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Bartender. What can I get for you? I'm here to see Dartarian,
who's asking a mandolin. He's in the room and the back he's waiting for
you. Okay, thank you, Hello Dartarian, Yes, come in,
have a report for you, sir. Have a seat, Miss Lynn.
What do you have to tell me of the miscreants? Well, they have
been doing some strange things. I don't think that they've noticed me following them.
One of them went to the rage room, a couple of them went
to the Italian beads store and I believe made some kind of friendship bracelets.
They all ended up meeting back at the Crow's Nest. They found Jimmy,
and now Jimmy is going to be on another special mission and not joining them,
splitting the party. It seems to be. It's a bold strategy.
What could they be concocting. Have they acquired any more of Fizzled Bang's little
toys? I don't think so. Where are they headed now? My intelligence
is correct the orchard. Well that's peculiar. Thank you very much, miss
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icebreaker, What is your favorite summertime food and or beverage? What up?
It's your boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, a human consultants turned halfling
Bard who Holy Blaze. It's better to be lucky than good, but it's
best to be both. And Richard's favorite summertime food is a jumbo hot dog
from Truist Park. Okay, Hi, my name is Annelin Hardy and I'm
making a messy Katie gave me this amazing slime. But anyway, Tailor's favorite
summer food or drink is the water with like the fruit in it, the
fruit and fusion, because it's available at the office in the summer only,
and so she also brings whatever sample of like essential oil Crystal Clarity, essential
Oil from the campaign that they're working on at the time, and we'll like
put some drops in there. Hi. Everyone, I'm Katie, and I
play Crystal, the boss babe drought Druid and the owner of her very own
MLM Crystal Clarity. And her favorite summer beverage is gotta be a glass of
white wine whatever is the most basic version you can possibly come up with,
So probably some pino and then she's gonna go with her summer salad with all
of the fruits on it, a little bit of feta and like her vinaigrette.
Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy and Amanda, a basic,
b rough and tumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. Her favorite
summertime food slash drink is punch that you know it's made in the big vat.
I don't know, because we're you know, in the South, So
you gotta put you know, your ice cream in the soda and all of
that to make the punch. Loves that usually is always associated with like a
party or an event or something. Favorite favorite drink food very similar to crystal.
Actually nice, nice refreshing fruit related salad. Yeah, yes, oh
hi, I'm Tyler. I play the it palad and known as Bentley and
Bentley's favorite drink is also my favorite summer drink. It's called a painkiller.
It's just crim to coconut orange juice, pineapple juice and two shots. And
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pod. All right, so, when we last left off, you guys
were at the Crow's Nest and you said your farewells to Jimothy Sticks who is
on special assignment. So you guys are all sitting around the table. Jimmy
has just left along with Saul Bentley's asleep. The rest of you are all
sitting around the table. And it's about that time you hear somebody carrying a
large package. Goes to the bar and you see the bartender point over and
you like your table's direction. Could you describe how we hear that person?
Did I say? You hear a person? You see a person carrying a
large package, go to the bar, and you see the bartender point over
in your general vicinity. As the person approaches, you notice it is some
kind of basket and he says, uh, oh, yes, I'm looking
for a miss Amy and Amanda, who's asking what was that. I was
told to deliver this to you. They said you would know who it was
from. Okay, thank you, and he hands over a basket that's full
of different dried meats and flowers, oh with one like it's there's like a
piece of paper on it that has just like a crudely drawn heart and says,
see you Friday, Oh oh my god in the letter you okay,
oh wow, this Oh this is really thoughtful. Actually, wow, you
guys look all Rick is that his name? I think it's one of the
ricks he said me this. Oh my god, that's so cute. You
guys want some say, let's see there, here's like I'm pulling out the
different Yeah you look, most of them are just various forms of jerky.
Okay, So Tailor's just gonna be like, there are any apples in there?
Wait a second, I think you guys are onto something. Is there
bread? Can we make a charcoucherie board? Oh? You know what?
