Hello everybody. Welcome back to D and D4O4I
MUDM, Tony, and join with me today with your other super cool
competitive sport in my sports season, starting with the
there's a touchdown interception, Jared.
What's going on, guys? Milan checking in in my sport
now. OK, I wanted to be honest, I
don't watch a lot of sports, but I do find the game of cricket
kind of cool. Good choice.
OK. What an option?
The pitching to the what is it, the stumps and the way they
throw it and all the stuff. Pretty cool.
That's mine. What about Dan?
Hello, everybody. My name is Dan.
I play Boram Dumore, ya Bog frog artificer, and I am the rugby of
this sports cast. I played rugby in college.
It's my favorite sport. If you don't know what it is, go
give it a watch. It's kind of fun.
Just look up the haka. That's pretty cool.
All right, How about you, Alec? Yeah, my name is Alec.
I play Castle Amber Leaf and my favorite sport is hockey.
I'm a big hockey guy primarily because I'm a die hard San Jose
Sharks fan. So Sharks go Sharks go Sharks.
What about you, Kylie? Hi, ya.
I'm Kylie. I play Vivian Charmont and my
favorite sport is softball because I used to play
competitively and I coached competitive and house league as
well and I wanted to train for the Olympics but then they
pulled it so I didn't. And that's me.
How about you, Tony? I'm going to go with the 5050
Pretzel cutting sport as me famous on the show Schlag Dead
Hensler. I'm more of a ball into a train
car myself, but that's a good pick.
Oh man, nothing like 3:00 AM betting on suspicious websites
on 5050 pretzel cutting, I'm not going to lie.
That stuff's insane. I've seen it, it's so sick.
It's so good. And then?
They weigh it to like, make sure it's the same.
It's crazy. I want to do the blindfolded
water pouring competition. Oh dude, that one's good too.
That'll be our next forum. Dude, that's such a good one.
Mad we have these now because we could have done them when we
were all together. Oh.
Dude, you're so right. Oh, write it down.
Write it down. Write it down.
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And now that we have the rundown, we got to have the
recap. Last time on DND Four O 4,
Vivian allowed everyone in her hideout for the first time ever,
but Mylin is still nowhere to be seen.
As Vivian and Kazel stay behind, Booram sets out to find Mylin
and to try to drag him back to the group.
But little do they all know that poor Mylan is battling for his
life back at home against this weird monster that popped out of
his cloak. While Mylan is fighting away,
Beau Ram slips back to his home, assuming Mylan will come back to
them in the morning. But Beau Ram doesn't find his
apartment empty. Noella has been waiting to
confront him about the stolen phoenix feather he took from her
beloved hat. A deal was struck and Beau Ram
did not produce the results Noella was looking for, but he
was able to level up with the rest of the team.
Come morning, everyone miraculously meets up back at
Vivian's hideout with a new resolve, A newfound connection
to one another as we continue our adventure.
And Balderas Bard hit that track.
Wait, what is it again? Bard spit that shit.
Sparkly, the intro. Disgraced in the heartland, a
star could set things right, manufacture the magical and
return a solar light. Rama scorched, fractured forest,
the twilight in discourse Glance the rivers that bleed in the
swamp of the seed and rimmers help us conquer the shadow.
Done with the bright flow, We'll find where we belong.
But what will await us when all our secrets are gone?
Sharma reported in And traveling with me today is Mylan Baxson,
the questionably sticky red panda Castle Amber Leaf, the
very generous Aladrin and Boram neotypicer.
And this is D and D4 O 4. Oyos Grow.
Welcome to session 16 where we start this session with a little
bit of a time skip as the four of you have decided to do 1 big
sleepover and spend the night at Vivian's now recently discovered
hideout. We are starting this session on
the dawn of the 19th of Myrtle. After returning to Vivian's
hideout, Mylan shows the gang his little cloak and Beau Ram
discovers something very interesting about it.
How the crown sigil with eyeballs on it is really a
symbol of the conjuration school of magic for teleportation.
With that knowledge, you spending the night, what are the
four of you doing on the 19th and Myrtle?
A castle. Touch this for a SEC, see if it
take you anywhere. I start pushing that castle.
No, no, I'm OK. Just like right in the morning,
just like not even waking up having.
Breakfast. Probably just first, honestly.
Get out of my bed, dude. Yeah, fucking two in my room.
I'll figure this out a bit later, maybe.
Let me keep this Milan. We'll get you another cloak in
town. Maybe we match this, don't
worry. I'm gonna need a new one first.
It's only fair. That's what I'm saying we're
going to make a day about. It as I'm reaching up trying to
grab it. Hey Julie, you maybe know some
places with some good cloth, no? Sure deal.
I like the sound of that. Whatever color you like, Milan.
Somebody roll me AD 4, 2. It's a cloudy day.
It's not sunny, but it's not raining.
All right, just finished breakfast.
I'm gonna go get myself situated.
Where the bathrooms at? Mylan winces.
Maybe where the bathrooms at in this place?
There should be 1 next to your room.
My room? What?
You mean my room? Oh yeah, my house is equipped
for everyone having their own room by the way.
So you should have a bathroom within your room.
If not, it's in the hallway. OK.
And which room is that then? I don't need to stay here.
But I appreciate it. I mean, maybe, maybe it's better
than going back to the stacks some nights.
You can go over here and she's going to point at a a spot that
is the bathroom. Hey Charles, show me where it is
and I go find Charles. That's a better idea at this
point. And Barum's just like, go to the
bathroom before we head out. Hanging out to.
Do what? To get Mylan A new cloak,
obviously. Vivian will go along for the
ride for finding Mylan some new cloth for his cloak, but she's
going to be hidden. But she can't just grab her
normal of it on hood up because she does not want to be seen
because she is ready to mess up her family's name as best she
can as soon as she can. As the four of you are just
finishing getting ready, there is a knock at the door.
You guys can all stay away from the door so they can't see you
just in case, and I'll shuffle them over to like the West side
of the door behind the staircase and turn off all the lights,
make it dark. Have Ophelia and Charles help.
As you go to look out the window to see who arrived, you see a
very luxurious carriage parked outside with four beautiful
horses and that Charmont symbol displayed and plastered on the
side of this beautiful primrose white carriage with golden
gilded trim, plush red curtains just making just the most
obvious vehicle of the Charmond family.
As you hear Ophelia's voice from the entrance way.
Lord Charmond has entered the estates announcing his presence
to everyone. Oh God.
And you hear your father barreling into the foyer.
Vivian approach immediately and you hear some heavy foot
tapping. Vivian's going to sigh and turn
to everyone. Just go.
Stays quiet. It's possible.
Please. Vivian's just going to steal
herself and go up. Hello, Father.
What can I do for you today? Vivian, it has been several
days. Yes, I've only saw you just
yesterday. It feels like eternity since you
have yet provided the letter that you said you were going to
write to Garrett's with a third and that I would proofread of
your journeys on sanctioned journeys to the Rocket homestead
that he seems so interested in. I'm here to look at the letter
before sending it. With all due respect, it's been
less than a day. I assumed that you would have
taken care of it properly. Yes.
So this is Vivian's dad downstairs, Yes.
And I'm like whispering to Mylan and Borum and.
Like Borum's in the bathroom? Oh.
I'm whispering to Mylan now and I'm like.
No. Kind of sucks.
Something's happening, something's happening is right
arm starts clawing at the walls as he's like trying to get
towards the window to just start escaping.
Something's happening. He's like frantically kind of
moving towards the window. But the boat removed, they got
that fancy so. Vivian's going to pull out a
paper. I'm assuming she would have
gotten at least a rough draft started.
