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I am Alex Capps, your DM or district manager, and Today's icebreaker.
What career path would you choose if you could make a switch, what
up bits you boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox the Human Consultants turned halfling
Bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best
to be both. And if Richard could switch careers, he would do what
every young ish millennial would want to do, and it start a podcast.
Hello, my name is Anelin Hardy. I forgot my name for a second.
That's why I pause, and I play Taylor Jacobs, a centaur with
article I'm not even retaking it. If I could go and pick a different
career, I would go to computer science, so then I could come up
with an idea and execute the idea and hopefully be my own boss. I
mean, if you want to be your own boss, you should just join
Crystal. On that note, Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I played Crystal
the Dradrid with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity. And I think that if
Crystal could go back in time, I think she would have chosen a semi
easier route of just being an influencer and not being an influencer slash MLM owner,
because like, all she really likes is the free stuff and the attention,
but she still loves what she does. She still loves helping people attain
their productive peoples. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy and Amanda,
a basic, b rough and tumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree.
Hands down, she would be a VET. She did her undergrad and
zoology and would continue going on with that. But there's no way, no
way in the world. She was even given that option, like it was
dentistry or nothing. Him Tyler, I played the palt and known as Bentley,
and Bentley would choose Tyler's personal dream of being a fighter pilot. Yeah
it's too tall and was told he couldn't do it. What Yeah, there's
a hydroch you gotta be able to fit in the cockpit. But yeah,
either either a fighter pilot or a if he was better at it, professional
League Legends player. That would all speak cool. And I am Alex Capps,
your DM or District manager and as a DM. If I could choose
a different career path, it would have been one of two either player characters,
so it actually enjoyed the game, or it would have been becoming a
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when we last left off, Bentley had turned a bunch of goblins into a
water balloon, Taylor Jacobs made a bugbear shkebob let's see, and Crystal yeaded
some more goblins into a tree amy and choked one out. And the owner
of the house has returned. So we just needed to feed some vultures.
So we picked back up with Bentley lying in the grass, surrounded by death.
Is gonna burn half his movement speed to a stand dock cup look around
to be like that. Uh, that went both better and worse than I
expected to be, Like, oh shit, I'm sorry buddy, and he's
gonna burn all of his leon hands to heal him twenty of HP. So
Richard's just screaming, covered in blood, and he feels someone grab his ankle.
Stood up, Oh you're right, you're right, So he grabs you.
He just places his hand on your head and heals you. I was
gonna say, even if I was laying down, could I grabbed his shoulder?
All right? Are you gonna do anything else? No? I just
stood up and I healed. Richard feel better about myself because my uh underestimating
how much damage that would cause everyone? All right, speaking of Richard,
it is now your turn. Okay, Richard's gonna look around for that voice
that we just heard. So you see a very fancily dressed woman with a
large hat carrying a basket with some kind of botanicals in it. Would you
happen to be Lilith? Why? Yes, I would. Who's asking?
We are in need of some help? We are, Well, my name
is Richard and these are my friends and coworkers and acquaintances and all kinds of
things. Yeah, she says, yes, this, well at least this
was my house. Yeah. How much of that did you see? She
says? Well, I just came out of the thicket and saw everything going
on over here, so I guess not much of anything. Who damaged the
wall of my house? There's the goblins that we just stopped, and she
says, you mean like that one and points at the one amy EN's holding.
Yeah, we had to keep one in life for questioning. You see
as she points a finger at it and it just like turns to dust right
there in her hands. Oh my god. She says, he won't be
bothering anybody now, I suppose not. And she she she just casually walks
in between all of you, opens up her door, which is right next
to this big gaping hole, and closes leaves the door, and she goes,
you may enter if you wish. Richard's like, I don't know,
guys, I'm kind of scared. This is what we came here for,
so in for a penny. If she kills you, you can do that.
I don't know. Maybe I actually don't think I can right now?
