Hello everybody, welcome back to D&D 4/04.
I am your DM, Tony, and join with me today the other three
foreign songs of my playlist. 3 I'm pretty sure I said 4.
Pretty sure I said 4. Did I not say 4?
Alright, Glass, edit this part in four, starting with the
Biblioteca Jared. What's going on, guys?
Mylan reporting in in my song is Farouk Pepes.
It's a banger. It's more of like a club kind
of, you know, dance kind of song.
But Dan, what about you? Hello everybody, my name is Dan.
I play Bo Ram Dumorea, Bog Frog Otifusa and I am definitely the
Maya Naka no door of this podcast.
You might know this as Stay with Me by Miki Matsubara.
May she rest in peace. One of the most lovely songs
ever made. Y'all know it, y'all know it.
Like what you got? Yeah, my name is Alec.
I play Casual Amber Leaf, and my foreign song that I like to
listen to is actually a cover of an English song, Dear Maria.
But the Japanese version, that's awesome.
It's really fucking sick. If you ever get a chance to
listen to it, go listen to it. It's a good time.
What about you, Kylie? Hi.
I'm Kylie, I play Vivian Sharma, my favorite non-english song is
Shitsu. The song attacks Ankita.
It is the ending second-half of Summertime rendering greatest
anime. Disney plus ruined it because of
their release schedule. What about you, Tony?
Yeah, I got to go with the home and native.
I'm going to go with Amore by Dean Martin.
Beautiful, beautiful Italian song.
Can't hear me, but I'm nodding. It's amore.
That's it, That's it. Summertime windows are down.
It's time to blast it. He breaks out the gobble goo,
you know. Can't hit us with the gobble goo
this early in the morning. Now you know the deal.
Before we do the recap, we're going to do the rundown.
If this rundown was brought to you by shoot, it's by me.
What I'm running down is loot boxes.
That's right. Listen, we got our quarterly
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There's a lot of goodies in there.
It's for our Bloodshard Bandit and Shadow Smuggler tears.
If you don't know about it, going to patreon.com back slash
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A lot of people enjoy it and we will be sharing pictures of what
comes inside in future updates. With that being said, I got a
call to action with the foreign song.
I want to know your favorite foreign song specifically if you
got any good Italian ones, you know we got the good ones in
there, but I want to know your favorite foreign songs.
Like one of my favorite foreign songs is also Numa Numa classic
hit classic rocks the Internet way back in the early 2000s.
I want to know what your favorite foreign song is.
So go ahead and put that in the comments down below.
And now it's for the recap. Oh, wait, there is no recap
because there was a full recap episode.
That's right. Well.
We This is why Tony ended it there, so we didn't have to do a
recap. I told 100% plan a hundred,
100%. Oh, also, whose 3 of was it?
Oh yeah. Yeah, big thanks to Alara for
that one. That was a really cool one.
Thank you, Alara. Moving forward, one more note.
Keep your ears open because moving forward and and Arc 2,
Patreon NPCS are going to start revealing themselves.
We're gonna start introducing them and they will be a part of
the campaign. With that being said, I don't
have a specific date, but the window for new Patreon NPC
entries is going to close because the list is getting up
there. And I want to make sure I fit
everyone into the campaign at the appropriate time where that
makes sense in the story and has an impact on the story.
And I can't do that with 1000 people.
So the window will be closed and the date for that will be said
in in the near future. So that being said, Bard play
the intro, let's get on with the show.
Disgraced in the heartland, a star could set things right,
manufacture the magical. And return a solar light.
Brahma Scorch, fractured forest, the twilight in discourse Glens
the rivers that bleed in the swamp of the seed.
And rimmers help us conquer the shadow God with the bright blue.
We'll find where we belong. But what will aid us when all
our secrets are gone? Good morning, good afternoon and
good evening, and welcome to the world of Umbrea.
Featuring three returning players and one new newbie.
We got a new person. They're brand new.
This is DND four O 4 Boyos Garlow.
We pick up today's session, session 23, the first session of
Arc 2, where we are now traveling back from the
Forgotten Tower. And we are going to pick up at
the Rock Head Homestead, where the four of you are finishing up
some business before heading back to Boulderis.
Mr. Feathers, good to see you. Yeah, well, if it is in an old
confidant. And confidant, we keep that.
You see as you walk into the pet store and the pseudo dragon that
greeted you last time quickly locks the door upon your entry,
knowing that there is some business to be discussed.
I don't hang out with the pseudo dragon.
You like it? Who's that?
It's just a little guy. Don't worry, he's cool.
Brought you back something kind of crazy.
What you think of this? And I pull out the chest and I
got two of the fishes. Mr. Feathers, this Kanku that
you spoke with in Arkwan when you first visited Rockham
Homestead, he looks at the chest and he sees that there's two
bullfishes. He's like, pretty, it's pretty
exotic fish. Yeah, it sells.
It's mainly it's great among the kids.
Yeah, that ones foresight. This is rodent.
They're really cool. Well, I promise you I'll bring
you back something. So you like pets and I know you
can take care of these ones just fine.
Well, I can only get you one. One day is a present for my
sister. Mylands eyes look at Bo Ram.
Just what? Well we bring in one ones for
the nice man over here to give us the map.
But they're friends. Mr. Feathers squids at you, Bo
ram, because you mentioned something in front of Mylan.
The map. Yeah, the map to for the the the
location of where you can find bullfish.
Yep. Exactly that.
We'll take one of these. Brought you back a pouch, all
kinds of components and stuff and and wrote down a better map
than the one you had before. More detailed if you know you
ever want to go back. OK hey you see that the Canku
hands Myelon a lollipop It goes. Hey kid, why don't you go over
there and look at the look at some of the plants and some of
the go go play with the dragon over there.
You know my little pet. You see the pseudo dragon wraps
himself around you myelin and almost like holds you away
towards the front of the store to have a private conversation
with Boram. And you see that he waits for
you to go over to the end of the store, then looks at Boram and
his voice gets real deep and goes, what is your deal,
bringing a child into this? Listen, I know he's a bit young,
but he's a bit more capable than you think.
He's a child. There's other reasons we got to
bring him around then I don't know if I'm I even quite
understand yet. Squints at you, but.
We got to keep them safe. So.
But do you know anything about this?
And I plopped down the Tarasque claw that I found on his desk.
Yes. So upon your travels, you cast
an identify on the magical items that you looted from the tower.
During your travels, you've learned that this is a preserved
Tarasque claw. And the Tarasque claw looks like
to be the size of a Tarasque. That is, maybe it's young
adolescents in retrospect, because you know that Tarasque
are told or said to be very, very good against you in
creatures and he goes, wow, where did you get this?
What? Do you think I got this?
You squints at you again. Dish is a trash claw.
However seeing one separated from its body, well that's
interesting. He's like eyeing it up and down.
He like turns the jar and the jar is very heavy.
As he goes to turn it you see the claw like bounces against
the glass. I'm not use it as components.
I don't know what you think. Oh, component, how do you how do
you expect to break that thing down?
That I don't know. Otherwise I could sell it to
you. We're at the right price.
If you knew how to break this thing down, you wouldn't sell
that to me. You see this carapass here he he
goes into detail about what the taras claw does and how unique
it is. You see that carapass right
there? Anti magic.
You see those claws could cut through mithril, even cut
through Obsidian if it wanted to easily as if it was paper.
The fact that this thing is solidified, the goo around it
itself wouldn't be able to be broken down with the sheer force
of power that it's using just to keep that thing preserved,
because otherwise it would have deteriorate.
And all right. Any of your trinkets or baubles
that you might have would break on impact if you try to cut that
thing open. You can't even boil water hot
enough to melt that thing down. I got me even more curious.
I'm gonna give it a shot. I'm gonna study in a while, see
what I can do with it. I I can take it off your hands
for like 700 gold. I think you maybe give me a
little more next time if I know what to do with it better.
We work our price up a bit and then he puts it back in his
coat. Wait, I can give you, I can give
you a even 1000. I'll see you next time then.
And Bo Ram starts walking away, and it kind of waves
nonchalantly. I'm on him.
Get away from the dragon. We got to get this other one
back to my sister someday. We got to train it first.
You like Colette and I kind of pat my one on the back as we
leave. He takes the fish, he goes I, I
put these with the others as you two walk out, the store does.
He take bofish or just one? I took one home.
Which one? Bo Ram does not remember which
one he named which. Flip a coin.
Roden comes back with us. Roden comes back.
You want. Is that Mylan's least favorite
one? Take foresight back.
