In the year twenty seven fourteen, a new squad of Opera Davis was chosen
by the College of Illusion. These fools promptly went on to frustrate their DM
at every opportunity. Today, still working together because really who else would work
with them? They survive as adventurers of fortune. If you have a problem,
if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire the Second Breakfast Club. Tony Kinney as Eddie Falzoni,
Jess Owen as a deer a Glow, Michael Cole as Urag and Jesse Wicks
as Bill Crilliance, Nico Rodriguez as your DM. Welcome back to the continuing
Tales of a Fool's Quest. So you who are still in the Throne room,
you have retrieved the Queen's crown, which was the treasure that was kind
of alluded to by Frasier, and you fought some shadowy cut through luesque blood
monster things in here, and you wrap that up and then you got a
bottle of blood and a bottle of wine. Yeah. I picture them as
like like the orange juice carafes at a hotel content a breakfast yep, exactly
what they look like, so we got this carafe of blood and a carafe
of wine, and there's the twelve God? Like what stained glass windows like?
Right? Or stained glass or like murals? Yeah? Yep, okay,
they're they're glass, right, They're not just like frescoes painted right?
Yeah? Thanks? We should probably break them, break them. Yeah,
that seems like a good good thing to do in a haunted castle. Start
breaking glad or evil. We shouldn't divide God's love it when you break their
ship. Told you that garbage it's called you won't season four? H oh,
we should probably. I don't know. Valley is with us, right,
we haven't forgotten her. You know what? She have a bag of
books that still has a use or two went through the washing. Yeah,
yeah, I'm gonna use the bag books. Can I see your book?
I don't know how bag of books works? I guess is a plus one
on your about today? Yep? All right? No one else knows anything
about this, so that's also a plus one yep. And then I rolled
a nine and it's plus five, so fourteen Jesus five? Holy shit?
Okay, flex, what what kind of information are you trying to get from
this? Hm? I'm hoping the book has something about blood magic and blood
magic curses. I was expecting wine magic. Let's do this. So you
start just flipping through this book and you're going through different sections kind of talk
about different gods and talk about fay and talk about different monsters and creatures,
and the book is actually talking about equilibriums between deities and also magical creatures and
also the different races of you frey. And there is a certain chapter in
the book that has a layout much like what you see, where there is
one creature on the left, one creature on the right, and then a
run in the middle of it that connects them. And it says essentially that
this rune can be used to compare them. It can be a similarity,
and it also can be their undoing. So for example, you see a
hill giant on there, and you see an ogre on there, and it
talks about their size and strength. That's the room that's there for it.
But similarly, one of those is got a higher constitution and one of them
has a higher strength, so you know one of them is more strong,
but can get sick, and so you know, even though they're strong,
you know they their insides aren't as strong, and the other one has a
higher constitution, but it's not as strong, so the other one can brute
force beat them. So they've got similarity, but the similarity can also be
used to conquer one or the other or get around one or the other.
So maybe in the context of where you have Hephestus and Bain and their ruin
is worksmanship, they both have a type of following or culture around creating.
So in the Nine Hells, Bain has this giant steel mill factory, the
looking thing that that is their help. People are constantly working in these furnaces
forges. But yeah, but he is forcing his labor right, and so
he can get all this work done down in the hell. Like he imprisons
these people, enslaves them, and that's their hell for eternity. Whereas he
Festus, people take pride in their work, but he doesn't enslave or imprison
them. He's just, you know, he allows them to do their own
work. So he might have a smaller workforce, but he would have,
you know, people who enjoy what they do and do a better quality job.
