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up? It's your boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, a human consultant
turned halfling bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky than good, but
it's best to be both. And Richard's hill to die on is that the
toilet paper roll goes over, not under. Wait Beard, No, I'm
saying no, it's supposed to go you say the part thats okay? Not
mullet. I'm with you, gotcha. Yeah, that's just the way that
it should be. People do it the other way, then that's just yeah.
So hello, my name is Annelin Hardy, and I played Taylor Jacobs,
a centaur barbarian with a heart of Goulds, and the hill that she's
willing to die on is about working overtime. She asserts that if you are
salaried, every hour you work over forty hours means that you're making less per
hour. And then she goes home and works sixty. That sounds right,
yeah, but anyone else she'll say it over and don't you do it?
But then she goes on but then uk, hi everyone, I'm Katie,
and I play Crystal the Drowdruid with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity. And
the hill that Crystal is willing to die on is that if you are not
making money in an MLM, it is your fault because you have not worked
hard enough. It is not because the system is rigged against you. It's
because you don't have the hustle and you're not willing to take advantage of this
amazing opportunity. That is diabolical. Well done, Hey, I'm Marjorie.
I play Amy and Amanda, a basic b refentumble human fighter with a frenchly
minted dentistry degree. I've said it so many times, why do I mess
it up? So? So, you know what, this is really hard
because I feel like amian Is doesn't feel passionately about that many things, and
so the closest thing that she she could think of is, you know,
got a brush and floss twice a day? Like floss twice a day.
Yeah, something new, But you don't have to. You do have to.
You do have to do. It's critical and you floss first before you
brush. What. Yeah, that's a conversation for later. That's actually true.
And Tyler play the I T Paladine Paladin known as Bitlin Bentley Dragon.
No, we're gonna leave it anyway. Hill Bentley is willing to die on
the w n b A is boring and it could be fixed if you could.
Their net was lower and the dunk existed in the w n b A.
This isn't my favorite hill. It was meant to be controversial because it
ties back into the sports when we did earlier. All Right, it was
well done. I'm impressed you when you started. I was like, Oh,
where are we going with this? No, no, no, I
I had to make it a little funny. Yeah, Hi, I'm Alex
Capps, your DM or district manager in the hill I'm willing to die on
is that the two thousand and eight Classic speed Racer by the Wachowskis is horribly,
criminally underrated and is the best anime adaptation ever. That's like in the
live action film that's incorrect, and that's why the hell he's willing to die
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we last left off, Taylor Jacob's head kicked the door in Amyan's face,
then grabbed her and absconded with her back to the Ricks headquarters with Rich with
the rest of the party in tow. So we pick up there. I
find it funny that the mental image is that even though Amyen is fine,
she's still being carried. Yeah. I've literally got full health now. Sorry,
he didn't want to help her. He didn't want to fix what Crystal
did. Marjorie just pushed up imaginary. Oh right, all right, we'll
here, we'll here. Everybody be careful getting in. We have to be
careful getting you. I just don't want anyone else getting hut. You know,
anyone kicking a door that's unlocked. We did not expect Dors to be
a challenge today. But moving on, So amen, Yeah, was all
okay. So guys, I think so I don't have all of the information,
but I think that Dark Canyon has been in our situation before I got
His name is dandeliontegent because so he said that he knows that the thing that
he stole is broke. He wants us to continue finding all of the things
in a more expedited fashion. He's says that he wants to get home as
well, and by doing this will help both of us. But he didn't
tell me where he was from, and he wouldn't tell me, and so
he gave me this, and I show you the arcade thing. He gave
me this. This arcade is where my family would go to when we would
go on our like little family vacations. And you're like the thing you would
do, like put putt go to the arcade. This is the place.
Sounds like a stalker and I might be related to we also are on this,
Like, so there's this arcade token, but didn't one of the wristbands?
Yeah, from your y. He sounds like he just murdered your entire
family and has all these and like, I watch true crime, guys,
and this is what this is. This is true crime. He's hunting you.
Oh he's the murderer, but making it seem like he's the good guy
to help us question, what's that? Why do you watch murder for?
I said true crime, not exactly murder porn. That sounds horrible stuff that's
respectful to the victims. Thinking absolutely of South Park by the way, But
moving on, I've never seen that show Bentley. I hear it's pretty funny.
