Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 35: Le Lantern (Legends of Irondeep)

Episode Date: May 19, 2023

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Hard one sure foot. Family Axford? A fairy from a distant land come to fulfill her destiny as hard ones wing men. Oh, here's the pet trickles! If you remember from the end of last episode, he probably wasn't gonna get laid But there's a chance, but there's always a chance because he's gonna get laid this episode

I'll be able to get Yes, and then of course called Voltainer if not a bit for Saul Bufo out of And then long time ago where did you come from where did you go talking about a frog name Saul Bufo Recap to the left Take it away, I'm murp. You're a good night. Okay. Now you have to let hard one fuck.

True, true. Yeah. I heard a cotton-eyed Joe remix. What do you think you're fucking? You're a Lord 2023. Good God. Yes, we all remember two weeks ago, the cotton-eyed Joe bitch.

It's back. It's fresh and everyone's mind-spank. It's back, it's fresh and everyone's mind's bow. It's fresh in my mind, I love it. Paul, well thank you so much for the guys. Thank you, you're all right. I think it's seared in my mind forever. Yeah, the only thing that could make us better is if we narrate hard one having sex.

Yes. I cast a nudge. Okay. Didn't need it, thank you. Thank you, deeply. Let's do a little recap. So last time you rode off on speeder bikes through the mountains out running Mother Ship agents led by Bronra Bronzebeard.

Along the way, you stumbled across a mercenary hideout where you learned that they had been offered a job to raid the Iron Deep Castle Dungeons. You pocketed an inert speaking stone that had presumably been used to contact the anonymous person who made the offer. Your investigation was interrupted by the sounds of an approaching ship on the hideout's radar, and you witnessed a mother ship Zeppelin emerging from the clouds. You sped off on your bikes, in an attempt to outrun it, and Callie managed to temporarily disarm their plasma cannon with a shatter spell

sending smoke through the gunnerness. Once again, thankful that you roll the bad guys. Yep. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha with Sal and Hard One's navigation, you were able to find enough cover to avoid the blasts from above and eventually outran the airship. You ditched the bikes before Iron Deep and entered the city proper. There, you witnessed the extent to which mothership has taken over

with an influx of new Magitech stores, Magitech troops, and worst of all, a hip new bar called Ley Lantern. Oh, Ley Lantern. Can you even call them tots? You can't, they're deconstructed. You went to a more traditional tavern, the tipped goat, where a hard one clocked an old dwarf named Darnum that he had known as a young bartender.

After feeling a tremor, rock the entire bar, Darnum explained that Gromdall Bronzebeard had smuggled in a monster that had escaped into the mountain. Poor baby. Poor baby. Foster's eyes began to glow and Callie quickly deduced that the beast causing the tremors is likely one of the missing serpents from O'Bronz prophecy, aka Poor Baby. You went to Iron Deep Castle to find Jainazbeard only to learn that she was missing. You were introduced to a nomish woman named advisor Zaline, who was vague about Jane's whereabouts and vague about her interest.

She might have been flirting. Cryptic. So cryptic. She offered to put you up in an inn and wrote the address on a note, but strangely the address was on the lower plate in a residential area Thinking he was about to get laid hard one washed his balls Yeah, I mean enough for sure Oh Never a bad thing to have clean balls

You all headed below to the meeting place there you found a small chapel that was closed for renovations. Saul climbed to investigate through a hole in the roof, but was discovered by a dwarf priest inside who threw a knife at him. Ah! Saul caught the blade and instantly recognized the surprised priest as your old friend, a forge father, Krugin. Krugin! And that's where we are now. Krugin. Krugin, baby. That's... Is this a new thing? What are you doing up there, Saul?

Come on. Okay, sorry. Yeah, we were sitting here by the lean. Yeah, come through the door. You fucking weirdo. Okay. Y'all... Falls through the hole.

Great. Yeah, you jump through the hole. I come through the window. You... Jump through a window. Oh, it's one here. I found a point of entry. I'm going to the window. Let's go. Yeah, you see the door was just closed, not unlocked. So Kruegen goes to open the door, easily pushes it in as you guys enter behind him. He instinctively

throws another knife. That saw has to catch. Ingress, ingress. Ah, careful, my bouquet. Ingress, Ingress! Ah! Careful, my bouquet. You see, uh, Krugin turns around and sees you, Callie. Krugin! Callie! Have you gotten any of my postcards? Oh, yeah, I got a few of them sent to me, huh?

How are you doing? I'm doing good, Callie, come here, give me a hug. Guys, I give them a big hug. Yeah, he pulls you in. Oh, Callie, you're freezing. Are you all right, yeah? Oh, yeah, no, I'm just kind of trying out a new thing. Yeah, yeah, I'm good I'm good without you. You're really warm

Yeah, no, I think it's more the cold on your side Okay, I'm just worried that you might be sick. No, I'm okay. Are you okay? Yeah, just take your temperature. Take his temperature. Did you eat some bad chicken? No, I had the regular I did have regular chicken. I don't know if it was not a thing not from eat some bad chicken? No, I had the regular I did have regular chicken I don't know if it was not a thing that not from light lantern, right? No, I Absolutely do not eat at light lantern. Okay, okay. I see um Kruegan Lead you guys in closes the door closes the windows that you guys jumped in oh Kruegan look how we run into Oh

So this is Krugi that I know. Yeah, it's me. Is this a new one? Again, do you guys know someone that you're confusing me with? That's so nice. No, he said he got Krugi. Yeah.

Okay. It's me. Hard one. Hard one short one. Yeah, bring it in. But, okay. Good to see you again. I'm Krugin gives you a hug.

I'm hoping my like cult of personality makes him feel a little too uncomfortable saying we've never met. That is exactly how you read the situation is, he knows who you are, but he is going through his head trying to figure out if he's actually met you or not. Yeah, but he's unsure. Yeah, yeah, no good good you know old friends me

in the world right on right on good to see him yeah anyway what are you guys yeah how did you guys get to iron deep uh long story long story I think that you know is that one of us has gone yeah Oh yeah, call the, he's stuck in a magical helmet and with chasing someone named Ultris who's like a big baddie, but before we do that, we're trying to find Jaina. I don't know if you know anything about what's going on with the shaking and this little creature that might be trapped in the mountain. Yeah, so it's kind of, I think it's kind of all intertwined. Yeah, you see, um, Kruegen goes over and sits with you guys in one of these pews. You see that there are statues and busts of like famous paladins and clerics and stuff of the church, but nothing too fancy.

This is a much smaller chapel. As he begins to talk, I just want to do like a little bit of snooping to see if there's any feminine or child presence here. Oh yeah, go ahead and do, you can do an investigation check as you look around. 19. I'm like curious if you're reconciled with his wife or child. You look around and you know that the timeline with which Kruggen left Iron Deep and came back that his, his daughter would be older now. So wouldn't be a kid. You do see Cummings and goings you see that there's like kind of a small pedestal up to like

an altar here in like the shape of a forge and there are torches near that that are kind of lighting up nearby like geodes and like crystal dust that sort of permeates the decor here. You do see that there's like a bed roll there for him like a little room for him in the back, but you don't see it does not look like he's staying with anyone. Singular roll. Singular roll.

He's just here. It's like a twin roll. Just a twin roll. Oh yeah. Okay. How many glasses of water on the ground? Just the one. Just the one.

Okay. Okay. Anyways, Kroegi, what were you saying? Right, yeah. So it's actually all kind of connected. This monster that's under the ground, making everything shake, and also this whole bronze beard mess. Right. So back in Esri, you guys remember you found that shipment of weapons and potions that was supposed to go to Granddal bronze beard, right? Yeah, we stopped we saw that. So we know that there's kind of infighting amongst the Bronzebeard,

so we were worried about a coup. So you guys sent me off, I came here, and I brought that info to the castle, and it turns out that that wasn't the only attempt to smuggle in weapons. Yeah, really. We were able to bust a couple more airships with the info that we gave them So I actually got in real good with the crown here. Yeah, so well, I've been working Thanks. Yeah, I've been working with you and you know, we do to see and theft Gonna be underhanded because mother ships underhanded, too, you know

That's right. Oh, they've hands above, under to the side. They've got hands everywhere. Hands everywhere, right? Yeah. So I'm helping out advisors, Alene, who's helping out. Did she? Yeah. She said anything about me.

That funny that you're saying it's Alene. She said anything. Have you heard any whispers about me at all? Yeah. In the past five minutes. No, I haven't talked to, I even talked to Alene today. But I mean, it's probably like a portrait of hard one in the castle. past five minutes. No, I haven't talked to, I even talked to Zaline today. I mean, it's probably like a portrait of a hard one in the castle.

Would Zaline sort of like carry that? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, is there a... Yeah. I don't know that there's necessarily a picture, yeah. But I think she knows who you are. You've been floated as somebody that could possibly help float it out.

When his name came up, would there be like a sort of like attempted suppression little twinkle in her eyes? I would say, oh my, I don't even wanna know the answer. I mean, unless you have it, it's just, okay, I don't think I wanna know the answer unless it's the answer, as well as saying.

