In the year twenty seven fourteen, a new squad of Opera Davis was chosen
by the College of Illusion. These fools promptly went on to frustrate their DM
at every opportunity. Today, still working together because really, who else would
work with them? They survive as adventurers of fortune. If you have a
problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire the Second Breakfast Club. Tony Kinney as Eddie Falzoni,
Jess Owen as a deer a Glow, Michael Cole as Urag, and
Jesse Wicks as Bill Crilliance, Nico Rodriguez as your DM. Welcome back to
the continuing tales of a Fool's Quest. So when the last we left our
fools, you were all doing an interrogation. You made it back to the
forsaken city, you talked to the Dean, Dean smelting you dis actually got
rid of a valley. She's gone now gone ever she left, and now
you found out that the infinite page evolution is missing, and the Dean has
asked you to throw a curveball at their three unsuspecting suspects. Suspects. Thanks,
wow, I can say where are hard, and and you already interviewed
one uh named Rtie or PD, you already named one fuck me talking Rene,
you already interviewed one named p d Arsenal. And then you currently are
talking to Verbal Beauregard, who is a conjuror from the Conjuration Nation who has
diplomatic community, and he said that he will tell you the truth. Let's
hear it. Verbal so Berbal says, Okay, I was hired as part
of a team in order to retrieve the Illusionation spy list. It was a
counterspy program put together by a man I thought was from the Evocation Nation.
I don't think he's a warlock, but he definitely has much stronger magic than
I do. The job wasn't sanctioned by the Conjuration Nation. That's why I
will probably have to stand trial there. And honestly, the Conjuration Nation would
never send somebody to try and infiltrate the Forsaken City. So that's a little
bit on me. At first, the evoker that I was traveling with,
or the person that I thought was an evoker, said he was just going
to show me the way to the Sacond City. But while I traveled He
told me about the spy list and how they could learn where the illusionation spies
were and all the code names that they used, So obviously I was very
interested in getting that. That evoker he said his name was Heaven Spacey.
He wore a thin armor and he easily could dispel illusion magic. But he
also had a magic item with him, so that's why I think he might
have just been an evoker with that magic item that could dispel the illusion magic,
but he used that dispelling stuff to make his way around. His right
hand lady was a fighter named Star, and she had a double edged sword
and was always down for violence. In fact, we came across some druids
and the idea from Heaven Spacey was to get the druids and to help or
that they were supposed to help get us into the Forsaken city, right,
But one of them got on Star's nerves and she killed them all. And
the other was a big, hulking guy. At first I thought he was
the muscle, but it turns out he was actually an artificer and he had
some really neat tricks. His name was Dust, and he worked on some
magic items that the evokre had with him. Just some interesting weird stuff that
they used. I didn't really see it in play, but they would like
stash them places while we were going around. It was very strange. And
then there was a lockmaster that went by the name the Sunshine and a bard
named Ray and what do they look like? Well, so Sunshine was just
a small person, a little halffling, but they were really great with locks.
And Ray she was just kind of a badass. She had a flute
and she told us all these stories about band camp and yeah, perfect calm
knowledge about the vall though I would never with the floutest. Ray had knowledge
about the ball Yep said that they had heard some tales while they were traveling
about the vault. Sunshine was supposed to break us in, and then Dust
was on security duty, obviously looking for any kind of traps or tech that
we might not have expected. Heaven and Star were in charge, but I
think Heaven was more in charge and Star was kind of like the bodyguard for
the evocre. And I was supposed to come because my ability to conjure fire
would be important. If we found the spy records, we're going to burn
them. And I mean that was only if we couldn't smuggle them out.
I was just supposed to burn them. So that was kind of what I
was there. So then, you know, when we were, when we
were rating the place, everything went wrong. And I mean everything was going
well to begin with. We got in, we did everything we were supposed
to, got all the magic items. I had gotten this stuff, and
things were going really well. And then one by one, all my friends
started to die, you know, all five of them. They just they
just died. And so I did what I was supposed to do when things
look like they went wrong, and I created I conjured up a bonfire.
