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the Night Shift, Bill, can you uh, where are you in Kestral
to the family home? Is there like an address the Kestral estate? Whow
Bill? I love this aggression. M I can't scream together. Go my
souls already sold. Swim you trapped under spell? I wish you well,
never creat wrong your streets. You do better to retreat if you want it
done right, don't the night Shift? Um in shorter, you guys arrived
in front of the Orchestral summer Estate. I'm a little nervous. I'm a
little nervous for Orchestral. Do we want to handle this? What are we
doing? Are we just walking right in? Is there another? Is there
a secret entrance that guno of Orchestral that we go in here unnoticed by anyone?
Well? I mean, can you describe me the manner? I can?
Yeah, Like, um, if you sort of picked the windows,
you will all say, there, uh the cocrus manner, and this is
this is just their summer home. But it's an estate. I mean there
there's ah egregiously expensive landscaping out from lots of like shaped plants and high walls.
There are guards at the front gate. Definitely some naked statues. Definitely
lots of naked like more naked statues than really any person should you high born
people. I love dicks, sculpted dicks, vaginas all over. The right
thing about right thing about everything about a statue with dicks is there's usually a
statue with acid titties right next time. Balanced, I mean, you know,
to be fair, I didn't bring up the new statues A statues closed
are taking the statues. Honestly, the Cocrus family feels a little more conservative.
Coats on a Yeah, there's everywhere. It's like they like very impressive
because like you can see straight. They did like they did like this is
just like tacky garden gnomes. And they did like the old school Catholic thing
where they're like, oh, we can't have all these dicks, and they
just put leaves over him something. I'm ruined. The artist makes sense.
Yeah, in front of a four story manner damn Yeah, all white built
with white stones, um, large windows, that sort of thing, orchestral
this is your summer h yeah, it's a little small. It's a living
Wow, you came here a lot as a child, explained so much.
Not really, not as much as their spring hole. Man, your dad
really is a dick. He doesn't even care about the bar, he doesn't
need it. What do we do? Okay? Um? I start walking
toward the were still in the wagon there, right? Do you need the
stables? Wait, we're still in the wagon though. Yeah. Oh you
got out of the way. We all got the wagon. She's out.
Yeah, that's up to your way. You get out. Yeah. If
we're in the state, we've passed the gates. There's probably haven't even guards
out front. Oh so you can't we get guards. I'm staying in the
truly, I can kill them them to your own guards, right, I'm
also wanted and to SWN. But they are loyal to your house. No,
I mean, baby, I mean I think they have one chance to
be loyal and if they're not, unlash, can I roll a check to
see if I know the guards personally? Good? Um? Yeah, let's
do history for that. M nine plus four. Hey it's they're both females
and you do know one of them. Okay, alsa Um, But like
you didn't get along well with Alsa like she was. Okay, it's not
like y y'all didn't know you hated each other anything. You just didn't get
along with her. Well, you know her name. But would she think,
uh that I would kill a wizard? You didn't get along well with
a losa, so you probably didn't talk that much. M hmm. Maybe
maybe you could tell Bill like some m I don't know. Do you know?
Do you know how to? Yeah? Do you know how to sneak
into the compound without going through the front gate on a carriage? Makes sense?
Or we could? Um? Not really, it's been a long time
since I've been here, just saying we could. I left home when I
was quite young, this is true. How young were you? It was
about sixteen? Damn? How old are you now? Rude? I don't
know. Oh well, like elves live longer, right, so I don't
know. Thirty when I left home and now I'm more like sixty. I
don't know. Please don't hold me to this. I don't. I feel
like I had an ancient at one point. That's how edge works. Yeah,
I don't remember what it was though, um hmm. Let's just hop
over the fence. I think I think that's more like human years. Now.
Yeah, she's like on an l scale, yeah, she's twenty five,
But on an el scale, I'm more like sixty five hundred something.
