He's been nigh about twenty years and them cool Yon fool Dune broke magic and
the world ain't been right since monster Freon from them other worlds running round tero
cles and down in a bole and got the gree Gree water. There's some
kind of evil set on sort of good many folk, So beware, my
friends, go carefully. Amy Lazy brought them all else that murky water gonna
lead you to the grave. So come with us as we go on another
fool's quest, all the true blood. We Um took Flanders back to the
house Flanders, Yes, un stone him, and then we were going to
look around for the spell book. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna
stitch around the spell books in the house the bookshelves. Be found one that
was really like higher level transmutation spell book and another one that was just sort
of a generalist spell book. I had a lot of spells, nothing about
the level three I think. But yeah, you brought Flanders back to the
cottage there, and you had a stone to flesh potion for him, and
you also had the ones for the guys from the Bark, but you had
not taken over there yet, right, Each one missing one eleventh and substituted
with the nannies, and they're all gonna be allegedly they won't be stone anymore,
but they might be a little stiff. They look like shakes. Come
on, that's just extra magic. Okay. Anything else that we did that
we forgot. Um, well, you guys have been down in the sewers.
We were looking for Flanders, just for Sam. Right, is that
the guy's name? Yes, Sam, Yes, Sam ran ran into the
underground bar. Yes, you found the tavern underground, the tavern run by
a goblin. It was daytime when you guys were down there, and it
was empty bed other than you, and we bluffed our way through that.
Yeah, convinced them you remembers of the group, the group h yeah with
emojis And then yeah, you'd found what seems to have been some sort of
a hideout for for John Smith. You found his journal, which have you
gone through a little bit? You found some gold pages? Oh yeah,
oh yeah, but like uh like dossier's right. Yeah. Yeah, they
were just packed with tiny, cramped writing, A couple of them were,
and the writing was just a perfect physical description of Flanders. But you are
that's the Facebook, right, that's the Facebook. Yeah, yeah, arts
on the anything. Right. Yeah, so we're gonna bring Flanders back.
First we did that, he's at the house. Then we got the spellbook
that's right from the house. Yeah, that's right. Okay, everybody got
there. Good? Did you check Flanders with the mirror? Oh? Now?
All right? Anyway? Um, good, all right? So what
are you guys doing? I guess I'm I'm gonna. I thought just came
to me. I'm going to check planners with the mirror. I pulled the
mirror out. I look, are there any witches? There are not any
witches. There is what appears to be a perfectly ordinary total with a accordion,
and when you check them with the with the mirrorage that appears to be
you know, flesh and blood and not stone, other than the shadowy sort
of tentacles that are slowly undulating around his torso it's kind of wrapped around him.
Kanna reach back? Can I touch one of the tentacles like like behind
me in that face? There's no there's no physical sensation. That's that's what
she said. Making our candid check or religion whichever you got better, NA
like a hentie check. I see this one that's a seventeen that you're you're
making an educated guess here that seems to be a result of I guess a
visual indication of his pact with a great old one. Oh, but you
can only see it through the mirror, okay, And so you guys just
see Wren with his back to the stone Flanders, but holding the mirror up
and then groping his chest with my hand behind my back like this is interesting
Wren. You guys kind of give me some shit whenever I was telling to
put the sock in and wrote, I mean, are you trying to shame
or not? But stone means no. Man, damn dude, get a
real Stone meetings. I'll borrow the rope. No, it's on the table,
literally sets out the table, and you two motherfuckers need Jesus. All
right, Well that answers that question. Did you cut the potions already?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I would never as he's finishing up. I've
insulted you would suggest such a thing. Just get your thumb stuck in one
shaking hit out of it. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go over and
find on the statue with the parents and be ready to cut it. Did
we so did we give Flanders the potion already? Yeah, it goes in
effect pretty much immediately. He's the stone sort of cracks and crumbles off of
him, and there's a turtle man there. And he takes a deep,
sort of gasping breath and uh opens his eyes and looks around in a little
bit of a panic. Don't you guys goo see it go easy Broth make
make perception checks real quick, call up you twenty nine ten so um YouTube.
