Hello, everybody, Welcome to the beginning of the stream. I didn't even
want you. If we were called opening, We're not. You're like,
we're coming in, and I'm like, am I supposed to recovered? I
gets no, no, no, no, no, We're gonna We're gonna
say hiyy because because I want to keep talking about dogs cats. I'm kidding.
We were just talking. We had an in depth conversation. It was
saying she absolutely hates cats, and I don't know why she would say that.
Yes, it's not it's not what she was saying. They can pocket
like a four year to deal with my ship. And now, yeah,
it's a nice dog. He does. He does act very dog like,
so chill is a fluff. There will be a point during this show where
my dog goes ape ship because we're going to have a delivery. So he's
gonna go cry, you didn't get it. I'm supposed to be here eleven
minutes ago. And it's all right, we'll stop. You know, it's
fine. We're just there's just a dog, either on the ship or in
the entire city of Bologna. There's a dog somewhere going crazy and background a
little demonic flu out there. Hello, everyone, Welcome to the show.
It's us here on dying Order. This is episode fifty three, I think,
which is a record. Every week we set a new record, by
the way, for the longest running series. I think I have the record
for the longest episode of a show, and the longest running series along was
the longest. Yeah, big Zags Biggs count But we did a five hour
of ZBO, didn't we or it CBO or one of the other ones.
One of them was really I think, isn't the last one of CBO?
I think, yeah, it's the finale? Is that Wackle sometimes go over
on? Yeah, it was really long. I will hold the record,
and that's all I'm doing this for. That's why this won't end. It
will just gill be more and more. All shit to happen every week.
There he goes, you hear him. You can hear him. Oh yeah,
at least in the background going crazy. And that's going to be the
next twenty minutes of the show. I'm just going to turn my game up.
You can listen to him barking. I am selling a dog one dollar
my highest bidder starting at one dollar one hundred dollars. Tuesday, Gray that's
going to sould two hundred dollars three hundred Tuesday. You have no idea what
you're getting yourselves into, like buying a curse. I do like four hundred,
and then I leave him with you because that's what he wants. The
dog. I mean, yeah, he hates me. He tortures me.
He psychologically tortures me, and I'm pretty sure it's logically tortured. There's some
sort of weird like reverse like Stockholm syndrome thing where he's like testing me.
I don't know what it is. He decided to bark at the wind all
night last night, so I've had there was a storm, danger, danger,
danger, You're indeed, there's a whole me outside. I'm like,
no, it's the wind. You're eleven. Why don't you know what the
wind is? Yet? The worst child ever seen? The dogs that push
the buttons with the words. So it'll be like, oh, stranger,
stranger, press. You just need to train him so you can press the
button. Just so annoying because he would all the time. I just give
him like a bunch of different words that don't mean anything and just see which
one he likes the most. We'll just get each of you, you know,
yeah, a bunch, or you could get like the button that I
have on my stream where it presses a random sound bite. Yeah, teaching
when he needs something. It's just button, so it's like whatever. At
least it wouldn't be it's ridiculously high pitch sound Tuesday seems pretty quiet, Speak
up Tuesday. It's probably that makes that close enough. But I can also
turn at my game chick chick chick chick chick chick chick chick chick chick chick
chick chick. Is that helping at all? Is that helping? Can you
hear me more? Now? Yeah? I just wanted to say, how
you do that? Oh my god? What a jerk? I feel like
such an asshole? Yeah? Is it any better? Whack Stephen is?
Now? So I will be sending a dog to you for next week.
You're welcome, Thank you, And with that transaction out of the way,
maybe move on to today's episode. The last one we had the Jungle crew
depart the Jungle. They went to the small fishing town of Teasin, whereby
pure luck, a ship had well what he had done, it had broken
down due to what can only be described as a questionable engine that I'm sure
Cairo is immediately aware would probably be an illegal thing, but is also a
very well known common thing. I say, destiny enhancements to ships and things.
But with the day a week ago, or let me see four days
ago for you guys and a week ago for the other crew. The fall
of Magic is what it's being dubbed as I saw the ship breakdown. Basically,
its engine stopped working, and luckily it pulled up on an island with
lots of tinkerer gnomes who were able to deal with the engine and the weight
issue, and then the crew were able to set up the sales and the
old style of sailing with manual sails and wind. You guys arrived just in
time to find passage, mostly due to free passage too soon as eyelashes,
and the three of you were able to board on the show Irinkles. It's
the twinkle and sorry sprinkle and the irinkle. I'm already in character too much.
I'll shut up. The other three were We joined after a week and
then kind of looking into stuff, trying to range a meeting with the prisoner
of Eld and Grimm at the fortress. They were looking into things. They
have an inquisitor who they're able to ask questions of and have him bring things
to them. However, the things you were looking into just seem to exist,
which in its own way answered one of your questions in that it seems
like the Inquisition have no real idea of the dying order, the greater system,
the cosmic hierarchy above the seeming pantheon of God's which you know to have
been a kind of false pantheon. The Inquisition wanted your story, your side
of things. Reginald managed to secure a meeting for you with Grim, but
it came at cost. Two costs really. One was that you finally hand
over your side of the story, which you gave him half of, and
the other was that you look into The fortress actually requested that Reginald bring the
Inquisition's physician, a man named Professor Hiu Pano pier Panu, to you.
I don't know why my notes are all backwards, Oh that's why, and
yeah. Reginald in turn decided that it would be better if you went to
find the professor and bring him to the fortress, or bring him to Reginald,
and then that frees up Reginald to go and bargain your deal, which
was half of the story now and half later basically is what I believe was
the kind of plan. Ellie now entirely human and feeling alive again. It's
kind of on board with the plan, and it's just it's just going along
with it for the most part, whereas Aura is becoming more and more frustrated
with and panicked and impatient with having to do all this running around since there
is most likely a horrible control god, controlling, terrible beast god known as
day of Aki, wandering around, maybe setting something up, maybe he's still
got magic, maybe he's doing working on terrible, horrible paranoid things. And
Aura is concerned, also concerned for Alvin is one of the other concerns.
So that was where we left off. There will be like almost no time
jumped today, as we're just going to pretty much pick up where we left
off. However, we're going to jump forward a tiny little bit with the
ship crew. I'm going to jump into it if you're already as we head
to the open ocean. Oh exciting, and we visit the crew on the
good Ship or Tensia, a cargo ship. We see actually, can I
get a roll from each of you. Of course, we see a great
cargo ship out on a calm, open ocean. Behind it is the continent
isle of yours, coroner kind of jungle with some mountainous regions, and the
ship finally hits its full speed. There is an aging captain who relaxes his
hands for a moment, and beside him there is a thin man dressed in
black and white, who closes a book after checking off a few names.
The thin, taller man turns to the slight, shorter captain and says,
captain, are you sure we can trust their information? Nobody has sailed that
a cursed sea and lived to tell the tale. And the captain, re
firming his hands on the ship's wheel, says, I know you've You've known
me long enough. I am never late on a shipment. The gnome says
it's safe, and it will cut our travel down by as much as a
week. Yep, we'll make it just in time. Low decks two levels
below. Decks practically sat directly upon the hull under a little lamplight. Between
these huge palettes with these huge, massive raw cut marble rocks and blocks in
varying shapes, there are varying people. There is a halfling, There are
three humans. There is a Kenku bird person who's actually sat up on one
of the rocks. There is a half elf and a Sooner. And you
were shown down here maybe two hours ago. About an hour ago the ship
probably left port, and there isn't anywhere for you to stay. There aren't
There aren't cots or any real living quarters. They just pointed and said,
well, this is where you want to go. This is where you go.
The Kenku found comfort in a kind of nestled area, almost a nest
of his own. There are two people, in fact, Rommy another three.
Those three there are for how seasick you are the first three roles,
and you may judge them however you wish in your role play with Cairo on
an eight, Hippo on a ten, and Sooner on a twenty, or
how seasick you feel. The ship is relatively steady, but because you're in
the hole, it feels really rocky. This first hour, four one twelve,
Cairo and Ipoh, specifically Ipoh. You don't recognize the outfits that are
on two of the people here, but sooner you do. You can see
that there are two monks which are here on this ship. They are monks
from monks. They are who who are not local to yos Current. They
were likely on this ship, and they came from the giant land. They're
not giants, they're humans. What are their colors? The colors they wear
are whites and grays, and if given the option, however, they would
be wearing silvers. Probably another dice, all right, nine nine. I
don't think you've ever met any of these people before. They're known as the
Key, which is a Q and an I, and they are and I
probably the only reason you know of these people is that they come from a
line of diviners. They are they are kind of monks of Savras. Kindred
then kind of Yes, I wonder if I hadn't had Daddy's blood, if
I maybe would have gone down that path? Interesting, right, Yeah,
I mean they are they're not really necessarily magical in nature, but any of
the very very rare temples and towers that were dedicated to Savras are often guarded
by these monks, so they would know that name then Savras. Yeah,
oh wonderful. Oh that's very exciting and it's a very rare thing to see
these monks and I think probably that's really it's up to you how much you
know, but it's not a lot, okay, as they're very secretive with
what you've told me a little bit. Yeah, and how you came by
the information is up to you. And yeah, maybe that's maybe that's really
all all you would know. There's there's more to them, and you know
that, but you don't know what it is, or maybe you've never looked
into it too much. But I think maybe it strikes you as more interesting
now. And it's it's again, it's a very rare thing. The ken
Ku. It's just wearing basic travelers clothes. They could be from anywhere,
and the halfling appears to be wearing clothes that would be more native to like
Alexandria. Seems like he's probably going home as well. And those passengers that
are with you down here, boarded with you, none of them spoke to
you. They don't seem to be together apart from the two monks, and
they've sat in different areas of the whole, so they they're not like right
next to you. You three are probably on your own, although you can
probably see the others. The ship's pretty damn large, but there's only one
or two lanterns that light the central area of the whole here. You saw
several members of the ship's crew when you were getting onto the ship as well.
You saw the captain. Who you met Eno, Who you met Wayne?
Who you met? Wayne? Wayne? You saw two goliaths, one
with pinkish reddish skin, kind of kind of looks like a very sunburned person,
is what he would His skin tone seemed to be kind of raw almost,
and then a relatively gray skinned goliath who was slightly bigger. Both of
them armed, both of them extremely muscular, even for a goliath. You
get the sense that maybe they were in of a lot of the heavy lifting
of some of these rocks that are around. He did drop the name of
the one who almost crushed him to death? Wayne, Did I mean right?
Who was that? Again? He said, it's Aussie, but it's
spelt with two S's not that you would necessarily know that, but that's for
your rights. And do I recognize which one that might be based on his
description or no? Roll me and dies sure, yeah, three, not
a clue, no idea I was listening to. I feel like he might
have said the gray one, but I'm going to roll. If I know
sixteen, you can tell that one of probably it was more likely due to
the expressions on their faces. Maybe you're a little more well versed in the
goliath tells. Goliath are kind of hard to read. A lot of the
time. They're a little they're a little alien in the way that they present
themselves. Sometimes they can be very dry. Most of the time. They
are solitary or quiet a lot of the time, if they're not from an
inner city or something like that. And especially golias that that seemed to be
more tribalistic, like the ones that you witnessed here. These two guys had
on pants but no shirt. You could see that they had lots of tattoos,
lots of different markings, a lot of scarification and things like that.
One in particular has piercing through his nose, through his ears, and tribal
patterns that suggest he is actually from probably a local tribe. And it's honestly
odd that he would be on a ship. And it was the larger,
gray looking goliath. The other thing that might suggest that, and if this
is if Wayne is to be believed that this goliath is a quote unquote savage,
is that the other one was. And maybe only you saw this Cairo
reading a book, and that doesn't necessarily fit Wayne's description, though from the
captain's description, everybody on this ship is a borderline pirate anyway, So who
knows. You saw an elf in the crow's nest, pretty far off right,
all the way up in the crow's nest, and there was a very
very very old man. He looked twice as old as Zippo his age,
imagine, And yeah, and that seemed to be the entire crew there.