How long do you elves lives in D and D live half else, I
say like six hundred. Let's not get backed down the details. You're half.
Let's right, UM's like six the wall, Go raid the garden some
carrots. Uh, I'm gonna try talking to Alca. Okay, here we
just pull up the carriage. Yeah, see if I can out. Uh
yeah, there will be no window. It's like a school carriage. Just
why I got it for so che When the carrot stops, I want to
crawl through the hole at the bottom. Okay, in the ground. Well
the chaos this is bringing Okay, yeah, there's a twenty two. What
are you trying to do? Are you trying to accomplish? Um? Uh,
I didn't think about that part. I'll come back to Kestro. I
cast spider climb on him. Yes, and now I'm latched onto the bottom
of the bar finally like a rat. Perhaps if they can that's yes.
I am now hanging on the bottom of the cart with no real plan I
love it keeping an eye on things. Yeah, kestro, you roll down
the wind which is a very new feature on carriages. This is the latest
model, I mean carriage. So it's brand new carriage. Co co coock
in the window rolls down and one of them, Aloxa, looks at you.
Aloxa, Hey girl, what's up? What do you need this?
Do you mean here? Yeah? Um, listen, I need to get
in touch with someone, and I was hoping I could use one of the
birds to send a message. Your dad's inside? Is he really yes?
Is he like really pissed? I don't know. Well, could you like
not tell him I'm here? I think that would probably cost my job?
Well, okay, would you do you mind waiting a little bit? How
long? I don't know, like an hour. We just need to send
a pigeon. Really, that's that's it. I don't even need anything from
you know. I don't want to cause any trouble. And you know that
I would never like obviously everything around is messed up. This is not me.
I would never kill Alfyron right, you know me. I don't know
you that well. We were kind of friends. No, you don't remember
that one time I snuck you like a pine of like a thing of wine,
a craph of wine. I remember I got drunk. Yeah, yeah,
we had a ball. I got in trouble. Um, it's a
good time though. Um I can. I can give you like thirteen minutes,
okay, thirty minutes would be great. And you just need to use
the pigeon. Yeah, we just need to use the Yes, I need
to use the United Okay. Uh, you're gonna have to. The carriage
can't come in. We've locked the gates. But right, my friend's taking
care of it. Right now. What happened? What are you doing?
I'm just listening all right. Yeah, the carriage can't come in? Yes,
is just you? Yeah? I reached down through the hole and I
kicked Tom. Wait wait, hold on, the carriage can't come in.
She's telling Kestrol no to bring in her own carriage in her own summer homes.
Yes, daddy's there. Wow. Okay, sure I kicked Tom locks.
That's a locks of bullshit. Okay, Yeah, I kicked Tom,
and I'm like, go get the fucking pigeon. Uh, just you kicked
me. Can't kick me. I'm literally underneath the carriage. I can reach
my foot, can you. No, No, I'm not you can't like
okay, so I like my belly is not exposed by the whole you know
what I'm saying towards you get the general j Yeah, he can't. Okay,
go get go, get the falcon, the pigeon, the pigeons.
Get the pigeon. We can send a bird to not a rock. I
guess he's like climb out from need to kind of dust some off. I'm
like, oh hey, hey, locks up. What No, don't worry
about it. No, you can go in. Oh I can go in.
There's waste to spout, slot on. I'm going to climb back under
the carriage. Sure, nice to be all right, I go. I
go in. Yeah, so her and the other guard just kind of let
you walk by. You can see a locks of kind of exchange your words
with her. You get inside the grounds, there's this like large garden area.
You know where you're going. You kind of have to peel off of
the left to go to the ups. Actually, I want to be talking
to a lot, so I want to stay out in this like kind of
chatting her up. Okay, okay, um, I go to um the
place where all the pigeons are held, and um, I scrawl a quick
little note to note rock Um, telling him that we're in Dragon Spear and
saying that we will meet him in the dregs um near the water treatment plant
because that's the only place that I know. Right, let's back up.
