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Talk soon, and thanks for listening. Oh man, I really needed that.
Man, that lawyer conversation. I was so bored, like, oh
my gosh, just back and forth of who's Crystal, who's not Crystal.
That's oh my gosh. You know, I don't really get why Christal's paying
a lawyer when she wanted to do all the talking. I mean, that's
a fair point. I'm gonna need another drink for that one. Yeah,
here, I'll get that one for you. Richard. Oh thanks, Oh
wait, can I have one? Oh? Yes, you can have one
to you. Bentley. Hey, you know Monty. Look, I thought
he was a real creepyzoid at first, but turns out I think he's just
like a bad pirate or something. What do you guys think of him?
He's got great tea art pirates inherently bad. I don't know the quality of
the pirate. Just say, do you mean a bad, bad quality pirate.
He's a bad individual, you know, like a quality. His quality
is bad because he seems too nice to be a bad pirate. Okay,
well, I think he's an all right guy. And as long as we
can come up with the eight hundred goal to pay Nemeo to get the phone,
it'll be okay about our produc Now we agreed on fifteen hundred. Don't
short me behind my face. Oh hey, Nemeo, you're you're here still
Nemeo is always around. Greetings adventurers. This is overworked and underplayed a D
and D podcast. Four Young Professionals, by young professionals. I'm Alex Capps,
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PC? What up? It's your away? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox,
a human consultant turned halfling bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky than
good, but it's best to be both. And Richard's favorite NPC up to
this point so far has probably been as a group the ricks M. It's
quite a colorful Yeah, what a call about? Oh? I need to
call on him again? Hello, Sweet Angel, babies, so obviously,
of course Taylor's favorite most polite and PC store. Why, thank you,
my lady. Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I played Crystal the Drowdruid with
her very own MLM Crystal Clarity contrary to what a lawsuit may or may not
allege, and Crystal Spirit Girl and PC's Taylor Jacobs. You know its because
Crystal definitely has main characters syndrome. Everybody, Wow, she loves a good
yes man. It's great. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy and
Amanda, a basic, brough and tumble human fighter with a dentistry degree.
She also loves exploring the cavities of strangers. I haven't pulled that one in
a while, So okay, favorite MPC. It's a little hard to pick.
Definitely the ricks that they were really fun. I love Tour. I
feel like maybe Tory Tour with the Ris is kind of like a very close
second. Hi, I'm Tyler. I play the Ic Palade, known as
Bentley and Bentley's favorite NPC. It tallows the Dragon because the one single line
of seriously, can you just do something? You need to tell me that
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left off, you guys had a uh, well, I was gonna say
productive conversation, but we'll just say you had a conversation with the opposing legal
counsel, Discovery. I think it was pretty productive. It wasn't. Discovery
was sent to your legal office. And then you guys hatched a scheme with
NEMEO and with Captain Montyac and now I need to find money. So we
pick up that evening at the Crow's nest. So what are you guys doing?
So you say Nemo has already left, Yeah, Nemeo basically left as
soon as he name dropped Albatross. So in the thousand gold, he's gonna
get that before he starts. Okay, he's getting the crew together, gotcha?
All right? So what are you guys doing with your with your day
or the rest of your day? You guys, I don't think we have
one thousand dollars to give him or gold pieces? Excuse me? We can.
I think we can scraunge up some coin, and maybe I have seemed
really confident. Maybe you have a lot more than I do. I think
you and I have probably approximately close amount that we've received from Bluego so far.
I think that, you know, maybe they can give us an advance
on our next couple of paychecks, because we don't really need future paychecks.
We're not trying to be here super long, right. We need to get
this phone and we need to get out of Dodge. Well why do we,
Crystal, why do we need to get your phone? Why don't we
just get out of Dodge couple of hours ago? Yeah? Yeah, I
mean, now that we're talking about money, you feel like now you're orright
now now because it's the tangible. Yeah, so the tangible, yeah,
the tangible. Yeah yeah. So I think that the reason we need to
get my phone back is because there's someone that's stolen my identity in this world.
