Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Yea yeah, yea, yea yeah, yea yeah, yeah, what up?
Speaker 3: It's your boy, it's your boy. Skinny peen come in
at you again with a fresh D n D so
incredibly unable to pull that off.
Speaker 2: Hi, everyone, welcome to the stream. It's dungeons and dragons
with us the nerds, not fresh g and it's crewe
but skinny penis, and it's crue skinny penis the second
here with all the other penises and one vagina named potato.
Speaker 1: Uk.
Speaker 4: I'm actually a big fan of now calling the wedding
town heavy d in the boys.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means that.
Speaker 5: That was my new one wedding tackle anymore.
Speaker 6: That whole sentence mainstin powers man fucking cretns Jesus.
Speaker 2: What's the wedding tackle? Dick, twig and b wedding tackle?
Speaker 5: Thank you Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It's probably called a tackle.
Speaker 4: I guess it depends how aggressively you use it. I'm
not sure. I haven't really thought about it overly much
because I've been thinking about the greatest movie of the
year Bright.
Speaker 2: Is tackle not a term used over there? And know
it is just not wedding tackle, or maybe it is
wedding tackle and I just have never heard it.
Speaker 7: Whatever Backwaters came up with that one, it was just
Mike Myers.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure you probably didn't forget ad lib.
Speaker 2: Welcome to dusk, everyone, It's been a whole week. Whoa
just happened in the week, and we're not going to
discuss a single.
Speaker 5: Thing.
Speaker 4: We're just going to read a prophecy and then have
some banter and you'll have to know about it.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, probably there is a bit of a
prophecy in today's episode.
Speaker 7: Bet it might be a prophecy that you can read
to us after to let me justify all of your
other plot devices.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm kind of going more with the whole like
jj abrams mystery box approach than anything else. Quite often
I do this in the beginning, in like episode one
and two, I'll see a couple of things I hadn't
planned on seeding, and then in like episode thirty, I'm like, oh, fuck,
the thing fucking blah blah blah happens because I fucking
said a stupid thing in episode two. Always write down
your notes or have a better memory than me.
Speaker 4: There's the two people that actually have been paying attention
to just wash all the pods.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 7: I love those the people, the people who know the
campaign better than us, because they're my favorite.
Speaker 2: But people come at me a lot. Fracture Worlds ended
a couple of weeks ago, and I've just been getting
questions ever since, like, solve at eleven, you're said, and
I'm like, oh, I did. I don't know what the
fuck that means.
Speaker 5: I was really hungover.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just said a lot of ship because it
sounded good in that one also, But the thing is
sometimes it actually comes down I say some stupid ship
and later on they go, it's crazy that Raja did
that backflip over the train has was prophesized in episode one,
and I'm.
Speaker 8: Like, oh, yeah, that's totally what I was referring to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I planned that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a great writer. It can work both ways
them just depends just depends how many people are watching
really whether you should do it. But I do think
that that weird jj Abrams mystery box thing works quite
well for d n D because it's such a long
format that you've got all the time in the world
to justify a lot of a lot of weird, intriguing
and interesting things. There you go. It's my DM advice
go with the jj Abrams mystery Box over the bright
specific prophecy thing.
Speaker 7: When you open the j J Abrams Mystery Box, it's
just lens flair, lens flair to your stream.
Speaker 2: Then I highly recommend it. I mean, don't go mental,
don't just don't, don't keep the lens flair to a minimum,
don't don't go for less really is more. I don't
think you see.
Speaker 7: Star Trek with I don't know if it was Star
Trek Into Darkness or for what was the other Star
Trek reboot he did, but the lens flap was.
Speaker 2: So every time they look out a window, you just like, yeah,
it was the first one, I think. I don't know
if the second one did it as well, probably, but
the first one was insanity. Like one of the first
things I ever learned when I was learning after effects
back in the day becoming an editor was just how
to throw a lens flare in. So I see that
ship just straight away, I can't help it. I'm like,
there's one that watching Star Trek. The first one was
horrific for me. It was like being abused in my eye.
Speaker 9: It was for the rest of us too, but for
different reasons.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, I'm not much of a
Star Trek fan, so I just kind of enjoyed those
movies for what they were.
Speaker 7: But I'm sure, oh, those movies were great because I
wasn't a Star Trek fan, probably because I read the
reviews and they were like, this isn't faithful to the
original Star Wars. I can't believe they made this or
that Star Wars Star Trek and They're like, I can't
believe they made this character do that and they changed
this line, and I'm just like, I didn't watch the original.
These movies are great from all this lens flair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apart from the lens flair. It was just I
feel the same way about the TV show that came out.
I just watched it, like, cool, this was great, and
everyone was like it's horrible.
Speaker 7: But the one thing, the one thing I saw in
common was like every negative review came from like a
long term Star Trek fan.
Speaker 2: Yell, positive reviews came from the rest of us. You're like, oh, okay,
it's it's the Star Trek fans. Those fucking losers start
back the hard course, but put a put a rack
attack in the chat and then leave. We don't want
you here your.
Speaker 5: No, I'm kidding. I don't care what you like.
Speaker 2: Unless it's unless it's right, Unless it's right, I'm just
gonna keep flipping as to whether I like and don't
like that film.
Speaker 5: So everybody's going to be really confused.
Speaker 2: Does he like it? How about we do something that
people can criticize us and we can't defend it the stream. Yea,
also our naked bodies? No, this does fail. The best
piece of writing. Actually, this isn't too stolen, this one
I will claim. I will claim some originality. But it's
still fun of fantasy.
Speaker 10: When, isn't it.
Speaker 2: We're basically playing Wild Wild West the RPG. Yeah, that's
what it is.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting for the Will Smith character to show up.
Speaker 2: Wow Wow West.
Speaker 5: He just that's all. He says.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a Will Smith character today.
Speaker 2: We already know we're going to meet a character named
Will that's what. That's what.
Speaker 1: Like the first Ninja and the Wow Wow wet.
Speaker 2: All of the ninjas have names. Let's find out if
one of them is called Will you know? I really,
honestly believe. Yeah, number one called William all right, spoilers,
so I mean they might not. This is the thing
with D and D is that I prepare things and like, yeah,
I'll give all the ninja's names just because it's one
of those things. I know, like someone will ask if
we get there, they'll be like, what's this one's name.
I'll be like, ah, well this is William Jim West
from the web, right. But like, if you don't prepare it,
they will ask it. If you do prepare it, they
won't even show. They'll be like, oh, there's Ninja's over there.
We dive into this cave. Yeah, oh you.
Speaker 7: Used to do a full and detailed map of Sin River.
We're going south into the.
Speaker 2: No, I will not allow it. I'm going to railroad
you from now until the end.
Speaker 7: I'm going to post that on. I'm going to post
that on like the D and D Reddit. Our DM
railroaded us by literally including railroads.
Speaker 5: The whole thing.
Speaker 2: I was just cracking up at the fact that there
was trains in it and how much ship I'm going
to get for railroading you or whatever. So I went
through a whole thing. Well, I was on somebody's podcast
and said, I was just going on about how I
hate d ms that like Railroad. I like dms to
have strong narratives and help players like achieve milestones in
a story by by by maneuvering them a little bit,
but not just flat out railroading. And then two days
later I started working on dust film, was like, I'm
going to add trains done.
Speaker 5: What have I done?
Speaker 2: Ruined all the integrity I had so much? Let's play okay,
because I want to last time on the Dusting Veil,
you guys was trapped. It was called cornered. You were
trapped by a vampire named Stellion who was sitting at
one end of the hallway. You guys were trapped at
a barred door on the outside with guards that seemed
to be under his control, and you were hiding inside
of a magic spell called a magic circle. You definitely
were able to cast, and you were sort of coming
up with a plan. Well, you did come out of
a plan to escape. Generally speaking, you were successful a
lot of it. Weirdly enough, hinged on that fucking blanket
sticky people. Yeah, essentially, the blanket poisoned the the vampire.
It freaked him out, just as a little meta knowledge, but.
Speaker 7: I looked up poisoning effects. After that session was over,
I was like, what exactly does poison do? And I
was like, oh crap, it's like disadvantage on everything be there.
Speaker 2: He sort of thought better of just trying to take
you on whilst under that effect and instead of just
sort of like attempting to kill you all. Once you
all escaped, you had to go and recover. You guys
did successfully escape, and you ran into a bunch of ninjas.
The ninjas, because there are ninjas in my D n
D as well trains ninjas guns and there's no there's
no like cars. There is a metal gear like we
established out there somewhere like a big steampunk We don't
got them, and there's other than that d ms out there.
Please don't attack me.
Speaker 4: Please don't take my my you've created.
Speaker 2: Means while standard D and D would never allow these things,
but I alway try and remind people this is a JRPG.
Speaker 8: I mean Iliosa's gunships, so you can't do much worse
than that.
Speaker 2: You're good, Yeah, You're welcome Twitch streaming dms out there.
We have paved the way for you to get away
with stupid shit like guns. So, yeah, you guys run
into a bunch of ninjas. I mean, they're technically not
called ninjas, or they weren't originally going to be called ninjas.
I just was going to base them on ninjas. But
now we're just calling them ninjas.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: I think if you go back to episode two or
whenever won, you were like, no, they're not ninjas. Yeah,
you were like ninja. You're like, you don't know, you
don't know the word ninja.
Speaker 7: You see men in robes, and then it's like by
episode thirty three, we're just like, hey, they're the ninjas.
Speaker 2: We're just we're just going to call them ninjas. But
realistically they named themselves ninjas just as like it was
like parallel thinking between our dimensions. If anything, maybe this
is this world the green is like what Earth was
before the fall.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 2: You guys probably when you roll a D ten thousand
or whatever, the sun blows up. Yeah, so you ran
to a bunch of ninjas which are in it. Get
over it. They one of them. The leader introduced himself
as Leon, said that he was he came to save
you on behalf of the Princess, and essentially that because
the side that you are on is now trying to
kill you, enemy of my enemy, and all that you
guys are on the same side. He helped you escape
town by using a spell, a teleport spell pretty much,
just to try and ensure that your escape was clean
and that the vampire or the forces that are working
against you didn't track you. And you guys made it
out of town. The ninjas seemingly escaped as well, and
but you were teleported into a different area. You were
told to go three miles east. You worked out that
you were about one mile east of town, started walking
the extra two miles, made it into the desert, and
that's where we start two days session before. We are
in the middle of nowhere. I think what I did
is I added, just because I wasn't sure how long
you guys are going to be in the desert. I
added on this map for y'all. It's just a little,
uh hang on, It's a little thing, a little token,
just to give you an idea of where you are
on the map. Everyone can move it around, but just
it's pointless to ever move it around. And I know
you're just going to be annoying and we're going to
lose where you are, so I don't know why I
gave it. Everyone never give players any power.
Speaker 7: I didn't touch it. My mouse curser is over here
making the green circle.
Speaker 2: I moved it with you, guys.
Speaker 1: We're in Crimson City.
Speaker 5: We did it.
Speaker 4: It just reminds me of another wonderful movie, Kingsman to
the Golden Circle. I just saw that because I saw
it last night, and I go, God, Julianne Moore is
now after us.
Speaker 1: We're dead.
Speaker 2: Compared. I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure you'll be fine.
You're a little ways outside of Shadow Scar. Let's say,
about three miles outside of the the town of Shallow Scar.
You crossed a bridge of some description, not really an
actual bridge. You're in a an endless expanse of sand
and rock, and pretty much anybody who isn't either a
native of one of the various settlements out in the
wastes or a sand walker like Rajah doesn't last too long.
Out Here is legitimately the same as being in a huge,
huge desert on our planet, except that there are giant
scorpions and horrific elemental beasts and you know, evil druids
and ship out there. So probably even more dangerous. It
is nighttime. Everybody, give me a perception check. Oh fuck
uh perception Yes. Also, I fucked with my audio settings,
so if you can't hear the music, people, just let
me know I heard playing right now.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you guys crossed that bridge. I think Arden
went and fun the whole thing up, dropped a load
of stuff into the RAVI went elected it or came
back up, and pretty much that was where we ended
the session. If you guys can and you'd moving a
little further east, let's see here Carlias and Lash. Carlias,
you have dark vision. Lash, you are a crow woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that would.
Speaker 11: Help you perceptive.
Speaker 2: For some reason, maybe you hear as opposed to see
a couple of shadowy figures on a like a bluff,
like one of those rocky outcroppings that's sticking up out
of the ground, maybe about thirty five feet up and
about fifty sixty feet ahead of you. It comes into
your view. There is no moon, but there is a
few stars that shed a little light, and you just
about make out a couple of figures that seemed to
be moving slowly on top of this this sort of
bluff ahead of you. Everybody else, you don't really notice
anything of any danger. Yes, most imperceptible. Just two little
shadows that you can definitely make out that like humanoid.
