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for Young professionals, by young professionals. Today's ice breaker, what's
the most unusual thing that you have ever eaten?
Speaker 5: Hi, my name is Crystal.
Speaker 6: I would have to say the weirdest thing that I
have ever eaten one time.
Speaker 5: You know, the church just spoke to me.
Speaker 6: In order to keep my connection to the divinity, I
had to eat unfortunately rotten flesh to sustain my ability
to speak and commune with the down mine. So that's
that's what I have had.
Speaker 2: What up? It's your boy Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox,
a human consultant who does not have riting flesh, turned
halfling bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky
than good, but it's best to be both. And now
he doesn't think that what he ate is all that unusual. Yikes,
But he had been hanging out with the homies one
time and went to like a New Year's Eve party
with one of his Vietnamese friends and they had ballute
at least I think that's how that's pronounced. And it's
that egg that like it's fertilized before it's cook so
it like actually has like the chicken embryo in it.
Speaker 7: Oh hi, my name is Annelain Hardy, and I played
Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a heart of gold.
And this one time she went out with some prospective
clients and they really loved Ethiopian food. So she went
and she got like the pile of meat in the
center of the cake and like the other little pancakes
all rolled up, and it was so spicy that she
had to like go excuse herself because she didn't want.
Speaker 5: To cry in front of the perspective client.
Speaker 8: And then she came out and finished it like a
chan nice.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Hey, I'm Marjorie.
Speaker 10: I play Amy and Amanda, a basic, b rough and
tumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. Amyen
has tried a lot of different foods in her life,
but I would say the most unusual meal was the
one that the spider guy fed us and knocked us out.
I don't even remember what that was. It was like
mashed potatoes or something that was probably the most unusual.
The most gross has to be Eel.
Speaker 11: Our father in Heaven Hallow'd be your name, your kingdom. Come,
you will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us a stay, no rotting flesh.
Speaker 12: I'm Tyler.
Speaker 11: I played the Icy Paladin known as the most unusual
thing Billley is that it was a drug that made
him think of a demon named Sundrop.
Speaker 1: Friends Forever. Yeah, all right, and Hi, my name is Alex.
I am your DM or District Manager, and the weirdest
thing that DM has ever had to eat is humble
Pie because dms are never wrong.
Speaker 3: Hi everyone, my name's Katie and I play Crystal Katy.
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Speaker 1: All right. So when we last left off, you guys
had returned from the House of the the Witch in
the Woods and had learned that you would have a
binding arbitration meeting in three days. So you guys are
back in the city. You have a few days to prepare.
We'll kind of do this as a as a you know,
eighties style montage. What are you guys doing before you
go to this go to this thing? Let's say, first day,
what is everybody doing.
Speaker 7: Taylor's gonna put some bigger pads in your blazer.
Speaker 1: You're putting your your power pads in the in the
shoulders your blazer, all right, blazer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for the arbitration.
Speaker 1: All right, Marcel, I'm sorry, Richard, what were you planning
to do?
Speaker 2: I think Richards first day is probably going to go
back and hang out with his boy Alric. He's got
some stuff, bruin and his noggin and who else, brew
some things obviously other than crystal.
Speaker 1: Then all rich all right, what about Amy Anne? What
are you doing?
Speaker 10: Oh, let's see, so we have three full days.
Speaker 9: Huh, we're fully rested.
Speaker 10: Let's see here. So firstly, she's gonna try and do
a little bit more research on the family crest situation.
So maybe by a library, look up her uncle's name,
Adrian Austin Amanda, just see if there's like some some
record of him here. Okay, and let's see here. I'm
gonna make sure I have full healers kids left, because
I think I have used a few.
Speaker 1: Okay, that'll be easy enough.
Speaker 9: Back up to my full eight uses.
Speaker 10: And then I'm gonna get new toothbrushes for everybody.
Speaker 1: All right, So we'll tackle that one in a minute. Bentley,
what are you doing this first day?
Speaker 12: I'm gonna look up the road laws for the for
the country.
Speaker 11: Okay, follow them, Come on, traffic laws.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, we we've been using a cart without
a CDL license.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's gonna be a reckless driving some sort
of lawsuit happening with him.
Speaker 12: That's fine.
Speaker 13: We repaired it. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because I forgot. I forgot that he got
the magic Toyota Tacoma. How could I have forgotten about that?
Speaker 11: All seriousness, Bentley, I don't know. Maybe go to the temple,
learn more about his gods that he's getting closer to
to uh act, that whole flaming holy sword thing.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool, all right, and then Crystal, what
are you planning to do for this first day?
Speaker 5: I think I.
Speaker 8: Need to check in on my downline, so I'll probably
do that. So I'll probably make sure that they have
the supplies they need and just like help people restock.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm gonna say we'll do that first. See
you swing by the crow's nest and Captain Montyac and
the crew are furiously chugging away, and he.
Speaker 14: Says, hinds them too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they keep closing the windows. Montiox is, well,
it boosts productivity for the first hour or so, but
after that everyone gets a bit sluggish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the oxygen deprivation.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are looking. We received the materials and we
are chugging along and we're on the schedule to make
our deliveries.
Speaker 5: That's awesome.