I would say? Enough? Yes, it's very common that plowman style lunch
that would have boiled eggs and cheeses and breads and things available. So it
girl dinner. Yeah, having a girl dinner. Dinner? He sent you
girl dinner. Nice of them, Okay, yeah, just be careful,
guys, don't bite down too hard on these. I'll hurt your teeth.
And so you guys, being used to like our world, you would find
this jerky to be very very tough. Oh okay, there, Richard,
I don't think so. Actually, okay, open up. Oh dear,
I'm gonna look over a tailor and I see why he sent her the jerky
so she could enjoy her tree. I need, uh, I need you
to make a I need Amy and to make a medicine check. Looking I'm
just lucky. Yeah, I got to inspect seven. You start peeking around
in there, and you can tell that he probably hasn't brushed in a while.
Richard. When was the last time you brushed and floss? Probably the
morning that this all started, Okay, like three weeks ago. Okay,
Richard, I have some extra hold on one second, I'm going to go
in my bag and get my extra toothbrush and extra floss, and I'm gonna
come over and put them both in Richard's hands. Richard, dental hygiene is
extremely important, and I want you to, you know, be an example
for everyone else. Okay, I will certainly do that. And he takes
the toothbrush in the floss and he puts it in the fanny pack. I
can tell, all right. So uh, Also about this time, you
guys see a very you hear the door open frantically, and you see a
very frazzled fizzle Benz and he he sees he looks over, he's panting,
looks over in your direction, and you see he has a cut above his
eye and he runs over to you guys table. Oh, oh my goodness,
I'm so glad I found you. I was just ambushed again by these
orchard people, and I have some bad news. The bridge that leads to
day Aubrey is out, so they say it should be reopened on Monday.
So we need to lay low a few days. And I need to know
if you guys can hide me, because they almost got me this time.
I mean, like, we're not very good at hiding ourselves. So I
don't know how why you came to us for help. Well, honestly,
you're not dead and things have attacked you, right, yeah, but like
just barely. Well I'll take just barely not being dead over being dead,
that's true. We do you look better than you? And he says he
sees He just kind of rushes that one off, and he puts fifty gold
on the table and he's like, okay, yeah, i'll holp you out.
Excellent. Where are my accommodations? I guess I can stay with me
since Jimmy is not using the bed anymore. What happened to Jimmy? He's
on special assignment? Oh that's right, my brain I must be the concussion.
All right, off to bed, don't sleep if you have a concussion.
Oh maybe you should have doctor Amanda check you out. Oh just just
Amy, and I was trying to establish your authority. Oh, thank you,
Crystal. I'm sorry. I don't think. He turns. I didn't
know you were also learned well, only in the manner of teeth. He
looks very disturbed by this, and he's like teeth like, so you're like
a bone sorcerer of some kind. Oh that sounds really exciting. Do you
need a hand? No, I think I'll be okay. I'm going to
just go with Richard. Now. I'm just thinking it would be funny issues
in the romancer. Now, he says, the bridge should he says,
the bridge should be open Monday. So as long as we can just lay
low until then, you know, and gather your supplies and things, and
then you can set off and I'll find somewhere else to hide until you return.
What day is it, guys? The bartender hears you and like points
at the calendar on the wall, and you see it's Thursday, and and
just out of sheer happenstance and coincidence, the calendar matches Earth's calendar, just
because I'm not coming up with new calendar that would be wild, even with
their multiple moons. No sauce, they use the they use the Julian calendar.
Well it's not the Julian calendar. It's the Julian calendar, but it
looks identical. Okay, yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, yeah,
I guess we should go to bed and before your date, we should
probably game plan how we can use the Goths with the orchard, because didn't
they say like they are working with them to get some special in Yeah,
yeah, like do a makeover, a makeover. Yeah, we can all
have a spa day. Oh that. Yeah, although I didn't have a
great experience the last time I was, so maybe we find it different.
Okay, four days, so your exhaustion's gone, everybody's good to go,
and it's Monday morning, bright and early, and fizzle Bang just starts furiously
knocking on everyone's door. All right, everyone, wake up, wake up,
it's time to depart. Those days blue by so fast I didn't even
realize they happened. Gosh, I feel so much closer to you guys.