So that would be the scenario between the two of them. They have
the same same route item there, but they're done in different ways, and
one can be used to outperform the other depending on the scenario. So where
does the blood and wine come in though, Well, maybe have somebody stationed
at each of the Hyphestos and Bain Bain holding the caraph of blood and whoever'
said holding the wine. I don't think Caphestus and Bain. I think that
was just an example in the book. Well that's the first one. Well
yeah, but I think that was just to illustrate the connection. Yeah,
well, I mean we could go down Toulu and Dionysus. Yeah, I
think that's what we're looking at with the relay carved all over the throne,
so it would be whoever is standing in front of Dionysus with the wine,
and then somebody over at Cathulu with the blood. Now, remember I did
tell you guys, it isn't this. This room is just symbolism. There
isn't anything that actually has to happen in this room. This is just symbolism.
So if blood magic is keeping you trapped in this city, and is
that allowing you to leave, then wine magic, wine magic. Let's get
drunk, Let's get hammered and walk out, So we can use blood magic
to defeat blood magic. You could. That would kind of be like the
baine Hephestus situation though, where like, are you gonna use more slavery to
defeat slavery? Yeah? Or fighting fire with fire just makes more fire?
Put out fires with castle songs called cat people, look it up random.
I mean, he's the cat person. Yeah. So we look at the
dichotomy between Dionysus and Cuthulhu, right, Cuthulhu enslaves the mind and it drives
people mad. And mirth and merriment would do the same thing, but in
a different way. You choose that you like it. I like it.
That can also lead to addiction in a slaveman in its own way. That's
crazy talk. Let's not get dark, Mike, this is a comedy show.
Let's get drunk. My name is Jewel Rog. I'm an alcoholic.
So if this room is just symbolic other rooms nearby that may seem to have
some sort of importance. Or now, you guys scouted the castle out pretty
hard before you ended up in this place, and no there was anything there
was. The castle is like near the heart of the city, So I
mean, unless and portal magic isn't a thing in you fray now in not
since the world got broken. So yeah, you're you say, it's pretty
safe to assume the exit is not in the castle. Your exit is in
another castle. Damn it, It's always in another castle. Fuck you toad.
Let's go up top and raise the flo Let's see here. So it
was in the tavern you had that vision? Where did I have that?
But no, we were in here? Were we in the mountain? It
was it was in the tavern when you haven't found an empty tavern? Yep,
okay, right when you use your commune with spirits thing the decimated tavern
in Gilio's lady, when you saw the king with his cold tests, I
said, so weird. It's been a minute since we've done that, using
his blood magic to get rid of the wine magic. Not only blood magic.
No bill, any ideas. No I made my I do like three
things. I did my thing. It didn't work. It's just walking the
parameter. I think we should talk the phraser. I'm gonna put the crown
on m just because I like hats. Yeah, they're all trying to figure
it out and I'm in there scoping myself out in the reflection in the gods
mirrors can find a shiny shield. You're fine. It's not a cursed or
magic or anything. It's just really really fancy, pretty expensive. I think
we should go find Frasier. We should probably take him his dad's bones or
whatever. Right, mm hmm, Mark put him in a box or a
bag testries. Yeah, I'm gonna tear down a tapestry and wrap the bones
ceremoniously. I assume there's like a staff across the top of the tapestries,
so hangs Oh yeah, yeah, I'm gonna use that staff. I'm gonna
take the tapestry off it and tie a bindle full of Martin's Martin's crane bones,
a bone bendle. Yeah, and they're hollow bones, so it's not
a yeah no, not even wait on your shot. I'm I'm gonna mysteriously
go missing when it comes time to pick it up and start moving it,
so I don't get stuck on one end. Yeah, we'll tell him,
we'll tell him, We'll tell him they were scattered already, right, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I didn't see anything. I know nothing. How
did we end up killing him? Ada? I mean no, I didn't
Valley killed him. Oh yeah, ye shot him right through the skull.
I remember nothing for the last scon. Yeah, it was only two weeks
ago. I slept since then. The last time. We were off for
a month and a half and all of us knew exactly what we're doing.
No, no, we didn't. I think we could play the next night
and you guys would know what was going on here in the night before.
All right, so where are we at right now? To repeat it last
season where we're in the butt throwing room? Can we get the hell out
of this castle? You sure can? You want? Yeah? The way
out is in go all the way through? Way? How is it in?