Speaker 10: Turn to the rest of the group. Huh, seems like
we got a little bit of dejao going off. Mm hm.
Speaker 9: So I'll just point up to them.
Speaker 7: With them with her pointing at it, would be able
to see it then, or is it just like impassable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would take a moment for your eyes to
adju just but you probably make them out. They're not
moving very quickly around or that they're generally stood still,
but every now and then you'll see them shift a
little to clear humans or two shadows on top of it.
Speaker 7: This does look really familiar, doesn't it. Hopefully they're not
trying to kill us this time. They did just be
us out, so I wouldn't be too worried.
Speaker 5: You give them the benefit of a down, Yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Might as well.
Speaker 1: Way they tried to kill you.
Speaker 7: Last time we saw these people. They were trying to
take this from us by force.
Speaker 2: And I'll hold up the orb.
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna go with the guys that tried to
kill you over the orb.
Speaker 7: Well, at this point both the rebels and the Crown
have tried to take it from us, But I'm a
lot more worried about the Crown than I am about
the rebels. At least we know if they tried to
kill us, we can just kill them. We've already established
that's just.
Speaker 5: Gonna wave over to Roger and I have the orb.
Speaker 7: Sure, I'll toss it to them.
Speaker 5: Catch it and just kind of put it back in
like a pouch.
Speaker 7: What I'm saying, Walter is last time we fought these guys,
it went really really badly for them.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's fine, then.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's what I'm saying. So at this point there
was also a sand titan.
Speaker 1: Arden told me he had tea with him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I heard the whole story. Tea with the princess
and with titan. Yeah, now I'm all cut.
Speaker 9: Up the speed there, just shaking my head at Ard.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, we're good. I were real good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm assuming that Arden hit all of the most
important points. But yeah, aside from the tea and the conversation,
the part where right, the part where she tried to
stick the giant sand titan creature on us to kill us.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we just broke our concentration like it was any
other spell, and the titan went away.
Speaker 10: And the fact that titan spoke to me and picked me.
Speaker 2: Up, yeah that too. Why didn't it kill you again?
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, because from my.
Speaker 7: Understanding, last time you were inside a sand creature it
didn't end well.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I mean, I just remember it spoke to me or
you know a thing the cilias could do where he
just talks in your head. No, don't you know about that?
It was an absolute pain in the ass or strings.
I don't because, like everyone talking at the same time,
it gave me a major headache. Anyway, I think the
sand thing did that to me, spoke in my head and.
Speaker 7: Yeah, confusing. Really that does sound pretty annoying. How far
off is the hill we're looking at where these people
are standing?
Speaker 2: About fifty feet?
Speaker 7: Oh so it's like right in front of us, pretty close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's more like you came up on it
before you noticed a couple of shadows, though they don't
seem to have noticed you even while you're having a conversation.
Speaker 1: Should we signal them or.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look.
Speaker 7: It doesn't look like they're looking at us. Can we
make out what they're wearing, like see the distinctive black
robed ninja garb stuff.
Speaker 2: I would say yeah, probably at this point.
Speaker 7: Those outfits are pretty distinctive. We've not seen anything else
like it. And it doesn't look like they're looking this way.
They're looking past us. I don't think they saw us approach.
Maybe we could get up there and have a little listen.
Maybe they'll drop some details that we aren't.
Speaker 2: Supposed to hear.
Speaker 7: You never know when people's tongues are always looser when they
think they're alone. You know, why don't you let me
and Lash take a run up there.
Speaker 2: And we'll see you still have that ring right just
in case? I do.
Speaker 7: Okay, let's go take a look. Me and Lash are
gonna try and like sneak closer, and I guess sneak
close enough to like climb up onto this platform with them,
or get close enough to within earshot.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, give me stealth checks and perception checks as
you approach.
Speaker 4: Rip.
Speaker 7: How long has it been it's my past? Is my
past without trace? Still going?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It's been like noble, it's been like an hour, I think, right?
Yea passed with that trace lasts like an hour or
something like that. And see that's without trace last you've
traveled three miles, so it's probably been about an hour.
It's not been easy terrain.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, so it's just when I worn off then,
because it lasts an hour rip Okay, so I only
got a ten.
Speaker 2: I would of course roll a two. Probably not too
long ago. You guys start creeping up towards this, but
butte and you you do overhear a hushed conversation coming
from not from up above you, but from a little
ways ahead. This thing is probably not they're probably not
all sat on top of this. This is probably just
where two of them are sat, using it as more
of like an outpost to look out. And somewhere beyond
it there is a hushed conversation that you can hear.
Last you very easily approach the the like the mound.
Maybe get up close to it, Raja, although maybe maybe
you're going second, maybe you're not quite as quick. You
hear the two voices above you suddenly shout down a hold,
who goes there, Raja?
Speaker 7: The red believe you're looking for me?
Speaker 2: It's them, it's them. Wait there and the others wait
right there.
Speaker 7: I'll point back to them, but not Lash too busy.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, Okay, Well you go and I'll yeah.
And then you hear the scrabbling sounds. One of them
begins to climb down from the other side, Lash Raja.
You can probably now see around the little hilltop thing
the bluff. As you do, you'll probably make out a
few more figures, and there's a very very small, low
burning fire sat the fire is a couple of these
figures just beyond these bluffs, and there's a couple more around.
It does look like they have maybe three areas where
there are Ninja's stat on lookout very poorly, and then
a couple more figure is in the center of this
particular area. You also make out that perception check, a
couple of cart tracks, very obviously left in the sand
that seemed to be going every which way. It hasn't
been windy other than when you encountered a horrific sandstorm
wraith creature, so likely that these cart tracks were made
relatively recently, though there's no carts anywhere nearby. The Ninja
climbs down, approaches and says, how do I know you are?
Who you say you are, and he puts a hand
on that Alban thin blade that he has, draws it
just a.
Speaker 7: Little because I still have these, and I'll open up
my rob and show the two ALBN thin blades from
the last couple of minches, like I still have these
from the last time you tried to take the orb
from me, and then close the rub.
Speaker 2: All right, well, listen, I weren't there, all right, don't
take it out of me. And then he whistles. I can't
whistle very well, but he whistles really well. Behind him,
there is a bunch of motion. One of the figures
at the fire stands up very quickly and starts to
move over towards your hand on his thin blade. And
then the second figure that was at the fire is
the figure in that helmet and the full body armor
that's sort of interlocking and plated and extremely well crafted,
beyond anything you would have ever seen. The figure that
approaches you from the fire doesn't have the wraps and
the cloak around his face. It is the figure of
Leon who approaches very quickly and then takes his hand
off of the thin blade and says, bloody hell, you're alive.
You all alive.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we all made it. We waited up for you,
but I guess we must. You must have passed us
in the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah right. I thought i'd sent you to the bloody
shores of fire High or out into the ocean or something.
You sent us a couple miles shy of here. But
the hike wasn't too bad. I was, really I was
thinking of this precise location. I don't understand what went wrong.
I guess I'm not as good at the wizarding as
I thought. Anyway, welcome to the camp. Come with me,
and try not to do any fireworks or any loud noises. Okay,
it's all very hush hush. The vampire no vampires, right.
Speaker 7: Drawing attention is the last thing we really want to
do right now. So I think we're on the same page.
And I'm assuming. I don't know how far I got
forward before they noticed me, Like, how far in front
of the group am I I figured that everyone had converged. Yeah, okay,
so that you have. Now I'm making sure I'm making
sure everyone's with us. Let's go, but intentionally not looking
at or motioning to Lash at all, just in case.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's you and you hiding specifically.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would have gone to the base of the
mesa butte whatever we're calling it, and just kind of
if they didn't notice me, sort of stayed hidden. Uh
I did there. Yeah, I was hoping to maybe here
a conversation. But I think at this point I actually
climb up.
Speaker 2: Just stood in a shadow just perfectly. My stealth modfire
is pretty amazing. I rolled it two. There's still one
ninja on the on the butte above you, what a butte.
If you want to climb up, you're probably very easily
going to be spied by him.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, there's no one for him to have a
conversation with her. Yeah, I'll just head back to the
to the rest of.
Speaker 2: Them Leon spires. You suddenly gave me quite the fright.
You'd make a wonderful ninja. We've been calling ourselves ninja's.
It's a wasn't my idea?
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it means. What language is that?
Even from apparently it's Sylvan for sneaky, but I don't
think it is.
Speaker 7: I think there's a word like it in Druidic, but
I mean something like rain clouds.
Speaker 2: Do you guys rain everywhere. I don't even know what
rain is. The approaches the the fire. At the center,
there's a couple of like dust covered, sand covered sort
of rugs that have just been thrown out hapas just
as something to sit on so you're not sat on
the the raw sand and the potential for horrible creepy
crawley things to come up and bite you while you're
trying to sit and eat your meal. Other than that,
there's really written nothing here. A couple of packs, and
then in total, you guys will count twelve ninjas, a
couple of them on the buttes around you, and a
couple which are just sort of patrolling the area. But
the central focus would be the figure in the finely
crafted armor. Now that you guys, probably this is I
think the closest you've been to it for real, and
you can make out in the fire light quite easily
the super fine craftsmanship. It would probably be quite breathtaking
realistically speaking, because you guys will have seen armor of
all different kinds. You probably would have seen some very
nice armor if you've been to like Crimson City and
seem like the Elite Palace Guard or something like that.
This is just beyond that it's got like male links
that are perfectly polished, and they move across and move
in sync with one another so as to allow the
body almost free form movement. It looks relatively heavy, but
the figure moves in it quite lively. And at the
center there's this chest piece where there's a spheroid recess,
which essentially would perfectly house the the orb iron Man style. Basically,
the figure immediately unclasps and removes the helmet, and there
is a pale human face, strikingly beautiful, almost elven, but
definitely human, no real elven traits like ears, raven black hair,
falls relatively short about her shoulders, very dark eyes. In
the moonlight you would assume black, but assume very dark brown.
Give me inside checks.
Speaker 10: Inside.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're not gonna all die if Carlias hits on
her right, because if Carlias doesn't do it, I'm gonna
do it.
Speaker 2: The is the trink is is your roll.
Speaker 7: You have to like say the thing you're rolling in
a weird inflection, like you can't just say inside.
Speaker 2: You say inside, and then you get an eighteen. The
she's she's super hot, like she for a human. She's
got an almost ethereal quality to her at all, in
the same way that an elf has something a little extra.
She seems to have something like that going on, even
in the like she's got some relatively bedraggled hair, she's
probably been traveling for days, and yet she still looks pristine,
like she's just stepped out.
Speaker 10: Of a bath.
Speaker 2: And a guess Lash Carlias, No, Walter and Carlias, you'd
say she's maybe twenty.
Speaker 13: One, Arden Arden Lash and Raja.
Speaker 2: You'd say she looks older. She's just it's she's beguiling
to look at She could be anywhere between twenty and
fifty and just wearing it perfectly.
Speaker 4: Tell if it's like a magical enchantment or she's just
who she is.
Speaker 9: It's like you can't can't tell.
Speaker 5: Is she like an super botox?
Speaker 4: She got really like, really plump lips and she has
no emotion on her face.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If car then give me a nature check. No, oh God,
just try and determine what's going on. If you're interested.
If not, then don't worry. Everyone can do it if
you want to. Yeah, there's definitely something different about her. Instantly.
Why I am sitting on it long enough. Yeah, definitely
something oddn't It's not magical, she's just she's just noble.
They get good, they got good teeth in that lash
Rajah Carlias. There's something, there's something different she's she's not
full human. You might think she's maybe a half elf
or something like that. But of course the story goes
that she is descendant of Bain, the god of Tyranny.
There's a story that some people believe in some people don't,
that her grandmother lay with a god, a god of Tyranny, Baine,
and together they had a child which is now the
Emperor ellendor Leothraxis. And now that you see her, it
might lend some sway to that story. It might not,
who knows, but she definitely looks very striking, very different.
I feel like she would take one look at her
and then one look at Walter.
Speaker 7: She's not a half elf. This fall is a half
elf and he doesn't look half that good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's also been one around in the desert for years. Actually,
actually sorry, she uh to be fair. The woman takes
the helmet off and says, please know that I mean
you no harm. My name is Princess Nimissa leothraxis, and
it seems that we are now on the same side.
If you would care to sit, perhaps we can discuss
a few things.
Speaker 8: I'm already sitting on one of the rugs, like really lazily,
I'll give you.
Speaker 5: At this point, Carli's like mouth open just a.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm like kind of half asleep, like I'm ready to
sleep right now.
Speaker 7: Okaytand I understand it's darky out, but I can I
can literally almost see my own token and then like
the one square around the campfire.
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go. That better, Yes, here we go.
Uh yeah, so you can move your tokens around.