Yeah, I mean, that was an incredible experience. I can't wait to
revisit that day. Yeah, it has to reconnect with you. It really
was. Bentley now has an axe instead of two swords, so he's got
one axe and the sword. Is it because he has an axe to grind
with someone? Totally? No, it's because I wanted to be less we
blike, so you can't do your stupid joke. Fizzle Bang is like,
so did everyone enjoy their long weekend? I leveled up? Oh? You
know what? You know what? You know what? Amien? Roll a
D twenty. Hold on, If you roll a twenty, you and you
alone level up, all right, But if you roll a one, no,
no, no, just let her do it, okay, If you
roll a one, you take one point of exhaustion. Oh so you don't
lose a level. That's that's a good bargain. You should have just been
like, she loses some experience and won't level up the next time. You
already said bummer. Fizzle Bang says, who you all look refreshed and ready
to go? Yeah, thanks for again, Fizzle Bank for len Me's the
library pass. I feel like I learned a whole lot more about this place
than I used to know. Oh, any time Richard. See that's a
good use of What about the rest of you? I just made a ton
of more like essential oils. Okay, so still trying to figure out what
they all do. Honestly to spent her time learning how to control her rage.
Okay, I'm learning how to meditate and all that jump. Okay,
So make me a constitution saving throat. No use your good omen Oh yeah,
the one and only. Just burn it right here, baby, Just
have a really fun session. That's a thirteen. Okay, So a thirteen.
You find that in like channeling your anger and your overall emotional state,
you actually find it has helped you maneuver around a little better. M and
that you're walking and like going through doorways and things like that is a lot
less clumsy than it was when you first got here. Okay, all right,
what about Crystal. You said you made potions. Yes, so you've
gotten really good at using these ingredients, and since you had some downtime,
you have the ability. So is going to cost ten gold in materials to
do this, but you will end up with seven healing potions. Oh yeah,
I'll spend that tangled. Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's a
easy that's a no brainer right there, but I had to make it cost
something. Yeah, well you got an ax. Yeah, that's no longer
have my same weapon for the same weapon. They don't roll play any different,
and and you also get rid of your exhaustion. Yeah. Is there
is there something else you would like to do Bentley? Yeah? Cool Bentley.
Bentley wants to have spent some time learning about the different organizations and stuff
in the world, and maybe spend some time with the city guard, like
he initially. Okay, so you did some ride alongs and you've learned enough
about it to know that you don't want to be a city guard. Damn.
Oh no, Hey, Alex, what level are those healing potions?
They're they're just standards standards two D four plus is it two or four?
So for people in the I don't know how healing potions work. So for
people that went to public school, yeah, public school, you know those
of us that went to police school. Yeah, you would roll as an
action. You can expend one and roll two D four and gain that many
hit points plus two up to your maximum. So you can't go above your
maximum, but you can get to it. So you're roll some guys and
get healed. Yeah, and if one of your party members is unconscious,
you can apply it directly to the forehead and revive them specifically the forehead.
No, no, it is a joke, is head on? Yeah,
directly to the forehead anyways. Yeah, Bentley, you spent some time with
the city Guard, and mainly I just want to know about the different organizations
like the orchard and figure out, like, hey, if we might need
help from someone who we want to go to. So what I will say
is your time there. You will have being write this down. You will
have a plus two to any knowledge based checks that have anything to do with
information about the orchard, so like how they operate, or like any anything
you can justify would relate to the Orchard because you spent that time studying them.
All right, So you guys all meet down at the bottom of the
Crow's Nest in the main bar area. Bistlebank says, So will you be
going by land or by sea? He says, the seas have calmed down
and there is an option you could take a boat, but I think it
might take longer. I'm not Sutton. I don't really travel by boat.
I get seasick rather often, says or by land. It's about three days
either way. Are you going to come with us? No, absolutely not.
