Critical Role - C2E42 A Hole In a Plan

Episode Date: November 16, 2018

The Mighty Nein explore the pirate island of Darktow, and attempt to undermine Avantika...Watch Critical Role live Thursdays at 7pm PT on https://www.twitch.tv/criticalrole

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Ooh, maybe I can just wear that. Yeah, that would be great. That's a good idea. That's the best box for us ever. Well, thank you, Laura. And with that, my friends, I think tonight it's time to dive into our episode of Critical Role. សូវាប់ពីបានប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្� Thank you. LAURA and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM

SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM And welcome back. Wow. You guys ever create? So, last we left off. I purchased garbage wine. The Mighty Nein. Garbage wine. Gar This is, yeah, my first garbage wine. The Mighty Nein. Garbage wine.

Garbage wine? Garbage wine, garbage wine. Oh, you didn't hear that. Water. The Mighty Nein had made their way to the Menagerie Coast, got swept up in a bunch of chaos, and found themselves out at sea amongst the Svobane Islands, taken in by a pirate crew, captained by Captain Avantika, basically at

threat of death otherwise. Sent to an island to investigate a temple, learn about seals that possibly are keeping your patron, Uk'otoa, at bay. Made your way back across the Lucidian Ocean towards the city of Darktow. Actually actively partook in some piracy. Yeah. Polite piracy. Polite piracy. Polite-ish. Sure.

You got a participant trophy, it would be wonderful. Whatever it takes to let me sleep at night. We were definitely assholes. Found yourselves at the pirate city of Darktow, surrounded by the Dragshallow Reef, where you had just arrived with both ships, the Squall Eater and the Mystique, the crew you had hired out of Nicodranas,

looking very confused and concerned at their current fate, given the fact they were just hired hands at sea. You were ushered up along the sheer cliffs alongside Darktow Isle, along the stone shelf within the cavern where the Plank King himself greeted you. Bid you entry to the Revelry, this extending band of pirates across this part of the ocean. Laid some ground rules and set you all your way.

And that is where we left off. So, Mighty Nein, as you descend the rain-covered stone steps that descend down the side of the cliff, how's that for alliteration in a phrase? Making your way towards the now darkened evening city that descend down the side of the cliff. How's that for alliteration in a phrase? Making your way towards the now darkened evening city of Darktow, the distant glimmers of interior firelight slightly emanating from open windows.

You can see folks walking through town, the light drizzle threatening to stifle the low torchlight being carried from location to location. You can see the outline of dozens and dozens of ships that are locked into the shipyard that surrounds the city, as well as the crooked outline of nearby barricades set up across the reefs that surround the island. Avantika proceeds before you.

What would you like to do? Here I come. Shoot her in the back of the head. I just pushed her off the cliff right now. Oh! Yeah, so the group is us plus Avantika and? Her crew? Just Avantika, her crew went to the Bloated Cup. Okay. To the tavern.

And we're headed there. Correct, you assume you're headed back there. They said that pirate on pirate violence is foreboding. She just slipped. It's true. I saw it. She fell down the stairs, you guys. Nighttime, right?

Sun as well? Correct. I catch up to her a little bit. Hey, Avantika. Yes? Weird question. Possibly a weird answer. How much do you know? How do you know how to give a certain amount to Avantika?

Sorry, the Plane King. Freudian slip. Well, when we return into the bay, we are to essentially give the materials, or at least a number of what we've managed to acquire. We are supposed to essentially, what is the word I'm looking for?

What is the word I'm looking for? My brain is like. Tithe? What are you looking for? I don't know. Tithe, I would say, when you're going through customs and you have to declare, thank you. You must declare the amount of which you had recently come upon, and from that, there is a tithe offered to the Plank King,

roughly about 25, 30%. Wow. But we do not pay for our ship repairs. We have free asylum here within the island, and we are under the strict laws that if anyone double-crosses anyone else within the boundaries of the city, they will have the hammer of the Plane King then upon them.

That's very intense. That's a way of life. So it's less like a government and more of like a union that you buy into? No less, yes. All right. Not much into governing, more just a- But a union with a dictator?

A union with a very hard-headed and forthright union leader. Hmm. Do you ever think you could make a good union leader? Nah, I have my own specific interests. They're much more narrow. Oh. Why, do you have aspirations?

No. I didn't think so. Who needs aspirations? Well, some of us do. Oh. There has to be more to you than just this contradictory, for the sake of being contradictory, aspect. I would love for you to tell me about it someday.

Come, let's have a drink, huh? Yeah. First round's on me. Deal. Everyone's fucking a-bouncing a lot. You are going to judge me for finger motions. Hold on, everybody, stop the game. Laura Bailey just shamed me for a sexual finger motion at this table after three and a half motherfucking years, I have seen everything. Resume the game. Avantika is the Infinity Gauntlet,

and she has one stone. Or does she? Well, she lost this stone, technically. Mm. Well. I want to, I mean, we should take a look around, maybe get a sense of this place, since we're going to be here for a while

when they fix the ship. Yeah, we're sure we know what they're looking for. Might as well go to the pub. We could do that. Sure, I guess. First drinks on her. I think that guy was wearing a wig. Oh shit, that's right. Oh yes, yes.

He did have a weird hairline, right? Yeah, it was a really bad made wig. I mean, the hair looked good, but it was really obvious. Maybe that's in fashion here. Maybe we should all go wig shopping. Ooh. Just saying. Captain, how did the current Plank King

get to the position that he holds now, do you know? As far as I have been told, at the very least, as this was before my time joining the Reverie, there was a disagreement, and the previous Plank King seemed to be in the minority of the side of this disagreement, and the current Plank King was in the majority.

So they stormed the caverns of the previous Plank King and tossed most of his corpse to the rocks below. Little mutiny, eh? Did, hmm. Interesting. No, that's all. To his credit, the current Plank King has done a very fine job of maintaining

organization of the cavalry. That's what I was going to ask, if you were a fan or not. Hasn't bothered me. He leaves us well enough alone. He follows the rules. We maintain all of the benefits of being under the banner, and I'm left to my own devices. Any foes of yours in this Darktow?

Anyone we should look out for? I mean, there are a number of unsavory types, but I've made a bit of a reputation of being a little, eh. People don't like to tangle with that too much, eh? Yeah, why would you get wrapped up in that? Yeah, let's go grab a drink. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

How long have you been a pirate? Let's see, openly under the sea, it's about maybe 12, 13 years. Whoa. How did you fall into it? I got sick of following somebody else's orders. Mm. Where are you hailed from? I'll tell you over drinks.

This is not the best place to have these discussions, perhaps after a few rounds. Come, the Bloated Cup. The Bloated Cup. Yep, here we go. As you guys finish descending the stairs into the city itself, you catch there are quite a few patrols through the city.

You can see the torchlight being held by each as they make their way, just keeping an eye out. You get the sense that there's probably quite a number of volunteers or at least individuals that are intent in maintaining the semblance of civility here within Darktow itself. Leading close towards the Bloated Cup, you can see it's not that far from where you'd set your ship within the shipyard. It's a fairly large two-story tavern, very wide

across its bottom. It seems to be at least one of maybe two social gathering sites here within the city once the sun goes down. Three blocks away, you can already hear the music and chatter and laughter and yelling. As you approach closer and closer, begin to look from the outside in, the warm light and the movement of shadows across the open windows shows you that the place is pretty jam-packed.

As you begin to make your way into, following Avantika to the interior, you hear the shouting and burbling and clinking of glasses as the far corner has what looks to be five or six individuals. You're not sure if they're paid musicians or just sailors who happen to have a bit of experience with a fiddle, a drum, and a flute of some kind.

But as the music begins to play, you can see there's one table that has a lot of Avantika's crew. They've pushed a bunch of chairs crammed together with some bits of dry bread and somewhat soft fruit, some cheeses laid out, and two large pitchers of ale already waiting at the get-go. Right off from them, you see a smaller table with everyone you've hired from the Mistake, including Aurelie, all sitting

there clutching their glasses, looking around scared shitless. As soon as you enter, their eyes just turn to you and they go. They'll do that cafeteria thing. Hey, hey, you want to sit over here? At which point, Avantika goes, come have a seat and pushes one of the other tables out of the way of a few other people that are already sitting at it. You watch as she just takes her hand and scoots it across the table and they all go. They just spit on the ground and get up and move away. Immediately, you get the sense that there is a power dynamic. Vantika seems to have at least

some modicum of respect amongst the rest of the riffraff within this tavern. I'm Heather. Pushing the tables together, kicking a couple of the stools over. It looks like there's enough spots at the table for most of you. One or two, you might have to stand or find a place

next to the rest of your hired help. I'll stand. I'll stand, too. All right. As you guys all sit down, drinks and rounds begin to be passed to each of you. Conversations already mid-discussing, how you hear bits and pieces about how the blessing of the serpent has been upon us this past month.

Being on the ship with most of the crew, they haven't been terribly social with you. They've helped you and guided you in learning a few things, but there's still very much a separation in attention that you're the newcomers and the strange new shiny thing in their captain's eye. This is the first time you've seen them a little bit,

three sheets of the wind as a group, and they're talking openly. Avantika has a definite zealotry to her, but you start noticing members of the crew and why they are with her, or at least when they've been there, they've also bought into these tales of Uk'otoa. You get this sense that they believe

that this path that she's following will lead to her success and by default, probably their success. How many of them are true believers? Make an insight check for me. You're not good at those, right? I'm terrible at these. I want to know what blood type they are.

26. Okay, that'll do. That'll, yeah, okay. You get the sense that Vera, who's the older human, the tough-looking woman who was her quartermaster before being placed with Fjord, is definitely the most invested in this idea, this spiritual journey they're all embarking on with Captain at the helm. You also

feel that Ypres, who's the gnome second mate that you've encountered previously, in a very similar way is completely invested, eyes wide. His general banter tends to be a little crazed and sporadic, but whenever they're talking about the Great Serpent, now with phrasing of the Leviathan, as the titles become more prominent with Discovery, there's a reverence to his eyes and an attentiveness that is out of character for him. So you mark Vera and Ipess as two very, very intent believers behind Avantika. Is there anybody who's awkwardly into it,

but definitely would probably walk away if they could? Is there anybody who's a little? You get the sense that Bouldergut, the ogre, half understands it and is more just excited because everyone else is excited. It's like a dog that gets really wound up when everyone around is talking loud. That's Bouldergut.

A number of the deckhands appear to be invested, but they're less intensely driven and more just excited that their captain's excited and maybe starting to consider that there is something to this now that they've seen the things they've seen and the powers that she's acquired. That's a good spread of what you've managed to gather. That'll do. I'll grab a drink and I'll head over

to where Vera's sitting. Okay, Vera is sitting directly to the right of Avantika. There's not much space to sit next to her, but you could grab a stool and squeeze in to her right side. Yeah, actually, I'll take a drink and I'll plop it down right in front of her and I'll take a knee, actually, on the floor, just so I'm kneeling next to her on the other side of Avantika.

Okay. I'll say, hey, listen. No hard feelings, right? There is no hard feelings. I understand the reasoning. In the captain's word is law. I am excited to see the great things you accomplish as the quartermaster of our ship.

Write whatever's best for the ship. Precisely, and for the captain. Well, I feel the presence of Uk'otoa smiling on all of us, and I know that our partnership here will be a beneficial one. I can only agree. Well, this has been fun. If you need anything as your quartermaster,

you just let me know. Aye aye. Captain. Looks to Avantika. Avantika right now is deep in the cups. At this point, a figure turns around the corner. You see a male gnome, short, maybe in his 40s or so, with spiked hair, thinning on the top, but you can see he's taking thick balms of some kind to try and make it look intensely young and failing halfway. Big mutton chops that come down to a very pointed chin.

He's dressed in fairly decent clothing, like a nice silk vest with billowing sleeves out of his shirt with some bangles that clink around his wrists. He comes and finds we're on the opposite side and looks across to Avantika, grinning. He goes, Well, well, well.

It's been a while since we've seen you around here. She turns to him and goes, I saw this. You're back from that Ful's errand, I see. How was the shattered teeth? He goes, Ah, foggy and cold as shit. Y'all go with your clail-chasing journeys, love. He goes, Foggy and cold as shit. Y'all go with your cloud-chasing journeys, love. She goes, Grand, grand. We might have scored a fine shipwreck and a promise of salvage.

Looks back to him. You up for hire, perhaps? Yes. Tempting, but nah. I'm still fresh off the water. Kind of want to enjoy myself a while. He's like, all right, very well. We'll be in port for a day or two while we get some repairs done. If you change your mind, well, just start shouting.

I'm sure we'll find your annoying voice easy enough. And he goes, Sure that is, eh? You're all new around here. Aye. Yeah, we're new pirates. Are you a pirate? I mean, I guess we're all pirates, right?

Everyone's a pirate here? No, at the moment, I'm a civilian and a drunkard. Oh. Shattered teeth. What's a shattered teeth? Did your teeth shatter, is that a place? Is that a thing? Oh, no, it's a series of islands to the south of here. We know that because we're pirates, too,

and we know those things. I could fill a book with what I don't know. Sorry, I didn't catch your name, it was... Soras, Soras Cayde. Soras Cayde. What's your name? I'm Fjord, nice to meet you. Fjord? Fjord. All right.

What is it, are you a captain, or do you do something else that's more specialized? Me? No, I'm a sniper. A sniper? What do you snipe with? Things. Why are you so curious? You're an interesting fellow. Speak for yourself, so what's your name?

My name is Philip. Make a deception check. Name check. That Make a deception check. Name check. That's a strong name. Does that have my contacts in? I can barely see it. That's 11, right? Or 17. 17. He goes, Okay, Philip, what's your specialty? What do you bring to the crew? Oh, I am a navigator. Newer, but eager and looking forward to applying my trade. Quick, Philip, which way is north?

It's right that way. Look at that! That's actually pretty good. That's amazing! That's actually pretty good. You can spin it here. How can I spin them around a couple times? Now which way's north?

It's still over towards the doorway over there. Whoa, right up! That's pretty good. Me, I've got a few odds and things. Mainly with Longbow. Good shot there, but I can see things on the horizon. Mainly live up in the crow's nest, you know, keeping an eye out. You know this is the first time on these islands

and I don't know much about it at all. Is there any kind of legal system here? Do you know what I mean? Or is it just, you know, pshew pshew? He's joking, right? Nafant goes, I'm afraid not. His Bellowick apparently is being curious and clueless. I am a big reader and there is a lot I don't know, like my tall friend over here. But I mean, there must be trouble that breaks out. There must be bar fights and- Of course! Bar fights are fun! That's part of the reason we live here!

Well, I can see the appeal, but what happens if there's something risky or it causes theft of property for someone important? Or, you know- If it's a member of the Reverie, even from another member of the revelry, and it gets found out, it's brought to the Plank King. Plank King makes a judgment. Based on that, some sort of reparations, or. Boop! So the Plank King is the law.

More or less. Oh, that's biblical. But you can still fight other people? Yeah, for fun. For fun. Why, looking for a fight? No killing gesture. Always. Don't fight each other!

Why? Because that's crazy. I'll never throw the first punch, so any time. He taps the side of one of his jowls. You hear the ruffle of his fingers through his somewhat curled mutman chop on the side. Do it. Grasp a drink and, without breaking eye contact,

we just got here. Why would you do this? I'm the worst influence, I'm going to say do it. We are trying to get the lay of the land here. Tusk Teeth? Punch him in the chin! Yeah! Roll an attack. Didn't even ask him if there's a bookshop nearby.

I almost did. Might have gotten two of that, perhaps. Unarmed Strike. Unarmed Strike. 14, no, 15. 15 hits. So you do one point of damage plus your strength modifier. Yeah! Oh, four points of damage.

Boom, right across his chin. He falls to the ground, turns around, rubs his chin. It was a surprising bit of power there for someone your size. Come at me! He dives at you. Roll initiative. Yes! 16.

16. Oh, he beats you to 17. 15 plus two. For a small size, he is quick. You watch as he jukes to one side, turns around, and is go for a haymaker to the side of your face. That's cocked. That's cocked. That's going to be a 14 to hit. Oh, I turn and he hits my shield. I swipe at him with my tail and try to trip him. Go for it, make another attack roll. Ooh, tippy tail. Whoa. 19.

19. Are you just doing damage or are you trying to actually shove him and knock him prone? Just knock him prone. Okay, so go ahead and make it. That's your athletics check, actually. Oh, okay, so I would add 13 plus athletics. He's going to make his acrobatics try and dodge. Natural 19.

He manages to leap in the air and your tail just hits the side of the table and comes to one side. The drinks begin to spill and one reaches out then grabs, prevents them from being knocked over. Our drinks are standing up. Whoa, you're quick! As soon as you turn back and say that, you look and he's not anywhere to be seen.

Then you hear this under the table. You glance down as you just watch them leaping up from between your legs and the table to uppercut you right in the chin. That's going to be 18 to hit. I'm 18. He just manages to hit you. No!

So you take three points of damage. Crack right from underneath the chin. You feel your jaw clink into your teeth. That's horrible screeching sound. It hurts. You can feel the numbness in your face and the impact. After he hits you, he darts off around from behind and you see he's going to probably go in for a hold,

but you have your go. Okay, I'm going to reach out and try to just punch him in the back of the head. Go for it. Inelegant, but perfect. Oh no, natural one. No! You go to swing for his head and he grabs your hand and goes, and he goes to pull you forward to go for a headbutt.

Oh no! That's going to be a 19 to hit. Fuck me. Crack! Right in the front of the forehead and the nose, you can immediately feel the blood beginning to pour from underneath. Behind you guys, watch. The crowd, a lot of people of attention have turned to this bar fight. A few of them are backing up and getting their dreams ready to watch. Somebody else on the table goes like, and punches somebody else and starts another aspect.

Now there's another bar fight beginning on the side corner. It's your go. Oh, wait, wait, so how much damage is that? Three points of damage. Every time you get hit, it's three points. Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay. Oh no, should I beam me?

This is good, this is good. Should I beam me? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to grab him after he hits my head and I'm going to try to knee him. Okay, go for it, roll for an attack. Little Thai clinch, I like it.

Woo, that's good, that's 23. Yeah, that definitely hits. Four points of damage right between the legs. Four points there, all right. Fall down. Oh, you watch his eyes squint and roll backwards a bit and he goes down into a crouching position, writes himself in almost a Mai Tai stance.

Follow the belt. Shit. Yeah, that's 11. He goes and tries to swing and you just parry it off to the side without an issue. Go ahead and retort. I'm going to grab his wrist and try to spin him around. Go for it.