Speaker 7: I'm just looking to see what direction she is since
I'm supposed to be talking to her.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't have enough vision to see her. I
can't find right down right down here I have vision
of on the dark episode we go completely ruined us
as well. Do let's uh swap that token and give
you this token before she has two tokens.
Speaker 10: I'll give.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll put light on her that you can see
as well, so that you have an idea.
Speaker 7: It's it's what's her face, It's Jennifer from which you're
three Okay, it's for pretty much.
Speaker 2: Uh, I just grabbed a random image. It's hard to
find pictures of k I mean, uh you you guys
taking a seat?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll walk up and it's only the one little rug, right.
Speaker 2: There's a couple around just you have to worry at.
The map is not exact, it's an idea.
Speaker 5: At this point.
Speaker 10: With Galadriel, yeah yeah, yeah, she, She and Leon sit.
Speaker 2: Together a little close, a little closer than you would
maybe sit next to just a friend who knows, who knows,
and the ninjas continue to potter around about you. The
ninjas themselves again, there are twelve. Most of them seem
to be between five foot and six foot humanoid, all
of them. One of them is almost definitely either a
child or a halflings, so you can't see. You can't
really make anything out. You can just about a couple
of them. You can make out our female, but yeah,
with most of them, you can't really determine.
Speaker 5: Anything.
Speaker 2: Two of them are relatively short. One of them is
very short and more likely a halfling. It moves a
little more like a halfling than a nome. And yeah,
other than that, they all seem to be adult human
humanoids kind of thing but they are just going about
there their business. As you guys sit down, she says.
Speaker 5: The orb.
Speaker 2: Do you have it? We do, well, you may keep
it for now. Do you know what it does?
Speaker 7: I was hoping you could shed some light on that
because apparently half of the known world wants to kill
us for it.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, half of the known world wants to kill
me for it as well. That's what it's hired me for.
But perhaps you have some information that we could use too.
We are rather lacking out here in the desert.
Speaker 1: Those wempires, the vampire vampires.
Speaker 2: Quite quite the surprise. That was something I wasn't aware
of or expecting. Like nud Jordan, see she didn't know that.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 7: Yes, to be quite blunt, we're in fairly dire need
of allies ourselves, so at this point, making any more
enemies is not on my priority list. So we're happy
to work together in whatever way you see fit.
Speaker 2: I would like for us to work together.
Speaker 5: We need you can take on a dragon.
Speaker 2: Oh we made a well, let's see.
Speaker 7: I trip so far has been go to Windy Peaks
to get chased out by vampires. Go to Sin River,
get chased out by a dragon, Go to shallow Sky
get chased out by vampires. We've had a rough run
of luck, but it's it's mostly centered around this. I'm
tapping my pocket as if the orbits in there, even
though I don't have it.
Speaker 2: I know paralyzed has it, but I'm just gonna do that. Leon,
who is a human who you met previously. He is
very obviously somewhere in his thirties. Maybe he doesn't look
particularly different. He just looks like a normal guy, maybe nobility, messy,
mid length hair, but probably more so because it was
under a rat. He at the mention of the dragon
at sin River peaks up and says, we heard about that.
That's why the wizards, that's why they left, and turns
to the princess and she nods back to him. That
was your doing, yes, And the dragon it's still hunting you,
because a dragon is not something that I think any
of us want to mess with.
Speaker 7: How about how about we start as it currently stands,
the Chancellor of Vossler appears to be working with the vampires,
and they're also colluding with Rain, a wizard who resides
in a tower in Windy Peaks. All of them appear
to be in league in one fashion or another. They
told us to come find you, skin that armor off
you and bring it to the Crimson City. And from
what they have told us, they are the ones who
called the dragon off our tail after we irritated it
in Sin River.
Speaker 5: Irritated.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I'm sure they have the power and the
means to call a dragon off rain that is not
a wizard known to me. Be sure he was a
wizard he lived?
Speaker 7: Oh, I mean his credentials legally, I have no idea.
I just know he was in a tower full of
maggy stuff.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a wizard.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we will have to look into it. She looks
at Leon, who nods back at her.
Speaker 7: You said the wizards left.
Speaker 2: Where did they go? That was a different tower, I.
Speaker 9: Know, she said they left because of the dragon?
Speaker 2: Right where did they go? We were escorting some traders
as they passed through our camp that we have elsewhere.
We offered to take them as far as Zafari, and
then Leon he sent something and we investigated, and that
something was you. Well, yeah, I suppose it was the
orb and that's how we've all arrived at the same place.
Though the wizards were heading to Sin River, one of
them was a well known and powerful wizard who had
heard that a dragon was loose and wanted to return
to his home city to help.
Speaker 7: Let's see, now that I've told you what's happening from
our perspective, I have a couple of questions, if you
don't mind. I have two names, and I need to
know if you know anything about them.
Speaker 2: But before that, the orb what is it? M and
is so important? The orb and the armor are one
of the possibly the only things which can lead to
the potential destruction of a god. It is an old tale,
but of course you very likely know the story of
my ancestry, my grandmother. I've heard the story.
Speaker 7: The light about your face suggests there's probably at least
an element of truth to it.
Speaker 2: Well, whether you believe the tale or not. My grandmother
was the Empress Phrah, and she claimed that she had
laid with a god and that this angered Mistra, the
goddess of magic, and that Mistra herself had planned to
assassinate the child. My father, Emperor Ellendor, and my grandmother,
together with the greatest minds of her day, crafted this armor.
And she gives it a tap. It kind of moves again,
pushes in on her skin a little more like leather
and steel. It's known as the Armor of Eternal Ending,
and using the power of that Orb, she was able
to strike out at Mistra here in dust Veil, at
the now holy site of dread Tusk, and supposedly it
harmed the goddess, and that of course led to the
downfall of Magic and Mistra vowing that the use of
such power towards the gods again would lead to the
destruction of dust Veil itself. Essentially, my father wishes to
use the orb's power, together with the power held within
this armor, to achieve a deity level of power that
he believes he deserves, and so enamored by the idea
of being a half god son of Bain, he knows
he can strike out at the gods themselves with the
power of the Armor and the Orb. I believe he
will stop at nothing to strike out at them, to
claim his heritage as one of them. And I believe
he will destroy all of dust Fail in the trying,
perhaps Lucrin, and he will bring about an age of ruin.
Speaker 7: You're telling me he wishes to take his place amongst
the gods by declaring war on them. Yes, would this
not make you a quarter god as well.
Speaker 2: I suppose so, But to be honest, some parts always
seemed off to me. My grandmother's traveling party disbanded and
were never heard from again after she was murdered, and
the story was just that from the moment I heard
it as a child. It's always been a story with
very few hard facts, and that always bothered me. So
as someone on the inside, someone directly connected to this
single line of ancestry, I was told the same story
as every drunk in every tavern across the country. So
perhaps the stories are true, and if they are, we
are all in grave danger. And if they aren't, we
are very likely still in grave danger, for the orb
and the armor are still very powerful. Either way, my
father needs to be stopped. We got a name, Solomon,
you know who it is. I only know the name.
Speaker 7: I know that Vossler seems to report to him, as
does the vampire named Stellion, and.
Speaker 2: She frowns for a moment, looks over at Leon. Leon
nods and says the vampire's name was Stellion.
Speaker 7: Indeed, there was another one named Hunter, but not a
full blooded also dead. He's not coming back. Killed a
vampire the spawn, not the full blood Austellian. I believe
he's a member of the Slake, which means what you
thought was true, he says to the princess, and she
nods yes. I believe Solomon is working in league with
my father. Somehow he has.
Speaker 2: Garnered some level of trust, power, and as you say,
influence over the chancellors, all of them, everyone, and Solomon
I believe is a primal. Do you know what a
primal is? Not a clue? Kind of looks across the
group for island on me.
Speaker 9: I'll just shake my head.
Speaker 2: M Well, they're part fable, part history, and from what
I learned, a primal is one of the first of us,
ancient beyond measure, practically gods in their own right, not
quite as Titan. And she nods at your pocket what
you've been tapping. Not quite like Titan. He's a force
like the wind or the tide. The primals are mortals
that discovered the life rituals, and several across the world
of the Krin, I believe, some unknown in the other lands.
Others keep to the shadow, like this Solomon, who stalks us, vampires,
liches dry ads. Perhaps even the elves are said to
be born of the primals. But Solomon, it would appear
we have excellent tastes and enemies. I've never met him
and I don't know who he is why he would
work with my father. I was really hoping that you
would shed more light on it, but I believe you
were just pawns. I honestly believe that if you had
tracked us, you would have died along with us.
Speaker 10: There is something else well, though. The the Chancellor that
revived me and Rajah, an old party member, told me
that she was talking to a face and stone, that
face being Solomon. Well, I don't know if we've been
fold into working with him. There them more because then
they say that the town had disappeared nearby.
Speaker 7: They wanted us to go investigate Safari. I mean, these
are the same people who just told us to take
the armor and bring it back. We have been working
for them the whole time, but I'm getting rather tired
of them trying to kill us repeatedly. We last left
on a deception. We informed the Chancellor we would still
be working with them and heading to Safari because we
knew the meeting place to come find you was between
us and Zafari, So at the very least, we could
head in this direction and make it appear that we're
still working for them. We do have a little bit
of time before the ruse is discovered, but at some
point they're going to realize we didn't actually come out
here to kill you.
Speaker 2: There is nothing at Zafari. The settlement is gone, eaten
by the sand, gone, not a single trace.
Speaker 11: How how can that be?
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna look straight at Walter said, I told
you there were two names. The second name? How do I?
How do I say this? When you've been out here
in the sand. There's a creature that looks like this,
and I'm just gonna rise, is gonna like, open up
the He's gonna open up the freaking monster manual that
he carries around and flip to the sketch of the
sand wraith and show it. There's a creature that looks
like this, like a wraith. It's an undead spirit of wrath.
I'm sure you know them, but this one carries a
lantern with the green flame inside.
Speaker 5: Was that the one that I fought against?
Speaker 7: Yes, it would be the same one. But Roger still
doesn't know you did that because he was out cold.
Speaker 5: Uh oh no, Can I have a look at that?
Speaker 2: This thing?
Speaker 7: My life's mission for the last three years has been
hunting that thing down up until all of this nonsense started.
Speaker 10: Why would you think if I told you I had
well kill him, I wouldn't believe you. I believe I
killed him. But when I just remember eternal darkness, like
nothing around, and then I saw it, it carrying you.
You were wrapped in chains. When was this before them?
Before we woke up?
Speaker 2: While we were I don't remember that at all.
Speaker 5: I was I'm pretty sure I shouted for you.
Speaker 2: I'll look at Walter again, confused.
Speaker 7: Did anything happen when we were out?
Speaker 2: At any rate?
Speaker 7: That raith it appears and it swallows entire towns into
the sand. It's hit several towns. I've been tracking them
on my map, trying to spot a pattern, but so
far that doesn't really seem to be one. Its most
recent victim was Safari. But the last time I saw
the Wraith in person, I was with Walter. We were
following the train tracks and it ambushed us. But it
took on the face of a human man the name
of Sagon Shara. Did you don't know anything about this
creature or that man. I've never heard of sagon Shara,
but I have heard of this thing. A perversion of nature,
no doubt. We don't know what it is, and attempts
to commune with it via nature have proved fruitless. It
seems to mimic Titan in form, as well as its
ability to maneuver. About the sands of dust veil, Why
it's demolishing these villages, and whether somebody is in control.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I have no idea. I hope we don't
encounter it a true time.
Speaker 7: It may or may not have a vendetta.
Speaker 5: I guess that's all long M. I'm looking at the
Princess Titan. M Were you the reason he was summoned? Hmmm?
Speaker 2: I am able to summon Titan to a degree with
the suit alone, combined with the orb, I would be
able to wield its power as if it were my own.
Speaker 10: So why did he pick me up?
Speaker 2: That confused me a little too, I believe when I
attempted to set tighten upon you a fortnight ago, for
which I am now very sorry, it felt the power
of the orb and chose not to follow my command.
Speaker 5: So I'm good. But did I'm confused on how he
knew my last name.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I would not know. It is not something
I have ever conversed with in as much of as words,
more a feeling. I've encountered it a couple of times,
but never spoken directly. Is it spoke to you words?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Like voice in my head kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. The link between Titan and the orb is
far stronger than the link between the armor and Titan
residual magic at best.
Speaker 5: M I just remember there was a sign.
Speaker 2: Designed to control Titan.
Speaker 10: I just remember there was a someone we came into
contact with. She was quite interested on on the tail
of that. We actually haven't been back to see her, so.
Speaker 2: Her name.
Speaker 10: I can't remember the name of the woman in the
Tower tower, the one where I killed Kenneth.
Speaker 2: That was Rain.
Speaker 8: Oh no, wait, oh, that's the one that wanted to
hang out with me, right, yeah, I think so?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 2: What was there more?
