Well, well look what the cat drug in? It was us. We're
the ones that got drug in because we're the ones have been gone. But
thanks for sticking around, and why don't we just jump into it, shall
we? Uh? So you know the drill, Sit down, shut up,
and welcome to from a Far podcast. We'll the crypto. I like,
is Crypto the superdog? Okay, that's Lily Crypto. I want to
hear it. The only other dog that might come close to that would encourage
the coward or Clifford the red Dog. Oh Clifford, No, Clifford can
get out now, Clifford, get up. Clifford is the size of the
house exactly the dog site that No, who's picking up with some construction between
like equipment? My dog over here. I've been. I'm very impressed by
this, so I keep bringing it up. Uh not with you guys,
obviously, but enjoy He's only five months, but somehow he creates these human
size just parcels. I'm like, dude, now I mentioned Clifford. Now
mentioned Clifford. That's what I'm saying. I can't it'll sustained an entire ecosystem,
Like the amount of fertilizer we could get from that big red daddy,
assuming that dog eats anything good. Yeah, so like eat people are like
live stock. Ye, how much you spending the feed him? Like it's
like what is elephants can eat like it's like a ton of day or something
like that. And I mean leaves like it leaves. That's the grassiest,
driest poops. It's like a leaf blow you can make paper out of.
You can make paper. I've touched it before. Oh okay, yeah,
it's for real. That's what you send your your your dual request letters to
your rival. It really meets me at dawn upon this parcel of poop paper.
And by the way, Lord Smellington, I wrote this on elephant Feast.
This is a little bit of a little taste of what you're in for.
Wants you all to know that I think we've we've held the audience at
gunpoint arm's length of long, gunpoint long enough, get out, like Clifford,
get out of here, audience. This is for us, not for
you, um but before we get too much further into this, for those
of you who happen to be listening, which I think I've said, as
I've said every time we've recorded. Hopefully as all of you, because this
is an audio format. I don't know how else you would be ingesting this
this podcast, And if you are watching, how please get out of our
discord. But for those of you who are listening, we are. This
is welcome to the second of hopefully many from a far podcast side quests.
We are joined by some lovely, lovely, amazing, fantastic, wonderful human
beings, and I think now is a wonderful time for them to introduce themselves
all at once. All three of you go right now? Hi, I
was ready, you know, That's why I said. I'm just kidding.
That's all of you. Lean in. You're like, all, here we
go. M B. Let's start with you. Who are you? And
where can the folks who are listening find you? Hey, y'all Bezela here
And if you really truly to find me, but only on the internet,
you can do so on Twitter is at the end of score delta, or
on Instagram if you had an extra undo score at the very end. A
podcaster, streamer, heck and t trpgar I don't know, I do stuff
find me, but in the less creepy way possible. You know, no
telescopes telescopes. This is a full on anti telescope zone. No tell us
a zero optics zone. Yes, exactly. It is an absolute honor and
so excited to have you here. Thank you for joining us. Thank you
on this journey. Of course, of course, Adam, who are you?
And where can the people not creepy finding? Yeah? Heay, creep
away. It's fine. My name isn't like you're in a like a bunker
of some kind. Figure. Yeah, I'm in a I'm an a basement
in the Midwest. There's a storm mode side and I'm hiding from the tornadoes.
Not really, everything's fine, but I am in a basement. The
classic D and D. Yeah, it's it's all I have. And that's
all you need to know about me. I recorded a basement. That's it
combined. Me in my basement. Good luck, good luck, it's undergrounding
a number of basements in the Midwest. We'll find you. We'll go through
all the base Oh my gosh. Yes, that's our adventure. That's what
David told me. That's what this is all about, finding specifically me in
my basement. Well more, you can find me on my podcast, The
Roaring Trainers, which is a Pokemon D and D five V podcast set in
the nineteen twenties Canto in the jazz Age. We have two campaigns. I
was a player in the first and I'm DM in the second, and the
second campaign is currently releasing every week. It's a lot of fun. It's
kind of a dark story, like it's a you know, like a silly
dark story kind of Pokemon, a little mature a story. I always thought
it was like a story that I wish I had now, you know,
like I grew up with us. But other than that, I don't I'm
on Twitter at Adam Grave, but it's just it's just shit posting. I
don't do anything funny or good on there, but feel free to follow me
if you want. I don't mind um. And that's it. That in
my basement, as as someone who has listened to a large large portion of
the Roaring Trainers and as someone who is a giant Pokemon fan, it's a
phenomenal, phenomenal show. Like there's this awesome moment where they go to this
I don't honest point anything, but you go to this like this like tournament,
and like you give all the players that are like tournament Pokemon and like
as they're coming out of the pokemons, I was literally like jumping up and
down at work. My boss is like, what is wrong with you?
And I was like, this is the most everything I've heard of my entire
life. Leave me alone. Um but no, it's phenomenal. No,
no, I will never stop, no stop, always support Okay, final
stop, done but continue, goodbye everybody. Um and last, but certainly
certainly, certainly not least Blake. Who are you? And where the people
we find? A deep question? Yes, the name is Blake. You
can I mean some of them on Twitter, I mean at Blake see Francis
I believe is it so? But not? I'm sorry, but I think
that's what it is. So we're just going to believe me. But yeah,
you can find me. I'm I'm in some of the streams too,
Like I like to play a bunch of streams and plenty of different people.
So yeah, definitely excited, Like this group already just from talking to them
for like two minutes, I'm like, yeah, this is gonna be fun,
so super I'm hyped as well, I hope. So I'm excited to
have you here, and I mean we all are too. And also I
said last, but not least with you. But Christian, you're also here,
so it's pretty pretty easy to find me. You already have you're here
from Yeah, Hey guys, it's me. You know Christians. I played
Kippa. Indeed, I'm excited about this. We we've done We've done one
of one of these so far, and it was amazingly fun. And I
as soon as I that was ending, I was like, we gotta fun
another cool crew, and you all very graciously awarded us your time. Very
excited to start this, but before we get started, there's a couple of
things we have to do. I need one of you to roll me a
D one two three four eighteen a D A D eighteen eighteen. I guess
three D six is three D six is if you got them. I literally
just pulled three DY six. Smile tell yeah bizell to take it away.
Eight nineteen eleven eleven my favorite number, eleven. Oh wonderful. I don't
know who this is, but we're about to find out. Uh well,
some of our friends over at nineteen eighty five Games gifted us some amazing NPC
generation cards, and so at some point this character is going to show up.
And I know the audio folks at home can't hear it. So this
is Fiora Bendigo and I will tell you more about Fiona when they arrive in
the game. So Fiora f I O r Ai. Okay, we're not
clear on that last name either. I'm not either. It's b N D
A E g A Ben Bendega. Yeah, they'll let us know time,
so Fiora will show up. But so that's a little little taste of us
to come. And since we're doing characters right now, who are you all
going to be playing today? And I guess first I should probably say a
little bit today for this this side quest, we're going to be focusing on
the one and only the person we forget probably the most in our regular show,
Willem. Oh yeah, So I was like, Who's what's he talking
about? So uh, During these side quest we try to do a little
bit of we dive into a little bit of the backstories of people who are
on like the main ship of like the main story from a fur podcast.
And Willem is a very young like second mate, but he's a Barry Assassiny
and very hardcore, and we just happened to forget about him. Constantly,
Like I think he went on a whole mini arc with the group and we
just we don't know where he went. He started to disappeared. Um,
he's doing he's doing his job so well. So where like they keep like
he keeps talking about like the Matt like Butcher Bay or something like is that
is that William or that's Jake. That's a no, no, you're good.
I listen, but it's just been a minute. Now I kind of
want to change the name of of Moonishire Bluff to Butcher Bay because it's so
much better than what's what we had. Pretty badass something I think we might
do right now. So this story is going to be taking place in the
coastal town of Butcher Bay. All right, let me change everything about my
backstory, everything about those everything, let's don'll be the same. But we
just changed the name from Moonshire Bay to Butcher Bay. Um, this is
going to be sort of a spooky, seafaring um sort of monster hunt adventure
that you for and will and we're all going to go on. So before
we get into that, who are we all playing tonight? So let's do
name class race and just a little bit a little bit about them. I'm
playing lt he is am so it's an underrun ker race waterfin ancestry, an
undye and so just um, are we describing how they look to you?
Already forget what you wanted. You can just do racing class in end game
we can actually do like description. He is a barbarian woo very excited b
Zelda. Okay, I haven't named my character yet. I just realized,
huh, So let me describe what they are and then maybe a name will
come to me. Um, I am play a ASAMR Warlock protector as AMR.
I think I'm a hex blade Warlock. This character was very based on
like magical girl vibes, so a lot of just like ridiculous ostentatiousness that I
think will be a lot of fun. And honestly, I'll tell you what
your name is after everybody else is gone and what the pros are. Fantastic?
Adam, what you got? How you doing really great to be here?
Hey, listen, I'm just excited to be here. I'm a retired
dad, empty nest here, kids are off. You know, I guess
got a little bored. The wife said, hey, why don't you going
on a little adventure, little pirate chip out there. I said, hey,
Darling, that sounds like a great idea. I'll tell you what I
thought. It was going to be a quick adventure. I've been out here
for a couple months having a great time, just having a great time.
It's happy to be here. Just want to support my friends, get out
there experience the world. You know, I was an accountant for a long
time, and you know it's a little different. But uh yeah, but
by the way, my name it's Bruce Springsteen. Uh, we're gonna do
that vibes. I love reward you guys. Just y'all, y'all are just
great. So that's inspiration for everyone. Oh but so you can all thank
Bruce Springsteen for getting you all inspiration. Class are you again? Sorry Bruce?
Oh I'm sorry. Yeah, I said accounting, but that doesn't matter.
Claric a little bit of wizard in there. But you know that's a
long story. Thank you and some wild college. Yeah, you know,
I don't want to talk about it. I'd started off a wizard, got
a little dicey, you know. Clar fan fantastic had a kind of tempest
Christian tempest um. I am playing craigan bergerben uh. And he is a
love sick, cobled bard from an aristocratic family who U is just love sick
over his his lost love. I haven't actually given her a name yet,
so we'll say Um, Lorraine Jimbalaya um of the Jambalaya clan. Of course.
Yeah, he's a bard. Um. He's a chubby guy. He's
got green scales, massive ears like the spitting dinosaur that killed Newman Uh,
teeth that stick out uh, and bright blue eyes. Um. A little
bit of a sad boy. I'm playing a underground oracle. One of our
partners are playing one of their um haunted spooky classes that they made harvest moon
stuff. Uh. I'm playing the College of Curse Callers. I played.
