On that hill overlooking truth water for Chuodes Gena and remembered a few things.
As the rest of the group planned how they were going to get in and
get Dolly Pine within their reach. Matthias and Arthur went down into the town
and have started to investigate the waterfall casino. Arthur and Matthias, you have
major way into the casino. I think we are going to come back to
you as you. I'll give you guys some time to think about how you
might want to roach figuring out what we want to do next. Instead,
we're gonna jump back to Matthias and Genova. No, you're right, it's
said we're gonna jump back to Warren and Genova first. Try nailed it.
Yeah, I can edit that, but I probably believe it. Yeah.
I got up early today. Okay, guys, school starting again. She's
talking about the cat. Yeah. For context of the audience. Uh great,
you two, yep, you two not the band? Are you make
your way into town? I assuming separate from the other two. Yes,
perhaps waited half an hour or so. Give it give it a nice wreath,
so you're not easily recognizable as a whole group. However, I do
want to point out that Prototagnin is a person made of glass that's pretty recognizable.
Granted, Matthias was also very recognizable, but managed to make his way
through without too much of a bother part of that is because quite a few
awakened captain are in the flage and Oasis, simply because there are more families
here who are financially capable of taking them up into their families. But you
two go to enter a town, you can make stealth checks, or you
can give me an alternative plan to let me know how you plan on getting
in unnoticed? Alex, what kind of terrain would you call this? It
is desert leaning into her desert combined with urban a little bit of ken I
okay, I can go into the shadows and just consecutively use actions to be
invisible. Can I just do that? Yeah? I'm stia. You make
a stealth check because if a goon notices you walk into a shadow and then
disappear, Okay, I'll be like, what christ that is? Okay?
I don't think I am proficient stealth though. Nope, Okay, so that
is an eighteen awesome um Audrey, you're gonna roll. I got a twenty
five, I wrote than eighteen on the dice. You're good at all right?
You two are not noticed either. Where would you like to head?
I believe you mentioned Oh wait, actually I got a twenty seven. Yeah
that made a difference, did it? No, U, we're would you
too like to head? Again? Um? I believe a mention of the
like the public display area with the gallows outside the Adforestra's office, Right,
yeah, think so, because we're trying to we're trying to find a place
to snipe at Dolly from h SO. As I mentioned in the previous episode,
which for us was twenty minutes ago. Uh, the water tower does
overlook it is Uh the Enforce's office is in between the water tower in the
casino, is what I will say. Okay, Um, we have to
go through that in order to get to like the grand stand essential. Essentially,
I'm pointing out that the water tower is a good advantage point if I
have to scale a tower. Okay, all right, yeah, like there
are people in the water tower, or it is solely functioning to hold water.
It is solely functioning to hold water. Nice, there's no guards upon
it. I mean the truth water is not again not really an overly protected
area. Um, I mean, sure, all the goons are walking around
fully armed, but they're also not on like super tight rotations. They're just
they're patrol line recording. So okay, then yeah, let's let's get up
there. Would it be within three hundred feet if I'm up on top of
this water tower, I'm looking down at the gallows? Okay. Um,
I'm want to do some math in my head. Uh, it's like a
football field. Yeah. And I said that your water tower is about a
quarter mile away from the casino. Okay, so that's about like four hundred
twenty five. Nope, that is like a sound like a thousand. I
was I was thinking meters. I was thinking meters. Uh no, it's
not within the three hundred feet of the Okay, that is not going to
work for me specifically. I don't know for to Oh, if you can
shoot a quarter mile, I can shoot three hundred is my long range with
my rifle. You do have a sniper rifle, you just don't have a
scope for it, that's right. So it's currently a range for a sniper
rifle like one thousand, two hundred feet or something by you. Let's have
it written down, so, okay, quarter miles thirteen hundred twenty feet.
Okay, um, and given that the Enforce office kind of in between,
I would say that, uh, the water tower is definitely within the long
range of the Enforce's office. Do we have the so you could look around
town to try and find us scope? Do we have the angle though?
