Legends of Avantris - Vagabond's Heart: A Dimwood Tale | Ep. 1 | Into the Woods

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

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This is Mikey Gilder and you're listening to Vagabond's Heart, a dimwood tale. This is a side canon prologue to uprooted dimwits of the dimwood with most of your favorite characters and lots of shenanigans. So we hope you'll enjoy it. Welcome everyone. We are playing Root the RPG by our incredible sponsor Magpie Games. This is our first time actually running a proper power by the apocalypse system. So I do want to say that this is very, very, very different from Dungeons and Dragons. It could probably not be more different.

So everyone, we're gonna totally disconnect that comparison. And it is a 2D6 system. And no matter what, you only ever need 2D6. Is it the only facts I have on the table? Are you two dsets. And that is always going to- I have four in case two of them. Fucked me.

That is gonna be the case. I don't even own these. And so this is a world that is specific to this campaign that we created based on the world of root. called the dim wood. And our party, and we can pull up the map, Rich, why don't we do that? So you can see the map of the dimwood here. It's controlled by a, you see that there's two factions here controlling it. And I'll get into my narrative. There's the, these, the, the marquisite, which is a faction controlled by cats that is bitterly opposed to the Erie dynasties. And they

are these aristocratic birds that used to rule the forest. And our party, you see the little gray meeple, the little token right there, they are vagabonds, a group of forest creatures that just wander around and see their own fortune, and they have their own goals that they're trying to achieve. What we're going to do is we're going to go into introducing our characters. My name is Brumley. I am a dog, specifically a punk dog, and I work very loyally and very happily for the Marquisades they're very, they were my catmasters and they, I was a deputy

to a sheriff and I was working just fine. They fed me well. I served my master well and then all of a sudden one day the sheriff asked me to do the unthinkable and I wouldn't do it. So I was

cast out from my home in these woods. I'm not from here. I'm from the cat. empire. I'm not sure if you mentioned that. I think there, it's a Marquis de Katt is a singular leader

who is from a foreign empire that basically settled these woods and grumly what is serving them. And so I'm a vagabond, but I'm still an arbiter. I still want to defend the helpless and do what I can to make my way

in the woodland and the dimwood as best I can. Okay. Kelsey, who are you playing? All right, well, I'm playing Hayes in life. She's a chipmunk thief. And I'm from the Nookington Clearing. And, well, my fingers just got a little too sticky, and I ran away with a whole buffet.

And I was going to get everyone in trouble. So I turned myself in, and then I ran like heck. So I'm just, I guess I'm putting up the money for the funds that I stole. And I am always after a tasty treat. great Mickey we play you know

so I'm just playing Peggy but some people know me as Rosie the Riveter I'm a fraud and you know I'm a tank and I make things

it's really cool and so I just happen to have kind of a side gig a secret persona as it were and that's how I met my friend Gromley here because you see

I make things for the Machis 8 and I've kind of got to keep it on the deal so I myself a fun name and they partners with this cute little tug over here and just deliver my way is my character's name is Booker and he's kind of a fast-talking wise cracking raccoon vagoon vagrant I'm a vagrant and he's very much a hustler that's my

class as a hustler Booker was originally from the Muckbed Creek he's good friends with the otters down there and due to all the political turmoil there's a lot of people out there who need to be separated from their coin. I like to use my fast-talking ways to maybe scan some people out of their money. And where, with all of this political turmoil, there's a lot of muck. And when there's muck, there's clams, as my good friends, the others say. So, Booker's whole goal is to kind of just make his way and carve out a little place for himself by separating fools from their coin. Great. So let us begin the campaign. So let us begin the campaign Welcome to the dimwood, a vast, sprawling forest south of the ice hell mountains, cut through by old Tom's River, flanked by the sea of seven stars and the hatchet saw hills. This is an ancient forest that was once nearly

unlivable. Terrible danger lurks within the dark tree canopy. Savage barbarian bears, mysterious, some say magical deer. Beasts of all kinds, almost too terrible to mention. That was until the Erie arose, the Erie Dynasty, a proud people, led by birds of prey predominantly, brought civilization, if you would, to these forests. They were the ones that created the clearing. They carved the paths and allowed the denizens of the woods to live comfortably, predominantly mice, rabbits, and foxes. As the rule went on, however, there was squabbling within the aristocracy of these birds of prey,

and there was a massive civil war that almost wiped out the eerie entirely. Pushed back to just a handful of clearings. It wasn't long before an opportunistic feline set her eyes on this forest. Coming from a great empire far away, the Marquis de Katt de Kette had been sent by her country to become the new ruler of this forest,

as they saw a lot of great opportunity, rife with natural resources and a population to be controlled and to get taxes from. And they cut their way through the hatch at Saw Hills and developed a foothold. And with the eerie in such a devastated state, they took over almost all of the dim wood. And while they were effectively an invading species, there was a very important. There were jobs for the denizens of the forest. Industry was brought. Great mills, workshops, field hospitals, medicine, things that Erie had never really provided, despite the Erie bringing civilization. So although they were still paying high taxes, it was a new, it was not the worst thing. However, the woodland, the dimwood is populated by a huge variety. of woodland creatures. And four of these creatures sit around a campfire in the forest, not far from the path,

north of O'Kat's Hollow, the seat of power of the earring. All four of you are licking your wounds, so to speak, and nursing your pride after a great con job went wrong. And you were forced to flee the city. However, unfortunately, you were not entirely detected by many of the warriors of the Erie. And so it's evening. You decided to make camp. You haven't been attacked by any horrible giant spiders or barbarians. And that's a thing.

You're all, you know now. They speak of the barbarians of the forest. Oh, no. Oh dear, it's a deer. As you all sit with sticks of, with acorns roasting over the open fire, and you're all going around telling an old story from your past, your life before you were a vagabond. As Grumly starts, drinking deep from his cup of root tea that's sitting on the camp.

What do you do? Now, let me tell you, first of all, look, I told you that was a terrible idea. To go right into the heart of the ear and try to run a con. What were you thinking? Not clearly that I wasn't thinking. That's just it. That's how I had a horrible prickling. Well, we're all alive, and with none of our boxes checked off.

But let me tell you a story of when I was Shared Deputy Grumley, it was the greatest experience of my life. I'm not all right. The cats, they thought I was so loyal enough that they brought me all the way that they didn't work. And they, the second I got here, they put me to work. You know, I collected taxes. I kept the order. And, but then one day, Sheriff Beatrix, who was very loyal to.

She was my master. She was my commander. like that film and starring Russell Russell Crow April

and where did you remember Russell grow and she there was this cool rabbit family

they couldn't pay their taxes and so I'm like no that's all right just hopefully you'll sell more pies next month

and you can pay your your taxes for this month next month okay pies? Oh, I don't know.

Whatever pies rabbits make. I don't know. They'll taste the same to me. Are they meat pie? I don't know. I'm pretty sure the carrot kinds. Maybe they're carrot pies. Whatever...

So you're like a carrot cake than is a pie. And so I went back and Sheriff Beatrix, she tells me, she tells me, we need to make an example of these people. we need to burn down our farm if we need to do worse so being

because he didn't pay the taxes and I said no that's not right these people can't pay their taxes they said they had a bad harvest maybe I forget what they told me but he told me something that sounded good at the moment and I believed it and I'll still believe it

I'll think it was a true story and I wouldn't do it I'm not going to destroy the livelihood of potentially kill these poor little bunny rabbits. Oh, they were so cute, all these little bunny rabbits. And so on the spot, she fired me. She released me from my duty and I was cast out with the rest of you lot. Oh, go away.

And this has been how long ago was all this? Probably a year. A year ago. This was now a year ago. And here I am camping in the woods about to be. stoded by a barbarian or something? Oh, it's terrible.

Well, I still hope not. You know, that was just as bad. The first 76 times you told us that story over the past few months as I mark another check down

on my doctor and I told the story. You don't think I was going to ask you exactly that. I can always count I'm going to keep telling you those things. Yeah, you might have

right here on my ledger. Whatever happened to the little bunnies. Let's see if he gets it right. Well, as far as I know, they had someone else do it.

That is terrible. I don't think anyone died, but I think that they burned down their barn, maybe a silo or two, and as far as I know, maybe they're out on the street. I left the clearing as soon as I could.

That's terrible. Who else has got a story? Well, I don't know if my story is as involved or long as yours, but I can totally try to spit a little bit on. go on thank you for your permission by

you know that I really do actually have wrong in the park because I have this thing that I'm working on over here and I can really use some kind of string or something no no you are far more talented I than I am I assume you'd be able to do that. Oh but that was rude to bring that up then. No offense taken what? Never mind

don't you know that the island's a sensitive subject to Peggy we've been traveling together for at least six months my apologies We don't mention yard in front of Peggy. Anyway, when I was just a young little raccoon back in the, the Muck Bed Creek, where there's a large predominant group of artists who lived there, I grew up with my good friend, Benny, and he taught me everything that I needed to know about Brifton. As you can tell, I'm not one for fighting.

I don't really have any interest in any kind of war. Dimmwood is an absolute mess, but all I can see is an opportunity to make some money. Well, needless to say, the dim wood is a large place and there's a lot that I haven't seen and there's a lot of people I haven't met and there's a lot of persons that need to be light

can't spend too long in one place otherwise people start getting wise to your plays, your cons so after Betty taught me everything we know my special patented move is the desperate smile which is exactly how we got out of the area so when it out

give them the old smile and walk away I'm glad that you do that patented desperate smile. I'm not sure the validity of the patent you have on that smile, but I'm not in that business anymore. I do actually have a scroll here somewhere that talks about everything you need to do with a final patent. Thank you.

I'll be sure to take notes later. Sure, we can talk about it. I wish you hadn't said pie. That's all I can think about. Every pie I ever ate of her blueberry pies. Raspberry pies, pecan pies. I think my favourite pie,

it's my mum's pie. She makes a bumbleberry pie that's just unbelievable. And she won't tell anybody what the secret ingredient is, but I've got my nose out for it. Every time we go into town, especially when them rabbit folk, I've got my nose out. I'm sniffing around for it.

Wait, hold on. So maybe the secret ingredient is, bumbleberries, have you ever considered that? You know, if it's in the name, I don't think it's very secret. Well, maybe that's... Well, they're sort of that. You've had it in plain sight. What, you never expected the secret ingredient in Bumboleary Pie was bumblebears.

Have you ever thought to put bumbleberries? That's actually a fantastic point. The best cons in the world are right in front of your face. You never see them going. That's, well, I'm not saying the mark they're calm. Where could I get bumbleberry pie then? I didn't even have time to look. You got us kicked out of town so quick.

Well, I got us stick down. got alive, didn't they? Well, I guess I can bumbleberry another day, but of course I miss my mom. Well, one day, hopefully we can head back there. It's very far from here, though, I believe. And a good thing, because I'm left.

I'm on the run. The area are trying to get me. Well, that makes two of us. I don't like dearly, very much of total, so... Three of us. Four of us. Four of us. You know, you act like we haven't been traveling for months.

You know this. Yeah, we're just reiterated for perhaps. I don't know. I don't know. Every time they come around me. To be fair, there isn't a lot to talk about. So we often come on the same topics more than one time. Yeah, I know.

I've been writing them all down. It's almost as if there's this thing, this fourth wall that we have to talk to to to make sure that everyone else is on the same page. Why don't we even come down here? If we all hate the Erie, why didn't we head north? Does anyone have a map? I pull out a map. Of course, we all have maps.

Of course, we all have maps. So then we can all blame Grumley that we ended up in the wrong spot. Come on, Brumley. No, you told me, specifically, that we were supposed to go to O'Cax Hollow to do this thing. Oh, right, all right. Grumly, calm down. I want to hear of a big story.

Yeah, I guess I could tell you my story. There's not really much to tell, you know. I've got a really amazing workshop, which you've all seen, so you know you've been there, you've experienced it, you've eaten all of my fish. Take a while outside of that. I really just left because I've got a lot of things they've got to collect. I've got an entire booklet here of all the things that I want to find.

And I pretty much just have gotten all of the ones that I needed from home. I might have to leave a friend back there. He's really nice. His name is Hamill. He's a toad, and he's got great penmanship. He's just phenomenal. He's the one that tell me how to rain this beautiful script. Wow.

You know, hopefully one day someone will think of me and think, wow, Rumley, his redeeming quality is a good penmanship. Fortunately, that was the only class I failed in school. No, he writes like he's running out of time. But, you know, he all are. I need him a clock for his wrist. I call it a skin clock. What a name is about the same name?

That's terrific. Yeah, you know, it's kind of been, I haven't copied it. It's not a TM yet. It's made from skin. It's not patterned yet. Yeah, actually it is. It's made some leathers. Oh.

Oh, so it's literally a skin clock. A club made from skin. Yeah. So it's as you're all debating what constitutes a skin clot. As you start to hear a branch snap in the dark woods past you. as you, as soon as your attention is drawn, you see through the forest and in the same direction is what seems to be a swinging light,

almost like it's coming from the lantern, heading directly in your direction, swinging hastily, jaunting all around, and it seems to be getting closer as the lake is larger and larger in your direction. You just hear snapping. Who? Who is there? Who?

Who is there? Who? For any trouble now, Just make yourself known. I'm going to hide back in the bushes a little bit. Okay. So you dodge back. I see a lot.

Who's not yet? And you see the light get larger and larger. And there isn't an immediate response as the cracking of the branch and the twigs, the rustling of the brush around you. You start to hear a panting and you hear a voice call out, Oh, I'm on the run. I mean no home. And you sort of see a figure emerge.

And you see feathers, brown feathers. Not unlike the ear of your soldiers that you ran from. And bursting from the clearing, you see an owl, a great horned owl, not flying, holding a lantern. And you see that one wing is in a sling as he wears a large black coat, a bent top hat on his head. as he carries a lantern, as his eyes are wide,

as he stumbles into your clearing, he looks around, almost confused. You go, Be gone! They are coming! What do you do? What are you doing? What are you doing here, Bird?

What are you doing here, birdie? Do you have for a... For Eerie? No, I am running from the Eerie. I... They will be here soon. They are coming. They are after me.

Wait, wait. I pull my great sore. Then, everyone. Let's get moving. I pull my great sword away. Where's Erie? Now, now, Brumley, we're not looking for a fight. I think it's best that we get on move on here. It's evening, right?

Yeah, it's night. Yeah, it's night. I don't really want to get caught in the woods with these birds of prey, if you know what I'm saying. We can't handle the Erie soldiers in a clearing, but we're in the woods. This is our territory. We can, how many are there, friend or foe?

I don't know yet. I didn't think it's a good look, but I think it'd be five. You know, I'm a tinker out of a fight, I'm not sure I'm going to get involved in it. I'm with Penny on this one. I'm certainly not going to leave you hanging high and dry, but I'm not really looking for a fight right now.

Out of the bushes. Why are they chasing you? Would not do a task that they demanded of me. Oh my God, you and grunly are like the same person. Why don't you come with us and you can tell us all about it on the way? Is there any chance that maybe we can put that light a little bit lower and maybe we can all hide a little bit and you could just blow it out.

I cannot see most of my eyesight Oh no We gotta get you somewhere asleep How do they take somebody's in the eyesight Can you tell me exactly how they did it In steps from one to ten And then can you describe all of the feelings to me There's not enough time

I'm gonna start like kicking dirt on our campfire Okay I still have my stick with my acorn on it And I'm just like trying to put out the fire And be like maybe we should head a little deeper Into the woods here and get out of this line of sight We can take this guy with us And then make sure that you're all right I would appreciate that.

