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on the Night Shift. He didn't study these things. This wasn't his areas
on the on the on the left, here you've got um cele'st your cartography
planetary movement. On the right side, you've got orbital mathematics. I can't
scream together gold my souls already sold. Swim you trapped, Tod smell.
I wish you well and never creats your own your streets. You do better
to retreat if you are right. Don't hid the night shift? All right,
We should lay low. We should hide until the carriage comes yeah the
door until you yeah, yeah, until until Jeff comes up fairly. Uh,
you hear a carriage pull up a horse bray and then you hear like
a knocking on the door. Jeff did this special knock? Uh Jeff that
there's a special knock. It's very much a greg thing. Yeah, yeah,
Bill, open the door, see who it is so nice to see
you, hey guys. Okay, okay, let's open the door. Yeah,
alright, into the carriage, all right, Bill and Jeff get in
the front. Well, we need to hide the light in with us,
right, like Jeff has to drive, Okay, gets in the back of
you. Yeah, but we can't build sit up front camp. I mean
he's a known part of the group, now, right, is he on
the Okay, then Bill be drive? Sorry, Jeff sits up front with
Jeff? Yeah, would Jeff. I'll leave that up to Jeff. Yeah,
Jeff's all the way. Yeah, yeah, just you know a way
to use it hide your wives. You know, I ain't got no wolf.
It's all right. The town together, Je Troue Bridge, Jeff sort
of like leans anywhere where? Where where are you going going to bridge?
So all just Troue Bridges State. Oh okay, I know where that's up
and he starts leading me that way. That was kind of crazy, guys,
so weird thirty minutes. Yeah, I thought I was gonna coolnail flail.
Who do you think? Who do you think was trying to get us
city? Yeah? Everybody wanted town yeah, chatter and plays. So he
really came through for us there. Yeah, I won't question him anymore.
Well, you know, we were throwing a hand. Couldn't tell that we
were getting led into a trap. I don't think I was in short order.
Bill turns around says, hey, um, a little bit of traffic.
Uh, it's like there maybe stopping carriages a collective, get my bat.
Do you have any chickens, chicken chickens, chickens? What would you
need chickens? Have a couple of chickens. Everybody loses sight to what's actually
going on. Quite an easy. That plane worked, it's worked before.
How far away are we? It's like it's like six carriages ahead of us?
Okay, okay, let's think ya. We gotta think. Um,
I have calm emotions. But it's not gonna it's not gonna do it here.
It's too too risky, too risky. Um. How far are we
from the estate. Let's call it ten blocks? We just get out walk?
Is it? Is it daylight or nighttime hours? Right now? An
invisibility spill. You may have like a giant trench coat on your shoulders and
then we could put that on. Yeah, I mean somebody, I have
a sort yeah, um, carriages? How many? How many guards are
there up there? Bill? It looks it looks like a lot um twenty
twenty. Maybe we take a different round is it just one guard check in
the carriage or a bunch of It looks like a handful. I don't think
we can take the chance of like getting out of line, because they're gonna
notice that. I can do the thing where I like puked all over a
plague victim. I think we could. I don't know if that'd work.
I think we could get out of line anything in the carriage. Who can
use the disguish ourselves? How many times can I use the rhyme crown once
per long rest? Once per long rest is what we said. Yeah,
once perlong rest. Damn it, I had another one. A little part
of me wants to make it once per short rest, just because I'm eager
to see what you talk him up with. Short rest makes sense, but
you haven't still, yeah, we haven't short rest all Okay, four carriages.
Jeff turns around, leans in the window and goes, I'm gonna run
it, all right, Jeff, Gordon over here, let's do it.
As we run it, I just cast eldritch blast and we just four so
I don't hate it. Um, we can keep that in the back pocket
for now. I goes, full carriages. We can you actually run it?
Though what I can. Yes, they're not carriage is just gonna be
like in front of you, that are one. I'm on the sidewalk and
just just ram. Okay, okay, I'm not opposed to this idea.
Uh is there an alleyway that we can maybe go down? Definitely not.
It chose that spot. Um, maybe we can act out of it.