Speaker 7: It's been so long, I know, I have it in
my notes that the wizard at the top of the
Wizard Tower in Windy Peaks was Rain.
Speaker 2: That's where that name game.
Speaker 5: It was also the bartender. And then there was a female.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she was on She was on the floor below right, Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. She was working on a giant globe
or something like that.
Speaker 4: For that episode I have There is a wonder Woman
outfit on sale. It sin River, that's useful.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The woman the woman in the Tower of Alcana was
Rain and Texas, Texas was at the top. Rain was
the more warlock type woman. Fexus claimed to be a wizard.
Speaker 7: At least Plas note like, so maybe my notes that
say Rain I meant Fexus.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think her name was Rain or something.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of. A Leon shakes his head. I'm
sure everybody you've encountered who knew of the orb would
have been very interested in any stories either way.
Speaker 6: Not to break up the mood or anything, but we
didn't mention earlier we had two of our companions brought
back from the dead. The Chancellor now has a link
to him. Oh, we worried about that.
Speaker 5: If she's working with the air bios, could she.
Speaker 6: Like spot them or figure out where we are, thus
endangering you and your ninja as you said.
Speaker 2: M Leon pipes up a little more and says, ah, that, honestly,
I thought would be a question for you. You're a
cleric and I know my way around a spell, but
all that bring back from the dead Malachy is not
something I understand.
Speaker 6: I totally understand. I actually couldn't. I could check my
notes here. I the whole day. I actually went through
and just read this book, so I could probably check
my I won't lie. I copied most of it and
wrote my name as the author. It's think of it
as a prophecy.
Speaker 5: Okay, would I know if that?
Speaker 2: Because well, what do you want to know specifically? So
there like fucking philactories can Yes, I don't think you would,
because that element wasn't really in It wasn't really in it.
It was just or any information on what that does.
It's definitely not not in it. It would be under
this section of the spell, which is just like redacted
slash not public knowledge. There's just there's one element of
the spell which just nobody knows, so that not everyone
can just continually cast.
Speaker 4: So we have to go back to the city and
sex the chancellor until she tells us if it works.
Speaker 2: If we have a new quest, I'd have to find
someone who can cast that spell. Yeah, the sex spell,
any spell that would on someone to get them to
tell you the information as long as they have it. Yeah,
Chancellor is the only one that you know. So yeah,
I don't think you would know exactly whether they can
track you through it or not.
Speaker 7: The real question is whether they can just like take
Carlias's hat and rip it in half in just ins
to kill him from anywhere on the planet, because that
would be inconvenient.
Speaker 4: Start flipping Raja in the air, you have, yes, Well, okay,
So I'm looking at my notes here, and I have
a very well drawn version of me just beating up
a lot of Glias and there's a horse nearby.
Speaker 6: And oh look there's Rajah and Carlias and Lash and
I Strings whatever.
Speaker 5: We don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 6: He just left anybody he died.
Speaker 1: He died, they said he died. We buried him two
days ago.
Speaker 6: So Strings is here, just playing his piano like he
always used to. So I don't know about the flactories.
I'm sorry?
Speaker 5: What is wrong with us always dying?
Speaker 2: The dragon born, says the princess.
Speaker 7: Yes, he perished in a cave and shallow scar Was
he not a dragoon?
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 5: Mm hm No, he's a dead un.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 10: Carlos pulls out strings is Dallian necklace.
Speaker 2: This was his mm hm, as was this and I'm
tapping his halbert.
Speaker 5: Yes, fine, we pick up like his pants and his like.
Speaker 8: This was his torch. He loved this lantern a lot.
I took his bag of cow drops.
Speaker 2: Uses.
Speaker 5: Well, it's not rag, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Uh she she says. There's one other thing. Uh, some
of you are marked. I believe the dragon Borne was
one of them too.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I kind of I look at her a
little worried because, uh, mister.
Speaker 5: Uh, he's gonna just like reveal the mark on his chest.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'll look down at my wrist and then look
up at her.
Speaker 5: I don't know where mine was, but I hope it's
now a tramp stamp.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think it was, Honestly, I really think it was.
I think it was. So some of you have so
they're all kind of like tattoos kind of, but they're
that they're not like any particular color. They're kind of
like a like a shine to your skin more than
anything else. They would reflect off of the firelight and
the stars more than anything else. The princess looks to you,
Walter and says and.
Speaker 8: You no, no, no, I just I just kind of
I just kind of got here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what it means. The princess removes
the glove and Leon removes the glove, and they each
hold up their hands, one left, one right, and they
have the mark of Mistra on the back. You don't
all have the mark of Mistra, right, somebody has something
else you have kell I have Mistra on my wrist.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 4: I think it was only me Tuesday and strings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we took Mistra one one for went pain right.
Speaker 2: So most people here have the holy symbol of Mistra,
which is a star basically kind of like a star
in a circle. Two of you have the symbol of
kell b which is like a bony hand holding.
Speaker 7: I'm fairly certain I was alone in the Killimbor circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like one of you went vain.
Speaker 4: Which well, which is I have ever written down as
Kellimbor tattoo?
Speaker 5: No attentionally you have the celery A celery. It was
like a stick celery. I remember that was the description
of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you you went Bane ten because your eyes were.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I have the redis shoe to my eyes.
Speaker 2: That bane, Well, you'll have something different. People who went
mistro got a can trip. I got something else. I
got a plus one a see.
Speaker 5: Okay, so it's a bane tax.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I haven't changed them.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, let's see.
Speaker 4: I think this is the one that gives me the
one D sixth damage. If I move before them in
the first turn in combat, I would.
Speaker 7: Have can trip if I knew that was coming. Yeah,
fair lights, I would have taken green flame. Green flame
blade is my cantrip and then just whacked people would
have been great, terrific.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of.
Speaker 2: Pain, which I can't what it is. Oh, it's the
the celery the celery stick. Yeah, the god of tyranny
has a celery stick. So they have a similar looking
Jesus Christ. She on a left hand, he on the right.
Speaker 10: On the back.
Speaker 5: It's the symbol of the have matching tattoos.
Speaker 2: They have matching tattoos.
Speaker 5: That's cute.
Speaker 1: They're gonna regret that.
Speaker 5: Ye did they write each other's games on it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: At least they don't have celery on their fucking lower back.
Speaker 2: It could be.
Speaker 5: So is it pointing down or pointing sideways? Is my question?
Speaker 2: So much worse definitely pointing down.
Speaker 5: It's my sealery tail. Some might call it a edgie tail.
Speaker 2: They they place gloves back on, and they say, you
dreamed of visiting yoga? Am I correct the old man
with the book mm hmmm. One and the same nope,
mm hmmm. Some of you chose the path of Mistra.
I believe that is the path we now walk.
Speaker 10: Wait the path you guys, will.
Speaker 5: You have.
Speaker 2: Mist then you're on the path of Mistra? That is
all that that means?
Speaker 5: I mean, I was asking them if they were run
it as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, Leon says, uh, I guess so. I don't
really understand it, honestly. Ah, but we've picked a side,
and if you're willing to help us, we've got work
to do.
Speaker 5: I means better than facing.
Speaker 7: The dragon, yester the important part?
Speaker 2: Maybe what do we need to do the dragon? The
Leon looks up at the sky, nervously, looking around now
that he knows there's a dragon.
Speaker 5: Come in.
Speaker 2: But the princess continues to hold your gage. She hasn't
like cracked a smile or anything. If anything, she looks
like she's frowning, scowling at you all. More so than
anything else, we.
Speaker 5: Get that a lot.
Speaker 2: M hm, she says, uh. If we let my father
get this orb, he will bring ruined to dust. I'm
sure of it, and we must stop him at all costs.
And I've come to terms with that, but I'm not
sure about what way to go about it. Our plan
so far has been to take the orb from you
and then take them both to dread Tusk to be destroyed.
The orb cannot be destroyed unless it is either by
the one who crafted it or at the sight it
was born. And unfortunately, Chancellor of Ossler is dead and gone.
So that leads the pilgrimage to dread Tusk.
Speaker 7: Wat Chancellor of Osler is dead. When did that's dead?
When did that happen?
Speaker 2: Well? Wait, as far as I'm aware, his daughter is
now the chancellor that you've met.
Speaker 7: Oh oh, oh you thought you like I thought you
meant the daughter was deceased.
Speaker 2: Oh No, as far as I'm aware she's she's alive
and very well gone.
Speaker 8: Her name is Chancellor blor too. You might want to
not use that for.
Speaker 5: Wait, her name is Chancellor Bsla too.
Speaker 2: Well. Her name is Chancellor Chancellor of Osler.
Speaker 7: Also as well many Additionally, Okay, there's probably a lot
of Boslers.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna I'm gonna start cooking for everyone. By the way,
I'm feeling really useless right now. I'm gonna cook foreveryone.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna continue being useless and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: You start cooking food, and she looks at you in
nods ah, and she says no.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: Chancellor of Vossler the Elder was the one who crafted
the orb, a combination of strange wizarding and divine clerics magic.
He is dead and therefore the enchantment could only be
removed destroyed at dread Tusk. It's not something that we
know precisely out how to do. We have consulted with
many wizards and druids, and we have a druids educated guest.
Speaker 7: Yes, what druids from dread Tusk.
Speaker 2: Druids from all over I count myself among them.
Speaker 1: Now, are you're a druid of dread Tusk.
Speaker 2: Hmm. I suppose technically I am a druid of Lost Stone,
but really I'm just a druid of the land.
Speaker 1: Are they in dread Tusk? Are they rabbid and cannibals?
Speaker 2: Like everyone says, I'm afraid I've never been there, but
would assume not. Okay, as far as I'm aware, it's
just a holy site. But the pilgrimage, of course, is arduous.
But we have a sandwalker now, I'm sure he'll get
us there in one piece. All the way to dread Tusk.
Speaker 7: I mean sure, but that's it's a long walk, pretty
long walk.
Speaker 2: Dread Tusk is the most northeastern point and there is
no real train that goes there. Once you get to
thin June, you take a pilgrimage and a lot of
just like super religious types known as the Zenestrian. They're
like hyper religious people do like a religious pilgrimage there
because basically it's said that Mistra landed there and backhanded
the Empress a couple of generations back while also taking
some damage. Therefore, the God's blood has been spilled there.
So it's just this like hyper holy site, like a mecca,
but lots of crazy people too. The Princess says, we
have an educated guess as to how to remove the
enchantment or destroy the orb. Of course, the issue that
we are finding is that we must also stop my
father at whatever cost. I believe he's gone too far.
I believe he needs to be dethroned, and realistically speaking,
the handful of us here I have a few men
dotted about and now can count you among my allies. Ah,
nowhere near enough of a force to have any chance
of defeating my father. If we use the power of
the armor in the Orb to crush my father, then
we run the risk of it falling into his hands
or of the hands of this Solomon figure, and we
also run the risk of angering Mistra should the stories
be true. So our options seem to be take the
Orb and the armor to dread Tusk, destroy them, and
then travel to the Crimson City and assassinate the Emperor
while next to powerless or and Leon interjects, Or we
take the Princess at full power to the Crimson City
assassinate the Emperor, obviously run the risk of it've fallen
into unwanted hands and risk in the rat But pretty much,
let's be honest securing that we win that fight.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't even take the arm or elsewhere and
just use the ORB.
Speaker 2: Have you tried using the ORB to control Titan in
a city? Not personally No, as far as I'm aware,
it's extremely unpredictable, extremely difficult, the armor was crafted to
control the power of Titan. He's a wild forces.
Speaker 7: The only thing we've tried to do with the orbs
so far was put a bullet in this. We never
tried using it. I presume it didn't work. It's quite durable.
It's what we've learned. Or cuteted off like a son
of a gun.
Speaker 1: What would have happened if we did break it?
Speaker 2: I do not know. I honestly don't believe it's possible
unless we take it to the site of Dread task
an attempt to destroy it there.
Speaker 7: So the plan of going to the Crimson City and
using the orbany what is.
Speaker 10: A collias looking at the princess. I don't suppose you'd
know if, Like if it's a uncommon thing for Titan
to really talk to anyone.
Speaker 2: Not sure, though, I have encountered Titan two times personally
and have never conversed spoken word with it. Hmm.
Speaker 10: Do you think it'll be worth trying to summon him now?
Speaker 2: She looks at Leon, Leon looks back, and they both
look at you.
Speaker 13: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I suppose you can try. But again, Titan is a
destructive force. It is not.
Speaker 5: No. Oh, I know that I felt his grip around me.
Speaker 2: For all we know, Titan and this thing that's pulling
settlements into the ground are one and the same. I
would say it's not to be trifled with. I would
advise against it. But if you believe it is the
best course to attaining information, then by all means we
can attempt it.