And someone is generally pretty conned reading people. Yeah. It looks at hard one with deeply sympathetic eyes. Someone is generally pretty-coded reading people. Yeah. Looks at a hard one with deeply sympathetic eyes. Hit me with the truth, dude. I just, uh, I want to say. Hit me with the truth as long as it's good news, you know what I'm saying? Some people are maybe a little bit easier to read than others.

Adviser Zaline is one of those people that's impossible to read. So hard to say, guess or no, leading yes. I'm positive you could spend your whole life solving. Oh my god, I don't know what's going on but I can't get out of my mind now. Okay, it was such a fast in reaction. Right, I'm like replaying every single book. Okay, I look at the address on that.

I don't know what I'm necessarily yet. You see just written in perfect script is the address of this place. What does it mean? It just looks really clean and I'm kind of one of the people that wear... But yeah, you know, you never know, you never know, you really don't... Yeah, but let me take a whiff of that. Is there a perfume on it?

No. She doesn't have a scent. Can I press the digitation that is there for few monos? No Can I press the digitation? There's suddenly a heavy sun. Wow It's actually drenched in the stuff I make it like see spray and small Make it my eyes water is like a slow release salty chocolate. These sweet. Okay, how did you know? Let's crack a window for sure right? Yeah Okay, our one rolls it up. Put it in his nose

So hard one all the beans are there hard one for sure is getting laid You know that we know this right? That's the start of the information I just started the information guy. I'm gonna wash my balls. Yeah Okay, which is good because I walk at waste level. Yeah, we're all sharing. That's a good thing for me to know Yeah, anyway, right long story short those weapons you found are part of a bigger thing So basically bronze beard industries recently combined with mothership and the CEO is this guy Ludwig bronze beard on hard one You would know Ludwig is from like Janus generation so he is an older dwarf He would have been just like a few years older than you

He's got his kids mortis and Bronra working for him and a bunch of others like a few cousins uncles aunts They got they got most of them. He's also got a brother. This guy named Grondahl. Yeah. Yeah. He's kind of the fall guy. Mm-hmm. So Grondahl. He's the fall guy. Sort of. I mean, he's a bad guy, but he's the only one that people fully know is a bad guy. I make sense. He took the heat forever. Exactly. He's a political prisoner. Yes. So Grdahl isn't officially employed by mothership, but sometimes works jobs for them.

So they have basically plausible deniability. Yeah. Gromdahl himself is like, you know, me and Kalle used to be a little bit, he's a smuggler, but he's bringing in and selling monsters to the highest bidder. Wait, plural, there's like other creatures. Oh, yeah, I mean, Cal, you think back. The reason you didn't give him the serpent egg is because he had like dragons and cages and chokes. Oh, yeah, he's. We have a fucking zoo.

He's like a cool beast master. We're gonna free all the animals. Yeah. So, Krugin, as you say that, actually holds his hand up and goes, that's actually already happened. So, Krugin, as you say that, actually holds his hand up and goes, that's actually already happened. So yeah, so finally there's been some justice with Granddal. Essentially what happened is, one of his beasts escaped and destroyed did a whole bunch

of damage to the rich area of town. The Iron Deep Guard found out and investigated and they finally busted him. He's been thrown in the dungeons. Mother Ship can't publicly defend them anymore because the monster is currently terrorizing Iron Deep. So that weapon cashier you guys found on that airship way back when they aren't going to Gromdol himself, they're going to people that can raid the dungeons to get Gromdol out because they can't do it the legal way anymore.

Ah, I see. So we can't actually link it to Mother Ship right now because all of the communication was anonymous. Right. Which branch of the bronze beards is going after a crumb doll? We don't know, that's the problem. We can't prove anything. Do we know?

Well, we know that Bronras like... She's a mother ship. We all know that, yeah, we all know Mother Ship's bad. We can't prove that they're the ones sending messages to people and trying to smuggle weapons. They did it out. Do we know when they're trying to break him out? They've tried multiple times.

I mean, you guys prevented it when you hijacked that airship and stopped the weapons cash from getting here. And then I went to the ground and warned them. Okay, so just backtracking. So how does this relate to the fact that when we went to the castle to talk to Jaina, we got sent here. They said that Jaina wasn't at the castle.

Yeah. Zuleen said it to me, which is, I'm gonna, personally confide in heart stuff. Actually, now I'm kind of like, it's kind of like being like, hey, my parents are out of town Do you want to come over to like some maybe she wants you to come over tonight?

Yeah, that's what it was that was the comeover text. Oh Back up there. I can't believe I've read so deeply into that I thought like oh Jane is missing, but it was really just come fuck me. Oh fuck and now we're all the way down here We got a hijack one of those teleporters As you say that again just kind of shakes his head and goes I'm kind of on a need to know basis with the advisor So I'm not entirely sure what's going on with Jane of bronze beard Okay, okay, you don't and you don't know where she is Not not at the moment then why would she have sent us to you?

You hear a Knock at the door in a specific Rhythm that seems to be some kind of secret code and Kruken looks at you guys and goes maybe she'll tell you herself, you know I and Krugin looks at you guys and goes, maybe she'll tell you herself, you know. Oh! I go hide in a corner and put my hands over my eyes

and give a hard one a thumbs up. Everyone, get a corner! Everyone hide. I'm not gonna hide. Yeah, fine. All right, good. It's all as hiding in Krugin's beard. Okay, I plank on a pew. Krugin goes over, cracks. All right, good. So all this hiding in Groot's beard. Okay. I plank on a pew.

Groot in goes over, cracks the door open, and you see advisors, Aline kind of just hovers in. She's got this long black robe with a high bronze collar that reaches behind her head, dark silver hair. She's about two feet tall, and her robe is long enough that it does look like she's kind of gliding as she moves along the floor.

Hard one leads against the wall really casual. I do that thing where you like swing your arm and snap your fingers. I'm in this wall. So I was going to use Speak With Frog and Toads to create a little frog orchestra to do some background music for this intro. Wawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawaw Very limp pan shake hard one kisses are in delicately very well. Please. I'm sure Please I'm sure food. I should say Your friends going to come out they are presumably hard of this We're busy setting the table

Kelly Kelly solve Kelly, Kelly's all. Oh, hi, sorry, we were just in the back. Just was investigating a shadow. Interesting. Yeah, I know you've never been. Shining my shoes. Yes, it's all barefoot. Lying will get you far in this town.

It is good that you are liars. She just looks at you deeply without breaking eye contact. Does she mean it? Go ahead and give me an insight check 21 yeah Thank you so much. I've been trying to figure out what lying means to my future and just knowing that someone sees some value in it I'm feeling it's fine. Go on. Go on Someone has to play dirty around here because mother ship is in the mud Hardwood laughs too hard at this. That was...

Um, it's really... What can you tell us about Mother Ship now that we're out of your shot of other folks in the castle? Well, Mother Ship has its hands around the throat of this city. There are many members of the High Council who are loyal to that company. The people like Mother Ship, because Mother Ship keeps them safe, it makes their life easier,

but they don't know the nefarious part of it, the control, the spying. Mother ship, west, as it has been called, but now it's sort of the main hub of Mother ship now that Esri is gone, has recently gotten an influx of a lot of money after the destruction of the ariot in Esri. The only reason another mothership air yacht has not been built yet is because of Jaina Bronzebeard and me and the council members who are on our side. Jaina Bronzebeard and her popularity as a hero of the people is one of the few things stopping this city

from becoming the Esri of a few months ago. Is the other area that hasn't been built yet? Is that the one over the frigid north? To my knowledge, there is nothing that has been built over the frigid north yet. I believe patina Glenn bottles plans for expansion aren't going swimmingly, seeing that she's gone and gotten herself killed. That being said, when we didn't allow for an area to be built here, they did find a workaround. If you've seen those transporters around the city, those are taking them to a massive subterranean vehicle, sort of a submarine

under the water, not far from iron deep but outside of the city boundaries technically. I see. Submarine. That being said, the city is not lost yet, and we can still do this the right way. I know that mothership is trying to fund a coup. They are trying to raid the castle and get out Gromdall Bronzebeard. Your friend here points to Krugin. Well, friend, Krugin. Krugin. You guys, she looks at you hard one and without missing a beat goes, you don't know him. Hard one.

Hard one shuts his eyes and checks his head. I just assume that she's nagging him. Right, we've been lying a lot, but that's the God's honest truth right there. You're lying now. What? And you're not as good as lying as you are. Looks at you, Kelly. Thank you so much.

It is so nice to be acknowledged for something that I've like a craft I've honed. Right now she's telling the truth. She's not even overacting. She's feeling all of these emotions. That's just real. Yeah, that's true. So, I'll put up his other eye membrane

so that the sweat doesn't get in his eyes. Yes. But I know him in the sense of, you know, when you know a man, like I know what kind of guy he, you know, when you know a man, like I know, yeah, what kind of guy he is. We have been monitoring the situation now that you've brought it to our attention. And Mother Ship has overstepped in its attempt

to save one of the bronze beards that is not well liked by the public at the moment. He is known for having released the beast that is currently tearing our city apart. And is that maybe a bit misunderstood? Anyways, I'm- You see, as you say that, you see the first kind of crack in her veneer

as she clocks that you're telling the truth. You gather for a split second that she looks surprised. He's understood. Yes, I mean, if you were hatched in a place far from home to people who wanted to use you, might you not be a bit confused? Scared, rather than angry maybe? Sometimes fear and anger come out the same way.