That is such a bass. That's a fun one. It's a I'm excited
cool. Well that's that's the group. Um. And like I said,
you're gonna this is gonna be taking place in Butcher's Bay. Um. Butcher's
Bay is a town far to the north along the Sword Coast, far enough
north that it's kind of always winter. There's a lot of snow, a
lot of ice, a lot of a lot of cool, cool weather,
not exactly an easy place to live. UM. So folks who find their
way up to Butcher's Bay uh usually didn't find their way there by accident.
So yeah, it is a it is a town that is governed over by
I'd also changed this name from the original thing I sent it to you,
guys, Mayor Dmitri Silver is now Mayor Dmitri Annville, because that's thought it
was kind of a silly name. But so the Mayor Annville, H he's
a pretty good mayor, does good stuff for the crew, for the for
the for the town, does his best to protect and look out for the
people who happened to be living a pretty hard life up in this somewhat hard
town. U. The main things about Butcher's Bay, the protections that they
have are two fleets of ships that that help protect from pirates and monsters and
just other sorts of nefarious na'er duells that that try to threaten the prosperity of
Butcher's Bay. The first fleet, UH is the Silver Fleet, which is
UH. It was run by Owen draken Ward, who's a half elf.
Just imagine the most lawful, good palette and you can think of. That's
Owen uh. And then the Knights End, so sorry. The Silver Fleet
protects tries to protect against like more mundane things like pirates and most of the
pirates. Um. And then the other fleet is the Knight's Watch, which
is a little more specialized. They they are led by the one and only
Neptune, who is a Goliath and she is just a just a badass.
She's one of the most favorite MPCs I've ever made my entire life. Um.
She They the Knights knights End protects against the like monsters and like frozen
terrors that come down from like the spine of the world. That's a very
quick and very dirty overview of what Butcher's Bay is. And now this next
part, I think together we're going to sort of come up with a little
bit more about this place and a little bit more about how we know each
other. So let's start. So there's some questions from this this game system.
If you haven't had a chance to try, you should check it out.
It's called Decuma. It's by Golden Lasso Gaming. No, that is
incorrect. I want to look that up. Make sure I get that right.
Um, Oh it is yeah, Golden Lasso Games. Hell, Yeah,
got any one so Decuma. It is like a research and development character
party sort of collaboration effort that uses tarot cards to like ask questions to the
group before they start. So we're gonna i've i've rolled and i've i've pulled
a couple questions for you all just to sort of speak things along here.
So the first question for the group, and this is about the location and
feel for you to discuss and do whatever. Um where in our location do
you go to better yourself or where in our location do you go to let
off steam? So one thing I like to do here from Afar is just
literally make this the most collaborative we can. So if if y'all are like,
oh, I go to the NFL stadium and watch football every day,
the town will now have a football team and it will be like hugely part
of it. Or if you're like no, I just go to my little
cubby in my house and read my books, like also totally fine. So
whatever you guys want to do, where would you like a football team name?
Oh yeah, come on now on now the Butcher The Butchers facing off
against the never winter wombats. Okay, wells any sort of animal that goes
against a group called the Butchers is a very brave animal. Only wombats that
they got square poops don't get braver than that. Um. Yeah, So
I mean, if if y'all want to be like, no, that's it,
that's what we want to do. Just having this this stadium, this
football stadium, we can also do that we don't. We can go into
as much or as little detail as we want with this. I mean,
for my character, you would definitely just like to be like you just jump
in the water, like no matter how cold it is, because that's what
he's used to. So his place the calm would be jumping in water like
the colder the better. So what we got any kind of export or we're
just like we sell fish? Yeah, I would. I think that last
sort of set up Butcher's Bay is to be like a pretty successful town and
like shipping fish and or two together. What do you think Butcher's Bay would
would? What do you think it's main export would be? Rubarb? Yeah,
best rubar pie in the whole land. Rubarb and rebar? Can it
be? Can the rubarb grow in the water though, like it only grows
close to our shores, so it's like frozen? What if it's like massive,
massive ruebar that's like tree sized, Yo, that's awesome. The homes
are built out of ruebar and rebar and they're in they're underwater, and they're
called the frozen forest because it's like all icy and stuff breaks in the ice
and get down to the frozen forest to harvest. Let's go see. This
is why, this is why I love working with creative people, because that's
fucking amazing giant rue barb frozen forest. So I imagine there would be like
some sort of whole like working class of like ice scuba divers that like tend
to these giant frozen rue barbs underneath the like the Yeah, that's that's cool
as hell. I love that. I love that. Imagine like it's so
cold that there's like a group of people that have to keep churning the entry
otherwise it freezes over. So there's like six people that are just like constantly
smashing so the people under that's my job, That's all I do. My
job is just to turn the water. Yes, wah, gosh, Oh
that's super whole. I super super love that. I mean that's the chance
that they give us. But nobody really likes that nobody wants to stay it.
So wait, are we still answering the question? We just yeah,
I needed to picture our place a little bit better to figure out like where
would I even go? Um? Yeah yeah, So so then the real
question, the question is where in your location you go to better yourself or
where in your location to let our steam? Well, I get as far
away from the water churning, so I think just water in general. Um,
kind of. It's a bit of a bummer. It's a bit of
a donor, you know, bump span every time I see it. So
I probably go to the middle of Butcher's Bay, um, and I climb
a tree and I hang out in it because that's the farthest away from water.
You can't get too high though you'll get too high then you have to
see the horizon. That sucks. Yeah, that's of course, just getting
away from every thing, you know. That's where I've named myself of vex
v e x vex vex Hexington rolls off the truck vex Hexington. It kind
of does. Really, it catches in my throat, really, man,
one of those names that just catches in the fantastic Christian and Adam, would
you well, I was thinking Craigan trying to slim up a little bit.
He joined a speed walking club group that kind of you know, mobs down
the streets of Butcher Bay on every other Thursday. Um and in the morning
time. It's he's trying to make connections here. He hasn't been in the
town long, so you know, he's trying to meet people and and and
get a get a good get a good burn on, a good sweat.
I love it nice. Do they have a name, like a team name
that was the name of your your walking group, The Secret, Secret,
Secret Swingers, the Secret Swingers. Wait a minute, hold on, is
this is this group? Maybe he thinks it is. Um, you just
don't go to Leland parties or do you. Yeah. They keep inviting him
to hang out of their house, but he's like na, you know,
he's he's a little shy. He doesn't he gets anxious around large groups.
You're still new. You just think it's a walking club because it's a really
long way to walk between the houses and you're just like they're all just walking
normal pace. But he's a tiny little cobalt so it's a speed walking club
for him. He's like, all right, see you see you next time.
So, so Craigan blows off steam with this the speed walking group known
as the Secret Swingers. Nice phenomenal. That's literally the most perfect thing I've
ever heard of my entire life. Adam, what about you. Yeah,
So there's a place that Bruce goes when he's feeling a little down. You
know, he's he's a dad, he's got two kids, his wife is
working, he's retired, not a lot going on. Sometimes he feels a
little unneeded. Uh So he goes down to the the youth butcher ball team,
uh and just does a little like co coaching, just helping out.
You know, he's he's not full time. He just kind of goes and
just yeah, all right, yeah, you'll get him next time, pal,
come on yep, yo, all right, all right, and this
like cast some like guidance, a couple blesses practice. But yeah, So
then my my follow up question of that, what what's the sport? What
are what are we playing? Butcher ball? Yeah, yeah, it's it's
it's very specific to butcher bait um, but it is. It's like lacrosse
on ice basically, and they play it over the frozen forest because the water
is so clear, you can see down and like makes a really cool basically
kind of field. But it's just like it's actually pretty violent and uh,
you know that's another reason why he's very welcome is that he's a cleric and
he's like heals a lot a lot of people. But you know he's just
like, you know, it's like a third base coach. Yeah, exactly
right, Yeah, keep keep going right, Yeah, hey, Wan Matts,
you'll get them next time. That was a good hustle. I love
it all right, Oh my gosh, I love Bruce is such a dear
cool. So moving on to question too here, like someone the group trusted
betrayed the city of Butcher's Bay. Who was it? And how did they
betray us? Or many people on our location just want won't face reality?
What hard truth are they avoiding? I would love a betrayal. Okay,
love it, let's go with it. We feeling that because like what if
it was the last star of the Butcher's Butcher Bay team. Um, you
know, they held a lot of prestige, we like the varsity high school
like star. Yeah he was. He was the town's pride and joy and
maybe their name was like it was Billy Butcher. You know Billy Butcher,
who's who's just his ancestors long long ago were some of the first people to
colonize Butcher Bay And I think they run the Speedwalking Club too, if I'm
correctly, I think, oh no, ties think they run that too.
That that made played a part where I had to leave because there something happened.
Billy Butcher is the main one of the main characters and the boys.
Is that? Okay? Are we okay with that? Yeah? That was
my intention? Okay, yeah, yeah, I just finished watching that again
and it's a great show. It's not for everybody, though, it's not
everyone. Billy Butcher betrayed the team by signing on with the Wombats. Yeah,
or I don't know, maybe he killed someone had both and then yeah,
okay, yeah, yeah he what if he betrayed they or killed the
head coach before Bruce like that, that's part of the reason why, Bruce,
you just don't understand the way I play coach. And then he kept
the coach kept being like, no, you need you know, you tuck
your right elbow. You need to tuck that elbow. He's like, no,
my style is elbow out. Coach got that elbow out style, and
one day it's just it was too much and he kills him with this elbow
out is like elbow who's right now? Wonderful? That's great, yo,
I'm fine with that, if you're all fine with that. I don't know
how much of this is going to come into the as much as much as
as much as I can, but it just gives a little bit of life
to well, this was years ago too, and like the team just hasn't
recovered. There's a part of the part of Bruce's thing too, is like
there's a real break and trust not only in uh the Butcher's UH team,
but also just Butcher Bay itself. You know, like when when your star
player just up and kills you know, that coach. I guess It's like
I guess a lot rides on this team, and I'm into it. There's
not a lot of entertainment in this town, so the town love the coach.
It's like, you know, it's like um like Alabama, like you
know there for the coach, Like everyone just loves the coach and need let
like, oh man, I mean, how why would that whil would that
be? Though? If like like a rising star and like you college football
team, like like, oh man, this nothing can stop this kid.
Wow, he just he just killed his coach, his career for a little
bit, probably twenty five to life. But the prison team is going to
be off the change, so they played by prison rules too, so fucking
phenomenal. Um. I have no idea what's gonna happen. This story is
already fers. I love it. We meet on like a recreational um after
work butcher ball team. Oh okay, I like that. Well that that's
a great, great question. So uh if you all want to know each
other before that, I would I would absolutely love that, and I would
love it for it to be like an adult butcherval team. I mean,
it's just like intermurals, you know, something experience. I would love to
know how or why everybody joined the team, Like what was your motivation?