Here you go, Father. Worried that anyone's going to
come out at any minute. So your father travels with
bodyguards and there's three of them.
Two of them look like normal guards.
The third guard is out by the carriage.
He was driving the horse and you see that there is one at the
back of the carriage outside and he looks like he's the leader of
the four guards that are there total.
He looks more like a captain. You know that your father pays
good money to have skilled fighters with him and these look
like somebody. They don't look like city
guards, but they are definitely some type of private security
that he has hired. And because of his Crest, they
definitely have some certain privileges, that of a standard
security that like a Tavern would hire or like a a watchman
would have in the city. He takes the letter, and he
looks at it, and he begins to read it like this is not even in
the proper format. Vivian, you want to do it?
OK. And you're telling me a rock
fell from the sky from the shooting star?
Is that what you're saying? Is that why he's so interested?
I think so. That's all I saw genuinely.
And it's a rough draft by the way.
It's not perfect. What is in that note?
What are you trying to share with him?
Vivian is sharing literally what she said to Garrix, just being
like a rock fell from the sky. We were looking at the shooting
star because it was so nice that night.
And then all of a sudden it crashed in front of our
carriage. And as we got close to see what
was going on, we were attacked and that was it.
Nothing was found. We didn't know anything.
There was a big disaster, but because I was a little too
focused on helping Nuella, I just didn't report it back in
time. I was going to do it when I got
home, and that was my negligence.
However, that's why I forgot. Or dot, when I had instructed
you to do it. Immediately.
He looks at your attire. He sees that you're dressed up
and not in proper fancy clothes. You know you have your
adventuring gear on. He goes.
And where were you going today? This is my comfortable of it.
I wear this all the time. And you plan on going out and
being seen in public in that? Well, I try to keep myself
hidden personally, so they don't know who I am because I don't
want people to be disrupted by me.
You. Are shamont and you want to be
hidden? Would you want me to be seen
with the public? You are my ward and thus to be
respected as one. Ward.
Yep. Ward is a.
For those that don't know, it's a fancy way to say orphan or
like adopted or usually used for someone who's like a bastard
child. Jon Snow?
Yep, exactly, exactly. Yeah, Ward.
As a ward, you have certain privileges but also need to
maintain a certain level of you like eyes, your outfit, dignity.
You represent me and the family, your brothers and sisters, your
mother at all times. Adopted, by the way.
Yeah, yeah, sure do. You're not planning one of your
silly adventures, are you? I have nothing in mind, Father.
I'm just going into town to get some material.
Oram opens the door to the bathroom and starts walking out.
Where is everybody? I don't know how to get around
you very well yet, Charles. Where you.
At Vivian freezes up everything. Is.
He looks immediately at Charles and Ophelia goes, Do you have a?
What if I do what? Were the 92 rules I specifically
pointed out for you to have this estate 79?
No guess. I am a grown.
Woman, you are under my care. As long as you are on the teat,
you shall obey my rules. If you want to be free, you
shall be casted free. Can I walk downstairs as he's
yelling at her and be like it looks like your morning sweep of
your house is safe. Hey Vivian, give me a deception
check. That's brilliant.
Castle for the win. It's a Nat 20.
You see, he immediately slicks back his hair and off his collar
he goes. It's your knight.
Yeah. So do you have a problem with
that father? Because if you do, I could re
look at those 97 rules. See that?
He looks to the left, he looks at Charles and Ophelia, and he
goes. Is this her hired help?
Does he speak the truth? Viviane going to turn to them
and with pleading eyes go yes, yes, please say.
Yes, yes my Lord. And you see Ophelia and Charles
in unison agree to what he's saying.
He was yes. Kassel has come here to make
sure the estate is safe because she was away for some time and
well, as a part of his higher duty, he needs to make sure that
the home is safe. Since she hasn't been home in
about 3 days or so, he was just making sure that's right.
Thank you, Ophelia and Charles, do you see now it is all OK?
I follow all of your rules to AT as your ward.
Very well, well, I will leave promptly as soon as you finish
that letter in proper format. Do not leave me waiting.
I will give you and he looks at a pocket watch.
I will give you exactly a quarter two.
You will prepare that letter right now, and I will be on my
way. Do not keep me waiting.
Ophelia. Charles, please do not let
Vivian out of the city for any reason without my approval.
If she requests to use her Little Pony, you must write a
letter to me immediately. Most haste, expedite post and I
will approve any necessary travel.
But until then, and only then, you are not to prepare any
travelling academies. They could both go.
Yes, my Lord. And he leaves and goes out to
his carts and is expecting you to finish a handwritten letter
of what happened to Garrix. Proper formatting.
Vivian's pissed off. He basically gave you 15
minutes. Yeah, that's what he meant by a
quarter 2. She's gonna turn around to
Castle and go Castle. Can you tell them what's going
on? Thank you for saving my ass.
That was amazing. I'm gonna go write this really
fast. Yeah, no problem.
Don't worry about. It oh, here's the entrance.
Ah man, it's tough to get around to you.
I grab Boram by his collar and I walk him right back upstairs.
Get your hands off me. Thank you, Castle, Thank you so
much. Shut up 50.
Minutes. What are you doing?
And he's trying, but he's not nearly strong enough to like,
get away from Castle. Vivian's going to write the best
BS letter she ever has. OK, go ahead all doing that
letter, you are going to make me a deception check because you
are leaving out details now. Although he may not know where
the letter is potentially heading, a seasoned adventurer
can probably point out holes to a story once it's written, you
know, and he has listened to you, he has met with you and is
potentially looking for something for redundancy.
So you're going to go ahead and make me a deception check you
are writing this letter before sealing it off?
I got a 10. You write out the story, you
intentionally leave out the fact that you did not take any of
these fragments, You leave out any important details that may
try to like lead him back, because you're not trying to
give him anything. You're just saying that you got
into a fight with some monsters that fell from the sky and you
were defending yourself. Is there anything that you would
like to put in there intentionally, whether it's true
or not? Maybe I'll also add an extension
to the wedding invitation. So by the way, at the end, you
should come to this wedding to show that she's very focused on
anything outside of adventuring, really.
And you deliver that letter to your father.
Your father proofreads it. And with that little addition of
the wedding, you see that he seems quite pleased.
With that little addition, he goes, hmm, we've already sent
him an invitation. But this will do, Vivian, this
will do. Yes, of course, you're welcome.
He looks away with eyebrows first and goes back into his
cart and then the Charmont wagon leaves the estate.
That's much better. Vivian's going to lock the door
up tight and return to everybody.
And thank Ophelia and Charles along the way.
Of course, my lady. Appreciate it very much.
She's going to walk back up to everybody upstairs.
Charles and Ophelia share a smile with each other as you
leave. All right then, Drink caught me
up on everything. Maybe give me a heads up next
time. Yeah, I mean, if you didn't take
so long in the bathroom, we would have.
But I got to take my business. Also, he came out of nowhere.
How is I supposed to warn you about that?
If you didn't go back to your apartment afterwards, I could
have filled you in on the whole day that happened the other day.
Yeah, exactly. As you guys are sitting there
talking, you just start hearing some strange noises from the
room that you guys left Mylan in.
What is going on in there? Is Mylan OK?
I have no idea. No, that guy's not OK.
He's still scratching himself up good, right?
Vivian's going to bust open the door.
I. Mean don't scare.
Him. As soon as you open the door,
it's like you kept a wild animal in a room without it being able
to get out. And it's just claw marks.
But you don't see him. And I'm assuming that there's
like a closet or something along those lines in this room.