Yeah. Anyways, is this all why you wouldn't give us an audience with Jaina? That is beyond my control. Your friend and my boss, General Jaina Brown's beard, has made the honorable but inadvisable decision to go after the serpent herself. Oh, no. She and a team deployed secretly two days ago and we have not heard back since I have been

covering for her in the meantime, but these mothership ticks are difficult to flick off. Jane is pretty hard-nosed. She might not have a view of the serpent like you do. Like as you. Like, I do. Oh, we need to get, do you know what direction she went in? Down. Right, but I mean, it's a big down. Like, do you have a sense?

Well, she was supposed to be back yesterday, so I assume she's not wherever she was supposed to be or perhaps she swallowed by a giant serpent. So we gotta go and find Jaina, for sure. Yeah. Right. Well, going down into the mountain is impossible without protection against fire. I can supply you with equipment, but in exchange I need information.

Okay. Information on what? On Jaina's location? On mothership. Oh. My little bird. Okay. Tell me that Brondra, Bronzebeard, was attacked by three bandits in the mountain.

Not that it was you, of course, but perhaps you've heard something, what was she doing in the mountains? Well, my little serpent told me that she was going after the creator Frisnic Fisselbein. That plan got foiled with a real lethal flourish. Yeah, went out with a fizzle bang. Yeah. We were walking through, we kind of saw the aftermath. Yeah, we were just on a hike. Yeah.

Yeah. She nods to that, but gives you all a look like she knows your full shit. What does Frizznick fizzle bang, the creator, have that bronze beard wanted? Well, he had these kind of these mind control little leeches that he was working on. We saw many corpses that were infected. Mind control, that is troubling. Yeah.

Yeah. It was pretty powerful stuff, too. I think he had attempted to take over all of the other warlords. We saw several of them erotic factions have been taken over by these leeches. She nods. Well, it will take a day or so to get fireproof equipment to your specific dimensions. Since you have the night off, perhaps you could follow up with our friends at Mother Ship.

I want to know more about what they have planned, of course. So I imagine a trip to Ley Lantern is in store. Yes, getting into the headquarters is impossible on short notice, but they do hang out at Ley Lantern. So do you have any... Shouldn't be cut didn't Ley Lantern, for several reasons. Do you have any tips about how to cut that line? I just really hate waiting in lines. Yeah.

Well, mothership employees are more likely to be able to skip the line. However, if you pose as mothership employees, you're more likely to be cornered by a mothership employee and talk to about mothership business and exposed. Right. by a mothership employee and talk to about mothership business and exposed. What if three of the employees at Laylanton film is seriously ill? They were in dire need of three new service. You see, she shrugs and goes, if it is for the greater good, then I am for whatever nefarious means you have with which you think you can get this information.

I can help you. I have three spell beads for you here. These are alter selves. You can change your appearance. These should be good for about an hour, so don't tarry too long. She pulls out three purple beads and hands them to you guys. Wow. Do we insert these? I think you do. What do you mean by that? Insert them where? Do you want to put the bead in your ass?

Is that what you're saying? So I'll just like start looking. You've never used, you're wearing it. Lower your torso butt. Where did you work before this? Where did you work before you became a rebel? Your mother ship? Mother ship, okay.

So you used magic items before, right? And my roommate would do it for right, okay. There's never a beat in bones. So you used potions and whatnot in magic items. Have you ever had to shove one up your ass to use it? Have you? I don't understand. Maybe it's like a bronze spirit thing.

Maybe it's iron deep, hard one? This is an iron deep thing? I am 226 years old. I've never, literally never seen anything. All right, even mentioned that before. With that, I will make my leave. I will be by tomorrow with your equipment in exchange for what I expect to be a full report.

Okay. Oh, totally. Okay, yeah. Yeah. What's your vibe? I walk away. But it's whatever. It's casual.

It's cool. Hey, okay. I'm good. You're not. Hard one is tripping and sweating. I can't use Carly's hand. This is going great. Is there dancing at Lay Lantern?

There is dancing at Lay Lantern. Hard one shakes his shoulders and shimmies. Okay. Should fit right in. Hard one had a shakes and bobs. You see? She play a little bit of music. She turns to Kali and goes,

make sure he doesn't dance. Ha ha ha ha. I stop mid bird pipe blow. She turns to Callie and goes make sure he doesn't dance. I stop mid bird pipe blow. I choke on my bird pipe when she says that. Callie, what'd she say to you? And you see she walks out. Anything about all short foot. And I feel that she's working through something with an X or something like that. Maybe it's like bad timing.

Yeah. Starting to wonder. Why do I always fall for unavailable within? Listen, hard one, we all have our walls. You just got a cracker's down, you know? All right, let's talk it over a drink. Sounds good. Before we leave, can I ask Krugin?

Yeah. You were obviously kind of like had your finger on the pulse of mothership and Esri. Did you know that they were working on clones? You know, I can't say that I did. Okay. I never worked for mothership in fact.

Most of the things I was doing was undercutting mothership and smuggling in things that were supposed to go to them. Supplies and whatnot. So people weren't telling me what the secret projects were about. Yeah. Okay. Off of that, Krugin. Since you've been here, you haven't heard anything about any other frogs who were good at punching people that have surfaced or been stirring things up. Go ahead and give me an insight check. 15? You register a little bit of recognition on Krugin's face,

and he goes, yeah, but Saul, I'm sure it's nothing. There's definitely bully wugs here and I are deep for sure. Already, they're good at karate. Yeah. What about the butts? Excuse me. They have nice asses. Some of them are short.

Yeah. Definitely like genetic, I think. Okay. If that's all we're going by then. Have you seen any wanted posters for handsome frogs? I have you seen any wanted posters for handsome frogs? I have not seen any wanted posters for handsome frogs again. I know it's been you know It seems like it's been forever since we've seen each other, but it's only been a few weeks Still kind of like no sound at all between you

She can kind of seems like she can detect everything and she said that you don't know me. She's going through something with her ex right now. I think she's flashing out. Yeah, I was gonna say, I was getting like mind games with you. I think I's picked that up in just like a day right now. I just got the question about the beat and she was really rude about her answer.

Interesting, okay. All right, Interesting, okay. Alright, okay. Alright, so should we take these alter-self pills and pretend to be mothership employees? I guess we should maybe like deal their uniforms. I don't know if the spell would be able to cover our clothing. I mean, at play lantern, are they wearing layperson clothes? So not everyone at play lantern is a mother ship employee. Here's the kind of double-edged sword

with pretending you're a mother ship employee. Anyone who's going to get like, to bypass the line and stuff is going to be a real person that you don't know anything about would have like a whole backstory that you don't know. So that's gonna be a hard sell. If you pretend to just be a lower level employee, you're not necessarily going to get to bypass the line or anything like that. There still is going to be a level

of subterfuge. All the alt herself does, it's make sure that somebody like Bronrod doesn't see you guys and go, these are the guys that attacked me in the sand. That's not hard to ensure. That's what the altar self is going to do. What do we think about like trying to knock out like three waiters or people that would be able to get access while they're serving people drinks? I think we could do that, but I feel like these altar self pills kind of change the game.

Okay, so you know, maybe the move is to just go in as patrons and try to liquor some people up. I think so. Lou slips. Maybe we should be from somewhere that's not here and be traveling tourists. Tourists. And we talk about how rich we are. Oh, we're trying to invest in mothership.

Oh. We could just be fucking, because people think that rich people are stupid because they often are. And so the subterfuge is pretending that people are stupid because they often are. And so the sub-diffuse is pretending that we're stupider than we are. Right. Yeah. Let's just present ourselves as marks. Yeah.

Yeah, you just pretend you're like trust-fun kids. Yeah. That's all right. That's the trust-fun kids. Where should we be from? Should we be from different corners of the world, kind of like we're a multinational. Oh, like when meeting up. Yeah, oh, we're like on an exotic trip together.

Right. I'm a high elf from Hill Home. I can. You guys could also be, you could just kind of lean in the Cali's thing. Usually the best lies have a little bit of truth in them. You guys could be from the Feywild coming here to kind of part of the end of a tour of the play. That's true.

I could make myself look like my fucking a gleeces to Syrah. We could be on, we could be from the fair wild, we're on your hando. Yeah, that's great. We'll do that then. Perfect. I think we should like get within range of the line.

I don't know how long this line is gonna take. Yeah, that's true. So I think that like, pop them right before we get online. Great, that sounds true. So I think that like, pop them right before we get online. Great, that sounds good. Do I have any gold on my person? Because I might want to grease the palm of a balancer so we can skip that line.