It doesn't matter, no. So you made the call.
You made the call. So for the the components you
dropped off and the bullfish, you get a total of 800 gold.
Pieces As Beauvrim reconvenes with the party, he hands around
sacks of gold for everybody. Evenly split, obviously, because
they helped him out. I really appreciate y'all coming
with me on that crazy adventure. We got some good coin at it.
Maybe it'll last me a little while.
Vivian's gonna accept it her pocket and just think about the
fact she's paying his rent for a little while.
So as you leave the store, there is a town paper and it's pretty
common for towns to have their own type of daily post or weekly
post. You know, Bold Aris has a weekly
post. You see that Rock Head Homestead
also has like a variation of it on a much smaller scale because
it's a smaller town, but they have their own and it has the
day at the top. And as you go to leave Mr.
Feathers pet store you notice something catches your eye.
You find out that today's date is the 9th of Kai Thorne.
By your estimations with how much time you spent out in the
forest and traveling, you estimated it should be the 7th
of Kai Thorne. You notice that it's 2.
Days later, you're reading the comic section of the newspaper
Ghazal. No reading things about the
stock market anyways. Scrolls are on the rise, yeah.
Gold, gold, gold. No, it looks like it's actually
the 9th, not the 7th. What do you mean it's the 9th?
Yeah, I mean, according to this paper, so I don't know how long
we were in there, but apparently it was a lot longer.
No wonder Silverhoof wasn't waiting at the cart.
I guess he had to eat. Felt like we was just in there
about a day. Yeah, that's kind of weird.
I'm worried about how well Ophelia and Charles did with
Heidi, the fact that I was gone for that long.
Oh, my rent. My rent.
So it was projected about 8 days to be gone.
It looks like you were gone for about 10 days.
But yeah, I mean, it looks like while we were in there, I guess
time, I guess it went by faster than we thought it did.
You don't think we was travelling to another dimension
as we were going through there, do you?
No, I mean, that's the weird thing.
Yeah, I felt like it was just there.
Maybe the tower effects time somehow?
I don't know, maybe. Yeah, maybe it's very possible.
You don't think that the right caps came from there?
Maybe it's attached to the fit while somehow?
I don't know how they would have, but I mean, I mean it kind
of makes sense. Right, it makes sense, but it
don't all at the same time. Maybe we just try not to think
about it so much and just move on with our day.
We can research it at home. Yeah.
So you're having this conversation as you're heading
back to the car, getting ready to leave Rock Head Homestead and
head back to Boldares. So you know that it's about a
half a day's journey from Rock Head Homestead to Boldares on
the main road, and the four of you begin to head back to
Boldares. On this Cartwright home,
Vivian's disguising herself back as Alicia Desonde.
Actually, technically you'll be a little bit longer because
you're not taking like carriage home.
You have a hand cart and so we hope it's pulling it so you are
walking. So it's going to take a little
longer like most of the day to get there.
You guys didn't spend a lot of time in rock head.
You just kind of keep going. She's gonna sit in the cart and
do it while everyone's moving. Yeah, that's fine, and the four
of you begin to fit back to Boldares, but the main path does
expedite things a lot. Get it?
Huff it silver huff. Silver As the four of you are
going you notice some things, mainly that the crash site that
you are passing is now patched up and now used for main travel
again. The Guild is no longer
investigating it and it's no longer closed off.
You can see the fresh patch of dirt it has been filled and new
stone has been placed for easier travel.
You do see the occasional carriage pass by and they give
you a wave. The road is big enough for
carriages and carts to cross each other.
You do see a number of carts pass you and go to Rock Head
Homestead throughout the day. Once the sun begins to set
around dinner time, you are about 40 minutes out from the
city here and that's where carriages stop passing you.
Is there anything the four of you would like to do before
arriving at the main gate? Mylan's been playing the pipes
of the sewers that he got for a while at this point and it's
just the most off key thing he's having, Just the most difficult
thing because his mouth is not made for blowing into this.
Milan doesn't magic item give me that.
What? No, you're not going to be able
to do a tweet of this thing anyways because you clearly
cannot play it. I could play it.
I could have tuned to it if I wanted because I can play these
things. I just got the rat on it.
Just really hoping that a friend you know would come back.
Vivino, grab Mylan's shoulder and go.
It's OK Mylan, you'll learn. Don't I don't cancel well.
Don't lie to him. It's crazy you say that though
'cause this actually might do that.
Really. Yeah, I did my magic on it and I
could kind of tell what it does. OK, you you blowing it then
maybe he come up. I don't man.
Can anyone else play wind instruments?
Technically, but not the greatest.
Yeah, I don't want to gazzle kind of just looks, you know?
Milan shoots him a look. All right, Milan, You know what?
Why don't you leave him with me? I'll practice and then I'll
teach you so that way you can play too.
Don't shoot him down, Kazzle. He's got a chance.
No, he. Doesn't.
No, he does not, I whispered Kazzle.
Does he? Doesn't.
And my teeth getting away. I'll help you, We'll work on it.
OK, so Milan gives the pipes of the sewer to Vivian.
Rat Queen Vivian might quickly turn to Bow Ram and ask him to
hold Garrick's hilt in the Bag of Holding, just in case she's
figured out. Oh yeah, sure, I'll keep it
down. That's fine.
Thanks. I'll come and take it back
later. Yeah, just don't.
I don't get caught with this. You should probably be okay.
Probably. Probably.
At least I could bill you out if you get caught.
At least that's true. Yeah, she just.
Bill you out from losing your head.
It's fine. I could try to fight it.
As he stares at the hilt. It's hide at the bottom.
It's fine, they won't investigate.
That's not how bags all didn't work, but they're like OK, any
it's like just. Fitting in there, it's a pretty
large sword. Help.
Anyways, you know, as you've been going, I've been reading
that journal. We found that big tome looking
tank. Yeah.
It belonged to some kind of beholder named Eveltas.
Eveltas. Something like that.
YVELTAS. Got it.
All right, got it. It's a bit strange though.
It's not like super evil like I was expecting.
It had this whole an olden retriever named Sourdough that
is dreams of humans killing it though it was really scared of
humans, always wanted a dog, kept dreaming of accidentally
killing the dog, was dreaming of living with humans in peace.
All this stuff is, it's just not what I heard about by olders so.
Oh, and we killed it. Oh, I feel so bad.
Now he's going to hold herself and look real upset.
I mean, it was that thing or us. It was going to kill us no
matter what. So did it ever get a golden
retriever or I just dreamed of it?
It says here it add 1 sourdough. Ain't that funny?
We was talking about sourdough recently before that.
Ain't that crazy? And never mind, we got to bring
you back some sourdough when we get into Bodaris.
Make you one of them grilled cheeses.
Could he have confused strawberry and called strawberry
golden retriever? I don't.
I don't know about that. Maybe, but I don't think that
strawberry went up there ever. That's true.
So Goran, when you read like these dreams, there's like many
different dreams that this thing was keeping notes of.
From what it sounds like about sourdough by the words jumping
off the page, it seemed like a normal dog that you would see to
the point where the dog would help Euveltas with various
things and was very fond of it based on the good dreams.
He also had dreams that he accidentally killed sourdough,
be it an accident playing with you too hard, humans killing it.
The range of different dreams that he had were like kind of
vary from page to page and. Then I'm gonna just keep
reading. It's a bit long, but I.
Wonder what happened to the dogs?
We didn't see one. Yeah, did not.
Maybe the person that stuck it there did something.
We might never know. Someone came, tried to kill it
and could have taken the dog. Dog could have run.
Who knows. This all getting strange.
Strange days though. That's what it is when you got a
big shooting star above your head.
That's true. Maybe it's throwing everyone out
of whack, including beholders. I feel that.
As you're talking about the journal, you hear a voice coming
off of the side path of the road.
I like some light thicket of trees.
He goes, hey, hey, hey, hey. You see, like a slightly older,
beat up man. It is a hefling.
His clothes are kind of like tattered.
He's barefoot. He looks unhygienic.
He looks like he's keeping himself as composed as possible.
But he definitely looks like he's been, like, living out in
the wild. And you see that he has a box in
his hand tucked in between his armpit.
And he runs up and goes, hey, out of breath.
Hey, I'm sorry. Hi.
Hi, I'm sorry. Hi.
How's it how's it going? He reaches his hand up to shake
us. My name's Gravis.
Nice to meet you. I'm sorry to bother you.
I know you're trying to get home.
