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Welcome back, everybody to the Knicks Archive. I am your game master,
C. D. Corrigan. I am, of course, as always,
joined by my lovely co stars Maddie. Would you like to introduce yourself?
Hello, I'm Maddie and I'll be playing Farah and the lovely miss Marissa.
Hello. I will be the voice of Skink. Alrighty, then we
pick up again in the midwinter sun. You guys have just retired to your
room, only to have me to serve by a knock at the door.
A large Hemsworthington esque centaur in open fronted furs has knocked greeted you and had
the door slammed in his face by Skink. What would you two like to
do? So? Skink has just said, there's a hot center at the
door. There's a hot centaur looking for us. We're tired, We've had
a long day. What are we doing? Who is this guy? He
knows our names? Yeah, there is a Skink is distrustful, Yeah,
like Farry doesn't really like people. All that much. She doesn't like,
especially when she's tired. But I think at this point, like I know
that he was part of Chester's group and that they were tasked with getting the
scroll for the elf where they found flakes. And now since I felt the
flake, I'm curious, so I'm gonna say that we should probably open the
door. Okay, So okay, So the first time I opened it just
like a sliver and there was just my tiny little face like two and a
half feet off the floor, staring up, staring. What I would like
to happen next is uh so then Farah is going to join me. So
we open it up and now there's like two faces on top of each other,
uh like, and it's open like maybe two inches more that or like
that. I then I opened it the first time, but now there's like
a stack. There's like a little stack of faces. Yeah. Yeah,
so you guys open the door again, and this deep, like booming intercellba
type voice. You can see he's kind of like craning down to like look
at YouTube, and we're looking up those small mistresses. I come bearing a
message. When is it right? Right? He kind of reaches he's got
this like not a saddle bag is the wrong word for a centaur, because
not a lot of people get to put a saddle on a centaur. That's
a phrase that I never thought i'd say. But he's got kind of this
like reverse hoodie type pouch that he can like reach behind his back and like
reach in and pull stuff out ergonomics. He pulls out a scroll that is
you know, it looks freshly. What am I trying to say here?
It's a crisp Yeah, it's a crisp sealed scroll. It is a very
clean, crisp, like high quality like vellum type material with a big purple
wax seal on it with a the image of a burning torch pressed into the
wax. And he hands it to you because miss Sive asked me to carry
this to you. And my name is Orlo. I don't think we've met,
but I was traveling with Chester and Cassie and Aaron and I I've been
led to understand by my companions that you assisted with the investigation once you've happened
upon the body, and I simply wish to extend my thanks in person,
as I was not there at the time. Well, you're welcome. I'm
sorry for the loss of your companion. Thank you. I appreciate that he
was. He was a good kid. He was. It was a lot,
but he was a good kid. Skink had been like eyes narrow,
distrustful the whole time until he said extend. Thanks. And now the skink
has soppened and is ready to accept whatever he has come to give them.
Just hold your hand up. Yeah, I just like I say nothing,
but I reached my hand out, like I'll take this scroll, thank you
very much. He kind of like bows his front two legs a little bit
to like reach it down more ergonomically, like I mechanically speaking for everyone,
Welcome to the relic system. Humanoid characters, including some player characters, are
not restricted to medium sized creatures, which are like equal sized. They can
go as low as small, which is what our lovely Gnome and Goblin are,
which is rather short. It's like child sized, and Centaurs have the
option to go a size up large, which is closer to like you know,
Clydesdale horses and oxes and such. So there's a big discrepancy, here's
what I'm saying. Anyways, he bends over to hand it to you.
He says, I Brynn is eager to return south, and I haven't decided
if I'm going to accompany him or stay here and look after Cassie. But
either way, I think at least all of us will be in ten for
a few more days while things get wrapped up here. I suppose it depends
on what happens with the instigation. Maybe a Stelle is asked is not to
go anywhere for a day or two, so we will be around. I
don't know where we're staying quite yet, but will you be staying here?
Shall we? Would it be okay? If I called on you again?
Very well? We'll be here? Okay, I don't. I don't know
what cause we might have for that quite yet, but we'll be here.
We'll be around. I suppose it's just nice to know there are people in
town who aren't immediately out to backstab us. Have a good evening, Yeah,
good night, good sir? And you hear this these just like he
kind of bows and just the thunderous clops as he uh, there's a there's
an awkward staggering of the pace as he navigates the staircase down, and he
hears some muffled cursing come, it's not any compliant, not notoriously. You
know, centaurs can get up and downstairs, but they don't love it,
and you two are left to your room. Yeah. So I am looking
at this and I like the seal, and so Skink goes to some pains
to like remove the seal without breaking it, just to like take it off
in one whole little piece, thinking like I could use this wax for something
else, or like maybe I should get a little do my best to make
a little mold of this seal in case that becomes useful later. I would
love to pretend to send things off with an air of authority in the future.
This is going to be. So you want to preserve the seal.
I'm preserving the seal. Yeah, okay, So there's trying to think there's
maybe a couple of ways you could go about doing this. He did not.
Yes, you could cut it out of the paper around it or nicely
slide it under, So there is that. Yes, So it's a matter
of how much you're going to distort the seal itself by doing that. And
I think there's there's probably some ways to do this relatively easy. I'm trying
to decide if I want to have you do a check for it. From
my extensive experience with wax seals on scrolls and letters, I actually, weirdly
do have experience with this. I have my own wax seals for my own
letters. Chris, I'll have you. Yeah. I actually think, as
the GM, this is a scenario where my players have more knowledge. So
I'm going to say, you tell me, is this something that could consistently
be done with very low chance of failure? Or is this something where like
high chance of sucking up that seal if the wax is thick enough, like
if there's enough of it, I think that if skink breathes on it a
little bit to sort of like warm it a little bit, maybe, like
the breath moistens the paper and just very carefully sidles like the tip of a
nail or a claw or the and or like the very very fine edge of
a knife. You worked slowly enough, it can be done without disturbing the
paper. You just have to have time. You just gotta have time.
Yeah, so that will preserve this seal. I'm gonna say there's no risk
for you preserving this seal as it is. If you wanted to do something
like creating a mold or replica of it. That would be a further check.
But we'll cross that bridge if we come to it. So I needn't
note it right here that Farah does not question all what's happening. It's just
like yeah, oh, I think even even Pip is just like yeah,
that tracks any sort of like Nestles watching Yeah, topa. I do think.
I do think that maybe Skank looks up at Pip and says, this
one's mind, Pip, I'm not sharing. I'll give you some wax.