Speaker 8: Okay, cool, let me know if you need anything. You
keep rocking and rolling. I got some stuff I gotta
take care of.
Speaker 5: So okay, cool. Well, I'm glad that you guys are
on schedule.
Speaker 3: We should definitely talk about the structure of your company.
Speaker 8: Make sure that you have all of the resources and
are able to make the cruitmicals that we're gonna set
up for you and work on the company, like, work
on the structure for division of profits.
Speaker 5: So we can talk about that later.
Speaker 1: Though it sounds good, Boss.
Speaker 3: I like being boss.
Speaker 1: That's good, all right, So we'll cut to Taylor Jacobs.
You do manage to find a tailor who uh yeah who?
When you request the shoulder pads. It's like armored or unarmored?
Speaker 13: Oh no, I.
Speaker 5: Feel like barbarians are better when they're unarmored.
Speaker 1: Right technically yes, so okay, just.
Speaker 5: The unarmored kind.
Speaker 7: Is there something that gives you that makes you more
like intimidating more post situation?
Speaker 1: It says A. Let me work on this garment and
come and pick it up in about a day or so.
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 5: We can move these.
Speaker 1: All right. So let's see here, Amyen. So you go
to the library and looking up about your like his name,
you don't really find anything, but you do find so
when you look at the crest, you do find some
stuff related to the seekers that look similar, like they
had a sigil that the seekers use, and you see
some similar imagery to thea your family crest in it?
Speaker 10: Okay, is there any I can take like an etching
or make a copy of the things that I find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say that's that's uh oh, here we go.
Make me either a sleight of hand or a history
check to see how good of a copy you make
of their sigil?
Speaker 10: Can I ask a librarian for advantage?
Speaker 1: You know what? Sure? Because I know those are both
like your dump stats, aren't.
Speaker 9: They one of them? Definitely?
Speaker 10: As I got a natural twenty though, So.
Speaker 1: So you feel particularly inspired, and as you start to
do the outline, the librarian leans over and says that
particular sigul is embossed in the page. You could just
put the piece of paper over top of it and scribble.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Please keep your voice down though it is
a library.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, all right, So I.
Speaker 10: Have so I want to say that I have like
copies of what I know the crest is supposed to be,
and then a copy of what it is from the seekers,
And do I have like a general like what date
was this sigil from?
Speaker 1: So all the information you find about the Seekers shows
that most of the stuff relating to them was from
about one hundred to one hundred and fifty years prior.
Okay that after anything after that, they just kind of
fade from a record.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, I think that's all I wanted to do.
So and there was no no relationship to the brothers
to the name.
Speaker 1: He said, Yeah, you don't see anything for your uncle,
like with the Adrian Amanda. Don't. You don't really find
anything concrete or anything that you think would be related. Okay, Richard,
what did you say your Oh you were wanting to
go visit Ulric all right, so you you show up
at their shop and knock on the door.
Speaker 2: Oh, who's all hey, oh Reck, it's me your boy.
Speaker 15: Rich Oh open the door, Come on in, man.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 2: So I've been thinking about this, and you know we're
in allowed of legal trouble because.
Speaker 15: I'm not marrying I'm not marrying her. That's not gonna
help you.
Speaker 2: No, don't worry about it like I would. I would
never put you in that kind of situation like this isn't.
Speaker 15: You're not the first person who's gotten in Dutch with
the law and tried to use that as a way
to get out of it and keep some testifying against them.
Speaker 1: In court or whatever. You're good, dude, it's not necessary.
Speaker 3: I believe that the law in this country allows for that.
Speaker 2: I think we're getting a little wrapped around the axle
hero Rick. Actually I came because you're probably the only
business owner that we know that isn't against us.
Speaker 1: Oh really, but you guys are so cool. Why would
anybody be like against you? Guys?
Speaker 2: You know, I've been asking myself that same question every
single day.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, man, what can I do for you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So you guys have that mercenary business, right, was there
anything like what was the process you guys had to
go through to like start that business?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 1: You just had to that's a government hall.
Speaker 2: Awesome, okay, okay, sweet sweet sweet? And then the richards like, oh,
I should probably be taking notes on this, and he
like pulls out all the piece of paper and stuff
and then he kind of like, you know, chit chats
with all Rick and is like okay, cool, cool, And like,
how do you feel about because your guys as a service,
what did you how would you feel about starting a
product's business?
Speaker 14: Well kind of, I mean what you made of a
products business?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that invisible rope you came up with
was super awesome and like your potions are like top tier.
Like I feel like maybe we could do some stuff
with some of that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I never thought about it, but I mean to
do that, we'd have to get like all kinds of
additional form submitted, because there are things like you know,
dragon and then you gotta get you gotta get it
like a health inspection, and you know, then you gotta
go through all the processes to get all your stuff
evaluated and tested.
Speaker 2: And you know that makes sense, that makes sense. And yeah,
I mean how long would you say that takes? Like,
can we get the process started in lesson looks at
his imaginary watch, in less than two days? We don't
have to get it finished.
Speaker 14: But just to get it started. But dude, you're talking
about a commitment of months or weeks or even years.
