Somewhere unknown underground. Bo, You've been practically stuck in a room with Kalougie
for so long that it has probably made your mind go nuh. And I
don't know exactly if you know how long it's been, but it has been
a decent amount of time. You feel like you've been here for at least
a week. It might even be more. It honestly feels like it's been
maybe like MUD's getting close to a year. I'm like best friends with Kalugi.
Yeah, you and Kalugi have been talking up everything. You probably know
each other relatively well at this point. Plugi doesn't go into too much about
his life prior to his wife's murder at the hands of presumably Igan or one
of the other brothers, but he does mention a lot of things that came
after that. He's probably constantly talking about demons and demonology and the times that
he's hunted a demon and it's gone wrong, or many many more times he's
been hunted by demons, and the reason he had all these different rings and
he met all these enchanters and he's been all over the place. You've been
fed pretty well. You've had some entertainment every now and then Worston will come
to question and interrogate you about things, but in a relatively passive way.
It's just questioning and checking, seeing if your memory has come back or anything
like that. I think you haven't seen Worston for a couple of days,
but you have seen some low You've even seen another inquisitor, a young looking
inquisitor just looks like a pretty average looking human woman, quite young, maybe
early twenties. It doesn't ever speak to you, brings things, delivers things.
It seems to be their job. They seem to just be bringing you
stuff if you request something in particular. Other than that, you've pretty much
been stuck in here with Kalugi the entire time, and that's where we find
you this morning, which you don't probably even know it's morning, but you're
sitting there. I think Klugi is kind of a little tipsy, leaning against
a wall with a bottle of wine in one hand, and kind of twirls
his arms around as he's talking your ear off as usual. And so that's
the difference between a closet and an imp. You understand, it's very important
because I don't know if we're going to come across some wait, it's just
occurred to me. When was the last time we saw Worston? I have
no idea two days ago, an hour? What if it's finally over?
Well, what what if you know he's he's finally gonna stop interrogating us and
we can go home free. Well we'll give you that idea. Well,
he'd come in just about every day asking us something new, whether it was
just one two questions. The fact we haven't seen him in days it could
mean something. But but that day could be any day. Now, have
we tried opening the door? No? I kind of always assume it's locked,
especially with uh some low he's he's got the keys. Do you want
to try it? I gaze at the door, thinking, no, it's
this is impossible. They wouldn't. No. Wait, I walked to the
door and I attempt to turn the knob. Lucy kind of leans forward,
watching you as your hand reaches down slowly towards the kind of the door opening
knob. It's a tiny little thing. You begin to turn the thing,
you hear it open, but the door doesn't move. It it's locked.
Doom. That was a long shot. I would have thought, even for
a moment, maybe even just you know it was locked right where prisoners of
course they lock sup. Well, can I attempt to try and maybe pick
at this? Let me see, Do I have lock picking with me?
No, it's it's all different now as much as I was a petty thief.
Oh boy, no, I don't. There are three locks on the
door. There's one which is a standard kind of lock underneath the with a
keyhole, and there appears to be two things on the outside of the door
that kind of seem like bolts that slide across, which are going to be
far more difficult to pick from the inside. Not impossible. But if you
had a set of lock picks or items that you think you can use to
try it, you are I actually do have lock picks in my inventory to
give it. Go. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it.
Give me a dice roll. Here we go, sixteen sixteen. You move
over to your stuff. All of your stuff is there, including your lock
picks. You pull out these these tools and you head over towards the door
and begin to work at the key hole. You take a little time.
It's an old key hole. You actually get the sense that this is a
really old door with an old set of locks on it, and after a
little while you hear what sounds like an unlocking sound. You think maybe you've
successfully done it, but you still have the problem of there being too alts
on the outside of the door that you need to deal with somehow. Well,
that that sounds good, doesn't it. Kalugi? Oh, yeah,
does it open or not? Well? I think there's a bit more I
need to do. What if we open it and there's like a giant guard
out there with spears or something. I hadn't thought about that actually with the
door, is there perhaps a little gap between the door and the floor that
I could see through? There's an extremely tiny, little like millimeter gap that
runs all around the door. Yeah, oh, okay, Can I maybe
attempt to take a peek? You can? Yeah, you look out of
the doorway. You can kind of see a miller met around. You can
kind of make out a tiny flicker of light. There's a torch in a
skance just outside of the doorway. Moving your eyes up and down the gap,
you can tell that the skance with the torch is probably actually quite close
to the door, just on the outside. It just looks it's kind of
hard to make out because it's just a tiny little gap that you're looking through.
You can see what looks like a thin hallway. You can see the
other side of the hallway being pretty close, it's only a few feet over
before you see the other side of a ball. No door on the other
side, but it's pretty hard to make out any detail or anything specific.
It really doesn't seem like there's anyone out there though. All right, well,
I immediately share with what I've just discovered Kalugi. So well, it
looks like there's no guards oddly enough, right, Okay, so I'm going
to keep going at this thing, and I attempt at the second lock.
Yeah, all right, that's looking around and pacing up and down behind you.
You have a go at the second lock. Roll mere dice, that's
a nine. A nine on the dice roll is a tough choice. You
succeed in your action, but there is a cost. You using your lock
picks to carefully move this thing across, you snap one of the lock picks,
leaving you with just one, not one set, but one of the
two that you would use usually to mess with the tumblers. Oh no,
well, this can be good. I immediately turned to Koloogi you wouldn't happen
to have a spare down, would you a lock pick? Well? Maybe
no, I don't think so. My coat's got wire in it. I
suppose we could try and take a bit of wire out of the coat wire.
You know what, anything works. I attempt to maybe make shift something
out of this wire, right, But you own me a bit of you
own me a new coat. What I know they're going to be cutting up
my cart and taking the wire out. I'll call it. You own me
a new coat. That's the only deal I'll make. Yeah, fine,
it's an expensive carter. I give the coat a look nice on the type
of thing that a captain of a ship might wear. Looks like something my
grandma would wear. But sure, I quickly take out the wire from the
coat and make shift. You can kind of use It's thin enough to be
used as a makeshift. What pig do you want to have a go?
All? Right, and here we go. That's a twenty Holy Using the
wire is actually easier. It's a you can cull the thing around into the
shape that you needed to be, so you can send it on the outside
of the door and just hook this bolt thing across. It takes a little
while. There's a lot of fiddling around. It's back and forth, back
and forth. This whole thing probably takes you ten fifteen minutes from start to
finish. Eventually you feel the things start to slide across. I'm pretty sure
that this door is now unlocked if you would have opened it upon hearing the
click, I just I look to Kolougi and give them a nod as you
do it without saying a word. I opened the door, and we're need
some stuff. Well, okay, you're right, we'll just I grab by
things as well. He grabs two bottles of wine. Really that's what you're
bringing? Well, we might need it. Wine is flammable, right,
right, You know, you do make your point, but you know,
are sure we want to do this because if we do, they're probably going
to come after us and kill us now, even though they've treated us so
well here. But all right, you are right. Well, I think
they're probably going to kill us anyway. Do you think we're ever going to
get out? I say no, fair enough, and I immediately and well
before we leave, I turned back to look at the room one last time,
reminiscing the memories Kalugie and I now have with each other. All right,
brother, let's get the heck out of here. You slowly open the
door. It's pretty smooth and it's opening, but it creaks a little bit.
As you're opening the door, you see this hallway appear before you.
It's not like the hallway that you were in previously that you briefly saw twice,
with the kind of just almost like a cavern way with just these torches
on these pillars, a much wider hallway. This is a much smaller hallway.
And it's also now that you're looking on it, you can see that
it's kind of curving around, almost like you're in a circle, like there's
a doughnut you can walk around. There is a torch on the door in
a sconce right next to the door on your right, which gives a little
bit of light to the hallway, and you can see that it's it's probably
a pretty long hallway. Stone, basic graystone, very plain looking slabs,
no symbols, nothing like that, except for the fact that as you open
your door, you can see that there is a number on your door.
You see the number ten. You okay, head out, take a look
left and right. Nothing there nobody there, just as the hallway continues onwards.
Well, upon seeing that the coast is clear, I look back at
Kaloogi and whisper. I think we're good. Right, it's head Maybe maybe
I don't know what's step ahead, but we're in this together. Okay,
all right, you're amazing. I say, we head straight to the forcess
and kill the queen. No, we're going to find Ellie and Dora.
All right, that's what we're going to do. Okay, you think they're
locked up down here with us, by the gods, I hope not.
I'd hate to even think that they could be down here, but it might
be worth to do a sweep now that you mentioned that. All right,
okay, you lead the way, and I'll like bring up the rear and
check out our shoulders. All right, Well, I look back at the
door, showing that it's the number ten. Well, maybe let's start from
thee the right. I'm assuming that's where well nine to one is all right,
and I immediately start walking to the right side of the gaol cells.
Yeah, you start moving around the hallway, you can see that it kind
of curves around and it goes for a pretty long time. As you start
moving around. You can hear Kalougi creeping up behind you. The light dims
quite a lot as you start moving around. The only doorway that you see
for this entire time is your own. As you step away from this torch,
you come all the way around until you're basically in like pitch dark and
there's no other doors. It feels like you've walked for a little while.
You can't see the light from your doorway anymore. You keep walking and keep
walking, and upp ahead you see some light in the distance that could possibly
be the next cell. I don't know, right, We'll stick with the
plan. You go ahead, and if anything goes wrong, I'll back you
up. I'll be there one okay. I trust you, all right I
I. I then start walking towards the light. Start inching your way towards
the light. Are you doing anything precautionary or are you just kind of creeping
sneakly? You know what? Now that you mentioned that I probably should,
I would like to use my ability called curious case. Hmm, curious case
gives you clues, I think. Let me remind myself of how it works.
Uh, curious case, Um, something suspicious? Okay, you spend
your three points, and you're looking for something suspicious to give you an age.
I think the thing that's suspicious here is that you're number ten. You've
done a good way around this circle, and you haven't seen any other doors.
As you're moving forward, you're pretty sure the door you're coming up on
your door. You've done a full circle. I shake my head in disbelief
and kind of maybe even bop myself on the head. What is this?
But this this feels like some sort of magic, But magic right now doesn't
even exist. What's that's our door? But we just came from that direction.
We did a full circle. Yes, tricks, I don't understand.
I then try to study the halls to see if there's anything different. All
right, you go that way, I'll go this way. Then we'll have
to meet up. And if we don't meet up, we know it's a
trick and an illusion. All right, right, okay, okay, around
and starts having I walk the other direction, and you're checking the walls.
Yes, that too, roll dice one disaster. Oh no, you start
walking around checking the walls. You do like a full half circle here,
because you come around and you realize that you're definitely just in a loop.
Yeah, there's a circle and there's only one door, number ten on it.