Because I'm only a low level caster, but I am really good at conjuring
low level verbal spells, and conjuring a bonfire is one of them. So
I conjured the bonfire there. But I don't have your infinite page, and
I don't know where your other magic items are, and all five of my
friends are dead. Well, I guess they're not wrong die. Well,
I don't know there were I didn't see it happen. I was, you
know, just kind of following along with with Ray for a little while.
Once we got in there, and we were supposed to look through things while
the others were searching around for more stuff, and we were supposed to stay
toward the back until they needed me. And then I heard them all screaming
from different parts of the from the I couldn't see any of them die,
but you know I heard that they're dead. Well, they found four bodies
in that vault, in the remains of it the ashes. That must be
incorrect. There should be five, not four. Have they taken well?
I feel like he needs to be taken to the possibly identify these guys.
Yeah, we'll see. I think we should go talk to Bert storm Winker.
Is there anybody around that we can like maybe ask them to have him
taken to view the bodies to see if they're his friends. There were guards.
Yeah, I think that we should do that. It seems like Times
of the essence. So yeah, yeah, when we go out, grab
one of the guards and be like listen, escort that guy over to view
the bodies. It seems like they might be his friends. If he can
identify him, it might help us track down whatever was stolen from the vault
and find out who is left. And it might help. Yeah, it
might help us find out who's missing. Because he said there were five of
them. We only got four bodies. If you need to run it by
the dean, run by the dean first. But he'll probably be fine with
it. That guard's like, okay, I'll about take care of it.
Yeah, all right, thanks. Probably gag him and make him right down
the names. Yeah, yeah, that's probably a good idea. Try a
sock the throwback, put it him out. No, we weren't throwing back
to that. There was a throwback to that in the episodes. Here will
always be throwbacks, all right. So wonderfully creepy. So you leave this
room, you tell that to the guard. The guards go in and put
shackles on his hand, and one takes his boot off as you close the
door, and you head up the hall to where Bert storm Winkers being held.
Yeah, they might just go on in, all right. So you
go on in and you see, hey, squorely looking dude, sharp pointing
nose. His face is very thin, his features are kind of plain,
but he's you know, I mean, he's got like a sharp pointed face
with a with a pointed beard at the bottom, like a goatee right at
the bottom, just to make it even more pointy. And he is wearing
priestly robes, but they are in no way. He is like the opposite
of what he was right. So so he's like sloppy, slopy all over,
Like the robes aren't put together well. Actually, the robes look like
they might be too big for him. The sash that's around is not tied
very well. It's stained all over. He was eating a sandwich that had
mustard on it, and he got some mustard on his hand as you walk
in, and he just wipes it all over the front of his shirt and
he's like, oh, hello, are you here to let me out?
No, Bert, we're here to have a chat. Another person wants to
have a chat with me. Fine, okay, yeah. When you're picked
up, you're picked up with some stuff that wasn't yours. Where'd you get
it? I found it? It was sold to me. I'm gonna walk
over and close the door, just stick my head out and look back and
forth, down, up and down the hallway, and then back and close
the door. Stroke his cheek got to be a little more theraper. I
got it at the market, all right. Do you think you can help
him remember exactly where he got it? I'll curl around the table as a
shape shift into a large snake. So make your role twelve. Okay,
yeah, so that's a very large snake with three moves. And so he
doesn't like snakes. And as you start shape shifting and curling, he's like,
oh no, no, no, no, no no no. When
he like lifts his feet up on the chair and he tries to curl himself
up into a ball to stay away from you, I start curling around the
chair like a constrictor style your tongue in the back of his ear. Don't
like it. I don't like this. So you were telling us where you
got that stuff? H yeah, yep. I oh, make a parlay
roll to see how your intimidation's working here. Either you or rag can do
it. I'll let that's intimidation under well, it would just be like your
parlay parlay. So yeah, what average on GM character and manipulate them,
I'd say, yeah, roll plus Christmas Christmas seven seven A seven? What's
the seven? Do seven? So on a hit they ask On a hit,
they ask you for something and do it if you make them a promise
first on a seven to nine, they need some concrete assurance of your promise
right now, okay, all right, So I'll let either of you speak
on behalf of that, but we can roll with that if you tell us
what we want to know, I promise I won't eat you. Is eating
me really an option? Okay? All right? Well I'm I'm not really
from the Church of Greyhawk. I kind of guessed that one. I'm from
the thieves Guild. My name's Boomer, and I killed Old Bert and I
took his robes. And then I got up here and I was trying to
steal some stuff from some important people. And I had some dealings with this
other merchant guy, and I was trying to move some wares. And when
I was moving the whares, the merchant tried ripping me off, said he
knew the houses and would report me back, and then he took the wares
from me, and well, I was kind down on my luck with that,
right, the merchant had just left and went back to the brin Meyer
Dam with his team after robbing me blind. Can you believe that of your
stolen goods? Well, but I'm in the thieves guild. He's in the
merchant's guild. He's not even in the right guild. So he stole my
stuff. And then I saw this crate on this little this little boat,
saw one man boat and it was empty. Well the boat, there was
anybody in the boat, but there was this crate. Right, So I
went over and I checked out the crate and lo and behold it was there.