So I don't know. So I don't really know if this changes anything.
I was just really had a moment of freaked outedness because I got a
cold chill down my spine when the moonbeam hit the coin like perfectly. I
mean, yeahs not movie start. He also doesn't sound like he's gonna actually
help. He's already taken something from us without asking me. Yeah, I
agree, it's not a great foundation. Wouldn't tell me anything about self either,
So I feel like if he would have done that, we could have
had like more of a thing in common. But anything else, it's still
okay to beat them up, even if you might be related. Oh yeah,
I gets okay. Cool. I just wanted to make sure of that,
considering he did kind of screw us over a little upset about it.
Damn, I'm sitting here as I'm recounting this to my party. Is there
any information that I can glean from, like recall, like sitting now that
I'm calm, sitting thinking back, is there something I can roll? Or
do you have any missing cousins or family members that might have been on a
true crime podcast that Crystal might have watched, not that I know of,
not that I know Make a history chick, there's some hidden family lower that
you've just been wasn't paying attention she was too young. How many good omens
do her one? Yeah, use it please? But she didn't it was
I didn't say what it was, but she saw what it was. Doesn't
know if it's a success or failed. I'm pretty confident. How about you
shut the f up? How about that? God? I feel like I
feel like in this scene, like she's actually rolling dice on a table,
like they're trying to do like a litt Jimmy only Amy and can hear Bentley's
actually talking to her, distracting her from her from remembering to freaking help?
Oh my god, So you think about the coin freaked you out, And
as you think about it, you realize that it seems like still feels like
a recent memory, that it was middle school, the last time your family
went to that location. And I don't recognize him at all, Like,
no, he's not a relative or anything like that. Well, I mean
he's masked, but I mean like he's got the bat the batman mask.
You still see how his face, right, I mean she's not able to
recognize him because of his teeth alone. Oh did you get a good shot
at his teeth? I feel like we did. We talked about it,
not this time. But when we were in the cart together, can I
advocate for you to get inspiration for that? No? Inspiration for that was
good though. Use that so you do remember that he has really good tea?
Yeah? Yeah, do I reckon? Do? I like I'm thinking,
I'm like, hm M kind of trying to think all of those intelligence
intelligence I have enough. You don't have enough stuff to connect any dots there.
I bet if you think about it every day that you'll come up with
something that's a good point. Maybe. Okay, yeah, hey Rick,
yes, okay, tell me what you know about this? Yahoo? Oh
you're talking about doctor d Yeah. Well, some people think he's a fairy.
Okay. I think that's a bunch of bullocks. Okay, is it?
I think he's powerful for wizard, Okay, But I don't think he's
like the guy in charge, if you know what I mean. Like he
strikes me as like a it is like a guy who likes to act like
he's in charge, but like, I don't know, it seems like somebody
else is pulling the strings. Okay. He did say also, Darter interne
and said that I'm never going to Okay. I feel like I'm back in
differential equations for those of us. That's a difficult class. I like that
class, would like that class. Okay. He did say that if we
don't move quickly, that we might end up like him, and that's when
he handed me the coin and disappeared, And that's when I squealed, Okay,
that will be stuck here forever because we cannot have or that will have
to wear masks for I think that. I guess that's what he used it,
because I tried to get clarification, but you know, he yeah,
no, like it. The longer we stay here, the more like we
need a mask. What if it just like organically quickly look in the mirror,
like is everything like like bone jutting our be that's a horror show.
Oh no, Now I don't know how that changes anything really other than he's
I mean, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Guys.
So basically, we're back where we were and that we wanted to go home
as quickly as possible. But now we know that maybe you have some kind
of repressed memory that could help us. Oh this world doesn't. Maybe didn't
you go to like a rage room or something? Yeah, did that have
anything for memories? Maybe maybe they I think they might have hypnotized me for
a second. The rage room is now closed, went out of business.
Okay, they got bad. Maybe maybe Bentley, you've been working on your
therapy. Maybe you could like, you know, therapy me surprizer. That
memory just is really hard say all things through the power of checks notes tell
us first of all, oh, we can't go to a temple? Comes
up, he goes, hey, uh, yeah, he sees he kind
of holds his hand over. He goes, you know this thing like emanating
energy? Oh, what is really? What kind of energy? Yeah?