I don't understand what you bless you Polpe think is fun. So I came
to try it out and I still don't understand it. But it's something.
That's that's why LT is there. You're just trying to trying to understand a
little more. On one of the sofa, Craig and one of the secret
Swingers was commenting on their one of their walks, like, oh man,
you have a great tight end. Um, you would be fantastic as a
soft right back. You know you look you look like the spitting image of
Andolf Ralfini, you know, legendary junior varsity soft right back end. So
he felt obligated to go check out some games and got got got on the
team. You'll be our new billy. I was told were a good tight
and I imagine Bruce probably put up the notice on the message board like forming
adult Butcher team. Oh yeah, experience needed positive vibes only or something.
I think we all need a Bruce in our life. Love and vex.
What about you? So I've been kind of waffling on what kind of personality
I want for this character, and I think I got it. Um a
little dour, a little doubtful, a little cynical. Um so with a
life full of churning water. Um doesn't really bring you a lot of joy.
Just gotta pay them bills and it pays well for some horrendous reason.
It doesn't even make sense who manages this, but doesn't matter. What matters
is I think they they're kind of lonely. They live in a like one
room house basically picture an outhouse. Oh do the churners live on property they're
supposed to. Yeah, Vex feels awkward around everybody, so you know,
they often just kind of like try to be alone. But when they're by
themselves, they talk to shadows a lot. And at some point somebody was
like, oh, are you talking to me? And they're like, no,
I'm talking to my shadow clearly. And they had a moment where it's
like, oh, yeah, that's not that's not as normal as I thought
it was. I should do something social. Thus they decided to join the
local friendly Butcher's Bay. What is Butcher's Ball. We don't have We don't
have a team name yet. I don't think not yet, but I think
I think we're gonna find one pretty so yeah, I can feel it.
It's a rumb one. Um. That's wonderful. I love that. Um.
I could just clarify the naming convention of all this. So Butcher Bay
has a game called butcher Ball in the Butcher Local butcher Ball team are the
butcher Ball Butchers of Butcher Bay. Please, that's gonna yeah. Their merches.
Their march is really easy. Oh I'm not even gonna write that down.
That's just the thing I would love to do one cher shop with each
other. And then so let's let's do that. You drop one of the
for each of us or something. Okay, So number one, you find
yourself strangely drawn to blank? What captures your attention about them? Or you
had a thing with blank but it didn't work out? What went wrong?
Who does that? Who does that vibe with? I think I got something?
What is what is LT's class? Again? I didn't get the I'm
sorry, Oh he's a part okay that I like this Actually, if you
don't mind, I think Bruce has met LT because we had a thing right.
But the thing was LT got into a little bit of a street fight
under with a misunderstanding with a group of the locals, and uh, I
came in the aid. Uh and and you know LT is you know he
handled there. They handled right like just like like no problem right I Bruce
was just like all right, yep, sounds good, go get them team.
The problem was with exactly LT making that face because at the end,
after LT just beat everyone up, um, Bruce went and healed everyone because
he thought it was just a scrimmage butcherball game. Oh my god. Yeah.
So he's like, hey, good hustle everyone. It's a little weird
to be one on six, but hey this you know, hey you still
lost to tell you why? Here you go, here's a masculine word.
You got it, no problem. And uh. That ended in the LT
and Bruce having to just book it running away from the freshly healed gang of
of people. And that's how it was wombats. It was like a sixty
girl wat infiltrated and I was I was like, no, you guys don't
belong here. And then yep, and then they got healed and then we
we dipped. Yeah, yeah, perfect, Well there's wombats around. Well
what did what did LT? Get it? And a misunderstanding about why was
there a fight? Oh, because because there were wombats. Because he's he's
like he's kind of like, you know, um, like a batman kind
of character, al muscle, Like he's always kind of looking out, you
know, kind of looking out for the place. And so we realized they
were kind of off. They just they had that wombat vibe you can just
till. And they were hanging out, hanging out outside the local bar,
Butcher's Bar. Uh so, I mean they're just going to cramp in the
front door memorabilia and photos of pasta butcher ball MVPs. Oh yeah, but
I can't keep it together. Oh yeah, so kids, you haven't notice
we run a very goofy ship here. We're gonna try to make this a
very serious, very seriously yeah serious. I'm not trying to put words in
the out David, but is our our butcher? Is there some sort of
weird thing where what's that show where like all the people that would be president
in the line of things like die and then like the dude that's like the
Department of Health or something' is like, oh no, now I'm the president.
Is it like, oh no, like our last line of defense?
We just have the inner mural butcher balls. Oh man, it might be.
It might be sort of like a like a what's what's that the first
kid? The kid President? What's that Disney movie? The blank check?
I don't know blank Yeah, there's so many. I'm just like, oh
random sappenstance. And now this twelve year old as the president of the United
States. We need somebody, literally, anybody please go find this monster anybody
will do you you four go do this thing? Cool? So love that
so Ltie and Bruce had a thing where Ltie handled some wombats. Bruce,
just thinking it was a butcher ball game, was like, all right,
good job, team healed them all and then you guys bonded as you ran
away from the fight. Okay, cool love that number number two. You
did something to help Blank get ahead? What did you do? Or you
used blank to get ahead? What did you do? And do they know?
Oh? I kind of have an idea of being Ltie being used by
b because Lte loves the cold water and so he ltd really easy at convents
of like doing and like be their job because so'll just be in there just
like Okay, Like I love that you wouldn't understand why it's even bad.
He's like, this is great giving some cold water all the time. I
have so many disguise spells and kits and Whatnotum, so like I could try
to make you look like me, I would just go out in public looking
like you and I because why would I go and do the things that I
enjoy? I would instead try to live your life threat that day? And
um okay, So if I used you. Um, so I don't know
if got ahead is necessarily the right word, but like to continue my employment
so that I can pay the bills from my tiny house house. Um and
what did you do? So what did I do? Um? I instead
decided to what would an average day like you even just like a small snippet
of like three hours? What do you do in Butcher's way? Well,
just making sure there's no one much any kind of under about and then just
spend lots of time out of water like LUs lives in the water, Like
do even like necessarily have a place like he can just you can just live
in the cold water. That's that makes me feel pretty privileged about my own
house. Um. I think that I start a bunch of unnecessary fights,
which is people, I start a fight with the dog. I tell the
dog I hope you have a terrible day, and the dog starts. Um.
I've just I truly believe that's how you spent your days. Um,
which I hope that's something we can reconcile as a friendship because wow, um,
and do they know I think there's been some more trouble ever since you've
been just avoiding everything and staying in churning water, which doesn't seem to make
sense. So I don't know, you might might not be he might you
might not pick up on it because he doesn't see like why this is so
bad? Like he actually gets in the water half the time too and just
swims around to kind of keep it like keep it like watery. So what
if it's something something like like VEX thinks like, oh, how am I
going to break this news to LT? I've been using them? Oh no's
having to bust this is great, but I come back. Oh gosh,
I can't think a fight that Bruce, Bruce and LT got into was actually
VEX in disguise, and Bruce doesn't know. He doesn't know, like god,
yea, yeah, do you remember when we gotten that spring? Yes,
Bruce, yes, yeah, I just hang out with LT and he
has no idea who I am? Ah, you're such a kidder. Yeah,
it's such a kid I feel like gonna have like so much turmoil like
oh no, oh no life. Oh I love it. Yes, that's
very good. So VEX sort of uses LT to literally identity faff all right,
yeah, kind of trigger too because I'm just like I'll describe them later.
But you oh man and now but now but now Bex has a relationship
though with with Bruce. Yeah, but I don't like onions. There's legs.
Um love it, absolutely love it? Um all right. Number three
here Blank is always ready for a challenge, but you are not sure if
they look before they leap, or you have been thinking a lot about Blank's
untapped potential for some time. I can see both like Craigan for this or
being like the one like you knows all sort of her challenge. But also
Bruce, we're looking for someone's untapped potential because that's like definitely like a Bruce
thing to be like, Oh, yes, do you know what your mentor
situation? Yeah, he sees a lot of promise and his his butcher ball
future. Maybe I know, Bruce, if you're willing to take on a
mentee, Oh my goodness. Yeah, Hey, budd, listen, you're
doing Hey, you're doing great out there. You know, you just got
those little legs, but you got to use them to your advantage. You
know, it's just easier for you to slide between the bigger legs. You
got this, But come on, get out there, you got this.
I love to use your knives more just you know, I just cut some
of those Achilles tennants, you know, I love that. Wow, Butcher
ball going for it. It gets more and more violent than what we're talking
about. Love it like a movie Roller Derby. It's obviously that was like
super super violent. Yeah, or like the Alita battle Angel thing that they
do. Yeah, okay, so is everybody. It sounds like the group
sort of sees a lot of potential in Bruce, but Bruce might not necessary.
Maybe maybe it's maybe not that you don't see in yourself. You just
are like, I'm retired, I'm sort of done, done my thing.
I don't know. How do you feel about something like that? Yeah,
you can't say fun? Your kids have fun. You're doing great. I
got the orange slices. Come on when you need a classic, classic orange
slice joke, classic orange slice. Cool. So then the final question here,
Uh, you knew and trusted Blank before joining the group, How did
you meet or you knew Blank before joining the group and were jealous of them?
Why? I think Craigan knew um Billy Butcher. Yeah. Yeah,
Craigan and him man, they used to head down Main Street every Friday month
at Friday night, tearing the place up um and then the whole controversy happened
in Craigan's now like you know, torn where it's like, oh, the
greater butcher ball community is really shunned this this guy that's my friend. But
you know, I still think that, you know, he could have a
redemption. Maybe he could play on our intramural team. Uh, you know,
and that's a quick place with their arm out. That's what's that's why
he plays with the arm out. He's like, maybe maybe he could rediscover
the pure love of the sport again, you know, kind of like a
coming of age story for for a little Billy. For a little Billy.
Was Billy also a cobo? Yeah? Why yea? Yeahs So you're you're
you you knew Billy before it all happened, and now you're trying to like
reserve, you're trying to reserve. He's my cousin or he's my cousin.
Oh I love it, Yeah, second cousin. But you know, in
Cob that doesn't mean much. Last thing we do here, we're gonna do
here because I think I think we're getting there. I'm loving this. How
y'all feeling about this? Is one of my favorite great time. Yeah so
William, uh yeah, so so the super simili Assassina. We forgot about
him again in his own story. Literally he took up happen reasons he did.