It was. It was just chilling there. So you know, I
think Loki and I grabbed the crate, or you know, I grabbed stuff
out of the crate, and I tried to recoup my losses. So then
I took that stuff and I tried hawking it back to the rich families that
I had already stolen from, saying that I had found some magic items,
as they were interested in them. And then one of them had the audacity
to arrest me. How dare they? Was there anything? Did you leave
anything in that crate? No? I took everything out of the crate.
Was there a scroll? No? No scroll? All right? Like this
merchant fellow you mentioned, what did he look like? He gives you the
exact description of Pdrsenhol That's what I assumed. You can't think of any other
pressing questions for this guy. Okay, I won't eat you, and I'll
uncurl from a tear you already said you wouldn't eat me. Well that was
only if you told us, you know, the answers we wanted. But
there you had. So he's just confirming. Okay, and I'll slither outside
the door. Okay, all right, So he slither outside the door.
Wow, I'm gonna yeah, I don't think anything else. Really want to
head out to and close the door and tell the guards you can get him
in a shitty or cell. Also, take that rope from him. That's
not that's not his rope. He killed the priest. Oh oh my yeah.
Oh. Also he's just a thief. Yeah, he's probat of the
thief killed. He could probably give you guys some information on hunting down the
elements in the city here, so make sure to get that out of him.
He doesn't like snakes and do what you want with him. Yeah,
come on, Paul, let's get him. So big big buff guy goes
in there with Paul and then they grab men. Ha, no, walk
at you this drawer and your balls something like that. Dragnet. We should
we go talk to U. Just blanked on his name PD. Go back
to about that. Well, we might want to talk to PD about the
stolen goods. But yeah, I think we should probably talk to the Dean
first. I think it's more important to track down whoever survived this fire and
planning on escaping on a boat. Let's actually no, we don't have any
information about who would have been on a boat. I was gonna say,
maybe we should go talk to Verbal again, rough what not? Also he's
verbal, he's off being showing his friends. Yeah, let's go back to
the Dean, I suppose. So you head back up to Dean smelting and
he's sitting there talking to two of the council members to the high Illusionists,
just kind of debriefing them on what you had said about Valley. But as
he sees you come through the door, he excuses himself and walks away from
them over towards you and says, I hope you have some good news.
Yeah. Well, we had some chats with with the folks down there,
and they're all pretty terrible, but PD Arsonilla doesn't seem to be involved in
this terribly. Now, film in on what we learned. You know about
Verbal being part of the group that robbed the place when we sent him over
to get the bodies identified. If you can, I don't know what kind
of condition they're in. But Dian, are you sure there's only four bodies?
Yeah, I'm very sure there's only four, all right, I figured,
but he was positive there was five. So whoever the fifth one is
is probably the one that got away with the infinite page. You don't think
it's one of the two Peti or Bert? Nah, so Bert wasn't really
involved in this either. Bert's small time. He's a schmuck. He he
killed some priest, took his robes, and he's just a thief. Did
he say he killed him or he just he killed him? A boomer?