You walk over, open the door, and your dad's there. Ye,
thank you. And I think you're so like focused you almost don't even recognize
there's a person there. You just turn start grab a let her start writing.
And he's like kestrel. Hey Dad, He's sprints over to you and
hugs you. Oh oh oh, hey Dad, I'm I'm so glad that
are Are you okay? Are you all? Are you all right? Remember
she smells awful. Um, I could be you have smelled better. Yes,
you're not wrong. Um, well I could be better if I'm being
completely honest. It's great to see you, dad. I know that you
don't mean that. I do. I do. I have. There's been
We've been through a lot. I have since let us to everyone we have
ever known looking for you. Oh well, now I feel bad. Um.
Look, I know we said some things and I said some things the
last time we were together, and let's just put all that aside right now,
and I have to I didn't do it, daddy. Great, that
was great? Oh good, because I'm gonna need that one. Yeah,
thank goodness. Oh nineteen tears, Oh no, I think they're real.
Nineteen plus you are a very hard heart. Yeah, she just has to.
Also, it's like she can be upset, but also I want some
real emotion in the Yeah, he like he hugs you again. It's like
a right, it's all right, so so emotional. Jeez. Okay,
Um, is it possible you did it on accident? No, I didn't.
Just I know how you know you have a temper sometimes. I mean,
yes, but I wouldn't just kill the biggest sorcer. You really think
I'm capable of that. I think I'm capable of anything that you pund Oh
my god, that's actually starts crying. Yeah, that's that gets me.
I'm like really reading. Thanks, So why are you here? Well?
What do you need? Well, my guild leader is supposed to meet up
with us so we can stay in a safe place. Yes, he swore
he didn't know where you were. Yeah that might have been a lie.
Um, but like that's well he did he didn't know where we were to
be fair, we've been traveling a lot and we've uncovered this really terrible plot
that's going to happen in Guild Drag and we're trying to stop it. And
we passed this really terrible dragon place and I gave up my dagger and then
a turn around bit me in the US and I thought it was a really
cool move. But what what what da guy? It's called? And I
pull out the dagger and it's called the Dagger of yak Oh, that's that's
the one on the wanted posts. Yeah. I know it's technically mine,
but I didn't have it when I gave it up. I sacrificed the dagger,
all right, um, and somehow I got it back. Who are
the Ruffians you're with? Well, they're my You met them at them because
they're my friends. Okay, dad, they're my friends. Oh god,
why did I see that? I I mean, I know I didn't hear
it, but out of character, I feel emotional. That's very nice,
all right, Um, okay, I really just need to get a hold
of note Rocks so we can find a place to say that's safe. I
don't want to get you guys in trouble. It's why I didn't really want
to come here in the first place. Oh, you'll stay here, get
your friends. I'll arrange for Notre Rock to come here under the auspices of
giving him a tongue lashing over finding my daughter and you your part. Are
going to stay out of trouble so I can help sort the problem out.
Dad. I can't promise that. There's more at stake than just our name
and my reputation. There's and my own safety. There's lives, so many
you don't understand. We're facing a genocide up in gilder Bag. We have
to stop it. He makes this like really sad looking face. Did you
say our man? Yes, our name? All right, Um, what
was it that you need for me? Well, I mean it would be
nice to have a place to stay, but really we need to find not
a Rock because he's going to be able to gone. What else. I
sense that there might be money, could get the Phoenix back. That's it
for right now. Thanks for all right. I want to push it.
We're going to say nothing to your mother for the time being. That's a
good that's a good idea. You're going to stay in the guest suite out
by the pool. Okay, your friends are lurking that. I'm like,
oh, we also might need to repair the carriage that we rented. You
rented a carroage, rented a carriage. Well I didn't rent the carriage.
Our friend Bill rented the carriage. He was a big turtle guy. Yes,
the yes, the large one. Um. Sorry, I'm just having
with rindin a carriage. Just a terrible use of money. Wasn't my decision
to be fair? All right? Um, I'll runch the carriages outside.
