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One thing that we did want to pitch we haven't said anything
about it. I think we just kind of all lost
track is we wanted to say happy pride everybody.
Big deal. We want to make sure that that
everyone knows that hey we support you.
We love you. You know whatever you are love
is love. So I know today in Denver was
Pride the pride parade. I don't know.
I'm a there may be a parade here.
Maybe. They did a Juneteenth thing, so
I mean, who knows? I've been gone way too long, so
I have no help there. But with that, like as always,
we wanted just to make sure that, hey, here at campaigns and
concoctions, everyone's welcome. You know, come and sit down at
our table, we're good. Is there anything that anyone
wants to pitch or or say I? I asked.
I always ask. I just want to make sure.
I think that deafening silence is a no.
So yeah. What do we got to drink, fellas?
Tonight I made a beverage for Dustin.
So the theme is, I don't know, it's maybe you'll be able to
pick it out. One ounce of Slivitz plum
Brandy. One ounce of Japanese plum
whiskey. Half an ounce of Japanese plum
liqueur. Half an ounce of Japanese plum
wine. 4 dashes of plum bitters. A dried plum is garnish and six
drops of saline. It is stirred and served up in a
chilled glass. And it is a very nice light.
Purple hue. To it.
Yeah, And I think. I think I like Nate's name.
Plumstrocity. That that is a lot of plum.
That is a lot of. There there is one type of plum
liquor in this apartment that is not in there because it's way
too sweet. That's fair.
What else we got? I've got something that I have
no idea but it. One of those random ADHD, like,
click. That's what's going to happen.
Moments. 1 1/2 ounce of reposado tequila, one ounce of Guana
Banana Nectar .75 ounce of Saint Germain, 2 dashes of the
Bitterman's Hellfire habanero shrub Tingala rinsed the glass,
stirred the drink, poured over a large cube.
Yeah. It's.
Quite tasty. It does sound quite tasty.
Mellow, too, There's for what's. In it is.
It doesn't hit hard for a lot of stuff, so.
Awesome. Do we have anything else?
I made Donuts. Nothing wrong with that, I'm
very jealous. It was fun.
Some of them are a little undercooked on the inside, but
they're still tasty. That also is sometimes fun now.
So I'm a lot upset by that, right?
It was tasty. No mine was great, even though
it was one bike. Right.
Well, with all of that being said, if we're ready, the last
time that we gathered together, the party eventually made their
way South to the island of Rubin, where they began to mine
massive amounts of residual where they are estimated.
In the excessive amounts of money, I can't even do the math
because it's so, so much. However, in the attention paid
to to the mining process, they were slightly startled by the
arrival of a few ruffians. They fought them off and then.
Gazoo tight. Sorry, sorry, my allergies been
killing me all day. Yeah.
It's, it's. It's rough.
But high. Enough for the pollen to get
out. Right.
After they after they ended the fight, is that where we left
off? So as we complete the day or
this this section right here they are the bodies of the
vanquished or laying around. And you are standing amongst
them. What do you do?
I'm assuming the rock is still screaming since none of us
managed to hit it. That's right.
I would like to stabilize any of the people that are down, not
wake them up, but just keep them from being perma dead.
Alaska is not getting back out. What some of them probably are a
bit past that because I remember there was a line of acid drawn
in the ground with fire. But if there's like three or
four of them I could stabilize with, that would be great.
You wait. You want.
What do you want to do? Do you want why you want to
stabilize them? I.
Just that's what he. Would do, there's.
Feels bad just murdering a bunch of people.
Because you're going to need to let me know in the future,
because generally I don't. They're dead.
Dead. Then then that's OK.
You guys are heroes. You get the ability to revive
and to and to have death saves. They die because I don't want to
deal with that mechanic. That's too much work.
I understand that. I'm going to grab the Screaming
Stone and throw it in my bag of holding.
That sounds really good. Screaming stone the alarm.
Isn't off? Make a Perception check.
Oh, good. I'm feeling to wander over to
the opening. I think they came through and.
First roll of the night. Starting off strong or a
terrible omen? Probably both correct.
Nate, can I have a Expo marker to mark down the totally valid
ones and? Unnecessary 20s.
So that comes back to a whole 21.
So. You hear in the distance a very
similar sound. Well, fuck, there's another one.
As this is. Happening the like, did one of
them look like they were like a leader?
There was 1, yes. Okay.
I wanna rifle through that one's pockets and stuff and see if I
can find anything valuable or interesting and I'll start
working on the other ones. I'm going to the whole they came
in and watching out that way. Okay.
Counting in my head currently. Is that where the other sound is
coming from? Yeah, actually it sounds like
it's coming from the way that y'all came in.
Great. I will make sure to point that
out. I'm assuming I will.
Investigation. Yep. 9.
You find 4 copper pieces. 17. And you're just searching
someone else, right? Just some.
I'm just gonna search as many of the bodies as I have time for
until somebody else attacks us or I'm told I have to leave.
On this first one, we'll say if I it's just it's kind of like
standard stuff that you would find on either hired guards or
mercenaries, right? Some like leather armor, I
believe they were carrying scimitars or a short sword.
I can't remember exactly what they were swinging 6 or 7 gold
pieces. I mean this and this kind of
goes for everyone else to let me see what else they would have
had 17 rule a D8 for me. Just tell me the number one
okay. Well on that first one you find
what appears to be a guard rotation schedule.
Excellent. I walk over to Sid and I hand
Sid the guard rotation schedule. I will look at it.
It's a fairly standard. You know, it's something you've
seen many and many times. You've drafted your fair share,
right? Nothing spectacular.
It's just a couple of names. It's all first names, so.
Cool. Do you does it look like the
schedule is Can I make can I tell if the schedule is for
where we're at in the visit your mind?
Oh yeah, I mean, it would. It would be odd if it wasn't.
Right. Yeah.
I assume so. Probably going to knock down the
microphone. When does it look like do they
would switch like controls? Probably a few hours.
It's not something, it's. OK, so we got.
Some and the alarm went off. Though yeah, it's true too.
And how's everybody feeling? Would they get take?
Another group of these. I mean, they hit me pretty damn
hard. But.
But I'm more concerned on the increase in numbers over time.
Yeah, I think we should get the residual we've got out of here
now. So we're not dragging it around
this place trying to get into fights.
OK, With that, I'm down to come back and see what else is in
here. If there's people running around
in here, there's obviously stuff in here to steal from them.
They attacked us first. We were doing an honest day's
labor as far as I'm concerned, so I don't mind killing all of
them and taking their stuff. Honest is a interesting choice
of words. We.
Could. Probably find somewhere to
ambush on them, you know, Also a good idea.
I like ambushes, I think if we were very honestly mining
residual. If we call as I'm here before
anyone else gets here, then oh, they're going to find his dead
bodies and I want to know who it was and we can come back later
way easier. Yeah.
Do we have a way to hide our back entrance and?
I think. They already know about that.
Yes, but if it looks like it's collapsed or something, we can
come back. That's true.
I can probably collapse. I don't know if I could put it
back together. I haven't figured.
I haven't make stone soluble yet.
Well, for now let's go and I will try and cover our tracks.
Out of this room. We should talk about that later,
though I. Was working on it with Ray
Beard. OK, it's a weird.
Thing real quick. Hold on one second.
I'm going to start taking one of their scimitars and like a cloak
of some sort of theirs and just tying it on to the end to make a
quick like dusting thing. Sounds good.
I I kneel down. I feel kind of compelled, and I
I kneel down. I put my hand on the the ground
for what's the time for a ritual?
10 minutes. 10 minutes. I'm like, hey, watch me for 10
minutes. Put my hand palm down on the on
the ground and commune with nature.
Hold on real quick. She's she's the castle, man.
Cheesy's crazy. I.
Don't know if I can. You think you're out of slots.
I am out of slots. He's a I'll.
Shut up, slots. I'll shut up.
Yeah, I have two spells of lots. I used them both.
Did you pick up tone back to the tone?
No. Our men who are challenged magic
user. You can't do a ritual unless you
pick up back to the tone. Oh really?
Yeah. Oh, well then I'm not doing it.
That changes things. That changes things.
Yeah, well, shit. Thanks, Curtis.
Thanks for telling me how the rules work.
I've gone aware of. I don't think Curtis is ready.
Let's fully on. Let's go, Yeah.
Yeah, we'll. Look it up.
We'll look it up at our next break.
Yeah, go. I will cover the back end.
So as the the six of you run, I mean everyone, are you guys
running? Oh no, because some of you guys
are carrying. Oh no, Is that all in the bag of
holding? In the back, a whole thing.
Yeah, OK. So that's not a big deal.
Are you guys taking off running? I want to push them out running
because I can catch up if need be, and from that entrance we
came in is where I start dusting tracks.
Leave the room alone, but I start dusting that trail.
OK, I need you, Sark. What do I want you to roll?
Just roll G100 for me, please. There's not really a skill
checked on on sweeping the floor, right?
The survival. The survival.
Or stealth, but I'm good with the D100.
Yeah. That's 80 and 0.
So that would be 90. Okay, okay.
Thank you. So I'm doing that behind them
because I can catch up even at half speed.
Okay. So if Sark's sweeping, I think I
would take point then to lead us on our run back to the boat.
I'll be right next to SOA. And then next.
I will be slowly falling behind because I have a slower speed
than everybody else. And then I'm, I'm assuming that
actually Sid is probably going to break bring up that rear.
Yeah, so it'll probably be between me and them.
And then rearguard as well. I'm preoccupied.
Cool. Make a quick roll here, you
continue, You, you run and you know you're not really paying
it, paying as much attention as when you came in.
And as you eventually make kind of that, that kind of sweeping
turn, you see that right hand turn so that you can exit out.
And there's no one there. And it seems like it's
completely empty. You make the right hand turn and
as you exit you get that initial kind of shock of brightness of
the sun as it hits your eyes. And then as the the brightness
clears, you see the crew members of the Charlene standing there,
crossbows aimed at you. They don't fire because they're
professionals, no. No.