Yeah, okay, I couldn't remember if he said he killed him or killed
Yeah, he killed the priest and took his robes and identity, and he's
just been using it to rob people. Matter of fact, he tried to
fence some of the stolen golf stolen goods with Pete, but he just stumbled
upon the crate on a boat. He said. He said, there was
a small, one person, little dingy with a crate and here he was
feeling, you know, put upon because he'd lost whatever stuff he'd stolen because
he's a schmuck, and went and peeked at the crate and there's a bunch
of magic stuff. He scooped it up, was trying to offload it,
got arrested. So I don't really think he was involved with the robbery or
the fire either so much as just a just an opportunistic schmuck who happened to
stumble across the goods afterwards. But uh, that verbal Beauregard. Now he
was part of the heist. Yeah he had. He had a heck of
a song to sing, that lit murty. I'm proud of that. Yeah,
he told hums he was part of the highest There's a group of six
of them, him and five others. Maybe it was four others. I'll
got I just write it Heaven start us, Yeah, and I'll give him
the name. Serious. So we're looking for a possible evoker named Kevin Spacey.
Also, so Heaven Spacey might be our warlock. Oh yeah, because
this group, well there's some resemblance to what we heard the Warlock was traveling
with. There is a fighter who acts a bodyguard for Heaven Spacey named Star.
Is that the woman with the double edged sword? Yes, she was
among the bodies. She was among the bodies. There is an artificer,
a large, large fellow named Dust, a lockbreaker named Sunshine, name Bard
named Ray, and Bard has a flute. If there was any flutes.
There was a flute. Yeah, And we did find a person that had
a lock pick sat on them halfling, yeah, a smaller body, yes,
that one was burned pretty badly. The woman with the double edged sword,
she was run through with another blade long dagger. Maybe her body was
slightly burned, but not really that bad. The artificer was that the big
guy? Yeah, yes, yeah, we found him sprayed with acid,
So it sounds like having space. He's our guy. That would be the
only person not accounted for among the four. Seems like. So this boat
that you mentioned with the crate of goods, it didn't have the scroll in
it though. He said that he didn't leave anything in that crate. So
whatever he was arrested with is what he got out of that crate. Hmm.
He said there was no scroll. I think Sirih said we would encounter
the warlock here in town, now, didn't that was Hobbs. Hobbs said
we'd catch up to him in town. We'd catch up to him. So
that then applies that He's probably still in town, right, could still be
in the area. You think your magic to Bacsi told you you would encounter
him in the town, So we'd catch up to him, and then for
Sa could say, interesting, do you think that boat might be of relevance?
Yeah, I think all that stuff was stolen out of the same place
as the scroll was. I think maybe probably waiting for the right time to
head out. Yeah, did Boomer tell you where the boat was located?
No? What we could go back and ask him. Yeah, maybe that
would be a good idea because it stands to reason if the boat was empty
and it had some of the magical items in it. Maybe suppose Boomer the
thief the pre Oh maybe maybe this heaven spacey character took the scroll with him,
afraid to leave it in the chest and had to run a quick errand
before departing. Maybe he's going back to the boat to try and flee.
Yeah, i'd be the guests. So we'll go back and talk to Boomer
again and see if we can find out where the boat's at. Okay,
if we can figure out where Boomer's at and if he could still talk,
Actually, where was the arrested at Larry Birdman the residents. He went there,
he apparently had stolen an item or two from there, some family heirlooms
that they had, and then he left and then came back to try and
sell the Dolmaturgy Lama Turkey two Larry Birdman and Larry Birdman comes up again.
