High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #70 | The Last Feather (Part 1)

Episode Date: May 4, 2020

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Pickaxe. Go back to school with Rogers and get Canada's fastest and most reliable internet. Perfect for streaming lectures all day or binging TV shows all night. Save up to $20 per month on Rogers Internet. Visit Rogers.com for details. We got you. Rogers. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes,

with me, Tom, playing Keelakad Kalad, Cleric Wizard. I am Chris Trott. I'm playing Lucius Viren, Elowin Elanastro. And I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon. I'm playing Sentry. I am a Guardian Paladin. Hi, I'm Katie. I'm playing Ayla, a Wild Elf Barbarian. And I'm Kim. I'm playing

Nova, who is an Air Ganassi and she is a Hexblade Warlock. Thanks to our regular sponsor, D&D Beyond, the official Dungeons & Dragons toolset. Create your free account and speed up your campaigns today. Welcome back to Erois. Last time, our party of heroes sought to aid a group of winemaking nuns from a band of gnolls. However, things quickly revealed themselves to be more serious than anticipated as it became clear the gnolls were

under the influence of hadar having defeated the creatures themselves all that remained was to rescue one of the sisters who had been taken to a cave as some sort of sacrifice however on arrival the sacrifice had already taken place and an unstable rift to the Far Realm had already opened. With a terrifying power speaking to them from beyond, our heroes valiantly chose to try and seal the rift, though it seemed a daunting task. Eight anchor points were needed before the rift grew too unstable, and despite great efforts, the party were unable to stop the rift from erupting in an explosion of chaotic magic that encircled them all.

In a flash of magic, the party found themselves transported far, far away to another realm, a world called Elysium, which was clearly controlled by the enemy, the Valkyrian Empire. With the aid of an angel called Hadriel, the party have avoided detection for 24 hours and now desperately seek a way back to Erois. And that is where we begin today's session. I believe that we had ended things with you guys in a small plaza connected to where the Archway Gate facility is located, a large teleportation service, or like interplanar service that transports people across realms. And there was some decisions that had to be made,

as well as some leveling up, I believe, that needed to take place. Oh yeah, level 10. You are now level 10. So ignore the thing in the middle, it will get updated. Yeah. Oh yeah, level 10. You are now level 10. So ignore the thing in the middle, it will get updated. Yeah. It hasn't been 24 hours, has it? It has not, no.

You have, well, slightly less than that. You've probably spent about two hours since leaving Hadriel's or so travelling and exploring the place. But you have the most of a day left before your uh presences are perhaps known uh your your true identities are revealed and that sort of information becomes apparent um there are elysium is a world of fantastic magical technology. We are looking at a kind of sci-fi utopia with these sleek glass and metal platforms and railways and floating platforms and all sorts of strange species and races here.

You've encountered angels. You're pretty certain you've encountered devils and demons. There have been other strange creatures, reptilian in nature. You've spotted a few Eladrin. This is a place of quite diverse beings that are all spread out. So you guys currently do blend in. There is no fear of you being recognized as being from Erois immediately. I believe that Quill had also provided Hadriel with the teleportation circle code for one of Kallus' main ships, the Tassadar.

Yes, well, also on the idea that we would communicate with him when it's good to actually go forward with that plan. Yes, well, I think he mentioned that he would part it onto a group, a rebellion group that was plotting to, or at least was in opposition to Kallus and the Empire. Yeah. Yeah. So that's not going to go awry. No. So that kind of brings us up to speed on where you guys are, and now it is really over to you in what you want to do.

How long was it, Jet? And now it is really over to you in what you want to do. Have we long rested yet? Or is it literally straight off the back of the previous episode? Well, no, no, you've not had a long rest. No, no, you took a long rest before you went to seal the portal. The portal transported you here, and then you've basically had no, you know, you've definitely not had eight hours of time to take a long rest. I must have not long rested before the portal then.

No, you did because you had spent spell slots. Yeah, because we spent everything to close the portal and then we got nine three. Yeah, and you took damage as well. We burned tons. Nah. No memory of it. Nah, what's that? Who's the guy? I think Lucius really hit his stuff. Nah. No memory of it.

What's that? Who's the guy? Lucius really hit his head. Wait, where are we? How did we get here? Yeah, that's literally where the chart was coming from. But now you are brought up to speed. Okay. What's the plan?

If you want a refresher, I can give you some of the things that Hadriel mentioned or anything like that but any questions let me know it was 10,000 to get all of us through this portal right this teleportation thing but we need the archway the archway yeah

but we need codes either to Arois which they definitely won't let us use or to somewhere adjacent which then means we need to make our way from there to Aroas, which they definitely won't let us use, or to somewhere adjacent, which then means we need to make our way from there to Aroas. We could... You had the archway? Yep. Yes, you can go. There is a ship port, or

a space port, that travels it's like a planar port, I guess, that travels across the astral space, across the astral sea, to the astral sea to various planets. You could hire a ship. You could try and find a ship that will take you to Eros or close by. You could try and do that.

Then we need to figure out Paladol and get through that. That is a problem. It was mentioned that Paladol basically attacks any ships that come too close to Eros. And so I think you guys have discussed briefly some sort of plan to try and communicate with somebody like hesper or send a message to palador that would signify you are who you are and that you you are coming home um you could try and do that there was also the plan to try and find um perhaps an independent spellcaster who might be able to try and banish you or

plane shift you back home as well or again take you somewhere adjacent but that would require finding a very powerful individual that could manage that and pay them you expect as well can I just say behind the scenes so I realised I sent Tom

a message earlier this week because I realised that Nova could learn banish as well so we just have this idea we have this text chain of us two just managing each other at the same time yeah three three two wait are we doing a three or the one three two one three three two wait are It was so badly wrong. I'm thinking of the fly right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what Tom mentioned as well. There was also the problem with Banish. The other problem with Banish is you have no control of where you arrive on the destination.

So you would most likely be all split up. Which doesn't mean to say that you can't meet back up again. Also, we're not 100% that Aayla would come back with us so there's that whole thing as well there is a degree of there is a degree of uncertainty on what would happen uh banishes the last most of your yeah uh nova did express a desire

yeah the other one the other eye yeah, so I had a personal suggestion. We had a big, long email chain about this. Nova would like to get some information about Jasavir, which is the original, like, Ganassi... Well, it's the high elf city that was on Aroas and, due to a planar experiment gone wrong, swapped with a Ganassi city. So it would basically take us to the Ganassi homeworld

if we found it, and then maybe find some way back from there. But the other idea we had was basically a big risky infiltration mission onto the Tassadar. Because you have the coordinates to teleport circle there. Yes. Yeah, but that's assuming we find this splinter group, right? We also need them to assist us in the raid because...

