He's been nigh about twenty years and them cool Yon fool Dune broke magic and
the world ain't been right since monster defrayon from them other worlds running round terr
clease and down in a bole and got their gree gree water. There's some
kind of evil set on sort of good many feak, So beware, my
friends, go carefully as any lazy brought them all else that murky water gonna
lead you to the grave. So come with us as we go on another
fool's quest over their true blood. Selefty looks around. After all the fires
are out, it's still kind of smoky in there, and you guys are
the only ones left in there. All the rest of the customers are gone.
He looks around, though, and he looks a little shell shocked.
Oh, you guys shouldn't have done that. I don't I don't think you
should have done that. Listen, man, he seems kind of worried,
he says, and he points around at the four corpses. This is going
to be trouble. These guys don't mess around. They don't like getting their
toes stepped on. So I will grab the top half of the one that
I cleaved into sat in the bar there from a friend. I think we
can dispose the bodies and maybe no one will ask any questions asking questions what
these guys do. And there's more of them than than just these four.
I've seen a few squads around town. But oh man, I'm gonna immediately
grab the bodies I can and just get them out onto like some dirt,
wrap them in a tart. Yeah, that's fine. I'll throw him on
a tart, drag him out to some dirt and move earth and just put
him in the grave immediately, just immediately dig the grave by yeah, so
left. You see, you start tracking the bodies and he grabs onto the
corner of the dart and drags him up out back, and he's like,
I gotta shovel over here. I'll start digging. And then you do that,
and he's oh my god, no, no, no, you still
do it will be good. Three lai. He's like, latill, he's
almost done. I've done that to a red toy. Yeah. Um.
But after that he heads back inside and I assume you guys follow him.
It's like so his backyard, it's like a little little fence in courtyard.
It's got a dumpster and there's a big gate and that's about it. It's
just dirt. Now he's dead bodies, a bunch of other bodies, more
dead bodies on the um. You know. Listen, I've seen this before,
like when the colleges they send them people in if if they get pushed
back, they'll send out you know, inquisitive squads and start accusing the the
problems the pushers of being warlocks. Yeah, execute them, like I told
bro, let me tell you if they come around snooping, Uh, drop
a hint that there is a very powerful warlock conclave out in the swamp and
a leader is called anthro Knoxus and through the Knoxus. Yelp, all right,
if I hear anything, well, I mean, if they're gonna come
around like you say they are, I mean, come on, got a
good buddy on his swamp, my man, he'd love to have a chat
with them. Well, look, Kit, I don't know if you guys
are warlocks. I don't really care as far as I'm concerned, just pretty
good fellas. These guys came in here making trouble. Use guys took care
of them, and you're welcome here. If they come poking around. It's
pretty damn in here. I don't think anyone saw who did was strap mood.
I'm a back I ain't a world would. I hate ignorant people.
Not a fan myself. I just wanted to see that guy shitted himself.
I just start cackling. There left left befoords you another bull. So this
was on the house. I'm drinking it. It's my second bug already.
I'm feeling good. He made the inquisitor shit himself. It's too good.
What's what's the plans um? I need to maybe dip into some of our
healing potions the same. I am drunk enough to let them. I'm still
just you were you were wasted. I'm having a good time at the bar.
I've told the story five times already about that time I made a guy
shit himself. No one else was in the bar, just left left to
get a kick out of it every time, though he does say you were
embellished every time he tells it. Obviously, Yeah, I'm building the story.
Give me a second. I made him shit lightning. They started a
grease fire so hard he turned inside out. I cast a shitting spell on
him. But I went too high of a level, came out both ends.
I sneezed and he sneezed. Sorry, it was stole brewing spells now
right because I need I need a shitting spell. Every level you upcast it
adds an orifice that it comes out. God, no belly button, just
one eye. Guys are individual, ye o, God, Please no squeezing
out from under your tone nails. Who needs we need penicilla, something pepto.