Oh yeah. And you notice that the door is
kind of ajar. Vivian will walk over to the
door and call it to Mylan and just say about that scroll thing
I mentioned the other day. Would this help?
Are you okay? As you open up the door you see
him just kind of the very corner holding on to himself and his
teeth are chattering as he looks up to you and says my
butterflies hurt. It's okay buddy, what can we do
for for you? Did did, did the evil man leave?
Evil man's gone. I hate him too.
It's OK. Wait, how do you know he's evil?
They're all evil. They're all evil.
What do you what do you mean? All people.
Don't know. I don't know.
There's no. Did someone tell you he was
evil? They're bad, don't know why.
And he's just worried at this point and he's just like kind of
trying to calm himself down, kind of rocking a little bit
back and forth like it's OK, it's OK, I think I'm OK.
But he's gone. He's definitely gone.
I'm going to sit down with you on the bed and just like hold
you there so you don't go anywhere but get a big hug.
Bad feeling is. It because the person scares
you? Or is there some like weird
feeling like there's something magical?
Bad feelings. I don't like it.
I don't know. I don't know.
Is your arm still itchy? Vivian's going to look around at
Boram and Castle. Yeah, Boram's just kind of
hanging by the door now. How are you feeling, Milan?
All too good, huh? Not great, not great.
OK. Anyways, I mean, I could go, I
could leave, I could go back to my my little spot.
It's pretty great. You're not going anywhere.
There is a monster there. You're going to stay here until
we help you feel better. So, as I asked the other day, do
you like to eat scrolls? Magic scrolls.
Yeah, I mean, they're pretty good.
Yeah. Does it help you feel better?
Oh. What I mean?
I think so. Does your arm get weird?
Why you got some? I could get you some right now,
would that help you maybe? Wait, what kind of scrolls
you've been eating? Well, they're the ones that are
in like the trash and they're just really tasty.
When you eat them, Oh my God, your brain tingles.
OK, Vivian's going to look up and just go.
There's a room where he eats magical scrolls.
Do you have any magical scrolls on you?
Otherwise, I'll go ask Ophelia and Charles.
Ohh I don't got no magic scrolls on me, no.
What's a rumor? Also, I don't know if that's a
good habit to contribute. To no, you guys right, you guys
right, you guys right. It's wonderful.
Know about that? Let's test it, see if he stops
getting all interesting. I'm a castle on this.
I mean, I don't think I got enough magic arcana theories in
the world that support someone eating magic scrolls.
I'm not going to lie, I can't believe I'm a green laborer on
this, but that sounds like a horrible idea.
But why can't you believe that I'm the smartest one here?
That's that's debatable. Debatable.
I got all kinds of math that'll tell you what to watch.
It's. OK, it's OK.
It's OK. I mean, it's not OK, but we
tabled for another day. I heard rumor that Beau Ramp
drinks his potions. Drinks potions.
That's a pretty normal thing to do with petite.
No, you drink different potions. Different potions than what?
What kind of potions, Mylan? I don't know, All I heard is
people were saying that that's why your eyes are that way.
My eyes. That ain't because of potions,
that's for sure. Oh, that's why, OK.
That's why what? His eyes.
No, my eyes. Don't you know how they point
and look at each other? And I like do like the cross
side thing. Well, you think you're real
funny today, Paladin. We gonna have a time.
Like trying to punch him but I can't even hit him because I'm
just like, not athletic. Vivian's gonna just put our
hands out while so holding. Mylan.
Just go. OK?
OK, Everyone calm down. Let's just figure this out.
Mylan. How can we help you?
Beau? Ram, do you have anything
magical? I'm pretty great right now.
Honestly, I think I'm pretty calmed down.
But if you got scroll, I mean, I'll sit there and I'll eat it.
I'll eat it. You got that flying potion, you
didn't use it. I'm worried to drink that
myself. Do you want?
Let's try that one, Mylan. Oceans.
We can make you a balloon. I don't know if I had a potion.
All right, here you go. Try this and I'll snap my
fingers and I'll use one of my tinkerers magic uses to create a
scroll for magic scroll abuse. All right, you read these kind
of things. You for real, factoid, You
crazy. Here, try that then.
What kind is it? I don't care.
He starts just nibbling on it and then starts taking really
big bites. Mylan, do you just like paper?
He starts like zoning out and he's got like this thousand mile
stair. Yeah, I think he just like
paper. And he falls over, he starts
rolling on the ground with his back like he's getting real,
real comfy. OK.
Right. Is that all you needed, Mylan?
He doesn't say anything back. He's just in his own little
world, just rolling all over the place.
Perfect. All right.
Anyone wanna carry him while we get outside?
I'll do it, I guess. And Vivino, go pick him up.
Let's grab ourselves a day, a good day.
Miley Romeo Constitution saving throw for me.
No, I gotta. Cool you fail, guy.
We'll worry about that, leader. No, no.
Ominous. Yes.
All right, let's walk and talk now.
First of all, my potion don't make my eyes this way.
The fair while made my eyes this way.
In what way? Yeah.
How did you get there? You know I'm not supposed to be
in there as long as I usually go in there.
Took me a little too long to realize the sun in there was
stripping the melanin from my eyes.
I used to be a light blue. Now what you've seen is the
blood vessels kind of peeking through.
Vivian's gonna grab her face and go.
Is that why mine are purple too? I don't think so.
OK, you've been in the fair while.
Well, no, I really haven't left. No, that's not why.
OK. You OK?
I think don't worry about it. OK.
Now we got these goggles to protect them when I'm in Dale so
they don't go full red. You know what I'm saying?
Indran, You want anything while we out?
No, I'm OK. OK.
You staying here though, right? I wasn't going to, but I mean, I
guess I could. He's coming with us program.
All right, fine. Why wouldn't he?
No, I get it, I get it. It's fine.
I guess it'll be an OK day borrowing light cigarette.
Just watch out. Vivian just looks around like,
what the Hell's their problem? Do you guys got to work on
something? Couples counseling or whatever.
Couples counseling Ain't no way. I'm never coupling with this
nice day. We gotta have a nice day.
He goes into some breathing exercises.
Vivian, I'll just look over at Castle briefly.
You OK? It's fine.
OK, Everyone understands. Let's go.
Have a good day everybody. Mylan's still on his back, just
squirming around, having the best time of his life.
Do you have my arms on my shoulder doing that?
So 4 of you have this cloak with this weird symbol that you've
came to the conclusion that is a symbol of conjuration on there
directly related to teleportation.
You are also decided to buy a new cloak for violin.
Besides that, is there anything else?
Like what's on the agenda for today?
You guys kind of wrapped some things up.
Vivian will turn around everyone and go, all right, well, things
have been a little crazy, but maybe we should go tell Noella
that everything's going to be OK and that she's safe.
Oh, right, yeah, we could. We could do that, I suppose.
Why are you looking like that program?
Like what? I'm just smoking.
OK, that's fine. I love to see Noella.
It's just that, you know, I kind of already saw her last night,
so. What?
Why? Oh, she came over to my place
late last night. Vivian's Golf Smack.
She already gave me my reward for open route, you know, and
boring winks. Your reward?
You didn't check in with the rest of us.
What we talked about. Well, you know, I think she just
kind of likes me or something. You're unbelievable.
And Vivian storms off. She's so mad.
What? Let's go see it though, I'm sure
it'd be fine. Do you even see where she would
go after you had a great night with her?
I got no idea. She's an independent woman.
So all right, well, let's get Milanini and get them sized out
for a new cloak. We'll come back to this later, I
guess. You have been to a Taylor
before. Just, you know, in the back.
That's where I got these. Cool.
Pants always still talking about the trash.