All right, Well, after you Bentley, no no no, no,
no no no. You know what they say, beauty before age. I
could just see you say that and like, yeah, the three of the
well, Taylor and Crystal are both like fighting each other trying to get in
the door first Taylor. They were like, oh, were they talking about
I thought they were talking about me? Were they talking about Taylor's gonna channel
her and her tour and be like after you, my lady? Oh god,
I don't like what this world is doing to us. You just see
Bentley cough up blood anime style for no reason. You breathe, fine,
but just blood comes up. Man. We'll walk through the giant hole in
the wall and not the door. She turns. She says, you know,
it's bad luck to walk through an opening to a house and not the
doorway. I've never heard that before. Wow, is that really true?
She just said it was. She's she looks as she said, Well,
I wouldn't lie to you, now, would I? Well, I suppose
not. Okay, So I'll leave and cover the door now, yeah,
through now? And she you see as she's she has a small, like
a round kitchen table. She says, go ahead, have a seat.
What brings you this far out from the city, Well, we have hmmm.
So do you know Aiden Montiac? Oh? Yes, yes, I
quite quite fond of Captain Monteac. Okay, cool, would you guys would
would any of you like some tea? I'm about to pour kettle this adventure.
Richard's like, I don't think I should take that, but just like
sure, he'll take the because he feels a little bit bad. Okay,
anyone else, Oh, thank you, ma'am, except a cup, but
he has no intention of actually drinking of So she pours a couple of cups
of tea and hands them out. So what brings you this far out?
What? What? What are you seeking that you need? Old? Oh,
misshadow gran What does she look like, Alex? What does she look
like? Hat? So she's taking the hat off because she's indoors but also
bad lu Yeah she has she has a dark, dark, curly hair that
goes about shoulder length. She wears pretty fine what appears to be like a
kind of fine like almost like a little house on the prairie style dress and
the yeah yeah her her house's cottage core to the max, or at least
it was. Now it's kind of ruined core to the max. And you
see as she's talking, she begins waving her fingers and you see some of
the stones begin going back into position in the wall. She says, this
will take a little time to fix, but it's nothing that a special touch
can't handle. So I was thinking of she says, I was thinking to
do an addition. Anyways, that's good. So we're here because there seems
to be somebody that is actively pretending to be me, and there might be
really one somebody's a really good to tell you, but it seems to be
just one bad thing after the next, and we're trying to figure out if
you may can help us figure out what to do. So you see,
when you mentioned someone impersonating you, she immediately does a one eighty, pulls
a chair up from the table, slides in with her cup of tea.
She says, oh, honey, dude, tell I love a good case
of drama. She wants tea, her cup is actually empty. She's waiting,
Well, you see, and like, I don't really want to do
a whole bunch of exposition, but she basically Crystal tells her from top to
bottom exactly what's happened since they got here from Crystal's point of view or is
it like the truth? I in the same right, we would we would
all be there to like help correct if there were some like missing facts or
anything like that, so I feel like that, so are we I'm checking
out, definitely, I definitely consents there would be a few Taylor Jacobs,
Well, well, Crystal, Crystal, I'm gonna bracelet in and say,
Crystal, are you sure we would? I tell her every single thing should
or what does it hurt? I don't know. I was just checking.
I was just checking before, you know, like, let's not tell her
we're gonna kill Crystal. Just oh, well, that hasn't happened yet,
So I was just telling you what happened, okay, or we could and
ask for killing thing. Continue she leans, and she says, well,
it sounds to me like there's a few different things you could be ailing from,
Darling, starting from the top. It could be someone using illusion magic.
But this seems pretty convincing for so many. I have a hard time
believing just a simple little magic trick would be causing all this grief. Uh,
perhaps it's something a bit more solid, hmm, She says, honey,
let me see your hands, a crystal like uncomfortably handsome you see,
as she begins drawing her unnaturally long fingers along your palm and in your ear
of your hand, and along your fingers and almost like she's tracing lines out
and trying to read some indecipherable language, and she says, throw up from
some weird person's long finger. Sech uh, No, she just doesn't.