I forgot about that. You gonna put the wine in my belly in?
Hebriated. That's what they meant. Gotta be drunk, intoxicated, entice
rung in gin. Okay, well, then to the tavern. Yeah,
last call, Let's go find Frazier. See what See what his take on
all this is because I just forget we're gonna get tanked. Well, I
mean it's only one bottle, and yeah, but the tavern had some Yeah,
I still had a little of that good stuff. Yeah, Yeah,
Fraser had some some brandy too, yeah, family label stuff. Yeah,
all right, let's trudge them back. All right, So you guys head
on back to your tavern or do you stop by Fraser's on the way.
We're supposed to meet him at like sundown, right? Yeah? Is it
late right now? What's getting kind of late in there? Yeah? That's
getting there. Not quite yet. I mean you could probably get another hour
in by the time you get back. Let's just head onto Fraser's little little
little townhouse there, all right? Does it tip over? So you start
walking up and he comes out, you know, after Eddie starts barking at
you and who rag did you hear? And he's like, you're back,
You're you're back, You're back, You're back, he says, like running
around, and Frase is like, oh Eddie, Oh, it's good to
see you. Welcome back. Hey, Eddie, I'm gonna give him a
bone, just kidding, huh. Phrase up, Well you already knew,
so it's not news, but we recovered Martin's remains. Oh wow, thank
you hit him the bindle. Nice. I don't know what to say,
Eddie. I this means a lot to me. You've you've done something to
my insides. It was Bill's idea. Oh, I don't know what to
say. Bill, You've done something to me. You've touched my insides.
I have not. That's a good second. Tell people that you've played the
symbol of my heart. Hill. Leave the poetry to me. Oh,
I'm sorry about the hole in it's had its Ballant's fault. Uh, he's
like son up a bit. My mother was a nice lady. I think.
I don't know Fresser. You know you were talking about treasures being in
the town here and all that. Why, Yes, well you see builds
new hat, Yes, lovely. Yeah, we got it off throwne okay,
wonderful. I got this cup full of gems ms. He just got
a big old tanker. Yeah, it's like an open full of gems.
The cup itself is not adorned in any way anyway. Uh, it's a
paper cup. Listen. It was it was in the castle there, and
there's uh some circumstances that seemed important and I'm gonna I'm gonna let Bill tell
you all about it. Yeah. We found uh, we found all of
these gods and these well we found a hallway that was like magically calling to
us for some reason. And I'm gonna kind of sketch it out for him.
You too have heard the call of Giermo's gambit. Sure, and then
we went in and there was like some shadow things, and only that that
we thought, And then we found this goblet. There these two cups,
one with wine, one with blood. We assume it has something to do
with the calling and Cthulhu and Dionysus. But these carests are exquisite. Yeah,
I think they're real crystal. So anyway, there was also didn't you
hear didn't Bill hear a voice or something the way out as in that?
Yeah, that was a yeah, a voice or you You picked that up.
So Bill got this this this strong impression of that the way out of
the city is in. But it's only that we're at a loss as to
what it means. But it all seemed important, and you seem to know
quite a bit about this kind of thing, so we thought we'd bring this
to you and let you chew on it a bit. Sure, No,
mister Quiverlance, do you still feel the pull of the city, the castle,
whatever was pulling you. I do, but not nearly a strong way.
Oh, it's been pretty much resolved, you say, Yeah, wonderful.
And with that resolution, do you feel that you know how to get
out of here? No? Oh, that's rue. What what have you
here come to? What if if you come to terms with what? Do
you guys have any theories? Well? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
got some some theories and some parts of some see now Garammel's gambit is the
way it is because of blood magic. Yes, so that's probably what's keeping
us here, that's got this whole city, you know, cursed like this.
It is the blood magic. It makes it so you can't find your
way out or whatever, can't fly right, that sort of thing. Yes.
