Somewhere deep underground an unknown location, presumably in belowna mister o Bobo and this
the Kalugi Silatio sort of walking around this circular ish corridor, there's a spill
of light somewhat coming from one end of it, outside of the door that
you came from, door which has the number ten written on it. Door
into a room of a sort of comfortable jail cell that you've been in for
a couple of weeks, even though you're not too sure on the time frame
yourself, because you've not had any reference outside of meals and visits and Colugi's
ramblings. You guys came out of you broke out of this room, only
to find yourself in a kind of corridor that just circles and circles. There
is no other door that seems to lead out that's present here. You guys
were looking for kind of a way out. You were pressing paving slabs,
and you were pushing bricks on the walls and stuff pretty much to no avail.
Confused, very confused as to how this is possible. Could you roll
me a dice and I'm going to roll a dice for young Loogie all right
here goes nothing eleven eleven and are nineteen from Kalougi. You guys do this
for a long time, walking around in circles every now and then, comparing
notes of very little, only to find that nothing's happening. Eventually, you
feel like you've pushed every brick here. It's been hours of doing this,
pushing and hitting the walls, feeling some of the grooves. Every now and
then you'll find like an area of the wall that seems kind of strange.
There's certain parts of this wall that feel unconventional, but it seems more like
age to you. As you're looking around, it feels like you're in a
very old place. The bricks and the walls are eroded in a way that
suggests time more than anything else. There's no breeze or anything. The furnishings
of the room you're in were pretty modern, but not anything outside of that.
Klugi eventually comes around to the front of the doorway, looks in at
the room that you've come from, turns to you and says, but I've
got nothing. I'm completely confused. I've pressed every rock, I've pushed in
every paven slab, and I've touched every single brick here maybe twice. I
think maybe this is starting to look very grim for us. I'm not gonna
lie. I feel like I've touched every every stone, every every tablet I've
come across myself. There's just no light. I'm not seeing any light coming
in other than well from the room. You've done it. I've done what.
He points to the sconce with the torch in it. Right, what
if we tag the torch around? Well, I suppose I reluctantly grab the
torch. See if it moves, like, if there's a breeze coming from
outside, it'll blow the torch. Right, Oh, you're right with that.
I take the torch and I see if the wind blows, perhaps giving
us a direction. Yeah, roll me and other dice. The two of
you start walking around this this corridor, holding the light up in front of
you or watching the light. You're kind of looking to see if it changes
direction in any way. You walk like from your doorway all the way around
to the other side. No change in the torch, and you keep walking
before Calugi shouts after you, where are you going? Well, I mean,
I'm just you know it, well, I'm just bring it back,
bring it back. Look at that points at the wall. Lift the torch
up. I ruffled my brows and then immediately turned to where Cologi's looking.
Holding the torch up, he points, well, look at that. What
does that mean? It looks like nothing to you? That just looks like
the wall. What do you mean, Kalugi? Why don't you see it?
Line? It's I'm looking at a wall. He reaches forward and grabs
your sunglasses off your face. Suddenly, with your eyes able to see with
your natural vision, you can see that there's a kind of strange shape,
kind of like a door shape, glowing slightly, and as you move the
torch around, it becomes more and more illuminated. You see it, By
the gods, is that our way out? You've got beautiful eyes, you
know? Why do you wear these things? Oh? I'm shy? All
right? He hands them back to you. Thank you. I put it
back on. What does it mean? That? Doesn't that mean that that's
our way out? Right? But it starts pressing the wall that's a near
to it. Well, there's something there, right, that's the door,
right, I suppose do you hear anything on the other side? Sounds like
rocks? Rocks, Yeah, like a wall. Like I can't hear anything.
Okay, I begin to examine this wall. Yeah, roll me and
other dice seventeen. Hey, rolling high enough now that you can see the
kind of shape of the wall. You can see that the bricks and the
way that it's laid out are clearly designed to be able to be moved.
The light showing you where the wall is helps you to figure out that this
for sure is able to be moved in some way. But you get the
sense that the mechanism that would probably move this wall in some way that it
looks like it would probably move backwards in the sense that like away from you
and then fold out or slide further into the wall in some way like that
like a secret doorway, the mechanism surely has to be opened from the other
side. There can't possibly be a way to do it from this side.
It really does seem like the only reason that the all exists in this way
is just in case you happen to have locked yourself in. I suppose.
It does seem to reveal that there is a doorway here, but how to
open it almost certainly impossible from this side without any very specialized tools or something
like explosive, maybe magic. I immediately turned to Kolugi. This is probably
how they're getting in here, but I don't see any way of us getting
out from here. The mechanism is probably on the other side. I mean,
do you have anything perhaps that I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't imagine
like a lock pick, considering there's nothing to pick here. Oh, we're
buggered, then I suppose no, let's not give up that easily. You
know. I feel like we have a strong bond, and we put our
heads together, we can come up with something, right. I suppose they've
got to come down here at some point. Maybe you stand on that side
and I stand on this side, and we hope that it's not some loow
Well. Yeah, I was also maybe thinking we cause some sort of diversion
or something, make some noise to get them to come back here, and
then we surprise them, all right, and we make our way out of
here. All right? That sounds good really. I I don't know how
we're going to surprise them though, but we could pretend to be having a
five right. They don't want us to kill each other. Oh, I
don't want to fight you though. I don't want to fight you either you've
you're literally like half a god? Right, Well I mean I'm I mean,
don't you have? And he reaches forward and starts tickling your belly.
Don't you have something in there? No, not Jesus, no, I
no, I had god nothin terror. You said there was something in there.
Well maybe, well it's not there anymore. Well we could just pretend
to fight, okay, right, just uh, I'll punch this wall and
you punch that wall, and we'll just react as if we're being punched.
Okay, I'm going to slap the wall and and you know stop that I'm
slapping. Yes, you like that? Do you like that? Yes?
That doesn't I'll tell you what I said. He starts hitting the wall as
well. Right, both of you can roll dice one for Cologi, one
for you. And this is basically a performance check. Is that six yours
on a perform Ah? No, it's terrible. You guys start making a
whole ruckus a bunch of noise hitting the walls. Kalugi's jumping up and down.
He starts like hitting his belt against the wall, so it sounds like
something's dinging off the wall. You're kind of screaming. Eventually, maybe like
two or three minutes later, suddenly there's a hard kind of goojun and then
the sound of like stone grinding against stone. The piece of the wall that
starts moving back is where the door was that you were expecting to move.
It moves backwards and starts moving to the left, holding in on itself somewhat
kind of moving further into the wall. The secret door opening up. Khalugi
turns to you and then, wait, we didn't come up with the next
part. What are we doing? I guess I'm just I'm so shocked now
I'm just standing there. Yeah, A very very long rifle slowly pokes its
way through the door and rests itself against the side of your head, resting
on the back of your shoulder, and you hear the voice of worst and
say, that's going to be the worst acting I've ever heard from a part.
It it's not my forte. It actually works in your favor, and
you, well, that's about what I expected from a drunk. I'm not
actually that drunk right now, So maybe if you'd like to help me on
my way, did you bring anything? All? Right? Two of you
are finally made your way out, did you? Boy, well, are
you trying to tell us that we were supposed to do this? Yes,
it was a sort of intelligence test, an intelligence test. All right.
Look, I may not be the brightest bulb here, but this was a
test. I left you in a room with lock picks, and it took
you two weeks to get out. You did, Actually, it takes a
little while. We were having just such a great time. Yeah, we
were. We were having a great time. It was like vacate a little
bit. But we were locked out right. Well around just in time.
I'm going on a little trip. He throws two kind of circular collars on
the ground that might be used for a big kind of mastiff dog or something.
But then on carefully, okay, careful, uh okay. I then
put it on, and he throws two coats out. One is even bigger
than the thing that Klugi is used to wearing. It's a big, kind
of fine looking thing, the type of thing that you might see on like
a noble in the thick of winter. The lining of it kind of a
fur of like something like maybe a bear or something really rare to put on
the inside of a coat, covering everything including the collar of your these metal
collars that he's thrown on the ground. He throws his two coats down.
Yeah, put them on as well, Jesus, Okay, I put on
the cloak. So the two of you clip these metal collars in place.
They sit around your neck kind of snugly. Really, it just feels like
a very heavy metal ring, quite thick. You can tell when you pick
it up that it's got some sort of mechanism on the inside, and when
it closes, it locks in place with what feels like part magnet and maybe
a little mechanism that locks together. Luki puts the thing on and then gets
a coat and says, can't I wear my coat? That one's got to
cover the collar. Show anyone you're wearing a collar and activate the collar where
you're activate? What do you mean? What does this thing do? What
does this thing do? You run my neck? You can't be trusted.
I we can't be trusted. What not? Quiet? But I've got one
lead left to follow, really, the only one I got left. The
inquisitor has been looking into something and you are required to come with me look
into it. Okay, Look, well we're not your guinea pigs, are
right, We're going to see your friend Aura. You have Aura. Maybe
I'm not sure. I don't really know what's going on either. If I'm
honest, another inquisitor has been working with Aora on something. Well, if
Aura is involved, well you can expect your hesitation from me. In my
pocket, there's a thing known as a dead man's switch. It's a mechanism
that sends a high pitched noise to the mechanism in your collars. If my
hand loosens, the collar will release six small blades into each of your necks.
The no funny business. Jesus. If anyone asks your nobility, well,
I saw of a nobility really well, well, I mean people know
my name, it doesn't you're noble. Well you're a nobility to meet Kalunky,
He actually is nobility. What where you're a bastard? All right,
Well I'm tired. Come on. Western kind of pockets his rifle, hiding
it under his own cloak. He's actually dressed formally as well. It looks
like he's off to a ball. The thing that he's wearing is like these
fineries, this kind of nice tunic with these really posh looking trousers and belt.
He's wearing shoes instead of boots, and he's got a really long cloak
that kind of runs all the way down to the ankles. It hides his
really long gun. The rifle he's using is like a repeating rifle looking thing,
and he puts it in somewhere underneath his cloak, kind of hiding out
of the way, and then he begins to walk ahead. Ahead of you,
you can see a pretty long corridor leading up to a set of stairs
that seem to head upwards. If you're following him, oh, I'm absolutely
following him. The three of you head out from the Inquisition Dungeons, and
that is where we're going to flip over two Reginald, Aura and what do
we call Ellie today? I wonder you guys are heading towards the wild Hand
Tavern. A few hours have passed and you guys are dressed up. What
are you to look like? As you and a posh looking Reginald head towards
this meeting with Wurston at this very high end establishment. I feel like,
well, Aura's got this like Lacey ballground gown on and just stiffly walking with
a corset tied. It's really poofy at the bottom it's got pastel colors woven
throughout. She's walking like someone who's never really walked in heels before, So
she's trying to saunter very very like confidently, but her like ankles keep going
getting bent as she takes some steps and hits the cobblestone. And she's trying
to like stand up straight and like walk with confidence. But it it probably
doesn't look like that from a distance. Valley, Listen, I look comfortable
as shit. So flat shoes on that are a little worn. I got
some black pants to have a couple of holes in them here and there,
with some pockets. I got white, a white but like it's like kind
of dirty off white, like it's been washed several times and been dirtied several
times as well. And then a scarf and a little hat, and I
have, you know, my hair tucked up into it as much as I
can to give sort of an appearance like it is a little shorter, even
if it's not. And yeah, I look really comfortable. I got things
you like I have underneath the shirt. I have like I'm wrapped, so
I'm flat as a pancake. And uh, yeah, it's about how I
look a little bag on the side. Reginald is wearing shoes, nice trousers,
kind of strong looking tunic, the fluffy thing that you forced him to
purchase, a little sort of bow tie looking thing around his neck, and
comfortable cloak. It's drizzily outside the rain. Is this noise? I can?