Yes. Oh, as he stumbled. Come on, come on there. And I grab him and try to help him along. So as you douse the campfire and you all start to douse out, you all then start to hear the flapping of winks. As you all look up and the moonlight is enough to illuminate

flapping, flying figures. As the moonlight glints off of armor and weapons. As you see, five will seem to be eerie soldiers flying through the woods in your direction. What do you do?

We better go north. I'm going to try to like duck into some bushes and hide. I don't want to be seen. So I'm going to look for whatever the biggest kind of brush I can find and like dive into it. Okay. So if you are all

hiding, we'll just let, Booker, why don't you do an attempt rogueish feat? So this is one of the moots. You don't want me to do that for the group, do you? You're trying to hide? But for the group? For the new. Yeah, I was just sad.

Do you want me to do that for the group? Because it will fail. Well, I rolled a 10, but what is it, finesse? Fennesse. So that's a minus one. Oh, no. So it's a 9. Oh.

So as you died into the bushes, you dive behind it, and so you need to pick two of the, the two of the problems as you attempt to dive in. Oh, okay. I think two of them. Yeah. I will use up some resources in an attempt to Mark Decay,

and I'll leave evidence of my roguery behind. So I didn't, you know, I'll just, can I describe it? Yeah, yeah. We didn't have time to cover up the campfire. There's obviously been camp, and I left footprints as I was diving into the bush in Lmark 1 Decay. Okay. Okay, so now that you see that the camp has not been fully packed up, as there's still some smoldering embers, as Booker dives into the brush.

They're getting closer, and you start to see that one of them is holding a torch in its talents as they point over in the direction of the camp. They don't seem to see you now, but they definitely see the embers of the campfire. What do you do? Do we just fart them now? I don't want to fight anybody I really want to fight those evil birds from the bushes

I mean if you're making me I suppose but I'm still hiding there's a bush for now I'm gonna I'll join I'm gonna sort of like hide but just I'm gonna walk behind the tree just like stay in there skinny little tree yeah

it's a super skinny tree and I'm like Are you all right friend and I guess he's like over my shirt he's on my shoulder so you have have this owl over your shoulder as he seems to be, there's a bit of gray in his feathers,

as he seems to be quite old, as he's trying to stuff the lantern into his coat, and he's kind of shaking it, it's snuffed out almost entirely, and he's hiding it behind his coat, and you start to see as you're back off into the trees, and you see five eerie soldiers fly down and land. You see that there's a variety of, there's a hawk, there is, there is a, is a cardinal, the variety of songbirds and rafters as they begin to poke around. And one, the head is this tall, this tall falcon. And you see that... I'm just sitting by the fire.

What fire? The one that we had made. I never moved. Oh, okay. So, oh, so... So, so... So Booker just kicked ash in your face and ran. Can you hear this?

Oh. So as they fly down, they see you, Peggy sitting. there. And they, as they land and you see that they all stop for a moment as the one at the lead draws

a sword and looks at you. You see his eyes, as evening eye is going up and down and looking around the campsite and says a vagabond. Yeah, just hanging out here by the fire.

Have you been traveling with an owl? No, I didn't see no owl on the frog. It eat me. Are you sure he came in this direction? He's not very fast. Well, then I think if he's not very fast, he's not here, you might be in the wrong direction, friend. Have you seen a light in the woods? Yeah, there's one flickering off over yonder. I figure it was lightning bugs. Which direction did it go? Oh, shit, I had a knit below something.

I'm gonna close my eyes and point, and I hope it's right, all right. I'm gonna point over the opposite of the direction from where you're at. This is, could you please roll with cunning to tricking an NPC? I have a little nip for a little bit. Nine. Okay. And so, so it's a partial success. And so could you please pick one of the, um,

One of the two things. Trick and NBC, correct. So I don't understand, so what does it mean you gain a critical opportunity? So a critical opportunity will be, for instance, like, let's say that they're, they stumble and they might be confused and they might turn around and kind of look away and start squabbling where their attention is totally taken off. And you can maybe either book it into the woods or stab them in the back or do you. doing something like that with a fleeting opportunity to take advantage for a potential, it could be risky, but it could lead to a greater reward. And then they overact plus one forward?

So plus one forward means that basically you will gain. If you take it, they overreact and they might get flustered. For a forward is basically for this whole scene, you'll get plus one to all of your cunning rolls, I believe, on that. So if you're trying to trick them again, they get flustered, it'll be easier to trick them because they're not as on guard. I'm gonna, so I choose two of these? You just choose, choose one, correct?

Okay. Yes. They react, take one for and against them. As they all look around, you are a drunkard, Maddo. You are a drunkard. Do you expect us to believe? Nope, but I didn't ask you to come here and ask me questions either.

Please tell us right now. I did. What? My tongue's going to fall out of my mouth. You probably grab a fly. You know, I think you're right. I don't think it was that way because I tripped over that long to stand next to. And I fell that way because I saw it over that way.

I'm glad you had to sneak in. Got my head on straight head time sober up. Make another trickin' NPC with plus one. Fifteen? Oh. Fifteen. I got two sixes. I got a 12 plus two plus two plus one.

Fifteen. 15, you see a woodpecker step up and lean in, and only you can hear this. I think he's getting away, sir. I don't think this frog has anything for us. She seems like a drunk. Shut up! I know! Go now!

And he screamed at all of the four other soldiers immediately get flustered and fly off as they take off. and they head directly in whatever position you sent them. In the complete, their own... In the complete, yeah. A completely opposite direction. So they're probably heading west, and you just send them totally west. And they all, you all wait for a moment. And then they are gone.

And then, you sitting alone in the campsite, you're, Peggy, all you see Peggy basically just totally trick, these eerie soldiers as this owl looks and he says, Oh, are they gone? I'm going to poke my head out of the bush and say, Well, well, well, Peggy, very well done. Coming in bravery to boot. And I'll jump out of the bush and I'll go and just sit right down next door.

What time of year is it? Like, what season is it? It's probably about autumn at this point. Why don't even ask? It's not early autumn. It's about early autumn. That was quite the display. What was?

Everything that you just did. That was well done. You tricked those stupid birds. No, I didn't know what else to do. I was sitting here and I was thinking to myself, oh, you know, Hamill would really appreciate it if he wrote down exactly what happened to a guy and I turned to look over to see the owl

and you'd all jumped into the bushes and I look up and then he stood a bird's fanning there. I had nothing else to do. Well, I was ready to fight them both. Why are you always trying to hurt people? I'm not trying to hurt people. People are trying to hurt birds. There's a big difference.

The Fowahiri is trying to take over control from the Marquis-Aid. Well, that's true. But there's people, too. Well, they're people, but they work for the earie. And Eerie there up to no good. Isn't that right, friend? What's your name, friend? Yes, my name is Jericho.

Jericho, my name is Rumley. It's a pleasure to meet you. You, you all saved my life. I... I am in your debt. That's mostly Peggy, probably, but not mostly Peggy. But if you like to pass back, we'll be happy to... You, young lady.

Yep. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. You're feeling any better? You want to, hold on, let me touch your forehead. It doesn't do anything. I don't have any way to do that. You touched his forehead, and through the feathers,

You feel a good amount of... Oh, actually, would you mind that? I had a couple of utale feathers, like, if you don't need them or anything. You saved me from the capsule, so I would not be able to continue my task. Of course, of course. I'm going to pluck out four feathers and put it on my back. You do that.

I'm going to take the acorn off the end of my stick, and having it had them cooled by now and say, friend, do you fancy some acorn? I would have fancy anything right now. Please, help yourself. And you see his beak tears into this large comically large cartoon acorn

as he scourched it down and four great horned out which are in nature carnivores. This is root so he enjoys it and is perfectly sustained. Would you like caught of my flesh? No. I'm kidding. I don't know. You go

I possibly couldn't. Probably enough, though that's going to be one gold piece. Excuse me? Yes, if you have any coin. That was a trait. Clearly, you purchased acorn. No, you eat these deaths at you. Look at him.

I mean, I just will think that I would ask you. Look at this guy. Going from, oh, please feed the poor owl to like, we should kill all the birds. That's what I'm saying. I'm just trying to help fellow. No, I got him. Yeah, you actually feel.

Do you want the birds to die at dump you? The birds that work for the Eerie is what I mean. The sky's against Eerie. Are you again a theory? Never actually said. You just said he was really. I am a member of. the eerie, well.

Easy, what do you mean, you remember? Don't make me put on my ribada outfit. I... Things are getting awfully tense here at the table. I think we all need to take a deep breath in here, Jericho out. I, I was. I was...

I was a... I was a master of whispers. That sounds awesome. It was my life getting inspiration, information, spying on the denizens of the forest, making sure that we were watching every move of the Marquis-Zeged. And then I found out that my information, they wanted me to, they wanted me to violate my personal code. And I've done terrible things. my wings are stained with the blood of many of his denizens.

But I could not and would not allow them to destroy, hold clearings. Even if they are cats, they are invaders. They're still civilians. He kind of puts his lantern down. You mean to say that they go, the airy, plans to wipe out entire clearings, cats and other foot and otherwise?

Yes, they my information, my network of spies, we discovered a plot by the Marquis 8. Create horrible machines of destruction and wipe out an entire swaths of forest

instantly. You said machines? Yes, I did. I know, but blueprints for these machines. Would you want no way to get them? No, always. Well, you may be able to get them. It was a very dangerous mission.

I lost three informants in New Felicia. The machines were with the machines, the blueprints. The ones that I, the most potent of them were a new felicia. New Felicia. The cat was all, as for all you, shall have. And that's quite a ways away from you. Wait, so you're saying that the cats actually have these machines that are wiping out the parents? Yes, but it was

then once once they found that out. They devised their own plan. They wanted to seek out ancient relics from ruins around the dimwood. The bygone civilization

may have dark magics and I wouldn't have believed in magics. You know what they'd say. Our ancestors know a lot that we don't know and they have a lot of technology that we don't currently have to use, a lot of things that we don't use. now and it'll be really important. I think for us, you know, if we're going to go, we're going to looking at these things. And maybe we can look at you. You could all go. We could figure it out,

do you think? I don't know. Wait, wait, hold on. Hold on. So, what I'm getting from all of this is you used to be the master of whispers. I was. Can you show me how well you whisper? Yeah, actually, that's really good. I would love to see just how masterful you are at whisperer. You know, we got to confirm you who you're saying. That's right. You can't think of the master with something. I'm not actually doing. Before I trust you, I need to understand

who you say you are. Let me hear you whisper masterfully. It absolutely amazes me that somehow, some way you're able to see through the con that I try to play on. Wait, who? You? Me?

Yes. Wait, what is it con? I'm sorry, my friend. Continue. I've had a lot of routine enough. I don't think you understand. And when I refuse, they... That's not a very significant thing.

I agree. It's a metaphor. A metaphor. A metaphor. The phone. Wait, they haven't got her. Wait, what? They do.

Oh, no. What are they going to do with them? Theory. Theory, yes. They took her. From our home. She's all I had. They told me they have her somewhere in these woods.

Where in these woods? clues, you know. She told us somewhere. Well, no, but is there any one of them? If I'd know the clearing name somewhere clearing. It was the threat. They told me that she would be alive as long as I told them. The information they needed, the locations they needed to get what they desired.

Well, that's... But you didn't tell them. That's literally all you had to say, because once you've said that, Brumley's going to go. And if Brumley's going to go, that means Peggy's going to be going. If Peggy's going to be going, then Hazel's going to be going. If everyone's going to be going, then I guess I'm going to be going as well. Yeah. And sometimes...

Well, it's sometimes how it works, but not all the time. Probably this time. Yeah, like 95% of the time. It works 60% of the time. Oh, yeah. What? How is your daughter? She's 23.

She's close to day. We have humanish lifespans in this world. I forgot to set that context. We're human-sized. We actually just blossom the fact that we're all the anthropomorphic. Yeah, we're just anthropomorphic animals in a world. To set a little bit of ground here. This world is like anthropomorphic animals and they're all people.

They're all peoples, right? So we're kind of have to go back. You compared it to the Robin Hood Disney movie. Yes, yeah. It's very much right. It's just bad. It's just bad. Right.

And chickens are the same size of fox, roughly. Right. But, so, like, my first question when we were working on this earlier is, like, what size is the forest in comparison to us? And it is basically the same as if I, as a human, we're standing in a regular forest. But this forest is just massive, right? Yep. Like, it's ancient ancient super, like a redwood forest.

Yeah. It's like a huge space. Yeah. Yeah. So. Just in case anyone else was confused. Yeah. Just that precedent.

I was like, no, wait, but how big am I? That's a good point. So he looks at all of you and says, finding my daughter is my burden to bear. You all have done enough. If you have any interest in foiling their plans, it would be very much. It would be very dangerous for wanderers.

But if you seek out what they are seeking in the ruins, it could be a great boom. What do you say? We should go to the ruins and say, and we should probably go there with us. Probably, it's a really interesting stuff. I'm just saying it. He's got to start out of the patrol.

There's really no reason we shouldn't go. Are you sure you don't want any help if you don't? No. It is my folly. my sins that have due my daughter I will

wander until I find her it is my burden you all have your own burden Yeah we like well as though If there is something you can do

One last good act one penance I can make you four strangers I will tell you where the ruins are oh I get it now you're saying that you're a burden

oh I'm sorry continue yeah no that's exactly what I was saying you were saying about the ruins that there's some way that makes it a lot more palatable but I said we like that you know

it's true yeah I'm sorry. Wait, who do you know? I think I'm not understanding what you're talking about. So he made a comment about we all have a burden to beer. And he wasn't talking about beers as in like, beer, berber. I thought he was talking about beer billions.

It's so tough. You know, we carry with us. And that made me think of this guy over here, because if it were for him, we wouldn't have to get that. I still feel like I'm the only one who's absolutely horrified to learn that that may be a thing. that what, that,

don't say it again. They are very real. Wait, you have the barbarians. Oh, no, we're done for. Wait,

sure they're real. Baberrians are real. You know, he's not going to stop talking about your bearings for the rest of it. Ever since I arrived to the dimwood,

I've got, the local towns don't go into the woods. There's barbarians. Oh, dear. And I just thought it was kind of like that. Oh, dear. Oh, dear what?

They would say that too, you know. They'd say, oh dear. Oh, dear. Oh, They would say, oh dear, they would be a bearerings. If you are. Oh, dear.

Oh, dear. Worried of bears and wild boars. But anyway, you were saying about those ruins where they could be potentially a lot of things that I could think of it? I'm ready to draw a map. Hey, yes. I, I, I have, in my last act, I think I've deduced the area of the clearings with the... Oh, but you know to be fair. Romley's also a little bit now.

Not just you, it's also Rumley, you were saying. With the clearings, they were closest to where I believe the ruins to be. Yeah, yeah. Do you have a map of the Jim Wood? Someone. We do, we do.

Someone. Oh, no, let me get my map out. Oh, he is. He is. See? He takes it and he pulls out a wooden pencil or something. I don't know. What are you?

Oh, look, yeah. And I pull out one of the ones. of his feathers and I turn it into a quick quill and pass it over to him. He, uh, goes... I crushed up some beetles and make a quick ink. Here you go. Hey, thank you. Screw those beetles.

