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Speaker 3: Thank you, joy, I suppose we should knock.
Speaker 4: Please do the honors?
Speaker 5: All right, it's NIAU. Yes, lived on one moment, of course.
Take your time. Hm hmm, good evening, Good evening.
Speaker 1: I received your message.
Speaker 4: Yes, it has been a few days since we last talked,
and Professor should be getting in soon. We were hoping
to perhaps have a conversation before your eyes.
Speaker 1: Very well, should I retrieve the Nigi lucuk and Oma
of course, right.
Speaker 6: That's you.
Speaker 4: If you would like, we can meet in one of
the lobbies the way, we have some space to talk,
a lounge.
Speaker 5: Yes, suddenly, very well.
Speaker 1: They gather up the rest of their group begin to
head down to one of the lounges where you are located.
Speaker 4: Once they are settled, I will gesture towards them. Our
intentions are to head towards the Crown of the World.
We will be perhaps making a way through the shutterwood. First.
How have you been finding the last few days?
Speaker 1: Honestly, it has been very peaceful. We have been taking
in the sights of this city. I must say that
it is a rather strange place than what we are
used to.
Speaker 4: Strange to us as well, I think. Can I look
to Yara.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, it is its own charm. I suppose lots
of academia and what not over here. Did you at
least take some time to enjoy the city.
Speaker 1: Yes, the food is quite different, but enjoyable, nonetheless.
Speaker 5: Very so. I suppose we wanted to just touch base. Yes, Acilia,
mm hmm.
Speaker 4: What are your expectations with the travel ahead? You have
a plan or an idea of what is to happen.
Speaker 1: Travel will be difficult. The Crown of the World is
extremely hazardous for those that do not know its ways.
Luckily we have traveled there before. Any camping supplies, any
climbing supplies and cold weather gear that you can acquire
will be most helpful. Food will also be difficult. To
come by. Gathering supplies will assist, but the travel itself
will be dangerous and extremely cold.
Speaker 5: Right so I suppose then the question is some would
you also like to travel together?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, I believe that we can still help each other.
Speaker 4: Very good.
Speaker 5: We may have a little bit of a lead on
the the mappings for some of the shutter wood. Most
there is a cartographer among gatewalkers staying here.
Speaker 1: That is most fortunate. M. Do you know where the
gate is? That?
Speaker 5: I do not think, so.
Speaker 4: You can try to speak with the cartographer and pinpoint
where it might be.
Speaker 1: That will be our first step. Indeed, do you have
an idea of when you would like to leave?
Speaker 5: Well, ideally after we speak with doctor Rittleston. Of course,
he should be returning. I believe on the morrow, hopefully
to you ever take a day M gives us time
to gather our supplies and prepare and whatnot. I suppose.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the doctor, I would like to speak plainly,
if that's all right with you, snow Yowl. We have
been spending some time together, and I think we've been
through much. The road ahead will require trust. So in
the spirit of transparency, the doctor that we're meeting soon
might know more than we do about what is going on.
And I look hesitantly at Yara. You can tell I'm
waiting if I should continue or not.
Speaker 5: I would like to glance around and see if perhaps
any servants or any other of the gate walkers, so
anyone might be lurking around.
Speaker 2: Please make a perception check.
Speaker 5: Twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Yes, so it's pretty late at the moment, you know.
Keeping in mind this, you know older mindset that most
people kind of like wake with the dawn in these times.
It's just kind of like easier to exist at those
times that it's probably like around ten pm. So this
is like usually people are in bed by now in
these kinds of times. So you can see like snowy
Owl is it looks exactly the same as the last time,
doesn't seem bothered at all by the time of day,
and just says please speak plainly as you say. I
sense that there is some reticence on your part.
Speaker 5: I will give a small nod to aus Celia to continue.
Speaker 4: He received a letter from the doctor that encouraged us
to pursue assisting you before you became snowy Owl, to
join with you through the chorus, and mentioned that all
of our questions would be answered with his arrival here.
Speaker 6: To the manner.
Speaker 4: I do not know why he has information. I do
not know how. I just wanted to warn you in
an advance. We might hear things we might not desire.
Speaker 1: Understood. Respect that we will all hear things that we
will struggle with from what you have spoken of with
this doctor. Brittlesen M I am curious how the doctor
knew about me, or should I say, know about Soakawachie.
Speaker 5: I suppose the only thing I can. I mean, it's
possible perhaps someone saw us, but I doubt it. There
are scrying magics and whatnot in existence, Yes, that could
be a possibility.
Speaker 1: Also, just to sort of emphasize this, snowy owls and
the sort of looks mostly like Socca Watchie on the outside,
no glowing eyes, no wings or anything like that. It's
been much toned down. There's definitely a different way that
they are carrying themselves, and I think that's readily apparent
to both of you. But on the outside they don't
look like they have, you know, sort of joined with
a with a god.
Speaker 5: Yes, so it's sort of only people who know how
well or know them well would know that this has happened.
Speaker 4: All right, particle effects are turned down? Yep, yeah, yes, Well,
we wanted to express that there is no deceit on
our part. We are just as uninformed as you are.
But I hope that we discover something that will help
us together.
Speaker 5: Out of curiosity? Did you did any of you speak
with any of the gate walkers or locals around here?
Did you learn anything of the doctor, or of the manner,
or of anything.
Speaker 1: No, we have spent most of our time outside the manor.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 1: It was recommended to me by the rest of my companions,
an opportunity to see a new place.
Speaker 4: It is a good thing to see the world.
Speaker 5: Indeed, there's a lot to learn here and each stad.
Speaker 4: And the places that we come from are only a
small part of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, the world has changed much, a strange but not
unpleasant place.
Speaker 5: Is there anything you wish to ask of us? It
has been sometimes since we have spoken.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I wish to ask is for
your understanding. I know that this may be difficult for
you to comprehend. Sakawachie and Rone together now a snowy owl,
but please know that Sakawachie did so of her own will,
and Roun never wished her any harm and will proceed
their best to protect her.
Speaker 5: Of course, this was of her choosing, so we shall.
I'll be supportive as we can.
Speaker 7: That is all that I ask.
Speaker 2: Very good, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Asia, did you have any other things to touch
on or anything?
Speaker 4: I do not think so. However, I do have a
request in return. Snow we all I ask that put
faith in us, myself and my companions. You want to
do the right thing, and we will help you as
far as we can.
Speaker 1: Soakawachi's faith in you is strong, and from what I
have seen, she has made the right choices.
Speaker 4: It's very kind. It is getting quite late.
Speaker 5: Yes, I suppose we should let you all rest and
try to pick up the pieces on what we have
to prepare for the coming journey. I suppose see if
we can meet with our cartographer friend and whatnot. Yes, progress,
and they have made.
Speaker 2: Your perception check tells you that.
Speaker 1: There was nobody watching while you were having this conversation.
Speaker 5: A nod to our Celia, curtsy to our companions. And
I suppose we're going to try and make our way
over to find our cartographer friend. See if we can
find out about how much longer the map is going
to take and whatnot since he's making a copy.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, so I imagine you've find uh is Sanden
that was her name.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, you would have caught a sndon before he
was heading to bed, and I think, yeah, I think
you would.
Speaker 1: Say that that he would have just given you the
copy of the map at that time.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: He would have.
Speaker 1: Just said, yes, I have it for you. I just
finished it before I was about to head to bed.
Speaker 7: But here you are.
Speaker 5: Thank you. That is quite kind. And we have still
not heard anything on the ghost side of things.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 5: Oh is this not the person we talked to about
the ghost Sacilian?
Speaker 4: So we we did try to find a ghost.
Speaker 5: Well, if you hear anything on ghosts, let us know.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we're starting this person down a line a
new side quest and looking at the map very quickly.
Is there any mark of the Aidara on it?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes there is. I stand in.
Speaker 1: Uh would have definitely made a mark there. Yeah, it's
it's basically east of leap. Its dot in the in
the shadow would kind of like smack dab in the middle.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 4: We did, however, try to investigate the basement as per
your recommendation.
Speaker 1: What did you find?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately? Nothing?
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Well perhaps when the doctor returns you will be able
to find out more.
Speaker 4: Oh, we certainly will ask questions.
Speaker 5: Indeed, looking at.
Speaker 4: This person at the mention of the basement, does their
curiosity and just attention to it seem genuine?
Speaker 2: Make a perception check?
Speaker 1: Okay, Bertie, Yeah, it sort of perked up a little
bit when you when you mentioned it.
Speaker 2: Definitely seems to be curious.
Speaker 4: If we discover anything. I'll be sure to let you know.
Speaker 5: Thank you, and thank you I have sanded appreciated kindly.
Speaker 1: Oh, welcome, good evening, Good.
Speaker 4: Evening, hell Yara. I suppose I will be heading to bed.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I will begin making preparations for us so
that we are ready to go.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 4: Let me know if you need anything otherwise, I'm going
to go draw a bath.
Speaker 5: Wonderful, enjoy it might be the last one for a while.
Speaker 4: Yes, we're going to a very cold place. Enjoy the
heat while you can.
Speaker 7: Indeed, meanwhile, I know that was mentioned the office, but
I don't have a good feeling about it. I also
don't want to keep having to break into everything. You know,
it's just if I'm going to break into it, I'd
rather break into it lock picks and all this stuff.
It's just, it's just, it's just a hobby and turned
it into something that I do all the time.
Speaker 9: How many times have you attempted this.
Speaker 7: In here or overall?
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well.
Speaker 9: That is up to you. It could have information there
we'd wish for, but it is a risk.
Speaker 7: Fine, fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 9: Oh, I was not trying.
Speaker 2: To pass you.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I understand how it works. No, I was
very good at manipulating or stuck. I get it. I'm
going and do it. You have to be a looker, I.
Speaker 9: Am, Yes, I think I was ever told that before?
Speaker 7: Mm hmm something in your eyes. I don't know.
Speaker 9: All right, should we Well, if you wish we could
get Karoon Karun is oh more ethnically inclined to go
places she knows she should not.
Speaker 7: Yes, with a gun and drugs. If I find out
that we're probably gonna end up blacked out in the
middle of the room and get.
Speaker 9: Caught, perhaps we should not call to her.
Speaker 7: Then then again she could gas the place and probably
and knock everyone else out, and we have to be
rein to do what we want.
Speaker 9: There is some people around. If we will not do anything,
i'd be a better plan, I think better than guessing people.
Speaker 7: Yes, all right, let's swing by and see if the
ghats is clare, so to speak. And if it is,
then I may slip my tools inside that door hole.
If not, then I'll we'll just keep walking by.
Speaker 9: Very good, all right.
Speaker 7: I'll check. I'll be stealthy, but I won't be suspiciously,
so more like more calm natured walking, not looking suspicious.
I'll give you a signal. It's a signal you can
come with. They're gonna be more weird of both of
us are looming around the door.
Speaker 9: All right, I will just to look at this painting.
I just kind of stare at the wall where maybe
hopefully a painting is. And if there isn't time staring
at a.
Speaker 2: Wall, I mean you could stare at both things. I
mean you are a lizard.
Speaker 9: Right, that's a chameleon, and that doesn't feel right.
Speaker 7: It's a going to make our way. I'll break off
from a rash talk once we get in view and
casually walk down the hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and make me a stealth check.
Speaker 7: Twenty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, Malvic saunters, uh sort of casually looks like he's
gonna lean on the door or something.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. I'm guessing the ones around. But do I
need to make a perception check?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely make a perception check.
Speaker 7: Twenty six.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say that, Uh, you notice that there.
You hear some foot you hear some footsteps. You hear
some like stairs creaking, maybe some wood creaking, like down
the hall. Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: I'll wait, uh, I'll take it into a ros talk
and then I'll just kind of lean against the wall.
I'll pull out like the notepad that or say you
gave me, and I'll be scribbling in it while kind
of looking up and writing in it at the same time,
just to see who passes if there's a patrol, so
to speak.
Speaker 1: With Their pattern is yeah, you hear like a conversation.
The voices sound familiar. It sounds like Lunja and Takuzo
having a conversation like near the stairs.
Speaker 7: Oh, I do know both of them like to talk,
especially talkas only get him started. He won't stop. So
I'll casually turn around and I'll drop my notebook on
the ground and i will kind of bend over half
way and then try the lock.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and make a Thievery check. Actually, hold on,
I might have.
Speaker 2: A thing for this. Hold please, MYO, a thing.
Speaker 9: For this power of foundry.
Speaker 7: Yes, if you bring up an actual lock and have
to do.
Speaker 2: With let's see here.
Speaker 1: I think I do have a thing, but I don't
know where it is, so just make a check for.
Speaker 7: It right here we go, Thievery, Yeah, twenty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, I actually need to check it, because that is.
Speaker 2: Just enough.
Speaker 1: You just barely do it, Malvick. So I imagine that this
is like pretty challenging for you.
Speaker 7: Yes, because I'm not concentrating on it like I normally do.
I'm kind of passing by the lock and trying to
jimmy it real fast while picking up my notebook, and
I'll write when I'm about to give up here, and
while going down in my notebook, I will slip into
the door and then close it gently. And that should
be a sign for Rosha. He doesn't see me that
I made it in and if he doesn't pay attention,
then he doesn't pay an attention.
Speaker 1: Seventeen. I imagine you don't notice because Malvic.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm just like I don't understand it, but I
like it.
Speaker 7: Oh, I will know the difference, as will time passes.
But hopefully you'll have a well look out and just
start the wall the whole time. So yeah, I'll be
in the room. I have doc vision. I'm going to
leave the room dog, and in my head, I'm like,
I don't know what they want me to look for.
Speaker 1: You've been inside the office before. This is probably where
you first had conversations, uh, with your team that was
going out to check out the Ayudara initially much earlier
on in you're a meeting with doctor riddleson.