And that's when you were getting on the ship. For the most part,
you dealt with Eno, who ensured that you went to your places, told
you you're on your own, and that if you are called upon to help
those of you, which he pointed not to the halfling and the king Ku,
but to the rest of you, including the monks, to performed tasks
cleaning, labor, lifting, cooking, and potential protection from pirates on the
sea, then you will be called upon and just expected to muck in.
Basically, so far nobody has called upon you. There. There's been lots
of shouting and commotion from up top as they get the rigging going and the
ship set sail. But things seem to have quietened down in the last ten
to fifteen minutes. The other passengers are not saying much, the monks stoic
and silent, classic monks halffling seems to be cheerful, and the bard is
strumming a loot up in his CROs ness. I'm the worst person. I'm
so sorry. Is the bard as good as Bow? I highly doubt it,
but I don't think you know that. You you hear it sounds more
like he's tuning a loot. Oh well, does it all right? Well,
I'm thinking of Bow regardless, I'm probably thinking, oh, you know
both, loot is either pretty or whatever. And how does look? If
you're here, I'm curious you can just voice in, Oh it's pretty mangled
up. Let's just say it's it's well loved. But yeah, some strings
are broken here and there and there. There is a carving in it,
though. I carved the names of Suna and Ellie and oh Aura like because
they mean so much too damn. Oh oh my goodness. All right,
Well definitely but sentimental. I will tell you how nice the canker is.
Loot looks pretty similar. Maybe that all right? What makes me think you,
well anytime, I think probably, I think probably. What happens is
I hear the tuning of the loot and I look around expecting to see Bow,
and then I realized, oh, of course not. And then i'm
you know, just thinking about Bow. What you guys do? You're free
to leave. They really wants to meet that Canku, but Cairo has no
reason to talk to that. You're not locked down here or anything. But
they did say try and stay down there for about thirty minutes, which is
about thirty minutes, right, And it's really rough right now, right,
it's not rough, but it's not. It's just not comfortable, and it's
the sea is calm, but you're an old soul. And just to clarify,
the twenty means I'm totally fine, right, and then the rest of
you, which ones worse off? Is it you? I'm not. I
think it's all right good, Oh okay, oh yeah, he's average and
I am at an eight I really didn't want to get And so then then
she gets pregnant and we don't know who the father is, right, and
it's like there's a whole two other books after that where you're trying to figure
out you know how it happened. But the whole time she's saying that,
you know, it's immaculate. You know she she didn't, she didn't.
So then it's like, well, is it the wizard or is it you
know, it's very interesting. I highly recommend. I think I have the
first three books here, but then I I can't read right now, you
can keep I can't read. I can't look at anything. You didn't keep
talking though. Okay, sure of course I think to have misplaced the fourth
one on our on our travels. But perhaps I can find another copy for
you somewhere. Now, this this rocking back and forth, I'm totally fine
with that. You know, we used to indust girl, That's what we
did. We used to sail the kind of the the dunes rather, so
I'm very comfortable with this situation. I'm not Would you like something to maybe
help with your your nausea? There? I'm sure we've we brought herbs and
things, I believe right, we could probably make a whip up a tincture
or something. You probably probably did you did you want to whip something up
for her? Oh? Would you like me to do it? Well?
How are you with with with spacey things. It's supposed to help. Yes,
spice is okay, all right, I've got some red wrappers in the
bagle, just just to retouch of that. Should should do you right until
we need some water, though, Well I can go get some totally fine
on my feet, remember, so I'll happily do that. I'll be right
back and then I'll tell you more about the I'll tell you more about the
romance anyway. Well, I'll just let me just get away bit of this,
get my knife, I'll this all right. So if you ever come
across you're scoring red wrapper, just bet in mind that as strong as you
think it is, it's at least ten times stronger than that problem. There's
really really hot. How how do we is it gonna hurt? Well,
see, I'm only going to put a tiny wee bit in ah, okay,
and not even any seeds. So just a tiny wee bit and then
it will help. Yeah, it will warm your stomach a wee bit and
it will just make it feel warm. Okay, Well it sounds bad,
but it's not it. You know, it's better than I found the water
for us here. Yeah, you are right, Yeah, well a wee
better. This will do any better this limb leaf mountain meant that I got.
It's very very kind of you since season. So just put a hand
on it Bo's shoulder as he's doing that, just gently, and then we
bit of the pepper mint and paper, and then a bit of this a
better better okay, and then yeah that and some water I think will be
here. Go ahead, darling, yeah, drink, just not the men.
Just focus on tasting the men. We'll plug your nose. That always
works for me. Are you're right right? I'll just pat her back like
probably a little bit forcefully that I think, but it's probably nothing because I'm
quite a weakling. It water, you're right, More water, okay,
but is it spicy? Did you make it spicy? Because water is only
going to make it worse, it helps, Oh my goodness. Okay,
hold on, don't drink any more that water. It's only going to make
it spicier. Hold on, well, see she's not even thinking. I'm
all right here, have a little bit of this goat's milk here. That'll
kill the spice right away. Yeah, this old man and his spices.
It's good. Recently, that's what I had with my with my mind sponge
is a bit of wee bitter space in it, and it just kind of
took it to another level. Is there, Brad, where do we go
to the we're not you're not told anything of the sort. Really, you're
you're right? Is it coming up? Is it going to come back up?
You try to hold that down. It's going to help you with your
nausea. The spice with the goats, No, I don't want see you
should have just kept with a space need to been fine. I disagree with
the gold one. Well, it's it's to kill the spice. And if
she's her eyes were watering. It looked like she was about to choke.
The space was helping and like a deity when she's feeling you see, SI
guess probably just a right? Maybe maybe there's more of that story, sure,
or another one if you've got another one that's more interesting. Mm hmm,
you don't think you don't think the story is interesting? Oh? I
said more interesting? See this one's interesting and doesn't all one's even because she
needs attention to be even more focused on. Okay, well, why don't
we let her decide which story she'd like to hear? What I thought it
was pretty interesting? Well, see look at that. I thought she needed
more distraction by something even more interesting. Who knows, maybe there's some fadies
that fall in love with an angel horse person. Well, I mean that
is why that is why this one's called the stallion, because I imagine eventually
we're going to meet a centaur of some sort. No person, right,
okay, Well, you know what is very interesting? Do you see those
You see those monks over there in the gray, very rare, very very
rare to see anyone like that. I thought you were said that the way
I sounded, that sounds like what it's very rare that you're talking about,
Wayne or something. Well, I mean it's sort of you know, religion
or a group of people. It's it's very rare to see them. They're
usually very secluded, keep to themselves, you know, living on mountains and
all that, never seeing anything of the world. Are those kind of monks?
Do they not talk? I don't actually know. I've never met one
before. Maybekover. You can ask them if any old ladies moved down near
them, and that's why they're moving away. Hello, you approach these two
monks as you walk over, Caira, you're walking over as well, Pyra
are you speaking you mute? Oh you're not. Okay, there we go.
You coverd to these two months. Both of them are bold, shaven,
bold wax. In fact, it looks more like what you said whack
at first. I'm sorry, bold like whack, considerably younger than Whack,
considerably younger than you. They maybe are in their mid twenties, but they're
in what looks like peak physical condition wearing. The clothing is really not too
dissimilar to the things that you might wear in dust bell rats mostly, but
you can see that they have small packs that contain sleeping equipment, and wrapped
around them is a very thick looking coat, the type of thing you might
find on the top of a mountain. Both of them have staves like you.
They have wraps around their hands, wraps around their feet, and their
shoes are not really shoes. They just have a piece of wood that's wrapped
tightly to their feet with these wraps that run up their legs. Each of
them has a pair of very thin looking sticks attached to their hips. They
might be weapons, but they also looked almost too small to be anything like
that. That They could be some thing that they use like as a weapon,
but They also have these staves, and both of them have several tattoos,
not just on their bodies but on their face. The gentlemen as a
kind of crescent moon looking tattoo in the center of his forehead, and the
girl has right, what's that that's a reference to divination? Right, very
tired with the moon? Yes, the girl has lines tattooed above face,
lots of like kind of like tiger lines or something like that. Then they
have varying other things. They also have lots of areas of their body which
are tattooed with stars and dots and points and things like that. You can
roll me at dice if you like. I would love to do that inspection
that you can make count ten ten. You don't know what necessarily, but
these are kind of like constellations and stuff. They seem to actually be accurate
star maps on their bodies. The two of them, upon your approach,
Upon your approach, neil, before you, uh, what all to that?
Knees their heads touching the hull. They put their staffs to the side.
Well, this is very confusing, because I was feeling a little underdressed
and and and unworthy here in their presence, with all their beautiful tattoos and
everything. What what what excuse me? What are you doing? They do
not answer you. Oh well, I was just uh. I didn't mean
to disturb you. My name is Sooner, and I just it's just so
rare to see savage uh monks, that I thought I would come over and
introduce myself. I well, I have some lemon cake here. It might
be a day old, stale, but it would mean so much to me
if you would take take some with you, and I will go into my
bag and I will pull out the cake and kind of like, do they
even look up? They're not looking up. They're listening, right, I'll
just put it down on the speak. They don't look up, but they
speak to you. What languages do you speak? Uh? Oh, I
don't have my old character sheet open. Uh. Might you give me just
on your I have it on the other one. Yes, you've got it
on your biopart. Oh. Your characters, Oh wonderful. Took all the
relevant information that you would need from the right world. Nothing. They probably
speak unfortunately, common, no mish, primordial and infernal. Those two are
not quite so proud of. In prime modial broken primordial. Okay, spliced
in part with a language that you don't seem to understand. You hear one
say to the other, You hear one, you hear the the boys say
to the Girl's not The girl says, backs is her? There's more in
there than that. You pick up that right. Well, I don't know
who you think I am, but I assure you. But you know I'm
just sooner. You can call me sooner. And I just came over to
give you some cake and and good luck on your travels wherever you may be
going, and and all that just from from one divine or to another.
That that that that was it. Both of them stand up and hand you
a card each. What is this? Two very crude looking tarot cards with
the tower on? Oh? Is this My tower? Just looks like I'm
the Would you say that to them? Yes? I do. Have you
seen my tower? Mhmm? Oh wow. They stand, but they seem
to be They won't. They don't make eye contact with you. They keep
their heads down. They the boy is pretty tall. I remember how tall
you are, your five ages. It's taller than you girls about your height.
They keep their heads down. They don't make any eye contact with you.
The boy says blue boat. Is this boat not blue? It is
blue? I thought for a second they were talking about the other one that
I considered taking. The girl looks to you and says, in fact,
actually, uh. Finally she makes eye contact with you and says, you
know us? Ah, I know of you. Yes, I recognize your
robes and you see us? Do I see them? Truly see them?
May I attempt this? What do you want to say? I think I
have It might be a fun way to do this. Let's see, I
have an interesting ability, but I think, well, I have insight,
first of all, but I also have this really strange one where I seem
to kind of like leave my own body. I can't seem to find it
anymore. Hold on, oh, invoke but I think that takes time.
But spiritually you leave your worldly body behind. I see. So if I
don't want to speak to myself, am I? Am I able to use
that ability to kind of maybe see where they're from or divine in any sort
of way. I guess we can't anymore. There's no magic, So perhaps
perhaps I will say not as of late. Unfortunately, I suspect it's the
same for you. You're speaking primordial, Yes, yes, it's also a
bit broken by the way. There is no way for you to not speak
broken primordial because you don't have the mouth for it. Yes, and it
sounds crazy to everyone else. It's like it's like grunts and if you were
just bashing rocks together to the best of your ability with your mouth clicks and
teeth smashes and just these loud, gutteral grunts, and it sounds really weird,
I think, compared to most other languages. And the boy, they
look a little confused. They look a little confused. Then they begin to
look around. The boy says, we may show sure, of course,
please, yes, of course, whatever you need. Would you like would
you like me? Would you like to sit down? Maybe we could have
a proper conversation. He just starts moving around. He starts looking around,
and he runs over to a piece of marble rock. He touches one or
two of them before finding one that has kind of a flat surface, and
then looks around and pulls up another rock begins to scratch into the front of
the rock and it doesn't do anything, and he points to the rock is
way too marking. You're trying to mark the marble. I'm so sorry.
I don't understand what you're trying to tell me. The girl looks around.
