Hello, everyone, Welcome back to its Kai Dungeons of Dragons, Episode thirty
two, the one and only the best episode of the entire podcast. Saying
it now I'm here, Oh my god, I just can't how it goes.
Just give you guys like an X Immediately I'm like, this isn't the
best? Well this was the whole cast. Immediately start like forced choking chuavity.
That was such a good I remember taking it that noise before. It
was so good. So it was like, you know, like one of
those blowing out screams and Tom and Jerry. I don't, I don't.
I'm gonna have to go back and check the footage on that because I don't
know. Oh it's so good. Yeah, well now you know how I
would react to pay ever got force chokes joined rated, we do a ventral
plading? We do? We do? Do? We do? Do?
I am here with I'll do it in a random moorde of this time the
Shark Daniel Green, I'm here, which he wants Daniel Green. I feel
like every day knows that this is an audio podcast. It just wants to
make my life a living hell by doing visual only jokes. I'm here with
Cody shavety. I'm here with Anthony Teching and I'm here with Norman Briggs.
If someone was just listening to that section, it really is just like me
with a bunch of cardboard cutouts or like like stuffed animals around it. The
whole gang, the whole gang is here. Oh, my friends, we
all die but Kaid and he lives on. It's just you with a bunch
of like pictures of ourselves and you're just going through it. Yeah, great,
great, great, okay, well care of you. And then a
picture of Lee Harvey Oswald. Okay, where we left off, you guys
were doing heist on me. The King Solemnia. You're in no venture.
The King Yellovich, that's his name, Cody. You just burst into the
prone room. You met you, you found Hatchiko and the King. You
knocked him the fuck out, and the shark. You've killed like ten people.
Yeah, and I think both Norman and Anthony. You guys are still
in the courtyard, right or did you go through the front door. No.
The last thing I remember doing is I used my shatter cannon to bust
open a door. Okay, so you guys just going into the front front
four yet I'm still invisible. You're invisible, You're still yeah, I remember,
yeah, answering you. There was a whole just bunch of like royal
guests because most of the guards are outside fighting the shark, and I think
they were like, it's really like two or three guards remating. We got
to a door and I'm like, all right, I'll give up my invisibility
so Norman could stay invisible. I'll bust the store up, and then you
can keep we can keep going. And so the last thing that happened was
the door busted open, and Cody, you saw a royal guard come in
and be like, what the hell are you doing here? And what were
you just about to do? I can't remember what was I just about to
do? Yeah, because we were let's a the cliffhanger. You had two
weeks to think about what you were going to do in this situation, and
then I didn't, and then you that's appropriately because you know this is the
moment. Yeah, I can't. I can't think as Cody unless I'm with
you guys, the only time you like, Otherwise I can't do it.
He foregore. Uh so I had I had bonn slaw. No, not
sorry, I had yoga with the show. Yeah, I had yog and
had you go barking at me for some reason. Every other magically being translated
when they speak to me. Yeah, the dog, he's not a parson
Japanese. Then that's how it goes. Okay. I don't want to cause
the scene. I as as as Cody. I am unaware the ex stand
of the rampage this is happening downstairs. I just thought they were causing some
sort of distraction. Yeah, you're unaware of that, So I think I'm
still like kind of under the pretense of like trying to keep this moderately low
as lucky as I can. That's why I had to go. Sorry,
I'm trying to look at my spell list, but we're all twenty isn't loading
my character sheet for me? Don't get a scar? Yeah, we've weave
my scar, all right. I can't look at my spell please. I
know you have heat metal, probably Cody, Cody, Cody. The guy
has just bust through the door. What are you doing with the king?
He's got his spear ready, he's about to call for for assistance. You
have five seconds to think of something. Fine, I have the spell.
Sleep is what I'm trying to probably, right, have you ever had the
spell sleep? I feel like I've used that before, so I want to
check. But my Norman has it. You do not have the spell sleep?
Fine? Four. I am going to charge towards him. He's he's
in the doorway, right, he's in the doorway too. Then yeah,
I'm going to charge towards him and just initiate combat. Does he seem strong?
Yeah, he's as strong as any any of the other ones are.
Are you whild shaping or you just charging as a man? I'm running towards
him. I put my hand on him, and I polymorph him into a
toad. He's appropriate. I just wanted some doing without fighting. You all
right, let you do it, Okay, he's gonna do a wisdom saving
So yeah. Sixteen. Oh I think you even he had to touch him.
I think you could just point at him and have it happen. Yeah,
but he this is a panic thing for Cody. It's a p I
run up. I didn't know what I was going to do. And then
oh my picture running up beel like I bought to punch him and be like,
you're a toad. Three He got three and then it's such an immediately
shrinks down to tight toad. Ah, that's my addend him to that.
Can they then just get him? Can I grab him? Did you turn
him into a toad? Did you turn him into toadlet? Okay? No?
He yeah, I guess you could pick him up. That's my frock
noise noise, grab him like this po V. You're a toad, yes,
mister Green. Just capturing code requires it very I oh, that is
a good point. He is hopping. No no, no, no,
no, no no sorry. When did the shock become a rules lawyer?
I've been playing a lot of boulders gain. Yeah, Daniel Green doesn't know
how to play D and D until he downloads borders Gate. He's wait,
shit is no, I will say, because Cody made this conscious decision to
touch bif pre polymorph, he will already have him in his hand when he
trans it's like it's like yeah. As he transforms, it as like the
frogs falling to the floor. I just catch him and I've got him in
my hands. Yeah. If he did distance, then he did what no
fancy texts with a biddlety no no, no, no, fuck you the
liable testing magic turn your gain up a little bit. Yeah, alright,
good, so the rest just stimming with keys on the on the podcast.
Sorry, you're right, he's the gamekeeper. I okay. I I pulled
the frog the tord in, and I closed the door again, and then
I'm going to turn around and severe. So I have a frog in one
hand toward Sorry, the king is unconscious? What Pachico is still barking?
Okay, you guys have this free. You guys have to remind me what
time of day is this? It's like it was it was okay, we
like, yeah, it was like we got there. It's lunch time.
It's lunch time. How about we just do that? Yeah, okay,
lunch time. It's lunch time. All right, Okay, that's that's your
things on that lunch break. Everyone's on that lunch break. So we gotta
go back. We're gonna go to everyone's being murdered by me. Well,
we'll get to you in the shock at a second. It is now Anthony
and and Norman, because that's that's the I just shatter Canada locked door.
Where am I at? Right now? You're inside the four year of the
Palace, and you see a chef come out to go everybody it's lunch time.
And they're like, oh, that sounds really good. I could go
for some something right now. But do I see any stairs? You say,
a grand central staircase. Yes, but also I'm gonna cast. I'm
gonna cast jump and start leaping up the stairs. Okay, you start fucking
leaping. All of the guests start screaming, and some of them start throwing
their sandwiches at you, like I guess, so do a decks check.
I'm fucking hungry man. Decks, just raw decks. Okay, who critical,
It doesn't matter. It was old Tony's No, no, it's still
your's, still Antony's character. She just said, spirit of old Tony grabs
me a sandwich. Here you go, grandson, Thank you, grand dad.
Genuinely, everyone froze stuff at you, and the time slows down.
An old Tony spirit appears and he used it. He just grabbed, grabbing,
he gets he gets his fucking shield as a plate and they all land
on top of it. And then in your hand you just have this plate
of perfectly laid out meal for you as you're jumping up the stake. You
spirits of my ancestors all incredible oh, totally, just like rebber to have
three meals a day. I throw a sandwich like a like a like a
HOGI in the general direction. I know where Norman is. I have no
idea where he is. I'm just gonna chuck when we're Okay, Norman,
what are you doing? I am trying to keep up with it. I
guess you're invisible. I'm just invisible. Okay, you see it, you
see, pretending like I'm hiding and moving like stealthily even though they can't see.
You see a sandwich flying not really that close to you, but in
your general direction. I'm just gonna ignore it. Okay, so you realize,
Yeah, that might screw up the whole plan. I never wanted a
sandwich to for everyone wondering. Like when we were outside, we saw like
upstairs through the glass and stuff like that. So we're trying to get up
the get up as quick ass. All right, we're back to Daniel Green.
Alright, we're back to the shark. The shark. How many more
people do you have to murder? There were I can't remember the exact number,
but I'm just gonna put out of my ass that there's three people remaining,
because I think that I think that that sounds right. And if there's
not, then more people come, and if there isn't, if if that
number is two large, more people have come. And if that number is
too small, some people just died there of shock. So there's three people.
There were five, six, there were four. I don't know,
just going three. Someone says four, okay, well look make it four.
We'll make it four. Four people remaining. The shark bone slaw.
You guys are there with the four remaining people, they have their swords at
already. What do you want to do. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
keep baseball all right, keep baseball batting it all right? Do you say
any baseball terms? What do you do it? Oh? No, the
shark absolutely doesn't know what base are you telling me? When the shop found
the baseball bats, canonically, he was like what the fuck is this big
stick? No, he just he was like, yeah, stick is good,
like this could break some NAT gaps, perfect pretty sturdy punching stick.
And it just worked for him really well. Okay, roll a hit.
You are two main hand attacks with your baseball bat. Uh oh, only
one of those hits? Okay? But then can I do. You could
do an off hand attack with whatever you want. I'm gonna do an off
hand attack with my baseball bat. Okay, except for your baseba attack because
that is in your main hand. You understand you need you need either a
weapon in your off hand, but you have the ability. How have we
not just given him two baseball Yeah, if you have two baseball bats,
you would be great. No no, but you can literally use You have
the feet that lets you use anything as it unarmed. I'm sorry, like
I improvised weapon, which is a light weapon. That's not it tns of
Yeah, you could hit someone no no, no, no, no no
no, Yes, you can hit someone with your tommy gun. Yes,
I would let you smack someone with your tommy gun, but that would still
be the improvised weapon. Roll so click the improvised weapon role that still misses.
Okay, you only hit one guy, do the damage for it?
Fifteen that kills him. How do you want to kill one of them?