Yeah, well we have 6,750 gold collectively. Great. Yeah. But let's not use it all because I don't really have the strongest concepts of what gold is. That's right. Yeah. All right, Cool. That's like a year salary. We'll see how fast the line is moving. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sweet. So you guys say you're good by circuiting for now. You guys take a cable car to the upper plate. It is quiet. No one else is on

the train with you. You hear just the rickety sounds of the police outside. It is nighttime, so there are more people commuting down and going home for the day than there are people going up. You can see the shining glow of distant lanterns above you with all the excitement near the entrance of the city. And behind you, you see the quiet torch light of the residential areas, and you reach the top torch light of the residential areas and you reach the top

and near the cable car station you do see Le Lantern, okay? Okay. So are we all going to pretend to be a Lajren or just people from the Feywild in general? Well, I think wherever you prefer. Yeah, I think all of us Feywild, Lajren, just rich Lajren in town to have a good time. Yeah, okay. It's trying a long time. Yep. Yep. Great. All right. You guys want to describe your appearances? Are you guys all spring Aladdin? Where you guys? What are you guys doing? I'm going to go endless summer Aladdin. Great. Yeah. Yeah. That feels pretty good.

Yeah. I feel like for yeah, we're just all all summer Aladdin. Yeah. I feel like, yeah, we're just all still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still still around him. Callie gets the same thing. Her snow kind of melts away. The frost goes away. And Callie, you look at yourself. I have like a cute fiery mullet. Yeah. You catch your reflection and you do look a little bit like your sister's sire.

I do, I see sire in there. And Saul, you kind of like are still on the shorter side for an eladrin, but kind of thin out and get a little bit taller and grow the long Aladdin years. Cool. Hard one has croquis, just so everybody is aware. What are croquis? There's the little necklace that goes around your sunglasses.

Oh my god, yeah. Yeah. Sweet, so you guys see this two story industrial building with way too many pipes, all brass and silver. There are flashes of purple, blue, and pink lights from inside and a thumping base, but the entrance is guarded by an automaton bouncer. This big, mothership robot with a screen for a face and some kind of scanner for a hand

that casts a cool blue light on desperate people trying to get into the club. You see one guy with like a popped collar and like a dress shirt with way too gelled of hair, tries to walk in and you see the bouncer gets in the way and goes scanning for entry. No coolness detected. Oh, and Trent denied. Okay, okay. All right, Kelly, is there any sort of spell

you can cast Omega's cool? I will press the digitation whispers as we walk up. Okay, oh, yeah, so you say, like the sounds of being like, oh, is that that, that can't be? Oh, that's good. I just need to get my heart rate down. I feel like that thing's standing for nerves.

Yes, I'm how a hard one. Yet, despite looking like a summer alladger and he is still hard one, so he's sweating. He's not used to being hot. Robot's not gonna take a breath. Yeah, goddamn it. I will summon an unseen servant to carry our bags. Oh, okay.

I'm a good boogie. Great. So you see, the outfits in line are pretty sick. Lots of cool cyberpunk fits and surcoats. So many straps, so much leather, mohawks and fish nets, and you do see since there's a robot literally scanning there, the line actually does move pretty quick and the robot is turning away a majority of the people. So as you guys go to a approach, here's what I'm going to say, you guys are going to be

doing a group performance check. Performance. Performance check. We're only gonna count the highest person, but anybody who rolls below a 15 adds minus two to it. Anyone who rolls a 10 or lower adds a minus five to it. Oh wow. So they kind of ruin it for the group. Have we, I'm assuming we've had a short rest.

You've had a short rest, short. I'll hand out two bardics. Nice, nice. You guys are for the final, so you know you get it. You'll feel in yourself. All I have to do is hold up a mirror. And seeing myself having an unseen servant carrying my bags, I'm starting to calm down a little bit.

Great. Sweet, so you guys get to the front of the line after a bunch of people are denied, but a few people are let in and you see the robot looks at you three. Ah, visiting from the Feywild. That's right. That's right. I'm getting married, so I'm fucking my way through the material play. Congratulations.

Oh, you're crazy. Oh, you're crazy. You caught, caught. You all seem bad ones. I hate you, like a lot of fun. material play oh you're crazy oh you're crazy You all seem like a lot of fun Let us go ahead and just confirm that you are fun absolutely do what you got to do my man You see cool lights casts over you as the Automatime begins scanning you guys for coolness. Oh, buy me a drink first Go ahead and give me a performance checks All right, all right 24 for me. I got a 17. Okay, that's roll one. Okay, so

He's going to give minus five to the role. Okay, so you get a 19. You see Saul oversells it a little bit. Do you know who my father is? I'm Armando's grand piano. My name is Armando Grand piano and I'm here to have a good time. Who lees on? Armando Grand piano.

I'm scanning memory to say that. I'm just wondering if you have any other questions. Are they known for having grand pianos in the archfay? Yes. You didn't ask your name, as if you were cool. We love music, so of course every single instrument has an archfay. You see the numbers going up and down. You see, it scans hard

one and it's up to like it's like 72% cool. Allys near 100% and we're in the red danger zone for salt. It's so outrageous that you would even question any of this. The robot is doing the calculations to see if the whole crew is worth letting in and finally looks at Calline goes, just do me a favor and keep an eye on your boy. I will. Thank you so much. I'm so sorry. This is like day seven and we're all fucked out. Coolness detected and shagranted. The robot moves to the side and lets you in. You guys enter the late lantern and breathe a sigh of relief. That almost went sideways instantly.

What were you thinking, Grand Piano? Oh! Can I just, I really want you to walk me through. I know that we have a short time with it's all to self, but I really want to spend some of it with you walking me through the reasoning for saying Grand Piano. It's a fancy thing. I thought we were trying to be fancy. Yes.

It's a big fancy piano. And it sounded like the name that like a rich person would have. I don't know. OK. So I think I'm going to go ahead and really lean into the summer thing by becoming like a succulent summer reladrian because that also seems like a little bit more frivolous and trendy.

Great. Yeah, you see a little like cacti and stuff come out of your hair. Yeah, I roll up my sleeves and I have 14 bracelets on each arm. Sick. I unbuttoned the last button on my butt down. Wow, you completely cracked. Holy open, shit. Fully open, sick. Okay, let's just sashay up to the bar area and be like,

so what is the drink of choice tonight? Great, yeah, so you guys come. I want to know what's good to hear. Wait, wait, wait, I'm getting this one. Come on. No. She's the bride of the, why doesn't it even matter, we are so rich.

You know what, I'm buying everyone, everyone here are drink right now. Yeah. Hey, who are you? Who are you? We can't start tonight, we saw. It last night. Yeah, you guys say that. You guys are in Leland, turn now.

And you see this sleek warehouse party space. On the first floor, there's a bar where impossibly hip looking automatons are serving overpriced cocktails. Yes. As you grab the cocktail menu, after having just offered a bunch of people, you see a bunch of people start

Piling over and putting their arms on your shoulder and stuff. You got this you got this. Let's do mix I ever I think Kaliope was a bartender at one point, so she knows one of the cheap shots they give out when everyone is like a surfer on ass. Okay, go ahead and roll me a D100. No. 82. Okay, we're gonna do five golds times 82.

Oh, Jesus. Oh, you see 82 people surround you. It gets really quiet right away, and you see as you're chanting shots, the robots at the bar are just taking it literally, and every time someone says shots, they go one shot, one shot. Okay, one shot.

Okay, honestly, pay us a pay yourself. I'm trying to have a good night, long night. Excellent, you see yeah, a bunch of people cheers and down them with you guys. I throw my shot over my shoulder because I need a clear head. I open my mouth behind, Kelly. Hard one takes two shots.

Hard one going to give me a constitution saving throw. 22. Okay, hard one, you're feeling good, you're just kind of partying, you feel good. All right. You guys are instantly hit with a bill. You see one of the robots prints out a receipt and you see that it is 300 gold for all the shots that you just bought for everyone.

You got that Armando. Absolutely, man, I'm the purse. They call me Armando the purse grand piano. A piano and a purse. Sweet, yeah, you guys settle up with the bartenders here and you see that there's this dance floor with like magic lanterns floating around cascading light. You see there's also exclusive booths

with private automaton service and an even more exclusive area. You see that there is an upstairs balcony that is roped off. There's a stairway leading up there that is guarded by another automaton bouncer. And near the bouncer, there is also a strange orb that looks like some kind of security device like it might be casting some kind of spell.

And you can see from down here, but it is kind of hard to make out. Actually, you know what, go ahead and give me perception checks. Mm, that's four. Okay. Dati 20. 23. Great.

Saul, and I'll say, yeah, hard one is taking these shots, even tries to go over and take other people's shots. You didn't finish this. Well, they're not looking because they're your shot. Yeah. I've got it. I paid for these. My first paid for these.

So from down here, you guys can see some of the clients You're a shot there. I got it. I paid for these. There's mine. My first paid for these. So from down here, you guys can see some of the clientele upstairs. There's basically like an upstairs balcony that overlooks the dance floor. And you do see that a lot of them are wearing mothership blue. And based on kind of the descriptions that you've gotten of the Bronzebeard family and stuff, you do see somebody up there in a blue sir coat kind of holding court that has a slicked back red ponytail

and like a very like well-kept red beard. And you would assume that this is one of the Bronze bronze beard kids. So this is probably mortis. Right. We know. Okay, we've seen Bron run now. Yeah. I want to find a person down here that has a cool hat. Cool.

Yeah, you go up to a guy that just has arguably cool hat. He's got just like a really small derby on. Hello. Hello, sir. Oh my man. That is the smallest derby I've ever seen. Thank you so much. You did hell, dude.