Both notice the just a just shadowy flash of pednacles coming out around behind
him. As he panics blogged it, it startles, Uh, what what
am I doing here? Uh? You're a statue down like in like a
sewer, and uh, your buddy, Sam said, asks us if we'd
come down take a look for you. Oh, it's gonna worry about you.
Oh yeah Sam, Yeah, he's a good buddy. Niceome to worry
about me. I suppose I down in the sewer. I remember, Yeah,
I think you kind of ran a follow that uh crazy looking beast ran
into you. I think it was a bassilisk. Yeah, it was bassilisks
in their room. I wasn't expecting that. Well, I got through that
trap. On the other door, and I thought I was home free,
but but yeah, we come down looking pray and found you. And yeah,
I figured you'd rather be a person again than a statue down here and
undertown. I'm glad, y'all do it. I apparently could have used the
help. So I'm glad you came. We brought you back here because the
Tim and Tom have been looking for you, and we didn't want to take
you out of one danger to put you in another danger. Oh yeah,
time and time. It was a convenient excuse m. Yeah, time and
time. I gotta I gonna keep on a download from them. They catch
up to me, it's gonna be trouble for me, I suppose. Yeah,
it looked like trouble times. We're not great. Yeah, I appreciate
your help. You want some suit, some stew, No, it's goods,
dub man. I love so. I feel like I haven't in a
couple of days. Probably haven't. And I'll walk him over to those stew
and get him hooked up. All right. He's his stunt, I certain
see his his bull of stew. Yeah, just just let him let meet
the stew there. Yeah, but we're gonna watch, like stand around him
awkwardly and just watching. He's like, you know, like a bite at
a time, like picking over wrench shoulders. So him implies at the meal
and the help there, but y'all making me nervous? What was like that
squiggly stuff he's off, I ain't never seen the turtle with the like tentacles.
Uh. He gets a little bit of a panic look when you say
that. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no freaking
I mean I saw some tentacles like that before, but there was in my
sushi. Yeah, it's uh, it's just kind of how my magic works,
tend. I tend to tend to it tends to look like you know,
in time. Ye'll. Hey, I had that happen one time when
I was using mood. Remember, so I'm also a bit of a warlock,
so you're safe here. As you say warlock, he definitely starts to
jump out of his chair and then realizes you just admitted to being one too,
and he settles back down and says, well, I appreciate to I
appreciate your candor. Yeah I am. Bro. We're all friends here.
Bro. Well, it's not often that you know, us folk find people
who are friendly towards us so I appreciate that. Yeah, no, I
completely agree. Is that why the Times were after you? Or is that
something different? Oh? The Times just want protection money. I got plenty
I could pay up. But so I wh't. I wasn't down there hiding
from the Times. I was down there because there's a fellow been around town,
and well, I thought he might be, you know, like us,
John Smith, that's what he's been going by. Yeah, we're looking
for him. You're looking for John Smith took well when went down there to
check out, check out his his little hide hole there, and I've seen
him leaving town that morning, so I thought it'd be safe to get down
there. I don't suppose you, uh you found much down there, and
well I kind of found you. So now we found the Facebook. Oh
yeah, fucking tell you. That thing a little rusty. So you didn't
find the actual book. You just found like loose pages from it. Yeah,
found some cool little look, you know, gold colored pages. Yeah,
we're actually looking for like a whole book that he was supposed to stole
it somewhere. Oh yeah, I've seen that book he's always carrying. It
wasn't always on him more or I've been keeping an eye on him because he
asks whenever you're paranoid, And well, yeah, I know where he got
the book, and i'd be paranoid too. Uh. You know, I
got an idea where we could you find him? I saw him leaving town
all the morning, but oh damn, he was headed off the north ways
ain't much that way. But you know a couple of places in town you
can maybe get some help locating on locating the person or an object, some
help of the divinatore sort. Yeah, especially if we have a piece of
the book, we might be able to locate the other part of it.
Maybe instead of John Smith, we can find the book. Do you know
a good spot to go to for some divinity magic? Yeah, there's a
couple. I mean there's there's Rene's divination boggling and poor Um in warehouse.