Speaker 2: Uh the dog.
Speaker 1: The doctor's office, I imagine is much what you'd expect.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of books, a lot.
Speaker 7: Of before you get started, I locked the door back
while a lot.
Speaker 1: Of you right, no, it would have a key hole
on both sides.
Speaker 7: Interesting, Okay, and then I won't do that.
Speaker 1: Then, yeah, like it would you know, Like they're older doors,
so they require keys to lock the door.
Speaker 2: Or unlock it.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's not like our modern doors.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, if I don't give them a reason being
they come in here, they won't come in. So yeah,
go ahead and continue. Uh.
Speaker 1: The doctor's office is much like I think you might imagine.
There's lots of notes and things here, tall bookcases with
lots of books filling them.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: There there is a.
Speaker 1: Big, you know, uh, heavy wooden desk that's there that
has various papers.
Speaker 2: And things strewn about it.
Speaker 1: The the doctor has, I imagine, like a window overlooking
the courtyard. There's like a small balcony that leads from
the window.
Speaker 2: Heavy curtains. There's this place is.
Speaker 1: Where it seems like doctor riddleson uh will do much
of his studying or like just I imagine just sitting
and taking care of any sort of mannerly tasks or.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: I would imagine you also see probably a different like
supplies and things that we're here that have been you know,
there's like some climbing gear, there's some like.
Speaker 2: Hm, I think you.
Speaker 1: Would see probably some furs and things like that.
Speaker 7: Do I see any notes that were left out? Folders, binders?
Speaker 2: Perception two?
Speaker 1: You see one it's maybe on the floor actually over
by where you see some of these supplies. There's something
written on this note that that immediately catches your eye.
Speaker 2: It says.
Speaker 1: You're just It's one of those things where you know
where you see like something notes have been taken, and
because you see a word that you are currently thinking
about or is in your periphery, it jumps out at you. No,
have you ever had that kind of thing? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You see written on this note sakawachiem so.
Speaker 7: Does it look like from it being on the floor
and if it's containing somebody that in board, and I
would think that he was in a rush, probably dropped
it and forgot it.
Speaker 1: You can make maybe an intelligence check of some kind.
Speaker 7: M what is intelligence in this game?
Speaker 2: I mean I mean just a flat chack?
Speaker 1: No, I mean like one of the intelligence Yeah, one
of the intelligence based things I would say you can make.
I don't really have any lore that might help you here.
Speaker 7: Well more of doing like an investigation. Look, so it's
just like looking at if something was like moved or
knocked or like you know, if it maybe his he
carries all his information and got hold and knocked in
and knocked the survival.
Speaker 5: Check sure anything that has stars on it to show
it's important you are.
Speaker 2: Rewild that seventeen getting reruled.
Speaker 10: Twenty one.
Speaker 1: Since you see these supplies and the note on the floor,
you're learning how to read common HM and uh, you
recognize the word probably says Sakawachie on it. The way
that this is positioned, it definitely looks like it was dropped,
maybe like in a hurry leaving the leaving the office.
The fact that there is like this climbing gear, that
these like furs and whatnot. Socca Watchie's name is written
down here. I don't know necessarily what if you can
imagine what the connection is between all of these things. Yeah,
but the fact that he had Sacawatchi's name written down
and just kind of like dropped it in a hurry
means it was something that was he was definitely interested
in Socca Watchie in some way.
Speaker 7: I will pick this folder up and put it in
my chest plate area. It's in my head. I'm like,
it's like it was dropped in a hurry. It won't
be missing it if it's not missing from here. If
he's missing it, he would think that he dropped it
somewhere else. So I'll pick it up and stuff it,
and then I'll continue to look around just if I
can find anything else of importance, going to look through
his drawers, but or maybe look for a place that
seems like it's more important than others.
Speaker 1: Okay, so, uh, the office is fairly large. Like it's
not the size of like the lounges or the conservatory
or anything, but for like someone's office, it's pretty big.
Speaker 7: It's like it's good for me, some pretty big guy
and want to like knock things over.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean this manner is it's very spacious. I
mean you've probably never been in a house or anything
that's quite the spacious hall ceilings. You know, the office
is large, and you begin to kind of look around.
How long do you want to do this for.
Speaker 7: A good bit, I'm all saying.
Speaker 2: Here until you find something you're writing at.
Speaker 7: Yeah, correct, Because I was waiting for a rash talk
and I didn't get So if he didn't come in
in the fifteen twenty minutes I was looking at already,
then I'm just going to figure that he's being a
lookout at this point, Is.
Speaker 2: That what you're doing a rush talk?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 9: Actually, once probably after maybe five minutes or so, i'd
look over and see that he's missing now finally, and
then I would begin to keep some sort of lookout.
Speaker 1: Okay, very well, so fifteen twenty minutes, begin to like
look through stuff. Yeah, so I imagine there's a lot
of what you would expect in here, lots of like
research books, stuff that you know is a little bit
maybe beyond your reading comprehension.
Speaker 7: Anything with our names on it, no, okay, nope, anything
concerning the whale or.
Speaker 1: Nope, okay, start like rifling through drawers and stuff like that.
There's I think what you would imagine in the drawers
and stuff. There's like notepads, and there's you know, like
pens and pencils. There's probably some like rulers and stuff
like that, just like.
Speaker 7: Anything device recordings, No.
Speaker 1: No recordings, there's no like phonograph in here. There's a fireplace.
There's another door in here.
Speaker 2: There's a fireplace.
Speaker 7: Something to click in my head when I see the fireplace,
and I'll tell myself, maybe we're looking in the wrong fireplace.
All the time, we just heard it was a fireplace.
It wasn't the one that we were in the living room.
Maybe the key could be in this fireplace. I would
like to search the fireplace.
Speaker 1: Sure, there's no fire that's there at the moment. Someone
significantly smaller than the other one. It's not like a
walk in kind of fireplace. But you can kind of
like get down in there and like try and like
look around. It's a little bit awkward, you know, because
it's not nearly as big as the other one.
Speaker 7: If this key was to go to his lab, why
the equity put it out and open, and it would
make more sense for him to stash it in his office.
And if I place that even would typically.
Speaker 1: Not look sure, give me a perception check.
Speaker 7: Twenty three.
Speaker 1: Okay, you begin kind of like trying to you know,
I imagine you kind of almost have to get on.
Speaker 2: The floor to kind of like get in there and.
Speaker 1: Like look around. It's really hard to see. Stuff is
covered in soot. You start like feeling around in there
trying to find anything. I mean, it just kind of
feels like a smooth, soot covered stone, you know, texture
in there.
Speaker 2: You don't seem to find anything.
Speaker 7: Okay. I will take some cloths, wipe my hands down
to make them as clean as possible, and just saying
it's too clean. Anybody that's too clean means something hiding,
and I'll continue to look in Uh is there any
other doors in here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the door.
Speaker 7: Okay. Does it have a opening at the bottom, uh?
Or is it completely sealed.
Speaker 1: It's not nearly like as secure a door as the
other one.
Speaker 7: I want to put my face down there and see
if I can feel any air coming from it.
Speaker 2: I absolutely can.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. Since this was in a locked office, is
that door locked?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 7: I will go into this door.
Speaker 1: You are going to try to open this lock?
Speaker 2: Yes, take a fevery.
Speaker 7: Check forty six.
Speaker 1: Chick.
Speaker 7: I'll slowly peeking.
Speaker 2: Okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: There is a spiral staircase past the door.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. This would be a really good time to
have some kind of mind language to share with the others.
But I'm in here now. Just keep going. I'll close
the door slowly, okay.
Speaker 2: And then you're going down or you just closing up down?
Speaker 7: Oh? Yes, I'll close the door just in case someone
comes in there and nothing's amissed.
Speaker 1: I just want to be clear. You're going inside and
closing the door behind you.
Speaker 7: Yes, And I'll peek down just see if there's any
light coming from anywhere.
Speaker 2: There is no light from down there, and then.
Speaker 7: I will slowly wake my way down the stairs.
Speaker 2: Okay. This is interesting to you, Malvic, because uh, this.
Speaker 1: Seems pretty well constructed. There's an odd smell.
Speaker 2: Ooh, it's make a survival check. I think mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Twenty nine.
Speaker 1: This is a little reminiscent of.
Speaker 2: The cistern.
Speaker 1: And that it's got that it's almost got a little
bit of a sewer smell.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: Um.
Speaker 1: The stairs aren't particularly wide or anything. It's probably it's
like a fairly small spiral staircase that's heating down. It's
like a tight right spiral staircase. You know, you're you're
not like you don't have to like squish yourself down
to get through it. But it's you know, it's not
like you got a lot of room in this in
this staircase. Eventually you make your way down to the
bottom of this staircase, closing the door behind you. There's
another door at the end of the landing at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Of the stairs.
Speaker 7: There's nothing else in this room but a door.
Speaker 1: Correct, it's not really a room. It's more just like
a landing at the bottom of the stairs and the
doors at the end of the landing.
Speaker 7: Okay, yep, I'll continue for is this door locked?
Speaker 2: It is locked?
Speaker 7: So many looks definitely hiding something. I'll take my time
and undo this. I try to get into this door okay,
having not been used my infiltrator locks. By the way,
I can't forget.
Speaker 2: Okay, make a recheck, please, I put it in the chat.
Speaker 7: Oh all right, I'm gonna use my infiltrator because I
keep forgetting to have them. Twenty seven.
Speaker 1: You feel the first latch mm hmm fall into place.
Speaker 7: There's more multi layerlocks. What are you hiding, doctor, I'm
gonna use the same one.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, okay, unless I have to paste it again.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure critical was success. Two more mm it
feel for another. There's a fourth. Yes, I'm getting really heated.
Uh thirty one.
Speaker 2: You open it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, slowly opening. I'll listen first, Okay. If I don't
hear anything, I'll go.
Speaker 2: In absolutely.
Speaker 1: Begin to open the door. Ahead of you, you can
see what appears to be a well, it seems like
some sort of hall. You open it up and it's
a very large room. Ahead of you, there's a landing
and it looks like recent construction.
Speaker 2: There's it's like.
Speaker 1: Wood floors, and there's stairs in the center kind of
leading downwards, and and there's what appears to be benches
on various rows following the stairs leading downwards. I don't
know if Malvic has ever seen anything like this, maybe
in Castroville, maybe, but this is sort of looking like
a lecture.
Speaker 7: Hall to you.
Speaker 1: There's a several large wooden timbers reinforcing red brick walls,
and there's it's like stadium seating, you know, like it
follows the stairs going down towards what appears to be
like a stage. And on either side of the stage
there's two sets of stairs leading up to the stage,
and there is two metal tables and two chalkboards standing
on either side of the metal tables. It almost looks
like and again this I don't know if Malvic knows
what this.
Speaker 2: Is, but it almost looks like.
Speaker 1: A classroom that kind of a look like at a universe,
like at the university. You would see this at the university.
Speaker 7: I don't know why somebody would need to hide something
like this underneath the manner. How big is is it?
Really big? Is like the whole bottom.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's this room just by itself is probably about
like the just where the stairs and the and the
benches are probably twenty feet wide, leading like just the
stairs going down another thirty feet and then like the
area with the stage is about thirty feet by thirty
five feet.
Speaker 7: There's no like experimental table in the middle or nothing
like that spotlight or anything.
Speaker 1: There's no like spotlight you can see there's like places
for torches. There's like torches and wsconces around the around
the room.
Speaker 7: There's no experimental table like they're making a spectacle or something.
Speaker 1: Right, there's metal table that are like on the stage,
and there's chocolate.
Speaker 7: Okay, mm experiments.
Speaker 1: Maybe are you like at the top of the stairs
right now?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Maybe I'll walk down a couple of stairs and
just to like get a look at everything. I'll get
a view and then I'll look towards those tables and
I start getting really kind of like upset and freaked
out a little bit because in my head, I'm like,
why would he have something like this? Looks like he's
just expecting a large audience or something putting us on display.
Immediately what my mind would think. I would make my
way down to the stage. This is the most curious part. Okay,
are there any is it just blank down here so
like tooled or anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing like on the tables or anything now.
Speaker 7: And then you have more doors around.
Speaker 1: There's just some like curtains behind the stage.
Speaker 7: I'll go back, I'll go behind there.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm going to need you to make a saving throw
for me, please.
Speaker 7: Hm.
Speaker 2: Mm hm hmmmm mmmmm. Let me see what this is.
Speaker 11: Okay, why can't I find them?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Where it go?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 7: Here we go?
Speaker 2: Uh okay, hmmm.
Speaker 1: As you begin to walk towards the stage, you hear this,
I need you to please make a will.
Speaker 2: Save mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Do deny?
Speaker 2: Okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: You hear this sound malvic And there's like maybe a
mechanical noise where you're like, ah, and you see just
barely visible the sign of this maybe some kind of gas.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: It was just like it's it's invisible, but there is
maybe like a wharfing of the air. Yeah, and you
just immediately like hold your breath.
Speaker 6: And and.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 7: Okay, and I'll I'll back up. I'm not going to
go off in a rush now that I know that
this place is trapped. I have had checks off my
suspicions as a doctor, being very suspicious. I believe I
got what I needed. I feel like if I keep
going deeper, I'm starting to forget about the others and
being consumed by my own curiosity. I will turn and
I will leave slowly, and there's no turn, there's no
sense to run. It's gas. And then I will make
my way.
Speaker 2: I need another will save.
Speaker 7: Thirty four.
Speaker 2: Okay, slowly make.
Speaker 1: Your way back up the electure hall stairs towards the
door that you unlocked.
Speaker 7: Mhm. Then leave the door. Close it, close the door,
I will. I will not lock the door back. If
someone finds this door unlocked, I want there to be suspicion.