16. 16 hits. Yeah, I'm going to grab his wrist and try to spin him around. Go for it. 16. 16 hits? Yeah, I'm going to grab him and try to grab both his arms and hold him onto me. Because you're grappling? Yeah. All right, so just go ahead and roll again for your athletics.

Oh no, that was really bad. He rolled a natural one. Oh yeah! Literally a natural one. So he tries to squeeze out, but you've got a firm grip on his wrist and you pull him back in and you're now holding him until he's gone. Stay on go! Stay on go!

He's like, no, no, never, never! It's his turn, he's going to try and slam his head backwards into your face. Ooh, natural 18, that's going to be a 22. Oh no! 24, 24. All right, so take another three points of damage. Yeah! Crack, it hits you. For a second, you're afraid to knock the tooth out,

but you go ahead and deal with your tongue and it's still there. Do I still have a hold of him? Yeah, you still have him, he's still grappled. Okay, I'm going to, ooh, ooh, I'm going to turn my head and try to hit him with my horn. Ooh, nice, go ahead and roll for attack. Oh, that was cocked, that was crazy cocked.

She's really horny, baby. Ooh, 19! 19 hits, takes another cocky. Crazy cocky. She's really horny, baby. Woo, 19! 19 hits, takes another four damage. Wow. Crack, it scrapes across his temple and almost gouges an eye, and he turns around and he's like. You're rambunctious, aren't you?

Yeah. He's going to attempt to throw you off over his shoulder, like pull you into a roll. You get to make an athletics or acrobatics check against him as he tries to break into your ground. We got one gold on the blue one. Anyone want one gold on the blue one? Oh no, six.

Six, no. I'll take that bet. Breaks free and slams you onto your back. You're now prone from the reversal, but it's your round, so you can get up or attack if you want to. Ooh, can I do a breakdance-y move where I spin around and jump up? Yeah, sure. Like you did in that spin around and jump up? Yeah, sure.

Like you did in that episode of Game of Thrones? Sure, yeah. Did you say Mario? Are you? What's Avantika doing? She's just drinking and watching. It's me, the king of the north. She's just glancing over, watching this transpire. So you're going to sweep as you get up?

Yes. Roll for attack. 13. 13 does not hit. No! You sweep and he leaps up and then from the air tries to come down onto your leg with the full force of his tiny, no-much body. Natural 20.

Oh! So we'll save it for the purposes of this because the nature of a 20 with this will make it double full damage because it's just fist fights. That's six damage to you from that. Crack! The leg and the knee doesn't dislocate or pop out, but you can feel it get pushed to the limit and it hurts like a mother! Leaps off and is like, Not too bad! Come on, bring it! You can see now one eye's a little bit, not swollen, but you can see it starting to squint from pain. Blood's leaking out of his nose and his mouth and it's smeared on one side of his cheek and he's just like,

You're crazy, Soros. I like you. I like you, too! 16 to hit. 16 hits. That's another four damage on him. Crack, crack. This next series of hits come at him. He's like, yeah, it's nothing. I'll get psychic and spring it. Then he's going to come forward and try and just do a series of pummeling in your direction.

Natural one. The sheer impact of the last blow seems to have knocked his block off, and he just starts doing the series of pummeling in the wrong direction, instead pushing towards Caduceus. He's like, slightly out of the way. Batters at the side of his sleeve there.

He's like, ha, ha, how's that? Did I get it? Did I get it? Wait, looks around and finds you. Hi. Your turn. I'm going to say, all right, all right, all right. We're friends now, okay? Let's not do any real damage to each other.

I'm going to pat his head and cast Cure Wounds. Aww. Okay. We're awwing. What's on the air? Finish him! I don't want to knock him out, he's cute. First level.

Mashed his hair spikes down. That is... Yeah. Six points of healing. All right. Two punches taken away. Yeah, I know. One and a half. He goes like.

Thank you. You're welcome. Make a persuasion check. Oh no. Mm-hmm. Oh. Ooh, ooh, 21? Whoa. You look at the seat for a second like,

yeah, good point, I could've taken you anyway. Yeah, no. We'll pick this up another day. All right, all right. Hey, I made a friend. Yes, you did, good job, Jester. Yeah, you kept all your teeth. Pirates!

Pirates! He comes up and goes for a handshake, grabs your hand, pulls you in, gives a soft headbutt, just a little sore on both of you, both of you wince. He's like, pleasure to meet you. What's your name? The Little Sapphire. That's my pirate name.

The Little Sapphire? Okay, okay. Zoris. Nice to meet you. Pleasure to meet you as well. I know, right? As you guys have this conversation, you hear behind you, another table behind is broken, and you can see a person, unconscious, across the shattered pieces of wood, arms curled in T-Rex style.

Not unconscious person down. Oh, I'm going to go steal from them. Oh wait, no, you can't do that on this island. Is that Blue's Traveler? It is a Traveler. Traveler. Okay. The crowd goes like,

everyone who was mildly disappointed at the lack of finale to your fight has now focused on the other one that is completed with the smashing of furniture. The person on there left scrapped up and just wrecked the other individual. One eye swollen shut, some square-jawed, brotherly-looking guy going

and everyone else cheers. What's the rest of Avantika's crew doing? Are they in the scrap as well? They're just watching. The scrap is only between two or three people, it looks like. One of them just went down, the other one called it off after that, and the declared winner everyone's briefly focusing on, but then as fast as everyone cared, everyone sat back down and they're back to drinking. You get the sense in that moment, this is not a rare occurrence around here. I want to flare up.

Yeah. It's like someone ordered a special, extremely expensive tiki bar. Yeah. Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh. Uka-toa, uka-toa, whoa. Wow, where the fuck did you guys just go? I want to go there after the show.

Go to Traitor's Hounds. Where that mug came from. Where that mug came from. Where that mug came from. That's why I have my tea mug today. Caleb brings a big mug of ale and sits down close to Avantika and says, over this din, this is a big long shot, but you seem very well-traveled and well-researched.

This place is crazy, but any place worth its salt has books. Why are you laughing at me? Why are you laughing at me? Such a straightforward question. Well, I can tell from your reaction that there is probably no good place to acquire a book, but you seem more educated than the normal sort for the people around me,

so perhaps you have a suggestion for a scholar, Lost at Sea? It is a very curious question. I imagine there are probably some books that wouldn't be what is commonly considered consribend or heavy resale value. So most of the time when you are building a ship, you leave the books behind. Yeah, yeah, of course.

But if you're looking for books, your best bet is to go to the Sandsree Square during the day. Sandsree Square during the day. It's about four blocks to the left after you leave the outside of here, just outside of this shipyard. So all the awnings in the top. Should I be checking the trash bin for these, then?

Or do you think someone might actually have them for sale? You can certainly ask around. Maybe both, I don't know. I am jonesing pretty badly for that book. I'm looking for a blacksmith, actually, as well. That's just possibly a few around, if I recall. Somebody worth their salt, since worth their salt's a really nice term, that's great.

Worth their salt. Somebody worth their salt. Just take it as they say it. You use that a lot, that phrase, salt. It's worth my salt. Caduceus, how much is salt worth to you? Like on a scale of money to nothing. Like a person's worth. Yeah.

Oh, I don't know. I haven't really thought about it at all. That's a good question. I mean, there's so much salt around, to be fair, it'd probably take a lot of salt to be worth something. Sure. I mean, you can just get it right out of the water. Yeah, it's a fairly benign saying. Don't get too lost in it. Everything's worth its salt at that point, really.

It's just a terrible currency. I was just curious. Did he drink a lot? I was wondering how empty that cup is. Has anyone been watching me drink? I was going to ask. I have been nursing the same cup the entire time and have been fake sipping it the entire night.

I haven't actually had a drop. And you've had an ale or whatever everybody else is drinking? Whatever they handed me. I've been doing this, to be fair, the entire time we've been together. He's Bruce Wayne. Caduceus Wayne.

Caduceus Wayne? Yeah. Caduceus Wayne. What makes you say that? Caduceus Wayne. Nice. I elbow forward and I sit down next to Avantika. Sure. Oh, she's taking my chair, fine. We'll get another chair. Sorry, excuse me.

Sorry. Yeah. So, Avantika, what's next for the Squall leader? Well, and she sits around everyone at the table and gestures for one toine in a bit. So it looks like we are to, after a couple of days of travel and supply gathering, make our way northward to a location that has been brought to my attention by our Quartermaster.

There is a likely chance that if there is some sort of treasure there, it would be of importance to our mission. However, it is a salvage mission, meaning there will be some diving. So I am looking for a few things to prepare for that, so a few of us can comfortably make our way beneath the waves. Into the water? Beneath the water, my friend. Do cannon folk typically go on those trips,

or do cannon folk typically stay behind with the ship? Gunner master now, gunner master. Gunner master. That is up to you, you are welcome to stay behind. However, if things go correctly, I think, I don't think there will be any worry of drowning. Oh. How can you promise that?

Trust me, I have a few connections that owe me a favor or two here on the island. But anyway, I need a day to acquire what is necessary. Nevertheless, at this point, she looks up at somebody past you and goes, We're having a private discussion. Who is it? You turn and follow her eyeline,

and you see what looks to be a human female with curled blonde hair that seems to be a bit, the curls have fallen and the moisture and the rain from the outside, dressed in a thick, ragged black coat, holding a cup, and she goes, I don't worry about me. Just didn't expect the shore to drag you in quite so soon.

What? There's a moment of tension. Do we recognize her? No, you've not seen this figure before. They both stare for a second, and she turns and walks off to a far table. Was she directing that towards Avantika? Yeah.

Who was that? What did she say? Haven't heard, didn't expect this what? Drag? Don't mind her. It's Alison, she's, what's the word? A right cunt. Oh. Not Heather.

Friend of yours or former friend? Best of friends. No, just a very nosy co-thief at sea. Doesn't know where to stop poking where it doesn't belong. Former business associate. No, from our competitor. But anyway.

I immediately grab my purse and hold onto it. My purse? The thing that I imagine most adventurers have, a little coin satchel. Not like a cute little... No, not like a Dolce & Gabbana. No, not a Kate Spade. You mean a competitor in terms of

sea space or in terms of your faith? No, no, more of we've crossed territories once or twice and she just has a, she has a habit of trying to embellish truths to the Plain King. Anyway, hand me the map if you don't mind. Oh, the map's here, actually. I knew someone like that once.

They would always go fishing and say that they caught something, but they never did it. The fishermen? Yes. Avantika lays them out on the table. We'll put our weights down to weight it down. You know, there was a discussion. It's coming.

We didn't actually, we had a coaster, so we're not heavy enough. We're doing all right. Here's a cube, have a cube. A cube? There's a cube. There's a cube! As Evantika points it out, she shows the crew and says,

In today's travel, we will make our way outside of the Dragshallow Reef, coasting at Northworld for protection, to about here. We begin looking for our salvage. At which point, Orly, who's glancing over the side, rubs his chin and goes, Mm, I don't mean to question the captain's main objective. However, that looks like it's right around

where the diver's grave may be. The diver's grave may be. The diver's grave? She looks back and goes, Perhaps, but does that spook you? Do ghost stories make you shiver, Turtle Boy? Orly just glances back at her with a narrowed stare and goes, Long as I'm staying on the ship, I don't mind.

He sits back down to the table. Divers die there. At this point, Soras right there goes, Oh, is that where you're going? You're going over to the diver's grave? Yeah, I figure so, yeah. Well, that's generally an off-limits location for most salvaging, thanks to the cursed woman, eh? Do you know much about your history?

I'm hoping this is a place where somebody named Rachel Diver may have bought a piece of land. I don't know. Like Sophie? But not at all. It's always a Sophie. Sophie Diver, that actually a piece of land. Nice, but not at all. It's always a Sophie. Make a history check. You came at disadvantage just because of your lack of experience with the naval history.

I have heard ghost stories. You make a history check as well. 15. Okay. 19. 13. Doesn't quite catch your attention. You've heard mention of the Diver's Grave

as it was a series of poems from a book you once read. The thing that comes to mind is the name Dashilla. You instinctively say, like mouth it, Dashilla, and he goes, Ah, Dashilla the Dreadful. You know about this one, eh? I mean, I read a poem about her. Ah, poem I've not known, but maybe the song you've heard.

Some of the crew around nod, remembering, and he goes and grabs his cup and claps it twice at the table. Oh please, yes. The crew begins to filter in as the song progresses. If there's not 12 people that pop out behind this curtain, I'm going to be disappointed. So he finishes the song.

Aw. Waiting for the AC government and Bill Murray. Soros goes, Where once the waters rolled calmly by, where oceans heart did sing, they stalked alas with a hungry eye and claws that grasp and ring. With lantern lure of a glimmer pot,

with treasure in her eyes. Below they swam to the gold they thought would await them as their prize. Neville starts clamoring together with the third verse. Yet each of them went to surely die, the graves to not be found, for DeShilla and her hungry eye collects the lost and drowned.

And there's a moment where they all clamber the drinks together and clink them and begin to drink there. Yeah, yeah! That's fortuitous. Her hungry eye. Her claws. Her lantern light.

Doesn't she have a ring or something that you said in the song? Yeah, I heard something about a ring and treasure in her eyes. Yeah, I was confused. So you don't know the poem or song? No, no, no, I know it, I just didn't, I mean, I read it, you know, like one time,

a long time ago. What, do you want a reprisal? Yeah. Where once the waters rolled calmly by, where oceans hot did sing. They stalked alas with a hungry eye and claws that grasp and ring. With lantern lure of a glimmer pot, with treasure in their eyes. Below they swam to the gold they thought would await them as their prize. Yet each of them went to Shili Dai, the graves to not be found,

for DeShilla and her hungry eye collects the lost and drowned. There you are. Single eye, huh? Bam. Anybody else getting a bad feeling about that? Yeah. No, why would you ever get a bad feeling about that?

That sounds like a total mix. Remix! Break it down. Her hungry eye. He goes, but that's just a wives' tale, you know? A myth. No. Fjordus, is that somewhere that you've been to?

I mean, you seem like a very fortune-seeking type. I mean, I was sailing over it. We just don't really salvage there. You don't stop either. Why in the middle of the ocean? Why? That'd be daft. Good luck, looks at Avantika.

Good luck with the missis. And turns around. With the missis? Oh, maybe. Oh, the shillelagh. We figure that's what he's referring to. Vantika goes, don't pay him any mind. It is a myth, and if it's not, well,

we just finished tangling with a hydra an entire island of snake people. You're not seriously worried about a woman, eh? Well, we didn't fight them under the water. is tangling with a hydra and an entire island of snake people. You're not seriously worried about a woman, huh? Well, we didn't fight them under the water. Yeah, I'm more concerned about the waves. You have experience with this, diving? I should have an answer to at least most of our troubles

by the morrow. Just be patient. Yes, no question. You know, most myths are based off of some sort of fact. We don't happen to know what the song thinks this dreadful creature is, do we? Not any more than you would. She's an underwater banshee, for sure.

For sure. Is that a thing? Mm-hmm. Yeah. You can't really sing underwater, so how does that work? It sounds a lot like globby globby. Oh. Yeah. I just love that everyone did that all at the same time.

That's all I needed. Well, great. So we'll find the solution to the diving in the morning, and then in a day or two, we'll make our way? That is the idea. Do you need any help securing this solution? No, it's best I do it alone. It's more of a older business relationship.

I don't want to make him think that this is a, how do you say, untrustworthy trade, if you will. Well, being that you'll be out, anything you need done for the ship or the crew while you're away as your quartermaster? Well, oversee the repairs to the Mystique. I believe they've begun before the night is over for a bit. We probably will not need it for this endeavor,

so it will begin and we will return from Darktow. It should be complete. Wonderful, all right. And your crew, do I need to keep an eye on anyone? Not in particular. They'll be looking around here. They'll be preparing, gather their materials, anything you think you require for the Tirpitz Sea,

go ahead and gather it, go amongst the Sundry Square, purchase what is required, and then hopefully within the next 48 hours, we'll be back out on the waves. Wonderful, wonderful. Efficient, yeah. Trumped. Okay. What's Alison been up to?

Drinking in the back, having this conversation with somebody and just keeping one eye over at the table. Seeming just perturbed, not directly intent, but just occasionally narrowing her eyes in the direction of Avantika. Being that this is our first time in Darktow, I would like to see the rest of the area. Would anyone care to join me for a stroll?

Ooh, a night walk. That sounds like a great idea. Sure. It is good if you're going to for a stroll? Ooh, night walk. That sounds like a great idea. Sure. It is good if you're going to do a night walk alone, or together as a group is much better than alone. What should we be looking out for? Is there some sort of natural dangers, unnatural dangers, things? Bad corners, alleys?

Well, I mean, the laws say you're not to steal from another pirate in here, but only if they're caught. Only if they're caught. Oh, you totally could have gotten this stuff from that guy. But there are others out there who perhaps will see fresh faces and think, well, easy prey.

And best not to cause a huge commotion immediately after arriving. No one does that, right? No. We definitely wouldn't. Who would be so foolish? But little would they know, they'd be tangling with Avantika's crew, and that's something they don't want to mess with, right?

One would think, yes. Anyway, I am a bit tipsy, and I'm going to find myself an evening's rest. The rest of the night and tomorrow is yours. Good eve. Bonsoir. Good night. Bye.

As she gets up, some of the rest of the crew stands up, you see Bouldergut in the back stand up, as soon as the captain stands up and goes, We going? Come on this way. Walks by, puts her hand on his shoulder and into your ear, Fjord as she whispers, she goes, I'm staying upstairs, second room on the left,

and just leaves. Did any of us see that? Make a perception check. Oh, it's a bad roll. But you see everything, Why are you even rolling? It feels pretty public. 15. You've got fucking Mad-Eye Moody's eye where it's just on me the whole time,

and the other one's just doing its own thing. Actually, Caduceus, just from his passive perception, would have seen this. I was going to say my passive's pretty off, yeah. What's my passive? Would you roll? 15. 15? You see there's a momentary pause as she walks by, just like the hand on the shoulder,

and that catches your attention. You can see the lips move and can make out the essence of the conversation. The rest of her crew slowly gets up, and some of them stay to drink, some of them go out to find their way in the night. I need to pee. Anyone know where the bathroom is?

Pretty sure it's anywhere. Outside. You do recall walking through the city a number of individuals stopping at the edge of the docks and just pissing into the ocean. In halfling, I will say to Beauregard, hey, don't you think we should go talk to that Allison person?

I was already on it. I respond back in halfling. Can I tag along? Mm-hmm. Jester. Do you have a pen and paper I can borrow? She asks in halfling. I don't understand what, I don't understand.

