Anyways. Wow, all right, So after some back and forth, you're
able to get Ricardo sitting on the side of the fire so that he can
still turn his head to look at the water. But he's freaked out.
It's up to you whether you want to try and treat the head injury first
or if you want to try and treat the trauma first. He will be
muttering to himself and with like like I let us here spe this is my
suggestion. Let us I think it's going to be easier to treat the concussion
after I get him to calm down or at least break through this whatever this
is. So I'm gonna start with the trauma, all right. So Cole
has his hot water and you're able to prepare some tea and you bring it
over and offer some encouraging words. Let's have a difficulty one council check.
Can I ask a question? Yes, so I know the basic concoction is
for generally for healing. Oh are you asking if you can have it as
like an additive of the tea to help calm him down? Exactly? Yes,
yes, you can use it for something like that. Yeah, oh,
thank you. Okay, so I'll take one of those concoctions. We'll
say that is a t blend I did. Yes, maybe that sounds like
a thing I would do. Yeah, and get the wild Camo meal or
whatever it's called. Yes, mint is good. We like mint, so
jungle mint? Sure? Oh no, No. Even years after their horrific
ordeal, our party never quite got over their desire for bogmin tea oh God,
or the death of their beloved companion in the jewels of another fucking catfish.
You're why we made it. Let's be real here. It's years later.
So I'm not going to recite Optimer's full name because it's like eighty words
long by this point. Well, maybe if you all stopped giving me nicknames,
I'd stop pinning them on. Stop doing memable stuff, all right,
I refuse. It's not in my DNA to do that. I'll be an
idiot till the day I die, and you're all gonna have to deal with
it, all right. Yeah, So go ahead and make that counter check.
I'm adding a die for the coction, right, Yes, you're rolling
a three. Look at that. Here we go, I guess. Go
ahead and add two momentum to the pool. It's been added, all right.
The lightly medicated tea and the comforting words of wisdom from miss Phaedra can
eventually get Ricardo. It's like chill. As long as we're on land.
It can't get to us. No legs, man, it's got no legs.
And you know what, you lived. You faced that thing down and
you've lived. That's great, that's great. You're gonna be fine. I
guess you're gonna still here. I didn't my job. He is and he
you know what, you know what he patched up. Just fine, he's
gonna be fine. We're okay, it's gonna be fine. Thank you for
the tea, Phaedra, You're welcome. He's stoney. It's it's still like
a thousand yards stare, but it's no longer at the at the walks.
We take it as at least a tiny mint of prodcast. Yeah, you
can go ahead and mark your wound. Oh wait, no, we need
one more, one more rould for the wound. You can go ahead and
mark your trauma is treatment though, do you think you can watch the fire
while I take a look at your head? Injury? Good? Good good?
So, based on what you've told me as your second I can't believe
I lost another fucking spear though, Is that what the real trauma is?
No, it's not that. That's a side trauma all right, So it's
not like he has any gashes or bleeding or no, it's just the concussive
force of the tail whip. Just it's probably more akin to like whiplash than
anything else. But he's a little bit woozy. His eyes aren't focusing properly.
Okay, real normal shit, really yeah, totally normal. It's fine.
I'm like, my head's full and around like a normal Kombat character who's
about to be fatality. I mean that circle. I feel like if I
can find some cloth to almost roll up and support his head so he can
lean on it a little if he needs to, something like that. You
could grind up some bark or something like that and give him something that'll just
help reduce the swelling so that he'd be okay, Oh, that'd be great.
Actually, do we have an hour, because I believe yeah, I
think we have more than an al on the islands. You have enough time
right now. You have as much time as you have rations yeah right,
yeah, okay, all right, lid, so make one more heel check.
We'll see if we can get our punch drunk front liner back on the
front lines. You said, heel check, and my mind immediately went to,
like, heel turn. It's just gonna immediately turn around and stuff a
knife in his woo wow, heel check. She kicks October back into the
catfish water. I knew I was gonna die. I'm most gonna get super
kicking the barbershop window. She's gonna go follow shrow michaels on us. Am
I gonna yell something stupid like still waters run deep as I do? That's
good. Take that one to the bank, all right, roll that beautiful
bean footage. Let's do it. Okay, Hey, there we go,
two successes. I'll take it. That's one more momentum, and I put
that momentum towards uh what can I put the momentum towards a momentum? Yeah,
because I only had one wound to heal, solinged one. Yeah,
So I imagine the groundbook part is now in the form of like a muddy
looking ball, hopefully not too big to swallow. And I'll present that to
Ricardo and let them know that it's going to be quite bitter. But if
you just swallow it fast with a sip of tea. It should go down
easy. Oh, do what we must. Can't be worse than any into
the rat we had. And then I try and take that as fast as
possible. Rat. It tastes disgusting. Yeah no, but it's still way
better than tangling with a giant fish in its turn Yes, agreed. All
right, so you are on this little island. You're still kind of close
to the water. You probably want to move in land little ways to find
a place to rest for the evening. But everyone is on their feet and
able to operate at fullysh capacity. So if you want to fully scout the
island or anything like that before you turn in, it won't even take very
long. Okay, yeah, I do. I do remember the glimmering.