I just. For him, just takes a puff of
the cigarette and just kind of stares down at his hand, like
who is this? Sorry my name is Gravis.
Nice to meet you. I don't mean to keep you I just
have a a small request. I was wondering if y'all could
do me a favour and I would give you money for your time.
I was wondering if you could deliver this to somebody in
Baldares for me. And he holds up a chest and the
chest has it's like purple and pretty ornate looking and he
tries to hand it over. It's like would you be able to
deliver this to my grandfather in Baldares?
He lives in the markets district.
I'll I'll be happy to give you some gold for it.
I'd really appreciate it. Vivian's gonna move up to him a
little bit and go. What's in it exactly?
And who's your grandfather? My grandfather is is is Gravis
the first. I'm Gravis the third.
Oh, that that that makes it easier, OK.
Yes, he's an older halfling. He's got long white hair, but he
dyes in a little red sometimes. So he's got like red streaks
that he's really up, but he tries to be as hip as possible.
It's a it's medicine. OK.
Will it kill us if we handle it in transit?
Oh, well then why don't you just take it?
Just come with us and you can take it to him.
Inside check. Yeah, that's what I wanted to.
Do an 8. I got a 12.
So with an 8 and a 12, he looks off to the side, goes It's a
little complicated. You instantly get the sense that
he can't go go to the city. OK, I'm a little bit wanted
there. I I'm embarrassed and I'm so
sorry, but I stole some food and some like herbs from the
markets. I'm not really well off, as you
can tell, to try to help. My grandfather and I got caught
and I ran. Basically.
I'm kind of like a wanted man there.
I, I promise it's for the good intention.
He puts his hands up. I promise, I promise.
I don't want to hurt anybody, but not many people work for
free. So I try to come out here and I
try to go between Rocket Homestead and different towns to
try to gather materials and and basically ask other.
People to know, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Open the chest. Let me see it.
Yeah, but point it towards yourself.
No, no, it's fine and you like jostles it.
Now, if I'm going to deliver it, you got to show it and I might
be able to know if I can do some better medicine too.
He like looks at you. Maybe this guy can help up even.
And I point to the Paladin. Probably not, but.
Well the the the chest itself like keeps it.
It really shouldn't be open until he takes it.
What is this medicine? Essentially keeps him alive, but
it's like a heart medicine, but the herbs need to keep a certain
temperature. And he's like, that's why it's
like really cold. And he's like, look, look, you
don't have to put your hand to it, but you can just, if you put
your hand near it, you can tell. And put my hand on it.
So when you put your hand close to it, it is extremely cold.
It feels like almost like a more powerful cooler.
All right, as I put my hand on the chest, I'm going to cast
Detection of Poison and disease. You cast the spell and sure
enough, it does not go off. It does not seem poisonous, it
doesn't seem ridden with disease, just extremely cold.
I mean, there's no creature in here, no contagions.
No, no, it's just everything. Medicinal Medicine.
I mean, if I open it for a second, it's not going to ruin
it. Come on.
No, please, please, I, I please. That's just all I ask.
And OK, I, I said 500 give you 7.
You just take it as is. It's really important.
Please. He puts the box down.
The four begins to take out a piece of paper to write an
address. Hey, put it away, you're good,
I'll deliver it. You're trying to deliver
medicine, you don't need to charge us.
You sure? I'm about to charge you for
yelling you're sick grandpa, okay?
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You see that he puts his stuff
away and he goes to hand you the box.
And he takes it. And as he's putting it in the
cart, Boram does shout back. But if I do find out that this
is not medicine, I am writing down your name, drawing your
face and coming to find you. And I'm gonna beat you myself.
Termination check. I'll give him the help action.
Your proficiency intimidation. Yeah, it's just Castle in the
background, like pounding his fist into his hand.
I have +5 to intimidation. Oh geez, I got 17 though with
help. He's sweating and you hear like
an audible gulp. Right.
Nervous because. He's just trying to beat me up.
Vivian's going to turn over and go I'm really sorry for them
here and she's going to give him 50 gold.
I think you might need this, but the threat still stands if this
blows up in our face. I could take it back, I could
find someone else. It's it's OK.
He actually goes to reach for the chest.
Very scared. No, it's fine, it's fine.
We're good. Isn't good ants?
I'm just serious about my business.
We'll get this to your grandfather.
Have a good day. I appreciate that.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
And you see that he like back steps very shakily into the
brush where he popped out from. As soon as he dips behind a
tree, you hear some scampering. Dorm's drawn a very accurate
sketch of what he looks like. You guys can be scary when you
want to be wow. You work on his face more.
What do you mean? He's a halfling, looks about a
human's 30s, I would say, but he's a pretty.
He's on. He's a halfling on the younger
side, brown hair, kind of a bulbous snooze, small mouth with
brownish whitish hair. All right y'all don't have to
deliver this with me but something I just think I should
do. But let's get going.
I really want to get home. So he wrote down an address for
you and the home that his grandfather lives is in the
markets district. You know that the markets
district has a small living section of the district in
there. Oh, he's.
Very close to Vivian. And you continue to travel on
your way. A few more moments pass as the
sun is officially starting to set.
As the evening kicks in, you hear the bells of the city of
Baldara Spring and you make it to the front gate.
As you get to the front gate, they sign you back in and you
see they begin to take notes, writing down all your names.
They go to Boram. They go to my castle and they go
to UV and be like, Oh yes, and what is your name, Miss?
Alicia this on. Yes, happy to see a full party
return. We're just going to do a quick
visual scan and they begin to look around and OK, everything
seems to be in order. Please go on your way.
Welcome back to the city of Boulderas said the guard lets
you in as the gates rise and then close behind you.
Because it's that time they keep the gates closed at night and
the four of you are now back in Boulderis.
You see that the city is at its normal routine is now night
time. The markets have died down,
there are still people out, but now it's more for like pleasure
than it is for business. The town seems the same,
although you do see some more posters and bulletins about new
quest new workers request. You do see Flyers for upcoming
small events around town and small updates like in different
districts, Taverns putting on shows, upcoming festivities, and
people going about their business.
What would the four of you like to do now that you return to
Boulders? All right, y'all going back to
Vivian's right? Yeah, I think so.
Did you want us to go with you to take that chest to the guy's
grandpa it? Wouldn't take long, it's just
down the road. I mean, come if you want, it
shouldn't take more than 5 minutes I'm sure.
Yeah, I'll, I'll go with you. I don't want anything to happen.
Yeah, look at Vivian. What me?
What would happen to me? I agree.
We're going. You coming, Miley?
But yeah. Oh yeah.
What? I got a bunch of babysitters
now. My God.
As he's like holding the chest and you see he's struggling with
the chest a bit. Booms not the strongest.
It's not crazy big. It's about, yeah, it's like a
smallish footlocker, but it's just extremely cold.
He's got on his shoulder as he's walking a bit slower.
Do you? Want help with I could take the
other side. Actually, yeah, that'd be nice
and we'll hold both sides. So from the main peninsula
entrance, from the South gate, you walk across this beautiful
stone bridge in Boldaris and you enter the market district, which
is adjacent to the farm district.
And you begin to head northwest. You head into the living
quarters of the market district and you go through the town and
these these beautiful Tudor style homes and thatched roofs.
It's very elegant. There's more churches here than
there is in any other part of the city, but they're much
smaller. And you finally make it to this
address where grave is the third.
You instantly notice that the windows have like these dark
shades over them. And it also has like, I believe
it's called a widow's peak or a turret where it looks like it's
one level higher than this two-story home.
And it looks looks like a good look out to the rest of the
town. You approach the doors and you
see it has these very lovely ornate candles that order the
door. And it kind of sticks out
because it doesn't match the home style.
And you see that it has like a central knocker and the knocker
has like this gargoyle ish face on it.
I pick up Mylan. I'm Mylan.
When you go to people's houses, you knock politely.
OK, like right now. Yeah, just give it three.
What do you mean? Grab that, see you swinging.
Hold it up, back down, OK? You hear a slide in the door but
it's below you. It's about halfling length.
You see by your knees a little sliding door opens to reveal
eyes and goes oh good evening. My ass cools knocking into my
veranda. And kneel down.
Milan puts his full head through the window.
It's me. I'm Milan.
Are you like trying to put your snout through the through the
eye hole? Yeah.
You feel something sharp swipe
across your nose. I'm not going to say you take
any damage here, but you are bleeding, hey?
Hey Milan, get over here, please do not have my friend and I lean
down and kind of cock my head to the left as I'm looking through.
Yes. May I help you?