It doesn't appear to be any other way out. There are no other
doors. There doesn't appear to be a trap door or a door above you,
or any hidden doors in the walls that you're looking for. Eventually you
come around and you see in the distance kind of making his way up with
two hands on the walls next to him, Klugi and he says, well
anything, No, I thought we were trapped in there. We're more so
out here, right, How do they even get to us? Then there's
got to be a door somewhere, right, There has to be less magic
has come back trying to do your little hoodigabar. There's no magic, I
don't right, So there's got to be something here, right, and there
would have to be Maybe perhaps there's something in the room. We may have
missed it, but no, that would be that'd be too easy for any
of their prisoners. If I look to Klugie maybe looking very lost, right,
how about we split up again and we'll we'll press all the different slabs
on the ground and all the different bricks in the wall. Eventually one of
them might depress and then it'll open a secret passage or something's got to be
or something that's that's well, I mean it's it's something. All right.
I'm going to attempt to hold down any slab stone on the wall on the
floors that I come across. You ever played hopscotch, hopscotch? Yeah,
hopscotch? I mean maybe once or twice. Yeah, just do that on
the slabs, right, okay, all right, and starts jumping, getting
down the whole way away from you, landing on each of the slabs on
the ground that are pretty well masoned. It's not like a random looking cobblestone
thing. They're like pretty cotton shape this whole way. I'm actually watching Kology
as he's doing it for the first couple of times, thinking, you know,
this is impossible, But I then pause and think it might just be
though, might just be possible, And I then turn around doing my path
I'm doing hopscotch, start hitting each of the slabs, moving around the circle.
Heakes a while. As you start moving around the circle here, this
loop, this hallway. Eventually you hear the sounds of Cologie jumping and Klugi
hears the sounds of you jumping, and you see each other again, and
one of you jumps on the last slab, and none of them seem to
have done anything. None of them seem to be like pressure plates or anything
like that. And then he looks at the walls and says, right,
this one's going to be a bit longer. We're going to have to touch
every brick. No. I as soon as I see Kalugi, my heart
just drops to my stomach, and I'm thinking, for the first time,
maybe we are really stuck. And I say, with a lot of doubt
in my voice, Kalugi, I don't think that's gonna work. All right,
Well, we've got tim but time, right, that is true.
We don't even know when they'll return. Right, Well, if you hear
him, can you whistle? Hear them? If you hear him coming,
whistle, and then I'll rush to you and we'll know where they're coming from.
Right, But there's the only door is our own. Where would they
possibly come from? Well that's the point. If we hear them first,
and they come through a doorway that we can't see, we can jump them.
All right, all right, I'm gonna start pressing these bricks. Then
He starts just putting his hand to each of the bricks on the wall.
There's quite a few from top to bottom. He can barely reach the top
ones. He starts making his way around the inner wall, and I do
the same in the opposite direction. Going to take a while, You begin
touching all of the bricks in the wall, do you moving away on the
probably the darker side of the hallway here, moving away from each other,
touching each of the bricks, up and down, up and down, up
and down. That's where we're gonna switch scenes elsewhere near the port city of
Daydon. Just on the outside of this port city, we have two people
that we recognize and one person dressed like at a baccine sooner, Hippo and
Cairo are kind of on the edge of sort of a mini castle outside of
a stables area. There's quite a few carts being loaded up around you.
You can see there are people coming and going from the town. There are
a few guards that are uninterested in pretty much everything going on, as even
a couple in the castle. For along the barricade near the entrance way along
the gate in front of you is a kind of confused looking gentleman who owns
these stables, and he's looking at you after you mentioned that there were five
of you, but he's he counted three. And then you spun around sooner
looking for the twins. Romia dice A seven is a tough choice. You
succeed in your action, and I think I'll just give it to you,
since really it was just to see if you can see the twins for the
For a moment you don't see them, there's a panic, a sinking feeling
that they didn't make it through. Then across the kind of road here,
this old cobblestone road that stretches out across the coastline, you see one of
the twins, the girl jump out of the back of a goods merchant's caravan,
a larger looking wagon. She jumps out of the back, and then
so does the other twin. The twins turn around, and then they shout
something upwards and into the wagon that you don't understand in their language. They
look distressed. No, well, I'm so glad. I distressed for a
week. I mean, no time has passed whatsoever. Right, I see
them, and oh, there they are, They're over there. They'll they'll
be joining us in a moment, So so five five. The fellow who
was selling you, well, letting you know what you can rent from the
stables, looks over it and then looks back at you and says, and
yeah, all right, so you want okay, so you three in the
serving children, that'll be all yes, just us. Do you want horses
each? Or a carriage or a carn't? You weren't quite We were just
discussing the options. If you could let us know, you know, well,
you can get a stage coach to Belgna. There isn't one available,
but there will be one this afternoon, and that I'm thirty gold pieces.
You could rend your own carriage if you're able to ride and control the horses.
Of course I don't want you taking my horses off the edge of the
cliff. You can rent your own cart. A little cheaper, you could
get horses of your own. And of course the cheapest option is the donkeys.
How much are the donkeys for five? Well, it'll be one gold
piece age, So five gone? Oh I turn around. Perhaps perhaps we
will be riding an ass. Maybe let's just see those are the options.
Maybe there's somebody to be some space we can just hop in with or something.
You know what, I just the less people, let's see us together,
maybe the better, and I won't We also blend in when they're smaller
people, and I don't think they're expecting me to be with four other people
anyway. I think we blend in just as we are. But the moment
we sit with someone else and then someone asked them, hey, have you
seen this person? They say yes, we don't know. The Inquisition could
kidnap them, and just you know, we put more people in danger the
more people that see us or are involved with us. No offense, kirol
can Can the donkeys pull a cart? Sir? No, They're really not
designed. Also, we don't have the equipment available for the carts that we
have. You're really going to have to rent to at least one horse,
depending on the size of the cart that you want. The smallest we have,
I suppose five people. You could easily fit two on the front this
cart here and a horse cost you about ten gold Yes, oh okay,
well maybe that's our Yes, any damage to the cart you'll have to pay
for. Of course there's we shouldn't, I mean, there should be we
should be all right with that, right, I think so mm hmm,
I mean friend, I mean it's a two D journey. Do we need
to return the card here? Or can we leave it with someone you know
or someone that works with you? There? Yes, there is. We
have stables at the other side as well. Just look for and he points
to a sign that's sitting above one of the stables that says T Grins stables
and rentals, which is Grin. Isn't that aren't you? Isn't that a
leather maker? He grin? My family name, right, not leather makers.
Yeah, oh, unique horses our card. Probably a horse. But
if we can get one way, good about because well we may have to
have a sleep oh right right, oh, yes, depending on where we
stop. I'm not sure about settlements along the way. It's been a while,
all right. I think we'll go with a horse and cart please for
the ten gold, Yes, very well, there are draft horses. If
you'd like to take your pick that dark brown one over there. I suppose
that should be fine. Yes, I shall check with my wife that it
is ready. He's beautiful or he's beautiful, yes, very well. Yeah,
look at the shine on that coat there. Yes, if you could
just wait five minutes. First of all the gold ten gold right, mm
hmmm, here you go, thank you very much, the hands and ten
gold pieces and mark off ten gold. He looks at each one, counts
them out individually, checking them, puts them into a little sack he has
like a thing with a belt with all sorts of bits and bobs on it,
and says, yes, if you like to wait for just five minutes,
and I'll fetch the cart and we'll love the horse and get ready,
oh wonderful, and I'll weave over the twins that lived in peg what between
them and kind of wobbly taking it over to another carriage, and then they
between them and are they working for someone? Into the back of the carriage.
Yeah, he did take get roped into working for It's like kind of
a large looking wagon, almost like one of those Oregon trail wagons with a
single horse on the front. You don't see anybody else there that it seems
like there's someone in the in the wagon and they lift a keg up into
it. There's a kind of a grumble from inside the wagon that you can
hear. I think I I Am about to call out to them and wave
to them, and then I realized I'll be drawing attention to myself, and
I'll just I'll go back. I'll go get them, right, I'm gonna
go find keepy. Oh right, you can we hear it. Okay,
I'll be right back. What are you doing to find keeping? So we're
close to the gate. And how many gates are there to this town.
It looked like two, one on the east and one on the west.
Okay, so he'll be checking both. I'll just go sort of lurk,
not near the guards, but near the gate, and keep an eye on
the skies. All right, roll mere dice, okay, four A four.
It doesn't seem to be any sign of him just immediately. Doesn't mean
anything necessarily, just that it doesn't seem like he's like right here right now
while you sit around waiting. You watch sooner head over to the back of
this kind of wagon. You can hear now as sooner as you get closer
that the twins are speaking to someone. It seems that the person they're speaking
to is speaking back to them in their own language. Oh, they're saying.
They're kind of shouting up into the back of this wagon. That national
elon and you hear somebody on the inside say I'm a score oh or h
hush or she or she she does, And then they begin to look behind
them. There's a few items left on the ground, and they begin to
lift things up to a thick set of hands that reach down. And as
you come around the side, you see a dwarf picking things from the kids
and putting them into the back of the car. He looks over at you
as you approach. It doesn't say anything, Hello, Hello. Have you
rupped my companions here into helping you lift things? Oh? These belong to
you. They came wandering over and I heard that they were speaking. You
know, they're speaking a really really all dialect to Jane tish. I did
know that, actually, but I don't know. I wouldn't even call it
Jane tish iar thinks called jotan almost. You'd be old giant to speak.
Are you their mother? Ah? No, but but you do. Are
you married to a giant? No? I no, but you you understand
them? Oh, I know a few words here and there. I'm on
to the giant ones a few times. You know. Oh, so you
asked them to help you lift some things. No, I was trying to
pick that their keg got me slaps a keg that's in the back of their
car. They offered to help, and I thought, leight, say,
strange, I've not heard anybody speaking like that, for they are going on
one hundred years. I said, what's that you're speaking? They said,
I was trying to speak to us her language. But do you need help?
Old man? I said, I'm not an old man, I said,
but I do. Mam. It's killing me. I said, let's
have a little help. Then they offered to help. Useful couple of strong
kids on the road. I'll buy them off you do under gold absolutely not.
No, absolutely not. I'm not haggling. No, no, they
are absolutely are worth that. But no you may not. So I don't
own them. They're just traveling with me. Right, So, uh,
we actually need to go. We our card will be leaving, but if
you need to help with one or two last items, they're free to help
you. Yeah. No, no, yeah, I'll get them to left
that the last box there is all right? Can you let them know that
we're leaving. Actually, I'll just tell them, uh an, I gesture
to the twins and I point to the card. Let me say, you
know, do that box. But then we have to go. They look
at you, and they look up at the guy in the wagon, and
they look back at you and they kind of look quizzical. Or unless you
want to stay, I mean that's totally fine. But you know, they
pick up the box and they start bringing it over to you. No no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, where do
you want this box in there? He all right, so put it in
there. They look up at the wagon and they look back at you,
and he points at an area down there, sarkash gauge, bortgage. I
don't know, what a workful. Please put the box down here, and
they kind of lifted up and then they look back at you, cock their
heads a little, yeah, you two, let's go. Well, thanks,
and then tarn in turin in terrain. I don't know. Is that
thank you? I don't know. I think so it's either thank you or
I'm going to get to your mother, And I don't know which one it
is. Oh well, best not say the second, dangerious, you know,
right, well, I think it's thank you. Otherwise they'd be having
a very different reaction to what you just said. Right, I have I
have a good day, okay, okay. Then he jumps down out of
the back. As you and the twins head over to the thing, he
moves around to the front of his cart, jumps up. You see him
stretch a couple of times, and then he says, let's it's the back
of the reins, and the horse and his car begin to move off.