I'll give you something else. I'll give you something else later. So Skink
very delicately takes her time needling off the seal from the scroll, and then
once it has popped off, carefully pockets it for later. Okay, you
have acquired a put somewhere in your inventory, lady sives seal. I'm going
to start regretting you give us. I understand what. And then since I
took so long with it, I just like hand the scroll over to Pharah
like okay, I got what I wanted here. You read it. Within
is a simple letter, just a couple of lines, says friends can't quite
decide if I'm an abbed or annoyed by your stubbing me. I lean towards
appreciating the gumption. Would be very keen to know what the necromancer learned from
poor Chester's corpse. A little bee tells me somebody's been to Beacon recently.
I would love to chat about that too. You know where to find me?
And that's it. Do we know what Beacon is? That's the place
where we found a scroll, that's the place where we freed the octopus.
How does she know? How did her? A little bee told her,
go ahead and roll a knowledge check from either of you. Target for this
is gonna be seven. You can both do it if you want. I
got a ten ten, Just get all the results in and the result in.
I got it twelve. Did you get a national twelve? No?
No, it's a nine plus three nine plus three roger that. Yeah,
so both of you would kind of you know, maybe it's not the first
thing that comes to mind, but a little bee told me odd phrasing,
and I think, oh, yeah, there. There's actually famously a species
of giant bee around Beacon that was actually used as like a bount to be
like ridden a person sized bee. Really a horse sized bee. A horse
sized bee. Yeah, people used to put saddles on him and fly around
very rare, used to be domesticated, supposedly have mostly been kind of left
to go wild these days because once society collapses, hard to get the infrastructure
to keep reading giant rideable bees. You know, it's one of those things.
It's a lot of interconnect interconnected dependencies there, KK right, So the
loot of us registered that, like it was a literal or sized bee that
probably told her possibly or she's dropping an extra hint about like I know stuff.
Yeah, okay, all right, okay, okay, host reading this
letter, it is quite late. What would you two like to do?
Or would you like to retire? I just did it noted that I'm still
highly annoyed by her, but i absolutely want to talk to her now because
I'm interested in finding flakes. So but I'm like, I'm agitated that she
knows where we were and that she knows anything about us. It's just just
irks me. It's under my skin. But otherwise I'm going to turn a
skink and say, well, I don't feel like dealing with this right now.
We've done a lot today as it is I'm gonna go to bed.
Yeah, that's a tomorrow problem. That's a tumoral problem. So we both
we both go to sleep. Is the flake I think you have? Fake?
Do I have it? You put it in your Yeah, you were
like, it needs to be one on one of our persons, so you
put it in your coat, in your jacket. I believe when Orlow knocked
on the door, you panicked and tried to hide it under a pillow and
then decided, no, it needs to go in a pocket. But I
thought I gave it to you, take it to you. I don't know
either way. Skink recovers the flake and wants to go to sleep with it
under her pillow. Yeah, that's fair, you guys bent down. I
believe Skink had the cot and Farah the fur lined bed hip nests happily kind
of in a nook between someone's shoulder or armpit or something. Just finds a
little warm place to hunker down, or at some point in the night he
hops over to that flu that iron pipe in the room that's carrying the heat
up from the hearth downstairs, and like nestles in there. He just kind
of moves around as he gets comfortable, and you, guys, go to
sleep with this soft ceruleum glow of a flake kind of flickering out from underneath
Skink's pillow. Whenever she rolls or adjusts or thrashes in the night, depending
on the quality of her dreams, you will wake in the morning feeling refreshed
to the smell of sizzling bacon and ham eggs cheese lofting up from the fires
downstairs. That smells heavenly. Let's go ahead. We are on a new
day. We're gonna roll for Pip. I guess I'll be Evans this time,
and I'll be honest. Skink is evens, and we're gonna use the
Tower of some troubles here. We don't have a box of doom here on
the next archive, but we have a we have a troublesome tower, Tower
of troubles, troublesome tower of troubles, troublesome tower, tower of some troublesome
tower that I didn't hear first. That's an even who was even escape with
me. Pip has decided that today scape is mother and uh you as you
get up and start making your way around, he wakes and gives him shelf
a little ruffle, and then he hops over and jumps into the nest of
your hair. Cute. I adjust to the uh, to the weight,
sort of like adjust my my center of gravity around it. And then I
was like, let's go get some meat. Meat, meat. There's something
exciting being able in character to go eat meat that I can't eat in real
life. Yeah, I mean, listen, fantasy is escapism. I put
cheese in there for me. Yeah, I'm sounds amazing, you guys,
descend the stairs down into the I'm in a room of the midwinter sun.
As you'll recall, this is a round room, several terraced levels leading down
to a central bonfire pit that burns, and the smoke rises up and escapes
through some discrete ventilation in the center of this domed room. You don't see
Maria, the mayor bartender there. She was on duty pretty late last night.
Probably isn't taken the morning shift, especially if this is her establishment.
A young we're gonna say, give me a young nomish chap is standing on
a stool up behind the bar ferry. You would immediately clock him as in
fact a brass gnome, so a little bit of different complexion than you more
kind of a not gold but brass. I mean, we know what brass
is, more of a brass skin tone and shining in the light there as
the weak. Actually, let me think it would still be dark out in
the morning this time of winter up in the Arctic. The sun only comes
up really towards lunchtime and has gone after a couple of hours this year,
So still very dark in here. You hear the distant chimes of the bells
sounding the morning time breakfast is being served. This young man kind of gestures
up to you and missus the complimentary breakfast is coming out if you would like
to grab a plate over there, and he kind of indicates, like,
there's you know how to get your food effectively. You guys are free to
load up. And as I think you're doing that, you spot a realia
across the room doing the same, and that is the gosh, that's the
fiendling. Yeah, so Skink notices, but is it gonna do anything first,
and then looks up at Pip and says he, I will give you
a whole hard boiled egg if you go steal a piece of food off of
that one's plate before you have even finished the word plate is fucking gone bolt
Like he's a peregrine falcon style. You just hear and snoops and does like
a whole loop and realise like you motherfuck and comes back around and drops it
in your hand. Uh huh. And then I go, oh, you
silly bird. And then I look over and I was like, oh,
good morning, you feel pipped scamper down the back of your head and like
peek out just and I like make sure that he notices that I take like
a whole bunch of hard boiled eggs. So there's gonna be like a little
a little pile for getting him, getting her to notice me. You feel
him to do a little yeah. Yeah, But he's like he's doing like
a squirrel and a dog where they circle the tree, Like he's staying on
the opposite side of your haircut, just so she can't like excellent, excellent
Sarah is just like chuckling to herself and also shoveling food. Yeah, yeah,
you Bert seems to have stolen some of my food. Does he do
that often? Yeah? I see you back there, your little rat.
And then I and I go up to her. He's like one cannot control
the whims of ravens. Who are you seeing with this morning? Brunskull hasn't
come down from his room yet. I was hungry, so I'm going to
And she comes over and she's standing in front of you and like reloading her
plate a little bit. And then as you guys are talking, you hear
up and you feel pip scattered and you realize that she has reached around with
her tail and slapped the bird your head. That hard, Just a little
like that, just a little bit like, yeah, I got tricks too,
And I say, you're welcome to have breakfast with us. Well,
I suppose we're working together today, so why not. Sarah Mitch is like
burn great, so yeah, okay, yeah, sure, why not?
