We come now to Aloner's Midtown, about five minutes after we last saw Oh
make the decision to not not follow Ellie, not follow Orra, and in
fact we'll in a different direction. Where are you headed, though, if
anywhere, or are you walking aimlessly? I probably go somewhere where it's more
familiar to me, so I'd probably try and well find what was once my
home. Oh, and where is that? Well, I'd say it's more
around the slums of Bologna. I guess you can see. So you're probably
headed south from Midtown down towards where the load town is. Low Town is
partially in and partially outside of the main gate. The city spills outwards from
an old, kind of ancient wall that's realistically not been used for any military
purpose for a really long time. There have been no wars in Alexandria for
hundreds of years, though there have been skirmishes and things and conflicts that have
happened around Lacrine. For the most part, Bologna has been extremely peaceful,
even though the country has kind of militaristic routes. It's a bit like one
of those like a Scandinavian country that used to be vikings and they know that,
but now you know they're just a peaceful, modern country. And that's
kind of what it's like with Balloona. So you find that there are lots
of castles and fortresses and towers and just great big walls and stuff. Bolona
itself is and has always been the capital. So there is this huge wall
that runs around the midtown and some of low Town outside, though the city
continues beyond these walls. The city outside of the walls is like a is
a borderline slum. It's more just kind of really compact dwelling houses, you
know, low income families and rundown taverns and stuff like that. Inside the
wall there is a slightly less rundown low town. Are you in or outside
of that wall? I'd probably say I'm inside, all right. So you're
heading down the probably sort of the main high street. You guys were kind
of on that one of the more central, wider roads that runs alongside the
widest parts of the river, even though there are many canals that spread out,
particularly around the northern side of the city. You've probably been walking for
five minutes ten minutes before you start to leave the more midtown market atmosphere.
And head more into the kind of lower town homes, and you feel a
pinch on kind of on your lower back, not quite on your buttock.
Oh okay, that's good. No pinchy bump please, no, not not
without you know, consent first, I guess I turn around to see if
there's something or someone behind me. There's somebody there. There's a gentleman who's
carrying two small barrels. They've probably got mead under them. You can see
that he's moving it from a cart into a nearby tavern. Well, seeing
he's got his hands full, I suppose I offer us some help. He
looks at you as you suddenly turn on him. He looks over at you
and says, all right, governor, Oh hi, I can see how
you got your hands full there. Do you need a hand with what are
those barrels? Uh, there's an old timer. If you want a drink,
yeah, just head inside. I'm sure they'll sort you out with something.
Oh well, all right, I'll take it as you've you've got this
cupboard. But all right, I just think you're a thief. I oh
well, I I suppose I head inside this this tavern then for said drink.
As you get near the tavern doorway, you can see it's just known
as the Green Tavern. There's a big green door that's open. Inside of
it, you can hear the hustle and bustle of like a relatively busy kind
of tavern. Again, they're kind of over capacity a lot of the time
because of the recent destruction to many homes and properties and stuff. It's a
relatively run down, terraced tavern between what looks like two houses. Small similar
to Oh you didn't go to it, but to Moranas in the sense that
it's just a single, thin looking house that's been converted. The lower floor
and then the upper floor looks like it's also part of the tavern, a
little bigger than Morana's, a little less disheveled, but really just seems like
a local pub. As you put a hand onto the doorframe, you notice
that your leg gives out a little bit and the room swells. As you
move towards the opening of the doorway, there is a moment where you begin
to stumble. I guess I'm overwhelmed by this feeling that I try to balance
myself, but I yes, I lose my footing and I fall flat on
my face. As I enter from behind you. The person that was watching
you says, I don't think you need anything else to drink, do you.
I haven't even started yet. I turned to him as I'm still laying
on the ground. You begin to speak, but the words don't come out.
You just kind of slur through them, your tongue feeling fat in your
mouth. You try to say what you say, but it comes out as
well. There you see the fellow looking down at you. Behind him,
the sky above him, quite clear today, begins to kind of zoom in
and out, kind of like a Dolly zoom. He remains in focus,
but the sky stretches out beyond where he is. There's somebody else behind you
shouting down at you. Get out of way. Come on, someone moved
this old guy out of the way. The guy with the barrels is standing
over You see him kind of frustrated that you're in the way of the door,
and he begins to put one down. What are you doing? I
guess I'm gonna crawl with whatever strength I have. I feel like a wet
noodle. Yeah, give me a roll. Oh boy, I'm scared their
viewer. You may notice that Bo already has a sixth and one of the
roles that we did before the game began, and Brad said, nothing,
you're crawling in or out. I guess I'm crawling out. You begin to
crawl kind of out of the bar. You someone on what strength you can.
Your arms feel like hollow. It doesn't feel like you have any legs
at all, but you begin to move on some sort of muscle memory,
some ability. You start to crawl out of the way. You can hear
people around you. There's two or three people inside the tavern who appear to
just be laughing at you. I just think you're some old drunk. The
fellow who was trying to get past you go, oh yeah, finally you
hear him step out, and he just walks over you and starts to move
away. The guy who's holding the barrels says, maybe no more for you
a bit early, begins to pick up his barrels again. You are feeling
very woozy, your arms, your body starting to feel extremely weak. You're
not quite like blacking out, but it seems like you probably will do soon.
Oh boy, I'm instantly thinking of Ellie Ara and sooner. I like,
I feel like now if I was with them. This wouldn't be happening
to me right now. I just hope wherever they are they're safe and not
in this situation like myself. You hear another voice say, oh, grandfather.
A fellow moves into your vision. Two boots, clean looking boots,
a robe draped down around them. You see this figure lean down over you,
casting kind of a shadow, and you can see be and underneath an
inconspicuous looking robe, but a thick one, a fear bulg man, but
quite a short and thin looking fear bulg. Fear Bolgs are usually kind of
giant kin. They look like big, large gnomes quite a lot of the
time. Is a quick way to describe them, usually a large nose.
However, this fear bulg seems to be quite small considering however, his clothing
is quite nice. Underneath the rope, you can also see that he's got
like relatively long hair which is pulled up into a kind of tight bun up
on the back of his head. He does have a flourish of hair hanging
down the side of his face. He has some piercings, a little beard.
He seems to be relatively well dressed, very clean looking, and he
leans down and looks at you. He says, come on, grandfather,
let me help you up. He holds out his hand. I don't remember
having a grandson. I reluctant late, but take his hand. Yeah,
the words do not come out. You try to formulate that sentence, but
it's again a mah blair bet is what kind of comes out. The fear
Bold lifts you up and begins to lead you down the street a little further.
You can feel that he's doing most of the lifting and you're stumbling.
It does feel kind of like you're like absurdly drunk. It most certainly looks
that way. The fear Bold leads you into an alley way and says,
mister Boba, you are under arrest. You know me arrest, And that
is where we switch as you try to say all of those works, but
you absolutely do not. Back further along in midtown we have Aura and Aura.
You head away in the opposite direction, I think to Ellie, the
opposite direction to bo where are you going? I am actually heading to the
Inquisition to see Reginald Perfect. You are heading all the way up to the
northern part of town. This is a slightly longer walk, not because it's
further away, but because the the streets become more and more congested as you
start to move through Midtown towards the high Town, which is where a lot
of the nobles live. However, you're moving now into just like the deepest
market district where all the taverns are really bloated. You move towards the Inquisition
headquarters. I think it probably takes you about ten minutes fifteen minutes before you're
really in the thick of it. What are you thinking about, what are
you feeling after the events of last session. I think about the time my
father told me to never say anything to anyone when your head is not on
straight. And so when Ellie was saying that I was not loyal and I
was projecting onto her instead of making it worse, I just decided to leave
for right now. But my heart's heavy that it went that way. Someone
is following you, do I know someone is following me. You pick up
on it with whatever you want that eighteen to represent. I realize now that
these the fall fifteen minutes since you left the other two, the same figure
has been semi brazenly following you. I think you pick up on it because
they're not trying to hide themselves, but they're also not actively moving towards you.
You see a fellow teefling. However, this teethling is very large looking.
They have sort of bright red skin. You can see that they have
lots of burn marks, scars and wounds over just just the pieces of their
face that you can see underneath a robe. The robe is absolutely an inquisition
robe. This is not one of their robes that they wear to just kind
of fit in. This is an inquisitor openly moving through the streets behind you
and has been taking the same turns you've been taking, following you. And
when you catch them, whether you look at them or not, they're looking
at you. You can make that out. Underneath what he's wearing, you
can you can see that he is relatively like he seems to be armed,
like he has a belt with all sorts of jars that look like pots or
potions. You can see a short sword, and you can see that he's
wearing kind of like a thick looking leather armor of sorts. Maybe underneath that.
It's like, I'm just moving along and I notice that someone is mimicking
my movements, and I probably take some time to give this person the benefit
of the doubt. Maybe they're going to a stall that I'm not aware of.
But when I realize that it's an inquisitor robe and that they are in
fact tailing me because of how my last interaction went with Ellie, I'm going
to turn around and confront this person. So I'm just gonna stop and I'm
gonna look at him. Can I help you? This tiefling continues to walk
towards you, and we're in the middle of probably a really busy looking crossroads.
There is lots of people moving back and forth. There is plenty of
people with moving with purpose, plenty of people who seem to be wandering can'ts
trundled by this figure strides through them all and they unconsciously part out of his
way as he moves up towards where you are. When he gets to you,
he stands really tall. He's maybe six' four ish, pretty muscular
looking, pretty strong looking, a relatively imposing figure. You can see now
when he gets very close to you that his face is very burnt in several
places. This is very rare for a teethling. For the record, feelings
do not burn easy. His horns stick up out of his head, and
they've chipped, and the end of one of them appears to have been broken
off in probably a very painful fashion, but probably also a long time ago.
He looks down to you and hands you a pair of handcuffs, shackles,
manacles, and then grunts, I don't take them. I don't know
what you want me to do with that. You can use your words.
Really not in the mood for whatever puzzle game you have for me. Right
now. He mimics putting a manacle on your wrist. So you want me
to take those handcuffs and put them on myself so you can take me away?
He smiles at you. Okay, have a nice day. I hope
that you have a wonderful afternoon. I've got to go, and I turn
around and I start walking. He grabs your shoulder and it's a rough grab.
M okay, we're in a public place. I will make a scene.
I will make this man is touching me. Let me just roll a
couple of dice. Two people turn you. You notice immediately that two people
turn to you instantly? Is it like good night? Should people turn?
One of them says, hey you, Oh, never mind, never mind.
He yes, he is inquisition, but that doesn't mean he's allowed to
just grab me. Move away. Two or three other people stop and begin
to watch a circle slowly forming around you. I don't know what you want
from me, but you can use your words. Okay, are you okay?
I grab his face and I'm gonna squeeze his mouth open to see if
he has a tongue. Uh. You grab his face. He actually lets
you do it, but he lifts his neck up and you can see that
there is some really rough scarring around his throat, lots of damage. At
one point, it looks less like bonemarks, more like rope or hang marks,
that kind of a thing. It seems like the area around his throat
and larring because at some point was very badly damaged. And he lowers his
head down again against the strength of your hand and points to the shackles.
When I squeeze or open his mouth, does he have a tongue or like?
Does he not have teeth or something? Uh? He I don't think
his mouth opens if you squeeze him. He just you can just feel the
sides of his face and his skin is tough. Can you open your mouth
like I need to know if you can't speak, because it would eliminate a
whole difficult part of this conversation. He opens his mouth inside he has maybe
four teeth. His tongue is nowhere to be seen. I'm going to see
the scarring on his neck, the burns on his face. I know,
since I'm a teeth fling, that burns do not happen. We're like resistant
flames. And I see he has no tongue, and he has four teeth,
and I mean his horns are all chipped. Did you get this way
because of the inquisition? Mmm mm hmm. You want to kill me?
He mimiics, pointing at you and then neck slitting, and then shackles again,
points to him, which I assume you still holding them or are they
on the ground If he handed it to me, I never took him,
then they're on the ground in front of you. He points to them.
Well, I've got something that you might understand. I point to them on
the ground. Why don't you put them on your wrists? And then you
turn around and walk away from me? Because I really am not in the
mood for this. I'm gonna go see your buddy Reginald and then then you
know what, go fight somebody else to kill. I don't really, it's
not gonna be me today. Mm hmmm. Shakes his head to you,
tee fling to tee fling, I just you're so much better than this.
Give me a roll and nine. He looks angry. When you mentioned te
flnk to teethling, I pick up that. He looks angry. Yeah,
are you not okay with who you are? Is that why you're getting upset?
He spits on the ground in front of you and points at you.
So you think that I am just a piece of trash that belongs on the
ground if you're gonna spit at my feet, points at the shackles. Okay,
well, why don't you do this? You pick up those, stick
them up your ass, and then you know, go do whatever you do.
And I turn around and I start walking away. Okay, there is
a few seconds you start to walk away, you hear a gosp from the
crowd, and then a of like an igniting of something that sounds like,
you know, gas or something like that. What do you do? Because
I'm a teefling, do I instinctively know what it is? You know that
there's fire somewhere there is that fear response in me that makes me want to
turn around and look. But I'm so my adrenaline is so high from the
confrontation I just had with Ellie that I'm I'm not thinking as clearly as I
normally would, and I'm like, no, you're not gonna look back.