You're the one who bought the shots. I'm the purse. Nice. Nice. You guys wear small hats where you're from? We're trying to, my man. We are trying to get that. We are trying to get that.

Tiny Derby's, tiny Derby's, tiny Derby's. I have two bugs that are looking for a fresh look. Yeah, it's called the small haddry. Yeah, they got one in Hill home. Wow. Oh, yeah. Alright. Oh, nice. Oh, I've been meaning to go to that place. It sounds so quaint. Absolutely quaint as hell.

So anyway, like next question for you, because like you seem like you've got like the lay of the land. Right on, yeah. Like what's going on? Like is what's going on with like, is that mortise up there? Is that freaking mortise up there? Mortise Bronzebeard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's mortise Bronzebeard. That guy throws around gold. He is a high roller.

Only the only kind of like the coolest people get up there. Yeah, well. How hard does he potty? He party's pretty hard. Yeah. I'm saying like if someone had like exotic drugs from the Feywild, like would that get bad? He would do the drugs. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. He probably do the drugs. That's not. But he's also got like candlers and stuff that don't let him party that hard. Like one time I tried to run up to him and just give him a tiny hat and I was tackled. What? Yeah. I bet he would

love the tiny hat. I'm trying to touch the head. Oh, you tackled. I was tryingled. What? Yeah. I bet he would have loved it. I was an important person and tried to touch the head. Oh, you tackled? I was trying to put a dini hat on his head. And I said, I just want to help. So I just want to help. I hate you. I just want to help your style. Do you like kudos to you?

That is admirable behavior. Thanks. Thanks. You should do it again. OK, right now. OK, cool. Yeah, you see that guy tries to go run up his stairs. And it's bravely injured by the automaton.

That tackles him very hard into the wall. You see, he was this little halfling dude, he just crumples and is taken away by automaton bouncer's out of the car. Cool, yes, we shouldn't do that. Right, and you did do that. Right. And you did see that, I'll say that as this halfling dude with a tiny derby, even small for a halfling.

As you tried to run up the stairs, you saw that there was a flash from this orb down. Yeah, that's what I wanted to know. Can I do like an insight or perception if I could perhaps dispel it. Yeah, you can do, you know what, do in our connoisseur. Eight.

Even with an eight, you would think that the way a lot of these magical things work is that they essentially have a spell that they're like concentrating on and they cast it and then it recharges and they cast it and it recharges. If you were to cast a spell magic,

it would disarm it for a little bit. But with that role of a check, I'll say you don't know what spell that thing is casting. Kali, I'm wondering if you and I could team up and create some sort of mushroom that would look appetizing to mortise as like a party drug to take, and we could try and get that up to him to say that you want a party and hang

I'm like trying to think of how we could Pond off that but it feels like we only have a short time so sort of like a grassroots We have good drugs campaign might not work right right it's my concern. Yeah, and we don't have time for word of mouth We don't necessarily need to talk to Mortis at all. We just need to hear what he's saying. That's what I'm almost wondering if I could just cast to spell magic on this thing and then get within range To hear via detect thoughts. Could you also make us invisible? I'm like one of us could climb up and just kind of listen. I don't have invisibility. Oh, sorry. I Just assume that you know everything.

Yeah, I will say that you see a that there's an automaton there and it is scanning people like the automaton at the door and it looks like it's just checking for coolness but waiting for a higher threshold. Okay, so we could just try to get into that area so we can over here, we just need to be a little cooler. Alright, hard one puts on a sunglasses inside. I think yeah, like get the mushrooms out, right? Saul cubs his hands and clinches. And then yeah, well, let's just get, I mean do you you still have a bottle? I still have a bottle, can I remind you?

If we splash more money around, will that look cool to the automaton? I will say that the automaton clocked that you guys bought shots. Okay. I think if this is the way a regular club might work, they care about you being cool, but what will really get you in is if you're a big spender. Yeah. I'm. We could try to get a bottle or something. Oh. Can we also like press a digitation like we are influences from the Feywild. So like kind of like make it be like, oh, we want to come party here and like take pictures. Yeah. And then people in the Feywild will hear about the lanterns.

So you're a prestidigitationing that you're having fake conversations? I was just gonna prestigitation on my speaking soon. I don't know. I want analogous to the real world. Not analogous, right? Okay, great, great, love it. I can say that I run social media for my dad's bank, grand piano banks. Okay, you know what,

Saul's got the mushrooms, all prestiged agitation flashes of cameras. Oh, sweet. Like, I'm gonna talk to you, and I'm gonna talk to an automaton about a bottle of champagne. Yeah, great. Bottom of time. Oh, that's good.

Let's act like we're not even trying to get past, we can just be like, we're looking for the bottle service. Yeah, I wanna, yeah, I almost want to just ask for a bottle of champagne and just point up there. Like that's where we'll take it. Got it. Okay.

You're just going in like you expect to be seated up. So you're going to buy a bottle from the bar. Yeah. Great. I love that. So you go up. What kind of bubbly would you like? It's my best friend's hand, dude. Let's, let's splurge, but you know within reason

within reason so on the lower end maybe like the higher end excuse me is my friend's hand do I said within reason all right We have we have a vintage for 10,000 gold. I Advantage we have new it's not the price is just I don't like Vintag light novel team like flashy You give a big bottle that's cheap. Like a gerabouum, but they're not cheap. Not cheap, like a thousand. Within reason. We have something certainly in the 1,000 gold price range.

Fuck it, whatever. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds good. It's just like, farewell, everything's changing all the time. So newness is actually what's prize, not vintage. Great. You guys buy 1,000 gold bottle of champagne. Which is a fucking expensive bottle of champagne.

Ooh, it's Vuv Crico. Yeah, you see they make a real show of bringing it out. They have it like in a big bucket of ice and a special automaton comes out to bring it out to you and kind of presents it. And you see a bunch of mist come out from under the sparklers. No sparklers.

It's actually, it's also her birthday, so if you could sing as well. I'm prested to just attaining camera flashes and being like, guys, please, can we have a bit of privacy? Callie, go ahead and give me a perception or an insight check as you press the digitation camera flashes. A hard one, it's all you can do it as well. Because you guys are kind of watching the solco down.

Nine. Okay, you don't notice anything. 18, I got it, 10. Okay, Saul, as you're watching this, Calli is making camera flashes come up. You see people stand around you and are clapping and singing a song. Happy birthday.

First start singing a different, happy birthday song for Calli. And as the camera, fake camera flashes are going off, you notice that the flashes near the steps, near that orb, dispel, and you see a poof of magic where the flashes were going. Hi. So I think I need to try to dispel that, dispelling, or it seems like I can do detect thoughts.

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Belligerent in a cool way. Here's what I will say. The three of you guys going up to the automaton will be enough of a distraction that Callie can do a slight of hand with advantage on the little sphere. That's kind of like basically on the end of the railing at the bottom of the stairs. She can kind of very casually rest her hand there as the robot kind of eyes you guys up. So all I want to do is walk over holding my bottle of champagne in the air and kind of shaking it.

Like it's medium high rollers. How's it going? So, Kali, go ahead and give me a slight of hands check with advantage. Okay. I got two elevens which become two dirty twenty. Great. Yeah. So, Kali, yeah, you see as you put your hand near it, it does begin to, your hand begins to frost over. This does look like some kind of dispel magic slash tru-seeing thing to make sure people don't do exactly what you're doing, because there's a lot of people that wanna, you know, do subter fusion stuff

and get around mothership and everything. So, Cali, hand gets close to it, begins to frost over, but you dispel, you see that the thing temporarily turns off, begins charging again, but it does not. You see that the thing temporarily turns off, begins charging again, but it does not look like you can cast it for a moment. You see that the robot begins to scan you guys. Same rules as last time, this time you guys have to beat a 20.

Yeah, medium high rollers. We're about to be super high rollers, and I've had a mushroom. Great. And here is what we will also say, you guys have bought shots for everyone. So. I know a thousand gold.

And a thousand gold. And it wasn't about the money. We just like the vintage. Great. We don't care about the money. We're going to go ahead. We're going to do same rules as before, but you have to hit a 20, but we'll drop the lowest roll.

It won't subtract anything. I love it. This is performance. Performance. That is a 12 for me. 17 for Saul. That is only a 7 for me. I'll use my final luck point, K. It was not worth it. You guys are scanned. It comes up in the red and goes, nope, just medium, high rollers. You aren't cool enough for the exclusive upstairs area, sorry. Okay, well, can we go underneath it then? And all cast detect thoughts to hear what's happening above. Yeah, yeah. You know what, there's more dancing down here anyway.

What's it beyond a velvet rope? Let's go to like a matrix as you say that He's starts to go in the red and go lower you can give a shit I don't want to go up here like you really want to go off there turning purple now Let's get like a crazy party going on the dance floor shake up the champagne Spray it all over the dance floor like let's like get the DJ going nuts, and we're dancing, but I'm up there here in the thoughts. Right, all right, sweet. Since we only need you for that,

I am gonna go and try to break dance on the dance floor. Yeah, I need you guys to get the party going so that I can just be like. Right, yeah, Cali. You guys have bought enough that you guys get like a booth down here that's kind of directly underneath where you need to be. Kind of directly under where mortis is upstairs. And Callie, you cast detect thoughts.