All right. We're going into front side this
time. I.
Don't like when it goes in there.
We'll accompany you this time, Mylan.
If they try to kick you out, we will try to keep you in.
So there is a store that is in the Westerly district called the
Silk Vale Draperies. This place often deals with not
only outfits, but clothes that you would find around homes such
as towels, rugs, tapestries, all of that your family has bought
from them several times over. They do recognize you, Vivian,
as you've bought things from there, and they can easily
fashion a cloak as well as batching rugs or curtains or
tablecloths or towels, hand towels, scarves.
And you are looking for Anwin, who is the owner of this fine
establishment. We could say that a cloak from
here would run you about 13 gold, but it will be very, very
nice. Or Marlin.
Remember that gold you got? You get to use it now.
Wait, can I get the same symbol? I kind of liked it.
Oh, I look at Castle and Vivian. Yeah, actually you're like, I
can do anything. Oh, desire.
Why don't we get the symbol on your little necklace you got
there? That's a great idea.
Necklace is that this and I hold up my it's like a broken piece
of glass around my neck that one this yeah, this not simple.
No that patch day on your sash. Yeah, this one.
I'll take this one. Perfect.
This was cool looking. That one please, not the other.
And he kind of stares at it for a while and rubs it while his
pattern's being fixed. You see that while she's taking
your measurements, Milan, she's being very invasive and like
like stretching your arms out, trying to pick you up.
See how long your body splits? Just kind of like red panda
handling you as if she's trying to make an outfit for a cat and
then puts you down and then goes off to make this cloak.
You get to choose the color. Color with that.
Like my lab code here, this is black.
My eyes, that's Violet. You know, maybe it's a color, an
object you like. You can name the object.
We picked the color for you. Point to the trees.
We want a Brown. But trees, no the like.
The leaves. Yeah.
Green. But they're the same.
You might not see the same as those gonna get green.
We're gonna make it a bit of a dog green.
Thank you very much, Violin Colorblind.
Red pandas are technically can't see certain things.
Everything is like yellow and bluish to them.
Violin is colorblind. Ashwin takes these measurements,
gets the specifications. About 15 minutes passed by, you
see she whips up something fierce and gives you the cloak
and charges you 13 gold All in all.
And Molly now has a new spiffy cloak.
All right, and it's how much gold 13?
All right, one 2-3 and then he counts all the way up to 13 and
he's like, there you go, thanks. And then he hops down from a
little stool that they scooted up.
As he gets down, he then scratches his head a little bit
and then kind of rubs his head all of a sudden, just takes his
two claws and rips ear holes out of the top of it.
So now he can have his ears. I would have just put that.
In I would just put that in. Oh, that's so much better.
You did a good job. You did a good job.
Milan you creative up top and he puts his hand up for a high 5
for Milan. Vivine's going to turn around to
the cloak maker. Go.
I'm so sorry. Thank you so much.
You've done amazing. We're going to go.
So again, this is green. That cloak is green, all right.
And leave the store. So what are you guys doing with
the old cloak? Should we try to burn it?
Burn it. I don't know about that.
I kind of want to figure out where this quotation circle
goes. I'm all curious are.
You going to try to go I? Don't know about that.
Maybe we send a pound in and you know first.
Yeah, just to make sure it's safe in there.
Oh, is that just because you know you'd be too afraid and you
need me to go or it's. Because if there's a monster
there, I'd probably be eviscerated in about a moment.
Not that you. Not that there would be
monsters. Of course, of course.
But you're saying my magic would be nevermind, nevermind.
We won't go into that. Oh my goodness, could you two
stop fighting? I don't think it's good for
anyone to possibly go through it right now.
I think we should maybe try to do a little a bit more research
and figure out what it is. I do agree with that.
All right, You want to keep this in your bag and I throw it at
CASL. Sure.
Aren't you the one with like, the magical bag?
Yeah. OK.
Yeah, I guess Casl kind of just like, looks around like I guess,
and he'll put it in his bag. I don't.
Know what happened between you 2?
But all you guys argue a lot. You do get along a lot.
Guess you could be friends. Friends with this guy?
Someone has to be the adult, you know?
Right. And it's certainly not you.
OK, anyways, so it's the guy who got robbed and lost and yeah,
it's fine, it's fine. I'm sorry, so the guy that had
to be picked up the first battle we was ever in.
OK, you know what? Vivian's gonna come in between
hands on both chess and go. OK, let's figure out our next
step, shall we? We can fight it out later.
OK, you're right. I'm sorry.
I don't need to be making anything difficult right now.
We got a lot to do. Your game plan right now is just
find you, Ella, and have a conversation with her.
Yeah, Vivian, go ahead. Let me see if you actually know
where she lives because she's a famous person and you're like
friendly with her. But I wouldn't say like your
best is some friends. You know, she's familiar with
your family. She does have a level of trust
with you. What would you like me to roll
History check 18. You know that she lives in the
northwest side of town. It's near like the garden area.
It's actually kind of close to your childhood home as well.
All right, Well, here we are. Boram, are you even welcome here
today after the night you had last night or?
Of course I am what you're talking about, alright.
You can say. We gotta come talk about the
business we did for anyways so. And our reward?
I want some too. Right.
But Mylan, could you let me leave it, please?
I have a big favor to ask of her.
So if I could handle that first and then we get our reward.
Absolutely. You OK with that too, Kassel?
Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Perfect.
Vivian will go up and knock on the door.
Gorham is kind of facing away from the Group A little in the
back. You're knocking the door and
sure enough, some wait staff answers.
You see a human gentleman in a Butler outfit and he answers the
doors like good evening. May I ask who's who's at our
front door today? Hello, it's Vivian Sharma and my
friends who went to go help Nuella, Mylan Castle and Bull
Ram. We were just looking to talk to
her. Of course you hear some flipped
pages beyond the door. I don't seem to have you
scheduled for a meeting or even a a friendly visit today.
Is this an emergency? Nuella is quite busy.
I didn't make an appointment, but I went out to take care of
Grep with my team. Grep had been threatening to
kill her at her past several shows.
We just want to let her know that we captured him and he's
arrested. You hear Nuella's voice beyond
the door as Nuella sure enough recognizes your voice, pushes
the Ebola to the side and opens the door to let you in.
And you see that as she greets you and gives you a big hug.
Vivian, she kind of looks at the others a little little
cautiously, and then looks at Beau Ram with like a sneering
look. Oh Moncour, good to see you
again. Always happy to see you Vivian,
but the company you keep is sometimes questionable.
I I'm very sorry, yeah. I think she's talking about you,
Boram. She.
Can be talking about any one of us.
Let's not point no fingers. Vivian doesn't want to pry, but
she's also kind of like, well, didn't you go there on your own
accord yesterday? But that's OK.
We had some business to deal with.
That's right, she's like gritting her teeth and you see
that like her skin is becoming a little more red as she seems
quite angry. And we came by the let you know
that we dealt with your business as well.
Vivian's going to turn her head around at Boram and just go.
We're talking about this later. This is not what I thought you
meant originally. What'd you take on?
That and she turns back around to Nuella and goes, OK, we took
care of Grab. He's in jail now.
He had a music box. Strange.
We destroyed that too. So no rat should be bothering
you now. And he shouldn't be bothering
you. He's really lame.
But you should be safe now. Yeah, Yeah, she is.
He is really lame. Well, I do appreciate that,
Vivian, and I do appreciate you letting me know first hand
you're only a partner here. It kind of gave me the lowdown
of everything. And, well, I gave him something
that was a little more than I would say gratitude, but it's
something that was very near and dear to me that he took the
liberty of using for himself. You did what program?