I'm not going anywhere near the place where the people are trying to kill
me. M it seems like a good plan. I'm going to hide a
filing cabinet until you return. I think we established that thing. Swim.
Horses can swim? Yeah, a horse swim? Can you swim with all
any cowboy movie? There's no D and D rules the state. Otherwise,
what do you guys think? One if I land too, if I see
yeah, sure as uh even as sea land land, okay land. Fizzlebank
says, yes, uh, Well, if you want to go by land,
uh, we still have the wagon out back, and horses will be
easy to acquire for that, he says. If you wish to take the
wagon, that's all. That should be all good to go. You just
need to load your provisions and head on out, all right, and we
load it. Yeah, all right. So you guys are all loaded in
the wagon, well almost all of you. Yeah, And as you're leaving
the city. As you're leaving the city, I need all that's one less
horse we have to rand. I need all please continue, I need everyone
to make a perception check as you're leaving the city on one day, seventeen
okay, thirteen all right, fourteen seventeen plus Taylor, so goddamn sorry,
six seventeen plus six. I wrote a seventeen plus two. Okay, So
everyone got above a seventeen and I'm hearing us, not Taylor. Okay.
So the wagon I'll be Amien. I feel like Amien's helping walking along with
with awe. Okay. So while y'all are chit chatting, Yeah, the
other three of you, Crystal, Bentley and Richard spot a banner up in
the merchants district of the city proclaiming two weeks until they buy one get one
free sale from the Church of Clarity. Katie, you want us to finish
this? There's no there's no people there from the Church of Clarity, just
a big banner. It's like one of those like coming soon banners. As
you're as you're leaving the Merchant's district. Then it's like, it's weird,
what do I have hold on? It's two weeks away, we'll be back
by then. I wouldn't say we'll be gone by then. Yeah, that's
Richard's hope. I would have hoped so, but I would like to get
rid of this banner. How far away is it? I feel like if
you destroy question, it's about seventy five feet away. Do you really want
to get arrested again? Because I'm not bailing you out again. I say,
is if we build you out? The first executive decision to not build
them out, not to not do it, just to not do it that
way? Can we get within sixty feet of it without being too suspicious?
Probably? All right? Can we do that? Yeah? All right?
So Richard is going to be like, I know this means a lot to
you, Crystal, look at what I learned. And Richard is going to
cast unseen servant and try to just rip it down. Okay, Okay,
so you cast unseen servant, you create your little invisible servant guy, and
he's going to run over there and try to pull it down. I need
you to make a slide of hand check with disadvantage as I burn one of
your bad omens, so you now have two good omens. So that's a
seven. Okay, So your unseen servant climbs up because this is up on
like a wall, right, So he climbs up on top of someone's like
stall there and collapses the roof of it as he's trying to pull the thing
down. And you see, if you could see the servant, he would
be basically hanging from the banner with his little legs kicking in the air.
But you can't see that. All you see is the thing moving around a
lot and nothing happening. What does Crystal do so it doesn't get ripped down?
Yeah? And the stall, like the roof of that stall collapses and
you hear an orc inside of the what happened tomorrow? Stand? Whoa?
Oh? Well wait, his stand is the one that has the banner stand
is below it, the banners up on the wall. He's the one that's
going to be selling the No, he's just he's selling like like dried or
like dried meats and cheeses. Like it's the kind where the basket. Yeah,
it's the stall that the basket came from. Oh shoot, I guess
my aim was a little off. I thought this would have worked it does,
you know? And I just thank you for trying to help. I
think that if we go over there, this is really hard for Crystal,
that we will be unsuccessful in accomplishing our goal. So I'm gonna let it
go this one because we have other priorities. That is like such big character
growth. Yeah yeah, So it's about that time, Richard, you like
look over there again and you see as the banner, like one corner of
it does fall down and it kind of swings down and it knocks over a
person who was carrying like a tray of fruit, and they're just looking around
confused, like what just hit Like something hit them, but they can't.