I'm not happy about where this one. None of us are. No
one's ever happy here we do, okay? So uh, Lefty sees you
guys breaking into your stash of potions, and he offers you the room upstairs
again. He said, still stinks like shit, but well now it's worms
barely down here does too. I'll go wherever I'm dragged. Yeah, wherever
we have to carry arm. I'm just sleeping in the middle. Small you
can carry under one arm, carry him posting up on my shoulder, burning
up, puke down the back, dude, I'm gonna puke down his back.
Absolutely stack. Then he pressed it, digitates it away on the red
back, make ranching himself. Oh I'm so sorry about that, gross,
and then Red pukes on your back. It's just this happened. That's all
we do. Now, just just talk about by gross cleaner. All right,
So yeah, you guys gonna take the room rest for the night.
Yep, yeah, yeah, if we think we can make it through the
night without having to watch our backs. And he said he cut for us.
I trust left you. Yeah, try that. I mean, I'm
asleep, you trust anyone? He could just tell people that we went back
to our house and send them to the hag house. Yeah, well,
I definitely need some some downtime. So yeah, all right, you go
ahead, and guys for level eight, right, seven? Seven? Oh,
then level at level what they said, long rest gets me back up
there and level eight. Okay, so now you guys are level eight.
We did it. You did it anyway. You rest for the evening.
You heal up and rest up, and it's uneventful. Let's assume you try
to stay somewhat alert. But um, yeah, no, no one comes
knocking and left. He doesn't wake you up. Yeah, I mean Renwood
stay alert considering he doesn't really have to sleep. Yeah, you need to
take a long rest in eight hours, so he's rent stays alert. Um,
I do not what was probably about we'll say seven o'clock when you went
went up to to kick back this early night for Elmer. He's definitely not
alert for the entire eight hours, but we have to check on him like
every hour or so to make sure he's still breathing. Kicked me on my
side, rode over and drop me on the stairs on the way up.
But yeah, you guys catch your breath. You heal back up and are
ready to go about eight hours later, which is what three in the morning
feel if you want, or you can stay the rest of the evening.
You had worries about inquisitors, Yeah, I would wake us up after I
feel like everybody had enough rest and be like, we should probably get back
to the tree house. Yeah, probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Yeah,
I could go for some stewd. Did we let any of those guys
go or did we just trounce them all there in the bar? What guys
the inquisitors? Well, yeah, no, we buried him, all of
them. They're all buried. No, no lose, no witnesses. It's
their own fault. I tried to let the one run away, he just
wouldn't do it. Yeah, he got caught up at the door. It
was just it's a really stupid thing. He did, not running away,
Yep, shouldn't ran fast. Give us a little bit of extra time before
they realize that those guys aren't around. Maybe if he teleported. Yes,
we're sneezed. You know, there are just so many options. I'm not
Yeah, this is a himp problem. It's all right, Off to the
treehouse, yep, to it. After the treehouse. As you guys head
downstairs left, he is just finishing putting chairs up on the tables like he's
gonna momb but everyone knows he's not gonna mop and dump an extra five gold
on the counter. Starry abouts, mess bro. He just gives you a
nod as you as you do it, says, appreciate it. I used
to clean it up. You know I'm gonna miss this place. And so
you guys are heading to the treehouse. Yeah, I would say, so,
make perception checks on your way. Row Actually know what, No,
I don't need to make checks for that. He's trying to get you to
notice. I mean I got fifteen anyway, fifteen you definitely would the hangover
and the seven I rolled him to say, I don't notice him, despite
his trying. Yeah, you don't know this, despite his trying. Now,
I'm gonna do all want to notice? Uh? By twelve, it's
dark out. I didn't see shit. Tom, the second Tom, not
the first one. You don't see the first one around, but see the
second one standing over by a corner or any kind of nods at you guys,
and then walks up an alley but looks a little roughed up like black
guy again. It wasn't Nust this time. Um, hey, elmer,
it looks like Tom's over here. That's uh, what the hell are you
doing over there? I don't know. He wants us to follow him for
what I don't know. Let's go see fine, but I'm gonna complain the
whole way. See, I'll follow along kids walking around. They just want
to go home and have a bowl stuke. So Tom was at the mouth
of an alley that's between a couple of businesses. Everything's closed and dark because
it's three in the morning. But he walks down the alley and turns around
and sees you guys. You are you are following? Yeah? Yeah,
what's your marching order? I was on the song, so i'd probably go
first having No, I'm just kidding. He stops at a door. It's
like a back door of a looks like a restaurant. It's like a dumpster
out back. You know, it smells like rotten food. And this the
boss wants to see you. Guys, all right, and he pulls the
door open, holds it open for you, and sure enough, it's a
kitchen. But the doors out to the restaurant area are propped open, and
you can see the boss that same big, big rotund half orc out there.