And he, uh, marks on the map. Reckenoider Ridge. Rye barrel falls. Drake Smith. You see him there's multiple of these. ancient ruins? And Muckbed Creek. Oh, my God, you say in there's

multiple of these ruins, or are you telling me we have to go in that ruin? That can't be right. You put down the Mock Bed. Not the camera right. Wait, what were they again? Reckanoidur Ridge. Ryebaryl Falls.

Muckbett Creek. And Drake Smith. Drake's mouth is how it's spelled. But you might pronounce it. It brings back. Correct. You know. Four total places where I can go and help whatever's going on, the big picture.

So if we do this before the Erie does, we can save a lot of people. You could. You all have a terrible price. Terrible burden. That much power. You just met him. You could at least be nice. A terrible burden.

I'm so sorry I didn't tell him he was I'm pretty sure back on the ruins here now I'm pretty sure no no ruins he just talked you with him

just talking about the ruins you've mentioned the word birding like five or six times are you referring to Booker when you've said birding because I think Peggy thinks that you're saying or referring to Booker

I'm not like he was saying there's a terrible bird on and then we kept cutting them off so we don't know what all the birds are he has a bird on Ew. Oh.

Ladies and gentlemen, Booker's leaving the party. Oh, but I can't... I told you that it made me uncomfortable. What, I'll think of you. You know what he said bird on first?

I mean, there's a bird on a rock. There's a bird on the tree. There's a bird on anything. No, there's a great board. A bird in. Oh, no. Oh, no.

There's a bird in wearer. I'm all with a roots. Oh, oh. Pardon. That was power. You could sell that to any one of the factions. It's for the dim wood. Sell it, you say.

So you're saying there's one of these ones for each of them. You will need all four to unite the power of the lost, dear king, the blazing heart. When you say, dear king, are you talking D-E-A or D-E-E-E? Are you okay? Are you having half-apportations? I may very well. So, can you answer my question now? Are you talking D-E-A or D-E-E? D-E-E?

Oh, my God, are you okay? I think I am. I almost died. Okay, so anyway, are you talking D-E-A or D-E? Deere as in the druids that stalked the woods. What are you talking about? And what was this name? You said the Deer King, the Deer King. Heart. Is that his name?

Flaming Heart? Was it the last? Lost. The lost deer king. And the blazing heart? Yes. The blazing heart. Oh, oops.

Sorry. The one who brought this woodland to ruin centuries ago in the horrible magic that they practice in these woods, the ancient relics remain. Why show his name is Burning Heart? I do not know of his name. I know of the king.

The king. King, King, dear. It brought his kingdom to ruin. So King Dee had a kingdom. What? Oh, you're saying the king dear had a kingdom. I think he means kingdom like the one world. Yes.

Yes. Castle and like an entire place. Not like that's the empire that I'm from. Have you heard of it? You may have heard of Marquis de Katt. Yes, I have. Yes, I have. Yes, I have.

That's where I'm from. It's a long way from here. It is. And there will surely be coin. Therefore, any faction of the many that are attempting to rise up from our power struggle. It may not just be the Marquis H or the Erie in the years to come. I have lifted this burden, selfishness. from my own chest

for I no longer care about the fate of the dim wood I care about my daughter and I leave it to you for all the ones who saved my life and turned down a very plentiful bounty for my head You know, there's no better way

to repay people that they throw a heavy burden on their shoulders and force to make them deal with them. You do not have to but the burden is released from my heart And that is what matters. It's really sweet. To be fair, I'm not really looking to go on any kind of dangerous journey here. I don't really want to die.

I just want to be comfortable in whatever new world is currently forming around us. But it does sound like, to refine these things, we might be able to sway the time a little bit. That's true. Who else knows about ruins? No one besides me And now you You got to get a We got to fucking kill this guy

And before I This is my final sin Dvulging this to the four Strangers that saved my life So why else? Just because we saved your life That seems a little far-fetched And because I wish to be free Of this knowledge

Being the only one who knows It's terrible But now I do not have to worry You may tell others It matters not to me I now search for my daughter So that is my duty And that is all that matters to me

Well I hope you find your daughter Is there anything we can do Before you go Would you like to at least spend the night at our campsite. I can't even have a campsite anymore. We kicked the fire. Yeah, you know, it'll be scared.

They're keeping this dog. The whole lives down how much longer they get to do it. And he gave him the last acorn. Like, you've got to make it till morning. I'm already hungry again. You have five out of the, out of the, like, nine acorns that we got. I don't care. I'm still hungry.

I think they're so half. I had to run over there and hide. You know how much energy that's going to take me? It's just like, all of it. I mean, that's probably true. But you've already had a lot of equivalents is trying, as what I think she's trying to say. Would you like, would you like another end?

I don't know any eight. Yeah, I, my eight point. I'm, I wish I still had, especially as his, um, I'm going to wish for payment. No, no, no, we want to sit there. payers. I would like to do for what? If there's anything else we could do, maybe that would be worthy of payment. But it seems like to take payment for saving your life, that would maybe be rude.

But Booker knows a lot of jokes and maybe you could use some chewing up and that'd be worth a coin. Um, yes, I have plenty of jokes. Is that a cute to tell one? Um, you have jokes? I don't think I've ever heard you tell one. Oh. Why don't you tell her now? Of course I have jokes.

I have jokes, I love jokes. Hundreds of them. Um, let me just, um, my favorite joke, um, the one about the, uh, oh, there was this raccoon, uh, went, uh, went to the local tavern. Sat down. Yes, yes. Got a drink. Yes.

Next day, walks in the tavern, sits down and has a drink. The same day, over and over again, continues to drink until he realizes that a drinking problem was absolutely destroying his life. Oh, this is going to be a good one. I can't wait for the punchline. No, no, that's the whole joke. The whole joke is to go. It would be used me every time.

He was living his laugh and that's the punchline. Yeah, that's the whole joke. Oh, that was pretty good. That was good. That's worth the coin, isn't it? That's a hard quality joke. Tell him the one about the seagull. You remember that one?

No. Oh. I've never liked seagulls. I'm not even sure I've ever seen one. I knew a seagull once. I didn't care for them. More or no. They always work with fiorists, don't they?

But in this grim time. Oh, you know, I think I just got your joke. It's funny because the guy himself is a joke. You know, that's actually really clever. Oh, ha, ha. His eyes watch. His eyes watch. No, please.

In these dark times, that is funny and worth a coin. And he pulls out two coins, and he hands it to you. You can mark a, decay. Oh, I'm back to you. As, uh... He doesn't have to pay him. It doesn't have to, but he didn't.

And I flip the coin, I stick it in my jacket pocket. He gets off on this, you know. This is what he's all about. And I'll just think next time. Everybody likes a joke. I might pay for a joke. No, not about the joke about taking poor people's money. Well, he's all about.

He's all, it's a good thing you mention more jokes because I've got a bunch of them, and you remind me, and I'll tell you another one another time. I don't know if he's poor. You just assume that he's poor. You can ask me if he's rich and poor. He shouldn't be given a book of money. To be fair, you say,

to him exactly. You shouldn't be taking a poor man's coin, but you don't know if he's boy. He'd be super rich. I was paid very well. See, there you go. Stop making it sanction now. He encourages bad behavior from Booker. Look at how exciting. It's two gold pieces.

That's barely anything at all. Look at him. He's grinning. He's giving me a phone zone. I just have a big, toothy, raccoon smile. I don't like encouraging. bad behavior anyway. We all act in our nature.

It's unavoidable for us in the dimwood. That's right. Because we're all like animals, kind of. Yes. Wow. It is nature that rules, but I must go. I have no need for gold where I am going. And I may not survive.

You didn't show two gold pieces. I did. But you're not going to need it. Well, I think he gave me both. Right? You have them. Oh, I'm sorry. No, he hands you two of them as a little tip.

I take it back then. Pretend I didn't say that. Continue. Continue on with your horrible, horrible end of your life. I now will go. Bought me time. I do not know how much time I have. But it is now my time to wander these woods and find my daughter.

Should she still be alive? Well, I'll thank you very much. And stay safe, if you must know now. And in the morning, we will continue to often recognize the ridge is the closest clearing that has one of these villains you're speaking of. Yeah, we'll reconnoit it at the ridge. But you know, in the meantime, I hope that you find your daughter and that she's all right. And if you need anything, then, you know, hopefully you find someone in the forest.

Because we're going to be going to have a direction. Well, thank you. And like I said, this is something I have to do on my own. And Rackenoyter Ridge, I believe the Smiles' mining company may have done something to unearth the ruins that are there. There's a mining company over there that is very important information for me to death him. There is. Levi smiles, his greed knows no bounds. I, you may be able to find the ruins.

to follow what the minds have uncovered. And with that, I begin my journey. Goodbye, strangers. Good luck, friend. Thank you for lifting me. Lifting this burden off of my heart. We will do what we can to stop this terrible evil from the ancient dear king and whatever else anybody else took notes on

because I'll like my skin here. Literally. Lizing heart, something. Burning hard something. Anyways, I'm going to stop it nothing. To stop the evil that is capable. You know, the same doesn't really make much sense because they need to stop at nothing,

which means you're basically doing nothing. You don't want to stop is the entire point. I'm just going to continue eternally. It's basically what you want to say. I will continue eternally. I'm going to stop doing nothing. It's not going to get you anywhere. I'll say, I'm not saying.

Jericho, I hope you find your daughter. Thank you. And that she's not dead yet. I believe in my heart that she is alive and I will keep her flame burning. They may have taken my sighted night. They may have taken my wing, but they cannot snuff out of her light.

Goodbye, strangers. What kind of lamp does he have? It's a black lantern. It's a hooded lantern. Is that black? Uh, yes. Can I see that? Like just one of those pains?

What would you like to do? I'm going to take one of the panes, smash it, take a rock, and cry around and make him a pair of spectacles. You know, see your eyesight. So you can find your daughter a little better. Okay. Okay. So you, uh, smash it and you, uh, you take some metal in your, so you have like some metal. Yeah, yeah.

So what do you want to mark? You want to mark a decay to basically use your supplies, and you fashion him the spectacle that seemed to fit his yellow eyes, his huge little yellow eyes, and he puts it on the end of his beak, and his eyes kind of white, and he blinks, and he says, I can see again. Well, that's great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Take you home. Be safe, and I hope you find your daughter.

Good luck, my friend. And good luck to you. Do what is in your natures. Carry your burdens. How you will. It is all we can do in the dim wood. And you see him turn as he slowly walks out of the clearing. And you see as the light from the lantern as he wanders off, gets dimmer and dimmer until it fades into the night around you.

That was very nice. Yeah, he was. I think we should get a good night's rest and then set off immediately through the recognition if I look at the map right here once if this thing works here there we go

I've got to do one of these things if if I look at the map it's just straight to the northwest I think it is I don't have time if I'm out of the map I do oh no there's I mean not not

I think it's a fox clearing according to this map being. But we're in these woods. We're in these woods right here. I'm not going to the woods were in. It should be not even a day he's travel. Provided everything goes well. Yeah, provided you don't try and ambush, you know,

people and go. Yeah, we should just try to like sneak. I think at the very least, you need to remember that life is very difficult out here in the Dundwood, especially this past year or so. You should make things a little bit more difficult for ourselves. Well, if I see a bunch of leery soldiers in a way that I can defeat them very easily, I'm going to take that opportunity. Just remember, you're probably the only real trained soldier amongst any else.

Some of us are just along for the ride. Well, you guys, just watch me do it, it's fine. I'm not at once not going to need your help to kill five of... I mean, five was a little too many. That's why I didn't just charge in, and I let Peggy do her thing. But what I'm saying is next time when there are four, I can handle a no problem. All right, grungly, what do you say? Have you like a raccoon? Yeah, it's a raccoon. Yeah, how you can climb?

I'm going to like stirry up into the nearest street and say, well, good night, everyone, and sleep up in the branches to avoid being seen by any wandering eyes. Okay. You scamper up and you all take the evening and left with the thought of the burden. that has been placed upon you. And it seemed as if Jericho didn't really care what you did with this information. Take it or leave it. It could lead you to great profit.

It could lead you to potentially saving lives or taking a great many of them. The information was yours to do with what you would. And you all enjoy, you don't enjoy a long rest, but that's not a thing. You wake up in the morning. You got to break the mentality. We're all, roll, roll. This is Dungeons and Dragons. This is Dungeons and Dragons.

You all awake in the morning, and you are ready to set forth to Reconoiter Rich, and you are just far enough out of the forest where you could choose to get on the path and go that way, but you know it is heavily patrolled by Erie soldiers, as well as Marquisate soldiers as it is a border between their power struggle and there's a great number of battles. Or you could choose to travel through the forest although you know that there's dark creatures within. What would you like to do?

What do you think? Hello vagabonds. I don't know. Maybe if we go through the woods, I could pick up some like nuts and berries as we go and that would make me pretty happy. And I was thinking that we go through the woods and I'm going to be able to pick up some, like, poison or some beetles or, like, something else.

What are you thinking about? Some people. Well, to be honest, I'm not really in any kind of rush, and I'm not usually the one who makes any decisions, because when I do, you all yell at me. Well, that sounds like a third vote for the woods. What are you doing? Usually just rumbling. Oh, yeah, but he, that's just going to talks.

Tush. As long as we sail on the eyes. You know he's yelling who's not sparking at least. Well, the graddling is usually a good indicator, too, I forgot. Oh, yeah, yeah. As long as it's just as volume. As long as we stay out of the eyes of the eerie,

I think we'll be all right. If it's faster for us to move through the woods, then that's fine. I'm looking forward to seeing a new clearing, potentially a place I've never been before, and maybe seeing what they have to offer. So the sooner we get there, the better. Well, we're already in the woods,

I suppose we could go through the woods to... What happens when we get there, with the cats. Well, I'm good friends with the cats. I used to work for him, and it's not like they hate me, per se. So, uh, what do you think they're going to do to us? I'm just going to waltz in and try to see what they offer. We can also try and find some things that I can intend to make something,

and then Roling could deliver that package from you know, you know. Yeah, we've got a way to grease the wheels, if you know what I'm saying. Actually, quite literally, I do that if you have a wheel that needs grease, and I got some of this, and I pull out of me of grease. None at the moment, but thank you. All right, sure, then I don't know why you brought it out. The point is, when we get there, I'm sure there'll be plenty of things for us to do and see

and people who are loose with their money. And there's snacks? Could be. And there are a cat said, and we could maybe provide services to? That's true. But I think, at the very least, we need to be very tight-lipped about these brunes.

I lived in, uh... Muckbed creek my entire life and I've never even heard of these ruins I know that muck bed's inside and out almost as well as the others do and if the artists don't know about these ruins then I'm not even sure they exist

to be honest to me so my point is we shouldn't be mentioning this to anyone joke I said nobody knew about it that's the point well that's a good point you live there your whole laugh and you never heard of these ruins

and even watching dear godball king power king dear power I gave the guy an inkorn because I felt bad for him. And then he gave me some money in return. So I didn't really feel bad for him anymore. You didn't even be giving him his key. You would like mention it three times.

Like, well, you didn't give me any gold for an egg or I'm broke now. And then he did it out of pity. The point is he could be a darling old fool. And we don't know if his story is anything accurate at him. You know, that's a really good word, Zodering. I'm going to write it there. Well, it's very relevant because he's missing his daughter. So he's literally...

Because he is asking a little breath right now. He's missing his daughter, so he's literally daughering. Well, he's daugering, is my point. Currently, it's what he's doing. I'm, like, shouting from, like, my bed in place. I'm officially going to sleep now. Good night, everyone. We just look up.