Speaker 2: Perfect? Perfect? Okay, all right, well enough of the born
business stuff. You got any you want to hang out?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, So now we cut to bent Now now
we uh we we pan left to Bentley. As you, uh,
you arrive at the Church of the Dragons or the
Cathedral of the Dragons over in the Atheneum district. As
you step inside, a robed man approaches you. Hello, can
I help you? Service isn't for a few more days,
but all are welcome.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I'm just wondering if I could find like
a book to expand more on the anything you can
point me inst direction as far as like any particular
fighting styles or anything that paladins of of this church
would normally do.
Speaker 1: Oh uh oh, we don't really keep books on fighting
styles around here, but fighting styles.
Speaker 11: Just like just things that a paladin might need to
like think about if they're wanting to represent the church.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's a book of Tenants of the Dragons that
you could go and look at. But do you read draconic?
Speaker 13: I do, in fact read draconic?
Speaker 1: He says. Well, if you just follow me to the back,
I can show you the Golden Books of the Dragons,
which is the Was there one particularly that you interested in? Oh,
come with me and I'll show you the Golden law
Book of Talos. All right, cool, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 12: We can come back to that, or you can off
screen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well off screen some information from that. It
won't be relevant for this, uh these sessions. So all right,
So you guys all went around, you did your thing,
for the day. Did you guys arrange a meeting location
or where you were going to stay to wait this
until it's time for the arbitration.
Speaker 5: The production right.
Speaker 3: Maybe to the are you talking about the meeting? We're like,
where we're saying or where we're meeting?
Speaker 1: Yeah, where you're staying.
Speaker 2: I'd hate to waste Montiak's money. I think you paid
for a couple of nights. Damn what to call the
fancy place?
Speaker 1: The fancy place? So'll you'll just want to say you
meet back up at the fancy place.
Speaker 12: We had a reason to leave the fancy place.
Speaker 1: I mean, it does cost more, but you guys seem
to have a decent bit of income.
Speaker 13: Now the King is paying us a fair amount. I
think we can afford the fancy place.
Speaker 9: I don't think the.
Speaker 10: King has given us any money. He's just given us
papers so that we have a get out of jail
free card.
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 2: I guess we're saving that for when we default on our.
Speaker 11: We're gonna load up with all the credit card debt
we can before we go back to our world.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Bentley's like, let me introduce you to
the concept of credit.
Speaker 12: Because I have thirty thousand dollars in credit card debt.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not doing that, all right. So you guys
meet back up at the fancy hotel. Are you guys
going to try to do anything before the night or
are you guys just gonna move to the second day?
Speaker 3: I say we moved.
Speaker 14: All right.
Speaker 1: It was a long day and everything, Amy Anne, roll
me a wisdom saving throw yes.
Speaker 2: A dice roll yes.
Speaker 1: In this D and D podcast in eighteen Okay, so.
Speaker 2: Because of her teeth, it's a wisdoms.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know whether to be proud
or be disappointed? Which is that means? That means that
was a perfect dad joke. So Amy Anne, in the
middle of the night, as you're sleeping, you kind of
startle awake and you hear a weird sound coming from
the bathroom.
Speaker 5: It's Bentley.
Speaker 2: You knew I shouldn't have eaten those tacos.
Speaker 10: Okay, I get out of bed quickly and run towards
the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Okay, you see a faint light glowing from the bathroom.
Speaker 10: Okay, I stick my head in and look more closely
for the bathroom. Am I in my current state or
is this my old bathroom from no, you're.
Speaker 1: In the fancy hotel.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, yeah, I'm gonna investigate this thing.
Speaker 1: Okay. As you step inside, you see some strange symbols
on the wall, and you see that some of them
are lit up in different colors than others. And what
we'll say is, for right now, you're able to basically
memorize them, like they're burned into your memory. And as
you get closer and closer, the whole room goes pitch black.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're surrounded by nothingness and you begin
to fall.
Speaker 10: Okay, I let out a Wilhelm scream. Beautiful, that's thing
that that's someone like whoever I'm sharing a room with.
I presume either Crystal or Taylor Jacobs.
Speaker 5: It's all three of us.
Speaker 10: It's all three of us are in a round. Here's
my scream and comes.
Speaker 1: To Okay, so I need Crystal and Taylor to make
me a perception role with disadvantage because you're asleep. Actually,
we're going to cancel out the disadvantage because she does scream,
because that would be so out of place. That was
very well done. You, So make me a perception check.
Speaker 7: Okay, Oh wait said okay, what was it with them?
Speaker 1: Perception?
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 1: So fourteen is gonna be enough? What is Taylor Jacob's
get thirteen is enough? You both wake up and you
see amy An flailing in her bed.
Speaker 12: Oh gonna.
Speaker 5: Do we wake her up?
Speaker 3: I don't want to get punched in the face. Do
you want to get She's got some strong arms. I don't.
Speaker 16: You go Okay, I will, and I'll get a little
mad for her that like she's uh experiencing this, and
I'll go into a rage and get all big and
stuff so I can.
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, all right, so I'm gonna say that, plus
the role you did earlier for your wisdom save is
gonna be enough. You wake up in a cold sweat
being grappled by a supersized tailor Jacobs.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, oh.
Speaker 10: Taylor, Oh I just had this really weird dream. Okay,
you can like hoe me.