Oh wow, that's a mouthful. It's a mouthful. But no Remy.
Uh, his merchandise ain't much, but he can't cast a spell for you.
Oh there's a there's a old they usually got some scrolls in stock.
They might be able to help out. Oh yeah, we have grand brothers.
She's go Granny Rose and Granny Door You Granny Blair over there. They
were a little backed up though they remember we had to like speed rush some
stuff through. Yeah. I don't know what they have in stock, but
they might have something. They get a lot of stuff through there either one
of those. I say, I think we should check out Remy. Yeah,
me too. He seems like a person that has a warehouse. As
long as he'll take Travis cardon all rise, we're going back to. Oh,
I think I'll tag along with you. Let me give you an introduction
because oh sweet, yeah, Remy's ah, Remy is a right sort of
people. Cool, cool. Yeah, we're kind of new to the area,
so that'd be great. Yeah, come along with you. Um So
at this point, it's it's kind of getting late in the evening, or
not late in the evening, but like mid even round thirty round dinner time.
But oh, your head out and it's not too far across the town.
He brings you up to this this building and it's just a long,
narrow building tucked it between a couple of other buildings that goes back like real
deep from the street. But it's not very wide, um, real nondescript
building. But the sign is just it's it's just a small little plaque with
really fancye fancy lettering. This says Remi's Divination Bargain Warehouse and Emporium. Remi's
Divination Bargain Warehouse and Emporium. He walks right up to the door poles.
If this isn't after you'd, let's do this all right, I'm in.
I'm in, all right. So it is mostly empty, it is not.
It is this huge echoe room and maybe the first like twenty thirty feet
of it have any kind of fixtures. The rest of it's just empty,
just completely empty and echoe. He bought the warehouse at a bargain it's a
bargain warehouse. Yeah, oh dang. But there's a guy standing at a
counter there. Uh, I'm just reading a magazine or something. He looks
up when you come in and puts it down and real quick runs his hands
through his hair to make it messier. No, trying to straighten it out,
but it doesn't help. He's they gets his hand looked really nice.
When he walked in. He's just like, mess it up. I'm like,
oh shit, there's people here. Welcome to ReBs. Uh. Yeah.
He brushes over with his hand stick stick in his hand straight out.
Who's in the door first, Yeah, seeing his hand straight out right at
you. Hey, hey, yeah, well come on in, come on
in. Remy's uh the bargain warehouse in divination and poor hu, come on,
come on. We've got we've got great deals divination items. What are
you you're looking for something? We can help you find it. Yeah,
yeah, we're yeah, we're actually looking for something to help us look for
something. Remy, don't blow this, come on, U b WHOA how
kind of hell? I've got just the thing, just the thing. And
he and he and he and he puts his hand on your like the middle
of your back and starts kind of pulling you over towards the table, making
sure he's not like lifting mood off my back. Nope, nope. What's
the thing. What's the thing. I'm like to catch up. I want
to see the thing right right over here at this table. And there's a
it's like a you know, just a normal sized table. I guess about
three by five or so. Oh that's a nice table. The only thing
on it is a forked stick maybe two two and a half feet long,
to the like a dousing rod. There's a thousing rod, but you can
use it. You can use it once a day to locate any object,
any object you can dream of. It only works once a day. How
do you how do you use it? Oh? Well you do. You
take hold of both those uh those ends there and then uh you activate it
and you you activate by telling telling it which which object you'd like to locate,
and uh, then it'll it'll point towards that object. Now, it
does have to be an object you're are somewhat familiar with. Are our limitations
obviously, but it's a bargain at only one thousand gold pieces? A thousand
gold pieces? Oh yeah, man, we can do that, and we
can do it. Where's the card cards? Ta brakes? Bro? Dude?
That seems a little a little price you for a stick. I mean
it's not just an ordinary you stick though, it's well you said you need
to locate something. I mean, come on, man, once a day
for a thousand gold Come on? How how often do you need to locate
things? I'm just saying, what do I do when I lose the dowsing
rod? Then how am I going to find dows even come as a pair?