In that throne room, there was two thrones. There was the one
that we got the crown off of, but the other one had carving all
over it the word relat. Oh yeah, I've only ever heard that in
association with the old ones, the old Ones, Yes, fascinating. And
then there was these uh, these orange juice crafts full of blood and wine
respectively. Hmm, do you remember which craft was sitting next to which seat?
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I think the blood was next to the princess Saint Man? Are am
I crazy? The King's see, there's a king and a queen next to
the kings? I thought, I think so too. I have a solution.
We'll just put the crown. It's definitely on the queen's head. Spent
the last several years building up an immunity. All right, so these crafts,
what what do you think they mean, like I said, we thought
they were related to Dionysus and c in there shared one of the one of
the shadow creatures that we fought, was seated in the king's throne and was
reaching for the for the caraph of blood, the orange juice craft of blood
right there. Yes, I wonder then do you think, no, it
couldn't be. Maybe the blood magic still needs to be renewed. How did
a craft full of blood come to come to be in here, in this
town, in this city. That is one of the questions. And you
say, my father's bones were in there, Yes, his bones were in
the room. Maybe the shadow creature that took him drained that. Maybe that
caraph is my father's blood. It might be. I'll give you this with
the rest of the remains. I didn't put it in the bindle of bones.
But yeah, you didn't drink this blood, did you? No?
Just making sure I know when things are in carafts, people tend to drink
them. Well, I have spent the last several years building up an immunity
blood, so I was sorely tempted. And you say you believe this has
something to do with Dionysus, Well, there's a connection between Dionysus and Cufu
and me hallway leading in connected by mind that said mind. Oh, yes,
that makes sense. The old ones used mind control and madness to bring
their servants to their will and allow them to possess their body or lead them
to make poor decisions, much like the King of Gammel's gambit back in the
day. And then Dionysus, well, he is fond of mind altering substances,
those chosen, you know. But there are different things that Dionysius can
do when somebody opens up their mind using some of those tactics. I've I
assume you've heard of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Ah, I'm gonna chug the other crab.
Oh no, you just drink the wine. Yeah, it was at
this moment that he knew he fucked up. So you drink the wine.
You are two swallows in you are like blurry, blackout drunk. Like the
whole world turns into a spinny thing and you start losing your balance for a
little bit there and feeling it. But the world as it's spinning around you
kind of like a kaleidoscope, you see a direct path that leads back out
southeast of the city. Hey, yes, I know how to get out
of here. I think pull me up, I take a craft from him.
Okay, don't don't spill that we might we might need to. I'll
hold him up, don't peke on me, don't any of us, no
promise. Is that way? Well, Frazier Bill says, you can see
the way out now. Oh that's that's wonderful news. I guess could we
follow along, I'll grab the rest, it's gonna suggest it. Daphne come
with. And the others started coming out of the house, and Eddie Barksko
climbs and he's like, well, well, lead, lead on. I'm
excited, and we only have about an hour. Do you think we can
get out of here within the hour? That seems fine to me. I'm
not a great charge, though, I only have one more place of power.
So I guess if we're not quite there, we can use this last
scroll. Yeah, maybe we should. So did he only drink like two
swallows of the wine, So maybe we should wait. Maybe you should sleep
this off. We can try this in the morning when it's safe. No,
whatever, that's fine, I'll do it again. Let's I'll tell you
what we're gonna go on back to our tavern. Fraser, we'll see you
in the morning. Okay, so good value. You're gonna come with us,
come with us, or you're going with your new friend Fraser again.
Well, I don't Is there like a bathroom in the tavern? Yeah,
it's a tavern. Well, I'd be happy to hang out with you guys.
Then, I don't think he wants the lady who defiled his father's body
here. All right, let me go get the treasure chest. I'll be
right back. So she goes and gets the cart with the chest. I
was just gonna leave it till the morning, all right. So you guys
go use up another day's worth of hot pockets for those of you that eat.
So that's four of them, I believe for uh wait, but Valley
had her own hop pop that. Oh she did for a little while.