Sorry, I got caught in my language. Luc, do you have any pencil and a paper? Oh yeah, well, of course I do. I always have a lot of stuff on me. Just like a scrap, thank you. We've grown up, aren't we, Nene-bye? Scribble meat in the alley on a piece of paper.

Is there an alley? I'm assuming there's an alley behind it. I mean, there's no streets, it's all alleys. It's entirely crafted of alleys. No, I mean, there's an alley behind it. I mean, there's... There's no streets, it's all alleys. It's entirely crafted of alleys. No, I mean, it's not very jam-packed around this particular tavern slash inn, but there are some nearby buildings where there are alleys. This place is surrounded by streets

because it's right there on the front near the shipyard. Meet in the back alley. To be specific. Big directions. Okay, and what do you do? Will you go with me to the ladies' room so we can powder our noses together? Sure, we'll have a good powder.

Let's go with powder. Then as I walk out, I just shake Alice's hand and say, nice to meet you, and palm her the piece of paper that's folded very tightly. Okay. As you take her hand, she pulls back. You get a closer look at her now, you can see that there's this heavy scar over one eye that keeps the eye mostly closed.

You can see there looks to be a ruined eye beneath there that's healed over and is not functional. But she wears it proudly as a point of intimidation or at least a badge of whatever gave her that scar. Sure. As she pulls back a little bit, her other hand going towards the dagger on the side that's now revealed from behind her coat. You palm her the note and she looks and takes it. Give her a weak walk off.

She crumbles it with a terse look and lets it fall to the ground. Ooh, cold. I go... I walk out. Ooh, cold. I go... and walk out. I love it. She'll read it, right? Where's the bathroom? I'm going to get some air.

My god, you people. Take your stuff. We just walked across the whole place. I haven't seen the bathroom once. What's going on to the side of the building? Oh, we're just going to take a shit in the alley. We're 100% going to take a shit in the alley. Oh, cool.

Here comes the bear. I hope. All right, you guys walk out into the cold night air. The heavy mist has fallen across Darktow, and you can just barely see beyond the outskirts of the city where the ocean begins. You can still hear the waters coming in against the rocks on the outside of the island,

but you cannot actually see where the water connects. Beyond that, beyond you can just see the outline of the ship's masts that are set at the end of the shipyard that are vanishing into the mist that surround you. What do you do? I go towards the back alley. Okay. You find what would be considered an alley behind the Inn and Tavern. I show Nott where to take a shit. There's piles of shit everywhere. Where to take a shit. And I wait, either for the rest of my friends,

or for Alice to eventually read the damn thing out of sight of me. I thought it was Allison. Allison. But she's on a nickname basis already. Maybe that's why she didn't listen to you. Is the color the wrong part? She's like, we're not there yet.

Fucking Alice, dude. Half of the time. But She's like, we're not there yet. Fucking Alice. Half of the time. That's so pretty. But it's super awesome. If she comes out here, what are we going to say to her? I just want to figure out what her beef is with Avantika. Maybe she can be our key. She's going to ask who we are.

What do we tell her? We can tell her. We're disgruntled members of her crew. Yeah. But then, she could turn us in. That's terrible. We should say that we're. We can get information from her first. We don't have to necessarily always give information

up front to get information, and we can always lie. I'm not good at that. I am. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. You're very charismatic. We're going to be fine. I feel like that's slightly underhanded. No, I was just, it seems that way,

because I'm making a face, because I'm halfway through a dump right now. I don't break eye contact. We got this. We got this. Oh, the hand touch! No! No! I'm ready. Maybe that is better.

We've reached a new level. Maybe that is better, yeah. All right, I'm done! I'm happy that did cast! Here we have the direct connection from campaign one to campaign two. Sam has taken a shit live with both characters in narrative. Congratulations. You're welcome.

What are the rest of you doing? So good news is you went out for some fresh air. I'm just standing by the front door, bouncer-like, and just trying to get my bearings, take a look around, see what the vibe of this place is. I'll come join him out front. Jester? I'm staring at this milk that I ordered

and it's really disgusting. You're not going to drink that, are you? No, it has lumps in it. Yeah, well, this is a lumpy place. Yeah. You doing okay? You seem a little off to me. What? I seem off?

Yeah, you seem distracted. Oh, um. Around this woman. You seem distracted around this woman. Oh, I just, well. Bless you. Bless you. Sorry.

I don't like her very much. Is it because she's a murderer? No. Oh, I don't like that part about her. But we're all kind of murderers sometimes, aren't we? I don't think that all of us are murderers. No. Are you a murderer?

I mean, we have killed some people. Yeah, but that's a very specific thing. You know, if your life is in danger, that's one thing. You know, if something happens in the heat of the moment, or there's danger in both directions, murder is premeditated. That's a very different thing. I find it hard to believe that you have killed somebody

with premeditation. I could be wrong, but... No, I don't. I haven't ever done that. I've done some pretty shady stuff, though. That I believe. Have you done some shady stuff? Yes, I have.

Have you done stuff that's piratey before you were a pirate? Yeah, sort of. What's the shadiest thing you ever did? Oh, well, Nott and I have robbed people, for sure. People with not a lot of money so that we could eat. That's okay, though. I have to, that thing that we did to you

when we first met you, you know, we turn coins, we turn one thing into another, and then we go stay at an inn and buy food, and then it turns back into pennies. And you know, that's not so good, but you know, when you're starving. But it is a really cool trick. They got to see magic. They didn't know it, though.

That's true. It all balances out. You've done really good things, too. Yeah. Do you want some of this glumpy milk? No, do you want any ale? No. No. Boy, this is quite a predicament

that we've gotten ourselves into. How the hell we were visiting your mother. Your mother was so lovely. I know, she's so nice! And now we're pirates, and I'm never going to see her again. That's not true. It's really possible, Caleb. What if we can never go home?

We'll... We'll get you home. You know, we're here, This is Fjord's thing. We are his support. We're here to help him out. Mm-hmm. And then we'll get out. Beauregard and I don't want to be here forever, either. I don't think. I know that I do not want to be in this place or on the sea forever. It's interesting. Nott definitely doesn't want to be on the sea. Nott is like a cat clinging to the ceiling. She's like a cat on the sea forever. It's interesting. Nott definitely doesn't want to be on the sea. Nott is like a cat clinging to the ceiling.

She's like a cat on the hot tin roof. I think Caduceus doesn't like the water either, basically, because it tried to kill him a few times already. Really, none of us like it here, but Fjord, kind of. I don't even know if he likes it a lot. There's parts of it that he likes. Like Avantika. I don't know.

You're sweet on him, yeah? I don't know. It feels funny. How do you mean? Well, you know when you really like somebody, but then you start to know them, and you go, do I like them, or do I like what I thought they were? And then you don't know. I think so. And then you think that they are flirting with you,

but then you find out they probably weren't, you know? Or just saving your life. And so you feel kind of sad about it, and maybe a little stupid? That's a little out of my realm of experience. I'm sorry. You had a girlfriend before, though, yeah? You said her name when we were dancing,

and then I put you to sleep, and you said her name again. I don't forget anything. Was she pretty? She was handsome. Was she pretty? She was handsome. Was she a boy? No, I said she. Oh, okay. She was handsome.

I'm trying to get an image of her in my brain here. Yeah. Did she have a really good nose or something? The best. I'm trying to get an image of her in my brain here. Did you have a really good nose or something? The best. Really? For me. You're mysterious, Caleb, you know that. It was a long time ago, anyway. Let's just focus on getting out of this place away from that woman.

And now she's saying we all have to take the same boat! How are we going to get away from her? Is there anyone paying attention to us? Make a perception check. Where are you guys talking? Just literally right there at the table. Oh, never mind. We were just leaning at a table together, very low, elf. It was 11. 11?

Okay. I mean, the crowd's pretty vibrant around here. You quick glance around you, you don't see anybody specifically paying attention or interested. Well, I don't care. I'm pulling out the wire and I'm putting it in my mouth. We'll take care of her if we have to. Are you okay?

Yeah, just a cough. Cold. I want to get the hell off this island eventually. But we're here now. Tomorrow. Tomorrow we find some books? Yes, we'll find, no, probably not. But we'll get sorted, we'll make the best of this place, we'll help Fjord figure out his shit, I suppose.

That's important to him. Yeah. And then we'll get out of here, and then you can reassess. Okay. And back on dry land. Yeah. Thanks, Caleb.

Thanks for not leaving me on the street like a drunk. I thought about it, it would have been pretty funny for you to wake up, but I like you more than that. Are we sleeping on our boat? Where should I go? I think we'll probably get a room somewhere here. Is this place an inn or a tavern? I did not even look coming in.

Glancing now, looking to the back, you can see there is a staircase that winds up to a secondary floor, and it looks like there probably is lodging. Did Avantika leave, or did she go? Avantika left for the moment. Probably to secure the tings. Probably to shit in an alleyway.

You're out front, right? I'm sitting out front, doing the door. What are you guys doing? I guess just sitting in here for a while. Caleb? Just drinking until people reconvene. I'll put my hand on Caduceus' shoulder. How you doing?

I think I'm doing all right. I'm just contemplating where we're going from here. You seem a little more at ease and I'll just lean in a little bit. I am a little more at ease. You do much drinking in there? I'm not really getting the fumes on your breath. I've only gotten drunk once in my life. Really? And that was because of Nott.

Is there a reason for that? I thought I tried, didn't agree with me. What happens when you drink? Everything hurts, and it's violently offensive to the body on every level. It's just, that stuff's disgusting. Just awful. But you had stuff in your cup, right?

You don't have to fake it. Well, it feels polite, and not everybody's as understanding as your friends, you know. Right. And so I just sit in the corner, and I listen to everything that I can for as long as I can, and I got a little noisy in there,

and I get a little air. Anything popping up on that special radar of yours? Oh yeah. This place is dangerous. She's dangerous. Yeah, that she is. Should we grab the others and go explore for a bit? I think that's a good idea.

And Fjord, you know why everybody's doing this, why we're all here, right? Yeah. I mean, I think. I think you know. I just wanted to point it out, because that woman, she doesn't care what any of us want. I'm sure she'd be interested, but it's way low on her priorities,

and I don't trust anybody who puts other people's needs that low on the list. You should keep in mind that while you're getting in bed with them, so to speak. Is anybody out here in earshot? Just a quick look around. Outside of the moment, no. Nope. Yeah, listen, about that. Let's just keep it between the amigos, all right? Just because.

Part of the body is the amigos. No, that's us, right? One amigo, two amigo, you and I are amigos. Okay. And it'll be like our thing, like we're bunkies. We share like. Amigos, we share amigos. No, we're not going to share amigos, we are the amigos.

Oh, well, that's even better. Sharing amigos is a whole other, yeah. No, I think I get it, but I'm not going to talk out of turn. I trust your intentions, so. Well, actually, that's what I wanted to talk to you about. You're real good at picking up on little things, yeah? You're asking if I can tell that you're conflicted? No, I think that's pretty clear.

You'd be amazed, but all right. I'm just letting you know, I'm trying to keep her close. I feel like this whole thing is just getting a little out of sorts, and the best way to maybe keep a small finger on the pulse of things is just to. Sure. Yeah. I'm so glad you put it that way.

Just, you're a good man, Fjord, so just be careful, because I imagine it's a little out of character being honest and truthful with somebody in a deceptive way. You can muddle a good man up, whereas it doesn't muddle a bad man up. Yeah, haven't been very good at it so far. That's one of the reasons why I like you.

Thank you. Here for you, man. All right. I've been learning to swim. Yeah, more of that to come. Where's the rest of these chuckle fucks? Oh, two are mysteriously vanished. I think they were mumbling something or trying to find an alley.

Nott, will you stand guard now? Because now I have to take a shit. Okay. No. It's been that long. For the record, you guys do wait for about an hour and a half, two hours. That's to take a shit. Okay. Yeah. It's been that long. For the record, you guys do wait for about an hour and a half, two hours.

That's a lot of shit. No sign of Alison. Oh. We don't go that, I mean, we don't take that long. This is like, I think 30 minutes is like. Right, I'm just letting them know. That's how long they would wait before they know that she's not coming.

All right, I guess we'll go back inside then. Take a luxurious. Two more minutes. Sure, sure, do your business. What, um. Head down, huh? What do you think of our pirate vessel so far, of our pirate mission?

Are you having fun? You and your old person, here we go. If ever you're going to squat on that chair in a purge. No. Okay, what was your question? Nothing, we can go back to it. All right, let's go. And release.

All right. You all make your way, gathering once more in the bloated cup. That's where you're supposed to go. God. You look under the table. Let's back around. Oh man.

I love you so much. You give so much. You give so much. You give so much. All right. So what do you guys do? I want to take a night walk. Night walk. Night hike.

I want to take a night walk. That's a little sad. That's a Traveler song. Yeah, let's go for a walk. Night hike. I'm going to take a night walk. That's a traveler's song. Yeah, let's go for a walk. Yeah. We'll poke our heads back in and wave them out. The crew should also probably have some place to sleep. Let's make sure everybody's taken care of. They can go back to the boat, right? They're having a bad time. What do you guys want? Orly seems to be playing the mother hen

with Marius playing assistant to that. Mr. Orly, we feel terrible about everything that's going on. We want to make you guys as comfortable as possible through this deeply inconvenient situation we've all found ourselves in. That wouldn't be a plan if it wasn't deeply inconvenient. Appreciate your honesty.

Nope. Ask him about the divers, Graham. What would not be an insult? I hit his hand. High five! Like that, I know that would be an insult, but what would not be an insult? How many kids are here?

If we'll staying behind, I'd say give me about 100 gold to watch over the nest around here. When you return,, I understand, perhaps you might be coming back for us. Oh, without question. Mm-hmm. That's farther loyalty.

You know, return whatever was not spent. Oh, that's a good idea. I've got the other 50. Thank you, kids. Unless something goes tragically wrong, we expect to be returning, and I imagine you'll hear word if things go tragically wrong. Marius comes in and goes,

Right, yeah, hoping. No tragedy. Just come back and get us off this fucking hill. Well, if we don't come back, can't you take the mistake and go home? If you don't come back, I don't know. How long do we expect to be gone for? It was 24 hours. Travel from here to there and back,

about four or five days, round. Two weeks, if we're not back in two weeks. If it's two weeks, the ship is yours. All right. Hopefully our ship is ours, like 48 hours, right? I wish you all much luck. I appreciate that. Hopefully you will not have to play a funeral dirge for us.

I'm hoping that is never the case. I guess I'll just make some coin in the end turn. That's fair. If I may, Orly, you seem to be very familiar with the Diver's Grave and the song. Do you know anything more specific of it and creatures that might be in that area, things to look out for? I mean, standard deep ocean folk.

Deep ocean folk. Worms? Sharks. Mermaid. Other underwater beasts. What's a mermaid? Perhaps mermaids and other such dangers. Fallen teeth.

What is that? Mermaids are part pretty people and part fish people. Those are both very dangerous. Well. Any good things about the area that you care to share? Hmm, probably some worthwhile loot there amongst the sediment. Oh, right. Mm-hmm.

Any idea how long ships have been going down in that region? Oh, a few hundred years, maybe. Maybe. Is there some sort of weather pattern or natural phenomenon that is responsible for this? No, sheeps go down all over the coast. But there aren't creepy stories about every inch of it, is there?

There are quite a number of creepy stories on every part of this here coast. Fair point, fair point. Do you know how deep it is to the bottom there? Is it deep, deep ocean, or just medium ocean? Can't say I do. All right. All right.

My apologies. Thank you for your time, and thank you for your trust. Come back. Working on it. All right, who are we missing? Nighthike. We're on here. Why are you guys wiping your hands on your pants?

Don't worry about him. It's fine. Okay. Who wants to go explore? Let's go. Let's go explore! What are we looking for? Are we just taking it in? Let's go explore. Let's go. Let's go explore. What are we looking for?

Are we just taking it in? We're looking for fresh air. Yeah, I mean, I figure we'll use the night to our advantage, kind of acclimate a little bit. Let's take a walk, let's see what there is to see. I'm kind of excited about this. Love the city. Yasha Lindsay goes like,

if there is any trouble, should I? Oh, well, if there is trouble, let's try and resolve it. Well. I trust you, just... Gauge it as it comes. Yeah. Just tell me when you want.

The judge? Will do. It's so intimidating when she says it like that. Can I have taken, I'm assuming, a short rest and heal up from my fight while we were all chilling here? Sure. We should get a wig for the judge, like the Plank King has. For the sword? Yeah.

A wig. Just throwing it out there. Sort of like a golf club cover. You look like a tea cozy. A sword cozy. All right. You guys leave the tavern. I guess up away from the docks.

Okay. As you exit, Caduceus, you notice this, but Jester, as everyone's leaving, you to the back of it, you feel a hand grab your arm for a minute. You look over to the side, and you may not have noticed earlier, but Vira had been in the tavern vicinity. She pulls you back from the rest of the group for a second

and looks you in the eye with this intense stare. You can see the wrinkles on the sides of her face pushing into this tight crow's nest on each side, her irises bloodshot. She goes, He would not be the first. She's left in ruin. He would not be the last. I would take care of him if he cannot. She releases you and spins around and walks off to her room. Did that feel, I caught a bit of that, right? You saw them discuss, but you weren't,

on the point of chopping and looking, you wouldn't have made out the words, necessarily. Wow. So you guys are here in the open night air. Now a few hours, you're pushing midnight here at Darktow. It smells like poop out here. Yeah, I'm checking the bottom of my shoes, like, what did you step in? Why is it?

Oh god. It's a sea breeze. At night, it's a land breeze. I have to stop really quickly and use the bathroom. There's these little outhouses over in the corner right here that just drop straight down into the. Outhouse campaign, too. It's very well, yeah. Here we go. It's like the Tower of Rage.

Is anyone on the streets? Yeah, and how well is it out here? Who's watching? It's pretty misty. There are not heavy clouds in the sky, and the moon seems to be, not a full moon, but it's fairly bright, but because of the mist, it diffuses.

So there is this general faint moonlight throughout the entire vicinity of the town. What that does is it makes distant visibility a little harder, much like fog lights at a distance. You do see there are a number of patrolling individuals, no uniform to them, but they would just walk around torch in hand, just looking through the streets,

keeping an eye. They're armed, armored, but haphazard and no uniform. This is the revelry? Everyone here seems to be part of the revelry. Including yourselves now. Your hands on your coin purses. Okay, if we're going to talk about these things, let's use some code words. Don't say her name. Say a different name. Like?

Tiffany. Yes, Tiffany. She's kind of like a Tiffany. Okay, Tiffany. Yes, Tiffany. She's kind of like a Tiffany. Okay, Tiffany. And? The name of the ship. Which ship? Tiffany's ship.