They They're like, what what just happened? My my oranges? And Chris
was like, all right, so you guys exit Levron, no need to
take this offline overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back after these messages. And
you journey down the main road for the majority of the Dayah, is there
a lot of trafficker, It's it's kind of a slow day. And as
you're traveling down the road, you pass a farmhouse and you pass a what
looks to be a rarely trodden path into the woods that looks very familiar to
all of you. Is that where we came from the path into the woods
definitely is where you came from. Oh, I think we'll find Eric out
here. Part of me just wants to go check it out, but we
can wait. Can you see if the bear corpse is still there? Were
sped? Yeah, we never did investigate. No, we just kind of
got out of Dodge and a bear. But now I feel like we're strong
enough we could kind of deal with anything that comes at us. Maybe we
should go take a look again. Yeah, we have magic now apparently so
true, there's nothing. There's no problem that magic can't solve. I think
we shall stay on task. I don't know if something just tells me the
de feet what's more and going home? Good points, that is our ultimate
goal. Richard does have a very good point. I mean, I would
love to get out of this hell hole. So I'm with Richard. How
far off of the path would it take us? That would be like an
entire day from here, because someone gonna have to talk is out of it.
I'm not wasting a whole day of a job. We're getting paid for
just gonna keep on going. So Bentley, so you're taking the reins,
Yes, all right, make me an animal handling check. Not for Taylor,
Yeah, not from not messar about that? Oh that isn't nineteen plus
numbers? So so Bentley voices his opinion, hops up in the like driver's
seat, takes the reins from whoever had them. I'm gonna assume Richard sure,
and he just goes yeah and like slaps it in the cart, picks
up speed going down the main. We'll check it out on the way back.
But wait, but if that's our way home, do you want to
stay here? Bentley don't know? Maybe? Well, whoa, that's news.
We're definitely gonna have to talk about that on the rest of the Yeah,
I don't actually say. And so you guys will travel canon, you
guys travel about another hour or two down the road. Wait, does Tyler
or does Bentley know about all the new friendship bracelets? Probably not, I
would Yeah, y'all would have brought that up. Oh does he know that
it's not cursed and he can take it off? Yes? Okay, he
takes it off. You run my joke? Do you take and make it
that matches your ensemble? Yeah? I guess I'll keep wearing them. Okay.
Matching is next to godliness. Okay, and he's a paladin, so
that's like right up his alley. Yeah. I just didn't want to be
able to let him drop the subject, so stop talking, and we were
all going to be like, no, Bentley do tell us on this entire
ride why he would not like to go? Oh, I was it was
a joke. I just want to get the job done. We could check
it out of the way back Bentley switched his bracelet and to do not disturb
it does now now that airplane mode. So you guys travel for about another
hour or two down the road and you find a clearing where you can set
up camp for the night, and always goes, well, who is watching
out or have Actually you know what, y'all don't know? You need to
keep watch now we do the first night, that's right, all right,
So you guys easily set up camp. I feel like it's kind of obvious
in a world that you don't know, with people that might or might not
want to kill ust someone keep watching. And also it is fizzle Bang with
us. No Fizzle Bang is hiding in a filing cabinet somewhere in the city
of Okay. Crystal will also volunteer to take the first watch because she needs
way less sleep than everybody else. Her hustle is so strong. Yeah,
she never she never needed more than or half a rest in the first place,
and now it's even more apparent that wasn't a new thing she had to
discover when she came here. Here's how this is going to go. I
need everyone who's keeping watch, say what watch you're keeping, and then roll
a perception check and let me know what it comes out to. First watch,
that's a nine. All right, Second watch seven? Okay, third
watch, we're gonna die. So here's what happens. When Amy Ann wakes
up to go to go take watch, she finds Crystal asleep by the fire
and nine means I'm asleep. Yeah, no, she's she doesn't sleep,
she's milf Oh okay, she was. She was tranced out. Okay.