It's a thing. It's like a yeah. Yeah. But her hands are
like, oh she is unnaturally cold. Yeah, yep. Chrystal is definitely
trying not to gag. She says, you are quite peculiar. These hands
don't belong to you. That's what we're saying you. Your your soul has
not always inhabited this form, has it. No, No, it hasn't.
I used to look pretty normal, in fact, pretty pretty human,
even might say so interesting. The lot of you are interesting. She looks
at Taylor Jacobs and she goes, hmm. You you are are also quite
unique, aren't you. Do you want to see my ass? She said,
Honey, if I had a nickel for every time I had heard that.
Go ahead anyway, So you turn into the centaur, you turn into
centaur mode, yeah, and then go back. Wow, Now that is
some strong magic coming off of you. What about And she turns and she
looks at Richard and she goes, hm hmm, not about half the man
you used to be exactly. Oh. She looks and she sees Bentley,
and she goes, and you like, you like hiding behind that big suit
of armor, don't you. I mean it's pretty comfortable. I'm not gonna
lie. Mm hmm. Interesting. She sits there for a minute, and
she goes, you came here to for me to use my arts to inquire
for you, didn't you? You want to know more about this person causing
you all these problems. Yes, that is what I've been saying this whole
thing. She says. Well, I'll do this for you, she said,
but you must know it comes at a price, of course. What's
your what's your price? Oh it's not for me, honey. But sometimes
knowing the truth is its own form of payment, because once you know the
truth, you can't go back. Are you sure you want to know?
Like go back home? Or no, you can't go back to your blissful
ignorance. This hasn't been very blissful. So I think I'm okay. You
can suit yourself. You see if she pulls out a dusty old box of
cards and shuffling them up, and she says, lay your hands on the
table, face down. Oh, just to be clear, am, what
what is the cost, Penny Pincher, Amien, there's no material cost.
It is purely verbal and somatic. Okay, okay, so there's not We're
not gonna, like, you know, lose part of our souls or anything
like that. Oh heavens, no, I'm not some kind of fiend or
hag or something of that nature. Okay, Oh well, I'm sorry if
I have been. I was just curious. If you are too concerned,
why don't you ask him? And she points at Bentley what I mean?
I guess I could do that and realize, Bentley, what are you talking
about? You mean you can like determine if they're bad guys or good guys
around No, I can determine. I don't know why you been doing this
the whole time I have been. When you, when you cast your divine
sense, you would pick up that she is Faye faye. Okay, yeah,
I know she's all right. I guess maybe it depends on the nature
of the thing. And so she begins dealing cards face down. She turns
to Crystal one last time. She says, once again, you are sure
you want to know? Right? Is this like a deck of many things?
It is not a Deck of Many Things. I thought about I thought
about pulling out the Deck of Many Things, but there are way too many
things in that that would completely derail our campaign entirely. Be careful what you
wish for. She begins flipping over cards. Crystal, it's one of my
favorite points. And as she as she hovers her hands over the face down
cards, she says, now all of you, come closer and let me
peer into the tangled threads of your fates. Let's see. And she said,
you do like sare is this gonna be like a set in stone type
thing? Like? Is there any wiggle room? She says, Honey,
the future is always in flux. There is nothing set in stone except for
taxes. Taxes, those are those are pretty well set in stone. You
can't avoid those. They will come after you this world or the next.
I get this is the joker not wanting to fuck with the I R s.
Fine, yeah, that man, nothing but the I R s.
You don't mess with them. Uh, she says. Okay, your future,
I sense a tapestry. I see threads of hope and despair. Okay,
beware the path ahead, for it was fraught with peril and hidden foes.
Trust not in what you can see, but in what lies beneath this
card. And she flips over a card that looks like a judge speaks of
a trial yet to come, of battles fought and destinies entwined. Taylor's taking
notes, by the way, so we have a record of what exactly.
