The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Ethersea - Episode 33

Episode Date: March 31, 2022

The Menagerie: Part Three Devo, Zoox and Amber infiltrate the headquarters of the Crescendo, separately, and with varying levels of success. Devo goes undercover. Zoox boards a familiar vessel. Amber has an unexpected run-in with the wildlife.Additional music in this episode: "Beneath the Dark Clouds" by The Pangolins http://thepangolins.yolasite.com/; "PULL" by Nctrnm https://soundcloud.com/nctrnm; and “Late Jazz Piano" by Szegvari https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/. Happy MaxFunDrive! Right now is the best time to start a membership to support your favorite shows. Learn more and join at https://maximumfun.org/jointaz

Previously, on the Adventure Zone, Ethersea. So you all managed to recover the sprite that was being remote-controlled by the auctioneer. That is the working theory. Maybe he's a girl to know something about this auctioneer. I will tell you this, and you probably have known this, because anybody who has met Aloysius Supreme for more than like 45 seconds knows this, but he is very flatterable. We find ourselves.

We're needing to procure. some things that maybe might be hard to find, and we have heard mentions that perhaps the abyssal auction... You all were the turquoise team, aren't you? He pulls out a fairly thick black business card. It says crescendo. Yeah, so what you have picked up is that a dude named Matt, who's a delivery driver for a company called Faracore,

is in a ship that is engines, and Dev for a long time. Then let's help this guy out, I guess. Two things. One, it seems not dangerous. Two, I think I have C-seeing. Devo and Amber from aboard the Coriolis, you see this green light appear

and illuminate Zooks before this windshield that he was looking through shatters. And then he is pulled into this ship in the resulting implosion and then is gone. Zooks, you are sucked into this big shipping freighter. Just the vacuum effect when the windshield bursts apart, sucks you into the main cargo hold of this ship.

And it is a disorienting sort of journey on your way there. And as you make it into this gigantic cargo bay, the bulkhead seals shut behind you, sort of keeping the largest area of this ship from flooding. This room is a three-story tall, just cavernous chamber that is lined with metal walkways on all three levels. And it is, it is derelict. Like, no living thing has sort of tread these grounds in quite some time. There are cobwebs almost everywhere. Most of the freight that is on board here is rotted out crates for the most part.

The green whatever it was that you saw in the ship when you illuminated it with the fairy fire, you cannot see right now. It's very, very dark in here, naturally. Do you have any kind of like good vision, cool vision? What's it called? Cool vision, I think. Cool vision, yeah. Cool vision. I don't think you do.

Dope eyes. Well, he has nothing like that. Science isn't sure how he sees it all. Yeah. That's okay. He's got little seahorses in his eyes going. Go left. Go left here.

Don't worry about it, Zooks. We've got Cool Vision. I guess I could recast. Let me ask one question. Sure. It was not aggressively grabbing Zooks. It just broke the glass, broke the screen. Right.

Zooks got sucked in, but I thought he was being sucked into like some kind of control room or something. But it was not. I mean, you got sucked in like water slide style through the bridge. Like, you know, there was an on rush of water that pulled you basically into the cargo hold here. Okay. I think Zooks is going to use swarm. Okay. to generate a bunch of the tiny little fish with the phosphorescent.

Anglerfish? Bio luminescence. Okay. With the little lanterns on their hands, like anglerfish? The fisher. Yeah, wouldn't that be cute? I mean, those things are the scariest imaginable creatures. You can see those things?

They have, like, weird teeth and stuff. But no, yeah, super cute. I guess we could have done tiny, like, you know, tiny jellyfish, but we've done that. Yeah, jellyfish are played out on tests. We've done the whole jellyfish thing. Okay, so you are using these guys to... This is gathered swarm. Right.

Which I can do once turn. And Zooks, it just emits a whole... As many of these little tiny phosphorescent fish that he can generate... Okay. I have no idea what the limitations of that would be. Well, I mean, are you casting light? Is that... Is that the spell that you are casting?

Well, he doesn't have that spell. Oh, okay. Well... What's the description on Swarm? It's mostly, it can assist you after an attack to do like a little bit of damage or have some extra effect, but it also provides you with some spells like Mage Chan, Fairy Fire, Fire, and Web. So... Well, then I guess instead of that, then I'd just cast Fairy Firefire again. Okay.

But you said this was massive, right? Yeah, this is... So Fairy Fire Fire covers a 20-foot cube. This is much larger than that. This is a huge space. No, I don't think so. Oh, you know what? Actually, every creature in the area

when the spell is cast is also outlined in light if it fails at dexterity saving throw. So if you cast it on yourself, objects and affected creatures shed dim light in a 10-foot radius. So, yeah. But it only lasts for 60 seconds. Oh, does it?

Oh, okay. Well, okay, then I'll stop. Oh, me pulling out the minutia. Yeah, take that, Griffin. Dad was a competent understanding of his own spells. Right. On a game that we've sensibly been playing for about seven years now. Sure.

Take that. Now you look stupid. I think with this, you can do this move, right? And spend the spell slot on fairy fire and, you know, try to look around this chamber, but you will have 60 seconds of light essentially to do it unless you want to burn fairy fire again. So it's like not the worst play because you cannot see any air otherwise. Okay, I don't see anything else that he could do. Sure.

All right. You do this and your, what color is the light this time? I think he did green last time. Let's do violet. Okay, a nice violet. Let's do violet, violet. What are you doing? Are you just like trying to get the lay of the land in here?

Is there something specific that you are looking for? Well, he has absolutely no sense of direction, right? Right. I mean because, but he knows, okay, he turns around 180 degrees and tries to swim back to the way he came in. Okay, this room is not flooded. The bulkhead sealed behind you. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So you can see the bulkhead door. It is firmly shut. And as you try to like turn the hatch wheel to, you know, crack it back open, it does not. it does not give you get the impression that this is a sort of automated safety protocol to you know safety for the cargo of the ship and not necessarily the crew of the ship because has it since sort of flooding happening it's sealed off this chamber so the door that you were sucked in through does not does not open okay then turns back with his back to the door okay you are able to tell so you are on the lowest level of this sort of three level tall room. Give me a, give me an investigation or a perception check.

