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Talk soon and thanks for listening. Hey Richard, Hey Bentley Man, that
pizza party last night was great. When do you think I actually didn't get
to eat any pizza? I was so mad at fizzle bang. Oh,
I'm sorry to hear that you weren't missing much. It was like cafeteria pizza.
All right. Well, I'm glad I ate at the Crow's Nest.
Then when we get back home, I'll make you some of my pizza.
Don't worry, all right, I'm sure it'll be good. It can't be
as bad as what Bentley's making this pizza sound like. It wasn't good.
It almost makes going to this lawyer thing more appealing. Yeah, I really
hope we can get on back on track to find this crystal of arge.
Yeah, and hopefully once we get that back, we can just do the
next two and one go instead of had to do this whole thing one at
a time. As long as the three of us, we are the core
members of the team, agree that the phone is the lowest priority on the
list, I think we can agree that the bode is the lowest priority on
the list. Yeah, we all know who's really in charge of this whole
thing. We us three together. Oh yeah, greetings, my paid none
paid interns. I'm Alex Capps, your DM or district manager. And this
is overworked and underplayed A D and D podcast for young professionals, by young
professionals. Today's icebreaker, who is your least favorite n PC? What up?
Bitsy boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, the Human Consultants turned halfling
Bard who Holly believes it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best
to be both. And I've said it once, I'll say it a million
times. Richard's least favorite NPC is Matt Damon, But now Fizzle Bang is
a close second. Ooh, why fizzle Bang? Because he played that phony
trick with us and didn't tell us of that. That's true stuff going on.
So I'm Analon and I'm playing Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a
hearticle, who was apparently Katie's dad's favorite. Every single family member is like,
I like this character, not you, my relative. You know,
this is like the first spider Man movie where Harry Osborne's dad is just always
like, how's Peter doing? Yeah, very objective, Yeah, exactly.
It was more. It was more hurtful when it was my favorite characters.
Jimmy is my brother, which takes me back to so many child and securities.
So her favorite, our least favorite NPC obviously is the other Crystal,
but also the hippies. She is not a fan that they were trying to
like trick them. She thought they were cool, and I feel like she's
not like a super Laise Fair kind of person, so probably be hard to
get along with hippies. Yeah, she's like, what do you mean you're
not working over time? Yeah? Hey everyone, I'm Katie and I played
Crystal the Drowdruid with her very own MLM. According to legals, she's not
allowed to say what that MLM is, but you all know what her MLM
is. So anyway, my slash Crystals, we are not the same person.
I should not refer to her problems as my problems. Crystal's least favorite
NPC is also Crystal, but for like personal reasons. Hey, I'm Marjorie.
I play Amy and Amanda, a basic, b rough and tumble human
fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. Her least favorite NPC so far.
Oh my gosh, there's so many to choose from. D'artaian probably Titarian.
I like the way she said it. But even though he didn't really do
anything him just because he was deceitful, he was. Here's a see,
well he was. He's I think one of the only ones that has been
like blatantly deceitful so far. Obviously, you know, Matt Damon's probably gonna
screw us over at some point, but he hasn't yet. Hi, I'm
Tyler. I play the character know knows Bentley, the it Paladin and Bentley
as well as my own because we are the same character. Lea's favorite NPCs
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pod. When we last left off, Taylor Jacobs woke up with two legs
and Kay mentioned a different digestive tract kind of it probably feels pretty weird or
squished. What do you think the biggest? Yeah, I took a horse
size poop from a human sized body. Oh wow, you're gonna have to
get re used to uh not pooping at every like startling thing? All right,
but what if she still doesn't? Just anyway, So, when we
last left off, Taylor Jacobs woke up with two normal legs and no shoes,
no pan yea, and Crystal was informed that the opposing council wanted to
sit down for conversation about the pending lawsuit. Yeah. I think we had
worked out that we were going to figure out a way to steal my cell
phone back. Who said who? Who determined that me? I did her
and her rock me and my not real cell phone had a conversation and we
decided at some point she bought like some paint and she like painted like an
iPhone onto this ra Okay, Taylor, So I'm going to tell this to
Taylor. Well, nobody's Taylor. I think we should have Crystal sleep in
the same room with us. I'm getting a little bit worried about her and
how she refers to that rock as her cell phone. Oh, I thought
that was so ingenious. What a great like coping strategy. Okay if you
think if you think that, because there is no therapy. So I feel
like Delulu is the salou. At this moment that Amyan realizes that she's the
only scene, she's like, maybe I want my own room and you guys
can Also, I think we need to figure out how to get her cell
phone back, but he's he just told us under no circumstances to should we
do that, even though he also said possession is ten tenths of the law.