You just gotta keep you. If you look back, that's gonna show that
you're weak. And so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna keep on. I
have like a flashbag of grimh just kind of in the back of my head.
Yeah, And so what I would like to do is just prepare myself.
I want to focus my hearing on if I hear the flames coming closer
to me, that I can dive or duck out of the way. I'll
give you the benefit of the doubt. Roll me, I dice. Okay,
fourteen fourteen. Now, under the rules of quest a, fourteen is
a success. You accomplish what you were trying to do without any compromises.
If you are dealing damage, you deal the standard amount. There is a
few seconds and you're walking away the frustration of the moment. This kind of
horrible deja vous or mirroring of this situation once again. You come to the
big city and this big dude, lumbering kind of Neanderthal man wanders over to
you and begins a actually violent confrontation. There is a moment when you catch
that sound of flames. Then you hear a whistling like something is being thrown
at you. You instinctively duck and move out of the way. I think,
probably for us witnessing this, the difference between aura at the beginning of
the campaign and aura now is significant. You move now with like a purpose
and a strength that it's almost supernatural. Because the levels that you've managed to
get to as a group, you guys have been fighting gods and things,
so avoiding a simple Molotov cocktail is nothing for you. However, you roll
out of the way. It looks cool. It's like everyone shouts out.
A bunch of people who are in front of you dive out of the way,
and in front of you this glass shatters, and then as there's some
that spreads out in front of you. I avoid it, though, correct,
you've avoided it completely. I mean, I'm going to turn around now
and look at this guy. He's standing there with a sort of circular potion
pot is what it looks like like an orb of some kind with a liquid
inside that you would assume to be some sort of flammable liquid. You see
him in his other hand flicker two things together, and then a little flame
ignites, igniting the second molotov, and he throws it at you. And
this is brazen, by the way, You're in a crowded area. This
is wild and he just launches it at you. What do you do?
Can I pull out my bow and arrowl and use dead eye and hit the
molotov cocktail while it's in midair? You absolutely can try. Okay, call
me a dice. Okay, oh the three Let's see as you now fight
in what looks like a street fighter level, surrounded by people in a kind
of ring that is forming. There are flames behind you. You pull out
a bow just as he throws another Molotova. You fire an arrow and it
you're hearing dink the side of the glass. It kind of turns the glass
a little. I'm sorry to interrupt you. I have upgraded dead Eye.
Yes, wait, what does dead eye do to add to this role dead
I well, the upgrade, I'll just read the upgrade you take aim and
focus your senses, automatically scoring a triumph with range weaponry on a nearby creature
object that you target. The hit disables the targeted limb plots. Nice.
So yeah, so you just you don't even need to roll. You just
consume whatever it costs to do this, which is three yeah. So yeah,
you hear the dink as this, You pull an arrow out, You
knock it instantly. This thing flies towards the air, and then this arrow
hits the glass. There is a an explosion. This glass is hit by
the arrow. It ignites. There is a an explosion in the air.
Flames rain everywhere as napalm explodes over you, over this inquisitor, and then
the crowd, who suddenly shift backwards, giving you an even wider circle.
There's a kind of a scream as a few people kind of move backwards.
The inquisitor and yourself are hit by some of these flames, but it's nowhere
near enough to do any damage to your skin. He doesn't even flinch at
this. You may react however you want, but you will get hit by
some of this flame. It cannot hurt It's nowhere near enough to hurt your
teethling skin. I think it's uncomfortable, but I'm trying so hard to just
maintain that. You can't phaze me attitude that even if it hurts a little
bitter stings, I just it's probably like my eyes water a little bit,
but I like choke it back. What is your problem? Mmm? He
kicks the manacles across the way towards you. You see me roll my eyes
in a very dramatic way. There are people everywhere. Are you trying to
kill people? Aren't you supposed to protect us? Inquisition. I'm going to
go see your buddy Reginald, who's got us on a little mission. So
why are you here? Throw on fucking Maltov cocktails at me. There is
like her. You get like this kind of crazed sense from him. He
seems slightly unhinged. He seems kind of crazy, like he doesn't seem to
be listening to any of your logic. And you gesture to the people.
He looks at them, his eyes kind of rolling around in his head a
little bit. He brings out his short sword and you see him just pouring
some of this liquid from one of the other pots on his belt. He
throws it to the ground, and then he clicks these two thimbles that he's
got in his hand together, igniting the sword. He then brandishes the flaming
sword. There's actually a few people around you that cheer, if anything,
they seem like they're on his side. This man is large, He's really
large, flaming potions at me. I don't think I can outrun him,
and I don't think he's gonna stop chasing me. I'm gonna pull out my
sword. Yeah, yours is not a short sword. His is just a
small blade, kind of a side arm. Really, yours is a ridiculously
large claymore on your back. Can I try using a skill? Yeah?
I don't know if I can. It's called don't you know who I am?
And it's uh, you umpress common folk and minions by pretending to be
someone notable. But can I use this to intimidate this teethling? Well,
what do you do? Yeah? You can. You have to use the
cost one ap, consume the one ap and what do you do? Because
he kind of pulls out this flaming sword and lifts it up. A few
people kind of coming to his side, cheering. A few people again,
the kind of crowd of Ah, what do you do? In return?
I pull out my sword and I know the way the sun hits it,
because I've played with this sort so much that I kind of twisted a little
bit, so like the glint hits him in the eyes. You're gonna fight
me with that. I don't think you realize who I am. So I'm
going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and I'm going to say,
maybe just walk away and I'll go talk to your buddy Reginald before you
get hurt. There's some people on your side of this circle that suddenly start
cheering. You hear a mutter and you can kind of just and this is
in the very back of your thought process here, but you can hear people
going, who is she? What did she say she was? She's a
tawny knight? Who is that? He throws the sword at you. He
just launches it forward. It begins to turn over and over in the air.
The flames rommy a dice. Well, I'm just I'm checking something.
Okay, Yeah, what a natural twenty? Natural twenty? How do you
avoid this? Describe it? It can be as cool as you want.
Honestly, I like the idea. I just take my sword, hold it
up and it like hits my sword, and his sword just shatters into a
million pieces and it falls to the ground. And then I just pull out
of the air like baseball. Yeah, yeah, you do that. There's
like a sudden as you pull this this huge blade off of your back.
He throws a flaming sword at you and you just ding it. It explodes
it. It kind of shatters into like four or five pieces around you,
the flames hitting the ground going out. There's a cheer from behind you and
then a boo from behind him. You see him start to move forwards towards
you again, pulling out another alchemist's kind of flask. What do you want
to do, hm, I'm gonna give you one more opportunity to walk away,
sir. He's walking out, He's striding towards you. Now I'm just
gonna mutter to myself. I guess he wants some more scars, and I'd
like to use wild attack on him. Okay, what is Wild's attack?
You attack with reckless power, disregarding your safety. Describe a signature style for
this attack and what it looks like when you make it. And then,
depending on how well I roll either my, oh god, my weapon can
break I miss ideal double quadruple or yeah, so there's like different levels.
I guess I can post it in chat if you want, I can see
it roll it. Okay, oh my god, please God. Thirteen thirteen
is that you deal double damage. He throws this molotov now towards you.
What do you do? Whatever you do will strike him, and you will
deal double damage to him. He throws the cocktail and I jump back,
and so it explodes on the ground in front of me, and I jump
over the flames and through them, and I have the sword up over my
head and I just bring it down and hope to God I hit him,
and I imagine I'm aiming for his shoulder. Okay, so you do that.
You launch yourself forward through these flames. He's not expecting it, no
one else is expecting it. These flames rush up around you. As you
move forward. This huge sword comes down. You feel it hit the side
of where his shoulder is, and you feel it bite into his flesh.
You can feel that it hits some part of the leathers that run up on
along his shoulders underneath this robe. You see it instantly cut through the robe.
Then you feel it bite straight through those leathers, and then you see
his blood running down the bottom of your sword. He is stumbling backwards.
There's a grunt from him as soon as you hit him, and as his
blood runs down this sword, he looks down at you and says, under
arrest. He says to me, under arrest? Yeah, can I take
the shackles off the ground and cuff him? You absolutely may try roll me
a dice, yes, a natural tiny how do you do it? When
he says under arrest, I'm proud of him for actually saying words, because
like that tenderness of horrors kind of coming through him. I go no,
And then I grabbed the shackles off the ground, and when he's like touching
his arm, I just grab his hands and I pull them behind his back.
And it's just like an action movie where it happens so fast, and
then all of a sudden he's on the ground and he has his hands behind
him and he's cuffed. Yeah, he's laying on the ground. There's a
lot of blood running down his chest and pulling now around him from what seems
to be a pretty deep wound in his shoulder area. You move around him.
He kind of tries to move, but you see him WinCE at the
pain. You push him down. You grab the manacle, you get one
wrist into it. You see him reach out towards you, but you grab
his wrist, twisting it, putting the other manacle on his second wrist,
and he falls to one side. You see him now struggling, even though
he can still move. He's on one knee, beginning to stand up,
but his wrists are shackled. You see the ends of his fingers have these
little like thimbles on that seem to be designed to create a little spark.
They fall off and hit the ground, and he seems to be upset about
that. Blood continuing to run down his body. Now it seems like a
lot of blood, but he's shackled. He doesn't seem to be entirely out
of the fight though, As he begins to stand up again. Do I
know if the wound that I have caused is a mortal like hit that he's
going to die from this? I'm going to say, because you have mending,
you can make me a roll to determine whether you think he will die
from this wound. Okay? An eight An eight. I don't think you
know. I think you're pretty sure that if he was left to die,
he would probably bleed out from it. But it's kind of hard to tell
whether he's dying from it now or it's just a really nasty looking flesh wound
that he'll be fine with. He's also very big and kind of muscular looking.
It looks like he can take a hit, but still not one hundred
percent sure. Well, if you start to stand up like he's ready to
come at me again, doesn't look like are you are you serious? Are
I'm just stay on the ground, Just stay on the ground, and then
this can all be done and I can go on my way, and then
you can get your shoulder looked at. Roll me another day. Charges at
you like a ball. Suddenly he's moving, there's a and then you're hit
with his other shoulder. It hits you like you've been hit by a horse,
and you are flung backwards. You launch backwards, your back, striking
the ground, your sword held in your hand, but kind of making a
loud clank as you fall over. He stumbles forward over your legs. It's
not pretty looking. He continues to stumble forward, blood running out of his
shoulder. He moves off to one side of yours, grunting a little bit.
You take two damage on that, and I use my skill overpower.
What does it do? You can you use your strength to overpower a commoner
ominion within reach? Oh? You cannot apply this ability on bosses. So
is that is he a boss? I guess he is a boss? Yeah?
Sorry, No, that's fine. I will like kind of shake it
off, like too too. Damage is quite a bit, So I'm just
gonna be like witzing a little bit in pain and surprised that he just full
on bull ran at me, and I just I shake my head and I
pull my sword up, and I'm just gonna I'm going to like aim for
its neck and try to go killing strike here. I have this conflict,
but it's happening so fast and I'm in survival mode that I bring it up
and I bring my sword down. All right, give me your attack role?
What eleven and eleven is the awkward one? I think where you're partially
successful. Oh no, it's just a full on success. You accomplish what
you were trying to do without any compromises. If you're doing damage, you
deal with the standard amount you bring this sword sideways flat. You see him
kind of turning around. He brings up a hand. You shave off three
of his fingers at an angle. It goes up. He loses part of
his index finger, which previously had the thimble on it, then the middle
finger, and then the fingernecks for that, and then the sword lodges into
his neck. He is still alive as your sword hits what feels like just
a fleshy stop. He brings his hands down, his eyes wide, and
blood suddenly pouring out of his fingers. Then blood gushes in a kind of
horrible mess out of his neck. He grabs the sword and pulls you towards
him. Rolly another dice thirteen thirteen is a success. He reaches out for
you and you avoid it. What do you do in return? Feel like
he was just gonna grab your face and bring your face into your own sword,
was what he was doing. Like the sword is like in my hands.
I'm just gonna lean very close to his face. I killed a god,
don't make me kill you, and I'm gonna pull it out and I'm
going to use mend on his neck. Okay, what does men do for
him? Gives him five hps. Okay, how does it look? Because
it's kind of hard to do with men in the middle of battle. What
are you trying to do? Well? It specifically says you cannot use this
during combat. You can't, but if you're making a gesture towards something like
that, that might be it's thanked it in. It's like the magnitude of
what I'm actually doing is hitting me, and I'm thinking I don't want to
kill this man, and so I start I pull my sword up quick and
start applying pressure to the wound on his neck. Okay, um, roll
me a DIESE sixteen. He grabs the back of your head as you're doing
it, and he goes to head butt you. But then you see him
kind of pass out. He can't hands are handcuffed. True, he's grabbing
at you. It doesn't matter because he passes out. He falls forward,
grabbing at you in a very sort of violent way. As you're applying pressure
to his neck, he suddenly collapses in front of you. Two of these
bottles roll out from his pocket, and then a pool of blood begins to
spread out. There's a bunch of people around you that for a moment just
kind of stop, and then suddenly half of them start clapping, half of
them start moving away, half of them are kind of horrified. You can
hear lots of different things. A bunch of people saying, who is that?