M hmm. She looks to you and says, he's not full picture.
Oh no, I don't many people know that. Do you speak anything other
than this language? I try nomish nothing. I looked a little confused.
You hear one uh person behind you voice that you haven't heard yet come from
above the Kenkup, which if Cairo and Hippo have been anywhere nearby or have
been witnessing this, I think everyone else is kind of watching this, but
the Kenkup was very interested in looking down from the perch from up above,
probably closer to you than the others. Yeah, I'm sorry, I understand
what he's trying to tell me right now. It just took me a minute.
I'm old. You've got to give me some time. They're not transporting
marble. They're doing something else. Is that what he's trying to tell me?
And that's what I'm saying here? Are you saying they're transporting something other
than marble? That's the roll for each of them. Give me a second,
that's what I'm doing here. They both just look at you, very
confused. Sabah's sake. I don't know what you're trying to tell me.
The kenkup from above you, but closer than you probably expect. It maybe
startles you a little, He says, I think now speaking giant, but
I think they're speaking giant or us what But I'm not they're speaking giant.
I think I don't know it, but I can mimic its giants. He
is he doing primordial? He's doing it? He's not. No, he's
speaking a different language. Oh right, oh, oh, oh, well
you can mimic it, but you don't speak it. Is that right?
Yeah? Does anyone here speak giant? Perfect? I'm in a perfect sooner
voice, he says, does anyone here speak Giant? Back to everyone inexact?
Well, that's a little alarming, but very very skilled. The happy
looking halfling who is probably the furthest away from the rest of you, who
has just been kind of sitting quite happily on his pack with his hands behind
his back, looks up to you but doesn't respond to anyone. Goes back
to his thoughts eyes, what about the Oh, the giants are probably working.
There's no one else below decks with you. They aren't here right here,
them moving around out there every now and then, well, there are
there are some giants on board, and perhaps we could we need a translator,
you see, so I can understand you. The boy cocks his head.
The girl says translator, and then she moves towards you and kind of
nodding her head, holds a hand out towards your head, your face.
I just immediately put my head in her hand because I think she can translate.
She puts two fingers to the middle of your forehead and says, zavras,
yes, what and nothing happens. I imagine nothing happens. He's just
saying, I know, I was just maybe hoping I was wrong about magic
being gone. I was just, you know, any any hope. I
was expecting this, but you know, hoping for something else. The boy
holds his hand out and touches your forehead too. Now two of them are
touching your fore head with two fingers. Then they touch each other's forehead and
create a sort of triangle here, and they say, we see you,
we see you. I will then lower her hand from my head. I'm
afraid not. The boy shakes his head. The girl nods her head,
and then they turn to each other and then they begin to speak their own
language or what sounds maybe like giant Tish, relatively quickly, still quite slowly
for what compared to other languages. But you hear them just speaking back and
forth is an and they start to have a little bit of a conversation just
in essentially a foreign language for a moment. They do a lot of pointing
to you and a lot of confused faces, and the ken ku called out
in Suna's voice. I assume that was odd enough for you and I to
hear. For sure. You probably are close enough to have heard most of
this conversation as well. There's really nothing happening here, the kenku stopped from
I perk up at that a little bit, just because it's odd. But
when they touch her, I think I'd wander over and just say the sooner,
is everything okay over here? Oh? Yes? To cut that stuff
and slightly defensive positions, it's all right, It's it's all right. I
just saw them touching you. Yes, I believe they've mistaken me for someone
else. But I would like to have some some some cake and maybe some
tea with them, if if that's all right, you're welcome to join us.
Oh, no, I just wanted to make sure that you were okay.
What are we trying to do when the touched you. I just I
think they think I'm someone I'm not. Oh you can't talk. No,
that's why the kids they're speaking giant. We we we can kind of communicate
a little bit. But I look at them all of a sudden, excited,
and I mock drawing, and I say pictures, and I don't think
I have any paper, And you're saying this in commons. They yeah,
I just did this to that, like, oh, you know. I
look. Then I will say it confused, and they're still holding that stuff
up. Yeah, I will say that I do have some notes, so
perhaps could you could you go grab my my bag just over there. I
set it down to get the cake in there should should be some some paper
or and a and a quill. Okay, And I'm just listening to her
as I walked to go get that, and I'll bring that and I'll show
it to them, perhaps uh draw art. The boys takes it and takes
the ink and the pen. Now that I know she's okay, because Cairo
feels like ship, I'm gonna go sit back down, all right. Well,
you can sit Cairo, you can just sit right here. We're about
to have some cake. So it's nice to meet new people. M M,
I did you want to sit over here? You shore me as well.
I mean you probably don't want any cake. It's a day on stale
and it's you know, not as good as when it's fresh. But you're
welcome to have a slice if you'd like. I think maybe it's a bitter
for it may make her to me feel a bit better. Oh, it
might make You're right, it might make her feel better. So I'll leave
out two slices. If there's enough. Oh, there's plenty, all right,
I am right. What is he drawing? You see him fervently drawing
a picture on the ground. It's not too orly drawn either. It's relatively
well done, but it's just sketch and fast and quick. You can see
that he's drawing what looks like a mountainside. In the center of the mountain,
though, he begins to draw a tower and begins to color in the
night sky, leaving patches for lots and lots of stars, and then lots
and lots of stars, pushes it towards you. I will reach back into
my bag, and I will pull out my deck, my mother's deck.
Actually, enough of that, and I will pull out the tower. In
response, he nods and then looks at the girl for the first time.
They smile, and they become a little more animated. And then he holds
his hand up and then goes back to drawing and takes another sheet and begins
to draw a second thing. The girl is just looking to you, and
then the drawing, and then to you again. They seem to be a
little more animated. What you guys do sitting drawing for a moment, I'll
just sit and give cake to everybody and try to keep us in a tight
circle so we're not drawing too much attention. I'll be eating cake. You've
been for pictures with cake? So what's them here? No, I just
thought it'd be nice to listen. In another life, I maybe would have
joined them. This is something I would have aspired to do, perhaps,
so I just thought it'd be nice to introduce myself. They seem nice enough.
I wish I could understand them better and vice versa. But we will.
I have a story for them. You will. He's another towards you,
okay, And what's this one. It's a second drawing of the same
looking tower a little more detail, but above the tower there's a huge glowing
star. Coming out of the star is like an almost cartoonish speech bubble.
Inside the speech bubble is an image of a ship that looks really like the
ship you're on. Okay, he touches in the middle of his head.
Oh see, oh, oh, I understand. You're meant to be here.
You you meant to be here. Yes, you saw me here?
I see what you mean. I see you. You were saying past tense
hes in you saw a vision of this? Is that correct? Uh?
He sits back down, starts drawing on another sheet of paper. Is so
frustrating. I just think it's a game run. But it's not a game.
There's so much at stake, So I just I just need to know
if if they if they, if they saw me the way Cairo saw me.
Do you do you understand what I mean yet? And if that's the
case, then maybe we're supposed to run into them. Maybe maybe you can
ask them if they saw that, you know, you know who? Yes,
that's a good idea. I'm frantically flipping through my cards here. Oh
really, it's going to be the last one that I picked for real?
What about this one? And I'll hold up the devil? Hmmm and Cairo,
can you draw what you saw? The hands over bologna? Oh h
discreetly like now yep. The boy continues tovently draw. The girl looks at
the car. See she shakes her head. Yeah it was worth a shot.
Yes, it was worth a shot. Are any of your friends or
any of the other cards, maybe they can maybe they're saw you know that
that is a very good point. Hold my picture up to sooner for her
approval. How does it look? Should I roll for it? I mean,
I don't. I'm genuinely just asking, like, are you talented artist?
Or doesn't? And I think I am feeling a little sick right now.
I think that's great. I think if you've seen it, you know
exactly what it is. Go ahead and show them. And what do you
show? Showing a picture of the hands over the illness? The hands?
Yes, give me a dice, roll mmmm, here it goes. You
must see sickness. Yeah, it's not the greatest drawing of all time.
And you're showing the girl and she's gonna look at it. She she grabs
at the boy who's drawing, and he kind of gives her a look of
like, why you nudge me, I'm drawing, And then he looks up
at the the paper that you have. He turns to the girl and they
they not their heads a little. They say in in full giantish this time
to you, Cairo, I don't sooner. Do you know what they're saying.
I have no idea what they're saying, but they seem to recognize you,
or understand that maybe you are the same. They're pointing at each other
and then they point at Cairo. Yes, they think you are the same,
or at least I haven't seen any of this, but we are all
connected. Yes, yes, the boy hands you another piece of paper.
I'll hold up the hermit me. Yes, they know they hold up the
tower. All right, okay, what about death? Have you seen Ellie?
My friend? Both of them pop their heads kind of sideways. The
boy thrusts to the next piece of paper at you, you, and then
sits down and starts to draw a third one. The third piece of paper.
Have you seen my friend Bowl? Is he all right? Well,
if they've seen me, maybe they've seen Ellie and Bowl and Ora and and
and and maybe they're all right. And the girl is shaking her head.
She just keeps pointing at her own, her own tower cards, pointing it
and thrusting it towards you. Take a stick a look at their pictures,
and sooner they knew the hands, they news the hands. Well, I
just really want to know if they know if my friends are all right.
Well, they're HANDI folk. I'm sure they'll be fine. They don't feel
fine to me. M hi. What's the third picture here that the boy
you see? You see the same ship from the previous drawing that looks a
lot like this ship next to a port next to the mountain side with the
tower on it. Sorry, Brad, do I recognize if the is the
tower cet like? Is that because that's where I went first to go find
this tower? But it's also moved around, So do I recognize that as
like a CD thing? Or does the mountain look click? Does it look
like it's doesn't look like any tower you've ever seen before? Ah, so
it's not my tower with the stars and okay, all right, probably not
will be the mountain is that familiar looking mountains? Are they not actually taking
us to the right place, just kind of cartoonist looking mountains. They're just
like cheaply, you know, quick triangles. Let's catch mountains. You what
you can understand them a little and a little. I point to the hands,
and I ask you, ask them for a name. Point to the
hands, ask them for a name. What do they call? Do you
have a map? By chance? Perhaps they could just point out to it
on the map. I mean, I want to know what they call.
Okay, this entity. Okay. I point to the hands then, and
I say whom. Yes. Girl shakes her head and says, ch darkness.
Yes, that's right, that's right, Deacy. I will whisper in
common and I look, yes, we seek. She points to her stick
and holds it up. I don't understand what she's trying to tell me.
Think she's seeing I've got the mystick like like she'd sounds like she says she's
ready, But I don't think she understands that we we there's no magic.
You cannot help. We have to do something. Billy hit somebody with it.
I cannot. I cannot rightly send these people of such a rare kind
into a battle that I know that they cannot help. In the pictures,
look like you know that that boat looks like this boat, and that's been
pointing at you. And then you see maybe that the tower asks for a
name, ask where or a map? Can they draw a map? I'll
point to the tower with the ship, and I'll actually say when mm hmm.
The boy looks up and says, she looks and points at it and
said, and then points at herself and the other boy, yeah, is
home? Oh? Byre home? Oh? I wouldn't understand that back and
forth? Oh uh, they said, it's their home, the towers their
home. But this but keeps pointing at you, and I'm sorry this picture
past or future? See? They both shake their heads. I need to
I need to sit down here here, take a scene. I can try
and figure out. We're just pointing and drawing. Maybe when you're trying to
figure out, can can you draw a map? Will if I draw anything,
I'm likely to, you know, spill the cake. I've not met,
we haven't looked at them. Happen a very long time, you know,
I mean I could probably you're scoring roughly. I just you know,
where's the tower? Where are they from? The boy thrust another piece of
paper forward towards sooner. Ah, right, what's this one? Now?
You can see the ship pulled up next to a town, the only real
thing drawn in the town. There's a building with like a big shod of
crystal sticking out of it that looked like the one that you found in Teasin.
You can see the ship there, and you can see a bunch of
passengers getting on. They're all just kind of shadowy figures, just like placeholder
stick figures, almost what we just experienced. But one of the passengers getting
on is an almost like kind of comically cartoonish tower card with arms and legs.