So I don't really know. Am I in the room? Well,
this conversation just like the side Yeah, I guess as we're walking to your
being okay, And it's also weird because we're like, I love Probably Taylor's
looking up. Probably, yeah, Oh, that's probably a real change.
Yeah, like equestrian Taylor's question, tall Centaur, I just imagine she's still
gonna duck going through doorways. I bet you definitely. And she's like,
I guess I just don't need an apple. Were you ducking through doorways or
were you limboing? Because I want Yeah? Probably her lower back is so
toned. Probably, yeah, it's like rippling. She got a washboard back.
You can't see. She just looks in the veb over her shoulder like
flexes. Yeah, baby, oh, I got all right, Hey belly,
can you see anything different out of those weird look at eyes? Can
I see anything different out of my weird looking ice? All right? So
have you ever worn like Amberlin shooting glasses? That's what everything looks like right
now. You basically have permanent sunglasses everything, Sepia, Oh no, that's
a permanent situation. Wow. That takes me back to two thousand and four,
right, So it's about that time. Saul's like, hey, Crystal,
we kind of need to get a game plan before we go in here.
Okay, so you understand why they're suing you now, Okay. So,
so, according to the filing, you openly besmirched the name of a
registered organization, claimed that they stole your intellectual property. They did, okay,
and you also destroyed some of their advertising. That was like, actually,
I don't think that was me this time. Oh no, I did
take the Richard when he took the thing down, the sign sign. But
there's a book store write. I didn't destroy those. Those were free samples.
Well, I'm just telling you what they filed. Okay, Okay,
So we kind of got to get a game plan here. So I understand
because you talked to me about this before that this was your thing. Do
you have my entire career you? Okay? Thing, that's wonderful. Do
you have any kind of paperwork? Do you have anything? It's all on
that phone. What is a phone? She holds up her rock, which
it looks like that. It's that's that's a rock, right? Is that
something like? Can druids do something weird with a rock? No, it's
a delusion. But anyway, I never heard of that, specially she knows
her brain is raised firmly in reality, but she doesn't have a choice.
It's her solution. Okay, Hey, Christal, I think I can I
think I can help here. Oh oh, that's right, you've managed to
somehow keep yours awesome. Yeah, I do so have mine. Mm hmm,
thanks Richard. Would you demonstrate what a phone is? Yeah, so,
Saul, no one here theoretically should know what a phone is, right,
Like you don't know what one is? We do so like it's clearly
something that belongs to our group that no other group should have. So mine
is like this, and he pulls out his Okay, I need you to
roll me a percentile die. I rolled a thirty four Okay, So when
you pull it out, it shakes awake. You have thirty four percent of
your battery remaining, which is actually pretty good for as long as you Yeah.
Yeah, so that's the power. But until you find a way to
charge it, it will only get lower. That makes sense. So I
think we need to figure out a way to She probably has figured out a
way to charge my the phone, Like, yeahs the fake crystal probably has
figured out away, because otherwise it would totally be dead. There's got some
kind of lightning ish that turns into it, all right, maybe so,
and he just kind of looks at it and he sees like it's like when
Frankenstein's Monster sees fire, He's just kind of like, what the hell is
that? Exactly? Do you guys like this is I'll say, technology that
doesn't belong in the city as much in this country is from where we're from,
So the only people who have should have something like this are not people
from here. He leans in and he's like, can I ask you a
question? You can ask me anything, and he sees he kind of like
looks up. He's like, all right, are you from space? I
mean, technically we're all from space, but that's not a different here nor
there. He sees he's getting like there's some wheels turning in his head.