What kind of energy? Also? Can you take your mask off because we
can't hear you to help? What hick your mask off? Alex? I
think, Oh, I think I see why you wear it because you sound
just like Ulric. This thing is being used to track you. This guy
is a stalker. Oh my god, we give him right to you.
I'm so sorry. What should we do with it? Flush it a toilet,
toilet and it'll go down those sewer systems and like, love your idea.
Do they have systems here? I really hope used the bathroom. Yeah,
we don't know where the poop is gone though. The whole thing,
right, all of us. Oh my gosh, what No, No,
you your better idea? I just say, what if you do your like
messenger bird thing and have him like fly the coin somewhere so he thinks that
he's tracking us, and then we'll also know where the coin is. You
guys, you guys, hear voice? May I present a suggestion? Who's
that as you see stepping out of the shadows? Is doctor D What I
needed to know that was not consensual? A lot is wrong with me?
Are you her ugle or something? Go on? Why would you assume something
like that because you've got good teeth? Oh? Thank you? And also
the token is like a personal thing. I needed something to her? Are
you just manipulating? Yes, that's go a wait, we're not going to
help you. Are you sure about that? I'm not in charge here?
How can we possibly trust you? Well? Because I came here with some
information? Yeah, another cryptic thing for you to leave an image in his
hand of your friend Nemeo and albatross Lincoln in handcuffs. Okay, I need
you to tell us more now that I have your attention, he says,
it appears your business partners were unsuccessful in their gambit. How is this a
picture or a video? This is like, this is like an image being
displayed from one of his familiars, right, but like that is it a
still image or is it like a little video? It's like a video.
Okay, can we check to see if it's a deep bake or something like
that? That's like, we don't know. I don't even know how you
would do that magically. So how do we know you're not the one who
arrested this guy? Like you're apparently some sort of city official, right you
were telling us, No, I'm not. I'm just very deceptive. I
don't think that we need to talk to you anymore, all right, Rix,
so House, what is your like? Well, obviously you were attempting
to gain access to something. Now my guess is whatever it is involves getting
the items that goes back to the ory from the cult. Oh that's who
that guy was in the picture. She just doesn't know. Are you trying
to gaslight doctor d No, she just forgot the guy's name. Oh never
mind who deniability? She was not acknowledged that she has been involved in a
crime. She is not going to acknowledge that. So Richard is gonna like
kind of put his hands behind his back, trying to be sneaky here,
uh, talking on the bracelet to the guy's Like, so he thinks that
the thing is related to the crystal varge, but that's not what we're asking
him to get. Make me a sleight of hand with disadvantage as I burn
one of your bad omens. There's a thing I can do to help with
this with help with what she's trying to do, like distract, make a
perception check first. All right, Richard, what did you get I rolled
in eighteen thirteen? Okay? So basically, as soon as he starts talking,
you start like like you just like luck eyes, and you just start
randomly talking about something with Dr D. Okay, and but you realize pretty
quickly that Doctor D didn't even notice, okay, what Richard was doing in
the first place. What I'm talking to about is like, how do you
even why would you bring this random coin that I a place I haven't been
to for like fifteen years, you know, like, what is this?
There are lots of artifacts from your world in this place for some reason,
and they're personal to Amyen allegedly they're personal to all of you. But I
was able to divine that this one would mean something of value to her and
it would implo you're stalking her. I am not stalking her. I think
she's being stalked. Oh, somebody's stalking Amy Anne. Yeah, this guy,
that's a fight on site. Let's go careful, be careful. Is
there any can I do, like, any kind of assessment on doctor g
to like get his like level, his power anything. I want to size
him up. I'm going to say, just from like how you've seen him
use magic and slip in and out of places, he is far beyond anything
you've come up against. Okay, Okay, That's what I'm hearing, is
I should smite him, that you should only smite him. D Yes,
you want us to help you. I want us to help each other.
I recognize that we may have all gotten off on the wrong foot. I
suspected you all to just be the normal riff raft that Bluegle gets to do
their dirty work. Rude. But I am discovering that you have your own
set of useful peculiarities. Okay, the way you phrased that, Yeah,
I guess this whole conversation is kind of frustrating because we haven't really learned anything
other than this deep fake video of like Nemeo and urugachi and handcuffs or whatever.