Do you know a gravest The third? Yes, that's my grandson.
Okay then that checks out. I guess I'll try and do an
insight check on him. Maybe an insight check 10.
You don't get much because he's behind the door, you just notice
a pair of red eyes. Well, your grandson sent us with
this cold Tilly chest. Ah, he's always been a
resourceful 1. I do appreciate it.
If you look to your left there is a drop off box.
You get a lot of mail. If you can just place it in
there, I will certainly compensate you for your
troubles. Get out the first people to
deliver packages from my grandson.
Yeah, what kind of package you expecting by the way?
He drops me off like different food and medicines from time to
time. I wish you would visit, but you
know, you know how things are. What kind of ailments are
afflicting you? Maybe I could take a look.
I I heal people a little bit. Oh, he takes perfect care of me.
But I'm sure whatever's in the box is exactly, exactly what I
need. You know, just, you know, my old
age. The heart doesn't ticker as much
as it as strong as it should. Well, that's just a minister
right now. And I go to reach for to open
the chest. No, no please.
You got to look at the chest. It has two locks on it.
If you please deliver, if you could put the package so I may
retrieve it safely be in my quarters.
I mean, maybe you take my name, I come back, I might be able to
give you some better medicine some other day.
But. Oh yes, I would love to take
your name. Don't give him your name.
Yeah, Boran Dumore, OK. Vivian's fussing over Mylan's
bloody nose and just goes Oh my God, hurry.
Up. Listen, I live over in the
stacks. You ever need some medicine or
something, just let me know, OK? You squints when you say the
stacks. Yeah.
So you should be the first person I call if I'm I'll.
All right, and the first time I've been profiled and I just
put the box in his little bin. You put the box in the bin,
close the lid, and then you hear some coins jingling on the other
side. What's this?
I compensate. I compensated you for your for
your troubles. And please take it.
It's not a, it's not too much, I implore you.
OK, I'm gonna just put it back in the community, all right?
Do is what you wish and I do appreciate your time for what it
is worth. And he like kind of sounds a
little judgy when he says that. Yeah, how much gold does he
give? He gave you 2 platinum.
The heck man, this might be able to help some people out there.
Yeah, this is. A medicine.
This is not medicine. I'm glad we did a good deed
today in that guys medicine. You did a grave deed indeed.
Great, great. Great.
Well, you have a good night and he's quickly shuts the door.
Maybe This is why people think you're a truck dealer.
Yeah, I was never here. And the casual starts to walk.
Come on, my Lynn, let's go. All right.
Well, thanks for accompanying me, I guess.
See you took like 5 minutes but here we are.
We're A-Team now. Now we got to do everything
together. Thank you.
The way you look at it is we'll all go to jail together.
All right? Ready and Casual starts walking
off. Yeah, what?
OK. And I'll bail us out.
Well, you're gonna bail us out if you went there with us.
From losing our heads? Yep.
Yep, I can make the sentence a little less.
Am on it. Where you going?
Like where you live over there? And he just points over to a
weird part of the city if that makes sense.
Yeah, you go up on your tippy toes and like point all the way
across town where you would enter the underbelly of the
city. It's almost by the docks.
We live over toes, the mines. Yeah, over there.
OK, Listen, Milan, if you need a place to stay, you can always
stay with me. You don't need to stay in some
underground layout. What?
What it? What exactly is it?
Well, it's, it's usually pretty nice, but then I don't know,
things been happening there. I had this thing attack me.
It's kind of weird, you know, And then, I don't know, it's
real nice and it's very pretty. OK, pretty well then.
Stay there if you want. Can't force you to do nothing.
Wait, wait, wait. What do we mean?
What do you mean where? Where, where, where stay?
I'm just saying if you need a place to stay the safer.
You can always come to my place. OHK.
OK. And you always got a spot here.
Look at that. You should come to dinner
tonight, though. Oh well, I mean.
Actually, that sounds like a kind of good idea.
What a nice to get dinner. There's bad jaws in affiliate.
They make some good grub. They sure do.
That's the best Oh by the way, ball Ram before we left because
you kept dodging me every time I tried to give you your rent.
I paid it for three months. I left it on your desk so if
your landlord comes in they could just.
What? Yeah, yeah, you're fine for
three months. Time for dinner.
Three months that actually might have saved me then if we was
gone longer. OK I appreciate it.
I didn't really start working on the thing yet, but ah.
That's OK, you got time. That means a lot and that
definitely helped me as we were away.
So I remember that three months. Vivian's thankful he didn't ask
why or how she got in. He's he's just thinking about
other things right now. Listen, the mines are over
there. Actually, they've been having
some monsters. Yeah, somewhere it's like this
big. You expect him to do something
really big, but it's actually just kind of like shorter.
Don't know if it's the same 1 you saw mining.
Oh listen they they paying pretty good and I can really use
some coin right now. If you do want to keep this
party thing going, it does seem to be working quite nice.
They they paying up to about 1500 if we go into the mines and
clear it out. The mines.
That could be fun like. Actually go in.
What do you mean actually go in? Yeah.
You guys are going in the mines? Well, they'd let us.
They'd show us where to go and we clear it out.
You guys are too big. You kind of could fit in there.
There's other. Parts of the mine, Mylan, You're
probably in a very tiny part of the mine, huh?
Maybe. Yeah, the else of Arms Guild,
they pay him pretty nice these days.
So I was thinking of taking it on my own.
But if you want to go with me, then we split it and it might be
easier and I don't die on my own so.
I like the mines. We're going to go fight things
on your own. Well, fight is a really strong
word, but yeah, he's going to try to go in there, I guess, by
himself. Listen, we fight in our own
ways. I mean if it's anything like
that troll situation let me just say might need my help.
I think we can all tag along. Troll situation.
Yeah, when Bo Ram tried to throw the potion and he recounts the
entire combat that just happened.
And Bo Ram starts making excuses about why the potion was
slipping and. But we got them in the end,
that's what matters. Yeah, that's what matters.
We got them in the end. Got a pretty good dagger stab on
it. Let's go to dinner and
Barnstead's walking away smoking a cigarette.
Yeah, dinner sounds good. Let's let's head over.
All right. Let's hope we have no guests
waiting for me at my house. OK, let's.
Go what? Oh yeah, I really hope your
dad's not there. I hope so too.
Let me sneak in first ahead of you guys.
I think I'd rather go to mines. Nothing.
No, it's OK. He won't be there.
You know what?
Maybe I go to the mines.
I go to the mines right now I'd. Be there.
I'd rather go there. Lots of milk and lots of food
for you. He squints as he's like,
conflicted. There's no father's there, I
promise. If he's there, I'm out of there.
I'm leaving. Leaving so fast.
We'll keep you on the outside. Blinking, I'm gone.
OK, just come back later please. Scary.
I agree. You return to Vivian's estate
and it looks exactly as you left it.
As you pass, you do see from the stable windows that π O Mai and
Windrider are in the stable and they seem to be taken care of.
As you open the door you hear some footsteps rushing as you
now have arrived home, but you only hear a single pair of
footsteps. Oh God.
As you are greeted, you do not see Charles and Ophelia, but
instead you see somebody else dressed in Butler uniform.
You see a stockier, more of a middle-aged human.
He has that classic dad build where he's like very stocky.
He looks like he used to be very fit when he was more in his
prime years, Like he was very muscular, very fit.
But it's kind of turned into a little bit of like a dad weight.
And you hear Lady Sharma, welcome home.
I've been respecting you. Just as a side note, Vivian
would have taken her stuff off in the horse shelter.
Hello. Where?
Good to see you again, it's been so long.
What happened to Ophelia and Charles?
Oh yes so this man is named Buford.
You know Buford from your home estate.
You feel it's a very although slightly dim, you know, not the
sharpest crayon in the box, but he is extremely loyal to your
father was Asian Ma. Well, Charles and Ophelia.
They were. They were reassigned to a
different location. Your father came by, saw that
you weren't around for a few days and decided to give him a
new assignment at the main house.
So he put me here, wait for you to return and take care of you
and a dress that he needs. You may, he may have.
Buford I was just wandering around town.
For. 8 days. Yes, I was mad with my father.
I didn't want to see him and I know he kept coming here.
So I stayed a little bit with Noella, I stayed a little bit
with some friends. You see, he takes out a very
long notepad that and he goes through the rules.
Well, according to Rule 54, you must return home every night by
yourself with no gentleman partners or lady partners of the
night he closes the book. I have none of those.
I have companions. Idea.
And he looks back at the note. I think that falls on the Rule
54 about me. He's not like that.