Where is he going? Which direction? The only direction is one road that
leads off in the direction of Bolga. It likely splits at some point,
but right now there's only one way. I do have a moment of hesitation,
but it both already paid for the gold, and I do think it
is safer for everyone if we if we if we go our own way,
So all right, it's proper fine, And then I continue walking over.
They were they were helping this, this old man move his his boxes for
free. Yes, very very kind, very kind. You're your car is
being brought over by the man. You see him sitting at the top of
the car. He's got the reins, the horse has saddled, and ready
you've got a few sacks of oats and a little thing whatever the thing is
called, that goes on the front of a horse to give them these sets
it up and he brings it around in front of you, and he looks
down at you and says, if she returns, is you're traveling with that
to Vacci there? Yes, he wouldn't happen to be heading up into the
cliffs cliffs. Yes, we're headed to Bellona before we move on to the
Bame. Oh you're going to Bame. Yes, my aunt lives there.
Right, very well, your aunt, mm hmm, very well. Yeah,
I wondered, why why do you ask? Oh? Most of the
baxing we're here quite often heading up into the colossal peaks, you know,
the night of dreams. I'm very unfamiliar. Do continue? What is that?
Oh? That's a plan, Oh ex clan, they live in the
Colossial Peak mountains. Oh, usually gather around this time of year. Right,
I think I didn't know that. Perhaps our friend would like to go.
She never asks for anything. Yes, I was curious about it.
It's rather strange and ruthless tradition. I'd say a little savage for my tay.
Yeah, I don't know what the tradition is. Oh, right,
does she? But does she know? I'm sure she does, But you
know, I don't want to be rude and just outright ask her. Maybe
there's a reason she hasn't brought it up. Yes, right, anyway,
what is it? What? Well, what is this? You can't just
peak someone's curiosity like that and then not tell me what it is. What
is this ruthless tradition? Oh? From what I understand, they find as
many sentience as they can and they hunt them and eat them. I'm sorry,
Yes, under the moonlight. Well, I've heard of a lot of
moonlight rituals, but hunting people and eating them, that's that's a new one.
Yeahsh I'd say that is that's a you know, whatever happened to dake
dancing naked under the full moon? But you know that's a bit better than
than eating people. Yes, rather that you think she's Do you think she's
actually secretly taking us to the cliffs to eat us? Oh? That's what
I was concerned for, and so why I was asking her. I thought
that's where you were going. She was bringing you up there and then they
were going to you know, set you off and run you down. Listen,
we've given you all the gold, for the for the for the card,
but thank you, young man. I will keep my where are the
clips in case she know, you know, wants to change direction. There
are several roads that start leading up to the north. Going up there,
you'll see signs for somewhere called clip Side. Okay, don't go to clip
Side. Thank you, young man. You may have just saved my life.
Yes, perhaps, yes? And can I shake your hand? Yes,
certainly. And do you understand everything that I have here? These are,
this is, this is all this horse hill, all her stripes stripes.
Yes, but she doesn't have any stripes. No, she doesn't.
So why does she have the name of stripes? Oh? Well, my
brother names several of them. My brother has lots of horses, you understand,
so you'll you'll meet him at the other He has several sons. When
they were younger, they would paint the horses often come back to me with
a different, strange and odd name, stripes and spots and triangle things like
that. Okay, well clean them and send them back. So these oats
are for stripes, yes, yes. Don't overfeed her though, or I'll
show you'll get fat and it's bad for their heart, right, okay,
don't So how much do we feed her? Then? Well, you're only
going to be there two days, and that is if you are indeed going
to Bologna. Of course, if you don't arrive within two days, three
days, then we've been murdered, and you know what has happened to us?
Murdered or you've stolen my wares and we will We're not going to do
that. Don't worry about the plenty of tobaccy hunting plans that we can hire
to find you as well. Oh wonderful. Do you think you'll be able
to hire them in time to save our lives if they are, you know,
hunting us down and the moonlight per absolutely not know. For all I
know you'll get caught by an ogre or cyclops or something on the road and
I'll bite off your head. Right, So that brings me to my next
question, how dangerous is this trail? Yeah, you're less worried about ogres.
I'd be more concerned about bandits and the sun. That is what's concerning
me. So so what what is the protocol or the safety measures or look,
okay, right, you can of course hire the stagecoach. Stage coach
comes with a fellow that keep you as safe as you possibly can, usually
quite trained ex military types, and the thought we're all right, that's what
the that's what the tobacci is for. But which is why we might die.
But I'm sure we'll be fine. Oh right, you hired help,
is it? Yes? So perhaps perhaps it was a rule to get us.
Oh yes, but she's fierce, mming fast. You know, that's
what I was thinking. You know, if a giant does get us or
abandoned, you know, should just be like in and around before they have
any time to do anything. Well, I don't see keepy hello, then
yeah, I don't see keepy. I might if it doesn't come back in
a few minutes, I might have to go to another gate. That's all
right. I'm sure we'll find him. Who's small and fierce, you,
my sweet ah plade for hire, very fierce, very fierce. Yes,
you go. Who's who's going to be taken around here? Oh? I
can do that? Hops down and hands you them? Got it all right?
Thank you? If you could move up a little a little further along
the road, though, absolutely it was. It was a very nice talking
to you, by the way. I'm iris An Iris, Yes, very
good. Okay, Yes, you'll be looking for my my my brother rather
s looking to me a little older if you grays in the hair. His
name is v V. Yes, make sure you get the horses to him
within two three days, and otherwise there will be an exponential fee on top
of it. Right to pay the other end, No problem, thank you
very very much. He's in blood. You can move a thank you great.
Bye bye. It's perhaps time that we are. We get on the
cart and go. Does anyone need anything else? Well, I might let
me take one more check at this gate. But just what I'm thinking,
you send him out right to not be seen. We can just go along
the road a little ways and then you can call for him. Right,
okay, but only a little ways, only a little ways. I promise
we won't leave without keeping but we should. We should move forward, just
allud, just ten minutes out and maybe we'll see him. Okay, Well,
one more look at the gate. Okay, I'll just move the car
forward and out of the way. So I'm going to begin moving away.
You kind of move up along. There's a like a the stables runs a
decent way along the road, but as you move down you can't kind of
trundling. The horse seems to be pretty strong. You kind of take a
moment to get used to it. Really, just this might have been a
little while since you've had a pretty much a single man can't with a very
little room. As you begin to move down the thing, Piro moves away
from you. Guys, you can kind of hear in the background of fellow
talking to his wife. Oh, yes, they're going to be sold with
the backs of flavor. Hear that, and to me thinks we're going to
be eaten by the backs. You won't think twice Hira, roll me a
no keeping. Oh no, however you do anything like clicks, whistles or
anything like that. Yeah, when I'm looking for them. While you're doing
some of those clicks and whistles and things, a robin lands on your shoulder,
begins jumping around, and it flies around you and then flies up into
the sky again. You do a couple more clicks and whistles, and it
lands on your shoulder against if kind of trained but doesn't want to do it.
Very odd to see a trained robin. Altho there you would notice anything
special about this run. It's the weirdest thing to see a trained robin responding
to clicks and whistles like you might find from other people who train birds.
It's for sure you're going to keep creaking and whistling. Yeah, the robin
keeps landing. Eventually you notice that there is a little note on the leg
of the robin. Oh for me, It keeps trying to fly away from
you. What Oh, keep clicking and whistling and landing on your shoulder and
flying away a couple of times on your head back. I mean, I've
not found keeping, so I'm going to walk back to the cart. He
thinks we're going to be murdered brutally. Arrows wandering over keep found. Sure,
Buns flying around, Buns flies lines down for you sooner, flying around
you like crazy, excitedly. I'm happy to see you. Two buns pecking
at your hat. Oh, yes, you like it. Perches on your
hat and kind of looks upside down at you in that bird way looking and
you can see that there's a little note to just gonna rub the top of
his head there. Oh, hello, it's so nice to see you.
I see you have something for me. I'm just gonna let I do know
this bird. He's a sweetheart. I'm just gonna can you can you can
you just untie that for me? Here? He's on here and I can't
We would have we just got it? Oh, there we go, thank
you, and then I'll open the note, of course, a tiny little
note like you getting a fortune cookie. It just says, don't go to
the guild. Let me know where you are. I think that's what I
wrote down. Don't go He says, don't go to the guild. Let
me know where you are. What guild. Don't go to the guild.
Does that mean don't go to Bologna at all? Or does she mean specifically
don't go to the guild in just the guild, not the city, but
what guild. I'm not really at liberty to say. Oh. I just
think it's probably not the less information, you know, the better, in
case you you know, oh sure, hi, Brad, what I know
the western side of Bologna, if there might be any kind of buildings or
you know, things we could maybe the stables are right outside the western side,
based to suggest that we could be found Blona. Yeah, I'm familiar
with it. I'm wondering. Yeah, you know it like the back of
your hand. I think you can kind of pick and cheers if you want
to invent something you can sure? Yeah, so, uh, I mean,
shouldn't somewhere guilt they're talking about. But maybe maybe we shouldn't go into
the city at all. Can this bird? Can the bird's gonna deliver up?
He's like, keepy, Yes, he's fantastic. Carto pots. I
can probably write a response on the back of this and send it back she.
You know, it does look like she says, don't go to the
guile. Could could that be what it says the gyle? Yeah, no,
there's It does say guild. Right, I'm not that's guilt guild.
I don't. I don't know anywhere called the guyle anyway. Okay, all
right, so let me know where you are. That implies we should just
stay here and tell her we're here. Well, I mean we could,
but we get a refund on the cart well maybe in a small bit of
paper where you're going to arrive or going to. Maybe they couldn't just fit
all the rest of it in, right, Okay, So why don't I
just do you want to still go to Bologna and we'll just tell we're arriving
at the West gate Way. It is the West Gate right to you it
would be the West Gate. Okay, Well, I'll just tell her we'll
be at the West gate in two days. Yes, that sounds great.
Maybe a little outside the gate there's a there's a stand that sells apples,
and well, we have to return the cart. We can't just not return
the car to his brother, which is stand Brad? Is it? Sorry?
The stage coach thing, there's like, yeah, there's stables on each
of the gates. It's okay, yeah, okay, I'll say, oh,
there's not a lot of room. This a piece of paper, Uh,
Western West, I have it, say, Westgate stables two days and
get it the day. It's not gonna take buns a full day to fly
back there. It'll take them a couple of hours. Yeah, a birdle
fly the distance in, you know, five hours be home by dinner,
won't you buns? Okay? Okay, I mean you could pray, Okay,
what's the what is the date today? Does anyone know? I haven't
known what it was either. All right, that's that's fine. I'll just
put that. That's that's it. I've already put a heart in. There's
no there's no more room, but the day of the week abbreviated. No.
