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Okay, So first they went to the bank and they made a large deposit
ah ha, and the big one bent Lee he received uh bruh, soul
sprout, oh whatever floats his boat. But then they went to a bar
and they argued with a goblin named nimeo Oh about some kind of job.
Interesting. We need to find out more from him if you can. Now
you said. After that that they managed to go to another bar, the
Fountainhead Matt, and they met up with the ricks there. Blah blah blah
truth sarahm. So they're in league with the ricks. You've done very well.
Here is your silver, Now get out of my sight. Greetings,
my paid none paid interns. I'm Alex Capps, your DM or district manager.
And this is Overworked and Underplayed, a D and D podcast. Four
Young Professionals Buy Young Professionals. Today's ice breaker. What is your character's favorite
sport to watch? What up? It's you boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard
Cox, a human consultant turned halfling bard who holy believes it's better to be
lucky than good, but it's best to be both. And Richard's favorite sport
to watch is bowling because I don't know if you guys know who Pete Webber
is, but I don't know who you think you are. I am no,
I don't love what I hate is. I know exactly what you're talking
about, but it's only because of TikTok oh. Well, that's Richard's favorite
sport to watch. It like I want to be afraid of you when we
go bowling. That's well, my name is Anlin Hardy, and I played
Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a heart of gold, and her favorite
sport to watch is women's rugby. Just the sheer power of it. It's
like scary, but also you can't stop watching it. It's incredible. Yeah,
so she helps one day in the boardroom that she brings that energy.
I kind of love that, Right, we should watch it like all together.
I follow a rugby player. Incredible. I don't think I could watch
women's rugby with you, guys. I'm sorry. When I was younger,
I watched a woman rugby player crush a watermelon with her thighs and I've never
felt like so jealous of the watermelon. Right, I'm just saying the power
the poll pack that Later we'll circle back to that one. I'll go to
therapy. That is the circle back. We will be making Alex an appointment.
Stay tuned, we'll give you guys updates. Hi everyone, I'm Katie
and I play Crystal the drow Druid with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity.
And Crystal's favorite sport to watch is golf. Oh, because of all of
the wealth that surrounds go there's a lot of money sitting around, their opportunities
and blessings to bestow upon everyone that's willing to invest in Crystal Clear. She's
taken notes the people at the country club that are actually on the golf course,
right, Yeah, they're the ones just like scooting around in their golf
carts. Hey, I'm Marjorie, I put Amy and Amanda, a basicly,
rough and humble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. Cornall,
no corn Hall fun. You get to, you know, eat a bean
bag across the room. It's great and you can do it while you're drinking
a beer. Yeah, that's true. It's ONPN. That's like saying curling
is your favorite sport. Cal curling is so much fun. Just because it's
on ESPN does not make it a sport. I am Tyler. I played
the it paladin on this Bentley And speaking of favorite things that aren't actually sports,
Bentley's favorite is legal Legends E Sports. I thought I knew it because
that's also my favorite. When I'm setting here in my Cloud nine jersey and
hoping that they win today, y, yes, we hope they win too.
And I am Alex Capps, your DM or district manager. And my
favorite obscure sport used to be AUSSI rules football because it is incredible to watch,
but I've recently discovered a new sport called Buzkashi, which is the national
sport of Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. It is wild to watch. Hey,
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up pod. When we last left off, you guys were partying with the
ricks. The dicks they all that is true that they physically have those Maybe
maybe know what we don't know? That could be yes, Crystal, what
just for a point of reference, Yeah, but how was the date that
you went on see anything interesting? What are you talking about? Huh?
The date I went on with Yeah, like a week ago or whatever.
Also the one that's happening now, it's not a date, this is a
business meeting, Crystal, Like, Hey, maybe we should go make sure
that uh, not myself. Make sure that Richard doesn't drink himself into a
stupor because he's over there and he's very small. All right, cutting away
from you guys, Oi, rich what uh? Oh, you might want
to slow down the little fellah. We don't need you barfing all over the
place. I got uh Can I ask you question anything my brother does?