Well, also, how do we get off the Tassadar? That's the other thing. That is the next problem. Yes. Yeah, it would just be us arriving and being like, ha-ha, wait. Yeah. Yeah, there is the... Yeah, if you knew the teleportation sequence for, you know,

a circle on Erois, you could perhaps use the one on the Tassadar to go back. You don't know if that would work, but it's a possibility. Similar to the way that the archways work. If you can learn the code, you can jump between the points. There was one underwater, wasn't there, when we were fighting the... The one that went to

Aegis V? That was... Yeah, that would have been. But would that... I don't think any of you studied that circle to know the very specific code sequence. If you were like, if over again, like I'm going to study it and like take notes,

then yeah, absolutely. You could have that. I was too busy giving it my hand. Yeah. Also, this is on the assumption they'll let us through the portal after spending 10,000 and inputting our own code, right?

Like they've probably got preset code. You didn't look into it that much you all you know at the moment of how the archways work is the price which is 10 000 valkyrian credits uh and that is the price to use it and it did not seem like it was being used by just chumps it looked like it was you know when you briefly looked at it it was mainly valkyrian soldiers using it or very wealthy looking merchants who were who were making use of the archway so i think realistically that's like we have to get that much money or put people and make people invisible which they're gonna spot anyway like easily because look at the thing like they're to have security. And also,

that will also put us on the tracker, right? The moment five of us go through a portal to Whereversville? I don't know. You don't know how it works. That's true. You can do some recon. So what's the plan? I don't know if the if

Eros would be accessible from this planet like it could also be possible that Kallus has put something in place to stop that happening or to like I don't know I just have a feeling that we wouldn't be able to direct so the general

the general impression I got from when we talked about this during the week was that we're going to acquire some funds like selling Starbane's statue and Trot and Nova would like to acquire some information about Jasavir

at least where it is or maybe how much to go over there or anything like that and then I think we were all kind of going towards Spaceship Captain that and then i think we were all kind of going towards spaceship captain um adventure and then so yeah solve problems yeah if we hire one person to take us back then that's less people to deal with we just need to deal with palidor who me and ayla have already seen like there might be some help there plus champion a headspurt this boy friends there might be some help there.

Plus, Champion of Hesper, this boy. Friends of Alador. I do also have a Dusk Willow coin, which people have been reminding me of daily, and I do remember it, but I was kind of saving it for something, but it's fine. So that's there as like a if I need to use it, it's there. That's a wild card.

It's the Hail Mary. I did have some thoughts about that, but if needed, I can say. I'm so glad about that but if needed i'm so glad you've mentioned that i'm so glad you mentioned it so people stop telling me about it because i'm sick okay okay so tom did you say you wanted to did you say you wanted to observe what was going on at the archway to like learn more about it or do you just want to go straight to selling stuff i think we may as well just for a little bit just to see you know are they going there and you know sorting through a list of codes and then picking one okay or are they like just entering their own codes or what let's see

how it works so the archway itself is enormous it's this towering structure that probably a hundred feet across and a hundred feet tall and it's housed in the back, what you would imagine as a sort of cathedral, this long, very elegant, very well-built structure, and the rear half of it is made from what appears to be just a single solid piece of glass that covers the entire building. It looks considerably tougher than glass,

but that's the best kind of approximation for your characters um the archway itself is housed in the back of this this glass dome that connects to a fortified cathedral um and it's open enough that you can see the majority of what's going on you can't get an exact number of how many guards there are you can't get an exact number of how many guards there are. You can't get an exact number of how, you know, the exact process works and things like that. But enough that you can see that, first of all, mainly the most people that seem to be using it are military forces, as well as the occasional merchant who seems to be exceedingly wealthy, very well dressed, have multiple staff carrying things, or they have these little kind of floating crystal platforms that have goods stocked on them.

You don't see any money change hands, but what you do know is that the base of the archway has a very Stargate-esque input-like ring, where it's this kind of multi-tiered ring where they press different runes and symbols, and that activates the archway. The person inputting the codes is dressed in these long black and purple robes but they have almost like a full helmet that's made from this angular sleek metal

it comes down in these kind of very harsh lines um it has just a thin red visor uh and that covers their entire face their arms are heavily armored and gauntleted, but they almost look like a warrior priest almost. They have almost like a hassock and sort of like a belt tied around their waist, these long priestly robes. They are the ones who are inputting the codes, and all of the military around them are deferential. You can see that they take orders from this person inputting the codes.

You don't see a list. It just seems to be this armored figure thinks for a moment and then puts in the code and then hits it. The clients, whether they're the merchants or the soldiers, don't go anywhere near the ring that inputs the code. They are kept to one side and are watched by guards

and then they go through the archway once it activates. Okay, so it seems pretty... Heavily controlled. Yeah, impenetrable in terms of just, like, if five people ran in there and was just like, Arrows, please! No!

You have to also input the code. It's also just, like, looking at it, there is more military presence around this one building than the rest of the plaza this thing is highly controlled not just by the ishtar local forces but you see like proper black armored valkyrian empire soldiers in this building they are the ones guarding this place um right they it seems to be heavily under callus's control and yeah you don't see a lot of other people using it you don't it's only the very rich or the military that seem to be using it okay so there's that so there's some some intel um and that you you just sit there and watch it

you can see this it's there's almost an arrogance where they don't seem to be trying to hide it uh you know you can see the archway. It's this beautiful, impressive piece of magical construction. But it looks very well guarded. You spend like 20 minutes just kind of observing this and seeing how it all works. If anybody has any questions, there is the winter Eladrin, this kind of blue-skinned Eladrin who is sat at what appears to be a front information desk um whereas all the priests are kind of around the main entrance and inside so as part of the

observant feat i can interpret what's being said just by reading lips so is there anything i pick up interesting just by you know looking at them talking from afar. Well, the priest, we'll call him, at the dial has a full covered helmet, so you can't see his lips to read them. But you can pick up some general information from some of the soldiers and the merchants. It seems a very terse affair. It's very much a... Some of the soldiers turn to one of the merchants and are like, where are you going? Why?

There's a long process of writing down information. They take out the crystal magic tablets. They seem to check that information. Yep, blah, blah, blah. Okay, that's confirmed. Identity confirmed. You can travel. One of them turns to the priest, and you can

see the soldier, probably almost like a purple-skinned humanoid with these barbs coming out of his cheeks in the black valkyrian armor uh he turns to the the priest at the dais and says rector uh they're traveling to uh lunaria you know travel is approved um please proceed and then the the figured looks and nods and and then they do do and then they send through. And Rector seems to be a title. Is it like when you go into LAX and you have to

wait in a two hour queue and then they ask you where you're coming from and why you're there and when you're going home? Why are you going to an event? There is a very heavy amount of... There's a lot of that. What are you playing with? Are you bringing them gifts?