Then they're smart, you know, I mean they'll they'll figure it.
They'll figure it out all right, and so I'll just roll it up and
try to do you think you could help me tie it back on? I
just can't see days. Yes, Westgate Stables. Two days and there's a
hot don't forget the heart. I put a little hot okay, all right,
okay, and then I reply back and then I, oh, in
my bag, I still have I still have mealworms. So I will give,
I will give. I will give Buns a little treat, and I'll
say thank you, and then help him on his way, go back to
go back to mommy. Buns flies around you a few times and then heads
off in the direction of Alona. While you're watching him, you see a
much larger bird fly down near where Buns is and then swoops past Buns,
ignoring Buns, and head straight for you as keep you returns. Oh,
perfect timing, I mean worried the keep we go if he has a little
blood around, just a little, he usually does dinner. At least he
didn't go for buns, okay, And shall we get cracking folks. The
twins are already on the back of the cart, their legs kind of sitting
over the edge. There's enough room easily to fit two more people on there.
It might be a little snug when you're and if you're laying down,
But to sit, it's quite easy to sit. It's only a small,
little open top rubbish looking thing, to be honest, barely holding together two
wheels. I don't mind taking the first shift at the reins. If you
if you'd like to rest, you can say up yes, but would you
like to do you think it's better if you're inside or would you like to
join? It is probably best if you stay hidden. Huh oh oh,
well there's there's there's no cover here. I mean I could lay down,
but it might be kind of bumpy. Well, I mean with the car
doesn't have a cover in it. I think it's open. The cart is
an open card. Oh yeah, the car, it's such a plank of
wood. Right, okay, well that's perfect. Well yeah, someone can
say with me or you can all relax in the back. That's totally fine.
I'll get us on the way. I'm looking at EO like set up.
Yeah, also for just you go to space in the back if you
need to. I do I always need space. Oh okay, right then
so ippo and I upfront. Great, and I'll get up front, but
I will fumble into my bag for a second once Ipo is sitting down beside
me. I uh, I'm sorry that I couldn't help you with the cost
of the cock. But here I got you something in the city. It's
not a lot, but it's it made made me think of you, and
I think you'll enjoy it. Ah, I'm gonna immediately start going on the
cart and just like all right, off we go. It's wrapped like very
carefully, but with not great stuff like probably uh yeah, thread and probably
the kind of like sack that they put oats in. So it's not necessarily
the greatest, but it is. It is beard oil with like a scent
from our tropical jungle, make you feel more at home. But yeah,
that's what it is. M hmmm. That I will ride in silence.
The can't start trundling off along the Great Road as they call it with these
five people in it keep you kind of flying around above you, guys,
and Daydon kind of begins to disappear behind you and you move along. For
the majority of this road, there's kind of a coastal view, like a
cliff edge. You can kind of see the ocean and on the other side
as a plains that in the distance there are some hills and very far distance
some mountains, pretty open expanse and yeah, I think it looks like the
sky rim cart. That's where Skyrim begins over to Blona's midtown. The next
morning, after Aura and Ellie awaken in the the Reginald's kind of safe house
that he has. The previous night, you guys had eaten some food and
come up with kind of a vague plan. You had sent a message to
worston in that you wanted to meet and exchange information, both of you,
Aura, Ellie and Reginald. I think you can assume that you've eaten some
food and rested and at maybe an hour of sleep, two hours of sleep,
I don't know whatever, you want to have a full night to sleep.
The next morning, you awaken or to the sound of buns fluttering around
in the room, probably awake from a deep slumberd the familiar sound of his
wings because he wakes me up a lot on the farm too, but buns
and I just instinctively start putting my hands up in the air so that he
can land on my finger. Yeah, nothing lands on your finger, and
as you kind of your eyes adjust and you will wake up. You see
that it's just a common pigeon. There's an open window in this house,
and pigeons and things have all come in overnight. We've really got to fix
that window. And I start to get up. We put some like like
a like a something over it, like a blanket or some paper. I
grab the blanket that is on Aura and I over the window. It's cold,
so now I need the blank I know you need to put a blanket
over and putting a blanket over it. And I start like clicking at the
pigeon to see if I can get it to like respond to me. Absolutely
not the city pigeon. Okay, we have a wild pigeon situation. Just
throw crumbs, you know outside, it'll go outside, eat the bread crumbs.
I see the old ladies doing it out, you know, on the
bench. I grab like a roll, an old roll from the counter and
start picking pieces off and like doing a bread crumb trail to the door.
And I opened the door. Yeah, you open the door, and Reginald
is stumbling in. He's got a loaf of bread or like what looks like
a Baguett type thing and a scroll in his other hand, and as you
open it, he all right, and here take this. Okay, there's
a pigeon. What there's a pigeon in the house and we're trying to get
it out. She has a pigeon problem. Right, I didn't throw a
dagger through the window, So I mean, I think it's all collectively our
just walk in here. What if it was a trap, I could I
just want a pigeon. The robin. Oh, that's I look up at
it. It's a pigeon, right, Yeah, that's a pigeon. That's
not a robin. They're very different birds. Rabbins have a red chest.
That's a pigeon. It's more pale. And you see it as like the
spots on the back right and everywhere. Yes, well, here he hands
you the scroll. Look, okay, what is it? Wants to meet?
He wrote back. I run over to the table and I unroll it
on the table. It'll be a little later on, so we should prepare
in the time. It's good news. What does it say on? Is
it in the language? That? Yeah? Is an inquisition language? What
have I have I learned how to speak it yet? No? You know,
maybe like one or two words you can you can pick out house,
you can pick out you can pick out the word bo. You can pick
out the word kalougie. It's in common. And he points over it and
says, oh right. He says, we checked the safe house, but
you're not there. We presume you're in one of the other ones. How
about we meet. I'll bring Bow and Kaloogi and the slight hitch. Though
what well they want to meet at your Assassin's Guild of all the places.
Yes, I would hesitate to suggest that perhaps that's well. Listen, we
don't have the man power, right, I'm not putting the guild at risk.
And here's the thing, and I look at Aura. Za's the one
that gave me a warning that they were going to be coming after me.
That's why I set out to find you after I hit out for a week,
because I knew maybe I could get him off my trail. So he
warned me. But he also warned me that if we go back to the
Assassin's Guild, if they have to turn us in, h he's gonna do
it. I mean he has to do it. Are you Inquisition assholes know
about the guild, so they could easily just take it down right. I
would know we're not going to meet there because I don't want to have the
Assassin's turn against us too. Yes, and my thoughts precisely sort of why
would they come out? Why would they do that? I thought he was
like good dad or something. Well, Weston is a little untrusting. I
would imagine that he's concerned that either you've taken me hostage, or perhaps you've
used whatever mind controlled that was potentially used on you to control me to have
meat defect as well. A little jumpy in the Inquisition lately makes sense to
me. If he meets us at the Assassin's Guild, he can, you
know, grease a few palms for some backup. Should all three of us
suddenly turn on him, we could probably overwhelm him. I would I agree,
I would rather not meet there. Eat. Then I look at Ellie.
Why would Zach do that? I thought, I thought, you two
my dad. He killed my father. He's not my father. The guild
comes first, and if you have the Inquisition coming down on you, no
matter what establishment you are, you're probably you know you're outnumbered, you know
there's nothing you can do, and you know that people will die regardless,
So you have to pick and choose what's best for the guild. I've already
been there, I've already had to make those decisions. I don't blame him,
so I think it's best we avoid it, so we don't put anyone
else at risk, including ourselves. You see like gears turning in Oor's head,
just because it's confusing to her that to have allegiance to something like the
Guild and for them to just turn so easily on you don't register. So
I don't say anything, but I just I look at her and my face
kind of softens in like a sympathetic way. Okay, No, it sucks,
and I know that you think we should trust him, and I do.
But like I said, he warned me. But that's all he could
do. That's literally all he could do, so otherwise they're gonna kill everyone
in the guild. I mean, I could get that. I just think
he could have done more for you. I'm not worried about it. That's
more than enough. I didn't expect him to do that, honestly. Okay,
where could we meet or would Worston meet? That's not the guild.
Well, I think we really only have time for one more exchange. So
if we use that to our advantage, we should be able to set the
terms. I suppose we can pick horses arm we tell him somewhere, is
there another safe house, or we meet him here and then we go to
another safe house that has fully intact windows. Yeah, well this is my
safe house, not the inquisition's safe house. Oh for the other slave houses,
I'm sure he's got eyes on them. Not too many shreds around though,
So it's really the only hope we have. There are several prop boxes
that I can leave a message in. Of course, if I happen to
go to one that's being watched, they'll have me. But hmm, but
if we meet publicly somewhere and we wear disguises or bar, suppose we could
meet it at tavern a bar would work. For sure, Western won't like
it. But again, we get to sip terms. You sure, once
we get to speaking, he'll come around. We just have to explain to
him that we're all working together to try and solve this figure it out.
I'm trying to think if I know a bar that has like an outdoor sitting
area or something, or do all of them kind of have that? Not?
Really no it would probably be one of the more fine establishments that have
decent outdoor areas, outdoor areas that want to get trashed. So there are
some decent high town taverns that you could potentially meet at. Is there one
with lots of windows? Let's roll the dice to find out. Roll me,
Oh, you roll me a dice. See, I will roll the
dice. You know of a perfect tavern, I will roll the dice to
determine what it's called. There's the wild Hand not ideal on a seven.
I think your best that there is a relatively high end in more than a
more than a tavern that does sell food and more of like a restaurant feel
than a classic everyone meeting for a mead tavern. But it does have an
outside area that's quite open that sits on the edge of one of the squares
like a market square. Again, it's a fine area of town. Usually
kind of higher class individuals will go there, but it's probably your best open
area meeting place outside. Okay, the wild Hand? M okay, Reginald.
And I'm like, we can meet at the wild Hand. And whether
you sit outside or inside, just sit next to a window. I'm surprise
did you eat is the wild hand? I've never eaten there. Oh,
I don't really what is the wild hand? Luxuries? I mean it's a
little higher higher up there on the food chain. M We can I suppose
we could arrange for that, you think because it's open plan. It's open
plan and if you to me, I can set up a sniping point.
M hm, as long as you sit near a window, if you go
inside. Wouldn't it be better if we're just honest and like all showed up
together to talk. It could be a trap should should it go wrong?
Please, I don't want any harm to come to Worston or any of the
inquisition that might accompany him. Okay, then I won't kill him. Ability
to kill though, yes, don't no permanent damage removing you know, poison
that put you to sleep forever. We need we need him to trust us
if we got no bid. They don't know that you have me, right,
yes, and we don't know if it's going to be West and that
even shows up, maybe someone West, but they don't know you have me
and you two meet them, well, then it's no big deal that I'm
not there. I actually think a little insurance isn't a bad idea. I
know roughly how the inquisition works, depending on who's in charge. If it's
not worse, and then it could be anybody. Okay, you would know
best. I I don't know. They aren't good people. You might wanna.