But. Lord of Weapons, let's get out
of here. They they bounce, they get onto
the ship. A couple of them actually come
towards this, the the, the, the after the ship to kind of
continue focusing on the the exit because they don't see Sark
yet and after you know just a short amount of time you see
Sark bound up and at this point. The anchor has been cut and it's
slowly starting to the shirleen slowly starting to lift.
The gangplank has been lifted but there is a caving ladder
that is hanging and so Sark, I need you to make a dexterity or
an athletics check. I think it's or athletics,
whichever 1 acrobatics, athletics to see if you can
catch it. And I do this because I'm pretty
sure like 99% of he's going to make it.
The 15. Yeah.
So as you you get that that step.
Yeah. You roll the seven, yeah.
Sounds right. However, you don't.
You don't get as high as you'd initially hoped.
Right. Still you still catch it.
Wind resistance is weird. And you're able to to climb up
and very quickly as soon as as someone hollers that you have
caught on. Sorry.
You feel the the ship turning away from from the the side of
the ship that you are to the to the port and it takes off.
It is rising quickly and it quickly moves to the towards the
South as the six of you now kind of regain and Captain Mckenzie's
at the wheel and one of the the the the mates comes up to you.
I gotta, I gotta pull up that page cuz I'm forgetting names
right now but we'll do that later and they pull up to you
and says not as exciting as I thought it was gonna be, but.
Not for you. Did they date?
They didn't send enough people. It happens.
Yeah, I have a feeling the back door may not be as accessible
the next time we want to pull the stunt off.
We'll see. We've got, we've got weeks.
Because I'm assuming that the, that the six of you are now
ready to head towards the syndicate.
Yes, Tinker Mirror. Tinker mirror and.
Yes, the. Manager's.
Doc. Excellent.
And so he walks off and and he chats.
You kind of, kind of whispers in the captain's ear and begins to
head South. The mate comes back to you and
says, well, it looks like. See, it's settled in ladies and
gentlemen, it is a twoweek journey from here.
I'm going to as soon as we get out over like actual ocean, I'm
going to pull the alarm stone out of the bag of holding and
just Chuck it over the side and. It it's still going.
It's still going. And you hear that kind of radar
effect, right, that it's like? Overboard with it and just hand
the sword off to one of the pirate the guys.
Just like here's a spare, just hand it off.
So in the interest of time, because I don't think we want to
role play two weeks of being afloat, it sounds horrible.
The most that I'd wanna do is just to like spar with a couple
of the guys who are willing. That was gonna be my next
question over the next two weeks.
What? Would the six of you like to be
doing? I'm.
Gonna be doing a bunch of recipe work.
Okay. Not testing, just theoretical.
Okay. I'm gonna find the.
Is it the Sergeant at Arms or would it be, I don't know, naval
jobs? They don't.
They don't really have a master at arms.
Okay. Luckily I do.
At least a little bit. Right?
Yeah. They don't really have a master
at arms. The closest would be the
gunner's mate. Let me get let me get to where I
need to be. Yeah, Gunner.
Delilah. Delilah.
Yep. So I'm gonna see if Delilah
wants to spar with me a little bit, and I'm gonna use my shadow
blade and my packed sword at the same spar with her.
There's going to be someone better.
OK. Are there any?
Are there any fighter style people he could spar with?
I'm getting that. I was like, that's where I'm
looking for it. Out of role play?
Well in role play I've decided that we don't do as much still,
so I need to be more practically confident in hitting people.
Your God punching level needs to be elevated slightly.
Good luck hitting SOA, hit me. Yeah, right.
Actually that's a really good point.
I actually probably am going to spy with SOA.
OK, we can do. It down on the gun deck.
Like below decks, or even in the hold if there's enough room with
none of the portholes open. So we're in the dark, so that
would be fun. So Esway's armor is fully
effective. Yeah, right, Yeah.
There is also so for you then Saarc Bader, who is one of the
gun crew. Yeah.
Ishmain. Those two.
So Delilah is not a scrapper, right?
She is purely A technician when it comes to to to run it to man
in the guns and operate in the gun crew.
However, they she has picked up people who were much more
competent than her, and both Bader and Ishmain are very
competent fighters. I will probably spend some of my
research time talking to Delilah specifically about what she's
learned not to do with residual, just in general in to avoid
things exploding, because that's what I want them to do.
Right. Yeah, yeah.
That's fair. You don't drop it.
All right, let's try this stuff. See what?
Happens. If I drop it.
Patrice would like to figure out if there's a way we could
practice our our drop method, our Yep, our infiltration mode.
The hot drop. We're hot drop.
We need to practice. I would like to practice a hot
drop on our way to We're going to Nomaragon.
Tinker beer. Tinker beer.
Yeah, that's right. No.
Maragon, sorry. That's a cool name.
That's a great. Name.
Years ago. That's where that came from.
You strike that from? Yeah, that's from certain IP
that we don't. Okay, I was about to say that.
Otherwise I'm stealing it because it's really good.
So if it's another IP, I'm not. Yeah, yeah, that's World of
Warcraft. Sorry.
Wow, yeah, wow. It just happened.
I mean at least you got the like, so I would like to
practice the hot drop and and also the the what would you
call, I mean he would look at Sid and she said ask ask Sid,
what would you refer to like the operation of a team when they're
like leaving a place. The extraction.
X Phil X. Phil.
X Phil. We need to practice our hot drop
and our ex. Fill.
I think, I think these are these are tools that we need in our
toolbox. We need to be hot potatoes.
Yes, we're the hot potatoes. Yes, and.
That might be our. Gang name.
We got to add that to our. List Hot Potato Gang Gang.
Only cuts and platinum. Yes, that's right.
I'm just hearing that point and we were soldiers when, he says.
Let come and know that this is a hot LZ.
Right. So good, but.
Yeah, I would love to. I would love to practice our hot
drop in our X though. Since it's going to join in in
the sparring and focus on practicing with her warhammer.
I'll probably spend some time letting them try to hit me when
it's dark. Just practicing defense in the
dark. I love this.
Patrice will be hanging out, casting Darkness the hell out.
Does anyone have? See in the bottom.
So first of all, how dark is it in there if?
If you if you pull out all the guns and close it down, it is
non magical darkness right? So it's not it's.
Not it's not semi dark. No, it's darkness.
It's dark, yeah. It's not dead light.
It's dark, yeah. So heavily obscured.
But who all has dark vision? Everybody.
Everybody except for Patrice and Patrice does Okay.
Never mind, yeah. Patrice's half.
Drowned it with dog That's dark. Yeah, there we go.
It's really difficult for me to make a character that doesn't
have. It same.
I don't understand why it's just not standard.
Yep. I find a way to give all
characters dark vision fairly quickly.
Dark Vision goggles exist for that reason.
Exactly because it's not fun to have one person, the party
doesn't devil sight. Yeah, I do of.
Course she does. It's not fun to have one.
Person The party who doesn't have dark vision.
For sure. For sure.
At one point, while they're after the first couple rounds of
them trying to hit Sark, if they if they come out of the dark
where I can. See them I'm going to cast.
Reduce on Sark as he goes back in.
It makes me tight. What's going to be great is I'm
going to go in and blind because it's what I'm trying to do.
Not realize that I'm like 4 inches tall.
And so I'm exact no because it's full on, just patient defense.
That's all I'm doing is I'm sitting there going, where are
they at? So the fact that I'm now like 6
inches tall trying this. So you're.
Not 6 inches tall, it's. You're halved in all dimensions
and your weight is reduced to 1/8 of normal.
So it's it's, it's. So I'm two Hobbit.
Halfling, halfling. Yeah, yeah.
I'm fighting 8:00 so that half of that is 6068 thirty. 4.
Less than 3 feet tall. Just under 3 feet tall, yeah. 2
foot 10. Topic. 1/8 by weight.
That's going to be the weirdest part.
That's the. Funny thing about the D, that's.
When I start noticing something's wrong, that means a
physicist helped them. That's why it's just.
Juggling you. I love that.
It's 1 eighth. That's really good.
I need Sid to roll a D100 for me please.
For most of this to affect the. 93.
OK, thank you. So let's see here just kind of
do a real quick recap of all that has happened here in the in
this at this initial point we're basically this is going to be
about a week's worth of time that we're going to, we're going
to cover here. Scald and SOA are continuing
continuously. Yeah.
Thank you, that word. Sparring, no.
Play fight, I mean. Yeah, play fighting.
Yeah. And the the competency level in
Scald continues to rise, right? You're getting better and better
at it. And really it's just a chance
for SOA to be like can't hit me right?
Pretty much, right. It's a lot.
Of right. Because she has to, she has to
like flourish to like race or a C So it's a lot of like, a lot
of like point. Right and.
Like. I would say it's you don't have.
It doesn't have to be as it's just a flourish.
It doesn't have to be necessarily.
With your sword you can be very fluorid in your movement.
Yeah. I'll give you that.
I think that's interesting. Yeah, not capoeira.
No breakdance fighting. Yes, breakdance.
Fighting, yeah. Pretty much electric.
Boogaloo. That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The walk off.
Parachute. Pants at some point in the trip.
I'm also going to try to use enlarge on Patrice as he walks
through a door. Time it just so he catches his
head on the door as he's growing.
That's pretty great. Oh my.
God. It's.
Not the greatest. We.
Stopped the campaign right
there. Really, we're not.
Topping that I'm ready. It's.
Mounting. The entire game.
Well, I need a room. We're.
Playing a different system now. I don't know if I got time with
that well yet because it's my own the second time I.
Won't be the fucking manage. I need to.
I need to see if I'm going to hit it.
So I would so we're going to do something for timing.
I think that would actually be a Dexterity check.
For me. Yeah, for L and then for you,
Patrice, just go, Well, this is actually going to be based off
of L's role first. That's a 17.