And he's like, okay, all right, all right, you can handle
this saw and handle this saw. Okay, what can that thing do?
Girl with that thing? Trying to think of things that don't take up too
much battery and don't need internet access. He said, well, I can
do this, and he taps the button, turns the flashlight on, taps
the button turns the flashlight off. Torch take a picture to picture some of
the things that can do. Yeah, and I'll do this. I squeeze
the crystal against me, take a picture and take a picture of them,
and then I'll switch the camera and then I'll take a picture of me and
Sauce, so he'll see the selfie. Okay, so you can see me
and him on the screen. Yeah, right, so this will be the
third usage. And you see the battery tick down to thirty three percent.
That sounds about right, yeah, And he's like, wait, did you
just He's like he's looking at his picture on the thing. He keeps moving
and he's seing he's moving, goes, are you trying to trap me in
that thing? Is this some kind of containment vessel? Like? What what
is this? What are you doing when you do that? Whatever that is?
So you're familiar with paintings, right, yes, yeah, so this
is essentially futuristic paintings. You have machines that can paint exactly. It looks
so real, right, I can't wait to start describing a printer to him.
He says, okay, okay, okay, Kinkos. And at this
point you look and you see there's like a crowd of people around y'all like
just kind of watching what's going on, whispering, and it's just like he's
like, Richard, you need to put that thing away too easy. He
puts it on the I glue the fan was like, he said, Igloo,
and I was like, where the fuck is there? An Igloo puts
it in the fanny pad, puts it in the fanny pack of holding,
and he's like, we need to get out of here. Let's just get
a move on. So, Crystal, this is our first meeting with the
opposing council, just try not to give them too much to work with.
I think what he's trying to say is let him do the talking. Then
why don't you just say that, Well that went over way better than I
expected. All right, well let's and we're walking. But well, she
has attorneys, she knows how this shit works. He doesn't know that.
Right while we're walking, can I are the crowds that were whispering? Are
they saying anything important that we would want to notate? Make me a perception
check. Crystal is also listening. Twelve Okay, so do you hear some
whispers about like some people saw the light and they were kind of freaked out
by it. And you hear someone asking if like he hears the little one
a paladin of some kind, Like no, I think the big one's a
paladin, and it's like, which big one, the one with the armor,
you know, like, okay, okay, which that's kind of what
you're that's kind of what you're hearing, right, okay, okay, So
is anybody wanting to do anything before you get to the offices of Ironquill and
Storm. What a name. That's pretty cool. I think I don't know
much about lawyering either, but I know if I have to have something called
malpractice insurance, I know, you don't ever, don't sign anything, don't
agree to anything or or anything like that. That's that's really all I know
about lawyer stuff. Well, I mean, I've done a couple of cases
with specifically intellectual property, so this oh so you're all pro Yeah, different
legal system, but attorneys are all the same. Just be there, he
goes same. Saul turns around and just kind of shakes his head like like
he's not standing right there. Crystal does not care. All right, Well
we're here. I guess all of you can file into the waiting room or
I don't know how much space there's going to be inside if you just want
to leave Crystal with me. What you guys want to do? I know,
Miss Jacobs is very adamant about being attached to Crystal's hip at all times.
Yeah, Crystal is not going in there by herself, not a chance.
A. Crystal is my client, so yes, I will be going
where she's want to correct you, Crystal right now is my client. I
can't have more than one person employed, but in this instance, she is
my client, and I am here to make sure that she does not end
up in prison already first and finders keepers. Well, then by all means,
have at it, and I'll go on about my way. No,
I'm not a lawyer exactly. I think we need to be careful with the
words that we use here because they are always trying the fucking monkey class with
things. It's a monkey pot on a monkey claw and close. That's like
the motto of that entire short story. Close enough. I'm not saying anything.
