At this point, October holds a hand up and hisses like a sh Everybody
pauses and distantly on the wind, Octimer hears something that sounds kind of like
a whooping or like a yipping kind of noise. A whole bunch of it
goes on for about a minute and then it stops. The same good homie.
I wonder if it dropped off food for him. We might be on
the menu next though. That's the problem. Ricardo recalls that he is always
on the menu in this place. They try to eat me. I'm killing
them dead, as simple as that. I know there's a witty follow up
to what you just said, but I just can't think of it. I
Cardo has that effect on people. You don't say. He has an aura
of dumb by association's massive HMBO energy that you get when We'recardo big. But
yeah, most of you other than Octimer can detect that there is a cacophony
of sounds, but can't quite make them out call like farted or something.
So he doesn't know he didn't hear anything, but yeah, October is definitely
the cacophony is being made from a lot of something, and like I said,
you definitely make it out as like hipping and howling and hooting and that
kind of noiseness. Is it moving at all? Can he tell? No?
And this has dropped from the wet to the western side of the fort
or city or whatever from somewhere like this for the approach. Okay, it
flies over kind of close to the middle of the south wall, and as
soon as it passes over the wall, it drops something. And then he
kept going on her like then he kept flying. Yeah, okay, it
must have been small, well, comparatively small. Parmie wonders if it was
Naala. But he's coming from the wrong side of the swamp for it to
be her. I don't think she'd Yeah, the beast would probably. I
doubt the beast would tolerate being Yeah, that flown. Oh, she would
eat it, absolutely. Yeah, we'd get back to strange new steak.
Honestly, I'd try it. How many days until a full moon? Do
we know you've got a while yet? Damn? Okay. Party wanted to
synchronize our watches and hit when she'd turn it into the beast to see if
she'd follow us there. But that's not worth the hassle of waiting extra time.
I think it's kinder to not manipulate her other self. Also, be
damned, I don't want to get eaten. Yeah, leaving is probably be
better, just because she wants to eat me. Ricardo has that effect on
people, As I said, why it's it's always the crazy ones. So
now you guys are left with the troubled prospect of trying to get some sleep.
Yeah, we gotta pet like sardines or something something like that. Thank
you for reminding me. How would you like to organize watches? Ricardo will
take middle, Cool'll take first. I guess I'm on last watch. Then
Killer I'll sleep. Yeah. For the betterment of all of us, perhaps
just just catch some zse Beader, please, thank you. I will try.
All right, first watch, Let's see if you can follow off that
absolute jam of an observation role with a better observation role. All right,
I'm gonna spend one of the momentum roll three. Hey, look at that
the successes. Oh I was one off from having that critical extent. This
is great news. Alright, two successes. Everything seems quiet on Cole's watch.
All right, Now Ricardo can get jumped by something knowing how the last
time was played out. I'm standing a fortune point and then I will roll
up stration ah. Yes, So that way our good boy Timur doesn't get
attacked for me. If Cole gets attacked, I won't say anything, but
if anyone else gets attacked, I'll be funny. The thing is is Call's
actually a master of beauty sleep. That's why when he's asleep he becomes more
of a target instead of lessening. No, no, remember it was because
Ricardo failed his observation that they snuck up on me. And I have four
successes on at all. Nice for that. It sounds pretty good, all
right, So you can go ahead and add three to the movement and pool
on that one. All right, everything's quiet. Every so often you see
one of those creatures pass in front of the moon and it freaks you out.
But nothing seems to be coming close to the sides of the canyon.
So I'll regale that octomer when he wakes up, and we do the switch,
all right, Octimer, moist, catfish, money shot NightWash thorn diver,
let's have it. Oh, no, another one. I am spending
a momentum, spend two, go crazy, five successes, all right,
so we know we're in trouble if he says, add one momentum to the
pool. Yeah, that's true, that's very true. The fog is settling
back in heavy, so you can add I mean, you can add two
and max out the pool. Yeah makes sense. Okay, all right,
So early morning the sun starts to come up. The fog is just really
heavy. You guys can barely see each other, but everything still seems calm
and quiet. We've been traveling in this fog for some time now. I'm
thinking it over. Have I heard of anything having to do with a magical
fog before? Give me a sorcery test. Sorcery test? Might I pull
one of the momentum since that seems to be the cool thing to do.
Sure, it's your momentum, not mine. All right, here we go,
magical fog. I heard of one? Wow, boom, Okay,
let's go. That's what that means. You spent momentum on that right one?
Right? I did, and I got no successes at a critical failure.