All right, thanks Dean, we'll get back with you. I guess some
more stuff to check out. Okay, there's Larry Birdman again. H Which
Larry Birdman was p D arsenals like contact in town? Right? When he
comes he's merchant. Larry's the one who moves his stuff, get some things
whatever. Right, And now here's Bert having robbed p D and then also
trying to fence some stuff to him or I mean Larry Larry Birdman. Yeah,
m we might auto talk to Larry Birdman at some point. It seems
likely. In the meantime, we should really probably figure out what the boat
is because sink it. Where's Boomer? Yeah, we'll head back to where
he was and see if the cards around. So, so, your your
chat with the dean didn't last very long. You are heading down the hall
and you see as you're going to the hall where they were being confined.
You see way down the other hall, just about to turn the corner heading
away from you toward the actual like city prison. Right, you see the
guards taking Boomer. I give a loud whistle wave at him. The guys
start back. Yeah, we're back. One more question for the smug Where
was that boat at? What was that? You gotta come closer. I'll
go closer. No I won't. We're gonna elusorily amplify my voice. No,
it's not a spell. I half, I'll go closer. Cast Alma
Turkey, that's not illusion magic. No, uh, where's that Loma Turkey?
Now I'm a head on down there, and sorry, officers, I
gotta ask this guy one more questions. Take your time, illusionist. Sure,
thank you they boomer? Where was that boat at? Oh, it's
just off the west west side. It's about half a mile down from the
docks, from the western docks. Larry Birdman, what's your relationship with him?
I met him through his son, Harvey Birdman. Harvey butman and he,
I mean, he just had some dealings with with some clergy and he
well, they had found some items that they thought might be impactful to the
church. So once I found the robes. I thought maybe I could take
advantage of that situation. Just some ancient texts and a couple relics, you
know, ancient texts and relics. Huh yep, where did you find those?
Well? He found them? Where did he find those? All?
Right? Well, from this story, he told me he found them while
he was in a cave down in the Enchantment Nation doing a tour with his
son. He's retired, you know, but his son's been out traveling the
area and they found this cave and they went sparlunking, you know, like
birds do, and they found a cavern down there that was built up for
the god lou So they wanted to grab it, and they thought that some
of the stuff might have been as old as the age of chroniclers. That's
impressive. Hm hm. So I stole it, of course he did.
Then the end and p d Arsenal has that stuff now, the merchant,
Yes he did. He took that from me. He stole it from you,
right, And he's not even in the guild. Yeah, but he's
friends with Larry Birdman. Oh well, yeah, he's friends with Larry Birdman.
Yeah, they do dealings. Yeah, all right, We'll have fun
in the dungeon. Bye, you guys, have a good one. Yeah.
Later, So, should we talk to p D again, see if
we can get more information about Larry or do you think that's uh, he's
going to be walked up for a couple of days anyway, No, PDS.
Yeah, got the imminent release here. Yeah, I think we ought
to talk with might as well make a quick stop, although with new new
information, perhaps we could extend that that's true, maybe maybe some other charges
to reset the seventy two hunds. Yeah, see if you can find out
about the stuff that Bert brought them, Okay, especially the ancient texts specifically,
yeah, okay, the ancient texts. All right, So we're going
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the fun, all right, do you guys know right where he is.
Pete's in there drinking his Goliath rose and his cheeks are pink. He's feeling
very very good now. So I walk in, just very friendly. Hey
Petie, how you doing? I'm doing well. How are you a wine
stream? You're good at the wine is treating me very well, Thank you?
Not a problem. Do you have more gold muffins? I do?
I have a leftover gold muppet. I would love a leftover gold mid I'll
give him the extra gold mupp And there you go. I never want you
to do without listen. We've been doing some investigating and obviously we're trying to
get you out of here right now. Our bosses are asking us, though,
to ask you some questions about something you may have acquired, some ancient
texts. Oh, yes, the ancient texts. I understand. We're all
businessmen. Nobody's trying to come after you for anything. We're just trying to
search some things down and verify that they're not something else that we're specifically looking
for. So if you could just give me all the information you have on
them, just to make sure it doesn't seem like they hit the description.
But we have to check all our boxes here. Uh. They appeared to
be ancient texts from the time of chroniclers. Is what they look like from
the date. There were a couple other magic items with them. My team
acquired them. I think they were illegally acquired, and so we removed them
from the thief and took them into custody to take back to the bram Mariya
household. Okay, excellent, and your team has them now. My team
does have them now, Yes, is your team still here in town?