Crystal, you're a drought. You used to be a human being.
That shouldn't that be the priority We should like get back home? So fix
that. Yes, but I also need my phone to do that. You
do. Yeah, It's got my entire life's work on it, but it's
backed up, Like Richard said, so what that doesn't make any sense,
Crystal. For the first time ever, Taylor is like, h just puts
a handle and shoulders that you're fighting a losing battle. But I make an
eye contact. Bet Bentley gets it. What if Crystal's phone is actually disabled
from my cloud because she she's worried about her data being on the cloud.
Maybe, so in that case, that's your own fault. No, I'm
sure she she has copies of copies. I'm just worried now that now,
Crystal, because like what if we don't if we don't have a thousand dollars,
we can't get nemeo to get the phone back then. We're gonna go
in tomorrow and you're just gonna probably end up going to jail again. Been
there, but but you had to sign a contract with an Eagle Corp corporation
to get out of it. Yeah, so you're gonna do that again,
probably with who Oh, that raises a good point about competition. Oh,
there's got to be a different another one, another church, another bluegle Oh,
another blue that would come in. Yeah, that would be the orchard
which we destroyed. We did destroy the There can't be only one corporation too
in this whole world. Can't be only two political parties. I'm just trying
to the other corporations. We know that for a fact. We've driven or
not driven. We've walked in the district. We've been there at lunchtime.
We've seen companies. Yeah, but there might not be at the same level
as sometimes they can pay more. We need to go find the Green Party.
I'm just trying to think it. I think it through, even though
I'm pretty sure I have the lowest intelligence of the group. So you know,
you got to tell me if I'm mistaken. Guys, Actually, I
think what do you have, love Lois? I have you are I have
twelve the barber. That makes sense because intelligence is a dumb stat if you
actually know how to play the game. Wow, okay, okay, but
whatever you guys think is best. I don't want to be a you know,
the squeaky wheel or anything. It just seems like really risky because if
you go to jail, then what are we going to do? Well,
I'm probably gonna go to jail if we don't get this phone back, because
they're gonna sue me. That's what I'm saying. If you took the deal
they gave you earlier and give up my entire identity, you were drow You've
already given it up, Crystal. No, I didn't. That's not convensual
centaur. I didn't lose my like speaking of Cuban again. What we just
glossed over the fact that you're a human again, I mean, we addressed
it. I thought, I feel like every now and then behind her a
double check. No, Bentley was looking at his frosted tips. That's what
we glossed over. Well, okay, good, by the way, Bentley's
got permanent frosted tips and douche sunglasses. He's going Bentley's going through like a
Florida character art updates Davidson essentially. Yeah, anyways, but anyway, Okay,
how much do I need to throw in the pot? Oh? We
can always just have Crystal go get a loan. Yeah, we just need
the money, doesn't matter where it comes from. If people want to chip
in more than others, that would be greatly appreciated considering the efforts that we're
going through to get certain items for specific people. Are you looking at me?
I don't. Are you looking at Richard is just putting that information out
in the air for her? Okay, fine, I will go find out
how to get money. I'll be back. She just walked a shark.
But I thought, okay, what are we doing? Are we throwing money
into a pot? Or what? Probably at least some? Okay, all
right, we'll come back to that. So Crystal stepped outside by herself.
No, Crystal's walking out, Taylor's following. Okay. So the two of
you step outside, and you are in the Fisherman's district or the seafarers district.
You hears of bells ringing as ships are coming back in for the evening.
You see people tying off their ships for the night or hauling their fish
in the very distinct smell which you would assume to be some kind of tuna
or salmon fills the air. So not semen. No, it does not
smell like semen. I was going to make a child. Wow. So,
uh, what do you guys? Where are you guys headed? What's
your plan? I think possibly we might be able to find some financial assistance
on the dark web. What do you think that seems the kind of thing
that would be done there. I could also just set up a booth and
start selling Crystalarity products. In exact violation, yeah, I mean formally.