I don't know how many she had. Yeah, I mean yeah, I
think she lost hers with the wagon. I think last night she ate with
the cranes. She walked away a crane. Well, we have one more
day's worth them, all right, all right, I'm sorry. It should
if you get out of here, you should be able to make it through
the forest and get to Phosia as long as nothing wild happens. All right,
so you guys crash, you want to do anything during the night before,
or you just want to call it a peaceful night first, like peaceful
night you've had in a while, at least since Mary Shelley's Frank Frankin.
Yeah, we didn't even have to use my ritual. You know what,
we could go tonight. We could just use my ritual. If we haven't
healed anything from this accounter. Yeah, we should probably rest right as well,
wait till morning. I'm sure we all got hit. I'm some point,
yeah, yeah, all right, all right, yeah, you do
need to heal. Yeah, I'm gonna continue drinking a little bit of a
liquord it and he has left, and I'll sing them all drunken more bottles.
Oh yeah, yeah, but I'm gonna drink yours. Damn, that
was a good one. I got out of the manager's desk. Well,
I know, all right, secretly admire you for drinking the wine. He
said't loosen to Jenna. Okay, I will say at some point somebody said
let's get drunk, because that would be mind altering. I think it was
Jesse that you should get drunk. Maybe Mike, one of you two over
there on the couch. It is one of those two. I was really
hard. So inspiration. You all get one inspiration which should replenish you back
up. And then Bill, do you want to try playing some music to
heal people up? Or yeah, yeah, I'm drunking me playing a tune
I'm missing with my symbol. Sometimes I'm pounding one fist on the table and
hitting the symbol on the other. It's like a whole drum set in here.
I am finally going to use this night to study that scroll I bought.
Okay, it was a scroll of magic weapon. Yeah, and I
just want to just, you know, drink my my meat or whatever I've
got. The meats probably all turn the vinegar because place spent abandoned, but
whiskey maybe I don't know whatever's whatever's still drinkable and study that scroll to see
if I can figure out a way to cast it. While he's trying to
study, I'm going to play the most rambunctious shamties I can all right make
an intelligence role for tonight. Okay, thirteen, that'll do it. You
learn how to cast the spell magic weapon. Now it's that's that's an enchantment
spell. Mm hmm, I think or evocation really all right? In this
game magic weapon, the weapon you hold while casting does one D four damage
until you dismiss the spell. While this spell is ongoing, you take minus
one to cast other spells. It is an ongoing spell, so you wouldn't
be able to Yeah you can, Yeah, just keep thinking D and D
rules. Yeah, it's nice one. Yeah. Interesting, So that's an
extra damage that you now get with your weapon. I need another blackjack because
I don't have a weapon currently. Correct. He probably should have asked for
weapons at the graduation ceremony like I did. Is that coming anytime soon?
Bt dubs wink wink. Yeah yeah, I may complain about it a lot,
but giving you that black check was the right call, and I knew
I wouldn't get it back. I think I'll get fairly tanked and then practice
trying to shape shift into a hydra and scare the ship out of Bill.
Okay, yeah, yeah, make your shape shift roll to see how close
you get. Oh man, that's a critical success tonight. That's a well
plus three so fourteen yeah yeah all right, yeah, so you go full
on hydra. Obviously not too big for the tavern. But you fill up
the tavern pretty well. You you get that spot on. But you said
you can only do like a baby that's just missing a couple of heads.
Yeah, hotly, ship the stuff is allucinogenic. Made a fucked up hydra.
It's got seven human mouths as that's where you think they look at me.
I'm a hydro. It's got weird little like corky legs. I don't
there's eight of them, wee little boots. I guess this is a hydro
more of a caterpillar. No, he made a good role. That's just
what Buil thinks because it's leucinogenic wine. Yeah, that's what he sees,
all right. See you sleep the night away. You have weird dreams again
of the king and his cultists going through the town, going through the city,
and people screaming and stuff, but nothing too wild. You get your
full rest. How much healing did you do for people while you were singing?