Yeah, well no, well no, I don't think. I kind of
think we're we're gonna get in the fight here. Car just get your bat
ready, get your base. I just want to look nice. No,
no, no, no, all right, I'm trying to make myself look
very sick here. So we just we just then I just reached get ready,
puke all over myself. Um, don't worry, guys. Okay,
we could we could pretend like this is a play card. Yes, yes,
thank you, we're all sick each other. Yes, everyone make yourself
throw up. You'll just starts earlier. I do it. I just I
made myself Ralph right there, Okay, he turns out a violently. I'm
gonna oh no, no, Bill, tell them you're there's the plague card
we have to get through. Bill, tell them to play card. I
take some lipstick that I have and I just start drawing pink dots all over
us. Yes, yes, yes, they got the measles. I want
you guys to know that you've had many bad players. This might be the
baddest. This might be no no, no, no, nothing more plague.
It's worse than chicken splosion. I'll get it there. Throw it up
on each other can be terrifying. Don't worry if you don't say, in
the middle of training for this my entire life to say we're getting We've got
to get to the infirmary. But we do have to like, uh,
kind of change our faces enough so we really don't look like ourselves. We
look like six people. Yeah, be like doubled over and like you know,
maybe like a wonky eye. I'm gonna be cured up in the fetal
position so they don't see that look like a drag. Yeah. Yeah,
you can have like your hood up or like there's gonna be you know,
visible vomit. I can do some acid splash and I could make marks all
over our skins. WHOA Okay, feeling church gonna work, so I don't
want to go that full commitment with it. I can ship myself who goes
well, well, well, how are you off see this play cap?
I'm not sure you want to be looking inside sippy green Guard. They're all
in there now. Well you know they they show they show off. Shorry,
you know, Tom Bombos looking out of Okay, why are you going
this way? What? Wow? We go on this? Well, we're
going this way because it's a play cop and uh we're going to the doctor
to go to the doctor obviously the infirmary. The doctor he's like, it
goes um, who's in the back who? What do they look like?
Yeah? It goes well, then I'll tell you the mighty sick sickly it
looks uh death. They look like they're humans. They're all humans. They
look like humans. They're human. Lock um but dying. You know.
All right, we're gonna have to, I think, open the back door,
but we'll do it from a distance. I want everybody to make performance
checks. Yes check, team, performance check. Let's do it. It's
gonna make one as Oh my performance is good, all right, let's go.
Nineteen nine thirteen. Does my actor trait come into play here? I
think I've advantaged on deception and performance che farting okay, eleven plus one chrisma?
What does that? Do I get plus one chrisma? Like why would
it say you get plus one chrisma? But then do I use performance or
do I use my chrisma? Use performance? Okay, seventeen seventeen um?
And Bill roll the fourteen, which means his check is a thirteen UM.
So he says that, and you guys all just start fake wretching, and
uh, I pick up Tom and like have him like turn to where they
can't see, and he sticks his fingernails us thrown up all the I turn
over. I'm like, yeah, beware, oh unto you? Who would
Castle curs upon you? And yorkin? Why did I go to the ball
that night? I should have never slept. The woman opened the door.
Yeah here reading character. Okay, now they open the door and there's just
a strong vomit and that's a little queen that Tom, and he slams it
shut and hits it. Okay, go please lee playing and because okay,
thanks and rides away. Well we'll be we'll be seeing you now. Bill
sort of waves you guys get a couple of blocks down. Hold on now
now we're just like Bill the window that was great. Oh, Mike,
did you guys really? Oh? Um, you can not vomit, You're
just stuck in there? Just sure? So? Can I just cast pressed
agitation like a million times and kind of clean things up slowly but surely.
Yeah? Yeah, okay, here you go, Here we go. Sorry,
Hey, sorry, ship myself back there, y'all. No apologies necessarily
into it. Let me just got that. Did you eat hummus recently?
Time? Anybody on the podcast? He just pressicized his ass untilious. I
would like to thank you, though. The full commitment on letting me puke
on your chest was. I think, what's so? I think so?
I think it was the right move. Bill. I thought it was my
accent. What did you think? Um? I thought it was very great.
Where was that? Where did that come from? Never heard an accent
like that before. I have a friend from Falconia. His name's black Horn.
He's Uhland and from Yeah, and you know that's how he talks.
Delay do declare I'm gonna make a Brian Kelly joke, but that'll probably be
pretty timed out by this point. I don't think it's gonna make anything.