You might trust this guy, but I don't. At least the guild
would tell me if they're gonna have to turn me in or kill me,
these guys, they'll just do it. I'll turn on you. I don't
trust him. Can we ask him to bring Bo and Kalougi? Yes,
that seems to be the plan. Okay, right, so the wild Do
you have extra clothes? M a few myself or few? Give me some
of them? Made me a London a little better. In case he's got
people up on the roofs again, I have much by way of slighter feminine.
Start looking through his belongings, like his if he has like closets and
stuff, he does, but there's nothing in them. This is like a
again. It's not his home. It's like a safe house that he has
with like a. He's only brought his go bag, which does have a
change of clothes, that is, the clothes that he was wearing when we
probably first saw him the more inquisition looking robes and outfit he's in kind of
just like a basic tunic and some run down trousers and worn boots at the
moment, kind of looking like any other commoner, anything that has like the
insignia of the Inquisition on it. Oh yeah, he's got full like inquisition
robes, which is the I'm gonna take one and start cutting off the inquisition
lego. What are you doing? Well? I need this? Well he
turns around, rummages through another bag and pulls out a fist full of coins
and slams them on the table. Why don't you purchase something? I need
the insignia. I don't need money, I don't need new clothing. But
well there's my robe, cut half of it off. Now what are you
going to do? Oh? Pay, you can have it remade. I
even know a tailor in town. You can have it remaid. He prepared
my outfit plenty of times. Well, yes, but what if I need
it day? Okay, No, No, it's you. I mean what
you will right? Okay? We can burn the rest and be like,
well you just don't have it. You're in your safe house. And I
look at then I look at myself, like it wasn't that safe. But
Worston doesn't want to meet until the evening. We've got all day. You
could go purchase some things if we need to prepare. But do we need
to prepare? Like, and I look down at my clothes, Is it's
not enough for the wild Hand? Well, you're covered in blood and burn
marks. That's true, you might want to like clean clean up. Just
I wouldn't walk And maybe some tavern you can get away with that, but
not the wild Hand premises can you bring And I point to my sword?
Can I can I bring that? Well? If yes, you'll have to
clean that as well. Okay, something really wouldn't It's a frequent of high
end types, but Tony knights and things quite often eat there. So I
suppose if you dress a little better, Well, how do I know if
I go out and get it, get a new robe, that Bob's not
going to show up again or someone else. Oh, I don't think Bob's
going to be walking for a little while. He's strong, but I think
he's probably still going to be out of the counter for a little while longer.
If we make a list, I'll go get stuff if we need it.
Yes, well, perhaps through supplies, some food, a couple of
bags, a change of clothes, maybe some items that we might need on
the road. Should we have to run, we might make a quick dash
out of town. If things go terribly wrong. Of course, if things
go right, then we'll be working with Worston and well, then we can
get to planning the next stage or waiting for your comrade to arrive, which
I'm still not sure how long we're going to be waiting for that if we
have the time for it. Okay, should we all go or should I
just go? Or well, I'm going to write a response to worst and
so perhaps you two can go and purchase your items. I don't need to
approaches anything very well. Then do you know the way to the market,
Yeah, I'll find it. I'm writing a list of everything that Reginald just
mentioned. Why don't we have Reginald go get it. You know you're wanted,
right, they know what you look like, and you put one of
their people. I'm assuming like take care of now. I guess you are
pretty wanted. I guess we're all wanted. I can be fast, I
mean, and I look over at Reginald. I'm a little bigger than him,
and I can not that you can't handle yourself. Reginald, Is there
any clothes that would fit Ura in here in the bag? No? I
mean like technically you could put them on that it would look it's just Reginald's
all the set of clothes. Like, is there like a shirt and stuff?
There's like a yeah, it's a little finer of a shirt. It's
an old, smelly thing that he was wearing all day that day. Listen,
I don't think we should risk going back out. Well, this hasn't
got a badge on it anymore. So he throws you the inquisition rope looks
like a plane rope now, I know, but there's a giant tear in
it. Well, I mean, I guess I can stitch it you up
and down in the outfit that you've been wearing for weeks. I look at
the blanket on the window and I pull that down. Okay, Now pigeons
are going to get in and you'll just look you look like a backupond the
homeless. Just orke that into a cape. Make that into a cape.
You can keep it in front of you, like, just keep it closed.
Okay, you wait that all day? You have a selling kit,
right, Yes, I suppose we can. My mom taught me how to
to fix things, like we we had to make do with the fabric that
we had, and we had to fix a lot of stuff. So I
sit down and I start tearing things off of the blanket and I have I
have disguised the ability. Can I use it? Yeah? But you will
need items for it? Really? Oh yeah, Its like you'd need objects
to put together a convincing disguise depending on where you are. It'll offer at
least one signature element of deception a uniform in Sydney our style of dress.
But can I use it for Aura because I'm not covered in blood or anything
like she's the one covered in blood. Yeah, I don't see why you
wouldn't be able to. Again, I feel like you still need a lot
of items, but you can make use. I feel like I would want
to make a cape with a hood sort of thing that she can like wrap
around her and then clean off whatever we can of her clothing. Yeah.
I think like if she has leather pants, just wash them off. Makes
sense? Yeah. I think the two of you get to work in you
start kind of fashioning some items that might help or get about town without drawing
too much attention to herself. Reginald writes a response letter and then heads out
to one of the drop boxes to go and drop it off. And that's
what we're going to go to a break. We will return in a few
minutes. Thank you so much for watching, and we'll see you in a
few A little time after we last saw you, guys, it's raining now,
I think heading out on the road, you are now kind of out
in this kind of open grasslands. I think it's probably been maybe about an
hour. You've gotten used to how the horse responds to you sooner, Okay,
don't want you to roll me at dice? Would you like me to?
Yes? Please? Right? Yeah? Eighteen Yeah, going well.
Unicorn, Pegasus and all good stripes is just responding well to you. Just
seems to be perfectly fine with pulling the cart along the road is has given
away from stone to kind of a dirt path that is well maintained. It
seems like there was probably work done here at some point to allow the road
to remain clear, but for the most part it's just a large and obvious
roadway that moves along this coast. Again in the to your right, and
to the south there is pretty much just an open and expansive sea. To
the north. To your left there is just realized Tuesdays on the other camera,
just there for a second. Oh is that what it was? Okay,
you need to play musical chairs again. Okay, all right, let
me think about it. So Zotis and I are fine. I mean,
but when I are fine and then we need oh yeah, this is it?
So then yeah yeah, and then yeah yeah. To your other side,
to your left, there is this an open, expansive grassway. Behind
you, there is a The city of Dayton is kind of disappearing, and
maybe about ten minutes ago, the skies opened a little bit and a light
rain began to fall. It's it's kind of chilly. You're coming up now
into very very late autumn early winter. As the the rain falls, it's
pretty cold. There's a decent chill to the air anyway, because you're near
the coastline and kind of relatively elevated. Even though the ground is kind of
that you can feel that there's a strange kind of decline. It feels like
where Dayton might be a little uphill, alone's a little more inland and lower
down towards sea level, but there's still a chill to the air, a
relative call. The rain is cold, and the rain is it doesn't seem
like it's a shower. It feels like one of those this is going to
last for a while. As you look up, the sky is clear.
It's still daytime, but there is some clouds moving in and ahead of you
it looks a little darker than it did behind you, like you're moving into
the rain. Are you guys doing on this cart? Are you still in
the same positions? Everyone doing the same things. I think I'm still in
the back and I have keepy under one arm of my cloak kind of tucked
in there, making a tent, and have my hood pulled pretty tight,
and just sort of keeping an eye around for bandits and you know whatever else.
Obviously not conversing with my companions because I kind of can't, but yeah,
keeping an eye out. They're sitting the twins are sitting off the back
of the cart with their legs kind of hanging off the back. Once or
twice you've hiten bumps in the road and one of them has almost fallen off
the back, but they kind of giggle. They seem to have extremely good
balance. Every now and then. You might have seen it on the ship
or here they are. They seem to have really good balance. I think
you can tell that they're quite dexterous. They're almost like little acrobats without actually
doing flips and things. They have that kind of sense about them. Their
bodies are in really good shape, and they seem to be quite strong,
but it's more in that kind of dextrous way. So every now and then
they bump up and they will almost fall off, and then they immediately right
themselves with a strength of core and they giggle. But they've engaged in conversation
a couple of times, but both of them always seem to be relatively peaceful
and quiet. They're quite happy and content to just sit and look out.
Every now and then they'll point at a bird or a rabbit will run past,
the same things that you might do. But for the most part they
sit in a lot of silence. By robe, I was a little excited
for about half a day. Yeah, now I feel this is pretty foreboding,
right, Well, yeah, yep, I'm looking forward to seeing them
again. But I am I am, I am aware that it's heavy.
Oh, look at that. Are you all right? Do you need another?
Do you need a hat? Would you like my hat? No?
No? No, sorry you I can't you. I can't start. Sorry,
I can't hear you over the rain. What was that you? I
can't start thinking about. No, what I swear such as I was supposed
to point in the other way. I I think so too. I don't
know what that means. Maybe magic made it point the other way, and
now that magic's gone, it's just well, no, we're not used thinking
about it too much to any good. Well, I don't know. I
don't know who would know, or what it could possibly mean, to be
honest, it is strange, however, Yes, because you know what I
do. I do recall. I do recall looking at it in the autumn.
I don't think. I don't think we're remembering wrong. I do think
it used to point the other way. Yeah, well I hadn't seen it,
but about it, I'm sure it said point in the other ring.
Well, I think you can only see it from the southern hemisphere, right,
so we could see it on dust fail, but only briefly in the
autumn. But it did were pointing the other way? Am I am?
I misunderstanding the way that it would look from the southern would it be the
other way around? I don't actually know how that works. That's make my
head sort thinking about it. So who is I don't know, maybe very
strange. Hm hm, So I am would you do? What do you
think when we get sorry again, when when we get there? Right?
What what was next? Well, I'm I'm assuming we approach the fortress and
then I get struck by lightning. I I don't know, torn into whatever
that that that drawing means. I don't know. I'm I'm doing. I'm
I know that is when you know that? Well? Hm, here,
I know, I know it was very hot coming back here. You will,
what's it? M hmm? How are you doing back there? Cairo
Bots, Yeah, it's pretty She's looking at a different landscape than we are
are, all right, it's that's pretty gloomy. I just didn't want to,
you know, I know we have a lot ahead of us, all
right. I'm just trying to keep an eye out. You know. He
did mention the bandits were a problem. That's true, but I doubt there.
I bet they're seeing that it's raining and and no, you don't think
they're probably you crease chances you can do it? Oh, there we go.
Do you think it would increase chances? I can barely see. It's
probably all right. You keep an eye out. I think she's a little
bit more nervous than I am. It's well, I'm sorry. I was
just trying to be heard over the rain. I didn't expect you to be
able to he right. Sorry, have you heard everything? Oh? I
mean I have haven't been paying attention, but I suppose I could have.