They're at bryn Meyer dam If you knew they were illegally acquired but not from
the Brian Royal household, why are you taking them back there? That that
doesn't track the brom Royal Household catalogs many old and ancient items. They have
a lot of vaults that they have. Yeah, but they're not theirs.
Well, they will be able to identify who they rightfully belong to. Oh,
we know that, we figured that out. The thief came queen.
We know who he stole them from. Who did he steal them from?
Larry Birdman? Oh yeah, oh acquaintance of yours. And you're certain he
stole them from Larry Birdman. Yeah not Harvey Birdman, not Larry. Okay,
interesting might have been Harvey. Why do you ask that? Why would
it make a difference. You're acquainted with both, are you not. I
I'm not comfortable answering any more questions on this topic. I does. I
think we got to go talk to the Birdman's You guys can make rolls too,
to like Parley or hit him. I mean, you could do you
and me in this drawer in your balls. I already poisoned him twice with
the trust me juice. Yeah yeah, well but you haven't many roles to
like, use the trust me juice, use the trust me juice and the
boot. So yeah, I'll just draw listen. I'll use the mighty mighty
backhand if I have to listen, Petie, I'm trying to do my best
to get you out of here. I need you to understand it again.
I can't go in depth here, but you have stepped in some ship that
you're not prepared to deal with you stepped in some things that, to be
Frank, the nation might be willing to go to war over. I don't
want that to happen. I don't think that you're involved to that level.
Please just cooperate here, let's get this cleared up. Let's get you out
of here. I know you're not the type of person to do the things
that we're concerned with, so we're trying to narrow that down, and you
have information that could be helpful. I would much rather not see anything untoward
happen to you. And like we talked about, these small minded folks around
here, they get a little I'm gonna slam the drawer violent at times.
Well, Frank, listen, I would like to believe you. It's just
go ahead and make up parlay roll see if he he caves or not.
Just twenty four. Make it. That's a six, A six, it's
a six. Okay, Well, Frank, I would love to believe you.
But you see, part of the problem is that the items were actually
stolen by one of your high illusionists and given to Larry Birdman. Dean Smelting
has been smuggling in magic items and filtering them through the Birdman Household Family Enterprises.
It's devious, I tell you, devious, downright devious. Hey Adira,
oh yeah, it might be time to glow. Mister Birdman here is
not wanting to cooperate, and well, here he is dismirching the good name
of This isn't a birdman, this is mister pet here. I want to
be too cooperative, and here he is besmirching the good name of our our
friend the Dean. As soon as she says time to blow, I'm gonna
blow. I'm just gonna look at him. Go. I don't want this
getting damage to pick up a long ago, and I don't want to get
blood on the I'm just gonna step off one and go and shut it.
Oh no, oh yeah. So at this point, Petie, we've exhausted
your options. Then you have two of them. One is to tell us
everything you know about those items. Two is to hurt really bad and then
tell us everything you know about those items. Make I mean either you or
Adira can make the intimidation role parlay parlay roll yeah for her intimidating. I
mean both of you are in the process of doing it, but one of
you make the role. Am I what am I doing plus charisma? I
really six, I'm the only skill I'm gonna twelve twelve, okay, okay,
Well, the magic items aren't from aren't stolen from the Dean. I
made all that up. That was a lie. I'm sorry. So I've
actually been working with Harveyman, the son of Larry Birdman, and we've started
moving magic items through the house, stolen items. We've been stealing from the
other wealthy families here in the Forsaken City. We've been doing it for years,
and we were trying to get some items maybe that were a little bit
more valuable in Harvey was confident that he could get into the vault with the
items that belonged to Dean, and that's where he got those ancient relics that
belong to lou or are you his servants from the age of Chroniclers. And
this was before the fire, well obviously before the fire, but I mean
this was how long before the fire? Maybe four days? Four days yep.