Have they formally filed? That's fair, I don't think so. They're trying
to settle before they file. So you're not in direct violation because it hasn't
been filed yet. I'm going to say s filing has been has been sent
in. They're reserving the right to cancel their charges. Mm, because I'm
going to say that's how that works in this world. I don't know how
that works in the real world. Gotch So there's five of us. Richard's
talking to be lean, Amen, we just got an advance on our last
thing. We don't buy things here. They just gave us two hundred gold
each. That'll cover the upfront thing. Then we just have to figure out
the rest. That's true. I mean, to be fair, we don't
buy these I had money until now. We also, we don't plan to
be here for super long. Yeah, I mean you haven't been paying him
for the nights that we've been sleeping at the end. No, I have
fish. Okay, sheep, that's a guess. Good point. I know
that I have made some attempts to recruit some people into Crystal Clarity, and
I'm assuming that that's in part like why I got noticed by Crystal. So
I would say that you would if you were to look at the list,
the Discovery Documents list, you would definitely see, uh, some of the
people you've tried recruiting in there as witnesses. Okay, and so is there
is it a fair assumption to state that I have a downline? Did you
successfully recruit any of those people? I think so at least one. Yeah.
Yeah, we'll say your down line is, let's say I recruited a
oh yeah, yeah. I'm gonna say you have three people technically on your
down line that are loyal to you. Some of the other people flaked.
Okay, I'm just trying to get my profit margins in place. She was
like, she was like, sell to your friends and family and they're like,
we're orphans. Yeah, well that doesn't mean they can't have friends.
That's really wild assumption of you to make that orphans don't have friends, but
you Okay, Taylor is gonna like interject and be like, so I'm pretty
good at like working. And then also I think like smashing stuff. What
if you're my manager and we find a fight club, what a while?
That's risky or you know, if we can we can find your downline.
I mean, that's probably a safer, safer bet potentially. I was trying
to think of something that would make a lot of money quickly, quickly betting,
Yeah, gambling. What else makes a lot of money quickly? Oh
too bad, I'm not a horse anymore. We could have done horse races,
I feel like it wouldn't work that way, or centaur races. Maybe.
So as you say that, like you're you're thinking this in your head,
all of a sudden you feel really weird. The splash of light happens
and you're back to being a centaur. Oh, back to being naked or
is it one of those things like where she how to how to horse wear
pants? Is one of those things like where she's the whole of your back
legs? Yeah, just shorts essentially, it's like invest in Spandex like the
Hulk. Yeah exactly. I mean I've put pants on a horse before and
it's front legs. Usually that's hilarious. Katie's like, actually, I love
this costume contest. And I was like I could do that, and my
horse was like, I guess you can. She just that was really cool
with her and and anyways, so you necessarily don't realize it's happened because it
just kind of happens really quickly while you're talking. You do get you do
notice you're taller. It's like, it's not like it's not like a painful
well I'm getting at is. It's not painful. It just kind of happened
really quick. And she's gonna swat again, like she's been like checking every
once in a while. Yeah, and she feels horse there. Man,
man, what the hell? I don't know what what? What did did
you just say the word centaur and you just summoned your horse body? I
mean, I guess Oh well, I guess we can do centauries. I
guess we can. Let's go see if they're can be my jockey? I
guess this could be wild. What have you made me a potion that made
me super fast? We can? We can? We can. I feel
like horse steroids are not ethical centaur of steroids, but on the black market
we might be able to make some change that way. Suddenly this has become
a breaking bad podcast. Suddenly Crystal blame the American healthcare system. That's the
cheat code for horse racing. I'm not good at like multi level marketing,
huh, but I am good at money. Okay. Yeah, let's see
if are there centaur racist in this? For all Alex, that's why they're
always trying to give a map. Let's go to Let's go to a Blogle
terminal and see what we have available, what options we might have. So
Crystal walks up to a local Google terminal Welcome to Google Terminal eight one,
and reaches in his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper, because how
may I be of assistance? Yeah, your day sounds like it's going as
bad as good as mine is. Okay, can you give us information on
centaur racing like locations like like statistics, how to enter what goes into it?
