Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 12 | The Enemy Within: Part 2

Episode Date: August 28, 2024

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Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Capricio de Cesto. You can call me Caprice and you're listening to Beneath Dark Wings. Here's what happened last time. Trabli, are you all right? Is this Centra? Yes, this is Entra. Weathered of gold, a fake gold and kind of pink sign. It says the Queen Bee waves in arms as well, this is it. You bring up to a problem? God bless you.

Oh, hey, welcome to the Queen Bee. The main question that I have. who that hatch, the tunnel that goes in there. Someone knew about that. We are lucky that we made it out of that labyrinth with our lives. We need to discuss why it was a labyrinth, why minotaurs, why who is the horn king? Why the fire of the ash and the war?

Why devil, why are devils and demons dealing with us? Why is entra? But he also mentioned the six eyes of the raven. You know that the high general's name is, High General Virgil, Sir. Don't you want to know who his employer is? Well, if you know, absolutely. He was getting paid by his

violin Gaelstrom newspaper company. Post is not speaking of any of the things that are happening in town. It's as if it's propaganda. They're trying to convince the people in town that there's nothing happening. Either way, we know that our next step is the paper.

You all have, it is the morning. Ravali has just gotten back with all your forged papers to go about the city. And he passes all them out to you. And that's where we left off, right? Yeah. Yeah. But we didn't launch us. We didn't want to ask.

We played cards into the night and then went to sleep, essentially, right? Because he was getting the papers in the morning. Show me your papers. Yep. So, you all have fake aliens. Eliases. Oh no. Wait, are you giving them to us?

Yes. Oh, my God. What's happening? We're getting, we have vacancies. My name better be cool as fuck, Mike. Elias. So, you give me so many good names so far, Mike. If you fuck me now, would be upset.

Benedict Towerbott. I'm okay with that one. Maggie's like, I'll let you decide when you get to me. He just scribbles out. Oh, that's hard work. 10 minutes. So, Toa, you get papers for a gentleman named Siegbert, Pine grip. How do I spell that?

S-I-E-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-E-G-G-G-G-G-E-G-G-G-G-E-G-E-G-E-R-T-E-E-R-N-E-E-R-E-R-E-T-T-T-T-R-E-E-R-E-R-E-R-F-R-R-R-R-F-E-E-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-E. Frozen bow. Frozen bow. Fries and frozen at the same time. How do you spell bow, B-O-W? B-O-U-G-H. Otrieve wants to go back to Germany. Oh, yeah. Um,

Felix, uh, may choose if he wants to do. No, you get Albert Sunshot. Sunshot. Sunshot. I'll take that. Albert Sunshot. I like Albert. But deep down, I'll always be Benedict's Powerbub. I'm going to.

Especially when I take the stage in the next big town. I'm gonna write that out. I'm still gonna write that out. Powers, Bob. Albert Sunshot. Yeah. Albert Benedict's sunshot Power. Iris.

Iris, you get the alias of Headwig, Holy Soar. Ooh. Holy Soar. S-O-A-R. Oh my God, I hate you. Headwig. Headwig, Holy So. And what were you?

These all families are pine grip. Really? I don't feel like that was not Yeah. The general is pretty good. So head and wig is great. Being cold a sore about it. Holy sore.

Holy sore. Holy sore. Heswark. Seagwin bark. Seagin. I thought you shams was with the S with their pounds. Or her job.

You have Carla Moon Watcher. Ooh, Carla. Moon Watcher. I like Carla. I'm a big fan. Watcher. Watcher. Watcher.

Watcher. I'm a big fan of fairy tale. And then finally, Luffy is Inga, I-N-G-E, flat arrow. Flat arrow. Inga Flat Arrow. Jerry Power. It's Benedict. It's Benedict.

Albert Benedict Powerbottom Sunshot the third. It's a family name. Arnold? Yes. Carla is one of you, right? Yes. Yeah. Carla Moonwatcher. You got me there. I guess that's right. And Ravali says, and for the next day, for the next several days, at the very least, at least when we're going between districts, I am Lubin, uh, Leat stem. Ew. L-U-B-I-B-B-I-B-B-A.

I didn't write down everybody's name, so I'm sorry. Wheat-Shap? You want a wheat stem. I've got a stem, Louben. I do get this after your sandwich. sandwich. All right, so one more time, can we just go rolling Browns table and just say our first names? Yes.

So we got Lubin. Lubin. Hold on, so Lubin. Okay. Derek. I'm Otfried. Ottfried. I am Albert.

Tell what? I am Siegbert. We spelled a pine grip. Ziegbert. We spelled an S. Pine Grip. Zybert. Siebert, yeah.

Zeebert, yeah. Z, E, B, E, or two. Hedwig. Hedwig. Hedwig. Hedwig. Ingha. Inga.

Flatsero. Inga. Yeah, I'm not remember last names, but I'll get in. Oh, yeah. And then Carla. Carlyle. Carlyle. Yeah.

Gretchen and Carlisle. And do we have stories or something? Is that part of the deal, or is it just the names and what else is all these papers? A photo? Do we have pictures? That's not a thing, right? No. No.

They didn't take my picture? It's not that magical. We're not that high magic. It's not a Harry Potter film, animated version of Caprice. Felix would be done so, man. Everybody'd be like, okay, yep, you're going right to Zentra person. So obviously, there are no pictures. And so if anyone asks, we are looking,

just looking to potentially move to Zentra, We are nobles that are potentially looking to move in and are just going to look at some of the local schools for children In the area Interesting. Hmm. And are we related where I feel I guess we're not related where we're just okay, we're all friends Do we all know each other? Yes, we come from money. We do we will be going into Skyreach. We should have a money. All right That sounds like a fun place to go. So do we need to change your outfits? Oh, yeah, that's a good. I bet. I bet. That's why I'm wearing this fancy nice outfit with a long billowy cape.

Oh, that's really nice for you, Capricci, but a lot of us aren't. Well, I mean, we could go buy some fine clothes for everybody. Yeah, you know, I... I think we're gonna have to go somewhere else. Can we buy clothes once we get closer to the Skyreach district? I can pretend do we have fancy clothes. I can't do, but only for about an hour. I don't know that I can afford fancy clothes right now, so maybe like some knockoff fancy clothes.

Well, what if I also get into not... to not as fancy clothes, and then we tell people that we're trying not to dress up, even though we are nobles and come from money. We don't want to get robbed. We don't want any questions. That seems easier. Is that easier?

Ravali? I mean, Lubin? I appreciate you committing to the acts. No problem. We should be able to find some knock off replicas, maybe at some shop in the black market somewhere. We want to do that. Or I think that we'd be able.

I think that what we're wearing should be fine. Well, I'm going to keep the cape. That's fine. I feel like we are probably, as long as we can talk our way through the checkpoints, we should be fine. All right. This music is very intense. So good.

So good. I trust you. Do we set out immediately? I mean, we got a far way to go. We're far away to go and I think that we should just stake out the area and wait till nightfall and wait until it gets late and see if, see our planet attack. Okay. Okay.

So I am going to lead the way. Everyone else just act natural. Well, just let me know when you need me. I will not be able to take Thomas on this adventure. I can't be out all night without him. I have to wait for word for my father when he's sending someone to collect him in Dolly. Is it all right to just leave her Thomas with Dolly? There is not a chance that I would leave him unprotected.

Not until I know that I have someone from my father, whom my father trusts to escort them out of the city, not knowing what we know about the connection between this place and the missing children, the moment he's out of my sight, I risk someone taking him and him finding him his way back into that baby furnace. Baby furnace sounds rough, so yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. I do honestly wish that I could accompany you, but I must wait for my...

I sent him a message yesterday, and he said that he would let me know the moment he had someone that could come and collect the child. Remember, he does no way of contact me. Yeah, that's why I contacted him the night prior and asked him what the plan was. He didn't say anything. So Iris is just going to wait. I believe... No, you didn't ask him what the plan was. You just said that people would be coming.

Yeah, and I said I wanted to just kind of reiterate everything that was going on, and find out what we need to do. So I was insinuating that I wanted to find out what the next step was. So I mean, at the end of the, I still would have told him where I was staying, so I would just wait. Or do you want me to stay with you?

No, not at all. I think you will be fine. I think we can't go without all of us. So do you want to contact him again? Okay, that's a good idea, because he said that he was going to. That was part of the reason I contacted him last night. Well, he may have more time to tell you who is

contacts up here? Well then if you're willing to go tomorrow, I would, but it takes a lot out of me to contact him, and I'm not willing to go on this adventure with you, with your lives on my hands, essentially, if I'm not, if I'm not prepared for it. I would much

rather wait. Is it possible that you could just, you really don't trust Dalek to watch your house? I do not. Even though you're going to send him I've got bruised you too. She will have people that my father trusts. It's not like I'm just saying okay Dolly take this child and here's a map to neckbet make your way

but we'll be back though we'll be back I mean you could Madame Delphina can defend herself and all these women they have Brewster too I completely understand that but this child is my responsibility Lubin do we think that we can wait another day on this I mean how much more I feel like another another day if we absolutely need it I let my father yesterday exactly where I was staying. He could easily, whatever contacts he has, there are priests all around to necket that have abilities far more powerful than mine.

If he wants to communicate with me and he's ready to send the baby on its way, he would be able to find me and retrieve Thomas. All I can do is let him know what I have and where I'm at. And at this point, it's in his hands. But I would not be able to live with myself if I knew that this child were harmed because I was neglectful. I spent all of last night waking up every time he cried.

Except for once, but it's because I forgot it was a child. I thought it was a cat. Not like a tabaxy, but like one of those creepy desert cats that are you in the middle of the night. Like a bald cat?

No, they're not bald. They have mangy hair and dirt sticks to it and things. So, we have our ability to speak to each other and I am very quick. So,

should I hear from my father, I will meet up with you. I don't think we can... Should we waste a whole other day? And I'm not asking you to. All right, then just catch up with us when you hear from him. Captain Lugin, would it be amenable to just have her catch up? Well, I mean, we're going to be going very far. I think that what we can do is give it a few hours in the morning

and wait to see if anyone... Because we need to wait until not anyway. How long will it take us to travel across town? Perhaps if we could wait a few hours. I'm fine waiting to have an early lunch and then we'll head out. All right. If we're saying here then Florine, are you here, Florine? Are you here, Florine? Are you guys leaving the... I thought we were in the brothel this whole time.

You guys are in your room in a long. Oh, oh, I will exit and I will look forward. exit and I will look for Florine. Florine says, yeah, you got more gold? I think I only pay new silver, but I've got a few more silver. I've got some new song ideas I was hoping to run by you. You got a gold this time?

Yeah, what the fuck. Okay, honey, let's go. Let's go. I'll spend a couple hours of Florine testing out some new ideas that I have musically and getting her and seeing if I can get her with a tap, even though she's not enthusiastic about it. So you do that.

May a performance check while you're at it. Yeah, my pleasure. I do not do well. That's going to be an 11. An 11. So it's not great. It could be a lot better. I can not crack the code.

God damn. Yeah, I mean, I've heard better in some of these local places. You know, don't beat yourself. Do that? Oh, alright. Yeah, personality. Thanks.

Thanks. And so as soon as, as you're kind of just waiting the day away. Some John's come in and out. They go up and meet with some of the girls. Brewster is there. He has coffee going for you basically all morning. And as it kind of gets towards the middle of the day, a woman appears and She seems to be dressed in full black. And she's wearing a full black and white, a color that's very, very high up.

She has a parasol beneath her arm and a large handbag. And she- Is this literally Mary Poppins? And she walks through the door and she kind of steps slowly through and she looks around and I'm looking for a dolly. You can hear from Florine's room. A spoonful of sugar makes the water sugar go up.

Oh, good. No, nothing. That's crazy. Ooh. Okay. What are you doing? I'm not, I'm... Where is Dolly?

Hmm? Where is Dolly? Dolly is, um, Dali seems to need with someone. Did we see? I'm just in the room. I'm in my room, sipping coffee. I'm not, I'm chilling. So I don't even know if I would see this person come in.

Whoever's in the common? Yeah. Would Dolly still be working after the conversation that I had with the lady at the house that she has a new position? You know what? I would probably say no. So she would be in a room somewhere getting ready, I would say. Who's the common room? I'll be in the common room, I guess.

I'm sure I would be. We'll be having a beer, yeah. A morning beer? Is it night or morning? It's like after morning. afternoon now. Or it's approaching you. Yeah, I would have the morning hiding in my room. I'll jump up on our approach and be like, hey, dear, we know, we know a dolly. What's your name? My name is, uh, Ingrid. Ingrid Schultz.

Pleasure to meet you. I am Hersia. I'm looking at her parasol in her hand. Does she look like she's wanting to shake hands or not? No. I will stick my hand out anyway and just poorly motion. She looks down and it and looks back at you. Great. So I will let Dolly know that you're here. Are you here to escort her to neck bet? I am here to escort her to, as far as I need to, yes. Great. I will let Iris know and I'll just like to back up slowly and I'll go find Iris. I'm going to do like a really exaggerated like kind of half a curtsy and then half a bow because I'm not quite sure what she's looking for and then back away. away with Hershey. So I go, wherever Iris is, I go find her.

I was literally sitting right next to you. Oh. Oh, I thought you were in the room. I thought you were in the room with, what's her name? No, I'm teaching Thomas that these women are not for him. Yeah. He's gonna marry a beautiful tobacco. Oh, great.

Actually, this is Iris of the Sands right here with our little Thomas. He's our little ray of sunshine. I think Ingrid here was looking for you. When you said you were searching for a dolly, I thought she were actually referring to a toy, so I ignored you completely. I regret having done that, as that means you had to speak to Hesha, which I realize is very grating on one's nerves. I also regret that. Yes, I apologize. Damn.

Did my father send you? The high rector of my church sent me who knows your father, yes. What is my father's name? Your father's name? What is his name? I don't remember. You don't know? I don't remember it either.

I've never, I believe so, but I've never had to actually say it. She says it, and his last name is Roe. Well, no, now I have to know what it is. It's Fay Row. No, I'm pretty sure that you're right. That's great. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, that's Hersias.

That's why I can't find it. Documents. It's like Jasper of the Sands or some shit? I believe. Yes, it's Jasper. Oh shit, I got it! I've really heard it once in my entire life. She looks at you and says, The Pharaoh of Siquet, Jasper of the Sands.

Lovely. I trust that you will make sure that both Dolly and Thomas will make it to Sucat. They will have the protection of myself and the Raven Queen. And they will also have the protection of a newness. The more than marrying, sorrow's death-cars.

Well, I will escort you to Dolly. We will pack up Thomas's things. His tabaxi name is also Jasper of the Sands. He is the second in honour of my father. But I prefer if you call him Thomas. He is a human, unlike myself.

And I don't know how well those in Sycate will take to him right away. I prefer if he goes by his human name. Dolly is a bit strange but she has my protection and she will also have a bit of coin from me and I've provided her with clothing so you should have no trouble there when you arrive please have my father send word that you've made it there properly and I would be happy to pay you for this very much appreciated leave your father arrange a donation to our church

lovely I would make sure that should I have the ability to, I will stop by and also provide a bit of coin in donation as well. All coin is appreciated for the work that we do. Of course. We are in, we are not in flocks rest, we are in the memory, or not flocks roost, we are memories rest. And so it requires a lot of work to maintain the tombs and the catacombs that we do. So all coins appreciate it.

I completely understand that. I thank you very much. and if you'll follow me. And then I'll take them and, you know, say goodbye to Jasper and tell him like, don't you worry. Don't tell Grandpappy that you are a Jasper. I have to make sure I tell him myself.

It might irritate him, but the name holds symbolism and I really want you to have it. Don't tell Lofti, but she is your godmother. So, but don't tell her yet. I don't want to shock her. Dolly, you make sure that if he cries, You give him a little pat on the bum. That's what I've been doing.

A light pat, not a hard one. He's a baby. And you find a way to let me know if anything goes wrong. And make sure he does all of his lessons and he eats three times a day. And if he throws up, it is your fault. Okay. I think we're ready to go. And I'll give him, like, you know, a hug and they'll go.

And then I'll sit in the room and cry for like 10 minutes before I head down. Before that. Before that happens, she's a little. She looks at you and says, oh, I believe this happening so fast. Thank you so much. And she gives you a huge hug and kind of holds you, she's kind of crying in your fur a little bit. And Ingrid walks up and she says, there there, child, the trip will be safe. We might be comfortable, we'll be safe.

And she'll like, wait. Time to go, child. And she kind of prize Dolly away. And Dolly is very, very, very careful. set up the baby Bjork on her so that she can firmly house the Thomas. And so they both walk downstairs. And as you're crying, you hear Dolly crying more with Madame Delphina. And you hear voices from outside and they're talking and you can tell that they're saying goodbye.

and eventually the voices disappear. As all of you just see this very tight, prim and proper woman, and you see kind of around her neck there is a clasp that has the head of a ribbon on it. And she leads, she kind of holds out a gloved hand, and Dolly takes it, and the three of them walk out, and you hear angry kind of lean down and says,

You'll never have to do any of that foul business ever again. Let's go. And the trio disappears. And then after like 10 minutes of crying in the room, I'll come down. Well, we are no longer burdened by an infant. Oh, is the tank engine gone then? I'm sorry, what? Never mind.

What is the tank engine? It's like a... It's for brewing. You wouldn't know. You've never had to... It's a non-important. It's a strange thing. to say, no, the infant is gone.

Yes, that's what I meant. What? What? I'm sorry? You are very, very strange. Well, I think we'll be able to get there with plenty of time to spare. I'm glad we, I'm glad we left. If you still have the power to contact your father, feel free to let him know once we're done with all of this business.

Sadly today, I do not. Ah, I see. That's why we would have needed until tomorrow. And then potentially a day after as I would have been spent. I know how that is. Shall we? Are we making our way into the evening then? To Skyridge.

To Skyreach. To Skyreach? To Skyreach? To Skyreach? I poke my head out of the hotel and pulling cup of coffee. To Sky Ridge? Oh! Come on, Felix.

We're going. All right. To Skyreach. To Skyreach. To Skyreach. To Skyreach. To Skyridge. 2 everybody new campaign

I'm excited for Skyrim 2 I can't wait so you make your way through the city and as you're walking as you're walking around Ravali has his hood up and

and he looks around and takes the time you're just you walk for hours and probably an hour and a half to get to the the the so actually where would you be, so you would be taking

that we're going to have to basically go around the entire city. That's why it takes so long to get around here. You can't just cut through. So I am going to suggest that we go through the garrison border.

And everyone just act natural. Won't they take us right through the Black Rose District? Which direction are we going? We're going to. I'm I forgot about that. Wait, do they know what you look like, Heelis? Yes.