He's like, get him out of here. Wait a second, William,
Bill Billy, Oh my god, oh my god, oh we did
we have the connection? William and Billiam are the same. Alright, alright,
alright now that old sea dog Matthew McConaughy um, and he told me
that you all really enjoyed that Butcher's ball game. That is super easy to
follow and all the rules are very clear. So let me go into a
detailed explanation of what everybody guess. Who's back in town again? For your
town? Well, this town, this ship is pretty much the size of
a small town. But true, true, Well sorry, I've been gone
for so long. It's good to see you, earl Um. I had
a good time on VACATIONI um party a little bit, you know, just
some crazy board time. I can't wait to never hear about that. Well,
you're in nothing luck because here it goes more time. Hey David,
Hello, yeah, hey, hey, what what are you doing over there?
Hump? I'm chewing on this pen and it really shouldn't be because we
are recording out to drop it, drop it, drop it, drop it.
Okay, good, you've dropped it, because I need to tell you
about a little show called The Roaring Trainers. The Roaring Trainers, Christian,
what are they all about? Well, they are a Pokemon DND five podcast
set in the nineteen twenties. I'm talking Canto in the jazz age, baby,
that's that sounds wonderful. And what I've heard Christian about The Roaring Trainers
is it's a mix of humor and mature and sometimes dark storylines. It's Pokemon
for those of us that grew up on Pokemon and are looking for a story
that grew up with us. So that sounds absolutely right at my alley.
Say nothing further because I'm going to go listen to it right now, all
right, Go do that, And I'm gonna say one last thing while you
can't hear me. Christian is wearing the stupidest hat I've ever seen in my
entire and I'm just kidding no one. What I want to say about Canta
or what I want to say about Roaring Trainers was you should listen to it.
It's amazing it's one of the best podcasts I've ever heard. And also
Adam mcgrave, who happens to be on this episode of From a Farther listening
to right Now, is the storyteller and done master for that. So go
check it out please who all right, I just finished it. I listened
to it on one hundred times speed and let me tell you it's phenomenal stuff.
PHENOMENI mommy, but yeah, please go check out Roaring Trainers. They're
phenomenal, phenomenal people, phenomenal story and if you like pokemons and dark,
sometimes mature, humorous stories, check them out. That's it, Thanks,
bye bye, and that will be What was that? That was? Oh?
That was a crazy Thursday? Um, I could I can come to
your room later and just give you the whole download, So I'll just I'll
just wait for that and do that with you, okay. I The fact
that you know or my room is terrifies me. Oh I have a map
to it from every point, all right, well to distract myself from that
terrifying aspect subject whatever it is. Uh, this is what happened next in
the story. Back in the story, did you see it there? Bit
the noise thinks so good. Yeah, anyway, why do you quiet distracting
the story? Or wait, I'm the one telling the story ship. I
can't keep telling the story and be quiet. Oh no, okay, Well,
like I've said before, as we do hear them from a far podcast,
are you all ready to do this thing? To hear sales of reality
and ice lacross Butcher ball our way into this story with each other. He
is ready. I'm weady to do this thing the camera the audience, we
see a very large, very ambiguous, difficult to describe as it were,
a very large, ambiguous, disgustingly undescribed ship to several several masts. It
looks like like a pirate ship with several masts, floating on a calm sea
on a cloudless night. The sun not the sun, the moon shines down,
casting reflections over the water. As we swoop across the water into this
pirate ship, we see a couple folks patrolling the decks. We see a
blue dragon born tie himself to a rope into a backflip off the side of
the ship. With a bucket of pitch in hand. He's fixing the ship.
For those of you who don't know, this is the sea monster.
As the camera zooms around and we see navigator doing her thing. We see
small halfling with tattoos tying someone's shoes together. We see a shadow. We
see eyes open up from a shadow, and we see a very young young
human boy with just bandeliers upon bandoliers of daggers step up from this shadow,
and we see Willem and he looks at us, He looks at the camera.
He breaks the fourth wall and he says, oh, what what are
you all doing here? Earl's normally the one who tells this story. Oh
oh, you want a story from me? Oh well, that's weird.
People normally just forget about me. Okay, how about this one? And
as William starts to talk and starts to tell the story of Butcher's Bay and
where he comes from, the camera cuts out, cuts back out to that
that moon reflecting ocean, and we see no longer reflections of the moon.
We see icebergs and chunks of ice floating through a more of a churning upset
waters, and we see the bow of a silver ship cutting through the water.
Is it made out of silver? Is it is painted silver? Is
it a trick of the light. We don't know. We don't know these
things because it's not important to the story. As we see this proud ship
cut through the water, we see several paladins and clerics and holy warriors atop
the main deck of it doing you know, just classic ship things, stuff
with ropes, stuff with sails. Who knows, because again not important to
the story, you know, you know, just classic ship things. We
see. We see the ship proudly sailing across the across these icy, churning
waters, and we see it moves aside and reveals a town, fairly large
town. Looks like a fairly well off town. Um looks like there's a
lot of a lot of snow and ice on the ground. Snow drifts pile
up to the strange shaped houses that dot the dot the shore, made of
what looks like some large frozen root vegetable, but also mixed in there we
definitely see like just some more wealthy, kind of standard looking architecture, but
there's a lot, a lot of it made out of these frozen ruta begas.
That is the main ex part. I'm sorry, rub rube, is
we are a root vegetable? No? I don't think so, So scratch
that not a root vegetable in our world, there a root vegetable. We
see this this town, We see the people, people going about by their
daily lives, and it looks like everyone, for the most part, is
happy. Even though it's chili and cold and the snow is everywhere. People
are bundled up in furs. It looks like everyone is happy, which is
more than can be said about most towns that are this harsh to live in.
M And as we glide over the whole town, we come to a
bit of the bit of the ocean that is right there on the shore.
Frozen water is clear as as a night sky, and we see several people
scooting across the top of this ice playing what looks like a very fast paced
ice skating lacross game known as a butcher ball. I was going to try
to do like individual scenes with you all, but this got too good,
and I think where we're going to start this story is the four of you
are at Do you want it to be a practice match or do you want
it to be like an actual like, oh, we're facing off against another
team. Yeah, No, I mean we're only in our mural league.
Yeah. The camera is on the ground facing the sky and then our fourheads
come in as if we're hot, lean up, love it and yeah,
that's a perfect place to start. Where what do you all say as this
is we're in the last there's there's like two minutes left in this game.
The ice buzzer is about to ice buzz and y'all, y'all are tied.
You're tied with the Luskin layabouts. Um, don't don't let their name fool
you. They are very dexterous, very quick, very a very good team
and you guys have had some some friendly rivalries with them in the past.
Well, what do you all say is you're in this huddle? All right,
team, all right, listen, we're in the last couple of minutes
here, I know, expay, we played a good game, okay,
and uh Bruce is talking and what you see is this just like middle fifties.
He retired kind of early. But he's balding pretty much bald, but
he's got the hair around the sides of his head, but bald on top.
He has a he has a mustache that he's trying to do him handlebar
mustache and curl it. But he just like he's getting a little too old,
and it's getting a little too kind of brittle, like kind of not
good. But he's trying to um and uh, he's like five four,
he's pretty short. He's got a little bit of a dad bot kind of
a gut, but so he's kind of alright. Guys, So listen,
team, we're we're here. We got a last couple here. But listen,
I know we can pull this one out. Okay, we practice for
this. I think it's time. I think it's time we pull out our
big guns. All right, the special move, the special move. You
know what I'm talking about, the one that we named I do this special
movie. I didn't. That's him tell you. I'ay, okay, we
could do it. You just I mean your parts intricals. It is that
the right word. I'm just I've got him real winded here, kind of
losing it. H Did you want on arm slice? After the game?
We can have some orange slices. Get together, have some apple sauce.
Uh you know we'll get orange the Coolugians. Yeah, yeah, I brought.
Don't worry. I got some corner slices, got some apple sauce,
A couple of fresh cool coke zeros. Yes, right, we forgot about
the plan. Just give a talty his back up, all right. Uh
he he spends his hands around, uh and this um, this white light
comes out and casts bless on everyone. And then he touches out his shoulder
and cast his enhance ability bull strength to give him a little more of a
boost. And afterwards he got out. He's just like, let's get out
there and win one for the U. Our team name which is rot the
Righteous rue to Begas. Right, Rue Tobegas are gonna win today's match.
You look out over this the crowd. You see there's a decent little amount
amount of folks who are who are there? You see? Uh some signs
the classic orange and brown colors of the of the Righteous rue to Begas.
Just not quite an ocean, more of like a puddle, a puddle of
fans happened to be there, Yang, Yeah, go rue to Begas are
are are are and they're trying to trying to get things going for you all.
And you see, uh, you see your coach, Fiora Bendiga.
She has a look of of pride. She's happy of you all, happy,
happy of you all. Yeah, she looks real happy of us all
Yep, she's happy of you all. She's wearing her she has a fantasy
coach had said on uh, just like you got something to cover her mouth.
Yeah, that's the major hand earlier. You all know it's not going
anywhere. She's talking to herself. But she's just a good coach. She's
proud of you all. This is this is like the quarterfinals are kind of
serious. Regional the regionals, yeah, the regionals. Yeah, these are
regionals, the Righteous Reds, the region being the southwest end of because it's
really hard to get here and really only us play this game. But you
know, fiora Is is proud of you all, and all right, team
go for it. You can make it, you can do it. You
got you got two minutes left. I know someone said you were tired a
second ago, but I think it'll be more dramatic if you're down by one.
You're down by one, um, so go go get them. Okay,
let's go then to to quickly sort of we all we all know how.
Butcher ball is played right totally very Let's not waste the let's not waste
the time. We're not gonna waste the time. We have to explain the
rules. It's going to be I don't think we have to we know,
right, right, Holy one who's from Butcher Bay, you know, grew
up with a butcher ball in their hand exactly. The Butcher's ball would have
been a worse Say that so clear. You know. He takes the right
flank, pulls out a frisbee, and he's just waiting for the right signal.
Okay, So with one part of the plan, we have a craigan
with a frisbee. What the rest of you all do? Vex has their
lacrosse? What are the hold of the catcher? The it's got to be
a staff, right, sticks, it's a staff, the lacrosse staff.
Um, they've got it in their hands. Um, and really quickly,
so Vex is um. So there a little warlock as mr Um. I
think they they're constantly wearing an oversized hoodie. UM that kind of covers their
most of their face. But deep down you can see like glowing yellow eyes
that always kind of light up a little bit like like Ajawa, yeah,
but like more modern, yeah, like the fantasy. But yeah, Butcher
Bay, that's I mean, that's the merch of the town. It's the
merch of the bay. I got to represent. They have you know,
black pants that have lots of pockets and black skates. Um, they kind
of go with their whole attire. Their hoodie has the little pocket. Um.