Like looks like maybe that too, but as like a like a laugh
resort. Maybe. Okay, dope, here we go. Uh, please
swipe your Bluegle card if you have one or present cash. I can do
it. Swipes cash. I thought Blogle turminals were free. No no usage,
Oh okay, okay, okay. So he says, he says,
all right, one second, and you see his his like eyes start glowing,
and uh, all of a sudden, he just he starts like the
piece of paper just starts running out his mouth and he's gathering it up and
he like uses his teeth to tear it. Wonder he doesn't like his job.
God, he has some kind of Yeah, here, here's your information.
Crystal takes it with like her pointer finger and her thumb. It's very
dry. Okay. I don't know if that makes it better or not.
I just didn't want you thinking it was soggy like, so Crystal shirt,
it's Crystal's bedtime if apparently I need more coffee. So Crystal starts going over
that information with Taylor. Okay, so you guys see that just on the
west side of the wall. There appears to be fair grounds where they have
weekly or not centaur but they have weekly horse racing of all quadrupedal manner of
creatures. It says no flying allowed. Okay, we can make this work.
We could. What's the size of the pot. So this race is
tonight? How convenient? And the pot size is well, let's see what
the pot size is. It hasn't been one in a while. Sixty six
hundred gold. Okay. The entry fee is one hundred and fifty. Oh,
we definitely have that. Okay. I guess we'll take the risk,
all right, and in the meantime we'll try and conduct your downline. Yeah,
I feel all right. So we cut back to the bar. You
just say, how funny it is that, Oh I need money. Let's
go gamble and see D and D Tyler. You got to risk it for
the dice. Just drive on over to a gambling legal state and start buying
lottery tickets. This isn't that, This is more calculated. There's little ten
horses racing. Yeah, so Richard Richard Bentley, Okay, so what if
we talk to NEMEO and have him try to steal the other thing that we're
trying to get also in addition to the phone, because Crystal Clarity apparently has
both of those things. I think that is a good idea. I don't
know if I trust them with that other item as much as I trust them
with Crystal. Now there's just the three of us. I agree with that.
I don't really care if we get the phone about christ Garfish I already
has wrong where she's just like, Man, isn't it annoying how Taylor always
agrees with her Bentley? She's not here to defend herself. Okay, we
can talk about how ridiculous this situation is with the phone, because it's like
off our main mission. Oh was that out loud? You had your bracelet?
We should probably check in with them too, to see. I suppose
we don't want them to think they have to get all twenty five hundred and
they only have to make How much did we say we have each? How
much are you saying you have Bentley? We know he just got two hundred
because we all just got two hundred. I did look in my notes,
and we got one hundred dollars one hundred gold pieces a month with our old
content. That was the old contract. Hey, Bentley, let me see
you, and it's been about a month. I just want to see your
character sheet really quick. I don't want you to see my character because I'll
just tell you how much I have. I think I have like two hundred
and thirty ish gold pieces. Oh is that it? Well? Unless my
math is wrong, what do you have? I have four hundred and seventy
three because we just got I have four hundred and thirty. I didn't count
that two hundred that we just got. Oh you didn't. Oh okay,
okay, yeah, four seventy three. Some of that's in the bank.
So if we each put, like, how much are you telling the party
you got? Bentley? I'll tell the party I have how much? Did
Amy nse? She said four hundred seventy? Richard also said four thirty?
I have five hundred? All right, Bentley, roll me a D twenty.
