Arthur and Matthias made their way through the casino, finding themselves a gullible rich
man they could possibly get to help them into getting deeper inside. Warren spent
some time trying to figure out more about his magic and his capabilities, and
he learned quite a bit about his place in the world. Hello, everyone,
picking back up again with another episode. IM how about I ask you
guys who wants to continue their little plot line? Michael Michael, Michael does.
All right, So back to Arthur and Matthias and a casino with uh
I keeping his name. Gribbs Flanders Flanders Scridge Flanders. So you guys are
with this rich man who takes you up to the second floor, the same
person as there. Oh, Hattie, y'all. Oh I see, Oh
you're with GRIBs high GRIBs, Uh, he says, oh, Hattie there
darling. Oh, we're just passing through. These two are my friends.
And I believe I'm allowed um up to what was it, five guests to
the upper level per month with my membership, and I don't think I've used
any of it. Uh, and she will, I'll say, yeah,
that's right, all right, all three of you come on in and you
enter the second level of the Waterfall Casino. Very lavish up here. It
is kind of separating itself from the outdoorsy desert vibe and instead has like a
lot of velvet, a lot of um deep red stark woods. It's definitely
meant to feel like it's higher up. There is another bar up here that
is noticeably better stocked quality wise. It's it's like the downstairs look like a
bar where you could get like a ridiculous spicy margarina. This looks like a
bar where someone serves you like one hundred year old Scotch neat. So,
you guys are up here and you go to a high rollers table. Now
what exactly is your guys plan here? Do you actually want to play at
the highest rollers table? I mean, I feel like we gotta play one
game? Yeah, all right, you go to play a game with Gibbs
Planners, then I wouldn't want to mark Gibbs Hospitality. The buy in up
here is uh ten tokens so, which is a full oz in price or
one hundred dollars in today's money. But tis I want to go again?
Okay, I gotta taste to win. I can get a win this time.
Yeah, all right, make me that intelligence check with advantage because you're
being helped. I rolled a nineteen and a natural twenty. You get a
blackjack boom shot a lot um and buy in was, um, I'm gonna
roll. I'm gonna roll for the dealer in the rule for gets. So
if depending on how many get above fifteen, the amount that of money you
get back will be doubled. So with a buy in of ten, about
um five players, neither of them got over fifteen. So correctly, if
I'm wrong about blackjack rules, then that just means that I don't know if
your rules. You just got fifty tokens. No, I think the house
gets the rest. I think I just get twenty. Oh okay, so
you get twenty tokens, house gets the rest. I've never actually been to
a casino before, but that guys, I kinda want to go. I
kind of want to go about a whole lot, Like I don't want to
like gamble a bunch of money away, but makee fun. I'll go.
I have to go to a bachelor party at some point, so that's that's
my chance to go to a casino. Should I uh, I don't know.
Let's let's give Gibbs a little like, Oh, let's let's go again.
Yeah, you can get your money back. Well, yeah, you
lucked out. I mean I didn't even have a chance to shine. Boy,
you flatter me? Roll me another check? It's a twenty? What
the fuck? Another one? I've rolled three? Is that another? Like
natural twenty? Or you get another blackjack? I wanted. I wanted to
lose, but I got over a fifteen. So um, I think this
time it was doubled. So you get forty tokens. Oh I put in
all twenty? No, um, someone else put in more because I rolled
the thing and you would have matched, assuming just want to crazy. Yeah,
I would have just made a fuck load of money. As you wrote
too, that twenties. How did our how did our friend do? Um?
He did pretty good. I mean he didn't beat you, because but
he beat it. He beat the house. He beat the house, all
right, I give him a high five. Hell yeah, man, that's
what it's about. We're doing great, We're doing great. Uh how about
how about get you boys from some drinks on me? Hey? M okay,
yeah that's a that's a good idea. Do we all do? We
all get up? Yeah? You all get up. Yeah, and while
we're all twel the reets, I can tell you about you know, how
I caught Maurice with that lime bastard old friend of mine. Phil Oh no,
Bill, mhmm, I trusted that motherfuck. Everyone's got to feel it's
in Phil's friend. Anyone with Phil. I have a story for you about
Phil. Oh do you yeah? I met him, asshole? How did
you meet? I mean last I heard, you know, after I called
him in bed with my wife. He was I pulled a couple of strings
and he was sent out to the middle of but fuck nowhere in death Valley?