Yes, I'll runt for the carriage to be brought in. Then all of
your friends can join you the cast. I'll go get note rock and then
we'll I'll leave you alone unless you need something from that. Sound good?
Sounds great? So when Kestrol gets back to the guardhouse, in my head,
I've been uh like bonding with a lots of the entire time, right
Like I was like like watch this ship, and then I like like spider
climbing like up the wall and like on the ceiling, like, well look
at this. You ever seen somebody do this? All right, let's roll
up, let's do a charisma check. Okay, it's like a Christmas saved
almost performance do I have any Um, I thought it was some half like
I give plus one charisma I've advantaged on deceptive at performance checks. Were trying
to pass myself off as another person. I can mimic speak what the fuck?
This is awesome? With it? You can do all kinds of things
that would have been useful in this session. Yeah damn. Okay, well
that's great, but I don't think that applies here at only ten Only ten
Um Tom is pulling out all stops. Yeah, trying to impress als and
Alsa for her part, couldn't care fucking that's not true. She couldn't care
less. She's been used by it all right. Um, she's not impressed.
Huh. But she's like, I'm like standing upside down on the ceiling,
juggling. It's better than what she normally does, stand outside the gate
and stare at nothing in particular. Yeah, no, no, it's it's
yeah, it's cool about this. I've just been trying to stay hidden and
quiet in the carriage, and Casher walked back and looks is like, okay,
good. She closes the gate behind. Oh, actually we need to
go back in. I already talked to my dad and we're kind of cool.
You talk your dad? Yeah, inside, let's go. Come on,
okay, okay, did you get the InBank? I think with your
dad, and your dad actually walks right up behind her. It's like you
can let them in. Oh okay, I was. I was about to
come tell you that they were in. He's like, it's fine. What
does he do when he sees me standing upside down juggling on the ceiling that
is a seventeen? He grabs the bars and presses his face to the gate.
Huh, what is happening? Thank him down your friend, Jesta.
Sure, it's he's a bard, same thing. So okay, give me
back the phoenix in you bitch the gate. I'm sorry, I guess striking
distance. I don't know. I mean, yeah, I don't. I
don't really know. Yeah, strike When you say bitch, he leans to
the gate. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my state,
I'm sorry. All right, I'm sorry, Ruffians. You always did have
a certain dad. Can we not do this? Yep? Come on,
and he disappears. Thank you, thanks mister, guys were going to the
He says, thanks, mister, I don't care enough to correct you.
Yes, like I never really considered the Come on, guys, we're going
to the pool house. Pou dude, don't taking off. I'm doing great
in the swim trunks. Yeah, I mean we we actually show hop in
the pool though, because we all smell like shit. Yeah. Absolutely,
Yeah we can shower. Tom does one of those like Looney Tune things where
he's like like literally running on air and this lifts me up. It's my
legs scurry in the air to holds us off first, and then we'll get
in the pool. We gotta do your water spell again. No, I'm
not you wasting another spec the long rest. Yeah, just go take a
shower. It's right there. Okay, Oh wow, house with a shower.
What a shower? It's probably an awesome shower, isn't it. This
pressure is amazing, four story manner. How does it work like the house
probably has its own water tower. Yeah, yeah, press property. Yeah,
I'm saying, are we in like a hot bath or is it like
a shower? Like a shower? Whoa? Yeah, okay, all right,
I don't think I've ever used a shower before. Teavap talking showers can't
be common, No they're not. No, yeah, this is the first
time they sure, I'm like, no, to be fair, it's like
standing in the rain. What is this? Wow, it's like your own
miniature rain storm. Unbelievable people. I'm always interested in role playing the most
moment an idea while I'm naked, talking through the whole process, I claim
myself, Wow. But with wonder man canniball in short order, you guys
get comfortable. I think you you go and get in the pool and then,
uh, Father Castro kind of rolls up. It's like, Lord Cochran,
perhaps perhaps um not be out in the open. We have servants.