No! There is a very, very tense immigration-y type of process. Heavily controlled. For sure. Anybody else? Kim, do you want to go and ask and think of the

Eladrin, Lucius, Sentry? Can I go back to the Eladrin, Lucius century? Can I go back to the Eladrin and ask some questions about the severe? You can see that she's reading some sort of uh, you know, she's reading a book. It appears to be

a collection of the latest fashions of Lunaria. And she's kind of flicking through it absentmindedly. and she looks up at you it's like yes I help you hello me again remember me yeah yeah yeah yeah question I do you have it I'll be able to travel to just severe from here just severe Via the archway.

She kind of looks around and it's just like it's possible, yes. You can travel to not to Jasavir itself, but there's another city nearby. Oh, okay. What city is that? It's called

something. I don't know. I like it when this happens. She's typing away. She's trying to find it really slowly. She's just very lazy. She's very lazy, yeah. It's called Airtris.

E-A-R-T-R-I-S. Airtris. Airtris. E-A-R-T-R-I-S. Eartris. Eartris. Wonderful. How much would that cost? The price is the same. No, the price is the same. $10,000.

Wonderful. Are there any other ways? You'd be better off going to the spaceport. You'd be better off going to the spaceport. Travel via the archways almost exclusively for very wealthy travelers or members of the military. And she looks at you with that. You are very clearly not a wealthy traveler. Oh, judging.

Thank you. She's judging. She's judging hard. By the way, I love your outfit. Very cute. Yeah, thanks. Very now. Great. thanks. Very now. Great.

Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Just looks so miserable. You've never seen an individual that looks so morose and just sad. Just bored and sad. I don't know.

I saw Piri in class, so, you know. Nice. Nice. Yeah. Yeah yeah she shows no interest but yeah there does seem to be some sort of ability to travel to the ganassi home world but not due to jasaphyr um i'd say there's probably a little element of like reading her facial expressions um there's a little element of like no of course you can't go to jasap Jasavir there's almost like a like why are you asking me that but maybe just thinks that you're being stupid or something

fair anything from anyone else team huddle team huddle so I think the archway bust no chance no chance Okay, okay, so okay. I think the archway

Ring No chance. Yeah, the lady the very nice board lady over there Blue as well good color She says that it's mostly used by military or very wealthy merchants And then she gave me that look where it was just like it made me feel poor Even though I you mean the that like most people give me whenever we go anywhere yeah yeah that look yeah very much i'm gonna do something really bad okay yeah yeah get it yeah yeah yeah so um she recommended we uh go to the spaceport i think she pointed that way um and that might be also we might be able to go to the ganassi homeworld i mean it will cost a lot more to get a yeah whoever i know flyer i know just just indulge

me quill just indulge me i know arois on fire starbane blah blah blah but just i'm just i'm just i'm having a moment let me be excited i'm gonna be excited here i am am. Oh. Okay, okay. I feel like she should just let it all out in one go, otherwise we're just gonna have the tiny squeaks, like... I'm trying to be discreet. I don't wanna draw attention to us. I mean, you are going purple. Nova. Okay.

Nova. Do a happy dance. Maybe, maybe, we could... Happy dance. Do a happy dance. Do you think maybe, maybe we could... Happy dance. Happy dance. Doing happy dance. Do you think there's a place that we might be able to just look into like research it and then maybe, maybe we could find a bit more about Alfheim too. I mean if there was a place that we're gonna learn about stuff this place is nuts and we should probably and by we I mean you should tell me how to probably learn some things because I don't know what to do

home worlds unite happy dance happy dance mine's non-existent now but I'm trying to pretend to be as excited and we're trying to get back to ours before it also gets destroyed

before it also doesn't exist. Just bring the mood down. So, do you still want to stick with your plan and go and sell some stuff first, then look into trying to find somewhere where you can learn some stuff? Or do you want to go straight to the spaceport? What's the plan? Probably spaceport

first. We want to get a guy first. We want to go spaceport first. Okay. See get a guy first. We want to go spaceport first. See the price and then go from there. Yes. Yes. We've got stuff to sell as well. You do have stuff to sell. And stuff to potentially buy from this extremely high tech

world. I feel like we're trying to both make money and spend money at the same time. So... Yeah. Give me a hard somebody.

I don't care who. All right. Okay. It doesn't take you long. You can see the spaceport from anywhere in the city because the spaceport is above it uh it hovers several hundred uh feet you're talking like maybe five six hundred feet above ishtar city itself um and asking for directions or generally kind of inquiring about how to reach that people easily point you the way they say oh you want

to go to the Halo? Yeah, sure. Just travel down the street and take one of the platforms up. And making your way there through across a series of these kind of beautiful, you know, utopian streets, you come across these large crystalline platforms with thick railings that seem to go up and down, almost like a kind of monorail, but without any sort of wires or cables.

They float up to this giant circular structure that hovers above the city. It has a number of spokes and wheels amongst it, around all of which there are dozens of very strange-looking ships. Some of them look like sailing ships that you have seen on Erois and the airships that you've seen on Erois. They have weird

sails that seem to be made of a shimmery starry cloth, but they have decks and, you know, the front bit, the prow and everything, they look like normal ships. Some of them... The front bit. Yeah, the front bit. Some of them look utterly bizarre.

Some of them appear to be giant cocoons that just sort of hover in the air. Some of them appear to be made of pure crystal and have very strange shapes. One of them appears to be a giant manta ray that has a little kind of metal box on its back and just kind of floats in the air. I want that one.

They all come in different sizes. Some of them are long, sleek, and thin. Some of them are made of metal. Some of them are made of stone. They come in all strange shapes and sizes of different kinds. There's hundreds of them. It doesn't take you long. There is no fee to pay

to travel up to the spaceport or anything like that. As you do reach this this great height you travel up on this uh moving platform that ascends very quickly you notice that there is a much heavier military presence of the ishtar police force these gray armored uh various angels and devils and uh you know other beings of different types. You see a Minotaur, you see Orcs, you see Eladrin. You might even see in the distance, on part of the patrol Nova, you see a couple of Earth and Water Ganassi, but they seem to be part of the patrols and are moving off in the distance. And it's heavily guarded.

The spaceport definitely has a large presence of this military. When you reach there, you can see that for the most part, there aren't many buildings or structures except for the command towers that actually run the spaceport itself. But in the distance on the outer section of the main ring, you see that there is a kind of semicircular, almost moon-shaped crescent building that has a giant

illusory sign above it which has just a single feather kind of half floating down and is called the last feather and it appears to be as best as you can tell some sort of tavern or bar that exists here on the spaceport

well that place looks of tavern or bar that exists here on the spaceport. Well, that place looks like a good... as good as any to maybe rub shoulders with owners of these really peculiar vessels. Some of these are just pills. I don't understand. So we... Messenger Ring,

we're not going there and saying take us to Eros. That's just a given, right? No. That's a very good idea, Quill. Yes, I definitely thought of that. But how are we if we hire someone to take us how do we know where to

go? I mean, up is a good start, but then after that I don't know anything about where to go. I mean, up is a good start, but then after that... I don't know anything about traveling in that, and we don't know which direction to go. We could say

we want to go to Aegis 5 as treasure seekers. I think Aegis 5 is probably locked off as a military thing. Yeah, it's like invading a base camp of a military. I bet there's bounty hunters around

here who like a bit of danger. I can't imagine starving. Can we not say we're going to a place we can't tell you where yet but hey, mystery location you up for a challenge? We're going to a place we can't tell you where yet, but... We will. Hey, mystery location.

