Everybody is a nice sleep watches are taken, but there is nothing on this
island as far as life is concerned. It's just you guys, and there's
nothing swimming to this island because he would have to get past capital. T
capital the problem. So we can't have that, now, can we?
No? Excellent, No, I love being safe. That got you some
thunder. I love being safe. Thunder that laughing at me. I don't
want this. I think that was once again nature applying that I'm the bad
guy. Like that's what that felt like? This one, the fucker says,
implying like he isn't over even bad. I'm just trying to do a
nice thing for my friends. We all have an adventure together, and I
god this evidence to suggest that that might be the case. Yes, you're
minimum playing every bad guy that exists, but I'm also playing every good guy
that isn't you. And yes, I know that's just the tiger so far,
but still, I gave you a tiger you Uh okay, I gave
you. I gave you a tiger wizard. If this was the nineties,
you worshiping me? It sounds anyway. No robots, Oh my god,
the tiger wizard. Why did that get funder? All right, so you
guys sleep relatively peacefully. Ricardo has some bad dreams about being trapped in the
water with large murky shapes swimming about. Yeah, not gonna lie. But
it's as good as it's gonna get after that kind of trauma. I'm gonna
be thinking about that from wellm well out of the valley. So it's all
it's all good. You're gonna be raving about that when you're in the fucking
home. When everyone wakes up in the morning, it is it is drizzling
out. It looks like it's fixing to be a proper storm. I wonder
if we can use this for cover if it storms proper, But then we'll
have to be swimming in and then his eyes squinting goes, But then we
have to swim in the rain. Ricardo frowns. It's not like we'd get
any wintersose that's true. All right, let's see, let's check out this
cursed sword and see if it doesn't kill me. Yeah, I'll ahead with
coming. I'll go with good too. I would like y'all expertise before I
touched something in this godforsaken place. You said it was glowing blue or there
was a blue sheen to the sword, is what you said? The metal
has like a blue tone to it. It's got it, okay, faint
blue, all right. So you make your way towards the cliff and you
climb up onto the rocky pedestal. There's more than enough room for everybody.
Those people score at home. There is a reason why I'm in a quarry
fish game. You don't immediately jump on the first piece of real weaponry that
you've been given the entire game anyway. I mean, you shouldn't be doing
that in any game where the empty stuff going on. Some people let you
let it slide anyway. I like to live dangerously or die dangerously by the
dice. You die by the dice. The gray, miserable weather, the
drizzle coming down on top of this rocky pedestal. There are just a bunch
of old bones, and in the center if there is a large human skeleton,
as I said, it is holding this strange looking metal sword. Does
that metal mean anything to you, guys or color you're feeling anything? It
certainly does not look like normal iron or steel. That much is free,
but it would have to be more closely examined to figure out exactly what's happening.
I'll start to get close. You might you might want to just get
ready in case this is some elaborate trap, and I'll start making my way
towards it. I'm poking at the bones with my quarters. Octimer, do
you want to you want to peep game on the bones? Yeah? I
was just gonna say, I want to tell me something about those bones.
Sure, difficulty three because they are scattered and several of them are shorn through
me wheel in a survival or like lore lor Yeah, yeah, the survival
or lore whichever. You know what. No, this is more about lord
thing. You're right, that matter as I poke at the bones with my
quarter staff to try and get them Sandy, No, why don't you just
take the role? I have zero lore? Yeah, I got two.
How about we do it this way. Octimer tries to piece together a complete
skeleton with his survival expertise, and Fader will direct where he is unsure,
So we Phedro gives October a bonus die and he'll make a survival check and
then we'll see what we can figure out from there. So survival plus one
die is what's happening right now from multi water. Yes, starting at three
dice, and it is a difficulty three test. I'll just spend too momentum.
Okay, so that puts me up to five dice. Okay, that's
five successes with a complications. You've got a complication, a critical success.
I'm gonna ask what that color meant, because we don't see it very up.
Yeah blue, Yeah, blue means you got both a critical success and
a critical thing. All right, Well, what happens now? That's a
super good question. No, no, no, I have to figure out
what the complication is because I know, like, even though I'm taxing my
brain, you're not gonna want to pay doom for it. Only eight it's
better than fifteen, all right. So a lot of the bones are damaged,
some of them have very visibly been cut through. It takes October and
Phaedra working together almost an hour to piece together what they believe is a complete
skeleton, and it appears to be a man like creature for the most part,
although the skull is shaped wrongly and there are a lot of thin,
delicate, long bones that you're having trouble placing. And eventually the two of
you come to the conclusion that it these creatures had wings. Okay, look,
this skeleton you pieced together is like seven feet tall. Maybe maybe it's
a little bigger wings seven foot man like creature but not a man and possessing
of wings. Ricardo is just locked on that sword. Eyes are a lot
because the first thing, it's the only thing he's been wishing for for the
entire fucking time he's been in the fucking place. Cole doesn't sense anything.