But that golden bird cage it's sitting on the table. But it's all
smashed and broken. Oh oh no, oh, it happened to the little
monkey. Dude, gentlemen, I appreciate you coming to see me. It's
such a such an unconvenient hour. Oh he's got up anyway, said it's
all good. No, no, no, don't you downplay this. You're
welcome. Take a step closer. You're in. Please have a seat.
Thank you. No. Because of the nature of the godfather of my organization
and this distant kinship to your own correspondent, shall we say nods at RN,
I'm certain you will understand my antipathy to this group of inquiring individuals who
have recently been causing trouble in my town. Scumbags right, Indeed, I'm
left with little recourse but too well kick him out, and I think it
would behoove us to continue our cooperative endeavors. My people tell me you cleaned
up your mess in the sewers. It was very timely, very well done.
I think that our relationship, if it remains of such a professional nature,
should continue. Are you coming on to me at least until such time
as we may be free of the presidents of our unwelcome visitors? A gentleman,
They've started a war. They have come into my town. They've roughed
up my people, They've taken some prisoner. Things are gonna go Things are
gonna get bloody. I'm gonna let you know you don't have to choose sides,
because the sides are gonna choose you, So make your make sure you're
standing in the right spot when they do. That makes sense. Now,
since these guys have come to my town, I've had tales on them.
They have a facility over just a few blocks from here, a warehouse.
They're using it as a sort of sort of headquarters. We're gonna go over
there tonight, me and Tom and anyone else I can round up. I
would like you guys to come with us. I'm in yeah yeah, after
that brody shit they'd tried to pull out the bar. Hell yeah, yeah,
I'm behooved? Are you behooved? On? Like deep boved? They
got they got money in this fortress, right, most likely they have money.
Do you see what they were wearing? Yeah, they got money.
Let's let's get them. Let's crow I'm downe these fine gentlemen of coming to
my city and acted indecently in the name of the great a good Well.
It was the time the judges would have put a stop to it. But
these days, these days, it's the judgment of the streets. Hell yeah,
it's it's just you know, you get them bullies get taken care like
that, you know, tell he always just to take care of it.
There's already been trouble tonight. We need to move quickly, so let's go.
He He gets up from the the seat there and heads towards the door,
the same door you guys came in through. Tom's waiting on the inside
of it. Um, still just the one Tom mhm. While we're going,
I'll ask him, where is the other Tom? Yes, yes Tom?
Or yes the boss Tom Tom. Yeah, he's uh, he's unavailable
at the moment. He's a little uh indisposed. It seems it seems our
visitors have invited him over for a chat. Oh okay, see about putting
up early and to the evening that they're having. All right, I like
that. As you're making your way there, the Godfather says, gentlemen,
I am inexperienced and manners. In matters of direct conflict. We tend to
comment things from the side usually. I think in this case, with our
timeline, with the message we want to send, direct conflict is a little
more appropriate. But I defer to use and your judgment as to how we
undertake this endeavor. All right, Oh, I have to get to lay
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back to the muse. In Mall l le Bonton, Let damn good times
roll. He gets you a bottle block away and he points it out and
it is just a big rectangular warehouse. There's a door at one of the
front corners, and there's like big like roll up loading doors on the back.
How many ways in and out? There's two of the roll up loading
doors on the back, and then just the one entrance store on the opposite
side over at one of the corners. How many stories tell is it?