Probably perception. How about perception? Yeah, we'll do perception because you're not like specifically sort of dialing into something. That would be a measly ten. With a ten, you see just a flash of faint green light

of the spectral vision that you saw earlier. It is up a level and you saw it for just a second and then it was gone. With that, you also can tell that there is a cargo bay door on the floor of this room in front of you, maybe 30 feet away. It is also sealed shut from what you can see. Like a hatch? Yeah, yeah. You know, more of a loading dock situation than like a door. It looks like it lowers. down into like a ramp style thing. Devo and Amber, you just saw

Zooks get sucked into this ship. I guess you guys are still in contact because you all still have your shell phones. I'm assuming Devo, you got yours back from... Yeah, well, I mean, really at this point, I'm just going to say a few words, and then I think it's time to move on. We got a mission.

Yeah. Listen, I'm going to miss him. I know you are too, right? Yes, we have to keep our eyes on the surprise, you know? All right, let's move out. And we can swing back on our way. Hey, hey, Zooks, what the fuck happened, bud? I sluiced into this big ship.

Gross. It was really kind of, it was actually a little fun. And now I'm in a great big cargo hold and it's all locked up. What's it look like in there? What do you see? Well, I can't see anything because it's real dark. And I've already burnt two spell slots trying to see. So, okay, I have a question.

Sure. This is a question. What light source did he have when he was diving through the ocean? It's dark down there, too. We've described sort of the ocean as having its own sort of, um, narratively convenient luminous. Narratively convenient luminous. No, I mean, this is, it's, Justin, it's a magic water.

It's magic is hell, my dude. It's, it's enchanted water. So it has its own sort of, uh, ambient sort of light going on. I mean, also the light from the Coriolis, you guys were probably giving some light to Zooks as he swam up to the ship. But there are no windows or, you know,

portholes or anything in this cargo hold. It is a secure room. So come and get me, okay? Well, hold on just one second, okay? Ambio. Zeus can, like, breathe water and swim really well, Why don't we just blow a hole in the side of the ship and he swim out? That's real good.

I am worried a little bit about sort of collateral damage. I mean, at this point, there's something in there that pulled him in. Hey, Zooks? Hmm. Is it like cool in there or like bad? Make a dexterity saving throw, Zooks. Ooh. That's one of my good ones.

Well, we'll see. Hypothetically. No, not one of my good ones. That's an eight. A trip over the hatch. Whoa! No, actually, a crate from the second level flies down at you and lands on top of you, sort of shattering as it does, covering you in old, very, very smelly fish.

You take 13 points of bludgeoning damage. So, So on our end, we just hear like, well, it's a All right, all right, all right, blow him out. Yep. I would aim for like the end, not near the front where he might be. Yeah? You aim, you're better.

Let me pull up ship combat worksheet. Give me one second. And Zeus will be safely cushioned by all the fish laying on top of him. So don't worry about it. All right. hang in there. Okay. Oh my god, are these albacore?

God, these stink. Fire. Hey, are you like aft or starboard or port? I don't know. Are you in the front of the ship near the bridge or the back of the ship? All I can tell you, there's a hatch in the bottom. This means nothing. So maybe, well, but I mean, maybe that is access to the water.

All right, big boy. Hold tight. Hey, listen, you see light, you start swimming. Okay. And I'll fire the slug launcher into the side of the vessel. Okay. Go ahead and roll a D20 plus sensor, which is plus six for the Coriolis. Six?

Mm. Plus six. That's 12. That is a 12. Oh, man. People are going to get mad at me for doing this, but this ship is not moving. Right? It's not, this isn't necessarily a dog fight.

the ship is not active and moving. So, I mean, I guess you miss. The slug goes wide. How? I don't know, but the ship's not moving, so if you want to try again. I don't hit a stationary ship. Maybe we dent it? Yeah, it just sort of dinks off the side of it.

You think maybe if you got it closer to a seam. Zook, did you hear that? That dink? Yeah. There was a big dink. What was that? Yeah. Move a little. away from the dink.

That's a t-shirt. That was a war. I'm used, that was designed to use echo location. Good thinking. Good thinking. All right. Move away from the, move away from the, move away from the day.

Are you still under the fish? Get out of front. I'm getting out from under it now. Oh my God. That was a lot of fish. All right. I'm firing it again. Okay.

Thank Dodd. 18 plus six. Yeah, that's a, that is a good hit. Uh, I, I, I like this. You moved away from the dink. Zooks. So when a hole is punched in the side of this, you know, kind of brittle ship that has been down here for quite some time, there is a nasty sort of decompression that happens. And a lot of the cargo gets sort of thrown against the side of the ship. And then all of a sudden this chamber

fills up with water in the blink of an eye, which doesn't bother you so much because you are of the water. You now have an exit, but stand floating, rather, between you and it is that ghostly shape that is just sort of looking at you between you and the hole and waiting for you to make a move. Okay. A whole bunch of eyes. Whole bunch of... Yeah.

I think he's going to swim right at it. Okay. Bold. Extending his big old knife in front of him. Okay. and see what happens. I love this, done. I love this, done.

I love it. Step one of like an eight-step plan. And step two is see what happens. Yep, that's what I'm just going to swim right at it. Yeah. Make, okay, make an attack roll. If you're, like, if you're trying to go at him with a knife, I think that's going to be an attack roll.

Okay. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. That's what happens. Shit.

Okay. That's what happens. All right. Roll damage, double, but with double the dice. So for your dagger, I guess, that would be 2D4 plus three. Okay. Well, I won't too many. So that's four.

Plus three. Yeah, seven. Seven. Okay. Your knife goes clean through it, and it's like the image distorts for a second. but you get the impression that you did not, you know, even with a Nat 20, you did not sort of take a chunk out of this thing, a big chunk out of this thing, rather, with your, your, you know, non-magical knife. I need you to make a charisma saving throw. You fall in love.

It was the one thing you didn't plan on. That would be 13. On a saving throw, Ty goes to the runner, I think. Yep. Was that a good o man or a bad o man? I mean, it's a good oh man for dad. It's a good o man for dad. This thing, when you float through it, sort of with your mid-dash attack, with your knife out in front of you, the image flickers for a second.