She said, Let's see a veil of lies draped upon the truth. Someone
wears the face of another, a shadow hiding in plain sight, a charad
woven into the fabric of destiny. Hm. She looks, and she says,
two faces, one soul. A doppel gango wa among you. You
have caught the eye of a changeling. Two faces, one soul. Mm
hmm, what does that mean? Like it's one person, that's you,
Crystal? Right? Did you just have because you had your original face and
now you have your new face, but you have the same soul, So
it's like same soul, two faces. Honey, I think you guys stopped
listening. She said, I don't know what a changeling is, but she
said, you caught the attention of one of those things. Maybe that's the
two faces. Maybe? So have you ever worn a mask before, Miss
Crystal? Like to a party, any occasion could count. Yes, well,
you know as well as I do. A mask may hide the face,
but it cannot conceal the essence within. The truth rises to the surface
like a small stone cast into still water. Wouldn't they sink if they're really
little? No, I'm skidding. What big teeth you have, Grandma?
Yeah no, she says, you need to find some way to get this
impostor to reveal their true colors. Oh so, just like what Richard said
earlier, we just we just let her go down with the other sinking ship.
What are you talking about, Richard? Why didn't you explain your plan?
And Richard explains the plan. She hears the plan and says that might
work. The real secret with a changelain is that you really have to get
it Anger. I feel like putting everybody that like is owed something like I
feel like turning their attention towards her would really piss her off. It could
potentially, But what I'm telling you, Darling, is that you gotta get
them. You got to get them unfocused, You got to get them.
They can't maintain their form once you do. Or if you could find some
way to expose them for what they truly are no need to take this offline.
Overworked and underplayed will circle back after these messages, whether it's a mark,
a sound, a memory, something that they don't know. What about
the ring toe on your phone? No, one's probably called it? What's
a phone? Yes? Is that that weird brick thing that she was talking
into when I peered into her fate? Yeah? Why would you talk into
a brick? I'm confused because other people are talking back to you. So
you hear people talking through a brick, It's like, uh, Bentley,
remember something you read in the library. It's like a s oh okay.
So she's acting so sorry. She's acting like she's never she's upset about someone
talking into a brick, But a stone is totally fun. Two different things
to different two different firm objects about it cool. How else would we make
her angry enough to lose her cool? Well, Changelings change links, don't
fit in anywhere in most societies, so they adapt their form so that they
they do, they find a place for themselves. Once you expose them,
they become vulnerable and it makes them unable to retain their form and show the
true colors you. It really is getting them off their game, so to
speak. So do we need to figure out who they were before they took
my identity? That could help? Okay, I wouldn't know where to begin
with that. I kind of just want to piss her off. It seems
like the easiest way to go. Oh yeah, Crystal wants to piss someone
off. Yeah, like digging up some dirt on her past? Go full
tmz you could. It just means we have to figure out where she came
from the problem. There's a lot of information we don't know to get two.
She says, Well, since the rest of you here, is anybody
else wanting their fortune? Yeah? Yes, we'd love to we'd love to
know. Okay, well, who's next? Past futures? It's all the
same time is a circle? Maybe she can help you uncover some hidden family
memories. Amen. Oh that's a good point. Okay ooh about the seekers?
M yeah, I guess yeah. Just can I get like a blanket
reading? Is that? Okay? You prefer down? She says, uh,
that's good. Wow, that one took me a second. That was
pretty good. All right, So she says, okay, you said,
miss Amanda, could you place your hands on the table as your friend did
before, Yes, ma'am, and she begins placing the cards down. She
says, hmm. Interesting. Your eyes may deceive, but your heart knows
the truth. There is a person you're trying to discover the identity of,
but you don't even realize you already know. Hmm. Anything more specific than
that, it appears that your friend lies close to your family's heart. Huh.
How would I so in your in your years of experience, ma'am?
How would I go about determining, like if he's related to me or not?
Do you guys have like genetic tests here? She says, no,
but I have an idea now this one. It's not risky, but there's
a high chance of failure. Do you wish to proceed your brain? It
appears your mind is blocking something from your from being able to be seen it
really okay? Is it like a traumatic response or something like one time I
watched a really scary movie and then I couldn't remember it because it was too
scary. Potentially, Okay, So what I want you to do, amyen?