It's probably about thirty feet tall. It's a warehouse type building, so probably
it's all open, maybe a catwalk or like a loft. So okay,
so there would be like something drop but okay, so can you gain access
from the top. Then there are windows up there, but there's not like
a ledge or anything to to get into them from. Okay, okay,
I have the fly as all. I was thinking drop people off, be
a fly if we could go on through the top. But I don't now
that that's actually that helpful. You know, you want a story building.
It's not like we're getting too the top of anything. But we got the
dope bro. I can teleport, Yeah, just teleport, and you do
have the noe bro, and you can rude piggyback on me. I don't
don't say it like that. Um, you know you'd like it turn them
into a giant ape and just put a saddle on him. Climb on my
back when I ride the note bro. That's happen. Blaster blaster whisper in
my ear. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Well,
we definitely don't go through a door, right, Oh yeah, No,
up on the roof, up on the roof. Yeah. Um.
From up on the roof, you can see through the windows. If you
lean over, you can see there's oops. From up on the roof,
you can lean through the window, see through the windows if you lean over,
and you can see that there is a cat walk on the other side
of those windows that you could probably get onto from the window pretty easily.
Okay, I'll motion down to them that there is a walking I'll make two
little fingers walking path and then point down to say that we can walk there.
He wants us to walk in thumbs up. I'm gonna keeps teleport back
down and telept Have they through the front that's what do you say? I
guess that's what that rings up? They're making bird noiseless prince, and we
come here. I'm gonna ride up on my fly Why are we calling through
the front door? Did that date? What? No? We're going down
here, look right, there, I'm point to the cat walk. I'm
gonna I'm gonna point to Pilsner, and then once I have his attention,
i'm gonna flip him the burden, point at it. I'm gonna come back
down to get it, and I'm gonna make a finger walking again. I
thought it locking the door. Fuck everybody up, Fly down, I'm we're
going through the roof. So it's take ride, pills are in the note
rope up and let him get back down in there. I'm gonna ride through
the window on my fly. I think is that possible? Is it big
enough? I don't think the window is big enough to ride through on your
fly. It's about the size of like a horse. And I'll leave the
fly there with the rope tethered to the fly. Tie the rope to your
giant fly and just leave it parked on the roof. Yeah, yeah,
I might have him like swing down later and pick me up. It's like
our getaway fly. All right, you guys, get into the You're going
into the window onto the catwalk. Yeah. Does the plan make Awre you
trying to do it sneakily? Or are you just you're just gonna smash on
in. I'm gonna try and sneak and I'll defer to their judgment to make
stealth checks. Wow twenty one are you kidding me? All right? Well,
I got a NAT one, I got a NAT two, the two
that aren't sneak, sneak, and the one that he not sneaky. We
rolled that one I did. I got a twelve on the second time.
Well, uh, bills, are you just smooth as butter? Slide through
the window onto the catwalk and get a good look around as Elmer is up
next to come through, and you're like, you see him getting sucked up
the flies. Me and ren Bell try and sneak through at the same time
it gets stuck. Move yeah, we stop shouting at each other. You
can tell a more move your ass. So, pills, are you get
to look? You get to look around your fifteen foot in the air on
this uh this cat walk and you can see over the rows of shelves and
stacked crates and stuff, and it's pretty pretty neatly organized in this warehouse.
At the far end of it, near those roll up doors, you can
see there's uh like a cleared space without the shelves and boxes and stuff and
you. You're starting to get a look around as you hear Elmer come through
behind you, and the window is a kind that that gilt out, you
know. He puts a little too much weight on it, and one of
the hinges pops. It's a loud plank. He slides in, and Wren
comes behind him and steps right where Elmer did, and the other pops and
the whole pain just falls out and snatches. But you guys are in and
you hear, yeah, we are outs of alarm from the far far unto
the warehouse where where you can make out that cleared space. There's also looks
like some lit lamps or torches or something over there, but the rest of
the warehouse is pretty dark. Did we have a tell that dude one to
come in? Indeed? No, I mean he probably heard us. Everyone
heard us. It was pretty low. We're creating the distraction. We should
have told him that probably well, it wasn't the plan we're improvising. I
don't even know why we try. You guys all have dark vision, right,
yep, yep, okay, perfect, So you can see the catwalk
stretches around this front side of the building and the well facing the building we'll
say the right side on the inside, where it at the far back corner
gives access to light. What looks like probably an office with a big window
that overlooks the warehouse. You hear people shouting, you know, calling out
what's that, who's there, what's going on after the loud crash this big
window pane falling. But you also see someone moving around in that office as
they stand up and open the door and come out on the catwalk. Look
to be a human though, and they're in the light and you are not.