That's a tallney night. He's the greatest fire I've ever seen. And
then you also hear people going, oh, my god, she just killed
an inquisitor. Oh, we're all funck now what is this? What's going
on? Someone called a watch quick, and you can hear just a chaos,
a bunch of people clapping, bunch of people terrified. What are you
doing in the middle of this circle? There are still bits of fire around
you and lots of blood coming out of an inquisitor. Is he dead?
He is not dead? No, okay, I'm going to tear a piece
off of my coat and I'm gonna I'm gonna fashion like a tourniquet around his
neck, not to choke him, but to stop the bleeding. And I'm
going to stand up in one of the people who's clapping. I'm gonna grab
their arm. You gotta keep pressure on this. Get him some medical help,
please, And then I'm gonna search his pockets and somebody it just does
what you say yes, ma'am, and they just start doing absolutely not what
you ask. It's terrible. They're just trying to do what. You can
see that they're freaking out. Their hands are shaking, they have no idea
what they're doing. You begin searching his pocket. Give me an a dice
roll, I was gonna say, an investigation chap. We're playing quest eight
and eight. Start looking over the stuff in his pocket. You find an
area in this robe where there's definitely stuff inside the robe, but there's no
way into it. There's a secret pocket, but you don't see the opening
to the pocket. Can I tear it with my knife? Yes? You
pull out a knife and start tearing the pocket. Inside of it, you
find a small pouch that seems to contain gold. You also find a very
small looking inquisitor's notebook, not too dissimilar to this one, the one that
Reginald has been using. Flicking through it quickly, you can see it's all
in inquisitions gripped. You find three rings that look like rings that would fit
on this particular teeth thing's hand. And you find a very strange looking device.
It looks a little like a pocket watch, but immediately you realize it
is not okay. So I grab all that and hold it in my hand,
and then I'm going to just quickly pat down his body to see if
there's any anything else that I should He's got a bunch of molotovs, He's
got a bunch of things. You can find like six boxes of matches in
another pocket. You find that he does have another dagger on him. That's
about it, I think, apart from the little symbol because which are on
the ground nearby, and the set of manacles. I'm going to take the
matches and his thimbles and I'm going to stick those in my other pocket because
he should not be allowed to throw them all tobs in the city. So
I'm going to take those, and then I'm going to make sure that people
are doing what I said and getting him medical attention. And then I'm so
it looks like it. They don't look like they know what they're doing.
This is just like surf the peasantry. They don't. They're kind of trying.
There's a few people around you. It's gonna be fine. I gave
him fair warning. I just you got to put pressure here. And I
grab some of their hands and I start showing them how to to do this
one on the shoulder. Okay, and you come grab us. Put this
on on the next, hold it, just hold it tight, put pressure
there. Don't kill me. I'm not going to kill Please, don't let
me. He attacked me. I had an argument with Tim. Good time
for us. He's just okay, we'll just put this, put this on
there and do a lot of blood in it. That's a lot of blood,
isn't it. And he's dead then, no, he's not dead.
He's got and I feel his polls. He's alive. Yeah, he's alive.
He's fine, he's he's just this is the thing, like I said
several times, if he could walk away, and then he didn't. And
so now you know, he's got some really big wounds. But look he's
got burns and other scars. So it seems like he's got a pretty good
resilience to think, So just just get into a doctor resilience sowds. Yeah,
you're you're gonna be fine, all right, Okay, all right,
you don't need it. Okay, And I stand up, and I notice
that some people are afraid of me. Everyone's afraid of you. Some people
are afraid of you and like your batman way, and some people are afraid
of you in a this is a crazy murderer that's just killed a CIA agent
in front of us way, but everyone is afraid of you. I'm just
gonna say he's fine, he's gonna he I think he's gonna be fine.
There's a doctor on the way, and I looked down at my sword and
to see the blood all over it. I have an appointment to get to
They they they are putting pressure on the wounds, and I just slowly back
up out of the crowd, just just all right, thank you, I
gotta I got a meeting. You'all take care. And then I'm going to
turn around and just like pull my hood up and try to wipe my sword
off on my pant leg which is darker so the blood can come off,
and then disappear into a crown alleyway and try to take the background vanish you
vanished, leaving inquisitor Bob bleeding out in the middle of the street after a
successful combat. And that is where we're going to switch over to our our
crew or who are on a ship. We have our three party members on
the Utensia, a cargo ship that was heading from the Giant Lands to Alexandria
but got waylaid due to what is most likely an arkannight engine or some sort
of magical enchanted engine that broke down, leaving them stranded, but worked out
perfectly for you to board and take passage. The three of you have been
I think relaxing a little bit. You've been eating. I think somebody made
some tea. And there are two young looking monks next to you, wearing
kind of wraps and silver and white gray wraps. Young looking, maybe early
twenties. They may be a little younger, but they're both in what seems
to be very good health. They seem to be very fit. They both
have staffs that they seem to be capable with. The endlessly refer to sooner
as Walsh. And there are a couple of drawings next to you, guys,
where you're sat. Above you, there is a kenku sitting on a
large piece of marble in the lower lower decks basically the whole of this ship
where you have been placed. You are realistically just cargo with the group here.
And what are you all doing? My seasickness worn off from last it
has I think, Yeah, I mean, this wouldn't be too long after
the last time we saw you, though, So it's up to you how
much you want to be affecting you And goat's milk and some fiery water and
stuff in my tummy and it's all found a magical mixture. So I'm probably
just looking to sue Una to see what we want to do, if anything,
with this information that we gathered. So I'll just say, what do
you what do you make of all this? I mean, they I think
they want to come with us. Oh, yes, they want to protect
me. I think, what do you think? Yea, I think I
don't know if I can bear that responsibility, but I suppose I have to.
It's the least I could do. Honestly, I don't know how you'd
stop them. They seem pretty eager. Ka, Well, sure I could
just tell them. You don't think they just follow maybe, I mean,
it depends on depends on whether they want to listen to me or Savas or
or I don't know. It's weird to me that both of you have seen
things, and it seems since I haven't been able to see anything, I
haven't seen anything more. Look at this, it's kind of cute my little
arm sticking out of that tower there. I suppose it is even't got the
feet then either, Yeah, yes, I wonder, I wonder what it
means. Well, perhaps we can find a translator here. I think some
of the crewmen are from those lands, and I'd be able to help us
understand each other a little bit better. That's true. And I just kind
of cast a glance up toward the stairway that leads toward the upper decks.
We're we've been told to stay down here for a while. Has that while
passed? Yeah, you're it's it's you was told to stay there for like
maybe half an hour. It's probably been about an hour since you've got on
this ship. Two. Perhaps we can we'll get some fresh air. I
know, I wouldn't mind. Sure I join you? Sure? Uh?
Hip, Oh, do you care to join us? Mhm join you?
Fresh air? Air? Hey? Sure? Sure? All right? Are
you sure? As you can sit here and mope if you want. Oh,
I'm gonna take her arm and start walking toward the stairwell so that we're
a little ahead of him. And uh, I'm gonna whisper. You know,
I've been wanting to talk to you about him. He he seems a
little lost. Yeah, yes, I imagine so, but we both are
a little bit. But that's just that's that's our relationship. It's how I
let him know that I see him. But I mean, you've seen him
kind of just like staring at the floor and yeah, he's just does he
does he get like this or is this never? Yeah, I just thought
i'd mention it. I don't. I don't know. I'm so I don't
know what it means. I don't know what it means either, But I
just I don't or how else to tell him that I see him and I
understand. I I don't. I don't want to say too much, but
I've you know, observed some things, and I think I can see that
there's a lot of emotion in your relationship. But I I feel like there's
a lot unsaid. Maybe maybe you too need to have I'm overstepping. I
know I'm overstepping. I just maybe maybe just a little bit. You know,
this isn't This isn't like you know, the the Stallion novels or anything
like that. It's complicated, and you know, people have histories and I've
been breeding them to you. Okay, gotcha. Just thought maybe it could
help because he anyway, what do you want me to do? I just
it seems to tell him, tell him, chin up, chin up.
Oh, everything's gonna work out. Well, tell him how you You just
told me how you felt about him a little bit. And I don't Oh
he knows. I don't think he does. I I don't know. I
don't know. It's just I feel like there might be some things unseid here.
I appreciate your insight for for what it's worth. I have to stay
focused right now. I can't I understand worry about someone's feelings. I have.
I have a lot. Okay, I think, okay, and I'll
just keep keep heading up. Yeah, you guys head upwards. And the
three of you going up, or just the two of you, I think
he was following behind. Oh you didn't go. Sorry. Now I'm a
train. Fixed my my gun a bit more, make sure it's working properly
and stuff. Just yeah, you head up onto the kind of open second
floor of this this ship. The not quite in the hull, not quite
up on the the top. But you see two or three people moving around
here. It's no different really to the cargo area that you have below you,
but there seems to be other cargo here. This is where they seem
to have more the lions. What was down below was just kind of relatively
raw chunks of marble that still seem to have like parts of the mountainside attached
to them, whereas here you can see that they have other valuables. It
seems to be crates and kegs. You can see that they seem to be
transporting all sorts of extras, small things like furs, and it's just laid
out relatively neatly, but not entirely neatly. Across this the ship. There
is one fellow that you can see there that you recognize to be Wayne.
He's sort of tightening up some of the straps that are around some of these
cargo palettes. You can see that he has no idea that you're there.
He's kind of just whistling to himself. You can continue going up. What
is the cargo the stone right, The main cargo seems to be the marble.
The Giant Lands have very specific marble. It's a strong stone, but
also it's just kind of one of those things that all the nobles and I
imagine that Cairo would be more well versed with spending time in a larger city.
But Nobles will build statues and buildings out of giant Tish marble, and
it can only come from one place, and that's the Giant Lands. It
just seems to be that you're on a ship that maybe cuts, but certainly
transports this particular raw resource. However, you can see that clearly that they're
doing some other there's probably some trade going on between Daydon, which is where
you're headed, and whichever port town in the Giant Lands you came from.
Since I don't know if you know so there is. You can see that
there's a lot of other cargo here. It's most they're just boxes and kegs
and crates, but you can see that there's more cut stone up here.
You can see that the kegs have what is most likely mead and wine in
them. The rest of the boxes are varying different sizes stacked up. It's
a pretty open floor here. You can see pretty clearly it's well lit compared
to downstairs, where there's just one lamp. And at either end you can
see that there are cordoned off areas behind doors, most likely to be quarters,
but I don't think you know, do you suppose they do? You
suppose they all speak Giant they've been working there. Excuse me. The one
person who's here suddenly turns around, kind of startled at the sight of you
all, and you recognize it to be Wayne, and he says, all
right, Wayne, nice to see you again. You don't happen to speak
giant, do you? Giant? Well picked up a few words, but
then all the bad ones, right, okay, will be on our way.
Thank you. My head on up, like I've just dodged the biggest
bullet. He like, he walks after you in that way that people do
when you know they're going to continue talking. But then you guys kind of
move up the stairs and it doesn't seem like he follows, And yeah,
you head on up. Once you make it up to the the top floor.
I can't remember what the top floor of a ship is. I don't
know nothing about ships. And I apologize to all the people who are getting
annoyed. The top deck of the ship, you see that there's a lot
more going on. You can see that the crew are hard at work here.
There are a few members that you recognize. You can see up on
the quarter deck the captain at the wheel. He doesn't recognize you coming up.
However, next to him is Eno, the kind of posh, taller,
stuck up gentleman who looks like a classic villain from a Hannah Barbera cartoon.
He immediately seems to clock you coming up onto the deck. To the
side of you, you can see one of the goliaths. There are two
goliaths on the ship, one with kind of pinkish reddish skin, one with
gray bluish skin. The gray bluish skin goliath is next to you, quite
close, but he's dealing with a bunch of rigging. You can see him
in his huge form, pulling at a lot of these very thick looking ropes,
pulling something tight to do with some rigging that's running up the side of
one of the masts. And as you step up onto the deck, you're
also hit by a pretty strong wind and that strong sea salty air. There
is just a flat, open ocean. It's very clear, relatively warm considering
the cold of the open ocean. And in the distance, I think behind
the ship you can just about make out yours corn this kind of island,
but it's pretty far now. As you're heading out into what just looks like
an endless open blue. Thankfully, it's pretty calm. I think sometimes a
lot of moments in my life are like yos, corn there? What do
you mean? Just out of you? Me? Bye? I don't think
like that. We've got a lot ahead of us. Perhaps you do,
dear, Perhaps you do well? Should we ask one of these fellows what
moulshats? From above you? There is a sudden cry out, Oh,
you hear a voice all the way above you? There is a fellow in
the crow's nest? Who you hear in the distance? Say what you look
at? That? An Owl's an owl? Here? Hey? That?