I mean, I told her I'd give it back, but she wanted to see me
use it. And use what?
You see that one of her phoenix feathers is missing from the
hat. 4:00 to 3:00. So that's why you were above us,
huh? These tinkerous types always
have a few screws loose. Vivian, I would really
reconsider the company you keep around to you.
OK, screws loose. I don't appreciate that.
I fixed you up a nice potion. You didn't want it.
Noella, thank you so much for your time.
I think we will head out now. I'm glad we could help you and
if you need anything in the future please let me know of.
Course, Vivian, you know I always cherish our friendships
and well, hopefully I won't need any help with that nature in the
future, but I do appreciate it. Sure, I can make you many more
potions. A look of daggers darts towards
you. Oram, you've done enough.
Thank you so much. Oh, daggers through my heart.
If he enters around briefly to Nuella and goes, I'll talk to
you alone later. Eventually, of course, when I
catch you next. Everyone out.
Let's go. Where we going?
You're getting out of here. Whatever reward, I want a
phoenix feather too. Door shut.
How could you have done that? You knew what I needed.
How could you do that? OK, to be fair, I took it before
I knew what you needed. Oh.
My gosh, and you didn't want to tell us?
No. If he's going to turn the mile
in and go, he's a liar. That's called a liar.
A liar. Liar.
OK, I. Didn't lie, I just didn't tell
you about it. That's lying because you're
withholding the truth. OK, maybe you're right about
that. Now my one opportunity to get
what I wanted is gone, thanks to you.
OK, then how about you share some info because I don't know
exactly what you want. People are looking at you as the
four of you bicker to each other in the street.
Yeah, it is a new cloak. Get out of here.
What a rude child. You see two people walk off.
All I want is to get away from my family, do what I want, and
still have everything I own. Is that too much to ask for?
But I was Noela supposed to help you with that?
Is it about what we talked about?
Yeah. OK, well, you could have stayed
here, kept talking to her. You don't got away for us.
She's not going to help me after that, let's be real.
I mean if you want to tell her you distancing yourself from me,
that's fine, I've heard that before.
That's not the plan. I'm mad at you, but you're all
very nice sometimes. That wasn't what she was about
to say. Now look at Castle.
Why did she get mad at you anyways?
Yeah, what did? You do.
Unless that's how all women treat you or let.
Me get something straight. That is not how women usually
treat me. So why?
Is she mad? What did you do last night?
Because you made it seem like you did something different.
It's just we, you know, she came to me and wanted to see if I
could use that phoenix feta in a potion.
I did. She didn't exactly like it the
way it was. She wanted to see how good you
were at making potions, or was she trying to threaten you?
Maybe a bit of both. OK, so she was mad.
Excellent. Yeah.
There's no favors coming out of her.
I. Didn't the first time I found a
woman in my apartment waiting for me, but it's definitely the
worst time. Must be nice to be you, but I
am. Sometimes I told her I'd pay for
it. She didn't want none of that.
He's. Just going to put her hand in
her face. Well, I don't know what to do
here. She just left and had this weird
look on her face. Probably the principle of what
you did Bo ram. It's not the payment for it.
You don't just steal something important.
Normally I think so, but seems like she also wanted to do
something specific with these fetus, got more planned for it
than just decoration, you know what I'm saying You're.
Saying we should go back and ask her.
I won't go back in there, it's just going to make it worse.
But let her know when you do see her.
I'll work my way back and pay her back.
For what it's worth, all. Right.
I recognize maybe I got to be more honest about how I get
things in this world and I I'll try doing that if.
We see a change. That's good.
I'll hold you to it. All right, well, can we just get
out of this place, maybe get a drink or something?
Sure, sounds great to me. Yeah, I think I need one too.
Maybe we find something new on the way we got to explore some
of these new boss. Yeah, I don't think we're
allowed back at the three eyed out anyways.
So what? Will I get that after what you
did? Yeah.
Well, I mean what you did as well.
What what I do? Castle Castle got into a big
fight. A fight.
Well, let's be real, it wasn't a fight.
But I mean. He killed 2.
People. OK, yeah, let's talk about it
later. Alan is scared all of a sudden.
That one looks kind of posh. I don't like that.
Or I'm just like looking left and right at the bars.
So Baldares is laden with different types of Taverns.
Boram, you're more familiar with the ones on the other end of
town in the stacks in the port side district.
You know of the Tiger's Left Tooth, You know of Roosty's.
Roosty's is just a drinking Tavern that you cannot stay
there overnight. There's a lot of those in the
port side district of Baldares if you want to go somewhere more
familiar. Are you guys looking to drink
somewhere upscale? Or I'm wants to find a place
that's close enough to Vivian's hideout so we're not like going
past sitting tailing back. There's a still few in Westerly
and that's where Vivian does reside.
There is the Big Iron Cask Tavern.
The Big Iron Cask Tavern is a popular drinking spot and it's
more of the party type Tavern, but not in the sense that like
people getting drunk and fist fighting, throwing chairs.
But you go with the idea in mind that you're going to have fun
and it's a funner place to visit.
And the novelty of this is that they have this huge cask of L
that they are known for that the cast is almost like two stories
high that everybody drinks from. And they constantly fill it
weekly because it usually takes a week to get through the entire
cast with the amount of people that go there.
You walk inside the Tavern. It's a moderate sized room.
You're definitely a little closer together, the four right
owls, a little more spacious than here.
But behind the bar is a huge wooden and iron cast that's been
tapped 4 times. So it's four different novels.
And they're just serving this delicious L drink.
It's named after the place. It's called Big Cask and L seems
to be the popular drink of the bar.
The crowd is a bit younger. Does not look like a family
place. It looks like a after work
drinking bar. I don't know if you're going to
fit in Dendrin this kind of for the young crowd like us, What
are you, like 300 years old or something?
Yeah, but I mean, let's be real. I mean my skin looks better than
yours, probably because mine hasn't been blown up so many
times as I'm doing magic. And I do care quotes.
Anyways, let's head on in and and Castle just walks in before
he can say anything. 4 of you go in and there is the table that
the four of you could. But it's a lot of his standing
space. Matter of fact, a lot of these
tables are high up that Milo would probably need to sit on
top of the table to see all of you at eye level because most of
the people are standing here. All the seats are taken.
Guess we got to just go bog top right now all.
Right, Milan, I guess we're going to have to carry you
around here so we don't lose you.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
Vivian will take a turn this time.
He's full long cat. Get up in the air and I'll
follow everyone to the bar top with.
Mylin, there's a lot of people here.
You see all the mugs that they're holding are like bigger
than like your standard 16 or 18 oz mug.
They're like 24 oz mugs, kind of holding up to the name for the
Big Casket Ale. All right, here's the plan.
And Bohem's at the bar. Mylin Dendron.
Maybe you just fast enough, Vivian.
The second a table opens up, we all misty step over there.
Get in those seats. All right?
Don't give them a chance. Ready.
OK. Wait and like be looking around
shifty eyed until some people get up and then immediately just
zipping some chairs. You wait a good amount of
minutes. It's like pretty annoying how
long you have to wait. A matter of fact, you hear
people asking if other people are about to leave and they're
trying to like clean tables before anyone gets up.
You see a party of three about to get up.
You see that like two of these dwarfs are like running over and
misty step over and they get really angry.
They're like guys on this table first.
No, we were already in here. You just blinked too slow.
I've been here for two hours standing and my dogs are tired.
And you better bring your dogs outside to another Tavern.
Well, they're going to be barking at you if you don't move
it. Oh.
Yeah, you're going to mess with this guy.