And you do, you begin hearing kind of a confusing cacophony of the insecurity of hangers on. There is, you get the sense immediately that, you know what, go ahead and give me an inside check with advantage. It's two threes. Okay. So you're having kind of a hard time parsing out what you're hearing, but you do.

Oh, it's just hearing this insecurity takes me back to what I was trying to fucking be part of something stupid. You get a sense that there are a lot of hangers on up there trying to impress Mortis bronze beard. Like this is my chance, this is my chance, this is my chance. And you hear occasional thoughts of people being confident and thinking bad things about each other and things like that, if thinking they're better than people and things like that.

And like, this is a waste of time. These people are so annoying and things like that. You think that that could be mortise, that dude does seem, he seems legit full of himself from his surface thoughts without doing any kind of save. But you do hear a bunch of surface thoughts suddenly pop up all at once and you hear a bunch of people with adoring thoughts and being impressed by somebody and being excited about seeing somebody but you do hear one voice being like there's that sucker and

Right after that you see mortis leans over the banister and yells to an unseen person on the first floor and goes, swag Daniels, get up here you piece of shit! And blocking in the club, you see a middle-aged bully wug keeping it so tight and sophisticated with a blue circle and a black turtle neck. He had slicked back hair and Waltz's passed the automaton and hop into the exclusive area. You didn't even get scared. God, I've got to get into that beautiful head.

How did you grow hair? Could I have been growing hair? Yeah, salt. So right off the bat, you get the sense that, Saul, give me an insight check with advantage. OK. Wait, so if you just had been yourself, we would have gotten in fine.

There's a lesson in here somewhere. Ah! 21, 21. Saul, the fact that the other Saul Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha He is you. That is the name that he would come up with if he was trying to come up with a new persona. He's fucking faking it. Can I get into his head and see what he's thinking? Yeah, yeah. You get a surface thoughts of,

oh, it's my friend Mortis, great. Oh, good. Oh, finally, I belong. This is great. Oh, he's not undercover. He's just trying to fit in. Oh, fuck, he's just surface level hot like me. I think he's just trying to fit in with that name.

Okay, okay, no, this checks out. It's not dupping him. He's not dupping him at all. I don't know. It worked, he's getting up there. Can I probe deeper? He's going to make a wisdom saving throw. Okay.

Swag Daniels successfully passes the wisdom saving throw as you try to probe deeper. So you suddenly hear, you hear all of these voices, this cacophony of insecurity and bravado and everything. Suddenly hushes. Okay. First of all, hard one, I was going to ask you this later when we were like maybe had a moment of downtime, but uh, you met your dad, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. How did that go?

Do you have any advice? You know, go in with no expectations. Okay. Or low expectations, but uh, you have to work on your own shit. Your dad's not gonna solve it for you when you meet him. Okay. Right. Well, it seems like he's got his own shit, your dad's not gonna solve it for you when you meet him. Okay, right. Well, it seems like he's got his own shit clearly.

Yeah. But his shit is kind of my shit. The shit is all getting swirled around it seems, but you're right, you're right. No, I should just, I should just try and be the most of myself that I can be. I didn't learn anything until after I talked to my dad, so I'm not expecting you to know anything going into talking to yours. You can be as nervous as you want, but. I do feel pretty nervous, but I'm not expecting you to know anything going into talking to yours. You can be as nervous as you want but I Do feel pretty nervous, but I'm glad that y'all are here for this

Yeah, let's do so All right, by the way super hot Yeah, I will say with that insight check It's not even he's like bumpy was calling him your daddy self because you are, she were like made from his DNA, but he made the exact same fake name as you. He is you under different circumstances. This isn't even just your dad. This is your identical older twin.

Ha ha ha ha. This is freaky, really freaky. I mean like regardless of what he is to me, I wanna meet him and if he's up there, this is a huge, really freaky. I mean, like regardless of what he is to me, I wanna meet him, and if he's up there, this is a huge boon for us. I have to say, I bet you could get up there. It seems like you could just walk past these automatons if he was able to.

That's true, but he does look a little, he looks older and he does look like he has magically put some kind of hair in. You could also just like camp out near the bathroom and wait for him to wee. That's what I'm wondering is if we should wait for him to leave and then come back and be like, ah, that was a long shit, and then I'm out there. Should we? Interesting, interesting. Yeah, it's whatever you want.

Yeah, it's how you want to approach him. I think Saul wants to have this conversation, wants to connect with this person, but knows that if someone almost identical to him goes up, it might jeopardize everything. So I think Saul starts break dancing really sadly and waits for his opportunity. I have hardly spray you with champagne.

LAUGHTER Yeah, you guys keep the party going. Uh-huh. And you see Swag Daniels is kind of budding up with Mortis, who from here looks to be kind of talking him up, has his arm around Swag and is pointing to him and all of the kind of hangars on are watching along and kind of like laughing and everything. Okay, a new plan, I think it might be better just to wait until he's done and try and get the information out of him. Yeah, can do I have any idea of who the voice was that thought that sucker?

You would guess that that was mortis. Mortis fucking hates him. Did he say it about Saul? Yeah. And... and... and Swag was thinking... And Swag likes it. Mortis. Yeah. Oh, okay. That suck...

is using him somehow. Fuck. So not only can we get fucking information out of him... Swag is something that Mortis wants to know. He might be telling them whatever it is right now. Or Mortis is using him for some kind of him. Swag is something that Mordus wants to know. He might be telling them whatever it is right now. Or Mordus is using him for some kind of job. What if Swag is supposed to be the next one to try to get Gromdart out? I think we have to talk to Swag.

Yeah, he's getting used. He's getting played. You guys see, everything is nice and fun up on the second floor, but the vibe changes as you see, Bronra, Bronzbeard, marches in, still looking to shoveled from her run-in with you guys in the mountains. You can't hear anything over the music right now, but you see that she is yelling at her brother. She is flanked by a couple of these

pugilists in blue body suits and her main guard, this gif, this hippo chain-saw knight wearing a monocle who's still in his armor, who's still in all of his stuff, and you see she grabs her brother and pulls him to a different area of the bar. Like deeper into the second floor where you can no longer see them. Okay, okay. Is this our chance to talk to Swag? I think so. Can we try to do it with the automaton, but the DC will be higher. Can we just like drop the ult yourself at will? Yeah, okay. Try to get your dead's attention.

Yeah, flash your true self to him. Yeah, Saul is going to wall kick up to the second floor. Drop us disguise, say swag, it's swag. Come find me if you wanna know more and then he's just gonna step at the wind bolt. Hahaha. Uh, Saul, you jump up to the second floor. Swag looks shocked and horrified and looks at you for a second.

At first, like, who the fuck is this crazy person? Are they going to hurt me? And then a moment of realization and gives an even more frightened look. Ah! Ah! And leans back, but you see the automaton that was on the stairs,

begins charging a beam to begin shooting it up at you. Whoa, I'm gonna, as I jump down, what would the name of the church that Krugin is at be? You're that same for a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. You're good, just, if you run, we can find you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We haven't stopped dancing.

Right, we are still, we're still in disc, we're freaking out at this crazy frog guy. What the fuck is happening? Now what the fuck? Yeah, everything. There's like a hubbub, but this isn't the first time somebody's like done, you know, a face step or a misty step to try to get up to the second floor.

I must be fucked up. That egg. I'll say, if you know me, you'll find me. And then I'm going to back dive off of the balcony and just bolt. You jump down and bolt out the door faster than the robot can shoot at you. The robot does take off to chase after Saul,

but his business fastest him. So does leave its post and after stairs. I'm gonna definitely make a beeline, go up the stairs. Great, I dropped a thousand fucking gold out of the bottle, I should say. Great, Kali and hard one sneak up the stairs. Once the robot follows Saul and Saul, I'll say you quite easily are able to just disappear

into throngs of people outside in iron deep. You're too fast for these bouncer bots if you're just gonna run away. Bouncer bots. You guys do see that a bunch of the hangers on are going, what the fuck was that swag? And swag goes, I don't know, there's some crazy guy that was trying to, I don't know,

I guess try to get in with one of MotherShips hot new agents. That was crazy, I've been up here agents. Um. That was crazy. I've been up here the whole time. That was so crazy. Some people are so desperate. You join kind of the hangers on here. And also kind of back up Swag's lie. So they, you know, that even is a lie.

But I back up with everything. Cool. I'll say guys, give me a deception check with advantage. Kelly, you can just make it for the group. That's gonna be a 26. It's just sad. It's sad, really. It's sad.

Right, yeah, just hate, but drink it the tip, go. It's just like a velvet rope causes so much discord to people on one side of the day. Like they've never seen a rope. I know. I was born beyond the rope, baby. Me too. Absolutely.

My maternity ward was velvet-roved off. You see Swag is kind of just looking forward, but all of the other hangers on kind of buy into what you guys are selling here. But you do see that Swag is kind of just like smiling, giving you the dead eyed smile. Yeah, right, yeah. Do you have that paper that she gave you?