Make a Michael Scott office joke. I don't know the office. Well enough,
okay, Um, in short order, you arrive in front of Aldi
Strowbridge's house and we don't smell like shit. Clean clean, Yeah, and
now a word from our sponsors. Yes, Bill's driving the carriage there.
There's a lot of Unfortunately, you guys have been stopped for it's been like
half an hour. You're you're in the middle of dragon Spear. What is
this baton rouge traffic? I hate traffic, Bill goes, I'm so sorry.
I tried to talk to the carriage ahead of us and they said that,
um, there was really nothing that they could do, and then they
called me some names. M Bill. If you can't get us around this
traffic, I'm going to go berserk. Oh well, don't don't worry about
that. Him. Oh here I got I've got some delicious drinks I've been
meaning to show you. Anyway. Look at this, Look at this ale
Here. What's that right there on the front. It looks like my father.
Well it's a berserker mode a Baltic porter with coffee and cocoa nibs in
the background, Castro listening party carriage. This will take the edge off I
might be okay, sitting in traffic in this carriage, if party carriage.
If I have a little berserker mode from Southern Prohibition brewing over there in the
fine state of Missus scissus hippy. You it's got coffee. You know I've
got caffeine. I'm just kestrel is wired. Now I am wired. You're
gonna have to beat me to that stripper pole here in the podcast on that
thing. Wow, I'm gonna just spin around and like a little top,
like a little spider monkey. Goodhead. Wait huh wait, wait wait wait,
because this three drinks. I think this is it. We're seeing out
party carriage. Watch this. I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna I'm gonna
spit around and I'm gonna do a flip and I'm gonna land in Timbo's lap.
Here we go. I rolled it two. Yeah, he does a
flip and he lands Timbo. I guess you're pretty happy to see me.
Wrong pole, I don't know that I was doing such a good job.
I almost I guess that's a berserker mode now, yeah, I think rolls
up the window. This party carriage is quite fun. Well, our good
friends at Pelican Craft Brands have once again stocked our fridge with the finest of
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Baltic Porter with cocoa nibs and coffee from Southern Prohibition brewing over there in Mississippi.
A great beer, Attilius. I know you're a big fan of Southern
Prohibition. I'm a very big fan of this beer and the brewery. They
make tasty ales in this Baltic Porter hits on all the right notes with the
coffee flavors. Do you want to smell each other, Attilius? Sure,
Tom and Attilius start making out. The party carriage, Party carriage. I
mean we could be having more fun somewhere else. Maybe I'd like to get
stuck in traffic with you, fellows mode. Indeed, So what's this game?
Magic? The gathering? I've heard that? Well, do you have
some money that you want to spend? Yeah, there's a lot of magic
out there if you want to go down this whole Uh, Little Wars has
a great magic community down thing. Yeah, every Friday night. That's actually
where I heard of it. Uh. Look, I mean, if you
haven't heard a Little Wards, you're watching this. It's a game shop in
Baton Rouge. It's absolutely incredible, whether you want to play Warhammer, Fantasy
A to Sigma D A D, Blood Bowl forty K, any tabletop gaming,
any board games. I mean, I I love going to Little Wars
legitimately. So it's not just straight like Fantasy Dad stuff. You can,
like you said, tabletop games, like board games and everything. I've learned.
One of my favorite card games they're ever called Dutch Blitz. Have you
ever heard of Dutch Blitz? She says, A voundeble good skin, so
crazily addictive. Like a bunch of my friends over there play it and it
is so much fun. It's just the CODs like a normal deck of playing.
Wow, you're gonna wear some wooden shoes. I mean, it's cool
though. It's like you said, Chuck, So it's not just d Indias
have. You can go in there and they can you can you can test
games, or you can run through games that you maybe want to buy.
They'll play them for you. They'll they'll they'll, you know, Dmit,
run it whatever. Um, you can rank games. You can just bring
friends in there and go play games. Like You've also gotten a lot of
my dice over Wars a lot of good Parphnia. You used to have problems
like finding a house to play a board game that night, like everybody had
kids or whatever else. Um, yeah, just go to Little Wars.
Go to Little Wars. You don't have to like reserve a table or anything.
You just show up, nobody's on the table. You play. I
think now you're starting to have Yeah, so and you just set up play.