And I point my thumb at Castle. This third and you see you guys
back here for a few minutes and they walk off.
You see all the girl dwarfs flip you off as the owner behind the
bar is like no fight no fight, keep that stuff outside.
All right, no fighting in here. Lose my license again.
And you see that? He Mumbles as he takes care of
his business. If you like to drink this ale it
will cost 6 silver a mug. It's a little on the expensive
side, but seems to be very popular for that reason.
What kind of hell is this? Dwarven hell, I heard it's
really good so it might be worth it.
Yeah, the dwarves usually know what they're doing with this.
Stuff everyone who's drinking -6 silver per mug that you get, you
see? Castle orders three.
Whoa. Having a good night there.
Yeah, let's just say, you know, sometimes I need it after a long
day and I look at Vivian and I look back at Boram.
Yeah, understand that. Listen, I don't usually talk to
many folks around the outside of the stacks, so it is kind of
nice to have you all around. And sorry if I've been blowing
things up a bit. Both literally and figuratively.
Yeah, exactly that. That's okay.
It seems like you're trying to change things up, so I'm fine
working on it with you. You know, we all got things to
work on. You know, it's just dealing with
some stuff right now. What kind of stuff are you you
on? No drugs, if that's what you're
implying. No, it wasn't that.
Oh my goodness. I'm kidding.
Take it easy. You easy to rile up?
Yeah. Well, it's been a rough week,
hasn't it? So what happened to you?
Well, you, you kind of saw the things that was happening to me.
I can't exactly use magic normal like most people can.
Gods gave up on me the second I was born.
I can kind of get it going once in a while.
It used to be that I could do the magic once in a while kind
of fine, but now every time I try casting spells sometimes
things go wrong. But.
Your gloves help it seems. Yeah, you know, Wizards,
warlocks, even sorcerers, you know, they can use books and
wands. I tried it all.
It don't work for me. But these gloves, finally, after
a bit of time, he's going to take the magic that's inside me
and kind of make it right. Well, that's cool that you can
fix it. That's pretty nice.
Fix it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's kind of nice. I guess it's like a Band-Aid
more than a fix, but. As long as I keep making them I
guess, right? Kind of wish I could just use it
like all my family though. They're real powerful druids,
you know? They protect that swamp real
nice. But I don't think I'll ever be
able to do that, so it is what it is, sorry.
To hear that. It's OK.
Hey Indran, that a new sword you got there?
Oh, this? Yeah, it was on one of the guys
who tried to kill me in my room at that inn.
I was just about to ask. Looks like a winter sword.
Yeah, well, I mean, the assassins, from what I could
gather, were from the Winter Court, so.
You know from the Winter Court, you know one of them changing a
lot, you know. He's taking your insults with
like a grain of salt, but when you suggested he is from the
Winter Court, you see a little bit more distaste on his face
and he really holds back from like spitting on the ground when
he hears the Winter court and he's just like, no, I'm from the
fall, the autumn court, definitely not the winter court.
OK, yeah, 'cause the Winter Court, they're kind of nasty.
Is that why you're away from home?
Is what why I'm away from home? The Winter Court.
Are they bothering you in the Autumn Court?
I don't know much about the Faye Wilde, but they're chasing you
out here. Yeah, so the way it works, the
Faye can be a tricky thing, But all of the courts, you know, you
have the seasons, winter, fall, summer, spring, It can be a
little bit political. And a lot of courts don't really
get along. And there's always, I don't
know, drama or issues between the courts.
But the winter Court, I would say, is the most volatile.
A lot of people from the Winter court look down on the other
courts and that they should have a larger Kingdom or larger court
than the other three. There's certain people in the
Winter Court that don't want me to return or they don't want me
knowing the things I know. I guess it's, it's very uneasy,
I guess everything going on there right now.
So someone must have found out I was here.
Someone must have told someone who is not very happy to find
out I'm still alive and they sent people to kill me.
That sounds terrifying as well. There is, we're going to call it
they pretty cunning. If you did something that they
sent in assassins after you, you must have done something pretty
bad or something. Pretty good.
We'll see what happens with them.
I'll tell you what, I like you a bit better now if you really do
not like the Winter Court, I don't like that much either.
I mean, it's crazy. Yes they are.
I do not like them at all and casual takes a really long drink
of the ale that he's drinking all.
Right, we all got lots of problems here.
Great. Well, mines not necessarily a
problem for me, it's a problem for them.
But yeah, I. Don't have any problems.
None. Yeah, of course not.
Not at. All we take care of your
problems as they pop up like turn and way and just kind of go
wide item maybe in castle. Well I I had a rough go as you
all have met my father and I'm ready to go do something fun.
Wait, Dad, The fat cat that I heard down there, that's your
dad. Yeah, Castle saved us there
because that would have been a nightmare.
Violin starts scratching his paw all of a sudden.
No, it's okay, Mylan, it's OK Scary people aren't there.
He's just kind of clammed up at this point as he's just
listening, trying to hold himself together.
We'll talk about it briefly, but basically I had to lie to
Garrix. I'm sorry you spoke face to face
with the Garrix. Oh yeah, I think hassle and I
forgot to mention that. No shit, you forgot to mention
it. That's a big deal.
Yeah, Garrix was waiting for me for the past two days at my
house, and I told him a brief note about what we saw in its
factual sense. But I hit the fact that you guys
have some things from the site which they're looking for, so we
have to be very careful with them.
They looking for those blue things we found why didn't need
those. He wouldn't tell me, which makes
me think that it's for something big and and I think we should
keep them because I don't trust Garrix.
I don't trust them either. And anything they're trying to
get from the shooting star, I think is not good, so we should
hold on to that for now. Well, thankfully Kazil and I
didn't have any, so we got off for now.
But they might be looking for you too, and they might stop you
randomly, so we might want to find a safe place for those.
OK, OK, Now your dad, you don't sound like a very nice guy.
I heard about your family. They don't sound real nice.
Oh, they're. Butterflies are hurting a kid.
No, not. At the OK, it's OK, it's OK.
Vivian will pat his head at the same time.
No, they're not nice, they're awful and I've decided as of
today I am going to do what I want, he said.
I could not leave the town or anything but Philly on Charles
they covered for us which is great.
So I know they can be trusted and I want to go out and do more
adventuring. I like you a bit better now too
then, because I got to say when you said that you was flesh and
blood from him, I was a bit worried.
Well, I'm just glad that you don't like them very much.
Those people, they're kind of worse than stingy.
They selfish. I agree, anyone who pays that
much for Botox and surgeries to look like an elf when they're a
human? Not great, not a fan.
No. So anyone got any big adventures
they want to go on because I want to make a mess of the
Charmond name. Make a mess of their name.
You make it well, especially if you hanging out with us folk.
I mean, I I wasn't really sure I wanted to go on this quite yet.
It sounds dangerous. Maybe we wait a few months.
But I did get some information when we was out of town.
I trust you well enough now. Yeah, take a look at this.
And Boram takes out the map he got and he's going to unroll it
on the table, clearing out some of the food and stuff.
What's this? Well, my friend over at the
Rocket Homestead, well new friend I should say, gave me
some ingredients I needed, but also told me there might be some
crazy ingredients, magical items, all sorts of things like
that up in Watchtower in the north side of the Rocket Forest.
OK, that sounds great to me. I mean, I will say also said
that nobody's really come back alive.
Well, Kassel took out two people on his own.
Well, I mean, they were kind of weak.
And I'm super strong and Mylan's got some crazy abilities and you
got your magic now that your gloves back.
I think we could do it. Got my potions, got my magic.
Yeah. So you want to go do this now in
like a week or something? A month maybe The.