It is not like that, Buford. These are my friends.
Castle is known as my Nights. Father has met him and this is
Mylan and this is Bullram. I'm an alchemist, good to meet
you. I'm quite shocked.
Well, Lady Shama, if you appear to have guests for the evening,
I'll be more than happy to feed and give them some refreshments,
but as per your father's rules, they must leave by the end of
the event. Are you kidding me?
Mylan's paws starting to itch. Kazul lives here, didn't you
know? I thought the guest room was
made out and the strange belongings that were residing in
their are a little out of worldly, but I didn't think too
much of it. But if he's living here, then,
well, I don't know how your father would feel about that,
and we need to get his express approval.
I mean, Father saw him come in. It's a living night, you know.
But does he know that he lives here?
I'm sure he does. In the same domicile.
Yeah, I think he does. As a woman who's allegedly to be
betrothed to another. Yes, yes, I'm pretty sure.
OK. Well.
Can't a full grown woman have friends over in her own home?
He checks the rules again. Yes, but as long as they follow
the 94 strict guidelines. Your father has same place, my
lady. Yeah, I actually follow 95 of
them because that's that's how good at following the rules are.
I actually made additional ones myself.
Deception check. What about persuasion?
You're lying. It would be deception.
OK, I think I'm still. I'm still.
Pretty good at deception, so let's do it.
Yeah, that's a 22. He quickly takes out a pencil
and asks for what, the 95th? Rulers.
Yeah, obviously it's just followed the 94 other rules
better than everyone else. That's the 95th rule.
Face. Palms, of course.
Of course I'm surprised. You didn't know that one, to be
honest. The oversight of my part must
have been an old compendium of rules, Charles.
And Ophelia knew that one. Of course they did.
They're fantastic cohorts. Hey, where exactly are Charles
and Ophelia? Yeah.
Oh, they've been stationed at the main house to assist the
father, Wilfred, in anything they made.
I I Well this is is information for a lady Shama.
Yes, specifically they're with Father, Yes, and not you, but he
loves you. I like to think so.
You see that he has like a little twinkle on anxiety.
He looks up and looks off for a second.
I could put in a good word to get you back with Father.
I would appreciate that, but I am where I am needed and if he
thinks that I am needed here, then it must truly be a reason
to be here. But I will send an express
letter of your arrival back home.
As he is eagerly waiting your arrival.
He's. He's wishing for you to come
home sooner. I will let him know and I will
let him know that you have a guest here.
He's free to stay for the night, but this alchemist and puppy
Doug will have to leave once dinner's over.
Of course, I don't want to be rude, but rules are rules.
He's. Not a puppy dog.
All right. Thank you.
Bufer. Can you set up dinner for us?
We'll be in in a moment. Absolutely.
And you see that? He takes a bow and he makes his
way to the dining room. After Bufer leaves or
immediately pipes up. Maybe it's somewhere else.
I don't know if I trust this guy over Ophelia's cooking.
He's really bad at cooking, too. Yeah, the.
Worst. OK.
Oh no, I had a beautiful meal mate.
I had a beautiful meal with nose.
You don't have that on that. Let's give it a try.
No, let's keep this in, keep this in.
This is. The railroading we're talking
about. Now we have to eat here.
This is exactly what we're talking about.
Tony forces us to eat at places we don't want to eat at.
It's going to turn and to ever and go.
Could you help me hatch a plan to get my father out of my life?
I think I might try to go find a place outside of this hideout
because I can't keep doing this. No offense to this guy, but if
he's real tight with your daddy, I don't know if I want to be
talking about stuff near him. Just doesn't sit right with me
the way he's doing that. Yeah, those 94 rules are awful.
They're the same rules I had growing up and I don't want them
now. Yeah, what's with his eyes?
I feel like, you know, he's looking straightforward, but
everywhere you go he's like always looking at you.
It's like one of those paintings.
He's scary, that's why he's father's number one.
He's always had his eyes everywhere.
There's only one day we're able to get out of them and wasn't a
great idea, but that's for a different day.
As you turn to Milan, he's just full on itching all over the
place. All right, let's take this
elsewhere. Come on, Milan.
All right, baby. Wait, I thought we were eating
here, He said. He had a delicious meal.
All right, baby, come on. You picked the place.
Did I start walking away? Would I actually feel bad?
Should we just go into the? No, don't feel bad for Tony.
You don't feel bad for me. No, but.
I'll put it this way, we want this guy to tell your father.
Like maybe there's a chance to bring back Charles and Ophelia,
right? So I don't think maybe leaving
immediately after we just said we'd eat here is probably the
best way to convince him to. That's a good point.
Rule 15. Yeah, it's actually 16, but
yeah. OK, let's eat with him and then
when you guys have to peace out, we peace out with you.
Yeah, yeah. We'll, you know, take a walk to
work off the meal and then go back.
Exactly. All right, let's go entertain
him and see if we can maybe manipulate him.
All right, whatever you all want to do, I'm down.
We levelled correct. Yeah, everyone's level 4.
And so it's been a long rest. We all got our our our new stuff
right. Yeah, you would have rested.
Oh that reminds me, make me a Constitution saving throw over
DC-15 as you are cursed or you have one level of exhaustion.
So just as a reminder, this sleep token that you are attuned
to is cursed. You have to make ADC 15
Constitution saving throw whenever you take a long rest.
If you pass, you do not have a point of exhaustion.
If you do, you keep the point of exhaustion.
You have that exhaustion until you long rest again, or until
the curse is removed, and you have to be attuned to that item
until the curse is removed. You're feeling all right.
Maybe I slept wrong, you know. It gets you looked at.
This thing kind of pokes me at night and it keeps me up.
I don't know when he holds up the doll well.
Ram, do you happen to have any potions on you?
Listen, I got a potion of swiftness increases how fast you
go. I just got a potion that helps
out with your attacks and stuff like that.
Nah, nothing we can use. I won't be mean anyways.
What do you want to do with it? I don't know, I just wanted to
alter a state of mind, you know? Here at dinner, Bell.
As we walk to the the food. What do you mean?
Smiling. We'll talk about that later.
Just want to know what he's thinking, I'm pretty good at it.
Hey, if you could read his mind at any point my without him
being alerted, let us know. What if we just and he, he
thinks to himself. He kind of trails off.
You go to the dining hall and you see four place settings, one
for each of you. You do see that on the table is
a big duck on a silver platter, garnished with vegetables.
Golden brown looks delicious. You also see a giant bowl of
rice with various types of seafood sticking out of it.
And you also see wrapped bacon. And you see that as Buford comes
back into the room, into the dining room, he is carrying
pictures of ale and water. And you see that he actually has
over his Butler's outfit, has like a little maid's apron on.
And you see that he even has like a little tiny chef hat on,
really getting into character. He goes, thank you for joining
tonight. We have a beautiful roast orange
mountain duck on the sides. We have green spear bundles and
Raspberry bacon and moonshay seafood rice from the deep of
the Fay itself. Please enjoy.
And you see that as he places everything in front of you, He
bows. And then as he's bowing, he
backs up into the corner of the room.
You see that everyone has their own place setting.
Mylan. You have a cat bowl that is well
decorated. It says good Kitty on it.
And you see that Beaufort appears next to Vivian.
He goes, I believe. I didn't have a dog bowl on
hand, but I figured a cat bowl would be just as fine as dogs
can't usually read. And then he backs up.
Beaufort. One, this isn't a dog.
He's Mylan. He's red panda.
Two, he can read. Wait, can he?
What? Mylan?
What does this say? Yeah.
Are you sure it's just Kitty? Are you sure you Kitty?
Yeah, see, but there is a picture of.
A cat on there. He read the picture.
He has a dictionary now. He's sounding out the picture.
Oh my God, that's so fucking funny.
Yeah, but we I guess never asked him if he knew how to read and
just gave him the dictionary. I haven't read it yet.
Marlon, you know how to read words.
I was getting motion sickness in the cart and you know when you
read and move at the same time, it's not fun.
It's. Not what?
I asked. Do you know how to read words on
that page? Yeah, I know how to read words.
OK. Thank you.
See, he's fine. If it'll turn back to Buford and
go, your cooking has gotten a lot better it seems.
Amazing work. Could you please pass him a
plate for dignity's sake? Of course.
But Lady. What's wrong with this one?
It's got a picture on it. Your place don't got pictures.
And you see that he goes back to, like, the culinary cabinet
where a bunch of like, plates and the fine plates are.