Uh? Huh. So I'm just gonna let y'all know you have three
good omens and two bad omens. I need you to make me a history
check to see if this is gonna work? Now, would you like to
spend a good Omen? Can? I can I roll it first to see
you know what? Yeah, I'll let you roll first, but I can't.
I'm not gonna tell you whether you succeed or fail, right right right?
Yeah, that's why we usually played it though, isn't it? Yeah,
you roll it and then okay, okay, and you say it was
history. Yeah, ok let's see. Yes, I would like a good
OMEN please? All right? What's your history modifier? Negative one? You
roll? So with your negative one? Uh, and spending the good OMEN.
But I have a plus two token to add to any D twenty row.
Okay, so do you want to do you want? Do you want
to add that? Okay? So, so with your minus one and your
plus two that would give you a plus one. You got a twenty one.
Yay, it rolled to twenty and she she's like, place your hands
in mind and we'll see if we can unlock this memory. Oh no,
okay, and what you you feel? This weird surge come over you and
you see a flash of images. You see your grandfather, your father,
and your uncle. I'll argue about something, uh, huh. Then you
see your father and your uncle arguing at your grandfather's funeral. Okay, And
then you remember the last family reunion that you guys had up on the Great
Lakes. Your grand or your uncle was not there and no one knew where
he was. And that was how long ago? That was like fifteen years
ago. Spoiler alert, Your dad's a murderer killed your uncle. That's not
dark enough. Her father is her uncle. Oh it takes place at Georgia,
Mississippi. Okay, Okay, there's other ways for that to happen.
But sure in my memories, do I clearly see what my uncle looks like?
Yes, does he look like Dirtierian? Well, he wasn't wearing a
mask, so build coloring. You know his teeth, his teeth? Would
I recognize his teeth? I don't know that you've gotten close enough to doctor
D But what I would say, what I would say is now that you've
you remember this, that you could possibly make an identification in the future.
M Okay, I wouldn't say, because we did examine teeth the first time
we met him, Like we sat in that ride for a really long time,
like you know what. Okay, Then do this, okay, to
make a We're gonna do this. I'm gonna spend one of your bad omens,
okay, arguing, I'm gonna spend one of the bad omens, and
I want you to roll a insight check with disadvantage to see if you can
recall enough information about his teeth from like weeks ago. Okay, it's not
good, it's like five. I'll put it this way. You've seen enough
now that you would you would know what to look for now, if that
makes sense, Is there anything that would prevent me from being like, oh,
he's my uncle? I mean I would say there's probably an equal amount
of stuff that would prevent or not prevent you from saying that right now.
I mean, he could be your uncle, he could be Richard's uncle,
he could be anybody's uncle. But you are finding it weird that you asked
about him and you saw images of your family. Yeah, okay, okay,
So is that the risky thing that you're talking about? Oh? Yeah,
now you know now there's things that you may know. Okay, before,
was there any other like uh memories? Oh I'm sorry. The risky
part was that it might not work. Oh, it wasn't like you you
were going to like lose half your memories. No, it was it was
that you may not see anything. Oh, oh, okay, And what
was my uncle's name? That I would absolutely know this already. So your
uncle is named Adrian Austin, Amanda true boy, Austin's Oh that's the secret
hidden family. He's my dad's brother. Yes, okay, and his son
that is the candy and soda distributor. Oh, Adrian's son is the bad
one. Yeah, he's the one. Yeah, he's the black sheep of
the family because he works for the sugar industry. It sounds like the perfect
yeah right, mm hmmm, all right. Does anybody else want their fortune?
She she begins turning your cards over, and she says, oh,
honey, she said, I see a lie filled with sadness. She says,
unless you discover your true calling. What is that? Oh, that's
for you, that's for you to figure out. It's computer science. She's
like, She's like, I'm going back to school as soon as we get
back. Student ones be damned. Do you have any ideas? She says,
No, I'm not here. I'm not necessarily here to give you a
direct answer. I'm here to help you find your answer. I'm just gonna
be sad unless you change your path. Make yourself happy for once instead of
trying to make everyone else happy. That's really hard. Okay, that helps.