They don't appear to see you. I make a handwalking motion with my
two fingers at the other two and point at the person in the light,
because that's the only signal I know how to do. Apparently said they're shouting
of alarm down below though, right yeah, over by the far end of
the warehouse. It's it's it's a big warehouse. It's probably like eighty or
ninety feet long. Over at the far end of it, there's sort of
a cleared area in front of the loading doors or whatever, and that's that's
where it's lit, and you can hear the shouting from but the shelves are
too tall to see what's over There is a person in the light wearing one
of the Inquisitor outfits they are. The person in the light is actually wearing
studded leather armor and has a shield and a spear. But he is wearing
a top hat with that Inquisitor logo that rabbitrabbit a hat. So you've identified
him as an enemy. Yes, okay, I'm I'm gonna look over at
Kilsoner just in haste, look over point motion to knock out my head,
like knock him on the head, and then castas all right, So there's
a stairway to the cat walk over there by the office where this guy came
out of And after you haste, you just hate Pilsner or do you win
that you were running or no, I just I just hasted Pilsner. Okay,
so after you hate Pilsner, you guys see someone walking up the steps,
also in one of the Inquisitor uniforms. This guy looks to be dressed
a lot more like the inquisitor you just fought at the at the three legged
snake. Which one was I supposed to take out one coming up the steps?
Yeah, I would appears. So now, um, all right,
let's make this quick, I'll rush them. You rush them, yep?
Oh all right if you rush very fast, yes, yes, yeah,
because you're already fast because you're a barbarian. Ye, and your speed will
be doubled because of haste. So that'll be eighty eight. It's not gonna
be enough because you're like right in the middle of the front. So you
gotta run all the way across to the corner and then down the cat walk.
You're gonna get about halfway down that cat walk to him, I think,
wait, but hold on. So the extraction we can can use to
be attack or dash? Is dash just a movement? Or dash is just
a movement, but his movement is doubled because of haste, right, hold
on advantage Kant's addition, Uh speed is doubled. Yeah, so you can
move to Yeah you could. You could dash with your extraction and yeah yeah
absolutely sweet. Um. They are standing face to face talking as you springing
up this cat walk. It's in the lady clank clank, clank, clank,
and they both woke up and take your your attack. Surprise mother the
bucket. Damn, which one are you going for? First? One?
I run into probably the one with the uh the spell cast you guys.
Spell cast guy. Yeah, that's a that'll hit. Oh yeah for fourteen
damage. Oh really, seriously it was it was Peter and on the twenty
and then went over to the two, so I got nine on a seconde.
All right, he's unhappy and everyone roll initiative. Pilsener, you are
now at a point where you can see the guys down below. There are
three more dudes down there, and you can see two well hell hounds as
well. Um roll initiative, but actually, Wren and elm are you guys
will still get surprise round actions before we start the initiative. I might not
because I rolled a one for initiative and then I rolled a second one for
initiative, So I don't know how you want to play that. I didn't
roll a third one, but I definitely rolled two back to back ones for
initiative. Yeah, I think that's gonna be your surprise round. Was you
were surprised by all the glass everywhere after he broke the windows? The fast
pills ner Rans, did you see that? You just weren't ready. He's
fast. He's really being fast. I mean he's so fast he makes fast
people look not fast he's fast. You just weren't ready, So elmer,
you get a surprise round action. Still. Um, so I'm gonna take
my movement towards the fight along the catwalk. Does the thirty feet I have
get me to where I can see the people down below or now? Nope?