It's in the morning. Son of my God, I lost track of time. I'm not a... I don't know I am shouting at you from two feet away. Are you busy climbing into somebody's attic and shitting in their rafts? I don't think that happens in this world. Do we have to abide? I assume, like, he doesn't have to abide by, like,

nocturnal. No, no, no, no. We're anthropomorphic. We're basically... And we're not dead at 23. I'm sure. God, I have to look at how old record for Chim Winslow. Well, let's go through the woods.

So we go... Okay, it's too... And I would like to spend time looking for, like, poisonous bugs or snakes or anything that I can... Milk for poison. and I will be looking for nuts and any late season berries that are still on the bush. I have nipples, can you milk me? Yeah, you know, I probably could. I've got this contraption here.

Oh, no. Keep that thing away. So, now we're going to get into movement or travel moves. And so traveling between clearings is a big part of the root board game. And it is a big part of the, or at least a part, of the root RPG. So it's different where, between traveling on the path and traveling in the forest,

and the party of Vagabonds is going to decide how many resources they're going to expend to make this journey. And they're going to make a group role with a modifier and depending on how many supplies they utilize to go through. If they're traveling on the path, it would be how quickly they go and so they would be spending exhaustion

rather than decocturial to. Question. Go ahead. What is the... Oh, it's a straight roll, right? Straight rule. There's no modifier. So, well, it's minus one. No, but I mean it's not a finesse roll or it's not like a funnel.

Correct. Correct. Yeah, the modifiers is determined by how much you all put together. So it really doesn't matter to the rules. So if you put in three or less... Okay, then you're at minus one. If you hit four, that's at plus zero. Five is plus one, six is plus two, et cetera, et cetera, so on and so forth.

Well, I'm happy to volunteer at least one decay. It's the start of the day, and I'm feeling pretty good. Do you see a lot of supplies as well? Can we get our decay back in the beginning of the day? Oh, I know. You need resupply. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Just finding things like that we're picking up, does that count? I don't know. What's that? It's like picking up things in the woods, like how we're looking around for things. Does that count at all? I would say that if you're being deliberate about it, you may be able to, depending on what you find, you may be able to get a,

I know that's a Ranger feature to actually be able to get one decay by going through. So, but you may be able to find stuff that, like, it's helpful, but it may not count towards the decay. This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon. Become a patron today at patreon.com

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or how many decay are you all going to put in? Well, let's all start by at least saying what we're willing to. I'm willing to do one. I can go more if we need to. I'll put in one. I'll do one as well. Yeah, I'm going to ignore everybody, and I'm in the focus on getting all of my stuff. Okay. Very important. Well, that's free.

I'm thinking I can feel, uh, this is decay. Yeah. Oh, boy. I'll put another one. But I'll do it begrudgingly. All right. Well, if we do that... I acknowledge you're begrudging this, and I continue to live from both. So you're going to make the roll at plus zero. Yeah, we negated our minus one.

Okay. With the forward to K. Yes. So anyone can make the roll that they would care to? You did too, so you make the roll. That sounds like a terrible plan. That's 11. 11.

Okay. These dice of action in the roll-in-dang. Okay. So, um... So do we all still lose the table. Wow, we'll get that really expensive paper. Really expensive paper. I recommend.

If you want to print out a sheet. every single one on oversized, expensive people they need to fold. So, you, thanks to Booker is using a lot of his resources, his torches, he's using his compass and actually it breaks, but he has actually another one. And he devotes a lot of the resources. And you all pool together. And thanks to all of the efforts, you make your way through the woods, you're able to, you're able to, you're able to. to find some small spiders that, well, they're small, they're about, like, yay big. But you know that spiders in these woods, at least there's stories of being the size of,

three times the size of a wooden critter. So it's like a spider link. You find a few spider links. These are like the perfect spiders to milk. Exactly right. And you find some fresh berries. I would say you'd be able to milk some of these spiders and get a couple of these spiders and get a couple of aisles of poison.

Or venom, pardon me. And would you assume that it's your typical paralyization venom that spiders do? I would say until you weren't able to observe it, so you have to experiment with it to see what it does. And so you get it... Put that in my root tea, I'll kill you. I wasn't thinking that you were, I was thinking about the dog.

He weighs a lot more than I do, and it would be a good way to test. That's a definitely thought. So you get one jar of this venom from three spiderlings that you find. I will say, Hazel, you managed to find a nice pouchful of

plump berries, of forest berries. These are exotic. You can't get them by, these aren't grown in the clearance, especially back where you're from. And as you make your way through, you occasionally hear the loud echoing roar of what

sounds like a bear, or the vicious snorting of a boar. But however, you make this trip during the day and you arrive to Reconwater Ridge, uninterrupted. And with how dangerous these woods are, it's a relief and almost a shock. As you arrive on the outskirts of this clearing, as you see what seems to be a huge mining town, as you approach as the force clear into this clearing you see tents and tents spread out as far as you can see

you see dozens maybe even hundreds of these as you see a great number of critters walking around all covered in soot wearing leather hats holding mining picks they look tired you hear a babbling a crook off to the side as you enter and you see a few prospectors panning

for what you assume to be gold and as you see these huge hills the forest has been completely cleared all around it and you search to see that there's a heavy population of Marquis 8 soldiers guarding and marching and patrolling around

as you see all of these great hills and ridges and all these maces going up up into what gets his name, the Reconoiter Ridge, as there's these great cliff sides and hills that go off up towards the, the, oh my God, what is it, Ice Howl Mountains. As you arrive, you see a bunch of just filthy miners, as you see a many wooden, a bunch of filthy miners,

as you see a bunch of wooden structures erected, There's a town built up amidst all of these different mining operations. Small hills that seem to have been bored into different entrances. You see tracks laid down with mine carts going in and out all around and up. Far ahead off as you approach, far ahead off to the northeast. You see the largest structure of them all. And as you enter, you can even from very far away, you can see the Smiles Mining Company in huge letters.

And you are in Reconnaught Ridge. Important question. Yes. Have I ever been here before? I would say for the purposes of this game, probably not. So I'll say it matters. Yes. That's why I'm asking.

Yeah, I would say, you know, I would say probably, probably not. as in this is you know you I guess it would kind of you probably would have all met towards what's I call it here let's uh let's uh let's pull the map I would say like for this uh purpose you guys probably would have stuck around those those middle uh those middle clearings there um and the Reconnoitur Ridge is pretty it's far off it's the edge of the dim one right as it goes off and so that being far north and far south, O'Kax Hollow was about as far as you had gone in these, in these, in these, in these clearance. So I would say probably not. As you also know that this is a pretty rough and tumble town as many people from all over the, all over the woodland, all over the

dimwood have come to seek their, their fortune in a variety of different ways. And you know that once the, it was a simple town until the, the, the Marquis 8, came in and established the Smiles mining company and basically installed. It was predominantly dominated by foxes. And one fox basically made a pitch and became the designated mayor of the town and brought in the company which seems to be run by a cat. so you are all at the entering this clearing. You see a great, this town that's kind of sprawling out in between these hills within this clearing,

and you see the mines off on all directions as you enter. What do you do? Well, well, well, this is quite the sight to behold. Yeah, this is a lot bigger than anywhere I've really been. But you've never been here before. Can't say that I have known. I feel like your clearing's not that far. Is it like hard to get to?

I'm going to be honest. I've never even looked at the map, so I couldn't even tell you. Well, I've had it this whole time. You like to take up for this, man. I love to, but it's very difficult for me to see. This is a math rants. Do you need some of those spectacles that Peggy's made? Yes, and then some.

Laser eye surgery might be best. You know, that can, that can. That can be arranged. I've got this laser, right? Bear with me. I don't know very much about the map and the alerting. And so actually, Rich, why don't we, I know I mentioned some clearings where the ruins were, and you all have a map, this is the map that you see that you all have. Do you want to show the viewers kind of where these ruins are allegedly spread out?

Yeah, so now that the map is up, we have received information that there are four ruins throughout the woodland. And they're in Reckanoidur Ridge here in the east. Rye Barrow Falls directly in the north in the middle of the map. There is a ruin in Muckbad Creek, which is where Booker's from. The fox clearing there kind of towards the south. And then there is a ruin in Drake Smith, in the southwest of the map. Well, we're on the way to answer your question. These books are huge.

And yes, as much as I enjoy traveling, I can't say. every clearing or even most of them. Generally often what ends up happening is like find unsuspecting travelers who may be lodging in the woods or along the trail and talk to them and hopefully fleece them for everything to work. Well, if we're going to do no fleecing here, all right, under my watch, this is a Marquis de Cate clearing and we're going to do the Marquis 8 well and hopefully maybe provide some services, maybe the mayor or this leave our smiles guy.

maybe they're looking for some, you know, they have some jobs that no one else will be willing to do when we're vagabondes, it's kind of our thing. Oh, well, when you say it like that, sir, then yes, sir, I won't be fleecing anyone, sir. All right. Certainly not the very expensive and powerful-looking Levi smiles. You know, would you say that you have some fleece?

Because I could really use them. No, I don't want any fleece. You know, then we shouldn't have brought it up. So I, as we walk into the chair, and I'll do all these, and I'll, like, make sure that my fur looks really nice. And I'll, uh, I will put on my old tattered, uh, Marquis-Ate tabard, uh, from the back from when I used to work for them. Oh, good. Come here, come here.

I'm going to pull out some thread and needle. You got a little rip here out. I'm going to, like, sew it up, make it look nice. You guys patch it up a little bit. Well, thank you. It still looks terrible. Or, I don't know how the tavern or whatever. You've done.

You've done. What I chose was a faded military insignia. So whatever that would be, whether it's like an old tavern. Yeah, an old tavern is fine. However you want to flavor that. It's up to you as the player. Well, they may. Let's say it's an old tavern.

So I put that on over my very heavy plate armor. And as you walk in, I'll leave the group and I'll say, no, I just want to make sure that I'm going to get many or four in that. Well, no, I mean, I used to look for them and it might help us out in a bond. Sounds like you've been hanging out with me a little too while. A little too long. Well, we need some kind of leverage, don't we? You say the word leverage a lot.

I think I know what it means at this point. You're learning quick, my friend. Proceed. So as you walk in the clearing, I want to, like, every cat soldier that I see, I'll be like, how do you do? And, like, sort of, like, stick my chest out and be like, oh, yes. Very important stuff, eh? As we walk in the town, as you walk down, you puff out your chest

and you're wearing your tattered, tabbered. Tattered, tabards, say that ten times fast. Tattered tabred, patter of these soldiers, as you realize there's a really heavy presence of these cats of all different fur colors and varieties. And you also see that there are also foxes and rabbits and mice wearing the colors of the Marquis-A. They seem to be soldiers just along with them,

as well as animals of other varieties. You see a few birds, and as you look up and around, it's not just a town that is built into these hills. All in the trees around, you see that there is lodging and built on stilts where there are perches and roosts for the bird that is in as well to live. And as you make your way through the tents, as you kind of pass some soldiers,

you hear the mutterings of these miners that seem to be employed by the, the mining company. And they seem to be muttering about the terrible work conditions. And you hear like, oh, yeah, no. Oh, Jeffrey got killed in a cave in just last week. I don't know if they're not showing up their tunnels. This is going to be a death trap.

I don't know if I'm going to make it. And you hear people whispering about, you kind of see people whispering as they see all of you walk into town. and they all make their eye contact with Grumley in his tavern, and they're all a lot of the miners. They look a little bit of haggard, and they look a little bit scared as they kind of avert their attention from you

as soon as you do that. And as you're making your way through, you get towards the outskirts of this town. And you see that there's this back alley, and you hear, as you're making your way through, It's not a very populated part of town. You're at that time of the day where a lot of the miners are deep in the mine.

You see a lot of activity up in the hills. But in the town proper, you probably get the sense that this comes alive in the evening when everyone is off work and they're ready for a drink. But you're in this kind of, it's almost seemingly deserted part of town, and then you hear a loud thud as if someone got pussed, and you hear a grunt and a groan, and then another,

as it seems that someone is getting beaten that right around the corner from where you are. What do you do? And I'm going to start. Okay. No, no, no, totally. No, no, it's really. After the source of the noise. You, you run over the source of the noise.

I'm going to run behind him. What do you guys do? I'm following along. I want to pull out like a hollow bamboo reed with a metal tiff with the, that my spider venom. And if it gets out of hand, I'm just going to blow dart, whichever.

Okay. You know there's no better kinds to test it out, the nail. Okay. So you kind of craft a metal device. And as you do this,

and you make your way and you curve around following Grumley. And Grumley, as you turn the corner, you see, you see a, this back alley. There's a number of barrels and crates almost kind of shielding the scene that you see,

but you manage to squeeze through this little hole and see the scene. You see a fox whose fur is coated in blood, a huge black eye, dirty with soot as you see that the scruff of his neck and his shirt is being pulled up by two hulking. thugs. One seems to be a large brown cat, and the other seems to be a thinner, but taller,

like a dark-scale lizard of some kind. As the brute seems to be the cat and seems to be wearing a simple uniform of cloths and leathers. But the lizard

is wearing a hat very well dressed, and almost wearing a nice suit as he's also taking turns with this fox. He's getting beaten up. What do you do? What's old is said? You see, as the cat is grabbing this fox and is getting ready to wail it again, he stops. And you see the lizard turn his head and says, none of your business, friend? What do? He seems pretty helpless. Why have beaten him senseless?

Why are you poking your nose in the business of the smiles of mining company? It's just wanting company business? Yes. How does the Fox gentleman look?

Is he like bleeding? He's bleeding. His mouth is all is fucked up. You see that he's like there's actually a tooth on the ground. He is beaten to a pulp as the lizard looks at you

and says, this individual was causing discord for the company. And what causes discord for the company causes discord for the Marquisette? And when the Marquis eight has discord in these disgusting little clearings, they call him the Pinkerton Company. The Slop's Hardy, the Skinkerton Company. I was going to say, it's awfully on the... On the nose.

The Skinkerton Company. I'm a skink. Now, now, now. Run, me, my friend, if you don't mind, did you happen to give us your name? I'm not going to give you my name. That's fine. I'll be happy to offer mine.

My name is Booker. And you look to be a very, very well-dressed and very sharp individual, if I don't say so myself, putting on a pleasant facade. How does that work? So I am sucking up to And otherwise buttering up

And unsuspecting NPC I'm going to roll with charm If you'd allow me Yeah Yeah no, that is a pretty A class move you can do Since this guy seems a little aggressive The idea is that

If I roll in 10 plus I'll hold three Okay, got it And I'll hold two Got it And I can use those to deflect Suspicion or aggression Correct

And these The playbooks all have special moves You can choose They have a number And you can either choose One or two Special abilities Yikes.

I got a five. All right. I pulled my grace for my head. So on a miss, your attempts at flattery are suspicious and they're going to keep their eye on you. So, I was pulling out my hands of this guy. As you hold your hand out, you hold your hand out, he went a quick move, he swats it away,

and you see he reaches over and he pulls out a hand cross. bow. I shouldn't with the and now now, friend. And as you say, now now,

friend, you shoot. And so how do we decide to use, do what we're doing targeted or are we doing um, uh,

fate? Uh, what do you think? Would it be a range attack? I would say, actually, just do a target. Target person.