They're calling me the tower right, and he points at it, at
the tower me, and then he points at him, the girl and Cairo
and says, we see you, Yes, I mean I did I saw
you the vision. Well they did too, I believe. If that's what
they're trying to say, Yes, why don't we all sit down and have
some some cake. He turns around and starts throwing another picture. So are
we gonna get more of these people who have seen you? I don't know,
Maybe ask them, maybe they know more, more more. If I
don't know, if I want to know that, I'm I have a hard
enough time being responsible. Cairo here knowing what she's seen and that you know
someone might shoot her. No, it's all right, it's not you're not
responsible. Ah, I'll look at the girl and Sooner Pobe and as I
point to right, sorry, Hippo and Cairo, and then I know my
hand to her, hi Roll and Sooner boy points to you and says to
me, looks to you and back to him, Mosh, I mean tower,
Yeah, that's probably tower. But please call me sooner, Sooner Mosh,
All right, excuse you. It sounds like moulsh like I'm just you
know, poop, right, and Toby, would you if you just let
them call you Toby, because now they're gonna they already don't understand it's it's
all right. But I'll take my hand out and point to her, and
you do they not fucking have names? You can name them. Maybe.
She is confused for a second, and then the boy hits her quite roughly,
of course, and she says, uh, Tia, Tia, that's
Tia, and for ras yeah, for us, yeah, us like like
in veritas, like in truth. That's a beautiful name. They just look
confused, right, Arras Tia, please sit They the boys drawing fervently.
The girl is like looking back and forth. The boy for us another piece
of paper at you. All right, what's this one? It's a it's
a strange shadowy figure with the hands that were drawn almost exactly the same way
as how Cairo did. In the center of this kind of shadow that's kind
of looming over the piece, there is the sort of cartoonish looking tower card
with arms and legs. And then the monks are standing either side of you
with their staffs up in a kind of defensive looking posture, and they say,
and then they point at Toby, and then they point at Cairo.
We GeTe when I see the hands and the so you do, I think
they do want to help. Boy holds his hand up, you know.
When then and he starts drawing again. No one will picture, And I
think, well soon. I don't think you're stopping them. I think if
they've seen it too, they're they're not going to leave you now. I
mean you you have their respect choice. You know, you can don't talk
to me about respecting people's choices. I put a hand on Toby, like
okay, through oil. The the girl points to keep it. I'm alarmed.
At astauant keep my my my bird is soon a. Can you tell
her my for Cairo. Tell them it's not food. They don't, they
don't think it's food. Calm down. There's a smile on her face,
smiling to you. If I thought I had uh keep, I'll saying primordial
familiar, because I think they would understand that word at least. Oh,
they just usually have one. She doesn't. She shakes the head pet friend
friend, friend friend. Yes, so I'm saying that in primordial, and
I'll i'll hold up keep he's sitting up on a create a hold up my
wrists and and he'll come. I point to the photos that the boy has
drawn. Danger for you. She stops clapping and nods her head. Danger.
No magic, very dangerous. She points to her own staff. No
magic. Right. She just hits the ground really hard with the state she
could sing that thing Jesus. Mm hmm. She holds it up very good
walls. She'll help you. Sure, all right, all right, all
right. She points to you and says, mals. Then she points to
whereas and she says, sister. Wait, I think you mean brother right,
because he tears the girl correct. Mm hmm. I just want to
make sure. Yeah, okay, she is purposely mistaken. That's a brother,
you sister. Anyway, it doesn't matter, sister. Let's let's let's
calm down. Yes, yes, fine, you may come with us,
but let's just sit and have some cake for now. The boy hands you
on the last piece of paper. This face looks kind of forlorn. I
need to think. Okay, what's this now? On the paper is what
looks like the the image of a castle, kind of an odd looking castle,
but you know, it's kind of again. It's slightly cartoonish in its
crudeness. There's darkness coming up out of it, lots of it. And
in front of the castle is the tower card, but it's all torn up.
Where when I ask them where when he points to the other cards pages
and says, who rush in? And then in primordial to you, not
happen? Happen? What happened? Happen? He separates the previous when he
says, not happened happen? The first five drawings, he separates from the
last one and then points at the last one and says, not happen or
happen. It says happen. Yes, I thought as much, and then
points that the others not happen, happen happen because the others have been tower
us. Yes, they've all they all happened, they were all real,
Yes happened. And I'll just I'll just uh put a hand on on their
their shoulder. It's all right if that happens. I'm okay as long as
we stop it. Yes, whatever that word means, right, please sit.
I don't want to attract eyes. Too many eyes, I'll say in
primordial again. The kenku above you says, what the fuck? What's all
that about? I can't Would you like some Yeah, I'd love some fucking
cake? Were also we're opening in an art gallery and you wanted to additional
just trying to understand each other that ship, Well, you know, it's
just taste, you know what I mean? Uh, different tastes. I'll
play your song. You make me some cake? Great? Do you happen
to know the Butcher of bamee it's only been a little while. No,
the Butcher of Bame unfortunate. It's a good one. You should learn it
if you get the chance. Wants the story about Bain It's a good it's
a good one. What the butcher do took care of a lot of people.
You know that, you know that, you know the family that runs
Bame. No, oh well, let me let me tell you about Bame.
All right, all right, a song, it begins, it starts
plucking, the starts plucking the loop. All right, Probably a good time
to go to a break. We will return after these messages from Wax.
Stephen. Hi, everybody, it's me Stephen, and I'm starting I know,
oh not please work obs all right, I don't know what's going on.
Okay, there might be a trailer that plays it's me when Stephen.
I'm starting an on leaf fans. Thank you, it's from New York.
Maybe not then all right, I'll tell you what. We're going to go
to a break. Thanks so much for watching. We'll be back in a
few minutes, and we're to switch over to the crew, the City crew
in Belogna, hot on the trail of a physician. Maybe or maybe not.
We'll find out what they're going to do. Thanks for watching. See
you in a few back in Belna at the Assassin's Guild, about fifteen minutes
or so after we last saw them, Orrah, Ellie and Bow head back
to the assassin's guild. I think you probably make your way in head down
to the kind of common area that kind of sits at the center of these
intersecting always these long halways, relatively dimly lit assassin's guild, and what are
you guys doing? I would walk back to because I think I was ahead
of them. I would go straight back to uh Zach's office right knocking or
walking in knocking knocking, you knock on the door. Yes, you hear
a muffled coming in on the other side. I'm walk in. M hmm,
about as calm as last time. Thanks so soon. Well, we
talked to the inquisition or actually no, we just talked to Reginald and uh
they want us to find a doctor, doctor Panu. Have you heard of
him? Mm hmm. Didn't he cure a werewolf without magic? Apparently?
Apparently? Would they say? Hmm? So they want us to find him,
and I was thinking, they want us to find him or they want
you they want me to find him. Apparently he's been missing for a couple
of weeks, hangs out in a part of town. Marana's never been there.
Do you think we have any information on him? Possible? We have
to if he's a renowned doctor, right well, that depends if anybody's put
a contract on him before. Not many people want doctors dead. There are
some, though not every doctor is good. I can look through our records
if you like. The uh, the inquisition if I'm not assuming this,
but if you had plans to strike them, they're pretty weak right now,
but they might be ramping up again. I have a feeling we assume they're
weak. I assume they are weaker than they were when they had magic and
artifacts. There are many sects to the inquisition. The Arcanay Inquisition has no
Argani. Yes, but then there's the Inquisition of Alexandria, the Inquisition of
Don Durral, the Inquisition of this that, the other. There are secrets
beyond secrets, and secrets that keep those secrets in that organization. Oh well,
you're good at knowing and finding out secrets, aren't you, and keeping
them. They operate quite on their own terms, and we are just one
guild, one city. Are you saying no one else wants to take them
out anywhere? Especially after all that's happened. I mean, if you think
about it, this whole losing of magic, I mean, it was an
ark and I or that's what they think. So technically, wouldn't the inquisition
be at fault? That's got to piss off a lot of people. Yes,
but who can hold the inquisition at fault? The inquisition of the last
line? For what? When no one else can get the job done,
it's usually them? Are you saying we couldn't get the job done? They
couldn't even they couldn't even get the job done on not killing magic. We
can kill one king or a prince or noble, a common urchin, but
an entire organization might be beyond us in our skill set and measure. What
do you suggest? And we just keep playing nice with them and hope they
don't try to shut us down. We can heighten our position, We can
strengthen ourselves from this chaos, say that we don't remain under them. Perhaps
we expand to other cities as well. The thing that we have in our
benefit is we never relied on magic. That's true. I think we need
more information, maybe a little more time. Right see if someone put a
head out on this doctor, so maybe we have some information. Obviously it
hasn't been well. He might be dead, not been seen for two weeks
why do they want the doctor? They said, you know, they didn't
say why. They just told me to go find them so I could get
in and talk to our buddy Grim, But kind of want their doctor for
ourselves if he's that wanted. It seems odd that they would have you catching
a doctor. I would have thought they'd like to keep you close. Apparently
not. I'm sure I'm being followed still and watched. Hmm, it's possible.
I can have somebody tell you as well, see if they pick up
on something that might be good, someone that's actually good at a staying hidden.
So well, most people are missing at the moment. Half of our
lot went to Streledo, which is an issue. I don't know how they're
going to get back in time for this world takeover of yours. I don't
want to take over the world, but we can't take over the city.
So well, see what you know, I'm going to go talk to the
others and see if we can find any information. Very well, I shall
look now. He stands up, moves over to his bookshelf and just starts
moving through them, looking along the lines. And I just turn and walk
out and walk back towards the common area. Where I assume the other two
would be still, do you have any prongs like anything that's like are you
cooking? I know, yes, again making some like wet potatoes, and
sometimes if you have I don't believe you. See you went all kind of
scary. You know, you might actually make a good assassin after all this
is said and done, except for you, you're anger. We got to
get the under control. You're not supposed to. Let that be a motivating
factor. And the thing you just got to kill someone in not angry.
There's a little bit. However, I'm worried. Also, why do you
have to talk to that guy all the time? Like, why can't we
go do our own thing? What is is he? We can do our
own thing. He's gonna help us though, See I think we're being tailed.
So we're gonna have someone following us to see if someone they can spot
someone tailing us, which might be helpful because then we know that inquisitions they
don't trust us, which they probably don't anyway. Now this doctor, didn't
you say something about your friend back in Bame. What about Alvin? Yeah,
the little one that thinks I'm a vampire. Yeah, he's not doing
he was it's after we woke up. He was like weaker. He wasn't
feeling very good, and he kept saying that, oh, I'm doing a
little bit better, but he was getting like more pale as each hour passed.
If we find this doctor, I mean, can't we could you know,
keep him and have Alvin show up and have the doctor look at him.
If he doesn't use magic, he uses medicine. I don't. I
don't know what this doctor does. I mean, it cured someone from being
a werewolf. I mean, but that was when there was still magic.
They said that he didn't use magic to do it. That seems like a
rumor to me, Like we're trusting that this guy knows what He's a long
shot, but it's a shot. If something's wrong with your friend, it
would be good to have someone who has medical expertise of some sort to look
at him that doesn't solely rely on magic, right because we don't No one
has magic. I guess it's just that's not a motivating factor to me because
I don't know who this guy is from anybody, and I just want to
fix this for everybody. Oh I know, but I think this is a
time where if we get a doctor. We can keep him and have him
look at your friend Alvin is like a three days trip away. He also
shouldn't travel the way that he's healing. And we still have a week or
two until we hear anything from Zouna or see anything. I guess that's if
the star is a line. We yeah, if, because that's a the
seas and without magic, and you know they can be rough. And if
there's pirates or something out there and they know there's no magic, it's a
great time for them, just like it's a great time for three thieves and
assassins. If I know sooner she is not going to tolerate pirates, Yeah,
well, or shall charm them and make them a nice cake, and
then maybe we'll get here faster because the pirates will be on their side,
and then they will get here really quickly. I don't think that works,
but we'll go with that. Yeah. Uh, if you send word to
your friend Alvin, maybe see how he's doing. Like you you did?