She turns, She goes, Who's next? Got the twitterion? Richard's
like, I'm good. The only thing I care about right now is that's
getting home. And I don't need to know if that works or doesn't work,
like I have to believe that it's going to. Yeah, and the
words is Doc Brown. Knowing too much about your future could be a bad
thing. So good, she says, Well, do any of you want
to help me fix this wall you demolished? Absolutely happy to help. Also
who demolished? She turns and she looks directly at Bentley. She saw the
past or whatever your thoughts betrayed you. That's funny. She got it confirmed
three times. She got a really good view when she looked at crystals.
She's not all that's sweaty. Yeah, the wall that Taylor Jacobs demolished.
Yeah, and she says, y'all go on ahead and work on those bricks
and I'll see about whipping up some dinner for everybody's after you work up that
sweat. Oh, good. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, I guess
we're I guess we're brick workers though. Yeah, oh my goodness. She
as you're all working through the afternoon, you might quick work of it.
There's a little bit of she adds a little bit of magic to kind of
help things move along. But when you're all done, she brings out a
cauldron of rabbit stew. Damn no chicken fried steak. I'm disappointed. Well,
that would require gravy, which is a kind of sauce, and as
were determined, only the cult communism has a sauce. Yeah, the one
y'all destroyed. We ruined this world's only chance of a good time. And
so unless you guys have anything else you want to try to get from her,
you can head back to the city, or what do you do next?
Okay, so amy An would like to kind of catch her and talk
to her like privately, okay, uh so away from everybody else. And
she said, she says, thank you thank you so much for that that
that. Uh, I guess past reading, I was wondering if if you
had any like maybe words of words of wisdom for me, because I've really
been going through a tough time with it. With all of these zi,
you know, these challenges. I'm really not feeling like myself. But unlike
the most of the other gang here, I don't really look any different from
when we were, you know, from home to hear So, I don't
know. Do you have any anything you can, like, advice you can
give me? She leans in and uh she motions for you to come over
to the back corner of the cottage. Uh huh. She looks at you,
and she says, the little one there, Richard, mm hmm,
keep your eye on him. Oh okay. I mean he does get lost
pretty easily in crowds because he's so short. So he will face a tough
decision soon, okay, and he will need those there to make sure he
makes the right choice. Okay, what is the Can you be more specific?
Like? Is it? Is it like a good choice? Bad choice
one way or the other? Right? Left, up, down? Honey?
There are even rules to what I'm allowed to say, Oh, like
grammar rules or sure we'll go with that, something like grammar rules. Okay,
Well, thank you, You're welcome. Finish not cryptic at all?
Right, So Bentley, are you going to try to summon the mighty Toyota
Tacoma again to take y'all back to the city. No offence, But I'm
driving. Doesn't work that way. I guess I'm walking then, So technically
speaking, she could drive it, Bentley. It's just she doesn't get double
the vehicle proficiency bonus. Yeah, I'm good driving. I drive over here.
Fine. I don't know what you call that. I killed like a
bunch of goblins in one go. It's a win win. Remember when you
also almost killed Richard and all of us made us do like five hours worth
of work putting the wall back together. I remember that. That's all you
want on it. Don't presume to know what I want, Bentley. It
was a pretty good stew. Okay, so we'll just bicker the entire time.
Everyone wear your seat belt. Everyone wear your seatbelts. Okay. I'm
just imagining like like Amy Ann's on one side, Taylor Jacobs on the other,
and Crystals just kind of stuffed in the middle seat, like yeah,
you know, the small but has to go in the middle. So makes
sense. So it should be Richard, That's what I'm hearing. Shotgun.