And she kind of sits down with you guys. So we didn't really get
to chat too much last night. I mean it was pretty late. Like
what brings you guys to town here? Adventure? Okay, skink sort of
like chuckles and nods. That's usually why we go places. Oh so,
really, you guys are just like arm vagabonds. I'm not knocking to It's
kind of list it sounds it sounds fun. That came out really derogatory.
I apologize. I don't get away from the olds all that often, but
I was just, you know, curious, like people come up here looking
for flakes, looking for work, they have relatives, whatever. I just
I just wondering what the story was. We thought, mean we might find
a good library. Yeah, really more of a lark than anything to be
up here. Why are you here, Arilla. Well, you know it's
funny you mentioned libraries. There's not there's not a ton of There's not much
in Osk, but over in Wharfton it's like a week away. It's the
only other real town up here. There is an archive there which is supposed
to be pretty decent. I've been there a couple of times. Well then
that's where I haven't been to a lot of other places. But you know,
I don't have a lot to compare it to thank you for that bit
of knowledge I was wondering. I mean, we really just got to ask
a few days ago. So where we of course had to take a break
because it's quite quite arduous getting up here, But it sounds like that might
be something we'd be interested in. I don't know about you, skink,
but I am. Yeah. Make sure you sign on with like, well,
you guys look like you can take care of yourselves, so you don't
really need to jump on a caravan if you don't want to, if that's
not your style, but it is there's a road, Like technically we came
that way coming here. It ain't an easy like we had mounts to ride
in wagons and everything, and that made it a lot easier. Is it
a week on mount? Then? I see the funny thing about traveling through
like the snow out here. You know when you're mounted, especially if you
get all what are they called bareth a birth. There's these like bear lizard
things you can ride that some of the stables here have. They're pretty good
on the tundra and snow. They can really book it. If you're taking
a horse or something or a wagon. A difference in speed versus just hoofing
it is not much, but you get a lot less tired. So there's
that. So it's about a week either way. The weather this time of
year, especially as it gets darker, can be tricky. Though we came
a couple of months ago it was more summer, so you've been here for
a couple of months. Uh. We came here first a couple of months
ago, Oscar has kind of been our like home base. Brun Skull's got
us going out and doing some and anyone who would like to can make a
cleverness check. Now I would like to, because I was just about to
ask, yeah, because I was like, we don't really know why brun
Skull's here yet. We know they're here. We know they have an extra
like du they're looking for, but that's not a reason to be here.
We haven't we haven't learned why he's here. Nice. Nice, And I
rolled another nine plus three. Okay, uh farah. You don't you know
this is just idle chit chat conversation. You're shoveling down food, No big
deal, skink. You kind of have this sense, maybe because you're a
little paying closer attention, you get the sense in this moment that she's like
a bit of a sheltered kid, like doesn't really have the experience to be
out here like wheeling and dealing with intrigue in secrets and that kind of stuff.
And she's realized in this moment that she has said way too much to
people she doesn't know that well, so she's kind of like, oh,
yeah, yeah, you know, we're just uh, brun School's got us
doing some training and stuff out in some of the ruins out here, so
yeah, you know, we uh. He's really big on like fitness and
martial arts and scholarship, but that kind of stuff. His job is to
make sure that we have the kind of foundation and education that we're supposed to
to h And at that moment, you see Brunschal's hand kind of lands on
her shoulder behind her, and he's holding a plate of like steaming grits,
and he's just like, yeah, and that to see you all this morning.
Skink looks up at Briunce Gold and says, we've been having such a
lovely time talking to your young charge. I'm sure you have, and I'm
glad you're getting to know one another. And you see Arilla just kind of
winces when he says that, good morning, Master Prince School. Skink takes
a little bite of food off of her plate and then puts it on Arilla's
plate as like it tells like repay the food that pick took, and and
just trying to like let her know like I'm on your side here, brit
School. Will you be having breakfast with us? Yes? I don't mind
if I join you. As you put the food back onto her plate,
skink you feel under the table a little. She doesn't react, but a
little tap tap of her tail on your knee. Just yes, ridiculous.
I love it. Gonna wind up being a major character. And bus called
joins. Good morning everyone. I hope you are still eager to help me
find our missing companion. Reward still stands. I was thinking, Arilla and
I might go, we'll make a circuit one way around the town, and
if you two wouldn't mind stopping at And he kind of pulls out a note
pad like he's clearly been writing brainstorming is here's a number of establishments that I
think you might he might like to frequent on the other side of town.
We'll head south, you head north, and will circle around and we can
meet back either here this evening or possibly over at the long Haul this afternoon,
and hopefully one of us will have spotted him. His name, by
the way, is Jack Jack jat correct. Yes, he's a good fellow.
I just hope he's not in too much. He can get himself into
situations from time to time. Understand as all the young wards are prone to
do and a religious kind of mister Brinscill, sorry Skink, as someone who
has been in neurous situations says it's good for their education. Education is very
important to our order. I overheard you mentioning something about the library and wharfton
the archive. It's well worth a visit. It is an establishment that some
of my companions maintain, in point of fact, and so Gorilla and I
have spent some good time there. This is not our point of origin,
but when we come up here, we make the track out there and spend
some time with them. It keeps everybody good to cross pollinate, as it
were. So Skink and Farah have to decide how they want to spend their
day, so we're I'm good for searching for him, and then I'm going
to stay to Britunce school. We have to probably meet somebody at the long
Haul anyway, so we could meet back there in the afternoon. If that
works for you, let's do that. I think, as I said,
Woolhead South will stop at some of the seedier taverns and inns are the only
places I didn't think to check yesterday, So we'll go and remind me again
what Jack looks like he's a taller. He's a good looking man, a
little bit shorter than me. Glowing eyes. Really the key rest similarly to
us. Usually he might occasionally he grabs an overcoat. He's got a large
kind of cloak that he enjoys, but his under ropes kind of have this
same pattern and coloration on it. We're all part of the same group,
so we should pretty eat be able to identify him if he lets Yeah,
if he's not hiding in the you know, yes, if you see him,
you should know him. Skink asks will his glowing eyes be covered or
are they just glowing openly? He's not like wearing sunglasses all day? Is
It's not like they You'll notice more if you're in the dark with him or
a shadowed area, which this time of year, you know, it's it's
more like you ever see a deer in torchlight kind of that effect. It's
more like that they're not like lighting up the room. Got it. It's
the trapidal lucidum. He got a natural twelve. He goes very good.
I knew that. Let me make sure I said it right. There was
a there was a world there where Brun's school was like, what the fuck
lucid misspoke actually, miss Ferrah, I think you'll find it as the tapitam
lucidum. Anyways, Arilla, we should be heading out. I want to
get an early start on this, possibly find him before he wakes up.