And when it comes back, it is trying to sort of overlay its form on top of yours. And when it does, you feel it trying to take control of your body. and you sent surprise from it. You sent surprise specifically that you were not already inhabited by an Inar spirit of some kind. And then just as soon as that feeling passes, the ghost moves away from your body and then looks around and vanishes. That was a clutch, I will say, a clutch DC-13 charisma saving three. which was exactly what you needed to roll to not be possessed. That's all I have vis-a-vis the ghost.

What do you do? Sukes. I will say it is brighter in this chamber now because the water is, you know, has now flooded into it. He makes investigation check or a perception check. Okay. Perception? Yeah, perception's fine. That's a 10.

Yeah, sorry. With a 10, you know, even though it is bright. writer in here, you just sort of see a derelict cargo hold, you know, in a clearer picture now. Full of rotten old gold. Full of rotten treasures. Just old candelabras and stinky diamonds. There is no sign of the ghost anymore. You busted him.

Okay. This is one of those situations where I want to stay and investigate. Sure. but I don't think Zooks does. Right. This is, can I just interject? This is really fun because we started this mission and it was like, a ghost stole

the animals. And it's like, that wasn't a ghost. And then like an episode later, Griffin's like, it's a ghost. I literally, when you, I forget what the number is that you rolled for the random encounter, but when I saw ghost ship encounter, I was like, ah, fuck. Another ghost thing?

Oh, man. It's a thematic episode, we've got here. All right. He now has access because the chamber's flooded, right, right, right. But he can't see anything. No, there's light in the water now. You are having an easier time. You do not have a light issue anymore. Then I think he needs, he, he would look around. This mystery of the ghost. I mean, if you can give me another skill check that is not perception, I will, I will accept that. But you're, you know, some, I think have different feelings about this of just like, well, you know, I'm just going to keep looking around until I find it and keep rolling perception over and over again. No, I don't want to do that.

Yeah. Because I think of it as like, Zooks did look around for a long time and that was the perception. Or, you know, maybe he didn't look around for a long time because it was just perception. I think he wants to go back to the Coriolos. He, at least to run things by with the other two. Okay. That's fine. You zip on back up.

Trying to be a team player. Sure. You zip back up through. the moon pool that you usually sort of go in and out of the ship from, and you are back, you're back aboard. Devo is there to meet him, ready to heal, should it be required? I could use about 13 points. Okay, so what was it?

Was it like one of those weird, like bleached coral? Was it, I don't know, some just like, you know, robber, pirate? It was a big ghost with a bunch of arms and a bunch of faces. Wait, when you say a big ghost, do you mean like a hard light, like hologram? I don't, I swam right through it. I swam right through it. And it was really creepy. And I had the weirdest feeling it was trying to, you know, communicate with me.

Devo is giving you a back rub, by the way, and you heal for 10 points of damage. Um, you're just rubbing, you're rubbing, you're rubbing core? I don't know. I don't know what it looks. Was it just a touch, I guess? I'll just touch your face in a weird way. Like, ooh, and I just like rub my fingers gently down your face. What are you doing?

Oh, no, this is not necessary, but it's fun. Egg cracking on your head. Spires logging. Hat, scratch, a dog bite. Yes. Okay. Cool breeze. Great, please.

You heal for 10 points of. damage. Thank you. Listen. Yes, the ways of the church of the series and powerful. With all the multiple arms, maybe Amber knows something about this, you know, because it kind of looked, you know, like when arms spring on the side of her and there's a bunch of arms.

My tie recommends that you be careful how you phrase this, so it isn't like, this was weird and you're weird, so you probably know. Oh, okay. That's just a tip for me to you. I don't seem crass, but was there valuable stuff in there? Was it, or is this like a mystery? A mezzar, I mean. If you're like, I don't know, if you were a picker, maybe there were a bunch of boxes and a bunch of crates,

it was a great big hole. There was a whole bunch of stuff in there. I just couldn't see it real well. Oh, so we need light. and maybe some sage to burn, and we go back down there. I think it's full of water now. I don't know if we burned. Yeah, we just sunk that shit. Let's go.

It was already sunk. To be fair, it was sitting on the floor of the ocean. It wasn't going anywhere. Hey, I have an idea. Somebody call Matt and asking him what the hell that was. That was Matt. Do you think? Yes, Zeus.

It was a ruse. Yeah, you get snowed a little bit. I mean, we all did, but only one of us went down there. Sorry about that. Actually, I thought it's weird that you went down there. Yes. I didn't want to say something. I thought there might be gold bars.

Yes. And, you know, use breeze water, and I think you have fish that live in you or something. You know, it all as well and ends well, you know. Yeah. Well, another good adventure. Let's head back. No, wait, what? What are we doing?

We should try blowing up our adventures before we wasted a bunch of time on the future. Yes, this is we blew up. Let's see, we blew up Camberia. We blew up as a shit. Yeah, just start shooting stuff first. Yeah, this is way better. Let's get the hell out of here. Let's go shoot Founders' Weight.

Just see what happens. Wrap it up. We're leaving a bunch of ships behind. Let's go. Okay, but did you want to go back there, Zooks? I don't know. I was kind of curious about the. I mean, we're looking for a ghost.

That was a ghost. I mean, come on. What are the odds? It was just some one and a hundred roles. A different ghost. Just to make sure that we are all on the same page, six, we're not looking for a ghost. We figured that out a while back.

And you know what? It's like I always say, sometimes a ghost is just a ghost. I'd say we leave then. All right, let's go. Yeah. All right. You all zip away from the incredible.

Very satisfying, though. The incredible treasures of this ship. Okay, Griffin, between you and me. Yeah. What was in there? Let's save it for a... A titaz. Yeah, T-Taz.

Was it full of cool jackets? Don't tell them. Oh, I don't want to save this. How many jackets do you guys fucking need? You're drowning in jackets. You're lousy. Do you mean in real life or the game? Both.

I have a special area of my closet that's like just jackets. Well, that must be. be really nice. It is nice. It is, Griffin. And some of them are just for fashion. Right, okay.