There's no backup housing rock right? See? Irresponsible is what that is.
It's got an extra feature. Watch this and he whistles and the thing
goes boom boo boop. Okay, that's kind of gold. Okay, whistle?
Oh well, all right over here, I've got a magical whistle.
I'm just blow into it. But what does that do? I'll throw it
in with the dowsing rod. It allows you to whistle. How is it
magic? Oh well you can whistle? No, can we test the quality
first? If? Are we do anything else with it? Oh? Look
at look at demonstration? Um well I suppose so, I suppose. So
let me let me get some hands on tright here he looks a little bit
nervous. Um and he picks it up by the end that's only got one
stick, and said, you know, hands on for you, sir?
Yeah, where's John Smith? Oh, it doesn't work with people, sir.
It's got to be objects, specific objects. Well, you get the
picture of the object in your head and state what the object is, and
it should point you towards it. Ok. Gold, And it doesn't even
locate people. And it's convenient that you didn't mention that before. But you
haven't bought it yet. All right, with that attitude, post and starts
thinking of the pages that we felt, where's the rest of it? Uh?
Roll a percentage or actually just gonna be a higher lower really sixty eight,
so i'd be high, all right. Uh. It gives a definite,
definite pull towards the north north like north northeast. Hey, bros,
it's legits. It's like a WEEGI rod. He could just be doing it
to trick us, like moving it on his own. He let go of
it, right, yeah, he let go of it. I met you.
I was talking to Albert. Sure we all know he has the charlattans
that it's legit. Dude. Oh, not a joke, okay, um,
all right, so fifteen hundred gold, well it is. You drive
a hard bargain. But the card well, anthon Axis doesn't take credit cards.
Oh sorry, I can't run credit cards yet. A pretty new business
been steadily adding. You know, we'll see that could be an issue.
Bro hmm, I mean, how bad do you want to move some merchandise?
You know? Well, how much are these pages worth? The pages
were worth seven hundred gold. Yeah, how many do we have or all
of them? He also had a couple of diamonds, I think yeah.
Oh, yeah, we did have the diamonds. Elmer had all that shit
um locked down. Hey, maybe we could work out a trade. Were
some of them healing potions? Oh yeah, we have two gold one thousand,
mild? What's one thousand gold each? I believe one, two,
three four, there's four zeros? Huh cost to stead thousand gold? Right
now? Gotta re listen here, maybe a hard marketing. I'm pretty sure
it was supposed to be a thousand. I just put a diamond. It's
just whatever's in the look. Oh no, sorry, I just give an
arbitrary values for one thousand. All right, we'll still I mean the diamonds
will cover, right, they're a diamond, right, one in a thousand
gold? M hm, So we'll just give him a diamond if you want.
I mean, you're the money man. The stick is working. Yeah,
what's your return policy? Oh? All sales are final. I'll see
give him a diamond. Taking the whistle. I could accept this as payment.
Can I play with the whistle? Maybe you did it? Tell you
the whistle on the sign? He us throw on the whistle. Here's the
whistle, sorry whistle? Would you like me to wrap it up for you?
Are you gonna wear it out. I'll carry it out up, carry
it up. I'm gonna I'm gonna give it to him. The whistle,
No, no, no, the stick. Oh all right, I'll take
the stick and all right, it's not pulling me anywhere. It's not once
a day, bro, Yeah, likely story, that's what do you said?
What's a day? I'll take the ball out of my pocket and I'll
chuck it as far as I can down the into the warehouse and then teleport
to catch it. It bounces, Um, you teleport to catch him?
All right? Hey, hey guys, it's a pretty cool place in here.
I think we could fit the whole tree house it. Maybe you like,
laid it down. I bet we could. It's definitely not tall,
but if you lay it down it could probably. What'll we cut the roof
out? Oh? How would I steer? There's thoughts we can work it
outstorment now teleport back Bam smells rummy coughs a little bit. Yeah. There
anything else I can can help you find, gentlemen with today? Do we
see? Like? If I just peruse around, is there anything cool looking
around? Yeah? Um, So there's two other tables. One of them
has a spell book open on it. Uh, and next to that a
list of prices basically any divination spell you can think of up to level five.