Speaker 1: Now, hey, uh, Marcel or sorry Richard, you and Bentley
go ahead and make me a perception check with disadvantage.
Speaker 3: Well, this is happening.
Speaker 8: Crystal is gonna like pull out one of her little
vials and hand it over to I.
Speaker 13: Slept it, which is spinning for life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Richard, Richard got a sixteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, Richard, you wake up and you hear Amyan going
saying what she just said through the wall.
Speaker 2: I heard the part about like you can let me
go now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Cox.
Speaker 2: Sounds like she's got covered.
Speaker 1: You could say that again.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, Vial and it's like one of the okay,
and I feel like I feel like Amy is just
like shaking uncontrollably.
Speaker 9: Like thank you, Crystal, what is it? Should I drink this?
Speaker 10: I'm kind of nervous.
Speaker 9: She's like, hey, she knocks it back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're good on that one.
Speaker 9: Oh. I guess I should have asked, Oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine. They're you know what it's it's it's fine.
They can't hurt you.
Speaker 3: They're just it's not really what I was going for.
Speaker 9: But thank you, thank you, Crystal, Thank you so uh.
Speaker 1: Amy. And as you're sitting there, you look next to
your bed and you see a small slip of paper
with the cymbals burned into them.
Speaker 10: Okay, I let out another Wilhelm scream.
Speaker 1: That Bentley, you do wake up one.
Speaker 13: I don't think I do, know you do.
Speaker 5: I just don't want to wake up.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay you guys. Oh sorry, that was really loud. Okay, so, hey,
I just had this horrible dream. I think there was
lights in the bathroom, sigils on the wall. They're seared
in my memory in that page, I guess just appeared.
There's some something crazy going on, and I can't stop shaking.
Speaker 5: Taylor's going to wrap her up in the hotel comforter
or whatever. It's like, wait at the blanket.
Speaker 7: Like, okay, you're all right, just breathe.
Speaker 2: And you guys, hear a rattle at the door and
then like a knock. You guys to me, I heard
the scream. I thought you guys had it handled, but
now it doesn't sound like it's come on the door.
Speaker 8: Seems to be Yeah, Chris, And let's her shirt in, Thanks, Crystal.
Speaker 10: So I feel like what Amien's feet in her head
are sticking out on either side of the brito. Christ
Is Taylor just like sitting on her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: She has, y'all some freaky ship. Not lucky to have
you sure it isn't.
Speaker 5: That's not what it looks like, Richard.
Speaker 17: We just she just had a bad dream and we
didn't want to get punched in the face when she
woke up.
Speaker 2: Okay, that trucks.
Speaker 5: Now we're just comforting her with a comforter.
Speaker 9: Burrito burrito comforter. Okay. I do an expedit exposition dump.
Speaker 10: To Richard as well about decision. Hey, Richard, will you
get that paper that I think like appeared because I
had a dream or something, So you might want to
use not your fingers to pick it up?
Speaker 2: He like, is an inch away from it. He's like, yeah,
A good idea.
Speaker 1: So Richard, Richard, you would see this, and then amy An,
you would recognize this is this slip of paper that
you had copied the other schedules from from the book.
Speaker 9: Oh so it was the same paper I had.
Speaker 10: Yeah, oh oh oh, okay, okay, you guys, I got
that from the library yesterday. Oh my gosh, okay, you
can unroll me now, Taylor. I think I'm all right.
Speaker 1: Off the bed.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 5: Perfectly, That's not how I was picturing that.
Speaker 16: I was just like like the or something like it.
Speaker 1: No need to take this offline overworked and underplayed. We'll
circle back after these messages, all right.
Speaker 10: So I tell that the group essentially the bullet points
of I got this paper from the library I scratched
an embossed sigil looks like the family crust, but it
was from the on the Book of the Seekers, and
it seems to me that this opened a portal, and
that's maybe or something. It seems very similar to our
very first experience, like walking into a bathroom and there
being lights. So I'm trying to like put it together,
but with my very low intelligence.
Speaker 9: I'm not making it.
Speaker 13: She's a dentist.
Speaker 10: Dentists pulling teeth out that strength and wisdom based, it's
not intelligence based.
Speaker 8: The old time a dentist that was also a barber
and was also a blacksmith and was also adoptac.
Speaker 10: You know what, Crystal fun family fact is the Amanda
family started out dentistry back in the eighteen hundreds when
it was that you just had to use a pair
of pliers and some scissors and that was all the
tools you could use.
Speaker 5: That explains a lot. Actually, what ident dynasty?
Speaker 8: Oh god, something that is explained by that story, Doctor Amanda.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 9: You don't have to call me doctor Crystal. We're well
past that.
Speaker 10: It's okay, now, yeah, that's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 5: Well, what do you guys do?
Speaker 9: Well, what do you guys think.
Speaker 5: It sounds magic? Y? I feel like maybe we should
also talk to Fizzle Bang about this. Oh yeah, get
his perspective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, if Bentley was here, he'd
probably say, I've seen this in a video game. I
don't play games all that much, but I've watched enough
movies that you're probably we're probably on the right track.
When weird stuff starts to happen, that means we're doing
good things. So good thing you went and found that
paper in that library.
Speaker 10: That's a good point, Richard.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, all right, Well I don't know what.