Does does miss Amanda ever talk about me? My god? I mean she
does sometimes? Really? Does she say nice things? Or she doesn't say
bad things? I think she had a pleasant time. I'll take it like
pending to be. Yeah, he's got his eyes closed and he's fading in
and out. It's beautiful. All right. Well, let me let me
get you some water from the bar. I don't want any waters. Gross.
Hey hey Richard, Hey Rick, how's it going. What are you
guys talking about? Oh h nothing, just guys stuff, you know,
like okay and axes? Sports. Okay, that's good. I'm gonna go
get I'm gonna go get rich some some water. Okay, I'll be back.
Richard, you look a little Are you actually like snookered? Or what's
wrong with you? We're about to go into a battle, probably in like
two hours. Get two hours is plenty of times in this world. We've
been here for weeks and nothing has happened. Time is it real? Oh
yeah, he's a little faded. Pat Richard, Richard, make me a
constitution saving thrown? No, he is my son, dropping it like it's
that bad of a decision. Where did you say this was a saving throw?
Yes? And by the way I rolled your uh your omens? You
have four bad omens and one good. Why does this keep happening? I
dared to use that? Okay, So, so you feel like your lunch
is starting to come up and you just kind of choke it down. One
of the worst feelings. It is one of the worst feelings. You're you're
looking a little h there there around the girl. Do you want to go
to the bathroom real quick? Hey, rich I got I got something here.
This will this will fix you right up here? Hold up. You
see his as he pulls a little vial off of his belt and hands it
to you. Hey, like you see Richard's hand is trying to grab it,
trying to predict where your hand is. And y'all just keep like infinity
signing around each other, left the right one, Just take it, give
me this Rich, So so basically, you hold your hand out. Rich
holds his hand out. Now all three of you are holding a hand.
You can't have it. This is just trying, okay, making it weird.
This is weird. So so as that happens, and y'all are all
standing there like awkwardly. El Rick walks back up with the water. He
goes, I got the I got the water, and y'all are still are
you still? Yeah, y'all are still awkwardly all holding hands. I want
to be clear that Bentley's not in the hand holding. Yeah, Bentley's Bentley's
probably the only one who's like, I don't want to say stone sober,
but it's probably like they're all going to die. Like I could just see
him off to the side. Yeah, you know you're the butt night.
Yeah, okay, well all right, take my hand away, like okay,
whatever, just take it. Please, just don't drink it immediately,
Rich, don't drink it? What is it? First? Find out what
it is? All right? So you're downing it was he had a has
the vibe on his lips, and so he says that he's like, what,
oh no, Rich, that's that's fine. It'll it'll like give you
a little pip and your step and like like it will help you with your
nausea. See it's it was not pepto bismo. It I told you not
to poison him. It has a very bad flavor like and and has the
aftertaste of like rotten fish, and he projectile vomit in about five seconds later,
you feel perfectly normal. Okay, everything works out, let's go.
Yeah, but if you grab some water and then start headed over and we
can scout it out for everybody. Oh, thank you, thank thanks,
You're welcome. I'm more confidence, bud. It's okay, okay, Yeah,
ladies love confidence. That's right, Well I am confident also for you.
It's good. Yeah. Also for the situation where we're going into maybe
approach with some comment, yeah, so we should like strategize like the plan
for it. Yeah, Like what do you guys think. Should I just
like go there like quote quote alone and you guys just be around, or
should we just all show up? Or we should just all show up.
I don't think there's a world in which he wouldn't see all of us A
good point of a good point, okay, So yeah, I don't think
that we need to hide necessarily, all right. Yeah, I just think
that we're clear that we're not sending you in along. It's not safe and
you shouldn't expect that from anybody. Well, I guess it's about that time.
Okay. Do we need to do anything to prep based upon what we
learned from the Blue Gold terminal and Arch phase? Maybe be sober and maybe
have weapons just me, you know, I don't. I don't know what
I mean. You're asking the DM for guidance on how we should prepare the
situation when it's something that we should be coming up with our Yeah, I
was gonna say, should we ask another one another terminal? Do you have
specific questions? General questions are not going to we're looking for You're gonna go
over there, like I should I prepare for? What do you think we
should do? I think you should go alone? Why not actually alone?