Wait, yeah you did us. You send your bird to find us,
right and yeah, no, Buns has just been hanging out on my horn,
And so I put my finger up and I write a message. I
have like little bits of paper, and I start writing a message to Clex
because I know Alvin will lie to me. So I'm gonna start writing a
little note to check in on Alvin, and then I tie it to Buns's
leg. I gotta go outside to send him. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we uh we we got to hang out just for a little bit.
We're checking as if we have any on this doctor. But yeah, I'll
be back. Then. I make my way outside, look at Boa and
I'm like, so, prongs, You're gonna kill Reginald with prongs? Yeah?
I don't that that. No, we do know. I like open
my jacket and I have an assortment of daggers and I'm like, prongs,
I mean, I got it, I got all those. But it's nothing
like that rest assured. You know. Hell, we were just gonna maybe
rough them up a little bit so we could get some answers. It's not
gonna work. You know that these guys are like trained against torture, just
like we are. And by we I mean me not yeah, no,
I mean not obviously not that I believe that you would tell anyone if they
tortured you, but I kind of believe you might tell people something if they
tortured you, well what I think that would depend entirely. I think it
if it involved you, Sona and Aura. Well, I take that with
me to the grave. I'm just giving your ship. And I take out
a viola poison and a rag and I sit down and I start. I
take some of my daggers or two of my daggers, and I start trying
to coat it because now I can poison my daggers. Yeah, but yeah,
speaking of daggers, a dagger presses itself to the side of your neck.
Bow. Well, behind bow, you see a very classic looking kind
of ninja assassin looking fellow Ellie behind bow. You know him as as Clay
or the Bug, play the Bug. You know him as Clay. Anyone
else would know hims the Bug. He's a he's a human. He's in
his twenties. He's quite short, he's he's got one eye that's slightly bigger
than the other. He has a mask that's pulled up over his nose.
He's in the assassin's gilled clothing. He's got quite short hair, but he
does have like a long top, not kind of, but the rest is
all shaved around it. And you know, him to be quite adequate in
general, not the best, not the worst. He seems to you to
be better at gathering information than just outright combat and actual assassinations and stuff.
He's not necessarily failed at things, but he's not always put on the top
jobs. But again, he's also kind of newish to solo work. And
he appears behind you bow with a knife to your neck, and then his
face appears around the side of bow and says to you, Ellie, So
this is the one? What the one? Wait? One? And what?
I am confused? I I immediately turned to Ellie and throw my browserer,
What is he talk to you about? You can put the dagger away,
It's fine. What are you doing too long? Bo? This is
bug? Bug, this is bo. I looked him up and down,
and I realized he he's quite the small fella. Of course, obviously,
I keep that remark to myself. I just give him a wave. Hi,
I've got the lines on you. Hi. What do you mean the
one? Mhm? I'm following you around. Yeah, You're not following us
around because of him. You're following us around because the Inquisition might be tailing
us, and we need you to find that out. M want a piece
of this. Ask first, you gotta take me on a date first to
write pal. Yeah, and he's missing half of it, so all right,
let's stop talk about that. So we're just letting anybody in. He's
not a bar. I need him. We're not just letting anybody in.
I need him. You this one, uh one went to send a message.
The other one's probably drunk and passed out somewhere the bar probably right,
So don't worry. We'll be out of everybody's hair and a little bit.
Okay, he stop being aaron boys, he stops walking outside. Where are
you going? No? Come back? Hey? Wait, one more question.
I didn't say you could leave, and I I mean, I don't
know. You might want to talk to Zach about that. But do you
know anything about a doctor? Panu pano? Okay? He he hangs out
at uh Mornas. I don't know the doctor into Mars. You don't know
what the place is either, shithole? Oh well right, what kind of
people hang out there besides doctors? It's gonna be fun. Okay, thanks
for the help. Yeah, I'll be on the roof. Hell, it's
nice to meet you. Try not to fall off the roof. There's no
magic. We can't save you. He heads out. Well, then,
uh, I say, why, well, maybe Zach looks for some information
we can uh but check out this place. Well, well, we'll wait
for her to get back, but we can just go outside to her true
and uh yeah, away the daggers. And then I'll take I don't know,
I'll go up to a table, grab some parchment, a pen,
and write a note to Zach saying that we've went to check out Maranas and
to not let Kalubi leave the bar. Okay, so you guys head up
and outside, and Aura is nowhere to be seen. We're going to flip
over to where Ara is and find out. Luckily, I'm prepared for this
because we've had solo Aura time before. The figure of Aura lets buns go
buns, flutters off in the direction of Bame and then what do you do
outside? I look around very quickly and kind of get my sense of direction,
and then remember passing it's Maranas, right, good barning. I remember
a flicker of it when Nine Lives and I were coming into town, and
I just take off running towards the bar. All right, you take off
running. I'm just gonna roll one dice here for Clay the Bug to see
if he catches this or not. Okay, and yeah, you start heading
away. Moving through town after a week since the Fall of Magic is a
little easier. There's no snow anymore. The streets have cleared up, and
you start pretty much just heading down the main street. It takes you from
where you are in the midtown all the way down towards where the edge of
the walls are in the Lona's low town. And you peel off from the
main street and follow the route in until you come to the area where you
saw this. This tavern. It's it's a semi residential area. There's more
like market stalls and stuff, but there are taverns every other corner in Ballona.
When you kind of look around, it takes you a moment to retrace
your steps fully before you find this little tavern. It's kind of a thin
house. It's almost almost looks like a tower. It's like that thin,
but it's it's terraced in with a bunch of other buildings. There are like
shuttered windows. Do you just go straight in? You can see that it
says moranos outside on the on the doorframe old looking. Is there anybody outside?
There are people all over the place. You're in a big sea,
but it there's not anyone like sta ending outside. No, is there a
certain client tell that I'm noticing before I go in Roan dies Yep, like
a regular group of folks, right, No idea what you're walking into?
Okay. I'm also I'm just running at full speed and I slow down before
I get to it, so I'm out of breath and I'm just looking,
and then I'm just going to head straight for the door and not even notice
what kind of people are outside. So I'm just gonna go right inside,
get head on in. When you move in, you really what you see
is just kind of your average working folk sitting around. For the most part,
it's relatively early in the day, so it wouldn't be like panked out.
But also a lot of businesses are out of anction right now, so
the taverns a little more busy than they were. Some people are staying at
taverns and inns and stuff because their houses have suffered some sort of damage or
been entirely destroyed, so people are displaced. There are several tables on one
half of this tavern that look like poker tables or blackjack tables or something like
that. It seems to sort of double up as a just a place that
people would come to play cards. Then the closer half, the half that
you kind of walk into, just appears to be anything like a normal tavern.
There is a stairway that heads upstairs, but it's like kind of barred
off just by a plank of wood, suggesting probably that the owner lives upstairs.
And really it's just one small, very small tavern. You walk in,
the patrons inside don't really react. On the left hand wall, as
you walk in, there's a relatively small bar. There's a crossbow, big
looking heavy crossbow, sat on the counter, and beyond that there is a
quite stout and tough looking dwarven woman, red braided hair, a greasy gown.
She's got legs up on the bar, she's got one hand on the
crossbow and the other drinking from a mug of what's probably some sort of dwarven
ale. She is like the only person looking at you when you walk in.
She gives you a kind of a kind a look. She gives you
a look that you see with your own eyes. I don't know if you
want to roll to determine what that might be. You would like to roll
to see if I can interpret her intent with her look. You may it's
friendly or aggressive. Eleven is a pass. You just get the sense that
she recognizes you're not a regular. When I walk in, I probably notice
as well that people look more grungy than I do. They just look like
what would most likely be the working folk from the immediate area. It's a
local bar, really, so it's probably just the residence of this part of
town. Nobody looks necessarily one way or another. It doesn't look like a
banditory bar it, you know, there's a sense of just a local pub
feeling. It doesn't. I don't think you're overwhelmed with fear by walking in.
Necessarily, I'm going to go up to the bar and order a drink.
You head up. The woman gives you a side glance and then nods
you're new in town. Yeah, I came from up North. I just
wanted to visit some friends and make sure they were okay. Yeah, my
chump North. I'm from Bame. Oh I I knew a fella from Bam.
What's his name? Mal Malki okay, okay, okay, Malkay No
Malki, Malki Do I know Malki Roll of Dice thirteen? You do not?
I can't say, uh, Malki rings the bell? But there's ore,
there's several Malkis. Is there a last name that goes with that?
Oh? I you're not too old, are you ween? You're probably what
forty? I'm thirty one? Are you ween? Your baby? So maybe
maybe Malkie was before my time, oh two hundred years ago? Oh yeah,
then I probably have not met. He moved from there to here.
No, I did I still live up there. I just I just came
down here to to check on some friends. And who's your friend? I
haven't really been able to locate them. That's been on a stout. She
pushes a kind of dirty looking wooden mug towards you, But inside is some
golden looking liquid, like being carbonated. Ooh ooh, that's got a bite
to it. Hey especial not lasted a keg. Oh, it's very rich,
thank you, thank you. I actually I also came for a baby.
I have some friends back home that aren't doing so well. So our
doctor recently passed, so I'm looking for another doctor who might be able to
help that one. You're looking for a doctor here? Yeah, I mean,
I mean Malona would have the best right, and my friends is not
doing very good. So I thought, if I'm gonna do what I'm gonna
do it right? You think you're going to get a doctor to come with
you on to the stakes. Have you seen it outside? I didn't know
it was this bad. I'm saying. Everybody in here has got bruises.
Look at him, Look at his whee legs like tramped under beam. Went
to tramp under a beam and I was trapped under a beam. Oh are
you okay? Well? I hope so, I think so I can walk?
That's good. I mean the bruises normally, like I a couple of
weeks. If it's just bruising, you should be fine. He doesn't he
work, It doesn't need them anyway. I'll work. I'll work plenty,
all right. I just out of luck with work. You're not out of
luck. You're a lazy bastard. What kind of work do you do?
I'll do anything right. What do you need? Lifting? Doctor? I
can't read, okay, I'll keep you in mind for other jobs. So
though, and I turned back to her. So do you know any doctors
that might be interested in coming up north with me? Doctors? You see
doctors come and go. No, any of doctors coming in now? You
should probably go see h. Someone and the government who's in charge of the
doctors. Oh now, when I was in charge of the door just did
their own thing, did I? Oh? No, it's pray he won't
get pitty at the work. Perry, I ain't do nothing for you.
Might I only know one doctor. His name's Perry Perry. I know Perry
years fixed up my leg had a bum knee. Oh is that the same
that's the same doctor that Reginald wants us to find? Correct bread, I
would assume, sir. Okay, And Perry is not a common name.
Is is he here right now? Can I help old man? Old man
had the red cough? If I had the red cough? How is he
now? Oh? He's long day, not from the red cough? Parry?
Did that? Okay? Is Perry here? He sounds he sounds perfect?
H Perry? Well, if you see Perry, where's Perry going to
be? Now that comes in here? Sometimes you're not after him for money?
He's good for money, don't rough him up. You know, we
need our doctors. No, of course, I would never rough him up.
I do. I look like that would rough somebody up. You got
a big sword on your back walking around in a little crisis. Yeah,
it's my dad taught me how to use this, and so I am.
It's like a blanket when you're a kid. I just take it everywhere with
me. It's like a security. That's a big blank that's a when anyone's
saying a little smaller. You're traveling all this way, it looks heavy.
Yeah. There was on the road though there where there was some some robbers,
and it's just it's kind of like a protection thing too. Hm.
Right, I see he can handle yourself. Then I think I can,
But then sometimes I think that I can't. I honest, Well you made
it here, you know, Billy A scratch on you. Yeah, I
when I say it and think about it. Now, I met a nice
man on the road, and you let me ride with him the whole way.
But I didn't really know him. And now I just I guess that
is, I guess I'm here. II all right, Well, Harry lives
up in Midtown, though you'll have to go up to his house. Okay,
mid midtown, midtown. I'm I grab a little piece of paper out
of my pocket and I write it down. Do you have his address?
Hey? You go up to the front of that. There's a big bell
tower by the bridge. Hey, a big bridge, and there's a little
red brick house in front of that there bell tower. That's his house.