I just wanted to be like, you know, like in action movies where
they try to transition from the high intensity like scene to like suddenly, like
the music cuts out and someone's still hitting a guy and it's like stop that
vibe. I'm just there's a guy coming up to me and it's just like
I hit him in a way and it's like you hear someone be like that's
my father and I'm like good, You're like it's a problem. Okay again,
yeah that soul can It was bring your child to work day. Daughter
is there and she's dressed like a mini night because she's that's the fourth person
that's the Oh my wait, is it really because you would hit him with
one of those roles? No, yeah, I'll kill kid though. Okay.
The Shark has gone back and forth on this so many times. Do
you improvise someone from the insane asylum who just thinks they're from the forth?
That's true? If that's the new cannon, all right, then then the
twelve with the improvised weapon would hit the child. So and we the daddy,
yes one and nine? That yeah, that kills the child. You
fucking kill the dad. The child goes, daddy, what's going on?
You? I just saying you'll see him soon. That's the end of it.
Fucking poveriser, all right? Bone slaw turned bones slaw doesn't boast law
doesn't see this happen he's turned the other way with the other two guards,
and he's going to try and punch him, which he does successfully do and
he fucking pummels one right in the face. He's got a bloody nose.
He's still up. So there's one bloody one and one regular one. There's
like fourteen bodies just in a pile, and they're just murdering peace. Yeah.
These guards are dedicated to their craft. The king. That's just like
them. Man, fourteen of us have already done, but let's keep going
to them. They don't. They do not realize that the castle has been
preached. They think that these guys are terrorists specifically wanting to attack the king,
and they are the last lines of defense between them getting to the king,
so they will give their lives. Yeah, and the two of them
are going to swing their swords at you, the shark, and one critically
fails because then get to post posts. They do the repost posts. Yes,
before you repost. The guy who critically failed is just going to hit
the guy who was already injured, which will probably kill him, which it
does. So in the huff huffle puffle of everything going on, the hullabaloo,
he brings down his sword, and bone slow like deflects the sword,
and the sword flies through the air and hits the other guy square in the
forehead and he collapses. You can repost now on the remaining guy. Repulse,
all right? Oh do I click it? Or baseball bat? You
use your baseball bat? You hit to do the damage. Probably get him,
yea. And your ship's on fire as well. So he his sword
flies out of his hand, and as he's looking at his hands stunned,
you come up and how do you want to kill this last Sulkan army man?
Can I hit him with? No, I didn't use improvised weapon.
I wanted to hit him with the kid, but instead I'll just hit him
with the baseball bat. Can I knock his jar off? Yes? Knock
is? Yeah? You plant your feet blood, swing your baseball bat.
You hit his jaw with such ferocity the jaw flies into the distance and you
hear in the distance. You hear the distance. I'm just a shark to
himself, is gonna go? I really hope this is all just a dream.
They've got a little too far. Oh gosh, shark, You're like
you look around you and you are just picturing like a baseball field, and
I don't know what baseball is that kidding, You're like, what the fuck
is this? Okay, we jump back to Cody. Okay, I so
I still can't communicate with his dog. No, you can't. I'm just
kidding. I'm joking. It was It was a funny bit. He goes,
hello, you wouldn't talk like yes, because everyone learns Vestorian common naturally
as they as they joined, as pointed out by many angry people, me
included, sorry, so he hello, Oh hey dog, We've been looking
for you. And I know that sounds bad because I just like busted through
a window and like took two guys out, but in a good way.
We've been looking for you, and I like show him like my necklace and
he's like, uh ah, okay, I am busy though, I am
waiting. What are you waiting for? I am waiting for my master.
He will come back. Did he? Was he in this tower? Nope?
They took me here, but I can wait here. Do you think
your master will be able to mind you here? Oh? That is good
point. I need to go back to the train station. We can get
you to the train station. You can. He's the most like like just
solemn, flat dog. Like I think dog characters at all media are always
portrayed as like like really overly excited. It's like the most like he's just
a solemn, old man dog body. Yeah, okay, how can I
trust you? You are first human to understand me. I know how he
can trust me as animal friend. I mean, you'll be his friend.
Yeah, fuck him. It's not a concentration spell either, So that's good.
No, it's not. So it's it's just I cast it, and
it lets me convince the beast that I mean it no harm. Okay,
well he's got to do as yeah, oh shit. And I actually don't
have a sheet for him because he's just a dog. Well he's a barred
dog. Actually I do have a sheet for him. Sorry, I made
it a while ago. But yeah, his wisdoms are high. There you
go. He m oh, I tie enough, he succeeds. He had
a plus, he didn't have any pluses, a wise dog. Okay,
okay, yeah, so he goes. I see what you were trying to
do. But that is not how you make friends. You must forge a
long bond through trust and companionship to make friends. My master is my greatest
friend, my best friend. He showed me like and compassion. What's what's
your name, buddy? My name is Hatchiko, Hatchiko. Yes, what
is your name? My name is Cody Cody. My name is Cody Cody
and the I see two options for you. Either you can stay in this
tower with this king who will never let you go back to the train station
because he thinks he's your new master. Yes, he is weird, right,
Or you can come with me and I can help you get out of
this place and back to wherever it is you come from, like San Francisco
or something. Tokyo. Okay, that was that was my second guest.
Yep, what do you say? Stations? What do you what do you
say? Can you do a persuasion? It's not super high, but I
still need to because you are just a stranger who's busting not out the case
you might best. Persuasion isn't especially high, is it. Can I do
an animal handling instead? Yes, that's like persuasion, but for dogs exactly.
And he happens to be a dog. Well you needed a tent?
He goes, Okay, I mean, you know, if I feel like
you're not really helping I can just find my own way, at least freeing
me from from this crazy man. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how
to get you home. No, almost certainly not. I know how to
get you home, and I'll explain it when we're out of here, because
things are a little dicey right now, is good. I'm glad that we
can speak. Yeah, it's nice. It's nice to be able to,
you know, communicate with a someone of your fine regal nature. Thank you,
every great respect for I have a great respect for me too. While
I'm talking to him, I'm gonna I'm gonna take that frog, put it
in the cage that Yog was in, unlocked the class, and then end
my concentration on the polymorph. Wait, no, let me ask listen,
listen to me. Okay, the king is fine. I'm not doing anything
to him. He'll wake up soon, all right, and you can explain
what happened. I'm just here for the dog. No, that's the Kig's
favorite pet. Yeah, hello, it's Junior. It's not his name,
all right, appreciate it, thank you for understanding. I'm gonna I'm gonna
dog with Yog and haik all Okay, so now and now we go to
Cody. Sorry, Now we go to Norman and Anthony. You're running up
the stairs. You get you get to the to the second floor, we'll
say okay, and as you as you get second floor American, first floor,
British. As you get to the second floor, there are a couple
of guards here who are sort of unaware of the ship that's going down,
and they're just like shooting the ship. They're chilling and I mean, I'm
just using jump to like rocket boost over all these guys. So I'm like,
you're just throwing up and up and up, like the stairs are getting
narrower and thinner as they're going up and up. But they notice you immediately
and they go, hold what and they start running up the stairs and you
can you're obviously way faster than but Cody, sorry, Norman, you're about
the same pace as the guards. So you would be running at pace with
the guards. I'm running right behind them making funny faces. Nobody. Do
you want to do anything else? Or you're just continue? How do I
lose my if I do anything that breaks concentration? Is it just regular visibility?
It's not greater in visibility. I'm regularly you use a spell as long
as it's not a concert. No no, no. If you take any
if you make an attackle costs the spell, you lose in visibility. If
it's not I which I'm still I'm still chilling from, I'll have an advantage
when we do at tech. Okay, so now you guys are continuing to
work your way up. Your sort of entire around here is just movement.
But the guards are coming. The shock. You have a bunch of dead
guard bodies around you. The smell of blood and tears and sweat permeates the
air. You're there with bone slow, bone slows like I guess they would
not go to arm wrestling. I'm just gonna say, I, uh may
have gone too far in a few wins. Let's not talk to the rest
of guys about ever in we tell we tell them lie. Yeah, let's
just let's just tell them we dealt with a few guards, got a little
physical but knowing nobody no, no, die, no, no, we
don't mention the death, just say you convinced everyone to do our wrestling.
Man and Armor would be very upset with us. I think me I have
killed before it's accident happens. Yeah, yeah, accidents. I break,
they bleed out in hospital. I considered hitting a guy with a dead kid
that I it's it's why I'm banned from z City. I think we're bonding
right now over our credit. Reach out to shake his hand, and I'm
like, well done, you did good. You did good too. He
has four hands. He grabs your one hand with his four hands. Okay,
but if you tell anyone, I'm gonna fuck it kill you. Oh
well, we maybe we should hide body. Oh I look around all the
witnesses that are just like all around us and be like, no, there's
not that many witnesses, to be fair, Yeah, but there's some also.
You don't want hide it from the witnesses. You want to hide it
from yes, yeah, yeah, I mean there's a giant pile of bodies
around you guys right now too. That's I will dig hole. Okay,
you you diggle hole in your the bodies. I'm gonna make sure the guys
don't come to the front door. Okay, you will leave to me.
I dig hole, okay, and I'm just gonna walk through the door that
those guys regarding. Okay, you get through the front door and you see
a bunch of really confused housegate guests with the sandwiches, and you go,
oh more, Okay, oh, murder everybody in the Okay, okay,
okay, we're back to Cody again. Cody, you're now I assume,
going down the stairs. Yeah, alright, you are now unlike so the
King's places the fifth floor, Cody, you're now on the fourth floor.
I'm doing anything else. You're just moving down if there's no barrier right now.
I'm trying to get to the ground floor. All right, Norman and
Anthony, you continue up. You have now reached the third floor. Anthony,
you could see the fourth floor. So Anthony, you can see Cody
now. But Norman, you're on the third floor. Okay. The guards
there were there were more guards on the third floor, two more guards.
Another are four guards that have now just chasing Anthony up the stairs. And
so I can see the guards chasing these well, I can't see norm because
he was a little back. I can see the guards chasing Anthony at this
like you up on the stairs. I looked behind me and I'm going to
activate grease and like little Grease is going to come out of my That's such
a six spell to using this on the stairs. Yeah, holy shit.
Okay, Norman, you're also gonna have to do his ex safe here,
but oh fuck, I'm sorry, but that is insane. You just grease
up the stairs. They all have. They're gonna fall down lots of stairs.