Oh yeah, I probably should have rolled that. I thought you were
doing that. I'm so used to D and D when you just blow all
your healing before you go to sleep, But I forgot that there like can
actually be who all needs healing? I do? I do? I need
all right, a good bit of it. We'll start with Addie. You
are facing off against Martin for a while. There, down to two hit
points. Ah, so that inspiration's gone. That was fast. I love
it. There we go. That's great. It went off without a hitch,
first try and everything. Uh that's six hit points. That's not enough.
Did I actually use my I didn't use my inspiration? Everybody else did?
All right, you use yours again? I think everybody ended up using
theirs last week ten for a Yeah, so it's gonna hear you more ready.
I mean I could use it if you could do it, I can,
Bills Aga not a crit again? So krit is watch just max yep
sixteen nice Now I feel great. Yeah, I'm okay. Okay. Before
bed, though, Bill, I need you to roll a constitution save to
see how you do with that alcohol in your system. That's not charisma,
no constitution. I don't do those. That's an eight. That's an eight
okay, all right? So you feel very rough the next day, you're
hungover, your body aches, bright light hurts, but you take no negative
impacts from this in fact, if you've learned anything as a bard, it's
that if you want to cure a hangover, hair of the dog, I'm
gonna I'm gonna mix it with some orange juice and check it. You find
a craft of orange juice in the haven, it's like it's twenty years old.
No, orange juice is alcoholic crust tang right, it's not orange juice.
I think it's just roths actually, but it looks good, so citrusy.
You guys wake up and uh, yeah, what do you do?
I get shitky, Okay, we let Bill get drunk and I'm following them
out of town. Yep, all right. So the Greens come out to
me in the morning, and Frazier says, good morning. I took it
upon myself to take some of the lucinagenic mushrooms that I had in my bag
and we added it to our brandy. So I will be joining at you
on this spiritual voyage. Oh, we just call it a trip. Oh
we're in the spirit world. How loucinogenic op mushrooms? And you didn't share
your best, hey, dog, We didn't feel that it was appropriate considering
the haunting ghosts and blood magic. Yeah, it might be a bad time,
but you know we're on the way out, so much better time.
Yeah, so you've already had those? Are you seeing whatever? Bill?
Season? I am seeing a path in this direction. Any points and it's
the same direction Bill sees it going. But who hasn't drank anything yet?
All right, So so he's pointing in a different direction now than what he
pointed yesterday. Hmm, But Bill is he's in agreement with Frasier's assessment.
I feel the world's gonna have to be slightly altered, right, got any
more of those mushrooms? Yes, yes, I do. And he it
takes him a little bit, but he uh fumbles some hot of his bag
and he's like here the old still, I'll get him. It must have
moved them. It's like you're a cookie through ragg not that mushroom. That's
a shit talky. So you guys, who all does it? Yeah?
All right, well if everybody's doing it, me taky cavern in the middle
castle in the middle of nowhere. We're all tripping balls. You want toss
them to edit the value valleys Like, I am so down, let's do
this. Your nomes were cool? Holy tri is a numb you're so dull
for it now. So I'm just laying down. So you guys do these
hallucinogenics. You follow the path. Okay, everyone needs to first make a
wisdom save loving great thirteen six seven three, Oh my goodness, inspiration.
Oh yeah I do. I mean the rest of us may You're probably fine
stick them on my three going for it? Uh? Actually, roll again?
Is that a GNAT three? Yeah? That was a GNAT three because
I have a plus nothing. All right, go ahead and roll again.
Let's see how bad this is? Goody yeah? Six? Okay, all
right, it's not another crit bad. All right. So you are good.
You're you're like one of the last people to take this and you are
like feeling good and you are cruising right along Bill. You begin to see
other things around you. Uh. You start to see the animals coming out
of nowhere. Nothing that seems violent or aggressive, but you start to feel
like something is watching you. That paranoia starts to set in Eddie and Adira.
