's the things that we're looking at is currently on the table. We have the belt of dwarfing kind, the manual of quickness of action. Oh, we should get that too. The cold snap leather armor. Get that manual. Foke of displacement. Dang. Ring of protection plus two. And put the dagger and the sword on the table. All right. All right. All right. All right. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We have nowhere near enough for all of us.

Well, let's see what the total is. Let's see what we can trade. So the total for all of these items, including, see if I have four of those. She starts going through her. I want new stuff. I haven't gotten new armor since we started. You get the new shirt.

Some of you get the shirt. It's like you bought them. It's like you're not. Do you wear light armor or medium wear? We can use light armor. With the discount, this entire hall would come to 49,815 gold pieces. Oh, what's it? How much? 50K.

49,815 gold pieces with your discount for this entire sum. Do you like to pay in gold? Do you like to pay them? 24 turtles before the... Maybe we can see how much we could trade stuff. If what we have, maybe we could get a little bit more than a chance. A pound of dragon scales worth to you. What dragon? Show me the scales.

Scrox? Yes, blue dragon scales. Here you go. Okay. You pull them out of the bag of holding, and she takes a few, and she takes her glasses off and then pulls out from a pocket this intricate-looking, multi-lensed kind of tinkering viewing device

and inspects it very closely. It's a very powerful dragon. That's true. Not powerful enough if you have these. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult. Put some of your partners. These are legitimate. I won't question how you came about them,

but they are definitely legitimate. A pound you say? Well, how much is a pound worth you? We have seven pounds. We have so much we have. A pound of dragon scales. And the dragon scales themselves are about that big each. They're, you know, about the size of a peach.

Oh shit. Oh shit. There's a lot. The dragons are big, especially this one. This is blue dragon scales. I'd say a pound is maybe guessing close to eight to ten scales. That would be worth about, I put that at a thousand gold credit for each pound provided. At least 11 pounds.

Perfect. So that's another at least. Five hundred thousand. That's like another 10,000 we have in dragon scale. We have 11 pounds of dragon scale. And how about that diamond that we put in the mending wheel? And the ruby. And the ruby.

And flawless and beautiful and so sparkly. Yes. Oh, and how much? Well, again, looks over it. Catch. This is why we're about 500 gold pieces. That's it. We also have three dragon T.

She bangs from the beast's mouth. Make a perception roll. Sweet. And it froze. They froze there. Oh, no. No, they didn't. No.

They are. I'm going to tell them. Oh, my gosh. Persuasion roll. Oh, no. Rock to make a persuasion roll, quick. That's hilarious. Timing is everything, folks.

Timing is everything. I have one dragon fang around my neck. That's your keepsake for actually slaying a dragon. You're welcome to trade that. No. It's worth quite a bit. No. That was the white dragon?

That was the white dragon? Yeah, it was a white dragon. That was the white dragon that you got the final blow on. It was not worth the memory of killing a white dragon. Anyway, keep it. Anyway, keep it. Ten. You have a price on it.

Ten, they're old to ten. They rolled to ten. Jesus. The dragon's teeth, actually, strangely enough, are a little easier to find. I got them. I would put each dragon's tooth available would probably add about 250 gold pieces to the exchange.

You have three. And how about the basilisk eggs? While we're cleaning our bag out, exactly. We have two basilisk eggs. Okay, as you pull out the basilisk eggs, you pull out and immediately there is a stench that is emanating from these eggs that have been in your bag of holding

for probably close to eight or nine. to eight or nine months. No, no, the smell means they're good. This is now the fourth time she's looked at you with a deadpan glance and adjusted her glasses. We're not interested in the eggs, but thank you anyway. All right, well, we do have three pints of dragon's blood.

This is super, super, super, super. It might have congealed a little bit, actually. Come to space, though. No, it's probably just really fresh. We'll stick with the scales for now. with this dance. Right, any chance you'd be interested in claws of an humble? I like that the 400,000 people who saw that thing at a mirror are turning into the shopping.