He can cast for one hundred gold pieces per spell level. And the
other one has a circlet, just a simple silver circlet on it. What
does this do? Well, it's a circlet of shared thoughts, So if
you're wearing it, you can you can. You can use it detect thoughts
of anyone you see. Huh. How much is this thing? Five hundred
gold pieces? Hmm, guys can buy it. I'll make more potions we've
got you mean diamonds one, it's five hundred gold. Break it in half
and you triive hundred gold back. Though, can you break a diamond?
I don't know. I can give you coins as chain, oh or this
is acceptable, but that is the hardest substance known to man, So I
don't think I can break it. No, use your teeth, just chew
it. You never tried my dad's banana bread? Then? Yeah? He
he. He pulls out a little strong box out from my or the counter
and there are stacks and coins in there. He can definitely give you change.
Yeah, we'll do that, all right. Could I fast change.
He gives you five hundred gold pieces. He said, I do remind you
that all sales are final. I appreciate your business, gentlemen. Please check
back with me next week. I will hopefully have more stock by then.
It's always nice to fit me to fellow divination officiandos. If we ever come
back, this warehouse is going to be gone. But what do you call
queered out? Different sign on there poll different business in here. Somehow it's
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told you we'd be roight back. Time to get back to the amusement lais
le mont. Let them good times roll? All right, Well we should
play team wagon. Here him after he closes cool at door right now the
Flanders, Uh, Flanders just sort of been hanging out and near the door.
But he's Randy after you guys, finish up your transactions, right He
didn't even seem to have noticed him. And Flanders, Uh a friend there
is Uh. He is also a waldock and he points at rand Flanders don't
tell people that for the love of the Remy looks at you and uh,
it realizes you're sort of upset at Flanders for you know, sharing your secret
secret. But he just holds his hand out and summons his back slapping into
his hand, and then you know, dismisses it, says and then waits
at you and says, oh, isn't it nice to meet a fellow you
know, alternative magician. Yeah, um, that's cool. I'm gonna come
back another time and use a mirror to look at you. I can only
use that once a day too. Everything he's only once today? And what
about the circlet? Why would I need to read his thoughts? Oh?
I'm just saying, um, who who's you're packed with? Oh? Well,
it's a packed of the fiend. It's a long story. Was that
or you know that collectors? Oh? I agreed to, you know,
lifetime of servitude and got me out of that. Now here I am running
my own successful business, So overall, I'd say it was a good decision.
Yeah, I agree. And Flanders, you look like you're with the
old ones, right, Oh, that's right, that's right, back to
the old ones. Who cool? I got a fairy godmother? Yeah?
He did arts fade? Yeah? Those are always a tricky ones, ain't.
They're a little, uh, a little whimsical at times. And whimsical
is a good word for That's why I used it. He Pilsner, Yeah,
he haddea? What the fuck they're talking about a little bit? And
while he mentions that, I'm like kind of being really inquisitive and eyeball in
remy, No, his eyes are the right color. I don't get It's
weird sorry, bro my, uh my, my uncle Thaddius was telling me
about this guy that my dad and I used to run around with. Hey,
he had black eyes. He all he was also associated with a fiend.
Oh uncle, who are you thing, Remy or Flighters? I was
talking to Remy because I was like writing his face, like checking his eyes
and shit, your uncle uncle Thaddeus, you said, uh yeah, yeah,
oh no, No, I never read anyone name Thaddius. I'm pretty
sure I never forget face or a name. That's what I always say.
Gee, I uh, I've heard that sometimes. Yeah, you know,
fiendish packs can be uh, they can have some sort of physical visual identifying
marks, but mine in this in the case of mind, well, there's
there's not much other than this brand. He pulls his shirt out and there's
just a big inflamed pink brand on his on his chest over his heart that
looks like it hurt. No yeah, yeah, yeah, it still does.