Out of nowhere, a monstrous creature comes charging out of one of the
alleys right towards both of you and attempts to chase you away from the party.
And you can't help, but feel terrified and break into a run off
into a different alley to get away from this monstrous creature with sharp claws,
beady little eyes, and spider legs that come off the back of its torso
as it's running toward you. Is this part of the trip? Yeah,
you guys are having a bad time, a bad bad trip. Just throw
the holy hand grenade. Eddie. Little Eddie starts barking at you, guys,
as the rest of the party starts to move on without you not really
noticing that you have broken away from the path. You can tell that you're
no longer on the path because you can see it still see the path as
you're leaving, But you are tucked away in this alley. And unless you
have something up your sleeve, you're gonna have to roll for initiative. I
do happen to have something up my sleeve, though it'd be really great now
it would be the time to use it. I happen to have ritual up
my sleeve that will make us both appear not to be alive. Okay,
all right, yeah, and it's already all prepared and eary thing. I'm
gonna do it, all right, So you cast this ritual to make you
two look like undead zombies. Right, was to make us appear as undead
to anything that senses life force. Okay, now this creature is only in
your head. You guys are having a bad trip feeding off each other,
but you're giving yourself confidence. So go ahead and cast the spell. Make
a role for it to see how much how effective it is for your own
confidence. Nine a nine. Okay, So the spell goes off, and
I will give you the option. You can either take minus one on spell
casting until you rest for the next time, or you can forget one of
the spells out of your spell book for the day. Obviously not that one
because it was a ritual, but I will forget hypnotic pattern. Okay,
you forget hypnotic pattern for the day. It just disappears, and you guys
have the confidence to scare that there, to feel like your spell worked,
and the rest of you bill who rag you After a moment, you're the
only one that really notices, because you've rolled really well, that the other
two broke away and deviated. After a couple of moments, you see them
slowly waddle out of an alley like undead creatures. On stumble over. Should
I hold your hand? Maybe I'll let you guys go ahead of me and
I'll bring up the rear. All right, Oh shit, zombies you tell
me there were zombies, Bill, Bill's having a bad drip. When has
that ever happened? Okay, So you guys successfully somehow, at some point
find yourselves out in the woods. You were walking, you were high,
you were tripping. Everything was colorful, which was weird because it was gray
from what you remember. And then all of a sudden there's a canopy of
trees and you're out on a road and the you know, the trees look
beautiful. There are flowers, there are a wildlife. You see a bunny
bounce by, and you all start to come down. As you're coming down
though, now we need those constitution saves that Bill had to make the night
before. Seven also seven twelve ooags on fire. Yeah, oh my god.
Seven. All right, So you are all in that very very sore,
hung over state. Your body feels sore, you feel miserule, you
got a headache, you feel bloated. Just everything is coming down. You
start getting sweaty, but then you get the chills. Like the reaction to
this is just it was a lot. It's a lot all at once,
and it's a lot coming down ouag being a shape shifter is just a little
bit easier to metabolize these things and process it and section it off and get
it out of a system. But Valley's feeling it, the cranes are feeling
it. Everyone is feeling this awful sensation. But you are back into the
forest and Nuxi's forced. No, it's great for a hangover. There's spiders
suggest everybody that perhaps you should ride in the carriage and transform into a beast
to take it to Barcie. It's pretty much just a wagon now, right
like you guys kinda kind of it got wrecked by the spiders. Yeah,
yeah, sort of the horses. Yeah, literally, just like what a
hand cart with a chest now, yeah, it was pretty much just like
a hand cart that you guys were able to salvage from it. So there's
no penalty to this, luckily, because nobody rolled less than a seven.
But we are going to undertake a perilous journey again through this side of the
forest and out the other side. So we need a scout, a quartermaster,
a trailblazer, and someone to see if there's a travel event. So
what did I do last time? Was I scout or the trailblazer? I
don't recall number. Eddie was a quartermaster, you were the scout? You
rug? I was a trailblazer, but I rolled in eleven? What are
you? I'm the quartermasters? So I'd reduce the rations required by one.