Speaker 10: Let's see, so I'm gonna sit back down on my
bed and look at the paper.
Speaker 9: Is it still glowing?
Speaker 1: It's not really glowing, but you can tell that certain
symbols are highlighted or bolder than other symbols.
Speaker 10: Okay, is there any information I can glean from it?
Speaker 1: Not really?
Speaker 2: Okay, do we see it glowing or just.
Speaker 1: It's not really glowing. It's just that it's it's like
certain letters are darker than other letters, and you can
tell there's some kind of significance to the order or
the symbols selected.
Speaker 10: I don't know what I should do with this? Should
I just fold it back up? And is there any
way we can prevent magic stuff from happening?
Speaker 9: Richard?
Speaker 10: I feel like Richard or Crystal, do you have like
something you could say, like put it in an anti
magic box or something?
Speaker 2: Probably, I mean everything else seems possible in this world.
I don't know why that wouldn't be possible. Okay, yeah,
we can probably look into that.
Speaker 5: The car is magic, right, maybe we should just sleep this.
Speaker 1: Car, just put it in the glove box.
Speaker 9: Oh that's a great point.
Speaker 10: We'll have to ask Bentley when he's awake. Okay, okay, so.
Speaker 9: Oh I just had another idea. Guys, what if What
if so I.
Speaker 10: Started screaming when it was like all dark and I
felt like I was falling, but it was just a dream, right,
What if you didn't wake me up and just let
me finish the dream?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 2: Like when you hear a song and you only hear
part of it, you have to hear the whole song.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, it's like an earworm, but this case, it's
a dream worm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, you back to sleep. She's like chuck her
out just like.
Speaker 9: Or maybe I don't know if it'll have.
Speaker 7: Not night.
Speaker 9: Okay, am I knocked out now?
Speaker 1: Or I could just give her like a little I
would say, if you want to go back to sleep,
it's easy enough.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, I don't know if it would make sense
to do it now, but I mean, what what do
you guys think should I What do you think we'll.
Speaker 3: All watch you sleep?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that seems sure.
Speaker 8: It'll be super easy for you if you're watching you, right.
Speaker 10: You know now that you say that, Crystal, that brings
me really a lot of comfort because we used to
do that at all of our family gatherings. We would
all just kind of hang out, you know, and it
would just end up like a lot of people would
go to sleep and some might Now I'll go to
sleep at the same time.
Speaker 9: And so, but thank you for the offer.
Speaker 10: That makes me feel really nice, Amyen.
Speaker 8: That's what That's what I'm always here for you.
Speaker 3: Uh huh Okay.
Speaker 17: It's like, okay, all right, wrap me maybe maybe I'll
get wrapped back up in that burrito and you want
to sit on me.
Speaker 9: Taylor, what is it?
Speaker 2: Rooster? Is that what is in the chickens or whatever?
Speaker 1: I'm just imagining, like Richard just slowly stepping back towards
the door.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go up. I guess I'll go up
to Crystal. I was like, is this what it's always like?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 3: You know, I have a room to myself. But when
i've when this is this is pretty normal.
Speaker 5: There's a reason why I kind of spend time in
my own room.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: She's like, these pitches are weird.
Speaker 8: She's just making a case so she never has to
share a room.
Speaker 10: I hope this is the beginning of the Taylor Amyen
friends to lovers are Oh god, they're so strong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have the best time, like wrestling, y.
Speaker 1: Oh god, what have I done?
Speaker 12: Urification?
Speaker 1: Urification? Oh god? All right, anyways, so you go back
to sleep, right, Okay, So the rest of the night
passes and you don't seem to have any more weird dreams.
Speaker 14: Here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the other two Crystal, you and Taylor are
going to be a little drowsy today, So you're going
to be limited on what you can do or you're
going to have to roll for exhaustion.
Speaker 12: Would Crystal really be because shes four hours to sleep.
Speaker 1: That's true. Crystal's fine with Jacobs. You're a little drowsy today,
all right, So what do you guys plan to do
with day two?
Speaker 5: Taylor wants to check up on our jacket at some
point today.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's nothing.
Speaker 3: I'm not a micromanager, so we're going to arbitration. I
guess I do need to talk to.
Speaker 8: An attorney, Okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so you're gonna go visit Saul. Yeah. And and
also it's completely okay if any of you just don't
want to do anything for a day. So Richard, Amyan,
and Bentley, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Richard is going to look at his notes from his
conversation with al Rick and is going to try to
find some sort of place that keeps records, whether it's
like a Chamber of commerce kind of thing or some
city hall that he can look up about like business
licenses and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's easy enough. Amyenn Bentley, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 10: Bentley, do you want to go to see NEMEO with me?
Because he and Abraham Lincoln whatever his name was a
still still locked up.
Speaker 13: I think I would, but I.
Speaker 12: Kind of had something else I was wanting to do.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, well I'll go buy it. Okay, Okay, just
come by and say say, Hi, you know, I don't
know what it'll accomplish, but okay, I don't know. I'm
thinking of them.
Speaker 14: All right.
Speaker 1: And Bentley, what were you wanting to do?
Speaker 12: Is there a bar or like anywhere where lawyers.
Speaker 13: Going to hang out?
Speaker 1: You could try and find one.