They'll see people. Just you know, quickly, I forgot on Attilius's shoulders.
I'm on Tim, he's a Castril Kestril Castro. Right, Dad,
I'm sorry, guys, let's caught up in the moment. You know what,
do a little turnal jelly you put robes on? Oh with with the
ornate k? Yeah it wrong, believe your dad kind of seems also,
by the way, mister k, did y'all fix up that carriage and return
it? If it's all right? I would prefer Lord sorry, Lord ka
Um, I'm just going to buy the carriage. That's fine. Uh,
all right, cool, it's for me. Thank you, thank you.
It's really nice though. It's a nice um. Yeah, kestro, your
dad seems kind of awesome. Why have you never wanted to come back here?
Well, let's just say he wasn't always this cool. We disagreed a
lot when I was growing up. I was a kid when I left,
teenager relative to your half of an hsu, man, these robes are so
soft anything statue? Do you know what I mean? Do we have drinks?
Food and food? Drinks and food and in short order I knock on
the door on the poolhouse door, smoking my pipe too, but yes,
continue, okay, we open it rock strong sky, Oh I don't.
I don't like that. Okay, progress, forgive me, sir strong shank
the night of course. Yes, close the door behind the fill. This
tobacco, this cats cock orus tobacco is fantastic. So the ropes of food,
I mean, it's it's great here. As soon as he closes the
door behind yours. So I hear that you made a stop in the southern
thundersides. Yes, ye, yeah, we are ran into some dowarves.
Pretty cool guy, quite an impression. We did you know what? I
understand that, mister boulder spine reached out to you on our behalf. Yes,
as I said, you made quite an impression because we really big bug
thing. Yes, still can't get the bloodstains out of my face. Yes,
we didn't slay that even after the Have you ever had a shower?
I have never had a shower. She really tried to have one in the
manner. What's your plan now that you're here? Well, we were on
you. Yeah, so you can tell us on the plan, Agdash said,
get to Dragon Spear, fine, notre Rock, and he'll fill you
in on the plan. That sounds right, okay, all right, Um,
we're still searching for Davik. That's still a thing. So if you
know where he is, will go after him. The other thing that we
have to worry about is that we're still wanted and people still think that I
killed alf Iron and I did not. Yeah, and uh, mister strong
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gentleman, and we'll be back at fives. Feel a little stronger since the
last time we leveled up, even though it's been a little while. Wow,
Wow, hey Bill, great job out there, man, you really
uh well, I know you didn't get on base today, but your effort
was astounding. Great job Bill. People keep telling me that I was,
I was, I was never gonna get to third base, and I,
um, well, I didn't know you didn't. Did you miss that ball?
I can't do right gee, I mean right, gee? I might
as well use you. It's the ball next. Be fair about the size
of the ball, and you kicked it time you climb up all matilius,
is that legal? We look in the rule. Just pour me a drink.
Okay, whatever, Well, I'm so angry right now. My good
friends over at Rallycap took the liberty of brewing us a beer named after something
that will never truly understand, and that is Victory Formation. And there's some
assessment to be some sort of runic symbols of some sort from these cans.
Well, yes, uh, the good news is a hazy i PA eight
percent alcohol by a volume. Victory Formation is very tasty, even though we'll
never really understand what it's like. Hey, it's only fifteen to zero.
Okay, y'all, it's free. They don't have a chance, it is
for sure. It's a perfect sports brew. Yes, yeah, quenches the
first I reckon. When I crank out my Dingers, I can just trot
around the base path and watch it with the dingers. This is the family
sport. We don't want to fucking love American football. I get it.
I can read the room just football man. Fuck. Yeah, this is
actually great. Something happened. It's all bump over there. Yeah, delicious
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It's quite delicious. Various stutes over there. She worked on her kickball skills
like she's been working on her beer. Tom's fault, he missed the ball.