And can I lose my behind? Yeah when I when I see him
do that, can I fly? Yeah? Yeah yeah you can. I'll
lose my vision. You're using in visibility. But for the gods, peruv,
right, they'll see you reappear float up above them and then grease splatters
on the ground. Piece he's behind them, so they won't even see him
like reappear. They'll just see a bunch of grease and then a guy fly
lying over the top. No shit, yeah, I've got there. As
the grease comes towards them, nor One's like, oh shit, I start
flying and I like as they fly over them like later nerds. All right,
what okay? What saving throw did they have to do with decks?
Right? Oh yeah, just the deck save out. So that's four of
them, two three, four. One of them succeeds. I assume the
rest fail. What happens here? Yeah, fifteen is the same. Oh,
two of them succeeds. Ten. Yeah, okay, so what does
it do? They fall prone if they fail and okay, but these are
stairs, so I was gonna say this is no stairs, so that the
ones that fail are going to fall down the stairs ruling yeah, because they
were four pro and they'll start tumbling down the stairs. And they are tumbling
down three flights of stairs. What is how tall is a floor? Usually
in feet? Ten feet? Old older buildings are probably shot at all.
I'll say like ten. That makes it matts easier. They're all going to
take three D six damage as they tumble down to the bottom of the stairs.
So the first guy dies, the second guy doesn't. One of them
does conscious they die. One of them hits his neck really badly. Oh
we don't see that though, No no, no, no, no,
no, no no. Who does see it is the house guests. They're
all eating lunch with their sandwiches. They see two guards fucking tumble to the
bottom of the stairs. One of them snaps their necks and the other one
just sort of bumps his head lightly. He's fine. He lands on the
other one. He lands on top of the other one has the soft before.
The other two are fine. So now there are two guards coming up.
The shark. It's back to you, the shark. You the shark.
You see the two guards collapse at the bottom of the stairs. One
of them has broken their neck and the other one is fine. I'm gonna
go, oh my god, we're under attack. Someone go get the guards.
I got in on the guards of the inside of a Go go get
them a persuade. It would be a deception. It would be a deception.
Do a deception. Okay, I covered in blood, so I like
disadvantaged. I'm not gonna say if disciparts, but the DC is higher.
Yeah, you found the remaining guard. The remaining guard gets up and he
sees you, and he just sort of easily can make the association. This
guy is not a sulkin. He's covered in blood. He's part of these
crazy people. So he runs up to you with a scimitar in hand.
The shark. You're gonna take one attack. Okay, that hits right,
seventeen Yeah hit me? Yeah, you take nine damage. Sorry. He
actually he recovers really fast. He gets up, he runs towards you,
slices you across the chest, and all the guests go, whoa, No,
your tell was the deception? I know that's your action. Okay,
I ask you a question about how how many turns would it take to grab
his hands holding his own knife and stab him to death with his own Handslding,
I will, I will give you the opportunity to do that. When
it next comes round, we're gonna go. We're gonna go. Cody first,
yourself, so we got the it's gonna Okay, Cody, you're up.
You've just seen the grease hab at. A bunch of people fall downstairs.
You didn't see what happens to them, but there's still two guards that
managed to keep their balance, and they have met that made their way up
to the to the fourth floor. Who sorry thing, Oh it's taking change
the location of the cool I don't know. I'm trying to figure out a
way to make this work. Okay, Okay, So Cody, what do
you want to do? I don't see aware was to escape this tower without
getting to the ground floor. Obviously, I think I can individually, and
Norman can because he's lying, But I can't do it. Have I even
if I'm has a if I even if he has like a flight method,
I have a thing that could help. But have you? And you don't
know. Am I talking as as I see it? Yeah? We we
just literally, uh hey, co check out that dog. It was just
hey, Code, check out that dog. Give us the line one more
time. Okay, what did you say? Hey, hey Cody, Oh
check out that dog. Okay, that is what he said. Yeah,
oh okay from Tokyo. Hello, I hear that. Okay, I hear
that. Yeah, you're you flow over now right? So yeah, because
you have the flying speed said wait, you mean the hockey go it looks
like I am famous? You are, you're super famous? But no,
no, no, no, no no no no normal normal you caught it?
You don't you here? Is rough? Huh? Okay? Is he
a famous dog or something? Anyway, We don't have time for that.
Okay, we need to get out of here. I don't think we could
get Wait. Also, there's Grease. I have a thing I have can
like like gravity rate that could help us. He's got gray know what this
is like? This is like it's like a sci fi movie and they're trying
to communicate with the other ship and like everything's going down and it's like the
TV's coming in and out rockets. Great, there's time I can get and
i'd jump out of him happening. Hold on, you heard it's genuinely this
is hilarious, dude. Okay, I know what he said. He said
he's gonna cost the anti gravity and everyone and then jump out of the window.
Is that what you're saying? Yes, now is the window? How
far? Is it like straight to the ground or is it like a roof
and then a roof and then in the ground, or like, how if
I jump out the window? Oh? Fuck no, it'd be straight to
the ground. How far? How far at this point? Forty feet?
Oh? Perfect? Anti gravity? Let's go anti gravity everybody? How father
fall it's feather file Okay, yeah, that makes sense. But how many
people can hit with feather four? I know there's a limit to five willing
creatures. There's me, Cody, there's the dog, and then there's Yag
If he's with us, I'm assuming he is. Yeah, there's exactly fans
flying all right. Yeah, Norman's cool. Norman's all right, I got
break through the window. I'll go first. Yeah, yeah, all right,
So yeah, I guess Cody would forgot forgo your action to actually do
this group action of you guys feather fall each other, jump out of the
window. You do the anti gravity and then just float gently down and if
it's less than the sixty feet we don't take any fall damage and we just
fall on the ground on our feet. And the guards run to the to
the shattered window on their turn and they look out like fucking no one of
them. They are both going to shoot at you would bows though, all
right, Okay, yeah, they do have him. Who are they trying
to hit? They are probably going to try and hit Anthony. Yeah,
because I'm the one. Actually, I'm want to say one for Anthony,
one for Cody, because Cody has the dog with him. I'm I'm holding
hatch collect because you're holding the dog, I'm holding you. And then we're
all just kind of So the thirteen goes at Anthony, and I assume that
missus, yes, and the twenty four hits Cody. Cody in your like
shoulder blade. You get like an arrow hit you before damage? Are you
okay, strong man? Oh yeah, dude, this is nothing. Don't
worry about it. Why are we not falling really fast? One time I
I jump, I always fall quick magic interesting like ancient spirits. Yeah,
I guess so it's I never really questioned how it works that have was having
this conversation with a dog and I don't. Everyone else is just talking to
a dog. Everyone I'm like flying down as they're falling, Like, man,
I wish I spoke dog Cody. It is important to ask questions about
our life. That is how we learn new things. Yeah, no,
for for sure. Yeah, yeah, I agree, we're not always going
to have all the answers, but that is not a bad thing. My
friend and you guys definitely land on the ground. He said, he doesn't
have very high wisdom advice like this. Okay, okay, you guys,
land on the ground. The shark, it is now your move. You
you can behind you, everyone in like a big court yard together. Now
yeah, everyone else behind you can. You're still inside the building. The
guy just attacked you, So I assume you want to do the thing where
you try and stab him with his own sword. Yeah. Is there a
grapple button or do it hit? Strength? Athletics or strength for me,
I believe the same. If they're the same, then just oh, your
athletics might be better. The athletics is slightly better. Actually, okay,
click athletics. Okay, skiing guy, he succeeds. He you. You
try and grab his sword, but he holds firm. He's like, I
have to protect the king. He okay, long live Head'll let you.
I'll let you use your improvised weapon, which is your head. Nice okay,
and then click it's your head is not on fire, so it just
as a ten damage. Oh sorry, that still kills him because he took
the damage of falling down the stairs. So bash him with your head,
I will say, because you're using your head, you also take that ten
damage. Sorry, that's fine, So smash him with your head pouring down
your face. He cracks his skull and collapses down to the ground. Everyone
in the tea party starts screaming and they start running around the shark. If
you turn around, you see the entire party is now outside in the courtyard.
Can I do as saying? How do I do as? Sanity check
that I'm not like succumbing to PTSD right, wisdom savings or wisdom savings are
Oh god, you got this, you got it. Come on, critical
fail the shark. You hear the screaming people running around, and all of
a sudden you're in the trenches. You hear bombs, going off. You
hear you hear bullet fire, screaming people. There's there's your Did you have
any friends in the in the when you're in the war in the trenches that
you've suppressed. Yes, yeah, there's my brother, your brother Jacques,
Jack Jack Jacques, Jacques, your brother's Jacques is in your hand, in
your arms, and he's he's bleeding out and he puts his hand up and
he's he says your real name, but you don't hear it. You just
hear stat Every time he says your real name, you just hear like a
high pitch screeching noise. And he's like, it was a mistake. You've
got to live, Please for our mother, Please you. And you see
the light sort of fade from his eyes, and then you're you're sort of
fade to get it out of this this trenched warlike reality and the that the
palace. What do you want to do? The shark curls into a ball.
Oh yeah, everyone else turns around. I mean you land and you
could see into the foyer a bunch of screaming guests and this blood soaked man
in the fetal position on the ground. That's a weird way for him to
distract everybody. But I guess it worked. I think I think Cody.
Okay, Cody's dad died in the Vietnamese War. A lot of refer refugees
veterans from that conflict, so he saw a lot of people with PTSD.
Would he recognize that he is having a little bit of an episode right now?
I guess out of anyone, Yeah, I feel like Cody's like,
how old did he say you was? Did he fight in a war?
I'm honestly still trying to figure out if he's just an insane person or if
he's actually from like when he says he is. I don't know, jeez,
we need to get out of here. I'm going to hand you good
too, ticking, I mean, and unvera and just like take hold of
the shock and and and find pull him out towards the entrance. All right,
you are having sandwiches thrown at you as you're doing this, like but
the shark. From your point of view, these are grenades and bullets flying
past you as someone is pulling you into cover by It's just fucking like a
jump tonut hokey lands next to you and tomatoes come out and it's like shrapnel,
like kidding you in the face. That's very awkward because now that normally
the mission is kind of going, well, Norman, pick up a sandwich
and start eating it at and he just seems me picking up a grenade and
take a bite. Like it's such an insane movie sequence and slow motion you
dragging out the shark. It's like cutting between the sandwiches and the bullets of
the grenades. Oh okay, yeah, So I'm just trying to get him
to the entrance. Okay, we're trying to get back out of the main
entrance, all right. So okay, as you guys get to the entrance,
you see a boats law and it's a giant mound of dirt behind him,
and he goes, ay, you guy, it is a night.