That's the name, Tiffany's ship. Tiffany's ship is the name of Tiffany's ship. Good. That makes it clear. How will they crack this if they hear us? That's all the code we need. All right. How do we reference the...

We call it the... That is... The apricot. The yeah. The apricot. The apricot. Anything else before we get into this? Wait, is the apricot this, or is the apricot the tiny Tiffany ship?

Nope, it's this. It's this, okay, okay. It's the tip of the tiny Tiffany ship. The apricot is the tiny Tiffany ship. It's tiny Tiffany's. It's the tip of the tiny Tiffany ship. Right. All right, so.

How will we deal with Tiffany? Holy shit. Which one is Tiffany? Yeah, let's walk and talk. We're walking and talking. And I'm keeping an eye open for every suspicious looking asshole. Invisible, though, you guys.

Yeah, but Tiffany doesn't know that we're talking about her. And she went to bed, she's fine. I'm going to keep an eye out to see if the mist ever parts around us. Okay, both you and Beau make perception checks, please. You're both keeping eyes out. Come on. She won't know

we're talking about her. Technically, I'm. She won't know we're talking about her because we're using a name, Tiffany. So she's not even going to know. 26. Okay. So you're keeping a gauge on any of the wandering,

patrolling guards to make sure as not to speak too loudly or in the presence of anyone. Comes to a conversation, either shifting temporarily or coming to a lull and walking by in silence, but you manage to snake your way through a relatively quiet town beyond the various taverns this late at night. A lot of storefronts,

things that are closed up for the night. You do wander through what you assume to be the Sundry Square eventually, through this wandering, and you can see there's a makeshift pavilion where there are, it's dotted with tables and crates under rowdy awnings and canopies, but it's all closed and dark, there's no lights.

It looks like none of the materials for sale are left behind. It's mainly just a structure, and then materials are probably brought there in the morning and then placed out for a trade to sell or whatever. Don't you think it's weird that someone would be a pirate and they would come here because they were a pirate and then they just changed their mind and decided to be a shopkeeper here instead? No. Maybe they were looking for a new environment and they found exactly what they were looking for. Maybe they thought they were tough and strong and they found exactly what they were looking for.

Maybe they thought they were tough and strong and they were not as tough and strong as they thought, so now they sell rope. It feels like a farmer's market. It feels like certain people sell things whenever they got them. Maybe that's why they're 17 for a 19. 12. Did you roll a 12, Sider?

You do know Darktow, before it was taken by pirates, about 45 years or so beforehand, it was just another city of the Clovis Concord. It belonged to the Menagerie Coast, and it was one of the central port stops for a lot of the trade routes making their way to the coast. It's right by the reef, too. When it was taken by the revelry

and they reinforced and made it defensible, they didn't just slaughter everyone there, because they weren't there to just kill everyone, they were there to just take it over. They killed those who were, in their opinion, incorrectly placed in charge, any dissenters, and then anybody who agreed to join the Revelry, join or die type circumstance.

Everyone who previously lived on the island were absorbed into the Revelry, and some of them have continued their life there. Some of them, their bloodline has continued to be those that maintain other forms of business. Not everyone is technically a pirate. There are a lot of members of the revelry that are just civilians of Darktow and maintain the island.

There's a lot of assimilation here. Like Orlando. Sure. Not everyone's a lot of assimilation here. Like Orlando. Sure. Not everyone's a retired person or a college student. Somebody's got to actually clean that place up. We love you, Orlando. Yes. I really do, I have plans.

Oh, Orlando, Orlando. That's your new plan. Taliesin has plans for you, Orlando. Deep plans. If I may, here's our options. Here it is. Do you have a power point? I don't, but I've been thinking about things. How drunk are you?

I'm lit, I'm tight, I'm a little tight. But feeling good. And good. Our intent is to get off this island without Tiffany, correct? Mm-hmm. Well, I think it's less about getting off this island without Tiffany and more about getting to that shipwreck first before her. I think that's the highest priority. The only thing that we haven't discerned from Tiffany is if she knows where the next... Apricot?

Yes, no, no. We know where the apricot might be, where the next apricot tree might be. Apricot tree, apricot tree. Or fruit stand, I like it. So, here's our options. I'm just putting them out there. I put no weight on any of them.

We can follow Tiffany tomorrow, as she goes about her day. We can get in touch with this Alison person. Bitch. Follow her, I know, right? What if you used the right name? We could talk to some of Tiffany's crew, right? Bouldergut seems dumb. You shouldn't use her real name.

Sorry. Wow. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Seems dumb. And also the former quartermaster, Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt! Then there's this Soras fellow, right? I don't know, I don't know, He just didn't seem like he would be of

fault of any knowledge. I like him. We can sabotage Tiffany's ship. I don't know what that would do, because we need it to get off the island. We can frame Tiffany for some crime against another pirate. We have a signature from Tiffany and a letter that she wrote. That is all that we have. Well, she's not currently at her ship. I'm assuming a lot of her valuable information is locked away in her captain's quarters somewhere on Tiffany'shuh. If we can get the information to the next apricot tree, then do we need Tiffany anymore? I just remembered.

What? Well, I have this new spell that the Traveler was telling me about. And it lets you pop in somewhere that you can just pop in and then you can bring somebody with you. It's like a doorway. And you could pop in where? To her ship, to her captain's quarters?

I could pop into her office. On the ship, on the Tiffany ship. How far away can you do a pop in where? To her ship, to her captain's quarters? I could pop into her office. On the ship, on the Tiffany ship. How far away can you do a pop in? That's a really good question, let me think about it. Hey, traveler, how far away can I use this spell? 500 whole feet, he says. That's a lot. That's a lot of feet. So many feet.

So look, if I've learned anything about important people, it's that they can't resist putting shit down on paper. I guarantee you there's something in her office. I don't know how I would get out of it once I was in there, though, because I could only use it once. But I suppose. You could just leave. But yeah, but wouldn't somebody be keeping watch

on this ship, though? But it's our ship, we work on this ship. Do we have credentials? Do we have badges? Like beep beep? Well, I can tell you that her quarters have a balcony. Oh, can you? We could also potentially send Frumpkin

with a note or letter. Do what? Leave it. You were talking about something. To like, plant something? Yeah. I think she's not going to. I want to get something.

Rifle through her stuff. Just find something and take it. Through her stuff. Yeah, because if we are planning to leave without her, that means that she'll give chase. I mean, I hate to even suggest it, but I'd rather not have someone hot on her tail. Also, this leads me to a question I have,

which is instead of discussing the short term, which we want to do, I want to ask you about the long term. If we ditch Tiffany and we find the apricot tree, what happens? What is your plan with this apricot? I think we have ideas about what could come from it. She's done what she did at the first tree, and you go to the next tree, and maybe she races to it.

Like, what happens next for it? Like, I know you are curious, but what is the plan? Should we be using your name, or should we call you something else right now, too? We call him Honda. Honda. Honda. So many nicknames. something else right now, too. We call him Honda. Honda. Honda. So many nicknames.

Well, as Honda, I would race to the apricot and seize it so that she can't pick that fruit, keep it for ourselves in her fruit basket, and make off and decide if we're going to make marmalade later or not. You know how at the first tree an apricot was picked and then things shook, something happened there, and this place was all about drei, the number three, so you want to go pluck another fruit and that's two out of three, and what happens once the third?

We actually don't know where the other tree is yet. That's the thing, we just know where the fruit is. And personally, I feel more comfortable with Honda controlling the supply of apricots than Tiffany. Well, they are in season right now. I am not telling any of you, especially you, what to do here, but an alternative plan is to

get rid of anyone who knows about the location of the tree and bury the tree. The tree we just came from, or the tree that we're going to? So if we do that, we might need to ask Tiffany if she knows the location of the tree, because it hasn't been brought up as of yet. Fuck asking Tiffany any questions,

we just break into breakfast at Tiffany's and get the information that we need. Mm-hmm. That was a long walk. It was a long walk, but we're all on the same page. Okay, are we up for a little B&E? Hey, this is my specialty. In real life or the game? No comment.

I plead the fifth. Will we be using the fancy doorway? I think to get in. Yeah, absolutely, and don't you have another way to make a door? That's an emergency. That is. That would bring her back. Well, that would be permanent. That's the thing, she would definitely see

there was a new door. Also, you said there was a balcony, right? Yeah. Was there a door to the balcony? Do you think that would be locked? I mean, there was a door, was it solid wood, or did it have glass? No, it had two glassed doorways. They looked like windows, but they opened doors and

the latch shut. Wait, if you could get into her cabin, you can disguise self as well, right? So you could change yourself to Vira or something. Or to Avantika. I mean, Tiffany. Oh shit! Shit! We were doing so well! Go here, go here! Right on.

But you could turn yourself into Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and you could just walk off the ship, and no one would think the wiser, or they might say, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, why are you on Tiffany's ship? And you'd be like, bitch, I work here. I'm Franklin Delano Roosevelt! Why are you on Tiffany's ship? You'd be like, bitch, I work here. I'm Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Then you're two people on a ship and you're involved in things.

I mean, it's a good emergency plan, but you can only go once, you can't go twice? I can't go twice, I can just do it once. What if some of us kept it on ticket busy? Tiffany. Oh, this is difficult. What if some of us kept a Vontiket busy? Tiffany. Oh, this is difficult. A few of us were eating apricots at the time. What if Fjord keeps Tiff busy,

and you, man to man. Handa keeps Tiffany busy. What if the green guy and the gal are busy? You follow? Well, I mean, do we need to have Rhonda distract Tiffany? Can we not just do this right now while she's theoretically sleeping? You finish the thought.

You do that thing. You take your little doorway over, you do what you want to do, then poof, you are Tiffany. And you walk off the boat, because Tiffany's busy. Mm-hmm. It's true, he could be accountable. 100% busy. Not maybe busy, maybe she's sleeping, maybe she's out for a walk. For sure busy. And we could have this guy with Frumpkin making sure that they're busy, if you're comfortable with that. You don't have a lot of a choice. Can you keep Tiffany busy for 15 or 20 minutes?

Sure. 25 if you really had to? Yes. Take a break? I mean, with a short rest. Maybe. It's real quiet at this table. This is a good plan, and we're going to go in there. Oh, you're going to go in there.

Do you need some help? I should bring somebody with me. This is my forte, man. Okay, me and you, Beau. Okay. Except Beau can't make herself look like anything else. But if I'm with the queen, then what does it matter? Who's the queen in this scenario?

Tiffany, fake Tiffany. No, but you don't want yourself connected to this at all. I could take the, that's a good point, fuck. Plus, here's the thing. Caduceus is really perceptive. The two clerics are not going on the mission together. I can break into things.

That's true. And you're very small. And I can also talk to Caleb. That's also true. And you're very small. And I can also talk to Caleb. That's also true. Yeah. And how are you going to get off the bone? I can make myself look like something. You could be Saurus.

Doesn't Ipsis, Saurus, small? Like a gnome? Ipis is a gnome. I could be Ipis. Ipis, that's right. I can give you guys Enhance Ability, too, Small, like a gnome? Epis is a gnome. Yeah, Epis is a gnome. Epis, that's right. I can give you guys enhanceability, too, for the remainder of the city. You can pick something, both of you,

if you want to be better at something for a little while. We never get into trouble together. I mean, this is foolproof. It cannot fail. Any time we've tried to do anything together, it went off seamlessly. This is the best plan we've ever had. That's a natural one.

This is going to fuck us up. All right. Okay. So what are me and Cad doing? Well, we need someone just off the boat, in case things go awry, I'll message you that we need some help on the inside. And there needs to be someone on the outside of Honda and Tiffany in case he needs some help in there.

I don't know. Can you go with Honda? I wouldn't know how to help with that. Just you have to be nearby. Also seems like a lot of commitment, but okay. I can keep an eye on that. Also, where are we staying tonight? Are we staying at the Bloated Cup?

We could stay on the boat. That would solve all of our problems. Can we? On Tiffany's ship? I mean, we've been staying on it already. Don't we have quarters on there? I mean, there are quarters on there you could stay in, yes. Where were we meant to stay?

Where are the other crews staying? On the ship or on land? You're not sure. Some of them you saw found rooms up top, above the tavern you were in. Others left through the night. You don't know where they went. Yeah, it might not be a bad idea to find a room

that's not at the Bloated Cup and not on the ship, you know, just so we're not suspicious. Have we seen anything on another tavern or something maybe a little, I hate to say more upscale, but like, cleaner? Not really, not here. Something with less piles of shit behind it. No, you get the sense that

Dartow doesn't have a lot of offerings for travelers, since most of the travelers that come through here are part of the revelry, and only a few of them stay offshore. And you've passed the number of homes of people that live here or spend a lot of time here and have an abode. How do you feel about rooms at the Beloved Cup?

Probably for the best. All right. Three rooms? Sure. Three rooms. Hopefully some with windows. Sure. Just smells like shit there. So we all wait until Fjord starts boning,

and then we start our action. So how about this? Caleb and Caduceus and Fjord, you're one team. You have Frumpkin watch Fjord. You give me the word when it's good to go. I'll deliver that to Nott and Jessie. This is way more complicated than I thought it was going to be. I don't know, I'm following it.

This is the first time this entire evening. I give you the signal, you guys go. I'll be nearby, I'll distract any guards if need be with my Feminine W wiles. Then you let me know if there's any emergency. You're the runner! Then I will have no means to communicate to anybody else, but you will. Sure. You'll be a good go-between. If we hear something bad, we can get an owl to the ship if

you hear something bad. Actually, that's a good point. How far away is the bloated cup from the boat? From the boat? It's, the bloated cup is right off where all the ducks join in from the shipyard, so it's maybe about 300 feet away. Oh, that's amazing. Cool.

Perfect. Yeah. Good. I can also. It might be your downfall, but it's great. Yeah. All right. Cool. Perfect. Yeah. Good. I can also. It might be your downfall, but it's great. Yeah. All right. Okay.

Okay, so. So I'll try and be an eyeshot of the Bloated Cup. I'm going to show to you. Honda, are you going to be able to? Look, I'll be fine. I'll just make sure she's occupied. I'm just saying, there's going to be a peeping Tom in the room with you.

Now, what do you mean, in the room? I think we need Frumpkin in there. No. And what form is Frumpkin, an octopus? Peeping Tomcat. Is he a cat? He's right here. Oh, what is he, the little owl?

Oh, he's been in mine. You see this really uncomfortably frazzled owl that's been jammed in a pocket for a while. Sorry, I don't know. Am I just carrying him in like it's no big? I don't think we, I think that just if the, if. No, he can fly outside the window and just peek in and see if you're.

Avantika knows, I mean, Tiffany knows that that owl is yours, Caleb. It's not like it's a secret. If she's seen the owl before, she's going to know you're spying on her. We don't need to actually know what's going on in there. Why does anybody need to know that? Yeah, I don't think so.

Listen, let's just kick this thing off, and I'll toss Frumpkin back to Caleb. Look, I leave this in your capable hands. Well, Frumpkin has... Dead. Frumpkin has had a peek inside of her quarters after she's seen him. She did not see him the first time,

although to be doubly sure, I could change his shape again. Well, I think the thing to do here, I mean, it just makes sense, that is if you leave the room for any reason, we send Frumpkin to the ship, they see Frumpkin, they know it's time to go. That's the signal. If for some reason, if for some reason

Tiffany's on the move or something seems up, just listen for thunder, how about that? Mm-hmm, and here I slip Caduceus a few of those firecrackers that I have. His boning makes thunder. What's the source of the thunder, yeah, is that like? He is weenie. Nothing I could say would be that, so, you know.

But you know, if we're not comfortable, I could change Frumpkin to be, say, a raven or something. I like that. Yeah, whatever you feel is best. How long will that take? All right, here we go, and I head off towards the Bloated Cup. All right.

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Bringing us into the moment, as you guys scatter to your various plans. Such a shitty plan. So. It's a great plan, it's a great plan. We have Fjord going to the upper floor of the bloated cup. What are the rest of you doing at this moment? Real confident, real strong.

I'm staying downstairs to wait for you to either come down or for her to leave. Okay. I'm going to sit and probably try and find something non-alcoholic to drink, so I don't have to be an idiot. That's where it's going to go down, is in the bloated cup.

Upstairs. That's where she is. Yeah, I thought maybe they'd say, like, you know, romantic on the boat, but great, good. So if that's the case, then I'm not getting into that room, so I think that I should tail this team. Instead, if you've got an eye on the exit to that building. Let me see, yeah. Shouldn't you be able to message Nott

and say she's on the move? Yeah. So maybe stay close where you can see it if she leaves? Yeah. Okay. Yasha is doing what as part of this? Yasha is probably either with you, she's either with you or with us, I imagine.

Probably with you. She's a bit conspicuous and things go really bad, should be ready to help out on that side of things. If Boulder gets in the bloated cup, that's where Yasha is. There you go. I turn my cloak inside out to the inconspicuous side and case towards the docks

and start casing the area for revelry that are guarding the area or potentially a good place for them to do the thing. Make a perception check. Somebody aiding you in that? Nope. 13. 13, okay.

Looking out along the docks, there are two particular watch outs that are assigned to that particular part of the docks, where the Squall Eater is currently, where it anchored. You also see what looks to be two individuals where the Squall Eater is currently, with an anchor. You also see two individuals on the deck of the ship. Not holding torches, but you can see them through the fog, one of them just walks and moves.

That's what you see. Do I see anything that looks like it could be a potentially good area for them to cast a spell without being noticed? I mean, the docks are pretty open here. There isn't much of a place to hide, and this isn't a major shipping region.

Most everything is taken off the docks and off the ships and then brought in the shore, so there isn't a bunch of errant piles of boxes and barrels, per se. The docks are pretty open. So best bet would be somehow under the docks, but most of that is in the ocean. Or trying your best to wait for a moment where people aren't paying attention.

Okay, I block around as to not look like it's going the same way that I just came from and catch back up with these two. Okay. With the detectives. All right. As you guys are having this conversation, Beauregard manages to circle back and come back to you. All right, there's two guards casing the dock, and it looks like two of Avantika's,

Tiffany's people may be on the ship. Okay. And it looks pretty open. We might want to find an alternative for you guys to not be noticed as you do the crazy magic thing. It looks open? It's super open. Two guards guarding the dock and two people on the deck of Tiffany's ship. Getting on is not a problem.

Yeah, we can just go to our quarters or something. To then bamf over our quarters in the... Inside the ship. Yeah. What do you think? Okay. We can just be there. You guys are going to have to talk to guards and convince yourself on the way in,

and you will be noticed. No, we just are in. Because it's our ship. What do you mean? We're talking about two different things here. Please, please. I'll start over again. There are two guards guarding the docks.