That's the top floor. I've not been there in a while. He might
have moved. Has he been here recently? I haven't seen him in weeks.
Oh okay, Well I could check his house. Is he married or
anything, or does he have like oh, you know, he comes in
here, he comes and goes. I've never seen him with that woman.
No man. Well, he keeps himself to himself. Okay. Sometimes it's
kind of nice, right, hey, I mean I've never seen my husband
in a long time. Is long gone in the ground. I'm sorry.
Nice. Yeah, it's nice in its own way. Yeah. Sometimes I
feel like you just if you only depend on yourself, then you can never
be disappointed, right. I suppose that's one way to look at it,
But it's not nearly as fun right or fulfilling. I should probably go thank
you for this lovely beer is it mead. She She leans forward and says,
are you in trouble? Lass, you need some help? No,
I'm just worried about my friends. You sure, I've got some friends of
my own. See you on your way. No, it's it's okay.
Well I I you've been so nice. You know. Sometimes you come into
taverns. There was one time I went into a tavern here and then the
guy tried to cut my head off. Oh that happens. Yeah, it's
not too bad here. Sometimes somebody try and cut your head off. That's
what one hand here on nice. Yeah, I mean, that's another reason
why I carry this. But where I come from, like you might get
a weird look or someone might just give you the stank face. But for
the most part, like I don't have to worry about that. Yeah,
probably, I probably knows everybody though in Bam. So like you go chopping
someone's head off the elfiner straight away up here, I chop off his head.
Nobody's gonna miss you. Nobody's gonna miss you, mate, nobody's gonna
miss you. Off your head. You wouldn't chop off my head. You
wouldn't stand the chance me and you outside. I'm sorry, so you don't
need any help. I don't know what kind of help you can be.
You're not being chased down, No, no, I think I'm just hurrying
by two copper pieces. And before you go running off, No, of
course, I take out one of my few gold pieces that Clus gave me
and I just slide it over. You can keep the change, need the
chine. Yeah, and they know we had a normble. Don't be flashing
all that gold. No, well, that's why I slid it over to
you very conspicuously. Yeah, you be careful walking at it in gold pieces
like that. You should go get in exchange. That's my last one.
Oh well, then you youring let me get you. No, no,
no, I want you to have it because I don't know maybe some most
and I don't need to twice my ear. I'm sorry about your husband.
And I set the drink down and I stand up and smooth out my coat
overcoat, and don't fight I turned to the guy with the bruised legs.
Don't fight her because your legs are hurt and you never not quite know when
a sword might come for your neck. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna fight
no one, really, that's good. I just you just don't want to.
I just want to even joke about that. And then I turn around
and I walk out the Yeah, well freak. Anyway, as I was
saying, oh, and Ellie, what are you doing? I mean Ellie,
would I would have set out to do what Ellie planned to do,
go to Maranos, because if Orra is not there and I didn't see her
on the way out, I'd be like, Okay, well maybe she won't
to have to Reginald. All right, That's what I actually thought. Uh
Ora, roll me at dice, you two, roll me at dice.
Yeah, let me scroll up ten, fifteen and twelve for both ten fifteen?
What was ours ten? And yours is the twelve and the fifteen?
Are you moving quite quickly there? Because she sprinted, I'd say, Eli,
it moves pretty quickly, especially through a crowd of chaos. Are you
sprinting full pelt or like a fast walk? Like She's not going to be
one of those like well met take off run, because that would be too
obvious. She's going to do one of those like fast walks. I'm just
trying to catch up. I'm going to roll the dice, and if I
roll, I roll above ten you're going to bump into each other. Thing.
As you are moving down the street, Ellie, you spot walking towards
you the probably the top of Aura's sword, like the tip over the crowd
moving before. Aura's looking kind of down at a piece of paper, trying
to figure out where the main bridge would be. She looks left, sees
the canal, and starts to follow the canal. The two of you see
her move off in a different direction, and she's gone. I would start
to follow her. I wouldn't say anything, though. I would just start
to quietly follow her, and I would look at it and go I give
her a nod, and I stay quiet, and I think I would whispers
like she's going off without us. I don't trust her, and I would
just keep moving. Okay, So you two following Aura, or are you
come to the area? Actually, Roma dies as if you do find it,
you're not from Bologna. Sorry, I keep thinking, Oh, you
know exactly where it is. It's actually very near to where the Temple of
Oriel was, the temple where you ended up fighting with Iggan. And there's
a huge bridge that runs across one of the widest points of the river that's
in town. Before you come to it, you recognize one of the bell
towers. This is somewhat of a sort of the religious quarter. There's lots
of temples and stuff around here, and there's a huge bell tower. Before
you actually step onto the bridge on the main street, you can see across
from there there's a relatively small set of buildings, one of them being red
brick, maybe two or three levels to it, and stairwell that leads up
the sides you heading straight on up. I mean I'd probably look behind me
and look around to see because Elliott said something about people tailing us potentially.
Okay, everyone role, including I guess the bug. Yeah, Bo and
Ellie, you're all successful. I really know how contested roles work in this.
I'm going to make a roll on the spot. Success is that you
accomplish what you're trying to do without any compromises. Can I say what I
think Ellie would do, Like at a point she would. I'm not going
to announce myself, but she's not going to hide from her either. Like
if she turns around and sees Ellie, Ellie's just gonna get it, you
know, just gonna wave. I would say that you probably see each other
unless I feel like if Ellie wants to hide, she would win. She
can hide. Maybe not the same for Bow, but with Ellie's pointers,
I don't think anybody sees the bug around here. But yeah, be a
creepy anime scene where you see Bow and then Ellie steps up from behind him
and just like does not look very happy. Yeah, and yeah, I
think as you as you arrive at your destination, you turn around, you
see these two walking up behind you. Okay, good, I found the
address. I guess he lives up there. Well, you guess he lives
over there. You're just gonna go get him without us and bring him back
right. Well, I don't have time to deal with your dad, so
I got other things. That's not my dad, first of all, and
second of all, you know, I thought we were a team, But
now I see you just want to do things on your own terms and not
have I don't know what your problem is, Ellie. You're running the show,
or think that you are. There's I beg to duffer you're the one
running off and doing whatever you want and not including either of us. I
thought we were a team, but no, you just gotta feel like I
am part of a team right now. If you're not, because you're acting
on your own, I start, I head right up the stairs. It
has to do with this, has to do with what with Alvin? Then
I offered to help. Is that it? Because that doesn't count. It
has to be you're not part of the team, and neither am I.
Apparently we can't let her do this alone. I give a signal that an
assassin if he's around, would recognize, but that basically says like we're going
in and like stay here, yeah, so keep watch or whatever, yeah,
or it leads the way up the stairs, heads up towards a just
a standard looking door, wooden door painted kind of a lightish blue color,
but all the painters faded and peeled off. You can see that there are
windows, but it's kind of hard to work out what's going on from here
because the it's the top floor. There are three doors that you walk past,
with a third being the top floor. It's kind of a mazing net
that's been split in a way, but it's also quite small. You get
the sense that this is probably where a building where where small folk live.
Probably gnomes, halflings take residents in this building. The door is about as
tall as you are. I think you're like the high five foot tall area,
so you would have to duck down slightly to get in approaching the door.
It just is appears to be closed, locked, windows closed, kind
of hard to make out anything once you approach it first. Is there any
can't deeves, can't or anything anywhere? Nothing on the doorway, no,
okay, just seems pretty normal standard front door or a ballogna ome instead.
I would probably try to push beside or and put my ear to it,
see if I can hear anything inside. Roll me a dice, yeah,
lemon, no obvious sounds coming from inside. As soon as she takes your
ear off, I'm gonna knock on the door. There's a wrap. Maybe
you wait a moment. No response, Hello doctor, I'm gonna try and
lock pickt yeah, no response Rome and dice eleen yeah nighteen yeah, easy
lock, no problems whatsoever. Takes you like less than a minute, and
then the of the lock on pitching. I open it, hold it out
to or and say after you, your highness, all right, come on,
let's please, ladies. I look at her and just go. If
you want to be passive aggressive, it about all of this that's fine,
and I just walked past her. Oh I don't think I was being passive,
Okay, aggressive, I mean, but that's your normal mode anyway.
And so I started, apparently it's yours now too. We get along great
in the past, poor bo. So and I start, I ignore her
last comment, and I just start searching around the apartment because I am feeling
like we're gonna find a dead body. Does it smell? It doesn't smell.
You walk in to Professor Pierre's house. You enter and you see three
kind of open plan rooms. There's a bedroom on one side that has a
small bed, halfling body, maybe some clothing, not a huge amount,
but like it seems like he has nice stuff in here. This isn't necessarily
like a peasants hovel, but it also isn't like filled with gold or anything
like that. He probably makes good money being a doctor, but nothing.
He doesn't seem to be into too much flashy things. That being said,
he does have some decent clothing, multiple sets of clothing, which is also
a thing. There's a main room with a with a kitchenette to one side.
The table with all the bowls and plates that are tidied away it's quite
clean in here, tidy. There isn't another room that looks like a medical
kind of office. There's a bed with a side. It looks like it's
likely for patient visits and not like a spare room. At the back of
the central room, kind of directly ahead of you as you step in,
there's a desk in between two bookcases. The desk is in disarray and the
bookshelves are overflowing with books. They're piled up on the floor in front of
it. And as you guys start moving through, there's no dead body.
There's no no really like blood or anything crazy. You don't find a finger
or anything like that. But it just looks like an empty house, like
no one's been home for a little while. The only real kind of area
that looks kind of messy is the desk, But it doesn't look like it's
been like robbed, you know. It just looks like it's just the area
of the house that is used the most. I'd like to use an ability.
Yeah, curious case, And I want to say he uses this because
this isn't the first time she's had to go into someone's home to find information
so she could locate them and kidnap or kill them. So this would remind
her of several times. And basically what it is is I spend three points
and then I discover either the motive of the person of the scene, the
nearby location of a hidden message, symbol, or other detail that reveals some
sort of affiliation about the scene, or where someone who was involved in the
scene might have been headed. Next, can I use that here? Yeah?
Absolutely, You guys start looking around. I think several filthy looks between
Aura and Elie bow kind of awkwardly shuffling around, really like a dad and
two daughters. He picks up a plate and puts it down. He's clearly
slightly distracted while the two of you are fervently looking about. Eventually the two
of you maybe come to the desk, shoving each other out of the way,
partially looking over the books, or maybe looks over the books since your
librarian child and Ellie starts looking over the things on the desk. The books
concern themselves with like science, the science of medicine, some alchemy, tinkering
even which is like more mechanical but it seems to be needled, and things
like that. How to make one of those horrible Victorian looking, terrifying needles.
The Science of Healing Magics, which is a book that you actually maybe
have seen recently, since you guys were doing a bunch of research into that.
There is books on disease and various common sicknesses and things like that.
On the actual desk in amongst a lot of paperwork and other books and notes
scribbled in doctor's hand Ellie, you find kind of an old looking diary,
quite an old looking book, but a thick one. We're filled with appointments.
As you start flicking through it, you can see there are a bunch
of appointments that he keeps. It seems to be more appointments of him going
out. The final appointment is on the morning of the Fall of Magic,
which is a home visit to a missus Zevon. And I will write that
in the group chat, with an address next to it that takes you a
little further into Midtown, which is a place that you and bo would know,
essentially over the bridge to a street known as Oath Street. And hmm,
yeah, I think probably that. Oh. Also in the diary the
address of his home is different. Is his name written in it, but
it says that his home is on the edge of Lowtown, on the crossroads
of John and Edmonton Street. But that also probably stands out for you as
odd. This is this is not his address. I look back at bone,
I'm like, do you find anything? I no, nothing dead stands
out. I'm gonna talk the uh. I'm gonna obviously try to turn away
and just tuck the diary in and then keep looking around. Do I notice,
because I'm watching her like a hawk, Do I see her tucket?