I want there to be a little chaos. There's a
lot of people in this manner right now, and a
lot of adventures that could be blamed for this. But
then it'll stir up conversations as to why something like
this is down here. That'll smirk. But we first, what
I would do is I would wipe the door clean
of any residue or fingerprints or smut or whatever that
I would have left behind, or so I should say,
I would have left behind.
Speaker 5: Kelli's behind a trail lest my door everywhere he goes.
Speaker 7: I had I had my way with that doorknob. I
has so many has no I'll yeah, I'll wipe it
clean as much as I can. That's been wiping the
door knob clean, and then I will make my way
cautiously up the stairs.
Speaker 2: Stealth old, stealth, Yeah, make a self chah.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, just like I need to choose every creaky damn.
I will stop at the foot of this sway am
I going up the stairs?
Speaker 2: Stairs?
Speaker 7: I will stop at the door since I close the door,
and I will get flat up against the door and
put my ear, my good ear, next to the door
to see if I hear anything, or if I.
Speaker 2: Into the office.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're trying to listen, like into the office.
Speaker 7: Into the office, right, and I'm looking at the bottom
and see if any light is creaking in or if
there's noise.
Speaker 2: Doesn't appear to be okay.
Speaker 7: I'll slip out of that door and close the door.
Speaker 1: Try to keep it as quiet as you can, but
it like makes a little clicking sound as you close.
Speaker 7: The door, hoping that a rastok would have my.
Speaker 1: You don't unlock this one either, right, You don't lock
this one either?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 7: Nope?
Speaker 1: Okay, because you you broke you you effectively picked three
different locks.
Speaker 2: Get down there.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. Okay, but yes, that door because.
Speaker 1: You had the door from the office into the staircase.
Then the door at the at the bottom of the
staircase and the door to actually get into the office.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it wouldn't make sense for me to lock that door.
If I want them to be suspicion, then I will
look to see I'm sure there's light coming from the
way right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they would probably have some candelabras in the hall,
so I imagine there's probably some flickering lights.
Speaker 7: I will make one more pass through as walking through,
just to make sure I didn't forget anything in the office. Yes,
any office, because I'm making my way to the door.
But before I get to the door, I'm going to
put my body up against the wall and see look
at the light pouring in from the door to see
if there's any shadows moving past it.
Speaker 1: Okay, there does not appear to be any shadows.
Speaker 7: I'll do one more listen if I don't hear anything,
I was slowly opened the door, and then try to
slip out.
Speaker 2: Okay, rash Hank, are you out there?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I am kind of looking around. I've just
been seeing if anyone has showed up or walked through
the hallway during this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a Raschbuck, you probably did have h someone passed by.
Speaker 2: I imagine it might have been Olvin.
Speaker 9: And I would have just nodded and continued standing looking
around at paintings and things. Sure, and that's all. Wouldn't
have said anything.
Speaker 7: Unles's spoken to does a rock tack see me when
I come out?
Speaker 9: Yep y, I see you, and then like kind of doing.
Speaker 7: This m hmm. I will lock this door. The reason
why I want people to if someone finds out that
someone was down there, I want them to know. I
want them to guess how they got it. So, yeah,
will lock this one or lock it back and wipe
it off as well as I wipe off every door up.
And it's not like I'm worried that they have a
forensic sect or anything. It's more like I had touched
some dirty stuff to make sure there's nothing there.
Speaker 2: Definitely don't want to have any set behind.
Speaker 7: Yeah, very sticky dooring ups do I Either they can
check the lock it or no, I mean it's just
locking the door.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, you basically have to do another another theory
check to lock the door again.
Speaker 7: There we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you find me the latch again and you kind
of do everything in reverse.
Speaker 7: That'll wipe it and I see dirty dooring up, and
I walk up to I suck, and let's say, well, suck,
we should probably go see the other's getting late.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 7: Have a big day tomorrow. I'll lock eyes with one
of rosch Talk's eyes and just go, hm, we should
go in a hurry, take good night to everyone.
Speaker 9: Done looking at these paintings. Anyway, he was gone for
like a.
Speaker 2: Half an hour, by the way, Talk, Oh yeah, no,
I look.
Speaker 9: Visibly nervous at this point, but yes, I don't think
I could sell these ones.
Speaker 7: Mhm. And I'm look at him like, why would you
say that? And we lead We'll go back up to
the other's room and see if they're there, or I
guess to say our room. I'm saying with them, I'm
just knock on the door.
Speaker 5: Which door are you knocking on?
Speaker 7: Our room?
Speaker 2: Well, there's a few different yes.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I don't know.
Speaker 9: Know, I have my own, I don't know if Karun
is staying in mind.
Speaker 7: I'll knock on A'll knock on karoons first, because I
know Karun never leaves their room unless they have a
drug sale to make or something. So I'm knocking that
door for us.
Speaker 12: Just a terrible terrible acred smell. Your eyes are watering
as you approach the door.
Speaker 7: I'll cover my face.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 7: Karun opened up. Please, Actually, can you come out? If
they smell the smell?
Speaker 12: What can you?
Speaker 7: Can you come out?
Speaker 9: What we're gonna talk about tomorrow's plans?
Speaker 12: All right, I'm just I'm very busy.
Speaker 7: But this is important. You can stop you're doing.
Speaker 9: We're going to meet in the other room altogether. I
think you and a starting point.
Speaker 7: Ah okay, maybe we feel feel Karun in.
Speaker 9: That seems like a stopping point.
Speaker 12: No, I got to the other one.
Speaker 9: Mm hm, it really seems like a stopping point.
Speaker 7: How do you How did you all meet Karun in
the first place?
Speaker 9: Are you here?
Speaker 7: H when you're done melting your eyes?
Speaker 9: Uh huh?
Speaker 12: What's your thing?
Speaker 9: I just used a spicy root for that clearing of sinuses?
Mm hmmm?
Speaker 7: What are you doing?
Speaker 12: Drugs?
Speaker 7: Okay? Through your eyes?
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 12: It is an alteration to the shnooze. If you cannot
keep your eyes open, then you know snows.
Speaker 7: Can't you just close your eyes?
Speaker 9: And yes?
Speaker 12: It was not well thought out. Ah, I'm fine, what
is your thing? Explain?
Speaker 9: We're going to meet up with the others. If you're
in a good space to do so.
Speaker 7: Right this you won't need your eyes to listen, but
follow us.
Speaker 12: I will go with you. Just listen this.
Speaker 9: I pulled my hand, my arm out for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, I'll.
Speaker 7: Take I'll lead them to hopefully we're seeing your ears.
I'll I guess I'm not going to see his door first.
If we all have separate rooms.
Speaker 4: Yes, one moment please, And you can hear the sounds
of shuffling clothing. And when I pull the door open,
you see that I am freshly based wearing a robe.
Speaker 7: Mm hm, yes, oh we are. I have some stuff
to talk about. So is she did? All right? Get it.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 9: Stout? Oh I can get y'all if you'd wish to
be and he wouldn't stand, Are Cilia.
Speaker 4: Fine? And I closed the door behind me.
Speaker 7: We all have the same room sizes. Oh okay, I go.
Speaker 9: And knock on.
Speaker 4: You can see that I have somehow acquired a cat
in my room. You don't know whose cat it is.
There's a cat in my room.
Speaker 1: And it's totally a cat. It's totally the cat that
the rash stock ran into.
Speaker 9: Oh, yes, yes, today, Yes, we have you have things
to chat about for tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Oh, very good, Yes, of course.
Speaker 7: How big is this strong? Is it enough for all this?
I'll love us to be in at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tight squeeze, but you can.
Speaker 2: You can all fit in there. It's a little it's
a little bit like a college, you know.
Speaker 7: Situation sound won't bounce as much.
Speaker 1: I guess people are gonna have to like sit on
the floor, that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: All right, I'll slowly close the b I'll be the
last one in and close the door and look at everyone.
Did you find out anything from starring?
Speaker 5: How not in particular? I didn't really have much information
for us, but we just reshowed our bombs, so to speak.
Speaker 12: Yes, it is show what a bomb?
Speaker 7: Did you speak up?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, And we managed to find the cartographer. We have
the map now to take us to the shutter wood
and fortunately the Ayudara is marked on it. Checking in
with snowy Al and the others, they seem to be
doing well. They kept to themselves mostly over the last
few days.
Speaker 7: Good, well, I have a lot of news. I was
able to get into the targeted location. Oh, and I
pull out this folder. I look at our say. I
tried to read it, and I cann't make out too
much when I meta I read saka. Watch you on
this and a slip that between you all.
Speaker 6: May open.
Speaker 7: It looks like it was dropped.
Speaker 4: Well done, male evic.
Speaker 7: I'm not done. Unfortunately, I wish it was. As much
as I can't stand the doctor. I didn't want to
find things that was suspicious, but I did find a lot.
So we could do this piece y piece, or I
could just throw it on top of you.
Speaker 9: Nice speak on everything I think and we can look
at this saftera kroun.
Speaker 7: I need your services.
Speaker 12: You would like some shnooze?
Speaker 7: No, absolutely not, and I will take off I will
rip a piece of my I guess you can call
it scoff. I don't know what we would call it
back then, but I will rip it off and look
at you, look at your like, and I will hand.
Speaker 1: It to the one that you had made for you.
Speaker 7: Yes, it saved my life, I guess, and I will
give the crown. No, I need you to analyze the
central lab immediately smells or something for any kind of residue.
Speaker 12: What am I analyzing this piece of it?
Speaker 7: I rip off the piece of my scarf and give
it to you. I need you to do it in
a hurry before it dissipates. Don't the whole reason why
I said lab not.
Speaker 12: Tongue, right, I will analyze it. It is a scarf.
Speaker 7: It was in gas, so you probably need to hurry. Yes,
bring back to us when you find out whatever it is,
and I'll fill you in a worst kind of gas.
That's why I'm asking you. Oh, yes, don't.
Speaker 12: It's immediately dangerous.
Speaker 7: I all right, Well there's that arm. So I made
it into the office, quite large office, bigger than our rooms.
There was a door. There was a door in the office.
I was locked. I got into the door. The door
let us spiral staircase. I went down. I went down
long hallway, another door. Four layered lock on the door,
just like the door Rostock was in. Well, maybe not
like it. I don't know. I don't think it was
as mechanical. But I had four layered lock on the
door that was hidden from everyone else behind another locked door.
Very strange. I went in. There's a big area, lots
of chairs, looked like a coliseum, with some sort that
you would do back and accept more tame. You do
know colosseums of battle. An audience serves some sort and
people would be littered around and a spectacle in the middle,
and we would fight even to the death. So speak
would imagine that with tables metal tables.
Speaker 5: Sounds like a classroom or something.
Speaker 7: Well, there was odds I was going to go down
and investigate. And this is where it gets weird. Stepped
there was gas defense mechanism of some sort of dangerous
gas for I catfully consumed in it. It was fast enough.
It was a very tricky gas. It was invisible. I
cannot catch it my night vision, but there was vapors.
So whatever it did, maybe a heated component, maybe shot
guess up to make it go quickly into the air
and into the lungs. What I was able to get out,
I left the door and locked down there. I didn't
lock him back. I couldn't get down there. That's enough.
It was too much gas. I didn't want to be
knocked out or worse. Of course, I did leave the
door unlocked to trigger suspicions who we would be down there.
I figured there was a lot of us here, not
just us. If that causes chaos, someone is bound to
slip up off the spair o case, I was able
to wipe off the doorknobs. Of course, second room, I
left that room unlocked as well, but I did lock
back the office of the doctor to rouse suspicion amongst everyone.
If the door was locked out, did the doctor leave
it unlocked? Did someone else go down there? This not
only excludes this now includes staff instead of just bed walkers.
The figure of this mm hmm. I did check the
fireplace because I was thinking, we're probably looking in the
wrong fil.
Speaker 12: This all the time, Patriots, I have news of your
rag's fast. Yes, it took me a little while to
understand where I had smelled it before, because my entire
room smells of this. This it's snooze.
Speaker 5: Is the doctor the truck dealer?
Speaker 12: Well, if it is, it's going to have to learn
a thing or two.
Speaker 7: You gotta stule an out.
Speaker 12: There's not enough room in the mention for both of us.
Speaker 5: Just just put it not towards us.
Speaker 7: Right, So, I would the doctor have a mechanism that
puts me to sleep in something that's made to be,
as you said, a classroom? Also, why would it be
so far underground? And I felt it was more like
experiments being done and studied.
Speaker 9: You said, this was near the back of this lecture hall.
Speaker 7: No, where was this gas leading down? Where was it?
What the stairs of the.
Speaker 2: When did the gas kick it halfway down the stairs
near the stage?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was trying to make our way to the
stage to getting better look and then.
Speaker 4: Cha, Yes, would you say that snooze could be used
as a anesthetic?
Speaker 12: Certainly it could also be used to get you fucking high?
Speaker 6: The table was?
Speaker 5: How long were they?
Speaker 9: Were?
Speaker 4: They?
Speaker 5: Like the lengths of a body longer than I.
Speaker 7: Would say, Well, depends and I look at it. I
say this market depends on what body is on the table,
but for an average height, a bit longer could definitely
display a body on it and enough room for tools.
Speaker 5: In our time speaking with the doctor and whatnot previously,
do I recall any sort of discussion on him doing
any surgeries or anything medical to any of the patients?
Speaker 2: Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: Right, you've all had interviews with the doctor at different points. Right,
I don't know how many of you spoke of your
deviant abilities that you have, But yes, the doctor has
told you about some gatewalkers that had some like really
bad ones that we're pretty serious, like people's skin liqualifying
and stuff like really crazy body horror type things.