Yeah? Okay, all right, let's find us scope. Yeah, let's
scope it out. A yo. Whoa great? Um, how about an
investigation check? Then that would be a fourteen I got a dirty twenty year
old another eighteen four to nine. You are looking around, Um, there
are a couple of gun stores, but I mean you walk in, do
a little bit of window shopping. None of them have not anything of like
that intricacy or scale. But then you see a couple of people walking out
of a small building that has like a very not obvious sign, just like
a sign next to the door that says Enforcer Munitions Supply. And you do
see one person walking out, not with a scope, but with like a
bomb. Basically, check out this cool thing I just got. I mean,
you know, I'm surprised that you know, just let us have these
things. I mean I got. I had to buy it with my own
money, of course, but hey, do you want to go set this
out in the field or something, you know, just blow up some bottles
as for instance. Fuck yeah, let's go do that, and they from
a j off. I'm sorry, it's gonna steal. Let's scope from spy
the scope? How much? How much is it? So you go inside
the building? Yes, I will go inside the building. Okay, I
would like to. I would like to continue stealthing, but in like a
casual way they're gonna I'm just an ordinary person. Hum hum hum hum hum
kind of way. M hm. Okay, make me a performance check for
real, like, can't be steal Nope? I mean can I assist with
that? Yes, you can help. Okay. Um, I want to
walk in there and proud layers. I guess I have. I have a
contingency plan, all right. Cool. You see a woman at the counter,
um, who has like an undercut tied into a bun uh and her
shirt kind of opened to kind of just beat off the heat. Uh.
And she's just behind the counter in the back, sitting on a stool,
drinking a cup of coffee, uh and reading a book. Oh, how
do y'all just feel free to look around? Um? I don't think i've
seen you too before, so I guess probably new Hires. I'm Janet,
just you gotta let you all know that I do need to see your collective
D cars at purchase, but feel free to look around. Press tags are
on anything you want. Okay. Yeah, Now I'm gonna try and just
pocket it the scope. The scope is actually hanging up behind her then,
and it says eight os on it. I'm gonna I'm gonna pull out my
um, I'm gonna. I'm gonna try to pull the same shit I did
last time with minor illusion and pull out two badges. So you're doing the
doctor who. Yeah again, we did this a couple episodes ago. I'm
gonna do this every time you bring it up. So she has to make
an investigation check against her DC correct, yes, yes, So she needs
to beat a meth is so difficult? Sixteen She got a fifteen. Oh
my god, I was gonna bribe her. I rulled it while you were
talking, like it could be it could be. Yeah. She looks at
it for for for a good minute there, Yes, kind of looks at
the back as well. Well. That all checks out. That'll be eight
o's for the scope. I will pay eights. Congratulations you bought something,
Yeah, and you now have a functioning drop the Eely Snaper rifle. Can
you resend me the stats to that? Yeah, with like the rangers and
stuff mostly yeah, Oh god, this thing's a fucking monster. I almost
bought something scary. I'm gonna put it in the group chat. Uh.
Biggest thing, biggest thing I need to point out is that it is a
reloading of one holy fuck, which means that it requires an action or in
one attacks reload and you have to do that every time you use it,
like every round. Imagine this thing? What vel I do not have yet?
And I should? Why don't I have that written down? I think
you guys like just got the level of five, right, hy don't you
forget the level up? Maybe Audrey just forgot to change the number on her
sheet again, Like I always do, always double check your hit point average
to see if all ends up. My hit point average is pretty high right
now, but I think it should be a little higher. Cool. You
should also have second level spells. I do have second level spells. Okay,
so then, oh no, I was thinking of my other ranger.
Never mind, I did not level up you did not level up. That's
fine, We're not going to do combat just yet because you very just avoided
a combat I would have. That's what you think I say, is I
shoot the store clerk, right, but face non kidding, I don't do
that for context, for for the rules. People in the audience who want
to know Dractley sniper ables to do three D eight piercing damage. They require
ammunition, they have a reloading of one. They're heavy, two handed,
and have a short range of two hundred and a long range of one thousand,
one thousand. That's at least since for the sake of game building,
I'm going to say that the Forces Office and the gallows are just within that
long range. Now, I like, I have a question, Yes,
could I use one of my attacks with extra attack to reload? Yeah?
Okay, that's that's yeah, that's what that rules for. That's allow you
to do that. So it basically just turns you into instead of doing like,
um, what was it like one D ten or one D twelve?