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It looks like a very fancy, like, taco. Like it is an arch, like a semicircle, with these like wings of bright wood and silver kind of coming up off of it. And they are, these two wings, there is a layer of what looks to be like really thick glass kind of of bridging them. And there's a big iron-shaped structure, iron like the thing you used to make clothes flat,

you know, an iron, towards sort of the front end of this vessel. And you can see these massive turbine engines sitting at the rear of the ship. This whole thing is just like fancy, shining wood and chrome. We shoot it. No, wait. Hold on. Sorry. No, no, no.

Maybe you want to. As you get close, you see that, like, that big iron-shaped part of the ship has a dock sort of underneath it that you can move up to. And as you get close to this installation, your tone wheel lights up. Okay, wait, stop. Before we answer, let's take a lesson from our encounter with Aloisius Supreme, right? We don't say any, we don't volunteer. information. We answer the questions that are asked. Sometimes we lie, right? So we are going to say that we are on a mission from a rich benefactor to purchase a one-of-a-kind item. Right? We are not

going to say, we're here to recover the stolen animals, you monsters. Okay? Yep. Zook, I'm looking at you, Zooks. I said, yeah. Okay, because sometimes you are very honest. Uh, and I This might not be so time for this. You, I'll have, I've learned my lesson. Okay. I went down there and almost got killed by a great big thing full of fish. Yes, because you were honest. You got to attack?

Because I was honest. Yes. I went down there. Actually, you guys attacked. I was just, you know. Amber? Scoping. Yeah.

You're going to keep a lid on the secrets, right? I was trying to and you start talking to me. I'm there. Okay. Just nodding, nodding and maybe like the occasional chin stroke. Okay, yeah. Oh, this is good. It's very mysterious and powerful.

Okay. Devo answers the tone wheel. God almighty, that took so long. Sorry, it was in my other pair of pants. Come in. What is your, identify yourself. No. This is the choreolus.

Good job. We are here. We are looking for some. Uh, let's say some very special, uh, vintage wink. They should blow us out of the fucking sing. Should turn us into squid housing right here and now. Uh, typically, uh, permission to dock aboard this ship is by invitation only. Um, so you'll, you'll have to come back another time after you've secured an invitation. We actually, we have a card that was given to our boss.

The one who sent us here? Is this the invitation? Sorry, this is our first week on the job, and we're just really worried about getting fired. Who is your boss? I don't know if we're allowed to say. Are we going to get in trouble? That was actually a test, and you passed.

Great job. Okay, I'll open up the dock for you. Please wait aboard your ship. Thank you. And what was your name? That's another test. That was a test, yes. This was a test.

past. Excellent. All right. Well, see you aboard. Please don't start any trouble. Of course, yes. Of course.

And the gate sort of covering up the docking bay opens, permitting your ship to enter. Let's enter. Yeah, we do it. So in very short order, the Coriolis surfaces inside of this installation. And when you sort of get the all. clear to open up the airlock to the world outside, you see that the inside of this place matches the outside, like, to a T. Like, it is, it is not the sort of, like, marble, ancient vibe that a lot of the stuff, the fancy, fancy stuff in the conservatory has. Like, this,

there is a sort of warmth to this, like a really fancy, uh, mountain resort, like, with with just wood and there's a fire. A chalet, you would say, Griffin? A chalet, yeah. Ooh. And there's like a bar that you can see, like on the far side of this loading dock, which is not like its own changer. I was about to say deja vu, but of fucking course,

because it's the same guy who ran the abyssal auction. Yeah. And only this time you open up the door and you see a woman. And she is wearing a red pantsuit. when you look around like there's actually a lot of people wearing uh the same sort of red suit yeah uh around this room uh all sort of doing busy work uh she has a clipboard and she says okay uh coriolis uh this part's not a test i do need your names before you come aboard just so i can check you in all right now white all right hold i want to run um okay because i feel like someone's saying this isn't a test is like like, oldest of six plus three. The roles haven't been very, except for Zuc's Nat 20 dagger attack on a ghost. They haven't been particularly great.

We come through what we need to. But yeah, it's a six plus three, nine. You don't know. You're pretty sure this is that she is telling the truth and this is not a test. All right. My name is Henri. And this is Grie. and this is

Suz Those are some wild names You all recognize that, right? Henri? Onri is a wild name? They're regular. I guess you're right. Yeah, you know what?

The ocean's real big, isn't it? Yes. It takes all kinds. We don't come to, what's your name? Well, that's weird. And I think you'll discover for us, Immeminity is a privilege.

Sure, sure. So what's your name. Come on. And she writes some stuff down in her, in her clipboard. And she looks back at you and she says, okay, weapons on the ship, leave them. We will keep everything secure here while you're aboard the facility. Of course. If you want, you can go and wait in the parlor. That doesn't count knives, I'm assuming. Of course not. Yeah. Of course you keep your night. No, yeah, leave your knives on the ship.

How big a knife? Well, we always have a knaft. We have a couple like fishing, you know, skinning, pairing, deboning. Would you, and if you stabbed a person with it, would they die from that? It depends on where you stab them, really. Yeah, it's probably best to leave them on the ship then. Okay, but you could say this about pencils and pens and drumsticks and... Yeah, yeah, I could say.

Letter openers? Okay, how about a letter opener? Leave all your, sure, leave all your drumsticks. sticks and letter openers on the ship too. Drummy? No. This is my lucky drumstick. I can't leave drumming on the ship. I don't know if you can tell from the vibe in here, but we're all like really busy. I think if TAS has a unifying theme, I've had a lot of thoughts about it.

Yeah? And if Taz, the Tasmosphere has a unifying theme, it is bullying people in administrative position. This is true. It is like, we can't. fucking resist. A normal person is just like, I'm just trying to get by. Yeah.

You know what I mean? And like we can't, and it doesn't matter. I could be like a dragon that is a sleeping dragon that can transform into a herm, it doesn't fucking matter. If somebody's like, just put your shoes there and be like, how about you stuff from up your butt, bozinger? The simpler and more straightforward, the request, the heart. Like if someone was like, you need to drink this bubbling gold in order to, we have,

like, yeah, let's do it. But then they're like, just sign here and we're like, well, this is the next 15 minutes. Yeah. I will say that one time this season, Zooks did start sort of a socialist uprising with a worker at the auction. So you all have a mixed track record at best. Yeah, we leave our web. We will leave our weapons. Do you not worry about this.