There are two people on the ship of Avantika's boat, of Tiffany's boat, on the deck, you get what I'm saying. The deck of the ship of the boat. It's real set up, so we don't have to use code words anymore. Mm-hmm. And so, if you all want to just walk onto your quarters, you will have two guards and two of our crew members

who will see you walk on. I think what Beau's implying is perhaps we'd better that we're never seen there at all. And we're never seen at all. Never seen, not tied to anything. Unless you disguise yourself as Tiffany now, then I would say we find a hidden place, potentially in our private quarters,

in the bloated cup that you bamf into. Is it within 500 feet, though? Yes, it is. 300 feet apart. Fuck yeah. Yeah, let's go to our quarters in the bloated cup. So we're going to start the bamf there. Start it in the tavern! I will be nearby, near the docks. Signal if you need me.

You won't see us, Evan. Good. Here is how I would like to contribute. First, I'm going to disguise myself when it is time. Not yet, but I will make myself look like voice actor Charlie Adler. I will be Salt-N-Pepa. I will fit right in on the docks. pepper. I will fit right in on the docks. Oh, you'll fit right in on the docks. I won't be in a denim tuxedo, but I will wear traditional pirate garb.

These are tight, man. He thinks sleeves are bullshit, too. Yeah, they are bullshit. There will be no sleeves on this disguise. I am going to hang out between the bloated cup and the ship, looking like Charlie. And Frumpkin, I think I will just have a circle, a continuous circle above the whole area so I can see the guards on the boat, and we can message each other, yeah? So I'll just be eyes in the sky, Charlie on the ground. You got it, all right.

How's a dex bonus go for you? How's advantage on dex, or do you already have? I mean, I have very high dexterity. Could always use advantage. Okay. Lest that could possibly go wrong. So I'm also giving them, before they go in, I'm going to be doing is casting

Enhance Ability on these two. Oh, at a level three? Level three. So I get two people. Maybe charisma? Yeah, for the deception. Leaving. That's fair, all right.

I can already dex my way around. You could potentially jump out the window, too. But you can't. What's that? Are you dextrous? I'm so dextrous. It also will give you 20 feet of falling, of zero damage for a 20-foot fall,

if I give you a dex bonus, but. I have Feather Fall. Oh, you have Feather Fall. So I'm going to give you, you want charisma. Maybe. That's not helpful charisma, unless you make a decision in the next 30 seconds. Yes, I want it!

Cool, and you make a decision in the next 30 seconds. Yes, I want it! Cool. Give it to me now! You're getting wisdom. So you have advantage on wisdom, you have advantage on charisma. All righty. Then right before you go, you right before you go in, I'm going to give you guys both a resistance bump before we push them through the door.

Oh gosh, okay. Just in case you need it. So we're up in our rooms. For one minute, they can add a d4 to a saving throw. Ooh, ooh, did anyone touch the dodecahedron yet? Mm-mm. Did someone do it? Not in 24 hours.

Fjord, do you want to do it? I guess you're already fucking. No, I'm not. Do you want the no deck? What's the resistance bump you're giving? Is it just a general d4 bonus? What are you using? A cantrip.

You touch one willing creature once before the spell ends, the targeting roll a d4 and add the number. Resistance, it is a concentration, so that would override your. Oh, you're right, absolutely. Nevermind that. You'll know. Okay, no worries. Yeah, not a big deal., you're right, absolutely. Nevermind that. You'll know. Okay, no worries.

Yeah, not a big deal. Thank you. I'm getting used to this concentration. That's all good, no worries. It's a little bit of a juggle. All right, while this is all being set up. Look at the dope that became. Okay, so you go ahead and you have your

Fate point. And I, before they leave, and before we all go our respective ways, I go, all right, listen. Rich people love to have safes, but they love to hide stuff in the walls of safes, like false bottoms in drawers. Stuff like that. False backs to safes. False backs to safes.

So even if you get in and you think you find everything, double and triple check, all right? They love to write shit down, I'm telling you it's there. Okay, yeah. Stolen from a lot of rich people. Yeah, she stole mine one time. I know, I know, it's sort of her defining trait. That and her beautiful hair.

Wow. Wow. Thanks. When you laughed right after you said that, I think that was very insulting. Was she not complimenting me? No, no, she was laughing. She was laughing at you. It wasn't, Beau, I love your hair.

That I wasn't laughing at you. Just girls steal from rich people. I wasn't laughing at you, I love your hair. We're't laughing at you. Just go steal from rich people. I wasn't laughing at you, I love your hair. Let's do this. All right, well, you guys begin to set your ways forward. So you make your way to the bloated cup. Thunderstruck. Where do you head?

Thunderstruck. I'll head up the stairs to the second room on the right, was it? Do you want to knock? The second room on the left. I don't know. Hook up pigeon. Anyone in the hallways?

At the moment, no. No sign of Bouldergut? Make a perception check. 11. No. No sign of Boltigut? Make a perception check. 11. No, no sign of Boltigut. She's an ogre. I know. Okay. Yeah, second door on the right,

and I'll just put my arrow against the door. Make another perception check. She just falls ass. Oh, three. You don't hear anything through the door? Can't hear from the blood pumping in his ears. There's a slight pause and you hear some rustling and some shuffling. And a voice goes,

Who is it? Oh, sorry. Is the captain in? Who the fuck is this? Fjord? Who is this? Pissord, who is this? Piss off, I'm sleeping. Second door.

Is there a door across the hall? There is. I'll put my ear on that one. Make a perception check. Three. Don't hear anything. Yordas. Does it look like there's any light on under the door?

Maybe a faint bit. You hear some heavy shifting. Hey! Damn it, Jesus. Uh, Bouldergut? Just open that fucking door. Okay. The door comes open, and you see they're crunched down in the room, head hunched forward as Bouldergut has been holding vigil at the doorway. Pats you into the chamber, pushed in. Avantika is sitting on the edge of the bed, currently

reading through a book, the window open outside and goes, Call to master. Captain. Baldriggert, if you would be so kind as to just keep watch on the hallway for a bit. Okay. If you hear anything, don't bother. Okay. She leaves the chamber and closes the door behind her. Closes the book. Sits it on a small table. She is very loyal. That is my favorite kind of person.

How long has Baldur's Gutt been with you and your service? Going on the better part of a decade. We actually both met when I was first beginning my career. Quite some time. How have your evenings been? Well, very busy with our attempt to make it to Darktow and keep things organized in preparation, so lonely.

Any more dreams? A few. Tell me. How about I show you instead? Yes, I'd like that. So you begin keeping her busy. Oh. I see. Or she keeps you busy, actually. That's more correct. Specific description. While that's happening,

you guys have made your way back to the inn. It's a very, very muddied view of the ship because of the mist, but you can still make out the major details of the outskirts of it from this far away. Okay. I don't need to be able to see it, I just have, I know exactly the spot I desire. I can visualize it, because we've been in her office before.

Correct, you have. Yeah. So yeah, you can. How does this work? I don't know, I've never done it before. Well, is there a chance it could fail? Might we die? Never. Do me a favor. I'm going to go outside now, okay, and keep watch. Let me know when you're on,

and give me updates. Good luck. Charlie Adler. All right. The best new abracadabra. Charlie, that's one for every spell. I'm on my way towards the docks. All right. Synchronizing watches, what is this? Thorway's Art of Tits.

There's a brief moment where you feel like the air's been drawn out of your lungs. You feel as if you're being suddenly thrust forward from behind, somebody pushing the small of your back with such intense speed that you feel like your neck is about to whiplash terribly backward. Then suddenly you come to a stop, and you're both standing in the middle of Vantika's quarters on the ship. It's dark. Pass without a trace on both of us.

All right. Yes, queen, yes. Oh my god, that was amazing. We are secret agents. We're secret detectives. We are amazing. We need to start looking, because we only have a few minutes.

Yes. Oh, wait, I've already forgotten. Take out the wire, fold it just so. Okay. We're in the ship, Caleb. What's the range on that? 120 feet. Can you hear me? Reply to this message. The range on message?

120 feet. 120 feet, he's at a range. You said, I'm out in the docks, you said the boat? Correct, you haven't made it there yet. Oh. Oh, okay. But you're saying in between, I'm heading a little bit further.

The daisy chain. Okay. Yeah, because you guys instantaneously traveled. He has a few more minutes before he'll reach Reyd. Okay, you guys to Beau, to Caleb. Okay, to Cad, to Fjord. Beauregard, can you hear me? If you can, respond to this message. I can hear you. I have responded to this message. I can hear you.

I have responded to this message. We are inside the boat. Relay that message when you can. Bye. Okay, start looking. Can we both see because we both have darkvision? You can. There's a lack of color, mostly. It's in shades of black and white and gray.

You should probably figure out a way to light up the room. Are there curtains? There are what look to be two sets of small curtains that are currently tied off on the sides of the windows that can open onto the balcony. Do you want to burn them for light? We should close them.

Oh, okay. That's better. Sneak over and close the windows. Quietly. Okay. You can just close them. As a general note, I would like you both to make a stealth check as you go about your activities. Yeah. Put up. Also, I'll make you that to make a stealth check as you go about your activities. Yeah.

Put up. Oh, you already have advantage? Just a moment. Blessing of the trickster. There you go, I give you blessing. So you get advantage. You give yourself advantage? Natural 20!

Whoa. 18. Plus 10, because pass without a trace. Jesus, 28. So 28, and what's your total? 24, no wait, 34. Jesus, 28. So 28, and what's your total? Uh, 24? No, wait, 34. 34, okay. Fuck yes.

You both are just. For every piece of wood that begins to creak as you step, because it is a lot of aged wood that makes up this ship, it begins to. You stop yourself and then shift the foot, and you manage to make your way across here without any of the wood creaking. Does she have a candle in the room that we could light?

There are a number of candles. You could see that there's probably a gap under the doorway, a gap under there, they'll see a glowing light. Take your cloak off and shove it under the door to block the light. I would reveal my unmentionables. I take my cloak off and I put it next to the doorway to block the light.

I take my cloak and hang it over the curtain so it's like double blocked. Okay. Like duve over the window. Yeah, duvetina. We light the candle. Okay. Okay.

I signal to Caleb that they've made it on the ship. All right, Caleb. I was going to say, once I'm out, and about once every 30 seconds, I will lean on something, pretending like I'm slightly drunk, and I will just go into Frumpkin's vision from above for just for five seconds to look at the activity

on the boat and where those guards are, and then go out of it. All right, perception check for Frumpkin. Yeah. We'll double check. Also the disadvantage because of the mist, unfortunately. Okay, ooh, terrible. So terrible. It's like mist, unfortunately. Okay, ooh, terrible. So terrible.

It's like six or seven. Okay. You can see the torchlight from the two guards that are on the actual docks. One of them's keeping an eye out on the water, and one of them is keeping an eye on the docks. They're stationed to keep an eye out, not just of what's happening within the actual shipyard,

but also beyond as far as they came to the mist for any ships that are arriving in the middle of the night. But Frumpkin cannot see the people within the actual shipyard, but also beyond as far as they came to the mist for any ships that are arriving in the middle of the night. But Frumpkin cannot see the people on the actual deck of the ship. It's all that fog. Yeah. All right. Does Nott's cloak unattune if they take it off?

Technically, yes. All right, cool. So now that you have the candlelight there, gently there, quietly. We start searching through her office. What are you looking for? We're looking for anything she's written about where the last fruit tree is, the last temple.

But you're going through papers, yeah? I'm going through papers. I'm going through, I'm going to go around the walls and look for hidden safes. I'm looking through her desk, seeing if I can find any false bottoms or anything like that to try to find secret information. Okay, do you want to each make an investigation check,

or do you want to help one of the other make with? Each make an investigation. Then both of you make an investigation check, please. Oh, we get advantage? No, that's true. No, you do not. We get advantage on everything. You took Charisma and Wisdom, so you do not. Shit.

I should... I get advantage on everything. You took Charisma and Wisdom, so you do not. Shit. 19 for me. 19? Nine. Okay. Which is like a natural 20 in this campaign. All right, so going through the desk, the first thing that happens is one of the drawers gives resistance.

It's locked. The other drawers you pull open, there is blank paper, quill, a couple of small little ink pots. The next one beneath, it looks like this has a folded piece of cloth that you pull out and inspect. It looks like it's some sort of a cover, either for the desk or something else, you're not quite sure what the purpose is. Checking under the desk, you don't find any other hidden chambers or anything that marks what you were searching for.

Nott, you were looking for? Hidden safes in the wall, trap opening thingies. Glancing around, you see there is a shelf unit with a number of books on it. You pull back some of the books and look behind it, fitting along the back of the actual bookshelf itself. You don't find any hidden pockets in there. There's a small cabinet underneath.

You open it up and it looks to be that there's a series of wooden and metal cups, wine goblets, and just various types of imbibement containers. Pushing through there, you do find one panel on the back that's a bit loose, and you slide it off, and behind there you see what looks to be a small leather book. I'll check it for traps. Behind there, you see a small leather book. I'll check it for traps. Make a... Investigation? For this, I'm trying to,

the weird perception investigation thing for traps is the eternal debate back and forth. Go ahead and consider this a perception check. Three. Oh. What? What would an investigation be? 12.

Oh. You're a bad ass rogue. The debate continues. It depends. There's the difference between noticing something's off and then ascertaining the nature of whatever's off there to be an actual trap. Since you're searching for traps,

specifically for this one, and not noticing something different, I would say allowing this to be an investigation. Well, it's still pretty low. 12. Yeah. This is a bad room to work in. I know, but yeah, it does not appear to be trapped. Okay, I will pick up the book.

Okay. You pull the book. Okay. You pull the book back, and as soon as you pull back, there's a slight tug on it, like something that gives resistance, and then comes free. A little piece of cable or twine falls to dangle from behind where it's tied. We've been made, we've been made!

Turn over the place. Oh no! Hit the deck! This room begins to fill with a very faint fume. Hold your breath. I take out the paint and I paint the hole in the bottom of the floor. Not yet! No! Hold your breath! We've got to look around! I'm still looking. I'm holding my breath and I'm looking.

You paint, I'm looking. I'm holding my breath and I'm looking. You paint, I'm looking. I'm going to look in the book, is there anything in there? Looking inside the book, there's a bunch of scrawlings. What languages do you know? Common, Goblin, Halfling. You do not recognize any of the languages in the book. Take the book. All right, you put the book inside your pocket.

I'm going to go over to the desk where Jester had pointed and start jimmying the lock on the locked thing. Okay, go ahead and make a lock picking check. 15. 15? Oh my god. It's not opening. Pull it open. I just spoke.

I try to pull it open. Okay, make a strength check. Come on, beast. Come on. Who's got the toe-tie? 18. Looks like you thought about it. Okay, you pull the drawer.

It breaks open loudly. Sure, sure, sure. All right. As you pull the drawer open and look inside, it looks like there are a few small, almost like jewelry boxes that are just resting inside. Okay. Just taking them off.

You take them off. I'm looking, but you can take them off. Okay. The drawer, do you put it back? Sure. Okay, you put it back in. The edges are splintered. It is very apparently physically damaged. You also hear footsteps descending

from the outside of the door. We got to look more. Okay, got to look more. Is there a rug in the room? There is a rug, yes. I'm just going to pull the rug over the hole and I just hang on got it. Is there a rug in the room? There is a rug, yes. I'm just going to pull the rug over the hole and I just hang on to a calendar. I'm going to grab my cloak off this thing.

Oh shit, I do the same thing. I see him do it, I grab my thing and blow out the candle. Okay. Holy fuck. First off. I don't need this in my life. It's so much harder. There's a permanent hole in there.

What's your constitution, modifiers? Modifiers? Correct. Two. Okay, okay. With a little bit of conversation that's there, that's reduced the time, you're just now hitting the point where your breath is starting to hurt, so you both dive down and then what, you?

I pull the rug as I go down the hole, I pull the rug over the hole. Okay. As you're doing this, you hear a voice going, Hello? Hello? You hear the rattling of keys. You guys, by the way, you're down now on the lower deck.

This is where the deck where most of the Kroovin Quarters are. You the deck where most of the Kruven quarters are, and you're down in one of the bedrooms. You glance over to the side and there's a person sleeping in the bed right there. The blanket quarter opens and just like. I'm going to very quietly say, just wait until you hear a body fall above us. One of the things you stole, and put it next to them. Okay.

What did I steal? Jewelry boxes. There's a bunch of jewelry boxes. Can I open one up and see what's in it? Yeah, you look inside, and there is a bunch of jewelry and jewels. It's like an actual small jewel collection. Put the jewel right on his shoulder.

And the person is sleeping? Yeah, just tuck it under the blanket, like it was with him. Just like Macbeth. Just the one jewel? I'm going to keep the rest for myself. Okay, all right. You hear the door above open.

Hey. Anyone? We should hide. The person who's sleeping is like. We're going to crawl under his bed. Okay, both of you guys make a stealth check. We still have, we still have. We still have,... We still have... Oh no, that's okay.

23 plus 10 still? Oh, 18, shit. 33, I guess, right? Okay. All right, you both quietly duck down. The carpet just falls down. The guy comes plummeting through. The other guy pulls out a dagger towards the other guy. The minute he goes, and he starts stabbing into the carpet. Going, going, what, what, what? The other guy's like, ah, god, get him! Pushes him off and stands up. He's like, Jesus!

And you see there's a couple of stab wounds in his chest. Oh my god! So I'm like, what the hell, then? We got Waldock, who you saw getting the tattoo earlier from your turtle friend, is like, Shit, Waldok, I didn't know! What the fuck, don't sneak in on me! He wipes the blood off on the blanket. He's like, Jesus, what the fuck happened there? He looks up at this perfectly carved hole in the floor.

Doesn't notice the gem, but he's like, oh, fuck. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, mate, I didn't mean, shit. What the fuck happening? I don't know, it's a fucking faulty floor or something. Oh, fuck. He's like, well, let's get you to a surgeon or something. He stands up and rolls over, the blanket falls over. Next to you guys, the gem does fall. Neither of them notice it. You watch as they shuffle out of the room, and the door closes behind them, and you guys are now

in the chamber with the open hole of Avantika's. We can go back up. We can keep looking. Lift me up! What if the poison is still up there? I think it's probably wafted out by now. You do also hear the coughing of the man who was stabbed. Down the hall? Yeah. As he has inhaled whatever had been released in the room. I lift Nott up to peek her head through.

Okay, you peek up and look. The door that looks inside of the chamber, okay. First off, make a constitution saving throw. Oh, why? That's a natural one. Maybe I should reroll that one. I'll do my fate now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's slightly better.