I don't see why you wouldn't not even if I turn away and she's looking
at a book. Are you waiting till she's not looking and then steal the
book? Because if we're if we're all looking at stuff, I'm totally gonna
try and and jack the book the diary. Yeah, I doubt you would
say it. Sorry, So she's sort of actively stealing it, and she's
an you know, she's a rogue. He waits while you or over a
book. Can I can I make Can I make this as especially after reading
that this isn't the address or I don't think this is the address? What
could it be? Looking around? Can just look like it's not a primary
residence like this is just a getaway place of some sort, because I mean
that is something that criminals do have. Yeah, they're hideout. It really
does look like a primary residence where he probably lives. Yeah, you get
the sense that it is lived in. Okay. Wasn't this guy human though?
And you said it looks like he's Ah, he's a halfling. I
think he was blonde, halfling with like mutton chops. Wait, so I
turned or I was like, if if this guy is a halfling and your
friend is a halfling, do you think the same thing could be happening to
this guy. Alvin's a gnome, always a gnome. This guy's a half
I'll have to learn the difference later. And then, yeah, I don't
think i'd say anything else. I'd look out around for a med kid though.
Oh yeah, you can actually find a bunch of stuff like that.
I'm gonna take back any like medical supplies or anything, honestly, So yeah,
you'll you'll find a bunch of like medicines and tinctures and salves. I
don't know if you and look at Aura and uh oh, I would have
no idea. But I'd look at Ora and say, do any of these
look helpful. I don't know anything about medicine. I mean, I pick
one up and I put it back down. I just don't no idea.
It's not poison, you know, it's not something I would do with Bow
might know too, And I'll go over and I'll search the shelves and does
anything look like it would be beneficial. Yeah, you can roll if you
want to work it out, I'll roll as well. Yeah, I'd say
it's less about your skill than that. They are mostly kind of unlabeled,
like he knows what they are, you know what I mean, Like he
just grabs this battle and then this salve and that thing, and you know,
there's probably things that you do recognize as useful that like bandages and stuff
like that. It really is traditional medicine and stuff like that. There is
some very simplistic looking surgical tools, but he's not really a surgeon. It's
just things like those little tongs whatever they're called. The surgeons pull bullets out
with stuff like that, a couple of scalpels. Really, most of the
alchemical things are unlabeled. There are a few there that looks like they might
be the classic healing potion, but it's kinda hard to tell, and in
most people's history of getting healing potions wrong with something else, it usually has
dire consequences, which range from dire rhea all the way up to you've transformed
yourself into a bowling ball for twenty four hours. So it's yeah, there's
there's a couple of different potions and things, but everything, I would say,
everything is kind of unlabeled and even and the things that are labeled and
maybe labeled in like weird ways, like you know he just called one of
them is just called boom juice, you know something like that. Is he
have a recipe book like where he writes down what he puts in these m
let's see, he probably does, but you don't see one. I would
I would try to start looking for one then, because I would have no
idea and looking at the stuff isn't going to help me, So I try
to find a book. Yeah, you can all roll one more time,
look around for a deeper look. Seven oh fifteen, roll, Laura?
Are you out? Sure? You left now? I was thinking about what
I'd be doing. Or if you don't really find anything else, it's you
come to the decision that it's more likely he probably has like a doctor's go
bag, and everything of use that he might need is in that, maybe
even including things like a recipe book. But from what people are saying,
he's kind of a genius doctor, so maybe he doesn't need a recipe book
or anything like that. If he's researching things, then it might be in
one of these bookshelves. But then that's you doing research as well, which
isn't really a five minute task. I think I would take some of the
stuff that looked a little more intuitive and not as intense, like if I
swaw, Like if I took it, I might get diarrhea. Like,
I think I take the stuff that looks like, okay, well we could
use like these bandages and da da dah. Yeah, so you I would
try to I'm sure he has a bag somewhere, so I would try to
put them in that. Well. With the system in your inventory, you
can only have twelve items, so you can switch and swap what you need
to switch and swap. You can take carrier bag, you can take two
vials of maybe ocean if you want to write that in everything else, just
you take bandages. Yeah, I think you can take bandages. I'm going
to take bandages. Because I'm not going to swallow something or I have no
idea what it does, right, But everything else is just kind of like
a specialists tool in the same way you have thieves tools. You would need
some sort of proficiency with this stuff really to use it, and it's probably
more likely to do more damage than good in a dire situation. Bo being
a relatively competent healer, has all the stuff he needs, so it's not
really like you would need it. You're a death dealer and then not a
healer. Was there anyone else at mornas? Who did you talk to?
And I talked to the bartender? Was no one shady looking maybe in there
to talk to? Why would I look talk to someone shady if we were
looking for the doctor, because doctors often deal with shady people as well,
I mean the inquisitions looking for him, they obviously know him, they want
his help. Well, I found his house and got it fairly quickly,
and there's just a man with very bruised legs and a woman with a with
a bow. She had her feet on the bar, which is very unsanitary.
She had a bow in her feet on the bar. Yeah, oh,
technically before just look at him see scarier. Hm, they were very
nice in there. I'd go back, but I found this place and apparently
he's not here. He could be out on a call though. I mean,
that's look what's happening out there. And you saw two people that one
looked injured, And I mean, if we just walk around, we'll find
injured people everywhere after what happened a couple of few days ago. Oh does
the place look lived in brad like he does? Is ER's dust? It
does? But you get the sense that nobody's been here for a few days,
maybe a week, and the fact that he has the last appointment written
into a diary. Actually you don't know this. Yeah, I wouldn't know
that, So, yeah, you get that much. I mean to the
same point. The last appointment was a week ago. It's been exactly seven
days. It's being day seven, clear that he has not and I they
take my finger and swipe on a table. He has not been here in
a while. There's just dust caked on my fingers. So I don't know.
Take care of the place, eh. Doctors are usually there. I
mean, for the most part, they try to be clean. Also,
this kind of dust. I mean, look at how us some of these
places are It wouldn't be like a perfect layer of dust on a table.
It's kind of gross. So my thought is he probably maybe he died when
something, maybe a bean on him. I think, does there have any
neighbors? Well, there are two floors below him, the doors that you
walked past to come up here. Yeah, I think i'd walk out,
and because I mean I've looked it over. I found something viable. But
I'm gonna go talk to his neighbors if he has, if they're home.
She go down one floor and she's walking out to be like, did you
find anything he has the neighbors? Maybe? I don't know. Did you
hear I didn't hear him? Are you going to the floor below? Yeah,
I'm gonna go to the floor below and bang on the door. Let's
save someone's time. Mm hmm. No response. As I'm doing this,
I'm gonna open what am I being followed? Are you guys following me?
I'd probably head out, And I did look at bow as we head down
the stairs. It wasn't anything personal. I just was trying to expedite some
of this before we leave. I'm gonna grab on two of those maybe potions
all right, maybe maybe potions. Yeah, I'm gonna go down to the
next floor then and bang on that one to fight in the bottom one.
There's a moment and then you hear some noise, and then the door opened.
Before you is a very thin looking, gnomish gentleman. He's maybe three
foot tall. He has a very long white beard that comes down to a
point near his navel, a bald head, kind of long point years,
relatively droopy eyes. He's a little he looks a little malnourished, and his
clothing is kind of moth eaten. But his house behind him as he opens
the door is relatively decent. There's some like nice looking stuff in there,
like well made furniture. You can you get a smell of something odd cooking
in there, food possibly, but it smells kind of sour. As you
knock on the door, he swings it open, looks up at you,
and I think immediately takes in just how you're dressed, because it's always immediately
intimidating. He sees an old man walking down behind you, and then a
teething with a gigantic sword on her back, and he says, I don't
have la manold, but don't come on that our well from I've heard to
run marll tire mouse parcels up. You're a manold around eyes? Or does
happen? And now there? Come on? Now? I crouched down,
and I'm like, who do you owe money? No, ron, I
don't. I don't know about their money? Hours tested on there? How
can I help you? We're not here to take your money. We're here
to find out about your two floors up? I mean, and that lives
there have a good doctor? Do you know anything about where he's been?
Whereas we knows a doctor? The car's way out? Oh well, it
seems a lot of people are looking for him right now. If that need
help and no one can find him, I've been bloody looking for him for
the work. I feel like shut, I feel like shit. Huh how
do you feel? I feel like somebody took out my stomach and then portled
in upside down. I look back at Aura, told you, what do
you think a doctor could help you feel better? Like you're going to make
me feel better? Come on, I'm not a doctor. Do I look
like I'm a doctor? Look mad me feel better? In other words,
I crouched down, excuse me? Do you think doctor Perry could make you
feel better? But I don't know. If I knew that i'd be a
doctor, wouldn't I I I mean, I guess. I guess you lived
near him and have experience with him and seeing what he does. Do you
think that he could help you? Right now? There's a doctor and I
feel like shut So I'm gonna say, yeah, are you feeling worse or
better? Are you a doctor in a way talks a little bit about medicine.
Well, then I'll tell you this. I feel a little better,
but it's not great. I feel like I feel like somebody took out all
my blood and then I missed it around and I put it back one.
Okay, but you're not. You're not. You're not feeling worse than you
were, say, a week ago, shout, I couldn't walk for two
does okay, that's a good sign. Then you can walk now, and
you can you can do more. You're gonna me money if you keep up,
and now I'll pay you. I stand back up, and I just
turn around and look at the floor. I'm trying not to laugh in front
of the film. Everybody listen, I am picky. You can come into
okay, well I'm not here to do you, not here to sleep with.
You might be dead in a few days. The way I feel,
you're not gonna use pity to get either of us or or him. And
I point the boat and by hi, I don't even think he's you know,
but out of all of us, he's the least picky. Hey,
I think not. That's okay. Listen, you find out doctor you you
send them on home. Okay, well we'll do that, all right.
It doesn't as well anybody asks you about if you owe someone money, how
do you have money to pay for other activities? Keep a few coins under
the mount trials? Can I can I investigate? Can I like look past
him and tell anything about like maybe his lifestyle or roll me dice Bo gets
plus five to whatever he rolls eleven never mind eleven nine nine. The only
thing you get the sense of here, Elie, is that he's he's for
sure doing something illegal in there. It's kind of hard to tell what he's
up to. He could be anything. He could be offense, he could
be, you know, selling some sort of illegal drugs, or there's no
real way to tell just from this, but he's probably he's for sure a
criminal in some way. Bo. You also get the sixth sense for sure
that this guy is some sort of criminal and hard to tell, no idea
what he's doing. Yeah, he's up to something like most people are criminals,
and weekend sense that he's Yeah, I mean, you guys have a
sixth cent, especially Bo. Both I got all these criminal contacts and stuff
around town. Yeah. All right, Well you have a good day,
and maybe next time, don't open the door for just anyone, make a
little so you can like look out freak in there. Okay, don't don't
let it come out everything about board all right. I'll take your word for
it, and I get off and I work away. Come on back whenever
you're will slams the door? Is he your prostitute? You know what,
I wouldn't be surprised if he is willing to pay us. Yeah, that
makes us the prostitute. If he's wanting to pay us and we sleep with
them, is he just how else is he making his money by selling himself?
He could be making his money by a lot of things. He didn't
come off as very uh what's the word. I mean, the world's kind
of ending, right, He could be making drugs, not the helpful kind,
and I start to walk out the door. I'm going to go back
to the guild. I guess I'll turn in tell I'm going back to the
guild. See off Zach found anything on this doctor that the fortresses looking for.
I don't think we should rely on no offense. We have ledgers and
stuff that keep track of people whenever we need to know important faces and where
to find them for reasons. But Reginald trusted us US three to find this
doctor, and I don't trust Reginald. And I look at Aura. I
don't trust Reginald either. We don't either. But I know Zach. I
don't know this Reginald guy, and I definitely don't know the Inquisition well enough
to trust any of them with our lives. In fact, I really don't
a step foot back in their place, because let's just say that they are
not so kind when they want information as well. I guess if you're talking
trust, I don't want to. I don't trust Zach, so as it
goes both ways, he'd at least tell me before he stabbed me. So
well, that doesn't help, does a little bit, No, it doesn't.
I know you guys don't trust him. But okay, did you find
anything upstairs? Because I'm not going back. You find anything, okay,
well, then go where you're gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the
guild. Let me know where you're going. I'll come find you. I
mean, maybe, don't bother. You're really gonna be a team. We're
supposed to be a team. You're the one that ran off, and you're
gonna accuse me of not wanting to be a team. You're supposed to be
a team. Zach is not a part of our team. He's helping us
right now. To you, I haven't barely spoken to this man. And
also you want to speak with him, you can come in with us.