Okay? We're hanging out nearby in some cool disguises, okay, and then
we step in if you know, anything goes south. Okay, Well,
yeah, it seems like a good idea, and if needed, we could
also you know, ambush and kidnap him. Okay, do we have disguises
we can find Okay, you see as Ulric turns goes, did you guys
say you need some like disguises? Why don't we just dress up like these
guys? I was gonna say that too. Yes, we did say that
we need some disguises. Oh boy, do I have a surprise for you?
And he basically explains to you that the Ricks keep a large, large
armory of stuff. They just didn't. Yeah, they have well, I
mean they have actual army. When he takes you because they live close to
this side of town. When he takes and shows you the stuff, you
realize most of it was probably like removed from past foes. He goes,
He goes, Yeah, I mean, if y'all need some disguises or something,
I'm sure we can like come up with something here. I don't.
We get most of stuff dry cling, but if it's less than a week
old, then there might still be a little bit of resist combat material.
Is Taylor still like in horse form? She is not? Wait? No,
she was last time. Yeah. I think so, I feel like
Taylor. I think maybe if you could just be human again, that might
solidly be a decent I mean, maybe wear some different clothes to But I
feel like be very confusing. I don't think people would recognize you without you
know, that's such a good point. Still, yeah, definitely, And
she's going to shift back into a human form with with pants on. I
g yes, she always Maybe she's also added a tunic at this point.
She should basically just be wearing a dress that kind of like rides up almost
when she's in a horse farm, and then just drops down when she shifts
back. It's just a long white dress shirts. I say, Taylor doesn't
strike me as the like dress wearing. Maybe maybe you are a dress wearer.
I don't know. We'll figure. Yeah, it's like what do you
call that style? You know the tailor's what do you call that stuff?
I'll call it Taylor's version there. Okay, do they have any armor,
like actual armor or is it all just loosely disguises? I mean there's some
armor? They have anything, uh, anything that might catch my eye?
If oh, nothing, that's going to be better than what you have already.
I'll put it that I have money but nothing to spend it. Well,
because you don't go shopping. That's true. We should shop, we
should be fair. We didn't have money until this moment. We should shop.
But we have money, I mean I have money. We should get
all the healing potions. Yeah, I already I have a bunch of In
fact, what I'm gonna do is you guys, you have written down how
much money you have, right yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna go around
the circle. We're gonna do this real quick. We're not gonna do like
a thirty minute shopping thing. He's like, you're being such a dog right
now, and you're gonna tell me what it is you want to go buy
from a shop. We're just going to assume it's open and I'll tell you
if they have it or not. How about that? All right? So
we're gonna start with Bentley since he's, you know, mister money bags over
here. I would like to look and see if there's any any nice armor
that's better than my, uh, better than my chain mail that I'm rocking
right now. Okay, I also need rope, Okay, rope easy?
Yeah? What else would be useful? Something to gag them with? This
is getting kinky. That's not a good idea though, If we are kidnapping,
what what kind of armor better than chain mail? Or if it's got
the same ac maybe it has like a cool magical effect this high or low.
Low should have said, Hi, damn, they have splint plate.
Splint plate, So I'll give you plus one a C for two hundred gold.
Yeah, that's that's the deal. Okay, all right, So your
shopping is done, Amy, and I don't need anything, okay, Crystal.
So I feel like all I have is a stick to hit people with?
Okay? Is there anything like if I went shopping and I was like
trying to find something for my class, I'm trying to figure out how Crystal
would stumble across, Like she doesn't know the weapons she would be best at.
So could she ask the ricks maybe if they have any like recommendations for
her? You can just go to the zoo the zoo and put your eyes
on a bunch. It's different now, and so I can no thanks.
So like before she goes shopping, she wants to ask the ricks, like,
Hey, is there like a thing that would be best fit for me?
You guys look like weapons experts. I'm not great at it obviously,
and so I was wondering if maybe there's something that I could be good at
using. You see, as Elrick comes up and goes well, aren't you.
You've one of the nitro types, right, I think? So?
Okay, well we picked this one up off of a pretty squishy little nitro
type out in the woods one time. And he holds up this staff.