It's just really dangerous. I thought maybe I'd train a bit
more. He's like a little nervous and
his hands are kind of shaking a little bit as he's holding the
map. Well, we could take some time to
get ready, but maybe that could be our next step.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me, give me some time
maybe. How much do you need?
I don't know, let's start with a week, then maybe another week
actually, because I got bills and maybe we just do a month or
something. I am already covering your
bills. Oh, right, right.
You said you do that. I forgot.
I guess we could just go whenever then.
If you're worried, we can wait a little.
It's OK, you don't have to push yourself.
OK give me a week. I just want to get some money to
get make sure I got my bills paid on other things.
Much you need. No, it's not that.
I just, I got to take care of some personal things at the very
least. And then in a week we we go that
that'll be fine. Yeah, that gives me some time to
figure some things out too. OK, then you all really want to
go with me here. There might be some things you
like, maybe help you with the Winter Court.
Yeah, that's, you know, I'm trying to figure a lot of stuff
out. Everything that's been going on
the past few days is stuff I really need to worry about, I
guess. So I think anything that could
help, I'll take it right now. And hey, we got two horses that
aren't accounted for by my father.
Oh, that's a good point. How you feel about it, Mylan?
So. Where are we?
Would I just have a map of the heartland to show Mylan?
From Ron Borram and his journaling, we'll probably have
like a map of the heartland where he has found key
ingredients for different things and like, circles and things
like that. So you can use that as like a
great world map reference. And you also have the map from
where the location is that you didn't get his name, but the
Cancu sold you. Yeah, the Cancu didn't mention
that if you travel from Bodaris, it would take you about four to
five days, depending on like, the environment.
Because once you pass Rock Head Homestead, you go into the more
denser, less civilized part of the forest, which tends to be a
little more dangerous. And a lot of people really don't
travel there. And that's where the location of
this alleged tower exists. So that's where a bulk of the
travel is. And it's very much off the beam
path, so there wouldn't be like a direct road to it.
This is where we are right now in this area.
You're not going to know N Southwest, that kind of stuff.
We going oh, wait. Which one's what?
You go up, that's N all right down the South.
Left is West, right is east. Makes sense.
He's not going to remember that anyways.
I remember. Up over here and I point to the
Rock head forest. Yeah, exactly.
That way we're going to go through the forest.
It's up here and I point a little further up.
Yes, that's exactly where it is. He's starting to shake and then
he kind of points a little higher and he's like this far.
Well, no, we don't got to go that far.
It takes us way too long to get back to Baldaris if we go that
far. What did we say earlier that
Borib was doing? I'm sorry, Milan, I called him a
liar because I was mad at him. He's not lying.
I'm lying if I say I want to go there.
OK. So you don't want to go there.
I don't know. You could stay back if you like
Milan. No, no, no, no.
I'll go, I'll go. I'll just.
It is going to be a bit dangerous to have a child there,
no? Violence, like kind of confused
what's happening, starts scratching and said no, it's OK.
And he kind of closes both his eyes.
We'll, we'll go. I don't think that scrolly aids
doing good things in his tummy I.
Don't think so. Either.
Yeah, yeah, you figure. I mean, eating magical items is
not a normal thing to do. No, I don't know why we
supported that decision. I just wanted to see if I'd help
him with the text. I thought it would.
I thought it was like some weird man a thing.
Trust me, I think that's a bigger problem.
How can I say no to Vivian? She give me those eyes.
What eyes you just look so desperate for?
I don't know. OK, Mylan, it'll be OK.
If you don't want to, you don't have to.
We'll make sure you have an out. We'll have π O Mai with us.
Oh, OK. Yeah Π O Mai will be there.
I could leave whenever, but π O Mai.
Of course, yeah. OK.
Try not to leave without us, though.
There's also scary things in the woods.
Also, two people for a horse? Probably so.
Think I'm going to lie again, OK.
Well, thank you for being honest about lying.
At least we know in advance. Listen, if something goes wrong,
we get out of there, we run, you get to run and we know that
you're on real fast. I'm.
Super fast, you want to see you're ready for this and he is
kind of standing up on his chair, got 1 foot on the table,
claws into the table and then. That table you see the one of
the bartenders yell as he's filling a mug.
And as soon as the group turns around, Mylan's gone.
Where'd it go, Mylan? Mylan.
He starts laughing to himself and you guys hear that he's up
in the kind of the rafters of the Tavern.
It's like I don't know how to get down, but I did it as he he
casted a misty step for a second time in the day.
Awesome. I didn't think about this.
That's right, it's OK and bow ram pass mending on the table to
get rid of the scratches. Vivian, come get you.
What's? What do?
You mean you're the agile one? What am I gonna do?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I guess so.
I mean, unless Dendrinia wants to poof up there.
Nope, absolutely not. There you're going in all.
Right, I'll go get him. Vivian, as you go to retrieve
Mylan, you see that you like half elves walk over to you
castle and they're drinking. Oh God, they're having a good
time. And they they have like noble
attire on, but they're definitely younger half elves.
They look a little disheveled, hiccupping a little bit.
And they're like, oh, I think I know you that.
What's his name? Basil.
Yeah, Basil is Basil. Basil.
Yeah, it's Basil, right? Yeah.
I've seen you. When I see you, I see you.
And you see that they're like looking at each other and
they're like laughing. It's kind of hard, what they're
trying to get at. And I'm like, where I see you.
You were at that Nuella show, weren't you?
Yeah. Yeah, He was at the Nuella show
and been looking at each other. All right, what you getting now?
We got drinking to do. I'm sorry, I didn't realize you
were on a date. Please, please don't don't mind
us. Don't mind us.
I just that's. Right we on a nice date and I
put my arm up and like smile like Kazzle.
Kazzle just rolls his eyes. And these two.
It's all chummy. They're all chummy.
Look at that. It's.
Beautiful, right? Yeah.
A horse, Right, Sir? Do I?
Do I know you? No, no, I mean, I've seen your
action. I've see you toss around a few
people. He nudges you on the arm a
little bit to kind of be like, you're a big dude, like he's
trying to give you props. Like Nah, nobody wants to mess
with you. But you know, I just, I've seen
you walking around. Looks like you got a pretty fast
horse. OK.
I was just where would a knight like yourself?
Like it's such a fast, fast horse.
What's the name of your horse? Oh, it's Minda.
Minda. Minda, mind your own business.
Funny guy. That was actually a good danger
and I like that. He's a real funny guy.
He's a funny guy. I just, I just, your horse
looked really familiar when you were bringing it to the stable
last night and I noticed. Is he talking about π O Mai or
is he talking about silver hoof inside?
Check. I rolled A2 but it's a gnat 1.
Yeah, you're very confused. And these guys are drinking.
They're slurring their words a little bit.
Like I just, you know, a brave knight like yourself.
You're just so strong. I see you, like, rustle those
guys up. He's grabbing his friend by the
collar and he's, like, pretending to roughhouse with
them, you know? I'm just wondering what a a
knight like yourself who travels and does security ad Taverns
would have the need for two horses and a ferret.
And he points to Mylan in the corner that Vivian is getting.
It's just a darn distinct. That's right.
I remember you telling me about that castle when you took it
into the Four Owl. You did that.
I look back at Boram, Pierce eyes at him, and I'm just like,
look back at these guys and be like, yeah, sure, I grew up with
that horse. I don't, I don't know.
Oh, grew up with dog. He grew up with dog.
He grew up with that horse. He grew up with the horse.
Interesting, Interesting. Listen, I'm just bust your
chops, right? Yeah, We'll bust your chops.