Nice to see you guys. Nothing happened? Could I roll to determine?
Like, can I piece two and two the insight give me a really easy
insight check. You succeed You needed a five. There's there's like a leg
sticking out of it. Yeah, okay, it's like a it's like a
strave with like yeah, he's genuinely he's standing there, blood all over his
body, like nothing happened, but like in a I don't have time.
Okay, sure, I want the art wrestle that is all? Oh okay,
where are you guys going? Now? You are? I think we
should get the hell out of you? Yeah? Wait? And where's little
feather who? We left her outside? Left her? Where did we leave
her before we told her not to come with us? She was just in
the city, right? I think she was with this city? No,
I thought she we we didn't bring I didn't think we brought it to the
castle? Am I wrong? She's just hiding. She was in She was
in no venture, for sure? She flies off? It goes. Did
you guys get ZiT? Dog? Are you guys? Okay? They were
screaming and fighting and we need to get out of here. Where are we
going? Do we even know where? I don't know? Do we even
know where it was? It was the temple of Zibadi? Is we had
a map? I have a map? Do you do? And they marked
it? Oh? Yeah, it's it was in sulk In territory. But
I don't know if we have the exact location. Doing well, you could
look at the map? Now, sure the map? All right? You
you pull open the map? Good, inside of the map. It is
very near by where you guys are, Like, it's right marks in the
east. You know, it's somewhere in the capital. Oh it's yeah,
like it's a one one that has like a little note next to the capitol.
Anyone does anyone anywhere the tower? Well, it's not gonna be an
actual tower, is it they? Does anyone have any way of us to
go unseen, like pass without trast or like like any anything like that?
If I use let me double check real quick. You want to try and
make everybody invisible? How many of us are there? There are seven?
It's you four plus the three dog yog Yeah eight Shito slow little feather dog
and yog. You had a whole guardian, a soul king, an avian
and a dog yog dog yog dog. Yeah. I can't because I could
make like three or four people invisible. Now if I do it like at
the fourth level. Okay, well wait, if you and I do it
together though, Oh okay, I I have one I can level slot left,
So what does that late? I don't think. I think I can
only do one additional person at third slaughter higher because nope, I can only
do myself damn. Yeah, yeah, I could do three people including me,
So that's not good. Okay, yeah, that's okay. Well you
have five covered and that's it. Oh wow. So yeah, I guess
you guys just running through the town. I guess we're making a direction where
we find and just hide in an alleyway for now and like let the heat
died down from what what about the sewers? I would be good. I
don't want to meet rap Bomba again. It's it'd be a different sewer system.
What are you talking? A good time in the sewers? Okay,
fine, I'm down. Okay, you someone do a perception for me to
find the nearest sewers. All right, I'll go go ahead, okay seventeen.
That's good. So you as you're running through the city, you do
you find a sewer? Great, and you it off and everyone starts fucking
funneling down into the series. Go Go go the shark. You were seeing
this and it's like people like going down into like a submarine into the trunches.
You're still freaking on, shark, Cody, are you just actually you're
holding the shark in your arms? Right? I'm like, you know,
one arm slang over. He I feel like he's he will be walking on
his own, but not without mine. No, I'm holding him almost entirely
up then, yeah, you just have a minute, pal princess carrying the
shark. Yeah. Is it just a standard like metal iron manhole cover?
And they just move it and we go in and shut it. Now you
can just shut Just do that and you go down. You everyone's climbing down
the ladder, okay. And you get to the bottom and you see at
the end of this tunnel there is there is a small door and there's there's
a shadowy figure by the door who's just sitting there, smoked truting from his
mouth. This is a thing. Okay, Oh, hey, hi,
what's up? Yo? What'd you say? You're a ready far away?
Hi? Hey? Is this like private property you're friend? Okay, yeah,
out there you'll find Okay, cool, thank you. This is a
club. You can't get in here? Can we hide here? Wait?
Why can't we get in? I mean it's invite only. We know the
mayor, the mayor of what I named the town where I know the mayor
from? Uh sorry, Juna, yeah, yeah from okay, oh,
Juna, I know we know mister Wellington too. I don't know who that
is. Okay, men know Juna? Yeah, we're friends with her Worldly
Brewing? Wait you work for her? Wait? Did a shock? Do
you say anything about the other Worldly Brewing? I can't talk right. Oh
yeah, you're you're traumatized. You guys woke? Did he said you?
Did you? Guys? Do you guys work for Juna? She worked for
us, she works for you. I didn't know she had a buss?
Who? Who are you? You get coca? This conversation is really hot.
While I tried to be low key a few months ago, we founded
a business and now we're on the clip show episode. This is good.
Now that Anthony gets caught up on all of your adventures while we're hiding from
the cops, it's like, okay, okay, you know what. Will
approach him and be like, wait, wait where the CEO is of other
Worldly Brewery and the Shark? Oh? Oh, I just got word about
you guys. Yeah, what if Juna's lads are in here? Yeah?
You guys, you this place? This is Club Rat. As you get
closer to him, you notice that he is a rat with a fedora.
It used to be called the House of Mouse. But you know, time's
changing. We're just looking for somewhere to lay low spot. Yeah yeah,
yeah, I get in here. The fucking silkin's above the surface. They
ain't no ship about a rat club. I like the house of mouse more
that sounded at work back. Yeah, but the mouse was a piece of
ship. Yeah yeah, I come from No, that's a stupid name.
Oh my god, his name. We understand that you could get arrested for
that in my time. If you diss on Disney, you understand that,
right, crazy, Let's let's oh and actually you weren't interested in his name?
Now I am What was the mouse's name? Why did this turn into
the dialogue from like a two thousand comedy? What his name was? His
name was rat Pachev? Okay, okay, like garbage? All right,
well let's go. Let's go inside the club the right, I don't know
he was mouse Pachev. Sorry, we just recorded, right, okay,
And so you guys go this mouseche We just have this massive heist heist in
air quotes. We end up here, you guys, let's let's get some
drinks. You go in and as you enter, it's it's a club.
It's got red and black decor. Oh it's Kayla. Hello, Hi cat,
it's got red and black decor. You hear this funky mutz in the
backgone, like, I don't know, Yeah, it's funky. Right,
this is little. There's people, there's wrap, people smoking cigarettes with for
Dora's on. They're doing the dealing cards that people are drinking and some people
are slow dancing. It's a place to be. But bone slow comes in.
He's like, I want time wrestles these rats. I mean, go
ahead and ask the sharks home turf And I'm just sucking out yeah like a
speak. Yeah, So I feel like I feel like the surrounding would definitely
bring the shark back. You guys have an opportunity now to help the shark
out, do you guys less restoration? I could hear a condition blind,
deaf and paralyzed or PTSD. Okay, you you you're led to a little
like a little seated area, like it's almost like a sofa area, red
velvet, and you can you can lay down the shark and try and try
and help him out. All right, we need a you're laying the cody
Anthony Norman, what do you want to do? Oh yeah, yeah,
Okay, I'm an e MS guy. I literally have probably seen people have
a severe anxiety and PTSD attacks before, so I would know how to deal
with this. There is medication that could work for this. We don't have
that, but like I know, I have a herbalism kit, and I'm
pretty good with medicine. If it's like herbal remedies, you guys, I
might have some like I can put them to sleep if you need some rest.
Yeah, I mean, like I could. I could try like the
medicinal like give them some hubs to chew on. That's gonna like try and
calm them down. Perfect, all right? Do you want to do a
medicine we need like some benzo diazapan or something. Yeah, you guys,
Okay, I have these leaves. Okay, I'm gonna do two player advantage,
as in, both of you roll medicine and I take the highest check.
Oh okay, it's it's it's an advantage across two players. A fun
Yeah, I know. Well, good okay, Ansony, because Cody eight,
those are some leaves. You got some leaves, all right, that's
nice. That's nice Cody, all right, I know how to treat him.
I having Cody really Cody. You have your little like protein pouch.
You pull out, and it's just like all expired, expired answering. You
come out. You've got like actual like medics of equipment. Would you right?
Here are some here's some ship for actual like severe anxiety attacks. And
you feel the shock that is a crit So you you feel like calm down
a little bit. Now, do you guys want to say anything to the
shock? As he's starting to like come to I'm giving him a body massage
to kind of ease him back into your reality. Interesting, all right,
man? A right can be like yeah, like, hey, bud,
welcome back to the real world. Uh, you want some water? Okay?
All right? How about we get you some water? Hey? Can
we get him some water over here? Do you have water in the sewers?
There's okay there? You okay there, buddy. Uh one of the
rat people comes over with a glass of water. He does it look like
real water? Does it look like? Yeah? I can't purify water.
Tony could have. Tony could have done a lot of things. I mean,
I can boil it real quick. If you guys, this is sewer
water. I don't know if boiling it's gonna really kill all the back here,
what's the what's the what's the shark state of? Yeah? What is
how does the shark response respond to these? Curly the shark is just like
sitting and shaking and just like really wants a cigarette and that's about it,
and trying to ignore anything that could be considered stimulant. Mm hmmm. I
think we need to get him from alcohol. That's what my dad all we
used to do when he feels a little bit irresponsible, says little Feather,
But we we can. You gotta drown your sorrows, that right, Yeah,
that's how things work. Yeah. No, I love the economy of
like modern psychology, but in the future, who's like educated? No,
alcohol not not great for somebody just suffering from a severe Yeah. Well,
I mean we're talking about the shark here. What's gonna work for him?
It's too Maybe he needs like a cigarette? Does he do the shark have
cigarettes on him? Yeah? He does, right, because you got a
whole bunch from a ripper, right, No, no, no, you
got them from ratatat. I think you definitely got some at some point.
I don't know, I can't remember exactly her, but you did definitely get
trying to if I've been submerged in water since I because they'd be if I
also have the magical you have. I'm gonna smoke the magical cigar. I'm
just gonna take it out with the shaky hands. I'm just gonna hit it
and go disappear for a moment. Okay, you smoke the magical cigar.