Uh, like twice per turn? Now it's three D eight once per turn.
Cool? Um, Well, as you two are figuring this out with
your ranges and your plans, let's move back to the other boys. How
are you doing? Guys? Well, I think, uh man, let
you go. But what I couldn't agree more? Matthias and Arthur, you
are both inside the casino. What would you like to do now? Um?
Should we try to get to that? Let's go up? Yeah,
to the second floor. Yeah, wow, we can't look so us is
there? It can just like anyone, go up to the second floor.
Um, at the time, hop of the second floor. Right when you
get there, you notice there is a little little red velvet rope and there's
someone up there waiting. Just I had you there, y'all. Um,
do you have do you two have a second floor passes? Oh? I
forgot mine? Yeah, I think I left mine back at home. Do
you know? Do you know where can we get another one? Somewhere deception
checks or you could do one person helping the other. Well, Sean,
I got the lucky dice so far, So okay, what are your deception
scores? Though? Guys, No, it's about the dice. This is
a dice rolling game. It's all about the dice. It's about the lucky
dice. Ha ha. Maybe I shouldn't be doing this, but yeah,
Sam you're not in this setting. I know he's your conscience in this sense,
so I get advantage on two throws. Uh, you will twice pick
the highest because Sean is helping. Yeah, okay, these are the two
options. A nine oh okay and a zero O Sean doesn't Sean have a
good charisma because he's a paladin. Yeah, because in this case, it's
good that we did it this way because I rolled a seven. Holy shit.
Okay, but even with a nine, she's like a nine is what?
Sure? Yeah? Maybe you should go. You should go and try
and found it. Yeah, people probably trying to do this all She waves
you away. Yeah, for sure. Should we shoot violence? Oh my
god, we can't go any higher because then it'll be really obvious. Do
you want me to give you options for getting up? Can we get much
higher? You could bribe people, You could find a different way up.
I mean you could always like go outside and try and sneak through a window
or something. You could look around for perhaps someone who does have access to
the upper um area who might be like willing to let you tag along a
lot of other options. M So, the only way to get to the
third floor and above is through the second floor because it's all stairs. Yeah,
it's all stairs. Elevators aren't a thing yet, or they were a
thing. They're not really a thing anymore because they were a thing because the
anti gravity magic. So like if they were a thing, like people would
be like, we're what if they stopped working again? People in the elevator
phone die? You know, classic question. I mean in a world where
like a bunch of flying cities filled with thousands of people suddenly stopped flying.
Yeah, it is that pretty bad, I will say it is. It
is a pretty major consideration. Uh, that kind of safety. I think
our best bet bet we're in a casino. How how drunk are people at
this casino? Make me an insight check? Is there a way to tell
that people? Well, never mind? Is there a way to tell bet
people have a second floor pass? Or do you just have to guess who
looks the richest? Um? You would basically have to tell like guests based
on who looks the richest um people. You could wait and watch people go
up and down. Um, the passes aren't like around their neck or anything.
Um, I don't know what were what were those insight checks? Ten?
Okay? Mikey also gonna make one. I didn't do one yet.
What's the insight for to see how plasterred people are? I'm gonna use this
as a general one for learning more about the people in this because you know
I got six Oh my god, great, so neither of you did the
good Yeah, no to give to give more insight. My insight modifiers a
plus five and I got a ten total. Well with a ten, I
mean it's reasonably it's not that late in the day. People aren't that slashed
yet. As for the passes, they you will notice that they are denoted
by rings. Oh that's lucky. So um. You will notice some people
have like particular brass rings. I believe the second floor is a brass ring,
the top floor is a silver ring. And then Warren would know this.
But executives had gold rings. Well, Matthias, let's go meet some
friends each ring, like, let's you do all the stuff beneath it.
So one nice thing about you know, working at the hydro plective in the
home bases that you got access to the second floor even if you couldn't necessarily
afford it. Oh okay, so here's what I see, Sean one.
We take what little money we have and go and gamble it all the way
and meet a rich friend. Or we sneak outside, knock out a security
guard and take his ring and then wait for the post so the lady changes
out of her post and then the next guy won't know which could be which
could be hours away. Yeah, I feel like our best bet is just
to make buddy buddy with a rich person. All right, I'm anxious.