But I think they also have like some uh what is it chest plate
over top and that's also it's been um adorned with the logo professionally. Um.
They have like little curls that poke out, and their staff itself has
been painted black, which isn't really up to code, but it makes them
feel edgy. So they it's so good, perfect, fantastic because you you've
spoken to what is uh what is the audience? See right, he's in
a he's a husky, husky little guy. So he's huffing as he's making
his runs around doing his plays. Um. But yeah, he's he's a
green scaled cobold. He's got the massive ears, you know, the kind
of kind of like I don't know what to call themby like Dobby, but
like bigger and not as pointy and not at all like Dobby. And he's
got just like you know, his little cobald teeth did stick out everywhere.
When he closes his mouth, they're still sticking out. Uh. And and
he's wearing a goose down jacket, but it's very puffy, very y'all are
really good at this. Craigan is off to the left with the frisbee as
we as right, Um, vex what you said? You had your your
staff out? What are you at the end of the staff is just a
flint lock pistol. You know you got that. That's butcher bay. It's
violence, so you need all you know? I love that response. Guess
my staff has a pistol on the end of it, but it has two
ends. Don't worry. One of the ends is safe, the other which
you're gonna get you see. I love it. Um uh phenomenal literally so
good. So we got we got vexed maybe getting ready to murder, uh
creaking with a frisbee. Yeah, we never said butcher ball was for the
kids. I think we did. Yeah, but yeah what about lt what
are you? What are the folks see? So they see so skin like
the black skin of an orca, just like all black eyes all black as
well. He has a thin on the top of his head that like runs
along the top of his head. It's black tube in the light and almost
like rhyme like frost in the light to kind of sparkles a little bit like
ice. And he's wearing um it just like a kilt made out of knitting,
like his mom knitted it out of like an old his old nets.
It's a kilts, very breathable, very and he's so cold. It's all
he has. It's like, you know, all he has is that,
like no sure because he loves the cold. So I don't get it.
I said it before him. I say it again. Y'all are fucking good
at this. Oh and his so he has to tried it then he so
all the all of the sudden of trieding. He hasn't with netting, you
know, for like the typical kind of bracket and bottom halfs so tried and
so three prongs you can just you can just kind of leave it in the
ice too soon, you know, stands on its own. Yes, so
good, Oh my gosh, um, So what what what what would you
think LT would be doing too? So we got frisbee pistol staff And what
is LT contributing? Because I'm formulating a plan here what this actually could look
like? So what do you got for this pot lack of wildness? Little
t go opposite? Of Gregan okay, nodded. Okay, so we got
is that animemo your eyes? We got Craig and going off on the left,
lt going off on the right. Vax is kind of holding up that
midfield and Bruce, Bruce does have a role. He uh, he heads
up to I mean it's the last two minutes two minute warnings, so he
heads up to the scrimmage line uh and is ready to enter into last debate,
which is Customerica two minute uh. And their debate person comes up and
we see the referee coming out onto the field. Well yeah, for this
part of it, it's it's the referee steps back and it's just a judge
that comes. The referee is also he moonlights as a judge. Yeah.
So yeah, the referee comes out and you see the the the the representative
from the Luskin layabouts who it will be. It's a back sie just ato
Baxi. Yeah, it's just it's a baxie. It look like a leopard.
How about that? Oh yeah, oh yeah exactly snow leopard to Baxie.
And the referee judge comes out and holds the butcher ball, which is
like a like a basketb ball sized hockey pluck um and he holds he holds
it in the middle, looks it's not even a ball. You're right,
okay, I like it? No, no, no, no, no,
how about this. It's a hockey puck sized basketball, just reversely um.
So the judge, the judge, the judge are comes out and holds
the holds the holds the basketball, the hockey puck sized basketball. No,
yes, hockey play, says basketball. And he looks to the left,
which he sees Bruce, and he looks to the right and he sees Jasper,
the the the snow lepper to backs and he says, all right,
why do you think the righteous womb bat the righteous rude bangers should deserve the
final play? And they looks to Jasper and he says, why do you
think the luskin layabouts deserve the final play? And Bruce discussed an instant discuss
which uh rock paper scissors and then one two, three shoes. Oh yes,
I forgot, yes exactly, So roll me first roll of the game
here, let's do uh whatever you're better at. I feel like normally it
will be a slide of hand check. But you could also I could I
could hear an argument for wisdom or intelligence or whatever you think your your your
put your best foot forward. This is the regionals. Yeah so yeah,
okay, so I'll roll wisdom because slum that is a that's a dirty twenty
oh story strong a right and so so so what do you throw? What
do you? What do you throw? I throw scissors, literally, I
throw scissors as its customary. Yep, I shit you not as you you
definitely reach behind your back and pull out scissors and throw them. Jasper was
about to play normal rock paper scissors because he is an absolute fool um and
he wrote a natural one on his saving on his check of intelligence, and
you absolutely win this. So yeah, Judgury, hey, listen to having
a great time here. Thanks for having us the last two minutes. I
believe that Righteous ru To Vegas should get the ball because obviously we know the
rules of the game. Get pretty important, you know, the the opponent's
great opponent. If you all did a great job, he starts clapping,
kind of look into all the uh I'm forgetting your name already. You did
great? Uh you know, hey, Lawrence slices on me, but listen,
Johnny Realisten, I mean, you know, hey, hey, how
did your kids doing by the way you're doing, they're doing okay, Bruce,
thank you. They have a game right after this. You know what,
why don't we just get this going? Then give us the ball.
We'll start, you know what you Yeah, He looks over to Jasper,
who's bleeding from the scissor wound, and he's like, it looks like you
won won the debate. That's his custom, as his custom with butcher ball.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know because I'm the I'm the
judgury and I know the rules. Um, and he uh, he hands
me the puck and you guys go and you you will have well we'll do
some checks here. Well, we'll get everybody involved with this, but uh,
you'll all have advantage on this stuff because because Bruce got you, got
you that that good puck, that good puck starting starting lineup and I throw
it, I throw it to Vex. Oh sorry sorry, I was gonna
say advantage And butcher ball means that the judgury clearly will favor you in his
call. Yea turn a blood eyted things to you know, yeah, absolutely
like the scissor stabbing. Um, this is a wild game, y'all.
Um, cool, so so then let's let's just well, let's let's get
down to the to some actual rolling here. So UH, I would like,
what what do what do you? What do you think of this?
I think that um, it's gonna come down to Vex for for the shot
because you're right in the middle. Oh clear. I mean it's part of
the play. So I would like a describe to me what you all would
do. But I want some sort of like role from both LT and UH
and Craigan of how you would use your your either frisbee or your tried it
to help clear the way for UH for Vex here. And then I'm trying
to think of something for you, Bruce, how to how to get you
involved with this. He just stucks clapping and slowly walks to the sideline.
Yeah all right, yeah, Bruce just excused himself. If X has a
clear shot the goal, then it's easy. So LT is just taking them
all out, knock them down one on one. So all right, thanks
seven opening, big opening? Are you? How how what's your athletics life?
Your athletics pretty good? Yeah, not bad, They're not bad,
you know, they're pretty good. Okay, So let's let's go let's do
quick athletics role and then we'll describe all once. Once we get all the
roles out, we'll describe what happens. Excellent, Um, and I don't
know why my dice away have done wow, I might not use these dice
in because that's another natural won. So so half half of the ass LT
runs in. We'll describe this in a second. You clear half of the
path for Eves and Craigan. How are you also trying to clear a path
or what are you trying to do to help Vex get this clear? Last
shot, Craigan kind of goes in, you know, an X shape as
a part of the play, crossing over, and as he does, he
puts the frisbee away because it was a faint, clearly the classic frisbee faint.
Yeah, yeah, And instead he pulls out from his pocket a bunch
of ball bearings that he tosses into the crowd of the Luskin layabouts, and
then he casts heat metal. Oh no, yeah, okay, y'all might
have some new rhubarbs growing in the underneath the frozen world here. Uh,
all right, so what do I have to do? It's a saving throw,
right, No, it's an attack. I think it just happens.
Question for you, then, are you? Are you trying to hit them
with the ice? The ice? Okay, I'm gonna say I will say
this to you. You throw the ball bearings, you can't. Team mental
ice starts to melt. The les can layouts are like, shit, we
really did not come prepared for this. These folks are trying to kill us,
and I'm gonna do it. Starts to happen, and I'm gonna roll
a dexterity savings throw for this half of the group better, but not by
much. A seven plus uh four, so a eleven eleven some plus four
is eleven? Yeah, what's your spell saved seventeen? Yeah, the eleven
does not beat this spell saved. As you cast the ball bearings and in
a perfect sphere and it just melts this perfect circle and half the team falls
in. The judge Rye is just like this is fine, um as as
lt what did it look like when you cleared your your path? So we're
just elderly, just kind of like like an ice skater is very smoothly just
um taking them, not killing them, just taking them down. And so
a couple of quickly you got them all. You got them gathered for the
for the ball bearings. I kind of circled them in fantastic this is what
you so with the help of LT and the help of Craigan Vex, you
see your opponents just sink, believe beneath the ice. Um. So it's
just you and the goalkeeper, which is a staple of all good butcher ball
games. Um. So what does VEX do to for this final shot to
win regionals? Uh? Your your your pathway is literally so cleared. Um,
how what do you want to do? What flavor, what you want
to add to this to make this last shot? I am going to it's
it's at first, it's going to look pretty uh, pretty mundane, you
know, the kind of like skating along. Um they've oh gosh, I
guess they're holding the puck sized basketball in the net side of the of the
staff. Yet just the way um, And it's it's very important. Much
like with basketball, you can't you can't just like have the ball remaining net.
Um. It has to bounce. You got to dribble it, you
know, the air version in the air you're juggling. But with yeah,
um, so they're gonna kind of skate their way through well juggle dribbling,
um, and uh that was a good portmanteau. Um. There's a slow
motion moment where like they're getting really really close to this um goal defender.
We're like, ah, I do not remember what I'm supposed to do?
Well, what coach do? Um? And I can cast the sky's off
without using a spell slot. Uh, somebody's gonna make myself look like coach
Bruce Well skating okay, and that will give me, I hope, I
don't know. I mean again, I can still make roles for this,
but I hope that's going to give me the fortitude of the mental um strength
and courage to make the shot, which is I have to throw the puck
size basketball in the air, flip over to the pistol side, pull the
trigger, and then take the shot and you know, flip over the staff
again of course, of course, of course, and then the commentators going
crazy, what this? It appears that the coach has taken the field.