Ye do not remember we kill Phil? I assume he's still there.
He's still there. I think he'll be all. I passed through, all
right, you guys get bought a couple of drinks. Are you gonna ever
tell him the truth about Phil? No? All right? Cool? How
about make me deception checks then deception that we don't know more about Phil?
I mean you did, like say, oh, you're just passing through like
you are hiding something. Oh no, oh, no, thirty you got
for the audience, Thank you, Michael. I rolled a one, you
go, I rolled a thirteen again. That's like my third thirteen, this
tired session, my beautiful dice. This die just can't handle the awesome,
the awesome, right, So, um you say that and he says,
Um, you know, I don't mean to say this. Uh you know,
SENI as we just met and it's not really my business. But um,
everything, what's wrong with Phil? Uh? He hates it there all
right, make me another deception check to try and save it. I could
do this all day. It's a six cool awesome, he got a seven.
Uh, well, let's listen. I hate the man as much as
you can tell me. I don't give a fuck. Or does something really
good happen to him? Now? He's a he's a permanent resident of where
he was posted. Oh that's what you mean unless the same Hell, I
would have done it myself if it wasn't a coward. Well, I mean
you also don't want unnecessary blood on your hands. The law will get you,
you know that whole thing? Well, yeah, yeah, maybe it
can. Yeah, I mean helps having it on your side sometimes though.
Are we at the bar? Yeah? Uh, Matthias think of something to
get us to lead. Um, so we're up here on the second floor.
Yea, our goal is to use this vantage. Are we gonna go
higher or do you want to just look over the balcony first. I'd say
look over the balcony first, because I don't know how we can finagle another
floor out of this. Yeah you could have easily, Yeah it just looked
over the balcony to get a lay of the land during any of this.
Yeah, yeah, I mean to go up another floor or would be like
get arrested. I think it would bring Yeah. So at this point,
um so trying to get avantage point? What exactly you're trying to find out?
So I've got an idea of what's available on the first floor. Now
we're on the second floor. Um So, now that we're up here,
are we able to get a better look at the offices and doors and stuff?
So right now we're in like the high roller area. There's the bar
in the corner, and there's it's like the higher class bar. And then
maybe is there anything behind all the doors of sweets or is it just suits
all the way back or is it like one important office. I don't know.
Um on this floor or the top floor from what you can see from
here, can we see farther up to you can see you have a better
angle for sure, Um there is uh, I'm gonna say you can well,
first maybe a percent option check um. And while you're doing that,
I will say that you can for sure see a um group of double doors
right at like overlooking the rest of the casino in the back, very obvious
important office type deal. Um. However, I will keep it. I
would like to remind you that this is that's still a third floor and this
is a six story building, so it's probably an important room, but um,
probably not too much from the business ass point of things. What you
get for that perception check dirty twenty. So will you can tell that room
looks like the type of room where um, how do I say this where
meetings are made with very specific clientele or I'm gonna add some something that Matthias
might know. Matthias might know that there's probably a private gambling room, like
a private poker table, specifically for business meetings between like members of like really
rich people from other companies trying to like make business deals with the Hydro collective.
That seems like the room where that happens. WHOA yeah, So you
also know there's like there's plenty of Um, there's a couple rooms up there
on either side of the main floor, on the third floor that appear to
be stairs that go further up, um, into the other offices. Um,
is there anything else you're trying to find? Okay, Sean, this
is my plan. Okay, tell me your plan. Okay, Okay.