And then as so he stands and you see a really just well we'll see
you guys later. And then she walks out and Skank you see her tail
waves at you as you as she leaves. As they head out the door,
Arilla drops her plate down in front of you. Obviously the wait staff
here comes around and cleans up plates. A small hand reaches out from the
booth behind you and snags a piece of bacon off of Gorilla's plate. Scott,
would you like to introduce your character to us? What is what does
this hand? Who does this belong to? Scott? You feel a crow
peck your hand as you do that, Well, Astro, I'll put you
in the next stew I think Skink, seeing uh, seeing this hand come
out, hearing someone says something mean to Pip is immediately going to grab the
hand. Yeah, let go, let go. It's a little tender.
It's a little tender. Uh. And then is it like over a booth.
Is it like a diner booth kind of thing? Yes, I think
Skate's get a whole lot in the hand, stand up in the on the
bench, and then like look over the other side. Who might you be
a fellow profon? Uh? A kind of of cuisine? Nobody really a
true nobody, definitely, definitely nobody you're looking for. And then I just
kind of whisper, I don't I don't want to say it loud, like
I sort of like glance up to see if Brinskal and Gorilla are gone,
and then I just whisper really close. Yeah, please don't tell on me.
I'm having such a good time. Do you want to have breakfast with
us? I've heard love nothing more. Jet you feel a crow or a
raven perch in the back of your hair and just start pulling on your banks?
Ah, what is with this bird? Why? Boundaries? You know?
Usually if you give Pip a little bit of food, I will do
no such things, absolutely not. Ow At this point, Skink has let
go of the hand and now it's just Pip tormenting him. He's like chuckling
as he like nestles back on heads. Did I just hear that you found
Jet already, and then I look at I look at Farah, and I
just like put my finger in front of my mouth and I go and I
like wave Jet over to come sit with us. So, Jet, we've
we've begun to hear so much about you. Tell us about yourself again allegedly
allegedly Jack, but yes, hello, oh oh sh sorry. They kind
of they kind of kick in when I heightens into my emotions thanks to your
bird. Thank you. So you just kind of like, ah, there
we go. His eyes are were glowing, They glow, but they they're
more reactive than like, are you wearing the garb of school? Allegedly,
I think would you would you describe Jet for us before we jump any further?
Yeah, so, uh Jet Jet support the full name. He is
a forgive me if I'm mispronouncing this, uh from a light Yeah, yeah,
okay. He is a fermalite. So he does tend to take a
little bit more of a Elvish appearance, with like the Sharper features about the
same heights. If you're familiar with like Castlevania or even Assassin's Creed, it's
it's like that kind of warrior West like Eastern Monk style rather than like like
a shallon monk kind of thing. He is, Yeah, in comparison to
Brunskull and Arilla, this is a little bit more decorative, Like it's a
little bit more flashy. You might see like certain features on him. You'll
see like a little bit more of a ceremonial sash across his chest. You'll
see two bell hammers on his waist. And he does have a coat,
but in comparison to the other two, it has like a thicker fur coat.
But yeah, and then like really saturated blue eyes. What would you
like us to call you since you're not allegedly jet I'd prefer temporary. Temporary
would be a great temporary acquaintance, temporary friend. I would prefer if this
did not go back to those two. Really appreciate that. I don't know
what he's offering, but I'm like, how much is it worth to you?
Is Skink is like still on offense about like who has whose allegiances and
is like very self serving and almost mercenary. So like, whatever he's offering,
I will double it six platinum as an IOU, I will I will
double it as an IO. You not convinced before we talk about wagers.
Why don't we talk a little bit more about what everybody's doing here in OSK.
I'm fine. I think you can also pay us some knowledge. Yeah,
you have to be platinum. Oh okay, Jed, I think you
have a moment of realizing. If Brouon School is putting up platinum to strangers,
he's probably Yeah, okay, you said three, three stingy old bastards.
Finally, all right, all right, I need to rectify this.
I guess that's not good. All right, do you know where they said
they were going. They're searching for you in the south of the city,
in the south. Okay, when did they leave? About five minutes ago?
Chris, Yeah, I've just right before the start of this conversation.
Okay, all right, here's what we'll do. Pip is picking things off
of your plate. Yet, of course he is. I told you you
should just give him some food and then he'll be your friend. But I
don't want to give it. Okay, Anyways, we're getting off here.
He flicks a bone at you. Look, if I could just get I
don't know, thirty more minutes, thirty more minutes, I will go with
you. I'll even put on for you saying that you guys found me.
I was battle. Now you make up a story and I'll just go with
it. I just it's just so nice to actually just have me time,
do you know me time? Right? Like, it's just this mission and
this journey and this everything is Yeah, what is what is Bruin's School having
you do here that you need so much me time for? What did the
old man tell you everything? You tell us more everything? Well, I
mean it sounds like he told you everything, So I don't really need to
go into detail because ultimately what I was going to say is whatever he told
you is the truth. It takes another big swig of zale uh you put
it down and Pip knocks over your tanker. Now that's just rude. It's
just I'm civilized. I'm going to give you all the chances in the world,
and yet here you are. Anyways, You're only going to get your
thirty minutes if you give us more information. Otherwise I'm gonna find Okay,
fine, Look, we can give you more of the day if you give
us more information. Look I can't, I can't. Look. What I
can tell you is that part of the order, we have certain responsibilities to
fulfill. We are up here because we've heard about some magic we believe wove
in the wilds, and we're just trying to find out more information about that
right now. Fair and that is honest to goodness truth the most I can
tell you. All Right, you earned your thirty minutes. Thank you.
Anyways, I'm gonna get seconds. Do you want second? Second? These
are cool? Who would bake it and just rush off to fill the plate
again? Skeek is just sitting there wondering, like should I be mean to
this person? Like like like truly truly undecided, truly undecided, Like Skink
sits there in the booth watching the two of you go up for more food,
and is you know, looking at Pip looking back and wondering, feeling
like this one feels like it's not going to give me anything, you know
this this person feels very withholding, and Skink's not really a fan of withholding.
And it's just like sort of silently brooding in the in the booth while
you guys go get food. Mm hmm, can come back with our plates?
Yes, I'm again. I have definitely refilled the tankard. Look at
the bird and I just kind of hold it so then so then uh so,
then this cake says, so allegedly, Jack, did you hear about
what happened last night? It must have. It must have been through the
whole town of Auf. Now go ahead and roll a. This is actually
going to be a cleverness check. Oh okay, that is my highest stat
weirdly enough interesting. Oh, because it's us for everything. It's a fantasy
game. I got a dirty nine. Dirty nine. Yeah. So normally
knowing stuff is obviously a knowledge role. In this case, we're using cleverness
because this would be because of the time, imminentness, recentness. This would
be more of like how plugged are you into like rumors and circulating news and
stuff. Nine. You heard that someone died over at the Long Hall last
night? Yeah that's all. Yeah, No, I heard that you all
had quite an eventful evening here. Point of order, this is not the
Long Haul, this is the midwinter Sun. Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
sorry, sorry, sorry, No, I heard I heard there was
some commotion at another nearby institution. I believe the mid Midsummer something like that.