Speaker 7: I feel like if we're going to do such a thing,
we should do it farther from shallow scar. Yeah, if
we make a scene this closely would track us.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's always a possibility that we can do, right.
Speaker 1: Why not in the faery the city's already gone. No
one would care, right.
Speaker 2: Good point, No one there to endanger. That is, of course,
if we're going that way.
Speaker 10: If we can converse with Titan, then we may get
more information on how to destroy the ORB. I mean,
if Titans his own being, I'm sure he doesn't want
to be, you know, forever whipped by this orb and armor.
Speaker 2: That is true, And I am honestly loath to shackle
him and to abuse the power of the ORB and
the armor to use him for mortal gains. But at
this point I see no other way.
Speaker 7: This plan of taking the armor and ORB to the
Crimson city to engage in a battle against the emperor.
It seems like suicide to me. You say, they have
this primal creature Solomon, plus an unknown number of incredibly
powerful vampires. Plus we know that they have at least
enough influence to command a dragon to cease its pursuit.
Who knows if they could call on him for assistance
as well. My point is they have a lot of
very powerful figures all consolidated there. We would have exactly one.
I worry that the one would be overrun by the many.
Speaker 2: I was rather banking on the power of Titan to
be enough to overwhelm them. If it is enough, truly
to strike out at a god cause damage, it should
be enough to control any number of mortals, even a primal,
or at least.
Speaker 5: That's maybe more to it than just controling Titan.
Speaker 2: Though then we do not attack, truthfully, I would rather
destroy them. Leon and the Wizards they advised using the
power now while we have it.
Speaker 1: Uh, why not.
Speaker 8: Get allies in Crimson City. We you've got the five
of us. We can we can go and secure allies.
Speaker 1: We can.
Speaker 2: We can do the groundwork. The princess kind of looks
around at the ninjas, and says there are a total
of sixteen in my party. Four are out scouting towns
for allies as we speak. Most of them make up
my childhood friends, palace serving staff, and travelers that we've
found on our journey so far. These are all the
allies I have been able to garner from Crimson City
and beyond. However, I had considered sending a message to
those who I believe I might be able to trust.
There are two people of influence who are a gamble
at best.
Speaker 6: Well, should we go and recruit more our allies, then
we have enough of just this.
Speaker 2: You need to try like an army army well with
the orb in theory, I would become a walking army,
more powerful than any army. My father could amass Dragoon's
slake the palace god.
Speaker 10: And then you risk the the off chance of pissing
off the guards. Not guard gods, of course, I think
is what it may be better to do is have
an army of well, forming a rebellion. Get the people
on our side. People can help distract to the guards
in the city. The streets will be failed with all
of them.
Speaker 2: This is the rebellion.
Speaker 5: I'm saying enlarge it to the people.
Speaker 2: Though I'm not sure how you would get such a
message out before we are crushed. The influence every chancellor,
every god on my father's payroll, well, the.
Speaker 1: Common people.
Speaker 7: The the common people are going to help us fight
dragons and vampires and ghosts.
Speaker 2: I view insight riots.
Speaker 6: Then yeah, there's distractions. And then is it a distraction
or is it just sacrificing a many the plebeians if
you will.
Speaker 10: If many great people have to die to protect the future.
Speaker 7: If anything, it sounds like we would just be using
them as very brief decoys. I think our best bet
is to avoid open conflict.
Speaker 2: If we can.
Speaker 7: Send in just a small number of people under cover
try to remove the emperor quietly, or we could take
the other approach with the orb. At this point, I'm
starting to believe it doesn't matter too much which way
we go about it, because either way is going to
risk death of all of us.
Speaker 2: I like the quiet approach we sneak in, of course
you do. I'm not sure how one would assassinate the emperor.
I am quite convinced that many have tried and failed.
Most likely skilled assassins is very well protected. The elite
palace guard, of which Leon was one alone. Ah, not
just fighters. Leon himself is a sanctioned wizard.
Speaker 10: Wondering And if they're over prepared, I mean, think about it,
they're preparing for the worst when the simplest of things
could slip under their nose.
Speaker 2: You suggest sending in a single assassin.
Speaker 5: No, no, hear me out. Hear me out.
Speaker 10: It's going to sound like a crazy idea. But imagine,
I'm guessing the Emperor has you know, cooks and servants
and things working for him, right of course, many imagine
if someone was to infiltrate that, kill them from the
inside out.
Speaker 2: I can cook, And how do you propose to do this?
I knew almost all of the serving staff by name face.
I'm sure Father is not quite as friendly with the
staff as I am, but you will know more of.
Speaker 7: Them if we found one to replace. We have someone
here as good at changing faces. I'm looking over at Arden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can just figure out.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at La.
Speaker 14: Mhm.
Speaker 1: I mean, why not just go there and figure something out?
We can. We can.
Speaker 5: Wing it.
Speaker 2: All We've done luck. It's a point.
Speaker 10: I don't think dumb Luck's gonna help us too much, though,
it'll run out eventually.
Speaker 6: Well, as long as we have diamonds worth a certain amount,
it's dumb luck seems to continue.
Speaker 7: Well, it sounds like we have a lot of information
to sift through and make a decision. Perhaps we should
just wait till morning. We've been on foot for a
long time and we're still kind of beat up from
fighting a vampire. Yes, that though, two Sandwalkers were dispatched
as Zafari as Zafari before.
Speaker 2: We were in.
Speaker 7: All the time you've been monitoring this area, did you
see them come or go?
Speaker 2: I'm afraid we did not. We've seen nobody but the wizards.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I fear we arrived at Safari too late.
Speaker 7: There is a rumor of a cell sword in Crimson
City who claims he survived one of these disappearing towns.
Maybe we could go try to find him.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. While I am curious and afraid for what this
wraith can do, it is not my priority right now.
I should I see the throne from my father, it
will be my priority to investigate.
Speaker 7: I'm simply more concerned that that is the creature who's
domain we are currently crossing, and thus it may become
a priority if it tries to track us across the
desert while we're traveling. I don't believe the Wraith is
related to Solomon or your father in any way, because
this was a threat that existed before all of this started,
at least by my memory.
Speaker 2: As far as I'm aware, Solomon has existed before all
of us, before possibly even the land itself.
Speaker 7: Well, let me rephrase, not older than Solomon, but.
Speaker 2: Older than this.
Speaker 7: Fiesta we've been involved in for the past couple of weeks.
I first think outed that years ago, so it would
have had no reason to come after me back then.
The point is, I don't think it's taking orders from
Solomon or your father. It's a separate threat. Should we
call it a knife? Discuss this in the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm already going around feeding everyone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the princess like Anxi. You for the for
the food, accepts it, Leon accepts it. A handful of
the ninja's come in, grab a little grab, a little bite,
and arrest tagging in and out the watch and yeah,
you guys can take a rest and we'll take a
rest too, a break as you can let in and
you get this, Yeah, the long rest and you're scared
I was going to fucking hit you with something.
Speaker 8: Waiting for a long I'm a wizard or I'm a sorcerer. Man,
there's reliant on before we go.
Speaker 5: To a rest. Could Carols speak to the Princess real
quid after the break.
Speaker 2: Carlias will speak to the Prince. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Three to five guys, Thanks.
Speaker 10: For about what you're thinking of getting the gutter.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody to Dust Fail or killing the Princess.
I jacked the Princess zeph strike.
Speaker 8: The Princess zer strike, the princess rebellions ended, Bucco.
Speaker 2: You guys, take her armor, put it on, put the
orbit in, and just I am fully aware of that
being an option as well. I don't think I wasn't
set there like they're just going to joke in ja
Jay's going to fucking go in. It'd be interesting that
that would be an interesting option.
Speaker 10: Carlias saw Walter's hand just lift up, just a gunshot.
Speaker 5: Straight up.
Speaker 2: So you guys have met with the princess. You've discussed
the more obvious and important points about what's been going
on around you for the last twenty five chapters of
Dust Veal. Then you've got a little bit more insight
as to what the fuck is going on, the political strife,
the religious strife, and the shadowy figures, and the reason
for the existence of the orb, what your purpose with
it was, the job, the initial basic job of take
this thing to a and then take this thing to be.
Speaker 10: Was about.
Speaker 2: She came up with two plans, or at least she
she explained what their plan was realistically speaking, And as
you guys settled down for the evening, the the princess
places the helmet on, rolls over and has a little
sleepy I want to talk. She's fucking tired. Oh yeah, yeah,
So I was going to say, you guys a free
Leon Leon Leon and the other ninjas are just prowling about. Uh,
but you guys are free to discuss in out of
character what you want to do. This is a this
is like the Ockham's razor. Here is a pinnacle point.
But as she sort of maybe I'm going to get
some sleep. It's been a very hold answer.
Speaker 7: Yes, a question that has been kind of lingering in
the back of my mind since that first day that
we met.
Speaker 10: Technically, did my bullet actually hit you?
Speaker 2: She She looks down and points at the armor, and
there's a there's a chink, a little lots of it
is similar to chain mail, and one of them, one
of the links is missing and there's a very small hole.
And she looks down at it and says, why, yes,
you did, and I've yet to find anybody who can
fix it, and Leon, Leon calls it my achilles heel. Now,
so thank you for that as a very small, very
small hole. But there are other weaknesses in this armor.
As incredible as it is, it's not perfect.
Speaker 10: Kind of reminds me of an old story of a
dragon one of the scales get hit off and kind
a certain arrow. Anyway, sorry about that.
Speaker 2: Well, it was quite the shot.
Speaker 10: I mean, does the armor take downage easily or.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: It I've seen it deflect swords and we've tested it
to a degree a Generally speaking, it does not. But
the links the areas of joins are a little weaker
than the more covered areas of plate.
Speaker 5: Mhmm.
Speaker 10: I guess I was a lucky shot, but perhaps I'm
sure you can understand the circumstance, saying, titan appears and
we noticed three figures.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's quite fine. I was very much trying
to kill you myself.
Speaker 10: Wow, that's a lovely think about. It feels like everyone
is trying.
Speaker 2: To kill us. Leon Beyonce chirps up from a little
ways away. Yeah, well, to be fair, we thought you
were basically banned its hired to just kill us cut throats.
I didn't even think any of you could speak proper, properly, properly.
Speaker 10: I'm offended, but you're right, one of them couldn't talk
at all.
Speaker 2: Well, dust under the bridge, mate.
Speaker 10: He pulls his thing back up and Carlasgow tip his hat,
but then he realizes, yet again, doesn't have a freaking hat.
Speaker 2: The princess says, if you don't mind, I'd like to sleep.
I've been awake for forty nine hours.
Speaker 10: Well let's hope you don't sleep for forty eight Are
you a twitch streamer? Gee?
Speaker 2: Put the hat back on.
Speaker 5: What's the tip? What's the streamer? Freddy slip tits streamers?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What are you guys going to do? What do you
want to do with that?
Speaker 1: I'll probably gonna give them some food? And so.
Speaker 2: What do we what do we do? What do we am? I?
Speaker 15: Yeah, we could try to we could try to sneak
in and then if it.
Speaker 2: Doesn't work out. We have the princess, perhaps we vote us.
Speaker 7: You guys have better ideas. I personally think that going
directly to the Crimson City and essentially declaring war, unleashing
the princess with the empowered armor and Orb's basically suicide.
Even if she is so strong that they can't kill her,
that could still kill the rest of us, and who
knows how many other people get caught up in the crossfire.
Speaker 11: So I think I'm quiet, Well, where can we gather allies?
Speaker 9: I mean, so far.
Speaker 7: Anything about gathering allies? It would essentially just be us
and her supercharged armor, if you will.
Speaker 1: But she needs allies when she becomes queen.
Speaker 7: Right, so if she successfully kills the emperor, she would
be the next in line for the throne. By right,
she would have a lot of allies because she'd have
the strongest claim to the throne.
Speaker 1: So we just do the dirty work.
Speaker 7: Welcome to my entire life?
Speaker 8: Am I allowed to do that? I don't have the
the thing you guys, you met a god. I didn't
meet a god.
Speaker 7: I met the wrong one. I'll hold up the symbol
of kalim Bor.
Speaker 10: What would you said when Carlis was dead, that he
saw the mask of Kalimbour and the gnome, right, yep,
and that would be general knowledge.
Speaker 2: H yeah, yeah, you would have seen some vision that represented.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because I remember he said, like you remind me
of an old friend or something. Mm hmm, wait, Gasha,
that's a sign of kalim borrec hi it is? It
would be crazy if I had met him as well?
Speaker 7: I met him how when also go back a few
what were you saying about the Wraith? Also, I suppose
it's gone on long enough I should let you all
know what we may potentially be up against.
Speaker 2: Is just another.