Are you up for a challenge? Yeah. We can find something that's close enough and give them a rough direction. Right? Hey, you know the place, Orois? We're not going there. We're going just a little bit to the left of that.

And when we get close to it, we'll turn left. I mean, yes, we're not going there. We're going just a little bit to the left of that. Obviously we wouldn't say that. We'll turn left. I mean, yes, we could build up maybe a rapport with someone. Yeah, if we find someone who's willing and not questioning us about where we want to go, then it's likely that they're not really going to care. We need to find someone who's a little bit willing to do whatever for just a little bit of money. Much like our

security friend back there, who we thought was a member of Starbane's forces and whatnot, but really underneath it all, he wanted to help us. So someone like that. We need to be able to read a person like that. Oh, I'm great at that. We need to be able to read a person like that. Oh, I'm great at that.

Okay. You, as a group, you all make your way towards the last feather. This semicircular crescent-shaped building looks out on a large part of the docks and even looks down onto Ishtar City itself.

You can see that out the front, there appear to be two very very large and sort of nine ten feet tall i guess the closest you might think of them would be to ogres but they kind of look at you with far more intelligent faces um they wear like you know armor um but it's not military armor it looks to be more kind of ramshackle. They look like bodyguards or bouncers of a kind. They kind of look down at you, all kind of nod and just gesture into the double doors that lead inside to the bar itself.

You can see the bar is two-floored. It has a secondary floor above as well, almost with small rooms, maybe like rooms to stay in for people that are, you know, don't want to go down to the city but are just kind of staying overnight here in the the port itself um and the two the two large ogre like creatures just wave you in they don't seem to look at you with any sort of level of concern or threat they just kind of look down just gesture you in um and you step inside inside is a very the walls are painted dark colors and the furniture

is all made from black metal but there are these glowing dancing lights that the spell that lucius can conjure there are hundreds of them spread across the ceiling that cast this diffusing um kind of multi-hued light down onto the bar itself. Huge windows that allow you to see the spaceport surround it on the curved side of the semi-crescent. And yeah, you can see that it's packed. There's a lot of people in here. There are various little alcoves, little private rooms. There is a long bar with several people sat at the bar itself um but behind

the bar the figure that kind of draws your attention um as the perhaps you know the owner or at least the the bartender uh seems to be an aasimar a race that you know from eros um he is black skinned uh with a glowing crown like halo So it hovers just over his forehead and his temples, and it forms almost like a crown with a glowing diadem in the center. He has thick braided hair and smiling to some of the clients. He's wearing loose, quite fashionable looking clothing, although cut in a very strange asymmetrical style that you've not really seen on a Rois. He's pouring drinks, mixing various liquids of strange colors, serving them out.

He's the main bartender. Also around the bar, there's quite a lot of individuals. So I don't know if you want to make some notes. But you see in one section, a large armored orc with dark gray skin, prominent tusks, and covered in weapons. Like almost every part of him has some sort of knife or axe or blade sheathed. He appears to be talking to a goblin,

not like the goblins you've met on Erois, not like Smeak. This one appears to be intelligent, long limbs, slick-backed, oiled hair, wearing leather overalls, and appears to be smoking some sort of cigar there is a very rough looking dergar which you have met before gray-skinned dwarf with white beard and an eye patch carrying various firearms with a strange creature sat drinking beside him the creature has the face of a spider but a large bulbous body and these gangly insectoid like limbs and it's chittering away to him and seems

to be like sucking on some sort of cocooned animal and it's just like it's like sucking down on it in one in a small alcove alright just wait, because it gets very Mos Eisley in here.

In one corner, you can see in like a little alcove are three very pretty summer Eladrin, these kind of almost elven-like, but with these large glowing orange eyes dressed in summery colors, blonde, shiny hair and they are gathered around a small crystal that's projecting the image of another eladrin

an eladrin you recognize shansara uh the propaganda agent of callus it's a small image and shansara is just dancing and singing and the three girls are bouncing and singing along they're clearly drunk and they're just like cheering and like pull it like you know kind of like jostling each other in a friendly way watching or listening to some sort of musical performance um very jj pop idol kind of esque uh as you watch it there there's a lot of oh my godding or there's a lot of like oh godding or there's a lot of like there's a lot of fanning themselves and stuff like that.

At the bar, you can see there's a moment where you kind of look around and you see what appears to be a woman sort of slumped on the bar. She has tight leather leggings, a loose shirt and a kind of cross-harnessed holster

um where you can see two arcane pistols um similar to the ones that you've seen other creatures using on eros and she has two of them holstered and she's kind of lying on the bar with her head flat down but you you think for a minute you just see like her hair is kind of spilling around her shoulders and then you realize her hair is moving and her hair is made of lots of snakes and they're just like moving around but she appears to just be like leaning on the bar and seemingly is drunkenly passed out um as she sits there uh another creature is a three-armed insect-like creature that is currently probably arm-wrestling a minotaur. It's against the bar as well. And this insectoid thing looks

pissed as hell. It looks very angry. It's kind of screaming something in Infernal as it's desperately trying to use three of its arms to bring down one of the minotaurs to no great success as it's desperately trying and the minotaurs just

kind of laughing at it um there is in another small kind of little uh what do they call him when you've got like a little like a booth in a small booth there is a pack of about nine cobalts watching a cobalt with wings eat a small feast and they are drooling and desperately looking at this food as this one kobold is eating all of it by himself um and then the last thing which is probably one of the more unusual ones is you can see a large creature that appears to be made of a suit of armor um it is cleaning itself with a rag and a little bottle of oil, but its helmet, which is a full-covered helmet, is

smoking. You can see, like, thick plumes of smoke and orange flames kind of coming out from underneath the helmet. But it's just cleaning itself. It's like, and it's just, like, rubbing oil into its joints and cleaning its body with a rag. And yeah, you can hear

the music, Shansara's music, this very sort of like poppy song is playing throughout the whole bar. And you know what? We're spending the next four episodes here. I want to talk to everybody. Well, so my question is

where's everybody going? Do you guys want to split up? Are you staying together? Do you want to go and talk to different people? Who do you want to go and talk to? Starting with Sentry, what do you want to do? They're all very... I mean, the Eladrin for me are a no-go.

They scare me. Yeah, it's fair. They scare me too. I think the Orc guy would immediately draw sentry's attention because she's used to seeing them so she'd be like okay that's what home looks like I know these guys I've seen them before

fine alright so sentry wants to go and talk to the metal orc like heavy metal orc is how I'm calling it. Oh, I like that. Okay. Are orcs native to Erois?