We're gonna get our drinks right, and we have to make sure we order
what Gibbs is not ordering. Okay, okay, because then okay, right,
and then we both have the same drink and we both hate it,
and so we we storm up another floor to get the manager to tell them
that they're risky, is bad, and then we're up them. That's what
I got. I don't know what else, Like, why else would we
go up to those offices like complaint? That's about it. We're in no
position of power. Um, we could get in trouble. We don't want
to do that, any ideas. Yeah, I think that's as good as
a plant as any I mean, that would be causing a ruckus. Yeah,
yeah, we're just we're just here to scout. We don't have to
go all the way up to Dolly Pines. Yeah, we just we should
leave. Actually, probably Seved we should, cause it should be like a
discreet ruckus, Like we can make a bunch, Yes, we can make
a bunch of noise once we're up, hopefully up on the next floor with
the manager. But until then, like we just quietly walk out and then
up the stairs, so we don't we don't gain attention to ourselves. M
hmm. But if the manager fights back, kidding hopefully, but like,
so we're doing all this just so we can see one extra floor. Wait,
oh hit me, Please tell me what if you know some a little
sand I snuck in my pocket, got stuck in our drink. Oh my
god, that's honestly such a good callback. Fucking sad winds Sean, that's
perfect. What's your sleight of hand? Plus one? This is all on
you, man, plus one. I'm sorry, given the help action,
I'm gonna help. Okay. I can like I can like block Gibbs view,
but I can't block the bartenders view or like distract them with a story
something like that. Okay, okay, So we're at the bar ordering our
drinks now. It doesn't matter if we have the same drink. Is GRIBs
for sure gets just a like a whiskey neat. I rolled a twelve for
sleight of hand. That was the best I got. You get an advantage,
that's the best one. Yeah, okay, GRIBs, I h this
is a good choice. Yeah, I know. Right. Uh, this
is actually my family's whiskey. Wow m hm m hmm. Yeah it's pretty
cool. Pretty cool. So a little okay? So where are you boys
from? Uh? The sand? Oh? Wow? Very very very just
get look you know, I know, I understand, you know, probably
don't want to give out those kind of details. GRIBs. I was just
joking. I mean, look at me, I'm a reptile. Yeah,
I can see that. M hum for sure. I mean, look at
me, I'm a mustache. Man is a beautiful mustache. Thank you very
much. I appreciate it. Might I say, you got a very beautiful
spines and scales yourself. Oh, thank you, mister Gribbs. So he
kind of leans in quote mostly classic handguns, like, so what are we
doing this? If you mean trying I back up, if you mean trying
your whiskey? Yeah, alright, Matthias, let's got that. Did did
he get it in with the twelve? I don't know. I guess you
drink the whiskey, and there's stand in it. No one appears. Oh
oh hey, well might not be the best for you for your kind of
a rough taste. He might need a bit like a better palette. Now,
mister Gribbs, I don't think it's you. I think there's an issue
with your production. Look, there's stand in this whiskey. Audible gas,
his mustache flares, his mustache sand and flanders whiskey. This is horrible.
You know, my brother's on the board. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go talk to him about firing this bartender. Here, bring the glass,
but just bring the glass. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. Now
we like to start pushing him to like we're with him. Okay, are
we going up? His brothers on the Yeah, we're going up. At
this point, we're gonna we're gonna cut back to the other two. Is
there anything? Um? What? What? What were you? What are
you guys currently working on? What? Currently? Good question? Um?
You can just be done and we can keep with going with boys if you'd
like. Personally, don't have anything else I wanted to do. I just
wanted to scout out the place and make sure we could get in. You
know. Yeah, I've got my little vantage point all set up. Awesome,
Great, there is anything else you want to buy? While you're like
in, are you already got you already got cleared for the stores? Maybe
you could buy like a news Can I get some bullets? They don't They
don't have Super bowlts. I'm sorry. Oh, you would have to buy
a rifle? You do? You do? Would have to buy snipper right,
full bullets? They are different kinds. Do they carry any Perca Cola's
just one for like a pack of fifty? Yeah? I have plenty of
money. Dang, okay, um, they still explore so far. I've
spent nine ohs this session. Nice, I guess nothing. Yea, almost
a thousand dollars. That wasn't even half of it. Um, Audrey,
you have incoming by the way, incoming kitten, it's a warning I heard
about. He's so cute baby, he can wait till we're done. He
also made a stinky down here by the way. Sucks for you, man,
Yeah, it does his wet food make him stinky? Bro o the
bonker smelly h guys. Back on topic, I've got nothing I want to
buy it? Right? I thought the boys to go my rifle. Well,
I think you should buy two hundred just in case you gonna have to
shoot her. Two hundreds You never need, ever know. The two boys
are brought to the third floor, who quickly look down while we're walking,
look over the balcony. What perception checks? Okay, So this whole balcony
tiered thing, this only lasts for four floors, right, and the last
two are completely out of you. So this is this is the last one.