Yeah. I have not heard anything else since then, though. Did
they find the cults? So then Skink is just sort of like drumming,
drumming their fingers on the table and says, well, the dead man told
me that somewhat dead. Yeah, you ever talked to the dead? Allegedly,
Jet, it's a lot of how still they coming to my side at
the table here a little aggressive for someone who's talking to I will just throw
that at there, Uh hair growling at you like a cat. He sounds
like a cat. Then again, I guess conversing with the dead is the
least strange thing I've heard today. And Skink goes, you know, sometimes
it's easier to make people talk when they're dead, just goes right over.
Jad said, he's just grabbing another fistful of Bason and just chowing on it.
This this is like kind of deflates, just like me didn't get it.
I think Sarah is chuckling as she beating, like just not even at
this point. She thinks she's getting three platinum for nothing, so she's excited.
And and then Skank tries to spells out, you know, if you
don't want to tell us anything here at this table while you're alive, cants
cannot tell you anything. Wanton can'ts are very very fine details here, but
it's an important detail. I want to tell you more things that cannot tell
you now, Skink cypross, go up and go. Are you cursed depends
on who you ask. If you ask me, yes, apsol fucking lutely
hmmm. But I have seen a professional and according to them, they have
not properly diagnosed me to be cursed. I'm going to add a note to
Jet's backstory page here stuck in medical system did not receive prior authorization for curse
removal. I think so, I think, I think like Skink backs off
a little bit with the like can't and is wondering, like maybe maybe this
person is truly under some dark cloud that like I actually don't want to get
involved with, Like I don't. I don't want to like accidentally unleash some
sort of like bad spell by killing him myself. Skink uh, skink,
go ahead and pop off a cleverness check for me. This is this is
not a failure situation. It's just a matter of like, the better you
do, the more you get sure. I only got a six, You
got a six, okay. I think one thing that tickles you in this
conversation is he said specifically, he can't tell you what they are doing here.
Mm hmm. That has nothing to do with why he's mia right right.
I guess like Skink sort of is making an assumption that this guy just
wants to do things away from his mentor like maybe has some sort of problems
with authority, and like that's the assumption that Skink is making and is like,
Okay, fine, you won't tell us what the whole group is doing.
I don't give a shit about you and your individual care like desires.
I don't care why you're gone. If all you if you know, if
your therapist couldn't figure out what was wrong with you, I'm not gonna ask
uh. I was just about to say, I don't appreciate being seen like
this right now, I think on consideration, fuck your motivations. Yeah,
it's like is what Skik is thinking right now, And it's like maybe losing
it and like backs off a little bit of the of the of the push
of like it's just just gonna like sit back and see if Pharaoh has any
other questions to throw forth? Can you at least tell us what order you're
in? Mm hmm, you know what I shouldn't I shouldn't, but they
give you a lot of a lot of a lot of griefs. You're dealing
with the hard ass over there. So I feel like I can at least
do this. Yes, I am I am Jack support of the seven Steps.
Of the Seven Steps M I think I think it's okay for them to
know they're exisiting because like the order doesn't really I mean, they keep their
affairs secret, but they don't really like shy away from being in the pubblic
eye that crazy. Yeah, it's They're not a group that like super advertises
and yeah, I think we're gonna do some checks here. Yeah, that's
what I was gonna say. They're yeah, so just above the table level.
Not a group that like this is the equivalent of like driving into a
corporate park and seeing like the mcmurder group or like the Johnson group or something,
and you're like, what the fuck do they do? But like the
names out there, would anyone like to make a knowledge check? Would That's
what I? Oh, I got a night twelve. It's so interesting moment
here. You can take the twelve, add your malt bonus, and take
a faate point, or you could opt to forego the fate point and roll
again and add another twelve and another D twelve. That's exploding the dice,
right, yes, And I will tell you this is not a group that
is easy to know about. So if I explode the dice, it's good.
Right, Your potentially weirdly have knowledge of something that you have no business
really knowing about. Twelve is A twelve is good plus whatever your bonus is.
But like, still potentially you don't know much. Okay, I'm going
to explode the dice. Goo fo. Yeah, I mean for people who
hang out in libraries all the time, I've got an extra nine plus my
modifiers three. We are fond of our book. So you got a twenty
four on this Yes, wait twenty did you roll another twelve? No,
twelve plus nine is twenty one plus three is twenty four. Yeah yeah,
okay, so twelve okay A just on my check difficulty scale for relict because
of the D twelve system. For those listening at home, we use the
twelve as our base for all of our math instead of a twenty like you
might have heard in other places. On the difficulty scale, anything over a
twenty one is in the like mythic and legendary feats category like can be done
doesn't happen very often. So a twenty four on knowledge Farah immediately is like,
oh, Order of the Seven Steps. I fucking read about this in
a scroll in the back of an archive in an abandoned library in a city
that's dead, not even the last one I went to completely different time,
but I happened to read this book, and y'all fucker's lost in your inauguration
rights And like, just they you found the fucking blueprint to these guys that
they clearly didn't intend to distribute somewhere and just had that information tucked away.
So he says, Order of the Seven Steps, and just king light bulb.
The Order of the Seven Steps is concerned with preserving knowledge across what they
believe to be multiple incarnations of the world. This is a group of people
who are there are martial elements to their order. There are seeking elements to
their order, gathering knowledge and preserving it and expanding what they know and the
resource they have access to. There are elements of their order that are dedicated
You're getting the whole fucking nine yards here. There are elements of the order
that are dedicated to interfacing with the powers that be in a given region,
they provide services, libraries like that kind of deal. It's sort of like
a missionary is not quite the right word because they don't evangelize, but ambassador
is more of a better of it. Like, Hey, we want to
operate in your place here. We don't want you giving us trouble. We're
going to provide these goods and services leave us alone. Like that kind of
deal with a lot of different like kingdoms and fiefdoms and powers and regions and
whatever. Like whenever they have someone who like is potentially an issue, they
do that kind of stuff. Even on a ridiculous knowledge check. I think
it's very clear to you there's a there's a level of knowledge where it's like,
oh, it's clear I don't know what I don't know. Yeah,
you read one book that you never should have had access to. Hint it
sorry, go ahead, when you read about the Gnostics, and like you
have a pretty good idea, but you still don't know their inner workings exactly.