Speaker 7: Side note on our journey, aside from the dragon and
the vampires and all the other fun little bits and
pieces will have to deal with. Wait, hold on, did
I ever sit down with the party and explain what
the Wraith is? Or have I not done that yet?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think we Yeah, yeah, I don't think
he's ever done it. So he'll do it then, And
I'm not going to sit there and tell his whole
backstory in character because it takes a long but essentially,
the uh, the Raith swallowed Raja's hometown, so he's been
hunting it, and he at this point, he'll just go
ahead and fill you all in that this wraith comes
up out of the desert that swallows town's whole, and
the wraith is responsible for the disappearance of Raja's town.
So he's kind of pissed at it, and he's been
hunting it for years. I think that's all he's going
to share. I'm just doing the accelerated version instead of
just dragging out even more talking because we've been talking
for like two hours now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So.
Speaker 10: I guess after, you know, it's a really weird thing
to say I died anyone else with that way, like regardless,
I guess after I died, I just I woke up
surrounded by darkness and I could still see, you know,
I still see my hands and things, but I just
didn't see anything else. And then I saw the wraith
he was carrying. You. I ended up shouting towards it
and didn't like that going to a fight son of
a gun actually hurt a lot, like a hell of
a lot. And then I tried to call out to
mister I've been instead of a little figure of the
mask appeared.
Speaker 7: Maybe I have a guardian angel after all. Well, what
you're saying is true, Thank you.
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 10: He also threw me and Carla is going to ruffle
the medallion. U huh, I guess this is what he
threw at me?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 10: The medallion I've been asking about. I found it on
my body when I woke up, but I didn't know
what it was. And looking back, now was what he
threw at me? Said, I reminded reminded him of someone.
Speaker 7: But I'm afraid I don't know anything about the medallion.
Speaker 5: M Maybe there's more than just tighten watching over us
at this point.
Speaker 16: Well then, I don't know about you, guys, but it's
been a long day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we should We should sleep, right, we should sleep.
Speaker 1: That's we should sleep.
Speaker 5: Anyone's thinking of taking a watch with the hinjas.
Speaker 6: Or anything, well I will, of course, because I have
a plan.
Speaker 5: You remember the La France man.
Speaker 4: What if we find him into the desert, I'm just
gonna I've already walked off. I'm devising a plan on
how to find him.
Speaker 11: Haven't you caused enough trouble?
Speaker 2: Get back here?
Speaker 5: There's never enough trouble when Arden is in wait.
Speaker 10: That's a good thing, all right?
Speaker 5: Going to sleep.
Speaker 9: You can't just go wandering off.
Speaker 15: You're gonna drag something back and and you're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm fairly certain there's nothing and no one
for miles in any direction, and somehow you all managed
to be noisy enough that they're going to find us.
Speaker 9: Anyway, I'll take a queue from Raja and just kind
of drag my cloak over myself and lay down on
one of the carpets.
Speaker 2: Everyone just going for a little sleep.
Speaker 1: Pay yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Lovely job late. Everyone has a little sleep, pain a
nice long rest.
Speaker 4: Nothing amazing happens on my watch, spell slots of hi.
Speaker 2: Thank God, Uh, nothing amazing, Alda one. I was just
gonna hit the camp with.
Speaker 7: The fucking the wraith just pops up and swallows the
camp and the campaign is so.
Speaker 2: The very next day.
Speaker 7: Brad, I have I have meant to ask because I
wanted to be careful about referencing stuff, because I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2: First off, you had.
Speaker 7: A character, and I can't remember who it was or
when now because I didn't take throwing up notes. Someone
told me that Soak and Shahrah would go to tread
Tusk Okay, And now that I have seen, and I
can't remember which NPC you had tell me that I
think it was someone in the Wizard Tower and Windy
Peaks maybe.
Speaker 2: Mm hm, yeah, that would trust.
Speaker 7: Right, But they'd also didn't really have much reason to
lie about it. And now that I have seen that
the rape has the same face as he does, and
Raja is thinking they might be the same person, I don't.
I'm losing my train of thought because I'm exhausted.
Speaker 2: It makes you want to go to dread task.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking Rajia would probably want to go to dread task.
I'm just I'm trying not to derail the main story
with character background stuff Like I don't want to like
have my the point to have your own character backstory
derail the plot that is basically D and D in
a nutshell.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, on the one hand, yeah, if you
think it's a strong enough clue or whatever, then you're
free to just be like, I'm off, I'm going to
dread task if anyone, like if if the majority of
people are like we're going left and one person is
going right, I sort of take that as a as
a retiring of a character or like temper retirement pretty
much like you did with Vasilius, where you were gone,
because it's just impossible to run the campaign that way, right,
Are you free to do it? On the other hand,
these a lot of going to dread Tusk anyway potentially,
so uh yeah. I mean it's one of those things
where this is just down to you and how you
think your character would approach the situation. I'm not even
sure what question your answering.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: I think what I was trying to ask was which
PC had told me that. Oh I don't I can't
remember what the NPC was exactly. I mean, there were
only four NPCs in the tower. There was Crackled the Goblin,
there was the Drow bartender that gave you the draw
Woo Woo recipe. Now liquid I remember now, now I
remember what And I think it was Fexus, because you
asked Fexus about the.
Speaker 5: The Wraith.
Speaker 2: Or about seg You asked if somebody called Sagan Shara
had been here, and he said, oh, yeah, they were
here like a few days ago. And he went out
town to do a thing. And I asked him where
was he heading?
Speaker 7: And then he said, dread Tusk man same place they
all go yeah, something along those lines.
Speaker 2: Time. Yeah, exactly what it was. But yeah, I not
now I remember what. I know you were saying that
your character would just be like I'm out, I'm going
to dread Tusk regardless of what you do. I don't
I know. I'm trying to avoid derailing the campaign. Yeah, sorry,
you were asking them what would happen?
Speaker 7: No, my question was because I had written some stuff
into like Roger's journal. But I also understand that I
handed you like eighteen pages of backstory, so.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you didn't read it all. I think I
read it all, but I don't think I memorized it all.
Speaker 7: So I'm trying to be careful of referencing stuff that
I wrote into existence without confirming with you that it
actually exists. Because one of the things that I had
in there was that there was a a mercenary in
the Crimson City had was claiming to have survived one
of these rate attacks that had gotten out somehow. So
I wanted to I basically wanted to confirm that that
actually can exist before I factored that into my decision making.
Speaker 2: I think it is a thing that exists. Let me
just check here. I think I have a fucking character
somewhere in here that's a swordsman something Crimson City. Now
I think it is legit. I think I think I
definitely wrote that in I just can't remember where I
wrote it in MPC's list. I have an MPC's list, apparently.
Speaker 8: Jes fair lights, NPCs, have you seen well, I mean,
that's backstory for you.
Speaker 7: Right At some point before this campaign is over, I'm
gonna just have Brad like hand out Raja's journal as
a handout, so you guys exactly how much I put
into the writing beforehand and why it starts to get
hard to keep track.
Speaker 2: Of all the stuff that's going on.
Speaker 7: I have like a whole second party made like his
former former DM.
Speaker 2: His former teammates are like a whole other party.
Speaker 4: I mean, at all fairness, you have a reason to
forget your backstory. When when my backstory character showed up
in the Last City, I was like, you're like, yeah,
blah blah blah, there.
Speaker 5: Arden what.
Speaker 9: You should care about.
Speaker 5: OK, not baying attention. Oh that's my character. Oh yeah,
at least you have a reason sometimes forget.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to see I want to see the
but I definitely because I saw it earlier on, I
have a fucking character that I just wrote somewhere that
is like, oh, is this him? Hang on, I've got liquid,
who's a nomos who created the Iron Cog? Yeah, I
don't know why this is such a fucking mess. I
one have and I didn't know who it was until
this moment. A fucking NPC that I had just written
down on one of my fucking pages of notes that
are clearly way to have too much of a mess.
But that is just it just says swordsman next to
his name, and I was like.
Speaker 5: Great, who the fuck is that nielding.
Speaker 2: Someone else's thing? Then that's probably your dude that I
wrote down, and I have a name for him, and
I'm just trying to find it. Why do you need
it right now?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, then then.
Speaker 7: I just want to basically, I don't want to have
my character act on a lead that you haven't actually
verified exists in this universe, because I didn't want to
be like, well, I wrote it in my backstory, so
it has to be true, because.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm pretty flexible with that anyway, unless you're like,
I actually had a Converse station with all the gods.
Speaker 7: I also had a treasure chest here with a plus
ten longbow inside.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm generally more than happy for you to flesh
out the massive cities of people and help me create NPCs.
So yeah, I do, and I will find his name
for you. I don't know why I fucking don't have it.
Speaker 7: I mean, we're probably not going to the Crimson City anyway.
I was just curious if he was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean there is that lead does exist. Okay,
you good got a plan yet?
Speaker 7: Well, the thing is, at this point, it's like I
for to me, I have a reason to be in
dread Tusk, and I have a reason to go to
the Crimson City. So I don't care which one we
go to, like from a character personal standpoint. So as
far as what the heck we're gonna do with the
armor in the orb, I have the slightest clue. Oh
I'm still interested to see if I literally just.
Speaker 2: Wrote Crimson City swordsman. I thought I gave him a
fucking name and everything, but I didn't. There you go,
there's a swordsman in Crimson City who claims who claims
to have done all this bullshit.
Speaker 10: Uh, I'll you interested to see what Titan like, what
would happen with Titan if we summoned him here?
Speaker 2: Probably a fight as per usual over there. We have
summoned you, so we could fight here.
Speaker 1: Well, he would probably fight immediately, just because.
Speaker 5: I mean, we have the armor plus the art working
in union.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, Okay, I was gonna intercheck, but
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Go go ahead, no, go ahead, go please do no, no,
They're just gonna randomly give you some me knowledge because
I'm done.
Speaker 1: Please do whatever you want. I'd probably ask the Princess
should we should we test the the armor or.
Speaker 2: In what sense? I've tested it in many ways. It's
very strong, covers almost my entire body, and it allows
me to move very freely. It's extremely light.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but with with the orb though.
Speaker 2: Oh well no, ideally.
Speaker 1: Rather not.
Speaker 2: There are many pitfalls to it, one being that we
could destroy the entirety of dust vol simply by harnessing
the power of Titan once again. A two. It goes
against everything that I stand for as a Druid and
as one of the land. And if it goes wrong,
who knows what untold damage could be wrought. I really
would like to know, and I understand that testing it
is privy, especially if we plan to take on any
of my father's men. But it's an extremely, extremely powerful weapon.
Speaker 10: Sometimes in dire need, entire actions need to be taken.
Speaker 7: Speaking of incredibly powerful weapons, did that vampire not mentioned
that he knew how to afford some sort of a
bullet that could kill anything?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 10: He didn't look like a gunsling or tag, but that
would be interesting. And I don't suppose the like pointed over
to the princess and they are don't suppose you guys
know of a bullet of what was the name of
the bullet?
Speaker 2: He said, Excalibur? It was the EXCaliber bullet. What do
you think it was gonna be a toll war?
Speaker 10: Off?
Speaker 7: I'm not that much of a well, I didn't say anything,
what are you on the But.
Speaker 2: I'm just looking at everyone else. Everyone's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was more laughing at you.
Speaker 7: You put a toll war in the fighting pit bread,
So I don't want to hear.
Speaker 2: There's some fucking good toll wars out there, don't you
worry about that.
Speaker 7: I'm going to presume I'm not the only person on
the entire continent that uses a tollar.
Speaker 2: Lot of people to use toll was because you made
it that way by introducing it. It now is a
thing that just is a dust feil thing added to the.
Speaker 10: Carl is going to ask the princess, don't suppose you
heard of it?
Speaker 5: Bullet of an EXCaliber?
Speaker 2: She literally makes that noise. I know almost nothing about
gunsmithing and your ways. We don't have a single gun
slinger with.
Speaker 10: Us, and now you do. But apparently that Stollian vampire
know how to make a bullet of EXCaliber.
Speaker 2: Well, that does sound like something that would interest a gunslinger,
and a very charming vampire might try to sway one's
opinions with such things. If it exists, then I'm afraid
I'd never heard of it.
Speaker 7: Pardon the interruption, but what's the next caliber?
Speaker 2: The name of the bullet that this gentleman is speaking of.
I assumed honestly that you knew. I was merely referencing
its name.
Speaker 5: Never heard of it, never heard of it?
Speaker 10: Horror. I don't know what it does, but I'm highly interested.
Speaker 2: I would not put too much stock into the words
of our enemy, who is also a vampire.
Speaker 7: That's a wise suggestion, I would say, at some given point,
we should try to get our hands on something that's
a little bit more effective against these undeads. It seems
like they have a lot of Aside from the vampires,
we've also encountered zombies, ghosts, and other things in their
employ Most of they shrug off steel.
Speaker 2: But I suppose I can wait. We too have encountered
creatures which our weapons do not work very well against,
and we'd been advised to silver our blades, which was
on our list of things to do when we find
the gold. Of course, I wonder.