You see he reaches all the way in the back for something that's
a little more scratched up but still looks nice.
And he places it in front of Mylan and takes the bowl, just
moves it slightly over. You want me to put water in
there, Sir? He prefers milk.
Yeah. And you see that he pulls out a
little carafe of milk and pours it in the Kitty bowl.
Enjoy. Oh lady, I also have a stack of
letters for you. Your usual stack of letters from
your father requiring updates, and you add you like a stack of
letters. Essentially all the letters are
just him yelling at you. He goes, and you have been
cordially invited to a fancy feast at the main house on the
15th, but your father has urged me to remind you to make it your
utmost important urgency to be in attendance to this party.
OK, I will say yes to the attendance of the party and I
will deal with these angry letters later.
Question can I bring any guests to the party?
I'll take a read of this as well, but.
I urge you to read the letter. And he hands you the letter and
it's for a party invitation. On the 15th is a fancy dinner
party with light introductory dancing, and you do know that
your To Be Patroth will be there.
I guess that's what we have to do.
We're going to a party. Lady Shamma is going to a party
and he looks at you Bo R.E.M. Eyesight, I am.
I'm Ryan. Dance.
What is dance? Vivian's going to take a look at
everybody at the table and give like a don't talk about this
look, but we're going to make a plan.
Yes, I have to attend a party to meet my future husband.
Oh, and get to me dubby the cutie.
Oh. Dude, that's a stretch.
That's a stretch indeed. But but.
It don't look good. I'm he's fine.
He's fine, Vilfred, he's fine. I mean, you have met him like a
few times in the past, but you do know what he's like.
He's very stuck up, almost always acts as if you don't
really exist. He knows what this is.
You know it's he'll pass, he's passable.
What does? That mean?
Yeah. I just kind of do a slow look
over at Castle like what is happening here.
You're lying. I don't like when you're lying.
Milan, we have a new friend here who's taking care of us.
You. Know what?
What if we Oh. Milan, you tried this rice yet?
And he Milan, was about to do something and then he got
distracted by the rice. I had this a couple of times,
one of my friends made this for me.
It's pretty good. I haven't had it in a while
though. Did you have this back at home?
Not back at home, no. I mean, Dendron over here, he's
probably eating it a lot of times.
Yeah, we'd eat it all the time back home.
Actually one of my favorite things you make.
I like this. And Vivian's can turn to Beeford
and go, why'd you make this dish?
Normally Ophelia and Charles make this dish 'cause they got
they have ties. How come you did?
Oh well, the the fridge was bloody stocked with a lot of
ingredients and I felt a little a little adventurous in my
culinary. Oh.
It's it's delicious, so thank you.
Thank you very much. You see that he like, takes the
compliment very, very heartily. And you see how he's like
constantly cleaning up after Mylan.
When he's making a mess, he goes well, you see, This is why I put
a bowl down, because the walls in the etheria creates a
positive emptiness which keeps the scraps of food from spilling
over the sides, making a mess when you eat it with your
mandibles. And you see, he's like
constantly cleaning around the plate.
You clean after my siblings my. Husband starts to talk, but he's
got rice all on his face at this point.
What, you mean it's right here? I'm all good.
It's still in plate. Of course, And you see that
every time you speak. He puts like a napkin up to keep
himself from getting dirty from the food that's spinning out of
your mouth. He goes, I'll tend to this later
and he's. How big is this room?
It's. Pretty grand.
It's a pretty It's a pretty decently sized dining room.
Mylan all of a sudden looks at Buford and he's like obviously
like squinting his eyes and his hands about to reach out.
Vivian's puts a piece of duck in his mouth.
Try this Mylan, it's really good.
Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah.
You got to eat it all. I have one more of that.
Where's that? Where's that?
And he looks around all the the table.
He starts climbing on the table to grab whatever, wherever.
That is you. Could have some of mine here
tucked down. Vivian's gonna grab him, drag
him back. Don't climb on the table.
That's rude. Bad manners.
OK, Sorry. Manners.
Who cares about manners? You act the way you want, little
one. OK.
And he sits on the table. In this house you got to have
manners, though, Vivian glares. OK, he sits on the chair.
Yeah, bore him. You just go into other people's
houses and kind of just do whatever you want.
I mean, look at him. He's a little animal.
What's he supposed to do? Manly gets back up on the table.
But he shouldn't be treated like 1.
Well, if he's sitting at the table, yeah, he needs to be
respectable, all right? I don't like staring at your
knees. I kind of like being up in the
action. It's hard to grab food from down
here. All right, here you go then.
And I snap my finger and I create a bucket under Mylan so
it like props him up. Oh my God, I'll look at you.
I can see you guys now. He's using magic hand to grab
all the food so he doesn't have to get on the table.
Well. That's more polite.
That works. I'm going to turn to Beaveringle
Beaver. Thank you for the lovely meal.
We're going to go take a walk. Castle and I will return later
as we will find out where he will stay starting tomorrow and
we will walk these two back. Of course.
Really. I'll go get my city walk shoes.
You see how he walks out? Oh, no, Buford, That's OK.
Thank you. We'll be OK.
According to Rule 18, I must accompany the lady of the house
all city excursions, especially after apps.
But Buford, I have my night castle here.
Father loves him very much. Well, don't tell him that, he
might get jealous. But he also loves you.
You're his favorite and Kassel's my favorite.
And father approves quite heavily of Kassel as my knight,
because he is a very respectable you.
Didn't mention him, but I. Thought I was your favorite.
Yes, you're my favorite little knight in training.
Well, I guess I have some catch up on my stationary needs
because I need to send out some letters to your father of the
recent updates. OK.
Oh. Yes, you enjoy your relaxing
time before you deserve it. You miss an amazing dinner.
Give me a persuasion check with advantage. 25, I got 18.
Oh, I implore you to come back at Isabel Allen.
As you know, the city streets at night can be unsavory,
especially to unaccompany Charmats, but with your night
here, I don't see it being a problem.
Of course there might be a slight chance we run into
Nuella, and Nuella is loved, so if we do run into her I might be
a little bit late, but if I am not, I will be here on time.
OK, well lady, and you see that he heads over to the part of the
house where you would write letters where there are carrier
pigeons, and he begins to write letters.
Vivian's going to turn everyone and go.
Let's get out of here quick. All right.
Thank you, Buford. We see you another time.
And he takes his lab coat from the coat rack next to the front
door and heads out. Where are the four of you going
as you leave? Probably a Tavern of sorts that
we could speak in. Oh, y'all want to extend the
night a bit? Yes, please.
I don't want to go back. If I got to figure out a plan,
there's no way I'm staying with that forever.
And I got to find Ophelia and Charles.
All right, come on, Dendran. We find you a nice lady tonight.
Oh my God, where I am. You know what?
You never cease to amaze me. I know.
I'm pretty amazing. No, not like that.
I guess surprise, surprise is a better word.
And yeah, Borum's just like teasing Castle the whole way
there and then feeding my little snacks and stuff like that.
So are you heading back to the big iron casket or you want to
head to a different? Boram, what's a good place in
the stacks? We want to go to stacks.
We got some lively places down there.
We'll go to a jazz club. You want to go somewhere better
liquor gambling what you want. Maybe good music somewhere we're
not going to get bothered by Pile.
My thugs would be great. Yeah, they're not going to be
there. Don't worry.
They like big cry. And somewhere where my family
won't be. Sounds amazing to me.
This is a small chance that they might be there.
Yeah, you have seen. He's trying to give his himself
together though. All right, how about Roostie's?
Sounds good to me. So Roostie's is in the port side
district where a lot of shipmates, crewmates, people who
work on the boats tend to live or stay, and people who come in
and out of town rest their head for the night.
It's more outsiders than citizens of the town because
it's people who are docked there overnight before they sail out
of Balderas. But there are people who live
there who are dock workers. So you had to Roostie's.
And Roostie's is in the southeast part of the town.
And you would know this because Boram, you had been here before
your own private time and more recently in Arc 1.
Roosti's is a long Tavern and it overlooks the Bay of the dock
area where all these ships come into Moldaris.
You walk in and it is pretty lively inside.
There is music being played in the corner, you got your
standard loot going, you have some faint singing in the
background, there are people ordering drinks and you walk
inside and sure enough there is a table or the center back where
you before you can sit. All right, Well, that spot in
the back corner. Yeah, that sounds good.
You see Bo Ram like knows some of the people there and then
he's kind of like waving to a couple of them as he's walking
by. Probably stays and talks to them
a little too long before finally sitting down with y'all bringing
a bunch of ale. As you go to sit down, you go to
grab your drinks. Castle takes a seat and Castle.