With the address? Yeah. I was gonna put it in my memory box, but did you want to give it to him? Maybe a good poem, it's him. Hard one takes one last sniff of it. I press in the t-shirt and the sea spray and smore. His eyes close and a euphoric hazease any e-poms it to swag.

Great. Swag takes the note, kind of looks confused, does kind of a double take on you, looks at where Saul just was on the banister. I just give him a knowing nod and then maybe a wink. Well, a hard one can only blink, but I just hope that's any blink. I just say, where's the after party? And look at him. Yeah, and I just come alone.

I actually, I got an early day tomorrow, so I might go for a quick walk. Um, he gets up and begins walking downstairs. But the hippo chainsaw night whisper something to Bronra who is speaking in hushed tones with mortis and him and the pugil we follow them then. I'm going to get more drinks. Does anyone need one? Put in your orders right now. I'm writing them down in my heads.

Yeah, I'll just have the most expensive thing. Yeah, me too. Great. I love it. We're on the same page. And then let's leave out the bathroom window. I kind of want to see if I can listen to anything that mortis and bond our side before I leave to. Great. Yeah. So if so I guess if you if you're gonna follow the hippo gith people yeah I can do that to make sure they don't

jump swag maybe Callie and I can just communicate on the where we can we can meet or something. Yeah that sounds good. Great. Solsters outside like looking at a shop window at his reflection being like like, hey, Saul, I'm you. It's great to finally meet you. What's going on? What's good? So you work for her mother's ship. That's another thing we have in common, I guess, sort of.

Wow, so like, what's, so like kettlebells or what? And Saul, are you going down, do you basically just jump on the cable and go right down to the chapel? I think my plan is basically to like, I like loop around the building to lose the bouncer bot. And then I'm like hiding, maybe on the second story of like an alley nearby, so I have like, vantage for whoever leaves.

Cool. You do see that swag exits the bar, okay. Closely followed by the GIF chains on night and two of these pugilists and swag looks around confused and then hands the note to the gift. And you see him gesturing back to the bar and explaining the situation to the gift. He goes, yeah I think patina must have sent them after me or something. You guys can protect me, right?

I thought their chapter of mothership was done. And you see the GIF without breaking eye contact from the little piece of paper says to Swag, We'll take care of this. We'll all go together. I'll put a force together and we'll make sure that these clones don't bother you So I'll just kind of um swallows deeply in his throat size and then continues watching

You see the gift puts his hand on Swag shoulder and goes don't get distracted on swag shoulder and goes, don't get distracted. You have an important mission tomorrow. You're going to be the hero that captures the serpent. And swag goes, yeah, yeah. But you guys will take care of this. They're not, they're not gonna come after me?

Of course not. I will escort you home myself. And the gift captain and Swag begin walking away. All right. That's Go. Okay. Yeah. I think hard one is currently at the bar with Bronra and Moe. Oh, right. Um, I get is there Are they still having an argument? They're talking. Okay. can I try to... Yeah, give me a perception check. 16. Okay.

You hear what sounds like the end of an argument before they look like more combative when you were further away from them, but I'll say you go kind of prop up a little bit closer to them and then you see they're just kind of talking to each other kind of more hushed but still like angry tones and you see brawndra unloading her frustrations on mortis about her failed mission to capture the creator and from the sounds of their conversation it seems like they were really relying on his mind

controlling tech in order to catch the serpent. Their goal seems to be to catch the serpent. And you know, based on your time in the mountains and having fought the creator's automaton's, that not only did the creator have these mind control leeches, he had another powerful weapon. If you recall, hard one, you were briefly imprisoned in the automaton's carapace. It got you in like a force cage, but you resisted the spell.

It was almost like similar tech to like a Poke Ball. Braun reconvays that they can't reproduce his inventions without him, but that they were able to salvage a force cage like mechanism from one of the automaton. So you see she, she pulls out this tiny device, this like force cage capsule thing, and she goes, we were still able to get what we needed out of one of his discarded automaton.

It's like this weird little box thing that you can trap someone in it. We don't really understand the tech, but we can figure that out later. If Swag can get near the thing, he should be able to trap it, controlling it can come later. Mortis nods and they go back to kind of speaking quietly,

but that's the crux of it. Okay, I have already paid for my drinks, so I'm writing a bill at the end. You've already paid for your drinks, I think. All right, finally. Great. I think, can I communicate to Haudenosa one? Can I like run back?

Yeah. After him and then, okay, hard one. So they know the location that forge for the Krugin is. I'm pretty low on spells. I've just got a handful left. Do I just go to Krugin and say, we got to fucking get out of here. There's too many people that are going to be going by that church, I think. You think we have to kill this gift? I think we got to make get out of here. There's too many people that are going to be going by that church, I think.

It's... You think we have to kill this GIF? I think we got to make this guy forget the address and I don't see another way. Okay, then I continue to tell. Great. You guys, tell swag and the GIF and these two pugilists go ahead and give me still checks. And I'll say you can do it with advantage because you're just tailing them. So you're not trying to

not be heard. 29. 21. Okay. 25. Okay. You guys follow it at distance. They board a cable car going down. Okay.

All right. We're going to board the same or a cable car, you know, behind that cable car going down. Okay. All right, we're gonna board the same, or a cable car behind that cable car. You board an adjacent cable car, you do see that the gift does go out of his way to be on an empty cable car. Okay. Okay. Okay, can we just fucking drop that cable car?

This swag isn't it. So So who's in the car? He's gonna have some monkey kinds of like protects himself from falling thing. Hey, I've I've seen I've seen cable car accidents here before If there's a way to drop that single cable car Can we keep an eye on swag? Yeah. Well listen I'll fall with him. I got to make sure this guy's dead. Ah yeah so can I kind of just want to I mean I've got Featherfall so I think if we'll all just jump on the top of this cable car we can try to just like...

I have a Featherfall rig myself. Herb and pulls off. That would be great, because I can save a spell. Amazing, can we just jump on top of this car? I'm gonna jump on top of the cable car as it is riding down. You're going to try to slash the cable and drop this one specific car. Yeah. Okay, before we do that, Callie, you feelin feel low? Am I feeling low? I'm feeling okay.

You can save it. You can save it. I need to help someone. I know I can trust. Okay. All right. I'm gonna clap my hands together and give you a spell slot CPR. God, I feel so fucking strong. How do you do it every time?ive so I went off fucking fight. Can you make me a spillcaster? I guess it's find out. I just punch you in the cheek. I think I can cast a spell now. Do you need more? I got all my stuff back on a short rest. No, that's I mean, that's great. Yeah, what does that do? Mechanically, how does that work? I believe we can rule it like this.

Basically, however many key points you spend, that's what level spell you can get back. So I'll just kind of like, gives you a dead eyed smile and blast you with four key points. Ha ha ha ha ha. Jesus fucking Christ. Ha ha ha ha. I need a fucking fight.

I feel like fighting. Fight, I want to fight, I want to fight. It's nice to have a clean target that may do not need to feel any remorse about. I was fucking go. I was fucking split this gif. Great split the gif. Go ahead and everybody roll initiative first off.

17. 15. 12. Okay. So you guys are hiding up there successfully. We're able to stealth. They do not detect you guys car begins to ride down. Callie, you are first to act. You see a pretty strong reinforced cable

that does seem to glitter with some kind of magical energy. Could I possibly look at like the energy. Could I possibly look at like the whatever attaches the cable card to the cable and reduce on that? Okay, so you mean essentially like the almost carabiner like rings that are hanging on to you would like to reduce them and make them small and hopefully snap not be able to hang on to all the weight? Yeah, that was my hope. Okay, here's what I'll say. These are not like big subway trains or anything. These are little like two car trains,

but I still will say that there's at least two of those pulley things. There's like sort of two points of contact. Mm-hmm. So if you do that, it may work, but it may still be attached to the cable. Okay. I feel like if even if it stays attached, at least one of them will be kind of fucked, right? Yeah, it'll be compromised. Yeah. So and I think that's, I'm going to do that then.

Okay. Yeah. Kelly, you cast, reduce on the ring on the back of this car as you guys are about halfway down towards the residential district on the lower plate the back of this car, as you guys are about halfway down towards the residential district on the lower plate. You see this ring, it gets really small, begins to shake, and then snaps. You see the back of the car swings out, and you hear screaming from inside. Ah!

But you do see through the window that swag Daniels sticks his tongue out and grabs onto the gift to try to hang on to him But the pugilists and him a crash into the side hang on guys are someone out there. That's not what I sound like, right? I don't sound like that And then let's just get this done that's Solstur. Okay, so you see it's creaking Let's turn. Thank you. Okay. So you see it's creaking, hanging on by this one ring as it is still automatically moving down.

All right, finish it off. With intense focus, I punch back flip and then butt pound to drop it all the way down, sick. Go ahead and make another attack roll. Okay. That is going to be a 28 and a 27. Bull hit. Yeah. I also have the poison damage.

Would you let me apply that? Yeah, I would say we'll count it as like corrosive acid damage in this moment. All right. That is an eight on the poison dice. So 16 damage total. Saul, you finished breaking this thing. This thing snaps. The ring breaks.