In my forty seven years have caught that such an extravagance. Um. So
Vex, let's see, you're you're doing a lot of great stuff here,
and I don't know how you want to split that up in the move let's
let's do This is going to be a strange role, but I'm here for
it. Um, you're a warlock, right, you got it? How's
that charismas? Oh it's beautiful? Okay, I would say probably because you're
disguising yourself and pretending to be someone else. That's a pretty charismatic thing you
have to do there. Uh so to make this final pistol whip shot?
Can you make me with advantage? And you're blessing all that stuff a Christmas
saving through? Um? What is eighteen plus eight twenty four? Twenty six?
Of those twenty six? It's not twenty confidently sometimes yo, So the
first thing you learn an improv attack attack attack. The audience doesn't know when
you're wrong. I believe this was Yeah, I must be wrong? If
only if only that worked in college math? Is you did the problem wrong,
but you said it so confident, so confidently. Cool? So at
twenty six? Absolutely, how does this look when you you you jug dribble
the ball, jump jubb roll the ball, the puck, whatever it is.
Um, drubble you drubble the ball, You droubble the ball. You
do the classic spin, you do the classic shoot and and you sink it
right past this this tender. But but how does it look? What in
b Zelda style? What's the flavor of this of this shot right here?
Um? All of a sudden, the anti climatic and kind of mundane skating,
it speeds up. It's like everything stunts in them, like it goes
in fast forward. Um, from the shot of the pistol to the tender.
I think you said, I just think of chicken when I hear that.
But sure we'll take that one too. He's dressed in a giant chicken
tender. He's an errorh A, yeah, yeh know, it's a position.
They unionized that it was a whole thing. Yea. Um, but
what matters is there's um like they were so much uh patting and leather,
and it's never enough, you know. So this tender hits or starts to
like fall towards the ground of this dramatic array, and it's almost like one
of their feathers might block this puck sized basketball, but no, it's not
enough. It slams to the back of the net and then bounces back and
hits the tender. So he starts to roll away and he rolls into Vex,
who was entirely unprepared um, which cancels out the the disguise self,
ruining a little bit of it. But nonetheless, I think that saved the
game. When it bounced off the tender, it would back into the goal
of second time. So now we're up by one. Oh you won,
Yeah, no, you guys won. You see coach Fiorda like frantically looking
through her like rule book and she's like, it's it's it's a it's a
tone. And she's just like, uh, yeah, no, this is
it they want right there. That's what It's a Rutebega rebound. It's in.
It's in subsection sixteen, article fifty four of the second Voll Game of
the rules here and uh the judge ye says no, that that counted.
It went out, it went in, went out when it right, Just
rude begas win and the fireworks go off. Everyone around of applause. We
invented the game. We played a game, and we won a game.
Again. We meet ourselves. Were we making the rules up as we win?
Yes? We were done to the dragons. Baby, um, well
done, everybody. That was awesome, as as the the rest of the
the adult inner, Maryal's team storms the field, watching out for the hole
in the ice. They lift you all up. Yeah yeah, and there
Tea. Oh, I was gonna say, get a gatorade, a cooler
and just pour it over Fiara Godega or whatever name is, because it is.
It is Butcher's Bay. It's it's a frozen solid. It just round.
Another coach down, another coach down, another coach down, and perfect
Fiora is now out of the game. I'm she'll come back, but us
just like a head wrap. Yes, she's fine, she's good. Yeah,
thanks, yeah, yeah, I'm so proud of you. That was
wonderful. Uh I guess next up is Regionals two. I don't know the
way sports works. The sequel of Regionals two back with a vengeance all works.
Butcher's ball. Yeah, great job. Team. You gotta thank Bruce
so because Bruce kind of give so you gotta good things. That's right.
Fantastic, fantastic subcoach, Bruce, You've done it. Wonderful. Personally,
I feel like you've been a mentor to me in this time since I've come
here. I didn't feel like I had a place here in Butcher's Bay.
But now I know as this as a soft type, right end, I
can do anything the softest. You're the softest and the tightest, Craig,
I gotta tell you. Yeah, it's the team effort. You know.
I'm just happy to be here. Y'all had great Hey, you know what
I promised? Orange slices opens up his pack. I got some more slices.
Here you go. Everyone's cheering and screaming, and it's it's a moment
of joy and laughter and fun. Cut to the end of Remember the Titans
or I think, yeah, I don't know. Yes, No, it's
it's a it's a wonderful, glorious moment. Insert whatever sports theme movie theme
song here. Uh, it's it's glorious. It's all in slow motion.
Everyone's chairing. Yeah, it's it's it's fantastic. And then a couple of
things all happen at once. Bruce, can can you roll me a a
perception Checkles, Well, I'm gonna have to crunch my numbers again because,
according to D and D Beyond, my passive perception is nineteen. Um,
that's I can see that. It makes sense. Okay, I'll take that
nineteen. So yeah, you're always going to see everything, which is awesome.
I love it. Yeah, I got that dad sense. That's what
it is. There, you have the dad sense. Um. Cool.
So you see a couple of things. Um. You see out over the
ocean, the frozen ocean, you see an unnatural fog starting to roll in
all of you here the warning bell of Butcher's Bay start to ring. And
with that, nineteen Bruce, what you see is you see a very tall,
very strong, gray skinned female goliath standing in the crap out and you
know this to be Neptune, the commander of the entire nights in and she
is looking at you, Bruce, while you all hear this warning bell going
and you see this unnatural fog rolling you and could you all roll me history
checks. Okay, that's all right, six sixteen, I'll get you.
Get you there, so so Vex and Bruce, Um, you all,
all of you have been here for a while. But you all it's been
several years since this has happened, so it might not be fresh on the
top of the mine with everybody. Um, there was an event that happened
in Butcher's Bay several years ago that kind of rocked Butcher's Bay to the core,
an unnatural fog rolled in, and then there was a ship that kind
of laid siege to Butcher's Bay. A lot of folks disappeared, a lot
of folks died, and the ship disappeared as quickly as it as it appeared.
And ever since then, this is this is what I'll give you with
you said you got a nineteen or sixteen six ye Ever since then, you
know that the powers that be Mayor Annville, and the commanders of the of
the Silver Fleet, and the Knights and have done all they can to find
this mysterious ship that showed up, as well as there have been certain things
put in place to sort of like mentally and emotionally support and protect the residence
of Butcher's Bay. There is there is a thing called the Eye. It's
kind of strange because it is like it is a purple orb that sort of
floats above the entire city and it you you all know that it sort of
like helps the residence defend against like just bad vibes and bad thoughts, and
it keeps everybody, keeps everybody happy. It's it's a it's a it's it's
relatively a good thing. Okay, you all know that you know that those
are all things that happened after this ship attacked. And now that that lord
dump has happened, you all see yeah, oh and I gotta wipe from
that lord M. Everybody got up a poop. Jokes Um, Bruce and
Vex. You get flashbacks to that day because you see this fog rulling and
the bell is ringing, and you know that this bellt only means one thing,
that the ghost ship has been seen again. And we're gonna cut there
for a second because all jokes aside, I forgot about Willem. Oh god,
he just it's it's his gift and his curse to this world to like
the top bleacher. You actually see. What you see is we we cut
to a deeper within the alley, deeper deep with deeper within the city,
in an alley kind of high perched up. You see, uh what Look
it's like a much much younger version of the person we saw who started telling
this story. Not as many bandaliers, not as many daggers, a few
more furs and coats to help protect against the cold weather. But we see
a young Willem batman style perched on a barrel looking out over over the ocean
as the as this fog and the the very faint silhouette of a ship rolls
in and you see Willem Shweet dagger. He says, I'll be ready this
time. Wow. And then we're gonna cut back to you all, um
as as we cut back to the crew. Here back on the butcher Ball
field, the judge ofies are fishing the frozen corpses, the layabouts out.
It's a real baddie. It's a one two two teams enter. One team
will be fisher outings up in the water and help get him out. Ltie.
That's why you have the natural one. You didn't see anything thats going
on because you're you're kindly helping folks get out of the out of the ocean.
Here you see Neptune as you all know to be the commander of the
of the nights End. She approaches the team. She approaches Bruce specifically,
and she says, we have a situation here, Bruce, Um, I
need you to come with me when need to go talk to Mayor Anville.
And she looks to the rest of you. She sees Lte like like free
willying out of the water saving people. She looks to the looks to the
Orca creature, which looks to the the She looks to Vex and Craig and
says, I guess you can bring your friends to him, Bruce. When
don't we going to celebrate with hot chocolate and orange slices? Though? Yeah?
Hey, hey, team, you know we had a great time here.
You know you look over there, you see the fog coming in.
Yeah, you hear the bell. Uh it's fat stuff, it's the ship
fog. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is. Is this a
big deal? Yeah? Kind him a big deal? Yeah? A little
bit? Okay, Well, and will the authorities handled it? We could
even enjoy some hot cocoa, yeah, because there're gonna be danger there.
Oh hey, Hiolt comes out of the water to you, kind of like
Baywatch, kind of like his top shake the water. And if you look
at him too, kind of see like it's almost covered like this little kind
of light frost. It is really cool. The radiance office, body,
can you wrote me a chrisma check? Please? How impressed? Are Yeah?
I just I just want to I just want to know. I don't
know if you've just seduced all my MPCs, even my low snap. But
that's a seventeen nice Yeah, it's a for for a moment. Even even
Neptune sort of like gets to stray a little bit and just like, um
sorry sorry, um no they or something on me, but no, just
nope, I'm a I'm a I'm good. I'm a good person. And
Bruce go ship though ship. Yeah. So we're gonna walk and drink hawk
Hawk go and eat worms of danger. Yeah. Team, but we make
a pretty good team as the righteous Uh rud vegas, thank you. I
was gonna say rude barb again. It's the same thing. It's the same,
it's the same. Just so this is uh, you know, we're
we're pretty much dominating right as as butcher ball teams, right, Uh,
there's a danger coming to our talent. I think maybe, uh you know,
I could use a hand. We work well as a team. I
think our secret move could come in again. And I promise you chocolate and
some orange slices. As long as there's orange slices at the end. That's
what I'm fighting for. Mega, I shall we got a deal. Let's
take take out the trighting on the ground. It's been in a round,
so no more nets on tride inside. Uh, Craigan pulls out a big
beanie with like a fluffy ball on top of this. All right as well,
we gotta get a tuc This has been an emotional roller coaster for Neptune
because for a moment she was like, dang, you guys are gonna be
much more equipped than I thought. And then he she sees Craig and do
her thing, and she's like, oh, let me not. It says
no, no, this is this is yes, this is yeah, Bruce,
thank you, thank you. Um hey, anything we can do to
help. We're here to help home too, So yeah, this is this
is serious. So um, Mayor Annville is going to be sending out ships.