I can hear KPP from somewhere. I don't know why did no one
else hear it? It? Am I imagining things? The Yeah. The
three of you are walking up the street, I think, with Reginald and
Aura taking the lead, and they're sort of like serving child following behind this
servant boy. It's a relatively common sight. The further uptown you get,
you will see this quite often, people walking around and they'll have a servant
a few paces behind, often carrying items for them. And the three of
you are heading towards the tavern. Reginald turns to you, Ellie and says,
what what are we calling you again? Eli? Eli? Right?
Yes, that's yes. Well, of course, most likely we'll just refer
to you as boy. It works, Yes, I guess I'll have to
put on a little more high pitched of a voice. I'm going to be
convinced, convincing as a boy. Yes, And or if anybody asks your
you're you're from out of town, well, I could try to act like
I'm from town. Well they would know, yeah, I don't say that,
and don't because they would They would probably do the same thing that one
lady did. What's a good place? What's a good place? Let me
think, just say you're from Stretto. There you go, I know nothing
about Streletto, pretend like you know everything like everyone else here. The good
thing about Streletto is that a lot of people from from below and sort of
thing. People from Streletto are a little eccentric. Here's okay, so I
need to act more. Okay, okay, okay. I lay my hand
on or shoulder, and I'm like, here's the deal. Even if you're
making up complete garbage, stand by it. No one will question it.
Just like it. Like just even it's even if I don't believe. Literally,
say the sky is purple in in Streletto, and they'd be like,
okay, okay, right, So so I'll just whatever I say is true
and I believe it. You gotta believe it. See, that's the difference.
You gotta believe that it's true, and people don't really question that.
And if they do, just be like, listen, if you've not been
there, or if you haven't been there recently, then you don't know.
You don't know anything. I can't believe you questioned me, should I should
I do an accent? We give us one real quick. Hello, I'm
from stre Letto. This is my pretrothed Reginald. Huh, it's perfect.
Yes, I suppose that's will to do. I like it. I feel
like I I think the sky is purple and I don't care if you're gonna
do that. You gotta go with the hand motions. This is unnatural,
like who doesn't people do it? Okay? What other what are other things
that that that fancy people say? Talk about your money and all the items?
Did I say that? Yeah? You said you're very rich? Okay?
Talk about how many like houses do you own? Like how many servants
you have? How many like anything? I have four servants who helped me
with all of my tasks, right sweetie, And I like pat Reginald's face
and like run my hand down his cheek. Right, Well, call you
boy. I have to call you boy. Yeah, just what I call
you. I'm supposed to be a eli or boy, Boy, more convincing.
I mean you're above me, remember, boy, fetch me my sword.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I hold out the sword.
Thank you? Why are you carrying the sword? Now? Give it back?
Okay, I don't take the sword? All right? I think I'm
ready. Well, I suppose at least we'll be trying to sit away from
everyone else. What does that supposed to mean? Well, we're almost there.
Just leave most of the talking to me until we get inside. Well,
I am a noble woman. I feel like I have a place at
the table as well. Yes, but maybe weird for me to not talk,
But he knows more about It's this kind of establishment maybe, is what
he's trying to say. I'll observe for a little bit, and then I'll
jump in when I feel like there's a good spot. Just jump in whenever
you want to say something completely posh and like have your nose in the air
like you you know, we already went over this. Okay, Okay,
you would like perhaps you could arrange for some entertainment. HM. That way,
we'll be sat outside and absolutely under no circumstances should you mention me beyond
boy, I'm a boy, I'm a servant. That's it. I serve
you. Hey, maybe you could send him in to fetch something that will
give you a chance to scout the area out. Yeah right, Well can
I just drink wine? Is that what they drink? Not meat or beer?
Because you could go in and get us wine you like, Well,
meat's pretty expensive. It's not like it, you know, it readily available,
So if you want me to go for meat. I just feel like
everything is very complicated in your social Why why does it have to be this
complicated because these people are full of ship. Yes, it's frightening, frighteningly
complicated for such simple people. But it's the country. Nobody, nobody will
do this to you. It's it's fine. You'll get it'll be you know,
once this is over with, you never have to come back in here.
You can burn the dress. Yes, most of the people in here
probably own your farms, and no I own my own farm, right,
But who do you sell that produced to? There's carps that come through the
village. We have our own market that I saw. I think owns those
carps. I don't know. They don't own my farm, though they pay
me for my produce. I have the deed to my own farm. Yeah,
she probably owns her farm. But they keep you in business. That's
very nice, right A lot, Well, here it is. He points
forward towards a sort of a crossroads, like a wire road. On the
center of the wire there is particularly standout building. You might have walked past
it several times. It's it's relatively central in the kind of high town area.
When you guys will have come to the Inquisition HQ, you probably would
have walked past it. The Fortress stands relatively close eye as well. The
safe house that you first met Reginald at is near here. You can see
that there is an establishment known as the Wild Hand. It's a red brick
building with a sort of timber frame to it. It's clean looking. It's
about two stories, but it's a tall two stories with an orange shingled roof.
With all of this sort of this decorative twists and turns to some of
the elements of it, it looks like somebody paid to have the architecture upgraded
and kept neat, whereas a lot of buildings in most of Bologna are kind
of falling apart, patches and holes in the roof, different colored shingles all
over it. This looks relatively clean and well kept. There doesn't seem to
have been any damage from the fall of Magic about three weeks ago. There's
a sort of decorative point and spire on the top that I think you could
probably spy out Ellie. There's a row of well kept flowers on the outside
that sit on the outside of the building, and also towards the entrance area
there is a sort of slightly raised deck area with chairs and tables. There's
even a small stage for performers, more than likely used in the summer,
more so than on a drizzly day like today coming up to winter, but
it does mean that the outside chairs there's only a couple of people kind of
milling around out there. It's a little more private and it's also where you
arrange to meet with Worston. There's a big, wide doorway that doesn't lie
opened. You have to open the doors, which is different to most of
the taverns in town where you can just kind of wander in. Some have
the saloon doors that you might find in an old Western and you can see
a couple of members of clientele moving in and out. You can see that
they're wearing clothes that are frighteningly similar to the ridiculous garb that you guys are
wearing, and Original points towards the doorway and says, right, well,
we'll head on in. We'll see if I can sit us on the outside.
It'll seem a little stranger. I would imagine to them that we'd want
to sit outside in the frizzle, in the rain. We might be able
to arrange for an umbrella of sorts. Perhaps you just go sit inside.
You don't have to sit in the rain, well, because we want a
dvantage point for you, do we not? Do I? I know that
I can probably see them from the inside too. I don't think that you
would have really had any reason to have been in here before, so I
don't think you know what the inside looks like. You wouldn't have a good
advantage point from the outside looking in. It's pretty open and obvious here.
A little sort of serving boy staring into the window of an establishment wouldn't be
too crazy necessarily, but you might get ushered along by guards and stuff like
that. There's not a great vantage point for sort of like you know,
incapacitation and kill shots and whatever. Assassins things that are running through Ellie's dark
mind. You certainly wouldn't have a good secretive position. You'd probably have to
be quite out in the open. It's not ideal unless you get inside and
see that there's a change on the inside. Well, come on, then
we're gonna see what the inside looks like. We might as well go in.
I can tell you if going up would be a better option inside her
out, but sitting in the rain doesn't seem very smart. Very well,
if you're ready, Aura, he gestures forward. You see Aura like straighten
up and like does a weird thing with her hands and kind of puts them
in it. I don't even do. It doesn't even amaze me because it's
like I've been around people like this before. For it. I'm just like,
yeah, they're all like that, like scanning the room to see like
what other people are doing and trying to like emulate what these posh people are
doing. Yeah, you head on in, walking up a couple of steps
to these big, wide doors. Reginald opens the door for you in a
very gentlemanly fashion, and he does that same thing he did when he went
into the stores, where he kind of stops being a relatively nervous overthinker,
and suddenly he stands up straighter. He opens the door and then allows kind
of bows slightly and allows you to walk in. As you step through and
step in ura with Ellie standing on the outside, the room kind of opens
up to you. As you step in, you can see now that this
place is It's just it's an oddly unkempt interior, but as if it's done
by fashion, it's nice. It's purposefully built into such a way that it's
supposed to look relatively homely. Yet it's freshly painted with sort of black and
white on a lot of the walls, kind of a strange checkered pattern that
contrasts with the weird, homely, warm immediate entrance that you get. There
are these well made tables, with about fifty percent of the clientele taking up
most of them. There's a very large, warm hearth keeping the interior very
brightly lit. As you step in, you realize this place has got chandeliers
and sconces and a hearth, and it's really brightly lit compared to a lot
of taverns which only have like a half and a few sconces going and people
don't really care about light. This is all lit up. There are paintings
all around the walls, each one with a sconce on either side with a
small light next to it. Most of them look like royalty past queens of
Alexandria. Mostly. There's a modern looking painting above the hearth that looks like
the current queen, Queen bell Streel that I don't know if you would have
ever ever a painting of, but that's what it is. I think for
sure Ellie would know, but I don't know if they really care about anything
like that. In Bain, she's a kind of strong looking woman. She
fixes you with a deadly stare as soon as you step in. You can
see this kind of strong, muscular woman posed in little more than a green
robe. There's quite a lot of skin showing, and she's got this diamond
inlaid crown, the Crown of Alexandria, sitting on her head, and it
really sits as a very obvious centerpiece, like a like you're supposed to immediately
see and admire it. The clientele looking around, you can see a mostly
like nobility. Ellie might recognize some of them. Reginald for sure recognizes some
of them as lesser nobility houses of Alona. These aren't the absolute upper echelon.
Ellie's probably just had lots of run ins. There's probably several houses of
people here that you've just heard about or seen mentioned in Tawneys, or just
famous types or major players in certain things. There's probably people in here that
are part of houses that you've murdered people from for other houses here, because
they're all at war and are awful. There's the wall steeples, there's the
Monbos, there's the wrath flows, there's the Earlive family. And they're sitting
at these tables wearing these absurdly expensive gowns and these tailored suits and these ridiculous
hats and things, most of them smoking something, drinking from these strange long
tankards with these wide glasses, as is fashionable. It's a very strange thing.
I think for you, Aura, this is madness. It looks like
you've walked into like the mad Hatters tavern, Like it's just stupid. The
contrast of different things here is ridiculous, but it's obviously become part of a
fashion Ellie, whether you've been in here or not, or passed it or
recognized anything from it. It changes quite a lot. They change the decor
and things in here all the time. And Reginald, as he opens the
door, steps in front of you Ellie, immediately treating you as if you
are a ghost. Lets the door kind of swing close behind him. You're
carrying, by the way, Reginald's stuff and Aura's stuff, and you're like
dragging these things in the door. They look even more like a kid because
I'm not necessary Aly's not necessarily really big, like, and so she just
like got this stuff in her arms, like walking behind them, and I
changed my walk too to be more like it would be a kid and not
like an assassin. Let's finesse you, guys. With Ellie kind of half
being closed in the door, as she steps through, are immediately greeted by
very a pretty tall, like a six to one, but plump looking gentleman
with auburn hair that's graying in places, and very dull green eyes. In
all of these expensive clothes, he has trousers that flare on which you might
notice, and Reginald immediately notices because you turned him off from wearing trousers that
flare at the bottoms as soon as you or and you, Elie, recognize
that you look around in every gentleman in here is wearing flared bottomed trousers.
He wanders towards you, spinning a kind of quill or something like that in
his hands, and takes a few steps before before realizing who Reginald is.