Speaker 13: All right, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 12: I want to try and find like a lawyer bar all.
Speaker 1: Right, make me an investigation check.
Speaker 11: An investigation bar, lawyer bar nice.
Speaker 13: That would be really funny.
Speaker 12: Well, I didn't do good.
Speaker 13: That's that's a flat three.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, you're unsuccessful in seeking out a lawyer bar
Amy and you intake.
Speaker 10: Hey, Alex, can I can I strike out what I
said about going to Nemeo. I want to Fizzle Bang instead,
Like that would be more pressing.
Speaker 1: So you go and visit Fizzle Bang. He You see
his office door is closed.
Speaker 9: Okay, knock on it politely.
Speaker 1: And you you see you hear like some noise and
you see like like a little like a curtain kind
of pulls back a little bit and you see like
a little bitty I looking out. And then he runs
up to the door, opens it up, says, or get inside,
get inside, okay, and slams the door. Taylor, did you
go with him or did you go with her? Okay?
So he brings both of you and slams the door
and throws like three dead bolts locked, and he goes,
you can you can never be too careful these days.
There's a lot going on. Uh, but I have some
good news. I was actually about to seek you out.
Then he says, I've located another one of the items
from the orri. He says, I don't know what it does,
and I don't know what it is. But he hands
you a crystal and he goes, if you take this
and you plug it into the to the palm pilot,
it will help you find this one. It is somewhere
off the coast. I believe you will have to travel
by water. But I have good news for you. And
he he's He says, you remember the automatons that you
disassembled on your day onboarding with Bluegel? Correct you do?
Speaker 9: I still have one of the heads.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, do not tell Mateo you still have the head.
He's looking for it anyways. Fabricio Matteo, the artificer who
built them. He is willing to offer his services to
take you to the general vicinity where that item might
be if you are willing to help him retrieve something
along the way.
Speaker 10: Okay, well what if I just give it back this head?
Do you think that'll be enough?
Speaker 1: He probably still needs a hand. He uses automatons to
staff his boat, and he said he needs someone with
a bit more finesse.
Speaker 9: Oh, I got you, because I don't think we took
a hand.
Speaker 10: No, okay, thank you, Thank you Tyler for just laughing.
Speaker 1: He looks over it. He looks over at Taylor and
he says, are you okay?
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 1: You look a little tired?
Speaker 5: Oh I am?
Speaker 9: I am.
Speaker 1: Do you need some Do you need some boom juice?
Oh my god, Tyler, that's a demerit. Yeah, no, I'm joking.
He pours you a big glass of goblin boom juice
and he says, here, this will help pick you up.
He's like, I practically live off stuff.
Speaker 5: Now, thank you. At some point.
Speaker 9: As a thing, are you okay?
Speaker 1: I'm perfectly fine, except for the people trying to find me,
but I stay a step ahead of them.
Speaker 10: Well it was pretty easy to find you.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know where to look.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, Well you want us to stay with you. Yeah,
we're pretty strong, he says.
Speaker 1: I mean you can if you if you'd like.
Speaker 5: Does not mean do you want to help?
Speaker 1: He says, I mean it makes no difference to me.
I I will just be here working on my studies.
Speaker 5: You have like an escape root planned?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, I have? There are three different escape routes hidden
in this very room.
Speaker 5: Well that's good.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know. I'm always always has to stay one
step ahead of the big folk.
Speaker 5: Okay, maybe does he have a bracelet?
Speaker 1: He doesn't.
Speaker 5: Maybe it would be good to put him in our.
Speaker 1: Network added to your cell phone planned?
Speaker 9: I don't do we have an Do we have an
extra one?
Speaker 10: Because I know we gave one to Montiac? I think
that's what our We gave our extra one to Montiac, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we gave the extra one to Montiac.
Speaker 5: Can we whip up a new one?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, hey, Fizzle Bang. Do you know what happened
to know?
Speaker 10: Any artificers around here?
Speaker 9: Mateo? Mateo is one, isn't he?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I'm sure Matteo could help you. He's pretty handy
with artifacts and creation of things.
Speaker 10: Okay, well that might take some time. We would have
to go and get it and come back. Do you
think that would work, Taylor, or do we need something
more urgently?
Speaker 5: I think that could work and we can. We can
just plan to check on you a couple of times.
Is what you are pretty close to the hotel?
Speaker 1: We're saying that anyways, Yeah, he says, very nice on
this side of town.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'll just plan to keep in touch.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll see you next time.
Speaker 9: Well, before we leave, I can't ask you. I got
some questions.
Speaker 10: And do I tell him about the dream, the paper,
the book, the sigil.
Speaker 1: He looks, and he goes, well, I see the sigil
of the seekers, but these other symbols. Do you mind
if I make a copy of this?
Speaker 10: I don't mind, but be careful because of the dream
and all that.
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, I don't dream anymore. I live off boomjuice,
and you see he scribbles down copies of the symbols.
He goes, I will it will take some time a
little bit of time to translate this, but I have
an idea of what books I need to use, so
I will get back with you.
Speaker 9: Okay. Just make sure do you have an assistant or something?
Speaker 1: He says, what need do I have of an assistant
just in.
Speaker 9: Case you need somebody to roll you up into a burrito.