Mess the ball. You know the game works, Why the field?
Get your asses back of the feral Let's okay, cool? But okay,
okay, I'm gonna pretend that I don't. Um, but like kind of
seems like maybe the way to prevent, you know, like a world war
would probably be to take out David or the Prince. I'd be killing assassination.
Um, you know something like that. Gotten into this so fast.
Um, let's solve one problem at a time. Yeahs think is the want
to issue? M Okay, you won't be able to accomplish much if everyone
is trying to put your head on a platform. Fair enough. Yeah,
and Kestrel did not kill his inna door, so as far as I can
tell, that is true. However, we don't have much evidence. Um.
I think is there a way to find how I got the dagger of
yack back by giving it to the dragon spirit? I feel like that should
be a boy band song, The Dagger yak Back Continue? Yeah? Um,
I mean literally did come back. Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure.
Here's the plan I have for you such that it is okay, Senator
off iron Head. Two close companions. You have met both of them as
far as I know, Sir Aldus Strowbridge's guardian. He summoned you when you
first got to Dragon Spirit for Eccenator, it's very brief. And Pilatus,
which was his assistant. Oh right, you met both of them pretty briefly.
Both of them are crushed by Exendor's death, and both of them want
to find the killer and want to get to the bottom of us. Mm
hmmm. The first one's name was the first one, Sir Aldus Stroebridge,
troll Bridge, troue Bridge, troll Bridge. Are you saying troll troe Bridge,
Troelbridge. Oh my god, are you saying fine? Oh? Sir
artist Bridge. I think you should address on however you like. And Pilaritusitis.
So both of them want to get to the bottom of this. I
can arrange a meeting with either or both m in they can clear our name.
Both seems risky. I think they can. I'm not sure. That's
just the only place I have to start. Have you heard from Zedric?
Yeah, as far as I know, Xedric is probably drunk in an alley.
That sounds about probably or didn't he go with other people? Yeah,
he's probably still drunk in an alleys even though he's doing Yeah, and he
and Greg and the princess all went, Greg, yes, please set up
a meeting with him. Maybe in like two you can kill us on site.
I think there's a chance that's not great, because so what's your plan?
Uh? There? Then I said such that it was. I don't
know. You're in a great spot. We're pretty Strobridge is a formidable warrior.
Alaritis is a formidable mage, pretty good at talking o making an impression
on are though, as far as you know, I would say, not
polaritis, UM's plaritis. Who I got all salty about about not giving us
our food. Fascinating? Yes, probably so yeah, you might not remember
me too. Your experience with Sir Aldostroberds was he gave you a summon's letter
and that was it and explained it essentially. And then your experience with polaritis
was he took you to exenda Or's room, brought you some refreshments. That
was kind of whatever. One is easier to get a hold of I suppose,
or whichever one would I be able to like roll insight to see which
one would be more Um, I don't less likely to strike first. I
don't know about their reputations, but my instincts so that a mage maybe more
open to conversation than a warrior who's had his boss killed. I don't know
that I could be wrong. I don't know much a true I don't know
much about Trollbridge. Yeah, we don't really need to go h you know,
risking getting into a fight and having to kill another one of these guys.
Well, now that another murder. We didn't do the first one.
Now I don't want to have to do it. Pretty money now, Timbo,
way to go try. We're trying to clear our names here, and
we don't do that by actually like committing a murderer when we were trying to
prove that we didn't do the first one. UM, that's my point.