Okay, and he said it glows whenever they did the magic thing. I'll
sell it to you for two hundred gold what about one fifty too? And
she rolled to persuade. She can try, she will try. She don't
rollue, We're not yeahh is all of this like interest that Taylor? I
don't know. I don't know, Crystal, Crystal, Oh, I'm smarry.
You know. It was bad enough when it was just your dad,
but now it's even your your coworker. I can't. I I'm sorry.
I need this coffee to hit my brain. Me too, never mind,
I wasn't. It's not funny. Never mind, all right, try So
he rolled against your persuasion. What did you roll? Ten? Yeah?
He looks at She says, tell you what, mate, you in the
middle one ninety. That's not the middle. It's closer to the middle than
you were. Crystal just looks around her. Does anybody understand this? He
says, he wants one hundred and ninety gold. I will take it when
ninety all right, I have nothing I have. Well, you'll be glad
you took it because this staff is a plus one so it's a plus one
magic staff. Okay. That also gives you plus one to your spell saving
throat or your spell attack rolls and spell save Yep, that was it was
very It was a very good deal for you. Yeah, okay, cool,
the treasure role worked in your favor, Okay. Taylor Jacobs oho arch
face sounds really bad so or really tough. So I was wondering about potentially
if it's possible to have my sword be on fire. Oh, we're excited.
Oh so you're looking for like like some kind of alchemical enchantment for your
weapon? Yeah, cat real crunchy today. Yeah, what's that mean?
Just we're just really deemed. We rarely do. Okay, a sword on
fire in CD? What is my staff called? So, Taylor was really
jaillous? You get to name exactly? Yeah? Yeah, Eleric tells you
goes. We didn't get its name. The person died before they could tell
us. Oh could she talk to it or something? Because that feels really
crucial. I mean she could try to so Ulrick comes, well, I've
got these, and basically what it is is it's a he has six potions
of flame Touch. Basically you use one as a free action when you draw
your weapon and it applies a plus two to your sword for five minutes.
Okay, And he says for the six pack, I could do that for
like three hundred gold. That's all the gold that I have. Can we
throw in some potions? Yeah, I'll throw in two healing potions. What
about more? What if we get hit a lot? That's about all I
can do. I'm sorry, all right, Okay, two healing potions and
six potions of flame touch. That sounds good. Thank you. It's good
to do a business with you, hey, and we super appreciate y'all's help
with this too. It always makes us feel better when we know we've got
you buyer sides. I have no idea, all right, So now,
Richard, sometimes it's just best not to know, all right, Richard.
Yeah, So Richard in the disguise category would love a top hat, a
monocle, a big bushy mustache. And so he's talking to was this a
shopkeeper or one of the ricks? I'm gonna say you find all that stuff
at the Rick's house. Well, there's one more thing that he's looking for.
I'm trying to figure out who am I going to be asking for this
thing? Well, I mean, who do you want to ask for it?
We can I can ask a shopkeeper. Okay, So what is the
item? Okay? So I can't think of what it's called? But do
you have a sword condom that I can get to make my rapier look like
a walking cane? You say condom? You want to a sheet? That's
the word. That's what I was looking for. Okay, this is that's
easy enough, sir, Like five silver. I mean that's and I can
put my sword in and then I can just walk around the street like it's
a cane to your hearts content perfect. And then the last thing is I
don't actually know what this looks like, but I was reading up on it's
supposed to help with my spells. It's called an arcane focus see here,
and that actually has a price for a bard. But just be your instrument
though, Yeah, but I don't have an instrument. You probably get an
instrument. No, but he has a cell phone. I have my cell
phone, but it's running out of juice. That's true. Does he play
does Richard playing the instruments? He does not play instruments. He's really good
an origami, though. I guess it could be anything artistically inspired by the
So it could be like a paint brush or anything like. Technically, it
could be anything for your art style. And the money we spent has nothing
to do with the money we earned from the race. By the way,
I did not put that in my account for the goal, but I have.
Yeah, so well, I imagine I guess I'll took all six hundred
of it. Yeah, Taylor has no idea or The shopkeeper looks for a
minute and he says, no, need to take this offline. Overworked and
underplayed, will circle back after these messages. He said, Oh, so
you're a magic user. Yeah, I've been told I'm called a bard.