Yeah, you're you're quick enough to get it just timed just right.
So. It's go ahead and roll a D12 for
me and give me the number. That's a three.
Okay. So it catches you on the back of
the head as you're catching. Go.
Up into. The oh, that's cool.
It's so much fun. And.
I scrape the back of your head. You're going to, you're going to
take four points of of blood, yeah, four points of
bloodgeoning damage. And then you also have a scraped
open wound on the back of your head and your your fro is
flattened for a minute just in kind of like a reverse Mohawk
kind of shape. I'm going to.
Cancel this. Cancel the spell because it's
concentration. I'm going to drop it as soon as
I hear him hit the wood. Like.
I just see if he can figure. Out.
What the hell happened? Just one of the doors where it's
like we're walking down steps and does he get this sense that
he's like? Am I still growing?
Like. Do you think?
It was like 40 year old. Growing.
Yeah. Like, I'm not 40.
I thought it. Wasn't.
Why are you me? Yeah, he's like, he's got a
whole new diet going. He thinks booze.
Right. Booze makes him taller.
Booze might make me taller. I would probably try to time it.
For. Like a door at the bottom of
steps. Okay.
I could. I'll take any door that's
available, but. That's that was my.
Original intention was like as he goes down into the corners or
into like the hold or something. It's your setup.
I'm okay with anything. Love this.
So, Sid, you're gonna, you're gonna continue, you're getting
better, but it's just, it's a slow grind, right?
Sure. You're not.
You haven't reached proficiency or anything like that yet.
So was he doing that around Patrice?
She. She.
Was Sid doing that around Patrice?
Was she? Were we all were you in the
training area with all of us? Yep.
If Patrice saw Sid struggling, he would have been.
Casting guidance on Sid to improve his ability to do so.
Well, he already, or so he, as in Jared, has already made a
role about that. So okay.
Sorry. Yeah, no, you're good.
You're good. Curtis Reed, did you?
Did Patrice wonder out loud if that if he was still growing?
Is this a? Discussion that's higher he'll.
He'll. Mention it.
If he mentions it, then I was going to do it like.
Once a day for. The.
Whole trip after he mentions it and just try to time it every
time you're. Going to have to pick different
doors because he's going to start ducking on the door.
Right. Yeah, that's why.
It's going to be every single time.
It will be a different place all.
Right, all right. I like this.
Can I just roll to see if I see? Sometimes it may just be in the
hallway, like as they're walking down a hallway.
Wait, hold on. There was too many people
talking. I just want to roll to see if
I'd catch on to like Elle messing with Patrice.
Does it have a verbal component? This stuff.
Pretty sure it does, yes. Elle's not being particularly
subtle about it either. He's not going out of his way to
be heard, but he's not trying to do be stealthy.
All right. If I get over at 15 natural 20,
he's going to hear it the third time, the third time.
You do it the. Third time so.
Drink, motherfucker. Drink, motherfucker.
Drink. I'm not.
Working hard for that one. That's a 20, not a one.
Yeah, I know. That's what I said.
Yeah. It is.
An epic fail for L, but you know.
He doesn't care. I know I'm not going to stop him
from doing it either. Exactly.
Because it happened, you know? So yeah so at that point so I
think I've, I've hit just the OL you're you have gone through
probably about 3 or 4 notebooks at this point over the week of
as your equations keep getting more and more complex and more
and more fascinating and then Patrice no one's really
answering you quite yet. About working on your insertion
and exfiltration movement, but it doesn't seem like they're
intentionally ignoring you. It's just that you just kind of
get a hold on. Let me get back to you.
Hold on. Let me get back to you.
Hold on, Let me get back to you. Did he state that we need to be
over land really to kind of accomplish that?
Well, yeah. Shallows.
And it's very not land like as soon as you left Ruben.
As soon as the the island was over the horizon you did.
You have not seen a another piece of land for about 7 days.
Cuz remember a week is 8 days. Yeah.
So we're gonna go ahead and take a really quick break.
And we'll pick up in the evening of that 7th day right before the
week ends. So stay stay tuned, we'll be
right back. Welcome back, everyone, to
campaigns and concoctions where we like to recognize that we
fail fast. So drinks.
I made a Kiwi Gin sour, which is a drink template that I borrowed
from. The bartender Mikayla at Balmer
Peak Distillery I had, I she didn't tell me the percentages,
I just knew what was in it. So I I tried to make it up and
on the way I had to do a little bit of experimenting cuz I think
I got the ratios wrong. Sorry Mikayla, but the it's got
2 ounces of Balmer Peak Aspen Gin, it's got an ounce of lime
juice and it's got an ounce of Kiwi syrup and it's got two
dashes of. Grapefruit, bitters, dry shake,
ice shake, double strain. She put it on a big rock.
I gave it a grapefruit twist on the top and I felt that that was
not quite enough. After making it, I felt like it
there was something missing. So I added some Benedictine.
I had 1/2 an ounce of Benedictine to kind of juice it
up a little bit, make it a little bit more sweet, a little
bit more complex, and I feel like it's way more balanced now,
but the one I had at Ballmer Peak was superior to this.
I I made two cocktails. One of them was a failure.
It is extremely sweet, doesn't have a ton of flavor, even after
putting an additional oz, making it 3 ounces of mezcal.
You can't even really taste any smoke in there at all
whatsoever. It it, it would be great for a
kids party as a punch. John and I were.
Trying to do similar things with mezcal, and I also filled and so
now I'm just basically drinking pink mezcal.
Yeah, I'm I'm gonna, I'm gonna put up the recipe for the
failure in the discord in a little bit here.
There will not be a picture because I didn't bother taking
one. I did, however, make a good
cocktail. This one was 2 ounces of mezcal.
It is 3/4 of an ounce of Remy Martin.
It is half an ounce of nonino, it is half an ounce of
Benedictine, and it is one full dropper of bitter men's
chocolattle mole bitters stirred and then served up.
And I garnished it with a BlackBerry because it's
basically a riff on one of my own cocktails, which is the poor
man's poison. But with this?
If you haven't had a poor man's
poison, next time, if you were ever in Denver and you happen to
run a John at his bar, ask him for it, because it's fucking
phenomenal. Hey kiddo.
Yeah, but Poor Man's Poison was
the first cocktail I ever legit made-up and very first trying.
It was fucking delicious. It.
Was amazing. It was really good.
It was back when I was still there and I got to try those
drinks. Absolute flu.
So. And just to say, I am drinking a
Black Russian, but with a little bit of flair.
A couple of dashes of orange bitters.
Try it. Orange, Orange bitters makes
things better. It really does.
Most bitters in general are just a wonderful addition, you know.
Ever since I discovered adding orange bitters to a classic Gin
martini. Oh yeah.
So nice.
Yeah.
So that was what my reference was to failing fast.
We failed and we changed it and we made it better.
So, yeah, all right, so we are back on the Charlene, it is the
the 7th night of your all's journey to towards Tinkermere.
The captain has asked you to join him on the rear quarter
deck, the after quarter deck for dinner this evening.
The as the tables have been set, this is actually seems like a a
fairly upscale version of dinner than normal.
So as the the the captain sits you down and explains that this
is the last of our of the the fresh meat that we have as well
as the. Last of the a dive, which is the
fruit that you guys found in the mountains back up near in Woodan
remember up north remember we talked about that.
I just found a note about that today and I was like I got to
remember that we fucking talked about it.
Y'all asked me for a name and I never gave it to you.
A dive was the name of the fruit.
So as you sit down and and and plates are set in front of you.
Captain McKenzie is sitting there.
And so just just one of the things that that makes Captain
McKenzie unique, you know, traditionally speaking is this
is especially noticed by those of you who are sailors.
Captain Miss Kinsey does not sit at the head of a table.
He actually sits in the center and he always, even when he
invites you, there's always not his mates but just regular crew
and it shifts every time. So today is just is just a
couple of the regular crew who sit next to him on his right and
his left and he after you know the the first drinks that have
been have been poured and that kind of that early you know set
has gone by. He is like well y'all as we
we're getting close to the the landfall over Seacan which is
the southern continent here. I'm not sure if any of Y'all are
from there or have been there, but it's getting close and we're
going to hit the an outpost of Tinkermere, which I would like
to stop if is all right. We need some supplies and they
do have a store that we can hit, but after we do that, if that is
approved by Y'all, I would definitely like to work on this
infiltration and exfiltration method that Mister Patrice.
Notice has been discussing about something about jumping off the
fucking ship, which sounds incredibly dangerous to me.
I'm not a big fan of it, but if if that's what y'all want to do.
Governor for a minute just goes and tries to whistle even though
we can't. There's the only one it wants.
Because you don't have lips. Well, I I I will say that the
exfiltration part, I would definitely wouldn't mind
practicing it. Getting y'all comfortable with
getting up on a caving ladder as the ship is underway.
It's the fun ride. Maybe if I don't have a sword in
my hand this time, it'll be more fun.
You or she can fly. But if, if y'all masters
mistresses don't, don't disagree.
If you wouldn't mind us stopping at this little outpost here in
the northern edge of the continent.
So we can refill our supplies and get a update on what is
happening. It has been quite a time since
we have been in the Syndicate and I would also wouldn't mind
if or No, no he wouldn't say it that way.
He would say. I would highly recommend for one
of y'all to reach out to Miss Prosper.
This is her home space. And I know that she has
entreated you to come and see her when y'all get a chance, but
I will let you all discuss that on your own accord.
But and at this point dinner dessert has happened, life is
good and says I just want to make sure that all y'all options
are open. Well, we need to send the word
ahead. To secure our doc space anyway
so we can pass a message from there on the lady prospering.
I was gonna say who's Who's in charge of talking to prospering?
No, we have a sending stone. One of you.
I don't remember who has the sending stone.
Clark has it does. Back of my nine brothers symbol.
I hide it there. I'm also like man.