To the shopping episode. Everybody, we've been fighting and killing for weeks. Now we're going shopping. Hey, but we've been needing fucking gear. We do need new gear. We do need new gear. Yeah, I'll turn it into the fleet market episode. You guys got the story.

You guys got the story. All right, so we'd say with the credit from the dragon scales, that'll take 10,000, 11,000 away from the current. Pricing that would put us at 39, 815 for this batch. So can we open that line of credit we were talking about? What line of credit? That line we're talking about right now. Well said, Your Majesty.

That one that I just said, like two seconds. Oh wait wait wait wait wait DM where am I with Gilmore we'll get to that right now Oh yeah yeah hey man it takes it takes time to make it make it make it it takes to make it outside we yeah we can advertise but maybe we should wait till they get back so if their if their walk goes really well whatever that means hmm but try to strike the deal right put this on layaway they'll probably give us everything agree because we probably need to talk to Gil some about the credit Yes.

That's fair. So can we hold this for now? We'll wait till we. Certainly. After all that, ish, she starts putting everything in kind of a small layaway pile in the corner. So you guys, Natural History Museum, Natural History Museum? Pizza in the Natural History Museum?

What is pizza? In the meantime. It sounds wonderful. We've got time. We've got to wait for their mandate. In the meantime. Yes. In the meantime.

Vax. Yes. Gilmore, who has kind of sweeped you out into the middle of Abadar's promenade, takes you by the arm and begins to lead you happily up towards the erudite quarter of Imman, which has a secondary wall around it as well. As he brings you about, he talks happily and loudly about how it's rather wonderful the way that we were presented with this opportunity over in Western. It's magnificent the team.

they've assembled to build this brand. I'm very excited at how they brought it to my attention. I've wanted to keep things very localized, of course, of course. But it seems... And you trust the folk in the amount to handle your business, or will you go between? Oh, oh, the

folk in Western. Well, I have a couple of friends there will oversee the process, but I will be very involved in keeping an eye, so I'm not too terribly worried. Besides, it's much smaller business of running then. It'll be fine. Oh, look ahead.

And as you guys have stepped into the erudite quarter, he's now brought you into essentially what is an outdoor botanical garden that is just a very nice walk. Grass across the ground with fine, well-kept bushes. There's a canopy of beautiful trees that are kind of arcane, through arcane means, twisted and sculpted to form this kind of long tunnel. It's strangely romantic. As Gimmer begins to walk you down,

there's a fountain to the side. So, what's just like a fountain to the side. What about you? How's Vox marking over? How they've been treating you? How are you? Bax. Well, we're tired, to be sure. I was not kidding before. We really are lucky to be alive. And that's thanks in large part two. A lot of the gear you are fitted with us with the last time. Wonders, wonders. I'm happy to help. And have you been keeping of your end of the bargain?

Have you been singing the praises of Gilmore's glorious goods across Craghammer and beyond. You were mentioned in Craghammer. I regret to inform you, though, that we were forced to travel underground rather quickly, and the Duragar and the other things that we ran into are not really customers you want to deal with. No, our lives were too much in harm's way. But now that we're above ground, I'm looking to pick up what I left off. Do your shop honor. Your contribution to what we've done and I placed my hand on his hand

was no small part in our survival and I give it up just a little squeeze. And I want to think... I'm a straight at it's getting sick. I don't know that I would be standing here. It's not going to kill a morose. I knew it was too deep in the eyes and kind of patty. in the eyes and kind of pat the top of your hand and goes, that, this, that moment, that is why I do what I do. You're a unique man, Gilmore. No question. I've never met anyone quite like you.

Well, would you care to share a glass of wine with a man quite and I? Not quite like anyone else you've met. Indeed. What do you recommend in the area? Oh, please come. I gather our casks that pull the finest of honeyed singor in wine. I know perhaps you've not been home for quite some time. That's a complicated thing for me. One that I'm not really quite ready to talk about here. Maybe something. Maybe with enough wine.