She was like just staring at the whole time, messing with her phone and
like she doesn't she doesn't. She has just her her blanks. Like you
find her like just scrolling her blank rock. So so Amy and you walk
up and she's like messing with a rock, Crystal, Crystal, did you
see anything? Uh? You know I did not? Okay, Well you
can go back to it. You can go to sleep now, I'll take
the next watch. Cool, do you want my phone? It's this is
a rock Crystal, Oh are you okay? She just puts it on the
ground and goes all right. Not to talk to her about that takes over.
Yeah, And Taylor Jacobs, when you wake up to go relieve Amyen,
you find her asleep by the fire. We're also is just not used
to taking watches. And also none of the guys volunteered to him at night
in quality. Amen. How much money do you have? We adducate have.
Let's see what how much money do I have? I think I have
like one hundred and twenty okay, plus ten from Fizzle Bang? Just did
he give us? He gave us fifty, so I just as son,
we'd split it ten piece. I'm gonna let you. I'll let Richard keep
on on hold on to that, okay, so remember any of this right?
Yeah? Okay? So Taylor Jacobs, when you approach the camp,
you see a bunch of little tiny footprints all around, how tiny, like
itty bitty, like adorable like like it almost looks like baby footprints, right,
and you see one of her coin purses is like turned inside out from
her belt and amy and when you would she alert you to this, you
find that you are missing thirty one gold Oh man, how did I fall
asleep? Oh man, I'm sorry. I did a bad job at the
watch. I have a feeling I'm going to Okay, we'll go get some
real sleep. And Taylor, the only you could wake up another one of
the party members. So do you want to take No, it's too late.
You guys have already rolled. Give me your money. You could just
in case put it in your So, Taylor Jacobs, you start to doze
off about three times during your watch, but then like a noise would come
from the woods, startle awake, yeahs, and nothing happens other than that.
As you guys like further investigate, you think it might have been like
a little goblin or something thing that came in and stole some coins instead of
shanking you. So now, yeah, a little trash bands. I'm not
mad at that. That's adorable. Yes, little little raccoon folk. They
literally have bandit masks. Yeah, in little grubby hands. Yeah, they
clean the hands, they wash their hands. Anyways, So you guys pack
everything up into the wagon and you begin heading down the road again, and
you make it about another's day journey down the road, and you find that
the further and further you get from Lavron, the more and more primal.
This place seems and like very wild and not what you're used to. Are
the roads less managed? There's still like this main road still is managed well,
but all of the offshoot roads are instead of being like gravel or paved
or anything, they're just dirt trails with wagon ruts in them. The main
road is it just cobblestone? I guess us. And so after another day's
travel, you guys actually see an inn in the distance. Hey, no,
one need to keep watching night twenty one bottles of beer on the wall
on the first night, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, maybe we should
keep watching next Yeah, why not rotate? Yeah? And so like this
place you see definitely looks like just a roadside tavern with some rooms, and
you see lots of essay, lots. You see like five or six wagons
tied up out front, and it looks like they have armed guards posted.
Wait that was an option? This is really intense. We could have paid
someone to guard us. You could have. Didn't you do it? Ride
along with the city guard. Don't you have friends now in the guard?
I mean, yeah, how much do you think this place is going to
cost? Probably a lot they've got. Let's go see or do we want
to stay outside bout side? Okay, Richard's not here for it, all
right? Can we go into the end? Yeah? Door opens and the
tavern smells a little musty. But there's soup. Yes, there's definitely a
cauldron of soup at the back. And you see there's a big stack of
clean bowls and spoons like on the hearth. This is actually kind of a
nice place for the middle of nowhere. Yeah, and uh, you see
this old haffling woman behind the bar. She says, Oh, hello,
he got some travelers, do we y? Oh, come on in let
me. How many rooms do we need? Are the rooms singles or doubles?
She says? Come on in let mommy Tilda take care of you.
Say mommy, Tildy, Mama Tilda. Sorry, that's a very different color.
Call me mommy to call her mother. We're leaving, she says.
Where are you from? We're traveling from Lavron, Oh, ways out here
in the country, aren't you. Yeah, she says, we'll go ahead,
get you a seat. Can I get you something to drink? Sure?