Target a person. Target a person. So, what? On a 10, so. So, uh,

for combat moves. You inflict injury on 10 plus, you can strike again before they get to cover it. I don't know. This might be more of like just sort of a... A lot. Emperman. If you want to test faith, if you want to test faith, yeah. I think it might be it because you have a read and like a point-of-heaping.

You know, I suggest, I don't know if this matters. There is a special one-four quick shot when you fire something at close range. So that is a special move, that special weapon. So it's a specific. So it's great. It's also a great. to mention that when you advance, you can take special moves like Quickshot.

So yeah, we'll do a quick, you're trusting fate here. Is this going to work? You're just blowing in and hoping this thing takes off. Seven. Seven. Oh, well. Okay.

What does that do? Thingy, how do I know? It'll be in your weapon move section. As I have seemingly lost one. No, it's test fate. Oh, it's a normal ability. So you're going to be this one. Transfate.

Transfate. Scream by. Oh, okay. Okay. So, um, so as you... I scrape by. You scrape by and... Sounds like a success.

You blow in and... And as it flies out, you had to use some of your special twine and material, and it immediately explodes in your hands as soon as the... this dart flies. So I'll say mark a decay. However, you see as soon as Booker backs up, it hits the neck of this skink as he, as, as, as, uh, he looks at you and as I see this, as I see the dark go and I hear Booker's really, like, cringy, like, fucking up, whatever. Actually, that's the question. If he rolls low and like, do I get a sense of the quality, of what he's doing as well

The dude, pull on a crossbow. Yeah, that's why I saw my dirt, I mean, that's all you would know. So he pulled out a crossbow, and so this is basically he pulls out the crossbow. Peggy shoots it, it explodes, but it goes into his neck, and he sees you,

he sees you pulling out your great sword, and as he does it, you see him turn, and as he does that, he freezes up, and the truth, the, his finger squeezes the trigger and it flog fires off. It hits the wood as he just gets

and falls you bowed down. No, no, no. I'm pretty sure he's just paralyzed. And he falls back and you see the cat look around as then he throws the fox down. I got another dog for you, friend. If I were you, I would stop what you doing right now.

Go on get out of here. He pulls out his thing. And so I will say Peggy, make a persuasion. We can't do that. What? Persuasion. Proveiting an NBC.

Gotcha. For the promises or threats. You're trying to persuade him to stand down because he sees that he's outnumbered. He pulls out a great, a huge morning star. Yeah. It's chum.

Seven. No, it says roll with cunning for tricking NBC. Yeah, for charm. While they're doing this, can I do it? Oh, not the trick. You're persuading him with threats. Oh. Oh.

Okay. That's a four. That's a different one. Oh, so four. Yeah, no, not four. So as this happens, he looks at you and he looks down at the exploded pieces of your contraption and all of your string, this is all on the ground, looking down at the skinkerton as he has his huge club. And which one of you would be closer?

Oh, probably. Wait, I mean, I reached my... Oh, no, you 100% would. I had reached my hand out. He is taking this huge morning star, and he is charging at you. What do you do, Booker? I'm going to immediately see him coming at me. Oh, we're on dirt, right?

Yeah, you're in the dirt in his back out. I'm going to reach down and pick up Santa and throw on his eyes. He's your pocketbook. Okay, do that. So I take the weapon move blind, which I actually don't know what it does. Unless there's a weapon in the phone. Oh, here it is. Oh, okay.

When I throw something to blind an opponent, roll with finesse. That's right. This lets me roll with cunning instead as my special move. And on a hit, I've impaired their vision and given myself an opportunity. On a 10 plus, they have to take some time to clean out the eyes before they can see clearly again. On a 7-9, I just have a few moments. So that's going to be a shitload because it's coming instead of... So it's a 14.

I roll one less than max. 14. So I throw sand in his eyes. So he is... He has to take some time to clean out his eyes before you can see clearly. Right, and I've given myself an opportunity. Okay, so as you do that, you see him reach forward and you go, shah! And you're familiar with Booker's classic pocketland move.

And he reached the bucket, shah, and it hits the cat's eyes, and I literally hit my eye, ouch. And he stumbled forward, leaning down. He's very close to you. So what does it in the dirt? I guess my question is, what does this give me an opportunity? So it's an opportunity that will be, basically, he is stumbling around. He is unable to fight right now as he is basically wiping the... It's always parking sand with these raccoos.

Who is my opportunity to deal? Get him, Grumley? I will say that you can... If you guys... I'm not going to fight. You guys have fought in Sipotico, you can add Grumley. You can absolutely take this opportunity. I would basically be like setting him up for Brumme.

So I'm going to just come down. Kind of rest my sword on my shield and take my... foot and just like kick him in the backside and just knock him in the dirt as like an intimidation. Yeah. I would say that with that fleeting opportunity, with that pocket sand, it is not hard at all to do that. As you, as he stumbled, he reveals his cat, his cat tail is flailing around and you effortlessly kick him into the dirt. He stumbles forward and lands hard.

He's like, ah, I'm done, I'm done sick of chance you're going to hear about this. Go on. Get out of here. You've done enough harm. This man is practically playing in the death. Get on. Make a... A persuaded NPC check.

Or not a check. Roll charm to persuade an NPC. We'll eventually get the vocab down. Eight. Eight. Before this fight ends, can I do something? Yeah. We're just kind of moving the camera around.

So as it happens, you see him going to... He's still wiping the dirt off. He's on the ground. He stumbles over. He looks. He sees this bleeding fox on his back and he's looking at you. You see now his mall is totally smashed open. He's bleeding.

He's looking really rough. He's really wide eye. And he seems to be very nervous. He knows that he's outnumbered. He has sand in his eye. He got kicked down. His skink boss is paralyzed with spider venom. And he does not know what to do.

And so now as the GM, I will tell you what you need to do to sway them. I will say that with everything that you're registering, you can tell that he is worried about the consequences of leaving the skink here, people finding out about it, or he's also worried about you. So if you want to threaten him with murder, kill Ron because he's afraid, or if you can try to persuade him that people won't find out about it,

that he'll be fine. Those are the two things that you could persuade him to leave, if that's what you're trying to do. So I will finish with, go on, take your boss. You're a scaly boss And get out of here lay low No one will ever find out about this

You'll keep your job Yeah as long as you don't say anything about us And none of this happened And we won't kill you And I definitely did not tell you My name was Booker And you can tell everyone You beat this fox

Within an inch of his life For all you know you left him there And remember book has a fake name Yeah And my name's Jaggings Shaggy, it's a stupid name.

Yeah, so you'll forget. And I will say with... I just want to help him if I can. I'm like... Yeah, so with Stevie rolls first, but yeah, you can. But yeah, you can. So make a... I'm going to give you a forward on that. Okay.

For persuading NPC. So please make one more persuade an NPC with a forward. Which is it plus one? Yes. but what did you get? Seven. So,

barely. If we both assist, he's the only gets a nine. So, um, as, as, as, as this,

forward, barely made me pass. So, so as this happens, he still looks, he's like, huh, how,

they're going to, they're going to beat me up or even worse if I come back and then, man, we, we, Convinced the fox I don't want to fail

What do I do? And he's very, he seems very afraid He wants some kind of... What do you know? He has to stop trying Turn all the miners against smiles Okay, well tell him you did that Is that all I have to do?

Yeah, sure, why not? You tell him you did it and then he'll take care of the fox. Huh. Oh You know, don't tell anyone. You don't tell anyone you met hooker and jaggings. Hooker. Oh, no.

If it's got to be put down in writing, that's absolutely my name. Oh, no. Or snooker, snooker and juggings. Whatever. That's even better. I'll... So as you see that he... He just nods.

And with all of that, he's so confused. He sees the skink on the ground. The darts still in his neck. As he... Yeah, and to be... I have no idea how long that's going to laugh. That was my first try with it. He stands up.

He might never wake up to show up. He stands up. Bang! I said out of my friend. Peggy, there's 100% chance you've killed the man. You know, if you look at him, his eyes are moving back and forth. So I think he probably did. What did you want to do?

Oh, yeah. What do you want to do? Yeah, so while the fight was going on and I would have stopped short. I was following him, I would have stopped short of where the crowd was kind of watching this fight going on. And with them all distracted, watching. people I wanted to kind of sneak around and pick some pockets if I see anything of value. Okay. Or even not of value, really. Okay. So they're all distracted. So while this happening, the camera pans over to you,

and they tell you to use the thing about that kind of language, which is something that is unique to powered by the apocalypse systems. So as is happening, you're imagining, there's arguing these three people doing, you know, they're not sure if they're being heroic, but they're interfering with this encounter. And you see this, the camera sees this chipmunk, I'm not going to stop, I'm stopping doing that now, that's my last time I'm doing that, as this chipmunk creeps out, and you see a bunch of, a number of miners walking around, looking tired and dejected. Some have a little bit of a pep in their step as they seem to have got a hefty coin purse.

Yeah, I would take that. Okay. So you're going to attempt to, so narrate that. You see a minor walking by and he's a hefty coin. I was kind of imagining that there was like a crowd of people watching this guy get his ass kicked. No, no, no, no. He's in a back alley.

So it's away from prying eyes. Otherwise, we instantly murder. Okay. And we probably will be if that guy ever does wake up because now all of the skin gets in, it's going to be all asses. So then you see me hiding behind like a box or something. Oh, you know. I kind of thought there would be a crowd here to pickpocket, and then nobody came.

But it seems like you guys got it all done. And as you get back, this cat picks up the stinker 10. And like, you haven't heard the last of this. As he carries... As he carries off the stinker Tent. As he's like walking away, I want to make the noise of shooting a dart at him. He like dives behind. He actually falls on top of this kinkerton and picks him back up.

I'm like, oh, God, I hope you're not dead. As he carries him off around a corner. And you now see you're alone in this, or the four of you are alone with this fox. His eyes are bloody. His mouth is bloody. His eyes are kind of rolling around. He got knocked in the head a few too many times. Beggie, that was unbelievably quick thinking.

Thank you for saving my life. That guy would have shot me right in the chest. Yeah, no, that's what I was worried about. All I was going to do is tell him my name, which in hindsight, and we're probably really up up Shits Creek without a battle. Oh, you got a paddle on you? I know. That's the point we don't tell a battle.

Why would you bring that up and you didn't have it? Because we're up Shits Creek and we don't have a battle. Well, actually, we're not even near Shitsk, that's not where you came from. Give it a few hours. Sure. So, the thing I was going to say was, actually, I don't remember. Overall, I was going to look around and see if any, like, coin fell out of the skinks pocket when he was knocked on the ground.

She said he was kind of fancy. Yeah, you're fancy and you look around and you see that it didn't knock him enough that anything that he would have had for coins didn't fall out. No, pedis. No, pades. So you see the fox on the ground. What do you do? I will pick him up or get him on his feet, not like, physically, think of it.

Okay. Okay. Are you okay? You see this orange furred fox as he kind of has this tuft of hair. And you see as he's, as he is looking, he's like, oh, I am not okay. I don't feel so good. Is there anywhere in town we might be able to take you some sort of infirmary, a tent, some sort of first aid tent?

there is first aid No no they will The cats run I will be hospitals in first aid Take me to the Pearl Saloon How do we get you there Well I have your point I have your point

All right, probably get one side I'll get the other All right come on now You just rest your weight on us Let me scoop them up So you scoop up this fox, and as you're making your way through, you see that the crowd, as the sun is basically setting at this point, the miners are starting to flood these streets, as it took you a long time to get there. I don't know how many days, but it doesn't really matter at this point.

How many days it took you to travel here? Because the force is really big. So at this point, the sun is setting, and the miners are coming back. many of them are horribly hunched over. They're covered in soot, and they look tired. So a lot of them are coughing, and they're all shuffling around. You manage to dart around. You see the occasional cat, but you're able to kind of duck around with this crowd as you make your way to...

So as you're making your way through this crowd, you see that there are a number of... of as you dart your way, how are you carrying him? What, what, described in any kind of how this has happened? I imagined it, and please tell me a few matches differently,

that we basically put one arm over each of our shoulders and we're scubing him up and like dragging his ass where he's telling us to go. Because he sounds like he's pretty rough. Like, you know, we've got one arm over, like we're getting him and pull him up and we're going to drag him to the pearl. Okay.

So, you're not to get sneaky or anything. We're just trying to get this guy where you want to go. So you're, you see him and you see him. And you see that there's a number of cats. And as they see you dragging this fox, you hear one of the cats kind of put it like,

oh, another bar fight. As you make your way through these streets. And it smells the filth of all of these miners. And it is not a clean town. As you step in these puddles as you're making your way through. And then you eventually see this two-story swimming with a large balcony out in front on the second. floor and it says the pearl saloon as um as you uh you see that the there's uh swinging doors as um

uh they're swinging doors and there is a yeah my adventures and chill moment a minor uh steps out and uh and stumbles out he looks very drunk and uh the this uh stumbles out and he uh he's a fox a bit smaller than the rest of you. And he stumbles out and is like, I'm gonna sleep well tonight. And scuffles off. You then drag... On your way, chis-in.

And I'll say that the castes they see you, some of them starts to actually see and they notice your tabard. And they're like, oh, I guess he has him. And it's like, like, people are... But then you, as you're kind of dragging him in, you see as down the thoroughfare. a well-dressed skink lizard, another one that seems to be of a different individual, steps out, and you see that there are two hand crossbows in each of his hips.

As you give the term, you manage to just pull him into the saloon just in time. And as the door swings open, you hear a piano going wildly, and there is just one person at the piano is stomping his foot with a big mug of ale. as there's a number of patrons all around. And behind the bar, you see what seems to be. These are mostly foxes, but you see the occasional mouse and rabbit and a few other smattering of creatures. But behind the bar, you see a badger that seems to be very well dressed in a pinstripe suit.

And as he's wiping down kind of angrily with this. with this rag, the bar. What do you do? Well, we got to find where Hey, hey, buddy, buddy, are you all right? And I get him a little like pep slap on his face. Do you know anybody here? Where can we put you?

I mean, it's just a saloon. Take me, take me around. Take me to back. Take me to the bag. Point the way. Come on, Romley. No, ro, come on. And as you get further in,

you see that the Badger finally looks up and notices you, and his eyes go wide and his eyebrows. Whoa, whoa, whoa, what the fuck happened to him? Why are you bringing him into my joint? Listen, sir, we don't want to make trouble. We just found him like this, and then he told us to bring him here. They said that we couldn't take him no medical tent.

And as, he said, take this one. And he looks, and he says, oh, fuck, Basil, they beat the shit out of you. Did anyone see you come in here? As he walks around in the bar, as he walks over and helps you start dragging him toward this door in the back. Yes, sir, I'm going to be honest, people saw us.

Of course they did. There were people to throw up. We need to get some help, please. I'll have some girls. Give him a hand. And he helps you drag. Oh, that's gross. Agreed.

Continue. He helps you. He helps you. He likes you did that yet. Drag behind this small room. It's a storage. It seems to be a pantry of sorts, but there is this low cot as you drop the fox down onto it gently. And he looks down and he says, bass, did you?