Speaker 11: If I can get silver tipped arrows.
Speaker 2: M I'm sure it's possible, pay the right price, find
the right merchant.
Speaker 7: All right, then I think it's decision time.
Speaker 2: Lash.
Speaker 7: What do you think should we go to dread Tusk
and try to destroy the armor. We'll go to the
city and either assassinate or confront the emperor.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, this is this is a lot
like I know.
Speaker 11: I was just we how do we decide something this big?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to save you. I didn't want to
kill an emperor.
Speaker 2: Walter.
Speaker 7: You're welcome to walk away if it's getting in a
be ahead. I understand this isn't your problem.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I mean I want, I want to help.
It's just we there's only.
Speaker 2: You want to help, but you don't want to commit
high treason.
Speaker 1: There's seventeen of us. Yeah, fuck high treason treason.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: They killed everyone I know, I don't. I don't give
a shit. It's just there's seventeen of us.
Speaker 8: I'm sure we can see Crimson City from like most
of Dustville right from from the map.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's gargantuit.
Speaker 2: It's very big. Yeah, I don't know if you'd see
it necessarily that it's it's inlaid into or yeah, I
mean you're on one side of those mountains there, Okay,
will we not see the spires or anything?
Speaker 8: Or because I would just point at the mountains and
be like, they have there's nothing that.
Speaker 2: Tall that there is a lot is a fucking huge city.
It's completely different everything here. And there is a lot
of like huge buildings and it has walls and ship
like that. And you probably would say it far away,
but not right where you are.
Speaker 8: We can they have they have a whole city, they
have a whole army. There's there's only seventeen of us,
and there's only one emperor.
Speaker 15: Okay, if we have a chance to destroy this, that
might be. That might be for the best, because it
might not always fall into good hands.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna turn to the princess and ask her, if
we're successful in destroying both the armor and the ORB,
what does that leave for the emperor If if these
items are destroyed, his plan is completely shot.
Speaker 2: It's the end of it. His plan is shot. Yes,
but we still have a tyrant on the throne, and
that is why I have been suggesting that we destroy
the orb destroy the armor. I'd rather see a tyrant
on the throne with as little power as possible than
myself on the throne.
Speaker 11: Or I agree, what if we did both, That is
a possibility, But I think we should do what the
Princess suggests first.
Speaker 9: I think we should destroy the armor and the orb.
Speaker 14: The armor in the orb being used together could potentially
end all life as we know it and blow up
the whole continent. I think we go get rid of
the major threat first, and afterwards we see about killing
this emperor. I agree, so dread Tusk.
Speaker 7: I know this is rather old fashioned, but I.
Speaker 14: Thought for dread Tusk, unlust you guys have a better idea.
Speaker 2: Princess raises a hand.
Speaker 6: I mean it sounds good enough to me.
Speaker 10: Sure, yeah, I'll go where you got, Carlias, sounds like
the plan we're growing with.
Speaker 2: All right, we have a course of action, then, I agreed.
Leon kind of huffs a little bit, but doesn't say anything.
Crosses his arms you disapprove. The truth is, I think
we're all going to die, and I'd rather try and
take that son of a bitch out when then we
have a shot of ridding the entire realm of the
scourge of his corruption.
Speaker 5: We'll do that corruption.
Speaker 7: We can still do that without the armor. We'll just
have to be a lot more careful how we go
about doing it. Instead of wading through the front door,
try looking at it from the opposite perspective. We go there,
try to use the armor as a weapon, and the
attack fails. He then has everything he's ever wanted. And
you've not just failed, you've failed spectacularly. At least this
is the only chance that we have, at the very least,
If we destroy the armor and the orb, we'll just
have the same crappy emperor we've had since forever, won't
being the end of life as we know it.
Speaker 2: It'll be in our lives. I Reckon crosses his arms.
I'll do whatever. The princess says. Well, you're not entirely wrong,
but it looks like.
Speaker 7: The course has been set.
Speaker 11: Are we all agreed?
Speaker 5: Then, m.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Walter, you have something to say.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm totally okay with everything, But can we just
stop by Yellow Rock real quick?
Speaker 2: I've got it. I made a promise.
Speaker 8: Just some wizards yellow Rock, just just just a quick start.
Speaker 1: I just is that okay?
Speaker 11: We need to I want to yellow Rock.
Speaker 2: M hang on, we were actually camped at yellow Rock
for some time. If your wizards are there, they may
not be anymore, but of course you're welcome to see
it is of course a ruin.
Speaker 5: Well we need them, we have to see them.
Speaker 2: Oh, Yellow Rock was destroyed years ago. Truthfully, I believe
it was purged by one of the chancellors in a
bit to steal the children.
Speaker 7: I was there after the raid. I've seen it myself.
Damaged buildings, all the valuables removed, scratch marks and burn
marks everywhere, but of all the corpses, only adult skeletons.
I think they kidnapped the children and turn them all
into water makers.
Speaker 2: Yes, or palace servants in some cases, And the princess
looks at one of the ninjas are relatively short looking
obviously female one, but kind of shifts uncomfortably, and the
princess says, yes, they do it a lot the chance
the emperor himself. It's cheaper to send in the dragoons
than it is to ask, purchase and pay for people's time.
If you find an orphan, well, you can give them
a home and you've paid your dues. Anyway, that's just
part of the corruption and corruption that Leon is talking about.
And if by some miracle we're successful, I will be
doing my part to rid this land of that. But
I'm getting ahead of myself to dread us. Then do
you think it's better if we travel together or we split?
You take the or b I take the armor. Again,
I don't want us to run a foul of anyone.
Speaker 10: And.
Speaker 7: Would probably be safer to travel separately. A smaller group
attracts less attention, But we need some means of getting
in contact in the event that emergency arises.
Speaker 2: Now that I know how you look, it will be
much easier for us to contact one another. Of course,
in the event of an emergency, Leon is able to
use his magic to teleport a few of us from
place to place. I am able to communicate with certain
beasts animals send messages, as can I. Then I suggest
that would be our course of communication cross great distances.
Perhaps we should set away point before we meet at tread.
Speaker 1: Tusk Sindoun.
Speaker 2: Meet at Sindon thin Doune seems privy. Ideally, I was
hoping to avoid the main settlements, towns and cities. But
I'm sure.
Speaker 1: We'll need supplies. We have to, we have to restock.
Speaker 2: We could ask.
Speaker 7: We could speed up the journey dramatically if we just
headed north, maybe to lost Stone, and took the train.
But then again, the trains are usually carefully monitored.
Speaker 1: We can we can hitch a ride.
Speaker 7: Somehows jump on it as it passes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Actually, that wouldn't be too odd to do.
Speaker 2: They don't move very quickly.
Speaker 6: And we probably know the conductor, so you know that
works well.
Speaker 7: Pray that it's a conductor we know. Can you are
you saying we're gonna come deer a train? Not common
deer just jump on the side of it and hit
your ride, there's guards on it or something. How often
do you see God's posts on the exterior of a train.
It's usually protected just by the one nom conductor.
Speaker 10: And I mean, you really think of holding onto the
side of a train for an extent period of time.
Speaker 5: It would be better to get inside.
Speaker 2: I've done it. It's not that bad. Or climb onto
the roof. You just get on the roof.
Speaker 9: You can probably get in one of the cargo holds.
Speaker 7: You know what, Colass I would think you, of all people,
would have probably done this many times already.
Speaker 10: I don't talk about that, okay. I don't hang on
the side of things. I so you talk my way
into things. You prefer the back door.
Speaker 2: I'm gone, Roger.
Speaker 10: Carla is shooting you are luck like, say one more thing, motherfucker,
I'm gonna kill you myself.
Speaker 8: Could you Leon? Could could you tail pored us to
yellow Rock and then give us a head start?
Speaker 2: Or Leon looks uncomfortable and says, truthfully, I don't like
to use that spell two reasons. One sometimes I send
people where I don't intend to send them, and two
I like to save it for emergencies. So I'm going
to say no and then the Princess interjects and says,
I'm sure we'll be fine. We'll travel by foot for
a day and then we'll frog one another. I'm sure,
send them we'll be fine. Leon No, not doing it.
Speaker 1: But but if we get we get there, we can
we can tell you if it's safe, we can get
on the train. We can meet in thin doom. We
can establish a meeting point before you.
Speaker 2: All yeah, you can give me a persuasion check a
can I stare ominously to give him advantage? Already rolled? Listen,
you ain't getting thin jer in before me. All right,
there's a reason I learned that spell. I'm lazy. I
don't like walking, I don't like running.
Speaker 1: You just said it was for emergencies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also for emergencies, and the Princess nudges him again.
There are allies, and I think if there's an emergency,
we'll be fine. I've got a few spells. You've got
a few spells. We have our friends. Send them. If
there's one place you can easily send them, it's the
place you've been camped at for the last few months.
Speaker 6: All right, do we really need the help? I mean, seriously,
just just you.
Speaker 5: Know, guess it is like one spell. It sounds like
it's kind of sad.
Speaker 2: It's true, yes, so you should listen to him. You
guys have got Sam Walker. We ain't got Sam Walker.
I mean, I mean, watch this scorpion or something.
Speaker 6: Babboty bobby boom boom, and now we just start walking.
Speaker 5: It works.
Speaker 1: What what did you just do?
Speaker 5: Aren't I cast the spell of teleportation?
Speaker 6: It's gonna take like I don't know, ten hours of
walking to work.
Speaker 1: But you know that's that's not a spell. You're just
a suggesting we walk.
Speaker 5: I said an incantation.
Speaker 1: Though, but that's that's not.
Speaker 5: You don't know.
Speaker 2: You're not a cleric buried himself in the sand.
Speaker 7: I just rolled stealth to be that's Roger actually just
starting to walk north because he started of waiting, so
he's just walking quietly away.
Speaker 2: From Leon says listen. I'll do it if you want,
but I'd rather not.
Speaker 6: I just don't want him to like die if he
doesn't have his spell or something.
Speaker 10: Die.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, your farma's dented. Look at it. We
didn't any armor.
Speaker 2: He's got like this leather fucking thing under that's your skin.
It's not really much.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna grab hard it.
Speaker 2: We'll walk, we'll we'll we'll talk. Look, we went for
a particular look because we thought we'd want to hide.
You're going to hide trying to drag them away.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Next time we see I'll tell you about moisturizers.
Speaker 2: All right, I tell you what. We'll see you in
thin Jeane. And if it all goes wrong, try not
give us up.
Speaker 5: It's okay. We have more than one spell.
Speaker 6: If things go wrong, we'll probably be fine.
Speaker 2: The mic drop the yeah, Leon says, I hate them,
they're no longer else. Uh, he says, sure, Yeah, I've
only got one spell and yea, it gives you a
wink garden. The Princess steps forward and sort of like
like bowels half bowels to you each and says, hm hm,
So we can trust one another. Then we're all in
this together.
Speaker 5: Seems like it well, will it will be off? I
guess where's Roger.
Speaker 2: Eighty feet north of.
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: He is he's already started walking.
Speaker 2: Uh she, she says. If for some reason we do
not make it, but you don't hear from us again,
take the orb to dread task destroy it.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, yes, that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck.
Speaker 9: To you as well.
Speaker 5: I just start walking off after Roger.
Speaker 7: I turn around from yellow Rock, where I've already walked
however many miles northeast, and say, are you guys ready yet?
Speaker 4: When I catch up to Raja, I'm just gonna ask
her what the hell is going on? Because I wasn't
paying attention to the entire time they were talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, going on.
Speaker 7: I'll be honest, and I don't really know. We're taking
you off to jed Tusk and destroying it there.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll just pretend like I know what I'm talking
about and just continue.
Speaker 1: Gonna nudge Carlias. Hey, how'd you guys get those? Get
those things?
Speaker 2: Those marks? How do I get one?
Speaker 10: Oh? Honestly, at this point, I've forgotten what caused that
to happen.
Speaker 5: I just remember we woke up.
Speaker 2: And some.
Speaker 5: We are playing.
Speaker 11: All we did was go to sleep.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well sorry Walter. Okay. Also, is is he
even a real cleric?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 1: Who arden? Is he a real cleric at all?
Speaker 15: Of course he is?
Speaker 2: Why do you ask?
Speaker 1: He knows nothing about being a cleric?
Speaker 11: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know how the magic works, well, sure
he does. Does he even make one?
Speaker 2: You're there?
Speaker 1: Well he.
Speaker 10: Water seems to be the one thing he doesn't do well,
He just doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but does he he does? Does he do anything?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 15: You you were there with Stellian and Hunter.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, we want have survived that without Arden. Okay,
you're right, not a real cleric, and I just stalk off.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to ask Raja about natural beauty supplies that
we can harm.
Speaker 7: He's replying by instead telling you about like the closest
equivalents to wild grown marijuana cactus.