Need please? And water and soup? How do we get this soup?
She says, I'll help yourself. Oh, as long as you're staying
or drinking, you can eat. How much is it per night to see
this five of you? Do you have a wagon? Does it need garden?
Like? Is there anything valuable? Yes, it'll be three silver a
piece a night. Yes, that sounds good. Okay, well pull up
a chair. It's one gold all you can drink, or you can buy
by the beverage. Hey, you know what it drinks? My turn to
buy, guys, So let let me eat one, two, three,
four five? Here you go. Oh thank you, honey. Oh that's
really man, that's so nice. Yeah. Sure, we're getting so lastered.
Little grandma, that's like taking care of us. She's our frat mom,
Like I've always wanted to play a drunk persison. All right, mead
and water for all of you? If just you, what do you guys
want? Do you do you have wine? What time is it? Approx
Pa? She said, Honey, we don't do wine around here. We're
all hard workers. We got mead ale and porter. Oh god, she
said, I'll do the porter. Excellent choice. Honey. What is that?
Porter is a very dark beer? Oh? Guy who carries you?
Well, that's where The name actually came from us because that's what those guys
drank when they went to the bar. Anyways, Oh, I'll just do
mead then we're not gonna just suit yourself. Richard, I have ale,
okay, yeah, So she produces all the beverages and she says, where
are you headed? You know, we're just out here. That's so convincing.
Taylor said, yeah, we're just going was the that was? That
was twenty two Jump Street name ya. I think when my friend here meant
to say is that we are on a top secret missions. We're not really
liberty to the schools. She looks at Chard was holding up a finger.
What were we gonna say? So just wait? She she looks at Richard
and she looks back at Taylor. She goes, honeys, he always speak
over you like this, Oh dear, he's actually he tries to keep it
balanced, I would say, and she says, well, we're traveling for
work, okay, Well make yourself at home. Let me know if you
need anything. You take whatever table you want. And you said the place
isn't very busy at the moment you saw that there's maybe four or five people
inside. Most people are you hear movement going on upstairs and at the across
the courtyard where all the wagons are, and so you kind of figure that
not everybody's in there right now. And she says, uh, soup of
the day is that's the soup every day. It's potato soup. Feel free
to get your fill. Yeah, thank you so much. And she says,
like I said, mumatility is here for you whatever you need, So
just let me know, all right. And she turns and she she says
uh. She looks at Taylor Jake. She says, honey, can I
ask you a question? Yeah? I hope this isn't too awkward. Oh
my god, I don't get a lot of centaurs. Do you need any
hey or anything? I don't know. But how does that? How does
how does that work? Apples? Do you like apples? I do.
I've actually been craving apples. Thank you for asking. I believe that I
stand for four hours and laid down for four hours to sleep. M you
can sleep standing and laying down. But she lay down to get actually said
well, how have you comfortable? There is a spot in the stable if
you want it. I don't know exactly how any of this works. But
is that is that polite? Is it more polite if I am? Or
I don't really know. I'm just trying to be accommodation looking to you,
I know, But Taylor, is this one I've been sleeping like crap?
Yeah, I think I want to stay with my coworkers. Have you a
comfortable honey. I just want you to be good. Thank you whatever you
need. Let me know. That's so considerate, and I'll see about getting
me some of them apples. Thank you. Alex is trying to make up
for all the trauma. Not every NPC has to be an asshole. Sometimes
they're nice people that just want to feed you soup and beverages and take your
money. Gonna die suspicious? Make me a perception check, du that's not
very good. That's eight nineteen eleven. See smells something that smells pie like,
but it's not apple pie. I'm now worried what people, Oh you're
like? This is this is how you know you've done well as a d
M when they question every NPC you put in front of them acts even remotely
nice, like this is obviously a track. Yeah, it's clearly a Sweeney
Todd situation. Yeah. And Anyways, she was fattening me up. I'm
gonna have centaur to night boys meat speckled the men. You all right,
So do you guys have anything you want to do before you call it a
night. I want to see what type of people normally just people watch basically.