Oh right, Sorry, I didn't think you were talking to me, so
I just was kinda's all right, it's talking about stars. Nothing really that
important, right? Well? Ah, two days huh yeah, less every
second? Think that. I like that. I mean, suppose we're gonna
need to sleep on this thing. Maybe maybe I should try m h yes,
keep it doesn't seem to be having any trouble. Oh that's adorable.
Yeah, maybe somewhere along the way stopping. Yeah, well, I was
hoping we could just take shifts and drive on through, but I guess wise
we did say two days. Okay, Well, we could make for good
time and if you'd like to rest, we could create it. And I
don't mind staying up and then tired you and I drive and she keeps an
eye out. I can I'm alright to drive. Oh I'm all eat for
the company. Oh all right, Well damn, I'll just try to get
some sleep here he can rest. Mm hmm. I feel you. No,
you you are. I don't want you to to to worry about that.
Kah that drawined. Oh you know, I'm not worry. Isn't really
the word? Well, are you worried? I'll bet were you worried when
I was gone? Hm? You know, yeah, I was on my
own for a long time and then then you showed up and then you just
disappeared? And h was what? Shure? Well, bed that wasn't I
wasn't fishing just now. I had a point although that it's nice to know.
The point is I that was a very dangerous time, and I came
back just fine. So this is nothing I thought of. God will be
all right. It's just it's just a warning and I'll reach over and i'll
pat his his leg, just a warning, and we know ahead of time,
so it's all right, We'll be all right, thank you, And
I look ahead and fall silent. Yeah, you guys trundled along on this
carriage for some time. Several hours pass, maybe a few more words spoken.
The twins settle down as well, kind of lay down. Eventually,
Cairo and the twins are all kind of laying in the back of this cart.
It's not comfortable at all, but they've got packs and things. The
rain falling makes it less comfortable. They pull like shirts or a cloak out
and over themselves. As the two of you kind of also damp with rain.
You look out ahead of you, and eventually the coastline gives way to
kind of an open expanse of land. As you start to head slightly more
north. It heads away from the the sort of peninsula. Almost where the
road heads off, there is a forest known as the South Forest now kind
of beginning to fill the southern eye line, and then again the just a
big open expanse of land, mostly untamed grasslands and hills between Daydon and Bellona.
Sooner you're are you feeling tired or anything? Probably I used to not
need to sleep, so I probably just exist in a tired state now levels
of tired. And what about Hippo, Hey, I think I'm doing a
day for me. Both of you roll me dies eleven for me, and
then eighteen there is a thud. Oh no, you look down and in
the front of the carriage there is an arrow sticking out. Oh yeah,
to realize all of a sudden that there are two or three more arrows whistling
down. One of them hits the dirt in front of the horse. The
horse kind of carries on moving as if it didn't really affect it too much,
but it does affect the the speed As the horse kind of picks up
a little. The other arrow lands just ahead of Cairo's sleeping head. As
she wakes up, I'm assuming from a dun As an arrow hits the carriage,
you see the twins jump up immediately alert both of them kind of scrambling.
One grabs her staff looking outwards, and the other one kind of looking
around for his staff, realizes that he can't find it and starts picking things
up wildly. What do you all do? Yep, sorry, I'll stop
the card so we're not moving forward anymore. All Cairo, they're they're here.
Grab ippost rifle please yea, pass it forward? Yeah, I've got
how many? Uh? Everyone rolled me some dice? Oh boy, yeah,
three, three, six, and then yes, oh right, I'd
like to use an ability as well too. Okay, I'd like to use
a nobility, but I don't know how close are they are. I can't
see them. I suppose you can't see anyone here at all. Now you're
just seeing arrows and hearing arrows whistling. Okay, well, I'm still going
to use an ability anyway, which is cutting words. If a nearby NBC
is about to attack someone, you may shout and disrupt the attack. You
must say you're using this ability as soon as you're declaring the attack, which
we're doing, and they make their attack with a minus five to their role.
But however, if I am successful, I am essentially provoking them to
attack me. No one is being hit, so you're there is an attack
coming, right, yeah, kind of when when it's it's like when an
arrow is about to actually hit someone, I think when you do it,
right, Oh, I just thought it gave minus five to their attack role.
Okay, it will do if yeah, if you yeah, but right
now there isn't an arrow to hear anyone, so it doesn't know, so
I don't need to do it then. Okay. The role was to just
see if you could see them over past that rafel forward and now I'm going
to say sooner, maybe we should actually go go fast, all right,
if as long as you're already yeah, and then I'll just go absolutely.
I trust her. I've got my boat, right, yeah, roll for
me here again? Okay, yeah, thirteen thirteen. Yeah, you start
galloping along. There is a sudden sound of like snarling wolf snarls maybe as
you suddenly see breaking from the forest line, what looks like these kind of
horribly large, thick wolf creatures, almost like a wolf mixed with a b
or comes rushing out. You see one, two, three, four,
five, six of them suddenly burst out, and on the backs of them
you can see a few armored goblins. They've got a little short bows firing
arrows. I see this, see three, six, and then six of
them, three on each side. How many have goblins? That's all I'm
doing. I'm driving the car and I'm shouting out to where they are if
I see them, so that they know where they are. Goblins on on
all of them, on all of them, yea. Each one has their
own mounting riding like like weird pig bore things. Oh, how dare you?
I didn't want to say the word pig or. They're not really They
have like the body of a boar at the head of a wolf, and
it's not even quite a walk, but it's almost like a walk but smaller.
I'm gonna shout mm hm epo, you take right, I'll take left.
Okay, I'm gonna teake him at the at the leg of the lead
border wolf thing they're called war goes one of those, and I'm going to
use my my up the dead ability and the take and focusmith. Since is
automatically scoring a triumph disables are targeted limbs. I'm gonna shoot its leg and
hopefully trip it up and cause a Okay, oh yeah, it just it
just does it with an ability. Yeah, you don't need it wrong,
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, exceed. So there's a very loud
gun shot right next to you. So you as this this rifle goes off,
there's like a horrific kind of bang, a stench of gunpowder, and
you see the the head of these goblins that are chasing after you. He's
knocking an arrow into a pretty decent looking short bow. When the front of
this wargor kind of just buckles in on itself, flips the goblin off of
its bank. You see the goblin kind of land roll forward a few times
as the aw thing rolls over as well. The others moving around it very
quickly give chase and kind of now coming up onto the park. They shot
honey following behind you. What is what are you doing? Cairo seem dead?
I and I'll go for fore leg on the next closest one. Yes,
the same thing as they. As they now come in and move behind
you, you see another warg or go down the goblin caught underneath. It's
spun around. You see it caught in its own saddle as it kind of
rolls over and over and over again. The goblin kind of screaming a little
as it's caught in the dust. You see parts of the road lifting up
behind it, and then the other four moveing behind it. You can hear
them speaking goblin. I don't know if anybody speaks goblin. No, no,
I thought I did for a second. I don't have absolutely not.
You can hear them speaking goblin. Probably sounds like something from Mars attacks.
They split into two as two of them move around the left flank. Two
of them move around the other The boy of the twins kind of stands up
in frustration. It seems to have lost his staff. The girl with her
staff kind of starts hitting him a little bit and then turns around and then
looks to you soon ye take it, take it. He reaches forward and
grabs your staff. The two of them kind of take positions, kind of
like in a baseball stance, standing one leg up on the back of the
cart. As these two as these these goblins move around the side, I'm
going to roll for each of them. Now is when I can do my
thingy right. Well, they're attacking first, so actually they're doing their own
attacks twelve and sixteen. I want to stop their incoming attack. I want
to give ut minus far where the twins are attacking. Oh, I thought
it was the bad guys. The twins come up with and in sync,
both of them bring up their staffs. The goblins rushing up to the side.
One of them brings out a scimitar, lifts it up, looks like
he's kind of going to jump onto the back of your cart here, and
then his hit square in the face with a quarter staff. On the other
side, same thing happens as the the other twin dims the back of another
goblin. Behind right, you see two of these wargres run off in different
directions as the goblins. A baseball bat hit off the back of them.
One goblin on your side sooner is rushing out next to you, and he
says, are down your weapons, there are under attack. Should I would
like it? I should that one specifically, he's got little red eyes,
sharp teeth, massive ears. You can see he's got all these like bulbous,
strange sores and things over his head. He looks incredibly strange, possibly
inbred. One of his eyes much larger than the others. Kind of looks
up at you and says, as a gunshot goes up, I would like
to use Is he going to attack us? Now? Now? Can I
use my cutting shot? And he falls off the back of the or and
hits the ground. The last goblin on the other side of you, now
on Ippo's side, looks over and says, I'm come on, police camel
looking up at you riding along on the back of this kind of pig thing,
I mean, ball thing. Peace with those arrows. Don't runna as
part of this ah way, We're not gang best. You go back to
the tree line. Have a nice day, okay, for a mile,
he rides off the tree line. Do you remain in here? No,
they're all gone. In the distance behind you, you can see like three
goblins standing up, kind of all mangled, dusting themselves off. You see
another goblin, one of the first ones, kind of stand up, and
then his own war gore turns around and attacks and eats him. The goblin
that was trying to join you runs off, just doesn't go back to the
tree line and heads north now and then as you guys, he's in for
a treat. There's a ritual up there along the along the road. Yeah.
The the horse is still galloping very really fast. Yeah, slow it
slowing down a little. You're shooting it. That's everyone behind. Twins are
fighting now, you can hear it. Why they bickery. Everyone's fine,
all right, stuff, that's enough. That's that's enough. The girl holds
up the staff. That's all right, that's all right. He hands your
staff bag, you can keep it, hands it back to you. I
push it towards him. You can keep it. Just keep it safe.
It means a lot to me. You can just hang on to it for
now, all right, gets hit in the back of the head of the
girl. No, no, no, no, no, there be no
hitting. There's no need to hit you. There's no need to hit your
brother. Now stop. They sort of stop. They recognize the tone to
a degree. Yeah, don't make me turn this card around. Now you
keep that you that one, uh huh, and you don't hit your brother.
What's wrong with you? Sit down? We're fine, We're all right.
Nothing happened. Everyone's okay. He didn't lose anything. It was probably
still all right. That's do we need to make him face the other direction?
You stare that way, You stare that way, and you're not allowed
to talk to each other. They sit down and cross their arms. That's
right, okay. The girl is sitting on her like like. She put
the staff behind her, and the boy is holding yours in his arms.
Yes, and I'll just what is mos I point to the staff. It's
my it's my mother's. No, you can keep it, but just take
care of it. I think they might be fighting over it. No,
I don't think they're fighting over that. I think I think she's mad that
he lost his I suppose it's probably not lost, as probably in here somewhere.
We just have to find it, but we don't have time to stop
now, right, And no, it's everyone, all right, I think
that went rather well. It did. Yeah, we're I'd say we're a
pretty uh pretty good team. Let's say so, all right, let's did
you want to rest? I think so. Actually I'm a bit out of
breath, like you mentioned it is anybody else tired? Could we just well,
maybe we'll go a little bit longer so that we're not close to the
sure, Yeah, all right, okay, can you take over anytime.
I'm just going to sit in the back of the cart here and rest my
eyes for a minute. Sure, right, thank you. Yeah, you
kind of climb over the bank tag Cairo in Carra. You go up.