You don't so and so. About an hour and a half time passes before, eventually there is a loud clattering at the front of Gilmore's glorious goods, where a laughing Vax and Gilmore comes stumbling in, flush of face, with emptied goblets, laughing to themselves. Is there anything specific before this moment

that you wanted to hear about us? I took the Dorega. I was holding her right over the cliff, and I just cut, and she fell, she fell. I didn't know what I was doing, I just did it. You are ridiculous, Vaxx. Oh, oh. Good to see you friends.

Family, family, family, family. I've had a couple of drinks. I'm an adult, I can do that. What have you found? Have you guys been shopping? Well, we have. We were hoping that you and Gilmore had a wonderful time and that we just thought we'd wait for you.

We didn't want to make any final decisions without One of our main party members. It was delightful. You travel, you travel with the finest, the finest companion. We told stories, we cried, we laughed. It was a delight. I, um, I've had a few. I'm only gonna write to himself for a minute.

I pat him on the back and do a little circle, circle, circle with my hand. I had a dad. Remembering, Chris Bandage. I was just blind youthful as I once was. Unfortunately. Um, but yes, Business, business to attempt. What do you need?

What can we do? What can we do? And at which point, Shirley's, you know, kind of swaying the back. So they've requested, perhaps, a few things involved. The current amount comes to roughly about 40,000 gold with your discount.

40,000 gold. Oh, well, certainly. What seems to be the problem? We were actually just talking about maybe, since we're both purchasing so many things and since we've gained some popularity here in Eamon walking around, people are noticing us walking around. I shouldn't be the one talking right now,

but maybe we could open up a line of credit. I mean, obviously we're only shopping with you, Gilmore. He looks about the rest of the room and says, well, not everyone seems to be wearing the same patented Gilmore's glory. armor that was given not long ago, so that's not true. We did fight some of dead things. Yes. And those dead things are not under the umbrella

of Gilmore's glorious expansion. Oh. But should we discuss this, where would this credit be placed against? What do you have... Well, I don't know what have you guys been talking about. We do have a big pile of dragon's scale and some... and some... We do. We do.

We also owed money. Okay. And we are owed money in Craghammer. The one question that Grog just whispered to me. Yeah. How much is a platinum worth? How much is a platinum? Platinum is worth ten gold pieces.

Where are we at, girl? She's displeased. We may have a lot more money than I thought we had because Grog's been hiding money in the bag of holding. It's really shiny. I'm in trouble, Matt. I'm in trouble. She's really bad.

Wait, is this like when you slaps Trinket on the ass mad? No, not close. Not even close. Not as much as Trinket. This is finances. This sounds like a married couple. How much platinum do we have hiding in the bag of holding? I don't have the number in front of me,

but it's at least 150. Where did we procure that again, Grog? I'm sorry, I'm a little fishnickered at the moment. I don't remember, but it's in the bag of holding. I remember getting platinum. I do remember getting platinum, too. But you don't have a number. No, I know it's at least 100, though, at least 150.

I think it's somewhere north of 1.50. I just can't remember the number. Did we get that from the dragon, or where did we get that? There was a combination of the dragon, the horde you rage, Rage hoarding. Rage looting. I'll never forget the rage looting. It's my shiny, though.

I didn't want to give her a turn. It's evil. You see how she haggled. It's true. She's my sister. I know, Grog, I know. But right now we need to put that aside and do what's best for the party.

We could buy a party without. Not that kind of party, girl. I think we have enough to buy everything if you guys want. Grog. Grog, money is meant to be spent. I'm going to drink. That solves everything.

Scala goes, I agree. Drinks and hoaring. And smacks Grogon inside the two of them leave off into the evening to go ahead and make use of their return to Emon Popper. Vax looks at Gilmore just shakes his head. Well, I mean, there's business to be had. let us get business out of the way so we can get too pleasure.

Oh, shit. Cheers to that. Cheers to them. I have tinkering to do anyway. So what did we agree the total for everything we want to watch? It's roughly 39,500 gold pieces. Ishpash. Roughly.

Gilmore. That's with the discount. I already offered this to you, and you haven't even kept a year under the bargain by wearing my emblazant symbol in my formalized Gilmore's glorious album. Don't you want to advertise my western for you? Vax given age.