And he's smacking this fox. I tried. They found out. And he passes out as this fox does this. And this badger looks at you and says, I ain't never seen any of you before What the fuck did you get mixed up on all this What the fuck happened to him

Why are you cursing us We didn't go anything wrong We're just passing through my friend We stumbled into the wrong alley Yeah, it was just the wrong place In the wrong time He was getting his fuck kicked He was a skink and a cat

And I shot the skink with paralyzation From my dots Oh boy, here we go And then we convinced the cat That he wanted to scramed Because otherwise I was going to get him With another one I was right

He was kind of a pussy I don't know He was Yeah he was Oh you missed it He meant that as a joke Yeah that's really funny You said skink

Yeah one of the Did he say he was He was from the skinkertons He said Oh yeah he very much mentioned that he was one of the skinkertons Yeah that's That's what they said

But again we were just in the wrong place In the long time Yeah This is This ain't good Okay Well now you're all mixed up in this Wait wait wait

We're not mixed up in anything What's wrong with Discoming the skinketins I'm glad that he was paralyzed In the street But what's How are they any different From the other goods

Well he tried to shoot me in the chest And no one else has tried to have this town yet Oh yeah It was kind of extreme Oh in this town But what about the last town We're not talking about that Probably focus on that

You get shot out of love Oh, focus on a rumble. He's got a normal shot in the chest, but at least the guy didn't come running us, just cursing us like this guy is. Well, to be fair, as long as he's not shooting at me. Wait, who are you, by the way? I'm mighty good with a knife.

There's a horrible name. You should probably change it. Can you pull you something shorter? That's not my fucking name. But that's that even worse. He pulls, he, she's his, he she's his knife. You know what, that's not my fucking, I think that you should really try something else.

Albaster. Seljan Alabama. Do you go by the name? A little shorter? You can call me Seljan. I'm sorry. Or Sal. My friends call me Sal.

I like that. Sal, it's pleasure. My name's Booker. You mean Smoker. No, it's Booker. All right. My name's Grumley. I'm Hazel.

Cell. And Peggy. You're vagabars. How'd you know? A group of rag-tagged animals. I ain't foxes. My asses. or rabbits.

Getting mixed up into shenanigans. Those are vagabonds. Mixed up is awfully strong words. We're really just looking to see what the local fare

has to offer. If you're looking for local fare, I got the finest whiskey you can ask for, friend. Say no more, my friend,

and I pull a coin and say, where can I get one? Come sit at the bar and act like nothing's wrong. You got anything to eat?

I got stuff. It's not great. Do you have any root too? With more of alcohol establishment. About like a hard root tea. Do you have any large machinery or like ways to build something that could fly,

like maybe an airplane or something? On top of that, do you have any nuts bolts me, some rope? Hold on, I'm going to look through this. I'm going to need some glue, some paper. Do you haven't had, like, do you look at these three? We got a piano. We got a piano. Fucking piano.

Oh, can I take it apart? No. I just got that piano. Is this the one the guy was playing downstairs when we came in? Yes. Is that a tune? You want me fix it? No, not if you want to take a part of my piano.

Come on now. As he opens the door and storms out, what do you do? I'm going to go right to the bar with my coin in hand and basically slam it down the bar. Let's own whiskey, please. Margaret DeKay, as you put the coin down as he slides you a, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a glass of whiskey as, um, uh, as he says, so, Pinkerton is he alive? Well, you know, and that's kind of like, it's up the debate. It's a little bit of a loose term. No, of course we didn't kill him.

You know what? I'm really, I'm not the big Santa Lion is all I'm going to tell you. Wait, do you kill him? I'm not a lion or were lions. Hey, you, do you kill him? I think I decided he's not dead yet. My, my, my vote would be if we were to take a coin and flipped in the air. One of the other is he's alive or down? Yes, I'm going to tell you this.

I harvested the milk from some spiders out in the woods, and it's paralyzational, okay? And I never used it before. I was going to try it over here on grumly, but then this guy got old hands. He was booked, so I shot him with it, so I really don't know. He might stay like that better way.

He might stay like that for just a couple hours. Either way, he wasn't doing anything for the time here. To be perfectly fat, he saved my life. Skigginson tried to shoot me right in the chest. So that he was intending on killing all of you. All I did was off her. a hand. Oh, he didn't ever change to kill all of us.

He's never what? Like almost immediately. Don't don't underestimate those skinks. They're the muscle. For those that don't need the muscle for the Marquis 8 and that fucking

smiles. Well, how does the Marquis 8 mixed up with his smiles company based on what I heard? The Marquis de Katt probably doesn't know anything about this. And it's probably the smiles guard has become corrupt. He's

a bad actor, as they say. He's crooked. You know, I think it turns a bad apple, not an actor. A bad apple? Yeah. Well, I think that's a different to the phrase. But I have so many bad apples.

Sometimes I've got worms in them. Sometimes they've just got like little brown patches. They get squishy, but you still eat them, but they've kind of got that dried out texture. Well. And you don't need the same. seats because they've got awesome

I do wait like poisonous I forgot to tell you that you might find that interesting Peggy sometimes you're frightened it

I know it's really good to know just against this I find myself bewildered by my fucking circumstances what circumstances I'm gonna go fix

that piano please don't touch my fucking piano that one. I'm going to walk over and I'm in a tinker with and pick the piano. I'm taking a part, but I fix it. Have I received my bourbon? Oh yeah, no, he's got to give it to you immediately. This is a fine drink, my friend. Thank you very much.

It's more where that came from. For the rest of you, the same. Well, I got to be honest, we don't, we're not much for the way in funds, but if there's anything I can do to get more of this, I'd be happy to help you out. Oh, shit. Basil. Dolly, go get Basil, as he yells

up, and you see that there there is a fox girl. She's a little bit shorter and stouter as she walks over and she has some bandages in the med kit and she hustles down into the room. I gotta be honest. I'm real sorry about the way we burst in here like this. We asked the guy if we could take him any medical attention.

He told us no. And this was the first place that he mentioned. We brought him right here. We didn't need to cause a stir. To be fair, it's like the swinging doors. It's like every time you come in, you kind of burst in. because it's just like, pow, and then you're in.

Touchet, Hazel, touche. It was very bishop. And they swing a little. It's very dramatic. The point is, we didn't need to mess up whatever operation you got run in here.

Well, it seems like Basil messed that shit up already. Yeah. What's your relation to the guy? I make friends with the other businessman in the town, and we, when I was a young badger, I was cutting down trees,

establishing a real business here to try to make a name for myself and then the marquis eight these cats that I don't know you spouten stupid garbage about how they don't even know who do you think that the fucking skinkertons they come in and they put their own

that grey cat son of a bitch smiles smiles great cat Levi never met the guy we've heard his down now It's like on all some signs outside

We don't be on signs outside Yeah, there's the Y and you see the smiles And there's a bunch of like crates and things And like there's even certain buildings that have smiles On to their own But Jericho told us this need to Right Yeah, yeah

There's nothing more distrustful than a smile Of all I'm doing today So are you saying And I'm glad that by traveling with this guy And I'm just making Ragging her in as I sit my whiskey Are you telling me that That you're involved in this whole revolt thing

that they were referring to in that back alley. I wouldn't call it anything as noble as a fucking vault, but destabilization. Try to get him played in the language that he understands. Make him fuck up. Have the cats. Take him out. A catch take the cat out.

Yes. They may have some incompetent jackass in charge. Well, I should probably take yourself when I was thinking of. I'm rolling up. Put it in my pad. That's going to be a yikes for me. He looks at you suspiciously.

He looks at you suspiciously. He's like, what the fuck are you wearing? It's just so close. I haven't done laundry in a while. We were living in the woods for a while. We'll be honest with you. He's been spending a lot of time with me. He was doing a little bit of undercover work.

I'm confused. Who are you? Why are you here and what undercover work are you doing? Well, when I say undercover, I mean, we knew we were going to be passing through this area and we knew it was cat controlled and we wanted to just maybe have a little bit of a smooth entry. We didn't want to, you know, cause any friction as we were entering the camp. I'll have a history with the Marquis de Katt. There used to be my employers.

But that's all right. It's way in the past. It's way in the past. You're saying you need to serve this, quote. amongst the cats here. Yes. But me, I got some idea. We can't talk about it in front of you, though.

Just in case it's not a good idea, you know? I don't want to go, like, giving me all my bad ideas. Can you make a persuade and with charm? Damn it. No. Can I assist? It won't matter. Two.

Oh, my. Nothing I can do about it? Ooh. Okay. You want. He looks at you. flatly and he says, you're in my joint. You can say what you're going to say to your goofball friend in front of me.

All right, well, I guess I just won't say yet. I just want to give up the idea. I'll just forget. Often we should be honest and tell the fond gentleman. So my idea was this then, okay? You know how you've got connections with Rosie the Ribetta? No. I'm very confused.

Like, oh, oh, yes, I do. Have you heard of Rosie the Ribbaugh? Everyone around him knows that Rosie delivers all the best stuff to the cats. So what is? Because Grumly works with Rosie the Riveter. Now, we don't know where she is right now, of course. But what if? We made it look like smiles or whatever, abducted, grommily, and smashed and took the new delivery from Rosie the Riveter.

The cats would be pissed. Am I right? I'm probably right, right? Am I right? I right? I might not be pissed. So what you're saying is for once, that this plan involves putting grumly at Homsway instead of...

Yeah. I'm in. What do you think? Who's Rosie in the river? No, the river. It's with the river. The river. With bees. Yeah, with bees.

It's a ribby, rubic. Ribic. Well, I don't... I'm going to look you up and I catch a fly. It's a frog? No. Why would... Why don't think it with a frog?

No one really knows for sure. It's a pretty big jump in logic. really big jump. Wait, why did you say jump? You think it's a fraud? Oh my God. It's not a frog. Wouldn't be a frog. No. What? Wait, it's a frog, though, is it?

I find myself bewildered again by my fucking circumstances. What I'm saying is that the Marquis the cat, is that the big guy in charge? The big... It's a female, yes. Yeah. You know, they got all that with technologies and stuff. Well, there's someone, one of the critters, is what beings inside. of the forests and stuff

that gives them things. At least that's the one on the street. It's like super important and stuff. Romilly delivers it because nobody knows who Rosie is. And I have my past employment and so I may not work for them but at least know who I am.

They know that I'm a trust movie, good boy and then I will do them just fine by helping them. So they thought that smiles was getting a little too cocky with themselves. and he thought that he deserved the delivery that's supposed to go to the Marquis the cat, and he took it.

He'd be pretty pissed, don't you think? I guess. I know that people get really mad when they have the things taken, so I think that's a great thing. Yeah, speaking I'm not doing an inventory, but everything you've got in my kitchen. I'm not telling you why you're telling you. I'm just telling you.

Should I be concerned? Why are you looking at her? because everyone else is oh shit stop looking at it guys that was very obvious why would you think

Rosie the ribbon is a frog I'm sorry we're shooting around the issue itself the reason we're here in the first place we just noticed for Richard Richard on

Root by leader games it's a wonderful board game check it out um um the reason we here in the first place and we can help you deal with all this if you need help but the whole

reason we're here that's nothing to do with this company and it's nothing to do with the skin chinketons or anything else we hear to find ancient and and I immediately drop my empty glass off the bar and it breaks oh my goodness clumsy me I'm so sorry in the glass I smell my nose I was saying no Grubby is done speaking. The point is I'm very not finestically. Another moment. Please. I put another gold point on the table.

I slide it to her south. You know, the thing is, when dogs start drinking, they start barking and making no sense. Grubly is done speaking for the evening. Is that right, my friend? Nope, don't talk. You're done speaking.

He does a lot of stupid stuff. Another whiskey would be fantastic while we discuss our potential plans with Peggy. Yeah. So you have a plan for this Rosie the Ripper. Yeah, yeah. Let me, so first of all, for this to work,

I need to consult my, I need to consult my people to see if anyone even knows who she is. And this is where we're going to bring in reputation moves. It's okay. My tails is doing it. I'm sorry.

No, it's okay. We're gonna. No, no, no, we're good. No blood. What is role-play, a little blind swing? You know, it always takes one side of the table to shut off a dog. And you is, literally all three were like, Hoh-h-h-h-h-h-h! He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. Ritz would not lose that, son of him! He's gonna get it!

Can you make me a cup? So, we're going to now feature another mechanic reputation moves. moves. And I don't even know about this. So yes. So prestige is positive word, notoriety is negative word. And so we're, it's generally sometimes when you meet an important MPC, you will make a reputation. So we're going to kind of do it for the company.

We'll do it for just like kind of what Alabaster has heard about the mining, or what he will be able to discern about reputation of Rosie, the ribbleau. from these individuals. So we are going to do a roll, and you'll just mark your modifier for your reputation. If that's okay. Am I, yeah, for the marketer with the marquis-zane. Because the company is with the marquis-in. Okay.

So it would just be plus zero because I haven't gotten to the plus- right. So plus zero. This is for Rosie? Is this a helpful role? I would say no. The travel move, it's just a straight role. Got it.

Sex. Sex. So that is... Jesus B's. You have one. You did say it was a plus... What was it? It was a plus one.

To the, like, a twist of fate for us, a plus one. Yes. Yeah, that would have been huge. Yes. So, yeah, that would have been a plus one. Don't you love your old pal, Booker? Your old pal. So...

I kid. I kid. So, and so the reputation moves, it's for, like, generally, the NPCs. And so it works a little differently. So we're going to home brew a little bit because it's kind of more like a group roll. But he says, like, well, I guess I'll figure out who knows of Rosie the Ribber. Just ask around, my friend. Just ask around.

Ask around. Ask around. You got to get up, got to get down. I don't know. Oh, dear Lord. Unless, unless. If people know who Rosie the Ribeter is where you're from, maybe you could meet with fucking smiles himself

and offer your services and sabotage him or kill him. Whoa, well, now we're not going to go that far. You're all right. I don't want to like to kill. I mean, aside him the guy that I probably killed Stakes. Well, you didn't mean to kill him. No, I was trying to him. I was trying to probably with it.

The bottom line here is. is that, you know, we're not just going to do this. Why? Why? Why would we put our necks on the line for this? We're just passing through. We don't want any trouble. We're a bunch of you set of yourself, a bunch of vagabonds. We don't want nothing to do with this war. No, I was just trying to give you an idea of something you could do to help yourself while we make our way out of camp.

Look, and we're not, I'm not going to say we're not completely opposed, but we don't know what's in it for us, my friend, my friend. I mean, we are pretty far away from us. Maybe restocking wouldn't hurt. If you could help us out or something, maybe we could try. I am hurt with this wise if I had to put a numerical number on it. So, what is it? I'll ask again, besides yelling down whatever this guy, Joko was going to say,

what brings you in town and how can Seljan Alabaster help you? What if we don't know yet? What if, on tomorrow, we need, we have another talk. We all decide exactly what? what our plan is moving forward. Would that be a medal? If you need the night to think about it, I'll give that to you.

And they give you the night to find out from your lackeys how important Rosie the rivet is. Exactly. I will ask around. I'll see what the fuck, the basil got himself mixed up in. You got a place you can stay? Do I?

We got a few rooms. We don't need much space. It fixed the piano, by the way. A little silver thing. Oh, I'll take off a coin for that. Cool. I know I'm personally not much for uh, where's at the moment, but

again, I'm willing to you know, make some deals, make some trades. What time is it again? Sun down? Yeah, it's like night at this coin. Okay. I could pay for whatever one box of decay mark pay for.

That's one room. Well, we don't need much more than that. We are squeezing. That's between you and your gods. All right? Well, yeah, that's just fine. Everyone else is all right with that. I think I'll do that.

I'll take turns a little bit. Oops, I just broke my pencil. Hey! Hey, one. Hey. I'm not sure. This is our first night doing the group. Yeah, probably a bit more, yeah.