Oh oh, I've got something you might be very interested in. And he
pulls out a you know what, No, we'll make it the monocle he
pulls out. He pulls out a Chris monocle with a single ruby inlaid just
above the brow, and he says, this is the Phoenix monocle. It
acts as an arcane focus, but it also gives you a plus one to
hit and DC save. Oh okay, he says, five hundred gold,
five hundred golds. I think I think I can swing that. I've come
into some money recently. It tell you what you give me that for five
hundred and the sword condom is yours free of charge. Oh yeah, my
man, all right, it was good doing business with you. Wow.
I love I love the new look Richard. Oh thank you. I'm very
inspired by the pringles. Can I mean we're gonna go see someone who's a
high up coovernment official. We can't go in there looking like you mean the
Planner's peanut? Can? I think which food mascot are you refering to?
Doesn't wear a to was My actual inspiration was the Monopoly guy. He does
have a monica. I'm pretty sure he does not have a monocle. I
combining. I hate it. Your you're Mendela af Us. It's so rough.
Same thing with monkey's claw. God, oh god, and want to
spell attack and spell saves. Yeah, anyways, you guys all meet back
up, Elric. Well, it's about that time. We ready to go.
We got a plan. Yeah, I guess I'm just gonna walk out
there and you guys are gonna be in the background with your disguises. I
guess are you sure you be? Okay? I don't know, Probably I
would imagine. Okay, great question. Now that he's raised up for this
thing, could we get Amy on a little like flashbang situation? So she
needs to get the hell out of there. She can like throw a smoke
bomb and like disappear kind of thing, or like some kind of transportation where
if it gets harry, she can poop and then be where we are,
okay speaking, Yeah, so I was actually gonna ask about similar thing.
We know this guy can like take people places. Is there anything we can
do to stop him from taking Amy? And if we're too far away to
get to him in time, you could tie a roper on my waist.
We could you guys have in I think it'd be a little strange if you
walk around with a tail you have invisible rope? Doesn't feel out of the
question. Hey, you see is Leric kind of like looks down and Ulric
you told him about the rope? Just a wild guess he's I didn't say
nothing about you have special rope. It's like, oh you did, now
you had special rope in when I was wanting to buy rope, you didn't
offer it. That's what makes it special. No, it's a special thing
I've been working on. Okay, well contested for you. We don't even
need to keep it. Yeahs yeah, I mean all yeah, all right,
we'll give it a try. Okay. So you see as he comes
back, and it looks like he's miming, like carrying like a big thing
of rope, and he drops it drops. He's he's been practicing his miming,
that's what he's been working on. And he like drops it at at
Amien's feet and he goes, I probably should have probably should have held on
to at least one part of it. Hold on. He's like feeling around
on the grave up there it is. And he comes out and he goes,
I'm gonna tie this around your waist. Now, okay, you should
tie the other end around Taylor. I mean, I'm also not to worried,
guys, I'm pretty I don't mind being on the other end. And
so so as he's it, like it's the weirdest sensation because you see nothing
there, but you feel like you're clothes getting wrapped up by this rope.
Okay, okay, and so it's real, all right, how long of
a leash is there between one hundred feet? Okay? Good? Good,
and so like, don't close any doors behind you, Okay, I'll try
to remember that. Two tugs for uh, fuck, somebody up, three
four? Uh start pulling like one has come here. One is bring me
to you. Okay, okay, all right exactly and if you start like
failing like crazy, we'll also show up. All right, cool, I'm
ready, guys, cool, cool. Do you think we're I mean,
it might be nothing, you know, and for us the best know because
one hundred feet or however far we want to be, don't know how good
our listening is. Maybe is as you're talking to him, you're just like
in the brace of that kind of just to hear him, oh yeah,
what he's saying. You're thinking, like you hear him say stuff, you
think it to us, So that way we have a good idea of what
the conversation is. And Richard, I just want to make sure I don't
have any of the important stuff from all the missions that we've done and cry
in case he tries to steal something. I mean, the only important thing
is these wristbands. Okay, because we gave everything else to pizzle bang right
verty much Okay, and don't forget to give amy an one of your famous
Richard pep talks before she goes to Yeah. Yeah, well wait, told
it a little bit closer. I think we have kind of a time limit
on them. Point yeah, of course, and maybe you'll get hashtag blessed.