Speaker 5: Just rub it on your face.
Speaker 9: Along the way, I'll be asking Raja how we can
get some chazzy. But it's just because I want to
sell it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he would just tell her.
Speaker 7: You basically have to talk them into giving it to you.
Speaker 5: And then.
Speaker 7: The one thing is don't try to just take it right.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 7: Chassi cactus, they may look fairly harmless, but that's only
the part you see sticking out of the sand. Oh dear, Okay,
I've heard the Chassi cactus roots. Their network can extend
for dozens of feet underground.
Speaker 2: Some people, even some.
Speaker 7: People even say that the roots run deep enough underground
that they're all connected to some giant creature that lives
in the core of the earth, and that it's tendrils
moving up throughout the dirt and sand poke their little
heads up, and those are the chassis. I've personally just
never been stupid enough to try fighting one. Did I
tell you I met a sandwalker outside Challoscar who is
going to try and pick a fight with one?
Speaker 15: Well that sounds foolish now.
Speaker 7: Pretty sure I saved his life and he got upseted
me for it.
Speaker 11: Humm, well, if you see Annie, let me know, we.
Speaker 7: Sure could use the cash. Can I roll to see
if I could find any Chazzy? Not like at the
moment she says that, but just for like the next
hour of travel.
Speaker 2: If I'm keeping an eye out for Chazzy. Absolutely, let
me just pull up my drugs every day. It's an
actual I say, when I.
Speaker 1: Wake up in the morning, let me just pull up
my drugs.
Speaker 7: You say you said Chazzy was like the equivalent of
meth in this world, right, these are the drugs available.
Speaker 2: Oh, pulling up drugs. There is light grass, which, to
be honest, is just similar to alcohol out weight. Did
you did you put something down for us to click
on or look at her you just reading, I'm just
telling you, okay. Commonly found, there's devil grass, which is
a purple weed. It gives you a bad acid trip,
and people just fucking sit there and die taking it.
Although apparently some people see into the future with it,
most people don't. They just die. There's chapter which is
similar to cocaine, pretty hard to find. It's a little
easier to find when you're near urban environments, including being
bought give me a survival check to try and find
and kill a chazzy cactus. And then there is the
opious resin, which is pretty much heroin, which is its whole,
whole other thing. You just about do not find any
chazzi on the next hour, but you can continue to
look for it next time all the time after when
when you guys continue on your travel. So there is
like you can do, like basic random drug searching for
drugs on the ground. It's not easy to find. Just
like real life.
Speaker 8: We're never get paid from an actual job. We're going
to make money for selling drugs.
Speaker 2: So here's the Here's the thing, though, is that since
you invented orc coin buying and selling drugs became a
lot more difficult because there's an actual black market where
you can buy and sell drugs. But you can make
a fucking fortune if it's worth a lot that day.
Who knows or coin value? Man up and down.
Speaker 5: Would feel selling drugs.
Speaker 7: I still have the chasita from the beginning of the campaign.
I never sold it.
Speaker 2: You can set you can maybe sell that for a
little bit. It's not as expensive as an ORC coin,
but it can only be sold on the black markets.
You need to find a black market person. Do we
have anyone that speaks?
Speaker 9: That's how we're going to get a coin is we're
going to sell it.
Speaker 7: I speak, and we have carlias with criminal backgrounds, so.
Speaker 2: We'd be able to find a black I do speak
deep speech, there's a so basically you just look around
in cities for buildings and merchants that have like a
little thing written in thieves can to determine that it's
a black market seller as well, and then they'll be like, yeah,
she speaks, thieves can what I'm saying deep speech? No? No, no, no,
deep speech, that's mental. We're gonna go into a fucking
mind flaer for a bit of chat.
Speaker 5: I need some chan.
Speaker 7: We have yeah, we have we have Flash, we have lash,
No thieves can't. We have Carlias's criminal backgrounds. Or I
could just go sit in a tavern because I speak Infernal, Common, Druidic, Dwarfing,
and Elvish.
Speaker 10: So I'll just.
Speaker 2: Go sit.
Speaker 7: In any in any tavern and just listen to every
conversation in the room and wait till someone mentioned something illegal.
Speaker 2: Literally no doubt in my mind that you guys will
achieve anything you want to achieve by sitting in a
tavern for long enough. That is the end of the episode,
because people have got to go somewhere. But one last
little thing as this lot wander off into the beginning
of the day, head across that's that on foot to
yellow Rock. The one of the ninjas standing next to
Leon and Princess Limissa looking watching you guys disappear like
a like that that weird mirage looking heat blur that
happens in deserts. As you guys punch each other and
look around on the ground for drugs. Someone, yes, one
of the smaller ninjas, pulls down her mask and takes
the thing off the top of her head and looks
up to the princess and says, I don't like where
in that it's uncomfortable and it's hot, and it's a young,
like teenage looking teefling girl, sort of a strange two
tone bluish pink skin, very small little horns that come
out poke backwards, and she says before we go, like,
can you just tell me the story again of when
Leon saved you from the palace because it's it's like
the best story ever. And the Princess says, okay, I'll
tell you it one last time, and then we really
do need to go because I think Leon is actually
racing them to thin June, and if he loses, he's
going to be annoying. He's always so annoying when he
loses things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're totally racing.
Speaker 2: And she says, right, sit down, and they sit down
on the thing. She says, two years ago Leon saved me,
and that is where we end today's session. But next
week we do a one shot called two years ago.
Because HJ Tenchi is not it, so you don't get
to play it.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Tenchi, but I mean our has ever involved
anything anyway, So I mean that's regular.
Speaker 2: No one is it's like the lash back, Remember the
lash back, lash back. So we'll go and see what
happened with the princess when she what the fuck? What
the fuck? You know?
Speaker 10: What the fuck?
Speaker 2: I like it, So we'll continue with the main story
in two weeks, but we will be back next week
with chapter twenty six, two years ago. And until then,
thanks for watching. Before we all bounce, before fair Like
falls asleep because he hasn't been asleep for about six years.
The main reason I made the princess and not be
asleep for forty eight hours, just because I thought I
would just make fair Like feel awful remind him that
he'd been awake for so long. We'll do a quick
round of shout outs, and we'll see you next week.
Let's start with Fairlight in case he falls asleep. Where
can people find you?
Speaker 10: You?
Speaker 2: Just like this picture of a toll? Yes? Cool?
Speaker 1: Huh does it come with the text.
Speaker 2: Only fair Like?
Speaker 10: Wait?
Speaker 2: Could you not see it? Yeah? We can see Okay, Uh.
Speaker 7: You can find me over at Twitter dot tv, slash,
fair Light, Underscore, ex Caliber, passing.
Speaker 2: Out on stream every day or just never going to
sleep on stream like you should? He attention not here
next week, So go and follow him so that you
get your fill before we see him in two weeks.
If you're streaming, what are you doing next week?
Speaker 5: Next week?
Speaker 4: You want to be at PAX Week, But I might
be streaming from my I'm gonna bring a PlayStation four
and see if it's actually worth streaming from that, because
it's gonna be a pain in the ASC chat and stuff.
Speaker 5: I assume, Wow, what PlayStation foll is not too bad?
Actually after I'm sure it's not too bad. But you know,
it's like.
Speaker 2: You have an iPad. It's a million miles a million
miles below your usual stream callity.
Speaker 5: I'm sure, but I wish no.
Speaker 4: I just got to get like a phone or something
and look at chat. I just gotta pay to the
chat constantly.
Speaker 2: You can get chat on the screen next to the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but then it shrinks the game down, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yep? Yeah, that is why, which is why I was
saying something like an iPad or.
Speaker 5: To have your chat? Cool?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to figure out a game. Everybod keeps
asking me what game you get a play? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Have you played Donkey Dunky Literature Club yet?
Speaker 4: The most innovative, best RPG, best PC game and whatever
other award.
Speaker 5: It ran for twenty seventeen that game.
Speaker 7: After playing it yesterday, that's pretty good. All of those,
all of those awards individually could be argued for. Yeah,
whether it's deserving to win all categories, I won't.
Speaker 5: I won't play it on principle.
Speaker 4: I I know what the big I know what the
big thing is at all, But I think a four
hour a four hour free visual novel that I don't know.
I've seen twenty apps of the game, grums of it,
and it looks I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it took me eight and a half hours
to beat it, but I was.
Speaker 4: Pretty thom, Okay, so it's longer because I did like
the how long to beat and it was.
Speaker 5: Like four and a half.
Speaker 2: I think, No, it's pretty, it's pretty. It's probably okay.
Speaker 7: It'll be like probably only four hours if you were
playing it by yourself, right, which means you were just
reading at your own reading speed and just clicking immediately
and like you're reading the dialogue. But if you're sitting
there like giving commentary on it or or like voice
acting or anything, that's going to like double the length
of it, just because that's how I don't think.
Speaker 2: You read through each page.
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe I was sitting I was sitting there doing
my best anime WiFi impressions the whole time.
Speaker 2: It's like making it take way longer than it would have.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, talking of taking away longer than it should have.
Let's carry on. Uh, we're finishing a little early today. Anyway.
It's cool Tuesday Gray. Can people find you? Guys?
Speaker 9: I stream sometimes if you want to see it, it's
at forward slash Tuesday Gray on Twitch and Twitter.
Speaker 2: Thanks for watching, easy, say look at that? See that, Tuesday.
How are you so good at this? In every Twitch?
That's why Connor.
Speaker 5: That can be very forward slash Connor. Cronus was the
accent all of a sudden? What what did you just
suddenly put on your.
Speaker 1: Accent Carlias accent?
Speaker 5: Second?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't just say you could just say.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm on t Well, you want Twitch, you want
the carlas kind of you. I honestly at this point
my mind is dead.
Speaker 5: Today too. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I haven't streamed for the past few weeks just because
life is in hell. But I'm hoping that this one
day to be back. So fingers crossed. As long as
nothing else comes along, kicks me in the nuts. I
should be fine, fair.
Speaker 5: Enough, give me your dress. There's a thinker there for
a second.
Speaker 2: There you go and uh, mister Barte Brotati.
Speaker 8: Twitch dot tv slash Forward slash Brotato, I get that right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I got that.
Speaker 8: Neon Scream is back this Friday, so we have our
cyberpunk RPG show coming back this Friday, and then Ilios
should be back this Sunday with an episode very similar
to this. It's going to be love up and then
here's some exposition and that's.
Speaker 2: Going to be the episode. It was a long time coming. Yeah,
I apologize for the very brad dialogue heavy episode.
Speaker 1: Life its great. It was great.
Speaker 2: It's like the first episode of any show when it's
just the DM saying what's happened and who everyone is
and what's the story and the job and the world.
But this the the whole point of this show was
there was this thing going on in the background, and
you always my original plan. Now that we're here and
we've got to this point, and it's just like lines
are drawn and now you're just on the fucking like
the very long but probably final straight the original plan
was to just see if you would honestly pick the
good guys or the bad guys, Like you had the
choice to just join the empire and be fucking fader
as fuck or but or just like not do any
of it and be neutral. So when you were given
the option to pick Mistra Kellen vorm Bain as the symbols,
it wasn't really any It's nothing really more than just
a fucking bullshitty thing. But it was a little like
full shadowy thing of like which which route are they
gonna take? That was one of my intentions with this,
to be fair, if I landed, Yeah, if.
Speaker 7: They hadn't tried to kill us, we probably would have
kept working for the bad guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wound them up and you were very expendable
to them, and those were the two defining factors for them,
like turning on you, and they still he was still
saying to you, like I still want you to work
for me and ship at the end, he was still
up for you to just go back and kill Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I mean he was saying that and then rush
on the way out was like, well tell and she
told us to do yes, So they have this weird
are we doing this, doing this, We're doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so no, but that was the whole thing is
that you were you were realistically you were pawns in
their game, and it's a much larger game than at
first you bargained for or and wanted to even get
yourselves involved in. But yeah, you're The whole thing was
like culminating. But this was going to always be one
of the bigger Brad has to tell you everything that
really has been going on. There's still a lot of
other ship and we'll explore it when we return. Thanks
for watching everyone. I won't do as much chatting shit
next time I might. I'll do it my chat fun.
I'm a fully grown man.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 4: You know what you can't do in Oregon normally pump
your own gas. Yeah, there's a law against it that
they just repealed and people in Oregon are freaking out.
Speaker 5: I don't want to pump my own gas.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to smell like gas now, and it's
people don't know how to pump gas, so maybe it's
gonna be a hazard.
Speaker 5: This is a bad law to pushback.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There, I couldn't even tell you where Oregon was
on a Matt I don't know. It is absolutely random. Unfortunately,
I'm really next to my eyes and that's Oregon. Thanks
so much.
Speaker 7: No one in the US knows where Oregon is either next.
Speaker 2: I lived there.
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