Okay, it's a good mix, mostly humans. You see some elves
and some dwarves. I was meaning like they seem like they're all just travelers
workers. Yeah, it just seems like people passing through. This does not
seem like a like a place that a lot of people live. There's common
yeah that you'd probably you'd probably see like a couple of dwarf and miners or
something at the bar, but then they get thrown out because they're IDs.
So because they're like, oh my god, miners. You see a couple
of regulars come in and sit down, have a bowl of soup, a
couple of drinks, laugh with uh with mamatility that we can chill and sleep
and not have to worry about. So, so I don't normally be like
I'm not normally like you are absolutely under no hostile threat, but you you're
not right here, we're getting turken. Okay, then we're gonna talk about
any Animanda's date. We're gonna sit by the fire, and that's what I
want to talk about. It's awesome. They're super nice guys. You know.
I was hanging out with all Rick and I really even after spending the
evening with him, I can't remember their names, but I met his brothers.
We all hung out. It was a great time. I feel like
I can count on them as friends. Wow. Yeah, we played the
axe throwing game. Uh, and they were going to try and throw it
at like a person, but I talked him out of it and we just
said it against like a wooden thing. They're really good. They've got a
really good name. Did they play the knife game where it's like, oh
my gosh, yes it was. It was really impressive. They're a little
rough and tumble, but I think really pretty good on the on the inside.
Oh did you did any anything interesting happen? I mean, just like
the axe throwing and stuff. Oh that's spicy dates. I entered her Doso
spice and she has been able to read her spicy books. Kind of mutually
decided that we couldn't really be a couple or anything, because if we got
like married, and had kids. I would want my kids to go into
the dentistry profession, but he would want his kids to go and be mercenaries.
And there was just like an impast and you can't do both. No,
no, And that's first day topics. So how would you get him
home? And that's a whole other thing exactly, Taylor, Like it was
just it's just you know, yeah, we're friends, but it could be
fun for now. I mean, I'm sure they do you want me to
introduce you to one of them? I mean, I mean boring lately,
so good. So look, and he gave me these and I pull out
a little book manual. Okay, you're yeah all right over here, like
like what are you pulling out? He gave me this book with all the
Orchards secrets. He gave me this book. And so it's just like a
little I want to say, it's kind of like one of those Penny dreadfuls
or whatever with one of his favorite stories, which is especially like Doctor Jekyll
and mister Hyde, but in this universe. And he wrote some little notes
and like some people I need to meet when I'm over in the orchard.
Yeah, so it's a really cute story. You might like it if you
want to write something, If you want to write these down, then he
tells you his main contexts he's had over at the orchard are arlow leaf,
chickadee, and dusk code names or real names. That's just what he wrote
down in crayon. Oh yeah, And and when we get back, I'm
definitely we're gonna hang out, hang out again, because there's a lot he
can teach me, especially about you know, like fighting and things like that.
Nothing nothing else. He didn't have a really good relationship with his mom.
Not this is not where like such like wife material. I bet he
want to introduce you to his family. The rest of it is en maybe,
I mean, I'll definitely, I mean, we can all hang out
again. They're they're really nice guys. Well you know, I mean,
I'm glad that you had a wholesome encounter with someone who maybe probably could have
killed you if it went so bad. Why do you see disappointed Taylor?
Can we just say that Taylor had a couple too many? Oh Taylor,
Taylor, Crystals as throwing them back. Crystal has also been throwing them back.
She won't. She's asking if you guys you know, like, did
she gets a good night or anything? Also, you guys are so amazing.
You guys are sweet, And I'm so sorry that I like trying to
kill one of us. Oh don't, I'll never forget my own worry about
it. Anyways, we all sir, you're gonna try and kill somebody at
the point. Well, Taylor, you're so sweet. You You're just I
can tell you have a lot of big emotions and that's a good thing.
And I don't want you to ever have to worry about feeling bad about any
of that. You know, Buzley's soul sweet, It's so true. It's
doctor to give you a huge but yeah, so did you's tongue or not?
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