Speaker 5: So I get the idea that he also did these,
like did surgeries and stuff and things of a nature
to try to assist these people to be more comfortable. Definitely, well,
not to be an advocate for the doctor, but I
do recall him discussing with me the fact that he
did do surgeries on some of the patients and some
of the gatewalkers who came in because they displayed some
very troubling and painful issues that came up after their
missing moment.
Speaker 7: I know some whack doctors that did experiments themselves because
of curiosity, saying that they are going to help someone
but yet use it for their own benefits. The doctor,
when I spoke to him, seemed very curious on a
lot of things, especially on nevolent how we operate our
bodies are structured. I don't doubt that the doctor has
intent on helping, but curiosity always seems to be the
one card that's played first autopsies or ripping a body
open to see what kind of how it functions after
exposure to the gates in a missing moment.
Speaker 5: Right, I only offer this specifically just to give insight
into the situation that I'm quite aware of the fact
that he has done surgery, So I'm not sure if
the rest of you are understandable, that could be a
station in which he does that.
Speaker 9: But why hide it's so deep when you are offering help? Also,
why would the gas effect the room as surgeon would
be then too?
Speaker 7: Hmmm, you would think if it's a more willing it'd
be more of Karun uses them all the time. Perhaps
the tools of suck.
Speaker 5: Perhaps the onlookers wear masks. The surgeon wears a mask.
Speaker 12: Have we seen any masks around because I could probably
use one.
Speaker 7: No, But why would they have a gas trigger instead
of using those devices that Karun uses? It doesn't make sense.
There was more of a defense mechanism. Step I stepped
on something, not even on the stage and it took
a gas.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean, I don't suppose we're going to be
able to figure out that reason.
Speaker 12: Oh, we certainly had a missing moment at all. What
I mean to say that if there's a whole house
full of perception altering shnooze, could it not be that
none of us had a miss moment and that it
was implanted into us this idea.
Speaker 7: It would have to see us before we went to
the gate, and believe.
Speaker 12: No, not necessarily we all met here.
Speaker 5: Yes, what Karin is saying is that some of our
memories have been altered. It could be altered that we
even walked through the Iyodora, although we have seen an
iodora with our own eyes recently.
Speaker 7: You have traveled to a different world, apparently, and so
have I.
Speaker 12: Yes, I only mean to suggest that if someone is
going through the trouble of creating perception altering drugs and
inflicting them upon people, it is possible that it has
happened to us without a knowledge.
Speaker 7: Thinking too far fetched there, probably trying to replicate what
happened in a missing moment could be something.
Speaker 9: At least with the food memory food that did confirm
some things for me on at least entering a gate
and remembering things from some of the missing moment, at
least for myself.
Speaker 4: Question, someone from the party read about Aydara from the
library here? If I remember correctly, it might have raw shock.
Does anyone know if there's an Ayudara here in leap
it start?
Speaker 9: Did I read on that?
Speaker 2: In location of one?
Speaker 1: I feel like someone asked to be fair, Yes, I
Sandon said, the shutter, the shutter wood, and the.
Speaker 2: Shutter wood having one with the known as the letch gate.
Speaker 4: Right, presumably that's the closest one.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, nothing in this city though.
Speaker 5: M h, I suppose what you're going to say.
Speaker 7: I was going to say. I wanted to continue on,
but when the gas tiggured, I didn't want to chance it. Yes,
to be knocked out down there?
Speaker 5: Choice yes, no, no, no, no one is questioning that. Well,
I suppose we have a couple of things in front
of us. Yes, we have. We should probably think of
what we want to say to the doctor tomorrow.
Speaker 7: We have a file on a psycho watch, he wrote, yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, we should look at that as well.
Speaker 4: Let's have a look, shall we? Indeed, and I'll open
the file so that we can all read it.
Speaker 7: Sure, I'll act like I read it.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, let's have a role for this, not for
reading calm prehension. I want to see what's in this
pull on all the ship everyone. So yeah, who wants
to make the role? This will be a perception role?
Speaker 2: I think wrong?
Speaker 5: Who was the best? Fourteen?
Speaker 12: You guys should do it. I'm on a lot of.
Speaker 5: Shows I can't hear you, Chuck, we've lost you.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Yes, now, I was thinking to myself, Yes, I'll take
a look at.
Speaker 5: These very good and I will cast guidance upon you
as well.
Speaker 7: I can assist. I'll do like this is everything that has.
Speaker 1: Been another perception check Malvi, mhm, roschok and Malovic perception checks.
Speaker 9: Yes, I very adding the effect of guidance. I need
the pause.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't be Oh no, there is right. It had a
weird pop up.
Speaker 9: Okay, now thirty three, okay, thirty four with the help.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: What you find in these notes is a detailed accounting
of pretty much everything that has happened with Sakawachie since
you have met Socawachi. What.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's.
Speaker 1: Notes on the crown of the world, and there's notes
on requesting Sakawachi's assistance. Effectively, it's going to take you
while to read all this stuff, so we'll say you're
going to be reading for like twenty minutes or so.
But yeah, there's a whole bunch of notes here, I
mean detailing the stuff that happened with Sakawachie since you
met since you met them, and there's a lot of
stuff here, not everything, but enough that.
Speaker 2: Is like how right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, you see stuff like Sakawachie is from
this region will be invaluable in helping to navigate once
once we travel through the Lichgate.
Speaker 9: The handwriting, does this remind me of the doctors for sure? Okay,
that's what I wanted to see at least is if
it was directly from him or someone else's report.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you also see a list of like supplies
to gather for travel in the crown of the world.
Speaker 4: Does this book look like the book that I seen
in my dreams?
Speaker 2: There is no books. This is a what is effectively
a folder.
Speaker 1: Full of notes, all right, ship, It's probably like one
of those leather folio type things.
Speaker 12: Does it contain weaknesses perceived weaknesses of such human Well,
of course contingency plans if things go a wrong.
Speaker 5: And these notes they are they are very specific in
terms of things that like our activities, he knews, he
knew he knew everything, yep, and any notes on anyone else.
Speaker 1: Let me let me let me rephrase. This is specifically
about Sauatchie and andions. Nothing about snow yow, what that's going?
Speaker 7: What about us going in the this the underground area
with the water and doing all.
Speaker 5: That stuff has snowy open sleeping.
Speaker 1: Uh, I mean you checked on them about an hour ago.
Speaker 5: I mean like when we're camping and things like that.
Does know ya will stay awake or do they sleep?
Speaker 1: They appear to be like meditating.
Speaker 7: So what's the last thing in the document? Is before
we went into uh the I before you, the world
wound before you.
Speaker 1: Uh So basically the last thing is the borough.
Speaker 2: In the in the.
Speaker 1: Forest before you got to the city of Demora with
the capture.
Speaker 2: Uh where the Yeah, we.
Speaker 4: Saved Zaya Deah.
Speaker 5: And recalling on our adventures.
Speaker 4: When we have been.
Speaker 5: About and unconscious and conscious, have we felt this being
watched whilst.
Speaker 4: We are awake?
Speaker 5: Yep, so it has only been when we've been asleep.
Speaker 12: M hm.
Speaker 5: What did you dreams? Our dreams.
Speaker 7: About the dreams?
Speaker 5: When we have been traveling, have any of you felt
any sort of a feeling of being watched while you
are awake?
Speaker 7: Yes? Well I was awake in Casavel. There was when
we were in the cave. It was looming, not fully
visible thing, but more of a feeling watching.
Speaker 5: Yes, intently, there's a looming feeling of being watched has
always been while I've been asleep.
Speaker 4: Mhm, same.
Speaker 7: When I was awake.
Speaker 9: The creature the Claude third one looming, Yes, anytime we
felt that, and I was able to at least look
in my dreams, I saw and it was a costume,
a mask. It was not the the holy being that
Saku Watchie at the time had mentioned.
Speaker 7: They don't want to grim. But what if the doctor
came across someone with a divan power that could watch
in the sleep, scry or whatever and found a way
to manipulate their power and or uses their face as
a mask. You did rip off a face for me,
and I tried to try to sail before. But if
he has some ways of doing it as well.
Speaker 9: If he has a way to infiltrate or watch through dreams,
that would track in this file. Did it mention anything
about the recruitment of Sakawachi, anything about influencing her or
making contact at.
Speaker 1: All, So it would definitely have some notes on like
how to communicate with Saquachi and like effectively befriending Sakawachi
for sure, no reason why.
Speaker 9: Nope, does it mention anything about and I do not
remember the name off the top of my head, their
holy being that looked like this furred claude creature. No, no,
conveniently left out that is very key to their entire personhood.
Speaker 7: And we'll scramble to the notes. Granted I can't tell.
I'll act like I know what I'm doing, and I'll
say there's normally some symbols at the top of it.
Note there something that you told me about it a date,
a time. You typically write that down when.
Speaker 5: You general entry times, and there, yes.
Speaker 2: There would be.
Speaker 4: I'll read them out loud.
Speaker 2: Okay, make a I will take a survival check or
a some kind of associated lore.
Speaker 7: He wrote the ship in code?
Speaker 2: What an ass it's not.
Speaker 1: It's the dates. But I'm potentially giving you more information
based on us, if.
Speaker 2: Right, So TERK won't help you for this.
Speaker 9: M m hmm.
Speaker 7: Wait a rassa can read dates?
Speaker 5: You can?
Speaker 9: Yes, I can. I can read very well survival. Do
I see her? Do I see who struggling as Helia,
because I'll look at that and take over.
Speaker 1: We'll for you or Celia just will read the dates
out right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh, it's not the survival check for the reading
of the dates, I see, I see well, I'll try
to interpret it as best I can.
Speaker 7: Then, even though I have good so I will not
help with this.
Speaker 9: At twenty five.
Speaker 2: The dates don't jump out at youse particularly important A
rash talk.
Speaker 4: Okay, I would like to try something. I would like
to gather the papers, stack them neatly again, and close
the portfolio. And I'd like to rub my hands over
them and use.
Speaker 2: Away the smut.
Speaker 4: Yes, leave it.
Speaker 7: That worked really hard on it.
Speaker 4: I caressed this much.
Speaker 7: It's my sweat, I guess.
Speaker 4: And I'd like to read the psychometric resonance of the folio.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh, okay, there is a significant emotional resonance here,
and it is curiosity and excitement.
Speaker 4: Oh, the professor was excited about this, sensing perhaps this
is an experiment of its own kind.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 5: Let's part the course for him.
Speaker 9: Ah, let me look at this again, and I take
it from you, and I'm going to use my reading
glyphs a keynote here with the reading glyph ENCRYPTI text
causes your glyphs to turn a recognizable null symbol. So
I can't be able to read it, but I will
be able to tell if there's encrypted text in this
No encrypted text, all right?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Because He probably expected not for that thing to
get out. It was in his person's stone.
Speaker 9: Who knows, or there was nothing to encrypt that he
cared about. But there's nothing encrypted here, no code.
Speaker 5: When did the doctor leave the manner? According to the major.
Speaker 7: DOMO read seven days now?
Speaker 5: And would it line up with the last entry so
to speak? Perhaps he did not have time to fill
it in. No, so he was still at home.
Speaker 9: So there is a gap of time between our travels
and his last Okay, so there is a time he
did not take notes or did not see.
Speaker 7: It because he was prepping for the gate. Did mention
about we going through lu gate, which we includes himself?
Speaker 9: He may intend to join us?
Speaker 5: Mm hm, oh, my head.
Speaker 2: A long day. It's been a long day. I mean
this is I mean effectively you guys, Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys usually are like waking up six seven am
and it's like eleven pm now.
Speaker 7: M hm.
Speaker 12: Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm going
to go get some shnoozze.
Speaker 9: Or maybe sleep. Don't maybe not even more of the drugs.
You could just sleep, you know anyway, Bye, don't else,
don't sleep?
Speaker 5: Is there anything is that we need?
Speaker 7: To because what are there any pictures inside this while
of any sort?
Speaker 5: So I guess the final thing for tomorrow. Is there
anything that we want to touch on and we meet
with the doctor. Is there anything we would like to hide?
Do we wish to present as if we know nothing,
or do we wish to present us though we have suspicion?
Speaker 7: If you want my opinion, the doctor seems to slip
up when he gets excited when you bring information about
something that you can be used to experimented on, research
that he hasn't gotten. We have a lot of that.
When it comes to being any other world or when
it comes to be in the near other lay lines,
we can use them as bargaining chips, but not up
front calling it a bargain more of a tug of
war situation on information.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's important to not also sorry, are is that
there is a finite amount of information the professor has.
Everything past this point is negotiable in our favor.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, the only information that we can offer if
we I mean, these notes are quite detailed, I'm sure
there might be information on us as well if we
are being watched in this fashion, And the only thing
I suppose we could offer, is anything about snowy Owl
that he has not seen that through our dreams.
Speaker 7: He could have marked it, don't you.
Speaker 5: He could have seen it through our eyes.
Speaker 4: Maybe we shouldn't introduce Snowy Owl to the doctor right away.
Speaker 9: No, it might be wise as well. I know you
had mentioned talking to them earlier, but asking if they
noticed scrying of any kind or could remember any from
when they were fully Sakuaji god Roon may know if
someone has.
Speaker 5: Been has been canceling out and putting a protection on
specifically snowy Owl, or perhaps all of us.
Speaker 4: We do not know.
Speaker 5: Do you think we.
Speaker 4: Should show this file to snowy how.
Speaker 7: I I don't think so. If we show the files
now may bring it up. It seem like a being
that doesn't have any kind of pulled towards emotions. They
would just say it and then thus would know that
we were in the office in lead soul bunch.
Speaker 5: Other But we do not necessarily have to say anything.
We could just prepare them that would give them the
knowledge that they need to know that the doctor really
wants to speak with them for some reason, and that
they have been.