I would bet there's probably someone alive who still knows who I'm looking. I would bet that there's a large number of people who are actively looking for this face. Well, if it takes less than an hour to get through the Black Rose District, then we just do that. I could disguise myself long enough that we can make haste through the Black Rose District. And if we find one in mint condition, that could be like 20, 30,000, gold. you lost me Black Rose is a very valuable You know what it's not important

Oh okay And if we refer to you by Sunshah That's a pretty like gender neutral name You could always just turn you into a woman Oh well my papers say Albert I mean I guess I could still be a woman You could tell them your name was Alberta And that there was a mistake

But I think I'll just make myself look like a different man But I appreciate the offer It's a good idea Why can't we just go around the other way If we're going to cross? We'll go around the other way I, there are a few people that I've had run-ins with in the Conquest Ward and there are some, some bad people all over the place, but I think that if you're concerned, I think that you should, let me, let me, let me put it this way. I think that we're in the lion's den here. There's a good chance no matter which way we go, somebody may recognize me. So whatever you think is the safest or fastest way, we should take it regardless of risk. Again, if it's fastest for us to get through the, the Black Rose District, then we can take our chances, and I'm willing to disguise myself

through that portion of the journey. Okay. I just think that I haven't explored all of this city, but they're actively looking for deserters, especially one who knows what I know. No matter which way we go, we may end up with the fight on the hands. Well, let's just please try to look inconspicuous. I agree. I can do the best I can.

So, and as you're basically walking up towards the citadel, and you see now that there's actually a basically a... ring of a main road that goes around the entire thing and the gates are heavily closed and doesn't seem anyone is passing inter-out of the gates into the set-out and so you see that there are gates that are their roads that go to gates to the surrounding districts and so as you arrive to the point where you've basically the crossroads he says i i think that we should avoid as much risk as possible, and I think we should be fine. I trust so.

You lead the way? To the conquest ward. To the conquest ward. To the conquest ward? To the conquest ward? To the conquest ward. To the conquest ward. I'm sorry, where are we going again? To the conquest board. Oh, unfortunate. It's the ward of conquest. Well, don't, most of you need to get fancy clothes?

I think should have been in disgusts? I think Ravali said that we'd be okay and we're wearing. Fancy as it is. Iris is very fancy. But I'm... Ravali. I'm sorry. Lubin said that we'd be okay. I think all of you with toad disguise,

he wouldn't be the only one that I would. No offense. No, that's exactly right. I'm glad I have this ring. Persia is our... Is our on-call handy person. I love an on-call handy. Oh my God.

To Skyreach. To sky witch. To sky reach. I'm going to transform into a Zibbert, pawn grip. Like the sailor. Like the sailor, like, swirling. I turn like all-white silhouette.

They do a lot of these. You're welcome places in the background. That's amazing. And shrink half of them. Oh, my God. Well, Zebert. That's awesome. Great.

And we just call you bird or do you prefer the whole thing? Bert is fine. In fact, I prefer it. Okay, here we go. It scared you a little. Does anyone, I admit, I'm not a great actor. Does anyone want to do most of the talking for us? I mean, I feel like you're looking at me a lot when you say that.

I can help Capricci a little bit, but... I think Caprice should do it. I mean, I think Otter guy, Frot-O-Ride, Otfried. Oh my God! You're bushering the Frot-Hodder. Fride otter. Fride otter.

Fride or Otfried is fine. Yeah, no, I can walk us through one of these checkpoints. When you do, you just go up, and then you put your bags through the little conveyor, and then you have to stand like this for a few minutes, and then it just let you through, right? They'll ask what we're doing for each district. What our plan is to do in that.

district. So I'll say we're going to Skyreach through the districts that we plan on going through, but that we're not stopping for any purpose, that we're specifically going there to look at school. That sounds, that's perfect. I mean, the law of average says I'll be giving a natural 20 at one point, but no problem. Yes, exactly right. Let's go. And so you make your way through and then you see a large gate approaching as the massive wall that separates B-7 heavens. I'll have the city map out and I'll be like looking around touristly.

I'll be like up against him just being like, ha, and like pointing at things and being excited. Okay, make a performance check advantage. Ah, very nice. And I'm wearing like moderately fine clothes, like better than what I was disguised as the day prior. Got it. I'm feeling very 23 about this performance.

Okay. So as you do that, you see that there is a large gate you're approaching is ratcheted up. and there's a line of soldiers on either side of the gate. And there is a gentleman fully uniformed. And there's a large banner of Korovakiah hanging behind him, and he's standing there sternly watching everyone that comes in, and you realize that there's a number of different people

in order to kind of keep things going. But there does seem to be a bit of a line. The line gets shorter and shorter and shorter, and eventually you arrive. You see the gentleman look. all of you. And he says, papers, please?

Yes, all at once, or just the one at a time? All of once is fine. Oh, okay. I get him in a stack. Here you have. As I touch to hand him the papers, I'm going to cast guidance on him. Ooh.

I'm actively looking absentmindedly around, not really making eye contact with a guy, and just trying to be very nonchalant. Ooh, guy, you know, not draw attention to myself. I've got my collar up and my hat, you know, pulled down, but not like not covering my face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, and then I'm kind of like looking around, admiring the sights and things like that.

And what is your purpose in the Conquest Ward? This is the Conquest Ward, then, yes? It is. It's first time for me. My name is Otfried. It's a pleasure to meet you. We're just passing through trying to make our way up to Skyreach, take a look at some schools for children. Me, a deception check. I'd say, yeah. Should I use the thing? What did you roll?

What did you roll? I mean, well, I can't say. Could you also have guidance? Oh, yes, and that means D4, right? It's one D4, but... It is one D4, but it's... Let's play some D&D. I got a one, didn't you?

12. 12. I would just want to show you what this gentleman got for his insight. What was it? Natural one. Natural one. And he looks over all of you and says, very well, enjoys a word.

Appreciate it. Anything we should look out for? Say as a throne. Is that the name of an inn, or is that just in, like, a direction? Have a good day! Oh, honey, you're so cute. Let's go. And you make your way through. And although you're only at the, just one tiny fraction of this whole district, you can kind of start to see the billowing smoke rising up from all across this district.

and you hear the clanging of angles, the churning of wheels. And there's a bunch of people walking the streets, tools in their belts, faces covered in so large, heavy leather aprons. And you get the sense that this is very much the center of industry in the city. And you make your way to the next checkpoint. And as the checkpoint arrives, you kind of the smell of the smell of the source, smoke in the soot in the industry heading behind you, or drifting behind you, you see the exact

same setup. And it's probably been like a full hour just to get across to that, to that, to the point that you're at now, to the second-up checkpoint, at the very least. And you see a woman this time. Very heavily uniformed, very well-decorated, a number of metals more so than the other soldiers. And she looks you up and down and says, Bepors. Oh, yeah, no problem. Do you prefer them all on a stack?

That's like the last guy. You're all of them all. Oh, yeah, okay, sure. I'm going to once again touch him in cast guidance. He's looking through. My name is Bert. I said. I'm just going to grab him by the Army.

But that's not a full name. Zygbert. Yes, I got my bird. Just saying that it's preferred. Oh my good. I can't. I can't. I turned to him and I give him a wink.

And I give him inspiration. I need some help. And birds, if you, your preferred bird, what are you doing here in Flox Roost? Oh, and providing protection to the group. For what purpose? What do you have to... What protection do you have to give in a... district protected by the raven with herself.

I'm going to grab her and kind of, please excuse our friend here. He's simple. You know, and he follows us around, and he's very good and is sweet nature, and it gives him, you know, purpose to feel like he has something to do in the group. He just feels like a protector. We're on our way to Skyreach, looking for school children.

I mean, a school, children... Oh my gosh! It took us one day! One way to fuck it all up. Moniz, bitch. I am going to need a deception at Disadvantage. Three. Felix beats a sweat for briefly.

A natural 20. Yes. That's a disavated rule. You can use the roll. Use it. Use it. Use it. Use it.

Twist the fate. Thanks, but the best I could do at disadvantage would be. of three still. Right. Because it's going to be absolutely... Well, you can change out that damage. It's a point. How... No, you would re-roll that down. And get as close to 20 as possible. So it would be a 20 and something

else. Oh. So it could be a 20 and a 20 if you got left. Right. So you can get as close to 20 as possible. Now, it seems like the time. I agree. Who? Yes! That's what I'm fucking Tio! My man. Wow.

I felt it. Oh, holy shit. You are keeping... 20 plus one. She's like, defaided at other. Oh, yeah, Deception 29. Okay. She looks over and says,

Raven Queen's blessings upon you, and she hands back the papers. Thank you kindly. Felix, after she says, Raven Queen, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, hands at pockets, and like walks by real quick. And, and so, and so, you see Rivalry, who was also known as women.

then. His face is completely ghost white and he kind of sidled up beside you and says, please talk before ten again. Yeah, what the fuck was that? I got to do this and I wanted to feed in. I mean, I appreciate it. I was trying to role

play how I think they call it. I'm really trying to relieve the role of bird. And while we're on the topic, maybe when we talk about our story, we don't say we're looking for school. I just got fucked up because I thought I was going to do all that. I understand. He did the moment.

I understand, but we just need to choose our words a little more carefully. Childs, school for children. Yes. That four is so important. Let me tell you. I got it. Oh, my God.

I'm so important. Oh, oh. Oh, my God. How many more of these gods damn dates do we have to go? I think just one or two more. And so as you make your way through the, city you hear the sound of bells. You look down,

you see rows, and down, peaking over this building, you see all sorts of different churches and chapels, and you see the symbol of the Raven Room. What am I missing? He said we're trying to find

children to give us candy to me. And Megan said, next gate. Barbs actually driving the white van. He's kicks it open. He's wearing Adidas and a white heater. Oh, man.

Anyway, we're in the Fox Roots. I'm attempting to set the scene. You hear the sound of bells and you see these dark gray buildings rising out as far as you can see. You see chapels and churches and shrines, the figure of the Raven

Queen. However, you do see the occasional, the occasional small shrine or maybe small modest church to a number of other gods. So it's like a religious district? It is. It is. But you down, you see peeking over the buildings in the center of this district, these massive towers just totally covered with massive stone statues of ravens all alongside. As you see a colossal cathedral. at the center of the district, with stained glass windows all just on

nearly every inch of the gym. And you see people walking around piously, you see people that are dressed in various vestments, and some seem to be a combination, some seem to be relatively simple, and others seem to be

kind of almost combined with a military uniform. And with a high collar, and with that Wait so these are actually military uniforms like individuals Like it seems like there's some investments There's some priests or priestesses

That like are kind of It's a military This is not good Are all the manifestations The Raven Queen identical Or does it look like there are subtle different takes On how she looks and feels The latter

Because I think So the idea is that basically The Raven Queen is the Is the Primate Goddess of this entire country. And there are varying different ways in order to in order to basically serve the rights.

Because basically the whole idea is that basically the, I think that that maybe religion is actually. Caprice is trying to get a sense of if there's like a known look and feel of the way that she appears at 12. You have guidance.

Everyone has, yeah, I saw the guidance. I mean, there would be some sort of unified agreement, but I imagine there might be slight differences based on... Yeah, so I don't mean like they don't agree with her. They don't agree with like the depiction. They all know that she's a goddess of death, a goddess of fate, a goddess of winter,

a goddess of secrets. I was purely talking about, like, you mentioned that there were representations shrines, like statues of her. And so if you go from one corner of statue to the next corner of statue, does the face look wider or narrower, depending on how, like,

just the physical representation of how she's appearing in these things? There are very, very, very few statues actually have a physical depiction. A lot of them are near your blank face or it's the raven facade or whatever. And some kind of do have a depiction of a oven and woman with elven features. Interesting. And that is generally what you'll find. But there, you get the sense that it's basically which, how connected to the military they are,

how rich they are, how rich they are, there is, you know, there are varying different. I'm not sure. It's like kind of versus like the little, the tiny, like little rickety wooden church, versus the massive, you know, Beck style of that. Cool. Thank you. And it seems to be very much, and it also seems to be a heavy residential area as well. And you see houses rising up.

And you once again come across another checkpoint. Oh, let me do the talking guys. We'll lock up. And there is a gentleman. He seems to be a bit older than the two people that you would come across. and he looks at you and kind of looks at the whole party and says papers. I have them all right here for the seven of us. Here you go.

What's the district there, by the way? I can't see it. Four winds. We're trying to move into the four wins. Which one were we in previously? I heard of briefs. We are in flocks. We are in flocks.

Yeah, we are in flocks through. And what business do you have in the four winds? It's not in the four winds. We're passing through to the Skyreach. We're looking for school for our children. We give a second track. Mm-hmm. squirted quite carefully.

Let's go with the 28. And you're only stopping through in the four winds. Unless there's something you think we should check out. Yeah, I mean, we pretty much have straight to the Skyreach. To Sky Ridge. To Sky Ridge. To Sky Ridge. Very well.

Thank you, Guy. Well, this one was a lot sooner. Not much farther to go. And he lets you pass. While we're walking to the Four Winds, I just want to keep an eye out for anything that would feel familiar to me, any Goliaths maybe, but also anything kind of remotely related to actual like wooden stuff or animals or anything like that.

And so as you make your way through here, you actually realize that the general makeup of the crowd here is consistently very different than the other district that you've been. You start to see a higher percentage of other racists mix in with the humans. You look around and you see several open-air markets, large stores with multiple levels. And, uh, Rodeck, Toa, you look around and you see that there are...

Taua-Dec. Toad-Dak. Toaddeck. Toaddeck. To-a-Dick. Roa. Roa. That's pretty good.

Roa. You look around. And while you don't, you catch the glimpse of someone through the crowd who is tall with a very cleanly shaven head. And it's gray. And you think that might be a Goliath and then disappears in the crowd. And but you also see a polished purple horns. And you see a T-flin walking about. And you see a number of various other races.

and you look around and you see this a creature walking through with a hood up that has you see kind of brown feathers coming out from from within these large yellow eyes trying not to draw too much attention and you see just a variety of people and you see these shops and there are you're used to you've been traveling through Korabaki and Strigga more broadly for a long time now and you're used to the general craftsmanship, but you're actually seeing a few bits and trinkets and decorations that are carved in a almost tribal style. You see a large structure from beyond the buildings. It almost so seems to be in the center of this district, which is this large stone structure that is almost kind of almost gilded. And it looks like a massive bank as you make your way through.

And so I don't know, Roda. A bank. It looks like a bag. It's Burt. Burt. Burt. I said Rota. You get me off.

Burt. You notice, so you notice things of styles of craftsmanship from different parts of the world there as well. And some might be in a totemic style, but not quite, does it nothing remind you of home explicitly? You're just walking through the main road around the citadel. So the Goliath I might have heard, or what might have been a Goliath, could have been any goy. You know the Glein that you're looking for has hair. Oh.

So you didn't, like, visibly freak out, or Tau would be like, hey, buddy, all right. But seeing, I think I'd be surprised that there might be another Goli, period, in Stricka, that's not me or. The dude. Or anyone else. The man.

Does this feel like the most adultic and yes. Yes. Absolutely. There are any people that I can't be I love by would just be like. Well, we're not finishing the session, guys. Are you all right?

It might be Ernie. My mortal nemesis. I saw him. He has yellow skin in a big red nose. I saw my sleep. And I started running. I kept touching people. No, no, no.

Ernie has orange skin, Ray. She's thinking it can burn. Oh, I have to be. You're sorry. You have a yellow. Oh, Bernie. No, Bert. I thought we talked about.

Oh, You start running him over with your ice cream. Oh, who will look after my number of ducky? I randomly generated a bunch of shit. Never again. Never again. Never. I never get into the voice as an option.

We all are all centered. We're in treating, guys. We're in serious. Let's all remember Dolly's a horrible child. It's true. I did say Bert's and B's. I said Bers and whispered it. I didn't think anyone else would hear it.

All right next to a mic. It's true. All right. Remember, our lives are to take. To remember. You could easily get executed. There's a mad puppet on the list. I do have a question for the DM.

No more Muppet or Muppet talk. Are there any notes of Murd and religion being practiced here? Because I know you said it wasn't just one religion of the Raven Queen. There might have been multiple temples. I would say make a retroactive perception check. Okay. Sorry, I just burp. That's going to smell really nasty.

That's why like anytime you see me going like this, it's because I'm blowing burp up. I have a window over here. Yeah. I just been blowing it at the table because I blow it. Every time I do I just turn and look at Kelsey. Great. It's not a common problem.

For the record, Leafy, I said mad puppet, which is a Muppet, okay? 12 for perception. 12 for Precipicion. One is like a great month. I'm going to Colby. Oscar the Grouch. Holy Super. Holy source trying to hide in the trash and I want to get the crap

I fucking hated that guy Oscar, why are you such a grass? Bitch, I live in a fucking trash piggin. Yeah. So, anyway. It's up to 12. While you were looking around, you saw several other gods. You didn't see any gods with the Dwarman pantheon.

Okay. You kind of saw majorly worship gods like, you know, Saluna and Lafander, or Silvanus, or Silvanus, how are you pronounce it? It's kind of so long. Yeah. It is. Is it really?

Yeah. Oh, Jesus. I thought that was a joke. No. No. No. And another highly Pellor. Other highly worship gods.

I got all my eyes at the Pellor church. Yeah. And so you're not in that ditching. I got them. And you eventually, you get to the checkpoint. You get to the checkpoint. There are no puppets. I got a hit through with them.

I don't like it. So we're heading. We're going to Skyreach, guys. To Skyreach. To Skyreach. To Skyreach. To Skyreach. Can you tell me how to get to Skyreach?

Why? Hey, a checkpoint. What do they say? Guys, this is the last one. We just have to not fuck this one up. I think we got this now. We got this now. I mean, if we didn't fuck up that one time, I think that we're going to be all right this time.

Come on. Everybody give me the shit. We know how this goes. Once again, I'm going to give him guidance. You see a woman who's guarding this. And she seems to be the most decorated of all the people that have come up. that you can come. And you see that people that are heading from the four winds

into this district are very well dressed. Some are entering in carriages and stagecoaches that are just incredibly gaudy and elegant in design with rich velvet curtains and just pristine stallions carrying them. And you stop, and there's a very long line and as you're making your way through you closer and closer, And one of the, the line that urine is for this one particular woman seeing this very highly decorated. All of the different soldiers watching it at the checkpoint are all basically at the same station, it seems.

And she, her hair is kind of pulled up into a very tight bun, and she looks at the whole group. Thank you, Rich. Stop it. Where's nose? He'd be okay, Mercer? I'm going to be nose. Okay, Mercer. That was a deliberate thing.

And she turns to you. That's a good one. And... I appreciate you having these ready. Absolutely, no problem. Here you go. What is your business? We're entering Skyreach to look at some schools for our children.

I don't see any children. No, they're actually back home. We have nannies, take caretakers, that kind of thing. Except from Jack. You have guidance. I'll need it. We got three of these bad boys. Yep.

I'm going to go with 14. 14. Okay. So she looks at all of you, and she says, these names seem to be very local, and you do not seem to be local. Do they? I mean, we're not from around here.

That's great. That's great, man, if we're going to potentially live here. Why are you moving here? It's one of the greatest cities in the world. We all respect the Raven Queen and being closer to her heart in this country. That would mean the world to us and to our children. Name is a pageant.

Me personally, I love Ravens. Can't get it after. Really can't. I think you have to get it. 27. What was it? 27. Damn.

Bill's good. She looks overall. She looks over all of you and says, they are very good schools in Skyreach, and she hands you the papers. Do you have any recommendations? Never had children. I hear the schools are good.

Thank you for your time. You make our way through. You make your way through the gate. Through Skyreach. And you finally enter Sky Ridge. Yay! And this is a restricted, complete antithesis of where you spend most of your time, et cetera.