I just want to be supportive of Crystal. Okay, well shall we?
So you guys all enter the building and it's, you know, a
very finely appointed wooden structure. You see lots of rooms with long tables and
lots of bookshelves. It looks like what you would expect a law office to
look like. And you see a receptionist looks up and says, oh,
Saul really and he's like, yeah, hey, Susan. You know like
you can tell they've had interactions. She directs himations, well, that's one
of his exes. Oh, there are more, is going to have some
words. So all my exes live Entravar. So they lead you down the
hallway to a pretty well lit room with lots of glass windows, and you
see a very finely dressed dwarf and tieflings sitting at the table, and they
both look up and say, oh, wonderful, we've been waiting for you.
He says, go ahead, have a seat. I am Thorn Ironquill,
lead council in. The Tiefling turns and says yes, and I am
our real Storm secondary council. Oh. Two attorneys, so intimidating. You
have to understand that Miss Crystal is very serious about these sorts of offenses,
serious enough to have this conversation right now, serious enough to pursue those who
are trying to destroy the business that she built herself. Ah. So it's
not a religious institution, it's a business. Well, in Levern all corporations
are businesses, yes, whether religious or secular. Okay, good to know,
thorn iron quill looks that you goes I have here in my records,
Miss Crystal number two. Mm hmmm, it's just Crystal. It is okay,
we have We're just using her legal name. Whatever she goes by and
public is fine. But in the interest of clarity in this case, you
will heat Scorth be referred to as as Crystal as Crystal two. No,
do you have another name you could go by because Crystal, well, legally
miss Crystal, our client is legally in the system is Crystal. That's awesome,
great for her. Miss don't see another Crystal in the room, so
there won't be any confusion, right, you can just call me Crystal,
okay, Miss Crystal number two. Nopepe try again, call me Clarity if
you want Miss Clarity also with a K. Well, they're going through there,
back and forth. Richard wants to lean into Bentley and Amy Ann.
It's like, all right, guys, it didn't work the first time,
but it could work a second time. Always be willing to walk out of
the room, Like this conversation is gonna go for forty minutes if we just
let them argue back and forth. And he's whispering this just we're gonna be
here for forty minutes if they're just arguing over what her name is, like,
that's a good point, Richard. You see Bentley and he's you can
just tell his brain cells or silly died in his conversation belligens Miss Clarity.
That's okay, Okay, Well we're getting somewhere. My client has presented we
give you the list of evidence of uh that you somehow magically pulled out of
your ass without depositions or well, no, no, we've we've we've compiled
this evidence our investigation into your usage of Miss Crystal's trademark my name, well,
in the use of it as a business trademark. Do tell me what
business I've registered while here it's not the business you've registered. It's the besmirching
of her business ah by talking up Crystal Clarity. And also we have statements
from multiple witnesses where you've attempted to sell imitation products. Oh, tantamount to
knockoffs of Miss Crystal's intellectual property. Wow. So the use of oils in
general is not allowed in this world, I'm understanding, right, So potions
in general can't be made sold and sold for a profit in this world without
a label. Might I add, No, they certainly can, but not
when sold as genuine products of of crystal. It's confusing for consumers. It's
confusing for consumers, right, okay, not churchgoers? Settlement part. What's
the deal? Okay, So what miss Crystal is willing to do to not
pursue criminal charges. She is willing to not pursue intellectual property theft and in
return you have to agree to stop selling counterfeit products that would be confused with
the charge of Clarity's products. So in this legal system you can have criminal
charges and civil charges, and the person that is you can mix the do
christ what have you? Become a nonprofit and you give away for examples in
exchange for a donation. Do not profits exist in this They could. She's
a business, but she calls it a church, So we could be a
business that's registered as a religious entity. Hey, guys, we should hear
what the rest of the settlement offers. Okay, fucking do you have a
Richard? I can hear you whispering over there as you have a question.