And I make a few clicks to get keep you under my shoulders. That
your owl? Yes? Can I borrow the owl? No? We can't
borrow I look at it. If you come down here, I can't come
down there. So you can fly? No, I can fly. You
know how long it takes me to climb down compared to him flowing up?
Well? What do you want with him? There is? There is a
large grumb ble from next to you. As the goliath with the kind of
blue grayish skin with lots of tattoos and scars turns. These kind of full
white eyes on you and says, do not listen to him. He is
not all in head. I'm not holding the head. You're a goliath.
You're made of rocks or something. I come up there, I kill you.
Okay, pull off your ears. You'll pull off my ears. You'll
let her catch me. You're slow, you're all You're fat, not fat
muscle. And they begin to just have an argument. I'm coming up.
I climb up now, I'm shaking at the rigging excuse me, perhaps now
it's not the time to kill anyone, A little one, welcome to ship.
Big giant hand lands on your head sooner, and then he ruffles your
hair like an animal. Okay, you might do with a dog or something.
And I have to say, because I feel very different and weak and
feeble, I probably for a moment think he's going to crush me. Right,
Okay, thank you? Perhaps could I ask you for a favor?
Yeah, I'm assuming. I'm assuming he speaks giant, right, I'm not
just making the wrong assumption here, make an assumption on that. Yeah,
okay, there are some people that I met down down below decks that speak
giant, and I don't you have trouble little one so much. I help
you. They give you trouble. I come down, Yes I could.
He's okay, they're not giving even littler one. Another hand comes over to
you, Karra and ruffles your hair as well. No, no fighting,
trouble, talking trouble. I need to understand them. No good that talk
to me. Well, they don't want to fight. We just need a
few words. What's moulsh? I just kind of blurt out, Yes,
that one, the second one. You are here with Walsh? No,
what's wash that mean? Who says this to you? Doesn't matter? Yes,
somebody young or somebody old, somebody young. They need to mean mother?
Oh you about that this owl? I can eat what? Yes?
No? No? And I just kind of leap back. I don't I
don't look behind me. I don't know what's behind me. But I leap
back. I give you, I give you this. He reaches back and
he begins rummaging through some items that are on the deck, and he pulls
out what looks like a harpoon gun, a very old looking thing, rusted.
You have this. I have a nice owl. No, you're not
eating this is not just an owl. This is my friend. Ah.
Okay, we know he didn't. No, not ever, not when I'm
here or not around. I'm never no, okay, not food. Not
food. Someone tell him this is not food. Come up there. I
get you to come down at some point. Yeah, you're not gonna catch
me even if I come down. You're big, you're slow. Do you
have to worry about anyone else wanting to eat? Keep it? Is this
like a thing? Here? Me no eat? You say no me,
no eat? Yeah? You maybe? But what about your pal over there?
And I'll look at the the reddish skinned him no heat plant? Uh?
Does he talk more than you? Mmmm? Is you can read?
Oh? He very smart, but he not that strong. He's smaller in
the way you are small, in the way you are smaller in the week
I come over there, I crush you. You can try. You always
try to crush me like stone. You cannot even crush stone. I cross
stone right now. He reaches down, picks up a stone and throws it
like a bullet, hits the other side of the ship. You hear the
captain a the bank say, do you mind I'm not throwing rocks again the
last time? It? Really? You shut up, old man? Are
you you no meat on sheep. Bring me to ship next time you have
meat, little one, Thank you, you give me meat. I keep
you safe on ship. Give you what meat? What what do you bring
to ship? Oh? Well I have I have jerky. Do you like
salted meat? Yes, well you can have some jerky. It's it's it's
in my bag. I don't think I brought it with me. It's it's
I can bring it back to you. Tell you, tell you what?
Yes, you bring right? Dealing with some rigging again? You bring me
I keep you safe on ship. Great, Thank you very much. Okay,
you don't go near dwarf right, that's the second time. Yeah,
he very much. Is He was holding up the captain when I ran into
him. He's very dangerous. Yeah, we don't want to go anywhere near
him, My lady, that's the word. Hide me. Captain says,
well, I hide behind. I head behind Cairol. I'll pretend to be
like fussing with the with KEEPI is she hiding? Yes, I think she's
hiding. Captain. Well, you said you were going to get jerky.
Let's go. Let's go down. But what about the other goliath. I'll
go get him. Okay, Okay, you're going downstairs. Yes, I'll
go back downstairs. Actually, I just sit on the stairs for a minute
and catch my breath. Hurry over to the reddish giantish fellow. Yeah,
he's like moving stuff around. You can see him lifting one ridiculously heavy thing
to the other side of the ship. He's just moving up and down the
deck. You kind of intercept him at one point and he looks down.
Ah, your hair same color as my skin? What? Oh? Yeah,
kind of kind of is hey, say, you seem busy, but
well there there's some people downstairs. That's He grabs one of your ponytails and
lifts it up and smells it. Hmm, okay, what I trust you?
Why you smell like ocean air? Yeah, that's I've been He's good.
Yes, ocean open, open person. Yeah, thankfully flat today.
Your hair the same color as my skin? You good? Omen it will
be close. Oh oh. He reaches down puts both of his enormous hands
on your face. Yeah. Are they cold? Are they dry? Damn
salty? The damp? Mm hmm. Nice to I'm Cairo, I blurt
out. It stands up very straight and then kind of bows down to you.
It's still kind of he's still towering above you. They're like maybe about
eight feet, he says me. Zenobio, Zenobio. Mm hmm, that's
that's a nice name, h Zenobio. When you have a minute, we
could use translating help. Mm hm. I am sorry. You are not
my type. No, I don't, No, I don't. You don't
I know you will take offens. The teachays. My cheeks just go bright
red. We can be friends. He puts a hand on your head again.
It's really heavy, but I wasn't. Now a giant hand touches your
finger, touches your lips. I understand. Compared to your people, I
am magnificent, and yes I am romantic, but not for you, not
for me. You are not a fighter. I can't tell a shame.
I'm not. I'm definitely not. I'm not a fighter. You have bird,
I do yep. This is for food and for keep for who is
what is with the owl eating? I don't that's not where I can't.
We don't eat you see him? You will eat anything all away from him.
I'm gonna eat keep it and the old man. Keep the old man
away from him? Well, why he will eat the old man? Okay,
this is I do not want to let more than I was. Can
can I ask a favor? It's not romantic, I can I a favor?
Of course? I uh, me and my friend we could use some
help downstairs to see. There are some people who speak giantish and uh and
and we don't and and then I've heard that you're kind of bookish and your
sister read chatty. So if when you have time, I understand, I
am, But again, I cannot accompany you with below decks. Okay,
well maybe we could bring them up stairs. I'm just gonna I most certainly
will not do that with you here. No, I do in front of
the crew. But I was, Oh, he will, he will.
Don't worry, keep pushing, keep badgering him. I'm just gonna see you
in a minute. And I feel my arm, how what I feel?
It stronger than stone? What war is? With a beating heart inside?
You? See, I can keep you safe. I'm strong, but I
have a heart, I have soul, and like him, if you were
to choose either of us, that it'd be me, but not this okay,
and requited love. It's your destiny. Yeah, it seems so,
it seems so. I I will, I'll see you in a minute.
I like your pointy ears. He turns around and picks up a keg that's
moving stuff around from above you. In Elvish, there is somebody that shouts
down and says, they don't know nothing, right. They think they know
stuff, but they don't, you understand. Yes, I think they're like
trying to be like us, you know what I mean. But they're like,
basically, they're just savages. They're just columns, you know, we
just use them the lift stuff. That's a little rude, but he definitely
got the wrong idea how they think about all day food. Fucking food,
fucking yeah, yeah, okay, anyway you want to come off to the
crow's nest. I don't. Yeah, I did, I we can,
all right, thank you anytime. I don't know, I do. I
do appreciate the the offer. I'm just gonna yeah and I and go back
to Soona. Yeah, sooner. You're sitting on the stairs. You can
hear this all going on upstairs. You hear the back and forth. What
are you thinking about? What are you feeling so awful? I was expecting
that word to mean anything, but what it what it actually meant, and
that it really hurt me. Actually, I'd like to not talk about it
all our decks. Yeah, what are you doing? Well? So that
that the first night we spent on our way to Tease and I tried to
fix my gun then because I had a bit of an issue with it and
if it still had problems and just be tinkering with it now sort of,
but also kind of keeping an eye on on Tea and Veras and see what
they're up to. You do you have the ability to fix y'all? Done?
Who will do you? Depends what you mean by ability, I mean
the ability to you're gone well, like you mean one or two things like
have I fixed? Do they tell me? Do you have the ability to
fix your gun? Oh? Yeah, it's only going I've heard, and
so I've had to fix it here in there and in various wits just normally
it's dating and screws or or you know, just touching up the wood we
bit, maybe replacing a bit on it. But all right, romy and
dice to see how well you do a job here while you've been on the
ship starting to look into this at ten is I think a partial success?
You? I think what you do is you you get it working but you
have the suspicion that you even need some speciality plants to really replace it.
The the pieces of this that broke, I think you had an issue with
some part of it, some sort of firing pin, will need to be
replaced, but it does seem to function for now. You're going to need
to probably pay a horrible price to replace the piece. You also know that
if you do use it and it breaks again, aka you roll a one,
it'll probably be permanently destroyed until you replace the part. But you can
probably get in Dayton, a relatively decent port city. Well once I meet
sure of that, But it's as good as I can get it, I'll
probably I'll look over it at young vera Ice fail and just whereas, Oh,
the two of them were kind of having a conversation of their own for
a moment. It wasn't like you were interrupting necessarily. But while you've been
doing your thing, they've been having a small conversation. They seem to be
kind of animated. When Suna left, there seemed to be a kind of
back and forth between them, an animated conversation in their language. It quietened
down a moment. The two of them look kind of tired. Now that
they've settled down and relaxed. It seems as if maybe they've had quite a
long journey, or they seem maybe a little stressed out. Maybe they haven't
slept, maybe they're hungry. But there's an element to them that you recognize
as a It's a very low level exhaustion. It's not anything necessarily to be
too worried about, but you can tell this that both of them look quite
tired. One of them looks at you when you mentioned it's name, and
he says, hello, Hey, it's pretty good. Hello, A point
doing it? The picture, the one with a torn card on it?
More y, Yeah, that's that's not happening. No, mm hmmm.
He points to his own head and points to his comrades head. Yeah,
and then says mm hmm Durnes though, mm hmmm do and then points at
you and and and then points at his head again and then points at you.
I don't know. I I grab my gun and pointed my gun and
then point at the drawing. No, he seems confused. Yeah, if
the drawing things are still there, I'll m h I'll just I'll just drawn
a wee bitter paper just just the card. It's not a very good drawn
so I'm not an artist, but just a card, but not down.
Then I'll put that over the top of it. The boy his eyes kind
of widen a little bit. He turns to the girl and they have a
brief back and forth, a mess messed or own. And then he closes
his eyes, but then he points to you and opens his eyes again,
then closes his eyes and then points in the middle of his head, and
then touches you on your head and then touches the card. First, I
asked, I don't know, but there's I take the paper the drawn away
again and I point at it with the throwing one that shake my head.
I point it mean put the knot and one on top of it, and
then they nod. They both look very confused. Tried you point to both
of them. Yeah, let's see if they know what that means. They
they one of them nods, the other one shakes the head. They are
ill were he to be pot gun for the for the tear. So I'll
just I'll get some some sleepy team herbs and stuff like that and make them
a tea with that. Above you, the ken Ku is watching everything and
leaning over the side of the rock that he's kind of made his perch in,
and he says, Oh, you're not going to get them to say
anything. They don't know what you're saying. Mate, you don't You don't
always need words to communicate you. Yeah, it seems like you do.
We'd be handy. But what we do? He just you ideas? What's
the plan? Then you're gonna Robin blind? No, No, I've got
much on him though. There's an affling over there. Look at him,
he's got more stuff on him. I'm not really the Robin tape. You
see him more? Are you sure? Yeah? Well, what I do
is I go to taverns and I play songs and then they give you money.
That's all right. Sometimes I give me a place to stay. Oh
it's nice. That's good for you. We can split a fifty to fifty
if you want. Well, I'll creep over there see what I can find.
You creep over, Let's see what you can find and then debate up.
I don't think let's put a pen on it. Maybe later, Let's
not do it in the first Maybe I'll let you know the night before we
talk. How about that? Hey, what you're doing coming from your scorn
anyway. Now you sound like that. What is that? Where's that from?
I might? Well, you know, I like you're from dan Barral.
Is it not from dan bra No. I've been about and you know,
things blend and mixing for for many years. I didn't talk to anyone,
you know. Yeah, you've got many years on you know. How
old are your hundred? No? Much less than that, actually, you
know, it's just it's that your stolis a hundred. Yeah, I'm only
sixty sixteen. Yeah, well, yeah, I spent a lot of time
out in the sun and you minn't. Yeah, yeah, all right.