Hashtag blessing that one. All right, So you guys make it back
over near the raceway where you were told to meet, and you find what
appears to be a fairly ornate villa with all the lights out. Hm.
And you notice that the address is the courtyard of said villa. Okay,
and you see his is older. Yeah, so I think we stay here
across the street and uh yeah, we see how this goes. I mean,
I don't I don't know. It could go fine, could go poorly.
You know, you know, you seem like you're a capable person.
You haven't know this stuff. So well, she doesn't seem like a capable
person. She is a capable person. You really, there's the pep talk
dentist. She's probably one of the smartest and clearly one of the most strongest
people in this group. Yes, wow, thank you this fan person,
and so now you have bardic conspiracy. Oh thank you. Okay, and
that's a D six to attack rolls and ability checks. You only get you
can choose one time to use it. Oh okay, okay, all right,
Well let's go see guys later. Do we need to be sneaky over
here? You think we're far enough away? I think we should definitely keep
an eye out, so maybe not be so hidden that we can't see what's
going on. Okay, what is the so we're say we're across the street,
so you're trying Are you trying to observe overtly or are you trying to
observe covertly? I think we have enough people to maybe do both, so
I have I don't think that's how that works. But well, if we
split the party right, Let's say some people find a way to the roof
of a building that's across the street that is sneaky. Watching Alex's alexicated if
it wasn't complicated. So I'm asking because I can cast this thing called pass
without trace. Yes, and it's like a sneaky like it's sneaky. I
read about it in all of my spare free time, and it will help
us be like not as obvious. Yes, I guess do we want to
do that? You know, it is best not to be seen. I'm
just assessing the room. I just want to make sure we're all in the
same page. I don't want to not consensually cast something on somebody because like
that feels kind of gross. That's so smart and kind of you to think.
I mean, really, if you think about it, the less you're
seeing, the less people you gotta kill. And I'm so glad to kill
people. And Crystal's got too much. She's got a lot of baggage she's
carrying around right now, so she casts past without trace on it. Okay,
So what that is for listeners is it's a plus ten bonus to dexterity
checks. So stealth checks. We have to be within like so many feet
of you. Yeah, you cast it on everybody except for Marjorie, because
Marjorie goes to me this guy where and he's like, she's right in front
of me, I can't see you. No, I'm not trying to she's
the bait, she's the lore. So uh no, I'm not trying to
cast on it. But it's thirty feet, so anybody thirty feet of me
will be able to get a plus ten. Yeah, the whole party,
I'm gonna say with that plus ten. Unless something happens, the whole party
is pretty much concealed. Uh huh. I've seen it go sideways before,
so I'm not going to unless somebody's got a roll. And thankfully you only
have one person wearing like heavy armor also has a negative deck score. Well,
now you have a positive stealth score. Now you have a plus nine
to stealthy with disadvantage. This is for you, This is for you,
all right. So Amy Ann crosses the street. She approaches the villain and
sees the doors shut. Knock on the door, you hear you, hear
a voice, Hello, I'm here to see d all right, D.
He sent me a note today. Name my name, Amyenn Amien. He
sees the door opens, and there's two little goblins standing there, and one
of them waves, very abruptly, waves for you to come in. Okay.
Oh you're so cute. All right? And then you start walking in
okay, and he tries to close the door behind you. How does that
work with the invisible rope? He just keeps slamming the door. Now,
Uh, Taylor Jacobs, you have the rope right, Okay, I want
you to make a perception check. Wouldn't it make sense for it to be
on the ground, so then it would just be under the door. Your
exterior doors don't go to the ground. Who's to say this is old timy
times? Yes, they understood sometimes, like your garden gate doesn't shut all
the way, like it's got like a gap between. So like this is
technically in the courtyard, right. I feel like they're hoping that they're meeting
in a salute. That would be ideal for the situation. So amy Ann's
gonna get about three inches before she can't go anywhere. That's what she said.
Okay, so rolling that is not good. That's the four So you
feel like someone is tugging on the rope twice or three times? Hi?