Speaker 9: Watched being watched already, So letting them know that was
a good chance of it. Is not a poor idea
frengthen our bond, will it not?
Speaker 7: You just have to be careful about how much you
tell them. Agreed. Also, we don't know the extent of
Owl's powers. If they can read your mind, we have
no idea at this point. We don't know what anybody
can do. We don't even know if these others were plants.
None of these from I got the impression or adventurers
that are here that are gate walkers. They're here, I
still feel like they're planted, watching us, making notes of us.
It's just too convenient that we got to map information
all at once, leading us in all these different directions.
We played right into their hands.
Speaker 4: Do you think it might help us if we have
Snowy Owl and their companions set up in a different
inn where I not.
Speaker 5: Share in a manner?
Speaker 4: Yes, if a doctor gets back, essentially we are all
under his authority. You know where to find Snowy How.
Speaker 7: I don't know my brains between trying to read that
and I guess, and a lot of people like being
right about things. I am not that type of person,
but I have a really bad feeling.
Speaker 5: Are we able to perchance. I mean, I suppose The
question is do we want this file to disappear into
our hands or do we want to put it back?
Speaker 7: No, we keep it. He dropped it. You could have
dropped it anywhere between him and his travels. We need
to have something to play against it. Doctor. The doctor
does turn up to do something. Are the ordinary? If anything?
If the other gay walkers are true to what they say,
we can bring up that we're being watched without being told,
bring some kind of conversation into the piece. I left
the doors on locked to stir up some kind of
conversation already. Would We may need something to play by
in our sleeves, So.
Speaker 5: How about we put it in one of the bags
of holding then, so it is not directly in our pack?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Do you want to take it or would you like
for me to hold onto it? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I can, that is fine, but I have books and
notes of everything else. Anyway it would easily fit in.
I do recall when he sent us the letter, the
last correspondence we received, he did note that he would
explain how he's been able to get this information on us.
Speaker 7: Did that's true? Do you believe so?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 7: Hmm, I love. Remember, I'm not remembering.
Speaker 9: Much admittedly, but if we at least speak as though
that is what he said, it already makes the assumption
we know and puts him in a position of saying
I don't want to tell you, or continuing through with it.
Speaker 7: Or we can just mention how did you know he
sent us a letter? We can use that as an icebreaker.
Speaker 5: Yes, So the last question before bed then is do
you wish for us to go and speak with Snowy
Owl to find out if they are interfering somehow being watched.
Speaker 7: I don't think it could. I don't think it would
hurt your companion that passed away is a doctor and
know that.
Speaker 9: Indeed, yes, yes, to tell them that is part of
how we were able to That was it how we
found No, it wasn't how we found you. But they
did know. They apologized and then gave condolences, even if
it was brief.
Speaker 7: That was in an whole different world. He how did
the doctor know?
Speaker 9: Well, that is a good question because he didn't know
where we were going.
Speaker 7: But and it's almost like a land for you to
be there.
Speaker 9: Possibly, yes, But if a Dronas did not return with
us and he was watching on this side, it would
be very apparent that we left with less than one
of her lesson. We came in with that and be
an easy inference.
Speaker 7: The more I think on it, the more I just
want to I need to go take her her bath.
I'll see you all.
Speaker 4: In the morning before you go, Yara, I think we
should utilize your ability to message between us. Perhaps who
should indicate something? Okay, a gesture for you to reach out,
maybe touching your nose, what's.
Speaker 7: Your thought language?
Speaker 5: Then you rub your marks like an itch.
Speaker 4: Okay, at least we'll have that, I suppose.
Speaker 5: Indeed, all right, so let us go speak with snowy Owl,
and then we will get some rest who would like
to go and speak with them.
Speaker 7: I am going to a bath. I don't do well
with them in the first place. Yeah, good night, right.
Speaker 9: Good night?
Speaker 6: So three?
Speaker 5: Then yes, right, you were going to say something else, Celia.
Speaker 4: I'm unsure of whether we should do something or not.
Perhaps perhaps our suspicion is not well grounded. We simply
don't have any evidence other than this, which, if you
recall the letter, he did mention that he's been keeping track,
so it isn't completely deceitful.
Speaker 9: No, but the multi locked hidden lecture hall, but with
metal tables that easily could be for surgeries. Why hide
what you have spoken directly about, Yarra, That is worrisome.
It could be perhaps that the most generous. It is
a safety mechanism if his surgeries fail.
Speaker 5: And the.
Speaker 9: Patient the lashes out with powers, and that would be
the gas kicking in. But even then that still does
not ring well and true. Yes, there is information missing
and I am not keen on it. We have many
times been sent out with it not enough information and
under prepared. And it does line up as well with
that we I think may be the only ones that
have returned from a mission he has sent, at least
from the residents here that have known of people leaving.
Speaker 5: Yes, they're all if people would not the ones who
have gone any missions.
Speaker 9: And the ones that do have not been seen again,
which does also line up with Malevich and his previous
group and his brother and his brother. Yeah, may not
be directly misled, but there is definitely omissions of truth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that in itself will not do.
Speaker 6: Let's go.
Speaker 4: And I will knock on snowy Owl's door again.
Speaker 1: Um, hold on one moment please, ye, Yes.
Speaker 4: Our apology for interfering so late. If you don't mind,
could we step into your room and have a private conversation.
It will be short.
Speaker 1: From your faces, it appears to be important. Please come in.
Speaker 4: And I will look to yaa.
Speaker 5: Indeed. So firstly I want to ask are you able
to access soccer watches part of us memories?
Speaker 1: I can ask.
Speaker 5: H well, if you would, snowy out, does socca what
you recall being watched in their slumber? Like the dreams
are being invaded. I feel as though we had some
sort of conversation on this.
Speaker 1: Snowy Owl closes their eyes. Yes, she and it spoke
of a conversation that she had with you, and it.
Speaker 5: Was only when she was asleep.
Speaker 2: Yes, closes her eyes again.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 5: I do not mean to probe, but snowy Owl will
do you? Do you have dreams when you go into
your chances? And do you have any sort of protections
against I don't know someone trying to scry.
Speaker 1: On you or or.
Speaker 5: Do any sort of communications in sleep.
Speaker 1: I am aware of the magic of which you speak
in the strictest of terms. Roon does, snowy Owl does not.
Speaker 5: See?
Speaker 9: Are you able to ask Roon if run was protecting
Sakawachi before you have shared from scrying specifically, especially when
we got closer.
Speaker 1: Roone says, no, no protection.
Speaker 5: Interesting, Well, just to prepare you for the morrow, and
I asked that you do not speak of this with
anyone other than those who are present and within our groups.
We have it on good authority that the Doctor knows
quite a lot about Sakawachi in addition to us.
Speaker 1: From the way that you speak, you believe the Doctor
has casted some sort of magic learn of this ascrying spell.
Speaker 5: Perhaps perhaps now to be clear, the Doctor did send
us a letter saying that he would explain quite a
few things to us and acknowledging the fact that he
had been somehow keeping an eye on us.
Speaker 1: And I gives you unsettled.
Speaker 5: Indeed, indeed it does. The doctor knows.
Speaker 2: Do you not have an alliance with the doctor.
Speaker 9: We do, But an alliance does not mean blind trust.
I see, and there has been information we feel is
left out. We do not know what that is the problem.
But his ability, however, he is doing it to watch
us and make very specific details noted it now it
troubles me, eh if I I told Sakawachie of the
holy being of their tribe, and how I had seen
it in memories I had unlocked, but it was but
a mask or a costume. I might have a suspicion
this may have been him or an agent of his,
to keep an eye on us Soakawachi, but also potentially
to influence, as this was a recognizable almost deity to Sakawachi.
Speaker 5: And to tack on to that what we have discovered
implies very heavily that he is very interested in Saquachi,
very interested. So perhaps it is nothing. But we only
came here to let you know and to tell you
to exercise.
Speaker 1: Caution very well, how would you like us to proceed?
Speaker 5: I look to you, Celia and Rostock.
Speaker 1: We are here at this place at your request. Should
we take residence in an inn in town, perhaps.
Speaker 9: His servant the house. Yes, yes, he already knows you
are here. I think at that point it does not matter.
He knows that you arrived with us. If you leave,
that may, if anything, draw more attention. But in the
notes we had found on Sakawachi, there was no mention
of run or you snowy Owl. You may be an
unknown entity. You cannot scry what you do not know,
so perhaps when he would have he could not reach Sakawachi.
Speaker 4: Interesting reading the file, sorry to interrupt. Having read the file, is,
does it seem likely that it was collected from a
more personal perspective or perhaps through us? Are there details
in there about Sasquatchie that we don't know?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I have to do a little bit of
recall here searching my data banks.
Speaker 5: Files.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Uh, I'm going to say overall, no.
Speaker 4: New information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make me make me a I will say a
perception check.
Speaker 9: Our celia, all right, twenty eight.
Speaker 1: There might be like a little bit here and there
that you don't remember yourself. Mm hmmm, few nuanced things
that you might have noticed that you don't remember talking
to saco Wachi about.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: All right, I keep that to myself for now.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: That's well.
Speaker 1: Then, And the doctor returns tomorrow you said.
Speaker 9: You should.
Speaker 5: Yes, sometimes he arrives early or late.
Speaker 1: So we shall see greet the doctor with you, or
should we make ourselves scarce from this place?
Speaker 4: I have an idea, what if snowy Owl, if you
would like to do this, of course, if you pretend
to only be Sakawachi for now.
Speaker 7: Very well.
Speaker 4: That is the extent of the doctor's knowledge, and to
protect both Rune and Sakuachi, perhaps we should keep it
to ourselves.
Speaker 1: Indeed, the question still remains, would you like me to
greet the doctor with you tomorrow? Or shall we be
gone from this manner?
Speaker 4: I think you can stay.
Speaker 9: Indeed, yes, I think it would be fine. It would
be more out of place if you were not here,
especially if you are m leaning in on the sakuachi side.
Speaker 5: Very well, all right, think you apologies if this war
ends up just being a simple misunderstanding.
Speaker 1: Precautions are fine. Paranoia to some degree can be useful. However,
be mindful of such things. They can override common sense
on some occasions.
Speaker 5: Mhm, yes, all right, well Rostruck, did you have something
to say?
Speaker 9: No, I was just saying good I think we are
the same page.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Shall we go get some rest then and
leave them to it?
Speaker 9: Night?
Speaker 5: Thank you for your time, Good.
Speaker 1: Night, good night.
Speaker 9: I am going to do my nightly rituals end sleep.
Speaker 5: Yes, so I'm going to go take a bath and
get some rest as well.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, every one.
Speaker 5: Indeed, see you.
Speaker 9: In the morning.
Speaker 1: Good night, very well you all, and to sleep.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, Caron, is staying up all night or did
this snooze work?
Speaker 1: If you sleep, go ahead and make sure you are
well rested. Press the rest a button at the top
of your character sheets.
Speaker 5: And as we may be going on, what is it?
Our expedition is starting today? We do not know when
we are leaving. I will go ahead and make my
preparations and cost vital beacon upon myself at the beginning
of the day.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will wake up a little early and go
into town with the intention of starting to prepare orders
of leaving rash cold weather clothing gear, sure, making a
shopping list very well, and to check.
Speaker 5: In with the group. Do we have we have climbing
gear and what not already I believe yes, all right.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: If you want to open up the space's pouches, there's
the little toggle container contents icon on the left that
looks like a little clothes box.
Speaker 9: This is my my bag of holding. Oh you yeah,
your yours is in there. You are there's a climbing
and I have one in mine as well, so we
have two at least in the stash.
Speaker 2: Climbing kit very good.
Speaker 4: The climbing kit be big enough to support more than
one person.
Speaker 2: Oh, good question, I should find out should be at
least two at the least.
Speaker 1: It basically just includes a bunch of stuff, So fifty
feet of rope, pulleys, a dozen petons, a hammer, a
grappling hook on one set of crampons. Crampons are the
things you attached to the bottom of your shoes.
Speaker 2: It's like like the grippers or ice.
Speaker 9: Stab into the Yeah, what did very week would use it?
Speaker 1: Yes, if you're going to be traveling those grippers, if
you're going to be traveling through the crown of the world,
having a set of crampons for all of.
Speaker 2: Your shoes is a good idea.
Speaker 7: All right, I'm gonna go out and buy stuff too.
I leave the matter without telling anyone. I went out
what jog super early early. I couldn't really I slept,
but I got up at It's not one of those
when you yeah, when you wake up and go by
the side. Was up and wired the probably even dreamed
about the room and everything what I went through. So
I'm gonna check the store. Definite, gonna buy more first.
I kept giving mine out.
Speaker 1: We can we can assume you know any like supplies
or whatever that you want to get like, that's you know,
it's not too difficult to find. I don't really want
to turn this into a shopping trip.
Speaker 7: Yeah of course.
Speaker 1: Uh but regardless, you guys go do some shopping in
the morning.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 4: M Train Malevik and myself. I'm sure we've helped set
up the entire party.
Speaker 7: Yeah, which is something? What how much gold I need
to lose the home?
Speaker 12: I would like to study the rag a little more.
Speaker 2: It's just a rag.
Speaker 1: Really really don't get much from it.
Speaker 12: Is there is there any appreciable difference between this shnooze
and the shnooze from the university.
Speaker 2: I can't tell it really it was.
Speaker 1: It was in its gaseous form, so you you really
could only get a smell from it.
Speaker 2: If anything.
Speaker 7: Basically, I want to know wanted to make sure it
wasn't lethal.
Speaker 12: I would love to poke around a little bit into
manner and see if I can find some shots.
Speaker 1: You're going to do some investigating around the manner.
Speaker 12: I think I would like to.
Speaker 2: Okay, where are you going?