He's permanent shotgun. Actually, it would be pretty funny if y'all got a
booster seat made for you know, in the in the get into the middle
row when we get back into town. Yeah, I really will, especially
with the developing So what what are we talking about? Does anybody want to
talk about anything on the way there? If not, I have some stuff
so tell us. Oh okay, so I'm gonna do the exhibition dump to
them about my memories about my family and how I'm pretty sure now that dark
Arian is probably related, but I don't know, there's something weird, maybe
got corrupted somehow, something like that. And then also I'll tell Richard like
I'll lean over, hey, Richard. She also said she also told me
some like ominous stuff about you, So maybe we should talk about it later.
But I just just so you know, we're here to help, We're
here to support each other. Okay, okay, cool. I guess I
don't know what that means. But don't you guys, And then Richards say
this to the group as a whole. Don't you guys find it weird that
every time we talk to people, they either tell us something we already know
or it's some weird, vague thing that we can't do anything with. Yeah,
yeah, that is frustrating. I really a witch it would help us,
But I mean, you're we really were banking on that which idea to
get in, but it was a good idea. I still think that maybe
maybe there's more than one, which yeah, maybe I'm gonna say with the
amount of time that's that's happened, you guys are either gonna have to do
a push to make it back to the city and you're gonna have to push
to make it back to the city before you'd have to make a constitution save,
or you're gonna have to make camp for the night. Oh, I
guess we'll make camp for the night in. Yeah. I mean it can't
be that far, right, I know it took you like an hour and
a half to get here. Yeah, but you know better you may as
well camp in. I mean, the things capable of it. I totally
don't just want to test it out or anything. But you don't want to
test out those awesome lights I saw on the top end in the front,
like we could be driving around it to be bright as day outside. He's
right, get the right buttons. We're driving through the night, so you're
trying to push on to get to town before the adventuring days over. Yeah,
okay the rest of the back and I'm sure that won't go poorly.
There are certain responsibilities, right, So Tyler, I'm gonna need I'm sorry,
Bentley, I'm gonna need you to make me a vehicle handling check.
Literally, the only thing I rolled good at is these vehicle handling fifteen plus
seven, so that is twenty two. Okay, yeah, you uh,
you managed to get the vehicle back to the city without a problem. Some
of the people are starting to doze off in the back seat and you're just
kind of cruising along. One thing I will say is that the vehicle comes
equipped with road road trip tunes, so whatever there's like, uh, it
literally only plays the Flesh God. Okay, but I met your mother?
Yeah, oh lord, No one else but Tyler could consent to that.
All right. It's so, you guys make it more than one song.
Yeah, they well they have more than one song. They just all sound
the same. So, uh, you guys make it back to the crow's
nest. And I would say, I think it'd be really funny if Bentley's
truck had a clicker and whenever he dismissed the spell, it was like it
was locking the doors or something. But anyways, you guys make it,
make it back and Aiden Montyak is still sleep but one of the other workers
comes up and he says, miss Crystal, this letter arrived for you.
It looks official. Oh good, and you see a summons from the Lord
Protector of Levern stating that he was able to get your case moved from the
courts to the Arbitorious Supreme. It would be a binding arbitration between you and
one High Priestess Crystal of the Church of Clarity. Okay, well that's something.
It looks like. It looks like maybe the Lord Protectors making good on
his premises. We get this everybody, Yeah, and it is scheduled for
three days from today. Cool. Well, all right, you'll startpping,
so you guys turn in for the night. You feel a weird sort of
comfort come over you because you actually feel like you're starting to accomplish a few
of the like you're getting closer to some of your your goals. And as
you drift off to sleep, Crystal, you begin to have a weird dream.
You see a meadow with a bubbling brook and you see a person knelt
down near the stream. They glance out over the water and you see this
almost non descript face as they take a sip from the creek, and is
about that time loud thuds begin to land all around them as they look up
and see this giant purple swirl in the sky, and then they get hit
on the head by this familiar looking rectangular object that you recognize as your cell
phone. You see this non descript person holding your cell phone and looking at
boxes of merchandise labeled Crystal Clarity, and you hear her say that'll do a
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