So Abraham Lincoln, So, I guess I just don't understand a why
we should trust you, be what you actually want or see what you're bringing
to the table. Because we've been doing pretty well by ourselves. You shouldn't
trust me, okay, reason to book ever, you should never trust me,
But you really have no choice but to trust me if your friend wants
to get out of her little jam also cliche book mail lead. Wait what
jam are you talking about? You're assuming, you're assuming we have like a
problem we can't handle ourselves. No, No, you see, I know
thanks to a little goblin that there was a problem that you could not handle
yourselves. And it appears that they also could not handle it. We just
didn't want to. Not that we couldn't, we just didn't want to.
Okay, guys, so I think they're like done. I mean, I
don't feel like we've heard anything that really offered us anything. I am proposing
that we help each other. Every time you say that, I get a
little more crit Why don't, okay, just like say the proposal then instead
of just right, I help you do what acquire the crystal of age?
Okay, and then we all help each other get to wherever it is we
came from. No, that's not specific enough. You have to tell us
where you're from. Bruh. I do have to tell you that, just
like you don't have to tell me where you're from. Guys keeping secrets.
If you want to work with us, you gotta way lay them cards out.
Buddy, we're kind of like hired. It's like past midnight, so
I feel like if you really want to, we can pick it up tomorrow.
No, this is my last offer. Okay, Well I think we're
good to walk away then anyone else. Thank you, Thank you, thank
you. I wish you could have like told us something that we would be
useful to that I could not defend. But I got nothing. We could
have We could have been friends, we could have been we could have been
allies, but you just won't. Also, you like stole from us at
the very beginning. You started off, that's old news. It's old news
that under the bridge, that's data that we now know about you. And
you say I bring nothing. I showed you that your your friends failed to
accomplish their mission. You showed us that you're a thief and we should not
trust you. Very well, all right, I'm ready to go to bed.
Anybody else before we do anything else. Is there any insight or anything
we can roll, anything we can glean from the way he's talking? Is
he death for our help? Is he like you know? Because there's got
to be a reason he's asking. I would love to roll to see if
he looks like he's desperate or something, because he needs he needs us apparently.
So I'm gonna say I will let Crystal roll because she knows what desperate
looks like. Can I get advantage then? If I know what it's supposed
to look like, yeah, I'd say so, okay, okay, no
need to take this offline. Overworked and underplayed will circle back after these messages.
So if anybody who was going to be able to detect someone being desperate,
she would know because she loves praying on it. Right, sixteen he
does not appear desperate. Do we think sixteen is a low number? He's
very December. He is a liar, he's any lying liar face. I
don't believe what I see. So he says, very well, that was
my last offer. I will have the items for the US, then,
well, if you would work with us, then we would be more than
happy to work with you. I literally just tried to work with you.
No, you didn't. You tried to manipulate us. That is not the
same thing. And I know what manipulation looks like. She's really good at
it, Crystal, teamwork thirteen. Okay, is it only thirteen? Are
you surprised that a castor character doesn't have as I guess it's only fourteen.
This is only fourteen. Really, what's yours? Fifteen? Maybe I don't
have my like eighteen bonus. Well, I would hope. So, I
don't know. If you're about to attack me, then we're definitely parting with
He says, very well, I tried very poorly. I had that from
us. I mean, you're all in one room. Crystal would like to
speak to your mansion. But he is going to fire an Eldritch blast right
at Crystal. Do we have any reaction time? Because I imagine we're all
kind of together. I mean, there's not really anything that y'all aren't close
enough to be in melee range with him, and so he is going to
cast Eldrich blast. He's going to fire four rays. Okay, two of
which are going to hit Crystal and the other one is going to hit Richard.
Two of them are going to hit Richard. No two are going to
get Crystal, and then one is going to hit Richard. Can I can
I do something at when I see him attack? There? Can I?
Apparently there's no reaction time? Well, do you have something that you can
do as a reaction? I don't think I could do something as a reaction,
like if you had like a shield where you'd like get to add plus
two to your or anything like that. When is he he'll do this?