Okay, nope. So the so the aisles in this warehouse are mostly
running across, with one central aisle that runs all the way front the back.
Um, just the way the shelves are arranged, you can't. You
can't really see much in that cleared area where you can you're the people,
Okay. And then so we're on the cat walk. If I push him
away from if I were to gust him and push him, it would push
him along the cat walk crack not for gusta wind? Yeah, yeah,
because it comes to would Yeah, it wouldn't, Okay, I just wanted
to make sure before it. Um, I'm gonna attempt to shoot him with
a crossbow, which the one that I can not the inquisitor, but the
other one, the other one, the one with the top hat. Yeah,
make your attack roll. Oh do I get an extra attack with paste?
You know, because you use it for you the dash? Yeah,
twenty one to hit. That'll hit hell? Yeah, seven and I'm gonna
fury of the small. I think what does that do if he's a larger
size than me. He takes eight extra damage? All right, so fifteen
total. Yep, he feels it a little. He's not thrilled. Yeah,
he'll be all right. Wait till I had to pull the crossbell at
him. Yes, I'm not reloading it. Reloadings for chimps. This is
just dumb dumble all the bolts out of the poor I'm inventing throwing the gun
right now. Okay, and then we're gonna be into initiatives. So pills.
And you've got a twenty one furniship? Was there right? Seventeen?
I believe, oh seventeen, Elmer? Did you get it? Someone get
it? Twenty one? I got a twenty one. You got a twenty
one? So Elmer, you're gonna get back to back turns. I guess,
Oh, I'm a cad to pull the crossbow at him. Wait what
I'm gonna do it as a level of two stills second off the spot.
It's amazing. Um, so it's text Terry fourteen safe that two. So
he did not save twenty six to him and the crossbow. Yeah, and
the crossbow. The crossbow. The crossbow is pretty well smashed, but he
takes twenty six damage. I rolled eight three, eight, seven forty eight.
Nice. Let's say, okay, no, he's tangled up in the
string, um pills are it's your turning? All right? Crossbow just went
flying over your shoulder and snacked that dude in the face. All right,
you have the other dude right correctly following the bolt. Just continue to try
to beat the shit out of him. Oh, it's a shiny twenty five
thirteen damage. The second strack is a twenty not natural for another twelve damage,
haste h four twelve was only twelve. Yeah, it rolled two d
twelve. I got a three and a five and then plus four for strengthen.
All right, yeah, yeah, I know, but he's not thrilled
about it, critically grazed him like a minute, No, you're not even
so, I'm just having a good old time, yep um. At this
point, the four dudes down below, I'll I'll see you chopping up their
leader there, and see their other leader clutching the bloody knows where he got
smacked with a crossbow, and two of them come running up the stairs.
That's gonna be their whole turn, is getting up the stairs, and then
the other two are gonna shoot crossbows at you. What's your armor class?
One hit? How do I get a plus two with Hayster plus two days?
Yes? Yeah, so it's eighteen still hits. Really roll the seventeen
and he's plus four nine for nine damage. The other one misses though,
it bounces off the the guard rail on the catwalking. You missed me,
bitch um. But then the dude with the top hat is going to pull
his spear off his back and his shield because he had him slung there,
and then he's going to attack you and shield. So he tries to smack
you with his shield and you dodge out of the way, but he gets
you twice with his spear. And this guy is good with it h once
for twelve and once for only six because they rolled two ones, so eighteen
total eighteen total? Got it? Um? Make perception checks everyone, thirteen,
sixteen, fifteen. It's all you realize. Once the commotion started,
you can hear more talk from more, more voices from beneath the catwalk.
These ones are sound like they're trying to draw attention, like like people's shout
hey, hey down here, hey come get us down here. But also
the bad guys are shouting they're up there and get them. It's hard to
make out a whole lot anyway, it sounds like they got all the prisoners
down below. This concludes this episode of A Fool's Quest. To join us
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