The smoke envelopes you, and you see Frank the fighter Feta Cheaty go hey,
what the fuck are you doing? Back? Fuck you? I hate
you? Is it a star? It is none of my children's weddings.
It's actually my wedding. This is the front yard. He's always wears a
tuxedo, but this time he's just wearing one that's like slightly fancier. Is
he at the altar or is he just yes? Yes, you don't even
visit him. You appear and you're in a church and you see the bishop
like and I pronounce you man, and wait us who is it? And
the guy what are you doing? I'm getting married to my wife for me,
this second wife, the shark is being stared at by a god his
fiance and they're greater family and friends. Wait what God does the bishop praise
you. Are the other gods able to visit the other gods in their little
spaces? Not at the moment that specifically they cannot because they're I would have
been awesome to their own little mini planes. And then the shark is going
to say, as the room falls quiet, and that's the damned problem of
it. No matter where I go, no matter where I fight, the
same thing happens. I send up sitting here surrounded by people who don't understand,
soaked in blood. You, as gods are no better than me.
You've also committed the same crimes. It's as if these acts are synonymous with
sentience. And then he's gonna vanish. That's all. You dropped up bomb
on those guys. They've hadshed, but I want to know the leading continue.
They turned around to go, well that was a weird best man speech,
but let's continue. All right, that's what you gotta do. That's
your speech right there, man, All right, okay, the shock for
everyone else is instantaneous, but it's like a weird thing for everyone else,
Like the expression on the shock like changes instantly after he smokes the cigar.
Then you just stand up and go to the bar all right, you head
to the bar. There's a rat working behind the bar. Welcome, you
are not rat, said sulking, you are human. Huh. I'm just
gonna hand him a fist all my coins and just say, the strongest guy.
I've got the strongest rat ratting himself. That's what he drinks. He
pulls out just clear rat vodka and he passes it to you stronger on one
moon sh ah, you want stroga. He takes the rat vodka, he
puts it underneath the table, and then he brings it back out again and
pushes it to you like he's done something to it. When he all right,
I'll just start drinking that. And that's my that's my Well, at
least he's uh, he's up and moving around again. I guess that's all
right. Yeah. How long do you think we should hang out down here?
I think if we wait until it gets dark outside, we could probably
try and slip away and find the barred tower, you know, undercover of
I mean they killed the fast majority of the guards. How long does speak
an animals lost for? Sorry sorry interrupt an hour? Let me check,
let me check it might be because I don't know ten minutes. Oh,
it's gone. It's gonna probably right out, yeah, dog, But yeah,
continue, I'll just I'll just be like you said that he killed the
vest majority of the guards. Yeah, there was that giant pile of dirt
with all the limbs sticking out of it? Did you not? Was that
not there on the way in? You know, I don't think I think
it was a new Yeah. I was focused on trying to get out of
there. I'll be honest. I'm sure it will self defense. He had
to, he had to hold down all those guys while we infiltrated, you
know. Yeah, I just don't think we're gonna get a lot of resistance
when we have to leave. Maybe hopefully, I guess, let's say,
going towards the castle and going the opposite direction. Yeah, we do.
We know where the tower is. We just know it's in the city,
right, Yeah, it's in the city. Yeah, I guess we can.
We can ask the people at the bar if they if they've seen anything
that might match it. All right, we don't really have a description of
it, but yeah, all right, we walk over towards the bar and
I had one gold piece towards the bartender. You go, I'm not here
for a drink. I'm here for some information. Do you know of any
tower, holy site, relic area within the city? People make trying?
I fucking shit about anything. I was just working. I'm here in a
I'm here in East Rattown. We alright, fine, give me a beer
or whatever, drinks it. If you want information, we were at people,
we are no shit. You probably want to go to some place where
people are more educated. Any what's two plus two? I fucking know what?
Well that is? Oh god? All right, well what does plus
mean? All right, I'll just take a beer. Yeah, you go,
all right. So if we wanted information about the city, do you
know where we'd get that? Somewhere above surfas shit about the city? I've
never been above ground. If ignate wrap people up there, right, the
more then then my wife hates me. Boys, I think we need a
desguise and we need to enter a bar upstairs into the same thing, and
I'm sure it'll work. Yeah, they all fancy smart talkers up there.
I'm sure you'll find someone where people are a little bit more educated in than
eye. All right, I could disguise myself, Norman, can you do
that too? Uh? Nope? Oh, I don't know, So let
me take a look at my spell list. Here, I get levitate.
Where do you have levitate and fly? Yeah? I mean you never know
when you're gonna got I got levitate before I need fly with a thing.
Remember what I made? What I made black levitate and then you shot a
fireball down on that? Oh my god? Okay, okay, all right,
yeah, here I could I could take my sweater off and like slip
back my hair. I mean, we could just disguise ourselves that way.
Yeah, you look if our disguises. Actually I was wearing I was wearing
my suit the entire time, and that battle was going on. I could
probably not wear my suit and I think I'd be fine. I mean,
we've got skin suits. You guys got skin suits. I mean, you
know, a scrap people sell skin suits. The only way that we can
sort of operate above ground not hearing. Yeah, yeah, that's what we
specialize in because we're in a venture. But not not hearing the club,
right, you got to go to the main city for that. Oh my
god, where's main city? Well? Right, k, you guys came
in through the back entrance, right that goes that just goes direct upwards.
If you go through the main doors, he points over to these big double
doors. Go through to those main doors. Yeah, you're right there in
the city East Ratsown. Listen. It's way better than all regular Rattown.
I don't know if you ever been there, but we went to Scrattown.
I don't know about rat Town. They're calling it scrat tone pricks, listen,
no idea what any of this ship is. Listen. Yeah, you
know, some people call us scrats, some people call us rats. I'm
like, you know, our brethren, our rats ain't ashamed of being compared
to a rat. We all rats, After all, right, you are
clearly rats. I don't mean to be like, yeah, right, yeah,
exactly, no, exactly right. I feel like scrat It's just a
fancy tone they came up with. I don't you know, I like it.
I'm just a rat guy, you know, rat man. I I'm
happy with that. Yeah, rat politics. Yeah you go, man anyway,
Yeah, if you want to, you want to add through there,
you get to the East Rattown. Lovely place that is. They had the
best sewage water area. You know what I love about Rustage's world building is
he has like a Stephen ericson approach where it's like at Malison Book of the
Fallen, where it's just like figure it out as you go explain it,
it's just gonna start happening. It's fun. You that I love. Yeah,
that's what I love about D and D people. People who play in
Ross's d D games have to play a game of what did I just make
up on the spot and what have I had planned from months? Because you
know, I feel like you only have a fifty percent childs of knowing.
Yeah, a long time trying to differentiate them, because I'm just like,
it's it's more fun to suspension of disbelief. All right, what you guys
wanted to do? I'll head out with the other guy. Well, rest
first, Maybe you guys want a short rest in this little club. You
can guys short rest in the club. Yeah, I think that. Yeah,
you guys have a little bit of a short rest, recovers some HP
or whatever, sells back or is that only long rest? It depends what
only wallocks get spelled wizards to wizards do. Yeah, wizards technically is a
short rest. It hasn't been a minimum minute minimum thirty minutes minutes, but
it can be longer. It's just it's anywhere between thirty minutes and seven hours
and fifty nine minutes. Briggs A Briggs, you do get spell slots back,
but it's it's like I did it, not all of them. Fuck.
I was because I felt like you were about to give yourself all your
spell slots back. I did, but I only used fly and I didn't
find anyone. You you have flying invisibility? Can I get two spots back?
Or no? No? No, it's it's a it's a it's half
your wizard level in terms of slots. What level are you? Your level
eight, so you get you can get two level two spell slots back or
four level one spell slots, or can get one level three. You get
one level three and one level one, but you can't get a level three
and a level two. I only use fly and level taps. I'm good,
okay, very good. Ocane recovery everyone, Okay, everyone, do
your HP row your hit dice to recover four. I didn't get hit a
sad I mean, I mean the shock. He's the one, the shock.
Roll your hit dice for HP. It's been frozen for me for like
a second. And oh well, hey Cody, uh. You know that
ring I gave you that gives back spells. Yeah, can I borrow that
for a moment? Oh uh yeah, I guess so here all right,
thank you the shock. Do you want me to just roll for you?
Yeah? Please? Sorry, I don't think this low website like Apple Devices.
I rolled two for you. So you've got fourteen HP back. You
can get more back. Actually, you know, have another one, hell
another eight? All right, you got twenty two hpback. So you gonna
use the ring to give myself a first level slot and then I'll give it
back to Cody. I'm like, all right, here you go. Why
your first level slot? Because I have a second level slot. I felt
like having one and one would be all right, fair enough. Well,
I feel like any any spell that you can castle one you can just yeah,
you can just cast those level It's either or no. What Cody's saying
is just get two second level slots because that's better. You can cast your
first love symmetrical like that, like you can get back Eddie spell slot,
get your now not how I roll rusted and you know that. Okay you
guys again my wild chips, but nice you guys. Rest for a little
bit. You're doing great, so you leave the club the shark you want
to leave as well. You're a little bit drunk. Uh, let's up
that to a lot of bit drunk and I will Okay, you leave and
you guys enter this town and it opens up a little bit and it's very
similar to what Rattown look like. It's a sewage system running through you these
shaggedy looking buildings. It just has these big like red banners with a like
an iconography of like a rat like holding a hammer and pointing to the ceiling
and it says we are rats underneath it in red true on black. Yeah,
it's it's very striking. And yeah, do you want to go find
the skin suit shop? Yeah, let's let's see we can. I think
we have like a fair amount of money on us, right, yeah,
whatever we want, all right. They have a really nice skin suit shop
here. It's called Sulkins skin Suit Symporium. And fucking open the doors with
their arms out of uh. Yeah, they make it. You know,
you guys, don't do you think it's like one of those puppet things where
like you operate one of the arms and then the others just attached by like
fishing Yeah, you're walking in and the wall was aligned with these like weird
different sulkin skins. Yeah, that's definitely a sturbing image. It's an awful
image. And there's a man at the other side. He's got little glasses
on and his rat nose and he good. Oh my god, you keep
picking these voices that you can't possibly do for more than a few sentences.