We were waiting the parlor. You go on about your job, worker. You're doing such a good job. You deserve a raise. Have you? Wait, I can't leave my weapons behind. Your fists are your weapons. You're going to say like your fists and strong arms?

Amber flexes. Yeah. This is Puncho and this is Stephanie. Did you say Stiffney? Stephanie. Oh, Stephanie. Oh, Stephanie. Stephanie, Rebecca Jr.

Uh-huh. And Hummingbird. Okay. Did you name Puncho first or last? I started with Puncho. Okay. ran out pretty quick. I'm actually going to walk with you guys to the parlor

because at this point, I feel like if I left you to your own devices here aboard this facility, you would destroy it. But we'd probably get lost. We are not very good with directions. We don't know where the parlor is. Yeah. So I'm going to walk you there.

Have you heard of a map? If you have one of these, it's called a map, and it will show you how to get to the. parlor. Okay. And she goes over to a desk, a small sort of information desk, and

picks up a piece of paper and jot something on it and then hands it to you. And it's just a note that it says just fucking follow me. And she walks you towards a small door on the right side of the room. Okay. The diva goes in.

I like her. I like her a lot. It is. He handled that really well. The room that she leads you to to is a really chill situation. Hmm. It is, you know, an even smaller, even cozier sort of fancy place. This is like a fancy person's library or office. There's leather furniture.

There's an actual, honest to God, bear skin rug on the floor in front of a... That's hard to get under the ocean. A big roaring fireplace. It sure is. Is it a water bear? And there is, you know, a series of couches in here all around. There's a table with a, you know, what's it called? Decanter.

Is that what it is? It depends on what you mean. It's like a bottle with brown juice in it. Yeah, it's a canter. You know how fancy people always have, like, a fireplace going, but then they also have, like, a fancy bottle with brown juice in it? And you don't know what's in the brown juice bottle, and then you'll be, like, in their place. And they'll be like, do you want some?

And I'll be like, I don't know what that brown juice is. I always thought it was weird how they called it brown juice. It is nice and cozy in here. She says, okay, wait here. I will go and find. So you're looking for wine, you said? Yes, wink. Okay.

Is he saying? wink. Both. Okay. She says, okay, I'll go and I'll get a, we have a person for that. And she shuts the door behind her. And now you all are alone in this very fancy study. That was the word I was looking for, study.

Study. Of course. Study. When I was talking about a fancy person's library or office, you understand where study is sort of the middle ground between those two. Okay. You know they call them a Somalié? She's already gone.

I'm not talking They call, wait, sorry, they call what's a Somalia? Like, if you know a lot about wine, you can't just be like a wine expert. They even have to come up with something fancy for that. So it's a Somolier.

Oh, I like this. Now, Griffin, are we alone in this parlor? You are, yeah. Okay. So, now what do you guys think we should do? Well, I think perhaps you should praise us because not once did we say the name of anybody. Yes, a very good job not fucking up. I do really, I'm proud of both of you very, very much.

What's our plan here? What's our plan of action? Okay. I say we search the room. Yeah, absolutely. Well, let's think about objectives, right? Because what we need to do is, I guess, like, level one would be to find the auctioneer. but the main thing is like returning the animals, right?

So, Zooks is pretty good with, like, nature and animals and shit. So having Zooks do some, like, tracking stuff, see if you hear animals or smell animals or... We have a limited time window where we are at unattended right now, right? Yeah, we need to find a way out, like... I'm going to do... I'm not good at this, but why not?

I'm going to do an investigation of this room to look for any texts about... animals like animal books. I think we all three investigate. I'm looking for a way to sneak Zooks out. Way to sneak Zooks out of this room? Yeah. Okay.

Okay. So Amber, why don't you roll an investigation check since you're looking for a specific thing? 13. Okay. With a 13, you you focus sort of your search around the desk if that is what you are looking.

for. And you do not find any kind of like, you know, um, flyer saying, hey, everyone, we're going to rob the menagerie. Let's go, baby. God, it would have been so easy if we had. Uh, you do find, huh, let me think. I was looking specifically for texts about the care and feeding of animals. Oh, you don't find anything like that. Uh, uh, so maybe you can intuit from that, that whatever they're doing with these guys here, their care and their diet is not necessarily of the utmost importance.

Let me do another one for the cooking and preparation of seven. Even worse. Ever's like, all right, I know that I'm an adult woman. Someone please explain to me again, the Dewey Dessable sister. Don't look at me. You, yeah, you're not finding any sort of, books about animal husbandry that you could, you know, get a lead from. What about animal wifery?

It was a long shot. Okay. I'm going to do an investigation check looking for, I don't know, like ventilation or anything. Okay. Roll that. Oh, it hovered on 20. It's an 11. Okay.

Yeah, within 11, you don't find a, I mean, there are vents in this room. But they are, you are not sure if a person could fit in them. It would be an awfully tight squeeze if you did. It's certainly not the Zooks. Yeah. Okay. So we could go with Plan B, which is, it's, Zeus has to go to the bathroom, right?

As they come back, we say, yes, we're ready to go. To you, hey, real quick, I'm not going to get weird. Do you, bathroom? I didn't. Yes, I have a hole for that. I didn't mean literary. I didn't mean literary bathroom. I meant like maybe he needs to go soak in water and see if they have a place with this or.

Oh, that's good. That's good. That's good. I need to dunk. You got the dunk and we say, yes, you need a dunk. I open the door of the room. Hey, someone please. My friend's dried out.

The woman walks back up to you. What is the matter? Please don't yell. My friend, the Bronner, he's tried out. You got to help you. He needs a dunk. Look. Look at him.

He's chapped in all sorts of weird places. Okay, fine. You come with me and you two stay put, okay? Okay, but he gets nervous. Okay, so tell him it's okay, and give him his space. Okay, yeah. He gets a little shy sometimes when he has to dunk. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I know what you mean. And if he gets nervous, say you'll give him a few M&Ms if he does a good job. What is the arrangement here with you? Is this a field trip that you all... Hey, Gubby, can you please just soak my friend? Okay, let's go. And she walks you back toward the dock. And you get, you know, pretty much right next to the choreolus.

And she just gestures to the water that it is floating in. She's like, just hop in, I guess. And how long does this usually take? It depends on it. And I'm pretty dry. So this, I don't know, 10 minutes, 15? All right. Okay.