Complete tithesis of the seven heavens. And as there are just promenades and avenues just sprawling up and down with grand mansions and row houses that go up four or five, six stories that are just beautifully crafted and decorated. Everything seems to be pristinely taken care. care of and just tons of gardens and walkways. And you see there's a bit that they're seeing as you're making your way through.

Everyone around you gets back to kind of the predominantly human crowds that you're used to. And as people are kind of giving you a side eye, I would like everyone to make a group performance check. Oh, dear, good, gracious. Great. It's been nice to know everybody. Holy crap. Nice. Did you get it at a one? 20? You saw that?

Mind-blowing. I see it. It was on one and it rolled the 19. Oh, that's awesome. So I got a 21. 21? I got a 19. Did you say performance?

Yep. Ew, I got an 8. 8? I'll make up for that with a 28. 20. 10. 10. Okay, so the men in the group,

actually roll for Ravali, actually do really well to kind of act like some nobles like they're supposed to be here. Still kind of acting and conspicuous, maybe except for Burr. Act like a noble. I am in the movie. Yes, well, of course. So for Iris, the DC also helps the DC for Irish's law. And that one of time. Oh.

As you got to think about the same. Very cool. Well, thanks, Mike. I wasn't expecting that. I was just being a shit lord. As Iris is, well, no, you're not a noble, your royalty. Yeah. No, was beneath. Oh, literally.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And so you're all acting to act. Iris comes naturally, and Ravali is struggling a little bit. But you all seem to be mostly undisturbed and unmolested. Come on, Ravalli, you gotta pretend like your pockets are heavy with coins. Which is why should I walk like this?

You know, isn't that everyone else is walking? I guess so. I guess so. More stick up. I grew up in a whorehouse. As he is... It's dark. He won't get any bow-like now?

Like, what does it mean? It's not natural. I apologize. And as he, you are led through, he, follow me. I know we're there. The primary printing offices. And he leads you through the streets. And you see around a bend, you get to a, um,

a, oh my God, not like an office park area, like a corporate area for the analog. Is there an analog I'm looking for? Maybe it's also? Business and industrial? A business, basically. It's like a business district.

Yeah, there's a little business district, basically. It gets out of the residential area. And there seems to be offices, very fine shops, merchant, merchant quarters and the like. You see several banks that seem to be, far nicer than the ones that you had seen in the Four Winds District. And you eventually see a large building up ahead

made of very fine but deceptively simple breadwork as you see a large wooden sign hanging above that says... Oh my God, I can't believe I forget. Oh, the Wyland-Gaelstrom newspaper. Oh, fuck. Oh. And it says

Home of the banner. Home of the bear? The banner. Is that the name of the newspaper, the banner? The Zenra ban. It's called the Bruce Banner. Bruce Banner. The Zentra Banner.

They also call it the Hulk. Motherfucko. And you see making newspaper. Large windows. The banner, sorry. The banner. And as you...

As you look around, you see that there's a few kind of like strips of cloth wrapping around. And as you close, there's some text on it. And it says, Zentra's most trusted news source. And you start to see that the offices are open. We casually walk around as Rivali guides you around. And you see you look in through these large windows. And it seems to be a two-story building. And on the ground floor, you see the...

huge printing presses that are that the type seems that have all been set and that ink has been splayed across and they're just cranking it out in this huge assembly line nothing's automated it's not fantastic all magic business but there's a huge row rows and rows and rows and rows of individuals all lining up cranking out page after page after page and then they all get sent over to the bindery as they're all getting down So it's like OG 1500s printing press style. Yes.

Hey Lubin, it says this is the most trusted news source in Zentra. Is there any other news source in Zentra? Or is it just sort of ironic in the way that that's... There are smaller publications. But my understanding is that Gailstrom has all the sources. He gets all the scoops. he gets he puts out the government approved message that's fair well remind me to patronize only the smaller publication I will do we do we know the name of them maybe that would be helpful if you

know what they were called Caprici can we really trust in any of the news coming out I would say probably I would say problem I would say that's oh you said but quiet quiet Burt. I intend not back me up, Al. Wait, you have names Burt. Burt.

And I clicked and I go, there it is. We can both be Burt. Phoenix. I think, I know what I say? I was wondering how long you could realize that.

You're big Burt. Maybe you're big Burt. Maybe you're all doing this? Because then I can be Fred and then you can be Whig and then you can be law and you can be good. I was thinking maybe we just keep the owl there so we don't get confused. All right, I guess that's fair. But if you want to call me Little Bird, I guess that's okay. Well, Little Bird, oh, Al, perhaps I'll call you both depending on, I mean, depending on the moment.

I'll decide what to call you. Although if I call you Bert, I might get confused that I'm referring to myself. So I'll call you Al instead. Don't let it get to your head there. Just whatever comes natural. This scratches my vort, how does anyone talk like this? I don't know. I don't think anyone dies.

It can be a little fricky to hold up the note. Stay true. Aye. Say true. Sorry. The fact that it took them that long to figure out the booths and then were yeah. So I was waiting for somebody, I was waiting for one of the guard people to like be like,

like Albert. And then me be like, oh, yes, that's Albert, and this is regular bird. And he never came up. So I was just, like, waiting for somebody to mention it. That's amazing. Anyway. Did we just go? Should we just walk into the front here, Al Lupin?

I think that's a good idea. No, absolutely not. I don't think so. Well, if they're, like, perhaps a side alley and we can crawl onto the roof and then, you know, repel down the side and bust into the window of some major meeting and then interrupt them and demand answers. No, that seems like a tape. terrible audience. Well, I'm just spinball in here.

We're just standing in the middle of this business district, looking around like a bunch of schelps. Why don't we look nonchalant? And it's not nighttime yet, is it? No. The sun is setting in the sky, and it looks like it's probably towards the end of the business day, and it looks like they are hard at work printing the tomorrow morning's paper. I mean, I'm happy to look nonchalant.

How shalant are we? We're looking right now. I just feel like... ask for a tour. Do you think they had tours here? Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, absolutely. I don't think they have. If anyone gets alerted to the fact that we're, that a bunch of strange people came in for a tour, if you want to risk that. That's a good point. Hmm. Often we just lie low and case that place until not time and then we go in. Is there a nearby bar where we could wait until night and then maybe we could go in and change the

type before they print tomorrow's paper to whatever we desire. That sounds like kind of fun. You could put like a, well, we'll talk about that later. My preferred font is papyrus. I mean, that made perfect sense. Very nice, Nikki. I've always been a, I'm a new Roman kind of guy right now. Wow.

Definitely impact. I love you. Bald and large. He hates for pirates. I've worn about anybody who tastes, he's papyrus. But this is not as bad as comic sands. But if the objective is that, we're going to ruin the reputation of the newspaper. I feel like Comic Sans is the way to go.

Why don't think our goals to ruin it? Well, so I guess, I think that there may be value in sewing some chaos, but are we ready to jump to that conclusion yet? No, we're not. We're actually, we need to go talk to someone important. So how do we get from here, you're talking to someone important inside that building who might have the decision rights over how this paper is messaging? and what it says to the math. We also need to figure out who that man was that they employed and put on their payroll

to do renovations on this barn. I think that's really why we're here. Shouldn't we just wait until nobody's there? Because the whole reason we're here is that they were paying for the tunnel that led to the horrible junkie to evil demon bull blamering thing. I mean,

Frank thing. Hey, hey, Lubin, is, hey, God of the world, Is there any justifiable reason why anyone would just be standing in the middle of this fucking district for no... There are people that are walking around and might be having a late luncheon or late dinner. People are milling about. You see that there seems to be a much heavier guard presence or the soldiers are walking around.

The internal police are walking around. As a more guard. They're not fatter guards. Yes, exactly. There are more of them. And they seem to not be paying you too much mind. I think the general idea is that if you manage to, especially this district, you manage to get through with your papers and everything, that you are generally going to be fine. And so you occasionally get the occasional glance of a pair or more of guards and members of the military police.

Well, let's go over to that street card over there and grab some euros. And you know what I think we should do is as we eat, let's keep an eye out for someone who fits the description of the dude that you heard about in the first place that brought us here. If we see him, then maybe we can, you know, I don't know. What did they look like again? He was pretty oddly. He was bold. He hid. Yeah, I described him.

He's apparently loud and obnoxious. Well, then he might be pretty easy to find. That's what I'm hoping for. What was the name of the girl that you were with? I didn't catch her name. I thought it would be best if we didn't trade names. Oh, that poor girl. His name was...

It's kind of a safety thing. He had a bulb that you was short, had a bulbous red nose, and was bold, and... And that's what I had. Bobliff Red nose. I wrote that down wrong. Sounds like a real looker. Yeah, short, squat, balding, boldest nose.

Spent a lot of money, he's human. If there's street food, I will go and start to acquire some. And then I will look around for someone fitting the description of what Felix has told. So there are only street foods. You know that there's a number of cafes and higher end shops like that, and bistros, that sort of thing. And I would say that, you know, that you,

This building is on some small square where you'd be able to look across from like an outdoor table. It's getting a little chilly, but they're still outdoor seating. And you're able to, would probably be able to just walk people come and go out of the... This place looks charming. I'm going to get myself some sky kish. What do you guys think? Sounds fantastic. And it's called the Benevolent Distro.

And you all manage to get some sky kish. It's a lot of egg-based things. How did you know they'd have Skykeesh? You know, as soon as you think of a pun, it's going to be somewhere. And you do that. And you all enjoy, and you're all just kind of sitting there, sitting at like some various tables, just kind of keeping an eye on things. And I'll just say the whole experience for the kind of place that you're in probably cost you 15 gold pieces.

It's pretty damn expensive. But 15 gold per person? No, no, I just had two. Two eyes. What? I just had water. That's like two a piece. Basically two or three pieces.

Yeah, yeah, three pieces. No, I'm kidding. As you do that, you, right as the, right before the day ends, you see the door, a small side door that no one's been going in and out of. Open. and you see a very well-dressed man set out of that he is in a tawny three-piece suit and he has a chain of a pocket watch that's going to into his pocket and he pulls it out and he looks at it

silver watch beautiful closes that you look at you look at you look at him and he has kind of this salt and pepper hair super slipped to the side and a thick mustache and a tiny little V goatee and he looks at it and he looks around closes the watch and he leaves makes his way down the promenade heading towards the the citadel of the queen's conclave and as and as you all wait you start to see the workers from the press and the bindery start to clock out you see men and women covered in ink their hands completely all some of them is completely black or their hands covered in cuts and the like from the bindery roughed up and they

all seem to be looking pretty rough as they are all kind of clocking out and you see the end of the door opens they're entering punching punch cards and eventually making their way out. The sunsets. The night goes on a little bit, and then you see that the last oil lamp goes out at about eight. And you see one person walking out. As the door closes, large chains are wrapped along through the handles of the entrance. the heavy padlock on it locked up and you see the person that leaves is squat

boling and he turns around he has large bulbous nose and he seems to have a very kind of simple a custodian outfit booking outfit as he seems to have been there kind of cleaning up after everybody and then he's the last one to leave and locks up and he starts walking Well, I don't know about you guys, but we can do something one of the many things right now. I'm kind of inclined to fade and do nothingness, go and take his keys, and then we can let ourselves in with, you know, whenever we want. How does that sound good one? Is it the guy that fits the guy?

That's the dog guy. He fits the description. I mean, we might as well find out where he's going. Regardless, he has keys to be. Right, I agree. I do feel it's kind of weird that a guy that's selling weapons is the same keyhole. to a newspaper factory, but okay, we can go take his keys. Now the guy selling weapons was a totally different guy.

Yeah. Was that the guy that you were trying? No, that was that his dude. So, you actually didn't tell us anything about the guy that you talked to. Oh. I mean, I mentioned it. Yeah, yeah. She mentioned line.

You specifically mentioned Reiner, because I don't remember you ever mentioned his name. He mentioned that weapons weren't being sold. Yeah, I mentioned that I talked to the guy. We don't know anything about Reiner, though. Like, I mentioned. That... Correct. Right?

I'm just making sure we're all on the same page of what we know. He told you about a guy named Reiner Softbreaker. Yes, he's a weapon seller. But, but... And about his shop. But I don't think you told us any of that. I thought you did. I think you mentioned...

Is that the guy that you massage? That's his name? Yeah. I don't even remember that. It was Rayner. So R-A-I-N. So not Ryan. No, not...

I don't have told you what I... That I talked to the guy. So just so I understand that. The guy that she was in the room with, his... His name is Raynor. Raynor, yes. And he owns a shop. Rina in mine.

Yes. Okay. He owns blacksmithing shop and weapon shop. That person is different than the description of the newspaper guy that we just saw who the young lady told me. True. Yes. So the guy that we saw locking up the newspaper joint is the one that the young lady was describing to me. Okay.

So this guy doesn't have a bulb of nose? No, that's that guy. Okay. Oh, welcome the orange coin. It's a lot of... We've gotten more information to the sessions than any fashion to keep up hard. I apologize for that.

No, that's a... In New City. Mind-London of the city. If you guys have a better idea, that's fine. But I could just poke into the shadows and see if I could just that V-Boo-Boo-Bring right there. Can you do anything like making him our friend and then we can give the information from him?

I mean, I can just make people into friends. I can suggest actions to folk. I can kind of warm up to them. But immediately, after I warm up to folks, when I do it magically, they become quite hostile. It's also getting kind of late, and I haven't really done any of the things that I can do. I can easily get in and out of the building if there's a window. So then why don't you worry about getting inside of the building?

Why don't you go not capture him, but then you could make yourself invisible and pretend to be like a disembodic voice, and you could suggest to him to give him everything in that, to give us everything he knows, but mainly you because he'll be invisible, so he won't realize that anyone did it to him, He just thinks he's crazy. I feel like I'm just going to try for the keys first. If you notice, then I can make a suggestion. That's what I was going to say. I mean, you want, I could question him, but.

Is it getting dark? It's already dark. So, like, are there alleyways on either side of the building that you can, like, walk around the building? So, yeah, there is an alleyway towards the back, and there's a larger kind of promenade around it, but there is an alleyway along the backside. I'm, while you do that, I'm just going to go take a look at the building. I'm not going to do anything crazy. I just want to go see what the...

building looks like and if there are windows and things like that. Will Lubin join you because... Uh, uh, Lubin, if you'd like to go with me, I might feel a little bit better about it. I would like to go with you as well, but just, just keep in mind my fault of trying to actually question them. I trust nobody but you to do it. Oh, I'll think about it. All right. If you ladies would keep an eye out for us, just, you know, maybe give us a signal if you

see anyone coming. Yeah, make us make us sound of like a dying giraffe. Oh, what? It's like a... Whoa. What does it do that? Excuse you. If you hear a very large, loud, dwarven burn.

That's a good point. I'll just burp. Yeah. Oh, that's right. I mean, the thing is it happens so often. What if it was just like a normal bird? I'm running out of time. I got to follow this guy.

Bye. And I'm just, all right, I'm going to... I'm going to... Okay, burt. Just look nonchalantly and then just follow very closely behind. Okay. So you guys are all going together? I just want to...

to go look at the actual building. No, we're not going together. I'm gonna, I'm just gonna basically protect Felix as he walks up to the building. It says up to you guys what you'd like to go. I just wanna go take a look at the building. I'm gonna go out of the side, like check out. I am going to slink in the shadows behind him staying,

saying about 60 feet away from. Behind me? Okay, cool. Do I know that? No, probably not. Cell check. And for me, sell chat. How big is the building?

The building is a very large two-story building. As you kind of looked in, that the, The main floor, like the factory, had very high ceilines, and it seemed like there's a smaller second floor, but still very large. Like how high? I would say probably 25 feet would be the high level of the height of the ceilings in the press room and the binary. I just want to go down between the buildings where it might be darker and see if I can peer into a window. Just take a look. So you take the gander into the window.

into the window and it's basically kind of the gist of what you saw. It's very done and you had seen it during during daytime and you see the moon is kind of rising up and it's not full it's probably waxing. And the it's illuminating slightly, the presses the huge vats of ink, the stacks and stacks and stacks of paper that are all getting ready to be twined up and setting you're not really sure how long you have before this is before people actually start coming to start delivering papers and more and so and so you all look around and sort of see stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of paper as well as this as you as you kind of poke your way in you see however

that it's not all just empty factory floor with press and papers that there's also seem to be a number of offices maybe were the writers So in the room, in the room, there are places, it's just an open floor. It's an open factory floor and the wall just appears to be a wall and there's and there are walls where there are seem to be offices that you're not really sure where there's where the reporters are and you notice there is a stairwell that leads up to the second floor on the backside. I turn to Tso and Ravali and say, all right, well that was basically all I wanted to see

if we need to, I can get an in out of there. Okay. You can just use your magic just to get us in? I haven't done it, but I've been studying it for a long time, and I think I can do it, yeah. I think we should get back. Well, not all of us. That's just me. If we go in, we should all go in together.

I agree. I'm just saying if there's something, if we only need to get in and out for a second, we can't get the keys, I can go in and grab something and get out instantly. Okay, very well. And he says, let's see how Caprice and Caprice. Yeah, agreed. Let's head back. And so, Ira, what were your self-rolls? 15.

15? 18. 18. What were yourself rolls, by the way. Oh, do we stealth? Yes. I have not ruled it. I mean, were you,

self-in, where he's walking up? I guess you, yeah. I mean, we were, I was totally safe thing. Yeah, yeah. I was attempting. Oh, God. I'm gonna fucking die when I... Can't something, I find the building.

I'm like, and welcome Char-a-R-Lazar. Oh, Charles-Zard. Let us know. But Charles-Az-R-Lazard. That's a clever name, I like it. Felix. I'm still text. I'm a same.

Oh, yeah. I got a 22, surprise, Wayne. Wow. Oh, I might be 17. I think you're all right. I'm up here right here, let me check. Oh, dear. Oh, wait, stealth.

Sorry. Yeah, 15. 15. OK. Yes. So basically, that just was retroactive for that whole endeavor. Also rolled through falling. And so, Iris, you are slinking through,

like a literal alley. Your kind of bright yellow eyes reflecting, just a slight moonlight and a nice warm glow from the street lamps. And a lamp lighter can already come and let the lamps and so it's dark but there's still kind of this warmth coming out of a lot of the shops and residential areas thank you charlizor oh thank you charles our scream was good enough yeah that if we hit our follower goal which is what 800 yeah yeah if we get 800 a hefty hefty

we're 13 away 13 and it's going to be in chat so you got to be in chat when it happens exactly yeah keep watching yeah got to be here so uh iris you are watching Caprice and you're saying a hundred you're matching his speed perfectly he has no idea that you're behind and Caprize you are following this this this guy who's leaving he has like a heavy material of pants and seem to be covered overalls he has a dirty rag hanging out of his pocket and he just seems to be covered in all sorts of grime and he's kind of waddling away and he stops he sends that he's heading towards this small restaurant on the side.

I have two questions. Yes. Do I see a place where it would be where I would feel comfortable turning invisible and not being noticed by anybody? Do you remember yourself from? Do you remember yourself from? 18. 18.