You see his eyes open up and he says, oh my boy, it's
been so very long. Ugh, what on earth are you wearing? Hear
Reginald says, oh, well, you know how it is. I've been
very busy working. I've been in Streletto and you know this is well,
why don't you introduce yourself, my dear. At this moment, Ora's face
has a moment of panic because she never came up with a fake name,
and she wasn't sure she was supposed to. I am from Streletto and my
name is Tiffy. Please rob me? He dies, Will you let me
go to the pistol? Please? In aut in a minute? By and
you know what, we're in a nice establishment. Don't say that word not
what do I I call it? Then the rest, the rest the pistol,
you could call it the pissa. Yes, yes, well let's get
a table first. There you could go to the Pisso, my dear Tiffy
like like speaking over you, Ellie, like this, this gentleman steps forward.
He grabs your hand, or he bows a little, kisses you on
the hand. He does something very strange. He takes in a deep sniff
of your hand. As he does so, he lets go of your hand
and then looks over it at Reginald and says, it's been so very long
since I've seen your father. Please tell him to stop. At some point.
Reginald says, yes, it's been so very long since I've seen him
as well. He's in good health, though we speak very regularly. The
gentleman in front of him says, I'm sure you do a table for two
then, or are you expecting company? He says that to you, Aura,
we were expecting companies. I don't know, Reggie. How many should
should we have at our table for PA's me my lady. Oh, we
need a stool for the boy. Reginald starts laughing, so very good,
very good. I'll get you a table for six in case how the company
comes as well, and he starts to move in. I consider you by
the windows, or perhaps you'd like to be in the center here, Reginald,
quickly stepping forward, says the large window at the back. Yes,
glancing at you, Ellie, I I've already like looked up as this kind
of an open plan room. There's no bar like you would expect in the
tavern. You can see that there's a doorway with a serving child bringing out
food from a kitchen. You can also see that there's a stairwell in that
kitchen, and there's a stairwell on the in kind of the center of this
room to a degree that leads up to the next floor. Are there any
like rafters or something above? Not really, No, it's kind of open.
It's just got timbered, reinforced whatever they're called. There's beams that run
along the center. There's nowhere to like perch. It's a pretty terrible room
to find somewhere to perch. You might be able to put yourself out of
the way somewhere in the back by the hearth. Your options really are the
center of the room, where you might be able to get up the stairs
and look down as long as you remain hidden and no one really goes up
the stairs, or go back outside and look in through the larger window that
the open table is sat next to Yeah, I think I no, I
didn't stay by the window or I just nod that's by the window. I
really do think I'd rather be by the window than the center of the room
after what's been going on in town. Wouldn't you say, oh, it's
absolutely ghastly No magic? They say, yes, no magic. You wouldn't
know anything about that, would your Reginald. No, I wouldn't know anything
about that. Of course, business is business. To the window, then
milady and he kind of I try to shuffling towards the try not to pick
up the heels so that I can look a little bit more proper. All
right, roll me a dice, then an eight. How do you want
to kind of fail doing this? I picture that one gear for a video
of that girl on our runway. Legs just start falling out, just because
there's a nightmare all the way to a chair where you finally kind of just
ready yourself barely at the chair, like I sit down. But I remember
what Ellie told me, right, I just need to own it. So
like as I'm wobbling my way over to the table, my legs are bowing
every which way. I get to the chair, and I just sit down
and act as if nothing happened. It seems as if you've had a tiple
already. What would you like to drink, my dear, so your finest
wine, finest wine coming right up. We've got some Oh yes, my
lady loves wine, especially the red wine. The red wine, it's your
favorite. You're completely ignored. Like as you get halfway through that sentence,
he says, we've got some lovely imports. And I suppose you'll be having
the same, Reginald, yes, I'll have the same, Thank you very
much. Do you have any scuderie boards? What romme it dies? Well,
yes, my dear, of course we can get your chocagey board.
Of course absolutely. I would love some selections of meats and cheeses from the
local region, the finest from Belogna. Just go to the pisser boy.
I drop everything there next to her, and I turn around and like start
shuffling away. Yeah, Reginald kind of pulls a chair for you to sit
in and sits on the other side. The gentleman moves away, and Reginald
says, that's born wall Steeple. He's quite They're from an influential family.
So why did he smell my hand? Well, I wish I knew an
eccentric lot. Is that something you did? You never smelled my hand?
No, I really don't rub shoulders with these people as often as I can.
You fit right in? Well, yes, that would be my family's
fault. Thanks, I'm not sure which How am I doing? Fine?
Thank you? We just need to have a conversation with Worston and then we'll
get out of here. There's no way he's going to cause a ruckus in
a place like this, so a conversation it should be. At least.
Do I need to act like Tiffy with him? No, No, he
knows exactly and precisely who you are. Oh okay, I can keep doing
it while he's here. Well, in theory, he should be bringing bow
and klugi, so oh okay, right, Well, I expect nothing less
than a disaster, but I'll have to see you kind of think positive it'll
be okay, right, all right, I suppose sir, Ellie, where
do you go? I would like to scope out the place first, and
I'm gonna like I'm gonna run around while doing the party dance like holding my
while I'm like bouncing around like I'm pretending to find the bathroom and I don't
know where it is. No one is looking at you. Yeah, no
one. I figured that that's why I'm doing it. The more awkward I
am, like, the more people like turn away, like, oh my
god, you're a pure ghost walking through here. Every now and then you
do catch the eye of a couple of other serving people. There are a
couple of sort of like they they're matching children. Really, they're They're young
looking, some maybe in their twenties, some could be as young as ten.
There's only two or three of them sitting around. Every now and then,
somebody will come rushing out from the kitchen and drop some drinks or food
on a table. Nobody says thank you or acknowledges that this child has brought
them food, and then they disappear again. For the most part, there
seems to be two layers going on. There are a few serving children moving
around, there are a few standing quietly by tables with the people that are
they work for, And you fit right in realistically moving around, it really
does see like no one sees you. You also don't see any guards or
anyone who might be guarding the establishment. Which for you would seem weird.
There's no way this place would be completely unguarded, so I think as you
do your search you can be aware of that role. Addce, for me,
as you kind of scan the area, pops eight an eight. Yeah,
you look around, there's no guards. It's crazy to you. They
have to be concealed. It has to be that somebody in here is pretty
much doing exactly what you guys are doing, disguised as a noble. There's
probably somebody in here who is very well trained, who sits at one of
these tables, acting a part, but is probably actually kind of a hired
guard of some kind. The odds that one of the people in here is
some sort of Night or Turney Night is very high as well. But the
odds that these kind of high end tawny nights that come to establish and like
this are hired as well are very low. So I'm not sure. I
don't think whether there's a sort of secret guard who's just a mystery member of
one of these people, designed to just kind of quietly sit there until something
goes wrong, or whether they just kind of rely on the fact that there
will most certainly be other noble knights in here just in their time off in
their casuals. You can see that several people do have swords next to the
tables, but they's also not uncommon even for the average citizen. One of
the servant boys as they're walking by, like one that came from the kitchen,
I'm like, excuse me, what happened to other guards? I'm not
supposed to talk to you? Why I smell? What do I smell?
You do smell? Yeah? Everyone smells. It smells like shit? It
what do you want? Oh? I forgot to brush my teeth. Same
a lady doesn't give me a lot of time. But there's no guards.
What gods? How's my how's supposed to stay safe? But there's no guards.
I ain't telling you where the guard is. Oh, there are guards,
then you don't want to be I don't want to be stealing from in
here. I'm still from there. That's a good idea. And I turn
around and walk away. The kid is like watching you walk out and then
kind of turns back around the plate that he's holding of food. He runs
off. He's like maybe twelve or something. He looks exactly like you do,
and runs over to a table and puts this big a kind of selection
of meats and cheeses and things on the table in front of Aura. You
see him turn and move away very swiftly as you're presented with this pretty nice
looking food actually, or probably would actually be very tempting, because you will
see on this plate multipled meats and cheeses and sort of like little bread things
and like something that might be like a cracker or something like that, and
a biscuit or something. It's olives and stuff. It's really nice looking.
You've just come from Bain where everyone is literally starving, and there's this really
nice little platter of just ridiculous food that's just presented to you within like two
minutes. Kid kind of just puts it on the table carefully, very quietly.
He doesn't make a noise, and then moves away from the table very
quickly. Reginald to eat unconsciously, just picks up a piece of cheese and
starts eating it, looking at the door. I just since he does that,
I start grabbing like a little piece of cracker and putting some cheese on
it. How much does this cost? Well, quite a lot. Most
people in here nobility from town, so they just everything is done, you
know, quietly, there's an exchange of money. A serving boy will come
and pick up gold from the estate the next day after a night of whatever
debauchery they're up to. You know who does like not easily accessible where I'm
from right now? How is this possible? Oh that's because it's all here.
I'm really learning a lot about things today. Yes, it's quite awful,
isn't it. Yeah, I don't understand. Oh, it gets much
much worse than this. This is nothing the secrets, I know. I
look around the room as he's talking to me and just look at the people,
like are they acting like anything's wrong? Oh, in the time of
their lives, this is just an average evening for them. They're all just
laughing and drinking and talking. And you'll see like a couple of people point
and snigger at something that someone else has done. They're just how many the
servants, like how many servant boys are there? And just like invisible poorly
treated staff? Am I seeing every other table has a sort of servant looking
person standing next to them. Some of them are kind of poor looking urchin
children like Elie is dressed up as some of them just look more kind of
like butler's and serving stuff, all of them standing quietly to one side,
just silently invisible from the kitchen. You see, probably after watching for a
minute, you'll see four or five different children, ranging from about ten to
maybe eighteen, come running out. They're wearing a sort of uniform, but
really is little more than a relatively clean tunic and trousers with like an apron
on. Please tell me they get paid for this, Well, they get
paid in a way. I suppose they get room and board, food little
better than they would get on the streets. They know what's going on outside.
Why are they acting like this? Well, they sort of live a
blinkered life they always have. What about you, you'd live a link of
life linked like a horse. Dear, Just see what they want to say,
you and your city folk languages and your city folk phrases, just like
say what you mean? Yes, well, I had never seen a plow
until I was thirty. If you ever want to come up to the farm,
you can come up and help me plant some seeds and then watch them
grow. You want to get away from this, m Well, I may
be out of the job, so I may just take you up on that
it's a lot simpler, less corrupt. Yes, well this corruption everywhere as
alng as you. You almost hit me in the pissor there, My lady
can't if I looked everywhere. I even asked the boy and he had nothing
to say, nothing at all. You want outside and pissed in the street,
right, that's why are you yelling? I'm sorry, I don't know.
And I like, I'm trying to like scrape off some meat and cheese
and like sneakily slide it over to her. It's really good. I grab
it. I grab it and immediately shove it in my face without like care
if anyone's looking. Do you need to pee piss and go out into the
street for all I care? Fine? And I turn around and I started
to walk out the door. U yeah, romire dice ellie, okay,
thirteen thirteen. You head out the door, and about thirty feet away from
you, kind of coming up towards the entrance of the outside kind of area,
you see bow Klugi and a fear bulg walking towards the doorway. HI
immediately go like that and then like keep walking. Yeah, ooh, you
and Kalugi have just removed the sacks from your head and find yourselves in the
early evening Belogna Street. So you feel like you've been walking for a little
while. If you had to guess, you were somewhere around the eastern low
Town before you were where He pulls you up out of this kind of room,
up some stairs, turned the left, it a right, wandered down
some streets, and then eventually took these sacks off of your heads. He
turns to the both of you and says, right, we're going in there.
Either of you been in there before? You can? I can't say
I have ever of I We're not really sure what to expect when we get
in there. The Kalugi is kind of sauntering forward. I've actually been in
there before, so I know I'm a very important person where I was who
I am sort of. I won't let me back though. That's the problem.
I don't think I can go in there. They'll kill me on site.