No, okay, Now, in return, she's asking that you stop selling
counterfeit product in a manner that is confusing consumers, that you refrain from using
the trademark of Crystal Clarity. And the last one is that you change your
name to Crystal. No. You know, it's kind of wild to me
that in this world I've basically been pretty i don't know, ineffective in establishing
my empire, and Crystal still noticed me. So it feels like I'm pretty
much more of a threat than I realized, which is wild. And I
think that I would like to Crystal, which one who's talking to Crystals?
Sorry, you couldn't tell by the voice, So sall turns Crystal, Crystal.
Let's save that for afterwards. We got you know, like I said,
don't play all of our cards. Let's just hear what they gotta say
six minutes or six miles before you talk shit. I'm sorry. So working
on this offer, we just assumed it would be in the best interest of
all parties if you were to change your name and you could market your products
under your new name, then we would have to worry about any further legal
proceedings. That is wild, and I do appreciate you bringing an honest offer
to the table. However manipulative, and I think we'll think about it.
You didn't expect us to have an answer read today, we just met.
I assumed that you would see this offer in the fact that it takes criminal
charges off, and you'd take it with a little bit more gratitude than that.
But that's okay, that's your prerogative. Yeah. Well, here's the
thing. I have been to prison and it's not so bad. So this
world is pretty much a hellscape and I'm not real worried about it getting worse.
Okay, So if you can bring maybe a better offer to the table,
I'll also discuss with my current legal counsel. He's been super talkative.
You just can't been able to hear him because you know you're talking. And
we'll bring it back to you. Well, we'll make our adjustments and our
dendums, and I'm sure we could probably come to some sort of an agreement
some point down the line. I do want to be clear with you and
with your lawyer present, that this was per our client, was a final
offer. Oh and if you do choose to not accept it, we're going
to proceed forward with our next steps. Awesome. Actually, you know,
why don't you go ahead and move forward with scheduling that because always like,
it's my understanding that you can always go back to mediation if we wanted to
reverse and change course. So why don't you go ahead and schedule that deposition.
I would be more than happy to explain my business structure to you in
depth over the course of multiple hours and sometimes I've heard they take days,
and I'm sure you would love to hear me just talk to you for that
long and I can, so, yeah, just go ahead and schedule it,
and I will I'll talk with my current legal counsel. Thank you for
the offer. I see that it's coming from a true and genuine place of
concern. This at this time t fling Lan's in and goes, no need
to take this offline, overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back after the messages
in it. As a matter of fact, miss clarity is I would love
to sit here for days and go over every agonizing detail. It's not agonizing
to me. Well I'm sure it's not, but those are called billable hours.
Yeah, and for me, that's a fucking vacation. I'm so excited
for you. And then Richard stands up and he's like, sounds like we're
going and you see a Saul kinda, he's just kind of all right,
Well, I guess that's that. Yeah. Also, I'll be filing an
inappropriate conversation between the two of us, just for record keeping purposes. So
just that's up. Okay, Well, mister Saul, we have gone ahead
and sent over our discovery to your law offices so you can review and prepare
for your deposition tomorrow. Oh no, it's not going to be tomorrow.
It doesn't work for me. Actually, you see a Sault turns and he
goes Crystal. I don't know how things work where you're from, but here
the opposing counsel sets the date for any kind of depositions or anything like that.
The ball's in their court because they're the attacker. Oh like, Crystal
head them by the balls. That's fine, you have, Like, I'm
sure you'll work it out, because like, if you don't file things,
if there's not an actual record of things, how are we How is this
world any different than some sort of barren planet that has no law or justice
system? Isn't that your whole job is to like, you know, understand
the system and work it. And you're telling me that the ball is in
their court. So all just kind of smirk says, Look, you're new
here. He smirks. Yeah, oh, Crystal might fire him. He
says, Listen, you are describing something very alien to me, and what
I'm trying to tell you is how things work here, and I'm trying to
help you. Are you yes? Trust me. I don't get paid unless
you get out of this whole thing. Okay, good to know, So
do more. Yeah, well trying to. We've got to get We've got
to go review this discovery and be ready tomorrow. Okay, you got this.