I would say that you feel like you could probably duck behind the hedge of a park or something like that. And perhaps more important, do I see the keys or has he pocketed them somewhere? He seems to have, he seems to have pocketed, but I would say that because you had just seen him lock up, you saw that he took the ring of keys and put it in the front overall. Oh, boy. The front of the front or the back of the back?

The front of the back. Okay. Not as bad. Hmm. He seems to be not paying a whole lot of time. Camter. I'm going to just follow behind him. I'm not going to go totally insane

and do something wacky, crazy yet. I'm going to just in myself follow behind him. I'm hoping to see if he, turns around. If he doesn't turn around in the next five, ten minutes, then I might take a more dramatic action, but I want to see if he like stops in a bar or stops anywhere where he's turning off. So you see a small little cafe that's open, probably close to closing, that makes all sorts of like sandwiches or whatever, and he starts to walk. He's about about about about 15 feet

away from the exit. And there's a small little cafe that he is starting to walk. And he turns into it? And it doesn't look like he might sit down for whatever beverage? or food he might enjoy? Yes, it does. So he at least, you see the door open, and a bell rings, and you see a large number of boards besides a counter and some seating areas there,

and there's all sorts of different sandwiches and that kind of thing, and he stops him in, and the door shuts behind. I will walk in, and I will see if he's there at a table. You walk in, and you see that he's at the counter, and he's like,

yeah, can I get a... Are you invisible right now? No, I'm visible. So the bell rings normally seems to notice to you. Besides, the person is currently taking his order. He orders kind of just like a roast beast on some kind of, you know, simple red, simple cheek sandwich. And he sits there as they make it behind the counter. And then they finish it, they wrap it all up.

And he takes his like, oh, thank you kindly. and then he walks over to a table and he sits down and he unwraps it. Does he appear to be alone? He's one. I will order the exact same sandwich. And I will walk up to him and I will sit down in front of him. Okay, I would say that sandwich would run you

three solvents. That's a sandwich, that's, that's, three hookers are milking. Three hookers and milken is how much this sandwich cost. Three hooks in the milk. Five golden rings. I'll sit down in front of them and like, listen, we don't have a lot of time. He looks at you and blinks at him by.

His face is like really flush. And as you realize, he's kind of stuffing his pocket where he normally probably would have put the keys, he's sticking the flask back in there. As his face is flush and his nose is all even more flush. He sits down and he blinks and he says, Excuse me, friend? Well, I, I know I don't look at it. I know I don't look familiar to you right now,

but it's because of a. Are there windows? Because I was 60 feet behind. Are there windows? Would I be able to find a place outside where I can see them within 60 feet? I would say you could walk around the other side and then triangulate in their position.

And you see Caprice. I'm just going to walk them and do nothing. And you just look at casual and you look in. It's very well lit. And the windows aren't huge, but they're big enough that you're able to see Caprices sit down at his table. I'm keeping my voice slow so that no one else that the table can hear.

I see you enjoy the nip. I know myself, and I very much enjoy the nip as well, because I am you. What are you doing? I am you from the future. I'm here, and we only have this evening in order to take care of business. You need to give me your keys back right away. Otherwise, I do not look like a t-fling.

I'm just telling him this information. I know how I look in order to prevent this. If I'm happening, you need to give me those keys right now, You need to let me go do what I need to do. Otherwise, the timeline is going to be totally screwed up, and we will be forever cursed as a devil. Well, Felix is prepared to die. He blinks a few times, and he said,

well, you look way more handsome than I do. That doesn't sound so bad. Yes, but my penis has literally fallen off. Yes, but my penis is literally falling off. Can you make a persuasion of a disadvantage against a drunk guy? Why don't you have some basquetti? The persuasion at disadvanced? I can't even say it.

Baskettie. Basketti. He blinks. I can prove it if I have to, but we can't do it in here. He reaches out. I'm gonna need another drink. Oh, that's it is a sex event. Look, I'll only do it for a moment.

What are we gonna do? It's what I have to do. I'm here to just get the keys, please. We'll prove it then. Let's go. I'm taking my sandwich. Wait, no, you, just. I look both ways, and then I very quickly

disguised self to look exactly like him. And then I pop it back off and I'm like, do you understand the danger of us losing our penis? This is serious business. This is fucking unreal. We don't have time now. The longer we've been here, the The closer, the more of a risk there is to the timeline.

Can you make it for space in chat? Oh my God, I'm 30. No! Not 20. 18. He blinks and he rubs his eyes and he's like, I need another one of these. I'm with you and I take a flip. Okay, what is to fall off?

All you need to do is go back to bed, not worry about it. I just need the keys so that I can get back into the newspaper and correct this timeline. Okay. Good luck, Wellington. If all is well, you'll have the keys in the morning, and nothing will have changed. And I, thank you. He looks down at his flask. Have an extra sandwich on me.

On you. And he sits down. down, he just grabs, he puts his flask back in, he double fist the sandwiches, and ah. How is the irreparable mental damage this poor person? I get to the door, and I turn back and look at him, and I'm just like, you did the right thing. And I leave.

Wow. And you leave the establishment keys in your possession, and you start. I start to make my way, I don't know if I see Iris there, but I start to make my way back to the business district. I'm just gonna continue to follow him. Okay, I would say you're not, what's your present perception? My passive is 15.

15, you roll higher than that, right? I roll 15. Yeah, so he would see you, right? I sort of do this, and then I, uh, underneath my cape to sort of give like a little key jangle and then, uh, do one of these, and I'll follow along. Okay, yeah. So, uh, you kind of make yourself aware, and then Iris tails you as, uh,

The two people with tails walks, they walk away, and they head back to the cafe where everyone had been casing out in place. And I would say that you all arrive back at the same time. Okay. Well, I got the keys, everybody. I think we're still inside at the bar. Yeah, I would have kind of stayed at the table. How'd that go?

Oh, yeah, it went fine. I mean, I told the guy, explained our situation and just sort of like, he's being very reasonable about the whole thing. You was willing to part with the keys very easy. You didn't tell him who we were? No, no, no. I just explained how important it was that we went into, no, I'm blind. I totally fucked with his friend. Oh, fuck. What did you do? You know, it's probably best if I didn't describe it to you in full. It was pretty fucked out. You use your spells and he told you exactly what was going on with the camera, right? No, no, I pretty much just used this guy's though. What did he say about the tunnel? I'm sorry? What did he say about building the tunnel

for months? Nothing. I didn't ask him about that. All I wanted to do was get the keys. So, oh, oh. But Felix told you before he left that he could get us inside the building. All right, all right, let's all right. I thought he said that he could get himself inside the building, not at all of them. Well, assuming that he wouldn't be there when he said that. Oh my God, I'm dying. All right, all right, listen, I was only saying that if we had to get in and out for a second, I could do that.

But if we have the keys, we can come and go as with one, like you mentioned. But I just want to make sure we know what we're doing before we go snooping around in someone's building in a very rich area of town where they will throw us in jail forever. Can't we try to track this guy? Like is there anything we can any kind of spells we can put on him to so that we can find him later tonight if we need to? This guy that I just stuck to. I mean, I know where he's favorite sandwiches. I don't, he and I are very close now. I'm not too worried about finding him again. I worry that we're getting a little, we don't really have a plan at this point.

Ravali, you got anything? Well, I guess we're using the keys to get in. What are we looking for when we go in there? We have to find the play. I'm sure there's something on this tunnel. Just evidence. We're just looking for the next clue? I thought we were going to get inside the building

and find out if this place was legitimately, like, concerned about its issues, or if it was being propaganda on purpose. All right. Well, then can we at least not try to go through the front door and see if that key works on maybe a different entrance? First, I just don't want to try to waltz right through the front door. I just want to remind everybody that this is the company

that paid for the tunnel that connects the capital city to the horrible demon middle tunnel we haven't forgotten why we have to go inside keep it down I mean are we all back at the inn now or no no we're standing across the street from the yeah we're just yelling this in the middle of the we're just having a full on melt down in the middle of the road like looks like I think oh the fact that that Gailstrom left we saw I got a subject. I'm pretty sure that was... So you think that the building is completely empty?

I think it is. But it's a matter of... I mean, we don't know what kind of security they have. We don't know they're coming to do a little bit of papers, but all we have are the keys. We need to find some kind of evidence. We need to find some kind of clues. Well, let's try to just not go through the front door.

Let's try to find a side or back entrance. Everyone's going to see us take the chains and hear us take the chains off. Didn't you guys just walk around the perimeter of the building? I just went down the alley to see if I could see. inside the building. I didn't scope the building's enormous. I didn't really have time to scope every side. All right. Well, let's just let's go. Let's take a look. All right. And I'll follow closely behind. Okay. So, you, you make your way around and you see that there are a number of keys on the skier. And there's one that's a bit larger, but there's a few smaller ones. You arrive around to

the side entrance on the left side of the building that had that smaller door will, or where Gailstrom had walked out. And you're standing there. Listen, if we try the key here, and if they've got some sort of security, we might need to get out of here quick. Well, I kept my invisibility. So you guys are on your own.

I'll try the first key. I want to stand within 10 feet of everyone now that I've seen that action is happening so that they can benefit for my aura of thickness. With Persia radiating her aura of thickness, It's not just Moradin. It's not a finish. I didn't even relive until this moment.

It's not just Moradin's power. It's the thickness of the aura. And you try the first key and it doesn't work. It doesn't work. All right, I'll loop it back and then I'll try the next one. I'll try the big one first. The big one does not even fit the key walls. Oh, okay.

Huh, that's interesting. I'm glad I got these keys. They could be, anyways, I'll try the next one. That one does not work. That one does. As it, you hear it, and you hear the locking mechanism give way, and it seems to be unlocked.

I'll look at the key and try to memorize the actual nature of the teeth on it so that I can remember it in the future. Okay, you do. That's the one, and then I'll let it jangle down with the rest of them and then put it in my pocket. You do that, and you, unlock it, the door swings open to a very dark room, a number of small windows, and it

seemed to be some kind of office. I think I was just revealed. Oh, we did it, guys. It only took 10 hours. 7 hours. We did it. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-na. On the map.

So, so I'm just trying to get my shit off the map here. I would say that with the reconnaissance that you all did, you would have a full understanding of the layout. Here's the end for Matt before I keep that. Keeping this hidden. Keep all this ahead. Come on in.

And I'll walk into the end of the office. I'll be directly behind Caprice. OK. So as you walk in, it seems as if the as if you are in a writer's room, there are a. large number of, there's three desks and with charity each with paper strewn across it, ink and quills, ink and quills all over the place. You see a lot of handwritten manuscripts and documents all written over in this small office and you look right ahead and there's a door

going out into the main room that you do. And there's going to be a small closet off to the side as well. I'm going to cast dark vision on myself. Okay. So, you channel the power of your arcane magic and suddenly you can see as well as almost everybody here. Hold on. Should we get someone go back and close the door and lock it? Well, how do we lock it from the inside? I don't know. I just feel like it looks like a sign as suspicious with it open right now.

I kind of agree. Can anyone go around the door or lock it from the inside? Well, just check to see if the lock has a... It might just be like a bolt thing you can tell. No, no, it's two handles with chains running through. That's the front door. Isn't that what we're talking about? We tried to find a side entrance.

We're in a side entrance. Mm-hmm. Yeah. This is the front door. We didn't want to just walk through the front door because it was all chained up and it would be loud and noisy in there. So like close the door and I'll lock it.

Yep. That seems okay. You do that. Big walk. Now we can resume our regularly scheduled programming. You do that. You close and lock the door behind it. It was quietly locked.

And you all look around and you're in the middle of what seems to be a writer's from. Well, let's start looking through these papers. I mean, we're not visible from the door. Is that, while everybody's looking, I'm just going to like walk up to this door and poke my head out into the... Okay. See if it's locked. Yeah, I'm just peeking out.

Is the door locked? Is, I want to see if the store was locked? So, you give it a quick test and it turns. It does not seem to be locked. I'm just going to kind of peek out and see if there's anybody in the rest of the newsroom. You peek out and you see what seems to be a smaller office directly ahead. As well as a door, I should have drawn that. as well, a door here to what seems to be a stairwell and a smaller corner office directly

ahead of you. And you see that it seems to have windows all around, but they're all completely covered by curtains. I'll help investigate. Is there any like filing cabinets or? In here? Yeah. Yeah. No, there's a good number of documents and all sorts of different cabinets filled with all sorts of papers and you see old manuscripts and old copies of things like that. We think we're looking for like government official papers or are we looking for just evidence of how they're manipulating stories? What are we thinking we're looking for and I'm flipping

through papers as I'm talking and starting to like try to read and I should digest what is being written in this room. What was the G guy's name that runs this Gailstrom? Gail Strung. Gailström. Wylund, Gailstrom. Oh, so that's just, okay. Okay, the paper name is, full name is Wiling Gielsen. That's like the only.

That's like Mr. Nose. Can I take a look around and see if I see like a fancy office that might be on. Directly head was the fancy office. Oh, okay. Does that so Wiling Galesome? I'm going to take 10 minutes to cast a tech magic on the front door. Okay. You do that.

While I'm just looking, I'm just going to virtually cast. So the rest of us will like just go through the office, the writer's offices, see if we can find it. At least I'll be looking for anything related to. Do you know. You might be looking for like invoices or like pay? Yeah. Like anything related to, I'll be looking for anything related to, I'll be looking for anything related to either tunnels or like tunnels the clockwood forest right the um what was the other

band the the flyer that we saw in the post um wasn't just not trusting strangers yeah yeah strangers any of the major stories that we know about that are that are circulating um or anything related to to bull demons like anything that they might not publish but that they have personally Yeah, I'd be looking for like, like, kind of like sent in thing, like things that people have sent in to be covered. Okay. Been discarded. Um, you, you see that there is a number of bins on the ground that have the, make an investigation check, actually. Can I help her?

Actually, it's a great idea. Investigation check was an advantage. Who? Who'see. Who'see? Who's Z? Who's Z. Who Z?

Who Z. Who Z. Oh, I have a plus zero, so 16. So as you're looking around, you find some bins, and there are some fine scraps of formerly shredded documents or torn apart documents. And it seems as if you find a little bit and you seem to be some kind of like handwriting on it,

you get the sense that maybe letters that had been sent in are just being scrapped. Oh, Capricci, do you have that spell? I'm gonna like work things together. Oh yeah, it'll take me about a minute, but let's just assemble the piece of paper and see if I can I can create. He's a great idea. I'm like really bad at puzzles, but you'll seem like...

No, no, I love that shit. And I'll like sit down, cross-legged on the floor. I got Herja next to me and I'm just like do-d-d-do-do-do. I'm trying to piece them together. As she you're doing that, I'm just actually casting Mending. Yeah, she's putting it places and your thing is like moving it back around to where it actually is. So just to clarify that it seems if this has been emptied, but the janitor guy that you stole keys from

seemed to just forgotten like he didn't fully give it. I thought he was a fancy guy. Who was the fancy guy? The fancy guy was the owner of the... That was Wylan Gaylstrom. That was not how he went after that. No, I went after what apparently was the custodian. Went to a four house in the forest district

and bragged about something with the same. Got it. Okay. I should have asked him more questions, but I didn't understand what Toa was saying at the time. So I can't mend these pieces of paper in to complete a message? You would not be able to know. It's just like a little, like one or two scraps,

and that was it. The magic's not working. I don't think all the messages here, I'm sorry to say. I'll start looking through the other bins that maybe in your mind. Nice knows it's out, you know. Well, I'm going to look at what's on the surface of these desks. Do they look like in progress stories or completed stories? It looks like there were some that were in progress.

And I'll say that part of the investigation chat, You get a number of, you see that there are some full things that are written, and you are seeing that there is editorializing. Things are, entire paragraphs are being scrapped out. And that says basically, you know, that you actually find a story, I would say, on the drums, sound of drums, that people, have been hearing from the city. Oh shit.

And you actually find one on the desk that has been completely scrapped out. And there is a note in very fine, fine penmanship that says, DK doesn't want this published. The DK or decay. And that's on the same. That's on, it seems as if, and this is also in the same

handwriting as like cross outs and editor's notes and that kind of thing. I wonder if I could use mending to undo notes to the original story. I'll try that. Can I use mending to remove the editorial location? I would say that you were able to read the whole thing and just scratched out a single line. I appreciate that, but I would like to remove evidence

that it was scratched out in the case. I would say that that would, I don't know if that would be the case. I think mending just basically like, yeah, reassembles things. I think they've been broken apart. There's a script spell I think you can do for that, but I don't remember what it is. 10 minutes pass.

You finish your challenge, and you feel glow of magic. If I should be able to determine the school, it is abjuration. Is that? Protection magic. Yeah, okay. Yes. Yes.

Okay, then I'm gonna turn around. Let me just make sure real quick. In that last for some time. 10 minutes, yeah. I'm gonna sweep, I'm gonna sweep. Oh shit. Yeah, so I'm gonna, first I'm gonna come back to the room and I'm gonna say, Caprice.

Saturation. Yes, there's another door over here, but there appears to be some sort of magic over, some protection and magic, so we need to be careful moving forward. I've got about 10 minutes left of this spell. So I'm gonna do a sweep. of this floor, I'll check this room and just see if I can find anything else, but we need to be careful not to trip any alarms. Have you found anything?

Nothing, nothing too great at this point. I would just have you, yeah, try it softly, all right? You sure you didn't find anything? I mean, there's some editorialization happening here, and there's some ripped up papers and stuff, but nothing that's like damage in the way that I was open. Can I, do you mind if I take it? Well, just hang on to the editorial maybe. Okay, if you didn't think there was anything of value, it's fine. I'm leaving it right here on the desk. Do you know where to find it if you need? Sure.

And I'll, I'll just, while they're looking, I'm going to walk around this room just a sweep, continuing to do my 10 minutes of detect magic, and then I'm going to use the rest of the time to, like, just walk up and down the aisles and like look at these desks. I'm assuming, are these printing machines? Those are all like the presses and the lines of that. Okay, well, I'm going to just walk along the outside and to try to detect magic for 10 minutes. You find abjuration at this door, abjuration at the main door. and you yeah and as you're getting back nothing nothing from where we came in from

where you came in an abjuration oh fuck all right guys we may have made a boo-boo I'm detecting some abjuration on the door that we came in as well yeah what does that mean I don't know this oh it's it's strange to me because we waltzed right in using the key and the magic is still there so we didn't because I just walked it so you think that the key yeah Somehow temporary disabled to... Any magical walks would also come of it. I'm not much of an abjuration guy,

but maybe you're right. I don't know. We just... Let's make sure we proceed using only the keys. Maybe we can get into the nice office across the way, then. I just don't want to risk it. Think about it. Risk it? I think the question, honestly, is...

Your alarm spell, is that an abjuration spell? Because it's very possible that we triggered some kind of alarm and we're not even aware of it. It's entirely possible. I believe that it is, but I will double-check freedom. Well, Dan, so Felix, does it look like this key also? Yes, it is. It's a little one adjuration.

Well, that's actually a really great point. I just not really, this isn't really my specialty. I didn't even think about it. Does the key look like it's glowing too? Nope. Not really, no. In that case, an ordinary key is more than likely not going to nullify a spell. So, more than likely, we triggered some kind of alarm. As soon as we say that, Rivali looks at it.