The second you sit down, you feel a tug on your Cape of.
Course I do. I look over.
So it's you. Oh my God, I didn't think I
would see you in such a long time.
It is sunny. Oh, Sunny, hi.
Guys, oh, where have you been? Whoa, you say, see you got some
blood on that sore look at you. And he looks at your blade
that's in the sheet that he notices that you've been out of
town. Look a little rugged.
He goes, oh, tell me, tell me what you did.
Did you find any monsters? Did you beat some guys up and
throw some thugs in jail? And she's very excited to see
you. Oh yeah, Sunny, it's good to see
you too. You're not here to, you know,
rob anyone or you. No, no, no.
As you say, you never hoop. We eat, you know.
Okay, but yeah, no, it's good to see you.
Good to see you, too. I was.
I'm gonna be honest. But look, if you last couple of
days, I miss you. I wanted to see what you've been
up to. Great stories.
Get anybody up? Kinda not recently.
No, nobody. Castle's clearly not trying to
just go into full story of like what we just did for the past
few days. Vivian's gonna lean over and go.
Castle took care of two guys by himself.
What? What happened?
Tell me everything. OK, you know when you say it
like that with no context it sounds kind of weird, but.
What do you mean? Never mind, you know, two people
came into my room. Oh my God, it sounds even worse.
And I just. Sonny pulls up a chair.
They tried to, you know, murder me, Kassel says it really under
his breath. So I kind of just, you know, did
what I had to do. Edge her seat.
What you have to do? He killed them.
Yeah, jumps up on the chair with two fists in the air.
That's awesome. OK, murdering people's not
awesome. Murdering bad guys is awesome.
Killing monsters who try to eat people are awesome.
I it's more justice and self-defense is how I like to
put it. Not murdering or killing them,
you know? It sits with him better.
It's the truth, you know, They tried to kill me and I was
defending myself. I think this is probably where
Boreham sits back down and hands around some ails.
Sonny, good to see you. Boreham coming to the the spot I
see. The spot come here a bit you
you've been taking care of your OPS.
The OPS never see me coming. They're always looking, but they
never know where to look. Never with you.
Under there no like, loudly whispers.
Ohh Sunny, never change. I'm gonna turn to Milan and go.
Milan. Do you remember Sunny, right?
Yeah. What's that big dog?
Milan just has like a limp hand at this point.
He's just like, doesn't know what that was.
Oh. Boy.
We'll teach you that too, Milan. It's OK.
Milan, Maybe you and Sonny could hang out sometime.
About the same age, right? Milan, How old are you?
I forget. He takes out his fingers and
starts doing math. You said you were 13, right?
Oh, it's like 137 in doggies. Right, right.
And then when you start talking about dog years, then myelin
starts perking up. But isn't it crazy because they
age early, but then later they age later?
It's so crazy easy. Blows my mind.
Have you talked to a dog before? She looks at the rest of the
group and then looks back at you.
Yes, yeah. What they say tell me the
stories. Her cat years are like poking
up. Vivian's dying in the corner.
They normally bark, but some of them speak words.
Yeah, they do. She elbows Borem when she says
that. Borem is kind of like laughing a
bit to himself because Milo is just like following through this
conversation. All right, well, Milan is your
celebratory strawberry milk. Just strawberry.
Exactly. Just strawberry.
And they cheer. Ail's a mug to his strawberry.
So what's the move now that you guys are back in town?
What's the move? We got to talk about that.
Actually, Vivian wants to keep us together.
She likes us so much. Ain't that right?
Well, OK, we don't have to say that aggressively.
I enjoy hanging out, sunny, you know, everything around town.
What's a good spot to live in? Good spot to live in where
nobody knows where you are. Yeah, that's right.
Well, if you're looking for a place to stay, I mean port side
district is where you want to be.
There's plenty of houses. Nobody expects to live here and
well, there's a lot of people coming in and out that, you
know, nobody gets too familiar. All right, you have me sold
Castle. We got to move you out soon
should we find somewhere in Port Side district.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.
Probably finding a good place to no one knows about, you know?
I like that program. How quickly can you work on that
clone? Don't forget the clone.
We'd have to try and find someone to do that.
The skies in. I don't know.
It'd take 10 days probably to make an item to keep someone
disguised for long, but something like a simulacrum in a
way. It almost sounds like a rumor
that people can even do that. Like the wizard I knew said it
would take probably 30 years maybe before some people could
do that. I don't know.
I got to figure out a way to appease my father while I get
things in order, but with Buford living there, I don't think I
want to wait around for long. I.
Mean I've been trying to find a bigger warehouse that I can put
more items in. If y'all want to go down on
something together, make it a bit of a little kind of Guild
house. I mean, that might be cool, I
don't know. Never thought about doing
something like that with other people, but.
I'm in. I got the funds to start it
Sunny. We can make you a hideout too.
I already got one. Well, second backup hideout.
If you ever got a flea, Mylan has a hideout and then now he
can have a backup hideout. Also, Vivian, if you're going
to, you know, break away from your family, you might be kind
of tight on money right coming up.
That's what I'm worried about. So maybe not blowing all of your
money right away on a hideout. We might want to, you know, just
see what we can all put in together.
Yeah, how do you be poor? Well, you're gonna find out.
Let. Me tell you let.
Me tell you it's great. You go into trash cans and you
get all the food and it's free. People just throw it away.
What do you think about eating magic spells and items and
paper? That's a myelin thing.
It's great, right? He shakes his head.
I need to practice that over these next few months.
You're right, I'll take all your money and then you can live in
the hidey hole. Oh my God, it's like trading
spaces. Love that show.
Well, we need to find Ophelia and Charles first because I
really want to make sure they're okay before I really cut things
off. If I can, I want to take them
with me. They're kind of more family than
anyone else. You know, it's good to know that
you trying to get away from your family, but how do I put this
without? I'm just going to put it
plainly. If you upset your dad and that
make other things difficult than just money, no.
They got a lot of power in this city.
That's another thing to worry about.
But I, I, I know someone I want to get back that could probably
fix things and, you know, make things a lot easier.
Oh, where they lost, I got someone maybe could find them.
How? What did they do?
I don't know, I got a guy one of my one of my friends.
Yeah, I mean, if they can undo packs, kind of great.
So are you talking about warlock stuff?
Turned out kind of like deals with not great people.
If my sister can be found then things in Boulderas might be a
lot better. I think she could be the next
great person to run Boulderas. Give me some info, I'll go look
about a gadget. He knows a lot of people, a lot
of places I could ask. How about a lost soul?
So are you Speaking of riddles? This is Ganges, you see.
Sonny's like leaning in. Sorry, Sunny, welcome to the
team. Yeah, team.
Well, her eyes light up when you say that.
Without looking away from Vivian, I like give Sunny a fist
bump. To a daycare I lean over to war
him. I'm used to raising kids.
It's fine, OK? The reason my family hates me is
they blame me for her being gone.
They think she's dead. But why would that be your
fault? Well when we were younger she
thought it would be a great idea and the reason my family hated
me was because I was a tea fling that if we made a deal with the
devil that they could make me not a tea fling anymore and then
I lost her. So if we can find her, that's
what I've always wanted to do and that's why I will bury that
guy so I can get the resources all.
Right. Don't that thought.
I'm going to get another drink and tank for a second and come
back to this and see Borum kind of gets up and takes a second
and goes to get a drink. Vivian's Downing her I'll so
yeah, that's a lot. Anyways, how are you guys today?
How are you today? How's life been, Sunny?
I'm in it now. I'm in great time.
So you need to get a hold of some shady people.
Is that what you're asking? You want to make a deal.
I don't want to make any more deals, I just want my sister
back if I can break the contract that was there.
It's a weird 1. I don't even know if there is a
contract, but it was a very stressful time.
It sounds like you need some outer worldly help.
Have you ever visited like a church or something?
Oh I have like those. What's I could investigate 1.
Because she's a demon who looks that violin.
OK, that's not very nice, Sunny. I'm not a demon.
Ohh, you're not. She takes out like a little
lighter. She goes, what happens if I did
this and like put the five? That's not very nice.
That's really hurt, right? It's not my fault.
I'm just saying I'm just what is it your fault that you're you
got cat ears Exactly so. I'm pocket.
And I'm not a devil, I'm just a tifling.
And you hit your head on the ceiling as you rose from Vernus.
No, we get it. Didn't it?
Guy didn't come from Vernus, No. Well, maybe.