I need, I also need Ellen Sark to roll a history check for me
real quick. This is where we're going to You
guys are going to be doing this a lot in the next couple of
sessions. I don't know shit on this one.
That's A7. That looks like a.
It's a 12. Okay, so L you remember that
there is one of your organization works in the in
within the government? Because the the this outpost is
a government run organization that is just it's kind of a way
station for airships as they move on the the weekly transit
from Tinker near to Haven. And it's just it's a stop it's a
it's a way station. So you do know you don't
remember who it is but there is some form of secret handshake
secret connection that you guys can say.
And it'll be one of those things that someone who who is in the
know will will recognize it real quick and and they'll definitely
give you the information. Did though you didn't say what
the post name was, did you? There, there is no name to it.
It's just the outpost. That's what they would call it.
There's airships while common enough.
There's only so many place people.
There's only so many groups that have the the knowledge base to
build them. So there is the unique and this
is only there's only one group that builds a specific type of
airship and those are based on the bones of of a certain type
of animal and that is the the the the cow cord enclave.
And then there is the airships of Tinkermere, which are this
one is kind of a hybrid of a couple.
And then there is there's a couple of other organizations
that are beginning the test of it, but most of them are outside
of the spaces that any of you has have been.
Like, like the Enclave hasn't been making new airships for a
decade or so, right? They have not made new airships
in two decades the very interesting thing that happened
there. I'm sorry.
Interesting. That was the funnest.
Oh shit. What are we doing?
Or our listeners. That is a reference to Matt's
previous campaign. Yeah, Morgan.
It is. It is.
Sometimes. Sometimes you need a very
specific spell component, and sometimes when you go to get
that spell component, you accidentally overthrow A
tyrantical government. It happens.
You know. That wasn't the plan, but we
were there and that was the option.
It's also why I'm not a fan of Speak with Plans.
Yeah, yeah. If Morgan's you, DM and you take
stick with plans, your character's going to die.
You make me fucking role play as a.
Tree or a vibrarian or something that can't take to speak with
plans. Not happy.
So, but is it, you know, is this point, you know, dessert
combined? This is where the the ad dive
comes in. It's this really gorgeous fruit
with a little bit of reddish flesh, and Cookie has whipped up
some some cream to go along with it.
And it's just kind of it's not sickly sweet, it's just really
nice and subtle with a just kind of almost like a parish sourness
to it. It's really nice.
And the way that he's prepared, you know, you guys, every time
you have a meal, cookie impresses you, right?
And you're like, what is this guy doing on the ship?
And then you remember, Oh yeah, he is well.
Paid. So but at this point the the
captain and his two crewmates have left the debt, have left
the table, and have left the six of you to discuss as you need.
That's the way. Do we have any way of like
bolstering the? Earliness of our friend Sark, if
he was to, you know, jump off boat in the sky, hit the ground.
I I. Know you don't have any way of,
you know, making him sounds like a long term conversation.
We have connections to forward word ahead.
I don't want to use the sending stone for cross spring because
it's not. Pressing matter like she still
has a week before we show up, so I made a little bit of a
different way. Shouldn't be too bad.
Now that we've made. I want.
To say landfall and technically. Should, should, Should.
We let her know well. We will.
I just don't want to use the sending stone, since last time
she was at least placated by the fact that we brought her
something new and interesting. All right.
There's. Yeah, we did sell the
interesting thing we got, didn't we, to somebody else.
No, we can give her the giant dragon.
Board me and I'm talking about the the vestal and mortar.
Is that concerned with that type?
Of we're also, we're also not. Asking anything from her, We're
just we're just letting her know that we're in Secant.
Which is where she's. From right.
Also, she might have a job for us here.
Which still can go out. Longer, slower route, slower
route because we have word to get past it where we're going to
be docking the ship anyways. True.
And can forward a message onto the mixer house.
Yeah, I'm a lot more comfortable messaging on three channels than
personally. Does she scare you?
Yes, Sorry. Smart.
The only scarier person the Prosper is Prosper's dad.
What? Literally, I mean.
He might be the only God I don't want to punch.
There are no gods. Yeah, I mean.
Use them as a. Label.
Yeah, the scariest person I know said not to interfere with them
under any circumstances in capital letters.
I am terrified of all the Richters.
Doesn't mean you can't. Fuck with them a little bit
about. It's good to face your fears
out. It's.
Good to face your fears. I will disavow all knowledge of
you if you. Start doing that.
I don't. I I I think, I think the less
that we fuck with God like people, the better we're going
to be. Look, I didn't make it this far
in life. Not fucking with God like
people. John, are you trying to trying
to build a new character? What's up?
Right fucking with God like. Things is one thing.
Fucking with God like things that can continuously bring you
back to life. To kill you again.
Oh, that kind less of a good idea.
Got it. No, that's valid.
I'm just. Unhappy with the one I'm fucking
dealing with right now. And now there's more of them.
You might get eaten by a giant rock like creature for it's all
of eternity. There's worse things.
The one that. You.
Didn't make a note for all of the right.
Yeah, it's like a goblet rock. Like you carry it up a hill.
Yeah. You carry it up a hill, then it
eats you, and then it shits you out at the bottom of the hill
and you have to carry it back up the hill.
So it eats you and then it shits you at the bottom of the hill.
We're sorry, buddy. We're so sorry.
Anyone else even like random comic of the Sisyphus workout
or? Hilarious.
So, like, we're going to push
this up the hill. And he's like, Oh no, all right,
I'll get in shape. Right.
That's like the Instagram, yeah. That's good.
Stark is very like, yeah, we
fetched the staff of Necromancy for the God of necromancy and
his daughter. So they like us now.
That doesn't mean I'm going to start fucking with them.
I didn't. It's.
Job security. Side note, you kid.
Are you a guy? Wants to do that with people.
Define. You know when when a mom and a
dad get together intimately, usually at night time or
sometimes in the morning, you know, and they they they take
off all of their their garments and kind of put their parts
together. Do you do you are you equipped
to do that? We should take them to that
district. Have you have you been to that
district? Have you have you acquired
services of the district? Do you?
You don't. Have to answer it, It's really
personal. How many prostheses do you think
you've seen you make? Them.
You make those parts for him. I.
Haven't, but I could. I suppose I've made it for
someone else. Wow.
OK. Yeah.
Yeah, that makes sense. Not like it's complicated.
OK. Yeah.
So OK, we'll just leave that, just leave that in the air.
I don't, I I neither confirm nor deny whether or not you have
interrelations with other beings in that manner.
I wasn't ready for that one. Well, who wants?
Are these quite a? Break.
Never ending Flaska. Booze.
I do pull out my never ending Flaska booze and I pour us all a
drink. I should always expect you guys
to get horny at some point. It wasn't the bar.
It wasn't.
The bar. I'm proud of us.
I love that it was the and the home school kid having the
conversation. The very special home school
sorcerer. So is, is there anything else
you guys would like to discuss this evening before you guys go
down? I mean, we can kind of go over
plans for the. Drop and pick up, but I think it
mostly revolves around Sark landing.
I have a way to to to soften your fall a little bit as well.
I'm good. I think maybe we're not in the
best headspace to discuss the logistics of that right now.
I know out of boats. I'm comfortable jumping out of
boats. I'm not comfortable jumping out
of the flying boat right now. Well, let me let me let me give
you a quick demonstration. So I do I need to make a check
to climb up to the top of the crow's nest.
No, you're good. All right.
I thought you've been drinking heavily.
I have been trying to keep up with Skeld.
I don't think Skeld's been drinking heavily.
There you go. So I climb up to the top of the
crow's nest. I jump off the top of the crow's
nest and I cast feather fall on myself and I float down gently
as as the boat is moving. I kind of like, I guess I would
have had the same, no, we would have been fine.
Yeah, I would have fell right down at the base of the base of
the the mast. Probably not.
You probably would have landed closer towards the the half
quarter deck because the the ship's continuing to move while
you're falling straight down. Yeah.
But I have momentum. The ship is also under power,
basically. Yeah.
The ship is. Under backwards.
A little bit. I would assume Featherfall would
also slow your momentum in just about any.
You would. You would not be falling.
Curtis make the face where he was thinking about this.
He's like, I don't want to talk about it.
And then everybody else brought it up.
It was brilliant. We may not be engineers as well,
bro, but we at least get the concepts.
Yeah. I I have a student who works for
me who's who's in the physics department and it makes me happy
so. I saw you think about that.
So yeah, so you you all watch that happen.
Kind. Of expected a thump at the in
there. I landed.
I landed on one time. I try and kick Patrice off the
boat to see if it lasts. You guys are still technically
over water at this point. I mean, he floats.
No, that was just an impulse. That wasn't a role to try ahead.
That was an impulse. Like, I wonder if this and I
will move towards it. That's not.
Hell can probably pick up that something's up because I'm like,
I wonder, so yeah. Hell, we'll stop him.
This is why I love this table. It's some of the best.
You guys are some of the best D&D players I've ever been
around. I love you guys.
Let's. Screw on my wisdom.
Check. I've got a seven.
I was like idea. I roll on 18.
Thank you, Tris. Didn't want to get that.
I can do this for five individuals.
Okay I I I. I wasn't crazy about jumping off
of the boat. I'm not crazy about it either.
I have yet to do it, which is why I want to test it.
I think that would be a. Good good way to I.
Don't know. I think you're both pretty crazy
and we're all fucking crazy. That is true.
I'm. I'm.
I didn't realize that was crazy, but I'm still here.
Yeah, yeah. Anyone gets stuck around this
long is not sane, so there's that.
You've got issues to work out, yeah?
You don't we all. You 3 have also been kidnapped
by Sure Do Gods. Yeah.
Some of you keep disappearing and then showing up in
saltwater. Or cocoons.
That was weird. That was a weird one.
Yeah. How'd you pull that trick?
I. Don't have no.
Idea. I was just there.
Look, just like I ended up here. SOA is a swords woman.