The plan is sugar babies. Yeah right, Um, I will allow in
order to find a really rich person. I'm gonna give you guys a lot
of options for this because I want you to see and I hope that you
succeed either a insight, perception or investigation check just to find one, just
to find a rich person that might help. And I want you to tell
which skill you're using, because it's gonna help me determine what kind of person
you find. Because if you do like insight, you can find like a
really helpful rich person. If you roll high, if you do perception,
you can find like a really rich person. If you do like investigation,
you can find someone who might like not appear rich, but be like subtly
rich. I'm doing insight and i rolled a twenty three. Holy fuck,
I'm doing perception and I rolled a twenty one. Well, we're really hit
or miss. You see a very short man. Actually, specifically, I
will point out that they are like an Eastern filt person of the flying Cities
that were over the Brine Lens, which aren't These people aren't very common here,
but they're like noticeably smaller in stature than people from the storming sands.
And he has a giant hat like a like a big um actually like burgundy
hat with a like a black rose on it um and as well as like
a beautiful manicured um handlebar mustache. Uh. And he is currently at the
blackjack table. Uh. And he looks like he's got he's got the most
uh tokens at his thing. Uh uh. Well let's go trade our our
life savings for tokens. Um great? So do we do we meet or
hear anything interesting at the booth with the token people? Uh? Not particularly?
And it is uh, you get ten tokens for each oh you put
in, So however much, how many, however many tokens you guys want
to use? This up to you? Well, we gotta bluff hard or
go home, right, yeah, and the buy in at each table is
five tokens. Oh, he's not at the fifty token buy in table.
Uh. Yeah, but five tokens is fifty dollars, and you mean five
dollars. No, oh, was one hundred bucks, and it was one
hundred bucks and then it, oh gets you ten tokens, so is ten
dollars. Yeah, so fifty fifty tokens is five hundred dollars. Oh,
but five is fifty dollars. Mm hmm. If you were if you were
to do tables on the second floor, then they'd have higher buyings. There
are tables up there. It's such as sweets. Oh m hm oh,
So Sean, we're gonna see how this game plays out, and then we
can ask him if to go to a yeah, one of the higher buying
tables. Listen, I'm terrified. I'm so scared. We're gonna be broke
and embarrassed and arrested. If Warren was here, Sam's like, I would
be great for the situation. All right, give me ten seconds. I
don't I think it's really funny that these two are doing it. To be
honest, this is this is like our hangover moment, all right, His
name is Gribbs Flanders. Yeah. Um, do you two roll up to
him? Yeah? Alright, Arthur Matthias roll up to this short man in
burgundy suit, giant burgundy hat. Uh, you stroll up in the two
open spots next to him. Actually, you know you know what I'm gonna
say. There's one open spot. Um, and it's up to you guys
who takes it, don't you know? Um? So, how how does
the actual game of well, I know how blackjack? This is blackjack and
black and in blackjack you can count cards, so it is an intelligence game.
Okay, that art, I think that's definitely you, not me.
It's kind of me. How much of you is it? Eight? Oh
so it's it's not you. It's really not it's negative intelligence. Yeah,
that's what I like about you, dumb bag of rock. Matthias can give
you the help action, okay if if Arthur is the one, so,
are you gonna like push me into the stool as we both approach anxiously?
Yeah? Oh? How how much of our money to be turned to tokens?
Did you do all of it? Uh? I turn your life savings
into tokens? I was thinking starting off with with five os Yeah, that's
like it's a good amount, but it still leaves us a little bit of
of cushion if we need to a breathing room. Okay, that's what I
did. Awesome, great, So fifty tons, yes, right by and
is five Uh, you'll get onto the table. Uh Uh what the fuck
was this guy's name again? Grips, GRIBs, grips Landers. Uh he
will turn to you tube and say he actually has like a badge on his
hat that says GRIBs. Uh he oh, how do you all? Looks
like we got some flash brut from some flesh brot excuse me, I gotta
stutter some flesh blood at some give me a minute fresh blood at the table
here um names Gribbs, Flanners, players, and Masha. It's a pleasure
to be taking your money. Ha ha, that's a good one. I'm
just kidding. We're mainly against it's uh this sad little sex shit over here.