I gave him some money for some resources, Harvey. This is I
gave him some money and he was able to get a couple people and go
in there and get the items. And then he came back out, and
he took the items home, and he was working with a clergyman there.
Well, his father was working with a clergyman after he found these items.
You see, Larry unintentionally uncovered the items that his son had stolen, and
obviously put a bit of a curveball in there for us, because then he
wanted to get them reviewed by a clergyman, who then stole the items,
and then I stole them from him. Now you said Harvey had a team
to get into that vault. Yes, tell us about that team. They
were just a handful of people that he I don't I didn't really know them.
He used one of my guys, but my guy didn't make it.
He died. And uh yeah, apparently they were just some normal street tufts,
some people who had been rejected from the School of Illusionists. All right,
well, pity, you've not been terribly cooperative. You sure just did
admit to a whole bunch of crimes, so you know things are probably gonna
go bad for you, see you. Oh, when they come out the
door, I'm going to walk back in and set the wine back down and
be like, I'm sorry that had to happen. Really is a nice hat
I expected. I'm gonna take it, put down my head and leave my
hat. No more free hats, A walkooth job. Not thinking his shoes
just one. I'm not gonna wear it or nothing. I'm gonna poop in
it. Do you give it back? They him wear it all right?
So do we go back to the Dean with this information or do we just
go straight? I think we should go to the boat first, see if
the boat's there. He says, about a half mile west of the Western
Docks. Yeah, probably time sensitive. So yeah, yeah, let's do
that first, and then we'll stop at Harvey. Yeah, that's a separate
issue. Yeah. I want to chat with them a little bit, see
if anything, but mostly mostly I want to see if that heaven space.
He was one of the guys that helped Harvey get in originally. So I
will say, Larry Birdman's house is on the way to the Western Docks,
so you could stop there on your way, you could. We always do
when just said as a bird to check out the boat, while the rest
of us, let's let's stop and Larry on the way to I would love
for to make a roll as a bird. It typically goes so well,
yeah, well, there's no boat, guys. In fact, there are
no boats. Ever, how you could find the water goes off on his
own. I don't know how to flap these wings in this worm tunnel.
I flew too close to the water and a jellyfish stung me. I tried
to go for a bird and end up with catfish. Dumbfish, dumbumfish.
All right, so yeah, let's uh, let's head two. Larry Birdman's
okay, I see a giant cat. No, he's an aeric coke,
right, he's a he's a big old Larry birdman. He's got you know,
blonde feathers, big poofy head feathers. But he's a pretty slim bird
altogether, you know, so he doesn't have like the big bird physique.
He's just kind of got like that long tall bird. Yeah, tall bird,
tall, kind of slim. But yeah, so's he's everybody's older.
You know, he's got some gray and his blonde and you know he's molting,
so malting. So you show up there and he does have a bottleguard
that greets you as you walk in or walk up, and he's like,
oh, yes, how may I be of service? Yeah, we're here,
to see. Uh, I know that voice Larry and Harvey bird Man,
Oh illusionist, Eddie fouls own high Illusionists. This is the rest of
the Second Breakfast Club. Oh, very good, Second Breakfast Club. Mister
Eddie, please follow me. We are going to sit into atrium. Yeah,
we're always high illusions, will sit in the atrium. Why don't you
go fetch Larry and Harvey. Wonderful And so he directs you to where it
is, and he go gets Larry and Harvey and brings them back and Larry's
comes down. He's like, hey, how's it going? How you doing?
Hey, mister bird Man, Eddie fells home. Got got a bit
of a sticky situation involving you, somewhat tangentially, more like you've been kind
of dragged into it or or something here. But what have you gotten me
into now? He says to his son, Yeah, yeah, it was
him, in fact, son of them. Your mother was an ostrich.