They're they're they're awesome at like they'll walk you through whatever game. They'll
show you. Know, if you're looking for minis, they'll come and show
you which ones are where. I can't tell you how many times I have
put off my D and D prep until the last minute and then had to
go buy a D and D many an hour before a game star and somebody
walks up and says, what are you looking for? And I'm like,
oh, I need like a goblin rogue who also has a hat for some
reason. Right here. It's pretty crazy. Hell how much stuff they have
now, Because in years pass when you went to a game in place,
it was like slim pickens. Now you know that place is stacked the rafters
with Now they have a wall of miniatures. Yeah, the entire store and
even though you could probably get a lot of that stuff on Amazon or like
other Internet stories. You go there for the community, for the support,
being there with your friends. Yeah, and absolutely you want to buy local
and sport UFLG. That's your favorite local game store. They are, They're
the best. And um, there's for the Marvel heads out there. There's
a new Marvel game that they're all very obsessed with that is kind of sweeping
the store I heard. And so if you want to play it, you
can act. You just go in and ask Van and they'll run you through
a game. What's it called. I can't remember that. It's not the
LCG, it's not Marvel Champions. I think it is what the LCG is,
it's a um, it's it's a miniatures game. You battle like different
you. I don't know if it's objective basic you have the squad basically,
So is that what is Marvel Crisis Protocol? Okay, there you go,
so check that out that. I mean, they have it there and it's
a huge community right now at a little worse for you Marvel guys. There
you go right off a Jefferson Highway in Baton Rugs. Little Wars br on
Instagram I can find them on Facebook as well. Um, you guys pull
up to the troe Bridge estate. M h the home of Sir troll Bridge.
Yes, ums, it is not as nice as the Cockrus estate.
Surprising, I bet you. They don't even have a shower it. Man.
It's it's more of less of in the state, more of a fortification,
right, It's more about protection and less about being. Yeah, well
he's a warrior with that set. There are two guards posted outside the front
gate. When your carriage rolls up, what do you want to do?
Well, Jeff Bill talk away in build the turtle. Um, he turns
back the window. That's all I got And I was like, well,
hello there, how are y'all? Two boys doing this? Fine afternoon.
This is Michael Patriot. My name is Brickleby Shanks first, and it's a
pleasure we need to see surround to some media. Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
He'll come in, introduce yourself. Well, listen my close friend and
come Madrid over here. Mister. Yeah, yes, Jimmathy snails Bottom,
we'll playing on one shot with these Someone's ass still sitting in this damn carrot
as you can see from quite excitful. My name being I'm ready to get
the hell out of here stressed. These damn legs root too well to be
fair. So we have been in this carrots for quite some time now.
As you can tell, it's getting a little testy in hell, and I
would have hate uh to have to uh uh you know, force a way
m So if you could just go ahead, so let us sit in here,
we can see uh strobe he is expecting us. We do have an
appointment at this time before sunset on this very day. That's it. We
got things to do. We need to get in here. Prying too,
you understand me, Like, what the why? Why? Where the sports
is going on in here? No? No, I would hate fighting.
I would hate for some upset with you because you didn't let his lifelong companions
and friends in and they showed up the game just looking at each Finally one
of us, did you say, force your way in if we'll master But
it shouldn't come to that. Yeah, I don't think you're folks and on
the right thing here, boy, I'm you need to let us in so
we can go meet what sir alds meet. He is expecting us, as
you can see from this note right here, Presidentiation, clap out a little
little little piece of paper. Did you give him time to read it?
No? Police back? Yeah? So uh as I said, you must
let us in immediately, all right? Is that everybody here? Oh my
god, I'm gonna forget as you didn't see, sirs. We have a
very pregnant woman in here with us, and I would hate would have to
deliver this baby here on this brand. I ain't no dangn doctor, I
ain't got the time forience. Okay, what's her name? I need to
I need to announce you. And about snigglefoot okay, all right, Steve,
you got all those names. And Steve, he's got like a note
pad out and he runs up that up towards the house. Um, wait,
wait where y'all coming from? Fog puts an through window, the thumbs
up so that no one can see. Steve comes running back and he's like,
okay, he said, stay the dragon, just go around well in
the gate for you and start, and I hope we have a great thing.
Okay, good to be honest, I don't really like that. Okay,
you guys put up guys the house. Great job, lead, brilliant,
and what happens I think we just step out as normal. Yeah,
I don't know. I kind of want to be gripped my belt buckle a
little bit. Well, a man walks up. I'm I'm Pizza. I'm
the major Dumbo of the house. H which one of you is pregnant?