You're taking the reins orpo I think I'm taking the ruins. You sure,
go ahead? And yeah the cart trundles on. A few goblins in the
background bickering with each other, trying to calm down there strange mutated walk bore
wolf creatures that they have. And yeah, the cart kind of trundles off
now away from the south forest, heading now pretty much direct route. Slight
incline downwards makes it a little quicker to make the journey to Bologna as opposed
to from and I guess you probably see maybe the sun beginning to set as
we flip back to somewhere in mid town, maybe a little earlier in the
day, as we see three robed individuals quietly moving discreept as they can through
the town. You guys maybe ate some food prepared these robe outfits, and
then headed out once Reginald returned after dropping his note off to one of the
drop boxes. By the time you head out, there is a kind of
a light rain beginning to fall over Bologna. The sky above starts to cloud
over, it gets a little gray, a little dark, and some rain
begins to fall. It's not very very heavy or anything like that, but
you know, there's a decent amount of rainfalling, which is very useful for
you because there's a lot more people moving around with cloaks and robes and things
to keep the rain off of their heads. Reginald, following with you,
kind of begrudgingly at first, doesn't want to come with you, suggests that
you should go alone, but eventually you kind of twist his ear and the
three of you head towards I presume the nearest market in midtown one of the
market roads that you can find. There's all sorts of merchants that run up
and down several of the roads in Aloner. But with Reginald and Ellie's knowledge,
it's quite easy to find pretty much anything you want. You find a
decent expense of traders and merchants and begin to move along everyone, and then
somebody will shout at you a strange thing. You hate potions, you need
them more than ever. You go, what about this one? And then
you see someone else say, here we go pretty faces. You want some
of this? Look at this lipstick they put it? They say, you
put it on your lips. It makes you ten times more attractive. And
everybody kind of just shouting things at you. Someone else, Oh, you
want buns, buns, hot cross buns. Get your hot cross buns.
I know it's just the word, but you you want say that? Just
keep walking, don't look at him INLGNA, just ignore. Is this what
it's like in the markets here? Yeah? See, I usually I'm not
down on the ground. I'm usually up there. No gold repair yes,
some cheese, yes, some salt. Instantly people shouting things at you,
no more magic. Get yourself as there's a clothing place. Let's just go.
Just walk straight there. I don't just don't look at anyone, just
walk, Okay, what happens if I look at somebody? Don't? Just
don't don't. It's it's like a curse. They'll just keep talking to you,
and they'll follow you, and they'll shot things in your face. And
it's like when someone tells you to not do something and then you do it
by accident. I like make eye contact with one of them immediately. You
are looking for a signet ring, aren't you something special to sparkle up those
fingers? Where do you go? I'm good, thank you, thank you
sir, And I'm all right, thank you. Papsmearrings, I keep talking.
I sell gems and pap smears. No, there is people shouting all
sorts of things. Probably someone does perhaps myth And Yeah. You're looking for
a clothing merchant, a relatively high end, high fashion, fine looking Yeah,
Taylor, Yeah, I think you can find one. You come to
a little shop that says Belogna's Finery that you can see as an actual shop,
as opposed to a market stall with a bell that rings as you open
the door. You can see that there's a they sell fabrics as well as
like dresses and suits and general clothing, but again it's kind of a high
end fashion looking stuff, better clothing, silks, imported items, things like
that, as opposed to kind of your basic hempen tunics and trousers. You
can see they sell like masks and hats and things as well, like kind
of more super high end stuff that you wouldn't necessarily even consider wasting, you
know, however much gold on masks. They've also got like selections of perfumes
and things in there as well. And see, this is the exact type
of place that somebody who would go to the what was it called the the
hand the white mild hair. This is the type of thing that they would
wear. Potentially. Reginald walks in and seems to be quite at home.
You can also kind of you get the sense with Reginald he has like nice
teeth and seems to hold himself and speak correctly, so he you get the
sense that maybe he comes from money, maybe not crazy money, but you
know, he was never really a street urchin. He walks in and immediately
starts looking at some items kind of by the way he is in character.
The moment he walks in, you can tell that he is playing a part
as part of this disguise, and his entire demeanor changes and he just walks
in, acts as casual as you like, starts moving through some silk fineries
and things. You guys looking around for I'm not around for clothing that would
be similar to inquisitor uniform, something similar to what Reginald would wear. Yeah,
since we have a very similar line of what we do at our jobs.
Yeah, there's a woman who was seated when you first opened the door,
but she stands up and begins to move slowly towards you. She has
like a very long cigarette holder as she kind of moves towards you. She's
got this nice set of clothing on. She's got she's very she's like middle
aged, but she's got like a lot of jewels, and she's got these
long ear rings on. Her hair kind of tied upwards but kind of falls
loose behind her. She moves casually over to you. She says, oh,
well, hello there, perhaps you'd be interested in something like this,
as she reveals for you a robe of many different colors, and as she
pulls it forward, the light hits it and the colors change. He says,
this is a robe of scintillating colors. Wouldn't you say, she's talking
to me? What kind of person do you think I am? As soon
as you speak, she realizes, I think I'm going to go from all
black to that. Well, it's a very best seller. All you say,
Perhaps something a little more hmmm, your style, she looks for.
She moves a few clothing items out of the way, and then lifts a
kind of thin looking cloak almost it runs very long, but doesn't have any
arms. He presents it to you. It looks like it's made out of
the finest silk you maybe have ever seen. Weaves so smoothly. She presents
it forward. Give that a little touch, entirely frictionless, soft. Do
you have anything that can maybe hide some uh, some items like a cloak
with some pockets coming stylish and nice, but you know, I don't want
to have to carry bags on me, so I want something that I can
put my stuff in. She laughs at you. That's a good one.
Do you have your serving children do it? I'm there is nothing in here
that has pockets. You should probably change that. I bet it'd be really,
I bet that would be your most popular item if you started adding pockets
to some things. Yes, perhaps with the peasantry. Peasantry, right,
they only like pockets. They're the only practical ones, aren't they. Do
you like? Turns to you and says, perhaps it ensemble, we could
get a bonnet and something. Go and I grab the rainbow dress and I'm
just like, maybe I could turn this into a bag or pocket, and
I just turn around and walk towards Reginald. Reginald is lifting like a hat.
It's like a beret looking thing as he kind of puts it on his
head as if he owns it already, just kind of turns around. Not
too bad, I'd say, fits you. Yes, this place sucks,
okay, would you like to try somewhere else, somewhere with pockets? Maybe?
I look over at Ora to see what she's doing. What is Aura
doing? I'm standing in the middle of like a deer in headlights? Yeah,
actually balm girl. Yeah. Like, I mean, I've never seen
like clothing like this, fine silks and like nice fabrics, so I'm just
like afraid to touch anything as well. So I'm just standing in the middle
of the store looking around, probably like a lost child. The woman is
sauntering over to you. You look like a lost child. I just hey,
that's my lost child, or I am her lost child. And I
walk over shelly strange accent you have. Yeah, I'm from I'm from up
north. There isn't anything up north. Oh, you'd be surprised. There's
a lot up there north for you either, So I wouldn't be too judgmental.
One of those mountain towns. Yeah. And there's also pockets and dresses.
Yeah, she thinks only peasants. Peasants have those. So I open
up my cloak and I'm like, but you know, it's pretty useful,
and I pull out like three daggers so you can put these in them.
Reginald over to you really quickly and says, very funny, dear, that's
not let's not stay. Perhaps we should Perhaps we should be my favorite dad.
Oh yes, but we wouldn't want anybody to remember your face. Perhaps
we'll get you this mask. H you always want me to home my face?
Mm hmm. Perhaps we should have hidden our faces after all. Well,
okay, well whatever, I'll take this beret, milady, how about
that wasting your money? And I walk out the door. He throws some
coins onto the one of the tables nearby. Yes, kids, you know
what they're like, Yes, Richard. The woman kind of saunters away.
She collects the coins very slyly and moves to the bank, while Reginald is
like ushering you the door. But I wanted to see if they had any
green rolles. We can how expensive that was. Sure was a waste of
money. And you see how thin those things were. Your sword alone would
rip them into shreds our pockets like I don't know only the peasants have them.
And then I walk away. You guys step back outside and Reginald it's
like, maybe we don't brandish weapons in we're trying to be undercover. She
was very rude. I mean, I already got all this crap on my
face. I think I'm undercover enough. Yes, well, those people are
rather rude in this town. Can't we go? And I look down?
Do I see any other tailors? You know, there's plenty, maybe one
for like I want to go to one that's maybe mostly for dudes because I
know that they'll have sturdy ors stuff. Or does the women have like the
dresses and the ridiculous stuff, all right. Yeah, you kind of like
move along this kind of trade road again, past a bunch of merchants.
There's a few people sale scrolls. Discount seventy percent of seventy you know,
eighty percent, got to sell them. As you head down the road more,
you kind of come to another slightly less prominent establishment. You head in.
You can see that there's a slightly older man working on a spinning wheel
at the back of the room. You can see that there's lots more a
lots more of a range of things, from working items up to stuff that's
slightly more fine. There are robes, a selects, a huge selection of
robes, and a huge selection of cloaks and things as well. As it's
coming up to winter, they seem to be more in demand. So you
can see that there's a decent amount of them. And as you step in,
you see him kind of give you a wave. Hello. Doesn't she
know that mountain towns are what provides the food that you all eat? I
mean, you're expecting someone with nothing up there to know about that, you
know, when people have them don't know anything. In fact, they're a
little crazy. We have one store in Bame and and and if that,
if she talked to anybody like you, they I I keep walking past with
Ora like ushering her to the cloaks in the robes. Well these are much
better. Oh I like these better? Like anything. I'll be over here.
Wheel Regnald kind of follows you over. Maybe we picked something up quickly
without you know, brandishing weapons and people and then move on. I mean
she's brandishing a weapon. Does wait, does or have a resort in her
back? Still? Yeah? I clean. I cleaned it before we left,
so it's like really shiny and probably catches a lot of eyes, but
it's slung over my back. You've you know, a dozen people along this
street that look very similarly. They've got to cloak up from the rain,
and they just have a sword or something, some sort of armament on them.
It's not massively uncommon, you know, it's really not I can't have
some butter and eyes, but she can have that. It's not fair.
Well, yes, but she wasn't threatening people? And or please don't threaten
who did I on the street? Can I please for the I don't know
how many times can you tell you you're hung? Bob? We go and
I hold it up to Aura and oh I've never gotten what before. Look
inside, feel the pocket. There's inside pockets. You can finde stuff here.
I'm just fascinated looking at like how there's pockets on the inside and like
several on the inside. No, no, no, no, try it
on, Try it on. Okay, I'll hold your sword. I think
I put it on. How does it look? That's what it seems to
fit. It looks like a robe cloak thing. Yeah, look like a
wizard pocket things they keep things with the little twin kts or stuffed to nis
dust. And yeah, I could put it like several bits of meal worms.
Like each pocket I could line and put more meal worms in here.