I'm gonna use our good omen all right? What my damn ways,
Wow, we're going to the horse races. You selfis shuzzle for six or
six hundred? Richard g'son the bracelet. Hey, guys, I think if
everyone's okay, we're gonna for that first one thousand dollars. Just all put
in two hundred, So whatever it is that you're trying to do, you
only need to get fifteen hundred. Are we still there? No, he's
using the bracelet. I got a nine nine okay? So amy An and
Richard if y'all want to roll insight. Yes, Richard has been kind of
pocket watching Bentley a little bit, so he knows that I said I had
more than what y'all haves, right exactly, I should have me advantage.
Well, that's why he's willing to do this insight t so a ten.
What are we doing insight? Yeah? Oh you said his roll dice?
Do I get to add deception? You don't have deception? Oh but I
could still. You got a nine on your die okay? And what is
your Charisma's three? Okay? Not better than a nineteen? Yeah, not
better than nineteen. So so Marjorie's like, no, need to take this
offline. Overworked and underplayed, will circle back after these messages, I guess,
yeah, sorry. Amyen is like, yeah, this seems that seems
about right, probably, like you know, she's doing the math in her
head. She goes, I mean, why would he tell us how much
money? Yeah? And then you look like you see that that Amyn probably
is going like believes you, and you look over and and uh, Richard
is just staring. He's just shaking his head doubt. Yeah, so you're
not gonna say anything, you know, accept it. At least I was
trying to accomplish. At least I was truthful enough to admit that I had
more than you. I don't have as much as more than you as I
thought I did originally. It's not that much more, all right, So
I thought I had like nine hundred gold, but I don't. So I
guess like metagame metagame. So Crystal Clarity slash her no fake Crystal has or
her legal team has both of the items that were after Crystal. Crystal's crystal,
yeah, crystals, crystals, crystal and and so we're trying to get
the phone before tomorrow's whatever it is legal thing. Apparently it's a deposition,
whatever it is. I don't know what with any of those words mean,
but you know, it's like, okay, so going there, Uh,
we need to did fizzle bang give us a time like a timeline like oh,
be back by x whatever with the crystal or they just said that's the
next thing we're looking for is the Crystal Varge. Yeah, I don't think
there's a timeline for Fizzle Bang. I think we have responts us to get
it as we and we have our whatever the compass magic Item detector is,
so we can kind of use that to navigate us towards it. The Dragon
Reader. Yeah, so I'm trying to remember the other name is the Dragon
Reader. The Palm pilots, so the so and he told us Fizzle Ban
told us that Crystal Clarity has this crystal right, so that's his biggest suspicion,
his suspicion, like she has it physically or the cult has it.
We didn't get the detail, okay, I'm just yeah, okay, I
mean if we can extrapolate information like this is pretty important for us, and
it's always the people that have the item with them. It's never like just
in some random location. Yeah, except this time it actually is in some
random location, like some random grun just carrying it around, because who would
ever expect to the door person to have that. It's like it's like it's
just his apartment. He's like really brings the room together, just looks like
a salt lamp. Okay, thank you. That's all, yeah, and
that's the fun part. We don't want to outsource the fun adventuring to someone
that we don't trust is going's not going to cross this over. So we
want to steal the crystal ourselves. Yeah, we were told not to steal
the crystal Blueggle. That's true. Bluegle gave us permission to do that stuff,
but we we should. So how much do we trust Nemeo and montyac
to like not bring this back to us? Like, I get it if
if Crystal is okay with going back to jail, but Richard Billy, I
ain't going back. But wait a minute. When Amy Anne was nine years
old, she stole a pack of gum and her parents had the sheriff come
arrest her. No, Marjorie, I'm just saying, I really don't want
to go back to jail. Guys, Uh huh, what is this?