Yeah, so you guys don't need rations, you just find some Yeah,
find some way. Who's trail a lacing? Yeah? What is that?
I don't remember it is it's reduces the amount of time to reach the destination.
Yeah, so it's plus your wisdom? I have nothing. Yes,
so it's two D six. Then I have no wisdom? Literally six?
All right, so you got us six. I am not doing good?
And do rag I got a seven seven for scouting. Okay, seven's not
bad and just nothing good. Do we roll a D twenty for the travel
check? Well? No, in this case, just rolled a two D
six plus or wisdom first to see if there is one. Oh oh okay,
sorry, I thought you fed you. It's eight an eight okay,
so there's not yep, there's not. Okay. So everybody's doing their part
except for a dera. Who's guiding you guys, and starts to take you
off in the wrong direction. Niles starts getting snippy because he's Niles, and
he gets annoyed and takes off to go fly up into the trees to try
and see which way they're going because he thinks this is ridiculous and we are
going the wrong way. And while he's flying up into the trees, an
orb weaver gets it. He gets caught in some web and he doesn't take
it or we were just sinks its giant fangs right into him and starts starts
paralyzing him. And Fraser goes to take off to go rescue his brother.
Valley's like he probably shouldn't go. I'm gonna cast some visibility on Fraser,
okay, all right, So you cast invisibility on Fraser. Maybe nine yep
nine, okay? Uh, So that draws attention, or I can choose
to forget the spell or take plus one one, and I think I will
take the minus one on going. Okay, all right, so minus one
on going for spells? Will somebody roll two D six for Fraser's strength to
see if he can pull his brother down from the wedding seven seven, So
he gets up there, and he starts yanking and yanking and yanking, and
he is able to break Niles down before the before he gets completely you know,
wrapped up in this webbing. But he Niles was really stuck for a
while there. And when he does this, he actually breaks Niles wing and
so you can hear the snap in Niles's Nihlis's wing as he yanks him free
of the web and flies him back down. But now the orb weaver has
a sense that there is prey in the area and it's going to come after
you. But because of everybody else, with all of their successes, you
guys make it out of the woods without another fight. So surely, all
right, nice job sort of sort of. So Niles was up the right
way then, Yes, the way we were going up was the right way.
Yeah, up was the right way. Look what it worked out for
you? Good job done, dumb Could you talk to me later? I
mean immense pain right now. Yeah, it's your own fault. I understand
that, and I'm really good at healing. But I also think you're a
prick. I'm a walk away. It's your own damsel. No, He'll
fly on it circles Fraser Fraser give me one of those gems. It will
make me feel better and some bready. Fraser is like, shut up,
no branding, you're not you can give them a jam you bear, give
him a shitty one, well, Fraser. So now we're on the other
side of the forest. Yep. So you guys travel, you get through.
You have ouag scouting ahead in his different scouting forms, and you may
get through the forest and you get out of the forest to Phochio and Phosia
is the exact it's built mirroring Lisa's hold. So where the giant wall was
on one side, it's on the opposite side. It kind of like building
a fortress toward the forest. Both of these were like forts, like the
military forts, built up high walls, you know, all toward the forest,
and the backside was a little bit more open. So it's just the
opposite way, the exact opposite way. But as you come in you see
that the settlement is originally a city built around a large fort. The city
has been abandoned and the fort is spacious enough to hold that two hundred and
fifty people that live within the walls. The stone outer walls stand in ninety
feet tall. The city itself has apartment like housing on the western side of
the grounds and the center of the city is an open grounds for combat training.
And on the far east of the grounds, the guard barracks and government
buildings are built against the outer walls. Because it's daytime, they have the
doors open and you can just make yourself home. You make your way right
on in. Scattered throughout the town are businesses and shops. On the far
north side of the city is tavern and in you can kind of just get
the feel of the layout just based off what you know from Lisa Sold.
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