That's out again. Skins down a par Thanks. Yeah, we're just looking
to pick up a couple, I guess, Copple, how many do you
need? Expensive? How expensive? Yeah, they're about five hundred golf bases
age. Oh my god. That isn't that is quite expensive. But we
we we I have sixteen hundred, so I have enough for three if I
wanted to. But we don't. Okay, we don't need silkin skin suits
for all of us. If I'm not talking to this guy, hey,
this is Hey, shut the fuck up. Talk when you're spoken to.
Okay, go back being a rat, you know, Taylor or whatever.
We're to have our conversation over here. If we just get like two of
us in skin suits, get us on the surface, scout around, ask
some questions about where the shrine is and then come back and collect the rest
of us. Then I think we and then at night we all go out,
and you know, I think that's a good idea. I want to
be askin shot. I feel like I feel like I'm thinning and Norman are
probably the best suited to find us the information and find us though. Yeah,
yeah, I guess I could do that. It looks kind of disgusting,
but I could. You want two skin suits? Yeah sounds good.
Tell you what I'll just I'll just I've got money, so I'll just pay
you buy two skin suits. You'd want to go it off? Nine hundred
ninety nine, thank you, oh banks, yeah, diam and I'm generous.
Yeah, what are these skins? We haven't w a range of different
sulkin skin hues and male or female, different nights. Oh shit, okay,
all right, I'll take I'll take the blonde woman over there. I
don't think sulkins can have blonde hair. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
the hottest looking girl point obviously good choice. Starting Okay, you get
I'm not going to describe it. You just picture it in your heads what
the hottest looking sulkin is, and that's what it is. Isn't that like
Cartia? If that's that's your opinion of who the hottest is, some people
would say some people would say Bone Slow, some people say Serena, some
people say Juna. They're different genres of attractiveness. But we'll go with what
if Norman thinks is the hottest? There you go? Would should I do
a poll? What do you even even pull? I pull the four canonical
and you have to choose the six named sulkin that know, Yaroslav, Katia,
Zorina, Bone Slaw, Juna and ye Hellovich. Well, well only
the female ones, right, because he's getting females can sue so Bi Katia
and Zarina uh and Junah and Juna and Juna June. There was an art
of Juna though, So I don't know. I guess like, look all
right, but let me leave it to people's imagination. We leave it to
people's imaginations. You can imagine, all right, Okay, they come in
there's like they come in different colors, right, I mean they're sulkin people
have they have hues that eskin. Some of them are like richer purple,
or some of them are pink, more pinkish. Do you have green?
I like the color green. Yeah, they don't come in green, all
right? I'm about blue? Yeah, yeah, yeah, blows blue blue.
Published I'm like over here, like, do the sulkins that they come
in different colors? Yeah, they come in sort of the hue of blue
to red and all the colors in between, but like also lighter and darker
like pinks and dark purples. And I like the color. It's it's Anthony's
second favorite color. I guess I'll go with that. Okay, there you
go, right, thanks? He gets them out. I hope it's not
gooey. Oh god, it's gooey. He's the instruction manual when he drops
like a thick book on the zipper. Wait, what other models in scratched
town? You know they're scraped down? Yeah, not as nice as this
town. He needs. Nowhere there is nice and the skin sush. They
sail awful when they fall apart, and they have shitty sulk in nowhere.
Huh. All right, you know what, I'm gonna read the manual.
I actually want to see what's written in this giant book on how to put
on a piece of cloth. Later, short rest, you get see page
sixty two. Where are we at? You to to to emulate the urination
function of a soul kick. Literally every function is okay, And I just
shot the book. I'm like, I don't need to know every detail you
want to blend in? Right, if you ever find yourself copulating with a
soul kick and you would like it, okay you Okay, Norman and Anthony,
you are skin suited up. You're gonna go above. Okay, yep,
all right, it's it's it's sort of late afternoon now because you have
the rest for a couple of hours. Yeah, you'd say it's like a
good like set six seven pm. Right, you guys come out of the
hole and you're in the town. Now, where would you guys like to
go? All right? I think we go to a bar. You're gonna
do that time? Oh dear, oh my god. Okay, you guys,
walk to the nearest bar that you can find. This is gonna be
fun. It's gonna be a nice little date. As you open the door,
it's quite a nice place. And you see they have a little sign
that says now serving all the worldly brewery, and then underneath it has a
picture of Juna giving a thumbs up. All right, I said that that
happens fast new today. We should probably pick like at least what our names
are. Yeah, come up with, come up with. I'm oh man,
hold on, I know Bone Slaw. I'll be Bone Saw. Okay,
I'll be Karina Karina. Oh I like that. This is it is
like in Saba Roudi when they come back in one piece and you have like
fake Loofy and fake Zora and stuff. Yeah, it's just fake Zarina and
fake Bones Slaw. Wait? Yeah, did he did he announce his name
was Bones Slaws? He was murdering. I'll just say he was a distant
cousin that I don't know, right, I don't look like him exactly.
So we're we are. Okay, you guys coming. He approached the bar.
Who do you approach? There's a couple of people. They're they're they're
sitting around, they're drinking, they're having a good time. There's there's someone
singing and she's man, I didn't see the field of faith in my heart.
Yeah, don't worry, Anthony, I'll take the lead here, go
ahead, go ahead, my lady. I walk up to one of the
guys at the bar and I'm like, hey, they're a big boy behind
like one of the someone drinking it, one of the guys at the bar.
Hey, there you're looking nice. Hey, hey Petrie, look at
this guy. Oh he looks good. She looks good. Yeah, look
this girl. Sorry, he looks good. He looks good. Hey.
What's your name? My name's Karina. I'm from out of town where me
and me and my her brother. How are you doing names bone saw legs.
I'm wrestler bones slap, but no relation. I get that a lot.
You would not believe how much I get. Yes, my my my
third brother, I'm wrestled him like six months ago. He died. I
honestly don't much don't know much about the guy. Yeah, I hate him.
If you ever see him, tell him to fuck off. I'm sure
I don't think I ever will see tell him that says fuck you. D
says fuck you. If I ever see him, I'm gonna gouge his eyes
out with this little knife. All right. You seem to have a lot
of anger there anyway. Anyway, boys, next rounds on me. But
I do have a couple of questions. First, if you don't mind women
lady buying as a drink, Ah, you don't see that's very often here
in Norventia. Hey, Petrie, when's the last time that ever happened to
you? Oh? Yeah, you know, tell you what, take care
of my sister. I'm gonna go take a leak. I'll be right.
Yeah, because I am also a sulker. He's using the urination function about
Yeah. Yeah, well, yes, well I have some of this new
outwardly brewery I heard he's pretty good. Yeah, I've I've had it a
few times from out of town. I wonder if this one tastes the same.
But but anyway, we're looking for a tower or like a holy site
shrine type of thing. Yeah, might have a cool symbol on it.
Similar Actually I don't have my on never mind, do you know what I'm
talking about? It should be in the city. You're talking about some NuRD
shit. If you want to you want to learn about nurt shit, you
gotta go to university. Yeah, character, my older brother. I mean,
we're just looking for like a location. We're just I'm from out of
town. Listen, I don't know shit about that. Man. I hate
nerds. I'm like, all right, you guys are useless. Mister bartender,
Sir, the Petrian dish, they get their drinks and they're fed up
with you because you're a nerd and they don't like nuds. Walk out of
the bathroom, and I don't know what the fuck just happens. I have
no game, even as a hot woman. This is saying, wait,
wait, wait, you messed it up? How did you mess it up?
I don't know. Fucking everyone's a chad, No one cares, cares,
look totally shrines. What what you didn't find out? Where anything?
Is? No? But I'm gonna I'm gonna ask the bartender now, mister
barkeep okay, okay, we're looking for like a holy sight, a tower,
a shrine, something like that. It's should be in this city.
A temple perhaps, temple perhaps Yeah. He just shrugs and he's like,
isn't man? If you want information at the only places I know is the
university. All right, I gotta go to class. I guess we're going
back to college. I guess all right, let's go. Okay, so
maybe I'll be popular this time. Okay, Okay, it's okay. You
are a strong young woman. You can do this. I trust you.
Okay, Oh, thank you, Anthony. Why am I still doing this
voice for walking out of here. As I'm walking out, I look over
and everyone and I was like, by everybody, all right, so yeah,
some people are sort of wave that's tough. This is this is definitely
like a he's definitely living out his dream here, and in some form I
feel like I'm proud of him. Yep. All right, Okay, well
I guess we go to the university. Then I asked the bartender before we
leave. Yeah, he pointed, okay, all right, let's go.
All right. You you you approach the university and it is this grandiose building.
There's a couple of students walking around. It is late though, like
it is late, you know, you got at seven eight pm, but
university still open. The libraries still open, and yeah, would you like
to walk inside the library to the main university building the campus? Yeah,
like the hall like a mall or yeah that's okay, yeah sure. Oh
you walk in and there's like a little visitor's desk and there's a there's a
soak in there with with glasses on and her hair up in a little bun,
and she's like, will it come to to Novncia You that you guys
visiting or your students. You don't have your student idea with you. We're
we're from we're from out of town, and we just came to a place
with like that, like some smart people would be. We're looking for a
holy shrine, a tower, a temple, some type of location like that
within this city. I told that this place was the best place to go
to get that information. Yeah, that is something you the professor might be
able to help you about it, but he is. He's it's you a
late night class at the moment. Do you want me to let me sit
in? Uh? Yeah, I mean I guess you could if you It
costs money, though, should you another student and all of our classes let
you sit in? It's it's ten gold per person. All right, that's
fine. I'm bone Saw by the way. Nice to me, Nice to
me too, nice to me too. Well. I hope you enjoy learning.
We always feel like knowledge should be free for everyone, but we also
have to keep the upkeep of our university. So yeah, go ahead,
go ahead. Understand it's a very clean university. Thank you, Thank you.
He did his his His classroom is the seventh door on the right.
Okay, my mom would finally be proud of me. If you always wanted
a daughter. Did you go to call oh about that? Oh? Well,
you know what, it's always wanted a daughter. Oh wow, my
mom would be so proud of me. Okay, in yourself, Norman,
that's all that matters. Thank you. I give him a slap on the
back. All right, Okay, you you entered into the classroom, and
as you ended in the classroom, you see this old wise and soul king
with a huge, big white beard, gray hair, and he goes,
oh, it looks like, well, you've got some lace comments here,
I'll go have it. Sit down. I'm just gonna walk in and immediately
sit in the back row and yeah, anyway, where were we? Yes?