Kid, How did you do it so bad? Yeah? What did
you do so bad? Well? That is a very long story that involves
three women and a very large cat. Maybe a story for another time,
or at least maybe we could get me a disguise or something. Give me
them glasses. I take off my sunglasses, which, by the way,
I never do. What the hell do you wear these at night? I
like worring my sunglasses at night. I wonder you couldn't see the doorway?
Can you see any doorway in these things? I did too? Did you
wear these underwater? I did? Do you just wear these all the time,
no matter what when you sleep? And do you take them off?
I never? They wore my mother's right. Oh right, well, I'll
guard them with my life. Then you better. Well it was not much,
not worth much, but I'll guard them with what you want? All
right? I look different now, right, totally? Okay? Like well
not kaloogy. Okay, I'll have to change my voice. How does this
sound? If I do a voice and accent like this, then I sound
different? Yes, all right, perfect, I'll go with that. Then
i'll sound like this. Worston looks at you two and says, all right,
I'm not sure what to expect. Might not even be Reginald, could
be the the other the other inquisitors. I don't know. In a while,
since I've seen any other, how can I inquisition there? Well?
All right, well i've met Reginald before. I'll keep a work out.
Yeah, well, if she hits the fan, you're probably fucked. Remember
what I said, Well, hopefully it doesn't get to that. No funny
business, No funny business, all right, Worston looks kind of weirdly nervous
to be going into such an establishment, this very high end looking, wonderful
establishment. The three of you step forward and head towards the doorway, and
that is where we're going to flip over back to the Alexandria Great Road and
the cart with our other heroes. You guys, are well into your journey.
It is the middle of the night, and you will have been traveling
all day, some of the night, and from the one incident with some
goblins, you have been pretty unhindered. I don't think you really would have
seen anything. Maybe a little wildlife here and there, but nobody else on
the road. When we left you, and this would have been several several
hours ago, it was I think Cairo was driving, Toby was up on
the front, and the twins and Sooner were in the back kind of snoozing.
Has that changed? How many hours ago did you say? Let me
think it would have been probably like we're well into the evening now, so
we're looking at light. It's probably like three four am something like that,
So it would have been six or seven hours ago we last saw you.
Yeah, I would imagine there might be a shift in a seven hour stretch
if twins don't seem to be able to deal with the cart, by the
way, if at all, they kind of like looked maybe they were pointing
at some point with you Cairo, when Sooner was snoozing, They were like
pointing at things, But they just seemed quizzical, like they've never really seen
a cart. Maybe they knew what a horse was, and they know what
a cart does, but they were curious about like the the harness and the
rains and things. But it certainly seems like they have no experience with bribing
something like this. Of course, they were unable to really vocalize it much
more than just kind of watching you, and then they would copy certain things
to each other while they discussed in their own language. But I think you
certainly get the idea that they won't be taking a shift here, or at
least if they do, it would probably be chaos. Surely, you know
lesson I think probably after you know, six and a half hours or so.
I would reach behind me and tap Toby or sonapt with me. I
just said, Toby, get a little get a little sleepy here Amy too.
Maybe we should if sooner wants to take her turn, Yes, the
twins me being have a by chat or something with him. Sure, but
your mind waking her up? Sure? Sure? And lean back and does
your children you shake her shoulder lately? Sorry, No, it's all right.
I'm just not really slept before now, so experience all right, hello,
just everything all right? Yeah, yeah, it's just been you know.
Oh sorry, Oh right, it's time to switch. I got it.
Don't worry. Oh, don't do that. You're gonna oh sorry,
involunte Sorry that one took it, he said, m hm, you want
to what you did? I can take over definitely, and I will.
I'll just crawl over top there and tap Cairo on the shoulder. Well done,
well done. I'll take it from here. Thank you, thank you.
Let's take a little nap. I think the twins out slate, Oh
precious, which one? Don't worry about it. I'm fine by myself.
I insist it's probably best we let everyone else rest. No, you're not
you're not winning this one. Definitely, do not wake them up. I'm
fine for a couple of hours. If I need anything, sit down and
listen to and you agree with me, get one of them just in case.
Just keep an eye open trying to I'm not getting involved. And I
pulled the cloak. I mean, you're a professional, this traveling safe thing,
right, sure do. Your opinion is the most qualified. I'm not
for seet then see, And I pulled the cloak fully over my head.
I tuck keep you under one wing of the cloak, and I hunger down
for enough. I'm going over there for as mm hmm. And I'm just
gonna shake his shoulder a little bit. Yeah. He kind of wakes up
pretty quickly, reaches out from the stuff soon I gave him last week.
Shy you, I point up just sooner. Yeah, watch, yeah,
nods his head back, stands up, picks up the staff, and just
immediately takes what you're saying is if you completely understood you, walks up to
the front, sits aquardly move around everyone because it's you know, like people
going from the back seat of a car to the front. It's the same
thing. As he kind of moves around the edge trying not to fall off
it hits a strange kind of cobblestone. He keeps his balance very well again
and then moves around to sit down next to you. Sooner he always moving
over here. No he didn't. Absolute garbage, Absolute garbage. I can't
believe you didn't listen to me, sleep staff that sooner than to him.
And I would like to use prey sense the ability. Please, yes,
what is this ability of sharpen your sense of danger for the next hour,
which means we cannot be ambushed? Okay from me a dice? Then wonderful,
lightly annoying A six six. There is someone on the road ahead of
you, maybe five minutes from now. From this point where you kind of
have this shuffle, you begin to hear the snores of ipoh, the kind
of soft warbling noises of keepe sleeping. And next to you you see your
staff kind of pointing forward. The two of you get this sixth sense that
there is somebody ahead of you, and yet with your eyes you can't see
them. For a moment before you see a figure on a horse begin to
materialize in the distance. Because it's kind of muggy and the rain is it's
lightly falling. There's not really much light. There's no moonlight, even though
there's a moon up there somewhere. It's kind of muffled through these clouds.
But eventually, in the distance you do begin to see that there's someone on
the road ahead of you. I think it gives you a strange feeling,
whatever that feeling might be, to see somebody else on the road. What
do you do first? I would like to size up. Okay, you
evaluate the capabilities of a nearby creature or a group of creatures. The GM
will give you useful insight to their capability, strength, vulnerabilities, and or
resistances. At a minimum, you will receive an accurate assessment from the GM
about whether they would pose a fair fight. Just a figure on the road
at first, whereas next to you is pointing forward. You see him kind
of tense up a little bit. He grips the staff a little bit,
but stays poised and silent. A little time passes as you notice that this
figure is on a horse, kind of trotting forward. The horse seems to
be kind of tired, and the figure sitting in the saddle is slightly slouched,
not in an injured or wounded way. Or anything like that, just
exhaustion. You get this sense immediately that the person there is tired. However,
as the person comes into view and your vision focuses a little better,
the light allows you more detail on them. You can see that this is
a this is a woman. She has armor on. She looks pretty well
armed. She has quite long red hair underneath a headband, kind of how
the bandits wear headbands a lot of the time in Alexandria. Two long swords
sheathed underneath a big circular shield, big metal shield on her back. She's
got a red cape running down her back, kind of sitting over the back
of the horse. Her armor is like you might find on a night kind
of rusted, though parts look scavenged. Oh you can see other elements,
but I think she's too far away and it's too dark to make out any
real details. She is fully asleep, oh no, and trotting towards you,
but kind of holding a balance with her eyes closed on the top of
this horse. All right, horses, and she's looking old, look weakly.
I just I just pat the twin here gently on the leg. Immediately
jumps as if he's going to go, and then he settles again and looks
at you. It's all right, and I'll whoa, I'll slow the horses
down. Pardon me. Immediately her eyes open up, she reaches up for
a sword. He instantly she is you're all right, You're all right.
You were just sleeping while riding, and I just wanted to make sure you
were all right, or you are right. Her eyes widen, her mouth
drops her sword lowers, You're okay. She looks down at her satchel on
her side and reaches into it, pulling out paper. She thrust it forwards
towards you. Sorry, it's dark, I can hear the rain, I
can't really see. Is it all right? If I come towards you?
What is that? You can see it? It's an image of Mother Numera
On the image, it's a different drawing, not the same as you might
expect from what Veras had drawn for you. She looks at you, and
she is blown She seems to be blown away that you are here. She
kind of seems kind of crazy for a moment. As she jumps down.
She drops her sword to the ground and jumps off of the horse, The
horse kind of moving away as she looks over towards you, and then she
shakes her head and says, I am sorry. I have been looking for
you for so long. Oh sweetie, that's not me, but that's my
mother. No, it's cannot be you are you are the successor? I
mean, I guess she was my mother. What mean the tower? Yes,
it pulls out from a satchel, a tarot card that has the tower
on it, sit towards you. Yes. Just what does this card look
like? Does it look like one of my mother's No, it looks okay,
very different. It's much bigger than your standard looking tarot cards that you
might find in dust veller, even Alexandria, and on it in drawcnic is
the word tower not I know draconic? I think you do. I don't
think I do. I think I know some infernal but I don't think I
know that. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's the towers. I
don't understand what I assume what it says she She turns around a little bit
and says, you are the successor. I don't know what that means,
but I mean she was my mother, I guess. So she pulls her
sword out again, throws the other one to the ground. She pulls the
shield off of her back, kneels in front of you on one knee,
digs the shield in front of her and bows her head. That's really not
necessary, she says, young lady. I just wanted to make sure you
were all right. You are the one who must be protected. It's a
bit traumatic, aided and followed. I am trying to save the world,
and I find myself a bit more incapable than I used to be, So
any help that you would be willing to provide, She bows even deeper behind
the shield. On the shield you can see a huge eye and kind of
gets old again, old looking, rusted, kind of beaten, looks like
it's been used. With her head down, she says, I pledge my
life to you in the name of Savras. Please get up. It takes
a lot for me even to ask for help. You don't need all this
theatrics. She stands up. She puts the shield back on her back,
kind of struggling with it. She seems very tired, and then looking up
at you. Bags under her eyes. You can see that she has She's
quite young looking. She has like quite clear skin, but she also seems
to be quite strong. The armor she's wearing is pretty thick. Again,
it doesn't seem to fit her perfectly. The swords that she's got very large,
she looks a little smaller, and the armor and weaponry and shield that
she's bearing, but she doesn't look any less capable. She still seems very
strong, probably a lot like Aura when you first met Aura, maybe something
along those lines. But she's dirty, she looks sweaty. Her hair's kind
of greasy under this headband. She says, my name is Zirah. Sirah,
what a beautiful name. You look very tired. I'll reach up and
i'll pat her cheek and I'm going to use that ability that I have that
makes them feel better than they've ever felt for an hour. Why don't you
go in the cart, lay down, get some rest, and I'll I'll
just tie your horse up with ours and we'll we'll continue on our way together.
You touch her cheek and her eyes widen again. She is very confused.
She rips your wrists, does she as you do so? She says,
you still have magic? No, I know see, No you knew
I would be here? No, honestly I didn't know. But you know
I was never very good at seeing in advance. I just felt I would
just do what I felt I needed to do. And if I go in
this direction, I go in that direction. If I skipped breakfast for a
couple of weeks, I'd find out I was skinny enough to get through stone
passageway, you know that kind of thing. I didn't know what I needed
to do. I just did it. They they trained me to learn these
things, but is gone now. I'm afraid for all of us. The
uh my village elder. He send me to seek you and sorry, say
you have magic, you bring it back. Well, I'll certainly try.
He say you are the successor. You are the tower. Now I don't
know what that means, but you will try to write what we did wrong.