I thought you were a dwarf. No, I'm not sure. It's the
angle you're at. You're just you're only seeing you'd look like ship at sixty
for a dwarf. Let's see. So I don't look that bad all things,
consider that you still have that ship mate. You're in an art song
that I am. You want me to play you with song? Hy then
all right, I'll work on one about you. Then let's see what I've
got. What's the oldest song? I know? You don't. You don't
know about me, though, do you so? But I don't know much
about you. That's just a song about me, you know then, isn't
it right? Yeah? But if I learn a lot of stuff about yours,
a waste of time, really, ain't it. I might have a
good song in me. You don't know, all right, I'll play the
music and you sing the song. No, I don't think so, why
do you sing a song about yourself? Well, i'd love to do that.
I'm not that interesting, I'm afraid. Well, you're quite interested.
I'm sure I'll sing a song about what about the song about the dark li?
And sure, all right? And the dark lands? And he starts
singing a song I'm getting up a longer that half and just real quick,
just there's hard with like a couple of bags. But he's kind of lying.
He's set aside from you, the furthest than anyone was down here.
He doesn't seem to have been interested in anything anyone was doing. But he's
kind of lying on his back. He seems to be kind of snoozing at
the moment. I'll just give him a be proud. I think it's important
he knows that. Excuse me there, Hi, Sorry, just want to
let you know. Apparently you're you're quitte attempting target for people with sticky fingers?
Am I being robbed? No? No, no, no by me?
Just you know, I overheard someone mentioned that you look like you've got
nice stuff or something. So just keep an eye you know what I mean,
with one eye open, or even if you want to see if you're
near us as a group of us doing there, me and an old lady
and a young girl and then two monk folks, they'll keep it. They'll
they'll look after you. Okay, you're not robbing me right now? No,
don't I look like the robin type or something? I see. That's
the thing. You don't know what the robin type looks like, so you
need to be extra careful that you said that. Yes, very well,
mhm, just be safe. I'm just getting your head. It's I'm being
friendly. If that's coming across O, thank you are You're welcome. But
we're doing that. Then other end, me and the old lady and the
two monks and the younger You want me to draw on you? What which?
Just if you if you'd feel more safe with a group of people.
Well, but I see, I'm saying that you shouldn't necessarily feel safe.
Look at this, He holds up a gemstone inside of a gold ring.
You see that magic hamelt, but it's not that's not gonna do any good.
Well, go ahead and try and punch me in the face. Are
you sure I'll go for a slap instead. That doesn't matter to me.
Then like smirk of the face, you smack him right in the face.
He launches like, he falls off of his bags. He rolls across the
amulet rolls across the ground. How did you do that? Real? Well,
if you're a wizard, you've got to tell me you're a wizard.
No, no, there's I didn't say it has to spell, and then
I didn't. I just that's the thing. That's no good. Am I
bleeding? No, No, it's just understand I asked you to do that.
But I was just trying to demonstrate the power of the amulet, right,
See, that's the thing. It's actually he overheard some of the some
of the crew speaking. It's see this just looks like normal marble, but
apparently it has magic dampening effects, so no magic works on there. For
I know they should have told this, but don't. Sorry, we're getting
passage. Well, no, I think I'll be sorry. See that's why
I did the slab and not if magic my list. Yeah, you were
kind of lift. Stop talking, right, So do you want to come
down with us then and get some tea? Tell you one that's going to
sting, isn't it. Oh see it's probably anything always works doesn't work,
you see, it's the magical damage. Well this ship. Yes, I'll
come and sit with you. Then there we go. Well do you take
that bag? Take that bag there? Look inside it, right, there's
nothing value in there. It's got my dirty underwear and things I understand on
the road for a while. Well, i'll be down there. You bring
it back, all right, I'll settle down over here, right you just
yeah, I'll get up his bag for Jesus, And that is where we're
going to go to our break. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much
for joining us. I'm going to go to a short break here while well
Ippo cleans the blood off his hand. I'm kidding and probably stings, though.
We'll be back in a few minutes and after the break we shall return.
Well the interrogation of mister Bo Bobo. Thanks so much for watching.
Somewhere in an unknown location, very likely nearby Ballona. Oh, bobo,
you awaken with quite the headache. I ay, where am I? You
are naked? Yeah, that's why it's cold. Hello, where are my
clothes? It is dark in here, utterly and completely pitched black. However
you can see a little. There is a very very small room around you.
It's maybe ten feet by ten feet. The walls appear to just be
kind of stone rock like you might find in a cave that they seem to
have been smoothed a little. There is no distinct kind of flooring or anything
like that. Your arms and legs are shackled to chains which are about maybe
three or four inches long, and then nailed into the walls. You're not
like starred out, but you are in a kind of position that leaves you
kind of open. There is a distinct smell in here of copper and what
can only be described as'reine and feces. It smells really bad. Ahead
of you, just barely through your dark vision, you can make out a
doorway, a very kind of flat, square looking, thick oaken door with
reinforce steal around the edges, and that is it. There doesn't appear to
be anything else in here. Whatsoever I take it. I can'tly move around
much, can I really? You've got a couple of inches of movement.
Well, I guess I'm gonna make a lot of noise and get some attention.
So I just start banging my my my arms against the wall so that
the chains make a lot of noise. Is anyone out there? It smells
really bad down here, and I'm naked, I'm cold. There is a
minute or so that passes before you hear the jangling of keys. You hear
a lock unlock in the doorway, and then another, and then another and
then another before the door opens. A creek you can see now, and
it's probably quite bright. Light spills in from a torch and a skance on
a pillar outside of this doorway. You can see that outside of the door
there does appear to be kind of stone slabs like this does appear to be
a hallway that isn't just not just in a cave necessarily, but it's kind
of hard to make out. And a figure moves in. It's the same
figure that we saw pick you up from the street. This fear bulg relatively
short for a fear bulk, probably five something, but still short for a
fear bulg, relatively thin for a fear bulg, and he no longer has
the robes on. He walks in in a relatively plain tunic rolled up at
the sleeves. He has two things. One a kind of satchel that's that's
wrapped under one arm, and then in the other arm he holds a pretty
thick book, similar to the larger book that Reginald has been carrying around over
the last week or so you've spent with him. He turns around, he
closes the door behind him. He puts the key in the door, turns
it halfway, and leaves the keys where they are, and then turns to
you. He drops the satchel to the ground and it makes a kind of
metal clank, as if there's a bunch of metal items in there. And
he opens his book and says, I suppose you know why you're under arrest.
I no, I actually have not a clue in the world. You
seem familiar. Are we really going to go around this over and over again?
Are we talking about the time I pickpocketed some some fella on the down
the street? Is that what this is about? I can't tell if that's
an act or not. At this point, he's been playing the long con.
I beg, I beg your pardon, you know, and I know
this is nothing to do with your pickpocketing. Well, I can't help but
notice the well the book you carry is very much like the one Reginald has.
Yes, would you too happen to be friends? I like to think
we're friends. Oh okay, well he'll be happy to know we're how we're
kind of working for him right now. We're supposed to be looking for a
doctor. You're kind of keeping me from that, buddy, he's kind of
working for me. What my name is, Inquisitor Western Red Bloom. So
was this a trap? We wanted to see what you would do upon your
return? Well, we were looking for him. Who the doctor? Yes,
the doctor, the good doctor. Yes. Well we found his office
and it doesn't seem like he's been there for a while. I don't care
about the doctor. Ye. Well, then why did Reginald send us to
find this doctor? We were hoping that you would do something, something that
gave us any clue as to why. Well, maybe who you are?
H ah? Well, I'm Bob Bobo. It's nice to meet you.
I'm usually a barred playing my lute on the streets. Okay, seriously,
what is what am I being arrested? Stop the act? It's not an
act. Give me one good reason not to just walk out never come back.
Oh, I don't know why you think I'm putting on an act when
I'm clearly exposed. I am butt naked right before you. I seriously haven't
literally nothing to hide from you. Let's see, you've given us no reason
to believe anything other than the fact that you are or were in league with
the Dragonfly Crew. You're either one of them, or more likely what as
the only survivors, the ring ladies, Right, That's what I'd say.
Okay, look listen, I think maybe you have the wrong bow, bobo
or something. I I've been with only three others. Yeah yeah, And
you've vanished just in time for the end of the world and return just in
time to wonder at your work. Is that it? No? Uh huh?
Or what you were misled? And now you're scrambling to understand how you
ended up working for a cult? Wait? Wait, wait, we work
for no cult. I work for a no cult. Were you tricked?
What? Who was it? Huh? Tall looking fellow tried and looking.
Perhaps it was ge O. No name mean anything to you, mister Bobo.
I Geo No, I can't say it rings a bell. Well either
way, it seems that you're guilty of the genocide of celestial beings and mass
murder on a world scale. What I beg your pardon? I know,
mister Bobo, you're possibly one of the most wonted people on the planet,
one of the largest crimes ever committed, if not the largest crime ever committed.
And do you wonder why you're shackled to that war? I'd like to
think I saved you all from the snow. You saved us from the snow.
Yes, you were the kill confirmed team, won't you. No,
you conducted some sort of ritual to whisk yourselves off to the other planes and
mop up what ever the machine didn't kill? Really did you come back?
And then you claim, uh, you were going to try and stop it?
Is that right? Look, this is gonna sound super weird, but
we were chosen to participate in this race. It was like a game for
the gods, and we were their amusement, and this thing became far greater
than we could have ever imagined. Yes, we have half of your account.
This child's story you've spun in this scroll, it's not no child.
Stop telling you. It's the truth. Well, it is what I think.
I think you succeeded. I think you fucked us all. And I
can't really say we succeeded, considering well, there's no magic now. Yes,
perhaps you weren't planning on that. Well, we didn't know what would
happen. I'll take the real story now, mister Boba. I don't understand
why you don't think that this, what I'm telling you right now is not
the truth. Were you ever on the ship with the others the ship?
No, you conducted the ritual? What ship? I remember being on a
on a flying unicorn, sir, But no ship. Very well, if
you're not going to be forthcoming, probably sounds like some children's book, you
know, But I'm telling you it's the truth. Well, I'm rather busy.
There are more of you out there, friends, and the co conspiracy
of them one way or the other. No, you have me already.
I'm going to leave this bag here. He kicks the bag and a bunch
of horrible looking tools fall out, medieval looking torture equipment, flyers and things.
Next time I come back, you're going to meet some of my friends.
No, hey, I will not allow you to freaky ship to me.
Okay, and you you come back here this iste. It turns around,
gets towards the door, unlocks it. You may have a very influential
father, mister Bobo, but even he can't help you here. Good day,
turns around, opens the door. There's a light that's quite bright.
He closes the door behind him, locks six times, leaves you in the
dark of the dungeon. Well, anything you'd like to do? Can I
try and reach the bag of torture devices with my feet? And maybe you
know, ah kinda maybe, I don't know. I doubt I could hide
them, but maybe at least I can cling onto them. See whoever comes
in and uses these said things on me, I can at least, you
know, fight them in a way. Yeah, Roman Dice, Okay.
Three. They are so far out of your reach, Like he didn't just
leave you with a bag of tools to free yourself within reach you can move
your foot two or three inches away from the wall at max. They're like
several feet across the room by the door. I'm screwed. If you know
it's something else. You really need to pee? Oh no, really are
You're gonna make me do this. You're gonna make me pee in front of
everybody. I'm already exposed. You're gonna make me do it. You don't
have to. I can switch scenes if you'd like. Freaking you know what,
I can't hold it in. I'm gonna I'm gonna whiz right here.
In fact, I'm gonna try and aim for the bag so that they don't
want to touch it anymore. Roll me a dice, all right, come
on, boom, You mostly pee down your own leg. In doing so,
you kind of fling yourself forward, and yeah, he goes everywhere,
absolutely everywhere, and you get a bunch of it down your leg. It's
now dripping off the bottom of your foot and your own toes. But you
feel relieved. Yeah I do. But at the same time, I don't.
I couldn't aim, damn it. I just hope the others are okay
and they're safe, and we're gonna switch scenes. Yeah, we're gonna return
to Blona's midtown ish with Aura. Where are you headed off to after your
encounter? I'm no longer heading to the inquisition, so I take a minute
in like a quiet alleyway to kind of get my bearings and my thoughts together.
I think, like the shock of everything that just happened probably starts to
wash over, Like I just fought an inquisition person in the middle of a
market, so going to Reginald doesn't seem like a safe choice. And I
okay, I start thinking back onto like going through the market, Like did
I steal something by accent? Like I did I grab something? Did it
fall into like my bag? Like why did he come after me? And
at this point I start worrying about if the others are okay, and I
guess we have bond. And it says you can now sense when your partners
are in danger, even if you're separated. Do I get any vibes that
anyone else is in danger right now? Roll me it dies? Okay?