Nine. That and everything. No, no. All right, so you are considered confused. Confused is complicated. Yep. He's going to tell you. He's going to tell you here in a second what's going on now.

You get the sense at this moment that the other gentleman, while coughing, managed to resist the effect of the fume in the chamber. You did not. But you do notice the doorway is still open. He just came inside to look, and across the way, you see them both coming up the stairs, because they're making their way up from the crew quarters to the area near Avantika's chamber, which is right by the deck. Tap, tap her head. First, while that's happening, I'm going to roll a d10. This is confused.

You might go. Oh, you can act normally, so you can do that. Oh! My god. So you do. You might have climbed up and just started running. Down, down, down, down. I crouch down so Nott can.

Okay, so you both head down in the chamber. They walk up past, make a saving throw again, a wisdom saving throw. Wisdom now? Yes, it was a constitution to see that the toxin took hold. 11. Now it's wisdom to resist the effect.

11, that's another failure. Okay. You're both sitting there quietly as they are walking across in front. Oh no. He watches Nott suddenly, her eyes go wide and she begins to drool a bit and the body locks up and you're unable to speak, unable to move.

What is going on? Nott! Shit. No, Nott! You hear now some raised voices and you can now hear this in the dark. One of them's going, What's going on? He goes, We have to get this guy to a doctor. He got stabbed. The other voice goes, By fucking you, you twat! He's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! He's like, Fine. and they start leading them off the ship. One of the guards begins to lead them off the docks.

Can I cast Lesser Restoration on Nott? Nott, snap out of it. There's Lesser Restoration. I don't know. I didn't even look. I don't know if it does anything for this. Condition, no. It's a condition. One condition affecting it, that condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

No, that does not affect it. So I need you to make another wisdom saving throw, Nott. Caleb probably has wandered close enough to the boat now, and hearing. Not disattaining to it, I give you a signal. Okay, that's good. 19. 19, you do manage to resist the confusion effect.

Which, ah, I was so hoping you were going to attack her. Uh-huh. You could just straight up be like, nope. Oh my god. You've been fun. What do we do? I don't know, I don't know what just happened. This is a crazy ship.

I heard them yelling, they are, how do we get out of here? I don't know. What should we do, we left a hole in the floor. Let's call for help. Caleb, can you hear me? We're in big trouble. Me, we've already went through this.

We need help, we need a distraction. Is Caleb there yet? We've established the... The Daisy Chain. Caleb does not answer. Great. Voregon, Voregon, we're going to need a distraction to get out of here.

But now tell her nothing crazy, you know, you don't want it to connect to us or anything. Mild confusion and panic, but don't, don't, what? I don't know, maybe we can just get out. We're going to disguise ourselves. Oh, right, okay. Hold on, I'll call you back. Oh man.

What are we going to disguise ourselves as?, right, okay. Hold on, I'll call you back. What are we going to disguise ourselves as? You were going to be Avantika, and I was going to be Ippas. Are we still going to do that? That doesn't make any sense right now, does it? No, it doesn't make any more sense, though. I wonder, a drunkard passed Caleb, and I go, oh, so distracting.

What if I made another hole in the floor and we just keep going down until we can get out? I guess she's seen one hole. She will have seen one hole by now. Apologies to my German teacher from high school. I start pissing on the docks and singing Laurencia, lieber Laurencia. Are there any portal windows?

In the chamber, the room you're in right now? No. Can I? A bon... Urination. I grab that jewel that was on the floor. Okay. I'm going to make a performance check. Well, I'm definitely pissing and singing.

Yes, you are. Yep. That's you are. Yep. I have rolled such shit tonight. That's a two plus three, that's a five. Undine! For all that you've been drinking over the past 24 hours, the tension has caused your bladder to retain everything, and you're barely eking out a sputtering stream.

Oh, okay. Well, I'll do my best to knock things over as I go. There isn't anything to knock over. These are open docks. Hey! Macarena! All right, you guys. Can I stand up on the bed and try to make the hole

look like it wasn't perfectly painted, like it was broken wood? Wait, wait! Just paint wood there! Can I do that, though? You can't paint on nothing. But I wonder if I can use one of my pieces of paper to put on there and then make the wood, like, fix it. Okay, you do that, and as soon as you do that, the paper falls as a plink of wood.

That's what I thought was going to happen, but I just wanted to see. No, no, no. But it takes you a while to do that. It's a few minutes to paint the wood properly to have the effect taken. And you can mark off another two square feet. In that time that we're doing that, what are you guys doing?

Well, he is being a creepo. I go over to the two guards on the dock, and I go, this drunk piece of shit over here, he tried to attack me. One of them has already pushed past you with a wounded man, the three of them making their way while he escorts them off of the dock, so there's only one man on the dock left by the ship.

He passes by you as well, they don't seem interested in you. We will, we will rock you. So, guy who has left, that guy is an asshole, and what's with that guy that just got stabbed? I feel very unsafe. You feel unsafe in Darktow? No, no, no, I'm just saying.

Welcome to Darktow. He tried to, I think, rob me, and I thought as a pirate that I had immunity to that. I don't know, I'm just trying. He sits in close and just looks at you real, real closely and goes, I don't think I've seen you around here before. Actually, I'm technically, I'm new.

It's great to meet you. What's your name? B-A-N-A-N-A-S. We're going to go ahead and have a conversation off the docks, please follow me. Sure, let's go. He pats you on the shoulder and starts leading you off the dock. You're fucking welcome.

Go, go, go, go, go! Woo! We don't know. How's her painting going? It's still going. It's taking a few minutes. You're still in me a distraction. Travis, you're doing good. Good show, good show.

I open the door, I'm like, is there any ice? No, okay. A few moments pass while you guys finish your painting in the woodfalls. While that's happening, that moment is occurring, you and your painting in the wood falls. While that's happening, that moment is occurring, you and Yasha in the tavern are keeping an eye and you watch as one of the crewmates comes walking in rather rapidly

and goes and talks to somebody in the corner that you recognize from Avantika's crew as well. Join in really quickly. Is everything all right? Do you guys need anything? I've been sober all evening, so I'm happy to help. I just heard Waldock got stabbed for some reason. Wait, who got stabbed?

Waldock. Waldock got stabbed, but Waldock's so nice. I know. Who would stab Waldock? Exactly, I'm curious. Where did that, who's been, where did you hear this from, where did this come down from? I saw him, he got stabbed.

Like right out there, and he points out the door, and you can see him motioning towards the bar. He seems okay, I guess. You see him bleeding out. Hey, here, come here, we're going to patch you right up. Come on, I can take care of this. Yeah. Let's take, everybody, Come on, I can take care of this. Yeah. Let's take, everybody come on, let's do this.

Yeah, how bad is it? I mean, he's not dead, but for his level of life experience, he's taken a significant amount of damage, and if left, will probably eventually get infected. I'm going to give him a, going to give him a level two cure wounds just to get him going. That ought to do it, right? Go for it and roll. All right, let's do a level two.

Let's see what that looks like. Yeah, there we are. That's a 2d8. I don't know why I'm being so fuddy-duddy about this. Do I get a special thing? No, it's only one of healing myself. Okay. That's 18 hits. That's enough to bring him back. So as he casts a run, he winces and he watches the wounds close up. Come on, buddy, it's okay. There's no mark, there's no scarring. He looks at the wound and goes,

Well, Mr. Clay, thank you very much. Okay, you're going to want to sit down, just take it easy for a while. I wouldn't get up for, give it a good half hour before, like be very gentle on yourself. Why don't we get this man a drink? I appreciate that. You're too kind, really.

And Zoran goes, really. Zoen goes, See? No hard feelings, right? He goes, and just decks him across the chin, and Zoen falls to the ground, grabbing the side of his face. Why don't you get that man a drink? I think I'm going to do that. He gets up. While that's happening, and that's happening,

and that's happening. Ha-su-et-fa-side-fu-bish. Okay, so I'm going to do what I originally planned, which is to make the hole not look like a perfect hole, to make it look like the planks broke or something. Okay. Oh wait, no, should I do that? They're going to find a hole.

Leave the fucking hole the way it is. We'll leave a couple gems in the bed. Two gems. Two gems in the bed. One gem. I'll break it in two. Make a strength check. Break a sapphire. 19. It takes you a few minutes. Oh, come on.

You have to take your dagger and score it a bit, and then try and press it again. The better part of three or four minutes trying to find the right edge to go ahead and bend and break it. No. It does eventually break unevenly into three or four small crumbled pieces.

Someone was eating jams in bed. It's even harder to spot it, though. Now we disguise ourselves. Yes? We're going to cast Disguise Self on each other. Oh, this should be clear. At least Self on each other. I see. Should be clear. Only on one self. Yes, yes.

We'll wrap our arms around each other and then disguise it on ourselves. There you go. And taking the form of Evantika and Ephes, right? No. I'm going to be Keg. Okay. Oh.

Okay. What? I'm going to be Molly. Great. All right. That's loud. Okay. In pirate clothes. Oh, sure.

Not like in Molly clothes. Pirate Kang, Pirate Molly. Yeah. The most inconspicuous person of- With a cloak over his head. I mean, yeah, just a purple teeth. Sure, so you guys are disguised as I did it already, I already said it.

Still pass without a trace, still trying to sneak out. Oh my god. All right. Up on deck, though, and see if anyone's around. Make a perception check. You have advantage. Oh, sweet. Perception or what are we?

Perception. 19. 24, 22, lies. All right, the mist makes it hard to make out much detail. You do notice, glancing up, that there is an individual on the crow's nest. No? How far up? and goes to his nest. No? How far up?

I'd say about 40 to 45 feet, from an estimation. I'm going to cast Phantasmal Force and on that person, on that being. Okay. What does that do? I've never seen your eyes glaze over like that, Matt. What does that do? All right, so what is the, what's your DC? Intelligence 14.

DC 14. No, it did not take a C, but a natural eight plus two, ten. Describe the crow's nest to me. You see in the main mast of the ship that goes up, the crow's nest is in itself a circular platform at the top that is used primarily for keeping a watch on nearby land and details in the sea around, as well as direction. It's a vantage point for someone to keep an eye on the area around the ship. It appears to be somebody who was stationed up there to keep an eye on the ship overnight, or at least for as long as their portion

of it was. You can't make out the details of the figure from this distance, you just see a figure there. All right, I will make the figure think that his crow's nest has caught fire, and there's just little flames licking around the outside of it and creeping up the sides of it and surrounding it. Okay. As you finish the spell, a moment goes by and you hear,

What? Fuck! And you look up and you see this individual trying to bat their cloak on the sides of this before shouting, Help! Help! Run! Run! We're going to run? While stealthing? Consequences. We're just running. Off the back of the boat.

Okay. They have major disadvantage to try and spot you because they're distracted by the flames. Are we being stealthy? Yeah, we're stealthy. We're stealthy, we're stealthy. Or running. No, no, no, we're stealthing.

Quickly. We're moving from... We're stealthy. We're stealthing. We're stealthing! Make stealth checks. Okay. Still bad as Andres. 26, 36.

Um, nah. 21. Okay. You guys both manage to scoot over to the edge of the ship. On the other side, there's the The seaward side. The seaward side, all right. So you're heading off. It would be the starboard side, there's the- The seaward side. The seaward side, all right. So you're heading off. It would be the starboard side. It's actually- The side away from the docks.

Okay. Correct. So you head over to that, which is the starboard side of the ship. There's the ocean below you. The person's screaming up top, and is getting more and more frantic. Yes!

Put that book in the bag so it doesn't get wet. Why did I get arrested? I don't know. None of us knew about the crow's nest person. We jump in. Unfortunately, perception wasn't high enough. Laura, Laura, Laura! We're jumping in. All right, you both leap off the side, into the freezing, cold ocean water.

Going quietly. Still going to make a splash. Maybe seal style. Thankfully, they're mostly drowned out by the sound of the screaming from the top of the crow's nest. As you both break the surface and glance around the vicinity, you can see some of the torches that are shifting from the other parts of the docks

to come over and see this commotion that's happening. The screams get more and more intense before they end with a As this person felt there was no other recourse with the flames gathering around them, and you hear Shit. Ah!

Oh my god. Scream away. I'll hold your hand as I walk away. I've been a great deal of pain. Yeah, whoever it was, they landed, they're alive. Badly burned. But they're not doing that well. They broke something on the way down.

How's that charisma bonus working out for you? I'm fine, great. Oh, that's awesome. It's going perfectly. You shot me. So now the screaming is less frantic and more a pained scream, while the rest of the various watchers of the docks

are making their way over. While you guys are swimming. I'm wet, I'm wet, I'm upset! I'm so upset! Just away and around. Okay, you're probably falling under the docks. Yeah. All right, both of you guys make an athletics check.

Jesus Christ. Or he's walking, she's swimming. Oh my god, that was almost a one, but it's not, it's a 19. You actually didn't have to make it because you're walking. 19. 19, all right. The water is coming in, the waves are crashing against the rocky edge and shore of Darktow Isle right here. Don't let go, Nott.

Don't let go. I won't ever let go. Wandering under the docks, you hear the footsteps passing overhead. They pass by, you guys make it over to the edge of the rocks and with the water pushing, you manage to not be dashed against the rocks to any point of personal injury. You manage to climb up and I need you both to make a stealth check to try and make your way back

onto land without being sighted by any of the nearby guard. You stupid rose. Natural 20. 38. Oh! Whoa! All right. Fuck. You both are, oh, you're soaking wet.

But the sky itself to where we look high. I'm probably a bit wet, too. Yeah, because you dove into the water before jumping in. Yeah, I'm wet. But the sky itself to where we look high. I'm probably a bit wet, too. Yeah, because you dove into the water before jumping in. Yeah, I'm wet. Otherwise you would have taken the impact damage from that. Ooh. Unless you've taken that dex bonus,

then that wouldn't have happened at all. Oh! But you didn't. It's all good. You both come up in there, dripping a bit wet, you especially soaking. A lot of the guards and the torches are making their way there.

Other ones are still starting to make sure they aren't losing track of their post. What are you guys doing? I mean, just calmly walking away. Right? Are there lots more people coming? They're coming towards the screaming and yelling. There's still others that are patrolling and keeping an eye. They don't all of a sudden go the screaming and yelling, and you can still have those that are patrolling

and keeping an eye. They don't all of a sudden go, someone's yelling, everyone lose their post. Are you guys being noticeable? No, you look great. You're both wet. Yeah, but we're the sky itself, so we look dry. That's true.

You look great. Wherever you walk, there's lots of water. Do I look okay? Like my cigarette? Yeah, I feel like you maybe are less noticeable than a purple me. You've got a cloak on. Okay.

It's pandemonium on the docks, right? At this point? It's borderline, but it's starting to calm a bit. Some of them have gotten up there and they found the hurt guy. At this point, the spell lasts for how long? Disguise Self? Or? No, the...

Oh, image. The Phantasmal Force? Correct. I mean. For one minute. So it's faded No, the... Oh, image. The phantasmal force? Correct. I mean... For one minute, so it's fading now. For one minute, yeah. As you guys are walking by, you hear the guards going, What's wrong? He's like, I'm hurt! He looks up and goes,

But it was on! It was burning! What the fuck?! What the fuck?! He's confused and in pain and lamenting why he chummed and what's going on. The guards are trying to calm him a bit, and they're now starting to think something's up. You can see now somebody is giving out directions to the other guards. Something is definitely not right, and the docks are now going into heightened search mode. Let's get the fuck out of here, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just going to calmly walk into town? I don't know.

Okay. While you guys are doing that, Caleb, you see all this happening. Yeah, I would have quieted down with the singing and just tried to go more low-key, but I don't know what's going on, so I'm still watching the boat and keep one eye on the loaded underwear, what's it called, the bloated? Bloated cap. Floated cap. Fjord's bloated cap. Would you say perception?

Yes. Still rolling shit tonight, 12. 12, okay, you're just watching this whole thing unfold. Float. Bloated cap, back and forth, waiting. You're led back to the top of the docks. The figure has their hand on your shoulder and calls over somebody else, goes,

Hey, Wajdan. Looks like we got someone who's stowed away here to dock to. I say, sup, Wajdan. What's up, you English? What's your business? I'm with Avantika's crew. You can ask her if you want, but I don't think you really want to.

Pretty sure she's above your pay grade, am I right? Make an intimidation check. Four. Great fucking intimidation. Nine. Dang it. Nine. He doesn't appear to be shaken by it, but at least he finds a bit of truth to what you're saying.

He's like, Vodagog. That's right. Don't go wandering these docks at night by yourself for no fucking reason. Oh, I'm sorry, are you afraid I'm going to stub a toe in the middle of the night? He just turns around and walks away.

Can I blow your head, motherfucker? Beau never does. All right, you guys start heading back, trekking this trail of sea water behind you on the docks. Eventually, Beau, you turn around, and you see Molly and Keg walking your way. I just go, oh fuck. I just keep walking like I don't know who they are

and I pass by them with a glance. Okay. Good evening, madam. Fuck you. There's no smoke coming out of the cigarette. It's dripping wet. All right. You all eventually reconvene.

You eventually complete your time with the captain. I look down the stairs. Can I see Caduceus down there? You pass by Bouldergut and you look down. Yeah, Caduceus is down there. He's actually in a healthy conversation with one of the members of the group. Yeah, we're bonding, man. These guys are pretty okay once you get to know them. Yeah, I'll come down and a drink. A round is brought to you. It's been a weird night. Hey, Ducey, how we doing? Well, everything's not quite on this end. One of our kids apparently got stabbed by, well, one of

the crews stabbed the other crew. I can't imagine why that happened. There's been no word, but I assume it's just probably pandemonium all over. Oh, good report. Everyone's pretty happy, though. We should come down and have a drink with everybody. Yeah, I'll just hold my cup and wait for something to happen. Is anybody in the shit alley? No. We should probably drop our forms.

And dry off. Yeah. Yeah, in the shit alley. Okay, in the shit alley, as it has now been deemed. You drop your various disguises. Are we still soaking wet? I mean, you're damp. Just like a dog, you just shit it off a little bit. Okay. I don't know if any spells can make us dry.

Someone has followed this right back to the end. Oh my god! Oh no, your weasel's dead again, isn't it? No. Or is it? Not. What? I have mending. What's that? What's that do?

It's a cantrip and I can mend things that have holes in them. Not a giant hole. Not a hole that big. It wouldn't have worked on a hole that big. Are you saying that we? It wouldn't have worked on a hole that big. Are you saying that we... It wouldn't have worked on a hole that big! Are you saying to me that we made a mistake?