Since Bentley is just kind of it seems like he's just kind of in the
corner observing, make me a perception to see if you can you can see
him like, well, I know he's not like reaching for a gun,
but let's just say like the magical equivalent that would be a thirteen. Okay,
that is not going to be enough. Oh well, Crystal is gonna
take She's gonna be crispy nineteen force damage yep, and you're going to be
blasted ten feet back into the wall. He's got repelling blasts, and Richard
you take nine force damage. And also get ejected backwards to the wall.
Okay, damn, may I do you how many feet? Did you say?
Ten? Ten feet? I'd like to let me tell this is what
I'd like to do, So tell me. So Amy and sesus happened.
Crystal's blown back, Richard's blown back. Amy, and I assume d'artagnan's hands
are like smoking or whatever from the release of this thing. Okay, I'd
like to like dive for him to like sweep out underneath his feet and try
to grapple him. Okay, Taylor's gonna rage the fuck out. This is
what is how we're going to do this. Okay, realize this is going
to be make me a make me an initiative role. Okay everybody, Yeah,
everyone make an initiative role except for Crystal and Richard. Oh okay eight,
amyen, Okay, I'm also not unconscious. I know you're not unconscious.
Okay. One Okay, Taylor got in nineteen. Okay, let's see,
Taylor. I want you to roll again. This is six. Okay,
So you and doctor D rolled the same, and so the role again
was to break the tie. We're gonna go around, so am I everyone
to say what it is they're going to try to do before anything happens.
So you just saw the the Eldritch blast, So what is Taylor Jacob's going
to try to do? Taylor, Well, I already I'm sure to see
Amy in moving toward him, So Taylor's gonna draw her great sword and get
ready for whatever he's gonna try next, and also try and like get up
on him. Basically, Okay, what is Bentley doing. I'm gonna burn
a channel divinity and issue a champion's challenge, so he'll need to make a
wisdom saving through. Okay, and then Amy, you're trying to leap forward
and grapple him, like sweep him off his feet. Yeah, grapple and
prone is my intention? Make me a like make me an attack roll for
grapple okay, seventeen Okay, you leap forward and this isn't quite the initiative
order, but this is how this hole goes down. You leap forward trying
to grapple him. You issue your challenge, you draw your sword, You're
ready to go and Amy and ride. As you get to him, you
see him just fade away and miss as he uses misty step. So I
thing does it through no, because he was already in the process of that
was a bonus action from when he when he did his Eldritch blast. All
right, so Taylor's going to run over to Crystal Owl you should did you
just bitch out? Yep? He just the squishy is people and just dipped
fuck that guy like ow. And she's going to give Crystal her other you
know, but she's got a help push saying you two could see it as
that he chose the people he thought were the biggest threats. Obviously he did
not do that. Crystal would love for that to be true. But she
knows that she's squishy. She knows that she's not the fighter in the group.
So but she probably thinks that intellectually she was probably pissing him off the
most, which is a win in She's like, who won? Is he
still within sixty feet of us? So here's the thing. You wouldn't instinctively
know that's how far away he could be. But you can attempt to get
up and like look out a window and make a perception check. I mean,
I can just do divine sense because I know that he's a fa Well,
so here's here's what Richard is going to do. Richard just got blasted
in the chest and knocked back ten feet. He's like, what the fuck,
you son of a bitch? God damn it, what the fuck?
He's going to cast vicious mockery. Okay, So if he's within sixty feet
and can hear me, he has to make a wisdom saving throat. Okay,
we've never heard Richard. Yeah, oh my god, what's your spell
save? It is fifteen. You don't detect it has any effect. That's
all right. Richard's if he was a barbarian, he'd be in a rage
right now. But really, it's just pissed off. I got Tyler.
Are you gonna sorry? Bentley? Are you trying to use your divine sense?
I actually don't know if that works. It's I'll do it just because
I have. We don't detect anything. Actually, it'd be really fun.
You detect several fiends and undeads us it's the ricks. Yeah, oh god,
oh that adds another layer to that. Okay. Amy and is still
on the floor. She's like landed and her face is like on the floor
where she was like diving for his legs, and she just like put her
head on the floor, and it's up, guys, Taylor, I think
I know how you feel. I don't think I've been this mad before.