Oh, it was only three floors and then there are like side stairs
to get up to the floors above you, but they're not a part of
the casino balcony floor. This is the last like six or all new ceilings.
Yeah, okay, this is the last part of the building that is
explicitly for the casino. Okay. The rest is just for normal hydro collective
business stuff. Yeah. See, I got a fourteen, which is one
better than like literally the most common role I've had all sessions six. Oh
Um, I'm a little busy with the sandy Glass. Yeah, you visit
the sandy Glass. You're focusing on your tall tail, um, Matthias.
You take a look around. This area is not as nice as the one
below. It it is a lot less furniture. There is like one area
that looks like it's it's like it's an employee lounge. Um, but it's
mostly just people patrolling, um, like the top area and looking down.
Um. Some of them even have like little binoculars, uh to spy on
patrons make sure like no one is teaing or anything that kind of deal.
And there's like a couple of workers just talking to each other. Um,
there is a casino manager's office. Um that um, Grizz'll actually turning you
guys, like, you know, this is terrible, Um, but I'm
not Usually I can be kind of harsh sometimes when it comes to, you
know, my judgment. Do you do you guys think I should just we
should talk to the manager or should I go talk to my brother because he's
on the board. Well, I'm I'm not in the whiskey business like you.
I don't know where in the line this could happen. Maybe we should
check the bottle, honestly, Maybe we should talk to the manager. Maybe
the glasses were clean all right, could have been someone else, So we
can just talk in the manager for now, and maybe we can just maybe
I can just take a little look at their stock. You know, you
guys are so helpful. You're the most you know, the most helpless sex
workers I've ever had. M thank very much. You're you're really keeping a
cool head through this. Yeah, you guys definitely just walked up to the
richest person you could find and started getting gussie Gussie with him. Yeah,
he thinks you're sex workers. Yeah, uh, cards right, we'll give
you another kind of cool head later. No h. And that's why I
made this a thing. And that's where we in the episode, No,
we we have right, So you go to the casino manager's office. Um,
the casino manager is an older woman with like a buzz cutt. It's
not Dolly Pine, damn. And she's wearing like a three piece suit.
And then Delly Pine walks. She is currently uh standing uh and talking with
just a black headed goon about things some with theis what we're able to glean
from our your quick peak on the third floor. So it's now it's survival
time. We have we have to figure this outainly. Yeah. So now
there's there's there is the upstairs, but it's not like the upstairs what it
was on like the first second floors yeah, we know where those stairs.
Now we know where the stairs are at least to the flat floor. Yeah,
now they're like now it's more on the sides that lead up to like
the offices and everything like that. Those they're separated by a door. It
is clearly marked stairs. But the door is like right next to like the
stairway onto the fourth floor, so that like it's it's convenient to walk from
one to the other. You just have to go through a door. Nice
because it's like it's like the stairway goes up the wall and then like immediately
on the left into the wall right or and then another staircase. That'll be
easy to relay to Clint mm hmm. And also everyone, um as you
to walk in the woman shoes away the good and it's now how can I
help you? Three gentlemen. There's a mister Gribbs like this is like his
things right, like his pride has been hurt. I feel like he'd talked
first. Yeah, mister gislis talk. He will say, yeah, excuse
me, um, I'm I'm Gribbs Flanders. Just so you know, you
know, whiskey extraordinary. I my my friends here had some of your whiskey
down at the second level, the second level bar, mind you. Uh,
and they found sand in their glasses. Now, why do you think
you do you got like some do you got like some sandy dishwashers or something?
Oh blah blah like or are you not keeping your employees clean? What's
going on? What's going on here? What's going on here? Man?
What's going on here? She'll say, you've got sand in your glasses.
She will slowly blink, Uh, how much sand do you have the glasses?
Yeah? I brought it. I brought it, right, I mean,
I guess we can go look at your stock of the whiskey and you
know, do a little investigation. We can't figure anything out right now for
you though. We got much other a lot of other things on our plate.