Speaker 12: I will go to whatever they were telling that they
got the rag from.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're going to go to the doctor's office and
try and break in locked.
Speaker 7: It's locked, but you can try, as every gem likes
to say, I left the other doors unlocked.
Speaker 2: You didn't tell Karun that though?
Speaker 7: No, I did not. Well, I told the group. I
don't know if Karun was there when I did.
Speaker 2: Do you think he told the group about which doors locked?
Said he did each one, okay, and that.
Speaker 7: Was the lock of doctors, And I left the other
two to start conversations if they find.
Speaker 9: Something, conversation and chaos.
Speaker 12: I just want to know where all of the shnoozes.
Speaker 1: I understand what you want to know, but I am
asking you where you go to find this?
Speaker 12: I will go investigate where breaking into the office.
Speaker 2: Yes, with all the stuff running around, So just to
be clear, it's like seven am.
Speaker 1: Everybody's awake, everybody's moving around the house.
Speaker 7: That's puppy prep in Jesus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like clean is cleaning up. Everybody's cleaning up.
Speaker 1: And you go. You just make a bee line for
the office.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, you get to the office store. Yeah, absolutely.
You can see that the office store is open and
there is a maid in their cleaning.
Speaker 12: Oh excuse me, yes, hello, hello, Hi? What is your
name again?
Speaker 6: Is Morelda?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 12: Right. I'm sorry, it's Merelda es Marelda. I have a
question for you. And when I was upstairs, I noticed
that there was appears to be a little bit of
a leak. You see, I have this device here which
can measure leaks of gashous nature, and I was hoping
you could just let me poke around and see where
the leak is coming from, because I don't want it
to be it's become lethal.
Speaker 2: You know, please make a deception check.
Speaker 12: Let's go, that's the twenty four.
Speaker 6: Actually, what do you mean where where you said it
came from? You smelled it up.
Speaker 12: With the nature of this type of guesses that it rises.
So while I was upstairs, I noticed that there was
a leak, and now I'm tracing it back down.
Speaker 6: So it's terrible.
Speaker 12: It is terrible. And if you have a rag, I
suggest you over your face for a little while, just
in case.
Speaker 6: It's how come you don't have a rag?
Speaker 12: Because I am already on drugs, so excuse me, I
have a tolerance. There's a language barrier. Oh, you're welcome
to come with me if you like, but it is
potentially lit and I'm not sure if you have the
same There is there's a little device I have here,
and it is able to detect when it is near.
I guess this is empty.
Speaker 6: And you want my help with it.
Speaker 12: You're welcome to come with if you'd like, but would
suggest not breathing very head.
Speaker 6: You should let everyone else know.
Speaker 12: I don't want to. I don't want to cause a.
Speaker 6: Panic, but if they can, if they're being affected by
the guests, it could get What do you think it.
Speaker 12: Does, es Merelda? I have seen many situations like this before.
I've guessed leaks inside of mentioned such as this. The
entire staff cramming themselves trying to get to the door,
with the panicking and crushing all of their fellow workers.
It's any doors, It does not seem that way when
everyone comes in and out the same one. You know, so,
don't want to cause a panic. Just give me a
couple of minutes. I'd like to make sure that it
is not lethal, and I will tell you where will
you be waiting?
Speaker 9: I want to go with you all right?
Speaker 12: Then you can come along with me. What is is
the moldan elf?
Speaker 6: No Alda is a human?
Speaker 12: Oh well, you can come if you want.
Speaker 6: But you know so, I want to make sure everyone
is all right, I didn't want anybody to get hurt.
Speaker 12: All right, coming along.
Speaker 6: Then quietly let everyone know I.
Speaker 12: Think no, no, no, no, no, no, your friends.
Speaker 6: I don't want anyone to smell the cap.
Speaker 12: You are breathing and it is interrupting the device. Please
stop it. No wheezing either, Sperelda, you are one hundred
and forty seven years old. I cannot stand the today
over seventy three. Oh right, you are human.
Speaker 6: Yesterday no one gave me.
Speaker 12: Oh you are baby hah. All right, I just going
to keep going further and further in you.
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, you're in the in the office
of the doctor.
Speaker 12: As far as I can get with find looking for
gas leaks or where the guests could be dispensed from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a doctor's office that you're in
right now.
Speaker 2: This is like a study.
Speaker 12: Great, then I will, then I will. It would help
if I pounded an eagle eye, alixa, could.
Speaker 2: I I mean, I don't know what you're trying to do.
Speaker 12: I'm trying to find the way the guess is stored
so that I can steal something. Sure, I'm trying to
steal drugs.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: From what Malvic said it was like down in the lab.
Speaker 12: All right, then that's where I need to go.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I will go that way. Do you know
where to go?
Speaker 6: I will no, yeah, okay.
Speaker 12: But I will keep walking around until I find it.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm getting at, Like, how do you know?
Like he talked about the lab, but like he didn't
say anything about like I had to get there.
Speaker 12: Yeah, all right, then I will pound an eagle eye alixa.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 12: The way how do I affect it?
Speaker 7: To recall I said, was there was a door, so
just stare door and that was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gave you like no information about like where
you have to go, so like so you can drag
that effect onto your either your token or onto the
effects page.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh yeah, and just give me a perception check.
Speaker 2: I guess was right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So first off, it doesn't seem like there's any
gas or anything in here. There's evidence around the room
that the doctor is clearly an alchemist, m which you
probably knew. Uh, he's not as accomplished as you are
though probably obviously.
Speaker 12: Yeah, if he's trying to become a competitor in the
illegal drugs market, then one of us would have to die.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's there's obviously another there's a door in
the back part of this office.
Speaker 12: Yes, otherwise I would try to try to open the door.
Speaker 6: With I'm sorry, you can't go down there, smelt.
Speaker 12: It is the utmost important. Somebody could die. Could you
open this for me?
Speaker 9: Please?
Speaker 2: Please give me a deception check.
Speaker 12: Again, I will give you a deception check the twenty six.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. The doctor's instructions were very clear. You cannot
go down to the You know.
Speaker 12: The doctor is not in there right now, spoiled on
the ground, dead from a gas leak.
Speaker 6: Because and he did not announce his return, and he
would have.
Speaker 12: You are sure of that, yes, very sure, quite sure
of that. Yes, you said there are many doors. Could
he not have gone through a different one? A doctor
would not do this, you could, You could have she
went out to.
Speaker 6: The pro and he would not do this.
Speaker 12: Perhaps he brought in plotting.
Speaker 6: And besides, I do not have the key to go
down into the door.
Speaker 12: That's what I needed to know, all right, Fine, Well,
where can I find the key.
Speaker 6: The doctor has it?
Speaker 12: Is this the only key that seems very undoctor like,
I'm sure he has a spear.
Speaker 6: I do not have a key the doctors that's a.
Speaker 12: Brothel and drops the key somewhere, and he's just forever
fucked from not being able.
Speaker 2: To go into his office.
Speaker 12: Sorry, there's a language barrier.
Speaker 6: I am not under the impression the doctor has such proclivities,
but he has been.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't tell you, as Marelta.
Speaker 6: This is all very computer, shouldn't we that your friends
know about?
Speaker 12: I guess I cannot get it. I cannot. I cannot
determine whether or not there's a gasolic until I can
get in that room over there, and not.
Speaker 6: Let you into that room because I do not have
a key, and the doctor has not returned yet, and
he left constructions not to go downstairs.
Speaker 12: Esmrelda es morel. There's there another room, perhaps a different one.
I know that there's gasia somewhere.
Speaker 6: I I do not understand. There are many rooms in
this place.
Speaker 12: And yeah, from this room that we are in right now,
look around you. Is there another room here that we
cannot easily see? Perhaps a secret room?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 12: Can I see if she's lying? Is she lying to me?
Speaker 2: She looks extremely confused.
Speaker 9: And upset.
Speaker 12: When she is elderly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the problem, all right?
Speaker 12: Is there is there a secret room here that I
find that with the perception check? Is it possible?
Speaker 2: You just know? You just there's there's an obvious door
that's here.
Speaker 12: There's an obvious door, and that is all. There's no
other secret room. All right, as Marelda, how much do
you make in a year?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 12: How much do you make money in a year?
Speaker 9: The doctor takes care of yeah, yes.
Speaker 12: Yes, But how much money do you make in a year?
Speaker 6: I'm not going to share that with you? Why why
why wouldn't you How much do you make in a year?
Speaker 12: Well, it varies quite wildly because I am in self employed.
Speaker 6: Getting very uncomfortable with this conversation. I don't understand. Is
some guest leak.
Speaker 12: About the deal to hire you? I would like, all right,
I can't.
Speaker 6: Allow you to be in here anymore. You're going to
have to.
Speaker 12: As Morelda, hang on, wait one minute, I'm going.
Speaker 6: To have to leave the office.
Speaker 5: I have the deal of a lifetime for you, as
I don't care.
Speaker 6: I'm going to contact Ulvin. I don't like what's happening now.
Speaker 12: You contacting anyone that's MORALDA.
Speaker 2: Make an intimidation check.
Speaker 12: All right, I'm sorry. It was a joke.
Speaker 2: You here, whoever is in the manner. By the way,
you can hear someone screaming for oven, bloody murder.
Speaker 7: Thank god, I'm not.
Speaker 9: Like to.
Speaker 12: I would just like to try the door for the
for the place inside.
Speaker 2: Sure you you rush over to the door, and she
like tries to get in front of you.
Speaker 12: But she just left though thought she was leaving.
Speaker 2: She's yelling for Olvin. She's not leaving you in the
office by yourself.
Speaker 9: No way, when.
Speaker 1: Ru I mean just yelling, You're.
Speaker 12: Just head okay, little further away and just continued.
Speaker 2: You're gonna just try the door and push her away
just gently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, making athletics check is not particularly difficult.
Speaker 12: Well it could be.
Speaker 1: It will be hilarious if that's the fourteen.
Speaker 2: It's actually kind of whack, no, whack. It's actually kind
of difficult to push her out of the way.
Speaker 12: Old lady, no, no, no, old lady stopping.
Speaker 2: She's got some old lady's strengths. She's got some old
lady's strength. You do manage to push her away out
of the way, screaming the old have to kill.
Speaker 12: An old woman today. Whack.
Speaker 2: I feel like you kind of do. If I'm going
to be one you want to Oh my god, Oh no,
you you you're just kind of shoving omen Oven and
you reach the door. The doorknob opens.
Speaker 12: Oh it is not locked the door. Why were you
making such a fast lady.
Speaker 6: It's supposed to be locked. I don't know why it's
not locked. Regardless, the doctor left instructions Oven.
Speaker 2: All right, well sure surely there after here you hear
someone rushing towards the room.
Speaker 12: Thank god, Olivant, you are here.
Speaker 2: Yes, as morel The work is the problem.
Speaker 6: She was trying to get into the doctor's laboratory, and
she made up some sort of nonsense about a gas leak.
Speaker 12: Here's a gas leak. By the way, you should be there.
Speaker 6: It's been very rough, and she's been pushing me and
telling me.
Speaker 12: She walked into me. It was complicated. It is not
important if you are going to have I understand, I understand,
I understand. But if you are a heavy breather, just
try to keep it down because there's a gas link.
Speaker 1: Please make a deception check Altra difficult.
Speaker 2: Look like he's buying any of it.
Speaker 10: He says, I'm going to need you to come with me.
Speaker 12: Is there any clear escape route out of this place?
Could I leap? I would leap through a window.
Speaker 1: There's like a balcony there. This is on the first floor, though,
there's like a little raised balcony off of the ground outside.
Speaker 12: You'd leap through the window, just like through the window.
Speaker 1: You just like hold your arms up and just leap
through the window.
Speaker 12: I won't be going down here and with a gas
leak with all of you people.
Speaker 2: Goodbye Jesus Christ. Okay, uh yeah, give me an acrobatics check.
Speaker 12: Are you sure it could not be? Another check?
Speaker 9: Perhaps it sounds like acrobatics.
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 2: Ah, smash right into It's like not. There's no movie.
There's no like sound like stunt people setting up explosions
at the bottom of the glass to it gets shattered.
Speaker 7: For you.
Speaker 2: It's way sturdier than your expecting.
Speaker 12: Ah, hang on, I would like to dray again.
Speaker 2: You stumble back.
Speaker 5: Eleven now, Oh.
Speaker 6: Ouch, she's trying to jump through the window.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, I was testing the window to see
if we open it because of the gas league. It's
not important. It's not important window. I understand that, now,
I understand it. Now, Oh.
Speaker 10: What are you doing?
Speaker 12: There's a guest leak? Can you not hear me. There's
a guest league and I'm in.
Speaker 6: She very scared about the gas league before you arrived.
Speaker 12: I've been telling this woman about the gas leak for
the last twenty minutes and she has understood so very
little of what I've had to say.
Speaker 6: So please any sense.
Speaker 12: She is old for a human, she's a baby for
an elf old. Rick, can you explain to her that
the ghastlik is a very dangerous thing? Ulvin is explained
that it is a very dangerous thing.
Speaker 2: A ghastlink is a very dangerous thing. But I do
not sense so smelling. I guess.
Speaker 12: It is because you are not Elvin that you don't
sense this.
Speaker 6: The whole conversation has been very strange. She's very terrifying.
I have had some sort of weapon.
Speaker 12: No, it's a vile now.
Speaker 6: She had some sort of mechanical device. I've never seen
anything like it before this.
Speaker 12: Yes, it is a duel that alchemists use sometimes to
test whether or not that the people will comply with
guest leaks.
Speaker 10: Going to need you to come with me, all.
Speaker 12: Right, I'll go with you. That's fine. I would try
to jump through the window again again, but all right,
I'll go. I'll go with you. I'll go with you.