Yeah, it sucks. I think we should kill him. I think so
too. That's the spirit Rick ricks den't detergent, delate, detergent. I
need, we need, we need to be more powerful. All right,
sounds like you need a training montage. Ye, absolutely, we do.
Yes, I mean giving would be nice. Attack. God, I want
him dead. I said, tell you what, We'll start working on that
in the morning. Okay, man, you guys are awesome. Y,
it's nothing, This isn't unlikely. I do think no offense. I don't
want to sleep here tonight. I don't think he knows we're here. We're
gonna get rid of this rock stone thing that he's chasing us with. I
don't think we should go back to the crow's nest either. I think we
should find somewhere else to sleep. You have enough money to get a nicer
hotel part of town? Yeah you do? Oh right, well you do?
You do? Well? We don't, Bentley, I was gonna say,
I feel like the Rick should definitely detect us undead, because so Crystal
is going to take that little token and does what Richard suggested, which is
use animal messenger to heat that fucker to an undisclosed, far away location.
That she'll do. Before that, we'll get some paper the front. Yeah,
back, good call. So that way we have like exactly what it
looks like or okay, yeah. And then and she's like she's putting it
in a safe place, like she's telling you, no messenger to remember where
they put it so that if she ever needs it, because like that could
be a fun little trap. So okay, and she's pissed, so anything
she can do at this point to do anything, she's gonna do it.
Right. She just like screams at that poor bird. She's like, get
this thing a fuck away from me right now, right now, and the
poor bird just like Ski daddles, it's just Jay again. Sorry, it
took me a while to get here. Traffic was a bitch, dude,
Keep the fuck up and take this away from me now? Can do?
Can do? Yes more? That? Uh? Yes more? That candy
bar thing you get? Come back for it later, ok. I need
you to carry it away as far as you can, as fast as you
can and come back and I will reward you, all right. Tweet tweet
ah we're leaving this place and we're sleeping and Crystal is nursing that ego that
just got smacked down. Yeah, yeah, I could have healed you,
but I feel like the mental damage would have still hurt. So yeah,
I feel like you could have healed what I feel like there's gonna be like,
Crystal, do you want to assis stay in your room tonight? Yeah?
That was freaky. Yeah, I'm sorry. That was awful. There's
no reason to find a nicer hotel a slightly different part of town. You
can always go to a thiel Haven. What's that? Does it have a
spa? Yeah? Okay? How much does it costs per night? It
was like fifty gold a night. That's really that's insanely but it's all inclusive.
I guess we're just doing it for one night. Yeah, and everyone
covers their own right. You mean this isn't your treat because you're the one
that let us get like fucked up. You didn't do anything. What are
you talking about? I did what. I issued a challenge. It's not
my fault. How does issuing a challenge work? Just for my brain?
Is silencing? Or do you have to like call it? So? I
have a question, would it have burned by if he was already gone?
My thing wouldn't have gone off, right. So it's like this, and
I issued a challenge, issue a challenge to Crystal. You're gonna make a
wisdom saving throw. Okay, Crystal, well you'll probably pass. That would
be kind of funny. She's been sucking up the rolls today, so who
knows this is where you're gonna get the twenty as a joke thing. Oh
that's a twenty one. Yeah, no, you definitely pass. So she
just flips off. What she wants to do is throw something at him.
But actually, you know what, fucking that makes sense. Everybody's fucking fired
up. Yeah, christs, that's fine. Christ's gonna cast ice knife and
throw it hard. I need to make a sleep You have to make an
attack role with that, Yeah I do. I might lose it, but
she's pissed off enough. Probably will. It's fine if she does again,
she's just pissed off. That's a fifteen? Did you your plus one?
That's fifteen? It doesn't matter. Yeah, she conjures the everyone around us.
How much damage does it do? Say? What? It does?
Damage in the circle around where it explodes that's true. So I don't know
if anybody is standing around you. You are to be standing in a corner,
remember, so I'm going to say that everyone's more than five feet away
from you. But as the ice shod flies through the air, it just
directly impacts his chest and just just beautifully explodes out sideways from his new armor,
and she flips him off again. And that's that. Guys. We
should save our our mad energy and direct it towards those are our enemy.