And a sailor, she doesn't do magic.
Do you not do? Much.
I mean, I I do some magic. It's in the family.
We do some magic. Skell just looks at you with
such disappointment that you did not play along with his Joan,
Patrice and magic in the family. It's.
Not that kind of family, hey. It's not that kind of family I.
Mean. I'm not sure.
Sorry. My family, are you talking about
my dad? Comes from great stock.
Yeah, yeah, this is the same stock as your dad.
No. So what you're saying is she
married down? I would say.
Yeah, I mean. She's she's like, she's she's so
she's also she married young Rob the cradle, you know she's been
around in a few 100 years and my dad has not.
And nor will. He.
So fucking elves, man, and SOA walks off.
So we'll practice tomorrow morning then.
So it wouldn't be tomorrow morning because when you guys
tomorrow morning is when you guys are going to land in the in
the the outpost to get to get gear and then so we're going to
Fast forward a little bit next morning.
The the ship lands in the Tinker Marion outpost.
Those as the those of you who are not familiar, you noticed
that it's a little shocking as you would notice that the
majority of the buildings don't seem to have a lot of stone or
wood or anything like that. It's mostly glass as you look at
it and you're like it. Say again.
I've been here. Before.
You probably you probably would have been.
Okay. Because of because of where you
were born. Gotcha.
Well, actually, you had to have been here, yeah.
You right, Yeah. I'm from the syndicate.
Yeah. He's from Folklagner, bro.
You know your city. That's Matt city.
Not, not, not SOA city. It's very.
Fun. That was fun, right?
Oh, that is one of my favorite things I've ever put into.
So as as the the ship lands and it doesn't really fully land
because much like the the docks of Telcaba Hot it's a it's a
dual dual dock where on the bottom it's a sea bound ship
dock but they have a greater number of airship docks that sit
sit up a bit higher. The captain informs you that
they're going to be here for a couple of hours as they onload a
few more, a few more supplies, and then in about an hour's time
after takeoff, they're going to you biz when you're going to to
test the the thing. So Captain McKenzie know it's
possible we may need a longer than a couple the time it takes
to load. Well, I mean it's it is at least
an hour that that that they're going to load stuff.
So and it's not a large outpost. So there's only like 2
buildings. It's it you can walk across it
in about 10 minutes. Yeah.
Also just going to let him know just in case meeting runs long
or something weird happens. He informs you that he will not
leave without the full compliment.
Good, because I'm not sure gonna throw him on board.
I. Definitely don't want you to
try. I don't.
Think they're leaving? Without us at this point.
We. Kind of own the damn thing.
Kind of. I'm more concerned about you for
leaving without us too. God, we leave without you too.
Yeah, you guys are great. I'm not saying permanently, just
the fuck with us. You seem to like that.
Oh, that's valid. Yeah, yeah, I would definitely
do. That No, no, no, no.
If anyone's getting fucked with around here.
It has been me that that third time I I heard you do with no.
I never, Yeah. And it was a good joke.
I mean, I mean, I'm able to. I'm able to cure those ones real
quick. It's not a big deal.
My hair is a little messed up. It was hilarious.
I laughed. It was, it was, you know what?
You know? Yeah.
After it stopped hurting, Yeah, it was fine.
Let's let's make one thing crystal clear.
We do not joke about leaving anybody behind.
That is not a joking matter. Yeah.
Maybe a week. No, no.
When? We get skull just kind of like
suddenly puts his fist out for a fist bump with that.
That is a serious that I can only hear a Sid get like that.
Obviously we would never leave anyone behind.
It's not a joking matter. And like, sits super serious,
right? Like, super serious.
Is there a hand on her war hammer?
I think probably they started this joking matter over there
smacking somebody's head. Against the door frame is one
thing, Leaving someone who's a comrade or a friend behind?
It's not a joking matter, even even if we're in the most.
Peaceful, most safe place we are a squad we stick together.
No man is left behind. Scalp looks over at Patrice and
he goes. You know I killed a man by
smacking his head against the door frame three times.
Once. I got real excited as as Jared
has fully bought into the things that I have.
Told him as soon as so good. I was gonna.
Point it? Sorry, he's not a man.
I rolled an 8 on inside. I 100% believe you.
I'm not sure if Skelet is joking or not.
You know. That's.
I'm sure Sirk's done that yet either.
So. Yeah.
It's. Like door frames, Door frames
are structurally sound. You really smack somebody's end
to something. Yeah, they are.
So I'm assuming is it both Sark and L who are going to roll into
the outpost to find, try and find this person?
Yeah, yeah. Are you guys planning to stop by
the manager's office while we're here?
The manager's not here. I mean, they're sending where to
head. Gotcha.
So you're going to an office like one of your offices.
We're going to talk to somebody. There's not an actual office
here. Yeah.
Gotcha. A little less formal.
Here. Gotcha.
And are you also going to be informing, Lady Prospering about
our, our, our location? We will.
Tell somebody else to. Yeah, it'll be forwarded on from
the manager to. How it's prosper.
Understood. Just gonna gently like just a
reminder. You got my list.
Can't check it here, but once we get into Tinker Mayor.
Understood. Understood.
What's been collected? Yeah, we a lot more resources
available in Tinker Mayor. Gotcha.
We're bringing resources to tinker beer.
So we are. So.
As the the two of you exit the ship and begin to kind of
explore the the phrase that you would be using is what 9 can see
one can direct and eventually it's about the kind of like the
third tier down of someone of the the person who's in charge
of the of this is when you get the response of.
The eyes are everywhere and he grabs the two of you and takes
you into a back office and says, well met brothers, what is it
that I can do for you? If you could send where to head
to the manager's office that were headed into town.
We would also like to password along to someone in house
Rector, preferably Prosper in that we will be sailing through
into Tinker. Mayor as well.
And you watch him, he pulls out a little notebook and he's he's
scribbling around and he's right.
He's writing down, he says. It won't be immediately, but it
will be at the latest tonight. I will make sure that the words
get to. To the boss's office.
Fine. We're just trying to give
forewarning since we're bringing the ship in.
You need. You also need the dock clear.
Yes. OK.
And we have how many pounds of unrefined residual coming with
us? 300 I have written down 329.
There you go. And we had, yeah, we have 329
pounds of unrefined residual. To outsource.
The The shock on this guy's eyes is pretty impressive.
He's like you all are in for a hefty Commission at that point.
We get bored on long sea travels.
Fair, fair. That's why I never get into
that, that thing. So I will make sure that
everything's passed on. Is there anything else, Anyone
else that we need to reach out to the organization will reach
out for you. No, I think everything else can
be handled once we're there because we'll probably spend at
least a week there, if not longer.
It's just they got it. Two of you, right?
Yeah, definitely. Don't tell Mom that we're
coming. He writes it down with a little
bit of a quizzical. You know thing he's like, his
eyes are raised, he's like, I I will pass it on to the boss.
Is that how you want me to say that?
Yes. OK.
I will make sure that it that that's it, said that one.
I would have. I can't find her name in my
notes, but I would have asked originally asked it to be
directed to his secretary that we report to now.
OK. Yeah, I can't.
I I don't have my notes up right now, so.
At least those nodes. So well that's, I mean the
office, that's who it would be so.
It's the. That's the way I won't know, so
don't think about it too hard. Yeah, I can't think the name of.
The Do we have any current jobs from you?
You don't. No, we don't.
We got it. We got asked to stop in with the
crew when. Available, right?
Right. And prospering in a large city
filled with lots of Npc's, and prospering long enough to swing
through too. So we'll have a couple of
options, probably. Coming out.
Yeah, we. We would have said on the way
here that. We're.
Probably coming here for some kind of job, right?
That's that should be the only message we need passed.
On at the moment. That will be coming in, in the
in the Charlene. Help gesture out towards the
ship so you can get a description of it coming in.
He finishes taking notes and he says, well brothers, I wish you
a safe journey and enjoy the hospitality of the boss.
It's been quite some time for me.
I will shake his hand and slip him 3 platinum.
OK. He flicks you too back.
You can tip too much. Well, so Sark and L would know
that the manager compensates very well.
Yeah. Sark.
Has more money than he has ever had before, so he's just like
here, I don't use it. Yeah, I feel like Sark was never
great with money to begin with. And well, I will say he would
say that, hey, I don't need the attention.
Fair. Sark actually was like that.
I get we're good. So is that the two of you exit
and you return back to the ship. You're you're right about that,
that hour mark as the ship is finishing being loaded, the the
crew pushes off and you begin to swirl up.
We're going to say that they're getting ready to head.
And you, as you're preparing for the practice run of the the
infiltration movement, that's where we're going to take our
second break. We'll be right back in just a
few moments. With people jumping off a
goddamn boat. Welcome back everyone, to
campaigns and concoctions, where we're currently sipping on some
sizorup. So let's.
Talk about some. Fucking drinks.
We don't. We don't.
We are not literally drinking on some Sizorup.
I have to put that in. Yeah, don't.
Don't drink. Medicine, guys.
Don't dump. What are we drinking, everybody?
Let's go with Jared first. Yeah.
So I I made this last night when I was painting some minis.
It's actually really good. We named it the Regala.
Thank you, Curtis. It's 2 ounces repassado tequila,
3/4 ounce lime juice, half oz agave syrup, half ounce of Riga
black black currant liqueur. I think you could probably just
use black currant, which is what's the name for that?
Oh, it's BlackBerry shit. It's not mirror, but it's no.
Anyway, that's BlackBerry. I can't remember.
And then it has two dashes chocolate bitters and two dashes
black walnut bitters. The chocolate really, really
makes that drink. That really sets it off.
The chalk chocolate, I think chocolate and Ripas auto tequila
are like. They go great, their love.
Perfection. Moli moli bitters are like one
of the greatest things ever. I made two cocktails.
One of them is good and one of them is something.