Or low hi twice. I'm just she can see me going in the door,
right, Oh, she saw you go in the door. You're already
past the door. But you could be panicking on the other side, but
do not. Does she not see the door opening and closing? All right?
So amy Anna, you also hear the door getting shut repeatedly? Oh,
what are you doing, door? What's wrong with it? Door?
Jam? Oh, let me see if I can fix it. I' ms
see if I can try and like do something to like put the rope.
She just kicks a hole in the door at the bottom of the door.
Makes me a slide of hand, checks hand. I'm not trying to be
sneaky. Well, you got you gotta do some kind of you're trying to
break the door. I'm gonna try and like close the door such that the
rope is not broken and the door is closed. Okay, So you see
that the door does go all the way to the ground. Okay, I
would kick a So you options are to either find some way to wedge the
wedge the rope. Okay, you can break the door, or you can
try to remove the rope. I'm gonna try to rip the handle off so
that there's an opening in the door that the rope can go through. That's
smart, that is Oh no, okay, make me a strength check.
Oh no, I broke your door. Jesus Christ. That's way better than
kicking it. Do you want an athletic? Yeah, do athletics. That
is going to be Oh, I'm gonna say you like you go you're trying
to close the door, and you grab the handle with both hands and you
put like one foot on the door and you just snap the handle right off
the door. Oh whoops, And I hand it to the golf I'm sorry.
And the other one looks goes, just go okay, where do I
go? Points? I guess I go keep on going on? Okay,
So you make it into because that was actually that was the gateway to get
into the courtyard. And at the back, secluded in shadows, you see
a man sitting at a chair behind a table. As he sees your approach,
he goes, ah, yes, my guest of honor, Miss Amy
and Amanda. Oh, hey, doctor d it's really dark. Can we
turn like a light on or something. She's not a fan of the mood
lighting. He says, sorry, there's no electrical lighting here. Why would
you automatically assume my meant electrical lighting. Where are you from? Well,
like you, I am not from here. So that bluegle terminal said you're
an arch Fay bluegl is that right. Blogal thinks they understand a lot of
things. But are you from Earth? No? Are you from Atlanta?
Not the same place. He just kind of looks at you very confused.
He's like, Atlantis. No, no, no, the one it's still
dry. Just now, let's there's there's an Atlantis lore in this world that's
been established. Now at a real place, he says, just have a
seat. Okay, Well, what's up? I got your note? Yes,
I just wanted to have a conversation with you about a particular predicament we
both find ourselves in. Okay, and you see as there's the destroyed remains
of the fake astral projector like on at one side of the table. He
says, I believe that we may have not gotten off on the right foot.
Yeah, you don't say I did not fully grasp who all of you
were, But I do now, Okay, I believe that we can help
each other. M. You all want to go home? Yeah, in
one piece, in one piece, with all our memories and texts and all
that stuff. Yes, well, I mean are you sure? M Yes,
okay, it says, I too wish to return home. I believe
we can help each other. Okay, what do you propose? First of
all, where are you from? What's your home? What is the name?
Is not necessary? Well, I'm just curious. Curiosity killed the cat,
but satisfaction brought it back. Oh, we're all just across the street,
like damn, maybe I've got him on that one an that it's like
quietly the ancestors his grandchildren. So you're not gonna tell me, no,
Okay. What I can tell you is that your friend, miss Crystal is
in grave danger. Yeah, she's got a lawsuit right now. Lawsuit is
nothing compared to what is a trying to undo her? What is? It
can give me info on that the person running the cult of Clarity may not
be what she seems. Okay, any anything less cryptic? No, No,
I can't be of too I can't be of too much. Assistance calls
you to is only cryptic. It only gives you a part of me so
awful. Well, I can say, doctor d that I mean kind of
duh, because we're from where we're from. Crystal doesn't look like she does
look now, she looks like a other Crystal who's not the real Crystal.
So obviously there's some something weird happening. So tell me something I don't know.
It's basically what I'm getting at. Tell you what you want to know,
something of value? He leans in. She leans back, also do
you ever take that mask off? It seems very awkward. I suggest you
hurry in assembling all of the items in the ry so that we can all
go home, or you'll end up like me. Well, what art?