She looks at you and fixes your eyes with her own stairs. She
says, you have met Saffras. You have, and for the first time
I really smile. Yes, Yes, I did what he is like like
a warm cookie. And also the biggest ocean and family and all the things
that you want to do in your life are still there and you still have
time to do them all at once. She turns around and picks up one
of the swords and points it down the road. In the direction that you
are headed, and says, why you are going to this place? Well,
my companions are there. I can't do this without them. What are
you going to do there? I don't know they have ecky. I think
he's still here and we can't. We can't bring back magic or correct anything
unless we as him. Whatever that means. What is the effect a god
killer? Mm hmm that for us? No, I believe we were at
fault for that. Mortals dragonfly have you heard of that? He's uh us
Mortals got very angry and built a machine and killed the gods? Mm hmm,
yeah, yes, this explains this probably sounds insane, inges nods and
accepts it. She picks up the second sword and puts it into the sheath
on her back, and she says, where do you go? I go?
What you face I face? And what attack you I shield you from.
That's very sweet, but you can't do any of that without a good
bit of rest. Oh, please, m this horse I have to bring
back. That's all right, We'll bring it. We'll bring it with us.
I'll tie it up right here and suddenly we'll have two horses carrying the
cart. Or I'll just have it right along if it doesn't know how to
do that. She reaches down to a little pounch she's got on her hip.
She opens it up and pours out three copper pieces and says, this
is all I have. No, please, I don't need that. Put
that away. Don't don't insult me. Now go get some rest. I
can take care of this what I have. You have and same, I
don't need that in neither. Do you you have food? Yes, it's
in the cart. Help yourself. Okay, we got to and your comrades
they fight, are you I sure, hope? So one second, let
me just introduce you. She's looking over the car. Yeah, with two
children and old man. Look, they can also see all right, we
ran into them the same way I ran into you. They were waiting for
me. So, Toby and Carr, you're probably stirring. Cara kind of
peeking out from under a cloak, and Tia the other girls, Win is
kind of waking up as well. She reaches for stuff and stands out.
Immediately, I kind of her shoulders here, and then I look at the
twins, and I point to my forehead, and then I point to her
forehead. The twins immediately look and they nod. They sit down completely calm.
She looks at them both and says, ah, these are not your
children. No, is that cat? Cat and bird? Sort of she's
in disguise, but yes, hi, hi, I'm I'm Cairo, and
this this is keepy. Hmm, I know many of cat kind. What
is in your common times to Bacsi, Yeah, I'm not backsy, I'm
half any wars fought with your kind, strong warriors. I start rubbing it
one of the it's a disguise, were in hiding. She's like so shocked,
she's disgusted. Must not do this? What why not paint? He's
honest? Oh, world is that steak? What's a little makeup? The
world is at steak? You would lie to save the world. You save
nothing. Oh if that's a that's a bit dramatic. I think you might
change your mind when you get to be a little bit older. A little
white lie now and again, is he's totally acceptable lie, not to steal,
not to kill unless being killed with those other things? Yes, yeah,
and you don't lie unless you if you could lie not to be killed,
you'd lie, wouldn't you? Mm hm? Bad men are hunt her.
She is in our care. We need to protect her, right,
h Okay, I not lie, but I hit on the head with shield
a person who tried to capture That sounds great. It makes him go to
sleep, and I tie them up. And you just don't say anything at
all that if anybody asks you about her, you don't That way, you
don't have to lie. She's good. Pulls up her top, revealing like
half a breast and all of her midriff, and she has this kind of
like wild looking crazy scar that runs down her ribs just underneath a breast.
She says, look, I get this from Tibex. Oh, I kind
of look at in fight when I was just a girl. Wow. Losa
again, jumps up on the cart and looks around purchase some food. This
is not warrior band. I was told to find warrior. Well yeah,
probably thinking of Aura mm hm. And she's in the city. I think
old man warrior warrior, Yes, successor those those are my companions, and
those are who I'm going to go meet. The water god. Yes,
he leans down towards you. I kind of bowing a little. Oh that's
no, he's your divine ways. Can't you imagine if he was a god
excuse me our way, I think that was the keys. No, no,
not not not me. What's what's your name? I am Zira.
No, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not. Yeah, hip,
I mean a kind of a warrior. You got a couple of goblins a
few years ago. So she rushes over, climbing across kind of awkwardly with
like one foot, kind of landing in an awkward way on you, Cairo,
and she like kind of grabs at the thing, the cloak behind you.
If she's looking at the weapon, she snarls a little bit. You'll
use this craving weapon from Afar. No skill, not like bow. Okay,
good for old men, good for old men to yours you. Well,
yeah, you can use pulls the sword down and thrust it towards you.
What I take a hold of it. It's been a long team since
I used the sword for anything. But I tell you to. I tell
you you take like a practice swing and make it look good. Yeah,
all of it's pretty decent. You swing it around. You see her kind
of looking at you. She nods and she crosses her arms watching you do
it. She says, yes, this is good. We have to And
she's like standing up now, one leg up on the back of the car
and like she's kind of partially got her back to you sooner, and she's
looking over the people in the back of the car and she says, now
we must be warrior band. Now we have to keep this one safe.
That's the cost of your life, at the cost of your life, at
the cost of your life. All right, sit down now I'm going,
But yeah, you can come, and then we will all show to your
velm, to sit down to your velm, a realm, to your veilm.
There were going. We will go to to your villain in the valley
of the ved drank King. It is my home village. We'll go there.
We will drink real drink, eat real food, not small skinny cat
food here sooner. Have you ever been to the valley of the wad drink
King. Oh? And if that's where we're supposed to go, let news
to me. But I'll take it. Do you mean after we've fixed things,
we'll go there. She will fix things as long as we keep her
safe. And you've seen this, no, yeah, I am told I
really. Elders three eyes one in center of mind, can see far into
future. You speak of you. Tell me to come here here and I
find you, and it is here. Tell me you are the successor,
you are the tower. We follow you now? Did he tell you where
you're supposed to go? Here? Follow now? Aid protect? That is
all My purpose is singular? All right, it that's all clear. But
perhaps it's best if if if you get some rest now, I'll get you
some food. Got some hear? I will sleep on the horse. You
can please sleep in the cart. It's no room for this. Here is
this child, and here move the sack up here next to you. Took
yourself in the well. I have to return horse. Right, we're gonna
we're bringing it with us. Don't worry. See I have I have the
range right here. It's gonna come right along with us. Yeah, and
so you're strong enough to protect sooner? Really? I sit here. She
sits down, puts her arms across her chest, and sits in an awkward
position, but reluctantly. Oh yes, if a stubborn child. She'll be
asleep in two minutes, as soon as the cart's moving. It's fine.
I just kind of look at it bo like anything at had cards. You
tell me I kill you, got it? I'll tell you right away.
I have lost almost no fight. Hopefully it stays that way, and I
just move us forward. I am strongest in village. Let's sleep immediately.
Good? Is the order still the same sooner and Theveras in the front.
Yeah, I don't think I can sleep after that. Uh, Cairo kind
of a little more squished, if a little more squished tear kind of like
here and Veras exchange a couple of words, and then Veras looks up at
you, so you know, and then looks forward. Right. I'm just
at the reins and I'm thinking about everything that she just said that you know,
I'll fix it as long as they keep me safe, and I just
really want that to be true. That is where we're going to go to
a break. Thank you so much for watching, everybody. We're gonna go
to a short break here. Let everybody take pee break, go find the
Pissa with Eli, and when we return, we shall see whatever is going
on in this tavern with the inquisitors finally meeting up in this absurd establishment.
Thank you so much for watching. We'll be back in a few minutes,
returning to the wild Hand Heaven in the Lona. The door opens or a
Reginald. Not long at all. After Ellie walks out, the door opens,
and standing there is a fear bulg kind of like a very large,
slightly hairy gnome, not the largest of his kind you've ever seen, the
kind of giant kin. But he's kind of menacing looking. Although he's in
relatively fine clothes. He looks like he belongs here. But immediately you get
the sense that this is a person that's seen some shit. Standing next to
him or following in behind him, you see Bow in just an absurdly large
coat, a big winter coat, fur lined. It looks like the type
of thing you might see Bow in, but it's not a coat that you've
ever seen him in before. And behind him you see Kalougi a very similar
looking coat, and he looks the same as he always does. The three
of them stand at the doorway a few seconds, scanning the room, before
fixing on you. Reginald kind of under his breath say to you or okay,
well that's one good thing. At least it's actually retinal it's actually western.
And then at the same time as that, walking striding across the room
is the tavern owner, moving towards these three strangers. He says, hello,
there were more strangers from the road. Perhaps can I guess your tables?
Oh maybe you're joining the Strellletto company. Are you from Strelletto. Weston
says, yes, we're from Strelletto. That's where we're from. We'll be
joining the table over there at the fellow who was greeting them, kind of
taking a bank for a moment, and then said yes, of course.
Well let me show you over to the table. Can I get you anything
to drink? Use? There? Sir looking at you, bo oh I
wine. Well that sounds like a billina accent. I've never seen you around
these parts before. Oh hey, yeah, I'm not from here. And
what about you? There? Sir looks at Kalugi Khalugi. It almost barges
past you a little bit bo to get to this man and says, I'll
have an entire wine as well, bottle. Bring a bottle to the table
for us. All the money. What's the most expensive thing you've got here,
I'll take five, Take five of them. Worston kind of turns and
shoots him a look, and the fellow kind of looks at you. Three
again. There's a moment of confusion. He glances over at Reginald, who
nods and then very well, come on over. Then heading towards the table,
the four move across the room. A handful of people do look over
at what's going on, A couple of people exchanging some kind of almost certainly
bitchy comments. Before the four reached the table, just outside of a relatively
clean window in the drizzle. We probably through the window while no one else
can see it, can see Ellie doing something. What are you doing?
I would try to find a vantage point on top of a building across the
way that can see into the window, all right from me at dice,
okay, eleven eleven. It is not the ideal position. But across this
kind of y intersection, you you, the largest window on this bottom floor
does provide you a very clear look at the table that you want to look
at. You can see maybe as we see you climbing up a drain pipe
like you do Assassin's Creed style, jumping from window sill to window sill,
you can see the the group finally meeting. Once you get up to the
top of this roof. It's it's not super ideal for you. You don't
have the clearest of shots. But in a in a hinch, you think
you can probably pull off like a bow shot with anyone sat at this table,
presumably worst and would be your target. It's doable. It's not the
most ideal situation. You certainly can't hear anything or really make out what they
might be talking about. The faces in the drizzle as it's running down the
window is kind of hard to tell, you know, what expressions they're saying,
or read any lips. But in terms of like making shots and you
know, firing arrows and things, you're in a decent enough position, and
I got enough sight to see, like if there's any sudden movements sight like
yeah, okay, things kick off, you'll definitely know. So I think
throughout this entire scene, in the background through the window, like batman on
the edge of a rooftop, you can see this figure. Worston moves over
to the table and Reginald stands up and just while the the tavern owner is
there, Reginald says, oh, my good lad, finally you made it.
It's been so very long. Worston says, yes, it's been a
little bit too long. Practically disappeared on us most inopportune moment, wouldn't you
say? Ah, yes, you could say, sit down, have a
drink first before, Oh, perhaps you'd like some cheese. Worsteron kind of
moves around you. Aura. It's in a very obviously and overtly menacing way.
You see him move towards the area where your bags were dropped, and
he kind of kicks your sword away from you as he moves around the table
out of your reach and sits in the chair directly to your right. Oh,
you should try the meat. You seem like a man who would love
that meat. Oh you know about butchering meat? When't you? What do
you do? But I've heard a lot about about you, And I look
at Bow and I just want to run over and give him a hug.
But I can't. I blink as I almost did it recognize Aura. I'm
just either Yeah, I'm blushing a bit because she's she's looking very pretty in
that dress. It's good to see you all from Streletto. I turned to
Worston. Can I make pleasant trees? I suggest you do? While this
fellow is looking directly at us, there's a there's a man standing at the
table looking across all of you. Waiting for you or to sit down.