We'll bust your chops, OK? He puts his arm on your
shoulder. Like like listen.
I immediately remove his arm from my shoulder.
Oh, no hostility here, all friends.
All friends, so just don't touch me and we'll be friends.
You're absolutely right. I push my boundaries.
I apologize you you you, you 2 have a very safe night.
Nope, you too. You see, he goes over to the
bar, give you one more look, and then they call over a bartender
and continue drinking and leave you to you guys to your
conversation. Do I recognize them?
You do not. They're just half elves.
They just a bit disheveled. They have noble clothes on.
Do I recognize any insignias or anything on them?
Make the perception check. That's much better in that 20.
You do see a family Crest but even with a Nat 20, because of
your limited I'm in the city, you don't know what the family
Crest is for but there is a family Crest.
All right, listen, Dindran, there's something you should
know, OK? We brought it back to the the
racetrack, right? Me and mining.
Apparently it belongs to a family that, let's say, isn't
exactly known for great deeds in the city.
I might have found out that it basically belongs to the Ilsgoth
family. I don't know if that was them,
but the kind of a crime family, one of those crime families, you
know, is a crime family, but there's no evidence to support
it. So they kind of get away with
things, that kind of thing. OK, OK, I'd be there or so.
Interesting. Do you happen to know the
Insignia of this family? Does my room know it?
He does. The symbol pattern is on a kite
shield style pattern. It has three hills and one tree
on the second hill. And was this the Insignia?
The guys who were just talking to me?
Yes. Well, it seems that both of
those Hafos just talking to me are part of that family because
I saw that exact symbol on their cloak.
So good. OK, so that's fine, that's fine.
Next time you start turning in some horses, you don't look like
an Aladron in a very distinct set of armor, and it's a very
distinct set of outfits, I guess.
I could have been when I'm wrong.
Maybe I shouldn't have done that.
As funny as it is, we we might be dead.
What do you mean dead? I don't think they're like that
and they they're not exactly. We should probably get out of
here. Go somewhere safe.
Can I at least finish my beer first?
Yeah, yeah, do that. Although I don't, I kind of lost
my appetite. I might not finish my next one
just in case something happens. I look at Vivian and Mylan.
Hey. Vivian, how you doing over
there? I.
Almost got him I think. Right.
We decided we're going to another bar.
No reason, just just getting out of here.
OK. You just yelled at across the
room. Come on, Milan, hurry up.
And. Poem gets his coat and he's like
really stressed now. You see that the waitress brings
over a piece of pie and places it on their table.
You look over to the two people. They wink at you and turn their
backs to you as they begin to drink.
And it's a piece of cherry pie. Yeah, don't need that.
Don't let Milan need that. Oh.
My wait, we're just. Going to leave.
It no, Milan's not there. Milan's not there.
He's not at the table. He's not at the table, not going
down this travel. That's.
Meta gaming Mylan is not the table.
We're not going down this travel.
Has Mylan back in a football hold and we're getting out.
I kind of smile at them and the second they turn their heads
away I immediately put the pie in my coat.
And the four of you leave the Big Iron Cast Tavern.
I think that's a that was a symbol that they know we got pie
on my. Oh, I was thinking it was a
Cherry Tree. That's a good.
That's a good guess. I did not put that one together.
So why are they mad about π O Mai?
Walking dog. Walking dog, OK.
Yeah, I guess as we're walking back to probably Vivian's, Boram
and Kazul kind of go over everything that just happened.
Yeah. So basically, we might be, we
might maybe just get back to your place so we don't be dead.
OK, awesome. Well, you're great.
Awesome. I'll let Philia and Charles
know. Get some security.
I mean, we don't need, I think that's a little over the top.
I think we'll be fine, just. With these guys, I don't know,
they're kind of crazy. I've never seen Bo ramps sweat.
Boram, you know that these people typically operate in a
very specific type of fashion. You don't think you're going to
get jumped, but it's not great that they know of you.
Their recourse isn't always immediate, and sometimes mind
games is just a part of their tactics.
They're very white collar in the way they operate, but scary.
If it does get physical. It's bad, but things tend to
happen before that because, well, they like making money.
Should we go get the what? Do you mean?
I mean, is he OK? He's at Vivian's.
He's fine. Are you sure?
Unless you moved him and let him out.
Just worried did. You do something.
No, I didn't do anything. I just was.
I didn't know where he was. I just wanted just where he
where is he? He's at Vivian's.
What do you mean you know this? He's in my stable.
I do not know this. Oh, Mylan wouldn't have.
He was out and about. Will you show you when we get
back all right. 4 of you go back to Vivian's, sure enough Pyo Mai
is there and as the four of you are talking and some of you are
a little more nervous than others, we do know that no
immediate action is taking place and that seemed more of a like a
discovery phase. But you do feel like you're on
someone's radar now. You going back and you're
confident that nobody really followed you back, especially
with how paranoid Vivian is about her place that you take
the long way back. But you guys want to do a week
of downtime as you would discuss it before that event happened.
So you can do that if the four of you would like to go on this
trip to this watchtower. You guys will be able to do a
week of downtime while laying low and kind of figuring out
everything you would like to do if you still want to leave.
Which may not be the worst idea now that some names have been
written down and noted. I didn't even get their names
program. Do you remember their names?
Did they tell us their names? They did not just kind of want
to get out of there. I didn't much care for the
names. And that is where we'll end this
week's session. We have some trouble, guys.
Yeah. Seen programs felt like that is
crazy, yeah. It's pretty funny.
You don't like danger of any kind?
OK, so we are now going into down time activities before we
get into recommendations. This is A and you know, chit
chat and stuff in the wheel of what we're doing next week
downtime activities. Here's how it's going to work.
If you look in the players handbook, you can choose from a
list of things. So like this is will be the time
where if you want to make some pocket change, you can tell me
what you want to do over the next week.
If you guys want to research something, hone a skill, make
some money, develop magical items.
Usually developing magical items takes longer than a week, unless
it's something specific within your class.
But there's a whole list of things that you can do.
So it can range from doing side jobs, labor, studying, training,
honing A profession, doing dirty jobs, gambling, anything in that
nature. Or if you want to work towards
something that you'd get at like a later level and you want to
like maybe expedite the process, this is the time to do that.
So something that would take a long period of time to
accomplish. This is what downtime activities
are for and you can certainly compound.
If something's going to take you a couple of weeks to craft, you
can certainly split it up and say if you want to make an item
that will take 3 weeks to make, you can do this as one week and
then pick it up as you go with future downtime activities.
The four of you will message me, I will write it down, and the
next time we play, we'll be picking up one week later, OK?
Sweet. So with everything that's
happened in downtime activities, does anybody want to have
anything to say, perhaps a recommendation of some kind?
Let me tell you. Eden scrolls are the best best.
Make sure to go to your local store and get picked up the
scrolls. We do not recommend the Scrolls
on this podcast. Why not?
Great. I don't know about that.
We talk about it later and then maybe.
He throws up a scroll, yeah. Anybody got actual
recommendations though? I recommend Free run Beyond
Journey's End. They took a break this week
which pissed me off, but it's the best anime of all time.
Is it? I'll die on that hill.
It's up there.
It's a top five for me. Would I like it?
Probably. It's basically AD and D
campaign, yeah. What?
I don't believe you. There's mimics in it, I love
that. There are a lot of mimics in it.
So many mimics. I thought I was happy you pulled
me back in and. The main character loves mimics.
No, he doesn't. She doesn't.
First of all, she. She How dare you.
It's one of those that no kids. Let's watch it beyond Free room,
beyond journey's end. All right, Dan, spin the wheel.
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