Or does this orc look different? No, this orc looks completely different to the orcs you've met on Erois. The orcs on Erois generally have a green tinted skin. They are covered in tattoos. They don't really wear metal armor. They seem to mostly wear things like Polynesian style dress

or they look like pirates like Oriah does. They tend to dress like Pirates of the Caribbean-esque pirates. This guy has dark gray skin. He's bald-headed and is just covered in heavy metal armor. He looks like he belongs on the cover of a metallica album is the guy like big spiky pauldrons and like axes and swords everywhere um you know armor doesn't look like that but this guy does the flaming armor looks like a giant suit of armor that has a fire inside its helmet is what that looks like. He's an Iron Maiden cover, surely.

Yeah, the suit of armor looks more like an Iron Maiden cover. This guy looks like he belongs on a Deathsave shirt. Like Joe Manganiello would make a t-shirt. Do you know what I mean? Like a real big fish out of a mark. Yeah, that's, yeah.

They're definitely a kind of real big fish less than Jake stuff. Uh, definitely. Nice. I love them. Nice. Okay, so that's where Senchi's going. Can I, I, I feel boring, but I kind of want to just go to the, like, the person behind the bar and talk to that person.

Absolutely. Um. Should we stay together? the bar and talk to that person. Should we stay together? No, it sounds like Tom wants... I think splitting up and talking to different people sounds great. I'll go with two. I mean, yeah, if Ayla wants to go over with Century to talk to the Orc, you guys can split into little groups for sure.

Or you can stick together. I just want to see where people wanted to go. We're in a bar right if we if five people huddle together walking back to back with each other watching every wall that looks weirder than anything else like you might as well talk to whoever you want to talk to uh but i'm just going to bar all right quill and lucius gonna go to the bar century's gonna go talk to the big metal orc what's Ayla doing? I'm wrestling a Minotaur. Let me consult my list again.

Alright, what's Nova doing? I'm intrigued by either Drunk Snake Hair Lady or Sentient Suit of Armor. Sure. Oh, Suit of Armor. Which one? Yeah, they're right. Which one? Drunken Snake Hair Lady. Alright? Drunken Snake Hair Lady.

Alright, Drunken Snake Hair Lady. Okay, sure. Ayla? I'm probably going to go with Sentry to the Orc. Okay, alright. Sounds good. Let's do Sentry and Ayla then. Initiative. Yeah, you make your way over.

No, you make your way over uh no you make your way over and they are they're sat not at the bar but a small kind of freestanding table um the orc is standing the goblin has dragged over a bar stool and is sat on that and you can see he's got a massive cigar and as you approach you hear just uh the kind of conversation of like yeah you wouldn't believe it the uh those gas mines are really making a lot of money, making a lot of credits off of those things. We could use a man like you. And the goblin kind of turns and sees you, and the

orc kind of rotates his head around. You can see he's heavily scarred, scars all over his jaw, and these massive tusks coming out of his mouth. And he just looks down. Can I help you? Hello? Oh, hi. Hello. mouth and he just looks down can I help you oh hello the goblin looks around it's like nice to meet you Wow look at these a couple of strong strong ladies

coming over nice nice to meet you ladies I was sorry I we're looking for people. And I was just immediately drawn to you. I don't know why. Are you talking to the orc? He kind of looks down. The goblin looks like, oh, you're not talking to me? And he kind of looks around.

He's got this big wide face. He's got a very wide smile, like a naturally wide smile. But with a squished head. So he looks kind of strange. He looks like a flattened pea. The orc kind of looks around. A flattened pea? Yeah, like a squished pea.

Do you know what? Like if you took a pea and you squished it a bit. I understand the image, but I'm trying to associate it to a goblin's head. Well, I just gave it to you. The orc looks at you, Sentry, and he looks at Ayla.

The two, very heavily armoured, heavily armed, and you see one of his hands go to a blade at his side, and he looks at you and he's like, Bounty owners. Like, questioningly. Somewhat. You see his eyes

narrow. He's like, We're not here for any trouble, honestly. You're fine. I'd hate to kill you. See? I wouldn't like to die. That's not so bad

after the fifth time you get used to it so what do you want we're looking for people who might might be captains of these these ships looks at sentry looks at you these ships. That looks... Looks at Sentry. Looks at you.

He's like, I'm no captain. This is... Neither is he, despite what he might try and swindle you out of. And the goblin's like, Hey! You didn't even let me try! As he kind of turns his cigar and puts it out. The orc kind of gestures

to the bar. He's like, you want to find any captains? Speak to Tyburn. He knows all the captains in this place. I'm just a soldier. Unless you've got work for a bodyguard. I'm not interested. Well, definitely good to have someone with that skill set on the radar. We'll keep you in mind, buddy.

Yeah, I'll be here if you want protection from dying. He kind of looks at Sentry when he says that. And you can see that there's an arrogance, but it's very much born an arrogance born from expertise. This guy does look like he has been through hell and back. Perhaps even literally, judging by some of the kind of like big scars like clawed scar burns on his neck looks like he's probably fought like demons and stuff like that before um yeah and he just kind of like nods uh and gestures gestures towards the man at the bar which is is where Quill and Lucius are heading. Do we have to buy a drink?

I don't really know how this whole thing works. Lucius. Are you asking this in character or are you asking Lucius? Do you have credits on you? That's the currency. I've got some from I don't know how much it will get us.

Is there a menu behind the bar? No. Let's just go with it and just act like we belong. And that's how we move forward, right? Look how well Sentry and Aayla are doing over there. Let's just... They're talking.

They're mingling. Let's just do what they do, right? Sentry and Aayla could belong here. Look at us, Lucius. Yeah, the two of you kind of make your way over to the bar and stand. You can see that the rough-looking Durgar and the weird spider creature are at one end. The drunk snake lady, from Medusa,

is at the other, who Nova is approaching. And yeah, you guys kind of stand in the middle as you approach the dark skinned fellow behind the bar kind of turns around he flashes you a kind of warming smile well howdy there friends what can I get you

hello this is me and my bird friend could we both have a beverage he is an elf. Yep. Sure is. I can tell that. What are you drinking? What do you want?

Information. Yes. You drink information. No, we're looking for information. Knowledge. We're trying to, looking for a ship to take us somewhere. Do you know any captains? I do, yes.

Friend, you can calm down. It's fine. You don't need to worry about so much. Yeah, I know lots of captains. There's a few in here today. I can point them out to you if you're looking to hire somebody. Did you want a drink? Yeah, I'll have a drink.

Thank you. Sure. Anything in particular, or should I just serve you something I think you might like? The usual on-this-planet stuff that we would usually have as locals, right, buddy? Yes, that's same for me, please, my favorite. You guys are the worst. Local drinks. Sure.