But you know, I'll ride up a little formal complaint if you like,
if y'all lack, I start patting GRIBs on the fact. And it's
very much like a formal complaint. GRIBs thell they'll keep an eye out if
a they happened again. They can get to the bottom of this. Good
to know you don't collect to folk the reliable people. M h. Silence
crickets. So well, we'll get that square away for you. Is there
anything else I can help you all with? Uh? If only we could
time pause and talk out of game for five minutes about what to ask her.
I would let you guys do this because you would have known that you
were going to talk to her previously. And also I do want to see
what you can do with us can turn it to me so into thanks?
No, So, Sean, what are things you can ask managers? Managers
are in charge of things. They're chrge of employees, they're in charge of
customers. No, they could? They see money, They see money go
through. She is in charge of the day to day activities of the casino.
She's in trying to keep it running and a polished. What's like what's
like the vibe in the in the the office right now? Is it like
just we can do like everyday chit chat about things or is it like she's
real busy? Oh okay, yeah, this is D and D. I
forgot dudent insight check, Sean, Come on, h okay, I'm overthinking
social situations. That donates is uh six? Oh? No, seventeen.
She is very tired from being overworked. You think you could get on her
good side by entertaining her um or leaving her or or or she would also
just like it if you just left her to do her she the way,
the way she currently sees it, You just gave her more work. She's
kind of annoyed about that. If you like throw up the charm factor a
bit and like, you know, be nice to her and like be entertaining
and fun, then she might be a little more amicable. Will Matthias,
that's definitely I have negative cruisemas. Yeah, is there anything we so what
would we say any other business you guys want to discuss. I just,
um, you know, I actually just wanted to tell you how, I
mean, regardless of this little fiasco I made, this was a very very
minute thing, right. I mean we've all had a little saying in our
whiskey glass at times. You know. I was coming out a period of
my life where I have sand in my whiskey glass metaphorically rather than physically.
So this is just a great experience for me. Um. So I just
wanted to let you know that I think you and I can I'm sure I
can agree for all my buddies here that we think that you run a really
great establishment. We're very happy here and you know you're doing great work here.
We have we're having a lot of fun regardless of this. So we
don't want you to to overthink this too much. This is just a little
thing because I'm sure, I'm sure you know. I'm sure you're very busy.
You're very busy trying to to manage all of these people trying to get
all these cogs in the well oiled machine to work. I mean, I
am a businessman, so I understand how it could be difficult trying to lead
everyone together. So uh yeah, I just I don't want to be in
your head too much. I just want to say, you're running a great
establishment, you see, like a very busy and I just I respect you
and I respect this establishment. Well you really me either a person. Check.
You really buttered her up, Bro, he really buttered her up.
I love everything you've ever done. Wait what perfect and or persuasion or deception?
Okay, the cogs in the well she eighteen. She starts crying,
No, we're in It's just it's just so hard. They're have so much
pressure, come on top, It's it's and they're they're they're they're fucking insane.
She's pointing up, sir, they're fucking insane. How are they insane?
The fuck the fucking board thinks every other person is out to kill them.
M it's ridiculous. They like refuse to come downstairs. They're they're convinced
that this weird shadow group is gonna invade the casino at some point to try
and like assassinate them or something. WHOA, wow, fucking they're even Oh
my god, and they're you know what, really fucking bothers me about them.
Don't tell don't tell fucking anyone I told you about this because I need
to vent about this. I'm like legally not allowed to talk about this,
Griggs. If you tell them, if you tell them one about this,
your fucking band. Uh. They have they have like this young woman right
that I'm pretty sure the CEO just fucking stole from someone and she's been keeping
just keeping her like held up in there. Oh. I'm pretty sure they
even like hiring kids off the fucking street to be her playmates. What the
hell? Oh my god, I'm like, it's like it's like a smout
of sick to make dumb summer came, oh my god, oh my god,
and what like, I'm just a manager because but I still got to
go to those fucking meetings. I still see that kid running around with like
two armed guards fucking following our at every time. And what am I supposed
to say about that? They're in't charge fucking everything. These people fucking sane
nuts. It sounds crazy radically. I'm sorry at you guys. I'm sorry
I vanted at you guys, like, um, I don't tell anyone about
this. I am unions. I am I have taken this to the grave,
do you guys? You and your nice No, we're not allowed to.