And he Jester's to uh the very very straight laced, underpaid dealer like
Wren, worn down expression, gray mustache goes Yes, I am a sorry
sick of shit now. Uh, beginning bests, what are we all putting
down for this round? Uh? Gribbs is gonna go I'm gonna go as
for being passed his cards goes, I'm gonna go ten in um and I'm
gonna need Arthur make me a uh just its flat intelligence check with help action,
so with advantage? Can I also put ten? Yeah? I mean
we're not gonna do this step by step because I'm gonna be hold. So
the buying was five, but that was just like get onto the table.
This is the start of the round. And I guess he raised it to
ten because each round would be five. I match it. I'm not going
to do this step for stepka, but it's important. It's important because I
match it, saying because the idea of blackjack is everyone's playing against the dealer,
right, So I like match it. And I turned to him in
wink two people fold um making persuasion check for me persuading Verry four. He
seems a little confused about your wink um And did you make an intelligence check
for the game? No? I love how they folded in blackjack. That's
awesome. I haven't played blackjack in a while. No, they twelve.
They didn't get fold in blackjacks. They busted. Yeah, Uh, what
did you get again twelve twelve, Okay, cool, I'm gonna roll for
what the dealer gets, other for the dealers just random. Oh so um,
you match with GRIBs. Um, let's see what GRIBs gets. Uh,
both get your cards, You ask for a couple for one more.
Let's say you're at thirteen hoping to get some more out. Get to twenty
one. However, you get handed in nine damn. And then Hibbs,
who was at fifteen feeling a little lucky, got himself at ten and you
both bust. Dealer takes it all high. Well that was a shame.
Well another round. Well, I don't know, man, If if you're
gonna raise it every time, why not go to a high roller table.
More persuasiontage, persuasion with advantage. Yeah, not a four please? Okay?
Eighteen? Oh he looks around, it's like, you know what,
that's a good point. Do you two want come with me? Yeah?
We got as faired. If I'm gonna be losing, don't want to be
losing alone. Uh. And then he gets up, puts his arm around
you too, and it's like, and you know, I've been losing a
lot ever since. My wife laughed me and if we're gonna leave that scene.
Well, I'm glad we found someone who is ready to talk a lot.
Uh Back to Warren and for two dag nine. Warren, you are
currently on the ground scoping out the position you want of the gallows area?
Am I right? Yeah? Even if I can get in, you know
at some point it'd be great. So you want how close do you want
to get? I mean, there's nothing happening right now as people are just
like walking by. Is there advantage point within three hundred feet? Okay?
Um, make me a perception or investigation check with the investigation that's a seventeen.
There is there is a saloon right across the street. Okay, Um?
It is actually it looks like an older, run down saloon. It
looks like it was here before the casino was is it doesn't get a lot
of traffic because it being shape. Is the roof possibly in the shade?
Um? Well, I don't know what would give it shade, m Like
like a billboard or something. I did roll a check to see how good
the situation is, and it is not in the shade. Okay, there
are windows inside that face. Would that still give me a vantage point?
Yeah? Okay on the upper floors and then yeah, I'd like to stuff
in there if possible. I make a step check. Do I get with
advantage or um? Oh that's right with your invisibility? Yeah, okay,
yeah you can do that. That's twenty. You'll actually you open the door.
It is very dimly lit in here, just all the all the windows
on the first floor are pretty much like shuttered up and it's just mostly just
lantern light. Perfect. Then yeah, I'm just going to turn visible and
walk up unto the second floor. Walk up onto the second floor, um,
which appears to be the abode of the owners here. Um, but
no one is currently up here as they're working downstairs. Is this the highest
point and this is where i'd be shooting from. You remember seeing a window
in the attic? Yeah, I'd like to go up there. Then make
me an investigation check, try and find it. Seventeen again. Who good
thing, you've rolled good on that one, because that one, that one
was to see how much noise you make while you do it? Oh,
you find it. It's just one of those hallway ones that like opens down
and you very gingerly lower the ladder down, making as little noise as you
can and climb up in it. And it's just filled with a bunch of
old boxes, a lot of old papers, a couple uh like old boxes
of wine um and like older spirits that they might be um saving or if
they've forgotten about everything here is just covered in dust. But there's a like
a big circular window on one side that faces the gallows. As possible to
open the said window, I'm gonna roll a check for you. Yes,
yes, it is openable, okay, cool ah, I'm gonna take note
of that. And yeah, I don't have much else to do. I
would like to go outside of the city always. And I have some shenanigans,
mister Judola, some shenanigans, some shenanigans. All right, then,
forswood ash Gena, is there anything else you would like to do? As
you have of a pure cured your full sniper rifle set and have access to
this water tower your leisure, can I just make perception shock to like figure
out the most efficient way to parkour up this water tower? Is there a
ladder? There is a um One of the structural structural legs on the tower
has wooden poles alternating on either side of it. That go up like a
ladder. Got it? But I'm sticking pretty close to Warren this whole time.