Back to jail? Like we've glossed over a lot of things. That's the
thing. We're going to gloss over things that we've glossed over. I heard
you had a tragic backstory, but yeah, I won't say anything about it
because I don't know how much of it was true or not, or how
much he was just pulling my it was all true. Really. Oh well
I still haven't told her what it is. Yeah, no, Amyen like
someone finally came forward as like, have you been stealing people's teeth? No,
not this time. But no, we don't know that they're not going
to bring it back to us, which is why we have to do the
coordinated effort of well, something's happening. Maybe that's the distraction while we go
and see okay, Crystal, And when I say bring it back to us,
I mean like implication, implication, okay, okay, okay, around
the same Yeah that makes sense, okay, because then we'll be halfway done
and we can get the fuck out of here, I hope. So I'm
really getting what what month is it? Clearly it's December. I feel like
I feel like as a Christmas heist. The more the more time goes on,
the more I think both the Amen and Richard are feeling that like anxiety
of like we've been here a really long time. This is not really you
know, a fun adventure. Now. I was like, oh shit,
you need to go home. Right. It's hit everyone at different times,
yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, remember work
as a hobby. So we cut back to Dynamic. Yeah, our dynamic
duo headed to the horse racing arena? Do we know that they're going?
I don't think so. Did you guys tell us? Do you guys respond
to Richard's brace message about the money that you guys are getting or not getting?
It's up to you. I don't know. Okay, all right,
so they at least they're still alive guys. Okay, what's the range on
this sucker? Like? Can they be at the races and still chat with
I would say, yeah, okay, So you guys find it pretty easy
to make it through town and you get to the you get when you get
to the gate, you tell the gate guards where you're headed, and they're
like, oh, are you going to spectate? No? No, no,
we're here to enter. The two of you are going to race.
Yes, that's the goal. Oh, that's that's okay. Do we not
look like the ones that regularly race? Best of luck? Thank you?
I feel like you didn't answer my question, though, which is what is
our competition? Like you don't get too many centaurs out these parts, but
what are their jaguar? Mostly horses and and other other types of quadrupedal beasts.
No, you know, every now and then we get a unicorn,
and sometimes we get a bullet. Sometimes we get a bullet. Yeah,
you know, the little the critters that like to ride under the surface of
the ground those have right now, Yeah, there's have you not ever heard
of a bullet there? It's a it's a creature. It burrows underground like
a mole kind of except it's armored. Okay, and they're fast, and
goblins like riding them. Uh. And then every now and then we get
to displace a beast and that's always a load of fun at the race.
Okay, do you have a book of these things? Just like they might
have a book there like how to they made a statistics book. I'm sure
they have. I'm sure there's some people that explain everything you need to know.
Okay, but best of luck, thank you, okay. And as
you walk away, you hear them, like the guards all laughing like,
oh we got to go watch that one. Hmm. Not a great sign.
Should we watch a race and see like the times? Yeah? Were
we enter? Okay? All right, so you see that there are multiple
heat races that night, and you see that the first qualifier is about to
get ready to begin, and you watch as the five riders trying to qualify
take off and basically as soon as they get out of the gate, you
see weapons fly out and people are It's it's like a combat race. It's
like chariot racing. Yes, very much like chariot racing. People ramming each
other, people swinging weapons at the rider. And you see as one dude
takes a spear like right to the throat and comes off of his horse.
Oh, people are riding horses. Yes, people are all sorts. Basically
anyone can enter with the only thing you have to have is a mount and
a rider. How many healing potions do you have? A lot? You
have a lot of. Yeah. If we just had to guess what level
on a scale of one to twenty, I would say probably about a six.
Oh no, I'm looking at people that have played D and D longer
than us. It's not looking great. Might make for a fun situation,
let's do it. As I said, does it look more like a combat
thing or a skills challenge thing. It's a little bit of both. So
you uh. You proceed forward to the registration counter and you see there's a
half work behind the counter. What do you want? Hey, I'm Taylor
Jacobs, I'm Crystal. He just kinda he just kind of glares at both
of you. What do you want? Well, I can see we're going
to be friends. I would like to enter this race. You yes?