We got if she if she goes to jail, she's just gonna start
her melm up in jail, straight to the settlement. Probably in jail.
I think Crystal would come up with some really cool ship in prison, just
saying that's terrifying to think of. I'm just imagining a Crystal Clarity shirt where
it's like I've been to prison. It's not that bad. She's been to
a holding celth Taylor undated. So I think that went well. Maybe we
head back to the Crows and that's the name of the place. I think
we head back to the Crows and nest and maybe game plan our steps forward,
got some ideas Bruin and the old Parko later. Okay, hey,
Salt, can you make sure that Crystal is at the next interaction that we
have? You see a Salt mulls it over. He goes, hmm,
that could work in our favor. I'll see what I can do. Okay,
that's an absolute mussaul. Yeah, any plan that we have that we
come up with requires that. So back at the cris Nest. Yeah,
So back at the Crow's Nest. As you come in, the captain is
behind the bar manning it, and he says, oh, hello friends,
welcome back. Another rowdy adventure today, not yet, but we have some
writing this we might need your help with. Actually, oh, he looks
around and there's no one in here, but he's like, then meet me
in my office. And you see as he like runs over to the door
and he like locks it and flips the open sign off and he runs over
like like you guys are all just kind of standing there, and he's like
running around like a chicken with his head cut off, like he's very excited,
and he's sitting behind his desk. He says, okay, well,
come on, come on, we don't have all day, all right,
great, So, Captain Montiac, we have a situation that we're in.
Don't want to bore you with all of the details or implicate you in anything,
but we had this friend that we met somewhere else in town. His
name was Nemeo, and I was wondering if you could get us in contact
with him. Oh, yes, I go gambling once a week with Nemeo.
Have your dealings with him been on the positive side or the negative?
So far, we've had one positive interaction, and so we're hoping that we
can ride that out for them, right, well better than most. Yes,
I can reach out to Nemeo. What is there a message you want
me to relay or is there some kind of action that is going to be
taking place? Yeah, if I recall correctly, the last time we spoke,
he said, if there's anything that we need, he knows a guy
that can get it for us, and so that's what we need. Okay,
Well, I'll see what I can do. Wait here and I'll send
a raven perfect and you see as he's got a bird cage in the back
corner of his office and he closes the door and you hear him like yelling,
like like, and then you see like a bird go flying out the
window and he goes, all right, well, who wants to join me
for a beverage? Does that Raven have a big enough cage? I know?
I was like, it's a big cage. Richard's going to need a
drink for this conversation. Yeah, all right, So what kind of skull
duggery are you getting into? So much? Can I do like a some
kind of insight to learn more about this guy who I remember when we first
met him was like a real creepyzoid. No, he was just hitting on
people. Problem. Thank you for man's playing and that Tyler. I could
not have gone your comedy that's not very good seven do anything at all from
them. I'll tell you something you pick up on You've seen a lot of
people in the Seafares district, right, you haven't seen anybody with like good
teeth quite like his, Like you notice his teeth are very well taken care
of, like better than some people from where you're from. Really, And
I'm just I'm just noticing this now. I'm sitting down because I'm just like
thinking like, yeah, I'm just noticing this now. Okay, sorry,
yeah, but now it's like Okay. Now his his hyperfixation is on something
that's not creepy, so it's like, okay, I can observe. Hey,
hey, Monty, I just interrupt him whatever. He never been called
that before, But hello, are you from here? Sorts? Not?
What does that mean? I grew up in the mountains. Oh what mountains
you see? As he points to a giant map on the wall of Trevaria.
Oh, and he says, the silver crested mountains. Wow, that
seems like kind of a far away way. It is. But you know,
most of my family took different professions than I did, and but for
me, it was just the call of the sea. I couldn't get away
from it. Okay, So have you been a seaman for a long time?