He looks at you and says, well, we need to get into this office. And he points at the name and it says Gailstrom. Well, if we've already tributt the along, we want as well just try all the keys and get in. Get in and get out quick. I run out to the door and I start trying the next key after the one that I used to open that. I'm going to man this door here while they're doing it, just in case anyone tries to come through. So you're keeping an eye out. You make a checkout, please.

Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Not green one knows. Oh, actually I roll pretty high. 18. 18. Okay, so you're just keeping an eye out at that door.

So you are going to try a key. You try the first key, and it works. You hear it unlock. Do you still detect magic on this? I try. Yeah, I just wave my hand. You wave your hand. Have your duration.

It's still there. But, I mean, we've already tripped. Like Iris said, we've already tripped it. I appreciate that. But, um, Dispelled magic. I will dispel that magic. And as soon as you unlock it, you dispel that magic.

And then Felix, you feel the abjuration disappear. Oh, it works. Let's go. Yeah, I know. And then I walk in. Okay. You walk in to an office that is just beautiful, rich mahogany furniture, a large desk. papers all around it, but perfectly neat in perfect piles. There is art on the walls. There is this

sculpture of a beautiful naked woman. A sculpture? Yeah, sculpture. And just like, just kind of rising her arms up into the air. And there is a very plush chair behind this desk. And you see a metal plaque and beautiful elegant cursive that says, um, Wylanne to the I think we were in his office. Yeah, makes sense. I'm gonna continue to detect magic for the duration, see if there's anything else in here. You basically sweep the whole room and it seems like now with that to spell magic, there's nothing in the room that... What a weird guy. What he makes this statue?

I don't know. Is it like a religious thing? Nothing I've... You guys are in this room. It's a statue of a woman, a beautiful woman. Unless you're following us in, you're not looking at this right now. Oh. We're in a different... in a different are we I mean are we done in the right I would say that that's probably the most the general just assumed I was staying with you guys I was talking you guys I would

say that everybody's why don't we just say the group is Derek right now yeah Eric is right yeah you know except for me I'm at the door oh okay that's fine you're mini is watch yeah I would take a look at the statue it looks like anything religious at all or if it just seems to be some kind of horny statue I would say make a religion chat doesn't have any horns well No, no, no, no. No, I know nothing. John Snow.

Yeah, no. You know nothing. Seven. Seven. And so it seems as if, it just seems like a uniform. You didn't get any magic off that statue? No, none. None. You guys never seen Indiana Jones, and I put my hands on the tits and kind of give it a push.

Just give it a push, and nothing happens. That's not a reference we understand in this universe. Well, it was a whole show. back in that there was a, you know, it's... What is a show? Is that like a theater? Exactly. Like a play?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the play is sort of the hoity-toity way of saying show. What he means to say is that the show is a redneck way of saying play. Yeah. And my neck is pretty red. You're a teeth. Everything about shoes red. We're wasting time.

Is there a, is he have a desk? Yeah, there's a very large mahogany desk. It's not, it's not magic. Try some keys. I'll help you go through it. I try the... See, it's unlocked. I'll try the drawers.

I would say you try the drawers and everything seemed to be locked. Nothing. Even the keys are not working. I'm going to come in and just sit in the chair and spin while they're like trying to do... You sit in the chair and you're spinning around, sitting around. You know, I know how to use these tools, but I don't have any. The next time we go down to a shopping district, I swear to God, if no one reminds me that these tools exist and then I need to buy them, we're going to have words for myself.

You can use these tools? Yeah. And you don't have any? No. Good thing I do. And Rivali steps up. Caprice, I expected better at you. Damn.

I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. Oh. I'm going to kick my feet up and the dust. And be like, what the man. That's like... And he said... My cast enemy of the bat.

He swats your feet off. It's like excellent. And he crouches down and pulls out his... These tools. and he starts to try to work on the first one. If anyone can do it, he can. I give him Bartiginspiration. And then while he's working, I'm actually going to summon Beatrice

and telepathically tell her to just watch the back door with a... Okay. Can I get an additional perception check for you? Yeah, sure. Who are you doing this? Beatrice. Okay. I gave him a bardic inspiration for his deep school. Oh, she should have advantage.

I'm just whirling. Okay. So you see him pull out these long slender tools and he says like, wow, well there's, these are the kind of skills that you learn growing up in the seven heavens. 12 for Gretres. Okay, so she flies up and she sits,

perches on her shoulder and helps keep an eye out. And all of a sudden you hear a, and he's like, God, okay, I'm in the next one. Until six, drawers on the death. on the desk are pipped. And he pulls out and they all just completely filled with paper. And it's like, I need, we need to go through this right now. Everyone take a drawer.

I'm going to start like speed redo. To the best of my quality. Everyone do an investigation chat. I'm going to grab you. Take a . Hersia, can you give me one more perceptive? OVB, look at that. Hell yeah.

You're proficient, right? Yeah, I got a 25. 25 for investigation. 20. 20. I got a 19, I think. Hold on. Let me come here.

15. 9 for perception, but does Beatrice affect me at all? Or does she roll a separate? I would say Beatrice will roll a separate perception. Oh, three. Beatrice. One more perception for Beatrice. Oh, sorry.

The fault. I got an 18. 14. 14. Oh, sorry. She's advantage. She's advantage. She's advantage.

14. God. It's better than mine. Okay. So as you're all working your way through, you all find just kind of boring things, correspondence. Keep me out of the theme. And everything seems to be kind of out of the ordinary.

Until you... You mean ordinary? See, everything seems to be ordinary. Until you find each of you. A number of documents that seem to be written in a very chaotic, jagged script. Oh, boy. Jesus. I'm looking after all the pages that look like chaotic.

I threw them, I could pre-in. In for an all abyssal. A Bissile. Oh my God. All of these seem to be the same script and the same. Guys, this is, but they are, they're not the same, it's a different writing. They're all different, there are different letters. They're all at the very bottom of every single pile of paper.

All right. He said written in a Bistle. What is it? He's written in a Bissol. Okay. This is apropos to say, but this is bullshit. Can you read it? I mean, I can, but what if we just took it and read it later when we have...

I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I think you were just... We've already tripped an alarm. We're gonna know the people were... That's fine. They already know people were in here. Fuck them. I agree. I agree. We take them and go. Ravali, what do you think?

I think it's the plan. Let's go. I put everything into my pack, all six drawers worth of... A-Based one. Right? Right. Just the... Just the... Abyssal ones, right? All. All.

Empty the drawers. Okay. It's a lot of paper, dude. So I would say it's a lot to stop. I would say you get the first ones, you're not gonna get, unless everyone's shoving shit in, but like, just take the abyssal.

So I would say- Fine, just the abyssal. I throw the rest on the ground. Okay, it's scattered across. And as you make your way out of the door, you hear glass shattering. Oh God. As all from throughout the Pretty Press workshop floor,

as a number of figures enter the building and fly in and land. They are all wearing hoods and metal and with the design of ravens. I would like to use Phantom Caravan to get us all out. I'm going to look out the door. Are they all together? They are all. I will show you exactly where they're out. Oh, fuck. Ooh, combat! As they repel, they repel.

basically, as you see one at the head. How was my idea? Repelling, I really wanted to repel. One leaps in and it seems to be, six of them have bows in their hand, long bows, with all these raven feathered arrows in their quivers. And one, however, seems to be holding a book. It seems to be holding the book and with a silver dagger.

I'm going to, in the very middle of them, put a 20 foot radius cube, and cast calm emotions on all of them. Which if they are aggressed towards us, they're no longer aggressed if they fail, they're safe. I will do that. It's a charisma saving throw. So the cube is from you.

No, I'm sorry, it's a sphere, 20-foot radius sphere. So it's a 20-foot radius, which means a 40-foot diameter. I think it's for each bit. So I want to put it there so it should be able to get at least most of them. Definitely most of them.

It's close. So if you put it here, you can basically get these guys, but not this one. And that's fine. Well, it's a sphere, though. So the round. It's going to be close on these guys. I don't know.

I need to be the home. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me place them actually where. Where's that thingy Andrew got, you guys? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, gotcha.

We never go through on door there. They're using the earth. I would say that they've gone in 15 feet on either side. I'm just trying to have formation in this business. Okay. Because they would be at least or That would be that. So you could give three at once, I think.

You could either be them or them. 5.10, 15, 20, 25, 35, right? Hold on. It's 40. It's 40 diameter. It's 20 radius. Oh. So it's 20 in one half of the space.

Oh, yeah. Is this the business? Yeah. And you see all in black, gray, and silvers. silvers, billowing reven feather capes, and you see one at the center holding a book, polished black ladder, and a silver dagger. Oh, Jesus Christ. And his hands start to blow. I'm looking through the shades in the, because we're in the office. Yeah, I would say that basically, as you're about to go, you hear that. So, so then... Is that 20 feet? I don't know. No, that's

way bigger than 20 foot radius. That's huge. Oh, yeah. Hold on, that's not. The smaller one should be 20 feet. This isn't 20, is it 20 feet? Yeah. No, that would be.

No, that would be. No, I think that's 20 foot. Just put it down on the thing. I think that's a diameter, 20 foot diameter. That's 20 feet. Yeah. That is exactly 20 feet. Well, but can you do?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, yeah. Yeah. Can't you get two people and then miss these four that way? I just won't cast it. Okay, so then here's what I'm going to say. Here's what I'm going to say that I'm doing. When I hear the glass shatter, I'm immediately going to look through the blinds or whatever curtains are covering the windows.

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Raven cloaks as well as one seems to be a caster of some kind you see Felix say you need to get the fuck out of there right now and he cast this guy's self on himself

so now there's an old man there's an old man standing in front of you guys and but my voice is still Felix's voice That one The one of the front She's part of the Talongard We have to go

Now! All right, well let's get the fuck out of here All right, that's fine, let's go! Did you say we had a way to get out? No. Then I'm booking it. I'm booking it for the door. I'm literally running out of this door

towards where Hershwell's where he came in. Ravali is going to put the back of his fist on your shoulder. He's seen he has some swords drawn. What are the chances that we are going to get out without killing all of them. We're not gonna fight. We can't fight this fight. He's a good boy, can we really run away from them?

They're gonna be eight times asbestos. We can't take this out into the street. The door is locked, you asshole. We had the keys. It's not your time. I have the keys. But the point is we, we, okay, fine. Did you run?

Did you run? So he stopped me. Oh. So I'm, you can feel free to, he's not like actually stopping you. I'm telling you there's a good chance. We all die here. Does anyone have any idea to get out of here?

And then you see Ravali's sheath and sword. Like, what are we going to do here? Is there a window in the room? Yes, there are windows in the room. Can we just break a window and just jump out? I suggest we try and run. I'm worried about getting caught in the street. Ravala, do you have any idea if we kill them all here,

can we go relatively, well, we'll probably buy some time? He looks and says, well, his eyes are. just darting back and forth. Didn't hold hard give him Desmondism disappearance? I believe he said turn the music down. Oh, sorry, apologies. Pallies, apologies.

Thank you. How much did he give us? I believe he gave three charges. I have one. Three charges of what? Dust of disappearance. Let me see. I don't have to get any items.

Again, that was when I didn't have my books of notes. I have one. I don't think I do either. I will say, I took the other one, I believe. I believe we have three. I have one. I have one. Yeah, I don't believe that I have one.

I believe that we gave Felix one. Yeah, I feel like you know, I think we wanted to give them to the people who would need to get out of using. I don't know my notes from last time because I did my book. That's, we should use this. Let's do it. Well, I mean, I don't, if someone else needs to use this, I can escape. It's an A.A. Oh.

Is it? Isn't it? Yes. I shuffle my pack. Uh, get around. And I throw it up into the air. Throw it up into the air. Herja, come on.

Am I allowed to move? I would say, if you were there, you never, yeah, no, she's in there. I'm gonna do her with B, beat Chris. I mean, I would say I make everybody in the room invisible. So I'll throw it up. Hersia, use your dust. No, no, I'll, I'll, um,

oh, range touched in my. All right. You've minor alluding, though. Can we go out that way? It's it? I use my innerolution to tell you that you are, that you need to run out into this office as quickly as possible because we're about to get out of here. Well, I wouldn't know that. I used dust of dust of disappearing.

Remind me how that works. And so everyone in 10 feet of me becomes invisible four. Do we have to stay within? No, we don't have to stay. Just everybody around me I used up. It'll be four minutes. One of the humility. Four minutes.

It's not a lot of minutes. So you hear the as Toa reaches in his path and throw, you see Burt, throw this mutton chopped large and human, chuck the dust down and it push and suddenly no one seems to appear to be in the room. And then you hear the shuffling of feet as you feel kind of small body dart underneath you and you hear loud shatter as the window shatters beside it.

And there's now the window is broken to the outside. On this... On that side? On this side? Yep. I'm immediately just going to bounce for it and like duck and roll, tuck and roll out it.

Okay. Out into the street. Do I see them doing what they're doing? You would have heard my voice be like, get into the office right now. Come on. Let's go. We're breaking out.

I guess it's at whatever point of the initiative I would have done that. I will say, just for the sake of this, can you... You would... I would say can you just sprint across... give me actually roll a quick initiative oh no that's good oh I was like where the fuck did that go um and have advantage on initiative just in case uh so yeah 20 20 okay you would you're quick enough to to act before the uh both of them I need you to

if you're gonna cast a visibility I need you to um or because tow's already done right so if you're going to cast invisibility an individual in the usual. That means that I become visible because I am invisible. Why would I need to roll? Okay. No, because Persia... We're trying to catch up.

You were going to try to make Hersia invisible. That's what we were... That is what I'm trying to do, so... Well, can you make both of you invisible then? We just cast at a higher spell level? That's how invisibility works. Yes, it is. And you would be invisible.

You would drop invisibility... The problem is... Unless you do it at a higher level. It's my... racial trait. So it's not like a part of my spell list. Can I cast it at higher levels? Oh, no. Oh, interesting. Not for her. Not sure. Yeah. So I would say Toa rule initiative. What are you using my guys?

Uh, 18. 18. So I would say that, that with all the things that have happening, Hurtig, you would have had enough time to just bound across. However, these all these people see that, uh, there are arrows are pointing at you and their bows are pointing at you and they're all reaching in to knock their bows but you're able to just like dwarven fucking rush, bum rush. They see this dwarf just sprint across

and dive into the room and then Toa, you are all now invisible for formats. Okay, okay, great. Thank you for Neville and Diaz. Yes. I always say that that makes sense. And so you hear the glass

shatter as immediately Ravali hops out, and what are you guys doing? I'm out the window too. Let's go. We can't see each other, but as soon as the window breaks, I'm out. We all, we all. I'm going to help lift Herja out because she's the shortest one of all of us. Okay.

I am going to need a stealth and a groove stealth check. Okay. Anything that I can do with this guy. Do you have advantage because we're visible? Yes. Yes. Nice. Can't get better than that.

Oh boy. We have advantage. I got to have a team. That's important. Okay. 23. 15. 17. 13. 28. Oh, freaking echo.

28. Sorry, guys. Sorry, sorry for the echo, guys. We'll resolve it hopefully for next time. Okay. We'll say that every time. I know, but I've tried so much. We keep trying different things.

We can I know what it is now. And so you all start spreading us. So one more time, stuff, just down more. 23. 15. 15. 29. But also as I'm leaving, I'm going to be the last, I'm going to try to wait just a moment, and I'm going to try to toss a dust of choking into the room just to prevent the people who are going into that room as we're all leaving. Okay. I would say, just make a straight tax trap. Let's go with a 16. 16, that's enough. So what's the radius of that?

It's going to be a 30 feet radius, and I'll center it around the door. Okay, so as that happens, you see a splash of dust fly through the window and, poof, and the entire office fills with this horrible dust. And as you're all sprinting away behind you, you hear a door open, and it radiates through the broken window behind you. How does that work again? It's a DC-15 Constitution saving throw, otherwise they begin sneezing unconstrollably, and our in our individual. incapacitated and suffocating. Oh, Jesus.

Oh, damn. That's awesome. And so you just hear a lot of, you hear a door open, and all of a sudden, push, and you hear you, a lot of sneezing, a lot of coughing, and a lot of choking. We're already down. As you are all just dashing away. And you are running down through the streets of Skyreach.

It is quiet. You are invisible. And as you are making your way, you are trying to go as quietly as you can. And I would say with that group stealth check, you are able to get a very good, I guess, you know, your max speed, the lowest speed of any of the one is 25. And so with sprinting and all of that, you're able to make a good distance away in four minutes. To make sure that we all don't scatter in different directions, I'm like very silently plucking. a spring from my bow so that people have like, stay, stay, stay close.

And I'll just stay by the time. That's so very noise. Okay. So I would say it's very obvious to hear that. And the footsteps are all kind of faint enough that you're able to kind of hear the pattering of seven of you running through the streets. As you all make your way

and you hear Ravalli's voice called out like, let's go to that park over there. And you see a park. is approaching like probably three and a half minutes. And you see a park that has several lamps lit, but there is this nice small duck pond with some bushes where it's pretty dark. Are you going to fall?

Oh, yeah. Okay. And so you are just sprinting through and you just all die into just the collection of bushes around this pond. You hear kind of a low croak of the raven quacking of ducks as the noise kind of makes them scatter. But then it settles down.

And... Are we all here? Visibility drops. Oh, she's... All seven of you. Ravali, do we have any place to even go tonight? Did we set up any kind of arrangements? Do you know anybody here?

To be quite honest, we probably need to get out of this district entirely. Exactly. They saw Herja and the fact that we did not kill them means they're going to go back to whoever they work for and they are going to say specifically, Hersha's not nondescript. They will be able to say exactly what she looks like and anyone that has seen us.

Our papers now are no longer good. They're no longer good maybe in the morning, but I think we... No, they're no longer good, period. We can't spread. They're choking and sneezing back there. We can go to the checkpoint right now, make our way down to the... My point is that once we get out of here, they're worthless to us.

I agree. And we can no longer be seen with Hershey, period. Honestly, I don't know if any of us can be seen at all, because once someone mentions, oh yes, I saw her traveling with a T-fling And a strange human, and my point is, we pass through every single checkpoint. Let me go around the other way.

The stupidest thing we could have done was run. I don't think you realized that we weren't killing those people. I don't think you realize that you don't know that. don't know who that person was. You have no idea and I'm too much deep shit we're in right now. That was the Talong Guard. These are just random people. That's lovely, but I don't think you know the full extent of the situation we're in now. You don't even know anything about this country. And you think you know everything. No, but I know who those people were. And I think that a little bit of humbling will do you well, Felix.

I don't think either way. You don't know anything about what you're talking about. This isn't about me being knowing anything. I'm not more humble than anyone you know. You're so afraid to be found out that you're willing to risk the rest of our lives. Look, regardless of whether we could have killed them or not, it's done. We ran away. And my point is that we are now in a position

where we have to figure out what we're going to do. I will give Hershey this ring. And just for the rest of the time here, she can disguise itself. That is not going to change the fact that come tomorrow, the entire military will know exactly who is here. Because if you think those people at the checkpoints did not take notice of us, we had a teafling. We had a very, very, not very well disguised genocci. And a tabaxi that is literally dressed like she comes from neckbet.

So the moment, the moment that they find out that we were traveling with the dwarf that they saw in that place, all of us have a target on our back. All of us. Welcome to the club. Well, I think the best we can do is just get back. The best we can do is to get out of the city. We got our, we got our clues. Let's move.