You know, it's probably a little bit weirder than knives and poisoned. But
okay, well buns, got it's for buns. You don't need to fill
every pocket with worms. Well what if we get what if we get into
another situation? Oh you know, that would throw them off, though,
See, that would throw them off because then they'll search you and all they'll
get his worms in their hands and it'll gross them out. Then I can
use this and I point to the so that she's holding. That's true.
This thing is a little heavy though, classic misdirection for smaller knives. I'll
take this one and I look at Reginald because I don't. Yes, you'll
probably need to find some other things as well. A shirt or blouse.
Yeah, that one's a little dirty. Yes, I might need to get
you some shoes, or maybe we get you a red blouse. That way,
if it gets bloody, one's in a little better. Or black.
Oh there you go. Okay, we're black with black? Does it washed
me out though? Like going over looking at a black racket. Yeah,
red might bring out your color a little better. Okay, don't wear black,
show up looking like the ministry. Okay, I'll get red. Then
I grab a red blouse. Ye, have some new boots. Then there
are these really more for It could be good for fighting and dancing in but
there did you say fighting and dancing? Well, I don't. I don't
dance. No fighting. It is kind of like dancing fighting not at all
like dancing. I kill them and get out fine establishments in their balls.
Knows what's okay? Watch, but it might be a little tougher. I
just want dance. You just get some nice boots. Everything else is these
small little things for those pick up like the most gaudy version of heels that
they might have in here, and I'm like, you could wear these,
but if I'm trying to run. And every time I wore heels in Bame,
they would sink into the mud. Every time I would walk, you
would just sink into the mud. And heels. What were you wearing with
that? Describe it? There was a ball in town and I wanted it.
I want it to look nice, and so my mom had Yeah.
I mean it was like a little I walk home to a harving a rack
that has like ball gowns on it, and I pick out the gaudiest one
and I'm like, try this on. I just I want to picture it,
I said, I just want to picture it. What does it look
like? I'd say, it's like it's got to be like obviously it's it's
about here, and it has sleeves, but it has like little poofs for
the sleeves, and uh, it's tight fitting up until the waist and then
it just poops out. I kind of look at it with a little bit
of like don't but I take it and I go behind like a little changing
curtain and put it on. I slipped the shoes underneath, and I'm like,
you forgot these? You hear me like struggling to pull them on.
Okay, this is ridiculous. And I come out in this brightly colored poofy
dressed with giant shoulder pads. Are you happy is this? I'd say that's
not threatening. I mean, if we show up and she looks like that,
then they won't be threatened. But it looks like a teapot, just
a little teapot. Yes, I mean that's actually it's quite like most of
the hi who wears this on a daily We had a harvest ball. It
happens once a year. I had it didn't even look like this. We're
going A lot of people actually do look like that. Yeah, they look
they look almost exactly like that. I mean their hair is done a little
better and they got a little more a lot more makeup on. Well,
there's a guy in the street talking about how like the lips stuff makes you
prettier? Should I get some of that? You want to go get lip
stuff because some guy was yelling about it in the street. We're listening when
people yell, I listen. But we're gonna make her into a what is
it? What do they call them? You should know, Reginald. But
what did you just say? A high class woman? What am I not
a high class womanly according to or according to a Bologna? No? What
are you working class? I run a farm. If I showed up and
bame in this, people would laugh at me. I mean I want to
laugh, but I haven't yet. Well, thank you, because no,
Ellie, why don't you get one because I'm gonna be outside with the bow
and arrow? Yes, no, it doesn't really need to just get one
for later. I'm gonna you want me to get one? Okay? You
know what, after all this is done, you can pick out a dress
and I'll wear it later for revenge. Do I really are you just go
to look at Reginald? Are you just saying that this is what people and
I'm gonna show up and I'm gonna be the only one wearing this? He
doesn't seem like a liar, decisely like people dress in high society. It's
ridiculous. I understand. It is ridiculous that this is what they They don't
care about. Better to breathean This merchant skilled than the you know, the
egos, and they're not really well like you. So I have an idea.
I will dress as your peasant and I'll carry your sword for you.
You can walk around in this and I will be your peasant. Do not
treat me like a peasant. I guess you kind of treat me like one.
Why would I dressed like this when I could just dress normally and have
my sword on me and then use it if I need to use it.
You realize, like if you dress normally that you won't fit in at all.
Going to wild Hand, they won't let us in. You look like
you usually look, whereas if you look like that, they probably won't even
blink. I don't like this city based on how you look. Well,
no, just parts of it. Typically we avoid those parts. Well.
I don't know about you, Reginald. You kind of seem like you fit
in quite well. I avoid those, avoid them somewhat myself when I can.
Yeah, okay, Like do they talk differently? Do I need to
act a specific way? I suppose not. You can be everything that you
like, pretend like you don't like it, and everything you don't like,
like this dress, pretend like you like it. I feel like my rims
are being crushed. If anybody asks to say from Streletto. Then did you
weren't born there or here? Okay? Where was I born? Then that's
another that's another business. Okay. Oh to just act like really rude,
like the lady from the shop. Not too rude, but yeah, I
like that. Yeah, never ask a lady where she was born? Like
that? Sound like you're peasant? I like, sound my elbow, Reginald.
Do I normally sound like a peasant? Reginald? I mean, well,
you don't sound like you have the bame accent. It's all that you
know so much about, Reginald, you should probably stop talking. So are
we dressing you up like a common boy? I look like a boy?
Cap? Did you not say you were going to be dressed as a serving
child? Oh? Fine? Because I am like the shortest one out of
all of them too, And when the caps put on, like it flattens
my hair a little bit, I'm just like fine, yes, okay,
so but I still get to wear black. Still your pockets I suppose.
Yes, No one is going to look at you if you're looking like a
serving child, whereas everybody looking aristocrat here. Okay, then what's your role?
Yeah? What's your role? Reginald? Like, what do you do
Reginald Sheridan your date? Yes, I believe I have a tab over the
wild hand. You'll let you do that, just keep it open. Well
when your father is as well established as mine, Yes, that's your date.
I'm the servant boy. I just I look at Reginald up and down.
Okay, I guess I'll get my own out. He moves around,
grabs a set of trousers and a bow tie and a decent shirt. Can
I find the most crazy looking man's outfit that has like flufy, like ruffled
blouse and like kind of flared pants or something. I think you should wear
this? Oh? Absolutely not. Oh no, I think you should look
It matches my dress perfectly. We're gonna look so good together. I really
don't think that I should be wearing anything like that. Why, well,
they'll think something was up. Why because it's fancy? Well I don't wear
ruffles and I don't wear ball gowns. Well, yes, but they don't
know you, whereas they might recognize my face. Is this because you're going
to be embarrassed about wearing it? I mean, if you're if if you're
her date, she could demand that you wear it. Otherwise you're not getting
laid. It doesn't It doesn't that that's how it works, right, Isn't
that that's how it works? Right? Well, I suppose if it really
does, it's a lie, you know, like the rest of us have
to. I suppose I could wear well, what if I don't wear those,
but I wear the shirt the ruffles on the collar, Okay, I
mean I think the pants really add something to it, though. I mean,
if you look at it, it's just it all kind of ties together
really nicely. I suppose, quite fine, whatever, running out of time,
just have to get inside the door. I go find like an off
white shirt that's really baggy, like just a plane off white one, and
that ties it's in the worker section. And then some black pants that are
also really baggy and like will eliminate any any curves Ellie does have, which
she doesn't have much. And so just to make it even more convincing that
I am now a servant boy with long hair. Yeah, the you grab
all of these items, you move around, You grab a fresh set of
clothes, two sets of aristocratic clothes, and just a set of sort of
common serving boy clothes, and bring them over to the guy who kind of
wrings all these things up, and he turns and says, okay, that'll
be Let's see here there'll be two hundred and ten gold pieces and five silver
cool put on his tab it. Reginald kind of looks, yes, well
that's left and right. Also small satchel out lifts a little coin person puts
it on the table. So there you go, lucky. I am paid
rather well, isn't it. Hey? Your dad's important, remember, yeah,
he doesn't give me a penny. Yeah, well mine's dead, so
I also don't get pennies. Well will that be all? It's all the
money is there? Yes, that's fine, Thank you so much. Come
again. I hope you enjoy the clothes and enjoy the ball. Thank you,
Yes, the ball. Yes, it's gonna be great. I take
my worker class. Okay, then let's and hat that's head out then shall
wim mhm. Reginald seems uncomfortable and opens the door and you head back out
onto the onto the street, when a little flutter of wings suddenly appears,
dance past the door and then kind of does like a cartoonish double take and
flies back over to you. As you realize Buns is returned flying around you,
or a kind of excitedly. I need a meal worm pouch for this.
I grab my old coat and kind of grab some meal worms from it.
Buns flutters down, lands on your hands, grabbing it a meal worm.
There's a little note attached to Buns's leg or back. I think actually
you stick it on these backs. He's a little string wrapped around him.
Yeah, like a Christmas decoration. And when you on wrap it, it
says west Gate Stables two days with a little drawn heart. The heart's the
most important part. It's from sooner, I actually fountain, Well, that
gives us plenty of time to meet. Send this like, what if it's
a day now does it take to fly? Well, I don't know where
they are when the buns leave yesterday, so there would have been yesterday.
How far can buns really fly? Well, considering port towns are usually depending
on where you go to three four days, I mean give it a day
and a half. He went all the way down to Barris, So if
they have to wait a day, there's plenty of places to stay around that
area. We'll go find them. Maybe after this meeting, I'm we can
go to the gate to meet them, I mean would be the plan.
Let's get bo back first, though, I assume that they're probably coming from
Dayton. Then if they're going to the West Gate, Yeah should I should
I send a message back to say to wait at the West Gate. I
think I'm gonna assume she would be smart enough to wait for us and not
venture into this city by yourself. I hope she's not alone. Yeah,
well, at least she's alive. Yeah. Yeah, we've got that confirmation.
She's alive and she's she's here on her way. Yeah, very close.
Thanks, very well. Okay, I guess we should get dressed.
Let's get dressed. We've got a meeting. Mm hm hm. The three
of you head back along this kind of trade road, people shouting at you,
all sorts of things as you move along, food and things. Reginald
actually does pick up a little bit of food as he as he goes as
well, just to kind of make it look like you guys are moving with
purpose. You've got your items with you, and you head back towards the
safe house. A cart trundling along the road between Dayton and Bologna around the
same time as the night falls, and that's where we're going to end today's
session. Thank you so much for plane. I know what I'm wearing next
time. We lost halfway through the episode. It's like it's time to get
one too much. I'm gonn gonna get one of those caps. Yeah,
you just like one of those like Victorian boys, you know, a twist
character. Sure prom dresses are on sale, okabe, since no one's going
to And yeah, we shall return next week for what I'm sure will be
the inevitable meeting of everyone. I would imagine you'll finally be reunited. At
least minimum, I would imagine that Eleanora will finally re unite with Bow and
then guests, depending on just how that meeting goes, and what happens really
depends on that, meaning time depends on where it goes. End game,
real true end game coming up as you finally approach the end here, and
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