I don't really want to wander off on my own. Great Warren mentioned
well, Sam mentioned wanting to go out of town to do mister nanigans.
Are you going to go with him to do that? Unless he sends me
away? I am like following behind him like a shad. Yeah, it's
fine. I'm in fact I might need some help. I m do either
of us have anything magical on us? I can drink it or anything?
Um, I don't think so. I Well that's not true. I do
have a drink it. It's just not magical. Okay, it's gotta be,
but it's just shrink it. Oh um, well hold on it.
Would the moonshine be magical, Alex? The moonshine? I have moon,
I've healing postion moonshine, I have two healing postmonshine, and it's beating poshine.
Oh you know what I've got? My bull's eye lantern? Okay?
Is that I believe that is magical? Right? Yeah? I think so,
like a lantern of tracking or something. I want to what I want
to do, Alex, This is this is a little a little crazy because
of the nature of the ark Wind, that being that it is an anti
magic space. Can I ah shoot Dolly Pine and cancel out her magic using
the powers of the ark Wind? I I would say that would take a
pretty high spell casting ability check. Can I train? I want to try
to practice it on something? I don't know what it would I will say
my lantern, I'm gonna guess is not magical because it doesn't have any tags
to it. The only reason it might be is because it says it casts
bright light. But that could just be like it sheds bright light like you
guys could have worded it different. So what I'm going to say, you
have a couple. You have one thing that you know is magical, and
that is your sand sale because it has anti gravity magic runs on the bottom?
Am I magical? Being a person made of sand slash glass? I
don't want to shoot you. I mean you're all magical. I'm all magical,
not in a cute way like you're literally all magical. I'm all magical.
I don't want to try this on four Twitus nine because that would be
bad if you can shoot me. Also have the vial of um, the
vial of like fermented tape and terror fungus. Oh yeah, actually that's perfect.
Let's do that. Just want to make a chrisma check. Chrisma check.
Okay, spodcasting ability check. It's so bad. That's a natural too.
That is a total of seven. Oh wait, spodcasting ability. Uh,
that is now a ten um. I mean you just so you're shooting
the like the bottle of the stuff. I'm gonna try to practice to like
to let's see if I can deactivate the magic essentially. Okay, so you're
not necessarily using your eldritch blast. You're just trying to will anti magic onto
it. Yeah, is that the vibe I'm getting? Kind of yes,
you sit there frustratedly trying to enforce your will onto this file, and you
do so for an hour to no avail. Make me mhm, make me
a wisdom check. Okay, well there's a nineteen dirty twenty. Okay.
You are beginning to understand your magic more. Your magic was is tied to
the ark wind in the manner that it is like tied to the void,
but it not necessarily is the void. Sure it in in scientific terms,
you're an event horizon. You are the radiation on the outskirts. Okay,
you are not you. You probably could with like enough time and enough you
probably could with enough time and enough effort spent on it. But your magic
is not exactly the same as the magic of like the literal storm of the
ark wind. You think that there is, There's probably a lot more there
than just anti magic storms. If anything, the anti magic storms are like
just a side effect of something existing in that area. Okay, good enough.
In fact, was it a natural nineteen? Yes, Your magic is
the magic of anomalies of reality, breaking of stuff not making sense. You
shoot things out of existence. You aren't. The anomaly of the anti magic
is just simply caused by something that is probably just deeply wrong with this world,
and you are kind of a reflection of that. Huh.