You could always come in with us. Stay outside. Jack wants me killed.
He wants me dead. Actually no, he left that up to me,
and I was the one that decided if you're gonna be dead or not.
Wait what Yeah, I'm the one that got the letter. It's not
Zach that wants you killed. It's the person who hired him, your father,
that one as you killed, And we didn't kill you. We don't
call off hits ever, but we called off yours. So if you want
to find your father. We can do that after all this is over.
But I could care less. I care about you, I care about Aura
Sona, and I care for Alvin. I it's like you say we're on
a team, but you're just you're saying, oh, we're going back to
the guild, like we're supposed to follow you like lost puppy dogs. I
came out here to try to find something. You came out here to help
your friend and leave us behind. We need to find out what's going on
in the fortress. What's going on there? Why do they need a doctor,
Why are they locking up Grim? Why did Grim attack it in the
first place. He knows something that we don't know. Maybe the person we're
looking for is in there. Maybe something's going down, Maybe it's the Queen.
The whole time, I don't give a shit about the Queen. I
give a shit about Alvin and Suna and everybody else. Suna's coming here,
She's gonna meet us here, and you're gonna leave. I came all this
way to meet up with you too, and I've literally been kicking dirt around
in the guild. No, if we're in the inquisition, but yes,
in both places and I've gotten nowhere, and I'm saying, let's go go
back to the guild, find out what information we can find, and then
go to the fortress. But just go, or I can go. The
guilt doesn't have anything for me. They have me, I know. But
your loyalty is to them and not us. You're gonna say that after all
this. You're gonna say that, after sticking with you guys through all this,
or that's what you're gonna say to me. Put yourself in Ora's shoes,
though I am. She's doing what she wants and accusing us of it.
It's called projection, and you're doing it right now. I turn around
and I walk down the street and I'm gone, or you know where to
find me, and I just I walk towards the gird. What do you
go buy? I I guess I'm just very caught up in the moment.
I'm like a deer just transvict into staring down into head headlights. I I
want to be there for both of them, you and I. It breaks
my heart that they're they're butting heads like this. I understand Aura. I
understand Ellie too. I know Ellie has the right intentions by trying to help
us, but at the same time I understand Aurah where she comes from,
not trusting the guild that this is. This is tough. Oh god,
I think I'm just gonna take a walk by myself. Yeah yeah. The
three of you split up and head in different directions. However, our camera
pans up to the rooftop. On top of the roof, we see Clay
the Bug watching the three of you split up, and you can see a
look of confusion, and then he kind of does a like a hands in
the air, which one am I supposed to follow. There's a moment where
his eyes widened, and just as he turns behind him, a hand grips
his face, pulls down his mask, another hand with a cloth over his
mouth. There's a few seconds and a struggle before you see Clay's eyes roll
up in the back of his head and he falls kind of slumped to one
side. You hear a voice say they trained you well, boy, I'm
damn good too. And that's where we end today's session. Are you kidding?
Not? Bug scene? What just happened? My god, I'm myrtled,
I'll be honest. I thought we had another hour of the show left,
and then I remembered that it's Daylight Savings and I and that's that I
thought there was. I was about to go back to the other crew,
and then I realized that it ends around now, and then it's probably bes
to pull it there, drama. That voice sounded familiar, Banana, should
it sound familiar? No, let's say it's a voice we haven't heard yet.
It's just that I don't have that many voices. Off, I was
like, I swear to god, that's grim that just killed him off.
It's similar. I just don't have too many. And also I kind of
had to figure out which accent is Bolognian somewhat if I needed to fall back
on a just someone from Bologna voice, it's just, you know, gruff
London. It's just kind of London accent in a kind of Florence looking town
in an italian Ish but not Italy Alexandria. I have to base things in
some place to come myself to GM. And I just don't have that many
voices. I am not, Thanks Stephen, Thank God? Am I right?
All right? It's all I got. I try some of the distinct
accents and stuff. I didn't want to. I don't want to make it
too crazy. But let's just say it was not a voice we've heard before.
Let's imagine it's Let's imagine I had lots of voices available to me,
theory crafting in the discord with Arana plant tonight in ten minutes from now.
As is always custom after an episode much drama, we go to you or
whack. That's just redeemed destroy Brad with our own channel point destroy Brad one
now? And why is it so much less than destroy Steve? I have
no idea is mine? I think mine's for a penny if you redeem that
right now. At the end of an episode of something, I GM,
it's already destroyed. My brain is done. I'm always ko by the end
of ming for three hours, so that that works out pretty well. It
was not me, though I didn't even know existed. Let's got a PB
for reaction for for the episode. Yeah, I just want to see,
Oh oh well, I type. Should I share what I put in our
group chat because I feel like I probably should have put it in the Yeah,
I probably should have put in the public chat. I apologize. I
said what stick is up Ellie's ass? I missed dead Ellie? I said
it. Sorry, pocket, I said it. Dead Ellie was not going
to have you all killed if we succeeded, So for real, even after
all put a hit out on everybody, if we all I still miss dead
Ellie because at least I wouldn't have seen it coming. Yeah, dead Ellie's
not going to kill or even if they fight like twins. Wait, isn't
I thought you said dead Hilly was or live Ellie? Sorry I forgot,
I'm live now. Yes, Live Ellie's not gonna She's not gonna kill or
any of you guys. She's gonna kill for you. But if I can
explain, since it's confusing and whatnot, Ellie has changed. In the original
world where it was peaceful and the apocalypse didn't really happen. It just everyone
lost magic and was peaceful. Ellie got to live the life she wanted.
She doesn't get it. I've been wondering if this is kind of like a
tantrum that she's sort of like throwing, because it's not really a tantrum so
much as like, well, I mean, the world's different. She can't
survive without with chaos going on right now and the fact that we have to
go after this guy, and what's going on in the fortress and you know,
what is the inquisition up to? And uh, what's the guild gonna
do about it? And then so she's using Zach. She's using them,
and he knows that and he's using her. And I think it's like they've
she's starting to realize like maybe I do need him, that that peaceful world
is not real, and she's starting to shut that out again like she once
did as an assassin. So it's like I think you kind of see her
going back into assassin mode. Yeah, but I think that's why Ora and
Bo are having such a hard time with it, right because you're choosing guild
or I wouldn't say I'm choosing guild, but I have an end goal of
getting into the fortress. I don't have an end goal of going to save
one person right now. It's like getting into the fortress. They have an
goal that's the same too, it's just you're willing to work with Zach to
do it and they don't feel comfortable with that, right, Like that's what
the divide is always going to go work with Zach. Interesting to watch either
way, but also like they don't have a Zach Yeah, like if we
Zach if Hada, maybe you'd be going back and forth with that point of
contact, or if or I had one, maybe going back and forth.
So from a character perspective, Ellie trusts Zach in the sense of I can
mind him for information, whereas the other two are like, we keep going
back to this terrifying guild leader dude who's like all mixed up in the politics
as well. If if Ora had a contact that you guys could go to,
it certainly wouldn't be the leader of like the assassins, you know.
So I think there's just an element of we automatically don't trust this leader of
assassin's persone. Yeah, and also there's like this whole idea that for you
know, for ten weeks it was like Ellie's like, I'm going to fucking
kill Zach And then we know as players that in your perfect world you killed
him and you got to do and then you cried, But in character,
we don't know that at all, and suddenly you're just like the fuck if
you're recall when Bo and Ellie met up and she was injured and outside the
guilds she hadn't gone in yet. She was crying because Zach was still alive.
No, I know that there was a moment where she was upset.
They don't know that. Yeah, like we as players know that, but
the characters don't know that. I think that's dropping out. Okay, it
come back. It was blipping for a second. I like the pity won't
get you titty line. I wish I would have said that in my in
net. Was dropping then, So let's do a round of shout outs before
it drops out entirely, I think KOs itself. We'll start with Aura app
Where can people find you in the week? Fast? And what are you
doing? I do? Wow, now that I wanted to go fast,
I can't think. I am Katie Peter's place. I play on Twitch.
We've been doing spooky stuff all month and on Twitter at play Katie play and
Brad and I are going to play Little Hope on Friday, so you should
all come hang out with both of us. And that's me and I played
Aura for you today. Yes, you did perfectly in character and without mother
around, you just had the father and the twins. What about you?
Peebe Hi am Pumpkinberry and I played sooner for you today. You can find
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seasick and mystified again next week. Disbey, Hello, I'm dyspier X.
I played both Bobo for you today. You can find me here on Twitch
and Twitter at the same handle. I like the spooky games and the role
playing stuff. Yeah, come come hang out and uh yeah, thank you
everybody for the awesome episode today. And poor Bo just like I could Sorry,
I just punched my phone. I could totally see that, like end
scene in the street where they both split ways and both just like in the
middle of the street, like fuck yeah, it's it's it's hard for him
right now. Oh yeah, it's awkward. What do you guy? What
do you do? You see both sides of the thing? Yeah, stuck
in the middle of the and they're literally physically walking in two different directions as
well, like what are you doing? Like fuck yeah, We'll see how
that works out next week. What about you? Pocket? You can find
me at twitch dot tv slash pocket, or at Pocket on Twitter. And
I'm going to do the same thing I always do whatever comes to mind.
Hopefully more Halloween makeup this week, because you know, it's it's Halloween week,
and I might play the new Amnesia, which will give me a heart
attack because I don't play a lot of scary games and I get very scared.
So that's what I'll be doing, all right. Well, then it
was fun. There's a lot of you know, it was really easy at
first and now it's difficult, and it's it's I think it's making it exciting.
So oh yeah, it's so good. It's very entertaining to watch.
It's uh, that's how you play characters, that's how they do. And
yeah, this is on a different time. There is daylight savings this week,
so bear that in mind for the shows all week. The time difference
is usually five hours between the UK time or the EU time and the and
the American time, So most of our shows are on at nine UK,
which is or Eastern, but this whole week up until Sunday, the UK
time will start one hour earlier, so if you're you're going by the EU
time, which will be in UK. I hate this every goddamn time.
It drives me. Now it's doing all these shows and being like, well
this one starts then, and then it's an hour difference, and there's already
time zones, which is already confusing enough. So bear in mind that if
you're in the EU this week, everything will be an hour earlier. Essentially,
Table Story just runs on Eastern time, so whenever you see the Eastern
time, we actually have a schedule in the profile. I know, but
it scares me, but I think it does it on a it starts in
a oh it does it? No, Yeah, they're on the scheduled tab.
It will show you the actual like times in your time zone. That's
the best then, so come to the switch channel if you're on a vod
or whatever and look at it that way. But essentially it will be one
hour earlier for all the EU times, but it stays on at the same
time for the Eastern time. For example, this one was on at eight
pm UK time and it remained for Eastern and that will be the same thing
throughout the week from gone, which is starts half an hour later, so
you'll be in time anyway. If you show up ELI in mind daylight savings
for one week, it's always a nightmare, but you don't want to miss
the beginning or miss an hour because of it. And Rhyme of the Frost
Maiden starts this Friday. Oh good on Daylight Savings Week. I bet Whack
is so happy, which is a D and D campaign. It's the newest
module from Wizards, and we're starting up a all star cast show of Rhyme.
And that's Friday at five eastern two p m p T, nine p
m g m T. That is correct, so that's slightly later, So
write that down if you can. My brain is melting. It's also going
to be on the schedule. It'll be on the schedule to the come to
the thing or just you can. You can go into the discord and just
start screaming everyone in the appropriate channel and someone will absolutely help you because it's
called community. Are the best? Right speaking of and Aganic fos feed,
he did some Apple art and art section is the best I think I've seen
it. Will I checked the fan out constantly because I'm a big fan of
what you'll do. Never mind, all right, yeah, there's there's good
as there's tons of fan and stuff. So all right, hopefully that all
made sense. We will see you throughout the week or next week for the
continuation, and my brain is melted entirely. You did it. You destroyed
Brad with the redeem in the chat. Thanks for watching everyone, Bye,