The one that's good was 2 ounces of mezcal, one ounce of gargoyle
Amaro, half an ounce of Aperol, half an ounce of Benedictine.
I did some mole bitters in there as well.
And then I dropped a candied orange.
But first I got it a little bit wet and yeah, I did coated it in
tahin and then I dropped it and I thought it was going to float
and it did not. So now it's just a tahin filled
coop, but it's delicious. The other one I'm tempted to
call Blackbeard Scissor because it tastes a hell of a lot like
cough medicine. In the best way?
Like it tastes like the good parts of cough medicine and the
bad parts of black licorice. Yeah, so.
Yeah. That one was way too much.
Riga Black Currant. Did you a cure?
I did 3/4 of the. Cocktail for.
You. This is this is the toned down
version of Riga. Black Yeah.
So I did 3/4 of an ounce. I did 3/4 of an ounce of the
Kraken Coffee Infused Rum. I did an ounce and a half of
Plantations Overproof Rum. I did 1/2 ounce of Pineapple
juice, about a fat quarter of lime juice, and an ounce of Remy
Martin. Cuz I've been back on the Remy
train tonight and you can. Bear.
You can't even taste the Remy in there.
Yeah, I think that would actually be a really good drink.
If you cut down the black currant, everything else is the
same. But if you get down to like 1/4
ounce of black currant, be fine. Yeah.
Is that the one you put the balsamic in?
No, I'd also put 1/2 ounce of balsamic vinegar, right?
This is the balsamic. The balsamic makes sense, yeah?
The. Balsamic rounds it.
Out. It actually does.
Yeah. I need acid.
The lower acid. Yeah.
But you, you, you, you take the black currant and you look at
the black currant and you're like, yeah, yeah, so and then
you you stay upset. Yeah.
Next time, next bottle. Next time.
What I need to do is I need to build the entire cocktail
without the black currant. And then I need to glance at the
black currant bottle and then shake the cocktail.
Still have a little bit too much black currant.
In it, you need to open the bottle and just wave your hand.
Yeah, yeah, on top. Of it and just waft it.
It needs to be like the the Lacroix of cocktails.
Yes, not me drinking. This This is a cocktail that was
made next to a bottle of Riga Black Currant.
Can you take the Black currant? Yes you can.
Because that's that's. Much.
I think that's it, Morgan. No.
No other drinks? No.
No.
Perfect. Perfect.
Well, I I am drinking what I am
calling John's Equity parts cocktail.
It is 3 parts of. Your whiskey of choice, mine
Mine currently is Breckenridge Bourbon, which is my, well, my
personal, well, whiskey. And it's one part ice there.
You go. There you go.
It's John's equity part. Cocktail that.
Is a perfect cocktail. Hooks that agree, don't forget
there's also air in there. And really helps live enough.
And cocktail and glass. There's a four.
Part. Cocktail.
Yeah. Yeah, there's four parts to
that. There's four touches there.
I feel like that was like that joke hits.
You've listened to us long enough when you were here on
like the I think we're on the 30th episode at this point,
right? If you've been here long enough,
you understand that Equity Parts is all about getting fucked up.
That's right. No when no, it's not just about
getting fucked up. It's by actually being.
Tasting the liquor because you want to.
Taste the liquor is the. Reason.
We drink. That's right, that.
Also leads to you getting fucked up.
Did you hear? Did you hear them?
How do you say? That tastes good.
Yeah, the liquor does. The liquor tastes good, yeah,
when people ask. Me, what my favorite cocktail is
to make for myself at home, I told them It's a three-part
cocktail. It's one part Scotch, one part
glass, one part air. Mix accordingly.
Everyone. Every once in a while you're
mixing one of those really good rums.
Yeah, every now and then, yeah. That.
The the Bumboo, right? That Bumboo so good.
The Bumboo Black, right? Because.
Bumboo Black is fucking excellent that that Bomber Peak
rum is really good. Really good, yeah.
I need you guys to figure out a way to mail me a bottle.
I'll. Figure it out.
We can do that. Or just come see me,
motherfuckers. Like, I need to figure out a
trip that I'm coming over and you're It's actually a federal
offense to send alcohol in the post.
So. Be careful about that.
I have received it from a friend and he's like, hey, I I risked
going to federal prison for this, so use UPS.
I mailed weed. It was fine in.
Fact. I mailed weed and their sorting
machine tore the bottom off of the envelope.
So they stuck the entire envelope with the weed hanging
out of the bottom of it in a new baggie with a note that said
sorry we sorry we damaged your package.
We'll be more careful next time. Like, literally, it won't.
So for legal reasons. Yeah, they won't.
We. Cannot encourage these
activities. I'm not.
Gonna wink. I'm just saying.
Things that I have done in the past.
So my. Brother a bottle recently.
Oh my God, we're going to jail. You have ship booze.
Allegedly. Very loosely.
Allegedly. The statue of limitations for
most of mine. Oh, we're a fucking mask, guys.
So. As we leave the outburst.
Morgan's got the giggles. Be quiet.
Fuck you. We.
The the Cherlene rises into the air and eventually turns to the
South. About an hour outside of the
outpost, Captain Mackenzie turns to Patrice and says What?
You're up. So please, Curtis, describe what
this hot drop looks like. One caveat before you get to
driving. Sark is laying on his back on
the railing, waiting for the go sign to just off the edge.
OK? Patrice tells the tells Captain
McKenzie please bring the the ship to about 100 and feet off
of the ground about where Sark is laying on the edge of the
railing please and be at at normal speed, cruising speed.
He does so then. I, I, I, I motion to all of our
friends to come over to the side of the the side of the Shirlene.
I say I bet you I can touch the ground before you and he he hops
over the side and says you better come with.
I jump immediately and it's not even a swan dive.
I am just going head first, straight down, looking straight
at the water. Oh, no, we're.
Over ground at this point. Land.
We're looking at the land. Does everybody follow suit?
Yeah. That's the way it is, not jump.
Fine, I'm. Going to jump right?
After Patrice, but I'm going to try to grab him and throw him.
Back up if I can there. Hold on before that for that Li
need you to make a just roll a fucking D100 because I don't
know what to fucking roll on that one.
That's a weird 189. Nice.
Nope, you don't. You don't quite grab them all.
Right, so Patrice uses a subtle spell so that he doesn't have to
use any components. And cast Feather Fall as a
reaction on five of our group of 6 except for Sarc, and then Sarc
is. But because I use Subtle spell I
can cast 3D6 temporary hit points on them.
Oh, nice. So you gain 12 extra hit points.
12, So Feather Fall is in effect for everybody, minus Sarc.
Awesome. And somebody's standing on the
back going you. It is no.
No. I'm not jumping off the boat.
And as we're as we're falling, we're falling at like I think 60
feet per six seconds. So it's it's a rather gentle
fall. Yeah, except for Sark.
Sark is falling. I I wait for you guys to jump
off and I'm like 123. Or OK.
And I'm going to go rocketing past you guys, so.
I I so I I picture Sark in the the the mode of when you're free
falling and instead of kept keeping your delta where you
have your arms above your head he's he's streamlined and he is
just head down cruising to. The.
Opening to Deadpool too. Yeah.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I'm totally going to like hero,
like pose like this too. And all you hear as he's coming
down and start going. We were landing.
I'm I'm in the exact same pose,
falling, not realizing that I'm falling half as fast as.
Normal. And I just see start go
plummeting past me like a fucking fireball, like a
meteorite entering the Earth's atmosphere.
And I'm like, Cool Chuck. God damn.
Yeah, we're falling 10 feet per second, Yeah.
So it takes us a total of 10 seconds to.
To reach the ground, it takes start a total of half a second.
Maybe a second. I didn't do the math.
So, so to give you guys an idea and for anyone who's listening,
who is, who is a former airborne trooper will understand, it
takes you 13 seconds once you exit the plane at 1000 feet to
reach the ground under canopy. So we're and we're doing that
from 100 feet. And it's the equivalent on your
body is jumping out of a second story window.
Right. 2.5 seconds to hit the ground.
And the rest of us take a turn and 1/2.
Correct, Yes. You want me to roll the damage
just to see what I roll. Yes, please, Okay.
It's funny. That you take half, right?
I negate up to five times my monk level, which is holy.
Shit. Dude, but people sleep on monks,
bro. Yeah, I know.
I don't even need the No wait, I forgot these.
And honestly, I think one of the best subclasses is the Mercer
one, the Cobalt soul. It's so good.
It is so good. So I leave a crater, but I don't
take any damage because I only rolled the 37.
Nice. And you have 1210.
So as as as he's as he's falling at about at about 50 feet he
makes the the kind of like almost the swimmer.
The swimmer flip to down head down and he does land straight
up hero pose, knee one knee down fist down.
And it's just there's literally a crater that just dust flies
up. And as he watches the rest of
the party come down. I want to pick up three rocks
nearby and start juggling while I wait for them make a.
Performance check for me not. Good.
It's, you know, Prisma. 3. After his the ground like as
they're just kind of slowly drifting down to.
His perspective 17th. You're you're killing it, dude.
You're just you're a really great juggle.
That's rough on the knees. I'm going to try to drift
towards Sark as I'm making my final descent and I'm going to
try to snatch, no, I'm going to, I like do the tumble and I'm
just going to like put my arms out.
I've got you know, this big coat.
So I'm going to use the coat to try and guide myself like it's a
parachute to try and guide myself towards Sark and I'm
going to try to snatch one of his rocks that he's juggling as
I. Read.
Make a Sleight of Hand Check. Which is also a dexterity.
It is, and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm proficient.
I hope you are proficient. It's going to be a 17.
So as you kind of swoop by and it's you're like one of those
guys in the wingsuits right as you snatch by and then all of a
sudden you just kind of you take your hand and you just kind of
turn over. Yeah, have it and flip it back
over and you kind of. And you land perfectly and you
snatch one of them and then Sarks like, what the fuck?
We're just like and I pelt him with one Not hard, like not.