Chunk more. Yeah, we're around. Yeah, we're around. We've been here. We're not jumping off any damn soon. So, with that, You all managed to shuffle into your rooms, and also there's anything one of you want to talk about. You get to rest.

Oh, no, I think we have much to talk about. You're all in your rooms. If you will, GM. Hear me out of here. All right. I'll hear you. Spent a lot of time. Most of my life in the old Muckbed Creek.

And as I mentioned previously, these ruins were unknowns to anyone I know. And again, if the others don't know about them, I don't know who would. Now, I'm not necessarily knowing this alabaster might know anything about these ruins, but... And I know I literally just said we shouldn't tell anybody about them. But we need something to prove they exist. What the hell was that trying to tell them about... What was it? What was it?

Why don't have to jump over the table? Peggy, I'm surprised you don't slap him upside. Yeah! Yeah, I'm pretty sure I didn't murder anybody. I think the paralyzation is going to wear off soon. But... You... Yeah, Grumman.

We specifically talked about not doing anything. Well, I don't recall. exactly what we distributed. You know what? I'm going to look through my notes. Right here, at exactly noon 35, we said we're going to go in, and we're not going to mention the ancient ruins to nobody. Nobody. Nobody.

Well, he seems like very knowledgeable. That doesn't matter. Unless we're all in agreement, we don't do something like that, Ronald McConnor. Well, I just think that he seems like he knows what he's talking about. He seemed to be very, uh, I don't know.

He had a lot of authority, so I figured, oh, I might provide some information that might help him. I don't even necessarily disagree with you. But the point is that we don't offer up information, even if I'm just looking for ruins, for us. Why would he know anything anyway? Let's just assume for one moment that this crazy power actually exists. Let's just pretend for a moment it's real. We're not going to go around telling people about that. If we're looking for ruins, that may not be well hidden.

Or out of the open, we can discuss that. But the point is we're just going to give the information away for free. Oh, right. Oh, we're just trying to help you. Oh, we have no leads. We don't know where these ruins are. And that's why we're discussing it right at this moment. But I think he had a good point that maybe we should go and talk to Mr. Smiley himself.

Levi Smiley. Because if anybody's going to stumble upon ruins, it's going to be someone digging up the earth mining. While I agree with you, we certainly don't want Mr. Smiley to have any idea. Smiley, whatever else smiles. The point is, with a swoop. That toothy bastard. Because it makes me picture as a happy guy. When we find that toothy bastard,

we certainly don't want him knowing anything about some untold fortune or power that he'll take immediately back to the cats. I don't want to tell him. I just want to see if maybe he already knows, and then we can find it. Without mentioning the source of the power of the fortune, so be it. Do you hear what I'm saying? You're weaked at me.

It was more of a narrow glance. Like I'm trying to engage you. It's one of the ways. No, it's more. like he's looking down his nose at you. Like, oh, that's not nice. I'm so condescending. It's kind of what I'm a big raccoon nose.

You're not a long snoop. I have a nice to say either now. The bottom line is here, regardless of what we tell us he's. It's just like he's got the long snoot and like yours is kind of squishy and mine's pretty small and you don't even have a snoot because you're all. You know nobody needs to bring up the back nose. You're always rubbing nose. Why do we always get around this?

Every time you start you learn her, she mentions I don't have a nose. That's not very nice. keep you. He brought it up. He brought up with his long racooned This is how I was born. And you're beautiful. I don't have no of this. Okay. I think you kind of have little holes. We keep the blazing heart a secret to everyone. Are we understood? The blazing heart is told to no one. All right. It's fine. I won't mention it again. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So now, now I get to the point.

I love your holes. I think it's beautiful. Do you know? I'm not to this tonight, okay? You mentioned yawn, you didn't have any. True. Okay? You mentioned some other shit, too, that you didn't have. Yon means story.

What? I was talking about telling a yon. It means tell a story. So do you have some yon? No, I told us. Why did you bring it up if you don't have any yarn? Because telling a yon is not the same as owning yon. Oh, yeah, we need to go to bed.

We can talk about this in a moment. We didn't even get any dinner. Hazel. You've eaten 14 times in it? I haven't even eaten once because you ate every time I try. That is not... Oh, that was last night. No, you ate a fly in the...

Well, you want my fly too? And I'm going to lick out and grab a fly, and then I'm going to stick my tongue out of it. You want it? I'm going to take it and just... Maybe I'll think about it. She's even eating my fricking flies. Oh, I'm starving.

I'm eating 14 times. But just sizzle me. Fourteen. And no, they weren't. There was nothing little about what you did earlier. He was saying. I was saying. I believe that Grumley has a point about this Alabaster fellow having a very knowledgeable viewpoint or something along those lines.

So maybe he has something to know about some ruin being discovered. We definitely make no mention of the house. If this thing even exists, which I'm not so sure that it does. It definitely does. I think it does exist. I love the passion. I love where your head's at, but we still tell no one.

I don't even need a note to slip it out. I know it's here. We just need a lead with this, giving up as little information as possible. Are we all in agreement? It's all right. I don't know. I sound fun.

Oh, I think we shouldn't. Donald, Donald, Daddle, Daddle, Daddle, Daddle, Arles, Dougal. Don't, we shouldn't daggle, too long. Because we did we got a little. find some ruins. Fair enough. How many beds are in our room? Uh, at least one twin bed.

One twin bed. All right. So about the, uh, the, about the awkward thing in the room, uh, with the bed, uh, I'm... We need go out of this. Nope, no, it wasn't going that direction, but, but fine. I will, uh, why do we gamble for the, uh, for the bed? All right, we'll flip a coin. Uh, heads, I get the bed, tails, you guys don't. Do you? You know, I'm pretty... Perfect. No.

I catch the coin. Damn it. Peggy, come on, that's my coin. Oh, I think it's... Do you bet the coin, I can't understand you. Spit the coin out and then we can understand what you're saying. I won't flip the coin as you spit it out. I stick it down in my cleavage so you can't see one of those.

It's fine. I wasn't going to look at it anyway. I'm saying we can't understand you with the coin in your mouth. Oh, you know, all I was saying was if I let the coin down and you'd know whether it was heads of tails and then you do that trick thing you did. You know what he's stupid. I'm a tinker.

I make things all the time. No, I don't think anybody is stupid. I was just offering up a chance to win the bed. By giving the trick? He gets the bed, tails, we don't. I'm currently on my back, dead asleep. Let's see, Brumby already

feels like to the coinplay on the floor. Oh, no. It's not nice. And this time I'm going to remember. remember that. And now that you've done that, I remember you did that the last time. But next time, I am going to remember. I will take my spot in the corner. And I just proceed back to where I will know the coin. I mean, you won fair and square. But next time, heads, you get the bed, pails, hazel and then fail. That, my friend, is a way for it. I'm willing to take. And I flip the coin.

Here, I will. Do you get a coin? You're a coin. Let's fill the coin. Yeah. It was for the coin. I have one of the crackin double. The D2. I think I lost much. I'm so hard. Oh, yeah, was it sweet.

The sweet. Oh, yeah, the North Africa. As long as I can let it hit the table, if you don't mind. I can catch you. I'm a mess. He's very exciting. He's very exciting. I love coin.

You just keep us on a table for flavor. I agree. I want to. Yeah, there's a good one. Flip a coin. So before I flip the coin, Booker, We'll examine them. So we've got this sweet plus...

The treasure chest is head because you're... The treasure chest is heads. The plus, this weird plus sign cross filigree is tails. That's us to say. So, uh, all right. I flip the coin. Heads as I win, tails as I will, as a gentleman back out of the agreement. And the lady's point.

Oh, what do you know? It's heads. I win. Ladies stand down with bed as bookers. And I immediately scammed. I immediately scammed. I pulled covers over and I, Hold on.

I'm going to go over. I'm going to lay down. I'm going to use my tongue, and I'm going to grab the covers and pull them on top of me. Yeah, but you know, it didn't flip for the covers. In the evening. It's probably, you know, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock. Okay.

And it's, I'm going to, okay. I'm going to lay down. I'll lay down, I guess. I was going to try to like. What do you want to do? I would like to kind of hang around, lay down, but stay up and listen for when noise starts to die down downstairs. Okay.

I can feel. So everybody, so, I mean, this, you hear the abhorious laughter. It goes to midnight, one, two. And once it's kind of the three things are starting to die down a little bit as people are finally stumbling out drunk. Because there's going to get quiet about 3.30 in the morning. Okay. I want to very quietly exit the room.

and look over the balcony and just see if I see, I'm assuming this is, I know the layout of this. Yeah, you know. Okay. I'd like to look down over the balcony. You're on the second floor. You look down over at the balcony, and you see that there is just a young fox that seems to be running the bar in the lake shift.

It seems as if Selgin is nowhere to be seen. As there are a couple of patrons still remaining, you see one old prospector sitting at the end of the bar and the same rabbit that was tapping his foot to the piano is passed out in the corner and there's a few other patrons but it's pretty quiet. Where's the washroom?

Who are you approaching? I'm just yelling it to the box at the bar. Oh, washroom is just down, down back there in the back. All right, thanks, so I'm going to make my way down that way. And do I see any other doors down there that I could? So as you make your way down towards the back, you see that at the very end there is a door towards the washing. There's a little moon out of it or something.

I don't know. I basically want to open every door I go past very quietly. So you go to the first door. That's how Hazel Nut died. You remember that this is where Beasel was. So you see that door. I don't know if you open that. I don't want to open that one.

Okay. So you know where being here. Oh, no. Oh. And you hear kind of these groaning in pain as you do that. And you make your way to the next door and you try it and it's locked. I don't speak like a pick a lock. You can certainly try.

What do you do? I mean, like, can I pick a lock? Yeah. Like, do I need to have tools? You have it. I do? Yeah. This is the game.

This is Power by the Apocalypse. Yes. Okay. You're a thief! Of course you have a lock fake. I'm going to just very, very lightly wrap on the door and see if I hear anything within. You very lightly wrap. You wait several seconds, a minute. You don't hear anything. All right. I'm going to check over my shoulder and then I'm going to try to pick that lock. Okay. This ability is called attempt roguish feats. And this uses finesse.

and it's what you use for any kind of roguy business. You want to pickpock. You want a kiseroon. You want a stealth. So that's the roguish feats because they're all kind of roguy. There it is. Phinez?

Yes. One more shiggity shape. Here we go. Oh, that's good. 8, 9, 10, 11. 11. Okay. So you take out your pick and you slowly

and you have few tools. And your fuse tools. and it opens and slowly... Is there any light on in the room? There's no light, and it's very dark, but you're able to see as you peek in that as it opens, you see what seems to be a whole cellar

of rows and rows and rows of bottles of alcohol of various whiskeys, and you see a few kegs in the... in the corner, as it seems to be where the booze for the pearl saloon is kept. What do you do? I am going to slip in silently and close the door behind me. Okay, you do that. Wait a few minutes.

Is there any window or anything in here? No, there's no window at all. Okay. I'm just going to wait a minute and let my eyes adjust to the light. Okay. You're able to see the room all around you. Yeah, I'm going to start putting as many bottles of anything that I can into my bags, into like the inside of my clothing, smaller bottles.

I'm going to start packing into my cheeks. I would say they're like a little airplane bottles. Yeah, I'm just stuffing them into your cheeks. And so you start doing this. And I would say fill up on your decay if you lost any. I have not. Okay, you have not. So you managed to stock up and you are as much as you physically can carry.

Okay. I'm going to go back out of the room. Okay. So as you look around, you start to see that the, you peek out and you step out and you're trying to act nonchalant. Describe to me as you have all these bottles after coming back from the bathroom. The young fox boy is looking at you. Oh, I look terrible. I've taken my face off and I'm such a bloated night. It's awful. Make one more time of Rorogish feats to see how you do sloshing your way back to

I'm going to also be kind of like like this like I've dried my hands off from the washer. Got it. Got it. There's no decays in this. So you either 11 again. 11. Rush it. Okay. So he said like, oh, good night, miss.

As you managed to scamper your way up and get into the room and there you have a bunch of bottles of booze. I have one question before we wake up Once everybody's done Yeah I think everyone else you're done And you all wake up in the next morning So my only question is that I spent

Two coins on two drinks of whiskey At the bar I removed them from my overall decay Did you want Is that how I should have handled that Or was it a matter of like we discussed about the Whatever you say I'll say he's one of those coins because Peggy doesn't drink alcohol, so I was just giving him my booze.

Okay. Yeah. So I'll say that it would have just called one to K for the drinks. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So if you had drinks for the night, that would have one to K.

Okay. All right, cool. Yeah. That's fine. I just wanted to clarify because I'm tapped out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was trying to stay, you know, maintain names and all like this stuff. Okay.

All right. You all wake up. And unless there's something that you want to discuss, you all will head downstairs. Are we all in agreement? I got a lot on the boy. This is the next morning. Yes. So remove an exhaustion if you have one.

Oh, I don't think we got any of us got any of the muster. There was something we were supposed to get them for. I have two. Why? Just wearing plate armor, I have one no matter what. Oh, dang. And I travel. I add an extra.

Okay, so that's... Actually, I think about that, too. No, I wear chain mail for some reason. Oh, yeah. So you would have needed to mark one when we traveled, but now it's gone because you slept. So just keep that in mind for next time. Right. Got it.

Okay. So we're going to go ahead. All right. So as I stated previously, we're all in agreement. You know, you might want to ask him what we're in agreement for because I don't think it's that. So we're going to ask him a bad way to ruin you all, right? That's what we agree. We're going to ask him.

Oh, my God. We're going to ask him police. What? What? What? No. You something wrong? From a poker standpoint, my friend,

that would be playing your hand too early, all right? We're going to try to get a little bit of a lead without getting away too much. I'm going to pop one of the bottles. You know, because I have this process. I've been working on like a few of the good need. Peggy, you're killing me. No, I'm not.

These are all terms of phrase, or metaphors or similes. What if you have a lead, but don't you have a lead? I don't know what elite is other than a clue or what we're looking for. I think she means lead. Is they spelled the same way?

No, I'm talking about elite. like you would put one on the dog some people called a leash, other people call it a leave? I don't have one of those. Why would you bring it up then? Because I was talking about, never mind. Down to talk to old alabaster. Are we good? You go. Wait, wait. What was that you spat out?

Oh, um, there's some things that I found that like little, that like big bottles but the little bottles. Is there a window out of room? Uh, there is. There's one window. Wasn't even the pie that your mother baked before? I know. Weren't you listening? Bumbleberry? I quickly, like, take one step towards the window and go,

oh my God, is that a bumbleberry pie? Bumbleberry pie. As soon as she looks away, I try to swipe some of the alcohol, she spat out. Yeah, I'll say if it would be, I think that you'd probably be able to easily, if this is on the thing, you'd be able to swipe them. I spat out all the airplane bottles. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just try and distract her and swipe the bottles.

Bumbleberry, I, you know what? I actually don't know what a bumbleberry looks like. I must have been mistaken. I apologize. But you just can't go around saying that this bumbleberry pie when there's not a blueberry can. Because he constantly tells me he's got things like Jan, he's got a lead, he's got other things.

Were any of the berries that I found bumbleberry? I would say probably not. Okay. We never have a campaign request. I, it was clearly, I was clearly mistaken, my friend. Clearly mistaken. All right. I'm not sure about that.

I don't even see any pie. I was just a mistake. That was not even a pipe. What are you mistake? No, he did mention last night. He was all agitated. His eyes are going. I think his visions are now.