Well. Give me 15 because I've never been here before. Warren, this is kind of, you know, I am, I have very shy habits. Got it. Okay. And she walks back to the information. Wait, while they're over there, while she's over there, I want to stick my head out and look the opposite way down, like the corridor or away or whatever. Are there, like, guards, are there people, like, watching, or is it just people milling around?

Make a perception check for this one. Because there's lots of people milling around. There's lots of people wearing those same. A 10 plus three. Jesus Christ, guys. The sidebar on this round is a rough one, a rough ride. Yeah, you don't notice any guards, but also, like, there's a lot of people here. Maybe some of them are.

You don't see any weapons that they are carrying if they are indeed carrying weapons. Amber, when she gets back, say, I went looking for her and Zooks, and I got lost. And Devo changes his glamour weave to match the red of this. Jump suits. Oh, okay. And heads out the door. So in, what is the glamour weave specifically say, right? Is it a, I thought it just like changed colors and shit.

When? Well, one, when you make a charisma performance or charisma persuasion check while wearing an on-income, which I do, you add a D4. Okay. Let's see. I mean, I can't change the look of it. I can change the color of it, but I'm just changing the color to match the red. Okay, fine.

I'm just trying to blend in. Cool. All right. So it's not like a TARDIS chameleon. No, no, no. I'm just going to, I'm trying to move in the sea of red without standing out. Oh, wait, one more thing. I want to look around.

Is there a clipboard anywhere in this room? Because that's like, if you have a clipboard, no one fucking questions you. There is one on the information desk. I grab it. I mean, the woman is sitting right there. I thought she was over at the pool with Zooks. Okay, I guess if you want to try and time that out very, very specifically, why don't you make a slide of hand check for me? Just see if anybody in this room notices.

12 plus 2, 14. Okay. I'll be benevolent here. I will say that that is adequate for you to pick up a clipboard without being detected. Thank you. And sure, you kind of could pass as an employee here. I'll be at one in a, you know, not form. normally acknowledged outfit.

But he's walked with purpose, right? And that's the best accessory you can have. Sure, sure. Okay, so Zooks and Devo, you have your own sort of stuff going on. Amber, you are still in the study. Is there anything that you are doing while these two are doing their own sort of shenanigans? I guess I'm just waiting. Okay.

I don't really know. I mean, it's going to be insane if she goes back and there's nobody here. And at least if I'm here, I can try to cover it. I think it's the right thing to do. I just like the Amhert coming back and like Amherst just like reading the book and like, I don't know where the other two went. But this book, do you have any more of this brown juice? Okay.

Devo. What is it that you are specifically trying to accomplish here? What are you, you're just trying to find the employees only area? I mean, yeah, frankly, at this point, he's just like walking around with like all sense that he's listening. He's looking around. He's smelling like any indication of like, this might be where animals are kept or catching a snippet of conversation. Like I am just trying to move inward. I'm going to say like following the like best advice you can in a maze, which is like go left, you know?

Just over and over again? Okay. Here is what I will, here's what I will sort of tell you about this, this large entry. room that you were in because now you are able to sort of move about it freely. There are several of the studies lining the wall that your study was on. And there are some people sort of standing guard outside of them. And by people, I mean just like people wearing those red suits. There is a lift on the far end of the room.

And you can actually look up and see that the ceiling of this room is transparent, like glass, and there is just another dock immediately above you. And there is a ship that is, there are several ships that are docked up there, but you cannot quite sort of make them out from where you are in the room. And then there's just like, on the far end, there is a set of double sort of swinging doors that live. literally says employees only on it. And you cannot see what's beyond that. Okay, real quick. First, quick investigation check. Okay.

And this one's really going to work. Looking around the dock we're on now. Right. Do I see any, like, super fancy, like individual ships where I'm like, that's the auctioneer ship right there, baby? Um, I mean, I will give you this for free. looking up through the glass into the upper dock, the ships that you see there are quite large, and you would estimate are, like, much nicer than the Coriolis, even if you can't necessarily see the full extent of them from underneath.

Okay, I'm making my way to that elevator. Okay. Because I think going into the employee, just to give you my reasoning, if I get into that employee-only area, I feel like it's going to be a lot less crowded and a lot of, you easier to single out, like, you don't belong here. But if I can stay in, like, crowded docking areas, I think I can move a little easier. Okay. You make your way up to be.

He says as he heads to a tiny elevator, but. No, I mean, the elevator, nobody is, like, standing guard or anything like that. This isn't like a, you know, a, you know, James Bond enemy compound. Like, there are people here who are more concerned about appearances and cleanliness. than, like, you know, kill the intruders. So you go up this elevator and as you actually arrive on this higher level, you see another ship pulling into sort of the farthest, you know, pier from where you are standing. And you recognize the ship instantly.

You recognize the dreams of Debra as it surfaces. and some workers go over and pop open the airlock and extend a gangplank, and from out of that ship, walks Alawishus Supreme. What do you do? Is it, like, crowded enough that I could, like, tail him with very little? You can try anything. But I mean, like, what's the landscape, I guess? You don't have to give me, like, a read on it.

Right. There may be half a dozen workers in here, and they are, one of them is cleaning a ship with like a, what looks like a water pressure. What are those things called? Yeah, no, I, yeah. A pressurized water sprayer. Pressure washer. Pressure washer. Thank you. There's another ship and there are two workers kind of loading cargo off of the back of it. You know what, Griffin, I worked a lot of retail jobs. Yeah. And I would bet a billion doll hairs that Aloysius Supreme is not the kind of person who, like, even registers workers' faces, let alone, like, I bet I could, like, walk right next to him. And he's not going to, like, notice. I don't think he gives two shits about the employees of the place. That's my bet.

So I'm going to follow him without, like, sneaking around, right? I'm just going to move around like a worker and act like I'm checking. things on that clipboard. Okay. If you are going to attempt this, you are going to roll a stealth check. Now, hold on. I'm not sneaking. This is a performance check.

I am performing like a worker. I'm not trying to hide. I'm not trying to sneak. That is a convincing enough argument. So roll a performance check then. 15 plus 6 at 21. Yes. The role of dock worker tonight will be played by Devo Le Mans.