Talking to your guy. I'm going to try to catch that
one too, and then toss them both back to him.
So that would be a Dexterity check for that for the second
one. That's going to be a 20.
Oh yeah, you definitely So it's almost like a monks. 8020 but
yeah. Yeah, it's it's like a Monks
Deflect Missiles. When you can throw it back, you
just kind of grab it. And then as you have, as you
have them in both hands, you just kind of turn around and and
Chuck it up, but not like a throw.
Like, yeah, just. I'm just lobbing them.
I'm underhanding both of them back into his rotation.
And I need, I need you to make a Dexterity check, Sark, because
I'm assuming you're going to want to try and juggle them
again. Sure, if I see it coming back, I
will. Yeah.
So just scary. Check.
Yep. 14. You're able to grab them and you
and you start juggling again. It's perfect.
It's, it's, it's there was a little bit of a in in his
expressionless face. You still or you guys have been
around him a long enough to like watch like a little bit of a
flare in his eyes is like, oh shit, I mean I catch this and
then he does and it and it works out really well, right so.
Happens. Go ahead.
No, go ahead. Go ahead.
No, no, I need you the first time.
I'm about to wrap this up. OK, yeah, yeah.
So I'm going to light my cigar and I'm going to turn to the
people that I perceive as the most educated, which are
Patrice, Sid and L And I'm going to say, is there a term similar
to amphibious that's for something that does land, sea,
and air and just hit my cigar? I think it's called Marine.
Now that's water. Oh, true.
Yeah, true. Are you guys ready to get back
on the boat? This is where the weird stuff
happens. I I do know everything is air
droppable at least once though it is air drop.
I'm currently flipping off John right now.
I know exactly what you're doing, motherfucker.
Yeah, that's right. I'm not getting to that.
Scalp weighs more than SOA and SIT.
Arguably, yeah. Arguably so.
Patrice Patrice centers himself. He he he brings his arms across
his body and he gives himself a little bit of a hug and he says
some magic words and you see his eyes flash light green and you
and he opens his as he opens his arms up, he casts Polymorph.
And twins it and casts it on Sark and Unscaled and turns you
both into giant Eagles and you have a giant cigar.
Eagle the fucking cigar and. You you are, you must have.
All the. Tendency wood.
Right. Yes.
I I I'm picturing so I don't know if you guys have ever seen
that that the the Marine Speaking of Marines the Marine
Corps like there there's a one of the units in the Marine Corps
has like their their unofficial logo is like a fight like an
eagle that's all fighting with a cigar hanging out of his mouth.
It's perfect that's what I'm picturing.
Yeah, John's eagle is is mostly black, but with a purple Sheen
and the sun for. Sure.
And you And you said Stark is wood and metal eagle.
Sark is is metal with with wooden features for his hands
and face. And.
Feathers, feathers, feathers. Gotta be wooden.
The the tips of the feathers. Are wooden.
Yeah, I like that a lot. And then I walk over towards
Sark and I say, is it OK if we if we ride you up to the back,
up to the ship? Sark takes just a minute, like
staring at the rocks that he was juggling going damn it, how are
they? So what the fuck?
But you can't talk because you're evil.
Scald Scald starts squawking. Like.
Very clearly. Not to, you know, I keep that
cigar. Annoyed and he's definitely like
he like 1. Talon reaches up and grabs the
cigar and he's like squawking and he goes to Chuck the scar
and he stops. He looks this a guy, he's
remembers that it's kind of expensive.
He puts it back in his beak and figuring out what it is that
Patrice's plan was to get back on the boat.
He snatches Patrice up in one talent and then leans down and
puts his wing out for SOA to jump on.
And so he's not there because she never left the boat.
No, I'm on the boat. For Sid to jump.
On for Sid to jump on, I'll jump on.
Yeah, hold. On and then.
Scald flies up to the boat with I would sit on his back and
Patrice firmly grasped the metal, and beneath us, like
mostly upside down a. Little tight jump.
This is a little tight skill. It's too tight.
Less, slightly less. And Sark.
Is that he has only L is totally going to try and do aerobactics
around the ship as we fly in like barrel rolls and shit on
the way in like. I'll probably recognize his
Sark's resigned side after the tree's asked if if they can ride
him up to the ship and is fully ready for Sark to try to dump
him off somewhere I. Mean.
I'm not trying. I'm just.
It's your responsibility to hold on right all.
Right. Perfect.
So you guys are able to land on the ship and it and it goes, it
goes very, very well, right. And it's just after the
polymorphines or or or yeah, Patrice ends it.
I release concentration on Scalp, but I maintain it on
Sark, and when you want me to let it go, I will seem like
you're having a good time. Sark would probably just have
fun flying around for a while. Not going to lie.
That's. Fair.
Like Scalp probably basically dumps them on the deck and goes
to fly with Sark like Scalp doesn't stop on the bone.
I just let it go. I turned you off.
I didn't. I didn't land.
Oh, you just draw. I'm saying I literally.
Drop you on the deck and dump Sid and then fly.
Away so if. I if, if I.
Remembering right Polymorph lasts for an hour, so you the
the the four of you who are not polymorph watch as skilled and
and Sark are flying around the ship in very very actually.
Can I get you guys to roll a acrobatics check for me?
Both. Both the Eagles. 3020.
Perfect. 24. What was your start?
24. Yeah, no issues.
It's very graceful watching them.
They they they feel you feel like they almost belong in the
air. And then do you warn them,
Patrice, that it's getting close to time?
Do you holler at them? Very much so.
So the the the two Eagles come back towards the ship and they
they actually time it very well. As they're they're flying over
and they just transform as they land into the deck and it's it's
pretty spectacular as you watch the two of them.
Go immediately goes for a fist bump.
So this is the this is the topic of conversation pretty much for
the rest of the week. Is is the last week continues as
the as you make your your travels towards Tinker Mere.
It's fairly boring. Relatively speaking, it's mostly
it. It slowly transitions from like
deciduous forest, like kind of not quite like tropical, but
like that next subtropical to connivorous forests.
The not connivorous, coniferous, connivorous would be a whole lot
different. Well, I have spaces where there
are quite a few connivorous plants.
Coniferous as it gets closer. It's not quite like sub Arctic,
but it's like temperate. It's like here in Colorado,
right? And on the the early morning of
the 7th day, Captain McKenzie sends everyone to and wakes
everybody up. He lets everyone know that we
have now crossed into the syndicate.
And that we are about to overfly the first city of the Syndicate,
which will be Folk, Wagner, and I need Skull to roll an inside
check for me real quick. Oh.
Well, that sucks because that landed on a 20 and that is a
three for a four. As you are sitting over, it's
dark still. It's early morning at this
point, you see. You see the lights of the city,
the towers of the the the city government and the the the the
organization that that no one really talks about.
In the center, in the center of the island, over the waterfall,
as the waterfall pours over you, you have these deep pangs of
remembrance of sorrow. As you remember the tough times
that you had when you were a child and why you left, and it's
it's melancholic. As you are returning to a space,
you know that you're not going there, but you're not that far
away. And as you remember the things
that caused you to leave, it's you want to go back only because
you want to see how if it's still shitty.
Right. You have that sense of you know
you're self deprecating. Just.
Like all just like you in real life and all your characters you
know so you struggle with it. But as you you look to your to
your left and your right, you see these five other individuals
who are here with you that are looking out at these lights and
you hear that roar of that massive waterfall and.
Even with the melancholy that is coming over you as you look at
your your home or your place of birth, I should say you feel
that in the it's in the past and your eyes.
Are forward. So you're not too It's not too
bad as you roll over the gleaming.
Diamond that is folk Wagner. And that sound of that cascading
water that is pouring into the into the lagoon.
You were kind of tracing the the borders of this massive water.
The sun begins to rise in the east as the sun peeks over off
to your as you're as you're looking off to the in the stern
of the ship, the forward of the ship you see this.
Bronze, goldish gleam in the distance.
As you get closer and closer, that gleam gets stronger and
stronger. It's nearly blinding.
It's so bright. Eventually, as the sun rises
over the horizon, that spark begins to die, and you look and
you see as you continue to get closer.
A city, to those of you who are not native, is nearly
incomprehensible. Steel and glass, mostly bronze
colored glass tower into the sky, 203050 stories high, you
see built upon the the edges of the water.
These towering structures that you could never imagine being
built what you thought was spectacular.
In the outpost these these buildings of of steel and glass
are magnified A hundredfold. And also in the city in the
middle of the city you see this massive stone what appears to be
an aqueduct about 300 feet high with.
Buildings built within it, people walking amongst it.
You see park space, you see airships, galore Piers reaching
out into this massive lagoon. The the six of you look and
Captain Mackenzie looks on it. For those of Y'all who are who
are native, this says no surprise.
But welcome to Tanker man. The City of Technology, the city
of Bronx. He slowly directs the ship to
one of the tallest buildings in the city.
It is you. As you look on it, it is paired
to the building, to the building to the north of it, which is
much smaller. On the top of the smaller
building you see a large number of women.
In Blue and white, who seem to be practicing some sort of
martial arts form, you see what seems to be just a simple
collection of people, but they seem to kind of conform to some
sort of almost monastic order. But it is 100% women, but to
the. Just a little bit to the South
of it is the taller building with an airship dock and it is
just this gorgeous bronze glass building.
And as Captain McKenzie comes up to the dock and makes its way,
you see 3T flings come up to the dock to the edge of the
building. The gangplank is laid up, laid
to the to the building. Captain McKenzie says.
Well, I'm about to send the crew on some short leaf.
I'm not sure how much time that you're going to be here, but I'm
going to give them a couple of days.
Is that all right with y'all? Yeah, I'd say tell them at least
three. Well, that sounds perfect to me.
I know I've got some things that I need to accomplish here in
town. I wish y'all the best of luck.
Thank you, Captain. It's been a pleasure being on
your boat. Thank you.