As this incredibly awkward scene plays out, Calougi kind of stumbles around the other
end of the table and sits kind of at the table head. At the
other end, he very comfortably puts his shoes up on the table. Worston
shoots him a look, and he pulls his shoes off the table. Alight,
So down to business then, merchant skills and the exchange of money and
what fucking slaves and stuff. Worston shoots him another look. Low key,
yeah, Well, these lots in here know exactly what I'm so I'll just
sit here quiet. Perhaps that wine, my dear sir, Yes, of
course, the wine. I'll bring over the wine, the wine for you
all, please enjoy the charcuterie. And will you bring some more salami for
this gentleman He seems like he would like some more salami, of course,
anything, and we'll get to some perhaps some main meals soon be back soon
enough. He turns and walks away as soon as his back is turned worse
and leans across the table towards Reginald. What the fuck have you been doing?
Reginald kind of leans back right. Listen, you have to understand.
Well, we've it's just were actually technically, and I'm relatively ashamed to say
I was taken prisoner technically at first, but it was a conversation. It
was a conversation. Well, I really do think that what they're saying is
the truth. Frankly, this seems absurd, I know, but I don't
think they're working with the dragon Fly crew. I really truly believe that they
experience is what happened. Worston leans back and says, I've come to the
same conclusion. This one's too stupid to have pulled off anything on the level.
I'm sorry now, but it's true. There's no way you pulled off
her wide scale attack by that planned over years. It's not stupid. How
dare you? Didn't you to mastermind a terrorist attack, the largest terrorist attack
we've seen in two five hundred years our entire planet. I think in the
background, you'd see a bird come up and start like fucking with Ellie and
she's like swatting it away. That's it, just just like ridiculous dumb shit
in the background. Reginald Lane's in, Listen. We we've sort of come
up with a plan to a degree, were we think we should wait for
their final member, the one from Dustville. She's an old lady. Oh,
an old lady. Yeah, that's what we need, an old lady.
Go over with her. Yes, well, once she arrives, they
have a plan, right, Well, we're working on a plan. We've
got a plan. I think we're going to do a lot better to work
together. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean but he needs an
attitude adjustment. If we're gonna work together, have anude adjustment. You kicked
my sword? Keep for collars on art? What I'm wearing a take that
off right now? You calling them? Okay? I think you can probably
take the collars off of them. Oh yeah, oh come on, it's
not I squeeze. I put my hand on worse than Sarmon. I start
squeezing. You squeeze me any harder? What then I squeeze a little bit
harder and I just look at him. Will kill him if you squeeze my
wrist? Can I see this happening? The squeezing of wrists? I think
you maybe may counts something over the table. There's no way that I would
imagine Aura is going to be doing some crazy stuff, but I think she
probably I think from your your vantage point, you can see them moving super
annoyed by the mist and not being able to tell what's going on and the
birds. And I'm going to climb down and just like walk up to the
window, but like outside, not like right in front of it. Doenald
sees you? But no one else does. He's like he just gives you
like a wide eyed lug. But but yeah, well, I mean,
no one else sees me because I'm invisible, because I'm a beggar kid.
Now, Weston says, listen, this one butchered Bob. How is Bob?
He's soon better, he's not walking yet, right, Well, it
was Bob is a psychopath. Have we not remembered this? He is a
cycle path. He's all we had. And will you cut him up a
little bit? Didn't you cut him up? He also tried to blow me
up, and he tried to light me on fire, with all of us
on fire. Well, that's your friendship, not mine. With him,
I'll say friendship. Wouldn't say friendship, I'm afraid. Just take off their
collars, take the callers off of them. I think we're fine. Look
at me, I look like I'm under duress, look like you're right.
Ah, well, yes, very funny. Just just do it all right,
I'll have you call us off right. Thank you. I'm tired of
being your bitch. He pulls his hands out of his pocket and says,
there's no knives in him any way, They don't do nothing. He reaches
out. There's a button underneath the front of it that he clicks that you
could have clicked at any point. Now, just reach up, there's a
button under there. I'm starting to feel like the acquisition is a giant joke
in a joke. Well, listen, being in the business of killing,
we're really not in the business of killing. But yeah, it's just that
fear rather effective at getting our work done quickly. They really get into your
head though, that's for sure. Well, we really didn't have much choice.
We thought you would. Terrorists truly believe that you were in charge,
in charge of orchestrating this entire thing. And we've been over this. I
presume you've told them your side of the story. Bo not the uh exaggeration
of busty mermaids. But I I I told the rest flying up into the
sky, visiting all these places of power by in the gods, killing something
called. Then the magic gone towards the plan? Then a lot of brainsn't
you? Looks at you? Aura? Uh, we we're gonna work together
and we're gonna find Dave Aki and we're gonna we're gonna fix this. Right.
So, if we find this lot of God's plan is to what kill
him? Bring him on to her side? Have him? Uh? Well,
like like I did with Bob, try to have a conversation first before
we kill anybody. See see where we end up. Bey Becky wasn't much
for talking the first time we talked to him. I reckon, you can
get him to jump start the majac again. I have a hunch that maybe
he could, but I don't know for sure. I mean, if it's
something you can take away, I'm sure you can give back, right,
Yeah, I would think so a God. I have no idea how it
works. Honestly, this entire thing has gone over my head. Frankly,
I'm surprised that a little we understood. Reginald nods at him. Yeah,
insight and what does that do for you? I'd like to gain insight on
on what's this guy's name? Again? I want to say week Mixed,
but I know that's wrong. I want to get insight on him. I
wanna basically see what he's trying to accomplish. I guess it's very hard to
hear what they're saying, well, even though I'm standing right outside of the
window. Yeah, I think it's kind of muffled. Also, Worston speaks
like this impossible to hear from a window. I think you're well, I'm
gonna move inside. Yeah, I think maybe you've started moving around. And
Worston kind of looks around and says about the assassin. She really up to
bug it off. He left you here. I enjoy you know where is
jelly door opens and a serving boy walks in worsting glances over and then glances
back as if it's just a serving boy. And there's like bird poop on
my hat now, and I'm a little like soaked because something outside. A
little serving child wanders in bow and I stand like I kind of stand near
the table behind Worston ish but like stand like a servant w at a table.
He completely sees you, right, because he's not one of these people
that he's like watching. We don't need nothing, boy, Oh I ain't
standing here for you, mister I'm standing here for them. Yeah right,
clear off over like a couple of inches away from the Reginald is kind of
smiling. Boy, will you get my sword for me? It's fallen over
and I go, I go, and I grab this sword and I pretend
like I'm struggling, like lifting it up, like why is it so heavy?
Though? Why do I have to carry it? Because you have?
The boy? And I take the sword from her and good point lean it
against the wall next to me or by the window next to me. I'll
put my hand on it like I'm trying to balance, like keep it there.
Uh, perhaps you should dismiss the child who probably doesn't need to know
about very important discussions. This is my child, and this child shall stay,
or you have a child. I'll explain everything later. I'm her child.
You don't know nothing like a teethling. Uh, it's called adoption.
How many assumptions from you? Okay, wursten KLOGI is leaning against the table.
Would you mind seeing where our drinks are? Boy? Of course,
And I'll run off and like I'll like run off and then I trip purposely
like trip and fall like in front of all like Superman does when he's Clark
Kent. Yeah, yeah, she's this boy stumbles off away from the table.
Worston leans forward. All right, if we're all working together and you
are telling us the truth, then we're all pretty fucked. I'd say,
if this is really Rick and he's old and all the magic himself or the
calf as well, what makes you think he's even here? I wouldn't he
be sat on his throne. I know he's here. I can feel him.
Yeah. I can't explain it. It's just like I'm I know,
magic really hard to it. I mean this this might sound crazy, but
Aura was chosen well to take dere Vicky's place. H So you're now the
god of gods. You're a big badness in charge and you're sitting here a
ridiculous stress, but you're supposed to be well. I turned it down.
I turned down the position. I would you turn down a position like that?
Why would you accept one? I don't know, to knock the bastard
off that's in charge. Like my eyes get wide and I just look at
Reginald like this guy from from I mean, it was really a question of
powers, and these are in powers of it. How do you get a
job at the inquisition. Do they have like a background check? Do they
they look into your your history? Anything like that? Actually really messed up
a lot of us. Were just get to anywhere else to go. I'm
not I mean this with all due respect. Were you in prison at some
point? Worston in prison many times? Okay, Okay. All I'm saying
is I know that he is out there, and if we find him,
I think he's he might be mortal like us. Maybe he put the magic
somewhere. It's it's safe somewhere, and maybe all we have to do is
unlock it again. Yes, this is really the only plan we have.
Western We have to find Dave Veki if nothing else will provide us with some
answers. H all right, fine, return. There's like two other children
following you with bottles as well, and it's it's all whatever. Kolugi drank
the most of in the guild. It's like just all that whatever, it's
all whiskey that he comes out bottles of wine, have a child with a
bunch of glasses set onto the table. The two other children turn around and
immediately walk away, and then one of them elbows you come on, I
push on. They move away. You hear them going, she's gonna get
he's gonna get ncense. I immediately start to like put ice in the cups
and then like start pouring for everybody. Yeah, all right, then if
that's the plan, where is he? We don't know. She said you
could find him right track him. It's like if I get I think,
if I get closer, I will know that we're getting closer. But we
just have to work together with your resources and our resources, and I think
we can find I think we can find them. Ain't you said you're gonna
find that that person, that uh Graham guy. He stands up. I
tell everything to my child. Yeah, h server. I look at Reginald.
He told us that he was going to get us a meeting with him.
We yes, we we figured that we really only have two leads.
We have to find Grim. It seems that well he's involved somehow. Presumably
if not, then he's just crazy and that's it. Alternatively, we find
day of Vacuum or pretty confident that if we can get at least a direction
to head, we can find him and h that's presumably the rest of the
answers we need. The plan is simply to wait for their final comrade,
last piece of the puzzle before we can piece it together. Right. Ah,
so you want to go up to the Full Tress and speak to the
mad Paladin. I don't want to, said, paladin had tried to cut
my head off, but apparently he might have something to say. Your face
is wanted, his face is wanted. If she actually does make it here,
soon a face is going to be wanted as well. Aren't you in
control of taking that down since you work for the Inquisition. It's a bit
wobbly. Why is it wobbly? Well, it I was down the Full
Tress because someone went meant on and tried to kill the queen. We're not
really in charge of the local monarchies who we just work with them. It's
hard. We have to not rock the boat. There's still there standard Inquisition
hold some swag power, but without magic, there's no Arcanie. Without Arcanine,
there's not really an Arcaneye Inquisition, so it's a bit hard to leverage
them. We can disguise ourselves. You all can say we're new members of
the Inquisition, we're new recruits. We we can we can trick them if
we go in with you too, and they're like, yeah, you said
the staff is low, you have us go in. We all dress differently
differently, well, all dress the same. We could dress them in robes,
inquisition robes. We've got endless amounts of them. I'm really good at
accents, and I can still be your boy, my lady. I can
just like a girl. I can carry books you need it. We could
just you know, I just put rock and maybe I mean I've done my
Reginald knows my delivery accent. I've been doing one here. I feel like
I could easily come up with the third one. Well, we could just
do all the talking on your behalf that we could shave him. He points
at you both. No, hey, women can have beards too, all
right, More like I mean like you'll look completely different. No want to
even recognize you. So I asked me a question I gotta have, Like,
well, yes, I suppose well that they really only are going to
know your face from a wanted poster and not a voice. You can sound
however you wish. So you say that I could have an accent if I
wanted one, Will I suppose yes, we could, okay, if you
really wanted to. Now, can I use insight. Yeah, so you've
been watching this conversation and what does it specifically provide you? Sorry there that
you get you see the intentions of a nearby creature, discovering prominent motive.