Fifteen Do you get the sense that you're all in danger? Okay? This
is probably a relatively overwhelming sense of anxiety and paranoia. Maybe it hits you
as you're the adrenaline come down from this fight, as you kind of maybe
lean against a wall in a very dim alley way, the sword next to
you kind of bloodied. As I have these thoughts, racing and thinking,
oh, okay, none of us are safe. I'm like trying to wipe
the blood off. But then I slowly stop and I leave the blood on
my sword and throw it over my shoulder. And I'm going to head to
the inquisition and sneak in and I'm going to take Reginald like captive is my
goal. I'm going to go try to kidnap Reginald. Okay, hmm,
yeah, So you start making your way north using as much of a discrete
halfway as you can. I assume are you forsaking speed for stealth? Yeah,
at this point, because I didn't kill who I don't know is named
Bob. But I didn't kill Bob. I want to not put myself at
risk of being in another situation like that. Okay, it probably takes you
a long time. Then, I think we're probably looking at maybe thirty minutes
forty minutes. As you're moving extremely cautiously, assume you're checking rooftops, you're
checking every corner before you dart from one alley way to another. It's probably
difficult to get your bearings. You've never been to this city for longer than
a few days, so having an understanding is crazy. It's like being dropped
in the middle of New York and just being told go to you know,
the Statue of Liberty without any maps or any anything, and you just have
to figure out your way through Manhattan. But slowly but surely you head north.
It's a lot easier to do than any other specific location because you know
that you pretty much have to head towards the fortress, which is relatively obvious
to find because it's up on a plateau towards the north. So you start
moving forward and again it takes you maybe thirty minutes forty minutes before eventually you
get to the area you recognize to be the Inquisition headquarters are flat square of
a building, a cube, gray, boring in discrete, just kind of
a hidden or discrete hidden amongst a bunch of other relatively boring in terms of
architecture buildings. Looking at the open doorway from a hidden position, there seems
to be no change. There's a few steps that lead up to a large
double door that leads into that open plane hallway with all those locked doors that
lead to many different hallways, and you've seen into a few of them.
You know there are upper floors to this place as well. You know,
there's a huge library at the back. For the most part, Reginald would
always meet you at the door. If he didn't, somebody would come and
fetch you and take you to the room that you guys were using to study
from, and Reginald would mostly be there overseeing the stuff. He didn't have
an office necessarily, he didn't. You never saw him coming or going from
the building. But as you look towards the building from your position here,
you don't see him and see anyone in fact going in or out. That's
not in commony that you only saw a few people the entire week you were
there. Do we know, like does he live in this building? I
don't think he gave you any information, And maybe now when you look back
over the week, anytime you probed him for information, it would always just
be kind of vague things, Oh, I live nearby or I live in
town. You know, you would say, he probably mentioned that he was
born here and he's from here, But I don't think he ever gave you
any specifics. So since we've been here a lot, like using the library
and being shuffled from room to room, can I argue that I kind of
have a good idea of how the hallways are laid out and where there's shot
like shadows and dark that I can maybe start moving about and listening for Reginald's
voice. I think you can, yes, But you also know that Reginald
would unlocked doors nine times out of ten. It would often be almost all
the doors appear to be private rooms that you would be taken into, and
he would pull out a key for each one to unlock them. So even
though you kind of have a decent layout of the main few hallways that you
were using and the library which sits at the back of the main hall,
you also know that there are a lot of lock doors in those areas.
But yeah, i'd say you in terms of layout, you do know.
So I guess as I'm thinking about that, I'm wondering if that's a good
plan. Have I seen Reginald use this front entrance as like a way that
he leaves two at the end of the day, or I think you've seen
him use it, and you've also just seen him vanish essentially like it looks
as if there are other entrances or exits. I think my first thing to
do, because I think it's the safest thing is to lay low in a
dark place by the entrance and see if he comes out. Yeah, roll
me a dice, damn a triumph a roll one dice. Here as well,
you find a position off to the side, and it's not an excellent
position to spring on somebody from, but it's a fantastic position to survey the
area and most importantly the main entrance way, since there is like a large
set of stairs that lead up or steps that lead up to the entrance way,
and then there's just kind of a flat opening to this stone entrance.
You're down the steps, but you can see up and into the into the
entrance way. There's a small kind of alcove just kind of off to one
side. On both sides of this building, between this building and another set
of buildings, there are bushes and just a lot of darkness and shade from
the buildings around. And it's very comfortable and easy to sit here, knowing
you're pretty damn well covered from all angles, including above, and it gives
you a just a dead shot on the main entrance way here, and then
you sit Roll me a D six six. Would you sit there for six
hours at this point based on the literal, brutal attack that just happened to
me in the street and the risk of getting lost in the labyrinth of the
inquisition and getting captured. I would wait to see if Reginald came out first
before making a hasty decision to go in. Okay, you sit for a
little while. Now, I'm going to look up whether you heal your two
points back. I don't think you do. When you rest for a short
time with no enemies nearby, you regain up to the halfway point of your
maximum health points. For example, if you re group from three HP,
you recover two. Do you only recover up to five? Or you regain
up to the halfway point of your maximum hit points, so you don't recover
any points of health. May argue like, while I'm sitting there watching that,
I would use my men's skill. Yes, you can do that,
so I'll spend one point just so I can get it full or health.
Yeah, there's a point, maybe an hour into this, when you're calming
down a little more on the the pain that you're feeling is less something that
you can actually meant. You feel like maybe you've got a cracked rib from
being hit by this huge ball of a man, and you maybe do what
you can bandage it and to address it. Maybe you have something to chew
on that numbs pain. But there's not a lot you can do. But
in terms of mechanically, you recover the two hp, but you have a
sore rib in there. It might be bruised, it could be broken.
I don't think you know. The pain doesn't really subside throughout the six hours,
But sit you do, and forth people come and go. In the
entire time. Nobody enters or exits the Inquisition building. There are people going
into all of the buildings around it. There are plenty of people moving up
and down, and for the most part you see nobles people in fine clothing.
Most of them appear to just be kind of going about what seems like
a business day. Most people are brows furrowed, stressed, looking as you
would imagine a government might be. After the week they've had. Some people
come and go that might be vendors of some sort bringing food to this area.
You see a few common folk, but for the most part, everybody
here appears to be kind of upperclass, noble types, people that you probably
wouldn't have spent too much time around based on their clothing really more than anything
else. Nobody enters the building until one person exits the building, probably around
the sixth hour of you, sitting in this uncomfortable area outside the sun beginning
to set in the doorway and moving swiftly with a book under his arm.
Is Inquisitor Reginald Sheridan. So can I deduce that, based on the time
we've spent in the Inquisition Building and how long I've waited here, that they're
truly he might be the only person in the building. Maybe yeah, Okay,
I mean, you haven't seen anyone going in round. But even when
you were there for the whole week, you saw like they're like maximum different
faces you saw were five, and you never saw all five of them at
the same time. Okay, I see him come out, and I'm going
to follow him in the shadows until we're away from the building and maybe in
a more quiet place before I make my move. Okay, roll for me
eleven and eleven. I believe that is on the cusp of a success.
You accomplish what you were trying to do. You see him leave and he
moves quickly. He's doing the fast walk. His face when he came out,
seemed kind of stressed. I think under one arm is his book.
Other than that, his cloak is billowing out behind him. His usual basic
looking clothing, nothing too flashy, but it also is clean looking. Underneath
that, you know that Sheridan quite often has weapons on him when dealing with
you guys. He never brandished any of them, but he had several you
know, back and forth with Ellie about daggers and swords and even guns at
times it seemed like he was kind of aware of them. And only once
did he actually show you that he had a dagger on him, when Ellie
suggested the weight of daggers being important to one thing, and he suggested that
different weights can be applied for different situations. And they were talking about this
and that and the other. So you know that he has he is armed
almost all of the time, but he doesn't seem to be quite as overly
armed as Bob was when you were confronted in the street earlier. On Reginald
moves quickly, he starts heading further north. He comes out of the building
and moves down the main streets here, and you begin to follow him,
moving stealthily, but quickly because you have to, because he is surprisingly quick
in amongst all of these people, just shifting in and out of groups of
people. They almost don't notice him. He becomes difficult to even track as
he starts to just move and dive between street to street. But you're able
to keep up with him. Once or twice, maybe you lose him and
take a guess, and then you spot him and catch up, and he
takes an odd route at first out of the area that you were in.
Then he stops in the middle of a crossroads. At one point, he
looks up, he looks down, he looks behind him. It feels for
a second like he looks dead at you, and then he looks over to
another side, and then he darts into an alleyway. As you push up
towards the alleyway and look down the alleyway, he is gone. The alleyway
is very long, and it begins to move upwards. You're also at the
very northern end of the city. You're about as close to the fortress as
it gets before. You're in a relatively open stretch of land with only two
roads that lead up the plateau, and then some large steps and then the
fortress itself, but in the back end of the buildings. Here he moves
down one of the final alleyways. You don't see him at all when he
heads down. Do I, Well, I'm going to look down the alleyway
and see if he himself has put himself in a secret hiding spot. So
I'm gonna look. I'm going to duck down and see if his feet are
anywhere, or if I can catch like a movement in a shadow or something.
Yeah, Roma Dice, seventeen seventeen. You look down this alleyway,
there doesn't seem to be any sign of him at all. You give it
a You maybe poke your head around the corner discreetly a couple of times,
no movement, before eventually kind of committing a little more. You look down
this alleyway. There's a decent enough amount of light that you can kind of
make out all of the shadows. There are two or three doorways that seem
to just be on the back of some of these houses. There are maybe
two or three kind of old crates and kegs that seem to have been left
out to rotten wood. The end of the alleyway is too far away for
him to have made it without some sort of aid in magic. You can
deduce that he's not there, and that either he went up by some ridiculous
feet of climbing, which would be pretty difficult. As you look up,
you can't see anything, or maybe he went into one of the doorways.
I'm gonna look on the ground. Is there any like sewer or anything like
that? Sewer? Great? No, Okay, then I'm gonna haste not
hastily. I'm still gonna be as quiet as I can, but I'm going
to go to each of the doors and try them. Yeah, Robby three
dice, okay one fourteen thirteen nineteen. All three of these doors are locked.
The third door you come to, and all of them are quite near
the entrance way here. The first one you gently try, just to see
if it will open. No luck, It doesn't even budge slightly. The
second door moves but doesn't fully open. It actually opens enough that the door
comes out, but you can't see through the crack. The door is just
pulled outwards before it's locked on some sort of catch on the other side.
The third door you try, and it is locked, but you catch a
sound from behind it. There's someone in this building. Can I tell if
it's his voice or like something you can hear someone moving around in the room,
probably not directly behind the door, but close. Okay, it sounds
like a fervent scuffling as well. Is it a fervent scuffling that I've heard
him do before? I don't think, you know. Okay, I'm going
to look down the alleyway and if there's nothing else that I'm seeing, I'm
going to try to pick the lock. Do you have any lock picking tools?
No? But I have a knife. Take the lock with a knife.
I've seen Ellie kind of do it, so I'm going to like take
not with the knife, but like i've seen her like, so I'm going
to try Ellie with her years of lock picking training. But I'm desperate,
So I'm going to take my little knife out and I'm going to try to
like stick the little tip inside the lock area and quietly try to unlock it.
All right, roll me he dice and eleven. It's a success.
A success that you know this is not going to work. You're just kind
of jamming a knife into this thing. You're moving it around before you realize
that even if this lock has tumblers, which you're not sure this knife is
too large for the small which it isn't too small, but small lock,
This isn't gonna work. You do it successfully in the sense that it's quiet,
though you don't make a lot of noise. The scuffling continues as you
paused for a moment. Every now and then you hear footsteps move across the
room. But yeah, there's no way you're going to pick this lock with
the knife, all right. So as I'm like jamming it in there and
be like, this is not gonna work, I put it down and I
stand up, and I want to use something called sneak attack. But what
I'm gonna do first is knock on the door and say delivery. And then
I'm going to stand aside from the door and wait until whoever opens this and
I'm going to spend a point to incapacitate the person by touching one of their
pressure points. They fall to the ground unconscious for ten minutes or until they
are armed. Okay, roll me a dice for the the deception the knocking,
Yeah, okay, I'll give you the Okay seven seven You say delivery,
and I think it sounds exactly the way that you just said delivery,
and that's a seven. You say delivery, knock the door, and the
scuffling stops on the other end of the door. A few moments pass and
then you hear footsteps moving towards the door. There is a jangling of keys,
and then it stops. On the other side of the door. You
hear delivery of what is it? Is it? Reginald? Yes? Okay,
I immediately go like, okay, this is him. It doesn't It
doesn't say it's it's from the Queen. It says it's urgent, a delivery
from the Queen for me. Oh yes, it is this Reginald. Yes.
Oh yeah, I don't really know. They don't tell me much.
They just make me deliver stuff. Roll me another die seventeen seventeen. There's
a jangling of keys. The door opened, and but it doesn't open up.
It just opens and then just swings open a little. Okay, So
like when you're at a hotel and it has like the chain. Is it
kind of like that situation? Yeah, it would be like if somebody unlocked
the door and then just step back from it and the door kind of swings
naturally open a little, like a few inches I'm gonna I'm still gonna be
like to the side of the door. I don't see him. Correct,
correct, So I need you to sign for this. Sign for it.
Yeah, Pearl's really important. I need to sign for it. The queens
would be like, did it get there? And then I'm gonna be in
trouble and then they're gonna cut my head off. And it happened to my
friend Johnny, and I just I just needs you to sign for it because
if there's a lot of consequences the report and packages. Oh very well,
yes, I need to bring you a pen. Oh no, I have
one. Okay, yes, just open the door. No, sir,
I'm not allowed inside. It's policy. I kill all that you have.