Don't dismiss me, Bentley, I'm not in the mood. I'm sorry.
I like pat your back. And as you guys are doing this, you
see that Ulrich has gone and gotten popcorn and is unzipped like the little zipper
on his mask and is just eating pop You're gonna sayce and it's just it's
just like man Leric. You should invite these guys over more often. These
guys are a lot of fun. Turns out he wants to go home with
us. They are they coming to the at at least at least tell us
how to get there. Well, aren't we already there? As we were
in the process of I thought, But we are now, And where he
gives you the direction to get there, and it's literally the the He tells
you, Oh yeah, it's over in the nice part of town. And
like, as you're wandering through the streets Levron, you get to the Merchant
district, you see a sign that you've never noticed before. It literally says
the nice part of town. Actually, it's like that one specific style of
street lamp that you see. Yeah, there's money here, there is.
There's some like guilding on they. I bet they have great schools. But
anyways, you get there and you see this very ornate, fancy marble building
and you see a sign above it that's almost ghost flamed that says ethereal Haven,
the enchanted Retreat. Yeah, this sounds like my kind of place.
All right, I guess we wait and go up to the front desk.
You'd be like, how much for a the villa style rooms that have multiple
rooms attached? I'm sorry, do you have a reservation? Nice? You
need a reservation for a hotel. It's very very exclusive. No, we
don't. We work for Blue Below though. Does that help? Oh,
blue Girl, Blue Girl, we can give you a corporate discount rate for
the Supreme Villa. Will you be able to afford such, yes, how
much is it? Let's see it is five room. It is forty five
gold per night. Sure, Bentley pays the man with two extra gold as
a tip. Oh wow, thanks Bentley, Bentley, I didn't know you
speak French. Thank you, Sarah, if you if you will, the
norme will show you to your room. You see as the little gnome walks
up with like a little bell hop uniform and the Germans because uh, do
you have any bags? Just just emotional, just the ones under our eyes.
Follow me and I will show you to sweet okay, cool? All
right? So he takes you over and you see an elevator like you saw
at the Bluegle building. And he takes you up to the third from the
top floor and you find this entire floor is basically your villa for the night.
Wow, this is really nice. Request corporate house. He says,
uh, here are your tokens for this spa on floor three, and here
are your tokens for the dinner on floor five. I feel like a place
like this would have like bodyguard like security. Oh, there's definitely secure security.
You're in the nice hey little doorman guy is just to clarify. I
went to another spa, and it wasn't the best experience I've ever had,
And I was wondering what services the spa entails. Well, they have the
the massage okay, the aroma therapy candle okay, and they have the tub
with the bubbles okay, and then they have the room that gets really really
hot okay. So not no weaponry involved. No, why would why would
you have weaponry in a spa? Just that's the question. She's also you
know, you never know have you been? You must have been visiting some
goblin establishment. Well, it was where I work, so I would have
imagined that it wouldn't know, it wasn't where was it? It was gone?
It was I went to h huh it was I thought it was,
but it was run. It was a bad, bad experience, and I
just don't want to repeat it. And I've had a really bad day.
So I would just like to, you know, not be tortured for fun
in the name of health. Well, please enjoy your time here, and
if I can be of assistance, just let me know. Okay, I'll
let you know. She's gout of lands. She wants room service and chocolate
champagne. Do they have blogical terminals in this facility. You don't see any
Excuse me, sir, do you guys have blogal terminals that we can access?
Is the only Bluegle terminal. It was down in the z lobby,
So we're on the third floor from the top, so we could probably see
all of Oh, you have a very good view of the city from here.
Okay. So Crystal thanks the man and she walks into the hotel room.
Line. He says, by day if you need anything else, my
name is Antoni, lovely. Thank you so much. So Crystal walks into
the hotel room and she wants to look at the view and like take some
deep breaths because she's frustrated. Okay, can we see Bluegle from where we
are? Vaguely? Vaguely? The city is very large and there's lots there's
walls between all the sections of the city. Oh, but you can spot
what you believe is the Bluegul building because it is also tall like this building.
Okay. You do get a very clear view of the Atheneum from there,
okay, and of the like the government sector where the Lord Protector of
Lavern lives. Okay, this view is oddly calming to you, like you
would find that very relaxing, more of what you're probably accustomed to. Well
yeah, mm hmm, I mean that makes sense. So she's like probably
taking her first deep breath in since she came to this god for second place.