So like there's a very clear dividing line of like this is all in
service of something. Don't know what that is. They did not write that
down, and I think you probably got the outline of like, this is
a group where like they covet information, they gather as much as possible,
and they're also precious with it. So I think it is logical to you
to be like, there's stuff that Jet probably can't tell us or won't voluntarily
that he knows. There's probably stuff the Bruneskill knows that Jet doesn't know.
There's probably stuff that all of them know that is wrong because they've been deliberately
misinformed because someone to higher up the chain is deciding what they should know and
should think. But like that is kind of the spider web outline of this
organization you get, and that's what A twenty four gets. Yeah. Cool.
So cutting back to the scene, it's just like, yeah, it's
kind of a big deal, but Skink just still doesn't really like this guy
and doesn't know anything. Yeah, Pip is fighting him for a fucking piece
of bacon right now. Truly, you've had so much bacon. Sarah does
not let the hymn know that she knows as much as she does, but
she does. But let's see. I think at this point I would say,
well, we do need to get you back to brood school. We
have thirty minutes already, hasn't it It's been it probably hasn't quite been thirty
minutes. Actually, we've got like we're at like the twenty two minute mark.
Yeah. Yeah, so so then, uh, there's a lot of
time was used by me fighting off for my food from the bird. So
yeah, what have what have you been doing in town to avoid brune school?
Have you just literally been going around and eating places? That's what he
alluded to, you know, because he just this is where my genius comes
into play. He thinks that I'm going to be coming up with some clever
places to hide. But really, I know he's going to think that,
So I think of the more obvious places to hide, because he will think
of that exactly. Hence why I'm here. Well, you haven't been doing
like a Yelp review of every tavern bar pub in Actually he pulls out this
old, battered book and just like it's it's like mostly used. He's like
at the last quarter of the book is like, I've been keeping a lot
of notes because one of my passions is actually noting that the local cuisines of
each area that I visit, and I like to write about it. And
it's really fun. And you know, sometimes you just come across these amazing
hole in the walled places and it's just like this should be world known.
What is this this amazing little soup shop doing with nobody in it? Yeah,
it just goes on this ti rade of just like how how life is
meant to be lived and the best way to live life is to eat good
food. Skink and Varo weirdly like totally interested in this conversation. Yeah,
yeah, we're like, yeah, yeah, you see, he's got a
bookmark, he's got a whole osc chapter. Yeah. No, absolutely.
If I've been there, I've had the food, I can tell you exactly
what to get. All right, where's the best place to eat? And
ask that? Uh sadly here there's not a lot going on here in osk.
I wanted it to be a little gem. It's turning out not to
be. Is that why you're hiding back in the hotel you're staying a little
bit? Yeah, yes, exactly. That was just putting something together.
I mean, and I'm trying to be reasonable because frankly, the most like
when it comes to spices, the most they can really get salt and sometimes
pepper, if they're feeling spicy. But the blubberd is incredible. I have
no earthly understanding of why the blubber here is amazing, but it is,
and I'm going to get to the bottom of it. I think it has
something to do with the minerally, could be little New York reference. Then
as like their time is wrapping up. Skink just just asks, so does
Arilla take any mean time? So she's with him? Interesting? Wow,
they really need to talk to me. Huh, oh boy, you didn't
come up with Arilla. Not originally. Oh I thought a group. Well
that's what I said I would do with them. I departed maybe a day
or two sooner, you know, just to lay the land, you know.
And then it turned into extra two or three, four days. I
was hoping for five. Make it, you know, make it a nice
prime number. Mm hmmm. Well so they're both looking for me. Huh
yeah, oh boy. All right, he gets up front the table.
All right, uh you said south, Yeah, we'll walk you there.
Okay, well, thank you. It would be a good company. The
bird does have a leash, yes, I feel would you like, aren't
fun? No? No, you know what, that's a good I will
check myself in the future. He extends. He extends to pet Pip as
a all right, let's let's have a truce, little guy. He kind
of like puffs at you, all right, does does that thing where like
birds just hang there with their mouths open, you know that, just just
beak open, not saying anything, just open. Yeah. Right, Well
an attempt was made, and then uh yeah, so just start grab gathering
the things. I leave a couple of copper on the table there, I'll
leave I'll leave ten or ten copper and then just start Oh, it's a
buffet. They said it was included, they said it was complimentary. Yeah,
but but but Oscar operates on a tipping culture, and yes, I
don't agree with it. But like I'm here, so I think maybe he's
like leaving money on the table and we just shrug. Yeah. Pip kind
of glares, hops over to Parah's hood, rummages around for a second,
pops up and tosses a rock. Oh my god, please roll for it.
Let it be random rock rock rock. He's let it be a platinum.
Pip tosses just a gold piece down on the table. Ah, yes,
I love it. Hilarious. I think I think we are gonna definitely
we're not gonna let pick get away with that. And Sarah just like I
was just like, just let it go now, a gold piece, a
gold piece, whatever, make what change you want over So then he's just
doing this to upstage me. So I'm just like fine, fine, Fine,
Now I'm like rummaging in my own pockets because it's like I'm not leaving
this gold piece here, and of your pockets is actually like money, isn't
it. Like there's a whole bunch of fun. I feel like I don't
keep money in my pockets, like I keep bones and like other stuff in
my pockets, but I don't rock money. So I really have to look
because it's mostly like tucked away in a place that's like not accessible. You've
had a twig that you picked up like six months ago and it was just
like a cool shape. Yeah, I find I put down like three copper
and a wishbone. I was like, listen, this is a very lucky
wishbone for whoever is going to get it. The wait staff nearby to hear
this, I just imagine them cutting to later when they're cleaning up the table,
like they can't even leave the freaking really, are you guys departing the
midwinter sun? Yes, okay, as you guys had out the door,
whoever was the last person through the door, definitely hears Oh cool a wishbone.
Yay, Well, the audience weren't serving chicken today. I need the
audience to know that Pip does not know coins one from another, so that
was entirely random. Yeah, we have a system. We came up with
a system. Yeah, he was not actually trying to upstage yet. Yeah,
we came up with a system for how he distributes coins. Oh delightful.