Do we want to go back the way we came or do we want to go back around the other way? Let's knock it through the same checkpoints. Let's not give them if it's the same, if they're still there, they give them two chances to look at us and inspect us. We have to go around the other way. I mean, I agree, but at the same time, we're also spreading information that wouldn't have been known the other way. where like a...

It's a coin, close in my mind. I may have a contact in the four winds. Oh. I can't guarantee it, but it's just one checkpoint. Oh, yeah. But do we want to get out of the city? We may not be able to get back in. I think staying is death.

I agree. I think we need to just get back and lay low and just read what's in these papers. Yeah, let's... Agreed. Let's find a place where we can have this conversation. Out of the city or to the four winds. Four wins. Four weeks. My vote is out of the city.

My vote's the fully. If we get out of the city, how are we going to get back in? That is a problem for future Iris. But quite honestly, my life is much more important than figuring out what the hell is going on. We're going to be able to do much more good staying inside the city. If we get out, we're done, what is the whole point of coming here? Are we going to save these people? We should. We should not have blown our cover.

I agree. But it's still right now. Those are things that we need to think about before we do things like this. Why did we decide to go into this place? Why, once we realized, I literally told us that we had triggered an alarm? Why then did we not decide, look, maybe we need to come back at a later date when we have a better plan? If we are going to fuck things up, then we have to pay the consequences. And that may mean leaving the city.

But at the end of the day, I'm not going to risk my life. I have to fulfill the mission that Anubis set out before me. And that does not mean dying in the city. My vote is the four wins. We find Rivali's contact, and then we can leave if we need to. I agree. I think that's fine. That's my vote. But I'm not leaving the city right now.

How would we even leave the city if we were going to leave? Fine, I'm going to get to the main gate. There's just the one gate? The one gate in each district. There are eight gates. Okay, so there's a gate in each district. So if we wanted to, we could go to the Skyreach gate right now. But we could also just go to this checkpoint and find your contact.

And then we can go out that gate if we need to. I think if we had disguised. here we have a better chance so there's more you know more possibilities that we just plays us off what time is it right now I would say it's probably 10 11 at night so is it even normal for people to be coming in and out between districts at this time I feel like that might just be suspicious as it is what if we had looking like Dina and we're just going back home sounds nice well let's at least start heading towards the check card which one

Why, if we've... Four wins. Again, my vote is four wins. We have to agree what happens. If we go to the checkpoint and they notice us and they know who we are, we have to have a game plan. I'm going to start walking towards the four wins game. If they notice us, we have to try to find a way out. But at this point, I think we need to go right now.

I think we'll be fine. But that's just my vote. Yeah, I think we need to go now before the information gets to them. Can this guy just like... just let us lay low for a few days. Did we figure out what our next plan is? He owes me a favor, but I don't know if he's going to honor. Well, he's going to have two.

So let's go. Oh, yeah, he will. He will. Let's go. Okay. D&D. I'm trying to stay in his middle, all of you trying to huddle together as possible.

Toa, give her the rain right now. I can also cast his guy. He's going to need an hour. that right now. All right. How far are we from the gate? Oh, totally. We're probably to 20 minute walk. All right. I reach out and I ask for your hand and I cast a sky's cell phone on you and make you look like a normal human woman. How tall are you? Five foot. I can make you six foot. Okay. Give or take, within a foot. So I'll make you like five five. And as long as nobody inspects her too closely, you know,

then she'd have to make some rolls. Not cavity. Not to be a nerd, but can you use the sky self on some mouth? Yes, it's willing to turn. party. You make yourself... Oh, wait, hold on. I am incorrect. It is not the same as... I know we used it earlier that way. I didn't want to ramp the time, but... Nacho cheese. Not your cheese. What can do you now?

It was... No, okay. I guess I'm incorrect. I thought you could use it on a willing creature. It'll take you an hour to attune to this. Right? We don't have an hour. And honestly, if you do this and she looks like someone else, we only have the papers we were provided. If anyone at the borders recognize us... Yes.

Then we'll give you a screen. And then I will give you the ring. Immediately, it seems we're through. We just have to go. No, I think we have to go as is. I agree. Yeah, let's just go. Let's go.

Let's go. I'll just put my hood up. But yeah, let's go. Agreed. And so you all wind through about 20 minutes of quick, quick, quick walking. You all start to approach the checkpoint. Although the streets all have emptied out

for the most part, there's the occasional group of people having a late dinner or getting off of the business district. a little bit later and kind of heading back and you see once again that check you get to the main road and you start heading towards the four winds and you see that checkpoint the large military banters of Corvacia getting closer and closer as you see that the line is very short the people ahead of you go in this large mercantile probably a large merchant stage right everybody you got know the drill before we get up there do we want to go all the way back to the

to the honeybee because Honestly, our papers are not going to work tomorrow, and that is the place in the city that has the least military presence. I don't want to be stuck in the middle of some other random sceptor of this town where military is present without the ability to go in and out of the checkpoints. Would we have a sense of how communications happen here if it's like traw, like, like, like owl or magic or like, you know, like any kind of like. Yeah, how fast. By Ravens, word travel. Probably by Raven and it flies around. Okay.

I would say that it's kind of difficult to sit to tell how long it would take for, like, the checkpoints to all be alerted. So I think that that would be something that you've never been in any, no one in here has been in a high-time situation. So we'll just be a, you have to use your judgment here. Let's try the first checkpoint. And after we get into the four wins, we can talk about going down into the seven heaven. I agree. Let's just be true. Maybe we just go as we can.

Especially if Rivali's contact doesn't make good, but we should at least check with this guy. All right. Everybody, your papers? Before we approach, does it look tense? Does it look like there's... Like the guards, are they shuffling around whispering each other's ears, or does it look kind of just like what it did earlier? Trying to get a sense of word got to them or not.

Okay. So I would say make an inside check, please. Yes, for sure. Yes, please. because I just got a four. 19. You look around and it seems to be about business as usual. Seems about to be fairly tired. I would say, Blets, make a history check on. I think it's plus five.

That's pretty high. I think I got a 24, but I will change. Oh, 27. 27. You know that people in your, that you had encountered used Silver Raven figurines and animal messengers to send ravens up and around in order to kind of just communicate

between camps or whatever. And you know that it's not some special super fast Game of Thrones Ravens. So there is time. So there is time. The travel and they're like mossy, I'll share that with the group. Priority shipping.

Special delivering messages. My concern. we have time. Is not this evening. My concern is that we will be stuck in one of these other areas tomorrow. I agree, but I think at this point tonight,

we need to get there and make a decision at their point. I agree. I'm just saying I think that our destination should not be this place as a revoling. I feel safe going all the way back. It should be a honeybee or whatever it's called. Yeah.

Let's at least meet up with their contact if he'll have us. Well, no, I think... No, I think that he could easily come and meet us in the honeybee. be your welfare staying. Is that possible? The Queensby. My point was being if we needed a place to lay low.

I have a friend that has a shop here. I would prefer not to be stuck. I mean, you and Felix know this city best. Is there a chance that we can make it to the Seven Heavens tonight? It's just very far. It's a gamble. It's a gamble. It's going to take hours. If we have been like an hour for a district.

If they find out and they, I don't know if this is a thing they do. But what if they lock down all the districts and they don't allow travel through back and forth. I think we need to get through and lay low for at least a few hours and see how it checks out. And if there's trouble, we get the hell out of the city. If we lay low, the moment they get the information, there will be no more troubling back. This is not a lay low and then we'll go there later. If we choose to lay low, we are never getting back there.

And that has to be something that you all understand. So the choice is yours to make, but you need to understand what that means. means for us. We're in the Skyreach. We either stay here and we're not to... Trying to get to... Or we try to get to the four winds. Or we try to get back to... Right. So we started in the slums here, the Seven Hammonds, spend most of the day

basically traveling up here. Got fucked, and so now we're trying to get here. I'm hoping that we've got all the clues that we need from this place and there's no reason for us to come back to SkySarch. Skyreach. And do we really... Thomas is safe, hopefully, and gone at this point. What do we have in the seven heavens beyond the bar?

The fact that it is significantly less militarized, which means our chances of getting out and not being seen and not being apprehended are significantly higher in the slums than it is in the most prestigious zone of the entire city. Do you think here where we were seen it is going to be less patrolled than in the seven heavens? We have to think clearly. Yeah, I'm just worried about timing. We are quite literally going to be on wanted posters that the newspaper will be putting all over the city.

Well, Hersia will be on wanted posters. No, the moment that they go back to one of the entry points we went in, one of them will speak and say, oh yes, I saw that dwarf. She was traveling with a very ill-disguised genocci, a red teafling, a tabxy-dressed and necbesian regalia, and two strange humans. And at least the four of us will have our faces plastered everywhere.

I think we should try to make it as far as we can. And if we're approaching a checkpoint and it looks kind of bad juju don't approach because, you know, they might have had the, I don't know if you told me that, but if they've had a raven reached them at that point. I told everybody about the ravens. Okay, cool. Then we back out and we try to find somewhere to hide in the district as far as we can get. Or we try to make it for the exit. That's the problem. It'll be too late at that point.

I think we even made the decision now. If we, if we hit up my friend, or if we... Can you tell us more about your friend? He runs a... Magic item shop, the Friddy's Bob. I... he used to work with my uncle, and I think that if I catch that chip, he'll let us stay at least for the night.

Little to lay a low maybe for a bit. I don't think the military is going to come rough him up. He pays a lot of taxes. My vote stays. But it's a matter if we think we can get back, then we'll be the safest in the seven heavens. It's just a long track. I'm willing to do whatever you guys think is best.

I'm just telling you that's my vote. Well, how long did it take for us with haste to get to there? It was like 20 minutes. I thought it was an hour of each. So, oh, so when you guys were, when you guys were making through, it was basically like a full hour for each district. And we had a time of this.

So it's going to be one, two, three hours. The Ravens are going to have four hours. That's the thing is the Ravens going to make it to. I'm worried it's not enough time. They're going to know while we're moving through the districts, and we're going to get locked somewhere, at least where we don't have a... So I'm assuming that we had 20 minutes roughly as we're walking and talking to the... I would say you're walking and talking right now, yeah.

And we have roughly 20 minutes, had 20 minutes total before we hit the checkpoint. Yep. So that's my vote. The rest of you can decide. Your vote is the four wins? The four wins? Worst case, we get to the four winds, we have a place to stay for the night, we review this information that we now have, and we can leave the city first thing in the morning.

We can leave the city tonight. How are we going to leave this first? We have to get out the gate. Well, maybe there's another tunnel. Exactly. There is no way that tunnel that we came through is the only one in the city. There's no way we'll be able to find another one. We have to know that.

We have a pile of papers to look through. I agree. We can go through the same one. But how are we going to get from the following? We might not be able to get there. I'm saying we go to the seventh heaven. We go to seven heavens tonight. If that's what we're the safest.

Literally what I'm saying. If we can try to make it... I'm willing to go with the group. If you think we'll be the safest in the seven heavens, you were born in the city. I think we need to try it now because if we get locked down in the four winds and we're not a safe there,

we're going to regret it. And I want to stay in the city. I'm confident we're going to make it to the seven heavens. This is a great plan. We're gonna make this plan happen. Everyone ready to go? Jafri-Sir, you're a man of action. Let's do it.

Let's go. The checkpoints ahead. I have the papers. Big smiles, everybody. As the... No, no, look tired. We've just looked at a bunch of... Okay, we'rey smiles, everybody.

You see a bearded gentleman with very, very, very short hair, almost buzzed. As he looks at you and he says, papers. Here you go, I understand you like him all at once. I know I do Late night for a group so large Yes, we got caught You know, just eating and drinking

The food in Skyreach is really phenomenal Have you tried the Sky Kish? Deception check Everybody loves Sky Kish Can I do the thing? Yes Fuck it do the thing We have five of them

Fuck it do the thing Fuck it do the thing Yes Thank you Thank you. That's going to be in 26. 26. That's a huge of fate.

Thank you. He flips through and he says, I have tried this guy. Keish, it was all right. Enjoy your night. You too. Thanks. I want to look over my shoulder as we're passing the gate just to see if, like, the gates close and he's just chilling standing there, or if he's, like, darted off to, like, go alert someone or if anything's suspicious. You look behind them and he's standing an alert. Another group comes up to enter, and he's just taking a paper. looking through.

I think we're safe. She should keep moving. As quickly as we come without being, you know, weird. Yeah. Like grandma's at the mall. Let's just, you know, keep going. Turn to Felix. What's the mall?

It's a type of weapon. Well, no, I know that, but Jesus, grandma's at the mall. Like, would they be like a single weapon? All the grandma's at the mall. You know, I actually heard of a goblin ritual. Goblinoid hosts. where they have combat and then when one kills the other with them all, everyone serves it. It's for the highest elder position.

And they serve rats on sticks. It's horrific. God, I hate dogs. I killed so many. Well, however if you're not into it, but it can be quite fun. We speedwalk is... We learn something new every day. I would say in that time it's a full hour passes and encourage we'll be able to assume the right. Oh yeah, I would immediately give a...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And put my hood up, but now that we're going to get in the four winds where there's sort of more general folk. Do we enjoy a short rest? I would say that you enjoy short rest. I'm in the like sort of crouch walk as quickly as I can. Okay. You see me ourselves like nod as like seven foot class. Yep. Okay. So you make your way through and you find yourself in the, you're in the four wets. Yes. And we're making it into the flops first. You make your way to another checkpoint. And

Kind of scoping out the guards before we get there. Yeah, I'll insight the guards as well. The music dams is a smith. Oh, apologize. Should we roll for that again? Yeah, roll for inside if you care to do that. 12? That'll be a...

Wow, I can't alphabetize. 18 for Derek. 18. You look and they seem to be in a similar state at attention. Despite it being very late. All right, remember we're tired, and we just looked at a lot of schools. of schools that smell like children. All right, weary confidence, everybody, and I take everyone's papers and I take the lead. Here you are, sir. You see, a gentleman looks very non-stripped. He seems to be a bit younger, I guess, and he looks over all of you and says, do you want to have

a late? Oh, we're coming down from Skyrim, Skyreach, sorry. Why are you here so late? When is a business? Well, we were looking at schools and we just got caught up in dinner honestly. We're just trying to make our way down to our place of rest. Just that from check? Can I do the thing? Do the thing. He has to. He has to.

This is so critical that we get through this. Much better. What is it? Oh, man. 27. Oh, that's way better. He looks through what do you look like, by the Lord? For herself. No, I hear you're the ring. I tuned to the ring. We didn't decide if you decided to change yourself or not.

I would have encouraged you to stay as heard because we went through as her to, just in case any of the story. Yeah, we had all talked about. If we hit it. If that was the agreed upon thing, I would have done that. So I still have the ring attuned on you, but I'm not using it. Yeah, I think you should be you until we think that. Can I in sight check him to see if he seems suspicious? Please do.

What's a natural one. Fuck, man. Those days are. No, these days were really well now. They do? Yes. That's why I've been using. You've gotten all the bad luck out of them.

How is that possible? Yeah, no, it's something. It's not going to be. It's very difficult to read. He seems like he's, I guess you could probably register that like he's the kind of person who's like young and newer at the job. So he takes it really seriously. And so like he's fucking stonewold. And so he's not getting like anything.

He hands it to you. I'm just going to, seeing what Hersia did the last time, I'm going to do a similar thing and kind of watch. Um, as we walk away to see if he seems to do anything else. I don't know. They're insight. No. Oh, Jesus. I wasn't even, I wasn't worse.

No, no, it's dumb in your cleric. That doesn't mean anything. Guide yourself. 15. 15. 15. Um, as you're walking, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh,

clever. You see the, uh, you see them, you see, you see him turn to another person and kind of leans in. and whispers and then he listens as they respond. Oh, okay. And then... We are in... We are in flox...you leave... Flokspers.

Or you enter Flossorus. And you see, you kind of hear the tolling of the bell as it is reaching early morning. And some people are going to very late night worship. Some people are coming back from very late night worship. And some people are just heading back to their home from a long... long night out and another hour or so, maybe a little bit less because you're hustling, you arrive to the other checkbook.

I'd like to take a quick look up into the sky and see if I see any like particularly raveny ravens. Particularly like intense ravens look like they have a job to do. That's horrible. The rolling so important. I know. What's my deal? What did you tell?

It doesn't. It fails. It's because I have a footerty chair. You look around and you just see ravens flying all over the place. It's very difficult. It almost becomes like, you know, I think like you know, like you get a nose wine to a smell or whatever. Just you hear the croaking of ravens

and the flapping the winds above you so commonly that it just kind of is part of the city. Okay. As you look all around and you're not sure what are just the natural rooks in the ramparts that just live here, or what are ones that are being flown all around? and they seem to be active, the same amount at all times.

Kat, you arrive at the entrance of the conquest war. You see an older woman probably approaching, although it's probably toward the end of her internment in the military, and she looks you up and down and says, Keepers? I know it's late, we're sorry, we're just passing through, thank you. What business do you have? We're coming all the way down from Sky Ridge.

Where you going? We're heading down to the seven heavens. Why are you going there? I have family there and they're holding us up for the night. Does that from Chuck? Oh boy. That was quick, too. That was quick.

I'm quick. I'm leaving it. Let's go with the 19. Oh, babe. You make your way through the Conquest War, and this is actually probably the most hustling and bustling, shockingly for this late, as you hear the clang of animals, the bright forges going. It seems as if there is nearly a constant shift here, constant work to be done. And about an hour later, you arrive at the seven heavens.

Is there a new checkpoint between the checkpoint? No checkpoint. To the checkpoint to the seven islands. Oh, okay. So same thing, or we're going to insight check the guard? Yeah, let me take a look at them and see if they are on the alert. Insight, whoever would care to do it. 16.

I'm getting this number one out of the way. I'll do a fixed insight. Sixth insight, okay. 24. 24. You see them, and they seem to be on high, they seem to be on alert like they normally are. They just seem to be kind of looking around.

And as they're just looking around, it doesn't seem to be, like, there's any kind of alarm going on, I would say. So I still have the ring, right? Because I'm still going through as what we talked about. Yeah. Yeah. Just making that clear. So you do not have the ring.

So I gave you back. He needs to look the way that he looked when we were playing. Once you guys, yeah. I would say that that's what you guys took this time. There was miscommunication out of character. Yes. There was miscommunication out of character. So I'm not attuned to the ring.

Not yet. Okay, okay. That's fine. So, and so, um, as, as the, as you make your way, you see a, uh, this one seems to be kind of like, uh, almost kind of like, it's a five o'clock shadow. There's some dad's under his eyes. It seems to be quite tired. As, uh, you've gotten the sense that the seven heavens, people that watch that out, they're not as, maybe not as well paid or maybe you, they would, go there if they've lost rank or lost standing. And it seems to be kind of just going about their business.

Hey, Boos. Anyway, who are you coming from? All the way up from Skyreach, we're a little late. What took you so long? Well, we got caught up and drink, and the food up there is delicious. Don't I know. Stuck down here. I'm sorry to hear that friend.

My family's down here, and you know. Is that why you're coming back here? Well, free room and board is one thing, but then the Seven Heavens, you know, you do it with the way you can. I don't envy you frown. Does that for turn? Come on, baby. Do you have to? It's a natural one.