I mean, the ghost ship is back. We have to we have
to stop it this time. This is the first time I've seen it in
three years. We have to go out. We have to stop a mayor.
The Mayor's asked me to come, uh wrangle up a team already got
to my best on it. I've got Avril Levine, yeah, and Tom
Morello, both representatives of the Silver Fleet and the what do I work for?
The Night's End? Also, they're my children. Then you see her
like kind of soften a little bit and says, well, honey, um,
they're great. They just really want to fight this this this ghost ship
and we I know, I told you last night that I need you to
kind of go on an adventure. Um, yeah, I think this would
be perfect. Yeah, Butcher's Aventure. But hey, you know, hey,
we're doing great. Uh regionals too, the Second Company or whatever it's
golled we're up. Well that'll be here when when we get back. If
we save Butcher's Bay, we can do your sports thing for sure. Yeah,
I'm really good at it. I'd like to continue. I know I'm
not really a part of the conversation, but I thought it was important I
said something. You see, she has like this like kind of tough girl
persona, but like it's starting to like melt away, and it's like no,
no, no, Honestly, I'm glad you spoke out because as a
team, as a newly formed team, we need to learn to communicate.
And that's wonderful. Hi. My name is Neptune. Are you a part
of the team. Did I agree with this? Is this maybe spoken about
Bruce? Yeah? Yeah, it's my this is your mates, this is
my wife. Yeah, yep, dude wife. Yeah, leader of the
night Fleet, Night's end. Goliah's warrior, real badass. I love him.
My life A bit of a house and daddy there. Yeah, yeah,
you know, Hey, the house has got Bruce is wonderful. He's
done an amazing job he raising our kids while I was off fighting monsters and
saving everyone's lives. This sounded very demeaning. I don't mean it to be
that way. Our home still there because of you, baby, It's all
right. Yeah, Avril Lavine's out there. You know, she's a great
little assassin out there. Uh. Don Morella, wonderful cleric, warrior,
cleric. So yeah, kids are doing great. He had enough football me.
Hey, we do have a ghost ship to district, so well we
do. And I'm gonna say that this whole conversation has been happening while you
guys have been working okay, the mayor the Mayor's office. And I've noticed
that though he's walking, Craigan is pretty easily keeping pace. Oh interesting.
It's been working on it. Wonderful. And yeah, you all, unless
there's anything pressing you all want to say, you all make it to the
Mayor's office, um with with nary a misstep sometimes I start saying things I
don't know where they're gonna end. Y'all, y'all made it there relatively quickly.
And you all walk in and you see you go to the center of
town. You see the large mayoral estate made out of half rude beg rub
man, out of half rubarb and half half rubarb, half bar. But
you all walk in through the main the Mayor's office, the town hall,
the city hall. I don't know, the city hall. There we go,
uh and you you you make your way through the very well appointed uh
city hall, and you make your way back to Mayor UM dmitri Anville's office.
And he's sitting there and you see this, Uh he is a let's
see, what do I want him to be? You know what? Just
straight human. He's just just a dude, just a dude. UM.
And he's sitting there and he says, oh, yes, Neptune, thank
you, thank you for for bringing uh this this crew. I know this
is this is this is dangerous and scary and hard times. But as you've
all probably so, the ghost ship has turned. I'm picturing like Denni Thor
right now. Yes, actually, UM, like well well appointed gentleman.
He got a imagine kind of doctor strange hair, rich clothes, high collar,
and you all, you all know, you all know mayor Anvil.
Actually he's pretty well liked around the town. He genuinely does his best to
try to make people's lives like more enjoyable, more sustainable, more livable here
up in Butcher's Bay. Uh, like every person, he's not perfect,
but he does he does his best. And yeah, he's yes, a
little bit older and just just kind of kind of a good look at man.
And he says, we're taking a different approach than we did last time.
Last time we sent full force of both our fleets against this ship after
after the ghost ship landed on our shores and started attacking. I don't know
if any of you remember I'm down here. Yep, oh, hello,
hello, welcome. I appreciate you of him being willing to come and speak
you. Hear a crash sounding silver and tray that had some like candies,
and he's like, oh, sorry, just grabbing some. Totally fine.
In fact, every everyone takes some tutsie rolls. And he goes behind his
desk and takes out tutsie rolls, not handing him to everybody. Um,
oh no, and uh yeah, the armor's fit a little tight. Orange
slices though, I got some of those that if that satisfies your sweet tooth
tooth Bruce, by all means, um, but please, uh, I
have something rather large to ask of you all. We'll ask it is it
is it the danger, but it's the I need you all to go and
stop this threat once and for all. Um. It's it's been a plague
on our city. And as as you know, we've we've done everything we
can to try to stop it. After the first attack, we we sent
ships out that never returned. We many many people that day, and we
can't have that again. It And as he's talking you all, what he
says next you know to be true because we're condensing a few things here.
He he says, it was strange this time. The ship showed up,
the fog rolled in, and as you all were walking here, don't do
you remember this just a few minutes ago the bell was ringing, the fog
came in. But then the part that you also remember it just a few
minutes ago, it just disappeared again. I think God forgot to mention that
as you are were walking if I might interrupt for a seconds, and Craig
and sitting on a chair and his legs are swinging not touching the ground.
Yeah, be but a humble bog Um. I am cousin to Billy but
Billy Butcher, Billy Butcher. Oh you're that to Craig here wonder I didn't
want, yes, but just so you know, we kind of anyways anyways,
Um, I know that we're a very professional intramural league Butcher ball team.
But yes, yes, why is it that you? Why are we
the ones being called upon that aren't the professionals ghost hunting Fishonada. You're You're
absolutely correct, and you will be joined by by many of them. You
will be heading out with with the flagship with Neptune here Neptune's flagship. The
comment hopefully be no, not hopefully it will be crewed by some of the
best ghost hunters and sailors and seamen that we we have here. And to
be totally honest, to be totally honest. Uh, Neptune asked for a
favor. She asked if if her husband could could join with them, And
I know this is rather unprecedented, but I said yes. Neptune has been
wonderful, wonderful colleague, done marvelous things to protect this down and just a
moment ago before you came in, she she messaged me on our she texted
me on our mayoral text service, and she said she she saw that the
three extra of you did wonderful at this Butcher ball game, which, as
you know, is a cornerstone of our culture and society here. I think
the more the marrier, that sounds like something you should have kept secret though
that probably the conversation was meant to be probably private, so babe, but
I guess it's fine now. But the way I see it is, Bruce
has done so much for all of us. He's given us a team,
a place here in an orange is ongeses. Yes, this slices oranges are
just a really rare import. Like it's how does he get those slices?
Anyways, Bruce, I say, once a rude to bega, always a
rude bega, And if we know anything about rue to begas in the wild,
they stick together. LT. You're correct, this is strange and it
is a big thing for me to ask of you. So you will also
be rewarded handsomely with with money and bragging writes that you were the ones who
brought down the ghost ship and I am slices. But if I don't,
I mean, I'm not trying to ask too much. Oh, I think
that's a good ask you. I got a bargain. We bargain here on
butcher Bay, okay, yes, with Max said yes, yes, as
you know the tenant butcher Ball and bargaining, the cornerstone is of our society.
I hear your bargain and I raise you. Yes, I'm pretty sure
that's how bargaining works. A cornerstone of this political system. Uh, bargaining
bargaining acquired. Well done. Um, I don't know how bargaining works.
But if you would like orange slices as well as money and bragging rights the
third quarterstone butcher Ball, bargaining and bragging. That's a b b b b
um. But yes, if you could assist Neptune and the and the Night's
End with with this, I would be internally grateful and it will do wonders
for our city. Yeah, let's go where yep there's danger then yeah,
of course I'm happy to hold I guess no, that reminds me, thank
you. I have a meeting with your coach. Next, I forget something,
what firas even? How should we see? How her head is?
Is she doing all right? I didn't check before we left. You did
the thing again. But the gatorade, I mean it's a it's a corner
stone. Wasn't a classical classic play. But Bruce, are are you?
Are you ready for this? So you're usually the more talkative one, are
you okay? Oh you look and uh Bruce, Uh. Neptune has Bruce
kind of cradled in her arms and they've just been kind of just like slowly,
like softly talking. Again, Neptune's a giant, like a goliath,
so she's what like seven eight, It's like Bruce is just like five four.
So yeah, she's just cradling and she's, you know, like great
job in the game on um, it's very sweet. Like you can tell
like as soon as she gets around Bruce, like her her commander percenta falls
apart. Yeah, there's a lot of like, oh you you was so
great. I saw I saw that debate that was that was marvelous. Yet
even working on plays, Yeah, picked scissors again and you stabbed them right
in the right in the gut. Oh, it's so cute. Cornerstone on
debate section of Cornerstone of the Debate section of butcher Ball is you stab your
enemy with scissors. As all this is happening, as you all sorry,
I take it you all agree to go on this absolutely wild story, which
thank you, by the way. As you all agree to go on this,
you the mayor gives you, gives you the plans, gives you the
rundown. You're gonna be leaving in the morning on a ship on the on
the comment I'm sorry, on the flagship of the Night's End. As you
you all know, this is kind of a famous ship around these parts.
It's it is one of the main war galleons. But it's crude. It's
it's gonna be crude. There's gonna be folks from both the Silver Fleet and
Night's End on it. Neptune's gonna be leading this charge. You guys are
gonna be joining them, And you all are dismissed from Mayor's and Mayor Anvil's
office unless any of you have a anything to ask him specifically you want to
join us for some hot chocolate, I would, honestly, and he like
you see, like like a very warm genuine smile like appear on his face
and he says, uh. He rings a little bell and his assistant comes
in. He says, I know I have a meeting with Coach Fiora next,
but could you uh move that back ten minutes. I think I would
very much love some hot coco with with this group. Uh. And yes,
um, and you all have hot chocolate with the with mayor anvil and
it's it's honestly, this is a nice moment, like even though this is
kind of spooky and like there is a ghost ship that was just haunting your
shores for a second. Uh, this is a really nice moment in time
to enjoy the little things. Another cornerstone, but another he's cornerstones. There's
lots of corners and this also it's a it's a it's a dodecahedral corner is
on this So yeah, um, and I sorry, and I co Sagan,
That's what I was looking for. That's a twenty sided shape, not
a do decahedron. Um. You're welcome a little bit of a little bit
of fun knowledge there another cornerstone of Butcher's back. Um. But as you
all, as you all leave, you see Princess spoilers. The Princess Fiora
Uh comes in uh. Coach Coach Fiora Uh interest and great, great job
guys, that was that was really awesome. Gold stars all around you guys
are amazing. Isn't this town great? Like we're just all really positive here?