M My suggestion would be not to talk to both, because why did the
circle gets the harder it will be to contain. I also, though,
now that we're talking about I don't know that I trust a major in these
matches, for there is some sort of evil magic of foot. Well,
I think we could talk to him age, because they actually he may know
why I sacrifice the dagger and suddenly I have it back. If I explained
to him what happened there, he may understand why. Maybe he's the one
that took out We must consider the possibility. Sounds like we have a classic
who done it scenario? Well, right, that's the thing is that we
didn't kill Exenador, which means somebody else did. I assumed it was Davik,
but maybe it's not, or maybe it's somebody else working on behalf of
David, or maybe he turned Exenador's understudy. What do you think we should
do? Who do you think we should talk to? I think Pilaricius is
the one we need to talk to you. I think we should talk to
the Age too. Our trusts h is a You're meeting like a week from
now, though, so we could stay here for a bit. The poolhouse
is nice. I don't think we could get like seven arrange it as quickly
as a humans. Fair enough, chill, fair enough, Wow, Okay,
I'll set it up for whenever you'd like to set it up, but
my suggestion would be quickly. Yeah, tomorrow it is. I guess,
I guess not he knows best, all right, I wish all right,
Um, I'll send him over as quickly as I can. And he leaves
barn robs here. He's send sending him to us. Okay, well then
we get we get to hang out here. What's the night? Can we
order food? Like? Will they make us whatever we order? Is just
shaking her head? Can I get fried falcon? No? Why would you
want to eat falcon? It's a beautiful creature here. It tastes like chicken.
What you rich people do at all? You just eat? A whole
day passes. Yeah, after a hearty meal of wrong for a hearty meal
of fried falcon and wine. Um, fried falcon? You rest easy?
Um, you rest easy. And the following day Notora comes back and we
don't have to role play. It intimates to you that Pilaritis will not meet
you here, but he will meet you, um in a neutral location.
And he describes if that neutral location is going to be um, much to
your ah excitement, it's the duck can cover in. They're just gonna essentially
rent the place and empty it out. Wait, we have to go back
to an ast hamon. Oh, I'm sorry, not the duck and cover
the troll in the wall which burned down, which is the phoenix. Can
Ah, you're so I wish I wish, trust me, I wish,
I wish too. We never we never went to a pub in Dragon Spear,
I swear you did. I don't think we did well. We may
coffee and then a bunch of a bunch of actual stores. Was it the
beans or it was a flatbread government flatbread that might have been a dragons getting
a hamstring cramp. Okay, okay, we're good, We're good. Um,
why can I not find those man? That's oh oh uh, magical
portal to net David Maybe magical portal to the duck and cover in Maybe because
he's a he's uh No, I like, you know what, Let's say
it's just a neutral location, not a place you've been before. Uh,
and let's call it flagging born in reflaging Born. I can't believe I remembered
something and remembering a lot. It's gonna be they're gonna buy the place out
for the day and just you know, y'all can bet their quiet place to
listen to our podcast. I guess, yeah, yep, all right,
so the next day the time comes, you have a carriage, you can
really just take that there. Yeah, that's the move, right, you
can park it very close to the door and just kind of scurry. Did
we get new clothes? I mean, I know our old clothes are very
clean now, but I think your old clothes are cleaned. Did catch will
ever have like a little friendly clean man? We're like, we're not,
but the sister, Yeah, I want I want to every trying to get
some nice livery and clothes very quickly and not think about it too hard.
You get to the flag and born in and um, I'm assuming you go
in? Yes, yes, all right, you walk in the doors closed
behind you, I know the rock um and on the far sides it's hilaricis
who you kind of remember? Right? I mean he looks vaguely familiar?
Welcome? Um, I hear you have a story to tell I big p
Yes. Um. First of all, you're not going to like kill us,
right, like neutral zone meaning no weapons, no magic? Um,
tell us work. I think that depends entirely upon the story. Okay,
so I tell him everything we got. You gotta be tired of tell him
the story? Yeah? Well, I mean I tell him. I tell
him especially I concentrate on the fact that I sacrifice the Dagger of Yak to
the dragon of Falcoon. Wow, and um, she's on fire today.