It's nice to get to start somewhere, you know what I mean? Sure. Oh, I'm the guy where the detective comes like, I didn't see nothing. I was busy alone in all the crates. I didn't see nothing. I had to get these crabs off in the boat. You are able to follow him then for quite a while.

One of the workers, another woman in the, you know, red uniform, greets Aloysia Supreme and he looks like he's down for business right now. He is not the sort of like jovial douchebag that you have seen him be in the past. He's a serious douchebag right now.

So you're able to sort of like walk through the docks as he is led up some stairs and to another hallway that you follow down. And you know you work your way through this facility until finally

on this sort of higher up floor, the woman leads him to a much different looking sort of doorway. This has lost the chalet vibe and this is like secure iron bars. There are two guards standing out in front of the door and they are wearing like actual plate mail armor with gilded howlbirds. And they are big boys. and she sort of registers with the two of them and they bang their halberds on the ground and the doors open

and it's only open for like a second as he passes through the door. Go ahead and make a perception check. Oh my God. Just as you get a glimpse through this secure doorway. Five plus three, Griffin. Oh, man. There are some people in there.

Mm-hmm. People-shaped shapes. There are people sitting, you see people sitting around what look like, kind of like dining tables. You also saw that the back wall of that room was like just a big window looking out over something. That is what you get from that. Okay. Unfortunately, not a ton. One of those guards looks over in your direction.

Okay, I'm going to check my clipboard and shake my head and kind of slap my head and turn back around. Okay. And I'm going to hop on my shelf phone. Okay. Okay, Amber Zooks. There's a higher level with Montauk's Aloisius Supreme talked here and immediately went to talk to somebody important. I couldn't get a look at them. but I think we may be double-crossed sometimes soon.

But Zooks, if you can make it up to that higher level, there is some kind of window you might be able to peek in and see if you can figure out what is going on. Amber, I am making my way back down to you. Be safe. Zuchs, what's your plan here? Well, I had something in mind, but, I mean, it sounds like I've got my marching orders.

I mean, you can do whatever you want. I just had new information that would be useful to you. Yeah. I'm not going to not pass it off. There are so many things you do not know about this facility. And so, like, that was not, that was not Devo sort of taking the scouting job from you. Yeah. Okay.

Oh, all right. Okay. Well, I think the first thing I got to do is Zooks is swimming around and he finds that really clears his hair. Sure. That's usually good for him. And he casts locate animals or plants. That's the name of this. Describe a specific.

Yep. Locate animals or plants. Which one? Which one are you going to do? Animal. Okay. Describe. Wouldn't it be weird if he were like lettuce?

I want to find some cabbage. Describe or name. I think, I think, since he's already had contact with a whole. horse. He wants to find a horse. He wants to look for a horse somewhere in this base. So he concentrates on the voice of nature in his surroundings and learns the direction and distance to the closest creature or plane of that kind within five miles, if any are present. There's no horses nearby that you can. Does it only focus on a specific? type of beast or plant.

Well, it was the kind of, I just went back to the horses that were stolen. No horses were stolen. The orrocks were stolen. Okay. I thought it was polar bears, orrocks, horses, tufted rhinos, and silver striders. Wow, you took, you took notes for all that? That means a lot. Long Cloud Serval, Tufted rhinos, silver striders, polar bears, and orox.

You rode a horse. You got on a horse back at the menagerie. then I have to go with tufted rhinos. Okay. Hey, where's the tuft, Griffin? You would never guess. It's not where it's like the top three places you think it would be tufted are all wrong. Penis.

Left testicle, right testicle. Taint. It's a taint. Oh, that's the four one. That's all of them. Great job, guys. You made up the whole list of all of them. Great work, guys.

Oh, I think of more. It's so wild that, like, your job is to locate an animal on this mission, and you just have a spell that's just locate animals. It's like if there was a job that was like, hold four things at the same time, and Amber was like, oh, yeah, got it. I got a bag of holding or Finney Pack in our parlons.

Okay. You detect two of them, both of the stolen tufted rhinos, because they came, you know, in pairs in the menagerie. And you know the exact distance, and direction of them. It is higher than where you are at. And it's close to the top of this installation. You get the sense.

You... Well, let me ask something. You said there's a bay above this bay? Can I get to it? Sure, of course. You can get... Here's what I want you to keep in mind is like, you can get anywhere in the water.

Like you could swim around the ship and do recon that way, or you could leave this bay and go into the top bay, or you know what I mean? Like there's... Does the top bay have its own access? It does, yeah. As you swim, is that where you are trying to go? Yeah, I think that's what I, that Zooks would draw. Okay, as you, like leave the ship to go back upward toward the higher bay, you sort of follow this feeling of the rhinos up the arc of the ship. Follow the feeling of the rhinos.

The feeling, the rhino spirit. You sense that it is like very much at the top of the ship. And also I think using what Devo told you about where he went on his little journey, it sounds like the same sort of room that he is described is where this rhino sense is. Okay. What do you do? Swims up to that other beds. Okay. Now, is that where Aloysius' ship is?

Yes, Aloisius' ship. The Dreams of Deborah is there. And let's say there's one sort of worker here, pressure washing it. Well, there's just one worker. Yeah. Okay. I mean, there's others in this big room, but the only one working on the Dreams of Deborah is one. And where exactly on the Dreams of Deborah is he doing that pressure wash? He's doing it like from the dock, from the pier. And this is the ship we used to have.

Well, it's the ship you stole. Well, okay. We used to have it, though, Griffin. I mean, the wording is still true. Yeah. Okay. I think he's going to sneak on board the Dreams of Deborah. Okay.

Through the Moonpool? Through the Moonpool? Awesome. Which he's very familiar. Of course, yeah. I'm not even going to make you roll for that. You are able to get up in the Dreams of Deborah. Like, no problem.

All up in it. And it's just as you remember it. The escape pod isn't there. It hasn't been replaced since Guthrie sort of stole it after shooting you right where you're standing right now in the cargo hold of the dreams of Debra. But you are inside of the ship. Would it be safe to say that he remembers where the main cabins are? Yeah, sure. I think he would try to find Aloysius' cabin.