Uh? There there for a bit, you know, eventually rowse up
the ranks and say it got enough money to purchase my own ship and then
subsequently crashed it in a particular location. And he points at like how the
building is ship stacked on top of each other, and he's like, the
first floor of this building is actually where my ship crashed and we just kind
of build around it. Wow. How old is he? You notice his
ears are a little pointy. He's not like a full elf, but he's
like a half elf, and so he looks like he could be anywhere from
like thirty to like ninety just by how those guys age. But like wealth,
Yeah, he's like he's like crime. Okay, if I could you
know, well you have, I can't help. But notice, I'm sorry.
If it's rude, Manti, but you have great teeth, like exceptionally,
then oh yes, do you brush and floss twice a day? Hygiene
was very important in my family's household. Okay, okay, I feel like
Taylor might be listening in. Oh yeah, I feel like it's in front
of everybody that we're doing this. Yeah, do do your family have what
we back home call generational wealth, as in money passed down from descendant to
descendant exactly. You could say that he's like, is there any other kind
of wealth? But unfortunately, uh, I was, Uh why did you
have to pillage? Then? Who said anything about pillaging? Oh? So
you're like a captain that well, did you just assume I was some sort
of pirate based on the design of your ships and the flag at the top.
Have you ever seen one piece? There's good pirates that was quite miss
Jacobs. Oh, I apologize, well, Monty, to be fair,
that does mean pirates where we're from. So if what means the skull and
crossbones flag you have up there, oh, I just thought it looked cool.
Oh okay, Well, I don't know, and maybe check on that.
Yeh okay, that's not great. Thirteen. The way he said it,
what you pick on on is he has either practiced that line a million
times or he actually feels that way. Fair enough, all right, it
doesn't matter one way or the other two, Richard. But like everything's pointed
towards, he was definitely a pirate. You know what, Monty, You
know what assume means? So that's our bad. So I hope you don't
take offense. I'm not a linguist. What does assume mean? Assume means
ass of you and me? If you assume so, assume, it makes
an ass out of y. Exactly interesting. Well, back to the matter
at hand, this bit of skull duggery. What are you lot trying to
involve Nemeo in. Well, I'd prefer to wait and not have to say
it twice. If we could just wait until Nemeo gets here, I think
that would be Richard is very efficient handy. So it's about that time you
hear and knock at the door and uh, you see the as Captain montyak
uh, sorry we're closed or you called me. He's like, oh,
oh, I wasn't expecting you so soon, and he goes and opens the
door and you see as Nemeo steps in and he looks and he sees all
of you standing there and he's like, oh, bother, what have you
gotten yourselves into that you need to come? Fine? Old Nemo again,
Well, if I recall correctly, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
But last time we spoke, you said, if there's anything we ever
need, you know a guy who can get us anything, and we are
in desperate need of something very important. Well, I do know some guys,
what uh what is it that you need help with? Well, before
I can answer that, we need to ensure that this conversation stays amongst this
group. Can you assure that's that? Hey? He looks and at Captain
montyac and he says, yet and had any hags around here lately? Have
you? And uh, Captain Montyjau says, well, one can never be
too sure. And you see as he raises his hand up and you see
as like a wave of light just kind of pulses out from him and he
looks around. He goes looks like it's clear. So what what are we
What is it you're needing? And how shall we acquire it? Well,
hopefully stealthily and without any connection back to us. We've been strictly told not
to get this item, so we need someone else to get it for us.
I'm sure you guys are familiar with the Church of Clarity. Unfortunately great
we feel the same way their leader. This supposed miss Crystal has something that
belongs to our actual Crystal here, and we need you or your guy to
get that item for us, and we should get out of town. Sounds
dangerous potentially. What item is it that you're needing? So it's a little
rectangle, it looks, And do you have any paper I can draw drive
for you? Cc as Captain Montayacu pulls a scroll out from behind the bar
and rolls it out and hands you a few charcoal pencils. Perfect, and
then so Richard starts trying to draw a just an iPhone, takes her a
little rock out. Yeah, here's a three D model. Here's the two
D image. Nemeo looks at it and he goes, hmmm, small hard
to find? Yeah, we're probably not that hard to find, honestly small.