That would be me. Yeah, he looks you, and you're about to
deliver. Yes, you seem calm. Well, she's a half elf,
you know there. I have a high tolerance of pain. Ye. I
don't know enough about half elf to know if that's right or not. Are
you gonna let a pregnant woman stand out here by yourself? They said you
had wild accents. Yes, yeah, it's just the echo from inside of
the bridge. We really need. It's really important, sir, I'll just
troll bridge, he said. He goes one more time. What's his name,
sir? Honest stroll bridge? Okay? He pulls out the piece of
paper that's been like RiPP from and what are your names again? Could I
just what's your name? Listening? Right, We've come to talk to sir
addist Troubridge. H huh, reckon, you ought to go fetch him for
us right now? Port whoa We just talked to the guy. But oh,
hilaritis. Philartius sent us. Yes, I'm supposed to talk to him
about center door, fir, That is correct. Who should I say is
calling? I don't think these names though. Yeah, look boy, when
he got you need to go get Trobri and you get him a beer.
Nawl, my god, you want to be busier than the one like a
man in the bucking contest. I'm gonna get you out here, and I'm
gonna show you what born Are you going to get that troubridge boy and bring
it back out of here right now? Tell the knight shifts here, talk
to him about some biggers. Now we can either continue like that or you
can just go get him. Did you say night shifts? Yes? Yes,
he turns and walks away. Okay, that was either good at bat,
I don't know what the fuck? Close the door in our face?
Yeah, Like he's like, I'm gonna go, I'll go get him and
he closes the door. Well, Attilious, I must say, you really
nailed that. Great? Did you busier than a one legged man? And
a buttkicking came across that once in my travels before the nightshift. Wonderful,
very entertaining competition. The door opens and you've only seen him once and very
briefly. But sir Aldi Strobridge stands in front of you in um, John,
Yes, it's like mid day. He looks pretty like a Onesie disheveled.
Yeah, like a one you Pokemon? You read my fucking mind.
He's got what's what's big Dick's real name? Pokemon? You've seen that video?
Come on, don't you haven't seen the v I'm gonna send you the
video where the guy, Yeah, you freaked him out. He was very
confused, James, very like, what where this guy calls Pokemon the wrong
name? It's also Jay, do you have a Pokemon Onesie? Do you
have a beadri Onesie? Worth the investment? Worth the investment? For sure?
Um? Okay? So he yeah, he comes out and he's got
a Onesie on with bees on it at how you old enough? Man?
Sorry, he's a red in the eyes, his hair is kind of it
looks like he's been in bed. Yeah, come on, and he turns
around. He sort of walks into the house, leaves the door up and
mind him yep, okay, we follow him in, follow him. I
think I think the last person builds the last person and He's like, should
I close the I'm gonna close the door. I'm gonna he closes it behind
him. You guys walk in and you go up some stairs and you know,
take a left, take a right, and he basically takes you back,
um into his bedroom and then he just like sits on the bed cross
legged. Yeah. I want to go sit by him, put a hand
on his knee. You okay, big guy? No, where I sit
on the other side, and I kind of like rub circles on his back.
That feels good, feel I do not sit down on the bed.
First, you can tell he kind of like chuckles, and and then it's
like he's like, m hm hmm. Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine,
I'm fine. Um hm. I was surprised, surprised to see you
want to talk about it? No Ah, No, not much to say.
You were friends for Jesus fifty years. It's a long time, long
time. Yeah. To be clear, you know we didn't kill him.
You don't think that, do you. I think you would have liked tried
to kill us by now on the spot. Yeah, okay, that's good,
you know, yeah, because I know that you were close. Very
look at this gifts he gave us. Yeah, he just got us really
cool things. And she like points to Sierra. Speaking of which, Timbo,
I'd want to talk to you about that that that weapon you got?
Oh yeah, maybe proposal trade? Oh oh yeah, okay, well yes,
yes, um what are you doing? Oh? I'm showing him my
crossbowe. It's very it's very nice. He was very proud of those.
Really, he said he'd you know, he'd he'd watched you, uh grow
grow, and you know he knew what you what you needed? What is
he? Santa Claus who is oh never minding blacked out one to another world
for a second. I suppose, um, Alice, who do you think
did this? Would that? I knew that? Um? Um? So
we we had gone to um. Why do I keep forgetting his name?