Yeah, and me too? And Taylor, you two want to enter this
race? Yeah? Yes? How she starts speaking really slow and loud,
he sayes. He pulls out He pulls out a manual, and he starts
flipping through the pages. He's like, sentaw, sentaw, sintaw. Uh,
so you'd be in the centaur. You technically, by definition, count
as a mount and a rider. So where's your mount? That's my mount,
he says. He looks very confused. He goes, you want to
ride her? Yeah? And you want her to ride you? Yeah,
at least it's consensual, he says. He flips through and he goes,
all right, your funeral, we've got you. Uh, you got the
entry fee? Yep, yep, here you go, and she just hands
it over. She takes the gold, and he goes, okay, well
you registered for heat race number four? Okay, all right? Is there
like a warm up area? He just kind of points over at an empty
field like next to the grounds, and he goes, I guess you could
trot out along there, thank you. All right, let's get some reps
in gristles. Go you go, you go girl, all right, Taylor's
gonna start warming. Crystle is not to repetitions, but she is gonna make
sure her spells are all good. Which which circle did you go with me?
Is it the moon? Yeah? I think it's the moon. I
don't know why I know that, So, so I'm just I'm just gonna
throw this out there. This would be an excellent time for you to turn
into a bear. That's what I was thinking. I was like, what
if she wild shaped? And then somehow, I don't know how it works,
Taylor went back to human. And so Taylor was riding Crystal, and
Taylor turned into a giant. Yes, no, I'm just imagining that somehow
this is gonna end up. Is Taylor in human form as a giant with
a bear on her back, you could win that race bear handed. True,
So we don't know how to get Taylor back to her human form,
even if she thinks about her really hard. Okay, So so describe to
me what you're doing to try to get back to your human form. Taylor's
gonna imagine her naked body or what she wears to the gym so that she's
clothed or whatever. But then I imagine in her mind she would be naked,
thinking really hard about how comfortable she feels in her own skin. And
as you do that, you open your eyes. You're like you think.
For a second, you're like, oh, I don't think it worked,
but then you realize you're short. Like you're shorter again, Crystal, Look
at that's awesome. I don't know how this helps us get you remember how
you want to race a caterpillar. Yeah, but I'm not going to be
a caterpillar for this. No, you're right, that was a stupid idea
I had. But what if potentially you turned into something ferocious, okay,
like and she just like flashes back to the bear like the bear slaughter and
all you see is like you bashing a bear over the sky. But it's
not a very fast creature, but it's probably about the only thing that could
carry a large tailor trying to think of anything else. I mean, I
could transform into a horse. That's an option, but it's not as vicious.
And also how would her casting be happening. She wouldn't be able to
cast. Can't cast wild shaped? Can you cast in the race? In
general, there's no rule against magic just flying. Okay, well, maybe
maybe it is better if you ride on. I have no idea. This
is a really stressful encounter. We're really risking it here. It's a lot
of money. It is a lot of money. I'm just thinking, I'm
unlikely. These people are used to fighting, and I might be better at
running than fighting. I feel like you're gonna be better at the fighting part.
Yeah, Taylor is definitely planning on getting hit a bunch of times.
Yeah. And if Taylor, if Crystal, she doesn't have that much health,
so she's gonna get busted up pretty bad. What I was initially imagining
is like one arm around Taylor's waist, one arm with potion in her mouth.
Okay, Crystal does take out her little satchel and like gives Taylor all
of the health potions. She has like six of them. Okay, so
it's gonna put it around her waist underneath her blazer. Okay, and then
I guess I'm going to is it? I mean, bears aren't that slow,
right, let's see anybody else have any suggestions on what animal, what
ferocious animal I should turn into? Are you trying to be fast or tanky?
I'm trying to be both, So like middle ground Paladin, I feel
like bear is oh girl, what have you turned into? It? So
bear actually has a faster what's your movement speed? Is a centerty so a
bear has the same movement speed of forty. It might be better to do
what you were originally doing and then cast you have like ice knife and stuff.
Right, I do, but I can't take damage. It's a problem.