You're the absolute worst. Yeah. He looks at you. Local drinks for local people. Yeah, he gives you both a very strong look. He kind of like, he just like nods and he turns

and he pours out what looks to be like some sort of beer or ale. A very light, bubbly-looking beverage in just two tall glasses. He brings it back, puts little stone circles down on the bar and then he puts the drinks on them. He just says like,

there you go. Thank you. Would you like the monetary equivalent of these beverages now? Being locals, you would know exactly how much that is. Absolutely, Quill.

I'm used to paying easily. Darren, we used to pay two credits for these. Two credits each? Each. He leans in he leans in and he kind of puts his he puts his elbows on the bar and leans in he's like gentlemen if you're gonna try and pretend to be around here you gotta do a better job of this all right i'm not now if you if you're not from if you're from somewhere else and you're in a spot of trouble i mean it's none of my business. I don't care. I don't charge people for the basic drinks.

If you start racking up a tab, then I'll charge you. But the city refunds a lot of what gets spent here, so you don't need to pay anything. I'm sorry. You just have to understand we're freaking out. Well, that's going to get you into more trouble than anything else. Just try and stay calm, please. Now, you said you're looking for captains.

Hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, there's a few in here. Most folks around in the spaceport, they've probably got ongoing jobs, but there's a few captains I know of recently. They're looking for work. So if you're looking to hire somebody, recently they're looking for work so if you're looking to hire somebody there's a few and he thought he gestures towards the passed out snake lady that Nova is going to speak to that's Captain Thalia she's a she's a she's a bit of a firebrand but she's a good captain she's got a good crew she's got a good ship too fast you can speak to her she's uh she's a bit of a handful but she's uh she's a good captain like i said she's out of work at the moment he points to the insect creature who has now given up trying to arm wrestle the minotaur um and is just angrily like eating these kind of

small eggs he's just kind of like snatching them up and just gets sucked up into his mouth and he looks furious. Even though he's an ex-insectoid, you can't really read his expression, but he looks pissed. He points. That little angry ball of spines and chitin is Zixix. Zixix three arms.

He's a captain. He's got a living ship. Kind of rare around these parts. He's a captain. He's got a living ship. Kind of rare around these parts. He's a violent one, but if you're looking for a captain and you're looking for somebody that can hold their own in a fight, Zixix is pretty good. Why would you insinuate

that we... I don't make any... Well, he lost one of his arms. They normally... Mezaloths normally have four arms, well he lost one of his arms they normally mesoloths normally have four arms but he lost one uh the way i heard it tells it was ripped off by a star dragon but i'm not sure if that's true uh he had it replaced a few years back but the name just stuck around um that zig zix uh over there and he points to the gang of ten kobolds. He's like, that there, they are technically, they technically have a ship,

and they are technically free to take on a job, because nobody else will hire them. That is the Tic Tac Tribe, led by Prince Tactic. Oh my god, I'm gonna need Tactic. They are led by Prince Tactic. Oh my god, I want to be Tactic. They are led by Prince Tactic. He is a very ambitious little kobold.

Their ship is really just a bunch of scavenger junk stapled together. Do we keep them? It's not the giant pill-shaped ship on the outside. I don't think you guys would have seen the ship from where you were coming from. It's not the giant pill-shaped ship on the outside. No, I don't think you guys would have seen the ship from where you were coming from.

It's not the giant pill-shaped ship. Damn it. Okay. No. Is this something that we take for? This is very good information for us. The thing is that these... Look, let me put it this way. Captains come to here, they dock at the port,

they come to my bar they spend a lot of money on drinks and sleeping hangovers off and getting into fights and paying for repairs so if i get them work they're more likely to come back here so no it's fine don't worry friend oh thank you last sure she's an interesting one this last captain he points to the armored suit that is currently cleaning itself that there is lorelei blazeborn now that is a being i have never seen before in my life and all my years here in in ishtar never seen anything like her before her ship is it's a skull lord class now that's a powerful warship and how she got hold of it, I do not

know. They're extinct, I think. Nobody flies around in Skull Lords anymore. It's called the Conflagrant Vagrant. She doesn't have a crew at the moment though because the last crew all died. The way I hear it is they suffocated to death after the ship

got hit. She forgot to turn the oxygen back on because she didn't realize they needed it. Oh. Oh, my God. Wow. I kind of love that one. He leans in. I vote her.

He leans in. The thing about her is I've got a sneaking suspicion that she's on the Valkyrian wanted list but she's scary enough that nobody's come to find her just yet so if you want to hire her I'd hire her quick that one

yeah anyway it's unanimous I think he kind of like is like anyway gentlemen enjoy the drinks i'm just gonna go deal with i'm just gonna go take care of something at the back i'm just gonna go get some supplies uh nova uh you go over you kind of make your way down the bar um and you make your way to this this woman who is currently slouched over on the bar. You can see that there are about four glasses of a very colorful liquid around her,

and she's kind of playing. You thought she was passed out, but she's not. She's playing with several peanuts, and she's flicking them into an empty cup on the floor behind the bar. She's like, fuck. Fuck. Yes!

And she's just slowly going down the line, flicking them into the cup. And when she hears you coming, the snakes on her hair see you coming first, and they just let out a gentle sort of like... And she's just like, it's fine, kids. She's like, it's fine, kids, don't worry. And then she kind of leans around.

And you can see that she has very delicate elven features. But yeah, her hair has become this mess of tangle of snakes. She has little patches of scales and skins down her thing. She wears like a loose blouse with this like Nathan Drake-esque gun harness. But the blouse is very loose and kind of is mostly open. She doesn't seem to give a shit about any of her extremities being on display. And then she has a Han Solo

utility belt and then these tight leather leggings. And she looks up and she's like, Hey there, little pretty cloud. What do you want? Hi there, really pretty, snaky lady person. Look at you. I just wanted to check you were okay.

Because, you know, you just seem a bit inebriated. And sisters got to look out for each other. She, like, slaps a hand on your your hand like she's like slice like that is so sweet you're a little sweetie you are yeah give me a drink buy me a drink please have you not had too much like do you do you think... Don't be silly. You can never have too much. Captain Thalia can drink anyone under the table. Oh, Captain, hey.

I'm a captain of a starship. Oh, what's the name of your starship? Here we go. It's a great ship. And she kind of... The hand that she put on your she kind of slapped your hand she now grabs your shoulder and is like pulling you closer into her where she uses you to kind of hoist herself up uh into a sitting position and she gets really close

to your like she's like cheek to cheek the hair the snakes kind of wrap around and you can hear them hissing one of their tongues kind of tickles the back of your neck. And she's like, it's called the Twin Star. And it's super fast. And it's really good. I ate once. I broke the record

to get through. And she kind of like holds her mouth for a minute. And then she quickly leans over the bar and peeks all down over the bar. There we go. It's okay, it's okay. There you go. I'm gonna try and like, hold her snakes back, you know, just like pat her back. Don't get your snakes in there. Do the snakes throw up individually? No, the snakes don't throw up.