I think that as we're as we're leaving, we're not like in a
hurry to get anywhere. I feel like, I'm I'm assuming Jaz's gonna really
drag his feet on this. Skinky Literally Skink is not like excited to be
done. But like I was like, okay, whatever, we're doing this
now. I guess this task is over for the day. So they're just
like sort of strolling. They're not really hurry now. So I'll tell you
guys this broom School and Gorilla were planning to make a circuit of possible places
that they thought they could find Jet on the South side of town. I
think you walk outside and realize, like he gave you a list of places
to try on the north side of town, you don't actually know where they
went, but you do know that they're going to wind up at the long
haul towards the end of the day. Yeah, And then Skank looks at
Jat and says, have you tried all of the taverns on the north side
of Oscar? Every one of them? Every single one? Well, that's
less fun. I was good, actually, Jet, you say that,
and then you realize that there is a fish hut I'm not sure what to
call it, the one I thought was permanent closed. It's only open one
day a week. Day that today is that day? What a coincidence because
we could still do the tour as we look for you. Absolutely, you
know what I forgot about that that fish huts tenors, thank you. I
forgot that happened to be the one day of the week. So all right,
look, I'm going to assume that if you're going to be audacious enough
to be only open one day a week, there's a reason for it,
and I have to assume it's good. So yes, let's make our way
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Now, let's get back to the show, all right, So you
guys set off heading to Tenor's Ice Hut. I don't know what the subtitle
is on that. It's Tennor's Ice Hut. There we go, Tennor's fish
Hut. That's what I meant, Tenor's jat. You would have spotted this
place a couple of times. It's actually not. It's up near Gallios the
Thin Winter Outfitters, guys, but it's a couple blocks further towards the frozen
River. It is like right on the shore. Yeah, there's a little
As you guys approach, you are in the three hours a day of daylight.
At this point. As you guys approach, you're heading towards the shore.
It's a little tricky, you realize as you kind of get down there,
because the snow cover is so pervasive, the river is frozen over.
There are places where the edge of the river and the edge of the road
are not easy to discern until you're like walking along and be like, oh,
we're over water right now. Like it's just it's kind of that situation.
Easiest thing to spot is actually the docks that are you know, the
ice is just frozen right underneath them. Now tenors is a little shack,
probably big enough for like three people, set right at the end of one
dock on the shore, and there is a looks like a rowboat frozen halfway
into the river right next to it. And then out on the ice you
see. What is a common sight here in Osk is a number of small
kind of semi temporary huts that are scattered throughout the river. And you would,
I think have picked up and now these are used for ice fishing.
Is there a line out the doors? Is one of those hole in the
wall places that's like super packed when they're open, please say yes, there
are a handful of people standing outside. What you do spot as you get
closer is there are. There's a tavern nearby kind of a block away,
and you see a lot of people huddled in there for warmth, looking out
and checking on the line at tenors. Funny, Okay, Skink is going
to do what they always do when there's just going to be a lot of
standing around and ask Jat, hey you smoke? Oh, I like you.
We weren't allowed to partake in the monasteries. I am, I live
by my code. Life is meant to be lived. And uh yeah,
if you're offering episodes frigging lutely and shuffles around in your pack and pops out
and hands you a paper. All right, why can't you be more like
this he gave he gives it to me. So then uh so, then
uh Skink goes about like sitting setting about, rolling up a little a little
something something and and asks, uh Jat, like, so I'll like give
you known uh Arilla. Hmm. It's a little bit of complicated history or
maybe not. Look, she's my best friend in the whole world. We
met when we were taken into the order. She kind of keeps me grounded,
keeps me tethered. Uh everyone such a well only once and we just
decided that that we just weren't compatible that way. It just look it was.
It was a great fling. We moved on and we're better for it.
Why why do you ask, oh, you know, just getting to
know people? As she passes him the I don't normally encourage rolling player to
player, but Jet, you can make a cleverness check if you want.
I was just about to say, like, am I picking up what she's
putting down? Or am I oblivious? Again? Yeah, make a cleverness
check, uh, skank. You can choose to oppose this or not sure?
Why not? I've already I've already rolled. It was a NAT twelve
plus four. That's sixteen four, okay, And Jet you can keep a
faith point off that if you'd like. I would love to keep it point
yes, Yeah, what does uh? What does Jet pick up from in
this moment? I mean, I think at this point it's like interest and
curiosity, like there's you know, there's there's we just I just you know,
met this fieldling yesterday. But I'm like very curious, and it seems
like I'm never going to get a chance to talk to them alone because Brinscoal
is always right there. So now I'm just like, hey, so,
uh, what do you what do you know about this Feldling? Like the
second time that yeah, but yeah, it is the second time that I've
asked in this little uh rendezvous like since me yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
So so it's so like so like so like it should be obvious that Skink
is a little bit more interested in this person than anyone else, because like
we let go of asking you why you're here, but I have it,
like go of asking you about your friend. What's her deal? Yeah,
yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can feel
the Dad's that's what's going on there. So I suppose, in a rare
instance of just epiphany for Jack just immediately goes, oh, well, in
that case, she enjoys starlet nights, and I just start going over like
a lot of things that she's like really into, and it just go do
what that information knows you will. And I'm just like thanks, man,
yeah, hey, look, I'm we man in two people right now.
It's just she's looking, she's looking and at this now I'm just like,
okayes my buddy. Now it's like at the words she's looking. Now,
I'm just like, all right, all right, he's cool. He's cool
with me. Cool with me, I like internally decide that I'm going to
buy him a fish. I love it, and I have decided that jat
is cool. You guys arrive at tenors. There are i'm going to say,
two people left at the time. You walk up there shivering in front
of this shack, and it is truly a shack. There is a window
with like a sliding wooden door that is currently closed, an awning that is
not protruding enough to cover anyone standing under it from the snow, and a
steady stream of stove smoke coming out of a little pipe at the top of
this shack. Can I use my minor enchantment again? Yeah? To uh,
I can either heat the water bottles again, or I can make a
target an extremely good insulator. Either way, Yeah, all right, I
think instead of having to pull out water bottles, I'm gonna just touch each
of our I'll touch my jacket first and make it an extremely good insulator,
even better than what it is already, even about a top of the line.
And I'm gonna ask skink he skink drum me to insulate your jackets.
You stay a little bit warmer, Oh, yes, please, What does
it look like magically as far no I was just trying to come up with
that that was the boop noise that you hurt. It looks like a boop.
Yeah, I think that it's like a little I think there's a little
twirl to her finger and then a and maybe like a little couple of sparks
of magic. And it's done this glittering mote of energy that looks like I'm
gonna say, the metallic flakes the same color as Farah herself. These little
metallic flakes trace through the air and infuse into the object that she touches,
and just for a moment as that kind of shimmers across your coat, skink
kind of has a little bit of that same like metallic shimmer coat to it
before it sort of dissipates. Jack. I don't know what kind of magic
you have access to, but I can make you a little warmer while the
wait in line. Ah, well, a lot of my spells require movements,
so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. And she's going to do the
same thing to jack Ah. It just feels amazing. Yeah, you don't
notice much for a moment, and then you realize that the coat is just
it's like you've put on four layers of coat and it's just warming up much
much faster instead of like cold seeping in. You just notice that you stay
relatively Yeah, I imagine it's a lot like like that initial like tingling,
when you can tell that you're getting acclimated. It's like and that's not really
because you know it's not very yet, but it's coming, and you know
it's coming. As you are having this discussion, the window at tenor slides
open. A burlap sack with a little like grease stained seeping through it is
handed to the people in front of you. They take it. Then the
window slams again and this makes the jet. This makes jat extremely exciting.