I mean I can, but I would be using up like most of
my health potions. Let's do this is such a hard decision. I just
thought it would be a funny idea. You should do that. I think
we stick with the original plan. You'd be the centaur and I will because
then we have two people, so you're still able to fight, and that
would be two fighters along with a worse true and instead of one and one.
So let's do it, okay, all right? So no, no,
no, no, you think about it and you're back to being a
centaur. H yeah, I wonder how she does that? Just about her
ask being giant and then having a tail on it. Yeah, yep,
she thinks about her as obviously, like if I could just get that horse's
ass on the human body. And so we're gonna so so you guys,
uh saddle up and uh. You do a few practice runs and you you
that. You see there's a few target dummies out there, and like you,
you attack them as you're swooping through, and you start feeling pretty good.
Then you see another person get carted off with a sheet over them,
and you realize, wow, this could get deadly. And it's about that
time you hear is there a second and third place situation? Yeah? And
then you hear over the announcement is about to begin, and with that we're
going to cut back to the group at the bar. Yeah. And so
I can do an oregon ukraine, and I can do a different kind of
flowers, and I can do a duck, and the all the days I
learned how to do like a snowman a separate an oor got me duck looks
like this, and he like shows a picture from his phone of one of
the times he made in or got me duck. Oh wow, Richard,
it's actually really cool. That's really cool. Yeah, I think so I
want to go me duck. I need all three of you to make a
perception check. We're just chilling out. No, that's great. You guys
are doing great perception check. I got a seventeen okay, eight nine okay.
So Amy, Anne and Richard, y'all are really into this whole orgami
discussion. Bentley, you're just kind of like nodding along. But wait,
I like the or me duck. If you're a fast light processor, you
saw the duck. Cool? I like it. Yeah, And but you
hear something that like catches your attention the corner of your ear as people have
started filing in for the evening, for the uh for the uh what the
corner of your ear? Yeah, I love it. This is an audio
format visual things. He gave me a little giggle. So you hear as
the the night crowd starts drifting in, you hear one of the guys say,
Hey, you're gonna go down to watch the death race tonight down at
the fairgrounds. I hear they got a centaur. It's gonna have somebody riding
them. He goes, oh, i'd pay devil to see that. Oh
no, what's that? What are you knowing. I think I know where
Crystal and h Taylor went. Where's that something called a death race? Of
course? Okay? Should we go help him? Can Taylor pop in over
the bracelet and be like, hey, Richard, can I get one of
your path talks? You're about to do something crazy? Just get bart inspiration?
My god, I've created You wouldn't be needing it for what we've just
recently heard about called a death race, would you. Oh? I don't
think it's a death race. It's just like a regular Okay, guys just
said she's not doing a death race. Okay, maybe there watch Okay,
where is it at? Yeah? So so Tyler, I'm sorry Bentley you
here again. Out of the corner of your ear, you hear him say,
yeah, I hear the rider. Was that girl that's getting sued by
the Church of Clarity? Is that just common? It is public records?
So you're famous? Was it a news travels fast in a small town?
Bad guy to say? Yeah, we watched letter. Kenny's gonna be like,
hey, hey, guys, what's a death race? It's only the
most site and form a sport we have in these parts. You go down
there and you watch the jockeys fight each other while the while the mounts try
to get them around the track the fastest. You do it because it's got
a big purse because lots of people bet on the races. Oh okay,
okay, do we need to bet on it? Sure? He's like I
would. Yeah, it's like bitcoin. Richard is like, so you're telling
me you learned how to transform back between a human and centaur at Well,
that's awesome. You're so you're so smart, Taylor bartic inspiration. Yeah,
really good. Yeah, good job, and you, uh, you feel
so good about it, Richard. You feel a little tingle and you have
DM inspiration. Yeah, that was very very creative. I like it.
All right. I guess we should probably go watch them do this death race.
These guys seem pretty sure that it's a death race. Okay, they're
pretty sure. And I definitely this time. I definitely heard them tell you
about this. This is the lawsuit. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely our
all right, Well, let's go watch them in this death race and make
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