Larus Hilaritius? I keep wanting to call Polly. I don't know. We
kept We talked to Hilaritis and he showed us around, um the office,
and we just covered that's the blackboard that alf Iron was working on. Was
enchanted to hide this formula. She takes out the parchment that she copied on
and shows it to him. Does this have any kind of you know,
implication for you? Or he grabs it eagerly, like you can tell this
like the first thing he's seen in a while that was like new information.
He looks at it and it looks like the sort of thing he could have
come up with. Means very little to me. I'm more of a swing
the sword hard. Yeah, dude, did you know about planets? Yeah?
Yes, yeah, No, I know about planets. Okay, let
still understand he's crazy, man, heavens you know. Yes, it's something.
It blew my mind as well. Kestrol tasted accent. Well, it's
a lot of help all of his recent research regarded planetary movement, our planetary
movement. Who would have wanted zenat or dead? Who is threatened buying such
arcane and complicated research, or who's in line to take over his position that
could benefit from his demise, Who would care about planetary alignment? Who would
need this formula? And who dead? He said it was important for you,
the fuck I'm telling you time travel portals. He was figuring out a
way to go back in time to help us in situations. Arch Major's speaking
in I believe that he sort of makes a face at you. Why would
time travel require planetary movement? Wormholes. I guess alignments to create more powerful
spells, to go back in time, to do these things. It's it's
funny you say it. We had this um. One about last conversations was
about I'd asked him about time travel. My my wife died. You guys
back and I asked him about time travel and he kind of laughed, And
apparently any wizard who's ever done anything with time travel, it's had to be
you can jump back sixty seconds or something like that. Any further than that
and they just disappear into the ether. They never come back. No one
knows why. Apparently it was, you know, it's one of those questions
in arcane knowledge that everyone wishes they could solve and no one can. M
Well, that's fascinating, but it doesn't bring us any closer figuring out who
killed him and why they would frame me. I'm good, I didn't do
anything. I'm a good person. I don't feel like I got a lot
of thoughts. It doesn't seem like anybody actually framed you. Though, Well,
okay, my name is okay, okay, okay, okay, But
by endor can we get okay right so that we would find the chalkboard we
need So that wasn't anybody framing us. That's how it got interpreted. It
got misinterpreted as as framing as a senator saying this is who killed me,
but it was actually it was him that wrote our name. Not it wasn't
the It wasn't the kill us. And we need ult we need a corkboard,
um, some strings and some pins, some note cards and sapt's coffee
and I'm He goes out and talks to an assistant and comes back and he
goes, okay before we go any um, And that's might seem silly.
My name is Troe Bridge because I feel like you've been saying troll bridge.
Yeah, like a bridge was under a troll. My name is oh with
a W with a what. True it's not troll Bridge. No, true,
like bro Bridge. Bro. We've been wrong this entire time. Well,
I'm sorry, man, I haven't been purposely bridge. I've been a
big big deal. You know it must be you brought it up. Yeah,
you obviously felt some type of worry about it. That's fine, it's
all good. I would hate it if you called me bimbo all the time.
So not bimbo. Oh No, it's it's Timm Bmbo, tom Bambo,
Tombo bim Bimbo. Yes, oh my god, the first time you've
seen any levity on his face. I'm gonna wink at him. Now,
let's get to and what are we doing? Cards up with names, strings
and shit and like connecting dots like. Okay, Dagger of Yak disappeared into
the Dragon right, all right, the Dagger of Yac was sacrificed outside the
Dragon Bold City and swallowed into after. We feel like we killed, or
the townspeople killed that dark wizard, but we don't have necessarily proof, right,
we don't necessarily have proof that that dark Wizard actually died. He could
what happened to the Dagger of Yak when it actually just disappeared magically? He
said, are you saying this in character and out loud? Yes, yes,
when you say that puts his hands out is a lot. That's our
suspect because he was the last one that okay, he was was the last
one that was around the Dagger of Yak. Yes, he would be the
only one that would How would he have gone at we were with he imprisoned
us in the Bone City, Yeah, and we escaped and thought we left
him to die at the hands of the people if I sacrifice the Dagger of
Yak to the dragon, so it's possible to stop Jarani Lincton from going after
us. Basically, yeah, But how would Garnich Linton have some kind of
connection to this dragon in the way that he was able to get the Dagger
of Yak from it? I'm probably the wrong person to ask. Who can
we ask about this? Because I really want to know? I mean to
be fair. Who would have known? Is he's a fucking wizard too?