Choose one effect each time to use this ability. You learn something the creature
intends to do in the next ten minutes, or you learn something the creature
intends to accomplish over a long period of time, which, well, this
is something I think I'd be going, like, what does it seem like
we're just trying to do long term? Because it doesn't seem to want to
attack us, you would have probably done that. You get the same feeling
that you got when you first encountered Reginald kind of at the end of his
tether, really back against the wall, sort of partially down and out.
There's an element to worston of just what do I have left to lose?
But to just go with this? These are they These are detectives. These
are agents with one or two very thin leads to follow. They have no
choice but to go with the flow. Here he doesn't seem at all to
be comfortable, but it's not in the sense that he's going to pull the
thing it really does just seem like he's telling the truth. It seems like
both him and Reginald they're the last of their team, there is no one
left, they're unaware of Cairo, and that they really do need to figure
out what this is about. It's their final mission, and he does seem
to be kind of coming around to it. It seems seems like, yeah,
it seems like he's like believing this and not one of those we're going
to walk into a trap soon. If I think you get the sense that
he felt more like he was walking into a trap here, then later you
get the sense that both him and Reginald came to the same conclusion that this
could be another outside force arranging for the meeting, but it was in fact
just how they had hoped that it would be each other. It seems that
Reginald trusts you and Ora. Now you've both discussed with him plenty more Aora
than you, but over the course of your time together that he seems to
just be on your side and believing of it, whether it is the truth
and fact. I think you get the sense that Reginald still isn't sure whether
you were mind wiped or taken and messed with in some way. He certainly
doesn't get this. You don't get the sense that they feel like you're purposefully
misleading them. They don't get the sense, and I think all of you
can maybe begin to feel like this as well, like they have kind of
dropped the idea that you were actively a part of this Dragonfly crew and the
vengeance and the things like that. They still maybe don't believe your story is
your story, but they believe that you believe that's the story, and regardless,
that's the only lead they have still, So essentially it does seem like
they're kind of you both have a common enemy and a common goal, and
it does seem like they're on side, whether it be slightly tentatively, there's
certainly a kind of pension to it, but not anything that you get the
sense is like a big trick or trap or anything. You also get the
sense that Worston just kind of believes Oo's story in the same way that that
Reginald believes Auras. It's just that where Reginald had bow locked up, there
was no reason to let him go, whereas Aura had Reginald, you know,
with a sword to his throat. So it was just kind of the
same thing. Yeah, I think he seems, if anything, a little
more relaxed the longer the conversation goes on, but not relaxed, just with
the situation. O. I'll change that. I'm gonna shove my way in
between Worston and both m and sit down. Oh hi, hey, bo,
what it's me? How did you not know it was me? You
know what I look like disguise? Yeah, and I smell a little more
now, No, not not at all. Yeah, well fooled him,
didn't it. And I like signal Worston. I mean, I didn't even
know it was you too until you surprised me. That was the point.
So about this plan. Worston is like watching this exchange and then he looks
over at Reginald. Reginald kind of smiles and shrugs, and then he looks
back and says, assessin, yeah, we hope we had to work with
disguises. Yeah, is this, sir, is how you get most of
your marks? Is it? Not? As a little boy? Now?
Most of them are just you know, wait in a shadow for them to
walk by and then walk away. He tells me, you killed the death.
We did it? Actually, all of us. What was that like,
I gotta be honest at the time, it don't really feel anything,
I mean, being lifeless and all at least then a curse, Yeah,
for stealing and I look at Bo, you're the thief here. You should
have known those were cursed. Well, then it seems everything's above board.
I reckon, we get the fuck out of this ship. Oh, we
gotta go meet our friend. But well, yes, but she won't be
arriving till morning tomorrow. Yeah, perhaps we could go back to the safe
house. It's safe. Actually, western could we go to a better safe
house? They smashed my window. Where have you been staying? I have
my own safe house, of course, come to our dungeon. Oh,
I don't think that's a good idea. You've had him in the dune?
Which one? Ten? Ten? Did you get out? Two weeks?
Two weeks? Oh that's and he looks at cologian Bo. Well, I
suppose you're probably very tired after your show me long journey. There's got to
be another one that we can go to. Yeah, there's a comfortable one.
You can go to the comfortable one. It's not like anyone else is
using it. Where's Bob? He said? The comfortable one. Well maybe
no one we can say yet one gonna look after Bob. I suppose we
do have to look after Bob. Oh, I'm not going does bad?
Does does Bob like recognize faces very easily? If we tell him not to
kill you, he probably won't. Okay, Well, like I don't really
like going on? Probably yes, Well, I mean we really we've been
working with Bob for for a very long time and we're all on. Probably.
But does the inquisition where Bob's at? Oh, yes, he's quite
safe. He's in a comfortable safe house. He looked after him, saying
if they know where he's at, then they'll know that we're there if he
decides to we talk. He's actually mute. Oh he's a mute. Huh.
Yeah, I tried. Yes, No, she didn't cut out.
His tongue was cut out. You know. I think you see like a
moment of like oh yeah, no, no, no, no, he
was already mute when I met him. He had a little trinket he could
Oh I thought you went on a tongue cutting spree for a second. No.
Tried to have a conversation with him, and then he just kept lighting
Malotov cocktails. It was the whole thing. That's what he does. Does
he have access to Malotov cocktails at this safe house? He's betty got access
to his hands. They're all bandaged. Touff. Okay, all right,
where is this safe house? Yeah? Follow me. You see the the
fellow come out with the stuff, and he walks towards the table. So
what would you like to eat? Everyone worse than stands up and just says
fuck off. And the guy Reginald, yes, worse Than is walking towards
the door. Reginald stands up awkwardly and so well, of course my tab.
You put it all on the tab, take a little for yourself,
and yes, we'll be leaving now. Unfortunately we do have business to attend
to, leaving so soon. Yes, well that's a little snack before dinner,
thank you, of course. Yes, we'll have a wonderful evening one
and all to you as well. The fellow kind of watches you all as
each I guess, eg you stand up and head towards the door. Yeah,
I kind of I'll go grab like this stuff. You still grab all
this stuff? Yeah, you all head out of this kind of upper class
establishment, one by one, you see Reginald turns like leaves last and turns
and just yeah, father will cover the cover it, of course, good
night, good night. A few people kind of looking strange, disgruntled looks
as you each step out and follow Worston off into the night. Back in
the cart on the great road. You are each on this cart. Several
more hours have passed. The sun is beginning to rise. You see the
the dawn light kind of peeking over the edge of the plains. In the
distance, you see a kind of it would look small to you, but
a city begin to materialize. The Lona is on a dip in the land,
but the fortress sits on a plateau that you can kind of make out
from a distance. It's kind of a two tiered looking thing, not huge
or anything like that, but you can make out walls and some general scattered
kind of laid out houses in the very far distance of circular ish shape from
this distance, with a fortress sitting castles from this distance and in the center
of it quite far away still, and you've been following a river. Now
the road runs now alongside of a pretty wide river. As the sun comes
up, the drizzle of the rain continues hitting the river light, glancing off
the river as well. Who is where and doing what on the cart At
the moment, I'm still in the back. I'm not sleeping anymore, though,
I kind of have my hood pulled back a little bit and I'm just
maybe watching the river go by or the road, whichever side of mine.
I think at some point the twins will have swapped, depending on maybe who's
in the front up to you guys, but Thereas would have gone back to
the back of the car, also awake, but in the back of the
cart. Maybe he snoozed for a little bit with Tea sitting up front with
whoever's driving. I think I'm driving, probably still h I something's been bothering
me. I can't stop thinking about what just happened, everybody being able to
see everything and not me. But I keep fixating on what it both said
to me. Ever been to the Valley of the Veteran King? That's it.
He said that to me a long time ago. I heard that when
future Orea came. I heard him say that to me, and I think
it troubles me. Actually, mm hmmm, how's how's going up front?
There? You are you awake? Oh? Yes, I'm gone, I'm
good. You'll you'll holler if you need, you know, swap out or
oh yes, I'll holler. I'm okay though, Okay, tell me again,
Cairo, what you saw you mean the city? Yes, Slona,
okay, it was destroyed, and and I was running in the street,
and I was running from giant hands, black hands. They covered everything hu
and they were chasing me, and there was ruin everywhere, and and what
about the gun? Oh all right, well it was pointed up me.
But it was your comrade, right, it was. It was well,
Cairo, I think that means that you're going to stick with us, right,
that's what that means. Like, do you mind taking the reins for
me for just ten minutes or so? Not at all? Great, I'll
go ahead of climb over and grab them. I'd like to do something.
Let me see what it's called. I think I probably he's still sitting there
right. I want to sit next to her, So I'll probably kind of
just gesture that he can go rest in the back and I'll sit here next
to Cairo. May I do my invoke? Invoke? What is that one?
You leave your worldly body behind? You must be in a quiet place
with no other creatures around to begin the ritual or does it count? Does
it? Am I not able to? Since they're around me, I think
you can do it. Everyone's asleep, really, Zirah is in the deep
sleep as well. You can see now that she has kind of cold up
a little more. She's gone from a sitting position to like a cold up
position. And yeah, you find a little area and everyone's quiet, and
it's quiet enough and nothing really happening. I think you can do this.
While in this trance, you can only vaguely sense if there is danger around
your mortal body. You may exit the trance at any time. You enter
a liminal plane of existence and experience this place like a dream world in the
stars. It might be a lush paradise in a nebula. I won't read
the rest of that and trouble you with it. But here you may speak
with a mysterious version of yourself. It may appear to look exactly as you
do, as you once did or will do, or perhaps they are you,
yet distinctly different. You may describe what you see each time. You
may speak to the avatar for one minute about anything you like. If you
ask any of these questions, the GM will give you a truthful answer.
So you sit there. Yes, you're It takes a little while to have
the have the bumping of the carriage and the drizzle of the rain that will
keep you grounded from doing something like this before this kind of trance like meditation
takes you and eventually it drifts away. You're still aware, still in your
body. You're still you know, kind of sitting in this cart the wood.
You can sense the rumble of the car and the bumping along this road.
You can hear the clippety clop of the horse. But for the most
part you kind of drift off and as you maybe close your eyes, when
you open not your eyes again. But ani you find yourself in a kind
of field of stars, no constellations that you recognize, no understanding of where
precisely you might be. But there's just kind of a piece and transience to
the place that you find yourself in. And what do you say, I
definitely don't see myself, at least in a physical form, So I think
I look around for a minute. Am I on the right path to fixing
things? To bringing magic back? Ahead of you? The stars begin to
shift and change into strange shapes. You can see that they begin to form
like a very odd shape humanoid at first, and then it sprouts a set
of arms, and it becomes clearer. As more and more stars begin to
kind of form this figure, it takes more and more depth in a strange,
sort of pointerless way. It's odd that the stars take the form of
Ahi, the strange figure that you had met right at the beginning that pulled
you to this thing. Ah. He's face, however, it isn't made
of stars. It is just your face. Oh. There, very troubling.
The face looks at you and says, what is broken for you to
fix? Well? Them, there's no magic ape, We've robbed everyone of
magic. Perhaps it is not always about trying to fix something that is broken.
Maybe you must start over and create something better. What if I don't
know what that looks like? Who could know? I don't know? Am
I you? Yes, that's what I'm going to become? No, I
am you? I don't think I like that implication, to be honest.
These stars shift and change, and you see that the arms are pulled in
again, all of them. The hands remain, they grow a little in
size, the body shifting and change outwards, the face of the top splits.
There are now like six faces that are all yours looking at you.
It takes the form of day avaki. Would you prefer this? Oh am,
I going to find you? Well, I guess you're me, so
you can't really answer that. Then I feel great responsibility and I just want
to make sure I'm not endangering those I love again, would you like to
find me? Yes, yes, I would. Have you found yourself,
I think I have, then you will find me, oh dear, And
I think I leave the space, but I am laughing when I wake up.