You see metal flies off. As you guys fall down you are in the middle between the upper plate and the lower plate so you guys fall past the lower plate through all these cables breaking all this stuff going down like hitting other cables and things shaking big deal you hear screams coming from up in the city on malfunctions you hear s sirens, you guys fall, pass the lower plate, fall, fall, fall, and crash down into the abyss like deep into like where the minds are. You guys hop off at the last second, you have featherfall,

you guys land safely, you see this cable car fucking quenches into the grounds, Swag is able to jump out of the cable car and lands next to it as it crashes. You see this thing, fucking crumbles into the ground in the dark here as Swag lands in a three-point stance. You see, he runs over to the destroyed car. Captain Maldeck, Captain Maldeck, no! You see he runs over to the destroyed car captain ball deck captain ball deck no and Runs in and starts trying to pull them out stop. They were using you

What are you doing? You see swag runs over and sees Saul first you'll never fucking take me again. What are you talking about? I don't want to take you I don't want anything to do with you I hate the fuck that you insist Uh, you see his fists inflate, but uh you act first, Kallie Okay, I am going to just say uh, I'm gonna put down my sword and be like we are not here from mother ship We are defected from mother ship mother ship is fine. It's patina Glenn bottle She's the one that's doing all of the experiment. It doesn't matter who's in charge. There's no going to do the same fucked up stuff.

No, they won't. I've been working for the bronze beards for a long time. And Saul, without even doing any kind of insight check because you know this guy, he's you. You know that you're very loyal. If three months ago, you saw Mother Ship Guard's attack. You'd be upset. He charges his fist up and gets ready to attack you, but you act first, Saul. Saul goes to punch him, goes to launch in, and then gets up close, sees the expression on his face, goes to launch in and then gets up close sees the expression on his face realizes it's a mirror of his own. His fist drop. All right, okay. I'm sorry.

I didn't realize it was like that. Mothership was a bad situation for us. We escaped from there. Mothership was a bad situation for me too, but this isn't mothership. This is bronze beard industries with mothership money. We're doing good things. Look, I don't think the people that you're working with, the people that you're friends with, have this city in their interest. This city is about to be destroyed by that serpent, and I'm going to find it, and I'm going to save it. Yeah, but wait, you want to save it? Save the city, yes!

Save, you want to save the city. Okay, okay, okay. Guys, give me persuasion check with disadvantage. That wasn't at 20, but with disadvantage it's going to be an 11. Okay, 12. I got a not 20 and a 13. Okay, he is going to go on the attack.

You see, his hands have already swelled up, but he begins gathering some kind of crazy necrotic energy, and then does a double palm strike into Saul's chest. Saul, go ahead and give me a constitution saving throw. Okay. Come on. That's another nap 20!

That is the second nap 20. Oh, you said he didn't like these new decks. These dyes are working for me. I had to wear them in. Charge of necrotic energy into your chest, Saul. You feel your heart stops beating for like three whole seconds and then it comes back. Yeah, you see the bioluminescence like pulses.

That's my heart comes back. I grab his fist, push him off and say, we wanted to talk, but you want to fight? That's fine with me. You started by fighting! You killed people! Okay, the reason that we killed them is because we gave you that fucking address, that address is fucking secret and you pass it off to the people. I- I- We're going to go kill more people! I can't trust you, which means I can't trust myself.

I know, I would ask that you! Why would I trust you? You don't want back, I You'll do this to my friends. They killed people too. Yeah. They killed a lot of people. Yeah. They tried to work with a guy who was really, really, really bad.

Look, I'm not going to fucking debate who is fucking right here, but I am going to say the second you handed that address to them, we had to kill them. I don't know what you're hiding or what kind of fucked up patina glenbottle shit. We don't know anything to do with that. You are bringing my fucking clones after me. What are the ones who fucking killed patina? Do you know how hard it was to get out from under mother shit to get away from patina? Yes! Yes!

More than anyone, yes! Yes! Yes! More than anyone, yes! I lived in the fucking mountains for 10 years, working for different fucking warlords. I came to Iron Deep to start a new fucking life, and so I started to work for Bronzebeard Industries. And now you're just back in the pocket of MotherShip, don't you see that? MotherShip isn't, this isn't MotherShip, this is the Bronzebeard.

Oh and by who the mother ship Oh, well interesting It is gone just answer me this if you catch the serpent what are you doing with it? Who are you giving it to? I'm giving it up To Ludwig bronze beer and what do you think he wants to do with it? You don't have it in the fucking minds Yeah, yeah The end of the angle we should walk right now Because that that one's gonna take like a whole lot of, yeah, yeah.

How about this angle? You don't like patina? You're fighting the two people that killed her. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check. 19. He looks truly confused now, and he just steps back What do you why the fuck? Okay, you killed patina Glenn bottle. What does that have to do with this?

Kind of everything that's like what sparked our whole journey Yeah The what you're doing with the bronze beards is just mothership using a fucking subduf used to get their hands on the fucking inner The ideas of mothership were to put lights in the cities and to have magical technologies and to make everything easier The problem was the human experimentation and stuff. Yeah, and that's still alive and strong. No, that's not a live and strong Not what I've seen, not in mother's ship. Not in with bronze beards. I know, I know, I know bronze beards.

Am I still in a ladder in a ladder? I look like a hard-hearted man. You look like a hard-hearted man. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Patina's just the tip of the iceberg. Mother's ship is overrun with patinas. The bronze beards, they're all patinas.

You're trading one patina for another. I understand why this is such a fucking shit situation, but please please please we will do anything to be able to just try to talk to you about this. If you don't trust us you can trust yourself at least try to. Why would I? The two of you have a really, really similar story. Twag, when I look at you, I feel... Hate, I'm not gonna lie. I thought I knew who I was, I thought I was figuring it out, and then I found out about you, I found out that I'm just some echo of you,

and it felt really bad. But I know that you've had the same experience. We've both been used. We're both tools. If you come with us, we can make this right without any oversight. We can do this because we know it's the right thing to do. We don't have to do it for the bronze beards. We don't have to do it for mothership. We just have to do it because we want to make a difference and we want to change how things are. That's all I've ever done, that's all I wanna do.

And if I can do it with people I know with love by my side, then I'll do it. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check with advantage. 16, I'll use my bardic. Great, nice. That's a dirty 20. Okay, he's receptive to that. He's kind of shaking his head, he looks confused, but it looks like this whole situation

in addition to be overwhelmed that like one of his clones is here, and he just fell out of the sky on a fucking train car and a bunch of people just died. In addition to all of that, you do know that he had to lie to himself to a certain extent, to be okay with the idea that he's working for mothership now. Like he could have, when he was working with the bronze beard industries, he could be like, yeah, it's another tech company, but it's different. But now that it's actual mothership, you do see that he has had these thoughts. So he's kind of just looking around, looks at the train, looks at you guys, and goes,

I need, I need some time to think about this. Hey, it's hard not to trust you, Saul, because unless they manipulated you somehow, then you're telling the truth. I understand though, what you're just like, different offshoots of each other. So, I don't know what I'm trying to say. I guess, I understand.

Alright. Swag, I trust your integrity. And so, I'm just going to say, what they're going to do with you tomorrow is they're going to give you Something that is a mind-control device So I know that you think that the only influence of mothership here has been Lighted streetwalks, but it's not they're dabbling in mind control. That's what the bronze beers are after I've never the bronze beards. I've been working for them for a long time. That was Patina.

She corrupted the... Promise me tomorrow when they give you a device to use on this servant that is mind control, that you will ask yourself if you trust the bronzebeards to continue down the path with this technology. Patina's not the first person to have the idea with this technology. Now I've got... well, you see, it looks at the train car full of dead people. There were supposed to send some people in there with me.

Again, I'm sorry about that, but I am telling you that these people are like, into weird fucking shit. Or into where you're shit. They're in my control. Okay, yeah. Doesn't matter how cute he looked in those little sunglasses and those little glasses. She had a little monocle. I know.

And now it's cracked. I know. I know. I'm sure that you all have good intentions, but I've moved on for my situation, so I won't tell anyone about that address you gave me and you just you stay the heck out of my way tomorrow. You see he begins jumping up and hopping to get back to the plates. Yeah I let him go. I look at Seoul. You think you would need time too? Yeah, Saul Let's him go

It says He doesn't know me that well if he thinks we're not following him tomorrow Yeah, we'll be there, but hopefully we've planted a seed of doubt. Yeah, that's I'll say Saul you know for sure you don't even have to do an inside check You know that he just told you the truth that he's not going to say where you guys are, but he is trying to focus up and stay loyal to the mission that he is on, but he has questions and he is confused. But for now, he disappears into the dark and that's what will under session. Oh. There you go. Oh!

Big day tomorrow. Big day tomorrow, guys. Big day tomorrow. Switch it up. Okay, okay. Wow. Good work, everybody. Don't trust anyone.

It's so funny crashing the whole car. I was like, on the one hand, it's a genius idea because it just gets rid of everyone, but the second thing, it's gonna be so hard to make a persuasion check out. They're just derailing a train and killing half his girlfriend. We're the good guys. Yeah, that was a horror movie for sweat.

I know. You just watched like a person with his face cute. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, wow. Oh, great name on swag. Yeah, really early rose for you. Oh, my god. To discuss that, we're good to remember.

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