We would be wearing that. We would be wearing that. Again, we nearly died. I mean, the armor that you gave me is gone, and I'm lucky to be alive today, and that armor helped me be where I am at the moment, but... How much kind of do you wish to open?

50 gold. A thousand? 50,000? 50,000? Yes, 50,000. 50,000, I can definitely do. We've been out drinking for two hours, that is true. This is true. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. One million. Fifty thousand gold, uh, that's a, that's a, that's a tough order. We don't like that much, you had, you had, uh, money waiting for you in Cragham. Yes, yes. How much, we do. What much is waiting for you there? Uh, twenty-five, was it?

It was twenty-five thousand. How about we open a twenty-five thousand gold piece line of credit here with Gilmore's glorious goods? That you only need to pay back within the next month. That's fair. Right. If it's not paid, you will be hunted. But I'm sure that won't be a worry, will it? How far is Craighammer from here?

Not far. It's a week's ride. Are you? Isn't it? I can't teleport everywhere. Um, Kilmore, a question. Maybe you should consider making like little pins that we could just wear on top of our armor? Because wearing your armor, we have our own clothes that we like.

like, so maybe like a pen. He steps forward and says, oh. Or like a patch? That's not even a worry. And he pulls out a small implement, this wand, and kind of flicks it over your shoulder, and all of a sudden, arcane swirl, kind of sush, sush, around your armor

with a big flash of sparks and glitter almost. Look down, and there is emblazoned upon your current armored form a symbol of Gilmore's glorious goods and now permanently embellazened on your leather. Easy enough to fix? Well, you know, I was going to put on that leather. This was my mom gave this to me. Well, your mother has not provided for your means of keeping the deal we already made.

Can you take this off when we pay you back and put it on that one? Oh, come on. I think it will transfer when you change. Will it transfer when I change Imer? I don't know. Oh my dollars. So, 25,000 gold line of credit within a month or you'll be hunted.

Wait, do you really have a unicorn as part of your logo? It's... What? It's a creator of my creation. I designed to announce child. It's a valid thing. Oh.

Um... So we open the 25,000 line of credit with you and you give us all of the things we want. That is what you want? Don't we have a lot of platinum? What are we dickering for prices with? Yes. Why don't we just buy it now,

and then we won't have a line of credit. Yeah. Yes, we'll use some of the platinum. One platinum is equal to 10 gold. Sorry, Gilmore, sorry. So, Drunken and trying to tick her over rates. No line of credit? No line of credit.

We'll pay for it all right in cold, hard platinum. Don't do it. How many? You don't have the line of platinum with you? He said that you got it. Why, Grog said, because he doesn't have it in front of him, he has around 150 platinum. That's roughly 1500 gold.

Where is it? It's in the bag of holding, but he doesn't have the bag of holding information in front of him, though. Oh, he doesn't have the sheet next game. And he can't read the exact amount. Yep, we have a hundred. Because he said he said the memory it's 150 gold. Yeah, 150 platinum. That's only, I thought it was a hundred thousand, a hundred thousand.

Oh no, no, no, 150. Oh, no, no, 150. 100,000 to be the richest man in the fucking world. Okay. So 150 platinum. What do you think, sis? This is, is 11. you know 11,500, which is a little helpful.

Right. What do you think? That would put us at about 30,000 that we have to spend left, which the signal cut out, so it doesn't matter. No, we got you. No, we've got you. So the total tab is, what again, Gilmol? How much do we have?

He does have a picture of it. One thousand six hundred and five. We have one thousand six hundred and twenty platt. What? Oh, wow. There you go. All right. So that's like...

16,000 gold pieces. All right. Yeah. Spend it. All right. No, we don't need to open up the line of credit. No. That's 16,000.

10 gold per platinum. And we have a thousand. Thousand platinum. 1,600 platinum. That brings it to 16,000. Six thousand. You move two on that one. that one. No, it's not a hundred gold per plight.