You don't need to come inside to open the door. You can open the
door. Well, this is really odd. I've never had somebody not open
the door for me. Why I do deliveries? All right, Well,
I've got nothing better to do today, so I can sit here until you
open the door. You can get back to your deliveries. Sir. I
would really like for you to come out and sign this for me, please.
I mean, it's it's it's just it's easy thing. Just open the
door cupside for it. No response. I'm getting antsy, sir. Are
you still there? Sir? I mean, I I don't know what this
is. The Queen's gonna be rolled up. So do I hear any scuffling?
Hear nothing? But I didn't hear him scuffle away. No he did
not. All right, then I'm gonna just take a second and listen really
closely to see if I can hear him breathing or hear any sort of sound
at all, so I can kind of get a feel for where he might
be. You listen very closely, trying to get a feel for where he
might be. Give me a dice, roll, Yeah, thirteen thirteen is
a success. You can hear him. He's behind you, And that's why
we're going to switch scenes back on the yourutensia. No, that's all right,
you can stay with her there. I think we're all a little bit
concerned worried behind her. The Joseph Ship sails ahead. This very large cargo
vessel, an odd kind of caravel with a very flat top, is now
out in deep ocean, nothing but blue all around you, the sun beginning
to set very clearly, and top decks and lanterns are lit. You can
hear the continual banter between a lot of the crew members. The group of
you have all been below decks. I think for a little while here when
familiar shouts out and says, all right, I'll love which one to use
the cook? Oh oh, that's that's me. That's want to use that?
Then which one? I'm on? Up right? And I try to
get up as quickly as possible. Hang on, this is a single Listen.
You're going to make everything way too spicy, and then everyone will have
the ships for the whole ride. Really well you, but I know I'm
not going. You're just trying to steal my secrets. I know your plans.
I'm not. I'm a fairy good I'm a fairy good cook. And
I offered that's what I offered to do. It's me, it's me,
thank you. I'm going yeah, oh yeah, And I take my bag
with my spices and everything, and I'm just trying to quickly go and yeah,
I can cook. At the top of the stairs is and he waves
at you as you head, all right, and what are you cooking?
Then? Come on right, I'll show you up to where we do all
the cooking. I wouldn't quite call it a kitchen. Okay, thank you,
it's a right shit all it is. Okay, well, you know
we can maybe we can, maybe we can make it work. You know,
the only person who actually cooked something nice was n or As a bastard.
And he won't do it anymore. Oh why won't he do it anymore?
I just don't think he likes it, you know, being ordered around.
He's sort of in charge, all right, but it ordered around to
cook food. Yeah, he likes it when we cook it for him.
Don't think he's got the palate, but he's quite good at it, you
know. Oh okay, Well what did what did he normally cook? What
does he like? Well? When he once did it, he did it,
it was he lost a bet, only bet I'll send him lost.
And and the wager was that he would have to cook I some meat steaks.
That's not very much of a wager. Cooking spun ain't not for him,
nough, I guess not. But what did you usually eat? What
did he usually cook? What do you have? Oh, we normally have
potatoes, just just potatoes. Were bringing potatoes and that most of the time
to just cook him up one of us just takes a chance to boil them,
and that's that's that's it. You just you you have boiled potatoes.
Yeah. I think the Captain's got a secret store though in his room.
Well I'm not going in there. It's fine, but you normally have right,
we have potatoes up there. We got some some old oranges, but
they're going a little fussy. Oh well, we definitely don't want that.
Okay, Well, I can make up potatoes, there's no problem. I
just wasn't sure if you had anything. I don't put the oranges in there
though, Well, of course not. You don't want to be cooking that.
That would be nasty. Yeah, what tastes like an orange? Have
an orange? Right? Wayne? Could you do me a favor and tell
me if you have anything other than potatoes? Do you have any meat or
anything? I could make a stew? Don't know, lookit check all right,
i'mn't gonna look great. Thank you. Let me show you the kitchen.
No, all right, it's up here. It takes you up to
the middle deck and starts heading down towards one of those areas where the doors
were closed. He pushes open one of the doors. It swings very loosely
on the hinge and clacks really loudly against the bank. He doesn't seem to
notice an he moves in. There's just a really simple looking strange stove.
There's some kind of logs that look like you can burn them. There's a
cauldron of sorts. There are like three sacks of potatoes. They look old
and tough looking. You can see one kind of a half a barrel which
has a bunch of oranges in it, but there's only like two or three
oranges, and they're basically green. He looks around and says, no,
nothing in here, just potatoes. Okay, we ate all of it on
the way over right. He didn't pick anything up on that. What's that
normish place called? That's great, you're scoring. Could you please pick up
the being around them? Let me tell you I spent all my time around
all them big folk like the goliaths, and that you know, I saw
a storm giant once, really, or maybe you think it was a storm
giant, but maybe maybe I just saw a lightning struck a big tree.
Now, Wayne, I need to work. Can you please pick up those
oranges and go take them out and bring me a bucket of water please?
All right? Yeah, yeah, what do you want seawater? No?
Do you have any fresh water? We got we got just a little bit,
just a little bit of that, yes, a little bit. Though
you want me to row the oranges out and fill that up with lots of
water. That's a lot of water. It is a lot of water.
I need quite a bit since you have to reuse the water. I don't
know what that means. He wants me to reuse the water to boil.
That's no problem. But I also need to wash them. They look they're
filthy. Oh you don't need to wash them every fine? Okay, how
about you? Do you wash them in seawater because there's salt in it?
Says the salt clean some Okay, well that's wrong. So do you want
one bucket age each for what? For each potato? Or are you one
bucket of salt water and one bucket a clean Oh? Sure that'll work.
It probably not that clean. We used it a couple of times. Okay,
And could you could you on your way back tell that old man I
need his help? All right? Wait? Which old man? The one
who was with me the other cook? Oh, not old Norris, No,
the man who was right next to me. Who know, you don't
want old Norris to cook nothing? No, if fall asleep halfway through it,
definitely. His name is Toby? Toby? All right? What's he
down there? Yes, all right, I'll do that. You want one
bucket each? One bucket each will be fine? Thanks? And the old
man Toby. Yes, isn't he supposed to be helping us clean? Which
one's helping us clean? I have no idea you're cooking? All right,
I'll go do that. There he's wanders off, and he wanders off.
H there is a knock on the door, Toby, is that you come?
Look at the state of this kitchen. I don't know how I'm supposed
to do anything in the Hello. Captain pokes his head around the doorway.
Oh, hello, milady. Hello. Just potatoes, Yes, I heard
you were cooking. Yes, don't suppose you have any anything other than potatoes.
Yes, I got some meat in the bedroom. Oh wonderful. Well,
if you'd like, you can bring it here and I can make a
stew for everyone, or perhaps just for you. Well, I don't mind
if I do. He walks in and turns and closes the door behind him.
A stew It has for me. No, I thought you said that
the meat was in your bedroom. Well it can be here if you'd like.
Oh, oh no, I meant to eat for everyone to eat.
Oh you want actual meat. Yes, my apologize went too long on this
bag. It's wretched people. They're terrible, terrible people. You have understand
everything they say. Nastiness on the brain, nastiness all the time. Yes,
it was just a silly joke. Really I wasn't quite that's okay,
you know what I'll give you. I have a book that you might quite
enjoy. But now it's not the time. I definitely need to cook for
everyone, so your men can. Actually I do have some meat that I
really don't want the crew to know that I have it. So you're going
to have to bring it to me, and then i'll cook it. I'll
cook it with you if you like. I have the ability to cook in
my own room. I just I say, a very nice potato, and
I take a bite and very overboard, and then I go and eat by
myself. Night. You could you could very discreetly bring me the meat and
I will that I have. Okay, Well, sure, I'll bring you
your dish and then you can cook, Dozzie. Who's that? That's the
terrible dwarf trying to kill me? The one who killed Oh, yes,
that that one. No, I haven't seen him. I figured it was
probably and I did to stay away from him since he's been on board.
Well, we really do need it. If you see him, please do
you send him up? Yes, I'd very much like to read that book.
He's the navigator right. Well, it's actually in my book here.
You know, I'm missing the third novel, but I have the first two
here. That's very interesting. You are, what's it about then? Not?
Experience is a filthy sex you'll you'll like it? Should should help?
Yes, very well, lady, I think. Okay, you're putting down
and with the book. I'm going to read the book. Read between the
lines. Oh no, there's nothing between these lines. Just just the book.
There should be more between the lines. No more between the lines,
just the book. Okay, yes, thank you, Captain. I'm going
to get to cooking now. Yes, I'll go and take a page out
of this book. See what I can learn. Oh, good day,
captain, good night. He heads out low decks Hippo and Cairo. Oh
god. Wayne comes down and shouts there are an old man down here.
Look at it looking for an old man, don't I think you might mean?
You just the gray? What do you see? What did you say?
Just the gray? And that's that's from stress? No, not for
me, just what I mean? Yeah mm hmm. What you need an
old man for? All right? Our h I love she can't cook.
She says she needs you with the way or something. But I tell you,
oh, that doesn't sound like sooner. H Just be careful, careful,
a little word nothing mhm hm. We will you be careful as well,
and keep an eye on that helplin Fela. He's somebody smacked him earlier,
so I don't that's about, you know, just keep an eye so
it doesn't happen again. Mm hmm. A sore face. Okay, I'll
be up. We'll probably see you for food, so sounds good. You
show me the way, young man? All right? Yeah, you're so
like an old man. That's why something particulously look old. Really, you
know, you just look like stressed, dirtie stressed. All right, come
on, then let's go and have a little look. She's down there.
I've got to go and get her two buckets of water. You go all
the way down there, right doing there? All right? All just just
that way, I straight down the end there. She needs help, can't
do it, can't cook potatoes. See that's the thing. She talks a
lot of talk, which doesn't walk a lot. All right, then people
don't shut up, you know, I hate that, trying to get all
my stuff. People don't shut up. And I didn't mean like talk a
lot. I mean, she says, hal didn't she? And half?
Now I got stuff? I don't all eat? Then all right, you
get the buckets, so she'll walk it does Yeah, let's have a goal.
No, let's have a goal. Come on, come on, we're
gonna have a quick shoot. No no, no, where's that owl?
No? No, no, no, no, you don't want to shoot
that owl? No? What's it for? It's for killing people? Wow?
Yeah, it's a killer? Will strained? Okay, now all right,
can be careful anyway. You can have the water and i'll yeah,
all right, I'll go get the buckets of water. Can I have a
go b it? Later though, we'll see. I think you are right.
Yes, he's walking away, yeah, head sooner. You're in here?
Okay, yes, yes, I'm over here. Heyllo, I heard
you can't cook. I just need help washing potatoes. You can sit down
there and start healing them or whatever. We'll sit down then. I always
asked to come cook because you couldn't, So maybe you should do the washing
potatoes. And they also, but I'm also going to be washing potatoes.
We have to wash them before we cook them, right, and I'm just
waiting for the water. Just sit down then doat fain. I guess,
well, potatoes and what else are we doing? Just potatoes? That's all
they have, So yes, we're just doing potatoes. If they've not been
pushient at all, I guess not. I guess they don't know what they're
doing in that regard. I mean, potatoes are good. We've got we've
got some spices and got some herbs. It will probably the best potatoes that
they've ever had. You want to put some of the Red Drapper in the
Captain's portion, just as portion? Maybe do you want to talk about what's
bothering you? Bothering? I'm fine, it's all the moping in there.
No, you know, I was, I was. I was doing the
calculations for for three four repairs. You need to take your time, and
you think it through you kind of a rashly or blows up with me when
you try and fix it them, you know, and it hits. It's
been a long time since I've you knowny so many people and you know,
left left home. I guess you know, don't then and did did you?
Did you fix it? Right? Esh? You know that's good fixing
things. I thought maybe, well you've always been decent hated fixing things.
I mean, yeah, well it's probably need a replacement part of uh,
you know, forget a mess fire and probably help the Greek. You know.
Well, I'm sure you'll be able to fix it. You don't see
how much of part it costs. But yeah, well yeah, you hand
me that peeler there. You should I'll just use my knife. Oh right,
okay, it's it's I'm just used to it, you know, it
feels maybe So if you when was the last time you went in Alexander?
Oh, oh, ten weeks ago, eleven weeks ago, so back then?
Okay, yes, well I remember we we did. We were on
the road, cosmic road, somewhere from the tower for about ten weeks.
It's a long long time, but before that we were there. I think,
all right, Well, the weather nice there where in the in the
cosmic Alexander, Oh, actually I think it rained. Yeah, I can't.
I can't recall. Oh no, it was snow. Can I forget
that? It's now? Where's that water? He's probably talked to someone that
one. He does tend to go on it quite a lot, actually,
minded a little bit tiresome if you think about my own yapping mouth. You
know, I know I tend to go off. But am I like that
or not like that? Am I? Mm hmmm? No? No.