Speaker 1: What's the burrito?
Speaker 9: Oh, it's like, it's okay. And I tried to explain
what a burrito.
Speaker 1: You see as he is constantly writing down notes, and
he's like, and so you're telling me you can put rice, beans, guacamole,
or cheese inside of this.
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm continually I'm so surprised that you know what
guacamole is, but not a burrito.
Speaker 3: Yes, in this world they're doing something good.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the whole party is like, you
know what they got guac here? We could just stay.
Speaker 3: Long as you have to pay extra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So we cut to Richard. You find
at the Central Hall, Adnes Hall. You find a department
of commerce and they basically like you tell them what
it is you were wanting to do, and they give
you an unbelievably tall stack of paper to take home
with you.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm also looking for one other thing. Okay, it's
a location of business for the Church of Clarity and
or potentially like like assuming it's in Crystal's name, her
personal address.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you find that's pretty that's pretty clever there,
mister Richard. You find its home address or its base
of operations is known as the astral Oasis m and
and it is its location is listed as the Southern Woods,
and just a vague approximation, you would find that that's
about a week travel from Levern, Okay.
Speaker 11: Is that area happened to be near the home of
a Christopher.
Speaker 1: Robin Oh my god, No it doesn't.
Speaker 12: Christopher Robin.
Speaker 1: Woods's cute. Okay, So, uh so that's that part, Amy
and Taylor, did y'all have anything else you wanted to
discuss a fizzle bang? Or we all done?
Speaker 10: Do you have anything Taylor? Because I brought that stuff
up to him. We have this new thing, new crystal
to find the next thing and then info on who
to contact and what else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe we just info down to the rest of
the crew with our bracelets and then I'll go back
and maybe we pump some iron.
Speaker 10: Oh I love that. Get some prs in there.
Speaker 5: It's like code for sex. Really like build up our forearms.
Speaker 14: String all right?
Speaker 1: And then Taylor, you on the way back to the
to the hotel, you pick up your blazer and it
definitely has some improved shoulder padding. For the uh for
your shoulders there and uh. The gist of it is
you're you will get plus one to intimidation of male
characters because they're a little self conscious about how much
bigger your shoulders are than theirs.
Speaker 10: Okay, wow, that pleas It looks incredible on you, Taylor.
Speaker 5: Thank you. I love these like the shoulder action. I
can feel men shrinking away from me already.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, that's the dream.
Speaker 10: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see as a guy ter he just oh,
it takes off. No, I'm just joking and joking.
Speaker 3: Funny.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you guys have anything else you wanted to
do before you ended this adventuring day? And we head
into the arbitration.
Speaker 3: And I just talked to my lawyer.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, So you go and meet with Saul.
He says, what do you mean you have arbitration? When
did you agree to arbitration?
Speaker 9: You know? I didn't.
Speaker 3: Actually, they just said that it was mandatory and then
I had to show up.
Speaker 1: Oh so I guess you don't need me. Then this
is going to be like a one on one. Wait,
they got Crystal to agree to sit down with an arbitrator.
Speaker 3: I don't, dude, what do I look like I know
what the legal system of this world.
Speaker 5: Looks like.
Speaker 1: This, He's like friendly. Huh okay, well, I will see,
and he looks at the like you give him the
time and everything in the location, he says, I will.
I'll try to get some stuff prepared and I'll try
to be there. But if if I'm not there when
it starts, I'll be right behind. Uh huh, he said,
I'll do the best.
Speaker 3: Can she like see if he's like I mean.
Speaker 1: You could do an insight check if you want to.
Speaker 12: I do want to see in sight.
Speaker 5: Thanks twelve.
Speaker 1: Okay, with twelve, you get the feeling like you kind
of sense that he's he has the attitude that, oh
I guess it's not my problem anymore.
Speaker 3: Yep, got it. Okay, thanks for the help, Soul. You've
been a real treat So.
Speaker 14: All right, Well he helps Huh why.
Speaker 5: Isn't he helped me what with arbitration?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 1: Maybe in our world.
Speaker 3: He's trying to not work for me anymore because that's
such a pain of a client.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, well that sucks.
Speaker 3: Crystal sees all.
Speaker 5: She knows.
Speaker 3: She knows she since she sniffed him out through her
Crystal ball yeah, with my with her, with her.
Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, So we're going to end that
adventuring day, okay, and unless there's anything anybody else wants
to do, and then we're going to pick up the
following day. You guys have a nice hearty breakfast and
you make your way over to the arbitration office.
Speaker 13: What does a hearty breakfast look like? Marcel?
Speaker 2: Typically these past couple of days, it's a salmon locks bagel.
So everything bagel, salmon capers, the works.
Speaker 1: You know, hold the capers, but I'm there.
Speaker 3: You need that like salt ball, like.
Speaker 1: No, the everything bagel seasoning has plenty of salt.
Speaker 2: The capers are the acidity. It cuts the fat of
the cring cheese.
Speaker 13: Or pepper.
Speaker 2: I guess it kind of depends on how the pepper
or the capers are brind but.
Speaker 13: I don't know. I've never had capers before, so.
Speaker 12: I asked someone and they told me they were pepperary.