So, and he just starts giving him he can he's giving his lecture.
It's like a maths lecture. In the corner of the room. You
do notice Muffalo that you met yes yesterday this morning, the one that was
late to his classes. He's there. He's started that guy. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, the human guy. That's just like writing. Do you
guys, can you do intelligence checks for me to see if you retain any
of the information from this class? Yeah, just just just a raw intelligence
No, not not the not the shark. Shark you're not here. Okay,
Norman, you've got a fire, You've got a critical fail. You
know, you learn nothing. The shock you're not even hearing. You learn
nothing. You're still in and you learn nothing. You have alcoholic minim like
forget stuff. But yeah, yeah, some of it. It's it's kind
of interesting. But it's like it's yeah, it's not your field object,
it's maths. It's maths, but it's like it's just not an area of
maths you really care about. It's like calculus. Yeah, what's that trigonometry
or some shit? I don't know any I think, And then he finishes
his lestry. It's like, right, that that is that made me back
here tomorrow morning for your early morning lecture, and goodbye. I remember the
homeworkers due next week. I'll give you a reminder tomorrow. And the students
start flowing out of the room. What do you guys want to do?
All right, I'm gonna wait until a lot of the students have left,
and I'll just slowly walk up to the professor if Karina wants to join me,
of course, of course you won't go to professor as well. Hello
there, mister professor, I'm not seen usual here before. You shouldn't here
at the university. Oh no, we're just sitting in. We actually a
great lecture, by the way, I especially liked with an eleven Can I
repeat one? Yea yeah said at some point, I especially like formula with
the I really get compliments. Students these days already just here to get them
to get a degree and go, I get it. It's a it's a
required class. They wanted off the councilor lessons off to the terrorist attack to
day. But you know, oh education, that's important. That was stuff
that was such a scary, like scarier career. Yeah, I common believe
it. You know, they stole the king's dog, that was bastard and
then they do that they killed like fifty people. They should be rounded up
and drowned. Ammonia, I say, yeah, well, Amonia. Anyway,
we're here from out of town and we were told of some type of
holy site or tower temple within this city. I don't do you know anything
about that? Who told you about that? Well? What's her name?
What's the ju ju? Juna? Told us here? It told us to
come here and look for it is purely academic. By the way, there
so closely guard at university. You see her, that is, I don't
know Junah got that sort of information. I mean, I don't know.
She's involved in a lot of stuff. Now she's a person for the power.
Yeah, she's a market person for the brewery. If you've seen that,
well, no matter, you got to toe it in every in every
facet matter. Nobody can access it anyway. So even if we were willing
to pay pulls out like one hundred gold no, no, no, no,
can't we bribed. But to be honest, the administration here wants to
keep it a secret. But I think knowledge should be free for everyone.
Yeah, you're here. I know about a secret. I know about like
a holy site. It's it's located deep the cripts of the university. Actually,
oh all right, that's rather morbid. Okay, but nobody has been
able to enter there for a while. Mmm. The catacombs. Yes,
we would love to see it. As I said, this is a purely
academic You guys say that your students, No, we're not exchange students,
were just I mean, we're you never stopped being a student. I'm sure
you know. I'm a researcher. What is your motivation here? Why do
you want to see the site. Well, this is a job we were
given by Junah. She told us to come here. One second, guys,
Oh sure, ah, all right, she's no yea Jude. Yeah,
she's my sister, very very nervous. She's still coming to terms with
herself. But what I just basically, yeah, we were sent here by
June to go and find out where this was. Why would Junah want to
find out what this was? She's a root, honest merchant and she got
to her may or position through bribes and coercion. I don't really work with
any of her. I think she's trying to uncover some type of last history.
I don't know what belief that all is behind that. I don't know
what type of goal it would be what you're trying to uncover. But she
said there was there was there was stuff lost to an older time period.
Well it's it's it's lost forever. It's sealed away. Unless we could find
the key to enter the crips, we're never going to be able to get
in there. All right. Do you know which part we would love to
try? It would love to take a look at the crips. So like
the entrance, I mean the entrance of where, like even if you just
told us generally where it was on the campus, scorch you there. I'm
not gonna keep my eyes off, thank you, all right, I mean
if you want to, Okay, so I'm not going to do anything.
Well, he's gonna lead you through the library, and he sort of he
leads you through the basement or the library, and he's just he will keep
going down steps and steps, and then eventually he leads you to this stuff
only area and then he walks down a few students see this, you know,
some people do anyone who's interested, I guess. But and he eventually
reaches to the end of this corridor and there's like this door that looks like
a stone wall almost, and on it is a little in indent that's in
this shape of like a heart. Oh so it's a door of stone.
I get it. And he looks over at this like heart shaped door,
at this door with the stone indent. He goes ever a bit, since
we've been missing the key, we've never been over to open it. Perplexing.
All right, Well, thanks for letting us know. Thanks for least
we learned something is something that we learned something new Today's sister, A heart
shaped key to unlock this holy site. Very interesting, probably never will be
found, sad, unfortunate. Well, overly, everyone I've said to try
and find it doesn't come back. And I'm you can't just like out a
piece of rock in the shape of that heart and put it in there.
It works, It's a magical relic. It changed to the door. Not
really my cup of tea personally, you're not interested in magic, my friend.
Oh yeah, magic is the beating heart of society. Without magic,
what are we just a bunch of fleshy people squandering in the dirt. I'm
a civil engineer. I just what do That's just a fancy fleshy man in
dirt. Well, anyway, we don't want to take up anymore of your
time. It's getting late. Uh you know, Karina, would you like
to head on out? I suppose right, Ah, yeah, sure,
I'm sorry to disappoint you. No, no, it's fine. I'll report
back to Juno. Well, we appreciate you taking us down here. I
I mean, I guess once it is opened, once someone if if,
if that ever happens, probably not unlikely, irretrievable at this point, absolutely
no way in Noah. All right, well, I'll scord you to the
entrance. All right, you don't have to honestly, No, no,
you look tired. You should probably get to bed. You have that class
tomorrow morning. Let's scord you to the entrance, unless you're deceptively perfectly trying
to frsuade him. Not too No, no, I think we should just
go for now. Ye, just go with it, and he leads you
to the front of the entrance. He smiles. Weekly. Well, it's
good that some people are interested in history. Have a good night, professor,
you too, yep, and he walks her solemnly. No, no,
no, no, no, like an air kiss. You blow him
a kiss. Oh that was adorable. Yeah, okay, all right,
then, well I guess we head back and let him know what we found.
Well, that was fun, well lasted. Okay, we'll just fresh
cut to you guys are back in rat club. Your reapproached Cody in the
shark and you. Hey, guys, welcome back, welcome back. Yeah,
I feel like Cody would have also been drinking in the meantime. You
guys will go for a little minute, right, Yeah, little feathers are
drinking. We've been having a great tame. Cody's been showing me how many
press ups he can do in a minute, and it is a lot.
To tell you, it is more than the number you are thinking in your
head. One hundred and four. Yes, one hundred and five he can
do at least I'm gonna take off my suit as I go back in that
that's the number, he telled me. I don't keep counting. He just
does them and enough, to which he goes, that was one hundred and
twenty. Yet I go like, yes, yes, it was all right?
Then, yeah you had it. Did you get the information on?
Oh yeah, it's at the bottom of the library and the university. Oh
great, did you go Can we just yeah? Can we just go there?
Now? Uh? Well, we could probably sneak in. The problem
is there's this door that's blocked with this Apparently you need a magic stone in
the shape of a heart, and I don't know where that is. Did
you look at I look at the necklace on the dog. What ship is
that? No, that's the shape of a loot. Okay, it was
not a loot shape. It was a heart. Did we feel like a
cartoon? Hard? Did you? Did you ask him if they knew what
it was. He was pretty adamant that he could not They didn't know where
it was and they couldn't open it. Did you ask? Well? He
said several times that no one will ever find it, And yeah, he
said, people look forward and don't come back. But we did not inquire
because I thought it was the dog was gonna have the heart shape. Now
why am I still talking about it? Yeah? I thought, I mean,
just you can talk however you would? They they they send, they
send people, they send, they send people to find it so they know
where they would know where it is. Then, oh, but they just
can't get to it. I thought we were just supposed to find where it
was. I thought we could figure out everything else. You didn't even you
didn't even ask him. I thought. I thought when I got back,
you guys were gonna have everything else squared away. I don't know. We've
been we've been partying. Yeah, I really thought it made sense. The
dog would. We've made friends with the professor. We can always go back.
I can enlist in college tomorrow on like shit kind of geography major history
majors. Wait wait, wait, he he told you that he was sending
people to try and find this key or whatever, but they never back.
So what if tomorrow you just show up with adventurers and you're like, hey,
tell us where to find the key and there you go, Cody,
perfect example. We'll just do that. So we just we've got to find
a place to stay and everyone else can just be you know, you're hired.
Posse h Cody, yoke comes out to you, Cody shackle me.
Sorry, I just stop playing with the keys. Yeah, you've been doing
that the entire just I just been like, people don't care, but some
people are loud about it. Yeah it's I shackle me. If you think
that's what you need, then I don't want to go bear and hurt these
rat people, these kind rats. Now, no, of course not.
I'll yeah, I'll, I'll. What do we have as a party to
keep him sule me? Oh my god, tie me on? All right,
relax? First of all, do we like you just like slingshot him?
I got nothing that could like restrain you know, nothing I have prepared
right now, just just not even like magical, just like like physical stuff.
Do we have things on us? I know I have roll up,
but uh yeah yeah, and you could you could probably find stuff if you
didn't you have enough money to just get supplies, you know, ye,
buy shackles or whatever. Yeah, while we're in, While we're in what's
the scratch that you called, it's East Rattown, East in East Rattown,
I'll see if I can pick up some like sturdy looking manacles, shackles,
something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you start fucking putting them
on Yogi. Thank you very much. Make sure to release me in the
morning. Yeah, no, we will, don't worry. And can we
get is it possible to like take shifts watching him in the night? You
guys want to get like a hotel in East Ratown? Yeah, we'll get
We'll get to like an inn, yeah, hotel whatever they have. They
have me and Karina to book the room. Oh it just in rat Town.