Huh it's never gonna go away or well no, no, no,
no, not until my service ends. Anyway, it's not being inflamed.
Could rub some mayonnaise on it or some manas. Do you think they would
work? Because it because or burns or absolutely, you have to ferment it
first. I just so have to have some are already fermented. So yes,
I always keep fermented mayonnaise because we come in contact with hot things that
would burn us often too. We have a cattle we can't turn off.
It's like always on. It's very easy to burn yourself in the middle of
the night. Anyway, Flanders Flanners speaks and said, you know, mister
Wren, there's a few of us here in Crossing and we keep in touch
with each other, and we watch out for each other, like, for
example, right now in town, there's a there's a a squad of inquisitors
from the School of Conjuration over there at Carcosa, and we give each other
warnings about things like that. We'll call each other for help. Why we
love to have you as part of our network if we could. Yeah,
I'm I'm okay with that. Like, you're not gonna put my name on
like a list or anything, are you? Oh no, no, no?
Why the networks kind of organized into cells. So the only two year
level me to pride myself and Remy here, but uh, well, we'll
keep in touch with you. Why don't you, Remy, Why don't you
get him the stone, and uh, Remy goes over behind the counter and
back into a strong box and he pulls out a sending stone. Are we
right back, guys, I want to get stoned with Remy. Bron't have
an extra potion for you, all right? So I got carried him out
of here, I got the sending stone. Yeah, just the one.
And this connects to one of you two. Oh hell, this connect to
help anyway, should you ever need it? Should you need us, yes,
should you need us for any reason at all? Can't say how fast
help will come. Why you know? If it's something you need, writing
to meet it right and the immediate why you might be a better off finding
something else. But you need help getting out of town in a couple of
days or something like that. Well we got we got ways, and I
could have used this The last time I was in this town. Came across
some magic hooligans that didn't take too kindly to my abilities. Yeah, a
lot of them don't. But well, it was nice to meet you guys.
In an to join the underground squad. We haven't got a name for
a little Endeva yet. But now you don't have a name. No,
you think of a good one know you let us no, I will mullet
over all right, So you have the dowsing rod, which once per day
will point the shortest direction to any specific object that you are somewhat familiar with.
You also have the circlet of Shared Thoughts, which can cast detect thoughts.
But anyone who's thoughts you read can also read yours, and they know
that you're doing it. He was maybe not entirely for the game. Look,
Pilsner, it's pulling me too, and I'm gonna pretend. Come on,
now, you're getting really wow. Did we want to take those potions
over to the one Turtle Place, the Grand Turpin. Yeah, yeah,
we'll finish up our obligations there and then we can carry home with what we're
doing. Yeah, we'll get in our house and heading north after John Smithy.
Yeah yeah, all right, so the uh, the office to the
Grand Terrapin. Um, I forgot what this guy sounded like. She wasn't
he kind of doch was kind of a day. He just kind of yeah,
yeah, that's how he's gonna sign out. Yeah, you get there
and it's uh, he's just getting ready to lock the door when you come
up. It's late in the evening at this point or later in the evening,
and sees you, oh, it's about time. I didn't think you
were going to come until tomorrow at this point. Don't worry. They're made
of stone. I guess they can wait. Okay, all right, I'm
glad you're so understanding. Bro, you got the potions or not? They
olmert he got the potions? I do, I do have the potions.
Where are they? Um? They were in like a crepe pack with straw,
just a little crepe like people were the people, the people right this
way, and he takes you back in the back. They're also in a
crate. Back. He thinks you're a warehouse and they're in a much larger
create packed with straw. This warehouse is full of things. Um, not
nearly is echo. Wait, but yeah, there's there's there's full mess of
statues all lined up there. So he said, you said you're paying us
for this, right, I guess you any you guess? I just need
to say and in the corporate card please, and I'll go start the necessary
rem I think he's got your receipt, dude, Yeah, the card.