I'll go with you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I go.
Speaker 2: I think after three attempts, so I gotta give you
some damage on that one too. Yeah, that's fine, you
take three damage.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, all of this is happening a rash talk
and YA are in the kitchen making preparations for a journey, and.
Speaker 2: There's a commotion, I mean shit like people people are
talking about something crazy happening, like you you heard somebody's
young for oven and help.
Speaker 5: We look at each other.
Speaker 4: I'm still out shopping.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm I meet up.
Speaker 5: Do we wish to should we involve our hells?
Speaker 9: I wouldn't want this food to burn, and that would
be tragic, very tragic. Yes, I think we should keep this.
Speaker 5: I just heard kron yelling though.
Speaker 9: More reason for this not to burn. Corona is capable, Yes, yes,
she is so, Yes I am.
Speaker 5: Why do I feel like a bad person if I
leave the situation to handle itself?
Speaker 9: That is what karun usually wishes.
Speaker 5: To handle everything on their own. But what's about the
whole conversation of we are there for you no matter what,
and you you matter?
Speaker 9: Okay, m I mean that is true.
Speaker 5: I suppose I should go check. Would you like me
to join you if you would like? It might be good?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 10: How cool?
Speaker 9: Is I pressed digitation to cool down whatever I've been
working on so it doesn't burn, and then take it
off the fire.
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 9: Those we're going to be good pancakes?
Speaker 5: Oh god?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 5: Then we make our way over.
Speaker 9: Towards this creation.
Speaker 2: Sure you see Karoon sort of like being led by
Olvin out of the doctor's office and Esmeralda, one of
the made cleaning staff that is still employed here at
the Manor, sort of exclaiming, I.
Speaker 6: Don't know what's wrong with that. She's just making such
a fuss about some sort of gas leak. And she
tried to get into the doctor's laboratory, and there was
all sorts of problems. I'm not quite sure what is
wrong with her. Perhaps it's just one of those things
that the doctors talked about with some of the gate walkers.
Speaker 5: Is everything all right? We heard a lot of screaming
while we were in the kitchen.
Speaker 9: What did you say?
Speaker 12: Go back to the last thing you said?
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 6: It was a confrontation in the doctor's office. She was
she was trying to she's.
Speaker 12: Thing about the gate walkers. What was that thing you
said from before?
Speaker 6: Some of the gate walkers, I've had many problems like what,
I don't know. The doctor just mentioned some of them
needing serious assistance and medical help.
Speaker 9: In what way?
Speaker 12: In what way?
Speaker 9: You don't know?
Speaker 6: See what I mean? She has been very.
Speaker 5: King are you on drugs right now?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: No, I'm yes, well always, but this is she said
she was on drugs.
Speaker 6: I love to.
Speaker 5: Olvin and to Esmerelda, and I'm like, I just kind
of shrug and imply that, oh, I mean, she's on drugs.
Speaker 2: I do not see how that affects the problem that
we are currently facing.
Speaker 12: This woman spent twenty minutes in a ghasolic room. You
don't think she is also on drugs.
Speaker 2: She has tried to break into the doctor's laboratory.
Speaker 12: It's not breaking it.
Speaker 5: She It's a very curious creature, especially when on drugs.
Broken now, I mean she's an alchemist, which.
Speaker 6: I don't know. She broke the lock, but the door
was unlocked down to the doctor's laboratory.
Speaker 9: That does imply not breaking in.
Speaker 6: Though I said several times that the doctor wished that
no one would enter the laboratory while he was gone,
oh hroom.
Speaker 5: So here's the thing when you when you say things
like that, it's like dangling a carrot in front of her.
It's very curious.
Speaker 12: She's a scientist, I am a scientist.
Speaker 6: That is peculiar, but it still does not provide an
excuse for someone behaving erratically and frankly, quite badly. She
threatened us with a weapon.
Speaker 12: It's not a weapon. It's not the weapon. It's a tool.
Speaker 10: It's a very normal tool in guns before.
Speaker 12: All right, well you have not seen gun like this
one before.
Speaker 2: There are several people from the university that have showcased
several weapons. I considered purchasing one at the behest of
the doctor to protect the manner.
Speaker 12: Really, would you like some hand?
Speaker 7: Put that?
Speaker 5: Ulvin? How would you like to handle this? Is there
anything that I can do to take karoon off of
your hands and make this situation better?
Speaker 2: Please make a diplomacy checks.
Speaker 5: Of a feather. I get it. Let us see here
you said diplomacy, Yes, yes? Would I be able to
guide myself?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Is there a visual component to U
casting gud?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: Probably? All right, I won't do that. Never mind thirty four.
Speaker 7: M.
Speaker 2: The doctor is supposed to return today. I asked that
you keep her away from the laboratory. Indeed, if I
find Karun in laboratory again or the doctor's office, I'm
afraid I would have to impose a harsh restriction.
Speaker 9: Of course.
Speaker 5: Again, apologies of an apologies. What was your name?
Speaker 6: Maam is Elda?
Speaker 12: We are her name is Esmarla. We all have my doubts.
Speaker 6: I don't know what's wrong with this one. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: We will handle it. We will handle it. I am
so sorry. Oh goodness, all right, Karoon, let's let us
get out of here. Yes, perhaps we go for a walk.
Would you like to go for a walk? Go outside,
gets some fresh air, rom the gas lak.
Speaker 2: Yes, excuse me, it appears someone is at the door.
Speaker 5: Ah ver we will.
Speaker 2: Olvin watches you and says.
Speaker 7: Please.
Speaker 2: Away from the office and away from the laboratory.
Speaker 5: I'm just clearly, car let's go upstairs for now, right, I'm.
Speaker 9: Daring I will go prepare foods again. That's why I
will return.
Speaker 1: Uh Malvic or Celia. Returning from your trip, you can
see a coach outside Verdilson manor you recognize this coach
you have ridden in a coach just like this before, bes.
Speaker 4: Like you're right on time.
Speaker 7: This time I was actually purchasing the first I did.
Oh m hmm, there goes my mourning goodness. I hope
the others haven't created any kind of disturbance. And already
for it was about to go down.
Speaker 4: Hey, and I will reach forward and grab you by
the elbow to turn you towards me. Do you're a right?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I got up very early this morning.
I went for a jog near the lake. And there's
just too many things, too many questions that I can't
pay answers to. Unlike others, I don't like to be
suspicious of things. I like to be sure. Typically my
investigations end up with someone dead. I don't trust him.
I just don't.
Speaker 2: You recognize the doctor.
Speaker 1: Now making his way up the stairs towards the front
door of Riddleson Mannor's accompanied by four by four other
people dressed, you know, kind of plainly, and you see
the front door opening in oven greeting the doctor.
Speaker 4: Look, we'll get answers one way or another. All right, hmm,
you aren't alone. We all share the same suspicion.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'll just follow your lead. Should be walking after
he goes in, let's just go all right, Oh, follow
us in ketch up. Actually, let her go first, and
then I'll take a deep breath and then walk behind
her and then end up beside her.
Speaker 1: As we go up the stairs, you can see just
inside the main entrance you can see Olvin kind of
like greeting the doctor. And as you approach the stairs,
you can see two of the four people around the
doctor looking at you. As you are making your way
up the stairs. They speak to the doctor, and the
doctor turns and sees you.
Speaker 2: Malvic and ar Celia. Ah, hello, ilcome back.
Speaker 7: I look at I just look towards, I say, and
I don't make eye contact with the doctor. I kind
of look past him. You know that trick that you
do in interviews where you look past the person interviewing
you have said it at them. That's what I do.
Speaker 4: Doctor. Glad to see you have made it back in
one piece.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, excuse my appearance. We have been traveling, yes.
Speaker 4: Of course, Please don't let us interrupt your suddling back in.
We were just gathering some supplies.
Speaker 10: Of course, there's been some time.
Speaker 7: Mmm.
Speaker 10: Let's come back.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have mine.
Speaker 7: You wouldn't I.
Speaker 2: Have much to speak about, many things with you, your
brother included. Please give me some time clean up. I
would love to have a conversation with all of you.
Of course, Olvin, if you could please get my things,
I'm going to clean up. And Albert, if you could
be so kind as to prepare the office, and if
you don't mind, if you could let the others know, yes,
perhaps maybe ten fifteen minutes we can meet down my office.
Speaker 7: Down in yours? Where should we meet you?
Speaker 9: There?
Speaker 7: I mean where where we're off?
Speaker 2: Where just outside my office?
Speaker 7: Where is that.
Speaker 10: You have been there before? Madam?
Speaker 7: If you know me, if you knew where I've been?
Unless you do? Nowhere?
Speaker 1: And he puts he'd like, what's a you know, like
a hand on your shoulder?
Speaker 7: Oh it tints all muscles.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm sorry. I am excited to see you all.
I cannot wait to hear all that has happened.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. So where's this office you speak of so
we can get everyone ready to meet you.
Speaker 2: Then the stairs, it's on this floor down the hole there, doctor,
we had a problem with your office.
Speaker 7: And look to see you?
Speaker 4: Are you each chow for an I squeeze your elbow.
Speaker 10: I have a problem with your office proble.
Speaker 2: Is everyone all right, yes, doctor, but there was an
issue with.
Speaker 10: One of the gate walkers.
Speaker 2: Is everyone all right?
Speaker 10: Yes, everyone is fine.
Speaker 2: That is the most concerning thing. Very well, you shall
talk and walk.
Speaker 7: You mentioned trouble with gate walkers. I can't help it
out here. Who was it? Sort to make sure it
wasn't one of ours.
Speaker 2: Alwn kind of looks at the doctor and the doctor says, well,
out with.
Speaker 10: It, Karn.
Speaker 2: Apparently she was creating a commotion in the office trying
to get down to your laboratory.
Speaker 7: I get, I turn my whole body towards I say,
i'm it, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: You get the wave of emotions, like, even without the
lay line being nearby, I should.
Speaker 7: Deliver these No, sorry for the interruption, and I walk off.
Speaker 4: Oh is there anything that you'd like me to do?
I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 2: As it stands right now, I have I suppose no
one was hurt, but there was a commotion. Perhaps speaking
with your colleague is good. Yes, we shall have a
conversation with Karoun. Now, if you'll excuse me, I wish
to clean up. We should have a conversation.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, very well, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 2: Very good. All right, Oldian, if you could please brief
me on everything.
Speaker 4: I begin to head towards where I think I can
find everyone else.
Speaker 5: Oh you would hear a commotion in Yara's room? Stop,
please don't.
Speaker 7: I don't even like knock. I can't open the door?
Or do I mean you make a check?
Speaker 2: You can do it?
Speaker 5: The doors open?
Speaker 7: Yes, now the door is open.
Speaker 5: Slightly a joke because I feel like we would come
in here in a rush.
Speaker 7: To be honest, I kick it open. What have you done?
Speaker 12: You are referring to me? Or do you?
Speaker 7: You always don't know how to just stop?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 7: Karun?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 12: Yes, no, what have you done?
Speaker 7: You have put suspicion or us. I go to get
information to protect us, and you go in there and
cause rockets. The doctor is here and he knows of.
Speaker 5: Your insolence, malvic darling. Now it's not the time to
be tearing apart.
Speaker 7: It is the time.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: I have put up with this for far too long, Karun.
I think your genius is amazing, it's quite inspirational. But
sometimes you have to take a back seat and stop
and think this could cause danger for us, all and
all the information that we have. Do you know they
want to have a conversation with you now?
Speaker 12: Yes, Paul, it would be very dangerous.
Speaker 2: Malevic, How did.
Speaker 7: You kill your companion Karo? Did you ask?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 5: Is not the time, Malevik?
Speaker 12: Which one.
Speaker 7: They have been?
Speaker 1: More?
Speaker 7: Good to know? And I'll shove the the supplies in
Narcia's hand. I'm going to stand out at the balcony.
Clear my head.
Speaker 12: Anyway?
Speaker 4: Is anyone all right?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 9: I just was finishing up some breakfast for us.
Speaker 5: How did you get these bruises? Scaron? What happened?
Speaker 12: I don't want to talk about it? Right, It's fine.
It won't happen again unless I have to make another
athletics check?
Speaker 5: What what?
Speaker 9: Nothing?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Set these on the bed Yara.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, please do please do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Drop the supplies down as neatly as I can.
Speaker 9: I start transferring them into the back holding.
Speaker 5: And I'll just finish applying themselves to Karoon's bruises if
she allows.
Speaker 12: Me, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Doctor has arrived and we'll be seeking an audience
with us in about ten fifteen minutes.
Speaker 12: Good, so he's also a drugging pin. We're all in
an agreement. Yeah, yess.
Speaker 5: No, there could be other reasons that perhaps that.
Speaker 12: Perhaps he has an industrial quantity of snooze below his house.
That is a normal thing to have an illegal drug,
and extraordinarily large quantities just in your basement. Of course
he has drugging pin. Why else would someone have this
much shnooze.
Speaker 5: To put patients to sleep?
Speaker 12: Yeah, of course for money, that's drugging pin.
Speaker 9: That's what happens.
Speaker 2: Every time Karun says this, by the way, we get
like a quick quick cut to her room. It's just
it's just like a drugg lab in there.
Speaker 12: So yes, but also it is of a much greater
quantity than I could produce on my own. He must
have a help us, I would think.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think that these are all valid questions. So
we can ask the professor.
Speaker 5: Indeed, but are you all right, Karun? It did not
hurt you.
Speaker 12: Now, I'm fine, right.
Speaker 5: Manevic can just need a moment. I understand the frustration,
as we've been trying to be discreet, but we need
to present a united front. In this moment we cannot shatter.
Speaker 4: I think I will go try to calm him down. Yes,
one of you goes seek out snow y'all.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I can do that.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 5: Where would you like for us to meet?