No, well, I'm either gonna regret this or this will be the greatest
gift of this valley. And I'm gonna go for this. I'm gonna try
and take the sword from the skeleton, but if you like, poke it
with a stick first, go for broke rabbit. Yeah, well, he's
just going for it, all right. You reach in and you are you
just are you yanking the sword? You're gonna gently remove the hand. No,
I'm gonna try and be like careful with it, like I'm gonna first,
like you know'd like touch it, Like you know, if I touch
it, does anything happen immediately? Nothing happens when you touch it. The
story has been presented to you really well, just looking like surveying this site.
This was some kind of warrior and he died fighting these things, and
it looked like he killed a good number of them before he went down.
So I imagine Ricardo has at least a modicum of respect for this guy.
I'm once you're sure he's not going to jump up and stab you with the
sword, you kind of ease it out of his hand. It's a little
bit heavier than what you're used to from a sword of this size, but
you give it a couple of test swings. There's almost like a gentle humming
sound as it whips through the air. There is something about this blade.
What little bit of dirt and grime had accumulated on the sword you can brush
off and it's mirror polished. Is there any markings on this sword? It's
not edged, it's not notched. The craftsmanship is very visibly, very good.
Got it, but there's nothing fancy on it. It's more like a
master craftsman was making a blade that can speak for itself. He didn't need
to cover it marketing ship got it hardistry and yeah, I mean you're looking
around and an octomer can confirm these bones are old. They're bleached they're not
as strong as they would have been. There's just visible age on them.
This sword has been here or for a long time. Okay. The wraps
on the grip have worn pretty badly from the elements, but everything else on
it is like it's brand new, you know. Well, with I'm taking
it, I'll turn to the scale goes. I think I need this more
than we do, my friends. But thanks you. I don't know if
there is a garen former respects or anything like that. Descent to the dead,
but like you know, it turns of snakes and you die. Who
knows you sketch a little bow. There isn't really a scabbard left. It's
gone. If it was there, along with most of this guy's clothing.
You can modify the one you have for your broken sword and it should fit.
Okay. Is it basically the same without fragile okay, so you are
going to lose the fragile quality and you're gonna gain some new ones. Sword
brackets regular I don't know always I do not think this is a regular sword.
For the record, Yeah, sword brackets a shiny yeah, that'll well,
it should be the same as like you have broad sword stats, right,
reached to damage five unbalanced in parrying, it was reached two damage three.
But now it's but I guess, yeah, it reached to damage five
unbalanced. Yeah, reached to damage five sizes unbalanced quality is parrying, and
you are going to add to that the vicious one quality, and then you
were going to add one more quality after that. Okay, instead of being
vicious one, it is vicious three against minions of Set? Yes, does
it banish them back to the other dimension? Set is a god? Yes?
Set is the serpent god of Stigia. Oh a serpent god? You
say word? I forgot who used to fight Set or the minions of Set?
A lot of people are Are you specifically thinking which deity nation that fought
against Set? I thought everybody bordering on Stigia for the most part is Set
is not a friendly deity. He wants to cause. He does not consider
human beings to be like worthy of life, but tolerates their worship when applicable
because it helps them out. He tolerates their worship as it gives him power.
Yes, but his children, his people, quote unquote, are serpents
and snakes and ancient scaly monstrosities. Effectively cool dudes really worship him. He
doesn't like us, so kind of heartbreaking. There is a smile now now
that he has real iron in his hands. There is a almost creepy smile
that is not going off on Ricardo's face. Yeah, I suppose you can
add one extra quality to this. It's not a real quality, but as
an fyi, you can just throw an extra quality that says unbreakable on this.
I love the fact that it's basically the exact opposite of every sword that
Jordans his views and fucking it's the one sort designed for Ricardo Ricardo to be
having anime tear weeping. Oh man, no, Like, seriously, he
saw real iron. He's like, I need to make sure that this is
not a trap. And then as soon as he's confirmed it's not a trap,
he's like, this is the greatest day of my life. He doesn't
want to fuck with the fish still, but he's like, I could fuck
up with the fish if I really needed to. Now, I know most
of the skeleton's belongings have degraded and rotted away, but you know how like
if you can look at like a skull's teeth and you can figure out if
it's a man or a woman or something like that. Yeah, it is
a male skeleton, a large specimen like coal sized, possibly probably a little
bigger than coal. Huh. I'm gonna want wonder this out loud. I
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