Speaker 1: So you guys make it into uh, you make it
into the office, and uh. You see there's a fairly
well dressed gentleman sitting behind a desk, and you see
two tables facing each other with some space in between,
and you see as he stands up and he says, uh, oh, welcome, welcome,
are you miss? I have here Crystal number two point oh?
Speaker 3: I think I did I actually change it to the
O G?
Speaker 5: Crystal?
Speaker 3: Did I just make that up in my head?
Speaker 13: I think you made that up in your head.
Speaker 12: I think you tried to.
Speaker 2: Heal.
Speaker 3: You literally, Alex, you literally said that might actually work.
Speaker 1: He says, well, this is this is part of the
document that I received, is that you're a Crystal two
point oh.
Speaker 3: I don't recognize that, but I guess for good purposes
of this and making sure we don't sit around all
day while I argue about my real identity.
Speaker 9: Fine, whatever, all.
Speaker 1: Right, and then on your way there, Amy, and you
will have received a correspondent or like a letter from
Fizzle Bang asking you to come see him because he's
translated your document. Okay, yeah, so Crystal, you sit down.
Who else is going with Crystal to the arbitration?
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 1: Everybody would be most of us?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you Amy and get her letter. Was it
on our way there before?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It was on the way there. He asked her
to come quick.
Speaker 10: Okay, should I go do that? Then while you guys
do the arbitration.
Speaker 2: I can do that, said, do you want to go
along like.
Speaker 1: Split?
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, Bentley, you would come with yeah, sure, let's.
Speaker 10: Go all right?
Speaker 1: Right, so Taylor see later on Crystal is enough to
do with? So Taylor, D and Crystal sit down at
the table and the guy introduced himself. I am Magistrate
Olden fair Wind. I will be your arbitrator today. MY
goal is for all parties to leave here equally disgusted
and unsatisfied.
Speaker 14: He says.
Speaker 1: If if no one's happy, then I did my my
I did the correct job.
Speaker 2: What did you say? His first name was.
Speaker 1: Olden A. L. D. E. N. Fair Wind.
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's super fair.
Speaker 1: Yes. And then a few moments later, the door opens
and you see two armed bodyguards come in and in
steps high Priestest Crystal. Yes, miss Crystal, I'm assuming would
you like to take your seat?
Speaker 6: I believe that the way divinity calls me to stand for.
Speaker 5: This urgent matter.
Speaker 1: Very very well. We respect, we respect people's religious right
here over.
Speaker 5: To Taylor and says yeah, because she's got a stick show.
So far up she gets to them.
Speaker 1: You see, as Alden turns, he goes, excuse me, did
you have something you wanted to say, Crystal two point zero.
Speaker 3: Nope, not on record actually, so that's good.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, And you see that there is like a
little quartz stenographer sitting over to the side, like typing away.
He has a magical stenograph machine.
Speaker 3: So does he need to type?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he probably doesn't need to. But it's like that's
the sematic component. That's the stematic component of the spell.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Sorry, that's like when you like, you're in a meeting
and you're like, can I record this meeting?
Speaker 5: And then you just have AI translated at the end.
You didn't actually do any work.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, he says, okay, well, all parties are here,
are you prepared to begin the arbitration?
Speaker 3: Why do you say it like that?
Speaker 1: I take my job very seriously.
Speaker 10: You sound like sometimes you sound like you're gonna have
fun with this, and then sometimes is it fun for you?
Speaker 3: Are you having fun?
Speaker 1: I never have fun. That's why I make such a
good arbitrator it.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 5: I would like to say before we get started.
Speaker 6: I think that if we really want to get the
most out of this, we should use some enchanted, frank
concense which I believe my Crystal Guardian Angelite has on hand. Angelite,
can you hand over and we can share?
Speaker 1: Yes, Hi, priest is Crystal. I will fetch that at once.
As he reaches into his robe and produces a vile here,
my lady, I thank you.
Speaker 6: This will help this ceremony. We can channel our spiritual
energy and make sure that we reach the perfect conclusion
to this trial.
Speaker 13: It's not your we.
Speaker 9: You see.
Speaker 1: As Alden fair Wind stands up and he's got his hands,
he goes, h, do I need to do something special
with my hands? Or am I just good to stand here?
Speaker 17: Maybe we don't do drugs, Maybe we just keep I'll
give a cast detect.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, this is a drug.
Speaker 6: This is our beautiful essential oil changed fran consense.
Speaker 5: I don't think maybe you should have anything before any substances.
Maybe we should.
Speaker 1: What all halt uh? As the arbitrator of justice here,
I am going to take a five minute recess and
check the books in my chambers to make sure that
there are no statutes in Leverron preventing someone from consuming
some form of drugs, some some form of substance prior
to conducting a legal proceeding we will. We will reconvene
in five minutes time.
Speaker 2: A gratitude today keeps the haters away, and that's why
we want to thank you for listening to Overworked and Underplayed.
You just heard Alex Capps as our DM Anneline Hardy
is Taylor Jacobs, Katie is Crystal two point zero, Marjorie
is Amy Ann, Marcel Hardy is Richard Cox, and Tyler's Bentley.
You also heard our good friend Morgan as the voice
of Hi Priestess Crystal. Episodes are edited by Marcel and
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Speaker 12: It specifically had to be rotten