You kind of take a little while, I think, as you begin
to sort of ground yourself. It takes a moment. It's not really the
type of thing that you can just snap out of. It's a deep meditation.
It's a trance, very strange feeling. As the more present sounds return
than the feelings, the sensation of the rocking of the carriage, and you
open your eyes and in front of you you see the left hand pauldron of
Xyrhea in front of you, and it has the all seeing eye on it,
the same symbol that was on her shield, the symbol of savage.
Sometimes this is in the form of a crystal ball with many eyes in it.
Sometimes it's a single large eye, sometimes it's an eye in a triangle,
very Illuminati style. But she just has a pretty simply engraved all seeing
eye in the pauldron that's looking at you as you awaken from this meditation.
M funny, ironic. More like we thought we thought we were We thought
we were doing the right thing, you know, killing something horrific, stopping
a monster. And I kept saying, no, no, no, you
know, who are we to just rule over and become gods? And we're
no different from the thing we're trying to stop, then are we? And
we asked, you questioned it. I didn't even do that. That was
a bit too late. Well, I'm afraid this doesn't bode well for us,
for me, what doesn't. I think we're looking for ourselves. I
think when we find each other again, we'll either become day of Eki or
summon day of Eki. I think I think he's within us US four or
we are him, or something to that nature. That's that's a lot to
chew on. Yes, well, let's hope I'm wrong, right, I
just pat her legs. Let's hope I'm wrong. Well, I'll be here.
Yes, I know, and don't worry about that that man with the
rifle. It was a good shot too. Yeah. The car trundles onwards
down the road. An hour or so passes, and eventually, ahead of
you, spreading out across your vision, this wall appears. The western side
of Belona is a little different to the eastern and southern sides. The northern
side mostly just kind of a plateau that leads up to the fortress, and
the western side has a lot of the river that runs into canals all the
way through Beloona, and there's a bridge that goes over this river and heads
towards the western gate. Ahead of you you can see a very large gate
inside of a very large wall, and beyond it the very recognizable city of
Bologna Piers. You've found Beloona. You finally made it to Beloona's western gate,
and that is where we end today's session. Good good morning, Sunshine,
Thanks for playing players. It's all come in together, holy ship,
all come in together. Next week we will begin with you all finally being
reunited, which is exciting but also terrifying, activating the true end game.
That's when I reveal myself as the BB don't you dare is going to take
off the sunglasses and his eyes are yellow. We'll do a quick round of
shout outs. Everyone can say where they're from, what they're doing during the
week, and where people can find you doing those things, and then we'll
head on out till next time for the Great Reunion, which is a terrifying
thing to say. If you're a final fantasy, and I shouldn't call it
that, Let's start with a final fantasy Sevin fans a cottok, hurt.
Where can people find you? What do you do there? Ah? Right?
Everyone, i'm's Got Kiss. You can find me here on tables Thory
on Tuesdays as well as Sundays. I play a very young man there,
Alexander Peppin. He's a raven closet in the Hogwarts and he's such a wonderful
character too, so I hope you'll check that out. There's plenty of Witchcraft
and Wizarday to catch up on as well, if you want to check out
the YouTube and get a feel for it. Wonderful cast of people, wholesome,
funny, It's awesome. I love it. You can follow me.
It was Got Kiss everywhere I play video games. I make terrible jokes that
are solely for my own entertainment, but you might enjoy them too. And
you can find my podcast there's goadcast and all the podcast places. That's just
me talking to kill people about things and it's a good time. It's basically
just an excuse for me to force people to talk to me for so I'm
not lonely. And then I recorded and you can listen to That's why I
do this and refuse to end it. See what about you? Pocket?
How was it being a boy? Uh? Well, I mean it's just
I sounded like a little boy. But to be fair, when I was
a little girl and even a teenager, I sounded like a little boy too,
so it was normal. I guess I was also a tomboy. You
can find me in Texas. You asked, where can they find you?
Give your address and security. You can find me at pocket on Twitter and
when I occasionally stream at uh pocket on Twitch, mostly sticking the photo stuff
lately and editing videos, but I do want to get back to streaming.
I had a pinched nerve all last week, so I was in very fun
pain. It's still kind of bad, but whatever, so that's that's my
all right, Yeah, go get better? What about you, Desby?
Oh hi, I'm dspi r X. I played bo Bobo for you today.
Amazing episode today, everybody, Holy cow, Brad, I don't know
how you keep up with all these characters. What It's insane. Anyway.
You can find me here at dis b rx on Twitch and Twitter. I've
been playing a variety of games. I last checked out the new map on
Fastmophobia, the prison map. That's been pretty cool. There's a new map.
Yeah, there's a new map to totally check it out. Prison.
How long has it been a new map for? Just a couple of day?
Yeah, all right, there you got got a prison. Got a
prison with Disbey. What about Tuesday? Tuesday has been in prison for most
of her life. Yeah, we weren't going to bring that up though.
If you take that out live from sant Anger right now, I'm I'm not
in prison. You can find me at susagra on Twitch and Twitter. For
now just here on Sundays, but streaming someday. And I would like to
shout out a favorite moment from today, which was Tilly deciding that her name
was Silly and then proceeding to act as Stilly because it was amazing, amazing.
I want a spin off, which is just Aura going around the country
pretending to be a noble ye any time. But I refused to be the
boy the whole time. Let me be like the husband. Sometimes I gave
you some of the meat and cheese, I know, and you did weren't
the whipping you got the abuse. Yeah. The fun subversion that I've been
I've been I don't know if you notice, but I've been subverting loads of
stuff. I've been trying to do one subversion an episode every time. Like
last week was that you were panicked about walking through the gates and it was
gonna be a whole thing, and he just walked through and it was fine.
Which, Yeah, So this one I was like, I thought would
be really funny if it was like built up to be this thing where you
kind of have to be in disguise and you've got to play the part right.
But you go into this place where all these buses don't give a ship
anyway. You're just being an eccentric crazy person like they are kind of and
you fit in more being kind of wrong in your perfect Yeah, thank you
for loving me full worst and all yeaeah that was funny as well, like
you're just standing there and bo like I was. I considered having them both
roll, but I was like, would just be funny if like you just
however long you want to do it for, you're just doing this thing,
which was fun all right, So go follow Tuesday. It's next Katie peters
Plaus. Hello, I'm Katie peters Plaus. You could find it Katy Peter's
place on Twitch play Katie play on Twitter. Someday maybe they'll be the same,
but for now and for many years, they have not been. I
have the same, do you. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's buffal
oh hie because like super rip. No, it's because when I made a
Twitter account in like twenty twelve, I had already been online for like a
year, but I didn't want Twitter because I knew instinctively and I was right
that I would hate it. But I like eventually I was like I got
to get one, and I went to get one and someone already had it
and was pretending to be me and was like typing my stuff like I'm so
great and I think I'm so perfect and tweeting it out and he had like
a bunch of follows and stuff, and I was like, oh my god,
this is awful, and uh yeah, so Bradware was a fight account
and so I couldn't get one. And my friend Liam, who I had
a channel wave on YouTube at a time, was called luff just be the
buffer because it because then we would mention that's it. That's how that worked
out. Mine was not that I just can't fit my name. So that's
what happened with me. No one was pretending to be story like Katie Place
my user name, which because on PlayStation I tried putting Katie Peters Place,
but Peters is also a synonym for penis, and so PlayStation would not let
me use it because it was it was a loose yeah whoa So okay.
My husband's a teacher and sometimes the kids will call mister Peckers because sorry,
it's or me. You know, well, no, I mean it is
kind of funny. We laugh about it and sometimes world, No, I
don't know where I gotta get hot derailed, but yeah, come hang out
with me. I scream on my channel about stuff a lot that is crazy.
I can't believe that. How don't like that? Must be an American
things. Yeah, usually like americanisms are kind of like we get them anyway,
because maybe it's like a older one getting it is older. It's crazy.
What about you? Then Peter out, he's got his Peter out.
My god, that's how you say it. This is new to me.
I didn't know this either. A microe oh, Peter, I see what
you did. There's a gotta kiss. I see what you did there.
Speaking of seeing what you did there, Holy shit, Cam, I allowed
to talk about this? Can I say this? How fucking cool? This
is what that has no idea what you're talking about, isn't she He actually
set a line to me that was said to me a year ago on the
show that Brad said that Toby said, and and then you said it just
now and I'm freaking out about it. Yeah. It was so good,
very happy, so good. That's it. That's all I fucking got.
And that's why you get the best role players here on table story. Roll
up, roll up, get your best role player here on table story.
You really do very fun. Yes, I've been sitting on the valley of
Adrian King for a while, and all right, there we are. That's
everyone. Make sure you go and follow them for you. Bradley, can
you please shout yourself out this time? My name is Brad and I have
a Twitch channel as well. I've been playing Kotor two because that won the
vote that I did last which was amazing for me because I'm really on a
Star Wars kick at the moment and I'm a Tier two Star Wars fan.
You came up with a tier list for Star Wars fans. There's like a
Tier one fan where you kind of just watch the movies. There's Tier two
when you've watched like Clone Wars and Rebels, but you haven't read loads of
the books. And then there's Tier three when you've read all the Legends books
and everything like that. That would know see that would be your god.
Here. You need Tier one to be they've read some of the books.
Yeah, because I'm in that category. If you've read some of the books,
you're like Tier two. I read it, just plays a couple of
games and watches Clone Wars. Maybe I've watched the movies and Wars one thing
to do. Like, Okay, Here's how I've always found when I interact
with someone, I'm like, have you seen Star Wars And they've either watched
like the movies and they're like, yeah, lying to that one movie,
or they go, I've read everything and my knowledge is more than yours,
and you're like, I'm so intimidated, and they just they school you on
it. I can always so many different races in the Star Wars universe,
and no one's ever heard of. Yeah you're just you're the one that I
was just saying here, but yeah, I've been I'm going on a Star
Wars kick. So a couple of weeks ago, the vote that I do
on my channel, Kotor one, and then I never would have expected that
my channel would have enjoyed it as much as they did, but they voted
for the second Coatl, which is what I just started playing. So I
haven't even got a light saber yet. If you want to watch that.
I stream every day, much too Pbe's chagrin. She has been I keep
trying to tell him that it's okay if he takes a day off and sent
me for an hour and you're really good at role playing with yourself, it
is that makes me least so tiring. Like of the reason I don't do
that the shower is because I'm like, I need to lay down now and
then after that, I'm playing Bully. I've never played that before that.
Yeah, that's fun. Yeah, and that's on my Twitch channel trip,
which is not buff Wado. That's his Twitter. Yeah, it's not Buffer,
Braddo, switch dot tv slash bread Water. That's correct. Make sure
you follow this channel though, and go to the discord and talk with all
the other people and watch all the other shows. We have shows most nights,
they're dropping like flies at the moment because it's just the way that it
goes. But show's coming up all over the place. Yeah. The thirtieth
December, Yes, we have the trailer. Oh well, whose fault is
that? Probably it's fine. It's on it's on our Twitter account, but
it is. We are returning to the world of Nocturn with the Cast of
Nocturn for a one shot December thirtieth. It is a full moon. We're
going to have fun, so definitely come check it out. It's either four
to thirty or five o'clock, one of the two. We have decided yet,
but in the December thirtieth, that's right, it's Wednesday, a full
moon. I'm go dress like a were wolf. I was gonna say vampire,
but I didn't. Oh that's topical. Do that? Okay, which
one where we're were wolf? Okay, there, you gods to blow up.
I dress like a werewolf for your guys as well. You know I'm
dressed like it right now watching Everyone has to dress like a werewolf on December
the thirtieth. We'll see you then, and we'll see you next week for
the continuation of this the reunion, then watching