Okay. Yeah. I mean, there are Captain's Quarters that are the most sort of like trashy, rich style. Like, there's, they had, he has, for whatever reason, one of those big glass, like, champagne bathtubs that looks like a, it looks like a big champagne glass with bubbly water inside of it. he's got all kinds of stuff. He has a desk that looks like the fucking president's desk. I thought you said it was trashy,

but this all sounds very classy. Yeah, sure. It is very Nouveau-Riche, let's say. And it's also pretty messy. But you are able to locate his private quarters, no problem. He investigates, I want to do an investigation check around the desk. Okay. What are you looking for in particular?

A log. A captain's law. Okay, interesting. Roll an investigation check for me. That's a three. That is a three? Okay. Yeah, sorry, Dad. You can't find the desk. You are looking through this desk and it is surprisingly like all of the drawers are locked. and there doesn't seem to be anything particularly useful that is just sort of sitting on top of the desk. But as you are looking, you look up and see that, in fact, it might be the same security sprite that you all battled.

The first time you broke onto the Dreams of Debra is now just kind of floating in the middle of the room. It is not like sounding out any kind of siren or alert, but the ship's security protocol is now sort of active in the room that you are in. Amber, back with you. Yeah. You are just kicking it? I mean, so far. Okay. Has the lady come back yet?

She has not. I mean, it hasn't been 15 minutes, I guess. Yeah, I'm kind of, I really, I don't know what I would do right now. Like, I really, I don't, they're both doing stuff that's like, and I'm, this is not me like checking out. I like, like, literally, like, I feel like the best I would do is just start walking around until I got caught. And that, I mean, I guess, you know, that's always an option, but it doesn't seem that, uh, effective right now. Describe to me, like, what leisure Amber looks like in this incredibly leisurely room. Is the lady still?

the desk? What is what does she think I'm waiting for? She is she is waiting on Zooks to finish using the potty essentially before she comes back in here. You know what? I'll go talk to her. You step outside and you see her reading a magazine at her desk

just like occasionally glimpsing over toward the water you know near the Coriolis but she notices you walking out and she says is it so that's room is nicer than my apartment by a huge margin. If I had the opportunity to just sit in there and have the good brown juice and warm up by the fireplace and read my magazines, do you realize that I would,

I would live in there? I would move in. And yet you all just keep kind of coming and going. Like it's a, like it's a public restroom or something. I was just bored. Okay. Well, that's not my issue. I looked for books and I didn't find any about animals. And so I came out here to see what you're doing. I was bored. I just bored and kind of lonely. It's spooky in there a little bit.

It feels like a spooky kind of like a gothic horror or something. You know what I mean? Like a bird is going to start being like, Amber. Amber, I'm behind you. Yeah. I can pretty much assure you. you we don't have any birds. Well, we did have the striders, but they're not, that's not going to be an issue anymore. What are you reading? Here, she hands you, she hands you her magazine.

What did you say? I shouldn't have. It was nothing. I should not have said that. Just as, just as friends chatting. I'm just bored. I know a little bit about what's going on. You're in safe company. What's going on? You tell me. What's going on? If you're, in the know. So, uh, let's just say it is sort of, uh, you know, is a sort of, um, zoological in nature. I might know some people that want to get their hands on some choice kits, if you know what I mean. I mean, we don't really hang on to the, we're not a. the butchery business.

Well, we kind of are a little bit, but we, I don't think that we can. Well, I guess anything, everything has a price, right? This is the problem with the underground, isn't it? I've been saying this, things get all twisted up. So like, I came looking for exotic men. Because I heard you all had those, you know? I mean, I guess we do. And we don't, you know, I guess it would be good to use all parts of the,

Of the quarry, but, uh, but you, now that I think about it, I'm kind of being silly because we would do the butcher and our, and we don't want to be hauling. Stinky old meat. There might be an issue with that, though, because then it's like, are you all the last ones to eat the special meat? Like, then the person who, let's say, acquired that meat might get upset about that. Do you know what I mean? Because then they're not the last ones to kind of put their mark on it.

This place is, this place is fucking wild, by the way. It's weird. It seems weird. I'm getting like a weird vibe. It is kind of creepy, right? A little bit. So anyway, here, she hands you the magazine and says, you can borrow that. Just leave it in the room when you're done. What is it? Magazine.

I'm asking you. Oh, it's asking me, Griffin, or asking this character? Yeah. It's an extant magazine in your fantasy world. What magazine is it? It is a gossip magazine about all the whole. Ploy of... The gossip magazine?

It's called Scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt. I like it. That's great. It's good that there's... That finally someone opened up a competitor to see and be seen. S-E-A. Right.

Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. That's very good, yeah. All right. So you're going back to the parlor? Hey, where are the animals? I was going to check them out because I'm pretty good. No, no, no, no.

That's... You're not here for the... that explicitly. So that's, yeah. I don't want to get, I don't get in trouble. Hey, listen. I get it, for sure.

For sure. But, I listen, God, ugh. I didn't know any of what you have told me. So that's kind of weird. Wait.

For you, I feel like. Well, I was just kind of guessing and you kind of loop me in I'm like everything that's happening. Is that part of your job description? You're telling me that you were just pressing me for information?

Just pressing you for information. Hey, you got it. See, you're not always dick. So what are you actually doing here? Well, right now, uh, I'm blackmailing you. Oh. See, I wish you would have just said that up front. Well, it's not very effective blackmail.

Uh, and she, stands up from the desk. And she has got what looks like a perfume bottle, but with like a spray nozzle attached to it, like a Windex bottle. And she points it in your face.

Make a Constitution saving throw. Okay, this is it. Come on. This will be where the good rules come. Yeah, we need it. 13. You feel moisture on your face. You smell like a really intense chemical smell. And then you black out.

And when you come to, you don't have anything on you, right? Like even your wallet or whatever is totally gone. That's the first thing that Amber notices. The second thing you notice is that you are actually lying in like dirt. as you look around and get your bearings, you realize that you are actually in the middle of the jungle. And you are still sort of coming to your senses, shaking off this anesthesia. And as you rise up to your feet, you see a figure coming out of a nearby pond, paddling in your direction. paddling in your direction

and it climbs from the water and shakes its enormous body sending water just flicking off everywhere and then it looks up and meets your gaze and a polar bear rears back on his hind legs and

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