No, the snakes kind of actually look kind of relieved that she's throwing up. And you just hear her like, Oh, Tyburn's gonna kill me. And then she looks, she's like, Hang on, who are you? Do I owe you money?

No, no, no. You were, you know, trying to have a little flirt on maybe maybe man do you drink this much normally? yeah I drink this much all the time wait you're actually talking to me?

nobody talks to me I'm going to turn them to stone like I'm some sort of savage did you not think I I was gonna do that? No, yeah, that's the thing I can do. Okay. All right good. Okay fine. Oh wait, I do remember you you would yeah You came up. Yeah. Yeah, I remember now. What was your name? Did you tell me your name? I don't think you told me no. No, I didn't my name is Nova. I told you my name Yes My name is Nova. I told you my name, didn't I? Yes, you did. Captain Talia of the Twin Star.

That's me. Listen, I am still pretty drunk. That helped. And she points down at the vomit. That really helped. I'm just a little woozy. Why are you talking to me? Did you tell me this already?

No, you threw up on the bar before I got anywhere close to that. That's good. At least then this is a fresh start with a slightly clearer head. Okay. Spaceship, fast. Faster than... Yeah, my ship. The Twin Star. Look, don't worry about it. It's a fast ship. That's all I'm saying.

Do you need a captain? I'm for hire right now i need money so if you want to go somewhere hit me up right now preferably today um hmm uh we two places two ideas two ideas go on Two ideas. Go on. What? Hi. Two. One. One. Do you know the planet where Jasivir is? Jasivir? Or Eartris? That ruin? Lots of Ganassi. Yeah, the Ganassi homeworld. Yeah, Ganass.

It's called Ganass, the planet. The Jasivir, though, that's a ruin. Why? What? Oh. Okay, how far away is that? Yeah, like, it's... Ganass is pretty far from Elysium.

It's out in the... I mean, you're talking... Even if you go via Styx or the Infinite Staircase, we're talking days of travel. Do you want to go? Of course you want to go there. You're a Ganassi. You want to go home. Wait, then you... Okay, never mind. Sure course you want to go there. You're a ganassi. You want to go home. Wait, then yeah, wait

Okay, never mind. Sure. I can take you there. Like if that's where you want to go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, of course It's a few days travel How much much coin credits? Credits, that's what you use credits. She looks at you and she's just like just you There's a few others. Five total. How many? Including me. Five. Five total. Five. Five, huh?

You're talking ganass. I mean, it's kind of the same to get anywhere in the system that's at that kind of range. You're looking at about it'd be a thousand credits up front for fuel and supplies. Then I normally take a payment when we arrive at the place. That can be more credits, but I also am willing to barter and trade.

Excuse me. Yeah, maybe we can work something out, though. Okay. We'll do that. Other location. Oh, your snakes really are tickling. Okay. All right, okay.

Boys, come on. Leave her alone. And the snakes will kind of like coil back and kind of form into like a little ponytail. They kind of all kind of slither into a point and then droop down. Yeah, you think that. It's funny how, do you know, and she looks at you. The thing is, you say that, right? It's amazing.

Not many people say that. Being a Medusa is a, you know, technically it's a curse. But you know what? I've made it work for me. I've just made it work for me, you know? First of all, I can turn people to stone. That's really useful. Yeah, that's a handy trick.

Like, you know, I can imagine as a space captain as well. You know, that's useful. Do you know, the Fae bitch that did this to me, it was like, I'm going to teach you for arrogance and being proud of how good you look. And I'm like, you know what? I still look damn good. So, fuck you. I'm great. I'm great I agree you look fantastic look

don't try the flirting with me when I'm still drunk okay I know what you're doing okay don't look down the blouse looking at this right there but don't look down the book yeah hi um eyes up eyes up gonnaessi yeah blouse um where's the other place so i'm a little bit um this is embarrassing being a scholar i'm a bit astronomically and geographically misplaced right now bit So I'm not entirely... You know... Am I going to say it? Can we get to the point? This is...

I'm struggling. Do you know where Erois is? Erois? Why does that ring a bell? Or the system it's in. Just the system it's in. My navigator will probably know. It's ringing a bell in my head.

I remember something from a few hundred years ago. But Bim will know where it is. He's a nerd for star charts. So he'll know. I mean, yeah, it can't be further out than Ganass. So we're talking about the same place. Do you want to go to Ganass, then this place? Because that's a lot more expensive. Yeah, yeah, no,'d probably be that we're talking about the same Do you want to go to Ganas, then this place? Because that's a lot more expensive.

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm getting that. No, I'd have to talk to my companions and ask them. But hey, can I get you a drink? Can I get you another drink? What's the strongest drink here? Do you want to know? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you absolutely can. Get me a Gideon. A Gideon, for sure. Okay, hey. I love Gideons.

Can I have a Gideon for the ladies? The bartender then is going down as he leaves Lucius and Quill. Lucius and Quill, when you're kind of left alone with your beers for a moment, it doesn't take long before two figures approach you from the other end of the bar.

As you are approaching, the spider creature gets right up into Quill's... Like, it walks up to Quill and shoves Quill on the shoulder. And it looks at you with this kind of beady, spidery face, and it just goes... What? What?

He just looks at you and, like, slams, like, a clawed hand on the bar and just jabs it. He's got, like, these tiny little hands and then these bigger, longer arms, and his two little hands are just pointing in your direction. Uh, the Durgar comes up beside him, and you can see he's got, like,

an eyepatch and a long grey beard. He's got some sort of, like, almost like an arcane-looking crossbow, but it doesn't have any bolts in it. And he just leans around and just goes, He said he doesn't like you. I didn't do anything.

He doesn't like you. Hey, you leave my friend alone. I don't like you. Hey, you leave my friend alone. I don't like you either. Never seen a third man before. No, this is our bar. You shouldn't be in here. Look at you.

You're just weaklings. I'm baffled that you dislike us. You decided to get closer to us. Hey, hey hey you better be careful he's pointing at Lucius I'm we've served 12 systems with I feel like I was like II didn't pick up on it until then I did i was just trying to okay you're trying to keep it keep it stoned you finally got him uh

so what do you want to why why don't you like us i think we're quite out i don't like the way you look and he doesn't like the way you smell. Well, uh... What? I pride myself on my hygiene and the cologne I wear. I pride myself on my hygiene! Fuck off, elf! Get out! Do I hear this?

Can I see this? Yeah, I think like, yeah, Century and Ayla and probably, no, you all see these two hassling Lucius and Quill. Can we walk over? Yeah, cut his arm off. At this point, I think I'm tearing up and crying. Lucius is like... And he's just, he's doing that

annoying mocking thing wherever Lucius tries to say something to Durgard, it's just like uh, da-da-da-da-da! Fuck off! And the spider thing is just in front of Quill, looming over Quill and just, like, shoving you. Just, like, trying to grab you and shove you.