What tell me more about that? To motivate me, he lays a single
coin on the table and slides it across the moonlight hits it just right,
and you feel a chill run down your spine as you read the name of
the arcade that your family always visited during family reunions. Oh my, And
as you look up, he's gone. How loud is this scream? Oh?
Very loud. I pick up the arcade, I pick up I pick
up a coin, and I run out. I leave the way I came.
I tried to see you leave the way you came. Make me a
dexterity saving throw, and I have D six right, yeah, fifteen?
Okay, so as you like in your haste. As you try to leave,
you suddenly realize you'd looped the rope around the chair, and you yeat
the chair off the ground, but you managed to duck it and continue running
all alight. About the time you make it to the gate, the rest
of you also make it to the other side of the gate. What do
you do? We're trying to we can we see that there's a hole in
the door knob. Yeah, Taylor's gonna try and bust it. Okay,
you're gonna try and bust on the door that isn't locked. She's gonna kick
it in or whatever. You're gonna try to kick in the door that isn't
locked. Oh my gosh, let her do it. Let her attack roll.
Are you raging? Yes? Okay, so you go full rage mode
and you try to donkey kick the door open. Yeah, she's a person
right now. Not that she's never not. If she in rages, yeah,
if she you lose your That's interesting. I didn't know that. So
when you go into a rage, you get a horse's ass. I feel
like that. That makes sense. It's a large one, yeah, and
it's a large she turns into a big version of yeah, yeah, a
big ass horse. Yeah. So she does not do that successfully. Seven
okay plus athletics, right or something. So it's it's gonna be uh seven
is what you rolled? Right? I rolled a five? Okay? Five
to attack? I guess yeah, okay, so that's ten. Okay,
so ten is enough? To hit a stationary door. Okay, roll damage,
which is what is just kicking things? A D six or something.
So I'm gonna say, because of yours, it's gonna be a D eight
plus strength plus. I think it's plus two damage doors. I'm more concerned
about on the other That's what we're about to get to. It's gonna be
the fun part. So I rolled a four and then you said it was
a plus two, So it's four plus strength five okay, nine, So
then plus two for raging. So it's eleven. So you blow the door
off the hinges. Now, Amyen, I need you to make me another
dexterity saving throw and then do I Can I add the D six again you've
already used it, Okay, dexterity saving throw is not very good. It's
six. So Taylor Jacobs runs up like galloping charge donkey kicks the door off
the hinges and it just flattens Amiens and Amy and you take all eleven points
of dammag. Oh my god, Amen, I'm so sorry. Are you
okay? I'm fine? Where's the asshole? We're gonna get out of here,
guys, click click Rick, carry your cue ticking off me Taylor's gonna
flip the door off put you on her back. So so yeah, by
the time you get on Taylor's back and y'all are headed out, Rich is
still heading like in, He's like just getting there. He's got his cane
and my little twenty five movement speed the cane. As you're walking past us,
Taylor's gonna scoop you. I mean, I mean, Taylor Jacobs,
if you're trying to find a cool way to escape, you do have that
ambulant of the phantom chair. Yeah, definitely we're gonna I mean, I
mean, we don't have to run away from this place. Nobody's chasing us.
But she's like, we've got urgent things I need to tell you.
Wait, no one's chasing us, I don't think so we'll be back.
Why what just happened? She just holds up she holds up the token.
She just starts talking and goblins Okay, slaps her. You're going to shock.
Thank you for that, Crystal. Okay. Alex is looking at me
like she's nearly unconscious and you just slapped her. Yeah, I mean,
I've got like forty that's fine, SA, So you take another point of
damage. She was having a middal breakdown. What is Bentley doing? He's
just watching this all go down because he's like, is he still across the
street unlocked? Yeah, Taylor's gonna give Amy and like reach back, give
her a potional Oh thank you? What is this? It's for drinking.
I'm gonna just save that, okay if that's okay, of course, Okay,
thank you because I'm really I'm fine because I'm yeah, Bailey's gonna be
that. Yeah, You're fine. I'm gonna Billy thank you so much.
Wow. One slap to hurt, one slap to heel. Okay, guys,
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