You gotta do it. We would not have met it this far without our viewers tonight, so you might as well just do it. I have rolled 2-1-1. Yep. Wow. Wow. I'll take a Hurricane 22 please enjoy your night if you care same deal you make your way inside him again inside make that roll girl as we're walking in he's gonna lean over to be like you are a silver tongue gosh I don't know but I do it it's just like fell right back

into its play um um 21 21 22 as you are making as you are making taking your way, you see, you kind of keep a lingering eye, and right as you are turning around a corner, you see, he's very far away, the checkpoint's very far away at this point. And then a wagon is coming through, very kind of rickety old wagon, and he's looking at the papers, and as you're turning the corner, you see flapping of feathers.

Uh-oh. and a raven lands on his shoulders and leans in and then he's just like and i'm i'm going to cast calm emotions on him so he is no longer what's the range on that you're really far away oh really far away yeah i would say because i was my intention oh if you wouldn't see it that's fine yeah close enough yeah i would be able to cast that sorry that's fine um i didn't think that we'd walk like really far yeah no i just imagine you kind of be lingering um so yeah i'm Do they know that it's cast? I guess I wouldn't know, but...

I mean, it doesn't matter. And it just gets us out of there, right? Yeah, so it makes him... It makes them indifferent to us. Okay. Okay. That's good. What's the rate on that?

60 feet. And it's a 20-foot sphere. So it would target... Each humanoid in the 25th. And for the record, Lone Guard, you are not allowed to spend bits on your own... What's the DC? Party when you're playing.

Yeah, it is a charisma saving throw. I asked. What's the DC? 16. 14. So I'm just doing that for the whole group. As, how long does it last? It lasts for a minute.

A minute. So just long enough for me to yell, you know, get the fuck out of here. So it lands and he's like, you hear this, and then all of a sudden you channel the power of Inubis and kind of this almost faint shimmering, very difficult to tell us we're looking for, it comes over the whole group. And you kind of see a bit of alarm

as the bird is kind of whispering in his ear. And then he just kind of goes back to checking the papers. And you tell everyone, everyone, and you all make your way. And you all make your way. Just one more group, stealth chat. Selwyn's bee. That's not good.

No. I got to in your own. I got to be nine. Nine. What do? 18? 11. I get an eight.

Eight. Five. I immediately rip off the ring and give it to her show. Can you do anything for an hour? Just still, just stop looking at it. Lifting. Focusing on. Okay, I put it on.

Okay. So now I'm starting to attune to it. So you start to attuned to it. And as you're just hurrying back, it's very late. A couple of eyes kind of follow you in the street, but kind of people looking at the strange motley crew of people as you all make your way through the city

and eventually turn a corner and make your way up into the queen the queen bay and uh and actually no i'm going to walk that back then when you get kind of towards the red candle district um Ravali kind of pulls you all around the corner and says, how many more of those deaths of disappearance do we have? Two. We have at least two more, but... You should... You have one, and someone else has enough.

I don't want to lead anyone back to the B. I think that's fair. No, that's a great idea. But each one has several... Should we all spread out and go individually? So someone else has one. How do you mean? I'm saying, let's duck into...

We're in... He pulled you on to its alley. And it says, like, if they... Casey's pulling an alley. Let's use it and then we go in. Fine, no problem. Yeah, yeah. So I'll drop it and I roll 2D4.

We have eight minutes. Eight minutes are fucking great. Those are nice. Those are awesome. My crystal. Show fucking, the shapes are just really great. And you can just really like those. The triangle is like, pick me off.

They can't pick them off the table. These are incredibly hard to find to in this color. Has anyone seen? Kung pal out of the vest. That's all I think about. Me trying to have my deep form. I like them because they're pyramids and I'm from Nick Bed.

That's true. I wonder if they sell actual like pyramid pyramid designs. Anyways, so it says, okay, everyone gather around. Who's using hand? I'll use mine. Okay, so Hurt, you reaching your pack,

and you all go invisible and all walk through the red candle this or easily making it eight minutes. Yeah, I would say a piece of time. And make your way through. And no one notices you as the door opens into one of your rooms

and you all pile in, shut the door, and then it drops. I tend to be an overconfident kind of teafling, but I did not think we were going to be able to make it here. Well done, everybody. Amen, oh. You kicked ass.

You did the fact that you just talked our way through, All those gates. You just have to pick a story and you stick to it and also, I don't know. Sometimes I've always been able to do that. Yeah, well, doesn't have to talk. Yeah, and that doesn't have to talk is burden. You just do all the talking forever from now on. I'm not going to say a word.

It's all right. It's okay. I was just trying to help, but you just do all that. I don't think you should adopt that as a policy. I was able to work with you to make that ogre, that hill giant disappear that one time. That's true. I will occasionally need your help and you shouldn't feel like you are diminished by this day. I suppose my.

ability to speak giant will come in handy every once in a while and I'm happy to assist when I can. Oh and being very tall and strong and that's right. I can lift the gate because I'm so big so if we find any more big any more big minotaur gates I could do that. I'm guessing that was not the last minotaur gate that we're going to see. I probably I would think so. Um, well anyway, I think you should start reading it as quickly as you can. Yeah, uh, yeah, I got some reading to do guys and I pull out a pair of, but no, I don't have anything. Uh, yeah, I, I, have some reading to do. I think we're okay in here.

Like, is there any, is there any pressing dangers or are you comfortable sitting down? I'm happy to take some time to cast some alarms and then make sure that we're safe here. Yeah. And between your alarm and Dakota, I mean, I think. So I'll take 10 minutes to virtually cast alarm on the door. Yeah, I'm going to have Dakota like propped up against like near the door and I'll probably sleeping right next to her just like uncomfortably leaning up against like the side of the wall just as close the door as possible.

Okay. I think we should all sleep in one room tonight. No, we don't have Thomas, so I think it's okay. Iris, is it going to be fine? That's fine, yeah. You can have a bit... I'll sleep on the ground. I'll sleep on the corner. Yeah, I'll sleep on the corner as well.

Yeah, neither do I have. And, Rivali... Oh, Captain Freeman. Excuse me, I'm so sorry. Is there a way out that's not the front door in case there's trouble? Um, yes, Toa, there's the way back to the labyrinth. No, I just mean like out of this building, like, and I point at the wall, can I just, is this wooden? You're not as wood. Theoretically, if we needed to, could I just smash our way out?

Look at you, big fella, I don't think that would be too much of it. Oh, I'm just, oh, smart. I'm just a little on edge, but... Toa bander, banner, sorry. Felix, that's the closest we've come. We've been... We've had some close run-ins, but that was... That was scary.

You're telling me. Listen, I... I think we figure out... We let Caprice read these pages. We get some information, and then I think we need to leave the city. I mean, unless something this is revealed in these pages, I think that we have to...

Cool. I mean, it's like Iris said we can't stay here. We don't have a lot of time, and unless there's something in these pages that is a huge revelation, we're going to have to figure something out because it's only a matter of time before they not send one talent guard, but they send a whole squad of talent guards. Caprice will let you read, and I'm going to sit here with bait and breath

to await what you've learned. And you guys really love to beat your breath, don't tell you. Yes. So, you are going to read through the documents. Mm-hmm. I'll start with the first page. You, what you read is a series of letters written all of this one. And it seems to be a series of general correspondence and general orders.

You see one of the letters, documents that the Legion has acquired both the rock gut and the, oh my God, what the fuck was the other one? called Rock Gutt and the Boulder Mall. And the Boulder Mall. And the Boulder Mall. Clothes. That the march will be long, but they will make a lot of noise and be hard to, hard to be stealth.

That they need to do everything that they can. The banner needs you everything that they can to spin the news in the other way. Everything is fine in the clockwood. You have another one that says, the cult is amassing more members, recruiting more members within Zentra. This is a boom, but it comes with great risk. Oh, I would say it's signed. That was my next question.

Yeah. Signed by the mouth of Batham. The mouth of... We're all just dead. And then... Yep. Nice, I like that. And...

Uh... So it says that the... It says that the... It says that the... The High General grows suspicious of me. Oh, boy. As do the other eyes. What?

This is fucking crazy. And it says, oh, me, as if it's the... From the perspective of the mouth of bathamette, the person who's writing these letters. The handwriting... identical. Okay. He grows suspicious of me and... He goes suspicious of me as well.

As to the other eyes. As to the other eyes. Insinuating he's one of the six there and ravens. Oh my God. Oh, good. Well, that's... Is it specifically saying the other eyes? Yes.

This is so crazy. Holy fuck. We got the juice. We got the juice. This is a jackpot, baby. Seriously. Dear diary. We got the juice.

I will never understand why you do that. What? Putting the pen on the tip of your tongue thing. It's like a cliche thing when you have a pen to get it stabbed. No, it was because of quills. Quills needed to be wetted. Oh, they did? They did.

It wasn't because of quill. Yeah, that's why Grinco would always do that, even though he didn't know what it did. Yeah, no, it's because quills and calligraphy, was it a way of wetting the ink that was drying on your quill. If you waited a long time between. How practice is when they get ink poisoning. It's a dark school.

I assumed it was pens. Richard was like, oh, he gets the ball in the bowl point pen rolling. Well, I think it was probably like a trope that carried over from the quills. Like you see somebody like done them on TV, be like, oh, like licking a pen. Like, you know. Well, I just assumed that it would wet, I guess similarly, I assumed it would like wet the fountain pen and get the ink flowing. Maybe it's a fountain, but I'm pretty sure it's a quill thing.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. That's page two of however many. I'm trying to read all of these. There were six. Oh, six pages. All one for each eye. I don't read page three.

Page three is, I've convinced Chumley. Oh no. That all is well. Not Chumley. The garrison can slow down their armaments. Mm-hmm. Oh. That the word from the front is

far more dire. This is pure insanity. Page four? Page four. Or do we get anything more out of three than that? That way, that's to the general just. It gives like general details. General details like that. And so page four has... I'm trying to find my place here. And General Trumley is the Eye of Order.

Cross-Trumbley, the military order. I can't wait till the session is ever. I've been wanting to say something for like hours. Furman has begun questioning me. Ooh. Furman, which one is that? Order of denunciation. And that is the wrath.

Yeah. One in? Yep. Furman has begun questioning me. He is close with the high general. Time is running out. But the emissaries from the nine, Hells have given us an incredible boom.

This is juicy. This is like wild. Yeah, holy shit. Page five. Oh, some more. There's two more. Two more? The construction is going well.

The sacrifices have been going better. Oh, shit. Soon, Loloch will be able to achieve physical form. Oh, that can't be good. is then we will march upon the city. Oh, well, that's interesting. Just a little more. I don't think I want to hear anymore.

I'm like, that's enough. Yeah, I just rip up page things. The other one's like, buy milk. In abyssal. The final one, or the final page. I'll never bring it when you whip on to me in the night. The final one. Sugar, human sacrifices, check, check.

More rope needed. The final one. The southern labyrinth has been compromised. Oh. Oh. Baby. That's us, yo. We're in the south.

That got there pretty quick, though. Yeah. A day. Yeah. Fucking Ravens. Time has run out. The emissaries are not pleased. Send word to the cult centers.

Suppress anything of drums, of roars. of flames Zern is suspicious I have what days URN Z URN Z URN

Z URN Z URN Because that's what Apple Z URN's the high general I know I didn't take a look at Yeah great I can I know that

Once I read all of these I'm not done Oh shit Once I receive word Zern will die The attack will begin and Zenscher will fall Oh shit I know you are a petty man

But burn these All of our correspondence Fool Near mortals That's fantastic I love that last one There you go Were these dated at all?

They were not, okay And they're all signed by the mouth All sign by the mouth of the mouth of that That is so badass Have I ever heard that phrase or the word Baphomet before? I would say, don't need a roll, you or not. Okay. I finished reading in silence.

I look around, is everyone still awake? Yeah, no. There's no one help. Phil's gonna be up for a week. Hey guys. What is this? Yeah? Well, I think I've come up with sort of an order for these letters, and I'm going to read you a translation out loud.

so that you can make what you make of it rather than my interpretation. Is that an acceptable? It's going to take a minute. Yes. I communicate everything that I just communicated in order as literally the translation as possible so that everyone has the information rather than through Caprice's lens.

Okay. And, yeah, and then here we are at the Zentra will fall, and then the mouth of Bahamad over this guy is. He asks, he asks, What? What? It's a Bop-Bet. Yeah, that's what I said.

That's what I said. What's B'all-Met? Has anyone heard of Baffamette? Has anyone heard of Bafamette? Mm-mm. Do anyone need to roll for it? Has Derek heard of Baffamette? I would say, Magen Arcona, should be disadvantaged.

Very, very high, do you see? That's going to be even worth. Uh, yeah, I'm going to go with a nine on that dog. dog. It's a nine for me dog. That's a nine from me dog. Yeah, I don't know who this baffamette guy is. Baffimit, but, you know, I'm not quite sure how to pronounce it in abyssal.

It's sort of like a, you know, and it's like, really, it's really. That I've heard before. Oh, me personally. Oh, me personally. Duh. I love the fact that he didn't burn these letters. burn these letters. Thank God we got these letters before he took action on this final command from the mouth because let me tell you, we don't have to worry about the newspaper guy

at all. Whoever's been sending this letter, he's going to fuck that guy's day up. That's the end of him. So, all right. I think that the eye that may be responsible for it and this may be too on the nose, so just let me know how you feel about it, but I think it may be Diamante Kudjada because he's the consultant for the spy network and if you think about mouths and passing secrets and all that which is kind of his specialty I feel like it's thematically very fitting for him to be potentially the one that's really stabbing all these folks in the back I suppose that makes sense if he's a secret student but I do appreciate you trying to figure it out it is not just to condemn a mess

before we have any proof. No, I'm just figuring out that by order of elimination, it's probably not chumly or Furman because they're order in Reath, and that leaves four more. Yeah, and we saw in the place it said, D-K does not want these things posted. Oh.

D-K. Thank you. I wasn't there. I wasn't there. He's the eye of propaganda. Donkey Kong? Yeah. He's like a...

D-K. Donkey Kong spymaster, yeah. Who's Donkey Kong? So hold on. Back up. Where was the... K signings, when did that happen? It was in the editorial.

It was in the, yeah, the things were like, like, like things were like this published. I tried so hard. Do you guys find anything? How about that editorial? I didn't get a chance. I was trying to. Let's go.

I was going to grab one of the things on the way out and we went out the other direction. Yes. Well, I, I am proud that I just came up with my own. I was like, I know who does. So fuck that. But that, but that. But that, I mean, it's solidimized.

We know that. I think, yeah. Well, Mikey. Wait. Wait. Wait. So you said you found something with the letters, D.K. on. Yeah, it was, you know, something, a news story. I don't know.

I don't read. I don't like it. But it said something. So they were actively trying to suppress the news. Yes, they are just lying to people. I mean, D.K. has to be. It has to be. Diomonte.

Of course, yeah. This is, but we thought there was the government this whole time. It is, I mean, it is a government. It's part of the government, but you're right. But McGuonies is that it's not. They want to kill the head of the government. It's not. I mean this is one guy.

They want to us, they want to us, they want to us and make Zentra fall, whatever that means, maybe sacrifice everyone. They can't leave this city, we have to warn them. We do have to think about why they're trying to do what they're trying to do, but we've got two conversations to have here, which is what is the overarching plot here, given what we've experienced beyond the walls of this city? And also, what are we going to do inside these walls of these city, given the fact that perhaps the entire military force is about to come down on like a silver hammer.

So let me just all the way back. When we first started working together, I mentioned how I saw the beast play was just an illusion, yada, yada, yada. Well, what I'm now concerned about, and this is just a theory, but which if this is, if this is Diomante Diomante Gujarata, if she, she, he, sorry, if he has the tell, of the Talenguard working personally for him, then that might explain why they are trying

to actively convince people that Beast Plague is a thing. And at the time, this was months and months ago, they may not have had the power that they have now, the gift from the Horn Legion, to actually turn people into beasts. And this could have been a setup for getting the Talenguard to go in And essentially, mass murder these people wholesale and kidnap these children. Listen, I hate to admit it, but Toa, do you have the book?

I look around. Yeah, the book. I rummage in my bag, and I pull out another bag, and I pull out, like, a wrap thing. The bag in a bag, and then I pull, like, another wrap thing that's, like, wrapped with it. And then inside that, I'll unwrap, and I'll pass the book. And I look at Captain Freewing, and I say, Captain Freewing, I'm sorry, and I lay out the black book, put the Talen Guard symbol on it, and I pull out my silver dagger, and I lay it on the table. He looks at it, and his eyes wide, and is that I had a feeling.

No wonder you were so fucking scared. I have done awful things, as I previously mentioned to Iris, and I'm trying to make up for it. I didn't know. I had no way of knowing, and all of this was just, it's been one, mystery after another. And now I, all I want to do is help you stop this. But I'm worried that Kujada has all of the, of the

talent guard under his thumb. And that would be very, very, very bad. Well. Would be very bad. But like Ira said, do we have proof? No, we don't. And that's the only thing that I'm going to pray for

is that I'm wrong. I want to be wrong so badly. What do you make of all this? He, he, you've seen, I've been traveling with him for over a month at this point. Yeah, right. And you, you've seen him in various states and intense situations. And you've never seen him as kind of lost.

His eyes are kind of vacant. As he looks forward. And he, and he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, I thought was wrong. Is it a good thing? If it's just one man. But how powerful must that man be to pull over one on the high general?

On Zern? And do you know what that man is capable of? I mean, how could we... Do you know anyone who could give a message? We could... We have these letters at least. They weren't burned. This might be our proof.

We could even try to leak it to all the... local other newspapers and if we had them all gang up against the one then maybe that would be proof enough to at least plant the seed I didn't get into the murder they'd be crushed yeah we need we can risk that how can we get to one of the eyes that's that's kind of my my next thought is is how can we get to them or discern would it be worth maybe contemplating me turning myself in Not Felix. No, it's out of the question.

No. You'd be executed on the spot. We can't let you do that. I mean, no offense. I think that they have bigger fish to fry. If this, from reading all of this, or from Caprice reading all of this, it sounds like they have their... Whatever you were part of. Is it over? I hope so.

It's a great question. What about the eye of fate? But, oh, she's, maybe you could talk to her as a, you know, religious to religious person. I was honestly thinking the same thing. Though circette is very small in comparison to Zemtra, I'm still a princess. And quite powerful. With that, also being a princess of anubis, I may be able to use that to speak to somebody. I can try, but I can't guarantee it.

But it is better shot than any. Have you heard from your father about who he knows? No, he sent to Mary Poppins to collect what was the face, baby raffle. But wasn't he got also... Dolly and... But who sent her? He must have some kind of contact. She mentioned being part of...

In the... She said to her the... She's quite close to Skyreach, actually. Memory's rest. What if he knows one of the eyes? Well, I did tell him. her that I would make my way over there. My father is making a very large donation to them. That on its own could be a way to get me and to speak to them.

Oh, thank God. I was really worried you guys were going to make me turn myself in. I think about it. No, there is ever the question, never say that again. But I have, I know I just said this. You never know. You never know. Joker. Well, to be fair, my father said not to, I think it was something along the line.