Yes? Will this item be heavily guarded? I think it'll be guarded
by one person. I think it'll be either on Crystal or in Crystal's like
sick. Yeah, didn't they say that the legal team had it? Did
they put it in their evidence? I think that's what was said, that
that it's in like some storage location from the legal team, right? Even
better, I think so. I think I did say that even better.
Yeah, so, yeah, it will be heavily guarded in evidence. Hmm.
Okay, this can't be the first time destroy That's why we came to
you, because we knew you guys were the best, and like, well,
it's nothing you guys couldn't do, right, Ah, that is true.
My people tend to be a little better at destroying than quietly acquiring.
But I think I know a person or two who could accomplish this job.
What law office is it kept at? Well, then it's that Ironquill and
storm Ooh you've really upset someone, haven't you missed? Crystal Crystal just looks
at him in an irritated way. She's just like, I'm upset. I
am the one that it's upset. Well, I see that. Now,
iron Quill and Storm they don't lose many cases. I would be very careful
dealing with them. Iron Quill is a stern yet fair man, but I'm
fairly certain that miss Storm is the devil incarnate. Well, you know,
we don't actually need to win or lose this case. If we can get
this item back from them, and then we can do with any repercussions after
that. Okay, So you need this quiet, you need it to not
come back to you. Yes, and you need this done house soon within
the next day or two. I believe you see his eyes get huge and
he goes, hmm, this will be quite the operation. Two thousand gold
Okay, I don't know, but we can figure out the cost. Yeah,
two thousand gold. NEMEO can make it happen. Okay. We might
have to do this in installments, but we will get you your money.
No installments cash up front. I can give you maybe half upfront, but
I definitely cannot give you all up front. Make a persuasion check. Okay,
with disadvantage as you use one of the omen dice. So we make
like a lot of money. I think, here, oh yeah, don't
say that though, we're like good for it. So I rode too trusting,
too trusting. So tell me how this works. I rode with disadvantage.
I got a natural one. Oh fuck, you're a half but I'm
a halfling. So I just get to just reroll that net one. Yes,
you get to reroll the fucking net one. My man. It's better
to be lucky than good, but it's best to be but it's best to
be both, which is why on a persuasion check, Richard only got a
fifteen at nine plus nine eighteen. Oh this advantage to NEMEO, thanks for
a minute. And you know, he hears what you're saying, and then
he hears Taylor Jacobs say, but we make a lot of money. He
says, okay, yeah I was. I wasn't hiding that information. A
thousand up front and fifteen hundred when we get the device to you. I
think we can make that work. You just put a lot of money in
the bank and there three hundred gold. The party is gonna try and steal
from the rest of us to cover the stupid phone. I'm sorry if one
of us isn't in jail. That's valuable for everyone, especially when it's like
the main person who heals people exactly. I'm standing right. I also have
healing spells. You also have healing is definitely not talk about that, Okay,
heal me j client anyone quiet? You were the same, I don't
have anything. That's how we all live. Remember, I wish we would
have talked about the bunny part before we asked nemeo here guys, because you
remember, work is a hobby. For bid, He's already got his nuts.
Thank you, Bitcoin take her to leave it. That's the deal.
Don't we make three hundred a month? We make one fifty a week each.
But we've not that was so much gool? Does everyone have so actively
tracking? I have not. Yeah, I've got money in the I mean
I've been actively tracking, even my copper. Wow, he says, so
do we have a deal. Yes, let's confer a group. He shakes
Crystal's hand. Crystal didn't go to this guy, Richard, did, she
draws Richard. That means Crystal will be the one to go to the loan
shark to get the money perfect. It's a very multiscept plan and so uh
Nemeo says, I needed to get I need to get my crew together.
He says, your contact with the device will be one of my top guys.
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