Speaker 4: Should just meet in his office in about twenty minutes?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 5: Oh, gather them and you're sure you were all right? Karon?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: Can I try and see if Karun is lying to me?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Make a perception check Karun?
Speaker 9: Oh fuck thirty?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Karen is always lying to you?
Speaker 2: So you don't? So you actually.
Speaker 1: Because YA took the initiative here, I think what we'll
do is saying you don't have to make a check
for this. There's no like a posed check.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: What it is is whatever your modifier is for your deception.
So plus ten. So you heard the difficulties effectively twenty.
Speaker 12: Yeah, smashed it anywhere critical the crep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you tell.
Speaker 12: Karen is always lying when you answer that question, and it.
Speaker 5: Seems as though they are quite hurt by the outburst.
I would assume.
Speaker 12: Karun will never let you know, but probably.
Speaker 5: I give a soft glance to you, and I will
pat you on the shoulder.
Speaker 9: All right, I will go.
Speaker 5: And fetch them. I'll see you downstairs. All right, Yes,
it is okay, Karun.
Speaker 12: Do you want any shnooze.
Speaker 6: No, I do have.
Speaker 12: Good price.
Speaker 9: That is okay. That is also the reason why you
are having issues right now.
Speaker 12: Cool because of the shnooze or because of all of
the other things around the shnooze, like the dealing of news.
Speaker 9: Probably that one, I think, but maybe the third now
probably not it on its own. I suppose you are
an alchemist, it would be expected. But yes, the feelings
around it, I think you need more discretion.
Speaker 7: A run.
Speaker 12: It's not a bad idea. Been not guies.
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, maybe don't do these things in sight?
Speaker 7: Uh I.
Speaker 9: Yes, I have no judge on you for what you
are doing. It would be hypocritical of me.
Speaker 7: Uh I.
Speaker 9: Semi regular makes sacrifices to my patron, the mosquito, which and.
Speaker 12: She loves you for it.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes she does. But I also do not wish
to do that around others, as it is not a
pleasant experience for them. I worried Malvic when he had
found me one of the times.
Speaker 12: Well maybe you just need better friends.
Speaker 9: I thought I had them.
Speaker 12: Well, I don't mind.
Speaker 9: I appreciate that, but I think maybe, yeah, you understand
what I mean. Oh, yes, we have mentioned that we
have your back. Remember, but remember you also need to
have ours.
Speaker 12: Of course.
Speaker 9: Anyways, what had happened if you had been arrested the
previous day?
Speaker 1: Which day?
Speaker 9: Perhaps that is precisely what I mean, Karun.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that is probably what you mean.
Speaker 7: Wow if.
Speaker 9: H now, do you realize what that could do to
us too?
Speaker 12: I will do everything I can not to get arrested.
Speaker 9: I trust you, Karun, but you don't lose others. Your
actions are not always yours when you're in a group.
Speaker 12: This is a fair point.
Speaker 9: Listen, I will start heading toward the office. If you'd
like to join me.
Speaker 12: Unless you have cost us, I'll be with you.
Speaker 9: And it does one of these like awkward pats on
your shoulder and walks out of the room.
Speaker 12: I followed to listen, and I take an a grieved
glance over my shoulder towards the balcony as I do,
hell Rick, I.
Speaker 7: Think you'll notice. I mean, I made the check. I
have grabbed the igainst the banister the likes uh, and
I have gripped it so tight. Maybe even see scorch
Marx flame or heat that I have not had any
fire for a while. Maybe just reached an emotion of
anger that I have not tapped in a long time, Calavic,
Why won't you listen? Why do you always have to
go the extra mile for things?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 7: Hey, everyone in danger.
Speaker 4: I put a hand on your shoulder, Palavic.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I lost myself.
Speaker 4: It's all right to lose yourself time and time right now.
We have a job to do.
Speaker 7: So much riding on this moment. I've been waiting to
be in front of him in the last thing I needed.
What's being worked up? I can't even think straight. All
I see is fire.
Speaker 4: Hey, and I will attempt to put hands on either
side of your face.
Speaker 7: It's not just Corona, says this place. It's been winged
out on me.
Speaker 4: Hey, look at me. Take a deep breath in right,
don't think about anything else right now, just me, just
you heathen reade out.
Speaker 7: How will I hold back one wrong thing? I have
dreamed of these moments of being in front of the doctor.
Just one quick snap is what it takes. I have
a shout at these emotions for far too long. But
seeing him just wear out something of me. His smile
is something behind it. I say. I'm telling you it's
not right.
Speaker 4: Now is the time we will get answers?
Speaker 7: Yes, very smart to see the folks with your head
and mark trust. I should not trust him.
Speaker 4: You don't have to trust him. We do have to
ask questions, and he has promised us answers. Let's start there,
shall we?
Speaker 7: I bite back? Yes, I think when I look into
your eyes, the red of my eyes become a little
bit more vivid. Let's go forth. Oh, look here he comes.
Speaker 2: H all right, Colven has updated me. Uh please, Uh,
there is much to talk about. Uh. The other gate
walkers have also been summoned. We can go down into
the lab, the small room. We have a lecture. Hold
down there, we can speak in.
Speaker 7: I look at the other's right side eye.
Speaker 9: You would just see me nodding, but maybe slightly turning
towards you, because I can.
Speaker 4: Settle snowy Owl is here with us?
Speaker 7: Correct?
Speaker 2: Yes, where snow and write this way?
Speaker 5: Saquachi.
Speaker 7: You do not have everyone with us.
Speaker 5: I believe Karun needs a moment.
Speaker 7: They need to be here.
Speaker 2: K Karen would be with you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, came with me.
Speaker 6: I am here.
Speaker 2: You can start whenever you want. I guess now it's
okay to go down to the lab.
Speaker 4: Doctor. We have many questions for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have him as well a lot to come
back to. All right, peace, let's head down to the
lab um hmm. You'll notice that one of the one
of the doctors uh guards that you.
Speaker 1: Heard about uh, sort of leans over and whispers to
the doctor. Doctor nods his head and says something back,
and then all right, please.
Speaker 4: Could I try to eavesdrop it?
Speaker 2: Sure? Make a perception check.
Speaker 1: Didn't hear it was whispered and they were like right
next to each other.
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 1: Albert starts to he leads the way, and the you
can see like the doctor opens up the office the
door in the back of the office, and Albert begins
to walk down stairs. You all, if you're all following,
you start walking downstairs.
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 1: Like it's a small spiral staircase. It's enough room that
you don't have to like hunch over anything, but it's
kind of small. It's only like five feet wide or so.
And you begin to walk down the stairs. Albert and
the doctor.
Speaker 2: Leading the way.
Speaker 1: They open the door at the bottom of the stairs,
and once they do, beyond you can see a what
appears to be like a lecture hall stairs leading down
the center with benches sort of on landings leading all
the way down as you might see like in a
college classroom. At the bottom, you see there's another landing
with stairs on either side, and then a stage where
the stairs go up to. There are two metal tables
maybe six or seven feet long each, and there are
blackboards on either side. They light the torches kind of
on the sides of the benches as the doctor motions.
Speaker 2: Please have a seat. Yes, I wanted to speak with
sort of you.
Speaker 7: Before he gets While he's starting, I'm going to walk
down to the same spot I was at that night.
Speaker 2: Okay, the doctor and Albert went first, Just to be clear,
they went down there. Nothing seemed to happen, so.
Speaker 5: They already passed the Then.
Speaker 7: Now I would take that as a que and then
I'll look towards you.
Speaker 9: All this seat sounds good.
Speaker 4: I will stay close to Sakuachi in a protective way.
Speaker 5: Sure, and I would like to make sure I am
positioned at a spot where I can see all of
my companions quite clearly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the benches are probably like ten feet wide
or so, so you could probably.
Speaker 2: Feel like two per per side, per bench.
Speaker 4: Mhmm.
Speaker 1: There's a total of ten these benches.
Speaker 7: I have my hat set on me I do not
have my acts. Who's just thinking from here, no worries.
Speaker 1: The other gate walkers are here as well. So I
stand in Lunja Takuzo and ah yeah, ex Terravin Oh.
Speaker 7: I don't think. I don't think I like that, Okay,
because he said he wanted to talk to us.
Speaker 2: He said, he told you. He said it several times.
Speaker 7: I know what he said, but it's what I heard.
Speaker 2: The doctor gets up on the stage.
Speaker 1: The guards are there as well, and the doctor says,
quite to Jenny, we have old bins through. Yes, I
am eager to hear about all of all of your
journeys and everything that has happened. I have been conducting
various interviews with the other gate walkers that have come through.
It has been enlightening, to say the least. There are
many gate walkers that have come through this place that
have many troubles, people that have horrific disfigurements. Some of
them have gifts much like yourselves. Vax Steven Tacoso Lunja,
I ascending. I'm sorry that I could not speak with
you before I left on my most recent outing. Melvick
Asilia yah.
Speaker 2: Kahoum or Ashtak and now, Sakawachi. I am glad that
you all here. It has been a long time coming,
and from what I understand, you have been quite prolific
in your investigations.
Speaker 9: This is.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 2: I am not surprised.
Speaker 1: You have been some of the best investigators that of
hold the gate walkers that.
Speaker 2: Have been through here. I'm hoping that we can learn
a lot from each other. I have so much, so
much that I have learned myself.
Speaker 1: Yes, let us speakin.
Speaker 2: As he says, this makes a small gesture this foot
you all here.
Speaker 7: I'm going to cover my face because I know exactly
where it's going from.
Speaker 5: We had preemptive knowledge of this, so I feel as
though I would do the same.
Speaker 9: I'm holding my breath.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need you all to still make a will
save for me please?
Speaker 7: Yes, you get any bonuses? Do I get any bonuses?
Speaker 2: Uh? You do you do?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 9: He's a hero point.
Speaker 5: I am re rulling.
Speaker 9: This is an inhaled threat. Yes, yes, all right? Good
A if I succeed as a critical success, okay, because
I have breath control, as I can hold my breath.
Speaker 5: And I have master will, I am unsure if A
twenty three is a success, I doubt it.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 4: I also have master will secret.
Speaker 9: I'm rerolling my twenty three.
Speaker 7: Before I I want to know what bonus I get
a mental bonus I get.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's true.
Speaker 9: I guess I didn't know if it's success. Yeah, oh,
we do know if it's a success before choosing three
roll though.
Speaker 2: Yes, uh, good question. I'm not sure that I've ever.
Speaker 9: Been sure on actually in seventy one episodes done.
Speaker 2: That's a good A good question. Let me let me
see you because I have a couple of things.
Speaker 7: Rolls for failures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is rolls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is technically not a secret role. I think so, Malvic.
I will say that you have a plus two on this.
Speaker 7: We can't tell if it's a success on that.
Speaker 2: I'm checking. Hold on, let me see what it says
on hero points mm hmmm, spend your hare a point
even if you're unable to act, which re roll a check.
I imagine you.
Speaker 1: Can find you can do it after you find out
because it doesn't it yeah, because it says that you're
able to do it. It's not an action.
Speaker 9: Yeah, even if you can't act incapacitated, it's a cost.
Speaker 1: So, Malvic, you are failing, right, Yara, you're also failing.
Speaker 5: Okay, use my hero points one.
Speaker 2: Uh, okay, I believe.
Speaker 9: I believe I'm also failing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you are also failing.
Speaker 9: I do have my feet now. I do realize that
this is after the fact, so you may veto it
before I use a hero point. It says you're about
to attempt a skill check and try to remember the skill.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can use that because you this
is this one is a proactive one.
Speaker 5: I see, I see, yes, yes, yes, and this would count.
This counts as a skill check. I also have to
try that again, so I would assume not.
Speaker 2: Yes, saving through very good?
Speaker 9: All right, are we rolling with my hero point? But
twenty nine that is a success? Is a quit success?
Then in a breath control?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: Mine is also a critic.
Speaker 2: A role for Karun.
Speaker 7: She's probably luck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if only I had cast protection on us before
we went in.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: But Karun has taken such a proactive of stance on
the lethargy poison. I'm giving her a bonus.
Speaker 2: She's constantly trying.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I saw what it was, I started laughing so hard. Okay,
she breathed in intentionally. Luck that that was the thing
that happened, because it was all luck. I came up
with the thing on the spot. I was like, yeah,
it's lethargy poison, you know when she was trying to
find it.
Speaker 14: Okay, Uh, so she's got a plus two circumstances. Uh,
I'm just gonna add it whatever, that's a natural one.
Speaker 7: All.
Speaker 2: I'm going to spend a hero point for her.
Speaker 5: I would assume that she would as well.
Speaker 2: You never know, You never know, you really ever know.
I'm this smoke. Okay, yarra, you fall asleep.
Speaker 5: Yes, I look to you all, and my eyes begin
to close rapidly. They flutter as I slam downward.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: The gate walkers all asleep. Snowy owl, snowy Owl. I
get to make a check for.
Speaker 11: Uh mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Where is it? It is this hockey bar? Yes, okay,
uh that's actions. I want conditions. Where are the conditions? There?
Speaker 9: We go?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Uh, snowy Owl. You said to act as Sakawachie,
thank you for that.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Snowy Owl aka Sakawachie is still awake.
Speaker 7: And as as the doctor.
Speaker 1: Says this, uh, you can see the gas sort of
like spread around on the where the seats are.
Speaker 2: I mean you can't see it.
Speaker 1: It's invisible, but you you know, you all like cover
up at Malevic's sort of motions, and you can hear this.
The doctor's just kind of staring at you. Unfortunate.
Speaker 2: I suppose I.
Speaker 1: Will need the custom demons as well.
Speaker 2: And as he says this, the curtains behind the doctor
open up and you see two large demonic creatures behind him.
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