Everything we did was perfect. I agree! I mean, it went according to plan. We got a book. Try that shit. We got some jewels. Oh, we need to hide those, too. These are hot ice. We got to get rid of these.

What the fuck are we going to do? If she searches our shit, she's going to know that we smell. I know, don't worry. We're going to plant them on Alison. Everything's going to be fine, don't worry. We got to figure this out, like, stat. Figured, done. Mage Hand and Alison's pocket were clean. All right.

Hey, you did good in there. You did, too. You were pretty cool. Yeah, we were pretty great. Okay. We're going to go into our room. Charlie Adler busts into the inn and sees Caduceus and just stops at the door and pulls out a little wire and says, I don't know where anybody is. We have to go to the boat now. Come on. Who are you talking to? Caduceus.

Not to the boat. Never to the boat. No one told Caleb shit. You saw a lot of shit go down in the boat! No, they said they went up. I saw people running to the boat in danger and you let off. You got it. Pandemonium on the ship and fire on the ship. I'll tell you what, obviously whatever went down, I guess we're going to just go make sure

everything's copacetic back at the boat. We'll be back in just a couple minutes. Just going to make sure everything's okay. Yeah, we'll let you know. Okay. I'll walk brazenly down to the ship with you. Okay, as you guys step out of the inn, you watch Nott and Jester walking towards it.

They drop their shit? They do. Hi. I'm going to go check it out anyway. Don't worry. You're going down there? Mm-hmm. Don't go down there.

Don't go down there. It's crazy down there. No, there's guards everywhere. Beau, you've probably approached right before they did, too. Sup, guys, how was your night walk? It went very well, I take it. Fjord, you're sitting over and you watch them all talking just outside of the inn.

There was a little hiccup. Some each other wanted to fuck. But we took care of it. Shh. Who's around? I mean, there are guards walking or various. I'm going to, do I see a commotion from here? The commotion seems to have died down at the moment.

Oh. Nothing crazy going on on our ship? I don't see some figures or anything? Make a perception check from this distance. All right. Let's say with disadvantage from this distance. Really? Yeah. I would never think that.

Well, that's fine, because even with a, nine out of eight, nine out the 12, 22 with disadvantage. I love this. This is the best character ever. Glancing over, you do see, you don't see any torch-bearing guards, but you do see a figure that is doing a visual pass on the deck of the ship.

I might see if there's a torch-bearer walking around really quickly. You see one that's maybe 25, 30 feet from you that's just walking through the street. Oh. Excuse me, sir. Sir. Javon? Hey. We had a little trouble on our ship earlier. I was curious if everything was all right.

I heard a little commotion. I don't know. It's not my jurisdiction tonight. Ah. Well. If I wanted to find out what went down, do you know who I would talk to? Probably one of the guys closer to the ship.

I'll be right back. Okay. I'm going to go find a guard and ask him what's up. Okay. Hey, just throwing it out there, there seem to be a couple of loose ends that we need to tie up. Can you make us an alibi?

Like what do you mean? Like suggest to someone that we were drinking with them all night in case it's asked? They'll know. Oh, then don't do that. Never mind. Who's really drunk, though? Is there someone real drunk?

I assume a lot of people down there. Is there anyone real drunk, look real drunk in the tavern? Make a perception check. Actually, this would be an insight check. That was part of our crew. It's part of the Squall Eater. Make an insight check. Jesus.

That's a natural one. That's a one? Yeah. You only see one figure you recognize from the crew. Sorry, it's a four. Ten. Okay. You only see one figure that you recognize from the crew,

and they are recovering from a series of stab wounds and are deep in their cups. Oh. What's his name? Walduck. Stabby. Walduck. Yeah, I'm just, yeah. Walduck. Stabby. Walduck.

Yeah, I'm just, yeah. I sit down next to Walduck with another drink and hand him a drink. He takes it and goes like, Fuggs. Holy shit, man. I am so sorry. We couldn't have been there to protect you from these attackers.

Attackers? This is fucking him! He points over to the guy who's like, Stop rubbing it in! I'm sorry! You fucking jumped in the middle of my room at night while I was sleeping! That's not what I'm supposed to do! He's like, Not stab me, asshole! Who's the other guy's name? It's Zoan! I'm sorry we couldn't have been there to protect you from Zoan, what a dick. I mean, we were here all night fucking trash,

so if we had only been there. The best. Make a deception check. The slow creep on your face, Matt. Come on, I have. Check. The slow creep on your face, Matt. Come on, I have. 15. 15. Could just take that.

Could have been better. Yeah. Could just. Okay, you talk to them about how you're sad you couldn't have been there. Watching this, yeah. And you can see Waldox like, Waldox not really caring as much.

It's more just like, no, it's fucking his fault. And Zoen's like, oversharing? Who does this? I just want to find out what was up from somebody. One of the guards is keeping an eye over there with the torch. Yeah, it looks like there's a break-in of some sort. There's a guy who was stabbed, got into the safe.

The man broke his fucking leg and he's being taken care of. Leg broke, does he need healing? I can do that, otherwise. Sure, I guess. Okay, yeah, I'll take care of it real quick. He brings over to the dock and you look over and there's a guy, you know his name is Bark, he's one of the deckhands. He's over on the side right now, he's going like,

and you can see it snapped, like bone protruded and everything. Oh, calm down. Oh, in that case, Healing Whirl, we're at level three. Okay, you may have to set the bone first. Woo! Go make a medicine check. I'll make a medicine check. Don't accidentally turn it to fungus.

Push it through the other side. Yeah, that'll do. That's a 23. I love this character so much. You walk up to him and he's like, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! It's all right. There you go. There you go.

He looks down and you see there's a wave of relief on him as he doesn't have this protruding fracture. It's set. You can still see the bone, but it's much better looking than it was. Let's give him a Cure Wounds, level three. Go for it. What does he look like at level two or level three to you? With that medicine check, level two should be sufficient. Level two should be sufficient. Level two should be sufficient, all right.

Let's just take care of this. Can you tell me what happened, son? I don't know, I was up in the crow's nest and suddenly... 21. Whoa! It's like, oh my god. What, you were up in the crow's nest, what happened? It was catching fire and I was trying to put it out,

but it just kept growing and growing, and I could feel the heat, and it was... It looks fine up there. I know, I don't... What was the last 24 hours for you? When did you... What do you mean? I mean, I don't...

Oh no. What? I may have left some of the fruit that we picked up in our last stop in the kitchen. I don't know what you've been eating for the last, as may be my fault. I really hope it isn't, but. Make a deception check. Nice.

Seven. Seven, he goes like, I don't think it's that. It was sudden and it was intense and then it was gone. It's fucking crazy. I'm going to be worried about it. I'm going to check to make sure I've got all this just in case, because that sounds awfully familiar.

Do you need a drink? Yeah. Oh, come on, we're going to bring you back. It's okay. He stands up and he's leaning on you for support, but once he gets to his foot, it's fine, and he's like, oh man. Poor guy, come on.

All right, you lead him over. I'm bringing back, I'm going to just sort of, yeah, bring him back and then tell everybody. Okay, some of the port guard are going through the ship now. They're going through the room. I'm going to tell everyone my fruit theory. Okay. Because I'm down a fruit. Well, shall we turn in for the night?

Seems like it's been a crazy one. I'm tired. Charlie Asla concocts. He's very stern for Charlie Asla. No, it's Caleb. We'll all pile into one room before we separate for the night. Okay.

You all gather into one of the chambers. We stag her a bit, though. Should we look around the room and make sure nobody can spy on us? Look for peoples in the room. Look for invisible peoples in the room. Make a perception check. I'll do the same.

How about seven? Fucking fuck. Don't you have a, I was about to say, isn't there a spell that... Lucky seven. Don't you have a spell that you can cast that solves this problem? The room seems fairly secure.

Okay, great. That what, detects the problem? No, no. Keep sounding. What'd you find? Good stuff. Oh, okay. We got a book.

Well, I don't have it. We got a book. Not found it. Can any of you read this? Look for it. I look for it. Okay. It has some sketches in it. The language appears to be some sort of a cipher

or a personal shorthand. What languages do you know? What are they? Yeah, Celestial Common Sylvan. With my experience tinkering with Comprehend Languages, would I believe this is something I could? Probably, yeah. Yeah, I begin casting the ritual spell.

I know deep speech. Was it hidden where you found it? Should we detect to see if it is magic in any way, like a trace on it? It was hidden behind a panel, like a false panel in the wall. Yeah. If you just bring everything out really quickly,

I'll cast Detect Magic on there. Yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. Just empty your pockets. Let's just make sure nobody's following this stuff. It'll take me 11 minutes to be able to read this by magic in the meantime. There's these jewels, too. So when we were looking for letters and words and stuff,

we ended up breaking her desk and we stole a bunch of jewels. That's not as low-fi as we were discussing. And then the room filled with poison, and then we put a hole in the floor and we fell. Oh. And then we caused another guard to stab someone and another guard to jump to his death. We saw them.

And then we jumped in the water and we got away. That's pretty awesome. But here's the thing is, though, Avantika's going to definitely know that somebody stole her stuff. But we can turn this problem into a problatunity, and we can take these jewels that she will definitely know came from her

and plant them on someone else to just sort of, we could plant them on this Allison person who she doesn't like already. She is a bitch. Or maybe on one of her own crew and have them killed. Yeah, well, isn't Allison not cool with Avantika and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? So why do we want to get Allison in trouble?

Oh. Yeah. Well. Oh, wow. We could plant them on someone that we don't like. Sure, yeah. But who? But who? How about Jamedi Kosko?

I don't like that guy. I like Jamedi, I thought he was nice. He's a spiky. Maybe we just hold onto him for now. They came in containers, right? Well, yeah, but. I don't want to hold on. If we hold on, then Vandika's like,

let's everybody out of their pockets, and then we have them. This is hot, these are hot rocks here. Are they just gems, or are they specific pieces of jewelry? We're literally looking at them right now, and I detected magic before we opened the boxes. Okay, so you open the boxes.

There are a series of gems. Some rough- some rougher and probably been scrounged up and found with some scrapes and elements. Imperfect, but still valuable. Maybe three of them that are still well cut and have not been given any abrasions. And there is a, what looks to be a dull green jade necklace that does emanate a minor magical essence to it. That one's got a little bit of tingle to it. I'd be worried about that one. Why don't you take a look at that really quickly? Caleb is not listening to anyone.

He's sprinkling pinches of salt and soot in a circle around the book. That book's not worth its circle. You could destroy these gems and smash them up into smaller gems. If you're going to put them on anybody, Vera would be a good candidate. Vera? Why do you think Vera?

Well, because she's a bitch. We got to get her out of here. She wants my job. Isn't that just because you stole her job? I mean, that seems like a legitimate beef. I think she's in love with Avantika, too. How do you know that? Because she pulled me aside and she was like,

I don't like Fjord, then I'll kill him if you want me to. She said she's going to kill him? Perception check, insight check. Make an insight check, make a deception check. I'm pretty low, so what do you got? Eight. 13. You can tell she's lying. Okay, so maybe she didn't say that.

But I still don't think she likes Fjord very much. Well, then we should roast her. We're definitely going to plant an honor. Causing commotion at the top. Caleb, what do you got? So-so. Oh, it has been tough. He's making it up. Well, say Causing commotion at the top. Caleb, what do you got? So, so, so. Oh, it has been tough. He's making sense.

Well, say by now you've completed the step. Well, it's up to you, it's up to you. I know, I know. So you can expect it. All the sudden salt ignites and then suddenly, whoa. What does it say? As you go through it, it's hard to follow since it's shorthand, it's broken sentences and pieces.

They look to be notes from dreams. Oh shit. That could be good stuff. Yes, yes it could. Yes it could. It's got the apricot tree. Please be an almanac. It goes through discussions of mentions of Vandryn, mentions of being given the mark,

the eye on her person. After a ritual that was shown to her by Vandran, the dreams began. The dreams involved this great eye coming to her with phrases written down, provoke, consume, learn, reward. Begins to discuss images that involve having to fight through dark waters,

having to follow signs, being promised power with gifts and actions that show leadership and drive towards this entity. with gifts and actions that show leadership and drive towards this entity. It spoke about Vandran guiding her, and then spoke about him getting cold feet. Spoke on him mistrusting the dreams and his weakness. And it spoke on an attempt to then

gift Vandran as a sacrifice. But he got away. So Caleb would, seeing this play out as he reads, would explain it all very carefully. You're also memorizing. And delicately, because he knows how conflicted a subject, how charged a subject it would be for Fjord, but does tell everyone in the room everything.

Then discusses the search for Vandran for months and months to no avail, eventually changing focus to instead continue to improve the joyous boons and earn the yellow light of the eye. More dreams with patterns of figures in her way, people that were close to her that she felt were barricades, chains that held her back, and getting rid of them. You're not entirely certain what getting rid of them means,

but at least out of the path. Finding others that begin to also learn of the joys and the promise of ruling this sea. And how no matter how much Darktow is the center of the revelry and the power of the Plank King, who can possibly not choose to bend the knee to those who control the oceans they sail on? Then goes to talk about other notes and scavenged bits,

talking about the finding of Uruqazil, of the difficulties in hiring people that would go there. The hiring of Jometty to search it out, hiring people that would go there. The hiring of Jemettii to search it out, finally, over time. You find some other notes about another location, from another dream she had that involves three landmasses of different shapes. There's a few notes and questions around it,

but one of them, I'm about to say, archipelago? And seems to mark these as a possible. There's three landmasses right there. She's cooked. Then it goes into a few brief phrases about the newcomers, discussing how the mist was taken. It's not a lot written in this book.

Which one's your favorite? Which one's our favorite? All it says is, I found another Chosen. Perhaps this one will be more useful than Vandran. And I fucked him. It does not say that. And that's where the notes finish. In my minor detail,

in Caleb's deciphering of all the fragments, was there any sense that there was any kind of romantic relationship between Avantika and Vandran? Or it's unclear? It is very unclear. Okay. What language was that in? What was the necklace?

It's a personal cipher. Really? Oh. Now her own cipher. That's not great for us. That's not helpful at all. Well, really, what's the necklace before we go any further to make sure it's not a

come find my shit? Which necklace would that be? A jade necklace. Here's this gibberish. It's my any further to make sure it's not a come find my shit? Which necklace would that be? The jade necklace. It's my first time I'm seeing it, not really, but just give me 10 minutes. Is there any part in the book that is actually a cipher for its own? Okay.

Glancing through, it looks like it's either learned here or whatever would be used to try and decode it is not present in the book. I don't want to say that we're the best detectives, because that's already established fact. But could this be that we just got promoted? Not yet. Commissioner. I don't know, could be. We just cracked the case again. Cracked the case fort.

Are you as crazy as she is? Holy jib. Here's a question. Could Brainiac Caleb, with this book, which is her own coded cipher, and comprehend languages with enough time, try to study the recurrence of vowel sounds, consonant sounds, and try to create a key to this book?

You get the sense that this written cipher is not a verbal language. It is specifically written for her own notes and own purpose. Yeah. So you couldn't speak it, but if you wanted to go ahead and decode it? Like people break codes. Yeah, I'm saying you couldn't,

it wouldn't be able to, sorry, I misunderstood. Couldn't speak it. You couldn't speak it. No. Go ahead and make an intelligence check. That would be amazing if you pull this off. I've rolled shit all night, every roll. You do one. Every roll. You do one. Every roll.

You do one. This one. That's kind of true. Natural 20. Oh! Fuck, dude. That was a time. Rise, baby, rise!

So what does that put you at a total? Oh, pretty good. Pretty good. Straight intelligence, right? Correct. 28. Intelligence modifier is eight? Yeah, I bumped up to 20 when I leveled up. Well, it'd be plus five then, as a modifier.

Not your saving throw. Not your saving throw. Sorry, looking in the wrong place. That's correct, 25. That is exactly the DC you would have needed to do this. It is set in a very hard DC. You only could have done this with a 20, you motherfucker. You have to look up maxed out intelligence.

Goddamn it, okay, all right, no, here we go. It'll take you the better part of the night. You probably won't sleep, which means you won't get your sounds back. We can't identify the necklace, we don't care. Don back. Do I unify the necklace that we don't get? Don't bother him! What if the necklace has a trace on it? Yeah.

It'll take you the night to complete it. You will not be able to sleep, which means you won't get your spells back, and you will suffer a point of exhaustion. That's fine, that's fine. But I would like to, I mean, if we're loose, because I was just asking you a question and then suddenly it was happening, right?

I was letting you know that's what it would take. You know you can do this. So let's say that Caduceus gives Caleb the necklace. He'll take 10 minutes to figure out what this jade necklace is and then spend the night decoding this book. Wow. Holy shit. Best plan.

Oh my god, oh my god. 0 for 6 in the series and you crank one at the bottom of the knife. You got a book! It's not a book. That's a necklace. That's a necklace. bottom of the knife. You got a book! It's not a book. That's a necklace. That's a necklace. Oh wow! But you still got a book!

Immediate excitement and disappointment. You're right, you still got a book, though. That's what I'm saying. Book theme, book theme. So here's the thing. Are we going to remove the mention of you from the book? It doesn't say the name. It just says found someone special.

There's no way of inferring within the book that it doesn't have the name. Newcomers and Chosen. But it doesn't connect the newcomers to the new Chosen? That was cool. One could not infer that the new Chosen was part of the newcomers from the way that she wrote it, or no, are they separated thoughts? Not necessarily.

All right. Worst case scenario is we can mend a page and it will remove the ink. We want to delete anything. This is like that around your neck, except it's specific to warding off poison. No poison. That's very helpful.

That might be either. It could help any one of us, really. But would you like it not? It's pretty. Oh, but wait! We're not keeping anything on ourselves. It's a hot rock. Yeah, we're not keeping anything on our persons.

We need to hide it, bury it, do something. In the best-case scenario, I would say if we could hide this in someone else's room underneath their bed, that would be. We could put it in a bag of holding or whatever. I would love for these to be in somebody else's room. You dump that bag out or just go searching for a necklace, stick your hand in,

that comes right back out. I say we tie it to a rock and drop the rock off a specific dock and maybe we're lucky and it's still there later. Or we could just old school bury it under a tree, right? Mark it. It's still going to be findable to anybody who's looking for it, though.

I would really recommend putting it, I don't know, somewhere where we don't mind it being very specifically found, especially if we're trying to. Frame somebody? Well, I hate to put it that way, but I don't know. Well, listen, I am all for putting Vera in a bad light, right, she's going to want to know who did this. Yeah, Tiff, old Tiff Fanny.