I'll give him the first receipt. Yeah, I will not give him the
second receipt nor anything else he takes, and he goes back out to his
desk out of the front, comes back a few minutes later with with thirty
gold pieces. All right, I mean that's reasonable, standard fair for hiring
adventurers. Your job that you've performed is clearly not worth it. But I
don't feel like doing the paperwork here you are. I don't like you as
a person. I don't like you either whole. I'm gonna come back later
and turn you into a new wanted to figure out how to do that?
Are you applying the potions to the statues? Statue? All right? So
the first one you you come to is the the one who's down on one
knee where who had opened the chest? And you apply it, and yeah,
immediately afterwards he's the stone sort of cracks and flakes off, and there's
the guy there, and he what where where it? Where it crossing?
What happened? He's real confused, And then he sees his whole crew all
also turned to stone. And then he turns around and looks at you guys,
and then at the the guy there, and he's like, all right,
I don't know what happened. Someone filled me in. Uh well,
let's see. There was a swamp and uh some a chest and chest and
a big bird and a big crocodile, um a swag chest. I remember
now I opened that chest at John Smith. Oh yeah, yeah, well
he's John Smith. Huh. Well, you tell me about him. A
real weird guy came from here. He was heading to run off. But
I'll tell you the first day of the journey, he was just wandering,
talking to himself, just real weird. And then that night woke everyone up,
just just standing at the edge of the bar and shouting out at the
swamp nothing out there, just shouting telling him, tell him you can't come
get me. He can't get me. I don't even know what he's saying.
I'm free now, I don't know. We got a little worried.
Someone said maybe he's a warlock. Oh that's all. We thought we'd better
check his stuff. But yeah, I opened that chest and he shouted something
and then well now I'm here. Yeah. Well we got some misgivings about
him ourselves. We're trying to track him down. So what else can you
tell me about him? Where he just where'd he come from? You know
anything. I didn't talk to him much. I see, he was a
real weird guy. We kind of everyone kind of try to keep their distance
from him. You get erratic passengers once in a while and you try to
just you know, just score and hope they don't want to escalate it.
Right, he's sure scenes too, gotcha cool? Well, uh yeah,
I'm a little buddy here, elmer eupe. You guys up and we brought
you back from being a stone statue, so I'm still just working on the
other statue. Ye ye um, yeah, you're you're getting that applied to
him. It's it's pretty easy to apply. It just kind of smeared on
the little ben side effects for the one eleventh minis uh, it's spreads these
here, they're all they're all still a little stiff, just or the eleventh
of the just like a couple of toes, little stiff and a little slamming,
a little a little bit slimming. Yeah, smelled kind of tonail or
two or kind of great and faky. All right. So yeah, you
guys have have restored the crew to done meat. They're no longer stone there
now flesh. Um, that's gonna be a level up dun or dumb I
like those. We're now level seven, all right, so you guys restored
the crew of the barge and talk to the captain a little bit and uh
leveled up. What's you what's you doing? Now? Let's go back to
the house. Let's go back to the house and crash for the night,
and then we'll take off tomorrow morning to go find John Smith. We'll head
north for maybe a few hours and then use the rod with the stick.
What do we calling this magic sticks rod? It's all I wrote, it's
the pointy stick. Now is crossing on the map? Is it on the
coast? No, it's right like dead center of Gorbian Bogway. So it's
like, um, right in the middle of this giant swamp. Um.
There's sort of a causeway that connects it to each end of the Corbian bogwey
okay, but most travels done through boats through thus. So looking at the
map, is there anything notable to the north of us? Looking at the
map, No, there's little villages here and there throughout the swamp. But
maybe it's just on the move. Then oh yeah, we'll figure it out,
all right. Yeah, back to the hut, Back to the hut
snooze and stew all right, you get back to the hut um long rest.
Flanders actually meets the outside of the Great rap in there and he had
stayed in chatted with roun me a little bit, but caught up with you
guys there and says, here, mind if I if I stayed the night
in that hood of yours tonight, you had to make some arrangements just to
get off the street. Talent, No problem, not too much of a
problem. They are a little for him. Where'd your buddy Sam stay?