Um and in factually comes in you guys have a nice another another cocoa
moment. But as you all leave, Fiora stays and you see her starting
to talk with UM with a mayor Annville. As you all leave for UH
and have the rest of the evening to yourself. Um, but is there
anything you all be doing the night before you set out on your ghost hunting
trip? And I know I am blazing through this, so I appreciate you
y'all hanging on for this. But is there anything you all would do?
What would you do to get ready before the sailing? At Don's first light,
Pragan is up most of the night packing. He's got like three bags
with him and he's packed for every possible weather situation. Yeah, he's prepared.
I think in my little outhouse shaped house, um from Rudbaga rebar in
Rhubarb, Um, it's not a lot to really grab you know, not
a lot to really fit in there, except that there is a a jumbo
hammer that's a little comical looking um, and it's picture it's it's pink and
yellow. Um. It's got like a tar on one side, like a
star on the other. Um, comically large for anybody to try and pick
up. Like when you hit it on the ground, it kind of like
compresses because it makes like a little like a squeegee sound. Um. So
they take to hurt anyone, we'll find out us awesome. Yeah, you
know, brush off some dust and that's all they need to go going back
out there. I love it. What about Bruce or LT? What what
is the little scene we see before you all set sap so so just like
the night before so Avery night this Yeah, just just kind of like a
good night before a little character moment. What would you guys be doing?
So L two would just kind of hop into the water just um just let
it carry him, just let him just float almost like being carried by the
water itself. It just kind of close his eyes and sit down. I
love it. How long has LT? How long would you say? LT
has lived in Butcher's back A long time? As long as he can remember
because his mom kind of found him on the shores. I guess, so
to speak, that's where his name came from. So yeah, phenomenal.
Can you roll me a a either either a wisdom saving throw or an insight
check whatever you're better at saving or insight check. I think I'm pretty bad
at both. We'll play up either or so oh and that's a three?
Okay? Um? Yeah, So you you are, you are in this
water, you're floating. It's frigid, it's freezing, but that's your preferred
it's your preferred state. Um, and you feel you feel a strange tickle
at the back of your mind. It's not it's not any any anything nefarious,
not anyone trying to break into your mind or anything. But you you
know that feeling you get when you've you know, you've forgotten something. You
cannot put it into words. You kind of get that feeling. You get
the feeling that you've either forgotten something or something is out of place, or
something's missing, and you that that that kind of sticks with you. That's
the only it's a perfect moment, it's a perfect night, except for towards
the very end of it, you kind of get this an itching feeling over
keep that feeling. Look, I remember it like a blink spot at it,
just like like you see everything else around it. There's just one thing
that's missing. Yeah, it's just like something is off somehow. I don't
see Brestfolgia and that probably Keats we have just like and just we're playing whatever
is I'm missing? So yeah, but I don't know Bruce last but not
Yeah, well, Bruce invites everyone over to his house for dinner. You
know, you got a carb load up before the race. Of course,
of course I don't know if anyone shows up, that's great. But he
would have been having having dinner with his family, including his daughter Avril Levine
and his son Tom Morello and his wife Neptune, and he cooked, he
cooked dinner. It was burgers on the grille and they're just sitting around,
uh. And they live in a pretty big, nice house. You know.
Neptune's like captain of one of the two biggest defenses of this place,
aside from like the city elders. She's like top five citizens basically easily,
top five easily. Yeah, both Avril and Tom are just like doing well
on their own too, like and you know, Bruce didn't do too bad
as an account, you know. Yeah, no, so yeah, yeah
exactly, yeah, so yeah if anyone shows up, yeah, but yeah,
just having dinner with the fam and anyone who shows up, I'm gonna
say, yeah, whoever wants to show up, we won't we won't make
a big deal out of it. Whoever shows up. It's it's a it's
a lovely moment. And you all have seen the Springsteens before, and they
genuinely have just like a really solid like it's just a really sweet relationship.
It's not like Dad, I just want to go ahead and kill monsters.
You won't let me. It's like no, like like Bruce is like proud
of his kids. His kids are like well adjusted, good folks like him
and him and Neptune. It might get a little bit awkward sometimes because they
are like a little bit like not like gross touchy, but like this,
there's a maybe one or two, there's some two too many. Yeah,
yeah, there's some media. That's the only downside about the spring Steins um
And the last thing I said about that, just because I was kind of
proud about this, there's the kids are both half goliaths. Something yeah,
made up pretty fun um. So they're there. They look more like left
half. Yeah, very tall and like well built, stocky, like the
human onions. But you all have that wonderful, wonderful night before you go
out, and the final thing we see is we all wake up. Actually,
wait a minute, can you all all roll me that that except for
you, LT, because you were I'm sorry, Can you all roll me
this either whatever is better at wisdom saving throat or insight check please? Sixteen
it's a really it's really high. It's a really high. Twenty eight eight
okay, twenty eight twenty they were really good burgers. There were toasted,
their run just right, orange slices on the side, slices on the side.
Gotta have it. So everyone except Bruce, you get the same thing
that I mentioned to LT. Just at some point in the night, wherever
it is, wherever it is in your in your preparations, you kind of
get that feeling of like something is you've forgotten something, and something is Often
you can't quite put your finger on it. But with your twenty eight,
Bruce, you you get something. There's been a thought that's been nagging at
you for a while. This is the first time You've kind of been able
to put words to it at this glorious, just good family dinner. This
is not the way things used to be. It's hard to say when things
change or what is different. You've always had a good relationship with your family,
but you have these weird memories that are almost not like you're They're almost
like someone else's memories that are in your head. Of Butcher's Bay. You're
like a long time ago, and it wasn't as happy, and it wasn't
as good as it is now you're, you know, currently, right now,
Butcher's Bay is great. It's a wonderful place. It's the Butcher ball
team is fantastic. Your life is fantastic. You know that Mayor Anville is
protecting you. You know that the Eye in the sky it's a really creepy
name, but it does. It helps keep everybody happy. But like I
said, you haven't been able to put words to it until tonight, until
this almost perfect night, Like nights in Butcher's Bay didn't used to be like
this. It's one of those things where like I'm thinking about it, and
like just Bruce has the thought of like he's looking at his family, you
know, his kids are talking about his daughter's talking about you know, this
high up pirate lord that she just like splayed just like guts out, no
injury to Yeah right, never got seen, you know. Tom Morello heals
like a disease that was taking the like the southeast quarter of Butcher's Bay was
just you know, Butcher's blake. Butcher's blake. Healed that. Um,
and uh, we're talking about this mission and I'm just there. Yeah,
just they're just like look at this. Oh great? Is this right?
Burgers are good, kids are good, fans good. And he has this
thought of like, yeah, never, you never used to be this way,
and then like kind of shakes his head like wait, no, it's
always been this way. What where did that come from? Yeah, yeah,
it's exactly it. And then it startles you. Um. But like
you said, you're back into the revelry and you're back into the night and
it's it's glorious. Um. And you all go to bed after after your
preparations are made. You wake up the next day and you you go meet
down at the docks where the comet is. You see Neptune, you see
Avril Levine, you see Tom Morello, you see the rest of the crew,
um, and you're joining there. You also see uh mayor animal again.
He has he has something, um, and I'm gonna let you all
decide what you want he has. He has a gift for each of you.
Either it is going to be a plus one dagger or a plus one
piece of arm or whatever whatever you want. So basically you can have a
like a ghost hunting plus one weapon of some sort or a little bit more
protection. Could it be like a mystical nets Okay, yeah, that's really
fine. Yeah, it's like a he gives he gives you a net and
you see like where the knots of the nets are. You see these like
purple gems, and like you get the sense that this is a magical,
good ghost hunting monster hunting weapon. You don't get any like nefarious evil vibes
off of it. It's just like he's just like I want to help you
all. I want to protect this investment, Like I want to help as
much as I can. UM, And that's what he gives to you.
We kind of want up in a nice ball to just make sure whenever it's
ready to throw, because he's like a supposed to kind of throw most like
it's almost fishing. So yeah, it's great like those like it spins out
in a certain way and then real quickly this I swear this will be the
last thing we're doing here. What all do you take from the mayor?
And you can literally like I just take a bracelet that it gives me this
one? Am I sy like that? That is totally fine. I'm thinking,
what is jer I have something? Um, I walk up to the
mare and I'm like, hey, thanks for the gig. You know,
Neptune's been getting on my case. You know, yeah, I gotta get
out of the house. You're just lunging around. Butcher Ball is great,
but you know we only play on Saturday and Sunday and Monday and Tuesday.
We were you know, practice this Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. But you
know, I'm trying to get out of the house more. But hey,
I really appreciate it. And uh he the item he gives me is he
pulls out this like, uh six pack of beer and he goes you know,
I'm like, oh, the brew was done. Because we we get
together after butcher ball games and we brew. We're pals and this is bitch
bitches brew. Nope, Butchers Butchers Brewers, Babe Butcher's b b Baby we
got it again. Yeah, drinking that gives me whatever? What plus when
do you see cool? Love it? Sure? Yeah, and you see
the Yeah, he gives you this cans and has in the same sort of
magical protection aura that the net had there, Like part of the design is
like these like purple colored gems like a really cool like small small draft brew
uh style. They're just really cool and cans. Fantastic love that either be
Zela or a Christian. Um. I think, yeah, excellent approach,
um and kind of look up while not making a lot of eye contacts and
pull down their hoodie a little bit. Um. So like I'm a bit
of a collector, but it's not a big deal or anything. Um and
don't like just whatever, But do you have a bubble had of Billy Butcher
as a as a matter of fact, I do. And he takes it
out and you you see u the instead of the eyes they're like like there's
a purple gem styles that like all the other ones have had so far,
and he hands you the cobalt Billy Billy Butcher. Um, that's a bubble
heading. It's really cute. Okay, yeah, I'll give you a plus
one to ac. I gotta go back and put this in my own house.
I've got a little spot before boards. You know, it's where bubble
heads to go. Nobody needs to know that I collect them. Okay,
well I will forget that and and surround us out here, Christian. But
what do you think you got? In a very glad, real and ghimly
moment, he turns to Craigan and he says, for you, what does
a what does what does a relative of Billy Butcher require of the elfkin?
An E MF reader? If you want an MD okay, cool, we'll
say it's it's like a magic like a like a dowsing rod, but like
oh yeah, like but it's got kind of encrusted like a purple gem glows
when when EMFs are near. Yeah, it's it's an EMF. It finds
EMF readers. Um no, uh yeah, I know. He gives you
this thing, and and with with that you all have your your item from
the mayor. Uh he's standing waving you guys away. I guess as the
as the by as you all, um, what's that sail on the comment?
And as you're you're setting out out towards this adventure. I think that's
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