Get over here, and I'm gonna I'm gonna fill him in. So she
had legs for day. Where have you found some some some artifacts sacred to
lou and some ancient texts pretty recently? Yeah, oh yeah, I had
been working with a man of the cloths, one of grayhawks, un chosen
priests. See, you had come here to help work through the value of
the things. I thought it would be good. Yeah, yeah, he
stole well, yeah, he was not a priest, a greyhawk. In
fact, that man's a murderer and a thief. A murderer and a thief
in my house, Harvey, what did you do? And well, he
took those those items to a man, a merchant that you're somewhat acquainted with,
in order to try to fence them, and that merchant just stole them
from the thief. P d Arsenal. I think you I think you've you
know of him? Yeah, oh yes, Me and Pete go way back,
old drinking buddies. Harvey. What's your relationship with pd? Oh,
I don't do a lot with p D. I'm just going to start spinning
my because that's not the that's not the tune that Pete's saying. I mean,
I mean merchants are liars though, right, I mean that's what they
always say. He's a used used wagon merchant, right, yeah, wagons
mostly deals and stolen relics and artifacts. He just say the word I'm heating
up over here. I think it's time. It will time to go up.
Alright, you guys want to make your intimidation role. Yeah, I
hate to smell of burnt feathers. Seven seven oh, all right, So
he needs assurances, he needs a concrete assurance. Concrete. I'll tell you
want what you want, just like I mean, I don't want to get
in trouble, right, I mean I was just trying to like Harvey,
you know you're getting in trouble for this, Like we can't not get you
in trouble. But I'll tell you what if you it won't hurt much,
Dear, it won't hurt you much, and just tell them what you did,
Harvey, idiot bird brain, dumb bird, duird all right. I
mean, so there were some other guys you know that are my age,
that are around town. They're like in the families, you know, the
big popular families, and they're always like doing stuff without me and they don't
include me. So I started, you know, stealing things from their house.
Is that parties, you know, like vases and you know, like
I don't know, just random things that they wouldn't miss but would be valuable
and their parents would probably miss and they would probably blame them for having a
party. But what about the stuff that you stole out of the vault?
Well, you see, that was kind of the thing. Like once I
got into the hang of stealing stuff, like I just kind of wanted to
keep doing it, you know, And so like the vault seemed really cool.
I had never been in there. So tell us about this. The
team that you took with you to get into that vault. Oh yeah,
yeah, I took a team in there. I just hired some street thugs
and I didn't go into the vault with them. They went in and like
three of them died trying to break into the vault, and apparently there were
traps that they triggered, several of them, and then two of them made
it back out. One of them was part of p D's group though,
right, and one was one of the street thugs. And then PDE's guy
tried taking the items from the street thug. His name was Alvin, and
Alvin got real mad and stabbed PDE's guy, and then Pete's guy got mad
and stabbed him, and they just kept stabbing each other on the ground.
They like were tussling and stab stab, stab, So but you all the
guys who went into the vault died. Yeah, it was very unfortunate.
Talk. Do I believe him? You're just laying on the ground stash a
discern realities? Is this some motherfucker that's a tent on the dice for discerned
realities? Uh? He is withholding information. Yeah. So the stabbing part
seemed legit. The two guys stabbing each other was legit. But it seems
like there might have been one other person that survived. Right, My intimidation
role was a ten? So can I get more out of them? I?
Yeah, like, what do you want to know? What are you
holding back? Oh? Well, it's just okay. There was one person
that lived heaven spacey No Ray, Oh, Ray, Ray broke in with
us and they figured out all the ways to get into the vault. Ray
the bar with the flu Yeah, oh you know Ray, No, I
knew right. Oh what did you know? Ray? What matter matter at
a bar? Which bar? Oh? You know? The filibuster, the
philibuster. I could not think of a name that. That was the first
thing that came to mind. All right, it's they got like a mic
night and you just get up there and you talk for as long as you
want. It's ridiculous open mic night. Oh you go to just say whatever
you want? Consciousness. Yeah, Ray was allowed to play their flu there.
It was wonderful. All right, listen here, Harvey, you're a
schmuck. Larry, you been all right? I think we got to stop
by the Philibuster. We should probably check them out first. Yeah, let's
first most bar later yeah yeah, all right, So before you guys go
check out either the boat or the bar, I think we should take a
break. This concludes this episode of A Fool's Quest. Join us next time
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