And while you're looking at the city scape, you see over in the
corporate sector, like what appears to be a small explosion and fire and smoke,
and even this doesn't at this point doesn't even alarm you anymore. Gotcha.
Yeah, she's like tired, she's ready for bed. I know she
is tired, but she wants to eat and she wants to go to the
spa. She doesn't want to do that in the morning because that would suck.
So but also, what time is it? Oh it is it is
like one in the morning. Oh okay, well we miss dinner probably okay.
Hotel this expensive, they probably have like all hours kitchen. Can we
order room service? It's all inclusive. Anthony turns and goes, yes,
what would you like? I would like some hot chocolate? I would like
some Can it be non dairy? Hot chocolate makes my stomach hurt? He
looks very confused. Okay, never mind, forgot where I was for a
second, and then like a solid, nice dinner. Whatever the house specialty
is, that's what I want. Okay. I don't know why, but
when you said hot chocolate, I'm picturing they're going to come in and do
the chocolate song from Polar Express. Would be fun. I would appreciate the
service, probably would tip, but she wants like the chef's special Is anyone
else needing anything from the kitchen? You see Amy just like arms folded.
She's like standing eyes closed and like you could see like a black cloud of
it's off head Like, I'm all right, I just need to sleep.
I don't trying to talk about Bentley's already asleep. Richard's on his way down
to the main lobby, Okay. Taylor's just gonna be near Crystal for emotional
support. So when she goes to bed, Taylor's going to bed. Okay,
okay, I would be back momentarily, thank you. All right,
So we cut down to the lobby. Yeah, So Richard's gonna talk to
the Bluegal terminal, and I don't remember exactly how we worked this last time,
but he wants the Blugal terminal to be able to contact the bluegal terminal
that is at the Crow's nests. He wants to talk to Montiac somehow.
Okay, so it rings, it rings, and yes here, Hello,
hey Mantiac, it's me, oh Richard. Yeah, where are you contacting
me from? I've never I've never seen this number before. Yeah, I
don't know something. Blogal terminal to blogal terminal. That's not the important part.
The important part is is have you heard anything from Nemeo? No?
I was hoping you'd heard something. I haven't heard anything from him all night.
It's not like him. He's usually he's usually a little more bloisterous than
this. Yeah. So where on the street is is that he and his
team they got they got busted. Oh no, Well, if they got
busted, then we need to go underground. I don't know. Uh.
Look, Nemeo's great guy and all, but he does have self preservation instincts.
Depending on how hard he is pressed, he may give up the goat?
Is there any so where we're from, when people get busted, you
have a couple of days to be able to legally get them out of the
justice system. Do you guys have anything like that? You can get people
out of the justice system temporarily. Yeah, we call it bail you.
Yes, yes, yes, we have that. All right. You think
that maybe that's something we can do to potentially not have him give the goat?
Yeah, tell you what, I'll see what I can find out about
that. All right, sounds good. I can call you back at this
number. Well, we'll contact you. We'll be back soon, okay,
all right, and then Richard hangs up Mont chuck out, all right,
and then cutting back, Anthony comes back up to the thing. He goes,
knock, knock, Hello, it's the kitchen was closing. But we
did have some onion soup, perfect, as well as some fresh baked bread.
And here is your hot chocolate. And I also brought up some complimentary
champagne. Is it French onion soup? It is not French onion suit that
would have been funny, perfect. You know what, man, you're the
best. And she hands him of gold. Oh, thank you so,
and then she takes it and she just eats it slowly, and she offers
Taylor some thanks you local economy, tyler. You're not crashing any economy in
this place, as she saw what you did, and she you know,
but he brought up some stuff, and so she's grateful and She offers some
of the stuff to Amy and well, thank you, Crystal. I'm okay
right now. I just need to regroup. It's weird. It's like feeling
so I don't know, like manipulated and disrespected and invalidated all at the same
time. It's really horrible and it's making me have like mean thoughts, like
I want to lash out, and I just don't know how to how to
make sense of it because just a tough just a tough day. I mean,
I'm the one that got hit by something. I don't know what it
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