We approached the window. This is good. There is a tiny little bell
on a hook outside the window. Can we reach it? Jet? Can?
Window slides open? You see before you a what's funniest you see before
you a small fae who is a fay in relict is kind of this Elvin
Silvan type looking person with either dragonfly or butterfly type wings behind them. They
range in size from gnome size to like human size. This one's somewhere in
between and has the dragonfly wings. He is wearing thick like snow pants and
some like skins and stuff, but his top layer is stripped down and tied
around his waist, and he's got just a simple like tak top on underneath
it. He's sweating visibly a little bit. He's got pointed ears, these
like frilly pointed like fay eyebrows, a streak of green hair that is pulled
back into a tight, greasy little rat tail. And he's got a giant
like fucking pengauge fish hook shoved through one eyebrow that looks like it's just been
there forever, doesn't look like an intentional piercing has just been that that way.
Three three three big fish or little fish big fish? Ten copper,
and uh bear is gonna rummage through her pockets. I think she. I
think I still have that. I still have that, uh gold point gold
boy. It's ten copper for all three of the fish, right each oh
each? Oh uh yeah, this doon the door The door slams. Hi,
I was just getting money. I was covering them. Asshole skink skink
knocks on the on the window with the gold piece. I loved it and
just leaves. Yeah. Yeah, oh okay, well I wasn't going to
cover for us, but okay, thanks. How many copper? I don't
remember? I don't remember the conversion? Oh okay, yeah, you definitely
overpaid, way overpaid, way overpaid. It's okay, we're so into this
though. Door opens again. Seven silver, just get thrown onto the ground.
Close again. There we go. Yeah, you just hear from inside.
Ten minutes okay, okay, ten minutes, all right it I'm excited.
Maybe it's where they're Can I just go ahead and do a just kind
of a like a situation check to see if anyone's been watching, everyone's like
looking for us anything like that. Thank you. I'm gonna go ahead and
do that's my second highest stat that's gonna be a eleven eleven precision. Okay.
As you are scrambling around to pick up the seven silver and change that
he has thrown to you, uh, you kind of glanced down the street
and over towards Thin Winter Outfitters. Is the same man you've spotted in the
past couple of days that I've spotted Yeah, run school, no, hmm.
Interesting. As soon as you look up that way, he kind of
like goes off down the side street. Mmm. So they said they were
gonna meet at the they were gonna end up back at the long haul eventually,
right, Yeah, If that's the case, why don't we just take
it to go instead of why why stay out in the cold like this all
day when we know where they're going to be eventually? Yeah, instead of
yeah, let's do that. Do we need to do a cleverness check to
see if he's nervous at all? If you would like to go for it,
Scott, if you're trying to hide it, go ahead, do an
imposed cleverness, which is yeah, okay, I got a dirty twelve.
I got a dirty twelve as well. I got a dirty twelve. Shut
up, wait really all three? Okay, that's another thirty twelve all right?
This time I got eleven plus three, so fourteen, I got a
lift. Okay. Uh. Farah doesn't clock anything, Skink. You would
see that Jet is nervous about something. Mm hmmm. Farah is just very
focused on the fish right now, And like I just I just wonder,
like why I'm not going to do anything. I just like, okay,
okay, I look up an Arilla, all right, I look at the
sink, and I make a quick note, by the way, a reala
very very into fish, just very into fish, just throwing that out there,
and I'm like, should we should we have gotten four? You're gonna
have to save part of yours. I'm just gonna have to give her my
fish. We'll find out, we'll find and we we we we head back
to long haul. Like it. So after ten minutes elapse, the door
slams open again. Right, three bags are held out, grab them quickly,
slam closed. It smells good, Yeah, it does smellt delicious.
Do you guys dig in it cold? It's hot. I'm I'm gonna shove
it in my jacket, in my coat so that we can like whole ass
back to long haul. Okay, okay, uh, you guys are hauling
across town. Excuse me, Jat, you're getting this whiff of like something
fried fried seafood, some kind of breading but spiced in a way that you're
not quite familiar with. And is that did he he fried it in the
blubber? Oh? Oh, that's okay, that's something that we're unlike anything
else you've had NOSK so far. We're in for a treat. I can
already tell I can I'm getting I'm getting hints off I'm getting hints of dill.
That's just there's just some peak of it. And it's kind of I'm
looking at like I'm opening that. I can't. I have to pull it
out, and I'm looking at it. I'm like, is that did he
fry this? And crepe batter? Are you kidding me? You see chunks
what is soaking into the sack? There are these breaded, partially like bread
crusted chunks of this immaculate long fish. You're not even sure what kind,
and you surmise that it's probably whatever he caught this week that has been chopped
up into these like fish stick sized pieces and deep fried in some blended stir
of spices and and different like seasonings on it. Some of the seasonings you
realize as you're looking at the bag, some portion of the seasoning blend was
pre frying, some of it was during the fry, and some of it
was clearly thrown in after the fry, and the bag was shaken up before
it was handed to you. This is I'm just like, I had no
idea I was going to be on a foodie podcast, like, is this
we should we start doating food reviews? Is that what we're doing? This
is like incredibly elaborate fantasy food and im so here for it. So upon
my detective work, I released an actual tear that freezes like halfway down.
You break it off. I'm sorry, I just need a moment. It
is actively losing steam as you hold the bag. We gotta go. You're
like hauling, you guys run across town to the Long Haul, slogging through
snow. I think Jet's probably blazing the trail for you blogging behind. Yeah,
clung clung, clung, clung metal Mario. You guys are hauling across
town. The snow is kind of whipping up. The sun is already kissing
the horizon. As you get into the afternoon. Effectively, you see the
Long Haul around the corner. You're approaching the Long Haul. You see this
long two story structure that you shut up. You see this elongated two story
structure with this strongly pitched roof and a couple of dormers out there that some
of them are windows into rooms that you didn't really get into much, and
some of them are actually disguised vents to let the Jimney smoke of the the
hearth's in the hall event out and as you're kind of jogging down the street,
you see a flash in all of the windows on the ground floor,
and then another in the windows on the top floor. And as you kind
of pause to go what, the entire side of the building blows outward in
a massive fireball. And that is where where you're gonna stop. Episode three,
WHOA of the next archive. Thank you so much for being here.
Let's do one more round. I've been CD Corrigan. This is Mattie playing
Parah Mayall I've been I've been, Marissa playing Skang and then we have Jet
coming in a jet support representing Scott. Scott Corrigan is my younger brother.
For those of you who haven't put it together, Scott is also the co
writer for a number of the Relict Kickstarter modules and help me put together our
last show ten Silver's Bent with sounds like adventure. So yeah, he's here.
Now we are going to pick this right up where we left off.
We will see what happens to the long haul and whether or not Jack gets
his fried fish. Thank you so much for coming out. See you next time.