And then I explained that like the dragon, like the dagger was no longer
in my possession. And then somehow I arrived back after it had killed or
somebody used it to kill. Um. As she's saying all of this,
I want to be, you know, like really like trying to read his
reactions and see if I got any inside. And I don't cover everything about
like well, I don't cover everything about like the thunder Summit or like the
dwarves or anything, just how it relates specifically to our shortation the rest of
the room, making sure we're not like you're getting the snuck attack or something.
Yeah. Yeah, But she does tell the part two where I did
that like flying leaping kill with the nine. Sure she spends a lot of
time on that. Um, that's just a nine, and my insight is
just ten. Okay, Um. I think it's he's a hard guy to
read. He's pretty flat to begin with. In the first interaction you had
with him, he didn't really talk to you at all, really he talked
exclusively to Ectenator. Um. You can tell that he is. His eyes
are red. He's upset about this whole situation. I feel think somewhere in
your story he does intimate to you that he was the one that found the
body. H. However, Tom, I think you in particular, Um,
when Castroll tells the story about defeating the snake, giant snake at the
temple that you want to, the Temple of Silence, Um, he becomes
less skeptical, and by the end of the story, Um, the whole
story, I mean, he's kind of warmed up to you, But that
moment in particular, Um, fighting the snake for some reason, seems to
turn him. Do you know? So she told you about the blue ghost
thing? Do you do you know? Um? Do you have any knowledge
on how how they could have been done? How? How? How how
how a person can hand items between the planes? Well, that's uh,
that's above my level for sure, was in the door capable? I don't
know. So Xenador was capable of incredible, incredible things, but he was
also very secretive. The reason search he did over the last five years.
He wouldn't even let me scan. It wouldn't let me take a look.
However, one thing that I do know is that he had an enchantment on
those wands. That holster that had those five wands in it, he placed
a very powerful incantation upon it. If someone tried to take those wands from
him, their hands would be burnt to a cinder. He puts his hands
out and sort of backends for y'all to do the same. We put our
hands out. Okay, I'll do it my hands. Yeah they're okay.
Here you are with two of his wands. Yeah, man, I mean,
it's only two things. Either someone in league with you killed him,
took the wands, suffered the damage, and then gave them to you,
or he gave them to someone. I can promise you plaritis. There's not
a whole lot of people on our side, so you can check maybe Bill
and note Rock, but that's basically it. When I asked Zennadore about these
wands, though, he was very clear that, of course not him.
What do you mean? He said that, um, no, he had
all of his wands, and that he just did not or did he say
something or did he just ignore me? He just um he did not acknowledge
any knowledge of the situation when you saw him after being gifted the wand.
Yes, he didn't say anything about fresh after we brought back the children.
I'm not sure. I you think it's possible for somebody to have Are you
sure it was Innadoor on those final days? I think so. Um,
do you have a reason to believe it's not? M hmm. Halfling's intuition
and and and and the wand stuff that we just talked about. Seems like
that's a disconnect there. M hmm. Well do you know whether where his
other wands are? No, we only have these two, ye, and
yet they are all missing. M quest to find the ones, so of
power. I mostly believe you. What don't you believe? It's just curious.
Well, there's a dead body with her name scrawled on a blackboard,
so that I could have been framed, and you have you have no idea
how? Thank you? Uh, you have no idea how the dagger of
Yaks somehow got back to me. I do not. With that said,
that's not the most difficult thing in the world to put something back in your
possession a pickpocket, h Yes, but I gave the dagger to sastical dragon.
That was so massive, it made a city. I mean, that's
strange. It's very strange. Yes, Dragon is dead and you just attacked
Garinich. Well, Jaraniche was a dick. That's an understatement. So I
think if you're up to it, the next step is to well, is
it the crime scene? Yes, yeah, I thought, I agree to
the tower. We go next time on the night shift. Get out of
the blood, Get out of the blood. Oh sorry, I didn't even
see that. I didn't even My feet are so large. I thought you
were onto something with the book first one. Myself, I thought i'd found
something as well.