Might as well put it on her, right? Do we know where she's staying, which room she's in? We have to be able to have someone point the finger at her, though, because what happens if she finds it herself later? It doesn't matter, it's still in her room. But if she finds it, she could throw it out, she could sell it, she could say, I found this in my room. I mean, that's unpredictable. We can't control that. No. But maybe we're thinking too small ball. If you can actually make a translation to that

thing, that's the frame we've been looking for. We take that to the Plank King, we're thinking too small, Ball. If you can actually make a translation to that thing, that's the frame we've been looking for. We take that to the Plank King, we're going to get all the head start we can get. We know where the other peach tree is now. It's apples and peaches, so you know. Between apples and peaches. We just have to make sure that you survive long enough to get it there, although it would be so, I mean, I wish you'd just grab the book. That would make life more easy. If, if.

I don't know. I know, we shouldn't have grabbed everything. What, the jewels? We could just throw them in the ocean. We could just throw them in the ocean. We could just throw them in the ocean. Yeah. But we could snoop, we could wait until we see Vera at breakfast tomorrow

and just, right, she's staying here. Yeah, I think it's too dangerous to try and plant it on her. It's risky. It's adding one step that we don't need. I agree with that. I think we take it once you're finished. This is the key. Anything else is a distraction. It can only cause wrinkles, so we ditch it.

Maybe somewhere where it can be found again, but it is not as important as this book is. So we solve this and her goose is cooked. Yeah. Except if we bring this to the Plane King, it's admitting that we broke into the ship and stole it. We don't need to take that to the Plane King, it's admitting that we broke into the ship and stole it. We don't need to take that to the Plane King if Caleb knows the language. Yeah, we do.

We do. We do. Why? She could forge anything that we want. Forge, forge, she could forge. Still need to prove the book. You still need proof that this came from her. We have her signature. Let's forge it.

But that's fake. I feel like we can just take the book to him. I think if we say that we knew about the plot, we suspected, and we're looking for proof. That's good. I like that. A question for the group, because I don't remember. Did Beauregard share with the group

that she got tapped by the planking? She would have shared that, right? I probably would have, yeah. Well, now would be the time to share it if you hadn't. So, by the way, I got tapped on the shoulder by the planking, he's looking for dirt on a bucket. What? I know, totally mind-blowing.

I know you had no clue. I don't think it does, right? As Beau has appropriately stated many times, snitches get stitches. So if we walk that in there, the Plank King might just be looking for disloyal motherfuckers to hang up by their toes. So we need to find a way to either message that, like via messenger, with the book and a codex that you've created, and let him just be able to see the evidence for himself. We could drop it in Allison's mailbox and say,

hey, here's all the proof you need to destroy Avantika. I don't think we need to do that, I think we just drop it in the plankings. And we're assuming that she wants to destroy her. Well, did you see the way they looked at each other? Yeah, maybe that's just, they need to like, get it on, you know? Maybe we just send Frumpkin with this stuff in tow.

And drop it. To his little perch. in tow to his little perch with a note, an anonymous note. Yeah. I think we copy the contents of the book. We have a copy of the contents of the book. Caleb's brain. That's what I'm saying, we copy the contents of the book. Like a physical copy or up in the dome. You could keep it in Caleb.

I have a copy. Sure. In my noodle. Sure. Okay. As long as you think it'll last there. And then. I can write it down. I will say, the Plain King offered me some good cash to rat out of Fountica.

Yeah, he was asking for a snitch. He was literally asking for a snitch. Sure. It seems like legit. That seems legit and honest. He was asking for a snitch. He was literally asking for a snitch. Sure. It seems like legit. That seems legit and honest. He was making an honest, right? Did you get the honest vibe from Planky? No, nothing about any of these people is honest.

I think he'd kill both of them, I think, sending it with, just sending it to him and just giving it to him. It could be an anonymous note, or we could send Frumpkin once we leave here, and you could sign it from Beau. I would almost say if we could give him the whole kit and caboodle, everything that was stolen.

I know what to sign. With a note saying this is the note. I know what to sign. Spill it, girl, spill it. Just write it up, and I'll sign it. Who knows what it'll be? What? I have no idea.

She's keeping us in suspense. I'll just simply sign it with how much? Question mark. To go with the package? To go with the package. I have deciphered it for them. Mm-hmm.

Unless we want zero implications in any one one-size-fits-all. That comes in just a little bit. I say, translate the one page, give the cipher so that they can figure it out on their own. Let's just give the whole thing to him, just all the jewels, all the box, the whole thing. Top to bottom. The Bontica's coming for your throat.

Yes. This is the evidence. Do with it what you will. The rest of the book's fine. We go to the pomegranate tree. Yes, yeah. Same time. I don't know how we get out of here, but we're going to try. We need the mist.

We'll be fine. Well, we just need to wait until they apprehend her. Then we can take her boat. Then we can take our boat. Then we can take our boat. Do something. We could also add to this note that Frumpkin delivers that Avantika, here is your proof that Avantika wants your throat, the whole crew is complicit.

We're part of the crew. Oh boy. You know, okay, here, just throwing out their big picture, okay, because there are two goals on that map. One is the peach, the other is the peach tree. If we go to one and she goes to the other, and let's say she gets deferred adjudication and gets out just a little bit after us,

she might be waiting for us at one or the other. I'm just saying. Then we'll face her head on. Let's let them make any insinuations they want and the crew will fall the way they will. Again, I think giving too much is too much. The guy's itching for a reason to get rid of her. Let's just give him what he wants. Sounds like that to me.

No conditions, no terms. Yeah, let's do that. Let's let Caleb do his thing, and we'll see what the morning does. Where are we keeping the gems and everything else in the meantime? In the safe, maybe. One other consideration. The lead safe, do we still have that? Of course we still have that. In the bag?

Well, it's safe in the bag, you still have it. One other consideration. Just throwing it out there. We're all spitballing here, right? Big lead safe, not in the bag. The big one you ordered? Yeah, that one I've got in there. Yeah, but the little box that we have the thing in, yeah.

Yeah. You know that page that you were telling us about that says the three landmasses might be the grand archipelago? Googie, yes. Maybe when you're translating, that becomes four landm masses and a different place? We're not going to translate the whole book,

just one page. No, she gets the book back. Well, why's she going to get the book back? You do have the lead safe, the dodecahedrons in it. We're going to translate one page? No, here's the thing, if we just give them a page. No, it's got to be the whole book? No, no, no, no.

He's saying we send a cipher and a translated page with the entire book. Does that make sense? So that they can then take the time with their smart people to translate the rest of the book. He's making the cipher. No, he knows the cipher. Yeah.

It's getting late, I'm getting confused. I am going to make a cipher that can be used to decode this book. If we send a cipher and the book, they can take time to read the entire thing. Let's record a few pages. If we... They will be able to tell,

unless we do Jester's hint, where we mend a few pages and get rid of some ink. I would mend the page that has the thing about where the peach tree is. So let's just do that. And Larissa's plan stays the same. Yeah, make it so. Yeah, that's good.

Break. But we leave immediately. We are so good at this. Well, once she's apprehended. Correct. Yeah. Okay. We'll send some food and water up your way. Yeah.

All right, so. Who's holding what? The jewels in the containers go in the lead safe. And where does that go? In the bag of holding. Okay. Take out the silver thread first. All right.

Are we all staying in this room tonight? No, I'm going to my room. Is it stupid to be literally down the hall decoding this journal all night from where Avantika's staying? Too late. Well, we've got the silver thread up. She can't get in.

It's just a warning system, right? It doesn't keep her out. It'll wake us up, though. It'll wake us up. So who's guarding Caleb? I'll guard Caleb. I'll guard Caleb. So will Yasha.

All right, so you guys will take sleeping shifts. Yeah. So mark yourself with one point of exhaustion, Caleb. Got it. You don't recover spells. Got it. The rest of you get a full rest. I only used one.

That's good. I only used spells. I attack Fjord, sneak attack damage! Pretty good. Sneak attack, damage! What's that, where is that? To each of your doors shortly after sunrise. What's Caleb up to? He's just finishing making most of the cipher. Hide that shit, hide that shit, hide that shit!

Yeah, good morning. All right, so you have to have the book to make the cipher. Hide that shit, hide that shit, hide that shit. Yeah, good morning. All right, so you have to have the book to make the cipher. Yeah. So you go ahead and go find Jester. Are you guys in the same room? I was sleeping in the room. I wasn't working on the book and the cipher

all at once all through the night? That would have been, that's the process. That's what I'm saying, yeah. So you hand it to Jester to go ahead and hide. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. Are we, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm? Right away in two rooms? Is there anything in the room that's,

that is like, seems like it could be hollow or anything? Like, I'm looking for somewhere that I can put a hole in it, hide the jewels in there, and then mend it so that it won't look like anything ever touched it, but I'll know where they are. Make an investigation check. Let's do perception. Okay, new plan. Do I get advantage still? If this was last night?

No, that's for an hour. Oh, okay. 13. 13? Looking around, no, the room is shoddy in some ways, but it doesn't have large holes you can hijack. It's an hour's act, it's okay. Yeah, but if I get searched.

It's in the safe, right? It's in the safe. Yeah. Lead. Should block it. Yeah, and you don't think she's going to go open the safe? She can't pull out the safe unless she knows it's in there. If she turns the bag over and empties it out, everything comes out. That's not true.

Yes, it is. Yeah, if you turn the bag inside out, it's out. Everything comes out? Okay, okay. What if... They're knocking. This was last night. I was looking for a place to go.

The voice comes to the room and goes, Hey! Wake up! Yeah, how's it going on, man? Good morning. What? Caduceus and I will open the door to our room. Yeah. All right, you see Voldigut out there with one of the guards and

what looks to be Will-O-Wisk, who's the cook, Jeremiah. He's rubbing his eyes, and Voldigard goes, All hands on deck. Now? Company meeting. Yeah, sure, let us get our shit together. I'll go get dressed.

Now. Okay. Yep, I got my stuff. Grabbing our stuff. Goes to the next door, says the same thing through the doorway. Okay. Hello?

All hands on deck. Company meeting. On the deck of the ship? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, aye aye, we'll see you there in, what, like a couple hours?

I pat you on the head a little bit. That's fine. Goes to every room and it's the same deal. Okay, what are we going to do? What does the hallway look like that all the rooms are in? Can we send it? It's a long hallway, series of chambers,

most doors closed. It looks to be four and four, and there's a stairway that leads up to a third level. Just throw it on the roof? Can we send Frumpkin now with the package? Just send him now, with the window. Right, there's only a minute. He's a one-ounce owl. Needs to change. How long does that take? Ten minutes.

We got ten minutes. Go, go, go, go, go, go. What about the jewels? Should we get rid of the jewels? The whole thing. Send it with the book, with the book. The next minute goes by, and two more figures show up and they go, we're going to the ship now,

gather your things, there's no more waiting, come on. Okay. Okay. We'll do it on the way? After you get the rest, that's all, that's the thing. You get a sense from the vocality here that things are not right, probably relating to events that transpired through the evening.

Gee, I wonder. Okay. Okay. You could just pop out of the room and meet us on the way. Well, yeah, they're not in the room. Do you want to pop out of the room? Pop out of the room? I mean Jester pops out of the room with the bag and leave it somewhere and then meet us on the

way to the ship. The Haverside? What are we doing with the book and stuff? Not now. By the way, all of your doors now are being held open and they're expectedly waiting. The crew doesn't trust you. They haven't really since you've been here. They're not like, cool guys, let's go. There's very much a, we're getting everybody in there

and shit, there's going to be conversations. We're going down. Yeah. Okay. We need to stay in these rooms. Okay, so you gather your things, head outside. Bouldergut's keeping a watch from behind. Other members of the crew are being gathered

and ushered in, as well as the crew from the Mystique and Orly. Everyone's being brought over towards the docks. Do you want me to slide a hand, throw the bag down an alley as we walk? The whole bag? Sure. Got to get rid of it. No. We got to get rid of it. No. We got to get rid of it.

No. I'd rather fight over it than lose a check. Just going like, oh! I'm super fast. All right. Do what you're going to do. I don't want to lose the whole haversack. I do not want to lose the whole haversack. Do what you're going to do. Nope. Nope. It's got the dodecahedron in it.

Just toss it and then we'll come back for it behind a dumpster. Nope. Nope. It's got the dodecahedron in it. Just toss it and then we'll come back for it behind the dumpster. Nope. Not that we know. No. Okay, you guys at this point have been brought to the docks now and you're being pushed towards the direction. You can see the Squall Eater there waiting

and there are a number of figures already on deck. Is there ever a moment it looks like nobody's looking at us or me? Make a perception check. Seven. You don't know, you don't see anybody necessarily. You have Bouldergut walking behind you and other people are being ushered in.

Can I fall back and talk to Bouldergut? Sure. Bouldergut, what you, and other people are kind of being ushered in. Can I fall back and talk to Bouldergut? Sure. Bouldergut, what is going on right now? I don't know. I wanted to sleep longer. Me too. Everybody seems so angry at everybody else. Look at the ship right now. I mean, it looks crazy, all these people walking around. I know. I want to just eat breakfast. Me too.

While I'm talking to her, and hopefully when I point at the ship, does she look where I point? Make a persuasion check. Look, it's a space shuttle. Dumbs a break. 22? 22, yeah, just follows your eyeline over. I reach in the bag and I pull out the jewels

and I dump them off the side of the... Oh, Jesus. I want them to fall in the water as we're walking. Okay, so all the jewels come into the water. Okay, make a sleight of hand check. Come on. I wish I had looked at the dodecahedron this morning. 15? 15, okay.

You drop them off the side. As far as you're concerned, no one noticed. Who else walking with us besides Baldurgut? Baldurgut was in the back, though. Baldurgut was in the back, and there were a few other, first off you have Baldok, Zoen are with you guys. Bark you see being brought over from another side as well. Looks like he either stayed somewhere else or was somewhere else when he was gathered up by the rest of the crew and the guard. The guard, none of them go onto the ship, but they just lead you over to the edge of the dock and watch you all go onto the deck and then begin to walk away.

Where's the book right now? It's in Caleb's possession, isn't it? Yeah? Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. Okay. You guys all walk along the plank, up onto the deck, and there you see there's Avantika, Vera, the rest of the crew are all there. You can see the crew of the Mistake are brought to the edge of the dock and are held there and waiting. You guys are brought up on there.

Where's the mistake? You don't know where the mistake is docked. You didn't see it when you came in. Copy. There are probably 20-plus ships that are all across the docks here. Okay. As you guys are brought to the edge of the ship. I'm burning so many calories right now. I've never felt more in trouble.

We've got to get this book off the fucking boat. Stop. Well, you're on the deck right now. The deck of the Squaliga. That's the sure way to get it seen. Evonika sees you, approaches you and goes, Good morning, everyone. Good morning.

Well, I apologize for the problems. This should only take a moment to just discuss. It appears we've had a bit of an incident overnight, and I wanted to let everyone know that there is, there may have been some issues rifling through. Over here, Wolduck was so unfortunately shivved by one of our compatriots and shoots a glare over at Zoan, who's like,

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but it has come to our attention that there has also been, well, to be perfectly honest, a break-in to my personal chambers. SAM and LAURA GASP I know. Some of my personal belongings have gone missing.

And I wanted to ask if anybody has seen anything throughout the night. I already spoke with a few of the crew who were here before. I have not spoken with you. Waldock, did you see anything? And Waldock goes on to say, I was sleeping and then suddenly this piece of shit fell through the ceiling and landed on top of me and I was just...

So they were around. Waldock got stabbed. So Waldock goes, I was walking and I heard some noise inside your chambers. I went to inspect it, unlocked the door, went in, and things seemed fine, but then I fell through the fucking floor onto someone, and he was sitting in bed, sleeping,

and he just fucking started stabbing me. Someone's like, you woke me up, what am I supposed to do? Where the fuck are we? Anyway, we look at the floor and somebody had broken the floor, probably snuck in somehow, and the captain goes, thank you for that. Also, it appears that Bakir had strange

delusions and fell or leapt, apparently, from the crow's nest. Did you see anything in particular? He's like, I mean, it was crazy. It caught fire and I jumped to get away from it and there was no fire. She goes, so it appears and there was no fire.

She goes, so it appears that there may have been some sort of a distraction. Well, has anybody else seen anything of particular interest last night? By the way, Caduceus, I heard that you were very helpful in helping our compatriots with their wounds. Yeah, it was no problem. I appreciate you being a team player. Well, it looked like that leg was pretty rough. Is this a frequent occurrence when you're in

Darktow, this sort of... Oh, certainly not. To be perfectly honest, whoever did this does not understand the rules of the city very well. I can, no, I... can find creatures, I can't find objects. Mm. Viera? And Viera's sitting back there and nods. Your fingers trace this weird symbol in the air that leaves a slight trace, and her eyes flare for a second, and she goes,

But that is okay, because I can. I take a bit of phosphorus and squelch it through my hand and cast Wall of Fire across the entire length of the boat between them and us. That's what we're going to pick up next week. Oh my god! Fuck! Next week, we pick up in the shipyard of Darktow on the deck. Not next week.

Sorry, two weeks. Oh my god, two weeks! No! No! Curse you, Thanksgiving! On the deck of the Squall Eater. Like the salt on a rim of a margarita. Phosphorus through my hand. It's worth its weight in salt. Holy dang, I should have kept those jewels. Flawless plan executed flawlessly. It was a pretty good plan. There's just a couple of loose ends. Flawless plan, executed flawlessly.

It was a pretty good plan. There's just a couple of loose ends. We should have worked out Frumpkin in advance. Yeah. Thought we'd have time in the morning to come back. There were a few moments to possibly discard a couple of key objects. But you got the information you needed, and this is going to be a hell of a start to the next session. Holy.

Oh man, I wasn't expecting it to go this way. All the info. Info is golden. All right, we'll pick up here in a couple weeks. We're sad we won't see you guys next week for Thanksgiving. Shit. What do we have going on over Thanksgiving? Well, the day after Thanksgiving on Friday

is Honey Heist 3, Tova's Honeys. There we go. Yes! So it was sad we wouldn't be able to see you on Thursday, but Friday we do have that awesome. On Friday, watch us as bears stealing honey instead of very invaluable books and jewels. They can only go better. Yeah.

It can only be better. Oh! It can only be better. Oh man, my heart's pumping. The last ten minutes have been like, don't cast it, just wait. It felt like getting called into the principal's office. You're like, fuck. Like a principal that always knows when you're lying. We have video, man. I didn't do it. that always knows when you're lying. Yeah. We have video, man. Oh, fuck.

I didn't do it. Oh, man. Well, see you guys in a couple weeks to pick up from this crazy moment. Oh, fuck. Until then, thank you, we love you very much, and is it Thursday yet? Good night, guys.

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