And we'll see you in a few days. As the six of you exit, you see
T Flings. And for Elle and Sart, nothing
big. You know that the manager has
always hired T flings to be part of his personal household.
But skelled, you know, particularly in this region, it
is very rare to see T flings. It's also very rare to see your
people. Scald's not a T Fling, no.
No, he's not. Scald is not a T fling.
For the rest of you, it's actually not like you're not
shocked by T flings. It's fairly common north of the
equator to see T Flint, but here actually I need Patrice, SOA and
Sid to make history checks for me real quick.
Natural 20 Drink a. Motherfucker drink, motherfucker
drink. Cheers.
Quite accurate, lower sig out of three.
Yours is actually a lower DC, but you still missed it.
But you have some some innate knowledge.
Sid Patrice History, Yeah. 7. Okay.
So. Patrice, you know nothing.
Thanks. Well, you, you roll the dice.
Not my fault. Correct.
I, I, I, I rolled a natural 20. So yeah, natural 20.
So this this first bit is for Sid just because of of where
you're from in the legation and and for SOA.
But you know that here on the southern continent of Secan, T
flings are very rare. So, Sid, you know from your
personal experience in the Nicodeic expanse that the only T
flings that are around are they are merchant convoys that try to
escape persecution from the the Grand Regency of Bridgehold.
And they have been hunted down to where they are.
Very small amount of families left S away.
You know that that has not only happened in the Nicodeek
expanse, but the entirety of. Secret from of.
See Ken. Gotcha.
So The thing is, is that at some point there was this.
I'm getting there. I'm getting there, John.
I'm getting there. There was a preacher who because
of the look of T flings, the horns, the the demonic and the
the devilish look decided that they were the cause of all
problems here on the southern continent and they led massive
hunts onto and and there are very few families left.
So for you with your knowledge base you understand how shocking
it is to see 3T flings here. Walking up to the the the
gangway of your ship, all three of them are about 20 something
women. One of them steps in front of
you. She is a blue teething and she
says the manager welcomes you. Please follow us and for so for
you, Elle and Sark. No big deal.
This is the normal thing. You actually recognize these
three as children of the managers, former employees who
have now reached an age to where they can can be employed.
So for the rest of you that is, this is fairly uncommon, They
lead you all to a a stairway that is in between those two
buildings where they're connected and they lead you just
down one floor. Or.
Three floors. And they enter.
You enter into the third, the third highest floor of the
building, and you look in front of you.
You see what is a very pleasant waiting room of what would be
considered like if you were to think about it now, a modern
office complex. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
Seating like magazines and books.
There's a coffee station. Yep, and there is a stunningly
beautiful red tea fling sitting behind a large desk, and she
looks where Hey, Sid and Sark, where are you guys in the group?
Like, are you guys leading the way?
Are you behind? What are you guys doing, Sid?
Sid would probably be pretty. Sorry my bad Sark and L.
Before we got down to the lobby if one of the three that was
guiding us. Smoked, he would probably try to
slip them one of the cigars he bought in Haven.
No, those those 3, they're they're not.
They're not there yet. They're still freely fresh
faced. He probably still try.
To hand hand it to whichever one he knew was most likely to be
the rebellious 1. Make a slab of handshake.
Let's. See.
That's all. It falls to the ground and she
doesn't even notice it. But so like as you guys enter
the office though, where would you be like but in the group?
Would you be leading the group or would you be behind?
What would you be doing? That would.
Probably be in front. Start could be behind.
Now he wouldn't leave like be the front in the scar, but
probably be just normal just off the right hand side to L.
So as as this this woman looks up and all of you like she is
stunning, absolutely beautiful. She is in in very designer
clothes like most of you who have not been to the syndicate
are slightly. Shocked by the appearance.
It's it's so different than the rest of you.
It's in modern sense, in like in like real world sense.
It's a very modern cut. The way this off, it just looks
so different than anything else that you've ever experienced.
Think cyberpunk meets steampunk together, right?
This is, this is the world that we're now operating in.
She looks up and she sees Elle and Sark walking in and and her
eyes get really large and she reaches under the table and
everyone hears a click and the wall behind her just irises open
and she says. Please please please.
Enter in I will, I will let the boss know that you all are here,
and as the six of you enter, you hear another click and the the
walls close. And as you turn around to watch,
you see that actually, as the walls close, there's little
stands that move with the sections of the wall.
And each of these stands have items, like a collection of some
kind. You see armored, you see
weapons, you see weird things that you can't even you can't
even perceive as to what they really are.
I need everyone but Ellen Sark to make a Perception check for
me, please. Ooh, actually pretty good.
I'm just going to keep using all my stuff 20.
Two for scalp. Perfect.
Oh, have luck. I'm going to use luck on this
one. Nat 20, Nat 20.
Drink. Mother Fucker drink.
Mother fucker drink. Malagro Tequila, motherfucker.
Sponsor us, please. So good.
Which? One Malagra, it's.
Good shit. The only thing I like better is
Espallone, but that's a personal preference.
Espallone's really good. My favorite is Seattle, like was
I think. Good choice.
Casa Miga is also really good. I feel you it's good, though you
cannot deny it's good. It's decent.
It's too. Expensive Would you get SOA?
What was it, 18? 26.
And. Patrice 17 as you look.
Around you see that that these these pillars of collection make
up about 180 degrees of the of the room as you look out.
You see that the, the room, the window, the far end of the walls
is a wall full of windows, like the full thing.
For those of you who have all four of you are shocked that
that they have the technology to build a room, that the windows
can support the weight of this building.
And as you look out, you're a little taken aback by the height
that you're in, right? You're in about the 50th floor,
right? That's shocking, right?
At this, at this level. And it's the what would be the
South side of the building. So on the right, as you're
looking out, you see the the city itself sprawling to the
right. This is a massive city.
You would expect that this is a city of about 4,000,000 people,
right? Huge city by by D&D standards,
right and off to the right or to the left you see the the Piers,
a really interesting kind of like, almost like.
There's a couple of buildings out there would look like fancy
restaurants and shops and all the stuff but the lagoon in the
water off to the left. But the thing that really stands
out as you look up in the center of the room, there is a fairly
large circle that has been cut out of the room of the ceiling
and the rest that you noticed that none of this is shocking to
Ellen Sark like they. Again and it they appear to have
been in this space before. I go find my coffee table and
sit cross legged on it. So that.
So it's off to the left hand side.
There's there's a cup of couch and a cup and A and a bunch of
chairs around this. It's really not a coffee table,
right, it it's think about the box that they put the arc of the
covenant in in Indiana Jones. That's what this is.
Right. And Sark is just kind of sitting
there chilling and everything. And do you Sark and Elle, do you
guys say anything or you guys just chilling?
No, I was just going to grab his whichever seat he likes the
best. So Steve's.
Going to be using her warhammer very heavily as like bracing
herself when she realizes how high up she is.
It's different than an airship because.
That's magical and floats. This is a totally different
trust. Yeah, she's not experienced,
right? And she's going to walk over to
sitting now or sucking out. You guys have lived here.
I mean, not right here, but yeah, no, but this is home.
Why does it not fall? Why?
Why this? Structure we are so high up, why
does it not fall? That's his department.
As you. Say I'll take a breath, clearly
ready to start a physics description.
And right as you, as you see, I'll take this breath and he's
getting ready to describe you hear this deep booming voice and
says, well, that is a very interesting question and it's
coming from above you and as you watch.
What floats down? You see a white beholder
floating down nine eye stocks wrapped around the head.
The center eye is kind of like, almost like a cat's slit.
It's very and it's very black. The teeth are sharp, nearly just
all, like, almost. Predatory and he's he's looks at
you and says we are an old culture with much skill in the
building. I was going to stand up from his
chair and out of character. I'm not sure what the
appropriate response would be of a bow or.
It'd be like a like a light, just kind of like
acknowledgement of. Of his space, but it's it's more
of the the rising from your seat.
Yeah. It's the most respected that
anybody has seen. I'll give anybody, including
prospering. I don't want to.
I don't want to waste this Nat 20 that I rolled on myself
imposed perception check to understand what was freaking out
Sid. So I rolled an at 20 to perceive
it. And after the beholder drops
down and I see L give the small bow, I walk over, I light a
cigar, I nudge, sit, and I'm like, doesn't seem right being
this high up without being in the air, does it?
And I plop myself down into a chair and throw my feet up on
the arm of another chair and I'm like, this is the manager.
And he he looks at you and goes, yes.
Circus stood up and done like the formal like martial arts bow
at the same time that elbows. And he says yes.
How? Weird out would, I imagine, be
very weirded out. By everybody but Ellen Sark are
going to be weirded out by this even scald in his.
I'm going to give you this one, because that was really dope,
John. I.
Appreciate it, right? But like, internally, you're
freaked the fuck out, right? Yeah, this is.
It's a fucking beholder, right? My name is.
I feel like that's how it's called.
Reacts to it. Yes, we've moved to the actual
React. What?
Kind of. What?
You gotta look as chill as fun, yes?
The holder's voice, Is it like? Thanks, Sam Elliott.
Fantastic. Excellent.
Yeah, excellent.
Do. Do you have?
A mustache? Do you have a mustache?
And do you want to talk about hair filling right now?
So. He floats over behind a desk and
that's where we're going to leave off for this week and
we'll pick off in in in two weeks as we have have our
meeting with the manager so. How do you feel about that,
mother fuckers we. Had no now ones, we had no Nat
ones, no. Nat one.
He and Curtis have to drink our Mallory.
Shots to. Celebrate the fact.
That we had no. Nat one.
I know, I know, I know. Matt has been waiting for this
moment for a while because he has met the manager before.
Major It's not better when it's out for a long time.
Major. What do?
You guys, what do you guys think about working now that it's a
beholder? Happy.
That I did not know that was a beholder.
Awesome, isn't it? It's a vampire fucking beholder
dude. So good.
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for joining us on this adventure.
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