Nice critical other year was on one of the first two dice. So
it wasn't that you spent the momentum and got the I mean, those are
some great Fifth Edition rolls, but uh, they're terrible conand rolls. As
far as you're concerned, Phaedra, there is absolutely no way any sorcerer you've
ever heard of could magically affect the weather to this extent. The area of
the fog is far too big. It has to be some sort of natural
phenomenon in the valley. There's no way it's magical, or at least that's
the way I feel. Yeah, did I get it? It was please
thinking about that or what? Okay, probably just souped the doom pool.
Oh god, sausage soup. Actually, that sounds pretty good. I would
kill for some sausage and lentil soup right now. Soon. I did kill
for some some soggy yeah. Yeah, don't worry. I hate him without
bread, Yeah, man, I get infinite enjoyment out of just quoting the
bread is the weakest part of the X from you, so well, I
mean, it would be less funny if it wasn't so true. Shit,
alright, So I'm going to express with disgust at how this wizard, whatever
he is, he chose to build, settle and live things here and it's
just such an unhospitable place all around. What a big ego. That's I'm
upset. I'll be the first one to admit that this guy's a fucking pervert.
Yeah, I got I got the I got the vibe, I got
the vibe. This whole valley is his an eighty percent of it is his
personal torture camps. So we are in a wizard's giant sex dungeon as Yeah,
we're going to his villain habited exactly by flying twinks. Of course,
he's definitely that. The biggest rogetesson is the brain camp got kill. You
know, I know that our planets have to kill him. It's to leave,
but he shows up. His ass is grass. I'm gonna invent Timbaland's
just so I can stop him in the nut. All right, give me
the size of twenty's. We're putting the boots this bitch. Haters say what,
he's got way too many cars on his driveway. We're sing he's a
terrible person. He might not even be a person. He might just be
terrible. He's just the concept of terrible. The dictionary, there's his picture
under the word terrible. That kind of Yeah, I mean, I showed
you guys this dude's picture. Oh okay, yes, of course, Yes,
you mean your discord picture for like a year and a half. Yes,
listen, it's almost bagfest again, which means doctor Wett will be making
you as my discord avatar. So next year I should be able to join
you guys. Hell yeah, Wait. Interestingly enough, the route you guys
took actually made you avoid the worst of the climbing a sheer cliff face scenario.
Oh yeah, let's go. There's actually gonna be a little bit of
a downslope as you approached the compound from here. So how close do you
guys want to get? Half a mile? I think that's fair. Yeah,
half a mile sounds. And what you're telling us about visibility is we
unfortunately have to get close to see what we Yeah, well, we're trying
to see off this. By the time you travel a little bit, some
of the fog will burn off if the pattern holds, so that there is
no pattern. But what do I know now? I don't need Optimer to
make a survival check for this one. This would be a difficulty zero since
you're going a little bit downslope. However, are you trying to keep a
low profiles you approach this place? No, we have torches, we have
fireworks, we have neon lights. We are dancing, we are actively,
we are trying to profile. To quote my borderline skill section, we wish
to be gorillas in the mist. Well, there's plenty of mists. So
all you guys need to be is gorillas. I gorilla. You're gonna have
to delf stlf uh. All of us are just one of us, just
you. You're picking the path. So oh, thank god. Okay,
so I can get one bonus momentum because I'm a living shadow. Okay,
would you like to also spend two momentum to roll five dice on this?
I'll take the two momentum. We're gonna need it, all right, boys,
hold your nose, because here goes the cold water. Really, you
got a rat out that, I got a wound in that, you fucking
skill box. Sat. It's treated, it's treated. You're good, all
right. Nineteen sixteen, fifteen. Yikes, it's one success. I succeeded.
I did so one success on five dice. Holy piss, we succeeded.
Okay, the polarity is flipped. This is the way we live,
don't you know? I should have interjected and offered my help on this my
bad, guys. No five dice is the max he can roll for no
help. Okay, so I can apply my camouflage results up to up to
three people or large objects. I'm gonna pick my three party members. You're
gonna you're gonna apply stealth to Phedra, Ricardo and a nearby bush and call
is on his fucking home. Yeah, got a backpack, Yeah, cal,
you're on your own. We can't let the backpack get taken. My
god. All right, well, one success. I hope their observation test
sucks. That's for me to know and you to find out. We're in
the midst It's gotta be easy for us to hide. Yeah, yeah,
all right. You approach the compound and you are standing at the base of
something that doesn't make sense to any of you, including Phedra, who has
been to most of the major cities on the continent. Uh uh. The
walls are stone. They are almost jet black and about twenty feet high.
They extend in just a very long rectangle. Their top elevation changes because the
valley is still sloping up at this point. But as far as any of
you can tell, this stone appears to be monolithic, as in the entirety
of the wall, which stretches miles in both directions. Since you're close to
the corner, appears to be a single piece of stone. Special thanks to
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