But Sam, he usually stayed on the street. You know, he'll find
a roof once in a while when the weather's bad, because I mean we
got him hooked up with a new guitar, you know, kind of like
they heard. If he wants to just crash, I bet I can find
him. I'll meet you back at all right? Cool at that that house
you all offend me at there? Yeah? Yeah, sweet, I'll meet
you back over all right. Sounds like a party, bros. All right,
you guys head back to the the Tree cottage and yeah, hey,
Red, you should you should use that Tierra thing if she's gonna be stay
in the night and make sure he doesn't have any way bad intentions. Oh
yeah, I mean okay, he seems trustworthy to me. You would say
it though, Just tell him you were trying it out. Okay. He
called it a tiara? Is that not what it is? It's a circle,
it's a tierras. It's like I think it's a tira. Now that's
now the tierra. Was so confused, like what was it? Those words
mean the same thing in my head, pretty much making change in his got
Ryan Stones, I don't know before well, when I'm done with it,
spark all right, So maybe like half an hour after you guys get back
to her, you're walking house. There's knock on the door and it's Flanders
and sand and funny guys. Hey come in and Sam says, I appreciate
to him the roof of hits tonight. Hell yeah, they've got very similar
voices. I just realized, I think I've been doing the wrong voice.
Hey, we got a hot stew over here. If you're hungry, and
I'm sure we got something drink, run here somewhere, but if not,
I could brew something up. He dishes himself up some stew, and there
is a surprising lack of drinks in the house, although there is um a
little well just outside. Yeah, you draw fresh water from but yeah,
well I am also a a guild brewer. You are a guild brewer.
So I don't know. I can't do it as fast as Dad can,
but I can get something going. Yeah. Yeah, you can set up
a little uh, a little a little set up in your bedroom or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, a little Mashboro seven seven. Still no potatoes.
I'll put my tira on and I'll walk up to Flanders and I'll put my
my index finger on, you know, the temple on you know what,
an index finger in each temple, and I'll say, Flanders. I need
to test this. The activation word three bra is professor X sure is there's
these squiggly little rings that come out around your head and spandy um. So
in my brain, I'm saying, can you hear me? Oh my god,
I sound the same one. I'm speaking out loud as in my own
head. How bizarre is this? The guy? Are you gonna like murder
us in our sleep or anything? Okay, okay, you can't sense any
any malice at all in his thoughts. He's uh, he's pretty good at
shielding his thoughts. But he's mostly just thinking about the fact that like,
okay, found a new warlock might be able to expand this network he's got.
Okay, cool him. You know, you don't have anything with your
patient and about like, you know, having a sacrifice to the whole gods,
like if you do, like we really like follow us here. But
Pilner is probably the one to go after reply sacrifice. But that's whole When
they do replyire something, they let me. No, he's never been anything
like that. All right, hold on, I'm gonna try talking out loud
for a second while we're still doing this. Hey, ay, Elmer,
They're not going to murder us in our sleep. All right, I'm pretty
sure. Do you any other questions? No, I guess not. Why
does he know about it? One second? All right, I go back
to his head. This was all I told him that I to do.
But he was like, you know old ones and you know new faces,
And I think he's just kind of, you know, scared in the new
town. He doesn't get out of small You sense some amusement. Alright,
Elmer, I think we're good. I'm sleeping in the bedroom of the lock
tonight and yeah, you're security system you lock your target. I forgot to
have the actual target. He actually took the door off and just hung a
tart securely tie the target, all right, and then before I turning us
off, like once, everything starts so wind down. Maybe when Sam's playing
guitar, I'll show you the driving mechanisms up on the top floor. It's
pretty neat. Oh yeah, anyway, all right now and take the tier
off all right. Meanwhile Sam is tuning up his guitar there and it starts
just yeah, picking some blues, sweet, hanging out, fixing himself,
bolts too, and you know whatever else they do the dishes, they're happy
teals guests. Sweet. I'm just kicking back and enjoying the show and enjoying
the company. All right, you guys are just just we're gonna rest of
the night and then figure it out tomorrow. Yeah yeah, all right,
it's night's uneventful. Um, you got those two downstairs, they sleep on
the couch and on the floor or whatever. This concludes this episode of a
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