You do know that when people are like trying to cool their pines down and after they have them and the oven they put them on the cell. Exactly. The more than likely what happened was he saw it when it was on the cell. And then when you tend to look for it, whoever baked it was bring it back in the feet into the kids. I'm going to open the window and smell and see if I smell your pie. You open the window and you smell and just the stella. venture the thoroughfare hits your nostrils.

It does not smell anything like a pie. It's disgusting. What I'm good. Down to Alascent. Take another swing. You all... I'm gonna come back up here. No.

We may not. I wouldn't leave any here that you find violated. All right. Let's take all belongings with us. So, you all gather your things and you go on me down with Seljan. And he's... standing there, he's looking fresh, he has a cup of this dark, dark liquid

and seems to be steaming as he's just drinking it out of a tin cup. And he says, so he's sleeping on it? Well, I slept on the floor. It was a little tighter than we thought it was going to be. First up, you've got to tell us if any of your buddies got back to you about Rosie the Ribbon.

Oh, yeah, they did. There weren't many people and some of the marquise, some of the cats did hear and they weren't great things. What did mean? What is that mean? What they did here?

Were they more than great? Were they excellent? Maybe exception. Yeah. Well, at least they heard of you, but it wasn't like they... Not me, not me. I've done how Rosie the rubber.

They heard of her, I guess, but it was... I know it's a sheep. I think we ever said it's a sheep. I mean, I don't mean to assume, but Rosie, I just... kind of, you know. It's probably safe to assume his contacts told them that. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, if we want to press it, we can probably, I could talk to my contact if you want to try. No need. No need. Those are the details. We're not worried about the details. I don't know. I don't understand why they've been the thing to say.

I mean, like, I, you know, forget. If you arose you, which is right. No, I would never say that. There's no one. You know what I'd say. Oh, okay. Oh, still. Anyway, I didn't sleep very.

well okay because I was sleeping on the floor but you know we have more rooms yeah I'm gonna go out on a limb here you have a what Rosie okay yeah yeah we've been out of it yeah he slept on the bed but he didn't have any blanket I think that's called retconning that isn't actually removed it from all that's right the point is so you you have a you have a branch or limb no it's a it's a metaphor why would you bring it then turn a phrase that's All it is. This is really getting out of control. I understand what kind of industry is going on around.

You heard, or any of your people heard, about any weird mining situations that are not the norm. That's what we're interested. Do you know something about that? No. I guess that answers that question, then. No, no. We know nothing.

We don't know if you know. That's the problem. We're asking because we don't know anything. Yeah. You obviously know something. There's... Well, we... I'm trying not to let anything get out because there's a panic, so keep this down. Maybe you have an office, we can discuss it. Maybe we have somewhere a little more private. We can have a conversation. Yeah, the only thing that's gonna keep it down.

If we give the information, you know what I mean really awful if all of a sudden the frog just got it screaming. Oh. There's a no... There's a look of fear where he absolutely... believes you. And he's like, let's go to my office. You see the young fox that was up when you and he's like falling, he's leaning against the broom. And he's like,

Jimmy! Yes, yes. Watch the bar. And he walks and leads you up to the second floor all the way to the very end, a door at the end, leads you into an office with a large death. It's a two-bedroom, it's a two-room office and bedroom

connected. As he he dridesher system stairs, or some chairs, rather. And he says, definitely, okay, I'm listening. Now, Mr. Alabaster, I can assure you anything you tell us will only be kept between four of us. Understood. We don't defile with us.

Fall of you. Defarable of us. Am I miscounting? Yeah, yeah, then we count him. Well, he's one in the initial. He already knows the information, Romilly. He's not going to go spreading it. He said one of us.

And like, oh, you know. By the dim wood sweet earth, I apologize. The point is, when you say the four of us, you could be implying him, but maybe not you. And then he agreed to it. And then he told you and he told things you shouldn't. You could say, hey, I'm high. I said, four and not five. Begney, begging, bang.

What? Peggy. I thought you were on my side. I am. I'm literally standing right next to your side. You're the smartest of all of us. Why are you doing this to me? Go ahead.

Mr. Alabaster, I can promise. you between all five of us here in this room, grumly don't say another word. Anything we discuss between the five hours only. And I assure you, we know nothing, which is why we come to you. The established gentleman that you are

in your fighting pinstripe suit, running this absolutely lovely establishment with the best whiskey I've ever had in my entire life. Yeah. And the best wistice I've never looked at before on that entire life. It's really nice. I can't stress enough that we don't have any kind of fight in this turmoil that's going on. Yeah.

And you aren't going to say anything about anything I made the Vulge because the Skinkertons have killed almost all of my guys. That's terrible. In the past two months. They almost killed me too. I'm going to think I like them, generally speaking. I'm pretty sure I'd kill one of them. They've been killing poor innocent people at all time.

Well, I wouldn't call us innocent, but... I've got more spider milk when that came. Against them. It smiles doesn't like people that try to have... Like, poor basil. He's looking out for the workers, trying to improve their working conditions, trying to get them to organize and cause a little bit of trouble for him. Do you think Smiles is just like kind of a mean guy,

or all the cats are on your bed? I don't trust these cats. But he's like extranotrously. He is the worst of the worst. Smiles. He's the bad apple. I hate that sound of bitch. There's always a bad apple.

He's wrought to the core. Rotten fruit born from a bad seed. As I mentioned before, we're not good for much coin at the moment. But we might be willing to make a trade if this information is good. I've got big pocket from a big gray. I wasn't going in the way off. So you were having butter up, right? I do.

Well, I have pleasant facade. Pleasant facade. Yeah. So if you want to use that, you can, if not. Or if you just want to put, so it's a persuasion. And everyone will have the option to help. I would say that I'm not trying to put off facade. I'm being very honest.

Oh, okay. Got it. Got it, got it, got it. Is the way that I feel about it. Got it. Okay. I'm not trying to... So make a...

Is that... I thought that it's not... Is that fooling, is it? Or is it? Fooing. Um, well, is what fooling? For the pleasant facade. If that's...

It says you suck up to an up-to, or otherwise butter up-to, or otherwise butter up-to, and then I can basically deflect suspicion and aggression. Got it. Okay. So I'm more... Yeah, yeah. I'm not trying to...

Gotta. Track here. So, make a charm. A charm roll. Rather persuade. I'm persuaded. Roll with charm. Yeah, I can...

Is that on here? Yeah. Persuading NBC. Perfect. Okay. Uh, I got a 10 with my plus two to charm. Frushing the roll. A 10?

Oh, shit. Uh, as he, he, he nods. And he reaches into a drawer on his desk, and he shakes his head. He's like, oh, old dude. And he, uh, takes a huge swig out of the, uh, out of the bottle. Oh, no, I put some of my spider then in the man. I'll know I'm talking with you. I'm thinking with you.

It does says, it does say, provided you give them strong, motivation or a reasonable brother. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's going to get to my, my, my proposal provided he is. I, I, I think he says, proceed. What I'm thinking here, from what I'm hearing, is that you really don't like this, uh, smiles guy and most importantly, the, uh, the, the, the Marquisat, uh, occupation. We might be able to, uh, mix things up a little bit here. Maybe, uh, hit him where they really hurt.

coin purse. And how do you propose to do that? The iron mines show no signs of tapping out. Surely, surely there'd be some way if we all put our minds to it and take a moment to think, to separate these fools from their coin. And they might even make your pockets a little bit more heavy as well. Can I figure this guy out?

If you were trying to discern his business, yeah, feel free to roll with the hunt-on-line. You can figure him out by rolling a Charmer. Yeah. So how is this my connection work? If you share information with Brumley after reading a tense situation,

you both benefit from the plus one for acting on the answers. If you help them while they are tempting, you're not tempting garbage feeds. Yeah, so it's basically like you're seeing and you're like, or this is a tense situation, like there's a standoff or something, you're discerning.

Or you figure something. If you do the figuring out, then he or you, I guess, gets a plus one on a fall. is what it sounds like to me. So I got a seven. A seven. Okay. Which means that I hold one.

Okay. And I will just ask it now. Is your character telling the truth? Yeah, he can spend hold one for one. Yes. He is telling the truth. And I'll say that he seems to be, he seemed to also know something about a strangeness with them, a stranger's with the minds that there was that he knew something about that.

And he seems to be telling the truth. And it seems to be out of a sense of desperation. but it does seem as if vagabonds are a thing in this world that's just something that happens and it's not maybe not often that vagabonds are roll into a town like this but he's telling you he's being forthcoming

all right well if we can help you get a little ritual will you provide us information with the strange goings on at the month and I may have come up with an idea

so again hit them where it really hurts but let's discuss some information and then we can talk plants. Well, since you already fucking know, it seems, you vagabonds are perplexing bunch. Yeah. There have been... Well, you know, I'm organized.

Well, that makes two of us. Yeah. But even with... No, I've... More of a whiskey and throat slitting kind of badger. Right, well, you don't have a... You don't have any sense of two thousand. I don't think you have much on the talk.

I, there are minors that have, the most recent dig, his, smiles has dug too grueling and deep. There's been tons of caveans, but the ones that have made it out of almost been going bad, muttering, and then as soon as that happens, they wander off, skinked. is usually not far behind. Never seen again. Madness is sick. Seems that way.

And you know exactly which mind this may be? That's the one that... That's the one that smiles is very interested in. I don't trust that fucking cat as far as I can throw. And it's not very far. Well, I suppose we should go investigate. Well, I don't think it'll be that easy.

But we appreciate your forthcoming with the information. So how are you going to help me? Well, let me stop by asking you one question. How many of these mines, I assume there are many? We're not talking about the special mind, the standard. Dozens. How many do you own? I don't own any. How much would it help you if we even just took one away from them and gave it to you?

How do you intend to do that? What if? What if we were able to convince one of these, uh, mines was very close to running dry. Got him to sold for cheap. I assume you have coin, my friend. Lots of extra coin around there. We pull a con.

You try to convince them that perhaps one of these is not what it seems. Maybe we try to drive the price down. If the buyer is right, you take it off their hands. Hit him where it hurts. The problem with that is that it smiles if it was any worthwhile to me. he would have bought it up instantly. That's just an idea. Just playing with a little...

You think you can fool some of these miners? If we get them on our side, if we get the people who want us to help them on our side, maybe we get a couple of experts up there. Maybe someone to reconnoitre some of these mines. Maybe they're not as valuable as they first appeared. How many people loiter around reconnoiter? It's a lot of fucking drunks.

It's partially my fault. Well, how can we help you? Do you have anything you'll always to do? Can you mess with Smiles' operation as much as you can? You're vagabonds. You're the adventurers. That's exactly. I don't know what smiles once with the mine where all the people are going crazy.

Well, we can kill two birds with one step. How about that? You guys don't know that yet? Well, it's more of, uh, what do you always call them, a metaphor? Figures. Speaks, turn of phrase, metaphor, similes. Whatever you want to call it. Idiom? Is that one of them? That's one of them.

Why would you even bring it up? Well, look, I'm just trying to say, I think, I know I've got a stone right here. Don't get my handbook? Oh, cool. The Elisi Boll is throwing in promises, you fucking schmuck. I don't think the words, uh, promise that came across my lips, but fair enough. You say it out loud and then to promise. That's how frogs would.

That would get me in some very. Very deep trouble. We'll go investigate the madness and on the way, we'll spread word, we'll hopefully help with this organization of the miners, and maybe we can mess with all their stuff along the west. And I think that if we can devalue one or two of these mines, there might be something in it for you to buy one. Yeah, you know, what if we could convince them? So one of these mines have strange rocks that doesn't allow them to get drunk ever again if they breathe in the air. heck yeah I like where your head's at because then none of them would ever want to mind it

and what good is it it's true you know you give a drunker you're gonna go maddie you can't get drunk and they're gonna pick them out of mine every time do we just go out that way and I just point in the big general direction

of the mines where can we get some food around here you want some here's some breakfast and he pushes out like these moldy biscuits towards you. This is all we got. Well, I'll just scratch off the little green part.

I think about a patch, my friend. What should be fine? Well, that's not me too hate to do. Vagabonds. Yes. Four of you. That's what they call us. That's worth a couple of skinkertens.

None of you. Give your services to anyone else in this town. Selt in Alabaster, you are employed as long as you are in Reconoida Ridge. Well, you say employed, but, you know, what do we get in the size info here? What are you doing? I'm looking to line your pockets. Gold. Do you know how much of gold these filthy, fucking miners have to spend?

We get gold. Yes. Got you, send me in. All right. No, hook you, hold on. We'll be in. But there's a down payment first. If we're going to agree not to do anything for anybody else, we can't do that with nothing to line up pockets.

That wouldn't be fair, would it? Half now. Half when it's done. make a persuade an NPC. Why? No, she's closed on a hell. What is it?

What is it? What is it? Where is it persuasion? Oh, no. What does it cost? Meets out. An exhaustion. An exhaustion.

Oh, perfect. Come on. Yes. I got 12, but I think it's a minus a one. No, you're so good. It's still good. So he says charm. Yeah.

So I got 11. Fuck, yeah. He said, he looks and he says, now that. It's a forward-thinking fucking gumption. You want to thinker. That's not peggy for you. The enthusiasm, the brain.

I don't get why, what he's doing. The muscle. He's the muscle. He's the muscle. You're the growling thing that you do. Scary. And, and, and, and, uh, I, I heard that, uh, you go to the bathroom later. night from Jimmy. She has a distraction. And she's hungry all the time.

I do it. She's actually, she costs us a lot of money. She'll help you get rid of all your moldy biscuits if you have any line around. Yeah. I have other things that I can do. Well, I suppose if this is a deal, and he spits into his badger paw, and you see there's long claws extend as he reaches out to shake whoever handshakes first. I immediately spit in my hand and I shake it.

There we go. You're whatever. And my tongue comes out and wraps all the way around my hand. And it just like slobbered. I broke my hand out. You have frogs. Oh, y'all, let's get my fly on me. And I'm full of flyback back.

I've got a pall full of moldy biscuit crumbs. And now it's all saliva because of the tongue. It's like his hands are covered in moldy biscuits and saliva. And flies. And fly. Thank you, sure. That's a fine hand shake. You won't regret this, sir.

Oh, and do me one favorite. them. We're going to pull a fast one on these guys and get you a little extra lining in your pockets. Try to come up with something too, because it takes two to dango. I have ideas. That's my manner. And so with that, he reaches beneath his desk, and he pulls out four bags of coins as he drops it for each of you. And I would like each of you to take an equipment, a bag of coins. that has two decay in it.

Woo. Half now. Half later. Oh, my friend, I have a feeling that this is the beginning of a very beautiful friendship. B, E, A, beautiful. And as, you see, like, there's a large, there's several, many windows alongside on the second floor. As, as, he says, well, shall we celebrate our new partnership? with some coffee out on the balcony

to overlook the filthy fucking thoroughfare. That sounds absolutely lovely. Do you have any root tea? Or did I say yesterday? I forgot I said yesterday. I have my personal stash now that you're in my employer. I tell everyone we don't, but I'm for chamomile myself. If you have root tea, I would greatly appreciate so.

I'll have Dolly make you some. And so as he stands up, The door swings open. And you all, after storing your coins away, you step out. And as you all begin to walk out, suddenly Seljan joltz in shock as a cross-world bolt flies in. It hits the doorframe. And as you all walk out onto the balcony, you see a row of four skinks flanking a large, gray cat or a brown bowler cap in brown suit. He has two thumbs in the, in the lapels, and he yells up and says,

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