We're just stay in right Town. Okay, you could walk into the
rat Town Hotel. Welcome to the Red Town Hotel, East Rattown. Thank
you. This is the loveliest place in oh the sewers. What about West
Rattown? Anything going on in West rat Town? No, okay, not
since the rat Town Wars. Oh Jesus, oh god, oh gosh,
yeah, that place is a wasteland now you know my father fought in the
rat Town Wars. That's great. A couple of rooms. Yeah, okay,
yeah, yeah, you hand over the money. It's it's it's they're
like two silver pieces each, so especially it will be like one gold for
all of you guys. I will I will give him one gold. Oh,
I didn't mean to send that. I'm sorry. I'll give him the
one gold that I got discounted off of the suits earlier. Yes, yeah,
yeah, perfect, Okay, so you guys rest up for the night.
Skip ahead to the morning when I haven't noted that Norman goes into his
room holding the skin suit with a smile on his face. Did Norman buy
a pump whilst you guys are out when you were getting supplies. I don't
need to I don't need to elaborate what's going on with the suit. He
just walks into the into the room with and you said, we're fast forward
into the morning. Yeah, I don't think he went in with a smile
on his face. All right, all right, right, Well, as
long as he's happy, Yeah, as long as he's happy. Yeah,
okay, fast forward to the morning. Yogat's fine, but you can see
his skins a little scratched up and and there's there's scratches on the metallic stuff.
But you can release him. And are you guys just heading to the
university? Oh are you? Yeah? I guess so we'll we'll just go
with we'll try and we'll try and make ourselves not to be fair. I
don't think Cody's has no actually, never mind king saw Cody. Anyone who
isn't in a suit like, we'll we'll try and like dress ourselves a little
differently or yeah, where pats imagine? Yeah, I guess Cody could wild
shape to be fair? You know, you could just buy we have money,
don't we can we just buy more suits? I don't know if we
have enough money on us? How many more do we need to buy?
Two too? Yeah? You have you have another ground on you. Yeah,
father doesn't need to disguise. Okay, yeah, so you buy two
more suits fifty okay, alright, alright, So Cody, describe your suit.
It's just the most muscular ripped dude. And then with like really like
yeah like tan skin? Wait does Silkan's tan? I'm not sure you can
get like it? Yeah? Well, what's the Sulican like skin tone?
Equivalent of like a bronzed like it probably would be like bone Slow would be
like a dark, deep purple. Yeah, then then I'll be similar to
bon Slow, but with hair and and with the shark. What's your skin
suit look like, mister shark, mister mister the shark. Is he having
another war flashback? Oh? Sorry, I was, I was completely so
I said, what's your skins who look like? Okay, we bought you
a skin suit. I'm just gonna get one that I feel is as ugly
and evil as my soul. So I'm just gonna get the most scarred up
beat the discount bin. No no, no, like well done to look
like it's been through. Oh okay, like the torn jeans kind of thing.
Okay, gotcha, Yeah basically, okay, you know how you get
the jeans. Then they're ripped, but they're intended to look that way,
they're not actually ripped. All right, exactly, all right, you will
equip your skin suits and you go above ground. I guess you're leaving a
couple of people below. I think we can we can just bring everyone with
us, including the dog. I mean the dog. I turned the dog
invisible. Yeah, I guess that's probably the best idea. Yeah, you
could do every that's my favorite movie. Is Is he okay with being on
a leash? Or? Can you just tell him to be invisible? I'm
gonna I'm not gonna ask him. I'm just like, I'm put the leash
on him. And if I like try and get him to follow me,
does he follow me? I guess he does. He's he's okay, he
understands the bigger picture. Yeah, okay, I will turn him invisible.
And is yeah, altho I wanted man? So yes? Well yeah,
but can we just give him like a mask, another suit? Can we
give him a change of clothes? Bone? Slow? Yeah, I can
just stay in rat club. It is okay. I can win on wrestle.
Okay, just come for me later. He will come back for you.
Just won't cause any trouble. I promise. Me and me and this
oh god will we'll hang out. We're like two bros. Good sounds good
bro, half and half out of his rat suit and partially runk. The
Shark's going to grab the shop, keep and go. This place is a
lot more beautiful than where I come from. There's a lot more peace.
But I still brought my violence. I think my mama was right. It's
me. Do you need to go to the scrap therapist? No? But
do you need to take out a small term loan? All right, buddy,
we got some stuff to do. It's like business is booming. I
just sold yeah, and that's going to do me for a good few months.
Trying to hire a rap prostitute expensive? Oh my god. Okay,
okay, you you guys get to the university. We we we flash cut.
You're in front of the university or bright new students and you walk in.
It is a different person behind the visitor's desk. It's just this sort
of bored looking man. Welcome to Okay, wait, hold on before we
walk up, Like, what's the plan now that we're trying to actually gain
admission to the university or we're just here to speak to the professor about having
a group of adventurers to go after the thing. Yeah, that's the thing
we're going with option b Okay, all right, okay, it will get
the man behind the desks. Welcome to Noventia University. What can I do
you for? Hello there, Yes, me and my sister were here last
night. We've spoke with professor. Please tell me. We learned his name.
You didn't ask his name. He talked. He's he's he's a sultan
with him. Spoke with him professor last night last night. Uh, old
man, I describe him? Uh dragon, Dragon, Yeah that was his
name. Sorry it's I just forgot it's anyway. Yeah, he's he's on
history and science professor. Oh wow, he does a lot. Yeah,
well, can we speak with him again? I have something I want to
bring up that he mentioned last night that I think he'd be interested in.
I will I will talk to him and arrange an appointment. Of course,
he will just sit here. You go to the You guys are sitting there,
there's like a magazine. Norman pulls out the Yeah, let's play.
There's a magazine on the desk. The shark is like opening up. And
at two weeks he's like, you know what, guys, I do feel
a lot better. Thanks for listening. Okay that the guy comes back eventually,
and he's like, all right, he's free right now. I'll lead
you to his office. And he leads you to his office up some stairs
and you walk in and you see Dragon. He's behind the desk. Oh,
it's you two again. I guess you needed more information. Well,
actually we have an offer for you. Well take a seat. My time
is valuable. I have a class in about twenty minutes, so right,
we'll get right to it. Of course you mentioned you mentioned adventurers going out
to procure that magic stone to open the door. Yeah, expensive and a
waste of money. None of them come back. I can't just throw life
away like that. Me and my group of adventurers are willing to do this
pro bono, for free, for the catch. Find that stone five.
It's for free, that catches five hundred dollars, catches. We want to
see whats inside? Do you find it? Knowledge? That is the greatest
reward after all his power. Yes, yes, that's why the reliks are
heart because you must love knowledge. I couldn't agree more. All right,
well, I'm sorry to form you that is a grim task. It was
stolen hundreds of years ago by a sand giant nor the city. Oh he's
not difficult to find, but everyone, I what Sorry, he's not difficult
to find, but that giant, I guess I said, nobody comes back
alife. All right, do you have a map of the local area?
Oh, we do, Well, let me take a look. Then,
uh, it's not on me right now. I didn't bring it with me.
What it's it's in my fucking brain. It's downloaded on my neurolink.
I can't, just I can. But it's like a hologram. Here.
Well, let me, let me get a map. He pulls out a
way more detailed map of Solem's line. That's way more detailed than I thought.
You were the you know, the professor of geography and history. You
would of course have Joe history, sciences, maths, but but not geography.
That's that's someone else. But I like maths. Punch him in the
thing I don't and then you cuts just imagining them doing it. No,
no, Anthony puts him in the face and just yells, I don't.
I don't over the top and he's like, you don't like geography, you
don't like maps, and I okay, listen, I just think geography is
everything you know, all right? And he he marks it on your map
and it comes up on your quest Hub in your mini maps. Yeah,
people the sun giant he with scouts say he lives around here, but people
will get close. They they'll come back, and well, you provided us
a decent amount of information. How many people did you send out earlier died
parties of This is not just me, you know, of course, of
my lifetime. Every few years a bunch of adventurers want to go out and
achieve it and go and they never come back. All right. Not the
first people to be asking about it, you know. It's also not the
first people Juna has wanted to get it either. She's being very insistent.
That's fair, good luck, And what would you like written on your tombstones?
I'll start making them ready, Let's just do that. Bone Saw is
ready, like bone slaw. Bone Saw was ready. He was ready once.
Okay, all right, well then I've got a class to teach.
Yeah, of course mine could have just be two musical notes that go.
That's appropriate for me some reason. Hmmmm. Okay, well this is very
sharky. Yeah, that's very good. All right, I'm off and he
now I'll walk you guys to the entrance. You don't need to do that
around the universe. I feel like I should college, not long ago,
and this is this was not how the teachers acted there, I don't know.
And he walks you to the entrance. Anthony's yeah, I'm like twenty
eight. Yeah, and you guys escorted to the exit of the university.
Where do you guys want to go? Are you just gotta go off in
your quest? Yeah? Right, alright, we're doing Boulder's Gate rules.
I loot everything, there's nothing to loot. I just started opening barrels.
Should we should we get bonds law for this adventure? For the sand jacket?
I feel like we're going to need everything. You might need all the
help we can get. Okay, well, we're gonna get him, and
then there must be aware in east right city. That's kind of to the
outskirts of town above. Yeah, yeah, he said north, So maybe
north Rattown is where. Yeah, so if we can, if we can
stay at underground as long as possible and then get outside of the skirt,
let's go to the city. It's just so nobody sees bond slaw. North
rat Town is a whole Guardian territory. Sorry the shock What if the shark
says this? What if everyone keeps dying in the desert because they're not good
at water? Man, should we just get bone saw to carry four big
barrels of water? Yeah? Yeah, that's a good point. Okay,
slow, yeah, he's drunk, so the slurred slap. Okay, then
I guess, I guess you. You pick up bone store. You guys
start walking. You go through the tunnels of the sewer is until you find
entrance that's nearer the north, and you stop venturing into the desert as a
group. And I feel like it's a very good point as you guys are
ventric fourth towards this sand giant. To do A, to do A to
be continued. Yeah, Roth, did we need more white foods? No
need to draw a dog. I know what a dog was like. Wait
until Kry draws awaits. Oh no, can it just be boatslaw but with
tits? Oh look, okay, yeah,