Downstairs, As we fade out their audio, Cairo is sitting with the young
monks. I wrote the goal. That's just awoken from a nap. The
boy had a shorter nap, but woke up and began drawing something a long
time ago, just kind of doodling stuff. Eventually he turns around and looks
left and right, realizes that it's just you there, and he smiles at
you quite widely and touches you on the middle of your forehead. Remember on
his forehead is kind of crescent moon tattoo in the same position he stares at
you. Does he hold the drawing? Do I see it? Or just
the forehead touch? He just touches you on the forehead drawings on his lap.
You can see he's drawn a picture of a person. I'll smile at
him, and I'll point to the drawing. As you point out, he
grabs your finger and makes you touch in the middle of his head. Do
I feel anything? Feel the forehead? So I'm just kind of smile at
him, and and then I'll I'll keep my fingers there for a moment so
that it's not like, you know, snake bitten, like, oh,
I didn't want to touch that. And then I'll pull them back and I'll
point at they're drawing again and look at them and nod, like, you
know, can I see? He turns it around to you and says Walsh,
and pushes it out towards you. You look down and the image is
of a very young looking sooner. She's quite young. She's got a kind
of a thin looking robe, almost like a veil over her head. She's
holding a pack of cards that just have nothing on them. That seems to
be half drawn, and this depiction looks a lot more detailed than the sketches
that he had done. She has these big earrings. She has a completely
different hairstyle, but The face is very very much that of Sooner, who
points at it. My eyes go wide and I I want to ask,
how has he seen her like this? But I'll just nod and smile and
Walsh. He nods and he takes it back. He's not finished. He
continues to draw while Cairo recognizes it as Sooner. We would recognize it as
soon as mother as we met her before Mother Numera. And that's where we
end. My god, La la la. Yes, there is no pocket
with us today. Unfortunately, she will be returning next week. What was
up to we may never know find out next time soon gone carrying. Katie
rolled twenty games, nineteen successes and three crets. Mental, I'm so helous
two like that battle was because of everything. Yeah, future it has become
future Aura. While Bo is tied up naked in a dungeon, not for
the first time in his life, this time probably unwillingly. The I also
enjoyed the classic female outlook on what it is to try and piss on something
in the distance without the use of your hands, shake it around, anything
is going to happen. That was enjoyable. Yes, the interrogation of Bo
Bobo will continue next week. Aura gets a non e moment, I will
I would like to just point one thing out. KPP sneak attack is once
per round. When a nearby foe attacks a creature that isn't you, you
may exploit their focus. So it was. It didn't work out anyway,
it didn't. I got so excited when I saw I had, and I
actively used it against you because I feel like Reginald would be disappointed that you
didn't read it thoroughly. I have a lot of questions, but I know
we have to wait for the They're a sneaky bunch, that's the inquisition.
Have been less than forthcoming with you in terms of it least kind of everything
that they've been doing. You've been being followed the entire time. I've been
rolling for it, and yeah, the I think they give up. They
give up with whatever you're doing. They were looking for you to do something
that would give them any idea as to why you've done everything you've done,
and then spun them half a tale that involves being whisked up by the gods
into a silly race with these gods that don't exist, and now they're just
gonna They're going to get that information to have you some other way. Maybe
we'll see. Maybe Ura can save the day. Maybe Ellie's up to something
different. Maybe Sooner and her whole new gang will arrive just in time to
save the day, even though they've got a long time. Also, there's
a time discrepancy because the Bologna crew are ahead in time. Everything we're witnessing
is at different times the Sooner crew of I felt Aura in danger. Yeah,
you're four days ahead now five, whereas all his crew are eight or
seven now eight if we count this evening going over. So pretty much everything
we've seen in Belogna since the time jump of a week has been a few
days ahead of what you guys are doing. Right, So yeah, it's
a whole thing. It's a whole thing, and I'm keeping an eye on
it the best of my ability. I'm a good GM. I've definitely never
lost track of those things before and then come back to it and gone,
oops, what was it. And I'm also trying to keep an eye on
Alvin. I mean Bun's letter to Alvin's status, which is a four day
travel. So yeah, it's great. I'm so good at this stuff.
I have no idea what's going on. But luckily I have a wonderful cast.
Let's do some shout outs so people can find where you are in the
week and and what you're doing. And when let's start going to go reverse
order, let's go with the in tortured one. Obo. Hi, I'm
the SPHEREx. I played Bobo for you today. I promise next week I'll
aim better given another chance to be Thank you so much for the amazing episode.
Everybody. You can find me here on Twitch and Twitter at Dyspierrex.
The only thing I'm missing for this upcoming set of torture weeks is the exhaustion
rule in D and D. Oh No, it's so useful in this situation.
Maybe I'll invent something in time for next week. Bo, what about
you Tuesday? I just saw Mother Numera on a piece of paper pushed in
front of me, which Cairo doesn't know anything about. But Tuesdays like,
holy shit, dust fail. This is crazy. Yeah, I'm very excited
just to have seen that. The weird thing about you and slight dust Veil
spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the D and D that I run a long
time ago that was set in Dust Veil about a thousand years before this one.
Your character started out as a ken ku and was transformed by that wizard
into halfling. That wizard was in a very long term relationship with mother new
marriage. Remember those kids, Yeah, they were her kids. Holy crap,
they're like half siblings to Sooner a thousand years ago. That's fun,
right, fun. So there's that whole thing. And obviously you then went
on and met her as well. So she's always there. Hush, She's
integral. She's always been there at pivotal moments, watching and observing and avoiding
particularly scrutinousize, including that of the Inquisition. I think I doubt they have
very much on her, And if they do, I don't think they know
what they even know, because that's her whole thing. That's literally pretty much
her entire purpose. It was just this run down the outfield to score a
three pointerway Sooner and make reference there. I know everything about sports, okay,
and that was a golf reference. It's thank you, yes, So
you get three points in golf? All right, Tuesday, Where can people
find you? What are you doing? A streaming Twitter? Not much for
now? So just look for me. We get one? Can we just
like can we do some sort of thing where you start a Patreon or fund,
some sort of just I don't know, an office. Can we buy
you office that you drive? How much? I'm going to look up nearby
offices to where you live in less of a because I know you're out in
the middle of the woods, because you're a real druid. Fun fact.
I started streaming in an office down the way from my house, which was
my brother's computer shop at the time. There was a brick wall behind me,
and my first couple of streams were fallout four and I streamed from there
for about three months until I got reasonable internet here, and then reasonable Internet
was taken from me. He no longer has that office, but we'll see.
Yeah, we're going to get you one, aren't we. Chat.
I'm to start saving up a let's get Tuesday in office for fun good Tuesday,
very similar to my Emma needs a new bungalow fund. Can you just
provide us with a house? Chat? Come on, there's lots you.
It's only one of us. It's unfair I needs a house, but you
know it's it's the rats too. Yeah. Really, it's just that we
need to get half. That's big enough. To separate the rats from the
demonic dog. Theco my personal demonic dog. Everybody else got a case.
I played a pool tool with for you today. It was a lot of
fun, lots of fun interactions. You can play me here on Table Story
on Tuesdays. Instead of playing a much older person, I play a much
younger person. I play Alexander peppin a second year raven Plow student at Hogwarts.
I have a wonderful cast of friends there, so come check that out
too, if you haven't already, you can check it out in the YouTube's
and catch up. I've done Year one's done already, so you can go
catch up in year one's there and then catch up and join us for the
attrition and aagans which are heating up. Thanks again and exciting. And you
can follow me everywhere on the internet places. It's godcuss on all of them.
I have a podcast there's Goadcast, and next week I should be recording
one with the very talented Aaron B. Black. So you can also pick
up his new novel that's Firewall Downs. We'll check that out, get it
digitally or paperbacks and all those things. And also it's my Cat's birthday today,
So happy birthday to Kimblia birthday, Jim lay the Cat. Why not
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our cast members who's on our new show, Rhyme of the Frost Maiden,
which is on Fridays at ten pm UK five Eastern. Is what happens going
to have a day off. I can remembers. You can remember Peebee's taking
tomorrow off? I am I are now Otherwise it's awkward. Do you want
to take to No? But I mean I was going to take tomorrow morning
off because Brad is playing one of my my favorite games, Beyond Two Souls
Sam. Yeah, I was going to watch that, all right, and
then what are you doing after that? And where? Oh right, shout
out tomorrow for tomorrow? Yeah wow yeah. No. This episode was just
a lot. Uh, it was a lot. There was a lot of
laughter, but also I was stressed the entire time with Aura, and I
got some dark Fire tournament vibes a bit from there where I was really excited.
I had to put up my standing desk and pace around because I was
like, I didn't want anything to happen to her. She was alone.
Then Bo gets, you know, tortured, and I'm just like all over
the place, and I think, I think rad I said this on breakbit.
I think this was a record. You said one word and I started
crying. You got me to cry with one word, So I wonder what
word it was. Yeah, that was a bit intense for me. So
yeah, you can find me at Twitch and Twitter at Pumpkinberry. I'm no
longer here on Saturdays cry for Leech, but you said, still go watch
it. It was only six episodes and then the finale for Gone is on
Wednesday, and then you will see me no more except for Sunday as soon
as possible to be rid of you, like the god damn virus. You
are a woman. Yeah, okay, I will. I will endeavor to
force you to take tomorrow off. Then I guess you need to relax.
And I'm what if I play the entirety of beyond two souls? That means
you can't else? Yeah, genius. Speaking of genius, Katie, Katie,
I didn't know where that was, so I was like, I'm gonna
wait and see what happens with this. Hi, I am Katie Peters place.
I played Aura for you today. Today was fun. Today is a
great episode. I don't know. Thank you all for what to say,
thank you all for watching. Follow me up. Katie Peters plays on Twitter
plak and I'm here for Gone the Finaley on Wednesday. It's sad, but
come watch that. Yeah, next week. I want to know why Reginalds
breathing down my neck and how he got outside. So how'd you get I
totally thought you were going to die against Bob too. That was stressful.
That was very stressful because I was going to go that way. You're doing
the traditional Aura like I want I want to try to talk I want to
talk you down. I want to talk us through and he's like trying to
kill you and I'm like, oh no, we had a grim situation here.
Like then he tried to like bull ram her. Yeah, yeah,
I was very concerned. Yeah, unstable. What was the clue him bull
ramming you or Brad being like you get a crazed feeling about him? I
was like, I know. So These are the other members of the B
Team. These are the surviving members of the B Team except for Cairo,
and these were NPCs that were submitted way back in the beginning by the original
inquisition. If we had picked some of you could have been playing Bob.
Yeah, we would have been playing Bob and one of our it could have
been in Fidelia. That was like, yeah, you could be just coming
up against one of them, or it could have been Er or Pay,
or it could have been you know, one of the others. And yeah,
So Bob was submitted by Sammy and obviously the same with the b team.
I embellished and changed and twisted it to fit stuff, and I had
to flesh these characters out a lot, especially for this last bit. But
really, the only thing it says for Bob is that he's an alchemist,
prefers to use bombs, flame throwers, and bombs. Not kidding. It
says bombs, flamethrowers, and bombs, doesn't really care about anything serious as
long as he gets to blow shit up or burn shit down and half his
body's burnt. And I was like, that's that's Bob. And then I
rolled to determine which of these inquisitors went after which of you at the end
of the last episode, and rolled for Bob Togarf for you, and actually
it was a decent matchup for you because he uses fire, so that's good
for you, even if you get hit by the stuff, which you didn't,
and I kind of expected you to wipe the floor with whoever came after
you. Kind of Worston was the worst possible pick because he's the team leader
now and Worston is a character that was submitted by Piranha Plant, so Worston
needs to be awesome, and so that's just a little bit of meta for
you there is that Worston is not worse than anyone. He's the best because
Piranha is a legitimate member of the Inquisition in the real world, and I
can't just let his character that he's submitted just be a flippant thing that was
thrown away. So that's why the end of last week we saw Worston was
the one dealt with the bug and came after completely unaware. Worston is not
going to just fight you in the middle of the street. So you hit
you with like a little and then a little dart in the bike almost and
now you are being interrogated by him, So enjoy that. It really came
from Rolls and also if you want to forward any hatred, you can forward
that hate mail to Piranha Plant in the chat. Here's a mod though,
and that's scary. The last one was Reginald Sheridan, which was submitted by
Point and I won't tell you much about them, just yeah, it is
a human rad What about you? Where do we find? Thank you so
much for watching, everybody, It's been a great stream. Tomorrow morning,
nine am Eastern Slash Bread Water Go. We'll see you next week for more
revelations. Were coming up to the end, but it's not over yet.
I forget to check out all the other shows on table Story this week,
including our brand new show Rhyme of the Frost Maid and its Dungeons and Dragons
and it's the module that came out run by Wax Stephen. The cast was
awesome. They were all dressed up. It was so good. It was
literally just so great. And you can watch the first episode of that on
our YouTube channel or in the VODs here if you want to catch up in
time for Friday to watch the start of a whole new D and D campaign,
because this one's coming to an end, so you're gonna need something to
watch. While I prepare something else in the meantime between between shows. Thanks
so much for watching everybody, and we'll see you next time. Bye.