I feel like that's a sign that you should a voice in our head
says. I feel like, if you're not allowed to unionize, it's a
pretty big sign. There's like a bunch of signs everywhere. There's like a
bunch of signs everywhere that are like all the disadvantages of a union. Oh
my god, you work less hard, you you attain rights. Don't you
trust the Hydro collective to give you rights? So, I mean, all
this crazy shit that's been happening, like from the people upstairs, kidnapping people
and everything, you know, that's got to put like a lot of pressure
on you to be a living under that kind of mental stress. So,
like, how does that affect like your day to day you feel like?
Honestly what I feel like, I feel like my entire lots a fucking lie.
Yeah. I feel like the casino ain't even fucking real. I feel
like it's just like it's a face, like it's a mask. It's it's
what's in in front, so people don't look behind. That's only first.
That's why it like you answer the building, you look up, that feels
like it's the whole fucking building. It's only half the fucking building. The
other half is like plotting to steal everyone's ship. M yeah, so how
does that, like, how does that affect like your your mental your mental
health working on these day to day operations. But I do feel like you're
about to start a wrap. But I do get paid a lot of money
that is very nice. Do I feel guilty about it? Sometimes? Right
now? I do? Sometimes I don't, depends on the day. What's
your name of Vanessa? Vanessa, You're getting mighty god and very helpful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Vanessa, well thanks much,
thanks so much for the talks boys, we might see you around. Yeah,
sure, she but she kind of like she seems like she like used
to have long hair, and the way that she like brushes over her um
her like buzzcut situation. Um, and it goes back to work. Well,
grabes, let's hit the table one more time. Then we got a
head out. It's getting dark. Are you just trying to get more money?
Maybe? Uh yeah, roll me that well that intelligence check. Whoa.
But I also wanted to say goodbye to my new friend Gribes over alot
game. Uh yeah, he'll he'll do the game with you and at one
point he will slip you a rim key and be like, you know,
just come on back room. I bet he's really generous. I mean,
can I can I roll a D twelve mister Judlo for a reason? Sure,
yeah, go for it. For a reason. I mean i'd like
that is Oh he's uh this like short, stocky man, giant mustache.
Yeah for sure for total he's built like a nineties porn star, Like he's
gonna it's gonna be dipping in the water. If he said short, Okay,
I'm playing I'm playing Blackjack. Audrey looks so disappointed. Fifteen is what
I come to expect this show. Um, all right, oh um,
house winds. Actually that was ten buying right. You didn't bust, but
yeah it was. It was that was ten byan. You didn't bust,
but he was. The house got y so the house got my Carnie.
Yep, yep, all right, Well Graves, it's been a mighty pleasurable
hanging out with you. And uh, maybe I'll be back in a little
bit. Maybe I'm excited to see y'all. Take care now, uh,
and we make our way downstairs and out. Can we do a cute little
can we do a cute little perception check to see if anyone is suspicious of
anything? Because after we played it that kind of good. Yeah, go
for it, she was probably gonna have a better perception. Fourteen Again,
I got your role. Yeah great. I want one of you to roll
me a luck check D twenty. Tell me what you get? Which one
you were me? I want you to do it? Oh no, not
twenty. How our roles in the middle over the place. You guys,
don't notice that no one's like kept an eye on you or anything with a
natural twenty luck check? As you guys start heading downstairs from the third floor.
The door opens behind you, and out walking out of it and then
into the other direction was Clyde dominic As. You just missed him and he
walked away without noticing you into the manager's office. Oh shit, M I
wrote it down. So I want to point something out for you guys.
Point this is not something your characters know, but this is something that I
dramatically want you guys to know and I want the audience to know as well.
A couple episodes ago, I made Sam roll a wisdom saving throat.
Now that was kind of a retroactive wisdom saving throat to apply to any point
in your journey for the spell Scrife. Fuck oh no, oh no.
So currently, a few stories above our group's heads as they head out of
the casino, there is a woman packing her bags, a woman who knows
that you're coming.