He said, do not talk to the eyes. actually you didn't hear it because you're not in my head but I did rely it didn't you yes I knew but I've related incorrectly I believe you told you're not to like mess up their plans so I think he really just doesn't want to be going in there and being myself so I want to go in and be a little more intelligent about the way I speak with them out of curiosity does anyone know what dark prodigy might mean in in what context a prodigy is a young um what's the word,

Luf de, no, you wouldn't know. A word that means like very good at something and I don't know, I've got my tongue. A young, talented person. Thank you. And so a dark one, I'm assuming, would be an evil one, one that was maybe

born under a bad moon. Does that mean anything to you? Dark prodigy? Can you drop the aliases? Sorry, I was just, yeah, no, I apologize for Bali. No, I was in the mode of the day and I got used to it. I'm sorry. You feel like a little bit more of a little bit.

It was... I preferred Ravali. I thought you preferred Freebird. You can call me FreeWing. That's what I said. It was a name I chose myself and my mother gave me the name Ravali. Well, that's lovely. I heard of the dark prodigy the first time when you relayed that information

of what happened in the Labyrinth or the Southern Labyrinth. Yes. And that does imply that there are multiple labyrinths, obviously. That does. I've heard no sustain of a dark prodigy. I spent my time, the occasional dark magids. Giants and beasts and monstrosities has been my specialty. Do we think that... I'm going to go out of a limb here. There are totally eight labyrinths, right? How would we know that? Well, there's this other one, and then there'd be the one surrounding the city. I mean, it's a good guess.

I'd say at the very least there's four for the compass woes. What's a woes? You know, the thing, you know, you know. Are you talking about sadness, woe? Yeah, like woe is me. Now I'm feeling woe. Do you want me to get you a compass? Well, if you want to give me present, I'll take it.

Well, I don't want to, but if you're feeling saddened of not having a compass. I feel so sad, oh, it's terrible. Genozy are straight. Yeah, we're temperamental. You have to keep us happy. I do not have to do any such thing. Well, not you. It's the Royal You. Oh, you are the Royal You.

Look at that. Oh, she's the Royal You. She has to keep a happy. What's the Royal You? Is it just her? I think so. I never really talked about it. It's nice to meet the Royal You.

I have absolutely no idea what is happening in this conversation. I was just asking a simple question. I should know, never talk. to ask you anything at all. Yeah. That's true. Here's my... That's true.

That guy that you were giving them a soldier to. He worked... He was the one that let us know initially that he was slowing down production in his weapons manufacturing thing. Yeah, he says that the government did not want the weapons. Well, obviously, because in the note,

it said that they were suppressing that. Yeah, it's... Well, he said that... So, in the letter, it's a... Chemley. He convinced Chunley. He convinced Chunley, perhaps. this guy you give him a really good massage like a really really good massage and maybe he can

somehow give us up the chain yeah I kind of gave it to my best shop but you're welcome to die you have an on-call hand job person yeah I mean well he has the screen not I have the main chance somebody said something about being on coal and something about handies yeah I believe that we we agreed that that was her just I just can't quite remember the she doesn't have a safe fluid I'm not sure what that means but I can't remember what the phrase is It was on call. On call handy.

On call handy. That's what was. On call handy. She would just like Hulk out in her hair. It would be like strength of 50. It would be like blow job girl where she's like, he wanted like, you want it so dry. Like a desert in my mouth.

That's the, it is. It was young Aaron. Kimmy Schmidt. Yeah. Kimmy Schmidt. Yes. On call handy Andy. Is there any chance you could have.

any chance you could have been getting. Oh, damn it. Yep, well, it's been decided. Andy Andy. How did we think of that earlier? That, you know, on call, Andy, Andy, Benedict Powerbomb, or whatever. However the moon strikes.

Oh, boy. So, it's really a utility player. Do we know what the members of the order look like, or the, yeah, the, um, I don't think we do. The eyes. Are they people? They're humans, yeah. We have ever seen, like, General Zern being like a power figure,

we have ever seen like a sketch of him and you know like a all general zern that's a great question if all any of my time throughout the academy if i would have seen uh pictures of these people i want both of you to make history checks at advantage oh hell am i the other both yep yep yeah i wasn't looking when he says uh it's gonna get 16 history i got seven you have seen schedules. Of Zerm. Of Zerb. Not the eyes. Not the eyes. Okay. That makes sense. Everyone, at least

has lived in Zentra for a time, knows what Zerm likes to make. He is a man in probably about 60 years old. Tall. Never seen without his full military regalia. Long,

white hair, the widow's peak. Very angular features. sharp nose, strong jaw, and very dark piercing eyes. Hersia, were you just asking the group if we? I was gonna ask you if, you know, just kind of shot in the dark, I didn't really get to see him, but maybe that guy you're giving a foot massage

to his chumly. I can't say I've personally ever seen what any of the eyes look like. You know, he's talking about weapons and production and all that stuff. And wouldn't you think that if Chumley wanted to go to a broad He'd go to a better one than this.

I mean, it's pretty looked down upon. He wouldn't be caught dead here. I mean, I would think. Well, he seemed kind of like not all that comfortable when we looked at him, right? He was kind of like shifting a little bit. Maybe he was specifically picking that one because people wouldn't expect him to be there. I'm just guessing here, but I'd also say that none of the eyes would be caught dead in any brothel. They might be completely cast out.

Oh, okay. Well, if they're, it's pretty looked down upon in the, I mean, the guy, the military people. They can probably have girls come to them. That could be true, too. I'm not going to assume. No point. Well, maybe this guy just worked for Chumley then. I don't know.

I think. Remember anything I've heard? If we can call on a favor from the Pharaoh's Academy, that might be our best bet. Looking, trying to track down one of the most top seven powerful people in the entire country and some slum brothel. I mean, way more of a wild goose chase. And they could have women from all over the country and the world shipped it.

These guys are probably in the Citadel, right? That is generally where they reside. And that's like the most secure place, and the most secure city and the most secure continent in the world? City, continent I would not agree with. but probably one of the most secure places on play, yes, and all the dangerous. Well, why don't we just go in there, and then we can find one of them, and we'll be able to talk to them there. You are really not from around here, are you? Are you from around anywhere?

Yeah, I've been singing about Galtica pretty much non-stop. Does Galtica have a key? No. It's a pretty free city. We don't just give out Let me put it to you this way Watery tartan sorts Before you met me

If I had wanted to find you Or your father or your brother or your mother Could I just walk into your house Uninvited and Unannounced Would that be considered No, you could walk into our shop Unannounced and Univated I'm talking about your home

Oh, thanks for the song Leafy No Thank you for the guest Leafy also Yeah. I mean, God, you guys are freaking awesome, man. That was a different really.

Throw up your hooters. Last one of the gift. You guys are amazing. That's like when you like win a, that's what it sounds like a loop box. That was perfect. That was literally perfect. That's what I was like, I would do that. But we would.

Then it's go, beautiful. Yeah. I like that, yeah. What's a flop back down and you see what you get, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. To answer your question, yeah, kind of. I mean, like, we don't, we have any reason to have any magical protections.

We're not royalty, so we don't have any guards. You probably could walk in. I'll tell you this one time, this Eryokra came in, he just kept saying, is it safe? Is it safe? Over and over. He was very drunk. We had to, you know, scoot him right out. Oh, God.

Well, aside from your strange Eryokokra story, in most places, it is not considered. it's considered very rude to just walk into somebody's home or to attempt to just find entry into a king or a lord's domain. I agree. So I would suggest that maybe a course of action especially considering the dwarf is that we do not just walk straight in.

We are going to need heavy protection. I was proposing that we stealth right in, but that's a different... Have you heard her? She farts every time she steps. Not as bad now I got my cloak of Elvincind. You mean since you started drinking milk? The clock just muffles it.

Wait, what is milk after you do with anything? Well, I believe that you are lactose intolerant. I tried to have this conversation with you and you said, no, I love cream. I grew up milking yaks or some strange furry beast. I think it was cow-bole. Wasn't that what you said? Whatever. It doesn't matter.

And I tried to take it away from her. She wouldn't let me. So in the middle of the night, I cast purify food and drink and I turned it into water and that's what she's been drinking ever since and she's been farless flat-lit. I thought I couldn't even sleep in the same room as you would kick me

out. And now you know why. Well. I said it before. I'll say it about it. Every day you learn something new. It's okay. That should be the motto of the wizard. Every day you learn something new.

Yeah. Regardless of Hoosges Farts, like a foot and a half toll than everyone in this entire city. It's not really a good idea. Like, how am I going to sneak around like this? It seems sneakier than you just walk. We need some kind of diplomatic protection. That is what we're going to need.

That would be lovely. We are going to need to be able to walk through this city where this DK animal buddy, obviously because he has the stables, as it were, this buddy of the animals, will be unable to apprehend us. knowing full well that the High Commander expects us. That is what we're going to need.

I'll probably still try to disguise my face, but... I think we should honestly give you a fake name as well. I do like Benedict. I got Albert. But... Albert might be compromised at this point. I believe Albert will be compromised. How do you feel about the name Benedict?

I like Benedict. I like it. It sounds... Oh. We don't have to use the last name. Do we need a last name? No, I think Benedict will be fine. We can put him...

Bubbubb, Banny. Yeah, we could... Bubbba Benny, huh? Bany, I'm sorry, I'm stuttering. I like... I like Bainty. I'm tired. You're catching it from me, I think.

I found this phase over me, and do you want to try it out? A fizz. A fizz. A fizz. Is that from the bear to the bears? Bands from the bears. Wow, I don't even know what a fess is. Is that a type of hat?

Is that a hat? I think it's a... We have a nickbit. They come from your country. Sure. I'm sure I've seen them around. So it sounds like... You all need to shut the fuck up. It sounds like we have the mouth of Baphimet to deal with it.

It sounds like our best force of action in Iris. Prepare in the morning what you need to. Reach out to your father and see if he is... You're not... I'm not giving you an order. I told you this when we banned it together. You're all free individuals. Oh, no, I wasn't talking. I was just saying it out loud.

That's fine. It just sounds like to me that our best course of action is what had been suggested. I don't come from a free city like you. I'm not going to tell me anyone to do what they want to do, but it sounds like that's our best shot. He's going to be so mad at me for all of the favors I'm asking. If we fail at this, you're all invited to come back to Dalton. We can just say fuck it and it's forever.

Is that a deal? If they don't march on Goldica. You're all well-in- Yeah, I was gonna say we're until the seals get broken and then we all die from that too I'm not too worried about it sounds like it with all of your open-door policies and the drunken Ero-cocra stumbling into people's humble birds if you think that you're very secure They can do not having any form of leadership to make sure you're all protected We don't make shit from nobody all right not at the big goodberry Didn't he just say this is the most heavily security in the entire country

And if they have in the entire world, and if they can bring this city down, you really think if you guys don't even have a king. Yeah, exactly. That's no one to fool in all these shenanigans. That's true. People playing hollands. Sounds like a flea-sinking society. Poker.

Poker's nice. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I mean, we can play a long game of flea while they get a ride on the ocean. What is fleen? You've never heard about fleaing. No, we don't play games in Neckbetter. Oh, man, I could talk to you about Flem for hours. If we didn't have a more present conversation,

I would tell you about FLEEN. Well, maybe on the next span of time, where we're traveling for, like, months, you could just tell us about it. You don't know what Flean either? I'm the only one. Do I need a role for knowledge of FLEEN? Oh, okay.

No, I don't know what Flean is. No one knows what it is. Does the Brick even know what fleeting is? Oh, that's amazing. What the fuck is flea? It's the baseball. Oh, yeah. Oh, but flea, duh.

None of you know what flea is. Well, I start describing how there's the, maybe, maybe it's maple flea. That's incredible. I think, every, it's, maple flea. Oh, my God. I think everyone needs some rest. Yes, I agree.

Yeah. I think we've seen a lot today. We almost died. Captain, do you think maybe you and I could just get a cup of tea downstairs before we go to bed? I just have some questions for you. Maybe for a few minutes, yeah. He won't take one. Okay.

If you guys don't mind, we'll just be right back. I'm just going to get a bit. Just don't tell Brewster that I'm going to use this stuff. That's fine. It's very late, and I would like to, if you don't mind. It won't take a few minutes. You can, don't wait up. I mean, I've alarmed the door.

We should be hard. I'll just like. Nestle in on the floor. Okay. And everyone have a good night. I'll sleep in the corner again. Yeah, we'll be right back to it. Have a good night.

Just leave me a spot on the floor, I guess. Just gonna lay down. Yeah, until you'll bring me a beer, okay. Please do not rest your body on my body. I'll make a bed roll next to her job. Just be like, man, look at these keys. You have no idea how fucked up that guy is going to be in the morning. when he realizes these keys on here.

And his penis is still there. He's just going to be dreading that for the rest of his life. What a crazy day. His short life. Not to mention the flatulence that he'll have after that second sandwich you gave him. Oh, is he also lactose in trouble? I imagine he's got something going on. He has a lot of carbs he just consumed.

Exactly right. And as he leaves, let's go for you, he stops with his hand on, and he turns to you guys and he looks at you. Iris, is Iris, I don't want to endanger the safety of your people or your country, but any help would be appreciated. I will not talk to Father in the morning. I don't mean a lot. I cannot make him do what he is not willing to do, and he will not danger Siket, so...

I would hope so. If he says that we may use his name to gain audience or his connections in Zentra, we shall. if he says that we cannot, then we will not. And I will pretend not to be a princess. He sounds like a good man and a good leader. He's so good. Good night. A hairball.

Good night. And he walks out. And as everything has pretty much died down, there is one girl on duty as that girl's Sapphire. And the room is empty. It's the last John, the last patron, his last one. left and Brewster is long gone. And so the bar is being shut down,

has been left to call. You see Ravali going behind the bar, using his stuff, he puts on a kettle, puts it on the stove, and he pours two cups of tea. As he kind of turn, he sits down and grabs the cup and after he finishes letting it steep, since what's up? I know we've been going through a lot, and if you don't want to answer these questions,

I totally understand, but you mentioned growing up here in this brothel. I did. Did you know your mother? No. I wish I did. I'm sorry to hear that. Did you know your father?

No. I heard he was an elf. That's where I got these. Well, if it's any consolation, I knew my mother, and it wasn't well until my teens that I realized that she, too, was a prostitute. I don't know my dad. He turns and looks at you. There's a bit of shock on his face.

And he says, how about that? She used to tell me that he was a famous member of the Talent Garden. So I've basically devoted every minute of my life trying to become one. Is that true? I doubt it. I mean, like everything else, we were just naive kids at the time. But not needless to say, it put me on the path that it did to protect my family and provide for my mother until she fell ill and protect my younger brother, Milo. Delphina told me many stories about my mother.

Every single time it changes. Yeah. But I have an idea what she might. be. That's all I need. That's fair. I mean, my mother was a good woman. She tried to provide for me and my brother, and it was fine. I just, I, it's not every day you meet somebody who has a, you know, similar background. That's true. And hopefully you didn't have to grow up in a place like this. At least she kept it from you for a while. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a, it wasn't a legitimate brothel, but it was a rough part of town and we lived above a bar and, you know, how things go.

Could be worse. Yeah. I turn to have fine, right? Yeah, well... I'm happy and kind of this is really horrible for a fake smile. I mentioned before, I just... I hope at some point I can find peace.

I really want to make up the things that I've done. So do I, and we all will. Sorry about your mother. That's all right. Sorry about your brother. And I didn't mean to lie about being a part of the talent card. That's fine. We all have a lie of...

shit we're all lying about. I'm sure your friends are doing the same. Yeah, maybe not tow or Hersia. I just don't want anyone to get hurt. Or not brief. I'm not there. Especially. I just don't want these people to get hurt. And at this point, I've got, I've got no one but them and I'm willing to lay my life down to, to stop whatever's going on. So am I. So we're all agreeing. I think everyone else is too. I appreciate you being honest with me.

I'm trying to start to me. I'm trying to start to me. I'll raise my tea last and finish off my tea and say, well, one last tea party before we all die. Yeah, that's just, tea's not bad. It'll be worse? I'll drink it. Just don't tell Bruce, sir.

Yeah, of course. I'm gonna head back up and take your time and have a good night. You too, Felix. Sleep well. And you all enjoy long rest. Morning comes And I don't know IRIS if you're taking sending or yeah Okay change it

Chichich change it The hardest part about being a cleric is giving them spells What I can give you spells to clerics now? All of them forever and I can give you an opportunity if you want to wake a little early and prepare spending and contact your father okay so you the son of the the Korvokian morning hits you. And actually seems to be a lot brighter than the previous morning

and many of the mornings beforehand. You kind of hear the same familiar croak, but actually a few chirping some songbirds, which you wouldn't expect. And you wake bright and early. You look around. Everyone is completely passed out. And you start screaming at the top of me.

Oh, my shit. You see... No, that's only really... are for the middle woman. The middle woman. And you see, you see Ravali once again in his little corner, his arms folded tight, his knees tucked up.

He's a little guy and he does not take up much space. You see the rest of the everyone kind of passed out all in one room awkwardly, but this is the motley crew that you guys have in this morning round. Yeah, I'm just kind of, I don't know, I'm basically going to say we have found herself in Zentra and we have discovered that, there is someone

who is part of the eyes of the raven who is trying to overthrow the city who calls themselves the mouthpiece of Baphimat Baphomet Baphomet Vero Baha'amette

and that we need to warn the commander I know I was told not to get involved but if we don't do if we don't do anything now Zentra will fall and this war may find itself raging on the shores of neckbeth.

Tell me, please, please give me your guidance, father. Tell me how to deal with this. Ten minutes past. You didn't hear a response. It says, I know, I knew my, when I knew this called my daughter away, I knew, when I knew was called my daughter away to land so far away,

knew that this would be, these would be the stakes. Suppose it is a good thing I called in a favor to Archbishop Aloysius Zicharius. Whoa, that's a name. Yeah. That was not randomly generated. I'll tell you. I'll tell you what.

How do you spell that? A-L-O-Y-I-S-I-S-I-O-U-S. Bishop is spelled B-I-S-H-O-P. Arch-B-B-E-L-B-E-E-E-L-E-E-E-E-C-C-A-L-E-E-E-C-C-R-E. Spell it again. Go from the top. A-L-O-Y-W-I. All-O-Y-I-S-I-O-U-S. Just Tex-R-R-R-R-R-S.

And then Z-A-C-H-A-R-I-U-S. I'm just going to go to Zacharias. Oh, A-S, Apologies, A-S, not U.S. It's Z-A-C-C-H, right? Z-A-C-H-H-A-R-I-A-S. All right. All-H is Zakarius. I just intentionally spell it.

What a great. name. Yeah. Thank you. Allo wish to Zacharias. Allo wish to Zakaria. Does the girls go crazy. I couldn't do that right, but I tried. Who has promised to arrange a meeting with Portia Paradisa. Boom, baby. He will be sending a representative to fetch you later today. Be well, my daughter. And me'll Cyrus and Anubis. Keep you safe. And that is World War II session. This is big...

Daddy's me! And then we'll let in the section. This session was so fucking insane with how much we finally learned. Finally. Yeah. Big payoff day. Huge payoff day. That was insane.

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