I want to try and check that out. If you said it was near
the wall, Yes, The terrain gets more rocky as you approach the cliff
wall, and eventually there is almost like a small plateau. It only goes
up about fifteen feet, but it is clearly lat on the top, and
you believe it's hard to say this cloaks up at such an angle, but
you believe whatever was glimmering in the dying sunlight was up there. I mean,
this might be a fun check. Right, There's plenty of handholds,
so it would be a difficulty zero to get up there. Just take a
little bit of time. I'll take a look human, all right. So
yeah, you make your way up the top of the pedestal and you see
the skeleton of a man, surrounded by a circle of strange bones. Still
gripped in the hands of the moldering corpse lies a metal sword free of rust
or damage, with a no with a no blue tone. This ship's a
trap. This shit's a trap and a hat. But I can't stop myself.
Got damn it. You know what you do? Step one, go
get backed up. Yes, no, get Marian. If there's wonky shit
here, he'll be the one to tell you. Also, like not for
nothing, book Optimer could probably sort out the bones and stuff. Like I
was about to say, yeah, you might want to come up here if
there is anybody with me, I yes, would be the first question.
I'm still back at camp? Is that still dark out? Fun? This
is okay? This this will be tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, the worst
case scenario, We'll come back tomorrow. And trying to sort this shit out.
But yeah, if your picture like Ricardo, he swallows the bark,
he has some more tea, and then he like shakes his head. He
just takes off of the cliff like fage just watching him go, and it's
like, huh, all right, I guess he feels better. That's good.
Yeah, I'll come back. And he goes, there's there's a sword
there, and I was to God's sword sword. Yeah, but it's on
it's on the hands of a dead man, and there's some weird bones around
it. And I'm just remembering that forest devil that tried to trick us by,
and I'm thinking that there might be some shrink where your foot sounds cursed.
I at least want another look at it. I can help you tomorrow.
Yeah, I'm not doing any scouting right now. That's fair. It
should process some of these ingredients into more potent things. Perhaps that's a good
start. We should probably take stock to do what we can now and then
maybe figure out a way around that fish. Your armor, I mean,
oh yeah, it got me pretty good. You pass it over. I'll
take a look, all right, I will shred I was ship sorry,
shred the just shed the chest piece. Yeah, exactly, it's gonna be
too easy, get it yep, good, Yeah, I like somehow take
off the rest of the chest. All right, I'm guessing I don't have
any materials on this fucking island. Do I know? There's plenty of stuff
around, There's just not a lot in the way. I'll deal with that
in the morning. We've got suplies for a night. Right now. If
my man's talking about cursed swords, I'm gonna at least wanted to be fucking
armored up. Oh no, yeah, I know I picked it up before
I fucking knew what I was fucking doing. This fucking game and all this
fucking bullshit, Trust me, I fucking know what you're referring to. Fucking
bullshit is what it is. There's shit on this islad, un real,
laugh it up up. I wouldn't be laughing if you were to pizza,
now what kind you get? Huh? Oh my god, I see,
I understand. I believe throws. I believe I would like to Pepperoni pizzas
please, comedy thunder as order scenario that was like perfect. Yeah, it's
like the most movie timing ever. Like to pepperoni. Everyone's listeners going,
Man, zoom's not really like good at integrating the sound effect. Nope,
that's just totally not global warming affecting the weather. Guys. All right,
so that puts us up to eight toom. It looks you don't have to
roll anything, is the nice thing? Well? Actually know it says in
order to attempt to repair. No, you don't have to roll, like
if you're paying me, I'm not gonna make you roll that awfully decent of
you. It's that's not me, that's me. I didn't tell you to
buy that talent. I didn't tell you to buy that talent. Yeah,
if I don't know what I was going on this persae, I never brought
it. You a victim voice, excuse me to the thunderclap for me.
Man, there you go. All right, nature agrees with me. It's
cinematic, so I'm right. Oh my god, you ever damnaged your fucking
armor again? Oh goodness? All right, try not to don't get eaten
by a fish again, then please, Yeah, Well, next time it's
gonna be the last time I hear tell, I hear tell by a fishing
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