Borum sits back down with a bunch of ale.
He's got a bunch more ale. He's even got a couple shots.
Oh, thank you so much, Borum. He's gonna down one shot.
That was for me. I'm sorry, I'll could buy you
another one. No, it's good.
It's cool. I got I got another one.
Yeah, so. I appreciate that Bo Rep Thank
you. See you son goes to reach over.
Castle grabs her from around. And I pulled away from son.
Oh. Wow, as a valuable member of
this team. You will be drinking water to
stay hydrated because we need you at your best, you to look
out. Or milk.
You can have milk too. Oh yeah, dude milk, dude, milk.
And Bone gives her like a glass of milk.
You see that she picks it up, but like, licks it up with her
tongue rather than her drink. Some cat instincts take over.
All right, you say the devil, but like, what exactly did you
make a deal with? Do you even know?
No I don't because I was like 11, Willen was older and she
thought that if we made a pact to the devil about me not being
a tiefling anymore that it would work.
But then it took her. I was human for like 5 seconds
and then I begged for him to give her back and I would be a
tiefling again. And you just turned back into
tiefling and took her. What's wrong with being a
tiefling? Nothing.
I like it a lot. My sister thought that would
make my family like me more, so I went with it.
I see. That's a lot.
OK, well. You know, if, if, if we could
find a way to keep my father distracted and we can go find
her, I mean, I would, I think she would be the greatest person
in Boulder. She would take my dad off the
throne immediately. I think she would do so good.
And then we could just be happy and they wouldn't be rude to you
guys and you could come into our home home and not be so treated
poorly and people wouldn't be getting cosmetic surgeries to
look like else. Because that's really stupid.
Vivians clearly got a lot going on.
Look over it, Castle and take a shot.
So we come here to have fun. Is this part of the fun?
Sorry, I don't cover we. Can have fun.
Did you forget everything I said?
And then Vivian's just going to down the drink again.
All right, now the brow stacks when?
You say devil, Are you talking about Hasmodius or a devil?
I don't know. That's the one thing I I didn't
ask. I was, I was like your age.
I didn't ask too many questions. I mean, if Hasmodius is
appearing on a material plane and that's a bigger issue than a
devil. I mean, I hope it wasn't him,
but very powerful. I don't know.
I haven't met too many devils. I don't really leave all the
arrests until recently, so you seem to know a lot though,
Sunny. I mean, I know who asked what he
is is. Yeah, anyways, this doesn't need
to be solved today. I just came out.
Yeah. Anyways, so Guild house.
Yeah, yeah, Guild House. That's going to take some saving
up, though. That stuff's not cheap, right?
Do you guys want to sit a couple days and apply it to mine?
Pasco what you want to do? Sure, I have an item that'll be
ready on the 11th. OK, Yeah, we could wait like 3
days then. Marlon, where are you staying
until then? You're going to stay in your
little audio you. Can stay with one of us.
Probably go check in, see how I was doing over there.
I got a lot of things down there.
He really doesn't, but he's just trying not to go to the Butlers,
kind of creeping him out. Yeah, you don't have to come
back to my place. I understand.
I'll. Make you breakfast tomorrow you
come to mine. Okay, okay, okay, you could talk
me into it. We have a low sleepover.
No, I come in the morning and then, oh, we get food.
OK, that's fine I guess. Oh, you want to be good?
OK, a couple just. Trying to make sure you're safe
because the mines clearly having problems and if you're staying
there I just don't want those problems to make their way to
you. Go have a sleepover, Milan.
It's a good idea, all right. You don't have to stay long,
just a few days until we clear out the mines.
Then I feel good about you staying there.
But. I got all this gold and he holds
up this. All right, then I teach you how
to spend it tomorrow. But I like it.
Saving it's not a bad idea too, All right, Vivian's in Dendron.
You win, right? Yeah, I'm in.
All right three days she got an item coming, whatever that means
and then we go in we apply to the the Guild now and I'll.
See what I can pull out of my bank in between for savings.
Oh, I'm dropping my money off in my in my hiding hole.
So, you know, if you need me to just drop it off there, you
know, just let me know. Thank you, Mylan.
We're going to check out your high the whole first before I
see how safe it is. OK, First off, no one goes into
my ideal you're too big. Maybe Sunny can chase you one
day. I'm too fast.
See Sunny? Like just checking out her
nails? Sure.
All right, well, let's just have a few more drinks and then I
need to get back to my place because it's been a while.
And we got to get back before our stupid curfew.
Mylan is going to stay with Beau Ram, but he's going to drop off
some of his items at his hidey hole and it's on the way, but
it's just going to make Beau Ram stay in like a spot just so he
doesn't know where it's at. I'll wait out here, don't worry.
But that being said, Vivian Cassel, you fit us up.
Drinks, Sunny says goodbye, goes.
All right, so we'll meet back here tomorrow.
Sure, we can definitely say hi. Fuck it.
Yeah, you're coming with us, Sunny.
Part of the thing. As long as you stay low.
Oh, I know, I know how to stay low.
OK this. Will be good for Mylan.
That's. Kind of what I'm thinking too,
actually. He's a friend like his age.
So with that being said, Vivian Castle you 2 retire back to
Vivian's estate, Boram Mylan Sunny you go to the underbelly
of Bodares. Now you know that the underbelly
is mostly a mining facility, but there is a small section that
like people travel there. There are like little stores
there for people that prefer to live on the ground and somewhat
like a small living quarters. But as you walk down, you begin
to descend down the shaft and you notice that it's pretty
barren. There is nobody on the entrance,
which is a little odd because there's so creatures that live
there as their main domicile. As you walk in you are seeing a
bunch of these notices around the entrance and it says
Demolition by explosives Midnight of the 9th of Chi
Thorne. I grab Mylan as he's walking.
Mylan. What it's just just write it up
here. You gotta wait here though.
No, Don, do you know what this says?
Read this and I hold him up and put his face towards the poster.
You got me too close. You got me.
Sorry. Oh, oh, OK.
You know what demolition means. Is it food related?
No, Milan, I think they're about to blow up your little audio.
And that's where we're gonna end this week's session.
Hello, no more. How do you hold for Milan?
My milk no. My milk.
As you stand on the outskirts
walking into the underbelly, looking at this, notice a large
explosion is sounded from beneath.
You just see all Mylan's things in the sky.
Bottlenook flying in the air. It's just rags.
You hear the exposure from like deep within.
Nothing like visually pops out from like the rock, like, you
know, from this town or anything.
But yeah, definitely an explosion happens and you're
pretty close to it. So you hear this loud thunderous
explosion. Good stuff, that.
Was a crazy session. I didn't.
Expect to go into the the Vivian Deep lore this session.
I didn't mean to. It just kind of flowed out and
it worked well. I was trying to hold on to that
for a long time, but that's there's, there it is.
There's the main thing she's fighting for.
There it is. Deal with the devil we're
willing at. OK.
The devil stuff was crazy though where I was like the what?
Do you mean devil's stuff? Why would I put this flame to
you? It was crazy.
I love something, dude. That was great.
It's going to be a little our little hireling forever.
Possible. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure.
Now we got a bunch to talk about in the after show, but does
anybody have a recommendation? I think we all.
Spin the wheel we do. Oh yeah, core keeper.
Yeah, we were playing that late to the wee hours.
Yeah, So core Keepers, if you haven't played it, it is real,
real, real good. It is a almost Terraria style
meets Stardew. You're just out there exploring.
It's really fun. Good times.
A lot of different classes. Highly recommend.
So core keepers get it on sale. I've seen it as low as like, I
don't know, 5-10 bucks so definitely worth the cost of a
mission. Overwhelmingly positive reviews
on steam. Check it out.
Yeah, they do sales a lot. All right, well, let's spin the
wheel. It's time the.
Wheel. All right, knock.
Knock, knock, Look at that. And Knock, Mock says.
Join me today are the four other pet peeves I encounter every
day, starting with the. 1000% on this one.
We're talking about do it again, but Kylie hasn't, so we're doing
it again. I got.
To think of another pet peeve. I got I got more pet peeves.
Oh. Yeah, yeah, I know.
Dan's one just. Think on your way to driving,
Yeah? 'Cause I like annoys me all the
time when. My pet peeve is people with pet
peeves. That's a good one.
There you go. All right.
Thank you for joining everybody. It's a good episode.
Good search, good search give. Me most sunny.
Goodbye. Bye bye.
Goodbye. Goodbye.
I'm so excited to be a part of this for people.
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