He might be into celestial shit. What I'll tell you is m hm.
While Garnitch did eventually prison the dragon, howco originally it was an agreement,
an agreement the dragon sought more power, Garnich sought to use dragon magic.
It was an agreement originally. Later on he imprisoned the dragon wants his power
had grown significantly, but initially they were intertwined. Where is he now?
Do you know his whereabouts? Yes? That's I imagine in the bones citing
what happened in the Bone City. Are people still in prison there? No
one goes to or out of the Bone City, so no one knows.
Is there any way we can talk to Halcoon the dragon. Yes, no,
I think the dragon's gone dead, gone just bones. Would Garnich have
anything to gain by Zenador's downfall so that he could then be the most powerful
magic user on this planet? Apparently that feels weird, saying ma does feel
because there's other planets. I guess he kind of shrugs hot hot for me.
I'm I'm not the person who would know what was ye sorry, right?
Uh m h right? But is there we we can talk to dead
people? Question? M hmm? What do we miss you? I'm the
spell changed one word so it rhymes and I my sleeves rolled up and huh
specific that h m hmm. I'm staring at the word. Can I make
an inside check, see if I stumble across any connections or clues that I
may have missed? Not inside you can do investigation. Yeah, and then
if you roll, well, I'm gonna have to think up something I haven't
already given you. Well, don't worry. Um A five four. I
think while you're staring at it, it's like incomprehensible chaos to you, Like
you're looking at all of it and you're like, I know it connects,
but I just don't know how. I don't really understand why. I'll just
where where does David Gorsman play into all of this and what's happening? Uh
in the with with the Dwarves and Gilda Brag and all that right now?
Have you heard the Dwarves? Mhmm, how do you mean? Oh,
you know and other Genna side. Yeah, and there might be there might
be marching h on on might I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know about that. I don't know about anything about that. I don't
um. He sort of makes a face. I we we we look,
we we know that David Goldsman is trying to eliminate He's trying to kill the
Dwarves, an entire race of people. He's trying to kill all of Dwars
tally. It's the Prince of Gildibrag who's trying to do that, and Gorsman
is just providing the weapon in order to do it. Was a nature of
David's relationship with Zinnador. There really wasn't one m As far as I know,
you were that Davick's a dark wizard as of recently told me very proud
of how you hunted him. Down. He was constantly talking about you.
Actually, it's it's a little bit of a um, a weird thing to
meet you in person, I guess talked about for years. Well, yeah,
we just we've been doing good stuff. Yeah, we just met like
everybody rolling inside check years scene minus eleven, fourteen seven twenty not not not
a dirty twenty, only a slight let's you like at um? All right?
So I think, Tom, you look back at the board again.
He says that you look back. My sleeves are rolled up, and I'm
drinking coffee, looking tired, my hair perfect. It's staring at this board.
Cop who's been trying to solve the yes exactly demeanor. Um. What's
what's funny about it is like in your vision, the board actually kind of
fades back, like you're not really looking at the board anymore. And what
you hear in your head is earlier when he said that he watched you grow
watched you grow up, and you sort of draw a line between that and
what he just said, which is that he's been talking about you for years.
You guys, you certainly Tom realized like we haven't known ex senator for
a year. Yeah, no at all. Yeah, I know he's all
of you find it odd. But Tom is the one who sort of draws
us. How that impossible? So he's been so how would he not to
even look at us unless he had some semblance of the future and how the
past fits into it? Guys, I think we have a time travel thing
on our hands. Oh man, well, now to what I mean?
I don't know for sure. I guess it seems um okay. Why would
Zenna door be looking? Why would he be following us before? I mean,
I mean even how long? Do you know? How many years?