Oh, ten gold to platt. The same ten gold for plenty this whole time, guys. It's all good. We're losing our audience. We're getting to math in this. Ring it up. Our charity 826 LA, average school tutoring. We should have used it.

It could have made this all go so much better. It's good. Learning, you're reading and your writing, your arithmetic. Yeah. For players who can read good. For players who can read good. Bring it up. We'll take it. We'll take it. We'll take it. We'll take it all, yeah.

Yes, the whole lot. And then, could I commission you, by the way, to maybe make some armor that's really heavy armor, but very quiet? How heavy? How heavy can you make it? I could work on plate armor if you like, but an enchantment of that magnitude

would be the only enchantment we would have. So it would be, the equivalent to full plate armor, and the entire enchantment would enable you to move a little more easily inside it. And that would cost, it would take about a, I'd say about a month to enchant on my end, and it would cost about, not including the cost of the actual armor, materials in time required.

I'd put it at about 8,000 gold pieces. Worth it. We'll fund the money. And that'll just, it'll just be really quiet. It's, it, it will enable, it will enable, you to move freer within the arm. My it too. Is 8,000 Vox Machiners rate or the general rate?

That is through our friendship and our current arrangement. Thank you. It's appreciated. Business is business. Please don't take this this solemn, intense face to be anything other than friendship. This is just business and I run a business. Understood. Good. I'm not taking advantage.

All right, all right. So, So, to take all of these items, with the dragon scales included, bringing it down to 39,000 gold. We'll call it even 39,000 gold. Fair fact. That wasn't much of a discount, Gilmore. Oh, hush up, hush up. This is done.

Done, so, thank you. Good. So. With our thanks. So minus the platinum, that's 22,000 gold pieces. after the platinum and dragon scales. And we have that, right? We have that.

And you have 25,000 gold of credit, if you'd like. We have, hold on. I've got to go away for a minute. It might not need to do the credit. Yeah, we're passing on the credit. We have plenty left. Yes. All right.

You guys are a black screen. What happened? I paused. I was looking at my calculator. All right, well, there you are. Abacus. So dark sometimes like some. I swear. You know it's 20,000 minus the platinum and the dragon scales?

22,000. Oh, yes, we still have enough, so mm. All right, so a deal? Deal. Deal. My God, all of our money's gone. Snaps his fingers. Shirley comes and presents all the items that she had currently

in a little stow-way bin off to the side of the desk, brings them out to the rest of you, places it on the counter, Gilmore immediately snaps his fingers and a contract shows up. He writes up the numbers of exchanged, making note of his business, passes it out. Please sign here. Anyone that represents you in your fine Vox Machina. Sign here and present the money. I guess I'll do that. You can do that.

Vexahlia, he hands you a quill. Takes your coin, slides you, and you now have this amount. This entire batch of magical items It's pretty cool! ...to distribute as you see fit. Yes. New armor! From that point,

make sure we get some of those things. An absolute pleasure. Doing business with all of you. Absolutely. Thank you, Gilmore. So, um, really, though, will this transfer to that? I have a no idea. Oh, I was wanting to ask you, Kilmore.

Have you considered maybe doing like potion making workshops? I'll put some thought to that. Okay, let me know. Alright. Okay. I feel very uncomfortable and I leave. I go outside to hang out with Trinket. Okay.

As Gimmore takes the change behind the counter as well. I've got a bit more business to do here. Vax, I greatly appreciate spending the afternoon with you. Where are you staying? I take him by the hand to do one of these classes and say, well, we live here now, we're residents. I've had time to tell you. We have a keep, our own keep.

You should come visit. It's on the outskirts of town. It's called Grey Skull Keep, and you're welcome any time. Day or night. Good to know. Good to know. All right. To business I go, I bid you all a fine farewell. I do.

Bye, Tomah. He goes back for his... He's beaten. Beated, exit to the back room and leave you to the rest of you. I wishport Shirley kind of goes, I'll get back to look. And then she goes back up, kind of leaving you guys alone in the main chamber. A couple other customers could start walking around. I think we'll call that for the adventure for the evening.

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