Why? Sentry, would you mind looming over that thing there? In, like, a threatening way? Yeah. Should we go a threatening way? Yeah. Should we go and do that? Let's do it, yeah. So you guys will move up behind the two,

hassling the other two. Well, how can I improve my body odor? I don't know, I don't understand. You smell fine, Lucius. I just want this guy to stop pushing me. You smell like a wet fart. You smell like somebody who's just shitting their britches. You disgust me.

Excuse me there, friend. You hear her like, what? And he turns around and the duergar, being a dwarf, looks at Ayla's belt buckle into her stomach and then has to look up. And he sees you looming down him. He's like, what do you want? I think you should stop making fun of my friend there

because that's my job, not yours. I think that you should bash your face in. You want me to bash my own face in? Are you even listening to what you're saying? Are you even listening to what you're saying? Oh, wow, okay. It's just for peeing things. Is that all you got? Okay, sure.

Light looks around. What's Sentry doing is you kind of loom behind this spider creature that's like jabbing Quill and shoving him. I'll just stand behind him and then like... And Quill's just going, stop it! Quit it! I'll let my matrix glow up a little bit.

I'll just like say, um, do you mind leaving him alone? The spider creature kind of whips around and it looks at you. This one's a little taller than the Durgar, but it's nowhere near as tall as Sentinel Prime. So it also has to look up at you, so you

have these staggered heights kind of going on. And it kind of looks up at you with this kind of, yeah, twisted spidery face. And it looks up at you and it's just like... I don't know what you're saying. I'm sorry, but we're all in this establishment. So do you mind just stepping away a little bit? That'd be great. The Durgar's just like,

ah, don't listen to her. Don't listen to this one. She hasn't got the nerve. All these polite words. You're all just weaklings. That's what you all are. You're just weak little sheeps doing what you're told,

sitting in the bark. You stink. You stink and I hate you. All of you. How does he smell? He smells awful. He smells terrible. He smells just like fetid

gases. There's like stinks of like sulfate eggs. And the spider smells disgusting as well. It smells like wet mulch. No, you. I'll just let the lightning crackle up my arms a little bit.

Sure. Do you want to make an intimidate check for me? You can give yourself advantage. No, you. He does not seem to be the brightest star in the galaxy. Oh, that's a five. Oh, I rolled like trash.

He looks up. He's like, what? Is that supposed to scare me? Is that supposed to scare me? Little sparkly fingers. Miss Sparkles, little Miss Sparkly fingers. No, but it will scare you when I hit you in the face with this hammer. So I would suggest that you back off.

You don't have the stones. What stones? No, I just can't be bothered to deal with you. Look at you. What do you mean? You don't have the stones. I could take you down. I would...

I could take you down in one punch, and then I'd eat your eyeballs. He might do it, Ay do it we should back away no is there is anyone else like watching this this this everybody everybody is watching this but nobody's doing anything the the all the different captains except thalia who is absolutely just talking with nova at this point uh the other three, so the insectoid, the kobolds, and then the big suit of armor are watching. And they're just watching to see what's going to happen, to see what you guys are going to do.

Who wants to do it? I will messenger ring. Okay, hang on. Sentry? What was you saying, Rihanna? I'm trying to step between the spider guy and Quill and just try and nudge him back and just get him out of the way a little bit.

Give me a strength-up. Just stand in between. Okay, in that case, yeah, you stand in between him easily. You kind of get in the way. The spider's turned its attention to you now. It's not bothering Quill. It's focused on you.

Ayla, go on. Okay. I'm just going to messenger ring and be like, really want to punch this guy in the face. However, we're on a planet where we're trying not to be, you know, discovered by people. And I think that that might draw a bit of attention. So any ideas before I get real mad and do just hit him in the face?

Do not draw a weapon. If anything, let him hit you first. Then you're in the clear. Self-defense. Ah, of course. I just can't be bothered. Did we find a captain? Just curious. Can we go yet? They're like,

the little Durgar is just like, What? Have you spaced out out not got enough brain cells up in that thick skull i thought you else was supposed to be clever i guess maybe you're like the runt of the litter huh and he's like kicking your shins just like not hard but enough to be annoying but he's also not reaching for his weapon like he shows no signs of taking any aggressive actions but he's doing everything he can to try and get you to... He's trying to provoke you guys 100%. This little shitty Durko.

The orc is watching you. The orc that you and Sentry were talking to earlier, Aayla, has just got his arms folded and he's watching you very carefully to see, again, to see how you take care of it. Maybe we should buy him a drink or something. Maybe you should buy him a drink. something ah maybe you should buy the drink

give me all your money pretty elf how much money you got i have nothing so you're a poor loser well i guess so you're literally trash you're walking trash you're just garbage you don't even belong in here get in the gut gutter. The three Elandrin girls literally stand up on the table and shout across the light, Hey! Shut the fuck up! We're trying to listen to Shansara over here!

If you don't shut that stupid fucking mouth, I'm gonna come over there and shut it for you, you stupid dergar! The dergar is there like any out of curiosity is there any like yeah coat hooks or anything that i could like just sure absolutely at the entrance there's um yeah it looks like it's like a hat rack like an old like a weird futurey hat rack

can I just pick him up can I pick him up make a strength athletics for me yeah make an athletics check for me oh this goes well oh no I'm rolling terribly athletics okay hang on what did I roll Oh, no. I'm rolling terribly.

Athletics. Okay, hang on. What did I roll? 11. 19. It's still enough. This guy has no strength. As soon as you pick him up,

you realize that he doesn't have any muscles. He's just this little thin... He's quite fat, but he doesn't really have a lot of muscle strength to him. He looks like he's quite hardy, but you just lift him up on the ground. He's like, what are you doing? Put me down! And then you walk over, you stick him on the hat rack, and then you walk back, I'm assuming. I just think you need a bit of a timeout, man.

Just calm down. He's trying to reach behind him. Yeah He's like trying to reach behind him. Yeah, he's trying to reach behind him and like let him loose and stuff. Quite a few laughs and chuckles echo around the bar. But eventually, yeah, just like, he does go quiet and then you just hear him like,

Spider, get over here! And then the little air cap kind of stops looking at Sentry, looks back to the Durgar, and it kind of slowly kind of saunters over to him, dragging its long arms across the floor, lifts him, picks him up, puts him down, and then the Durgar's just like... And then they both leave.

And they both kind of scoot out of the room. Okay. Yes. Okay. And with that, that is a point to take a break. I can't believe it take a break what just happened we're going to take a break what just happened is

Mark got however long like you know worth of frustrations out on Tom and Trot like just fucking swearing at them for like 10 minutes straight in character your shit I also just your shit i also just wanted to i also just wanted to do the star wars bit to be honest i just wanted to do like

my friend doesn't like you and then see where it went uh right let's take a break i haven't had social insecurities in such a long time so thanks for bringing that back mark you smell like shit. Wow. What a good thing. I do.