As long as you've known him? No, that would be fifty you hear
some a decade decade he's been talking about it. I mean not blue no
what no, no, m We've all just reached enjoyed two months ago,
saw each other. I think it like you know, every now and then
we get paired up to like clean out some rat stalls or like, yeah,
just doing wrong doing night shift work. Yeah, really more a night
ship. Some rat bashion, A lot of rat bashion. Jesus Christ,
so so tiny. They just make me go down there all the time,
just fucking smash. Do you know anything about uh time traveler? The possibilities
of well, so opening gateways. Perhaps he must. It must be where
that blue figure comes into play from the beginning. To remember, he asked
them about it, and he was like, oh, confusiatic, wasn't him?
Is that even Zenidor that was originally in the room with us? That's
what I'm beginning. Enador began acting on at all in recent times, maybe
like he wasn't fully himself. One of the last conversations I had with Xenator
was him talking about the first time we met when we were kids, stuff
that really only he could know. So I don't think so. It sounds
like a man who I mean between this the guests, sounds like a man
not wholly unsurprised by his own death. Did he seem sort of nostalgic to
you towards the end? Um, we're old men, life has passed us
by the I think it's a little natural for us to get nostalgic. Um.
If you're asking, was it peculiar his nostalgia? I don't I think
so. But yeah, I'm not sure why would if zena Or wasn't deed
that blue figure, why would he have not told us? Yeah? He
did straight up deny it but maybe it was all oh fire, not the
future one. There you go, there you go, So we into because
yeah there was future him president him, didn't know it was him. Yeah,
yeah, strange things happened to wizards who mess with time. No,
we can't do that. Are we feeling that? Wait? What are you
quoting? It was just quote so that his futures in the door. So
if he could see the future, then he would have seen his death coming
and he would have known that he had to give us the information on that
blackboard for something that only weak and solve. And he's known about it for
a long time, been planning it for a long time. M No clue.
This is quite the puzzle. I feel like you need like a montage
like reach eating Chinese food. When was the last time you spoke with him
two nights before his death. Did anything he say strike you as him being
different? Any of his actions a bit out of the norm? Gave me
a present? What did he give you? He sort of makes a face
and hold on and he turns and strides out of the room, drives back
very shortly and holds up like a wristwatch. He always worked like when we
is recognized in this world as a watch or watches in this world. Yeah,
I think time pieces okay, yeah, exist and are reliable. Um
Destro grabs it and starts like tweaking with the clock dials, turning it and
then we all get transported. No, nothing except that you do that,
which everyone finds a little. It's like Bill and Ted me, I definitely
investigate it, roll investigation. But I was helping her no to everything.
Six. I gotta say that before it gets thrown um six. Yeah,
it's uh. I think even with a six, it's evident there's more going
on here than than a time than like a wristwatch. Like even as you're
looking at it, you're like, all right, handed to me, there's
some layers here. I give it to Tom reluctantly, damn it, um
nine? What can I check? Um? While the time is displayed.
I think even with the nine, you can see that there's layers to this
thing. Like it's got a bunch of different No, I'm not gonna allow
four people to make it. We're stretching at it too. There's like several
different faces as you sort of click through the different um like it's got like
a little circle that can spin on it. It clicks through us a few
different faces, and m are there any sort of sis that we would recognize
as looking akin to what was on the blackboard? Weirdly? Uh, No,
symbols, Really, it's it's it's all numbers. M hmm. Different
faces with different times you can flip between. But it appears that it is
measuring time. It's but then you're like switching to like at different time zone
him or something. Okay, okay, well do you know we know there
was one footprint. That's it. One footprint. Then no Or got stabbed
and as he was dying, walked over the blackboard and wrote Kestrel's name on
there, right, and somehow he got the dagger of yac Um. Somehow
the dagger of yak was gotten, which would speak to a magic user somebody,
you know, going in between maybe arcane arts and these gifts. I
feel more and more confident that he knew he is going to die, and
then we were meant to come here and get this watch. One footprint thing
is fucking me. I just don't want to know how he got the diagrap
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, that's a key to a
lot of it. You stamped it into the ground right and disappeared. It
disappeared. It disappeared with the with the sacrifice to Falcoon. Yeah, we
just assumed that it became part of the dragon or whatever. An assistant runs
in what about a breath, um, and calls for Strobridge. He walks
over and they have kind of a hushed conversation, and he turns around and
says, you need to leave. There are people here for you next time
on the night shift. So what's gonna happen is, as soon as you
exit that back gate, Um, you guys, hear bolts and arrows fly
over your head, none of them particularly close, um, but that is
the immediate thing that you're here.